The Great Dante Readthrough Podcast

[Simon Fraser]

My wife Edie Nugent and I have been meaning to read through the whole of The Adventures of Nikolai Dante from beginning to end. So we decided not only to do that now, but also record it as a Podcast. Because social isolation for 12 months makes you do ... possibly regrettable things. So if you're interested in me recounting all the nitty-gritty details that I remember poorly from 20 odd years ago, coupled with a progressive American take, then this is the PODCAST FOR YOU! If you want to read along but don't have all the issues in question, then these nice people will sell you them for a reasonable price
We're releasing it as a special sneak preview exclusively for this message board, with not one ,but TWO episodes of the Podcast online for your amusement. Please bear in mind that we're new at this , so there are likely to be some issues that we haven't ironed out yet. Feedback is welcome. Here or on Twitter @podTGDR .
Episode 1 : The Adventures of Nikolai Dante
Episode 2 : The Romanov Dynasty

[Colin YNWA]

Wow - that sounds fantastic. Thanks for flagging this - a defo listen...

[broodblik]

I want to thank you for creating one of  my all time favourite stories. Will be listening....

[Dandontdare]

Excellent! I've just finished my own Dante reread courtesy of those lovely Hachette hardbacks so it's still fresh in my mind. The creator interviews and recollections in those were always a good read, so I'm looking forward to listening to this queuing up dozens of episodes of this that I really am going to listen to when I get a minute. (I feel shamed when my phone passively-aggressively tells me it's stopped downloading new episodes of my favourite podcasts because I'm clearly not interested in listening to the ones in the queue, so I don't know whyI bother, you ungrateful human.)

[Funt Solo]

Some odd formatting on these forum tables, but here's where you can find the stories in the original progs, and who did the art:

The Adventures of Nikolai Dante	1997	1035-1041	Simon Fraser
The Romanov Dynasty	1997	1042-1049	Simon Fraser
Russia's Greatest Love Machine	1997	1066	Chris Weston
The Gentleman Thief	1997	1067-1070	Simon Fraser
The Full Dante	1997	1071	Charlie Adlard
Moscow Duellists	1997	1072-1075	Simon Fraser
The Gulag Apocalyptic	1998	1079-1082	Henry Flint
The Trouble With Arbatous	1998	1083	Simon Fraser
Cruel Britannia	1998	1084	Simon Fraser
The Great Game	1998	1101-1110	Simon Fraser
The Octobrianna Seduction	1998	1113-1116	Andy Clarke
The Masque Of Dante	1998-1999	1125-1127	Charlie Adlard
The Moveable Feast	1999	1128-1130	Simon Fraser
Tour Of Duty	1999	1131-1133	Charlie Adlard
The Cadre Infernale	1999	1134-1137	Simon Fraser
The Hunting Party	1999	1139-1140	Andy Clarke
Fists Of Fury	1999	1141	Charlie Adlard
Last Dance On The Trans-Siberian Express	1999	1142-1143	Charlie Adlard
Cruel Seas	1999	1148-1149	John Burns
Requiem For Lost Love	1999	1150	John Burns
The Courtship Of Jena Makarov	1999	1161-1172	Simon Fraser
Love And War	1999	p2000	Simon Fraser
The Rudinshtein Irregulars	2000	1183-1190	John Burns
Love And War	2000	1200-1207	John Burns
Battleship Potemkin	2000	1213-1220	Simon Fraser
One Last Night In The House Of Sin	2000	p2001	John Burns
The Beguiling	2001	1234-1235	Steve Yeowell
Fiends	2001	1236-1239	Steve Yeowell
The Romanov Empire	2001	1250-1262	John Burns
The Return Of The Gentleman Thief	2001-2002	p2002, 1273-1274	Simon Fraser
The Romanov Job	2002	1280-1287	Simon Fraser
Hell And High Water	2002-2003	p2003, 1322-1328	John Burns
The Sea Falcon	2003	p2004	John Burns
Agent Of Destruction	2004-2005	p2005,1420-1427	John Burns
How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You…	2005	1428-1431	John Burns
Primal Screams	2005	1433-1436	John Burns
Devil's Deal	2005	p2006	John Burns
Usurper	2006	1487-1489	John Burns
The Depths	2006	1500-1501	John Burns
Dragon's Island	2006	1502-1507	John Burns
Sword of the Tsar	2006	1511-1516	Simon Fraser
The Road Of Bones	2006	p2007	John Burns
Deadlier Than The Male	2007	1518-1520	John Burns
Hellfire	2007	1526-1531	Simon Fraser
The Beast of Rudinshtein	2007	1532-1535	John Burns
The Dissenter	2007	1537	John Burns
Thieves' World	2007	1538-1544	Simon Fraser
The Chaperone	2007	1560-1564	John Burns
Destiny's Child	2007	p2008	John Burns
The Tsar's Daughter	2008	1578-1580	John Burns
Amerika	2008	1589-1599	Simon Fraser
Prisoner of the Tsar	2008	1612-1616	John Burns
Bring Me The Head of Nikolai Dante	2008	p2009	John Burns
An Army of Thieves and Whores	2009	1629-1634	Simon Fraser
Lulu's War	2009	1651-1654	Paul Marshall
Hero of the Revolution	2009-2010	p2010, 1666-1675	John Burns
Heroes Be Damned	2010	1679-1684	Simon Fraser
A Farewell to Arms	2010	1685	Simon Fraser
City of the Damned	2010	1700-1704	Simon Fraser
The Master of Kronstadt	2010	1705-1708	John Burns
The Memoirs of Nikolai Dante	2011	1731	Simon Fraser
Bad Blood	2011	1732-1736	Simon Fraser
The Wedding of Jena Makarov	2011-2012	p2012, 1764-1773	Simon Fraser
The Dante Gambit	2012	1774-1779	John Burns
Sympathy for the Devil	2012	1786-1791	Simon Fraser
Devil May Care	2017	2K40	Simon Fraser

