Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (00:17):
Welcome to Comex Recent reads and today we are going to be talking about comics that we have read recently. Go figure and I’ll introduce everyone first. We have over in the, depending which way you’re looking, top left if you’re watching the screen I guess that way, which is my right. Oh, it’s all very confusing. We have Ed, who is famous for his radical comic. Woo. Then we have Shannon, who is well known for his, I’ll get this right Robo tune No SI always put the S on there so I won’t do it this time. And his amazing videos. There’s this really good one with He-Man that he’s done. Then we have Andrew Law from Andrew Law Ark and see if I can remember Slay Helm is the comic that you are working on at the moment, is that right? Him slay him and we have Steve Sa, who’s actually a reviewer from I believe, the Comex. Do you review anywhere else, Steve?

Steve Saul (01:27):
No. Typically it’s just on Comex. I might do a capsule review here and there on Facebook. That’s about it at the moment,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:34):
And that leaves me who’s just says from Comex. So yes. Then I’ve got to go to the show schedule. I always get mixed up. I’ve done the intro. Okay, now we go to the main bit. Okay. The main bit is where we talk about the co break, so I’ll go first so everyone else can see how it’s not done. So this week I am looking at this one. It is Spider-Man, spider Shadow. I was on another show and someone recommended this a very long time ago, so I went out and bought it and then it ended up on the famous two read pile and I was cleaning up the other day and it fell out of the pile that was in and I went, oh, I remember someone saying this looked really cool. Had looked through it and it is very cool. It’s pretty much, it’s going back to when Spider-Man got the Symbiant suit his first and pretty much this is the what if the whole book is just a what if he succumbed to the power of the suit?

(02:47)
What if he gave into the hate? What if he gave into the anger? And pretty much it causes a chain of events that gets made killed and then he just snaps and he starts killing all the bad guys. Just I’m sick of them going in, going to jail, coming back out. This has to end. It just starts killing them. And that’s as far as I’ll go because I know it’s like an old book, like three years old, but I won’t rule on the ending. But yeah, so there’s just the fantastic fork get involved. I’ll say that much and as they do in the original thing where he gets read to look what the suit was and find out that it’s live and all that sort of stuff still happens, but he takes a different choice with what he’s going to do with the suit than he does in the normal comics and that’s where it all goes crazy. So yeah, very cool comic, especially if you like a lot of violence and Goriness, it’s not very graphic of course, because it is a Marvel comic, but it’s pretty cool.

(03:55)
I would say go read it if you want to because it’s very cool. I’m not even a big Spider-Man fan. I love this. I only vaguely knew the history of the suit and this was still an awesome comic. Who’s the creative team on that? Oh yeah, sorry. I was meaning to say that straight away and I got distracted by myself. Okay, we’ve got Chip Ky Ky, yeah, is the writer. Pasquel Ferry is the artist. Matt Hollingsworth is the colour artist. Cool. bcs Joe, is that a C? Yeah, Cara Manga. Magna is the Letterer and then you’ve got, oh, Phil NATO is the cover artist and they even tell you who did the logo Chip Ky. Oh, that’s the same as the writer. He did the logo. He’s also and editor is Wil Moss. There you go. But yeah, they do a great job. Anyway, I’ll just say that it’s a really cool, and I’m a big fan of what ifs as well, so that’s probably another reason this really suckered me in.

Shannon Browning (05:07):
Yeah, I’ve read that about 12 months or 18 months ago. I saw it recommended somewhere and tracked it down. Yeah, like you said, it’s a great story. It is, isn’t

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (05:18):
It?

Shannon Browning (05:19):
I do like stories that show that just how dangerous Spider-Man really is. I mean, villains are lucky that A, he’s got a good heart, but also he’s a bit of a goof so they can get away with stuff, but if he puts his mind to it or he ever turns dark, then he is a force to be reckoned with and this really shows it up well.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (05:39):
Yeah, it shows that he holds back the villains, find out that all the time they’ve fought him. He was holding back a lot because yeah, when he let loose, I never thought of it that way. Yeah, when he lets loose, they got no chance.

Shannon Browning (05:54):
Isn’t there a panel in it somewhere? If I remember rightly, I think it’s Doc och where Spider-Man decks him one and he looks at him and he goes, oh my God, you’ve been holding back all these years.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (06:06):
No, that’s actually superior. I know that scene. It’s where Doc os inside him and he punches some dude and takes his jaw off and he goes, whoa. Peter’s always been holding back all these years. Yep, I know the thing you’re talking about. That’s just weird that I don’t read a lot of Spider-Man. And I know the one you mean.

Shannon Browning (06:26):
No, I love Spider-Man. I’ve always loved Spider-Man. I don’t follow his stories all the time because most they’re up and down a lot, but I’ve always been a big fan of Spider-Man. But he’s one of those characters that it’s like Superman where everybody goes, oh, wouldn’t it be better if he was darker? And just like, no, doesn’t need to be

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (06:46):
No Spider-Man’s good where he is, but this is cool story. What if he wasn’t? I wouldn’t like a whole comic series of this. But yeah, it’s definitely good as a little what if story. So you’re going to have to check it out. Yeah. Cool. So this is where I get to pick the next person. You get to come up here and talk about their comic. I’ll do the clock again. That’s the easiest way. So I’ll go Shannon

Shannon Browning (07:18):
Anyy Mey Miny Me. Alright, well I got a little bit inspired by our drink and draw on Friday night. We were drawing the character of Plastic Man, so I went digging around in some of my old boxes in the garage and I dug out these

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (07:37):
Oh cool, cool.

Shannon Browning (07:38):
Which is the archive editions of Plastic Man volumes one and two. I dunno if they did a volume three. There we go. We can send a bit better there. The archive editions were something DC did I think in the late eighties and the nineties back then, before everything was on the internet. These was kind of the only way you could go back and read some of the classic comics. So I’ve got the two plastic man volumes. I’ve got some Superman and action comics ones. I think I’ve got a Justice Society one as well, which is a trip because it’s all this anti-German propaganda, which is fascinating. They’re trying so hard to prove or to demonstrate that Germans are not actually human beings. They’re something else and it’s okay to kill.

