Our House of M fallout continues. Kinda. Sorta. The X-Men were all over the place in 2005, and not just because of the Scarlet Witch, but because of Xavier! This mini series details the hidden history of Professor X and one more way he's made life for Cyclops even shittier. Thanks to my buddy Dunne for coming on board to help me break it down!

The fallout of House of M continues! What happened to the man responsible for for the whole ordeal that ended up depowering 99% of all mutants everywhere? To be honest, nothing good - but what IS good is Andy Larsen, the host with the most from the Last Comic Shop Podcast stops by to break it all down with us, and also help remember December 2005-May 2006 was like.

An irregular episode with a soon to be regular guest! Zizi returns to the show for the first time! We talk about the comics we're looking forward to this summer, the movies we're excited for, our dreams, our fears, and most importantly - our comic blindspots.

It's a little early in the year, but with this unseasonable heat and humidity it's the right time to air some grievances, especially about comics. I try so hard to stay positive about comics, and I think we all did that today. But I am beyond frustrated with the business side of Marvel and I invited some friends on to let me get something off my chest. I also give them the opportunity to tell me if I'm right or if I'm entitled. Huge thanks to the Last Comic Shop Podcast boys, always a pleasure to talk comics with you!

We welcome Chad from Last Comic Shop Podcast to run us through his pull list and which books he thinks you should be reading. Much like all of the hosts at LCS Pod, if they're recommending it, you should be reading it! Before we get to the main course, I dish my thoughts on Marvel's current line of Spider-man, Star Wars, and Ultimate books and tell you which ones I think are worth your time.

Hello, Internet! This week, I go over my thoughts on the current stable of X-Men books and which ones you need to be reading. But, the main event - one of my favorite guests we've had on the show returns - it's Carlos! Carlos Loves Spider-man, and you can find him on Twitter and Bluesky with that very handle. We talk Spidey-titles, we talk Absolute vs Ultimate, we have a blast, and I hope you do too!

Hello, internet! Welcome back to Shortbox Summary - this week we break down the best Image books that are currently on my pull list and then for the main event - JA Scott from my favorite comic book show, The Last Comic Shop Podcast, joins me to talk about their pull list and what it's like reading comics abroad!

AND WE'RE BACK! It's been a minute but I'm finally ready to start releasing pods again. This week we're talking about what I think of DC's current offering of books, and 5 titles that I think should be on everyone's titles. Do I cheat and include 11? Absolutely. Do I have a reason to? Absolutely. Is absolutely a pun? Absolutely. After that we talk to artist Kevin Newburn about their pull list and what I need to add to mine! Kevin is a wonderful artist from the PNW who works on zines and loves comics. Follow him on Blue Sky at @kevinnewburn.bsky.social

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.

Emergency Pod We don't talk about modern comics a lot here, but there was a huge announcement today about Amazing Spider-man 26 that couldn't be ignored. So I called up my buddies Carlos and Garrett and we talked about it. This is a spoiler-heavy podcast for a comic that comes out 5/31, so consider yourself warned.

The color series continues! Chad and Andy from The Last Comic Shop stop by to talk about Hulk: Gray, a fantastic retelling of the Hulk's origin by the amazing creative team of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale (with Matt Hollingsworth on colors). In a conversation you don't want to miss, we all get really honest about the Hulk - why he works, why he doesn't, and where this story lands in the character's library. Like Chad and Andy? Who doesn't!? Check out https://www.lastcomicshoppodcast.com to

Your friendly neighborhood Carlos returns to talk about Spider-man Blue, a retroactive look at Silver/Bronze Age era spider-man and how he meet the first love of his life, Gwen Stacy. Nobody knows Spider-man like Carlos so buckle up because this one goes places.

Things are going to change soon in Marvel comics, so let's take one last look at what things are changing from, shall we? First up, Fabio helps us revisit Marvels, a groundbreaking series from 1994 by writer Kurt Busiek with art by Alex Ross. This beautiful book details the coming of the Marvel Age, the birth of heroes through all their highs and lows of the silver age from the perspective of photographer Phil Sheldon. We go through the first four issues, the prologue that was released after the fact, the epilogue released for the 25th anniversary, and we touch on Ruins, the parody from 1995 that tears down everything Marvels built up. We take an excruciatingly detailed lens at media and how it shapes our reality from the point of view of the man sharing it with people. You won't want to miss this. Also, we talk about Lisa Loeb. God I love 1994.

FABIO RETURNS just in time to walk us through Doom putting the Fantastic Four through the ringer! With a device that can reshape reality to his will, Doom is taking out the Four one by one in this classic, four-issue miniseries from Grant Morrison, Jae Lee, and colorist Jose Villarrubia (not to mention Letterers extraordinaire Richard Starkings and Wes Abbot). So put your time-shoes on and walk back to July 2001 with us as we relive the songs, the cinema, and the sport that was shaping the world this Limited Series dropped into.

Aaron returns to Shortbox Summary to talk about one of his favorite villains of all time - the one, the only, Dr. Doom! We check out the 2005 origin story called Books of Doom by Ed Brubaker and Pablo Raimondi (along with Mark Farmer, Drew Hennessy, Robin Riggs, Brian Reber, and VC’s Rus Wootow). A lot happens in these six issues that help paint the picture of the man we know as Doom. It's part Shakespearian, part terrifying, and all epic, culminating in Steve Nash winning his second straight NBA MVP award, so, buckle up, because things get wild.