Brandon Stroud, writer of With Leather’s “Best and Worst of Raw” column and the new horror movie Meet Me There, joins us for this week’s show! We talk about wooing Dustin Rhodes and Jill Thompson to be in his movie, Rob Liefeld, how Todd McFarlane’s art is like fashion, what it’s like to write a low-budget movie, and much more! Plus, three more entries to our ever-growing list of Every Story Ever!
Our guest this week is the an accomplished critic and commentator, as well as the writer of Judge Dredd Mega City Two: City of Courts, Douglas Wolk! We talk to him a ton about the history of Judge Dredd and 2000 AD, balancing being a critic and a creator at the same time, fans becoming creators, the moving target of authorship, and, of course, Prince. Plus, more entries into our Every Story Ever list!
It’s our annual special from the Heroes Convention in Charlotte, NC! Join us for about 45 minutes of revelry with Chad Bowers from the Westin Hotel, and check out the show notes below to watch the videos we discuss!
We’ll be back with a guest and Every Story Ever next week!
The Rundown
If the sound quality isn’t up to par this episode, it’s because we recorded it on Chris’ laptop. So sorry about that.
This week, we’re welcoming Ben Marra, the writer and artist of such comics as Night Business, Blades and Lazers, Gangsta Rap Posse, The Incredibly Fantastic Adventures of Maureen Dowd (A Work of Satire and Fiction) and many others! We talk about influences, video stores, making Nazis bad guys, the appeal of trash, and much more! Plus, three more Byrne-tastic entries into our Every Story Ever list!
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Follow Ben on Twitter and be sure to check out the Traditional Comics website!
Matt has returned from a long and arduous move, and he and Chris are talking to the writer and artist of the webcomic Tagged! this week, Meg Lovell! They talk about being a wrestling fan, calling a comic on Tumblr “Tagged,” Patrick Swayze, Sailor Moon, The Shield, and much more! Plus, Every Story Ever returns!
This week, Chris and special guest host Kieran Shiach welcome the writers and two cast members from the play King Kirby! They have a big old time talking about the King of Comics.
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Here’s the King Kirby Kickstarter link! Go donate!
Ryan North, writer of The Midas Flesh, Adventure Time and Dinosaur Comics, is on the show this week to talk about all-ages comics, being tall, genocide, the Canadian video game tip line, comics being autobiographical, comics not being autobiographical, and much more! Plus, an X-Men themed Every Story Ever list!
Our guest this week is Dream Thief and Toshiro writer Jai Nitz! We talk at length about Hellboy, John Byrne, getting con commissions, and eventually even a little bit about his comics. Plus, three more entries are added to our list of Every Story Ever!
On this week’s show, we’re gazing into the fist of Dredd with Dredd: Underbelly writer Arthur Wyatt! We’re talking a whole lot about the many writers who have penned stories for 2000 AD, how Dredd is an outsider’s look at America, moving to the U.S. from the U.K., the decision process for making a comics sequel to Dredd, and much more! Plus, a new set of entries into our Every Story Ever list!
Brandon Stroud, writer of With Leather’s “Best and Worst of Raw” column and the new horror movie Meet Me There, joins us for this week’s show! We talk about wooing Dustin Rhodes and Jill Thompson to be in his movie, Rob Liefeld, how Todd McFarlane’s art is like fashion, what it’s like to write a low-budget movie, and much more! Plus, three more entries to our ever-growing list of Every Story Ever!
