“I just… I just want to be happy. Or at least… happy with being sad.” Welcome to Everything! Mike and Alex are ready to start a new season of Storied Arcs by wandering the aisles of Everything Volume 1: Grand Opening (issues #6-10) from Dark Horse Comics and Berger Books by Christopher Cantwell and I.N.J. […]
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For this season of Storied Arcs, Mike and Alex are talking about Everything. Well, not everything everything, but Everything by Christopher Cantwell and I.N.J. Culbard from Dark Horse Comics and Berger Books. The guys give a quick rundown of the of the creative team, including Cantwell’s television work (like AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire) and Culbard’s many collaborations
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“Only when you accept that one day you’ll die can you let you and make the best out of life. And that’s the big secret. That’s the miracle.” Mike and Alex are closing out Death Month with a comic that’s been on their to-discuss list since the earliest days of the show, Daytripper by Fabio
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“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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