Thinking Outside The Long Box

Today's topic is a tv series that was based off of a comic book! It takes it roots from the comic book series, and does a pretty good job of keeping in line with the book!! We are talking about the Prime Video series, Paper Girls!"Paper Girls follows four young girls who, while out delivering papers during the dark morning hours after Halloween in 1988, become unwittingly caught in a conflict betw...

We have a very special guest with us today!! If you haven't been keeping up with The Walking Dead universe, then you may not know that we are entering what might be one of the most exciting times of the universe, aside from the beginning. With the end of The Walking Dead main show, we have so many unique series that are hitting, or about to hit AMC, that you should be paying attention to. Our awes...

It's comic book time!! We try our best to take a trip back to our roots every once in a while, and this episode takes us back to those roots, talking about the comic book from Image Comics, The Closet!"The story centers around Thom's family moving to Portland and his insistence to Jamie that the monster in his old closet will not be in his new closet. The metaphor for the usually mistaken idea tha...

Doyle has been doing a lot of deep dives into the comic book buying world. One of those deep dives took him to a buying platform called WhatNot! If you are a comic book buyer, and like to buy more than just what is coming out every week in modern comics, you need to check out this platform!!  From that platform Doyle has met some very fun people, as well as some very honorable sellers! To tell us...

Jordan Peele has been making some very interested movies these past few years. Today's topic is no different, in the weirdness scale. It's pretty different as far as the alien genre movie goes, but it seems to be pretty on coarse for a Jordan Peele movie!! I think that the pair of us may have thought it went just a tad too far in that direction, but what did you all think of the Jordan Peele film,...

During San Diego Comic Con 2022 we had the amazing opportunity to sit in on the press conference for the NEW AMC show, Tales of the Walking Dead!! I'll be completely up front and honest, because of where we were sitting and the distance, it isn't the easiest thing to listen to, but if you listen closely you'll get to hear some awesome information about The Walking Dead's newest show!!! There is al...

It's time to jump into the world of Thor once more!! We've been following Thor and his fellow Asgardians for many years now, and we're talking about the fourth installment of the series! Did you think that Thor: Love & Thunder was going to live up to the hype from the third film? Or from Endgame? "Thor embarks on a journey unlike anything he's ever faced -- a quest for inner peace. However, his re...

We were able to sit in on a couple of round table interviews about The Orville: New Horizons while we were at San Diego Comic Con 2022! This interview features two awesome producers, Brannon Braga & Tom Costantino! If you haven't watched the third season of The Orville, then you are missing WAY out. This season has been absolutely phenomenal, and blows the other two seasons out of the water! GO WA...

We were able to sit in on a couple of round table interviews about The Orville: New Horizons while we were at San Diego Comic Con 2022! This interview features the amazing Jessica Szohr (Talla) & J. Lee (Lamarr). I even got to throw out a question about love, and the budding relationship that started between Talla and Lamarr. If you haven't watched the third season of The Orville, then you are mis...

It's been twenty five years since our pop culture classic was made!! We're going all the way back to 1997 in order to revisit a cult classic! I'm not sure that this was ever a huge deal when it was originally released, but since that time it has developed a good amount of following, not because of how "good" the movie is, but because it just seems to be a fun watch!"In the distant future, the Eart...

San Diego Comic Con is ALWAYS a good time for the podcast!! This press conference comes from San Diego Comic Con 2022! It's not the easiest to hear because of the position that we were in, during the press conference, so you'll have to listen hard! BUT, we got to listen to a majority of the cast from The Walking Dead speak about the 3rd part of the series finale, season 11! Take a seat, and do you...

It's time to talk about a movie that that towards the back half turned out to be something way different than we thought it might be. I know that this is probably a confusing first sentence, but when you go into this movie, you need to know that you're in for a bit of a different experience than what you're imagining! We're talking about the movie, Moonfall!  "The world stands on the brink of anni...

