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- 2020
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About Hard Agree
Hard Agree is a pop culture podcast hosted by Andrew Sumner about the things that connect and unite us, whatever those things may be, whatever our differences might be - the things that we can hard agree on.
- Publisher
- Andrew Sumner
- Category
- arts · health & fitness · tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 22 Dec 2020
- Latest episode
- 19 Dec 2023
Latest episodes
9 episodes in the feed.
19 Dec 2023
A Hard Agree Christmas Carol 2023 (Dave Gibbons, Michael Moorcock, Evangeline Lilly, Olly Smith & Julie Stark)
A Hard Agree Christmas Carol 2023 (featuring Dave Gibbons, Michael Moorcock, Evangeline Lilly, Olly Smith, Julie Stark, David Leach, Kelly Yates & Will O’Mullane) In this Christmas 2023 charity edition of Hard Agree, Andrew Sumner is joined by eight very special guests from the worlds of comics, movies, TV and theatre: legendary fantasy author Michael Moorcock; BBC presenter & wine expert Olly Smith (BBC’s Saturday Kitchen, Olly Smith’s Home Cocktail Bible); author, actor & MCU star Evangeline Lilly (Lost, The Hobbit, Ant-Man and The Wasp); comic book legend Dave Gibbons (Watchmen, Kingsman, The Originals); West End theatre star Julie Stark (Chess, Les Misérables, We Will Rock You, Sister Act); comics editor & creator David Leach (Psycho Gran, David Leach Conquers the Universe); marketing guru & ComicBooks for Kids UK director Will O’Mullane (Titan Comics) and designer, artist & comics creator Kelly Yates (Amber Atoms, MonstHer, Doctor Who - Kelly also donated our annual Hard Agree Yuletide Players cartoon). A Hard Agree Christmas Carol is the December 2023 edition of Hard Agree’s annual yuletide charity podcast and features Sumner and his guests performing Charles Dickens’ live version of his festive classic A Christmas Carol (in support of Comic Books for Kids). As Sumner says: “ComicBooks for Kids is a wonderful charity founded by Mark Weiss that does amazing work getting comic books into the hands of children in long-term hospital care on both sides of the Atlantic. Myself and Kenric Regan & John Horsley have always admired Dickens’ timeless seasonal message of empathy & civic responsibility, and thought ‘what better way to underline & amplify ComicBooks for Kids’ mission than to return to the words of Charles Dickens himself, the great believer in human society pulling together?’ Please visit their website CB4K.org, please check them out and please do what you can to help.” You can donate to Comic Books for Kids HERE: https://www.comicbooksforkids.org/donatestart You can check out everything Comic Books for Kids does at these links: https://CB4K.org https://www.comicbooksforkids.org/home https://twitter.com/Comicbooks4kids https://twitter.com/CB4KUK https://www.facebook.com/comicbooksforkids https://www.instagram.com/cb4kuk/ https://www.instagram.com/comicbooks4kids/ <...
5 May 2021
Brian Bolland: The Definitive Batman Artist on How The Killing Joke REALLY Ended
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 Hard Agree to talk about the great British city of Liverpool (and his recent Batman-in-Liverpool cover for Forbidden Planet); Brian’s 40 years creating the definitive versions of Batman, the Green Lantern Corps, The Flash & Wonder Woman for DC Comics; his creation of Camelot 3000 with Mike W Barr; the early days of Judge Dredd for 2000 AD; working with the great Alan Moore and creating their Batman masterwork The Killing Joke (including a discussion of Grant Morrison’s take on the book and Brian’s definitive, inside-track revelation of what really happens at the climax).Buy Brian’s books:https://forbiddenplanet.com/catalog/?q=brian%20bolland&page=1 Follow Sumner on Social Media & YouTube:http://twitter.com/sumnarrhttps://www.youtube.com/c/Forbiddenplanetdotcom/videoshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCstl1UHQVUC85DrCagF-wuQ/videos “Golden – The Hard Agree Theme” written and recorded for the podcast by DENIO Follow DENIO on Social Media:http://facebook.com/denioband/http://soundcloud.com/denioband/http://twitter.com/denioband/http://instagram.com/denioband/ Follow the Spoilerverse on Social Media:http://facebook.com/spoilercountry/http://twitter.com/spoiler_countryhttp://instagram.com/spoilercountry/ Kenric Regan:http://twitter.com/XKenricX John Horsley:http://twitter.com/y2clhttp://instagram.com/y2cl/http://y2cl.nethttp://eynesanthology.com Did you know the Spoilerverse has a YouTube channel?https://youtube.com/channel/UCstl1UHQVUC85DrCagF-wuQ Support the Spoilerverse on Patreon:http://patreon.com/spoilercountry Transcript HA – Brian Bolland Interview [00:00:00] Brian Bolland: For this special occasion, I bought Sumner: this kind of store that’s. That is, that is brilliant because you can see me and why wouldn’t you want to see me and be Brian Bolland: the last conversation? You know, I was doing this because there was like a box on the Sumner: screen that was covering, this was about 12 Brian Bolland: quid in somewhere like that. Sumner: What do you want to talk about? And no. So, so, so actually my entire setup, it’s brilliant. What you can do in the era of zoom interviews and zoom conversations, because I set up all my lighting, mega my stand for my laptop, very inexpensive, very inexpensively by a couple of online purchases. So it’s brilliant what you can d...
