DC Comics Talk Podcast - DCCOMICSTALK

In a effort to put a positive image on Supergirl in the wake of a serious mishap, Kara asks Winn and James to help her perfect her skills, while Hank and Alex put Kara through extensive physical training. Meanwhile, Kara learns that an insect-like alien escapee from Fort Rozz, Hellgrammite, is searching for food. The DEO prepares an ambush for the Hellgrammite, but the Hellgrammite escapes, kidnapping Alex and taking her to Astra. Astra uses Alex as a trap for Kara. As Kara and Astra fight, Hank injures Astra with a Kryptonite knife, and Alex kills Hellgrammite. Learning that Kara has become more powerful than she had imagined and that humanity has means of weakening Kryptonians, Astra muses that her "plans" would need to be temporarily postponed. Although Cat pressures James to get her an interview with Supergirl, James has reservations to let Kara go through with it. In the end, Kara agrees to the interview and prevents James from getting fired. It is also revealed that Hank might have a secret of his own when his eyes begin to glow red.

Butch Gilzean leads Cobblepot to the location of his mother, where Theo Galavan and Tabitha Galavan are waiting. Now cured of his programming, Gilzean betrays Cobblepot and Theo Galavan murders his mother, though Cobblepot manages to escape, vowing to kill Theo in revenge. Galavan, now elected mayor, convinces the GCPD and the public that Cobblepot assaulted him and Galavan has Harvey Dent obtain a warrant for Cobblepot's arrest. Gordon begins to suspect that Galavan is framing Cobblepot and tracks down Butch Gilzean. In an interrogation, Gilzean reveals that Theo has been blackmailing Cobblepot and that he murdered Cobblepot's mother. Later that night, Theo attends a public gathering in which the GCPD are secretly stationed, ready to capture Cobblepot if he arrives. Cobblepot and his henchmen show up but Cobblepot is quickly ambushed by Gordon. Theo attempts to convince Gordon to shoot Cobblepot but Cobblepot narrowly escapes. Gordon informs Theo that he is determined to expose his corruption. Elsewhere, Tabitha murders a member of the GCPD strike force. Following the death of Kristen Kringle, Edward Nygma's mental state worsens as his split personality attempts to convince him that he enjoys getting away with murder. Both of Nygma's personalities then merge.

Oliver tells the team that he is running for mayor, but is met with apprehension. Lance has Oliver look into the death of two police officers, and the team discovers they were killed by members of the Anti-Vigilante Taskforce. Laurel brings her father to see Sara, who is chained up in the basement of Laurel's apartment. The team and Lance set a trap for the corrupt cops, but fail to capture them. Felicity identifies Liza Warner as a suspect, and while search for her Oliver discovers Captain Lance meeting with Damian Darhk. Liza and her team use Captain Lance to get into the drug disposal warehouse, but Oliver and his team arrive and take out the officers. Later, Oliver asks Captain Lance to continue working for Damien so they can learn more about his operations, while Laurel discovers that Sara has escaped. In flashbacks, agent Conklin discovers Oliver's communication device with Amanda Waller.

The team are able to stabilize Dr. Stein, but only for a short period of time while they can locate another viable partner for the Firestorm matrix. The team identify two potential candidates, a scientist named Henry Hewitt and a former high school football star named Jefferson Jackson. Hewitt is excited to merge with Stein, but the attempt fails and Hewitt leaves angrily, but also now unknowingly connected to the Firestorm matrix. Jefferson initially refuses, but when Hewitt goes on the attack with his new abilities Jefferson agrees to merge with Dr. Stein. After the successful merge, the new Firestorm joins Barry in helping to take down Hewitt, forcing Hewitt to get angrier until he burns himself out and loses his abilities. Meanwhile, Dr. Wells breaks into Mercury Labs and steals an unknown device. Later, Barry is attacked by a humanoid shark monster sent by Zoom to kill the Flash, but he is saved when Dr. Wells uses the device to incapacitate the creature.

Before the destruction of Krypton, Kara Zor-El is sent to Earth by her mother Alura to protect her cousin, Kal-El. Her ship is knocked off course into the Phantom Zone and Kara arrives twenty-four years late without having aged.

