On this episode of The Hyper Room 🎧 @hypercasey chats with Caitlin Burns the Director of Story at Palm NFT Studios and we talk about all things DC Comics specifically the Bat Cowls, Harley Quinn and DC Collectible Comics NFTs that have all launched this year. On the podcast we talk about: The Secret Origin of the Bat Cowls project. Building a Web3 …

On this episode of The Hyper Room 🎧 @hypercasey chats with the co-founders of Omega RUNNER: Bryan Unkeless and Bryce Anderson - both who have worked as producers on hit Hollywood films like The Hunger Games, Birds of Prey and Mad Max: Fury Road. On the podcast we talk about: - Making the transition from Hollywood to Web3. - Developing movie storyte…

On this episode of The Hyper Room @hypercasey chats with Gareb Shamus - the man behind Wizard, Toyfare, Inquest magazines, Wizard World, and the ACE Comic-con, about his new superhero Web3 universe company: Heromaker Studios. Would Gareb start a Wizard for Web3? Driving demand for collectible comics and action figures. The parallels between comic c…

Happy International NFT Day, on this episode of The Hyper Room 🎧 @hypercasey sits down with Sarah Cole, co-creator of Stoner Cats to talk about: - What has happened in the 420 days since Stoner Cats launched their NFT? - Hollywood vs Web3. - Jane Fonda doing her own NFT research. - The production process of making an animated series. - Raising VC m…

On this episode of The Hyper Room 🎧 Casey Hyper sits down with Adam Martin, co-founder of Macroverse to talk about: - Launching a new line of comics into Web3 - How NFTs will open new storytelling opportunities for comic creators - The challenges current NFT projects have in launching comics. - The best tools to get creators ready for Web3 - How pa…

On this episode of The Hyper Room 🎧 Casey Hyper sits down with Blockchain Creative Labs and Fox’s Krapopolis Project Manager Matt Bilfield to talk about: How Fox’s Blockchain Creative Labs is using Web3 and NFTs to build fan engagement with their new animated series by Dan Harmon - co-creator of Rick and Morty - How they came up with a chicken as t…

On this episode of The Hyper Room, Casey Hyper talks to the New York Times best-selling artist behind DC Superhero Girls, My Little Pony, Teen Titans Go and Care Bears: Agnes Garbowska - in our interview we discuss: - How Agnes got into drawing comics. - How social media helps enhance her profile. - Live comic conventions vs e-Commerce. - Selling p…

On this episode of The Hyper Room, Casey Hyper talks to the creative mind behind The Huxley Saga: Ben Mauro - in our interview we discuss: - How Ben started the comic before the NFT launch - Tailoring a release strategy in the quickly evolving landscape of Web3 - The value of Digital vs Physical comics - The importance of community building with yo…

On this episode of The Hyper Room, Hypercasey talks to One Big Idea and Venice Music’s Austin Hurtwitz about: - An introduction to Creative Commons Zero (CC0). - The pro’s and cons of a centralized source controlling Web3 rights. - Commercial Rights vs Public Domain. - How the Nouns project made CC0 work. - How tokenized communities will connect cr…

On this episode of The Hyper Room, @Hypercasey talks to Comic Boxels co-founder and Devil's Due Comics founder Josh Blaylock (@joshblaylock) about: - The Web3 future of Comic-Cons - Josh's SDCC and C2E2 experiences - How to onboard artists into Web3 - How he is reinventing comic book publishing with NFTs with Comic Boxels. ------- Show Notes at: ht…

On this episode of The Hyper Room, co-hosts @Hypercasey and @Walkeen talk all about the Web3 infiltration of the first San Diego Comic-Con in 3 years: - Comic-Con against NFT panels? - Fox and Mattel come out swinging with Krapopolis and Cryptoys Masters of the Universe! - Every comic publisher is in the Web3 space now! - Creators are starting to d…

The Hyper Room welcomes Kortelin from Frank Miller Presents: Ancient Enemies NFT to talk about the upcoming NFT drop for the new comic book series by Dan DiDio and artist Danilo Beyruth from the new publishing venture Frank Miller Presents. More info at: https://www.thehyperroom.com The Frank Miller Presents Ancient Enemies Discord: https://discord…

On this episode of The Hyper Room, co-hosts @Hypercasey and @Walkeen discuss: - Disney Accelerator welcomes Web3 startups - Can Aliens vs Dinosaurs go from Hollywood to Web3 - Zestworld Commissions: as exciting for artists as for IP owners? - Gamestop NFT Marketplace launches with a ton of art NFTs ------- Show Notes at: http://www.thehyperroom.com…

On this episode of The Hyper Room, co-hosts @Hypercasey and @Walkeen discuss: - Hellboy enters The Sandbox via Action City - Stan Lee’s Genesis new game and NFT collection - Mike Judge and Alec Berg are raising Terrible Pets Show Notes at: [http://www.thehyperroom.com](http://www.thehyperroom.com/) --- Discord: https://discord.gg/6mBKD4kSrF Socials…

On this episode of The Hyper Room, co-hosts @Hypercasey and @Walkeen discuss: - Mila Kunis and Graphic India enter the Armored Kingdom comic book and animation world. - Neal Stephenson, the author of 'Snow Crash' enters the IRL Metaverse. - Nickelodeon joins Star Trek and Top Gun in the Metaverse with new NFT lines. - Barbie and Mattel sign multi-y…

On this episode of The Hyper Room, co-hosts @Hypercasey and @Walkeen discuss: - Kevin Smith’s Killroy Was Here NFT movie premiere. - Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Mythic Quest star Rob McElhenney launches Adimverse - an NFT Writer’s Room. - Warner Bros aims to onboard more people into crypto with Tweety Bird and the Looney Tunes Gang. --- Show N…

On this episode of The Hyper Room, co-hosts @Hypercasey and @Walkeen discuss: The Gundam Metaverse Project aka SIDE-G Multiversal’s Runner Comic Book NFT The Disgusting Fun of Goblintown --- Continue the discussion in THE HYPER ROOM: https://www.thehyperroom.com Discord: https://discord.gg/6mBKD4kSrF Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/thehyperro…

On this episode of The Hyper Room: - Gamestop sells NFTs - The Frank Miller x Spice DAO NFT deal - Seth Green's animated series halted because of stolen Bored Ape - Stoner Cats, Deadheads and more Web3 animated series - Spotlight on comic book NFT: HUXLEY - Would a Hasbro DAO have saved the Snake-Eyes movie? ---- CONTINUE THE DISCUSSION IN THE HYPE…

On a new episode of The Hyper Room, your hosts Hyper Casey and Walkeen discuss: The launch of Todd McFarlane’s Oddkey and sell-out of their first NFT. DC’s Bat Cowls announces their first milestone on their road map: Knightwatch! Rick and Morty’s Dan Harmon announces new Web3 animated series: Krapopolis. Huge funding rounds and new funds launched f…

On a new episode of The Hyper Room, your hosts Hyper Casey and Walkeen discuss: The CryptoCrash of 2022! The controversy around the Azuki NFT community and why reliable founders are so important. Instagram now lets you display your ETH and SOL NFTs in your IG feed. More wallets and chains coming. The $269mm investment into Funko, and what we believ…

Was the DC Comics Batman Bat Cowl NFT launch a success? Image Comics founder Rob Liefeld releases a 30th anniversary NFT celebrating Bloodstrike. Square Enix sells Tomb Raider to focus on Blockchain games. Frank Miller launches new publishing company with controversial Spice DAO but includes RONIN: BOOK 2 and SIN CITY 1858 CONTINUE THE DISCUSSION I…

The All-new, All-Different: The Hyper Room. There is so much happening at the intersection of pop culture and Web3 - listen to the latest news and experiences inside The Hyper Room presented by THNDRHS. Each week co-hosts @Hypercasey and @Walkeen will talk about how the world of pop culture and entertainment is colliding with the world of Web3 thro…

Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Veep, Star Wars, Steve Ditko, Batman, Hydra: this episode has it all. On this episode of The Hyper Room we welcome special guest is David Mandel - a man with a resume so impressive and a comic art collection so incredible he should have his own podcast - which he does called "The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of." Inside The…

