Tim Larsen is a comic book writer and illustrator who just finished wrapping up his comic book Mayfield Eight several months ago. Mayfield Eight was a tribute to the biker flicks of the sixties and seventies that were unapologetically full of action, sex, and violence. Now he’s decided to do a spin off series called Banshees M.C. which features the biker gang that was central to the chaos in his previous comic and is currently funding on Kickstarter. This week on the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian sits down and chats with Tim about why he’s so obsessed with capturing the biker culture in comic book form, what it is about the motorcycle/car chase flicks of days gone by that appeals to him, and the freedom of working on a story that’s set in the freewheeling seventies!

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The New Year is almost here! Before we dive headlong into 2025…we hang onto one last shred of the holiday season by chatting about last week’s Doctor Who Christmas special! Joy to the World guest starred Bridgerton and Derry Girls actress Nicola Coughlan as a young lady named Joy who purposefully chooses to spend the holidays alone. While checking into a hotel, she gets caught up in an adventure with the Doctor which will eventually have a serious effect on the origin of Christmas. Doctor Who scholar Barry Negrin returns to the Part-Time Fanboy TARDIS to chat with Kristian about the latest episode of the Timelord’s Yuletide adventures!

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There is a list of creators that Kristian has wanted to interview since he started the Part-Time Fanboy podcast almost thirteen years ago. Mike Kunkel is on that list. Ever since he discovered Herobear and the Kid at the San Diego Comic Con back in 1999 (!), Kristian has loved Kunkel’s work and considered Herobear to be one of his favorite comic books. Now, as a special holiday treat, Mike finally sits down with Kristian to talk all things Herobear and the Kid! They chat about how Scott Morse and Image Comics inspired him to create his own comic book, why he decided to illustrate it in an “animation pencil test” style, the persistence it took to keep making the book on his own, and the recent announcement that Papercutz will begin publishing the series next year!

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The original Space Ghost cartoon was one of Kristian’s absolute favorite cartoons as a kid. Something about the cosmic crusader’s adventures just tapped right into his nerd brain as a child and the character was one that he held close to his heart even into adulthood. Other than a Comico one-shot in the 1980’s, a great sequential art adaptation of SG’s adventures had never really satisfied Kristian’s urge for more serious Space Ghost tales. So when Dynamite Entertainment announced that they were doing the first Space Ghost comic in years, Kristian was skeptical…even though friend of the podcast David Pepose had been tapped to handle the writing chores. Well, the new series ended up being one of Kristian’s favorite things (comics or otherwise) of 2024 and he’d never been so happy to be wrong about something. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian sits down to talk with David about how he managed to modernize Hanna-Barbera‘s galactic guardian while still remaining true to the source material that made him a Saturday morning TV star back in the 1960’s.

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It’s apes time again in the Part-Time Fanboy clubhouse! if there’s one thing to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, it’s that we don’t live in the reality of this film…yet. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes is the Planet of the Apes movie that might be a little too close for comfort for many viewers right now. Conquest is set twenty years after the events of Escape from the Planet of the Apes. In the year 1991, apes have become a slave caste under the authoritarian rule of Man. Hidden within this society is the intelligent ape Caesar, the offspring of Cornelius and Zira, who came from a future of sentient simians that ruled civilization. During the course of the film, Caesar observes the oppression his fellow primates live under and leads a violent revolution which becomes the origin for how apes became the masters of this fictitious society.

This week, Kristian sits down with PTF regular Yvis Cannavale and friend of the podcast Joe Slepski (of the Joe on Joe Podcast) as they chat about the grimmest film in the original apes franchise…but not until they chat about The Penguin TV show a bit first.

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Richard Ashley Hamilton is a Cuban-American writer who’s worked as a screenwriter on several Dreamworks properties and in comics with publishers like Dark Horse. He currently has two young adult graphic novel titles, Scoop (currently in stores) and Tective (set to be released in December), from the Maverick imprint of Mad Cave Studios.  Both detail the exploits of teenage female investigators who solve crimes but in very different worlds.  In Scoop a young lady finds herself investigating incidents of the supernatural in modern day Miami while working as an intern for a local TV news station. In Tective an adolescent in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles has to figure out why her best friend has gone missing. Both books offer entertaining and intriguing spins on a type of protagonist made popular by characters like Nancy Drew and Veronica Mars. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian chats with Richard about the inspiration behind his latest creations and how his experiences in the news industry and Hollywood helped him craft these two similar yet very different stories.

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Tilly Bridges is a trans writer who is probably best known for her book Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of The Matrix. In Begin Transmission, Tilly took a deep dive into the Matrix movies and revealed the trans narrative that ran through the whole series of films. On her website, Tilly Trans Tuesdays, Tilly continued her work looking into the trans allegories which existed in other films. This week, Tilly sits down with Kristian to discuss what was one of his favorite movies of 2023…Barbie! Barbie was widely seen as a film with overt feminist messaging that was a huge cultural, critical, and box office success. On this episode of Part-Time Fanboy, Tilly looks at Barbie through a different lens and walks Kristian through the movie as viewed by someone with only her incisive eye could see it!

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Just when you thought the Halloween season was over, Part-Time Fanboy steps forward with a treat for all comic book readers to enjoy! This week Kristian crosses the pond once again to chat with UK writer Cavan Scott about his new comic book series, Night of the Slashers! Night of the Slashers is a new limited series being published by Magma Comix and tells the horrifying tale of what happens when a group of teenagers find themselves trapped in a town where everyone becomes a slasher-like killer in the vein of Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees! Kristian chats with Cavan about his love of horror movies, why he prefers slasher movies over other kinds or horror flicks, and how he’s able to keep the slasher sub-genre from getting stale when everyone in the town is a murderer!

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Happy Halloween!

It’s October! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continues its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween month! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes some of their favorite indie comics creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about it on the podcast!

For this All Hallow’s Eve we have possibly one of the craziest bad movie picks we’ve ever presented on this podcast! Artist Chris Anderson (Lost Angels, Spectral,) picked the 1989 B-movie horror flick Elves…because once Halloween is over, all anyone cares about is Christmas, right?

Elves is one of the greatest terrible movies you’ve never heard of. Featuring secret Nazi plots, incest, and a kindly performance by Dan Haggerty‘s Grizzly Adams, Kristian could only describe the film as a Mike Mignola fever dream after he’d seen it! Comic creators David Accampo (Lost Angels, Spectral, The Margins) and Terry Mayo (Buddy, The Wicked Righteous, Disposable Legends) are joined by PTF regular Yvis Cannavale as they all join Kristian to rip open their X-Mas presents early to chat about one of the strangest movies ever to be talked about on this show!

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It’s October! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continues its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween month! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes some of their favorite indie comics creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about it on the podcast!

This week Dave Dwonch (Cyrus Perkins and the Haunted Taxicab, Prom of the Dead, Jenny Zero) picks The Final Girls! The Final Girls is a charming and hysterical send up of eighties slasher movies like Friday the 13th and Halloween. When a fire breaks out during a revival screening of a classic slasher flick, five young moviegoers find themselves mysteriously transported into the film itself. Hijinks ensue as a group of millenial young people have to deal with navigating not only the dangers of a maniacal killer on the loose but the attitudes of a bunch of out of touch gen x movie characters! Josh Eiserike (The Very Last Final Girls, Charm City, Pale of Settlement) joins the fun as Kristian and Dave dive into a fun horror movie that’s perfect Halloween viewing for people who aren’t fans of horror movies!

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