Today's topic was unexpectedly much more serious than intended. That doesn't mean that it's bad, it just means that the topic at hand leaned more into deep topics than the comedy that it's been more known for. After getting cancelled from cable TV, The Orville was picked up to run a third season out of Hulu. So, yes, we're talking about the newly minted 3rd season of The Orville: New Horizons!"Set...

It's comic book time everyone!! We've been trying to go back and forth on how much we want to cover comic books, because we do want to cover comic books, and now we're talking about a book that started a popular series!! More precisely, we're talking about the first seven issues of the series. We are of course talking about the Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson book, The Boys! "The Boys is an irrev...

 It's pop culture classic time everyone, and this time we're going back almost twenty years to 2003! There have been many vampire movies, and there have been many werewolf movies, and this was one of the few movies that did a pretty good job of bringing both of those monsters into one movie!! We're talking of course about the film, Underworld!"Under cover of night, vampires engage in an age-old ba...

 We're on the third season of a very crazy tv show! This is one of those shows that you watch because you KNOW that it's crazier than batshit. Whether it's a season full of penises being shown, or people shrinking down and going into other people, apparently people really like that kind of stuff. We are of course talking about the third season of The Boys! "It’s been a year of calm. Homelander's s...

Every once in a while we are just absolutely stunned by one of the topics that we get a chance to watch and talk about. Today's topic is one those times. Not only is the cast absolutely amazing, but Apple TV has spared no expense in making this series looking absolutely beautiful as well. From space, to the ships, to the environments, and ALL of the different storylines, we were literally taken ab...

Almost thirty years since the original, and probably the best, dinosaur movie created, we're still getting sequels. Now, whether or not those are good, is up for interpretation. BUT, here we are, and for today's episode, we're talking about the latest 2022 installment, Jurassic World: Dominion!"Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, dinosaurs now live and hunt alongside humans all over t...

It's pop culture classic time everyone!! The film that we're talking about today is a sequel, but really only in name. The first movie, aside from the characters, has very little to do with this movie. This sequel actually is the starter to a bigger arch that spans many different films itself! We are going all the way back to 1982 to talk about Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan!  "As Adm. James T. Ki...

It wasn't until a few years ago that anybody even thought that we might need anymore Star Wars. The prevailing theory is that any of the new Star Wars content has not been up to snuff. That was at least, until recently, when the expanded universe in the Star Wars worlds have been deemed excellent. The Mandalorian blew the lid off this world, and it's been growing ever since that point. We also did...

Half of the new TOTLB team is a pretty big fan of the older Star Trek shows. Juan, the newest member to team Star Trek has been pretty much on board with anything new Star Trek. Today's topic has spun off from Star Trek Discovery, a Star Trek series that isn't the most well liked, BUT he likes it none the less. The spinoff seems to be gaining much more steam though on Paramount+ than it's predeces...

It's always fun when we get to interview interesting people! More fun than that is when those interesting people come back for another interview, and it's even more and more interesting! Today we have an awesome pair of guests on the show, with a returning guest in Wes Robinson!! Joining Wes, is L.C. Holt!! They're on the show in order to speak about their upcoming film, Watchdog!"After narrowly s...

From last week's venture to 1986, we jump all the way to 2022 for the sequel!! This movie is about three years in the making as COVID pretty much put a hold on everything! We saw the trailer for Top Gun Maverick at Comic Con International in 2019! So, we are indeed talking about this much anticipated sequel!"After more than 30 years of service as one of the Navy's top aviators, Pete "Maverick" Mit...

One year before I was born, a young Tom Cruise was thrown into stardom. Now, it's arguable whether or not this movie was the movie that really shoved him into the clouds of being an actor, but if you don't think it was the start, you have to admit that it probably did more for his career than most anything up to that point. We're going all the way back to 1986, to talk about the Tom Cruise film, T...

The topic for the day is on it's fourth season, and so far has been pretty successful! Four seasons, and we were in the middle of the season when we recorded this podcast, so this episode does not deal with the rest of the season, and the subsequent last two episodes. BUT, that will come in the future I'm sure!"The first plotline takes place in Hawkins, where several teenagers are killed in myster...