Sage and Braden Love Comics

This episode we discuss Baby Blue by Swedish creator Bim Eriksson (translated to English by Melissa Bowers) - a lesbian love story in the wake of a fascist regime *cough cough* and A Song for You and I by K. O'Neill - a gorgeous pastoral graphic novel about courage and identity. We also talk about some movies, some other books, and some life stuff, as it were. Please note that we discuss spoilers for the first two movies (and the books too, of course, but that's why you're here anyway right?). Thanks for listening!

00:02:08 - Superman the movie!

00:08:55 - K-Pop Demon Hunters

00:12:40 - Sage is moving!

00:14:53 - Lee Knox Ostertag

00:15:58 - Baby Blue

00:46:33 - A Song for You and I

Welcome back! This episode Braden breaks the rules (kind of?) and covers the not-a-comic book The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon, a queer trippy sci-fi novel. And Sage (who never breaks the rules and is always right) covers the graphic novel The Sweetness Between Us by S.W. Searle, a sugary love story between a newly turned vampire girl and a newly diagnosed diabetic boy. What could go wrong?

Also please note that in the opening topics Braden asks if the new Hunger Games movie (Sunrise on the Reaping) is called The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and Sage incorrectly says that it is 🥀

01:24 - The Thunderbolts movie

03:17 - Andor!!!

05:18 - Hunger Games talk

09:05 - The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon

22:54 - The Sweetness Between us by Sarah Winifred Searle

41:59 - Other stuff we’re reading/want to read

Music by Louie Zong

This episode we’re covering Spinning by Tillie Walden and This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews. They’re both big chunky graphic novels with wintery vibes that are great for cozying up with while we get through the last trudges of February ❄️ We also talk about current shows and comics we are into, and discuss the Marvel movie Kraven the Hunter which apparently came out in December? Who knew. Thanks for listening!

00:03:46 - Arcane

00:09:51 - Kraven

00:14:58 - Neil Gaiman (for the last time!)

00:19:52 - This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews

00:48:01 - Spinning by Tillie Walden

01:12:01 - Other comics we like!

Happy spooky season! 👻 This month we’re covering the fantasy manga Frieren: Beyond Journey's End by Abe Tsukasa and Kanehito Yamada and Sugar by Joy San, an anthological collection of short horror stories. We also go over some current TV shows, comics industry drama (or the lack thereof), and additional queer horror comics you should check out for Halloween! 🎃

00:06:07 - Agatha All Along

00:07:42 - Deadpool & Wolverine

00:10:20 - The Penguin

00:15:01 - VTubers

00:22:21 - Good Omens

00:27:44 - Greg Capullo

00:34:25 - Bluesky

00:38:39 - Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

00:58:47 - Sugar

01:22:00 - Halloween reading recs

Well folks, summer is coming to an end once more. So as a last sunshiney hoorah we are talking about two queer summer camp comics with our first ever guest - Portland based “author, poet, and homosexual” Mack W. Mani! In addition to diving into our two books we also discuss the ways queerness and summer camp are linked, what Mack’s been working on, and of course that sweet sweet discourse.

00:02:34 - Talking about movies we haven't seen lol

00:15:38 - Eric Gritter's interesting new publishing company and Colin Kaepernick's much less interesting "publishing" company

00:21:09 - Summer camp!

00:27:57 - Flamer by Mike Curato

00:45:28 - Lumberjanes by ND Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Faith Erin Hicks, Gus Allen, Brittney Williams, Aimee Fleck, Faith Erin Hicks, Becca Tobin, Casey Nowak, AnneMarie Rogers, Felicia Choo, T. Zysk, Aubrey Aiese, Maarta Laiho, Dafna Pleban, and Bones Leopard.

00:58:23 - Camp Yuggoth by Mack W. Mani!

01:00:21 - Other books we've been reading and Summer Camp faves