Episode 226 | Your 2019 Comic Book Holiday Shopping Guide

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 Support us on Patreon to get access to our Patreon-only series: IRCB Movie Club, Saga of Saga, Giant Days of Our Lives and more! patreon.com/ircbpodcast Email: [email protected] Twitter: @ircbpodcast Instagram: @ircbpodcast Discord: discordapp.com/invite/E8JUB9s Reddit: ireadcomicbooks.reddit.com IRCB Goodreads Music provided by Infinity Shred. Find them on Bandcamp. IRCB Avatars by @ICELEVEL IRCB Logo by Kyle Rose Support us on Patreon to get access to our Patreon-only series: IRCB Movie Club, Saga of Saga, Giant Days of Our Lives, A Better Batmobile, and more! patreon.com/ircbpodcast Buy a copy of our anniversary zine Totally Not A Cult: https://ircbpodcast.com/shop/p/totally-not-a-cult-zine-1 Email: [email protected] Twitter: @ircbpodcast Instagram: @ircbpodcast Discord: discordapp.com/invite/E8JUB9s Reddit: ireadcomicbooks.reddit.com IRCB Goodreads Merch: ircbpodcast.com/shop