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Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 597 April Fools’ Flicks-Jaws 3-D!
April Fools’ month is here so it’s time to talk about bad movies! All this month, we at the Part-Time Fanboy clubhouse will be talking about our favorite “bad” movies. Movies we love, but that other people may not have such a favorable opinion of or movies we haven’t seen, which have terrible reputations, and that we decide to give a shot to win us over.
For the last April Fools' flick of 2026, PTF regular Yvis Cannavale picks the mother of all eighties 3-D movies, Jaws 3-D! Kristian can barely contain his disdain for the third entry...
2026-04-281h 33Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 595 April Fools’ Flicks-Danger Diabolik!
April Fools’ month is here so it’s time to talk about bad movies! All this month, we at the Part-Time Fanboy clubhouse will be talking about our favorite “bad” movies. Movies we love, but that other people may not have such a favorable opinion of or movies we haven’t seen, which have terrible reputations, and that we decide to give a shot to win us over.
This week, multimedia artist Phil Mucci picks the sexy sixties psychedelic super thief flick Danger Diabolik! Danger Diabolik is a groovy Italian action thriller directed by Mario Bava and produced by...
2026-04-211h 23Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 594 Susan and Tilly Bridges Hit Warp Speed in Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming!
Susan and Tilly Bridges are a married writing team who have worked on properties ranging from comics to books to role playing games to television shows to films. They have been fans of nerd stuff for as long as they can remember and of Star Trek in particular to the point of claiming that they have watched every episode of the various incarnations of the show. When the opportunity arose to write a comic book adaptation of a Star Trek Voyager adventure through IDW Publishing they jumped at the chance. The result of their work is the mini series...
2026-04-161h 08Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast Ep 592 April Fools’ Flicks- Battle Beyond the Stars!
April Fools’ month is here so it’s time to talk about bad movies! All this month, we at the Part-Time Fanboy clubhouse will be talking about our favorite “bad” movies. Movies we love, but that other people may not have such a favorable opinion of or movies we haven’t seen, which have terrible reputations, and that we decide to give a shot to win us over.
This week friend of the podcast, Steven Prince (Monster Matador, Mercy in Prison), picks the 1980 Roger Corman Star Wars/Seven Samurai knockoff Battle Beyond the Stars! When a peaceful planet is in...
2026-04-0917 minPart-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast Ep 591 Jeff Marvin Returns With the First Book of Hunters of Sheydim!
Hunters of Sheydim is a comic book about twin sisters who are agents of the Baalei Shem Tov, a secret order of Jewish demon hunters. We had the creator of the book, Jeff Marvin, on the Part-Time Fanboy podcast back in December to chat about the debut issue of the comic. The collected trade paperback of Sheydim debuted several weeks ago so Jeff returned to the show to talk about the first complete arc of the comic. Kristian chats with Jeff about how he took elements of Judaism and deftly used them to create an action-adventure series unlike any...
2026-04-071h 19Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 589 Mike Kunkel Returns with Herobear and The Kid-Saving Time, Part One!
Mike Kunkel is back! This week on the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian chats once again with the creator of one of his favorite comics of all time...Herobear and the Kid! Ever since he came across Kunkel at the San Diego Comic Con back in 1999, Kristian has considered his work to be something special. With Herobear and the rest of his work at The Astonish Factory, Kunkle has created properties that are filled with hope and nostalgia for the kinder, simpler time of childhood. Next week sees the debut of the first full new Herobear and the Kid story...
2026-03-191h 06Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 588 Osy Ikhile Has Heroes Face Their Trauma in We Who Remain!
Osy Ikhile is an actor who's had a successful career with roles in shows like Black Mirror, Citadel, and All American. Even though his acting career has had its accomplishments, Osy still had the desire to create his own projects. Years ago he began developing an idea for a television show but eventually realized that getting a series off the ground might take too long. So he turned to his other passion, comics, to bring his imaginings to fruition. The result ended up being the new comic book series We Who Remain, which is about a group of individuals...
2026-03-1259 minPart-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 587 Patrick Coyle Looks at the Seedier Side of the Supernatural in Bixby Grant: Private Eye!
Bixby Grant is the story of mummified former police officer turned private investigator who solves crimes on the streets of Harbor City. In Harbor City Grant is just one of a plethora of supernatural beings who walk the streets. In the world of Bixby Grant: Private Eye vampires, werewolves, and zombies are everyday inhabitants of their metropolis who live their lives just like anyone else. They do everything your average everyday citizen does...including commit crime. That's when Bixby Grant steps in. On this week's episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian sits down once again with the creator...
2026-03-051h 01Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 586 Joseph Karg Captures the Moment We’re All Living Through in I Feel Doomed!
Joseph Karg is an animation professional and an Associate Professor of Illustration at Kennesaw State University. Like many other creatives, Karg had become frustrated with the general state of the world we're living in so he decided to take his talent and do something with it. He created I Feel Doomed (currently funding on Kickstarter), an anthology comic book that brings together the work of his students at the university as well as artists he knows within the animation industry to tackle the anxiety at large that so many people are feeling right now. On this episode of the...
2026-02-191h 01Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 585 Damn Dirty Apes-Planet of the Apes TV Show, Episodes 7-9!
It's time for more Damn Dirty Apes! This week Part-Time Fanboy continues to take a deep dive into the short lived Planet of the Apes TV show from 1974. Kristian once again sits down with Joe Slepski (of the Joe on Joe Podcast) and PTF regular Yvis Cannavale to chat about the next group of the Planet of the Apes Television Show episodes: The Surgeon, The Deception, and The Horse Race. Has the Apes show pulled out of its seventies episodic television formula to finally develop some compelling stories with interesting scenarios and well rounded characters or have Kristian's defenses...
2026-02-121h 34Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 584 Jeremy Whitley Crafts a Horror Double Feature on Zoop with Slay and The Girlfriend Survives!
Jeremy Whitley is a writer who's probably known more in comic book circles as a creator of stories for the younger set. With comics like Princeless, The Dog Knight, and Navigating With You, Jeremy has built a reputation for crafting stories with strong emotional cores and relatable characters for the YA crowd. With his latest release, however, he unleashes two tales of terror sure to make fandom rise up and realize that Whitley definitely has a darker side. With Slay and The Girlfriend Survives ( now funding on Zoop) Jeremy serves up two horrific yarns in one fear filled flip-book...
2026-02-101h 06Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 583 Trevor Mueller Takes Readers for a Trot in Secret S.T.E.A.M. Society-Horses!
The Secret S.T.E.A.M Society is a series of educational graphic novels for kids and teenagers. Each volume of Secret S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) Society focuses on a different subject, taking a deep dive into different topics such as music and spaceflight. The debut edition, being published on February 10th by Papercutz, focuses on horses. It's an almost encyclopedic yet incredibly fun look at just about everything anyone would want to know about our equine associates. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with the writer...
