Josh Dysart returns to the show for a third time to talk about his newest miniseries from Bad Idea, The Hab. Created with David Lapham, Bill Sienkiewicz, Jacob Phillips, colorists Matt Hollingsworth and Crabtree, and letterer Simon Bowland, and printed on old school newsprint-esque paper, The Hab shows us all what happens when a billionaire and his circle of family and staff survive a nuclear holocaust in his high-tech bunker…only to find a worse fate waiting for him.

Find out about this something-for-everyone horror story fits in today’s climate, where billionaire Tuttle Barrows sits on the continuum of characters from his career to this point, horror’s necessity as a genre, how all these production pieces fit together, why letterers should be valued more across the board, and what Hong Kong action pillar gets another off-the-cuff watch guide from Josh himself.

[This episode is number 836 in a series.]

CHAPTERS

00:00 – Intro
04:25 – From Bad Idea to The Hab
18:36 – The Bad Idea Dilemma
24:29 – Lettering & Post Production
32:42 – Pitching The Hab
34:18 – Why Horror Now
37:34 – Comics Horror vs Prose Horror
41:47 – Satire and Tuttle Barrows
46:41 – Catharsis vs Horror
50:20 – Humanizing The Villains
56:33 – Why Harada Doesn’t Work Anymore
01:04:07 – Comics For Peace Fallout
01:07:44 – John Woo Starter Guide
01:17:29 – Hollywood vs Hong Kong
01:23:18 – Outro