Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (00:01):
Theoretical

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (00:17):
That doesn’t go anywhere near long enough for me to do what I was trying to do. Welcome everyone to the comics recent read show. This is where we get a bunch of people together to talk about comics we’ve recently read. So I’ll go around the room just to introduce each person and they can show what they’re reading or just say what they’re going to talk about, not reading what they’re going to talk about tonight. So I’ll just go like a clock. Ed, what are you doing tonight?

Ed Kearsley (00:45):
I’ll be doing Lead Web by Sean Creek.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (00:49):
Yeah, and Ed is known for radical, I forgot to say that even though I talked about not forgetting to say that.

Ed Kearsley (00:55):
Then

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (00:55):
We’ve got Ryan Christopher Comics Original Art coming Soon. I like that. I was wondering what the new name was, but yeah. Cool. We’ll go with that. Whatcha talking about today?

Ryan Christopher (01:08):
I’m talking about the Spider King.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11):
Oh nice. And Joe Rowe or more aptly known as Justin McNamara. Sorry.

Justin (01:23):
That’ll do any of those will be fine.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:25):
I have troubles with names

Justin (01:28):
Known

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:28):
For Being’s. Friend, what are you reading tonight?

Justin (01:33):
I found a book Full of Horror and Terror, the book of Genesis by Robert Crumb. Oh cool,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:42):
Cool. And then we’ve got the man who calls himself darker half but better known as Sean Craig, who is the one comic I do know him for is Blade Whip. What are you telling us about today?

Shaun Craike (01:56):
Probably one of the later manaroo releases from VIS Media, which is Park Gear Volume one. Cool,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (02:05):
Thank you very much. And I am Ciz from Comex and if you dunno what that is, I’d love to know how you found this channel. I’m doing this one, understanding Comics, the Invisible Art because it’s the only thing I read this week. So Ed, I didn’t get the follow up quick enough. We just go to each person now.

Ed Kearsley (02:31):
You

Ed Kearsley (02:32):
Dunno. Either I do the comments, first

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (02:34):
Comments,

Ed Kearsley (02:34):
Yeah. Yeah. Cool. So you’ve got Jeffrey saying Good Day all. Hi everyone from Absent-Minded and Shane with the Joe Rose rocking the Nerds of Aussie.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (02:50):
I would do the Woo, but I can’t, my voice is gone.

Ed Kearsley (02:54):
Got the Hay readers from

Ryan Christopher (02:59):
At last. Someone’s acknowledging our literacy and James

Ed Kearsley (03:03):
Is saying hi to Justin.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (03:06):
Ah, cool. Well that’s a show intro. I guess the other thing I should probably say that I forgot to say before we started for everyone watching, don’t forget to the video, share the video so other people get to hear us talk about these things and yes, and subscribe to the channel if you haven’t already. That would be awesome. That helps us make more content like this and hopefully long enough for me to do it with a voice Again. It’s a weird thing that I have going on, coming out my mouth at the moment, so this is the part where we go to talking about our books. Usually I’ll start with myself so I will again. Okay, cool.

(03:46)
Okay, so Understanding Comics by Scott McLeod. I read the first half of this a while ago, so it’s a little vague and then this week I read the second half. I think I recommended this book just on the first half a couple episodes ago. Now that I’ve read the second half, this book’s bloody Amazing. Second half is even better than the first half just learning about how comics work. One of the favourite thing that he talks about that I really like is that he called it I think closure and it’s where between panels, the reader makes up what happens in their brain and that’s doing panel to panel so that they make up the right things in between is a big part of comics and without that, the comics kind of just a bunch of pictures. There’s just so much, I’m sick at the moment, my memory’s not working the best, but he’s got this great page. I’ll show you this page. I love this page.

Ed Kearsley (04:55):
Depending

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (04:56):
Which direction you go, it’s a totally different story even though it’s the same panels being used just in different orders and so forth. Just showing you how that, well, pretty much that closing, you get more closure in between each one where you make up more about the story because it’s got less panels or it’s got more panels so you make up less because it’s showing you more and stuff like that. I don’t know where the page is. I didn’t mark any of the pages. I wasn’t that forward thinking. There’s a great page that shows you the story really three lines long in panels and then just two and then just one and then just in three panels and they’re all the same story, but they show you how the extra panels make a difference to the and how the person thinks of the story while the other ones you are doing a lot of the thinking to fill in the gaps. I guess I might be blabbering here, but I found that really interesting. Another thing that he showed was the movement of objects that apparently it was, I’ll see if I can find it. Apparently that was actually invented movement lines, but it hadn’t been a thing before this time.

(06:17)
Amp Do Champ. I don’t know. Apparently he’s the first person who did it and he gave a year, but I can’t find it here. But yeah, so that was a new thing. I found that fascinating. Just so used to lines and little things like that to show movement and stuff and it’s because before that comics weren’t used to show movement, so just the history of comics in this book is amazing to learn all these different things that didn’t used to happen or there’s some examples of how manga do things different and theories on why it’s different, the cultural differences that changed the way they went because Japan was very isolated from the rest of the world with comics, so they evolved inside themself their own ways and then as it trickled over, some of those things trickled into Western comics and they went, oh, that’s a good idea.

(07:14)
We’ll do that too. Yeah, it was just very thorough. Great read. If you like comics, this is great to read, to learn about how it all works together, how the pieces, I could go on forever to be honest about all the stuff that I learned. I won’t, you’re not meant to, but it’s just I highly recommend it to anyone who just wants to know how comics work as the title says, understanding comics, whether you are making comics, which I think is the main target or just want to learn about how they work. This is a great book. I would say the main target is people making comics. Quite a few inspirational stuff about why you should go for it and the different things you can do and the reasoning, oh, this was the other thing I liked that can be seen. You can see the words up there, the surface craft structure, idiom form and idea, the different stages of developing comics, the different places you can be while you are learning comics, you’ve got your surface, which is just making it look cool and if that’s all you’ve learned, then you’ll be picked apart when you go to a show to take it to an actual person who knows what they’re doing.

