Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (00:17):
Welcome to another episode of Comex Recent Reads. We have three guests with me and Ed, and we will be talking about comics that we have recently read, so I always forget what I meant to say here. That’s right. Welcome everyone. Okay, cool. Ed Kiley known for Radical, he’s our man on the buttons tonight. What book will you be telling us about tonight, ed?

Ed Kearsley (00:49):
Tonight I got Guy Kevin Library number one by Peter Lean and Jason Paul.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (00:56):
Sweet. And I’ll go in clockwise direction because it just works well for my OCD. Ryan Christopher known for Corner Box. Is there more to the name than that? I always forget Corner

Ryan Christopher (01:09):
Box, comic Art Corner Box. It

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11):
Works. And what would you be talking about tonight?

Ryan Christopher (01:20):
I’m talking about the Dark Horse Comic. This damn band by Paul Cornell and Tony Parker.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:26):
Nice. Oh cool.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:30):
And continuing on my little patent here. eb, you are known for comics. I almost did it. I almost did it. Comics One, which is a platform for reading comics online. And tonight you would be talking about

Saurabh Bhatia (01:49):
Fridge Boy from Space by a Rock. Oh, cool. It’s a lovely book. Yeah. Cool, cool.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:57):
And that brings us to Peter.

Peter Wilson (01:59):
Hello,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (02:00):
Known for Foz and Crimson Rascal, whether he likes it or not. What will you be reading tonight talking about tonight? Sorry.

Peter Wilson (02:08):
We’ve got a Dark Horse book as well. Black Blue Book.

Saurabh Bhatia (02:12):
Blue

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (02:12):
Book. Cool.

Peter Wilson (02:13):
Really cool little series.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (02:16):
And I forgot myself. I am Ciz known as the Comex guy for all things Comex and I will be talking about No Man’s Land tonight.

Saurabh Bhatia (02:28):
Nice.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (02:30):
I didn’t mean to do that, but it just happened. So we’ll get started. Should I start? Do you reckon, ed? Yeah, sure. Yeah,

Saurabh Bhatia (02:39):
Go for it. Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (02:40):
Sure. Yep. Cool. So yes, no Man’s Land. It’s a bit of a coming of age story for young women. It’s about gang. I wouldn’t say gangs because there’s only three women in each one or is it four? Oh crap, I think it’s three. But in each turf they’ve got different turf around the city and they’re all rollerbladers and they compete against each other and so forth. This story doesn’t go into too much detail. I want all that competing is Exactly. It’s more about one of the turfs, the girls on that turf have decided to leave the town or leave the competition. Actually, I don’t think they’re leaving the town. I think they’re leaving the competition from my understanding. It’s like hinted at, not outright said, but my understanding it’s a bit to do with the whole them fighting amongst themselves and each other instead of supporting each other and they’re sick of it. And that’s, yeah, but colour choices I love, they’re not like it’s, it’s realistic or anything, but I just love the colours that Shaden has chosen in this. Just the combos and each turf has different colours.

Saurabh Bhatia (04:03):
Oh, nice.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (04:04):
So where’s the map at the front? Yeah, see there’s Each turf has its own colour and that’s reflected in the book.

Saurabh Bhatia (04:17):
Wow, that’s clever.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (04:19):
So it’s a wind, Lynn, I should really make notes. Everyone else does. I’m the only person who does it. But yeah, it’s really cool book, really cool read. And number two is also really good as well. That’s already out and I’m looking forward to three.

Saurabh Bhatia (04:38):
That’s awesome. To

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (04:39):
See what happens to the young ladies from this town, the competition to win the turf that’s been abandoned.

Saurabh Bhatia (04:49):
That’s very interesting. Yeah,

Peter Wilson (04:51):
It’s hard to leave it shape first comic too, because it looks like an absolute pro. Dude. It’s amazing.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (04:59):
So looking forward to getting that in the shop, to be honest. Yeah. Shanen keeps selling out of them so she can’t send them to me.

Saurabh Bhatia (05:08):
Good problem to have. Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (05:10):
Good problem to have.

Saurabh Bhatia (05:11):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (05:13):
So we’ve got a comment call now. Should I go anticlockwise to keep the OCD in check?

Saurabh Bhatia (05:26):
And we’ll

Peter Wilson (05:26):
Start

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (05:27):
With Peter.

Peter Wilson (05:29):
Okay. Tell

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (05:30):
Us about your book.

Peter Wilson (05:32):
So I’ll show up the cover again. This is a variant. There’s a bit of foiling along the top here. I bought this one purely on the strength of the cover art.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (05:42):
Oh, cool.

Peter Wilson (05:44):
I just thought stunning

Saurabh Bhatia (05:45):
Cover.

