[*Update note: My appearance date has been changed. See the revised post.]

Hey, comic book fans! On Sunday night, December 28th, I’ll be making a return appearance to J.D. Calderon’s YouTube interview series Indy Comics Explained, on the latest installment of his ongoing panel-chat series “Talking Comics on a Sunday Night.”

(J.D., by the way, is the writer/creator of the fantasy series The Oswald Chronicles and the anthropomorphic fantasy comic series Tall Tails; the latter is currently being serialized in the pages of Antarctic Press’ anthology comic Furrlough. He’s also been a friend of mine since we met back in the 1990s’ days of the indie comics explosion.)

My last appearance on Indy Comics Explained was back in December 2022, when the topic was editing in comics and otherwise (I’ve been a comic and book editor for over three decades), and I joined J.D. and former Marvel Comics editor and writer Gary Barnum—who writes under the pen name Alin Silverwood—for a lively discussion.

This time around, the topic will be…well, could be anything. Christmas is coming up next week, and holiday-themed comics have been making a comeback (DC’s Christmas with the Super-Heroes treasury-size reprint, Marvel’s Spider-Man Holiday Special, Dynamite’s Vampirella Helliday 2025 Special, Image’s gruesome Spawnverse tie-in I Saw Santa, for example). The slow-motion death of Diamond Comics Distribution is still going on, with its new owners dragging its bloated carcass across the landscape, knee-deep in lawsuits and somehow still managing to have a harmful effect on indie publishing. Marvel and DC are friends again and have gone full-tilt cash-grab into the crossover business (Deadpool/Batman, Batman/Deadpool, Thor/Shazam, Flash/Fantastic Four) as they close in on the 50th anniversary of the greatest comics team-up of all time (in my opinion), 1976’s Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man, this coming January. And Kickstarter continues to be the safe haven for indie publishers who can’t get comic-shop distribution (one of those harmful Diamond effects).

So, be sure to tune in at 7:30 p.m. (East Coast time) on Sunday, December 28th,for “Talking Comics on a Sunday Night,” where we’ll all find out just exactly who will be on hand and what we’ll be talking about, as we wrap up 2025!