Extra Sequential Podcast

ExSeq Ep.90-Our Grand Finale!

extrasequential — Sat, 05 May 2012 12:12:00 +0000

57 mins. Yes, it’s the big finish, our fond farewell, our last hurrah. In our most rambling episode yet, we talk about a bunch of comics, Turok, the master of sit-com theme songs, an awkward Italian song contest, David Bowie’s wife, Michael Jackson as Spider-Man, alternate cinematic realities, and much more! Fare thee well and thanks so much for listening!

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2:10 NEWS

Joss Whedon’s film Cabin in the Woods will actually get a limited theatrical run in Sydney and Melbourne

The Dark Knight Rises, and The Amazing Spider-Man trailers

Mark Waid’s comics website, Thrillbent launches

Charles Burns’ upcoming The Hive

Free Comic Book Day thoughts

14:33 WHAT WE’VE BEEN READING

Buffy Season 8 motion comic. A must for fans of the TV series.

Perfect Strangers: The Video Game. ”Nothing’s gonna stop me now!”

Road to Perdition. Featuring a baddie Daniel Craig.

Archaia’s great Hard Cover freebie.

The Strange Talent of Luther Strode. Blood, and stuff.

Daredevil Volume 1. Mark Waid, Marcos Martin and Paolo Rivera bring the fun back to superhero stories.

The Cartoon Crier. Depressing, but free!

Showcase Presents The Spectre. 620 pages of righteous vengeance and criminals getting their gruesome comeuppance!

ExSeq Ep.89-Fave Comic Book Films

extrasequential — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:24:30 +0000

70 mins. How many movies based on comic books have there been in the last few years? Heaps. How many of them have been awesome? Far less. We offer our ten fave films, and not many of our selections feature superheroes! Also, Katrina and the Waves, and a dancing Emperor Palpatine.

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WHAT WE’VE BEEN READING

Eric Powell’s The Goon #39. Funniest superhero pardoy. Ever.

Star Wars: Blood Ties-Boba Fett is Dead #1 from Tom Taylor and Chris Scalf. A cool whodunit in space.

Joe Sacco’s journalistic comic Footnotes in Gaza.

Seizure magazine writing competition.

China Mieville’s Embassytown.

11:30 NEWS

Fox announced an Axe Cop animated series! Oh yeah.

Carla Speed McNeill’s Finder: Voice becomes LA Times’ Best Graphic Novel

Free Comic Book Day on Saturday May 5

15:28 THEME – BEST COMIC BOOK FILMS

We choose our 5 fave films each and offer a few surprises, as well as some that almost made our lists, guilty pleasures, and the worst comic films.

The Avengers. A fun, and funny superhero epic.

American Splendor. Curmudgeon Harvey Pekar’s life.

Scott Pilgrim vs The World. A charming video game aesthetic, and many pop culture references.

Blueberry. Based on Moebius’ Wild West adventure. Also known as Renegade, and also featuring great trippy sequences.

X-Men: First Class. Groovy baby.

Ghost in the Shell anime. A Sci-fi classic. Perty too.

30 Days of Night. Thrilling, and with truly scary vampires.

Ghost World. Two girls befriend a sad Steve Buscemi.

Justice League: Doom. Animated film in which Batman betrays the Justice League. Accidentally.

Persepolis. French animated film about coming of age in Tehran.

ExSeq Ep.88-Are Superheroes Relevant?

extrasequential — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:32:56 +0000

58 mins. We examine the role superheroes play, what stories they can tell, and how far they’ve come since their roots from the pulp era. Also, multiple Boba Fetts, and Jean-Claude Van Damme vs a pinata.

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WHAT WE’VE BEEN READING

The Shadow #1

Alabaster: Wolves #1

America’s Got Powers #1

Marathon OGN

Supanova haul, and Milk Shadow Books

The end of this very podcast as of episode 90 : (

10:12 NEWS

Comiczone moving

Free Comic Book Day

Chris Roberson quits/get fired from DC Comics

16:13 THEME-THE RELEVANCE OF SUPERHEROES

We look at how superheroes have changed from their pulp roots and talk about how superheroes are viewed, and the kinds of stories that can be told with the genre.

ExSeq Ep.87-Long Lost Characters

extrasequential — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:03:05 +0000

64 mins. We dedicate this show to supporting cast members who had their day in the sun, but haven’t been seen for some time. It’s time for misty eyed fondness as we remember some of our favourite characters who never had their own series, but fulfilled a special role. Also Dr Marvin Monroe as Batman, the importance of butlers, and crotch sniffing.

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WHAT WE’VE BEEN READING

The Shadow. Alec Baldwin as a superhero.

Robert Crumb’s respectful adaptation, The Book of Genesis.

5:07 NEWS

Kevin Eastman’s original TMNT art auction

Marvel’s meeting of their two Spider-Men

Jeffrey Brown’s Darth Vader and Son

National Comics revival for DC Comics

Alan Moore on TV

Painter Alex Ross does Star Trek and Jimmy Corrigan

15:44 LONG LOST CHARACTERS

Or characters who have vanished. Whatever happened to such and such, and why? Why?!

Peanuts’ Shermy, Violet, and Patty (not of the Peppermint variety)

Mickey Mouse’s pal Horace Horsecollar

Green Arrow’s grizzled buddy Eddie Fyers

Lex Luthor’s bodyguard Mercy Graves

Superman’s science advisor Emil Hamilton

Dubbilex, Rex and Roxy Leach from Superboy’s Hawaiian days

The troubled lives of Clark Kent’s old friends, Lucy Lane’s, Lana Lang, Pete Ross and Chloe Sullivan

Betty Brant and Robbie Robertson from The Daily Bugle

Batman characters such as Harold, Leslie Thompkins, Matches Malone, Sasha Bordeaux and Orpheus

ExSeq Ep.86-Image Comics

extrasequential — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 07:08:16 +0000

62 mins. It’s the 20th anniversary of Image Comics this year, so in honour of the young upstart publishing company, we look at our fave Image tales covering drama, comedy, adventure and more. Also, the wonder of ’90s fashion, and Aussie TV actresses.

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2:06 NEWS

Eisner Award nominations

April Fools’ Day shenanigans including Stephanie Brown, Mars Attacks!, and George Takei

Triplets (the Twins sequel), and He-Man at DC Comics

11:10 THEME – IMAGE COMICS

A brief history of the Marvel walkout that led to one of the most successful indie publishers and the giant steps they’ve made in the last two decades.

Broken Frontier’s Image Month

Sequart’s upcoming Image doco

San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum’s Image exhibition

Casanova

Underground

Flight anthologies

Chew

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Vol. 3

Girls

Orc Stain

Ratfist

The Nightly News

Term Life

ExSeq Ep.85-Race Relations

extrasequential — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:53:19 +0000

65 mins. We finally get to this topic! The history of minority characters within comics, superheroes who are replaced by minority characters, or changed when adapted to other media. We also throw a few gnarly questions at one another and lament the lack of catchphrases from today’s spandex brigade.

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1:05 NEWS

Marsupilami film

Katsuhiro Otomo returns to long form manga

Ralp McQuarrie’s He-Man film sketches

Warner Bros. vs the Superman creators’ heirs. Again.

Perth’s Swancon, featuring Extra Sequential’s own Kris Bather speaking at 2 panels!

