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A very special bonus interview this week as Paul chats with COO of Ape Entertainment, Brent Erwin.  You may be familiar with Ape Entertainment from their popular line of titles based off of Dreamworks properties such as MegaMind, Shrek, and Kung Fu Panda, or their new take on Richie Rich.

Brent Erwin is a 22-year veteran of the Comics Industry, having opened his first Comic Shop “Four Color Comics & Cards” in Waco, TX at age 19. Brent went on to become a Sales Representative for Diamond Comics Distributors, working with Acclaim Comics in New York City. Leaving Diamond Comics Distributors, Brent became a Marketing Coordinator for the direct market, under the authority of Fabian Nicieza, the Publisher of Acclaim Comics. Brent has also worked for Wizard Entertainment, known as publisher of the leading comics industry magazine “Wizard the Comics Magazine”. His position with Wizard was as Senior Advertising Account Manager.

In 1998, Brent launched SmallPressComics.com, an on-line community devoted to Small Press and Independent Comics. In 2003, comics devotees David Hedgecock and Mike Hall teamed with Brent and founded Ape Entertainment. They are publishers of high-quality original graphic novels, comic books, and illustrated fiction.

Stay tuned on Monday for a chance to win a signed copy of Ape Entertainment’s new Richie Rich comic!

One of the many pleasures of comic book podcasting is that you get to talk to amazingly talented people… and sometimes you get to talk to amazingly talented people who you’ve idolized for decades.  Such is the case with this week’s interview.

With a career in comics spanning 40 years, Jim Starlin was responsible for re-imagining such characters as Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock for Marvel… and then killed them.

He’s the fellow who gave us Thanos (who loves Death) and over at DC, he killed off Jason Todd in the now infamous A DEATH IN THE FAMILY.

Sensing a theme?

Currently, Jim Starlin is producing the third volume of his creator owned BREED over at Image Comics.  It’s a horror story centering on the activities of Ray Stoner who is half-demon, half-man.  Monstrous hijinks ensue.

Of course, Starlin was a pioneer in the realm of creator-owned content.

Starlin debuted his Vanth Dreadstar character in the serialized Metamorphosis Odyssey appearing in the pages of Marvel’s Epic Illustrated.  Beyond that initial serialized story, Dreadstar moved onto his own original graphic novel followed by a monthly under Marvel’s Epic banner followed by a series at First Comics and then a mini-series at Malibu.

And I ain’t the only one sporting a chubby for Big Jim.  Oh no, Paul has a deep and abiding love for all things Thanos and the Infinity gems.

Brother Starlin teases a little news in this episode about Dreadstar… and Thanos and a certain movie project.

Join our unabashed geek love fest as we adore Jim Starlin.

Well, here it is… our big 1ooth episode.  It’s an all discussion episode this time around as we answer your questions.  Lots of topics this week.  And lots of hosts!  Join Aron, Paul, Tim, Wayne, Andrew and Jonathan for a double-sized commemorative episode!

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Just one week left ’til big episode 100. We’re getting our tuxes pressed and preparing all the awesome. You can be part of the show.

Watch the site for additional details, because we’ll be offering valuable prizes for those whose questions and topics we use.

In this the biggest comic book news week in years, Paul and Wayne go missing. Slackers.  No commitment, I say.  In the blinding flashpoint of this monumental news they were found wanting, consumed no doubt by fear itself.

But that’s okay.  Aron, Tim and Andrew bring it this week.

Don’t miss the first episode of Knights of Reignsborough season 2 released last Friday and come back this Friday for Issue #0.5!

Just a two weeks left ’til big episode 100. We’re getting our tuxes pressed and preparing all the awesome. You can be part of the show.

Watch the site for additional details, because we’ll be offering valuable prizes for those whose questions and topics we use.

Ron Marz returns to the show to talk about his all new, creator-owned project – Shinku.  Shipping this week from Image Comics, Shinku tells the tale of vampires both in modern-day and feudal Japan.  There are samurai, motorcyles and lots of bloody killing.  It’s a terrific book.

We also discuss Ron’s upcoming Green Lantern one-shot for DC, his experience on Thor for Marvel and – oh yes – his current work on Witchblade and Magdalena for Top Cow.

It’s another terrific interview with Ron Marz.

Listen now!

Just a few weeks left ’til big episode 100.  We’re getting our tuxes pressed and preparing all the awesome.  You can be part of the show.

Watch the site for additional details, because we’ll be offering valuable prizes for those whose questions and topics we use.

This coming Friday… big things… The next episode of Knight of Reignsborough hits the interwebz in which you’ll get to meet our newest player charcter.  Also, X-Men: First Class opens, be sure to pop on back next week to hear our thoughts… And Friday is the first full day of Dude-a-palooza.  It’s gonna be a thing.

This week, both Paul and Wayne saw Pirates of the Caribbean, but not together.  It’s not like they’re dating or anything, though they do tend coordinate they’re wardrobe with freakish regularity.  At the theater, they had wildly different experiences.  Be that as it may, we all grooved to this week’s new Green Lantern trailer.  We discussed it all this week, plus our Rapture plans and even the week’s new comics.

Stay tuned after the end-music for more discussion.

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The first thing you have to understand about Daryl Gregory is that despite all evidence to the contrary he is not in fact British.

I know, right?

The next thing you need to know about Daryl Gregory?  He’s writing two of the best comics around.  His Dracula: Company of Monsters is simply the best Dracula story since Wolfman and Colan’s Tomb of Dracula.  It is one of the finest, genuinely horrorific comics to see print in years.

His Planet of the Apes returns the franchise to the original continuity picking up where the fifth film, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, leaves off.  It’s a talking-monkey-aficionado’s dream come true.  It’s a terrific simian whodunit with all kinds of organic human.  We’re enjoying it so much, we’re finging poo!

Daryl’s writing some great stuff and we had a blast talking to him about it.  Even though he isn’t British.