Quarantined Comics
a comic-book book-club discussing (some of) the medium's great works.
We found 10 episodes of Quarantined Comics with the tag “comics”.
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THE KILLER... an assassin in a crisis
May 30th, 2022 | Season 4 | 41 mins
comics, graphic novels, killer, matz
This week, we're taking a look at the French crime epic The Killer (soon to be a Netflix movie directed by David Fincher). It's at times a psychological portrait of a killer, a meditation on violence, a tale of corporate intrigue, and a straight-up action thriller. But do all of these pieces come together?
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DR. STRANGE: TRIUMPH & TORMENT and THE OATH ...these relationships are DOOMED.
May 8th, 2022 | Season 4 | 35 mins 45 secs
comics, dr doom, dr strange, graphic novels, marvel
In celebration of the release of "Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Motherhood"... uh... or "Dr. Strange in the Motherhood of Madness"... no. Well, we commemorate the release of Marvel $tudio$ newe$t film and mothers everywhere by reviewing a book that combines the two: "Dr. Strange & Dr. Doom: Triumph and Torment." We'll also read the "Dr. Strange: The Oath," because these books are pretty short.
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THE DRIFTING CLASSROOM... let's call it an unconventional education
April 23rd, 2022 | Season 4 | 35 mins 40 secs
comics, drifting classroom, graphic novels, horror, manga
This week, we go back to school and get educated about Kazuo Umezu's seminal horror manga The Drifting Classroom. Though published in the 70s, it continues to exert its tremendous influence on modern horror creators, including Junji Ito.
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MOMS... Sex and the City with Seoul
February 26th, 2022 | Season 4 | 37 mins 23 secs
comics, graphic novels, ma yeong-shin, moms, seoul, south korea
This week, Eisner-winning creator Jen Wang ("Stargazing" and "The Prince and the Dressmaker") visits Quarantined Comics, and we all take a trip to visit "Moms." Ma Yeong-shin's graphic novel, based partially on his own mother's life, follows four middle-aged women in Seoul who've finished raising their kids (mostly) and find themselves still figuring things out in the second half of their lives.
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NIGHT BUS... a walk through someone else's dream
February 13th, 2022 | Season 4 | 28 mins 54 secs
chinese, comics, graphic novels, night bus, zuo ma
This week, we take a long, strange ride on "Night Bus," a collection of semi-autobiographical comics from the Chinese cartoonist Zuo Ma. We'll start off in a country landscape undergoing a rapid industrialization, and take a sharp turn into the weird.
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KLAUS... the santa and his slay
December 24th, 2021 | Season 3 | 38 mins 52 secs
christmas, comics, grant morrison, holiday, santa claus
In this special holiday episode, we'll take a look at how legendary comic book writer Grant Morrison re-invents... Santa Claus.
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ULTIMATE SPIDER MAN (2/2) ...so much spidey so little time
December 17th, 2021 | Season 3 | 39 mins 1 sec
brian michael bendis, comics, spider-man
The EXPLOSIVE finale of our epic read-through of ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley.
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BLACK HOLE... The uncanny sex men
December 5th, 2021 | Season 3 | 40 mins 20 secs
black hole, charles burns, comics, graphic novels
What if the X-Men all got their powers through STDs and their powers are totally useless?
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THE NEW WORLD... abandoned homes, empty offices, and alien invasions
September 27th, 2021 | Season 3 | 43 mins
cartoonist, chris reynolds, comics, mauretania
What do you get when you cross film noir with a technical manual? You get the comics of Chris Reynolds! The indie cartoonist has been putting together strips since the 1980s and in this episode, we'll take a look at the collection, assembled by legendary cartoonist Seth, in the compilation The New World: Comics From Mauretania.
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THE FURRY TRAP & THE FLAYED CORPSE... emotional thrusts and violent thrusts
June 7th, 2021 | Season 2 | 51 mins 57 secs
comics, flayed corpse, furry trap, josh simmons
Indie cartoonist Josh Simmons is so polarizing, cohost Raman Sehgal walked out of the recording booth. Fortunately, journalist and author Alex Palmer happened to fall through a window at just the right moment to guest host.