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Welcome back to Make Mine Paperback! PolitiComix continues! Our October of political comics focuses on comics that make political statements. Graham’s selection for the month hits close to home with Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland . A lifelong Cleveland resident, Harvey Pekar pioneered autobiographical comics, mining the mundane for magic. In a month full of books with big political messages, this week w...

Welcome back to Make Mine Paperback! PolitiComix continues! Our October of political comics focuses on comics that make political statements. In what’s shaping up to be a month in homage to Alan Moore, Steven selects Watchmen. This classic graphic novel in twelve parts has spawned countless discussions and debates. Set in 1985, in an alternate history United States where superheroes are real and t...

Welcome back to Make Mine Paperback! The start of a new month can only mean it is time to introduce a new theme. October is all about political comics, where the discussion will focus on comics that make political statements. To kick off the month is one of the most well-known politicomics, V for Vendetta. This classic dystopian tale was written by one of the most prolific comic creators in the wo...

The story follows the life of Saitama, a superhero who has become so powerful that he can defeat any enemy with a single punch. The series is set in a world where superheroes and villains exist, and follows Saitama's journey as he becomes a professional hero and joins the Hero Association, an organization that ranks heroes based on their abilities. Despite his incredible strength, Saitama is o...

Jimmy Olsen must die! Wait, we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Jimmy Olsen lives! Superman’s best friend and Daily Planet photographer Jimmy Olsen tours the bizarre underbelly of the DC universe in this new miniseries featuring death, destruction, giant turtles and more! It’s a centuries-spanning whirlwind of weird that starts in Metropolis and ends in Gotham City. And then we kill Jimmy.

Back in 1984, a rebellious, 17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that tumultuous summer and delivered a long, dense, sensitive, and minutely observed autobiographical masterpiece.

Scott Pilgrim's life is so awesome. He's 23 years old, in a rock band, "between jobs," and dating a cute high school girl. Everything's fantastic until a seriously mind-blowing, dangerously fashionable, rollerblading delivery girl named Ramona Flowers starts cruising through his dreams and sailing by him at parties. But the path to Ms Flowers isn't covered in rose petals....

After saving the world in The Storm and The Fury, but sacrificing himself and Great Britain, Hellboy is dead, cast into Hell, where he finds many familiar faces and a throne that awaits him. Mike Mignola returns to draw Hellboy's ongoing story for the first time since Conqueror Worm. It's a story only Mignola could tell, as more of Hellboy's secrets are at last revealed, in the most bi...

10,000 years ago, Morpheus condemned a woman to Hell! Hell's ruler has sworn to destroy him, but maybe not in the way you think. What happens on the road to Hell? Does Morpheus rescue his lost love? Will we see any other fabled individuals make their mark on this journey to the underworld? Find out this and more in this weeks show!

ALex needs to stop picking weird books. The Swords of Heaven, The Flowers of Hell  takes place in a world divided into three regions: "Hell", "the Dream Marches" and "Heaven" (despite the theological connotation attached to these terms, they are not meant to be literal portraits such as found in Dante or Milton). Hell is a wasteland dotted with the ruined remnants of...

This month we turn our focus to the characters and stories revolving around the pearly gates of heaven or the eternal flames of hell! This week, we cover Hellraiser and John Constantine as he is... dying?!? Does he survive? Can Colin's beverage of the week do enough to cure our sorrows/calm our surprise? Find out in this weeks show!

It's a class of a titan vs a relative unknown: The Joker vs Alanna! These two characters go toe to toe to see who reigns supreme in this month's championship round! Will the Clown Prince of Crime take the lead, or will Alanna from Saga rule the month? Alex and Graham defend their characters, and go to blows! Tune in to find out who our champion of 2023 will be!

We are in our semi-final round and things are heating up! It's the Joker vs Superman and Alanna vs Daredevil and things are intense! Can Graham get both of his characters into the next round? Can Alex and Steven get their characters to a championship? Is Colin mad he doesn't have a character in the semis? Find out in this weeks show!

After a great week last week, we round out the first round with John Constantine vs Daredevil and Captain America vs Alana (Saga). Some great battles to send two contestants to the semi-finals, who wins this round?

This month, with a new co-host, the boys dive into their comics and state their case for why their characters should be tournament champions! This weeks episode features Omni-Man vs Superman and The Joker vs Harley Quinn! Who advances to the next round? Find out now!

Welcome back, to another informative issue of Make Mine Paperback! As the month of June continues, so does the discussion of historical events. Proving that comics can be educational and not just for entertainment. To highlight that point, the focus this week is on Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans, written and drawn by Don Brown. Drowned City presents the facts of Hurricane Katrin...

Welcome back to Make Mine Paperback, and this week's book: Persepolis. Using powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and th...

Welcome back to Make Mine Paperback! The podcast is hopefully going to teach you something new this month. Continuing the discussion of Living History is Graham’s selection: They Called Us Enemy, written by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott and art by Harmony Becker. They Called Us Enemy follows George Takei’s experience in an internment camp as a child. At only four years old, George wa...

Welcome back, to Make Mine Paperback! For the new month, the theme will focus on living history - comics about historical events. June will undoubtedly be a shift in tone as some of the selections will feature more serious subject matter. The first comic book up is March, written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin with art by Nate Powell. March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis' lifelong...

Yes, we skipped 82, due to some technical errors with the recording rendering, our apologies! BUT! Thanks for tuning in to the conclusion of the Sci-FI month here on Make Mine Paperback! The final discussion on the topic is on Heavy Liquid, written and drawn by Paul Pope. No discussion on science fiction would be complete without mentioning cyberpunk, so this comic was handpicked to fill that void...

Welcome back! And thanks for choosing to listen to Make Mine Paperback, where the discussion on fictional science continues. You’ll have to forgive the lack of cocktails as our mixologist is down with the sickness. This week the focus is on Universal War One, which is a French comic written and drawn by Dennis Bajra, but adapted for an English-speaking audience. In a riveting story, a mysterious b...

Thanks for tuning in to Make Mine Paperback! The podcast that is always about comics, and sometimes cocktails. Although this time we don’t have a cocktail, we do have a great book and a new theme! This month we will focus on Science-Fiction. To start the month off we have East of West Volume 1: The Promise, written by Jonathan Hickman with art by Nick Dragotta. The Promise collects the first five...

Welcome back to Make Mine Paperback! The podcast that helps you get a great buzz while listening to the world’s #1 authority on nothing! Seeing as how April ends this week, it seems fitting that this episode would wrap up the April shower theme. The final comic for this month is Murder Falcon! Written and drawn by none other than podcast favorite Daniel Warren Johnson. Although not as scary as the...

Our month of sadness continues with The Sculptor. The boys follow the life of David Smith, in a deal with the devil, who is granted the supernatural ability to sculpt anything he can imagine...but he soon realizes that time is running out and his personal relationships are put to the test. This week's book focuses on themes of love, ambition, mortality, and the pursuit of artistic greatness. I...

Welcome back to the newest issue of Make Mine Paperback! Pour yourself a cocktail as the gang discusses Game of Thrones Book One: A Song of Ice and Fire Issues 1-3 (2011), based on the groundbreaking novel by George RR Martin. Author Daniel Abraham and illustrator Tommy Patterson expertly adapt the masterpiece for comic book panels. This week’s featured cocktail is the Black Manhattan. A simple dr...