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Episode 8: Chew and Minor Acts of Heroism

Nick Hemsing
June 10, 2013

Grandmothers, Cibopaths, and Child Heroes, oh my. We’ve finished off the last of our grandmothers so we’re back this week to take a look a Image’s Chew which has a little dead people eating action. Our dead grandmothers have nothing to do with the topic. We didn’t eat them, in case you were curious. Actually, Brock may have. It’s best not to ask. We also flip back to a web comic that is publishing full issues now on Comixology, Minor Acts of Heroism. A little manga style, a little super hero action, a little different than what we normally read... View Article

Episode 7: Hellblazer and Constantine

Nick Hemsing
May 28, 2013

John Constantine squares off against the mythical beast known as… John Constantine. In this week’s comic book podcast, we went a little long as we tried to talk about what we liked about comics and how we got into them, but that quickly degenerated into how much we hate crossovers. After we finished that bitchfest, we took on a classic DC-to-Vertigo-back-to-DC character, John Constantine, starting with Hellblazer and followed with a single issue of the New 52 series, Constantine. John is all-in on the DC Universe in a shot at the big time. Next week we’re going back to Image... View Article

Episode 6: Double Jumpers and The Only Living Boy

Nick Hemsing
May 20, 2013

Fairy Tales & Adaptations. This week, Brock panders to the 70’s folk music and 80’s soap opera fan in all of us as we discuss Action Lab’s Double Jumpers, a four issue series from writer Dave Dwonch and artist William Blankenship, Jr., where a team of game developers get stuck in their own game while their video game counterparts take off with their bodies in Las Vegas. Also up is the first issue of Kickstarter success The Only LIving Boy, a self-published book by writer Dave Gallaher and artist Steve Ellis. A boy runs away and drops into a fantastic,... View Article

Episode 5: Fables and Elric: The Balance Lost

Nick Hemsing
May 13, 2013

Fairy Tales & Adaptations. Fairy Tales and somewhat adapted characters are in focus this week. We take a look at Vertigo’s Fables, the long-running series (over 11 years!) that tries to create something new and unique using characters from European fairy tales. Our quick look of the week is Elric: The Balance Lost, Boom!’s new series featuring with some of classic fantasy writer Michael Moorcock’s beloved characters in a new story. There are good adaptations and bad adaptations. We discuss which is which and you’ll get a taste of each this week in this comic book podcast. Next week we... View Article

Episode 4: The Manhattan Projects and Morning Glories

Nick Hemsing
May 6, 2013

Crazy Scientists and Nefarious Headmasters Things get a little weird when you switch your recording time and both of us are training for new jobs… so we went a little off the rails at the end. In this episode, it’s Image week at the Counter Culture Comic Book Podcast so we took a look at the twisted, alternate post-WW2 strangefest that is Manhattan Projects. We also tried to get in touch with our teenage selves with a look at Morning Glories, a book that takes another crack at the oh-so-barren “Dark School with a Hidden Agenda” genre. That’s not to... View Article

Episode 3: Cerebus and Alice In Wonderland

Nick Hemsing
April 29, 2013

Original indie comics and taking swings at horrible abuses of classic literature. This week we take a look at a one of the first popular indie comics, Cerebus, and a book under the label Grimm’s Fairy Tales presents Alice in Wonderland that we really tried to like . . . Okay, we didn’t. We didn’t try to like Alice in Wonderland. We kind of knew that we wouldn’t like it going in. We gave it a shot though! After that, we still didn’t like it. So, you get our conversation about how we didn’t really care for a craptastic bit... View Article