DECOMPRESSED

This time we're joined by Chip Zdarsky to talk about Public Domain, kinda.

We talk to Wes Craig about Kaya #1, his excellent new fantasy series from Image comics.  As always, spoilers for the issue in question. The theme music is Los Campesino's We Are Beautiful We Are Doomed.        

We talk to Declan Shavley about Old Dog #1, eventually. We are very old, and have known each other for a long time, so it takes us a while to get our knees warmed up. As always, spoilers for the issue in question. The theme music is Los Campesino's We Are Beautiful We Are Doomed.  

We talk to Leah Williams about X-Terminators #1 and somehow manage to take it all too seriously despite being full on. As always, spoilers for the issue in question. The theme music is Los Campesino's We Are Beautiful We Are Doomed.

This time we're joined by Tom Humberstone to talk about Suzanne, his graphic novel about the life of Suzanne Lenglen, the Jazz Age Tennis Legend. Suzanne is published from Avery Hill and available from all good comic shops.

The first year of the X-men book that's so X-men-y they called it X-men is over. How's that gone? How do you land it? Here's Gerry Duggan to talk to us about X-men #12. Theme tune is Los Campesinos' We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed.

And BAMF! Here cometh a Si Spurrier, to talk to us about Legion of X #1. Theme tune is Los Campesinos' We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed.  

Thanks to the shipping schedule and production chains allowing it, our Destiny of X series continues with Vita Ayala joining us to talk about the creative challenges of New Mutants #25. Theme tune is Los Campesinos' We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed.

Our Destiny of X series continues with Tini Howard, sitting down and telling us all about Knights of X, with words, and maybe hand gestures, you can't tell, this is a podcast. Theme tune is Los Campesinos' We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed.  

Our Destiny of X series continues with Benjamin Percy, speaking about The X Lives And Deaths of Wolverine. I could probably break this template a bit, but I'm trying to do this as low upkeep as I can, but I'm still typing this? Why are you typing? Just stop, Kieron, just stop. Theme tune is Los Campesinos' We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed.

Our Destiny of X series continues with Al Ewing, speaking about X-men Red. Theme tune is Los Campesinos' We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed.

Decompressed returns with plans to speak to the creators being Destiny of X. First up - Steve Orlando, talking about relaunching Marauders.   Theme tune is Los Campesinos' We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed.  

Chip Zdarsky writes, draws and is very funny on the internet. We talk to him. Here's my Master Seminar page for you to nose at. Here's Steve Walsh's PROCESS.  

Brian Schirmer and Dani Colman are comic writers and teachers. We talk to them.

Jonathan Hickman writes, draws and designs. We talk to him.

Don't call it a comeback. Al Ewing talks to Kieron about everything, but mainly Minecraft.

In this very special podcast, I’m joined by Eisner-award winner Becky Cloonan. Becky’s career dances between what we could term the mainstream and what we could term the alternative, never resting, never finding a home, but never once seeming uncomfortable. I’ve loved her since the Jennie Zero graphic novel with Brian Wood, and never done anything to make me feel otherwise about her work. Today, we’re talking about her self-published trilology of short comics – Wolves, The Mire and Demeter, which are being collected into an expanded hardback under the name By Chance Or Providence. However, I do warn you, This really is a very special podcast in a very real and not particularly complimentary way. The skype recording went amazingly haywire, randomly double-tracking Becky and losing me for ten minutes at a time, before returning to normal. I’ve actually done a massive editing job, re-interjecting questions and similar. It just about hangs together. Just about. You can get the shownotes over at my blog.

This time I'm joined by Antony Johnston. Antony previously appeared in Decompressed 15, talking about THE COLDEST CITY. But that was in front of an audience at Game City, so we were on our best behaviour. This time we're mumbling on Skype, as is a comic creators preferred form of communication. Except passive-aggression, obv. Anyway! Antony's career as a writer is divided between his work in Games and Comic. In comics, until recently his signature work was the post-apocalyptic series WASTELAND. That may be changing, as he's recently launched two new series via Image. The first, UMBRAL is an excellent Dark Fantasy book. The second, and the subject of today's discussion is, THE FUSE, his book with Justin Greenwood, Shari Chankamma and Ed Brisson.  The Fuse is available to buy in your local comic shop, as well as digitally through comixology and direct from Image.  The show notes and study aids can be found over here.

At this year’s always excellent Thought Bubble, an odd opportunity presented itself. Our final issues of Young Avengers were what’s oft referred to as “Jam Issues.” In other words, multiple artists telling a single story. By an odd quirk of fate, all the artists and most of the colourists were going to the same con. In other words, we could totally do a panel together about the experience. And lo! There was a people’s revolutionary meeting gathering. There was one problem. The issues in question weren’t out yet, and we were incredibly sensitive over spoiling stuff. So as well as swearing everyone to secrecy, we were pretty obtuse in terms of what we did talk about. This makes this a quite hard one to follow without looking at the slides you’ll find below. You’ll see they were – er – often edited. If you have read the issue, it’ll probably be easier to flick through each artist’s section when they talk. If you don’t own it, it’s available digitally. There’s another problem. This is recorded by my microphone in the middle of the room, and the sound is crapper than usual. I’m really not joking. Show Notes Available Here.

Recently, I was asked by the great GOSH comics whether I'd be interested in hosting an audience with Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips about their work together. As if I was going to turn that down, eh? And they let me record it to play to you lot. We cover everything from their earliest work together, to the hardest scenes in the latest issue, from working with colourists, who really is a tracer, taste, storytelling choices in the Image age versus the grids, adding or removing panels, teasing and more. Show notes here.