Wizard Magazine 15, November 1992

[@komikero]

Oh I had to seek out Whilce. I met him during Wizard #8. He was HUGE over here at the time when he did that awesome Bishop cover. That's when me and a bunch of other artists met him. He came back to town a couple of years later to set up Starfire Studios, which he got me to join, along with guys like Leinil Yu, Jay Anacleto, Roy Allan Martinez, Ed Tadeo. I'm still inking right now, over Leinil Yu on X-men.

[@Glenn-Rubenstein]

Heard about this episode on Twitter. Thank you for your kind words on my writing. To your follow-up point, it was Wizard’s West Coast ad sales guy who read my writing in the San Francisco Examiner and recruited me to freelance for Wizard.

[@CartoonistKayfabe]

In either issue 16 or 17 we discovered that you're THE Glenn Rubenstein from TWIT and Tech TV and have a lot to say about it. Heck of a career you have going, sir, and it's clear you've been shining bright from day one!!!!

[@josefrootgum]

1:25 thanks for the mention of Gerry Alanguilan, guys. He's Leinil Yu's inker for most of his X-men and Wolverine career and he's one of the leaders in our country's indie comics movement, inspired us to create our own stuff. Unfortunately, he died last December, 2019. He's one of our greats and he will be missed.

[@MostFunnest]

Small note. Wetworks was colored in Photoshop. We just got better from '92 and '94. A lot of the best pieces for Wetworks we're colored by Whilce himself. He knows color and photoshop well.

[@RobMessick]

I talked to Kieth Giffen once about Lobo Infanticide. He said his style was so, because he put his pen down on the paper, and didn't lift it till the page was done. Another interesting note, was that Erik Larsen was going to draw this miniseries. But his house fire/Image forming stopped him from doing it.

[@willpfeifer3312]

Just a note on the "creator owned" contracts at DC/Vertigo. The contract I signed for the FINALS miniseries back in 1999 (!) had the copyright owned by me and Jill Thompson (artist and co-creator) and the trademark owned by DC/Vertigo, meaning neither could do anything without the other. All they did was reprint it once years ago, so I'm not sure where things stand at the moment. It definitely meant more than DC owning the trademark on their logo, though.

[@BraxtonWages]

Your run on Aquaman was great!

[@RussWins]

I just saw the cartoon at 17:04. What a pleasant surprise :) LONG LIVE EDDIE P!

[@ChuckArnold1]

Deep nerd dive about Byrne on his graphic novel 2112 which led to Next Men as well as the origins of the Ravage 2099 book: John Byrne: In 1990, Stan Lee contacted me and asked me if I would like the be "editor-in-chief" of a whole new line he was going to create at Marvel -- a line which would be set in Marvel's future, unconnected to the Marvel Universe as we knew it. As it happened, I had been giving some thought to a "Futureverse" of my own, and, being flattered by Stan's offer, I suggested that what I had come up with (but at that time thought I had no place to develop) would fit the bill for his project. To this end I plotted (Stan was to script) and drew a 64 page "pilot". When Stan saw the pilot pages he asked for more specific MU references. I'd tried to keep the thing "clean", so as not to turn the whole MU into a Superboy story, but Stan thought we SHOULD at least HINT at what had happened to some of the folk we knew from the present continuity. Fortunately, since my story was told in the 64 pages, this meant only adding some 12 additional pages and some bridging material to make them fit. Thus, when I took the project back it was, luckily, not a case of re-writing or re-drawing, but simply of removing pages I had not wanted in there in the first place. I'd taken a set of concepts, bent them slightly to fit Stan's needs, and then had only to "unbend" them to get back to my own original material. Stuck with 64 pages and no thought of where to put 'em -- I did not want to offer the book to DC, since that seemed vaguely scabrous somehow -- I mentioned my dilemma to Roger Stern, who suggested I give DarkHorse a call. I did. They accepted the proposal with open arms. I also pitched NEXT MEN, which had been floating in my brain for a while, and which they also liked. I then realized the tiniest bit of tweaking in the dialog would make my graphic novel -- now titled 2112 -- into a prequel/sequel pilot for JBNM. (3/28/1998)

[@filthhound86]

thrilled to see more coverage of my favorite flavor of comics, perverse and absurdly violent, what y’all call “outlaw” ♥️

[@CartoonistKayfabe]

You're in luck because we were just talking about doing a Show and Tell episode featuring some of our favorite Outlaw comics. You'll freakin' love it.

[@reytorcaza2770]

Thank You for showing your proccesses, thats priceless!!

[@scherem]

This was my first issue of Wizard. Watching you flip through the pages, I was shocked by how much I remembered. The Wizard Art really took me back to being a 12 year old kayfaber. Thanks for doing this.

