Thinking Outside The Long Box

Dark Horse Comic Books was founded by Mike Richardson in 1986!! Dark Horse one of the more recognizable comic book creators in the world today, of course maybe only less recognizable by the GIANT two brands!! In 1988, still riding the wave of the the super successful movie Aliens, came along a comic book to help keep moving Dark Horse forward!  "Aliens is a line of several comic books set in the fictional universe of the Alien films published by Dark Horse Comics from 1988 forward. The stories often feature the company Weyland-Yutani and the United States Colonial Marines. Originally intended as a sequel to James Cameron's 1986 film Aliens, the first mini-series features the characters of Rebecca "Newt" Jorden and Corporal Dwayne Hicks. Later series also included the further adventures of Ellen Ripley, with other stories being unique to the Alien universe and are often used to explore other aspects of the species, such as their sociology and biology, and also tying into Dark Horse Comics' Predator and Aliens

We took a chance on a Netflix movie that we had never heard of, to talk about for a podcast episode, because sometimes you just have to take chances with your media! For today's episode we are talking about the 2021 Netflix film, Space Sweepers! It is directed by Jo Sung-Hee! "After snatching a crashed space shuttle in the latest debris chase, Spaceship Victory's crew members find a 7-year-old girl inside. They realise that she's the humanlike robot wanted by UTS Space Guards, and decide to demand a ransom in exchange." This movie is a pretty cool and wild ride!! It's a bunch of misfits who are on a team together, trying to stop at nothing to make money. It feels like they're wandering aimlessly down a path of getting in trouble just to make a quick buck, and aren't very good at relationships! When they come across a little girl who is being painted as a weapon of mass destruction, they have to make a decision to cast her aside, or to make her a part of their crazy family!  SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts | Android

The DCEU has had countless opportunities to get it's act together. And for all the trying that they have done, they've got arguably, two or three films that people really enjoy. The direction of their universe has changed multiple times, and our topic today is just one more change in direction. Since the last Batman left, pretty unceremoniously, it was time for Robert Pattinson to dawn the cowl and see how far he can take The Batman!"Batman ventures into Gotham City's underworld when a sadistic killer leaves behind a trail of cryptic clues. As the evidence begins to lead closer to home and the scale of the perpetrator's plans become clear, he must forge new relationships, unmask the culprit and bring justice to the abuse of power and corruption that has long plagued the metropolis." This story of Batman is not really an origin story, because who needs to see his parents die one more time on the screen? Nobody! BUT, it is a story that happens to take place early into Bruce Wayne's time as Batman. In this early

It's time to go all the way back to the year 1979!!! It's that time for a pop culture classic! We are of course talking about the film that starting a media franchise in Alien!! We spoke first about the movie Aliens, a while ago. The reason we did that is because we thought that Aliens was the stronger/better movie. BUT, we figured, at this point, it's time to talk about a movie that is still a really good movie, that started a whole line of other movies, soon to be TV series, and a successful line of comic books!  "In deep space, the crew of the commercial starship Nostromo is awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules halfway through their journey home to investigate a distress call from an alien vessel. The terror begins when the crew encounters a nest of eggs inside the alien ship. An organism from inside an egg leaps out and attaches itself to one of the crew, causing him to fall into a coma." Alien tells the story of a scavenger crew aboard a ship that has to change their route, in order to answer what the

I'm not exactly sure where to start with today's episode!! We were thinking of sticking to an alien/extraterrestrial theme for the next few sets of episodes. The problem is, that we of course haven't seen these new movies, and were trusting google to help us with this task. In The Earth was the movie that google told me had aliens in it, and was a horror film!"As the world searches for a cure to a devastating virus, a scientist and a park scout venture deep into the woods. As night falls, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness as the forest comes to life around them."  Well suffice to say that this movie has absolutely nothing to do with aliens! It does seem to be a post apocalyptic film of some sort where this group of people are working together on a project. The project, you'll come to find out, has evolved from what it was when everyone set out on the journey! Two crew members are tasked with finding a lost scientist out in the forest, and things go sideways fast when they

