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The long-awaited episode for one of the first heroes from Sentinel Comics! Show Notes: Run Time: 3:29:10 Our longest episode yet! It is astounding to me that an episode about one character ended up longer than our previous longest episode, the Southwest Sentinels/Void Guard episode, about 4 characters who make up two teams with major changes in there. But, then again, hardly surprising that Tempest takes so long to cover - really speaks to just how much is going on in the Tempest story. We cover the three major phases of Tempest's life: From origin through Vengeance Post-Vengeance through Vengeance: Returned Prime Wardens #1, Vol. 2 through OblivAeon There are lots of things going on in each of those phases, but that's a fair way to break up the stories of Tempest. Be sure to tune in next week when we talk more about the whole team of the Prime Wardens, and the week after when we talk specifically about Tempest's primary nemesis: Grand Warlord Voss! There are a good bit of Tempest stories that we don't get too into in today's episode, as they belong in the Voss episode much more. Just after the 52 minute mark, (that's right - we cover the entire overview in less than an hour!) we get into your questions! And there are a lot of them. You folks asked about all the things! At around an hour and 16 minutes into the episode, we get asked a question that results in a deep dive into the biology of the Maerynian people. I know a lot of people have been wondering about this stuff for a LONG time. An answer to a question just under two hours and 40 minutes in that gets us into a discussion of what we've done to make Sentinel Comics feel like "real" comics. Then, we go on to give a preview of the sort of thing we'll be doing in the OblivAeon episodes! At least, we go down a rabbit hole that is certainly the type of discussion that will be happening in the OblivAeon episodes. Just after the two hour and 50 minute mark, we finally get to the character of Leviathan... who we give a quick overview for, but don't get into too thoroughly. Want more? Perhaps we'll do another episode later! We finish your questions and go to the future section at just after three hours in. It's a quick one! Ooh, and a big reveal at the end of the future section! I wonder what the implications of that will be... Finally, the major announcements! They begin at 3:05:31. I'm not putting all that info here - I want you to hear it the way we present it in the episode, not just give you a wall of text. However! I will say, you should definitely check out the changes that are going live later today on our Patreon! Thanks for bearing with us through this whole episode! See you next week for an almost certainly shorter episode about more characters!

One way or another, all of these environments house some great power... let's talk about them! Show Notes: Run Time: 1:42:54 We dig into the last of the environments - they only sort of go together in this episode, but they're all important parts of Sentinel Comics! Insula Primalis Ruins of Atlantis Magmaria Fort Adamant Omnitron IV Lots of cool story bits for each of those places! Next week is the long-awaited Tempest episode! Get your questions in using the submission form by end of day Thursday, March 8th! Aaaand, finally: our Patreon is now live! Go check it out! We'll be adding Patreon exclusive behind-the-scene content all the time, including a livestream happening within a few hours of this episode going live!

One of the most important heroes of Sentinel Comics is also one of its most terrible villains. Today, we cover the Fall of Legacy. Show Notes: Run Time: 1:50:40 In the first few minutes - after a bit of nonsensical side-tracking - we get right into the appearances of Iron Legacy in the history of Sentinel Comics. With that, we also tell some of the historical elements of the Young Legacy story, as that's a necessary part of the story setup. And then, things start getting really spread out. Good thing we've got your questions to help figure everything out! We get into your Iron Legacy questions right around the fifteen minute mark. We cover how Iron Legacy can be "stronger" than Legacy, various art elements, what's going on with other heroes and villains in the Iron Legacy timelines, and even more odd food analogies for how we deal with time and reality and such, and more! We are forced to take an emotions break around 45 minutes in. Then, we get back to more cheery Iron Legacy stuff. Yay? Then, around eight minutes after the one hour mark, we get into alternate reality and timelines questions! Way more positive stuff! Get ready for topics about alternate versions of lots of heroes and villains, Disparation stories, outside reality/time, and a few other things - we're all over the place. Around an hour and 20 minutes in, we reveal our true, secret goal behind everything we've done for the bulk of the last decade... So now you know! A bit after that, we get into possibly the most delightful segment we've ever done - the Animal-verse! Warning: we get REALLY silly. Before wrapping up, we talk a bit about environments! Last, but certainly not least, we mentioned our new Patreon last week, and we're putting more stuff up on it over the course of this week! We're looking forward to making this show even more awesome with your help!

An Editor's Note about Time and Space! Run Time: 1:12:33 Upcoming Schedule: Tuesday, March 6th: More Settings: Insula Primalis, Ruins of Atlantis, Magmaria, Fort Adamant, Omnitron-IV Tuesday, March 13th: Tempest Tuesday, March 20th: Prime Wardens Tuesday, March 27th: Grand Warlord Voss Thursday, March 29th: Editor's Note #16 We cover two primary categories of topics in this episode: TIME and SPACE! Time Cataclysm Shattering of the Timelines Time travel CON Chrono-Ranger La Capitan Silver Gulch Final Wasteland Outside Time Wagner Mars Base The Apollo Missions Captain Cosmic Infinitor Judge Mental Dok'Thorath Bloodsworn Colosseum Greazer Fashion Lifeline Also, at the very end of this month, we're launching a Patreon! Help us keep making The Letters Page, and be a part of the podcast yourself! We'll be putting more information here as we get closer to March. Next week is Iron Legacy and other alternate realities! It's going to be a lot of ups and downs...

