Gweek 051: Blair Butler of G4's Fresh Ink

Mark Frauenfelder 1:29 pm Fri May 11, 2012

Click here to play this episode. Gweek is Boing Boing's podcast about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. My co-hosts for episode 51 are:

Michael Pusateri: a lifelong tinkerer and former television tech executive for Disney who blogs at cruftbox.com

Blair Butler: Writer, comedian, and G4's geek goddess and resident comic book expert. She hosts the "Fresh Ink" comic book segment on the G4 TV program, Attack of the Show!

In this episode:

space-x The upcoming SpaceX launch

heart Blair Butler's comic book, Heart.

womathology Womanthology, a comics anthology completely funded by Kickstarter. Blair has a story in it.

dial-h Dial H for Heroes, a comic book written by China Mieville.

gods-of-mars Blair: Why the new John Carter: The Gods of Mars comic is better than the movie.

fatale Blair's comic picks: Fatale, Saga, Mind the Gap, Scott Snyder’s Batman, Greg Rucka’s Punisher.

angry-birds-space National Geographic’s Angry Birds Space book is a lot better than Mark would have thought.

And lots more about movies, video games, apps, and gadgets!

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