Quarantined Comics
a comic-book book-club discussing (some of) the medium's great works.
About the show
Comics aren't just about superheroes in capes. Each week we'll discuss, debate, and nerd out on some of the medium's greatest, latest, and strangest works. From Alan Moore to Uzumaki, to everything in-between, we aim to smash, and talk for far too long on the books we love.
Hosted by reporter/podcaster Ryan Joe and recovering marketer Raman Sehgal. We're setting phasers to...fun?
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Episodes
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HOW TO BE HAPPY and THE HARD TOMORROW ...solace out of reach
November 20th, 2020 | Season 2 | 35 mins 34 secs
comic books, comics, graphic novels
A collection of fables... and a devastating graphic novel about people trying to make a life in an increasingly hostile world. Yet these two very different books by cartoonist extraordinaire Eleanor Davis also feel very much like companion pieces.
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SANDMAN V6-10 ...dreams get real
November 13th, 2020 | Season 2 | 39 mins 38 secs
And so the journey continues as we take a look at the final half of Neil Gaiman's epic series The Sandman. And it's from these last few books where the saga garners its lofty reputation.
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PAYING FOR IT... Chester Brown on prostitution
October 30th, 2020 | Season 1 | 31 mins 40 secs
comic books, comics, graphic novels
After a breakup, Chester Brown decides to see prostitutes rather than get emotionally involved with another woman. Paying For It is his memoir on how that all went.
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THE WORLD OF EDENA...revisiting Moebius' beautiful narrative weirdness
October 23rd, 2020 | Season 1 | 21 mins 21 secs
This week we fill some airtime by revisiting a later work from the French superstar Moebius - the World of Edena. In 1990, the French car manufacturer Citroen commissioned Moebius to create a short piece to celebrate...a marketing campaign. A quick commissioned commercial piece...quickly went of the rails. What stared as an innocent little ditty became a much larger, universe spanning, genre-defying epic...
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WATSON & HOLMES ...the intellectual dickedness we deserve?
October 16th, 2020 | Season 1 | 51 mins 13 secs
Watson & Holmes is 2013’s urban re-imagining of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson - as contemporary Black men in Harlem. The award-winning series was created by writer Karl Bollers with art by Rick Leonardi, andinitialy funded on Kickstarter. Joining us is Chris Walker - experienced comic book artist, colorist, marketer, and founder of Urbanime.
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THE INCAL ...immersive, influential, but it also felt like a high school assignment
October 10th, 2020 | Season 1 | 38 mins 19 secs
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THE BEST WE COULD DO - an American immigrant story, about Vietnam
October 2nd, 2020 | Season 1 | 41 mins 12 secs
We're getting a little heavy (and non-fiction), with THE BEST WE COULD DO - Thi Bui's illustrated memoir of her family's history and exodus from Vietnam to America. Joining us is Raman's OTHER podcast co-host-with-the-most, Sharon Thony from MODERN MINORITIES (modmypod.com)
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ED THE HAPPY CLOWN ...Vampires, religious anxiety and inter-dimensional poop
September 25th, 2020 | Season 1 | 48 mins 29 secs
Ed is not happy and, for the most part, not even a clown in this madcap romp.
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X-MONTH '19: Jonathan Hickman's HoX/PoX ...island dreams & weekly screams
September 18th, 2020 | Season 1 | 47 mins 7 secs
We conclude X-Month with 2019's House of X / Powers of X (HoX PoX) by Jonathan Hickman
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X-THEMES (feat. Bill Murray)
September 12th, 2020 | Season 1 | 2 mins 29 secs
outtake from our impending final episode of X-Month
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X-MONTH '04: Joss Whedon's ASTONISHING X-MEN …Kitty Pryde & curing mutantkind
September 11th, 2020 | Season 1 | 39 mins 16 secs
Week THREE of X-Month - our introspective take on the “modern era” of everyone’s favorite mutants…the X-Men
This month' 2004’s Astonishing X-Men - by TV-darling Joss Whedon in first BIG foray into comics...
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X-MONTH '01: Grant Morrison's NEW X-MEN ...biker jackets & genocide
September 4th, 2020 | Season 1 | 39 mins 46 secs
comics, grant morrison, x-men
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X-MONTH '91: Jim Lee's X-MEN ...the basketball & tentacles of our youth
August 28th, 2020 | Season 1 | 39 mins 36 secs
comics, jim lee, x-men
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UNCANNY X-MONTH!
August 23rd, 2020 | Season 1 | 1 min 46 secs
For the entire month of September, we're reading X-MEN comics. Nuff said, true believer!
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HAWKEYE (Matt Fraction) ...bros, Bed-Stuy, and boomerang arrows?
August 21st, 2020 | Season 1 | 41 mins 37 secs
Matt Fraction's 2015 HAWKEYE run is a fun character-driven romp with Barton, Bishop, and...bros?
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THE ADVENTURES OF LUTHER ARKWRIGHT ...not just tits and the hobbit
August 14th, 2020 | Season 1 | 36 mins 35 secs
comic books, comics