Recorded via remote from isolated hives across San Diego by way of the great internet machine, this is Comic Dwarves! Join your dwarves hosts Tom, Mike, Sean, and Josh as they introduce themselves, the book club they curate, and make their first Comic Dwarves selection!
Hosted by Tom Bevis, Michael Brown, Sean Corbin, and Joshua Shepherd.
Music by Polynova.
A Nonplussed Comics Podcast.
Produced by Tom Bevis.
Full Transcript:
Tom Bevis: Mike, you cut out almost throughout all of that. Uh, I’m sorry.
Mike Brown: Are you seri- oh, no worries.
Sean Corbin: Yeah. You were underwater and then (noises). It was wonderful.
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TB: Hello and welcome to the Comic Dwarves, your guided excursion into the rich mines of comicdom. Each week, we invite listeners to unearth a new comic book gem with us and join in as we discuss, debate, dispute and generally duke it out that what some may consider and excessive length. I'm Tom Bevis, and I’m joined with my fellow amateur orators, Sean Corbin…
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SC: Hello there.
TB: Josh Shepherd…
Josh Shepherd: Howdy.
TB: And Mike Brown…
MB: Hey, that's me!
TB: In this special first episode, we’ll introduce ourselves and the book club we curate and then cap it all off by announcing our very first Comic Dwarves selection with the help of that fabulous, fantastic machine, the Select-O-Matic! Guys, let’s get digging.
MB: Alright, this week all of the digging we’re doing is into ourselves. I'd like to give ourselves each a chance to pitch ourselves as if the show was just about us. Let's start with Sean.
SC: Hey guys, I am Sean and I am in this podcast with you. I am more or less lifelong comic reader. I would say it probably started around, what, four or five years old? My gateway was the Batman animated series which then led me to a Batman comic which was then a kind of progressive, like nineties cartoons in general, was like a a progressive… each one fed into another thing that has broadened my love of comics and I never really felt too cool to stop.
MB: Alright. How about you, Josh, do you want to introduce yourself?
JS: Alright, I’m Josh Shepard and like Sean, I’ve been an avid fan of comics since I was young. I particularly picked up on old issues that my mom had boxes, so I had a lot of older X-Men comics and a bunch of Spider-man comics from the eighties. I got Into my own stuff a little bit, but not too much. That didn't happen until I would say my teenage years, when I actually started perusing the stories myself when I was going to comic shops to buy magic cards. I started noticing things on the shelves and I wanted to pick it up and get into it myself. That’s where I am about it. I just like to read comics randomly and pick up whatever I find when I can.
MB: Sounds good to me. And Tom, how about you?
TB: Much like my my fellow host here, I’m almost a lifelong comic book fan. I started reading maybe a little bit later than them at seven or eight years old. My dad had one comic, just one super obscure comic that he never let me read, and that filled me with anger to this very day and that's kind of what has fueled my need to read every comic ever. So that's my that's my main purpose. I got my real head start by the way of a family friend who owned a comic book shop and let me work in and around it for store credit. That was right around the time of Image Comics boom. That's kind of where my my real loyalties are established. And how about you, Mike?
MB: Alright, well compared to the three of you, I am much more casual with my relationship to comics. It wasn't until the the mid nineties when you got the Batman movies and later on with the Spider-man movies that I was ever introduced into the world of Marvel or DC. And it wasn't until I was friends with you guys in high school that even realized that, you know, that these movies were based off of these much more extensive storyl...
