The Short Box is the best way to feel like you’re at your local comic shop, without ever leaving the house! Join your friendly neighborhood podcast host, Badr Milligan, every Wednesday for news, reviews, and interviews about comic books and comic culture, and hear insightful conversations with the top comic creators in the world.
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The hosts of The Creator's Corner, Greg Hopkins & Cory Pommell, join us to talk about their upcoming virtual comic convention: Comic Conline (July 9-12th), favorite convention stories, and working al…
Malcolm "The Mayor" Jackson joins Badr and Drew for a 2hr-long conversation with a wide-array of topics including Kung-Fu flicks, Gundam, Age of Apocalypse, the Eisner Award nominations, and Malc's e…
Four months after his Short Box first appearance, Bryan Brumleve returns to talk more about being a new comic collector, allowing Badr and Cesar to step into the shoes of a new fan, and share their t…
This crew reunites for their first in-person recording since March! Shaggy Black joins as a guest co-host, as part of his last weekend in Jax, to help cover recent news and headlines. Check out the t…
The full crew is back to discuss recent news & announcements, their first bad comic book experience, and catch-up on listener emails. Check out the timestamps below for key topics:
Cesar hosts part two of our Hotline episode featuring more Short Box friends and patrons. Find out what comics, movies, books, and activities fellow listeners are championing this round.
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Ryan Paul Thompson of the video game culture and charity company, GAAM, calls in for a conversation about E3, Fortnite, and other video game industry news. Ryan informs us how he's adapting GAAM even…
This episode is dedicated to our patrons, longtime listeners, and SBX alumni. We invited a few of them to call into the SBX hotline to champion the comics, videogames, animes, books, and projects tha…
Our True Believer tier patrons voted Frank Frazetta, as the winner of the first artist spotlight episode this year. Frazetta is considered by many as the God father of sword and sorcery fantasy art.…
Altered Egos comic shop owner and fellow podcaster, Jonathan Bates, called in to chat about Diamond's recent announcement postponing all future comic shipments and what customers can do to help local…
Thomas Tenney joins us for our first interview episode of the year to share some stories from his extensive comic career, including co-creating Marvel's Force Works series, drawing for AC/DC, workin…
Drew and Badr share how they've been passing the time while social distancing (0:12:14) , and finally get a chance to talk in-depth with Mecca Tha Marvelous (0:46:53), 1/2 of the show's music team, …
The crew is back to cover another week of comic headlines and news including comic convention cancellations (0:15:30), The Last of Us TV series (0:22:33), and an update on the New Mutants and Thor mo…
The crew is back to catch-up on the latest comic headlines and more. Topics covered in this episode include Dan Didio's departure from DC Comics (0:21:27), Bob Igor's retirement from Disney (0:44:04)…
The Short Box crew unite to discuss the upcoming Disney+ MCU shows (0:06:40), a new comic publisher (BAD IDEA) on the scene (0:43:32), Birds of Prey (1:06:21), Wally West as Dr. Manhattan (0:52:31) a…
We invited an emerging fanboy and new comic book reader on the show to talk about his journey so far, navigating comic book culture, and starting a comic collection. If you've ever asked : “How does …
We decided to try something different this week with a commentary episode about everyone's favorite flaming-skull bike rider film. That's right, we went through the painstaking, but humorous, task of…
Our first episode of 2020 finds us chatting about the latest comic book & movie headlines/news of the year so far, and Shaggy Black talks about his short-lived internet fame. Check out the timestamps…
Our last episode of the year is a special artist spotlight (as voted by our Patrons!) on the life and career of comic book legend, and icon, Will Eisner. We discuss his influence, and most criticall…