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Twas the night before, the night before Christmas,

When all through the pod,

Not a creature was stirring, not even big Maude (Whoever she is)

The headphones were hung by the computer with care,

In hopes that we'd get on with it... So THERE!

Hello folks and welcome to another episode of "That Comic Smell"

This time around the folks here are talking 'Westerns'

We discuss things from Lieutenant Blueberry, The Walking Dead and Gus and his gang. To Judge Dredd, Preacher and much much more.

So saddle up your horse, strap on those boots, drink your milk and get ready for the rootinest-tootinest ripping roaring good time this side of the old west!

YEEEEEEEHAW!

On the only podcast brought to you in colour.

Here are some of the titles discussed:

Preacher (Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon)

East of West (Jonathan Hickman, Nick Dragotta)

Scalped (Jason Aaron, R.M. Guéra)

The Sixth Gun (Cullen Bunn, Brian Hurtt)

American Vampire (Scott Snyder, Stephen King, Rafael Albuquerque)

Lucky Luke (Morris, René Goscinny)

Jonah Hex/All-Star Western (Michael Fleisher, Joe R. Lansdale, Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti, Tony DeZuniga, José Luis García-López, Dick Ayers, Moritat)

Blueberry (Jean-Michel Charlier, Jean "Mœbius" Giraud)

Lone Ranger (Dell Comics, Gold Key)

Dandy (DC Thomson)

Two Gun Kid (Jack Kirby, Stan Lee)

Gus and His Gang (Chris Blain)

Judge Dredd (2000 AD)

Last of the Mohicans (Roy Thomas, Steve Kurth, Denis Medri, Cam Smith, June Chung)

Wolverine (Roy Thomas, Len Wein, John Romita Sr.)

Boba Fett (John Wagner, Cam Kennedy)

Xenozoic Tales - Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (Mark Schultz)

Eagle - Saddle Tramp (Various)

The Cisco Kid (Indie Comic)

Turok (Greg Pak, Paul Tobin, Felipe Cunha)

Fists of the North Star (Tetsuo-Hara, Yoshiyuki-Okamura)

The Man With No Name (Christos Gage, Wellington Dias, Richard Isanove)

Ghost Rider (Gary Friedrich, Roy Thomas, Dick Ayers)

Et Cetera (Tow Nakazaki)

Tex (Claudio Nizzi, Joe Kubert)

*Music: Side Saddle - Dog in the Night*

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On 3rd week until Christmas, the podcast gave to me... A Brand new episode and as always it's for freeeeeee!

Yes, here at 'That Comic Smell' HQ we are still counting down to Christmas with excitement. To help us wind down to the festive period we thought we would give you some brand new episodes. This is one we did a while back on Music.

In this episode we talk about all the comics that have that musical vibe or were heavily influenced by music or are just straight up tie-ins or stories about musical folks.

We show our appreciation for Shaking Stevens, Adam Ant, Bryan Ferry and many many more.

So delve on in and give this 'note' worthy pod a listen from the only folks who can gladly say that we checked Santa's list twice over with him and most of you were on it... MOST of you. We're looking at you here... Shame.

Here are some of the titles we discuss:

The Amory Wars (Claudio Sanchez, Gabriel Guzman)

The Wicked + The Divine (Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie)

Umbrella Academy (Gerard Way, Gabriel Bá)

Show Pieces (Alan Moore, Mitch Jenkins)

Lobo (Keith Giffen, Alan Grant, Simon Bisley)

The Hip-Hop Family Tree (Ed Piskor)

Bastard Bunny (Dave Anderson)

The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstien Story (Vivek Tiwary, Andrew Robinson, Kyle Baker)

Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness (Reinhard Kleist)

Nick Cave: Mercy on Me (Reinhard Kleist)

Castro (Reinhard Kleist)

Robo Hunter (John Wagner, Ian Gibson)

GodSpeed: Graphic Kurt Cobain Story (Barnaby Legg, Jim McCarthy, Flameboy... oh dear)

Scott Pilgrim (Bryan Lee O'Malley)

Break The Chain (Kyle Baker)

Public Enemy (Chuck D, Adam Wallenta)

Tops 1982: Adam Ant

Sex Pistols: Graphic Biography (Jim McCarthy, Steve Parkhouse)

Human Torch & The Thing meet The Beatles (Bob Powell, Stan Lee, Chris Stone)

Archie

Josey and the Pussycats

Archies Meets...[Various artists]

R.Crumb Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country

Mr Miracle (Jack Kirby)

Killing and Dying (Adrian Tomine)

Fax from Sarajevo (Joe Kubert)

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Hello and welcome to part two of “That Comic Smell” taking on the wonderful titles of Avery Hill Publishing. We won’t prattle on too much here. Delve in to find out more.

Enjoy.

