Crying in the Book Club

Sep 18 2024 59 ep. 86 mins

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Crying in the Book Club is a biweekly podcast where we cry about comics. In a good way.

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Episode 58: Green Arrow/Green Lantern

Sep 18 2024 64 mins

This episode, the book club turns their gaze back to the 70s and discuss the seminal Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams run on Green Arrow/Green Lantern. Next, on Crying in the Book Club: Jean-Luc takes a week off as Emily, Alex, and a pair of guests discuss My Little Pony comics.Our theme music was composed by our wonderful friend Gwyn. You can find their work on Soundcloud at https://s

Episode 57: Dark Empire

Aug 28 2024 82 mins

We're back in the Star Wars mines for this episode, eschewing Disney canon in favor of the classic and iconic (although maybe not for the right reasons) Dark Horse series Dark Empire. Oh, and we subjected Chad to it as well! Next, on Crying in the Book Club: The crew checks out the classic Alan Moore series From Hell.Our theme music was composed by our wonderful friend Gwyn. You ca

Episode 56: Traveling to Mars

Aug 14 2024 69 mins

We're back! And this episode, we're reading a comic from one of our favorite contemporary writers, or at least one of our most-referenced, Mark Russell. Traveling to Mars may be the most contemporary series we've covered, an 11-issue epic following a terminal cancer patient's journey to become the first human to set foot on the red planet, and claim it for the Easy Beef Corporation

Episode 55: X-Men: God Loves Man Kills

Jul 12 2024 89 mins

Next, on Crying in the Book Club: We tackle something more modern with Mark Russell's Journey to Mars.Our theme music was composed by our wonderful friend Gwyn. You can find their work on Soundcloud at https://soundcloud.com/hopefullynotbadlib.Our podcast art was done by everyone's favorite co-host Emily.Follow us on Twitter:@cryingbookclub@mtdewliker@empandanada@alexhandziuk

Episode 54: Gunjo

Jun 26 2024 86 mins

We're closing out Pride Month with a classic Emily-core pick in Gunjo, a toxic yuri manga about two lesbians who fucking hate each other. But also love each other. And also commit all kinds of crimes. I would call it fun but it's actually grim and sorta depressing.Next, on Crying in the Book Club: We're going back to the X-Men for God Loves, Man KillsOur theme music was composed by

Episode 53: The Pervert

Jun 12 2024 97 mins

We're kicking off pride month with one of the best queer comics of the last decade: The Pervert. Chad's here, so we're reuniting the lineup that initially heaped praise on Michelle Perez and Remy Boydell's graphic novel way back when it originally came out. Next, on Crying in the Book Club: We take our first foray into toxic yuri with Gunjo.Our theme music was composed by our wonde

Episode 52: Runamay 2, Part 2

May 29 2024 75 mins

Next, on Crying in the Book Club: We kick off pride month with The Pervert.Our theme music was composed by our wonderful friend Gwyn. You can find their work on Soundcloud at https://soundcloud.com/hopefullynotbadlib.Our podcast art was done by everyone's favorite co-host Emily.Follow us on Twitter:@cryingbookclub@mtdewliker@empandanada@alexhandziuk

Episode 51: Runamay 2, Part 1

May 08 2024 76 mins

It's May in the book club (and everywhere else, I suppose?) and you know what that means: it's time to return to Marvel Comics' best team of all time, the GOATs of teenage superheroes: The Runaways. This episode, we read the first 12 issues of BKV and Adrian Alphona's second volume of Runaways, and discuss all the teenage angst that comes with the territory. Also: Jean-Luc found a

Episode 50: 50th Anniversary Comics

May 06 2024 70 mins

This episode, we celebrate our 50th episode by talking about some other notable 50th anniversary celebrations. Some of them might rise to the level of this podcast... but not many. Next, on Crying in the Book Club: We're kicking off Runamay 2 with more Runaways!Our theme music was composed by our wonderful friend Gwyn. You can find their work on Soundcloud at https://soundcloud.com

Episode 49: The Wize Wize Beast of the Wizarding Wilds

Apr 10 2024 95 mins

This week on "Comics With Names That Are Needlessly Long...." Ok that was mean. The name is fine. Chad's back, hanging with the usual hosts. It's just like the old days, right down to the fact we talk about some perv shit the whole time. Except unlike the old days this time it's actually what we're here to do! So that's cool. Next, on Crying in the Book Club: It's episode 50! We've