Podcast appearances and mentions of Mark London

Mark London returns to the Cryptid Creator Corner for the 3rd time and he's here to discuss the Mad Cave Studios Underworld Universe and the Endless Nightcrossover event. Mark has been writing the 3 series (4 issues each) leading up to Endless Night. Revolution 9, with artist Carlos Reno, Hour of the Wolf, with artist Danilo Beyruth, and Exit City, with artist Karl Mostert (sadly Karl passed away in the latter half of 2024). Each series is a different genre. Revolution 9 is high octane action about a rogue assassin, Hour of the Wolf is supernatural horror, and Exit City is neo-noir sci-fi. Now, with Endless Night, Mark has brought all three together with artist Tom Derenick. Do you want to know how? You'll have to listen to the episode, but Mark discusses the challenges of bringing these 3 disparate stories together including finding the right tone and balance. Mark also tells Jimmy about Mad Cave Digital and gives a few hints about the future of Revolution 9, Hour of the Wolf, and Exit City. Mad Cave fans, you're going to want to listen to this episode.  Follow Mark on Bluesky Follow Mad Cave Studios on Bluesky Learn more about Mad Cave Digital Endless Night #1 From the publisher When Axel Black, an obsessive tech billionaire and head of the sinister Order of Nine, sends his operatives to Exit City in search of a dangerous mystical artifact, only a team of unlikely allies from different corners of the underworld can prevent an apocalyptic catastrophe: VELVETEEN, the elite rogue assassin hellbent on revenge; McCORMICK & MILLER, two detectives keeping peace in a lawless city; and OWEN BLACKWOOD, a monster hunter duty-bound to stop evil. But tensions are mounting, and time is running out! ENDLESS NIGHT is Mad Cave's miniseries event of Summer 2025, a genre-smashing collision of archetypal heroes by celebrated writer MARK LONDON (Battlecats, Hunt.Kill.Repeat.) and acclaimed artist TOM DERENICK (Justice League), set in the universe of dark conspiracies, hard-boiled mystery, and unnatural menace known as UNDERWORLD! Hour of the Wolf From the publisher With Owen and Jan fighting for their life in the year 1888, the children are preparing for Ellen's kidnap in the present. Time is running out and the Businessman's transaction is almost complete. Will Owen and Jan make it out alive and save Ellen, or will the Businessman claim another victim? Witness the thrilling conclusion in the final issue of Hour of the Wolf! Revolution 9 From the publisher After years as an assassin for the Order of Nine—an ancient order dating back almost 3,000 years—Velveteen has turned her back on the very organization that saved her. Tasked with the murder of otherwise innocent hacker Jasper Dean, she sets off to save his life and discover the terrible secret that marked him for death. With the entire Order after them, Velveteen and Jasper must escape their grasp and prevent them from toppling society as we know it. Revolution 9 is the first thrilling title in Underworld, an all-new universe created by Mark London (Hunt. Kill. Repeat., Battlecats, Knights of the Golden Sun). Each miniseries set within can be savored as a standalone serial, while serving as a stepping stone towards ENDLESS NIGHT, the must-read crossover guaranteed to blow your mind in 2025! PATREON We have a new Patreon, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠CryptidCreatorCornerpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you like what we do, please consider supporting us. We got two simple tiers, $1 and $3. Want to know more, you know what to do. ARKENFORGE Play TTRPG games? Make sure to check out our partner ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Arkenforge⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Use the discount code YETI5 to get $5 off your order. THE LANTERN CATALOG Created on the premise of creating light in the dark, this is the the go to resource to keep you up to date on the indy projects and the creators you love. You can find them at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.thelanterncatalog.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Make sure to check out our sponsor ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠2000AD⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bearded Comic Bro got to sit down and talk with CEO/CCO of Mad Cave Studios, Mark London. Mark is the writer behind the new comic event of the Summer  "Endless Night". Make sure you watch the video and check out all the links below that we mention in the videohttps://madcavestudios.comFollow Mark London on Social Media Twitter: @MarkLondonMCSInstagram: @marklondonmcs

Streamathon: We are on the road to 22k on the YouTube and the road to the 2025 STREAMATHON on the show! SAVAGE: Well, what do we have here? A new character? Savage And Them checks in with tall tales of working with Corey Feldman and Buckethead Sally Jessy Raphael: We check in on the paparazzi catching Corey Feldman and Adrien Skye out on the town and then we finish up the Corey Feldman Sally Jessy post rehab appearance. COREY FELDMAN!, SHOW STOPPER!, LET'S JUST TALK!, DON CHEADLE!, BOOGIE NIGHTS!, JIM AND THEM IS POP CULTURE!, YOU KNOW THAT!, COMEBACK KINGS!, COVER!, TRUE COMEBACK KINGS!, ROAD TO 22K!, MASK!, MAX MURDER!, SHOUT OUTS!, DRIPPY!, THE SHAPE!, SHIESTY!, AIM MESSAGE!, MIKE!, LVL UP EXPO!, WRESTLING MATCH!, COCOBAUNZ!, ADRIEN SKYE!, HOWNTEED!, EDIT!, SWEAR EDIT!, CUSP OF THE STREAMATHON!, DONATIONS!, SAVAGE!, CALL IN!, THIS GUY'S CAP!, NO RIZZ!, YEET!, SAVAGE AND THEM!, ROLEPLAY!, KEYBOARDIST!, YOUTUBE!, TRACKS!, KOKOMO!, IN ON IT!, PROSTITUTE!, MUSICAL ABOUT HIS LIFE!, GIFT OF THE MAGI!, ADRIEN SKYE!, PAPARAZZI!, NEPO BABY BODYGUARD!, JARED LETO JOKER GIRLFRIEND!, COREY'S TWITTER!, TRIPLE 22 DAY!, APRIL 22!, GOONIES HOUSE!, GOONIES DAY!, SALLY JESSY!, REHAB!, BRION JAMES!, BLADE RUNNER!, TANGO AND CASH!, SALT AND PEPPER TEAM!, BOOST CAR RADIOS!, ATTENTION!, EX ADDICTS!, ENERGY!, WARCRAFT!, GRINDING!, HELLDIVERS!, HEROIN BALLOONS!, TRUTH MOVEMENT!, MARK LONDON!, SOBER!, FUTURE!, MEATBALLS 4!, ROAD TRIP TO HEAVEN!, ZACH GALLIGAN!, FOULEST!, DAN TONY!, RIFF RAFF!, DEAN STONE!  You can find the videos from this episode at our Discord RIGHT HERE!

In the latest episode, The Fanbase Weekly co-hosts welcome special guests Mark London (founder/CEO/COO, Mad Cave Studios) and Amie Wright (Executive Director, Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Past President, ALA's Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table) to discuss the latest geek news stories of the week, including whether Image Comics President Todd McFarlane will buy Diamond Comic Distributors, reactions to the reveal of Mortal Kombat 2's Johnny Cage, and Absolute Joker's twist on Batman and the Joker.

Corey Feldman and Jake Perry: The battle rages on! Jim and Them continue to prove that they are Corey Feldman's #1 haters. Origin Of Jake Perry: We hear from the man himself how he attached himself like a leech to Corey Feldman. Also what is your dream Feldman playlist? Wasting Time: While following Jake Perry appearances we stumble upon our new local favorites, Jason Green and Johnny Chicago. Also a new Corey Feldman movie, Sour Party! COREY FELDMAN!, SHOW STOPPER!, LET'S JUST TALK!, DON CHEADLE!, BOOGIE NIGHTS!, THIS IS FRIDAY NIGHT!, THE BATTLE RAGES ON!, KICKED OFF RUMBLE!, OBAMNA!, OBAMA!, PLAYFUL JABS!, PUNCHING UP!, MARIO!, LUIGI!, THIS FUCKING GUY!, SNIPER OF FORTUNE!, JAKE PERRY!, COREY FELDMAN!, CAPTAIN AMERICA!, FAIREST PODCAST!, SHADOWY WORM!, BEEF!, INSTAGRAM COPYRIGHT!, FAST AND FURIOUS!, 10 BUSINESS DAYS AT A TIME!, MAGGOT!, BOXING!, YOUTUBE BOXING!, NEXT LEVEL!, HANDICAP MATCH!, 2020-DEAD!, 2020-EPIC!, KILL A MAN!, BLOOD ON OUR HANDS!, A PERMANENT END!, COREY COWBOYS!, NEIL!, FRICK VAPE!, COREY FELDMAN SET LIST!, BELLEND!, NUH DUTTY UP!, ASCENSION MILLENIUM!, LETHAL LOLITA!, AUSSIE DOLLARS!, COREY'S SON!, CARTOON EGON!, KATE MCKINNON!, 4 PEOPLE ENTERED!, EVIL ASCENSION MILLENIUM!, GO 4 IT!, IT'S SO SIMPLE!, MISS DOG LOVER!, TTS!, GRAMMY NOMINATED!, WASTING TIME WITH JASON GREEN!, BOX SET!, LOVE LEFT 2.1!, WHISKEY A GO GO!, MARK LONDON!, GRAMMY!, JOHNNY CHICAGO!, LAS VEGAS!, DOXX!, WHAT AREA!, MR. GOONICIDE!, BIKINI BARISTA!, PANTS OFF!, WORM IN!, THE COREYS!, PAUL DANO!, TRENT REZNOR!, SMOKING NEIGHBOR!, JESSICA!, BOOTLEGGER!, HENDERSON!, BLUE DIAMOND!, NOT MY BIRTHDAY!, TWITTER!, X!, PASSIVE AGRESSIVE!, SOUR PARTY!  You can find the videos from this episode at our Discord RIGHT HERE!

Comic Reviews: DC o        Absolute Superman 1 by Jason Aaron, Rafa Sandoval, Ulises Arreola o        Batgirl 1 by Tate Brombal, Takeshi Miyazawa, Mike Spicer o        Green Arrow Annual 1 by Joshua Williamson, Sean Izaakse, Amancay Nahuelpan, Romulo Fajardo Jr. o        JSA 1 by Jeff Lemire, Diego Olortegui, Luis Guerrero o        Little Batman: Month One 1 by Morgan Evans, Jon Mikel, Ian Herring Marvel o        Kahhori: Reshaper of Worlds 1 by Ryan Little, Todd Harris; Honni David, David Cutler; Kelly Lynne D'Angelo, Jim Terry o        Negasonic Teenage Warhead 1 by Andrew Wheeler, Eleonora Carlini, Carola Borelli, Brittany Peer, Ruth Redmond o        Marvel Unlimited §  Beastly Buddies 4 by Steve Foxe, Armand Bodnar, KJ Diaz §  Marvel Meow 21 by Nao Fuji Boom o        Fade 1 by Aabria Iyengar, Mari Costa o        Something is Killing the Children 0 by James Tynion IV, Werther Dell'Edera, Miquel Muerto Dark Horse o        FML 1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick, David Lopez o        Living Hell 1 by Caitlin Yarsky DSTLRY o        One For Sorrow 1 by Jamie McKelvie Dynamite o        DuckTales 1 by Brandon Montclare, Tomasso Ronda Image o        Les Mort 13 Giant-Syze Special by TP Louise, Ashley Wood o        Mirka Andolfo's Sweet Paprika: Open For Business 1 by Steve Orlando, Emilio Pilliu Archie o        Josie and the Pussycats Annual Spectacular by Ian Flynn, Steven Butler, Lily Butler, Glenn Whitmore Mad Cave o        Exit City 1 by Mark London, Karl Mostert, David Baron Magma o        Rome Eternal 1 by Homero Rios, Diego Yapur, Oscar Carreno Titan o        Runescape: Untold Tales of the God Wars 1 by Ryan O'Sullivan, Sid Kotian, Daniel Bayliss OGN Countdown o        Frozen: Daring Rescues by Katie Cook, Izel Tamayo o        Teen Titans: Starfire by Kami Garcia, Gabriel Picolo o        Gnome and Rat: First Snow by Lauren Stohler o        Power Button: Second Strike by Zack Soto, Jason Fischer-Kouhi o        Last Kids on Earth by Max Brallier, Brian Churilla o        Mushroom Knight Vol 2 by Oliver Bly o        Unpetables Vol 2: Unpetable in the City by Dennis Messner o        Cthulhu Cat by PANDANIA o        Anzuelo Vol 1 by Emma Rios o        Uprooted o        Death Comes for the Toymaker by Dakota Brown, Ryan Cody JewCE o        Big Kahn by Neil Kleid, Nicolas Cinquegrani o        Ninety Candles by Neil Kleid o        Brother's Keeper by Arnon Shorr, Joshua Edelglass, Aljosa Tomic o        Beast in the Booth by Arnon Shorr, Joshua Edelglass, Aljosa Tomic Additional Reviews: Love and Death, Candy JewCE Recap Mangler Challenge News: new Young Avengers comic in 2025, Andor return date, Disney's odd choice for Star Wars Trailers: Stranger Things s5, Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts, What If…? Comics Countdown (06 November 2024): 1.     One For Sorrow 1 by Jamie McKelvie 2.     Absolute Superman 1 by Jason Aaron, Rafa Sandoval, Ulises Arreola 3.     Public Domain 10 by Chip Zdarsky, Rachael Stott 4.     Gilt Frame 3 by Matt Kindt, Margie Kindt 5.     Batgirl 1 by Tate Brombal, Takeshi Miyazawa, Mike Spicer 6.     Ultimates 6 by Deniz Camp, Juan Frigeri, Federico Blee 7.     Green Arrow Annual 2024 by Joshua Williamson, Sean Izaakse, Amancay Nahuelpan, Romulo Fajardo Jr. 8.     JSA 1 by Jeff Lemire, Diego Olortegui, Luis Guerrero 9.     FML 1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick, David Lopez 10.  Aliens vs. Avengers 2 by Jonathan Hickman, Esad Ribic, Ive Svorcina

Jace talks with writer Mark London and color artist David Baron about Exit City. This is the third and final title that fits into the Underworld Universe at Mad Cave Studios. The universe is so unique in that each title truly stands on it's own in terms of story and style, how they will come together remains to be seen. Exit City itself is part science fiction and part old school police procedural. We are introduced to Detectives McCormick and Miller who must work together to solve the mystery of a brutal accident, which may not be an accident at all. They come at the job from very different prospectives with very different methods, it will be interesting to see if they can get along, let alone work together.

