Podcast 72 - Gods

Don't call it a GodCast.

Actually don't, that sounded far better in my head. We're talking gods and mythology in comics, with drive-by reviewing of Hamish Steele's Pantheon, a revisit of The Wicked and the Divine, and a bunch of other stuff along the way because we're good to ya.

Benevolent, even.

We covered:

• Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway - Mike Carey, Scott Hampton, Chris Weston and James Hodgkins
• The Wicked and the Divine - Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matt Wilson
• Thor: God Butcher / Godbomb - Jason Aaron and Esad Ribic
• Pantheon - Hamish Steele
• Black Monday Murders - Jonathan Hickman, Tomm Coker
• Injection - Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvie, Jordie Bellaire
• Godshaper - Si Spurier and Jonas Goonface
• All-Star Superman - Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
• Sandman - Neil Gaiman and Many Others
• New Gods - Jack Kirby

You can also check out our deep dives into the gods and mythos of The Wicked and the Divine here:

• Part 1 (issues 1-7)
• Part 2 (issues 7-28)

That other show of ours was We Will Fix You, and it's a treat for all ages (don't play it to children it's a literal crime to do that).

Podcast 46 - Comics Continuity (Where To Start With Marvel and DC)

Do you want to get started reading the lycra-clad adventures that Marvel and DC peddle, but you're put off by the huge gnarled continuity that has built up over the best part of a century? Batman, X-Men, Superman - all have accreted a vast mythology full of plot holes, reboots, crises many and various, but fear not - we're here to help with some surefire techniques to get you past the initial confusion, and to make sure you find the good stuff. Thanks to Tom Howard on Twitter for the setup.

Leap straight to the 1 hour, 1 minute mark if it's just that that you're after, or stick around for: plenty of new things! A series of crimes done in Dave's house! An introduction to homebrewing! Haikus! The secret history of nutmeg! Who could want more? It's a bumper episode!

We covered:

• Check Please! - Ngozi Ukazu
• Fires Above Hyperion - Patrick Atangan
• Descender -  Jeff Lemire & Justin Nguyen
• Aama - Frederick Peeters
• Paper Girls - Brian K Vaughan & Cliff Chiang
• Space Dumplins - Craig Thompson & Dave Stewart
• Sex Criminals - Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky
• The Fifth Beatle - Vivek Tiwary, Andrew C Robinson
• Nathaniel's Nutmeg - Giles Milton

The suggestions for starting points:

• All-Star Superman - Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely
• Batman: Year One - Frank Miller & David Mazucchelli
• The Ultimates - Mark Millar & Bryan Hitch
• Astonishing X-Men - Joss Whedon & John Cassidy
• FF - Matt Fraction & Mike Allred
• She-Hulk - Dan Slott, Various
• Hawkeye - Matt Fraction, David Aja, Matt Hollingsworth
• Moon Knight - Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey, Jordie Bellaire
• DC: The New Frontier - Darwyn Cooke
• Daredevil - Brian Michael Bendis, various artists
• Spider-Man: Blue - Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale

Even Batman knows Cyclops is a dick.

Podcast 32 - Agony Ant-Man

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 27 - Violence (For Real This Time)

Comics have always been violent, and while early comics broadly focussed on Hitler getting punched on the jaw or lovesick cats being pelted with bricks, extreme violence has gone through peaks and troughs and sparked the odd moral panic along the way. We look at how violence is portrayed in comics, and where it works and doesn't.

This week we talked about:

• Southern Bastards - Jason Aaron & Jason Latour
• Wytches: Issue 0 (free) | Issue 1 - Scott Snyder & Jock
• The Motherless Oven - Rob Davis
• Essex County - Jeff Lemire
• Blacksad: Amarillo - Juan Díaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido
• Resident Alien - Paul Hogan & Steve Parkhouse
• Exit Wounds - Rutu Modan
• Kate Beaton's Beat Poets
• Batman: Odyssey | AKA Neal Adams' crazy Batman | Brilliant coverage of that insane comic
• We3 - Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely
• Flex Mentallo - Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely
• V for Vendetta - Alan Moore & David Lloyd
• Punisher - Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon
• Crossed - Garth Ennis & Jacen Burrows
• Preacher - Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon
• The Boys - Garth Ennis & Darick Robertson
• 300 - Frank Miller & Lynn Varley
• Three - Kieron Gillen & Ryan Kelly

It's a bra, yeah, but like it's also crabs

This is a bra made of crabs, so now you've seen it too. [wwm_survey id="1"]