This is the first episode of our season on "The Power Fantasy", an Image comic by Kieron Gillen and Casper Wijngaard.

This episode covers the first collected volume of "The Power Fantasy", issues #1-5. We highly recommend you read the comics first as this episode gets into heavy spoilers.

In this episode… the boys attempt to move forward without that Babylon 5 crutch, starting a podcast to deter your son from Dogman, Mike gets all the cookies and bars he wants, the quiz segment lives on, Dre gets on the Slater family chore point board, the president should have gone for the head, you can’t exact revenge without taking out a few friends along the way, Masumi the depression Hulk is awesome, the ethical threshold of lying, Heavy makes a human meatball, and Dre makes parfait out of a layer cake.

This week's guest is Carin Slater.

Carin Slater from the “Hey, Have You Read This Yet?” podcast returns. Carin is an avid reader of sci-fi, romance and horror novels but took a break from all that to read Volume I of The Power Fantasy.

Check out Hey, Have You Read This Yet?, Carin's book club podcast for kids and adults who like to read together. Send in book recommendations to heyhaveyoureadthis@gmail.com.

Carin Recommends

• Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
• Um Actually… - Dropout TV show
• Silo - Apple TV series

Mike Recommends

• Decompressed - Kieron Gillen’s Podcast
• Die & Die: Loaded - Gillen’s Current Series

For the next full episode, we continue our coverage of Kieron Gillen and Casper Wijngaard's "The Power Fantasy" comic with special guest Atif Myers

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