WHAT WE’VE BEEN READING/ WATCHING

Hilarious Little League webcomic

Atomic Robo’s new series

2 foreign films – Cell 211, and Tais Toi

Hobbes and Bacon webcomic

IDW’s Locke and Key

David Boring

15:16 THEME – RACE RELATIONS

Replacement characters including:

War Machine

Steel

Ryan Choi as Atom

Miles Morales as Ultimate Spider-Man

History of minority superheroes including:

Black Panther and his wife Storm

Luke Cage

Falcon

Static Shock

The use of Black in character names, such as:

Black Manta, Black Lightning, Black Racer (he’s on skis!), and Black Vulcan

Asian characters like Amadeus Cho, James Woo, Green Arrow Connor Hawke, Batgirl Cassandra Cain, Katana, Lady Shiva and Nico Minoru from Marvel’s Runaways.

and many more characters.

As an added bonus, here’s the “Bruce Lee” film from 1977 that Mladen mentions.

ExSeq Ep.84-Strange Team-Ups

extrasequential — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 07:17:58 +0000

57 mins. Strange x-overs you never knew existed! Unusual team-ups you tried to forget! Dodgy pronunciations of ‘moustache’ and ‘oeuvre.’ This one has it all, including a detour involving celebrity cameos and Jeff Goldblum movies.

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WHAT WE’VE BEEN READING

R.E.B.E.L.S Vol. 1: The Coming of Starro. Vril Dox is one manipulative, green skinned leader.

Killeroo: Gangwar. A cool Aussie comic starring a tough roo/human hybrid.

David Mack’s Kabuki: Metamorphosis. Read it slowly to get the full effect.

Justice: League: Doom. A fitting, action packed tribute to the late, great writer Dwayne McDuffie.

10: 35 NEWS

Teenage Mutant (or Alien?) Ninja Turtles!

Mark Waid’s new digital comic

15: 37 THEME – STRANGE TEAM-UPS

Lobo/ The Mask. Highly detailed scenes of ultra violence and lovely insanity.

Tarzan vs Predator: At Earth’s Core.

Muggsy Bogues vs Mothra. Um, I mean Charles Barkley vs Godzilla.

Superman/ Tarzan: Sons of the Jungle.

Superman meets He-Man in Eternia, and Sgt. Rock in WWII.

Spawn #10 featuring Dave Sim’s Cerebus. Also, a meta-comic.

Batman vs Predator III: Blood Ties. Featuring two Seinfeld easter eggs, and Mr. Freeze denying children ice-cream.

Upcoming team-ups such as Star Trek: TNG/ Dr Who from IDW, and team-ups that didn’t happen such as Cerebus and X-Men, a resurrected Princess Di in X-Statix, and Dr Who and Sherlock.

As an added bonus, here’s an excellent fan-made Prognosis: Negative film trailer.

ExSeq Ep.83-Female Creators

extrasequential — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:40:15 +0000

64 mins. It’s all about the ladies and the awesome comics they create. Mladen proves his immaturity and Kris reveals his love for Faith Erin Hicks. Also, missing Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt.

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WHAT WE’VE BEEN WATCHING

A hat trick of disappointing comic adaptations.

Dylan Dog. A Superman Returns reunion!

Gantz 2

Ghost Rider. Filmed in Melbourne!

7:12 NEWS

The death of legendary French creator Moebius

A Judge Dredd themed album from a producer of Portishead!

Bleeding Cool, and DC Nation Super Spectacular magazines on the way

Alan Moore’s thoughts on Before Watchmen

The Happytime Murders’ first look

18:58 THEME – FEMALE CREATORS

Posy Simmonds’ Tamare Drewe (also a film)

Carla Speed McNeil’s Finder

Colleen Doran’s A Distant Soil

Faith Erin Hicks’ Friend With Boys (read the first 20 pages here)

Also, Brain Camp, and The Wall at Ellsmere by Hicks

Kate Beaton’s Hark! A Vagrant

Karen Berger (Vertigo founder)

Sophie Crumb

Becky Cloonan

Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis (also a film)

Jill Thompson

Emi Lennox’s sketch diary EmiTown Volume 2

Naoko Takeuchi

Natsuki Takaya

Hiromu Arakawa

Australians:

Nicola Scott

Nicki Greenberg

Katie Houghton Ward

Sarah Howell

And a few more….

ExSeq Ep.82-Jim Henson

extrasequential — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 03:35:30 +0000

55 mins. We look at recent work inspired by the late, great puppet pioneer Jim Henson including a Dark Crystal prequel, and a Storyteller anthology. Also, French midgets, VHS memories and the sentence, “Oh my God! Stuff happens before he plays his flute in the forrest?!”

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WHAT WE’VE BEEN READING

Submarine. Quirky indie film set in Wales in 1986.

Hell Yeah #1 from Image Comics. Superpowered teen Ben Day’s mysterious parents, and a good cliffhanger. Oh, and it looks great too.

Conan #2 from Dark Horse. Young Conan teaches us the proper archery technique.

Saga #1 from Image Comics. An interesting, though not yet entirely captivating sci-fi/fantasy mashup.

He Died with a Felafel in His Hand comic

Rocky Balboa. Go Sly!

13: 10 NEWS

Concept artist Ralph McQuarrie dies

Webcomics based on classic video game properties at ShiftyLook

50 million downloads on comiXology

DC Comics’ new site

Wolverine’s next film next year

David Mazzucchelli’s unhappy about the new Batman: Year One TPB

Two new Perth comics podcasts! Panel2Panel, and How I Got My Boyfriend To Read Comics

21:02 FEATURE TOPIC – JIM HENSON

The man behind the creatures of The Muppets, Sesame Street, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth and more, and the recent Archaia OGNs inspired by his creations. See previews at the links below.

Jim Henson’s Storyteller. An anthology based on the first season of the TV show.

Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal: Creation Myths Vol. 1. The first of a prequel trilogy to the 1982 film.

Fraggle Rock Classics Vol. 1. Recoloured tales of the original 1985 comics based on the TV series.

Jim Henson’s A Tale of Sand. A trippy, visually dazzling adaptation of an unproduced screenplay.

And keep your eye out on May 5 for Archaia’s sure to be popular Free Comic Book Day offering.

ExSeq Ep.81-Meta-Comics

extrasequential — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:11:24 +0000

56 mins. We go high-brow and examine meta-comics. In other words, stories in which the writers appear as themselves, characters know that they’re in a comic, and more rule breaking craziness. Also, the best pirate joke you’ll ever hear.

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WHAT WE’VE BEEN READING

The adventurous and entertaining Lord of the Jungle #2

The disappointing Danger 5 TV series, and Reading Comics book by Douglas Wolk

The erotic Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie

9:35 NEWS

The upcoming Image Comics doco

11: 30 THEME – META-COMICS

Characters and comics that break the fourth wall.

Grant Morrison’s work on Animal Man, and The Invisibles

Planetary by Warren Ellis and John Casasday, including the Batman cross-over one-shot featuring different versions of the superhero

Bat-Mite in TV’s Batman: Brave and the Bold

Ambush Bug

Deadpool. Here’s 10 of his best fourth wall breaking moments.

Dave Sim’s Cerbeus

Andrew Drilon’s Supermaker webcomic

ExSeq Ep.80-Multi-discipline Writers

extrasequential — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:53:58 +0000

46 mins. These days there are more people writing comics from other disciplines than ever before. We discuss the whos and the whys, including examples of playwrights, TV and film writers, as well as novelists who spend their time writing comics too. Also, Darth Maul and why he was never cloned, and when celebrities embarrass themselves by thinking they know how to write comics.

