Podcast appearances and mentions of Ashley A Woods

On this episode, Brian and Darci head north to talk about the Viking Adventure Drama, Heathen. The conversation dives into Norse Mythology, clothing, mermaids, and choosing settings for stories. They also discuss further on Even Though We're Adults as well as The Last Witch #2. Plus quick discussions about Shadow Doctor #1 and The Girl without a Face vol. 1. Due to the recent storms in the Midwest, the sound quality is less than stellar, but nevertheless everything is pretty audible and listenable. Comics Deserve Better is a weekly podcast hosted by Brian Stafford and Darci Meadville and covers the world of Independent Comics. For a list of episodes, socials and emails, and to request a topic for a future episode please visit comicsdeservebetter.wordpress.com. (Episode Artwork by Natasha Alterici)

This week, Liberty and Danika discuss Two Truths and a Lie, A Taste for Love, Winter’s Orbit, and more great books. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice by Ellen McGarrahan  Milk Fed by Melissa Broder  Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell  Love Is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar The Project by Courtney Summers A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan  The Low Desert: Gangster Stories by Tod Goldberg  A Taste For Love by Jennifer Yen WHAT WE’RE READING: Heathen Volume 3 by Natasha Alterici and Ashley A. Woods (Artist) Milk Blood Heat: Stories by Dantiel W. Moniz MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: The Other Mothers: Two Women’s Journey to Find the Family That Was Always Theirs by Jennifer Berney Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz I am The Rage by Martina McGowan and Diana Ejaita What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo  U UP? by Catie Disabato Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs by Ina Park  Rise of the Red Hand (The Mechanists) by Olivia Chadha  Girls with Bright Futures: A Novel by Tracy Dobmeier and Wendy Katzman  Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia by Thomas Healy A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke Ridgerunner by Gil Adamson The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah Untraceable by Sergei Lebedev and Antonina W. Bouis The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S. (as told to his brother) by David Levithan Animal, Vegetable, Junk by Mark Bittman  Love in English by Maria E. Andreu The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson Wild Swims: Stories by Dorthe Nors, Misha Hoekstra (translator) Prosopagnosia by Sònia Hernández, Samuel Rutter (translator) Candy Hearts by Tommy Siegel The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. Masood Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph by Chad Sanders Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy by Rachel Ricketts What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology by Paul Nurse Muted by Tami Charles Resetting the Table: Straight Talk About the Food We Grow and Eat by Robert Paarlberg. The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (Young Readers Edition) by Jeanne Theoharis, Brandy Colbert  This Is Not the Jess Show by Anna Carey How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell  Heartwarming: How Our Inner Thermostat Made Us Human by Hans Rocha Ijzerman Truly Like Lightning by David Duchovny   The Hatmakers by Tamzin Merchant This Golden Flame by Emily Victoria Yesterday Is History by Kosoko Jackson Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler My Year Abroad by Chang-rae Lee girl stuff. by Lisi Harrison Loud Black Girls: 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What’s Next? by Yomi Adegoke, Elizabeth Uviebinené Everything That Burns: An Enchantée Novel by Gita Trelease The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob by Russell Shorto An Anatomy of Pain: How the Body and the Mind Experience and Endure Physical Suffering by Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen The Last Tiara by M.J. Rose  Girl A by Abigail Dean Beneath the Keep: A Novel of the Tearling by Erika Johansen The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner  Send for Me by Lauren Fox A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus Mortal Remains by Mary Ann Fraser The Women’s History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years by Rosalind Miles What Doesn’t Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness – Lessons from a Body in Revolt by Tessa Miller Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir by Rebecca Carroll The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics by Tim Harford Love Is a Revolution by Renée Watson Poetics of Work by Noémi Lefebvre, Sophie Lewis (translator) Floating in a Most Peculiar Way: A Memoir by Louis Chude-Sokei Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life by Ruth Padel  The Year I Flew Away by Marie Arnold What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology by Paul Nurse Halfway Home : Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration by Reuben Jonathan Miller Muse by Brittany Cavallaro Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant  Annie and the Wolves by Andromeda Romano-Lax The Mercenary by Paul Vidich Flood City by Daniel José Older Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado Lone Stars by Justin Deabler The Survivors by Jane Harper This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith City of a Thousand Gates by Rebecca Sacks Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano  Landslide by Susan Conley The Obsession by Jesse Q Sutanto Blood Grove by Walter Mosley A History of What Comes Next: A Take Them to the Stars Novel by Sylvain Neuvel  Speculative Los Angeles edited by Denise Hamilton Land of Big Numbers: Stories by Te-Ping Chen Killer Content by Olivia Blacke The Spirit of Music: The Lesson Continues by Victor L. Wooten  All the Tides of Fate by Adalyn Grace Make Up Break Up by Lily Menon  God I Feel Modern Tonight: Poems from a Gal About Town by Catherine Cohen Pink: Poems by Sylvie Baumgartel  Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are by Jedidiah Jenkins  Leave Out the Tragic Parts: A Grandfather’s Search for a Boy Lost to Addiction by Dave Kindred  The Removed: A Novel by Brandon Hobson Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain A View from Abroad: The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe by Jeanne E. Abrams Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods by Amelia Pang Bad Habits by Amy Gentry The Unwilling by John Hart  We Can Only Save Ourselves by Alison Wisdom The Package by Sebastian Fitzek, Jamie Bulloch (Translator) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ashley A. Woods is a tremendous talent and illustrator and writer. She pencils for Niobe She is Life at Stranger comics and Tomb Raider at Dark Horse. We get a personal glimpse into the woman and artist. https://twitter.com/Ashes_Art http://ashleyawoods.com/ https://ashes-art.tumblr.com/

