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Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 266 Alita-Battle Angel!
In 1990 Manga creator Yukito Kishiro began the publication of his epic cyberpunk adventure series, Gunnm. Known as Battle Angel Alita in its English translation, the series would become an underground favorite in the nineties among American comic fans who would be...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 265 The Rylend Grant Aberrant Interview!
Rylend Grant is a screenwriter who has worked with or had projects optioned by Hollywood heavy hitters such as J.J. Abrams and Ridley Scott. He's had success at getting his projects noticed and made money off of them but, much like many other successful writers in the...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 264 The John Morrow Stuf’ Said! Interview!
After the death of Jack Kirby in 1994 John Morrow decided to print up a small newsletter dedicated to his love of Kirby’s art. Little did Mr. Morrow know that The Jack Kirby Collector, as he had titled it, would become a publication that would change the direction of...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 263 Valiant’s New Number Ones!
This February and March Valiant Entertainment is releasing three new comic series. Incursion (Due February 20th), The Forgotten Queen (Due February 27th), and The Life and Death of Toyo Harada (due March 13th) are three examples of the variety of storytelling...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 262 PTF Film Club-John Carpenter’s The Thing!
In 1982 director John Carpenter released a movie called The Thing. The Thing was a remake of an older horror movie called The Thing From Another World allegedly directed by Howard Hawks which was based on a short novella by John W. Campbell Jr. titled “Who Goes...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 261 The Doctor Who Season 11 Wrap Up!
The Part-Time Fanboy Podcast is back! We've been gone for a while. The PTF crew took some time off for the Holidays and then a certain member of the crew got the flu, had a podcast audio file crash on him, and had lots of other crazy happenings occur that helped the...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 260 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse!
SPOILERS! In 1962, in the pages of Amazing Fantasy issue 15, Steve Ditko and Stan Lee introduced a comic book hero to the world unlike any they had seen before. Spider-Man (a.k.a. Peter Parker) was a young man whose destiny changed one day after being bitten by a...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 259 Red X-Mas Returns!
Red X-Mas is an irreverent holiday themed comic published by Fried Comics. In Red X-Mas, a freak sleigh accident ends up taking Mrs. Claus's life right before St. Nick is about to take off on his annual gift giving spree. As a result, Santa finds himself going over...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 258 The Maxi Rodriguez Chronicles of a Chubby Bunny Interview!
Maxi Rodriguez is a comic artist who explores the concept of "Body Positivity" through her art. In her web comic Chronicles of a Chubby Bunny she illustrates characters who have more of an average person or "plus size" body type than what is usually seen rendered in...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 257 Halloween 2018!
This October Part-Time Fanboy continues the tradition of chatting about some of their favorite horror films! Every week this month, some of the Part-Time Fanboy contributors will pick one of their favorite horror movies and those of the crew who can join in will sit...
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