Comics Alternative

Time Codes: 00:00:25 - Introduction 00:02:11 - Introduction of new Critical Takes series, and setup of interview 00:05:00 - Interview with Keith Dallas and John Wells 01:12:11 - Wrap up 01:12:47 - Contact us With this episode the Two Guys are starting a brand-new series on The Comics Alternative, one they’re calling "Critical Takes." This will be an occasion series devoted to critical and scholarly works about comics. In the past, whenever they've talked with a comics scholar or historian on the show, they’ve included those in their Interview series, one where they primarily focus on comics writers and artists. But they wanted to spin off their focus on critical works with its own series. After all, and as the show's tagline states, they’re “Two Guys with PhDs Talking about Comics,” so it’s only appropriate that the guys devote a series of episodes to the more theoretical, historical, and scholarly side of comics studies. Some of these shows, such as the current one, will be interviews with author