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WHAT WE’VE BEEN READING/WATCHING

The Grey. Despite it’s minimal amount of wolf punching, it’s a good film.

Chronicle.

Archeologists of Shadows. A dazzling digital comic.

Road to Perdition, which became the film with a balding Jude Law.

4:57 NEWS

Bart Simpson’s pal Milhouse gets his own comic in April

2000AD turns 35 years old

The new, and free, Rations magazine

Trailer for the upcoming Comic-Con documentary

Nate Simpson’s Nonplayer goes to Hollywood

11:25 FEATURE TOPIC – MULTI-DISCIPLINE WRITERS

Michael Green and Marc Guggenheim

Kevin Smith

Joss Whedon

Jane Espenson

Writers of TV’s Lost - Bran K Vaughan, Damon Lindelof, Drew Goddard and Jeph Loeb

Robert Aguirre-Sacasa

Tom Taylor

Celebrities behind comics such as Rosario Dawson, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Mark Hamill and Tyrese Gibson and good examples like Rashida Jones and Gerard Way

Brad Meltzer

David Liss

Stephen King and Joe Hill

Peter David

Clive Barker

As an added bonus here’s an ad for Admiral Ackbar’s cereal from Robot Chicken.

ExSeq Ep.79-Unfinished Projects

extrasequential — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:40:30 +0000

51 mins. Advertised, but never released, or completed projects is this show’s focus, and there’s quite a few of them! We also present an unpopular viewpoint on the legal battles of Ghost Rider co-creator Gary Friedrich, and Mladen rails against Kevin Smith’s popular public persona. Also Oasis, Dolly Parton and Doctor Who.

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A brief return to What We’ve Been Reading including Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi, B.P.R.D: Hell on Earth-The Long Death, and Love and Rockets.

4:45 NEWS

The legal case between Ghost Rider co-creator Gary Friedrich and Marvel, and The Walking Dead battle

DC relaunch sales figures

Kevin Smith’s new Comic Book Men reality TV show

21:05 FEATURE TOPIC – UNFINISHED AND UNRELEASED PROJECTS

Barry Windsor-Smith’s Superman

Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz’s Big Numbers

William S Burroughs’ Ah Pook Is Here!

All Star Wonder Woman by Adam Hughes

Batman: Europa

Kevin Smith’s mass of titles

Image United

Captain America: White by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, and Astonishing Captain America

Loeb’s and J. Scott Campbell’s Spider-Man

Bryan Singer’s Ultimate X-Men

Daredevil: End of Days

ExSeq Ep.78-Creative Departures

extrasequential — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:21:12 +0000

39 mins. This show is dedicated to comics creators who offer us projects that surprise us, projects that show a different side to their creativity. From manga to all-ages to, um, Frank Miller we discuss a few unexpected career turns. Also, Superman pyjamas and Grant Morrison’s exercise video.

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1:53 NEWS

The controversial Before Watchmen prequel series

The Avengers and The Amazing Spider-Man trailers

7:19 THEME – CREATIVE DIFFERENCES

Chuck Dixon writing The Simpsons comics

Jeff Lemire, from The Essex County Trilogy to Superboy and Animal Man

Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan’s Conan the Barbarian

Frank Miller and Geoff Darrow’s Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot

Frank Miller’s unrealised JESUS! project

Brian Michael Bendis and Mike Avon Oeming’s Takio

Junji Ito’s Cat Diary

Katsuhiro Otomo’s Hipira: The Little Vampire

Mladen on the Sequelcast

extrasequential — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:06:42 +0000

Extra Sequential’s own Mladen Luketin appeared as a guest (of honour) on American podcast, Sequelcast (the film podcast which reviews each film in a franchise, one film at a time), to discuss the woeful Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World, and the Jurassic Park comics from IDW.

Expect to hear unchecked cynicism, conspiracy theories, and goofy witticisms galore.

Why not get your ears in gear and head over to the Sequelcast website to hear more, says I?

ExSeq Ep.77-Habibi Review

extrasequential — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:08:07 +0000

45 mins. Our feature critique of Habibi, Craig Thompson’s long awaited follow-up to the critically acclaimed and widely adored Blankets. As well as exploring its intricately woven themes, we touch on the problems with writing Misery Porn, Orientalism, Religion, and whether or not Craig Thompson is a masochist. Also, Jurassic Park, and Robin Williams.

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From Pantheon, comes Craig Thompson’s Habibi. It’s black and white, it’s 672 pages, it looks great (even the ugly parts) and well, just listen to the show.

ExSeq Ep.76-Creative Differences

extrasequential — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:41:30 +0000

38 mins. Yes, it’s a short one, but it’s jam packed with writer/ artist teams that for various reasons have fallen out with one another and no longer work together. On the flip side, we also yak about great collaborative partnerships that work splendidly and just show is the Michael Bay of comics.

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2: 15 THEME – CREATIVE DIFFERENCES

The increase in public disputes these days, such as recent examples including Rob Liefeld and Robert Kirkman falling out over The Infinite, and writer John Rozum’s problems with the making of Static Shock.

Good creative unions and frequent collaborators:

Mark Millar and his usual team of artists

Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo

Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely

Creative splits:

Alan Moore and Steve Bissette on 1963, and Dave Gibbons after Watchmen

Mark Waid and Alex Ross after Kingdom Come

The Image Comics founders

Mark Millar and Grant Morrison

Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale

Teams we want to see reunited:

Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle

Chuck Dixon and Graham Nolan

Louise Simonson and Jon Bogdanove

Added bonus:

Megatokyo webcomic

ExSeq Ep.75-Young Romance Rvw

extrasequential — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:51:32 +0000

46 mins. Legendary creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby effectively created the romance comics genre which was surprisingly dominant during the 1940s and 50s. We look at Fantagraphics’ entertaining new collection of some of their work. Also, the awesomeness of The Golden Girls. Yes, you heard me.

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2: 40 NEWS

SOPA bill

Dc Comics cancellations and new titles

New DC Comics logo

David Wohl resigns as Radical EiC

CW orders Green Arrow TV pilot

12:44 YOUNG ROMANCE FEATURE REVIEW

We focus on Young Romance, Fantagraphics’ excellent collection of 21 romance comics from Simon and Kirby from the 1940s and 50s. We discuss this unique era in the history of comics, the roles of men and women at the time, the very entertaining and surprising nature of the mature storytelling, the pre and post Comics Code stories, and the extras of this book, including notes on the time consuming restoration and the labour of love behind this project. Highly recommended for comics history enthusiasts and those who appreciate dramatic stories.

Read the short stories Fraulein Sweetheart, and Shame right here for free.

ExSeq Ep.74-Tintin Review

extrasequential — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:56:45 +0000

46 mins. The boy reporter from the mind of Belgian writer/artist Herge finally comes to the big screen, with Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson as his guides. We discuss what we liked and didn’t like and the questionable addition of the third dimension. Also, improper pronunciations and tough butlers.

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1: 06 NEWS

Alien cathouse in Nevada

Akira movie on hold

Bandai stops producing anime and manga

Pics of Superman and Batman: Earth One OGNs

Chip Kidd’s Batman: Death by Design talk

8:22 TINTIN MOVIE REVIEW

You get two perspectives in one review, with Mladen’s Tintin knowledge and my lack thereof. We also mention it’s troubled past, Indiana Jones, violence, lack of merchandising and the difference between action and adventure. Oh, and Super Ted.

