Meltcast 7 December 16th, 2009 « Meltcast.
Coolsvillecomics.com has launched, and the gang breaks in the new website by welcoming back Heather Harris (AKA “Baroness Heather”) from POPBUNKER.NET , and wrapping our trilogy of talking females in comics. We also kick it off by discussing David Mazzucchelli’s ASTERIOS POLYP, Grant Morrison’s run on Batman up to this point, contrasted with Paul Dini’s Batman work of the last year, as well some DC work by Brian Azzarello. We quickly hit SCALPED from Vertigo, BLACKEST NIGHT, BOOM! Studio’s NOLA by Pierluigi Cothran, and HUNTER’S FORTUNE also from BOOM! written by… some guy… who may… or may not… be named Caleb.
The discussion takes off as the gang talks SIEGE: THE CABAL, AKIRA, HOTEL HARBOR VIEW, the BATTLE ROYALE novel, as well as Marvel’s cosmic books. We then dovetail into a talk on sexism, portrayals of sex, and just plain sex in comics! Good Gracious! Topics include differences between male and female writers and artists when portraying sex, Power Girl’s costume, and the difficulty in capturing Wonder Woman’s essence as a character.
Meltcast 015 February 10th, 2010
The meandering continues as the crew begins things (kinda) by talking some Scalped, DMZ #50, Captain America controversy, and continues chewing the fat with UNWRITTEN #10, PHONOGRAM: THE SINGLES CLUB (read this book already!), PUNISHERMAX, and MOON KNIGHT, as well as a bunch of comic book related nonsense. Somewhere along the way the subject changes to continuity, and we discuss how much it matters, as well as our favorite continuity-free comics.