Geekish Cast

Lots of news to discuss this week.  One item is Superman again gets a new costume.

Jeremy is joined by Dave Dwonch.  Publisher of Action Labs Comics.  They discuss Indie Comics, creativity, pro wrestling and California Real estate.

The Action Lab is a group of mad scientists who collectively have over 25 years of comic book creating experience.  After slaving in obscurity and alone for lo, these many years, these quasi-evil geniuses have now gathered together from around the globe to form a secret research and development collective devoted to world domination through the purification of the comic book art form.  The Action Lab has sworn to use its powers for a single purpose — to bring the world the most action packed, most thought-provoking, most entertaining comics available, thereby ushering in a new age of world peace under the dominating yet benign control of the Action Lab.

 

Their first major release, FRACTURE, was released in July 2011 followed by the now two-time Eisner nominated and five-time Glyph nominated PRINCELESS in October 2011. Action Lab continues to publish genre spanning comics from the all-ages MONSTERS ARE JUST LIKE US, and mature reader books like SNOWED IN and DOUBLE JUMPERS.

 

Action Lab Entertainment is the public front for all the activities of the Action Lab and its members.  Although most of the Action Lab’s activities remain classified, Action Lab Entertainment can disclose that two of its many functions are the marketing of comic books through various sales outlets, and the expansion of their domination into other mediums.

If you have the opportunity to interface with any Action Lab personnel at a comic book show or other event, please approach with caution, but feel free to purchase any of the fine comic book products which may be available.

Weekly live episode 8 pm Pacific Time.

Everyone saw the 16-bit recreation of Darth Vader stomping ass at the end of "Rogue One".  I tracked down the creator of the animation to ask him about his animations, music, and other geeky things.

We do get a chance to talk Star Trek, Star Wars, and Superhero movies as well.  This was a lot of fun to record and I can not wait to see John's animations in the future.

Jeremy and guests talk about Carrie Fisher and her most famous character Princess Leia.  Live 8 pm January 5th 2017.

Geekish Cast started December 2015 when Jeremy's wife was sick of hearing him talk about Star wars The Force Awakens. It has since expanded, contracted and changed shape a few times.  At the close of 2016, upon the heels of Rogue One what better way to celebrate than to have our first guest back on?

Doug Sturk (of Sturkwurk.com) comes back on to discuss the movies of 2016.  What worked?  What didn't work?  Why does Jeremy wrongfully insist the year underperformed?

Comic creator Melissa McCommon drops in to talk about her webcomic "Epic Chaos", background, and creative process.

About Melissa;

Melissa McCommon is a California based artist with over 5 years of experience as a professional freelance illustrator and comic creator working on a number of projects for companies such as Scattered Comics, and more recently providing coloring assistance for the Eisner nominated graphic novel "Awkward" by Svetlana Chmakova. When not working on other peoples projects, Melissa can be found working on her own projects, such as her webcomic "Epic Chaos!" (relaunching in early 2017 at epicchaoswebcomic.com), and her Patreon only autobiographical series "Confessions of a Comic Artist". Besides her obsession with all things comics and art supplies, Melissa enjoys fruity teas, cats, and going to conventions.

Another live episode at 8 pm pacific time.

If all goes as planned Paul and Jeremy will be joined by editor/director Don Adams and actor Rico E. Anderson.  Regular news and opinions as well as the topic "if I only like the original Star Trek series am I still a trekkie?"

So you have a great idea for a comic book, and decide to put your money where your mouth (or pen) are.  You slave away on a script,  and now you need to get it onto the comic book page.  How do you go about finding artists? Where to look? What to do?

Lucky for writers and prospective artists, I spoke with Andrea Molinari (creator/writer of The Shepherd) and Joshua S. Heneman  (creator of Bigfoot Sword of the Earthman) about how they handled just that problem and the solutions they found.

Brain and Davis from "Reign of Zaius" present their picks for "Top 10 Christmas songs that don't suck".  After then ten that don't suck they name the song they hate the most.