Peter Wilson (05:46):
It really is beautiful. It’s just someone who puts in maybe too much detail into their work as someone goes minimal like this, especially with the colouring. I’m always really impressed. It’s by, hang on, I wrote it down. James Chiney in IV who’s currently doing something is killing the Children with Dark Horse, which I hear is really good. I haven’t read it myself. A couple of artists, Michael Avon Oing, who’s done Abe Sapien and a handful of DC and Superman books, and there’s a little mini story at the back included, and Klaus Jansen did that. He’s done a handful of Marvel stuff, mostly Daredevil and older ones, but it was really cool. They’re based off true, I say true loosely the folklore of UFO abductions, the famous cases in this case, the Barney and Betty Hill abduction. It really took me back to that old nineties show Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack that as a kid I’d sneak out and watch in the middle of the night and be terrified off for the rest of the week. And I was utterly convinced I’d have to watch out for the Bermuda Triangle and alien abductions if I wasn’t careful.

Saurabh Bhatia (07:02):
Sadly,

Peter Wilson (07:03):
It kind of became less of an issue as I grew up. So all the art is black, white, and blue.

Saurabh Bhatia (07:11):
Oh, cool.

Peter Wilson (07:13):
Really stark, beautifully rendered though. It looks great.

Saurabh Bhatia (07:18):
Beautiful. Yeah. The way they use shadows is,

Peter Wilson (07:24):
Sorry.

Saurabh Bhatia (07:25):
I was saying the way they use shadows is pretty clever.

Peter Wilson (07:29):
It is. And things get, when the aliens do appear, they start throwing in a bit of red, which is kind of cool. It’s very like, Ooh, you’re in trouble. And here’s the art for the backstory is just black and white. And that’s kind of a Jersey devil type story. A very sketchy, lots of half tone, but it’s cool. So this came out in February last year. It’s a five issue miniseries, which I think is in a trade now. You can get pretty easily. And they’ve just released a, they’ve wrapped up the second series, which is Blue Book 1947. So presumably it’s all about Roswell and the Alien autopsy and stuff. It kind of flow under the radar when I was researching it. Not that many people seem to know about it. I’m glad it got enough traction to get a second trade to be honest. But I’m looking forward. I got the rest of them digitally of the first run. If you’re into government conspiracies, UFO aliens, I’d say that’s required reading. It’s a really cool take. It’s done very respectfully. No one looks like a kook. No one’s written to be crazy. They’re drawn very well.

Saurabh Bhatia (08:48):
Nice. I think that subject has for a very long time been in the nineties. It was done to death, especially in the movies, but I think for a very long time it hasn’t been examined with a different lens. So if somebody does that in a new light, I think it’s a great topic to explore.

Peter Wilson (09:12):
Yeah, it’s almost timeless in a way. Some of those stories, the way they just keep going. And even if you don’t believe it, even if you firmly believe it and the truth is out there, there’s something in it for you. You can hate read it, you can read it if you love it, it’s happened to you. Anyone who’s read my work knows I love aliens. They seem to pepper oven everything I draw. So that was really cool to see it in comic form.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (09:40):
Yeah,

Ryan Christopher (09:41):
Nice. Just to have an alternative to XFiles as well. They’ve been doing XFiles comics for so long as well, but they don’t even have the same edge as the TV show in my opinion. So to get a completely different perspective on the genre from such a great visual storyteller as Michael Oming is pretty incredible too.

Peter Wilson (10:07):
Yeah, I’ve only read the first one. I’m looking forward to really exploring the rest. I kind of skim the other issues. I tend to do that when I’m reading digitally. I’m looking forward to really sitting down and studying them. It’s great.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (10:21):
Cool. I’m probably meant to ask questions, but I

Saurabh Bhatia (10:29):
Have a question if that’s okay. Does it have any pop culture references to any homages, to any of the existing source material or

Peter Wilson (10:42):
No, not really. It’s a very straightforward recount of what Betty and Betty Hill said happened to them. It’s kind of like a cruel dramatisation. It really took me back to the reenactments you’d see on shows like Unsolved Mysteries and which was really cool. It was a simple summer night when they came home from holidays. They know they’ll follow, but completely earnest. It’s totally sincere, which is even better.

Saurabh Bhatia (11:15):
Nice. Awesome.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (11:18):
Thanks that. So to keep my patent going, Rab. Sorry, Rab, I’m, don’t get it wrong. I’m going to board Jared. Sorry.

Saurabh Bhatia (11:27):
That’s okay. That’s okay.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (11:30):
Let’s talk about your book, my friend.

Saurabh Bhatia (11:32):
Awesome. So French Boy from Space, it’s a very interesting book. One, it’s written by Rob Fieldman. He’s a cartoonist from Sydney and it’s published by Comico Nat from Brisbane. Yeah, Nat Carmichael from Brisbane. Yeah, it’s a fantastic book because, so the art is very cartoonlike I would say, because Rob’s a cartoonist. He makes funny posters and stuff. And it kind of shows because this whole book is chock full of references, pop culture references. It has everything from Darth waiter to Wiggles. Wiggles are literally earth’s first line of defence against Darth waiter. It’s that kind of insane. So do you see Wiggles there dressed

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (12:39):
Up?

