The Comic Panel Podcast

Welcome all! This is our fourth and final review for the theme of Western Comics Classics before our Retrospective. We hope you've been enjoying these episodes as they have been fun to record! Elfquest is a classic by Wendy and Richard Pini. The story focuses on the Wolfriders, a tribe of elves fighting for survival while dealing with a longstanding conflict with the local tribe of archaic humans....

Welcome everybody! This is our review of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol 1 by Alan Moore. This is our third book in the theme of Western Comics Classics.    This comic follows a group of individuals who are brought together by a woman who was recently divorced, by the name of Wilhelmina Murray. The team is composed of Miss Murray, a washed up adventurer named Quartmain, a hermit sea capt...

Welcome everybody! Get ready an exciting adventure that awaits! The comic book for today is Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn. This is our second book in our new theme of Western Comics Classics. This comic starts off with Corto Maltese reclining in Madame Java’s Inn at Paramaribo in Dutch Guiana. The caption boxes describe him as a “man of destiny”. Corto decides to go to his boat and al...

Hello all! Welcome to the first episode of our new theme Western Comics Classics! For this theme we pick western comics that are considered classics in the genre. For our first pick we are reviewing The Fantastic Four issues 48-50 aka The Galactus Trilogy and issue 51 "This Man This Monster".  The synopsis of The Galactus Trilogy is Galactus comes to earth and the Watcher comes to help the Fantast...

Hello all! Welcome to our Continuations Retrospective, where we discuss the highlights from the books we read for the theme. Those books were The Magic Order vol 2, Something Is Killing the Children vol 2, Invincible vol 3, and The Department of Truth vol 2. For those who are listening for the first time, we are a bi-weekly radio show/podcast comic book club covering any and everything regarding c...

Welcome all! This is The Comic Panel, for those who are listening for the first time, we are a bi-weekly radio show/podcast comic book club covering any and everything regarding comics and manga. We have each co-host pick a book that follows a specific theme and review a book for each episode. Then we wrap up the theme with a postmortem episode covering our opinions and favorite moments from each...

Welcome all! Get ready to listen to our third review in our theme of Continuations! It's been a good theme so far and we are continuing right along into reviewing Invincible vol 3. And yes, we did cover Invincible volumes 1 and 2, but they were a radio exclusive back in 2021.  To describe Invincible volume 3, it begins with a concerned Nolan as he struggles with what to tell his son. For those who...

Welcome! This our second episode in our theme of Continuations! For this episode, we are reviewing Something is Killing the Children vol 2 by writer James Tynion IV and illustrated by Werther Dell'Edera. Erika and James have defeated the monster...or so they thought. Turns our the monster had children, and now they are on the hunt for food: children. The news of a monsters killing children reached...

Welcome everybody to our first review in our theme "Continuations"! In this theme, we will review the next volume in a series that we've already reviewed. If you don't already know, The Comic Panel is a bi-weekly radio show/podcast comic book club covering any and everything regarding comics and manga. We have each co-host pick a book that follows a specific theme and review a book for each episod...

Welcome all!   In this episode we are reviewing The Gravedigger's Union vol 1 by writer Wes Craig and artist Toby Cypress. This is our third book in our Comics Roulette theme. In a world with witches, cults, yuppie vampires, steroid-zombies, and other monsters, who will be there to defend the world? The Gravedigger's Union. They are a government sanctioned CBU tasked with fighting against the apoc...

Hello all, welcome to our third book review in our theme of Comics Roulette. For those who are just joining us we are a biweekly radio show/podcast comic book club, where four friends discuss anything and everything regarding comics and manga. The way we do our show is we have one person choose a theme and then for the next four episodes, we each take turns choosing a book that fits that theme. Fo...

Hello all, welcome to our second book review in the new theme of Comics Roulette. For those who are just joining us we are a biweekly radio show/podcast comic book club, where four friends discuss anything and everything regarding comics and manga. The way we do our show is we have one person choose a theme and then for the next four episodes, we each take turns choosing a book that fits that them...