Lots of Fake News in this episode. Where is it all coming from? Show Notes: Run Time: 1:42:15 Let's go back to the 50s! This episode starts with story from very early on, and then works its way up through the end, slowly but surely. After fifteenish minutes of establishing backstory and world stuff and some goofs, we get into the villainous stuff. Then, we spend a bunch of time in the aughts! I don't want to spoil too much in the show notes - you'll just have to listen to find out what happens! A bit before the hour mark, we get into your questions! We get into fan-saltiness around the 1 hour and 25 minute mark. A lot of questions and stories lead up to this, but the fan backlash due to the Sentinel Comics choices resonates with us strongly. We've all been there! In a couple days, we'll have an Editor's Note with the upcoming schedule for March, as well as more exciting questions, answers, and some exciting news! See you there!

Parse has keen arrows, but a far more keen eye! Show Notes: Run Time: 1:30:53 We don't spend any time dillying or dallying in this episode! In fact, this may be most "content per minute" episode we've ever done - just jam-packed with the story of Parse through the years of Sentinel Comics! We start off in the 80s, including a bunch of information on how various titles are being treated then, laying the groundwork for Parse's origin. Just after the 6 minute mark, we mention that the Iron Legacy and Alternate Realities/Timelines episode is coming up on the recording block in a few days - get your questions in now! Around 12 minutes in, we introduce a character we've never talked about before... and within a couple minutes, you learn why he's never come up before. The high-speed rate of reveals continues, right up until the start of the Miss Information story around the 20 minute mark... but then we clam up. Don't want to spoil next week! Even more publication history oddities around 23 minutes in, covering her origin yet again and setting up why Parse is in space so much. A bit after the half hour mark, we talk a bit about OblivAeon, and how the appearance of that cosmic, singular entity alters Parse and her story. Then, just after 34 minutes in, we get to your questions! The questions do a great job, as per usual, of further digging into Parse's abilities and story. Strong work, everyone. One of you even made Adam laugh so hard that we had to pause recording momentarily! In the future segment - starting around the one hour and 25 minutes mark - we talk about a few important things, including a reveal of where she's ending up in the Sentinel Comics Universe! Whew! There we go! That one seemed fast, but it was still 90 minutes of non-stop Parsing! See you next week for an episode and an Editor's Note! Also, later this afternoon at 3 PM Central time, Christopher will be doing a livestream over on the OblivAeon Kickstarter page! Come hang out!

The most settings ever covered in one episode! Show Notes: Run Time: 2:11:34 This episode is all about the weird and magical environments from the world of Sentinel Comics! Madame Mittermeier's Fantastical Festival of Conundrums and Curiousities Tomb of Anubis Realm of Discord Nexus of the Void Temple of Zhu Long An important note: There are a few spoilers in this episode for the story of the issues included in the Sentinel Comics RPG Starter Kit. If you want to avoid a minor spoiler, skip from 1:31:20 to 1:32:04. From 1:43:45 to just before 1:48, we do get into a few more notable story spoilers, so listen at your own peril. Or skip that chunk of time, if you want to experience the story in play. We specifically mention incoming spoilers, so you have at least a heads up. As much as this is a settings episode all about environments, this episode also covers a lot of characters who are important to the world of Sentinel Comics. Enjoy! At the end of the episode, we mention that we were going to be recording the upcoming Parse episode between when we recorded this episode and when it aired. Due to some scheduling conflicts, that didn't happen, but we will be recording the Parse episode tomorrow (Wednesday, February 7th). So, you still have a few scant hours to submit Parse questions! Also, we're recording Miss Information's episode as well this week, so get those questions in now! (Last thing! Next Tuesday, February 13th, at 3:00 PM Central Time, I'll be doing a live stream test on the OblivAeon Kickstarter to cover a bunch of Kickstarter and OblivAeon related things. Come hang out!)

She's a smoooooth operator! Show Notes: Run Time: 1:12:59 New intro on today's episode! Trevor's trying out something different! What do you think? Tweet at us and let us know: @SCLettersPage After some light silliness, we get right into her not-very-light backstory. We reference two other episodes a few times in this episode: the Mister Fixer episode, and The Chairman episode. They're both important to this one, so worth giving a quick listen to, though we do rehash a lot of the important points from both of those episodes. Lots of things to talk about with this lady. She's had quite a few twists and turns in her story. The overview in total is under half an hour, but it's jam packed with story and action! Plus, there's even more story that we saved for some juicy questions in the Q&A portion of the show. Speaking of which, just after the 27 minute mark we dive into your questions. Fun bit of Stuntman story a bit before the hour mark. Just so you know. We start the future segment right after the 1:04 mark. We have more Mist Storm Universe stuff than usual for her, as she plays some important roles and for reasons we've never publicly discussed before! Then, we go on to actually reveal some Sentinel Comics Universe story stuff that is also brand new information. We must be feeling generous. Next week is the Supernatural Settings episode, featuring such bizarre environments as Madame Mittermeier's Fantastical Festival of Conundrums and Curiosities, Tomb of Anubis, Realm of Discord, Nexus of the Void, and (relevant to this episode) the Temple of Zhu Long. Get your questions in now!

The first Editor's Note of 2018! Run Time: 56:49 Upcoming Schedule: Tuesday, February 6th: Supernatural Settings: Madame Mittermeier's Fantastical Festival of Conundrums and Curiosities, Tomb of Anubis, Realm of Discord, Nexus of the Void, Temple of Zhu Long Tuesday, February 13th: Parse Tuesday, February 20th: Miss Information Thursday, February 22nd: Editor's Note #15 Tuesday, Feb 27th: Iron Legacy Timeline & Alternate Timelines/Realities Topics of today's Editor's Note: Space Settings Coffee GRUUM YELLING Urban Settings Poverty Megalopolis Akash'Flora Creating Stuff New Environments? (No.) Vampires Faith in Gloom Animals Fish? RPG Canon Issues of Sentinel Comics Our Creative Process Collaboration? Time travel? Alternate realities? Getting too close to the truth? Fruit The true and proper Sentinel Comics timeline Post-it Notes Hot takes And the promised photos: With the posting of this episode, you have less than 24 hours to get in any questions about The Operative! Ask your questions about her and the above upcoming schedule characters and topics!

