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You Should Read This! Comic Book and Graphic Novel Review and Discussion

Alan Parsons and Ryan Ruppe

Comic Book and Graphic Novel Review and Discussion Podcast

Episodes

17 episodes

Lone Wolf and Cub

Did you watch The Mandalorian? We did! And the people who made the show very clearly read Lone Wolf and Cub. So we read the first volume of...

51:03Feb 26, 2020

House of X/Powers of X (with special guest!)

We get some of the old X-team back together when old friend Ian Ritch joins Alan and Ryan to talk about Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz, and R...

58:58Nov 15, 2019

Ghosted, Vol. 1 (Four Color Commentary Reunion Special!)

We got the gang back together to talk about a book we first looked into nearly five years ago: Ghosted, volume 1, by Joshua Williamson, Gora...

1:05:02Oct 31, 2019

Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier

This time on You Should Read This, Alan and Ryan jump into the Eisner award winning spoopy Dia de los Muertos tale from Ryan’s kids&#8...

52:25Oct 25, 2019

Die Volume 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker by Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans (with special guest)

In this episode of You Should Read This, Alan and Ryan are joined by their pal Adam Ryan Cools to talk Dungeons & Dragons, RPGs with heavy l...

59:08Oct 11, 2019

20th Century Boys

To start off Season 2 of You Should Read This, Alan and Ryan tackle the first volume of the dense, legendary manga series 20th Century Boys.

46:36Sep 25, 2019

Captain Marvel: In Pursuit of Flight & Down (with special guest!)

In this episode of You Should Read This, we dig into the first two volumes of the big relaunch of Captain Marvel from 2014. Volume one is In...

59:24May 15, 2019

Battle Angel Alita Vol. 1 by Yukito Kishiro

In this episode of You Should Read This, Alan and Ryan discuss the first volume of the legendary cyberpunk manga Battle Angel Alita. Show No...

51:02Apr 9, 2019

Scales & Scoundrels vol. 1&2 by Sebastian Girner and Galaad

For this episode we talked about the first two volumes of the Scales & Scoundrels series: Into the Dragon’s Maw and Treasurehearts. Wr...

52:05Mar 20, 2019

Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite & Dallas by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá

In this episode we discuss the two collections of Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite and Dallas, as well as a spoiler-free discussion of the...

1:01:20Mar 6, 2019

Akira vol. 1

This time on You Should Read This, we talked about the first volume of the legendary manga Akira. Show notes: Millennials killing things Jap...

54:23Feb 20, 2019

Buzz by Ananth Hirsh and Tess Stone

In this episode of You Should Read This, we jump into the outrageous world of underground spelling bees in the Oni Press book Buzz. Also dis...

45:21Feb 6, 2019

East of West Vol. 1 & 2

In this episode of You Should Read This, we talk about the dense world and history that are revealed in the first two volumes of East of Wes...

1:03:30Jan 22, 2019

The Wicked + The Divine: Year One

In this episode of You Should Read This, we talk about fan-favorite ultra-modern pop music masterpiece, The Wicked + The Divine. http://www....

1:06:57Jan 7, 2019

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Phantom Blood Vol. 1

In this episode of You Should Read This! we talk about one of the longest still-running Shonen Jump manga, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure! I...

48:22Dec 10, 2018

Headlopper Vol. 1: The Island or a Plague of Beasts by Andrew MacLean

Our first official episode has Alan and Ryan talking about Andrew MacLean’s Headlopper Vol. 1: The Island or a Plague of Beasts.

44:08Nov 26, 2018

Episode 0: Diary Comics by Dustin Harbin

For our 0th (zeroth) episode (aka our demo episode), we read and discussed Dustin Harbin’s Diary Comics .

34:27Nov 26, 2018