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Fred Van Lente is a writer who is never lacking in ideas. But when it came to his latest book it was his artist collaborator, Luca Pizzari, who inspired the project with just one phrase that happened to be stuck in his head..."Vampyrates!" When Fred heard that word escape from Luca's lips, a new comic series was born. One that was focused on a world of swashbuckling vampires, living in an alternate history where a thousand year eclipse has made vamps the masters of the seven seas and beyond. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Fred about his newest series being published through Boom! Studios. Fred talks about why the idea of blending vampires with pirates was so appealing to him, which half of the Vampyrates! combination he likes better, buccaneers or bloodsuckers, and how his role playing game expertise helped him in creating the setting in which his new comic book takes place.

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A little over five years ago, comic book legend John Byrne started randomly drawing X-Men comic book pages and posting them on his online forum. Without any fanfare or expectation of payment or publication, Byrne began telling his own alternate timeline version of X-Men history. He branched off from the original intended resolution of the Dark Phoenix Saga where Jean Grey survives the merry band of mutants' confrontation with the Shi'ar Imperial Guard. Reaction from the online community was immediate with fans expressing everything from disbelief to unbridled joy. Questions abounded: Why was John Byrne doing this? Was this an official Marvel project? Will this ever be published? Is this even legal???

On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian chats with Chris Ryall, the editor responsible for bringing John Byrne together with Marvel editor C. B. Cebulski so that X-Men Elsewhen could be officially be published in print by Abrams ComicArts. Kristian chats with Ryall about the history behind Elsewhen, they speculate on why Byrne even started doing what he did, and how Chris managed to help get a project in print that was never meant to be published in physical form.

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This week Conor McCreery returns to the Part-Time Fanboy podcast! Hot off of his Eisner nomination for Fela: Music is the Weapon, Conor comes back to the Part-Time Fanboy clubhouse to chat about his latest release, the collected edition of The Last Witch: Blood and Betrayal. Kristian and Conor discussed the first issue of the comic here last year but now that it's being released in a compiled edition he's here again to take a deeper dive into the series. Kristian talks to Conor about telling a story for younger readers that features darker themes, how The Last Witch was inspired by works as varied as the movies of Don Bluth and the TV show Breaking Bad, and how anger can be a useful motivating tool but can ultimately be destructive if not managed correctly.

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We're back! It's been a while but the Part-Time Fanboy podcast is back!

This week Kristian chats with writers Shawn McBee and Maciej Jankowski about the Kickstarter campaign for their new supernatural horror comic Westron! Jan Westron is a detective who is investigating the murder of a teenage girl which has details that are startingly similar to a case he was involved in as a teenaged boy. As he dives deeper into the situation, it begins to become obvious that the killing he's looking into isn't just a run of the mill murder but may have some disturbing connections to creatures born of Slavic mythology. On this episode of the podcast, Kristian chats with Shawn about his time as the "keeper of lore" for the DC TV showStargirl, how his tenure on that show brought him into contact with Maciej when he used to run an online DC Wiki page, and how they came together to make a horror comic that pulls from the Slavic and Celtic mythology from their respective heritages.

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Episode Six Hundred is here!

For the six hundredth episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian welcomes back friend of the podcast Gabe Cheng! Gabe Cheng is a writer who's had lots of success on Kickstarter with one shot comics like The Problem With Parallels, Crashlands, and Requiem in Relke. For a long time Gabe's not really been interested in exploring a narrative past one single issue. His comics have been examinations of different stories in different genres that only stuck to one self contained tale...until now. With his newest comic, This Seems Normal (now funding on Kickstarter) Gabe has decided to not only go past one single issue but to tell a fun filled romp of a story that tackles all of the genres at one time. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Gabe about why he decided to abandon the single story format he'd been working in for so long, how his latest work has deep ties to his own relationship with his family and siblings, and why he decided to let go of the preconceived notions of what a comic story should be so he could just enjoy telling the stories he wanted to tell.