[@xcornmuffinx]

The Clive Barker comics have an interesting history for me. I loved those when I was young, stuff like Tapping the Vein, Hellraiser, Nightbreed, and all the one shot things like Son of Celluloid and The Yattering and Jack. After I stopped reading comics for many years, I decided that I had to go back and find all of those Clive Barker books again, so I went around to a ton of comic shops looking for them, and that experience made me get back into comics. That being said, even I haven't read a any of the Razorline comics.

[@samuellockeward]

I was kinda shocked to hear you guys say you hadn’t read Concrete. It’s one of my all time favorite comic series. Definitely worth a deep dive. I’m really loving this show, thanks for making it!

[@leestevenson80]

Loved seeing both your roughs guys, thank you for the peek behind the curtain.

[@RichardPace]

HA! I pencilled an issue of Saint Sinner for the Barkerverse - -what a weird experience that was

[@jack_yo]

Another excellent Wizard commentary. The next episode is going to be epic. Congratulations on four thousand subs. Best channel on KZbin!

[@docolomansky00]

My copy of Shadowhawk #1 was found on a 1 £ bin on the Nottinghill flea market two years ago. Pretty easy to find.

[@docolomansky00]

crap... I forgot to mention that I saw that Shadowhawk skate board, along side another one featuring one femme fatale from Extreme Studios back in 1998 or 99 in a skate board shop ... in Santiago, Chile.

[@dreddbustya2153]

A lot of the work from British artists we know and are well renowned come from a very childish British comic scene of the 70's such as "Cor" "Whizzer" & "Chips", not to mention the violent "Action" plus a ass load of war comics.

[@Ian_Milne]

These are blowing my mind. So much research to do now! That Godzilla book!

[@BraxtonWages]

I have to hand it to Wizard Magazine, if it wasn’t for that I wouldn’t have gotten in comics. There was no awareness about comics, comics history and the comics industry back then to a 10 year old kid. In Woodstock, Ga the only comic shop around back then in the early nineties was Doctor No’s so the grocery store was where and that’s where Wizard was. That was the gateway for me. So no matter how stupid those magazines could be sometimes I have nothing but fondness for it.

[@funnypicturescomics]

YEEESSSS! I'm staying up late to watch this!

[@hardtravelinghardtraveling3557]

Sad update: RIP Komikero Gerry Alanguilan: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpuZlIika86HoNU

[@dannyferbert423]

My intro to Neil Gaiman came with Angela #1. I wouldn't rediscover him again until I was 17 and started reading his novels and it would be much later before I put the 2 together.

[@darkworldinc]

Ugh! It kills me to hear anyone talk about about DC's Hitman. When I was a kid I made my own comics. For 2 years I wrote stories for Young Authors that won for my grade and my school. One of my teachers loved it and talked me into doing more stuff with it. I got an artist friend of mine to work with me and we took my 2 stories and made them into a comic. We sent it in to Marvel and DC and heard back from DC. They said they liked the idea but it was just not ready yet. Six years later DC used my character. They kept his name, his job and his look. Mine did not live in Gotham or have super powers, but was a hitman that would take on jobs to kill the superheroes. Left a sour taste in my mouth, and I have still not read all the Hitman comics.

[@darkworldinc]

I know not everything is the same, but 11 year old me was crushed. What made the burn really set in at the time was that Hitman was in books with Demon & Lobo two of my favorite characters.

[@jimcampbell]

I'm from Iowa and I know i have my own goofy pronunciations compared to my east coast friends. But i just wanna point out I'm amused when I hear Jim say "werewoofs". HA

[@GavadonA]

Someone at my local newsstand must have been a Clive Barker mark. They had prime real estate when the Barkerverse started and I foolishly gobbled Hyperkind #1 on the strength of that chromium cover.

[@davideking]

There's a great tangent in the bottom panel of the Dog page at 21:14, bart Sears wouldn't approve ... PS I saw at least 100 copies of Infanticide #1 at my local 50¢ shop -- they're out there if you look hard enough!

[@TomChansky]

That previews back cover. Hell of a way to end an episode!

[@ChuckArnold1]

Also worth noting in that top 10 (I recognize the ridiculousness of that statement, but I digress) is that they list the Artist first, not the writer.

[@STASHdadtv]

Funny to me that some if those 90s comics Beavis n butthead and Ren n Stimpy r grabbing bigger numbers in great condition

[@patrickmarkfort7480]

"This could be right out of Predator" "....or an Ed Luce Comic."

[@cesarpino7051]

it was the same for me with Gaiman and Moore. I even got Spawn 9 signed by Grant Morrison at NYCC the same year and the line was a bunch of goth kids and a pre teen doofus with no idea about Sandman

[@pixelforge4858]

xmas came early. i am about to lose some sleep.

[@patricktighe1565]

You guys have to do a review . Of ( drugs and other things to do in Cleveland. )

[@ZacharyCallen]

I remember being a teenager and disliking Jae Lee and Mike Mignola. I just found it too weird and dark.

[@sportsentertained]

double intro