High-power comics creator Graham Nolan talks about his new crowdfunding IndieGoGo project bringing Return to Monster Island back to Compass Comics! It all takes place in Episode 627 of the Wayne’s Comics Podcast this week! Graham is an award-winning cartoonist and writer, best known for his long run on Batman in Detective Comics and as the designer and co-creator of the iconic Batman villain Bane. He is also the creator of the graphic novel Monster Island and the web-comic Sunshine State, and he’s also the co-creator of the horror adventure series Joe Frankenstein. His IndieGoGo project for Return to Monster Island can be supported at this link! It’s described this way: “More monsters! More aliens! More classic comics adventure: Return to Monster Island by Graham Nolan!” Be sure to support this excellent project as soon as you finish listening to our fun conversation!  Update: This project raised $26,000 in just four hours! Don’t let that delay your supporting Graham and accessing his terrific book! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patreon member. It will help ensure Wayne's Comics Podcast continues far into the future!

Breakout writer Chris Condon talks about adapting Barry Gordon’s acclaimed novel Night People for Oni Press in Episode 626 of the Wayne’s Comics Podcast this week! Chris is best known for That Texas Blood and The Enfield Gang Massacre, among other excellent works, and he discusses bringing the four-issue Night People mini-series to your local comics shop with Wayne! The book is described this way: “Night People is beyond noir, a parable that embodies both a revision of the past and riddle for the present, informed by the Church on the One Hand and the Church on the Other Hand that portends a future wherein whoever is left on the planet are cast forth on an even more mysterious and perilous voyage on a ghost ship sailing into the Sea of Red.” Chris talks about bringing this novel to comics, who the characters are, and what we can expect from this high-power Oni Press offering in the months ahead! Don’t forget to let your local shop know you want to order this book right away! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patreon member. It will help ensure Wayne's Comics Podcast continues far into the future!

Happy Anniversary! The podcast is now 13 years old, so to celebrate, we feature two great interviews! It starts with Dave Baker from Mary Tyler Moorehawk and then wraps up with the creators from Invader Comics’ Neurocron! Dave’s Mary Tyler Moorehawk is described as “Jonny Quest meets Infinite Jest.” The book answers the question: Who is Mary Tyler Moorehawk? How did she save the world from a dimension-hopping megalomaniac? Why was her TV show canceled after only nine episodes? And what happened to the reclusive genius behind her creation? I have a great time discussing this book with Dave as we explore who the characters are, the book’s mind-bending art style, and what Dave is up to in the months ahead! Tell your local comics shop you want it when it is released on February 13! Then everything wraps up with my interview with the creators of Neurocron from Invader Comics! I talk with scripters Daniel Powell and Erin Foley-Chan, and artist Dennis Calero! The book is described this way: “When a seemingly random murder turns up an illegal, biotech-enhanced corpse, FBI Agent Vera Morales pulls at the threads and becomes embroiled in a conspiracy that could very well change the course of human evolution.” We talk about how the book came to be, who the characters are, and what we can expect from this high-power team in the coming months! Be sure to support this here on Kickstarter before February 10 and let your local comics shop know you want this book, which will be released on February 28! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patreon member. It will help ensure Wayne's Comics Podcast continues far into the future!

We’re in it for the Long Haul in Episode 624 as Wayne talks with this comic’s co-scripter Heath Amodio! Heath worked with Cullen Bunn (who recently appeared in Episode #621) to develop and make this excellent book (as announced here at MajorSpoilers.com) that will be available on February 21, 2024, in local comics shops, then on March 5, 2024, in retail bookstores. The book is described this way: “The Barren Highways of the American West Become a Place of Terror and Violence in a No-Holds-Barred Tale Not for the Squeamish!” We discuss who the characters are, how the book came to be, and what we can expect from Heath in the coming months! Be sure to let your local shop know you want to order this high-octane thriller of a graphic novel today! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patreon member. It will help ensure Wayne's Comics Podcast continues far into the future!

In Episode 623, we explore a lost Jack Kirby masterpiece with Tom Kraft and Rand Hoppe from the Jack Kirby Museum! Sky Masters of the Space Force – The Complete Sunday Strips in Color can be backed here at zoop.gg and contains all 54 complete Sunday strips and extra panels, all painstakingly remastered for this deluxe volume. The book contains classic Kirby art (inked by Wally Wood and Dick Ayers as well as by Kirby himself) and provides the adventures of Major Sky Masters during the early days of space exploration in the late 1950s. We talk about how the strip came to be, about Kirby’s legendary influence that continues on today, and what the Kirby Museum is about and up to in the coming months! This historic first official crowdfunding campaign for a Jack Kirby book reached its goal in just a few hours after it began, but they still would appreciate all the support fans can give it! Be sure to back this excellent project at Zoop.gg today!

