http://tschubitschabi.podspot.de In meiner Sendung geht es vorrangig um zwei große Bereiche: um Comics und Rollenspiele; oft auch um Rollenspiele, die auf einer Comicvorlage basieren oder die eine comic-ähnliche Atmosphäre anstreben. Aber das ist keine Bedingung. Zu unserem Thema "Comics" gehören alle möglichen Produkte der graphisch-seriellen Kunst, vor allem jedoch US-Superheldencomics (DC, Marvel, Image), daneben gelegentlich französische Album-Serien, japanische Manga und koreanische Manhwa. Zum Bereich "Rollenspiele" zähle ich aber - anders als andere Podcaster - ausdrücklich keine Online-Rollenspiele (MMORPGs), Computerspiele oder Live-Rollenspiele (LARPs). Mit Rollenspielen meine ich nur Pen & Paper-Rollenspiele. In lockerer und freundschaftlicher Runde werden wir hier über ausgewählte Favoriten sprechen, Spielleiter-Tipps geben, Künstler vorstellen und so weiter. Es wird heiß, es wird bunt, es wird kontrovers ... und vor allen Dingen wird es total "tschubi tschabi"! Bis bald. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:35:43 +0100 de-de (c) 2009 Norbert Franz www.podhost.de - Hosting your podcasts Norbert Norbert 20 Comic-Salon 2010 has begun and this crazy crowded party is well underway by now. I just took about an hour or two at night to give everyone another update with my latest impressions. Again, this is very much a "raw" and completely unpolished recording! It had literally nothing whatsoever edited out of it. Listener, please beware! Just hear me say a few kind and thoughtful things about Howard Chaykin, before I completely go off into my segment where I am totally and utterly overcome by love and awe for Stenarts Ltd.'s all new album series, Ria!! Ria is probably one of the best comics I have seen in a long time, and it's something that has seemingly come out of the proverbial nowhere. You heard it here first--this thing could soon be huge! Don't miss it. I think I have learned more than I ever expected in one day: It turns out Ria is an AR comic, where "AR" stands for "augmented reality" (all the rage with the kids these days, I hear). The publisher's website is: http://www.stenarts.com/index.php?home And by the way, the name of that fairy cartoon series I couldn't remember anymore is really "Shadow of the Elves". Not a whole lot of information about it online, but I found this: http://www.baf-film.com/preview/start/index.php?main=produktion&sub=36 Full episode guide in German: http://www.fernsehserien.de/index.php?serie=9456&seite=12 Norbert Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:04:01 +0200 ced788fd6c8d4cc50c228bc30822cd94 http://tschubitschabi.podspot.de/post/tts-x4-comic-salon-2010-falling-in-love-with-ria/ Hello! I managed to record almost a full episode today. See it as an episode in the raw or something like that. It's not very sophisticated. It started with me just fooling around and trying to take my latest purchases out of the boxes while recording, and speaking about what I'd bought lately and why. I was also trying to get over my tiredness and my headache ... and podcast anyway. That is why this file may sound a bit funny in places, sorry about that. Somewhere down the line, I get around to talking about the terribly chill weather in May and June. I even mention Charlie Chaplin, Studio 54, book pricing, several superhero games... and especially, lots & lots to do with Wonder Woman. I'm getting ready for a game night and the fantastic International Comic-Salon starting tomorrow. That is why there was simply very little time to do much of anything podcast-wise. But I'm having fun with it, believe it or not. I'll be back soon. Very soon. =o) Norbert Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:34:43 +0200 e36db21f657560771bd86f91fde67736 http://tschubitschabi.podspot.de/post/tts-x3_june-2_status-report-and-new-swag/ Gosh, I'm just in such a hurry this week ... One appointment after the other, and the weather is MUCH TOO COLD for May, I don't care what anyone else says about that. All right, here is segment #2 of the TTS blog update thing--well, anyway, that shorter format I was talking about. Editing with Audacity is so much fun, I'm actually learning by doing once again. This episode was fun to do, but I'm still getting the right feel for what I want and how it's all coming together. This time, I'm back with some news and impressions from the new comicbook shop. Notes: This segment had about 6 minutes of crap edited out of it ... So you won't hear me get Carlsen's release schedule mixed up. I also had got Hiro Mashima ("Fairy Tale") mixed up with Eiichiro Oda ("One Piece"). Not good. I edited that out, thankfully. And by the way: Note that Fairy Tail is indeed published in English, available from