Podcast! The Comics

This week, the boys have an extra special episode ready: a recording of the first ever Comics! The Blog live show, recorded live at the PureSpec festival on November 17th.  Here at C!TB, we're lifelong fans of late night talk shows, and when the opportunity to do a live show arose, there was only one clear option: grab the fake plants, write the site acronym on some mugs and interview some guests!  And thus, Comics! The Blog Presents: Early Night with James and Brandon: The Show! The Experience! The Ride! The Squeakquel! was born!

The first guests on the show are Brittney Le Blanc and Dana DiTomaso, organizers of the Edmonton Geek Girl Dinners, a local initiative designed to foster a community of smart, geeky girls and women.  Brittney is also undertaking a massive initiative to meet 5000 people in one year and Dana is a business owner.  Together, they and the hosts tackle topics like fake geek girls and what the wrong opinions about Batman are.

Finally, the show wraps up with a special Skype interview with friends of the show Kelly Sue DeConnick and Matt Fraction, who... uh... we kinda talk about a lot here.  As usual, the conversation is fairly off-topic, stopping briefly at discussions of social media, how Kelly Sue's Captain Marvel connects with its readership in a big way and how Matt steals ideas from his son.  Most of the conversation, however, is about penises, namely why they're so hard to get across the border into Canada when they're erect and in comics. It loosely relates to Matt's upcoming series Satellite Sam and Sex Criminals, which was the exact point at which a man and his two sons walked in and then quickly out again.

Brittney described the show as containing more discussion of penises than the actual sex show she also attended that day, which we're going to have on our matching side-by-side tombstones.

Thanks a lot to PureSpec for having us, our guests for tolerating us and Brittney in particular for bringing James a gift.  Why didn't everyone else bring him one?  We may never know, but we'll certainly judge them for it.

Direct download: Podcast_The_Comics_-_Episode_48.mp3
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This week, the boys welcome Steven Sanders to the show.  Steven is an incredibly talented artist and illustrator who has illustrated books like Our Love is Real, The Five Fists of Science, the dearly missed S.W.O.R.D., and most recently Wolverine and the X-Men #20.   They talk about everything from drawing the best version of Beast to the state of comics criticism, and Steven opens up about an in-the-works project called Symbiosis, which has to be heard to be appreciated and which James is already earmarking a lot of money towards supporting.

Find Steven online at:

Twitter: @StevenSanders

Tumblr: Unparalleled Self-Aggrandizement 

Web: Studio Sputnik

Direct download: Podcast_The_Comics_-_Episode_47.mp3
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This week, in honour of the upcoming movie screening, the boys welcome Erin Fraser and Matt Bowes, the team behind the Graphic Content film series, back to the show, which is to say that once again Erin and Matt welcomed the boys into their home and gave them liquor.

Hooray!

While they don't talk about specific comic series and issues, they do discuss a variety of topics they can disagree on, from Hellblazer being canceled to the best comic book movie.  Will their friendship survive this disagreement?  Is James mature enough to handle being forced to explain what his definition of "the objectively best" is?  Tune in to find out!

Direct download: Podcast_The_Comics_-_Episode_46.mp3
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This week, the boys are super excited, and it's not because of the American Presidential Election... it's because of Boy Meets World! That's right, kids: Michael Jacobs is developing a sequel to that 1990s classic series all about Cory and Topanga's preteen daughter.  When and if it eventually happens, Girl Meets World will be something we eagerly anticipate every single week, and you should too.  Do it for Feeny.

Riding the wake of this enthusiasm, the boys then shift discussion to some great comics in the last week and finally crash with a discussion of DC's announced 52 variant titles for February's Justice League of America #1 and what variant covers mean for the industry as a whole.

Plus, James is even more inappropriate than usual, which might hurt his explicit request to be a Girl Meets World writer.

Direct download: Podcast_The_Comics_-_Episode_45.mp3
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