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The Rest is GIANT ROBOTS

Simon Furman & Andrew Wildman

29 episodes

1 week ago

THE REST IS GIANT ROBOTS - A PODCAST THAT'S MORE THAN MEETS THE EAR.

Writer Simon Furman and artist Andrew Wildman go back to the beginning... Charting a 40-year stint in comics, TV animation, games and more, including - of course - a healthy discourse on the rise and fall and rise again of TRANSFORMERS, also now 40 years old.

In a series of roughly chronological, informal chats, Furman and Wildman relive the ups and downs and highs of lows of the creative life, spotlighting key moments in their respective, and joint, careers - many of which, naturally, involve giant, transforming robots.

Nothing is off-limits, as Furman and Wildman delve deep into their (unreliable) memories, presenting a humorous but warts and all story of life inside the comics biz that is still... TO BE CONTINUED.

For Q&A, additional content and bonus episodes, take a trip to wildfur.net

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THE REST IS GIANT ROBOTS - A PODCAST THAT'S MORE THAN MEETS THE EAR.

Writer Simon Furman and artist Andrew Wildman go back to the beginning... Charting a 40-year stint in comics, TV animation, games and more, including - of course - a healthy discourse on the rise and fall and rise again of TRANSFORMERS, also now 40 years old.

In a series of roughly chronological, informal chats, Furman and Wildman relive the ups and downs and highs of lows of the creative life, spotlighting key moments in their respective, and joint, careers - many of which, naturally, involve giant, transforming robots.

Nothing is off-limits, as Furman and Wildman delve deep into their (unreliable) memories, presenting a humorous but warts and all story of life inside the comics biz that is still... TO BE CONTINUED.

For Q&A, additional content and bonus episodes, take a trip to wildfur.net

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Episodes (20/29)

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EP 27: THE INDIFFERENT TWO

We go to the movies, again, and do a lot of shoulder-shrugging and mutter 'meh' a lot as we 'review' Fantastic Four and other recent releases.

With more than enough movies in our quiver, we take aim at the recent crop of multiplex-friendly summer blockbusters, including Fantastic Four: First Steps, Jurassic World: Rebirth, and - in less blockbustery and more bonkers way - 28 Years Later. Plus a bunch of others, culled from more home-based viewing, in which, faced with Galactus and a bunch of dinosaurs-that-never-were, the penguin wins fins down. Sequel coming soon!

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1 week ago

51 minutes

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EP 26- THE COMIC TO END ALL COMICS

We pick up the threads of our TRANSFORMERS Regeneration One discourse and go all the way to issue #100 in a 4-issue limited series!2013-14 saw us both in full Regeneration One swing, until one of us wasn't. We analyse the whys and wherefores of that, and how the series grew and evolved from a five-issue pitch into a 20+ issue beast, featuring guest artists Geoff Senior, Guido Guidi, Jose Delbo and more. Naturally, we lose the thread a few times, but we get to the end in the end. For those of you not signed up as Prime members, now would be a great time to try it out. The podcast as a video with extra content in the podcast and other interesting images and files to see or download. Just go to the membership section to start your free trial :-)

2 weeks ago

48 minutes

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EP25: THE EDITOR WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD

It's our RIGR anniversary special - and our very special guest is TRANSFORMERS UK editor and ZOIDS writer Ian Rimmer!

We debrief former IPC/Marvel UK editor and writer, Ian Rimmer, the man who shaped TRANSFORMERS UK (from the shadows) into the mid-80s market leader boy's adventure comic fans still talk about to this day. But who is this editorial enigma? What forces honed a clandestine photo-strip scribe into a publishing powerhouse? If you're expecting serious, in-depth discourse then you're new to this podcast!

WILDFUR.NET

1 month ago

1 hour 3 minutes

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EP 24: TALKIN' 'BOUT OUR RE-GENERATION

We chart the sometimes rocky and certainly twisty road to Regeneration One, IDW's continuation of the original (Marvel) TRANSFORMERS series.

As far back as 2009, discussions with IDW editorial were underway that would reunite us - and inker Stephen Baskerville - as the creative team on Marvel's founding/grounding TRANSFORMERS comic, picking up from issue #80 of that series, But getting it off the ground would take three years, helped along by comics new site Newsarama and a fan petition (not to mention G.I. Joe mainstay Larry Hama)!

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1 month ago

44 minutes

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EP023- HATTER MATTER

Both of us get whisked off into a Multiverse of (Matt Hatter) madness as we join the Pinewood-based production team at Platinum Films.

