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Hello and welcome to our final review in the theme of Mysteries! It has been a fun time unpacking what a "mystery" is as several of these books challenge our understanding of what a mystery is. We hope you've been enjoying these as much as we have! Today's review is of the comic Tumor by Joshua Hale Fialkov and Noel Tuazon. Tumor is about an elderly private eye named Frank who gets hired by an old...

Hello all! Welcome to our newest episode in the theme of Mysteries! In this episode we will be covering The Fade Out by Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips.  The Fade Out follows Charlie, a writer for Victory Street Pictures at the end of the golden age of the Hollywood studio system as he tries to uncover the truth about who killed the lead actress in the film he is working on after her murder is covere...

Welcome all! We are so glad you are listening to this mind-altering episode. I know we haven't been the same since! For this episode we are continuing our theme of Mystery comics by reviewing the comic Homunculus by Hideo Yamamoto! Homunculus is the story of Susumu Nakoshi, a pathological liar, who looks down on humanity while living out of his car. Nakoshi wears a suit around the other homeless p...

Welcome all to The Comic Panel. We are so glad you are listening to this episode and we know you'll enjoy this one! We are starting a new theme this episode, the theme of Mysteries and for our first book we are reviewing "My Favorite Thing is Monsters" by Emil Ferris. This is a graphic novel is set in 1960s Chicago and follows young Karen Reyes as she attempts to unravel the secrets behind the dea...

Welcome! I'm so glad you guys are listening to this wonderful and hilarious conversation where four friends talk about the best and worst moments from the last four books.  If you haven't been following, we've been on the theme of "Comics Based on Video Games." The books we read for this theme were "Street Fighter: Sakura Gives It Her Best" by Masahiko Nakahira, "Sonic: Scrapnick Island" by Daniel...

Hello all! Welcome to our final book in the theme of "Comics based on video games". We hope you've been enjoying them half as much as we have recording them! Today's review is of the manga "Assassin Creed Awakening" based on the video game Assassins Creed Black Flag.  The protagonist of our story is a young Sejin who's DNA is used to explore the life of one of his ancestors, Edward Kenway, a forme...

Hello all! Welcome to the next episode in our theme of "Comics based on video games". We hope you've been enjoying these episodes at just a fraction of the joy we get from making these episodes!  Batman Arkham Knight (the comic) takes place in the Batman Arkham games universe and set between the end of Arkham City and before Arkham Knight. It begins right where the Arkham City ended with the death...

Hello all! We apologize for the terribly long time it took for this episode to come out. It seemed it took almost as long for this episode to come out as did this comic to finish! And just like when this comic was finished, we all rejoiced that there was finally an ending.  All jokes aside, for our second book in the theme of comics based on video games, we are reviewing the Team Fortress 2 comics...

Hello, everyone! Welcome to the second episode in our theme "Comics based on video games"! We've been enjoying recording these episodes and we hope you've been enjoying listening to them.  In today's episode we cover Sonic: Scrapnik Island. Sonic and Tails crash land on Professor Robotnik's abandoned lair known as Scrapnik Island. As they attempt to find their way off the island they are introduce...

Welcome everyone to our first review in our new theme of "Comics based on video games." For our first book we are reading Street Fighter Alpha 2: Sakura Does Her Best.    Sakura is an aspiring street fighter. She has the will and the dedication to learn everything she can because ultimately, she wants to meet the man who inspired her, someone she doesn't even know the name of. In order to meet thi...

Hello everybody! Welcome to our retrospective to our theme of Cults. For those who don't know we do this at the end of our themes. We take a look back at the comics we've read and compare them and give any final thoughts we have on them. The books we revewed for this theme have been 20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa, Ultimate X-men by Peach Momoko, Loving, Ohio by Sam Beck and Matt Erman, and Lun...

Welcome all to our last book in our theme of Cults! We hope you've been enjoying this series of episodes as much as we've enjoyed recording these episodes. In today's episode we are reviewing "Luna" by Maria Llovet.  Teresa is a young woman plagued by prophetic dreams that connect her to something powerful. Something divine. She finds herself among the company of the Family of the Sun, a cult form...

Welcome everyone to another striking review by The Comic Panel! In today's episode we are reviewing a comic titled "Loving, Ohio" by Matt Erman and Sam Beck! This is our third episode around the theme of cults.  Loving, Ohio is a small town that is completely run by a new age cult known as the chorus. And four high-school kids, Sloan, Elliott, Cameron, and Ana, are trying to graduate and get out....

