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“It’s about what you do. It’s about action.” Award-winning podcast exploring Superman across time & media. New episodes every Tuesday. ALSO AVAILABLE: 🦇 Lighting the Bat-Signal: A Batman Fan Journey! 🎧 on all major podcast platforms.
📰 EXTRA! EXTRA! Rick Lee James (Superman & Spirituality podcast) joins me on our George Reeves rewatch for Season 5’s “The Man Who Made Dreams Come True,” in which a con man targets a superstitious 🤴.
Really missed Season 1’s commanding Superman here…
🎧 NOW to Another Exciting Episode in TAOS!
📰 The very FINAL George Reeves recordings are nigh. If you have ANY lingering comments or questions for me or Rich Roney — about the rewatch podcast itself, the Adventures of Superman series, and/or our journeys as fans of the show — comment below or forever hold your peace!
🚀 Here’s one sentence that doesn’t need an asterisk at the end: Our episode on SUPERMAN: THE KRYPTONITE SPECTRUM is available now! Mike & I break down this weird (in a fun way) series, its All-Star vibes, THAT 🤯 ending, the many shades of Kryptonite, & more. 🎧 NOW!
📰 EXTRA! EXTRA! 📰 Rich Roney returns for “The Tomb of Zaharan” from Adventures of Superman Season 5 — in which members of the Cult of Zaharan mistake 26-year-old(!) Lois for their resurrected queen.
Dust off your Arabic & get to listening!
🦾 HAMMER TIME! Super-ally John Henry Irons — aka STEEL — gets his due this week as Always Hold On To Arrow’s Lance Laster joins me to chart the character across 30+ years of comics & multimedia adaptations. Which era & armor were best? Why is the Shaq movie a lowkey gem? And much more! 🎧 NOW.
📰 EXTRA! EXTRA! Superman historian Ed Gross joins me for this week’s George Reeves discussion re: “The Town That Wasn’t” — in which Jimmy gets caught in a speed trap that's actually a mobile town run by criminals. Grab your $.50 🥩 & free ☕️ and join us! 🎧 NOW.
Yeah, he was out of the picture by then. But agreed, you could definitely see him fitting in here!
🚨 Triagle Era miniseries unearthed! Anyone out there remember GUARDIANS OF METROPOLIS & METROPOLIS S.C.U., a pair of late 1994 minis adjacent to the Super-titles? They sure were new to me!
🎙️ We discuss these forgotten minis on this month’s (Not So) BEYOND METROPOLIS — our Patreon show — out now!
Hope you enjoy!
🔥 It’s ABSOLUTE SUPERMAN time! Just over a year in, I’m finally sharing my take on this latest reimagining. @ralphpuma.bsky.social returns as we tackle issues 1-14 of the series, aka the first major story arc by Jason Aaron & Rafa Sandoval. Did it live up to the hype? 🎧 NOW!
diggingforkryptonite.captivate.fm/episode/abso...
I’m a guest on this podcast if you wanna listen!
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Awesome to hear! Thanks for the signal boost. 👊
Heads up comics retailers! The new @diggingforkrpod.bsky.social podcast with Superman series editor @paulkaminski.bsky.social is not only a fun listen but it helped me to understand the Reign of the Superboys story which is on Final Order Cut Off MONDAY! Give it a listen! You too, Superman fans!
📰 EXTRA! EXTRA! 📰 In “Tin Hero” from Adventures of Superman Season 5, a meek man with an apparent nose for news becomes the Planet’s new “crime-busting” reporter.
When Perry White demands that you change careers, you do it, damn it!
Rich Roney joins me once again. 🎧 NOW!
Looking forward to catching up on that! We’ll be covering it late this year/early next year, after the whole series is out.
🚨 INTERVIEW ALERT: Superman Group Editor @paulkaminski.bsky.social returns to the podcast today!
