We review: Now Xmen New Now NEW. Or whatever the hell it’s called. That one by Immomen and Bendis. Marshall Law by that Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill and we talk Bill Willingham’s kickstarter.

I’ll be honest, this show was recorded about a week and a half ago, and I have no memory of what we talked about (I try and forget them the moment they’re recorded, for very obvious reasons). I’ll be VERY surprised if it’s not full of the usual stuff and nonsense EXPECT CRUDENESS FROM THE VERY START (oh wait! FLASHBACKS! we talk about the perfect digital price point, Halo Jones “baps out” controversy and Scott explains the difference between the milk of cows and the milk of coconuts).

(Also: apologies for the sound quality, we’re scattered to the four winds at the moment, so don’t get to sit in front of the lovely lovely Mics at Ron’s house)

((Is that enough now? I’m off – pj))

This week’s show we’ve been joined by the lovely Declan Shalvey and the equally lovely Jordie Bellaire.

We talk comics, a little bit of craft, breaking in and Dec manfully keeps the show on an even keel by insisting on finishing questions even though PJ as ever, has a child like attention span.

Scott could have stayed at home and just listened to this one, but he was there, honest (though I think he wakes up at the end) Ron pretended to be professional, and Jordie put up a brave face in what can only be described as an hour and a half of the usual tomfoolery.

And, if you’ve time, you should totally watch the following shennanigans produced by Ron – with some help from PJ.

And here’s Dec’s appearance on RTE, you’ll want to skip ahead to about 44 minutes in where we join our hero discussing the various serious questions of the day (not really: it’s about comics)

http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10123807/

Now COME AND LISTEN TO OUR SHOW! (Also: review it and spread the word!)

And extra special thanks to Dec and Jordie for coming on, and for Stephen Mooney and his wife Jac for coming down to Belfast for a top notch fun evening out! Sorry we didn’t record that bit for the podcast, it was great!

We join our lads mid flow talking about where they stash their porn… (don’t worry, we eventually get round to comics).

Oh, Ron wants to apologise for some of the echoy sound. Ever the perfectionist, and yet constantly stymied by basic failures like forgetting to press the right record button or PJs appalling Mic technique.

(We also cover Brian K Vaugn and Marcos Martin’s Private Eye, Batman Incorporated – though since we only ever read these things digitally, it’s not the most current run despite us thinking it is and a quick review of the Croods – and dinosaurs with feathers)

Hey! Big props to The Ronster who had a dickens of a job to edit this weeks show altogether. Was it worth it? I suggest you listen up and see. This week, we have a special guest: Stephen Mooney, who joined us via the high tech, futuristic technology of Google+ (in his bathrobe which is why he looked like a jedi to me – this will make sense, sort of).

Stephen talks to us about his new creator owned book from IDW “Half Past Danger”, PJ shows off his splendid mic technique (this is also why Ron had a devlish editing job, Stephen phoning in from Google+ in another country sounds better than PJ who is in the same room.) and Scott doesn’t tell us he’s going to ask his girlfriend to marry him. (Which he did the next day, so congrats to Scott and Hannah, we’re very happy for you…)

I HOPE YOU APPRECIATE THE EFFORT RON WENT THROUGH TO EDIT THIS! EVERY ONE SAY “THANK YOU RON”.

-pj

It’s creator owned week, so we made a brave effort to start talking about it, but it wasn’t long before it was, inevitably, derailed.

This week, Alan Moore lets down Ron. Nemo Heart of Ice is reviewed, hearing the sound from comics and Dredd’s voice, and the resurgence of the speculators. Plus, probably, we swear a lot and giggle.

In this episode of the Sunnyside Comics Podcast we talk the end of Locke and Key (surprisingly light in spoilers too) and why Lost was rubbish (And I get a non-too-subtle plug for Numbercruncher in there). We also talk some other comic related stuff, but first, I call Scott a THREE…

(BTW I’ve given up on keeping track of episode numbers, we’ve been doing this nonsense for FOUR YEARS!)

Topics of conversation include:

• VIDEO! We video’d the entire show! But it was a disaster! So we haven’t uploaded any of the video. Instead! LISTEN! TO US TALK ABOUT THE VIDEO!
• VIDEO! Listen as we discuss how weird Ron gets in front of the cameras (which you can’t see).
• SCOTT! ON SCOTT! Scott reviews Scott Pilgrim in FULL COLOR!
• Dark Horse’s App (since updated)
• And we touch on: John Carter (A Princess of Mars), Locke And Key, Aces Weekly, the 2000AD App

Also: the show has one of our more rambly openings, in which we discuss this youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2U5_lfHGTw&feature=related featuring comic hero Gerry Alanguilan.

As ever: important to remember we are all playing characters, you know, like the Three Stooges.

