Sage & Braden Love Comics

Oh my gosh - it’s our two year podcast anniversary! Oh and it’s also Valentine’s Day (or close enough to it) To celebrate we have two books about looooove 💕 We’re talking about Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe and Life of Melody by Mari Costa. In our discussion we also ask the age old questions like “do you believe in love at first sight?” and “if you found a baby in the woods at the same time as a hot stranger would you buy a house together and raise the baby?” Get ready for romance!  Black History Month - 2:23  Current movies & TV shows we’re watching - 5:38  Big Poison Ivy news!!! - 12:10  Lore Olympus - 15:06  Life of Melody - 36:59  Additional recs for current ongoing series - 56:18  Music by Louie Zong (https://louiezong.bandcamp.com/)

Whoops! We read a book that Brandon Graham worked on. So yeah, Messy comma Weird is how we're kicking off 2023. But we dig into plenty of other books along with our usual updates on what we've been up, and wrap up with some highlights from 2022! 17:20 - Bolero by Luana Vecchio and Wyatt Kennedy 38:13 - Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales by Melanie Gillman 44:56 - Princess Knight by Osamu Tezuka 48:02 - Monotone Blue by Nagabe 52:00 - What else we've been reading 58:57 - Our 2022 faves

For Halloween we've got spooky shenanigans (sort of) AND comics to cover this episode! Our big recommendations are Low Low Woods and Be Kind, My Neighbor which both feature great, weird, queer horror stories. But if that's still somehow not enough for you then we got plenty of other cool books on the brain right now that you should check out. Big SPOILER warning for our main two books in particular. 13:43 - Low Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado, Dani, Tamra Bonvillain and Steve Wands 35:07 - Be Kind, My Neighbor by Yugo Limbo (animated trailer) 45:20 - Thieves by Lucy Bryon 49:40 - Squire by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas 55:35 - Chilling Adventures of Salem 56:25 - Mermaid Saga by by Rumiko Takahashi 58:45 - Fruiting Bodies by Ashley Robin Franklin 59:44 - The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night by Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda 1:00:55 - Grim by Stephanie Phillips, Flaviano, and Rico Renzi

This episode we're covering Boys Run the Riot by Keito Gaku and Blackwater by Jeannette Arroyo and Ren Graham but first we catch up on some of the many TV shows we've been watching. We'll wrap things up with some recent comics we've been enjoying along with some recommendations for books to check out during Hispanic Heritage Month. We had a lot to talk about so buckle up!

We're back after an unexpectedly long hiatus, but we have been reading comics and it's time we we finally talked about them along with some of the cool shows we've been watching/becoming obsessed with! (As well as what comics we think Eddie Munson would read) We won't be going into quite as much plot details about the books we cover so we're only giving a warning for ** LIGHT SPOILERS **. Nothing major, just broad plot stuff.  The 2 main books we'll be covering are - Past the Last Mountain by Paul Allor and Louie Joyce, Published by CEX Publishing Heartstopper! By Alice Oseman, published by Graphix at Scholastic.  We also briefly cover these titles in the latter half of the show: - Flavor Girls #1 by Loic Locatelli-Kournwsky with colors by Eros de Santiago. Out now! - The Last Session volume 01 by Jasmine Wells, Dozerdraws, and Micah Meyers. Out now! - The Ocean Will Take Us by Rich Douek and Carlos Olivares. 3 issues out, volume 01 out October 26th! - Poison Ivy by G Willow Wilson & Marcio Takara (AMAZING B COVERS - #1 Warren Louw #2 Jenny Frison). 2 issues out. - Eight Billion Genies by Charles Soule and Ryan Browne. 3 issues out. - She-Hulk by Rainbow Rowell, Roge Antonio and Luca Maresca (with incredible Jen Bartel Covers). 4 issues out, volume 01 out October 5th.  Music by Louie Zong (https://louiezong.bandcamp.com/) Recorded on July 13, 2022

We're back and ready to get the new year started with Eat, and Love Yourself by Sweeney Boo with colors by Joana Lafuente and letters by David Hopkins and Catboy by Benji Nate! 2:05 - Kickstarter  08:02 - Eat, and Love Yourself (Content warning - disordered eating, body dysmorphia) National Eating Disorders Association Helpline: 1-800-931-2237 31:34 - Catboy Benji Nate's Threadless store 47:20 - Recent recommendations 51:18 - Special Announcement!!!

A quick end-of-the-year bonus episode for ya'll where we review some of our greatest comics hits of 2021! Happy Holidays!

