This week’s episode was recorded on December 8th, 2019!

Kara, Kait, and Paul chat about what comics you should be gifting your family, friends, enemies, and beyond!

Timestamps

• 00:00:00 – Start/Last Week in Comics
• 00:15:35 – Comic Picks
• 00:23:17 – Comics Gift Giving Guide
• 01:01:19 – Wrap/Credits

What We Read / Comic Picks

• The Hard Tomorrow
• Batman Creature of the Night #4
• Motor Crush #1
• I Am a Hero omnibus
• Far Sector #2
• Doctor Aphra #40
• Firefly: Unification War vol. 2

Shopping Picks

• TPB for the lapsed DC reader: Mister Miracle or maybe The New Frontier?
• TPB for the lapsed Marvel reader: The Immortal Hulk, HoX/PoX, Hulk: Gray
• For the artsy friend: My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris or something by Lisa Hanawalt: My Dirty Dumb Eyes or Hot Dog Taste Test
• For your mom: Relish by Lucy Knisely (Paul), I WISH PETITE MAMETTE WAS IN ENGLISH, probably Lulu Anew
• For your dad: Berlin by Jason Lutes (Paul), The Great War by Joe Sacco (Kara)
• For your young relative:
  • Elementary reader level: Raina Telgemeier’s works, Owly, Amulet
  • Middle school reader level: Nimona, the Adventures of Superhero Girl
  • High school reader level: Nimona, Young Avengers (Gillen/McKelvie)
  • College kid: anything by Neil Gaiman, really. Giant Days.
  • For the young adult reader: Adaptations! Artemis Fowl, Speak
• For your Star Wars friend: The Last Jedi adaptation or maybe Outer Darkness?
• For the person you wish would read comics: Runaways, I Kill Giants, Paper Girls
• For the person who reads historical biographies: March
• For the person who thinks Silicon Valley is evil: Memetic
• For the person who can’t turn off C-SPAN: Prez, Rolling Blackouts by Sarah Glidden
• For the queer kids: Jem and the Holograms, Prince and the Dressmaker
• For the classicist: Peanuts 1950s/1960s; Calvin and Hobbes.
• For the gamer: Tetris: The Games People Play
• For your grandma or your grandma-like friend: Lulu Anew, Bingo Love (LGBT too)
• For your horror-lover friend: Wytches
• For your western-loving friend/grandpa/dad: Copperhead
• For your English professor: Shakespeare adaptations, Toil and Trouble

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