The Seeds by Ann Nocenti and David Aja Creator Spotlight on Ann Nocenti and David Aja In this episode, Mike and Alex take a look at the creative team behind their next one-shot deep dive, The Seeds. They discuss the influential career of Karen Berger and the name-brand power she brought to Dark Horse with […]
You’ll find all kinds of goodies in this oversized holiday episode which we’ve dubbed an “annual.” In true comic fashion, we ran out of stories to cover by a week so we’ve compiled an annual edition. Alex and Mike talk about the books they’d like to cover for 2023 as well as shine a light
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Not All Robots by Mark Russell and Mike Deodato Jr. “And I suppose this has been the problem from the very start. The fundamental crack in civilization that has always set us against each other- mistaking productivity for value.” In the final episode of Season 5 of Stories Arcs, Mike and Alex leap into the
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Intro to Mark Russell, Steve Pugh, Mike Deodato Jr, Flintstones, and Not All Robots This is a big one! Not only do we dive deep into the work and themes of Mark Russell, we also examine the art of Steve Pugh (Flintstones) and the storied career of Mike Deodato Jr. (Not All Robots.) This zero
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Kill or Be Killed Volume 04 “How did it all get so bad? And when did we lose hope that it might ever get better… instead of worse?” In the final episode of Storied Arcs Season 4, Mike and Alex are here to wrap up Brubaker and Phillips’ instant-classic Kill Or Be Killed with Volume
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Kill or Be Killed Volume 03 “Fear is a weird thing. Sometimes it’s a survival mechanism… like the instinct that made our ancestors flee from saber-tooth tigers. But a lot of the time it’s the handcuffs that we put on ourselves.” In this episode, Mike and Alex discuss the changing motivations of the vigilante killer
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Kill or Be Killed Volume 02 “I don’t believe in fate, but you can’t deny that things in life sometimes fall together like there actually is some big cosmic plan at work. Which would suck for about 95 percent of us, right?” In Volume 2 (issues 5-10), Brubaker and Phillips begin to expand the world
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Kill or Be Killed Volume 01 “It’s so easy for the guys in those old vigilante movies to find their targets… they just walk around waiting to get mugged. Or they listen for screams and arrive just in time. In real life, it’s not like that.” In the first episode of Storied Arcs Season 4,
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Intro to Kill or Be Killed & Creator Spotlight on: Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips Creator Spotlight: Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips In this episode, Mike and Alex take a look at Alex’s favorite creative team in all of comics- writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips. They discuss the duo’s long history of incredible
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The Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire “The most spectacular episode of The Twilight Zone that was never produced.” – Damon Lindelof, from the introduction to The Underwater Welder In our creator spotlight episode, the guys discuss Mike’s all-time favorite comic creator: Jeff Lemire (Alex is a big fan, too, just not quite on the buy-every-Jeff-Lemire-variant-cover-published-regardless-of-series level Mike
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