2026-01-291h 01Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 582 PTF Film Club-28 Years Later: The Bone Temple!
28 Years Later was the long awaited sequel to the 28 Days Later zombie movie franchise. Upon its release last year, it split the horror community in half with some fans feeling disappointed in the lack of kinetic thrills the original film delivered and other fans embracing the new apocalyptic world that Danny Boyle and Alex Garland had created. Earlier this month 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple saw its premier as the follow up to 28 Years Later. On this episode of Part-Time Fanboy friend of the podcast, horror critic and writer Mark L. Miller returns to chat with Kristian to talk...
2026-01-271h 06Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 581 Simon Birks Investigates The Thing On The Doorstep for Top Cow/Image Comics!
Simon Birks is a writer who's been creating and publishing comic books for over ten years. With his Blue Fox Comics imprint, he's helped bring various books, comics, and role playing games out into the world. With his comic Antarctica, he teamed with Image Comics to release one of his projects to readers everywhere. In February his next book, The Thing On The Doorstep, is also being published by Top Cow/Image Comics. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian sits down with Simon to chat about his sequential art adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's short story...
2026-01-221h 01Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 580 Damn Dirty Apes-Planet of the Apes TV Show, Episodes 4-6
It's been eight months (!) since Part-Time Fanboy visited the apocalyptic world of The Planet of the Apes. On our last Damn Dirty Apes episode, we began breaking down the live-action Planet of the Apes television show which only lasted one short season in 1974. This week Joe Slepski (of the Joe on Joe Podcast) and PTF regular Yvis Cannavale join Kristian to chat about the next three episodes of the series. In The Good Seeds, The Legacy, and Tomorrow's Tide the serialized adventures of astronauts trapped on a world of speaking simians gets stuck in a formulaic loop. Is the...
2026-01-161h 22Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 579 J.M. Brandt Preaches Horror Not Hate on Kickstarter!
J.M. Brandt is the writer of the horror comic Swamp Dogs. Like so many creative individuals he's been horrified by what the current presidential administration has been doing to marginalize LGBTQ people and individuals of color...so he decided to do something about it. He pulled people together from all corners of the comic and artistic community and created Horror Not Hate, a comic book anthology currently funding on Kickstarter that uses the horror genre to tackle stories about fascism, transphobia, homophobia, xenophobia, racism, and toxic patriotism. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian sits down...
2026-01-131h 05Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 578 Jeff Marvin Rediscovers His Religion With Hunters of Sheydim!
Jeff Marvin is a comic book writer who began his career with a book called The Virgin Killers, which was a comic about monster hunting nuns. Jeff, however, is Jewish, and as he developed the idea for his story he began to realize that he was having trouble continuing to write his tale without interjecting aspects of his own religion into the story. After a while, he decided he needed to step back from his creation and re-tool it so that it would more closely align with his own cultural experience. Thus Hunters of Sheydim was born. Hunters of...
2025-12-181h 11Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 577 Christopher Kappel Makes Secret Societies Inclusive With Wrack and Rune!
Christopher Kappel is a TV writer who's just had his first graphic novel published by the Maverick imprint of Mad Cave Studios. Wrack and Rune tells the story of two young men who develop romantic feelings for each other. There's only one problem, one of them happens to be a member of a secret society of magic users known as Translators and when that society finds out that he's revealed their existence to his new love interest, they demand the right to erase his memory. It's a story that will seem familiar to readers of Harry Potter and the...
2025-12-111h 01Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 576 Connie Huang and Dallas Hoisington Tackle Imposter Syndrome With Hyde the Hermit Crab!
Connie Huang and Dallas Hosington are the creative minds behind Hyde Hermit Studios. They've become a staple of the convention circuit selling pins, stickers, shirts, and all kinds of product featuring their own original artistic creations. Last year they put out their own children's book, Hyde the Hermit Crab, about a hermit crab that has to deal with imposter syndrome while attempting to create their own works of art. They just recently reissued Hyde the Hermit Crab, updating some of the artwork and releasing it in a new, larger format. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian...
2025-12-0459 minPart-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 574 Joseph Illidge Shines a Light for Comic Book Creatives With Illuminous!
Joseph Illidge is a comic book jack-of-all-trades. Thoughout his career in comics he's helped guide the ship for various properties as both writer and editor. He began his career at Milestone Media and he guided the path for the Batman stable of characters in the DC universe, serving as editor during the compelling Batman: No Man's Land arc . Most recently he's been writing for Todd McFarlane and Images Comics on Bloodletter , wrapping up a run on Milestone's The Shadow Cabinet, as well as performing editing duties for the first ever Swat Kats comic book. This year he founded Illuminous...
2025-11-201h 06Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 573 Ellie Pyle Chronicles the Story Behind Marvel’s Secret Wars!
Ellie Pyle is a creative professional who has a hand in developing all kinds of media. Comics, podcasts, television, games, and theater...you name it, she's been a part of it. Her versatile skill set has seen her work as an editor at Marvel and at DC's Vertigo imprint. She's been the Director of Creative Development at Marvel Television and is the creative lead on their fiction podcasts which include Squirrel Girl: The Unbeatable Radio Show, Wastelanders, and the Women of Marvel podcast. She's also the Executive Artistic Director of Bespoke Plays, a theater company in Los Angeles dedicated...
2025-11-1858 minPart-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 572 Travis Webb Constructs a Sequel to Albert Pyun’s Nemesis!
Travis Webb is a writer who's comic Starlite was recently completed via several crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter. Since he was a teenager, Travis has been a fan of the cyberpunk genre, in particular of the Japanese manga and anime which made tales of a future world where cyborgs and giant mecha existed seem plausible. Then Travis discovered the films of director Albert Pyun. In movies like Cyborg and Nemesis, Pyun attempted to take the things that comics and animation had dreamed up and bring them into live action movies. Now, over three decades since the first Nemesis film debuted...
2025-11-131h 10Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 571 Clay Adams and David Schrader Celebrate X-Mas Early With A Very Carmilla Christmas Carol!
Clay Adams and David Schrader are a pair of creatives who make up the production company Bloodline Pictures. Over the past several years they have had lots of success crowdfunding their horror anthology series, Nightmare Theater, as well as a host of other Kickstarter projects. Their latest project, debuting on Kickstarter on November 18th, is A Very Carmilla Christmas Carol. It's a sequel to a series of stories that spun out of one of their original entries in the Nightmare Theater books and features the original vampire queen Carmilla, a character who predates Dracula by about 25 years. In their...
2025-11-111h 03Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 570 Halloween Horror- Stephen King’s IT!
Happy Halloween! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continued its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween season! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomed some of their favorite indie creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about them on the podcast! This week, we had a special treat leading up to the final day of the month: we focused on three different horror flicks!
To finish out the week of terror, Josh Eiserike (The Very Last Final Girls, Charm City, Pale of Settlement) joins Kristian and Part-Time Fanboy regular Yvis...
