Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo AKA Kid Licorish (@licorishislegit) sit down with Keith and MarkDub of the Blerd-ish podcast for a wide-ranging bonus episode marking Blerd-ish's ten-year anniversary. The conversation traces the show's start around the release of Black Panther, its roots in an earlier basketball podcast called Basketball and BS, and its growth into a platform for independent Black comic creators, with mentions of Tribe creators Todd Johnson and Larry Stroman, whose X-Factor designs recently showed up in an episode of X-Men '97, along with Chew and Farmhand creator Rob Guillory and voice actors Phil LaMarr and Kevin Conroy. Keith and MarkDub also walk through the friction of running a Black-centered vendor table at a regional Comic-Con, a debate over whether Image Comics still counts as independent, and book recommendations from independent authors Milton J. Davis and Jason Reeves, including Davis's novel The Black Rose.

The second half shifts into current events and anime. Keith, MarkDub, and Mo AKA Kid Licorish discuss a racist incident at DreamCon in Houston involving a cosplayer dressed as Frieza, while Ode covers a Tennessee news story involving a mother named Kendra Scott who was charged after shooting a man found in her daughter's room. On the lighter side, the group recommends Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You, new episodes of My Adventures with Superman and X-Men '97, Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle, Zom 100, Rooster Fighter, and the new series Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider, with Mo "Kid" Licorish also announcing plans to rewatch Gurren Lagann from the beginning. Keith and MarkDub close things out with where to find Blerd-ish online and news of an upcoming appearance at Anime Conclave in New Orleans.

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