Travis and Devin celebrate 1 year of Snake Oil Comics by bringing you two two guests this week. Our first guest this week is Patrick Cline, Michigan Comics Collective member, comic shop manager, and comic writer. Our second guest this week is Paul Storrie, comic writer for DC and Marvel.
The Graphic Novice Comic Book Podcast returns for another week. After announcing a new 60-minute format change proposal, we changed nothing, and to the surprise of no one, we didn’t manage to cut any time off the podcast. We spend the non-comic book portion of the show talking about past break-ups, sleeping habits, sneaking back home after a night of drinking and a plethora of other self-indulgent subject matter before moving on to our focus content, comic books. Comic news includes a cutting and insightful review of iZombie and the CW App. In our weekly review of the books we read from March 18, we discuss Batgirl #40, Batman Eternal #50, Alex + Ada #13, Chrononauts #1, Outcast #7, Red One #1, All-New Captain America #5, All-New X-Men #39, Amazing Spider-Man #16.1, Magneto #16 (Nickel’s Book of the Week), Moon Knight #13, Silk #2, and Wolverines #11. We didn’t leave enough time to discuss the February Sales totals, so we moved right to a quick look at the books coming out March 25, 2015, and say our weekly goodbyes.
Travis and Devin have the pleasure this week of talking with Annaleis and Neil C of “Dark Angels and Pretty Freaks” Podcast. Make sure to check out and rate their show on iTunes and Stitcher.
Travis fails to make it into the shop again this week, but does manage to Skype into the show. We interview Len Mihalovich about his comic, Track Suit Man. We also talk about the Batgirl variant cover controversy and generate the frameworks for our D&D characters.
Everyone please welcome The Salty Language Podcast to the Danger Entertainment family of geek centric podcasts!Comics, TV, Movies, and other random musings by bearded professionals!
Salty Language Episode #191: Tiggy’s Tugboat
Tony and Bryan talk about awkward elevator situations, ‘Preacher’ casts Cassidy, ‘Archer’ Easter eggs, BBC set to fire Jeremy Clarkson, faulty furnaces, head shaving, and more!
Who The What Now?! #036: Questionable Comics Roundtable #001
This week Michelle is absent, but that doesn’t stop Michael from taking on the hot button comic industry issues with guests VF & Nickle from the Graphic Novice podcast. They take on the Batgirl cover controversy, talk about how comics are trying to court female readers with varying success, the many female comic character costume changes, Lady Thor outsells old stinky Man-Thor, is it good or bad that booth babes are no longer allowed at some cons?, should cons have a beer garden?, Is DC going raise prices?, are comics too costly? What’s the deal with Secret Wars?
Maybe it would have been a good idea to wait for Michelle.
Plus we ask some dorky comic geek questions. Our ideal X-men lineups, and what super power would you like to have? SPOILER: VF’s is wrong.
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Graphic Novice #055: Change The Cover: The Batgirl Variant Cover Controversy
Two-thirds of the original cast return for episode number “double nickel” where VF reveals a major secret in the first couple minutes of the show. After VF is done blowing minds, we remember the magic of Ultima Online, we discuss Nickel’s work commitments, fonts, PowerPoint, VF’s roof, podcast networks, podcaster vacations, hot tubs, and winter road conditions.
A trippy new bumper kicks off the “Comic News” segment, where VF stalls as long as he can with news of Greg Capullo’s original art going up for sale before we finally get into the hot topic of the day, the controversy over the Batgirl #41 variant cover.
Two weeks’ worth of “Rapid-Fire Review” finally brings us back to the reading books from the current week again, after we discuss the books that came out March 4 & 11, 2015.
As always, we wrap things up by looking ahead, and talking about the comics we want to check out after March 18, 2015.
Its just VF & Nickel in this landmark episode of Graphic Novice. The opening banter touches on some of the other podcasts Nickel may or may not be showing up on, technical and non-technical issues on the Gotham Knights podcast, VF’s thoughts on Gotham thus far, VF’s texting etiquette, The Angry Ginger’s ability to keep Nickel on topic during the Better Call Saul podcast, and eventually… the elephant in the room that is the absence of Doc Thirst, and the seed of an idea that could one day be the Doc Thirst Memorial Karaoke Jam. In comic news, which takes us quite a while to get to, we discuss the Batman Bunny Suit coming up in Batman #41, DC’s Convergence, Marvel’s Secret Wars, and the DC movie poster variant covers. When we finally get to “Rapid-Fire Review” the guys start out trying to get through some of the new releases from both February 25, and March 4. Some of the books up for discussion include Curb Stomp #1, Evil Empire #11, Batman #39, Low #6, The Wicked + The Divine #8, All-New X-Men #38, New Avengers #30, Spider-Gwen #1, Spider-Man 2099 #9, Superior Iron Man #5, Uncanny Avengers #2, and Wolverines #8. At this point, Nickel starts to feel the heat at this point, and tries to pull the pin before finishing up the segment, so the guys decide to carry some of the most memorable books from March 11 over to the next episode. Before calling it a night, we run through the books coming out on March 11, 2015 and leave everyone to our musical dedication to our now semi-retired co-host Doc Thirst.
Travis is away sick this week, so Devin mans the once more. Aaron Moore calls in to talk about his Kickstarter campaign for “If…Powers”, and offers to throw our listeners some goodies if they mention the show when pledging. During the second half of the show, we get updated on the FFO challenge standings and Andy “THE GREEK!” talks about meeting John Barrowman at Motor City Comic Con last year.