Secret Convergence on Infinite Podcasts
As you may have seen on Twitter, House to Astonish is going to be taking part in a huge, complex crossover with eight other excellent comics and pop culture podcasts, under the banner of Secret Convergence on Infinite Podcasts.
The crews of the Fan Bros Show, Into It with Elle Collins, SILENCE!, Less Than Live with Kate or Die, Journey Into Misery, Wait, What?, us, War Rocket Ajax and Rachel & Miles X-Plain the X-Men are set to be swept away to Battlepod by the Beyonder, to help him understand comics and comic culture in a series of round-table discussions.
House to Astonish’s episode is part 7 of the crossover, and I’m joined on that episode by Wait, What?’s Jeff Lester, Into It’s Elle Collins, and Journey Into Misery’s Helena Hart to discuss our comic book guilty pleasures. You can also find me on part 3 (SILENCE!) and part 4 (Less Than Live), and Paul on part 6 (Wait, What?) and part 9 (Rachel & Miles X-Plain the X-Men).
It all kicks off on 29 October on the Fan Bros Show, where hosts DJ BenHaMeen and Chico Leo will be discussing the question of “Who would win in a fight?”, alongside Wait, What?’s Graeme McMillan, War Rocket Ajax’s Chris Sims and X-Plain the X-Men’s Rachel Edidin, and runs through until 29 November.
It’s been in the works since April (and has been something of a logistical nightmare), but it’s going to be really enjoyable if the episodes I’ve been privy to so far are anything to go by, and we’ve got some brilliant announcements to come, like the identity of our special guest Beyonder voice (though it’s not hard to find out now, if you pay close attention), and the specially commissioned art which James Stokoe has done for us – and hey, check out our launch image above, produced just for the occasion by Brandon Graham. Mega, eh?
You can find more details on the podcast’s Tumblr over here, or follow along on Twitter. We’ll keep you updated here too as the various episodes go live. We’re all incredibly proud of this, and we hope you enjoy it.
Special bonus video thing!
We mentioned a while back that we were recording a segment for the Thumbcast’s upcoming video episode. And here it is, for those of you who’ve always wanted to know what Al’s sofa looks like.
Don’t forget to check out the Thumbcast’s website and post nice things.
Marvel sales March 2010
The March sales post is now up at the Beat, and since you always ask me to remind you, I’m reminding you.
Al does this hype stuff better than me.
Oh, and I’ve impulsively turned off the comments for this post to avoid a splinter thread. Any comments, please post them over at the Beat.
A Quick Plug
You’ll have noticed, no doubt, that I’ve been a little quiet on the blogging front for the past few weeks. That’s mainly because of two other writing projects that have been taking up a lot of time. The first of these is something that I can’t talk too openly about just now, but is extremely exciting and if all goes well (and there’s no reason to believe it won’t) I should be able to talk about in around a year or so. The second is something which has now come fully to fruition and is available to buy right now.
Know Your Words is a collection of poems by three previously-unpublished poets, being me and fellow lexonauts Del Des Anges and Amy Kreines. Published through Lulu.com, it’s 170 pages of yummy poetic goodness and I’m hugely proud of it.
It’s got funny poems, sad poems, romantic poems, poems about pirates, poems about Space Invaders, poems about optimism and Ragnarok and the GI Joe movie and the future and glow-in-the-dark monkeys and other such awesomeness. It’s also got a Facebook fan page should you feel like showing support that way.
It’s not comics-related (and I appreciate that poetry, sexy as it is, isn’t everyone’s cup of tea), but if you’ve enjoyed my writing in the past it’s got the same sense of humour so you have a higher than average chance of enjoying this too (and if you haven’t enjoyed my writing then rest assured that Del and Amy are much, much more talented than I am).
EDIT: It’s been pointed out that some kind of indication of the poetry on offer would be helpful, so here’s one of mine as a sample:
Only Swans Can Break Your Arm
Love is like climate change
It makes you warmer by degrees
Love is like a hard drive crash
It brings your system to its knees
Love is like friendly fire
It hits you when you least expect
Love is like a Van Damme flick
It does not play to intellect.
Love is like cupidity
With Cupid in the driver’s seat
Love creates stupidity
So hearts forget to hit each beat
Love is like a hangover;
Your head will ache, your stomach heave
Love’s a televangelist
It tells you what you must believe
Love is like a nuclear bomb
It changes things for years to come
Love is dumb beyond belief
But still we wish we were that dumb.
We now return you to your regularly-scheduled blog.