Jan 2025 Solicits (Marvel, IDW, Dark Horse, Others) Longbox of Horror 2024 Part 4: The Mangler Comic Reviews: DC o        All In §  Detective Comics 1090 by Tom Taylor, Mikel Janin §  Green Arrow 17 (350) by Joshua Williamson, Amancay Nahuelpan, Romulo Fajardo Jr.; Chris Condon, Montos, Adriano Lucas §  Harley Quinn 44 by Elliott Kalan, Mindy Lee, Triona Farrell §  Nightwing 119 by Dan Watters, Dexter Soy, Veronica Gandini o        Absolute Wonder Woman 1 by Kelly Thompson, Hayden Sherman, Jordie Bellaire o        DC Horror Presents 1 by David Dastmalchian, Leah Kilpatrick, Cat Staggs, Romulo Fajardo Jr.; Boulet Brothers, Butch Mapa, Kristian Rossi o        Green Lantern Dark 1 by Tate Brombal, Werther Dell'Edera, Giovanna Niro Marvel o        Alien Romulus 1 by Zac Thompson, Daniel Picciotto, Yen Nitro o        Iron Man 1 by Spencer Ackerman, Julius Ohta, Alex Sinclair o        Marvel Unlimited §  Beastly Buddies 2 by Steve Foxe, Armand Bodnar, KJ Diaz Dark Horse o        Headless Horseman Halloween Special by David Dastmalchian, Leah Kilpatrick, Sara Stella Scalia, Mauro; Ben Stenbeck, Matt Smith; Lukas Ketner, Eryk Donovan; James Asmus, Chris Panda; Jay Martin o        Space Usagi: White Star Rising 1 by Stan Sakai, Emi Fujii Dynamite o        Powerpuff Girls Halloween Special by Amanda Diebert, Cat Staggs IDW o        Godzilla's Monsterpiece Theatre 1 by Tom Scioli Image o        Feeding 1 by David Booher, Drew Zucker, Vittorio Astone o        Nullhunter 1 by Michael Walsh, Gustaffo Vargas o        Sacred Damned (Horizon Experiment) 1 by Sabir Pirzada, Michael Walsh, Toni Marie Griffin o        Voices In My Head 1 by Joe Pruett, Andrew Robinson, Phil Hester, Bruce McCorkindale, Juan Doe, Michael Gaydos, Bil Ruth, Guy Major Mad Cave o        Hour of the Wolf 1 by Mark London, Danilo Beyruth, Fabi Marques ComiXology o        Groupies by Helen Mullane, Tula Lotay OGN Countdown o        Sublime: $5 at the Door by Ryan Cady, Audrey Mok, Alex Diotti, Hayden Sherman, Logan Faerber, Bill Masuku, Robert Ahmad, Julianne Griepp o        Sweetness Between Us by Sarah Winifred Searle o        Neo Pets: The Omelette Fairie by Rebecca Mix, Heather Burns o        Medusa by Tony Parker, Tamra Bonvillain o        Thief of the Heights by Son M, Robin Yao o        Star Trek Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way by Ryan North, Chris Fenoglio o        Detective Beans and the Case of the Missing Hat by Li Chen o        Dracula Book 1: The Impaler by Matt Wagner, Kelley Jones, Jose Villarrubia o        Cooking with Monsters vol 2: Harm-to-Table by Jordan Alsaqa, Vivian Truong o        Swing by Audrey Meeker, Sarah Davidson o        Sidekicks by Dan Santat o        My Time Machine by Carol Lay Additional Reviews:         Agatha ep7         Crossing Over Express         Spencer and Locke         Sweetpea         Venom 3 News: Capullo controversy, Star Wars: Legacy of Vader, Wonka 2 greenlit, OGN by Hickman/Del Mondo, s3 of Good Omens now a 90-minute movie, Kelly Williams gofundme, new Fear Street movie announced, Jumanji sequel Trailers: That Christmas Comics Countdown (23 October 2024): 1.     Absolute Wonder Woman 1 by Kelly Thompson, Hayden Sherman, Jordie Bellaire 2.     Godzilla: Monsterpiece Theatre 1 by Tom Scioli 3.     Superman 19 by Joshua Williamson, Dan Mora, Alejandro Sanchez 4.     Green Lantern Dark 1 by Tate Brombal, Werther Dell'Edera, Giovanna Niro 5.     Moon is Following Us 2 by Daniel Warren Johnson, Riley Rossmo, Mike Spicer 6.     Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 by Jason Aaron, Cliff Chiang 7.     Power Fantasy 3 by Kieron Gillen, Caspar Wijngaard 8.     Rook: Exodus 6 by Geoff Johns, Jason Fabok, Brad Anderson 9.     Standstill 3 by Lee Loughridge, Andrew Robinson 10.  Universal Monsters: Frankenstein 3 by Michael Walsh, Toni-Maria Griffin  

A monster is killing people, and it is up to Erica Slaughter to put an end to the carnage in Something is Killing the Children. We review Zatanna - Bring Down the House #5 from DC Comics, Power Rangers: Across the Morphin Grid #1 from BOOM! Studios, and Exit City #1 from Mad Cave Studios. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure the Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) REVIEWS STEPHEN ZATANNA - BRING DOWN THE HOUSE #5 Writer: Mariko Tamaki Artist: Javier Rodriguez Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: $5.99 Release Date: October 23, 2024 And now for her grand finale! Zatanna's been hunted by demons, terrorized by warring factions of magic, whisked halfway across the world by anex—always running from the past rather than daring to face it down. But when it becomes clear that the ghost that haunts her lies in the kaleidoscope of childhood memories she's tried so hard to forget, will she be able to turn back the clock to not just save herself but the very fabric of magic? [rating:3/5] You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/3YDOChR MATTHEW POWER RANGERS: ACROSS THE MORPHIN GRID #1 Writer: David Yost, Walter Jones, Steve Cardenas, Mat Groom, Nakia Burrise, Jd Sutphin, Meghan Camarena Artist:Patrick Mulholland, Anand Ramcheron, Dominike "Domo" Stanton, Tango, Paulina Ganucheau Publisher: BOOM! Studios Cover Price: $7.99 Release Date: October 30, 2024 What's better than an anthology featuring a character of each main Power Ranger color? One where each corresponding actor writes their character's story? Featuring Yellow Zeo Ranger Tanya Sloan, Black Mighty Morphin Power Ranger Zack Taylor, Blue Mighty Morphin Power Ranger Billy Cranston, the second Red Mighty Morphin Power Ranger Rocky DeSantos, and Pink Hyperforce Ranger Chloe Ashford, discover a whole host of exciting stories from every corner of the Morphin Grid! [rating:3.5/5] You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/4e5AYZw RODRIGO EXIT CITY #1 Writer: Mark London Artist: Karl Mostert Publisher: Mad Cave Studios Cover Price: $4.99 Release Date: November 6, 2024 In Exit City, there's a thin line between good and evil, and Detectives McCormick and Miller are about to find out the hard way. When they come to the scene of a brutal accident, it becomes clear that the Major Crimes division was called in for a reason. With minimal evidence, McCormick and Miller must work together through a web of seedy criminals, genetic experiments, and a crooked government. But that's not the only thing standing in their way, McCormick is hiding a secret that would make anyone question his capabilities. Exit City is the third thrilling title in Underworld, an all-new universe created by Mark London which also includes Revolution 9 (launching in September) and Hour of the Wolf (launching in October). Each miniseries set within can be savored as a standalone serial, while serving as a stepping stone towards ENDLESS NIGHT, the must-read crossover guaranteed to blow your mind in 2025! [rating: 2.5/5] You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/3UpYLfy DISCUSSION SOMETHING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN VOLUME 01 Writer: James Tynion IV Artist: Werther Dell'Edera Publisher: BOOM! Studios Cover Price: $14.99 Release Date: May 26, 2020 IT'S THE MONSTERS WHO SHOULD BE AFRAID. When the children of Archer's Peak—a sleepy town in the heart of America—begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless. Most children never return, but the ones that do have terrible stories—impossible details of terrifying creatures that live in the shadows. Their only hope of finding and eliminating the threat is the arrival of a mysterious stranger, one who believes the children and claims to be the only one who sees what they can see. Her name is Erica Slaughter. She kills monsters. That is all she does, and she bears the cost because it must be done. You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/3Ut7UEi CLOSE Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends!

A monster is killing people, and it is up to Erica Slaughter to put an end to the carnage in Something is Killing the Children. We review Zatanna - Bring Down the House #5 from DC Comics, Power Rangers: Across the Morphin Grid #1 from BOOM! Studios, and Exit City #1 from Mad Cave Studios. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure the Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) REVIEWS STEPHEN ZATANNA - BRING DOWN THE HOUSE #5 Writer: Mariko Tamaki Artist: Javier Rodriguez Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: $5.99 Release Date: October 23, 2024 And now for her grand finale! Zatanna's been hunted by demons, terrorized by warring factions of magic, whisked halfway across the world by anex—always running from the past rather than daring to face it down. But when it becomes clear that the ghost that haunts her lies in the kaleidoscope of childhood memories she's tried so hard to forget, will she be able to turn back the clock to not just save herself but the very fabric of magic? [rating:3/5] You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/3YDOChR MATTHEW POWER RANGERS: ACROSS THE MORPHIN GRID #1 Writer: David Yost, Walter Jones, Steve Cardenas, Mat Groom, Nakia Burrise, Jd Sutphin, Meghan Camarena Artist:Patrick Mulholland, Anand Ramcheron, Dominike "Domo" Stanton, Tango, Paulina Ganucheau Publisher: BOOM! Studios Cover Price: $7.99 Release Date: October 30, 2024 What's better than an anthology featuring a character of each main Power Ranger color? One where each corresponding actor writes their character's story? Featuring Yellow Zeo Ranger Tanya Sloan, Black Mighty Morphin Power Ranger Zack Taylor, Blue Mighty Morphin Power Ranger Billy Cranston, the second Red Mighty Morphin Power Ranger Rocky DeSantos, and Pink Hyperforce Ranger Chloe Ashford, discover a whole host of exciting stories from every corner of the Morphin Grid! [rating:3.5/5] You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/4e5AYZw RODRIGO EXIT CITY #1 Writer: Mark London Artist: Karl Mostert Publisher: Mad Cave Studios Cover Price: $4.99 Release Date: November 6, 2024 In Exit City, there's a thin line between good and evil, and Detectives McCormick and Miller are about to find out the hard way. When they come to the scene of a brutal accident, it becomes clear that the Major Crimes division was called in for a reason. With minimal evidence, McCormick and Miller must work together through a web of seedy criminals, genetic experiments, and a crooked government. But that's not the only thing standing in their way, McCormick is hiding a secret that would make anyone question his capabilities. Exit City is the third thrilling title in Underworld, an all-new universe created by Mark London which also includes Revolution 9 (launching in September) and Hour of the Wolf (launching in October). Each miniseries set within can be savored as a standalone serial, while serving as a stepping stone towards ENDLESS NIGHT, the must-read crossover guaranteed to blow your mind in 2025! [rating: 2.5/5] You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/3UpYLfy DISCUSSION SOMETHING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN VOLUME 01 Writer: James Tynion IV Artist: Werther Dell'Edera Publisher: BOOM! Studios Cover Price: $14.99 Release Date: May 26, 2020 IT'S THE MONSTERS WHO SHOULD BE AFRAID. When the children of Archer's Peak—a sleepy town in the heart of America—begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless. Most children never return, but the ones that do have terrible stories—impossible details of terrifying creatures that live in the shadows. Their only hope of finding and eliminating the threat is the arrival of a mysterious stranger, one who believes the children and claims to be the only one who sees what they can see. Her name is Erica Slaughter. She kills monsters. That is all she does, and she bears the cost because it must be done. You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/3Ut7UEi CLOSE Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends!

