This episode was recorded on August 14th, 2022!

Mike, Tia, and Brian talk comics they read and what's on the top of their pile, but also: issues with manga art, why Vault Comics still work as a publisher, and... buttholes?

Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics
• 00:38:41 - Top of the Pile
• 00:53:40 - Wrap/Credits

Comics Read:

• The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel (Book 1)
• Deadpool Samurai Vol. 1
• 007 (2022) #1
• Hellboy and the BPRD 1957: Falling Sky
• How Do We Relationship? Vol. 4-6
• Keeping Two

Top of Our Pile:

• DCeased: War of the Undead Gods #1
• Below Ambition by Simon Hanselmann
• Barbaric: Axe to Grind #1

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This episode was recorded on August 7th, 2022!

Kara, Kate, and Danny discuss anthropomorphic animals in comics! Why are there so many rabbits? Also: what was YOUR Horse Girl Experience?

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Timestamps

• 00:00:00 - Start Last Week in Comics
• 00:16:35 - Top of Our Pile
• 00:26:00 - Anthropomorphic Animals, also Unicorns
• 01:07:10 - Wrap/Credits

Comics Read

• Nice House on the Lake Vol 1
• DC League of Super-Pets: The Great Mxy-Up
• Moon Knight Vol 2: Too Tough to Die
• Batman: One Dark Knight

Top of Our Pile

• AXE Judgement Day #2
• The Sandman, Vol 1: Preludes and Nocturnes
• Daily Report About My Witch Senpai, Vol 1

Topic Comics

• Fables Vol 1
• Beastars Vol 1
• Mouse Guard
• TMNT/Usagi Yojimbo
• Iron, or The War After
• Phoebe and Her Unicorn
• Wild's End
• Autumnlands: Tooth and Claw
• Donald Duck
• Captain Carrot and the Final Ark

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This episode was recorded on July 31, 2022!

Mike, Kait, and Nick discuss color in manga chapters, the mysteries of translated French comics, and what makes a good comic book logo. 

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Timestamps

• 00:00:00 - Start Last Week in Comics
• 00:30:12 - Top of the Pile
• 00:41:59 - Comic Book Logos
• 01:25:50 - Wrap/Credits

Comics Read

• Nights with a Cat Vol 1
• Hellboy and the B.P.R.D: Time is a River
• Alien Annual #1
• Dragon Hoops
• Manga Classics: Count of Monte Cristo
• Public Domain #1-2
• The Con Artist
• Crazy Food Truck Vol 1
• X-Force (1992-2002) Vol. 1 aka the prequel to X-Statix
• Saga #60

Top of Our Pile

• Survival Street #1
• Darryl Openworld
• Lore Olympus vol. 2
• Aquaman: Andromeda #2

Links

• https://blambot.com/pages/successful-logo-design
• http://glench.com/tmnt/
• https://kleinletters.com/Blog/logo-links/
• https://twitter.com/coolcomicart/status/950785259003457536?lang=en

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This is the first episode of our Patreon-only series: A Better Batmobile! Join the IRCB Patreon to get access to the rest of this series and many others at patreon.com/ircbpodcast.

From Patreon: It's here! The first episode of A Better Batmobile with Paul and his first guest: Mike!

FULL SPOILERS for Batman Arkham Asylum and Batman: Gothic.

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This is the first episode of our Patreon-only series: Giant Days of Our Lives! Join the IRCB Patreon to get access to the rest of this series and many others at patreon.com/ircbpodcast.

From Patreon: The latest and greatest PATREON EXCLUSIVE read along series! 

Join us as we read through the wonderful series Giant Days from BOOM! Studios. Each episode, Brian, Kara, and Kait will be diving into another volume of the series and discussing their favorite moments and figuring out who they relate to most in that story arc. 

In this episode, we cover Volume 1 (issues #1-4) by John Allison, Lisa Tremain, Whitney Cogar, and Jim Campbell.

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Giant Days Playlist

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This is the first episode of our Patreon-only series: Mike and Paul Read Doom Patrol! Join the IRCB Patreon to get access to the rest of this series and many others at patreon.com/ircbpodcast.

From Patreon: This is the first of a mini-series all about Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol. Mike and Paul sat down to discuss Volume 1 of the series, the intricacies of Morrison's writing, and the insanity that is Doom Patrol. 

