Welcome to a new season (and year!) of the Storied Arcs podcast! Mike and Alex returned with another theme for the month of DEATH. Or dying. But, living. Or ending. But, continuing on. It’s kinda all the same thing. Every story about death is really a story about life, and that’s the thing we’re hoping […]
“It became this giant spectacle. The more attention it got, the more money it raised. Because it dumb or funny or stupid. Who cares why. People wanted in.” This week, Mike and Alex wrap up their look at Crowded by Christopher Sebela, Ro Stein, and Ted Brandt with Volume 3: Cutting-Edge Desolation. They get right
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“Charlie, from what I’ve seen in the last four days, the fact that he knows you doesn’t mean he’s not gonna try to kill you.” In this episode, the action heats up in Crowded Volume 2: Glitter Dystopia (issues #7-12) by Christopher Sebela, Ro Stein, and Ted Brandt, and Mike and Alex are ready to
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“You Just pretend to be people’s friends. You don’t have feelings. I didn’t start the campaign, but I wish I could thank whoever did. You deserve this.” Mike and Alex are here to kick off a new season of Stories Arcs by diving into the action-comedy-romance-question mark comic Crowded Volume 1: Soft Apocalypse (issues #1-6) from Image Comics
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On this season of Storied Arcs, Mike and Alex are backing the campaign for Crowded from Image Comics by writer Christopher Sebela and the art team of Ro Stein and Ted Brandt. The guys start with a quick synopsis for the comic (crowded funded assassinations, anyone?), their histories reading it (don’t judge a comic solely
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“And when it comes down to it, really, time is all we have. And it doesn’t matter how long you live if you’re not spending it the way you want.” This week, Mike and Alex are here to wrap up their discussion of Time Before Time from Image Comics with Volumes 5 and 6 (issues #25-29 and
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“I really thought things were going to be better when we came back here. Maybe the world’s just cruel no matter what time you’re in, though.” Mike and Alex are here to continue their trip through time and space with Image Comics’ Time Before Time, this week examining Volumes 3 and 4 (issues #13-17 and #19-23). They
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“Well, let me put it this way… if the past could be changed, do you really think the world would be like this?” It’s been a while since Mike and Alex have tackled time travel (you have to go all the way back to the very first book they covered, Paper Girls), and it felt overdue
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Welcome to another season of Storied Arcs! This go-round, Mike and Alex are ready to tackle time travel paradoxes head on as they dive into Time Before Time from Image Comics from Declan Shalvey, Rory McConville, and Joe Palmer. The guys start by giving a run down of the full creative team behind this book
In honor of Halloween, Mike and Alex are delighted to chat all things horror comics with special guest and comics connoisseur Rosie Knight, co-host of X-Ray Vision! They start with a big picture look at horror as a genre and why it has such lasting appeal in comics, and also discuss their own history consuming horror
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