Tales from the Short Box

If it's Wednesday, it's time for Last week's comics! This week we solve a vampire problem with a Doom problem, install social anxiety into an AI language model, and skip school to make some bad choices.

Pull List (with spoiler time stamps):

• 00:14:09 - Blood Hunt #5
• 00:25:45 - Ultimate Spider-Man #7
• 00:36:57 - Grommets #3

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This week, we are over the moon to share with you our very special guest: LEAH WILLIAMS! The iconic writer of X-Factor, Power Girl, and next week's Gotham City Sirens sat down with us to share one of her all time favorites: LAND OF THE LUSTROUS by Haruko Ichikawa! It's a genre-defying epic that is part magical girl, part coming-of-age, part body horror, and all heart. it has this expansive and ambitious worldbuilding, with a mythose that sucks you in and exponentially amps up the tension.

It's Time for another edition of comics from several days ago! This week we get super weird in space prison, read a killer screenplay, and eat a meal prepared by an anthropomorphic magic bunny.

Pull List (with spoinler time stamps):

• 00:07:33 - Flash Gordon #1
• 00:16:52 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1
• 00:26:45 - Zatanna: Bringing Down the House #2
• 00:38:14 - EC Epitaphs From the Abyss #1

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For this week's TFTSB, we got to do one of Cacey's all time favorites: LITTLE BIRD by Darcy Van Poelgeest, Ian Bertram, & Matt Hollingsworth! This headtrip of a miniseries is all about one family and their never-ending pursuit of freedom from oppression. In the distant future, a fascist theocratic regime has taken over the United States, and they are making their way through the great white north, and only The Axe and his granddaughter Little Bird stand in their way. It's beautiful in the most grotesque and violent way imaginable, and it's one heck of a wild ride!

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We're Back! It's a new season. Which means it's time to talk about our favorite comics since the last time we did this! We check in on our favorite planet-eating space-bird, a council of interdimensional billionaire ducks, and a cartoon empire getting into the retirement home business.

Pull List (with spoiler Time Stamps):

• 00:09:25 - Absolute Power #1
• 00:17:40 - Paranoid Gardens #1
• 00:28:20 - Phoenix #1
• 00:42:13 - Uncle Scrooge and the Infinity Dime #1

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We conclude this season's manga series with Eiichiro Oda's smash hit, One Piece. Get episodes like this early by joining our patreon! patreon.com/BraveNewWorldsComics

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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