2025-10-311h 21Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 569 Halloween Horror- Angel Heart!
It’s October! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continues its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween season! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes some of their favorite indie creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about it on the podcast! This week, we have a special treat leading up to the final day of the month: we’ll be focusing on three different horror flicks!
For the second pick of the Halloween week, comic book writer David Accampo (Spectral: Showcase of Fear, The Margins, Lost Angels) picks the super...
2025-10-291h 30Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 568 Halloween Horror-Sinners!
It’s October! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continues its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween season! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes some of their favorite indie creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about it on the podcast! This week, we have a special treat leading up to the final day of the month: we'll be focusing on three different horror flicks!
This first pick for Halloween week comes from multi media artist Phil Mucci (Diabolik Double Feature)! To kick off the last week of October...
2025-10-271h 21Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 566 Halloween Horror-The Manitou!
It’s October! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continues its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween season! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes some of their favorite indie creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about it on the podcast!
This week Kristian picks the late seventies Exorcist knockoff, The Manitou! When Karen Tandy (Susan Strasberg) becomes concerned after discovering a rapidly growing tumor on the back of her neck, she turns to old love interest and con-man Harry Erskine (Tony Curtis) for comfort. Their reunion sets them bo...
2025-10-201h 19Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 565 Jason Platt Investigates Funny Animal Mysteries in Paw and Order!
In the funny animal kingdom, critters are represented by two separate but equally important characters: Purrlock and Marlowe. When a mystery is afoot, the crime solving pair leap into action. Paw and Order are their stories. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian sits down with the creator of Paw and Order, Jason Platt to discuss his adorable all-ages detective procedural. They chat about the challenges behind creating a mystery for younger readers, how Jason's effective use of large panels and word balloon placement help add a sense of fun filled drama to the book, and they...
2025-10-161h 00Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 564 Halloween Horror-The Wailing!
It’s October! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continues its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween season! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes some of their favorite indie creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about it on the podcast!
This week, Steven Prince (Monster Matador) picks the South Korean possession/ghost/zombie horror-comedy The Wailing! When a strange pandemic causes some of the residents of a small town to murder their families, bumbling policeman (Kwak Do-won) is thrust into a world of horror when his daughter becomes...
2025-10-131h 07Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 563 Lisa Manuzak Wiley and the Magical Sisters of The Witches of Pepperwood Bay!
The Witches of Pepperwood Bay are a trio of magic using sisters who inhabit a colorful world where they are the guardians of a mystical portal. The portal enables them to run errands, gather baubles, or do good deeds for the creatures and people in their community. When a neighbor has a disaster that strikes her crop of magical Sparkroot, the witches must leap into action to find out who or what caused her plants to wither. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with the creator of The Witches of Pepperwood Bay, Lisa Manuzak Wiley...
2025-10-0954 minPart-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 562 Halloween Horror-The Hitcher!
It’s October! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continues its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween season! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes some of their favorite indie creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about it on the podcast!
This week, friend of the podcast Joe Slepski of the Joe on Joe Podcast picks the overlooked eighties road trip classic, The Hitcher! When Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) comes upon a lone drifter (Rutger Hauer) on cross country journey and decides to pick him up as a trave...
2025-10-061h 11Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 561 Jibola Fagbamiye and Conor McCreery Discuss Music and Resistance in Fela-Music is the Weapon!
Jibola Fagbamiye is a Nigerian born artist who was obsessed with bringing the story of Afrobeat founder and political activist Fela Kuti to life in the pages of a graphic novel. After workshopping the idea on his own, he decided he needed some help putting the finishing touches on the project so he contacted his friend Conor McCreery (Kill Shakespeare, The Last Witch). Together they ended up creating Fela-Music is the Weapon (on sale October 7th), a fantastic sequential art biography which offers a full and multilayered look at Kuti's rise from obscurity to becoming a groundbreaking musician and...
2025-10-021h 11Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 560 Phil Mucci Doubles Down On the Diabolik Double Feature!
Phil Mucci is the multimedia creator who is one of the masterminds behind the Diabolik Double Feature...a gorgeous genre blending magazine sized publication that features two terrific horror tales: Orgy of the Blood Freaks and Gringo Loco. Orgy of the Blood Freaks is a Scooby Doo meets Russ Meyer style romp featuring quirky paranormal investigator Professor Dario Bava. Gringo Loco is a Frankenstein-like Sergio Leone homage, featuring a walking corpse out for revenge in the Old West. Mucci just recently published the second edition of the Diabolik Double Feature and on this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast...
2025-09-181h 13Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 559 Chris Baldie Tells a Fun Intergalactic Tale in Space Captain-Captain of Space!
This week Part-Time Fanboy returns to Scotland to chat with one of their favorite cartoonists, Chris Baldie! Baldie has been responsible for some really fun books like Jacques and the Great Art Theft, Rolled a One, and We Said Goodbye to Gravity. He recently returned to one of his early comic book creations, Space Captain: Captain of Space, on Kickstarter to publish the series into one collected trade paperback. On this episode of the podcast, Kristian chats with Baldie about how he became the artist on Space Captain, how he was able to fit making comics into his life...
2025-09-1158 minPart-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 558 Ian Rosenberg and Mike Cavallaro Investigate Our Fundamental Rights as Americans in the Free Speech Handbook!
Ian Rosenberg is a First Amendment lawyer whose children became inspired to engage in protest action after the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Because of this, Rosenberg found himself in the position of explaining to his kids what their speech protections were and what punitive action their school could take against them if they chose to walk out of school in solidarity with the March for Our Lives protesters. Having already written the book The Fight for Free Speech: Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms, Ian saw the need to develop a resource for...
2025-09-041h 20Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 557 Superfantastic Double Feature Superman and Fantastic Four-First Steps!
This week Part-Time Fanboy finally chats about the two movies that superhero comic book fans have been freaking out about all summer long! July 2025 was the month that the nerd community had waited for with baited breath as Superman and Fantastic Four: First Steps finally hit theaters! Now, on the day that Superman gets released on digital home format, the Part-Time Fanboy podcast finds the time to discuss the two movies based on characters that launched their respective comic book universes! This week Kristian chats with friend of the podcast Joe Slepski (of the Joe on Joe podcast) about...
2025-08-152h 15Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 556 Nicholas Keating Casbarro Creates a Gritty Galaxy in Vitalerium-Descent Into the Void!
In a far distant future, humanity has conquered the stars due to the discovery or a rare mineral called Vitalerium. As our civilization has reached upward to the heavens, the nature of mankind has changed very little. Oppressive governments, criminal gangs, and corporate overlords still run the show and most of humankind struggles to fight for the scraps of what they've left behind. This is the reality that Nicholas Keating Casbarro has created in his new novel and comic book series, Vitalerium: Descent Into the Void, a book that combines the best parts of Star wars-like sci-fi with Quentin...
