Never Stay Dead: A Comic Book Podcast
No one stays dead for long in comic books and our passion for talking about them never dies.
Episodes
As a sort of Bonus Episode here's more of the conversation started by our examination of issues number 6 and number 7 of the comic book series Planetary.
In this fourth episode of our big Planetary discussion Matt and Damian take a look at issues number 6 and number 7 of the comic book series Planetary. Written by Warren Ellis, line art by John Cassaday and color art by Laura (Depuy) Martin.
Strange Harbours and The Good Doctor: A Planetary Novel. In this third episode of our big Planetary discussion Matt and Damian take look at issue numbers 4 and 5 of of the 1999 comic book series Planetary. Written by Warren Ellis, line art by John Cassaday and color art by Laura (Depuy) Martin.
In this second episode of our big Planetary project, Matt and Damian dig deep into issue numbers 2 and 3 of Planetary: "Island" and "Dead Gunfighters." Written by Warren Ellis, line art by John Cassaday and color art by Laura (Depuy) Martin. Lots of love for these two stories!
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Lets chat about Planetary issue one, from late 1998. This is the first in a series of podcasts Matt and Damian plan to produce looking through the Graphic Novel Planetary by writer Warren Ellis, artist John Cassaday, colorist Laura Martin and a host of letterers. We plan to take a close look at every one of the 27 issues that make up Planetary, perhaps two or three an episode.
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This time around Matt and Damian dive deep into Mike Grell's seminal graphic novel The Longbow Hunters from 1987, featuring the reboot or revival of the Green Arrow.
Check out Damian's recommended podcasts:
The Daily Rios: https://thedailyrios.com/tdr-digest-10-03-21/
Into the Weird: https://sinkintotheweird.com
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Matt: @Godamn_Milkman Damian: @sleepyreader666
Join Matt and Damian as we discuss the first ten issues of Marvel's Rom Spaceknight from 1979-1980. From failed toy to successful comic book, never to be reprinted...one of the more interesting oddities of the bronze age of comics.
After a long delay, Matt and Damian discuss the hardback four volume 2020 original graphic novel "November" - script by Matt Fraction, line art from Elsa Charretier, colors from Matt Hollingsworth and hand lettering from Kurt Ankeny.
In this Bonus episode Damian has a chat with Eric from the excellent Longbox Review podcast about the 4 issue mini-series Jack of Hearts written by Bill Mantlo and drawn by George Freeman, back in late 1983.
Check out Eric's podcast here.
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This time around we read the first three volumes of famous manga Death Note: Matt's pick as he tries to help manga deficient Damian get on board this super popular Japanese comic book artform.
Beer, manga, Wonder Woman 1984, who will replace DC comics and other random chatter. Here's the seemingly random conversation between Matt and Damian after we recorded our "official" episode. Eavesdrop on our conversation or wait for the next official episode, coming soon.
Matt and Damian continue to look at early X-men spinoff mini-series from the 80's. Kitty Pryde and Wolverine #1-6 from scribe Chris Claremont and artist Al Milgrom (with notable colors from Glynis Wein) is the third in a loose trilogy of mini-series. Matt raves, Damian gets picky and little bit of blood is shed.
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Matt and Damian both love and struggle to parse all the meanings of Chris Claremont's 1983 four issue Limited Series-- Storm and Illyana: Magik with artists John Buscema, Ron Frenz, Sal Buscema and magical, moody inker Tom Palmer.
The sound this time was from our back up source. You can also check out the raw recording of this episode, with images from the comics on the SleepyReader666 youtube channel.
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This time around Matt and Damian take a close look at 1982's 4 issue Wolverine mini-series from Marvel Comics. Created by Chris Claremont, X-Men super-scribe, and Frank Miller, rising superstar writer/artist, best known for his Daredevil run at the time. We also look at the follow up story in The Uncanny X-Men 172 and 173: Claremont writer and Paul Smith penciler.
Superhero comic book masterpiece? Fascinating experiment? Overflowing tapestry? This time around Matt and Damian zoom in on the 400 pages of writer/artist Darwyn Cooke's The New Frontier (DC Comics 2004). Colors by Dave Stewart.
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A special Bonus Episode where Matt and Damian share with you our comic book discussion that continued on from the recording of the Demon Bear discussion. The conversation meanders but we thought you might enjoy listening in.
This time Matt and Damian dive into the Demon Bear storyline from New Mutants numbers 18, 19 & 20. This 1984 masterpiece was created by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz.
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In this episode Matt and Damian dive into Bronze Age 1970's Marvel's Tomb of Dracula, specifically: issues #24 - #28 all written by Marv Wolfman with art by the team of Gene Colan and Tom Palmer.
The audio this time around may be a bit rougher. Because of a recording accident, we grabbed the audio directly off of the video version.
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Damian: @sleepyreader666
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This time around we look at Matt's pick of The Amazing Spider-Man, vol. 2 issues #30-35, the first issues written by J.M. Straczynski (teamed up with peak John Romita Jr. on pencils and Scott Hanna on inks). This story arc introduced the character of Ezekiel and perhaps changed our view of Spider-Man himself.
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In this longer episode Matt and Damian tackle Giant Sized X-Men #1 and X-Men numbers 94 through 100. We're exploring and considering the beginnings of Chris Claremont's monumental X-Men saga. And of course we have to include the wonderful visuals from Dave Cockrum and the original impetus from idea-smith Len Wein!
Apologies for the long delay between Never Stay Dead episodes, all the fault of Damian who sat on this episode for abou...
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