ExSeq Ep.73-2011 Recap

extrasequential — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:50:00 +0000

59 mins. We chat about the comics events and trends that have shaped the last 12 months and grabbed the most headlines, including dead superheroes, digital shopping and more. Also, The Punisher as an angel. Ah, memories.

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THEME – 2011 RECAP

The New York Times Bestseller list, dominated by The Walking Dead and Scott Pilgrim

DC’s new 52 (of course)

DC’s RetroActive one-shots

Artists becoming writers

Retailer incentives

Webcomics:

Hark a Vagrant http://harkavagrant.com/

Hobo Lobo of Hamelin http://hobolobo.net/

The Abaddon http://abaddoncomic.com/

American Barbarian http://www.ambarb.com/

The Man of Many Shades http://www.themanofmanyshades.com/

Tune http://www.tunecomic.com/

The success of Kickstarter projects

Marvel’s cancellations

Fear Itself and X-Men: Schism

IDW’s Infestation zombie/licence x-over

The death of Ultimate Spider-Man and the intro of Miles Morales

Manga and European sales

Joe the Barbarian, and Chester Brown’s Paying For It

Movies and video games of 2011

A quick look ahead to 2012

Comics Christmas Cards

extrasequential — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:28:03 +0000

Every year there’s some great Christmas cards from comics publishers. Here’s an assortment of 2011′s.

From Sonny Liew, creator of Malinky Robot.

UK publisher Com.x (45, Seeds, Blue Spear)

Archaia (Mouse Guard, Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand – my fave OGN of 2011!)

Here’s a treat from nerdcore band Kirby Krackle. You can grab their new single, focused on a certain crimson nosed reindeer right here.

and here’s a fitting pic that I put on the Extra Sequential Facebook page (become our friend if you aren’t already!) from artist Mike del Mundo. I think it sums up mine and Mladen’s comics leanings quite well.

Finally, here’s Broken Frontier, a wonderful site that I write for and at that very site is where you can find more cards from other publishers and creators.

Merry CHRISTmas!

ExSeq Ep.72-Best Comics of 2011

extrasequential — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:22:25 +0000

60 mins. What a crazy good year it’s been for comics. We talk about what has impressed us the most from breakout talent, to new series to movie adaptation. Also, Star Trek: TNG’s Riker, and which superhero series resembles Breaking Bad.

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1:20 NEWS

The Hobbit, and The Dark Knight Rises trailers

Jail time for Wolverine movie pirate

6:20 THEME-BEST COMICS OF 2011

Reprint:

Mladen – Fantagraphics’ ‘Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes’

Kris – IDW’s ‘Artist’s Edition’ series

Film:

Mladen - ’Gantz’

Kris – ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’

Australian Comic

Mladen - Bobby N’s ‘Digested’ (Gestalt)

Kris - ‘The Deep: Here be Dragons’ (Gestalt)

Honorable mention - ‘Zorro’ (Silver Fox comics)

Foreign Language Comic (in English)

Mladen - ’The Drops of God’

Kris - ‘The Zombies that Ate the World’

Honorable mention – ’20th Century Boys’, ‘AX Manga Anthology’

New talent:

Mladen - Ian Bertram

Kris – Mike Huddleston

Honorable mention – Nick Spencer

Continuing series:

Kris – ‘Green Lantern’ (DC Comics)

New ongoing series or mini

Mladen - ’Blue Estate’ (Image comics)

Kris – ‘Who is Jake Ellis?’ (Image comics)

One-shot or OGN

Mladen - Joseph Lambert’s ‘I Will Bite You’

Kris – Jim Henson’s ‘Tale of Sand’

Best comic overall

Mladen - Anders Nilsen’s ‘Big Questions’

Kris - ‘Who is Jake Ellis?’

ExSeq Ep.71-Christmas Gifts

extrasequential — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 08:05:56 +0000

59 mins. Christmas is just around the corner so we recommend a few comics to buy for those who may be new to this wonderful medium. We cover the gamut of styles and genres. There’s something for everybody! Also, putting a crooner in your stocking, and which Futurama characters we most closely resemble.

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2:44 NEWS

New G.I. Joe and Men in Black sequel trailers

Justice League: Doom

An Austin Powers musical

DC’s November sales figures

Shaun Tan’s The Arrival at Spare Parts Puppet Theatre

Jay and Silent Bob come to Perth too! (Nope! Sold out!)

11:46 THEME-CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE

What to buy (including James Jean’s sketchbooks) and not to buy (including the mammoth DCnU 52 Hardcover).

Dinosaur Comics’ oversized T-Rex beanbag

Superheroes – The Ultimates, All Star Superman, Batwoman, Secret Avengers, Batman and Robin

Action – Red, Who is Jake Ellis?, Image’s Blue Estate, The Last Days of American Crime by Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini, The Losers, Jason Aaron’s Scalped

Indie - IDW’s Starstruck, Daytipper, The Nightly News, Drops of God manga, Blankets, and Habibi by Craig Thompson

Horror – Hellboy, The Occultist, The Strain, Baltimore: The Curse Bells, BPRD, Creepy collections, Gestalt’s Changing Ways and Rombies

Comedy – Wilson, Axe Cop, The Goon

TV adaptations – The Walking Dead, Buffy, Game of Thrones, Voltron, Transformers, and G.I. Joe from IDW

Fantasy – Mice Templar, the Sixth Gun

Older comic collections - Donald Duck Lost in the Andes, Floyd Gottfredson’s Mickey Mouse, the very cheap Marvel’s Essentials and DC’s Showcase Presents

ExSeq Ep.70-Unread Stack

extrasequential — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:35:11 +0000

53 mins. We all have one – a pile of shame. In other words, comics that have been sitting, and gathering dust, on our bookshelves for far too long. We discuss our own examples, and the reasons why they’ve remained unopened. Also, Brigitte Nielsen’s body of work.

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1:44 NEWS

Brian Wood’s thoughts on digital comics

Jim Zubkavich’s thoughts on comics piracy

Brian Michael Bendis leaves the Avengers franchise

Chewbacca on Glee (yes, it’s true)

Alan Moore on Frank Miller

19:07 THEME-UNREAD PILE

The whys of our collecting habits, plus books on our stack we’ve finally read this week.

Kris’ stack:

Jack Kirby’s OMAC

The Rocketeer

Starman Omnibus

Elephantmen

Madame Mirage

Superman: Emperor Joker

Fray

Seeds from Com.x

Underground

Thor Visionaries Vol. 1 Walt Simonson

Hulk Visionaries Peter David Vols 1-4

(and recently read) Meltdown, and A God Somewhere

Mladen’s stack:

Spirou

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Epic Comics’ Interface

Moebius’ Blueberry

Peter Milligan’s Shade the Changing Man

Bonelli comic Ken Parker

Dragon Ball Z

Battle Angel Alita

Cerebus (after Minds)

(and recently read) Tintin and the Alph-Art, and Vic and Blood: The Chronicles of a Boy and His Dog

Plus, stuff we’d like to own, and hopefully read one day!

ExSeq Ep.69-’50s Sci-fi

extrasequential — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:04:55 +0000

58 mins. Don’t suffer from space sickness or hard radiation, but listen to our discussion about manly heroes, jetpacks, rayguns and the lost art of adventuring. From comic strips to comic books we look at some of the genre’s best tough guys and their unique tales. Also, Timothy Dalton and a tree.

