Sci-Fi Saturday Night

A teacher and a doctor walk into a bar. A set up to a joke, no. In this podcast we talk with Jeff Dyer and Dr. Mark McKeon, co-creators of MediSin an new series from Action Lab. The series also features David Brame (penciling), Joaquin Pereyra (coloring) and Adam Wollet (Lettering)The first story arc is titled “ First, Do No Harm” and the arc and series centers in the question, after such vicious majestic comic book battles, where do the Super Villains go for medical treatment. What are the affects on the medical staff, the villains and society? Jeff and Mark discuss the inception of their collaboration, how this volume came to be and where they hope to have it go and what possessed them to team up. We get a glimpse of some of the behind the scenes work that occurred from the beginning to first publication. Throughout the interview there was always a sense of passion about this project in them both. Ask your local comic shop to get it in!!

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How does one start as a comic book writer? What is their process, their drive, their motivation? For Johnny C, he walks into san Diego Comic Con and walked out with an artist invested in his vision. Basted on that meeting Johnny began the arduous process of putting together Sartana, his homage to spaghetti westerns. Why that? Why then? What now and what’s next? Join us for an hour of fun and discussion including his new book, ‘Surrounded By Death‘.

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Mitchell Comics

What do the following things have in common?

Capt. Michael Mitchell of Mitchell Comics brings us tales of his families exploits and the comics they have created because of them, including the new “USS Albacore”. Join us for an hour or so of High Seas Hijinks.

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Bonus Feature: Hey Kids, Its Zombie Sub 920!

Stacey Longo, Rob Smales and Tony Trembley, a a veritable “murder” of horror authors, join us to discuss their new anthology of novella’s, Triplicity, Book 1 of The Terror Project.

You might remember Stacey Longo from her many appearances on this podcast as well as the wonderful writer of Secret Things, Ordinary Boy and her many memorable short stories in anthologies including Insanity Tales, Insanity Tales II, Wicked Seasons and My Peculiar Family, to name just a few. Lets not forget her column here on SFSN.

Rob Smales has also spent more than one occasion on the microphone on Sci fi Saturday Night to talk about his many works including Echoes of Darkness and his work in anthologies, including Demonic Visions and Deathleham Revisited.

Tony Tremblay is a newcomer to the podcast. He is the writer of numerous short stories under his pen name, T T Zuma and is the host of TACO Society Presents, a cable T. V. show that features discussions on horror as well as guest interviews with horror authors.

The three of them are here to discuss Triplicity, the newest novella from Books and Boos Press. This book is the first in a series from Books and Boos Press that features 3 authors in a single volume. They talk about their individual contributions to Volume 1 and how it came about.

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Bonus Content: At a point in the show, the discussion turned to Curtis Lawson and his Wyrd Horror Reading events at the Koto Grill in Salem, Ma. We hope to have Curtis on soon.

Jeremy Whitley

Our guest for this edition is the amazing and talented Jeremy Whitley. Jeremy is here to talk about his new Marvel series, “The Unstoppable Wasp”. While no stranger to the Marvel Universe, we also talk about the process that brought him to this point as well as his wonderful character depth. I pushed to find out what the future has in store for us in all his various universes including Princeless, Raven: The Pirate Princess and My Little Pony. No need to do anything put point at the links as we talk.

Enjoy the Chaos.

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Matthew Phillion

On this episode, we have a wide ranging conversation with Matt Phillion. An accomplished and talented author, Matt has not only produced 4 novels and 2 “one shots” in his ‘The Indestructibles” series but he has also written, directed and acted in movies and is a self-described “recovering newspaper journalist”. Honestly, we talked about a bunch of stuff and bounced around from topic to topic, discussing his writing, the characters, his motivations, work flow and why he does what he does. There are also many anecdotes of what we have come to know as “Convention Moments”. Find his novels here.

No news this week not because there wasn’t any, but because the interview was so much fun.

Enjoy the chaos.

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Bonus Content: The Indestructibles Movie Trailer

Team Synergy by HB Comics

Our guest tonight is Alan Hebert, one half of the creative brother team of HB Comics. Austensably, he was on to talk about their Kickstarter for the first trade paperback of their new series, Team Synergy Vol. 1: Spellbound. While a portion of tonights interview was about the Kickstarter, we also discussed the whole concept of Team Synergy, its inception, the why and way it began and evolved, its reception  at conventions and the entire Team Synergy Cosplay that travels to conventions with them.

We then wandered into how HB Comics came to be, how it is to work with your brother and, amazingly, how they finish each other’s sentences (I have seen it and it’s quite amazing). We attempted to pry out of Alan what the newest secret project from HB is, to no avail.

Check out the Kickstarter  and make sure to check them out online or at a convention soon. We missed you, Alan.

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BONUS FEATURE: Our interview with The Cosplay Team Synergy.

Our guest tonight is Jeff Kline of Darby Pop Publishing

We talked about the line of Darby Pop comics including the new Bruce Lee series approved by the Bruce Lee estate. Jeff talks about his beginnings in animation in the 1990’s and his work on over 40 series and pilots including some of Dome’s favorites; The Jackie Chan Adventures and Men In Black: The Animated Series. The discussion then went to the why and how of the inception of Darby Pop Publishing, the people involved in it and the myriad titles they now run including the new Bruce Lee series. One of the many interesting aspects of Darby Pop is their “Breaking Into Comics” competition, now in its third year. Jeff announced that this year’s competition deadline has been extended to February 10th. If you’re an aspiring comic artist or writer , check it out.

At the end of the interview, which went close to an hour, we decided no news is good news, so…no news.

Enjoy the conversation, we did.

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In this edition we talk with V.S. Holmes, a multitalented writer, archaeologist and publisher. The topics range from Cultural Resource Management, science fiction influences, who exactly is Nel Bently and her first book Travelers, the new Nel Bently Book, Drifters (#2 in the continuing series), V’s other book series, Amphibian Press and why she chose to have this interview in a traffic jam. This and many other questions were asked and answered.

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Ursula Wong joins us tonight to talk about her new book, the WWII thriller Amber Wolf. This book is quite a departure for her, so we spoke about that departure, why it came about, the genesis of the story, and her personal attachment to it. I could go on about it as I tend to do, but trust me it’s so much better to let her tell her story about this story.

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