Comic Reviews: DC o        Absolute Power: Task Force VII 7 by Dan Watters, Fran Galan o        Batman: The Long Halloween – The Last Halloween 1 by Jeph Loeb, Eduardo Risso, Dave Stewart o        Lobo Cancellation Special by Kyle Starks, Kyle Hotz, Dan Brown Marvel o        Avengers Annual 2024 by Derek Landy, Salvador Larroca, Guru eFX o        Venom War: Daredevil 1 by Chris Condon, Lan Medina, Yen Nitro o        Marvel Unlimited §  Jeff Week by Gustavo Duarte §  Alligator Loki 40 by Alyssa Wong, Robert Quinn §  Lovable Lockheed 4 by Nathan Stockman Boom o        Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Usagi Yojimbo 1 by Ryan Parrott, Shawn Daley, James Fenner Dark Horse o        Magic Order Five 1 by Mark Millar, Matteo Buffagni, Giovanna Niro o        Masters of the Universe/TMNT: Turtles of Grayskull 1 by Tim Seeley, Freddie Williams II, Andrew Dalhouse o        Survival Street: The Radical Left 1 by James Asmus, Jim Festante, Abylay Kussainov, Ellie Wright DSTLRY o        Missionary 1 by Ryan Stegman, Jason Howard IDW o        My Little Pony: The Storm of Zephyr Heights 1 by Jeremy Whitley, Andy Price, Heather Breckel Image o        Creepshow Volume Three 1 by Chip Zdarsky, Kagan McLeod, James Stokoe o        Knights vs. Samurai 1 by David Dastmalchian, Fede Mele, Ulises Arreola o        Manchurian (Horizon Experiment) 1 by Pornsak Pichetshote, Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson o        Old Dog Operations 1 by Declan Shalvey; PJ Holden, John McCrea, Mike Spicer; Declan Shalvey, Matias Bergara, Sofie Dodgson; Rory McConville, David O'Sullivan; Sumeyye Kesgin; Declan Shalvey, Luke Sparrow, Dee Cunniffe; Leonardo Romero, Triona Farrell; Alex Paknadel, Chris Sprouse, Dexter Vines; Charles Soule, Gavin Guidry, Chris O'Halloran o        Violator 1 by Marc Andreyko, Piotr Kowalski, Brad Simpson o        Violent Flowers 1 by Maria Llovet Mad Cave o        Revolution 9 1 by Mark London, Carlos Reno, Jao Canola Valiant by o        Black, White, and Bloodshot 1 by Luciano Saracino, Ariel Olivetti; Marc Guggenheim, Agustin Alessio; Matts, Guillermo Fajardo; Tim Seeley, Rodrigo Rocha Magma o        Hell's Half Acre 1 by Denton Tipton, Jack Jadson Indie o        Yuletide Flame by Hayden Fryer OGN Countdown o        Transplants by Dave Collard, Domenico Carbone, Josh Rodriguez o        Grinch Takes a Vacation by Kaeti Vandorn o        New Adventure of Turning Red Vol 2: Panda Power by Sloane Leong, Sergio Algozzino, Sara Galanti o        Moosicians by Steve Behling, Jeff Crowther o        Inventor Vol 2: The Secret of the Scrap Goblin by Lars Henrik Eriksen o        A Quick and Easy Guide to Coming Out by Kristin Russo, Ravi Teixeira o        Spinal Cord by David Brana, Pahito o        Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens o        Amazing Grapes by Jules Feiffer o        Holler by Jeremy Massie Additional Reviews: Wild Robot, Justice League International, Wilderness, Agatha All Along ep3, Penguin ep2 News: rumors of a James Gunn/Jim Lee Superman comic in 2025, Justice League x Sonic, Hellboy: Crooked Man going straight to digital, superhero trademark Trailers: Sinners, Caddo Lake, Dream Productions, Killer Cakes, Sweatpea Comics Countdown (25 September 2024): 1.     Helen of Wyndhorn 5 by Tom King, Bilquis Evely, Mat Lopes 2.     Spectregraph 3 by James Tynion IV, Christian Ward 3.     Ultimate Spider-Man 9 by Jonathan Hickman, Marco Checchetto, Matt Wilson 4.     Lobo Cancellation Special by Kyle Starks, Kyle Hotz, Dan Brown 5.     Action Comics 1069 by Gail Simone, Eddy Barrows, Danny Miki, Jonas Trindade, Rex Lokus 6.     Standstill 2 by Lee Loughridge, Andrew Robinson 7.     Drawing Blood 6 by David Avallone, Kevin Eastman, Troy Little, Ben Bishop, Luis Antonio Delgado 8.     Detective Comics 1089 by Dan Watters, Ram V, Guillem March, Christopher Mitten, Luis Guerrero, Triona Farrell 9.     Batman: Brave and the Bold 17 by Michael Conrad, Christopher Mitten, Miguel Mendonca, Mike Spicer; Zipporah Smith, Mike Norton, John Kalisz; Alex Segura, Andy MacDonald, Patricio Delpeche; Troy Peteri, David Baldeon, Veronica Gandini 10.  Universal Monsters: Frankenstein 2 by Michael Walsh  

Mark London returns! Mark London the CEO/CCO of Mad Cave Studios returns to the podcast and we have so much to discuss. Mark and I talk about some of the amazing series Mad Cave has published this past year for their 10th anniversary, as well as the announcements about Nakama Press and Joe Quesada's Amazing Comics. Mark tells me about the Battlecats Kickstarter, which you can back here until October 22nd. I was also excited to hear more about the Underworld Universe with 3 new series written by Mark, the first of which Revolution 9 is out September 25th. These 3 new series will culminate in a crossover called Endless Night in 2025. I cannot believe how much ground we covered. If you listen to this podcast on any kind of regular basis you know that I am a huge Mad Cave fan so this was a real joy to get to talk about all of these things with Mark. I really think you're gonna love this episode. Be sure to check out Mad Cave's website here: https://madcavestudios.com/ You can follow Mad Cave Studios on Twitter here: https://x.com/MadCaveStudios  Revolution 9 synopsis from the publisher After years as an assassin for the Order of Nine—an ancient order dating back almost 3,000 years—Velveteen has turned her back on the very organization that saved her. Tasked with the murder of otherwise innocent hacker Jasper Dean, she sets off to save his life and discover the terrible secret that marked him for death. With the entire Order after them, Velveteen and Jasper must escape their grasp and prevent them from toppling society as we know it. Revolution 9 is the first thrilling title in Underworld, an all-new universe created by Mark London (Hunt. Kill. Repeat., Battlecats, Knights of the Golden Sun). Each miniseries set within can be savored as a standalone serial, while serving as a stepping stone towards ENDLESS NIGHT, the must-read crossover guaranteed to blow your mind in 2025! Our episode sponsors From Within on Kickstarter From Within is a martial arts revenge graphic novel about a slave fighting his way through a deadly tournament where the rules shift at the whims of a tyrannical emperor. It's a mash-up of the high-impact action sequences of Bruce Lee's films with the paranoid thriller undercurrent found in Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips' Sleeper series. Late pledges are enabled if you happen to hear about it after the campaign officially ends. Arkenforge Play TTRPG games? Make sure to check out our partner Arkenforge. They have everything you need to make your TTRPG more fun and immersive, allowing you to build, play, and export animated maps including in person fog of war capability that let's your players interact with maps as the adventure unfolds while you, the DM get the full picture. Use the discount code YETI5 to get $5 off your order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jace welcomes CEO and Chief Creative Officer of Mad Cave Studios, Mark London to the show. Mark founded Mad Cave ten years ago with several titles he himself was writing. Battlecats was one of them and to help celebrate the 10th anniversary, there is currently a Kickstarter for the Battlecats Omnibus, so be sure to check that out! Mark also talks about the challenges of his expanded role as he has gone from creator to executive as Mad Cave has grown. When you hear Mark talk about comics and story, you know that his heart is still in the creative side though. Which makes the growth and business acumen Mad Cave has displayed in recent years only more impressive. They are growing on several fronts and Mark tells us all about the exciting things to come. There's plenty of talk about the origins of Battlecats also and what you can expect in the Kickstarter as well as a rundown of the publishing history for this incredible, medieval, Arthurian-inspired, action-packed world Mark, series artist Michael Camelo and his other collaborators have crafted.

Join Pastrami Nation Editor Nolan Smith as he speaks with the CEO of Mad Cave Studios, Mark London! This year marks the 10 year anniversary of Mad Cave, and we dive into the celebration! Learn how Mad Cave started, how one of their most successful books came from their talent search, London's view on A.I. and more! Thank you to Mark London for the opportunity and for creating such an amazing studio, which has brought the world amazing titles like Battlecats, Nottingham, Knights of the Golden Sun and more!

TRUE HOUSE STORIES® W/ MARK LONDON # 116 INTERVIEWED BY LENNY FONTANA Mark London Lewis is considered a pioneer of the electronic music scene since 1988 in the US. His industry credits have earned him a GRAMMY NOMINEE as a producer and band member of INTERSTATE signed to DJ Icon Armin Van Buuren, Paul Oakenfold and the industry respect from every aspect of dance music professionals for over 25 years. Mark's DJ Destinations have included Asia, South Africa, Europe, South America and every major city in the US. Having traveled the world touring with ICON'S DJ's Paul Oakenfold & Carl Cox for over 10 years puts Mark's star power in a league of his own. Mark's marketing firm MIXOLOGY AGENCY for the last 15 years has major Cache with leading national brands Bacardi, House Of Blues, Red Bull, Fiji Water and World Famous Nikki Beach. Additional EDM branding has been featured in Documentary's & TV show via media giants Universal, ITV, Netflix & Google. Mark's also has celebrity DJ status spinning for Industry music Icon Elton John, chef Icon Wolfgang Puck, Actor heartthrob Rob Lowe and legendary band U2 Sundance Film Festival along with Annual LA FASHION WEEK runway events as music director to elite designers. Mark's relationships within the record business makes him a successful A&R man that has lead to many successful licensing deals with heavy weights Warner Bros, Ministry Of Sound, Global Underground, Perfecto Records & Universal Music. His dance music appeal has claimed numerous Billboard number one spots for artist such as Gloria Estefan, Alanis Morissette and Chaka Khan. Catch Mark amazing DJ Sets LIVE or Online via his residencies from Korea, Miami, Las Vegas, to Hollywood to feel THE BEAT. ♫ SUBSCRIBE TRUE HOUSE STORIES® NEWSLETTER: ✚ https://truehousestories.com/subscribe-newsletter ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ♫ FOLLOW MARK LONDON ✚ WEBPAGE: https://djmarklondon.com ✚ FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/djmarklondon ✚ INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/djmarklondon ✚ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/marklondonmusic ♫ FOLLOW LENNY FONTANA ✚ WEBPAGE: http://lennyfontana.com ✚ FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/lennyfontana ✚ INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/lennyfontana ✚ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/LennyFontana ✚ YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/c/LennyFontanaOfficial ♫ FOLLOW TRUE HOUSE STORIES® ✚ WEBPAGE: https://truehousestories.com ✚ FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/TrueHouseStories ✚ INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/truehousestories ✚ YOUTUBE PODCAST: https://youtu.be/59m1nA6G2yo ✚ SPOTIFY PODCAST: https://open.spotify.com/show/0G85MLUrHGJ3EgWlTnEwlE #MarkLondon #TrueHouseStories #LennyFontana #MusicDocumentary

Rich has Mark London on the pod this week - Mark is the CEO of Mad Cave Studios and they chat comics, creativity, influences, and more! https://madcavestudios.comtwitter.com/marklondonMCStwitter.com/madcavestudios twitter.com/btcrich

