Quarantined Comics

Some (Raman) have called SAGA “How I Met Your Mother in space"

But SAGA is actually one of the best current books on the stands (on hiatus) - has won LOTS of awards, and has ACTUALLY been described as Star Wars meets Game of Thrones meets Romeo & Juliet.

SAGA is the story of a husband and wife, Alana and Marko, from embittered and long-warring planets, on the run from the law of both sides of a galactic war - which they no longer want a part of. When the series begins, they have just given birth to their daughter Hazel who often narrates the entire series from the future as an unseen adult. SAGA features robot royalty, rocket ship trees, future science, ancient magic, talking animals, bounty hunters, violence, comedy, and lots and lots of graphic…love.

The creators have often described the story as so crazy that they hope it’s never adapted out of the medium. This episode covers all NINE current volumes of the series - as the book is on indefinite hiatus, leaving us all in waiting for the final half.

Joining Raman & Ryan is the thunder from down under - our pal Tristan in Philly.

Emil Ferris' debut graphic novel My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is at once whimsical and horrific, dreamlike and grounded in harsh realities. It's like nothing you've ever read before.

Marvelman originated as a Captain Marvel knockoff (Billy, not Carol) and had a whole bunch of cheerful childlike adventures. Then legendary writer Alan Moore had a go at the character, and nothing was ever the same again.

Chandler Klang Smith, author of The Sky Is Yours, drops in to offer her two cents on the subversion of common superhero tropes and how Marvelman often feels like an early exploration of themes Moore developed more completely in Watchmen.

Mike Allred takes us on a rock-and-roll journey across space and time when an alien crashlands on Earth and finds himself commingling with the likes of Little Richard, the Beatles, and Bowie. Cameo appearance by God.

Special Guest: Paresh Jha.