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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.
Get out the prune juice and orthopedics because just like Daredevil in this three issue series, Josh and Travis are getting old. Tune in to find out what the boys think of Charles Soule and Steve McNiven’s take on the aged hero of Hell’s Kitchen.
Josh and Trav use the recent re-printing of the 2009 comic “The Nobody” as an excuse to go back and read one of their show favorite creator’s (Jeff Lemire) reimagining of the Invisible Man story.
Josh and Travis finish up the last of their four Absolute books with Absolute Martian Manhunter. Volume one written by Deniz Camp and illustrated by Javier RodrÃguez takes the boys down a psychological journey that’s a feast for the eyes.