Hello all, welcome to our first reivew of the new theme of Comics Roulette. For those who are just joining us we are a biweekly radio show/podcast comic book club, where four friends discuss anything and everything regarding comics and manga. The way we do our show is we have one person choose a theme and then for the next four episodes, we each take turns choosing a book that fits that theme. For...

Welcome everyone! Yes, we are wrapping up the Botony theme in this episode. For this theme we reviewed Man-Thing by Steve Gerber, Swamp Thing Green Hell by Jeff Lemiere, Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death by Amy Chu, and Groot by Jeff Loveness. In this episode you will find riveting discussions on books that, quite honestly, we didn't find all that riveting. You'll find laughter and thought-provo...

I am Groot

The Ecology theme continues here!   Welcome to our ecology theme where we look at comics that have characters that are associated with the natural environment.   On today's episode Cody, Tailon, and Chawienta discuss The Poison Ivy by Amy Chu (Red Sonja) and Clay Mann (Heroes in Crisis), as well as contributions from others. Can you believe that Poison Ivy's first solo comic was released in 2016!...

The Ecology theme continues here!   Welcome to our ecology theme where we look at comics that have characters that are associated with the natural environment.   On today's episode Cody, Tailon, and Chawienta discuss The Swamp Thing: Green Hell by Jeff Lemiere (Underwater Wielder) and  Doug Mahnke (The Mask), as well as contributions from others. This is an elseworlds tale where Alec Holland is br...

The Ecology theme starts here!   Welcome to our ecology theme where we look at comics that have characters that are associated with the natural environment.   On today's episode Cody, Tailon, Jake and Chawienta discuss The Man-Thing The Complete Collection Volume 1 by Steve Gerber (Defenders) and Val Mayerik (Howard the Duck), as well as many other talented artists and writers. Here we go through...

Morbid Curiosity theme ends here!   Welcome to the end of our morbid curiosity theme where we look at comics that are supposedly the worst, but we need to find out just how bad they are.   On today's episode Tailon, Jake and Chawienta discuss the four books that we covered over the course of the theme: I am not Starfire, Marville, Ultimate Iron Man, and All Star Batman and Robin, The Boy Wonder.

Morbid Curiosity theme continues here!   Welcome back to our morbid curiosity theme where we look at comics that are supposedly the worst, but we need to find out just how bad these are.   On today's episode Cody, Tailon, Jake and Chawienta discuss All Star Batman and Robin, The Boy Wonder volume 1 by Frank Miller (Sin City) and Jim Lee (Batman: Hush) with help from Scott Williams (WildC.A.T.S.);...

Morbid Curiosity theme continues here!   Welcome back to our morbid curiosity theme where we look at comics that are supposedly the worst, but we need to find out just how bad these are.   On today's episode Cody, Tailon, Jake and Chawienta discuss Ultimate Iron Man volume 1 by Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game), Andy Kubert (Batman and Son), and Danny Miki (Superman Year One); a comic that was unpop...

Morbid Curiosity theme continues here!   Welcome back to our morbid curiosity theme where we look at comics that are supposedly the worst, but we need to find out just how bad these are.   On today's episode Cody, Tailon, and Chawienta discuss Marville by Bill Jemas and Mark Bright. I won't pull any punches, this book might be the worst book we have ever read for the podcast or otherwise. How bad...

A new theme starts here!   Join us in giving in to our morbid curiosity with comics that are supposedly the worst, but we need to find out just how bad these are.   On today's episode Cody, Tailon, and Chawienta discuss I Am Not Starfire by Mariko Tamaki (Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me) and Yoshi Yoshitani (Zatanna and the House of Secrets). This book faced backlash from it's announcement on...

Your four comicbook co-hosts recap their thoughts about The Magic Order, Books of Magic, Dr. Strange: Way of the Weird, and John Constantine: Hellblazer vol. 1.

The Comic Panel covers the first nine issues of the Swamp Thing spin-off that became a cornerstone for magic in the DC universe. With cutting political satire and seedy stories, enjoy our coverage of John Constantine Hellblazer Vol. 1 Original Sins (Written by Jamie Delano and Art from John Ridgeway)