The Comic Panel Podcast

Oh, so this is what Street Fighter is (Street Fighter Alpha 2: Sakura Does Her Best)

Welcome everyone to our first review in our new theme of "Comics based on video games." For our first book we are reading Street Fighter Alpha 2: Sakura Does Her Best. 

 

Sakura is an aspiring street fighter. She has the will and the dedication to learn everything she can because ultimately, she wants to meet the man who inspired her, someone she doesn't even know the name of. In order to meet this man, however, she must win the tournament, which means having to street fight. Can she succeed over such skilled opponents? Will her best win her the opportunity to meet her hero? Find out all this and more in this fight-tastic review. 

 

If you liked this episode be sure to follow us on Twitter @thecomicpanel1 and listen to more of us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Our title is The Comic Panel Podcast. You can also listen to us on ksuaradio.com or 91.5 FM in Fairbanks, Alaska. Be sure to tune in two weeks from now for our next book in our theme of "Comics based on video games"!

Music: "Stake Out" by Alex Jones/Xander Jones

How are cults represented in comics?

Hello everybody! Welcome to our retrospective to our theme of Cults. For those who don't know we do this at the end of our themes. We take a look back at the comics we've read and compare them and give any final thoughts we have on them. The books we revewed for this theme have been 20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa, Ultimate X-men by Peach Momoko, Loving, Ohio by Sam Beck and Matt Erman, and Luna by Maria Llovet. It has been a lot of fun recording these episodes and we hope you have enjoyed listening to them. 

If you liked this episode be sure to follow us on Twitter @thecomicpanel1 and listen to more of us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Our title is The Comic Panel Podcast. You can also listen to us on ksuaradio.com or 91.5 FM in Fairbanks, Alaska. Be sure to tune in two weeks from now for our final book in our theme of cults!

Music: "Why Why Why" by Ryan Stansik and Kanika Moore

The Woman Who Exposed a Blood Cult Turns Out to Be a Goddess (Luna)

Welcome all to our last book in our theme of Cults! We hope you've been enjoying this series of episodes as much as we've enjoyed recording these episodes. In today's episode we are reviewing "Luna" by Maria Llovet. 

Teresa is a young woman plagued by prophetic dreams that connect her to something powerful. Something divine. She finds herself among the company of the Family of the Sun, a cult formed around Lux, a troubled man who inducts his members by using his blood to get them addicted to him. Her time at the cult brings her to the truth of herself, the entity behind her dreams, and the entity's connection to this cult.

If you liked this episode be sure to follow us on Twitter @thecomicpanel1 and listen to more of us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Our title is The Comic Panel Podcast. You can also listen to us on ksuaradio.com or 91.5 FM in Fairbanks, Alaska. Be sure to tune in two weeks from now for our final book in our theme of cults!

 

Music: "Claim to Fame" by The Grey Room / Clark Sims and "60s Underground Organ Rock" by Julius H. from Pixabay 
Sound effect: "Page Shuffle Transition" by AFX_Photography from Pixabay

How Can Teens Find Themselves in a Town Owned by a Cult? (Loving, Ohio)

Welcome everyone to another striking review by The Comic Panel! In today's episode we are reviewing a comic titled "Loving, Ohio" by Matt Erman and Sam Beck! This is our third episode around the theme of cults. 

Loving, Ohio is a small town that is completely run by a new age cult known as the chorus. And four high-school kids, Sloan, Elliott, Cameron, and Ana, are trying to graduate and get out. But when their friend Jesse mysteriously commits suicide, they grieve and become the center to a bigger murder plot of young people. After surviving a mass killing they take it upon themselves to kill the killer who is a tool of the chorus.

If you liked this episode be sure to follow us on Twitter @thecomicpanel1 and listen to more of us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Our title is The Comic Panel Podcast. You can also listen to us on ksuaradio.com or 91.5 FM in Fairbanks, Alaska. Be sure to tune in two weeks from now for our final book in our theme of cults!

Music: "Strange Way" by Christopher from Pixabay

Welcome to the Children of the Atom! (Ultimate X-Men (2024))

Welcome all, to our newest episode in our theme of Cults! Today we are reviewing Ultimate X-Men 2024 Vol 1 and 2 written and drawn by Peach Momoko. This is part of Marvel Comics new ultimate universe that re-contextualizes the Marvel Universe by having its history and geopolitical landscape altered by a nefarious Reed Richards called The Maker.

Ultimate X-Men follows Hisoako Ichiki, a young girl in Japan that has just graduating middle school and entering high school. A recent tragedy in her life was the death of her best friend Tsubasa to suicide. At her middle school graduation, she gets a note to meet a mystery person at a local temple. At the temple she is confronted by a shadow figure who starts telepathically stalking her and attempts to convince her that she's to blame for her friend's death. The shadow figure gives her a charm that belonged to Tsubasa, reminding her of how kind he was and how he gave that charm to Hisaoko as a gift. She runs away but then falls into oncoming traffic but then a psionic exoskeleton is formed around her crushing the oncoming car. It was this moment that changed her life forever. Find out even more by listening to this review of the ages!

If you liked this episode be sure to follow us on Twitter @thecomicpanel1 and listen to more of us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Our title is The Comic Panel Podcast. You can also listen to us on ksuaradio.com or 91.5 FM in Fairbanks, Alaska. Be sure to catch the next episode on January 3rd where we cover Loving, Ohio, by Matt Erhman and Sam Beck!

Music: "Brain Implant (Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Trailer Action Intro)" by Vasil Yatsevich from Pixabay

Is It Worse Not Knowing the Purpose of The Cult? (20th Century Boys)

Welcome back everybody! We are happy to present to you another great review from The Comic Panel! This episode is the first review of our new theme of Cults! The book we are reviewing is 20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa (Monster, Pluto). 

