Tales from the Short Box

We travel back to Gorilla City with Mat Fraction and Steve Lieber's Who Killed Jimmy Olsen on the top story. Also cute boy Draculas, ice homunculi, and we lose our only Gorilla listener. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:06:47 – The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos #2 00:15:16 – Astonishing Iceman #1 00:21:23 – X-Men #25 00:36:17 – Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olse...

It's time to take the wild and psychedelic journey into Jack Kirby's Jimmy Olsen run on the top story! Also the gang gets dressed up for the Hellfire Gala! Corpse piñatas! And the secret to the human genome (turns out it's all a bunch of teeny tiny Jimmy Olsen's!) Pull List (with spoiler time stamps!) 00:09:54 – X-Men Hellfire Gala 00:37:19 – Knight Terrors: Detective Comics 00:46:04 – Hulk #2 00:...

We drag out the old toy box for the top story as we sky dive into the dark espionage of Gi Joe: Cobra. Also undead jackals, cute alien farm animals, and a talking Corgi. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:08:49 – Moon Knight: City of the Dead #1 00:17:21 – Tales of the Titans: Starfire #1 00:32:03 – Hawkgirl #1 00:46:04 – GI Joe: Cobra Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon!...

Join us as we surf through the cosmos in our top story with Dan Slott and Mike Allred's run on Silver Surfer. Also multiple nightmare monsters, giant bug men, and lovable charming blobs. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:10:00 – Knight Terrors: Zatana #1 00:25:21 – The Hunger and the Dusk #1 00:32:42 – Fishflies #1 00:40:48 – Silver Surfer #1-10 Support Tales From The Short Box by joining o...

We take a look into the power cosmic with Stan Lee and Mobeus's Silver Surfer: Parable on the top story. Also the apocalypse, the MODOKalypse, and a giant invisible kraken. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:11:21 – Swan Songs #1 00:27:47 – Thor Annual #1 00:37:02 – X-Men Before the Fall #1 00:45:52 – Fantastic Four #9 00:57:08 – Silver Surfer Parable Support Tales From The Short Box by join...

It's Shaun's turn to pick an all-time favorite with Scalped on the top story. Also the mother of all monsters, drama club werewolves, and Adam learns he needs new glasses. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:08:32 – The Incredible Hulk #1 00:19:27 – The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos 00:32:44 – Tenement #1 00:40:56 – Superman #5 00:56:18 – Scalped Deluxe Edition #1 Support Tales F...

We once again venture into DC's New 52 with Jeff Lemire's Green Arrow on the top story. Also dystopian tales of gender dysphoria, giant tentacle monsters, and all the trick arrows you could ever want. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:12:31 – Night Fever 00:23:43 – Spirit World #2 00:35:09 – Boys Weekend 00:41:24 – Green Arrow by Jeff Lemire Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our P...

Join us as we solve some murder mysteries with the emerald archer in Mike Grell's Green Arrow on the top story. Also beer plumbing, a clipper ship made of nail clippings, and holding up a bank with ketchup and mustard. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:10:58 – Shazam #2 00:21:20 – Fantastic Four #8 00:26:06 – Loki #1 00:36:56 – Flash #800 00:46:51 – Green Arrow Longbow Hunters & Green Arrow...

Join us as we finally dive into one the all-time greats on our top story with Preacher vol 1. Also too many Metallos, punk rock autobiographies, and risking your life for the sake of a podcast. Also, trigger warning: we deal with some pretty dark things in the top story. So if you are sensitive to violence, you have our permission to skip this one. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:07:29 –...

Walk through the Green Door with us as we dive into Immortal Hulk on the top story. Also word games with Doom, heads in jars, and the agents of W.E.T. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:07:25 – X-Force #40 00:19:37 – Fantastic Four #7 00:37:31 – Titans #1 00:50:1 – Avengers #1 01:02:53 – Immortal Hulk vol 1&2 Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon! All paid members get acces...

We're kicking off our fortnight of Hulk with Planet Hulk on the top story! Also a return of Lobo's space dolphins, uwu Constantine, and imaginary slasher friends. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:11:34 – Superman: Lost #3 00:27:32 – Phantom Road #3 00:36:20 – Spirit World #1 00:50:49 – The Nasty #2 00:57:57 – Planet Hulk Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon! All paid mem...

We're back! It's a brand new season and we kick it off with some JLI on the top story. Also green heroes, Unlimited wishes, and a sentient internet that is trying to kill us. Pull list (with spoiler time stamps): 00:12:40 – w0rldtr33 #1 00:34:18 – Eight Billion Genies #8 00:40:14 – TMNT/Usagi Yojimbo #1-2 00:47:54 – Green Arrow #1 01:01:38 – JLI Book 2: Around The World Support Tales From The Shor...

