Do you like cyberpunk? Do you like post-apocalyptic settings? Well then, I may have found something that might interest you. Interface Zero: San Francisco is a city book for Interface Zero by Gunmetal Games. In case you were wondering, Interface Zero is a setting that utilizes the Savage World rules. The year is 2088 and the world is a very different place. global warming has taken its toll, devastating many coastal cities. Many areas of the world have been ravaged by nuclear war, leaving them nothing but irradiated wastelands. The United States has broken into several small warring factions due to these events and large corporations have as much power as nations in this new world. Interface Zero: San Francisco provides a more in-depth look at a different type of city for this setting. Read the rest of this entry »
We hope you enjoyed your Memorial Day holiday. To celebrate, we’ve provided a special, giant-sized Funnybooks this week complete with healthcare horror stories!
- Dentist follow-up
- Aron’s story to tell
- Tim’s application fail
- Batman Incorporated #1
- Batman: The Dark Knight #9
- Aquaman #9
- Flash #9
- 6th Planet #1
- Justice League Dark #9
- Amazing Spider-Man #686
- Astonishing X-Men #50
- Fantastic Four #606
- Secret Avengers #27
- Irredeemable #37
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- Paul went to the dentist
- Fatman on the Batman
- Hypernaturals FCBD
- Before Watchmen
- New Crusaders Releases
- Amazing Spider-Man: Ends of the Earth
- Avengers vs. X-Men #4
- Night of the Owls: Nightwing #9
- Justice League # 9
- Danger Club #2
- Daredevil #13
- Fantastic Four #605.1
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Want to cause your liver some damage? Drink every time we talk about John Carter’s marketing, Humberto Ramos/John Romita Jr art, or Paul says “gotta be honest!”
- The Avengers!
- Fear the Con 5
- Free Comic Book Day
- The Valiant Relaunch (X-O Manowar #1)
- DC’s New 52 – 2nd Wave
- Night of the Owls
- The Secret of the Indigo Tribe
- Avengers vs. X-Men
- Ends of the Earth
- Daredevil #10
- The Spider #1
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It embarrasses me a little to admit that it took me three of the Savage Worlds genre companions before I realized that the same woman was presented on each cover. She is simply changed to fit the genre contained within the book. The red-headed Amazon on the cover of the Fantasy Companion is the red-headed flying heroine on the cover of the Super Powers Companion and the red-headed vampire on the cover of the Horror Companion, simply adapted to each genre. The cover art is not the only thing the companions share, though. Each of them also includes extensive rules to modify the simple core Savage Worlds mechanics to make them an appropriate gaming system for each genre.
As in the other companion books, these genre mechanics begin with edges and hindrances in the Horror Companion. These edges and hindrances alone do a great deal to help foster the feel of a horror game. Horror Companion hindrances include things like Bleeder and Screamer while the edges are things like Necromancer and Monster Hunter. It should not be hard to guess the purpose of those hindrances and edges given the names and all of the edges and hindrances presented in the book reproduce classic features displayed by characters in horror stories.
The player section of the book also includes a number of new character races. This is one place where the Horror Companion noticeably diverges from its sister books. The Fantasy Companion has a short section of fantasy appropriate races which are carefully balanced and rules about how to create additional balanced races specific to each group’s campaign. The bulk of the rules in the Super Powers Companion consists of balanced character creation, with the idea that alien and unusual races are simply created by generating them using the character creation rules.
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Paul’s home alone! The horror!
Aron, Wayne, Tim, and Andrew were all at Fear the Con this weekend, leaving Paul to fend for himself in the scary podcasting waters. What was he to do? Luckily, some loyal listeners, Ray and Rob, volunteered to join him for a special episode about this weekend’s huge blockbuster hit, The Avengers.
They talk about their favorite scenes, characters, moviegoing experiences and…perhaps most importantly…what you do to get that Avengers fix after the movie!
Whether you read comics regularly or not, if you enjoyed the movie, give this episode a listen!
Warning: You are entering a spoiler-rich environment! If you haven’t seen The Avengers yet and do not wish the movie spoiled for you, download and listen AFTER you’ve seen it.
Along those lines, we have included our interview with Jim Starlin from last year who also spoiled a little key information from the movie.
With a career in comics spanning 40 years, Jim Starlin was responsible for re-imagining such characters as Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock for Marvel… and then killed them.
He’s the fellow who gave us Thanos (who loves Death) and over at DC, he killed off Jason Todd in the now infamous A DEATH IN THE FAMILY.
Sensing a theme?
Jim Starlin produced the third volume of his creator owned BREED over at Image Comics. It’s a horror story centering on the activities of Ray Stoner who is half-demon, half-man. Monstrous hijinks ensue.
Of course, Starlin was a pioneer in the realm of creator-owned content.
Starlin debuted his Vanth Dreadstar character in the serialized Metamorphosis Odyssey appearing in the pages of Marvel’s Epic Illustrated. Beyond that initial serialized story, Dreadstar moved onto his own original graphic novel followed by a monthly under Marvel’s Epic banner followed by a series at First Comics and then a mini-series at Malibu.
And Aron isn’t the only one sporting a chubby for Big Jim. Oh no, Paul has a deep and abiding love for all things Thanos and the Infinity gems.
Brother Starlin teases a little news in this episode about Dreadstar… and Thanos and a certain movie project.
Join our unabashed geek love fest as we adore Jim Starlin.
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- Tim… ONE NIGHT ONLY!
- Fear The Con 5
- Free Comic Book Day
- Nick Fury and Agent Coulson
- Avengers vs. X-Men
- Vs #1
- New Avengers #25
- Secret Avengers #26
- Uncanny X-Men #11
- FF #17
- Daredevil #11
- Darkness #102
Paul’s looking for co-hosts for his AVENGERS movie review episode. If you’re interested, leave a comment below or give us a call at 972-763-5903. If you can’t be present for a recording, tell us what you think about the big AVENGERS movie and leave us your thoughts. If we use your voicemail on the show, you’ll win an Ideology of Madness SurPrize.
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- Ideology of Madness is certifiable
- Zero Hour 2: Electric Boogalo
- Chris Roberson quits/gets fired from DC Comics
- Speaking of shady practices
- The Shadow #1
- Batman #8
- Avengers #25 (AvX)
- Avengers vs. X-Men #2
- Punisher #10
Opening dialogue was clipped from a lost comics documentary circa 1979 voiced by Jonathan Winters and featured on a recent episode of the Wordballoon podcast.
Paul’s looking for co-hosts for his AVENGERS movie review episode. If you’re interested, leave a comment below or give us a call at 972-763-5903. If you can’t be present for a recording, tell us what you think about the big AVENGERS movie and leave us your thoughts. If we use your voicemail on the show, you’ll win an Ideology of Madness SurPrize.
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Hailed as sharply written and produced, The Variants is a web series set in a comic shop telling stories of the mostly fictional personalities that work there. The series has enjoyed notable guest stars such as Scott Kurtz, Ben Templesmith and Mark Waid. On the heels of completing season 2, The Variants is gearing up for season 3… and is seeking your help!
My absolute favorite episode of The Variants after the jump! Read the rest of this entry »