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The Worse Abyss (Captain America: Winter Soldier #14)
“Bucky’s a survivor. He’s out there somewhere. I know it.”Lani and Joshua close up S2 of In the Gutter with the fabulous finale of Ed Brubaker’s Captain America: The W...
Necessary Evils (Captain America: Winter Soldier #13)
“That thing is cursed.”Lani and Joshua talk about connection in masculine community, cliffhangers in serial storytelling, and the value of knowing which friends to cal...
The Old Yeller Conflict (Captain America #12)
“I heard you might need a friend.”Lani and Joshua contemplate Cap’s Old Yeller conflict and that dark reflection Lukin casts over the theme of friendship in Captain Am...
Expositional Gut Punch (Captain America: Winter Soldier #11)
“If you didn’t have me, there wouldn’t be anyone who really understood you.”William Faulkner said, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” and Cap proves that to...
Real Housewives of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Captain America: Winter Soldier #9)
“Keep that mouth shut, and you may just get out of here alive.”It’s time for some Red Skull Cosplay and other S.H.I.E.L.Dy shenanigans as Lani and Joshua discuss Capta...
Who the hell is Bucky? (Captain America: Winter Soldier #8)
“Who the hell is Bucky?”Lani and Josh pick up with Cap with issue #8 in Ed Brubaker’s “Captain America: Winter Soldier.”Comic book and credits:Captain America: Winter ...
Punching Angels (JLA #7 Heaven on Earth)
“Time to play my favorite game: Damnation.”It’s Angels vs. Demons and pretty much everyone is the The Bad Guy as Lani and Joshua discuss JLA #7: Heaven on Earth.Comic ...
Right Here (JLA#6 Fire in the Sky)
“Hell, like Heaven, is right here.”Lani and Josh dive deep into another mile-a-minute adventure with the JLA as the forces of Heaven and Hell start messing with Earth ...
The Seeds of Villainy (JLA #5- Woman of Tomorrow)
“I just showed you a soul being born.”Lani and Josh sit down to discuss the reason why y’all should be reading comic books: JLA #5 “Tomorrow’s Woman.” Comic book and c...
The Patsy Glasses ( Hellcat: Snowball Effect #5)
“Human. I never liked you.” Lani and Joshua pull in Jean David Michel of Megabrain Comics to settle the debate over Patsy Walker: Hellcat or Bad Kitty?
Patsy in Wonderland (Hellcat: Snowball Effect #3)
“It’s beans on toast and happy cowboy songs played on tiny guitars for everyone!” Will Joshua’s presentation of Patsy Walker as an Alice in Wonderland allegory help...
Make It Pretty (Hellcat: Snowball Effect #3)
“Once it’s happened, it’s a part of you forever.” Patsy Walker dazes and destroys as she blazes through Alaska with a magical menagerie in Hellcat: Snow Effect #3.
It Means What It Means (Hellcat: Snowball Effect #2)
“Belief is for the unknowable. Fear is for what we do know.” Josh and Lani return to marvel at the weirdness that is Patsy Walker, Hellcat, fighting demon monsters ...
It's Patsy! (Hellcat: Snowball Effect #1)
“I’d like to see your angriest ursines, please.” Lani and Josh head to Alaska with Patsy Walker to take on magical bears. Yeah. You read that right.
Catch them when they fall (JLA V1.4 “Invaders from Mars”)
“Why should they need us at all?” “To catch them when they fall.” It’s philosophy, mythology and Martians in the final issue of Grant Morrison’s JLA.
Is Batman okay? (JLA V1.3 “War of the Worlds”)
“I know your secret.” Things get dark in a fun, superhero way as Lani and Joshua fall backwards into the constantly escalating neon-colored churn that is Grant Morr...
8 Fingers on a Jet Ski (JLA: V1.2 "The Day the Earth Stood Still")
Comic book and credits:JLA Volume 1, Grant Morrison (Writer), Howard Porter (Penciler), John Dell (Inker), Pat Garrahy and John Kalisz (Colorists), Ken Lopez (Lettere...
JLAWTF (JLA V1.1 “Them!”)
“This is war.” Lani has no idea what’s going on and Josh is loving it as your comic book-loving dynamic podcast due grab hold of a wildly undulating plot in JLA #1:...
12 Identity Stories in a Trenchcoat (Captain America: Winter Soldier #7)
“Aren’t I just a double myself?” It’s unreliable narrator week on In the Gutter as Lani and Joshua spend some time with the various identities of Jack Monroe.
For Buck's Sake (Captain America: Winter Soldier #6)
“This is where I died.”It’s all about messed-up memories and expendable exes as we finish up our first Captain America arc!Comic book credits:Captain America: Winter S...
The Cold Shadow (Captain America: Winter Soldier #5)
“We have nothing but our winter.”The dark realities of war combined with superhero bombast have Lani and Joshua swooning over Ed Brubaker’s Captain America: Winter Sol...
Exposisyphus (Captain America: Winter Soldier #4)
“Get it straight, Star Man. I’m here for one thing… revenge!”The action is tight and the exposition is heavy as Lani and Joshua take a look at Ed Brubaker’s Captain Am...
Bad Guy Whack-a-Mole (Captain America: Winter Soldier #3)
“Whatever’s going on, this is all just the beginning.”Lani and Joshua talk second acts and the way comics just love a bad acronym in Issue #3 of Captain America: Winte...
The Past Isn't Dead (Captain America: Winter Soldier #2)
I was created because of him… in a way.It’s another day in New York with Captain Traumatica as Lani and Josh talk about dark reflections, the everlasting freshness of ...
Captain Traumatica (Captain America: Winter Soldier #1)
“The two of us, locked in eternal combat down through the years. Keeping each other miserable. What would we even be without the other?”It’s all comics, only bangers a...
In the Gutter: Teaser
Superhero scholar Joshua Unruh and Lani Diane Rich announce their new comic book podcast, In the Gutter! First episode launches July 4, with Ed Brubaker's Captain Amer...