Our commitment to bring back comic book topics has officially begun! This podcast started with a bigger commitment to the comic book genre, and we're taking it back!! This time we're talking about an X-Men book that was recommended by Doyle. We're talking about X-Men Inferno!"THE CULMINATION OF JONATHAN HICKMAN'S X-MEN BEGINS HERE! “There will be an island—not the first, but the last…” Promises were made and broken. The rulers of Krakoa have been playing a dangerous game with a dangerous woman, and they are about to see how badly that can burn them." Doyle himself explains that this might not have been the best launching off point, only because it drops you right in the middle of a story that has already been developed a ton! But, this is the end of the Jonathan Hickman era, and so it is still a good read!  SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts | Android |  Spotify | Pandora | RSS Tell us what you think!Leave us a voicemail at 970-573-6148Send us feedback and/or MP3's to outsidethelongbox@gmail.comFollow us on Facebook,

This is one of the stranger topics that we've spoken about, in recent memory! Maybe not strange because of the content that this movie is filled with, but strange because we aren't sure that this movie knows what kind of movie it is!? We're talking about the "horror" film, Immanence. "Radio astronomers discover a mysterious signal in the deep sea that could be contact with extraterrestrials. After several terrifying manifestations threaten their beliefs, the team must fight to survive the ultimate evil." At the beginning the team is detecting something from space, and they think that this might be a chance for them to find extraterrestrials. BUT, as the movie goes on and on, there are so many different genre's that are slammed together, that the movie no longer makes much sense. It turns from an alien film, to a straight sci-fi, then there are demons and the devil. As always, we recommend watching everything that we talk about, but definitely know that you might come away being a bit confused! SUBSCRIBE: Appl

Netflix has been paying top dollar the last few years, for some big names to come to their platform, and try and put out some good movies/TV shows!! Today's topic is no different, pulling in The Rock, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds for a fun spy movie!! We are of course talking about the Netflix film, Red Notice!"In the world of international crime, an Interpol agent attempts to hunt down and capture the world's most wanted art thief." Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot are both super spies who generally, while respecting each other, are not on the same side of their respective teams! The Rock's character has been framed for something that he didn't do, and has to utilize both Gadot and Reynolds in order to find something that will prove his innocence, and hopefully land both spies in jail! The twist at the end was something different, and maybe not totally unexpected, the way it was done was. If you haven't, you should definitely give it a watch! SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts | Android |  Spotify | Pandora | RSS Tell us

Our live/not live episode is time for us to get back to our roots! While this episode is always about us chatting and telling each other about our lives from the last couple of weeks, we took this time to delve into a little bit of comic books! Doyle recommended, maybe a little zealous, for us to read the X-Men comic book story, Inferno, which came out in 2021! "THE CULMINATION OF JONATHAN HICKMAN'S X-MEN BEGINS HERE! “There will be an island—not the first, but the last…” Promises were made and broken. The rulers of Krakoa have been playing a dangerous game with a dangerous woman, and they are about to see how badly that can burn them" We both read the book, but it might have been a little smarter to start with volume one, even though that volume is HUGE and we would have spent forever trying to catch up. BUT, while the comic book was a little confusing, not knowing what happened from volume one, the art is really good, and it was a fun story to read! Our change, to go back to comic books is an exciting one,

We've spoken about The Book of Boba Fett already for one episode! We spoke about the first half of the series, and about what we might anticipate seeing through the rest of the series, and I'm not sure that any of us predicted what we got! In today's episode, we're speaking about the back half of the Disney Plus series! "The Book of Boba Fett, a thrilling Star Wars adventure, finds legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett and mercenary Fennec Shand navigating the galaxy's underworld when they return to the sands of Tatooine to stake their claim on the territory once ruled by Jabba the Hutt and his crime syndicate." What did end up getting was more Mandalorian than we thought we'd ever get, a small dose of Ashoka, with a major injection of Luke and Grogu!! This turned out to be more about the world around Boba Fett, than a book designed to be ABOUT Boba Fett. Is that a bad thing? A good thing? Does it matter? What did you all think? SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts | Android |  Spotify | Pandora | RSS Tell us what you think

