MAGICAL CON MISSIVES of the MECHANICAL MIAMI MEN

The sound of the breaking of the 77th seal of the Roboplastic Apoclaypse is the tippy tip tapping of a magic wand on my voice recorder to see if I can pull a José Delbo interview out of my hat! Yes I went to Mystical MiamiCon or whatever and who cares what it's called anyways because all that matters is I got another shot at talking to José Delbo about everything that's happened since the last convention I talked to him. Plus I asked a Star Wars question at a panel with Greg Weisman, the Star Wars Rebels season one executive producer! I learned he also created Gargoyles (which based on the voice actor cast I think may have been set in some kind of alternate Star Trek universe). I may not be hip to cartoons without any robots in them and I really didn't know who all the other guests were at Magical Miami Comics Con 2015 but I still had a good time. So smell the magic as I condescendingly complain about all the overpriced robots that I was too smart to buy and then LOL out loud as I get suckered into buying overpriced non-robots comics because I am dumb about GI Joe. How did Mr. Delbo's trip to London go? What are those new robots he's drawing now? And is it mandated somewhere that every single Star Wars character has to have a bad feeling about this? Find out all that and more in this MAGIC CITY 201.5 IS YOUR STATION FOR SMOOTH DELBO JAMS edition of the podcastalypse!

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That new signage looks more Wal-Marty than Convention Centery.

This is the closest to Shogun Warriors toys as the vendors got.

Overpriced neo-G1 was plentiful for people who don't shop internet.

I get the feeling that every Greg Weisman panel becomes a Gargoyles panel.

SPOLIER ALERT! Jim Cummings told me Clampdown was crabby. Very crabby.

Mr. Delbo knocking out the drawings with a new Optimus Prime backdrop.

He had some sketches of newer toys I found rather intriguing.

It was cool to see a mix of old and new Transformers in his art!

3 pack baggy GI Joe #2 reprints were super rare when I was a kid!

SHOW NOTES OF THE PODCASTALYPSE

• HELLO ALL YOU MAGIC CITY COMICCONONIANS
• Greg Weisman had a bad feeling about answering my questions at his panel.
• Jim Cummings told me a little about that crabby Clampdown.
• Okay so maybe they aren't that super rare.
• It's another interview with José Delbo!
• Mr. Delbo's trip to London for the London Film and Comic Con and the couple of panels he did there.
• Copies of Transformers Generation One #100 signed by lots of Transformers artists including Mr. Delbo were auctioned off with the proceeds going to Bill Mantlo.
• There will be a museum exhibit in Coral Springs, Fl featuring Mr. Delbo's work this March.
• Don't Rocket Punch Your Friends!

Don't miss the Coral Springs Museum of Art's Comic & Pop Art exhibit featuring José Delbo and other artists starting March 5th.

Amazing Adventures in the Land of the Starrmorfens Kings

The sound of the breaking of the 73rd seal of the Roboplastic Apocalypse is the mighty roar of jet engines carrying the Nostrodomatron non-stop from southern Florida to Houston, Texas on a date with toy robots comic royalty! Yes at a single convention in Texas this past August I met three of my favorite writer/artists whose combined works are some of the most significant toy robots comics of the past 40 years! At Amazing Houston Comic Con I got to meet the legendary Len Wein, who wrote the very first toy robot/comic book tie in back in 1971, AND Herb Trimpe, the penciling king of Shogun Warriors comics who wrote and drew Robotix #1 in 1985, AND Tom Scioli. writer/artist of the current Transformers vs G.I. Joe comic from IDW Publishing! And of course I made terrible audio recordings of it all to share with you, my fellow Macrocranians. It just goes to show that you can win if you dare, but you can skip the daring part and go straight to the winning if you have a ton of frequent flier miles and credit card rewards points. Who penciled the first issue of Microbots? How does Herb Trimpe feel about alien robots that turn into cigarette lighters and fountain pens? By what brilliant logic did Tom Scioli deduce that Soundwave and Shockwave were brothers? And who is the only comic artist worth waiting two hours in line for to let him sign your vagina? Find out all that and more in this I'M FINALLY SHOOTING RUSSIAN UNICORNS WITH CARMEN SANDIEGO edition of the Podcastalypse!

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You can find all these pictures (INCLUDING one of Jim Lee drinking water) at my Amazing Houston Comic Con 2014 photo album on Flickr.

The most recently livest portions of this episode were recorded at Tate's Comics + Toys + More during their Out of This World sale

The most oldest livest portions of this episode were recorded at Amazing Houston Comic Con 2014 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas

I got to meet the writer of The Microbots #1 and Exo Squad #0-Len Wein!! (I've heard he's done one or two other notable things outside of toy robots.)
Mr. Wein sat in front of me during the game show! Was this his secret way of asking me to interview him? I WAS TOO SCARED!!