(08:33)
Yeah, I know it’s a trip. But yeah, back to Plastic Man. I remember when I first got these, I reread them so many times because I was just so blown away by everything up to that point when I got these, I think Plaza started showing up in Grant Morrison’s, JLA Run, but most of the plastic man stories were just him being an idiot and these are nothing like that. First of all, the art is phenomenal. Jack Cole was just an absolutely brilliant draughtsman. He really was. He came from the same studio as Will Eisner, so he used to do these wonderful splash pages for the first page of the comic. Wow. And a big thing as well from the time was that there was a lot of tracing going on. A lot of comic artists at the time would take other artists’ work and trace it and adapt it to their own style just to keep those deadlines up. Bob Cain, who created Batman, he was really bad for that.

(09:50)
Jack Cole on the other hand, he had way too much integrity. He thought that was just wrong and refused to do it. So you see there, every single panel, he put completely original drawing and it’s, it’s just gorgeous. It really is. It’s so simple but detailed and it blows my mind as well how they used to get so much story onto a page at the time, a big thing about comics now, it’s all about splash panels and splash pages and stuff like that. The drawings are larger, the panels are larger so it can fit more information in, but then you look through books like this and other books at the time as well, and they managed to fit so much into tiny panels, still have the detail, still have the emotion leave room for text bubbles and speech bubbles and stuff and it still looked incredible.

(11:04)
These guys were operating at a completely different level to what anybody is nowadays and I really don’t think a lot of ’em get enough appreciation, but I don’t know if these are still available anywhere. They’ll probably be available online somewhere, but if you’ve ever liked Plastic Man or you’ve ever been curious or something like this, I fully recommend, even if you’re just a fan of comic art, I fully recommend these just to see a master at work because Jack Cole was, it was a little bit of a creative genius of some of those sort of stuff. He really deserves to get a lot more praise and a lot more attention for the work he did back in the day. But yeah, that’s me.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (11:59):
Cool. Sweet.

Steve Saul (12:01):
Is one volume of those better than the other one or are they on a par?

Shannon Browning (12:06):
Actually the first volume is better, the second volume. I think by the time the second volume came in, he’d fully developed plaza’s sidekick named Woozy Winks. Woozy Winks was just a little bit of a copy of Bad Abbott who was very popular back in the day from Abbott. I’m not a fan of Woozy Winks at all, and by the time you get into the second volume, woozy is getting much more featured rather than just being a little side comedy character. But yeah, my preference is the first one where he is still sort of finding his feet and figuring everything out, but it’s all still there. It’s not like he starts doing something radically different as the stories go along and the character was The character was the character

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (12:59):
Is storytelling still keeps that strength.

Shannon Browning (13:02):
Yeah. Yeah, the storytelling is great, especially at a period of time when this is before the supervi of the week sort of thing. So he’s come up with all these great bad guy characters like yes, there’s criminals, there’s gangsters, but he comes up with the World Criminal League. He has, he fights evil trees at one point a geneticist is working on creating intelligent trees to use as defence, but they turn on him. There’s another storyline where a character has his hands cut off and the hands turn evil and running around and committing crimes. There’s a giant eight ball that’s destroying cities that plaza has to take down at one point. It’s really creative stuff without just going, oh, this guy now has a freeze rate or something like that.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (14:02):
It’s cool. So are you hanging out to get three or put you off with too much of that other character? Sorry, I’ve forgotten his name. It’s a bit of a woozy banks. Woo. Yeah, it’s not words I’m used to remembering woozy,

Shannon Browning (14:20):
Like I said, I dunno if they ever actually did a volume three.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (14:24):
Oh, okay.

Shannon Browning (14:26):
I know this came out when I was actually working in a comic bookstore so I could get that straight away. The second volume, maybe it was about a year after. I do not remember after that if a third volume ever came out and I haven’t looked it up for a long time. Like I said, I don’t even know if DC still does these archive editions. I have not seen them anywhere for a long time.

Steve Saul (14:52):
I don’t think they do.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (14:56):
It’s all Omnis now. Yeah,

Shannon Browning (15:00):
It’s all on the net.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (15:04):
Yeah.

Steve Saul (15:05):
Omnis and story arcs.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (15:08):
Well thanks Shannon.

Shannon Browning (15:09):
No worries.

Ed Kearsley (15:11):
Have we got some

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (15:12):
Comments? Yeah, comments.

Ed Kearsley (15:15):
We’ve got Ryan O’Connor DC equivalent of the Marvel Masterworks releases.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (15:20):
I used to have those. Some of them

Ed Kearsley (15:23):
Got the hand symbol after last drink of draw. I sold on Plastic Man and I need to get me some Sullivan. I got nor. Hi Andrew and hi.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (15:42):
Hi

Ed Kearsley (15:43):
Everyone. Hi everyone. Sean was watching Lego flash the other day and it was fun watching a Lego plastic man. Lego was not supposed to be rubbery like that and it was so weird and cool.

Shannon Browning (15:57):
Sean, if you like the Lego superheroes, especially Lego plastic man, if you’re a video game fan, see if you can track down Lego Batman three. I think it’s like brain egg attacks or Batman in space or something like that. I’m a big fan of the Lego games. I love them. It’s the same game just with different over and

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:24):
Over and over.

Shannon Browning (16:25):
Oh yeah, absolutely.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:26):
And they’re still cool.

Shannon Browning (16:28):
You can predict whenever you have a boss fight, you can predict exactly what happens, how many times you have to play, what it takes to beat the bad guy and that sort of thing. I don’t care. I adore ’em, but Plastic Man in Batman, three plastic man plays a very big part in a lot of that stuff and when you get him you can make him fly and he transforms into a little plane when he fights, he stretches and turns into this great big rubbery thing and stuff like that. Yeah, I’m fanboying a little bit because I love those games, but they’re fantastic. If you like Lego and you like DC characters, track down those games because they’re fantastic.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:09):
There you go. Ronnie, any more comments or through Okay,

Ed Kearsley (17:17):
Comments for now?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:18):
Okay, so because I’m going clockwise, Steve, tell us about the comic that you read recently.

Steve Saul (17:27):
Well, the comic I read is one I picked up recently. When I go to my local comic shop, I tend to, as well as getting my usual fix, I go and hit the independent stands, the small companies.