2025-08-131h 04Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 555 Carlos Raul Yacolca Arce and Alberto Rayo Explore a Peruvian Apocalypse in Before We Sail!
Aces Weekly is an online comic platform founded and created by David Lloyd, best known for being the illustrator of the legendary graphic novel V for Vendetta. Before We Sail is a comic that is currently being serialized on the platform which was written by Carlos Yacolca and co-edited by Alberto Rayo. This week the Part-Time Fanboy podcast travels the globe once again to chat with Carlos and Alberto in their native country of Peru. Kristian chats with Carlos and Alberto about making a zombie apocalypse comic set in Peru and how their upbringing in South America brought a...
2025-08-0758 minPart-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 554 Fred Van Lente Scores a Critical Hit With Gamemasters!
Fred Van Lente is one of Kristian's favorite comic book writers. Kristian discovered his work years ago while Fred was helping recreate the Valiant line of comic books. On top of having also worked on projects for Marvel Comics and a host of other publishers, Fred has worked on educational non-fiction comics like Action Philosophers and The Comic Book History of Comics. His latest project Gamemasters: The Comic Book History of Roleplaying Games, takes a deep dive into the beginnings and evolution of tabletop roleplaying games. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Fred about...
2025-07-311h 02Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 553 Mark London Investigates the Supernatural in Endless Night!
Mark London is the CEO and Chief Creative Officer of Mad Cave Studios. In addition to his duties as the head of one of the best up and coming indie comic book publishers out there, Mark is also a creator of his own comics. With titles like Revolution 9, Hour of of the Wolf, and Exit City, Mark has established his own universe filled with noir detectives and creatures that go bump in the night. This summer Mad Cave is publishing a crossover event in which Mark's creations meet up with one another called Endless Night! On this episode of...
2025-07-2459 minPart-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 552 Ari Gross is Master of the House with Upkeep!
Ari Gross is, in Kristian's opinion, a talent deserving of wider recognition. He's only just begun his comic creation journey in the past several years with books like Awakening, Wardens, and Upkeep but the stories he creates show promise of a writer to keep an eye on. The second chapter of his Tales From The Crypt like horror tale, Upkeep, is currently funding on Kickstarter. Upkeep is the story of a family who finds their dream home but must pay a steep morale price in order to keep it. This week on the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with...
2025-07-171h 04Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 551 PTF Film Club-28 Years Later!
23 years ago writer Alex Garland and director Danny Boyle made a movie which resurrected the zombie horror genre. 28 Days Later kicked zombies into high gear by giving the once shambling mindless hordes the ability to run. It was a movie which Kristian considers to be one of his favorite horror films of all time (and which he chatted about on the Fanbase Press Podcast here). Earlier this month, Garland and Boyle finally returned to the a zombie apocalypse they started with a long awaited sequel 28 Years Later. This week on the Part-Time Fanboy Podcast, Kristian chats with friend of...
2025-07-031h 15Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 550 Conor McCreery Brings Magic to The Last Witch-Blood and Betrayal!
Episode five hundred and fifty is here! To celebrate, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes back one of the first people to be interviewed on the podcast, Conor McCreery! Conor is one of the creators behind the Kill Shakespeare series of graphic novels as well as a host of other comic book projects. His latest series, The Last Witch: Blood and Betrayal is the sequel to his 2021 series, The Last Witch. In Blood and Betrayal, the lead protagonist must learn to cope with the fact that she is a witch even though she's been taught all her life that witches are evil...
2025-06-261h 06Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 549 Sarah Davidson Explores the Wild Side With Jackson’s Wilder Adventures!
This week the second volume of Sarah Davidson's charming, fun, and educational graphic novel series Jackson's Wilder Adventures debuts! Jackson's Wilder Adventures is a series that helps young children look at what may sometimes be an intimidating world through the eyes of the animal kingdom. Sarah helps kids cope with things like not wanting to eat different foods or losing their first tooth by having her protagonists (a young boy named Jackson and his imaginary Tasmanian Tiger friend Irwin) look at the behaviors of critters in the wild and see how they deal with the same problems. On this...
2025-06-1258 minPart-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 548 Doctor Who Season Two/Fifteen/Forty-One Series Wrap Up!
This is it! The finale of the latest season of Doctor Who debuted this past weekend and it-was-a-doozy! This week Part-Time Fanboy scholar Barry Negrin returns to the podcast to chat with Kristian about the second half of what ended up being the final season featuring Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor! Was this half of this season as promising as the first half? Did the writing of the episodes live up to Gatwa's incredibly boisterous talent? What was the deal with the final shot of the finale? Barry and Kristian attempt to break it all down on this week's...
2025-06-061h 21Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 547 Joe Corallo Returns to Arthurian Legend With King Arthur and the Knights of Justice Volume Two!
This week writer Joe Corallo returns to the podcast! In June the Maverick imprint of Mad Cave Studios will be printing the second volume of Corallo's adaptation of the nineties Saturday morning cartoon King Arthur and the Knights of Justice! This new chapter of the story reads almost like a Wrath of Khan entry in the Knights of Justice universe in that Joe has taken everything that's come before and added a new spin on it, opening up old characters to refreshing new narratives. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian sits down with Joe to chat...
2025-06-0457 minPart-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 546 Damn Dirty Apes-Planet of the Apes TV Show, Episodes 1-3
Just when you thought it was over...we're back with more Damn Dirty Apes episodes! When the producer of the original Planet of the Apes film series passed away, his production company sold the rights to 20th Century Fox Studios. Stuck with the rights to a film franchise that had diminishing returns, 20th Century Fox decided that the next logical step was to take the apes to the small screen. In 1974, The Planet of the Apes television show debuted in September, failed to find an audience, and ended up being cancelled by December. On this episode of the Part-Time...
2025-05-301h 35Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 545 Adam Rose Brings Originality to Two Tall Tales in Huge Detective and Corollary!
Adam Rose is a comic book writer with a flair for original ideas. In his book, Huge Detective (published by Titan Comics) giants awaken from an age old sleep and go to war with normal sized humans. In the aftermath of the conflict, the giants (called "The Huge") and humans come to a detente and a Huge and a Human must come together to solve a murder in which a normal sized serial killer believes himself to be a giant.
In his other comic, Corollary (from Source Point Press), a sci-fi universe exists where everyone and everything...
2025-05-2257 minPart-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 544 Doctor Who Season Two/Fifteen/Forty-One Mid Series Catch Up!
it's the halfway point of the latest season of Doctor Who! This year, due to unfortunate circumstances, the Part-Time Fanboy conclave couldn't get together to chat about the premier episode of season two/fifteen/forty-one...so we're here to do a mid-series catch up! PTF Doctor Who scholar Barry Negrin joins the podcast once again to chat about everyone's favorite Time Lord! Kristian and Barry offer their takes on this seasons' episodes so far. Kristian gets animated over Lux, Barry gets the heebie jeebies while watching The Well, and they both love The Doctor's new companion Belinda Chandra! It's...