This episode covers Doom Patrol Volume 1: Crawling from the Wreckage

• Writer: Grant Morrison
• Pencils: Richard Case, Doug Braithwaite
• Inks: Scott Hanna, Carlos Garzon, John Nyberg
• Colors: Daniel Vozzo, Michele Wolfman
• Letters: John Workman
• Published by DC in 1987
• Collects issues #19-25

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This is the first episode of the IRCB Patreon series, IRCB Movie Club! Join the IRCB Patreon to get access to the rest of this series and many others at patreon.com/ircbpodcast.

From Patreon: On this first episode of a new quarterly series, Paul, Mike, and Brian discuss Daniel Clowes' Ghost World and the film adaptation of the same name, directed by Terry Zwigoff.

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This episode was recorded on June 26th, 2022!

Mike, Paul, and Kate discuss some of their favorite comics from 2021, the theme of this month's Goodreads Book of the Month.

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Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics
• 00:22:26 - Top of the Pile
• 00:31:18 - Favorite Comic Books of 2021
• 00:32:59 - The Nice House on the Lake
• 00:48:21 - New Kid by Jerry Craft
• 00:59:06 - Fangs by Sarah Anderson
• 01:10:40 - Wrap/Credits

Comic Picks / Top of Our Pile

• Squire
• The Return of Bruce Wayne
• The Closet #1
• That Texas Blood #14
• Dragon Ball Super 85
• Clementine Book 1
• Batman Catwoman #12
• Class Act by Jerry Craft
• The Con Artists

Our Favorite Comics of 2021

• The Nice House On The Lake Vol. 1 (W: James Tynion IV A: Alvaro Martinez Bueno C: Jordie Bellaire)
• New Kid by Jerry Craft
• Fangs by Sara Anderson

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This episode was recorded on June 19th, 2022!

Mike, Kara, and René are joined by Aubrey Lyn Jeppson (@TamingTheMuse) and C.K. Lawson (@chrisdoescomics), editors of the Kickstarter anthology "Scott Snyder Presents Tales From the Cloakroom" (@CloakRoomComics), to chat comic they're reading and going from comic book classroom to making a comic book anthology!

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Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics
• 00:29:55 - Top of Our Pile
• 00:45:07 - Scott Snyder Presents Tales from the Cloakroom with C.K. Lawson and Aubrey Lyn Jeppson
• 01:10:00 - Wrap/Credits

Comics Read / Top of Our Pile

• US Route 31
• Sordid Past anthology
• House of Slaughter v1
• The Good Asian v2
• Buffy Vol 1
• Filth and Grammar
• One Piece Chapter 1,053
• Doron Dororon Chapter 27
• A Calculated Man #1
• Do A Powerbomb #1
• Radiant Black Volume 1
• And We Love You
• Small Bites
• Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith
• Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons #1-2
• Witchblood
• And We Love You
• Immortal X-Men #3

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This episode was recorded on June 12, 2022!

Mike, Nick, and Paul send off the final(?) episode of IRCB with a discussion about comic book endings. SPOILERS AHEAD.

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Timestamps

• 00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics
• 00:35:44 - Top of Our Pile
• 00:47:08 - Our Favorite Comic Book Endings
• 01:11:48 - Self-contained Stories
• 01:21:12 - Wrap/Credits/Goodbyes

Comics Read / Top of Our Pile

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin #3 - #5
• Newburn #1 and #2
• The British Paranormal Society: Time out of Mind #1 - #2
• Batman/Judge Dredd: Judgment on Gotham
• Batman/Judge Dredd: The Ultimate Riddle
• Time Before Time #13
• Aquaman: Andromeda #1
• Putin’s Russia: The Rise of a Dictator
• The Bone Orchard Mythos: The Passageway
• Dorohedoro Vol. 1
• Witch Hat Atelier Vol. 9

Comics Discussed (FULL SPOILERS)

• X-Men Legacy
• Nimona
• Daredevil
• Grant Morrison’s Doom Patrol (Doom Patrol #63)
• The Love Bunglers
• The Apocalypse War/Day of Chaos
• Ghost World
• Dead Orbit
• Animal Man (Lemire, 2011)
• Animal Man (Morrison)
• TMNT: The Last Ronin
• Pulp

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