X-Band: Phantom Podcast #349 - Our reactions to KFS releasing Tony DePaul
In this episode, the boys are back holding another emergency reaction podcast, this time looking at Tony DePaul, the writer for the newspaper comics, leaving the post. It is going to be interesting to find the fine line between honouring Tony's legacy and sifting through the outrage and optimism and also looking ahead. This is a podcast discussing the news and what is next.
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Jermayn Parker, Stephen East and Dan Fraser are joined by our Indian correspondent, Seuj Abir. While he was unable to join us for the podcast recording, we recorded his thoughts separately and have stitched them together. Seuj is one of the many phans who did not read the newspaper comic while Lee Falk was alive and became a phan reading his stories.
In this podcast we go over Tony DePaul's legacy and his 30+ year career writing stories for Fantomen and then the newspaper stories which became Comics Kingdom.
We look at the Comics Kingdom PR written announcement and Tony DePaul's blog post as well as ours. We share our reactions to the news as well as highlight some of the comments from the phans.
We asked Tony DePaul what his favourite story is/was, and you will be surprised and maybe even disappointed with his answer. We would love to hear what your favourite story of his was as we also share what stories meant the most to us.
We ask the question, wondering aloud if writing about Donald Trump or Elon Musk was a cause for his sacking, along with other possible reasons like 'changing' the Phantom lore and the length of his stories.
We play Nostradamus and look at the decision to hire Alex Segura. Will it future-proof the Comics Kingdom stories? What type of writer could Alex be?
If you are a casual or new listener to our podcast, you may have missed it, but we interviewed Alex Segura in X-Band: The Phantom Podcast Episode 346 and we would recommend you watch and/or listen to it.
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