“To what extent can you throw a person away?” – Dr. Holly Schaeffer-Raymond on Darth Maul.
Maul – Shadow Lord, the latest Star Wars animated series on Disney+ is stunning. It hits topics like raising kids amidst fascism, cycles of abuse, and it’s even got Weird Little Guys. Resident Star Wars expert Holly Schaeffer-Raymond returns to the podcast. She’s a writer and professor at Temple University. She’s the author of Mall is Lost (2018) and Maul is Lost (2023) and featured in the Lambda nominated We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetic.
Matthew Klein joins Alex K Cossa to kick off the newest audio offering from Graphic Policy, the Graphic Book Club!
Join us for the fourth episode where we talk about Super Girl: Woman of Tomorrow
We spend a bit of time talking about the book, getting into a few related side topics before finally picking the next read: Spider-Man: Maximum Carnage. See below for more information on the next read.
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Matthew and Alex on Bluesky @matthewklein316.bsky.social and @karcossa.bsky.social. Matthew’s on Instagram @macktheknife1116.
Matthew’s book Crashing is available now through IDW Publishing. His webcomic The Rhyme Scheme is available for free here. You can also find his podcast, Comics For You via Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
It’s time to go back to the 90’s! Carnage, the spawn of Venom, has assembled an army of Spider-Man’s criminally insane adversaries to spread his message of hostility, chaos and wholesale slaughter: Carrion, Demogoblin, Shriek and the Spider-Man Doppelganger! Outmanned and overpowered, the wall-crawler must recruit his own band of super-beings to combat the rising tide of evil: Black Cat, Cloak & Dagger, Firestar, Captain America, Iron Fist, Deathlok and – Venom?! Spider-Man’s worst enemy becomes his uneasy ally in the battle to halt the pure evil of Carnage’s mad rampage! Plus, an explosive day for Peter Parker leads him into a savage showdown with the Punisher – and Sabretooth!
The book is available in multiple different formats from your favourite local retailer.
“ It’s not so much that Mayor Fisk is like [Former NYC Mayor] Eric Adams, it’s that Eric Adams is a comic book character,” — John Leavitt is a writer and cartoonist who works with the DSA Upper-Manhattan Bronx chapter and a published Marvel author with Strange Tales Volume One.
I’ve been involved in New York politics for over 20 years and I’m a lifelong Daredevil reader so I was thrilled to geek out about this Disney + season him.
Matthew Klein joins Alex K Cossa to kick off the newest audio offering from Graphic Policy, the Graphic Book Club!
Join us for the third episode where we talk about Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel!
We spend a bit of time talking about the book, getting into a few related side topics before finally picking the next read: Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow. See below for more information on the next read.
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Matthew and Alex on Bluesky @matthewklein316.bsky.social and @karcossa.bsky.social. Matthew’s on Instagram @macktheknife1116.
Matthew’s book Crashing is available now through IDW Publishing. His webcomic The Rhyme Scheme is available for free here. You can also find his podcast, Comics For You via Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is an eight-issue miniseries by writer Tom King and artist Bilquis Evely which started in June 2021. It focuses on Kara Zor-El’s quest in space, aided by Krypto, and is told from the perspective of the new character Ruthye Marye Knoll, an alien girl that Kara meets who is looking for justice for her father’s death at the hands of Krem of the Yellow Hills. The last issue in the series was released in February 2022.
The book is available in multiple different formats from your favourite local retailer.
Matthew Klein joins Alex K Cossa to kick off the newest audio offering from Graphic Policy, the Graphic Book Club!
Join us for the second episode where we talk about the DC Compact Comics edition of Superman/Batman!
We spend quite a bit of time talking about the book, getting into a groove for how the show will flow and finally picking the next read: Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel by Beth Revis. See below for more information on the next read.
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Matthew and Alex on Bluesky @matthewklein316.bsky.social and @karcossa.bsky.social. Matthew’s on Instagram @macktheknife1116.
Matthew’s book Crashing is available now through IDW Publishing. His webcomic The Rhyme Scheme is available for free here. You can also find his podcast, Comics For You via Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Music by Alex K Cossa via Suno.
The Death Star is destroyed. Darth Vader is dead. The Empire is desolate. But on the forest moon of Endor, among the chaos of a changing galaxy, time stands still for a princess and her scoundrel.
After being frozen in carbonite, then risking everything for the Rebellion, Han is eager to stop living his life for other people. He and Leia have earned their future together, a thousand times over. And when he proposes to Leia, it’s the first time in a long time he’s had a good feeling about this. For Leia, a lifetime of fighting doesn’t seem truly over. There is work still to do, penance to pay for the dark secret that she now knows runs through her veins. Her brother, Luke, is offering her that chance—one that comes with family and the promise of the Force. But when Han asks her to marry him, Leia finds her answer immediately on her lips . . . Yes.