Del Rey Manga. I'll be back soon. Now off to gaming! Have a good weekend. Norbert Fri, 07 May 2010 17:46:10 +0200 3bb97de5a10e7862985ed78caa31a2ba http://tschubitschabi.podspot.de/post/tts-x2_may-4_bastard-and-goldman_edit/ Welcome to Tschubi-Tschabi X1 ... Oh yes, the TTS is going through yet another metamorphosis. Like the caterpillar turning into a butterfly in spring time, TTS returns in a trimmed down, slimmed down weekly blog format. (Plus, it's all in English, so my many friends overseas are not missing out on a single thing--and get to laugh at my mistakes, haha.) Longer TTS episodes and specials will still be made a little later. They will all be part of the same RSS feed, until further notice. This week, at least three big events relating to comicbooks, the comicbook hobby and myself (Norbert) coincide. Within only five days, a new comic shop opens close to where I live, I'll be at the movies to see both Iron Man features, and on Saturday, there'll be the German-speaking countries' version of Free Comic Book Day. Since all three events are happening in the same week, I decided to talk about all of them. Episode X1 is kind of more like a mission statement ... and I tried my hand at Audacity's editing function a little bit. OK, we had to start somewhere to get something out just to say "welcome back". More segments/episodes/entries are most certainly in the works. Norbert Wed, 05 May 2010 05:15:27 +0200 5b6e71e238906f357afc7488a9d46f31 http://tschubitschabi.podspot.de/post/tts-x1_may-3_ultra-comix-opening_edit/ Everybody on alert! I'm still here. I haven't forgotten you or this podcast. I hereby promise that at this time tomorrow, there will be some kind of new Tschubi-Tschabi podcast episode online here. I've officially planned my return to running this show for May 1st, lovely springy Saturday afternoon tomorrow. I won't promise that the new episode will be good, but it will exist, barring the unforeseen. -- Alle mal hergehört! Mich gibt's immer noch. Ich habe euch oder diesen Podcast nicht vergessen. Ich verspreche hiermit in aller Form, dass es hier morgen um diese Zeit irgendeine neue Tschubi-Tschabi-Podcastfolge geben wird. Ich habe meine Rückkehr zum Leiten dieser Show offiziell für den 1. Mai vorgesehen, den schönen frühlingshaften Samstagnachmittag - morgen! Ich verspreche hier nicht, dass die neue Folge wirklich gut wird, aber sie wird zumindest existieren, unvorhersehbare Ereignisse mal ausgeschlossen. Norbert Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:06:29 +0200 1f9c482f18adb1f09dd027491b171826 http://tschubitschabi.podspot.de/post/well-be-back-new-content-coming-tomorrow-may-1/ Well, I'm sure you guessed that we had a "Part 2" coming for this. I have left a longer gap between the last file and this one, which actually was not altogether intentional. I just haven't figured out a good interval in between posting new content. These shorter clips by Laserstar Dragon are special cases anyway. I would have had one for literally every day in the week, for example, but someone actually advised me against posting too many audio files in short sequence. It's better to have at least 3 days between files being uploaded, so most of our listeners are given time to catch up with us. I'm likely going to be out gaming tomorrow night, and nothing important might get recorded. I thought about coming back to recording on Saturday, but my friends and I might have a wrestling event to go to. I'm not making promises, yet. On Sunday there's another game appointment, so time to do much of anything is scarce even now. All I'm saying for today is: Enjoy LD's latest presentation! As a preview I can tell you that next we'll "boldly go" into the realms of space opera, space fantasy, and assorted anime. Laserstar Dragon has helped me greatly with analyses of those genres and already provided audio content for them. Have a nice day, Norbert Norbert Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:21:00 +0200 e5cabab8d206357a449e3b3c71250286 http://tschubitschabi.podspot.de/post/laserstar-dragons-kid-stuff-part-2/ Today I present another one of Laserstar Dragon's audio columns that he kindly gave to me this summer. This one is very special, and very personal. I am very flattered and honored that Laserstar trusted me with this one, since here he goes into his own childhood's treasure trove of ideas... e.g. for comics and sci-fi novelettes. Besides being the first TARA Intercontinental Champion now, Laserstar Dragon clearly has the memory of an elephant: He recalls all of his own ideas from way-back-when, even all the quirky and abandoned projects that he was once working on as a teenager and even before, and he kept all his notes and drawings from that