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This week was RJ's foreign pick, and we dove into the modern masterpiece SHUBEIK LUBEIK by Deena Mohamed! In this 21st century fairy tale set in Cairo, Egypt, wishes are a commodity that can be mined, and first class wishes are the most coveted of all. As a kiosk purveyor attempts to sell these expensive wishes one by one, we explore the lives of people desperate for a solution to their diverse and perplexing problems. And through these deeply personal stories, we also get to explore the fascinating world Mohamed has immersed us in. It's a deeply moving book that moved us all
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Join us for our last Wednesday of the year. Take a break from your last minute shopping and check out what comics came out last week! Also disposable Nick Furys, Gotham serial killers, and giant robots combining to make even gianter robots.
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00:13:14 - Ultimate Universe: One Year In 00:36:04 - Transformers #15 00:44:14 - Batman: Dark Patterns #1 00:57:14 - The City Beneath Her Feet #1Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon!
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RJ is up with his first pick of the season. His domestic pick this week is Angel City by Janet Harvey, Megan Levens, Nick Filardi. We take a trip back to 1930s Hollywood with a hard boiled noir crime story drawn from real events. It combines two of RJ's favorite things: Classic Hollywood, and classic film noir.
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It’s time for another round of last week’s picture books! This week we welcome in the Yuletide season with holiday horror anthologies. Also Krampus hunting, mind prisons, and Mojo gets into the attention economy.
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00:07:03 - Absolute Superman #2 00:18:37 - Dread The Halls 00:26:21 - Two-Face #1 00:37:27 - NYX #6Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon!
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It’s time to get weird! We’re taking on the best selling European Sci-fi comic of all time, The Incal by Alejandro Jordorowsky and Moebius. It’s all vibes as we talk about the dreamlike adventure of John Difool.
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It’s all DC comics this week! And two of them have Dan Mora art! Also Doomsday is back, Batman is on drugs, and the mighty War Wheel!
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00:11:10 - Justice League Unlimited #1 00:20:49 - Superman #20 00:32:45 - Black Canary: Best of the Best #1 Detective Comics #1091Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon!
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We finally did it! We tackled one of our proverbial white whales: V FOR VENDETTA by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. It's such a precise, dense, frustrating, and prophetic treatise on the escalation of fascism in a failed state. Simultaneously, it's a gorgeous, hopeful, and inspiring manifesto for building a world based around love and community care from the ashes of the fallen authoritarian empire. In our discussion, we talk about the way this book (and the subsequent movie) have been warped in the public eye, how Moore's political praxis is front and center, and how we can take up V's cause in the fight against fascism today. Oh, and please, for the love of god, don't do LSD in a concentration camp...
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It’s once again time to talk about our favorite 7-day-old comics! This week we stare into the horrors of reality from inside the horror genre. Also multiple Blues Beetles, a murder mystery in space, and Batman has a visit from CPS!
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00:12:44 - Ice Cream Man #42 00:31:10 - Exceptional X-Men #3 00:47:42 - The Question: All Along the Watchtower 01:01:20 - Batman and Robin: Year One #1Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon!
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This week we had the pleasure of welcoming the incomparable JACKSON LANZING as a guest host! You know Jackson from such works as NYX, Batman Beyond, The Outsiders, Joyride, Star Trek, and many many more phenomenal comics, but we brought him here to talk about a different phenomenal comic: TALE OF SAND by Jim Henson, Jerry Juhl, & drawn by Ramon K Perez! Around 1967 to 1968, Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl were workshopping a ton of long-form screenplays, the most fully-formed of which was Tale of Sand, an epic adventure of absurdity and self-discovery. When this screenplay was rejected by the movie studios in the late 70's, it was shelved and lost, only to be found again many years later. Luckily for us, Ramon K. Perez brought this surreal vision into a stunning reality, telling a vibrant and deeply meaningful story with almost no dialogue. Tune in tomorrow to hear us deep dive into this delightful odyssey with the equally delightful Jackson Lanzing!
