Podcast Episode 2 - ELCAF, Fatale and Gender

This week most of the team checked out ELCAF, checking out all the wonderful comics, meeting the nice people, and giving Marc Ellerby most of our money. Those with substance issues stayed at home in bed.

We talk about Fatale’s treatment of gender and noir tropes, the new things we’ve read this week, and Dave has a barely-concealed nervous breakdown over Man of Steel. We can only apologise for the demented music occasionally drifting over this week’s podcast. Please contact a medical professional if it induces melancholy, trauma or death.

Comics we talked about this week:

• Fatale
• Thor: God Butcher
• Saga Volume 2
• The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil (and Stephen Collins' wonderful Michael Gove cartoon)
• 2000AD
• Double Barrel #10
• Demeter
• The Massive
• Supermarket
• Danse Macabre (Dylan Meconis)
• Outfoxed
• Bite Me!
• Marc Ellerby’s Hourly Comics
• We Will Remain - Andrew White
• Eustace
• The Accidental Salad
• St Colin and the Dragon
• My Cardboard Life
• Reich
• I Saw You
• You’re All Just Jealous of my Jetpack
• All-Star Superman
• Superman: Birthright
• Superman: Red Son
• Pictures for Sad Children
• The Silver Darlings
• Rembrandt by Typex
• Science Tales
• Teabag Theories
• Daisy and Violet Siamese Twins

Other Stuff:

• Hourly Comics Day
• The Memory Palace
• Myriad Editions

Podcast Episode 1 - Webcomics

In our very first podcast, the gang wrestle with the thorny issue of whether webcomics are any good or not, as well as reflecting on their own ethnic homogeneity and whether Canada’s premier singer-songwriter went blind from indulging in a spot of the old crystal meth:

Legal Disclaimer: Rufus Wainwright definitely went blind from drugs. We checked on Wikipedia and at least one other place.

Our jazzy theme tune was provided by Chris Whitworth. You can find more of his music on the Music by Programmers album, which is raising funds for Bletchley Park and the National Museum of Computing.

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Comics we mentioned in the show:

Phyiscal Comics:

• NextWave
• Fun Home
• Blankets
• Daytripper
• Adamtine
• Cerebus
• Wolves
• The Mire
• Demeter
• Six-Gun Gorilla
• Couriers

Webcomics:

• XKCD
• Gunnerkrigg Court
• Looking For Group
• Bad Machinery
• CTRL+ALT+DEL
• Goats (now sort of trading as Scenes from a Multiverse)
• Questionable Content
• Penny Arcade
• Something Positive
• Achewood
• Family Man
• Bite Me
• Dresden Codak
• Hark A Vagrant!
• Dicebox
• Teahouse (sporadically NSFW)
• Oglaf (Really NSFW)
• Prince of Cats
• Nimona (Which I think I referred to as Nimora)
• The Abaddon

If you've made it this far, and you feel like starting up a few new webcomics, it may be worth taking a look at Comic Rocket. It makes it easier to keep track of what you've read across multiple webcomics. Oh, and this is what yaoi is. A shorter explanation is available.