ExSeq Ep. 29-Music
66 mins. We make beautiful music together. We talk about the unique intersection between comics and music and also discuss which of the Friends we resemble, William Shatner singing and True Romance.
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2:22 NEWS
BOOM! Studios gets the Peanuts licence, DJ Caruso set to direct Preacher adaptation, Telltale Games brings the world Fables and Walking Dead games, writer Dwayne McDuffie dies
11:50 WHAT WE’VE BEEN READING
Captain Wonder 3D
DMZ Volume 9
The Devil’s Trail #1 from Creator’s Edge Press
Burgerforce #4 and 5
26:30 MUSIC AND COMICS
Comics written by musicians such as Gerard Way from My Chemical Romance, Anthrax’s Scott Ian, Claudio Sanchez from Coheed and Cambria, Ghost Face Killa. Also comics based on Neil Young’s Greendale album, Alice Cooper, Prince, KISS , The Archies and Aerosmith.
Comic Book Tattoo based on the songs of Tori Amos
Belle and Sebastain anthology
27 from Image Comics
Paul Sizer’s B.P.M about a DJ called Roxy
Com.x’s hopefully upcoming Passions Requiem
Phonogram by Kieron Gillen and Jamie Mckelvie
Poseur Ink’s Side A and Side B
Matt Madden’s work
Mondo Urbano
20th Century Boys
Alan Moore’s work including League of Extraordinary Getlemen
Kid Koala
The Amazing Joy Buzzards
And for the education of your auditory inputs, here are the songs in order as heard throughout this episode.
ExSeq Ep.28-Romance
52 mins. It’s our look at romance comics, though we use the term “romance” loosely.
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1:20 NEWS
TV’s new Wonder Woman, Akira film cast, the Spider-Man reboot has a title, Marvel vs Capcom 3, Shane Black to direct Iron Man 3, The Golden Age film adaptation, Darren Aronofsky’s Noah comic, Michel Gondry to adapt Philip K. Dick’s Ubik novel, a new venture from the stars of King of Kong.
14:05 WHAT WE’VE BEEN READING
The Lethal Weapon films, Art Spiegelman’s Breakdowns, hip hop magazine Find.
22:00 ROMANCE COMICS
Superhero lovers, Love The Way You Love, Blankets, Shortcomings, and Moving Pictures.
38:30 FEATURE REVIEW
Ivy from Sarah Oleksyk and Oni Press.
ExSeq Ep. 27
63 mins. Another rambling, yet informative episode. We discuss a bunch of comics and film stuff, plus tedious fantasy movies, interstate travelling, water pistols and what Batman’s up to these days.
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1:13 NEWS
The upcoming Red Sonja film starring Amber Heard, Comic-Con 2011 is all sold out, the new Thor, Captain America, Cowboys & Aliens, and X-Men: First Class trailers, Lois Lane and Ursa in the Superman reboot, the most popular comics website, and theDreams Come True Disney exhibit in Melbourne.
25:35 WHAT WE’VE BEEN READING
Weird zines such as Modern Gentlemen #3, and the far cuter Summer Tears#1, the disappointing Dinner for Schmucks film, Brightest Day #19, Thorgal by Jean van Hamme and Grzegorz Rosiński, the supporting cast spotlighting Superman 80 Page Giant 2011, Raymond Briggs’ nuclear drama When The Wind Blows, Batman and Robin #20 with the new creative team of Peter J. Tomasi and Patrick Gleason and finally Deus Ex: Human Revolution #1.
Episode 26-Action
74 mins. We dissect how action is portrayed in comics, and also talk about the questionable manliness of Jude Law, and the cost efficiency of choking vs lightsabers.
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1:17 NEWS
Brit actor Henry Cavill cast as the next big screen Superman
5:30 WHAT WE’VE BEEN READING
Alternate ending of Scott Pilgrim vs the World, the classic spaghetti western Once Upon a Time in the West, Darth Vader and the Lost Command, and WE3
19:04 ACTION (IN) COMICS!
We define Subjective and Objective action and examine such things as:
Joker killing the 2nd Robin, Jason Todd
Frank Miller’s work as seen in The Dark Knight Returns and Daredevil, Alan Moore’s work in the Batgirl crippling Killing Joke
the explosion of pointless, and long, fight scenes in superhero comics in the ’90s
