The Word Bros

Ringo Award Nominee Grant Stoye gives good pod. He is an engaging, funny, and overall swell dude who is here to chat about the fifth installment of his series Sidequest!, which is live right now on Kickstarter for the next 69 hours!

The dudes chat about the worst part of doing laundry, the trappings of being a stay-at-home dad, and the advantages of funding a series on Kickstarter. We also cover the Ringo nomination that Grant received for his anthology Yule. Good times were had by all!

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Sean Von Gorman (of comics) and Jeffrey Burandt, two of Brooklyn’s finest come through the Word Bros Studio to chat all about their new book Ghost Planet from Scout Comics, which has been described as Lost in Space with a body horror twist! Good times.

We also chat with the fellows about the art of telling someone to “go f*uck yourself,” Sean’s encounter with Neil Gaiman in a Lowe’s parking lot, and so much more. This is an episode you don’t want to miss.

Get Lich or Die Trying

Bob and Kevin, along with artist Nick Noons and editor Chas! Pangburn have been busy dudes. We have been toiling away on our new project, Get Lich or Die Trying, coming to Kickstarter on Oct 25th! GLODT, as the cool kids call it is a bonkers dungeon crawl of a book with loads of action and laughs. We’re bringing the ruckus with this one! Look at that cover! Ain’t it wonderful! Click here to be notified the second we go live!

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Mike Riley is part of the Baltimore comic collective, a group of creators who are pumping put some of the most creative and interesting books in independent comics. Mike’s contribution is the off-beat and wonderfully odd webcomic Irregulordz, which recently started its fourth season.

Mike tells us all about the benefits of having a city full of great comic creators, his love of McNuggets and hot mustard, and wrestling!

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Jordan Blum is one cool dude who loves comics. Talking to him is always so refreshing because you can hear the passion and enthusiasm in his voice for the medium. Jordan is with us to chat about his new book Minor Threats from Drak Horse Comics.

We chat about Jordan’s love for Silver and Bronze age villains and the changes these characters face in modern comics, writing with comedy superstar Patton Oswalt, and the challenges of marketing comics. Minor Threats is available where ever comics are sold!

Word Bros Update!

Sorry for the delay in releases but the Word Bros have been busy busy boys. We’ve been working on a yet-to-be-announced series for a publisher we are amped to be working with. Hopefully, the book will be announced soon. I’m exhausted from keeping it a secret!

We also celebrated the release of Lower Your Sights, the pro-Unkrine anthology from Mad Cave Studios. The benefit anthology is currently available where ever comics are sold.

There’s more to tell you but we can save that for the next episode. Thanks for listening.

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This week we welcome writer and creator Justin Richards, who is here to promote their new anthology Everything is Different Now, live on Kickstarter. Justin is one chill dude and we really dig their vibe. We have a solid convo about their Vault book Finger Guns, our love of 90’s music, and somehow Godsmack? Weird where these convos take us.

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Steve Urena is the most positive dude in comics. Don’t believe me? Just listen to the pod! He has a footloose and fancy-free attitude that is contagious! The dude is here having a good time and making the comics he wants to make. Doesn’t that sound lovely? Steve is back on Kickstarter with his new book Slow Pokes 2: The Sloth Horror Sequel of the Summer!

Thanks for listening!

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We really like David Byrne. Our bond was cemented in Charlotte, North Carolina during Heroes Con. We spent those two nights chatting about comics, our vision for the industry, and much to Kevin’s chagrin, baseball. David is a great dude promoting his new project, Stake Presents: Jessamy issues 1-3, which is live on Kickstarter.

Give it a listen! Also, feel free to rate the pod on iTunes or wherever you listen.

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We love Joe Corallo. If you’ve ever spoken to the man for longer than three minutes, you’d quickly see why. Joe is engaging, kind, funny, and a hell of a talented writer and editor. Joe is the mastermind editor behind the Eisner-nominated anthology Mine! A celebration of liberty and freedom for all benefiting Planned Parenthood. (with the recent Supreme Court decision reversing Roe vs Wade this anthology is more important than ever) Joe is also the co-creator of the Comixology Originals series The Never-Ending Party is available now on Amazon! It’s free to read if you’re an Amazon Prime member. We chat with Joe about the do’s and don’ts of networking, how long should you wait to email that editor you met, and proper Ringo Award show attire.

Heros Con 2022 Wrap up!

We’d also like to wish a warm welcome to all of those fine folks who signed up for our newsletter at Heroes Con in Charlotte, North Carolina. Kevin and I love this show. Heroes holds a special place in my heart: This is the show where we met Walter and decided to embark on the creative journey that birthed Metalshark Bro. This is where Kevin and I met lifelong friends like Jamie Jones and Kyle Starks and cemented relationships with Drew Moss and Marc Deerling. This year proved to be no different. We made some new friends in Josh Hood, Jeremy Brooks, John Burgin, Sean Von Gorman, and David Byrne. That is to say, we met them IRL as the kids say. We also met two spunky go-getters Brie and Jennifer through our buddy JOSEPH SCHMALKE. We sold a lot of books, gave out some sage-like advice on the business of making comics, and set up future projects. We’d like to thank Shelton, Karla, and all of the staff that made Heroes another dynamite show. See you all next year.

Currently Reading/Recently finished books

Norm MacDonald Based on a True Story: I’ve been wanting to read this for quite a while. It is proving to be worth the wait.

Hitler’s American Freinds: A look at the many groups, people, and political organizations that we Nazi supporters in the United States during the war.

The Many Lives of Laila Starr: This one goes without saying. It was fantastic. Bold storytelling and artwork. A masterpiece.

Criminal Omnibus Vol1: Found it half off (half off!) at an Anime Con I took my daughter and her friends to. What a great book.

Bitter Root Vol 1: A lot of fun. The writing is sharp and the artwork slaps. Not sure why I waited so long to hear this but man, it’s great.

Cheers,

The Word Bros!

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We have a whole lot going on this week. The first thing we need to cover is the podcast featuring two comic legends: world-renowned editor Joseph Illidge and powerhouse writer Christopher Priest. These two industry heavyweights have come together to create Entropy, the super-villain of the Heavy Metal multi-verse. We chat process, the REAL job of an editor, and how to survive in LA on a maxed-out credit card. This is one convo you don’t want to miss.

“Lower Your Sights” Ukraine benefit anthology announcement.

The Word Bros are honored to be a part of "Lower Your Sights," a benefit anthology for UKRAINE presented by Mad Cave! All proceeds from the book go to The Voices of Children Foundation which has been helping children affected by the war since 2015. The book will be available for preorder on June 29, 2022, and will be released on September 14, 2022.

For more info on The Voices of Children Foundation, check out their website. https://voices.org.ua/en/

Heroes Con 2022

This weekend is the 40th anniversary of Heroes Con in Charlotte, North Carolina, and your Word Bros will be there! If you’re attending the show we will be kicking it at artist alley table 1473 making friends all weekend long, baby! Come by and say hello!

Alright, that’s it. Have a great weekend and we will see you soon!

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Sorry for the delay. I had a hard time with this audio. At first, I thought the audio files were lost forever in the cloud. However, with a little bit of know-how and luck, I was able to recover the files. And it’s a good thing because we’ve got a great episode this week featuring one of our all-time favs, Kyle Starks, who is here to promote his new ongoing horror series “F*ck This Place.”

We chat a little about wrestling, the similarities between writing comedy and horror, the challenges of writing an ongoing series, and is comedy a bad word in comics? Over this is a great pod! Give it a listen.

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