7:40 - I'm still out here doing my thing. Most of my work is done under a pseudonym nowadays. This was my moment in high school though! My hometown newspaper ran an article on me and everything. haha! I have that page framed and I never wore that wizard hat outside of my house. It still looks as pristine as the day I got it, sitting on my shelf.
I picked Scud specifically because I hadn't seen him done and I didn't want to do the same retreads of staple characters. I thought if I did something a little outside the mainstream stuff they'd take notice. Turns out the gamble worked.
That's so weird. I just discovered Mark Hempel yesterday in the dollar bin at my lcs and bought like five or six issues of Tug & Buster and Naked Brain and was flipping through them while watching this episode.
The best analogue for CrossGen is All Elite Wrestling. Tony Khan buying up wrestlers like they're action figures and smashing them against each other for his own enjoyment, using storylines he wrote online as a fanboy.
I just realized you said your name is Ed Piskor, I went like wait a minute, I know that name, I have a comic, "Red Room" I got a year ago! That's cool, I didn't know this was your channel.👍 I got the original Red Room comic, didn't know there were more issues! I'm definitely gonna get the rest of the issues, I liked Red Room a lot!
Amalgam - some of them were great! There was a stir lately about a new character Spiderboy. Amalgam already had that title in the 90's... (different character though)
50:40 You're Under Arrest is by all means a primarily comedic series, especially in the anime. The series, and movie, does have more serious moments, but all in all it's mostly just a lot of fun. You definitely get the sense it's pretty goofy in the English dub of the series. The animation for the first couple of episodes of the anime and movie have some breathtaking animation.
11:07 "so much 90s stuff" reminded me of House of Secrets - Seagle/Kristiansen - Vertigo...oh! it finally got a collected trade!...hahah nevermind its so out of print..... I have a bundle of the singles though, le sigh
Man, those Batman mid-90s events. One of the Gotham Central trades has a whole section from No Man's Land to prop up the pagecount and it's such a tonal whiplash. You go from a starkly drawn police procedural and then suddenly you're in this Humberto Ramos looking Batman meets Mad Max story.
The .99 cents OVER THE EDGE #1 with Daredevil is indeed in McFarlane clone style. It's worth a video on its own -- the most McFarlane-esque of the clones this side of Cleary.
Early Luke Ross on Spider-Man was SUCH a McFarlane clone. He’s still around and no longer draws anything like McFarlane at all. I always wonder if the same will happen with Vic Bogdanovic and his Dollar Store Capullo clone style.
Tom Defalco was long gone as editor in chief by the time this Wizard came out. He was then replaced by multiple people in that fiefdom experiment. When Harras took over, it was actually then end of that phase and was meant to be a return to a more traditional editor model. But in truth the accountants were to become the true power by that point.
Funny how you guys are tuning out of Wizard at this point, because I started exploring independent and non-superhero comics in the early 2000s and Wizard helped me discover a lot of that stuff; like Terry Moore, Jeff Smith, Y: The Last Man, The Walking Dead, etc. Once the magazine went defunct I realized there's not a lot of places to get news of what's getting published these days. CBR is even worse than Wizard in regards to being more about pop culture than comics news.
Dave Taylor is definitely British, I always remember him from Judge Dredd and Shadow of the the Bat comics with Alan Grant. He did a Batman graphic novel written by Chip Kidd a few years back, real nice art and it was kind of fun with Chip Kidd casting "himself" as the villain, if I recall.
Hey Yunz...great vid. Definitely a real time capsule for me. My last Wizard mag for me was in 2001. Wizard's articles came with amazing art from whatever comic the article was about. Wizard in the 90s was definitely a bookmark of what comics were about in the 90s. I never thought comics would explode like it did then. The crash following was hard to watch. Anyway...as kid in Pittsburgh in the 70s, I bought comics from drugstores, supermarkets,etc. Then Eides opened a store in Northside. That became my #1 source. Any spare cash I had went into Greg Eide's pocket. Great times. Thanks for the vid. Will be listening to future episodes.🍻👏
This channel is my new Wednesday, part of that was the Wizard vids, good or bad. Y’all can’t quit on Wizard, Kayfabe thrives on making bad comics fun. At least get through the 90’s
Another great video, guys. I wonder if you have taken a look at Berlin by Jason Lutes? It's beautifully drawn and written, and I think your audience would appreciate its artistry.
