Tales from the Short Box

This week we continue our Ram V double feature with These Savage Shores with art by Kumit Sumar and color by Vittorio Astone.  It's the book that made Ram a household name and with very good reason! It's a five issue epic about how colonialism creates monsters of us all.  Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon! patreon.com/BraveNewWorldsComics    

If it's Wednesday, it's time for another episode of Last Week's Comics!  Join us as we ponder the deep mysteries of the universe.  What is Gritty's sheet cake budget? How fast can someone get in and out of a skin tight cat suit? Where do all the bad Garys go? Tune in and find out!  Pull List (With spoiler time stamps): 00:09:59 - Duke #3 00:24:21 - Avengers Twlight #3 00:37:04 - Ice Cream Man #38...

Tales From the Short Box is back! Join us for part one of a two part series celebrating writer Ram V. It's a night at the opera with Detective Comics: Gotham Nocturne Overture & Act 1. Also, a song that makes you kill, super villain gentrification, and a boy who grew up in the walls of a lunatic asylum.  

It's the first episode of our new format! the Last Week's Comics segment now has it's own show! Join us as we solve a murder mystery with extra fingers, fight a giant lady, and have a good old fashioned chainsaw fight.    Pull List (with Spoiler Timestamps): 00:11:11 - The Six Fingers #1/The One Hand #1 00:24:55 - Wonder Woman #6 00:37:36 - Cobra Commander #2 00:47:29 - Ultimate Spiderman #2  Join...

We round off this season's Manga series not with giant robots, murder mysteries, or alien invasions... but with volleyball.  That's right! We're talking aobut Haruichi Furudate's Shonen sports Manga: Haikyu!

We continue our "RJ makes us read Manga" series with Urasawa and Tezuka's adaptation of a beloved Astro Boy story.     Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon! patreon.com/BraveNewWorldsComics

We're taking a break from our regular weekly schedule so RJ can make us all read manga.  We kick it off with the genre defining Astro Boy by Father of Manga, Osamu Tezuka.   Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon! patreon.com/BraveNewWorldsComics

It's our season finale! And there is no better way to do a finale than with Doom Patrol.  We jump into the tragically under-printed and under-read Rachel Pollack run on the top story.  Also unsolicited cyber security advice, underground snake cults, and a 200 year old man who can beat up anybody.     Pull List (with Spoiler Time Stamps): 00:06:04 - Avengers: Twilight #1 00:18:55 - Cobra Commander...

Join us as we fight space colonialism in the top story with Flash Gordon by Jeff Parker and Doc Shaner. Also a new Ultimate universe, a robot arms race, and some wild speculation about the end of the 60s.   Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:11:32 - Ultimate Spider-Man #1 00:25:07 - Transformers #4 00:36:18 - Swan Songs #6 00:44:04 - Rise of the Powers of X #1 00:50:40 - Flash Gordon: The Ma...

We dig into another MCU adapted Captain america tale on the top story with Captain America: Winter Soldier by Ed Brubaker.  Also action figure conspiracies, badly planned worst case scenarios, and a reverse fastball special.  Pull Liust (with spoiler time stamps): 00:13:44 - Duke #1 00:26:41 - Poison Ivy #18 00:35:27 - Batman #141 00:46:41 - Fall of the House of X #1 00:55:45 - Captain America: Wi...

It's double Captain Americas on the top story with Mark Gruenwald's Captain America.  Also Snake Regan, Santa Clause, The Jersey Devil and other things that definitely exist.  Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:09:26- Batman-Santa Claus: Silent Knight #1 00:17:33 - Thunderbolts #1 00:25:10 - Transformers #3 00:36:11 - Birds of Prey #4 00:45:15 - Captain America: The Captain Support Tales Fro...

Bro It's Matt Fraction's Hawkeye on the top story, bro.  Seriously Bro. Also hypno-therapy, giant starfish, and a duck celebrates his 50th birthday.    Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:13:23 - Howard the Duck #1 50th Anniversary Special 00:24:43 - Titans: Beast World #1 00:34:47 - Amazons Attack #2 00:41:2 - Swan Songs #5 00:48:45 - Hawkeye: The Saga of Clint Barton & Kate Bishop Support T...

We conclude our two part series on Katherine Kane with Batwoman: Rebirth on the top story.  Also witchy self care, 7-10 splits, and messy relationships.  Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:10:57 - The Invincible Iron Man #12 00:17:01 - Somna #1 00:33:06 - The Holy Roller #1 00:49:43 - Batwoman: Rebirth Vol 1&2 Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon! patreon.com/BraveNewWorld...