time. I found that amazing the first time he mentioned it to me. We all have some treasured childhood memories, but few of us have notes and stories for series that we dreamed up back in the day and hoped to maybe finish and release one day. Laserstar wasted no time, but dug right into his very personal, never-before-seen "files" to tell us something about "Rock Man". This was his concept for a series about a rock band, who, in his own words, fought evil and travelled aboard a giant guitar-shaped spaceship. Just the right thing for the TTS podcast, I said. By the way, somewhere down the line, if you listen carefully, you can also discover information about where the name "Laserstar Dragon" originally came from. Norbert Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:44:33 +0200 8873737ec1ddda29009a3c60d7af4867 http://tschubitschabi.podspot.de/post/laserstar-dragons-kid-stuff-part-1/ OK, so just don't mention that D&D monk with a light saber from Gamers: Dorkness Rising ... Today we are proud to present another short audio column (I prefer to call them that, since "podcast" can stand for so many different things nowadays) by Bryan, that is, Laserstar Dragon. I'm planning on posting a few more of Laserstar's excellent solo pieces before I'll return with the full onslaught, as it were. I'll probably give you about one per week. As I told you, Laserstar Dragon has been shockingly productive, so it's a little hard to keep up with him. In today's episode, he talks about the phenomenon of the crossover. What a topic! We have all seen it at some point. We have all thought about it, also. Crossovers happen all the time in comicbooks (going back all the way to the first Superman/Batman team-ups), and also in movies (remember Aliens vs. Predator? King Kong vs. Godzilla, anyone?), in some TV series (Xena meeting Hercules, for example, or Buffy and Angel ...), and especially in fan fictions. Personally, I have very little experience with fan fiction, and I never wrote any myself. I know they are pretty popular, though. Laserstar Dragon goes into quite some detail about crossovers where the characters are NOT from the same franchise or the same comic universe, and those where they might not even come from a similar era or timeline. You'll learn a great deal about crossovers done for profit, cross-marketing, and plain fanboy pleasure. (A lot more goodness to come, so stay tuned!) Norbert Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:03:23 +0200 4e22867140dbee9e6f768209419adc88 http://tschubitschabi.podspot.de/post/laserstar-dragons-commentary-on-crossovers/ Hello! No, I wouldn't let this day pass without at least one more small file for TARA: Tschubi-Tschabi ... So here goes: Laserstar Dragon, the first (and "reigning") TARA Intercontinental Champion, gives you a great and concise 15-minute analysis of the entire genre we call "superheroes". Not so easy to do, after all. I realized that you can (and maybe should) listen to this file before going into the previous 3-parter about supers. But enjoy these files as you wish, at your leisure. They are all good. In the genre discussion, Dragon doesn't deal specifically with RPGs or a given game system, but with the characteristics that define superheroes. You thought it was all about colorful pajamas and corny dialogue? Okay, that may be a part of it, but it's not everything. There are interesting notes of how superheroes are related to, and yet different from, science-fiction, cop drama, mystery, and soap opera. PS: No, Laserstar Dragon has not completely taken over this podcast. I'll be back with my own recordings shortly. Apart from the short updates and snippets like the ones I'm uploading right now, I'm trying to get a weekly format together. (Watch this space.) Norbert Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:26:07 +0200 58d7d183d37e18c3ac08ce59b89c971a http://tschubitschabi.podspot.de/post/laserstar-dragon_thoughts-on-the-superhero-genre/ "Always moving forward... Keep it moving!" Well, we here at the headquarters of the TARA continue as planned with the sequence of Laserstar Dragon's recordings. Now, in part 3, we are getting into the nitty-gritty of how to emulate the supers in a pen & paper game session, not just the powers and abilities, but the genre's kind of storytelling. Upon selecting these files for the podcast, I enjoyed this sequence very much. I got a lot of info out of it myself. This is one of my favorites, as I told you before. I hope you'll like it, too. Please leave comments and send me e-mail. I'm counting on you. Norbert Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:58:22 +0200 a51cd2a0bede938005dd0daf2d7f9607 http://tschubitschabi.podspot.de/post/laserstar-dragon_supers-3/