It's Official. RJ no longer has to force us to read Manga! Join us as we discuss the immeasurable influence of Akira Toriama's Dragonball Z. 

It's time for another round of "RJ makes us read manga." We kick off this season with the groundbreaking classic, Akira.  

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 For this extra spectacular season closer, we decided to invite our buddy @jayrollinsart on to talk about one of his all time favorite comics. And he straight up blew our minds into smithereens with ROBOCOP VS THE TERMINATOR by Frank Miller & Walt Simonson. It's over the top in all the best ways possible, truly capturing the nature of both franchises and throwing in a few extra nukes for good measure.

It's our last LWC of the season, and we've got some great comics to talk about! We've got weird alien body horror, an epic moster fight, and we talk about the finale of one of the first books we ever talked about.  Hope you enjoy it, and we'll see you next season!  Pull List (with spoiler time stamps):

• 00:13:35 - Dawnrunner #3
• 00:23:02 - Avengers Twilight #6
• 00:38:44 - Grommets #1
• 00:45:14 - Rise of the Powers of X #5

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It's the penultimate episode of the season, and we're finally tackling an all time favorite and probably the most misunderstood comic character in pop culture THE PUNISHER! More importantly, we're diving headfirst into the darkly hilarious world of Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon with the iconic storyline "Welcome Back, Frank!" We dissect where mainstream zeitgeist got ol' Frank all wrong, as well as the most audacious and outlandish kills of any comic book since Preacher itself. It's a friggin blast! 

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It's Wednesday, which means it's time to talk about Last Week's Comics!  This week we just barely survive the american dream, a cruise on a liminal-space nightmare, and two guys with metal heads share a vision of the future that involves giant maggot spaceships.

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It's time for part 2 of Adam's creator pick, and this time we're doing X-STATIX by Peter Milligan, Mike Allred, & Laura Allred! Or, more specifically, we did X-Force issues #116-129, after which the team changes their name to X-Statix because... ya know what, just listen to it, we break it all down! We loved looking back at this series with it's satirical take on reality TV and superheroes by way of celebrities. Plus, DOOP. And you know you can never get enough Doop content in your life!

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It is time once again to go back 7 days in the past and talk about our favorite comics.  This week we survive a car crash, a gang of cartoon coyotes with mail order catalogs, and the wild origin story of Skeletor.  

Pull List (with spoiler time stamps):

• 00:06:17 - Ice Cream Man #39
• 00:14:42 - Uncanny Valley #2
• 00:24:06 - Masters of the Universe: Revolution
• 00:36:41 - Outsiders #7

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It's Adam's turn to pick an all time favorite creator for us to dive into, and no surprise here: it's MIKE ALLRED! And to really dive right into the deep end immediately, we're swimming through the technicolor madness that is Madman Comics 1-11! It's simultaneously an ode to zany 60's superhero comics, a time capsule to the indie comics scene in the 90's, and a timeless pop-art masterpiece. We talk at length about how off-the-wall bonkers it is, while still maintaining accessibility to new readers. 

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It has been a while! We're back from a two week hiatus due to the madness of Free Comic Book Day, so we have several week's of comics to catch up on.  Also Doom's Dracula contingency, a near-mint condition Flash Gordon, and a very strange wardrobe choice. 

Pull List (with spoiler time stamps):

• 00:11:36 - Dark Age #2
• 00:22:13 - Blood Hunt #1
• 00:40:17 - Ain't No Grave #1
• 00:49:17 - FCBD Flash Gordon