Nerd Escape's second installment of Mini Manga Mania Mondays features two of Cami and Jublar's favorite manga/anime, Claymore by creator Norihiro Yagi and HunterxHunter by creator Yoshihiro Tagashi. Check out this mini episode to learn why you should read and watch these two amazing series. 

Music credit to:

Jeremy Blake - Power Up! (Theme song)

Goestories - Noir Et Blanc Vie

Danya Vodovoz: Andante

Lakey Inspired: Blue Boi

The creator/illustrator Lamar Mathurin joins Nerd Escape to discuss his indy comic book titled GUMBO, and to NERD-OUT on nostalgic 90s pop and comic book culture. Lamar shares his passion for art and comics, his inspirations, and the creative details on the process of creating GUMBO. GUMBO is a sci-fi story that takes place in a dream like or purgatory world setting called Gumbo. Characters from different worlds and timeframes are trapped in this strange world, and they must play along with the Architect's game in order to have a chance to escape and go home. Follow Lamar's IG @nimbus.black and subscribe to the GUMBO patreon to see some of his AMAZING illustrations and become engulfed in the world of GUMBO. 

Music credit to:

Jeremy Blake - Power Up! (Theme song)

Karl Casey @whitebataudio for the music tracks: Rain City

Danya Vodovoz: Bird, Kush

Lakey Inspired: Blue Boi

Your hosts Cami and Jublar talk about their current favorite Japanese comic books in the first Nerd Escape installment of Mini Manga Mania Mondays (MMMM). Every 3rd Monday Nerd Escape will share their favorite mangas of the month. In this episode Cami shares the manga title The Way of The Househusband, created by Kousuke Oono. Jublar shares his favorite manga titled Bakuman written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. This are two gem manga titles that are hilarious in content and masterful in context and art. 

Ultra-Mega is a super and delightfully BIG comic book, debuting with 60 pages of kaiju and Ultra-Mega warrior rumble madness in just the first issue. Ultra-Mega is publish by Image Comics, imprinted by Skybound Ent., creator James Harren, colorist Dave Stewart, and Letterer Rus Wooton. In this world a kaiju curse/virus spreads through humankind like a parasitic grotesque zombie plague. It is up to a chosen few who have been blessed with the Ultra-Mega cosmic power to combat the Kaiju virus hidden in society. The action and destructive city scape battles in Ultra-Mega are nothing short of breath taking, and they leave you turning back to relive the awe of the moment. James Harren takes the classic battle Kaiju genre and turns it into a dark, serious, body horror, and EVIL-DEAD type comic book that is lead by his amazing illustrations and action-plot. If you are going to do anything! GO GET YOUR HANDS ON A COPY OF ULTRA-MEGA! Jublar and Cami discuss the best comic book of 2021 so far. 

Music credit to:

Jeremy Blake - Power Up! (Theme song)

Kevin MacLeod - Dungeon Boss

Kalki- Rift

Karl Casey @whitebataudio for the music tracks: Alien ruins

Night Hunters is a Floating World Comics independent comic book feature illustrated by Alexis Ziritt and written by Dave Baker. Dave Baker joins Jublar and Cami for a Q&A to discuss the cyber-future setting and characters of Night Hunters. Dave Baker breaks down how this comic book is his artistic protest for the culture movements that are taking place in the real world of today. Night Hunters takes place in a dystopian cyber modified future set in Venezuela 2057-2078. Cyber-mech modified super cops control the streets of Gran Caracas by establishing peace through the citizens' superior obedience, extreme police brutality, and only giving basic human rights  to those who are or were former police officers. If you love bootleg 80s movie posters or if you're still waiting on your cyber-punk video game refund then this comic book is for you!