Some of the Titles covered in Part 2:

Artificial Flowers – Rachael Smith

The End of Summer – Tille Walden

I Love This Part – Tille Walden

Ghosts Etc. – George Wylesol

Something City – Ellice weaver

A Quiet Disaster – Alex Potts

The Beginners Guide to Being Outside – Gill Hatcher

Untitled Ape’s Epic Adventure – Steven Tillotson

*MUSIC: White Bear TRACK: The Tide in My Lungs*

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Merry Christmas Countdown folks!

Hello and welcome to another episode of “That Comic Smell” podcast. Be prepared folks, this is a two parter.

The kind people over at Avery Hill Publishing got in touch with us a while ago and asked if we would like to review some of their books. How could we turn an offer like that down? More comics to read?! You’re on.

So here we are, reviewing some of their incredible titles. We had a bit of a bump in the road as we lost our original recording of them so we had to record them again, separately. So the editing master Tom! (Beginner at best) cut them together for y’all to wrap your ears around.

So sit back and relax and enjoy the first part of the Avery Hill dedicated podcast.

Enjoy.

Some of the Titles covered in Part 1:

Ghosts Etc. – George Wylesol

Goatherded – Charlo Frade

Something City – Ellice weaver

The Beginners Guide to Being Outside – Gill Hatcher

Parsley Girl – Matthew Swan

A is for Amos – Daria Hlazatova

Deep Space Canine – Comic Book Slumber Party

We continue our appreciation for Jack one more time.

We discuss what the publishers have done for his birthday celebrations. Also what some of our particular "Best" moments of Kirby are.

We run as a 3 man team for about the first 20 minutes waiting for everyone else to arrive, in the time we talk about the great "Ann Nocenti" , the general layout and folks that were at the Glasgow comic con. We also speak about the elusive Previews catalogue and Giuseppe has a run in with a mystery shop online.

All this and more on the only podcast to bring you Kirby crackle in the ears... think about how that works for a second.

That Comic Smell!!

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Happy 100th Birthday Jack! From all of us here at "That Comic Smell"

I'm sure I speak for the world of comics when saying that, without you the comic world would not be what it is today and possibly wouldn't even exist. You were a creation genius and an inspiration to everyone and anyone within comics, whether they know it or not.

In this episode we talk all things Kirby. There is not much more to say except to sit back and absorb all the Kirby chat.

We are also joined by an extremely special guest: Comic Artist, creator and all round good guy Mr. Dan McDaid.

Enjoy Folks.

*Music: Chart Smasher - Play*

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Welcome, once again, to another episode of "That Comic Smell"

In this episode the folks here talk "Valerian" The comic series created by Pierre Christin & Jean-Claude Mézières.

We go into the likes and dislikes of the series, what other projects the series inspired and whether they think it will make for an interesting film.

We weren't long back from the Glasgow comic-con in July, so we talk about the various books and goodies we acquired whilst there.

Plus! There is an added bonus review from our very own Tom at the end.

So plug in those headphones. Get ready to ride the podcast roller-coaster to the wonderful world of comics.

That Comic Smell!

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Some of the other titles we discussed:

The Mighty Women of Science (Claire Forrest, Fiona Gordon)

Dragon Ball Super (Akira Toriyama)

Toxoplasmosis, Parasites, Sleeping Sickness (Jaime Hall, Edward Ross, University of Glasgow)

Hot Schitt (Gordon Johnston)

Misc Fits, Hourly Comic Day 2017+2016 (Sammy Borras)

DTH RTL II, DTH (Bob Turner)

Left (Steve Ingram)

Sol (Rebecca Horner)

Video Games for Good (Various Artists Compiled by Claire Hubbard)

Space Captain (Michael Park, Chris Baldie, Dave Morrow)

Modern Slorance: The Canada Issue (Neil Slorance)

Digital Memories (Norrie Millar)

RASL (Jeff Smith)

The Bionic Man (Kevin Smith)

Superman Blue+Red (Dan Jurgens)

Leaf (Daishu Ma)

Reworking Walter Scott (Various Artists)

Sea Creatures: Reef Madness (Christophe Cazenove, Thierry Jytery)

Rostam: Tales for the Shahnameh (Bruce Bahmani, Karl Altstaetter)

Settle Petal (Alfie Pound)

The Demon (Garth Ennis, John McRea)

Boy Commandos (Jack Kirby, Joe Simon)

Love Bites (Zu Dominiak)

Transformers Collection (Various)

Kids Are Weird (Jeffery Brown)

Terra Obscura (Alan Moore, Peter Hogan, Yanick Paquette, Karl Stor)

Daredevil #283 August 1990 (Ann Nocenti, Mark Bagley, Al Williamson)

Valiant 1966 (Various)

Providence (Alan Moore, Jacen Burrows)

The Amazing Spider-man Annual 21 (David Michelinie, James Shooter, Paul Ryan, Vince Colletta)

Music Track: White Baer - The Promise of a Life of Violence

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Welcome again folks to another exciting episode of "That Comic Smell" Podcast.

The folks, this time around, discovered that it had been Image comics 25th birthday not too long ago and thought that they should celebrate by talking about the company, what books made them aware of Image, some of their most well known titles, how they changed the landscape of comics creation and so much more.