Saurabh Bhatia (12:40):
Oh nice. Ready to fight Darth waiter and all the A days. But yeah, and still it has beautiful character moments and there’s some real heart to the story. There’s also real random jokes like this. There’s some meta commentary on people it, like somebody’s writing this movie script in the background and it has commercial breaks and stuff like that. So it says this thing kills 99.9% of the germs and viruses, but if you take it twice, it’ll take, it’ll kill

Saurabh Bhatia (13:25):
One night

Saurabh Bhatia (13:34):
And at some point, spoiler alert everyone from Neo to Wonder Woman show up to Sherlock Holmes in a paid spread. So yeah, I would say I highly recommend it. It’s one of the best $13 I’ve spent in the last couple of months just doing this haul from conventions. Rob himself is an amazing guy. He was dressed in a space suit at the con and he was taking pictures with everyone, so yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (14:08):
So is that where you got the book where he was like, was that an event, like a supernova?

Saurabh Bhatia (14:15):
Yeah, I got it from, I was at one of the regional conferences, Wollongong,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (14:22):
I’ve heard of that one. Yeah, it sounds like a really good

Saurabh Bhatia (14:24):
One. Yeah, it was fantastic. I actually met Max and Duchen there for the first time.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (14:31):
Oh, cool.

Saurabh Bhatia (14:32):
Yeah, they were tabling right next to me, so the comic stall was right next to me. That’s

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (14:39):
Right. I remember them telling me about that. The comics. And the comics.

Saurabh Bhatia (14:42):
Yeah, we were together. So yeah, I met Rob there and Nat was there as well. It was fantastic meeting them in person and talking about the story and stuff like that. Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (14:55):
Cool. Did you pick up anything else by Rob?

Saurabh Bhatia (15:01):
No, not at that time, but I have a little extra. Yeah, I’m keen to, I

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (15:07):
Want to get I just showing what you showed then I want to get into it as well now. Yeah, I’ll find a way to get it in Brisbane.

Saurabh Bhatia (15:15):
Yeah, I’ve met so many fantastic creators from Brisbane already. Brad, I met Brad at anova. He publishes tales Too Stupid to Tell

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (15:27):
Such a cool name.

Saurabh Bhatia (15:29):
It’s a very fun book. It also, the whole setup is the old EC comics and creep show, kind of the feel to it. So it’s like an anthology and bunch of other stories mixed in.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (15:46):
Yeah. Cool. Well thanks for that. I’ve added that to my list for sure. So I guess to keep my order going, we’re going to pick on Ryan, not really pick on him he loves.

Ryan Christopher (16:09):
All right, so this week

(16:14)
We’re going to be talking about this stand band. So this was published in 2015 by Dark Horse, written by Paul Cornell, who has written Dr. Who comics, and he did some issues of Wolverine with Alan Davis and illustrated by Tony Parker, who is best known fully working on mass effect foundation, comic series and God of War. And he has an excellent new book that’s coming out in October, which is sort of a modernization of the Tale of Medusa as a superhero sort of thing. So this book, we follow the Hard Rock band mother father on their 1974 World tour. The comics told in a documentary style, so the reader is almost in the position of the camera man for the documentary crew that’s following the band around. So you get a combination of different storytelling devices throughout. It’s really great because you sort of get those candid behind the scenes going on of the band.

(17:36)
You get them on stage doing their thing, you get their aside with the camera where it’s just one band member complaining about X, Y, z. So they do a really good job of establishing this format. And one of my favourite things about the art style is that there’s a few times where a band member or multiple band members are under the influence of drugs, and Tony’s changed the entire art style for those sections. And there’s also a separate art style for when there are events that haven’t been captured on film by the documentary crew, but they’ve been anecdotally told to them. So it plays out differently visually as well. That’s cool. And the main sort of plot point for the book is a lot of rock bands, especially rock bands in the seventies, they all used to be like, we worship Satan man, but what if they didn’t realise that they actually were worshipping Satan?

(18:53)
Wow. They’re on tour, they’re trying to record a new album and band members start acting weird. Their manager goes off the deep end, groupies start going missing. So it’s got a little bit of a rock and roll. Scooby do quality to it as well. Interesting. That’s so good. Yeah, that’s great because kind of trying to figure out what is going on, is any of this real or was it the band members don’t know? Did they actually meet the devil? Was it just a drug trip? What’s going on? So many events end up being the only, I guess the only parts that you can trust are the parts where you know that you are in that role of the cameraman. Because everything that you are experiencing when you’re reading through that lens is like it’s fact. It’s being caught on video and then the rest is how true is this tale?

(19:57)
Is everything happening the way that it’s being told to us and things get pretty crazy, but it is Scooby-Doo, like in the sense that one, is the villain really a villain? Two, who is the villain and can you actually unmask them before you get to the conclusion? So thinking about, I want to read this book again because knowing now what happens, I think it’ll be more fun to try and find the clues, when did they start alluding to who the actual antagonist of this book actually is and where are the breadcrumbs? So I think it’s going to be really, really fun. But yeah, if you liked movies like This is Spinal Tap, almost famous rockstar, those sort of music focused movies, then I think that you’d really enjoy this book. The Artwork by Tony is phenomenal. Try and find a really interesting page of them on stage or something. Oh, what’s great is they have all the transitions in the book are done, old school gig posters.

