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We finally did it! We tackled one of our proverbial white whales: V FOR VENDETTA by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. It's such a precise, dense, frustrating, and prophetic treatise on the escalation of fascism in a failed state. Simultaneously, it's a gorgeous, hopeful, and inspiring manifesto for building a world based around love and community care from the ashes of the fallen authoritarian empire. In our discussion, we talk about the way this book (and the subsequent movie) have been warped in the public eye, how Moore's political praxis is front and center, and how we can take up V's cause in the fight against fascism today. Oh, and please, for the love of god, don't do LSD in a concentration camp...
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It’s once again time to talk about our favorite 7-day-old comics! This week we stare into the horrors of reality from inside the horror genre. Also multiple Blues Beetles, a murder mystery in space, and Batman has a visit from CPS!
Pull List (with spoiler time stamps):
00:12:44 - Ice Cream Man #42 00:31:10 - Exceptional X-Men #3 00:47:42 - The Question: All Along the Watchtower 01:01:20 - Batman and Robin: Year One #1Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon!
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This week we had the pleasure of welcoming the incomparable JACKSON LANZING as a guest host! You know Jackson from such works as NYX, Batman Beyond, The Outsiders, Joyride, Star Trek, and many many more phenomenal comics, but we brought him here to talk about a different phenomenal comic: TALE OF SAND by Jim Henson, Jerry Juhl, & drawn by Ramon K Perez! Around 1967 to 1968, Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl were workshopping a ton of long-form screenplays, the most fully-formed of which was Tale of Sand, an epic adventure of absurdity and self-discovery. When this screenplay was rejected by the movie studios in the late 70's, it was shelved and lost, only to be found again many years later. Luckily for us, Ramon K. Perez brought this surreal vision into a stunning reality, telling a vibrant and deeply meaningful story with almost no dialogue. Tune in tomorrow to hear us deep dive into this delightful odyssey with the equally delightful Jackson Lanzing!
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We are back for more comics that came out since the last time we did this! It’s been a while, and a lot has happened, but we’re ready to chat comics again. Also dogs with IMDB pages, planet-sized bad-guys, and a new hero for the working class.
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00:11:08 - Green Lantern #17 00:20:57 - Absolute Superman #1 00:32:06 - Poison Ivy Swamp Thing: Feral Trees 00:41:10 - Ultimates #6Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon!
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Join us as we stare into the unknowable abyss of reality with Gou Tanabe’s masterful adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. Also giant penguins, mad scientists, and John Carpenter’s ever lovin’ empty-eyed The Thing.
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Ever wonder what it would be like to slowly turn into a plant? We read Kasumi Yasuda’s Fool Night to find out. We talk about death, the life of plants, and the most metal way to build a piano.
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Is it already time for another manga series? We're kicking it off with an all-time favorite, Sailor Moon Eternal Edition Vol 1 by Naoko Takeuchi. We are also joined by special guest Rachel Gatlin of TMNT Minute and Geek by Night.
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This week, it's time for Shaun's to-be-read pick, and BOY HOWDY, it's time for every trigger warning under the sun! That's right, it's STRAY BULLETS by David Lapham! RJ tried to warn us that this was one of the bleakest comics he'd ever read, and somehow this book still surprised us in the depths of depravity and despair it brought us to! That's not to say that it's not a beautiful work of spectacular storytelling and phenomenal art, it is all that and more! And it's using all that talent to aim straight for your heartstrings and then your jugular. It's a heavy episode: TW for sexual violence, mass shootings, child abuse, child abductions, and just the general unpleasantness of humanity
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It’s the last LWC of the season, and it’s an oddly DC forward week. Join us as we celebrate one last Wednesday before our hiatus. Also a kidnapping disguised as a rescue, robot witch hunters, and Ivy grows her own nuts.
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00:11:28 - DC All-In Special 00:30:56 - Poison Ivy #26 00:39:23 - Plastic Man No More #2 00:47:52 - Skin Police #1Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon!
