Comic Exposure

Graphic novel summer takes a beautifully strange turn with Jesse Lonergan’s “Drome”. The graphic novel functions almost as a creation story for mankind, but that’s not the only surprise this book has up its sleeve.

“Beat it Rufus” is a “2025 graphic novel by Noah Van Sciver about Rufus Baxter, an aging, delusional hair metal musician clinging to his 1980s rock-god fantasies while living a life of failure, eviction, and bad decisions, leading him on a psychedelic road trip to a wedding gig in Wyoming where he confronts his past”.…

Alex Krokus’s graphic novel is a heartfelt and humorous story of losing a parent and getting to know him better after his passing. The boys get deep on this graphic novel summer pick.

S. Craig Zahler has created a sci-fi graphic novel that explores the lives of a handful of humans that dare to challenge the nature of space and time and Josh and Travis are tackling this retro alien story as part of their graphic novel summer. See what the boys compare this indie graphic novel to.

Kicking off graphic novel summer, the boys open up “In” a graphic novel by Will McPhail. Listen to what the boys think about Nick’s journey to connect with others on a “deep” level.

Comic Exposure kicks off another summer event. This summer the boys want to dive into fully stand alone graphic novels by indie writers and illustrators that have not appeared on the show. In this episode, the boys pull the curtain back and narrow down their picks.

Get out the prune juice and orthopedics because just like Daredevil in this three issue series, Josh and Travis are getting old. Tune in to find out what the boys think of Charles Soule and Steve McNiven’s take on the aged hero of Hell’s Kitchen.

Josh and Trav use the recent re-printing of the 2009 comic “The Nobody” as an excuse to go back and read one of their show favorite creator’s (Jeff Lemire) reimagining of the Invisible Man story.

Josh and Travis finish up the last of their four Absolute books with Absolute Martian Manhunter. Volume one written by Deniz Camp and illustrated by Javier Rodríguez takes the boys down a psychological journey that’s a feast for the eyes.

For their third “Absolute” book, Josh and Trav journey into Jason Aaron’s “Absolute Superman: Volume 1” where they engage with a Superman with a slightly different backstory. Will these changes highlight what is really super about Superman?

The boys pick up a second “Absolute” book after reading Absolute Batman in January to kick off Absolute April. Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman offer a new version of Wonder Woman in Absolute Wonder Woman: The Last Amazon. What elements of the hellish Wonder Woman will hit home for Josh and Travis?

To finish off their run of Western Comics, Josh and Trav dive into a historical fiction shoot’em up that feels like it could be part of Texas history. What will the boys think of Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips prequel to “That Texas Blood”?

In their second Western comic of March, the boys enter town of Dead Acre where the supernatural has a part to play in the redemption of James Crowley. Jaime Castle takes a stab at adapting a novel that Josh very much enjoyed. Will he dig the comic as much?

This week, the boys are sinking their teeth into The Blood Brother’s Mother, a dark and emotionally charged graphic novel that explores themes of the Western.

Garbage men of the future struggle to survive what humans have done to the planet. Oh, and there is a giant mutant goldfish! Hear what the boys think about Stefano Cardoselli’s “Don’t Spit into the Wind.

Josh and Trav finish off the three episode series featuring WWII books. DANIEL ACUÑA and Rick Remender team up for a war book that embraces the brutal action of war…but there is a twist… there are no humans in this book. What will the boys think of this off-center take?

In their second WWII book of the month, Josh and Travis dive into the magical espionage trenches of London in TKO’s book “Witches of WWII”. Paul Cornell’s comic weaves history and fiction in a way that surprises the boys.

Two of Josh and Trav’s favorite creators, Garth Ennis and Steve Epting, team up together again at TKO studios for another Russian WWII front story: Partisan. Will this spiritual sequel to Sara live up to the boys expectations?

Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta push to cape crusader in a more brutal direction in their Absolute Batman series. Where does this grim dark Batman rank in Josh and Trav’s favorite Batman archetypes?

Alright Bat-fam! This isn’t the first Batman book the boys have talked about, but it is the the first of back-to-back Bat books the boys are doing this January. And this one has a lot of Robin! So settle in to hear what Josh and Trav think about this Waid take on the dynamic duo.

Another year and a few dozen comic reads under Josh and Travis’s belt. Join the boys as they look back at their favorite reads, artists, heroes, and villains from their 2025 comic stack!

Josh’s Picks Fun crayon prints X-Files analogue 3d The Complete Calvin and Hobbes New Edge Sword and Sorcery Goonies Lego Set Travis Picks Stranger Things Sneakers Sight and Sound Magazine Book Stand Pulp Magazine History Jaws Bath Bomb

The boys and Andrea peel back the plastic on the very scintillating comic Gun Honey volume 1. What will the gang thing of the late night “red shoe” read?

Jordan Thomas’s crime noir falls in the middle of noir November. Chris Matthew’s art soaks the story with noir flavor, but will Travis and Josh dig that flavor. Tune in and find out.

After years of fawning over Brubaker and Phillips noir books, the boys read the current bookends to their long running “Criminal” noir crime series.