All of the wibbly-wobbly places! Times? Both! Show Notes: Run Time: 1:01:25 In this episode, we cover the particularly time-travel related environments from the world of Sentinel Comics: Silver Gulch The Final Wasteland Time Cataclysm Outside Time For each of those locations (times?!), we first give an overview, and then use your questions to dig deeper into the stories of that setting. Next week, we'll be talking all about The Operative, so get your questions in now!

You didn't even know that you wanted an episode on an intergalactic bounty hunter, and yet, here we are! Show Notes: Run Time: 1:23:43 In the first five minutes, we devolve into roleplaying as our own characters, so that sets the tone for this entire episode. You're welcome? After that, we get to Hero in the Arena #1, the true first appearance of Greazer. But the bulk of today's overview segment is the discussion of the book "Greazer", which we go over page-by-page of the first few issues. The secret history of Greazer Clutch! 45 minutes into the episode, we get to your questions! During those questions, we realize that tomorrow is the 1 year anniversary of The Letters Page! Hooray! Space Champagne for everyone! Then, just after the one hour and 18 minute mark, we wrap up by talking about the future. See you next time! (Send us your questions about The Operative!)

An episode that towers head and shoulders above all others! Or does it stand as an ant among giants? Only you can tell! Show Notes: Run Time: 1:20:17 We start off by confessing our sins and solving a notable problem... or at least hinting to that problem's solution. But that allows us to move forward with Portja Kip-Pro's story! (Which we start by pointing out a problem raised by the Kaargra Warfang episode, and then solving it. We're problem solvers!) But then we're back on track! Stories include, Hero in the Arena, Under Cover, the Return of Vengeance, and so much more! Then, we get into your question 33 minutes in. Lots of interesting info in the questions, today! Next week is Greazer! Get your questions in now!

Happy New Year! Starting off this new year with a quick 2017 retrospective! First thing first, we're pushing the schedule we announced last week back by one week in order to take a chunk of time to reset and reconcile all of the tangled webs we have weaved. Woven. Woved. Anyway! The upcoming schedule now looks like this! January 9th: Sky-Scraper January 16th: Greazer January 23rd: Time Travel Settings - Silver Gulch, Final Wasteland, Time Cataclysm, Outside Time January 25th: Editor's Note #14 January 30th: The Operative Thank you all for being such a big part of what we do here. We're excited to do even more for and with you here in 2018.

Another thrilling Editor's Note! This one has a Special Guest! We're pretty excited. You'll just have to listen to find out who it is! Run Time: 1:03:28 Upcoming Schedule: January 2nd: Sky-Scraper January 9th: Greazer January 16th: Time-Travel Settings: Silver Gulch, Final Wasteland, Time Cataclysm, Outside Time January 23rd: The Operative January 25th: Editor's Note #14 January 30th: Madame Mittermeier's Fantastic Festival of Conundrums and Curiosities, Tomb of Anubis, Realm of Discord, Nexus of the Void, Temple of Zhu Long Topics of today's Editor's Note: THE COSMIC CONTEST That's it. We talk about the Cosmic Contest and nothing else At the end of the episode, we talk about the winner See you next year!

To celebrate Boxing Day, let's talk about the fighters in the cosmic arena! (Yes, yes, we know that Boxing Day has nothing to do with the pugilistic sport of boxing.) Show Notes: Run Time: 1:07:06 After only a couple minutes of jawing about the holidays, your intrepid hosts get right into the history of the Bloodsworn Colosseum in the pages of Sentinel Comics. Around the twelve minute mark, we finally tell an integral part of the Tony Taurus story. Then, on to more and different tales of the Bloodsworn! We start in on your questions a few minutes before the half hour mark. And we start off with a true and proper backstory! And then, around the 34 minute mark, we talk about a thing we messed up. A few minutes before the hour mark, we tell the backstory of a character you've seen before, but never heard of! She's a piece of Sentinel Comics history! Next week is Sky-Scraper, so get your questions in now! See you Thursday for an Editor's Note all about the Cosmic Contest.

Let's talk about all manner of places in the Sentinel Comics galaxy! Show Notes: Run Time: 1:45:33 In today's episode, we cover a few notable Cosmic Settings: Wagner Mars Base Dok'Thorath Celestial Tribunal The Enclave of the Endlings With only going over four environments in this episode, we have enough time to really get into each of them. We go through them in the above order, answering your great questions on each setting as we cover that environment. The cosmic place we talk about the least this week is the Bloodsworn Colosseum, which is the topic of next week's episode! Send in your questions now!

A Contest of Cosmic proportions! Show Notes: Run Time: 2:46:41 Whole lotta story going on today! Who will win? Only time will tell! I mean, actually, we're gonna tell you. In this episode. The show notes today would be pretty spoilerific, so I'm just going to give some useful timestamps here. The whole thing is story, so just listen to it! After a few minutes of banter and overview, we cover what all of the tiers and brackets contain, and then get right into going through each of the fights in Round One. Coverage of Round Two begins at around the one hour and 8 minutes mark. The fights start getting more intense now! We begin Round Three right before the one hour, 40 minutes mark. Everything's really heating up now! This round determines the winner of each tier! With those winners determined, we move on to the Quarter Finals at an hour and 52 minutes in, with the last characters standing from each tier facing the winner from the opposing tier. The Semi-Finals begin at 2:02:12. Just two matches here and then it's time for the finals! The Final match to win it all begins at the two hours, 11 minutes mark. Whew. What a contest! We dig into your questions around two hours and 20 minutes. Did you win? As we discuss around 2:37:37, if you submitted a winning entry, let us know at [email protected]! See you next week!

