This is Comic Geek Speak, Book of the Month Club, Episode 8, Aranya.

And welcome to Comic Geekspeak.

I'm Brian Deemer.

I'm Kevin Moyer.

I'm Matt.

I'm Shane Kelly.

I'm Jamie D.

I'm Peter Rios.

And this is our special Book of the Month Club.

Discussion of Aranya, Volume 1, Heart of the Spider.

And for someone who is not listened to any of our Book of the Month Club episodes before,

this will be chock full of spoilers.

So wait if you haven't read it.

So, there were a couple reasons...

A couple reasons why we chose Arania, because for many people it didn't strike them as something that would be worthy of a book of the month, but actually is a very strong candidate because it qualifies in many categories.

It's a new character, which we are often talking about how there should be new characters.

It could be aimed at younger audiences, and we constantly say how there needs to be stuff out there for younger readers to lure them into the lifelong trap that is comic reading.

And also, it's a digest, and a lot of people have never read a digest.

And so we covered a lot of bases with Arania.

So who wants to, where should we start?

Let me ask you this about Digest first, since this is the first one I've ever read.

Does the color come out darker than it usually would?

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