Hypothetical Island Podcast

Not a dream! Not a hoax! Reilly and George are once again visited on the ol' Hypothetical Island by Mr. Anthony Marques. Most of us have one job, maybe two but Anthony is a comics artist, writer, instructor, president of the Kubert School, proprietor of Dewey's Comic City, and knows 6 ways to kill a man with his bear hands. And no, I didn't misspell 'bare'-- the dude liter...

This week Reilly and George are joined by writer and editor Cam Kerkau , creator of the comic G ilgamesh:Eternal   with artist Kostas Pantoulas . Cam visits the ol' Hypothetical Island for a discussion of  secret plans for thriving after being thrown back in time to ancient Mesopotamia,  inner monologues,  the nature of immortality,  adapting myth to comics form, and the benefits of living in...

Reilly and George are joined on the Hypothetical Island this week by cartoonist and sci-fi artist Kraig Rasmussen. They talk the joys of self-publishing, whether bonobos have hair,  their preferred undergarments, and why AI art blows. Kraig is in the final stages of the Zoop campaign for his two volume short story collection Odds and Ends; go support it!

This week's guest on the hypothetical Island is Paul Allor, talented writer of G.I. Joe, TMNT and the currently crowdfunding Pink Midnight Presents: The Butterfly House. Listen as they join Reilly and George and talk about writing wordless comics, whether male kangaroos have pouches, their favorite turtles,  Manhattan real estate and Paul confesses to being a furry. 

Season 3! There have been so many guests! So many hypotheticals! Reilly and George get back to basics with a hosts only show that indulges their geeky sides. Listen in rapt attention as they ask each other the questions that really matter. 

This week on the Hypothetical Island Reilly and George welcome  guest B Clay Moore for a wide-ranging discussion  of clay,  claymore mines, clay bricks, claymore swords, clay golems, Clay Moore the guy who apparently played the Lone Ranger, the early  Image comics scene, and more clay. Also they talk about B Clay Moore and Tony Harris's The Whistling Skull, crowdfunding soon from Zoop!

This week on the Hypothetical Island Reilly and George are joined by the great Steven E Gordon. Steven has had an amazing career in animation, staring while in high school working on Ralph Bakshi's animated Lord of the Rings , and most famously serving as lead character designer for the great X-Men: Evolution cartoon.  Listen in as they talk delicious, delicious crab meat, annoying teenaged c...

More George O'Connors than you can shake a stick at! Your hosts Reilly Brown and George O'Connor are joined this week on the Hypothetical Island with... George O'Connor! But a different one! Listen as they discuss cat hygeine,  how many zombie toddlers Reilly could kick into oblivion, their wishes for a Battle Armor Teela action figure, living next door to Satan, the perils of havin...

It's two, count 'em, two guests on the Hypothetical Island today! Chris Miskiewicz and Vincent Kings, the creative team behind This is Where We Fall , join Reilly and George for a festive talk on Hugh Jackman, elf Colonialism,  psychotropic substances, the Grateful Dead, reincarnation, La Maison des Auteurs, how to break into comics, and much, much more.

This week on the Hypothetical Island Reilly and George are joined by cartoonist and author Katie Cook, for a discussion about reverse centaurs, attitudes toward public nudity, a comparison of the fandoms of Star Wars and My Little Pony, and just what exactly editors do.

Reilly and George are joined this week on the Hypothetical Island this week by cartoonist Matt Lesniewski for a wide-ranging discussion about whether it's better to be a human or a robot, how many half-sized people they could beat up, getting into the zone as a cartoonist, and most importantly,  Matt's new comic Faceless and the Family . It just launched yesterday on Zoop and is already...

This week Reilly and George are joined on the Hypothetical Island by Douglas Einar Olsen, animation director for Rick and Morty, Major Lazer,  Axe Cop and more. Listen in rapt attention as they discuss breaking into animation, being a German performance artist, why Superman is a dick, ugly Sonic and what they know about the death of Cesar Romero. 