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2:15 NEWS

Watch the Neil Gaiman The Simpsons episode (if you’re in the U.S)

Dark Horse going day and date digital on all their titles

Writer Mark Millar ain’t a fan of digital though

Nicolas Cage’s former copy of 1938′s Action Comics #1 sells for a record amount

7:20 THEME – ’50s SCI-FI

Race relations, strange aliens and thoughtful ambassadors in these grand and well constructed tales from the halcyon days of the 1950s.

EC’s Weird Fantasy

Al Feldstein & Joe Orlando’s “Judgment Day”

Wally Wood’s upcoming collection from Vanguard

Buck Rogers

Flash Gordon’s new series from Dynamite Entertainment (and read the first two issues of Ardden’s Flash Gordon series here)

Sky Masters of the Space Force

Jeff Hawke

Dan Dare

Trigan Empire

Rick Random

Tintin: Destination Moon & Explorers on the Moon

Astro Boy

Finally, here’s a clip of Flash Gordon ”fighting” Timothy Dalton in the 1980 film!

ExSeq Ep.68-Endings

extrasequential — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 03:26:04 +0000

50 mins. The opposite of origin tales is this week’s focus as we examine various superhero future stories, both classic and new. What happens to our favourite characters decades into the future when they’re older, greyer and grumpier? Also, Colin Firth in a fountain.

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1:46 NEWS

NY School of Visual Arts’ free magazine, INK

The Human Torch returns to life after a no-so lengthy absence

The Dark Knight Rises film info

Batman: The Brave and the Bold finale

SyFy orders Booster Gold pilot script

8:48 ENDINGS

Son of Superman

Kingdom Come, and Earth X

Old Man Logan

The Dark Knight Returns

Hulk: The End

Batman Beyond

New X-Men: Here Comes Tomorrow

Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?

Spider-Man: Reign

ExSeq Ep.67-Damsels in Distress

extrasequential — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:06:29 +0000

53 mins. We analyse the purpose of the love-interest character, how they play off of the heroic lead, and what makes the archetypal Lois Lane memorable while others are forgotten. Also, Jean Claude van Damme. Just because.

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2:10 NEWS

Neil Gaiman on The Simpsons

New Peanuts comics from BOOM! Studios

A few Marvel cancellations, including PunisherMAX

DC’s digital only Batman Beyond series

Frank Miller’s anti-Occupy Wall Street tirade

11:22 THEME-THE ROMANTIC LEAD

The female love interest/damsel in distress has a specific role to fill in the stories of comics, and most notably superheroes. We examine the following.

The pulp novels including Doc Savage, and The Shadow

Hollywood’s genre mashing of sorts

Female versions of male superheroes

Peter Parker’s loves, including Gwen Stacy, and his dissolved marriage with Mary Jane Watson

Bruce Wayne’s escorts

The complicated relationships in Crying Freeman, and Preacher

ExSeq ep.66 – War

extrasequential — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:39:11 +0000

55 mins. War. What is it good for? We dive into the battlefield and how it’s been represented in comics of yesteryear and today, and review Frank Miller’s new work “Holy Terror”. Plus, the wearing of shorts, head shapes and hammy thighs.

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1:17 NEWS

Neil Gaiman’s birthday

DC Comics licence plates

Cinebook publisher Olivier Cadic receives an Order of Merit

The new Asterix creative team

Akira film casting

7:13 THEME-WAR!

The failures of Frank Miller’s “Holy Terror”

The war journalism of Joe Sacco’s nonfiction “The Fixer”

The boycotting of the shortlived “Blazing Combat” from the late 1960s

Vietnam comics: psychological drama “The Other Side”, and the satirical “Guerillas”

Hans Von Hammer’s high flying and outlandish WW1 tales in “Enemy Ace”

Sgt. Rock, DMZ, The ‘Nam, Semper Fi, Commando Comics, Nick Fury (whose Howling Commandos appear in the Captain America films)

The relaunched DC Comics’ Men of War series (that we didn’t mention!)

ExSeq Ep.65-Chuck Dixon

extrasequential — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:04:16 +0000

62 mins. Our creator profile on underrated and prolific superhero writer, Chuck Dixon. His talent, writing style, and influence on superhero comics in the late 90s is discussed, as well as the controversial issues and personal politics which led to his blacklisting at both Marvel & DC. Also, Whoopi Goldberg’s love life and Billy Connolly as Dr. Who.

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1:54 NEWS

Ted McKeever’s Mondo

The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman on TV show The View

6:53 THEME – CHUCK DIXON

Dixon is a master world builder and wrote a multitude of mainly Batman related titles in the ’90s and early 2000s. He expanded the lives of Tim Drake and Dick Grayson, co-created Bane and made an all-female series a huge success in Birds of Prey. His recent history, especially with the major publishers, is more controversial.

(show correction: Mladen was incorrect to say that Chuck Dixon “got his start in comics” with Robin, he meant to instead imply that he rose to recognition and some popularity with that title)

ExSeq Ep.64-Old DC Debuts

extrasequential — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:29:32 +0000

69 mins. We thought we’d turn back the clock to the some old debuts from DC Comics and compare them to the current blast of new series premieres, and discuss the trouble of new superhero concepts and the business of such. Also, Beauty and the Geek, Family Matters and Bruce Willis.

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1: 58 NEWS

Batman: Arkham City fan made costume

The new Punisher TV series

Superman’s co-creator’s auction

Watchmen 2 gets some movement

Sydney Zombie Walk, and a great zombie print from Silver Fox Comics

13:45 THEME – FORGOTTEN DC #1s

The Highwaymen. It’s like Red, but with added Bill Clinton and more innocent deaths.

Lab Rats from John Byrne. It’s like The Matrix, or tries to be. It fails.

Suicide Squad – old and new.

Hawk and Dove – old (hard rocking!) and new (zombies on airplanes!).

Firebrand featuring exploding mechanical legs.

How the storytelling and marketing approach varies between the old DC #1s and the 2011 versions.

ExSeq Ep. 63-Manga for Beginners

extrasequential — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:55:24 +0000

70 mins. Prepare for our mammoth manga episode filled with more astounding examples of Eastern comics that you can shake a katana at! Mladen teaches Kris all about manga and how it relates to, and differs from, superhero comics, plus lots, lots more. Also, naked pirates and 40 year old teenagers.

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1:00 NEWS

Frank Miller on more Sin City

Mark Hamill retires as Joker’s voice

Writer Brian Wood (DMZ, Demo, Northlanders) to do Conan, and Wolverine!

Geoff Darrow brings back the whacky Shaolin Cowboy

Live action Akira film greenlit Die Hard 5 with a bad premise and worse title

Doco on Yoshihiro Tatsumi

Dexter comics written by its creator

Lots of new Dark Horse Star Wars series next year

13:10 THEME – MANGA FOR BEGINNERS

Genre diversity, cultural and thematic differences, pace and action, and the problems with art similarities. Relating them to western comics.

