With Comic Con Melbourne fast approaching I thought we would shed some light on an up and coming illustrator in Australia so I sat down with Artist Alley regular Mitch Collins.

Chris Daniel: Straight off the bat – if you could describe yourself as an artist in one tagline, what would it be?

Mitch Collins: My Tagline would be Visual teller for your story.

CD: Going back to your origins as an illustrator, at what point did you...

Stan Lee said every comic is someone’s first. Well good luck if this is your first Rad Lounge... We talk superpets, swingers parties and some very weird dreams. We’re a comics podcast apparently.

SHOW NOTES:
00.00 Intro
21.40 News
50.30 Reviews:
- Spider-Man: Life Story #1
- Go-Bots #1-4
- Magical Beatdown Vol. 1
- Dark Red #1
- Outer Darkness #1-5
- Disco Download
1:31.57 Feature Topic: Super Pets
2:03.13 BA’s PA
2:22.00 Sandm...

Comic Artist Louie Joyce has a signing at Kings Comics and chats about his new book Haphaven.

It’s nothing but nineties this episode as we talk Captain Marvel, Luke Perry, 90210 handshakes, and an embarrassing photo from Lucas’s past. Plus reviews of a couple of great new Marvel releases and a local graphic novel celebrating the life of Superman creators Siegel and Shuster. And an exciting announcement!

SHOW NOTES:
00.00 Intro & News
38.39 Reviews:
- Vader: Dark Visions #1
- Meet The Skrulls #1
- Immortal Hulk #14
- Tru...

It’s an episode of bad decisions, from a post mortem of our listener poll for Comics’ Greatest Couple, right through to a feature where two-thirds of the group try to convince themselves they enjoyed Umbrella Academy. Plus we try to solve the mystery of what is going on at DC right now, and a metric crap-tonne of other news and comics reviews.

SHOW NOTES:
00.00 Intro & News
48.42 Reviews:
- Red Sonja #1
- Savage Sword of Conan...

It’s a momentous show as we have perhaps our last ever episode of Affleck Offlick, #Lettergate reaches its conclusion AND we celebrate Valentine’s Day by picking once and for all comics’ greatest couple. Plus a heap of other news, reviews, and our comic white whales.

SHOW NOTES:
00.00 Intro & News
31.16 Reviews:
- Monkey Junk #1
- Fante Bukowski
- Invisible Kingdom #1
- Naomi #1
- Action Comics #1007
1:09.24 Feature Topic: Comi...

Court is in session as we make our accusations for the great comic book crimes. If by "great crimes" you mean petty grudges. Plus #Lettergate, news, reviews, dreams, you name it...

SHOW NOTES:
00.00 Intro & News
32.58 Reviews
- Avengers: No Road Home #1
- Disco Download
- Neither Here Nor Hair
- Marvel Comics Presents #1
- Archie #701

We had a chat with Tom Taylor at his signing of "Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man" #1 at Kings Comics

Above The Grave: Complete series

By Mitchell Hall and Andrew de Zilva

‘Above The Grave’ is a masterpiece that takes you below ground, deep under the Namibian desert to the world’s most infamous maximum-security supervillain prison, Mako. Here we meet the chief warden Rick Mastertine, a Kurt Russell cross Mel Gibson hybrid who is yet to discover what life is like underneath the surface.

The graphic novel is compiled of carefully a...

Jill & Elliott check out everything that's going on at FCBD Kinokuniya.

Interviews Baked by Andres, Marcelo Baez, Karen from Comic Con-versation, Craig Phillips & Lesley Frances Vamos