It's a continuation of last episode's chatter, as we delve deeper into our respective roles on the hit animated CITV show The Matt Hatter Chronicles. Four seasons plus a feature length episode and even a foray into the world of Bear Grylls makes for much to discuss, and our prime listeners get advance word on our upcoming 25th episode's SPECIAL GUEST!

LINKS:
Simon Signing
Matt Hatter on Prime
TO THE DEATH available in WH SMITHS

More at wildfur.net

2 months ago

42 minutes

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EP22: ON THE CIRCUIT

We talk comic (and TRANSFORMERS) conventions, and how they've changed - for us and for the attendees - from the mid-80s to now. Plus, we kick-off our mutual Matt Hatter recollections.

Back in the day, conventions were more about promoting whatever work we were doing at the same, while these days - while that remains true - they're also a revenue stream for us freelance writers and artists. Good thing? Bad thing? If you're expecting us to reach any hard and fast conclusions, you really haven't been paying attention thus far. And we turn back the clock to 2011 (ish) for part 1 of... The 'Matt Hatter Chronicles' era!

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A&S

2 months ago

49 minutes

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EP21 - TRUNCATION

The full-steam ahead nature of the IDW TRANSFORMERS -ations series gets derailed somewhat, and we reflect on the need for plan Bs.

Timetable-wise, it's 2008 (ish), and as All Hail Megatron rears its head, the progress of Infiltration, Escalation, Devastation (and so on) hits the buffers. A lot of radical condensing is required as multiple storylines are tied up ahead of this not-so-soft reboot. Meanwhile, in the Wildman sidings, Draw The World Together comes... together... and other seeds are sown, as the need for having alternate journey plans on the rail network of life and career comes to the fore.

EXTRAS:
A link to the TF MOSAIC book - https://simonfurman.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/mosaic-a-go-go/

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3 months ago

44 minutes

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EP18- BIG SCREEN BANTER

A couple of complete unknowns consider another clutch of cinematic confections, spoiler-free and, as critics, credential-free.What we've enjoyed - and haven't - on the big screen recently is here for your delectation, from A (Anora) to B (Bridget Jones) to C (Captain America)... and other letters of the alphabet too. We spare no one's blushes as we gushes, pontificating on the highs and lows of our cinematic outings, but generally it's a big thumbs up!

WILDFUR.NET

3 months ago

44 minutes

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EP20- INTO THE BAY-VERSE!

A live-action TRANSFORMERS movie had us all worked up, and working on spin-off stuff, back in 2007.
We assess the impact and legacy of the 'Bay-verse'.All our collective jaws dropped in London's Leicester Square one evening in 2007 as we attended a special screening of Michael Bay's TRANSFORMERS, introduced by Bay himself and members of the cast. Live-action, big-screen... The toy line had truly come of age. We go deep into the movie's legacy, its prequel comics and cinematic sequels, and what, if anything, it did to our careers... and the public perception of TRANSFORMERS as a whole.

And if you want to check out the AMM it is at https://dollarbinbandits.buzzsprout.com/1817176/episodes/17010352-bob-budiansky-simon-furman-return-transformers-us-uk-compendium-set

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3 months ago

40 minutes

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Episode 19 - OUT OF THIS WORLD

We go cosmic, baby, and creepy, as we dial back the years to Annihilation (for Marvel) and explore the Weird Wild West in Frontier.

It's 2005/2006 (or thereabouts) and the feast or famine rule applies to us in different degrees. On the Furman side, there's a veritable flood of work for Marvel, Dynamite and IDW, while on the Wildman side it's more in the way of tumbleweed. That said, Andrew dredges up some forgotten creative endeavours and seeds that will grow into Shane the Chef and Horizon are planted.

As promised here are some links to some of the things discussed.WEBTOON HORIZON - tinyurl.com/horizonweb
GI JOE SKETCHBOOK CHALLENGE - andrewwildman.art
SKYBOUND KICKSTARTER - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/skyboundent/transformers-compendium-set?ref=5wenmg

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4 months ago

43 minutes

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EP017 - ULTIMATE TRANSFORMERS

It's the dawn of the IDW era, and the beginning of what would turn out to be an epic 17-year tenure as publisher of TRANSFORMERS comics.

Okay, so the license eluded us (and Titan), but perhaps that was for the best as it turned out. We wind back to the year to 2005, and the humble beginnings of what would go on to become an epochal era of TRANSFORMERS comic publishing. Find out how we both got involved in those formative, lore-laying days, and how Infiltration, Stormbringer and Spotlight: Shockwave came to fruition. We had the ideas, the designs, and it worked!

