After we give credit where it’s due for Everblue (check out the review in Episode 568), it’s time to jump in the Wayback Machine and travel back to 2011, when Magnolia Porter Siddell was just starting out on a little creature comic called Monster Pulse. We’re back, eight years later, to check in on Bina, Ayo, and the whole gang to see who’s still around and what monsters they have to check out. Join us!
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Families are the worst, right? And we’re not even talking about the holidays, but what about when your brother or lazy teenage son lets a sexy bird lady escape from your family’s private garden with the golden apple that holds an antidote which would end your family’s long reigning fortune? Yeah, that just SUCKS. If you’ve never experienced that yourself, enjoy our thoughts on The Red King, a comic so full of family drama and angst the bird women leap off the page and fly into your heart.
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We don’t do news items that often any more, but John Allison updates are worthy of our attention! After we get excited about Wicked Things, his upcoming expansion of the Scarymachinerydaysiverse, we take to the skies and give love a chance with the hopeful comic, Michael Sexton’s Everblue. Once you see the progress this story and artwork have made in the last decade, you’ll agree that it’s a must-read comic.
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Is it a journal comic? Is it a memoir comic? It doesn’t matter, because Ryan Made Mistakes is yet another good, good Ryan Estrada comic. Delve into Ryan’s sordid past with tales about school shower apprehension and melting clothes, it’s all there, laid bare, for you and I to consume and judge. BONUS: Given the subject matter of the comic, we included a small taste of our other show, Today I Learned Nothing, as Jason recounts his own problems with showing off his bits at school.
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