The Faqs Project

Today we have the return of Benjamin Hunting to the podcast as we talk about the Sci-Fi Thriller Dead Air live on Kickstarter built around 90's College Radio culture. A huge aspect in many lives as through different sub-genres the music brought them together. Benjamin creates a story of a group of friends whose trajectory in their adolescence is changed forever by the so called death of their...

Today I am joined by Jordan Clark (Milestone Initiative Recipient) and Creator of Ancestral Recall for Ahoy Comics. I've been wanting to talk about this book for sometime now I've heard many of my peers rave about the story. Melvin Waring is at an age where he is set in his ways. He has a loving wife June who takes a solid interest in his artwork and his business and their dynamic is a for...

Very Special exciting episode as I am joined by one of the best publishers in Indie Comics none other than the team of Wise Acre Comics. The Panel is heavy as we are met with 9 members of the Wise Acre Team. Frederick Little- CEO and Creator of Magnus Jakuta Marc Glave- Creator of Dark Sentinel Nigel Lynch- Creator of Critical Task Force Ops/Neon Ghost/Diary of the Stray Dogs Monica Ginder- Creato...

Today we bring back a favorite of mine as Chris Condon (Ultimate Wolverine, News From The Fallout) gives us a peek into the Hitchcockian Eco Horror Of The Earth for Image Comics co-written by Andrew Ehrich and artwork by the legendary Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead) and Pip Martin. Tabby Black returns to her silenced town of Solitude, Texas to find that her Grandmother that raised her isn't...

Today we travel to India to speak with Aditya Bidikar upon the release of his anticipated Tiny Onion produced Mini Series-In Your Skin. The story centers around the culture of celebrity and the obsession that an overzealous fan can create while idolizing their Hero without knowing that their favorite person may be torn themselves. We meet Priyanka who loves Bollywood star Ayesha, but feels at a lo...

Todays Guest on the Pod we bring you Aaron Cohen and the all too humorous Schticks & Stones Holiday Special Live on Kickstarter. Aaron's work in this particular book started within Scott Snyder's Best Jackett Workshops where he developed the comic strip styling of Schticks & Stones as a Hilarious Passover special into the anthology The Cloak Room books on Kickstarter. The book high...

Today's Guest: Matthew Rosenberg spent the course last year finishing up his great Spy Thriller We're Taking everyone down with us to excellent critical acclaim. At the time of the scheduling the interview, it was announced that Matthew will be passed the torch as head writer for the Iconic series Spawn from the one and only Todd McFarlane which we get into later in the Podcast. If Destruc...

Today I get to talk with one of my heroes once again with the return of Eisner winning Co-Creator of Bitter Root David F. Walker for his retelling of 1973's Blackstein because in David'd own words it was the worst movie he had ever seen and he wanted to bring it to life and make it better. His telling brought the intersectionality of the Classic Horror Monster and 70's Blaxploitation F...

Today's brings back Jimmy Gaspero of Cryptid Creator Corner Podcast and Comic Book Yeti as well Cartoonist, Illustrator and Educator Amber Akin to talk about the Papercutz original Children's story Penny and the Yeti which will be released April 21st. The main character in this tale Penny (named after Jimmy's daughter) whose best friend is a Yeti who appears from her older sisters draw...

Today we celebrate this episode of the Faqs Project with 2 Milestones this is Episode 200 a great feat for this small but mighty Comic Book Podcast. Our Guests are Lloyd and Natosha Jones of Midnight Comics who are also celebrating 5 years as an Indie Comic Publisher as I've been a fan of their books since 2021's The Unbeloved. Midnight Comics currently has a Kickstarter live that is a 5 y...

Today the Faqs Project crosses the Atlantic to speak with Joe Palmer about a Dystopian London in Destination Kill for Oni Press. Gina Serene is a burned out Police Detective who is relying on medication to relieve her stress as she is disillusioned by the system and her role in it. There's been a mass displacement of human workers in Central City where automation has left large portions of the...

Today we have Joseph Illidge back on the pod. Mr. Illidge is someone I hold in high regard as one of the many architects that gave us Milestone Comics with characters such as Hardware, Icon, Rocket, The Blood Syndicate, and Static. The New History of the DC Universe was release in late February, but around late January Mr. Illidge put on a 100k unit selling challenge to embolden the many fans of M...

