just finished listening (time is funny here) to your podcast and enjoyed it very much. its like you are in the room!!! looking forward to the next one... ooh! a subscribe button...
Why, thank you. If you email Mike any requests at the email address he gave that I can't remember then we could, for example, reveal how little we know about TF or Marvel UK compared to you! ;-)
I have listened with my ears (and subscribed!). I really enjoyed it, and spot on observation about the Guardian and its 'try hard' lists of ten things that are great in a particular genre 'cos they're pretentious and arty. A bit like Grauniad readers, I suppose. i shall be tuning in again to the next one and wait with eager ears :D
And to add to the Alice In Sunderland debate...I have read Alice In Sunderland. Its not something I can see myself reading again, if I'm honest. It's a relentless narrative that weaves in the history of Lewis Carroll's creation of Alice In Wonderland taking in the cultural and artistic history of Sunderland , as well as wider events that shaped the region. The narrative doesn't stop for breath and is delivered by three characters that look like the three ages of Bryan Talbot (!) which frequently argue and talk over each other, derailing one narrative strand in favour of another divergence. Visually, I don't think I've read anything like this, as it slips through straight foward comics line art into digital images, painting and allsorts of fancy design jiggery pokery. A bit like what that Chirs Ware does, but not as restrained. Talbot has really poured himself into this work, and it is like nothing else I've read, but there's also the sense of perhaps being stuck in a room with a mental who wont stop going on about their pet subject, and gets ever more excitable as time wears on...
I know not what the song is (having never actually listened to one of our podcasts...) but I do know that it is by (sadly defunct) rock superstars $lash Vega$ and features gifted muso Mike Infinitum on bass.