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This week, we dive into Shaun's all time favorite pick: 100 BULLETS by Brian Azzarello & Eduardo Risso! This book is an absolute masterclass in storytelling. It starts out with a simple premise: a person is given an attache, complete with an unregistered gun, 100 untraceable bullets, and all the dirt they need to get even on whomever wronged them. With this conceit, the first 10 or so issues play out like an anthology series. But slowly, the strands of this elaborate tapestry begin to weave together to reveal a conspiracy much deeper and darker than we could've ever imagined!
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It’s once again time to chat about our favorite books from a week ago. This week we witness Lobo kill an entire planet just because he doesn’t want to wait in line. Also Morlock fashion, the origin story of Abby Normal, and diminishing returns on horror sequels.
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00:10:17 - Lobo Cancellation Special 00:18:14 - NYX #3 00:35:54 - Titans #15 00:43:25 - Universal Monsters: Frankenstein #2Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon!
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It’s Rj’s turn to pick a title to scratch off of his to-be-read list. This week power through yet another amazing title from Vertigo, Unknown Soldier by Joshua Dysart. The story takes place in a war-torn Uganda in the early 2000’s and focuses on the crimes committed by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army. Trigger Warning: some of the subject matter of this book is fairly upsetting.
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This week we are joined by friend of the shop and friend of the show Mike Kaufman, who has brought us the DC sci-fi police drama, Far Sector by NK Jemisin and Jamal Campbell. What happens when a disillusioned police officer is given a burner Green Lantern ring and sent to the far recesses of space to maintain order in a society void of emotion? We talk about what it truly means to have emotions and navigate systemic issues present in all communities… even ones on the far edges of space.
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It's that time again to talk about comics from last week. This week we visit our pals on Cybertron for the first time in a while. Also tsunami surfing robots, a mutant horse friend, and Nightcrawler sees Wolverine naked.... Again.
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00:10:25 - Time Waits #1 00:20:43 - Uncanny X-Men #2 00:31:14 - Transformers #12 00:44:44 - Wolverine #1Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon!
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This week, it's time to dig into one of RJ's all time favorites: MADAME XANADU by Matt Wagner & Amy Reeder! This mystical montage of mysterium and machinations brings us on a journey through time, with the Phantom Stranger standing at Madame Xanadu's opposition! The hands of fate are constantly trying to shape destiny with the help of the Stranger, while Xanadu is constantly struggling with the burden of foresight and how to truly do the greatest amount of good. It's high fantasy and high strangeness of the highest order!
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It's that time again to talk about comics from last week. This week we dive into the deep recesses of space… only to get space depression. Also an evil number 4, a hereditary melting problem, and two separate death rays!
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00:09:37 - Ultimates #4 00:22:59 - Exceptional X-Men #1 00:42:16 - Plastic Man No More #1 00:50:38 - Cruel Universe #2Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon!
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This week, we're tackling an entry off Adam's To-Be-Read pile: Hellblazer- Original Sins by Jamie Delano & John Ridgeway! It's an iconic run for a reason! This book is full of laughs, tears, yuppie demons, child murderers, Christian pyramid scheme cults, Nazi hate monsters, and just so much more insanity! It truly is one of the first pioneers of the Vertigo era, paving the way for all the weird, esceroteric, and brilliant comics to follow in its wake.
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It’s that time again! This week we celebrate the start of horror anthology season, get sick on a distant planet, and Cacey joins a cult.
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00:09:54 - Aliens vs Avengers #1 00:24:42 - Zatanna: Bring Down the House #3 00:34:46 - Convert #1 00:41:14 - Hello Darkness #2Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon!
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This week we're joined by our awesome friend, Faust @faustiandesigns! They brought us one of their all time favorites (which happens to ALSO be one of OUR all time favorites): UNCANNY X-FORCE by Rick Remender & Jerome Opena! We talked about the 1st arc of that run, The Apocalypse Solution, and dug into the spectacular character development, the complexities of the team dynamics, and the running theme of redemption.
SPOILER WARNING! We do spoil the end of this arc AND talk a bit about the ramifications that has on the rest of the run
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We're back with another round of last week's comics! This week we get a new perspective on zombies, set off a Hulk sized nuke, and contemplate all of the great (and terrible) things we could do if we could freeze time.
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