28 Apr 2021
How Batman ‘66 Changed My Life (With John and Kenric from Spoiler Country!)
Sumner welcomes Spoilerverse founders, John Horsley & Kenric Regan, to Hard Agree for a deep dive on the classic 1966 Batman TV show and the huge impact it had on his life. Well, that’s how their conversation starts and ends but, along the way, they detour into how Kenric & John met John Wesley Shipp, the brilliance of David Caruso, NYPD Blue, Sumner’s hugely-influential grandfather Pops Smythe, Sumner’s best-in-the-business Comic-Con booth crew, James Cucciara’s Stylin Online, gentleman actorPeter Scolari, gentleman super-agent Barry Greenberg, the one and only Adam West, the three faces of 1960s Catwoman (Julie Newmar, Lee Meriweather & Eartha Kitt), Zsa Zsa Gabor and Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman! Follow Sumner on Social Media: http://twitter.com/sumnarr “Golden – The Hard Agree Theme” written and recorded for the podcast by DENIO Follow DENIO on Social Media: http://facebook.com/denioband/ http://soundcloud.com/denioband/ http://twitter.com/denioband/ http://instagram.com/denioband/ Follow the Spoilerverse on Social Media: http://facebook.com/spoilercountry/ http://twitter.com/spoiler_country http://instagram.com/spoilercountry/ Kenric Regan: http://twitter.com/XKenricX John Horsley: http://twitter.com/y2cl http://instagram.com/y2cl/ http://y2cl.net http://eynesanthology.com Did you know the Spoilerverse has a YouTube channel? https://youtube.com/channel/UCstl1UHQVUC85DrCagF-wuQ Support the Spoilerverse on Patreon: http://patreon.com/spoilercountry
21 Apr 2021
Max Allan Collins: The Three Biggest Names in Hardboiled Fiction
Sumner welcomes his old pal (and the three biggest names in noir fiction) – multi-award-winning crime writer Max Allan Collins – to Hard Agree, 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 outstanding adventures of Mickey Spillane’s two-fisted PI hero Mike Hammer, Max’s writing style & working practice, Max’s adventures writing movie tie-in novels, the influence of music over both their lives and Max’s legendary all-star Comic-Con garage band Seduction of the Innocent! Follow Max online:http://facebook.com/maxallancollinsofficialhttp://twitter.com/maxallancollinshttp://maxallancollins.com/blog/ Buy Max’s books:http://www.maxallancollins.com/books/ Follow Sumner on Social Media:http://twitter.com/sumnarr “Golden – The Hard Agree Theme” written and recorded for the podcast by DENIO Follow DENIO on Social Media:http://facebook.com/denioband/http://soundcloud.com/denioband/http://twitter.com/denioband/http://instagram.com/denioband/ Follow the Spoilerverse on Social Media:http://facebook.com/spoilercountry/http://twitter.com/spoiler_countryhttp://instagram.com/spoilercountry/ Kenric Regan:http://twitter.com/XKenricX John Horsley:http://twitter.com/y2clhttp://instagram.com/y2cl/http://y2cl.nethttp://eynesanthology.com Did you know the Spoilerverse has a YouTube channel?https://youtube.com/channel/UCstl1UHQVUC85DrCagF-wuQ Support the Spoilerverse on Patreon:http://patreon.com/spoilercountryTranscript HA – Max Allen Collins Interview [00:00:00] Sumner: Here we go, that’s it. So we don’t have to worry about how we look on camera though. You look great mate, because it’s just going to be the audio. So we don’t have to be out our usual, you know, um, uh, Sinatra, Martin standard of male beauty for this apiece. Max Allen Collins: It’s audio sparkle, not video spark. Sumner: Yeah, exactly. That’s exactly right. Yeah. Spot on mate. Um, yeah, hard to green deed. Hardly agree. My friend. So, so max, how are you doing mate? Max Allen Collins: I’m doing great. Uh, I mean, it’s very, very cold here and we already determined, we won’t even go out for drive through food today where it’s just staying in. Uh, it it’s disconcerting here because there’s a, there are a lot of people who are just completely throwing the caution to the wind and just pretending that this pandemic is over. And, and so that’s, that’s...