(17:41)
I hit the Aussie stand and then I hit the small companies and I just pick up something that looks interesting to me. This one was so interesting that I ended up getting them to pull the whole set for me. It’s a miniseries and it’s this one, where am I? There little black book published by a WA and it’s basically a crime thriller. Tells the story of a guy who’s basically living in a trailer with his very pregnant girlfriend slash wife and he is suddenly presented with the gift of a very nice house in Arizona because his father has just been apparently killed in a fire and in that house he finds this little black book and then he uses it in an emergency and all kinds of dramatic events in queue as a result of that. And I won’t give too much away on that, but basically the book Hint at cleaners and accountants and so forth.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (18:54):
Yes,

Steve Saul (18:56):
Yes. The information is as you think.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (18:59):
Yes. Okay,

Steve Saul (19:00):
Well it’s a very entertaining story. A couple of nice little twists in the third and fourth issues. Let me just get you the creative team. Of course it’s not on the splash page. Let me open up and find you the creative team. Where are we there? It’s Jeff Macey, Philippe Konya and Marco Lesco are the artistic team. Steve Ws Letterer, Francesco Franca Villa cover artist, and yeah, it’s a nice simple storytelling, good clean art, very much in the modern indie type style and a very enjoyable read basically. And I’ll keep going back to those independent racks and picking up interesting stories on the basis of that.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (19:51):
Yeah, and yeah, the fact you went back and wanted the rest of them pretty much says how much you liked it.

Steve Saul (19:57):
Yeah, well I was very lucky in this case. Normally these things go in my to be red pile, which becoming self-aware I think. But yeah, I read this one fairly early while they were still publishing, so I was able to get the lot.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:15):
Oh cool. Well just for fun, if you’ve got the whole pile there, you want to show all the different covers?

Steve Saul (20:20):
I don’t have the whole pile there.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:21):
Well that case we won’t do that. Yeah,

Steve Saul (20:23):
Around the corner. Yeah, just the one is here at the moment.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:29):
Have you read anything else by that artist or that writer that you know of?

Steve Saul (20:34):
Nothing definitely by the artist, but I can’t put my finger on what it was. I can give you, I’ll just show a couple of pages by the artist. There we go. How does that come up? Oh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:48):
How nice.

Steve Saul (20:52):
I think I need a high definition camera. So that’s the guy in the trailer with his wife there and that’s the lawyer giving him the house.

Shannon Browning (21:02):
Yeah, it’s detailed but not it’s

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (21:05):
Yeah,

Steve Saul (21:06):
Yeah. Clean lines I would say.

Shannon Browning (21:09):
Yeah.

Steve Saul (21:10):
Yeah. It’s not sketchy and cartoony as some of the modern styles lean to.

Shannon Browning (21:18):
Yeah, it’s not overly busy either. It is very stylized simplicity of storytelling

Steve Saul (21:25):
And the storytelling itself, like the scripting is similarly lean, not over verbose as always these days. No thought balloons, just straight exposition.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (21:40):
So thought

Shannon Browning (21:41):
Balloons are really going out of style.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (21:44):
Yeah, they are.

Steve Saul (21:45):
The last time I saw one,

Shannon Browning (21:47):
Yeah,

Andrew Law (21:49):
I was just reading up on lamb Bots had a letter book and he was saying the book came out a year or so ago and he said thought balloons are just a thing of the past and not many people actually installed them in comics anymore. It is more narration.

Steve Saul (22:09):
Yeah. Well I’ve noticed Spiderman’s thought balloons are now exposition captions basically text

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:16):
Boxes.

Andrew Law (22:20):
Yeah. The slight difference is the narration doesn’t have the quotation marks and the thought is got the quotation marks. There’s a lot of little rules that I didn’t know about lettering.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:35):
Well, I’m going to hit you up with anyone interrupting me this time. Steve, what made you pick it up?

Steve Saul (22:43):
Let’s see. I would say the cover was part of it. The name and

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:48):
I

Steve Saul (22:48):
Probably read the blurb on the inside. It was this prime thriller vibe that I quite liked.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:57):
Nice, nice. Cool. Yeah, thanks Steve. And you know who’s next?

Ed Kearsley (23:09):
We’ve got some more comments.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:11):
Is there any more comments? Yeah, I was going to ask that. Sorry.

Ed Kearsley (23:14):
So it’s about the Lego games. There we go.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:18):
And then

Ed Kearsley (23:19):
Sean again with someone needs to write a comic about a two bit red pile that teams up with other two piles to go on adventures to find readers.

Steve Saul (23:27):
I like it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:29):
That’s awesome.

Andrew Law (23:31):
And give up on their own.

Ed Kearsley (23:34):
Do I top balloons in my last comic I made the old fashioned out of touch or retro going with retro.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:41):
Yeah, go retro.

Steve Saul (23:42):
Yeah,

Andrew Law (23:42):
Retro. If you can make it work, it doesn’t matter. I have a matter of taste.

Shannon Browning (23:49):
People tend to use them as comedy or something like that, so something will go wrong and then you’ll just have a thought bubble come up and it’s usually just them swearing or something.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:59):
Right.

Shannon Browning (24:02):
Does in one of the Sin City comics, sorry, in one of the Sin Cities and he never does thought balloons, but in one of the Sin City comics there’s a security guard that’s hanging out with the main characters that has nothing to do with anything, but he’s just got all these thought balloons going up. Oh, my wife hates me, my kids don’t respect me, I hate my job, I hate my wife. Why am I doing this

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:25):
Different? Cool.

Andrew Law (24:28):
As long as it works,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:34):
There

Shannon Browning (24:34):
Are no rules.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:36):
So I was going to Andrew before the comments. So Andrew, tell us about what you’ve got recently.

Andrew Law (24:46):
I was a huge witch blade fan back in the day and they’ve just rebooted into trying to start it off again into a new series. I had to avoid, I think they had 12 different covers for it, which I was baulking at going. That’s a little bit insensitive, but the one thing that was good about the first issue is it’s got a whole heap of covers in the back. It’s all these different artists, they’ve done all the covers all in the back and I was like, that’s brilliant. Normally you sit there and you go, Jay’s got Campbell and all that and some of these covers are like one in 1000. The comic shop has to order a thousand copies to get that one exclusive and I was just like, so I was a little bit turned off at the start, but which Blade was the one comic that got me in serious comic collecting. I’d always go to the comic shop and my brother had comics and then when I saw Michael Turner’s art on the cover of the first couple, which blade issues, I was like, I have to have that and the story really sucked me in. This is a slightly different take on it. It still has the same themes.

