Sunnyside Comics

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Back From The Dead

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:01:00 -0800

New Year, new promises to break.

We're at a new location! Again! Ron delivers a bombshell, Scott reviews Batman: Noel and PJ tells us about his Christmas.

And we allude to a super secret project...

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Special Episode - Tintin Movie Review

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:44:00 -0700

This Friday sees the release of Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson's big screen incarnation of Tintin, one of the most iconic non-superhero characters in comics.

The three of us went to see it this morning, check out the show for our thoughts!

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Also, check out Tintin stuff on Amazon here. Remember if you buy it via our link we get a wee kick back. Might make you feel better about us doing this for nothing...

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Season 2 Episode 7 - What Do You Do?

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:59:00 -0700

In which we mourn the passing of Steve Jobs, discuss the DC New 52 and debate the correct way to dis-impact a child's bowels.

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Seriously, stick with us this week. It took a few unexpected turns down VERY dark alleys, but that's what happens when we don't see each other for a while.

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Season 2 Episode 6 - FX2, the Revenge

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 06:15:00 -0700

Just kidding - the effects are kept to a bare minimum this week.

We do a run-down of developments on the various iPad comic stores, chat about Locke & Key and some other things.

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Season 2 Episode 5 - Throw Us on the Fire

Tue, 31 May 2011 05:16:00 -0700

We've been camping it up at Sunnyside Towers!

Or rather, Ron's got a bit carried away with the sound effects. Never mind.

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Still, we had our fun, and that's what counts.

Some chat about the iPad 2, BPRD - Plague of Frogs, Thor and the fact that Scott's not single. For how long, who can say?

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Season 2 - Episode 4 - Will it Stick?

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:25:00 -0800

So, we're back. Again.

We chat about the Pomodoro Technique, catch up on what we've all been at, Scott reviews Luthor and some other Superman book and we talk about the iPad, just for a change.

I'm sure I'll add more to this in a bit, but at the minute I'm starving and need my lunch.

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Oh, and you can donate to Ron's ill-advised Vajazzling notion over here!

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App Store Comics

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:19:00 -0800

I have done a little tiny bit of research (in lieu of actual work)

When Apple's App Store first launched, every app had a download count. This was soon removed. The only firm numbers we have now are the number of reviews an app has received. Everything else is conjecture.

That said, I sampled various comics apps for various regions. Marvel, DC and Comixology are all built on the same 'engine' and material purchased for, say, Marvel, within the Comixology app is also available within the Marvel app (though not the DC app, for obvious reasons). Comics+ is/was the iVerse comics app renamed. Panelfly is a US/iPhone only app. PocketGods is based on iVerse's comic reader.

Region	Marvel	Comics+	DC	Comixology	Panelfly	PocketGods
US	31,795	789	2,592	586	616	148
UK	6,038	132	460	111		28
Japan	274	21	13	141
Canada	3,264	107	317	70



Total	41,371	1,049	3,382	908

I picked US/UK for obvious reasons, Japan since I expected Japan to how a high level of comic consumption and Canada since, I reasoned, it's part of the North American Comic book market. If I had more time/inclination, I'd'a loved to grab numbers for each region.

The number of reviews is a total, including one star and five star. So includes people who don't like the app as well as those that do. Arguably, one star reviewers should be dismissed from the count, but since we've no idea how many have downloaded it, buy from it but DON'T review (a figure that could be substantially higher) this is the only way to get some notion of numbers

When infurious (who released one of the first comics on the appstore) put out comics, we found we had 200 downloads for 12 reviews. Does this ratio hold up for all of the above? I've no idea. I know we pushed to get reviews - but, even then people don't tend to leave reviews or rate the apps.

Some conjecture:

The Marvel App is the clear frontline winner on number of ratings. I'd put this down, largely, to Apple's pushing the Marvel app - don't forget this was one of the first apps available on the iPad and one of the apps that Apple used to demonstrate the iPad on its website. The numbers clearly reflect that.

The top selling comic on the marvel app is Civil War #1 (this is true in each of the regions I checked).

Assuming a sales figure of 40,000 copies (that's one sold to every single person who rated the marvel app in the US, UK, Japan, Canada) - selling at £1.19

This puts the gross income at £47,600 (BASED ON CONJECTURE!)

Apple take 30% of that, leaving £33,320

Assuming a 50/50 split between comixology and Marvel (which is PURE CONJECTURE - at a guess I'd say 50/50 is very generous to comixology) then Marvel are looking at a take home of £16,660

Which isn't a bad figure for something that's already been paid for and for something with fixed production costs - in other words, the more this sells the more production costs, as a percentage, reduce to zero.

Anyway, hope that's interesting to some.

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Season 2 - Episode 2 - Yaaarrrr!

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 03:48:25 -0800

Piracy. It's a funny old game. During the week there was a bit of chat on Twitter about Colleen Doran's article at The Hill. We took this as a jumping off point to discuss our own experiences with piracy, what we think of it, who does it...

Or at least we do our best while PJ waves around his new favourite appendage.

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Along the way we do mention Chris Scheitzer's excellent book Crogan's Vengeance. And anything we admit to that's illegal or dodgy is just us having a joke. Our lawyers told us to say that.

We also squeeze in a bit of a chat about comic collections, and then Scott goes off on one about TV downloading.

Also, our last show of this year is coming up, and we'd love to know what you think the books of 2010 have been, and also what you'd like for Christmas. Fire your thoughts into the comments, or over at Twitter.

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Season 2 - Episode 1 - The Return!

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:09:02 -0700

So, we're back after a lengthy absence. Sorry about that. Life and a few other things got in the way.

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On the show we review the all-new Dandy comic as well as Darwyn Cooke's latest Parker adaptation, The Outfit.

