Osy Ikhile is an actor who's had a successful career with roles in shows like Black Mirror, Citadel, and All American. Even though his acting career has had its accomplishments, Osy still had the desire to create his own projects. Years ago he began developing an idea for a television show but eventually realized that getting a series off the ground might take too long. So he turned to his other passion, comics, to bring his imaginings to fruition. The result ended up being the new comic book series We Who Remain, which is about a group of individuals who must overcome the traumas they've faced in their lives in order to gain the abilities they need to fight a nefarious mystical foe. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian sits down with Osy to chat about how his own difficulties in life helped him shape his story, how the X-Men were a major inspiration to him in creating his narrative, and how his skills as an actor helped him when he was creating his own characters for the book.

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Bixby Grant is the story of mummified former police officer turned private investigator who solves crimes on the streets of Harbor City. In Harbor City Grant is just one of a plethora of supernatural beings who walk the streets. In the world of Bixby Grant: Private Eye vampires, werewolves, and zombies are everyday inhabitants of their metropolis who live their lives just like anyone else. They do everything your average everyday citizen does...including commit crime. That's when Bixby Grant steps in. On this week's episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian sits down once again with the creator of everyone's favorite mummy detective, Patrick Coyle. They chat about the upcoming Kickstarter campaign for the next chapter of his bandaged wrapped PI's story, what other characters in fiction inspired his creation, and how he was able to concoct a comic that's the perfect blend of noir mystery and Saturday morning cartoon nostalgia!

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Joseph Karg is an animation professional and an Associate Professor of Illustration at Kennesaw State University. Like many other creatives, Karg had become frustrated with the general state of the world we're living in so he decided to take his talent and do something with it. He created I Feel Doomed (currently funding on Kickstarter), an anthology comic book that brings together the work of his students at the university as well as artists he knows within the animation industry to tackle the anxiety at large that so many people are feeling right now. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian sits down with Joseph to chat about what inspired him to take on this project, why stories dealing with trauma or society's ills might be more inspiring than depressing, and what a future with AI holds for creative people everywhere.

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It's time for more Damn Dirty Apes! This week Part-Time Fanboy continues to take a deep dive into the short lived Planet of the Apes TV show from 1974. Kristian once again sits down with Joe Slepski (of the Joe on Joe Podcast) and PTF regular Yvis Cannavale to chat about the next group of the Planet of the Apes Television Show episodes: The Surgeon, The Deception, and The Horse Race. Has the Apes show pulled out of its seventies episodic television formula to finally develop some compelling stories with interesting scenarios and well rounded characters or have Kristian's defenses just been ground down by previous episodes of the show? Find out on this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast!

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Jeremy Whitley is a writer who's probably known more in comic book circles as a creator of stories for the younger set. With comics like Princeless, The Dog Knight, and Navigating With You, Jeremy has built a reputation for crafting stories with strong emotional cores and relatable characters for the YA crowd. With his latest release, however, he unleashes two tales of terror sure to make fandom rise up and realize that Whitley definitely has a darker side. With Slay and The Girlfriend Survives ( now funding on Zoop) Jeremy serves up two horrific yarns in one fear filled flip-book package. This week on the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Jeremy about why he wanted to embrace his inner Stephen King, what the appeal was of releasing two creepy stories in a flip-book format, and what he likes to see in the horror movies he watches.

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The Secret S.T.E.A.M Society is a series of educational graphic novels for kids and teenagers. Each volume of Secret S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) Society focuses on a different subject, taking a deep dive into different topics such as music and spaceflight. The debut edition, being published on February 10th by Papercutz, focuses on horses. It's an almost encyclopedic yet incredibly fun look at just about everything anyone would want to know about our equine associates. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with the writer of the debut volume of Secret S.T.E.A.M. Society, Trevor Mueller (creator of the Albert the Alien series of graphic novels). They chat about just how much research Trevor had to do about horses for the book, how he kept an educational graphic novel from being a boring read, and how adults as well as children could learn a thing or two from the Secret S.T.E.A.M Society.

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28 Years Later was the long awaited sequel to the 28 Days Later zombie movie franchise. Upon its release last year, it split the horror community in half with some fans feeling disappointed in the lack of kinetic thrills the original film delivered and other fans embracing the new apocalyptic world that Danny Boyle and Alex Garland had created. Earlier this month 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple saw its premier as the follow up to 28 Years Later. On this episode of Part-Time Fanboy friend of the podcast, horror critic and writer Mark L. Miller returns to chat with Kristian to talk about the latest entry in the infected zombie universe. Is The Bone Temple a better sequel to 28 Years Later than that film was to 28 Days Later? Find out on this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast!

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Simon Birks is a writer who's been creating and publishing comic books for over ten years. With his Blue Fox Comics imprint, he's helped bring various books, comics, and role playing games out into the world. With his comic Antarctica, he teamed with Image Comics to release one of his projects to readers everywhere. In February his next book, The Thing On The Doorstep, is also being published by Top Cow/Image Comics. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian sits down with Simon to chat about his sequential art adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's short story, founding his Blue Fox Comics company, and why the best horror stories are actually tragedies.

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It's been eight months (!) since Part-Time Fanboy visited the apocalyptic world of The Planet of the Apes. On our last Damn Dirty Apes episode, we began breaking down the live-action Planet of the Apes television show which only lasted one short season in 1974. This week Joe Slepski (of the Joe on Joe Podcast) and PTF regular Yvis Cannavale join Kristian to chat about the next three episodes of the series. In The Good Seeds, The Legacy, and Tomorrow's Tide the serialized adventures of astronauts trapped on a world of speaking simians gets stuck in a formulaic loop. Is the POTA TV show just another seventies TV show that resets its adventures at the end of every episode in a world of imagined change? Find out on this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast!

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J.M. Brandt is the writer of the horror comic Swamp Dogs. Like so many creative individuals he's been horrified by what the current presidential administration has been doing to marginalize LGBTQ people and individuals of color...so he decided to do something about it. He pulled people together from all corners of the comic and artistic community and created Horror Not Hate, a comic book anthology currently funding on Kickstarter that uses the horror genre to tackle stories about fascism, transphobia, homophobia, xenophobia, racism, and toxic patriotism. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian sits down with J.M. to talk about his Kickstarter project, how he's using the funds from it to support Lambda Legal and CHIRLA, and how the horror genre can be an escape from the real horrors that are currently being visited upon certain people in the United States.

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