Category: Episodes
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The Comic Panel: Klaus
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…
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The Comic Panel: Sanda
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…
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The Comic Panel: Dead Romans
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…
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The Comic Panel: Beastarius
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…
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The Comic Panel: Age of Bronze
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…
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The Comic Panel: Historie
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…
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The Comic Panel: Woody Guthrie and the Dustbowl Ballads
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,…
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The Comic Panel: Kingstone Bible
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…
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The Comic Panel: Hip Hop Family Tree
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…
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The Comic Panel: It was the War of the Trenches
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…
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