After moving away from the Pike brothers and with Selina Kyle, Bridget Pike is abducted and further abused by the Pikes. Bridget snaps and murders the other Pikes, beginning a crime spree. Bridget Pike is incapacitated in a struggle with the GCPD strike force, publicly announced to be dead. In all actuality, Pike is alive but her entire body is burned. She is taken to the Indian Hill division of Wayne Enterprises, which secretly performs inhumane experiments on super-powered beings. They believe that Bridget is fireproof, unaware that she actually wore body armour. Kristen Kringle learns that Edward Nygma murdered Officer Dougherty. In an attempt to keep Kringle from telling anyone, Nygma accidentally strangles her, putting her in critical condition. Theo Galavan continues to lure Bruce Wayne, this time offering to help clean up the corruption at Wayne Enterprises. Butch Gilzean discovers the location of Cobblepot's mother and Cobblepot begins to rally his gang.

Tonight we will be talking about the huge support WB is giving DC Shows by displaying banners on the historical WB Water Tower. Also we will discuss the new releases from DC COMICS!

Laurel and Thea arrive in Nanda Parbat and request Malcolm, the new Ra's al Ghul, to use the Lazarus Pit to bring Sara back to life. He initially refuses, but in order to appease Thea he eventually agrees. When Sara returns feral, Nyssa destroys the Lazarus Pit in retaliation. An A.R.G.U.S. operative delivers Diggle information on the woman, Mina Fayad, that hired Floyd Lawton to kill his brother. Fayad also works for H.I.V.E., and meets with Darhk about the growing issue with the vigilantes in Star City. She brings in a metahuman hitman named Jeremy Tell, who can turn his playing card tattoos into physical projectiles. After Tell's initial failure, Darhk kills Fayad for challenging him. Diggle and Oliver team up and take down Tell, but get no new information on H.I.V.E. In flashbacks, Oliver is forced to use torture techniques to interrogate the prisoners, who are being used to harvest heroin-cocaine hybrid plants, after a parcel of drugs goes missing.

Gotham Talk Podcast #27 - Scarification S2 Ep5 Galavan and Penguin join forces with a dangerous family in Gotham. Then, as the rivalry between the Waynes and the Galavans resurfaces, Gordon struggles to maintain order in the city in the all-new “Rise of the Villains: Scarification” episode of GOTHAM airing Monday, Oct. 19

The team locates one of the singularity breaches in the lab and Jay creates a device that stabilizes it and will allow him to return home, but he opts to stay to help Barry stop Zoom. Meanwhile, Lisa Snart shows up asking for Flash's help in rescuing her brother Leonard, who she believes was kidnapped. Barry tracks down Leonard, who reveals that he was not kidnapped but is working with his father, Lewis. Lisa swears that Leonard would never work with their father willingly, because their father was abusive toward her when she was a child. Eventually, the team determines that Lewis placed a bomb inside of Lisa and threatened to kill her if Leonard did not help him steal some diamonds. Barry infiltrates Lewis' crew with assistance from Leonard. Cisco successfully removes the bomb from Lisa, so Leonard uses his cold gun to kill his father in retaliation. Dr. Stein's condition continues to deteriorate, and Dr. Harrison Wells arrives through the singularity breach at the lab.

