Robots From Tomorrow!

There are many days working in the show that Greg is grateful to be an observer of comix rather than a creator of them, because the level of craft and skill his hypothetical output would have to measure up against already gives him the willies. That being said, today's guest has already put together such a formidable resume and body of work (all before the age of 30) it makes even this comix-adjac...

Today's show brings another returning guest: a cartoonist so well-known for being in tune with the vibe of Jack Kirby in his own work that when he published his Kirby biography Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics in 2020, there's no doubt a large portion of the readership wondered what had taken him so long. The delay was most likely due to the fact he was busy making a name for himsel...

Program warning: today's episode dives directly into Chris Claremont's original 16-year run on UNCANNY X-MEN, which means Greg will be once again talking about his all-time favorite run of comics (although this time with an expert to help out). Longtime listeners playing a drinking game based on him name-dropping these comics on the show would be wise to give that game a pass today, or risk massiv...

When someone is inducted into the Royal Society of Literature, they are invited to sign their names in a roll book dating back to the society's founding in 1820, using the pen of Lord Byron, T.S. Elliot, or George Elliot. Greg closes today's chat with writer Nikesh Shukla by asking what pen he chose, because not only is Nikesh writing the current Spider-Man: India miniseries (with issue #2 hitting...

Orson Welles wore many hats in his day: filmmaker, actor, writer, producer, pitch man, raconteur . . .  the list goes on and on. But what can only be told now is that you can add 'defender of the Earth' to that list as well.  According to Milton Lawson's Orson Welles: Warrior of the Worlds comics project, illustrated by Renton Hawley and finally debuting from Scout Comics on August 16th, the thesp...

Today's episode takes us back to a time when gods walked the earth. Oh sure, they may LOOK like four late 80's teenagers banging their way thru semi-coherent covers of rock songs, but they are, in fact, all that stands in the way of Jackson, TN suffering a biblical-level plague of . . . well . . . you'll find out in The Rock Gods of Jackson, Tennessee , the new OGN by Mike Norton & Rafer Roberts,...

Today's episode returns the show to a topic apparently never too far from our thoughts: the galaxy's greatest comic 2000AD ! After his recent chat with Mike Molcher where The Best of 2000AD was touched on, Mike suggested Greg reach out to today's guest for a real deep dive into the subject. Some emails were sent, plans made, and here we are with Greg chatting with the Best Of maestro himself: Owen...

Today's episode takes us out to the farthest reaches of outer space and the even further reaches of the human emotional spectrum with the debut collaboration from illustrator Mimi Alves and writer Ben Crane: Cosmic Cadets, Vol. 1: Contact! from Top Shelf! Greg chats with the couple about this all-ages OGN that follows a 'first contact' event for the children of the crew of the exploration vessel E...

Today's guest is writer, game designer, editor, and graphic designer Eric Trautmann. While his previous comics work has included such titles as DC's Checkmate  with Greg Rucka, Flash Gordon: Zeitgeist  with Alex Ross,  Red Sonja , Vampirella , and the Vertigo OGN Shooters with co-writer Brandon Jerwa and artist Steve Lieber, he's on the show today to talk about his new Image Comics series The Forg...

Today's guest is not only a man of his times, but several others as well. When he's not re-enacting 17th century English civil warfare, he's spreading the gospel of  2000AD , the Galaxy's Greatest Comic, as the now-Brand Manager of Rebellion/2000AD. But it's his role as author of the new book  I AM THE LAW: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future  that brings him back to the show today. The book meld...

Sierra Barnes is a cartoonist whose work combines such varied influences as history, folk lore, mythology, fascism, anti-fascism, war, and foxes that might not actually be foxes. Her webcomic exploration of these topics, Hans Vogel is Dead , was just announced as having its first volume of strips collected with updated content by the folks over at Dark Horse Comics. She uses her degrees in History...

Greg had the opportunity to chat with TWO comics legends on stage at this past HeroesCon: Larry Hama & Carl Potts! Here's the panel description to set the mood for today's episode: HAMA / POTTS: IN CONVERSATION From GI JOE to ALIEN LEGION, THE 'NAM to THE PUNISHER, CONAN to LAST OF THE DRAGONS - Larry Hama and Carl Potts have a combined count of more guns, swords, bombs, lasers, and explosions per...