20th Century Boys is a comic about a group of friends and their time as adults in a changing Japan interspersed with scenes from their childhood in the 1970s. Little did they know that as kids when they created a secret base to hide out and read manga, peruse inappropriate magazines and just goof off with a radio that they were planting the seeds for a terrifying future. The main character Kenji Endo is too caught up in taking care of his mother, his abandoned niece Kanna and their struggling convenience store. However Kenji can’t help but notice a familiar symbol popping up around the same place as mysterious disappearances. The friends from childhood he still keeps in touch with try to brush the weird coincidences aside but when one friend jumps to his death and leaves behind an ominous message about the symbol they’re forced to take notice. Soon it becomes apparent that the symbol, a gloved hand with an eyeball behind it, has been co-opted by a potentially cultish group of people.

If you liked this episode be sure to follow us on Twitter @thecomicpanel1 and listen to more of us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Our title is The Comic Panel Podcast. You can also listen to us on ksuaradio.com or 91.5 FM in Fairbanks, Alaska. Be sure to tune in two weeks from now for our next book in the theme of Cults!

Music: "At All Costs" The Grey Room/Golden Psalms

Superman Represents a Desire for a Better Tomorrow (Superman Retrospective)

Hello all! Have you missed us? We certainly have! Well, we are back with our final episode in our theme of Superman. This is our Superman Retrospective and we are happy to be welcoming back to the show Nat Yonce from the podcast Collective Action Comics!

In this theme we read Superman vs Meshi, Superman and the Authority, Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow, Superman: Phantom Zone, and Absolute Superman vol. 1. If you enjoy Superman, this is an all you can eat buffet! We certainly enjoyed reviewing these books and talking about them!

If you liked this episode be sure to follow us on Twitter @thecomicpanel1 and listen to more of us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Our title is The Comic Panel Podcast. You can also listen to us on ksuaradio.com or 91.5 FM in Fairbanks, Alaska. Be sure to tune in two weeks from now for our new theme of comics about cults!

Music: "Level" by The Grey Room/Density and Time

Absolute(ly Not) Superman

Hello all! Welcome to our fifth episode in The Comic Panel's coverage of Superman! If you haven't been keeping track, we've read Superman vs Meshi, Superman and the Authority, Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow, the four part mini series: Phantom Zone, and now we are covering the comic hot off the presses: Absolute Superman. 

 

In this Episode Cody and Chawienta talk extensively about how far you can stretch the concept of Superman before it stops being Superman. Do you have any thoughts on this question or the episode in general? Let us know by emailing us at thecomicpanel20@gmail.com or connecting with us on our twitter @thecomicpanel1 

 

If you liked this episode be sure to follow us and listen to more on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Our title is The Comic Panel Podcast. You can also listen to us on ksuaradio.com or 91.5 FM in Fairbanks, Alaska. Be sure to tune in two weeks from now for our Superman theme retrospective where we will discuss Superman more broadly and see the return of Nat Yonce of Collective Action Comics!

 

Thank you for listening and we hope to see you next time.

 

Music is provided "Loyalty Freak Music" under a creative commons free to use license. Tracks used are Prefight Time and Fighting Time from the Album "Game Jam Vol2 !!!!"

Phantom Zoning with Collective Action Comics

Hello all! Welcome to this special installment of The Comic Panel's coverage of Superman! If you haven't been keeping track, we've read Superman vs Meshi, Superman and the Authority, and Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow. Now we are reviewing the four part mini series: Phantom Zone written by Steve Gerber with art by Gene Colan and Rick Veitch.

This episode Cody, Jake, and Chawienta have a great time talking with Nat Yonce from Collective Action Comics Podcast all about the weirdness of the phantom zone and and what is the best ending to the pre-crisis Superman. We really hope that you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed making it. 

If you liked this episode be sure to follow us on Twitter @thecomicpanel1 and listen to more of us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Our title is The Comic Panel Podcast. You can also listen to us on ksuaradio.com or 91.5 FM in Fairbanks, Alaska. Be sure to tune in two weeks from now for our next book Absolute Superman: Last Dust of Krypton!

Music: "You Go" by Collective Action Comics

Maybe it was good that Krypton was destroyed (Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow)

Hello all! Welcome to the next installment of The Comic Panel's jaunt into the world of Superman! If you haven't been keeping track, we've read Superman vs Meshi and Superman and the Authority. Now we are reviewing Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow written by Alan Moore.

This collection includes The individual issues included are Superman #423, Action Comics #583, DC Comics Presents #83, and Superman Annual #11. In Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow we are introduced to a world that has gone 10 years without Superman. A reporter from the Daily Bugle does a 10th anniversary special of his disappearance and reaches out to Lois Lane for an interview. She recounts the harrowing tale of Superman's final days, when all his worst villains come back more deadly than ever before. In DC Comics Presents #83 we get an issue where Superman gets infected by a flower and starts hallucinating, and Swamp Thing is the only one who can save him. Finally, in Superman Annual #11 we celebrate Superman's birthday, but he's been given a deadly gift, the Black Mercy. This is a tentacle-y creature that latches onto a host and makes them live out their dreams. Batman, Robin, and Wonder Woman have to save Superman and defeat the person responsible, the War-hungry alien Mongul.

If you liked this episode be sure to follow us on Twitter @thecomicpanel1 and listen to more of us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Our title is The Comic Panel Podcast. You can also listen to us on ksuaradio.com or 91.5 FM in Fairbanks, Alaska. Be sure to tune in two weeks from now for our next book Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow!

Music: "Friendship Wand" by Freedom Trail Studio