Music credit to:

Jeremy Blake - Power Up! (Theme song)

Karl Casey @whitebataudio for the music tracks: Androids and Sentient Beings, Rain City, Hackers, Alien ruins, O-Ren

Nerd Escape is back with episode 14: Sentient. Sentient is a 6 chapter graphic novel from TKO studios written by Jeff Lemire and illustrated by Gabriel Walta. On board the new earth colony expedition space ship the U.S.S Montgomery all of the adults are suddenly killed when New Earth separatist attack the colony ship. This leaves the ship's on board A.I. named Valarie to teach and take care of the children who survived the attack. Valarie must learn to become a mother to these children as they trek across deep space and into unknown dangers. Nerd Escape hosts Jublar and Cami guide you through this epic deep space tale, and how it made them sentimental towards an A.I. system and what is their take on the concept of imposing your will and destruction for blind freedom as the separatist did in Sentient. 

Music credit to:

Jeremy Blake - Power Up! (Theme song)

Karl Casey @whitebataudio for the music tracks: Androids and Sentient Beings, Rain City

Eric Skiff - Under-clocked

Under-Earth is a graphic novel from TopShelf Productions written and illustrated by the Melbourne Australian native Chris Gooch. Under-Earth takes place in an underground subterranean prison city that is a sinkhole for nostalgic items such as iPod, N64s, collector item toys, and even old city structures themselves. The story follows a struggling new prisoner Reece Dixon and fellow prisoner Malcolm as their friendship goes through radical change. The story also follows two gritty good hearted thieves Ele and Zoe as they steal items for a power hungry prison kingpin who claims he has map access to ways out of the prison. These two stories stand alone, but also intertwine through tone and perfect pace and timing. Chris Gooch joins Nerd Escape for an informative interview about his influences and interest in writing and illustration, the reflection of Australia as a back setting in Under-Earth, and on what are his favorite things about Under-Earth. This is an amazing read that you do not want to miss out on, for this graphic novel has wonderful colors, tones, layers, and epic story telling.

Music credit to:

Jeremy Blake - Power Up! (Theme song)

Karl Casey @whitebataudio for the music tracks: Alien Ruins, Androids and Sentient Beings, Hackers

Grand Affair by. Coupe

Snot Girl is an Image published title from creators Bryan Lee O'malley and Leslie Hung. This comic book is about a very popular and glamorous fashion blogger/influencer named Lottie Person who is nothing put stunning and perfect on her social media and websites, but behind closed camera lenses she is a snotty wreck of a person suffering from allergies; also she has green and she don't care. Lottie and her hater brunch friends drift and whine around LA and California as thrilling drama of murder and deceit seems to follow them through every page you turn. Join Nerd Escape hosts Jublar and Cami on this meta podcast episode about a fashion blogger with terrible allergies and as they sniffle and sneeze their way through Episode 12: Snot Girl

Music credit to:

Jeremy Blake - Power Up! (Theme song)

Karl Casey @whitebataudio for the music tracks: Rain City

Plastic Love (cyberpunk/synthwave remix) - Astrophysics

Infraction - Fashion Show Music

Nerd Escape season 2 opens up with the Aftershock comics title "We Live" from sibling creators Inaki and Roy Miranda.  We Live is a dystopian analogy story that takes place on a mutated version of Earth in the year 2084. Humanity is on the verge of extinction with Mother Nature attacking with catastrophic events and with new adapted vicious animal species that seek to eliminate humankind. A message from the sky has given humanity a new chance to save 5000 children who posses a bracelet from 1 of 5000 space pods that arrived on Earth. Character and older sister Tala is on a mission to get her younger brother Hototo to the extraction beacon before time runs out. Come along with your Nerd Escape hosts Cami and Jublar as they indulge in this wild and unique tale of survival and the endurance of humankind. Also the art and colors are amazing as well. Cheers!

Music credit to:

Jeremy Blake - Power Up! (Theme song)

Karl Casey @whitebataudio for the music tracks: Hackers and Avenger

The Wasteland by Ross Bugden and Ethan Unrau https://youtu.be/5eAalHA1bAc