Episode 75 - Thought Bubble 2017

We're (most of us) back from a slight hiatus because it's NERD PROM again and we're at Thought Bubble 2017 in disconcertingly sunny Leeds. With special guests (probably) and new comics (yes) and ellipses (someone stop me)!

Some people we spoke about (the ones we could find readily):

• Mister Lucian
• Livestock - Hannah Berry
• Butt Springsteen - CJ Reay
• Deeds Not Words - Sarah Gordon
• Can Opener's Daughter - Rob Davis
• Geis - Alexis Deacon
• Stranski - Lorenzo Etherington
• Monster Boyfriend - Various
• Pope Francis Goes to the Dentist - PB Rainey
• Damaris - Sarah Peploe 

Podcast 74 - Southern Gothic

In which our heroes find quite a lot to say about a genre that barely exists in comics.

Southern gothic persists as a genre in all other mediums, so why is that deliciously swampy style so under-represented in comics? An investigation brought to you by big words, a fetish for Spanish moss, and that half-glimpsed face at the window of the ol' plantation house.

We talked about:

• Iceman - Sina Grace and Alessandro Vitti
• Winnebago Graveyard - Steve Niles, Alison Sampson, Stephane Paitreau
• The Unsound - Cullen Bunn, Jack T. Cole
• Grass Kings - Matt Kindt and Tyler Jenkins
• The Stone Heart (Nameless City Vol.2) - Faith Erin Hicks, Jordie Bellaire
• Bulletproof Coffin: The 1000 Yard Stare - Shaky Kane and David Hine
• Godshaper - Si Spurrier and Jonas Goonface
• Black Hammer - Jeff lemire and Dean Ormston
• Harrow County - Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook
• Will O' The Wisp - Tom Hammock and Megan Hutchinson
• Swamp Thing - Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette et al
• Wet Moon - Sophie Campbell

Apologies for the occasional spurt of someone else's voice on the background of this one. Some people just don't know how to use their indoor voice.

Have we missed something obvious? Tell us in the comments so we can read it because looking forward to Snagglepuss is a sad state of affairs.

Podcast 73 - Spinoffs and Franchises

Spin-off! Is there any word more thrilling to the soul and/or corporate wallet?

This week we read a bucket of franchise-extension comics. From flaccid extrusions of long-spent IP, to comics an actual person might actually want to read, we talk about whether spin-off comics can be any good (yes), how it all works (it's complicated), and which ones are just utter, utter shite (surprisingly: not Pokémon).

Find out more about the "beautiful teat filled with dollars".

Not gonna lie - there's about twenty minutes of Pokémon chat, and some hand-wavy theorizing about yaoi on this one. You love it. 

We covered:

• Tencount vol. 1 & 2 - Rihito Takarai
• Something City - Ellice Weaver 
• AD: After Death #3 - Scott Snyder, Jeff Lemire, Steve Wands
• Heirloom - Dave Barker & Hester Wells
• Hotblood! (the 'sexy horse' one) - Toril Orlesky
• Emily Carol's webcomics
• Mind MGMT - Matt Kindt

Spin-offs:

• Buffy (Season 8) - Brian K Vaughan, Georges Jeanty (also sometimes Joss Whedon)
• Aliens: Apocalypse - The Destroying Angels - Mark Schultz, Doug Wheatley
• The Flintstones (2016) - Mark Russell, Steve Pugh
• Simpsons Comics On Parade
• Simpsons Comics A Go-Go
• Simpsons Comics Unchained
• Pokémon Adventures #1-3 (Red, Blue, and Green) - Hidenori Kusaka
• Mass Effect: Redemption - Mac Walters, Jackson Miller, Omar Francia
• Portal 2: Lab Rat - Michael Avon Oeming, Jay Pinkerton
• Aliens vs Predator - various

So, uh, there's that?

We also reviewed Something City on the site.

Podcast 72 - Gods

Don't call it a GodCast.

Actually don't, that sounded far better in my head. We're talking gods and mythology in comics, with drive-by reviewing of Hamish Steele's Pantheon, a revisit of The Wicked and the Divine, and a bunch of other stuff along the way because we're good to ya.

Benevolent, even.

