While Matt’s off gettin’ hitched, we’re queuing up this special bronus episode where we answer your listener questions! Hear our definitions of “high concept,” about our favorite and least favorite runs of Avengers/JLA/Legion, a meandering response about power pop, and much more! Plus, background noise! (Deal with it.)
The Rundown
Music used: The Nerves, “Letter to G”
Shameless Self Promotion
You can get Matt’s book, The Supervillain Handbook, here!
This week, we’re welcoming ComicsAlliance Editor-in-chief Joe Hughes to the show! We’ll talk with him about how he went from being a comics fan to a comic shop employee to a DC assistant editor to editor of a comics news site! Plus, we’ll hear about what he has in store for Chris in the near future, the time he met Mark Hamill, just what an assistant editor does, and much more! And since we won’t be doing full shows the next couple weeks, we’re super-sized!
The writer of Valiant’s new Archer and Armstrong series, Fred Van Lente, joins us for this weeks show! We talk to him about the response he’s gotten to his politically charged comic, how he likes his reputation as a history comics guy, how Armstrong is kind of like Marvel’s Hercules (and Archer is nothing like Amadeus Cho), what other Valiant titles his book might cross over with, and much more! Plus, a particularly lyrical reading from the pages of Thrasher magazine!
Bill Willingham, the writer of Fables and its associated spinoff titles, formerly of Shadowpact, Robin and JSA, and soon to be of a new MonkeyBrain Comics title, joins us this week! Hear all about the new Fabletown and Beyond Convention in Minnesota next March, just what exactly happened with Stephanie Brown, his favorite classic movies and much more! Plus, a report from Chris about his trip to Summerslam!
The cartoonist behind the new Friends With Boys, Zombies Calling and Demonology 101, Faith Erin Hicks, is our guest this week! We’ll talk to her about the differences between Web and print comics, winning over people suffering from zombie overkill, what adding a ghost to a story is all about, Scooby-Doo, whether volleyball is more popular in Canada, and much more! Plus, Matt tells a story about when he was a bad comic shop customer!
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.
This week we welcome the writer of Archie’s Sonic the Hedgehog and Mega Man comics, Ian Flynn! We chat with him about what it’s like dealing with…zealous fandoms, whether he’s any good at Mega Man video games, why you should be into the Sonic comics, working with licensed properties and much more! Plus, we take a listener question about a particularly angry comic-shop customer from Chris’ store-employee days!
Danger Club and Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade writer Landry Walker is our guest this week! We talk with him about his days at Disney Adventures magazine, the shockingly dark secret of how his Supergirl book would have ended, how the hyper-violent Danger Club came into existence and much more! Plus, Chris and Matt answer a particularly…kinky listener question.
This week we’re back to the regular format and welcoming Tim Seeley, creator of Hack/Slash, co-creator of the new Revival, Witchblade writer and artist on a ton of other stuff! We talk about how Tim deals with the pluses and minuses of creating an exploitation comic, how satire doesn’t always seem like satire, doing something new with the zombie genre, why he doesn’t draw his own stuff more, the prevailing temperature in the Hack/Slash universe and much more! Plus, we get the full rundown from Chris’ trip to Comic-Con!
Chris was at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend and all attempts to find a guest co-host fell through, Matt’s wingin’ it himself this week! He answers your Twitter questions regarding Meatwad, his favorite (non-classic) Spider-Man stories, Miles Morales’ viability in non-comics media, Darkseid sleeping on the couch and much more! Plus, Chris checks in with some phone messages about the con’s ridiculous advertising!
