Comics Therapy

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Comics Therapy episodes

  • Episode 88 - Long Time

    Comics Therapy. No Reviews. Just Analysis.

     

    Show Notes:

    In this week's show we talk about life, death, and Aaron's determination to live forever to buy all the comics. We offer no apologies for our absence, make no promises on our regular return, and as usual, wax philosophical on the minutia you missed. 
    Andrea will be at DiNK! this coming weekend if you want to say hi in person. Aaron will likely be at some flea market in Oregon acquiring yet more comics for his collection. Some things never change.

    Intro 

    Last Days of an Immortal By Fabien Vehlmann, Gwen de Bonneval, Edward Gauvin

    Invincible #144 By Robert Kirkman, Ryan Ottley, Cory Walker, Nathan Fairbairn

    Outro

     

    This Weeks Intro: Boston - Foreplay / Long Time

     

    This Weeks Outro: Lynyrd Skynyrd - Comin' Home

     

    55 min
  • Episode 87 - Reunited

    Comics Therapy. No Reviews. Just Analysis.

     

    Comics from May 17, 2017.

     

    Show Notes:

    We're Back. We Talked. Enjoy.

     

    Intro

    Paul Auster's City of Glass - by Paul Karasik, David Mazzucchelli. 

    Secret Empire, Marvel event. 

    Handmaid's Tale - by Margaret Atwood, adapted for TV by Hulu.

    Outro

    1 hr
  • Episode 86 - Begin the Begin

    Comics Therapy. No Reviews. Just Analysis.


    Three comics from September 2, 2015.


    Show Notes:


    This week’s theme is starting from scratch. We took two months off this summer, but we're back, and the show is back, and we have no idea if it’s going to be like riding a bike or like learning a new language. We picked three first issues just to hit the proverbial hammer even harder. And because nothing reminds Andrea of old times more than arguing with Aaron over gender roles and representation in the media, all three titles feature a diverse lineup of strong, complicated, vulnerable, messy, passionate female characters. You know, like actual people.


    Plutona #1 16:53


    Mockingbird #1 31:05


    Toil & Trouble #1 46:53


    1 hr 2 min
  • Episode 85 - Suicide is Painless

    Comics Therapy. No Reviews. Just Analysis.


    Two comics from June 24, 2015. 

    And the return of The Couch with writer Brian Wood!


    Show Notes:

    This week’s theme is kill yourself. Seriously, that’s what Aaron texted when Andrea asked him. What a dick. Alternate title would be something like making a deal with the devil, kinda like the arrangement our co-hosts have.


    Daredevil #16 10:50


    Annihilator #6 20:40


    The Couch - Brian Wood 32:10

    This week on The Couch we welcome back Eisner-nominated writer, illustrator and graphic artist Brian Wood. We talked to him in Episode 26 last year. Since then, he’s been pretty prolific: wrapping up his creator-owned series The Massive, published by Dark Horse, debuting his new series Rebels with artist Andrea Mutti, also published by Dark Horse, and just last week, the first issue of Starve hit stores, drawn by Danijel Zezelj and published by Image Comics. Brian has also written X-Men and Moon Knight for Marvel and Star Wars and Conan for Dark Horse. His series Demo, with artist Becky Cloonan, was recently released in a collected edition by Vertigo.

    1 hr 52 min
  • Episode 84 - She's A Witch

    Comics Therapy. No Reviews. Just Analysis.


    Two comics from June 10, 2015.


    Show Notes:

    This week’s theme is dark days, darker nights. Lady witches. Ladies hunting witches. Ladies hunting lady witches. It’s almost as if there’s an overwhelming historical precedent for associating women with witchcraft.


    Harrow County #2 9:35


    1602: Witch Hunter Angela #1 33:00



    45 min
  • Episode 83 - It's My Life

    Comics Therapy. No Reviews. Just Analysis.


    Three (!!!) comics from June 3, 2015. 


    Show Notes:


    Guys, reality bites. It’s a common theme in media - it’s the driving force in so much storytelling, from musicals to movies to television to comics. And we talk about that a lot on the show. This week, we’re focusing in a little more closely on the the characters themselves, who, (to pull again from musical theater because Andrea writes these notes and so she make the rules) are characters waiting for life to begin. On the cusp of greatness, but not necessarily mean that in a positive way. Something’s coming. I don’t know what it is is but it is gonna be great. It’s gonna change lives. In one way or another.


    The Wicked + The Divine #11 15:00


    Action Comics #41 29:50


    Airboy #1 41:40


    54 min
  • Episode 82 - Break Down These Walls

    Comics Therapy. No Reviews. Just Analysis.


    Two comics from May 6 and May 13, 2015. Plus a Second Opinion, featuring questions answered by a different listener each week, with Avi Chetlin.


    Show Notes:

    This week we’re talking about the realities we build for ourselves, and what happens when the walls come crashing down. Comics, video games, drugs, love. It’s all the same. Literally an opiate for the masses. Sometimes we work so hard to construct the world we want to believe is real, it’s all the more painful when the fantasy refuses to usurp real life permanently. And other times we’re so convinced by the illusion, that the reveal that it’s merely fantasy catches us entirely off guard.


    Never Boy #3 20:00


    Ms. Marvel #15 30:08

    46 min

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A Weekly* Podcast with @andreashock & @aaronmeyers talking about the bigger issues in life using comics as the starting point.