Crying in the Book Club

Crying in the Book Club

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Episode 9: Superman: Secret Identity

After an episode in the manga-zone, the Book Club makes their glorious return to the most western comics possible: a Superman book. And not just any Superman book, but the 2004 Stuart Immonen-drawn, Kurt Busiek-written Superman: Secret Identity a (sort of?) Elseworlds take on the character. The crew dives deep into what makes Superman tick, and how altering the character, even in small ways, affects who he eventually becomes. Next, on Crying in the Book Club: We kick off ~spoooooky season~ with Chilling Adventures of Sabrina! Our theme music was composed by our wonderful friend Gwyn. You can find their work on Soundcloud at https://soundcloud.com/hopefullynotbadlib. Our podcast art was done by everyone's favorite co-host Emily. Follow us on Twitter: @cryingbookclub @mtdewliker @empandanada @alexhandziuk

Episode 8: Battle Angel Alita

This week, it's finally time for Crying in the Book Club crew to leave American comics behind. Y'know, for one episode, to finally talk about Battle Angel Alita. Next, on Crying in the Book Club: It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... an episode of the show about Superman! For their ninth episode, Jean-Luc introduces the hosts to the classic Superman: Secret Identity. Our theme song was composed by our wonderful friend Gwyn. You can find their work on Soundcloud at https://soundcloud.com/hopefullynotbadlib. Our podcast art was done by everyone's favorite co-host Emily. Follow us on Twitter: @cryingbookclub @mtdewliker @empandanada @alexhandziuk

Episode 7: Batman, 1939-2022

Alex is back Alex is back Alex is back! And with him, he's brought many wonderful gifts from the land of DC Comics, proprietor of the most popular superhero the world has ever seen.......that's right.......and episode devoted entirely to........BOOSTER GOLD! Just kidding, it's Batman. Y'know, the guy what has the pointy ears. That's right, for this episode, Alex curated a collection of six issues of Batman comics and took Emily and Jean-Luc on a tour of the caped crusader from his inception, to his goofy silver age period, to the gritty, serious detective we know today. He chose: Detective Comics #27: The Case of the Chemical Syndicate, Batman #188: The Eraser Who Tried to Rub Out Batman (I have also tried this), Batman #251: The Joker's Five Way Revenge (I would like to try this), Batman and Robin #1: Batman Reborn, Batman (2016) #37: Superfriends, part 2 and Batman #125: Failsafe part 1. Next, on Crying in the Book Club: The show takes a turn for the cyberpunk, as Emily takes Alex and Jean-Luc on a trip to Japan for the first four volumes of the 1990 manga series Battle Angel Alita. Our theme song was composed by our wonderful friend Gwyn. You can find their work on Soundcloud at https://soundcloud.com/hopefullynotbadlib. Our podcast art was done by everyone's favorite co-host Emily. Follow us on Twitter: @cryingbookclub @mtdewliker @empandanada @alexhandziuk

Episode 6: The Amory Wars

This week on Crying in the Book Club: Alex runs to the hills and hides from Jean-Luc and Emily hunting him with copies of In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 and Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Volume I: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness. They didn't hunt him for very long though, because they're both lazy and got tired. Instead, we welcomed Emily's Imagine Me and Utena co-host Alice on for an exceptionally self-indulgent, over two hour affair to talk about the band Coheed and Cambria and they're accompanying comic book series, The Amory Wars. All three are big fans of the band's work, and... kind of fans of the comics? It's complicated! Also: I apologize for the audio on this one, Jean-Luc had the wrong mic selected when he recorded and so it's a little scratchy. I did what I could to fix it but it's going to sound a little worse than the other episodes. Next, on Crying in the Book Club: Alex makes his triumphant return to talk Emily and Jean-Luc through the history of everyone's favorite superhero: The Bat-Man. Our theme song was composed by our wonderful friend Gwyn. You can find their work on Soundcloud at https://soundcloud.com/hopefullynotbadlib. Our podcast art was done by everyone's favorite co-host Emily. Follow us on Twitter: @cryingbookclub @mtdewliker @empandanada @alexhandziuk

