Interview #559 w/ Hayden Mears | MilkyWave #1

We have the opportunity to chat with D.J. Wiedrich about Glitch #1 and their experience creating #indiecomics! Check the links below to stay in touch with their future works!TY is forced to do some soul searching, and figure out his role in this world he lives in. Is he to go on as a "slave" to these humans? Or is he meant for something more? Kickstarter 🔗 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/djwiedrich32/glitch-issue-2-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------D.J.'s Social Media PlatformsFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/nimw32Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/djw32art/Twitter - https://x.com/NIMW32-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------To stay up to date with my content creation as well as my day-to-day thoughts, feel free to follow me on Twitter - https://twitter.com/keepingitgeeklyFor single-issue breakdowns and more, be sure to visit my TikTok over at https://tiktok.com/keepingitgeeklyBe sure to drop by my Twitch channel where I live stream every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 11 PM EST https://twitch.tv/job_for_a_codyMy personal Discord - https://discord.gg/78EYtnTIntro Music - https://twitter.com/PersyThePianist | http://linktr.ee/PersyNotesBackground Music - [FREE] Kota The Friend Type Beat - "Laid Back" - Kota https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIY19VZa3FY&t=83s

We have the opportunity to chat with Ryn West about Neon Pantheon and their experience creating #indiecomics! Check the links below to stay in touch with their future works!Neon Pantheon is a vibrant YA sci-fi fantasy action-adventure romance webcomic about a young, bratty demigod who must stop their brother’s existential crisis from becoming a galactic extinction event.🔗 - https://neonpantheoncomic.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ryn's Social Media PlatformBluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/rynbow.bsky.social-------------------------------------------------------------Check out my Linktree for a listing of all of my social media platforms to stay up to date - https://linktr.ee/keepingitgeeklyIntro Music - https://twitter.com/PersyThePianist | http://linktr.ee/PersyNotesBackground Music - [FREE] Kota The Friend Type Beat - "Laid Back" - Kota https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIY19VZa3FY&t=83sTo buy me a coffee, feel free to hit up my Ko-fi - https://ko-fi.com/keepingitgeekly

We have the opportunity to chat with Jeffrey Burandt about GONAD THE BALLBARIAN and their experience creating #indiecomics! Check the links below to stay in touch with their future works!Gonad the Ballbarian is a wandering warrior who fights for glory across the planet Perenium, a hostile but magical land choc-a-bloc with venereal villains like the Crimson Patch, Lady Swelling, and the Simplex. Join Gonad the Ballbarian and his otherworldly allies in their battle against Death Wart and his crusty cronies! That jerk known as Destiny demands a victor and the fate of all Perenium is at stake!!🔗 - https://jefwrites.com/2026/09/12/gonad-the-ballbarian-the-theme-song/---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Jeffrey's Social Media PlatformsBluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/jburandt.bsky.socialInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/jef_uk/-------------------------------------------------------------Check out my Linktree for a listing of all of my social media platforms to stay up to date - https://linktr.ee/keepingitgeeklyIntro Music - https://twitter.com/PersyThePianist | http://linktr.ee/PersyNotesBackground Music - [FREE] Kota The Friend Type Beat - "Laid Back" - Kota https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIY19VZa3FY&t=83sTo buy me a coffee, feel free to hit up my Ko-fi - https://ko-fi.com/keepingitgeekly

We have the opportunity to chat with E.B. Kogan & Jessica Silvetti about Shockheaded Peter and their experiences creating #indiecomics! Check the links below to stay in touch with their future works!A 3-part fantasy-horror graphic novel. A modern reimagining of the infamous 19th-century cautionary tale. A horrifying punisher descends on a corrupt town, and a teenager with a literal broken heart must destroy the monster… or join him.🔗 - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ebkogan/shockheaded-peter-1-3-the-complete-graphic-novel---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------E.B.'s Social Media PlatformInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/ebkfromla/Jessica's Social Media PlatformInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/jess_silvetti/-------------------------------------------------------------Check out my Linktree for a listing of all of my social media platforms to stay up to date - https://linktr.ee/keepingitgeeklyIntro Music - https://twitter.com/PersyThePianist | http://linktr.ee/PersyNotesBackground Music - [FREE] Kota The Friend Type Beat - "Laid Back" - Kota https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIY19VZa3FY&t=83sTo buy me a coffee, feel free to hit up my Ko-fi - https://ko-fi.com/keepingitgeekly

