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 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 67 - Best Comics 0f 2016

Hot dang folks, it's the end of the year, and that means Best Of lists. We're no exception to this cheap and easy content format, but we will at least give some lucky scamp a prize of each of our picks for the best comics this year.

Our spoilery results way below, hidden beneath this very professional advert for  affordable bookkeeping:

Problem Chimp Will Count For You

(Not an official Problem Chimp Enterprises advert, but I do work in marketing, so, y'know. Sorry.)

Each of Our Top Three Books:

• AD: After Death #1 - Scott Snyder and  Jeff lemire
• For The Love Of God, Marie - Jade Sarson
• The Nameless City - Faith Erin Hicks and Jordie Bellaire
• Rolling Blackouts - Sarah Glidden
• Unsounded - Ashley Cope
• March #3 - John Lewis, Nate Powell, Andrew Aydin
• Vision - Tom King, Gabriel Hernandez Walta, Jordie Bellaire
• Plutona - Jeff Lemire, Emi Lennox, Jordie Bellaire
• 5000 KM Per Second - Manuele Fior

Still Good:

• Saga - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
• Paper Girls - Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson
• Trees - Warren Ellis and Jason Howard
• Southern Bastards - Jason Aaron and Jason Latour
• Empty Zone - Jason Shawn Alexander
• Doctor Fate - Paul Levitz and Sonny Liew
• Giant Days - John Allison, Lissa Treiman, Max Sarin
• Harrow County - Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook
• Sixth Gun - Cullen Bunn and Bryan Hurtt
• Squirrel Girl - Ryan North and Erica Henderson
• Doctor Strange - Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo
• Injection - Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey, Jordie Bellaire
• Monstress - Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
• Check Please - Ngozi Ukazu

And also:

• Broken Frontier Anthology - Various
• The Spire - Simon Spurrier, Jeff Stokely, André May
• The Can Opener’s Daughter - Rob Williams

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 60 - The Eisner Awards

This episode we look at the Eisner Awards, looking at recent winners and asking: "Awards, huh? What are they good for?" Stick with us to find out.

Sixty episodes! Where does the time go? I'm serious, where is it. ANSWER ME, PHYSICS.

We read:

• Deadpool v Gambit - Ben Blacker, Benjamin Acker, Danilo Beyruth
• Empty Zone - Jason Shawn Alexander, Darragh Savage, Luis Nct
• Mechanism - Raffaele Ienco
• Bad Machinery - John Allison
• Gunnerkrigg Court - Tom Siddell
• Giant Days - John Allison  and Lissa Tremain
• Doctor Strange - Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo
• Vision - Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta

Eisner:

• March - John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
• Showa: A History of Japan 1953-1989 - Shigeru Mizuki
• Southern Bastards - Jason Aaron and Jason Latour
• Paper Girls - Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson
• Descender - Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen

You can find a full list of the Eisner Winners here.

John Barrowman as Squirrel Girl

Photo credit: John Barrowman MBE

MBE

Podcast 54 - Politics

This week we tread into the murky waters of politics, which means we mostly talk about Transmetropolitan, because most other political cartooning out there is exclusively by and for crazy people, and that ain't us.

This episode has a bad word in it. A really bad one. Lucy done it.

As always, ConSequential is brought to you by fried starches, alcohol, and a lingering sense that something, something we can't even remember, has gone terribly wrong.

And of course, our title music is by Canon Hannon’s Ham Cannon.

We read:

• Transmetropolitan - Warren Ellis & Darick Robertson
• Citizen Jack - Sam Humphries & Tommy Patterson
• Opus - Satoshi Kon
• Paper Girls - Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson
• Doctor Fate - Paul Levitz & Sonny Liew
• Constantine: The Hellblazer - Ming Doyle, James Tynion, Riley Rossmo
• Martian Manhunter - Rob Williams & Eddy Barrows
• Bloom County - Berkeley Breathed

You may want to see The Many Cum Faces of George Osborne - and who could blame you?

Podcast 52 - Facing Our Shame Again

We're staring down those books we should have read already, tackling them like mighty colossi and devouring our shame. But not only that!

You probably want to know which cross-channel ferry service has the best buffet. We can help.

You probably want to know what Medieval nuns masturbated to. We can help.

You probably want to know just how much anxiety jam shopping can cause. Fuck yeah we can help.

Talked about some comics too:

• Limbo - Dan Watters, Caspar Wijngaard
• Injection - Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey, Jordie Bellaire
• Damocles - Joel Callède & Alain Henriet
• Tom O'Bedlam (Free PDF) | Print Copy - Maia Kobabe
• Palestine - Joe Sacco
• Marquis d'Anoan: The Isle of Brac - Fabien Vehlmann, Matthieu Bonhomme
• Marquis d'Anoan: The Black Virgin - Fabien Vehlmann, Matthieu Bonhomme
• Street Dawgz - Lizz Lunney
• Judge Dredd Vol. 1 - Various
• Cry Havoc - Simon Spurrier, Ryan Kelly, Matt Wilson, Lee Loughridge, Nick Filardi
• Akira - Katsuhiro Otomo

Podcast Episode 34: Smut

Or pornographic comics, if you're nasty. We take a broad overview of smutty books, try not to say anything too awful about Sonic The Hedgehog fan art, and rate various pornoglyphs on "wankability". Or Roger does. He's very forward. Goes without saying that there are some bad swears in this one.

We read (in case you're slow, just don't click these at work):

• Starfighter - Hamletmachine
• Sensitive Pornograph - Ashika Sakura
• Smut Peddler - Various
• The Wicked and the Divine - Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matt Wilson
• Resident Alien - Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse
• Valentines/Fawn - Jess Fink
• Chester 5000 XYV - Jess Fink
• Oh Joy Sex Toy - Erika Moen
• Co-Eds, Snow Sluts - “Man”
• Sing No Evil - JP Ahonen and KP Alare
• Hawkeye - Matt Fraction and David Aja

We also ate a lot of Starburst, and retained our youthful appearance by never referring to them as Opal Fruits.