(26:29)
The original first issue it takes, she doesn’t get the witch blade to the end and this sort of jumps ahead a little bit and shows you the ending before her getting it and then delving a bit into the story, they’ve slightly twisted some of the storyline, which makes it a little bit more interesting because which played was a bit of a nineties comic. There was a little bit of glam in there as opposed to a more serious sort of take on it and this seems to be a bit more serious take on it. The artwork was really cool though, which there was always a high bar because Michael Turner’s my that the nth level sort of thing and it’s very sort of silvey sort of vibe to the art and it really tells the story. Well, all the characters are slightly different. Originally Sarah, the main character witch blade, she was a New York cop and it sort of more played out like NYPD blue sort of police procedural sort of thing.

(27:49)
And ni, she’s ex-military vet sort of thing and delved into police work because her father was murdered, which I don’t really remember too much. There was mystery around the father, but I don’t remember it being such a big storyline. So they’ve altered it a little bit, but it’s still just the dip in the toes sort of thing. Only came out I think last week or the week before. I have to, I did get one alternate cover, but I got the sketch cover and I’ve since drawn on it because I’m such a huge fan just for my own joy. Wicked. I thought I’d draw on it one of a kind.

(28:42)
I don’t sell too many sketch covers. I buy them and then I draw on them for myself. Nice. But yeah, always it was quite nice paper to all those artists there too. It was a nice paper to the sketch cover, which sometimes you don’t get really horrible paper and it was really, the ink went on well. But yeah, really cool, really cool sort of. I’d like to see how it goes in the future issues. I’m notorious for buying the first one or two issues to dip into a series and if it doesn’t hold me, I’m not going to spend money on it. So I’m interested to see how the second one goes, see if they delve into the law that they’ve already created because it went for quite some time. The original series, I know they tried to reboot it before, but I think it ground to a halt. They lost the artist or something. The artist jumped ship halfway through second or third issue and that’s did do a bigger job and then became unknown in the industry. I think from memory, don’t quote me on

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:01):
That really famous unknown guy,

Andrew Law (30:05):
But no, it is really cool to actually delve back into that Topco world because they really, with the darkness and the Angelus and aph, I think it was Aphrodite nine and I think they crossed it over with the cyber force sort of thing. They really created a huge universe there and there’s not much of it coming out anymore, so I’d like to see more of it. Yeah, always enjoyed reading and this is Killer. Who is? It’s Karo, Giuseppe G. I have not heard of him before, but it’s written by Margaret Bennett who’s known for some DC books. I’m thinking off the top of my head, I can’t think what she’s written, but she’s written some DC books that sold, well I think recently Colours are by rf, PTO letters by Troy Petri and his letters are always good. He is been doing top cow stuff for years. But yeah, there’s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10 alternate covers and three exclusive covers, 13 covers.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:48):
I didn’t think there was a thing still.

Andrew Law (31:51):
It’s a lot isn’t it? I did a while back when they brought out three more issues of battle chasers from Joe Madira, that comic from the nineties at ground to a halt. They had some wicked alternate covers and that’s the only thing I’ve gone yet. Let’s just buy them all because they were beautiful covers, but I generally go, no, no thank you. Yeah, you have to be special to get my money. But yeah, pretty cool, pretty cool.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:36):
Have you seen the artist or anything else because I don’t know the name. No, no,

Andrew Law (32:42):
But Top Cow is pretty known for doing the top cow talent hunt where you have about six, they put out a script and you have six months to draw it and send it off into a competition and I think they brought out a comic over the last month that was written and drawn by the winner. They have a writer’s side to it and an artist’s side to it, and the comic is written by the writer and the artist, so they actively every year or maybe every two years have a talent hunt to find good artists and good writers. So you don’t really see that much from those sort of things from other companies. I know DC do it every now and then, but not every couple of years like Top Cow does and they were well known back in the day for having a bullpen and teaching new artists and all that. A lot of the in nineties artists that we’re doing Marvel and DC these days all come out of that lot, but yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:07):
Cool, cool. Thanks Andrew.

Shannon Browning (34:09):
Nice. I think I still have my original copy of Witch Blade number one around here somewhere. I sold

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:20):
Mine.

Shannon Browning (34:21):
Yeah, I got Darkness number one as well. I think I got that signed. Can’t remember.

Andrew Law (34:28):
I’ve got number four and number seven still. I think I sold the number one when I was broke. I sold a lot of comics when I was broke.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:43):
Yeah, same.

Andrew Law (34:44):
But yeah, get it signed. That’d be cool. Yeah. Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:51):
That’s what the show’s doing. This is the bad side of the show. It’s reminding me of all the things that I used to have because I sold my entire non indie collection, so all 4,000 comics.

Andrew Law (35:06):
Yeah, and you always regret it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:09):
Yeah, yeah. I try not to think about it and then I decided to do this show. Thanks Ed. Speaking of Ed, tell us about your book Ed.

Ed Kearsley (35:20):
I have got the completely mad Don Martin and John by Don Martin. He is a mad magazine artist who started doing cartoons or mad in 1956 it said on the internet. And so I picked this up at an shop recently and I show you some of the gags in here. So this one’s on the road, the guy’s doing the paint with the road line and the steamroller guy rolls over him and then he runs back and gets the tar and then colours in where the guy was that was a clever one of cartooning and this one really made me laugh in the doctor’s office and he’s testing the guy’s reflexes and then the Joker glove on the spring comes out and hits him in the face and he goes, this says to the guy’s wife, what’s wrong with this guy? And then one comes out of her mouth and hits him in the face. Then he goes to talk to the nurse and she gets hit. She’s got one too and then he’s like, I’m out of here. And then the full page gets flack by another one.

(36:59)
Don Martin was always one of my favourite guys. Don Martin and Sergio Rag were the big guys. One of the reasons why you would get mad back in the day. And then in 87, it’s like right around the peak time that I was collecting them, he went and worked for Mad Magazine, not for Cracked Magazine, which was a huge thing in my youth and it’s like the death of Optimus Prime and Don Martin leaving Mad Magazine of the two huge things in my youth. And so I’ve got this one from 1981, it’s got three Don Martin and stories in it and I think they’re better than all the ones in this one, which came out in 83 and they got this one from 88 and there’s no more Don Martin and there’s one that’s always stuck with me. The cartoon is there’s a guy eating soup and there’s all these sound effects like sch and it’s like three panels of him just eating this soup and there’s all these sound effects, all the noises. Then the waiter comes up to him and says, Hey, how’s your soup? And he pushes it away and goes, it’s too noisy.