We also chat a bit about AMC's The Walking Dead, PJ's adventures in Con-Land and what we've all been up to while we were away.

We're going to try and keep it together to be regular again, so thanks for coming back!

Don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes, or to 'Like' the shows on Facebook or Tweet about it, all of which can be done from the blog here. We really need you the listener to spread the word about the show as much as possible - it keeps us enthusiastic!

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Episode 32 - Everyone's A Critic!

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:18:00 -0700

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A few weeks ago Ron was on a panel at the 2D Festival in Derry. Alongside him were the lovely Emma Vieceli, the erudite Gary Erskine, the winsome Leigh Gallagher and the Falstaff-ian Mark Kardwell. It was pretty funny, and well worth a listen. The subject was the internet, namely blogs, Twitter and suchlike, and how these have changed the industry.

Thanks to Wez Nolan for getting the audio to us - it's most appreciated.

Oh, by the way, we've got new podcast artwork courtesy of our very own PJ. It looks pretty spiffy, n'est pas?

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Episode 31 - Coming Apart at the Seams

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 08:43:05 -0700

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This week we had a yammer about the possible rebirth of the British newsstand comic, the price of digital comics and PJ shows what a big man he is by congratulating Declan Shalvey on the recent news that he'll be working on Thunderbolts for Marvel.

As ever, we'll beg you to tweet/facebook this using the links below, and point out that you can subscribe via iTunes here.

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Changes in the podcast posting!

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:05:00 -0700

Well, I've just realised that if I post a link to the actual file in the Posterous blog here, it'll create a player. After some tests on my iPhone, I can confirm that despite it being a flash player on the desktop it loads as a Quicktime player on the iPhone, which is really quite clever when you think about it.

So from now on the player will look like the one above. If it would only pull through the meta-data as well I'd be really happy, but beggars can't be choosers!

Out of interest - do you still all want the 'download' link posted? How do you listen to the show? iTunes? The player on the blog? Download direct and play later?

I'm just curious, as it might help me better focus on delivery methods.

Answers in the comments please - I know you rarely DO reply here, but it'd be easier to keep these in a single thread here rather than having to search Twitter or Facebook to see them.

You do know you can comment here using your Facebook or Twitter logins, don't you?

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Episode 30 - 2D or not 2D

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:25:00 -0700

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The 2D festival was a couple of weekends ago, but since we're such slouches we're only just getting round to putting it up now. We also get round to reviewing the comics of Tommie Kelly from Something Wonderful and the Road Crew comic.

As always you can download the episode directly, or subscribe to the show in iTunes.

Also, here's a really exciting gallery of pics from the weekend!

(BTW, Tommie Kelly is the last pic, so he is).

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2D VIDS | Culture Northern Ireland

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:28:58 -0700

via culturenorthernireland.org

Also, head to their site to see three videos that Sunnyside Comics produced for Culture NI. Interviews with Pat Mills, Berserker Comics and Wayne Simmons.

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2D Comics Festival 2010 | Culture Northern Ireland

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:27:17 -0700

via culturenorthernireland.org

Go check out Ron's article on the 2D Festival at the excellent Culture Northern Ireland.

I'm sure if you told them how much you enjoyed it they'd be up for more comics content...

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Episode 29 - Is This Thing On?

Wed, 19 May 2010 09:51:00 -0700

As it turned out, no, it wasn't. Yep, Ron screwed up again and managed to record the show using just his laptop's mic. What a dick.

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We had a chat about some of the TV shows we've been enjoying (or otherwise) in recent years, and then PJ and Ron reviewed Casanova and The Sword.

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Episode 28 - Messiah!

Sat, 15 May 2010 06:23:00 -0700

It finally happens: PJ is silenced. Not by either Ron or Scott though - nope, it was finally getting his hands on an iPad.

Needless to say, there is much rejoicing and weeping, and heavy discussion as to how well the iPad functions as a comic-reader, particularly the Comic Zeal comic viewing app.

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We also find some time to review a couple of books, namely Volume 1 of JMS and Olivier Coipel's Thor and Iron Man - Enter the Mandarin by Joe Casey and Eric Canete.

We also made a short video about the iPad. And Ron felt vindicated when he remembered the theme-tune from The Mighty Thor, having never heard it since he was a child - a true feat of memory!

(what do you mean I've given away who writes these blog-posts?)

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Episode 27 - Back On The Horse

Sat, 08 May 2010 04:17:00 -0700

Lets try and keep this regular, ok?

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This week we experimented with having an itinerary. It kind of worked. Sort of.

We chatted about Mark Millar's CLiNT, the frigging iPad (again), new comics related movies and some other stuff.

The aim is to get back on a weekly schedule, so let us know if we're letting you down!

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Episode 26 - PJ No More?

Sat, 08 May 2010 04:15:00 -0700

A bit of an odd one this week...

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Ron's mate Graham swings by to interview PJ and Scott for something or other. PJ swiftly goes AWOL, but not without first giving us the skinny on British Comics Industry awards.

Then we have a bit of a chat about the Eisners, Greg Rucka and Queen & Country. Then it all ends.

If you'd like to nominate anyone (cough) for an Eagle Award, you can do it here. Before May 9th. Which is TOMORROW!

And don't forget you can subscribe in iTunes here!

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Episode 25 - Studio B

Sat, 01 May 2010 07:25:00 -0700

We're late. Hell, I know it. You know it. We all know it.

I don't really have an excuse, other than that I was busy with my class work.

In this episode we chat about a multitude of subjects, including copyright, Kick-Ass, Scott Pilgrim, Monsters by Ken Dahl...

As usual, you can download the episode directly here, and you can subscribe to the show in iTunes here.

The next episode shouldn't be too far behind...

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