Episode 48 – Early Night with James and Brandon: The Show!

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.