Archie Comics has been publishing all-ages tales of the Riverdale gang for 80 years, and while the core of the gang remains the big five (Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead and Reggie), plenty of other characters have joined the gang. While many come and go after a couple years, a few stick around, like Moose Mason,…
An online binge shopper receives a grisly package. A horde of the decaying undead grapples with its dwindling humanity. A family man endures an endless grind of the mundane as cosmic madness looms outside. The Beauty and The Realm creator Jeremy Haun returns to horror with Haunthology, a black-and-white graphic novel of interlocking short comic…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 170: David Pepose and the World’s Worst Skrull We get not-so-Secret Invasioned by the World’s Worst Skrull as Dan and “Matt” attempt to talk to writer David Pepose about his Kickstarter for The O.Z. #2. Check out a preview here, and support the Kickstarter here. You can listen to WMQ&A…
My wife watched a bunch of “murder shows” this past year, a mix of true crime documentaries and crime fiction. Mare of Easttown, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, Mary Kills People. Up and Vanished. Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes (and the movie that came out around the same time…
You open the door to the record shop, and waiting for you is an old friend, or maybe someone you’ve never met before, there to sell you a record and tell you a spooky tale or two. That’s the experience you’ll get when you back Dead Beats 2: London Calling, the new anthology that launches…
Horror, queerness and New Jersey. Could a headier mix of topics exist? I’m not sure, but writer Emmett Nahil and artist George Williams are looking to explore it in the new graphic novel Let Me Out, currently wrapping up its Kickstarter campaign. Before the funding window closes, I was able to ask Nahil about the…
Few comics have captured as wide an audience as Jeff Smith’s all-ages fantasy epic Bone. This week, Smith launched a Kickstarter for the first two graphic novels in his new series: Tuki: Fight for Fire and Tuki: Fight for Family. I sat down over Zoom with Smith to talk about Tuki, Bone, the process of…
Cássia Costa hasn’t been having an easy time. New school, new city, new … mystical dragon-related powers? Yes, Inferno Girl Red, a 100-page OGN just launched on Kickstarter, isn’t just the story of the new girl in town, or the new superhero in town, but a little bit of both. We talked with writer and…
I usually put in a longer intro to my Kickstarter Q&A pieces. But when looking for a new project to spotlight, I came across Lane Lloyd and Grant DeArmitt’s “Hunt for the Solavore,” and it had the one-line hook of, “What if Jack Kirby created Dracula?” That sold me right there, so I reached out…
He is the lord of vampires. He has been written about by countless authors, and played by some of history’s best actors. In comics he has fought Batman, the Silver Surfer and the X-Men, to name a few. He is Dracula. There are myriad takes on the king of the undead, and currently, a new…
My first exposure to Sherlock Holmes in print was going into this little shop and finding a selection of small paperbacks that were Classics Illustrated-esque comics from Pendulum Press. I walked out with a bunch, because they were a dollar each and my mom was more than willing to buy them for me since they…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 147: Joe Glass, Miracles Man Writer Joe Glass joins Dan and Matt to talk about his Kickstarter campaign for The Miracles, seeing his comiXology Originals series The Pride printed through Dark Horse, balancing social messaging and story, and more. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher…
Superhero stories are often at their best when they reflect the struggles people go through, but in a situation writ large with pathos and drama that we will never see in our day-to-day life. And since so much of our day-to-day life is surrounded by social media, why wouldn’t a superhero have problems that involve…
Everyone should be forced to work in fast food. The public interactions, the bad hours, the coming home smelling like a sandwich. There’s nothing like it. The banal monotony of a Tuesday closing shift in the foot court Quiznos Subs of a dying mall where your only co-worker is a stuck-up 17-year-old who hates you…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 140: David Pepose Has a New Dog AND New Comics Writer David Pepose returns to the show to talk about The O.Z., Scout’s Honor, making comics in 2020, his new dog and more. As always, you can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher and at ComicsXF.com, where…