2025-05-081h 34Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 543 April Fools’ Flicks-The Wizard!
It’s the final day of April! In celebration of April Fools’ month, every week this month we at the Part-Time Fanboy clubhouse will be talking about our favorite “bad” movies. Movies we love, but that other people may not have such a favorable opinion of.
This week, writer and comic book creator Josh Eiserike (Pale of Settlement, The Very Final Last Girls, Charm City) picks the 1989 Nintendo Entertainment System road trip commercial flick...The Wizard! Starring Fred Savage and now-pop star Jenny Lewis, The Wizard was an almost two hour ad for the debut of Nintendo's newest gam...
2025-04-3054 minPart-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 542 April Fools’ Flicks-The Evil Within!
It’s April! In celebration of April Fools’ month, every week this month we at the Part-Time Fanboy clubhouse will be talking about our favorite “bad” movies. Movies we love, but that other people may not have such a favorable opinion of.
This week horror writer and critic Mark L. Miller joins the podcast once again and picks the odd yet compelling terror flick The Evil Within. Directed by oil heir Andrew Getty, The Evil Within is a movie he began filming in 2002 and kept tinkering with until his death in 2015. Eventually it was released in 2017 when its editor...
2025-04-241h 18Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 541 April Fools’ Flicks-The Ambulance!
It’s April! In celebration of April Fools’ month, every week this month we at the Part-Time Fanboy clubhouse will be talking about our favorite “bad” movies. Movies we love, but that other people may not have such a favorable opinion of.
This week David Accampo picks the 1990 Larry Cohen horror movie, The Ambulance! Eric Roberts stars as a Marvel Comics bullpen artist who discovers a conspiracy involving an ambulance that picks up patients only to have them mysteriously disappear! Co-starring Janine Turner, James Earl Jones, Megan Gallagher, Red Buttons, and none other than Stan Lee...the ambulance...
2025-04-171h 13Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 540 Andy Nordvall and Ben Crane Make Good Comics in a Bad Future!
Andy Nardvall is a writer who's worked in everything from screenwriting, to podcasts, to web and physical comics. This month he has an anthology book launching on Kickstarter called Bad Future. Bad Future contains stories of, well, bad futures. Moments in the near future which are dystopian in their nature. Inspired by works like Blade Runner, Bad Future features various creators looking at the world that may be coming through a somewhat pessimistic lens. One of the creators Andy tapped for his anthology is Ben Crane (creator of the all ages comic Cosmic Cadets). On this episode of the...
2025-04-101h 11Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 539 April Fools’ Flicks-The Legend of the Lone Ranger!
It's April! In celebration of April Fools' month, every week this month we at the Part-Time Fanboy clubhouse will be talking about our favorite “bad” movies. Movies we love, but that other people may not have such a favorable opinion of.
This week, we're chatting about the 1981 Western vigilante bomb, The Legend of the Lone Ranger! After the blockbuster successes of Star Wars and Superman, the studios went on a frantic search for any nostalgic "heroic" property they could get their hands on. Eventually the gaze of the studios fell upon The Lone Ranger, whose adventures were origin...
2025-04-081h 30Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 538 Kylar Merrell Sings of Old West Adventure In The Song Survives!
Kylar Merrell is a comic creator who has previously published several anthologies through his own publishing hub Foreign Press Comics. He recently decided to publish a one-shot comic book which he completely created on his own. The Song Survives (currently funding on Kickstarter) is the story of a bard who roams the wild west, singing his songs and spreading folklore via his musical verse. When he comes across a specific town, however, its inhabitants aren't necessarily charmed by his melodious tones. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Kylar about how the Dungeons and Dragons...
2025-04-031h 01Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 537 April Fools’ Flicks-Howard the Duck!
We're back! We've been gone for about a month or so but April Fools' Day is here so it's time to talk about bad movies! All this month, we at the Part-Time Fanboy clubhouse will be talking about our favorite "bad" movies. Movies we love, but that other people may not have such a favorable opinion of. On this first day of tomfoolery we sit down to discuss the very first Marvel Comic theatrical adaptation that laid an egg at the box office: Howard the Duck! Howard the Duck is one of Kristian's favorite "bad" movies. While making American...
2025-04-011h 18Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Scott Chantler Returns to Adventure With Three Thieves-Tower of Treasure!
Scott Chantler is a cartoonist who started his career in comics by creating graphic novels based on historical events. When his son asked him one day to make a story that had castles in it, he turned his attention toward fantasy fiction. The result was the Three Thieves series which ended up spanning seven books and would eventually win the Joe Shuster Award for Best Comic For Kids. For a long while the Three Thieves series was out of print but earlier this month Papercutz Comics began publishing new editions of the series...beginning with Three Thieves: Tower of...
2025-02-201h 01Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 535 Damn Dirty Apes-Battle for the Planet of the Apes!
This is it! It's the final episode of the Part-Time Fanboy Damn Dirty Apes podcast episodes! Well, at least the final episode covering the original films. Ten to thirteen years after the events of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, the Earth has survived a nuclear conflict and Caesar and his ape brethren live peacefully side by side with humans. During the course of the film Caesar becomes restless and goes on a quest to a nearby irradiated cityscape looking for clues into his origins and what the future might hold for his ape settlement. While there, he...
2025-02-131h 18Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 534 Jonathan London Pays Tribute to his Brother in Paul London-Hero of the Prophecy!
Jonathan London is the head of one of the longest running nerd podcasts on the internet known as Geekscape! His brother is none other than former professional wrestler Paul London! When Paul's career in the ring was coming to an end, Jonathan noticed that he was having a bit of a mental health crisis. To help Paul out, Jonathan decided to create a fantasy character using his brother as a template. In Paul London: Hero of the Prophecy, Jonathan cast Paul as a wrestler who finds himself transported to a magical Dungeons and Dragons-like realm where he must combat...
2025-02-0657 minPart-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 533 Dave Justus and Lilah Sturges Call the Meeting to Order in Student Government!
Student Government is a new YA graphic novel that is a humorous look at what happens when college students have to fight the powers that be at their school to save their educational institution. Taking its inspiration from TV shows like Parks and Recreation and the slobs vs. snobs movies of the eighties, Student Government is a perfect combination of witty dialogue and humorous character development that's sure to make anyone who picks it up crack a smile. This week on the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian sits down to chat with the writers behind the book, Dave Justus and...
2025-01-301h 00Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 532 Brian Hawkins Hits a Three Pointer With Block’d!
Block'd is a new young adult graphic novel from comic book writer and editor Brian Hawkins. Block'd takes some of the ideas from the eighties movie Teen Wolf and moves them in a more serious direction. In Block'd a teenage boy must deal with the pressures his father places on him to become the star of the high school basketball team. At the same time he must confront the fact that he is descended from a family of werewolves. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian chats with Brian about his love of the original Teen Wolf...
