I've been madly scrambling around for new podcasts to listen to after the mighty Wait, What? went off the air. Which is why, along with unrestrained nostalgia, I've been listening to a lot of Roger and Quentin lately.
But if there is something I love as much as hardcore video store nerds telling you about the good shit to watch, it's the Nikolai Dante comic strip, the one thing that got me back into 2000ad when I really thought I was done for good with the galaxy's greatest comic. So of course the Great Dante Readthrough is right up my ally.
The secret weapon on the podcast isn't Simon Fraser, the co-creator and primary artist on Dante, it's his excellent co-host Edie Nugent, who keeps things lively as they power through the Dante saga, especially when Fraser is a dour Scot who likes to have a moan about everything. They're a married couple, so the rapport is natural as she digs out fasincating pieces of trivia behind the series from her grumpy old sod of a husband.
I smashed through the first 20 episodes in a couple of weeks, which might be a bit indulgent. But all things Dante should be indulgent, what's the point otherwise?
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