We have the opportunity to chat with Adam Wallenta about Punk Taco Adventures and their experience creating #indiecomics! Check the links below to stay in touch with their future works!A story about friendship, compassion, empathy, and saving the world against impossible odds. PUNK TACO continues his mission to spread peace, love and music throughout the universe.The adventure continues in the second volume of Punk Taco Adventures! Punk Taco and the band have been kidnapped and brought to a planet in an unknown part of the universe that is being threatened by a giant so enormous, that our heroes are the size of ants in comparison. Despite their small size and the impossible odds they face together, Punk Taco must inspire new friends and allies to stand tall, join forces, and let their voices be heard, before the giant destroys their planet. Action, adventure, and humor abound in this tale of inner strength, unity, and friendship created by Adam Wallenta and his 10-year-old son, Makana.Punk Taco is a lovable, sentient space-taco, who rocks out across the universe with his band of misfits spreading peace and love through their music, while battling evil bullies and helping those in need. It is a story about friendship, empathy and compassion and doing the right thing against impossible odds.🔗 - https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/887345---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Adam's Social Media PlatformsBluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/adamwallenta.bsky.social-------------------------------------------------------------Check out my Linktree for a listing of all of my social media platforms to stay up to date - https://linktr.ee/keepingitgeeklyIntro Music - https://twitter.com/PersyThePianist | http://linktr.ee/PersyNotesBackground Music - [FREE] Kota The Friend Type Beat - "Laid Back" - Kota https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIY19VZa3FY&t=83sTo buy me a coffee, feel free to hit up my Ko-fi - https://ko-fi.com/keepingitgeekly

We have the opportunity to chat with Mina Elwell & A.C. Medina about Undercover Monster and their experience creating #indiecomics! Check the links below to stay in touch with their future works!Mia has been kicked out of monster schools at every level, from Madame Cryptorius’s School for the Brilliant and Bewitched to Bugwump Swamp Middle, and now she’s about to face her toughest challenge yet: Human school. Her goal: Find the monster who has infiltrated this school and started picking the human kids off as prey, and she might just get let back into a monster school. All she has to do is narrow down her list of suspects. How many monsters can there be hiding in a school? (A lot, it turns out.)🔗 - https://papercutz.com/product/undercover-monster-vol-1/?srsltid=AfmBOorEot5T29p9HnP9vDK9wmpy6DcMJoq7FFOONpxT5xUVXXHK1PO7&v=0b3b97fa6688---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mina's Social Media PlatformsInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/minaelwell/A.C.'s Social Media PlatformsBluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/acmedina.bsky.socialInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/a_c_medina/Twitter - https://x.com/A_C_Medina-------------------------------------------------------------Check out my Linktree for a listing of all of my social media platforms to stay up to date - https://linktr.ee/keepingitgeeklyIntro Music - https://twitter.com/PersyThePianist | http://linktr.ee/PersyNotesBackground Music - [FREE] Kota The Friend Type Beat - "Laid Back" - Kota https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIY19VZa3FY&t=83sTo buy me a coffee, feel free to hit up my Ko-fi - https://ko-fi.com/keepingitgeekly

