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Here. I'm a little confused by the PR for this big mega-podcast event as touted thus far. Certainly several of those podcasts are popular, "name" podcasts in the world of comics, and I like the idea of a shared experience. I'm a little unclear as to what this shared experience might be beyond some questions that go from blog to blog, but I suppose that will be revealed as we get closer to date.

What strikes me about it in terms of writing a post here are 1) podcasts are ubiquitous in a way they weren't three years ago when a bunch of us also thought them ubiquitous, and 2) in general there are a lot of media sources for comics, but as is the case with written sources from five years ago or so the podcasts I encounter seem to be mostly personal commentary and interviews, and most are further tied into very specific PR cycles and expected buying habits at a time when there's some dissonance of how that gets presented to consumers. There's a similarity between media efforts that makes it seem like there are fewer of them than there are. That sounds like I'm casting aspersions, but I'm not: everyone should do what they want to do and our perception of the aggregate says what it says. I think one thing this promotion does is give us a snapshot of a type of industry media effort that hasn't been taken yet, a useful thing no matter when it happens.

Personally, I think I would look forward to the differences between these podcasts rather than their similarities, which is probably why I hope for a stronger presentation of uniting theme/structure or a charitable effort underlying the event announced soon.

One podcast I regularly enjoy that is partly about comics is Virtual Memories, which just put up its Dylan Horrocks episode from the show I help organize, CXC. Dylan's a great talker and I think has a lot of say about comics right now even if fans attending the talks of his I saw this Fall seem heavily of his own generation. I'll never listen to it, but people seemed to enjoy this appearance of mine at CBABIH rambling on about Eros.
 
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