I FOUND HIM! I FOUND HIM! I FINALLY FOUND HIM! HERB TRIMPE!!!

There were some old TFs but I thought they were a bit high. Some of them literally were-my camera needed its tripod extended to reach them!

Toy Hunter!	Jim Lee!!	Lego Batman!!!

It's the American Barbarian himself-Tom Scioli.
Tom absolutely murdered everyone with his dramatic readings from Transformers vs. G.I. Joe. Then after they were all dead he gave them free copies of Transfomers vs. G.I. Joe #1.

Here are some of the scribblings I managed to achieve:

Amazing Houston Comic Con was so amazing it could make a grown baby cry!


BUT MAN WHAT WAS UP WITH THOSE PRICES?!?!

Amazing Houston Comic Con	Tate's prices
Transformers back issues at AHCC were 2.5x to 4x higher than back home in Florida. I could have been a Texas hundredaire!!

SHOW NOTES OF THE PODCASTALYPSE

• My obsession with rare, vermillion, Ukranian unicorns
• Pics from my visit to Tate's Out of This World sale
• Debating on whether or not to get Transformers Legacy
• My old interview with David Schleinkofer
• Wishing I was at London Film and Comic Con Winter 2014
• Remembering my trip to the Amazing Houston Comic Con
• Meeting Len Wein at AHCC and talking about Microbots
• I FINALLY MET HERB TRIMPE!!!
• Herb Trimpe's inspiring New York Times article about being fired by Marvel
• The Jim Lee line experience
• BREAK: Stan Lee interviews Jim Lee
• Talking Starrmorfens with Tom Scioli
• The also amazing Transformers vs. G.I. Joe
• ...and equally amazing American Barbarian
• Amazing Comic Cons exclusive TF vs.GI JOE #2 cover
• Some sketches Tom did at AHCC of Soundwave and Trypticon
• BREAK: Zartan by The Hardstuff
• Scoring a Dash Rendar before talking toys with Toy Hunter Jordan Hembrough
• Toyfinity doing an classic deco Maxx Zero
• Don't Rocket Punch Your Friends!

All the Familiar Voices!

AND ONE DAY THERE SHALL COME A REUNION (and I don't mean the Brute Force one, although technically I guess that applies, too)! But anyway, the sound of the breaking of the 72nd seal of the Roboplastic Apocalypse is the announcement of a London comic book convention with a guest lineup so tremendous, so titanic, ...so Robotastic, that I had to call upon Yoshi of the TransMissions podcast to talk about it! Yes the London Film and Comic Con Winter 2014 is less than a month away and like a vast predatory bird there will descend the legendary titans of G1 Marvel Transformer comic book creation Bob Budiansky, Simon Furman, José Delbo, and Andrew Wildman! So to celebrate this epic occasion Yoshi and I call upon the magic of old bootleg panel recordings to discuss the last time Simon Furman, Andrew Wildman, and Bob Budiansky were at a convention together over ten years ago. Plus through the magic of very new and not at all bootleg recordings, I get to talk to José Delbo about going to the big London show! What audience questions should you definitely ask if you go to the Transformers panel in London? What audience questions should you definitely NOT ask if you go to the Transformers panel in London? And what comic book in its right mind would do a Brute Force reunion? Find out all this and more, much more in this HERE HAVE SOME WILDBUDFURBO, COURTESY OF MY PODCASTALYPSE edition of the podcastalypse!

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You can read a transcript I did of the OTFCC panel and hear the complete original recording of it here at this post: The OTFCC 2004 G1 Comic Creators Panel

The original Brute Force #1 and the more current Deadpool Bi-Annual #1

Mr. Delbo at Tama Bay Comic Con 2014 and Mr. Furman & Mr. Budiansky at OTFCC 2004

SHOW NOTES OF THE PODCASTALYPSE

• Brute Force returns in Deadpool Bi-Annual #1
• It’s called London Film and Comic Con!
• Get your Brute Force #1 signed like I did, London People!
• José Delbo interview at Tampa Bay Comic Con
• José Delbo destroys the Transformer Universe and kills humans, too!
• Don Figueroa is the only other artist to work with both Bob Budiansky and Simon Furman on Transformers
• José Delbo will be at PalmCon this weekend
• ...and so will Ike Eisenmann of Battle of the Rock Lords
• Special guest co-host Yoshi from the TransMissions Podcast
• Seibertron's got the scoop on LFCC Winter 2014
• OTFCC 2004 had a G1 comic creators panel
• Monzo’s interview with Bob Budiansky at ASM
• Furman & Wildman’s post OTFCC ’04 convention report
• James Roberts panel at Botcon 2014
• Hasbro’s stance on IP infringing toys in 2009
• Andrew Wildman listens to TransMissions
• Yoshi rocket punches his friends

The Starscream we deserved. From Transformers #68