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2000AD - The First Dozen!

As part of his Someday Reading Project, Greg takes a look at the first dozen programmes of The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic: 2000AD! Do those early installments still hold up? Was Dredd the leader of the pack… or the runt of the litter? What controversial boys’ adventure comic paved the way for Tharg and all that Thrill-Power? All that and more on today’s bite-sized episode!   SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL  Rebellion/2000AD’s First Stories Digital Bundle __________ Robots From Tomorrow is a twice-weekly comics podcast recorded deep beneath the Earth’s surface. You can subscribe to it via iTunes or through the RSS feed at RobotsFromTomorrow.com. You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel at this link. You can also follow Greg and the show on Bluesky. Stay safe and enjoy your funny books.

The Greatest Bronze Age Superman Stories, Part 1

Today’s episode is the first of three looking at the best Superman stories of the Seventies to the mid-Eighties with the DC3Cast’s very own Vince Ostrowski! Vince & Greg dive into what makes the Superman of this era different than his more modern incarnation and start giving you gem after gem of Super-Tales of the post-Silver Age / pre-Crisis Man of Steel. Kryptonite No More! Must There Be A Superman! The Great One and the Greatest of All Time! Whiz Wagons! Clones! The Sweet Science! The Wedding of the Century! Hippie Bikers! More quotemarks than you can shake a stick at! All that and more on today’s episode!   __________ SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL  Comics referred to in this episode are: Superman #232 Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #133-141 Forever People #1 Superman #233-242 Superman #247 Action Comics #404 Superman vs Muhammad Ali Superman #232, 247, and Action Comics #484 are not available digitally as individual issues. Action Comics #484 is available digitally in the Lois Lane: A Celebration of 75 Years and Action Comics: 80 Years of Superman: The Deluxe Edition collections. Superman #247 and the main story from #232 (originally from Superman #141) are available digitally in the Superman: A Celebration of 75 Years collection. Superman vs Muhammad Ali is available digitally but not through DC Universe Infinite. The rest of the comics are available as individual issues or in the Kryptonite No More, Jack Kirby’s Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen, or Jack Kirby’s The Forever People collections on DC Universe Infinite. __________ Robots From Tomorrow is a comics podcast recorded deep beneath the Earth’s surface. You can subscribe to it via iTunes, through the RSS feed at RobotsFromTomorrow.com, or on the show's YouTube channel. You can also follow Greg and the show on BlueSky. Stay safe and enjoy your funny books. 

WORMY by David A. Trampier

Greg kicks off The Someday Project looking at one of his early comics influences: a magazine-sized mind-bender (at least for someone of his age to read it) unlike anything else on the stands. HEAVY METAL? Nope. 2000 AD? Negative. Those are coming soon enough, but today Greg talks about the impact of David A. Trampier's "Wormy" from DRAGON magazine. Does it still hold up? How can you get a hold of it today? All that and more in today's episode! SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL  The start of "WORMY" on the Internet Archive "Wormy" ran in DRAGON issues: 9-20 29-34 36, 39, 42-44 47-52 54-58 60-128 130-132 Wormy: The Dragon's Dragon Correspondence with Dave Trampier and A History of His 1985 Attempt to Crowdfund a "Wormy" Anthology __________ Robots From Tomorrow is a comics podcast recorded deep beneath the Earth’s surface. You can subscribe to it via iTunes, through the RSS feed at RobotsFromTomorrow.com, or on the show's YouTube channel. You can also follow Greg and the show on BlueSky. Stay safe and enjoy your funny books. 

What is... THE SOMEDAY PROJECT?

The winter break is over, and Greg returns to give listeners a peek behind the curtain in this quick preview of what 2024 has in store for the show, including and most importantly, the lowdown on what has been referred to in hushed whispers around the office as... THE SOMEDAY PROJECT! What new devilry is this? All is revealed in today's episode! Robots From Tomorrow is a comics podcast recorded deep beneath the Earth’s surface. You can subscribe to it via iTunes, through the RSS feed at RobotsFromTomorrow.com, or on the show's YouTube channel. You can also follow Greg and the show on BlueSky. Stay safe and enjoy your funny books. 

Jose Villarrubia on Restoring SWAMP THING and THE CORBEN LIBRARY

Today's guest is someone listeners of this show will be familiar with, as he name is mentioned often and in tones of reverence. For almost 30 years he has worked with such artists as Jae Lee, Jeff Lemire, Bill Sienkiewicz, JH Williams III, and BERNIE WRIGHTSON to bring color into their art in a way that always enhances, never detracts - no mean feat there.  He's also been a teacher/presenter/lecturer of art and illustration at such institutions as Towson University, Johns Hopkins University, the Institute for Contemporary Art in London, and MICA the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he currently a professor. Two of his most recent projects are his recoloring of the Bernie Wrightson's Swamp Thing run for the recent Absolute Edition, and the second volume of Dark Horse Comics' "Richard Corben Library", which collects Den: Neverwhere with his gorgeous restoration work giving it new life. He's Jose Villarrubia, and Greg is thrilled to have him on the show to talk about all of that and more. Robots From Tomorrow is a twice-monthly comics podcast recorded deep beneath the Earth’s surface. You can subscribe to it via iTunes or through the RSS feed at RobotsFromTomorrow.com. You can also follow Mike and Greg on Twitter. Stay safe and enjoy your funny books.