Crisis On Infinite Midlives

Crisis On Infinite Midlives


Episode 142: Polonium Whiskey

February 20, 2017

We are living in an age where we are spoiled for choice, when it comes to comics-related television shows. From The Flash to Supergirl to The Walking Dead to Cinemax's Outcast to the (possibly) upcoming Scalped on WGN America, there's something for everyone... which is why we weren't particularly excited for FX's Legion, based on a mid-90's New Mutant and set in the oldest and arguably stalest of the modern comics cinematic universes. We only decided to watch it because we have a comics podcast, which means that you need something to talk about.

But watch it we did, thinking we were taking one for the team, but finding one of the smarter and more intriguing comic book television shows - if not filmed genre properties, period - we've seen in recent memory. It's a show based on a funnybook that made us unironically namecheck David Cronenberg and use the word "Kubrickian." That doesn't happen every day.

We also discuss Amazing Spider-Man: The Clone Conspiracy #5, written by Dan Slott with art by Jim Cheung, and The Wild Storm #1, written by Warren Ellis with art by Jon Davis-Hunt!