14 Apr 2021
Garth Ennis: All-Out War
Sumner welcomes The Boys creator Garth Ennis (creator of Preacher, Hitman, The Punisher and Crossed) to Hard Agree to talk about Garth’s latest 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 Hollywood! Buy Garth’s books:https://forbiddenplanet.com/catalog/?q=garth%20ennis&sort=relevance&page=1 Follow Sumner on Social Media:http://twitter.com/sumnarr “Golden – The Hard Agree Theme” written and recorded for the podcast by DENIO Follow DENIO on Social Media:http://facebook.com/denioband/http://soundcloud.com/denioband/http://twitter.com/denioband/http://instagram.com/denioband/ Follow the Spoilerverse on Social Media:http://facebook.com/spoilercountry/http://twitter.com/spoiler_countryhttp://instagram.com/spoilercountry/ Kenric Regan:http://twitter.com/XKenricX John Horsley:http://twitter.com/y2clhttp://instagram.com/y2cl/http://y2cl.nethttp://eynesanthology.com Did you know the Spoilerverse has a YouTube channel?https://youtube.com/channel/UCstl1UHQVUC85DrCagF-wuQ Support the Spoilerverse on Patreon:http://patreon.com/spoilercountryTranscript Hard Agree – Garth Ennis Interview [00:00:00] Sumner: Yeah. That’s that’s that gun right there. And what he’s done is he’s walked throughout the land. Brilliantly coming, crosses the, the affable side of the rule in class, getting everybody to call him by his first name, embracing that and acting the lovable buffoon. But actually he is truly, truly fucking dangerous to me. Garth Ennis: He’s a nasty piece of work. I remember after the coalition ended, one of the two liberal members of Cameron’s cabinet, not the leader of the liberals, but the other one said that when he was, he was asked was asked about the Tories and what it was like to serve alongside of this particular generation of stories. And he said, you, he said, you could take David Cameron as an example, but really it doesn’t matter which one. He said that individually they’re quite charming, but collectively they’re appalling when those people [00:01:00] get together and those nice polite smiles and the debonair and mannerisms and so on go by the wayside and you see what they’re really like, they’re monsters. Sumner: Yeah. And that’s fucking right. All those Bullington club cuts. All of them. , they’ve all been that they’ve all had this worldview inculcated in, but they’re better than everybody else. And they believe that they absolutely believe it to the core. Yeah. They’re genuinely...
