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Hi ATA Listeners, it's time to EXTERMINATE!!! Oh no, I'm turning into a Dalek! Wait a minute, here's the Doctor with a funky light up bracelet to save the day, YAY I'M CURED! And as you might've guessed our favorite bowtie wearing alien time traveler has returned to ATA with our review on the Doctor Who Series 7 Premiere, Asylum of the Daleks. An episode that left Nico and I completely blown away by its astonishing ability to keep blindsiding us with twists that we just did not see coming like this episode ending with the Doctor's greatest enemies asking who are you?  However, the fun we have on this podcast doesn't stop with Doctor Who as we get caught up on our reviews for the two other great sci-fi series that premiered this summer, Syfy Channel's Warehouse 13 and Alphas.

Hello DC Nationites, it's Dan here bringing you another Comic Book Discussion podcast episode! And now there's probably a guy in the back of a room somewhere letting out a slow uncaring clap. In all honesty, this is a shorter episode because we feel you guys on that one as it's really time for new Green Lantern and Young Justice. However, please try to indulge us one more week since there's some new stuff planned for our next couple of episodes and you've got to be excited about this podcast's discussion on Smallville Season 11 as the longest running TV incarnation of Clark Kent/Superman comes face-to-face with Batman. In addition, the other comic books we talk about today, The Flash and Supergirl are some of the best to come out of The New 52. Obviously, The Flash written by Francis Manapul was expected to be good but Supergirl was a surprise as it took the character of Kara in a whole new direction that felt as intense as a Bourne movie. However, what really makes these books great is that they personify t

Hello my friends, and welcome back to Across the Airwaves' very own Retro Reviews Podcast with our "Season 2 premiere" covering Smallville episodes "Toxic" and "Disciple", and yes, they're BOTH Oliver Queen-centric as we are continuing our Arrow-Preparation campaign that we started with Longbow Hunters Episode 0, and will continue until Retro Reviews 32 (next episode). So, strap in and get ready because our new format to Retro Reviews and our new episodes are coming (at only 2 episodes a month!) and you won't want to miss out!!!

Hey ATA Listeners, I've got some bad news for you, the sky is falling and no it's not in a Disney fairytale Chicken Little kind of way, I'm talking about giant spaceships, nuclear bombs, aliens enslaving children and every form of creepy crawley you can find in the book. However, with that thought in mind ATA Episode 87 can only go positive from here as my DC Nation Podcast cohost Michael J. Petty joins Nico and I to share the accounts of humanity's last line of defense the Second Mass Military Unit with our discussion on the second season of TNT's hit sci-fi TV Series Falling Skies. So with great pride and honor I present to you the sites and sounds of those same heroes acting as our defense against the alien threat told from the perspective of the Across The Airwaves Corps...

Hey guys and welcome back to DC Nation! Well, you've been waiting for this episode since summer started (well, since the New 52 started... but yeah...) and now we're finally going to deliver! On our "Super-Soap Box" episode, Dan and I get on our mics and go right at it! It being Grant Morrison. Morrison is personally responsible for destroying both Batman & X-Men comics of the last decade (which, both have (for the most part) been, thankfully, un-done by various means) and is now working on Superman (in Action Comics). I had high hopes for this run, mainly because of how good All-Star Superman is (which he also wrote), however, as Dan and I talk about, this run on Action makes no sense at all. But Morrison isn't all we talk about! We also discuss Dan Jurgens run on the current Superman book as well as our high hopes for Scott Lobdell's run, coming this fall. But, since we didn't want to leave you on a sour note, and it did fit into our "Superman" theme, we also cover the Smallville: Season 11 episode "De

Hey ATA Listeners, with Week 23 of our DC Nation Podcast you are in for a great show as we discuss a highly anticipated event that has been 10 years in the making, the introduction of Batman to the Smallville Universe with the next digital installment of Bryan Q. Miller's Smallville Season 11 entitled Detective Chapter 1. However, that's not all we have for you in this thrilling episode as we continue our Summer Comic Book Discussion Series with our thoughts on the New 52 Green Lantern as well as a recap on few story arcs that actually crossed over from the Post Crisis Universe, Blackest Night, Brightest Day and War of the Green Lanterns.

