Podcast 66 - Sincerity

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”
  • Disabilityawareness & 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

Podcast 53: France (and Belgium)

How angry is it possible to be about Tintin, a comic where a boy and his dog solve mysteries and occasionally assert the supremacy of Belgium? Really quite, it turns out. That's right, we're covering the comics of France and Belgium (in rage-spittle).

Plus! Learn who's an alcoholic (it's Captain Haddock, and Roger). Which Franco-Belgian comic character has "bad trousers"? What are good names for the Cornish? We'll tell you. You'd better believe we'll tell you.

Our title music is by Canon Hannon's Ham Cannon.

We covered:

• Long John Silver: Neptune - Xavier Dorison & Matthieu Lauffray
• The End of a Fence - Roman Muradov
• Sex Criminals - Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky
• Orbital - Serge Pelle & Sylvain Runberg
• An Tain - Colmán Ó Raghallaigh
• Harrow County: Countless Haints - Cullen Bunn & Tyler Crook (PDF Preview)
• Miss Don't Touch Me - Hubert & Kerascoet
• Tintin - Hergé:
  • Cigars of the Pharaoh
  • The Blue Lotus
  • The Black Island
  • The Secret of the Unicorn
  • Red Rackham’s Treasure
  • Asterix - René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo:
    • Asterix the Gaul
    • Asterix and the Goths
    • Asterix and Cleopatra
    • Asterix the Gladiator

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

Podcast 31 - The Wicked And The Divine

This week we try to give you a Cliff's Notes on mythology and a bit of a close reading of The Wicked and the Divine, and we would have got away with it too if it weren't for those pesky booze-sodden minds.

If you'd like more detail, we've provided a load of background information on the gods here, as well as a more structured look at the notions of performative identity we covered in the show.

What have we been reading? I'll tell you:

• The Wicked and the Divine - Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matthew Wilson
• Orbital - Sylvain Runberg & Serge Pellé
• Berlin: City of Stones - Jason Lutes
• Copperhead - Jay Faerber & Scott Godlewski
• Alex & Ada - Jonathan Luna & Sarah Vaughn
• The Hospital Suite - John Porcellino
• This One Summer - Jillian & Mariko Tamaki
• Doomboy - Tony Sandoval
• (In a sense) Lost and Found - Roman Muradov
• The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl - Ryan Q. North, Erica Henderson