This episode we discuss Baby Blue by Swedish creator Bim Eriksson (translated to English by Melissa Bowers) - a lesbian love story in the wake of a fascist regime *cough cough* and A Song for You and I by K. O'Neill - a gorgeous pastoral graphic novel about courage and identity. We also talk about some movies, some other books, and some life stuff, as it were. Please note that we discuss spoilers for the first two movies (and the books too, of course, but that's why you're here anyway right?). Thanks for listening!

00:02:08 - Superman the movie!

00:08:55 - K-Pop Demon Hunters

00:12:40 - Sage is moving!

00:14:53 - Lee Knox Ostertag

00:15:58 - Baby Blue

00:46:33 - A Song for You and I

01:10:40 - How To Touch Grass on Kickstarter

01:13:11 - Strange the Dreamer

01:13:35 - The Weight

01:14:24 - Sage's single issues

01:16:13 - We Called them Giants

01:19:21 - The Sweetness Between Us follow-up

Music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Louie Zong⁠

Welcome back! This episode Braden breaks the rules (kind of?) and covers the not-a-comic book The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon, a queer trippy sci-fi novel. And Sage (who never breaks the rules and is always right) covers the graphic novel The Sweetness Between Us by S.W. Searle, a sugary love story between a newly turned vampire girl and a newly diagnosed diabetic boy. What could go wrong?

Also please note that in the opening topics Braden asks if the new Hunger Games movie (Sunrise on the Reaping) is called The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and Sage incorrectly says that it is 🥀

01:24 - The Thunderbolts movie

03:17 - Andor!!!

05:18 - Hunger Games talk

09:05 - The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon

22:54 - The Sweetness Between us by Sarah Winifred Searle

41:59 - Other stuff we’re reading/want to read

Music by Louie Zong

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This episode we’re covering Spinning by Tillie Walden and This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews. They’re both big chunky graphic novels with wintery vibes that are great for cozying up with while we get through the last trudges of February ❄️ We also talk about current shows and comics we are into, and discuss the Marvel movie Kraven the Hunter which apparently came out in December? Who knew. Thanks for listening!

00:03:46 - Arcane

00:09:51 - Kraven

00:14:58 - Neil Gaiman (for the last time!)

00:19:52 - This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews

00:48:01 - Spinning by Tillie Walden

01:12:01 - Other comics we like!

Music by ⁠⁠⁠Louie Zong

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