(08:38)
They’ll see all the things. You haven’t got all the craft, you haven’t done all the structure of how it all should go together, the practising of anatomy and all that sort of stuff that goes into comics and I mean you can make comics in all these levels. He was saying it’s just what you do is different when you’re in each one. I could pick on someone, but I won’t. I’ve done enough of that today on who is in the surface area, but we won’t go there. So yeah, highly recommend it. If you read comics, it’s a good book just to, if you love comics, you’ll love them more after reading this because this just tells you what a great art form it is and it really argues that comics shouldn’t be this second rate art form that it is treated like. He really talks about that a lot, that it’s an art form in itself and it should be up there with all the other art forms. So that’d be my end of that one. Anyone got a question about the book?

Justin (09:37):
Does he have a sequel to that Reinventing Comics or something like that as well? Yes,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (09:40):
He does. Yeah, I’ve got that as well. Actually, I haven’t read it yet, but that’s what my cover looks like and I just dropped everything. That’s what my cover looks like. But yeah, Ed’s got a different cover.

Ed Kearsley (09:52):
Okay,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (09:53):
So different publishers, I think

Ed Kearsley (09:55):
Minea Al.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (09:57):
Oh yeah,

Ed Kearsley (09:58):
And

Justin (09:58):
He’s the Dilbert guy, right? Isn’t he?

Ed Kearsley (10:01):
He’s the what?

Justin (10:02):
The Dilbert guy?

Ed Kearsley (10:05):
No, no, Scott Cloud did before.

Justin (10:09):
Oh, that’s right. Yeah, it’s even on his T-shirt in that first cover, isn’t it?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (10:14):
Yeah. Yeah.

Justin (10:15):
And

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (10:15):
He did this one as well, making comics.

Justin (10:18):
Oh, cool.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (10:19):
Now I’m thinking by the grey in the hair there. That’s his way of saying this is his latest book. I don’t know, I’m just, yeah, I’m looking forward to after reading that one, I’m going to dive into these other two. Likely they’ll be coming up in the show soon.

Ed Kearsley (10:37):
So understanding comics is really good for when you’re making comics, it explains the various processes, how time works and how as says was saying with the closure, the stuff that happens in between the panels and when you’ve got that understanding, he’s broken it down into such a almost molecular level. When you are thinking of what you’re going to do on your page. If you have to get a character from A to B, how are you going to do it? Could you do it in one long panel with the guy walks through and then that’s the sections of time, or you could do it in lots of little panels and it really sharpens up your knowledge base and it puts a lot more arrows in your quiver when it comes to the actual storytelling bit of drawing a comic. Yeah,

Ryan Christopher (11:37):
It’s almost like a visual dictionary.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (11:39):
Yeah, well it’s written as a comic. That’s what I love about it as well. It’s all panels. It’s all panels. So he writes it as a comic and shows what he’s talking about in himself, if that makes sense. But yeah, he also points to things that you should do to sharpen your skills as well. Other things outside this book they should look into. He references, what’s that guy’s name? I’ve got a book of him somewhere here. It’s really embarrassing that I don’t know his name because he’s really famous. Will Nice, will

Ed Kearsley (12:22):
Will Eisner.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (12:23):
Yeah, that’s it. Sorry, my brain’s not working. He references him a couple of times. His book as well. Comic

Justin (12:30):
Sequential Art.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (12:32):
Yeah, that’s the one.

Justin (12:33):
Yeah. Yeah, it’s a good book. That one. Yeah, that’s it. Yeah. Another one that I really liked that’s sort of in a similar vein, there’s a manga car named Hiko Iraqi who did the jojo series and he’s got an amazing book called Manga in Theory and Practise, and it discusses don’t just create your image for your character but create his background. Why does he wear that hat? Why does he have that ring on his pinky? Come up with reasons as to why that character looks that way. It’s a fascinating book and it’s not just for comic people, even though he’s a comic guy. It’s interesting for if you’re in any form of entertainment as to create your characters to be more real.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:15):
Oh, cool. I like it. I’m going to have to add that to my list. A long list of how to make comics type books. Is there any comments? I’m not looking.

Ed Kearsley (13:31):
We’ve got Nick May with the Husky Sz.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:34):
Husky Sz.

Ed Kearsley (13:37):
Got Peter at the high hall. Hey Peter and Kirby with the hello and then James Mahoney saying Welcome to care of you

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (13:54):
Into comment conversation. Okay, so who am I going to pick on next? I’ll go backwards. Sean, do you want to talk about your book first?

Shaun Craike (14:09):
Alright. Okay, so the book I got was hot here and yeah, this is Manga from Vis Media and this one’s done by, I get the name right, Sue Yoshi aka. And this is his previous one was Black Torch. I’ve never actually read it, but that was another series that only went for five volumes and that one was like a science fiction slash supernatural. This one is actually definitely a lot more science fiction based. And this one was actually, so I was doing some research for this. It was actually inspired by the 1982 film Android.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (15:01):
Okay.

Shaun Craike (15:02):
So I never heard of that movie either, but so there any film bust out there watching this do fill us in. So it’s pretty much about this 11-year-old girl called Ruby who apparently probably could be the last human being on the planet because this is based 200 years after the third World War and the world’s kind of being wasted, but it’s like Androids or Gears as they’re called, just run around the earth and she’s pretty much getting looked after by this other robot called Uncle Z. That’s what she calls him. Excuse me. Yeah, that’s something up there. So that’s at the start and later on the way she actually runs into another robot, but pretty much he says he’s got no purpose or base, so he just lives with them for a while. Then all of a sudden in the book he ends up running, they run into a insane gear just like gears that kind of lose their purposes or their warrior code just takes over and they just kill anything alive.

