Sage & Braden Love Comics Sage and Braden

Oh my gosh - it’s our two year podcast anniversary! Oh and it’s also Valentine’s Day (or close enough to it) To celebrate we have two books about looooove 💕 We’re talking about Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe and Life of Melody by Mari Costa. In our discussion we also ask the age old questions like “do you believe in love at first sight?” and “if you found a baby in the woods at the same time as a hot stranger would you buy a house together and raise the baby?” Get ready for romance! 

Black History Month - 2:23 

Current movies & TV shows we’re watching - 5:38 

Big Poison Ivy news!!! - 12:10 

Lore Olympus - 15:06 

Life of Melody - 36:59 

Additional recs for current ongoing series - 56:18 

Music by Louie Zong (https://louiezong.bandcamp.com/)

Whoops! We read a book that Brandon Graham worked on. So yeah, Messy comma Weird is how we're kicking off 2023. But we dig into plenty of other books along with our usual updates on what we've been up, and wrap up with some highlights from 2022!

17:20 - Bolero by Luana Vecchio and Wyatt Kennedy

38:13 - Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales by Melanie Gillman

44:56 - Princess Knight by Osamu Tezuka

48:02 - Monotone Blue by Nagabe

52:00 - What else we've been reading

58:57 - Our 2022 faves

For Halloween we've got spooky shenanigans (sort of) AND comics to cover this episode! Our big recommendations are Low Low Woods and Be Kind, My Neighbor which both feature great, weird, queer horror stories. But if that's still somehow not enough for you then we got plenty of other cool books on the brain right now that you should check out. Big SPOILER warning for our main two books in particular.



13:43 - Low Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado, Dani, Tamra Bonvillain and Steve Wands

35:07 - Be Kind, My Neighbor by Yugo Limbo (animated trailer)

45:20 - Thieves by Lucy Bryon

49:40 - Squire by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas

55:35 - Chilling Adventures of Salem

56:25 - Mermaid Saga by by Rumiko Takahashi

58:45 - Fruiting Bodies by Ashley Robin Franklin

59:44 - The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night by Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda

1:00:55 - Grim by Stephanie Phillips, Flaviano, and Rico Renzi

This episode we're covering Boys Run the Riot by Keito Gaku and Blackwater by Jeannette Arroyo and Ren Graham but first we catch up on some of the many TV shows we've been watching. We'll wrap things up with some recent comics we've been enjoying along with some recommendations for books to check out during Hispanic Heritage Month. We had a lot to talk about so buckle up!

We're back after an unexpectedly long hiatus, but we have been reading comics and it's time we we finally talked about them along with some of the cool shows we've been watching/becoming obsessed with! (As well as what comics we think Eddie Munson would read) We won't be going into quite as much plot details about the books we cover so we're only giving a warning for ** LIGHT SPOILERS **. Nothing major, just broad plot stuff. 

The 2 main books we'll be covering are -
Past the Last Mountain by Paul Allor and Louie Joyce, Published by CEX Publishing
Heartstopper! By Alice Oseman, published by Graphix at Scholastic. 

We also briefly cover these titles in the latter half of the show:
- Flavor Girls #1 by Loic Locatelli-Kournwsky with colors by Eros de Santiago. Out now!
- The Last Session volume 01 by Jasmine Wells, Dozerdraws, and Micah Meyers. Out now!
- The Ocean Will Take Us by Rich Douek and Carlos Olivares. 3 issues out, volume 01 out October 26th!
- Poison Ivy by G Willow Wilson & Marcio Takara (AMAZING B COVERS - #1 Warren Louw #2 Jenny Frison). 2 issues out.
- Eight Billion Genies by Charles Soule and Ryan Browne. 3 issues out.
- She-Hulk by Rainbow Rowell, Roge Antonio and Luca Maresca (with incredible Jen Bartel Covers). 4 issues out, volume 01 out October 5th. 

Music by Louie Zong (https://louiezong.bandcamp.com/) Recorded on July 13, 2022

Bonus time again! We received an early review copy of Coming Back, a lovely fantasy graphic novel by Jessi Zabarsky that we loved so we had a quick chat about the book that you get to listen to now! We will be discussing entire plot of the book so be aware of spoilers if you haven't read it yet.