Saurabh Bhatia (21:34):
That’s so amazing. That’s a nice touch.

Ryan Christopher (21:41):
And then this is an example.

Saurabh Bhatia (21:46):
Oh wow,

Ryan Christopher (21:47):
That’s the interior work. Lemme see if I can find an example of when things go a bit screwy because it’s quite, and then when they’re on drugs, they start to get That’s

Saurabh Bhatia (22:10):
Fantastic.

Ryan Christopher (22:12):
A bit weird.

Saurabh Bhatia (22:13):
Cool.

Ryan Christopher (22:17):
Yeah, so I mean it’s definitely, I was sold as soon as I saw. Okay, hard rock band 1974 World Tour. That’s all I needed to know. It didn’t even need to have all the supernatural elements to it. It could have been a straight up rock and roll biopic book and I would’ve been sold. But then you add in, like I say, that creepy sort of supernatural Scooby Dow element, and I think it was a sleeper mean, I got onto this book because I used to live in Phoenix, Arizona. Tony used to live in Phoenix, Arizona, so I got to know him through various comic cons and store meetups and signings and all that sort of stuff when this book was about to come out. So I was lucky enough to be on the hype train for it back in 2015 when the book first came out. And yeah, it’s one that I recommend that all comic fans pick up if that’s your jam, if you like Black Sabbath, if you like Led Zeppelin, you’re going to get really cool vibes out of reading this book.

Saurabh Bhatia (23:29):
Nice. Very cool. Thanks Ryan. Awesome art.

Ryan Christopher (23:33):
It is awesome Art, naughtiest Art.

Saurabh Bhatia (23:40):
Hey, rusty kind of reminds me of two things. Do you know there’s a movie called Death Chasm? It’s a movie from New Zealand, it’s a little indie movie and it’s about this group of teenagers who are into death metal and they have a local rocker who’s supposed to be a Satanist. They go to his place and they start playing heavy metal and they end up raising hell in a small sleepy town in New Zealand. So it’s incredibly funny and it has really creative kills and kind of pay a lot of homage to Evil Dead in those kind of movies. Yeah, that’s one. And the other thing that kind of reminded me was an indie series comic series called Trump Six of Doom. I don’t know if you’ve read that

Ed Kearsley (24:38):
Or not.

Saurabh Bhatia (24:40):
Yeah, it’s an incredible series I think. So the premise for that is it’s kind of like an alternate music history where instead of Beatles, black Sabbath is the most popular band in the world. And then Oh cool. Yeah, yeah. Brian is one of the artists on it. Yeah.

Ryan Christopher (25:01):
Oh yeah, you do because there’s a few out right now that’ll kick your rock and roll jams too. There’s Trump sticks of Dom, there’s Morris and the Metal. Yeah, there’s some great representation in that space.

Saurabh Bhatia (25:14):
Nice.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (25:17):
Awesome. Thanks Ryan.

Ryan Christopher (25:19):
No worries.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (25:22):
So time for the button pusher to get up on the screen. I get to call someone else a button pusher.

Ed Kearsley (25:31):
Hello. Hey

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (25:33):
Ed.

Ed Kearsley (25:34):
So I’m going to be doing Sky’s Cabin Library by Peter Lean and Jason Paul and that little guy there is Sky and he runs a library, which is in an actual cave. And the books in the library are portals to the dimension of the actual book, the story in the book. So if you’re looking at a book, you’ll get sucked into it. And so there’s the dangerous books they have to separate from the good ones. So you wouldn’t want to get sucked into a horror story like a Stephen King or something. You’d want to go into a nice one. And Art by Jason Paul, who’s, where am I, Australian, pretty much legend by this point, who’s been doing comics for ages and see these pages with their crazy layouts and very cool. My first just looking at it, I thought, oh, that’s way too busy of a layout.

(26:46)
But as you look at it and read it the way that he’s drawn it and his use of colour to separate the panels, it all works perfectly and that’s really good. That’s the introduction story. There’s three stories in it and then there’s the second one’s Me was with that girl whose name is Chris, so she’s been having a hard time at school and Sky sends her to a battle tech universe where she fights robots. And then the last one is there’s people dumping pollution into the lake right outside of the library and the sky’s looking at it through a telescope and then this guy’s like a Bigfoot character comes and beats them up the polluters. So that’s a really cool book. It looks very, very cool. Just another thing I wanted to show you guys is this is Comic Edge for May, June, 1998, and if you go to this page, there’s me, this my book Rights squad number 1 19 98.

Peter Wilson (28:12):
Oh, great.

Ed Kearsley (28:15):
On the next page we’ve got Ryan Velas books, Senator Satan Vomitus, and then Sky’s Cabin Library number one by Peter Lane, Jane Ley.

Peter Wilson (28:29):
That’s a great, so all

Ed Kearsley (28:30):
Three of us. Yeah,

Peter Wilson (28:32):
That’s cool.

Ed Kearsley (28:34):
Very Australian comic history in the thing that, yeah, I really like this. And the idea of the books being portals to the framing device for the stories is it’s limitless. You can do plastics, you could just make shit up. It’s such a good idea.

Peter Wilson (29:00):
Great. It’s clever because a good book will transport you to it, what it’s trying to tell you. And Peter, one of the dude in comics, so

Ed Kearsley (29:14):
Yeah, met Peter at the Supernova in Melbourne.

Peter Wilson (29:21):
Oh, cool.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:21):
Yeah, me too.

Ed Kearsley (29:24):
Very nice. So that’s my book.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:28):
Thanks, ed. Okay, now we’ve done that bit. All of us have talked about our books. Now is the part where we talk about do you want to be on the show viewer or anyone coming across this video want to be on this show and talk about a comic they’ve read recently? Well then you can by going to Comex Show slash Interest, you can just go to Comex Show and interest will be in the menu if you don’t want to type it all in up to you. But yeah, that’ll get you straight there. There’s a form, fill it out, let us know that you’re interested, what shows you’re interested in. Doesn’t have to just be this one that you’d like to be on and I will get in contact with you, we’ll get you on one of these shows. Awesome. Tell us about comics. It’s all about the love of comics. Okay, so this is the part where everyone gets to plug themselves for a minute.

Ed Kearsley (30:22):
Sounds I’ve

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:23):
Been evil and I’ve got a video that times everyone because that’s the kind of guy that I am. So I’m going to cheat, I’ll go first. I’m going to cheat, I’m going to promote someone else’s stuff tonight by Brad Daniels. He’s doing a show in Brisbane and I’ll say no more and I’ll just show you the video. Okay. 9:00 PM I’m done. That was a good cheat. I don’t have to talk or anything.

Saurabh Bhatia (31:49):
Wasn’t that Brad in the trailer? It was Brad, right? One of them?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:54):
Yeah, that was Brad.

Saurabh Bhatia (31:55):
Yeah,

Ed Kearsley (31:56):
With the big moustache thing.

Saurabh Bhatia (31:58):
Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:01):
Instead of his current Back to the Future look that he’s got going on.

Ed Kearsley (32:06):
So that looks like they’re doing Sorry to interrupt. There’s two people. There’s the cop and the robocop, and they’re going to switch over each show.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:17):
Yeah, each night is a different pair. Yeah,

Ed Kearsley (32:19):
That’s cool.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:21):
So Brad is on two of them I think. Really should do my research.

Ed Kearsley (32:27):
Yeah, that makes sense.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:31):
We mentioned

Peter Wilson (32:33):
Tales too Stupid to tell before. Brad is a really great improviser. So

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:37):
Yes,

Peter Wilson (32:38):
If you won his comedy in comic form, get a copy.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:41):
Yep, agreed. I’m going to go something random here and confuse myself. Ryan, you have, and I’ll get up on the screen. You my friend, have a minute to promote yourself. Now I’ve just got to find where the video is so I can press play. Ed, you going to put him on the Oh, you on the big one? Who was it? Ryan. Ryan, yeah. Thank, I’m going like diagonal or something. I don’t even know what I’m doing. Crazy, man. Okay, starting now, my friend.

Ryan Christopher (33:19):
Cool. So I’m from Corner Box Comic Art, so I work with Lauren Marshall, Jason Paulos, Colin Wilson. I’ve done signings with Dean Rankin and some international creators. I guess the biggest thing that I can ask right now is I’m really trying to grow the page so I can offer more opportunities to both local creators and hopefully get some really cool international things going as well. So if you’re watching this, please go to facebook.com/corner box Comic art like us there. You can like us@cornerbox.com.art on Instagram. And yeah, if you like what we’re doing, we’d love your support because we’ve got some great ideas. We just need to get the legs under us to actually make some stuff happen. So yeah, your support would be the world. Thank you.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:14):
Awesome. That’s three seconds to spare. Well done. Okay. Diagonal Peter about something you want us to know about and be involved in or bye or whatever.

Peter Wilson (34:32):
You can get those at com school and it is available. Physical copies are still available and digital copies are available on that. And I recently wrapped up work on Lee Cha’s book.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:51):
Nice.

Peter Wilson (34:52):
I did the lettering and design work and some minor editing. If you haven’t read previous issues. This is a great jumping on point. It’s like a volume two I guess is what you’d call it. That’s what Lee’s been calling it and I still have those trading cards from the Kickstarter.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:19):
That’s awesome.

Peter Wilson (35:19):
Great collection of artists from all over Australia. We’ve mentioned Jason Paul and Ron Bella and I weren’t Ed Kiley somewhere. Kung Fu.

Saurabh Bhatia (35:40):
That’s awesome.

Peter Wilson (35:41):
You’ve got a couple actually, ed,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:44):
Just one second’s gone forever.

Peter Wilson (35:46):
There’s, sorry, I’ll hold it back up. There’s a few sets of them available.