(16:30)
And of course Uncle Z, he pretty much gets destroyed then he almost gets destroyed. Then all of a sudden the other main character where he called a Chrome, then he’s just like, now I’ve got a new purpose or base programme to protect Rui. So they pretty much decide to see if they can find parts for carer, robot Uncle Z, because all they got is the brain or pretty much the processor. So they’re pretty much on the quest to go see if they can repair him or pretty much they go find parts. Or the other option is to find the heaven land, which is a place for gears made by gears and yeah, it is actually the action flows pretty quickly. I definitely like the art on it. It has a bit of a sketchy, but it’s still clean. Look at it. The characters are pretty decently presented and a little surprising thing. This book has actually sold three times more in the west, especially in France than in Japan. Wow, interesting. Cool. Actually at the moment, because I was actually looking it up on YouTube on certain new books, man to read and this was one of ’em. So it’s like, yeah, I might as well give this one a shot and yeah, I wasn’t disappointed.

Ed Kearsley (18:21):
Are you going to keep getting it?

Shaun Craike (18:23):
Yeah, I think there’s probably going to be seven or eight billions or up, so it’s not a massive long series.

Justin (18:31):
I do love a short rung manga. It’s always nice just to have that start and finish to a story.

Shaun Craike (18:36):
Yeah,

Justin (18:38):
I’m

Shaun Craike (18:38):
Also a sucker for an Android that colours that just finished two months ago that only went for seven volumes. There’s a heap of ’em, but they go up to past 20 or 30 volumes.

Justin (19:00):
I start to lose interest when they get up that high

Shaun Craike (19:03):
That’s over a hundred and that’s still going.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (19:07):
Wow. So what was it again that got you into this book? You said a YouTube channel.

Shaun Craike (19:18):
It’s just like a review. They got their own YouTube channel. Obviously anybody can have a YouTube channel, but there are some mango reviewers out there and I just click on certain ones certain, especially with some other older mangas that I’ve missed and that. But this is the one where they say people should be reading hard gear more. So I was like, okay. After it’s like, okay, I’ll give it a shot. I actually, they have copies in the library, so I was able to get it from there first before I just purchased it. But I read one volume, this was like two months ago. I was like, yeah, I’ll get it when I get the chance. And so here I am willing to get some more.

Ed Kearsley (20:09):
Awesome. We’ve got a question here, but Sean, so the gears sentient or are they more like gun dams or Evangelian?

Shaun Craike (20:19):
No, they, they’re pretty much the Androids,

Ed Kearsley (20:24):
Like Transformers, they’re

Shaun Craike (20:26):
Pretty much like, yeah, there’s robots basically they said nearly all human wife has been wiped out. So the main character, the 11-year-old girl is probably the last human being on the earth, but they’re going to be travelling, they’re on the quest, so they might run into some other humans, you never know. Or maybe they’ll run into some rgs. It just started at near the end, there’s a battle on the bridge with this other robot. They had this argument. It’s just like his job is just not let anyone pass on the bridge. And they’re like, how long have you been sitting there for? And he’s like 200 years. And it’s like, why do you keep following it? He’s like, because my order.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (21:20):
Yeah, I get that. That’s really cool.

Shaun Craike (21:25):
And of course with the Chrome character at the start, it’s almost like an infant kind of stage. He just started to land. He has no idea, of course, kind of like that character with Amnesia, but then starts start having a bit of character Deb development on the way, but also he starts getting some extra ability that he didn’t know exist or something where he just starts doing it with instinct. So I wouldn’t say it’s not exactly the most original thing, but I will say the execution of how this is pretty done, pretty damn well cool

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:06):
On my list. Cool. Well I’m going to go in the same backward order, so I’m going to pick on Justin now. No, yeah, I’m going to pick on you Justin. I’m sorry.

Justin (22:18):
Cool. Okay,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:19):
Tell us about your book.

Justin (22:20):
So growing up in the early eighties, the three artists that I only ever cared about were Jack Kirby, John Byrne, and this guy Robert Crumb. Robert Crumb was one of the sixties head artists and most of his stuff was sort of in weirdo and Harpy did a whole pile of stuff that went from just sort of cutesy, cartoony to full tilt adults only sort of stuff. And he was doing some research for a new work and he was going to be doing a parody of the story of Adam and Eve. And in doing his research, he started reading the King James version of the book of Genesis in the Old Testament. And then he also found another book by an author named Robert Altar who wrote a book called The Five Books of Moses that came out in 2004. And so he decided to not translate it, not do his version of it, it is the literal translation of what’s in the Bible.

(23:32)
The artwork is absolutely stunning rendered in the way that only he can. It’s very wordy. Now, I’m not particularly religious at all, but I’m such a fan of his art that I had to get this because I mean you look at panels like this one here, just the rendering of people and all the rest of it. And it really is, it’s like a stunningly beautiful book. And the place that it came from as well was his wife’s Jewish and he basically made the book of Genesis for her. So we went from doing a parody of Adam and Eve to actually creating something beautiful for his wife. As Crumb’s gotten older, his gone from being this little sort of on font terrible sort of weirdo to actually creating some absolutely beautiful artwork. There’s a three part, they were in comic format, but they were actually an art series called Art and Beauty that had been collected into one volume and it’s just sketches of his all done in his crosshatching style that he does.

(24:47)
It’s amazing whether you are religious or not, it’s the price tag on there, whether you’re religious or not. It is a stunning piece of artwork. It really is. And if you’re someone who is religious and have never had the reason to read the Old Testament, maybe in everybody’s favourite way comics is the way to actually read those first 50 books. So I think it’s Genesis to the Death of Joseph, which is the first 50 books of the Bible. But yeah, it is one of those books that every time I turned the page a tear fell out of my eye of how beautiful it was. This guy, he’s 80 I think, and he’s still making stunning work like this. And if you’re a fan of this because you are religious, my biggest suggestion is to not go back and look at the rest of Robert Crumb’s work. You’d be extraordinarily disappointed, but if you are a fan of his previous work and just like his art style, it’s definitely a great addition to your Robert Crumb library. Just stunning. I think unfortunately, I think it goes for about 80 bucks now because everything’s expensive since Covid. But yeah, stunning. Just an amazing, amazing book.

Shaun Craike (26:05):
Did you ever get to see the Robert com documentary,

Justin (26:09):
The Terry’s wig Off one? Yeah, I love it. Yeah, I’ve actually got it on DVD when it first came out. I think Madman brought it out. Yeah, it’s, I have a series of about 12 or 15 comic documentaries that get a regular rotation and that’s one of them. Yeah, amazing. A bit of a tragic story too. His upbringing wasn’t great,

Shaun Craike (26:38):
Especially

Justin (26:39):
Charles

Shaun Craike (26:39):
Brother. He was an artist too, but of course he kind of went off the rails and his comics turned into writing and I dunno what it was all about, but yeah, you feel very sorry for his brother, he just went into madness.

Justin (26:56):
Yeah, I mean Max, his other brother Max was also was, I think Max might still be alive, but I think Max was not very good either, if you know what I mean. But yeah, and Charles was an amazing artist as well. Charles was the one who got Robert into drawing and basically where that came from is that Charles was the older brother and just forced Robert to draw. It’s like, I want a comic company and you are going to draw my comics with me. But yeah, just the tragedy of depression and mental illness and it drove him to commit suicide eventually. But yeah, he was an amazing artist in his own right, but never got to fulfil what should have been his destiny, his artistic destiny.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (27:45):
Yeah, I agree. So you just came across this because you’re just looking for stuff by Cru.

Justin (27:56):
So one of my regular searches on Amazon, the three things I search on Amazon are John Byrne, Jack Kirby, Robert Crumb, because there’s always something new coming out. And these bookcases behind me are covered in works of Cru by and Kirby. And if I’m honest, there’s a little bit of Harvey Kurtzman in there as well. I like that early mad stuff. But yeah, so every time I open Amazon there’s always like, here’s a whole stack of stuff that you might like. And it’s like Got it, got it, got it, got it all. Hello. So yeah, this was one that jumped out at me, just it was So this is literally the antithesis of anything that Robert Rum has done previously. It’s still rendered him his amazing style, but it’s the opposite.

Shaun Craike (28:46):
Yeah, it looks like the most realistic style of art that I’ve seen from Robert Rummy. He’s got that more cartoony like seventies trippy drug influence kind of stuff.

Justin (28:55):
Yeah, very, very sort of early Disney, that pumping cartoon sort of thing like Steamboat Willie was and early Felix, the cats, he’s very much influenced by that. I mean you even see that in Fritz the Cat and things like that. That was made into a film. Who made that fire and ice? I can’t think of his name. Yeah, Ralph bci. That’s right. Yeah.

Shaun Craike (29:18):
Yeah, Ralph Bash. But yeah, Ralph BCI didn’t do a good job. I remember Crumb hated how he turned it out because Fritz the cat was supposed to be an absolute bastard and he made him too weak, which is why he ended up killing them off in the third issue.

Justin (29:33):
Yeah, the ostrich murdered him with a screwdriver. That’s the worst way to go too

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:45):
Damn ostrich. I think you’ve explained it really well. I’ve got no questions to be honest.

Ed Kearsley (29:54):
Do we have

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:54):
A look at the comments?

Ed Kearsley (29:56):
Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:56):
Yeah.

Ed Kearsley (29:59):
Got to go way back. You get some from when Sean was doing his ones Hell Singer loved the new collectors editions.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:14):
Pretty

Ed Kearsley (30:15):
Sounds interesting. That was for Sean’s one, and now we’re getting to Justin’s we go yeah, get him. Sis got the Woo crumb. Thankfully I was named after Jack Kirby instead Beck Cru was a clue. Second though,

Justin (30:34):
I’ll just point out that Kirby J is my daughter and her name Kirby J is because she’s named after Jack Kirby.

Ed Kearsley (30:43):
Nice. There you go. There you go. You see his pick on Justin,

(30:49)
You busted. James is laughing. Crum is trippy. So cool. My God. Justin hooked me up. That looks awesome. Got Stew. I remember that book. Wow. I would’ve forgotten about that. Thanks Justin. Jeffrey, I read some of this when I was 10. Jesus J very flexing, expensive books. Never thought I’d see just loading the Bible. We got raise late to the party, so I have to watch from the start. You know what I don’t like? I definitely have me picking up for sure we, it’s a green screen, there’s no books behind Justin. It says illusion. I can’t read, I can’t actually read. And then someone saying with the morning or evening.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:49):
Oh yes. From Roman states. That’s it. Hey, if I continue the order, Brian, oh, don’t worry. Tell us about your book.

Ryan Christopher (32:02):
Alright, so this week I read The Spider King by Josh Vann and Simon Dini. So this one was originally funded through Kickstarter as a graphic novel, and then they were lucky enough that it was picked up by IDW in 2018 and they broke it up into and then a reprint of the graphic novel. So Josh Fann is a Melbourne based comic writer. Simon Dini is an Italian illustrator. He’s worked on Elektra Red, white and Blood. He’s worked on Star Wars adventures and he did, I think it was for Dark Horse, he did an incredible comic translation of Macbeth, the Shakespeare play Macbeth in comic form, but based on, I believe closer to the true history of Macbeth rather than the Shakespearean tragedy, which I haven’t had a chance to check out yet, but definitely want to. So the whole concept for this book is what if aliens invaded Earth in 9 56 ad?

(33:32)
So it starts out in Europe, so northern Europe and the king of the Ladale clan Halvard has died. And so his community is in mourning and his son Harold really doesn’t want to elevate to being the clan leader. He doesn’t want to be the king. He doesn’t want to have to carry that legacy that was built by his father. So we kind of end with this begrudge, the first sort of opening ends with this sort of begrudging this that he’s going to take on this mantle because it’s what is required of him being the son of a king. And then we flash forward to bloody battlefield where him and his uncle are now on opposing sides fighting for control over these lands and over the Ladale clan. So they’re preparing to have their final showdown once and for all in the snow. One army against the other winner takes all when out of the sky comes crashing an enormous alien spaceship.

(35:00)
And from there sort of epic ensues because the spaceship was transporting sort of a depleted parasitic warlord called the Spider King who has now being released upon the earth. And so as you can imagine, the bad guys end up sort of in the same area doing the same thing and the good guys end up over here in a sort of a ragtag group of misfits and leftovers that somehow have to band together to try and bring down this intergalactic, parasitic warlord or else risk the whole world sort of falling under the control of the Spider King. And I really want to show you, because it’s set in that Nordic area of northern Europe and the artwork is just absolutely stunning. There’s like a real storybook quality to it.

Justin (36:27):
Oh wow.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:28):
That’s really, that’s nice.

Ryan Christopher (36:34):
It kind of reminded me of there’s a cartoon network series called Over the Garden Wall and the artwork is so kooky and whimsical that he’s managed to take that style and almost put it into a world that’s as gruesome and as violent as what you’d encounter in say, game of Thrones or Vikings, the series itself. But it’s all done in this almost Nordic woodcarving esque type illustrative style. The colours are done by a guy named Adrian Block and I think that he’s just absolutely knocked it out of the park. Just another example of some pages and some nice interior

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:37):
Pages

Ryan Christopher (37:50):
So they, I don’t want to give too much away because it’s a bit of an adventure comic as the narrative kicks in and gets rolling. But one of the best parts of the book is we find out that maybe the ship carrying the Spider King wasn’t the only ship that crash landed on earth and maybe another ship was full of some interesting weapons that the Vikings might use to their advantage. So it kind of turns into a cool sci-fi revenge drama as well. And I can’t speak for if you pick up the IDW version, but there’s some extras that are thrown into this book as well. You get a prequel comic, so you get to learn a little bit more about Harold and there’s another, his sort of childhood friend, Sigrid and her clan. I get the sense from reading it that they’re ideally they’re betrothed or they’re supposed to be together, those two since they’ve been like childhood friends.

(39:15)
So you learn a little bit more about them. There’s a fantastic proof of concept, I guess it’s like a pilot comic tucked into the back called Fluffy the Barbarian, and it’s from 2013, so three years before the Kickstarter book goes live, they did sort of like a proof of concept ashcan, which is thrown into the back of the book as well, along with some character sketches and a whole bunch of pinups and tribute fan art from a range of artists like some that have gone on to have their own successful projects and stuff now as well. There’s this fan out here from Andrew McLean who has had phenomenal success with Head Lopper. He’s done Godzilla for, I think he’s done Godzilla for IDW. He’s got some more books coming out all the time, but super, super talented guy.

(40:28)
So I recommend this book a lot. It’s an art style unlike anything else I’ve really encountered in comics and really just boutique art house animation studios are doing this sort of work that Simonini has put into this book. And I do know that he uses a similar-ish art style in his adaptation of Macbeth as well. So if you like the art that you saw on this, you could probably pick up Macbeth as well and you’ll get that same sort of storybook, historical, whimsical sort of style that seems like it’s not going to fit with a violent sort of space revenge Viking book. But it’s kind of like you read it and you’re like, I don’t know if I’d want to read this book if it had a different art style. It goes so well together. Sometimes you get an artist and a writer and you can’t imagine them doing that story in any other way than how it’s been done. And I very strongly feel that about what Josh Fann and Simon Dini have done with this book. So yeah, highly recommend it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:56):
Cool.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:57):
Awesome. Did you find this through the Kick? That’s the Kickstarter version you have, isn’t

Ryan Christopher (42:05):
It? That’s the Kickstarter version. Yeah, so I didn’t back it on Kickstarter, I missed the campaign and so I reached out to Josh Van directly and he sent me a copy, so if you can’t find it anywhere, Josh Van has social media, he’s got some websites and whatnot, so maybe reach out to Josh. I’m sure that if he’s still got copies around, he would be more than happy to sell you a copy directly rather than going through eBay or any of those sort of secondary markets.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:46):
Cool

Justin (42:48):
Colouring and that was amazing. The depth of field that they got with the colour choices is absolutely stunning. I would follow just that colorist for how good that was.

Ryan Christopher (42:57):
I feel very much the same and to do so much with what is essentially flats. He’s not using a lot of technical tools or styles or any complex lighting setups or anything like that. It’s all, yeah, I’m just flicking through it now. It’s all basically flats but on a nice glossy page.

Justin (43:24):
So

Ryan Christopher (43:25):
I feel like it’s allowing it to be super, super vibrant and that’s giving it that huge lift. But yeah, the colours are part of what’s kind of solidified this whole project for me is everything’s, artwork works so well with the story. The colours work so well with the artwork, it’s doing that dance of what we love in comics so much. And what makes comics successful?

Ed Kearsley (43:57):
It looked like the colours were being used to show place as well. You could tell they were in a tavern because of the palette selection and you could tell they’re outside just from the quick glance at what you showed.

Ryan Christopher (44:11):
Yeah, you don’t get lost in this even though there’s a lot of outdoor areas that are in northern Europe, so there’s a lot of trees, a lot of snow, a lot of rocks and all that sort of stuff. But yeah, because he’s using colour so well that you’re not getting lost at any point during the book. You know exactly where you are. Exactly when you are, no matter how much is going on. Exactly who’s in the scene, nothing’s getting lost, nothing’s muddy. Yeah, cool.

Justin (44:42):
The reason the colours stood out for me is it reminded me so much of sixties and seventies European horror where they used different colours to create an artificial depth of field and the comics almost look like, I can’t think of it, where they create the silhouettes with a cut out of trees, with a cut out of other trees and other trees and that creates an artificial depth, the colouring, and that really reminded me of that creating that artificial depth. That was amazing.

Ryan Christopher (45:10):
Yeah, I agree.

Justin (45:11):
I’m in, I’m a hundred percent, god dammit, another comic title to write down on my list here. God damnit.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:20):
My list is getting huge from all these episodes.

Justin (45:22):
Yeah, I have

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:23):
To stop watching

Ryan Christopher (45:27):
And everyone’s between this week and last time I was on, you guys are sending me down the manga train as well and I swore I was never going to go down that road.

Justin (45:42):
One of us, one of

Ryan Christopher (45:44):
Us.

Shaun Craike (45:47):
What’s going off? Why not?

Ryan Christopher (45:50):
Well, that’s the thing. That’s what it is. Good stories are good stories. Why am I depriving myself of excellent storytelling?

Justin (45:56):
Well, I’m kind of with you Ryan. I am not a manga guy and there was a period where I got a little bit angry at DC and Marble because there was just a period where none of their stories were resonating with me and I was like, what else is there? And I started with I think Gant and Jji Ito and now I’ve got a full bookcase here that’s just manga. I’ve

Ryan Christopher (46:20):
Already dipping my toes into it. I’ve got on pre-order the X-Men Manga deluxe edition Reve master that they’re doing. So just ease into it. Yeah, yeah. You’ve got to ease into it, sis. You can’t just jump straight in, block your nose, jump

Shaun Craike (46:42):
Break. I recommend probably having a look at Empowered if you ever see it, because that’s actually by Adam Warren. He’s actually one of my favourite artists of all time, but he’s one of the top American manga inspired artists and he’s empowered pretty much his superhero take. So it is actually not as full on as the boys, but it’s more like a light jab at superheroes. So it’s definitely more of a comedy.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (47:17):
I like it already.

Ed Kearsley (47:20):
Should we have a look at some comments?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (47:22):
I was going to say before we go with Ed, let’s look at the comments. Ed

Ed Kearsley (47:28):
Got, KBY is still learning English and that’s why he can’t read. It’s a lovely message. Got Nick May. I was on the Spider King Kickstarter.

Ryan Christopher (47:42):
No, I saw Nick’s name in the back of the book. Oh, in the thank yous.

Ed Kearsley (47:50):
I have some stuff to do, sadly. I enjoy the videos. Take care of yourself. Catch you next time. Did probably miss that. See Eric. Thanks

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (47:58):
Eric. Missed it, but I’ll wave anyway.

Ed Kearsley (48:00):
You’ve got Lee with his classic head signals. That sounds sick. I have to read it. You got never too old. Say hello. You got the Vikings versus Aliens

Ryan Christopher (48:16):
Vikings versus why did it take so long to do Vikings versus Aliens? It took me to this book, it’s the

Ed Kearsley (48:22):
Cowboys

Justin (48:22):
Versus Aliens.

Ed Kearsley (48:23):
They did have the Zeor Aliens Fighting Vikings a while back.

Shaun Craike (48:31):
Axe, I’ve got that novel.

Ed Kearsley (48:35):
Have you heard of Duke Comic Art Artwork?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:39):
No.

Ed Kearsley (48:40):
Nope.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:41):
But I can check them out now. Yeah, now I know the name.

Ed Kearsley (48:45):
Could any of these characters be played by Harrison Ford? That’s what Ryan,

Justin (48:50):
Every character should be played by Harrison Ford

Ryan Christopher (48:55):
Mean. Why not? Hey Peter. Hey

Ed Kearsley (48:59):
Peter. Why us? Us? Does anyone else

Ryan Christopher (49:05):
Do that? Does anyone else, when you’re reading a graphic novel, do you ever cast it while you’re reading? Do you ever read along thinking, man, who would play this role if this was going to get adapted? Usually not until

Justin (49:18):
I finished it.

Ryan Christopher (49:19):
Not until you finished it. Yeah,

Justin (49:20):
When I finished it, I sit, sit back and my post read musing, the afterglow of reading is usually who would I cast in that? But mine’s never like who is around now, it’s always like who in the 120 years of cinema would I shoehorn into this?

Shaun Craike (49:38):
Well, nobody, I always think of everything when I read Comic Mug animated.

Ed Kearsley (49:45):
Yeah, that makes sense.

Ryan Christopher (49:48):
I mean this lens, I would pay good money to see an animated film of this book done in exactly that same style. Yeah. Sounds awesome. Yeah,

Justin (49:59):
That would be cool.

Ryan Christopher (50:03):
If you

Justin (50:04):
Listen to Josh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (50:06):
Here it is, Sean, this is where Ed does your book.

Shaun Craike (50:10):
Oh yeah. Alright, I’m going to look this way because that’s, even though it’s got a six second lag, but

Ed Kearsley (50:25):
All right, so I’ve got Blade Whip by Sean who’s with us today, and I decided to do this book. I read the lineup wrong and I looked at next week’s lineup. I didn’t know Sean was going to be on, but anyway, I read this and it’s got awesome. Oh, this wraparound, wraparound, that’s the word.

Shaun Craike (50:55):
Oh, fantastic. Complete burning, a roasting.

Ed Kearsley (51:02):
So this is Blade Whip, that’s the main character there. Blade Whip. And it’s a story set in the future. It’s a science fictiony kind of thing. Another big thing to show you is that it’s in reverse like a monger. So it’s not, doesn’t go that way. It goes the other way.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (51:26):
Confuse Westerners.

Ed Kearsley (51:27):
Yeah, there’s a nice splash. So Blade Whip is part of a mercenary clan and they’re like a Scottish Highlander clan. They are the

Shaun Craike (51:43):
Irish. You’re supposed to be Irish

Ed Kearsley (51:44):
Irish. Yeah, that’s right. Yes, because the O’Connors everyone or most of the main characters, lemme start again. Blade with the main character has a Irish brogue and it reminded me of the old X-Men comics where Claremont would try and shoehorn in an accent wherever he could. So they’re clan Space mercenaries. Space mercs.

Shaun Craike (52:18):
Yep,

Ed Kearsley (52:19):
Yep. And so they do, they’re kind of like bounty hunters, it seems like they

Shaun Craike (52:32):
Like private soldiers.

Ed Kearsley (52:35):
There you go. So it’s set in the far future, and so she’s got a robot arm and she’s got the Blade whip weapon, which extends out, you can see coming out through the Blade Whip. It’s a whip, but it’s got blades on it. And then all the rest of the claim members have the signature weapons as well. And so she’s on a mission

(53:09)
And she’s also pregnant if you could see there. And then you could see the Bleed Whip, the cool design that Sean did. And so she needs the money, so she’s going on a mission to hunt down a bad guy and she runs into a different bad guy on the way, which I’ve got to show you because the design’s so cool that there’s that girl there with the Medusa hair kind of cyborg augmentation looks really cool. So it’s kind of split up into parts. There’s the introduction which tells you about the blade rip character, the clans, the go to the mission, which is almost nonstop action. There’s the interaction, the big crescendo fight with the bad guy, and then there’s a nice bit of family drama at the end, and it says the ending’s really kind of tender. There’s a bit of vulnerability displayed by the Blade Group character after she’s just been smashing up robots and pardon me, and fighting with all the super powered, the robotically augmented bad guys.

(54:43)
And the way that Sean’s done it is it works really well as a self-contained issue with the three sections and then with the way that he’s ended it and set it up for upcoming issues, it’s really well set up for what’s coming next. And I’ve got Sean’s earlier book and the Level up in Sean’s artwork is amazing this, it’s a really good comic book and one of my favourite things is watching the independent artists just get better at their craft. The more pages they do, the more reps they get in. This is a really good example and that sort of thing. So very cool. If you like Manga and Sean’s stuff, obviously he did the Manga review I think he has in all the other ones. So his artwork’s really heavily influenced by manga and he’s got such a strong style that you could instantly see any of his drawings and no straightaway that it’s one of his drawings, which is really cool. He already found his style and he’s just improving it with every thing that he does.

Shaun Craike (56:13):
So

Ed Kearsley (56:13):
That’s

Shaun Craike (56:13):
My thing. Bella said to me once, it reminds him of a Japanese mango clash with a seventies American underground, which was kind of ironically that I was both reading those stuff at the time when I accidentally found my style.

Ed Kearsley (56:36):
Actually. There you go.

Shaun Craike (56:36):
Thanks to Ryan Bell. It was giving me all these indie comics from America, but also also Australia too. Just, yeah, so I a fair bit of, yeah, I’m quite in debt to where I, Bella actually.

Ed Kearsley (56:57):
Yeah, Ryan’s great.

Shaun Craike (57:02):
Pretty much just like Artwise and probably writing in a sense as well, just introduced me to that world and was just like, oh yeah, so there is a underground world or just comics are much more than just Marvel and dc, which I thought it was, and especially back at the time, it’s like, oh, do I have to do these Marvel and DC characters to get somewhere or to work in the industry? And it’s like, no, you don’t. There’s other companies that let you do create own stuff and all that, or you can do your own thing and maybe own do it and they’ll come.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:51):
That was really good. All I’m going to say is be glad I didn’t do the review. I suck at it. So even though I really liked the book, I would’ve destroyed anyone’s wish to read it after my about it. So yes, thank you Ed, for showing the true value of that comic that I wouldn’t have been able to. I would’ve just said, yeah, it’s got this and this and there’s some this like I do on the books normally. Do you want to go through any comments before we go to the next section?

Ed Kearsley (58:23):
Sure, sure. We go, Jeffrey, I cast it, cast it every time.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:30):
Wow.

Ed Kearsley (58:31):
Get ’em onto Dark Horse berserk Leatherette hard covers. Oh, did they do a call on the shelf?

Justin (58:39):
Yeah, they’re amazing

Ed Kearsley (58:41):
Bad with names. So I always try to place a known face to characters in books. I keep them straight while reading.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:47):
Oh,

Ryan Christopher (58:48):
Okay. That’s interesting. Did you know to read that one as a manga when you first started reading it, or did you start reading it and think, why is this woman reattaching people’s heads with a whip?

Ed Kearsley (59:03):
The cover’s on the back And also I read Sean’s first book, which was he drew it and it was written by Susan Tor and it has the old reading the Wrong Way thing. So

Shaun Craike (59:21):
Cool. Well, to let you know, AKA was, or another manga series back in the naughties, which just ceased and disappeared off the face of the earth. So instead of starting the water again, I just kept going with that despite how crummy the start was. Sorry, when I look at that first issue, I’m just like, oh man, I hate that first issue just way how I do it. My God. I

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:59):
Was just going to say, take comfort in the fact that most artists seem to hate their first issue

Ed Kearsley (01:00:05):
Just means they’re getting better

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:07):
And the second ones have done the third and the third ones have done the fourth.

Shaun Craike (01:00:12):
Well,

Justin (01:00:13):
Always love looking at

Shaun Craike (01:00:15):
As I go along,

Justin (01:00:18):
Always love looking at the first issue of CEUs by Dave Sim compared to the last issue, and it’s like they’re drawn by different people.

Shaun Craike (01:00:26):
Well that was the same with The Crow too, how

Justin (01:00:29):
The

Shaun Craike (01:00:29):
Crow issue looked really loose and all that. But along the way, when you look at the five one, it’s gotten so much tighter and lot more detail as well.

Justin (01:00:38):
A hundred percent.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:43):
Ed, are you ready for what? This is the part where I go if you want to be on the show,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:49):
This

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:49):
Is link that you want. Let’s see if Ed can do it. Should I go do it?

Ed Kearsley (01:00:54):
No,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:55):
I can do it. Looking for it. He’s looking for it. I’ll put him on the spot. I’m such an asshole comment show slash interest. There’s a form there. It’s not just this show. If you want to be on any of the other shows as well, let us know and I’ll have a look over those and try to get you on the show wherever there’s a gap. So yeah, that’s where you want to go if you want to be on the show and to help these shows, just remember to the show, subscribe to the channel and don’t forget, share the video as well with your friends. Get more people watching it. That really helps us out.

(01:01:35)
Now it’s the part where we all do a bit of a plug. Now I have decided not to do the usual and I’ve gone totally off the screen now, the usual, putting the video up and then it going crazy big when I don’t catch it in time. I’m just going to put a little sting on the screen so we’ve got a minute and should I do it to myself or should I just look at it? I think I’ll just look at it because holding it up and trying to do a pitch will be weird. Okay, I’m going to start it. I wonder if it makes a noise. Haven’t tried it out yet. Okay, so what I’m going to talk about is the fact that me and Ke are going to Brisbane this weekend. We will be walking around. So please feel free to come up and say Good day. Tell us what you love about Comex. Tell us what you hate about Comex, whatever. Just don’t get aggressive. I’m not a really a conflict type person, but yeah, Shane, you look so menacing in real life. Sorry, I know men, men life very menacing. I’m like a big cuddly Santa Claus.

