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Comic Exposure
by Comic Exposure
Whether you're new to the world of comics or a paper-cut, long box veteran, Comic Exposure is a great place to get your aural graphic novel fix. Each episode reviews a comic trade with your hosts, Josh and Travis. Guests include everyone from comic enthusiast, newbies, and you, the listener. So until next trade...enjoy the newest episode of Comic Exposure!
Episodes
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Exquisite Corpses – Vol: 1
James Tynion IV and Michael Walsh’s horror-action comic Exquisite Corpses takes the spooky squad into their second October book, but who will be their favorite killer?
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Variant 119: HBO’s Lanterns
This week, the boys enter their opinions into the discourse around HBO’s Lanterns Series.
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30 Days of Night
The Spooky Squad is back in full effect as Andrea (the Cryptid Queen) makes her autumnal pilgrimage back to the pod. This time the squad kicks off SPoOKy season with filling in a gap in their spooky comic history with the seminal vampire graphic novel 30 Days of Night.
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Everything Dead and Dying
Tate Brombal and Jacob Phillips team up in this pastoral take on the zombie apocalypse. Could this be the book that makes Josh and Travis root for the zombies? Tune in to find out!
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West Coast Avengers: The Gospel of Ultron
Gerry Duggan re-assembles the West Coast Avengers with a slight twist in “The Gospel of Ultron”. What do the boys think of this mainstream run from Marvel comics.
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Out of Alcatraz
This week, the boys discuss the speculative outcome of the real-life 1962 Alcatraz escape. Christopher Cantwell and Tyler Crook explore themes of freedom and identity in this beautifully composed comic.
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Variant 118: Non-Comic Summer Reads
To end the summer reading series, the boys are pulling out the novels they read this summer. They talk a variety of books, but if you like genre, give it a listen for reading suggestions. No spoilers!
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Dungeon Crawler Carl: Graphic Novel
This week the boys discuss the graphic novel version of the hit book series Dungeon Crawler Carl. How will the graphic novel stack up against the book and audiobook?
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Variant 117: Graphic Novel Summer Wrap-up
The boys have reached the end of their six comic standalone summer event. Tune in to find out what Josh and Trav thought about the experience and what lessons they will take away.
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Mama Came Callin’
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!
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Drome
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.
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Beat it Rufus
“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…
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Talking to My Father’s Ghost
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.
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Organisms from an Ancient Cosmos
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.
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In: A Graphic Novel
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.
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Variant 116: Graphic Novel Summer Draft Picks
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.
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Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell
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.
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The Nobody
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.
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Absolute Martian Manhunter: Vol 1
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 Rodríguez takes the boys down a psychological journey that’s a feast for the eyes.
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Absolute Superman: Vol 1
For their third “Absolute” book, Josh and Trav journey into Jason Aaron’s “Absolute Superman: Volume 1” where they engage with a Superman with a slightly different backstory. Will these changes highlight what is really super about Superman?
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Absolute Wonder Woman Vol 1: The Last Amazon
The boys pick up a second “Absolute” book after reading Absolute Batman in January to kick off Absolute April. Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman offer a new version of Wonder Woman in Absolute Wonder Woman: The Last Amazon. What elements of the hellish Wonder Woman will hit home for Josh and Travis?
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The Einfield Gang Massacre
To finish off their run of Western Comics, Josh and Trav dive into a historical fiction shoot’em up that feels like it could be part of Texas history. What will the boys think of Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips prequel to “That Texas Blood”?
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Black Badge: Dead Acre
In their second Western comic of March, the boys enter town of Dead Acre where the supernatural has a part to play in the redemption of James Crowley. Jaime Castle takes a stab at adapting a novel that Josh very much enjoyed. Will he dig the comic as much?
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The Blood Brother’s Mother
This week, the boys are sinking their teeth into The Blood Brother’s Mother, a dark and emotionally charged graphic novel that explores themes of the Western.
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Don’t Spit Into the Wind
Garbage men of the future struggle to survive what humans have done to the planet. Oh, and there is a giant mutant goldfish! Hear what the boys think about Stefano Cardoselli’s “Don’t Spit into the Wind.
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Escape
Josh and Trav finish off the three episode series featuring WWII books. DANIEL ACUÑA and Rick Remender team up for a war book that embraces the brutal action of war…but there is a twist… there are no humans in this book. What will the boys think of this off-center take?
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Witches of WWII
In their second WWII book of the month, Josh and Travis dive into the magical espionage trenches of London in TKO’s book “Witches of WWII”. Paul Cornell’s comic weaves history and fiction in a way that surprises the boys.
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Partisan
Two of Josh and Trav’s favorite creators, Garth Ennis and Steve Epting, team up together again at TKO studios for another Russian WWII front story: Partisan. Will this spiritual sequel to Sara live up to the boys expectations?