[Simon Fraser]

Thanks Funt. That's useful info.

[JayzusB.Christ]

I'll definitely be having a listen to this.  Thanks for doing it!

[abelardsnazz]

What a splendid idea. I've recently enjoyed the whole thing for the first time thanks to the Hachette collection, so looking forward to these.

[The Monarch]

this is gonna be so much fun

[The Monarch]

is it just my computer or is ep 1 not loading? ep 2 is fine and all but ep 1 isn't

[Jim_Campbell]

is it just my computer or is ep 1 not loading? ep 2 is fine and all but ep 1 isn't

No… I've got the same thing.

[Colin YNWA]

is it just my computer or is ep 1 not loading? ep 2 is fine and all but ep 1 isn't

Yep just about to dig in and Episode 1 isn't there. Episode 2 seems to be there okay though so I'll try that for starters...

[Simon Fraser]

I've re-uploaded Ep1 again and it's working now.

[Colin YNWA]

I've re-uploaded Ep1 again and it's working now.

Good to hear 'cos I just listened to Episode 2 while doing some stuff around the house this afternoon and its a fascinating listen. It great to hear the insights from inside one of my favourite, if niot my absolute favourite 2000ad strip - and therefore one of my all time favourite comics full stop. Wonderfully detailed, Edie is fantastically insightful and obviously the conversation is relaxed and there's chemistry between the 'presenters'.

I'll defo be going back to listen to episode 1 but I'm actually looking forward to episode 3 more. For some reason I'm really REALLY intrigued to hear what one of the creators thinks when someone else takes over their part. So looking forward to how you feel about other artists work on a creation that's clearly very important to you.

Brilliant stuff and thanks for resurrecting episode 1.

[Funt Solo]

Listened to episode #1 and really enjoyed the easy banter. Love: space egg, chess horses. Also fascinating to hear how little feedback the creators were getting from editorial - sounds a little "The Man From Del Monte ... He Commission Another Series".

Random synchronicity: I'm Scottish and am married to an American who's younger than me. And your accent is sounding a little bit Ross & Cromarty, Simon - am I close?

The long tongues of the Imperial Seductri (sic) ... reminds me of a Kevin Bloody Wilson song called "Breathe Through My Ears". Deffo NSFW lyrics!

Pansexual? (As a label for a reinvented Dante.) There is that thing with the bearded lady in a future episode.