Thane Benson combines comic book story telling with multiple games in each story/graphic novel. His latest is a choose your own adventure Pirate Myster called Murder On The High Seas. The kickstarter runs through Thursday.

We continue the Superman Unlimited chat started in part 1

Dan Slott is back on Word Balloon for a two-part conversation, and we start with a big thank-you to the Spider-Man fans who showed up for Spectacular Spider-Man: Brand New Day and made sure the book was waiting for them on their comic-shop pull lists.Dan talks about the response to the series, revisiting that corner of Spider-Man history, and what it means to see readers supporting the book at the store level.

Then we cross over to Metropolis for Dan’s other major current project, Superman Unlimited. We get into his approach to Superman, the ideas he’s been exploring in the series, and how it all feeds into DC’s current House of Zod event , with the Superman family facing a growing Kryptonian threat and some major developments still ahead.

We continue the conversation in part 2

Zack Kruse is one of the talking heads in the Talasq Art Acedemy's documentary Steve Ditko Beyond The Myth that I narrated on youtube but he's been studying Ditko for decades. He wrote Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity , and had numerous letter conversations . We do a deep dive including previewing Zack's own doc DITKO coming later this year.

Brett gives us his origin story and his take on the D&D fantsy world in this Terrificon Spotlight panel

Dtar Trek The Last Starship #10 out today, plus a new IDW Dark series In October and They debut on Dungeons and Dragons from Dark Horse n November

we recap the two eps and wayne has a trek vegas con report, while we also talk about terrificon and fan expo chicago conventions

JK and I talk about a new sci-fi noir , plus painting Peter David's final story. We also talk abou Star Trek Comics and books.