Sage and Braden Love Comics

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.

We're back and ready to get the new year started with Eat, and Love Yourself by Sweeney Boo with colors by Joana Lafuente and letters by David Hopkins and Catboy by Benji Nate!

2:05 - Kickstarter 

08:02 - Eat, and Love Yourself (Content warning - disordered eating, body dysmorphia)

National Eating Disorders Association Helpline: 1-800-931-2237

31:34 - Catboy

Benji Nate's Threadless store

47:20 - Recent recommendations

51:18 - Special Announcement!!!

In this episode get into some queer fantasy and teen horror as we discuss Girl Haven written by Lilah Sturges, illustrated by Meaghan Carter, and lettered by Joamette Gil and Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle. We also discuss the workers of Image unionizing, Hawkeye, and of course our recent faves.

00:35 - Image workers union (Comic Book Workers United)

06:04 - Hawkeye

11:09 - Girl Haven

31:14 - Squad

56:45 - Recent recommendations

Sage and Braden are back again to talk about comics, some of the latest discourse, What If..? and more! First up is Ms. Marvel volume 01 Written by G Willow Wilson, drawn by Adrian Alphona with colors by Ian Herring and letters by Joe Caramagna featuring the origin of Kamala Khan's tenure as the new Ms. Marvel! And second is Jessica Jones: Blindspot, Written by Kelly Thompson, drawn by Mattia De Iulis except for part 6 which is drawn by Marcio Takara and colored by Rachelle Rosenberg. Letters are by Cory Petit and the awesome cover is drawn by Martin Simmonds. This is the first Jessica Jones caper written by Kelly Thompson who is one of our favorite authors! We'll be discussing SPOILERS for both books so please read them first if that's a concern.

We unfortunately had to cut the episode a bit short due to some technical difficulties and didn't get to dig into Jessica Jones quite as deeply as we would have liked, but there's still plenty here to enjoy. Your patience and support is very much appreciated!

00:53 - Substack

08:13 - What If...?

13:33 - Action Lab

14:32 - Ms Marvel: No Normal

31:06 - Jessica Jones: Blind Spot

In this episode we discuss The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag with colors by Maarta Laiho and Poison Ivy Thorns by Kody Keplinger Kipin and Sara Kipin. We will be discussing SPOILERS for these books and also the Black Widow movie. 

3:37 - Black Widow movie 

6:39 - Sandman TV show 

13:24 - The Girl from the Sea 

36:16 - Poison Ivy: Thorns 

1:04:44 - Our current comic recommendations