Podcast! The Comics

This week, the boys recover from a couple of long, guest-filled episodes with a little bit of audio relaxation.  After discussing television series, movies and comics they've enjoyed recently - including Game of ThronesAmazing Spider-Man and the John Carter movie and comics - the boys dig into a conversation about Mark Waid's recent digital comics announcement and its fallout.

Direct download: Podcast_The_Comics_-_Episode_13.mp3
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This week, the boys talk to writer Kelly Thompson!  Kelly is an author, columnist and critic, and she also has the same go-to "crying" movies that James does!  Over the course of the episode, the boys talk to her about her story in Womanthology, the comic she's currently working on and why her first novel was too violent for the young adult literature market.  Kelly also owns up to her shameful nature as someone who doesn't love Everwood or Treat Williams, and the group discusses the problems the comic industry has in diversifying to non-core demographics.

You know, fun stuff.

Read Kelly's column, She Has No Head!, at ComicBookResources, where you can also read her reviews throughout the week

Read Kelly's latest  other column over at LitReactor

Check out Kelly's personal blog, 1979 Semi-Finalist

Listen to Kelly's podcast, 3 Chicks Review Comics

Finally, check her out on Twitter at @79semifinalist

Direct download: Podcast_The_Comics_-_Episode_12.mp3
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This week, the boys welcome their great friend and one of their favourite people on the internet, Andrea Speed, to the show.  Andy is not only the writer of such great crime-noir novels like the Infected series (from Dreamspinner Press) and the upcoming Josh of the Damned (from Riptide Publishing), but she's also the Editor-in-Chief of cxPulp, the comics and pop culture site where the boys wrote (and, in Brandon's case, edited) before creating Comics! The Blog.  What starts off as a Canadian Intervention quickly devolves into a freewheeling discussion of writing, horrifying sexual content on the internet and lapjacking, the new craze that's sweeping the seated legs of the nation.

Warning: not only is this the longest episode of P!TC to date, but it's also absolutely the filthiest and most potentially offensive to date.  If you've got a delicate sensibility or stomach, you might want to skip this episode.

Find Andrea online at AndreaSpeed.com or on twitter at @aspeed!

Direct download: Podcast_The_Comics_-_Episode_11.mp3
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This week, the boys talk about the menace facing the nation: Kevin Keller!  That's right, the dashing teenage journalist and class president who just wants to fight for his country like his dad did and grows up to do exactly that is a threat to children everywhere because they might learn from his clean-cut, America-loving, military example!  Don't worry about stringing along two best friends in a decades-long love triangle, though!  One Million Moms is totally cool with that.

That's just one small part of the episode, though!  Along the way, the boys talk about comics they've been loving recently and try to watch WWE Raw like the heroes at War Rocket Ajax.  Spoiler alert: not enough smooches.

Direct download: Podcast_The_Comics_-_Episode_10.mp3
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