Comic Book Buds: Recent Episodes
The Comic Book Buds
The fearless Comic Book Buds face their greatest challenge yet! Hosting a weekly podcast! In a world dominated by comic book culture, only one team of diverse nerds can explain the mysteries behind their favorite superheroes, villains and regular people who just happen to be in a comic book. Will they be up to the challenge? Only you, dear listener, can tell!
This month, the Buds talk about some of their favorite female creators, from fanon-artist-turned-canon-artist Natasha Allegri, to queer icon Alison Bechdel, to all the amazing women behind DC Bombshells, to the amazing woman who's OH NO SHE'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU, horror writer Emily Carroll!
Resources Mentioned in the Show
https://artistalleyonline.com/ - Support artists who lost income due to cancelled conventions
https://bookswithpictures.com/
https://www.tfaw.com/
https://www.fpnyc.com/
Creators Mentioned in the Show
Natasha Allegri - Bee & Puppycat
Alison Bechdel - Dykes to Watch Out for, Fun Home
Emily Carroll - His Face All Red, Through the Woods
Kelly Sue Deconnick - Captain Marvel, Aquaman, Bitch Planet, Pretty Deadly
Leslie Hung - Snotgirl
Babs Tarr - Motorcrush, Batgirl
Hannah Templer - Cosmoknights
Tillie Walden - On a Sunbeam
Joelle Jones - Ladykiller
Amanda Conner - Harley Quinn
Kelly Thompson - Black Widow, Captain Marvel, Hawkeye
Emma Rios - Pretty Deadly
Mariko Tamaki - Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me
This week, the Buds go birdwatching, and along the way, we tell you all about Renee Montoya, Huntress, Cassandra Cain and Black Canary (often known as the Birds of Prey).
Topics Include: Greg Rucka, Greg Rucka, and Simone's Bird Corner
This week, the Buds tackle a seemingly insurmountable force, “The Dreaded Decade Summary”! Will they manage to come out on top and vanquish their listicle foe, or will they succumb to the easy temptation of just recommending Saga for the 800th time? Only you, dear listener, can tell!
For those who may be impatient or just perusing, the selections are as follows:
Best of the Aughts (2000-2010):
- Ultimate Spiderman
- Scott Pilgrim
- Asterios Polyp
- Persepolis
2011- Giant Days
2012- Mark Waid’s Daredevil
2013- Nowhere Men
2014- Lumberjanes
2015- Lady Killer
2016- Snotgirl
2017- Silver Surfer
2018- Immortal Hulk
Best of the 10s (2010-2019):
- The Wicked and the Divine
- Nimona
- Daytripper
- Motor Crush
This week, the Buds talk about Harley Quinn, psychiatrist, anti-hero, and chaotic neutral bisexual friend to dogs!
This week, the Buds talk about Image Comics, the history of the publishing house, and some of their favorite comics!
Recommended reading for this episode:
- Sex Criminals
- The Wicked and the Divine
- Nowhere Men
- Chew
- Pretty Deadly
- invincible
- Saga
- Extremity
- Spawn
- The Walking Dead
This week, the Buds talk about their favorite teamups and ensemble casts in comics!
Topics include: Nyquil, Moon Moons, and how to spell Sienkiewicz.
This week, the Buds trek into the swamp to get in touch with their floral side.
Topics include: Who Hasn't Seen Alien??, Plants Have Mitochondria, and Translucia Baboon
This week, the Buds take a look at the Fantastic Four, a team of superheroes that've never been in a bad movie! Fan4stic? Never heard of it.
This week, the Buds team up to take on some of Spidey's greatest foes, the Sinister Six. Will the ornithologist, engineer, film industry professional and notorious English major be able to...wait, we've basically got the makings of our own Sinister Six right here. Does anyone know an electrician or two??
This week, we had the opportunity to sit down with Miles from the wonderful podcast, Jay and Miles X-plain the X-men to talk about the upcoming Dark Phoenix movie!
You can check out their show over at:
https://www.xplainthexmen.com/
This week, the Buds go round-robin and attempt to summarize all 22 movies in the MCU in two sentences or less. Do they succeed? Yes, yes they do. Because that's what heroes do.
This week, we had the privilege to interview Jenny Blenk, an assistant editor at Dark Horse Comics, about one of her areas of expertise, graphic medicine and disability representation in comics.
Welcome to the first episode of Comic Book Buds: The Animated Series! We'll be posting one of these mini-episodes every Thursday, recapping each episode of Batman: The Animated Series! Longer episodes will continue to be released on Mondays.
This week, the Buds are going Higher, Faster Further with the new Captain Marvel movie!
The Post-Teen Comic Book Buds are back this week with all sorts of Bird Facts. That's right, we're talking about Robin, Raven and Cyborg. (cyborgs are a kind of bird...right?)
Topics include: The Reverse Stella Luna, A Sexy Howl-loween Costume, and the first appearance of our new hit segment "New 52 a Character".
This week, the Teen Titans - specifically Starfire and Beast Boy! We had too many dang Titans to fit in this episode, so we had to stick the rest of them in next week's episode!
Topics include: What if the Teen Titans were a boy band?, how not to costume characters, and folksy home remedies like turning your son into a monkey.
The Buds are scattered to the winds! Will they be able to wrangle their schedules together in time to record an episode together in time? Sort of!
This week, Venom! Topics this week include: Topher Grace, the severe lack of edgy/dark/gritty superhero movies, and the most divisive movie of 2018.
This week we're talking about our favorites of 2018! We go into the greatness that was Into the Spiderverse, Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War, as well as some of our favorite comics from the year.
Show Links:
Woman World, by Aminder Dhaliwal: http://bit.ly/womanworldcomic
The Nib: https://thenib.com/
Song Exploder | Black Panther: http://songexploder.net/black-panther
This week, we're talking about everyone's favorite wet, beardy boy, Aquaman. We'll also give our reviews about the Into the Spiderverse movie, and delve deep into the inescapable horror that is Pitbull's cover of Africa.
Grab your plastic sleeves, collectors! This one's going to be worth something someday! That's right, its the incredible Issue #1 of Comic Book Buds!
Featuring: A recap of everything you'll need to know going into the Into the Spiderverse movie, an in-depth discussion of all the best Spider-people, from Miles Morales to Spider-Ham, plus an important examination of the mysterious character known only as Goose Rider.
Hold onto your hats, folks, because Ben, Ben, and Caitlin are here to save the day!