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 47 - Halloween

It's Halloween (hypothetically), and that means time for spooky comics. We'll lure you into a false sense of security with dazzling insight into a range of comics before shitting you right up with the jump scare that is our horror roundup. So this week we talk about:

• Wet Moon - Sophie Campbell
• Shadoweyes (and hey, there's a Kickstarter for a new printing) - Sophie Campbell
• I Hate Fairyland - Skottie Young & Jean-Francois Beaulieu
• Super Giant Battle Gecko - Naniiebim
• Rumble - John Arcudi & James Harren
• The City - James Herbert & Ian Miller
• The Fox Sister - Christina Strain & Jayd Aït-Kaci
• Space Dumplins - Craig Thompson & Dave Stewart
• The Twilight Children - Gilbert Hernandez, Darwyn Cooke, Dave Stewart
• Doctor Strange - Jason Aaron & Chris Bachalo
• Two Brothers - Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá, adapted from Milton Hatoum

And here's some horror for ya:

• When the Darkness Presses - Emily Carroll
• The Hole the Fox Did Make - Emily Carroll
• His Face All Red - Emily Carroll
• Out of Skin - Emily Carroll
• The Groom - Emily Carroll
• The Prince and the Sea - Emily Carroll
• All Along the Wall - Emily Carroll
• Through the Woods (print collection) - Emily Carroll
• Gunnerkrigg Court - Tom Siddell
• Cradlegrave - John Smith & Edmund Bagwell
• Shadows of Salamanca - Christophe Bec & Stefano Raffaele
• Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath - I.N.J. Culbard, adapted from H.P. Lovecraft
• Wytches - Scott Snyder, Jock, Matt Hollingsworth
• Rat God - Richard Corben
• Delphine - Richard Sala
• Adamtine - Hannah Berry
• Anya’s Ghost - Vera Brosgol
• Mercury - Hope Larson
• Kate Beaton's Family Halloween
• Uzumaki - Junjo Ito
• Bongcheon-Dong Ghost (really scary if you switch adblock off, we think) - Ho Rang
• Ghost in Masung Tunnel - Ho Rang
• This extremely spoopy comic - Kris Straub

• Complete Lovecraft eBook

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Podcast Episode 33: She Makes Comics

This week we watched Marissa Stotter's documentary She Makes Comics, a history of women in comics creation and fandom. We also run down some recent comics that we've been reading.

I've got to level with you, Lucy says "anus" repeatedly in this episode for no discernible reason. Also you can find out what swimming certificates we each have. Shall we?

This week we read:

• Saga - Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples
• Wytches - Scott Snyder and Jock
• Friends With Boys - Faith Erin Hicks
• I Don’t Like My Hair Neat 2 - Julia Schiele
• The Side Effects of the Cocaine - Sean T Collins/Isaac Moylan
• Satellite Sam - Matt Fraction and Howard Chaykin
• Velvet - Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting, Elizabeth Breitweiser
• Sex Criminals - Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
• Casanova: Acedia - Matt Fraction, Michael Chabon, Gabriel Ba, Fabio Moon
• Miss Don’t Touch Me - Hubert and Kerascoet
• The Sculptor - Scott McCloud
• Nameless - Grant Morrison, Chris Burnham, Nathan Fairbairn
• Trees - Warren Ellis and Jason Howard

And that Matt Kindt comic Roger was talking about was Divinity.

Podcast Episode 23 - Spies

Spies are everywhere. Probably. They're hard to see and we're paranoid. It's the booze.

There are plenty of fantastic spy comics, running from crazy hi-octane in the campiest, most sci-fi Bond mould to quiet, tense and introspective thrillers. This week we go over some of our favourites and talk some right old nonsense.

This week we covered:

• Nothing is Forgotten - Ryan Andrews
• Seconds - Bryan Lee O'Malley
• Moon Knight - Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey, Jordie Bellaire
• Skim - Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
• Rat Queens - Curtis Weibe and Roc Upchurch
• Judge Dredd: Trifecta - Al Ewing, Simon Spurrier, Rob Williams, Henry Flint, Simon Coleby, D'Israeli, Carl Critchlow
• The Bojeffries Saga - Alan Moore and Steve Parkhouse
• The Coldest City - Anthony Johnston and Sam Hart
• Modesty Blaise - Peter ODonnell and Enric Badia Romero
• Casanova - Matt Fraction, Fabio Moon, Gabriel Ba
• Secret Avengers - Various
• Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D - Jim Steranko
• Desolation Jones - Warren Ellis and J.H. Williams III
• Global Frequency - Various
• Red - Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner

That book on Bond:

• The Man Who Saved Britain - Simon Winder

And a lovely song with the word "Spies" in the title: