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Episode 2: Locke & Key and Rachel Rising

Writing Influences, Lackluster First Issues, & Skin Suits This week was new book week so we took a look at Locke & Key, an Eisner award winning dark story from Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez. Kind of soft ball of us to take on a book we both knew we liked, but we still had some fun with it. We also go one issue deep into Terry Morre’s current series, Rachel Rising, to get our first impressions. We had to scrap our initial idea of trying to review a free book every week since all the free books were previews.... View Article

Episode 1: Marvels and Bad Machinery

Nick Hemsing
April 11, 2013

Welcome to the first CCCP comic book podcast! We rate and review alternative comic books for our listeners! For a first effort, we’re glad we didn’t have 40 minutes of dead air and we did end up talking a little about ourselves and two comics. Marvels, a four issue story from 1994 that shows the Marvel characters through the eyes of photographer Phil Sheldon, and Bad Machinery, a biweekly comedic webcomic about English high school kids. We also compared comic book fans to Augustus Gloop and made at least five food analogies in less than 40 minutes. Next week, we... View Article