Todays Guest Monty Nero brings us his Cyberpunk tale Chrome Roses from across the pond in Scotland. A world aptly named the Tract where society was broken in half by a pandemic, no law enforcement, decisions are made by social media polls and ratings, physical touch has abandoned for Husks-an advance way of feeling because of fear from the outside world. A rogue detective named Kramm freelances hi...

To close Black History Month, I talk to a Faqs Project favorite Anthony Stokes (Tap or Die) and AJ Ampadu (Ninjak vs Roku) to the Football Epic Silent as a Non-Verbal Quarterback overcomes his obstacles to pressure his team to victory. First, the task alone to create one of your main characters totally using American sign language brings forth the challenge of linguists within your art, because no...

Todays guests are 2 of the most prominent Comic Book podcasters in the industry as I speak to Brad and Lisa Guillickson of the Comic Book Couples Counseling Podcast as they now enter Season 2 of their spinoff series on Youtube known namely as The Stacks. Filmed at Third Eye Comics in Annapolis it has pulled from the example of being a Criterion Closet for Comics as some of our favorite Comic Book...

Today we get to sit down with Jeff Haas of Vector Comics as he weaves 3 issues of this Dark Fantasy tale driven by Angelic Mythology. Malek is an Archangel tricked and sent to Hell to defeat Lucifer and in doing so the throne is empty. All the while Malek is beginning to change as a physical manifestation of a demon incarnate himself becoming the thing he destroyed, The New king in Hell. Even as s...

Doug Marcaida of Forged in Fire on the History Channel brings the Filipino Martial art of Kali to the world of comics in Lineage. Estranged Brothers Miguel and Virgil are reunited by the death of their father and the trauma of a mysterious cult that has haunted them since they were children. Miguel and Virgil must remember the training given to to them by their father as the Blades passed down by...

Strong off the reception of his wonderful book Spectrum which ended up on many readers Top of 2025 list. I bring Dave Chisholm back to discus his follow up project in the form of a dystopian work where the world is designed through workplace culture to keep everyone compliant and working. Here we meet Ted, someone who is an excellent worker as far as productivity, but he is under constant surveill...

Fred Kennedy cooked up an entire recipe of nostalgia of the 80's, seasoned with satire, blended finely with a dose of Humor, and added a finishing touch of rampaging Cocaine raged Hippos. The book starts as those old DARE videos did in the 1980's where this satire driven take on the War on Drugs reaches the Epicenter as characters like Detective Miguel Senecoza, Clarke Nebraska, and Jans M...

Zander Cannon has renewed a lot of faith in single issue comics with Sleep an 8 issue limited series through Image Comics. I've managed to review each episode on my Youtube Channel because the entire story has kept me in suspense. We've gone 7 parts into this story without actually seeing what Jonathan Reason becomes when he goes to sleep. Destruction, Murder, Conspiracy, and all out myste...

Today, I sit with Kenny Meyers to talk with him about Sweet Shop the newest hub for Digital Comics Marketplace. Along with Bindings Comic Marketing made easy and Find your Comic Store its one thing to say that you love Comic Books but to say make your entire ecosystem in helping creators makes you really wanna fight for this guy. Kenny in the last year or so has taken on more than 24 publishers ho...

Happy New Year as a new season begins for the Faqs Project in 2026. As we get a chance to talk to Randy Stone about his latest project on Kickstarter. The Supernatural Horror based in the Nanavut Region of the Northwest Territories of Canada near the Arctic Ocean in FROST BITTEN. A Stranger arrives at a remote town with a population of less than 200 people wounded as he is being hunted. A Sheriff...

Where do I start as to first thank everyone listening to the Faqs project in 2025. Today's Pod I talk about not only the Comics that moved me for 2025, but also some of the news stories that moved the needle on the industry. Creator owned comics may have not seen as much trickle down dollar wise as their mainstream predecessors, but there were many great stories to choose from whether you freq...

Today’s episode journeys into the heart of 14th-century West Africa as we explore the upcoming comic Musa: Lion of Mali . Join as we talk with Adeatoyshe Heru and TJ Sterling about reimagining the rise of Mansa Musa—the richest man in history—as a sweeping heroic saga filled with intrigue, battles, loyalty, legacy, and destiny. We discuss how the comic combines historical authenticity with high-en...

Gainsbourg is a Demon with a unique skill that he happens to be very good at, Torture. Until a newly damned soul of a seemingly innocent 12 year old girl named Katie changes his perspective on everything. Nick Edwards take us on a journey into Hell where you find someone of the utmost bounds of evil now questioning his purpose and principles. We ask how Katie change the landscape of hell while a D...