All of that and so much more on the only podcast to be coming to you in 3D!

*Disclaimer. This podcast does not guarantee 3 dimensions. Only enjoyable sound*

Thanks again folks.

These were some of the titles discussed:

Airboy (James Robinson, Greg Hinkle)

Spawn (Todd McFarlane)

The Wicked + The Divine (Jamie McKelvie, Kieron Gillen)

The Walking Dead (Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, Charlie Ardlard)

Battle Pope (Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore)

The Maxx (Sam Kieth)

Sex Criminals (Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky)

Invincible (Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker)

The Astounding Wolf-man (Robert Kirkman, Jason Howard)

Velvet (Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting, Elizabeth Breitweiser)

The Creech (Greg Capullo)

Jupiters Legacy (Mark Millar, Frank Quitely)

Hip Flask (Richard Starkings, Joe Casey)

Prophet (Barndon Graham, Simon Roy, Rob Leifeld, various artists)

Outcast (Robert Kirkman, Paul Azaceta)

Black Science (Rick Remender, Matteo Scalera)

Big Man Plans (Eric Powell, Tim Weisch)

Fadeout (Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Elizabeth Breitweiser)

Good Hates Astronauts (Ryan Browne)

The Goddamned (Jason Aaron, R.M. Guéra, Giulia Brusco)

Spread (Justin Jordan, Kyle Strahm, John Bivens, Felipe Sobreiro)

Pisces (Kurtis J. Wiebe, Johnnie Christmas)

Birthright (Joshua Williamson, Andrei Bressan)

Huck (Mark Millar, Rafeal Albuquerque)

ODY-C (Matt Fraction, Christian Ward)

The Dying and The Dead (Johnathan Hickman, Ryan Bodenheim)

Chrononauts (Mark Millar, Sean Gordon Murphy)

Lone Wolf and Cub (Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima)

1963 (Alan Moore, Rick Veitch, Steve Bissette, Dave Gibbons, Don Simpson, John Totleben)

Cinema Purgatorio (Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill)

Bone (Jeff Smith)

The Last Christmas (Brian Posehn, Gerry Duggan, Rick Remender)

The Great Unknown (Duncan Rouleau)

Silver Surfer - Marvel Platinum Collection (Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Marv Wolfman, Marie Sevrin, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Moebius, John Byrne)

The World of Edena (Moebius)

Terminal City (Dean Motter, Michael Lark)

What’s this?! Two episodes in the same day? Why yes it is. We had time off, but we didn’t stop podding.

This time around the folks here take some time to talk about a specific book. We explore the epic world of our favourite Justice Leaguers in Justice League International Vol.1

We go through the first volume from cover to cover (Almost) and talk about some of our best bits, least favourable bits and answer the main question… Did we all enjoy it?

All that and more on the only podcast that has the biggest affinity for Martian Manhunter. That Comic Smell!

[Some of the other titles we discuss]

Formerly known as the Justice League aka. Super Buddies (Keith Giffen, J.M.DeMatteis, Kevin Maguire, Joe Rubinstein)

Godzilla Oblivion (Joshua Fialkov, Brian Churilla)

Black Science (Rick Remender, Matteo Scalera)

Batman & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Freddie Williams, James Tynion)

Concrete (Paul Chadwick)

Sandman (Niel Gaiman, Various Artists)

Valerian and Laureline (Pierre Christin, Jean-Claude Mézières)

Treehouse (Various Creators & Artists)

NO WAY!! Even more?!

Yes, we have one final episode for all of you to enjoy and to start off you June in style. Your ears are being invited to join us in discussing “What makes a Comic meaningful?”

The folks here let us know what comics mean to them and what they define or don’t define as a “Meaningful Comic”

So pull up a chair. Grab a cuppa. Grab a biscuit or a slice of cake. Hell, grab an alcoholic beverage if that’s where you are right now and become the extra member at the kitchen table for another rousing episode of the only podcast to be due some commission from Paco Roca. That Comic Smell!

[Some of the titles we discuss]

The Sketchbook Diaries (James Kochalka)

Wrinkles (Paco Roca)

Death of Superman (Dan Jurgens, Jerry Ordway)

Battle Angel: Alita (Yukito Kishiro)

Thanos: Redemption (Jim Starlin, Al Milgrom)

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Chris Ware)

Next Wave: Agents of H.A.T.E. (Warren Ellis, Stuart Immonen)

La Muerte De Guernica (Paul Preston, José Pablo García)

Chronology of ALL Star Wars Comics (David Mas)

Concrete (Paul Chadwick)

RASL (Jeff Smith)

David Boring (Daniel Clowes)

An Asterix Adventure: The Mansions of the Gods (Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo)

Justice Riders (Chuck Dixon, JH Williams III, Mick Gray)

Justice League of America: The Tornado's Path (Brad Meltzer, Ed Benes)

Strong Female Protagonist (Brennan Lee Mulligan, Molly Ostertag)