[Peter]

It's finally here! Peter and Adam's long awaited Footnotes spin-off taking an in-depth look at DC's monumental maxi-series event, Crisis on Infinite Earths. (53:36)

Listen to it here and look for it in your iTunes soon!

Looking forward to your feedback!

[Ziggo]

awesome!!! will listen to it at work can't wait

[The Electric Mayhem]

as a famous geek would say: "Yikes-a-hooty!"

Perhaps its time to buckle down and grab the trade of COIE (I know, I know.. automatic 10 geeks demerits for not owning such a treasure, and another 25 for not having completly read all of it.)
I've had just a flip-through at a B&N, no creasing of the binder nor greasy fingerprints, in fact no trade was harmed in such a flip-through, the CGS Vigalantes were on the job, protecting all such literature.

Please take your time guys, I wanna savor and cherish all the CGS knowledge I can asborb. Can't wait to listen...

[Neutron11]

My brain is already starting to hurt. Time to break out the Absolute volume!

[qayne]

Very exciting! I've been looking forward to this ever since I first heard the promo (which is awesome, btw! How did you do get that made?). Downloading it right now so I can listen to it on the way to work tomorrow.

[fudd71]

Great start, I loved this first episode and can’t wait till you guys start getting into the actual stories. I very much look forward to the next episode.

Also having just read the novel version, I am interested to see if it will come up and everyone’s thoughts on it. It is interesting, but I was really disappointed by the fact that it was written so far after the series that it makes modern reverences that same out of place. Knowing they weren’t possibly in or even thought of for the original series.

[brianch1]

Wonderful show guys. I think for future shows I'll try and sit in the corner while you record so I don't have to wait till the episode goes online.

I started collecting comics in the mid '70's and stopped in the early 80's when I sold them. My younger brother was reading comics in the late 80's and I started to read his books. When I found out about the Crisis and that they killed my favorite character the Flash - that's what got me back into comics.

I eventually got all the Crisis issues as well as all the tie-ins and crossovers and loved the whole grand event. When I sold all my comics I only kept one of them - DC Comics Presents Annual #1 which has some tie-in to Crisis of it's own.

There are so many other issues to go over before you even get to Crisis #1 - Flash #123, Justice League of America #21 and #22, and Green Lantern #40 just to name a few. How cool would it be though to finally get to an episode about Crisis #1 in April of 2010 on the 25th anniversary of its cover date?

And the artwork. Wow! I someday hope to own at least one original art page from Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Anyway, looking forward to future episodes!

[mwhitt80]

I'm excited guys.

[Jax-Ur]

I am looking forward to hearing this episode asap! In fact, it was thru Crisis that I came to meet Adam. I used to have the giant Alex Ross/George Perez poster outside my office at BGSU.

How do I subscribe to this feed (and the Titans Tower feed). Neither shows up via my itunes account!

[Peter]

Open Itunes - go to Advanced - then click Subscribe to Podcast and put in one of these URLs at a time:

Uber feed: http://www.comicgeekspeak.com/cgs-main-rss.xml
this will give you every CGS episode and every spinoff

Crisis Tapes feed: http://www.comicgeekspeak.com/cgs-crisis-rss.xml
This will just give you the Crisis Tapes spinoff

Tower feed: http://www.comicgeekspeak.com/cgs-tower-rss.xml
This will just give you the Tower spinoff

All the rest are here:
http://www.comicgeekspeak.com/rss.php

[Dave Faust]

I'm so all over this.

[Filthy McMonkey]

Can't wait to hear these!
One of my projects now that I am underemployed is to convert my plak-it style Ross/Perez Crisis poster into a coffee table for the monkey room.

[Webhead]

Great episode guys

I came about reading Crisis in a round about way. Being a Marvel guy Crisis was just that book from the "Distinguished Competition". It held no interest to me, at the time I only had maybe three or four DC comics in my entire collection. I always heard about Crisis and how good it was but I never picked up an issue because it was a DC comic. It was not till years after the Burns reboot of Superman did I happen to run across a bunch of the issues in a discount bin at a Walgreens Drug Store. I guess they had been cleaning out their store room and found them. They actually put price stickers on the front of them and were selling them for about 10 cents an issue. I picked up one of each of the issues they had but it was far from a complete run. I read those issues and was able to piece together the story from talking to people at my LCS. It would not be till years later would I buy the TPB and read the whole story for myself. I was first attracted book because of the art. I was a big George Pérez fan from his days at Marvel, but the story was so good that I read and reread that TPB. I'm still not the biggest DC fan but I do love COIE and cannot wait to hear you guys dissect story.

[qayne]

Listened to the episode today and loved it (how could I not?). Great introduction, and I'm really looking forward to whatever comes next. Like Peter, I read Crisis as it came out, and I was also a huge fan of Wolfman and Perez, so how could I not love Crisis (or Universe as it was originally called in early house ads IIRC)? Guys, please keep throwing the trivia at us--I hadn't realized the bit about Hal Jordan's absence, and I've read Crisis many, many times over the years and never knew that little gem.

Murd, I was struck by a parallel with you. Like you, I obtained my Masters (MFA) writing about superheroes. This was at the University of Idaho, whose football team, coincidentally, is playing against your Bowling Green team in the Humanitarian Bowl in a few weeks. Go Vandals! Murd, you also said something that I hope you'll explain further in some future 'cast (or perhaps here in the forum?), namely that you didn't care for the 52 multiverse (I don't recall exactly what you said). What about that concept do you not care for?

Thanks for doing this and keep up the good work!

[Peter]

Great comments so far! Keep them coming! Since December is a busy time for Murd we're going to use Episode 2 to respond to the talkback thread.

[Jax-Ur]

The one character who may have been least connected to Crisis is Hal Jordan. I know he doesn't appear anywhere in the series since he is not on the Alex Ross/George Perez poster. I believe he was exiled in space but that may be wrong.

Adam, you may also want to post a link to your thesis if it's online.

[rainbowcloak]

The one character who may have been least connected to Crisis is Hal Jordan. I know he doesn't appear anywhere in the series since he is not on the Alex Ross/George Perez poster. I believe he was exiled in space but that may be wrong.

Adam, you may also want to post a link to your thesis if it's online.

I think Hal was exiled in space.... but what I would love to see is a "redone" Crisis.. in which all those "time switching" moments in 6-7 go back and feature some of the characters we have seen since working with the heroes in the 80s.. Or say, Parallax showing up... hehe... just a thought.

I can't wait to listen guys.. I know have something to fluff and fold to this evening.

[donny salvo]

crisis baby!!!! bring it on!!!!! like peter i was just into comics about a year or two, and also like peter new teen titans was my favorite book, so when i heard the creative team was going to do this i jumped on it! i bought this in single issues, read from month to month and then went and bought the oversized slipcase edition (the one before the absolute) and probably read this story about 50 times since i was 10 years old, i look forward to you guys picking this apart issue to issue, i can't wait for episode 2

[OZNO]

I'm excited! I only read this once on a long international flight to and from and really missed some of the finer points. I like the idea to taking a couple of eps. to give some history of the DCU around the time of publication...I'm not sold on the idea of dedicating a full ep on one cover if you guys get a whim...maybe that was just an exaggeration, but I shuddered at that.