I Read Comic Books

This episode was recorded in the recent past!

THE SERIES CONTINUES. Mike and Nick dig into a, surprisingly, less depressing volume of Ice Cream Man and continue to try to put together the pieces of this story. Is there more to ICM than meets the eye?

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This episode was recorded on December 19, 2021!

Mike, Kait, and Brian discuss our FINAL Goodreads Book of the Month for 2021: Long Walk To Valhalla by Adam Smith and Matthew Fox!

Check out this month's Goodreads thread here.

Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics
• 00:15:33 - Comic Picks
• 00:23:14 - Goodreads Book of the Month - Long Walk To Valhalla
• 00:47:41 - Wrap/Credits

Comics Read / Top of Our Pile

• Rain #1
• Hecate's Will #1
• The Sixth Gun vol. 2
• Suicide Squad: Bad Blood
• East of West Vol. 1
• Hecate’s Will #2
• Marvel’s Darkhold Event
• Batman: One Dark Knight #1

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This episode was recorded on December 12th, 2021!

Mike, Brian, and Kait discuss the IRCB Goodreads Reading Challenge (ending December 16th, 2021!), what books they've read from the challenge, and why they picked the books they did for the challenge.

Check out this years challenge here!

Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics
• 00:16:25 - Top of the Pile
• 00:25:31 - The IRCB Goodreads Reading Challenge!
• 00:57:42 - Wrap/Credits

Comic Picks / Top of Our Pile

• King in Black
• Our Stories Carried Us Here
• Hellions #18
• Life is Strange: Settling Dust #3
• The Old Guard: Tales Through Time
• Otherworldly Izakaya Nobu Vol. 9
• Friday: Book 1 - The First Day of Christmas

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This episode was recorded on December 5th, 2021!

Mike and Paul welcome back Tia to the show and dig into a handful of comics they've all been reading, chat about the Hawkeye show, critique Superman's costume, and more.

Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics
• 00:46:10 - Top of Your Pile
• 00:59:35 - Wrap/Credits

Comics Read / Top of Our Pile

• Superman ‘78 #3
• Hawkeye Vol 1
• For Goodness Sake Vol. 1-3
• Monkey Meat #1-2
• Catwoman Lonely City #1
• What's The Furthest Place From Here? #1
• Eniale & Dewiela Vol 2
• MADI: Once Upon A Time In The Future
• Batman #118
• Buckhead #1

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Mike and Paul are joined by special guest, Gabe Cheng (writer of For Molly), to discuss how we pick comics from our backlog to hoist to the top of our to-read pile.

Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics
• 00:33:48 - Top of the Pile
• 00:40:36 - Avast! Hoist The Backlog!
• 01:12:50 - Wrap/Credits

Comics Read / Top of Our Pile

• Doctor Strange & Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment (1989)
• The Thing #1
• Mister Miracle: The Source of Freedom #5 & 6
• Anne Frank's Diary: A Graphic Adaptation
• The Blue Flame #1-5
• Hulk #1
• Something is Killing the Children #1-5
• Batman The Detective #6
• White Ash
• Human Target #2

Links

• Gabe on Twitter: @gabechengcomics
• Gabe on Insta: @gabechengcomics

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Mike, Nick, and Kate discuss Jesse Lonergan's Hedra, a space-faring, textless adventure about saving your home planet with powers from the beyond.

Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics
• 00:26:54 - Top of the Pile
• 00:36:57 - Hedra by Jesse Lonergan
• 01:05:34 - Wrap/Credits

Comics Read / Top of Our Pile

• Witches of Brooklyn
• Oishinbo: A la Carte, Volume 1: Japanese Cuisine
• TMNT Volume 16: Chasing Phantoms
• Kaiju No 8 48-49
• Agito Cosmos Vol 1
• The Midwinter Witch
• Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters TPB
• Stumptown
• Grrl Scouts: Stone Ghost #1

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This episode was recorded on November 14th, 2021!