We covered:

• Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway - Mike Carey, Scott Hampton, Chris Weston and James Hodgkins
• The Wicked and the Divine - Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matt Wilson
• Thor: God Butcher / Godbomb - Jason Aaron and Esad Ribic
• Pantheon - Hamish Steele
• Black Monday Murders - Jonathan Hickman, Tomm Coker
• Injection - Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvie, Jordie Bellaire
• Godshaper - Si Spurier and Jonas Goonface
• All-Star Superman - Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
• Sandman - Neil Gaiman and Many Others
• New Gods - Jack Kirby

You can also check out our deep dives into the gods and mythos of The Wicked and the Divine here:

• Part 1 (issues 1-7)
• Part 2 (issues 7-28)

That other show of ours was We Will Fix You, and it's a treat for all ages (don't play it to children it's a literal crime to do that).

Podcast 71 - More Comics By Women

Y'know that shade over half the population who make about ten percent of Big Two comics, probably about half of the rest, and whose work gets about five percent of the attention? Yeah, those folks: women?

You remember women, right - the ones who don't get to say "I done made a comic" without some internet dickdribble making death threats.

In the spirit of celebrating great work (and of not being that guy), this week we're spotlighting a bunch of comics with female creators. 

Why not by men? Because we're PC-brigade, anti-man, white genocide committing, safe-space loving, freedom-hating liberal fascists, of course! Also because fuck you and your barely-veiled misogyny. 

Now shut up and read these lovely comics.

(We're sorry about the faint background church bells in this episode. If you like, you can think of it as an elaborate performance metaphor about patriarchal religion ruining everything? But mainly, the church down the road would not shut up for about an hour.)

We covered:

• Space Battle Lunchtime - Natalie Riess
• Silvia Carrus' web comics
• Princess Princess Ever After - Katie O’Neill
• Otherworld Barbara - Moto Hagio
• Power Ballad - Molly Brooks 
• Marie Enger's web comics
• Carta Monir:
  • Ghost Call
  • Don’t Wanna Close my Eyes
  • Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
    • If Only Once, If Only for a Little While
    • Unkind+Unwell
    • Amarinthine
    • Hallie Daggett (biography)
    • Phylum
    • Aphton Corbin:
      • Paper bag test
      • Day 27
      • Tillie Walden:
        • On a Sunbeam
        • The End of Summer
        • Skim - Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki
        • Drama - Raina Telgemeier 
        • The Nameless City - Faith Erin Hicks
        • Livestock (preview) buy it here - Hannah Berry
        • Jogging - Anna F Hallstrom
        • Greasy's Guide to Nookie & Fairytales for Bad Bitches - Comic Book Slumber Party

Moar Comics!

Some of the lists we used as starting points:

• 10 female cartoonists you need to know (2017) - Zainab Akhtar 
• 10 female cartoonists you need to know (2016) - Zainab Akhtar 
• #VisibleWomen - Kelly Sue DeConnick's hashtag thread
• Comics about women, by women - Comics Alliance

Obviously we've missed stuff, and this skews web/current. What else y'all got?

Episode 70 - Big Weird Sci Fi

Back, back again to the stranger edges of sci fi. We ponder whether sci fi has preemptively shifted to reflect our garbage fire times, or whether our reading habits have just taken a turn for the cynical.

Because of the garbage fires.

We covered:

• Black Monday Murders - Jonathan Hickman and Tomm Coker
• Those Fucking Dinosaurs (I have no idea where to find this, let us know if you spot it)
• Descender - Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen
• Harrow County - Tyler Crook and Cullen Bunn
• Mare Internum - Der-shing Helmer
• Dept.H - Matt Kindt and Sharlene Kindt
• Quantum Teens Are Go! - Magdalene Visaggio, Eryk Donovan, Claudia Aguirre
• The Firelight Isle - Paul Duffield
• Leave Me Alone - Vera Brosgol
• Deep Space Canine - Comic Book Slumber Party (full list of contributors here)
• Trees - Warren Ellis and Jason Howard
• Injection - Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvie, Jordie Bellaire
• The Wild Storm - Warren Ellis and Jon Davis-Hunt
• Sex Criminals - Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
• Warm Blood - Josh Tierney, Saskia Gutekunst, Joysuke, Winston Young, Naomi Franquiz, Marina Julia, Olivier Pichard (so far)
• Epicurean’s Exile - Leia Weathington and Jack Cole
• Monstress - Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
• Kaijumax - Zander Cannon

Podcast 69 - Revisiting The Past

They say that the past is a foreign country, and as British citizens we are therefore left with an extremely limited window of opportunity to go there without a visa. We're looking back at books we loved, formative experiences, to see how they stack up now. Also: other comics! Is a hotdog a sandwich? More!