We're back with an episode about brothers! Show Notes: Run Time: 2:14:22 It's been a month since we last recorded and we're thrilled to be back! We are also very excited about the release of the Starter Kit for Sentinel Comics: the Roleplaying Game! So many thrilling things. Also! This episode goes live the morning of Tuesday, December 5th. The deadline for getting your Cosmic Contest entries to us is tomorrow, Wednesday, December 6th! Very exciting. Let's get into the episode! (Many apologies for terrible British accents this episode.) We dig into the origin of Captain Cosmic, talking about the history of the brothers Lowsley and how Hugh got cosmic powers and Nigel just disappeared... Then, we're off to space to fight space threats! We go over a few of them before getting into the big stuff with Infinitor! It takes us 28 minutes to get to the reveal that Captain Cosmic and Infinitor are brothers... which has been common knowledge in this world since the release of the characters, but was a much bigger reveal in the pages of Sentinel Comics. Then we're back into space for more space stuff! Including spending a lot of time on Dok'Thorath. After all that, about 43 minutes in, we actually start to get into the OblivAeon event itself. We're saving most of that for the OblivAeon episode, but Captain Cosmic and Infinitor both have too much going on in the OblivAeon event to not cover that stuff now. And then, finally, just after the 52 minute mark, we get to your questions. Lots of questions! Finally, due to a question, we actually get into Infinitor's origin story. This happens around an hour and 11 minutes in. Then continuing with so many more solid questions. Just after the hour and 41 minute mark, we get a question about just how OblivAeon shards work. Whoof. That's a big one. Some explanation here. Perhaps some reveals? Either way, it's big. At an hour and 53 minutes in, we plug the official GTG online community. They're great! Go hang out with them! At 2 hours and 9 minutes in, we go to the future. Interesting things going on with Captain Cosmic's powers in both timelines! Thanks for listening! Next week is Cosmic Contest!

An editor's note! About Things! So many things. Run Time: 1:11:18 Upcoming Schedule: December 5th: Captain Cosmic & Infinitor December 12th: Cosmic Contest December 19st: Cosmic Settings: Wagner Mars Base, Dok'Thorath, Celestial Tribunal, Enclave of the Endlings December 26th: Kaargra Warfang and the Bloodsworn Colosseum December 28th: Editor's Note #13 Topics of today's Editor's Note: Wager Master Guise Meta-Universes The Scholar Hermetic Leylines Magic Unity Chokepoint The Wraith Rook City The Chairman Holidays The nature of time Don't forget, the deadline for getting your Cosmic Contest entries in is Wednesday, December 6th!

A creepy podcast about a creepy fellow, indeed! Show Notes: Run Time: 1:04:32 "We make things up and then are surprised when you like them." We start off with the first appearance of Biomancer in Sentinel Comics, and then get into the deeper truth behind who Biomancer really was. The truth is out there! And it's in this episode, too. We cover Biomancer's overview in under fifteen minutes. It's your questions (starting about 14 minutes in) that bring out all the really interesting stuff. This episode is on the shorter side, but that makes sense, given how little time Biomancer spends in the spotlight. Right after the 32 minute mark, we get into a MAJOR story reveal. One of the things we've been sitting on forever. You'll know what episode to ask your follow-up questions in when you hear what we're talking about. Around 43 minutes in, we get a question that leads into a Tachyon story that we greatly enjoy. Time for another "Christopher and Adam talk through a comic book page by page" type story! Then, around the 50 minute mark, we talk about the crossover with the Widow's Walk expansion to the game Betrayal at House on the Hill. Some creepiness ensues. And then weird stuff happens at the end of the episode! I don't remember any of this. Editor's Note in two days! If you have a burning desire to ask questions, ask them about Captain Cosmic and/or Infinitor!

An episode on the vital essence of most living things in Sentinel Comics! Show Notes: Run Time: 1:25:30 (A quick note on run times - I've been asked to stop listing the minutes in just minutes for episodes that take over an hour, thus the new format! Just to be entirely clear, the first number is the number of hours, the central number is number of minutes beyond that hour, and the last number is the number of seconds beyond those minutes.) The overview portion of today's episode covers a lot of topics! Right off the bat, we recommend you check out the Deadline/Lifeline episode, as it has some Blood Magic hints. Then, we get into the Blood Countess and the Court of Blood. After that, we talk about Bugbear, who we previously introduced in the NightMist episode and further explored with the Naturalist episode - both also recommended listening. Then, you might think we'd get into Hermetic, but first we have to go down a weird rabbit trail first about time and then about spices and flavoring. Oh, and then alchemy. After all that nonsense, it's Hermetic time! And what a time it is... Finally, about at the 23 minute mark, we get into your questions. That's right - the vast bulk of this episode are the questions you fine folks asked about blood. You're welcome. 56 minutes in, we're asked to tell the story of Lifeline in the Court of Blood. So we do! At the one hour and eleven minute marl, we're asked about werewolves... and we deliver! 8 minutes later, we talk about future stuff. Thanks for listening!

