I Read Comic Books

This episode was recorded on August 5th, 2018!

Mike, Kait, and Paul sat down this week to dive into extreme changes in comic book characters and story lines. Does this work? Does it not? And what’s the deal with Season 8 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer turning Spike into… a good guy?

Don’t forget to send in a question of three to us for our next Q&A episode NEXT WEEK! Get your question in before we record on August 12th to have it read and answered on the show!

Timestamps

• 00:00:00 – Start/Last Week in Comics
   
• 00:21:04 – Comic Picks
   
• 00:29:38 – Extreme Changes in Character
   
• 01:07:09 – Wrap/Credits

Comic Reads/Picks for this week

• X-Men: Grand Design New Genesis #1
   
• The Seeds #1
   
• Action Comics #1001
   
• Mister Miracle #10
   
• Immortal Hulk #4
   
• The Girl from the Other Side, vol 1
   
• Abbott #1-5
   
• Domino #5
   
• Catwoman #2
   
• Black Badge #1
   

Relevant Links/Information

• Mike – @mikerapin
• Paul – @OhHiPaulie
• Kait – @KaitLPhere
• Comics talked about this week:
  • Immortal Hulk
  • Buffy Season 8
  • Four Eyes
  • Swamp Thing
  • Daredevil
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • She-Hulk
  • Rat Queens

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This week’s episode was produced by Mike Rapin and edited by Zander Riggs.

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This episode was recorded on July 29th, 2018!

WE ARE BACK! After 4 long weeks off, Mike, Tia, and Brian are back for the regular show to talk about what they’ve been up to for the last month plus the show’s main topic: Depression and Mental Illness in Comics–how it’s portrayed, when it’s done well, when it’s done poorly, and everything in between.

Don’t forget to send in a question of three to us for our next Q&A episode on August 15th! Get your question in before we record on August 12th to have it read and answered on the show!

Timestamps

• 00:00:00 – Start/Last Week in Comics
• 00:18:02 – Comic Picks
• 00:25:06 – Depression and Mental Illness in Comics
• 00:59:46 – Wrap/Credits

Comic Reads/Picks for this week

• Pluto Volume 6-8 by Naoki Urasawa
• Farmhand #1
• The Agency by Katie Skelly
• Submerged #1
• Mister Miracle #10
• Star Wars #52
• Infinity Wars #1

Relevant Links/Information

• Mike – @mikerapin
• Tia – @PortraitOfMmeX
• Brian – @Brianhead
• Eternity Girl by Maggs Vissagio and Sonny Liew
• The Flash & Trickster clip
• My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness
• Hawkeye
• Megahex
• The Wicked + The Divine
• Legion
• Jessica Jones
• A screenshot from Infinity Wars Prime #1 where Loki is getting dragged out of a library

Music provided by Infinity Shred. Find them on Bandcamp.

This week’s episode was produced by Mike Rapin and edited by Zander Riggs.

Have a question? Want us to talk about a topic? Submit discussion topics to our subreddit /r/IReadComicBooks or our Goodreads group andget a hold of us in the comments or here: [email protected] – @ircbpodcast & #IReadComicBooks.

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This episode was recorded some time in the past!

At one point, Kara had asked Paul, “What the deal was with Grant Morrison?” And so, Paul, he strapped himself into a rocket ship aimed towards the center of the multiverse to search out that information. When he returned, he met his past self in their past lives. He saw beyond time and before everything. Kara was always a constant. She was not swept away by the multiverse for she had to know the answers: WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH GRANT MORRISON? What transpired when the two finally met on the other side of forever is what was recorded for this minisode.

Enjoy.

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• Kara – @KaraSzam
• Paul – @OhHiPaulie

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This week’s episode was produced by Mike Rapin and edited by Zander Riggs.

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This episode was recorded some time in the past!

Tia and Kate sat down to have a full blown discussion about cover art, how it draws you in, and being surprised and being burned by books based on their cover art.

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• Kate – @KateSkocelas
• Tia – @PortraitOfMmeX

Our music is provided by Infinity Shred. You can find them on Bandcamp.

This week’s episode was produced by Mike Rapin and edited by Zander Riggs.

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This episode was recorded some time in the past!

Mike and Nick sat down to talk about the first arc of Grass Kings by Matt Kindt and Tyler Jenkins.

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• Nick – @dethstarplnz

Our music is provided by Infinity Shred. You can find them on Bandcamp.

This week’s episode was produced by Mike Rapin and edited by Zander Riggs.

Have a question? Want us to talk about a topic? Submit discussion topics to our subreddit /r/IReadComicBooks or our Goodreads group andget a hold of us in the comments or here: [email protected] – @ircbpodcast & #IReadComicBooks.

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This episode was recorded in June 2018.

This Is Not An Interview, episode four! Tia talks to Alex de Campi about her upcoming graphic novel Bad Girls, set on the eve of the Cuban Revolution, plus lots of very good advice about being a writer, writing about trauma, bro friends, hitting the gym, globetrotting, living in New York, and more!

Full spoilers for Deadpool 2 and Avengers: Infinity War!

This Is Not An Interview is now a monthly bonus minisode series and will appear in your regular feed! Stay subscribed!

Links

• Tia – @PortraitOfMmeX
• Alex – @alexdecampi
• Bad Girls
• Hell’s Kitchen Movie Club
• Ghost In The Shell

This week’s music was by Infinity Shred.