We read:

• Dirt - CJ Reay
• The Marionette Unit - Azhur Saleem, James Boyle,Warwick Johnson-Cadwell
• Paper Girls - Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson
• On the Wings of the World: Audubon - Fabien Grolleau and Jeremie Royer
• Motor Crush: Babs Tarr, Brenden Fletcher, Cameron Stewart
• Immortal Iron Fist: Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, David Aja

We Revisited:

• V for Vendetta - Alan Moore, David Lloyd, Steve Whitaker, Siobhan Dodds
• Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
• Daytripper - Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba

And hey, why not listen to We Will Fix You? All the us, none of the comics, several jokes. Is good. You listen.

Podcast 68 - Comic Shops

We really expected to just talk in gushing tones about our favourite comic shops and then come up with some great ideas for how we'd run our own.

So of course we're ranting about the comics Direct Market. But also some other stuff! 

We read:

• Mare Internum - Der-shing Helmer
• Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet - Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze
• Trees - Warren Ellis and Jason Howard
• The Arab of the Future - Riad Sattouf
• How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less - Sarah Glidden
• Critical Chips - Zainab Akhtar and various authors
• The Can Opener’s Daughter - Rob Davis

Comic shops we talked about:

• Gosh (London)
• Page 45 (Nottingham)
• Niche (Huntingdon)
• Dave's Comics (Brighton)
• OK Comics (Leeds)

Podcast 67 - Best Comics 0f 2016

Hot dang folks, it's the end of the year, and that means Best Of lists. We're no exception to this cheap and easy content format, but we will at least give some lucky scamp a prize of each of our picks for the best comics this year.

Our spoilery results way below, hidden beneath this very professional advert for  affordable bookkeeping:

Problem Chimp Will Count For You

(Not an official Problem Chimp Enterprises advert, but I do work in marketing, so, y'know. Sorry.)

Each of Our Top Three Books:

• AD: After Death #1 - Scott Snyder and  Jeff lemire
• For The Love Of God, Marie - Jade Sarson
• The Nameless City - Faith Erin Hicks and Jordie Bellaire
• Rolling Blackouts - Sarah Glidden
• Unsounded - Ashley Cope
• March #3 - John Lewis, Nate Powell, Andrew Aydin
• Vision - Tom King, Gabriel Hernandez Walta, Jordie Bellaire
• Plutona - Jeff Lemire, Emi Lennox, Jordie Bellaire
• 5000 KM Per Second - Manuele Fior

Still Good:

• Saga - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
• Paper Girls - Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson
• Trees - Warren Ellis and Jason Howard
• Southern Bastards - Jason Aaron and Jason Latour
• Empty Zone - Jason Shawn Alexander
• Doctor Fate - Paul Levitz and Sonny Liew
• Giant Days - John Allison, Lissa Treiman, Max Sarin
• Harrow County - Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook
• Sixth Gun - Cullen Bunn and Bryan Hurtt
• Squirrel Girl - Ryan North and Erica Henderson
• Doctor Strange - Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo
• Injection - Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey, Jordie Bellaire
• Monstress - Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
• Check Please - Ngozi Ukazu

And also:

• Broken Frontier Anthology - Various
• The Spire - Simon Spurrier, Jeff Stokely, André May
• The Can Opener’s Daughter - Rob Williams

Podcast 66 - Sincerity

Sincerity is an odd topic for three soulless husks to confront, but we'll give it a crack. What's up with the increase in comics that are just lovely? Where have they come from? Why now? And what are the good ones? We'll tell ya!

Also: Competition time! Email us a description of the show you think we should be doing instead to info@consequential.net and win our books of the year!

