March 27, 2019

Episode 169 - Game Failures

March 27, 2019/ Rachelle Goguen

Last week we talked about the game changing ideas that comic book writers brought to DC and Marvel. This week we are talking about…the opposite of that.

(Very stupid) correction for this episode: Ron Zimmerman’s creation for Marvel was called Hawk Owl and Woody, not Hawk Owl and Zippy. Is Woody better? No. Apologies to Woody and Mr Zimmerman and Hawk Owl and Woody fans everywhere. I like to picture angry fans yelling Woody at their computers every time we say Zippy.

Here is a link to the New York Times article about AWA Comics.

Aaaaaand, if you are interested, you can buy my new m/m hockey romance novel, HEATED RIVALRY (by Rachel Reid) wherever you buy ebooks (Kobo, Amazon, B&N, etc). It’s getting lots of love on Goodreads! It has a lot of explicit sex scenes. Just sayin’.

March 20, 2019

Episode 168 - Game Changers

March 20, 2019/ Rachelle Goguen

This week we are talking about game changing ideas that changed the DC and Marvel universes forever! Sometimes a creator comes up with something that really sticks, and those things should be acknowledged because we tend to take them for granted, as fans.

You can see those wild Charles Burns inks on the John Romita Jr pencils that Dave was talking about here:

Charles Burns reworks John Romita Jr's pencils from The Marvel Try-Out Book. pic.twitter.com/JziE3wgS44
— Pat Brosseau (@droog811) March 17, 2019

I truly would love to see a whole book of different artists inking the same pencils.

And, of course, this episode title, GAME CHANGERS, had nothing to do with my debut novel, GAME CHANGER, which is a delightful smutty romance about a closeted NHL star who falls in love with the adorable guy who works at his local smoothie shop. GAME CHANGER can be bought wherever you buy ebooks (Kobo, Amazon, Barnes & Noble…all your faves). And the second book in my GAME CHANGERS series, HEATED RIVALRY, comes out on Monday, March 25. You can preorder that now. But those books have nothing to do with what we are talking about in this episode.

Thanks for listening! Next week we will be talking about Game Failures(?), which would be big ideas that didn’t land at all and were quickly forgotten or undone.