More content and chat at WILDFUR•NET

4 months ago

39 minutes

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EP016- ANSWERS ON A PODCAST

More listener/viewer questions send us into a tailspin of umm-ing and aah-ing, as we struggle to sound coherent about stuff we really should know about.

Join us as we manhandle insightful queries about... Skybound, characters we'd like to have worked on (but haven't), iterations of TRANSFORMERS we'd like to have dipped our toes into (but failed to do so), the creative process, post-11-page/colour UK TRANSFORMERS stories and what they might have been, and some sure-to-see-us cancelled issues with question-asker gender! Overall, we cope (just about).

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5 months ago

46 minutes

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EP 15- THE DREAM(WAVE) IS DEAD

As the dust settles on the Dreamwave era of TRANSFORMERS we... reassess (i.e. panic) as we hit another of those pesky but oh-so-predictable lean periods.
No one ever said being a comics creative would be easy, and into every career some rain must fall. But, wait, actually, there was a LOT going on in early 2005. And we even dip back into 2004 for some - non-Dreamwave - stuff we forget to even mention in previous podcasts! It's another painstaking trawl through our unreliable memories, as stuff that even surprises us gets an airing.

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5 months ago

42 minutes

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EP14: THERE ARE MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS

As we begin our second half-year of The Rest is Giant Robots, we delve into the virtual mailbag to answer 'some' of your burning questions.

There's been a huge response from our loyal listenership to our open door policy on asking us, well, anything (though whether we answer absolutely everythingis another matter). And here we lay back on the digital couch and, prompted by your enquires, lay bare the innermost mechanics of our working minds... Which accounts for 2 mins at least! Then we get on with who our favourite TRANSFORMER is!

More for grabs at WILDFUR.NET. See you there :-)

6 months ago

45 minutes

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EP13 - FALL OF DREAMWAVE

All good things come to an end, just some sooner rather than later.
The catastrophic crash of Dreamwave and MORE!

The up and down, ins and out, topsy-turvy nature of the comics biz is best highlighted by the meteoric rise and subsequent nosedive of Image offshoot (and TRANSFORMERS comics publisher) Dreamwave, who dreamed big, bought Porsches, then crashed and burned. But what happened after? Now it can be told (a bona fide Rest is Giant Robots exclusive!)

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6 months ago

47 minutes

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EP12 - RISE OF DREAMWAVE

A new year for the Rest is Giant Robots and a new dig into the archives, excavating the bones of a past publisher of TRANSFORMERS comics.

We enter the Dreamwave era of Transformers, circa 2002, as an offshoot of Image Comics grabs the hottest license going - before anyone even knew it was hot! We, of course, are dragged into this new flurry of TF comics storytelling, but the road ahead is bumpy to say the least. Part 1 of 2, with a BIG revelation to come in that second instalment!!!

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7 months ago

50 minutes

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EP011 - THE GREATEST GIFT

Festive fun! Santa hats are donned as we explore the tinsel-clad covers of Transformers comics past.

A frivolous, festively-themed diversion sees (or hears) us go in-deep (as much as we ever go in-deep) on the subject of a British comics institution - the Xmas-themed cover and story, and the ones we've contributed to in Christmases past. Plus we wrestle with the greatest ever seasonal conundrum - is Die Hard a Christmas movie???

S&A

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7 months ago

37 minutes

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EP10 - RISE OF THE BEASTS

We get animated (finally!) as the Beast Wars era dawns

Join us on a journey into the world of TV animation, as Beast Wars: Transformers and a meeting of minds at Botcon’97 opens doors for us both… eventually… after a few twists and turns! There’s connective tissue galore as our parallel courses converge. Screen credits ahoy!

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8 months ago

45 minutes

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EP009 - Wild + Fur = Wildfur! Lot of thinking went into our first foray into self-publishing!

Circa 1999.
With the bottom well and truly fallen out of the comic book industry we go headlong into IP development and self-publishing, and WildFur is born... somewhat out of desperation. We explore the steampunk world of The Engine: Industrial Strength, the imagination of Monster-Maker and a Geoff Senior project that never was - Ms. Matador. Plus a whole bunch of other stuff... Some of which went nowhere, some of which is still around today!

S&A

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8 months ago

46 minutes

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EP008 - Marvel crashes, Fish Fingers, and the £5M scandal!

A comic creator's survival guide:
The mid-90s saw the comic industry crash, and our work from Marvel US dry up. How did we endure? What's Captain Birdseye got to do with it all? And what's the deal with this thing called Beast Wars? Witness the highs and lows (mostly the latter) of being a comic book creator and how, from lean times, we emerged into a brave new world of... fandom?

Simon and Andrew

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9 months ago

55 minutes