In The Gutter

“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 Winter Soldier.

Comic book and credits:

JLA Volume 1, Grant Morrison (Writer), Howard Porter (Penciler), John Dell (Inker), Pat Garrahy and John Kalisz (Colorists), Ken Lopez (Letterer)

In The Gutter is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich and Joshua Unruh, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike l

“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 call in during a crisis.

Comic book and credits:

JLA Volume 1, Grant Morrison (Writer), Howard Porter (Penciler), John Dell (Inker), Pat Garrahy and John Kalisz (Colorists), Ken Lopez (Letterer)

In The Gutter is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich and Joshua Unruh, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

“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 America: Winter Soldier #11.

Comic book and credits:

JLA Volume 1, Grant Morrison (Writer), Howard Porter (Penciler), John Dell (Inker), Pat Garrahy and John Kalisz (Colorists), Ken Lopez (Letterer)

In The Gutter is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich and Joshua Unruh, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

“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 be true when he sits down with Bucky’s file in Captain America: Winter Soldier #11.

Comic book and credits:

JLA Volume 1, Grant Morrison (Writer), Howard Porter (Penciler), John Dell (Inker), Pat Garrahy and John Kalisz (Colorists), Ken Lopez (Letterer)

In The Gutter is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich and Joshua Unruh, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

“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 Captain America: Winter Soldier #9.

Comic book and credits:

JLA Volume 1, Grant Morrison (Writer), Howard Porter (Penciler), John Dell (Inker), Pat Garrahy and John Kalisz (Colorists), Ken Lopez (Letterer)

In The Gutter is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich and Joshua Unruh, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

“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 Soldier by Ed Brubaker

Writer: Ed Brubaker

Artists for Out of Time: Steve Epting and Michael Lark

Artist for Lonesome Death of Jack Monroe: John Paul Leon and Tom Palmer

Letterers: VC’s Randy Gentile, Chris Eliopoulos & Joe Caramagna

Assistant Editors: NicoleWiley, Molly LAzer, Andy Schmidt and Aubrey Sitterson

Editor: Tom Brevoort

Captain America created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby

In The Gutter is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich and Joshua Unruh, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

“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 book and credits:

JLA Volume 1, Grant Morrison (Writer), Howard Porter (Penciler), John Dell (Inker), Pat Garrahy and John Kalisz (Colorists), Ken Lopez (Letterer)

In The Gutter is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich and Joshua Unruh, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

“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 in JLA #6 “Fire in the Sky.”

Comic book and credits:

JLA Volume 1, Grant Morrison (Writer), Howard Porter (Penciler), John Dell (Inker), Pat Garrahy and John Kalisz (Colorists), Ken Lopez (Letterer)

In The Gutter is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich and Joshua Unruh, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

“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 credits:

JLA Volume 1, Grant Morrison (Writer), Howard Porter (Penciler), John Dell (Inker), Pat Garrahy and John Kalisz (Colorists), Ken Lopez (Letterer)

In The Gutter is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich and Joshua Unruh, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

“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?

Comic book and credits:

Patsy Walker: Hellcat, Kathryn Immonen (Writer), David Lafuente (Artist), John Rausch (Color Artist), David and Natalie Lamphear (Letterers), Stuart Immonen (Cover Artist)

In The Gutter is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich and Joshua Unruh, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

“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 Lani finally start to like her? Maybe. Don’t count on it.

Comic book and credits:

Patsy Walker: Hellcat, Kathryn Immonen (Writer), David Lafuente (Artist), John Rausch (Color Artist), David and Natalie Lamphear (Letterers), Stuart Immonen (Cover Artist)

In The Gutter is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich and Joshua Unruh, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

“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.

Comic book and credits:

Patsy Walker: Hellcat, Kathryn Immonen (Writer), David Lafuente (Artist), John Rausch (Color Artist), David and Natalie Lamphear (Letterers), Stuart Immonen (Cover Artist)

In The Gutter is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich and Joshua Unruh, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

“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 in Alaska.

“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.

Comic book and credits:

Patsy Walker: Hellcat, Kathryn Immonen (Writer), David Lafuente (Artist), John Rausch (Color Artist), David and Natalie Lamphear (Letterers), Stuart Immonen (Cover Artist)

In The Gutter is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich and Joshua Unruh, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

“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.

Comic book and credits:

JLA Volume 1, Grant Morrison (Writer), Howard Porter (Penciler), John Dell (Inker), Pat Garrahy and John Kalisz (Colorists), Ken Lopez (Letterer)

In The Gutter is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich and Joshua Unruh, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

“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 Morrison’s JLA.

Comic book and credits:

Captain America: Winter Soldier by Ed Brubaker

Writer: Ed Brubaker

Artists for Out of Time: Steve Epting and Michael Lark

Artist for Lonesome Death of Jack Monroe: John Paul Leon and Tom Palmer

Letterers: VC’s Randy Gentile, Chris Eliopoulos & Joe Caramagna

Assistant Editors: NicoleWiley, Molly LAzer, Andy Schmidt and Aubrey Sitterson

Editor: Tom Brevoort

Captain America created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby

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In The Gutter is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich and Joshua Unruh, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

Comic book and credits:

JLA Volume 1, Grant Morrison (Writer), Howard Porter (Penciler), John Dell (Inker), Pat Garrahy and John Kalisz (Colorists), Ken Lopez (Letterer)

In The Gutter is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich and Joshua Unruh, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

Comic book and credits:

JLA Volume 1, Grant Morrison

In The Gutter is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich and Joshua Unruh, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

“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.

Comic book and credits:

Captain America: Winter Soldier by Ed Brubaker

Writer: Ed Brubaker

Artists for Out of Time: Steve Epting and Michael Lark

Artist for Lonesome Death of Jack Monroe: John Paul Leon and Tom Palmer

Letterers: VC’s Randy Gentile, Chris Eliopoulos & Joe Caramagna

Assistant Editors: NicoleWiley, Molly LAzer, Andy Schmidt and Aubrey Sitterson

Editor: Tom Brevoort

Captain America created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby

In The Gutter is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich and Joshua Unruh, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

“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 Soldier by Ed Brubaker

Writer: Ed Brubaker

Artists for Out of Time: Steve Epting and Michael Lark

Artist for Lonesome Death of Jack Monroe: John Paul Leon and Tom Palmer

Letterers: VC’s Randy Gentile, Chris Eliopoulos & Joe Caramagna

Assistant Editors: NicoleWiley, Molly LAzer, Andy Schmidt and Aubrey Sitterson

Editor: Tom Brevoort

Captain America created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby

In The Gutter is a Chipperish Media production by Lani Diane Rich and Joshua Unruh, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.