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Mr. Terrific: Year One #4 Review - Another Brilliant and Unmissable Issue!

September 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM

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The Kovacs Report

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Mr. Terrific: Year One #4 Review - Another Brilliant and Unmissable Issue!
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Mr. Terrific: Year One #3 Review - Flawless. One of the BEST DC Comics in Years!

August 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM

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Reveal

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Trump is abandoning a homelessness approach that’s been proven successful.

On this week’s More To The Story, host @alletson.bsky.social sits down with the man who came up with that approach—and what Trump’s new policies could mean for America’s unhoused people.

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August 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM

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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You!

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If you're not listening to @revealnews.org and @alletson.bsky.social's 'More To The Story' series on the regular, you're missing out. Sometimes it'll infuriate you, yeah, but it'll always inform and intellectually arm you.

August 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM

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What does it take to feed thousands of Gazans at risk of famine?

On this week’s “More To The Story,” host @alletson.bsky.social talks with the Gaza Soup Kitchen’s Abe Ajrami about the immense challenges of getting food to starving Palestinians.

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August 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM

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The Kovacs Report

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Mr. Terrific: Year One #3 Review - Flawless. One of the BEST DC Comics in Years!
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MR TERRIFIC YEAR ONE #3: Terrific Spy

July 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM

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Hopsgeeknews

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Slacking on my comics this week but I’m loving Mr Terrific Year One a ton! My full review for @nerdinitiative.bsky.social can be found here! Shout-out to @alletson.bsky.social @marissadraws.bsky.social @vdelandro.bsky.social Edwin Galmon and Lucas Gattoni @dc.com

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Mr Terrific Year One #3: Michael has come out of his house for the first time in forever and has reluctantly taken it upon himself to find out what Athena is truly up to. Of course, nothing goes to pl...

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July 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM

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Jenny Deiker Restivo

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Now addicted to @alletson.bsky.social 's @dcoffical.bsky.social Mr. Terrific comic. Can't wait for the next edition, and the next, and the next.

Bearded Comic Bro @beardedcomicbro.bsky.social · Jul 12

If you went and saw Superman this week and fell in love with Mr Terrific than I highly recommend checking out the new series @dcoffical.bsky.social is putting out with @alletson.bsky.social writing!! Great introduction to the character!!! #comics #comicbooks #dc #superman #beardedcomicbro

July 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM

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Bearded Comic Bro

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If you went and saw Superman this week and fell in love with Mr Terrific than I highly recommend checking out the new series @dcoffical.bsky.social is putting out with @alletson.bsky.social writing!! Great introduction to the character!!! #comics #comicbooks #dc #superman #beardedcomicbro

July 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM

Al Letson

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@chanda.bsky.social I can’t tell you how much I loved Disordered Cosmos. So ridiculously good.

July 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM

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BLACK COMIC LORDS

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Writer @alletson.bsky.social and artists @edwingalmon & @valentinedelandro talk Mr. Terrific: Year One
Sunday @ 9pm EST!!!
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Mr. Terrific: Year One - Al Letson, Edwin Galmon & Valentine De Landro

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June 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM

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‘Mr. Terrific: Year One’ #2 doesn’t retell, it redefines
#comicbooks #comics #NCBD @alletson.bsky.social #comicsky
Read Chris' 10/10 review:

‘Mr. Terrific: Year One’ #2 doesn’t retell, it redefines

As Mr. Terrific’s origin unfolds, a connection between his past and present appears to emerge.

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June 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM

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Mr. Terrific: Year One #2 Review - Mr. Terrific Meets The Spectre!
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Mr. Terrific: Year One #2 Review - Mr. Terrific Meets The Spectre!

Mr. Terrific Year One #1: You Can’t Outsmart Grief

June 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM

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Great Pop Culture Debate

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It's time for our #NCBD picks! Which are you pulling? #comics #comicbooks #newbooks @collinkelly.bsky.social @adamkubert.bsky.social @jacksonlanzing.bsky.social @christophcondon.bsky.social @oni-press.bsky.social @imagecomics.com @eloelo.bsky.social @alletson.bsky.social @vdelandro.bsky.social

May 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM

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Hopsgeeknews

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Mr Terrific Year One issue one from @dc.com @alletson.bsky.social @vdelandro.bsky.social @marissadraws.bsky.social and Edwin Galmon is out now! Check out my full review on @nerdinitiative.bsky.social below

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Mr. Terrific Year One #1: Michael Holt is one of the world's smartest men to have ever lived using his genius to progress the world forward. However, when his wife Paula and unborn son tragically pass...

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May 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM

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Marcelo Córdova

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Top Comics to Buy for May 28, 2025 www.comicsbeat.com/top-comics-t... @denizcamp.bsky.social @ericxyz.bsky.social @dbandry.bsky.social @timdanielcomics.bsky.social @alletson.bsky.social @christophcondon.bsky.social (via @comicsbeat.bsky.social)

Top Comics to Buy for May 28, 2025: A stunning single issue lands in ASSORTED CRISIS EVENTS, and more

This week's list of Top Comics to Buy for May 28 features new issues of Ultimate Spider-Man, Assorted Crisis Events, and more!

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May 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM

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Clara Jeffery

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Must listen conversation
@nhannahjones.bsky.social and @alletson.bsky.social about Trump’s attempt to erase Black history, why he runs on economics but enacts policies that stoke racial animus podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Nikole Hannah-Jones: Trump Is Erasing Black History

Podcast Episode · Reveal · 05/07/2025 · 31m

News Podcast · Updated Weekly · Reveal’s investigations will inspire, infuriate and inform you. Host Al Letson and an award-winning team of reporters deliver gripping stories about caregivers, advocat...

May 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM

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Clara Jeffery

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“More to the Story” is @revealnews.org mid-week podcast, where @alletson.bsky.social does deep with a guest talking about the moment we’re in, or how we got here. Smash that subscribe button: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

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How Trump Exploits Working-Class Pain - Reveal

May 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM

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Arlie Hochschild has spent years talking with voters who are supposed to benefit the most from Donald Trump’s tariffs.

On this week's episode of More To The Story, the sociologist sits down with @alletson.bsky.social to discuss why she thinks his policies won’t ultimately benefit them:

Sociologist Arlie Hochschild on how Trump uses economic decline to win over voters and push rural America further to the right.

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April 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM

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Badr Milligan

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@alletson.bsky.social is adding COMIC WRITER to his already long resume, this May!

He's redefining Mr. Terrific's origin story in Mr. Terrific: Year One, just in time for the character's live action debut in Superman this summer

April 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM

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Clara Jeffery

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Don’t miss this week’s episode of More to the Story from @revealnews.org. @alletson.bsky.social talks to Larry Turner, one of the Inspector Generals who Trump fired immediately after coming into power, clearing the way for epic abuse and corruption podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Exclusive: Trump Fired This Top Watchdog. Now He’s Speaking Out.

Podcast Episode · Reveal · 03/26/2025 · 27m

Trump’s Mass Deportations Are Decades in the Making

March 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM

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Clara Jeffery

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In the 2nd up of @revealnews.org new mid-week podcast, "More to the Story," @alletson.bsky.social talks to @newyorker.com writer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social about how decades of dysfunction in our immigration system has led to Trump's mass deportation scheme: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Podcast Episode · Reveal · 03/12/2025 · 31m

More To The Story with Al Letson

March 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM

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ICYMI, this was the first episode of our newest weekly podcast, "More to the Story."

Tune in every Wednesday as host @alletson.bsky.social talks with the people at the center of our dramatically shifting world.

Podcast Episode · Reveal · Trailer · 3m