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Back from Gen Con and a brief respite, Brent and Shiraz share their Gen Con experience. Their first Gen Con since the pandemic, our hosts talk about the state of the industry, meeting new people, and trying out new games. In particular, Shiraz discusses (finally) picking up the RIFTS RPG and meeting its creator, Kevin Siembieda. Also Shiraz meets comics writer Jim Zub, and Forgotten Realms creator Ed Greenwood.  

In their third episode, the Commanders give their honest review of the new Guardians of the Galaxy movie. But before that, Shiraz discusses his away mission to a local comic book store on Free Comic Book Day. Special spotlight is given on the upcoming new Conan the Barbarian title by Titan Comics (Jim Zub, Adventure Time), and the exciting new comic pantheon by Opus Comics: The FrazettaVerse! Has Free Comic Book Day reignited Shiraz’s childhood love of comics? Listen now to find out!

The AIPT Comics podcast returns to recap the week in comics, plus Brian Michael Bendis joins the show to discuss Fortune & Glory: The Musical. In the sequel to his Eisner-nominated series, we unpack what we're in store for as he shares how the sequel is a means to tell stories about his own life (the first chapter is on his Substack now), working with artist Bill Walko, editor Daniel Chabon, and so much more!

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NEWS

1. Dawn of DC grows with new 2023 creative teams on Flash, Wonder Woman, Hawkgirl and more
2. New 'Incredible Hulk' creative team announced: Phillip Kennedy Johnson and artist Nic Klein
3. Marvel reveals new details about the 'Captain America: Cold War' finale
4. ​​Marvel reveals full Scott Koblish ‘Fantastic Four’ connecting cover
5. Marvel sheds light on Dan Watters and Germán Peralta's 'Loki' miniseries
6. Is Chip Zdarsky's 'Daredevil' ending in August 2023?
7. Brian Michael Bendis sets 'Fortune & Glory: The Musical' for Substack release
8. Dark Horse Books sets October 2023 for 'The Unlikely Story of Felix and Macabber'
9. Titan sets July 2023 for Jamie Lee Curtis’ ‘Mother Nature’ horror graphic novel
10. ‘Dracula, Motherf**ker’ creative team returns this October with ‘Parasocial’

Our Top Books of the Week

Dave:

1. New Mutants Lethal Legion #1 (Charlie Jane Anders, Enid Balam)
2. Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent #1 (Tom Taylor, Clayton Henry)

Nathan:

1. Scarlet Witch #3 (Steve Orlando, Sara Pichelli)
2. Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent #1 (Tom Taylor, Clayton Henry)

Standout KAPOW moment of the week:

Nathan - Fantastic Four #5 (Ryan North, Ivan Fiorelli)

Dave - Fantastic Four #5 (Ryan North, Ivan Fiorelli)

TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK

1. Dave: Star Trek: Defiant #1 (Christopher Cantwell, Angel Unzueta)
2. Nathan: Hellcat #1 (Christopher Cantwell, Alex Lins)

JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.

1. Dave: The Harrower #2 (E.M. Gist)
2. Nathan: Danger Street #4 (Joëlle Jones)

Interview: Brian Michael Bendis - Fortune & Glory: The Musical 

1. This might be kismet this interview is taking place today, because I'm literally 6 days from traveling to London to see the Back to the Future musical! Were you a fan of musicals before turn of the dark, and then after?
2. Fortune and Glory is a book I read and cherished when I went to college for screenwriting in the early 2000s. It was not only entertaining, but was enlightening about Hollywood and that industry. How much can fans expect from you as far as helpful tips for writing and your process?
3. Having had a chance to read some of the sequel, I have to say your voice as yourself is incredibly entertaining. Do you find talking as yourself as an easy thing to do in a comics format, maybe that's what you were already doing with Spider-Man and Superman?
4. You're releasing Fortune and Glory: The Musical over your substack, with a print edition from Dark Horse in the future, about how many months will you be releasing chapters?
5. You drew Fortune and Glory, what made Bill Walko the right choice to draw the sequel?
6. How has it been working with Daniel Chabon who is editing the sequel?
7. When writing about your own life, how tempted are you to punch up the moments and make them bigger than they might have been?
8. Hollywood, broadway, what will the third book be about? What's left!?

MARVEL comic book interior artist ENID BALAM is on the show today. Enid has worked on many titles for Marvel including Hawkeye, Reptil, and a new title that he hints at in todays episode! He also did the Bladerunner series for Titan Comics.

From a fantastic conversation on the process of creating comics and the secrets behind the art to a very spooky story about Enids encounter with a real UFO in his youth that changed his life! 

Happy Halloween everyone we got another episode with some spooky topics on the way. 

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Comics artist David Marquez joins the show to discuss his new Zestworld launch and the new series he's writing and drawing The Unchosen. You can check out the first chapter right now, which we discuss at length, and Marquez gives us insight into the larger story too. We also discuss his collaboration with Tom King on Batman: Killing Time and more!

