Welcome to Journey Into Misery, where I explain complicated comics characters, continuity and concepts to the patient and perpetually perplexed Helena Hart.

We’ve taken the most important superhero comic of all time and reduced it to its major story beats. What could go wrong?

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On Twitter, Kieran is @KingImpulse, Helena is @Hachiee and the official account of the show is @JiMPodcast.

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Journey Into Misery art by Joe Hunter.