The podcast kicks off 2024 in Episode 622 with the return of Cullen Bunn, a terrific comics creator! Cullen has a Zoop.gg crowdfunding project underway for Copycat! This series is described this way: “Sarah is an ER nurse with a unique power to diagnose her patients with just one touch. Unfortunately, her power comes at a painful cost, as she suffers the same agony as those she cares for. For fans of Atomic Blonde and John Wick.” We talk about how this book came to be, who the characters are, and what we can expect from Cullen in the coming months! Be sure to support this excellent project at Zoop.gg today! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patreon member. It will help ensure Wayne's Comics Podcast continues far into the future!  

It’s time to wrap up 2023 in Episode 621 with a great conversation with an excellent up-and-coming comics creator, Olivia Cuartero-Briggs!   Olivia is an award-winning dramatic writer, fitness junky, and girl mom, born and raised in New York City. She’s also the author of Mary Shelley Monster Hunter and Silver City with Aftershock Comics as well as the upcoming Fate: The Winx Saga graphic novel series from Maverick. Jill and the Killers is her groundbreaking new series debuting with Oni Press in January, and it’s described this way: “Returning to school after the unsolved disappearance of her mother, teenager Jill Estrada can’t wait for things to return to normal . . . even as her friends become compulsively obsessed with Box Killers, a true-crime subscription game where each month's ‘unsolved case’ is custom-tailored to the life of its player. There’s only one catch: Jill’s game seems to be all too real . . . and when her clues begin to connect to a series of disappearances in her town, Jill and her friends must uncover the truth behind these mysterious crimes before one of their own becomes the next victim.” We talk about how this book came to be, who the characters are, and what we can expect from Olivia in the coming months! It’s a fun discussion, just a perfect way to wrap up 2023! Be sure to let your local comics shop know you want this high-octane title today! Be back next week as we kick off 2024!    Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patreon member. It will help ensure Wayne's Comics Podcast continues far into the future!

In Episode 620, Patrick Lay from Dark Horse’s upcoming Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis graphic novel along with a holiday tradition!   Patrick and I talk about this timely and timeless original graphic novel from him as artist and journalist Dave Maas, due in bookstores on January 23 and in comics shops on January 24. It’s described this way: “From 1941 to 1945, the Nazis operated a concentration camp called Terezín (or Theresienstadt) 30 miles outside Prague in what is modern-day Czech Republic. The former fortress town was home to many Jewish artists, writers, musicians, dramatists, actors, and other intellectuals. More than 140,000 people passed through Terezín during the war, and while only a few thousand outlived the Nazi regime, a vast amount of their writings, compositions and artworks survived to tell their stories. This graphic novel is based on one of these works, Peter Kien and Viktor Ullmann’s opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis, which Kien and Ullmann did not live to see performed. Through satire and fantasy, the narrative presents many lessons for modern society on war and technology, but its greatest lesson is that none of us must ever forget that beauty and humor can be found even in the face of doom.” We discuss how this book came to be, what else Patrick is working on, and the importance of this story for today’s world.   Then everything wraps up with my annual holiday tradition, playing the audio from ‘Twas the Dark Knight Before Christmas! You can see the video at this link! Don’t miss next week’s episode as we wrap up 2023 with another terrific conversation with another great comics professional!   Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patreon member. It will help ensure Wayne's Comics Podcast continues far into the future!

Have you been reading T-Bird & Throttle, a high-octane Indie comic? This week, in Episode 619, creator/writer/artist Josh Howard discusses his excellent book! Josh and his How Rad Comics company have been providing T-Bird & Throttle for some time now, and the results are outstanding! It’s described this way: “A disgraced superhero faces a sinister conspiracy as he seeks to revive his crime-fighting career.” The first story, called T-Bird & Throttle Vs. The Moon Men, has been released in a collected edition while the latest one-shot, T-Bird & Throttle Vs. the Ape Men, is now available! We discuss how the series came to be, who the various characters are, and what we can expect from Josh in the coming months with this series and his other books, including Dead @17 and Black Harvest. You can buy his books here at his website, so be sure to order your copies today! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patreon member. It will help ensure Wayne's Comics Podcast continues far into the future!

Antarctica is a hot Indie book from Top Cow, and this week Wayne brings back creator Simon Birks from Blue Fox Comics to talk about it!   Simon has been bringing a lot of excellent Indie comics to us, and now Top Cow has just released issue #6 of Antarctica. This series is described this way: “Stargate meets His Dark Materials in this emotionally driven sci-fi story! It’s an incredible experience full of unique twists and turns that will keep everyone guessing right up until the end.” You can now pick up the collected first five-issue story arc, which we discuss, as well as the latest issue, #6, at your local comics shop! Be sure you can read this blockbuster series after ordering it today!