Episode 338: Not The Kind Of Girl You Take Home To Momma (Review feat. Nimona)

Snack Pack chocolate puddingWhatcha Been Readin’

  • (5:30) Decrypting Rita by Egypt Urnash
  • (7:45) Glam Rock Gorilla by Brett Von Doom (a.k.a. Hammer Smith), Kelsey “KG” Bigelow, Ser Tom the Blind, Astro Sarah, Maya Nord, and Summoner (GOD I hate webcomics sometimes)

The Midshow Break

What’s more gross: Steve’s kid wetting the bed or the dreams this bedwetting interrupted? Find out while enjoying the dulcet tones of our midshow music.

  • (13:55) “Seppuku” by Brandon Strader

The Feature

  • (18:10) Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

Mentions/References/A List of Comics You Should Be Reading

All this, plus!

  • Steve can’t help but work some Marvel cynicism into his intro
  • We learn the true secret of the ninja
  • Fat Peter Jackson
  • We decide George Lucas might be an ok dude after all
  • Our annual reminder that horizontally scrolling comics are the worst
  • More enlightened thoughts on inkOUTBREAK (including comments from the man who runs it, Brian King)
  • Jason is an abused spouse and is kind of ok with that
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Episode 337: Strong Female What? (Review feat. Strong Female Protagonist)

The Steve Austin ShowWhatcha Been Readin’

The News

The Midshow Break

No, I did not bring up The Steve Austin Show so I could play this rockin’ tune. (But seriously, go listen to that show if you haven’t already.)

  • (14:00) Stone Cold Steve Austin’s theme

The Feature

Mentions/References

All this, plus!

  • My mom, the Facebook stalker
  • Feeling bad about yourself? Visit the county fair!
  • If you’re seeing too many friend’s kids on Facebook, then you’re probably spending too much time on Facebook
  • Jason’s spider sense sucks
  • RESPECT YOUR ELDERS
  • Be the guy who poops while he reads Wonderella (be like Jason)
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Episode 336 – With a Bang! (Gunnerkrigg Court Book Club: Final Edition)

An image depicting the story and foretelling of Tom Siddell's Gunnerkrigg CourtWhatcha Been Readin’

The News

  • (6:35) Mike Norton took home Best Online Comic at the Harvey Awards for Battlepug
    • (7:40) Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins (Penny Arcade) team up with Strip Search Season One winner, Katie Rice (Skadi) to do a Diablo III comic
    • (10:00) Harley Quinn suicide comic contest puts DC in hot water, including Phillip M. Jackson (Sequential Art)

The Midshow Break

Everyone likes to hear birds, but no one wants to hear farts (alright, very few people), so we combined the two using a tale from Jason’s sordid past and …

The Feature

Mentions/References

All this, plus!

  • Jason vs. a squirrel: WHO WILL WIN
  • We start this episode out a little bluer than usual, talking about Snuggle parties and things … get weird for a bit
  • Non-porn uses for your web browser’s porn mode
  • Jason uses a transition he’s been sitting on for a week, for sure
  • Fun things for Demon Hunters to do
  • Where should octopi live?
  • That 90’s swoon
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Episode 335 – Crude, But Sweet (Horizons Watch feat. Chippy and Loopus and Mary Death)

The evolution of Chuck E. CheeseWhatcha Been Readin’

The News

  • Dickwolves: Why they’re still a thing and why it needs to stop
    • Patrick Klepek of Giant Bomb compiled a good source for the incident and fallout (scan to the end of the article, though the whole thing is, as he says, Worth Reading)

The Midshow Break

In honor of Mighty No. 9 (spiritual successor to Mega Man) and it’s already incredibly successful Kickstarter, I’ve included some tunes from The Blue Bomber’s second (and likely best) outing, as our midshow music.

The Feature

Mentions/References

All this, plus!

  • Mystery Men (Jason’s never seen it)
  • Burger King Creepy Dude skin available exclusively at 7-11!
  • Jason pre-orders The Avengers for his relatives; Steve? Mamma Mia
  • The Disney font is BONKERS
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Episode 334 – Basilisk Fights Are Brutal Fights (Review of Drunkards of the Cosmos)

Laundry piles upWhatcha Been Readin’

The Midshow Break

The Feature

Mentions/References

All this, plus!

  • We suck at vacations because we have families
  • Steve twerks and Jason takes a selfie with these new, dictionary-approved words
  • Google your laundry
  • Jason reads things other than comics but really when he should be reading comics
  • If your comic is about anything, you hate your readers
  • Lifelong permission to fart via cleverness
  • We were saving the Internet before it was cool
  • Our take on website adblocking
  • Jason’s Thor impression
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