An Elegant Weapon

After a little post FanExpo break we return to celebrate Batman Day. The Jedi Ras , Stan Konopka and Jay Webb gather to babble all about the Bat and review Star Wars: Shattered Empire issue 1, Journey to the Force Awakens.

The Jedi Ras moderates his very first live FanExpo panel featuring Michigan comic creators Jay Fosgitt and Ted Woods as well as London, Ontario's own Jules Faulkner. A great deal of fun was had and perhaps a few things learned as well as these three fine artists lay down their own personal paths to self publishing and marketing through a very lively discussion and at times, debate. They also take...

Welcome to our 3rd annual FanExpo Extravaganza! It was the best year yet for this epic monster of a con as The Jedi Ras brings his guerilla pod stylies to the floor featuring a chat with Canadian comic book artist Ty Templeton about growing up in the L5J, being part of a legendary Toronto family, the origins of the creation of Superman and how he came to work on Batman '66. Also featured is a chat...

The Jedi Ras sits down with friend of the show and 29 year veteran of the comic biz, DC/Marvel/Dark Horse artist and inker Mark McKenna. Mark tells some stories abouit breaking into the industry, his time on staff at DC and in the Marvel Bullpen, his first time working on Detective Comics and the new kickstarter for his book Combat Jacks #3. Check out the Kickstarter for Combat Jacks #3!    

Fun fellow and talented artist Shawn Langley joins The Jedi Ras to chat about his art, converse about comics, and discuss a little Doctor Who. Check out Shawn's incredible illustrations at The Artwork Of Shawn Langley

This week I had the extreme pleasure of getting to know indie comic journalist Crystal O'Rourke. Crystal, a.k.a The Indie Huntress, is a writer for TheOutHousers.com and a staunch supporter of the independent comic community. We chat about her foray into the comics world, the motivations behind her writing and the art of the interview. As well, there's a little bit of a history lesson on The Weapo...

This week The Jedi Ras welcomes the founder of Warrior Innkeeper Comics , Benjamin Kreger to talk about the kickstarter for his new book The Black Suit of Death and his career in comics. Check out the kickstarter for this cool original take on the legacy and lore of The Grim Reaper!

Long time friend and frequent guest Anthony Ruttgaizer a.k.a "Kingdom" James, comic writer and pro wrestler, returns to the Weapon to chat about his new Kickstarter for The F1rst Hero Vol.2 from Action Lab, his farewell tour on the wrestling circuit and memories of the late, great "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. Check out everything Anthony is up to at Sixteen Hectares and a Moose

What if Walter White was a hippy? Jay and Stan ponder this and chat about DC's upcoming animated version of The Killing Joke, Batman V Superman, Smallville and  what the hell IS Supernatural anyway? Also, Stan gives a review of his experience at the Garden State Comic Fest with Nemesis Studios. Up, Up and away!

This week I'm joined by writer and co-founder of the Michigan Comics Collective, Travis McIntire ( Up the River, Source Point Press) to talk about his new family friendly comic book project inspired by Filipino folklore and mythology called  Bayani and the 9 daughters of the Moon. Check out the kickstarter with some amazing reward tiers including work from Jay Fosgitt and Mark McKenna! Bayani and...

Quod Erat Inveniendum! This week we feature a chat thought lost with the Comicstorian from Denver Comic Con '15. We'd had some trouble locating this file due to technical difficulties arising from recording on site at DCC but El Hawkez refused to give up and now The Jedi Ras is very pleased to bring you a very fun interview with comic book YouTuber , The Comicstorian. Following that, Da Nerdette,...

This week we discuss the recent events surrounding the legalization of same-sex marriage, Canada Day celebrations and The Batman.

The Jedi Ras chats with writer Greg Wright, author of Wild Bullets . Greg is a member of the Michigan Comics Collective and his story has been brought to life through a coming together of some very talented members of the Collective. We talk all about the book, those involved and what it took to bring this ambitious book to fruition. Catch an amazing deal when you purchase Wild Bullets through Dri...

