This week, the boys sit down with another comics professional who is also a fellow Albertan, Scott Kowalchuk, to talk about his work on The Mysterious Strangers and the upcoming Down, Set, Fight!, coming from Oni Press in February!  Okay, that's a lie.  We definitely talked to Scott, and at some point we did talk about his work, but that's like a cool five minutes of the whole thing.  The rest?  M*A*S*H, video games and the film oeuvre of Rowdy Roddy Piper, Esq.  We feel this was a worthwhile expenditure of everybody's time.

Also, some shit gets talked (less by Scott).  This is also a worthwhile expenditure of everybody's time.

Find Scott online at:

Twitter: @scottkowalchuk

Wed: Scott Kowalchuk Dot Com

Kinda boring, really.

This week, the boys sit down and record an entire episode without technical difficulties... before James makes the mistake of upgrading his computer to OSX Mavericks and then spends hours trying to fix his now-corrupted hard drive, negating the fact that this was recorded a day early and he can actually accurately state he didn't deliberately wait until 1am to put all this together.

The lesson, kids, is to never try.

In the meantime, why not listen to the fruits of these hours of frivolous labour?  There's everything you want, including:

• Discussion of children's TV (Toy Story of Terror)
• Audible reactions to something on TV you can't actually see because podcasting is an audio medium (the Edmonton election night)
• Reluctant discussion of comics
• Threats to play Pokemon (James)
• Meandering advertisements for our sponsor that would probably make them reconsider paying for this if they actually listened to this
• Threats (James and Brandon!)

We're basically heroes.

This week, the boys sit down without any pesky Dylan Todds or Curt Pireses to get in the way of their discussion (we love you, guys!) of important issues like Canadian Thanksgiving, Sleepy Hollow, Pokemon and, somewhat reluctantly, comics.  But hey, Sleepy Hollow really is as wonderful and insane as people said it was!

Sadly, some technical difficulties cut short the actual comics discussion; the actual comics talk went on for 15-20 minutes longer than what was able to be recovered, but now you'll never know what we thought about Batman #24, Coffin Hill #1 and Avengers AI #4 (hint: we loved them!).  You don't get our discussion of the New York Comic Con announcements, either!  But what you do get is James' frustrated, sleep-deprived, rambling outro.  It's all worth it!

This week, the boys welcome designer extraordinaire and baseless aggressor against the great nation of Canada, Dylan Todd, to the show!  We're gonna be honest here... we don't talk much about Dylan's work.  There are certainly some halfhearted entreaties into the topic, and dammit if Dylan doesn't do his best to explain his creative process, but let's be real: that's not what you, us or he are here for.  You're here for the reckless abandon of unfettered conversation!

We're gonna be honest with you again... this involves a lot of talk about Rob Liefeld.  Like, a lot.  But don't worry, we also talk about Alan Alda, The OC, DC's problems and Mark Millar being terrible.  It's James' Preferred Topics Bingo!  We all win!

Find Dylan online at:

Twitter: @bigredrobot

Web: Big Red Robot

Tumblr #1: Fourth World Problems 

Tumblr #2 (jeez, how many tumblrs do Americans need?): Guttersniper Comics

This week, the boys talk to comic writer and fellow Albertan Curt Pires about his digital-first series with Dalton Rose, Theremin, whose third issue comes out today.  And that's all well and good, because Curt's a smart and friendly dude, so talking with him about making comics is both fun and informative.  When you listen to this episode, you will learn!  You may even grow as a person!  We can't guarantee that, but hey, it's unlikely you'll come out worse.  And just why is that?

Because we talk about The OC.

Yes, that's right!  We finally found someone to talk about our favourite early-2000s Teen Feelings(tm) and Sarcasm extravaganza, and it is the best.  We even talk about Excused with Curt, too!  Clearly, he is the best guest and you all should buy his (very good) comic about an inventor-turned-time-traveling-assassin-and-spy because of this, if not the very high quality of the comic itself.  Ah, the power of Josh Schwartz!  What can't it do, besides make the third season of The OC good?

No, we have not forgotten, Josh.  We're watching you.  Wait, are those sirens?  Huh.  This could be bad.

Find Curt online at:

Twitter: @curtpires

Tumblr: About Curt Pires

And hey did you know you can buy Theremin here?  You totally can!  You can also buy one of the last remaining copies of LP at Wizard's Comics, who conveniently pay me to tell you this.  If you don't like it, you can always pay me MORE.