https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9yh2p-1541866 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…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-npw89-1529783 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…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-u53e5-152974a 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…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-bhcig-1526c7e 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…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-r2eic-151bbeb 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…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qrm2c-1517e96 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…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-matec-15112b2 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…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4mj6b-150ad45 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…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-manxx-1507857 Happy Black Friday! Speaking of Black…Enjoy this story with two characters who just love to hide in the shadows: Batman and Predator. Well, Predator turns invisible but the result is still the same. In this book, the Predator conducts it’s safari in Gotham City, which is something that Batman cannot stand by let happen.…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-u2f8x-150111c What if you were approached by a stranger offering you to send you away from all the hard work you’ve been doing? You get to finally go on that vacation you’ve always wanted to go on. What if you were stranded in a place that wasn’t home? Would you take that deal? Well in…