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Episode 226 | Your 2019 Comic Book Holiday Shopping Guide
Category: Arts
Duration: 01:06:25
Publish Date: 2019-12-11 05:01:00
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This week’s episode was recorded on December 8th, 2019!

Kara, Kait, and Paul chat about what comics you should be gifting your family, friends, enemies, and beyond!

Timestamps

  •  00:00:00 – Start/Last Week in Comics
  •  00:15:35 – Comic Picks
  •  00:23:17 – Comics Gift Giving Guide
  •  01:01:19 – Wrap/Credits

What We Read / Comic Picks

  • The Hard Tomorrow
  • Batman Creature of the Night #4
  • Motor Crush #1
  • I Am a Hero omnibus
  • Far Sector #2
  • Doctor Aphra #40
  • Firefly: Unification War vol. 2

Shopping Picks

  • TPB for the lapsed DC reader: Mister Miracle or maybe The New Frontier?
  • TPB for the lapsed Marvel reader: The Immortal Hulk, HoX/PoX, Hulk: Gray
  • For the artsy friend: My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris or something by Lisa Hanawalt: My Dirty Dumb Eyes or Hot Dog Taste Test
  • For your mom: Relish by Lucy Knisely (Paul), I WISH PETITE MAMETTE WAS IN ENGLISH, probably Lulu Anew
  • For your dad: Berlin by Jason Lutes (Paul), The Great War by Joe Sacco (Kara)
  • For your young relative:
    • Elementary reader level: Raina Telgemeier’s works, Owly, Amulet
    • Middle school reader level: Nimona, the Adventures of Superhero Girl
    • High school reader level: Nimona, Young Avengers (Gillen/McKelvie)
    • College kid: anything by Neil Gaiman, really. Giant Days.
    • For the young adult reader: Adaptations! Artemis Fowl, Speak 
  • For your Star Wars friend: The Last Jedi adaptation or maybe Outer Darkness?
  • For the person you wish would read comics: Runaways, I Kill Giants, Paper Girls
  • For the person who reads historical biographies: March
  • For the person who thinks Silicon Valley is evil: Memetic
  • For the person who can’t turn off C-SPAN: Prez, Rolling Blackouts by Sarah Glidden
  • For the queer kids: Jem and the Holograms, Prince and the Dressmaker
  • For the classicist: Peanuts 1950s/1960s; Calvin and Hobbes. 
  • For the gamer: Tetris: The Games People Play
  • For your grandma or your grandma-like friend: Lulu Anew, Bingo Love (LGBT too)
  • For your horror-lover friend: Wytches
  • For your western-loving friend/grandpa/dad: Copperhead
  • For your English professor: Shakespeare adaptations, Toil and Trouble

Music provided by Infinity Shred. Find them on Bandcamp.

Producer: Mike Rapin
Editor: Zander Riggs

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