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NEWS

• Dark Horse adds Eric Powell's Albatross Funnybooks imprint to lineup
• Dark Horse Comics and Penguin Random House ink exclusive global multi-year deal
• Dark Horse and CD Projekt Red launch new ‘The Witcher’ comics miniseries
• DC announces new Harley Quinn creative team Tini Howard and Sweeney Boo (plus details NYCC plans for the character)
• MAD Magazine celebrates 70th Anniversary with content by Jordan Peele, Weird Al, and more
• DC shows off ‘90s Rewind Month foil, multi-level emboss variant covers
• Titan Comics announces ‘Blade Runner 2039’ for December 2022
• NYCC 2022: IDW reveals NYCC 2022 panel, signing and swag details
• Don Cheadle’s This Radicle Act To Adapt Comic Book ‘Rogues’ Gallery’ Into TV Series
• Coheed & Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez to debut new horror comic “My Brother’s Blood Machine”

Our Top Books of the Week

Dave:

1. Edge of Spider-Verse #4 (Various)
2. Stuff of Nightmares (2022) #1 (R.L. Stine, A.L. Kaplan)

Nathan:

1. Strange #6 (Jed Mackay, Lee Garbett)
2. Rogues’ Gallery #3 (Hannah Rose May, Justin Mason, Declan Shalvey)

Standout KAPOW moment of the week:

Nathan - Carnage #6 (Ram V, Rogê Antônio)

Dave - Nightwing #96 (Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo)

TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK

• Dave: Flawed #1 (Chuck Brown and Prenzy)
• Nathan: Briar #1 (Christopher Cantwell, Germán García)

JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.

• Dave: Detective Comics #1064 (Evan Cagle)
• Nathan: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #100 (Mike Del Mundo)

Interview David Marquez - New Zestworld creator-owned project The UnChosen

1. Thanks for being on the AIPT Comics podcast, you’re launching a new comics project on Zestworld, can you tell us a little about how you got involved with Zestworld?
2. What is The UnChosen about, what’s the elevator pitch?
3. I saw that you’ve had this concept in mind for about a decade - how did inspiration strike here?
4. We’ve seen vertical comics make a surge thanks to things like Marvel’s Infinity Comic format, what have you enjoyed most exploring this layout style?
5. What has the transition been like going from Batman Killing Time to The UnChosen?
6. For the artists out there, what are your chosen tools of the trade, do you work digitally 100%?
7. What has the collaboration process been like Marissa Louise and D.C. Hopkins? 
8. You’ve worked with Brian Michael Bendis on the excellent Defenders, now Tom King with Batman and many more, what is it like working withy a variety of writers, are their processes very different? And how does your process change when you’re doing both? 
9. Are you doing UnChosen full time, or do you have other projects in the works?
10. Where can fans find you, website, twitter, Zestworld?

Too Hot For TV is back for a third season. In episode one Dylan is joined by Richie Morgan from the podcast 'I Hate Doctor Who'. First they take a side step into the Unbound universe for  'Sympathy for the Devil' by Jonathan Clements, a Big Finish audio that stars David Warner as an alternative Third Doctor and Nick Courtney as The Brigadier. Then they look at the Titan Comics Third Doctor adventure 'Heralds of Destruction' by Paul Cornell. Join them on this thrilling journey through the Doctor Who extended universe and find out...

How inspirational can a ring of tinsel be?
What would a holiday be like with Louise Jameson?
What is a Doctor Who hangover? 

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NEWS

• Tim Sale has passed away at 66
• Titan Comics gets Conan the Barbarian for May 2023
• Miracleman news including a new #0 anthology and the start of Gaiman and Buckingham wrapping up their unfinished story
• ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures’ revisits animated series storyline
• ‘Planet of the Apes’ omnibus to reprint 1975 series for the first time
• Image Comics solicitations
  • ‘Ten Thousand Black Feathers’ continues The Bone Orchard universe September 2022
  • New Image series Flawed announced
  • New Skybound series Dark Ride announced

Our Top Books of the Week

Dave:

1. The Silver Coin #11 (James Tynion IV, Michael Walsh, Adam Gorham)
2. Immortal X-Men #3 (Kieron Gillen, Lucas Werneck)

Nathan:

1. Home Sick Pilots #12 (Dan Watters, Caspar Wijngaard)
2. Black Adam #1 (Christopher Priest, Rafa Sandoval)

Standout KAPOW moment of the week:

Nathan - The Amazing Spider-Man #4

Dave - Black Adam #1

TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK

• Dave: Iron Cat #1 (Jed MacKay, Pere Perez)
• Nathan: The Variants #1 (Gail Simone, Phil Noto)

JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.

• Dave: X-Force #29 (Miguel Mercado)
• Nathan: DC vs. Vampires: Killers #1 (Booth & Glapion variant)

Interview with Christopher Priest and Heavy Metal Executive Editor Joe Illidge about new Heavy Metal series ENTROPY (this year's event series), which debuts on July 6th with issue #1.

