Crisis On Infinite Midlives
Episode 100: There Is No Bikini Waxing in Fairyland
All right, it's our one hundredth episode. Let's not make a thing out of it. Seriously: we don't. Sure, we spend a few minutes reflecting on where we are and where we came from, and maybe have a little too much Liquid Celebration to commemorate making it this far, but honestly? There was too much comics and genre news this week to spend too much time naval gazing.
We start off by discussing this week's announcement that Star Wars: Episode VIII has been delayed from May to December, 2017. We talk about how the rumor is that the screenwriters want to rework the story to focus more on Finn and Poe, and how the move is a slap in the face to the fortieth anniversary of the debut of Star Wars... but mostly we talk about how waiting for a Star Wars movie is different when you stop being half a decade away from being just a glint in your dad's eye and start being half a decade away from being a card-carrying member of AARP.
We move on to the news that Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat is leaving the show in favor of writer and longtime fan Chris Chibnell... eventually. You know, after 2016, when there will only be a Christmas special. And after Moffat's farewell season sometime in 2017. Chibnell really should read The Late Shift, that's all we're saying.
But that's not all! Being that kind of week, it was also when Bleeding Cool ran some stories about DC Comics maybe rebooting the DC Universe, maybe returning it to its post-Crisis, pre-New 52 state... or maybe about them doing not very much at all. So we discuss the rumors versus the actual concrete knowledge, and wind up bemoaning the idea of comics that slavishly follow their movie and television counterparts.
And on the comic book front, we discuss: Batman #48, written by Scott Snyder with art by Greg Capullo, Titans Hunt #4, written by Dan Abnett with art by Stephen Segovia, and: I Hate Fairyland #4, written and drawn by Skottie Young!