On this week’s show, the gang leaves the confines of the Ice Palace to take in the annual Winnipeg Comic and Toy Expo and chats about some of the event highlights. In the news segment, we discuss Amy Reeder’s departure from Batwoman along with a couple other changes to DC’s New 52 creative teams and the Awesome Arena returns to showcase a battle between the red and green Hulks, with the latter having recently (in our minds) been trained in Kung Fu.

All this and more, including reviews for Amazing Spider-Man #680 and #681, Swamp Thing #7, Fatale #3 and many more books from the past two weeks.

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Show details:
Recorded: Saturday March 10th, 2012
Duration: 1h 22m 38s
Edited by: Lee Skwarek

Music credits:
Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas
Great Lakes Avengers by Kirby Krackle

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Shazam’s new look via ComicsAlliance

With 2011 winding down, it’s time to look back on the past year and highlight some of our favorite writers, artists, publishers and more! Our full list of awards, for those of you that want to follow along at home and share some of your choices as well, are as follows:

-Best writer of the year
-Best artist of the year
-Best creative team
-Best publisher of the year
-Best new book (2011 debut)
-Best comic series of the year

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Recorded: Sunday December 4th, 2011
Duration: 25m 37s
Edited by: Lee Skwarek
Music: Great Lakes Avengers by Kirby Krackle

This week on the show, we take a look at some of the books you can expect to see during next year’s Free Comic Book Day, Nicolas Cage’s Action Comics #1 sells for a record amount and, as always, we run through the few books we actually got this week.

Note: Please be aware that Free Comic Book Day takes place on the first Saturday of MAY and not MARCH. Cut us some slack, it’s our first day.

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Recorded: Sunday December 4th, 2011
Duration: 42m 22s
Edited by: Lee Skwarek
Music: White Winter Hymnal by Fleet Foxes and Great Lakes Avengers by Kirby Krackle

On this week’s show we lay low for fear that Marvel will cancel our podcast, we talk DC Universe Online expansion news, Wramil and Rob trade reading duties for the week and, as always, we take a look at the many comics that have hit shelves since our last episode.

Note: We’re well aware that, unlike the other books listed, Jason Aaron and Steve Dillon’s Punisher MAX was not the victim of a cancellation but rather that the title is simply coming to an end.

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Recorded: Sunday November 20th, 2011
Duration: 1h 19m 32s
Edited by: Lee Skwarek
Music: Grenade by Bruno Mars and Great Lakes Avengers by Kirby Krackle

The gang returns once again to discuss all the latest news in comics including Marvel’s shift to day-and-date digital. We also touch upon the handful of recent cancelations, share a few of thoughts on the Central Canada Comic Con that went down in Winnipeg at the end of October and, as usual, review the mountain of books from the past three weeks.

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Recorded: Sunday November 6th, 2011
Duration: 1h 19m 52s
Edited by: Lee Skwarek
Music: One Week by Barenaked Ladies and Great Lakes Avengers by Kirby Krackle

This time around, both Rob and Wramil return from their hiatus’, we all fight through exhaustion and talk about some of the New York Comic Con news from this weekend, we seek logic in Barnes and Noble’s decision to pull DC’s books from their shelves, and, as always, we review the mountain of books from the past two weeks.

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Recorded: Wednesday October 15th, 2011
Duration: 1h 00m 43s
Edited by: Lee Skwarek
Music: We Are All Made of Stars by Moby and Great Lakes Avengers by Kirby Krackle

In this episode, Rob has a prior engagement but we make do with the latest and greatest breakthrough in technology: Virtual Rob. In news, we chat about Dark Knight and Avengers set photos. In comics, we discuss Bendis’ “con-retirement” and, as usual, we review the mountain of books (both DC and otherwise) from the past month.

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Recorded: Wednesday October 5th, 2011
Duration: 1h 10m 52s
Edited by: Lee Skwarek
Music: Flash by Queen and Great Lakes Avengers by Kirby Krackle

This time around, we take a look at the last issue of Flashpoint and share a couple of thoughts on last week’s release of Justice League #1, we chat about the latest Marvel movie news as well as some of the breaking stories from FanExpo 2011 and, as always, take a peek at a mountain of comic books from the past three weeks.

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Recorded: Monday September 5th, 2011
Duration: 1h 03m 32s
Edited by: Lee Skwarek
Music: Ring Capacity and Great Lakes Avengers by Kirby Krackle

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Recorded: Wednesday August 31st, 2011
Duration: 21m 54s
Edited by: Mike Haynes
Intro / outro theme: I Need to Love Myself More and You Less by Brad Sucks

On this episode of Longbox Radio, the gang finally gets a chance to speak out on Miles Morales as the new Ultimate Spider-Man, Lee’s dreams of a new Dark Avengers ongoing title are crushed, Wramil and myself talk about our respective doll collections and, as always, take a peek at a mountain of comic books from the past three weeks.

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Recorded: Wednesday August 17th, 2011
Duration: 1h 05m 52s
Edited by: Lee Skwarek
End theme: Great Lakes Avengers by Kirby Krackle