A comic book appreciation podcast from two longtime fanboys. Chris and Eric take turns picking each week’s comic for discussion before diving into its pros, cons, and oddities.
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This week we discuss Bionicle: Mask of Light (the movie!) and Bionicle #13-15, the tie-in comics to the movie and the conclusion to the first 3 years of Bionicle storytelling.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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The Summer Hikaru Died Vol. 3 by Mokumokuren.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss Classics Illustrated #4, an adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, illustrated by Bill Sienkiewicz.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss Bionicle #9-12, the Bohrok Kal storyline, and discuss the larger context of Bionicle in early 2003.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we read issues #2, 4, and 6-7 of Chick Publications' Christian propaganda series The Crusaders.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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Fantastic Four #51 by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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Rawhide Kid #17-19 by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, et al.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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By Kevin O'Malley and Patrick O'Brien.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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By Marv Wolfman and George Perez.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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By Itaru Kinoshita with Shinichi Fujiwara.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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We continue reading Banana Fish by Akimi Yoshida.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss the IDW adaptation of Clive Barker's The Thief of Always by Kris Oprisko and Gabriel Hernandez.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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We finish X-Cutioner's Song.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss the first half of the 1992-1993 X-Men crossover X-Cutioner's Song.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss X-Factor #207-212, aka the story where Wolfsbane experiences gay panic and sends Shatterstar flying through a window.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss New X-Men #135-138. Our discussion includes some spoilers for plot events beyond those issues as well, up through the end of Grant Morrison's tenure on the book.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss JLA (1997) #5-9.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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By Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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By Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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Sebastian O by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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By Rob Williams, Arthur Wyatt, and Henry Flint.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss Ron Zimmerman and Duncan Fegredo's 2002 series Ultimate Adventures, a.k.a. Ultimate Batman and Robin.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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Daredevil (Vol. 2) #26-31 by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss Steve Gerber and Phil Winslade's 2002 Howard the Duck series. It's a satirical story deeply steeped in the pop culture of its time, but does it hold up?由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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In the longest episode of the podcast to date we discuss Mark Millar, Bryan Hitch, and co.'s The Ultimates (2002) #7-13. Topics of discussion include the intrinsic conflict between the series' core concepts and its status as an ongoing narrative, the incorporation of real world anti-Semitic conspiracy theories into the Chitauri aliens' lore, casual…
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How many awards can Mokumokuren's The Summer Hikaru Died win in one episode?由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss the 2001 horror-western Desperadoes: Quiet of the Grave by Jeff Mariotte and John Severin.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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In which we discuss The Ultimates #1-6 by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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In which Eiji gets a gun and we praise the sound effects at length.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss Batman #667-669 by Grant Morrison and J.H. Williams III.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we read Keiji Nakazawa's memoir manga about his experience living through the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, I Saw It. We discuss both English adaptations: a 1982 colorized version from Educomics, and a 2023 edition from Last Gasp which preserves the original art. The 2023 edition is still in-print and available at https://lastgasp.com/prod…
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This week we read Daredevil #227-233. Note: During our discussion we misattribute a future story; the Kingpin bathroom murder story we mention is from Zdarsky's Daredevil tenure, not Soule's.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss the fantasy BL comic The Bride of God by PenguinFrontier. The comic is available for free on their Twitter (@PenguinFrontier) as well as in PDF form with bonus pages at https://penguinfrontier.gumroad.com/l/awdfx. NSFW warning for the comic and the aforementioned links.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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Chris's wife Shannon joins us to discuss 2023's Amazing Spider-Man #26, aka the death of Ms. Marvel. (It doesn't count as a spoiler when Entertainment Weekly posted said headline before the issue even came out.)由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss everyone's second favorite gooey symbiote! (Warning: One of our digressions includes some plot spoilers for Marvel's Spider-Man 2.)由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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VENOMMMMMM! Specifically as portrayed in Ultimate Spider-Man #33-39.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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*Eminem voice* VENOMMMMMMM! The time has come at last for us to discuss the sexy goo man himself. This week we read 1993's Venom: Lethal Protector by David Michelinie, Mark Bagley, Ron Lim, and Sam DeLaRosa.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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For the kick-off of Spectacular Spider-Month we discuss Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #31-33.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we return to the GOAT Akimi Yoshida's classic Banana Fish.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss Grant Morrison and Dan Mora's Klaus (2015) #1-7.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss the glorious melodrama of Stained Glass Scarlet via Moon Knight (Vol. 1) #14 & #24.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss the recently concluded Liberation of the Daleks story from Doctor Who Magazine.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we read and discussed Digimon Vol. 1, the English language Tokyopop release of Yuen Wong Yu's manhua adaptation of the original Digimon Adventure anime. Prodigious!由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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Our celebration of Doctor Who's sixtieth anniversary continues with Doctor Who: Four Doctors.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss the 1988 Martian Manhunter miniseries by J.M. DeMatteis and Mark Badger.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss the comic origin of Beep the Meep just in time for his live action debut.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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We're back with more discussion of one of the most eerily intimate (intimately eerie?) comics we've read to date.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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For week four of Spooktober we finally discuss Hellboy with Hellboy: Box Full of Evil #1-2.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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This week we discuss volume one of Tapping the Vein, a series of graphic novels adapting the works of Clive Barker.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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For week two of Spooktober we discuss Dracula, Motherf**ker by Alex de Campi and Erica Henderson.由Chris and Eric’s Longbox Adventure
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