The 55th episode of THE FIRE AND WATER PODCAST is now available for your listening pleasure! THE FIRE AND WATER PODCAST is the official podcast of FIRESTORM FAN and THE AQUAMAN SHRINE.

Shag and Rob discuss Aquaman #20 by John Ostrander, Manuel Garcia, and a slew of inkers. Next we dive right into Justice League #20 by Geoff Johns, Zander Cannon, Gena Ha, Andres Guinaldo, and Joe Prado. We also discuss “Villains Month”, some new DC merchandise, and more! We wrap up with another massive dose of Listener Feedback!

You can find the 55th episode of THE FIRE AND WATER PODCAST on iTunes. While you’re there, please drop us a review on the iTunes page. Every comment helps! Alternatively, you may download the podcast by right-clicking here, choosing “Save Target/Link As”, and selecting a location on your computer to save the file (42 MB).

As always, thanks to my co-host Rob Kelly, Sea King of THE AQUAMAN SHRINE, for doing all the post-production on these episodes! Intro theme, “That Time is Now,” by Michael Kohler. Special thanks to Daniel Adams and Ashton Burge with their band The Bad Mamma Jammas for our fantastic original closing theme! This episode brought to you in part by InStockTrades.com!

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Check out the covers to Aquaman #20 and Justice League #20 below!

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Thanks, Dug! I love it!

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Second, I wanted to take a moment to discuss the closing caption box. Check it out below.

If you haven’t been reading Justice League of America (JLA), then you need to know this team was assembled with the secret purpose of taking down the Justice League (JL) if ever necessary. Each member of the JLA has been recruited specifically for their ability to take down a specific member of the JL. So the caption box above poses the question, “Who will be chosen by the JLA to take on Firestorm?” Good question. Anyone willing to hazard a guess?

I have a sneaking suspicion it’s … wait for it … Professor Martin Stein. I know, you’re thinking, “Wha- What?!?!” My reason for this is why else was Professor Stein brought back in Fury of Firestorm #20. Prior to that, Professor Stein was dead as far as DC editorial was concerned, and any creators inquiring about bringing him back were shot down (or so the rumor goes). So why bring Professor Stein back in the final issue of Firestorm? I can’t think of any reason other than Geoff Johns wants to use the character in one of his Justice League books.

Anyone else got a theory on the JLA recruit or why Professor Stein was brought back?

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During the Bronze Age, each issue of DC Comics contained an in-house promotional page called “Daily Planet”. The modern equivalent would be the Channel 52 strips or the DC Comics All Access pages. Each “Daily Planet” included information on upcoming releases and the ever-popular “Answer Man” column. The November 28, 1977 edition prominently featured our favorite Nuclear Man! This would have hit the shelves exactly one week before Firestorm #1 arrived.

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Did you notice the Professor Charles Stein comment above?!??! Believe it or not, this is the second reference to Charles Stein. The first appeared a week prior to this “Daily Planet” edition in an editorial by Jenette Kahn. The editorial appeared November 21, 1977 in Teen Titans #53 (and possibly other comics as well).  Click here to read that editorial.

Either Martin’s name changed sometime prior to the first issue hitting the shelves, or this error just kept popping up. Either way, it’s an interesting peek into the promotional launch for the original series!

I came across this on Count Comics Tumblr, so my thanks to him!

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In this episode Rob presents two of his favorite Power Records audio adventures: CONAN THE BARBARIAN in “The Crawler in the Mists”, and BATMAN AND ROBIN in “If Music Be The Food of Death.”

You can find the 54th episode of THE FIRE AND WATER PODCAST on iTunes. While you’re there, please drop us a review on the iTunes page. Every comment helps! Alternatively, you may download the podcast by right-clicking here, choosing “Save Target/Link As”, and selecting a location on your computer to save the file (21 MB).

As always, thanks to my co-host Rob Kelly, Sea King of THE AQUAMAN SHRINE, for doing all the post-production on these episodes! Intro theme, “That Time is Now,” by Michael Kohler. Special thanks to Daniel Adams and Ashton Burge with their band The Bad Mamma Jammas for our fantastic original closing theme!

Have a question or comment? Send us an e-mail at firewaterpodcast@comcast.net. Visit our Tumblr site at fireandwaterpodcast.tumblr.com.

Below are the covers to the Power Records featured in this episode! For more information on these stories, check out Rob Kelly’s Power Records blog. Click the links below to be taken to those particular pages:

• Conan the Barbarian: The Crawler in the Mists
• Batman vs. Riddler: If Music Be The Food of Death

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The Killer Frost issue is one of the books “replacing” the Justice League of America title (JLA) in September. The comic will feature a story written by Sterling Gates, art by Derlis Santacruz, and a cover by Tony S. Daniel and Matt Banning. Interesting that she’s replacing JLA since Firestorm is part of the main Justice League title (JL). Why is her book connected to JLA and not JL? I wonder if the decision is related to whoever will be chosen by the JLA to take on Firestorm (as mentioned in JL #20). Looking forward to finding out!