We conclude our graphic memoir series with Steven T. Seagle's It's a Bird 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 graphic memoir series with Zoe Thorogood's It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon! All paid members get acces to your Discord Server: patreon.com/BraveNewWorldsComics

Join the TFTSB gang as we kick off our graphic memoir series with Trung Le Nguyen's The Magic Fish. Support Tales From The Short Box by joining our Patreon! All paid members get acces to your Discord Server: patreon.com/BraveNewWorldsComics

It's our season finale! We close off the season with a deep dive into one big event book we've been talking about across two seasons with Rotworld. This brings together the Jeff Lemire Animal Man and the Scott Snyder Swamp thing into a giant squelchy, goopy, moldy epic. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:10:14 – Doctor Strange #1 00:18:15 – Batman/Superman Worlds Finest #13 00:27:57 – Batman...

We got more Spider-Man on the top story this week as we dive into the bad-guy packed event, The Gauntlet. Also 80 years worth of Star Trek spoilers, Beast's own private Skulltron, and the dangers of infantile-onset Juggalosis. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:09:55 – Star Trek Defiant #1 00:26:38 – The Forged #1 00:31:26 – Hellcat #1 00:42:15 – Wolverine #31 00:54:47 – The Amazing Spider-M...

In this week's top story, we start our Spider-Man series strong with the all time great "Kraven's Last Hunt." Also metaphysical family matters, a "no Clark's allowed" Superman squad, and an AR Neo-noir dystopia. 00:09:25 – Scarlet Witch #3 00:23:30 – Adventures of Superman – Jon Kent #1 00:32:11 – Clear #1 00:45:33 – Poison Ivy #10 00:56:50 – Spider-Man Kraven's Last Hunt Support Tales From The Sh...

Join us as we smoke some of the blue mold and dig into the cerebral masterpiece that is Grant Morrison's Invisibles on the top story. Also ergot laced bagels, a crash course in chaos magic, and a heated discussion about Superman's frost breath. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:15:28 – Phantom Road #1 00:20:49 – Action Comics #1052 00:28:56 – Human Target #12 00:35:59 – The Invisibles Book...

Things get real weird real fast as we dig into the Geoff Johns run on The Flash in our top story. Also dinosaur allergies, elephant bordellos, and kiln-fired Clayface. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:17:25 – Superman #1 00:25:39 – Local Man #1 00:34:13 – Blue Book #1 00:40:35 – Batman One Bad Day: Clayface 00:57:24 – The Flash by Geoff Johns Book One Support Tales From The Short Box by jo...

We talk about some classic Wally West and Mark Waid's first run on the Flash on the top story. Also everyone comes back to life, Beast gets what's coming to him, and Cacey becomes the avatar of the Rot. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:12:19 – Swamp Thing Green Hell #2 00:21:52 – Wolverine #30 00:31:52 – Fantastic Four #4 00:40:39 – Batgirls #15 00:48:35 – The Flash by Mark Waid Book One S...

It's Shaun's turn to take us through an all-time favorite as we journey into Alan Moore's Promethea in the top story. Also metaphysical debugging, psycho HOAs, and the original sad gorilla meme. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:11:10 – Scarlet Witch #2 00:20:31 – Where Monsters Lie #1 00:29:13 – MoonKnight #20 00:35:11 – Promethea Deluxe Edition Book 1 Support Tales From The Short Box by j...

We continue our series on Swamp thing with the Scott Snyder run on the top story. Also the mystery of necrokinesis, so many Misters Sinisters, and how to call in a favor from Dracula. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:11:29 – Sins of Sinister #1 00:27:33 – X-Terminators #5 00:41:18 – Batman One Bad Day: Catwoman #1 00:52:44 – Action Comics #1051 00:59:12 – Swamp Thing by Scott Snyder Suppor...

We spend some time with our favorite Moss Man this week as we finally talk about the Alan Moore run on Swamp Thing in the top story! Also What would you do with Xaviers power? What is Sinister up to? What is the deal with Swamp Thing's teeth? Listen in and find out! Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:08:48 – Nightwing #100 00:21:10 – Immortal X-Men #10 00:30:17 – Dark Web X-Men #3 00:37:24 –...

We continue our Daredevil series with one of the best runs in the modern era on the top story. Also Hell's CCTV system, our old pal Gnort, and The Punisher has a dragon. Pull list (with spoiler time stamps): 00:06:10 – Daredevil #7 00:16:33 – Dark Web Mary Jane & Black Cat 00:29:55 – The Human Target #10 00:40:10 – Black Cloak #1 00:44:35 – Daredevil by Bendis & Maleev Ultimate Collection Vol1 Sup...