Manga artists of a different style:

Yuichi Yokoyama, Motofumi Kobayashi, Taiyo Matsumoto, Naoki Urasawa, Seiichi Hayashi, Akira Hiromoto, and Tsutomu Nihei

Shorter Manga:

Tekkonkinkreet (aka Black and White), Ghost in the Shell, Uzumaki (aka Spirals), Me and the Devil Blues

Action manga:

Akira, Battle Royale, Gantz, Basilisk, Vagabond

(bonus: Crying Freeman, Shaman Warrior, Fist of the North Star, Blade of the Immortal, Shigurui)

For fans of Vertigo (mix of action and thinking, high concept, intense, supernatural horror etc)

Dragon Head, 20th Century Boys, Ikigami,

(bonus: Monster, Billy Bat, MPD Psycho)

Science fiction manga:

2001 Nights, Saturn Apartments, Planetes, Blame!, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Astro Boy

(bonus: 5th Dimension Treatment, Stardust Memories)

Historical or period manga:

Vagabond, Lone Wolf and Cub & Path of the Assassin, Motofumi Kobayashi’s war comics, Joan of Arc by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko

Everyday topics:

Real, Prince of Tennis, Firefighter, Initial D, Oishinbo, Yakitate, Iron Wok Jan

Literary and Oddball comics:

New Engineering (Yuichi Yokoyama), The Drifting Life, The Push Man, Bury the Old in Tokyo (Yoshihiro Tatsumi), Human Clock (Tokunan Seiichiro), Tekkonkinkreet, Paranoia Star (Maruo Suehiro), Red Colored Elegy, Me and the Devil Blues

(bonus: Ooku, Sexy Voice and Robo, GoGo Monster, Gon, The Drifting Classroom)

Phew!

Extra Sequential on The C-List Podcast

extrasequential — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:38:29 +0000

This week Mladen and I had the honour of joining the hilarious C-List podcast to yak about a cavalcade of comics characters most people haven’t heard of. The C-List is hosted by Luke (who joined Mladen on the recent ES Star Wars episode) and Mike and, as the name suggests, puts the spotlight on background characters from well known movies.

It was a blast as the four of us made fun of some truly whacky superheroes and villains. Be warned that there’s more language than our usual ES shows though.

Catch the crazy episode right here.

ExSeq Ep.62-Arkham Asylum

extrasequential — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:33:06 +0000

72 mins. In honour of next week’s highly anticipated release of the Batman: Arkham City videogame, we discuss the best Arkham Asylum comics, the dark history of Gotham City and a few of its cruel and unusual inhabitants. Also, predictable superhero posing, Woody Allen as Batman and the ice-cold woman known as Frostbite McDonough.

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1:23 NEWS

Avengers movie trailer

NoNoWriMo – write a novel in November. You can do it!

Vertigo to publish The Millenium Trilogy novels

DC relaunch sales figures

15:55 THEME – ARKHAM ASYLUM

Grant Morrison & Dave McKean’s “Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth”

Alan Grant & Norm Breyfogle’s “The Last Arkham”

Batman: The Animated Series: “Lockup”, “Trial”

Dan Slott & Ryan Sook’s “Arkham Asylum: Living Hell”

David Hine & Jeremy Haun’s “Arkham Reborn”

The characters that turn evil after visiting Arkham (and not as inmates) including Lock Up and Joker’s girlfriend Harley Quinn.

The little known ‘90s one-shots “Batman: Ghosts” and “Batman Chronicles: The Gauntlet”, and Arkham as seen in Batman: The Animated Series.

ExSeq Ep.61-’30s & ’40s Heroes

extrasequential — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 02:44:56 +0000

64 mins. We wind back the clock to those halcyon days of the 1930s and 40s when comic books and superheroes were brand new. And they were stranger and wilder than you could imagine. Also, Orson Welles. Drunk.

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2:37 NEWS

Beware the Batman - a CG animated series

The Simpsons’ future

New episodes of Beavis & Butt-Head

Grant Morrison writing a Rogue Trooper film

The Metal Hurlant Chronicles TV series

New Arrested Development episodes and film! Yay!

Short fan film inspired by Ben Templesmith’s Welcome to Hoxford

15:26 THEME – 1930s AND 40S COMICS

The diversity of genres, crude renderings, strange tales of justice, the crazy work of Fletcher Hanks, radio serials, the abundance of anthologies, superhero precursors and more. What a wild time in which the comics we know and love today were experimenting and finding their feet.

If you want to hear some great, free radio serials go here, and here’s an example of a crazy Captain Marvel comic from the time.

ExSeq Ep.60-Sex Scenes

extrasequential — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 05:34:04 +0000

75 mins. Put on the jazz and light some candles. It’s time for a look at sex scenes in comics. It’s our raunchiest episode ever! Actually, it’s more funny than raunchy as we realise how disturbing, hilarious and just plain strange sequential art sex can get. Also duck rude bits, cooking chicken and Andrew Ridgley from WHAM!.

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4:18 NEWS

Mladen’s writing for the digital Find Magazine! Woo hoo!

Catwoman’s unimpressive new film costume

Justice League: Doom animated film premieres next year

Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts doco

The hugely negative response to DC’s new version of the sexed up Starfire

Uderzo’s Asterix successors

14:06 SEX SCENES

Catwoman #1

Green Goblin and Spider-Man’s first girlfriend, Gwen Stacy

Superman and Wonder Woman having sex while flying through volcanoes. The earth literally moves.

Watchmen’s 2 scenes, including Dr Manhattan’s multitasking

Dave McKean’s artful “Celluloid”

The amazing hallucination/sex scenes in “Swamp Thing”

“The Boys”, and whether Garth Ennis’ has issues with women in authority

Last Gasp Publishing’s yearly anthologies: “Best Erotic Comics”

Milo Manara’s “Bolero”

Ignacio Noe’s “The Piano Tuner” and “The Convent from Hell”

Caza and Paul Lamontellerie’s “Planet Terror”

Serpieri’s “Druuna”

Vittorio Giardino’s Little Nemo sex romp, “Little Ego”

Hentai, and the troubling subculture of Lolicon

The gratuitous sex in “Gantz”

The mature sex and violence in “Crying Freeman”

The mechanics of mutant sex and superhero kids

The numerous, and disturbing scenes in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series

ExSeq Ep.59-DuckTales

extrasequential — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:21:55 +0000

55 mins. Don’t cry fowl, but we discuss the whacky and funny Fantagraphics collection of Carl Barks’ much loved 1940s Donald Duck stories, and compare them to BOOM! Studios’ current DuckTales…tales. Also, Ninja Turtles, Mythbusters and capitalism.

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2:53 NEWS

Amanda Waller gets retconned to a thin woman!

Marvel is no longer publishing any of French publisher’s Soleil’s great comics

Batman: Year One animated clip

John Dies at the End cast pics

9:43 THEME – DONALD DUCK AND DUCKTALES

We tell you why creator Carl Barks is loved for his storytelling prowess and surprisingly funny and absurd humour in his Donald, Scrooge, etc tales and compare it with the modern equivalent in BOOM! Studio’s latest DuckTales mini-series.

You can get Fantagraphics’ Donald Duck in Lost in the Andes in November.

The 4 issues of BOOM!’s DuckTales series, Rightful Owners, are available now.

48: 02 A FEW QUICK THOUGHTS ON THE DC #1s WE’VE READ

ExSeq Ep.58-Star Wars

extrasequential — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 04:36:38 +0000

74 mins. Kris is frozen in Carbonite this week, so Mladen is joined by Luke Milton, Perth comic artist/photographer (that’s one of his photos below) and host of the “C-List” and “The Book Was Better” podcasts, to discuss Star Wars! The mythic stature vs the actual quality of the films, blu-ray deleted scenes and changes, the original and prequel trilogies, and the expanded universe and Star Wars Comics. Also: Lando Calrissian, Yaddle, and an awkward story about meeting Jake Lloyd. Your ears can’t repel podcasting of this magnitude!