Please excuse the sound being a bit all over the place – the guys were a tad… merry, shall we say, and sometimes the mics weren’t directed right at their face-holes.

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

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…

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.

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

And you can also subscribe at iTunes.

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

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?

Don’t forget to tell your friends and especially your enemies about us. You can subscribe in iTunes at this here link here.

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

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.

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.

Also, we chat about Declan Shalvey’s newly published hardback of 28 Days Later, ‘porn’ on the iTunes App Store and a brief explanation of how to colour comics.

It’s all go at Sunnyside Towers. Also! A brief cameo by Karen.

Of course, this is all hilariously out of date now, but enjoy laughing at the silly men from the past.

However, don’t expect some sort of razzle-dazzle retrospective spectacular… Scott isn’t here, so you’re stuck with PJ and Ron taking a misty eyed look at Christmases past, present and future.

Thanks for all the support from all of you this year – we really didn’t know if anyone was going to listen to this, and surprisingly there does seem to be a bunch of folks out there who do wait for this every week.

Next year we hope to have some guests on that people will have actually heard of, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t also thank our guests this year – Stephen Downey and Andrew Croskery, The Brothers Berserker and Adam Law, and the occasional appearances by Ron’s wife Karen.

Also, we’d like to get email from some of you that we can cannibalise into content for the show, so send us your suggestions for subject matter to info@sunnysidecomics.com.

Don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes to ensure you get the episodes as soon as they’re released!

All that remains to say is enjoy your Christmas and have a Happy New Year!

We’ve decided to split it into two parts so as not to overwhelm you all, so here’s part 2.

We’ve decided to split it into two parts so as not to overwhelm you all, so here’s part 1.

Mentioned this week:

Scott McCloud’s TED Talk on the future of comics:

Zuda Comics

Felicity

PVP

Penny Arcade

We’d love to know of any web-comics you think we should check out, especially ones that you think would convert the less enthusiastic of us to the delivery mechanism.

Don’t forget to comment on the show on iTunes – we love all your feedback.

Check back tomorrow for part 2, where we discuss BICS and the Beano. Yes, the Beano.

God help them, but fledgling Belfast comics-creators Stephen Downey and Andrew Croskery elected to come in and tell us about their work with Insomnia Publications.

Stephen (Twitter) gave us the low-down on Cancertown (preview), while Andrew (twitter) told us about his upcoming book Kronos City (preview).

Then PJ and Ron decide to abuse the guests and Scott with a stupid quiz about super-heroes. The only real loser was comedy.

Stephen’s blog can be found at How not to draw comics…, where you can also purchase Cancertown. We were going to put up our standard Amazon Affiliate link, but Stephen pointed out he gets paid twice if you buy from him, and who can deny such a show of blunt avarice?

Andrew’s blog is at Andrew Croskery (not as imaginatively named there Croskery!) – Kronos City is due out in 2010.

This week, if we find the time, Sunnyside Comics will have a presence on the iTunes Podcast Directory. But we’ll probably forget to do it.

Along the way Scott learns a lot of comics history, PJ gets offensive on myriad topics and Ron says something so stupid it was relegated to after the end-music.

I think the sound quality is getting better still, but unfortunately this week PJ sounds like he’s permanently trying to climb into your right ear.

LINKS!

We mention a few things worth linking to, and to save you the hassle here are the relevant sites:

Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth offer

Dylan Teague’s Blog

Ed Kaye’s Hypergeek

Mark Cardwell’s Bad Librarianship

Kevin Nowlan’s Blog

As ever, we’d love to hear your comments and reprimands.

In this episode we discuss a bit of news and PJ has an announcement.

Also we have the first instalment of SCOTT READS THE CLASSICS, a new feature with a cryptic title. This week Scott has checked out Batman – Year One by Frank Miller.

Then, for good measure, Scott reviews 28 Days Later, which segue-ways into PJ telling us what he thinks of The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman & Charlie Adlard (and Tony Moore).

As ever, hang about until after the end-music. Oh, and the links above are Amazon Affiliated, so if you buy stuff via them it helps us pay for all this.

Anyway, it’s worth pointing out that if we post links to comics now they’ll probably be Amazon Affiliated – this means that a really small percentage of the cost of the book will be paid to us, which will help pay for the show. So get clicking!

This week we chat about comic-book-inspired movies and review The Nobody by Jeff Lemire and Darwyn Cooke’s adaptation of The Hunter.

Still unhappy with the quality of the audio – it isn’t Posterous fault, really. The ‘email only’ feature of the blogging system means that we’re limited to the maximum size of attachment permitted by the email provider.

In this case its Googlemail, and they have a maximum of 25mb for attachment.

So, in the next couple of weeks we’ll be investigating an alternative for hosting the show, so we can deliver you top quality chit-chat at the highest possible audio quality!

Until then, enjoy.