Comicsly Podcast

We are back with another Studio Ghibli movie! This time we watched Kiki's Delivery Service and then we tried to talk about it. This is an extremely funny and pleasant movie but in way that's different from a movie like My Neighbor Totoro and we tried to get at exactly why that is.

Episode nine is here and this one is definitely not bad! No, it's actually really good and we are proud of it. Angela and I discuss the recently released graphic novel adaptation of the Slaughterhouse Five. We were both a little nervous that we were going to struggle to find something to latch onto in here and really analyze. It ended up that we both dug into this question of how do you adapt a novel into a similar but still crucially different medium. What gets brought along and what is left behind.

We are back for episode eight with our second Studio Ghibli movie. This week we watched the 1997 movie Princess Mononoke. I think we both expected something a little bit different based on the last Ghibli movie we watched but we both very much enjoyed the complexity we found here.

Ohhh it's a bit of spicy one. Episode number seven and we are already talking politics. This is our best episode yet though I think. We talk about the Recent Apple TV+ movie Boys State, where a bunch of teenage boys don't learn how politics actually work, or maybe they do, we'll get into into. Hope you enjoy.

It's time for us to get very meta, by doing a podcast about another much more popular podcast. No but really this is a good one. Mystery Show occupies an important space for both of us but also kind of in what podcasts have become. It's an interesting time capsule of that moment in podcasting but it definitely has many enduring qualities.

Episode five, half way to ten! This week we talk about the Studio Ghibli movie My Neighbor Totoro. This is the first of a series of Ghibli movies that we will be watching over the next few months. This is very much an introduction to the works of Studio Ghibli for both of us and a process of learning how to talk about these movies.

We did it, or Angela finally made me do it. We watched The new(ish) Judd Apatow movie made with comedian Pete Davidson and released earlier this year on the internet. This one gets a little heavy as we try to figure out exactly what this movie is trying to do and does it succeed.

Episode Three is here. I know it's too early to have a long lost episode but this is our lost first episode. We weren't sure if we wanted to re-record the episode but we thought it was worth it, we hope you do too.

Episode 2 of the podcast is here! We get into the new album from Sufjan Stevens, The Ascension. You're going to hear us struggle with these first impression and react to Sufjan's opinions about his past work and how this album critiques that work. e first impression and react to Sufjan's opinions about his past work and how this album critiques that work. I hope we did his work justice because he really is one of our favorite artists and his work has meant a lot to us over the years.

Our first episode, and it's international podcast day no less! We get into the narrative/interactive game Oxenfree and try to figure our what it's all about.