Podcast 53: France (and Belgium)

March 10, 2016

How angry is it possible to be about Tintin, a comic where a boy and his dog solve mysteries and occasionally assert the supremacy of Belgium? Really quite, it turns out. That's right, we're covering the comics of France and Belgium (in rage-spittle).

Plus! Learn who's an alcoholic (it's Captain Haddock, and Roger). Which Franco-Belgian comic character has "bad trousers"? What are good names for the Cornish? We'll tell you. You'd better believe we'll tell you.

Our title music is by Canon Hannon's Ham Cannon.

We covered:

Long John Silver: Neptune - Xavier Dorison & Matthieu Lauffray
The End of a Fence - Roman Muradov
Sex Criminals - Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky
Orbital - Serge Pelle & Sylvain Runberg
An Tain - Colmán Ó Raghallaigh
Harrow County: Countless Haints - Cullen Bunn & Tyler Crook (PDF Preview)
Miss Don't Touch Me - Hubert & Kerascoet
Tintin - Hergé:
- Cigars of the Pharaoh
- The Blue Lotus
- The Black Island
- The Secret of the Unicorn
- Red Rackham’s Treasure
- Asterix - René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo:

Podcast 32 - Agony Ant-Man

January 30, 2015

This week we're giving something back to the people. As Agony Ant-Man, we take listener questions and pump out good advice and comics-related wisdom at a frankly disturbing volume. As in quantity. If it's too loud, turn it down. We can't do everything for you.

We read:

Manhattan Projects - Jonathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra
Stray Bullets - David Lapham
The Wicked and the Divine - Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie and Matthew Wilson
Age of Bronze - Eric Shanower
Terms of Service - Michael Keller & Josh Neufeld
Ody-C - Matt Fraction and Christian Ward
Sing No Evil - J. P. Ahonen and K. P. Alare

And to fix your broken and tragic lives, we recommended:

Atomic Robo - Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener
DC: The New Frontier - Darwyn Cooke
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl - Ryan North and Erica Henderson
She-Hulk: either the Dan Slott run or the Charles Soule one
My Cardboard Life / Soppy - Philippa Rice
Bandette - Paul Tobin and Coleen Coover
Chloe Noonan - Marc Ellerby
Blankets - Craig Thompson
All-Star Superman - Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
Flex Mentallo - Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
Joe The Barbarian - Grant Morrison and Sean Murphy
Asterix - Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo
Rat Queens - Kurtis J. Wiebe and Roc Upchurch
Kate Beaton
Stuck Rubber Baby - Howard Cruse
The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln - Noah Van Sciver
Ms. Marvel - G. Willow Wilson and various artists
I Don't Like My Hair Neat - Julia Scheele
Double Barrel
Anything by John Allison
Will O' The Wisp - Megan Hutchinson and Tom Hammock
Hildafolk - Luke Pearson
Everything We Miss - Luke Pearson
Infinite Vacation - Nick Spencer and Christian Ward
King Cat - John Porcellino
The Boxer - Reinhard Kleist
Mulp - Matt Gibbs & Sara Dunkerton
Mouseguard - David Petersen
Journey Into Mystery - Kieron Gillen and Richard Elson
From Hell - Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
The Adventures of Luther Arkwright - Bryan Talbot
Scott Pilgrim - Bryan Lee O'Malley
Empire State - Jason Shiga
Age of Apocalypse - Various
Reading Comics - Douglas Wolk
Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud
1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die - Paul Gravett, Various

And We Are The Best is based on Never Goodnight by Coco Moodysson. And that NoBrow iPad app is here.

That Mario thing.

Podcast Episode 6 - Kids' Comics

August 31, 2013

As any number of hacks will tell you, comics aren't just for kids anymore. But have things gone too far the other way? What are the good kids' comics? And who better to talk about that than three people who are not and do not have children? No one, that's who.

If you're feeling like spending some money, please consider supporting the Cartozia Kickstarter, or picking up the Music by Programmers album, which includes tracks by the composer of our them music, Chris Whitworth, Funds raised support maths and computer education at Bletchley Park and the National Computer Museum.

Comics we covered this week: