This week Declan Shalvey (Thunderbolts, 28 Days Later, Northlanders) and Stephen Mooney (Angel, Half Past Danger) sit down for a frank, honest discussion about the comic book industry. They shed light on everything from how social media benefits comic book artists to the changes they’ve witnessed in the emerging comic book scene in Ireland.
Download Link: The Comic Cast 28/11/12
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Marvel have released a new ‘Marvel Now!’ teaser (see above) and guess whose name is on it!? It’s only bloomin’ Cork artist Will Sliney! We rang him up to see if we coax a little more info out of him. Have a listen.
Download Show: Will Sliney 01/11/2012
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Much like Cheers, the Comic Cast is a place where everybody knows your name so pull up a stool at the bar and join the conversation as we review the long awaited Daniel Clowes comic – Wilson, Chew by John Layman/Rob Guillory, Black Blizzard by Yoshihiro Tatsumi and The Sword by the Luna Brothers. In Irish comics we give our verdict on Last Bus #2 by Paddy Lynch, RíRá #2 edited by Aidan Courtney and The Wren #2 by Jason Connors/Mark Kirwan. We tell it how it is re: Marvels latest big screen movie – Iron Man 2 and we also give our tuppence worth about Matt Ogens documentary film Confessions of a Superhero, not to mention a round up of all the Irish comics events happening this summer including a run-down on who’ll be appearing at the 2D Festival in Derry next month. If all that wasn’t enough to keep you sweet, we bring you the latest on the Thor and Batman movies as well as the new Marvel iphone app, and we offer our thoughts on the ongoing attempts to have Tintin in the Congo banned in Belgium.
Download Link: The Comic Cast 04/05/10
*INCLUDES IRON MAN 2 SPOILERS, or as we like to call it – a proper review
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It may be summer but the Comic Cast don’t take no holidays. We’ve spent all week reading comics and drinking sangria in the park in in order to review Fred Van Lente and Dennis Calero’s X-Men Noir, Brian Michael Bendis’ Halo: Uprising, Grant Morrison’s Final Crisis, Matt Forsythe’s ojingogo. Not to mention a veritabal feast of new Irish comics including Peter Loftus and Deirdre De Barra’s Downpour, Hilary Lawlors’ Superhilbo! #1, The Longstone Comics Anthology #2 and John Robbins’ The Monkey-Head Complaint / Inside Outsiders. We also lock heads over Terminator Salvation as well as discussing the latest comics news including BOOM! Studios new comic Die Hard: Year one with art by our very own Stephen Thompson, the triumphant return of Spiderman: Clone Saga and Spidey’s arrival on the boards of Broadway no less! So put on your shades – this one is going to be bright.
Download Link: The Comic Cast 23/06/09
It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights, it’s time to meet Comic Casters on the Comic Cast tonight! On this weeks strawberry jam-packed show we review Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone: The After Hours & The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street, Roger Langridge’s The Muppet Show issue #1, Brian Wood’s Local, Lemony Snicket’s The Composer is Dead and Paul Hornschemeier’s Mother, Come Home (hardback re-release) not to mention Irish comics including Luke F’s Tweet, Philip Barrett’s Matter #11 / Blackshapes new version, and Paddy Lynch’s Stop Gap. We also have a vault of Irish and international comics news that we dive into ala Scrooge McDuck, including a preview of Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s A Drifting Life ! Tuck in!
Download Link: Comic Cast 28/04/09