(38:36)
Yeah, so Mad Magazine built into my comic book DNA before I started really getting into superhero comics. I was reading Mad and it was good to just have a look at some mould. Don Martin once.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:56):
Yeah, that’d be cool.

Andrew Law (38:59):
Always good discovering more of what you loved, especially an artist and the humour as well. Yeah. How long was he doing it for? You said 1950 something to

Ed Kearsley (39:16):
19 9 56 to 87 for Mad Magazine.

Andrew Law (39:21):
Wow, that’s a run and a half. Gosh,

Ed Kearsley (39:31):
I was overpay dispute with the editor. They were reprinting your stuff, which is probably stuff like this, which he probably wasn’t getting a cut of.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:41):
Oh no.

Ed Kearsley (39:44):
So he told him to stick it and went to the competitors.

Steve Saul (39:49):
Did he ever go back to Matt?

Ed Kearsley (39:52):
Not that I can remember or know of, but I do remember that he was in Mad and then he wasn’t, we were kids, it was the eighties. We didn’t have access to Industry Insider stuff.

Steve Saul (40:08):
I think that stopped being mad before that, so I didn’t know he’d gone

Ed Kearsley (40:12):
And my friend was flicking through an issue of cracked at the news agents and then there was a Don Martin cartoon in Cracked and it was, I took it personally. It was a huge betrayal.

Andrew Law (40:28):
That’s awesome. Instantly recognise the art because you love it so much and you go instantly, you go, what’s he doing? What

Ed Kearsley (40:41):
He has such a recognisable style with the big news and the big long guide board feet when the guy’s walking and in the eighties you could see all the faces. His sound effects were, he had the really crazy sound effects in the eighties around that time. The thing I was drawing most was Don Martin characters and Roger Rabbit back in the day.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:20):
Oh nice.

Andrew Law (41:21):
Love that. Roger Rabbit

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:23):
One was all superheroes. I was hooked after Super Friends. That was it. My life was about super, but I do remember

Andrew Law (41:32):
Reading a of Mad and

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:34):
Laughing, so I

Andrew Law (41:35):
Did read it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:37):
I was obsessed with superheroes still.

Andrew Law (41:40):
Mine was Bugs Bunny drawing all the Why Coyote and Tasie Devil and all that. They were cool. I had a How to Draw Bugs Bunny booklet’s somewhere on that shelf in a quarter of it’s left. The paper’s imprinted because of the tracing when I used to steal mum’s grease paper from the kitchen and she’d tell me off for using it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:11):
That’s awesome. Are there comments, ed?

Ed Kearsley (42:17):
Yes.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:18):
I’m not keeping track

Ed Kearsley (42:20):
And this is referring to the lettering book. I was looking forward to getting Nate’s lettering book pre-ordered it, put it in my backpack as soon as I got it to read it on the train. Immediately got caught in the rain and destroyed the book.

Shannon Browning (42:33):
Oh no.

Andrew Law (42:34):
Oh no.

Shannon Browning (42:35):
That’s heartbreaking.

Andrew Law (42:36):
So what I did was I didn’t have the money to order it and I was stressed because kept posting that there’s 10 copies left or something like that and I found it on Amazon, so I’ve got a PDF version that was I think a bit cheaper. So yeah, I’ve got on every single iPad and computer just to make sure I don’t lose it. Yeah. But yeah, that’d be devastating because I really want the book, I’d buy the book if I could find it in a shop,

Ed Kearsley (43:15):
So back when Fat meant something else, rusty loved, lovely, and Alison, good evening everyone. Hope you’re all well.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:28):
Hi Alison.

Shannon Browning (43:30):
The thing about Mad Comics back in the day is that was the only way you had access to certain movies. All these big popular movies would come out, but because they were rated whatever they were rated, your parents wouldn’t let you watch but you could get a version of them by reading the Mad magazine version. I

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:51):
Thought of it that way.

Shannon Browning (43:52):
Yeah, you could talk

Andrew Law (43:54):
About it

Shannon Browning (43:56):
For years until I saw the movie Aliens for the first time, I was convinced that there was a human-sized chicken in that movie.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:08):
Now I want to read The Man.

Shannon Browning (44:12):
Yeah, bill Paxton’s character. Was it Hudson? I think he was drawn as a giant chicken because he’s just a big chicken in the movie, but I was looking forward to seeing that movie to see the Giant Chicken Soldier.

Andrew Law (44:30):
We had a few of them. We had a few of ’em at the school library, but all the back pages had been ripped. Those folded, everybody had tripped off the fold and disappeared with them.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:43):
Now I remember why I got them the fold pages.

Ed Kearsley (44:47):
When you get the secondhand one you they come pre folded.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:51):
Oh nice. That’d be easier.

Andrew Law (44:55):
I’d hate to see collectors try and find them in mint condition.

Shannon Browning (45:00):
I remember you’d pick it up in the news agency and have a flip through and you get to the folding and you try and desperately to fold it over without increasing the paper.

Steve Saul (45:09):
Paper. I remember

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:10):
It wasn’t just me.

Shannon Browning (45:14):
No, I was a nightmare.

Andrew Law (45:16):
You could almost

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:20):
Good old man.

Steve Saul (45:21):
I’ve been buying the Super specials from the seventies and eighties just so I can get the nostalgic Mad Reprints in the front of some of them.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:30):
Oh cool.

Steve Saul (45:32):
I’ve got I think three or four of them now. There’s about seven or eight. Quest goes on.

Andrew Law (45:40):
I love the Spy versus Spy. I think

Steve Saul (45:42):
I used to love those two. Yeah, I should open some of these ones I’ve bought. They’ve probably got John Martin and Spy versus Spy in them.

Shannon Browning (45:51):
There was a great spy versus spy game for the Commodore 64 back in the day.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:57):
Beg my friend having that.

Shannon Browning (45:59):
Yeah,

Andrew Law (46:01):
I remember it. I remember it taking too long to load up so he went and did something else. Yeah,

Ed Kearsley (46:07):
The

Shannon Browning (46:08):
Load and you’d have to go and do something else for half an hour waiting for the game to load.

Steve Saul (46:14):
Wow. Did the Fox Mad Show ever make it to Australia? I used to watch that when I was in the States and they had animated Spy versus Spy. Oh

Ed Kearsley (46:21):
Yeah. Yeah. They mad TV

Shannon Browning (46:25):
Late at night

Steve Saul (46:28):
Over there as well.

