Comics Unity, my third Podcast is the
most surprising Podcast of the three I currently do and certainly the
one that really wasn’t planned.
And when I really wasn’t planned, I
mean really wasn’t planned.
Fast forward all the way back to May
2017 during the early (ish) days of Spoken Label, way before Reading
in Bed I ended up doing a Podcast with my good friend Michael who was
just starting to get going as a writer and had a great time with him
back at N Studios when during the recording off it I discovered he
had a massive interest in graphic novels and comics like me.
Although I did know by going to the
same writing workshop as him and also the same poetry open mic night,
we decided to do his Spoken Label Podcast after getting chatting in
Forbidean Planet (Manchester’s great comic shop) several times and
when we met up at mine, we decided off the cuff to do Comics Unity
straight after we did his Spoken Label session.
If I am honest, we should have prepared
it better as it is somewhat disorganised for a first episode but did
have a good laugh doing it only for it get abandoned when I was
unable to get hold of Michael to do a follow up episode. 16 or so
months later, Michael got in touch about wanting to start it up and I
invited him over to mine and we had a great chat about it and spend
most of the afternoon recording what became the 2nd Pilot
and Episode 2 and 3 really over one day and have managed to carry it
on a monthly basis after sorting out what exactly had caused the
problem of him pulling out in the first place.
The planning for this Podcast is quite
different from both Reading in Bed and Spoken Label in the sense of
Reading in Bed I am making notes for each book I review and formally
marking and Spoken Label although unstructured I tend to keep to a
similar pattern with it which gives it the freedom to go in the
direction it does. Comics Unity is different in the sense of the pair
of us are often researching news that fit within the remit of what we
want to talk to, and I’ll then usually get a running order of news
together and we start chatting generally from there almost like just
two friends just jumping off on all tangents frequently talking about
something we like.
When me and Michael got into a routine
with it, it’s been pretty plain sailing really and that’s the
crunch point here, routine. Because with Reading in Bed, I am dating
my co-host me and Amanda are always talking about it in one way or
the other, Comics Unity just needed us to get into a routine after
when Michael hit a few problems previously and since we got going in
November last year, it’s developed at a good pace with the pair of
us now doing extra Episodes when we meet up which have been getting
good reviews
And also now doing our own Patreon page
(More on that next)
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