We have the opportunity to chat with Luis Godoy II about This Eternal Coil #1-2 and their experience creating #indiecomics! Check the links below to stay in touch with their future works!Abraham is a former private investigator and current drunk. Abraham has become obsessed with figuring out a mystery that no one believes happened, even his own daughter, Elena. Life in the world is crumbling, the world is suffering from immortality, infertility and the inability to heal from any injuries. In this world, one man offers a proprietary cure...for a cost, and in doing so has become the richest man in the world. 🔗 - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/luisgodoyii/this-eternal-coil-1-2-walking-among-the-mexican-gods---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Luis' Social Media PlatformsBsky - https://bsky.app/profile/luisgodoyii.bsky.socialInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/luisgodoyiiTwitter - https://twitter.com/LuisGodoyII---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Check out my Linktree for a listing of all of my social media platforms to stay up to date - https://linktr.ee/keepingitgeeklyIntro Music - https://twitter.com/PersyThePianist | http://linktr.ee/PersyNotesBackground Music - [FREE] Kota The Friend Type Beat - "Laid Back" - Kota https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIY19VZa3FY&t=83sTo buy me a coffee, feel free to hit up my Ko-fi - https://ko-fi.com/keepingitgeekly

We have the opportunity to chat with David Hedgecock about Miss Mina and the Midnight Guardians and their experience creating #indiecomics! Check the links below to stay in touch with their future works!The year is 1801. Dracula’s forces rage across Earth. The only ones standing in his way? Mina Murray and her team of monstrous misfits!🔗 - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/funtimego/miss-mina-and-the-midnight-guardians-legend-continues---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------David's Social Media PlatformInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/dehedgecock/Twitter - https://x.com/DavidHedgecock-------------------------------------------------------------Check out my Linktree for a listing of all of my social media platforms to stay up to date - https://linktr.ee/keepingitgeeklyIntro Music - https://twitter.com/PersyThePianist | http://linktr.ee/PersyNotesBackground Music - [FREE] Kota The Friend Type Beat - "Laid Back" - Kota https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIY19VZa3FY&t=83sTo buy me a coffee, feel free to hit up my Ko-fi - https://ko-fi.com/keepingitgeekl

We have the opportunity to chat with Jeremy Whitely about Navigating with You Vol. 2 and their experience creating #indiecomics! Check the links below to stay in touch with their future works!A month ago, Gabby Graciana and her family left Durham, North Carolina to return back to their lives in Miami, Florida. For Gabby, that meant leaving behind her girlfriend Neesha Sparks. But they swore to keep up the tradition that brought them together—their manga book club. But not every manga can be the right one at the right time, and they find themselves flailing for a next book. They discover that their favorite mangaka is working with a studio to produce an anime of one of her other stories, so book club chats become anime watch parties. But that's not the only thing in their lives that is changing. An ex from Gabby's past returns to her life in an unexpected way as Neesha, finally comfortable in her North Carolina town, rediscovers her passion for activism—and a new group of activist friends that she might have more in common with than her now long-distance girlfriend.🔗 - https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Navigating-With-You-Vol-2/Jeremy-Whitley/Navigating-with-You/9781545832059---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Jeremy's Social Media PlatformBluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/jeremywhitley.bsky.social-------------------------------------------------------------Check out my Linktree for a listing of all of my social media platforms to stay up to date - https://linktr.ee/keepingitgeeklyIntro Music - https://twitter.com/PersyThePianist | http://linktr.ee/PersyNotesBackground Music - [FREE] Kota The Friend Type Beat - "Laid Back" - Kota https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIY19VZa3FY&t=83sTo buy me a coffee, feel free to hit up my Ko-fi - https://ko-fi.com/keepingitgeekly

We have the opportunity to chat with Hayden Mears about MilkyWave #1 and their experience creating #indiecomics! Check the links below to stay in touch with their future works!Gil Silver is Earth’s last human and a musical sensation. His band is an intergalactic phenomenon. So who's trying to destroy him?🔗 - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/haydenmears/milkywave-1-sci-fi-comedy-for-comic-and-music-fans---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hayden's Social Media PlatformBluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/haydenmears.bsky.social-------------------------------------------------------------Check out my Linktree for a listing of all of my social media platforms to stay up to date - https://linktr.ee/keepingitgeeklyIntro Music - https://twitter.com/PersyThePianist | http://linktr.ee/PersyNotesBackground Music - [FREE] Kota The Friend Type Beat - "Laid Back" - Kota https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIY19VZa3FY&t=83sTo buy me a coffee, feel free to hit up my Ko-fi - https://ko-fi.com/keepingitgeekly