Last Week's Comics #25 - Haunted Tapes
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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 #1 Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon!
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Tales From The Short Box #199: TALE OF SAND by Jim Henson, Jerry Juhl, and Ramon K Perez with special guest host JACKSON LANZING
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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...
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Last Week's Comics #24 - Good Cop, Green Cop
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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. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 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 #6 Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon!
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Special Break Episode: At the Mountains of Madness by Gou Tanabe
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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. Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon!
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Special Season Break Episode: Fool Night by Kasumi Yasuda
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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. Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon! patreon.com/BraveNewWorldsComics
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Special Season Break Episode: Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi
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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. Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon! Listen to TMNT Minute!
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Tales From The Short Box #198 - STRAY BULLETS by David Lapham
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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,...
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Last Week's Comics #23 - Gatekeeing Eco Terrorism
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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. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps: 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 #1 Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon!
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Tales From The Short Box #197 - 100 BULLETS by Brian Azzarello & Eduardo Risso
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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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Last Week's comics #22 - Just enough Lobo
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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. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:10:17 - Lobo Cancellation Special 00:18:14 - NYX #3 00:35:54 - Titans #15 00:43:25 - Universal Monsters: Frankenstein #2 Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon!
info_outlineIf it’s Wednesday, it’s time for Last week’s comics! This week we solve a vampire problem with a Doom problem, install social anxiety into an AI language model, and skip school to make some bad choices.
Pull List (with spoiler time stamps):
- 00:14:09 - Blood Hunt #5
- 00:25:45 - Ultimate Spider-Man #7
- 00:36:57 - Grommets #3
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