2025-01-2359 minPart-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 531 Tim Larsen Hits The Kickstarter Highway With Banshees M.C.!
Tim Larsen is a comic book writer and illustrator who just finished wrapping up his comic book Mayfield Eight several months ago. Mayfield Eight was a tribute to the biker flicks of the sixties and seventies that were unapologetically full of action, sex, and violence. Now he's decided to do a spin off series called Banshees M.C. which features the biker gang that was central to the chaos in his previous comic and is currently funding on Kickstarter. This week on the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian sits down and chats with Tim about why he's so obsessed with...
2025-01-071h 06Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 530 Doctor Who-2024 Christmas Special-Joy to the World!
The New Year is almost here! Before we dive headlong into 2025...we hang onto one last shred of the holiday season by chatting about last week's Doctor Who Christmas special! Joy to the World guest starred Bridgerton and Derry Girls actress Nicola Coughlan as a young lady named Joy who purposefully chooses to spend the holidays alone. While checking into a hotel, she gets caught up in an adventure with the Doctor which will eventually have a serious effect on the origin of Christmas. Doctor Who scholar Barry Negrin returns to the Part-Time Fanboy TARDIS to chat with Kristian...
2024-12-3159 minPart-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 529 Mike Kunkel Saves the Day with Herobear and the Kid!
There is a list of creators that Kristian has wanted to interview since he started the Part-Time Fanboy podcast almost thirteen years ago. Mike Kunkel is on that list. Ever since he discovered Herobear and the Kid at the San Diego Comic Con back in 1999 (!), Kristian has loved Kunkel's work and considered Herobear to be one of his favorite comic books. Now, as a special holiday treat, Mike finally sits down with Kristian to talk all things Herobear and the Kid! They chat about how Scott Morse and Image Comics inspired him to create his own comic book, why...
2024-12-181h 22Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 528 David Pepose Defends the Cosmos with Space Ghost!
The original Space Ghost cartoon was one of Kristian's absolute favorite cartoons as a kid. Something about the cosmic crusader's adventures just tapped right into his nerd brain as a child and the character was one that he held close to his heart even into adulthood. Other than a Comico one-shot in the 1980's, a great sequential art adaptation of SG's adventures had never really satisfied Kristian's urge for more serious Space Ghost tales. So when Dynamite Entertainment announced that they were doing the first Space Ghost comic in years, Kristian was skeptical...even though friend of the podcast...
2024-12-121h 18Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 527 Damn Dirty Apes-Conquest of the Planet of the Apes!
It's apes time again in the Part-Time Fanboy clubhouse! if there's one thing to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, it's that we don't live in the reality of this film...yet. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes is the Planet of the Apes movie that might be a little too close for comfort for many viewers right now. Conquest is set twenty years after the events of Escape from the Planet of the Apes. In the year 1991, apes have become a slave caste under the authoritarian rule of Man. Hidden within this society is the intelligent ape Caesar...
2024-11-271h 29Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 526 Richard Ashley Hamilton Does Some Investigating in Scoop and Tective!
Richard Ashley Hamilton is a Cuban-American writer who’s worked as a screenwriter on several Dreamworks properties and in comics with publishers like Dark Horse. He currently has two young adult graphic novel titles, Scoop (currently in stores) and Tective (set to be released in December), from the Maverick imprint of Mad Cave Studios. Both detail the exploits of teenage female investigators who solve crimes but in very different worlds. In Scoop a young lady finds herself investigating incidents of the supernatural in modern day Miami while working as an intern for a local TV news station. In Tective an a...
2024-11-211h 08Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 525 Tilly Bridges Discusses The Trans Allegories in Barbie!
Tilly Bridges is a trans writer who is probably best known for her book Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of The Matrix. In Begin Transmission, Tilly took a deep dive into the Matrix movies and revealed the trans narrative that ran through the whole series of films. On her website, Tilly Trans Tuesdays, Tilly continued her work looking into the trans allegories which existed in other films. This week, Tilly sits down with Kristian to discuss what was one of his favorite movies of 2023...Barbie! Barbie was widely seen as a film with overt feminist messaging that was a...
2024-11-141h 09Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 524 Cavan Scott Survives Night of the Slashers!
Just when you thought the Halloween season was over, Part-Time Fanboy steps forward with a treat for all comic book readers to enjoy! This week Kristian crosses the pond once again to chat with UK writer Cavan Scott about his new comic book series, Night of the Slashers! Night of the Slashers is a new limited series being published by Magma Comix and tells the horrifying tale of what happens when a group of teenagers find themselves trapped in a town where everyone becomes a slasher-like killer in the vein of Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees! Kristian chats with...
2024-11-0759 minPart-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 523 Elves!
Happy Halloween!
It’s October! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continues its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween month! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes some of their favorite indie comics creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about it on the podcast!
For this All Hallow's Eve we have possibly one of the craziest bad movie picks we've ever presented on this podcast! Artist Chris Anderson (Lost Angels, Spectral,) picked the 1989 B-movie horror flick Elves...because once Halloween is over, all anyone cares about is Chris...
2024-10-311h 21Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 522 The Final Girls!
It’s October! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continues its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween month! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes some of their favorite indie comics creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about it on the podcast!
This week Dave Dwonch (Cyrus Perkins and the Haunted Taxicab, Prom of the Dead, Jenny Zero) picks The Final Girls! The Final Girls is a charming and hysterical send up of eighties slasher movies like Friday the 13th and Halloween. When a fire breaks out during a reviv...
2024-10-231h 12Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 521 Jeremy Whitley Creates a Thoughtful Romance In Navigating With You!
Jeremy Whitley has been on the podcast several times. With books like Princeless, School For Extraterrestrial Girls, and The Dog Knight Whitley has proven himself as a writer with an ability to tap into the core of characters who have not always been represented in pop culture fiction. In his latest book, Navigating With You, Jeremy tells what Kristian considers to be his best story yet and is his favorite comic of the year so far. In NWY, two girls start at a new school and find themselves drawn to one another by their affection for a manga they...
2024-10-171h 05Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 520 The Changeling!
It’s October! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continues its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween month! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes some of their favorite indie comics creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about it on the podcast!
This week PTF regular Yvis Cannavale picks the George C. Scott eighties classic The Changeling! The Changeling tells the tale of a widower who moves to the Pacific Northwest after suffering an unimaginable tragedy. While trying to recover from the traumatic event that took his family from hi...
2024-10-151h 12Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 519 Fred Van Lente Takes a Trip To Murder Kingdom!
Fred Van Lente is one of the best writers working in comics today. Kristian discovered his work when Van Lente became one of the creators that Valiant Entertainment tapped to relaunch their line of comics back in 2012. He's worked extensively for Marvel Comics through the years as well as continuing to work on his own creator owned projects. This week sees the launch of his latest book, Murder Kingdom, published by Mad Cave Studios. Murder Kingdom tells the tale of what happens when a serial killer decides to make a theme park the setting for a series of brutal...
