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Fred Van Lente is one of Kristian's favorite comic book writers. Kristian discovered his work years ago while Fred was helping recreate the Valiant line of comic books. On top of having also worked on projects for Marvel Comics and a host of other publishers, Fred has worked on educational non-fiction comics like Action Philosophers and The Comic Book History of Comics. His latest project Gamemasters: The Comic Book History of Roleplaying Games, takes a deep dive into the beginnings and evolution of tabletop roleplaying games. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Fred about how the artist of Gamemasters, Tom Fowler, came up with the idea of the book, how the origins of the modern RPG were developed by military troops working out battlefront strategies, and the controversies surrounding the co-creators of Dungeons and Dragons, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

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Mark London is the CEO and Chief Creative Officer of Mad Cave Studios. In addition to his duties as the head of one of the best up and coming indie comic book publishers out there, Mark is also a creator of his own comics. With titles like Revolution 9, Hour of of the Wolf, and Exit City, Mark has established his own universe filled with noir detectives and creatures that go bump in the night. This summer Mad Cave is publishing a crossover event in which Mark's creations meet up with one another called Endless Night! On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Mark about how he went about creating his noir/pulp/supernatural universe, whether it was his plan to create a shared universe when he started with Revolution 9, and what inspired him to begin creating comics of his own in the first place.

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Ari Gross is, in Kristian's opinion, a talent deserving of wider recognition. He's only just begun his comic creation journey in the past several years with books like Awakening, Wardens, and Upkeep but the stories he creates show promise of a writer to keep an eye on. The second chapter of his Tales From The Crypt like horror tale, Upkeep, is currently funding on Kickstarter. Upkeep is the story of a family who finds their dream home but must pay a steep morale price in order to keep it. This week on the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Ari about making a comic where each issue takes place one year after the previous issue and how that timeline may coincide with the actual release dates of the book itself. They discuss how Upkeep may be like Richard Linklater's film Boyhood due to the time and effort it takes for an indie creator to actually put out a book on their own dime and how he plans the structure of a comic that could take him years to complete.

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23 years ago writer Alex Garland and director Danny Boyle made a movie which resurrected the zombie horror genre. 28 Days Later kicked zombies into high gear by giving the once shambling mindless hordes the ability to run. It was a movie which Kristian considers to be one of his favorite horror films of all time (and which he chatted about on the Fanbase Press Podcast here). Earlier this month, Garland and Boyle finally returned to the a zombie apocalypse they started with a long awaited sequel 28 Years Later. This week on the Part-Time Fanboy Podcast, Kristian chats with friend of the podcast and horror critic/writer Mark L. Miller about the sequel that zombie fans have spent years foaming at the mouth for! They chat about how they feel about the original movie, its first sequel 28 Weeks Later, and whether 28 Years Later is the movie they were expecting it to be and whether expectations matter when it comes to the final product.

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Episode five hundred and fifty is here! To celebrate, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes back one of the first people to be interviewed on the podcast, Conor McCreery! Conor is one of the creators behind the Kill Shakespeare series of graphic novels as well as a host of other comic book projects. His latest series, The Last Witch: Blood and Betrayal is the sequel to his 2021 series, The Last Witch. In Blood and Betrayal, the lead protagonist must learn to cope with the fact that she is a witch even though she's been taught all her life that witches are evil. On this 550th episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Conor about why it took almost four years after the sequel had been completed for it to be released, how his artist (V. V. Glass) and colorist (Natalia Nesterenko) rallied around the series when they found themselves without a publisher, and how he approaches writing stories for a younger audience.

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This week the second volume of Sarah Davidson's charming, fun, and educational graphic novel series Jackson's Wilder Adventures debuts! Jackson's Wilder Adventures is a series that helps young children look at what may sometimes be an intimidating world through the eyes of the animal kingdom. Sarah helps kids cope with things like not wanting to eat different foods or losing their first tooth by having her protagonists (a young boy named Jackson and his imaginary Tasmanian Tiger friend Irwin) look at the behaviors of critters in the wild and see how they deal with the same problems. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Sarah about what inspired her to make a comic about creatures in the wild, her unique artistic process, and how a fateful car accident during her honeymoon changed the course of her life!

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This is it! The finale of the latest season of Doctor Who debuted this past weekend and it-was-a-doozy! This week Part-Time Fanboy scholar Barry Negrin returns to the podcast to chat with Kristian about the second half of what ended up being the final season featuring Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor! Was this half of this season as promising as the first half? Did the writing of the episodes live up to Gatwa's incredibly boisterous talent? What was the deal with the final shot of the finale? Barry and Kristian attempt to break it all down on this week's second episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast!

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This week writer Joe Corallo returns to the podcast! In June the Maverick imprint of Mad Cave Studios will be printing the second volume of Corallo's adaptation of the nineties Saturday morning cartoon King Arthur and the Knights of Justice! This new chapter of the story reads almost like a Wrath of Khan entry in the Knights of Justice universe in that Joe has taken everything that's come before and added a new spin on it, opening up old characters to refreshing new narratives. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian sits down with Joe to chat about what it was like coming back to KAATKOJ and how the success of the first volume gave him more freedom to play with an already established tv mythology and mix things up a bit.

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Just when you thought it was over...we're back with more Damn Dirty Apes episodes! When the producer of the original Planet of the Apes film series passed away, his production company sold the rights to 20th Century Fox Studios. Stuck with the rights to a film franchise that had diminishing returns, 20th Century Fox decided that the next logical step was to take the apes to the small screen. In 1974, The Planet of the Apes television show debuted in September, failed to find an audience, and ended up being cancelled by December. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian chats with Joe Slepski (of the Joe on Joe Podcast) and PTF regular Yvis Cannavale about the first three episodes of the POTA TV show. They discuss why the show might not have caught on with viewers, whether this new series is set in a completely new continuity from the films, and what could have possibly made the show a better watch.

Note: On this episode, Kristian had to use an alternate Microphone so the quality of his recording is a bit different this week than usual.

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Adam Rose is a comic book writer with a flair for original ideas. In his book, Huge Detective (published by Titan Comics) giants awaken from an age old sleep and go to war with normal sized humans. In the aftermath of the conflict, the giants (called "The Huge") and humans come to a detente and a Huge and a Human must come together to solve a murder in which a normal sized serial killer believes himself to be a giant.

In his other comic, Corollary (from Source Point Press), a sci-fi universe exists where everyone and everything comes in pairs. People are all born as twins and if your twin dies, so do you. In Corollary a woman survives her twin's death and the whole universe wants to know...how did she do it?

On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian sits down with Adam to chat about his two comic books and how he comes up with such original ideas. They chat about how Adam's love for Marvel and DC Comics inspired some of the ideas in his book, how he worked with the artists behind the books (Magenta King and Robert Ahmad), and how he got Paul Pope to do one of the covers of Huge Detective!

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