A comic book appreciation podcast from two longtime fanboys. Chris and Eric take turns picking each week’s comic for discussion before diving into its pros, cons, and oddities.
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This week we read issues #2, 4, and 6-7 of Chick Publications' Christian propaganda series The Crusaders.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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Fantastic Four #51 by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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Rawhide Kid #17-19 by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, et al.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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E110 - Captain Raptor and the Perilous Planet
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By Kevin O'Malley and Patrick O'Brien.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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E109 - New Teen Titans: The Terror of Trigon
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By Marv Wolfman and George Perez.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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By Itaru Kinoshita with Shinichi Fujiwara.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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We continue reading Banana Fish by Akimi Yoshida.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss the IDW adaptation of Clive Barker's The Thief of Always by Kris Oprisko and Gabriel Hernandez.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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We finish X-Cutioner's Song.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss the first half of the 1992-1993 X-Men crossover X-Cutioner's Song.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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E103 - X-Factor: Happenings in Vegas
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This week we discuss X-Factor #207-212, aka the story where Wolfsbane experiences gay panic and sends Shatterstar flying through a window.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss New X-Men #135-138. Our discussion includes some spoilers for plot events beyond those issues as well, up through the end of Grant Morrison's tenure on the book.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss JLA (1997) #5-9.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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By Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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E99 - The Multiversity: Pax Americana
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By Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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Sebastian O by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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By Rob Williams, Arthur Wyatt, and Henry Flint.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss Ron Zimmerman and Duncan Fegredo's 2002 series Ultimate Adventures, a.k.a. Ultimate Batman and Robin.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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Daredevil (Vol. 2) #26-31 by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex MaleevBy Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss Steve Gerber and Phil Winslade's 2002 Howard the Duck series. It's a satirical story deeply steeped in the pop culture of its time, but does it hold up?By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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In the longest episode of the podcast to date we discuss Mark Millar, Bryan Hitch, and co.'s The Ultimates (2002) #7-13. Topics of discussion include the intrinsic conflict between the series' core concepts and its status as an ongoing narrative, the incorporation of real world anti-Semitic conspiracy theories into the Chitauri aliens' lore, casual…
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How many awards can Mokumokuren's The Summer Hikaru Died win in one episode?By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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E91 - Desperadoes: Quiet of the Grave
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This week we discuss the 2001 horror-western Desperadoes: Quiet of the Grave by Jeff Mariotte and John Severin.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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In which we discuss The Ultimates #1-6 by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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In which Eiji gets a gun and we praise the sound effects at length.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss Batman #667-669 by Grant Morrison and J.H. Williams III.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we read Keiji Nakazawa's memoir manga about his experience living through the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, I Saw It. We discuss both English adaptations: a 1982 colorized version from Educomics, and a 2023 edition from Last Gasp which preserves the original art. The 2023 edition is still in-print and available at https://lastgasp.com/prod…
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This week we read Daredevil #227-233. Note: During our discussion we misattribute a future story; the Kingpin bathroom murder story we mention is from Zdarsky's Daredevil tenure, not Soule's.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss the fantasy BL comic The Bride of God by PenguinFrontier. The comic is available for free on their Twitter (@PenguinFrontier) as well as in PDF form with bonus pages at https://penguinfrontier.gumroad.com/l/awdfx. NSFW warning for the comic and the aforementioned links.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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Chris's wife Shannon joins us to discuss 2023's Amazing Spider-Man #26, aka the death of Ms. Marvel. (It doesn't count as a spoiler when Entertainment Weekly posted said headline before the issue even came out.)By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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E83 - Carnage: Black, White, & Blood
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This week we discuss everyone's second favorite gooey symbiote! (Warning: One of our digressions includes some plot spoilers for Marvel's Spider-Man 2.)By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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VENOMMMMMM! Specifically as portrayed in Ultimate Spider-Man #33-39.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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*Eminem voice* VENOMMMMMMM! The time has come at last for us to discuss the sexy goo man himself. This week we read 1993's Venom: Lethal Protector by David Michelinie, Mark Bagley, Ron Lim, and Sam DeLaRosa.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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For the kick-off of Spectacular Spider-Month we discuss Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #31-33.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we return to the GOAT Akimi Yoshida's classic Banana Fish.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss Grant Morrison and Dan Mora's Klaus (2015) #1-7.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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E77 - Moench & Sienkiewicz’s Moon Knight
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This week we discuss the glorious melodrama of Stained Glass Scarlet via Moon Knight (Vol. 1) #14 & #24.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss the recently concluded Liberation of the Daleks story from Doctor Who Magazine.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we read and discussed Digimon Vol. 1, the English language Tokyopop release of Yuen Wong Yu's manhua adaptation of the original Digimon Adventure anime. Prodigious!By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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Our celebration of Doctor Who's sixtieth anniversary continues with Doctor Who: Four Doctors.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss the 1988 Martian Manhunter miniseries by J.M. DeMatteis and Mark Badger.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss the comic origin of Beep the Meep just in time for his live action debut.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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E71 - The Summer Hikaru Died Vol. 2
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We're back with more discussion of one of the most eerily intimate (intimately eerie?) comics we've read to date.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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For week four of Spooktober we finally discuss Hellboy with Hellboy: Box Full of Evil #1-2.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss volume one of Tapping the Vein, a series of graphic novels adapting the works of Clive Barker.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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For week two of Spooktober we discuss Dracula, Motherf**ker by Alex de Campi and Erica Henderson.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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E67 - The Summer Hikaru Died Vol. 1
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Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show-stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before, unafraid to reference or not reference, put it in a blender, sh*t on it, vomit on it, eat it, give birth to it.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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We return to Enoshima Dinoland.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week kicks off part one of our discussion of Eric's favorite manga: the massively influential Banana Fish by Akimi Yoshida. The shojo crime story is known both for its action and its emotional depth, particularly where the relationship between protagonists Ash and Eiji is concerned.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss volume one of Vault Comics' sci-fi sex comedy series Money Shot.By Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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