52 Pickup
Episodes
Never Stop Reading Comics
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All-Star Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Alex Jaffe finish our show after two years of exploring the greatest comic book series you’ve ever heard ...
Week 52 - A Year in the Life
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you ready? All-Star Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Alex Jaffe finish issue 52 of 52, and share the thesis statement of this entire podcast, the...
Week 51 - Homecoming
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Forget it baby, it’s Rann! All-Star Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Alex Jaffe cast an emerald eye on issue 51, as well as an improved Court of Ow...
World War III #1-4
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
World’s FInest Gita Jackson and All-Star Alex Jaffe dare to read World War III, the widely despised 52 sub-event that actually has some great John O...
Week 50 - World War III
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tcatnoc! All-Star Alex Jaffe and World’s Finest Gita Jackson declare war on issue 50 of 52, featuring Black Adam against the world, the acronym F. I...
Week 49 - Eve of Destruction
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I choose you, hollow point! World’s Finest Gita Jackson and All-Star Alex Jaffe clinically examine issue #49, as well as diagnosing the Oolong Islan...
Week 48 - Asked and Answered
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Get me a McChicken from the Value Menu for a dollah! All-Star Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Alex Jaffe hunt down #48 of 52, and share Superman com...
Week 47 - Revelations
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Waiting for Bruce and thinkin’ bout goose! All-Star Alex Jaffe and World’s Finest Gita Jackson scramble around issue 47, tying up loose ends aroun...
Week 46 - Mad Science
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
1A, 1A, 1A! World’s Finest Gita Jackson and All-Star Alex Jaffe cackle hysterically at issue 46, featuring high intensity eBay bidding, dealing with...
Week 45 - Every Hour Wounds, The Last Kills
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Powersitting! All-Star Alex Jaffe and World’s Finest Gita Jackson rage for days against issue 45, including the Justice Society as Chuck Schumer, dr...
Week 44 - Deaths in the Family
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More like Adolf Shitler! All-Star Alex Jaffe0 and World’s Finest Gita Jackson go to war against issue #44, and figure out how Isis created Isis, DC ...
Week 43 - Family Matters
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Oh, Sobek! All-Star Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Alex Jaffe bite into #43 of 53, and discuss why space feels so small in the DC universe, the def...
Week 42 - Trigger Effect
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Too good to be Warner Brothers IP! All-Star Alex Jaffe and World’s Finest Gita Jackson pull the trigger on issue #42, exposing the mysteries (and al...
Week 41 - Miracles & Wonders
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My God, have you any decency at all?! World’s Finest Gita Jackson and All-Star Alex Jaffe come to terms with issue 41, and process the Silver Wheel ...
Week 40 - Man Ain't Nothing But a Man, with Brad Gullickson
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Me want comic now! All-Star Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Alex Jaffe team up with Comic Counselor Brad Gullickson to punch through the many floors...
Week 39 - Powers & Abilities, with Will Weldon
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Forgot about Bates! Old Man Will Weldon of I Hate Bill Maher joins All-Star Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Alex Jaffe for issue 39, and in the proc...
Week 38 - Breathless
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the time comes, let go. World’s Finest Gita Jackson and All-Star Alex Jaffe come to terms with issue 38 of 52, and the long-coming death of Vic...
Week 37 - Secret Identities, with Brian Clevinger
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You gotta take advantage of these shiny characters! All-Star Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Alex Jaffe team up with Atomic Brian Clevinger to refle...
Week 36 - How To Win a War In Space
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You can always trust me! All-Star Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Alex Jaffe cling desperately to issue 36, featuring an update on our beloved space...
Week 35 - Rain of the Supermen
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All-Star Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Alex Jaffe plummet into 52 #35, featuring bad puns for gruesome events, Kirkland Signature Superman, and sh...
Week 34 - Suicidal Tendencies, with Walt Lewellyn
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gaslight, gatekeep, graveboss! All-Star Gita and World’s Finest Alex are joined by The Black Casebook Podcast’s Walt Lewellyn to rise up for issue...
Week 33 - The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Giddyup, Jinglehorse! All-Star Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Alex Jaffe sleighride into Week 33, the Christmas Issue! Celebrate Lex Luthor’s mem...
Week 32 - Seven Days in Nanda Parbat, with Paul Chin
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All-Star Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Alex Jaffe team up with Music Meister Paul Chin to leap into week 32, featuring talking crocodiles, the lea...
Week 31 - Human Resources
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Oy oy, wots all this then?! All-Star Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Alex Jaffe flay the skin from issue 31 of 52, exploring Green Lantern cop disco...
Week 30 - Dark Knight Down, with Ash Parrish
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe team up with the Astonishing Ash Parrish to strike again at 52 #...