Mike, Nick, and René try something experimental this week: only talking comics they read and the top of their pile. A little odd, a little fun, and kinda new. Let us know what you thought of this episode - [email protected].

PLUS Mike sat down with Todd Hunt, co-writer of Darling from Source Point Press, to talk the first 4 issues and what else is to come from the series!

Timestamps

• 00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics
• 00:48:29 - Interview with Todd Hunt
• 01:15:45 - Top of the Pile
• 01:27:09 - Wrap/Credits

Comics Read / Top of Our Pile

• Snoopy’s Thanksgiving
• The Silver Coin #5 and #6
• Spider-Man: Spider’s Shadow #1
• The Girl from the Other Side Vol. 11
• Rick & Morty: Corporate Assets #1
• Star Wars #12-15 
• Darth Vader #12-13
• The Hunter’s Guild: Red Hood Chapter #18
• Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits
• Deadly Class Volume 1
• Primordial #3
• The Nice House on the Lake #6

Links - Find Todd Hunt and Darling:

• http://supernintendads.com
• https://twitter.com/fleizach
• https://twitter.com/iamtoddhunt
• https://www.instagram.com/Therealfrancisdarling

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This episode was recorded on November 7th, 2021!

Paul and Kara take Mike down the rabbit hole of the biggest event in DC history: Final Crisis. The comic that put Kara off comics and brought Paul back into the comics fold. Hold on to your time-traveling bullets, this is our longest episode to date.

PLUS: We have a wonderful interview with Cavan Scott about his series Shadow Service at Vault Comics!

Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics
• 00:23:17 - Top of The Pile
• 00:32:00 - Interview with Cavan Scott
• 001:02:58 - The Most Final of Crises
• 01:53:23 - Wrap/Credits

Comics Read / Top of Our Pile:

• The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist
• Leonard Cohen: On a Wire
• Séance Tea Party by Reimena Yee
• The Human Target #1
• Time Before Time #6
• What's the Furthest Place from Here #1
• Spinning by Tillie Walden
• Venom #1

Links

• Cavan Scott on Twitter: @CavanScott
• https://cavanscott.com/
• Check out Shadow Service at Vault Comics: https://www.vaultcomics.com/titles/shadow-service/

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This episode was recorded on October 31st, 2021!

Brian, Kait, and Kate discuss our November Goodreads Book of the Month: The Sixth Gun Vol. 1: Cold Dead Fingers by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt.

Don't forget to 

Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics
• 00:12:11 - Top of the Pile
• 00:20:16 - How We're Getting Comics, an update
• 00:24:12 - Goodreads Book of the Month - The 6th Gun Vol. 1: Cold Dead Fingers
• 00:50:05 - Wrap/Credits

Comics Read

• Batman Li’l Gotham: Halloween & Thanksgiving
• Sheets vol 1
• Bone Parish vol. 1
• We Only Find Them When They’re Dead #8-9
• Witches of Brooklyn
• Proctor Valley Road
• Passport
• Hellboy: The Bones of Giants #1

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This week, Kara and Kait try to educate Mike about tea in order to try to pair tea flavors with comics they've read. 

Plus, we have an interview with Steve Prince, writer of MONSTER MATADOR: AFRIPOCALYPSE now on Kickstarter!

Check out MONSTER MATADOR: AFRIPOCALYPSE on Kickstarter!

Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics
• 00:20:12 - Top of the Pile
• 00:32:03 - Interview with Steve Prince
• 00:53:40 - The IRCB Tea
• 01:25:05 - Wrap/Credits

Comics Read / Top of Our Pile:

• DIE Vol. 1-3
• Once and Future Vol. 1-3
• The Complete Charlie Brown: Waiting for the Great Pumpkin
• Black Magick vol 2 & 3
• Stillwater Vol. 1
• Tokyo on Foot by Florent Chavouet
• Lore Olympus Vol. 1
• Inferno #2

Links

• Steve Prince - @thesteveprince
• https://www.monstermatador.com/

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