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It's time for another edition of Saturday Morning 101, and this time Dan and Jonathan cover the classic The Real Ghostbusters. All these years later, does it hold up? Well, there's only one way to find out!

In the first installment of Hey, Gurlfriend, Hannah and Will tackle the 80s-tastic, Muppet-filled, logic-puzzle-failing wonderland that is the 1986 movie Labyrinth. Is the Labyrinth really just an appendix to the Aperture testing facilities? What are the D&D classes for our main quartet? What do date rape, peaches, and hoarders have to do with anything? And what on earth is The Bulge? Tune in and find out, gurl!

In this episode, Mike dives into the second round of DCnU comics: Action Comics #1, Animal Man #1, Batgirl #1, Batwing #1, Detective Comics #1, Green Arrow #1, Hawk and Dove #1, Justice League International #1, Men of War #1, OMAC #1, Static Shock #1, Stormwatch #1, and Swamp Thing #1.

In the August edition of Grumpy Old Fans (which is being released in September for some reason), Dan and Mike compare Catwoman (1993) #1 to Gotham City Sirens #24, Savage Dragon (1993) #3 to Fear Itself #3, and Spider-Man 2099 #10 to Ultimate Spider-Man #160.

In the first edition of the brand new Waiting for the Trade, Bristol residents Tom Hemmings and Chris Gannon class the segment up by taking a look at the indie comic Love and Capes: Wake Up Where You Are, and the British mainstay Judge Dredd: The Apocalypse War. Between those, though, they cover the good ol' American superhero comic The Thanos Imperative. USA! USA! USA!

It's time for another edition of Saturday Morning 101 with Dan and Jonathan. This time around they analyze Freakazoid!, the cult classic cartoon created by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini!

Thanks to the events of Flashpoint, the post-Crisis DC Universe is dead. From its ashes rises the DCnU: a younger, forever-changed world! To herald in this momentous moment, DC Comics launched Justice League, the first in a wave of 52 brand new comic books. What did Mike think about Flashpoint #1-5 and Justice League #1, and what does he have to say about the risk DC is taking? There's only one way to find out!

Closing out his look at the final post-Crisis DC comic books, Mike talks about Batman: Gates of Gotham #5, Batman: The Dark Knight #5, Batman, Inc. #8, Brightest Day Aftermath: The Search for Swamp Thing #3, Gotham City Sirens #26, Green Arrow #15, Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors #13, Justice Society of America #54, Teen Titans #100, Wonder Woman #614, Xombi #6, and Action Comics #904.

From the awful to the surprisingly good, Mike discusses Batman #713, Green Lantern Corps #63, Justice League of America #60, Legion of Super-Heroes #16, Power Girl #27, Superboy #11, Supergirl #67, Superman / Batman #87, Titans #38, and Zatanna #16 in this, the third part of his look at the final comic books published in DC's post-Crisis universe.

In the second of a four-part series, Mike continues to examine the final DC comics in the post-Crisis universe. This time, those books are Batgirl #24, Batman 80-Page Giant 2011, Batman and Robin #26, Birds of Prey #15, Booster Gold #47, Detective Comics #881, Red Robin #26, THUNDER Agents #10, and War of the Green Lanterns: Aftermath #2.

As the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths DC Universe moves towards its conclusion, Mike sat down to review the first batch of final issues: Green Lantern #67, Adventure Comics #529, Batman Beyond #8, Jonah Hex #70, Secret Six #36, and Superman #714.

The power of the written word (Transmetropolitan: One More Time), spy-on-spy anarchy (Black Widow: The Itsy-Bitsy Spider), and murder in gaudy tights (Hack / Slash: Super Sidekick Sleepover Slaughter) are the topics covered in this edition of Waiting for the Trade.

In this episode of Earth-2.net: The Show, Dan and his friend Jonathan launch the brand new segment Saturday Morning 101! In the first installment, the guys look back on one of the greatest cartoons of the 1980s: Transformers!

While comparing The Avengers #185 to New Avengers (2010) #12, The Flash (1959) #275 to Flashpoint #1, and Jonah Hex (1977) #26 to Jonah Hex (2006) #67, Dan and Mike discuss mail-order comics, they alienate female listeners, and Mike is given a new title right out of the gate.

As another summer of comic book movies winds down, Ian Wilson uses this episode of Earth-2.net: The Show to examine three of this year's offerings: Priest, X-Men: First Class, and Green Lantern!

Preston and Michelle present another edition of Comics Character Crash Course, this time about Todd McFarlane's Spawn!

T'Challa begins to protect Hell's Kitchen (Black Panther: The Man Without Fear - Urban Jungle), Spider-Man and Wolverine are mysteriously lost in time (Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine), and a little boy's toys set out on an adventure to save their abducted master (The Stuff of Legend: The Dark).

Rarely has Mike flown solo on Earth-2.net: The Show, but that's exactly what he's doing here with his review of X-Men: First Class.

Grumpy Old Fans is finally back on schedule, and this one pairs Conan the Barbarian (1970) #194 with Joe the Barbarian #8, Justice League (1987) #1 with Justice League: Generation Lost #22, and Secret Origins #14 with Thunderbolts #155.

As Conner Kent weighs himself against his two fathers, he reconnects with old friends and enemies (Superboy: The Boy of Steel). Then Mark Millar's out-of-continuity take on Peter Parker's parentage is examined (Trouble). And Dan and Mike discuss the comic book that bridges Firefly to Serenity (Serenity: Those Left Behind).