Felix Lu of Felix Comic Art has spent his whole life as a comic book collector and for the past 20 years has been an artist representative for comic book legends like Ryan Ottley, Daniel Warren Johnson and Bryan Lee O'Malley amongst others - he joins us inside The Hyper Room to talk about the Original Comic Art Market, how to get into collecting an…

Returning for a second interview inside The Hyper Room is Andy Park the Director of Visual Development at Marvel Studios and the man behind the look of the iconic costume design for Shang-Chi in the newest hit Marvel Cinematic Universe film: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. On this podcast, we talk all things Shang-Chi and the visual desi…

Andy Park started off drawing for Image Comics at the age of 18, then took Lara Croft: Tomb Raider from the #1 selling video game to the #1 selling comic book in 1999, before going on to illustrate Marvel’s The Uncanny X-Men working alongside the legendary Chris Claremont. Going from huge comics to iconic video games to the biggest movie of all tim…

From KISS and Rob Zombie, to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Eminem, Dark Angel, and to boldly go with Star Trek and Minimates, Art Asylum was one of the landmark toy companies and action figure studios that defined the late 90s and early 2000s - fighting for creator recognition while at the same time pushing what can be done creatively with action…

As a veteran of the initial Image Comics launch, Matt Hawkins started his career in comic book publishing in 1993 and has been working with Image as a creator, writer and executive for over 26 years. President/COO of Top Cow since 1998, Matt has created and written over 30 new franchises for Top Cow and Image. We talk about Matt's career, how new c…

Batman: Black and White, Batman vs TMNT, DC Cover Girls and Harley Quinn: Red, white and Black are just some of the DC Direct collectibles - including the groundbreaking Mike Mignola Batman statue - that Jonathan Matthews has sculpted over the years. On this episode find out how the worlds of Batman, Superman and the Harley Quinn collide with the w…

Find out more about Todd McFarlane, the Image founders and comic book documentary filmmaking on this episode of The Hyper Room as I talk to Mike Avila, the producer behind the latest Todd McFarlane documentary LIKE HELL I WON’T, and host, writer, co-creator of SyFy Wire's "Behind the Panel" docu-series, where he interviews the legends of the comic …

Magnus Robot Fighter, X-O Manowar, Rai and the Future Force, Harbinger, Ninjak, Archer and Armstrong, Quantum and Woody. These are some of the characters of the Valiant Universe also includes their biggest character - thanks to the Vin Diesel movie that came out this year: BLOODSHOT! Dinesh Shamdasani’s Valiant Comics story is an amazing one so if …

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This episode of the Hyper Room host Casey Lau welcomes the author of "Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World" Matt Alt to talk about the origins of Transformers, manga, anime, Astro Boy, Gundam, Akira Evangelion all the way up to Demon Slayer today. Through the stories of an indelible group of artists, geniuses, and oddballs, t…

In the 1990s Jay started doing black and white comics like SIN, JETCAT, LAND OF NOD and ATOMIC CITY TALES in Canada before taking some of his ideas into animation. He can call cartoonists like The Tick’s Ben England, THB’s Paul Pope and Scud the Disposable Assassin’s Rob Schwab contemporaries of the indie comics scene of the mid-90’s. His mix of Gr…

In the early 2000’s the nostalgia wave for 80s pop culture was at an all time high - the return of Classic GI Joe and Generation 1 Transformers to comic book stores around the world signaled that we the kids of the 80s like the kids of the 70s with Star Wars had our own money to spend on these amazing characters in comic, toy and game form. Alongsi…

On this episode of the Hyper Room, I welcome one of the legends of modern action figure sculpting Jerry Macaluso he started three of the most iconic US collectibles companies in history: Plastic Fantasy, SOTA Toys, and Pop Culture Shock. Together Jerry and I will take you behind the scenes of his career starting in special effects on movies like Th…

If you are asked to name the most influential cartoons of all time Ren and Stimpy would definitely be somewhere at the top of that list. Without Ren and Stimpy there would be no Spongebob Squarepants, Adventure Time or Rick and Morty. The Nickelodeon cartoon about a mean dog and a dumb cat - was a landmark for modern animation with is gross-out hum…

