This episode we discuss Baby Blue by Swedish creator Bim Eriksson (translated to English by Melissa Bowers) - a lesbian love story in the wake of a fascist regime *cough cough* and A Song for You and I by K. O'Neill - a gorgeous pastoral graphic novel about courage and identity. We also talk about some movies, some other books, and some life stuff, as it were. Please note that we discuss spoilers for the first two movies (and the books too, of course, but that's why you're here anyway right?). Thanks for listening!00:02:08 - Superman the movie!00:08:55 - K-Pop Demon Hunters00:12:40 - Sage is moving!00:14:53 - Lee Knox Ostertag00:15:58 - Baby Blue00:46:33 - A Song for You and I01:10:40 - How To Touch Grass on Kickstarter01:13:11 - Strange the Dreamer01:13:35 - The Weight01:14:24 - Sage's single issues01:16:13 - We Called them Giants01:19:21 - The Sweetness Between Us follow-upMusic by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Louie Zong⁠

Welcome back! This episode Braden breaks the rules (kind of?) and covers the not-a-comic book The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon, a queer trippy sci-fi novel. And Sage (who never breaks the rules and is always right) covers the graphic novel The Sweetness Between Us by S.W. Searle, a sugary love story between a newly turned vampire girl and a newly diagnosed diabetic boy. What could go wrong? Also please note that in the opening topics Braden asks if the new Hunger Games movie (Sunrise on the Reaping) is called The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and Sage incorrectly says that it is 🥀01:24 - The Thunderbolts movie 03:17 - Andor!!! 05:18 - Hunger Games talk 09:05 - The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon22:54 - The Sweetness Between us by Sarah Winifred Searle41:59 - Other stuff we’re reading/want to read Music by Louie Zong https://louiezong.bandcamp.com

This episode we’re covering Spinning by Tillie Walden and This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews. They’re both big chunky graphic novels with wintery vibes that are great for cozying up with while we get through the last trudges of February ❄️ We also talk about current shows and comics we are into, and discuss the Marvel movie Kraven the Hunter which apparently came out in December? Who knew. Thanks for listening!00:03:46 - Arcane00:09:51 - Kraven00:14:58 - Neil Gaiman (for the last time!)00:19:52 - This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews00:48:01 - Spinning by Tillie Walden01:12:01 - Other comics we like!Music by ⁠⁠⁠Louie Zong

Happy spooky season! 👻 This month we’re covering the fantasy manga Frieren: Beyond Journey's End by Abe Tsukasa and Kanehito Yamada and Sugar by Joy San, an anthological collection of short horror stories. We also go over some current TV shows, comics industry drama (or the lack thereof), and additional queer horror comics you should check out for Halloween! 🎃 00:06:07 - Agatha All Along00:07:42 - Deadpool & Wolverine00:10:20 - The Penguin00:15:01 - VTubers00:22:21 - Good Omens00:27:44 - Greg Capullo00:34:25 - Bluesky00:38:39 - Frieren: Beyond Journey's End00:58:47 - Sugar01:22:00 - Halloween reading recs01:26:52 - ⁠Support Silver Sprocket!⁠Music by ⁠⁠⁠Louie Zong⁠

Well folks, summer is coming to an end once more. So as a last sunshiney hoorah we are talking about two queer summer camp comics with our first ever guest - Portland based “author, poet, and homosexual” Mack W. Mani! In addition to diving into our two books we also discuss the ways queerness and summer camp are linked, what Mack’s been working on, and of course that sweet sweet discourse. 00:02:34 - Talking about movies we haven't seen lol00:15:38 - Eric Gritter's interesting new publishing company and Colin Kaepernick's much less interesting "publishing" company00:21:09 - Summer camp!00:27:57 - Flamer by Mike Curato00:45:28 - Lumberjanes by ND Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Faith Erin Hicks, Gus Allen, Brittney Williams, Aimee Fleck, Faith Erin Hicks, Becca Tobin, Casey Nowak, AnneMarie Rogers, Felicia Choo, T. Zysk, Aubrey Aiese, Maarta Laiho, Dafna Pleban, and Bones Leopard.00:58:23 - Camp Yuggoth by Mack W. Mani!01:00:21 - Other books we've been reading and Summer Camp faves01:06:17 - "Coming Out" - a stop motion short about a trans kid.Find Mack's work at mackwmani.wordpress.com!Music by ⁠⁠Louie Zong

This month we’re covering Mimosa, slice of life comic about queers in their 30s, and Bunt!, a comic about softball, college, and how to look at someone in a gay way. We also discuss current discourse including *that* MCU character reveal and the Neil Gaiman allegations. Thanks for listening! And remember, Godzilla is for everyone.
00:45 - Robert freakin' Downey gosh-dang Junior05:21 - The Eisners08:25 - Neil Gaiman allegations16:28 - Mimosa by Archie Bongiovanni *SPOILERS*33:19 - Bunt! Striking out on Financial Aid by Ngozi Ukazu, Mad Rupert, and K Czap *SPOILERS*44:58 - Other things we've been reading and wrapping upMusic by ⁠Louie Zong

We're back (again) and we still love comics (most of the time). This month we're letting y'all know what we've been up to the last *checks watch* year and a half, talking about TV shows and the current comics discourse™ and, of course, diving into what we've been reading. Thanks for sticking around and remember, comics are for everyone. 01:21 - Where we've been 04:47 - Shows we've been watching 17:10 - Discourse! 22:20 - Girl Juice 31:15 - Sage's other picks 33:51 - Stages of Rot 37:47 - Ultimate Universe Marvel Reboot 45:52 - I Heart Skull-Crusher! 49:01 - Marvel movies... 54:54 - Where to find us Music by Louie Zong

Oh my gosh - it’s our two year podcast anniversary! Oh and it’s also Valentine’s Day (or close enough to it) To celebrate we have two books about looooove 💕 We’re talking about Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe and Life of Melody by Mari Costa. In our discussion we also ask the age old questions like “do you believe in love at first sight?” and “if you found a baby in the woods at the same time as a hot stranger would you buy a house together and raise the baby?” Get ready for romance!  Black History Month - 2:23  Current movies & TV shows we’re watching - 5:38  Big Poison Ivy news!!! - 12:10  Lore Olympus - 15:06  Life of Melody - 36:59  Additional recs for current ongoing series - 56:18  Music by Louie Zong (https://louiezong.bandcamp.com/)

Whoops! We read a book that Brandon Graham worked on. So yeah, Messy comma Weird is how we're kicking off 2023. But we dig into plenty of other books along with our usual updates on what we've been up, and wrap up with some highlights from 2022! 17:20 - Bolero by Luana Vecchio and Wyatt Kennedy 38:13 - Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales by Melanie Gillman 44:56 - Princess Knight by Osamu Tezuka 48:02 - Monotone Blue by Nagabe 52:00 - What else we've been reading 58:57 - Our 2022 faves

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