Episode 21 - Groundhog Day

 

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Last week’s episode was a bust. It didn’t work! It’s one of those things that’s sadly out of our control - the original Episode 21 is gone, but not forgotten. In its place we present to you Episode 21 - Groudhog Day. We revisit some of the topics we discussed last week, and discuss some general webcomicry stuff as well. Here are the show notes:

• Firstly, apologies for the crackliness of my voice. I recently bought a new USB hub and plugged my microphone into that instead of having it protrude from the USB sockets on the front of my PC. Unfortunately this has had a detrimental impact on my sound quality, for some reason. Eep! I’ll plug it directly into my PC again for the next episode.
• Technobabble. The topic that keeps on giving! This week we discuss visual technobabble - on-screen graphics, Okudagrams, and the like.
• The advancement of technology.
• Old model kit making.
• Writing yourself our of a corner you’ve written yourself into.
• Drastic changes to comics - killing off characters.
• We ruin Wall-E for everyone! Not really, but still.
• Promoting your webcomic - advertising, and finding your audience.
• Google Analytics sucks.
• Business cards for Comic-Con.
• Using online communities for your benefit.

And that’s it until after Comic-Con! See you again in two weeks. For the music credits for this episode, read on. Or, if you don’t want the surprised ruined, don’t read on at all. Continue reading Episode 21 - Groundhog Day…

Episode 21 Doesn’t Exist

So I finally say down to edit Episode 21, only to find that the recording is FUBAR’d - it’s skippy, sketchy, jittery, and generally crap and mostly unusable. Bugger.

We’ll be recording tonight, so that will become Episode 21, I guess. Sorry about this… if I’d had time to check it out earlier in the week I might’ve caught it and we could’ve re-recorded on Wednesday.

Episode 21 delays

This has been a busy week for me. Between pulling together resources for Radio SoulGeek and writing/plotting the vast, expansive future of Jump Leads I’ve been physically and mentally exhausted this week. I had scheduled to get it done on Wednesday, but I ended up falling asleep instead. I think I need to re-evaluate my diet… and my free time!

Anyway, Episode 21 will be edited and up this weekend. Promise. These delays will likely stop once Comic-Con has been and gone. Once again, to tide you over, please enjoy some music.

Episode 20 - St. Gilligan and the Dragon (with special guest Steve Troop)

 

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Steve Troop of Melonpool and new project Crypto Zooey joins us this week to discuss Time Travel, parallel worlds, and Some Other Things.

No show notes just yet. I’ll add them later.

# Laziness, aaahhh / Laziness, what is the point of it? #

I have been meaning to edit this week’s PodWarp 1999 since Wednesday, but somehow haven’t managed to find the time between writing a future issue of Jump Leads and playing excessive amounts of Rock Band and Team Fortress 2. I apologise, and promise to have the episode up before we record the next episode on Sunday evening.

In the meantime, here is some music.

Episode 19 - Ninety Nine

 

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Psst. Hey kid. You like show notes? Yeah, man. All the cool kids are doing it. Here, take a look…

• We talk about Mark’s brand new scifi-comedy webcomic, ETI-PI.
• A chap named “Mathew” asks us to discuss scifi Logistics. So we do.
• Star Trek toilet humour. Har har.
• Mathew also asks us about showing the light in an environment - “How do you approach this and is it as difficult as it seems?”
• I order a sandwich, and it’s all downhill from here.
• “This is basically the Jim Francis Power Hour.”
• We look at the American Film Institute’s 10 Ten Scifi Films. I disagree with a lot of the list.
• Scifi as a form of Social Commentary.
• I give a very brief outline of what Wall-E is actually about.
• I realise that the sandwich people haven’t called me back about my order yet and get a little agitated by my lack of sandwich.
• I briefly talk about how the question “Where is my sandwich?” affects web Cartoonists everywhere.
• We move on from sandwiches to pizza.

Episode 18 - Dial F for Frankenstein

 

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Yes, the Live Call-In Show recorded on Sunday is at least on the website. And now, just for you, here it is. With Show Notes.

• Tom sounds unusually clear this week, because he’s on a computer which doesn’t suck.
• How much Science do you need to know to write Science Fiction?
• We start taking calls. Whee!
• We are joined by Euan Mumford, writer of Jump Leads #3 “Trojan Horse” and Turnus.
• Joshua Jericho calls in to plug his new scifi webcomic, BlueStar Blues.
• “Knock Knock.” / “Who’s there?” / “Doctor.”
• “Is Chewbacca a Muslim?”
• How Billy West recorded the voice of an effeminate C3P0-type robot in Futurama.
• Aaron Lewis of Webcomics Beacon joins us.
• We talk about Babylon 5 for a bit.
• “TalkShoe has crashed!”
• Euan talks about writing Jump Leads #3.
• We sort-of trail off and talk about a load of rubbish at this point.

So there we are! We had a lot of fun and we’ll definitely be doing another call-in show at some point in the future. Thanks to everyone who participated!

PodWarp Live Call-In Show begins soon

In less than 40 minutes, in fact. Don’t forget to sign up at TalkShoe first, otherwise you won’t be able to participate.

Episode 17 - So Help Me God

 

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Here are some notes I jotted down earlier. They may or may not be relation to some kind of show.

• It’s chuffing warm everywhere. The sound of both my fan and Mark’s A/C can be heard quietly in the background.
• I introduce the show with what starts out as a rather squeaky-yet-nefarious voice, and then somehow slip into a wraspy-yet-nefarious voice.
• “Sentient A.I and Computer Personalities” - appeasing our Robot Overlords.
• The Microsoft Office Paper Clip.
• The cake is a lie.
• Belief Chips and Silicon Heaven.
• Time Travel.
• Varying rules for Time Travel in science fiction - case in point: Back To The Future, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, and… er… some British TV show about a time-travelling alien.
• Time Travel, Parallel Universes, and the connection between them.
• We briefly discuss the Christopher Reeve film “Somewhere In Time”.
• Ruining things I like.
• Data turning evil.
• Briefly: Plugging the Sequential Artists Pub.
• “The PodWarp 1999 Jam Session.”

Don’t forget, we’re doing our Live Call-In Show on TalkShoe this Sunday at 6pm PST. Be there be there BE THERE!

Episode 16 - PodWarp 1999 and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

 

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And now some show-related notations.

• Talking about what we’ve learnt from discussing our comics on the podcast.
• Redesigning a website.
• “Don’t make the podcast self-aware.”
• Adult material in webcomics - guts, guns, and naughty bits.
• Self-censorship.
• Brief Calvin & Hobbes talk.
• “Would you consider doing something more adult in a different project?”
• Gender relationships between characters in modern fiction.
• Talking about potential guests for future installments - and if you reckon you could have a halfway decent conversation with us, fire an email our way.