This week Kris interviews Wes Locher (Hipsters vs Rednecks). The guys also discuss Gotham getting Fingered, books for mature readers to read to babies, Jessica Jones, Daredevil, and the Keegen Michael Key/Dwayne McDuffie connection (which you heard here first!).
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There’s A Hula Girl On My Dashboard
StandardDid you know there are books with no pictures or word balloons? Written by real people for other real people to read? Sometimes they don’t even have cyborgs or time travel or any of the other 49 shades of grey? Crazy, right?!
TGA Podcast Episode 0043 – The Diggle
AudioReunited! This week the boys are back in the same room talkin’ `bout broken bones, Disney and Disneyland, fanboys and boobs, wrestling with race, Star Wars moichendizing, a change in the MCU creative org-chart, and armchair activism and its impact on art. They also giggle at Diggle and say farewell to Wes Craven.
Key and Peele and Dwayne McDuffie
StandardSince this is the internet, and more importantly, the comics internet, and there is nothing it loves more than speculation based on almost nothing, I’ve got something for ye. Follow me after the jump.
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Comics and Guitar (A gritty reboot)
What do a man that dresses like a bat, a clown prince, chickens, a mantis, and a spider have in common?
TGA Podcast Episode 0042 – Trank The Unknown
AudioStockton-Con 2015 recap, Fantastic 4 (or Fantastic Snore, am I right?), Targeting gender roles, Omega the Unknown, Fifth Dimension Comics and Facebook data mined comic book readership stats.
TGA Podcast Episode 0041 – Taco Party
AudioThis week the guys recap SDCC 2015 trailers and announcements, sing some a cappella slow jams, and talk Star Wars and Archie. Make sure you check out the Bayani and The Nine Daughters of The Moon Kickstarter.
It’s New To Me: Omega: The Unknown #1
StandardI’m going to start a new series for the blog here, for now called It’s New To Me, where I will take a look at older comics I’ve missed out on, somehow never got around to, or just found out about. Or maybe I’ve had them for awhile and didn’t get to them in a Timely Fashion (was that a Marvel joke? Was that a joke?) so let’s kick things off with something I’ve heard a lot about Omega: The Unknown. Strap on your sideburns, hang your coke-spoon necklaces in your thickly matted chest-muff, and lets travel back to the 1970’s when the D-double-E-J-A-Y’s didn’t have to wear headphones to be on the radio (I’m looking at you Dr. Johnny Fever) and people hadn’t started throwing doughnuts at Anne Wilson from Heart yet.
Love Wins
StandardThis isn’t a political blog, and this isn’t comics related, but today is a historic day. Gay marriage is legal in all 50 states (finally) and I’m exceedingly happy. Am I gay? Nope. Do I believe that people should be allowed to marry someone they love, whether they are of the same or opposite sex? All day, every day, and in all 50 states. We turned down a podcast guest awhile ago, because of their repellent, hateful, opinions of in their words The Homo’s, and some extraordinarily backwards opinions of non-white characters in comic books. Today though, I’m happy. Happy I don’t have to explain to my children that only certain people can be married again. Happy that people who are in love, can be recognized as equals in the eyes of the law. The world is an awful place, and love is not a color issue, an issue or sexual orientation or gender, it’s a human issue. If you are lucky enough to find a partner you love, and want to spend your life with, by all means take that person by the hand, look them in the eyes and say, “I do.” Celebrate love. Celebrate equality. Celebrate Gay Marriage. Thanks SCOTUS
-Kris
TGA Podcast Episode 0040 – Caution: Contains Accordion
AudioThis week the guys discuss the 2015 Eisner nominees for Best Writer, banks and censorship, Jurassic World (spoilers), Black Panther’s director, Hannibal, and the Supreme Court case of the century.
The Gravy Age 