This is our very first settings episode, in which we talk about environments and locations from the world of Sentinel Comics! Show Notes: Run Time: 113:16 In today's episode, we cover Urban Settings such as: Megalopolis Freedom Tower Rook City Pike Industrial Complex San Alonso The Maerynian Refuge: Plavu'Col Mordengrad We start off by doing a quick rundown of each of these locations, and then we get into your questions! The Q&A portion of the episode begins about seven minutes into the episode. In the Megalopolis section, we answer a couple questions about banners seen in that fair city in the Sentinels of the Multiverse video game backgrounds. In answering the second of these questions right after the 32 minute mark, we reveal the truth about just what Funny Bunny means. Behold! Astounding. Then we go on for well over half an hour about a bit more Megalopolis stuff, and then on to Rook City questions. Around the 72 minute mark, we move on to San Alonso, the Maerynian Refuge, and finally Mordengrad! Thanks for all the great questions!

Of all the villains we've talked about so far, this one is possibly the most evil. Show Notes: Run Time: 113:40 To reiterate what we mention in content warning at the very start of the episode, you might not want to listen to this episode with your kids. Or, at least, pre-screen this episode for content. Spite's pretty awful. In this episode, we reference both The Wraith's episode and GloomWeaver's episode. They're both pretty important to what's going on here, so you should probably check them out, if you haven't already. We start the question segment just after half an hour into the episode, but we spend the first couple minutes just talking about Spite before actually reading any of your questions. Yeah, that sounds like us. A bit after 45 minutes in, we talk about a misleading quote on a card and how the flavor text actually comes from a much earlier comic than the art depicted on a card, and why we did that thing. Not an error! But it sure looks like one. A couple minutes after the hour mark, Christopher reads the longest letter we've ever received. No, that is not a challenge. Don't try to beat this letter. Please. We almost canned this letter just based on length. Send us your questions about environments!

An episode about a nonsensical character who has too much power for anyone's good! Show Notes: Run Time: 103:16 Right off the bat, we talk about Cosmic Contest - want more info? Listen to last week's Editor's Note! Then, right off the bat, we hit the ground running with the story told in Wager Master's first appearance in Sentinel Comics! From there, we cover many other Wager Master stories. He's such a scamp! Also, terribly evil, mostly through forcing people to play his dangerous and destructive games. We begin considering your questions about 44 minutes into the episode, starting off with us getting an issue number wrong, once again. Can you trust anything we say? Unlikely! And then we're back to even more long stories. That's what we do! This may be our most "stories and stories and stories" episode so far. The future section begins a bit after the 95 minute mark, and in it, we finally reveal the names our two primary post-Multiverse realities! Next week is the long-overdue Spite episode. Happy Halloween! (Did anyone catch the two-word cameo early on in the episode?)

Yet another Editor's Note on all manner of things! Run Time: 88:39 Topics of today's Editor's Note: Other podcasts that we have claimed to do Baseball Virtuosos of the Void nicknames Absolute Zero Science! Haka La Comodora La Paradoja Magnifica The canon of the Sentinel Comics RPG La Capitan Christopher and Adam's "personas" A Limerick Boba tea Chrono-Ranger Chopping down doors CON Progeny The Host If you skipped the Fanatic and Apostate episodes after the warning at the start of those stories, you'll want to skip from the 42 minute mark until the 55 minute mark. Goofs Dark Watch Proletariat RevoCorp & Revenant Parse Doctors Caleb Greene Apostate Beverages Cosmic Contest Here is a link to the PDF you can fill out with your guesses about how the Cosmic Contest goes. When you do, please e-mail it to us at [email protected] Also! Here's a link to the Legends of Sleepy Hollow Kickstarter. Worth checking out! We both like the game a bunch. Upcoming Schedule: November 7th: Spite November 14th: Urban Settings November 21st: Blood Magic November 28th: Biomancer November 30th: Editor's Note #12 The day after this Editor's Note goes live, we're recording the episode about Wager Master! So, get those Wager Master questions in now or forever hold your peace.

Our first episode with a special guest, invited or otherwise! Show Notes: Run Time: 109:14 Our long awaited Episode 40 is here, and wow is it a strange one! We'd like to apologize right now for being so mean to Guise in this episode. He took us by surprise. We don't deal with being surprised by wise-cracking shapeshifters in our recording space very gracefully, apparently. We take our time with the Overview segment this time, as we've got a bunch of stories to tell that don't really come out in the card game other than in little hints here and there. Also, we cover quite a few stories in the more in-depth, line-by-line way. No spoilers as to what we're talking about here, though! Gotta find out by listening! Anyway, as a result, we don't get to the Questions segment until a few minutes past an hour into the episode. Whew! Lots of good questions! From lots of great people! We get called out about not being good at counting pool balls in a question just before 71 minutes in. Yup, we goofed. Then back to more story-related questions! Of which there are many! Also, lots of "how the heck does Guise do [blank]" questions. Fair, fair. A minute or two before the 90 minute mark, we get a question about the Celestial Tribunal and their view of Guise and The Scholar. It's one of my favorite little glimpses of Guise from an outside perspective. Just throwing that out there. At just past the 103 minute mark, we close the Question section with a short but very good letter, and then jump into the future section, in which Guise takes the wheel for a brief moment and essentially goes off-roading. We get it back on track pretty quick, though. Mixed metaphors, galore! Thanks so much for listening! We've got a hefty Editor's Note this coming Thursday, and then we'll be recording the Wager Master episode on Friday, so get your Wager Master questions in now!