Starchild went 12 issues in its first run then had two mini-series, for a total of 21 issues and it stopped in 1998. James Owen then pivoted to writing fantasy novels starting in 2006 with a series called The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica. Owen tried to relaunch a magazine called Argosy, but it only lasted a year from 2003 to 2004.
That breakdown with Todd Klein is fantastic! It really does pair great with the lettering video Jim put together a while back, for sure. The typographer/letterer in me really appreciates it. ❤
Joel Steudler (from the fan art page with Tick v Megaton Man) self-published Rabid Monkey. It ran for 6 or 8 issues, if I remember correctly, in 96 and 97. He at least hit up the local stores and did signings and stuff (I caught one of them at NDC).
Ninja Scroll is still great. I watched more anime after that, but just didn't get into it. To this day, I say that I'm not really an anime fan, but I dig Ninja Scroll. Similarly not into manga, but I really dig Uzumaki.
I'm pretty sure that Iron Man piece and the Cap vs Batman is Ariel Olivetti. He did a Marvel graphic novel, maybe a little earlier, called The Last Avengers Story. The art is almost identical.
Of all the comics I bought in the 90s, there were only five artists whose work I would look at more than once: Jeff Smith, Sergio Aragones, Art Adams, Evan Dorkin and John Byrne. Everything else I'd read once, bag-n-board, and never look at again.... even my absolute favorite super-hero cartoonist George Perez.
This was my last Wizard and that timeframe was when I got out of comics until this channel started up and got me back in. I remember clearly buying the issue purely out of habit and knowing it would be my last.
Well, if the CK wingmen are about to pull the rip cord on the "Wizard" back issues, it will be a sad day. I don't blame you, as the content gets more and more like "Nerd Maxim" (brilliant analogy) with each year. I hope you stick with it, at least until Issue 60, as that was the big 5 year Anniversary Issue (and has a letter submitted by one James Rugg in Indiana, PA, hmmmmm?). The "Untold Tales of Spidey" was a bright spot in the dismal Marvel offerings of the time, so, nice "shouts" to that. Next issue has A Kurt Busiek profile, Terry Moore with "Strangers in Paradise," and, of course, the biggest story of the year, "Heroes Reborn" getting the full Wizard blowout. Even if these get shorter and shorter, I love every minute of them. And if Eddie P just wants to lob haymakers at 'Cross-Gen' for an hour, I am here for it!
Downward spiral but an innovative period in comics... don't mistake bad business decisions based on unprecedented and unsustainable demand as a fault of the 90s, the bubble gave us a plethora of enjoyable content from a thriving hobby from late 80s to early 90s ❤
The games you’re talking about Ed on IG posts are the ones with the soldiers shooting the zombies and choosing the wrong power ups or soldier multiples. The ads are so cringe worthy
7:40 - I'm still out here doing my thing. Most of my work is done under a pseudonym nowadays. This was my moment in high school though! My hometown newspaper ran an article on me and everything. haha!
I have that page framed and I never wore that wizard hat outside of my house. It still looks as pristine as the day I got it, sitting on my shelf.
I picked Scud specifically because I hadn't seen him done and I didn't want to do the same retreads of staple characters. I thought if I did something a little outside the mainstream stuff they'd take notice. Turns out the gamble worked.
Not even a word about that double page with Tug & Buster. Mark Hempel is such an underrated artist. You should do some stuff with his comics
That's so weird. I just discovered Mark Hempel yesterday in the dollar bin at my lcs and bought like five or six issues of Tug & Buster and Naked Brain and was flipping through them while watching this episode.
The best analogue for CrossGen is All Elite Wrestling. Tony Khan buying up wrestlers like they're action figures and smashing them against each other for his own enjoyment, using storylines he wrote online as a fanboy.
