Today, your panelists wonder: what does it look like to tell a story about prejudice but divorced from real-world analogues? What does it mean to tie concepts of hunger and desire together inexorably? Just how much money is cow bathwater going for these days? And wait, is that-? Oh my god, it's Legoshi, my close personal friend Legoshi!

• (00:00) - “Beast Complex” by Paru Itagaki
• (00:43) - Front Matter
• (03:47) - Plot Overview
• (04:42) - Short stories
• (05:48) - The world of Beast Compkex vs Zootopia
• (14:14) - How the book improves over time
• (16:24) - What is doujinshi again?
• (17:48) - Is the mangaka a nepo baby?
• (19:26) - “Devouring”
• (25:45) - SPOILERS!
• (25:48) - Our top 3s
• (31:06) - The Tiger and the Alpaca
• (34:05) - The Pig and the Peacock
• (36:13) - ERROR ⚠️
• (43:17) - The Wolf and the Rabbit
• (54:02) - The Chipmunk and the (Mountain Hare)
• (01:01:08) - Relationships vs Events
• (01:03:39) - The Shiba Inu and the Shiba Inu
• (01:08:28) - The Alligator and the Cow
• (01:14:47) - The Wolf and the Seal
• (01:20:11) - Some of the stories that don’t work
• (01:26:29) - Final thoughts
• (01:27:37) - Further Reading
• (01:32:33) - Back Matter

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This week’s panelists can be found at:

Matt

Scout

Jillian

Editing this week by AJ Fillari.
Cover art by Scout Wilkinson.
Intro/Outro music by Boqeh.

Today your panelists talk Frontier, a French graphic novel written and illustrated by the artist of Citizen Sleeper and Citizen Sleeper 2! Join us as we discuss hope among dystopia and how pacing can let down an otherwise incredible story.

You can purchase Frontier in English here.

• (00:00) - “Frontier” by Guillaume Singelin
• (00:42) - Front Matter
• (03:26) - Impressions
• (05:34) - Guillaume’s art style
• (08:05) - Chibi violence
• (11:37) - The density of Frontier’s space
• (15:13) - Singelin’s Rescue card
• (16:16) - Unfamiliar familiarity
• (17:42) - Little nubbin feet
• (20:23) - Variation in line weight
• (23:37) - Spoiler section!
• (23:48) - Similarities to Citizen Sleeper
• (27:59) - Finding meaning or a way out
• (36:08) - The opening structure of this book
• (37:43) - Pacing problems
• (38:13) - GOKU!
• (41:09) - More on pacing
• (44:04) - Hopeful science fiction
• (46:20) - How Camina is let down by utopian naivete
• (53:04) - Even more on pacing
• (54:09) - Our favorite characters
• (56:02) - Ji-soo’s retirement
• (56:54) - Favorite panels and pages
• (01:04:00) - Camina, trans icon
• (01:04:14) - A quote that is too real
• (01:05:05) - How this book was made
• (01:05:56) - Further Reading
• (01:07:31) - Back Matter

A comics podcast for everyone, proud to be a part of The Worst Garbage network.

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This week’s panelists can be found at:

Matt
Robin

Scout

Jillian

Editing this week by AJ Fillari.
Cover art by Scout Wilkinson.
Intro/Outro music by Boqeh.

Today our panelists talk about women with swords - hey, wait a second, didn't we do this last time? Join us for a discussion of "Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 1: The Last Amazon," where we talk about big swords, literary analysis, and Eisner award-winning colors!

• (00:00) - “Absolute Wonder Woman”
• (02:01) - Front Matter
• (03:34) - What is the Absolute Universe?
• (09:22) - What does Scout know about Wonder Woman?
• (12:46) - No tone problems!
• (14:29) - The artists are delivering
• (19:21) - Circe and Diana
• (22:57) - Paneling
• (29:16) - Sherman’s Art vs de Iulis’s
• (31:04) - SPOILERS BEGIN HERE
• (31:07) - Even bigger sword
• (35:41) - Lettering the scream bomb
• (37:11) - The Lady and the Tiger
• (42:17) - The pomegranate seeds
• (46:01) - The biggest laughs
• (48:22) - Diana’s thoughtfulness
• (51:18) - Skeleton Pegasus
• (51:41) - The lassos
• (53:02) - Hades’ design
• (54:42) - Amazon in hell
• (58:08) - Further reading
• (01:00:44) - Back matter

- Kelly Thompson's work with Marvel - Jeff the Land Shark, Captain Marvel

- Hayden Sherman's art in Batman: Dark Patterns, written by Dan Watters
- Sherman is co-creator, penciller, and inker for Dark Spaces: Dungeon
- Jordie Bellaire is doing colors on Exquisite Corpses from James Tynion IV and Michael Walsh’s Tiny Onion imprint at Image. She is an artist in residence with Tiny Onion.
- Bellaire has done color work on the super popular Assorted Crisis Events which is written by Deniz Camp, who also writes Absolute Martian Manhunter.

A comics podcast for everyone, proud to be a part of The Worst Garbage network.

Find us on Bluesky or Tumblr.

This week’s panelists can be found at:

Matt
Robin

Scout

Jillian

Editing this week by AJ Fillari.
Cover art by Scout Wilkinson.
Intro/Outro music by Boqeh.