We talked about:

• Khaos Komix - Tab Kimpton
• Feels Like Noodles - Jade Sarson
• Cowboys and Insects - David Hine and Shakey Kane (Roger wrote about it in depth here)
• Orbital -  Sylvain Runberg and Serge Pelle
• Performance - One Beat Zines
• Fascist Friends - Erin Lux
• The Backstagers - James Tynion, Rian Sygh
• Spill Zone - Scott Westerfeld & Alex Puvilland
• Geis - Alexis Deacon
• Postcards in Braille - Constanza Yovaniniz
  • “Real girls”
  • Disabilityawareness & education
  • Fantasy Comics #1 - Sam Bosma
  • Tetris: The Games People Play - Box Brown
  • Clear Blue Tomorrows - Fabien Vehlmann, Bruno Gazzotti, Ralph Meyer
  • Jeffery Fisch Boy - Jake Lava
  • The Final Cameo - Bastard Comics
  • Mulp - Matt Gibbs and Sara Dunkerton
  • The Foldings - Faye Simms and Joann Dominik
  • Marquis D’Anoan: The Providence - Fabian Vehlmann and Matthieu Bonhomme

Podcast 65 - Thought Bubble Hauls

We're back from Thought Bubble and here to tell you about the exciting things we picked up - including several hideous diseases! But more than that we got some great new comics and interviewed some interesting creators. Let us tell you what you would have bought if only you had our impeccable taste.

Also we're sorry about how wet this all sounds. Sorry. About. The. Wet.

We talked to:

• 15:20 - Tab Kimpton, Discord Comics
• 21:30 - Harry Bentley & Michael Barr of Dragonhide Studios (and Dragonhoard Publishing)
• 38:20 - Jade Sarson, For the Love of God Marie, Cafe Suada
• 48:00 - Faye Simms, The Foldings
• 52:40 - David Hine, Cowboys and Insects
• 57:15 - James McKay, Dream of a Low Carbon Future

We read:

• For the Love of God, Marie - Jade Sarson
• Shoplifter - Michael Cho
• Damaris - Sarah Peploe
• Get Your Man - Kami D (via Dragonhoard)
• The Foldings - Faye Simms
• Cowboys and Insects - David Hine and Shaky Kane
• March - John Lewis/Andrew Aydin/Nate Powell
• Old Person Whisperer
• The Auntie - Alyssa Wong and Wendy Xu
• Rolling Blackouts - Sarah Glidden
• Where Were You? - Tetley Clarke (It's not on his shop right now, maybe it will be soon?)
• Butt Ghosts - Silvia Carrus
• Feminist Cat - Silvia Carrus
• Social Justice Penguin - Silvia Carrus 
• Wired Up Wrong - Rachael Smith
• Cogs - Lorenzo Fruzza (Jinku Comics)
• Fantasy Sports Number 2 - Sam Bosma

Not enough? Roger rounded up his favourite picks from Thought Bubble's Rainbow Road.

Podcast 64 - Thought Bubble 2016

It's that time of year again, so Roger and Dave are at Thought Bubble with special guests the people who could be lured back to their hotel room with cheap wine and a cocked eyebrow Dave Barker and Hester Wells (from heirloom-comic.com), and Clarrie Maguire (of ProblemChimp.com - specialist bookkeeping for all your starving artist needs).

They're all drinking chocolate-flavoured British wine (as distinct from English wine, people on Twitter get very huffy if you confuse the two. So, what was the best of day one?

Podcast 63 - Objectification / #Butts

Just like he kinetically charges his playing cards, Gambit sexually charges this chunky Scandinavian-style knitwear, courtesy of artist and comics-doer Dave Barker.

We're joined in this episode by Hester Wells, the only guest we've ever had who has her own biographical comic that she didn't draw herself (specificity, yo), to help us out with the thorny topic of objectification, particularly in mainstream comics.

This episode is groaning with comics, throbbing with intellectual discussion and glistening with salty language.

We covered:

• Oishinbo - Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki
• Heavy Air - Lizzy Stewart (Shortbox)
• Your Black Friend - Ben Passmore (Shortbox)
• Blame - Tsutomu Nihei
• Side by Side - Mioki
• Julia Gfrörer:
  • Black is the Colour
  • All is Lost
  • The sheets were all be-bled with the blood
  • The Deep Ones (with Sean T. Collins)
  • River of Tears
  • Phosphorus
  • World Within the World
  • The Voynich Manuscript
  • Spirit Hand
  • See also: The 39 Ryan Goslings
  • Also a cool series on women’s labour and the fashion industry
  • Giant Days - John Allison/Lissa Treiman/Max Sarin
  • Tetris - Box Brown
  • A comic about being objectified
  • The Omega Men - Tom King and Barnaby Bagenda
  • Vision - Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta
  • Daredevil - Charles Soule and Ron Garney
  • Young Avengers - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie
  • Kyle’s Bed & Breakfast - Greg Fox
  • Gambit - James Asmus and Clay Mann
  • Marvel Swimsuit Special - Various
  • All New X-Factor - Peter David and Carmine Di Giandomenico

Podcast 62 - Food

Food! For most of us it's a sludgy nutrient paste we shove into the front of our withered forms to stretch their existence out for another grim and grey span. But did you know it can also be delicious? It's true! We found many comics on the topic, and now we're sharing their wisdom with you.