1. Chris, what a week you’re having with the excellent debut of Black Adam #1 and with Entropy coming out in just a few short weeks. Thanks for being a guest on the AIPT comics podcast! To start, how did Entropy end up as a Heavy Metal series?
2. Christopher and Joe, the two of you have been working together for a bit now. What is your collaborative process like?
3. Press materials list Entropy as “Breaking Bad meets Green Lantern” can you explain those connections further?
4. What was your relationships like with Heavy Metal growing up?
5. You’ve explored the interior life of villains in Deathstroke, Black Adam, and now Entropy. What is it about the bad guys that draw your attention and make their stories worth telling for you?
6. Two things were particularly striking from Montos’ work, the facial expressions, and the total annihilation of things, what are some of Montos’ strengths you write for?
7. There’s a particular reference to a famous TV show in issue 1, is there a reason you picked that show and that line of dialogue?
8. Do you have any other projects you’d like to talk about today?

This episode was recorded some time in the recent past!

Mike and Kait dig through our backlog of comics comp'd to us from publishers and creators to discuss. 

Comics Discussed

• Love and War #1
• Cold Iron #1
• The O.Z. #1-2
• Chronophage
• Phantom of the Opera
• The Wrong Earth: Fame and Fortune #1

Music provided by Infinity Shred. Find them on Bandcamp.

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Editor: Zander Riggs

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If you're hungry for more Cowboy Bebop stories, check out the latest from Titan Comics! With the help of writer Dan Watters, we chase down a brand new bounty with suspiciously good luck. Expect a full review of issue 1 from Lauren and Jamie, plus our hopes and predictions for the rest of the 4-part comic book miniseries.

NEWS

1. A school board in Tennessee banned Maus - Spiegelman responds
2. New details emerge for ‘Free Comic Book Day 2022: Marvel’s Voices’ #1
3. Humanoids sets sites on all-new ‘The Incal Universe’ graphic novels
4. Ibrahim Moustafa’s next Humanoids title announced
5. Vault Comics First Look: Quests Aside – Out April 2022
6. Titan announces The Man Who Fell To Earth comic adaptation
7. Marvel teases X-Men, Avengers, and Eternals summer event ‘Judgment Day’
8. ‘Daredevil’ #1 launching June 2022 by Chip Zdarsky & artist Marco Checchetto
9. Marvel’s ‘Hulk’ #6 to feature ‘Deadliest Hulk’ Titan in April
10. Iron Man to propose marriage in ‘Iron Man’ #20
11. TKO Studios to distribute through Simon & Schuster, Inc. starting February 1

Our Top Books of the Week

Dave:

1. Mary Jane & Black Cat: Beyond #1 (Jed McKay, C.F. Villa)
2. Night of the Ghoul #4 (Scott Snyder, Francesco Francavilla)

Nathan:

1. The Human Target #4 (Tom King, Greg Smallwood)
2. Mary Jane & Black Cat: Beyond #1 (Jed McKay, C.F. Villa)

Standout KAPOW moment of the week:

Nathan - The Human Target #4 (Tom King, Greg Smallwood)

Dave - X-Men #10 (Gerry Duggan, Pepe Larraz, Marte Gracia)

TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK

• Dave: Sabretooth #1 (Victor LaValle teams, Leonard Kirk)
• Nathan: Monkey Prince #1 (Gene Luen Yang, Bernard Chang)

JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.

• Dave: Sabretooth #1 (Ryan Brown)
• Nathan: Batman #120 (Kyle Hipp)

Interview - Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League - Earl Rauch & W.D. Richter 

1. Tell our listeners about yourselves and how you came to collaborate on the original Buckaroo Banzai. As I recall, the original script went through a number of forms.
2. One of the elements I love about the movie and the novel are the constant callbacks - like an editor’s note in a Marvel comic - was this a conscious decision to adopt a comic book convention?
3. Were there any comics you were reading at the time?
4. Against the World Crime League was originally teased at the end of the film. How has this story evolved from its original conception? And why was a novel the right medium?
5. I have to ask about my favorite film, Big Trouble in Little China - Much like Buckaroo, Jack Burton has endured. What is it about these characters that connect with audiences all these years later?
6. Without spoiling anything - things are looking pretty bleak for Buckaroo and the Hong Kong Cavaliers at the start of this book. Were these big changes always in the cards?
7. The multiverse is hotter than ever right now, if you could have a Buckaroo crossover with any movie or comic book character, what would it be and why?
8. Has Mike Richardson pitched you to open up a Buckaroo Banzai comic series?
9. Are you reading or watching anything right now that you’d like to put on our listeners’ radars?

The world of Doctor Who exists far beyond what we see on the TV screen and in this episode of our podcast, we talk with fellow Whovians WilliamWho, GayleWrites, AidenCG and Mrs McCrimmon about Doctor Who books including Target novels and the new series novels and we also talk about comics including the Titan range which is also ever growing. 

Plus we chat about whether anyone has met a Doctor or companion and hear some stories sure to stir some jealousy amongst our dear listeners!

We also look to the future of the show and see how we are all feeling about it now that the era of the Thirteenth Doctor is nearing it's end...

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Writer and artist Monty Nero selects the comics and artwork he'd take into space with him, talks about his career and his latest project, Frenemies: The Lost Planet, now live on Kickstarter. Check it out at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/f02/frenemies-the-lost-planet-progressive-sci-fi-fantasy