In this episode get into some queer fantasy and teen horror as we discuss Girl Haven written by Lilah Sturges, illustrated by Meaghan Carter, and lettered by Joamette Gil and Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle. We also discuss the workers of Image unionizing, Hawkeye, and of course our recent faves. 00:35 - Image workers union (Comic Book Workers United) 06:04 - Hawkeye 11:09 - Girl Haven 31:14 - Squad 56:45 - Recent recommendations

Just in time for Halloween, we've got two great graphic novels about witches to cover! First up is Snapdragon by Kat Leyh followed by Witchlight by Jessi Zabarsky with colors by Geov Chouteau. 03:04 - Return of Saga 06:25 - Paper shortage 10:12 - Venom facts 12:40 - Snapdragon 33:13 - Witchlight 57:36 - Cool witch comics and recent recommendations

Sage and Braden are back again to talk about comics, some of the latest discourse, What If..? and more! First up is Ms. Marvel volume 01 Written by G Willow Wilson, drawn by Adrian Alphona with colors by Ian Herring and letters by Joe Caramagna featuring the origin of Kamala Khan's tenure as the new Ms. Marvel! And second is Jessica Jones: Blindspot, Written by Kelly Thompson, drawn by Mattia De Iulis except for part 6 which is drawn by Marcio Takara and colored by Rachelle Rosenberg. Letters are by Cory Petit and the awesome cover is drawn by Martin Simmonds. This is the first Jessica Jones caper written by Kelly Thompson who is one of our favorite authors! We'll be discussing SPOILERS for both books so please read them first if that's a concern. We unfortunately had to cut the episode a bit short due to some technical difficulties and didn't get to dig into Jessica Jones quite as deeply as we would have liked, but there's still plenty here to enjoy. Your patience and support is very much appreciated! 00:53 - Substack 08:13 - What If...? 13:33 - Action Lab 14:32 - Ms Marvel: No Normal 31:06 - Jessica Jones: Blind Spot

In this episode we discuss The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag with colors by Maarta Laiho and Poison Ivy Thorns by Kody Keplinger Kipin and Sara Kipin. We will be discussing SPOILERS for these books and also the Black Widow movie.  3:37 - Black Widow movie  6:39 - Sandman TV show  13:24 - The Girl from the Sea  36:16 - Poison Ivy: Thorns  1:04:44 - Our current comic recommendations

We go a little long this episode as there's been a lot to talk about in the Comic book world lately, but stick around for our thoughts on our two lovely picks, Taproot by Keezy Young with lettering by AW's Tom Napolitano and Pilu of the Woods by Mai K. Nguyen. Both perfect for some outdoor reading or gardening inspiration! 1:58 - Comics discourse 8:31 - The Eisner Awards 16:02 - Loki 23:37 - Taproot 43:52 - Pilu of the Woods 1:05:00 - Current comics we're enjoying The music we use is: "at last, a piano" by Louie Zong from the album Sights. (louiezong.bandcamp.com/album/sights)

We're back this episode to discuss Amy Reeder's take on Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld from DC Comics and the queer sci-fi/romance O Human Star by Blue Delliquanti. Also Braden got a new front door, Sage is excited for the Netflix adaptation of Lady Killer, and some other comics we've been loving lately include Proctor Valley Road, The Silver Coin, and Children of the Atom. 6:51 - Amethyst 30:59 - O Human Star 56:34 - Recent comics we're enjoying Music is: "at last, a piano" by Louie Zong from the album Sights. (louiezong.bandcamp.com/album/sights)

For our third episode we discuss Monstress by Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda, and Rus Wooton along with Bloom by Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau. We also discuss Falcon and Winter Soldier, that NFT drama, and give our additional recs for new comics coming out! 0:45-10:00 - Falcon and Winter Soldier 10:02-14:30 - NFTs 14:42-36:38 - Monstress 36:45-53:28 - Bloom Music is: "at last, a piano" by Louie Zong from the album Sights. (louiezong.bandcamp.com/album/sights)

For our second episode, we dive into As the Crow Flies by Melanie Gillman and Jughead by Chip Zdarsky and Erica Henderson. Keep an ear out for Braden's Digimon obsession and Sage's kitchen fire as well! Music is: "at last, a piano" by Louie Zong from the album Sights. (louiezong.bandcamp.com/album/sights)

We kick off our debut episode with each of our favorite comics, Teen Dog by Jake Lawrence and I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly and Ken Niimura! We also chat for a bit about WandaVision because why the heck not? Music is: "at last, a piano" by Louie Zong from the album Sights. (louiezong.bandcamp.com/album/sights)

Bonus time again! We received an early review copy of Coming Back, a lovely fantasy graphic novel by Jessi Zabarsky that we loved so we had a quick chat about the book that you get to listen to now! We will be discussing entire plot of the book so be aware of spoilers if you haven't read it yet.