In this podcast episode Slim & Lou guess each other’s fave cover of the week and talk comics!

Primary topic this episode: we talk about the books we read this week! Other topics include slim having no idea how years work, NYEW RELEASES, COVERS of the WEEK, underarm webs, slim picks a book about fathers and sons shocker yeesh, Batwoman as a new reader, setting up THE WILD STORM again, your letters, Wolverine backlist-mageddon, FAN-CASTING, and the return of Tweets of DOOM??

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530 | SEX!!!

In this podcast episode Lou talks about death and also other comics.

Primary topic this episode: the books we read this week! Other topics include us doing great work, quote un-quote death, tweet feeds, Slim is old and just yelling things out, Buckystravaganza, bondage prison, let’s go back to the 1980s with M.A.S.K., Lou dies while reading Black Widow, Assassin Jerks, Goonies and Sci-Fi is A-OK, and your letters!

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529 | Turkey Skin Challenge

In this podcast episode Lou had Slim read Elfquest and nothing will be the same.

Primary topic this episode: the books we read this week! Other topics include turkey skin, olives, pickles, Lou thinks Slim is some kinda vagrant animal, NYEW RELEASES, the FINAL issue of CHEW, the Turkey Skin Challenge, journey to the 1970s by giving thanks to each other and Elfquest, DadMatt, Lou heads into Deadly Class for the first time ever, toxic masculinity, SHOCKING ending to Death of X, coming down with a strong dose of Hickmentia, and getting into After Death big time, OK.

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528 | Murder, We Wrote

In this podcast episode Lou thinks about beating people up but also talks comics.

Primary topic this episode: the books we read this week! Other topics include Fantastic Beasts and us avoiding spoilers, pronouncing ETHER, that THANOS mini-series from a few years back, NYEW RELEASES, pronouncing last names fancy like, space horror mysteries, age diversity, Murder She Wrote the comic, every publisher listens to our podcast OK, hipster man-bun sexy, clone-ception, bad smells, prison-style yoga, adventuring through dimensions and the female beard.

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527 | Adorably Morbid

In this podcast episode Lou tries to make sense of the world by talking comics.

Primary topic this episode: the books we read this week! Other topics include Facebook LIVE, high level discourse, we did great on FB FYI, THE NEW RELEASE MACHINE, not into spiders, Prince of Cats + Shakespeare, getting schooled on literature, pro wrasslin’, ninja turtles BACK in Gotham, and your letters!

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525 | I’ll Be Your Robin

This is Kara’s final episode so maybe get the tissues ready.

Primary topic this episode: the books we told each other to read this week! Other topics include Kara leaving for the show for real sob :-(, Matt has a few words to say before she leaves of course so get ready everyone, just how old is Damian really, Dr. Strange is in the Matrix, Kara’s fave The Walking Dead tweet, two hearts beat as one, what a 2 years, Storm lost her powers but that’s not the main thing OK, meat-suits, reading books outside of your wheelhouse, Hellboy and pro wrestling yessss, podcast memories, and your letters!

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524 | Kzam Meets the Eye

In this podcast episode Kara talks about being a good person but also comics.

Primary topic this episode: the books we read this week! Other topics include the Kara being a good person, NYEW RELEASES spelling, repeat Wolverine conversations, #kzamMTE, fanfiction-y, Cave Carson has a cybernetic art, FYI OK, James Bond and hot heads, moving into a crappy town, and your letters!

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Dean Haspiel | Heavy Metal

In this podcast episode Dean talks about loving people and also comics.

Topics include being with other creators, image being text in comics, looking amazing, sexy mirrors, comics being a shortcut art, reducing ones art style, working in an artist studio, wearing one sock, LIVEJOURNAL omg yes, artist stereotypes, art reflecting deadlines, how television and comic books have evolved into each other, snoozing during binge-watching, Matt embarrasses Tia because of course, Dean’s romance poses, chest-hair, becoming invisible online, showing up to your own party, what he’s reading!

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Transcript:

Matt: Tia, welcome back to our seedy alley..

Tia: It’s good to be back.

Matt: We have Emmy Award winner, icon, and a very famous cartoonist. You’ve seen his work probably everywhere, “Strange Tales”, and most recently in “Heavy Metal” actually. Welcome to the show, Dean Haspiel..

Dean: “Heavy Metal” with Stoya. Thank you. Thanks for having me on the show.