A pharmacist, an apothecary, a teacher, and more! It's The Scholar! Show Notes: Run Time: 101:36 Everyone should go to Adam's Halloween party. Except Christopher. There are a lot of rabbit trails in today's episode, but that's mostly because The Scholar's story does a fair bit of wandering. Also, it features some depressing bits, so we wander to keep from getting too down. Fastest transition to the Questions section ever! We end the Overview segment only 8 minutes in! At the 11 minute mark, we field a Powerhound question about us messing up published issue numbers again. And! To be fair! We did mess it up. *sad trombone sound* But not entirely! That's worth something, right? Right? Look, we give a slight hint about a Sentinel Comics RPG Starter Kit as a result, so hopefully that makes up for it. Finally, right around 25 minutes in, we get into the proper tale of The Scholar's backstory. His way-back-story, really. Buckle up! Just after 34 minutes in, Adam claims that a "soda" is a "tincture". It is not. Oh well. You don't listen to this podcast for medical advice/terminology, do you? Gosh, I hope not. We finally get back to your questions at the 47 minute mark. Whew! Longest answer ever! Over 20 minutes?! What were we thinking?! Right after 50 minutes in, we reveal the true origins of the thing that became The Scholar's Philosopher's Stone. Ominous! Just before the 66 minute mark, we drop the biggest lie of all! Please don't think we were being serious! We definitely weren't! Right after that, we get into another big story - another progression of The Scholar's story. Bit by bit, we'll get through this whole thing! A little after 76 minutes in, we get back into the topic of Progeny's head flying through space. Cool: y/n? You decide! The question we get an hour and a half in reveals a bit of story involving The Scholar, Guise, and even OblivAeon! This is a big story that we don't fully explain... got questions? Sure you do! Ask them here before Friday, October 20th and we'll follow-up in the next episode! See you next week!

Like last week, another character with wings and a sword! Unlike last week, this one's a villain! Show Notes: Run Time: 108:51 Much like the Fanatic episode, we recommend not listening to more than the first 5 minutes of this episode if knowing the truth of Fanatic and Apostate would ruin the characters for you. We do brief overview type stuff before getting into the dark truths of Apostate, but after that, all bets are off. Next week, we'll get away from all this stuff and dig into a character who has had his hands in more of the Multiverse than you might assume! Around 9 minutes in, we accidentally do a preview of what the episode on Biomancer will sound like. I'm so sorry. Just after the 24 minute mark, we learn that Adam doesn't care for Christopher's singing. Jerk. 49 minutes in, we get to your questions! A bit after the 90 minute mark, Christopher attempts to craft an analogy using gelatin. It goes poorly. Everyone ends up the worse for it. Lots of great info in this episode - we hope it further explains what's going on with Apostate, Fanatic, and [redacted]. Join us next week for The Scholar! Get your questions in now!

It's everyone's favorite avenging angel! Show Notes: Run Time: 86:49 This is a big one, folks. Not a super long one, but a big one, nonetheless. The first sixteen minutes of the podcast are focused on covering who Fanatic is, how she grew up, how her powers manifested, and a couple of her early notable stories. Then, we give a notable disclaimer that I'm going to reiterate here: if knowing the nitty-gritty truth of Fanatic would in some way ruin the character for you, stop listening after the 16 minute mark. Just call it a day and pick up with another episode. Probably not next week, as that's Apostate, so we'll be going even deeper into divine spoilers territory, but the week after that is The Scholar and then Guise after that, so those are fair game. Anyway, point is, you have to decide for yourself if you want to know Fanatic's truth better than she does, or if you want to keep living by faith alone. Up to you. I'm keeping the show notes pretty brief today, so as to not put any spoilers in the text for folks that are choosing to skip the rest of the episode. About half an hour in, we start talking about blood magic and vampires, and end up covering a bit of Court of Blood business as well. Bonus info in this already info-filled episode! We get into your questions at the 36 minute mark. Lots of great questions this episode! We do our best to not let you down with our answers. If you have questions about Apostate or The Host, get them in now! We're looking forward to answering them when we record on Friday!

It's the first ever Editor's Note! This is where we fill in the corners and answer any lingering questions. Run Time: 49:15 Upcoming Schedule: October 3rd: Fanatic October 10th: Apostate October 17th: The Scholar October 24th: Guise October 26th: Editor's Note #11 October 31st: Wager Master Topics of today's Editor's Note: Haka La Comodora Slaughterhouse Six Ambuscade Chrono-Ranger Writhe The Idealist La Capitan With the posting of this Editor's Note, you have under 24 hours to get in your Fanatic questions! Not to worry, though, we already have well over a hundred Fanatic questions received so far...

Avast, ye mangy bilge-rats! It's about time for some temporal piracy! Show Notes: Run Time: 119:15 Managed to keep this one just barely under 2 hours! Sorry about last week! We start by announcing that Interludes are dead - long live Editor's Notes! They will be about the same, but we'll no longer do Thursday episodes with in-depth story content, such as the Slaughterhouse Six Interlude. As promised a bit after five minutes in, here's the chart we drew up about Maria Helena's appearances in time: For those who cannot read my handwriting (and, let's be honest, I can barely read it), down the left side of the image are the various stages of Maria Helena: Young Maria Helena Very Early La Capitan Early La Capitan Late La Capitan Very Late La Capitan Early La Comodora Late Comodora Then, there are 9 points in time listed (with red words) along the timeline (the blue line). Those red labels, from left to right are: 16th Century Spain Face on Mount Rushmore First Appearance Southwest Sentinels #1 & #3 VotM La Capitan Later Southwest Sentinels Story La Comodora saves Chrono-Ranger - he goes after La Capitan for her Cosmic Contest OblivAeon This chart will only be somewhat helpful without listening to the episode itself. Many apologies for the confusing nature of time travel. Fortunately, we're following her story from her point of view today, so that should make it a bit easier. Maybe! Also, in this episode, we reveal a comic book series that has always been a part of Sentinel Comics, though not used in quotes on cards in Sentinels of the Multiverse, due to being non-canonincal. That book is called Disparation. It plays an important role in this episode. Around the 48 minute mark, Adam succinctly sums up how La Comodora combines all Hakas into two Hakas, as discussed in the Haka episode. Here's another version of Adam explaining that event: Worth a thousand words, right? This episode is pretty evenly split between overview and questions. We get into the Q&A portion pretty close to the halfway point, around 51 minutes in. Lots of time travel shenanigans in the questions, and some pirate voices as well. Just after 71 minutes in, we get new limericks from the challenger, Arcanist Lepus! Around the 88 minute mark, we get a question about Chiquito that ends up leading to actual explanation of how La Paradoja Magnifica works. Spoilers: it has nothing to do with anyone eating a strange alien monkey creature. We get a question 97 minutes in that result in us telling the story of the Black Spot variant of La Comodora. Void incursions abound! At around an hour and 51 minutes in, we get a suspicious question about a bunch of alternate reality characters seen in one of La Capitan's deck, and we talk a bit about each of those heroes and where they come from. And then we're done! Possibly the shortest future section ever in today's episode. See you Thursday for the first ever Editor's Note!

Let's talk about the Southwest Sentinels! And then Void Guard! Show Notes: Run Time: 198:12 This is our longest and strangest episode ever. By far. In a lot of ways. Our fault for doing an episode about four different characters covering two teams. Also, no interlude this Thursday - we packed everything into this one episode. Knowing that this episode would go long, right off the bat, we ask Trevor to get aggressive with the edits. And yet, still, this episode is so many hours long. What happened? Oh geeze. We're sorry? So, we mention in the first few minutes that last week we had a huge spike of new listeners on Wednesday. That Wednesday was our highest download day of all time. What?! Why? If you're a new listener who joined us last Wednesday, let us know where you came from, please! Tweet at us here, or e-mail us at [email protected]. Let us know what brought you to The Letters Page! We're excited to have all you fantastic listeners, old and new alike! Then we start going blow by blow through the pages of the Southwest Sentinels comic books. After the 27 minute mark (once we're into the second issue of Southwest Sentinels), we talk about a character named Night Snake. Here's the sketch (as promised around 28:30) of that character who never made it into the canon of Sentinels of the Multiverse, even though he was a part of Sentinel Comics. And then, we're on to Southwest Sentinels #3! At 45 minutes in, we do a bit of foreshadowing for the power origin description that we don't actually get to until the question section MUCH later. (Like, over an hour later.) Just after 70 minutes in, we end the Southwest Sentinels book, do a bit of transition story, and then start up the Void Guard book. It's not enough that we're doing an episode about four different heroes, we're also talking about two different hero teams! We finally begin the Q&A portion of the podcast after an hour and a half into the show. And we have a TON of great questions. Buckle up, everyone! 97 minutes in, we finally begin actually explaining the origins of the powers of Doctor Medico and Mainstay, and how that origin connects to what else is happening in the pages of Sentinel Comics. This is a big reveal that has additional ramifications as Sentinel Comics moves forward into the future. Then, around the 110 minute mark, we dig into the real story behind The Idealist! Finally! In retrospect, it shouldn't have surprised us that this episode ended up over three hours long, given how much we're covering here, and how many big reveals there are. But still. Whoof. So many questions about so many things! Around the 175 minute mark, we promise to show off Writhe being creepy. So, here you go! Yikes. Finally, after 190 minutes of episode, we get into the future section and talk a bit about what the futures could hold for Void Guard. Whew! That was a long episode! Did you make it through the whole thing? We barely did! Get your questions about La Capitan / La Comodora in now!

A team of villains, led (sort of?) by Ambuscade! Let's learn more! Show Notes: Run Time: 92:50 This interlude is pretty much just an entire episode. Yes, we're aware we need to revisit what we're calling interludes. We'll explore that on next Thursday's... whatever it is we call it. But, yeah, this has a ton of story, including some major reveals! We start off by talking about Ambuscade, Re-Volt, Desert Eagle, Ray Manta, Magman, and Glamour. We do some backstory and overview stuff. Then! It's time for your questions, which we kick off by digging into the biggest reveal of the whole Slaughterhouse Six story. The questions are mostly organized by character, but they do jump around a little bit. You'll figure it out - I believe in you! About 72 minutes in, a conspiracy theorist leads us down a twisting trail of what the future will hold with AI and such. Christopher reveals his secrets. Some of them, at least. Upon this episode going live, you still have a few hours left to get in your questions about The Sentinels/Void Guard!

Ansel G. Moreau is a famous movie star! He does his own stunts! Show Notes: Run Time: 123:04 Shockingly, this is the longest episode we've ever done! Man, that Ansel G. Moreau really loves to steal the scene. We apologize right off the bat for the quality and quantity of bad French accents in today's episode. We're so, so sorry. After the Ambuscade story stuff in the first 25 minutes, we get into a fun Mainstay and Ansel story that both Adam and Christopher end up having too much fun with on the air. It takes almost as much time as everything else that leads up to just that one story. 40 minutes in, we get into spoilers for OblivAeon territory, but we're just spilling the beans now! Have we spoiled that info before? We don't know... but we're doing it anyway! This episode is full of ups and downs. Then, we get right into your questions! Of which there are many! In the Q&A portion, we talk a lot more about Ansel G. Moreau's film career, his connection to RevoCorp, and indulge in a decent amount of listener-meta-silliness. All told, a fine time. When we get into the future section, we spill some spoilers, but don't really tag them. Just putting the future story stuff right out there! If you want to avoid RPG spoilers, maybe skip from 117:45 to 119:35. See you in a couple days for the Slaughterhouse Six interlude!