This week Sandy King Carpenter joins the comics podcast to talk about Storm King Comics, their recent release The Envoy, and their young adult line. Celebrating their 10th anniversary, we discuss how they got here, and what the future looks like. Visit our Patreon page to see the various tiers you sign up for today to get in on the ground floor of AIPT Patreon. We hope to see you chatting with us on our Discord soon!NEWS​​Marvel Comics launching 20th Century Studios comics imprint in 2023It was Agatha Harkness all along kicking off 'Contest of Chaos' June 21stNew 'Guardians of the Galaxy' #1 trailer forewarns the coming of Grootspace‘Marvel's Voices: Spider-Verse' to introduce new spider-heroes in the Marvel MultiverseCheck out Sharon Carter's new costume by Carmen Carnero from ‘Captain America'Dark Horse Books and Tapas team up to publish webcomics in 2023The Bone Orchard Mythos grows with 'Tenement' in June 2023Iconic series ‘Battle Chasers' returns with issue #10 this June (no really we mean it this time)Dynamite sets May 2023 for 'Maleficent' comic series debutOur Top Books of the WeekDave:Detective Comics (2016) #1069 (Ram V, Dexter Soy, Stefano Raffaele, and Miguel Mendonca, Si Spurrier, Caspar Wijngaard)Hunt. Kill. Repeat #1 (Mark London, Francesco Archidiacono)Nathan:Detective Comics (2016) #1069 (Ram V, Dexter Soy, Stefano Raffaele, and Miguel Mendonca, Si Spurrier, Caspar Wijngaard)The Human Target #12 (Tom King, Greg Smallwood)Standout KAPOW moment of the week:Nathan - Venom #17 (Al Ewing, Cafu)Dave - Cosmic Ghost Rider #1 (Stephanie Phillips, Jonas Scharf)TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEKDave: Fantastic Four #5 (Ryan North, Ivan Fiorelli, Jesus Aburtov)Nathan: The Amazing Spider-Man #21 (Zeb Wells, John Romita Jr.)JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.Dave: Avengers #66 (Daniel Hainsworth Connecting Cover)Nathan: Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent #1 (A.L. Kaplan)Interview: Sandy King - Storm King ComicsOn with us today we have Sandy King - writer, producer, CEO of Storm King Comics - here to talk to us about the latest goings on at Storm King Comics! You recently celebrated a decade of Storm King Comics. Congrats! Take us back to the beginning with Asylum. How did this begin?So many of Storm King's books have heady topics and grapple with cosmic ideas. Walk us through your story breaking process. Does it start with concept or character?Switching gears to John Carpenter's Tales of Science Fiction: The Envoy. What's the elevator pitch for this series?The Envoy is the 11th series in The Tales of Science Fiction line from you and John Carpenter, are you sitting on another 11 series, or do you curate each one as you go?On a book like The Envoy, how do you go about enlisting writers, illustrators, etc? Do you typically have lengthy story meetings with the creative team?Fetch is the latest offering from Storm Kids, which is aimed at younger readers. What inspired this softer side of storytelling? - answered!No spoilers, but Fetch ends in a very interesting spot. How many volumes do you see this story running?Where do you see Storm King Comics in another 10 years?Enough about comics, what is your favorite method of procrastination?Anything else you want to promote or tell our listeners to look out for?

BUZZ BUZZ! Mark London stopped by to talk about the release of his AWESOME new comic, Hunt. Kill. Repeat.! We also talked about tons of other awesome Mad Cave titles (many of which Mark has written!). Hope you all dig it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's Tuesday, so you know what that means, another brand new episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner and, WOW, what an episode. Jimmy chats with CEO and Chief Creative Officer of Mad Cave Studios Mark London about his new series (out tomorrow March 1st) titled Hunt. Kill. Repeat. Mark talks about his inspiration for this new series and working with this exciting creative team, including artist Francesco Archidiacono. Mark and Jimmy also discuss Mark's work as CEO & Chief Creative Officer of Mad Cave Studios, love of action films, balancing his corporate duties and creative endeavors, and what listeners can expect from Mad Cave Studios in the future. This is a great chat that you won't want to miss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Episode 81 of the Capes and Tights Podcast, Mad Cave Studios chief executive officer / chief operating officer Mark London joins Justin Soderberg to discuss Hunt. Kill. Repeat. and more from Mad Cave. INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast FACEBOOK: facebook.com/capesandtightspodcast TWITTER: twitter.com/capestightspod WEBSITE: capesandtights.com EMAIL: hello@capesandtights.com

Bearded Comic Bro got to sit down and talk with CEO/CCO of Mad Cave Studios, Mark London. Mark is the creator behind the new comic series Hunt.Kill.Repeat. Make sure you watch the video and check out all the links below that we mention in the videohttps://madcavestudios.comFollow Mark London on Social Media Twitter: @MarkLondonMCSInstagram: @marklondonmcs

Today's guest is Mark London, Chief Risk Officer for Abound, formerly known as Fintern – a startup specializing in data-driven approaches to small consumer loans. In conversation with Emerj CEO and Head of Research Daniel Faggella, Mark talks about the differences in small and large consumer loans from a data perspective and how lenders can decrease their risk without treating credit scores as the end-all-be-all. And later, they discuss new business opportunities coming from the democratization of data and how long it will take before legacy financial institutions can truly reap the benefits. If you've enjoyed or benefited from some of the insights of this episode, consider leaving us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts, and let us know what you learned, found helpful, or liked most about this show!

About Mark London and Mad Cave Studios: I grew up addicted to movies and comic books. If you want to talk about, fantasy, storytelling, Conan, Transformers, GI Joe, or Japanese Animation, I'm your man. Perhaps it's the filmography of Jean Claude Van Damme, Arnold Schwarzenegger, or Sylvester Stallone. As a kid, I loved it. As an adult, I still love it. I've channeled that passion into my independent comic book publishing company, Mad Cave Studios, which I established in 2014. From the beginning of our studio's inception, I've reached for nothing short of the best in terms of artwork, storylines, and team members. That level of quality has shown in what we've produced and in the things we've achieved the last three years. We've exhibited at Wizard World's Chicago Convention (2016), New York Comic Con (2016, 2017), WonderCon Anaheim (2017), and Megacon Orlando (2017). Our medieval fantasy comic, Battlecats, will be distributed by Diamond Comic Distributors and was featured in their December 2017 edition of Previews World. Now we are working simultaneously on six comic book series as we release Battlecats, Midnight, and Knights of the Golden Sun throughout 2018. We have big plans for Mad Cave Studios in 2018 and beyond. Learn more about what we're doing by visiting madcavestudios.com or clicking on the links below. Established in 2014, Mad Cave Studios is an independent comic book publisher from Miami, Florida driven by madness and committed to creating the most fun and diverse comics on the market. With our roots founded in a medieval fantasy world, every Mad Cave series is incepted by us before it is filtered through the feedback of our readers. We attend multiple conventions each year to talk with our fans and learn what they are excited about. The result is a comic book experience that is second to none, transporting our readers to a world that comes to life with beautiful artwork and a story that carries a hidden, purposeful meaning. Every single person hired by Mad Cave Studios carries a passion for the industry. Our writers, editors, artists, graphic designers, marketers, and PR/Communications professionals are all dedicated to this work.

Book mentioned: “Powwowing in Pennsylvania: Braucherei & the Ritual of Everyday Life” by Patrick J. Donmoyer https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40605053-powwowing-in-pennsylvania Eric's website is at www.ericsteinhart.com Remember, we welcome comments, questions and suggested topics at thewonderpodcastQs@gmail.com   S3E27 TRANSCRIPT:----more----   Mark: Welcome back to the Wonder Science: Based-Paganism. I'm your host Mark. Yucca: And I'm the other one Yucca. Mark: And today we have a very special episode of The Wonder. We're really excited to discuss urban paganism with two guests from New York City, Joh and Eric Steinhart. And so welcome to both of you. Eric: Hello. Joh: Hi, thank you so much for having us great to be here. Mark: really delighted to have you, so I guess, to get started why don't we just ask you to tell us a bit about yourselves? How did you come to non paganism? You wanna start Joh? Joh: Sure. My name is Joh. I've lived in New York for about 16 years. My path is very new. It's only about four years old. I've always been drawn to certain. Aesthetics around the occult I was a teen goth in the nineties, which perfect for that, but I never, I never really thought that I fit into any of those paths. I couldn't put my finger on why. A few years ago I purchased a, a beginner's book on, on witchcraft and developing your own identity as a witch. I got it just for fun, for a long train ride. There's a bit in there in the beginning that outlines different kinds of witches or witchcraft like green witches, kitchen, witches, chaos, magic, wicca. I'd heard some of these. Terms before, but they're described very plainly in the book and it gave me a little bit of a glimpse into how vast of a world paganism might be that I didn't know anything about, or I hadn't realized. So I started reading a lot more about developing a practice, but still didn't really feel like I fit in. I couldn't relate to the belief system parts. And in one of my internet rabbit holes, I learned about the book godless paganism, which described paganism from a more science based lens. And I just got really excited about what that sounded like. So I ordered it to my local bookstore and I devoured that book, the concepts, it taught me even more about how personal one's path can be and that there is this little corner of this world that felt like a fit and like I could belong. So then I started looking for a community because I was so excited and I wanted to talk about it with people. And I was clicking on links and links and links online and finally found the atheopagan Facebook group, which was the first active community that I had found that actually had recent activity in there. So I, I joined and I've been in that community for about two to three years, and it's just such an incredibly supportive, inspiring place that gives me ideas of how to develop my practice even more. And you know, now fast forward to today, I'm just really grateful to have found this community and group and little subset of of the path. Mark: That's great. Thank you. Yucca: Yeah, Eric, what about you? Eric: Yeah. So, I mean, I come from a very strange place. I mean, I'm Pennsylvania, German and Pennsylvania, German culture often known as Pennsylvania, Dutch, but we're not Dutch. We're Germans. And that culture is a magical culture and, you know, magic was normalized in that culture from the very beginning from its very roots. And so I grew up with a lot of that stuff. I mean, I grew up in, in a culture that was filled with magical practices of all sorts. And I mean, nominally, I mean, you know, nominally explicitly a Christian culture, but probably a lot of Christians would say, no, you know, you guys are doing some weird stuff. And, you know, I, I became attracted to science and early on and, you know, just don't really have a theistic worldview at all. So combining some of those things got me and I, you know, and I was in, I was involved sort of in, in atheist movements for a while and found a lot of atheism to be kind of, practically shallow, you know, there's, it's like, yeah, after you're done being mad at God, what do you do then? I mean, and there was like nothing. And you know, my, I would always say things like, look, there's no atheist art. You know, there's like atheist music, you know, there's just, you know, there's, there's no culture, right. Or the culture is, and more and more people have observed this. It's kind of parasitic on Christianity in a way. And so I found that very unsatisfying, right? Certainly I know plenty of atheists. I'm a philosopher, I'm a philosophy professor and I know plenty of, you know, professional atheists and all they do is talk about God. And so I'm like, look, I don't wanna talk about God. Let's let's let's talk about something else. Let's do something else. And I found that paganism in various forms, it was just kind of, kind of starting, but in various forms, you know, had a culture had art, had aesthetics, had practices, had symbols had a fairly rich worked out way of life. And as a philosopher, you know, I've got plenty of training in ancient cultures, particularly Greek and Roman but also also Germanic. And you know, I just thought, oh, This stuff, all kind of fits together. And so I became very interested in thinking about ways and I've advocated among atheists to say things like, look, you guys have to start. And, and, and women too, you've gotta start building a culture and you can't build a culture of negativity, you know, a culture of no, a culture and especially not a culture. That's essentially a mirror image of Christianity that all you're doing is talking about God. And you know, I've had a little success there, but it's a, it's a tough hall. But I think more and more something like a kind of atheopagan could really be a live option for the future of lots of aspects of American culture, right? As people become de Christianized, what are they gonna do? And some people say, well, they're just gonna be secular. But that's not really an answer and that's not a culture. And as you start looking around, you start to see these other cultures that are kind of bubbling up and developing. So yeah, I mean, I came to it from, you know, both the sort of old ethnic, Pennsylvania, German angle, the kind of philosophy and science angle and dissatisfaction with you know, sort of mainstream atheism. So lots of different roads in Yucca: Wow. That's a, that's a really interesting path to, to come on. So it'd be interesting hear more about the practice, the magical kind of practices that you talked about. Eric: well, there's a good, there's a good book by this guy, Patrick, Don moer called pow wowing. So you can check that out. It's incredibly rich and incredibly weird stuff, you know, Yucca: well, we'll find that and put it in the show notes. If people wanna take a look at it. Eric: Right. Mark: Yeah. Well, both of your stories are really very interesting that way in, in in that identification of Something being missing, but the, the main, the main offerings that are, that surround us in our culture, not really fitting that hole. That's certainly what I found as well, you know, and it's the reason that I wrote the essay that first started out a paganism. And I, I should probably introduce at this point that Eric, you, you especially have been involved with various non theist pagan efforts since long before I wrote that essay I just was, did a poor job of research and didn't find the other naturalistic non-theistic paganism efforts that were being done around the world. Until after I had already, you know, published and was starting to get attention for atheopagan So, as urban pagans living in the city what do your practices look like? Joh, you wanna, you wanna start on that? Joh: Sure. My practice may not be super urban sounding, but, but. There's some stuff about like spots in the city that, that I do. But generally my, my daily practice is in the morning. My apartment faces east and I wake up early enough to catch the sunrise every day. And I'll kind of first just stare at stare at it and kind of greet the sky every morning. I do stretches to start the day and I position my mat to face that window so that I can really connect with the day while I'm waking up. I have a small focus that I decorate seasonally. I really connect with ritual and the different physical objects around my practice, probably because I was raised Catholic and I always loved the sacred spaces, the incense, the bells, the rituals, and the regalia of it all. So it's a very tangible practice for me. And I have a. Personal calendar with the, the, you know, the solstice and the equinoxes in it. But also with other days that are very personal to me. Like I celebrate Freddie Mercury's birthday every year, for example, and, and the anniversary of when I move to New York and I'll actually take that day off of work and like use that whole day to really explore parts of the city that I love. And don't as easily make time for during the rest of the year. And then I also try to cook and eat seasonally as much as possible and really understand what the, what the ecology of this region is like. And I made this spreadsheet that tells me what's in season around here based on what month it is. It makes it easier to shop for and plan meals and things like that. Mark: Hm. Yucca: Hmm. Mark: Wow. That's a lot. Yucca: Yeah. Mark: Yeah, that's very cool. Thank you, Joh. Yucca: you have any parks nearby that you go to? Is that part of your practice or more? Just the relationship with the city and the sky. Joh: There is a really beautiful community garden in my neighborhood. That's open to the public a couple of days a week, and sometimes I'll walk there or ride my bike there and just kind of slowly walk down the paths and see how everyone's set up their plots and what they're growing. And there are bees everywhere and some benches off to the side. So sometimes I'll sit there and journal a little bit, or just kind of stare into space. And, you know, the people who have plots there are required to volunteer, you know, certain number of hours every week. And there's this section at the end where you can see everyone composting and things like that. So there's that piece. And then. In the city as well. There are different ways. Speaking of composting, that you can participate in kind of that cycle. So you can go to a drop off spot and bring your food scraps and they'll compost them and, and then use that for the public parks and things like that. Yucca: Oh, nice. Joh: that's like another way that allows me to feel more connected to the public parks and spaces of nature that are kind of engineered in such a dense area. Mark: Uhhuh. Nice. Nice. Eric. How about your practice? Eric: Yeah. I mean, my practices are probably a little too intellectual. I mean, one of my main practices is trying to figure out how all this stuff can work out and how to make sense of, of, of pagan ideas and practices. Right. That's cuz I'm a philosopher. That's what I do. I mean I do have a little I have a little altar and I do, you know, things, things like that, but I, I do try to think. A lot about how what paganism means and what kind of pagan concepts are relevant, for instance, in an urban context, right? I mean, cities are not trying to be forests. That's not what they're trying to do. They're not. And, and, you know, trying to work out pagan contexts or concepts and beliefs and practices in an urban setting it may, you, you have to think a little bit differently, right. Because there's a lot of you know, what you might call mainstream paganism that has a very I think very biased view of what paganism is or should be like we're all supposed to be farmers or, or, or Amish or something. I mean, I grew up with the Amish, you know, I mean, so I'm like, no, no, I know what that is. And so, you know, thinking of the ways that that cities are natural spaces and that cities are ecosystems not because they're trying to be, you know, a national park, right. I mean, and there's more and more wonderful research among, you know, biologists and ecologists of, of how cities themselves are ecosystems, you know, they are not, they're not phony ecosystems like, oh, New York. City's great because it's got central park. No, you know, the, the city isn't eco, I mean more and more research onto this is fascinating stuff because you're finding all these species, not just humans, humans are a natural species, but you know, raccoons, cougars, coyotes, you know, and New York city has there, there's beautiful research that's been done in New York city. Right. We have herds of deer. Wandering the city. We have, you know, foxes. I mentioned the, the raccoons, I think the bird life in New York city is, you know, and so you find things like, and there's a term for this, a technical term for these kinds of critters, right. Sin, Andros, right. These are animals that have adapted to humans and now live. They flourish with humans. They flourish in cities, right? So, New York city for instance, is an extraordinary place to be a Raptor, a bird of prey, right? New York city has some of the highest Paran, Falcon and Hawk populations anywhere. Right? Because they love the tall buildings. They love the bridges. Like the bridges are filled with Paragon, Falcon nests. And you're like, yeah, these, you know, life is adaptive. And So I try to think of all the ways that we live together with all these things in the cities and how humans have made a home, not just for humans, but for, for a whole ecosystem of, of critters. And, you know, like urban raccoons are not like rural raccoons, right. They've things. Right. And it's really interesting, you know, and people study this, you know, scientists, they study like how cities are driving bur particularly birds and raccoons. Are the species been studied most to become more intelligent, they're learning how to solve all sorts of problems. Right. So, so I find, you know, so part of, I guess my practice is sort of learning about that, observing that, thinking about ways that I mean, we haven't, we have a general issue. In the United States, right. Which is that so much of our space and structure is thoroughly Christianized. And it's not an easy thing to say, oh, well, let's, we're, you know, we're just gonna do something different, right. When all of your space is structured around a certain way of life. And so, you know, I, I try to think about ways that we can think of all kind like, okay, the four elements, you know, fire earth, air and water for me, light, you know, how do those relate in an urban context, right? Then in the, in a great way in New York city, you know, you can actually go into the earth. You know, in ways that most ordinary people can't right. And you can go deep into the earth right. In the, in the subways. I mean, you can do that on a daily basis. Right. And you can, you know, I mean, being stuck on a subway, train deep in the earth right. Is a way to like, encounter something that's terrifying and forceful. So how do you think of that sort of thing in, in a, in pagan ways, right? How do you think of, I mean, New York city is also very close to water. I mean, that's the reason the city exists. Right. It's one of the greatest bays in the world. We have dolphins, we have whales in the Hudson seals thinking of that kind of life as part of the city too. And I'll mention one other thing, thinking of things like, I don't know if people know about, I mean, you know, about Manhattan henge. Right. So, so you've got, you know, you've got structures there that people recently have started to say things like, Hey, we Stonehenge, we have Manhattan henge. You know, we have a, we have a thing and it wasn't designed that way, but Mark: Eric, would you like to explain what that is for our listeners? That don't know what it is? Eric: Yeah, Manhattan henge because Manhattan, the you know, the streets are in a sort of Southeast Northwest orientation. There are two times of the year when the sun come, you know, if you're stand on 42nd street in the middle and you've got skyscrapers on either side, my head is the sun, right. And the son just comes down between, you know, vertically between the skyscrapers and sets, right. You know, across the water sort of like Stonehenge, right? Like coming down between these monoliths. And I've seen it is, is really incredible. And people, you know, thousands and thousands of people go out in the streets to photograph it. And Thinking about ways that that kind of stuff can develop. And it might not be stuff that somebody says explicitly like, oh, this is pagan, like it's Wiccan or ARU or drew it, or, or whatever, or witchy witchcraft or something, but these are cultural things that people start to do. Right. And if you start to look around, you see all kinds of little shrines in the city, you know, I mean, there are, there are some obvious big ones in the statue of liberties, like a big pagan statue. And there are statues of old Greek and Roman deities in the city. There's like, mercury and Atlas are down at Rockefeller center, right? There's a statue of pan at Columbia university there. These, you know, these things exist. And not to, I mean, I, I think also, you know, a lot of urban places in a sort of practical sense of things to do things like art museums, right. Where you can go in, in New York, the metropolitan museum, and you can see lots of in fact they just are now having a big show on what old pagan statues used to look like. Right. Because they weren't white, they weren't white Mar they were painted. Right. They were dye. And so they've taken a bunch of them made replicas and they could still find microscopic traces of these dyes in the rock. And so they've now repainted them as they looked. So I'll go see that soon. So there's lots of opportunities for people to do all kinds of things. And I, and I real, but I really do think that. There's a, still a need to develop a lot of cultural infrastructure, right? You could go out in central park and, and do some ritual on the solstice or something, but that's really not. That to me is like something that sort of slides right off the surface of the culture, cuz it doesn't have any connections to things. There used to be some larger connections before COVID there was a network of drum circles. I don't know if people had been to prospect park in Brooklyn, there were some immense, there was immense drum drum stuff going on there. COVID kind of brought an end to a lot of that. So we'll see how that starts up, but I, I think there's a lot of There's there's a lot of thing. And if you do wanna go out in, in you know, in a kind of less urban environment, you know, New York city is actually is the highest density of Woodland trails over 2000 miles of trails within a 60 mile radius of the city, cuz the Appalachian mountains just arc right across the north. Mark: Right. Eric: And so you can, you can, yeah. It's the highest concentration of Woodland parks and trails anywhere in the United States. Mark: Wow. Eric: There's a lot, there's a lot still to be done. And I think I'll just, I'll just leave off with that. Mark: I was that's. Yeah. There's so much to say there. I mean, you mentioned the met and it's that talk about sacred spaces? I, I mean, the metropolitan museum of art is one of the great sacred spaces of the world. It's like a shrine to all human culture. Joh, I, I know you live in Queens, so I imagine you get to the Cloisters which is another super sacred space for me. This is kind of out of order of the, the questions that we talked about doing, but are there specific places or sacred spaces that you think of? When you, when you think about urban paganism in your city, Joh: Yeah. One thing that New York really does well is bigness. There are a few very stereotypically New York spaces that I have like religious experiences and in their giant. So the inside of grand central terminal is one of them. It's massive. It's echoy. The ceiling is painted with this beautiful night sky scene with the Zodiac constellations on it. Part of what feels so humbling being in there is going off of something. Eric said before is knowing that it's also this hub of this massive living transportation network that enables the movement of thousands, millions of people within this tri-state area. Another one is the branch of the New York public library with the very iconic lions out front it's, it's a beautiful piece of architecture. It's also inside cavernous full of this beautiful art, larger than life and quiet. It's really like church almost. You feel like when you're in there, cuz you have this like reverence and respect and gratitude for all of this knowledge that's contained in there and that it's free. Like you can just go and like getting a card is free. It's it still blows my mind. This one is pretty kind of cliche, but the empire state building it's so tall, but the city is so dense that I never expect to see it when I do so I'll be walking somewhere, probably distracted, multitasking, and then I'll look up and it'll just be there in front of my face. And it's this like instantly calming moment for me and kind of resets me in whatever's going on in life at the time. And then there's like smaller little smaller spots. Like there's a Steinway piano showroom near times square that I like to go visit. I play the piano and it's a really silencing experience, even though it's so busy around there and, and crowded and, and loud, but just to stand outside and gaze in at these beautiful pianos that are handmade just across the river in Queens, like it's really, really cool how accessible places like this are because of that, you know, that network that connects, although the parts of the city, so well, the subway. So yeah, those are, those are a few that come to mind. how about you? Eric: Yeah, I think, I think Joh says some great things. I mean, one point there is like the urban sublime, right? Like these, you know, towers that rise to infinity. I mean, it, you can have a kind of experience. That's hard to get anywhere else. If you go like up to the observation deck on the, you know, the freedom tower that replace the world trade centers or the empire state building or Rockefeller center, right. You go up on tops of these things and you see, you know, from a. Point, and that kind of space is you know, I mean, it's commercial, right? You pay, you're going up to the top of, of a skyscraper, but you, it can induce kinds of experiences that are hard to get elsewhere. And sure, grand central station, that's like a great example of a kind of space that's already, you know, sort of semi pagan in its kind of classical thing. Like the Zodiac is there and it's this immense space and you can, you can go in and just be you can experience awe and, and, and humbleness and things like that. A lot in the city. And I think, you know, especially when I first started coming to the city and, and probably a lot of people would have a similar experience. You, you just feel overwhelmed. I mean, the, the sheer size of these things that are around you and unlike I mean, other cities have some of this, but you know, it's not like in New York city, you can walk, you walk a few blocks and you're out. Right. I mean, if you're in Manhattan, you can walk for like 12 miles through this amenity and you're sort of like, I mean, it's, it's humbling. So I think that, I think, and I think there's a lot of symbolism that goes into that. I'll mention that there have been a couple of urban terror decks, right? That use, I mean, if you think of the tower and you think of just, well, the tower, you know, or you think of things like that, there have been some there have been, there are a couple of urban TA decks, some better than others, but you know, people are, and this is what I think about the cultural infrastructure. People are starting to build that kind of thing. Right. And start to see these symbolisms in these, in these places. So, yeah, that, I like, I like that. What Joh said about sort of the urban sublime and what mark, you said about kind of these museums that hold all this, this cultural stuff and. You know, I often think of, of paganism in terms of the symbolic, right. Rather than you know, I'm not much for, for ancient, ancient roots. That, that seems a little racist to me. I'm more into thinking about the future and thinking about things like, you know, if I think about superhuman minds, right? I mean, the city itself is like a high of mind. You know, the city itself is a super organism. It's a superhuman intelligence. Right. And, and things like me, I'm just like a little sell in this organism. I'm passing through contributing something to it, but the, the amount of energy that flows through San Francisco or New York, or, you know, something like that is astonishing. Mark: Yes. Eric: And it's it's information too. I mean, places like, okay. New York, Tokyo, you know, San Francisco, you know, are, are some of the most information rich places on the planet. Mark: London, Hong Kong. Eric: Right. And, and so if you think of like, you know, you think of a deity like mercury or somebody like, or thought, or Glen, you know, these, you may think of these divine minds and these patterns of information. I mean, I prefer to leave those Dees in the past where they lived, but now you look at super, if you want a symbol, cuz for me, a lot of this is symbolic. If you want symbolism for superhuman intelligence, you know, superhuman mind a superhuman agency, right? I mean the place to one place to find that there are other places, but one place to find that is in the, you know, the rich information flows the density of information flows in cities. Mark: Mm-hmm Eric: Right? You, you can really, you can, you don't have to think like, I mean, Okay. I lived in New York city. This means I am part of something that is immense it's 400 years old. It's I don't know how long it'll last, but you know, so many people have contributed to it and you're there you feel