Below you’ll find the cover and solicitation to Justice League of America #7.2: Killer Frost. Click the image to enlarge. For the announcement, check out this article.

Here is the solicitation:

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #7.2: KILLER FROST
Written by STERLING GATES
Art by DERLIS SANTACRUZ
3-D motion cover by TONY S. DANIEL and MATT BANNING
On sale SEPTEMBER 11 • 32 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T

Not every villain is grateful to the Secret Society for ridding the world of the Justice League. For Killer Frost, only one thing matters: feeding off Firestorm’s energy! But with Firestorm gone, a desperate Frost is forced to decide whether she should search for the missing hero or find a new source for her power fixes.

My thanks to fellow Match-heads Brandon Leonard, Jimmy McGlinchey, and Keith G. Baker for the heads-up on this!

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THANK YOU

I want to send a huge THANK YOU to everyone that participated in the #FirestormFarewell campaign the week of May 22! If you missed it, this was an effort to give Firestorm’s final issue a social media send-off. We suggested that Firestorm fans change their social media avatars to the drawing below by the dastardly creative Luke Daab. This piece of art sums up how many Match-heads felt about the cancellation of this title. Additionally, folks were asked to post using the hashtag #FirestormFarewell.

I gotta say, I think the #FirestormFarewell campaign was a huge success! Y’all are simply amazing! Not only did we come together as fans, we also attracted the attention of some comic book and fan press! How cool is that?!?!

• Comic Book.com’s Russ Burlingame mentioned the #FirestormFarewell campaign in this post, and mentioned it during his interview with Dan Jurgens!
• Newsarama’s Graeme McMillan mentioned the #FirestormFarewell campaign on the Newsarama blog!
• Sci-Fi Jubilee’s Paul Bowler mentioned the #FirestormFarewell campaign in his review of Firestorm #20!
• Splitting Atoms, a Captain Atom fan blog by FKAjason, celebrated the whole month of May with Firestorm Appreciation Month!

Below are the awesome individuals that either adopted Luke Daab’s Firestorm image as their social media avatar, or posted with the hashtag #FirestormFarewell. And these are only the folks I was able to easily identify. I’m sure I missed some people, and to those folks I apologize.  We’ve got here a list that represents over 100 unique individuals! That’s roughly 1% of the total readership for the Fury of Firestorm series. While that may not sound like a lot, you try herding this many cats into doing the same thing on the same day! My thanks to the following folks:

Facebook

• Daniel Cynical Adams
• Keith G Baker
• Mark Baker-Wright
• Michael Bailey
• Chad Bokelman
• William Boyd
• David Bretter
• Russell Burbage
• Russell Burlingame
• Randy Caldwell
• Cliff Carmichael
• Justin M Clarke
• Roy Cleary
• Dave Cox
• Derek William Crabbe
• Kevin Culp
• Luke Daab
• Ken Deemer
• Thomas Deja
• Jeff DeWitt
• Loki DeWitt
• Manjit Dhanjal
• David Chuck Dill
• David J Dixon
• Anthony Durso
• Clark Edwards
• Terry Foster
• Johnny Freiberg
• Scott Gardner
• John Godwin
• Carlos Guimaraes de Almeida
• Robert Gross
• Shannon Hamilton
• Robert Happold
• Corey Hodgdon
• Paul Honles
• Wally H Hudnall
• Jason Jones
• PawPaw Kellum
• Robert J Kelly
• Sean Koury
• Bradley Leaver
• Negativsteve Mandel
• Jonathan McGavin
• Brian Miller
• Chris Mounce
• Hector Negrete
• Charlie Niemeyer
• Oscar Olalde
• Tone Penley
• Jason Pope
• Bill Powell
• Roger Priebe
• Rod Pruitt
• Bill Robinson
• Isaac Rodriguez
• Matthew Rodriguez
• Gethin Arfon Rowlands
• Rebecca Schoen
• Guillermo Valladares
• David Walker
• J David Weter
• Jon M Wilson
• Joshua Wolf
• Doug Zawisza