It's pop culture classic time and we are going PG for this one!! It was a Patreon choice, and they took us all the way back to 1988, to the time of dinosaurs!! We're talking about the beloved children's film, The Land Before Time! "Littlefoot (Gabriel Damon), a young plant-eating dinosaur, is orphaned after his mother (Helen Shaver) perishes while protecting him from a vicious carnivore. With her last breath, she tells him how to get to the legendary Great Valley, where he will be reunited with others of his kind. With his friend Cera (Candace Hutson), Littlefoot sets out for the fabled land, meeting a variety of new friends along the way -- while also being tracked by the killer dinosaur that mortally wounded his mother." Littlefoot and his band of misfit dinosaurs have to travel to the Great Valley in order to survive and find their families! This is one of the first children's movies that I can remember watching, and it held up pretty well. Of course the animation has moved forward a bunch in movies now, b

There is honestly not much to say about today's topic, in the form of a plot, or some kind of story. If you've watched anything Jackass, then you know that there is no intention in any of their movies, aside from getting themselves hurt, and making the audience absolutely fall over laughing, at their paint! Today, we're talking about their latest entry in the Jackass saga, and maybe the original crew's last, Jackass Forever! "Celebrate the joy of a perfectly executed shot to the groin as Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O and the rest of the gang return for another round of hilarious, wildly absurd and often dangerous displays of stunts and comedy." Like I said, you know the Jackass routine. People do crazy stuff, and get hurt doing them. There are many gratuitous penis shots, and more than anybody's fair share of shots to the cup! This movie did do something different though, as it felt more like a passing of the baton, than a normal sequel. There are many new faces for everyone to laugh at, and to hopefully care the

On today's episode of Thinking Outside the Longbox, we're talking about the awesome trip that Doyle and Gabe had just finished, and were close to coming home! They went out to Florida, in order for Gabe to attend a comic con! Listen to them tell us all about their Florida adventures, and about how the comic con went for Gabe! Join us next time for a LIVE episode, and we hope that you'll join in on the conversation! SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts | Android |  Spotify | Pandora | RSS Tell us what you think!Leave us a voicemail at 970-573-6148Send us feedback and/or MP3's to outsidethelongbox@gmail.comFollow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube!Support the podcast on Patreon!Credit - Doyle Daniels, Juan Muro, Gabe Llanas, Tim Huskey

With the successful release of the first two seasons of The Mandalorian, we the fans, knew that something else was coming down the line! Who knew, at the time, that they were trying to build more of a universe around the Star Wars movies, than the movies have done thus far! In this episode, we're talking about the first few episodes that had been released at the time, of The Book of Boba Fett! "The Book of Boba Fett, a thrilling Star Wars adventure, finds legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett and mercenary Fennec Shand navigating the galaxy's underworld when they return to the sands of Tatooine to stake their claim on the territory once ruled by Jabba the Hutt and his crime syndicate." Purely speculating on the first half of the season, we talk about what we feel about the world building. We speak about how integral Boba Fett really is to the world of Star Wars, and some of the negative feedback that the show had been getting up to this point. Based off of the first three episode of the series, what were your tho

Arguably The Golden Girls was/is one of the more popular sitcoms of it's time. With the passing of Betty White, RIGHT before her 100th birthday, we thought this was be the right tie to take a look back at a great sitcom, that has only gained popularity with time! "The Golden Girls is based on the lives and interactions of four older women who have all been divorced/widowed, and are now roommates. Dorothy's main goal during the series is to find a companion she can relate to while her mother Sophia adds her comical outlook and frequent "Picture This" stories." If somehow you've gone all this time without watching The Golden Girls, you're missing out! It's a very easy to watch sitcom that revolves around the lives of fours best friends! They're in their retirement, traversing life together, and it's hilarious, and wholesome! They go through real world problems, for the most part, and it's very easy to relate to their situations! Go take a look back now!  SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts | Android |  Spotify | Pandora