Saurabh Bhatia (35:55):
Very cool,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:56):
Peter, much appreciated. Anyone who has got any sense you want to buy these off, Peter, how do you get ’em? Peter, I’ll just extend your promotion.

Peter Wilson (36:05):
These ones you can contact me directly on Instagram on ad buy Peter Peter Wilson or on Facebook, Peter Wilson. You’ll see my profile picture, black and white, cartoony one there, hit me.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:24):
Hey Sean, I’m going to down there and it’s let’s promote comics one.

Saurabh Bhatia (36:39):
Cool. So Comics one is an indie comics platform for, I don’t like to call it just digital because it’s digital for now. We are kind of trying to bring digital and print together in some shape or form, but for now we have over 300 comic books from over 200 creators from all over the world. And they’re available in digital format to read. You can read online or if some creators they allow you to download as well. So you can download it anywhere and read it wherever you would like. Yeah, we’re doing a lot of stuff. We have our own show called Freshly Press, not promoting my show over yours, but No, you can

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:25):
Do that. That’s what about,

Saurabh Bhatia (37:28):
I know. But yeah, we have a show called Freshly Pressed where we featured a lot of indie creators from all walks of life and from all over the world as well. Yeah, we have a lovely community and please check out and buy some books there. Support the indie creators.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:46):
Awesome. Very cool. Many thanks. And I’ve done this, have I done this each time now? Made Ed last? Yes,

Peter Wilson (37:55):
I

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:55):
Think I have. Well always save the best for last. So Ed, tell us about your awesomeness.

Ed Kearsley (38:02):
Okay, I make a comic book called Radical. It’s a superhero comic set in Melbourne. There’s lots of action and laughs and jokes and stuff. And at the moment I’m working on my final Dragon comic book, which is a karate comic kind of set in the eighties or maybe the nineties or something. It’s based on Double Dragon with the two brothers who fight each other. And there’s a lot of other stuff going on in that one, and you could find me at Ed Kiley Art on Instagram and Patreon. I’m out.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:52):
Oh, speed Demon. I can get rid of this now. Okay, so that’s plug now we do, do you want me to press the button or are you going to press the button my friend?

Ed Kearsley (39:04):
I want to do it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:06):
Okay.

Ed Kearsley (39:09):
Okay. This is an ad.

Voice Over (39:10):
Are you feeling a little down tired of reading the same old books again and again looking for something different? Why not? Head over to the comic shop now and pick yourself up some freshly inked inspiration

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:40):
Comic show. Hey, Williams

Ed Kearsley (39:50):
Falcon. Yeah, Falcon’s.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:51):
Good. Cool. Awesome. I need to

Ryan Christopher (39:56):
Know more about this Karate Comic ad.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (40:00):
Oh yeah,

Ed Kearsley (40:01):
Yeah. The Final Dragon, it’s in the first version of it’s in comics presents one, two, and three. That’s why I’m doing six more pages to fill out the start of the story and I’m going to recolor it and letter it and that’ll be coming, excuse me. It’ll be coming out soon from comics

Ryan Christopher (40:26):
All the way in already. Just from that one teaser image. I spent so many hours playing Double Dragon as Kit.

Ed Kearsley (40:40):
It was life changing for me. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (40:43):
Oh cool. Well, what I was going to say about the shop was, I guess this is kind of like a promotion, but on August 25th, Brisbane has the Brisbane comic markets at comics Plus at annually the Comex shop and Comex Studio will both be going to that event. So we’ll have boxes from the store that you can pick through and find stuff that you like. And we’ll also have all the comic studio stuff on display ready to have a look at. Awesome. As well as just go online and get them there if you want. So I’m cheating. I should probably stop that and get it onto the quick shot round or the lightning round where we recommend stuff. Now some might, I’m trying to get a favour from Peter Wilson, but regardless, I’m going to recommend Foes. What do you want? This comic is so awesome. I’m not going to go into it because that’s not what this bit’s about, but you want this comic. Trust me, it is so much fun. The young ones can read it as well, but you don’t have to be young one to enjoy this. It’s just awesome. And I’m not saying that because there’s a Comex logo somewhere on it.

(42:05)
I’m saying it because it’s a really cool comic and I’m really proud that it’s part of the comics lineup. Thank you. Yeah. Oh yes. Not to mention that is as well. But yeah, I’m not trying to promote Comic Studio at all, although you should like it and love it and buy comics from it. That’s my recommendation.

Peter Wilson (42:29):
Thank you.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:32):
That’s that’s

Peter Wilson (42:33):
Blended my ego a bit. Good.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:36):
This time. Ed’s going to go first. I’ll be making him go last all the time.

Ed Kearsley (42:43):
So in the spirit of a comic book from the nineties that was revamped with the recent release of Greener Pastures, number eight, I’m going to recommend the original seven and a bit greener pastures.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:04):
I love that Seven and a bit. Love it.

