Storied Arcs
Welcome to Storied Arcs! A read-along deep dive into comics, one story arc at a time...
In each episode, we will discuss one story arc, typically in the form of a trade paperback, for a completed comic series. In general, we will be avoiding ongoing or continuing series so that we can discuss a work in its entirety.
We’ll also be avoiding the “big two” (Marvel and DC.) While we love those comics, there are plenty of podcasts covering characters like Batman, Superman, Spiderman, and so on. Instead, we’re excited to explore some of the great creator-owned stories. We’ll deep dive into the story while evaluating the prose, art, and all the easter eggs we can find.
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Storied Arcs
Revival Deluxe Volume 02
"I don't know what makes that kind of monster, Martha. And I don't know what has to happen to make a person decide they have to take a life to protect their family."
In this week's episode, Mike and Alex continue their discussion of Tim Seeley and Mike Norton's farm noir tale Revival from Image Comics. The guys jump right into the Chew/Revival crossover issue included in this collection and break down its surprising significance to the overall narrative, and why that's unusual for a publisher crossover book. Then they take stock of the story as a whole and how they're feeling about what has and hasn't been revealed, what's being set up for the back half of the run, which characters they find compelling and which just feel like plot devices, and how reading this comic in single issues as it was released would have been a vastly different experience than reading it now in collected form, knowing there's an endpoint.
There's a fairly big cliffhanger at the end of this arc, and we don't spoil anything coming afterwards, so if you want to know what happens, go find Revival Deluxe Volume 3 (issues #24-35) wherever you get your comics and join up back here again next week for another deep dive discussion!
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