In this series, we are covering "The Power Fantasy", an Image comic by Kieron Gillen and Casper Wijngaard. We highly recommend you read the comics before listening.

In This Episode… assembling a team of dumb superpowers, Casper’s nice touches in Heavy's design, Mike swallows that fa-ta-tas, the best use of a Hickman timeline graphic, if the book is released you are the master of time, we compare nerdy book stories, Judy Blue vs. Beverly Cleary, and Carin Um Actually!’s us a bunch.

This week's guest is Carin Slater.

Carin Slater from the “Hey, Have You Read This Yet?” podcast returns. Carin is an avid reader of sci-fi, romance and horror novels but took a break from all that to read Volume I of The Power Fantasy.

Check out Hey, Have You Read This Yet?, Carin's book club podcast for kids and adults who like to read together. Send in book recommendations to heyhaveyoureadthis@gmail.com.

For the next full episode, we continue our coverage of Kieron Gillen and Casper Wijngaard's "The Power Fantasy" comic with special guest Atif Myers. We focus on issues #6-11 of the second collected volume.

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This is the first episode of our season on "The Power Fantasy", an Image comic by Kieron Gillen and Casper Wijngaard.

This episode covers the first collected volume of "The Power Fantasy", issues #1-5. We highly recommend you read the comics first as this episode gets into heavy spoilers.

In this episode… the boys attempt to move forward without that Babylon 5 crutch, starting a podcast to deter your son from Dogman, Mike gets all the cookies and bars he wants, the quiz segment lives on, Dre gets on the Slater family chore point board, the president should have gone for the head, you can’t exact revenge without taking out a few friends along the way, Masumi the depression Hulk is awesome, the ethical threshold of lying, Heavy makes a human meatball, and Dre makes parfait out of a layer cake.

This week's guest is Carin Slater.

Carin Slater from the “Hey, Have You Read This Yet?” podcast returns. Carin is an avid reader of sci-fi, romance and horror novels but took a break from all that to read Volume I of The Power Fantasy.

Check out Hey, Have You Read This Yet?, Carin's book club podcast for kids and adults who like to read together. Send in book recommendations to heyhaveyoureadthis@gmail.com.

Carin Recommends

• Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
• Um Actually… - Dropout TV show
• Silo - Apple TV series

Mike Recommends

• Decompressed - Kieron Gillen’s Podcast
• Die & Die: Loaded - Gillen’s Current Series

For the next full episode, we continue our coverage of Kieron Gillen and Casper Wijngaard's "The Power Fantasy" comic with special guest Atif Myers

Read the show notes here

Mike On Instagram

Dre On Instagram

Dre On Bluesky

All music by Mike Slater

In this episode… Dre’s fan theory on fan theories from Jeff’s fan theory on the fate of Sheridan’s Soul, Karl ties it to Carl Sagan, Mike brings it back to early Babylon 5 soul mythos, Karl’s LOTR comparisons expanded to outer rim fan theories, Mike lets Dre sit in the bit, the Simpsons Trivia Trap backfires compliments of Pete Johnston, Dre takes a moment to thank the guests, a bonus bonus question, Dre sticks up for Grey 17 one last time… and it kinda works! Also… Dre adds a surprise category on Fan Theories, and Blitzcast as a concert.

This week's guess is Karl Wolf. Karl Wolf is a singer and Babylon 5 enthusiast from Detroit.

Karl works for a non-profit organization in Detroit called Samaritas that works to help immigrants in the area. Please donate to samaritas.org if you are able.

For the next full episode, we begin our coverage of Kieron Gillen and Casper Wijngaard "The Power Fantasy" comic with Carin Slater. To follow along, read Volume I which covers issues #1-5

Read the show notes here

Mike On Instagram

Dre On Instagram

Dre On Bluesky

All music by Mike Slater