Episode Details

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After 10 years and 250 episodes of rendering judgment on the greatest comic book stories of yesterday and today, we decided it's finally time to record an episode for newcomers to the podcast – or to comics themselves!

In this super-accessible jumping-on point, we walk listeners through a typical episode of The Comics Canon and offer our recommendations for anyone interested in exploring comics, broken into 10 helpful categories:

Comics for Kids
Comics for All Ages
YA/Young Adult Comics
Memoirs
Humor Comics
Crime Comics
Horror Comics
Superhero Comics
Cosmic Comics
and the 800-pound gorilla of superhero graphic novels: Watchmen!

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