The ComicsXF Interview Podcast

New friend of the show Veronica Furman joins Dan and Matt to give her take on "Captain Marvel" - the feminist messaging, the love story between Carol Danvers and Maria Rambeau, a younger, lighter, two-eyed Nick Fury and more - with tangents into Disney's "Gargoyles," the Freeform "Cloak and Dagger" series and Dungeons & Dragons. WARNING: HERE BE SPOILERS.

This week, writer Mat Heagarty talks with Dan and Matt about his middle grade graphic novel "Unplugged and Unpopular," coming this fall from Oni Press, his other upcoming work, the burgeoning children's comic and graphic novel market and how Marvel could better market the X-Men to a younger audience.

This week, Ivy Noelle Weir and Christina "Steenz" Stewart stop by to talk about winning the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics for their 2018 Oni Press graphic novel "Archival Quality," the importance of libraries in fostering young comics readers, the comics scenes in Philadelphia and St. Louis, whether Cyclops is the wrong kind of good boy and, of course, Gritty.

Writer/illustrator Kyle Starks joins Dan and Matt to talk about his upcoming Image series with Erica Henderson, "Assassin Nation," as well as "Rock Candy Mountain," "Rick and Morty," housebreaking puppies, board games, action movies and "NBA Jam." The newer version, not the original.

This week on the podcast, Dan Grote and Matt Lazorwitz chat with Seanan McGuire, whose "Age of X-Man" tie-in, "The Amazing Nightcrawler," debuts this week. We talk a lot about X-Men, including Emma Frost's preferred alcoholic beverages and Matt's deep-seated desire for a Mystique and Destiny vs. Sherlock Holmes story, but we also talk about Seanan's other interests as a novelist, a herpetologist and a cat owner, as well as why podcasters would make great vampires.

Another holiday means another congress of the Three Amigos. This time around, Dan Grote, Matt Lazorwitz and Rob Lynch talk about some of the most interesting couples in comics, from Scott and Barda to Francine and Ketchoo to Wilson and Vanessa. Plus, listeners submit their own Valentine faves.

It's worth noting this episode was recorded a year to the day Dan, Matt and Rob sat down to record the very first WMQ&A. Since then, Matt has become the show's co-host and Rob one of its most invaluable recurring guests. Together they form an unstoppable Voltron of comics knowledge and friendship.

This week, Dan and Matt chat with Jeff Rougvie, the writer of Image's "Gunning for Hits," a thriller set in the music industry during the 1980s, a time when the biz was flush with cash from the confluence of MTV and the rise of the CD. We talk about the new book, Jeff's work with David Bowie and love of Darwyn Cooke, the Spotify playlists that will accompany the series, and, briefly, a caricature in the first issue that caused a stir online.

WMQ&A All-Star Will Nevin (Wednesday Warriors) is back to help Dan and Matt parse recent comics news, including retailer woes, the new AHOY Comics titles and whatever the heck Major X is going to be. We also talk a bit about what we've been reading this month.

This week, Steve Morris, who runs the comics site Shelfdust and is features co-editor for The MNT, is here to talk about the top 100 comics issues of all time, a list he curated at Shelfdust with input from nearly 100 comics journalists from all over the web. We talk about that, we talk about lists in general, we talk about the mission of the MNT, and we talk about whether Matt Fraction and David Aja’s “Hawkeye” is the younger generation’s “Watchmen.”

This week, Dan Grote and Matt Lazorwitz chat with Jamie Rotante, a writer and editor at Archie Comics, about her current "Betty & Veronica" series and the "Vixens" motorcycle-gang series that preceded it, her other jobs as a music writer and a creative-writing mentor, the pressures of being a high school senior, and how we tackle our respective to-read piles.