Summary: Hello true believers! Dig out your long boxes and follow along on this journey through comics as That Guy Named John is joined by award winning fantasy, sci-fi, and comic book author Alex Irvine!<br> Alex Irvine has been a fantasy and sci-fi writer for decades, as well as writing for both Marvel and DC extensivley on multiple projects involving comic books, and encylopedias. Oh yea, and he was also a Jeopardy champion!<br> Timecode breakdown:<br> 0m:00s – 3m:00s: Intro<br> 3m:00s – 7m:15s: The beginnings of Alex’s writing journey<br> 7m:15s – 17m:30s: Phase 2 of Alex’s journey – Crossing the streams of multiple genres and how he continues to gain momentum<br> 17m:30s – 30m:00s: Marvel: MAX line leading into the gaming community<br> 30m:00s – 56m:00s: Alex talks about his process of writing both the Vertigo, and DC Comics Encyclopedias<br> 56m:00s – 1h: Wrap up and future projects<br> Thank you again to Alex for taking the time to talk with me! Also a huge thank you to Christi Sheehan, an Associate Publicist at DK for sending the amazing books that were talked about on this episode! For any and all information regarding DK’s amazing offerings, head over to their website: <a href="https://www.dk.com/us/">DK.com/US</a><br> Twitter links for the guests on this episode:<br><br> You can find Alex on <a href="https://twitter.com/alexirvine">Twitter: @Alexirvine</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/alexandercirvine?fref=ts">Facebook: @Alexirvine </a><br><br> Lastly, you should absolutely check out his website which has a whole bunch of his amazing works on it:<br><br> <a href="http://alexirvine.blogspot.com">http://alexirvine.blogspot.com</a><br> Podcast info:<br><br> Make sure to follow this podcast on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/abouttoreview/" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/abouttoreview" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/abouttoreview/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> @abouttoreview, and<br><br> click here to subscribe on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/about-to-review/id1101973331?mt=2">iTunes</a> and now <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/about-to-review">Stitcher</a> as well!<br><br> Do you like the show? Great! Well if you want to help out the show you can head on over to <a href="https://www.patreon.com/abouttoreview">Patreon.com/abouttoreview</a> and chip in a dollar if you can, we would really appreciate it!<br> If you have any questions, comments, or ideas for future episodes, you can email those to the show at: abouttoreview@gmail.com<br> Audio editing services provided by Brandon (<a href="https://twitter.com/bsmith125">@bsmith125</a>) at Vexing Media. Vexing Media is a graphic design, website design, and digital media company. You can find them at their website: <a href="http://vexingmedia.com/">Vexingmedia.com</a> or follow them on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/vexingmedia">@vexingmedia</a> and Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/vexingmedia/?fref=ts">Facebook.com/VexingMedia</a><br>