We covered:

• Self-Obsessed - Sina Grace
• Wolf - Ales Kot and Matt Taylor
• On a Sunbeam - Tillie Walden
• Southern Bastards - Jasons, Various
• Andre the Giant - Box Brown
• Check Please - Ngozi Ukazu

Food

• Oishinbo  Vol 1: "Japanese Cuisine" - Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki
• Oishinbo Vol.2: "Sake" - Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki
• Oishinbo Vol.3: "Ramen and Gyoza" - Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki
• Rutabaga: The Adventure Chef - Eric Colossal
• Cook Korean - Robin Ha
• Banchan In Two Pages - Robin Ha
• Modern Fried Snake - Ryan Armand
• I Think You’re Sauceome - Sarah Becan
• Cooking Comically - Tyler Capps
• Drawn Butter - L. Nichols
• Chew - John Layman/Rob Guillory
• Wonton Soup - James Stokoe
• What Did You Eat Yesterday - Fumi Yoshinaga
• Food Baby - Lucie Byron

Podcast 61 - Fantasy

We bravely set out to find the very best in fantasy comics, but we got badly sidetracked and got eaten by a Groo, a monster from a videogame that shares its name with a fantasy comic we didn't actually cover. Will that do? I tried.

There's a weird lack of fantasy comics, so we try to figure out why what Mr Hart so kindly refers to as "Elves and Swords and Bollocks" isn't as prevalent as other genres.

We covered:

• A City Inside - Tillie Walden
• Oishinbo - Tetsu Kariya, Akira Hanasaki
• Black Monday Murders - Jonathan Hickman, Tomm Coker
• Dicebox - Jenn Manley Lee
• Echo’s Rift  Jennifer Potter
• Unsounded - Ashley Cope
• Stand Still, Stay Silent - Minna Sundberg
• The Lost Oracle - Lho Brockhoff
• Cry Havoc - Si Spurrier, Ryan Kelly, Nick Filardi, Matt Wilson, Lee Loughridge
• Weirdworld - Sam Humphries, Michael Del Mundo
• Injection - Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey, Jordie Bellaire
• Pretty Deadly - Kelly-Sue DeConnick, Emma Rios, Jordie Bellaire
• Ghastly - "Ghastly" (This is very not safe for work you guys)

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction entry on fantasy comics.

Podcast 60 - The Eisner Awards

This episode we look at the Eisner Awards, looking at recent winners and asking: "Awards, huh? What are they good for?" Stick with us to find out.

Sixty episodes! Where does the time go? I'm serious, where is it. ANSWER ME, PHYSICS.

We read:

• Deadpool v Gambit - Ben Blacker, Benjamin Acker, Danilo Beyruth
• Empty Zone - Jason Shawn Alexander, Darragh Savage, Luis Nct
• Mechanism - Raffaele Ienco
• Bad Machinery - John Allison
• Gunnerkrigg Court - Tom Siddell
• Giant Days - John Allison  and Lissa Tremain
• Doctor Strange - Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo
• Vision - Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta

Eisner:

• March - John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
• Showa: A History of Japan 1953-1989 - Shigeru Mizuki
• Southern Bastards - Jason Aaron and Jason Latour
• Paper Girls - Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson
• Descender - Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen

You can find a full list of the Eisner Winners here.

John Barrowman as Squirrel Girl

Photo credit: John Barrowman MBE

MBE

Podcast 59 - Manga

This week we try to correct for our utter ignorance about manga, reading as much as we can in two weeks and then spouting opinions all over the place.

A theme emerges in Roger's reading. Not a good theme.

We covered:

• Bad Machinery - John Allison
• The Goddamned - Jason Aaron, R.M. Guera, Giulia Brusco
• Saga - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
• The Sixth Gun - Cullen Bunn, Tyler Crook, Brian Hurtt, Bill Crabtree
• Filmish - Edward Ross
• A City Inside - Tillie Walden

Hey Kids! Manga!

