Comic Books Beyond
75 episodes listed below
Comic talk with fresh-reader energy.
Comic Books Beyond treats comics as something to read, argue over, and hand to a friend without gatekeeping. Recent episodes move from Walking Dead and Revival to Batman and Robin Year One, Absolute Superman, and an adults-only Beyond segment on monster romance.
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Comic Books Beyond is built around the pleasure of talking through comics as they are being discovered, remembered, compared, and argued over. It favors approachable conversation over polished lecture. The show often starts from a specific book or issue, then lets the hosts and guests chase whatever the reading opens up. A zombie special uses Walking Dead and Revival as paired entry points, contrasting a huge franchise with a stranger rural mystery about the dead returning to ordinary life. That episode is spoiler-forward because the first issues are freely available, and it is direct about graphic horror, violence, and the unsettling power of those openings. The Batman and Robin Year One conversation moves differently. It circles Two-Face, heist-story fatigue, older comic rhythms, and the value of stylized art, then opens into names like Darwin Cook and Dustin Yuen as reference points for visual taste. Absolute Superman brings in Brandon McNulty for a more craft-minded superhero discussion, with his background in novels and writing videos giving the episode a character-and-dialogue lens. The show is not confined to superhero comics, though. Its Beyond section gives Katya room to take over for an adults-only conversation about monster romance, Ice Planet Barbarian, Monstress, spicy ratings, consent framing, and genre recommendations. That range is part of the identity. Comic Books Beyond can be welcoming to newer readers, but it is also willing to be blunt, silly, and specific. The pacing has the feel of friends comparing notes after reading rather than a rigid review format. Some segments are practical, such as warnings about phone reading or suggestions for where to find an issue. Others are pure banter, including timing jokes, personal taste, and side comments about art, models, and future video plans. The show’s best moments come when curiosity and comfort overlap: one person has context, another brings fresh eyes, and the discussion becomes easier to enter because nobody treats confusion as failure. It is especially useful for listeners who want comics recommendations with personality attached. It also works for readers who like horror comics, superhero comics, creator interviews, and the occasional adult genre detour. The audio can be informal, but the enthusiasm is steady. At its core, the show treats comics as a living pile of stories worth passing around.
Made for: Comic readers who want friendly recommendations, issue-by-issue reactions, and context without dense continuity homework. It also suits genre fans who are comfortable moving from superheroes to horror and adult-oriented side episodes.
What sets it apart: The show mixes experienced-reader context with newcomer perspective, so the conversation can explain, react, and challenge a book at the same time. Its range from Image horror to Batman, Superman, Monstress, and monster romance gives it a broader shelf than a standard superhero-only chat.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Two first issues, two stark ways of making the dead feel newly dangerous.
Comic Books Beyond pairs Walking Dead #1 and Revival #1 to show two first issues with sharply different ways of handling the dead. The episode stays focused on issue ones, which gives the comparison a clean shape: Walking Dead comes across as a franchise title that turns graphic…
A blunt, funny monster smut chat that puts Ice Planet Barbarian through a homemade spice scale.
Katya and Vic use the episode to explore monster smut through Ice Planet Barbarian, framing it as a familiar touchstone in the genre and scoring the sex scenes on their spice scale.
A comics conversation where a familiar heist-crew trope opens into warm, thoughtful talk about stylized art.
Comic Books Beyond uses a heist-crew beat in Ego as a way into a wider comics discussion about why an older storytelling device can lose some of its charge.
Fandom recap with receipts and side roads.
Moon Knight talk with lore-soaked judgment.
Fast takes for lore-sick fans.
Old comics, old monsters, and friends who remember both.
Vic marks Pride Month by discussing a Transgender Law Center fundraiser from Escape the Mojoverse, which set a $1,000 goal tied to a bonus episode about The Wicked and the Divine.
Comic Books Beyond hosts Vic, Garnet, and Katya examine the first volume of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Chainsaw Man through Denji’s poverty, his contract with Pochita, and his employment under Makima.
Comic Books Beyond compares Walking Dead #1, published by Image on October 8, 2003, with Revival #1 from July 2012, and both issue ones are free online.
Episode 43, 'Monsters and Monstress,' pairs Ruby Dixon's Ice Planet Barbarians with Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda's Monstrous.
Comic Books Beyond’s Episode 42 examines Batman and Robin: Year One by Mark Waid while introducing co-host and channel artist Mike, who has known the host since fourth grade.
Host Adam interviews writer Brandon McNulty about Absolute Superman and his writing career.