Week 29 - Name Calling
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dick Death Determined via Dan DiDio! The Dynamic Duo of Podcasting Gita and Alex feast on issue 29, cooking up opinions on Grant Morrison’s writing ...
Week 28 - Beyond the Black Stump, with Ted Brandt
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A crocodile ate my parents! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe team up with Emerald Artist Ted Bran...
Week 27 - The Past Best Hope
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Merry Crispmus! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe find acceptance of the self in #27 of 52, as wel...
The 52 Pickup Halfway There Extravaganza!
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
Week 26 - Halfway Home
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a two-turkey dinner! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe reach the halfway point of 52, where...
Week 25 - Liminal Times, with Josh Rivera
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Halloween, Judeo-Christians! All-Star Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe team up with the Booty of Bludhaven ...
Week 24 - Just Imagine, with Jordan Morris
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send a plot and three pages of dialogue right away! Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe team up with Eisner-nominated writer and podcaster Jordan Morris for i...
Week 23 - The Island of Professor Morrow
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Look out, my Cricketron’s gone berserk! Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe collapse onto the beaches of issue 23, detailing mysteries of the Religion of Cr...
Week 22 - Burial Ground
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
ou’re ownin’ for a zonin’! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe smother issue 22, and in the pr...
Week 21 - Teambuilding Exercises
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ah, Shuddup! Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe kick the twenty-first issue of 52 down a flight of stairs, and in the process discuss Jaffe’s incredible Am...
Week 20 - God Is Fragged
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I Died And Was Reincarnated As The World’s Greatest Monster! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe b...
Week 19 - History Repeats
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
He knows! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe fly into issue nineteen, taking on Space Pope Lobo, wh...
Subscriber Feed Preview Clip: The Flash (2023) Review
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a preview for the subscriber only bonus feed episode featuring a review of The Flash (2023), the capstone film in the grand Snyderverse exper...
Week 18 - Dismantled, with Questionposting
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Emancipate the JLA! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe cross over with Questionposting to tackle is...
Week 17 - Last of the Czarnians
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Only thirty-five more ta go! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe blast off into issue seventeen of 5...
Subscriber Feed Preview Clip: An Interview with Mark Waid
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a preview for the subscriber only bonus feed episode featuring an interview with legendary co-writer of 52 and countless other formative comi...
Week 16 - Uhebbuki, with Charles Pulliam Moore
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
O zephyr winds which blow on high, lift me now so I can fly! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe tea...
Week 15 - Outshined, with Alex Sinclair
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Your Donations Keep Lexapedia Running! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe are joined by the legenda...
Week 14 - Sand and Rust, with Reid Vanier
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert...
Week 13 - Haystack, with Tim Marchman
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is what happens when they let me into a church! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe are joined ...
Week 12 - Mighty
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
ttttttttt! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe consider issue number twelve of 52, and in the proces...
Week 11 - Batwoman Begins, with Jadzia Axelrod
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Man down in Wife City! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe are joined by The Prettiest Star Jadzia A...
Week 10 - Stop The Press
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Live, laugh, love! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe jump out of a window into 52’s tenth issue,...
Week 9 - Dream of America
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe head off in pursuit of 52 issue #9, dealing with psychosexual eu...
Week 8 - Thief, with Dalton Deschain and Dylan Roth
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe are joined by Dalton Deschain and Dylan Roth of Are You Afraid o...
Week 7 - Going Down
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Betrayal! Public shaming! Pop-punk and toxic lesbians! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe infiltrat...
Week 6 - China Syndrome, with Brian Cronin
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe are joined by Star-Spangled CBR Senior Writer Brian Cronin in di...
Week 5 - Stars In Their Courses
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe analyze the fifth issue of 52, and discover a multiversal Scotla...
Week 4 - Dances With Monsters
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe investigate the fourth issue of 52, and cover neoliberal black c...
Week 3 - New World Order
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
All-Star Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe dissect issue #3 of 52, covering Jaffe’s favorite villain, the Creepe...
Picking Up with Geoff Johns
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Intrepid reporter Alex Jaffe comes to you straight from New York Comic Con 2023, interviewing comics legend and member of the 52 writers room Geoff Jo...
Week 2 - Looking Back At Tomorrow
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
All-Star Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe dive into the second issue of 52, covering Grant Morrison’s thoughts ...
Week 1 - Golden Lads and Lasses Must
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
All-Star Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe dive into everything you need to know to start reading 52, as well as g...
Week 0 - Forgot About Lane
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and DC Lore Expert Alex Jaffe set the stage for full analysis of 52, the most important comic book of the century and t...