This week we jump off of a plane and into Kate Kane's origin story with Batwoman: Elegy on the top story.  Also, Picking up where GI Joe left off, a killer Santa, and all the Dino DNA you can take!  Pull List (with Spoiler time stamps): 00:10:14 - The Deviant #1 00:23:00 - Fantastic Four #13 00:32:44 - GI Joe A Real American Hero 00:45:42 - The Immortal Thor #4 00:47:37 - Outsiders #1 00:54:20 - B...

Join us for one of the scariest books we've ever read as we dive into the multi-dimensional liminal space of Jeff Lemire's Gideon Falls on the top story.  Also wound healing worms, extended robot families, and things where they shouldn't be. 00:12:25 - Birds of Prey #3 00:23:29 - Thaons #1 00:30:34 - Transformer #2 00:41:18 - Petrol Head #1 00:49:51 - Gideon Falls Vol 1 & 2 Support Tales From The...

Join us on an intergalactic road trip of revenge as we talk about Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow on the top story.  Also giant green guys in purple pants, gross mouths, and handsome horse boys.   Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:11:19 - Avengers #7 00:21:12 - Canary #1/2 00:40:19 - Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon! patreon.com/BraveNewWorld...

Tune in for some midwest-based superhuman teenage angst as we discuss Supergirl: Being Super on the top story.  Also wet Draculas, dry Draculas, and giant cryptid robots. Pull List (with spoiler time stamp): 00:11:48 - Universal Monsters Dracula #1 00:20:13 - Giant Robot Hellboy #1 00:23:05 - Alan Scott: Green Lantern #1 00:33:32 - Wonder Woman #2 00:47:35 - Supergirl: Being Super Support Tales Fr...

Join us as we celebrate scary season with Cilling Adventures of Sabrina on the top story.  Also a very scary Richard Scary, our favorite muck-man, and the worst monster of them all: Marriage    Pull List (with spoiler Time stamps):  00:14:03 - Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees #1 00:23:31 - Hack / Slash: Back to School #1 00:31:14 - Crypt of Shadows #1 00:37:37 - Invincible Iron Man #11 00:47:59...

We investigate one of the scariest Gotham mysteries in the top story with Batman: The Black Mirror. Also everyone's favorite friend-shaped giant robot, space wizards, and Jim Gordon's baffling family tree. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:05:57 – Transformers #1 00:29:04 – Birds of Prey #2 00:40:10 – G.O.D.S.#1 00:52:2 – Batman: The Black Mirror Support Tales From The Short Box by joining...

Join us as we choose sides and have the very important debate of "was Batman right?" while breaking down Tower of Babel in the top story. Also giant bugs, giant Thors, and regular sized speedsters. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:08:25 – Immortal Thor #2 00:19:42 – The Flash #1 00:33:51 – Black Hammer: The End #2 00:40:42 – Action Comics #1057 01:02:27 – JLA: The Tower of Babel     Suppor...

We're back! We jump into a new season with one of the best comics ever written, DC: The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke. Also Black Canary does some team building, Nightcrawler gets spidery, and Steve Rogers buys a house. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:08:49 – Birds of Prey #1 00:21:14 – Green Lantern War Journal #1 00:33:03 – Uncanny Spider-Man #1 00:44:43 – Captain America #1 00:54:27 – D...

We conclude this chapter of "RJ makes us read Manga" with Jojo's Bizarre Adventure by Hirohiko Araki. Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon! All paid members get acces to your Discord Server: patreon.com/BraveNewWorldsComics

We continue our "RJ makes us read Manga" series with Monster by Naoki Urasawa. Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon! All paid members get acces to your Discord Server: patreon.com/BraveNewWorldsComics

RJ is making us all read Manga again! We kick off this season's break with Full Metal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon! All paid members get acces to your Discord Server: patreon.com/BraveNewWorldsComics

Join us on as we hitchhike across Australia with the Tank Girl gang in the top story with Visions of Booga by Alan Martin and Rufus Dayglo. Also bitter sweet endings, mutants in peril, and baking cupcakes with 80s glam rockers. 00:10:35 – Swan Songs #2 00:22:20 – Immortal X-Men #14 00:31:08 – Children of the Vault #1 00:41:20 – Tank Girl: Visions of Booga Support Tales From The Short Box by joinin...