7 Apr 2021
Dave Gibbons: A Life in Comics
Sumner welcomes incomparable British super-artist, co-creator of Watchmen, Martha Washington, Rogue Trooper & Kingsman – the one and only Dave Gibbons – 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, digging into comics history & celebrating the industry titans who inspired (and continue to inspire) Dave! Find Dave online:https://twitter.com/davegibbons90 Buy Dave’s books:https://forbiddenplanet.com/catalog/?q=dave%20gibbons&page=1 Follow Sumner on Social Media:http://twitter.com/sumnarr “Golden – The Hard Agree Theme” written and recorded for the podcast by DENIO Follow DENIO on Social Media:http://facebook.com/denioband/http://soundcloud.com/denioband/http://twitter.com/denioband/http://instagram.com/denioband/ Follow the Spoilerverse on Social Media:http://facebook.com/spoilercountry/http://twitter.com/spoiler_countryhttp://instagram.com/spoilercountry/ Kenric Regan:http://twitter.com/XKenricX John Horsley:http://twitter.com/y2clhttp://instagram.com/y2cl/http://y2cl.nethttp://eynesanthology.com Did you know the Spoilerverse has a YouTube channel?https://youtube.com/channel/UCstl1UHQVUC85DrCagF-wuQ Support the Spoilerverse on Patreon:http://patreon.com/spoilercountryTranscript Hard Agree – Dave Gibbons Cut Interview [00:00:00] Dave Gibbons: Andrew asked me anything, basically it’s the best I’m sure. I’m sure. I’m sure I can still bat it away into the long Sumner: grass. Well, I’ll do a little bit of an intro. Do a preamble intro. You know, we’ll do a little bit of an intro now. So I I’m privileged to be joined by none of them, Dave Gibbons. How are you, mate? I’m very well. Andrew, how are you? Yeah, very well. We were just talking off camera about the about the whole the whole scenario with the pandemic. And I’m pleased to see that you were forging ahead through that Dave Gibbons: mate. I am. I am. And I have had my job as I’m a respected elder citizen, and I’m very relieved to have it, to have had it. And I I urge all your listeners to get their job as soon as they possibly can. Sumner: Absolutely. I’m looking forward to getting mindset in, rather than later, some of my family I’ve had those already. My folks are still with us about this, and I’m very pleased that you’ve had yours and I’m sure the world of the comics [00:01:00] faithful. I’m very pleased that you’ve had yours as well. Mate. Dave Gibbons: I feel like I have super powers now, but caution is the, is the watch word, but it’s certainly a strange on...
31 Mar 2021
Hard Agree - Introduction
Andrew Sumner’s Pops bought 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 – first as a fan and then as a journalist, editor, publisher & presenter. Along the way, he met a bunch of interesting people who’ll be joining him here: creators, performers, professionals & public servants. We live in divisive, fractured times but art & popular culture connect people from all viewpoints and from all walks of life. Sumner’s fascinated by the passions people share & enjoy, that they can set aside their differences for and agree on, whatever those passions are (whether he shares them or not).And that spark, that moment of instinctive connective agreement, is what Sumner calls a Hard Agree. Follow Sumner on Social Media:http://twitter.com/sumnarr “Golden – The Hard Agree Theme” written and recorded for the podcast by DENIO Follow DENIO on Social Media:http://facebook.com/denioband/http://soundcloud.com/denioband/http://twitter.com/denioband/http://instagram.com/denioband/ Follow the Spoilerverse on Social Media:http://facebook.com/spoilercountry/http://twitter.com/spoiler_countryhttp://instagram.com/spoilercountry/ Kenric Regan:http://twitter.com/XKenricX John Horsley:http://twitter.com/y2clhttp://instagram.com/y2cl/http://y2cl.nethttp://eynesanthology.com Did you know the Spoilerverse has a YouTube channel?https://youtube.com/channel/UCstl1UHQVUC85DrCagF-wuQ Support the Spoilerverse on Patreon:http://patreon.com/spoilercountry
23 Dec 2020
A Spoilerverse Christmas Carol
It’s the eve of Christmas Eve! This year, we’re supporting pandemic comics charity GiveComicsHope.org, who are doing great work helping our family-owned comic book shops stay alive during this bleakest of midwinters. Please join John & Kenric and Hard Agree‘s Sumner as they accompany Ebenezer Scrooge and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present & Future for this very special production of Charles Dickens’ performance version of A Christmas Carol. It’s time for Christmas and it’s time to Give Comics Hope. HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM ALL OF US AT THE SPOILERVERSE Very special thanks to comics artist supreme Kelly Yates for his festive illustration of John, Kenric & Sumner (colors by our very own Mr Horsley) Follow the voice behind this, Andrew Sumner:https://twitter.com/SumnarrArt by Kelly Yates (https://www.kellyyatesart.com/)Colors by John Horsley (http://y2cl.net)
22 Dec 2020
Prelude to a Spoilerverse Christmas Carol
Welcome to the first episode of Hard Agree! This is a joint episode with the boys from Spoiler Country as we talk about our 2020 A Christmas Carol in support of GiveComicsHope.org.Find Sumner online:https://twitter.com/SumnarrFind Spoiler Country:http://scpod.net/podcasts/spoiler-country/Find John:http://twitter.com/y2clhttp://instagram.com/y2cl/http://y2cl.nethttp://eynesanthology.comFind Kenric:http://twitter.com/XKenricXMusic: “Old School Punk Rockers” by The Young Presidents, used with license.
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