Ed Kearsley (43:06):
Because two half issues in there as well. So there’s nine all up, but these are great comics for me. This was the big three of Australian comic books that you could get at the news agents with this bug and stump and platinum grit. That’s really cool because doing some stuff with my old characters from the nineties, it’s really good to see other people revisiting their old stuff and it’s really good too. It’s Tim McEwen and Michael Andes who did this in the nineties. So if you hit Tim McEwen up on the social media, I think you still got the old copies from the nineties.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:00):
Yep. I’ll just butt in there. A good place to grab them is own an indie, it’s a website own indie.com I think it is. I don’t think there’s au, they sell a lot of Australian indie comics. What it is, it’s like a marketplace and each person has their own store. So you buy something off that shop and the person who owns it will post it off to you and Tim Mccuen’s one of the people on there. Nice.

Ed Kearsley (44:29):
If it’s name his own.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:31):
Ah, that’s the spirit. Good taste, Alison. Now I’m going to go diagonal again this time to reb.

Saurabh Bhatia (44:41):
Awesome

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:43):
Recommendation.

Saurabh Bhatia (44:44):
Well, my recommendation would be a series called Incident Report. If you are into d and d gaming and things like that, you’ll definitely love that series. It’s like a buddy cop comedy, not comedy, but it’s a buddy cop story. Every issue is a different genre. The first issue is like a buddy cop thing, second issue. It’s more like

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:08):
An

Saurabh Bhatia (45:09):
Action adventure, but it follows story of a setting where the kids are born with superpowers and there’s a child protective agency helping parents with kids with superpowers to tame their superpowers when they’re early. That kind of setup. Yeah. But it’s a very interesting book. They also have recently did a Kickstarter for issue three and they expanded the world with a game that ties into it. So they have their, if you pack the Kickstarter, you get a case file with an incident report and you can play that. So yeah, pretty cool series. Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:51):
I’ll have to look that up. One up now. Thanks.

Saurabh Bhatia (45:56):
Awesome.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:57):
Which way will I go this time? I’m going to make Peter ask because I recommended him. So Ryan, that’s fair.

Ryan Christopher (46:05):
I’m going comics adjacent, so it’s not a comic, it’s not even about comics, but it is adjacent to comics. So it’s this book called Previously on X-Men the Making of an animated series. Oh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (46:21):
Cool.

Ryan Christopher (46:23):
This book was written by Eric and Julia lw Wild, who wrote and produced the original X-Men animated series. So they speak to over 30 of the people involved in making the show. They take you through all the ups and downs about how the show got its foundations, how it launched, all the resistance to it, the people who put their whole careers on the line to try and make the show happen. And it goes really through something nitty nitty gritty of what it looks like to try and get a TV show on the air and all the processes involved. So what was the casting like? How did the storyboards come about? Who came up with the iconic theme music? How many alternatives did they go through before they got to the one that they thought was perfect? And then

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (47:24):
My, that’s how they decided which choice

Ryan Christopher (47:29):
And then what were all the challenges along the way. The entire show was constant effort to keep afloat to the point where after the first season they told everyone to go home. No one thought that they were going to have a job, but it still all came together and they all managed to get five seasons against the odds. And this book was written before any news about Xmen 97 came out. Cool. So good. So this is a whole bunch of super talented creatives looking back on an iconic achievement in their careers, thinking that it was done in the past and nothing else was going to come of it. But we know now Disney had other plans. People like the lals, Larry Houston have been involved in this new X-Men 97 show. So yeah, if you enjoyed X-Men 97, if you’ve watched the original show, or even if you just want to get a really in depth play-by-play of how a TV show comes into creation previously on X-Men.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:59):
Nice. Thank you. Ryan.

Ryan Christopher (49:01):
Published by Jacobs Brown Press. I’m not sure whether you have to buy it direct through them. They’re a small press, so it may be available on other platforms or you may have to go directly through them.

Peter Wilson (49:20):
Apologies. Except

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:23):
I will this time and I’ve totally forgot because I’ve mixed it all up and didn’t go in a proper order. Okay, we’ve got No, just joking. Peter, tell us your recommendation my friend.

Peter Wilson (49:37):
I’m doing a reread at the moment of Jeff Smith’s bone.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:43):
Oh nice.

Peter Wilson (49:44):
That’s good. Been a while since I read. I started rereading it because just last week I managed to pick up an issue one.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:52):
Oh cool.

Peter Wilson (49:53):
Which I was very happy with. And just preparing this, I realised how much bone stuff I’ve accumulated. There’s an issue on the image reprint. Here’s the first coloured trade, which you can now get at Kmart for like 10 or eight bucks. I would’ve killed for that when I started collecting these. It’s really cool colour as well, if you’ve ever

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (50:16):
Might need to go to Kmart sometime soon. There

Peter Wilson (50:19):
Was a lot of charm to the black and white one, but it was really cool to see it in colour and the art of bone.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (50:28):
Oh.

Peter Wilson (50:30):
Which is really good. What I like about this one is it has iterations of these characters for when Jeff Smith was about eight years old.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (50:42):
Oh, no way.

Peter Wilson (50:46):
He’s been working on these dudes for a long time.

