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This week Part-Time Fanboy Doctor Who scholar Barry Negrin returns to the PTF continuum to discuss the ins and outs of Ncuti Gatwa's first full season as The Doctor! This was the first Disney + season of the show or the fourteenth if you count from the beginning of the modern era or the fortieth if you look at the program's whole lifespan. Kristian sits down with Barry to chat about what they thought of this new iteration of Who...the good, the bad, and the just out and out goofy. It's time to fully dissect the first chapter in this new era of everyone's favorite Time Lord (or Timeless Child?) on this episode of Part-Time Fanboy!

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Trevor Fernandes-Lenkiewicz is a comic book writer/creator who has a prolific history with Kickstarter campaigns. He's funded at least eight campaigns through his own publishing concern, Pocketwatch Press. Next week he launches his latest crowdfunding project for the second chapter of his superhero book Rise. Rise is a superhuman story unlike any other in that asks the question: what if a person could only do good if they felt good? It's a comic that touches on the meaning of being male in today's modern society and what our society's expectations of men are. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian welcomes Trevor back to the show and they discuss the ins and outs of his take on the superheroic ideal and if any one man can truly live up to it.

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Caleb Palmquist is a writer and comic book creator who has the distinction of being able to make a living solely off of the projects he's launched on Kickstarter. He's has several successful properties fund on the platform including comics like Unicorn Vampire Hunter, Vampire Detectives in Space, and most recently Dragon Grit. His latest book, Modern Mythology Presents: Medusa, is currently on Kickstarter now! On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian welcomes Caleb back onto the show to chat about his latest adventure which takes the horrifying mythological creature and sends her on a Tomb Raider like adventure to assassinate the gods of ancient Greece. They talk about what it was about Medusa and Tomb Raider that made Caleb think that the ideas would blend well together, the risks of taking on a completely new book with no previous crowdfunding track record, and the concern that his small comic book empire is completely dependent on the existence of the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform.

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Jayel Draco is one half of the publishing outfit known as Oneshi Press. Along with his wife, Lynsey G, they've produced such comics as Tracy Queen, Pack, as well as several other anthology comic book collections. His latest book, Mr. Guy: Zombie Hunter, is currently funding on Kickstarter. Mr. Guy is a decidedly different take on the zombie subgenre. In Mr. Guy: Zombie Hunter a half human-half goblin hybrid is on quest to rid the land of the shambling dead...all the while aided by a floating consciousness named Spooky to guide him along the way. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Jayel about who he thinks would actually survive a zombie apocalypse, how he went about working with other artists to create this last chapter of Mr. Guy's saga, and why he wanted to make his zombie take as irreverent and different as it is.

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Episode 500 is here!!!! In 1972 an animated TV show known as Gatchaman debuted in Japan that would influence a generation of children for decades to come. Debuting in the United States in heavily edited form as Battle of the Planets, Gatchaman was a cartoon show that had many a young nerd scrambling home after school to sit in front of the electric glow of their television sets. In June Mad Cave Studios kicks off a major launch of the Gatchaman franchise with a new comic book series that is based off of and exists within the continuity of the original 105 episode run of the show. This week, Kristian sits down with the writer of the new ongoing Gatchaman comic book series, Cullen Bunn. Cullen talks about his love of all things Gatchaman, how he plans to tell new stories in the Gatchaman universe while respecting the original continuity of the show, and how Mad Cave Studios is planning a major campaign to bring the universe from the original, Japanese Gatchaman series back in a big way!

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This past weekend saw the premier of the first season of the Disney+ era of Doctor Who! It was a debut consisting of two different episodes: Space Babies and The Devil's Chord. It was also a debut that seems to have split the Whovian fandom right down the middle! This week sees the return of Part-Time Fanboy Doctor Who scholar Barry Negrin as he sits down to discuss the ins and outs of this new Supercalifragalisticexpialidocious epoch of Who with Kristian. Was the premier as bad or as good as some fans claim? Find out on this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast!

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Matthew Schofield is an over twenty year veteran of the animation industry, most notably having worked on The Simpsons TV show for most of his professional life. Even though he's had a successful career working in television, he'd always wanted to be the guy at comic book conventions behind a table selling his own comics. One night while at dinner with his family...Matthew's son inspired him by coming up with the name Steamroller Man for his own superhero. Matthew took the concept of Steamroller Man and created his own webcomic...which is now on Kickstarter raising funds for its first printed edition! This week on the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Matthew about getting his comic up and running on the web, how comic book artist Jonboy Myers inspired him to finally makes his own comic and get a Kickstarter campaign going, and how his method of writing and putting together an issue of Steamroller Man may be a bit different from how a comic book is usually created.

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ARKS is a series which Kristian has called, "the craziest, most original, and most compelling comic book story he’s read in a long, long time." This month, ARKS returns to Kickstarter to fund its fifth issue. ARKS is a tale of space exploration and colonization unlike any other. In ARKS, humanity reaches towards the stars not using spaceships but instead uses the science of abiogenesis to plant the seeds of humanity across the galaxy. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian sits down with the creator of ARKS, Rory J. Collins, to discuss just how much crazier the series is going to get, the differences between hard science fiction and science fantasy, and whether his series is draped in dark pessimism or twisted optimism.

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King Arthur and The Knights of Justice was a Saturday morning cartoon which debuted in the early nineties. It existed in that realm of animation somewhere between the heyday of G.I. Joe or The Transformers and the advent of Batman: The Animated Series. Next week sees the debut of the first comic book adaptation of KAATKOJ which is being published by the Maverick imprint of Mad Cave Studios! To create the first spinoff of the series in thirty years, Mad Cave turned to writer Joe Carallo to refashion the Arthurian animated series for the modern age. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Joe about how he got the chance to write an adaptation for a show he was fan of in his youth, the challenges in updating it for modern audience, and why Mad Cave is resurrecting a property that hasn’t seen the light of day in thirty years!

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John Barber and Andrew Lee Griffith are a pair of comic creators with a plethora of comic book credits between them. John has been an editor at both IDW and Marvel Comics and has written on titles as varied as Spider-Man, Back to the Future, And G.I. Joe. Andrew has written and illustrated for The Transformers, G.I. Joe, and Star Wars. While at IDW, they found that they enjoyed working together and decided to create their own project. The result is SIGNA…a star spanning sci-fi epic currently funding on Kickstarter that features humans piloting giant mecha and scrambling for survival in a universe that’s reminiscent of sci-fi classics like The Expanse or Battlestar Galactica. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with John and Andrew about going out on their own, what it was like for them to work outside of the restrictions of an existing IP, and how having the freedom to explore their own ideas wasn’t as easy as they thought it might be!

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