Chad Tappe returns to the show to continue our series on The Human Target, by Tom King and Greg Smallwood. In this episode, we break down series issues 5-6, featuring the Martian Manhunter, Fire, and Guy Gardner. These issues include the Human Target's origin story, adventures in mind reading, a secret affair, a new suspect ... and a murder! If you haven't listened to them already, be sure to check out GNA episodes 43 and 45 to get caught up on the story so far.

Book Credits:

The Human Target, issues 5-6

Writer: Tom King

Art and Colors: Greg Smallwood

Letters: Clayton Cowles

Publisher: DC Comics

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Dr. Dominique White, of Beyond Barriers Telehealth Practice, joins host Mark Ohrenberger to discuss unSeen/unHeard: Disability & Neurodivergence, a 64-page multi-genre graphic novel anthology presenting stories involving or depicting disability and neurodivergent conditions that were written and drawn by creators living with those conditions, published in 2025, by Unseen Alchemy Publishing. The collection was edited by Anas Abdulhak, C.K. Carpenter, and Aubrey Lyn Jeppson. Our discuss featured four stories included in the anthology:

Terminal Vibration

Written and illustrated by Chuck Howitt-Lease

Fries

Writer: A.J. Camorlinga

Artist: Terry Blas

Colors: Harry Saxon

Letters: Aubrey Lyn Jeppson

Legally Blind

Written and illustrated by Richard Fairgray

Step By Step

Writer: C.K. Carpenter

Artist: Mike Morrocco

Letters: Aubrey Lyn Jeppson

You can read more about the unSeen/unHeard project, its organizers, and its contributing writers and artists at the book's (now closed) Kickstarter page.

You can connect with Dominique and Beyond Barriers Telehealth Practice on Facebook and Instagram at @beyondbarriers_therapy

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On a new Book Club episode, life-long comics fan Brian Domingos joins host Mark Ohrenberger to discuss Bog Bodies, an original graphic novel following three Irish gangsters and an innocent woman lost on a cold winter night in the forest outside of Dublin where these criminals dump the bodies of their victims. The Irish creative team of writer Declan Shalvey, artist Gavin Fullerton, and color artist Rebecca Nalty invite us to witness the darker side of their homeland.

Book Credits for Bog Bodies:

Writer: Declan Shalvey

Artist: Gavin Fullerton

Colors: Rebecca Nalty

Letters: Clayton Cowles

Publisher: Image Comics

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