Phil's out of town this weekend, so here's a prerecorded episode from beforehand of Phillip and Eric discussing The Boondocks comic and tv show by Aaron McGruder.

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In this episode, Phillip and Eric revisit two former favorites comics when they were young, but are no longer their favorites: Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk by Damon Lindelof and Lenil Yu and Secret War by Brian Michael Bendis and Gabrielle Dell'Otto. They discuss what drew them to these comics as young twenty-year-old men, what elements they outgrew, and what still holds up.

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In this episode, Phillip and Eric shift gears to break down the elements of how to do action in comics, with examples from Dragon Ball Z, Jack Kirby, Nextwave, David Aja, We3, and more! They discuss the qualities of clarity, kinetic energy, and emotional excitement with examples of doing it through the pure illustrative skill of movement and body posing, widescreen panel layouts, and cool, unconventional layouts to show dynamism. Plus Eric gives a rant on Ip Man 4: The Finale and its clumsy anti-racism message.

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In this episode, Phillip and Eric are breaking the DC comic series, The Green Lantern, by Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp. They discuss its melding of police procedural with cosmic weirdness, Liam Sharp's innovative and decorative style page designs, and debate whether the Green Lantern Corps should be defunded.

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In this episode, Phillip and Eric break down the graphic novel adaptation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic Dune from Abrams, with art by Raul Allen and Patricia Martin. They discuss the challenges of adapting a prose novel to a visual medium, the challenges of adapting this particular prose novel to comics, and Eric goes onto a rant about who is to blame for Paper Girls not getting renewed for a second season.

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Phillip and Eric break down the Chinese American noir detective comic and 2022 Eisner winner for Best Limited Series, The Good Asian by Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi from Image. They talk about its unique blend of noir crime and Chinese American history, its dissection of the model minority and respectability politics, and Eric teaches Phillip just how stupid some people on Twitter are when it comes to Asian American cinema.

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In this episode, Phillip and Eric welcome back friend of the podcast and cartoonist Pete Glanting to talk about his upcoming debut graphic novel, Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey, with writer Adam Bessie. Published through Projected Censored and Seven Stories press, this comic is part nonfiction about the consequences of replacing classroom teaching with remote instruction and during the coronavirus pandemic, part memoir about Bessie living with his cancer diagnosis. Pete talks about being approached to turn the original short comic into a full length book, working and revising a graphic novel while working full-time, and futilely attempting to mediate Phillip and Eric's ongoing dispute on how to cook and eat rice.

Preorder Going Remote here. See some of the pages from the original short comic below:

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In this episode, Eric chats with cartoonist, colorist, and comics professor James Kettner! He talks about coming up at SVA with future comic stars like Raina Telgemeier and Nate Powell, spilling the beans on his coloring process for our webtoon comic Black Ghost, and interning at Marvel in the middle of the '90s crash and being AIM buddies with Bryan Singer.

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Phillip and Eric engage in shameless promotion and talk about their own brand new comic on Webtoon, BLACK GHOST. Their entry into Webtoon's Call to Action contest is a kung fu comic set in Chinatown, San Francisco in the 1920s. Listen to them talk about the process of making it, and Eric also discusses some world-shattering news from Comic-Con!

Our comic:

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Phillip and Eric wrap up the 2022 Eisners with their own version: the 2022 Omni Awards. They chat casually about all the other nominees they've read. Plus, Eric gives the inside scoop on how he could've turned around Oni Press! (probably).

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