Webcomics: Reviews of Gods Can't Die, Kamikaze, and The Secret Life of Gitmo's Women - a podcast by Stergios Botzakis & Derek Royal

Time Codes:

• 00:00:29 - Introduction
• 00:03:23 - Another jab at Eisner Award definitions
• 00:05:05 - Gods Can't Die
• 00:27:25 - Kamikaze
• 00:52:38 - The Secret Life of Gitmo's Women
• 01:15:59 - Wrap up
• 01:18:59 - Contact us

 

Sean and Derek are back with their monthly foray into the realm of webcomics. They begin with Z. Akhmatova's Gods Can't Die, a lavishly illustrated fantasy of adventure and self-discovery. This is a relatively young webcomic, beginning in April 2016, so readers can easily jump on board with its prologue and first chapter. It's the story of Ena, born of both human and god, as she searches for her deity father and encounters other gods and creatures along the way. Next, they discuss Kamikaze, a futuristic dystopic tale created by Alan Tupper, Carrie Tupper, and Havana Nguyen. Its teenage protagonist, Markesha Nin, is a lightning-fast courier making deliveries within competing corporate interests and trying to provide for her blind father. The guys can't help but think of CW's The Flash when discussing this series. Finally, Sean and Derek wrap up with Sarah Mirk and Lucy Bellwood's The Secret Life of Gitmo's Women. This already-completed webcomic appears in the online magazine Narratively, and it presents the first-person accounts of two female naval veterans and their experiences at Guantanamo Bay. The conflict in their stories isn't what you might expect, but instead have everything to do with the military's (and our culture's) patriarchal structures.

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