Shannon Browning (46:29):
Yeah, I didn’t used to sleep for the longest time in my late teens and my twenties and just stayed up until three or four in the morning and a lot of those shows like Mad TV in Living Colour and then shows the Friday, the 13th series, the Nightmare, I mean Freddy’s Nightmares Series Monsters, a bunch of other ones like that. They were all on after 11 or after 12. That was the only time they were allowed to screen him here in Australia. I guess

Ed Kearsley (47:02):
That werewolf show was on. I remember that in the nineties.

Shannon Browning (47:06):
Which one?

Ed Kearsley (47:07):
The Werewolf Show. I think it was just called Werewolf and one of the guys had an eye patch and then when he turned into werewolf he had a wide eye.

Steve Saul (47:19):
Interesting.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (47:20):
I vaguely remember those shows, the late night ones, but I don’t have the best memory so it’s only vaguely

Ed Kearsley (47:28):
The come outdo 64. My high school girlfriend and I would write love letters with the C6 four key code.

Shannon Browning (47:33):
Yeah, it’s kind of like control and shift, but it was one of the keys that you had held down and pretty much it would do emojis, it would do emoticons and yeah, if you knew what the letters were, it was kind of like sending a secret code. Good God, I have not thought about that and I dunno how

Ed Kearsley (47:53):
Long.

Shannon Browning (47:56):
Thanks for bringing that one back Rusty

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (47:58):
On Rusty. Well it’s someone else. Oh sorry.

Andrew Law (48:03):
My mate used to do coding and do all that stuff and we had the typing class and because he would do with two fingers, he was lessons ahead of everybody else, but when the teacher came over he was like the touch typing. He was 10 times slower than everybody else. You are cheating but you knew all the coding and all. That was amazing. Wow.

Shannon Browning (48:32):
Yeah, spending endless hours, learning basic because you thought that would help when you grew up

Andrew Law (48:37):
10 go to 2020.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:44):
I remember learning basic. Oh, that was good times. If you want to come on to the show and talk about comics or learning basic, you can go to comics show slash interest that there’s the link Good on you. And you can let us know that you want to be on the show, that you want to talk about comics you’ve read recently. You want to draw on drink and draw. You want to, let’s remember the other show if you want to draw a panel on, let’s make a comic book. If you want to be on Chinwag, let us know. If you want us to talk about your latest book that you’ve created on Oz Comex, let us know. But probably if you’re not a creator, this is probably the best show for you where you get to talk about comics that you’ve recently read and loved and we would love to have you on to talk about that. You don’t need to be a creator, you just need to love comics and be able to get in this time zone. That’s about it. You don’t have to live in the time zone, you just have to be willing to do the show in this time zone.

(49:54)
See, now we’re at the part of the show where we all get to plug ourselves so we get a minute. Do you want to bring it up or you want me to add? There we go. Oh, you can’t play it though. What am I thinking?

(50:13)
Okay, so we all get a minute each to promote ourselves or a friend or just whatever we want to promote. I did, I think Stella Lands last week. This week I’m going to talk about the shows. So Monday we’ve got this show comics, recent Reads. Tuesday we have Tuesday Chinwag, hence the name. Wednesday we have the Oz Comics Show with Shaden Chinwag with League Talker, I should say Thursday we have let’s make a comic book, which is me, Ned again, and that’s where we make a comic book, one panel at a time, one artist at a time. And then Friday we have Drink and Draw, which is a lot of fun. We’ve got quite a varying crew on that. Now we have the sped and Nicholas show. We’ve got the wrong way. Shannon Grounding Show and we’ve also got the Nicole Kane show and I’ve got 16 seconds so I’ll go really quick. Stella Lands is at Kickstarter, I forgot what it was called. Outlaw and Battle for Bustle. The new editions are both at the Comex shop, so go check him out and this will go crazy if I don’t stop before I hit zero.

(51:28)
I did it.

Shannon Browning (51:33):
See this self-promotion thing is the best cardio I get every two weeks

Andrew Law (51:39):
Raises the blood pressure.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (51:43):
So any volunteers to go next or am I going to have to pick on someone? No volunteers, no one ever volunteers. I don’t know why I bother asking. Oh go. I’m go Steve. He looks really interested in what we’re doing. Okay,

Steve Saul (51:58):
Alright. Well I only claim to fame within the comics real is that I’ve been doing reviews of mainly Aussie stuff for the last year or two and that’s been on one of Shane’s many websites. I hear rumours that it’s going to be back up and visible very, very soon.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:20):
Yes.

Steve Saul (52:21):
Yeah, so that means I actually have to get back and start writing again very, very soon, which is not something I’m good at starting. I can use finish well

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:31):
Very soon. The various just make it sound too soon.

Steve Saul (52:34):
What now? And yeah, outside comics, my main creative outlet would be community theatre where I do a bit of acting, a bit of directing and a tiny bit of writing. And if you’re in Melbourne, look me up. Nice. I’m done. I’ve got seven seconds left.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (53:04):
Thanks Steve. To make it easy on myself. I’m just going to go around. So Andrew gets to go after Steve again. Tell us what you’re doing Andrew.

Andrew Law (53:20):
I’ve got a new book coming out in Kickstarter called Slay Him. Whispers of Revenge is a fantasy Adventure Dragons and wizards and Thieves and all that good stuff that I like to read. High fantasy sort of stuff. I’m going to for the first time in a few years, offer commissions with the Kickstarter. So if you wanted one from me for a while, I’m going to be offering a five commissions and I’ll probably be doing, this was the practise one. I’m going to be doing sketch covers for my comic as well, so I’m going to offer them. So if I have been holding off doing commissions for a while because I’m trying to get the book finished, but yeah, it should be good. It should be fun.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (54:22):
I’m just going to cheat here. Andrew. Just going to cheat here because it’s my show. Damn it. When is your Kickstarter again? Sorry?

Andrew Law (54:32):
21st of August. 21st of August? Yeah, 21st of August. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (54:37):
Okay, so that’s when I’m going to go broke. Okay, cool. Just making sure I knew when it was. I won’t be eating for a few days or weeks. Awesome.

Andrew Law (54:46):
Well you’ll be paying for my food, so that’s all right.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (54:49):
Yeah, there’s balance in the universe. That sounds good. Your art is wicked. That’s all I’m trying to say here. So yeah, so Sketch,

Andrew Law (55:00):
Cover,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:01):
Commission sounds awesome. So we’re going to go round to Ed.