This episode was produced by Mike Rapin and edited by Zander Riggs.

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This episode was recorded some time in the past!

Kara and René sat down to talk about THE STAR WARS adapted by Jonathan Rinzler and Mike Mayhew in our first ever Star Wars special!

Relevant Links/Information

• Kara – @KaraSzam
• Rene – @Rodrigur29

Our music is provided by Infinity Shred. You can find them on Bandcamp.

This week’s episode was produced by Mike Rapin and edited by Zander Riggs.

Have a question? Want us to talk about a topic? Submit discussion topics to our subreddit /r/IReadComicBooks or our Goodreads group andget a hold of us in the comments or here: [email protected] – @ircbpodcast & #IReadComicBooks.

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This episode was recorded on June 24th, 2018!

This week, Nick and Kate join Mike to talk about out Goodreads voted Book of the Month, Nimona by Noelle Stevenson. Find out what we liked, disliked, and loved in this book!

Just a reminder: We are off for the next 4 weeks, so get excited for some very special and amazing Minisodes! We’ll catch you all on August 1st!

Also, DO NOT MISS: The first issue of the IRCB Zine! Check it out at https://ircbpodcast.com/zine!!

Timestamps

• 00:00:00 – Start/Last Week in Comics
• 00:17:17 – Comic Picks
• 00:26:04 – Goodreads Book of the Month – Nimona
• 01:00:13 – Wrap/Credits

Comic Reads/Picks for this week

• X-Men Gold #30
• The Wild Storm #12-13
• X-Men Grand Design
• The Terrifics #3-4
• Lazarus vol 4 Poison
• Kill or Be Killed #20
• Modern Fantasy #1
• Quantum and Woody #7

Relevant Links/Information

• Mike – @mikerapin
• Nick – @dethstarplnz
• Kate – @KateSkocelas
• Goodreads Book of the Month Thread

Music provided by Infinity Shred. Find them on Bandcamp.

This week’s episode was produced by Mike Rapin and edited by Zander Riggs.

Have a question? Want us to talk about a topic? Submit discussion topics to our subreddit /r/IReadComicBooks or our Goodreads group andget a hold of us in the comments or here: [email protected] – @ircbpodcast & #IReadComicBooks.

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This episode was recorded on June 17th, 2018!

This week, Mike is joined by Nick and Brian to discuss a “different” kind of comic: Webcomics & Webtoons. What works in this medium? What doesn’t? And for this episode, Nick dove in as a non-reader tried a whole lot of webcomics and has some thoughts on them, to say the least.

Also, DO NOT MISS: The first issue of the IRCB Zine! Check it out at https://ircbpodcast.com/zine!!

Timestamps

• 00:00:00 – Start/Last Week in Comics
• 00:14:07 – Comic Picks
• 00:23:16 – Webcomics
• 01:03:45 – Wrap/Credits

Comic Reads/Picks for this week

• Domino #3
• The Magic Order #1
• The Weather Man #1
• Grass Kings #15
• Shazam TPB
• X-Men: Gold #30
• Shanghai Red #1
• Shadowman #4

Relevant Links/Information

• Mike – @mikerapin
• Nick – @dethstarplnz
• Brian – @Brianhead
• Line WEBTOON
• Penny Arcade
• Questionable Content
• JL8
• XKCD
• Check, Please!
• Not Drunk Enough
• Let’s Play!
• My Giant Nerd Boyfriend

Music provided by Infinity Shred. Find them on Bandcamp.

This week’s episode was produced by Mike Rapin and edited by Zander Riggs.

Have a question? Want us to talk about a topic? Submit discussion topics to our subreddit /r/IReadComicBooks or our Goodreads group andget a hold of us in the comments or here: [email protected] – @ircbpodcast & #IReadComicBooks.

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This episode was recorded on June 10th, 2018!

This week, Mike is joined by Nick and Tia to talk comic picks and comic reads. After the break, Mike and Tia have a fantastic chat about the comic industry, the change in comics for women over the years and SO much more with Hope Nicholson (a Kickstarter commissioned episode). Hope is the author of The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen, editor of The Secret Loves of Geek Girls and The Secret Loves of Geeks, and Publisher at Bedside Press.

Also, DO NOT MISS: The first issue of the IRCB Zine! Check it out at https://ircbpodcast.com/zine!!

Timestamps

• 00:00:00 – Start/Last Week in Comics
• 00:21:49 – Comic picks
• 00:29:32 – Interview with Hope Nicholson
• 01:17:39 – Wrap/Credits

Comic Reads/Picks for this week

• Star Wars Vol 1-3
• Darth Vader Vol 1-2
• Vader Down
• Dazzler X-Song #1
• Harbinger Wars 2 #1
• Planetary Vol 1
• By Night #1
• Monstress #17
• Orphans Vol 1

Relevant Links/Information

• Mike – @mikerapin
• Nick – @dethstarplnz
• Tia – @PortraitOfMmeX
• Hope Nicholson – @HopeLNicholson
• Bedside Press – @BedsidePress

Music provided by Infinity Shred. Find them on Bandcamp.

This week’s episode was produced by Mike Rapin and edited by Zander Riggs.

Have a question? Want us to talk about a topic? Submit discussion topics to our subreddit /r/IReadComicBooks or our Goodreads group andget a hold of us in the comments or here: [email protected] – @ircbpodcast & #IReadComicBooks.

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