{"id":1315,"date":"2012-01-20T06:28:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T12:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2012-01-20T06:28:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T12:28:04","slug":"episode-60-all-star-superman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?p=1315","title":{"rendered":"Episode 60: All-Star Superman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2026\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1315-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/ep60.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/ep60.mp3\">https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/ep60.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/ep60.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1315-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/ep60.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"ep60.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1316\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1316\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/all-star-superman-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"All-Star Superman\" title=\"All-Star Superman\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/all-star-superman-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/all-star-superman-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/all-star-superman.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Can you read my mind...?&quot;<\/p><\/div>Here we go!  It&#8217;s All-Star Superman, boys and girls!  We&#8217;re back with Mike Blanchard of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekcastradio.com\/?cat=25\" target=\"_blank\">Tooncast Beyond<\/a>.  This is not a movie for people who want a straight action film.  This is a character film, and it&#8217;s quite possibly one of the best ever written.  &#8230;even if Blanchard wants to poo-poo the gloriousness of this film.<\/p>\n<p>Over 45 minutes of extras over the Tooncast version.  You have our standard pre-show, a short interlude about Vampires Suck, and a post-show conversation between Ben and me about future episodes, filled with hilarious off-the-cuff remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Topics:<br \/>\nBest. Lois. EVER!<br \/>\nTom Welling&#8230; VOICE ACTOR?!?!<br \/>\nGrant Morrison GETS Superman!<br \/>\nSuperman sets his controls for the heart of the sun.<br \/>\nDid we mention that Lois was smokin&#8217; hot in this film?<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1319\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1319\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/allstarsuperman2.jpg\" alt=\"Atlas and Samson\" title=\"Atlas and Samson\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/allstarsuperman2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/allstarsuperman2-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atlas and Samson - One of many storyline deviations that really don&#039;t progress the plot at all.  The meaning of this contest?  It&#039;s over Lois, of course!<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1317\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1317\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/super-lois.jpg\" alt=\"Best.  Lois.  EVER.\" title=\"Best.  Lois.  EVER.\" width=\"606\" height=\"351\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/super-lois.jpg 606w, https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/super-lois-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Super Lois.  Is there a better argument in favor of this film?  (Well, yes...but I&#039;m being a pig.)<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nBonus Content Topics:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livestream.com\/animeflex\" target=\"_blank\">Anime Flex<\/a><br \/>\nCarlton Banks is the greatest African-American character in the history of television<br \/>\nJeff Matsuta can&#8217;t draw fingers<br \/>\nJackie Chan Adventures<br \/>\nApologizing for Scrappy<br \/>\nLando is not two-faced<br \/>\nThe Crapman &#8211; Call it the right name!<br \/>\nA preview of our Cartoons Based On Video Games episode<br \/>\nWe discuss our upcoming Shonen Jump spotlight<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m stronger than you by the beat of a bumblebee&#8217;s wing!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go! It&#8217;s All-Star Superman, boys and girls! We&#8217;re back with Mike Blanchard of Tooncast Beyond. This is not a movie for people who want a straight action film. This is a character film, and it&#8217;s quite possibly one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?p=1315\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[18,67,47,43,19,26,44],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-2000s-animation","tag-bruce-timm","tag-cartoon-network","tag-dc","tag-good-animation","tag-hot-girls","tag-warner-animation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}