Welcome to Episode 2! This episode focuses on recommendation questions about comics and graphic novels (with bonus Books About Books and Books About Asia questions). ERGO, I brought on Ardo Omer, comics expert to the max, to be this week’s co-host. Ardo is a contributor at Panels and a senior writer at Women Write About Comics. She started out as a book blogger before expanding into writing about comics and television. When she’s not imagining her home of Toronto as Gotham 2.0, she’s obsessing over K-Pop and Jdramas. Follow her on Twitter @ArdoOmer.

This episode is sponsored by Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta and Penguin Random House Audiobooks.

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Books Discussed on the Show!

Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue Deconnick and Val Delandra

Rat Queens by Kurtis J. Wiebe and Laura Tavishati

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl by Ryan North and Erica Henderson

SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki

Hark! The Vagrant & Step Aside Pops by Kate Beaton

But I Really Wanted To Be An Anthropologist by Margaux Motin

The Wicked & the Divine- Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

Ms. Marvel- G Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona

Wytches by Scott Snyder, Jock

Y: The Last Man by Brian K Vaughan, Pia Guerra (Pencils) and José Marzán, Jr. (Inker)

Velvet by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting

Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection edited by Hope Nicholson

Josh’s Read Harder video

Tell me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sarah Farizan

Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki

Virgil by Steve Orlando, J.D. Faith, Chris Beckett, and Tom Mauer (Steve Orlando also writes Midnighter comic at DC Comics)

Oath kickstarter

Low- Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini

Lazarus- Greg Rucka and Santiago Arcas

ODY-C- Matt Fraction and Christian Ward

The Wake by Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy

The Death-Defying Doctor Mirage by Jen Van Meter and Roberto De La Torre

Womanthology: Space

Storied Life of AJ Fikry (Gabrielle Zevin)

Too Loud a Solitude- Bohumil Hrabal

The Club Dumas- Arturo Perez-Reverte and Sonia Soto

Exquisite Corpse by Pénélope Bagieu

Thief of Lies by Brenda Drake (2016)

On the Noodle Road by Jen Lin-Liu

Soy Sauce for Beginners Kirstin Chen

China Wakes: the Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power, Nicholas Kristof/Sheryl WuDunn

The Undertaking of Lily Chen by Danica Novgorodoff

The Divine by Boaz Lavie, Asaf Hanuka, and Tomer Hanuka

Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle

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