Tales from the Short Box

Jan 09 2025 263 ep. 86 mins 20
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Tales From the Short Box is a weekly Wednesday podcast where we talk about the comics that came out last week. Join hosts Adam Sheehan, Cacey Crawford, Shaun Betit, and RJ Veit as they talk about their favorite books from the week before.

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Tales From The Short Box #204 - Concrete by Paul Chadwick

Jan 09 2025 59 mins  
This week we dive into Adam's TBR pile and find CONCRETE: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION by Paul Chadwick! This one subverted all of our expectations, taking what should've been a straightforward superhero comic and turning it on its head. Sure, there's a guy who got his brain swapped into a giant man made of rocks, but it's really a slice of life story about a man taking a tragedy and fi

Last Week's Comics #29 - Oops! All Goops!

Jan 07 2025 63 mins  
We are back from a bit of a holiday break. But we’ve got our favorite comics from the last few weeks to talk about! Also elementary science lessons, collectible popcorn buckets, and the little bit of Plastic Man in each one of us. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:13:16 - New Gods #1 00:25:54 - Plastic Man No More #4 00:37:19 - Metamorpho: The Element Man #1 00:49:28 - U

Tales From the Short Box #203 - SHUBEIK LUBEIK by Deena Mohamed

Dec 19 2024 85 mins  
This week was RJ's foreign pick, and we dove into the modern masterpiece SHUBEIK LUBEIK by Deena Mohamed! In this 21st century fairy tale set in Cairo, Egypt, wishes are a commodity that can be mined, and first class wishes are the most coveted of all. As a kiosk purveyor attempts to sell these expensive wishes one by one, we explore the lives of people desperate for a solution to

Last Week's Comics #28 - In Pursuit of the Weird Little Guy

Dec 17 2024 73 mins  
Join us for our last Wednesday of the year. Take a break from your last minute shopping and check out what comics came out last week! Also disposable Nick Furys, Gotham serial killers, and giant robots combining to make even gianter robots. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:13:14 - Ultimate Universe: One Year In 00:36:04 - Transformers #15 00:44:14 - Batman: Dark Patterns

Tales From The Short Box #202 - Angel City by Janet Harvey

Dec 12 2024 34 mins  
RJ is up with his first pick of the season. His domestic pick this week is Angel City by Janet Harvey, Megan Levens, Nick Filardi. We take a trip back to 1930s Hollywood with a hard boiled noir crime story drawn from real events. It combines two of RJ's favorite things: Classic Hollywood, and classic film noir. Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon! patreon.com/

Last Week's Comics #27 - Hand-Chuffed to Superman

Dec 10 2024 48 mins  
It’s time for another round of last week’s picture books! This week we welcome in the Yuletide season with holiday horror anthologies. Also Krampus hunting, mind prisons, and Mojo gets into the attention economy. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:07:03 - Absolute Superman #2 00:18:37 - Dread The Halls 00:26:21 - Two-Face #1 00:37:27 - NYX #6 Support Tales From The Sho

Tales From The Short Box #201 - The Incal by Alejandro Jordorowsky and Moebius

Dec 05 2024 59 mins  
It’s time to get weird! We’re taking on the best selling European Sci-fi comic of all time, The Incal by Alejandro Jordorowsky and Moebius. It’s all vibes as we talk about the dreamlike adventure of John Difool. Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon! patreon.com/BraveNewWorldsComics.

Last Week's Comics #26 - The Thing From Slaughter Beach

Dec 03 2024 58 mins  
It’s all DC comics this week! And two of them have Dan Mora art! Also Doomsday is back, Batman is on drugs, and the mighty War Wheel! Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:11:10 - Justice League Unlimited #1 00:20:49 - Superman #20 00:32:45 - Black Canary: Best of the Best #1 Detective Comics #1091 Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon! patreon.com/BraveNe

Tales From the Short Box #200 - V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd

Nov 28 2024 91 mins  
We finally did it! We tackled one of our proverbial white whales: V FOR VENDETTA by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. It's such a precise, dense, frustrating, and prophetic treatise on the escalation of fascism in a failed state. Simultaneously, it's a gorgeous, hopeful, and inspiring manifesto for building a world based around love and community care from the ashes of the fallen authori

Last Week's Comics #25 - Haunted Tapes

Nov 26 2024 69 mins  
It’s once again time to talk about our favorite 7-day-old comics! This week we stare into the horrors of reality from inside the horror genre. Also multiple Blues Beetles, a murder mystery in space, and Batman has a visit from CPS! Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:12:44 - Ice Cream Man #42 00:31:10 - Exceptional X-Men #3 00:47:42 - The Question: All Along the Watchtowe