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A weekly comicbook book club! Listen to four friends dissect the plot, story, and art of comics both new and old.
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Friday Jan 26, 2024
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Welcome back to the show everyone!! In this episode we cover Klaus by Grant Morrison. In this 19th century-looking town, Klaus is an outsider, not yet the jolly Saint Nick we know in love. The town of Grimsvig is suffering under the tyrannical rule of Lord Magnus. The men of the town are sent to the mines every day for who knows what reason and no toys are allowed in Grimsvig. With nothing to play with, the fun and zest for life is being drained away from the kids of the town. Even throwing a rock can be seen as a playing with a toy. Klaus comes to town and refuses to let this continue. Will he succeed? What secrets does this town have? Why are the men working in the mines? Why can't the children have toys? How does Klaus become Santa? Find answers to these questions and more in this jolly holiday episode!
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Music by Sergio Prosvirini from Pixabay
Friday Jan 12, 2024
Friday Jan 12, 2024
Ho Ho Ho, merry Christmas! Well, not for these guys. It's been awhile since anyone's actually celebrated Christmas. Santa hasn't been seen in a while either. What's going on in this world? Well, a curse fell upon the land...Santa has been cursed to lie dormant within his ancestors, only to be awakened when they wear something red. A kid named Sanda avoids the color red. A classmate named Fuyumura knows that Sanda is actually Santa because of it, and she needs Santa's help to find her missing friend Ono. What does she do? She corners Sanda in a classroom and stabs him, allowing his blood to turn his clothes red. Finally, after decades, Santa has reemerged!! Now it's time for Santa to help Fuyumura find her missing friend, and maybe bring back Christmas in the process. Will Sanda do it, or is he in way over his head. Hear about this and more in our reivew of the manga Sanda by Paru Itagaki!
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Music:
"Christmas Chores" by RKVC
Find more music by them: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCowgKeMGXKY038qwuf3yYlw
Tuesday Jan 09, 2024
Tuesday Jan 09, 2024
Welcome back to another terrifyingly fantastic episode of The Comic Panel! After a good two week long break, we are back and finishing up our ancient roman/greek history theme with a comic called Dead Romans. This book features a Roman general Arminius, who is of German descent. He was taken from his family as a kid and he never forgot it. Now's his time to strike, to finally steal back land from the Romans and to take back power. There's only one problem, the woman that he loves is lost somewhere amongst enemy lines. Not only does he have to lead his people, he has to find his love. Little does he know, she is determined to finish the mission she started, and killing a few Germans on the side is a small price to pay. Find out what happens by listening to our review of Dead Romans by Fred Kennedy and Nick Marinkovich.
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Music:
"Caverns" by Density & Time
Find more music from them: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOTOoAbEhY-WD_XhkvJBJg/
Friday Dec 22, 2023
Friday Dec 22, 2023
Welcome to our review of the manga Beastarius. In this episode, you'll be introduced to a bunch of characters whose lives revolve around the colosseum. They all want to escape, naturally. This manga features a wyvern named Durandal, and a human named Fin and a human named Xeno and his minotaur brother Tharos. In these two stories we see people fight to survive, fight for freedom, even fighting against their circumstances when life seems to force them into an impossible choice. This review is one you don't want to miss.
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Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
https://uppbeat.io/t/benjamin-botkin/the-heart-of-hero
License code: WOUDSEM89J9OC9LO
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Paris. Helen. Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. What do all these names have in common? They are characters from Homer's Illiad, and some of the main characters in the comic we are reading today, Age of Bronze. This comic is about a young man named Paris who grew up as a son of a farmer, and later learned that he was the son of a king. This king brought him back into the family, which only served to make him more arrogant. His newly discovered father sent him on a mission to rescue his father's sister, but Paris's arrogance wouldn't allow him to use his father's military might to capture an "old woman that no one cares about". Instead, he seduces and steals Helen of Troy, a woman that was married to another man. This started a whole chain of events that led to the infamous Trojan War. Learn about this and more in our review of the second book in our roman/greek history theme, The Age of Bronze by Eric Shanower
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Music:
"Big 10" by TrackTribe
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Friday Dec 15, 2023
Friday Dec 15, 2023
Welcome to a story about Eumenes, a general in Alexander the Great's army. He's real go look him, and this story, is a retelling of his story. Our review picks up in chapter 7, the beginning of Eumenes's story. Growing up under a man named Hieronymus, he had all the access to books he could ever need. He experienced the treatment given to those who are children of those with status. Until one day that was all pull out from under him. Hear all about it in our review of the manga by Iwaaki Hitoshe, "Historie". This is our first book in our new theme Roman/Greek History.
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Music:
"Raga Legacy" by Hanu Dixit
Find more of their music at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY-Rb2-JgAgiR_qzsMRq3qA/
Friday Dec 08, 2023
Friday Dec 08, 2023
In today’s episode we discuss the life of Woody Guthrie as told in the comic Woody Guthrie and the Dustbowl Ballads. Raised depression era America, Woody has seen his own share of hard times. From a mentally unstable mother to a father who lost all his wealth, to living in an abandoned shack, Woody Guthrie had lived quite a life. But as life went on, he started discovering his voice and the feelings he could evoke with his music. This story is the final book in our history theme.
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Music:
"Future King of Heaven" by Zachariah Hickman
Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
In today’s episode we cover the Kingstone Bible, a retelling of old Biblical stories told in the medium of comics. This book retells the story of creation, the story of Noah, and the story of Job. In the beginning there was nothing, and then God made everything. Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, fell from grace, setting the world on a dark path. So dark, that God felt he needed to flood the earth, which is why he tells Noah to build a boat. Finally, the story of Job, a well off man who had much material wealth as well as community around him and richness of character, but one day the devil took all that away from him and he had to wrestle with how God could allow this to happen. And in the end, God speaks. Enjoy our review of our third book in our history theme, the Kingstone Bible vol 1!
The Comic Panel airs Mondays and Saturdays at 5pm AKST on KSUA 91.5 FM, the people's radio in Fairbanks, Alaska. You can also listen to us as we air on ksuaradio.com.
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Music:
"I Will Trust You" by Corey Alstad
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Friday Dec 01, 2023
Friday Dec 01, 2023
Do you love music?! Do you love hip hop?! I know I, Tailon, wouldn't know how to get through his day without music. This is the book for you! Enjoy as we review the comic that delves into the origins of Hip Hop. From kids just trying to figure out how to have some fun to Hip Hop finally taking off, this story is bound to be enjoyable if you even have a modicum of interest in hip hop or history. We get introduced to the story of people like Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, and the Sugarhill Gang. Enjoy, our review of Hip Hop Family Tree!
The Comic Panel airs Mondays and Saturdays at 5pm AKST on KSUA 91.5 FM, the people's radio in Fairbanks, Alaska. You can also listen to us as we air on ksuaradio.com.
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Music:
"Back To Cool" by Shane Ivers
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Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
This episode is our first entry into our new History theme. It was the War of the Trenches is a comic created by a French cartoonist named Tardi. It features various stories of French soldiers in the first World War. This was a heavy book with a lot of despair and laughs and a whole other range of emotions. We hope you enjoy our review of it.
The Comic Panel airs Mondays and Saturdays at 5pm AKST on KSUA 91.5 FM, the people's radio in Fairbanks, Alaska. You can also listen to us as we air on ksuaradio.com.
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Music:
"Marche Lorraine" performed by Polydor Orchestra. Composer Louis Ganne