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 Episode 51 - Indie Roundup / Roger's Crapsack Spectacular

Like a glorious phoenix that just properly could not be bothered for a bit over Christmas, we're back! We're covering some indie comics we picked up last year, and a load that were in a slightly wet bag in Roger's house. Pretty good stuff.

Plus: watch a sad man's life disintegrate before your very ears when he learns that never again will he get to taste the sweet, sweet nectar of a Panda Pop.

Also: learn which member of the team accused a small local police force of being child abusers on local TV news show Look East!

We covered:

• Sandman: Overture - Neil Gaiman, J.H. Williams III
• Injection - Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey, Jordie Bellaire
• Limbo - Dan Watters and Caspar Wijngaard
• Strugglers - Tim Fish (the other one appears not to be online, sorry folks. WE TRIED.)
• Public Information 1989 - Philip Trenerry
• Never Ever After - Chris Baldie & Holley McKend
• Damn days - Tim Levang
• Misc. Anthology - Martin Simpson
• Wytches - Scott Snyder, Jock, Matt Hollingsworth
• SuperMutant Magic Academy - Jillian Tamaki
• Long John Silver - Xavier Dorison, Mathieu Lauffray
• Dick Cream - Jordana Globerman
• Mean Girls Club - Ryan Heshka
• Hand Me Down - Kristyna Baczynski
• Kaptara - Chip Zdarsky and Kagan McLeod
• Jupiter’s Circle - Mark Millar and Wilfredo Torres
• Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal - Jeffrey Kripal
• Street Dawgz - Lizz Lunney
• In Situ - Sophie Yanow

Prose we yapped about:

• SPQR - Mary Beard
• Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal - Jeffrey Kripal
• The Ministry of Nostalgia - Owen Hatherley

Seriously, just how good is Martin Simpson's stuff onMisc

Le passion de chien.

Podcast 44 - Architecture Part 2

We wrap up our rambling take on architecture in comics this time looking at city as place, and also go over some stuff we've enjoyed lately.

Not in this episode: a rambling conversation about Twix. You're welcome.

We talked about:

• The Divine - Asaf Hanuka, Tomer Hanuka, Boaz Lavie (words)
• A Thousand Days - Zac Gorman
• Fascist Friends - Erin Lux
• Tekkon Kinkreet - Taiyō Matsumoto
• The Abaddon - Koren Shadmi
• Sandman: World’s End - Neil Gaiman and all his little friends
• Nimona - Noelle Stevenson
• Munnu - Malik Sajad
• Unbeatable Squirrel Girl - Ryan North and Erica Henderson
• The Marquis of Anoan: The Isle of Brac - Fabian Vehlmann and Matthieu Bonhomme
• Island #2 - Brandon Graham et al.
• Last Man - Bastien Vivès, Michaël Sanlaville & Balak
• Hound - Paul Bolger and Barry Devlin
• Akira - Katshiro Otomo

Oh and hey, have this:

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