Ed Kearsley (55:09):
Okay, I’m going to show my thing. This is a comic I’m working on. Oh, got to get on the red screen. It’s Final Dragon. This is the first issue and this is one of the extra pages that’s going in and this is what I’ve been working on the last week and just finished it off today just before the show. So we’ve got Bobby Long is the Final Dragon, and this is the scene where he comes back to his hometown after being in jail for 10 years and it’s all run down and all the people are gone and there’s only gangsters and criminals in his town. This is what leads him on the path to unleash Karate Vengeance on all these guys.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:11):
I love it. Please make that the subtitle,

Ed Kearsley (56:18):
Karate

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:22):
Two. Well done

Shannon Browning (56:28):
Looking good, ed. It’s looking really, really good. Thank

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:30):
You. It’s amazing. I love Get Over. You have the patience to do those bricks. I would’ve given up on about probably five or six and just went, what do they call it? Oh god, my brain’s gone. Dead concrete, whatever. A flat road wall. There we go. Render. That’s the what I was looking for. It’s a rendered wall. There you go. Just anyway, tell us about yourself or someone you know or whatever.

Shannon Browning (57:12):
You know what? Watch his show, read his comics, join his Kickstarter and check out his reviews.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:21):
Killing it.

Shannon Browning (57:24):
11 seconds. Not bad.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:26):
Olympic record. Olympic record. Get rid of that. Cool. Now I’ve remember where, oh, this is where

Ed Kearsley (57:39):
Do some comments? Should we do some comments first?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:44):
Let’s have a look. Oh, comments? Yeah, sorry. Okay,

Ed Kearsley (57:47):
So we’ve got Bity currently watching on the train while working on my fan. Oh, and that’s where you send your fan out for drink and draws and for Bitsy,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:06):
That’s for drink and draw and for look for Comic Book Fan out.

Ed Kearsley (58:10):
Good stuff and need more fantasy comics need more black and white comics I reckon.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:17):
Yeah, I reckon.

Ed Kearsley (58:19):
I honestly think black and white is a lost art. No offence to colours,

Shannon Browning (58:28):
Black and white is tricky sort of thing. You see a lot of times like comic artists that use colour, the colour is the third part of the art sort of thing. So a lot of the definition and the separation and that sort of thing gets done with the colour. But you see in very, very talented black and white comic artists, they can do all of that with the black and white, just with the line art and I think that’s incredible. That sort of artwork.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:54):
Yeah. Yeah.

Shannon Browning (58:55):
Michael Black and white. They shouldn’t be.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:58):
Yeah, I was talking to someone about that and they draw differently if they know it’s going to be coloured or not and they drew something for colour and then it was released in black and white and they’re like, that was okay.

Ed Kearsley (59:14):
Should we run the ad?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:16):
Press the button. My friend

Ed Kearsley (59:19):
Pressing now

Voice Over (59:21):
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Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:52):
There. We lost you for a second there buddy. I was trying to act the video and it took me up. Cool. So this is the part where we all do a quick recommendation. Oh

Ed Kearsley (01:00:12):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:14):
So this is where we just quickly recommend something anywhere in our lifetime of breeding. You don’t have to show it if you haven’t got a copy of it because the last couple of episodes I talked about books that were long gone, this is just pure coincidence. I happen to have this one. If I’ve already recommended Ed, let me know because I’ve totally lost track of what I’ve recommended so far. I’m going to recommend the authority. Oh,

Ed Kearsley (01:00:40):
Cool.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:41):
Is that the part where you say, I’ve already done this, it feels like I’ve done it before.

Ed Kearsley (01:00:46):
We could do it again. You’ve got the book there. Sweet.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:49):
I’ve got the book this time because in the same poll just sell it with authority. But yeah, this came in a time when, I mean now it’s not so uncommon for superheroes to kill or superheroes teams to be quite violent. It’s not the norm, but it’s definitely not unheard of anymore. When this came out, it was pretty unheard of, but at least to me anyway, I was used to DC universe, Marvel Universe Heroes didn’t kill. So when I read this and they went, no, no, no, the solution is this bad guy. No, we’re not throwing him in jail, we’re getting rid of him.

(01:01:28)
One of my favourite scenes in it is where they’re in an alternate world and they’re killing all the bad guys and the bad guys are going, but you’re heroes. So yeah, I recommend it because it’s written very well and it’s drawn very well. Warren Ellis is the writer and Brian Hitch is the artist for the first part of this. Up until when Jenny dies, that’s not a surprise. That’s going to happen all through it. That’s not spoiler because she is a representation of the century. So when 2000 came, she dies and a new Jenny is born of the new century. Yeah, it’s just great. It’s great art and I think it still holds up. I don’t think it has to be in that era when this was unusual. I think it still a book,

Andrew Law (01:02:19):
Not very close. There you go. Awesome. And

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:24):
We’ll just randomly go around again, ed, no one ever puts their hand up.

Ed Kearsley (01:02:31):
I going to recommend Roll Cup 2000 by Nick May. There’s 12 of them and it’s classic Nick May. Very funny, awesome art. A lot of it’s in the, oh, there’s a nine panel grid, but a lot of it’s in the 12 panel grids. It may be the second one. Oh no, there’s one. Oh, sorry. That’s okay. But it’s like stream of consciousness, the crazy adventures. It’s funny, but the characters are taking everything deadly seriously, which I think is where the humour comes from. And the special cop, they’re the elite cop force, but they’re on roller skates for some reason. You can see

Andrew Law (01:03:27):
Roller skates are cool. Yeah, roller skates are cool.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:31):
I love it.

Ed Kearsley (01:03:32):
So that’s, yeah, hit M up and get some roller cup. It’s awesome.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:42):
I just love circles. So Shannon,

Shannon Browning (01:03:47):
Just for a quick recommendation, Marvel comics has brought back its ultimate line. They started recently. There’s a whole great big storyline. It sort of continues on from the original but starts again, Rita. That makes sense. The one I’m going to recommend is Ultimate Spider-Man, Peter Parker is grown up married to mj, has two kids, was working for the Daily bugle. Uncle Ben is still alive and then he receives a package with a radioactive spider and a costume and says the world needs to change, it needs heroes in the world. We had before you were one, be one again. And it kind of goes from there and it’s intriguing story. It’s like taking it from a completely different place as well. So you dunno what to predict. It is in the ultimate sort of line in the fact that the stories are slow. There’s a lot of buildup, there’s a lot of character development. They’re concentrating on everyone, so if you just want things to blow up, probably not the book for you, but I’m really enjoying it.

