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Was the DC Comics Batman Bat Cowl NFT launch a success?

Image Comics founder Rob Liefeld releases a 30th anniversary NFT celebrating Bloodstrike.

Square Enix sells Tomb Raider to focus on Blockchain games.

Frank Miller launches new publishing company with controversial Spice DAO but includes RONIN: BOOK 2 and SIN CITY 1858

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The All-new, All-Different: The Hyper Room.

There is so much happening at the intersection of pop culture and Web3 - listen to the latest news and experiences inside The Hyper Room presented by THNDRHS.

Each week co-hosts @Hypercasey and @Walkeen will talk about how the world of pop culture and entertainment is colliding with the world of Web3 through NFTs, DAOs, crypto and the blockchain. The technology is moving fast and comic, toys, games and animation as well as the creators, are all moving into this new space just as fast.

This episode we talk about:
- DC Comics
- New Batman NFTs
- NFT LA
- WonderCon
- Hro DC Trading Cards
- The Frank Miller Sin City NFT
and so much more!

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Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Veep, Star Wars, Steve Ditko, Batman, Hydra: this episode has it all.

On this episode of The Hyper Room we welcome special guest is David Mandel - a man with a resume so impressive and a comic art collection so incredible he should have his own podcast - which he does called "The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of."

Inside The Hyper Room, David and host Casey Lau discuss everything from Seinfeld to Eurotrip to writing TV and comics to collecting original movie props and original comic art.

This one has it all, giddyup!

Show notes and details of this episode at http://www.thehyperroom.com

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Felix Lu of Felix Comic Art has spent his whole life as a comic book collector and for the past 20 years has been an artist representative for comic book legends like Ryan Ottley, Daniel Warren Johnson and Bryan Lee O'Malley amongst others - he joins us inside The Hyper Room to talk about the Original Comic Art Market, how to get into collecting and specifically talk about the record-breaking page of art from Secret Wars #8 that sold for $3.3 million at auction in January 2022 and the effects it will have on the marketplace.


Show notes, original art and all the links found here: https://www.thehyperroom.com/felix-comic-art/

Returning for a second interview inside The Hyper Room is Andy Park the Director of Visual Development at Marvel Studios and the man behind the look of the iconic costume design for Shang-Chi in the newest hit Marvel Cinematic Universe film: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

On this podcast, we talk all things Shang-Chi and the visual design that mixed together the comics, the MCU and Chinese mythology. It’s good to have Andy talk us through his and his team’s thought process on working on these designs even before Marvel brought in director Destin Daniel Cretton and cast stars Simu Liu and Tony Leung Chui-Wai.

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Show notes and art gallery:
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Andy Park started off drawing for Image Comics at the age of 18, then took Lara Croft: Tomb Raider from the #1 selling video game to the #1 selling comic book in 1999, before going on to illustrate Marvel’s The Uncanny X-Men working alongside the legendary Chris Claremont.

Going from huge comics to iconic video games to the biggest movie of all time with Avengers Endgame, Andy Park has had an incredibly exciting career and on this episode of The Hyper Room we take a look at his career from chasing down Rob Liefeld across Southern California for an internship, to helping devise the look and feel of the hit Disney+ show WandaVision, and upcoming films Black Widow, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings and Thor: Love and Thunder.

Show notes and art gallery:
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From KISS and Rob Zombie, to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Eminem, Dark Angel, and to boldly go with Star Trek and Minimates, Art Asylum was one of the landmark toy companies and action figure studios that defined the late 90s and early 2000s - fighting for creator recognition while at the same time pushing what can be done creatively with action figure sculpting, design, materials and packaging that is still felt today 20 years later.

Today I welcome its co-founders Digger Mesch and Donna Costa as we take a time machine back to how they started a studio for sculpting toys in Brooklyn - in a time when there were more gunshots than hipsters - to scaling up into their own global toy brand all the way to their ultimate demise and how the brand lives on inside Diamond Select Toys today.

This is one of the craziest stories and most candid and frank interviews ever about the collectible toy industry - so lets just jump right into this Art Asylum retrospective with Digger and Donna inside The Hyper Room

Show notes and links to things we discussed are at https://www.thehyperroom.com

As a veteran of the initial Image Comics launch, Matt Hawkins started his career in comic book publishing in 1993 and has been working with Image as a creator, writer and executive for over 26 years. President/COO of Top Cow since 1998, Matt has created and written over 30 new franchises for Top Cow and Image.

We talk about Matt's career, how new comic creators can break in, the future of comics publishing, about his own projects postal, Think Tank, Swing, and Sunstone, and working for Rob Liefeld and Marc Silvestri.

So put away your Witchblades and join me and Top Cow’s Matt Hawkins inside The Hyper Room


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Batman: Black and White, Batman vs TMNT, DC Cover Girls and Harley Quinn: Red, white and Black are just some of the DC Direct collectibles - including the groundbreaking Mike Mignola Batman statue - that Jonathan Matthews has sculpted over the years.

On this episode find out how the worlds of Batman, Superman and the Harley Quinn collide with the worlds of wax, silicone and Zbrush with Sculptor Supreme Jonathan Matthews inside The Hyper Room.

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Find out more about Todd McFarlane, the Image founders and comic book documentary filmmaking on this episode of The Hyper Room as I talk to Mike Avila, the producer behind the latest Todd McFarlane documentary LIKE HELL I WON’T, and host, writer, co-creator of SyFy Wire's "Behind the Panel" docu-series, where he interviews the legends of the comic book industry.

This is an amazing chat so let's just jump into it - here is Mike Avila inside The Hyper Room.

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