Waaaay back in episode 22, Reilly and George played host to talented comics creator Tim Seeley on the Hypothetical Island. However, Tim was distracted by his own beauty and the hypothetical island scenario never finished-- until now! Tune in to hear about the most insane multiversal battle since  Into the Spider-verse, with conversations about teaching, grabbing the youth market, and multiple refe...

This week's guest on the Hypothetical Island is the super-talented artist Ken Lashley, who joins Reilly and George for a talk about breaking into comics during the Age of Apocalypse, what is the best vampire movie, ways to cultivate an audience, whether Gunther from Friends was a villain, and how coaching high school football lead to his discovering  the ideal work/life balance.

Reilly and George are joined on the Hypothetical Island this week by comics artist and watercolorist Tony Moy. They talk about food ghosts, the advantages of complete invisibility, which dead person they'd most want to talk to, and most importantly Tony shares some truly amazing stories of the 442 infantry battalion, the basis for his ongoing Webtoons comic 4Forty2nd. 

 This week Reilly and George are joined on the Hypothetical Island by cartoonist Bobby Timony, for a talk about mirror twins, super pets, whether it's less wasteful to eat your murder victims, and the other George O'Connor in comics. 

Comics and storyboard artist Gabriel Hardman is this week's guest on the Hypothetical Island.  Listen as he joins Reilly and George for a wide-ranging discussion  on the pros and cons of spontaneous full-body rigidity,  breaking into comics at 18 under an assumed identity, noses and why Marvel comics character War Machine doesn't have one,  storyboarding for big movies you've defini...

What the what? If you're a loyal Hypothetical Island listener, you may have noticed that George has been threatening to stealth transform it into a cryptozoological podcast. Well, regular co-host Reilly couldn't  record this week, so that time is now! George is joined by previous guest, cartoonist extraordinaire Nik Virella for a spirited discussion of ghosts, bigfoots, dogmen, chupacabr...

This week Reilly and George are joined on the Hypothetical Island by horrific comics writer Rich Douek! They discuss magic beer goggles,  Farrah Fawcett, the most beautiful song in the world,  Boston accents as the world's worst accents, and how the scariest monsters are always people.  Also, marvel as George works in multiple high brow references to The Odyssey, and recoil in disgust as Reil...

It's our most scatological episode yet as Reilly and George are joined on the Hypothetical Island by writer Joanne Starer  for a rousing discussion about 1980's Lawnguy Land, celebrities being reincarnated as your pets, her brief professional wrestling career,  soooo much about the animated Disney musical Frozen , and,  of course, butt stuff. This episode pairs well with episode 72,  sta...

Comics scribe extraordinaire Justin Jordan joins Reilly and George on the Hypothetical Island for a spirited discussion of sick abs, exactly what people do in the bathroom,  willpower and practical jokes, what animal they'd most likely turn into, and how being related to a Green Lantern maybe ain't all that.

Comics creator extraordinaire Dan Panosian has done it all-- inked, pencilled, wrote, even attended college under an assumed identity (give a listen to this episode to  understand that reference).  But nothing he's previously accomplished in his long and storied career could possibly prepare him for the Hypothetical Island! He joins Reilly and George to talk the horrors of Melbourne Florida,...

This week the wicked Reilly and the divine George are joined by the Wicked + the Divine's own Jamie McKelvie! Listen in rapt attention as they discuss designing awesome superhero costumes,  that one video of an elephant seal totally smashing a car, the internal anatomy of a centaur, and more!

Not a hoax! Not a dream! This week Reilly and George are joined on the Hypothetical Island by a special return guest-- their first ever guest, in fact-- Mr Khary Randolph! When last we heard from the illustrious Mr Randolph on episode 3, he was the living man god of an island of sexy purple skinned people whose very voices lead to uncontrollable incontinence! Reilly was stranded on an island of li...

This week Reilly and George are visited by comics artist Charles P. Wilson III for a special holidays in the middle of July episode with a spirited discussion on knock-off Star Wars figures, the Boogey-Man, spending life sandwiched between the stubbly knees of a giant and what it's like working with Joe Hill.