Dicebox — ConSequential — Haunted Phonograph

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.

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:

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.