2024-10-1057 minPart-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 518 Psycho 3!
It's October! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continues its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween month! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes some of their favorite indie comics creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about it on the podcast!
This week Clay Adams (Blazing Blade of Frankenstein, Dreamquest, Nightmare Theater, Deadskins) picks the second sequel to the Alfred Hitchcock classic Psycho! Psycho 3 is the first movie directed by the star of the original film, Anthony Perkins, and is a fever dream of a film! Take the Cohen...
2024-10-081h 28Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 517 A Nightmare On Elm Street 3- Dream Warriors!
October is here! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continues its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween month! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes some of their favorite indie comics creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about it on the podcast!
This week Steven Prince, the creator of Monster Matador (latest issue is now funding on Kickstarter), joins the podcast and picked A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors! Dream Warriors is considered by some to be the greatest film of the Elm Street franchise! On this epis...
2024-10-031h 24Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 516 Tonya Todd Connects Comics With Literature In Comics Lit!
Tonya Todd is an actress, author, and podcaster. On October 2nd a group of essays she co-edited with A. R. Farina is set to be released called Comics Lit. In Comics Lit, comic book fans with backgrounds in film, education, and literature take a deep dive into the connections between modern day pop culture super people and characters in classic literature. In Tonya's essay she explores the strong association between Catwoman and Sherlock Holmes's Irene Adler and in another essay a connection is made between Rappaccini's Daughter and Poison Ivy. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian s...
2024-09-2656 minPart-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast-Ep 515 Damn Dirty Apes-Escape From The Planet Of The Apes!
It's time to go ape again in the Part-Time Fanboy treehouse! This week we swing back into the Planet of the Apes franchise and take a look at the third movie in the original series, Escape From The Planet of the Apes! At the end of Beneath The Planet of the Apes Taylor blew up the planet! How did the producers of the Apes movies solve that problem? By flipping the script and sending Zira and Cornelius back into a human dominated past! On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian sits down once again with PTF regular...
2024-09-191h 32Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 514 Ari Gross Makes a Home on Kickstarter With Upkeep!
Ari Gross is a Canadian writer who's been on the show in the past to chat about his comics Awakening and Wardens. He's currently crowdfunding his most recent book, Upkeep, which takes a dark look at the housing crisis that's affecting the middle class everywhere. In Upkeep, a young family finds their dream house but in order to maintain ownership of it they have to make a very sinister deal. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian chats with Ari about home ownership, how he was inspired to create a to create a Twilight Zone-like tale by...
2024-09-091h 07Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 513 Ricky Lima Launches Super Organic Giant Fighting Mecha in Undergrowth!
Ricky Lima is a writer who has been publishing his own comics for years through his website, Limepressonline.com. This week sees the debut of his first collaboration with a major publisher, Top Shelf Productions! Undergrowth tells the story of dystopian future where giant alien mecha are causing an environmental catastrophe. In response, the spirit of the planet resurrects a group of teenagers to fight the monsters with giant robots of their own created from the elemental forces of their world. On this episode of Part-Time Fanboy, Kristian chats with Ricky about what inspired Undergrowth, how the book is...
2024-09-051h 01Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 512 Mark Voger Says It All Points Back to Batman ’66 In Zowie!
Mark Voger is a writer who's known for taking deep dives into the history of pop culture. Through Twomorrows Publishing he's written books like Monster Mash, Holly Jolly, and Britmania. This summer saw the publication of his latest release...Zowie! In Zowie! Mark takes a look at the era of Batmania in the 1960's and how it influenced the superhero movie craze that came after it. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Mark about how the Adam West Batman show was a major hallmark of his childhood, why that show was so different than...
2024-08-291h 06Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 511 Damn Dirty Apes-Beneath the Planet of the Apes!
A little over a month ago, the Part-Time Fanboy podcast went ape when we ran an interview with the creators behind the Planet of The Apes Role Playing Game and then did a deep dive into the original Planet of the Apes movie. This week we're back with PTF regular Yvis Cannavale and POTA megafan Joe Slepski (of the Joe on Joe Podcast) to discuss the first sequel in the franchise...Beneath the Planet of the Apes! What happens when Earth sends a younger, less arrogant clone of Charlton Heston's Taylor into space to rescue him? Kristian sits down...
2024-08-221h 32Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 510 Dallas Hoisington and Connie Huang Emerge From Their Shells With Hyde Hermit Studio!
Dallas Hoisington and Connie Huang are two artists who met at a local Drink n' Draw gathering. While sketching to their hearts content, Connie mentioned that she had purchased table space at a local convention but wasn't quite prepared to set up shop. Dallas stepped in to help and they began manufacturing stickers to sell at their first comic convention together. Thus Hyde Hermit Studio was born and Connie and Dallas have been a mainstay of the convention scene ever since...branching out into selling pins, shirts, plush and even books! On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast...
2024-08-1556 minPart-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 509 Mike Scrase Speeds Onto Kickstarter With Zip!
When most people imagine having superpowers, they imagine them as a blessing. But what if they weren't? What if being stronger or faster or smarter than everyone else was more of a disability than a benefit? If you were superpowered but the world was built for people who weren't...wouldn't that make the world a more difficult place to function in? That's the approach that Mike Scrase took when he created his own superhero, Zip (funding on Kickstarter this fall). On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian chats with Mike about his unique twist on the superhero...
2024-08-081h 07Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 508 Steven Yu Gets Medieval With Joan!
Joan of Arc is widely known as a patron saint of France who inspired her nation during a time of war and was ultimately betrayed ,disavowed as a heretic, and executed. But what if Joan of Arc had been resurrected by god and sent on an errand of vengeance after being burned at the stake? In Steven Yu's new comic Joan (now funding on Indiegogo) readers are presented with a different kind of Joan of Arc mythology...one inspired by the action packed films of John Woo, Quentin Tarantino, and Robert Rodriguez. This week on the Part-Time Fanboy podcast...
2024-07-241h 07Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 507 Lilah Sturges Investigates The Science of Ghosts!
The Science of Ghosts is a graphic novel that takes the best parts of noir detective drama and mixes them with a serious dash of classic horror movies like The Haunting or The Innocents. Written by award winning author Lilah Sturges, The Science of Ghosts details how Joy Ravenna, a transgender parapsychologist, finds herself caught in a spine tingling murder mystery! On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Lilah about how the look of the graphic novel took form, how she goes about crafting a comic book script, and how her love of the old...
2024-07-181h 01Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 506 Damn Dirty Apes-Planet of the Apes!
Earlier this week, Part-Time Fanboy brought you an interview with the creators of the Planet of the Apes role-playing game. Coincidentally, Kristian had already planned an episode to discuss the sci-fi classic as it has long been a favorite of his. This week PTF regular Yvis Cannavale and POTA mega-fan and friend of the podcast, Joe Slepski (of the Joe on Joe podcast) sit down with Kristian to discuss the film that started it all. What happens when a cynical, self-centered astronaut finds himself stranded on a planet where apes have become the dominant species and mankind is a...