Our latest pick was throw out there as a suggestion, on a cuff! Somehow that random suggestion ended up with us making it a real pick, and going from there! Before we watched the film, we thought that this was going to be just like Cube, but in tubes. We're talk about the French film, Meander.  "A woman is lying in the middle of the road when a car approaches, before it reaches her she stands and moves aside. The car pulls up beside her and the man inside offers her a lift. Now she's locked in a series of bizarre tubes filled with dangerous traps." Sounds like such an interesting premise for a film! I think SOME of the things we were pleasantly surprised about, and some of the things effected us exactly as we thought they might. You should definitely give the movie a chance, and see what you think! SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts | Android |  Spotify | Pandora | RSS Tell us what you think!Leave us a voicemail at 970-573-6148Send us feedback and/or MP3's to outsidethelongbox@gmail.comFollow us on Facebook, Twitter,

This is the end of our 2021 content!! It was such a fun year for the whole team, in various aspects of our lives! Capping it off with one of our favorite topics to look back onto, which is our favorite movies from 2021! We're going to be talking about our favorite movies of course, but also we're going to be going over a few different lists of what other people thought were the best movies of the year as well. What were some of your favorites from 2021? Are you a movie buff? Do you agree with what our favorite are, and the lists that we talk about? SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts | Android |  Spotify | Pandora | RSS Tell us what you think!Leave us a voicemail at 970-573-6148Send us feedback and/or MP3's to outsidethelongbox@gmail.comFollow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube!Support the podcast on Patreon!Credit - Doyle Daniels, Juan Muro, Gabe Llanas, Tim Huskey

Still celebrating some awesome projects that came out of 2021 for today's newest episode!! This time, we're talking about some of the best TV shows from all of 2021, and what we think were our favorites!  We're always looking for different opinions, and hopefully you'll give them to us in the future, but for now, hopefully you agree or like some of the picks that we chose!  SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts | Android |  Spotify | Pandora | RSS Tell us what you think!Leave us a voicemail at 970-573-6148Send us feedback and/or MP3's to outsidethelongbox@gmail.comFollow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube!Support the podcast on Patreon!Credit - Doyle Daniels, Juan Muro, Gabe Llanas, Tim Huskey

2021 brought with it many fun comic books, and just regular books! In this episode we take a look back at 2021 in order to talk about what some of our favorites were from last year! This year was more full of books, than comic books, so we end up delving into that world a little more than normal! We also go over a couple of lists of what other people thought were the best comic books of the year as well! Give it a listen, and maybe you'll find a comic book, or a book suggestion that you want to check out! SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts | Android |  Spotify | Pandora | RSS Tell us what you think!Leave us a voicemail at 970-573-6148Send us feedback and/or MP3's to outsidethelongbox@gmail.comFollow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube!Support the podcast on Patreon!Credit - Doyle Daniels, Juan Muro, Gabe Llanas, Tim Huskey

Back from a short new year break!!! We're going to be exploring some of our favorite projects from 2021!! I've first episode delving into last year, actually deals with two different things. We're going to be talking about what our favorite trailer was, from 2021.  Also, as you all know, we do a lot of talking about what we call pop culture classics. These are projects from our youth, that we wanted to delve back into, to see if they hold up, and to see what we would rate them upon a re-watch. So, the second half of this episode delves into what pcc was our favorite, that we spoke about in 2021! Keep an eye out for three more episodes like this, talking about our favorites from 2021, while we are behind the scenes talking about what more 2022 is going to give us! SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts | Android |  Spotify | Pandora | RSS Tell us what you think!Leave us a voicemail at 970-573-6148Send us feedback and/or MP3's to outsidethelongbox@gmail.comFollow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube!Support the p