It is my Cybertronian honor to have legendary storyteller Flint Dille inside The Hyper Room. If you grew up watching GI Joe, Transformers, Inhumanoid, Visionaries or was traumatized by Transformers the movie then you know who Flint Dille is. He created and wrote so much of what came out of Sunbow Animation in the 1980s and what has influenced so mu…

In October 1980 Robin, Wonder Girl, Kid Flash along with Cyborg, Raven, Starfire and a teenage Beast Boy now calling himself The Changeling, joined together to form The New Teen Titans first appearing in DC Comics Presents #26 before launching into their own comic book and setting the world on fire. Today in The Hyper Room in association with Icon …

Today in the Hyper Room we are celebrating the 35th Anniversary of the original airing of the series that has ranked as one of the greatest animated shows of all time — and so it is my extreme honor to welcome the entire original Macross Saga voice cast: - Tony Oliver who played Rick Hunter - Rebecca Forstadt Who played Lynn MinMay - Melanie MacQue…

Inside the Hyper Room I welcome the president of Toynami George Sohn who has had the Robotech license for over 20 years and Pat Wang the president of Icon Heroes who just started his license with Robotech this year. Also joining us is Harmony Gold’s Robotech Master himself Tommy Yune who has been the Stewart of all things Robotech for the past 20 y…

Warner Bros was developing a Flash TV series in the late 1980s but not until the world went into full on Batmania in June 1989, did CBS pull the trigger on development of The Flash in early 1990, and like the proverbial bolt of lightning the pilot debuted in October 1990. But all this is not possible without an actor who could play the Scarlet Spee…

The New Master of Sequential Horror Art Talks 40+ Years in Comics. As a teenager, artist Kelly Jones started mailing his comic samples to every publisher he could after getting words of encouragement from legendary Batman artist Marshall Rogers at a comic con. His first gig was inking Butch Guice on Marvel Comics original Micronauts series before b…

It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights, I welcome Mike Horn from Palisades Toys in The Hyper Room tonight! Mike is the founder of one the most beloved toy companies of the 1990’s and early 2000’s that while not producing any new products today are still in the hearts and minds of collectors around the world. Mike walks us throug…

Rob Liefeld burst on to the comic book scene with the power and intensity of the creators that influenced him. Liefeld visually re-introduces Hawk and Dove to a new generation in 1988 but defines a generation of comic book readers like myself when he starts drawing The New Mutants with writer Louise Simonson and taking it from near-cancellation to …

Pat Lee talks about Image Comics, Dreamwave and his time on Cybertron Back in 1986, the Matrix of Leadership lit the Autobots darkest hour in Transformers: The Movie, arguably the greatest animated film of all time. Artist Pat Lee and his Dreamwave Productions did the same by illuminating the return of the Transformers to the world of comics and up…

Marvel’s Moon Knight has been resurrected again this time by Jason Aaron in the pages of The Avengers: The Age of Khonshu which was so good I fell down a Moon Knight rabbit hole and decided to bring you all along with me. Usually I do interviews but I’ll sprinkle some of these “character histories” into the mix as well since I love where the Rabbit…

Authors of "American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1990s" - Keith Dallas and Jason Sacks join me inside The Hyper Room for a huge 2 HOUR talk encompassing 10 years of comic book history as a companion piece alongside their incredible book published by TwoMorrows and available now. The decade that brought you Rob Liefeld, Todd McFarlane, Image Comics, …

In 1981 in Madison Wisconsin, one of the greatest independent comic series of all time - NEXUS - was born, 40 years later, I welcome legendary writer and Nexus co-creator Mike Baron to The Hyper Room. We talk about Nexus, The Badger, his Wally West run of The Flash for DC Comics and his crazy Punisher series for Marvel Comics and a magical gift fro…

Icon Heroes leads innovation in licensed pop culture office products, environment statues, toys, action figures, and collectibles with licenses as diverse as 80's cartoon powerhouses Thundercats and Masters of the Universe to classic sci-fi genre Star Trek and The Terminator all the way to The Golden Girls - yes The Golden Girls. Co-founder Pat Wan…