Episode 5: Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me

Welcome to the inaugural "one of the hosts gets drunk before recording" episode of Crying in the Book Club! This week, the hosts are discussing the 2019 graphic novel Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me. There's a lot to tackle--everything from complicated relationships to how the book handles its queer representation. Oh, and Jean-Luc (because he was drunk) talks about Quinlan Vos a lot. Next, on Crying in the Book Club: Alex takes a week off as Jean-Luc and Emily welcome a special guest for an incredibly self-indulgent discussion of The Amory Wars, the comic book adaptation of the music of Coheed & Cambria. Our theme song was composed by our wonderful friend Gwyn. You can find their work on Soundcloud at https://soundcloud.com/hopefullynotbadlib. Our podcast art was done by everyone's favorite co-host Emily. Follow us on Twitter: @cryingbookclub @mtdewliker @empandanada @alexhandziuk

Episode 4: Pride of Baghdad

This episode, Alex brings Brian K Vaughan and Niko Henrichon's critically acclaimed 2006 graphic novel Pride of Baghdad for Jean-Luc and Emily to cry about. Vaughan has been a staple of American comics ever since the early 2000's, and returning to the writer behind Saga and Paper Girls in 2022 proves to be a fairly jarring experience for our hosts. It's a fascinating case study in how western pop culture--all the way down to niche releases like a Vertigo-published original graphic novel--responded to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Fortunately, there's still a fair amount to like here, and this episode gets into all of it. Next, on Crying in the Book Club: It's time to learn about the philosophy of Emily-core with Mariko Tamaki's 2019 graphic novel Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me. Our theme song was composed by our wonderful friend Gwyn. You can find their work on Soundcloud at https://soundcloud.com/hopefullynotbadlib. Our podcast art was done by everyone's favorite co-host Emily. Follow us on Twitter: @cryingbookclub @mtdewliker @empandanada @alexhandziuk

Episode 3: Gotham by Gaslight + Batman of the Future

This week on Crying in the Book Club, it's time for our hosts to be introduced to the greatest villain in Batman history: Alexandre LeRoi. Despite reading comics for the better part of their respective lives, none of the hosts of this show had ever read Gotham by Gaslight, the seminal elseworlds story from Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola. coming to it decades after its release, the trio interrogates its interpretation of Batman, whether the sequel lives up to the original, and whether or not Alexandre LeRoi should get his own spinoff ongoing series. Next time on Crying in the Book Club: The show takes a turn for the furry (not really) with Brian K Vaughan and Niko Henrichon's 2006 graphic novel Pride of Baghdad. Our theme song was composed by our wonderful friend Gwyn. You can find their work on Soundcloud at https://soundcloud.com/hopefullynotbadlib. And our podcast art was done by everyone's favorite co-host Emily. Follow us on Twitter: @cryingbookclub @mtdewliker @empandanada @alexhandziuk

Episode 2: Scott Pilgrim

Welcome back for the second installment of Crying in the Book Club! Someone actually stuck around for episode 2, which we did not expect. For this episode, we discuss one of the most psychically damaging (positive) comics to Jean-Luc and Emily's "young" psyches, and a series Alex had never read before: Bryan Lee O'Malley's magnum opus Scott Pilgrim. The conversation is pretty wide-ranging, from Alex's nostalgia for the Toronto depicted in the comic, to 16 year-old Jean-Luc's fantasies about literally becoming Scott Pilgrim, to the 2010 film adaptation directed by Edgar Wright. There's a lot to unpack here given the hosts' varied histories with the book. Next, on Crying in the Book Club: The crew reconvenes for a double feature of Gotham by Gaslight and Batman of the Future, featuring one of the greatest villains in the Batman canon. Our theme song was composed by our wonderful friend Gwyn. You can find their work on Soundcloud at https://soundcloud.com/hopefullynotbadlib. And our podcast art was done by everyone's favorite co-host Emily. Follow us on Twitter: @cryingbookclub @mtdewliker @empandanada @alexhandziuk

Episode 1: Watchmen

Hello! And welcome to listeners new and old. Or I suppose just new, given this is our first episode. And what better to launch a podcast about comics than with one of the most iconic works in the medium, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen. There is, of course, much to discuss, from the political situation of the world Watchmen takes place in, to the interiority of the book's wide-ranging cast, and (unfortunately) the 2009 Zack Snyder adaptation. Which, for all it's faults, does feature one of the greatest sex scenes ever committed to film. Next, on Crying in the Book Club: We're kicking it mid-aughts style with the one and only Scott Pilgrim. Our theme song was composed by our wonderful friend Gwyn. You can find their work on Soundcloud at https://soundcloud.com/hopefullynotbadlib. And our podcast art was done by everyone's favorite co-host Emily. Follow us on Twitter: @cryingbookclub @mtdewliker @empandanada @alexhandziuk

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