S1E18 - Batman: The Black Mirror - Splash Pages Comic Book Club - Special Guest Mark Stancil and Daniel Hancock

Batman #ComicBooks #batmancomics Tonight we talk with Mark Stancil of Terminus Media about his upcoming book Dominion. We will also discuss Batman Black Mirror, The LAST storyline in the original run of Detective Comics before the New 52 reboot. ----------- This episode is sponsored by Deadly Grounds Coffee "Its good to get a little Deadly" https://deadlygroundscoffee.com Retro Dorkening Shirts on Amazon! https://tinyurl.com/dorkshirts Check out Batman: The Black Mirror https://amzn.to/3gA3GaI ----------- Special Guest: Mark Stancil Terminus Media www.terminusmedia.com [email protected] ----------- Published in 2011 written by Scott Snyder Art by Jock and Francesco Francavilla. Cover Price $3.99 Channelling my inner Sofia... Picture it Sicily 2011 Barack Obama was president, The Dallas Mavericks won their first NBA championship in franchise history, beating the Miami Heat 105-95. We paid a ticket price of $7.93 to go see Captain America, the First Avenger.  Fast Five, Thor, X-Men First Class and Green Lantern. On the boob tube, we watched Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Sons of Anarchy, 30 Rock, Parks and Rec, Always Sunny, Community, Modern Family and Raising hope. If you were a kid in 2011, on Saturday Morning Cartoons were not a thing and we're sorry you missed out.  But you did get to watch Adventure Time, Thundercats (Reboot) Young Justice, Star Wars the Clone Wars and Archer. Gas cost about $3.53 a gallon,  Price William and Kate Middleton said I Do, Japan is shaken up by a 9.0 earthquake and Tsunami, and the Hunger Games Books are released. The Black Mirror is a Batman storyline featuring Dick Grayson, written by Scott Snyder with illustrations by Jock and Francesco Francavilla. Following the Impostors storyline by David Hine, it's the final arc in the original run of Detective Comics before the series was rebooted into a second volume with Faces of Death during The New 52. It begins the Snyder's Batman run which is continued into Gates of Gotham and The Court of Owls. This storyline deals with the return of James Gordon Jr. after a long hiatus, reintroducing him into publication as a remorseless killer. His cold psychopathic tendencies are a sort of black mirror of the soul that Dick Grayson sees himself reflected in, they're completely at odds as the son of Batman and the son of Gotham. Snyder also introduces several new characters including The Dealer, Roadrunner, Sonia Zucco and Tiger Shark. Follow our Hosts Rich Davis Former co-host of the clowns of cosplay podcast & Cesar Romero enthusiast https://www.facebook.com/bagelbar https://www.instagram.com/velvetjoker2021/ Leo Pond Owner and Producer of The Dorkening Podcast Network https://www.facebook.com/leopond https://www.instagram.com/leo.pond/ Drew Mollo https://www.facebook.com/drew.mollo/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/drew-mollo https://screenrant.com/author/drew-mollo https://www.instagram.com/ghostbusterman1984 Chris Denmead @radioofhorror Produced by: The Dorkening Podcast Network https://TheDorkening.com Facebook.com/TheDorkening Youtube.com/TheDorkening Twitter.com/TheDorkening Instagram.com/TheDorkening Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/splash-pages-the-comic-book-cl/fec578a2-85ad-48b6-aa79-fd967976e568 This podcast is powered by Pinecast.