2024-07-111h 29Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 504 Doctor Who Season One/Fourteen/Forty Wrap Up!
This week Part-Time Fanboy Doctor Who scholar Barry Negrin returns to the PTF continuum to discuss the ins and outs of Ncuti Gatwa's first full season as The Doctor! This was the first Disney + season of the show or the fourteenth if you count from the beginning of the modern era or the fortieth if you look at the program's whole lifespan. Kristian sits down with Barry to chat about what they thought of this new iteration of Who...the good, the bad, and the just out and out goofy. It's time to fully dissect the first chapter in...
2024-07-051h 35Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 503 Trevor Fernandes-Lenkiewicz Ascends With Rise On Kickstarter!
Trevor Fernandes-Lenkiewicz is a comic book writer/creator who has a prolific history with Kickstarter campaigns. He's funded at least eight campaigns through his own publishing concern, Pocketwatch Press. Next week he launches his latest crowdfunding project for the second chapter of his superhero book Rise. Rise is a superhuman story unlike any other in that asks the question: what if a person could only do good if they felt good? It's a comic that touches on the meaning of being male in today's modern society and what our society's expectations of men are. On this episode of the...
2024-06-131h 08Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 502 Caleb Palmquist Directs His Gaze Towards Kickstarter With Modern Mythology: Medusa!
Caleb Palmquist is a writer and comic book creator who has the distinction of being able to make a living solely off of the projects he's launched on Kickstarter. He's has several successful properties fund on the platform including comics like Unicorn Vampire Hunter, Vampire Detectives in Space, and most recently Dragon Grit. His latest book, Modern Mythology Presents: Medusa, is currently on Kickstarter now! On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian welcomes Caleb back onto the show to chat about his latest adventure which takes the horrifying mythological creature and sends her on a Tomb Raider...
2024-06-061h 14Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 501 Jayel Draco Creates a Different Kind of Undead Comic With Mr. Guy: Zombie Hunter!
Jayel Draco is one half of the publishing outfit known as Oneshi Press. Along with his wife, Lynsey G, they've produced such comics as Tracy Queen, Pack, as well as several other anthology comic book collections. His latest book, Mr. Guy: Zombie Hunter, is currently funding on Kickstarter. Mr. Guy is a decidedly different take on the zombie subgenre. In Mr. Guy: Zombie Hunter a half human-half goblin hybrid is on quest to rid the land of the shambling dead...all the while aided by a floating consciousness named Spooky to guide him along the way. On this episode...
2024-05-301h 06Part-Time Fanboy PodcastPart-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 499 Doctor Who 2024 Season Premier-Space Babies and The Devil’s Chord!
This past weekend saw the premier of the first season of the Disney+ era of Doctor Who! It was a debut consisting of two different episodes: Space Babies and The Devil's Chord. It was also a debut that seems to have split the Whovian fandom right down the middle! This week sees the return of Part-Time Fanboy Doctor Who scholar Barry Negrin as he sits down to discuss the ins and outs of this new Supercalifragalisticexpialidocious epoch of Who with Kristian. Was the premier as bad or as good as some fans claim? Find out on this episode of...
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The Fickle FanboyS. 5 Ep. 8- The Fickle Fanboy Election Special... One Week Later (The Fanboy Gets Political!!)In the wake of an election that frankly had everyone on pins & needles for days on end, R.P.M. takes the time to sit down with the soon to be out-going candidate *but not really*
Listen in as we get some final thoughts from good ol' Donny, try to get him to be a tad retrospective, and look back a little on many of his "not-so-great" moments in office that have plagued his very existence (and ours) over the last 4 years.
So join us for what will almost certainly... and hopefully...
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The Fickle FanboyS.4 Ep.7- "Exposed!: Pro Wrestlings Greatest Secrets"..... Through The Eyes Of A Fanboy!Join us as we cover "EXPOSED!: Pro Wrestling's Greatest Secrets" and review an oldschool TV special that, as fanboys? We truly enjoyed roasting over the coals over and over..... But as wrestling fans?? Absolutely hated and are still trying to figure out how to get back the time in our lives that we wasted while watching this crud.
That, Jess laments Avengers: Endgame, Bray-Wee Herman, and so much more! This time, On The Fickle Fanboy!!
Links To Things Talked About On This Episode:
*"Exposed!: Pro Wrestlings Greatest Secrets" TV Special*- (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znhP2tsrx-s)
*The...
2019-05-271h 19
The Fanboy GarageTHE FANBOY GARAGE EPISODE 29: Aquaman Early Reviews and Box Office Impact, The Experience that is Venom, Visual Effects in Film and More!On this episode of The Fanboy Garage we unpack our thoughts on the tide of initial reviews and (positive) early word of mouth for Aquaman and what impact, if any, they might have on the opening weekend box office numbers.
From there, Aaron has finally seen the experience that is Venom and shares his thoughts on the movie along with a discussion on the future of the franchise in the wake of the film’s huge and unexpected box office performance.
To close, we answer listener questions; tackling our thoughts on the shortlist of potential no...
2018-12-201h 05
The Fickle FanboyS. 3 Ep. 5- Suburban Commando..... Through The Eyes Of A Fanboy...... BROTHER!!Join us as we venture to that corner of reality where "Through The Eyes Of A Fanboy" & "The Best Of The Worst Of Wrestling" meet, as The Fanboy reviews, and attempts to salvage the dumpster fire that is, was and always will be Hulk Hogan's "Suburban Commando", as he tries his damnedest to make it entertaining as hell...................... or at least bearable........... BROTHER!!
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2018-06-2748 min
The Fickle FanboyS.2 Ep. 16- Army Of Darkness.... Through The Eyes Of A Fanboy (Halloween Spec.)After a slight hiatus, we're back w/ an all new segment of "Through The Eyes Of A Fanboy" as we gear up for Halloween just around the corner w/ a look at this fanboy's favorite horror/comedy in an absolute classic! Army Of Darkness!........... Groovy
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2017-10-3041 min
The Fickle FanboyS. 2 Ep. 8- Batman '89.... Through The Eyes Of A FanboyThis week, we take a look at one of The Fanboy's favorites, with Batman '89.... Through The Eyes of A Fanboy, as we look back at the movie that started it all for the Superhero genre as we know it today.... but is this flick worthy of all of the love that it gets?
You may be surprised at the answer!
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2017-05-1649 min
The Fickle FanboyS. 2 Ep. 6- X-Men.... Through The Eyes of A Fanboy (X Marks The Spot)In this episode, The Fanboy eases the pain he still feels from having seen the end of Logan, by taking a look back at where it all began, w/ a glance at X-Men, Through The Eyes Of A Fanboy
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2017-04-051h 47