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This week, the boys enter their opinions into the discourse around HBO’s Lanterns Series.

The Spooky Squad is back in full effect as Andrea (the Cryptid Queen) makes her autumnal pilgrimage back to the pod. This time the squad kicks off SPoOKy season with filling in a gap in their spooky comic history with the seminal vampire graphic novel 30 Days of Night.

Tate Brombal and Jacob Phillips team up in this pastoral take on the zombie apocalypse. Could this be the book that makes Josh and Travis root for the zombies? Tune in to find out!

Gerry Duggan re-assembles the West Coast Avengers with a slight twist in “The Gospel of Ultron”. What do the boys think of this mainstream run from Marvel comics.

This week, the boys discuss the speculative outcome of the real-life 1962 Alcatraz escape. Christopher Cantwell and Tyler Crook explore themes of freedom and identity in this beautifully composed comic.

To end the summer reading series, the boys are pulling out the novels they read this summer. They talk a variety of books, but if you like genre, give it a listen for reading suggestions. No spoilers!

This week the boys discuss the graphic novel version of the hit book series Dungeon Crawler Carl. How will the graphic novel stack up against the book and audiobook?

The boys have reached the end of their six comic standalone summer event. Tune in to find out what Josh and Trav thought about the experience and what lessons they will take away.

Mama Came Callin’ A Graphic Novel By Ezra Claytan Daniels, Illustrated by Camilla Sucre, is the last of our Indie Graphic novel summer event. How will this southern swamp crime story stack up to some of the weird wild stuff Josh and Travis have read this summer? Tune in to find out!

Graphic novel summer takes a beautifully strange turn with Jesse Lonergan’s “Drome”. The graphic novel functions almost as a creation story for mankind, but that’s not the only surprise this book has up its sleeve.

“Beat it Rufus” is a “2025 graphic novel by Noah Van Sciver about Rufus Baxter, an aging, delusional hair metal musician clinging to his 1980s rock-god fantasies while living a life of failure, eviction, and bad decisions, leading him on a psychedelic road trip to a wedding gig in Wyoming where he confronts his past”.…

Alex Krokus’s graphic novel is a heartfelt and humorous story of losing a parent and getting to know him better after his passing. The boys get deep on this graphic novel summer pick.

S. Craig Zahler has created a sci-fi graphic novel that explores the lives of a handful of humans that dare to challenge the nature of space and time and Josh and Travis are tackling this retro alien story as part of their graphic novel summer. See what the boys compare this indie graphic novel to.

Kicking off graphic novel summer, the boys open up “In” a graphic novel by Will McPhail. Listen to what the boys think about Nick’s journey to connect with others on a “deep” level.

Comic Exposure kicks off another summer event. This summer the boys want to dive into fully stand alone graphic novels by indie writers and illustrators that have not appeared on the show. In this episode, the boys pull the curtain back and narrow down their picks.