Welcome one and all to the 0 episode of LONGBOW HUNTERS: THE ARROW PODCAST. Brought to you by Across the Airwaves Productions. In this 0 episode of LBH, Woo S! Kim and I (Michael J. Petty) cover Green Arrow in comics, television, film (well... not film, but you get the picture), and everything else! We also discuss our thoughts on what we've heard so far about Arrow, the show in which this podcast is about. Also, sorry about Woo's audio. We're getting back into recording season and we're still working out the kinks. Anyway, enjoy out (very poor...) episode 0 of Longbow Hunters!

Hey ATA Listeners, extreme ways are back again for Across the Airwaves as Nico and I reprise our hosting duties to kick off our third season featuring more celebrity interviews, new podcast spinoffs and the addition of two new cohosts (fingers crossed) with a episode on SyFy Channel's Warehouse 13 and Alphas. In fact, within the worlds of these shows extreme ways have taken us to places we've never known as Artie used an dangerous artifact to restore the warehouse despite the risk of unleashing an evil upon the world and Dr. Rosen announced the existence of Alphas to the public. As you can imagine, this means that our discussion on this episode is all about the debate on if Rosen and Artie's epic decisions will save the world or cause it to fall apart. However that's not without our favorite Warehouse Agents  and Alpha Team Members having to say something about it especially when Gary Bell is on the case. I know it's been a while but with Gary around you've got to remember to respect the badge by accepting o

Hello, ATA Listeners! It's Dan here and with us still trying to get our bearings straight after returning from vacation, we decided to make this episode simple by just making it a discussion on The New 52 Justice League Comics brought together by Geoff Johns, Jim Lee and an All-Star team of additional artists. Now normally we would pair this discussion with a review on the next installment of Smallville Season 11 but since the next chapter Detective is not going to be released until this Friday, we decided to stick with giving you our thoughts on Justice League as well as the back story involving the new origins of Shazam beginning in Issue #7. However, more Smallville is not the only thing for you to look forward to as a comment from long time podcast listener Jason A. reveals that an ATA Episode 86 is in the making, which is set to review new episodes of Warehouse 13 and Alphas currently airing Monday nights on SyFy. Also as you may have noticed ads have been added to the ATA website and we ask that you pl

                   Hey guys, and welcome back to the DC Nation Podcast's coverage on this years San Diego Comic Con. Because we didn't get to finish our coverage of DC Comics at the Con this year, we split it into two episodes (or weeks). Week 20 was all about the comics aspect of DC Entertainment, and now Week 21 (the one you are currently downloading and reading the description of...) will talk more about DC's media, including everything DC Nation (no, not our podcast, the actual Cartoon Network programming block!) including the second halfs of the current seasons of Green Lantern and Young Justice, the upcoming shows for this block including the highly anticipated Beware the Batman as well as the return of the Teen Titans to Cartoon Network in Teen Titans Go!, and of course the next wave of DC Nation Shorts coming up. But that's not all Dan and I talk about on this episode, we also talk about the most highly anticipated film of 2013 and it's panel featuring director Zack Snyder and lead actor Henry Cavill,

Hello everyone and welcome back to the DC Nation Podcast! We're sorry it took so long for this episode to get out to you, but unfortunately, Dan was at Summer Camp all of last week, so he couldn't really put it out. Regardless, we're back, and this time we are covering DC Entertainment's news at Comic Con 2012! We cover the Batman: Beyond the Court of Owls panel, the DC - All Access Now panel, the Superman, Justice League/Green Lantern panels, and the New 52 panel as well. There is a lot of news coming out of Comic Con this year and a lot to discuss, hence this being a long episode. In-fact, this episode was actually split into two parts as the recording was getting way to long. So our coverage of DC Nation at SDCC and the Man of Steel panel are going to take place on our next episode (Week 21) instead. But don't worry Smallville fans, we haven't let you down so far and we won't let you down today as we cover the Season 11 premiere "Guardian" with the 11th Chapter of this amazing saga featuring a showdown be

