Decompressed is a podcast series presented by comic book writer Kieron Gillen who interviews many different comic book writers and artists about specific issues in the current comic book world. I have been wanting to talk about this for a while and with a new podcast with Rick Remender on Uncanny Avengers #1 now is a great time to do it.
So what do I think to the podcast, well I am a big fan of Gillen's comics and met him last year at Thought Bubble so was happy to give this a listen and was really enlightened. The first one I listened to was the the Morning Glories podcast with writer Nick Spencer, because we would all like a little explaining where that is concerned, and it was truly enlightening without being a massive spoiler. The series has awesome comedy to it, Gillen has great humour and knows the people he is interviewing, this gives the interviews a relaxed feeling that make them really easy to listen too. The page by page deconstruction of the specific issue help to break the interview down and offer insight into the world of comic book creation and reading into comics. Not only that but the specific page breakdowns are really cool, you get to hear about splash panel planning and what makes a page work or not work, they also show how artists and writers work together in different ways which is really interesting.
The series has been really great, I have in fact started reading some new stuff thanks to the Decompressed podcasts. I enjoy listening to them, they are good quality, fun, interesting and enlightening. If you like to delve behind the world of comics listen to them all! And if some of the reviewed and talked about comics specifically catch your eye then listen to them they are truly brilliant. They continue to be good and I hope they do continue, I will keep listening for sure!
(Also its strange to be reviewing some reviews if that makes sense)
8.5/10
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