WHAM!
POW!
bonk.
Comic Dorks. Holy earbuds, Batman! It's a podcast!
Relevant Links:
Main site!
iTunes Subscription site!
RSS Feed-y goodness!
Forums!
Scott Johnson, Scott Kurtz, Stephen Schleicher, and Marc Spagnuolo are here to deliver all your comic book and comic industry news, fresh each month! Unfortunately they can't be a superhero team because only one of them has the alliterative name (is that still a trope?), but let's try not to hold that against them.
From what I understand, comic books are a thing that you can read. Sometimes they are on paper, although they are more frequently being sent via bits and bytes via the Interweb. Many times these comic books involve people in illogical amounts of spandex, or detectives in trench coats, or even normal people doing normal people things that happen to be very interesting. Comic Dorks talks about both the stories and the creation and operation that surround comics and even as someone who isn't entirely sure what they're talking about, I am still entertained.
Content Rating: Explicit, and tagged so in iTunes. I haven't really heard any naughty words, but they do discuss comics that have violent plots and they might swear on occasion.
You could come out with a web comic or a graphic novel online it didn't matter who saw it, or whether anyone ever saw it you could still put it out there and that is the most free-the freaking-I don't know the word, you're the libertarians of comic makers because anybody could see it and it's complete and total freedom and you could be naked in your house and who cares.
Average Episode Length: Around an hour and forty-nine minutes as far as I can tell by glancing at the two episode they have released.
Drinking Game: ComicAttack.net not only features drinking games (scroll down), but some superhero drinks as well! Yay, Google searches.
Release Schedule: Monthly.
Music: There are goofy little clips from corny old superhero shows that they play between topics.
Unintentionally Good Part: The sheer nerditry that's going on in this podcast. It's dense, people.
Unintentionally Bad Part: Hm. Like I said, I am not on top of comic book related information, but let's say that a bad part of this might be if the hosts opinions or facts are incorrect about something, which could make you rage as you listen.
I like violence, and I like sex, but I don't like violent sex.
The Comic Dork hosts are wise in the way of comics, and several of them have worked or currently work in "the industry" of comics/webcomics, so they have the insight you're looking for. The personalities go well together and the discussions are interesting and thorough. THEY LIKE COMICS AND LIKE TALKING ABOUT THEM EVEN MORE. Even if you're like me and don't know much about comics, you will still be entertained by the hosts' and how they say what they have to say.
One of my favorite parts is their comics recommendations, and when they discuss what they are currently reading. Great way to find fun stuff to read!
Unrelated rating: Fourteen "snikts!" out of seventeen "Bubs."
Posts