Hey ATA Listeners, I was going to come up with something really eloquent and profound for this post to hype one of the biggest events of the year, San Diego Comic Con 2012. However, with all of the delays that have been going on with the release of our podcast episodes from computer issues to me being on vacation, I'm going to keep this short and sweet by saying join us as we discuss all of the news headlines that came out of Comic Con 2012 and the panels where the people behind our favorite Live-Action TV shows (Community, The Big Bang Theory, Psych, Once upon a Time, Person of Interest, Fringe, Supernatural and Doctor Who) give a sneak peek at their upcoming new seasons.

Hey everyone, and welcome back to Across the Airwaves' classic spin-off podcast entitled "Retro Reviews". Today we speak to you all with very heavy hearts as Woo and I return from our slumber to talk about the theater shooting that took place at The Dark Knight Rises midnight screening in Aurora, Colorado. First of all, we'd like to send our deepest sympathies from here at ATA towards the victims and the families of the victims during this terrible time. Secondly, this even really disturbed Woo and I, and we really get emotional and angry in this podcast. I do encourage you to listen to it, because we do get light-hearted again while talking about The Dark Knight Rises, Arrow & Supernatural at SDCC, and the Man of Steel trailer in detail. And while we do briefly discuss those last three things, the main event of this podcast is our long discussion on this event, as well as our Man of Steel trailer that is suppose to give us hope. If you are afraid to go see TDKR, or any movie at all, I'd encourage you to

Hello loyal DC Comics fans, Atlantians, Kryptonians, cyborgs, Geoff Johns fans, and DC Nation listeners and welcome back! This week on ATA's very own DC Nation Podcast, Dan and I cover the most controversial superhero in pretty much all of comic book history, this character is none other than Orin/Arthur "A.C." Curry aka AQUAMAN! Now, Aquaman (created by Paul Norris), has had one of the most convoluted backgrounds in all of comic book history (others with that title include Hawkman, Jean Grey, Ben Reilly, and Power Girl) but now with DC's New 52 relaunch, Geoff Johns has fixed all the problems we've had with Aquaman over the past 75 years, in just ONE ISSUE!!! That's right, so far issues 1-10 of this new series are out, and we cover all of them, but first, we start out with a little bit of background on "mankind's truest friend" followed by our discussion on the first story line, "The Trench". After that we quickly move onto the better of the two story arcs (witch, by the way, is still going on) "The Others"

Hello fellow Gothamites, Nolanites, and Bat-Fans and welcome back to Across the Airwaves! This is of course the Road to TDKR Podcast Series of commentaries on the Bat-Films leading up to The Dark Knight Rises. HOWEVER, this time on Road to TDKR, your favorite host Dan Schmidt & I will be commentating on one of the most important films in movie, super hero, and comic book history. That film, of course, is The Dark Knight. As the longest and final film in this series of commentaries, Dan & I make a very special effort to not just enjoy the movie, but really dissect the most important elements of it. The Joker. The rise and fall of Harvey "Two-Face" Dent. The effect Rachel's death had on the characters. The importance of the Batman. Our theory on Heath Ledger's death and that his portrayal of the Joker may have driven him to madness. And our theories on how the events of this film will carry on over into The Dark Knight Rises.  We dedicate this commentary to Heath Ledger, Conway Wickliffe, Jerry Robinson

