The Short Box Podcast: A Comic Book Talk Show

Warren Evans (of Simpsons is Greater Than) joins the show to talk about Bart Simpson's favorite comic book, Radioactive Man, and the character's ties to the Golden/Atomic age of superheroes. Warren a…

Badr & Drew share their reactions and thoughts about the first two episodes of the new Hawkeye Disney+ show

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The full crew is back together this week to talk about Matt Fraction & David Aja's seminal 2012 Hawkeye comic run, and its obvious influence on the upcoming Disney+ series. Cesar also bids farewell t…

In this episode, we're discussing the new Marvel Studio projects announced from Disney Plus Day(00:05:59), the return of the X-Men animated series (00:19:19), and other comic industry news like  Taik…

Nick Filardi has colored for just about every major comic book publisher including DC, Marvel, Image, and Dark Horse. He's currently coloring the Justice League Infinity series, and joins the show th…

The Eternals are making their MCU debut later this week, so we're spotlighting Jack "The King" Kirby's 1976 Eternals series, to see how they were originally introduced to the world, and discussed how…

We were going to take this week off, but DC Fandome was too good an event not to record. And instead of trying to cover every announcement that came out of the event, we focused on our favorite and m…

We decided to officially celebrate the spoooky season with a show & tell of our favorite horror comics (see our picks below), but the real scare, came in the form of a frightening email we received t…

Is John Stewart the best Green Lantern? That's what we aim to answer as part of our contribution to the Justice League-themed podcast crossover event: UNITE THE SEVEN. Join us as we explore the logic…

Badr invites Chris Hacker, co-host of The Oblivion Bar podcast, to talk about the new Hawkeye trailer (00:03:42), his Mt. Rushmore of comic artists (00:17:33), finding comradery in the military and c…

Comic book writer, Jeremy Holt, joins Badr this week to describe their 12 yr journey working in the industry, finding inspiration in unpacked trauma, Asian representation, NYC restaurants, and descri…

The crew spend the first half of the episode highlighting Shang-Chi's comic origin and his dubious ties to the pulp villain, Fu Manchu, as well as Asian representation in comics, Gene Luen Yang's upd…

This episode was originally released for our Patreon community  as the sixth episode of our new spin-off series: PILOT'S LICENSE, which are episodes dedicated to revisiting popular comic book cartoon…

The late great, French comic artist, cartoonist, and writer: Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, is the topic of the 15th installment of our Artist Spotlight series. Cesar sets the stage with a crash course in…

The crew have a show and tell of their favorite stories from the What If comic series, and Ed steals the show with an absurd Conan pick (00:17:32). Also, Badr shares some interesting tidbits about th…

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Zack Armour (of Comic Ventures) joins Badr, Ashley, and Ed for a spotlight dedicated to John Ostrander & Luke McDonnell's seminal 1987 Suicide Squad comic (00:04:53), a landmark series that heavily i…

The crew discusses recent comic news, including a handful of SDCC (00:02:50), Mondo (00:07:49), and MCU Phase 4 (00:20:43) announcements from last week, and examines a story about an unpublished "Lok…

Badr and Drew share a casual conversation looking back at the season finale of Loki, and share their favorite moments, ideas about the remaining plot points,  who their dream MCU interview would be, …

This episode contains audio from a panel moderated by Badr for the Jacksonville Public Library's Lit Chat series, featuring Michael Regina. Michael is a graphic novelist and creator of the Webtoon fe…