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Wildstorm Addiction Podcast – Episode 10

Ben Murphy — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:40:12 +0000

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Show Notes:
Welcome to a special episode of Wildstorm Addiction! Joe David Soliz brings us the news from the San Diego Comic Con. We also have reviews of Dv8: God’s and Monster #4 and the new series, Welcome to Tranquility: One Foot in the Grave #1.

00:00:34 – Joe welcomes everyone to Episode #10 for the week of July 21st and the weekend of July 25th.
00:00:50 – Spoiler alerts warning, but all the written Wildstorm reviews at site are spoiler free unless otherwise noted.
00:01:00 -Shout out to Cosgrove at retrojunk.com who says: “These podcasts are amazing, man! They’re truly respected on this end. Thanks!”
00:01:37 – Joe gives the Wildstorm news: Wildstorm will have a ton of projects to coincide with the new movie “Red” based on Warren Ellis’ mini-series, premiering Oct. 15, Joe’s birthday. They will be releasing a Red:Prequel Special at the end of September, written by Cully Hamner, art and cover by Cully Hamner 48pp. $4.99. A new edition of the trade will be shipping in October; written by Warren Ellis, art and cover by Cully Hamner collecting the 3-issue miniseries under a new cover by Cully Hamner that also includes the script to issue #1 and never-before-seen developmental art by Hamner for $14.99. Each week in October a Red movie tie-in issue comes out. Red:Joe Special (Morgan Freeman) $3.99 and Red:Victoria Special (Helen Mirren) written by Jon Hoeber, art by David Hahn, cover by Cully Hamner. Red:Marvin Special (John Malcovich) written by Erich Hoeber, art by Diego Olmos, cover by Cully Hamner. And finally Red: Frank Special (Bruce Willis) written by Gregory Noveck, art by Jason Masters, with a cover by Cully Hamner.
00:04:43 -To coincide with the release of the Victorian Undead trade in October Wildstorm will be releasing a Victorian Undead Special written by Ian Edginton, art by Horacio Domingues, and a cover by Ethan Van Sciver.
00:05:10 -Also in October Wildstorm will be releasing End of Nations #1 written by Ricardo Sanchez, art by Yvel Guichet, and a cover by Chris Sprouse and Karl Story. This is a four issue mini-series based on the highly anticipated, massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game End of Nations from publisher Trion Worlds and developer Petroglyph! This is the same company that is developing The Telara Chronicles which also debuts from Wildstorm in September. The solicit reads, “Economic disaster brought world governments to their knees. Industrialized nations, for the first time, experienced hunger and poverty on a scale not seen outside the most stricken third-world countries. The Order of Nations, a new world power, stepped into the chaos and restored order, imposing a tyrannical rule. But they pushed too hard and people everywhere began to openly challenge them. Follow the story of one resistance group as they struggle against the totalitarian regime of the Order of Nations in this 4-issue miniseries.”
00:06:32 – The new Wildstorm digital comic offerings courtesy of www.comixology.com, ranging from $0.99-$1.99 are: The entire Mirror’s Edge series #1-6 plus #0 FREE, Gen 13 #23 & #24, Stormwatch PHD #15 & #16, Supernatural: Origins #1-3, The Authority #3 & #4, The X-files #0 & #1, Wildcats #3 & #4, and Planetary #7.
00:07:37 – Joes brings a special SDCC report direct from the source, lucky guy! Be sure to check out the written post and follow along as Joe gives us his analysis of the event here: Wildstorm Addiction goes to San Diego! Also, download and listen to the audio from the actual Wildstorm panel from the 2010 comic con at the Official Wildstorm Podcast site.
00:26:03 – Unfortunately Ben is just finishing up getting over a cold and couldn’t stop coughing enough to get this review out, so Joe had to step up to the plate without any warning. Sorry about the all new all awesome Joe episode everyone! He reviews Welcome to Tranquility: One Foot in the Grave #1 written by Gail Simone, art by Horacio Domingues, and cover by Neil Googe, along with a variant cover by Ethan Van Sciver.
00:37:33 – Ben tries to spit out some thoughts on the re-introduction of Welcome to Tranquility.
00:42:16 – Joe reviews Dv8: Gods and Monsters #4 (of written by Brian Wood, art by Rebekah Isaacs, and cover by Fiona Staples.
00:52:40 – Ben gives his thoughts on Dv8: Gods and Monsters #4.
00:54:13 – Ben works up the strength to give you the other Wildstorm Releases for the week of 7/21.

00:54:34 – Joe mentions one more thing about his trip to San Diego, just rub it in Joe! Actually Joe got to hang out with the guys who produce the Only the Valiant Podcast which is focused on Valiant Comics. You can check out episode #46 to hear Joe live from SDCC here onlythevaliant.com.

The opening and closing music is “Universal Domain” by Dreamline which can be found at http://www.musicalley.com.

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Wildstorm Addiction Podcast – Episode 9

Ben Murphy — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:38:08 +0000

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Show Notes:
Welcome to a special episode of Wildstorm Addiction! Our resident Wildstorm experts Joe David Soliz & Benjamin Murphy talk about the Wildcats on an exclusive interview with Adam Beechen to discuss both he and Tim Seeley’s monumental issue #25. Adam decided that with his supreme celebrity status that air conditioning was more important than sound quality. So even though I took a stab at reducing the background noise, in the end I decided to leave it as is. I apologize for this inconvenience, however, Adam doesn’t care about you and says he just wanted to get back to his Mai Tai’s. [Comment in jest by the editor, BEN]

Adam really elaborates on many of the questions asked with many insights into what has happened with the Wildstorm Universe over the past two years.
00:00:34 – Ben welcomes everyone to Episode #9 for the week of July 21st. He introduces Joe and own special guest for the evening, Adam Beechen, writer of the Wildcats: World’s End.
00:00:56 – Joe welcomes Adam and thanks him for being on our show.
00:04:37 – How did you get your start in the industry Adam?
00:06:39 – How did you get pulled into the Wildstorm Universe?
00:08:25 – You have a ton of characters to deal with in your Wildcats run. How do you keep track of them all?
00:12:10 – What are some of your influences as a writer, especially coming from an animation background.
00:13:35 – How proud are you guys to be breaking the issue #25 milestone with Wildcats?
00:20:09 – Can you explain the costume changes in the WSU? (Originally meant for Tim Seeley, unfortunately we couldn’t get him on the call at the time.)
00:23:30 – You were able to introduce some great new villains into the WSU with Sebastian and the Red Blade. Are there any classic villains you’d like to bring back?
00:28:20 – We haven’t seen too much change in any of the bigger core characters. However some of the Gen 13 characters(Grunge in Wildcats & Roxy in the Authority, as well as Fairchild in Gen 13) have really been stepping up and taking on more of an adult role, can you explain the decision to highlight these characters?
00:34:16 – After two years into World’s End there are still a lot of people on the fence about the Wildstorm Universe. What would you say to those people to win them over?
00:49:43 – Are there any characters or titles left that you’d like to write or do a solo book on?
00:51:40 – Fun Question! Everyone’s been dying to know(actually just me) who came up with the “cats” in the title pages of the current Wildcats run?
00:53:08 – Adam gives a shout out and an invitation for anyone attending the San Diego Comic Con this weekend. There is a Wildstorm panel Saturday July 24th from 6:30-7:30pm. After the panel Wildstorm will be having a sit-down at the Hyatt bar around 8:30 to chat. Meet Adam there!!

The opening and closing music is “Universal Domain” by Dreamline which can be found at http://www.musicalley.com.

Wildstorm Addiction Podcast – Episode 8

Ben Murphy — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 02:03:17 +0000

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Show Notes:
Welcome to another episode of Wildstorm Addiction! Our resident Wildstorm experts Joe David Soliz & Benjamin Murphy talk about the Wildstorm comic releases for the weeks of 6/30 through 7/14.

00:00:34 – Joe welcomes everyone to Episode #8 with reviews of The Authority #24, Sparta USA #5, The X Files/30 Days of Night #1, and The Authority: The Lost Year #10.

00:00:47 – Joe starts us off by laying down some Wildstorm news.

00:00:59 – Special shout-out to our international listeners. According to our download reports we’ve got people who’ve downloaded from Chile, China, the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Spain, Canada and the Russian Federation. And of course, a big thanks to all our listeners in the USA! We’ve gone international!
00:01:34 – More Digital comic offerings from DC this week courtesy of comixology.com: ranging from $0.99-$1.99, Supernatural: Origins #1, Entire Dante’s Inferno 6-issue mini, Entire Fringe 6-issue mini #0 also offered for FREE, Mirror’s Edge 1-5 (no #6) #0 also offered for FREE, 1st 3 issues of Victorian Undead, Planetary/Authority: Ruling the World one-shot, WORLD’S END-Wildcats #2, Gen 13 #22, Stormwatch PHD #14, The Authority #2, & Wildstorm Universe #0 is FREE (Was a free giveaway last summer at SDCC & comic shops written by our very own Chris Striker of The Higher Authority site-(http://theauthority.ws/)
00:03:26 –Thanks to titanthrope for your comment on The Authority #24 written review at site. We’d appreciate more of these from listeners in the future so that we are making sure to cover what you want to hear!

00:03:49 – Ben reviews The Authority #24 “Mondregon Part 2″ written by Tom Taylor, art and cover by Al Barrionuevo.
00:20:06 – Joe pimps Sparta #5 written by David Lapham and art by Johnny Timmons.
00:33:09 – Ben is fired up about the new licensed title The X Files /30 Days of Night crossover written by Steve Niles and Adam Jones, art by Tom Mandrake, with a cover by Andrea Sorrentino. Two variant covers, one by Sam Kieth and the other by Tom Mandrake and JD Mettler.
00:46:00 – Joe is pleasantly surprised by another issue of The Authority: The Lost Year reviewing issue #10 written by Keith Giffen and Grant Morrison, art by Brandon Badeaux, cover by Gene Ha. Hey Mikey, he likes it!
00:59:49 – Ben gives you the other Wildstorm titles that have released over the last three weeks that we didn’t review.

6/30
- DANTE’S INFERNO
- GEARS OF WAR #12
- RESIDENT EVIL #5 (OF 6)
7/8
- ABSOLUTE PLANETARY BOOK 1: NEW PRINTING
- TOM STRONG AND THE ROBOTS OF DOOM #2
7/14
- ABSOLUTE PLANETARY BOOK 2
- ASTRO CITY: SILVER AGENT #1 (OF 2)
- FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH: THE NIGHTMARE WARRIORS
- FREE REALMS #11 (OF 12)

The opening and closing music is “Universal Domain” by Dreamline which can be found at http://www.musicalley.com.