Happy spooky season! 👻 This month we’re covering the fantasy manga Frieren: Beyond Journey's End by Abe Tsukasa and Kanehito Yamada and Sugar by Joy San, an anthological collection of short horror stories. We also go over some current TV shows, comics industry drama (or the lack thereof), and additional queer horror comics you should check out for Halloween! 🎃

00:06:07 - Agatha All Along

00:07:42 - Deadpool & Wolverine

00:10:20 - The Penguin

00:15:01 - VTubers

00:22:21 - Good Omens

00:27:44 - Greg Capullo

00:34:25 - Bluesky

00:38:39 - Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

00:58:47 - Sugar

01:22:00 - Halloween reading recs

01:26:52 - ⁠Support Silver Sprocket!⁠

Music by ⁠⁠⁠Louie Zong⁠

Well folks, summer is coming to an end once more. So as a last sunshiney hoorah we are talking about two queer summer camp comics with our first ever guest - Portland based “author, poet, and homosexual” Mack W. Mani! In addition to diving into our two books we also discuss the ways queerness and summer camp are linked, what Mack’s been working on, and of course that sweet sweet discourse.

00:02:34 - Talking about movies we haven't seen lol

00:15:38 - Eric Gritter's interesting new publishing company and Colin Kaepernick's much less interesting "publishing" company

00:21:09 - Summer camp!

00:27:57 - Flamer by Mike Curato

00:45:28 - Lumberjanes by ND Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Faith Erin Hicks, Gus Allen, Brittney Williams, Aimee Fleck, Faith Erin Hicks, Becca Tobin, Casey Nowak, AnneMarie Rogers, Felicia Choo, T. Zysk, Aubrey Aiese, Maarta Laiho, Dafna Pleban, and Bones Leopard.

00:58:23 - Camp Yuggoth by Mack W. Mani!

01:00:21 - Other books we've been reading and Summer Camp faves

01:06:17 - "Coming Out" - a stop motion short about a trans kid.

Find Mack's work at mackwmani.wordpress.com!

Music by ⁠⁠Louie Zong

This month we’re covering Mimosa, slice of life comic about queers in their 30s, and Bunt!, a comic about softball, college, and how to look at someone in a gay way. We also discuss current discourse including *that* MCU character reveal and the Neil Gaiman allegations. Thanks for listening! And remember, Godzilla is for everyone.

00:45 - Robert freakin' Downey gosh-dang Junior

05:21 - The Eisners

08:25 - Neil Gaiman allegations

16:28 - Mimosa by Archie Bongiovanni *SPOILERS*

33:19 - Bunt! Striking out on Financial Aid by Ngozi Ukazu, Mad Rupert, and K Czap *SPOILERS*

44:58 - Other things we've been reading and wrapping up

Music by ⁠Louie Zong

We're back (again) and we still love comics (most of the time). This month we're letting y'all know what we've been up to the last *checks watch* year and a half, talking about TV shows and the current comics discourse™ and, of course, diving into what we've been reading. Thanks for sticking around and remember, comics are for everyone.

01:21 - Where we've been

04:47 - Shows we've been watching

17:10 - Discourse!

22:20 - Girl Juice

31:15 - Sage's other picks

33:51 - Stages of Rot

37:47 - Ultimate Universe Marvel Reboot

45:52 - I Heart Skull-Crusher!

49:01 - Marvel movies...

54:54 - Where to find us

Music by Louie Zong

Oh my gosh - it’s our two year podcast anniversary! Oh and it’s also Valentine’s Day (or close enough to it) To celebrate we have two books about looooove 💕 We’re talking about Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe and Life of Melody by Mari Costa. In our discussion we also ask the age old questions like “do you believe in love at first sight?” and “if you found a baby in the woods at the same time as a hot stranger would you buy a house together and raise the baby?” Get ready for romance! 

Black History Month - 2:23 

Current movies & TV shows we’re watching - 5:38 

Big Poison Ivy news!!! - 12:10 

Lore Olympus - 15:06 

Life of Melody - 36:59 

Additional recs for current ongoing series - 56:18 

Music by Louie Zong (https://louiezong.bandcamp.com/)

Whoops! We read a book that Brandon Graham worked on. So yeah, Messy comma Weird is how we're kicking off 2023. But we dig into plenty of other books along with our usual updates on what we've been up, and wrap up with some highlights from 2022!

17:20 - Bolero by Luana Vecchio and Wyatt Kennedy

38:13 - Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales by Melanie Gillman

44:56 - Princess Knight by Osamu Tezuka

48:02 - Monotone Blue by Nagabe

52:00 - What else we've been reading

58:57 - Our 2022 faves

For Halloween we've got spooky shenanigans (sort of) AND comics to cover this episode! Our big recommendations are Low Low Woods and Be Kind, My Neighbor which both feature great, weird, queer horror stories. But if that's still somehow not enough for you then we got plenty of other cool books on the brain right now that you should check out. Big SPOILER warning for our main two books in particular.

13:43 - Low Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado, Dani, Tamra Bonvillain and Steve Wands

35:07 - Be Kind, My Neighbor by Yugo Limbo (animated trailer)

45:20 - Thieves by Lucy Bryon

49:40 - Squire by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas

55:35 - Chilling Adventures of Salem

56:25 - Mermaid Saga by by Rumiko Takahashi

58:45 - Fruiting Bodies by Ashley Robin Franklin

59:44 - The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night by Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda

1:00:55 - Grim by Stephanie Phillips, Flaviano, and Rico Renzi

This episode we're covering Boys Run the Riot by Keito Gaku and Blackwater by Jeannette Arroyo and Ren Graham but first we catch up on some of the many TV shows we've been watching. We'll wrap things up with some recent comics we've been enjoying along with some recommendations for books to check out during Hispanic Heritage Month. We had a lot to talk about so buckle up!

We're back after an unexpectedly long hiatus, but we have been reading comics and it's time we we finally talked about them along with some of the cool shows we've been watching/becoming obsessed with! (As well as what comics we think Eddie Munson would read) We won't be going into quite as much plot details about the books we cover so we're only giving a warning for ** LIGHT SPOILERS **. Nothing major, just broad plot stuff. 

The 2 main books we'll be covering are -

We also briefly cover these titles in the latter half of the show:

Music by Louie Zong (https://louiezong.bandcamp.com/) Recorded on July 13, 2022

Bonus time again! We received an early review copy of Coming Back, a lovely fantasy graphic novel by Jessi Zabarsky that we loved so we had a quick chat about the book that you get to listen to now! We will be discussing entire plot of the book so be aware of spoilers if you haven't read it yet.