“I don’t care if we win… I just want them to lose.” This week on Stories Arcs, Mike and Alex finish up their deep dive into The Fade Out by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips from Image Comics with Volume 3: Act Three (issues #9-12). They start at the end- how does the mystery resolve […]
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“Charlie’s just a moth who figured out how to get closer to the flame. But Maya, and people like her, they did him one better… they figured out how to be the flame, instead.” This week on Storied Arcs, Mike and Alex continue their look into the seedy underbelly of Golden Age Hollywood as depicted
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“Whatever it was inside that made him a writer had been stolen over there. Now he was just empty. And every word he typed felt like a waste, and not enough at the same time.” This week on Storied Arcs, Mike and Alex start their deep dive into Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ The Fade
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For the next season of Storied Arcs, Mike and Alex are returning to the noir-tinged world of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips with their 2014 book from Image Comics, The Fade Out. The guys covered Brubaker and Phillips (and colorist Elizabeth Breitweiser) back when they discussed Kill or Be Killed (check that out if you haven’t already),
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“But Gus failed and is forgotten now, and I fear I am forgotten as well. Maybe someday trees will also spring from my joints and moss will crawl over my skin.” Mike and Alex are closing out Lonely Sci-Fi Month with Andrew MacLean’s OGN ApocalyptiGirl: An Aria for the End Times from Dark Horse
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“All these years lost, and I’ve never felt more alone.” This week on Storied Arcs, Mike and Alex continue Lonely Sci-Fi month with Gone (issues #1-3) by artist/writer Jock from DSTLRY! The guys start with some nitpicks and notes about the story and on Jock as a writer, before transitioning into discussing Jock as an
“It could be that our collective fate will be the same as this book. May that’s all any of us are… a letter to the Universe no one will ever read.” Welcome back to Lonely Sci-Fi month! This week, Mike and Alex are tackling Mark Russell and Roberto Meli’s Traveling To Mars (issues #1-11) from
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“After that, things started to change. We started to change. And so did Val. If only I knew then what I know now, maybe I could have saved her.” Mike and Alex are starting Lonely Sci-Fi month with a look at Sentient (issues #1-6) by Jeff Lemire and Gabriel Hernandez Walta from TKO Studios. The
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Welcome to a new year and new season of Storied Arcs! In what may be turning into an annual tradition, Mike and Alex are once again starting off the calendar with a theme month- Lonely Sci-Fi. Alone in space. Stranded on a planet. It’s a prevalent trope in science fiction and we’re excited to examine
“There will be times in the future, my daughter, when you will question everything you are. Hearing your name spoken over will help when everything falls away.” Mike and Alex are here to finish up their look at Daniel Warren Johnson’s Extremity from Image Comics with Volume 2 Warrior (issues #7-12). They kick things off
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