• Abandon the Old in Tokyo - Yoshihiro Tatsumi
• Oishinbo: A la Carte - Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki
• Ode to Kirihito - Osamu Tezuka
• Angel Heart - Udou Shinohara
• Amakusa 1637 - Michiyo Akaishi (this isn't anywhere legit, sorry)
• Barefoot Gen - Keiji Kakazawa
• One-Punch Man - “One” and Yusuke Murata
• Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service - Eiji Otsuka
• Tekkon Kinkreet - Taiyo Matsumoto
• Project X Cup Noodle - Tadashi Katoh and Akira Imai

You might also like:

• Manga database - http://hidamari.moe/
• UK Anime Network

Podcast 58 - The Louvre Collection

This week we look at the Louvre's very own comics range in detail. Plus special guest Chris tells us about ELCAF, there's a diversion about Shakira, and Roger liberally marinades his crotch.

We covered:

• Descender - Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen
• Stickleback - Ian Eddington and D’Israeli
• Mooncakes - Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu
• Family Man - Dylan Meconis

Louvre Collection

• Rohan at the Louvre - Hirohiko Araki
• Cruising Through the Louvre - David Prudhomme
• The Museum Vaults - Marc-Antoine Mathieu
• An Enchantment - Christian Durieux
• Glacial Period - Nicolas De Crecy
• Phantoms of the Louvre - Enki Bilal

Special guest star ELCAF special review special:

• Veripathy - Andy Poyiadgi
• Kadak Collective:
  • The Same Everywhere - Aarthi Parthasarathy, Kaveri Gopalakrishnan
  • My Secret Crop - Kaveri Gopalakrishnan
  • Cat Disco - Rebecca K. Jones
  • On the trail - Anna Ring (Estonian Comics Collective)
  • Blob Squad - Kristyna Baczynski
  • Internal Wilderness - Claire Scully
  • Artificial Flowers - Rachael Smith

Podcast 57 - Broken Frontier Anthology

This week we're covering the Broken Frontier anthology, a recent collection of sci-fi treats. Plus! English wine! Corn! And guess who does an impression of a "Wizard's Stairlift"? It's not actually a sex act! #persuadethebunn

Apologies for the sound quality in this episode - English wine degrades the nervous system, it was the best we could manage.

We covered:

• Barefoot Gen - Keiji Nakazawa
• Harrow County - Cullen Bunn & Tyler Crook
• Geis Volume 1: A Matter of Life and Death - Alexis Deacon
• Notes: Born to be a Larve - Boulet
• Heirloom - Dave Barker
• Broken Frontier - Various artists:
  • Highlighted stories
  • Dark, Dark World - Cullen Bunn, Nathan Fox, Brad Simpson
  • Plunder - Phil Hester, Daniel Warren Johnson, Doug Garbark
  • The Wave - Robert Sammelin
  • The Wall - Tyler Chin-Tanner, Toby Cypress, Thomas Mauer
  • Flyer - Justin Zimmerman, Mike Lawrence, Thomas Mauer
  • The Beard - Fred Van Lente & Alison Sampson
  • The Trip - Joshua Hale Fiakov & Ryan Kelly
  • Here There Be Monsters - Sean Wang
  • Terran Omega - PJ Holden & Scott Ferguson
  • Key: A Bastard’s Tale -  Salgood Sam
  • Last Dance at Omega Point - INJ Culbard
  • Dark, Dark World - Cullen Bunn Nathan Fox
  • Plunder - Phil Hester Daniel Warren Johnson
  • The Beard - Fred Van Lente Alison Sampson
  • Quin Returns - David Hine Mark Stafford
  • Down in a Hole - Noah Van Sciver
  • No Regrets - Jamie Coe
  • Inside Out - Karrie Fransman
  • 30 Years of Service - Box Brown

Podcast 56 - Darwyn Cooke

With the sad news that Darwyn Cooke has died, we look back at the best of his career.

We covered:

• We(l)come Back - Christopher Sebela, Jonathan Sawyer, Claire Roe
• Delilah Dirk and the King’s Shilling - Tony Cliff
• Space Riders - Alexis Ziritt and Fabian Rangel Jr.
• The Rattler - Jason Mcnamara & Greg Hinkle
• The End of Summer - Tillie Walden

Darwyn Cooke books:

• DC: The New Frontier
• Graphic Ink
• Catwoman
• The Twilight Children
• Parker: Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3, Vol 4, Martini Edition
• Batman: Ego