HARD AGREE

In this sixth episode of HARD AGREE from Wednesday May 5th 2021, Andrew Sumner welcomes legendary comics artist Brian Bolland (the definitive DC Comics artist, the definitive Judge Dredd artist and the co-creator of Camelot 3000 and Batman: The Killing Joke) to talk about the great British city of Liverpool (and his 2021 Batman-in-Liverpool cover for Forbidden Planet); Brian’s 40 years creating ic...

In this fifth episode of HARD AGREE from Wednesday April 28th 2021, Andrew Sumner welcomes his producers (and Spoilerverse founders) Kenric Regan & John Horsley to the show for a deep dive on the classic 1966 Batman TV series and the huge impact it had on Sumner's life. Well, that’s how their conversation starts and ends but, along the way, they detour into how Kenric & John met John W...

In this fourth episode of HARD AGREE from Wednesday April 21st 2021, Andrew Sumner welcomes his old pal (and the three biggest names in noir fiction) - multi-award-winning crime writer Max Allan Collins – to discuss Max’s wildly successful career creating long-running series characters like Nathan Heller & Nolan, their work together on Max’s completion of the adventures of Mickey Spillane’s tw...

In this third episode of HARD AGREE from Wednesday April 14th 2021, Andrew Sumner welcomes The Boys creator Garth Ennis (creator of Preacher, Hitman, The Punisher and Crossed) to talk about Garth’s then-current comics projects - Jimmy’s Little Bastards and Marjorie Finnegan: Temporal Criminal – before exploring their mutual love of war comics, war movies and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in...

In this second episode of HARD AGREE from Wednesday April 7th 2021, Andrew Sumner welcomes incomparable British super-artist, the one and only Dave Gibbons (co-creator of Watchmen, Martha Washington, Rogue Trooper & Kingsman) to Hard Agree, for a freewheeling chat about Dave’s career (from the early days until now) and their mutual love of comics, with plenty of stops/detours along the way, di...

In this introductory episode of HARD AGREE from Wednesday March 31st 2021 (recorded off the back of episode 5, Batman '66), Andrew Sumner tells his producers Kenric Regan & John Horsley the tale of his grandfather Pops Smythe buying him his first comic book in Liverpool, England when he was three years old. Sumner spent the next fifty years hurtling around the pop culture kaleidoscope - fi...