“If you add more weight onto the backs of the people here… if you push them just a little farther, someone might just… snap.” Welcome to the newest season of Storied Arcs, where Mike and Alex are heading to small-town Wisconsin to deal with the not-zombie zombies of Tim Seeley and Mike Norton’s Revival from Image Comics. The guys […]
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For this season of Storied Arcs, Mike and Alex will be dipping back into the world of horror as they get ready to discuss the “farm noir” zombie (question mark?) story Revival by Tim Seeley and Mike Norton from Image Comics. As usual, the guys start off by talking about what drew them to this
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“They are the history behind the history. The hands that turn the world. We are their beasts. Their reckoning.” Here at Storied Arcs, we like to celebrate completed runs and stories of independent, creator-owned comics. Sometimes, that means a book wraps up after 24 or 30 or 54 issues because that’s what the story required.
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Welcome to a new season of Storied Arcs! This time around, Mike and Alex will be driving deep into Romulus (issues #1-4) by Bryan Edward Hill and Nelson Blake II from Image Comics. Never heard of it, you say? Not surprised. Neither Mike or Alex have ever met another person who’s read this book other
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“I guess when you look at the way my life turned out so far, it’s about the only way you can look at it. Good after bad. Kind of amazing.” In the final installment of Storied Arc’s look into the selected works by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, Mike and Alex swing into Spider-Man: Blue
“I had promised my dad I would never ben an ‘uneducated pug’ like him. He wanted me to be a lawyer and I made good on that. But it wasn’t enough. I had seen how the law- which I still steadfastly believed in- wasn’t always the same as justice.” Mike and Alex are back diving
“Folks tend to call him ‘The Man of Steel’ nowadays. I guess that he’s the most famous person in the world… not that he was ever interested in being famous in the first place.” Welcome to another week of the Storied Arcs podcast as Mike and Alex continue their look into the works of Jeph
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“I made a promise to my parents that I would rid the city of the evil that took their lives. No matter what that evil looks like or becomes. I believe someday I will make good on that promise. I have to. I believe in Batman.” In this very special (and very long) episode, Mike
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And now for something (not entirely) completely different. For this season of Storied Arcs, Mike and Alex are taking a detour away from creator-owned, independent comics and stepping into the caped and cowled world of mainstream, Big Two (that’s Marvel and DC) superhero comics. But with a twist. The through line of the season isn’t
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This is a very special one-off episode. Alex and Mike were asked to host a meet-up night at a local Cincinnati Manga shop (Manga Manga.) We recorded the entire discussion and you can hear us discuss western comics, manga, and more! Keep your notes app open since there are a ton of great recommendations we
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