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Welcome to the Multiverse of Sentinel Comics! Show Notes: Run Time: 1:59:14 Hello, listener! This is (hopefully) a decent jumping-on episode. At least, it is in terms of content - Trevor (our producer) wants me to make sure it's clear that our audio quality used to be a ton better back before Adam and I were each recording in our own homes, and hopefully we'll be back in studio again before the end of this year. Blame the pandemic! Sorry about that. We follow the standard-ish format of a bit of goofing around, followed by the Overview (the meat and potatoes of the episode). After that, we eventually get to the questions at around an hour and 15.5 minutes in, which help flesh out even more of the story! In this episode, we have a notable SPOILER segment! If you don't want any spoilers for the "Off the Rails" adventure issue that was released at the same time as the SCRPG core rulebook, skip from 1:43:25 to 1:46:59! (I claimed that it would be over 5 minutes on the air, but I underestimated how quickly we talk

Now with special guest Dave! Show Notes Run Time: 2:06:26 Our newest Bullpen yet! The secondest Bullpen we've ever done! What a delight. And having both Paul and Dave here not only made it a good time; it also made it a Bullpen. Here's the upcoming schedule: Tuesday, February 2nd: Episode #165: [REDACTED] Tuesday, February 9th: Episode #166: Creative Process: Ignazio Gallo’s Treasure Trove Tuesday, February 16th: Editor’s Note #45 (THE RETURN!) Tuesday, February 23rd: Episode #167: Writers' Room: Fashion After some intros, goofs, and talking about the schedule, we get into your questions - all about Sentinel Comics: The Roleplaying Game - at around the 5 minute mark. Thanks, everyone! We'll definitely do more SCRPG content as the products make their way into wider distribution. 

First "normal" episode of the year! How normal, you ask? Not very at all, actually! Thanks for asking! Show Notes: Run Time: 1:31:34 Right off the bat, we get weird. Like really weird. Look. I'm sorry. OK? The goofs go ever on and on, down from the door where it began... But even we must finally talk about the actual topic of the day. We get into it at the 7 minute mark. There's a lot of storytelling. It's pretty OK. We seem to still remember how to do this. Whew! A bit before the 39 minute mark, we begin to address your questions, delightful as they are. Thanks for joining us! We hope you can join us this Friday for the live recording of this month's Bullpen, featuring Special Guest DAVE! (And Not Really All That Special In Comparison Guest Paul.)

Welcome to a new year! The only thing I can say about this, is that you should listen to it. It's... something else. Back to regular programming soon!

Surprise, surprise. We said there wasn't going to be an episode today, but that was the most obvious of lies, right? Show Notes: Run Time: 12:32 Happy Birthday to everyone mentioned, and to everyone else that had a birthday this year. Listen to our very 2020 song, and despair.  This is what going mad sounds like. See you next year!

It's a new type of episode for the end of a very long year! Show Notes: 1:48:43 The biggest cast we've ever had! Including a surprise twist early on in the episode! Here's what happens in January of next year! Upcoming schedule:  Tuesday, January 5th: Start of Year Break Tuesday, January 12th: Episode #163: Writers' Room: Ra and Setback Buddy-Cop Story Tuesday, January 19th: The Bullpen #2 (featuring Paul and DAVE!) Tuesday, January 26th: Episode #164: Creative Process: SCRPG Lore Crash Course After MUCH goofing around, we finally get into questions at just after the 19 minute mark, and we are all over the place on questions! Thanks for bearing with us. Thanks for joining us, everyone! We'll catch you next year!

Happy Holidays, everyone! Show Notes: Run Time: 1:32:52 Adam is back! Or, rather he will be starting next month! Except next month's schedule will feel similar to the last couple months because of beginning of the year reasons and having a packed Editor's Note! But forget about all that: ADAM IS BACK! Sort of! Whatever! Get excited! We are silly for about 7 minutes, and then we get into actually writersing this room, in which we continue to be silly. That said, given that this is a Haka story, who could have guessed that we'd start with an action-based story but then pull a switcheroo and make it about feelings and sadness? Would we do that? Who can say? After much storying and telling and a little crossover of both of those words, we get to your questions at around the 41 minute mark. At around an hour and 28 minutes, we talk very briefly about a cover. We know right away what it should be. Glimpse its glory above! Quite good. Join us this Friday for our year-ending live recording!

