ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Welcome to The Corner Box, where we talk about comic books as an industry and an art form. You never know where the discussion will go, or who’ll show up to join hosts David Hedgecock and John Barber. Between them they’ve spent decades writing, drawing, lettering, coloring, editing, editor-in-chiefing, and publishing comics. If you want to know the behind-the-scenes secrets—the highs and lows, the ins and outs—of the best artistic medium in the world, listen in and join the club at The Corner Box!
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
47 minutes
English
United States
170 episodes
since Sept. 26, 2023
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
What happens when DC Comics licenses Archie's forgotten superheroes, assembles a powerhouse creative team, and then seemingly does everything possible to sabotage its own success? Legendary writer and editor Paul Kupperberg returns to The Corner Box to take David and John behind the curtain of…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
John Barber is MIA, so David Hedgecock recruits Fun Time Go Editor-in-Chief Chase Marotz for a post-New York Comic Con debrief featuring Kevin Smith, bargain-bin treasures, and the increasingly difficult task of finding actual comic books at a comic convention. The conversation takes a look into Gr…
It’s a shiny new #1 for The Corner Box as Season Four kicks off with a suspicious amount of metallic ink, and David and John reacquainting everyone with the comic-industry scars that got them here. After reacting to the announced end of Marvel Unlimited and its replacement by the WEBTOON-powered M…
Three seasons, zero missed weeks, and one comic book genie later, David and John close out Season 3 by making three wishes for the future of comics. They tackle disappearing comics history, the sanding-down of the medium’s rough edges, and the need for better journalism and conversation around the …
What happens if Marvel hands you the keys and says, "Fix everything"? David Hedgecock and John Barber tackle that challenge by debating the one creator and one project they'd use to reshape Marvel's future while unpacking the editorial decisions that transformed both Marvel and …
John and David cover a stack of new releases, from Doom Patrol, Legion of Super-Heroes, and Teen Titans to the surprising new Archie relaunch. Along the way, John tumbles into one of the most obsessive comic-book rabbit holes ever discussed on the show—a typewriter sound effect that nearly derails …
On part two of this episode, the blind bag madness continues as David opens the second half of his twenty Terminal #1 mystery packs in pursuit of the increasingly mythical Rob Liefeld variant. Between pulls, John introduces several overlooked Fantagraphics books that deserve another look, sparking …
In Part One of this two-part episode, David attempts the most brilliant thing ever done on a comic podcast or the dumbest… opening a stack of TWENTY Terminal #1 blind bags. His target is the elusive Rob Liefeld cover, but the bags have other plans—mostly involving enough copies of issue seven to su…
Two episodes in one day?! What's the special occasion? Well...
David's Miss Mina and the Midnight Guardians Book Three campaign launches today and HE'S NOT PANICKING! YOU'RE PANICKING!!! Ahem... Sorry. We have guests. I shouldn't scream...
Tyrant Fall creators Brennan Knigh…
In part two of this exclusive two-part Corner Box conversation, special guest Steven Grant joins David and John for a brutally honest trip through comics, from the Punisher’s emotional shutdown to the birth of his ninja creation, Whisper. Steven recalls how Mike Baron and Steve Rude’s Nexus helped …
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