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Matthew Schofield is an illustrator who has worked as a storyboard artist and a director on The Simpsons for over twenty five years! Even though Matthew's had a successful career in the animation industry, he'd never been able to let go of the juvenile desire to create comic books. Several years ago he created the superhero parody Steamroller Man as an online comic strip and eventually successfully funded a crowdfunding campaign for the first print edition of his character's adventures. Now Matthew is back to making comics with a sequel to Steamroller Man which is currently raising funds on Kickstarter! On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Matthew about his time working on The Simpsons, how working on his own comic lets him stretch different creative muscles than he uses on that show, and the introduction of new characters to world of Steamroller Man, such as the Batman and Robin stand-in characters Night Knight and Sleep Tyke.

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Stephanie Williams is a writer who has worked for publishers like Marvel,DC, and IDW on characters such as Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Nubia, My Little Pony, and many, many others. This April saw the debut of her creator owned graphic novel, Temporal, from Mad Cave Studios. Temporal tells the story of a mother who has a wonderful family life but starts to yearn for the adventurous time she spent in her youth as a time thief. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian jumps into the time stream with Stephanie to discuss what led to the creation of Temporal. They talk about how Stephanie stepped away from a life as a real life scientist to pursue her dream of writing fiction, how her love of nineties disaster movies inspired the creation of this latest work, and how she purposefully created this book to be a manga/anime inspired comic that features people of color.

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April Fools’ month is here so it’s time to talk about bad movies! All this month, we at the Part-Time Fanboy clubhouse will be talking about our favorite “bad” movies. Movies we love, but that other people may not have such a favorable opinion of or movies we haven’t seen, which have terrible reputations, and that we decide to give a shot to win us over.

For the last April Fools' flick of 2026, PTF regular Yvis Cannavale picks the mother of all eighties 3-D movies, Jaws 3-D! Kristian can barely contain his disdain for the third entry in the Jaws franchise as writer Clay Adams (Blazing Blade of Frankenstein, Nightmare Theater 3-D) and podcaster Joe Slepski (Joe on Joe Podcast) dive into the PTF lagoon with him and Yvis to test the waters. Does 3-D make what should have been the final entry in this series scarier? Or is 3-D just a cheap gimmick that hampers any real tension from building because of its necessity to constantly poke things at the viewer? Find out as Part-Time Fanboy discusses the movie that not even 3-D Lea Thompson in a bikini could save!

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John Lees has found his success as a writer of horror comics. Despite that success and his love for the horror genre, John was a fan of and had the desire to delve into the realm of romantic comedies. Embracing his love of romcoms, Lee threw caution to the wind and crafted his latest comic, Orla! Orla! is an exploration of all of the anxieties and pitfalls that women can experience when they go out into the dating pool and find nothing but a certain toxic breed of male. But the central character in Orla! is a special breed of woman who has her own way of dealing with men who feel entitled to treat women as objects purely for their gratification. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with John about why he wanted to write a book that takes on toxic masculinity, how he was able to deftly portray the unease that women may feel when looking for love, and how men and women may not be so different when it comes to the things that bring out their insecurities.

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April Fools’ month is here so it’s time to talk about bad movies! All this month, we at the Part-Time Fanboy clubhouse will be talking about our favorite “bad” movies. Movies we love, but that other people may not have such a favorable opinion of or movies we haven’t seen, which have terrible reputations, and that we decide to give a shot to win us over.

This week, multimedia artist Phil Mucci picks the sexy sixties psychedelic super thief flick Danger Diabolik! Danger Diabolik is a groovy Italian action thriller directed by Mario Bava and produced by Dino De Laurentiis that plays like the mad lovechild of Batman '66 and Barbarella! On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast friends of the show Joe Slepski (Joe on Joe podcast) and Yvis Cannavale join in with Kristian to chat with Phil about the movie he loves so much...he named his company, Diabolik LLC, after it! Can an action/adventure movie directed by Mario Bava based on one of Italy's most popular comic books actually be considered bad? Find out on this episode of Part-Time Fanboy!

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