Hot Girl in a Comic Shop

In which I mourn not being in San Diego, talk about some news from there, bitch a lot, play some music, discuss comics theory, and review some comics.

Books discussed:
Black Summer #1, Crécy, Doktor Sleepless #1, Midnighter #10, Welcome to Tranquility #9, American Virgin #17, The Chronicles of Wormwood #1-6, Friends of Lulu: The Girls' Guide to Guys' Stuff, and Douglas Wolk's Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean.

Links:

Video of Jonathan Ross snogging Neil Gaiman!!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8NxWnMhlso

Neil Cicierega's main site: http://www.eviltrailmix.com
The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: http://www.utimateshowdown.org
Potter Puppet Pals: http://www.potterpuppetpals.com
Lemon Demon site: http://www.lemondemon.com
Neil's LiveJournal: http://trapezzoid.livejournal.com

The Usual Links:
http://www.myspace.com/hotgirlcomics
hotgirlcomics @ gmail.com

Official Tripod Website: http://www.3pod.com.au/podhome/

WARNING: Review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at the end CONTAINS SPOILERS. Is in fact NOTHING BUT SPOILERS. Starts at 59:55.

Also discussing:
Clubbing, Runaways #27, Tek Jansen #1, Welcome to Tranquility #8/Gen13 #10, Midnighter #9, American Virgin #16, Y: the Last Man #57.

Minor spoilers for Warren Ellis's Crooked Little Vein [49:25]

Music in this episode:
Tripod- Hot Girl in a Comic Shop
The Clash- Long Time Jerk
Harry and the Potters- Voldemort Can't Stop the Rock

Official Tripod Website: http://www.3pod.com.au/podhome/
Official Harry and the Potters site: http://www.eskimolabs.com/hp/
Comic Geek Speak site: http://www.comicgeekspeak.com
Tek Jansen videos: http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_colbert_report/videos/tek_jansen/index.jhtml

My stuff:
http://www.myspace.com/hotgirlcomics
hotgirlcomics@gmail.com

[[EDIT: Whoops! Only about half the episode got posted-- fixed it!]]

Two weeks of comics crammed into one episode! Listen as I complain about Wildstorm solicits! Thrill as I lapse into a lecture about the socio-philosophical implications of zombies! Laugh at the artistic endeavors of New Zealeanders who aren't Peter Jackson! And more!

Links of stuff I mention:
P.O.W.E.R. in Comics: Promoting: Ownership (of comics shops), Writing & drawing, Editing and Reading of comics by women and minorities.

Phantom Power Comics Podcast: Thanks for the rec, Jenni!

Can't Stop the Serenity: Annual international fundraising Serenity screenings for Equality Now, a women's rights organization and Joss Whedon's favorite charity (Happy Birthday, Joss!)

See also Joss Whedon's speech at an Equality Now event, honoring him as a "Man on the Front Lines".

HBO: Flight of the Conchords

What the Folk!: a Flight of the Conchords fansite. Contains mp3s.

Figwit Lives!: Bringing Bret McKenzie international fame since 2001.

Official Hot Girl in a Comic Shop MySpace

Tripod Official website: Band that wrote and performs the theme song and created the title of this podcast, all of which I shamelessly stole.

(Repost with volume issues fixed)

Welcome to the first episode of Hot Girl in a Comic Shop! The podcast which celebrates the hot girls who read comics (which is all of them).

Here I talk about my initiation into comics, review two comics and movie, and play some music.

I'm still figuring out where I'm going with this thing, so please send me feedback at hotgirlcomics@gmail.com.