I just realized you said your name is Ed Piskor, I went like wait a minute, I know that name, I have a comic, "Red Room" I got a year ago! That's cool, I didn't know this was your channel.👍
I got the original Red Room comic, didn't know there were more issues! I'm definitely gonna get the rest of the issues, I liked Red Room a lot!
Could you please add a link to Jim's lettering demo video? I am quite interested learning about it!
Here you go. Handlettering part 1 -- ua-cam.com/video/esEtcPaET0A/v-deo.html
Amalgam - some of them were great! There was a stir lately about a new character Spiderboy. Amalgam already had that title in the 90's... (different character though)
I think that Iron man cover was maybe a foldout? I seem to remember the metallic silver ink. It was Jim Calafiore, on issue 325 of the main run.
50:40 You're Under Arrest is by all means a primarily comedic series, especially in the anime. The series, and movie, does have more serious moments, but all in all it's mostly just a lot of fun. You definitely get the sense it's pretty goofy in the English dub of the series.
The animation for the first couple of episodes of the anime and movie have some breathtaking animation.
11:07 "so much 90s stuff" reminded me of House of Secrets - Seagle/Kristiansen - Vertigo...oh! it finally got a collected trade!...hahah nevermind its so out of print..... I have a bundle of the singles though, le sigh
Man, those Batman mid-90s events. One of the Gotham Central trades has a whole section from No Man's Land to prop up the pagecount and it's such a tonal whiplash. You go from a starkly drawn police procedural and then suddenly you're in this Humberto Ramos looking Batman meets Mad Max story.
The .99 cents OVER THE EDGE #1 with Daredevil is indeed in McFarlane clone style. It's worth a video on its own -- the most McFarlane-esque of the clones this side of Cleary.
Early Luke Ross on Spider-Man was SUCH a McFarlane clone. He’s still around and no longer draws anything like McFarlane at all. I always wonder if the same will happen with Vic Bogdanovic and his Dollar Store Capullo clone style.
Tom Defalco was long gone as editor in chief by the time this Wizard came out. He was then replaced by multiple people in that fiefdom experiment. When Harras took over, it was actually then end of that phase and was meant to be a return to a more traditional editor model. But in truth the accountants were to become the true power by that point.
The iron Man art is for the cover of Iron Man #325 and the artist is James Calafiore. His coloring and inks are spectacular to say the least.
If you overhear "Ames letting guide" or "#2 sable hair".... you know you're eavesdropping on a cartoonist's conversation!
Funny how you guys are tuning out of Wizard at this point, because I started exploring independent and non-superhero comics in the early 2000s and Wizard helped me discover a lot of that stuff; like Terry Moore, Jeff Smith, Y: The Last Man, The Walking Dead, etc. Once the magazine went defunct I realized there's not a lot of places to get news of what's getting published these days. CBR is even worse than Wizard in regards to being more about pop culture than comics news.
22:00 It would be awesome if that DD turns out to be Angel Medina and McFarlane himself takes note for later. XD
Dave Taylor is definitely British, I always remember him from Judge Dredd and Shadow of the the Bat comics with Alan Grant. He did a Batman graphic novel written by Chip Kidd a few years back, real nice art and it was kind of fun with Chip Kidd casting "himself" as the villain, if I recall.
Hey Yunz...great vid. Definitely a real time capsule for me. My last Wizard mag for me was in 2001. Wizard's articles came with amazing art from whatever comic the article was about. Wizard in the 90s was definitely a bookmark of what comics were about in the 90s. I never thought comics would explode like it did then. The crash following was hard to watch.
Anyway...as kid in Pittsburgh in the 70s, I bought comics from drugstores, supermarkets,etc. Then Eides opened a store in Northside. That became my #1 source. Any spare cash I had went into Greg Eide's pocket. Great times.
Thanks for the vid. Will be listening to future episodes.🍻👏
This channel is my new Wednesday, part of that was the Wizard vids, good or bad. Y’all can’t quit on Wizard, Kayfabe thrives on making bad comics fun. At least get through the 90’s
Jim Calafiore is responsible for the iron man v iron man cover about the 24 minute mark
Another great video, guys. I wonder if you have taken a look at Berlin by Jason Lutes? It's beautifully drawn and written, and I think your audience would appreciate its artistry.