it you're like, yeah, I there's this thing, you know, it's immense, I'm a tiny little part of this huge thing. So. Mark: and, and I think that's really well said, and it also, it extends beyond the bounds of New York city so much. I mean, I, I think about watching old movies where pretty much everybody came from New York or their immediate family came through New York. It's like the entire culture of the United States is deeply informed by this urban collective experience that then spread throughout the rest of the country. I was thinking about, you were talking about culture and of course, city is where the culture is, right? I mean, there's culture everywhere, but big cities are there're places where it's easier for people that are cultural creatives to make it. There are more opportunities for them to, to make a living. And it reminded me, I've lived in two big cities in my life. I've lived in San Francisco and in Barcelona. And one of the things that attracted me the most about both of those places is busking in the underground. Eric: Oh  Mark: the, the caliber of musical performance that you can experience. Just at random, you know, by stepping off of a train and suddenly finding yourself surrounded by it is it's like this, this spontaneous moment of, you know, truly religious kind of joy to me. And it's, it's one of the things that leaps immediately to mind to me, when I think about my fondness for those cities, right. Eric: Yeah. I mean, I, I think, and maybe Joh can speak to this too. I mean, the you know, thinking of those of those spaces where you can go and, and, and hear music and often the, the cultural thing is, is mixtures of cultures too, like in San Francisco or Chicago or New York. I mean, I can, you know, there are all these little I think, was it, Joh, did you mention Centia, did somebody mention that somebody mentioned that, but you know, there are all these, there are all these, you know, Afro-Caribbean cultures that have come into New York city and you could find all these little things, like all over the streets. You know, and they have some, you know, Afro-Caribbean significance and there they are. Right. And so you already find lots of, you know, there are lots of alternatives to a dominant, this sort of dominant Christian narrative. There are lots of alternatives already in these urban spaces, right. That come from from other other sources. Joh: I was actually also thinking about the, the mixture of different cultures. When thinking about some of the places that I like to visit there, there are a couple of neighborhoods in downtown Manhattan that I like to just I'm drawn to them. And I just like to walk around in and think about. The history and evolution of culture in those neighborhoods, like the history of music, of counterculture, of the different immigrant communities that settled there over time and everywhere you look, you can see little remnants of all this history from like a German inscription in the brick facade of a building or a plaque telling you that Charlie Parker lived in that building a 24-hour Ukrainian diner founded by refugees in the sixties that like still you know, still you can't, you it's always a weight. So there's that, there's that kind of magic too. And then I think just walkable urbanism in general, like increases the likelihood that you'll have chance encounters with not just different cultures, but like different kinds of people who are living different lives from you. Like. There's a community of local businesses and neighbors, and then the city workers, and it's all happening all in the same space. Like there's no alleyways in New York city. There's like two in the whole city. And so all that stuff is, and activity is just running up against itself and like keeping the environment running and thriving and kind of with this magical energy all the time. Mark: Yeah. And, and when you think about that, when you think about all those different cultures and different sort of value systems and so forth, all kind of coming together and finding a way to coexist, then it's no surprise that it's the cities that are the blue parts of the United States, right? It's like in the cities, people have figured out how to get along, cuz they have to, there's no choice about it, Joh: Yeah. And to coexist peacefully. Mark: And eventually to thrive. I mean, not, not just to coexist, but I to actually have melding of cultures and you know, new and interesting combinations of stuff like jazz, for example in new Orleans and New York and Chicago. Anyway, I, I don't know where I was going with that, but it, it occurs to me that the, the values that we associate with paganism, right? The inclusiveness, the tolerance, the the appreciation for beauty and culture and diversity and all those things, they really thrive more in the cities than they do in the, in the rural areas, which we think of as more natural, right. Eric: Yeah. I mean, that's a weird, you know, you find that kind of, to me, very, almost paradoxical or contradictory view in a lot of paganism, which is like, oh, the rural environment is the pagan environment. And you're like, no, the rural environment is filled with fundamentalists, man. Mark: Well, not entirely, not, not Yucca. Eric: nah, well, I mean sure, but, but still it's it's yeah, I mean, if you have a sort of polycentric culture where you've got lots of different cultures and lots of different religious ideas and lots of TISM lots of mixing of different religious ideas and you've got, you know, intelligent raccoons and, and you know, sparrows and yeah. Racoons have little hands, you know, they're learning to work stuff. They're gonna, that's what we're that's what's gonna take over after we're gone. You know, so, so I think that that's already seeing the multiplicity. I, I think of paganism often in terms of multiplicity, instead of, you know, unity, it's like, yeah, there are, there are many perfections and many ways to bring those together and, and integrate them into a system without, you know, reducing 'em to a, to like everybody has to act the same, you know? And I do think so. I think in, in that sense mark, what you said yeah. About cities having that, all those combinations right. Are really good. Really good. I don't think we're quite there yet in trying to figure out what, you know, the sort of next culture is gonna be, but won't happen in my lifetime, but I, I hope it will happen. So. Yucca: One of the things to kind of shift a little bit that, or some qualities that are usually not associated with urban environments that sometimes are, are highly valued in certain pagan circles are things like solitude and stillness and quietness. And those are things that I'm curious. Do you feel like. It is a fair assessment. That that's not something that really happens in urban environments. And also, is that something important in your practice? If it is, how is that something that is a pagan you, you search out or cultivate in your life? Joh: This made me think of something really specific. So it's actually, I feel like one thing that happens here is there's so much stimuli going on all the time. That it's actually, for me, at least fairly easy to, to, to be find myself in solitude. I, I live alone and You know, during the pandemic, especially, I didn't see anybody. And it was, it was very quiet. Actually, if you, you know, if you live in a more busy part of the city and you have an apartment facing the back of the building, that's like a sign that it's gonna be quiet. It actually can get really quiet here, surprisingly. But one thing that I don't know, I think this happened in multiple places around the world, in the beginning of the pandemic, but this, this thing started happening here where at 7:00 PM every day, everyone would leave their apartment and go outside and start clapping for the healthcare workers and essential workers who were actually having to still leave their apartments and help the city run. And this happened for months and months, every day at 7:00 PM, everyone would go outside and start clapping and, and it really helped, I think with the. Precarious kind of mental health situation that we were all finding ourselves in because we were trapped in these tiny boxes for so long, like scared of going outside because of the density and everything. And it helped us feel kind of alone together in a way. So that, that goes veers a little bit off of what you were asking, but I think it's actually not that it's pretty easy to find that piece and that, that that quiet and solitude if you if you try, like, not during a global pandemic, but but yeah, that just my mind kind of went there when you asked that. Eric: I think that was, that was a, a great place to go. I mean, I remember that we didn't go outside, but we leaned out our windows and banged on pots and pans, you know? And that's that was kind of a collective ritual. Mark: Yeah. Eric: I mean, it kind of, I mean, it was a collective ritual and I think, you know, I, I wonder about some of that solitude or something. I mean, certainly in, in lots of urban areas, there's a lot more, I think maybe I'm maybe I'm wrong here, but you know, a lot of collective action, there's a lot of political awareness political activity. And maybe that solitude, isn't quite what people are wanting. Right. Because it's not like I'm gonna go into myself and, and I'm gonna go, I mean, cities face outward, right. I mean, and that energy gets radiated outward. And I, I probably, if I had to think of my most well, you know, the two very pagan moments in New York city, both were musical. One was when I heard the band high long in New York, which was. You know, almost surreal in the, in the, the juxtaposition of this, this high, long shamanistic, you know, whatever they're trying to bring up. And it's in, it's in a theater in Manhattan and there are thousands of us there and we're all chanting and clapping and dancing and stuff like that. But probably even, even a little more, you know, pagan than high, long was like one time when I went to a Patty Smith concert in Manhattan. And that was just an, you know, an, I don't like to use this word, but that was intense. You know? I mean, that was something that was, I've been to a bunches of concerts and that was, you know, everyone just collectively this was, I think the 50th anniversary of her horses album and that's what they played. Mark: Oh, Eric: Right. And everyone knew all the words of course, and everyone was simply. Well, like in this unison and that's already you know, Patty Smith's already like, what space is she in with with these kinds of cultural things? You know? So I, I think there's a lot of opportunities for those kinds of collective mu I mean, music is one, art is one political, you know, political gatherings are be they protests or just activist gatherings.  Mark: Dancing thing. Eric: Dancing. Yeah. All those kinds of activities really happen in, in cities. So I wouldn't go with the no, I mean, yeah, like, I mean, Joh was right. You can be solitary in the city if you want to. I mean, it's probably more solitary there than anywhere else. Right. Because it's certainly in New York because you know, if you're not engaged, like nobody's gonna talk to you. Mark: Yeah. Eric: Right. I mean, they're gonna leave you alone. And but I, I do think that there is an enormous amount of col I mean, that's the point of a city it's collective activity. Right. You know, I lived on a farm. I know what I know what rural isolation is. Like I, you know, I don't wanna do that ever, ever again, so yeah, I dunno if that answers that, but there you go. Mark: You know, it occurs to me when you talk about that. When I was, when I was in late high school and, and into my first couple of years of college, I was really into punk rock. And of course I was living, you know, very close to San Francisco and there was a huge punk rock scene there at the Maha gardens and some other places. And so I saw a ton of shows and one of the things that always struck me was these bands never come 60 miles north to where I live. They, they don't leave an urban environment. Right. Because punk lives in the cities and and many of those concerts were truly ecstatic experiences. Eric: Right. Mark: I, I mean, the mosh pit was just this glorious experience of mutual trust, where we knew we weren't going to hurt one another, but we were going to fling one another around. My partner NAEA tells a story about being in a pit in Philadelphia where somebody lost a contact lens and the entire pit sort of went who to make a space so that they could find their contact lens. And they actually did find their contact lens. So, you know, it very, I mean, there's a, there's a very abrasive kind of quality to the punk aesthetic, but really people who cared about one another and, you know, were, were part of something. And that was very much an urban experience. Yucca: Hmm. Eric: Right, right. I mean, I think you, can you get that kind of you get those kinds of energies and a lot of that so far is kind of aesthetic, right? Music, art, dancing, things like architecture, you know? And, and it'll be interesting to see, you know, people translating that more. You know, that's why, I mean, I think for instance, sort of the pagan music is really interesting and the ways that that can go. And different kinds of artistic expressions. And one of the things we didn't really talk about, which I think of as kind of pagan is sort of the, the visionary community, right? The transformational festivals and, and, you know, visionary art and that stuff, which to, to my mind, is in entirely a pagan culture, a pagan subculture. And that's, that's there too. Right? A lot of that is in urban areas. Also in New York city, there was an San Francisco too, I believe, but they're a big, you know, I think of stoicism as, as a pagan movement, contemporary stoicism, and there's an enormous enormously rich stoic groups in in New York. San Francisco comes to mind and a few, there are a few other cities that have, but yeah, San Francisco certainly has all this transformative tech stuff.  Mark: And the, the whole burning man phenomenon, which is really interesting when you think about it. Because a lot of the people who go to burning, man, don't come from urban centers, but they have to build a city Eric: right. Mark: in order to have. The kind of crucible of creativity that they want. And burning man is a very pagan experience in, in at least the one time I was there. It definitely was not necessarily in a worshipful kind of way, but in a, in a cultural way, the, the kind of mutuality and celebration and expressiveness and creativity that you have in those kinds of environments are they remind me of the pagan community. And of course there's a lot of people there who are pagans. Eric: Oh yeah. Yucca: A lot of rituals. Mark: Yeah. Yeah. Eric: Yeah, that's gotta be like a paradigm case of how to do religion differently than it was done before. Right. And yeah, I mean, I teach a lot about burning man and you know, I always say to my students, I'm like, well, what do you think a new religion would look like? It's not gonna look like the old ones, you know? And you find, I mean, there's a lot of that around, I mean, that's, that's obviously closely connected with San Francisco, but there is a lot of that around not just burning man, but there's a, there's lots of places around New York city that are filled with that kind of stuff. I mean, yeah. I'm thinking in particular of like Alex Gray's chapel of sacred mirrors, Mark: mm-hmm Eric: which, which used to be in Manhattan, Joh, did you ever see that? Joh: No, I didn't. Unfortunately. Eric: It used to be in Manhattan. And now it's moved up the river into the Hudson valley and COVID kind of shut it down, but that guy used to have like weekly I'll just say raves at his place. Right. Wa in Weiner's falls check an hour north of the city. So, so that stuff is all around. Right. And it will be interesting to see if it gets more, you know, as things go on, if it gets, I mean, maybe it will just remain at a kind of level where it's people doing aesthetic things. Right. And they'll come together in these kind of groups and maybe it'll get more organized. I don't know. Mark: Hmm. Eric: Yeah, go to go to, Wappinger go to the chapel. I can't wait till the chapel sacred mirrors opens up again. I went with my, my friend, my friend of mine, Pete, and there was something about, I don't know what, you know, iowaska or something. And Pete looked at me and said, I didn't think this guy would be into drugs if you know, Alex Mark: Alex Gray. Really? Eric: yeah. It's like, Mark: the man who envisions gigantic halos of color all around the human form. Eric: you know, like 47 eyeballs, you know, like yeah, right. A little irony. But you know, that's, that's you know, it's all around and you know, maybe people don't conceive of it as pagan in a unified way, but maybe they should. Right. So we'll, we'll see where that goes. Mark: And I think, you know, the other part of it is that people are looking for rituals for, for shared communal experiences. Some of which we've just been talking about, but even people that are doing rituals in a more formally pagan kind of way, they have a much easier time finding others of like mind in a city than they do in an area like mine. For example, even though I'm close to San Francisco and there's a pretty large population of pagans here there's exactly one atheopagan other than me living in my county to my knowledge. Oh, that's not true four, there, there there's four of us, including me. And that's a, you know, there's half a million people living in my county, so yeah. Cities become this focus of such energy and, and collaboration. Eric: Yeah, I think they might. I mean, I, I, you know, there's probably like, you know, 7 million atheopagan in, in New York city. They just don't call themselves that. Mark: Huh? Eric: Right. And I think that's an inter I don't know if that's quite true, but it's, I think an interesting point, right? That you have people that are maybe nominally secular, but yet they do all these kinds of things. Right. And they don't I mean, I make contact with this through my students. Right. Who don't identify as, you know, pagan or atheists, but yet they're doing all sorts of they, you know, if you ask them, do they believe in God? No, but they don't identify as atheists. It's just, they just, they just don't do that stuff, but then they do all kinds of other things. Right. And you know, they, they do all sorts of, I mean, witchcraft was a kind of popular thing. I don't know if it still is, but they do things right. And they have all sorts of little rituals. Some of which are, are, come from family, traditions, others, you know, they do strange things with crystals, with their cell phones. Right. Those kinds of things could easily become more you know, a little deeper and a little more widespread where people start to think organically like, oh, what? And sometimes they might just not say, no, I'm not doing anything religious because they think of religion as Christianity and maybe they're right. And maybe that's right. And so I do find it an interesting point. That you say like, yeah, there might be a lot of atheopagan around you. They just don't call themselves that, Mark: right. Eric: you know, and they don't, you know, I mean, I know Masimo is a big leader of the stoic community and we just have this debate about whether or not he was a pagan. He'd be like, no, cuz that's like star Hawk. And I was like, no, dude, you're reviving, you're reviving an ancient pagan way of life, which is, oh, by the way, your own family history by your own admission, you know? And he's kind of like, like, guess that's true, you know? But he wouldn't call himself a pagan. Right. But he's doing the thing. So I, I do. And all those people out in San Francisco who do like the transformative text stuff and. A lot of the kind of consciousness hacking and things that goes into like some Americanized forms of Buddhism and things like that. That's, you know, there just might not be a single word for it yet. Mark: Sure sure. And all the, all the tech millionaires going to south America for iowaska ceremonies, you know, I mean, these, these are not the, the men who founded IBM in the 1950s and all wore an identical blue suit with a white shirt and tie. You know, this is, this is a very, very different culture that we've got now. Eric: Yeah. I think so. Was there, Joh, were you gonna say it, that it looked like you were gonna say a thing. Joh: The thing you were the thing you said about, you know, there, there might be 7 million Athens here, but they don't call it that. I just keep thinking about that because there's so many parts about like the set of values and the just human universal human needs, or like seeking for community for for ritual. The I've, I've seen acts of service, like in the past couple of years, like just becoming more community based here, like mutual aid, community fridges things like that. And, and what you were describing, like not, not your IBM founder, you know, people kind of looking for more right. Trying to. To look for more meaning it's all these little pieces kind of just existing at the same time, but not being named in any way. Eric: Yeah, or people aren't quite sure. That's why I think that, you know, building a cultural infrastructure, you know, some way to fit things together that says, oh, you guys are all have a lot in common. Right. I don't Joh, maybe, you know, maybe you're tapped into the secret networks. I mean, I don't know, like allegedly there's a zillion you know, iowaska rituals, like all the time in New York or there were before the pandemic. I don't know what the Panda, I mean, the pandemic transformed so much. There are big psychedelic conferences in New York, right? The the horizons which I've gone to. And but I, I don't know if this stuff is all, is all, you know, secret or, or not. Mark: Well, it seems as though we're at a time where culture and particularly the monopoly of Christianity has really shattered. And of course it's rebelling right now and trying to lock down everything it possibly can, as it loses its grip on the population. But there are all these fragments of things that are kind of floating around. It's like the accretion disc around a star, you know, Those things are going to, to glom onto one another and get bigger and bigger. And some of them will just spin off into space and be their own thing or dissolve. But I feel like nontheistic paganism is a kind of an organizing principle that a lot of these things can fit under because it provides meaning it provides pleasurable activities that people find joyful, provides opportunities for people to be expressive and to create family in whatever form that is meaningful and helpful to them. So it's, it's kind of an exciting time and I, I agree with you, Eric. We're not gonna see the outcome in our lifetimes. I don't think, but this, I think we're at a really pivotal time in this moment. And so working to be a culture creator is a really exciting thing. Eric: Yeah, I think that's true. And I, I mean, sure. I mean, I think that you know, and I don't know what to make of this as a, you know, an American who's growing older, but yeah, the, the sort of angry Christian nationalists trying to lock down what they can. And I don't know what it's like to live in, you know, Tennessee or Georgia or Indiana. I lived in the Northeast and, you know, Pennsylvania's an interesting case too, but I mean, you know, New York and north and east, it's like, Christianity's gone. Mark: Yeah. Eric: It's like, it's not here anymore. And I don't know if California or the west coast is that way. Certainly you have pockets here and there, but what a strange, yeah, that's just strange, Mark: After 2000 years of complete hegemony, right? Eric: Well, right. And you know, how are people living their lives around that? I mean, one of the things I like to do is catalog the existence of stone circles in the United States, you know? And like they're all over the place. I just found one like three miles from where I am now, Mark: Wow. Eric: know? I mean, and so what are people doing? Like what, Mark: It's a lot of work to build a stone circle. They must be doing something. Yucca: Is this is this in a park. Eric: No, this is on private land, up in the Hudson valley, you know, and I, and I just, just learned about it and you know, so I, I, I think we're all gonna, my prediction is we're everybody's gonna smoke weed and look at birds that's gonna be the, that's gonna be the thing, you know, bird. Now he's a bird, you know, now that now that weed is legal, but yeah. Where's this gonna go, Joh? You're young. It's up to you. Mark: Yucca is young Eric: Yucca is young too. That's right. You guys are young. Not, not is old, old foggy like us. Mark: Yeah. Eric: So what are you gonna do? I telescopes you got it all there. Yucca: Oh, yeah, I'm a science teacher. that's this is my classroom back here. Yeah. Eric: Oh, all right. Mark: Well, this has been an incredible conversation and I know we could go on for hours. But I think it's probably a good point for us to kind of draw down for this episode. And I would imagine we're gonna get a lot of really positive response from this episode. And we may ask to have you back to talk more about these things, cuz it's, it's really been just wonderful and super interesting talking with both of you. Yucca: Thank you for joining us so much to think about. Eric: Yeah. Thanks. Thanks for having us. Thanks for having Joh: Yeah, thank you so much. Us on, this was super fun to, to reflect on and think about, and talk about in this group. So thank you. Mark: You're very welcome. And of course we welcome feedback and questions from our listeners. The email address is the wonder podcast, QS, gmail.com. That's the wonder podcast, QS, gmail.com. So we hope to hear from you have a great week, everybody, and we'll be back next week.  