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Absolute Batman: Vol 1
Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta push to cape crusader in a more brutal direction in their Absolute Batman series. Where does this grim dark Batman rank in Josh and Trav’s favorite Batman archetypes?
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Batman and Robin “Year One”: Vol 1
Alright Bat-fam! This isn’t the first Batman book the boys have talked about, but it is the the first of back-to-back Bat books the boys are doing this January. And this one has a lot of Robin! So settle in to hear what Josh and Trav think about this Waid take on the dynamic duo.
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Variant 115: 2025 Wrap Up
Another year and a few dozen comic reads under Josh and Travis’s belt. Join the boys as they look back at their favorite reads, artists, heroes, and villains from their 2025 comic stack!
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Stocking Stuffer 2025
Josh’s Picks Fun crayon prints X-Files analogue 3d The Complete Calvin and Hobbes New Edge Sword and Sorcery Goonies Lego Set Travis Picks Stranger Things Sneakers Sight and Sound Magazine Book Stand Pulp Magazine History Jaws Bath Bomb
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Gun Honey
The boys and Andrea peel back the plastic on the very scintillating comic Gun Honey volume 1. What will the gang thing of the late night “red shoe” read?
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Mugshots
Jordan Thomas’s crime noir falls in the middle of noir November. Chris Matthew’s art soaks the story with noir flavor, but will Travis and Josh dig that flavor. Tune in and find out.
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Criminal: “Coward” & “Knives”
After years of fawning over Brubaker and Phillips noir books, the boys read the current bookends to their long running “Criminal” noir crime series.
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Epitaphs From The Abyss
Spooky season is reaching its climax with this EC Comics horror anthology. What will the comic exposure think about these snack-size horror stories? Will it satisfy their spook-tooth or leave them hungry for more?
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Bowling with Corpses
Andrea, the Queen of Halloween, dips her spooky scepter into the art and storytelling of Mike Mignola. What will she, Josh, and Travis think of Mignola’s dark fable anthology?
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You’ll Do Bad Things
Andrea, the Halloween Queen, graces the pod with her royal presence to kick off the “spooky book” season with the Tyler Boss and Adriano Turtulici book “You’ll Do Bad Things”. This writer-based horror book may have some very chilling panels!
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Godzilla’s Monsterpiece Theatre
“Godzilla takes on his greatest foes yet—Jay Gatsby, Sherlock Holmes, and the Time Machinist—in this graphic novel mash-up by Tom Scioli from IDW Publishing!” Pretty weird huh? Yeah, we think so too, but in the best way.
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If You Find This I’m Already Dead
It’s a “genre September” and there is reason to believe that the boys may find some joy in Matt Kindt and Dan McDaid’s cosmic odyssey comic.
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Kali
“From Daniel Freedman (Raiders) and Mondo and DICE artist Robert Sammelin comes an original graphic novel that’s a nonstop, high-octane existential action spectacle that perfect for Mad Max: Fury Road fans.” Josh and Trav crack into the genre piece…
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Grommets
For a couple of 80’s baby punk rockers, Grommets scratches an itch for Josh and Travis when it comes to nostalgia. Listen to the guys talk everything from malls to Taco Bell in the skating fueled slacker story.
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Star Wars: Summer Wrap-up
After a summer of reading comics that take place in a galaxy far far away, its time for Josh and Travis to wrap up their time in the Star Wars universe and maybe even pitch a Star Wars story arc or two.
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Star Wars: The Star Wars (comic)
Trav and Josh read through a comic based on the original rough draft of the Star Wars film.
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Star Wars: Dark Empire
Luke! Say it ain’t so! The boys dive into Stars Wars: Dark Empire AKA… Luke Breaks Bad.
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Star Wars: Vader Comics
Get a double dose of Vader in this episode with the boy’s thoughts on the 1999 four-issue mini-series “Vader’s Quest” and Kieren Gillen’s “Darth Vader” series.
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Star Wars: Dark Droids
Not all droids are sweethearts as Josh and Travis find out while reading Charles Soule’s Dark Droids.
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Star Wars: Heir to the Empire
Star Wars Summer begins after the original trilogy with “Heir to the Empire”, a graphic novel adaption of Timothy Zahn’s celebrated novel series.
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Variant 113: Star Wars Summer Draft
Summer has begun and that means it is time for another Comic Exposure Summer Series. This summer is Star Wars Summer! Listen in as Travis and Josh pitch the Star Wars comics they will be reading and discussing this summer.
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Phantom Road: Vol 1&2
The boys talk another show favorite creator’s ongoing comic series: JEFF LEMIRE’s, Phantom Road. Does the book live up to what the boys expect from Jeff? Tune in and find out.
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Whether you're new to the world of comics or a paper-cut, long box veteran, Comic Exposure is a great place to get your aural graphic novel fix. Each episode reviews a comic trade with your hosts, Josh and Travis. Guests include everyone from comic enthusiast, newbies, and you, the listener. So until next trade...enjoy the newest episode of Comic Exposure!
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