Starchild went 12 issues in its first run then had two mini-series, for a total of 21 issues and it stopped in 1998. James Owen then pivoted to writing fantasy novels starting in 2006 with a series called The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica. Owen tried to relaunch a magazine called Argosy, but it only lasted a year from 2003 to 2004.
You've got my vote for a Captain Canuck close-up! I remember those showing up infrequently on the newsstands when I was a kid.
That breakdown with Todd Klein is fantastic! It really does pair great with the lettering video Jim put together a while back, for sure.
The typographer/letterer in me really appreciates it. ❤
Joel Steudler (from the fan art page with Tick v Megaton Man) self-published Rabid Monkey. It ran for 6 or 8 issues, if I remember correctly, in 96 and 97. He at least hit up the local stores and did signings and stuff (I caught one of them at NDC).
I knew I recognized his name! Have a half dozen Rabid Monkey’s that I got at Pittsburgh comic con! -ed
Ninja Scroll is still great. I watched more anime after that, but just didn't get into it. To this day, I say that I'm not really an anime fan, but I dig Ninja Scroll. Similarly not into manga, but I really dig Uzumaki.
I'm pretty sure that Iron Man piece and the Cap vs Batman is Ariel Olivetti. He did a Marvel graphic novel, maybe a little earlier, called The Last Avengers Story. The art is almost identical.
I was wrong about the Ironman art. It's Jim Calafiore. Not sure about the other image, but probably wrong there too. Sorry.
"Put em together, you get a blue and yellow Faust!"
When do we get a Charles Vess Shoot interview?
Of all the comics I bought in the 90s, there were only five artists whose work I would look at more than once: Jeff Smith, Sergio Aragones, Art Adams, Evan Dorkin and John Byrne. Everything else I'd read once, bag-n-board, and never look at again.... even my absolute favorite super-hero cartoonist George Perez.
This was my last Wizard and that timeframe was when I got out of comics until this channel started up and got me back in. I remember clearly buying the issue purely out of habit and knowing it would be my last.
Gentlemen let me know what issue's of Wizard I can assist you with to keep this magnificent series going. I own most of the run from 94 to 01.
Gareb S Shamus is now a abstract minimalist painter.
Angel Cop, Fist of the North Star...get out of my head!
That Maxx figure was hard as hell to find, I searched for years and only ever found it on eBay for prices beyond what I was willing to spend.
I got that Maxx figure when it dropped. Still have it
damn I'm gonna miss wizards if you stop doing them. i know its a chore 🤣but i looked forward to you all getting into those dark periods....
A young Eddie P was wise beyond his years.
Bobby Brown jaw 😂😂😂
Well, if the CK wingmen are about to pull the rip cord on the "Wizard" back issues, it will be a sad day. I don't blame you, as the content gets more and more like "Nerd Maxim" (brilliant analogy) with each year. I hope you stick with it, at least until Issue 60, as that was the big 5 year Anniversary Issue (and has a letter submitted by one James Rugg in Indiana, PA, hmmmmm?). The "Untold Tales of Spidey" was a bright spot in the dismal Marvel offerings of the time, so, nice "shouts" to that. Next issue has A Kurt Busiek profile, Terry Moore with "Strangers in Paradise," and, of course, the biggest story of the year, "Heroes Reborn" getting the full Wizard blowout. Even if these get shorter and shorter, I love every minute of them. And if Eddie P just wants to lob haymakers at 'Cross-Gen' for an hour, I am here for it!
Please do an episode about CrossGen comics.
Let's Gooooo!
🔥🔥🔥
Nice cover, though!
Atleast do the issue with Masamune Shirow on the cover. After that I don't care about the magazine anymore.
Downward spiral but an innovative period in comics... don't mistake bad business decisions based on unprecedented and unsustainable demand as a fault of the 90s, the bubble gave us a plethora of enjoyable content from a thriving hobby from late 80s to early 90s ❤
The games you’re talking about Ed on IG posts are the ones with the soldiers shooting the zombies and choosing the wrong power ups or soldier multiples. The ads are so cringe worthy
Wiz-zard
Klein ftw!