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Annnnnd…we’re back! The Part-Time Fanboy podcast has been gone for several weeks but we’ve returned with our continuing exploration of Sylvester Stallone‘s Rocky franchise. Long disparaged as the worst of the Rocky films, Rocky V sees its titular character stripped of his wealth, injured with a severe brain injury, and turning to training a young up and coming boxer, Tommy Gunn, in a desperate attempt to regain some of his former glory in the boxing ring. Unfortunately, Rocky’s best laid plans for his new pupil go awry when a nefarious Don King-like promoter comes between him and his new protege. This week, Kristian and Yvis Cannavale sit down to discuss the fifth film in the Rocky series! Is it as bad as everyone says it is? Does it deserve its reputation as being the red-headed stepchild of the Rocky movies? Was Tommy Morrison as bad an actor as the critics said he was? Find out on this latest episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast!

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Dylan and Leighton are two kids growing into their teenage years. When they are sent off to a camp for troubled youth their friendship faces challenges neither of them could have expected…especially when they begin to face the changes that arise when coping with their own identities as they mature into adolescence. Jennie Wood and Dozerdraws are two non-binary creators who brought their own experiences into play when creating the wonderfully sincere graphic novel Paper Planes. On this episode of Part-Time Fanboy Kristian chats with Jennie and Dozer about how the worked together to craft a story about the emergence of self-awareness during your tween years and how they pulled from their own personal histories to make one of the most touching graphic novels of the year!

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Tilly Bridges is a trans woman who is a writer of comic books, screenplays, teleplays, audio dramas, and games! She also happened to be a huge fan of The Matrix movies…although for years there was something about them that she felt spoke to her beyond the surface sci-fi and martial arts antics that changed cinematic history. Then, in the summer of 2020, Lily Wachowski announced that The Matrix was, in fact, a trans metaphor. After that revelation, Tilly began to look at all of the movies in the tetralogy with a much sharper lens via her Twitter account. Her observations on social media would eventually become so voluminous that they would have to be collected into a book: Begin Transmission-The Trans Allegories of The Matrix! This week on the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian sits down with Tilly to talk about her incredibly detailed, entertaining, and exhaustive analysis of all of The Matrix movies. She talks about her own transitioning, what it was like for her when she first saw the movie, and what compelled her to take a deep dive into the rabbit hole that the Wachowski sisters hid in plain site within their revolutionary science fiction film!

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It’s a two podcast week! Why? Because Dalton K. Shannon is back on the show! Dalton has been a consistent Kickstarter creator through the years with projects like Frankenstein the Unconquered and Mechaton! His latest Kickstarter (with writing partner Wells Thompson) is a graphic novel called called Depths! Depths tells the tale of a diver who invents a perpetual diving suit. During his first test run he becomes trapped beneath the ocean for three years and finds himself isolated and alone with no contact from the surface world! On this episode of Part-Time Fanboy, Kristian chats with Wells about how he worked through his struggles with depression to create a captivating tale that is also a metaphor for dealing with mental health issues!

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It’s episode 450! To celebrate we brought Jeremy Whitley back onto the podcast! Jeremy has been on the show several times before chatting about his previous works such as Princeless, The Unstoppable Wasp, Rainbow Brite, and The School for Extraterrestrial Girls! Last week saw the debut of his latest book, The Dog Knight, published by Feiwel and Friends (the children’s division of Macmillan Publishers)! What happens when a non-binary middle schooler gets recruited by a secret society of canines to save the world? That’s the basic premise behind The Dog Knight, a wonderful and heartwarming tale of self discovery and growth. This week on the Part-Time Fanboy Podcast, Kristian and Jeremy talk about what inspired the creation of his latest graphic novel, how he used to his wonderful adventure tale to discuss issues of adolescent maturation , and how his family’s desire to have a dog (even though he is allergic to them) brought about the genesis of The Dog Knight!

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Carmilla is a novella written by Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu that is one of the earliest instances of vampiric printed fiction. It’s a book which pre-dates Bram Stoker‘s Dracula by almost thirty years! Carmilla, however, unlike the more famous Count from Stoker’s novel, has been relegated to relative obscurity throughout the years. Clay Adams and David Schrader (the creators and publishers behind the Nightmare Theater horror anthology graphic novels and books such as Blazing Blade of Frankenstein and Cannibals on Mars) have brough the vampiress back for their new comic book Carmilla Unbound which is now funding on Kickstarter! This week on the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian chats with Dave and Clay about the novel that inspired the creation of their new comic, how they went about bringing her into a more modern setting for their story, and how they approached the more adult subject matter at the center of their book to keep it from being just another exploitative comic book cash grab!

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In 1985 the fourth film in the Rocky Balboa saga was released. Rocky IV, however, would be a very different movie from its predecessors both in directorial style and tone. In the fourth Rocky movie, The Italian Stallion would become a symbol for the Reagan-era United States as it stood up to the tyrannical Soviet Union which was personified in super boxer Ivan Drago (played by a statuesque Dolph Lundgren). On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian sits down with PTF regular Yvis Cannavale to chat about the oddest entry in the Rocky franchise as well as Sylvester Stallone’s re-cut version of the film known as Rocky IV: Rocky vs. Drago. They talk about the differences between the two cuts of the movie, the reasoning behind the death of Apollo Creed, and Kristian continues to advocate for a Paulie prequel!

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This week Part-Time Fanboy crosses the International Date Line to chat with Australian comic book writer/creator David Hazan! David is probably most well known in comic circles for his series Nottingham but in the next month or so he has two new comic book series coming out! Debuting this week from Mad Cave Studios on May 3rd is Monomyth! Monomyth is a twisted take on the “average person being endowed with magical abilities” genre that so many fans have come to love with books like Harry Potter or The Magicians. In June, Death Drop Drag Assassin is being published by Scout Comics! Death Drop Drag Assassin details the exploits of a drag performer who used to live the life of a deadly killer for hire! Since she’s left the business of killing events conspire to return her to the violent life she’d once abandoned! This week Kristian chats with David about the two very different stories he has coming out from two different publishers as well as the inspirations behind them!

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Zach Howard is an illustrator with almost twenty five years of experience in the comic book industry! He’s worked with companies like Marvel and DC Comics and with talent such as Joe Hill (on The Cape) and Mike Mignola (on Hellboy). Now he has his own project currently funding on Kickstarter known as Moonshine Bigfoot! Moonshine Bigfoot is a throwback to the fun and action packed car chase movies of the seventies and eighties like Smokey and the Bandit! Howard’s latest comic project explores what happens when everyone’s favorite moonshine runnin’ cryptid discovers a conspiracy that even he can’t believe exists! This week on the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian chats with Zach about his latest creation, why he prefers to work on his own creator-owned projects rather than corporate driven characters, and why he has to use Kickstarter to fund his book even though Image Comics is already set to publish the book!

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Neil Gibson is the owner, publisher, and editor of a comic book publishing company based in the United Kingdom known as TPub Comics! He is also a writer and has utilized his company to bring his own ideas to life with fantastic comics like Amputation Capital and The Traveller. He’s currently running a Kickstarter campaign for his latest book, Tuned, which Gibson describes as being a cross between Seven and Heroes. On this episode of Part-Time Fanboy, Kristian sits down with Neil to chat about his latest spine-tingling effort. They also talk about how Neil decides which projects TPub should publish, how Neil approaches working with other creative types, and the nature of giving and receiving good feedback when collaborating with people on a project.

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