The 52 Pickup Halfway There Extravaganza!

Blessed Be the Hoochmaker! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe have reached the halfway point of 52, and take a moment to recap every major storyline in the series so far, as well as inventing new games to test each other based on both obscure trivia and romantic shipping possibilities. If you’d like to start listening, this is a great place to jump in!

SHOW NOTES:

• 52
• Geoff Johns
• Grant Morrison
• Greg Rucka
• Mark Waid
• Keith Giffen
• Bon Jovi - Livin’ On A Prayer
• Saturday Night (2024)
• Jason Reitman
• Juno (2005)
• Diablo Cody
• Young Adult (2011)
• Zack Snyder
• Sucker Punch (2011)
• Kendall Roy
• “Weird Al” Yankovic
• Dragon Ball Z
• Goku
• Vegeta

1. Let’s Talk About What Led Up to 52 (06:31)

• Sue Dibny
• Identity Crisis
• Batman
• Justice League
• Brother Eye
• Maxwell Lord
• Justice League International
• Superman
• Blue Beetle
• Wonder Woman
• Infinite Crisis
• Crisis on Infinite Earths
• Robin
• Themyscira
• Justice League Unlimited
• Bruce Timm
• Paul Dini
• Lost
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• The Sopranos
• The Shield
• 24
• Doctor DC Podcast

2. What’s going on with Ralph Dibny? (16:30)

• Ralph Dibny
• Cassie Sandsmark
• Young Justice
• Teen Titans
• Superboy
• Lex Luthor
• Smallville
• Green Arrow
• Black Canary
• Dev-Em
• Booster Gold
• Starman
• Detective Chimp
• Doctor Fate
• Eclipso
• Spectre
• Day of Vengeance
• Jean Loring
• Tatsuki Fujimoto
• Denji
• Chainsaw Man
• Tom Taylor
• Injustice: Gods Among Us
• Nightwing
• Bocchi the Rock!
• Batman: Wayne Family Adventures
• Damian Wayne
• Tim Drake
• Naruto: Shippuden
• Jason Todd
• Dick Grayson
• Joker

3. What’s going on with the space heroes? (24:21)

• Animal Man
• Starfire
• Adam Strange
• Devilance
• Lobo
• New Teen Titans
• Terra
• Green Lantern Corps
• New Gods
• Omega Men

4. What’s going on with Black Adam? (27:44)

• The Rock
• Black Adam
• Captain Marvel
• Kahndaq
• Terra-Man
• Great Ten
• Doctor Manhattan
• Intergang
• Zachary Levi
• Shazam! (2019)
• Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)
• Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024)
• Chris Pratt
• Mel Gibson
• Isis
• Victor Sage
• Renee Montoya
• Osiris
• Doctor Sivana

5. What’s going on with all those disappearing mad scientists? (36:25)

• Will Magnus
• Metal Men
• Dan DiDio
• T. O. Morrow
• Oolong Island
• Egg Fu
• ReBoot
• Beast Wars: Transformers

6. What’s going on with Steel? (43:46)

• Steel (John Henry Irons)
• Natasha Irons
• Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?
• Superman: The Death and Return of Superman
• Infinity, Inc.
• Jack Ryder

7. What’s going on with Booster Gold? (49:44)

• Booster Gold
• Blue Beetle
• Fire
• Rip Hunter
• Booster Gold (1986 series)

8. What’s going on with Vic and Renee? (59:07)

• Victor Sage
• Renee Montoya
• Gotham Central
• Bugsy Malone (1976)
• The Penguin
• Cristin Milioti
• Batwoman
• Richard Dragon
• Aristotle Rodor
• Taylor Swift
• Avril Lavigne replacement conspiracy theory

9. Let’s Play: You Know The Guy (01:07:52)

• Steve Ditko
• The Suicide Squad (2021)

10. Let’s Play: Crackship Combat (01:10:08)

• Nightwing
• Jiro Osamu
• Gravitation
• Wonder Woman
• Green Arrow
• Batman
• Big Barda
• Mister Miracle
• Wally West
• Captain Carrot
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
• Multiversus: Collision Detected
• Bugs Bunny
• Starfire
• Donna Troy
• Martian Manhunter
• Firestorm
• Rogue
• Gambit
• Barbara Gordon
• Chapo Trap House

11. Asking (and Congratulating!) The Questions at [email protected] (17:51)

• Seven Soldiers of Victory
• Shade, the Changing Man
• Shade, the Changing Girl
• Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye
• Jonah Hex
• Beyoncé
• One Piece
• Andy Cohen
• Glorious Godfrey
• The Multiversity
• Brian Michael Bendis
• Ragman
• Heroes in Crisis
• 30 Rock
• Queen of Jordan
• Girls5eva
• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
• Legion of Super-Heroes
• Tom King
• Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021)
• Superman (1978)

52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you’d like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show’s personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to [email protected]. Never stop reading comics.