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Susan and Tilly Bridges are a married writing team who have worked on properties ranging from comics to books to role playing games to television shows to films. They have been fans of nerd stuff for as long as they can remember and of Star Trek in particular to the point of claiming that they have watched every episode of the various incarnations of the show. When the opportunity arose to write a comic book adaptation of a Star Trek Voyager adventure through IDW Publishing they jumped at the chance. The result of their work is the mini series Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming which pits the crew of the famous starship against Species 8472 just as they have returned from being marooned in deep space for seven years. On This episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Susan and Tilly about how they managed to create a series that appealed to fans of and newcomers to the franchise, how they approached developing Species 8472 for their book, and how they dealt with any anxieties they faced while working on a property they loved.

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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 artist and cinephile Lauren Damon picks the 2001 comedy Monkeybone! Directed by Henry Selick and starring Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, and Rose McGowan, Monkeybone tells the story of what happens when an artist falls into a coma and actually gets to meet his cartoon creation. Comic book writer Travis Webb (Starlite, the upcoming Nemesis) joins in the fun as Kristian invites them into the PTF funhouse to try and figure out what Monkeybone is and what, if anything, could have saved it from being the half baked spawn of Tim Burton, Pee Wee Herman, and Roger Rabbit!

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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 friend of the podcast, Steven Prince (Monster Matador, Mercy in Prison), picks the 1980 Roger Corman Star Wars/Seven Samurai knockoff Battle Beyond the Stars! When a peaceful planet is invaded by a warmongering dictator a young farmer must go out into the galaxy to seek help to fight him. With talent behind the cameras like John Sayles and James Cameron and stars like Richard Thomas, George Peppard, Robert Vaughn, and Sybil Danning...what could go wrong? Well, apparently, a lot. Phil Mucci (Diabolik Double Feature), Jeremy Whitley (Navigating With You, The Dog Knight, The School for Extraterrestrial Girls), and PTF Regular Yvis Cannavale board the Part-Time Fanboy starship to chat with Kristian about Roger Corman's attempt to cash in on the Star Wars craze that hit the movie industry back in the late nineteen seventies/early eighties.

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Hunters of Sheydim is a comic book about twin sisters who are agents of the Baalei Shem Tov, a secret order of Jewish demon hunters. We had the creator of the book, Jeff Marvin, on the Part-Time Fanboy podcast back in December to chat about the debut issue of the comic. The collected trade paperback of Sheydim debuted several weeks ago so Jeff returned to the show to talk about the first complete arc of the comic. Kristian chats with Jeff about how he took elements of Judaism and deftly used them to create an action-adventure series unlike any other in the comic book market today, about how Jewish mythology was presented in the book and gives it a distinct visual identity, and how Hunters of Sheydim takes a story which could initially be seen as another take on the Buffy the Vampire slayer trope and turns it into something culturally unique and interesting.

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 April Fools’ Day 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.

To open up the April Fools' Day ceremonies we begin with the 1980 remake of The Jazz Singer starring Neil Diamond! Kristian saw Song Sung Blue over the holidays and loved it, so he decided it was time to revisit the one and only film Neil Diamond ever acted in. Is Neil Diamond's Jazz Singer as bad as its reputation? How can a movie that spawned such songs as "Hello Again", "America", and "Love on the Rocks" be a bad cinematic experience? This week the PTF box seats are full as friends of the podcast Joe Slepski (Joe on Joe Podcast), Steven Prince (Monster Matador, Mercy in Prison), Josh Eiserike (The Very Last Final Girls, Charm City, Pale of Settlement), and Yvis Cannavale gather together to find out if The Jazz Singer is moan inducing or if it will have you singing its praises come karaoke time!

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Mike Kunkel is back! This week on the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian chats once again with the creator of one of his favorite comics of all time...Herobear and the Kid! Ever since he came across Kunkel at the San Diego Comic Con back in 1999, Kristian has considered his work to be something special. With Herobear and the rest of his work at The Astonish Factory, Kunkle has created properties that are filled with hope and nostalgia for the kinder, simpler time of childhood. Next week sees the debut of the first full new Herobear and the Kid story in years. In Saving Time, Part One, Herobear and Tyler explore why his superhero bear was created in the first place in a time twisting tale that expands on the events in The Inheritance. Kristian chats with Mike about why he wanted to delve into Herobear's origin, why he felt the need to bring a secondary character to the forefront in this chapter of the story, and why he loves Christmas with the passion of someone who grew up on the East Coast even though he's a Southern California native.

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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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