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).

Episode 70 - Big Weird Sci Fi

Back, back again to the stranger edges of sci fi. We ponder whether sci fi has preemptively shifted to reflect our garbage fire times, or whether our reading habits have just taken a turn for the cynical.

Because of the garbage fires.

We covered:

• Black Monday Murders - Jonathan Hickman and Tomm Coker
• Those Fucking Dinosaurs (I have no idea where to find this, let us know if you spot it)
• Descender - Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen
• Harrow County - Tyler Crook and Cullen Bunn
• Mare Internum - Der-shing Helmer
• Dept.H - Matt Kindt and Sharlene Kindt
• Quantum Teens Are Go! - Magdalene Visaggio, Eryk Donovan, Claudia Aguirre
• The Firelight Isle - Paul Duffield
• Leave Me Alone - Vera Brosgol
• Deep Space Canine - Comic Book Slumber Party (full list of contributors here)
• Trees - Warren Ellis and Jason Howard
• Injection - Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvie, Jordie Bellaire
• The Wild Storm - Warren Ellis and Jon Davis-Hunt
• Sex Criminals - Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
• Warm Blood - Josh Tierney, Saskia Gutekunst, Joysuke, Winston Young, Naomi Franquiz, Marina Julia, Olivier Pichard (so far)
• Epicurean’s Exile - Leia Weathington and Jack Cole
• Monstress - Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
• Kaijumax - Zander Cannon

Podcast 61 - Fantasy

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.

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 25 - Time Travel

This week we tackle one of the philosophical and scientific big questions - should you date a man who willingly drinks Drambuie? Also we talk about time travel comics! But mostly that first thing.

• Shoplifter - Michael Cho
• The Wrenchies - Farel Dalrymple
• Trilium - Jeff Lemire
• The Property -Rutu Modan
• Copperhead - J Faerbera & Scott Godlewski
• Red Wing - Jonathan Hickman & Nick Pitarra
• Pax Romana - Jonathan Hickman (Not Nick Spencer, no matter how many times I repeat it)
• We Can Fix It - Jess Fink
• Seconds - Bryan Lee O'Malley

Podcast Episode 17 - Crime

CRIME IS EVERYWHERE. Well, there's a bit. There's a lot in comics too! We take a detailed forensic look at some of our favourite pulp and noir comics, talk about some real life crimes that may or may not have happened. They're pretty exciting crimes! Plus the usual filth and nonsense.

Comics we covered in this episode:

• Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
• Zombo by Al Ewing and Henry Flint
• Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba
• Parker by Darwyn Cooke, adapted from Donald Westlake
• Fatale by Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips
• Mass Effect: Redemption by Various
• Blacksad by Juanjo Guarnido and Juan Diaz Canales
• Britten & Brulightly by Hannah Berry
• Batman ‘66 by Various
• East of West by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta
• Pretty Deadly by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Emma Rios and Jordie Bellaire
• Whiteout by Ed Rucka and Steve Lieber
• Lumberjanes by Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson and Brooke A. Allen
• Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
• Thief of Thieves by Robert Kirkman, Nick Spencer and Shawn Martinbrough
• Top 10 - Alan Moore and Gene Ha
• Gotham Central - Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka and Michael Lark
• Identity Crisis - Brad Meltzer, Rags Morales and Michael Bair
• Sin City - Frank Miller
• Stumptown - Ed Rucka and Matthew SouthWorth

The Wilkinson Lewis family:

• Yes Hive Overlord
• Music!