Vern and Andrew return to the pod-waves with a very special, deluxe, platinum, chrome, absolute episode covering Craig Thompson's (somewhat) recently concluded GINSENG ROOTS series. Our intrepid hosts discuss the book in as much detail as one can in just under sixty minutes! Check it out!
We know you've been waiting... five months for this episode, which makes us even more embarrassed about the audio quality but the episode's worth it. All three hours of the episode is worth it.
That's right, it's a three hour extra-sized episode... we cover the Best of 2018, a very deep dive into Love and Rockets Volume One, a discussion of media, and then some news about the new amazing.
(Again, very sorry about the audio. It's been so long since we podcasted, we sort of forgot how. Technically speaking.
We're a few weeks late but we actually read some good comics, which is always nice.
It's been five weeks, which makes sense since it's not easy to find books! Even some mainstays have disappointed the last couple months... and, of course, some haven't.
Floppies - The Weatherman, Punks Not Dead, Barbarella, Bloodstrike, Highest House, Ether: Copper Golems, Infinity 8 vol 2, Maestros, Jimmy's Bastards, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest, Redneck, X-Men: Second Genesis, Seeds, Kaijumax Season Four.
Retro - Love and Rockets.
Trades - Complete Aleck Sinner Vol 2, Fourth World Omnibus, The Complete The Killer.
Mixed media - Luke Cage, CW, Titans.
We're back on track! Sort of!
Floppies - Ether The Copper Golems, Barrier, Black Hammer: Age of Doom, Doctor Star, The Sentry, Kill or Be Killed, Lazarus, Snagglepuss, Kaijumax, Bloodstrike, Damned, Magic Order, Mister Miracle, Plastic Man, Resident Alien, Weatherman, Barbarella, Flavor, Punks Not Dead, Coda.
Retro - Love and Rockets, DC Comics Presents, Star Trek.
Trades - The Troublemakers, Young Frances.
Mixed media - Whatever Happened to the Girl of Tomorrow, The Flash, Luke Cage, Ant-Man 2.
Only a month since the last episode! Back on track?
Floppies - Isola, Flavor, Death or Glory, Maestro, Lazarus, Barrier, Black Hammer Age of Doom, Doctor Star, Ether The Copper Golems, Infinity 8, Highest House, Barbarella, Jimmys Bastards, Exit Stage Left Snagglepuss, Batman White Knight, Damned, Punks Not Dead, Assassinistas, Love and Rockets.
Trades - Sherlock Frankenstein, Young Frances, The Troublemakers.
Our second podcast for 2018!
Floppies - Terrifics, Doctor Star, Black Hammer, Gideon Falls, Punks not Dead, Kid Lobotomy, Assassinistas, Mister Miracle, Batman White Knight, Vampironica, Ruff and Reddy, Infinity 8, Dry County, Highest House, Vinegar Teeth, Spider King, Resident Alien, Evolution, Kong on Apes, Redneck, Dead Hand, Snagglepuss, I Hate Fairyland , Isola, War Stories, Thrawn, Damned, Lazarus, Barbarella.
Trades - Lone Sloane, X-Men Grand Design, Reefer Madness, Epic Collection Master of Kung Fu vol 1, Dave Sheridan's Dealer McDope, Leather Nun, and Freak Bros, Aleck Sinner vol 2 The Age of Disenchantment.
Our first podcast for 2018!
Which we actually didn't realize.
It's straight into the comics because the second half is devoted to a single feature--surprise--topic.
Floppies - Hungry Ghosts, Ruff and Reddy, Punisher: Platoon, JLA/Doom Patrol Special, Kid Lobotomy, Assassinistas, Barbarella, Maestros, Kaijumax: Season Three, Vinegar Teeth, Sherlock Frankenstein, Comic Book History of Comic Books, Redneck, Snagglepuss, Dastardly and Muttley, Batman: White Knight, Damned, Grave Diggers Union.
Trades - Spy Seal, Fifty Years of the Fabulous Frak Brothers, Black Hammer
Vernon and I get right into talking about the best comics of 2017. Just a warning--we go on to talk about them for almost 2.5 hours.
