It’s been a bit since we had a “Fix This Character” episode, in which we reimagine underperforming characters in wildly different ways! This time: CLOAK and DAGGER! And to be honest, Ty and Tandy are great and don’t really need “fixing”. But they seem trapped in the C-list, and maybe a fresh look could help fix that! Kyle reimagines Cloak and Dagger with a more 21st-century approach to the “war on drugs” as super-outreach heroes, helping people in (sometime super-science or magic related) crisis! Merk crafts a detailed and disturbing horror tale set in Victorian London, where the avatars of light and darkness stalk the shadow of Jack the Ripper, who hides a further gruesome secret! And Bry flips a few details in the duo’s origins as they go from unjust imprisonment, to being experimented on, to eventually as the leaders in a war against a deep corporate conspiracy that preys on vulnerable youth!
But first… some comic news!? The Newsflash rises again because Bry really wants to talk about new Superman comics: “Supergirl” by Sophie Campbell! “Krypto: Last Dog of Krypton” by Ryan North and Mike Norton! New old adventures of Clark Kent as Superboy in “Action Comics” by Mark Waid and Skylar Patridge! In which we discuss the ideal length of Super-Trunks, Merk takes us on a lovely tangent about the Godzilla-adjacent series “Monarch”. Oh, and Matt Fraction takes the “writer of Batman with art by Jorge Jiménez” title from his ol’ pal Chip Zdarsky! Is this betrayal, or just the setup for an official “Sex Criminals” crossover? Only time will tell!
CONTENT WARNING: some disturbing and extremely violent details from an actual “Jack the Ripper” case are discussed between 33:58 and 34:42.
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