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We are back for more comics that came out since the last time we did this! It’s been a while, and a lot has happened, but we’re ready to chat comics again. Also dogs with IMDB pages, planet-sized bad-guys, and a new hero for the working class.
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00:11:08 - Green Lantern #17 00:20:57 - Absolute Superman #1 00:32:06 - Poison Ivy Swamp Thing: Feral Trees 00:41:10 - Ultimates #6Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon!
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Join us as we stare into the unknowable abyss of reality with Gou Tanabe’s masterful adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. Also giant penguins, mad scientists, and John Carpenter’s ever lovin’ empty-eyed The Thing.
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Ever wonder what it would be like to slowly turn into a plant? We read Kasumi Yasuda’s Fool Night to find out. We talk about death, the life of plants, and the most metal way to build a piano.
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Is it already time for another manga series? We're kicking it off with an all-time favorite, Sailor Moon Eternal Edition Vol 1 by Naoko Takeuchi. We are also joined by special guest Rachel Gatlin of TMNT Minute and Geek by Night.
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This week, it's time for Shaun's to-be-read pick, and BOY HOWDY, it's time for every trigger warning under the sun! That's right, it's STRAY BULLETS by David Lapham! RJ tried to warn us that this was one of the bleakest comics he'd ever read, and somehow this book still surprised us in the depths of depravity and despair it brought us to! That's not to say that it's not a beautiful work of spectacular storytelling and phenomenal art, it is all that and more! And it's using all that talent to aim straight for your heartstrings and then your jugular. It's a heavy episode: TW for sexual violence, mass shootings, child abuse, child abductions, and just the general unpleasantness of humanity
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It’s the last LWC of the season, and it’s an oddly DC forward week. Join us as we celebrate one last Wednesday before our hiatus. Also a kidnapping disguised as a rescue, robot witch hunters, and Ivy grows her own nuts.
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00:11:28 - DC All-In Special 00:30:56 - Poison Ivy #26 00:39:23 - Plastic Man No More #2 00:47:52 - Skin Police #1Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon!
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This week, we dive into Shaun's all time favorite pick: 100 BULLETS by Brian Azzarello & Eduardo Risso! This book is an absolute masterclass in storytelling. It starts out with a simple premise: a person is given an attache, complete with an unregistered gun, 100 untraceable bullets, and all the dirt they need to get even on whomever wronged them. With this conceit, the first 10 or so issues play out like an anthology series. But slowly, the strands of this elaborate tapestry begin to weave together to reveal a conspiracy much deeper and darker than we could've ever imagined!
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It’s once again time to chat about our favorite books from a week ago. This week we witness Lobo kill an entire planet just because he doesn’t want to wait in line. Also Morlock fashion, the origin story of Abby Normal, and diminishing returns on horror sequels.
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00:10:17 - Lobo Cancellation Special 00:18:14 - NYX #3 00:35:54 - Titans #15 00:43:25 - Universal Monsters: Frankenstein #2Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon!
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It’s Rj’s turn to pick a title to scratch off of his to-be-read list. This week power through yet another amazing title from Vertigo, Unknown Soldier by Joshua Dysart. The story takes place in a war-torn Uganda in the early 2000’s and focuses on the crimes committed by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army. Trigger Warning: some of the subject matter of this book is fairly upsetting.
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This week we are joined by friend of the shop and friend of the show Mike Kaufman, who has brought us the DC sci-fi police drama, Far Sector by NK Jemisin and Jamal Campbell. What happens when a disillusioned police officer is given a burner Green Lantern ring and sent to the far recesses of space to maintain order in a society void of emotion? We talk about what it truly means to have emotions and navigate systemic issues present in all communities… even ones on the far edges of space.
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It's that time again to talk about comics from last week. This week we visit our pals on Cybertron for the first time in a while. Also tsunami surfing robots, a mutant horse friend, and Nightcrawler sees Wolverine naked.... Again.
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00:10:25 - Time Waits #1 00:20:43 - Uncanny X-Men #2 00:31:14 - Transformers #12 00:44:44 - Wolverine #1Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon!
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