Storied Arcs
Welcome to Storied Arcs! A read-along deep dive into comics, one story arc at a time...
In each episode, we will discuss one story arc, typically in the form of a trade paperback, for a completed comic series. In general, we will be avoiding ongoing or continuing series so that we can discuss a work in its entirety.
We’ll also be avoiding the “big two” (Marvel and DC.) While we love those comics, there are plenty of podcasts covering characters like Batman, Superman, Spiderman, and so on. Instead, we’re excited to explore some of the great creator-owned stories. We’ll deep dive into the story while evaluating the prose, art, and all the easter eggs we can find.
Learn more at www.storiedarcs.com
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 75 minutes
- Episodes
- 174
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Intro to Breathers & Creator Spotlight: Justin Madson
Welcome to another season of Storied Arc! For this installment, Mike and Alex are going about as indie comic as they can get as they get ready to discuss Breathers by Justin Madson. The…
Creator Interview: Sarah Gailey
In a special bonus episode, Mike and Alex jump back one season and revisit their discussion of Eat The Rich and Know Your Station because they had the privilege of chatting with the wri…
Velvet Volume 03: The Man Who Stole The World
"And if I learned anything from Damian Lake's betrayal, it's that every move I make from now on has to be two moves. So I'm not just sneaking back to the U.S.; I'm lighting a signal fir…
Velvet Volume 02 The Secret Lives of Dead Men
"All these weeks on the run, I've just been angry... self-righteous. And it's so stupid... I know... but I'd actually forgotten to be afraid."
Mike and Alex are back on the hunt for the …
Velvet Volume 01 Before the Living End
"A group of highly-trained spies and killers. And she'd played each of us... with ease. That was when I realized just how dangerous Velvet Templeton actually was."
Welcome to another sea…
Intro to Velvet & Creator Spotlight: Steve Epting
For the next season of Storied Arcs, Mike and Alex are once again revisiting the work of one of their favorite creators. This time, it's writer Ed Brubaker as the guys get ready break d…
Creator Interview: Liana Kangas
This week, Mike and Alex are pleased to be joined by artist and illustrator Liana Kangas to chat about their work on Know Your Station and all manner of other things! They start with Li…
Know Your Station
"They controlled every aspect of our lived on Earth... and they used that power to make it so being up here, waiting on them hand and foot, was the best future we could reach for. We're…
Eat The Rich
"Ever since that first day, I keep trying to be the right kind of girl so you'll approve of me. But I'm not the right kind of girl, am I?"
How does the saying go again- when the people s…
Intro to Eat The Rich & Know Your Station & Creator Spotlight: Sarah Gailey, Pius Bak, and Liana Kangas
New year, new season of the Storied Arcs podcast! And to kick things off, Mike and Alex will be covering two books by the same writer, the Hugo Award winning and up-and-coming comic sta…
Annual: Best Of 2023
We've reached the end of another calendar year and once again, Mike and Alex have come up one week short on stories to talk about. But fear not! Earlier this month, Mike, Alex, and grea…
Ascender Volumes 03 & 04
"-I mean, after everything you have seen, it is so hard to believe there may be a design to the universe? -A design? All I see is chaos and death."
We've reached the conclusion of Jeff L…
Ascender Volumes 01 & 02
"There is no magic in the galaxy that I do not oversee. No power I do not control. I am Mother and the universe is mine."
The cover may say "Ascender" but these collections might as well…
Descender Volumes 05 & 06
"But do you know the irony of that, Doctor? Robots never lied before you created the Tim series... before you gave robotkind the upgrades that made us more human and more like you."
In …
Descender Volumes 03 & 04
"What does it look like, Creator? I'm doing that you programmed me to do. I'm eliminating waste... just like a human."
Mike and Alex are here to jump right back into Jeff Lemire and Dust…
Descender Volumes 01 & 02
"Because they fear us, Tim-21. Because they were hurt and they wanted to hurt something back. Because they are human."
We've arrived at a brand new season of Storied Arcs and Mike and Al…
Intro to Descender/Ascender & Creator Spotlight: Dustin Nguyen
For the next season of Storied Arcs, Mike and Alex are revisiting the works of Jeff Lemire (aka Mike's literal favorite creator in comics) as they plan to dive head first into a pair of…
The Apocalyptic Trilogy Part 3: Eugenic
"And what if I could make it so race would never be a part of the equation again? That the way the world views us would never rely on how much melanin our ancestors needed to protect th…
The Apocalyptic Trilogy Part 2: Cognetic
"You were always selfish. You rallied us together to stop him all those years ago because you were afraid of losing one life you treasured more than the whole. You convinced us that lif…
The Apocalyptic Trilogy Part 1: Memetic
"So the fate of the world rests in the hands of the maniac who decided to end it with a weird picture of a sloth."
Storied Arcs is back with another great season as Mike and Alex get rea…