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SHORTBOX RETURNS!

I am high on cold medicine, so please forgive the lateness of this episode, and the quality of the first 20 minutes. I forgot how to read, which is unfortunate, because the first third of this episode is just me reading my summary of X-Factor (2005) 1-6 with a quick summary of Madrox (2004) 1-5 beforehand.

We (briefly) cover the five issue Madrox miniseries from 2004-2005 before jumping into X-Factor (2005) issues 1-6. We are in the House of M fallout and it's covering characters I didn't know before I randomly picked up a new issue 1 halfway through my sophomore year of high school. Is it good? Actually, yeah, it's pretty good. We summarize the books read in the first 20 minutes and then start the conversation with fabio at 20:05. Oh yeah, Fabio is back! Do you like him? I like him. So yeah, this should be a pretty good episode I recorded a little buzzed off cold medicine, please to enjoy!

There are some new beats in this episode, provided to me by the singularly genius talent of Bugatti Elroy. Please find him on twitter @bugattielroy

AND WE'RE BACK! I don't know if that vacation was deserved but it was definitely needed.

Fabio returns to the show to help cover the fallout from House of M. First up, we talk House of M: Decimation - The Day After one shot that sets up story threads across existing and new (and returning) titles in the X-world of books and then we cover the three part HOUSE ARREST story that ran in adjective-less X-Men issues 177-179.

If you're not interested in the summary, skip ahead to the conversation Fabio and I have at the 15:20 mark.

Again, shout out to @bugattielroy for some absolutely killer beats I can't wait to use on the show going forward!

I'm glad you like my show, but there are a ton of comic podcasts that I'm obsessed with! Track them down on Twitter:

None of my Friends Like Comics - @NoComicFriends

The Last Comic Shop Podcast - @lastcomicshop

The SJW Comic Book Club - @sjwcomicscast

Wednesday Pull List! - @WednesdayPull

Digging for Kryptonite - @diggingforkrpod

Geeksplained - @GeeksplainedPod

WE FINALLY DID! For the 3rd, maybe even the 4th time (who's counting?) we record our MILESTONE 50th EPISODE!

It's finally time to talk about House of M, the first proper event of this new era of Marvel, and we celebrate it in style.

After an in-depth summary provided by yours truly, we're joined by a stacked panel of guests! Anthony Stokes, Jojo, Richard Fairgray, Amaya, and Aleah - some new voices some returning favorites help me tackle this monumental story from as many different angles as possible. Thanks again to everyone who helped ring in the real 50th episode of Shortbox Summary in such grand fashion. Here's to the next 50!

twitter follows:
Stokes - @StokesTheWriter
Jojo - @JojoTalksComics
Richard - @RichardFairgray
Amaya - @ChewieDanvers
Aleah - @Aleah413
Collin - ... too cool for twitter, but DM me and I'll pass the message along.

2005 was a banner year for comics and everything else. This is the start of our House of M coverage, where Aleah and I break down the music - specifically the pop-punk and alternative songs that dominated our young lives. After that, Collin returns to break down the films we were seeing this summer back when the movies were nothing but magic. Next week we dive deep into the story of House of M, so get ready nerds - it's happening!

Holy smokes, we did it! Sean from The Captioned Life makes his Shortbox Summary debut to discuss Captain America White, the last book in the Color Series from Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale. The series had an extremely unique wait between its debut issue and follow up, while also having a change in colorist. Not only that, but issue 0 released before the MCU had really become a thing and wasn't completed until after Avengers Age of Ultron had released in theaters. It's a strange book that deserves some dissection, and I couldn't have been happier to dive into it with Sean from This Captioned Life!

AS WE MARCH through the color series by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, we meet a friend!

Nick from None of My Friends Like Comics (@NoComicFriends on twitter), one of my favorite comic podcasts around, joined us to talk about Daredevil Yellow, an examination of Matt Murdock, the man without fear, in his earliest days as the costumed hero of Hell's Kitchen.