Comic Book Slumber Party — ConSequential

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

Roger and Dave are back from Thought Bubble, and they brought gifts! For Lucy, not for you. That would be weird. Listen on as we fight for approval in the inaugural Lucy Boyes £5 Challenge. Also: the best stuff we picked up at the festival. If that wasn't enough, we have interviews with Dan Watters & Caspar Wijingaard, Tillie Walden, Comic Book Slumber Party, Julia Scheele with One Beat Zines and Mat Barnett of Alien in the Outfield. Hey, it's competition time! Our end of the year show is coming up, and we want you to pitch us a comic. The ones we like best will be reviewed on the show as though they existed, because we're horrible, judgemental people. The one we unanimously decide we like the most will win one of our favourite books of the year, and probably some bespoke slash fiction*! Send a brief comic pitch to info@consequential.net, and good luck. You know what we like.

This week we talked about:

Mean Girls Club - Ryan Heshka
Limbo - Dan Watters & Caspar Wijingaard
I Love This Part - Tillie Walden
The Waltz - Nuno Duarte & Joana Afonso
Red - Jess Milton
Bob, Non-Union Psychic - Adam Volle, Lance Lucero, Francisco Resendiz
Fairytales for Bad Bitches - Comic Book Slumber Party
Identity Zine - One Beat Zines
A Woman Falls in Love With the Devil - Isabel Greenberg
The Golden Cannibal Girl - Douglas Noble
Dick Cream - Jordana Globerman

*Probably.