TJ Scott is a Film and Television Director/Writer/Photographer based in Los Angeles. His recent TV work includes directing the hit series ‘Gotham’ for Fox, ‘Constantine’ for NBC, ‘Spartacus’ & ‘Black Sails’ for Starz, the critically acclaimed BBC America series ‘Copper’ & ‘Orphan Black’ (CSA Nomination for Best Director) the Netflix series ‘Hemlock Grove’ & ‘Longmire’, ‘The Transporter’ for HBO/Cinemax, ‘Motive’ for ABC, ‘The Strain’ for FX, ‘Bitten’ & ’12 Monkeys’ and the ‘Dark Matter’ pilot for for Syfy. TJ’s indie Feature Film ‘Death Valley’ which he wrote, directed, and produced has reently been released. His previous movie ‘Deadliest Sea’ was nominated for five Gemini Awards in Canada, including Best Movie and Director. TJ has also directed award winning episodes of ‘Xena’, ‘Hercules’, ‘Nikita’, and his episode of ‘Playmakers’ was listed by the American Film Institute as one of the Top 10 episodes of television of the year. As a writer, TJ’s ‘Tracers’, starring Taylor Lautner, has just completed filming and his bio pic ‘Vivaldi’ is being produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. In addition, Chris Columbus has signed on to direct his script ‘The Secret Lives of Road Crews’ at Paramount. TJ has also directed his own scripts ‘Mayday’, adapted from the Nelson DeMille novel for CBS, ‘Blacktop’ for HBO, and ‘Legacy’, which opened the Las Vegas Film Festival. TJ has a life-long passion for photography. This was best realized with the highly successful 2014 release of his coffee-table book “In the Tub” - Portraits of Actors, Recording Artists, Models, all using a Bathtub as a common setting. This book is jam-packed with a veritable who’s who of celebrities from the film, television and music industries. Sales of this book resulted in raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for breast cancer awareness and TJ donates 100% of profits to this cause. His amazing eye and experience as one of industries leading directors has given him the ability to capture breathtaking images which attract tens of millions of views on the web. TJ has been published in and on the cover of dozens of magazines, captured over 250 pages of Editorial and Fashion spreads, as well as Book Covers and CD Covers for numerous Bands.

Tonight we will be talking about Bob Kane's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, he will be getting it on October 21st. Hollywood’s famous Walk of Fame includes stars devoted to such luminaries as Humphrey Bogart, Jack Nicholson, Audrey Hepburn and Steven Spielberg… and soon, Batman creator Bob Kane. As revealed this morning by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, Kane will be receiving a posthumous star in the category of Motion Pictures for his creation of Batman—a character who has successfully made the leap from comics to film more times than any other Super Hero. The ceremony will take place on October 21, 2015 at 11:30 a.m. PST and will feature bothBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice filmmaker Zack Snyder and DC Entertainment Co-Publisher Jim Lee as guest speakers, as well as the Batman v Superman Batmobile. (The Batmobile won’t be guest speaking. Instead, it’ll be parked there looking too awesome for words.)

The team take out another Ghost operation, but Diggle feels like it is not enough and Oliver continues to worry about Thea's excessive aggression when taking out criminals. Meanwhile, Queen family friend Jessica Danforth puts a bid in as the city's new mayor. During her announcement she is attacked by Lonnie Machin, an anarchist for hire working for Darhk. While trying to locate Machin, Thea's aggressive behavior seriously injures a witness, which forces Oliver to reveal to her the warning Malcolm Merlyn gave him before he put Thea in the Lazarus Pit. The team goes after Machin, successfully stopping him, but Thea again goes too far and sets Machin on fire in the process. Later, Machin escapes police custody in route to the hospital. Laurel decides to take Thea back to Nanda Parbat to find a way to stop the aggression, while Laurel wants to bring Sara's body to the pit. Meanwhile, Oliver decides to run for mayor after Jessica backs out of the race. In flashbacks, Oliver infiltrates a local military operation run by a man namedReiter. Oliver feigns ignorance of the military operation, but Reiter decides to recruit him for his cause instead of killing Oliver.

DC COMICS TALK Podcast Episode 20 - POST 2015 NYC Coverage, BATMAN V SUPERMAN

Jay explains to everyone that he is the Flash on his world, a parallel Earth, and that he was in a battle with a demonic speedster named Zoom when the singularity brought him to this Earth without his powers. Dr. Stein explains to the team how Jay's story could be possible using the multiverse theory, identifying their world as "Earth-1" and Jay's as "Earth-2". Zoom arrives and brings another metahuman from his Earth, named Sand Demon, to kill Barry. The two fight, but Sand Demon escapes. Cisco analyzes "sand" left behind and has a flash of the fight between him and Barry. After Sand Demon kidnaps Officer Patty Spivot, Jay teaches Barry how to hurl lightning from the energy he creates when he runs. Cisco uses his new power to tap into the "sand" particles and find Patty's location. Barry uses the lightning blast to turn Sand Demon's particles to glass, stopping him. Later, Officer Spivot joins Joe's metahuman task force. Cisco divulges his new ability to Dr. Stein, but asks him not to tell anyone. Dr. Stein and Cisco are able to locate 52 breaches with the other Earth. While showing the team, Dr. Stein collapses into unconsciousness.