John Rogers, writer of IDW’s Dungeons and Dragons comic, former writer of DC’s Blue Beetle and showrunner on TNT’s Leverage, joins us for this week’s show to talk about his work with Mark Waid’s Thrillbent digital comics project, the draft he wrote of the Halle Berry Catwoman movie, how he got hired by DC Comics by making fun of them on his blog, exactly what a “dirty over” is an much more! Plus, we answer some listener mail about The Legend of Korra!
The Rundown
- Follow John on Twitter, check out Thrillbent and read his blog!
- Here’s the blog post that made John a DC Comics writer.
- Part one and part two of Chris and Uzumeri’s Catwoman review. 28 writers were involved in writing the movie, but John was one of four that got a credit.
- Not familiar with Gerry Anderson’s UFO? This site’s got all kinds of info.
- X-Con was this weekend and Chris managed to get on the local news (not for any crimes, sadly).
- Chris’ checks and recs: Chikara Pro Wrestling, The Three Musketeers
- Matt’s checks and recs: TFAW interview/contest, Rifftrax features on Hulu
- Music used: LCD Soundsystem, “Thrills”
Comics Talked About:
- Flex Mentallo HC
- Saga #3
- Justice League #9
Shameless Self Promotion:
- You can get Matt’s book, The Supervillain Handbook, here!
- The @FakeAPStylebook book, Write More Good, is still available to buy right here!
- Check out Sims at The ISB, Comics Alliance, his webcomic Awesome Hospital, as well as the complete Solomon Stone at ActionAgeComics.
- Check out Matt’s Fake e-Etiquette Twitter feed, his webcomic Copernicus Jones, his Tumblr and the ISS.
- Check out all Euge’s music at AdamWarRock.com.
- Check out Max Huffman on Twitter, or at his site.
- Check out Rusty Shackles on Twitter, or at his site.
Remember to send in your listener questions to warrocketpodcast_at_gmail.com!
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I was a fan of the last question to John Rogers and did not stop listening- maybe this is how the wrestling fans feel. If you can have a Wrestlemania special, I’m sure you could have a D&D/Pathfinder special…
Nice call with the Spider-Man parallels in regards to the Legend of Korra. I didn’t see those at first. I saw it as Golden Age Superman, Batman, and Robin. Korra’s super against criminals, ridiculously powerful from birth, strong morals, and an inspiration to townspeople. Mako’s parents were killed by a mugger when he was a kid, and he grimaces all the time. And Bo Lin is the comedy relief, and more enthusiastic than Mako.
Regarding legend of Korra, Visually, the bad guy Amon does look like Dr. Doom, psychologically, his motive is more like Magneto. He is a non bender, he and his follower
“equalist” are fighting the dominance of the bender. All council members are bender. Amon cause would make sense if the benders are
oppressing the general population.
Regarding Legend of Korra i think the parallels are the urban noir setting and the now recurring theme of family members being killed by benders as a origin story for the support cast.