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Top 5 Comics Podcast - Episode 200 - Green Arrow #1, Batman the Doom That Came to Gotham @ Wonder Con

·1 hr 55 min·3 clips

Roy Harper's missing daughter unexpectedly reappears as a skilled masked vigilante, revealing continuity restoration from Dark Crisis storylines.

Episode 200 opens with a handoff. Sebastian Jones gives the intro, then CBS explains that Master Disaster is running a restaurant and the second suitor is out delivering mail. So it is CBS at the wheel. He treats the milestone as a different kind of episode, built from WonderCon interviews from March. The main subject is Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham, the DC animated movie based on Mike Mignola's three-part Elseworlds comic. CBS keeps checking details as he goes, and that looseness helps. The questions feel more like comic-shop counter talk than press-junket polish. One exchange starts with a hat. Bloodborne, Berserk, Kintaro Miura, and Miyazaki get bundled together as CBS chases influence without acting like every reference has a clean border. Then the Mignola question lands. The guest talks about bringing the Batman book to life, remembers Gaslight, and points to Mignola's writing as the thing that really works. There is real appreciation in it. Some ideas, the guest says, looked smart once they were inside the material. CBS then steers toward Spawn. McFarlane is making DC toys, a Spawn Batman book exists, and Batman has already crossed with TMNT in animation, so CBS asks whether Spawn Batman could make the jump too. The answer stays open but practical. The guest likes the pairing, but admits to some Batman fatigue after doing so many Batman stories. Business gets in the way, and the frustration lingers just long enough to make the crossover talk feel less like pure fan fuel. The ending drifts in the same spirit. CBS hits oddball bits, mentions Kamen Rider, Godzilla, and Shin Kamen Rider, then wraps while saying the show is trying to get back to normal.

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An episode 200 WonderCon catch-up that centers Batman the Doom That Came to Gotham and creator-focused comics talk.

Top 5 Comics Podcast marks episode 200 with a WonderCon-heavy run of interviews, and Sebastian Jones keeps things moving while the rest of the cast is busy elsewhere.

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You want a WonderCon interview stack around Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham.

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