Robots From Tomorrow!

Picks for Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Mike- The House (English Language Edition) & X-Force #1
Greg- Image Firsts Compendium, Vol. 3 TPB & November: Vol. 1 - The Girl on the Roof OGN

Need suggestions for your LCS trip this week? Let Mike & Greg point out the books hitting shelves on Wednesday they're most excited about in this four hundred seventh installment of their ongoing "Pull List" series! These episodes are the perfect way for anyone to kick off their comics: from the most curious newcomer to the most dedicated Wednesday Warrior!

Robots From Tomorrow is a weekly comics podcast recorded deep beneath the Earth’s surface. You can subscribe to it via iTunes or through the RSS feed at RobotsFromTomorrow.com. You can also follow Mike and Greg on Twitter. Enjoy your funny books.

Whether you know it as Metal Hurlant or Heavy Metal, the primal comics scream started by Moebius & Phillipe Druillet over forty years ago is the subject of this long-awaited two-part Book Discussion!

The lads recap both the franchise's long history and their own connections with it. Highs and lows, peaks and valleys, from mid-70's newsstands to present-day tablets, Mike and Greg talk about the magazine's legacy and continued impact under the stewardship of Grant Morrison.

Was Les Humanoïdes Associés the Image Comics of its day? Did the magazine's newsstand presence help or hurt its reputation? Which creators made the biggest impact on the hosts? How does James Harvey's "Mouth Baby" stack up against "The Incal" or "The Bus"? The answer to all these questions and more on today's episode!

Whether you know it as Metal Hurlant or Heavy Metal, the primal comics scream started by Moebius & Phillipe Druillet over forty years ago is the subject of this long-awaited two-part Book Discussion!

The lads recap both the franchise's long history and their own connections with it. Highs and lows, peaks and valleys, from mid-70's newsstands to present-day tablets, Mike and Greg talk about the magazine's legacy and continued impact under the stewardship of Grant Morrison.

Was Les Humanoïdes Associés the Image Comics of its day? Did the magazine's newsstand presence help or hurt its reputation? Which creators made the biggest impact on the hosts? How does James Harvey's "Mouth Baby" stack up against "The Incal" or "The Bus"? The answer to all these questions and more on today's episode!

Robots From Tomorrow is a weekly comics podcast recorded deep beneath the Earth’s surface. You can subscribe to it via iTunes or through the RSS feed at RobotsFromTomorrow.com. You can also follow Mike and Greg on Twitter. Enjoy your funny books.

Picks for Wednesday, October 30, 2019 Mike- Fantastic Four: Grand Design #1 (of 2) & The Winter Warrior OGN Greg- Excalibur #1 & Red Goblin: Red Death OS

Need suggestions for your LCS trip this week? Let Mike & Greg point out the books hitting shelves on Wednesday they're most excited about in this four hundred sixth installment of their ongoing "Pull List" series! These episodes are the perfect way for anyone to kick off their comics: from the most curious newcomer to the most dedicated Wednesday Warrior!

Picks for Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Mike- Fantastic Four: Grand Design #1 (of 2) & The Winter Warrior OGN
Greg- Excalibur #1 & Red Goblin: Red Death OS

Need suggestions for your LCS trip this week? Let Mike & Greg point out the books hitting shelves on Wednesday they're most excited about in this four hundred sixth installment of their ongoing "Pull List" series! These episodes are the perfect way for anyone to kick off their comics: from the most curious newcomer to the most dedicated Wednesday Warrior!

Robots From Tomorrow is a weekly comics podcast recorded deep beneath the Earth’s surface. You can subscribe to it via iTunes or through the RSS feed at RobotsFromTomorrow.com. You can also follow Mike and Greg on Twitter. Enjoy your funny books. 

Something old and something new in today's episode! Last week's visit to Baltimore Comic Con resulted not only in last episode's guest Pull List, but today's interview with John K. Snyder III as well! Greg talked with John about two of his most recent projects: the return of his 80's cult classic Fashion in Action and his OGN adaptation of the Lawrence Block crime novel classic Eight Million Ways to Die. Eighties indie comics, the current comics scene, the challenges of adapting prose to comics . . . all that and more comes up in this interview.

After that are a few 'lost classics' from the back of the archives -- Baltimore Comic Con interviews circa 2011! Listen to Greg talk with JKSIII for the first time, then move on down the con floor to cartoonists Carla Speed McNeil and John Workman! Three blasts from the past to help you compare and contrast the robot from yesterday with the one from tomorrow. Enjoy!

Something old and something new in today's episode! Last week's visit to Baltimore Comic Con resulted not only in last episode's guest Pull List, but today's interview with John K. Snyder III as well! Greg talked with John about two of his most recent projects: the return of his 80's cult classic  Fashion in Action and his OGN adaptation of the Lawrence Block crime novel classic Eight Million Ways to Die. Eighties indie comics, the current comics scene, the challenges of adapting prose to comics . . . all that and more comes up in this interview.

After that are a few 'lost classics' from the back of the archives -- Baltimore Comic Con interviews circa 2011! Listen to Greg talk with JKSIII for the first time, then move on down the con floor to cartoonists Carla Speed McNeil and John Workman! Three blasts from the past to help you compare and contrast the robot from yesterday with the one from tomorrow. Enjoy!

Robots From Tomorrow is a weekly comics podcast recorded deep beneath the Earth’s surface. You can subscribe to it via iTunes or through the RSS feed at RobotsFromTomorrow.com. You can also follow Mike and Greg on Twitter. Enjoy your funny books.

A bit of a change-up this week for this four hundred sixth installment of the ongoing "Pull List" series! As Mike takes some well-deserved time off and Greg finds himself at this year's Baltimore Comic-Con, he checks in with Grumble's Rafer Roberts and Iron Circus Comics editor Andrea Purcell for some recommendations, reading and otherwise, from the show floor!

A bit of a change-up this week for this four hundred sixth installment of the ongoing "Pull List" series! As Mike takes some well-deserved time off and Greg finds himself at this year's Baltimore Comic-Con, he checks in with Grumble's Rafer Roberts and Iron Circus Comics editor Andrea Purcell for some recommendations, reading and otherwise, from the show floor!

Robots From Tomorrow is a weekly comics podcast recorded deep beneath the Earth’s surface. You can subscribe to it via iTunes or through the RSS feed at RobotsFromTomorrow.com. You can also follow Mike and Greg on Twitter. Enjoy your funny books. 

This episode was originally broadcast on May 15, 2014.

Though it might not be the same in other circles, when someone in comics describes a job as "Workman-like", that is a compliment of the highest order. John Workman has done just about every job in the industry and done so with a consistent excellence for over four decades.

Known primarily for his award-winning lettering for such projects as Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol, Paul Pope's 100%, Tommy Lee Edwards' Marvel 1985, and the majority of Walt Simonson's output, Workman has also been a writer, essayist, cartoonist, and the Art Director for Heavy Metal during the late 70's and early 80's heydey.

He has also been one of the few letterers to really thrive in the digital age, using a hybrid work process to marry electronic efficiency with analog personality. In between his work on the Mega Man/Sonic books for Archie Comics, a new project with Tommy Lee Edwards, and lettering Simonson's new Ragnarok series from IDW, he spared a few hours to talk with Mike and Greg about his career, what he's seen, and where he thinks comics are going from here.

Robots From Tomorrow is a weekly comics podcast recorded deep beneath the Earth’s surface. You can subscribe to it via iTunes or through the RSS feed at RobotsFromTomorrow.com. You can also follow Mike and Greg on Twitter. Music is John Hughes by Anamanaguchi. Enjoy your funny books.