Hello everyone! This week, Eric and Robbie bring you the news of the end of X-Factor, discuss the newest releases, and take a look at Silent War in Classic Breakdown! Also featuring the return of the Bryan Lee O’ Malley tweet quiz, and an Alan Moore-centric Random Character Generator!
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Hello everyone! In this week’s episode, Eric and Robbie discuss the growth of cons and nerd culture, and departure of Paul Jenkins from Marvel and DC! They also review a fresh batch of this week’s comics, and take a look at The Coffin in Classic Breakdown! With a super special debut of Rantin’ and Ravin’ with Alan Moore!
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We drop this stupidity a lot. Just in case you were curious why we say this, here’s the source. This is “I Love You Man” starring Paul Rudd and Jason “Vanilla Fudge” Segel.
Here we are again, with Episode #4! In this week’s episode, Robbie and Eric discuss the week’s newest releases, cover the return of Comics Alliance, take a look at Warren Ellis’ Nextwave, and debut a new segment: Unfounded Rumor Mill! Also featuring the triumphant return of Random Character Generator!
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It’s been several years since I had this simple exchange with Don Rosa about his work. I was a very different person then and eight years younger, and to be honest, it’s a fairly inane exchange. But here’s what Don sent me. At the time, said he spent about four hours a day simply answering fan mails. Within a few days of sending this note, he replied with this. I think it reveals a lot about his character, as well as his frustration with his Disney overlords.
This conversation mentions a close friend of mine, whose name has been removed to be considerate of his privacy.
Eric: I also hope it was worth your while to come all the way out to our little comic con (Note: Heroes Con 2005 was much smaller than it is these days), as I know I’d certainly look forward to hopefully seeing you in person another year.
Don: That was a nice size show and I enjoyed it VERY much! I hope to be back next year! Continue reading
In Episode #3, Eric and Robbie are recording…together! Hear them discuss Howard the Duck, gay kisses in Archie, the new releases of the week, our FIRST listener question and the debut of Comics are…METAL!!!
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As promised, here is the Q&A with comic writer and artist Brandon Graham about his very excellent comic King City, as well as other bits that I thought were relevant to bring up. Enjoy!
Eric: Hey, Brandon. Thanks for agreeing to answer some questions. King City is one of my favorite comics and I’m pretty excited to talk about it with you.
Brandon: Holla
Eric: The first thing I’m curious about. King City #1 was released shortly before TokyoPop cut almost its entire line. Can you talk about what was going on during all of that? What they discussed or didn’t discuss with you? What you had to do to get it published in all the various formats–posting it online, etc, until (I think) the complete collection was released as a book somewhat recently? Did anyone get pissed that you were releasing pages on your blog?Brandon: I was in a deadline rush to get the book done when TP canceled their American books. I book store chain had closed and returned a huge amount of TP books so they were trying to cut their losses. The whole thing was intensely frustrating, they weren’t into talking to me about doing anything with the book other than putting it on their bad web site. Out of frustration I started putting it on my Livejournal– and that at least got a phone call from them. I think they called to scold me. Luckily at the time my pal Joe Keatinge had put me in touch with Eric Stephenson who is the publisher at Image –Eric was amazing and helped me negotiate a publishing deal with TP over 8 long months of talks.