We’re beyond pleased to welcome cartoonist Gene Luen Yang to the show this week to talk about his work on New Super-Man, Superman Smashes the Klan, his early graphic novels and much more! Get ready for a shocking amount of basketball talk. Plus, we finish up a Panel President list of Doom Patrol characters!
We’re wading back into the world of tabletop gaming this week as we talk to game designer Alex Roberts about her new game, Star Crossed! We talk about mechanics versus story, how that might be a false binary, LARPing, which comics characters might make the best star-crossed lovers, building relationships in games, how horror and romance are similar, and so much more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a space adventuring listener question!
Wrestlemania’s just around the corner, and we’re running down the entire card with Elle Collins and Megan Nielsen of The Hard Times Podcast! Yes, all 14(!) matches on the show. We’re making predictions, fantasy booking, wondering what will close the show and much more!
Chris and Matt were at SC Comicon this weekend, and they took the opportunity to talk to some great pals: Jeremy Whitley, Alex Smith, Dorothy Smith, Kyle Starks and Rico Renzi! Plus, Matt and Chris take some time to talk about meeting Cary Elwes and Adrian Paul, who are two guys who love sword fighting for real.
Here’s the recording of our intimate live podcast from NC Comiccon Oak City in Raleigh, NC! We’re talking with friend of the show Tini Howard about her comic Assassinistas, her work on WWE comics, Rick and Morty, and more. But before that, we go down a lot of rabbit trails that are also vapor trails.
We’re very happy to welcome the writer of the new webcomic Weekend Warrior and the upcoming wrestling comic I Love You, I’m Sorry, Mark Stack to the show this week! We talk about how juggling a secret weekend life is a lot like being a comic creator doing conventions, the best panels in Dark Knight Returns, non-wrestling fans reading wrestling comics, pronouns, the appeal of Adam Strange and much more! Plus, a Doom Patrol-centric Panel President segment!
Longtime pal Kelly Dale joins us this week to talk about the Kickstarter for the Skyward Omnibus, which collects all nine issues of the series Jeremy Dale made before his untimely passing in 2014, plus a brand-new tenth issue which wraps up the story. Plus, Chris and Matt answer a listener question that sends them into a retrospective of Bronze Age Marvel comics.