Matt: I actually just came from a signing, well, two signings, but the earlier signings was with Stoya at the “Heavy Metal” booth because we did a four page comic together, and also I have a Billy Dogma story in the same issue. Then I also did a WebToon signing for the Red Hook which is a free web comic online at Line WebToons.

Tia: Do you really feel energized by getting to do these signings, and meet fans, and that sort of thing? Are you a cartoonist who would rather be back at your studio?

Dean: Oh my god, I love people. I hate drawing. I hate sitting at the art table. You know what I do like? I like writing. I realize, when you break it all down, image is text in comics. I realize I’m doing more writing with that drawing. I’m not a guy drawing poses or pin-ups. I even have trouble with covers. I like when you have to go panel to panel to panel and you keep moving those pages because you’re showing and telling a story.

Tia: Right.

Dean: With that in mind, I didn’t have a lot of confidence in writing. As I’ve gotten older, I just turned forty-nine in May.

Matt: Man, you look amazing.

Dean: Thank you. I look really good … I was going to say the radio, that’s how old I am. On the podcast. I look fabulous. Actually, I was in the bathroom and there were all these very depressed, sad people in the bathroom, waiting in line. I went to the mirror and I said really loud, “Damn, this mirror is sexy!” They all looked at me like I was an asshole. No one laughed.

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Gene Yang | New Super-Man

In this episode Gene Yang sat with us to talk about education and also comics.

Topics include New Super-Man, using comics to help educate, teaching high school for 17 years, educational uses in comics, getting the Xeric grant, “turtles money,” maybe saying new to a brand new Super-Man comic book, Kenan as a bully, Superman maybe a bully too so, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and he’s reading!

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Transcription:

Matt: You ever heard of Superman?

Tia: Once or twice.

Matt: Once or twice. We’re here with a special guest, writer of the new Super-Man. Gene Yang, welcome to the podcast.

Gene Yang: Thank you. Thank you for having me.

Matt: Your journey into graphic storytelling is, in my opinion, very different than what most people perceive as like modern day Superman writer-esque. You use the medium to help educate in a big way. What was the moment where you thought to yourself that I can use these two things to help educate in a different way than most people are used to?

Gene Yang: I came up through the indie route. I started off as a self publisher, and then eventually I did a book with Image,, and now most of my creator owned stuff is with First Second Books, which is an imprint of McMillan. That part of the comic book world is definitely more connected with teachers and with librarians, so I get a chance to meet a lot of teachers and librarians. I was also a high school teacher for seventeen years.  

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517 | Hot Young Atomic Scientist

In this episode KZAM talks Phil Collins music and also our picks of the week.

Primary topic this episode: the books we read this week! Other topics include Phil Collins, Wild Podcast West of Media, Kara is writing secret fanfic Matt can’t read yet, NYEW RELEASES, Change-lingz, royalty, Germanic walkabouts, things gonna get GRIMM, Matt tries and fails to explain the new doom patrol book, long Weird Love and it was kind of amazing, yes but was it Satan, not really old maids, stalking is not OK people, sock belts, Man-Bat hates crime, and your letters!

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Tula Lotay | Thought Bubble

In this episode Tula Lotay sat with us to talk about her work on Thought Bubble and also comics.

Topics include free cookies, Though Bubble art festival, dyslexia, educational programs, Tula’s artbook, the eternal time struggle, getting experimental on Heartless with Warren Ellis, and Tia brings it all back to WicDiv because of course.

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Transcription:

Matt: Tia.

Tia: Hello.

Matt: We’re here. We’re back.

Tia: We are. It’s like we never left.

Matt: We’re in the dungeons of San Diego Comic-Con trying to get away from the rush, the sweat, the love that’s in the air. We’re here with a sensation right now.

Tia: An artistic sensation.

Matt: Tula Lotay, welcome to the show.

Tula: Hello. Thank you. Thanks for having me. I’ve cleared the cookie from my mouth now.

Tia: True. When we interview you, we spare no expense, cookies, the works.

Tula: It’s delicious.

Matt: No one else gives away chocolate chip cookies quite like comiXology. Now, many people know your work from most recently Supreme Blue Rose with Warren, but I think a lot of people don’t realize you’re heavily involved with shops and bringing artists together in the UK with Thought Bubble. How did that start and why is that a focus for you?

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