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 43 - Architecture

Buildings! Pretty great, huh? Personally, we all live in one. One each, this isn't like Rainbow where we all live in our pyjamas and hang out with a sexually ambiguous hippo. If only. Comics and architecture are natural allies, buildings being where stuff often happens, and comics being images of stuff happening. But there's more to it than that, and we look at some of the most interesting and informative takes on architecture in comics.

We also go into which each of our favourite metro systems are. Regular listeners will wonder what took us so long, frankly.

We apologise for the noisiness of this episode. Sometimes we just need our air really conditioned.

We read and discussed:

• Orbital - Sylvain Runberg & Serge Pelle
• Empty Zone - Jason Shawn Alexander
• Batman: Death By Design - Chip Kidd & Dave Taylor
• Saint Cole - Noah van Sciver
• Fante Bukowski - Noah van Sciver
• The Abaddon - Koren Shadmi
• Robert Moses - Christin Pierre and Oliver Balez
• The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath - I.N.J. Culbard, from H.P. Lovecraft
• Necropolis - Jake Wyatt
• Chew - Rob Guillory and John Layman
• Asterios Polyp - David Mazzucchelli
• From Hell - Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
• Sandman: World's End - Neil Gaiman et al.

See also:

• Soul of a Soulless City
• Andrew Lynch's maps of unbuilt Robert Moses Highways
• Imaginary Cities

Podcast 40 - Shiny! New!

Roger and Dave find themselves alone again this week, but rather than fighting to the death with sexy blades, they've thrown themselves into a vast raft of new releases (issue 1s and new trades) for your edification and amusement. If that's not enough, they still find time to get themselves a-frothy over Image Expo and the upcoming goodness. Onwards!

We read:

• The Spire - Si Spurrier and Jeff Stokely
• We Stand On Guard - Brian K. Vaughan, Steve Skroce, Matt Hollingsworth
• Arclight - Brandon Graham and Marian Churchland (part of 8House)
• Autumnlands - Kurt Busiek and Benjamin Dewey
• Rumble - Greg Arcudi and James Harren
• Supreme: Blue Rose - Warren Ellis and Tula Lotay
• Wytches - Scott Snyder, Jock, Matt Hollingsworth
• Kaptara - Chip Zdarsky and Kagan McLeod
• #WicDiv
• Starve - Brian Wood, Danijel Zezelj, Dave Stewart
• Empty Zone - Jason Shawn Alexander
• The Art of Flying - Antonio Altarriba
• The King in Yellow - I.N.J. Culbard, adapted from Robert W. Chambers
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - I.N.J. Culbard, adapted from H.P. Lovecraft