“All things that live, die. This is why you must find joy in the living, while the time is yours, and not fear the end. To deny this is to deny life. TO fear this… is to fear life.” Death Month rolls on as Mike and Alex face down monsters with I Kill Giants (issues […]
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“Who is to say exactly how things end? If there is one thing we have learned, it is that life’s endings are bereft of answers.” Welcome to Week 2 of Death Month, where Mike and Alex head to Mumbai (in a storytelling sense) to discuss Ram V and Filipe Andrade’s The Many Deaths of Laila
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“The fact that we know things will end actually presents each of us with an amazing choice: What will you do with the limited time you get on this spinning rock?” To kick off Death Month, Mike and Alex are looking into the W. Maxwell Prince-penned anthology comic Swan Songs (issues #1-6) from Image Comics. In each issue of
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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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