Mike recently sat down and recorded a guest appearance on the Fire and Water Podcast with its co-host Rob Kelly – the graphic designer behind our cool panelist Bio pictures!
Their topic: the Aliens franchise — for a start. From there, they bled into a discussion about all sorts of things pop culture-y and nerdy.
A member of the Radio vs. the Martians! family needs your help!
Greg and Julie Hatcher are two of our favorite people.
They don’t have a lot of money, but are heroically generous with their time and work. Greg has been an invaluable panelist and a wonderful columnist for Comic Book Resources. And his wife Julie is truly one of the nicest people we’ve ever met.
For a long time now, Greg has worked as a part-time writer and part-time Middle School art teacher, and Julie was recently laid off from her job, which provided their health insurance.
The good news is that even on unemployment, she could still get health insurance and they still kept their heads above water. And even better, Julie recently got two job offers. She accepted the best one, and had to turn down the second.
And then, the company that hired her — but hadn’t committed the job offer to paper — decided that they didn’t want to hire someone after all. And the second job that she’d turned down had already been filled.
Julie, who is physically incapable of lying, told this to the unemployment office — that she’d had to turn down a job. So her unemployment benefits have been dropped. They can no longer afford Julie’s medication and are in a lot of trouble.
The unemployment office is going to sort it out. But it’ll take a few weeks.
The problem is that real life isn’t going to wait for a few weeks. Greg and Julie have to pay for food and ultilities and medicine. And that simply cannot wait.
So, Greg and Julie need your help. Fellow CBR veteran Jim MacQuarrie has set up a GoFundMe site for Greg and Julie, and we’d like to ask you to help out.
They’re going to be auctioning off some really cool books and comics for donors, but either way, drop them a few bucks.
On our show, Greg has continued to share his time and experiences and stories as a panelist for free. And he needs your help.
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Hey folks, Radio vs. the Martians! is making its first convention appearance!
Mike Gillis and Casey Doran will be joined by fellow panelist Sam Mulvey at the Jet City Comics Show in scenic Downtown Tacoma, Washington on Saturday, November 8th from 10 am until 5pm.
We’re going to be chatting with attendees and getting the word out about the podcast! We’ll be sitting in Artist Alley at Table #J-05, which is right here.
So, please drop by, say hi, and check out our new banners! Remember! All sanity, free will and the fate of Crystal Pepsi rests on you stopping by!
See you there!
A couple of months ago, Mike recorded a guest-hosting spot over at the Fire and Water Podcast, a weekly show dedicated very specifically to a pair of DC Comics superheroes, Aquaman and Firestorm.
The episode is now live for your listening pleasure!
The Fire and Water Podcast is a really fun show and probably has the best interactive community of any podcast I’ve ever heard. They talk about their respective favorite characters in particular, and usually DC Comics in general. But this time they did something a little different.
Mike sat down via Skype with Rob Kelly – of the Aquaman half of the show – to talk about a weird and complicated issue: comic book continuity.
In short, Mike make the argument that comics would be all the better for dropping a line-wide shared universe where everything is supposed to fit together, and just letting the creators interpret the characters and stories in their own ways.
The new episode is now live and available for your listening pleasure! Give it a listen and let Mike know how wrong you think he is!
Because we don’t want to leave you with nothing this month, we’re going to share our new advertisement with you!
Our friends over at Ask an Atheist have already been playing it on the radio, but if you’d like to share it on your radio show or podcast, we’d greatly appreciate it!
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As fans of the show on Facebook know, this month, Radio vs. the Martians! was scheduled to release an episode about that famous slayer of monsters and men, Conan the Barbarian starring our good friends, Greg Hatcher and Pól Rua.
We sat down for this episode tonight, and it was fucking amazing. So good that I wish we had successfully recorded it.
Due to a computer error that none of us still understand, that conversation is lost to the ages.
It is physically painful for me to report that we won’t be releasing a podcast episode of our show this month. Scheduling conflicts sadly make this impossible.
But fear not! A Conan panel you were promised, and a Conan panel you shall receive!
This same panelists will be back to record this panel discussion (again) in early September! And although this technical glitch was beyond anyone’s control, I still feel that I need to apologize for the lack of episode this month.
I am terribly sorry, and I promise that the extra wait will be worth it.
And, while you may not get a new panel this month, we will have a brand new Radio vs. the Mailbag question that will be released.
Until then, I can only ask for your patience and forgiveness.
* no, this isn’t a picture of Casey’s son.
A big congratulations to co-host and producer, Casey Doran! He and his wife, Cameron, welcomed their son, Elliot, into the world today!
Ka’Plah!
I know just the thing to buy you guys for a baby shower gift!
