One Comic Podcast

It's an all-new, all-different (sorry, wrong publisher) chapter in Barbara Gordon's life, as she moves across the river, fights crime with a hangover, gets Black Canary's pad burned down and takes on a particularly topical bad guy. Who we inexplicably forgot to mock for talking in hashtags. #Literally. So does this new start for Batgirl work?

Changing gears in a couple of ways this week, we look at the first collection of the webcomic Breaks by Emma Vieceli and Malin Ryden, which scores points by hitting a genre most of the team like and being cleverly universal in its setting. (Check it out at http://www.breakscomic.com/) And then we've got our hands on some new research about comicbook film adaptations. Will we agree with the statistically relevant sample? What do you think?

This time, for our third debut issue in a row we're talking about issue one of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina from Archie Comics and along the way we identify "the Brady Bunch of comics", are surprised by the grimdarkness of it all, and unexpectedly return to previous themes including characterful animals, people in trees and witches. (Okay, given this is a book about a teenage witch the last one's not *that* unexpected.)

This time, Bex and Jon take a look at the first issue of a new series from Image: Wytches, by Scott Snyder, Jock, and Matthew Hollingsworth, and consider whether comics can be frightening, what exactly was happening with that deer, and the creepiness of teeth, among other pressing issues.

For our first outing, Bex, Jared and Jon talk about the debut of the new Thor from Marvel, and find ourselves oddly drawn to a well drawn goat. And somewhere along the way we make Thor an X-Man. This could be a sign of things to come.