Hey gang, and welcome back to the DC Nation Podcast, brought to you by the Across the Airwaves Network! As you know, last week on the podcast, we interviewed Green Lantern: The Animated Series producer Giancarlo Volpe,  what most of you don't know, is that the next day, we recorded this episode for you as well! Unfortunately, due to scheduling conflicts, we couldn't get it out to you all until now, but hey, no one's perfect! So on this weeks DC Nation Podcast, as Green Lantern & Young Justice aren't back from hiatus and reruns, Dan and I decided to keep going with our "Summer of DC" thing that we did on Week 16 with the Batman books and continue on with the Batman Beyond Unlimited comic! Now, this book is different than most. 3 digital chapters of Batman Beyond, Justice League Beyond (or Justice League Unlimited), and Superman Beyond are released each month, and when it comes time for the print, they combine and form the BBU comic! Pretty neat, huh? So, Dan and I start with Batman Beyond: Hush, then Batm

Hello fellow Green Lantern Corps members, Benders, comic fans, and ATA followers and welcome back! On this special episode of Across the Airwaves' DC Nation Podcast, Dan and I interview one of the show-runners of one of our favorite shows to cover here on the ATA Network entitled, Green Lantern: The Animated Series! As you all know, we have covered every episode of this show on our DC Nation Podcast from Week 1 (aka ATA Episode 74) to Week 13 until the show took it's summer hiatus. But now, we have scored an interview with a producer of this show who has worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Star Wars: Clone Wars, and, of course, Green Lantern: TAS, his name is Giancarlo Volpe! Giancarlo graciously (like Smallville: Season 11 writer Bryan Q. Miller did months ago) agreed to an interview and we didn't even have to force him at gunpoint! In this interview, we talk about the "behind-the-scenes" of Green Lantern, the creation of Aya and Razer (and their romance...), how Gi got his job on GL: TAS, how and why the

Howdy DC Nationers, it's Summer and we're going to use Green Lantern: The Animated Series and Young Justice Invasion being on hiatus as an excuse to take it easy because frankly everyone here at ATA has been working really hard. However, that does not mean we are going to stop providing you with podcasts we are just going to be taking a different approach with our episodes as our reviews on the digital issues of Smallville Season 11 will be combined with a series of discussions on DC's The New 52 Comic Books until our favorite DC Nation Shows return. Now that you know the lowdown  for the next couple weeks. This particular episode is called Podcast of the Owls since we are beginning our New 52 discussions on the Batman related books, particularly their connection to the highly acclaimed Court/Night of the Owls crossover event, which concluded with a reveal that may change the dynamic of the Bat Family forever! On that note, in going along with the laid-back nature of summer, this section is going to be a mos

Hey guys, welcome back! In case you don't know, you're listening to the "Road to The Dark Knight Rises" commentary series brought to you by Across the Airwaves! This time, Dan and Michael watch the animated "bridge" in between Begins and TDK entitled "Batman: Gotham Knight". The reason we decided to cover Gotham Knight was because it really does get into Batman's head and sets up his position in TDK (which will be our next and final commentary for Road to TDKR) as well as the fact that Batman is voiced by the only "true" Batman in our opinion, Kevin Conroy! Join Dan and I in watching Batman: Gotham Knight consisting of 6 chapters, by 6 different writers, but it's one over-arcing story. So, thanks for taking the last minute to read this and now put in your Gotham Knight DVD/Blu-Ray, turn on your commentary, and strap in, because we're taking this up to 11!

Hello DC Nation Fans! It's Dan here, bringing you our Week 15 episode entitled Comeback because this week's Young Justice Invasion episode “Depths”  featured the seeds being planted for Superboy and Miss Martian to come back to their romantic relationship and Smallville Season 11 Guardian Chapter 7 dealt with Clark as Superman making a comeback towards Lex Luthor for sabotaging his own space shuttle launch.  In addition, we here at ATA hope that with Green Lantern as well as Young Justice on hiatus you will  come back for more of our ATA DC Nation podcasts as we're going to continue reviewing the Smallville Season 11 Digital Comics and begin discussions on DC's The New 52 comic books until the animated shows return with new episodes. By the way, before I forget to mention it, this ATA DC Nation podcast also features discussions on the Superhero Shorts: DC Nation Mythbusters Kid Flash's Dodging, Sword of the Atom Part 2 and The New Teen Titans in Taped before a Live Studio Audience.