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As for the comics we mention:

Star Wars: Infinities – The Star Wars version of Elseworlds/What If…

Star Wars Empire: The story of Biggs Darklighter

The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn

Star Wars: Droids comics

Dark Empire

Star Wars Tales with Tony Millionaire and Peter Bagge

Archie Goodwin’s 1970s Star Wars comics

ExSeq Ep.57-Aquatic Characters

extrasequential — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:20:23 +0000

64 mins. Our maritime message is that you listen to this aquatic adventure for your audio canals, as a tidal wave of seafaring superheroes and stories washes over you. Also, six-packs, Eddie Murphy and arm wrestling and our attempt to mock Aquaman’s harpoon hand, and lustrous hair. He’s the King of the Seven Seas! He demands respect people!

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2:15 NEWS

Extra Sequential announcement: Perth comic artist and fellow podcaster Luke Milton of the C-list podcast will be joining us next week for our feature topic of STAR WARS. Check out their podcast while you’re at it!

“Oumpah-pah”, the first comic by the co-creators of “Asterix”, finally returns to print in its entirety!

Chuck Norris and Van Damme in The Expendables 2

Another Beetlejuice film is coming our way

Top Shelf’s huge sale

Seth and Daniel Clowes tour

Writer J.M. DeMatteis’ weekend workshop

“Fables for Japan”, a digital comics anthology to be released September 10th with all proceeds going to the victims of the March 11th Japan earthquakes

11:29 THEME – AQUATICNESS

The massively popular One Piece by Eiichiro Oda

The whacky Seaguy from Grant Morrison and Cameron Stewart

Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese

Asterix and Obelisk and their battles against pirates

Gestalt’s The Deep – with a sequel now on the way!

Freakangels by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield

Michael Turner’s Fathom from publisher Aspen

Cartoon Snorks

Tales of the Black Freighter – the pirate story within Watchmen. Also an animated film.

Namor

Aquaman (Read more about him on page 30-37 here at the digital ES mag). Preview of the relaunched #1 here.

Ian Churchill’s Marineman

Jay Piscopo’s The Undersea Adventures of Cap’n Eli and its spinoff Sea Ghost

Abe Sapien

Cursed Pirate Girl

Popeye

Steve Pugh’s Shark Man

ExSeq Ep.56-Comics We Wanna See

extrasequential — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:52:00 +0000

77 mins. After a few brief news items we launch into comics we’d like to see some day. This involves dream projects, concept variations and fond memories of 80s cartoons and forgotten 90s TV shows. We also sing. A lot and mention Gerard Depardieu, She-Hulk and Mad Max.

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2:24 NEWS

Brian Wood at Marvel

Alpha Flight ongoing series

Superman film costume pics

Conan’s failure at the box office

17:14 THEME-COMICS WE WANT TO SEE

HBO’s cancelled “Carnivale” series

Nowhere Man

ThunderCats

Star Trek comics NOT based on any of the movie/series characters, and New Frontier

Bionic Six

Asterix and Obelix from new creative teams, ala Spirou and Lucky Luke

Marvel and DC combining forces into one mega-publisher

Peter David returning to Hulk

(good) Indiana Jones comics

Original Phantom stories from Australia

Different iterations of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, such as this great ’80s one

The Ultimates Volume 3 by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch

Hard science fiction comics

Tom Neely for a new Popeye series, like his surreal “Popeye: Doppelganger”

More Elseworlds tales from DC Comics

Also, comics that do exist but that you may not know about, such as Dark Crystal, X-Men Forever, X-Factor Forever and Buckaroo Banzai.

Also, check out Project Rooftop and Superman 2000.

ExSeq Ep. 55-Read Comics in Public

extrasequential — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 08:26:31 +0000

53 mins. It’s International Read Comics in Public Day so we discuss the hows and whys of doing so. Also, the definition of geeks, Dan Brown, and cheering superheroes.

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1:22 NEWS

Superman’s film costume loses his red undies

Rolling Stone talks to Grant Morrison

Hero Complex talks to Dan DiDio

A freaky Korean webcomic

Comics documentary on Kickstarter

Shaun Tan wins a Hugo Award

22:37 THEME-INTERNATIONAL READ COMICS IN PUBLIC DAY

We talk about reading comics in public – the what to read, what not to read and general suggestions into making new comics friends. Handy hints galore! Also comics that we’re too embarassed to read, the novels that we see people read on public transport.

Here is a collection of pics all over the world of people participating last year.

ExSeq Ep. 54-Genre Mash Ups

extrasequential — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:38:22 +0000

61 mins. We focus on genre mash-ups in comics. The movie trailer marketing for the DC 52 Relaunch, writer Brian Wood leaving DC, the workings behind film-rights at Vertigo, the Death of Hellboy, and our quick thoughts on the new Conan the Barbarian & Iron Man: Extremis motion comic. Also floating moustaches, zombie cows and Herman’s Head.

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1:19 NEWS

The DC Comics ad at cinemas

Why Brian Wood’s DMZ didn’t become a TV show

Colleen Doran speaking at Sydney in November

Farewell Hellboy! (sort of)

Cola-Con - Comics and hip hop together at last

Ridley Scott directing another Blade Runner film

16:29 THEME: GENRES MASH-UPS

We yak about various properties that either ‘meet’ or ‘vs’ each other. Superman, Batman, Aliens, Predator, Tarzan, Judge Dredd, Frankenstein, Abbott and Costello, zombies, robots and many more.

Image’s Cowboy Ninja Viking

Geof Darrow’s Shaolin Cowboy

Abraxas and the Earthman

Heavy metal film - submit your ideas!

Robots vs Zombies

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Antarctic Press’ Pirates vs Ninja

ExSeq Ep.53-The Deep & Century: 1969

extrasequential — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:14:54 +0000

50 mins. We focus on two very different comics this week, in Gestalt’s The Deep and Top Shelf’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century: 1969. Also, comic shops in Sydney, ping pong balls, The Rock and more.

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4:30 NEWS

The Annotated Sandman Volume 1

The White Rabbit Batman villainess

Robert Crumb cancels his Australian visit

Tanarus, the new Thor

13:16 FEATURE REVIEWS-THE DEEP & CENTURY: 1969

From Tom Taylor and James Brouwer comes this fun all-ages adventure about the Nekton family.

Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill bring us the latest, and certainly not all-ages, instalment in their increasingly strange League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series.

Extra Sequential Podcast Trailer

extrasequential — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 07:25:15 +0000

Seeing as we’ve now approached our one year anniversary, Mladen and I thought we’d do something a little special, so here we have a trailer for our podcast. As always for the show, the groovy music is by Mladen (he with the long hair). It was pretty fun to make this, as I haven’t done any editing in years.

ExSeq Ep. 52-Cats

extrasequential — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 03:44:19 +0000

58 mins. Celebrating World Cat Day, we take a feline focus on some our favourite cat-themed characters. Catwoman, Black Panther, Doraemon and oh, so many more. Also, DC’s controversial approach to female creators, and race within superhero comics.

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1:50 NEWS

George Lucas loses the rights to the Stormtroopers design

Bane from The Dark Knight Rises

Batman: Arkham City game costumes

First pic of the new Superman

Laurence Fishburne is the new Perry White

Miles Morales, the new Ultimate Spider-Man

DC’s reaction to female creators

He-Man documentary

The Vault, and Nonplayer have been picked up for potential films

Our very own trailer!