Happy Holidays from Challengers! We maybe start out by talking about Christmas music for a little too long… And then we maybe talk about toys for kinda long, too. 2017 is starting off great for events at Challengers! Ryan Browne and Ashley A. Woods, and Amber Benson and Sarah Kuhn, all in January. Women’s History Month = Women’s Comics Month We talk a lot about Marvel’s October 2017 title sales vs. Challengers sales of those same titles. Lastly, slow sales are being felt all across the industry. Some suggest diversification, but what diversification do they mean?

This week James and Nick talk about Marvel's Netflix shows, flip through Previews, and more! It's our longest description yet. Correction: Bruce Lee was not created by comic creators, he was the son of Lee Hoi-Chun and Grace Ho. Nick was too eager to jump into his main point to recognize this mistake. Totally Whelmed Twitter: @whelmedpod Facebook: facebook.com/whelmedpod James: @Iamvonblum Nick: @SPD4649 Dr. Comics & Mr. Games Twitter/Instagram: @drcomicsmrgames Facebook: facebook.com/drcomicsmrgames Tumblr: drcomicsmrgames.tumblr.com Mahershala Ali http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0991810/?ref_=tt_cl_t10 Alfre Woodard http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005569/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t4 Theo Rossi http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0744331/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t3 Sigourney Weaver Added to Defenders Cast https://www.yahoo.com/tv/sigourney-weaver-added-defenders-villain-235053751.html Punisher Netflix Series NYCC 2016 Announcement http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/10/08/nycc-16-the-punisher-has-begun-production-deborah-ann-woll-joins-cast Plea to Make Iron Fist Asian American https://thenerdsofcolor.org/2014/03/11/marvel-please-cast-an-asian-american-iron-fist/ Madame Gao, played by Wai Ching Ho, is an associate of Wilson Fisk in the Netflix Daredevil series. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0387395/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t21 Aliens Dead Orbit by James Stokoe http://comicsalliance.com/james-stokoe-aliens-dead-orbit/ Orc Stain Volume 1 http://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAY100457 Usagi Yojimbo #160 by Stan Sakai http://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT160061 Shadows of the Grave #1 by Richard Corben http://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT160064 Hellboy the Crooked Man http://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/FEB100044 Wildstorm Relaunch http://www.cbr.com/ellis-wildstorm-story-separate-from-dcs-rebirth-universe/ Supergirl: Being Super #1 by Mariko Tamaki and Joëlle Jones http://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT160256 Super Powers #2 by Art Baltazar and Franco http://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT160282 Judge Dredd by Brendan McCarthy http://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT160463 Spider-Man Doctor Strange: Fever Dream http://classic.tcj.com/superhero/spider-man-fever-by-brendan-mccarthy/ Reggie and Me #1 by Tom DeFalco and Sandy Jarrell http://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT161179 Black by Kwanza Osajyefo, Jamal Igle. Khary Randolph, and Ashley A. Woods http://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/jul161306 Kim and Kim #1 by Magdalene Visaggio, Tess Fowler, Kiki Jenkins, Devaki Neogi, Claudia Aguirre, Eva Cabrera http://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAY161208 Kong of Skull Island TP by John Asmus and Carlos Magno http://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT161294 Cells at Work volume 2 by Akane Shimizu http://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT161677 Vinland Saga volume 8 by Makoto Yukimura http://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT161687 Batwoman NYCC 2016 Announcement http://dccomicsnews.com/2016/10/06/nycc-2016-new-batwoman-rebirth-ongoing-announced/ Miss America NYCC 2016 Announcement http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/10/07/nycc-2016-marvels-miss-america-chavez-to-star-in-new-comic-series Teppu 鉄風 (Iron Wind) by Moare Oota https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teppu Transformers #57 http://www.idwpublishing.com/product/transformers-57/ Batman: Child of Dreams by Kia Asamiya is unfortunately out of print, however you can easily track a copy down from used book sellers.

The beards talk with up and comic comic artist Ashley A. Woods about cases of mistaken identity, Captain America, Black Panther, gender and race in comics and movies, and about her work on Niobe, a comic that YOU should be reading. :)​