Yet happily ever after doesn’t come easily. As soon as Han and Leia depart their idyllic ceremony for their honeymoon, they find themselves on the grandest and most glamorous stage of all: the Halcyon, a luxury vessel on a very public journey to the most wondrous worlds in the galaxy. Their marriage, and the peace and prosperity it represents, are a lightning rod for all—including Imperial remnants still clinging to power.
Facing their most desperate hour, the soldiers of the Empire have dispersed across the galaxy, retrenching on isolated planets vulnerable to their influence. As the Halcyon travels from world to world, one thing becomes abundantly clear: The war is not over. But as danger draws closer, Han and Leia find that they fight their best battles not alone, but as husband and wife.
Matthew Klein joins Alex K Cossa to kick off the newest audio offering from Graphic Policy, the Graphic Book Club!
Join us for the premiere episode where we decide on the spot to create a new show dedicated to read-a-longs, pick the show name, and the very first book; the DC Compact Comics Adventure Superman/Batman! If you don’t want to pick this specific version of the story up then there are other collected editions available, as well as the single issues available at your local comic shop or online via DC Comics Infinite (you’ll be looking for the first twelve issues of Jeph Loeb’s run).
This episode’s bonus recommendations come in the form of the Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa and Prjoect Hail Mary by Andy Weir.
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Matthew and Alex on Bluesky @matthewklein316.bsky.social and @karcossa.bsky.social. Matthew’s on Instagram @macktheknife1116.
Matthew’s book Crashing is available now through IDW Publishing. His webcomic The Rhyme Scheme is available for free here. You can also find his podcast, Comics For You via Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Marvel Disney’s recent TV series is about a struggling actor and I have the perfect guest to discuss it with me: filmmaker, life-long Los Angelino, and Marvel comics fan Brandon Wilson. Wonder Man is delightful and we’ve got a lot say about the show’s portrayals of LA, Simon Williams’s existence as a Black Haitian-American actor, the prison industrial complex, queer readings and more. You don’t need to know about Wonder Man to enjoy the show but Brandon gives us the download on Simon William’s comics history.
Plus: the parallels with Midnight Cowboy run deeper than you think!
Welcome to Ready, Nerd, Go! Graphic Policy’s newest podcast focused on tabletop role playing games (RPGs), hosted by Alex and Enko. With the rising popularity of D&D and other tabletop RPGs, we wanted to help folks who are interested in learning about the hobby take their first steps.
On the docket for this episode:
Wait, how did the party of adventurers meet?
Inciting Insidents?
Why are we still together once the incident is over?
How do you introduce a new party member to an existing party?
Playing an Evil campaign vs a Traditional campaign
Music by Alex K Cossa via Suno Email: ReadyNerdGo@gmail.com
Welcome to Ready, Nerd, Go! Graphic Policy’s newest podcast focused on tabletop role playing games (RPGs), hosted by Alex and Enko. With the rising popularity of D&D and other tabletop RPGs, we wanted to help folks who are interested in learning about the hobby take their first steps.
On the docket for this episode:
Alex and Enko are joined by writer, editor, podcaster and all around great human, Markisan Naso, to talk about his history with RPGs, influences and recommendations.
Recommendations
Soundtracks
Troll Teeth
Abriction
Yellow Eyes
Wounds of Recollection
Sadness
Blackbraid
Videogames
Legend of Zelda
Final Fantasy 7 Remake
Expedition 33
You can find Markisan on the Metal Heads Podcast (www.Metalheadspodcast.com) and Endless Metal podcast, available wherever you listen to your favourites. If you want to find him on the socials, then look for @DarthMarkisan on Instagram and Threads, @Markisan on BlueSky and @ByTheHornscomic (on everything).
What does a war in Iran, the Saudi Government, Ari Emanuel, Jared Kushner, AI data centers, UFC and WWE, all have to do with the takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery by Paramount Skydance? Find out in this new episode of Comic Shoot as well as its possble impact on DC Comics, Milestone Media, Wonder Comics, DC Entertainment, and DC Studio!
Joining us is Nate Wilcox who founded the legendary MMA web site Bloody Elbow in 2007 and sold it in 2024. He was the first UFC reporter to focus on Ari Emanuel and the ownership team rather than Dana White and the public facade. He blogs as Nat Wilson Turner for Nakedcapitalism.com and IanWelsh.net on politics, propaganda, and media and tech business news. You can also find his current coverage of the MMA space at The MMA Draw.
Nate has been regularly following the money and its connection to politics that will determine our future!
Notes/Corrections: Around the 40 minute mark Nate states Ari Emanuel gave MBS $400 BILLION back but it should be MILLION. Around the 50 minute mark, “the law of Iran and Israel” is “the law of Iran and the US.”
