Greetings Fantom Friends!
2020 was a long and difficult year for so many of us. COVID-19 forced us to shut down, adjust our operating hours, and left much of our staff stuck at home so as not to take any risks with immunosuppression. Our two longest employed staff, Leah & Raven have had to adjust to life at home in a time of great uncertainty. What do we do when we panic and have no idea what's going to happen to our livelihoods and, quite frankly, our society? Well, first, we reckon with the existential dread and pull ourselves out from the trenches of our anxiety, and then we read books. Also, apparently start a podcast so that you have an active reason to have to check in with someone to make sure that you're still alive and maintaining what sanity you have left.
Those who have worked in book or comics retail will tell you, when you work at a store, you accumulate a lot of reading material; perhaps more than you can reasonably get through before you get more. It's a problem shared by many bookworms and comic nerds everywhere! Well, 2020 became the perfect year to get to all those things you kept putting off, including that gigantic pile of books. You might think that it's just too daunting and have a hard time knowing when to start. Well, maybe it's time to tag in an accountabili-buddy!
Leah and Raven shared with each other a short list of the books they have laying around that need reading, and took the pressure off of themselves of figuring out where to start by making those decisions for each other! So, each episode our hosts will tell each other (and you!) about the book the other picked for them to read and have a nice chit chat not just about the comics themselves, but also about a plethora of relevant topics inspired by the reading!
If you missed seeing the shining faces of Fantom's usual New Comic Wednesday crew (or any other day you may have caught us), talking nerd stuff with likeminded individuals in a comfortable and approachable space, and getting the Fantom Comics Staff Suggestions treatment, then listen to The FantomCast with Leah & Raven! Expect a lot of awkwardness as we relearn how to talk out loud to each other again, the absurd, and sometimes dark, Millennial humor you know and love, taking a look at comics though artistic and social lenses, and a whole lot of two friends talking about comics and missing the community that gave them some pretty great memories of life in this little hobby and its industry.
You can find The FantomCast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and wherever it is that all the hip kids are getting their podcast fix. Episodes 1 and 2 drop on Wednesday, February, 17 (2/17). If you want to get a look at what books are being considered for reading, check out Leah & Raven's Spectacular FantomCast Reading Lists here on the site. If you have podcast related questions, comments, or suggestions, you can contact us at our brand new, very fancy, podcast specific email! FantomCast@fantomcomics.com
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