The FINAL Publishers' Note! Show Notes: Run Time: 1:29:11 We've got all the greatest Publishers' Note style hits: questions for Paul, getting into the weeds on Star Trek and Tolkien, Sentinel Comics lore, a variety of game shows, and a pile of Meta-Meta questions! What more could you ask for? Paul and I have had a blast noting publishery for you all. Thanks for sticking with us for this weird schedule. But we'll be back to normalish at the start of the year! For now, look forward to a holiday-themed episode next week, and then a bigger than usual Editor's Note the week after that!

Gather round, everyone. It's time for some real talk. Show Notes: Run Time: 1:33:39 We had a lot of fun recording this one. We learned some things - about PSAs, about comics, and about ourselves along the way. Remember, kids: there's always a moral to every story.  At around 58 minutes into the episode, we finally get to your questions! There, we talk about the subject of this episode, but also! We talk about a fan-favorite new hero/old trendsetter/in between gladiator! Who could it be? No way to know. It's a mystery forever. Also, goodness, listening back to this episode, we're at our best/worst when we're just laughing at our own bad jokes. How can you people stand us? Thanks everyone for listening! This coming Friday, we record our last Publishers' Note, so make sure you tune in to wish Paul a fond-farewell as co-host! And don't forget: Make Good Choices!

The Penultimate Publishers' Note! Show Notes: Run time: 1:18:42 We start off with the what we'll talk about in December! Upcoming schedule: Tuesday, December 1st: Episode #161 - Creative Process: PSAs of the Multiverse Tuesday, December 8th: Publishers’ Note #9 Tuesday, December 15th: Episode #162 - Writers’ Room: A Haka Holiday Story Tuesday, December 22nd: Editors’ Note #45 Tuesday, December 29th: End of Year Break Then we get into questions! Lots of fun topics, and more game shows than ever before!  Thanks everyone for joining us! Get your questions in for the December episodes ASAP! We'll catch you...

The last episode of Spooky Month! Show Notes: Run Time: 1:30:48 We do some goofs for about four minutes, which doesn't sound like a long time... and yet. Four minutes can really drag on when it's just all goofs. Then! We tell a story! We craft it from whole cloth, live on the air! Certainly nothing obscured and no weird twists! Very straightforward beat-em-up tale here. Nothing to be afraid of... Just after the 36 minute mark, we get into your questions. Thanks for keeping up the flow of questions, listeners! We get so many wonderful questions, and we love seeing them all. Keep up the great work! Submit your questions here! If you're a Contributor on our Patreon, the voting for next month's episodes is up now! Go make your vote(s) count!

Paul and Christopher are a bit loopy, but that doesn't mean they can't answer questions! Show Notes: Run Time: 1:42:48 There's a pretty heavy-hitting topic right off the bat, even before the actual question section, but then we get into questions and never quite recover! Paul spends... a LOT of time talking about Star Trek. We hope you like Star Trek. Or at least hearing Paul talk about Star Trek. And there are TWO different game shows in this episode! Who would have guessed?! All in all, more silliness and also some potentially useful (though mostly useless) info was dispensed. Another successful Publishers' Note! If you have any questions for the next episode: "Writers’ Room: NightMist vs Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde" make sure you get them in before this Friday, November 13th! Send them in using this handy form!

We make up some stuff! Show Notes: Run Time: 1:25:05 We goof around, as per usual, but then make up a few villains and even get into their stories a bit! At around 41 minutes in, we stop making stuff up, and start making up answers to your questions! Near the end of the episode, there's a question about how Adam's spouse feels about the version of Baron Blade from the Freedom Five board game, which is now on Kickstarter - go check it out! Here's what she thinks: In case you live in the USA and haven't voted yet and it's still the day this episode is released, go vote! It's important. Find out where and how you can vote here! Catch you all next time!

Paul and Christopher did a livestream, even though it got interrupted multiple times! Show Notes: Run Time: 1:29:28 In the voting for what Writers' Room we'd do, there was a tie! So, we cast the deciding vote. But clearly there's interest in the other topic as well, so it'll be back up for voting sometime, for certain! Here's the upcoming schedule! Tuesday, November 3rd: Episode #159 - Creative Process: Dark Watch Villiains Tuesday, November 10th: Publishers’ Note #7 Tuesday, November 17th: Episode #160 - Writers’ Room: NightMist vs Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde Tuesday, November 24th: Publishers’ Note #8 Tune in for all sorts of nonsense! (Actually, probably only about eleven different sorts of nonsense, all told.) Check out the Letters Page Patreon to be join in on these Publishers and Editors livestreams! Also, submit your questions with this handy form!

