The Faqs Project-Hosted by James "Grandmaster Faqs" Boyce

Today's brings back Jimmy Gaspero of Cryptid Creator Corner Podcast and Comic Book Yeti as well Cartoonist, Illustrator and Educator Amber Akin to talk about the Papercutz original Children's story Penny and the Yeti which will be released April 21st. The main character in this tale Penny (named after Jimmy's daughter) whose best friend is a Yeti who appears from her older sisters drawings. The support of the Yeti is to help her manage ways for her parents to stop fighting. The storyline combines Humor and empathy and even both Jimmy and Amber found ways to insert portions of their lives through Easter Eggs into the book amidst aspects of their own childhoods.Written by Jimmy GasperoIllustrations by Amber AkinLetters by Buddy Beaudoin

Today we celebrate this episode of the Faqs Project with 2 Milestones this is Episode 200 a great feat for this small but mighty Comic Book Podcast. Our Guests are Lloyd and Natosha Jones of Midnight Comics who are also celebrating 5 years as an Indie Comic Publisher as I've been a fan of their books since 2021's The Unbeloved. Midnight Comics currently has a Kickstarter live that is a 5 year Omnibus of all their works without leaving an ounce of their creativity out. Such titles as The Grey, Sol, The Unbeloved, Dogma, Last Day, Admoni, Raven's Omen and Powers that Be 9 titles/13 books are all included. We get a bit Nostalgic as we go back to Midnight Comics early beginnings and even as current as them tasked with a group of interns who have recently accomplished a Kickstarter campaign themselves. As Lloyd and Natosha would put it, as we continue to climb we have to pull those stating this journey up.A fabulous accomplishment for a Black Indie Comic Book Publisher as they say the best exercise is patience. Contemporaries have come and gone, but Midnight Comics with this Omnibus find a means to showcase their works all while building a fresh slate for the next 5 years.Written and created by Lloyd and Natosha Jones
Artwork byOz EzeoguKucifer WilsonPanuTiger SalmonGabriel NissiKrazed KaiToluwalase Samuel

Today the Faqs Project crosses the Atlantic to speak with Joe Palmer about a Dystopian London in Destination Kill for Oni Press. Gina Serene is a burned out Police Detective who is relying on medication to relieve her stress as she is disillusioned by the system and her role in it. There's been a mass displacement of human workers in Central City where automation has left large portions of the population unemployed and desperate and end up creating a violent resistance movement. A coordinated attack is imminent on the corporation Overcon and their celebration of the Paradise Loop-A speed train that can move from London to New York in under an hour.Gina is faced with a tick tock scenario and her life may change forever. This comic although grim is filled with satire and humor that everyone will love.
Written and Illustrated by Joe Palmer
Variant Covers by:TangoRonald WimberlyLiana KangasRiley Rossmo

Today we have Joseph Illidge back on the pod. Mr. Illidge is someone I hold in high regard as one of the many architects that gave us Milestone Comics with characters such as Hardware, Icon, Rocket, The Blood Syndicate, and Static. The New History of the DC Universe was release in late February, but around late January Mr. Illidge put on a 100k unit selling challenge to embolden the many fans of Milestone to come and show support for a book that some may deem the powers that be may be against. Joe, breaks down the miseducation of comic book fans in real time and further discussed the meaning of Final Order Cutoff's that most comic fans barely know about. The objective was to create demand because a company like DC/Warner Bros. sees profit, there becomes a reason to gain from it. Meaning make more books! It was announced recently that a second printing for the book is in pre order now with a cover of Static by Dan Mora. The story itself serves as an allegory throughly struck by the books opening line a quote from Langston Hughes poem "Harlem". What is a dream deferred? Beacon is sent into the past to correct a nexus event that under government force, suppressed Dakota's Heroes so they had no choice but to never use their powers again. Mr. Illidge focuses on fans reluctance to support a book and yet wonder why they haven't seen those heroes for months or years on end. The fans have been misled in not knowing their own power of doing enough to keep their favorite stories alive. As the story shows us, its a story of survival not if you survive, but how you survive.
Written by Joseph Illidge, Morgan Hampton, Stephanie Williams, and Nikolas Draper-IveyArtwork by Edwin Galmon, Fico Ossio, Carlo Pagulayan, and Valenine DeLandro