(50:50)
Wow. This story has existed in his mind since childhood. So this one could be hard to get this big hefty one, which that’s my phone book. But I do recommend going to your local Kmart and picking up this one, especially the first volume. It’s a great, almost self-contained story, but it’s really cartooning at its finest and a really great indie success story to boot perfectly Blends, cartoons, comedy, fantasy. Just a really great read. I’m sure if you are into comics and you’re watching this, odds are you’ve heard of bone, so reread it. You learn a lot. That’s my humble recommendation.

Ed Kearsley (51:39):
Can’t remember the story. We need to reread it again. But it came,

Ryan Christopher (51:47):
I actually haven’t read any bone. I was a bit of a big two stuck in that box for so long when I got back into reading comics that it’s only of the last five years, maybe five to 10 years, somewhere in there where I’ve started to pick up on a lot of things that I shouldn’t have missed back in the day.

Peter Wilson (52:13):
That’s how I felt too. I finally read it for the first time my library happened to have it and I just heard it so long. It’s time to get it done and let’s read it and then I couldn’t put it down.

Ryan Christopher (52:25):
Cool. Good reason to go to your local library.

Peter Wilson (52:28):
Absolutely.

Ed Kearsley (52:28):
Library sounds sick comics now.

Peter Wilson (52:31):
They really do.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:32):
Yeah. So we said this earlier, and I’ll say it again. If you want to be on the show, tell us your recommendation. We have done everyone right. Okay. Comex slash interest. So I thought I’d forgotten someone. Everyone was quiet then. Yeah. So you want to be on the show on this show. Tick that box for this show. If you want to be on one of the other shows, tick those boxes. You don’t need to be an indie creator to be on this show. You just have to be someone who loves comics. That’s it. That’s all we ask. Hell, you can be in Mars if you want. Don’t care. As long as you get the time zones right. We’re all good.

Ryan Christopher (53:21):
You could hate comics, but you just have to be really sort of loquacious and convincing about it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (53:28):
Well yeah, that’s true. That’s

Saurabh Bhatia (53:30):
True.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (53:32):
As long as you’re convincing that it was a good book and that you enjoyed it, we’re all happy.

Ryan Christopher (53:37):
Come in and tell us about the book you hated.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (53:43):
That might make the recommendation part difficult. But yeah, so we’d love to have you on. Don’t be shy. All you need is an internet connection, a microphone and a camera. Sometimes they’re built into your laptop or phone. You can use your phone, you don’t have to use a laptop. As long as you’ve got those things you can come on the show. Tell us about what you love about comics and what comics you love. I think that’s it. I think we’ve done it. Nice. Thank you to all our guests. Thank you to Ed for pushing the buttons much better than I do on the other shows. And thank you to everyone who watched the show live. Thank you to everyone who’s watching the show after the fact. Thank you all. Who sent in their comments. Much appreciated. Tell your friends about us. Share the video like the video that always helps us as well. And most of all, if you’re not already subscribed to the channel, subscribe to comex net au. That’s the name of the channel and that’s also the website comex net au. Yeah, so love to see you on the show. Let us know that you want to be on here.

(55:01)
Yes.

Ed Kearsley (55:05):
We’ll be back on

Saurabh Bhatia (55:06):
Thursday,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:07):
Didn’t I? Sorry.

Ed Kearsley (55:10):
We’ll be back on Thursday for let’s make a comic book.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:15):
Yes, yes. And we’ve got the other shows, but this week, Tuesday and Wednesday are taking a break. So the next show is Thursday. So you’ve got me and Ed tonight as hosts. You’ve got me and Ed Thursday night as hosts. And then you’ve got me as a button pushier and Ed and Shannon as the coasts on Friday, drink and draw. So it’s an Ed and sis week, the excited people.

Ryan Christopher (55:46):
What’s the drink and draw theme this week?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:48):
Drink and draw. Theme is Plastic man.

Saurabh Bhatia (55:52):
Oh, good choice. Oh nice.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:54):
That’s very interesting what you can draw there too, because it can pretty much turn into anything, just always with that suit on. So I’m curious what people are going to come up with. So yes, if Ed’s quick enough or can find it, because I don’t think I put it in a really easy to find place. If you want to send art in for that show, it’s comic show slash art or just comic show and go to the menu and that’s where you submit your art for every week. That’s also where you submit your art for fan art of Bitsy, the tra cat. So that’s a good place to go as well.

Saurabh Bhatia (56:36):
Nice.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:38):
And I think we’ve done it, ed. I think that’s the show

Saurabh Bhatia (56:41):
All. Go ahead.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:43):
I could do the plight way and goes goodnight all. Oh, we got some more things since then Going Came out tomorrow. Came out tomorrow.

Saurabh Bhatia (56:51):
That’s a great outcome’s. Excited. You guys are my safe space right now. Oh, that’s great.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:59):
Oh, that’s awesome, SHA

Saurabh Bhatia (57:02):
There you go. And is that it?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:07):
Yeah, that’s it. Press the button dude.

Saurabh Bhatia (57:09):
Okay, bye. Good night. Thank you for watching,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:15):
Like share and subscribe. Thank you very much.