Tales from the Short Box

Join us as we stare into the unknowable abyss of reality with Gou Tanabe's masterful adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. Also giant penguins, mad scientists, and John Carpenter's ever lovin' empty-eyed The Thing.

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Ever wonder what it would be like to slowly turn into a plant? We read Kasumi Yasuda's Fool Night to find out. We talk about death, the life of plants, and the most metal way to build a piano.

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Is it already time for another manga series? We're kicking it off with an all-time favorite, Sailor Moon Eternal Edition Vol 1 by Naoko Takeuchi. We are also joined by special guest Rachel Gatlin of TMNT Minute and Geek by Night.

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This week, it's time for Shaun's to-be-read pick, and BOY HOWDY, it's time for every trigger warning under the sun! That's right, it's STRAY BULLETS by David Lapham! RJ tried to warn us that this was one of the bleakest comics he'd ever read, and somehow this book still surprised us in the depths of depravity and despair it brought us to! That's not to say that it's not a beautiful work of spectacular storytelling and phenomenal art, it is all that and more! And it's using all that talent to aim straight for your heartstrings and then your jugular. It's a heavy episode: TW for sexual violence, mass shootings, child abuse, child abductions, and just the general unpleasantness of humanity

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It's the last LWC of the season, and it's an oddly DC forward week. Join us as we celebrate one last Wednesday before our hiatus. Also a kidnapping disguised as a rescue, robot witch hunters, and Ivy grows her own nuts.

Pull List (with spoiler time stamps:

• 00:11:28 - DC All-In Special
• 00:30:56 - Poison Ivy #26
• 00:39:23 - Plastic Man No More #2
• 00:47:52 - Skin Police #1

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This week, we dive into Shaun's all time favorite pick: 100 BULLETS by Brian Azzarello & Eduardo Risso! This book is an absolute masterclass in storytelling. It starts out with a simple premise: a person is given an attache, complete with an unregistered gun, 100 untraceable bullets, and all the dirt they need to get even on whomever wronged them. With this conceit, the first 10 or so issues play out like an anthology series. But slowly, the strands of this elaborate tapestry begin to weave together to reveal a conspiracy much deeper and darker than we could've ever imagined!

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It's once again time to chat about our favorite books from a week ago. This week we witness Lobo kill an entire planet just because he doesn't want to wait in line. Also Morlock fashion, the origin story of Abby Normal, and diminishing returns on horror sequels.

Pull List (with spoiler time stamps):

• 00:10:17 - Lobo Cancellation Special
• 00:18:14 - NYX #3
• 00:35:54 - Titans #15
• 00:43:25 - Universal Monsters: Frankenstein #2

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It's Rj's turn to pick a title to scratch off of his to-be-read list. This week power through yet another amazing title from Vertigo, Unknown Soldier by Joshua Dysart. The story takes place in a war-torn Uganda in the early 2000's and focuses on the crimes committed by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army. Trigger Warning: some of the subject matter of this book is fairly upsetting.

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This week we are joined by friend of the shop and friend of the show Mike Kaufman, who has brought us the DC sci-fi police drama, Far Sector by NK Jemisin and Jamal Campbell. What happens when a disillusioned police officer is given a burner Green Lantern ring and sent to the far recesses of space to maintain order in a society void of emotion? We talk about what it truly means to have emotions and navigate systemic issues present in all communities… even ones on the far edges of space.

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It's that time again to talk about comics from last week. This week we visit our pals on Cybertron for the first time in a while. Also tsunami surfing robots, a mutant horse friend, and Nightcrawler sees Wolverine naked.... Again.

Pull List (with spoiler time stamps):

• 00:10:25 - Time Waits #1
• 00:20:43 - Uncanny X-Men #2
• 00:31:14 - Transformers #12
• 00:44:44 - Wolverine #1

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