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Todays Guest Monty Nero brings us his Cyberpunk tale Chrome Roses from across the pond in Scotland. A world aptly named the Tract where society was broken in half by a pandemic, no law enforcement, decisions are made by social media polls and ratings, physical touch has abandoned for Husks-an advance way of feeling because of fear from the outside world. A rogue detective named Kramm freelances his way at solving a murder although solving a crime in this world is transactional and monetary. Gig economies and Digital Identity are the way. Monty provides the artwork of this vast world as well detailing characters where some have replaced their flesh to become something of a total mechanism, body and soul.
Written, Artwork, and Lettered by Monty Nero

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To close Black History Month, I talk to a Faqs Project favorite Anthony Stokes (Tap or Die) and AJ Ampadu (Ninjak vs Roku) to the Football Epic Silent as a Non-Verbal Quarterback overcomes his obstacles to pressure his team to victory. First, the task alone to create one of your main characters totally using American sign language brings forth the challenge of linguists within your art, because now the emotions have been heightened all within this violent gridiron game. This is a Unicorn of sorts as you usually see sports in manga really than American Comics especially Football which not many creators have tackled (pun intended). This 4 issue mini-series drops on Kickstarter on March 3rd but Ashcans will be available at Blerd-Con the first week of March.Sidenote: AJ Ampadu is the first African American man to write Shadowman for Valiant Comics
Written by Anthony StokesArt by Gabriel FonsecaColors by Iacopo CalistiLetters by Lettersquid

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Todays guests are 2 of the most prominent Comic Book podcasters in the industry as I speak to Brad and Lisa Guillickson of the Comic Book Couples Counseling Podcast as they now enter Season 2 of their spinoff series on Youtube known namely as The Stacks. Filmed at Third Eye Comics in Annapolis it has pulled from the example of being a Criterion Closet for Comics as some of our favorite Comic Book Creators such as Rodney Barnes (Killadelphia), Sanford Greene (Bitter Root), Benjamin Percy (X Lives of Wolverine), and David Brothers with Chip Zdarsky (Time Waits) have all paid a visit and pulled from the shelves to give viewers a taste profile into their world. They can begin with absolute classics like Alan Moore's Swamp Thing to Eightball/ The Death Ray by Daniel Clowes. We fans get taken on a journey into the mind of what inspires your favorite creators.
Season 1 and 2 of The Stacks is now live on the Comic Book Couples Counseling Youtube Channel.

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Today we get to sit down with Jeff Haas of Vector Comics as he weaves 3 issues of this Dark Fantasy tale driven by Angelic Mythology. Malek is an Archangel tricked and sent to Hell to defeat Lucifer and in doing so the throne is empty. All the while Malek is beginning to change as a physical manifestation of a demon incarnate himself becoming the thing he destroyed, The New king in Hell. Even as such fellow Archangels such as Gabriel and Michael are now looking to pursue for their own gain. Readers of Dante's Inferno and Spawn will love these books.
Written by Jeff HaasArtwork by Juan Manuel AlmironColors by Aster Design and IllustrationLetters by Keith Gleason

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Doug Marcaida of Forged in Fire on the History Channel brings the Filipino Martial art of Kali to the world of comics in Lineage. Estranged Brothers Miguel and Virgil are reunited by the death of their father and the trauma of a mysterious cult that has haunted them since they were children. Miguel and Virgil must remember the training given to to them by their father as the Blades passed down by generation are very distinct to their culture. The story not only brings the action you would expect from a martial arts comic, but the studies and philosophies built in the foundation of Kali and the idea of Legacy and Mentorship in the reunion of Family. Arriving 2/16 on Kickstarter
Concept/Story by Doug MarcaidaWritten by Justin Quizon & Earl BaylonArtwork by Felix MoralesColors by Raymund LeeLetters by PatricioGinelsa

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Strong off the reception of his wonderful book Spectrum which ended up on many readers Top of 2025 list. I bring Dave Chisholm back to discus his follow up project in the form of a dystopian work where the world is designed through workplace culture to keep everyone compliant and working. Here we meet Ted, someone who is an excellent worker as far as productivity, but he is under constant surveillance assigned to a young woman named Sarah who not only sees something wrong. She feels she knows this diagnosis far too well and her empathy is telling her to help. BUT what is really going on with Ted?! Dave gives an Orwellian approach into a new age Big Brother that is the epitome of Sci-Fi
Written and Artwork by Dave Chisholm

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