One Beat Zines — ConSequential

Sincerity is an odd topic for three soulless husks to confront, but we'll give it a crack. What's up with the increase in comics that are just lovely? Where have they come from? Why now? And what are the good ones? We'll tell ya!

Also: Competition time! Email us a description of the show you think we should be doing instead to info@consequential.net and win our books of the year!

We talked about:

Khaos Komix - Tab Kimpton
Feels Like Noodles - Jade Sarson
Cowboys and Insects - David Hine and Shakey Kane (Roger wrote about it in depth here)
Orbital - Sylvain Runberg and Serge Pelle
Performance - One Beat Zines
Fascist Friends - Erin Lux
The Backstagers - James Tynion, Rian Sygh
Spill Zone - Scott Westerfeld & Alex Puvilland
Geis - Alexis Deacon
Postcards in Braille - Constanza Yovaniniz
- “Real girls”
- Disability awareness & education
- Fantasy Comics #1 - Sam Bosma
- Tetris: The Games People Play - Box Brown
- Clear Blue Tomorrows - Fabien Vehlmann, Bruno Gazzotti, Ralph Meyer
- Jeffery Fisch Boy - Jake Lava
- The Final Cameo - Bastard Comics
- Mulp - Matt Gibbs and Sara Dunkerton
- The Foldings - Faye Simms and Joann Dominik
- Marquis D’Anoan: The Providence - Fabian Vehlmann and Matthieu Bonhomme

Roger and Dave are back from Thought Bubble, and they brought gifts! For Lucy, not for you. That would be weird. Listen on as we fight for approval in the inaugural Lucy Boyes £5 Challenge. Also: the best stuff we picked up at the festival. If that wasn't enough, we have interviews with Dan Watters & Caspar Wijingaard, Tillie Walden, Comic Book Slumber Party, Julia Scheele with One Beat Zines and Mat Barnett of Alien in the Outfield. Hey, it's competition time! Our end of the year show is coming up, and we want you to pitch us a comic. The ones we like best will be reviewed on the show as though they existed, because we're horrible, judgemental people. The one we unanimously decide we like the most will win one of our favourite books of the year, and probably some bespoke slash fiction*! Send a brief comic pitch to info@consequential.net, and good luck. You know what we like.

This week we talked about:

Mean Girls Club - Ryan Heshka
Limbo - Dan Watters & Caspar Wijingaard
I Love This Part - Tillie Walden
The Waltz - Nuno Duarte & Joana Afonso
Red - Jess Milton
Bob, Non-Union Psychic - Adam Volle, Lance Lucero, Francisco Resendiz
Fairytales for Bad Bitches - Comic Book Slumber Party
Identity Zine - One Beat Zines
A Woman Falls in Love With the Devil - Isabel Greenberg
The Golden Cannibal Girl - Douglas Noble
Dick Cream - Jordana Globerman

*Probably.