Podcast 67 - Best Comics 0f 2016

December 20, 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:

(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 54 - Politics

April 11, 2016

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 Episode 23 - Spies

August 14, 2014

Spies are everywhere. Probably. They're hard to see and we're paranoid. It's the booze.

There are plenty of fantastic spy comics, running from crazy hi-octane in the campiest, most sci-fi Bond mould to quiet, tense and introspective thrillers. This week we go over some of our favourites and talk some right old nonsense.

This week we covered:

Nothing is Forgotten - Ryan Andrews
Seconds - Bryan Lee O'Malley
Moon Knight - Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey, Jordie Bellaire
Skim - Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
Rat Queens - Curtis Weibe and Roc Upchurch
Judge Dredd: Trifecta - Al Ewing, Simon Spurrier, Rob Williams, Henry Flint, Simon Coleby, D'Israeli, Carl Critchlow
The Bojeffries Saga - Alan Moore and Steve Parkhouse
The Coldest City - Anthony Johnston and Sam Hart
Modesty Blaise - Peter ODonnell and Enric Badia Romero
Casanova - Matt Fraction, Fabio Moon, Gabriel Ba
Secret Avengers - Various
Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D - Jim Steranko
Desolation Jones - Warren Ellis and J.H. Williams III
Global Frequency - Various
Red - Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner

That book on Bond:

The Man Who Saved Britain - Simon Winder

And a lovely song with the word "Spies" in the title: