Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (00:01):
Ryan is the new host.

Ryan Christopher (00:18):
Hello. It is Monday. Welcome to another edition of Comics Recent reads, the show where we talk about comics and other stuff. Guest tonight pushing the buttons, being the man behind the scenes, making sure everything goes smoothly. We’ve got Siz and then we’ve got Nathan. Judd being creepy. Whoa, whoa. Thanks man. With all the moves, Justin McNamara and Amanda I haven’t met before, but happy he’s here. Danny Olan. Cool.

(01:00)
One thing I wanted to start off with talking about a little bit tonight is that we get a lot of comments about people wanting to pick up the books that we feature on the show, and I’ve had a sort of a think about it because a lot of the books that we feature are not always new printings that are readily and easily available. So I just wanted to start off by saying your first step when it comes to tracking down any of the books that we mentioned tonight should always be your local comic bookstore. So we are huge in supporting Australian businesses and local content. So anytime you see a book featured here that you’re super keen on, get in touch with your local, see if they can put it on order for you. If not, there is a few really great resources in Facebook groups that are super well run by passionate collectors who do a great job at making a lot of the content that we feature available in the secondary market without costing you an arm and a leg. So you don’t have to go to Amazon, you don’t have to go to eBay. There are fantastic groups out there like Aussie Omnibus collectors, it came from the Long Box Comics and Toys Australia, just a few of the places and we can link to them in the comments at some point. So you’ll be able to find this video, go to the comments and see some links to those groups where you know that you can pick up some of the harder to get more out of print stuff without breaking the bank.

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So we’ll move on to talking about comics. It’s October, so it is starting to get into spooky season. So I wanted to start off tonight by asking everybody what is your favourite spooky book? I’m going to start with Nathan.

Nathan Judd (03:08):
I honestly dunno, man. Honestly dunno, I read scary books, so no, I don’t know, maybe like Starro because he takes over people’s heads

Ryan Christopher (03:25):
Like Starro from Justice

Nathan Judd (03:28):
Society. Yeah, it’s not directly scary, but if you think of the implications, like Body snatch is kind of scary, so I’m going to do a deep cut. Just go, that’s pretty scary.

Ryan Christopher (03:37):
Scary. An 80 foot high starfish that can control your mind is pretty terrifying.

Nathan Judd (03:46):
So yeah, I think that’s pretty scary, but I don’t typically read a lot of horror stuff, so yeah, kind of worst, best answer.

Ryan Christopher (03:57):
That’s all good. How about you Danny?

Danny Nolan (04:01):
Mine would have to be something that was probably released. It was probably a Moore’s last major work that was Providence that he did with Jason Burrows. That was a beautiful piece of work. It’s all based on HP Lovecraft stories and he’s kind of mixed true life events with Lovecraft stories and it’s a beautiful period piece in the 19, late 1920s, thirties also involves a lot of weird fiction. Yeah, great horror. Fantastic. And it’s not for everybody and it’s pretty dense, but I’d say that’s probably my favourite.

Ryan Christopher (04:43):
That sounds great. I mean I probably, along with a lot of people have read the core Alan more books, but getting into something a little bit different sounds like a good time, Justin.

Justin MacNamara (04:58):
Well, anybody that knows me knows that I am horror. I walk, talk, eat, sleep and drink horror. I literally just finished watching the remake hell raiser before starting this. And predominantly most of the comics I read are horror comics. I grew up with Vampirella and Creepy and Eerie, so I don’t have my original ones back of those from when I was a kid. But I love anthology comics, which is why I did an anthology comic last week. But I think at the moment I’m read totally into Jji Ito and this one stunningly all of his work is just ridiculously goly stunning and Tony is a particularly good one. If you like films like Ring or The Grudge and stuff like that, Tony sort of sits in amongst that style of the blackhead girl who’s not what she seems and it’s a nice chunky volume as well.

Ryan Christopher (06:03):
So

Justin MacNamara (06:03):
Yeah, that would be mine a hundred percent.

Ryan Christopher (06:06):
I’m definitely not surprised that a Jji Ito book has read its head in this little

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (06:14):
Ciz Me. Well, I couldn’t really think of anything. The best I could think of was a couple of issues of New Mutants with the Bear that just kills everyone.

Ryan Christopher (06:26):
Oh, the Demon Bear Bill St. Kevi artwork. Yeah,

Justin MacNamara (06:32):
Issues 19 to 21. I think those early ones clue. Yeah, amazing stuff.

Nathan Judd (06:40):
The Better version was the movie of course for that.

Justin MacNamara (06:45):
I actually,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (06:46):
You make an argument

Nathan Judd (06:47):
There.

Justin MacNamara (06:48):
I rate it. I

Nathan Judd (06:49):
Didn’t mind it. Yeah, I actually didn’t because Magical was in it, so I was like, Hey, I’ll take some magic.

Justin MacNamara (06:54):
It was, I’d rather watch that over dark Phoenix any day of the week.

Nathan Judd (06:59):
Oh yeah, let’s not talk about, they should just never do a dark Phoenix. I haven’t seen it too many times start. I want to hear any Phoenix. I want to hear it dark, get more.

Ryan Christopher (07:10):
And my favourite is probably a not as popular, not as well known Dead Man miniseries that came out about 10 years ago called Dark Match and a Forbidden Love and it’s sort of got its roots in a very, very old DC comic series, but it sort of adds dead man into mix. It’s a bit of a gothic romance horror about Dead Man sort of being trapped inside this mansion with this evil spirit. And then these young people come along and their presence in the house seems to have disturbed and made things like a hell of a lot worse. And it’s super good. It comes in a trade where you can pick up the, it’s like three individual perfect bound issues, so they’re a little chunkier or just in one trade. And that’s probably my favourite one that I keep going back to time and time again, even as someone who hasn’t historically been a huge DC reader.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (08:21):
Yeah. Cool.

Ryan Christopher (08:23):
So I’m sure we’ll get more into the spooky stuff as the month rolls along. Yes, spooky. Maybe we’ll even do sis

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (08:34):
Comments. We getting some, I just didn’t want to interrupt the conversation.

Ryan Christopher (08:37):
Sure, sure. I was only going to finish off by saying that maybe towards the end of the month we’ll even do a whole show based on spooky books.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (08:46):
Oh, that’s a cool idea.

Justin MacNamara (08:48):
I have to apologise in advance because being a horror guy and it’s October October’s my Christmas, so every episode I’m on for the next couple of weeks is just going to be horror comics. So that’s all you’re going to get from me. Anyway, that’s all I got for you. Love it.

Ryan Christopher (09:04):
And speaking of comments, we’ll go to the comments now.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (09:08):
Yeah, we’ve got David telling us to rock and roll.

Ryan Christopher (09:11):
We will try.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (09:13):
Thy is. Yeah, she hasn’t read much scary or spooky stuff. Yeah, I’m the same.

Ryan Christopher (09:18):
It seems to be the place that people start Georgi Ito

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (09:22):
Seems.

Ryan Christopher (09:22):
Yeah, so

Justin MacNamara (09:22):
It’s so good.

Ryan Christopher (09:23):
It’s so good

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (09:26):
And oh, hang on, what’s this? Oh, okay. No, I tell a lie. Tell a lie. Shawnee, come on. Jeffrey’s given us Good day. Hey Jeffrey. Hey Jeffrey, you Carol. New name to me. Yes.

Ryan Christopher (09:46):
Hello Mark. That’s it. That’s all good. Well, we’ve got your attention. We’ve done the comments. Make sure that you like, subscribe and share when you can. We need to get as many eyeballs as possible watching the show, coming on the show, talking about comics spreading the love of comics. That’s what we love to do. Sis has disappeared. All right, so we’ll head into the main part of the evening where we talk about the books that we read this week and let you know what we thought of ’em. Does anybody want to volunteer to go first?

Justin MacNamara (10:28):
Yes, me.

Ryan Christopher (10:30):
Alright, Justin, take us away. What did you

Justin MacNamara (10:34):
I’ve gotten hooked on this series. It came out maybe 12 or 18 months ago, maybe a little bit longer and my brain’s not about two years ago. This is from Black Caravan and it’s called We Don’t Kill Spiders. As you can see, we’ve got a bit of a Viking sort of a dude there on the cover. And essentially what this is is that if you like things like CSI and that sort of TV show that’s sort of police investigative of a show, this is about this man here, his name’s Bjorn. He is a Berserker who doesn’t have a village and what he does is he travels from village to village and is hired to solve problems. He’s gone to a village where there’s been a series of not just murders but entire families wiped out and the local witch who has been kicked out of the town is being accused of it, but he has immediately decided that it’s not her, but enlists her help to investigate the murders. Now the interesting thing about that, the reason I say this is like CSI is that he’s like the cop and she’s the one that uses science, but in her case it’s magic.

(11:53)
She’s a necromancer so she can actually bring things back to life to find out what is going on. The artwork is really, really cool. I really, really dig this art. There we go. And the thing I like about the art is depending on the situation, they change, the colour palette is almost by character.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (12:18):
Oh, that’s cool.

Justin MacNamara (12:20):
So you see the interior, whenever you see Bjorn, he’s sort of done in sort of blues and all the rest of it, unless he’s in well-lit rooms like he’s here and whenever you see the witch, she is done always in purples and all the rest of it. This is issue one of I think of four issue series and I bought this, fell in love with it and immediately grabbed two and three. So I’ve just got to get the, I’m pretty sure it’s only four issues, but yeah, that’s mine this week. We don’t kill spiders, get on it. Cool.

Ryan Christopher (12:59):
Who’s the

Justin MacNamara (13:00):
Creative team? So it is Joseph, I think it’s pronounced, I think that it’s just him writing an art Joseph sch. Oh yeah. So it is all completely creator owned, but I really dig the artworks thing. It’s really, really cool. Sort of sketchy art, but then the colours really make it, because whenever Bjorn’s out in the woods, for example, it’s all done in blue, but when she’s in the woods it’s the purple that is sort of her signature colour. But yeah, a beautiful book. Well worth a read. I dunno, anything else that he’s done? I haven’t seen anything previous and I haven’t seen anything since. Honestly, the only reason I bought the book is because we don’t kill spiders is quite possibly the most compelling title I’ve ever heard for anything. And at the very worst it was going to be an eight bucks spend that was going to be like a blip, but it’s now continuing and I’m just grabbing the issues that I can. But yeah, totally worth it. I really loved it.

Ryan Christopher (14:15):
The art style looks a bit throwback. It kind of reminds me of this type of art style that you used to see in magazines like Chiller and stuff like that.

Justin MacNamara (14:25):
Yeah, weirdly, I get a, I dunno if anybody ever saw the Australian Comic EEG by Jason Pulos.

(14:35)
I get a big Jason Pulos vibe from the art in this for some reason. I dunno why and I haven’t seen an issue of EEC for a while. I’m sure mine around here somewhere and I need to compare the art, but I just, you know how you just see things and just because they’re not the same, you still sort of get the vibe of it. Maybe it’s the layout or something, I don’t know. But it was reminiscent of pool loss’ work in E for me when I did it and some of the, was it Black House? Was that the name? There was also a Sherlock Holmes comic that came out from Black House in Australia as well, and the art kind of reminds me of that as well. It might just be because it’s got, it might even be just because it’s an indie comic and it’s got a completely different type of pacing. But yeah, get on it. We don’t kill spiders. We don’t kill spiders unless you’re at my house. We kill ’em all the time.

Ryan Christopher (15:25):
Is that one that they have to get from somewhere in particular?

Justin MacNamara (15:30):
I grabbed that from the Fine Fellows at King’s Comics and they just had it in stock, so yeah.

Ryan Christopher (15:37):
Awesome. So get in touch with your local comic bookstore if you want to pick that one up. A hundred percent. Alrighty, we’ll move on to Danny.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (15:48):
Oh, okay.

Danny Nolan (15:51):
Okay. Well I’ve chosen the rabbits. This is actually a, what’s the best way to describe it? It’s a very short, this is the large print version because it’s actually teens for young, what do you call it, the eight to

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:15):
Young young

Danny Nolan (16:16):
Adult. Yeah, they’re twins, whatever they’re called, and it’s by Sean Tan and John Marston. I dunno if you aware John Marston.

Ryan Christopher (16:27):
Two powerhouse names in.

Danny Nolan (16:29):
Yeah, okay. But saying John Marston’s name with Tan, if you’ve ever read any of Sean Tan’s pros, John Marston seems to have channelled him. This could have easily just been a Sean Tan book. Sean Tan is a legend in Australian illustration. He’s done well. You won an Oscar for the Lost Things. He’s done a lot of stuff with Geal. What else has he done? It doesn’t matter. He’s never won Ledger though. There you go. That says a lot about those things, but the book, I know it’s got John Marston and I’d like to take him out of the picture because this has been reprinted 35 times up to this edition, so it gives you an idea of how popular it is. It’s in libraries, it’s in schools, it’s everywhere. It’s a very simple story. It’s another degree really about colonialization. I don’t know if you can make any of that, but it’s just beautiful

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:44):
Up full screen.

Danny Nolan (17:46):
Sean Tan the reverse is throwing me, but he’s just got a lovely colourful style and almost like childish drawings, but when you get to it, he’s designed and perspective. That’s just beautiful. I love it because I’ve struggled with comics this year. There’s been not many that I’ve really felt like reading. I’ve actually even gone back to reading novels again. I’ll just grab something.

Justin MacNamara (18:34):
I must admit that I feel Danny’s pain there because I’ve spent so long the last couple of weeks and, well this year actually Danny buying just issue ones and going, Nope, nope,

Danny Nolan (18:46):
That has been the case. I got excited when I saw that this was being put out and it’s the biggest load of crap that was being printed. Oh no, that’s an anthology. It’s based on the old, as you can see, ec Epi, the Abyss. It is just woke garbage. So that’s why I’ve been picking up things like this. I picked this up from Alternative Worlds in Ringwood, that’s my local out, and I was really impressed. I thought, how did I miss this? This was printed in, sorry, 1998. Oh wow. And only it’s a comic book. It’s a floppy same size as floppy, but it’s popularity and to give it legs in a school environment. They’ve just made it larger and better quality paper and a lot more tougher and I’ve fell in love with it just because it’s so simple and it’s just lovely. It just goes on about the first line is the rabbits came many grandparents ago. It gives you a nice sense of time and then at first we didn’t know what to think. They looked a bit like us. There weren’t many of them. Some were friendly, just basic, it’s almost like a picture book the small children, but the more you look into it, the artwork, you just get a sense of this is getting very deep and dark.

(20:39)
As you go to the end of the book, the allegory for the colonialization of the rabbits, it just goes on. We lost the fights, they ate our grass, they chopped down our trees and scared away our friends and they stole our children, which is pretty dark and deep and horrible, but it resonated with me and after having a real struggle with comics this year, that really brought it back. That’s only something I read last week. So it was my find of the year. I know there are going to be some good comics coming out. I’m still waiting for Stella Lands too, so just not looking at anybody there. But to say the best comic I’ve read this year is something that comes from three decades ago and one that hasn’t actually been distributed yet. I was lucky to get an earlier copy, so there you go.

(21:48)
The rabbits, John Marston and Sean Tan. But I like to think that it’s pretty much a Sean Tan book and if you can get hold of any of Sean Tan’s art, it’s very simple stories, but the art is just beautiful. It’s colourful and it’s just very organic and it’s hard to describe. He’s got such a unique style and to see that is very refreshing, especially a lot of comics you read these days, this one for example, there’s nothing really in the way of art or presentation that seems fresh or new. It just seems to regurgitate.

Ryan Christopher (22:35):
When I think of Sean Tan’s artwork, I always think of those iconic Sandman mixed media covers that were done as light box compositions and stuff like that. Excellent.

Danny Nolan (22:47):
Yeah, great description. Yes. Wish I had a thought of that. It would’ve been a great way to describe it instead of things like this all the time.

Ryan Christopher (22:56):
That’s a good one for anyone out there who loves those Sandman covers, you’ll love Sean Tan’s artwork.

Danny Nolan (23:01):
Who’s that? McCain, is it Dave McCan? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He’s got that lovely, if you ever seen the movie he directed Mirror Mask

Justin MacNamara (23:11):
So good.

Danny Nolan (23:12):
The whole movie just of that style. It’s gorgeous, absolutely stunning movie.

Ryan Christopher (23:19):
I saw that Sandman number one cover not long ago and it was the first time I realised that it was actually in a thick light box. There’s so many layers to it. It’s actually in a huge thick frame in order to make that composition what it is because you get that sense looking at it as a flat image, but then to actually see someone take a photo of what the original art actually looks like, it was even more mind blowing. People should look it up as well. It’s fascinating. It’ll change your relationship with those covers for sure, to see how much went into making them. And then Sean Tan uses a whole bunch of mixed media methods that are very similar to what Dave McKean does. So yeah. Thank you Danny, thank you for bringing that one up.

Danny Nolan (24:13):
No worries mate.

Ryan Christopher (24:15):
Nathan, actually before we go onto the next one, we’ve got to head to the comments. We’ve only got the one from Lee from

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:24):
Hi everyone else is intently listening.

Nathan Judd (24:29):
Let’s go. Yeah. Okay. So my choice for this week is something is so I went into this totally blind because I didn’t prefer it that way. I didn’t like to know too much. I’m like, oh, I’ll read the blurb and go, that’s pretty cool. I kind of bought it solely based on the artwork and a little bit kind of creepy and I was hoping it would be a little bit psychological and I thought the artwork looked kind of interesting. Overall, it is pretty good. I wasn’t sure what to expect once again, but I did like it. I generally, I usually wait. I’m one of those guys who waits to get the whole graphic book, so I like to just read. I just blew through this in one go because which is good because the way they’ve constructed this at the end of every issue is a cliffhanger full on this is going on and you’re like, oh crap, I’ve got to figure out and you just keep reading.

(25:31)
So yeah, I definitely enjoyed it. I read the whole thing in one go. It was, I didn’t know what to expect. It was kind of what I expected. I think the artwork is gritty. I’m not sure how this person works. I’m not familiar with their work at all. I think I’ve read some James Tinian before the author, but the artwork pretty one on Batman. Yeah, I think I’ve read Batman detective stuff with him possibly, but apart from that I’ve never read any of his independent stuff. But yeah, it’s got some cool stuff in there. It’s a little bit like abstract in the sense it’s not sticking to in, there is some monsters in it. It’s a little bit, it’s kind of like a bit of a who done it. There’s literally something killing the children. So it’s like there’s a town and there’s 15 children either missing or dead. So some of them have turned up dead in violent ways, they’re chopped in half and stuff and it’s like why? So yeah, it’s kind of like, oh, that’s kind of cool. And then the main character, which I’ll try to find her design is pretty cool. That was kind of the main reason I wanted to read it. I should have preplanned a good picture of it there.

(26:53)
She’s got a really cool design, which I love. Stuff like this here kind of give you an idea of it and there’s some monsters, I wish the comment looked a little bit more like that. The monsters are drawn a little bit more abstract, so the guy tends to use a little bit of ink work, but it’s kind like he does the rest of stuff a bit more painterly and then kind of uses a bit more textural stuff in there. Especially with the monsters, they’re a little bit hidden in darkness a bit. So yeah, that’s not really going to give too much away, but that’s a couple of the panels towards the end. But once again, I think her design and some of his shops and stuff are pretty cool.

(27:46)
I did write some notes just to remind myself this definitely some wheel building, so it can definitely tell they’re trying to, this is definitely not done. I think there’s five issues in the air and it’s already like, okay, you’re going to have to come back. It’s not even done yet. Yeah, there is a bit of a climax in the story, but it’s like, no, it’s not done. You’ve got to come back, get some more. It’s definitely pretty grounded as well, which typically at the moment, that’s kind of what I’m searching for. I kind of feel like I’ve read a lot of superhero stuff or space stuff and I’m like, I think I wanted something a little bit more character based, more down to earth, just especially because what I’m doing read’s what I’m drawing and stuff at the moment. So it’s kind of trying to find some inspiration there as well.

(28:43)
My only other thought was I feel like, I don’t know if it’s written this way, but it is relatively dialogue heavy, which I wasn’t expecting it too much. So there is a few speech bubbles in there. You kind of got to get through, especially you turn the page, you’re like, there’s a lot of panels in this, they’ve got to squeeze it in. So you can tell the writer’s got to squeeze quite a bit in there and there’s quite a few characters. So my kind of thinking is a bit like this could be a TV show is kind of my vibe for it. He’s like, I’m going to write this and it could pretty easily be turned into a budget, stranger Things or something, you know what I mean? Not saying it was like that, but I definitely kind of got that vibe where it’s like he’s ridden it. This could be picked up and turned to a show pretty easily because of the amount of characters that are just in it. It’s not following that just same main story character the whole time.

Justin MacNamara (29:43):
It kind sounds like the template for Netflix’s Wednesday show.

Nathan Judd (29:49):
It’s definitely what edgy it would be kind of like that. I didn’t watch that show so I couldn’t say. But yeah, it could definitely be turned into it pretty easy. You’d just be CG monsters and that’s about it. Everything else is kind of real. There’s a part where they, she’s like when the chick turns up in the town, she’s trying to find the monster. She sits up a little base at a restaurant like an Arby’s or something and no one’s there. She’s like, I need a table for two days. Here’s some money. So it’s interesting. I didn’t enjoy it, so I recommend it. The art is, I think some people dig the art. It’s not traditional comic art, but I think that’s what image is kind of built on now as well. So I think that’s kind of a strong point.

Ryan Christopher (30:43):
Who is the artist on that one?

Nathan Judd (30:45):
That’s a good question. It’s either we Dara or Mikel. I actually, they list them both. I’m not sure which is the Colours and which is the artist. I feel like they’re working pretty close together because half the time the monster, there’s almost no Ink work. It’s literally painted almost. So yeah, I would say yeah, it’s more of an illustrator sort of book. But yeah,

Justin MacNamara (31:22):
I’ve looked at that many a times when I’ve looked at Amazon and stuff like that looking for, because it’s such a compelling title. It reminds me of some of the horror movies from the seventies, what have they done to Solange and things like that where it’s like the title is such a bizarre almost Italian jilo title that it’s so, it’s like a sentence that doesn’t make sense. Outside movies are generally just about the thing where instead of asking the question and I think that that’s such a compelling way to drag people in it, which is the same thing as why I got into that because it’s such a weird way to sell a title in it being a bizarre sentence.

Nathan Judd (32:03):
Yeah, I think my only, I was trying to think it, it’s good, it achieves everything and then my takeaway, I was thinking about it after I was writing thing down, I was like, what isn’t clicking? And I think for me it was there wasn’t really a character that I thought was likeable in it or that I was like, I really like this character. They were all kind of, so it is an image comic. It was to explain it, she’s like a diffing, so she’s kind of like the edgy one, like duh, don’t have to you, I just get to two months do so I you to help me get there. I was like, well that’s cool. I

Justin MacNamara (32:43):
Get that. Is that the inner voice you give her when you read it sounds like

Nathan Judd (32:52):
10 pack a day. I think if she didn’t have such a strong design, her design because it’s so different. No one else in the book has, she’s got a comic book design but no one else has. Everyone’s just in walking down the street, normal clothes and then she’s kind of has this kind very unique look to her. She’s going to stick out. She’s very kind of punk rock and she puts on this kind of mask only when she’s kind of fighting, but it kind of gives it that surrealism. But yeah, the only thing I kind of grapple with is who do I actually on this book and no one. So I thought she’s cool but she’s not likeable. She needs that. Is there someone else that’s meant to be likeable in this? And maybe there just wasn’t time for it. It very much is. There’s a lot of characters and they’ve got to squeeze ’em in. That’s kind of like a me of TV shows these days. I think that’s what got me onto it with there’s so many characters and you’re trying to keep track of them all at one time that you can’t spend enough time with one.

Ryan Christopher (34:05):
I suppose. Question is, are you going to read book two?

Nathan Judd (34:12):
I’m not going to be in a rush to, I want to keep searching. There’s some other image titles. I don’t want to go into the deviant next. I’ve seen that, but there’s some other stuff, but I’m not going to be in a rush to put it that way. So

Justin MacNamara (34:28):
Yeah,

Nathan Judd (34:29):
We’ll

Justin MacNamara (34:30):
See. Could be wrong. I’m torn. I dunno what to do now. Like I said, that was compelling and I was always looking and now I’m like, what do

Nathan Judd (34:37):
I do? Yeah, I’m giving a very half and half thing. I recommend that it’s going to come down to the person. It depends what you are looking for with this story. If you just want surface level kind of action and cool art, it’ll definitely do that.

Justin MacNamara (34:55):
So does it have the vampire vibe to it, do you think?

Nathan Judd (34:59):
No. No, because Buffy’s kind of got that campy, you know how Buffy’s likeable, right? She’s like miserable Buffy, she’s like Angel, you know how angel’s miserable. But the thing why Angel works is because everyone else around him is happy and they’re like, Hey man, you can do it. He said, nah man, I’m going to brood here. You can

Ryan Christopher (35:19):
Do believe in

Nathan Judd (35:20):
You.

Ryan Christopher (35:21):
So she, she’s returned from the dead. Buffy.

Nathan Judd (35:26):
I haven’t watched it enough. Buffy, yeah, it’s like Buffy, but she’s not likeable.

Ryan Christopher (35:36):
So Buffy dies and she goes to hell and then she returns from the dead and she’s just in a foul mood for pretty much the rest of the show. The vibe

Nathan Judd (35:48):
Buffy would be the closest thing to it, but without the campiness it’s like taking itself serious. Buffy and I don’t know if it needs to be as serious as it’s

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:02):
Nathan, we’re the monsters likeable?

Nathan Judd (36:07):
Okay, this is the other thing is you don’t see enough of them. So now they’re not likeable. They’re not likeable and they don’t seem to be sentient either. They’re just like, there is a little subplot in there, there’s these little subplot plants. But yeah, the monsters are just big demonic monsters that are just, I don’t think they’re doing anything. There’s no grand plan for them. They’re just a monster.

Justin MacNamara (36:34):
That image showed, it looked like a tyranny from saw a gene stealer from Warhammer.

Nathan Judd (36:42):
It’s like that they’re not sentient, they’re not working for anyone. They’re just a breathing organism. It’s just trying to stay alive looking anything else? It’s not like I didn’t get to think like, oh, they’re working for this other guy who needs their souls to collect. I don’t think there’s any of that going on. So

Justin MacNamara (37:00):
Meat and a Beast’s got to eat.

Nathan Judd (37:03):
Yeah, I was hungry. Yeah,

Ryan Christopher (37:07):
Well we’ll find out more about it. I’m pretty sure someone in the comments can correct me if I’m wrong. Someone jump on Google, but I’m pretty sure that something is killing the Children is in active development at a studio right now. Launch as a series or a feature film. But man,

Nathan Judd (37:25):
I’m good.

Ryan Christopher (37:26):
I know it’s been

Nathan Judd (37:29):
No, but I can tell I feel like that was definitely written that way because it’s just that spread of characters. I could just see it and my mom’s like, this is a Netflix show or something and it would be good. It’s a good idea for it, but I think it just needed to be a little bit more larger than life for a comic. Also coming from a guy who writes not larger than Life comics, take that as what you will

Ryan Christopher (37:59):
S Do we have any comments?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:01):
We do. We have Jeffrey saying that all the reads are awesome.

Ryan Christopher (38:08):
True. That’s on my list to now. Thanks.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:11):
Yeah, that’s all we’ve got. People just watching, they’re

Ryan Christopher (38:14):
Listening, just watching and enjoying. That’s what we like.

Justin MacNamara (38:17):
I’m sorry to have made you spend money.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:20):
Well that’s the unfortunate part. Every time I do one of these shows, I’ve got more money I want to spend.

Ryan Christopher (38:26):
Now SI know that you didn’t have anything that you’ve read this week, but do you want to give everyone a rundown of the active Kickstarters that are going at the moment for the Aussie? I

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:37):
Don’t even know what this going, hang on, give me a sec. If you want to go to someone else.

Ryan Christopher (38:42):
I dunno what Kickstarters here, I’ll go to me, I’ll lets get that info again. If you’re watching and you’re enjoying like share, subscribe. We’d love having you here. We love reading your comments and yeah, let’s spread the love of comics. Anyway, my read for this week, I went back in time because I’ve been sort of deep in my X-Men obsession again, I cracked into a pre X-Men launch of a character with long shot.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:25):
Nice.

Ryan Christopher (39:26):
So this is the graphic novel for the original 1985 debut series written by Anne Cente, drawn by the now legendary Arthur Adams and Inked by equally legendary Wes Potassium. So is there was no real structure to making long shot tie into the X-Men universe, nor was he meant to be an X-Men at this time. It was a standalone series that according to Legend, got shopped around to a bunch of Marvel artists at the time, but nobody was really keen on the book. So they thought let’s give it to the up and comer Arthur Adams and it is his debut work for Marble Comics. So it’s the absolute first stuff that he published with the company. So it starts off where Long Shot is on the run from some mutant looking guys by mutants, I mean they’re kind of like half animal, half people, half robot sort of creatures.

(40:38)
And he ends up sort of being sucked through a portal into our world. He arrives on earth, he has no memory of who he is, why he’s there, he doesn’t even know his name. And through a series of events, he kind of starts to learn a little bit about what his power is and that’s the power that as long as his motives are true, he’s incredibly lucky. So anything that he tries to do as long as he’s pure of heart tends to go well for him even when the situation itself looks like it’s maybe impossible.

(41:15)
So he meets some, it’s definitely one of those almost lone stranger type comics where he wanders through the story encountering different individuals that have similar or opposite problems to him and through helping each other, they both learn a little bit more about themselves. So he meets with a guy who has grown bored of his life. He thinks it’s all monotonous and he wants to kill himself and he jumps off a bridge and he lands on a long shot and doesn’t die. And he sort of ends up being tacked along on a little side quest adventure and he learns that, okay, well I’ve been on this adventure now. It was all wild and crazy. Maybe I’m okay with going back to my, I miss my wife, I miss my kids. I want to go back to my normal life.

(42:17)
And he also finds himself working in the movies for a brief time, having no idea that the background that he’s come from as part of Mojo’s Entertainment sort of division in the Mojo verse. So he ends up being a stunt performer with another character who becomes a mainstay in the long shot sort of cannon, which is ricochet reader. She’s sort of like a motorcycle rider. She does stunts for the movie. She’s a very cool character and she becomes sort of one of the partners in Crime to long shot throughout this story. So as Long Shot is sort of trying to track down characters that can piece some of his past together, he’s continually hunted by these bounty hunters that have been hired by Mojo to try and bring him back to their world.

(43:19)
And so the background of Long Shot as a character, which if you’ve read through the X-Men or you’ve seen the animated series episode titled Long Shot, he was a Slave in the Mojo verse. He was engineered to be a slave and to basically fight and televise gladiatorial combat for the entertainment of the people of his universe and the higher ups. And he sort of starts to rebellion because he doesn’t want to be a slave anymore and that’s why he ends up with his mind wiped and he ends up on the run. So when Mojo finds out that he’s on earth, he’s very keen on stopping long shot before he can return home and tell people that there’s this whole other world out there where people aren’t slaves and that people can do what they want. Yeah, it’s incredibly detailed as you would expect from Arthur Adams.

Nathan Judd (44:28):
Nice man, I hate Mojo. I hate him so much. Every time I see that dude it, I’m like, oh,

Ryan Christopher (44:37):
To think that this is the first, I mean it wasn’t his first comics work, but the first sort of prominent work for Marvel that Arthur Adams had done is previous astonishing. It was sort of straight in the deep end during an iconic period in Marvel and X-Men history. It’s not until I believe in the nineties that he sort of becomes a permanent member or at least longer time member of the X-Men X Factor X-Force popping from team to team when needed, et cetera. But I just love those stories when something starts out one way and then sort of grows into being something else. So I love the idea that this whole story was sort of concocted as part of the MCU but not attached to any intellectual property inside of that to then blend it so seamlessly with the X-Men universe, which was absolutely a perfect fit for Mojo as a character as well as the side characters such as Spiral, who is the six armed sort of sidekick of Mojo. She’s got a sword, she’s got one robotic arm, she dances around killing people. It’s everything that you want from a story that was crafted in the mid eighties.

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What else can I say about it? Not much

Justin MacNamara (46:16):
Funny. You kind of wonder how much Chris Claremont when he was writing the X-Men at that sort of period, because DLA sort of came from not necessarily a mainstream marvel sort of thing, and then Long Shot came from not a mainstream marvel sort of thing, and yet I think it was Claremont who squeezed them together as a couple in the X-Men as well. So it’s funny, I wonder if his sort of thing was that I’ve got these two characters that don’t really fit, I’ll just shove ’em together and do whatever with them.

Ryan Christopher (46:46):
I’m glad that he did that though because these are two characters where they had strong standalone kickoffs in the Marvel universe, so it makes sense that you wouldn’t want to waste these characters that

(47:02)
Had already started to build a fan base among themselves. Oh, one thing I will show off, because I’m a big fan of this comic, I also have this nice graded and remarked copy of Long Shot number one Sweet. And actually I think that long shot to me probably a bit biassed because I’m a fan of the character, but the MCU has jumped so heavily into all this multiverse stuff right now everyone’s thinking what’s the perfect way to start drip feeding some characters like X-Men characters and stuff into the wider narrative. You’ve got a character like Longshot who already comes from a multiverse. So it’s established that there’s a multiverse in the first couple of pages of this book, and I can definitely see something like this long shot graphic novel working as a MCU adaptation because then you also get to introduce the Mojo verse, which has its own unique set of horrors that can be drawn upon to create interesting narratives among other characters. I mean the X-Men have found themselves in the Mojo verse multiple times, ex babies. Yeah. So it is long shot’s. One of my favourite Marvel characters and being able to go through this book again, I hadn’t had the graphic novel before recently, so being able to sit down and read it all the way through in one hit, there’s no ad pages, there’s nothing like that. It’s just the narrative from start to finish. It solidified it as one of my favourite stories from the Marvel universe, especially the X Universe. And for it to be a non Claremont book from this time period is a unique thing about it. In

Justin MacNamara (49:20):
Who wrote that again? Ryan

Ryan Christopher (49:23):
Centi.

Justin MacNamara (49:23):
Oh, I love Anne Centi.

Ryan Christopher (49:25):
Yeah. Had an iconic run on Daredevil with John and Mc Jr. Great editor, longtime editor at Marvel Comics.

Justin MacNamara (49:33):
If I remember correctly, during the new 52 she did Clary and the Witch Boy, which I unfortunately only went for six issues, but it was the best of all of the new 52 comics that came out.

Ryan Christopher (49:43):
She’s a phenomenal writer because she was always a writer first. She wasn’t a comics writer, she didn’t come into the industry writing comics. She came in as an academic, as a writer of journal articles of prose of things that are different. She has a background in journalism. So there’s a lot of things that, a lot of different methods for creating a narrative story that she sort of shoehorns together to create these books. Yeah, I mean if Long Shot doesn’t Float Your Boat, but you’re a Daredevil fan man, jump on her run of Daredevil with John Metre Jr. And you’ll get just another, she’s one of those writers where you constantly, every time you put down a book that she’s written, you think to yourself, God, why isn’t she writing more? Why doesn’t she have a much, much larger catalogue of comics? And I mean, I have no idea, but I’d like to think from the bits that I have read of her as maybe it’s just like she likes doing things her way and some artists and writers like to have a bit more control over their narratives and if that’s her, all the power to her because she puts out phenomenal stuff when she gets the right creative team behind her.

(51:15)
Damn straight.

Justin MacNamara (51:16):
Cool.

Ryan Christopher (51:18):
Do we have any comments, sis?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (51:20):
Yes, we do. Shawnee is listening to this in the background by looks of it and resisting spending more money,

Ryan Christopher (51:29):
Try as you

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (51:29):
Might. Yes, Dave d says, good evening. Hey Dave.

Nathan Judd (51:34):
Dave,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (51:35):
Jeff has a bit of story about Art Adams Peter, basically cool and talented guy also great Inca. I have that long shot series

Ryan Christopher (51:48):
Wise

Nathan Judd (51:51):
Is Power set as Domino. That is the power set, the same as Domino, but with the added thing that he has to be cured apart

Ryan Christopher (52:02):
Because

Nathan Judd (52:03):
This is a Domino’s

Ryan Christopher (52:03):
House. I’m not too familiar with Domino, but

Nathan Judd (52:07):
Her house, she just lucky

Ryan Christopher (52:09):
That’s

Nathan Judd (52:10):
Her thing.

Ryan Christopher (52:11):
19 when was first appearance of

Nathan Judd (52:15):
Domino would be after I’m sure

Justin MacNamara (52:19):
19 85, 90 or 80 or something like 90 or 95.

Nathan Judd (52:22):
Yeah, you’ll know Jar isn’t her power that she’s just lucky she doesn’t have a power set, but she’s like, things will just work out for it.

Justin MacNamara (52:29):
Yeah, I don’t even know if it’s a power set. I think it’s not black Shot along. I think she just think that they adapted that for the, when they put her in dead level two a little bit to be more super now.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:40):
Yeah. Don’t think she was that full on in the comics.

Justin MacNamara (52:42):
Yeah, I think it was just that she was good at what she did, but it wasn’t actually lucky.

Nathan Judd (52:48):
Yeah, I thought that’s mentally her set. She was just lucky it worked out.

Justin MacNamara (52:52):
The Black Cat when she bought superpowers from Kingpin certainly had sort of the opposite where it was like she would cause bad luck to everybody else that would give her good luck. So she was literally a black cat crossing a path, which was so hand fisted and hilarious. That’s

Nathan Judd (53:10):
Actually fun.

Justin MacNamara (53:11):
But Marvel in the eighties,

Ryan Christopher (53:14):
Going back to that comment, so Arthur Adams, man, what a guy who is just a total student of the game from the beginning. Absolute comic fan, comic professional, and who else can name a creator that over the past nearly 40 years of published work continues to improve at the rate of Arthur Adams.

Justin MacNamara (53:49):
I can literally only think of one other person and that’s Frank Cho

Ryan Christopher (53:54):
And that’s that’s that’s possibly it. Yeah. Yeah. Frank Cho and Arthur Adam, I can’t think of, can’t think anyone else that long and still improving with every piece that they put out. Yeah, agreed.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (54:13):
That’s all we got for comments. We got another comment just came in while we were showing comments. Great. Listen. Yeah, tell people to go somewhere else. Thanks Jeffrey.

Ryan Christopher (54:27):
Don’t watch a whole video about Long shot when I sum it up so perfectly in 10, 15 minutes that I was speaking.

Justin MacNamara (54:34):
Or even better go and buy it, support the art, support the artist, support the companies and have a cool thing on your shelf.

Ryan Christopher (54:41):
Now I will say about that printing, so I’m not up to date with any reprints of this content, but the pages that I spoke about or the groups that I spoke about at the beginning of tonight, we’ll put the links up for them at some point. Aussie Omnibus Collectors is where I sourced that copy of Longshot. So that’s the printing from 1993, I believe there’s been a newer printing than that in hardcover and it’s possibly collected as part of some other X-Men collection by this point. But there’s a challenge for you. Go out there, do your own research, see if you can find it somewhere.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:31):
Jeffrey, you said it.

Ryan Christopher (55:32):
That’s harsh Jeffrey.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:34):
Okay. Do you want to look at their Kickstarters?

Ryan Christopher (55:37):
Yeah, yeah, let’s go into that.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:38):
Yeah, cool. Let’s bring them up and I think they’ll go over everyone’s face there. So I’ll change the screen type. There we go. They are the only six Australian Kickstarters at the moment. I don’t know much about a few of them, but I do know death chip Jenny one through four was amazing. So this is five I think, or is it one through five? It’s five, yeah. Yeah, it is five. Okay, cool. By Rob. Rob seems to be hiding his name. Rob O’Connor. I also know Torn and Southern Squadron. That’s a big team of people working on that just as Gary Della there. I need to look at this one now. The History of Monsters

(56:16)
By Ben Boric. I hope I’m pronouncing that right. I didn’t see that earlier in the week when I was looking at these. We’ve got Boom Squad two by Stuart Black, always a lot of fun. His stuff again, I dunno, this one by Alex Blue lies among the pedals. Not sure what that is. It’s only got a day left. My knowledge of Kickstarter is say that’d be a bit of a miracle if it gets over. And this one here, I’m not familiar with either. The Montage Odyssey, I’ll have to have a look at that after the show as well. So I’m curious what that is.

Nathan Judd (56:55):
Squad looks kind of cool.

Ryan Christopher (57:01):
I’ll bring you all back. Jenny by Rob O’Connor. It smashed past its funding target within the first couple of days, so definitely jump on that. I assume once we get some more issues down the track, there’ll be another trade and the trade is amazing. I recommend picking that up. Anybody. I’m not, is that in the comic stores or is that a direct through Rob thing?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:28):
I’ve got the first four issues in the comic store. They’re all black and white. And what makes the trade special is he colours all those and then puts him in a trade, which I also have in the comic shop as well.

Nathan Judd (57:40):
Cool. But you reckon black and white’s probably the best ever for comics? Oh, of course. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah, it’s good to hear. It’s

Ryan Christopher (57:54):
Alright if you want to be on the show, if you want to come on here, you want to join the panel, you want to talk about comics, you want to tell us about something that you really love, then we’re going to put, I

Nathan Judd (58:05):
Really hate actually probably don’t do that.

Ryan Christopher (58:08):
If you want to replace Nathan on the panel, just go. He’s not joking.

Nathan Judd (58:15):
I been trying hard, so there’s definitely a spot.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:19):
I’ve been on the lookout. I’m trying sign the form, do my job for me.

Ryan Christopher (58:25):
Not only is it a link that tells you everything you need to know within the link itself, it’s Comex and we want you to show interest, but it’s a link you can click on. It’ll take you to a form you can fill out. You can let us know if you want to be on this show or any of the other comic shows, such as let’s make a comic book Friday night drink and draw. I’m sure there’ll be some fun new adventures popping up down the line somewhere.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:55):
Yeah, a Comex show is another one as well.