Twitter

• Gerry Conway @gerryconway
• Yildiray Cinar @ycinar
• Brent the Badger @BrentTheBadger
• Bill Bailey @bbnetman
• Keith G Baker @kgbunc
• Justin Barlow @justinbarlow
• Matthew Barton @tbwUltraPowers
• Kyle Benning @kyle_benning
• Paul Bowler @paul_bowler
• Randy Caldwell @misterperturbed
• Count Comics @CountComics
• EdwardCrosby @EdwardCrosby
• Kevin Culp @kevculp
• Tony D! @tonydpyt
• Luke Daab @daabcreative
• DC in the 80s @DCinthe1980s
• Ken Deemer @KenViking
• Lucien Desar @LucienDesar
• Manjit Dhanjal @ManjitD
• Daoud Faquiryan @DaoFAQ
• Bad Andy Goodpizza @Kap_L
• Martin Gray @MartGray
• Corey Hodgdon @hyeroc
• Kord Industries @KordIndustries1
• Jay Jones @FKAjason
• Andrew M @Trueblade76
• Patrick M @amernesider_75
• Jimmy McGlinchey @JimmyMcG
• negativsteve @negativsteve
• Hector Negrete @Bauhaus45
• Raddsies. @Raddsies
• Jedi Raccoon @JediRaccoon
• Dennis Reads @DennisReads
• RoyWhutupshunMoris @KPM2008
• Keith Samra @KalelSamra
• Damian V @Obviousley
• Guillermo Valladares @gvalladare
• Stephen RJ Vaughan @SRJVaughan
• Rully Wiguna @Rullywiguna
• Snoopywoodstock @Snoopywoodstock
• Doug Zawisza @DZawisza
• Dave Barfield @scorpius_glc
• Michael C @TheUnMaskedGeek
• Brightest Daycare @bdccomics
• ealperin @ealperin
• Edwin @speedforce1973
• Going Geek News @goinggeeknews
• CraigimusMaximus @craigimusmax
• Loran Skinkis Art @loranskinkisart
• Joe Slab @Jslab425
• Saranga @sarangacomics
• Tony Stark @latinnegro
• Comics For Kids @comics4_kids
• Donald Miller @BigDonnyM82
• Matt @dabearsays
• The Code Crimson @TheCodeCrimson
• Alexander Adrock @adrock512
• Jeremy Nash @jeremy_nash
• Back Issues @BackIssues
• BW Media Spotlight @sw_tronix
• Matt Rapier @greatwhitemantt

Google Plus

• Keith G Baker
• Randy Caldwell
• Roxanne Collins
• Edward Crosby
• Kevin Culp
• Ken Deemer
• Daoud Faquiryan
• Glen Foster
• Martin Gray
• Hector Negrete
• Dale Russell
• Irredeemable Shag
• Tim Wallace

Tumblr

• ansuz369
• vikingken
• bauhaus45
• fkajason
• kgbunc
• kkincaid3
• dcinthe80s

Wow! What an amazing list of people! You guys rock!

Finally, a very special THANK YOU to Keith G. Baker and Hector Negrete for suggesting the #FirestormFarewell concept! Great idea!

The Firestorm monthly comic may be over, but the character lives on!

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The tenth episode of our WHO’S WHO podcast is now available — the show that dares to tackle one of DC Comics’ greatest publications! Each episode Rob and I cover a single issue of the legendary 1980s series, Who’s Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe. This time around we chat about WHO’S WHO: Volume X, discussing characters such as Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Hawkwoman, Hercules, Hippolyta, The Huntress, and many more! We wrap up the show with Who’s Who Listener Feedback! This episode sponsored in part by InStockTrades.com!

Be sure to check out our Tumblr site for several pages from this Who’s Who issue: FireandWaterPodcast.Tumblr.com!

Have a question or comment? Send us an e-mail at: firewaterpodcast@comcast.net

You can find the tenth episode of WHO’S WHO: THE DEFINITIVE PODCAST OF THE DC UNIVERSE on iTunes. Each episode is released as part of THE FIRE AND WATER PODCAST feed. While you’re on iTunes, please drop us a review. Alternatively, you may download the podcast by right-clicking here, choosing “Save Target/Link As”, and selecting a location on your computer to save the file (63 MB).

Thanks to my co-host Rob Kelly, Sea King of THE AQUAMAN SHRINE, for doing all the post-production on this episode! Special thanks to Daniel Adams and Ashton Burge with their band The Bad Mamma Jammas for our fantastic Who’s Who theme song!

One of the coolest aspects of each Who’s Who issue was the amazing wrap-around cover! Check out this impressive Paris Cullins and Dick Giordano cover for Volume X! Click the image to enlarge.

Here is your Firestorm-related Who’s Who entry from this issue…

It’s everyone’s favorite were-monster, The Hyena! Good ole Summer Day in all her furry glory! Fantastic Art by Rafael Kayanan! Click the image to enlarge!

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In this episode we bid goodbye to The Fury of Firestorm: The Nuclear Man, featuring an overview of the series followed by a recap of the 20th and final issue, by Dan Jurgens, Norm Rapmund, Travis Lanham, and Hi-Fi Color!

You can find the 53rd episode of THE FIRE AND WATER PODCAST on iTunes. While you’re there, please drop us a review on the iTunes page. Every comment helps! Alternatively, you may download the podcast by right-clicking here, choosing “Save Target/Link As”, and selecting a location on your computer to save the file (27 MB).

As always, thanks to my co-host Rob Kelly, Sea King of THE AQUAMAN SHRINE, for doing all the post-production on these episodes! Intro theme, “That Time is Now,” by Michael Kohler. Special thanks to Daniel Adams and Ashton Burge with their band The Bad Mamma Jammas for our fantastic original closing theme!

Have a question or comment? Send us an e-mail at firewaterpodcast@comcast.net. Visit our Tumblr site at fireandwaterpodcast.tumblr.com.

Below you’ll find The Fury of Firestorm: The Nuclear Man #20 cover by Dan Jurgens, Ray McCarthy, and Hi-Fi Color!

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