World building! Backstory! Writing! With Dave Roman, Brandon Dayton, and Paul Storrie.

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What’s the difference between story and backsory? It’s a tricky question, so I was lucky to assemble a rather impressive roundtable of comics people to help sort this one out. Brandon Dayton, Dave Roman, and Paul Storrie all return to the show to help determine how to know what information belongs within and supports your story, and what information is world building material to inform the choices you make when constructing your story.

Sharon Iverson of the Ann Arbor District Library shows up later to share some more book recommendations and comics events happening in the Southeast Michigan area.

Links mentioned in this episode (thanks to Eric Klooster for collecting them!):

* Steel Cut Oats

* Romney vs Big Bird

* Wikipedia’s definition of Backstory

* Wikipedia’s definition of Exposition

* The Incredibles

* Batman’s origin

* Dungeon Masters

* Memento

* Spidey’s Uncle Ben

* Finding Nemo

* John Carter

* The Emperor’s New Groove

* Lost

* American Flagg!

* Orson Scott Card

* Goofus & Gallant

* The Silmarillion

* Jaws

* The Empire Strikes Back

* Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

* Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

* The Legend of Korra

* Supernatural

* The Name of the Wind

* Game of Thrones S1

* The Paper Wings Podcast

* Kevin Costner

* Ben-Day Dots

* Dear Teen Me (and check out Dave’s appearance in the trailer video)