Acclaimed author and journalist Mark London Williams joins me for a frank discussion about the horror genre, post-COVID events, and the current state of entertainment technology.

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During this Babble-on we discussed new comic book releases, interviewed Mad Cave Studios CEO, Mark London and ranked our favorite Christmas movies. For the video version: Two Brothers Comics on YouTube.

Mark has a really good heart. Mark is always trying to find a way to help others. Mark Leslie Lefebvre has been writing since he was thirteen years old and discovered his mother's Underwood typewriter collecting dust in a closet. He started submitting his work for publication at the age of fifteen and had his first story published in 1992, the same year he graduated from university. Under the name Mark Leslie, he has published more than a dozen full length books. He pens a series of non-fiction paranormal explorations for Dundurn, Canada's largest independent publisher. He also writes fiction (typically thrillers and horror) and edits fiction anthologies, most recently as a regular editor for the WMG Publishing Fiction River anthology series. The very same year, Mark saw his first short story in print he started working in the book industry as a part-time bookseller, and was bitten by the book-selling bug. He has worked in virtually every type of bookstore (independent, chain, large-format, online, academic and digital). He has thrived on innovation, particularly related to digital publishing, and enjoys interacting with the various people who make the book industry so dynamic. Between 2011 and 2017, Mark worked at the Director of Self-Publishing and Author Relations for Kobo where he was the driving force behind the creation of Kobo Writing Life, a free and easy to use author/small-publisher friendly platform designed to publish directly to Kobo's global catalog in 190 countries. By the end of 2016, Kobo Writing Life established itself as the #1 single source of weeklyglobal unit sales for Kobo and, in primarily English language territories, responsible for 1 in every 4 eBooks sold. Mark has spoken professionally in the United States and Canada, in the UK and across Europe, specializing in advances in digital publishing and the vast and incredible opportunities that exist for writers and publishers. Stark Publishing is an imprint Mark created in 2004 when he released his first book One Hand Screaming. He has used the imprint to publish more than 25 books. Campus Chills (2009) and Obsessions (2020) are two of the titles he used to anthologize other authors writing. Rude Awakenings from Sleeping Rough is the first single author title from a different author that he has published. RUDE AWAKENINGS FROM SLEEPING ROUGH A new non-fiction book by Peter C. Mitchell with his experiences on Life in the streets! Set for release December 1st, 2020 and published by Stark Publishing and editor, Mark Leslie. This is a story that the charities don't want you to read. MORE DETAILS BELOW. About Peter and Mark: London born, Canadian raised Peter Mitchell was bumbling his way through a moderately successful career in business journalism when an investigation into a story on Corporate Social Responsibility inspired him to look beyond profit margins and PR into the very real problems faced by society. This inspiration prompted him to dip his toes into a self-confessed Sanity/Vanity project of a biography of his great, great grandfather, Sir John Kirk. As Secretary of The Ragged School Union, John championed the causes of children, the disabled, and the working poor in Victorian-era London. His influence extended beyond the city limits, and his life proved more interesting than previous biographies revealed. Dust-buried references have faced in the most obscure locales, showing the consequences—both good and bad—to the ragged and crippled children John Kirk devoted his life to help. In 2017, Peter returned to London to complete his research and begin the writing of “A Knight in the Slums.” The past was ready to be mined, and the future was assured. The present, however, took an unpredictable -and darkly ironic—turn. A series of unfortunate events transpired, creating a perfect storm of calamities leaving Peter penniles. Social Media is Mark Leslie http://www.starkreflections.ca/

Mark London Williams is a former Variety reporter who attends the Oscars each year as part of his coverage with Below the Line and British Cinematographer. In a special episode, Mark joins Jake to share what it's like covering the big show from behind the scenes and reminisce on unforgettable press room moments from the past decade. Theme song is Inevitable Hope by RKVC.

