The Chris and Reggie Channel: romance comics

Sunday, July 1, 2018

Cosmic Treadmill ep. 97 - Young Romance #1 (1947)

Hello, romanticizers of four-color funnybooks! In this episode, love doctors Chris (@AceComics) and Reggie (@reggiereggie) tackle the mysteries of love, when they read the first romance comic book ever published: Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Young Romance #1 from 1947! After the needed run-down on Jack and Joe, our heartstrong pair discuss the conditions that created the romance comic, and then read all four (or five?) stories contained within the first one--with special emphasis on "The Plight of the Suspicious Bridegroom" and its unconvential storytelling device. Then, after an informative break, our duo talk about other romance comics and why they practically vanished in the 1970s. All this, and some listener mail! This episode will surely make you swoon!

Thursday, July 20, 2017

Cosmic Treadmill, Episode 19: Angel Love (1986-1987)

Cosmic Treadmill, Episode 19
Angel Love (1986-1987)

Join Chris and Reggie as they travel back to 1980's New York City to discuss the 1986-1987 series Angel Love by Barbara Slate. Luckily this is they discovered their passion and... ahem, talent... for voice acting!

During the summer of 1986 most DC Comics featured a most curious house-ad promising, among other things at least the passing mention of COCAINE?!! What many comics enthusiasts may not know is this book actually DID came out later on that year! Angel Love is a New York transplant coming from a quiet corner in Scranton, Pennsylvania hoping to strike it big as a cartoonist. Along the way she will face drug-addicted boyfriends, a vapid (and more fun to read about) roommate, a bum who likes to sleep on her couch, and countless chatty cockroaches. Is this what life in the big city’s all about?

Find out with us as we check out Angel Love.