Ether, Lake of Fire, Slam! 1st series, Motor Crush, Powerman & Iron Fist, Kill or be Killed, Harrow County, Dead Inside, The Killer Inside Me, Copperhead, War Stories, Redneck, I Hate Fairyland, Nick Fury, Evolution Divided States of Hysteria, Kaijumax, Love & Rockets, Aliens: Dead Orbit, Letter 44, Sabrina, Mister Miracle, Shadows of the Grave, Jimmy's Bastards, Dastardley & Muttley, Kid Lobotomy, Black Crown Quarterly, Assassinistas, Gravediggers Union, Barbarella, X-Men Grand Design
Black Hammer and Sherlock Frankenstein, New Super Man, Flintstones, Damned, Spy Seal, Fu Jitsu, Batman White Knight, Punisher Platoon, Maestros
Baker Street Familiars, Garth Ennis Train Called Love, Providence, Empowered vol. 10
And we do talk about the importance of not writing off a year too soon (i.e. best of lists in November). We also give some examples why it's a terrible idea. One of them rhymes with Fanned Whine
Not just on time... early!
Vernon and I start off talking Marvel and C.B. Cebulski and Akira Yoshida. Then we talk a little about the Berger Books ashcan.
Then we get onto the actual comics and there are some good ones....
Floppies - Batman: White Knight, Doomsday Clock, Ruff and Reddy Show, Sherlock Frankenstein, Black Crown Quarterly, Kid Lobotomy, Punisher Platoon, Jimmy's Bastards, Dastardly and Muttley, Spy Seal, Evolution, The Jetsons, Redneck, Angelic, Maestro, Kill the Minotaur, Copperhead, The Grave Diggers Union Retcon, Coyotes, Kaijumax, Divided States of America, Fu Jitsu.
Trades - Superman: American Alien, 4 Kids Walk into a Bank, The Demon by Jack Kirby
Media - Justice League, Crisis on Earth X, The Punisher
An on-time release! We know you're all impressed.
Vernon starts off the show talking about Marvel Legacy from a retailer's standpoint. Then we review the latest failures of "pitch" comics.
But then the fun starts, because amid all these comics we discuss, there are some truly great ones. Listen to find out which!
Comics discussed: Angelic, Godshaper, Black Hammer, Sherlock Frankenstein, Kill The Minotaur, Damned, Divided States, Ruff & Reddy Show, Kaijumax, Slam Next Jam, Jimmys Bastards, Punisher Platoon, Dastardley and Muttley, Batman White Knight, Mr Miracle, Spy Seal, Fu jitsu, Cinema Purgatorio, Copperhead, Atomahawk, Maestros.
Then we talk about these trades: Mr Miracle by Kirby, Flintstones vol 2, Unquotable Trump, Nick Fury, Alack Sinner.
Two months since our last podcast--we really thought it'd been a month--Vernon and I commit to monthly episodes! Fingers crossed we managed it.
We open the show talking about the Big Two and how lousy they seem to be at making comics people want to read (specifically the House of Bad Ideas).
Then we talk about these comics: Supergirl Being Super, Godshaper, Kill The Minotaur, Redneck, Black Hammer, Kaijumax, Sabrina, Sacred Creatures, Jimmy's Bastards, Cinema Purgatorio, I Hate Fairyland, War Stories, Aliens Dead Orbit , Mage, Love and Rockets, Empowered, Divided States of Hysteria, Mech Cadet Yu.
It's been forever since our last episode but we still manage to be (relatively) speedy.
We talk about these comics: Kamandi Challenge, Black Hammer, Godshaper, Aliens Dead Orbit, Heroines, Redneck, New Superman, Letter 44, Hadrian's Wall, War Stories, Last Contract, Providence, Mockingbird.
Then we talk the CW superhero TV wrap-up (though no "Arrow" because come on) and Vernon tries to get me to spoil Wonder Woman.
The Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows' horror masterpiece Providence has just finished, so what better time to talk about what the end of Providence means; not just for faithful readers, but for comic books as a medium.
Occasional guest co-host (and Comics Fondle blog contributor) Matthew Hurwitz of Danger Burger and Joe Linton of Facts in the Case of Alan Moore's Providence join me for this ninety-minute special.
Cthulhu fhtagn!
Another long stretch between episodes so we talk a lot for almost two hours.