After a long journey of Comic Con tales and adventures The Jedi Ras returns to the L5J studios and welcomes Stan, Anthony, Francis and El Hawkez for a good 'ole geek out chat 'em up. We talk the DCU, MCU, Convergence , Secret Wars, Ganjables and more. Good times.

  The Jedi Ras heads to Denver Comic Con to hook up with his Points of Interest podcast network co-horts El Hawkez and Francis The Other Guy to represent P.O.I in the Podcast Peak section of DCC'15. This episode features chats with Star Wars author Kevin J. Anderson about the EU, it's history and what's new on his agenda as well as a talk with his padawan Peter J. Wacks , author of Second Paradigm...

This is a live Podcasting panel from Motor City Comic Con 2015 featuring your's truly, Matt, Tony and Derek from Drunk On Comics and Real Big Dev of the Snake Oil Comics Podcast . We chat all things podcasting including influences, styles, equipment, set up, publishing, promotion and etiquettes as well as answering audience questions.  This is a fantastic listen for beginners and pod vets alike! M...

For Part 3 of our MCCC '15 extravaganza The Jedi Ras has the honour of chatting with legendary Star Wars and Suicide Squad writer John Ostrander , custom lightsaber smiths Solo's Hold and Darth Alice , con security/Sith lord Adam Tornow and the return to the show of E. Roger Mitchell of The Walking Dead and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. to help me close out the show!

I was very honoured to have the pleasure of moderating writer Dirk Manning's Write or Wrong panel at MCCC '15. Dirk is a freelance writer whose credits include Nightmare World, Tales of Mr. Rhee and Write or Wrong, a beginner's guide to writing comics as well as Image comics and Newsarama. He's a very inspirational fellow and if you're an aspiring writer you won't want to miss this, especially the...

What a grand adventure once again this year at Motor City Comic Con in beautiful Novi, Michigan. The Jedi Ras will be bringing you tons of fantastic fun over the next several parts of our MCCC extravaganza. First up, a right jolly romp through Artist's Alley including chats with Kelly O'Hara , Jay Fosgitt , Jason Westlake , Nick Francis , Joshua Werner , Source Point Press and Jason Ujvari . All i...

The Jedi Ras shares his thoughts on Avengers: Age of Ultron, the Suicide Squad filming here in Toronto and a very special chat featured from the 80's Toy Expo with voice acting legend Jim Cummings ( Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Darkwing Duck, Hondo and many, many, many, many, many more).

The Jedi Ras and Derek of the Drunk On Comics podcast run through all the upcoming guests, artists, events, adventures and good times to be had at Michigan's largest pop culture event Motor City Comic Con 2015  ! Both An Elegant Weapon and Drunk On Comics will be covering the event happening May 15,16 and 17th. Hope to see you all there!!

El Hawkez joins The Jedi Ras to talk about the recent barrage of trailers including The Force Awakens and Batman v Superman, upcoming Con events and The Jedi Ras recounts his day at The GTA Comic Con featuring a chat with Zach Galligan of The Gremlins!

We round out our Great Philly Con extravaganza with a few chats from artists' ally including Coat of Arms Comics founder and creator of The Chronicles of Mayre Joe Carbone, IDW artist J.K. Woodward and his pod partner on JK's Happy Hour Darryl Taylor, founder of The Taylor Network of Podcasts and we close things out with a podbomb on the guys from local Philly podcast Super Hero Speak ! make pod.

The Great Philly Con extravaganza continues with a live panel pod featuring the voice of Kim Possible herself, the fun and beautiful Ms. Christy Carlson Romano! We chat about the art of voice over, broadway, growing up in the Disney universe, Q and A and much much more!      

The Jedi Ras brings you Part 1 of The Weapon's Great Philadelphia Comic Con coverage 2015! On this installment's intro The Jedi Ras shares his experience moderating the Jonathan Frakes panel, recommends his fave kickstarter projects for the week and gives you a preview of what's to come next in his Philly Con coverage. Following the Ras' few minutes of babbling he brings you a really fun live pane...