Tales From the Short Box is a weekly Wednesday podcast where we talk about the comics that came out last week. Join hosts Adam Sheehan, Cacey Crawford, Shaun Betit, and RJ Veit as they talk about their favorite books from the week before.
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Signup to Generate a PitchTales From the Short Box is a weekly Wednesday podcast where we talk about the comics that came out last week. Join hosts Adam Sheehan, Cacey Crawford, Shaun Betit, and RJ Veit as they talk about their favorite books from the week before.
Recent episodes include "Tales From The Short Box Episode 224 - Martian Manhunter: Son of Mars by John Ostrander and tom Mandrake" (1 October 2025, 72 minutes), "The Spectre by John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake" (24 September 2025, 55 minutes), and "Tales From The Short box #222 - The Fade Out by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips" (17 September 2025, 64 minutes).
Tales from the Short Box publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 58 minutes across 301 episodes.
Booking probability for Tales from the Short Box is 27%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Tales from the Short Box requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Tales from the Short Box's contact route on record: verified email.
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Tales from the Short Box is an arts podcast with 301 episodes published.
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It's the last episode of the season! Rj Is going to close us out with one last Ostrander and Madrake pick, Martian Manhunter: Sun of Mars. We had a lot of fun with this one. We get to take a much deeper dive into an...
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It's Rj's turn to pick an artist (or a creative team), and we are diving straight into Hell with The Spectre by John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake. We follow Jim Corrigan as he tries to fulfill his quest to understand Evil...
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It's part two of Shaun's Brubaker/Phillips series, and we're going back to Old Hollywood. We follow a couple of blacklisted screen writers as they try to solve a murder from within the movie industry. And in typical...
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It's Shaun's turn to pick an artist, and he has predictably brought us some Sean Phillips, and Ed Brubaker. We're starting off the series with Incognito. It's a hard boiled sci-fi neo-noir with an anti-hero metahuman...
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Cacey's got another one for us from one of our favorite duos, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely! This week we really stretch our brains with Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery. Join us as we discuss comics and...
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It's Cacey's turn to pick an artist to showcase for this season, and we're getting a double feature of Frank Quitely and Grant Morrison! We're kicking it off with WE3. This book covers all 2 emotions: extreme violence...
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It's part two of our Alex Ross series as Adam takes us through Kingdom Come. Mark Waid and Alex Ross team up to bring us a very stark warning about total power. Set in the not-too-distant-future of 1997 (aka now)...
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We're back! It's been a long break. Longer than we expected. But we are excited to be back doing what we do here. And that's talk about our favorite comics! This season we are each picking an artist to showcase. We're...
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Hey Everybody! We've been gone a long time, and we're going to be gone a little while longer, but we wanted to get in your feed and talk to you all about what is coming up next season. We also have some changes coming...
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We dig into our back issues once again for another episode of TFTSB Classics. This week it's TFTSB #190. Frined of the shop and long time listener JenaLee brought us SHE HULK by Rainbow Rowell, with art by Roge Antonio...
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It's another round of TFTSB classics, where we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes. This week we are coming back to TFTSB #192. We are joined by close friend of the Shop, Faust. They have brought us one of their...
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For this season's break, we are going back to some of our favorite episodes. This week, we're going to revisit a conversation with one of our favorite writers (and friend of the show) Leah Williams (X-Factor, Power...
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For this season's break, we are going back to some of our favorite episodes. This is TFTSB episode 199, where we talked to Jackson Lanzig(NYX, Batman Beyond, Star Trek) about one of his favorite books Tale Of Sand by...
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It is our last episode of the season and it is RJ's turn to pick a title from last year. He has brought us the wonderfully quirky and strange murder mystery, Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol 1: The Case of the Missing Men by...
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It's Rj's turn to take us back to the year of his birth. It's 1994, and we are diving head first into Starman by James Robinson, Tony Harris and Wade Von GanBadger. It was a great year for comics, and this is a great...
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It's time for Last Week's Comics! We've got a lot of fun, alternate universe action this week. Also Logan's body hair, gross science experiments, and Cacey over-shares. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:09:55...
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It's Adam's turn to pick a book from last year, and he's bringing us Deviant by James Tynion IV and Joshua Hixon. This is a nailbiting ho-done-it that kept us all in suspense up to the very last panel. We all had a lot...
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It's once again time for another hour of talking about last week's comics! We get into the important questions. Like how would Martian powers manifest in a gorilla body? How much beef can a velociraptor eat? Who has the...
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It's Adam's turn to take us back to the year of his birth. And why not also go back to the birth of comics? It's 1985 and we're talking about The Dreamer by Will Eisner. This is the semi-autobiographical story of not...
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It's that time again. Time for Last Week's Comics. Join us as we celebrate the kickoff of Superman Summer. Also bad films by great directors, squelchy reconstructions, and Wolverine doing what he's best at. Support...
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