It's such a spooky time! Not as spooky as next month, mind you, but spooky enough to tell a tale of BLOOD! Show Notes: Run Time: 1:49:58 Adam and I goof around for several minutes before finally getting into the sweet meat and sweet potatoes of the episode, at around the 5 minute mark.  We craft a thrilling tale! Neither of us knew where this would end up when we started, and you can hear us double back and rework the story as we go. Twists and turns abound! But, all told, we're pretty pleased with how it turned out. And not without future costs for both protagonist and antagonist alike! At around the 53 minute mark, we start in on your questions, both related to Blood Countess and the Court of Blood, as well as a healthy crop of questions on the Phoenix! By popular demand! At the end of the episode, we take only a minute or so on the cover before wrapping things up. It's nice when something comes together so neatly. Thanks for listening, everyone! This Friday will be another Publishers' Note, featuring the

It's your favorite Paul and your second favorite Christopher! Show Notes: Run Time: 1:07:16 We talk about a bunch of things in a variety of topics, including a new name for the questions section that we finish off with. What will that name be?! Listen to find out! Get your Court of Blood and Blood Countess Bathory questions in before Friday morning to have them considered for this Friday's recording of next Tuesday's Writer's Room episode! Use this handy form to send in your questions!

We're gonna bring the flavor, show you how! Show Notes: Run Time: 1:49:10 We just kept going on this one. Probably would have continued, but time was - and is - of the essence. The essence of what? Well, let us keep SOME of our secrets, dear listeners. After a few minutes of banter, we get into adding people to Fanatic's story. Not all of them are sad stories! Not ALL of them. A bit after the 1 hour and 12 minute mark, we answer the letters you've written to us! Including a bunch of old letters that have languished in our dreaded inbox for far too long!  Join us this Friday for another livestreamed Publishers' Note, if you're on the Patreon. If you're not a Letters Page Patreon supporter, totally cool - we understand. Our self esteem is definitely not just based on our listenership. We're individual people with our own stuff going on. Really. Anyway, if you don't love us that way, NBD - you'll get that Publishers' Note in audio form next Tuesday!

Paul and Christopher talk about the weather! And some other stuff too, I guess! Show Notes: Run Time: 1:31:39 Here's the upcoming schedule! Tuesday, October 6th: Episode #157 - Creative Process: Fanatic Supporting Cast Tuesday, October 13th: Publishers’ Note #5 Tuesday, October 20th: Episode #158 - Writers’ Room: Blood Countess Bathory Tuesday, October 27th: Publishers’ Note #6 Also, we answer questions about all sorts of things, talk about a bunch of Sentinels Lore - including a Sentinel Comics recap from Paul's point of view - and a series of Andy questions! Check out the Letters Page Patreon to be a supporter and join in on these Publishers and Editors livestreams! Also, submit your questions using our handy form!

Let's. Get. 90s. Show Notes: Run Time: 1:30:04 Adam and I missed each other so much. We haven't seen each other in so long. We almost died. Witness our heartwrenching reunion.  After only a few minutes of goofs, we get to the overview where we do a bunch of work of a variety of sorts! Positioning, informing, redacting, problem solving, creating, naming, storytelling, and more! And we go through it pretty quickly, considering how much we make! You never know how long we're going to linger on any one thing. A bit before the 39 minute mark, we dig into your questions on a variety of related (and barely related) topics. And after about 40+ minutes of that, we talk briefly about the cover, which can be seen above! Thanks everyone for listening! We enjoy reading your letters and answering your questions - send us your questions using this nifty form! Catch you next time!

We're back! Paul is back! Excitement! Show Notes: Run Time: 1:30:34 There's plenty of nonsense in this one - fear not - but we also get the start of GTG from Paul's perspective, and even get into Sentinel Comics lore content... including some MASSIVE Sentinel Comics future preview spoilers! Questions are asked, answered, and more! If you want to submit questions for Christopher, Adam, and/or Paul, use our handy question submission form!