4thletter!

-I’m traveling, and I totally forgot to post this earlier today. -We did a catch-up review show that basically turned into us talking about how DC’s New 52 shook out. -Esther ain’t too fond of Mr Terrific and Batwoman. -But she’s digging Batgirl and Wonder Woman. -I like WW so much I barely have anything to say about it. -I’m [...]

-Cripes, we’ve done one hundred of these things -This time, we’re just talking about various things we like about comics for an hour or so -6th Sense’s 4a.m. Instrumental for the theme music. -Here comes a new challenger! -See you, space cowboy! Subscribe to the Fourcast! via: –Podcast Alley feed! –RSS feed via Feedburner –iTunes StoreSimilar Posts: Fourcast! 89: Don’t Call It A Reboot! Fourcast! [...]

-Let’s talk about all things scary! -Books, comics, movies, dates… -Emily Carroll’s His Face All Red -Colson Whitehead’s Zone One: A Novel -Stephen King’s Desperation and The Regulators. -Daniel H Wilson’s Robopocalypse: A Novel. –The Bad Seed: –The Good Son: –Junji Ito, -6th Sense’s 4a.m. Instrumental for the theme music. -Here comes a new challenger! -See you, space cowboy! Subscribe to the Fourcast! via: –Podcast Alley feed! –RSS feed [...]

-We’re talking comics! -Not comic books. Joke comics. Ha ha ha. -This is the second half of the conversation. -Here’s Kristen Schaal’s Sexy Book of Sexy Sex. -6th Sense’s 4a.m. Instrumental for the theme music. -Here comes a new challenger! -See you, space cowboy! Subscribe to the Fourcast! via: –Podcast Alley feed! –RSS feed via Feedburner –iTunes StoreSimilar Posts: Fourcast! 89: Don’t Call It A Reboot! Fourcast! [...]

-We’re talking comics! -Not comic books. Joke comics. Ha ha ha. -This ended up being a fairly long conversation, so I split it (roughly) in half. -We tell some jokes, we talk about some jokes, you know how it goes. -We talk about tv shows, mainly Louie, 30 Rock, the usual suspects -6th Sense’s 4a.m. Instrumental for the theme music. -Here [...]

-I was out late doing karaoke before recording, sorry if I sound tired -Esther made me read Gail Simone and Neil Googe’s Welcome to Tranquility -I made Esther read Naoki Urasawa’s Pluto -Esther claims that I’m why we can’t have happy comics, because I like sad things -We didn’t like each other’s books very much, I think. Can you [...]

-DC’s in the process of releasing 52 mostly-new comics! -We’re talking about the first full week. -Esther picked up Action Comics, Stormwatch, Green Arrow, and Batgirl -I picked up Static, Justice League, and Animal Man -I also bought Swamp Thing, but didn’t manage to discuss it. It was fine–I just don’t think I’m much of a Swamp Thing fan [...]

-Two books, two podcasters! -I’m talking about John Layman and Rob Guillory’s Chew, which you can read here -Esther is talking about Aimee Bender’s The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake -The two books are thematically related, I figure, under the umbrella of “secret truths revealed through food.” -It’s an interesting connection, and Bender’s book sounds pretty neat. Chew, of [...]