21:58 THEME-CATS

Black Panther

Catwoman, and Catgirl

Catman

Hellcat, Tigra and Cheetah

Blacksad

Apocalypse Meow

Cat Eyed Boy

Doraemon

Hello Kitty

Marsupilami

Krazy Kat

Catbert (from Dilbert)

Garfield

Hobbes (from Calvin and Hobbes)

Horse (from Footrot Flats)

The X-Men’s Beast

Black Cat

2 in We3

Fritz the Cat

ThunderCats

Streaky the Super Cat

(SHOW CORRECTION: Not all furries are into the sexual content, we used the term ‘furries’ to refer to the sexual subgroup as we couldn’t recall the word for it at the time. No offense intended to Furries, and sorry for the false characterisation. Thanks for catching the error, ES listeners!)

ExSeq Ep.51-Eisners & Old City Blues

extrasequential — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 06:13:59 +0000

49 mins. We discuss this year’s Eisner Award winners, including some surprises and a few faves, plus examine the recent OGN from Archaia, Giannis Milonogiannis’ sci-fi mash-up Old City Blues. Also, Home Alone 2, Garfield, the exclusion of Jedis and more.

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3:26 NEWS

The rather subtle DC Relaunch protest at Comic-Con

New Judge Dredd film images

Marvel gets the film rights back to Blade and Punisher

Nerdcore duo Kirby Krackle’s new album, Super Powered Love is now out

Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ Saga

New DC animated films

Jack Kirby’s estate loses court case to Marvel

Captain America: The First Avenger is awesome. Here’s my full review

19:07 EISNER AWARD WINNERS

See the full list here

27:03 FEATURE REVIEW – OLD CITY BLUES

Set in Greece after a devastating flood, this sci-fi tale wears it influences proudly on its sleeve.

More info here and behind the scene commentary from writer/artist Giannis Milonogiannis here.

ExSeq Ep. 50

extrasequential — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:34:03 +0000

60 mins. Join us as we celebrate our first milestone episode and talk about heaps of Comic-Con news, and a few recent reviews. We also answer some fanmail and talk about bad Robin Williams’ films, MacGyver, Klingons, Jarvis Cocker, and invisible pants.

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6:54 NEWS

IDW’s Popeye comic

Vertigo’s House of Mystery is ending

Trailers for next year’s Dark Knight Rises and The Amazing Spider-Man

Marvel’s Season One newbie friendly OGNs

Tom Morello, Guillermo del Toro and P.C Cast working with Dark Horse

The dissolution of Superman’s marriage to Lois Lane

DC’s comic based on the game, Uncharted

Star Trek and Legion of Super-Heroes cross-over

Spider-Man and X-Men titles go digital

25:33 WHAT WE’VE BEEN READING

Osama Tezuka’s little known Apollo’s Song

Conan: Island of No Return

Taiyo Matsumoto’s Gogo Monster

DC Retro-Active – Wonder Woman – The ’70s. 2 tales starring a powerless, judo loving WW.

Big Baby, another weird comic from Charles Burns

Harlan Ellison’s collection of reviews, Watching

X-Men: Schism #1 by Jason Aaron and Carlos Pacheco

ExSeq Ep #49-Bad Taste Comics

extrasequential — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 12:52:34 +0000

59 mins. We’re joined by Dave Jackson and Pierre of Melbourne comic book Modern Gentlemen to discuss how comics have become the last bastion of Bad Taste in popular art.

We also look at objectionable content in comics, censorship, sex and violence, how far is too far, the indie sub-genre of hardcore sleaze comics as well as the mainstream, and dig into some key creators of the genre.

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Find the teaser for Fever Dreams, the guy’s upcoming TV show on Channel 31 here.

ExSeq Ep #48-July Previews

extrasequential — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:22:23 +0000

46 mins. We look at the goodies in the latest Previews monthly catalogue, for September releasing comics. Also, Mladen guesses the identities of the new Justice League International, plush toy that reminds us of Kevin Bacon, Ice Man’s clothing choices and the Dead Block zombie game.

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1:20 NEWS

Marvel’s Facebook popularity

Dark Horizons’ best comics films list

The upcoming animated film Batman: Year One trailer

Warren Ellis and D’Israeli’s unique, ultraviolet comic, SVK

Harvey Award nominees

Read Orc stain #1 for free

Heroes and Villains comics exhibition

11:52 THEME-JULY PREVIEWS

We recommend stuff from a gamut of publishers including Dark Horse, IDW, Alterna, BOOM! Studios, and Fantagraphics. We check out comics such as a few of the DC relaunches, Ghostbusters #1, classic Flash Gordon, Jim Henson’s A Tale of Sand, Daniel Clowes’ The Death Ray, Michael Zulli’s The Fracture of the Universal Boy, Frank Miller’s Holy Terror!, Korgi, James Jean’s Rebus art book, Star Wars comics art, and blueprints books, and some possibly alluring Halloween costumes. Phew.

ExSeq Ep #47-Swamp Thing

extrasequential — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 09:53:50 +0000

50 mins. We go green and delve into the murky depths of DC’s classic monster/ hero Swamp Thing, including his great cartoon theme song, film appearances, superhero cross-overs, and much-loved reinvention from writer Alan Moore.

Also, leaping Superman, ostracizing Martians and non-human love.

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0:56 NEWS

Iron Man anime clip

DC’s Relaunch video

Comic-Con protest against DC Relaunch

New Justice League

12:16 THEME-SWAMP THING

Our look at Swamp Thing, including his great cartoon theme song, film appearances, superhero cross-overs, and much-loved reinvention from writer Alan Moore.

ExSeq Ep #46-Liar’s Kiss & The Homeland Directive

extrasequential — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:33:59 +0000

47 mins. We review two impressive new OGNs from Top Shelf . We also discuss our mutual appreciation of almonds, Keanu Reeves, and diamond earrings.

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1:37 NEWS

Legendary artist Gene Colan dies

Commando Comics turns 50

Gary Groth from Fantagraphics on DC’s relaunch

Powers TV show casting

Robin as a playable character in Batman: Arkham City

A documentary on publisher Gestalt

The new Captain America trailer

13:07 Ramblings including the Green Hornet film and comic, and Batman’s bladder.

16:45 LIAR’S KISS from Eric Skillman and Jhomar Soriano. Black and white noir goodness with a scruffy P.I and a tangled web of intrigue.

29:10 THE HOMELAND DIRECTIVE from Robert Venditti and Mike Huddleston. A visually dazzling, and complex tale involving a doctor on the run, the rogue government agents who aid her and a vast conspiracy involving politics and medicine.

ExSeq Ep #45-Green Lantern

extrasequential — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:15:18 +0000

57 mins. Don’t know who or what a Green Lantern is? Fear not, we have it covered. Also, superhero love and just how Smurfs manage to reproduce.

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1:20 NEWS

Avenging Spider-Man kicks off in November. A new ongoing series.

Two new X-Men titles coming soon.

Russel Crowe is set to play Superman’s Kryptonian father. If that ain’t bad enough, the Man of Steel will no longer be married to Lois Lane.

IDW’s new Star Trek movie series.

Frank Miller’s Holy Terror also coming in September.

Movie studios pulling out of the massive San Diego Comic-Con.

Neil Gaiman’s American Gods’ TV series.

14:10 THEME-GREEN LANTERN

Panel Plays returns! Kissing involved.

We give the lowdown on some of the Green Lanterns over the years, including some whacky ring slingers, and some comics you should grab to know more.

Read more GL issues here with this handy app and go here for a perty rundown on all the other colours of the Lantern Corps.