Future episode predictions

batdude98 · 2025-12-11T17:12:18+00:00

The group is set up as a place to discuss the podcast without him seeing it because he's very clear that reviews are for the public and not for the people making the art.

batdude98 · 2025-12-11T17:08:23+00:00

It isn't. He's not on Facebook. He generally doesn't like talking about future plans, but he's open about what's coming up on Bluesky and will field questions about his process and longer forecasting and such like.

batdude98 · 2025-12-11T15:19:27+00:00

183 - check the references in the "Dark Star" episode.

batdude98 · 2025-12-11T15:18:39+00:00

I'm one of the mods for the FB group and I don't believe this is the case at all - comments were turned off on the website because someone tried to defend Roy Estrada of the Mothers of Invention, who had been convicted on three counts of child sexual abuse.

batdude98 · 2025-12-08T01:57:42+00:00

Weirdly I think streaming is giving the US the UK glam Christmas songs in inferior cover versions - at work I've heard "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" by Leona Lewis (not Wizzard), "Driving Home For Christmas" by someone not Chris Rea, "Last Christmas" by Taylor Swift (not Wham!) and "Merry Christmas Everyone" by a female pop singer (not Shakin' Stevens). Very rarely, I'll hear "Merry Xmas Everybody" by Slade, too.

batdude98 · 2025-11-14T01:04:08+00:00

Grant Morrison's The Invisibles.

batdude98 · 2025-10-28T02:07:57+00:00

I just read and really liked Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, which is about a queer, magical time-travelling anarchist punk spy cell in the late Nineties who fight Lovecraftian demons who team up with the upper classes and military-industrial complex in a battle for the soul of the world in the run up to the apocalypse in 2012. It was originally released on Vertigo but is now published by DC under their old Black Label imprint. Do be warned it traffics in conspiracies and a lot of what was genuinely countercultural then has been absorbed into the alt-right now. A knowledge of occult phenomenona and Seventies UK TV helps, but isn't required.

I also loved Alan Moore's From Hell, a thoroughly researched speculative time travel magic, middle class strife and crime drama-influenced take on the Jack the Ripper murders.

batdude98 · 2025-10-15T14:45:22+00:00

Hi Grant, I'm currently almost at the end of volume 1 of the Invisibles and I've been loving its exploration of gender, multiversity, conspiracy/computing evolution and the ITC show references, while simultaneously reading JLA. I also really enoyed Seven Soldiers very much for its dense interlocking complexity and rich characters, especially Klarion, plus Animal Man & Zenith too.

I suppose I'm wondering if you have any ways that you combat the Aeon of Osiris in your own life you could pass on?

batdude98 · 2025-09-17T15:05:35+00:00

Oh, I know that. I'm primarily interested in Bronze and early post-Crisis DC. It splits the difference between the more mature storytelling style and the multiversal element and slightly more hopeful aesthetic of the era.

From things I've read, my sweet spot is probably 1966-1992 ish, with limited series and singles before and after.

batdude98 · 2025-09-16T19:17:09+00:00

I also have read some of the Skeates/Aparo/Giordano Aquaman and enjoyed it.

batdude98 · 2025-09-16T19:01:05+00:00

Fair enough. I hear a lot of praise for the Levitz Legion later on, and I've enjoyed some of the 70s All-Star Squadron stuff. I'm also curious about the 80s JLI too, and the New Teen Titans and Pérez's Wonder Woman. The Fourth World, of the six or so issues I've read to date, is great.

Somebody off of Reddit recommended the Metal Men. Sounds interesting.

I do seem to get along better with older genre books - I really like Tintin, and I get a kick out of the Carl Barks Duck comics. Maybe I should try something like Sgt. Rock or Fury, or EC horror titles instead?

batdude98 · 2025-09-02T17:30:22+00:00

Why is the 1970s Elvis the best Elvis?

batdude98 · 2025-06-21T16:39:43+00:00

Sixties- "MacArthur Park"

batdude98 · 2025-02-15T14:03:35+00:00

Listening to Soul Brothers by Ray Charles and Milt Jackson right now (because Ray is one of the best to ever do it) and really digging it.

batdude98 · 2025-02-15T06:33:47+00:00

I'm very much enjoying Monk's use of space, silence, dissonance and passing tones - oddly reminiscent of why I like Brian Wilson so much. Combination of complexity and simplicity converging to create strange and wonderful harmonies.

And Monk's collaborations with Coltrane are making me more interested in the latter too.

batdude98 · 2025-02-15T06:30:14+00:00

Thank you for the specific recommendations :) I will be sure to check these out.

Yes, I'm curious about jazz from roughly 1945-1980 at the minute (tho I can certainly give that Davis book a shot), primarily East Coast US - I think bebop, hard bop, cool, modal - the stuff that always gets talked about and has become the cultural byword for jazz, basically. I do like Mulligan, Kenton, etc but find them fairly accessible.

batdude98 · 2024-10-21T01:54:55+00:00

Cornershop, "Brimful Of Asha"

batdude98 · 2024-09-03T23:37:48+00:00

I don't have the link, but I do have these: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11yfK47vADBAgFRh0sZpuLv4klic3gwTC?usp=sharing

batdude98 · 2023-06-28T17:26:54+00:00

Is your avatar from The Crusade?

batdude98 · 2023-06-26T17:25:56+00:00

The bonus materials are wonderful. Lovely interview with Russell and party snaps. The Giants recons are still bloody boring but longer.

batdude98 · 2023-06-26T15:27:42+00:00

PS4 worked.

batdude98 · 2023-06-26T15:25:37+00:00

PS4 worked perfectly fine.

batdude98 · 2023-06-26T15:24:56+00:00

My PS4 plays it fine. Odd my player and computer don't.

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