ABOUT THE ROBOTS

Greg has read enough author bios that he should be better at coming up with one for himself, yet surprisingly isn’t. However, the years of comic reading his parents told him would never pay off obviously have, so we’ll cut him some slack on this.
He lives in Baltimore, hosts this show, contributed to Multiversity Comics as both a podcaster and a columnist (Multiver-City One, Soliciting Multiversity: Best of the Rest, and the comics binding column Shelf Bound), and can be followed on BlueSky at @gregmatiasevich.bsky. social.

Robot Emeritus Mike started reading comics when splash pages were kind and the proper proportions of a human being meant nothing. Part of him will always feel that way.
From 2013 to 2021 he was co-host of this very show and also an editor & frequent contributor to Multiversity Comics, including founding of the weekly Multiver-City One column that covered all of Tharg’s thrill-powered 2000AD offerings for over a decade.
F.A.Q.s
so what's the robots from tomorrow origin story?
Pretty straightforward actually.
I was a co-host on a show called The Next Issue, with Harry Cee. It was a much looser affair than what this show ended up becoming, and we weren’t posting episodes on Multiversity at the time. Harry met Mike at the 2010 Baltimore Comicon and invited him to join the crew, which he thankfully did. Mike’s presence helped get that show into shape. We started doing the weekly pull list episodes as a way to stay timely and build up a better recording / posting rhythm.
In 2011 Mike ran into Brian and the gang at another show, probably NYCC of that year, and got the invite to have TNI start to show up on the Multiversity Comics website and podcast rotation later that year.
Mike and I parted ways with Harry in 2013, and TNI was quickly relaunched as Robots From Tomorrow without missing even one Pull List episode!
(I would say without missing a beat but anyone listening to our very first episode will hear a brief-but-hysterical bump in the road to RFT…)
WHERE CAN I HEAR THE NEXT ISSUE EPISODES?
Unfortunately, like most things on the internet, the vast majority of those episodes have been lost to server changeovers or other such tech disasters. The few remaining episodes will be moved onto the RFT feed as Season Zero episodes, and tagged on here as such as well.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE EPISODE NUMBERING?
Math was never our strongest suit.
TNI had a different release setup for its episodes than what we use for RFT: a main feed and an interview/specials feed. The main feed episodes had their own numbering tracks (one for the Pull List episodes, and one for the general discussion episodes), while the specials feed went unnumbered.
When RFT started in Sept 2013, we streamlined everything and boiled it all down to one feed of episodes. However, we only numbered the non-Pull List episodes, so RFT Episode 1 was our discussion of MARCH: BOOK ONE, even though it was the third episode on our feed. We finally decided to adjust the numbering with our 100th overall episode, which was our interview with Amy Reeder & Brandon Montclaire (then of ROCKET GIRL), and continued the numbering from there.
In setting up this new archive, it occurred to me it would be a good opportunity to do a little cleaning up and adjusting of the back catalog. For instance, some episodes combined interview subjects for purely posting and scheduling reasons, but in a perfect world they would be their own episodes, so those instances will now be separate from each other. If we kept the overall numbering in the title, that would really f*#k things up, so we’re dropping that part to avoid confusion.
That said, the episode posting dates will stay the same, so category browsing will still have episodes come up in chronological order, and the Pull List episodes will have their overall number included in the episode post (because I get a kick out of it).
WHERE'S THE REST OF THE ARCHIVE?
All the RFT episodes are still available on our podcast feed and on our LibSyn archive site.
This site is basically a more curated and comprehensive version of that LibSyn archive. But with 800+ episodes of content to review, refresh, and repost, that’s going to take some time. So in the interest of not having things look like a complete mess in the meantime, we’re going to be releasing updated episode posts and content on an ongoing basis.
What other content, you ask?
Well, one of the gifts Multiversity Comics gave us was NOT owning any of the material we produced for the site. So some of the material Mike & I made for that site has been moved over here. Things like my Palomar censorship articles or Shelf Bound columns on comics binding, or Mike’s Never Just Say ‘That Sucks’: A Guide to Discussing Comic Art article and primer for incoming Multiversity Comics writers.