We talk about these comics: Extremity, Redline, Royal City, Grass Kings, Crime Destroyer, Loose Ends, Flintstones, God Country, Nights Dominion, Rat Queens, Dead Inside, Empowered Soldier of Love, Cinema Purgatorio, Motor Crush, Lady Killer, Copperhead, Ether, War Stories, Slam, Supergirl Being Super, New Super Man, Lake of Fire, and Demonic. We also talk about a couple more, but we didn't have them on the outline so I don't remember.
Then we talk about superhero movies and TV and get somewhat dejected.
2016: The Year in Comics.
(That we read)
The worst, the best, the almost there, the just there.
BPRD, Eltingville Club, Phonogram, Tokyo Ghost, Legacy of Luther Strode, Nowhere Men, PROPHET earth War, Kennel Block Blues/Hot Damn, Circuit Breaker, Empress, The Fix, Strange Fruit, Dark Knight III, Dreaming Eagles /War Stories/ Johnny Red, Prez Corndog in Chief, Starve, Mockingbird, Mickeys Craziest Adventure, Copra, DC's Young Animals line, Cinema Purgatorio, The Archie Line, Monstress, Ringside, Letter 44, Injection, Blubber, Jupiters Legacy vol 2, Manifest Destiny, Godammned, Hip Hop Family Tree, Weird Detective, Kill or Be Killed, Lady Killer 2, Black Monday Murders, Demonic, Lake of Fire, Jim Thompson- Killer Inside Me, Love and Rockets, Nights Dominion, Hadrians Wall, I Hate Fairyland, Moonshine, New Super Man, Violent Love, Comic Book History of Comics, Ether, Arclight, Electric Sublime, Slam!, Motor Crush, Lazarus, Usagi Yojimbo, Last Contract, The Spire, Harrow County, Baker Street Peculiars, Kaijumax, Flintstones, Black Hammer, Resident Alien-Man With No Name, Providence.
It's an extra-sized episode because it's been so long since the last episode.
Here's what we talk about.
Black Hammer, Ether, Comic Book History of Comics, Kaijumax, Lake of Fire, Hadrians Wall, Electric Sublime, Resident Alien, Lady Killer, Jessica Jones, AD After Death, Cinema Purgatorio, Nights Dominion, Killer Inside Me, Moonshine, Prophet Earth War, Goddamned, Weird Detective, Surgeon X, The Flintstones, Providence, Motor Crush, Motra, Violent Love
Plus Mockingbird: I Can Explain, Mickey's Craziest Adventures, plus general news and happenings, plus TV talk, including "Arrow" for once because finally they made it essential to watch "Arrow"
Are we on time? We're not as late as usual though we aren't exactly on time. But a lot is going on with comics and it's a very full episode.
Here's what we talk about.
DC Rebirth, Young Animal, Flintstones, Dark Knight, Mockingbird, Jessica Jones, Afterlife with Archie, Stranger Attractors, Kill or be Killed, Demonic, Nights Dominion, Kong of Skull Island, Betty Boop, Resident Alien, Jupiter's Legacy, Reborn, 7 to Eternity, Red One, Hadrian's Wall, Moonshine, Killer Inside Me, Electric Sublime, Manifest Destiny, I Hate Fairyland, Lazarus, Weird Detective, Black Hammer, Kaijumax, Love and Rockets
Plus trades, plus general news and happenings, plus TV talk, minus "Arrow" because no one watches "Arrow"
We missed a month, but we sure do talk about a lot here.
Here's what we talk about.
Matt talked me into seeing Suicide Squad, which I actually forgot to give him crap about on this podcast special.
We talk about the movie, we talk about the comics, we talk about comic book movies. It's Marvel Comics movies vs. DC Comics movies from a couple DC Comics fans (definitely more so than not, anyway) who don't even like the Marvel Comics movies too much. Suicide Squad is just so objectively bad, it forces uneasy alliances and unlikely sympathies.
In hindsight, however, the Suicide Squad trailer did have Jared Leto's Tony Montana meets Patrick Bateman rendition of The Joker promising to hurt someone really, really bad. And the movie delivers. It hurts your brain, really, really bad. Because it's really, really bad.
So join Matt and I as we relive the lows and lowers and lowests of David Ayer's 2016 Suicide Squad.