Mark London returns to the show for tarot readings from Cynnara on his comicbook characters from Mad Cave Studios. Jay Sandlin's #WhatHappensNext: Professional #Writers play comedy #Improv games based on #comicbooks, while offering tips for the #WritingCommunity. In this episode, Remember, everything we saw is a first draft and the parsecs don't matter. The only rule, is you'll never guess #WhatHappensNext! www.JaySandlin.com This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Mad Cave Studios CEO/COO, Mark London sits down with Jay and Cyn to receive TAROT readings for his comic book creations. A turn of the cards reveals the motivations and divines possible futures for characters from Wolvenheart, Knights of the Golden Sun, and Hellfighter Quin.

Mad Cave Studios CEO/COO, Mark London sits down with Jay and Cyn to receive TAROT readings for his comic book creations. A turn of the cards reveals the motivations and divines possible futures for characters from Wolvenheart, Knights of the Golden Sun, and Hellfighter Quin. Jay Sandlin's #WhatHappensNext: Professional #Writers play comedy #Improv games based on #comicbooks, while offering tips for the #WritingCommunity. In this episode, Remember, everything we saw is a first draft and the parsecs don't matter. The only rule, is you'll never guess #WhatHappensNext! www.JaySandlin.com This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

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This week’s guest is Mark London, the CEO and CCO of Mad Cave Studios as well as the writer of Wolvenheart, an upcoming victorian time travel thriller.  This was an awesome chat because Mark has a multi-layered perspective of the comic book industry. On one side, he’s a creator and on the other, he’s running a business.  I also picked his brain about the Mad Cave talent search where he’s looking for new, up-and-coming writers and artists to work on some of the Mad Cave titles. Wolvenheart is set to debut on October 30th.  I’ve gotten a look at the first issue and it’s pretty cool.  It’s full of monsters, time travel, and a bit of steam punk. Definitely worth checking out.   Mark can be found on Twitter as @MarkLondonMCS.  You can learn more about Mad Cave Studios as the official website, MadCaveStudios.com. CONTACT: Email | Twitter SUBSCRIBE: RSS | iTunes | Google Play | Stitcher Music by Eric Matyas (www.soundimage.org)

Today, we discuss What’s Happening with Swamp Thing, the Avengers’ dilemma in Russia, Spidey’s new suit, and Wolverine’s upcoming showdown with Blade. In the Hot Seat Interview, we talk to Mad Cave Studio CEO, Mark London. Finally, in the Round Table, we discuss Battlecats volume 2 #1, Amber Blake, and Hit Girl Season 2. We’re Generation X’ers who spent a large portion of our formative years immersed in the world of comics from the late ’70s, ’80s and early ’90s. Now we have rekindled our passion for the ink and paper medium of our childhood through the emerging market of indie comics. In this podcast bring you the news, reviews, and interviews you crave with a light-hearted approach and some lively banter each week on New Comic Book Day Wednesday. Join us and our guest panelist as we discuss Marvel, DC, Image, Aftershock, Scout Comics, and many more here on Drawn & Paneled. There will be a new episode every week on New Comic Book Day, so subscribe now wherever you listen to podcasts so you never miss a single issue! Patreon » patreon.com/genxgrownup Facebook » fb.me/GenXGrownUp Twitter » GenXGrownUp.com/twitter Website » GenXGrownUp.com Podcast » GenXGrownUp.com/pod Merchandise » GenXGrownUp.com/merch iTunes » itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/drawn-paneled-podcast/id1438932601 Google » play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Igw55v3qgoqjoi3xl7htyw5k7r4 PocketCasts » pca.st/k7PH Stitcher » www.stitcher.com/podcast/genxgrownup-2/drawn-paneled Spotify » spoti.fi/2HYdI5U Show Notes Swamp Thing’s new trailer  » bit.ly/2DqNTXm Avengers Endgame English screenings canceled in Russia » bit.ly/2VnxFs4 Spider-man Homecoming’s new suit  » bit.ly/2ZrVwGd Battlecats vol. 2 #1 » bit.ly/2URsEbM Wolverine vs Blade » bit.ly/2GtNC85 Amber Blake » amzn.to/2DBOLbV Amber Blake 2 »  amzn.to/2Dr2fHn Hit Girl Season 2 #1 » amzn.to/2Dsc5IK Hit Girl Season 2 #2 »  amzn.to/2UvRiuz H Girl Season 2 #3 »  amzn.to/2Du1X2h   Mad Cave Studios » madcavestudios.com/ Mad Cave Studios Store » bit.ly/2zvSHX1 Mad Cave Studios on Facebook » www.facebook.com/MadCaveStudios Mad Cave Studios on Twitter » twitter.com/MadCaveStudios Mad Cave Studios on Instagram » www.instagram.com/madcavestudios/ Contact Drawn & Paneled » podcast@drawnandpaneled.com

Today, we discuss What’s Happening with Swamp Thing, the Avengers’ dilemma in Russia, Spidey’s new suit, and Wolverine’s upcoming showdown with Blade. In the Hot Seat Interview, we talk to Mad Cave Studio CEO, Mark London. Finally, in the Round Table, we discuss Battlecats volume 2 #1, Amber Blake, and Hit Girl Season 2. We’re Generation X’ers who spent a large portion of our formative years immersed in the world of comics from the late ’70s, ’80s and early ’90s. Now we have rekindled our passion for the ink and paper medium of our childhood through the emerging market of indie comics. In this podcast bring you the news, reviews, and interviews you crave with a light-hearted approach and some lively banter each week on New Comic Book Day Wednesday. Join us and our guest panelist as we discuss Marvel, DC, Image, Aftershock, Scout Comics, and many more here on Drawn & Paneled. There will be a new episode every week on New Comic Book Day, so subscribe now wherever you listen to podcasts so you never miss a single issue! Facebook » fb.me/GenXGrownUp Twitter » GenXGrownUp.com/twitter Website » GenXGrownUp.com Podcast » GenXGrownUp.com/pod Merchandise » GenXGrownUp.com/merch iTunes » itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/drawn-paneled-podcast/id1438932601 Google » play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Igw55v3qgoqjoi3xl7htyw5k7r4 PocketCasts » pca.st/k7PH Stitcher » www.stitcher.com/podcast/genxgrownup-2/drawn-paneled Spotify » spoti.fi/2HYdI5U Show Notes Swamp Thing’s new trailer » bit.ly/2DqNTXm Avengers Endgame English screenings canceled in Russia » bit.ly/2VnxFs4 Spider-man Homecoming’s new suit » bit.ly/2ZrVwGd Battlecats vol. 2 #1 » bit.ly/2URsEbM Wolverine vs Blade » bit.ly/2GtNC85 Amber Blake » amzn.to/2DBOLbV Amber Blake 2 » amzn.to/2Dr2fHn Hit Girl Season 2 #1 » amzn.to/2Dsc5IK Hit Girl Season 2 #2 » amzn.to/2UvRiuz H Girl Season 2 #3 » amzn.to/2Du1X2h Mad Cave Studios » madcavestudios.com/ Mad Cave Studios Store » bit.ly/2zvSHX1 Mad Cave Studios on Facebook » www.facebook.com/MadCaveStudios Mad Cave Studios on Twitter » twitter.com/MadCaveStudios Mad Cave Studios on Instagram » www.instagram.com/madcavestudios/ Contact Drawn & Paneled » podcast@drawnandpaneled.com

Jay Sandlin's #WhatHappensNext: Professional #Writers play comedy #Improv games based on #comicbooks, while offering tips for the #WritingCommunity. In this episode, Mark London joined the panel to play Questions Only, Alternate Endings to your favorite films, and complete the story of a mind-wiped Lucifer going to work in fast food. Remember, everything we saw is a first draft and the parsecs don't matter. The only rule, is you'll never guess #WhatHappensNext! www.JaySandlin.com

Jay Sandlin's #WhatHappensNext: Professional #Writers play comedy #Improv games based on #comicbooks, while offering tips for the #WritingCommunity. In this episode, Mark London joined the panel to play blind job interview, Writing Q & A with interupting text messages, and to take turns telling the story of a mind-wiped Lucifer going to work in fast food. Remember, everything we saw is a first draft and the parsecs don't matter. The only rule, is you'll never guess #WhatHappensNext! www.JaySandlin.com

Living in the Reality of the Body of Christ According to the Gospel of Mark / London, England (2013)

Join Tammy Coron and Tim Mitra on Episode 112, which was recorded on August 08, 2018. On this episode, they talk with Mark London and Chris Fernandez. Mark is the CEO of Mad Cave Studios, an independent comic book publisher out of Miami, Florida. And Chris is the Chief Strategic Officer. They stopped by to talk about what they're up to and how their "love of everything" helps to drive their madness to create uniquely compelling and diverse comics. If you like listening to Roundabout: Creative Chaos, and you want to know how you can help support the show, please visit our Patreon page at patreon.com/justwritecode.

In this episode we chat with Mark London from Mad Cave Studios!  He shares with us his passion for comics, the industry in general, his current and upcoming projects and more!!  If you are a comic book fan then you will really enjoy this one!   Check out their work at any comic retailer!! Also we announce our newest venture with our friends at Marred AF Podcast and play some voicemails from our friend Miles from Miles and Crawford! Thanks to Bio-Bidet for the support!  Check them out and our other sponsors at www.drinkswithlarry.com/sponsorsMad Cave - https://madcavestudios.com 

This week, we're joined by Mark London, CEO and writer for Mad Cave Studios, talking about the worst Halloween candies, discussing the week in entertainment and pop culture, and more. Join us!   Tell us what you think are the top stories in entertainment and pop culture each and every week. If we use your comments and suggestions, we'll give you a shout out on an upcoming episode. Contact us at: E-mail us at PopGoesTheEmail@gmail.com Post on our wall at Facebook.com/PopGoesTheCulturePodcast Tweet @pgtcpodcast. Or leave a message on our hotline at (417) 986-7842.   Back us on Patreon at Patreon.com/PGTCpodcast. Links to all that and more on our website at www.PGTCpodcast.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pgtcpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pgtcpodcast/support

Mark London is CEO and Writer for Mad Cave Studios, an independent comic book publisher based out of Miami, Florida driven by madness to create uniquely compelling and diverse comics. Mark is author of the comic books Battlecats, Midnight Task Force, Knights of the Golden Sun, and the upcoming Honor and Curse.

Time for another double-header episode this week! First up is Mark London, a high-power comics creator from Mad Cave Studios. He’s one of the driving forces behind three of that company’s comics, including Battlecats, the upcoming Knights of the Golden Sun, and Midnight Task Force, a sci-fi cyberpunk book that’s a particular favorite of mine! We talk about these passion projects, what Midnight Task Force is about as well as what the future might hold for that series, and what the company is doing to attract quality new comics creators! Then everything concludes with the return of Frank Martin from Modern Testament. When we recorded this interview, he was fully involved in a Kickstarter campaign for the collected edition. Since this chat took place, the campaign very recently concluded successfully, so what he has to say is still relevant and important for fans of the industry. Since the campaign has ended, you'll soon be able to order this volume at this link: https://www.frankthewriter.com/modern-testament.

It's Wednesday, which means it's new comic book day. We're at the Wednesday home of the Pop Goes the Culture podcast, Vintage Stock on South Glenstone in Springfield, Missouri. Joey, Kenny, Odin, Dustin, and Sam are discussing what's new in the world of comics and collecting. To cap off the episode, we're talking with Mark London, CEO & COO of Mad Cave Studio and the writer of the studio's first comic series, 'Battlecats'. Let us know what you want to hear about from the world of entertainment and pop culture. If we use your suggestion, we'll give you a shout out. Contact us: E-mail us at PopGoesTheEmail@gmail.com Post on our wall at Facebook.com/PopGoesTheCulturePodcast Tweet @pgtcpodcast. Or leave a message on our hotline at (417) 986-7842.   Back us on Patreon at Patreon.com/PGTCpodcast. Links to all that and more on our website at www.PGTCpodcast.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pgtcpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pgtcpodcast/support

D.C. Entrepreneur speaks with the start-ups and app developers at D.C. Tech Day. Tech Day is a little bit like a science fair for business innovators and disruptors taking place at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. In this episode, we speak with Eric Smeby of TuitionCoin; Mark London of FrontDesk Connect; Cherian Thomas of SpotLuck; Stephan Walters of Grease Monkey, and Max Friedman of Happening; Andy Fine of Valor; and, Vlad Enache of Ignite.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/georgeindc)

The first of our Annual Summer Trilogy, starts with a handful of stories about kids. Hosted by Dan Farren with Donna Allen Figueroa, Michael Rayner, Moira Quirk, Marsha Clark and featuring David Alexander..."To Sir With Love" performed by Beverly Mickins and John O'Kennedy. Lyrics by Don Black and Mark London. Popularized by LuLu with The Mindbenders... "David Alexander" shot by Lance Anderson...49:20 / 45.3 MB / Rated: PG-13 (Some Adult Language and Content)"Thanks for the download"