Welcome all, to our newest episode in our theme of Cults! Today we are reviewing Ultimate X-Men 2024 Vol 1 and 2 written and drawn by Peach Momoko. This is part of Marvel Comics new ultimate universe that re-contextualizes the Marvel Universe by having its history and geopolitical landscape altered by a nefarious Reed Richards called The Maker. Ultimate X-Men follows Hisoako Ichiki, a young girl i...

Welcome back everybody! We are happy to present to you another great review from The Comic Panel! This episode is the first review of our new theme of Cults! The book we are reviewing is 20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa (Monster, Pluto).  20th Century Boys is a comic about a group of friends and their time as adults in a changing Japan interspersed with scenes from their childhood in the 1970s....

Hello all! Have you missed us? We certainly have! Well, we are back with our final episode in our theme of Superman. This is our Superman Retrospective and we are happy to be welcoming back to the show Nat Yonce from the podcast Collective Action Comics! In this theme we read Superman vs Meshi, Superman and the Authority, Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow, Superman: Phantom Zone,...

Hello all! Welcome to our fifth episode in The Comic Panel's coverage of Superman! If you haven't been keeping track, we've read Superman vs Meshi, Superman and the Authority, Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow, the four part mini series: Phantom Zone, and now we are covering the comic hot off the presses: Absolute Superman.    In this Episode Cody and Chawienta talk extensively ab...

Hello all! Welcome to this special installment of The Comic Panel's coverage of Superman! If you haven't been keeping track, we've read Superman vs Meshi, Superman and the Authority, and Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow. Now we are reviewing the four part mini series: Phantom Zone written by Steve Gerber with art by Gene Colan and Rick Veitch. This episode Cody, Jake, and Chawien...

Hello all! Welcome to the next installment of The Comic Panel's jaunt into the world of Superman! If you haven't been keeping track, we've read Superman vs Meshi and Superman and the Authority. Now we are reviewing Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow written by Alan Moore. This collection includes The individual issues included are Superman #423, Action Comics #583, DC Comics Presents #83, an...

We are continuing our theme of Superman! The original Superhero who fights for Truth, Justice, and a Better Tomorrow.   In our second book we are reviewing Superman and the Authority. The writer for this book is none other than Grant Morrison along with  Mikel Janin on art, as well as Travel Forman, Evan Cagle, and Fico Ossio for some page assists. This limited series ran for 4 issues in 2021 and...

Dun da dun dun! Who’s faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and can leap tall buildings in a single bound. Is it a bird or a plane, no it’s Superman! We are starting a new theme focused on Superman, inspired by the wildly successful Superman movie that released last month. For this episode we are reviewing Superman vs Meshi. In this manga, Superman/Clark Kent develops an...

Welcome all! Today we are reviewing Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot by Frank Miller and Geof Darrow as our third book in the theme focusing on Geof Darrow. The Big Boy and Rusty the Boy Robot is two-issue comic about an attack on Tokyo by a giant 4-armed, 4-legged, Iguana with atomic breath… Anyway, Rusty the Boy robot, an Astroboy-like artificially intelligent weapon created by the Japanese gover...

Welcome all! This is our review of Shaolin Cowboy by Geof Darrow! Shaolin Cowboy: Start Trek is a story about the Shaolin Cowboy, a former Shaolin monk who wanders the land with a talking mule named Lord Evelyn Dunkirk Winniferd Esq. the Third. Having been "asked" to leave the Shaolin temple, he has since had a bounty placed on his head, which many are eager to collect. Collecting that bounty will...

Hello all, and welcome to our new theme where we focus on the comic book artist Geof Darrow. For our first book we are reviewing Lieutenant Blueberry by Jean Giraud aka Moebius, a book that greatly inspired Geof Darrow.  Lieutenant Blueberry follows two military members in post-Civil War America. Lieutenant Craig, a proud son of a military general, and Lieutenant Blueberry, a member of the U.S. Ca...

Welcome all! If you read the title, you may be confused, but when you listen to the episode you'll get it. (hint: it's Elfquest). We are so glad you are taking the time to listen to our episode. There are many podcasts you could listen to and so the fact that you are listening to this one means a lot.  Now, without further ado, we are ending our Western comics classics theme. To recap, the books w...