When thinking about today's guest, the word one would keep coming back to is "buzz", like the hum of a amplifier just turned on and waiting for its first power chord. His work refuses to stay in any one medium, be it prose, comics, podcasts, or music. His latest work is the second half of his comic Serious Creatures looking at the life of a teenage special effects wizard. He has all the right cult...

Charlton Comics may have been looked at as the fourth-place finisher in a three-person race for much of its publishing life, but the Derby, CT-based publisher gets the all-star treatment this month with Twomorrows Publishing's release of The Charlton Companion by longtime writer/editor/designer Jon B. Cooke. Greg got a chance to talk with Cooke about the book, some of the company's ups and downs,...

Greg chats with the BFFs of Bound For Failure Studios (Chris Miskiewicz and Ringo-Award-winning cartoonist Vincent Kings) about the Kings crowdfunding campaign for his collection of strips  Time Dog and Other Atomic Tales on Zoop, collaborating with Mitski on a soundtrack for their This Is Where We Fall OGN, their favorite on-screen Elvis (Elvii?), how a Southern California kid ended up being paid...

The lads return! Mike and Greg collect their thoughts about the comics and comics-related collections they have. How have they changed over the years? What's migrated to the bookshelves and what's stayed in the longboxes? What gets saved from the house-destroying fire and what goes up in smoke? The answers to these burning questions and more on today's episode! 

Artist Hayden Sherman and writer Sean Lewis have gone from hi-tech to low-tech with their new Image miniseries  Above Snakes , and Greg gets a chance to chat with them about it. A fantasy western with vengeance, blood, electric colors, surprise lettering, and a guy named Dirt, Above Snakes is their third collaboration, after  The Few and  Thumbs.  Find out how they came together as this modern-day...

The second half of Greg's chat with RushCon creative director and "Rush Fan in Chief" Jillian Maryonovich is finally here! Having covered so much ground about Jillian's background and connection to the band (as well as her time as White House Creative Director during President Obama's second term), the stage is set for some full-on Rush geekery! Find out what Rush-related comic Greg absolutely hat...

Another great interview lined up for you folks today, because Greg got the opportunity to sit down with the  6 Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton  team of writer Kyle Starks and artist Chris Schweizer. They are both Eisner-nominated cartoonists in their own right, and have individually brought you such works as  Sexcastle  and  Old Head  in Kyle's case, and  The Crogan Adventures  and  The Roanoke Colony...

To paraphrase a marketing line from the 80's - adventure has a new name, and that name is Shahidah El-Amin. The lead character in the recent Image Comics mini-series Compass , Shahidah is a 13th Century scholar from Baghdad's House of Wisdom who has traveled to the British Isles to investigate claims of a tribe that has found the secret to eternal life. Along the way to discovering the truth, Shah...

Today's episode presents a chat Greg had towards the end of last year with editor/author Robert Greenberger. The list of Bob's credits is both long and distinguished, including almost 20 years as an editor at DC Comics overseeing such titles as Doom Patrol , Suicide Squad, Who's Who , Crisis on Infinite Earths , The Atlantis Chronicles , and guiding the comics voyages of the Starship Enterprise du...

Now you can hear the second half of the two-part chat Greg had with letterers extraordinaire Aditya Bidikar and John Workman! The shop talk continues, as well as thoughts on more recent work like John's take on the HBOMax Doom Patrol series (after lettering almost the entire Morrison run back in the day) and Aditya's review of Barry Windsor-Smith's Monsters ! 

Back from hiatus, Greg invited two of the best letterers in comics on to the show for a two-part chat about their craft: Multiversity's 2021 Favorite Letterer winner Aditya Bidikar and legendary letterer/cartoonist John Workman! The generation gap evaporates immediately as the two fellows start talking about digital vs analog approaches, collaboration amongst a creative team, visible vs invisible...

Just what it says in the title, folks! What could it be? Listen and find out! 

Today's episode is beyond good, beyond evil, beyond your wildest imagination ... because it looks at the seminal 1980's animation classic  Transformers: The Movie ! Like Pennywise luring so many children to their unsuspecting doom, this beautiful & enticing film shattered the innocence of so many childhoods. But unlike that hellish clown, this film does have many virtues that Greg has brought Chad...