Andrew Law (01:04:58):
Awesome. Does he actively choose to have the spider bite him?

Shannon Browning (01:05:05):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:05:07):
Oh nice.

Andrew Law (01:05:11):
You’ve got a choice to do it as opposed to it just happens.

Shannon Browning (01:05:16):
He chooses it this time sort of thing. And yeah, the suit is, once again, it’s like nano suit or something, nano fibre. So it grows on him in that sort of shed. So there is this wonderful scene where he and his daughter are trying to figure out what the costume should look like. It starts off all black and she keeps on picking colours and changing and that sort of thing until it gets to what we know as Spider-Man.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:05:43):
Oh cool.

Shannon Browning (01:05:46):
Yeah, it’s a good read.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:05:48):
Sounds like it. Yeah,

Andrew Law (01:05:50):
I like alternate takes like scissors book. Yeah, alternate takes on the Euros. Yeah.

Steve Saul (01:05:56):
Good. I’ve got the six printing of number one on order, so hopefully I’ll get to read it soon.

Shannon Browning (01:06:01):
Oh cool. Awesome.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:05):
Steve, I think I forgot to warn you about this part of the show, but hopefully

Steve Saul (01:06:09):
I think you mentioned it. Yep.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:11):
Okay, good.

Steve Saul (01:06:12):
Yeah, so I want to recommend anything EC comics, but specifically this one.

(01:06:22)
This is a relatively recent reprint volume because EC comics are great, in my humble opinion. This particular book is collecting all the adaptations they did of Ray Bradbury stories and to me they are the cream of the crop of EC comics and the added bonus is that it’s covers all of their superstar artists, your Wally Wood, Jack Davis, Johnny Craig, Jack Cayman’s, even in there and Leys in there, Graham Engles and a few of the other, well I would say equal lights, but lesser contributing lights from high. The heights of EC comics such as Reed Crandall and Al Williamson’s in there might even be a bit of tta. I think he did one or two stories for them and it just, it’s a beautifully put together volume, good essays, fantastic array of stories of all kinds. You’ve got Bradbury’s horror stories and Bradbury science fiction stories mainly, and a few quirky humour. Ones that kind of cross over and yeah, good stories, great art. And my one quibble is the pages are glossy, which detracts a little bit from the art for me, but it’s still a very beautiful thing inside and out.

Ed Kearsley (01:07:56):
Sweet.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:07:56):
Awesome.

Ed Kearsley (01:07:58):
Was Brad Breeded the one that they did one of his stories without asking him and he sent a letter in saying, love the adaption of my story that you did. I’m sure the check’s in the mail,

Steve Saul (01:08:10):
That’s the one and that

Ed Kearsley (01:08:13):
Him,

Steve Saul (01:08:14):
Yeah, the story’s recounted in there and Bradbury actually has a foreword in there as well.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:18):
Oh nice.

Shannon Browning (01:08:20):
Yeah, Bradbury had a bit of a problem with people adapting his stories and not telling him.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:24):
Yeah, he

Steve Saul (01:08:25):
Was very understanding and they collaborated very nicely after that

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:30):
Because

Steve Saul (01:08:31):
They quickly paid him the money.

Shannon Browning (01:08:37):
Mike, just on a tangent there, my favourite story about something like that is when Mel Brooks did Blazing Saddles, there’s the joke that the main character’s name is Head Lamar. Instead of Heady Lamar, when the movie came out, they had a courier show up at the door and he’s talking to Mel’s business partner, Mel yells out what’s going on and his partner said, Hedy Lamar is suing us. And from his office he just yelled out, payer,

Andrew Law (01:09:20):
I love that movie,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:09:22):
Damnit, I’ll get this right one day over to Andrew.

Andrew Law (01:09:30):
So this one’s not a comic, but I think about three or four hours ago it showed up at my door. It’s a Kickstarter for Australian artist Marty Enable, it’s an art book that he’s published. So he’s in the process of sending out all his stuff, but he’s got some wonderful fantasy art that he does. It’s a really cool comic style. It does have a couple of preview pages in here of a comic that he started working on that are really horribly displayed by myself, but it is one of those things that he wants to get round to but hasn’t yet. But he’s wonderful fantasy art. I’m sure he is going to make it available after he sent off all these Kickstarter stuff, but be available later on his year. But yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:10:48):
Wow, it’s so good. He just can’t see anything else.

Andrew Law (01:10:50):
I’m so eager.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:10:52):
Oh,

Andrew Law (01:10:52):
There it’s, hey.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:10:54):
Oh, sorry you froze for me. I dunno if you did for everyone else, but froze for me.

Shannon Browning (01:10:57):
Yeah, he did. We froze for a moment,

Andrew Law (01:11:03):
But no, he’s done some comic pages in that. I’m blanking on it. The Australian comics thing they put together for the bushfires did a really cool story in that and it’s a fantastic artist and it’s fantasy, so it’s right up my alley. Delve into it tonight. Nice. Yeah, cool book. Very cool book.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:36):
Yeah, I want it now. And that’s why I’m beginning to hate this show.

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I will soon be very, very, very, very, very broke. If you also want to come onto the show and show some comics off, that will make me want to buy them and be more broke than ever. That is the link you want to go to comic show slash interest and that’ll take you to a form where you fill it out, you tell a bit about yourself and I will get in contact with you and we’ll figure out what shows to put you on unless of course you pick some shows and we’ll try to get you on those shows. So we’d love to have you just have to be a fan of comics to be on this show. That’s it. That’s the rule. I guess we’ve done it. So thank you very much to our guests. Thank you very much to Ed, do I get to say thank you very much to myself? Well, that’d be weird. No, you

Andrew Law (01:12:39):
Put in

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:12:42):
And thank you to everyone who’s watching and the comments. Sorry.

Andrew Law (01:12:46):
Thanks sis.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:12:50):
Thank you everyone for watching. Thank you everyone for your comments. It’s great. The one those who get to watch us live and get to interact. That’s a lot of fun. Thank you for that. Thank you to those who are watching us later at a later date. And thank you to those who like the video Thank you Shawnee, who like the video,

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Ed Kearsley (01:13:51):
Okay, bye bye. I press

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