Hark A Vagrant! — ConSequential

If you went solely by listening to us, you'd be forgiven for thinking that comics were just about punching things and crying in cupboards. Not so! That would be ridiculous. Many of them are hilarious, and here we take a rambling walk through of favourites. Also there's a thing about sherry. We couldn't stop him.

Comics we talked about this week:

And then there's that whole sherry business.

Gonzalez Byass Leonor Sherry Palo Cortado

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.