Ryan Christopher (58:58):
A show. That’s the one. But there’s literally something for everyone. Comics recent reads is the best entry level show because you don’t need to be a creator. You don’t need to be an artist, a writer. You just need to have read a comic book in the last seven days and want to talk about it. And as you’ve seen tonight, the comics don’t have to be the most recent least stuff out there. They can be stuff from 20, 30 years ago. It can be your favourite collected version of a comic. It could be that hardcover that you love. It could be your friend’s indie comic that you just want everyone to buy. And we’re equitable here. So it doesn’t have to have anything to do with comics. If you’ve got an indie comic out there, you want to talk about it. It doesn’t even have to be a comics produced book. Come on here and let us know why we should buy it because as you can see us and the people watching in the comments have terrible impulse control problems. So if you put a half decent pitch together about your book, we’re going to buy it. That’s just how we are. We’re weird obsessive people.

Justin MacNamara (01:00:21):
Wood ducks. That’s what we are. We’re wood ducks. Easy to shoot in the wild.

Ryan Christopher (01:00:27):
You just line us up with a shiny new comic book and we’ll get in the van

Nathan Judd (01:00:33):
If it’s lenticular. Even better.

Ryan Christopher (01:00:35):
Yeah,

Nathan Judd (01:00:38):
No particular,

Ryan Christopher (01:00:42):
Again, if you’re enjoying tonight, consider liking subscribing and sharing. That’s how we grow the channel. And we’ve got big plans. We’ve got huge plans and the plans just need your help. So yeah, you the one that Nathan’s pointing at specifically. If you are sitting here watching and Nathan’s pointing at you, then we need you.

Nathan Judd (01:01:10):
You good looking person right there.

Ryan Christopher (01:01:17):
All right, what have we got? Do we want to check up the shop? Vid says,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:01:24):
Oh yeah, I forgot that’s on this channel, on the studio shop vid. Which one? Oh, here it is. Here we go.

Voice Over (01:01:32):
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.

Ryan Christopher (01:02:02):
I think it’s the best comics shop ad that you’ll see on

Nathan Judd (01:02:10):
It. Makes me smile every time. I think just the freshly ink inspiration. I’m like, who wrote that genius? I can actually tell you who wrote it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:21):
Morgan Quaid.

Nathan Judd (01:02:23):
Yeah, Morgan Quaid, your hilarious person.

Ryan Christopher (01:02:28):
And that scroll of the shop in that video, I’m hoping that my mail comes in for next week’s show because I’ve got, winging its way to me is radical. One, two, and three. Oh cool. And I tell you now I’m going to commit to it if they arrive before the next show. I’m going to do all three issues together on comics recent reads next week.

Nathan Judd (01:03:01):
Oh, nice. Are they a comics book by any chance?

Ryan Christopher (01:03:05):
No. No. They’re just independently

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:09):
Published. No, no. Ed Kiley does those. He does another book with Comex, but not those books.

Justin MacNamara (01:03:20):
Did you get the skateboard as well, Ryan? So you can do a kick

Ryan Christopher (01:03:24):
So I can read them from my hospital bed. Bomb the hell. Alright. It’s that time of the night where we give everyone time to talk about themselves. If you’ve got something to plug, you want to let people know a little bit about who you are, what you’re up to, what you’ve been doing. This is that chance. And I’m going to just pick totally at random, no ulterior motives to choice whatsoever. But we’re going to start with Nathan Jarred.

Nathan Judd (01:03:58):
That’s so good. Well, thank you. Yeah, I mean, I’ve only really got my book three Hollow, so if you’re a fan of suspense and thrillers where not everything is possibly as it seems, then it could be interesting for you. It’s all black and white. So if you’re a fan of black and white art, freshy, pink stuff iron, then you might also like it does follow the main character Ethan, who’s having a solitary life in the mountains and it’s interrupted by a visitor and sets off a chain of events, which he doesn’t really have any control over, but he’s a long, fuller ride. So if that sounds interesting to you, you might be able to read it. It is up for free. I’ll post a link, but it’s in my name. It’s on Global comics, so I’ll post the link chat as well.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:04:48):
Here, I’ll just put you up here as well so you can see your link better. I’ll post it in chat.

Ryan Christopher (01:04:53):
That’s your Insta handle, isn’t it? At naughties.

Nathan Judd (01:04:56):
At na Start? Yep. So you can check me there. I’m always posting and updates on it. Always can hear you guys think as well.

Justin MacNamara (01:05:04):
The comics really good. It’s really good, Nathan. I loved it.

Nathan Judd (01:05:08):
Thanks Joe. It means a lot, man.

Justin MacNamara (01:05:12):
Where’s my chair? What you got going on? I actually, at the moment, I’m posting on YouTube a bunch October and because like I said before, it’s my Christmas. I’m doing a whole lot of digital paintings of horror characters and every time I post a new video up, the first person to comment and gives me a horror character to do, I will do their character next. Actually, while the show’s been on, I’ve been doing Mme. Lee Oda from The Haunted Mansion because the first one I put up, that was the first thing that was asked to do, and I did a Jason Voorhees, so that Joe Row illustrates on YouTube. There’s only two videos at the moment because I’m still doing this one. But yeah, as soon as I finished this, I think I’m doing leather face from Texas Chainsaw. That’s what I’m doing this month. Go to another channel. Nice.

Ryan Christopher (01:06:08):
That’s good. Celebrating everything. Macab. We like that. Danny, what have you got for us?

Danny Nolan (01:06:16):
Oh, well, I’ve got about 10,000 different things that have been happening over the course of five to 10 years, which still haven’t come out. So that’s what happens when you work with artists. If you want to see any of my staff, I’m doing a bit of history stuff in the back of Berry Comics as part of their new fans section now. So you might see some of that stuff there. But I have put down underneath my name there, the Dbn 61 blog spot.com. Now, something I, I’ve had up on my blog for years now, I stopped doing the comic history stuff because I’ve given it all. But if anyone’s interested in or want to get an idea of how to write a comic, all my published comics, the scripts are up there. You just go there and click on to the, oh, shit, I can’t even remember what it is now.

(01:07:15)
There’s a, I’m looking at now there is a tab called the Comic Script portfolio, and you can look through that and you can have the process, how it’s formatted. It’s actually got examples of the artwork there as well, where they’ve been published and where you can get ’em from. And there’s stuff there that’s from America, UK and of course Australia, all kinds of anthologies and bits and pieces. So yeah, it’s a gift to people who want to learn how to write comics because geez, it was hard for me. I just had to fumble about for years and years and years until somebody actually said, oh, you’re doing it wrong. You should try this. And so I’d like to pass on that knowledge. So yes, go there if you want to learn how to write comics or you always had an inkling that you were doing it wrong, go there. That’s good.

Ryan Christopher (01:08:15):
That’s an amazing resource to make available to people. And

Danny Nolan (01:08:19):
I keep forgetting to tell people about, it’s been up there for ages, but every script there has been published. So it’s just not bullshit that I’ve just started to put up there because I felt like being important. It’s stuff I want to share with people.

Ryan Christopher (01:08:33):
I’m definitely one of those people when someone shares resources like that, I have a Google Drive folder that’s just filled with all those sort of things. Because that’s the funny thing about the internet is everything’s up forever until it’s not. So that’s a big thing too. Danny’s made this sort of resource available. Utilise it, don’t assume it’s always going to be there. Go in there, actively engage with the material. Worst thing that happens is that you take up a bit of space in your computer and you never read it. Best thing that happens, maybe you get through that little block that’s stopping you from completing that project or getting that book in front of the right person or finding the artist that you really click with in getting that book off the ground. So yeah, you utilise every resource that you can get your hands on.

