Tim and Brandon cover Craig Thompson’s award-winning Blankets. Also, we got an e-mail from this guy named (ulp) Larry Young…
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#097 “Kid Intense”
Our call for comics to critique has been heard! Listener Vincent Morris sent us his comic, Kid Intense. All three of us weigh in.
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#096 “Super Spy”
Top Shelf, publisher of Alex Robinson’s Tricked and Box Office Poison, has published another masterpiece: Matt Kindt’s Super Spy! Also Tripwire magazine’s list of top graphic novels, and an impromptu discussion of Steve Canyon!
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#095 “The Black Diamond”
The Black Diamond is a miniseries named after a highway. Tim and Brandon rip it a new exit ramp.
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#094 Web comics: Read them! Make them!
We’ve been reading a few Web comics and discuss our favorites. Also: Tim’s dormant one, and Mulele’s planned one. And how about sending us yours for review? We’ll be nice (mostly)!
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#093 Violence in Comics: What’s acceptable? What’s necessary?
Tim and Mulele discuss violence — in Weird Crime Theater, in Thunderbolts, and in two books from Archaia Studios Press: “Awakening” and “Killing Pickman”!
Ben Templesmith’s Wormwood (referred to by Mulele)
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#092 The 9/11 comic and media coverage of comics
An article on the 9/11 Commission Report comic book gets Mulele and Tim talking about media portrayals of comics, and comics terminology. Also, the decompression of comics, an evaluation of John Byrne, and The Walking Dead!
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#091 “Persepolis,” “Ghost World,” and more!
Coming-of-age stories dominate, as we look at Persepolis, Ghost World, and, er, Fear Agent TPB 2!
Wikipedia explains Ghost World
The entire first issue of Fear Agent on Newsarama
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#090 Dr. Strange, and developing your comic
Brandon and Tim begin a two-part Skype discussion, starting with Dr. Strange: the Oath! Also, Brandon reads from a 1959 Charles Schulz essay on developing a comic and asks Tim about how he developed Spider-Hag!
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#089 Your “Adult Swim” is my “Kids Station”
We wrap up our discussion of Japanese comics with New Lone Wolf and Cub, Tezuka’s Future Man Chaos, and Inuyasha, plus we get sidetracked on the 25th anniversary edition of Blade Runner!
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