(01:02:49)
So yeah, that’s all I’m going to talk about is the fact that I’m going to that this weekend with Ke. We’ll be walking around, we’ll be interviewing different artists, different creators, and hoping that there is a lot of them, which we don’t know yet. Oh, hang on. I see if this makes a noise. It makes a noise. Oh shit, I made that loud. So yeah. So yeah, come and see us if you’re in Brisbane or around Brisbane or hell you’re in Melbourne, fly up or walk, whatever. Got a week. Come on.

Shaun Craike (01:03:27):
Well, I might be there, Shane. I might not. Just depends.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:34):
Who wants to go next? Anyone? Well, who’s got something that they want to promote. I won’t force you to come up here if you’ve got nothing to promote. It’s chilly.

Ryan Christopher (01:03:48):
Yeah, so I was on Chinwag with Lee Chaka last week, so if you want to learn a little bit more about me, you can watch that, check that out. That would be fantastic. Support the show. Lee’s a great interviewer and he’s got good guests on every week. But the main thing I want to talk about is that Ciz and I will soon be launching comics, original art, something. So if you are an Australian comic creator and you want to have a physical storefront to sell your artwork, well online storefront, I should say, to sell your physical artwork, then we want to help out. So if you’ve got a stack of artwork laying around or you’ve always wanted to work traditionally, but you’ve thought, I don’t know what I’m going to do with all those pages, we’re going to have a shop, we’re going to have folios that we take around the shows. So yeah, we’d love as many as people as possible to get on board.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:04:57):
Cool. Thanks Ryan. Anyone else got something they want to promo or just themselves? Anyone? No Ed, talk that radical.

Ed Kearsley (01:05:14):
All right. So plenty enough. I have a comic book called Radical. There’s three issues available in the comic store. It’s a story about superhero set in Melbourne. I also have my Sea mandrels from Earth, which is owed to sea monkeys and Savage Sword of Conan. I’ve got my cover book, which is a Melbourne crime comedy set in the eighties that’s only available on my Patreon, which is at Ed Kiley Art And me and Siz have a show called Let’s Make a Comic book where we’re onto season two and that’s on Thursday nights. So watch that as well. And I’m done.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:09):
Sweet. So what’s this thing of yours, Justin, that you were told to pitch? I didn’t quite catch that comment.

Justin (01:06:19):
That was from James Mahoney talking about my cat chilli. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:23):
Oh, okay. Okay. This is your chance to pitch your cat. I know. And Sean, are you going to this weekend as well? Because in Brisbane?

Shaun Craike (01:06:36):
Yeah, maybe, maybe not. Just depends on the buying stuff, but I just will do a quick promotion. So yeah, I’m Sean Craig. I make a comic called Manga Comic Manga called Blade Whip. I’ve also done Zen Yaku. That’s still kind of available, but probably down the track. It’s going to be collected into a trade paperback, maybe do a Kickstarter on that.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:07:05):
Oh

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

Shaun Craike (01:07:07):
I’m on Deviant Art just like Sean c@d.com. I’m on Twitter, I’m on Instagram as well. I am working on the next wave week issue

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:07:23):
When

Shaun Craike (01:07:23):
It’s going to be out. I have no idea because my life’s kind of been a bit of a mess. Just, I dunno if anyone’s being a new parent with a baby and all that, but your life kind is a bit of a mess trying to work things out Makes sense. But it’ll come out when it comes out. Hopefully. I was aiming for November this year, but I, I’ve only done that three pages so far. Maybe next year and next year’s Supernova Brisbane, it’ll probably be out the next play with. Oh, awesome. Just we’ll see, we’ll see.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:04):
Cool. Thanks Sean. Are you ready, ed? Or do you want me to do it? I want to do it. What are you doing? You’ve forgotten, haven’t you? Oh, which button is it? Oh, this one Here. I’ll do it.

Voice Over (01:08:21):
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 Comex shop now and pick yourself up some freshly inked inspiration.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:51):
That little sneeze always cracks me up. I really need to get that footage redone though, because the shop looks nothing like that anymore. It’s just as a bit of a thing there for the comex shop comex.net au gets you to the shop now, but if you do get confused and you put Comex shop, it will take you there anyway, so it doesn’t matter. You’ll get there eventually. I’m just trying to combine all the sites into one so it’s easier to find stuff. I had like 5 million sites and I only had five topics. I don’t know how I had that many sites, but I did it anyway. I just kept making sites every time. I thought, oh, we need another site to describe this part of that page. I don’t know what it was, but yeah. Sorry about that, Ryan, I only timed you and me, so I totally forgot to press the button for everyone else.

Ryan Christopher (01:09:43):
That’s all right.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:09:46):
So this is the part where I also say, again, for anyone who just tuned in or didn’t listen to me before, if you want to be part of the show, this one or any of the others, this one’s probably the best one if you’re not a creator, because you don’t have to draw on this one. You don’t have to create anything live, you just have to love comics. That’s it. We don’t care where you’re from. We don’t care what you do. We don’t care if you only read comics or if you make comics or you’re just some dude who picked up his first comic and really loved it. We want you on the show to tell us about what you loved about that comic or manga. I call ’em more comic because really they sort of are all, they’re just different areas come from different, I could call ’em all mangrove if I wanted to and just make them the leader of the pack or whatever. I think I’m describing this really poorly. Mangrove

Shaun Craike (01:10:41):
Just means comic and Japanese anyway, so that’s what I sequential art. Sequential art. Take your pick and just give us your read.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:10:52):
Yeah, exactly. So they’re all welcome. So on that note, I think we’ve done it, ed. So I would like to thank everyone for watching. Thank you for you guys for joining us and telling us about your comics and putting up with me and yeah. Yeah, that’s everyone. Thank you for the creators of the comics that we got to talk about for making those excellent comics that made us want to talk about them. And thank you to all the viewers. See you next week. Alright, all,

Shaun Craike (01:11:26):
See you next.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:30):
Like share and subscribe.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:35):
Thank you very much.