Danny Nolan (01:09:24):
Yeah, do it. Do like I started just by doing short stories. There’s this thing that we used to do years ago, it was called flash fiction, and it’s a story that has a beginning and middle and end but done in 150 words. It’s kind of like a paragraph with a punchline. Now that is a good little discipline. If you’ve got an idea and you can flesh it out in those 150 words, it’s a great starting point for comics, especially those four and five page comics that like ths, those ones from 2018, what a lot of anthologies once and that one. And that’s how I actually started and that’s how I met Dave Dye. We actually got teamed up by Future Quake in uk. We never knew each other existed before then. And now I’m here and Dave, everybody knows Dave now. And Dave’s the legend of between him and Ben Sullivan. I think they’re the best artists in Australian comics at the moment, in my opinion. So there you go.

Ryan Christopher (01:10:36):
Speaking of 2000 ad stuff as well, if people think that oh, short stories is not necessarily where they want to get to go online and look up how many legends had their first published work?

Danny Nolan (01:10:53):
Alan Moore, Neil Gayman, they all started there.

Justin MacNamara (01:10:57):
Let’s face it, vertigo wouldn’t have existed if it hadn’t have been particularly.

Danny Nolan (01:11:00):
Exactly. That’s where they all come from England and they all come from 2000 ad 2000 ad ripped them all off.

Justin MacNamara (01:11:07):
Yeah, Karen Berger used to go there and just hijack them, take them to hotels, tell ’em that they wanted them in America and then just steal them from

Ryan Christopher (01:11:21):
There you go sis. Have you got anything you want to talk about tonight?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:28):
Yeah, well first I just wanted to punish Justin. He told people to go to another YouTube channel. No, seriously. Tell us about YouTube channel again. Where should people go after this show?

Justin MacNamara (01:11:43):
So it’s Joe Row illustrates, just like it says down the bottom underneath my name. What I’ve been doing is I’ve been Twitch streaming horror portraits. Perfect. And so I’m doing them live on Twitch, but then transferring the full videos to the channel there. So I don’t expect anybody to see the Twitch streams live because, because I’m not playing Fortnite. So I do transfer the videos to there afterwards. They usually go for about an hour and a half. Fast forward them usually just talking absolute bollocks while I’m doing it because I’m sitting in a room by myself. Yeah, turn the sound down and put some music on. But yeah, like I said, I’ve almost finished Madam Der getting a preview this she’s there. Bit upside down. But yeah, so that’s just what I’m doing for the month. So yeah, bit of fun. I’m

Ryan Christopher (01:12:46):
Going to have to jump in and try and make a suggestion.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:12:49):
Yeah, that’d be cool. I guess we’ve got our shows as usual. We’ve got a Monday show, this one Comex recent reads. We’ve got a Wednesday show Comex, sorry Oz Comex, that’s on every second Wednesday, Thursday show’s gone on a bit of a break until next year and Friday. Drink and draw. We’ve got the off week and the on week. So we’ve got a bit of variety going on there at the moment with sped doing some of the shows. Shannon Browning doing one of the shows and Nicole Kane doing another show as hosts that is of the drink and draws, go to the Comex shop like the ad said. That’s probably the main thing. I would just watch these comment and get involved and yeah, you think the food today, because I’ve been packing boxes all day.

Nathan Judd (01:13:42):
The comic con videos you did. Were good. So people sitting heaps of fun.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:13:47):
There’s one more to come out tomorrow

Nathan Judd (01:13:51):
Out. One a day,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:13:52):
One left.

Nathan Judd (01:13:54):
Next time you have to get a mic and just shoving in their face talking to this. Well

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:13:59):
This thing was picking up the sound really well without shoving in their face so I didn’t need to.

Nathan Judd (01:14:04):
It must So

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:14:05):
If you store it in my hand, it looks like something out of the future.

Ryan Christopher (01:14:10):
Do we have any more comments sis?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:14:14):
No. Stop. No. Yeah, we do. We’ve got a great show trying to suck up to us now and this is the only one.

Ryan Christopher (01:14:31):
There are other channels, they’re just not as,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:14:33):
There are other channels go, they’re just not at the same time. We’ve got a show and that’s what I’m saying

Ryan Christopher (01:14:37):
Mean if you can listen to two things simultaneously at the same time, we can challenge. There you go.

Justin MacNamara (01:14:44):
You can open four or five windows up in your browser, surely

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:14:51):
Open all out and try to listen to ’em separately together.

Justin MacNamara (01:14:55):
You can do it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:14:55):
I’ll be impressed if you can do that. You should do it.

Ryan Christopher (01:15:00):
Consume content, consume

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:15:02):
Drink,

Ryan Christopher (01:15:03):
And draw. This Friday the topic is the crow.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:15:08):
Yes.

Ryan Christopher (01:15:09):
So anyone during the week wants to do a drawing of the crow. It can be the crow from any of his incarnations. So from the original Brandon Lee film to the James Obar graphic novel. And if you really want to do the new one, I suppose no one’s going to stop you. One call Judy, but extra credit, extra credit to anyone who does Edward Furlong Crow. Just because it means that you’ve at least Googled it. What? And potentially watched

Nathan Judd (01:15:50):
Is that Edward?

Ryan Christopher (01:15:53):
It’s called Wicked Game.

Nathan Judd (01:15:55):
Are you sure it’s just not edited from terminated too or something?

Ryan Christopher (01:15:59):
No, it is very real. Very, I refuse. It’s very much a movie that exists. It’s

Justin MacNamara (01:16:05):
Like being poisoned through your eyes. It’s amazing. It’s an amazing experience. Sounds

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:16:11):
Awesome. It’s not. No. You should do film reviews.

Ryan Christopher (01:16:19):
Just watch the original. Just watch the original Brandon Lee film. He died to make it for you. You owe him your viewership. If you’ve never seen it, you’re missing one of the October. It’s only going to get darker as the month goes on before we sacrifice somebody live on air during our Halloween. I’m not coming back, Judi, I’m sorry, but you are invited to that show. But no reason. No reason at all. But we’d love to have you there.

Nathan Judd (01:17:01):
Zilla hr, no particular reason. I’ve got some questions.

Ryan Christopher (01:17:09):
Watch. This will be the first show to get a dislike on YouTube from one person. Oh no, we’ve had those. Trust me. One soul dislike from Nathan. It’s fun. It’s only fun. We like to have fun here. But that sort of brings us to the end of the show. So like, subscribe, share, spread the love. If you want to jump on the show, get in touch with us. You can reach out to me directly, you can reach out, toss directly or you can go through the link and fill out the form and let us know whether you want to be on drink and draw. Let’s make a comic the Oz comic show anything from the whole suite of comics produced shows. Other than that, it’s goodbye from me. And what else?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:18:04):
I just got one more thing to say. Sorry that I realised there are a whole bunch of new shows coming up. They’re little micro shows. So just put interest there and I’ll contact you about those as well. They’re like little three to five minute. You’ve probably seen the Comex journey that I’m doing by myself, but the others won’t be by myself. So yeah, so just look out for those. Otherwise, it’s time to listen to me and my little stupid recording as we go out. Not it all.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:18:35):
Thank

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:18:35):
You. Like share and subscribe. Thank you very much.