The Comic Panel Podcast

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...

Yes! Rorschach is back! But wait, isn't he dead? That is the mystery that seems to have fallen onto this hapless detective. A couple of crazies try shooting up a presidential rally and end up being killed by security. Now, the campaign of the presidential frontrunner wants to investigate how this happened. But is all as it seems? Hear all about it and our thoughts on this book based in the world o...

Y'all ready for a history lesson? 'Cause we takin you back in time to the first commercially successful graphic novel. This graphic novel is written and drawn by a master of the art form, Will Eisner. This graphic novel is A Contract With God, a collection of short stories featuring poor Jewish characters in a tenement in New York City. Enjoy of our review of this classic! The Comic Panel airs Mon...

Boy oh boy, We are covering Smallville season 11 and our cohost Tailon was excited for this one. This is his favorite tv show and he was just dying to reviewing this comic. Picking up after the ending of the Smallville TV series, Clark is now Superman and is doing good work. When an accident makes Hank Henshaw the lab rat of one of Lex's experiment, Hank become a mechanical menace that Superman ha...

If you love hard rock then you'll probably recognize the name Coheed and Cambria! Well, in this episode, we review the comic book written by the Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez called The Amory Wars.  The Comic Panel airs Mondays and Saturdays at 5pm AKST on KSUA 91.5 FM, the people's radio in Fairbanks, Alaska. You can also listen to us as we air on ksuaradio.com. Visit our linktree f...

A series of unexplainable deaths sets a dreary scene in this affordable housing complex. Why are there so many people killing themselves here? Is there someone behind it? The tenants gossip, they assume they know who it is. It's obvious. A detective investigates the scene, he also kills himself. Why would he do that? Beware, this story is not for the faint of heart. If you dare, listen to our revi...