The SJW Comic Book Club
The SJW Comic Book Club is a book-club style podcast where three friends discuss a story arch in comics from a literary and progressive POV. We try to center the opinions of people of color, women, LGBTQ+, etc., who are sometimes overlooked in nerd culture.
Episodes
150 episodes
Amazing Spider-Man Vol 2 #36 (The 9/11 Issue)
This week we got together to talk about a brief, single-issue of comics that was important for the time even if it slightly misses the mark. In November 2001, Marvel released an issue of The Amazing Spider-Man commemorating and memorializing th...
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Season 12 Finale
Now, it is time once again. Time to judge. Time to quantify. Time to assign value. And time, ultimately, to viciously rank the comics, leaving on one as the ultimate winner, reigning over all others.It is time! For the Finale!Ve...
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Season 12
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48:57
MS20 - Nimona
It's finally happened. Nimona has been released and we have all watched it. Now it's time to talk about it. In this not-so-minisode we talked about the long-awaited Netflix adaptation of N.D. Stevenson's
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S12E10 - X-Men (1991) #1-3 "Rubicon"
The time has finally come to read the best-selling comic book of all time! This week, we read and discussed X-Men (1991) #1-3 "Rubicon", a story about a lot of things and also nothing. This story concludes Chris Claremont's iconic run of X-Men,...
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Season 12
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Episode 10
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1:09:11
MS19 - Batman: Arkham Asylum, Pt II
We've heard your cries, we've seen the posters, we've tasted your tears, and we have listened. In their benevolence, Veronica and Monte have returned with another minisode talking about their playthrough of Batman: Arkham Asylum.Next we...
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S12E9 - Galaxy: The Prettiest Star
You guys, this is literally the most beautiful comic art we have ever seen. There's an alien corgi robot. You MUST see him. He is everything.Taylor struggles to feel herself in the town of Ozma gap--stifled, controlled, and forced to li...
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Season 12
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1:12:18
MS18 - Host Podcast Profiles
Look, we all love indie comic podcasts, right? For sure. Obviously. They are categorically the best type of podcasts.But what sort of podcasts do our illustrious hosts like to listen to in their free time, APART from indie comic podcast...
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S12E8 - Fantastic Four (2002) #60: Inside Out
This week we read Fantastic Four (2002) #60 "Inside Out", a stand-alone promotional issue kicking off Mark Waid's run on Fantastic Four. This is a story introducing Wa...
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Season 12
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1:12:27
MS 17 - Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
So we're nerds right? We do some nerd shit. We read comics, we watch Star Trek, we play Dungeons and Dragons, and we watched the new D&D movie, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. So we're gonna talk about it. What more do you want...
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S12E7 - Nubia: Real One
For many kids today, no matter how kind and upbeat, no matter how good their friends or how supportive and loving their parents, the world presents innumerable hurdles and hostilities. But each and every one of them, and each and every one of u...
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Season 12
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1:11:15
X-Minisode #3 - Messiah Complex
Continuing his journey through X-Men continuity, Monte reads X-Men: Messiah Complex, a huge crossover X-Men event published from October 2007-January 2008 and involving four differ...
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27:26
S12E6 - Batman: The 10-Cent Adventure: The Fool's Errand
How much story can you get for only 10 cents?? Not that much, apparently. This week we read Batman: The 10-Cent Adventure by Greg Rucka. This issue (a prelude/teaser for an upcoming Batman event) was sold for the discounted price of 10 cents, r...
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Season 12
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47:35
MS16 - Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Goofy Dystopia
Joker takes over Arkham Asylum and Monte has to deal with it. This week Veronica forced Monte to play Batman: Arkham Asylum and we talked about the first three hours. Who knows, this may become a new series.Next week Melissa will be rej...
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42:58
S12E5 - Shadow of the Batgirl w/ GUEST: Shortbox Summary
Can you rebuild yourself after you realize every action you've taken up to that point has resulted in a person you absolutely do not want to be?Join us as we discuss
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Season 12
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1:31:01
X-Minisode #2 - It's Pride Month
A cure for mutant-kind, a brainwashed psychic dinosaur, and an early modern mystic murdering your entire family in order to resurrect himself and be reunited with his gay lover? Must be X-Men. In this week's X-Minisode, Monte talks about:
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32:35
S12E4 - Ultimate Spider-Man
Teenage angst, radioactive spiders, a hulking goblin monster-man, bad friends, and questionable parenting. Must be a Spider-Man comic. This week we read
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Season 12
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1:01:07
MS15 - Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Someone once said that Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is the best animated superhero movie of all time. Really, somebody said it. Someone we follow on Twitter. I bookmarked it, but it was so long ago I can't find the tweet. Was it you? If you kno...
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S12E3 - You Brought Me the Ocean
We all remember adolescence. The changes to your body and to your relationships, experimenting with ways to define and express yourself, looking forward to going forth into the adult world, controlling the elemental force of water and discoveri...
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Season 12
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1:01:29
MS14 - Star Trek, Terrorism, and Me
This episode we will solve the age-old debate of terrorism. You're welcome. Ok not really. We will be discussing how Star Trek actually solved t...
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35:06
S12E2 - Amazing Spider-Man: The Parker Luck w/ Not a Hoax! Not a Dream!
How do you rebuild from your worst enemy taking over your body and living your superhero life with all your superhero friends, forming new relationships and burning old bridges and leaving the existential question of "if I'm not in control of m...
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Season 12
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1:11:39
X-Minisode #1 - May 2001
The time has come for the long-anticipated, overwhelmingly-demanded, hotly-solicited return of X-Men minisodes. Basically, we didn't have any ideas for a minisode this week so instead Monte is talking about X-Men.The stories discussed i...
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24:25
S12E1 - Superman Smashes the Klan *audio fixed*
*Audio Fixed*This week we discuss Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang, with art by Guri...
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Season 12
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1:13:16
Season 12 Preview
We're back! Join us as we discuss the new comics for Season 12!Monte's theme for this season will be the top-selling super hero comic books of all time. Veronica's theme will be stories from the DC Graphic Novels for Young Adults imprin...
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Season 12
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