Time to once again catch up with an old friend with a new project to promote! Ian sits down with Dave Dwonch, whose Kickstarter campaign for his all-ages Disney/Pixar inspired murder mystery book (words you don’t get to say very often but it’s totally true), The Automaton, is currently underway! Ian and Dave discuss the book in detail, what led him to want to make this story, how Dave can draw parallels between The Automaton’s main character Jeannie and his own upbringing, Dave’s comic book origins and a chance meeting with Mark Gruenwald, and so much more.

More includes Dave getting to meet his artist for this and other projects, Santi Guillen, for the first time at Megacon with a big surprise included, then heading to Disney World itself to Tron it up. Finally, some other deviations like that time Dave almost died in a cab, the time Dave almost died in in a drug den, how times Dave almost died lead to him creating new comics, and more! And a reminder, earmuffs and headphones for this one, we’re relaxed and may swear from time to time, as it were. And the drug den story, that too!

And here’s the YouTube video version of this episode:

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