Critiquing Comics #158: ‘Bronze Age Boogie’ And ‘Longdog’
by Hannah Means Shannon
The Critiquing Comics Podcast is back tonight from the same folks who bring us Deconstructing Comics, but this time focusing on the craft of making comics…
In this episode, Tim and Mulele discuss:
- Bronze Age Boogie, by Stuart Moore and Alberto Ponticelli. An ambitious comic that tries to cram in too many ideas. The Bronze Age! ’70s pop culture! Time-traveling apes! Prose interludes! Meanwhile, the book’s backup feature is the bomb! Has Ahoy Comics gotten things backwards?
- Longdog, by Josh Hechinger and Jorge Munoz. The authors of one of our very early critiques are back together with a story of Sasquatch hunting. It looks good, but is the tone a bit inconsistent?
Also, Mulele tells a story of recent tragic headlines here in Japan and how they intersect with comics and his life.
Listen up below!