We discuss “Reign of the Superboys,” recent developments in SUPERMAN, ACTION, & UNLIMITED, behind the scenes of NEW HISTORY OF THE DCU, working w/Scott Snyder on DC K.O., and more.
🎧 NOW!
🗞️ SEASON 5 BEGINS! In “Peril in Paris,” Superman answers a call for help from behind the Iron Curtain and flies recovered jewels 💎 into Paris . . . but has he been duped?
Rich Roney joins me. 🎧 NOW!
🎙️ Another Exciting Episode in the Adventures of Superman is new every Friday through April!
🚀 Brainiac was just the beginning.
Starting 3/24/26, Digging for Kryptonite becomes “A SuperGIRL Fan Journey” in the lead-up to the DCU Supergirl film!
Over 13 episodes, we’ll be exploring Supergirl in all her various incarnations across time & media.
P.S. Art by @isimmonsart.bsky.social!
Brainiac knows if you haven’t 🎧 to our latest episode yet! Cue it up & complete your tour through Brainiac history with us.
🚀 Our BRAINIAC event concludes with the “one, true” Collector of Worlds introduced by Geoff Johns & Gary Frank post-Infinite Crisis!
Logan & I revisit that landmark story, its animated adaptation (UNBOUND), & further spins on this modern Brainiac in comics & beyond.
🎧 NOW!
Our George Reeves Superman podcast is BACK with a bonus edition looking at George’s appearance as Superman on I LOVE LUCY in 1957. Ed Gross joins me!
Season 5 episodes begin next week. Join us over on 🎙️ Another Exciting Episode in the Adventures of Superman 🎙️ on Fridays!
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Host Anthony Desiato and guest Zach Moore (Always Hold On To Smallville) dig into the Kryptonian AI Brainiac as depicted in "Superman: The Animated Series" and the DCAU, "Smallville," and the recent…
https://dailyplanetdc.com/2026/01/27/the-kryptonian-ai-brainiac-plus-spotlight-on-brainiac-attacks/
👾 Brainiac Round 3! Zach from Always Hold On To Smallville joins me to discuss the Kryptonian AI version as seen on STAS, Smallville, & MAWS. And after avoiding it for decades, we finally watch & discuss the notorious Superman: Brainiac Attacks!
PLUS: Prologue on the 1992 Sunsoft 🎮 ft. Milton Fine!
Not yet, but given the recent planning of a camping trip ⛺️, I can guess!
Justice for Pete!
🎩 On Monday, a report claimed that James Gunn is adapting “Panic in the Sky” for the MAN OF TOMORROW film.
In a truly wild coincidence, this week’s episode of DFK is ALL about the Post-Crisis Milton Fine Brainiac who led that comics storyline!
Sweet-Sweet Bernie & I break it all down. 🎧 NOW!
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Host Anthony Desiato and guest Sweet-Sweet Bernie Gerstmayr dig into the Brainiac of the Post-Crisis era in the latest from Digging for Kryptonite. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts!
https://dailyplanetdc.com/2026/01/20/the-post-crisis-milton-fine-brainiac-panic-in-the-sky-beyond/
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Host Anthony Desiato, with guest Daniel Sanchez, begins 2026 exploring Brainiac's evolution across media in what will be multi-episode coverage on Digging for Kryptonite.
Listen here or wherever you subscribe!
https://dailyplanetdc.com/2026/01/13/brainiac-in-the-silver-bronze-ages/
🧠 WE’RE BACK! It’s the first DFK of 2026 and the start of a multi-episode examination of BRAINIAC — starting with his Silver Age debut as simply an evil space alien, mid-1960s reinvention as a robot in humanoid form, late Bronze Age robotic redesign, & MUCH more. 🎧 NOW & enjoy!
The 2025 Siegel & Shuster Award of Excellence winners have been announced, named after the co-creators of Superman and Lois Lane. Daniel Sanchez led with multiple wins, while Jainam Turakhia claimed Article of the Year for the second consecutive year.
See the full list of winners.