Our guest this week is our old pal and writer of Monkeybrain Comics’ brand new Wander, Kevin Church! Get ready for a lot of discussion of that comic’s fantasy setting and formatting for digital plus some talk about 1970s cinema, watching Star Treks, and a rundown of Kevin’s favorite comic runs! Plus, Matt and Chris share some video-store memories from their youths.
The Rundown
- Follow Kevin on Twitter and remember to Buy Wander!
- While you’re at it, be sure to catch up on a bunch of Kevin’s other comics: The Rack, The Loneliest Astronauts, She Died in Terrebonne, Signs and Meanings, The Line, Lydia and Boldly Gone!
- If you haven’t seen The Long Goodbye, watch it right now on Netflix WI.
- Get an eyeful of the Time magazine cover that trolled Kevin (and which Matt misidentified as a Newsweek cover).
- Read the ComicsAlliance column about Paul Pope’s SOLO issue!
- The Atlantic Wire had some crazy, GIF-based coverage of the Olympic gymnastics competition.
- Chris’ checks and recs: Going to Summerslam, The Real Rocky
- Matt’s checks and recs: Them ‘Lympics, Breaking Bad season 5
- Music used: Kanye West, “I Wonder”
Comics Talked About:
- Action Comics #12
- Archer & Armstrong #1
- Batman #12
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.
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Random fact from my experience working at a Blockbuster 9 or 10 years ago: there was a DVD Easter egg on one of their training videos.