The Comic Panel Podcast

The Comic Panel's continued coverage of this mini series all about the magic in the DC Universe during the early 90s. Written By critically acclaimed Writer Neil Gaiman with art by John Bolton, Scott Hampton, Charles Vess, and Paul Johnson. Be sure to check out Part one if you haven't already!   The Comic Panel airs Monday and Saturdays at 5pm AKST on KSUA 91.5 FM in Fairbanks, Alaska. You can als...

Welcome to our second episode covering comics about magic. This one is all about the magic in the DC Universe during the early 90s. Written By critically acclaimed Writer Neil Gaiman with art by John Bolton, Scott Hampton, Charles Vess, and Paul Johnson. Come check out this intriguing mini series with us! Also, be sure to continue listening into the next episode as our coverage of this book is spl...

The Comic Panel starts our coverage of magic comics with this book from Mark Millar and Olivier Coipel. A family of magic users who secretly protect the world from the strange and unknown are starting to be picked off one by one. can they figure out who is behind it and why before it's too late?   The Comic Panel airs Monday and Saturdays at 5pm AKST on KSUA 91.5 FM in Fairbanks, Alaska. You can a...

Welcome to a podcast exclusive episode of The Comic Panel!! In this episode we give our overall thoughts on the comics we read for our theme. The past four episodes we have been covering books under the theme of Holidays! In this episode, we spill the tea about what were our favorite books that we read, what were the worst, and why! If you enjoy our normal episodes, you are really going to enjoy t...

Hear ye, hear ye! The Comic Panel is back for another riveting discussion of a comic that fits our Holiday theme. *Gasp* This is our last one before the new theme begins. In this episode we're diving headfirst into the comic "Batman: The Long Halloween." from Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale. Batman attempts to unraveling the mystery behind the enigmatic figure known only as Holiday. And we attempt to unrav...

Welcome to the holidays! That is our theme and here is our third book within that theme: A Very DC Valentine's Day. In this episode The Comic Panel seeks to wade through the myriad of short stories that make up this book, and if the short stories weren't enough, this collection ends with a longer Harley Quinn Valentine's Day special. By the end of it we were all asking the question: "do these tale...

Welcome back to the show everyone!! In this episode we cover Klaus by Grant Morrison. In this 19th century-looking town, Klaus is an outsider, not yet the jolly Saint Nick we know in love. The town of Grimsvig is suffering under the tyrannical rule of Lord Magnus. The men of the town are sent to the mines every day for who knows what reason and no toys are allowed in Grimsvig. With nothing to play...

Ho Ho Ho, merry Christmas! Well, not for these guys. It's been awhile since anyone's actually celebrated Christmas. Santa hasn't been seen in a while either. What's going on in this world? Well, a curse fell upon the land...Santa has been cursed to lie dormant within his ancestors, only to be awakened when they wear something red. A kid named Sanda avoids the color red. A classmate named Fuyumura...

Welcome back to another terrifyingly fantastic episode of The Comic Panel! After a good two week long break, we are back and finishing up our ancient roman/greek history theme with a comic called Dead Romans. This book features a Roman general Arminius, who is of German descent. He was taken from his family as a kid and he never forgot it. Now's his time to strike, to finally steal back land from...

Welcome to our review of the manga Beastarius. In this episode, you'll be introduced to a bunch of characters whose lives revolve around the colosseum. They all want to escape, naturally. This manga features a wyvern named Durandal, and a human named Fin and a human named Xeno and his minotaur brother Tharos. In these two stories we see people fight to survive, fight for freedom, even fighting aga...

Paris. Helen. Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. What do all these names have in common? They are characters from Homer's Illiad, and some of the main characters in the comic we are reading today, Age of Bronze. This comic is about a young man named Paris who grew up as a son of a farmer, and later learned that he was the son of a king. This king brought him back into the family, which only served to...

Welcome to a story about Eumenes, a general in Alexander the Great's army. He's real go look him, and this story, is a retelling of his story. Our review picks up in chapter 7, the beginning of Eumenes's story. Growing up under a man named Hieronymus, he had all the access to books he could ever need. He experienced the treatment given to those who are children of those with status. Until one day...

In today’s episode we discuss the life of Woody Guthrie as told in the comic Woody Guthrie and the Dustbowl Ballads. Raised depression era America, Woody has seen his own share of hard times. From a mentally unstable mother to a father who lost all his wealth, to living in an abandoned shack, Woody Guthrie had lived quite a life. But as life went on, he started discovering his voice and the feelin...

In today’s episode we cover the Kingstone Bible, a retelling of old Biblical stories told in the medium of comics. This book retells the story of creation, the story of Noah, and the story of Job. In the beginning there was nothing, and then God made everything. Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, fell from grace, setting the world on a dark path. So dark, that God felt he needed to flood the e...

Do you love music?! Do you love hip hop?! I know I, Tailon, wouldn't know how to get through his day without music. This is the book for you! Enjoy as we review the comic that delves into the origins of Hip Hop. From kids just trying to figure out how to have some fun to Hip Hop finally taking off, this story is bound to be enjoyable if you even have a modicum of interest in hip hop or history. We...

This episode is our first entry into our new History theme. It was the War of the Trenches is a comic created by a French cartoonist named Tardi. It features various stories of French soldiers in the first World War. This was a heavy book with a lot of despair and laughs and a whole other range of emotions. We hope you enjoy our review of it. The Comic Panel airs Mondays and Saturdays at 5pm AKST...

Happy Black Friday! Speaking of Black...Enjoy this story with two characters who just love to hide in the shadows: Batman and Predator. Well, Predator turns invisible but the result is still the same. In this book, the Predator conducts it's safari in Gotham City, which is something that Batman cannot stand by let happen. The two duke it out in this unique crossover you won't want to miss our revi...

What if you were approached by a stranger offering you to send you away from all the hard work you've been doing? You get to finally go on that vacation you've always wanted to go on. What if you were stranded in a place that wasn't home? Would you take that deal? Well in this comic, you get to find out what you favorites heroes decide and some other heroes you may not have heard of. This week's b...

Welcome to this strange land where the x-men and the new teen titans just already exist in the same universe. Ok, that was meta, the comic doesn't act like this is strange. What's even more strange is this mysterious figure that wants to bring back Jean Grey in order to use her Phoenix Force for a dastardly plot. The Teen Titans know who it and they help the X-men take down this mysterious villain...

This is our first episode where we introduce themes! Our theme for the next few episodes is Crossovers! Our first book in our theme is Archie Meets Batman '66! Enjoy as we discuss Batman's villains hatching an evil plot in Riverdale, forcing Batman, Robin, and Batgirl to mix it up with the Archie crew! The Comic Panel airs Mondays and Saturdays at 5pm AKST on KSUA 91.5 FM, the people's radio in Fa...

I know y'all love D&D. It's always the best time when you and your friends get together and discover the trials and adventures your DM has in store for you. But how would you feel if your party somehow managed to be transported into you D&D world? Well, for these teens it happened for them, and it took them five years to get out, and after nearly 20 years, they are still not over the horro...

From the mind of Ashley Cope comes a fantasy adventure comic with highlights of horror, profane, and comedy, the name of which is...Unsounded. Sette is dispatched by her father to acquire tribute from her cousin in Cresce and Duane is forced to accompany her. Sette is the daughter of a crime family and has quite the mouth on her. Their adventures take them cross-continent, the continent of Kasslyn...

Do you feel you're living a dreary existence? Wesley certainly thought so. And he felt there was no changing it. Till one day, his father dies and members of his community pull Wesley out of his depressive existence into the world of Supervillany. Wesley didn't know his father, but his father was one of the most repsected supervillians known and now Wesley is stepping into those shoes. Welcome to...

Dylan is a troubled kid who seems to get into trouble a lot. His single-mother tries her best and he respects her for it. He's just carrying a lot of weight from the fact that his father abandoned him and his mom. One day he comes home to find out that his dad died. He couldn't care less, until the reading of his father's will. His father left him a stone called the sun stone, which turns him into...

The world is in utter disarray, but we humans are resilient and we've managed survive a plague, the likes of which we haven't seen. It's been nearly 100 years after that, and the horrors seem to be long gone. Our story picks up when a group of venture capitalists decided to fund an expedition to recover lost artifacts of the old world. Actually, they were dragged into it. They only had enough mone...