Our big friendly fighting friend... it's Haka! Show Notes: Run Time: 102:01 We get right into it on this one, as we've got a lot to talk about. Within the first few minutes, we're already into the backstory of Aata Wakawarewa! As a result of us digging right in, we manage to get through the Haka overview, from backstory to OblivAeon, in 25 minutes! On to your questions! We had a lot of fun in the Questions section, because we got so many great questions! Haka has a lot of great stories, and we're happy to recount them. Shortly after the 75 minute mark, we have our first call out of the episode to any of the strange meta-question nonsense things that goes on in these episodes. And shortly after that, we dive right into the nonsense. After that dip into silliness, things start getting a bit more serious, and the questions and answers after the 80 minute mark start a turn for the worse. Around 88 minutes in, we read a question that leads to the answer of "how the heck is Haka doing what he does?" We go into the complete answer here, but we intentionally leave out who is behind all this. We will reveal who that is... soon. At the 95:30 mark, we begin a Spoilers section! Don't listen if you don't want spoilers for the end/branching point of the Haka stories! You can safely begin listening again at 98:45. Next week, we'll be releasing both an episode AND an interlude! The episode is all about Ansel G. Moreau, AKA Ambuscade AKA Stuntman, and the interlude will be about the Slaughterhouse Six! We're recording that episode and interlude on Friday, so make sure you get your questions in by the end of day this coming Thursday, September 7th.

We are still exhausted from Gen Con, but let's talk about how that show went! Show Notes: Run Time: 39:44 Christopher and Adam spend the first 7 minutes of the show just talking about how Gen Con went, especially the Letters Page Live panel. Spoilers: it went REALLY well. Just before the 5 minute mark, Christopher forgets the name of the musical instrument he played at the Letters Page Live panel. It's the melodica, dummy. The bulk of this interlude is getting to the questions that we brought to Gen Con to answer live, which are mostly general questions about both the world of Sentinel Comics and even this show. Shortly after the 10 minute mark, we have a question for our producer Trevor! We had intended on asking this question live when Trevor was there in the room with us, but instead, he was kind enough to record an answer separately. But we cannot allow him to release all of our secrets! On to the schedule of upcoming episodes! September 5th: Haka September 12th: Ambuscade/Stuntman September 14th: Interlude - Slaughterhouse Six September 19th: The Sentinels September 21st: Interlude - Void Guard September 26th: La Capitan/La Comodora September 28th: Interlude - Assorted Items of Interest So much thrilling content on the way! And look at all those interludes! As we mention in this interlude, we've already recorded the Haka episode, as Christopher is currently in Seattle for PAX Dev and PAX West, but all the other episodes on the schedule need your questions! Send us your questions!

Want to hear what happened at Gen Con 2017? Here's your chance! We had a blast at our first live episode of The Letters Page! We couldn't have asked for a better audience. So many fun things! Also, if you'd rather see what happened in this Letters Page Live episode, check out this video! Besides the entire gang of Adam, Christopher, Trevor, and even Paul, we also were graced by the presence of Christopher's brother Anthony, who wrote and performed the "Christopher and Adam reading letters to you" song. Anthony added a lot to this live episode. Now, on to the few actual show notes for this episode! Show Notes: Run Time: 118:33 First thing first! As Trevor mentions in the intro to the episode, there are a lot of spoilers. We're not going to tag them all individually. Just know that wading into this episode means getting into SPOILERS territory! Next, you'll notice that Christopher's voice sounds more awful than usual. He used it up by the end of the first day of Gen Con. What you hear is all he has left. But he still somehow made it through the entire two hour episode, more or less. About four minutes in, Christopher lays some ground rules. These apply to all Letters Page questions ever, actually! 1. We don't have favorite heroes or villains. Stop asking. 2. Try to avoid bringing up other properties. We're here to talk about the world of Sentinel Comics. Not other comic book characters. 3. No swearing, please. At least, do your best. These rules all apply to us as well, and we do our best to not break them. I'm going to put notes here whenever Anthony plays a song, in case you want to navigate straight to the music bits. The first one starts at 8:12. After that, Christopher, Adam, and Anthony talk about the "history" of the song. Mostly because we were all so blown away by everyone at the panel singing along. Even the high parts. And then we actually start getting into questions, reading a couple of questions that we printed out in advance for the panel, just to get things rolling. Another musical interlude! This one starts at 18:10. And then we got into questions from people at the panel. The line of people asking questions was... notably long. The second person in the line was dressed as Spite. Which was very creepy! But then he turned out to be LevelUpLeo! (We've been pronouncing his last name wrong this whole time! Now we know better.) We recorded this episode on Saturday afternoon. That morning, we'd held a costume contest, so there were lots of folks at this panel in brilliant and creative costumes straight out of the pages of Sentinel Comics. It was wonderful. Another song from Anthony at 44:41. Followed by Anthony's story of what inspired that song. Then, we go back to reading a few of the letters that we printed out in advance, just to break things up a bit! And then we sort of spill a pile of beans about OblivAeon story stuff that we've apparently never talked about publicly before? So, that's good. Enjoy! Another Anthony song at 58:12. This leads into more questions from the audience. Lots more great questions! Oh, also some more huge spoiler reveals. A notably one right after the 70 minute mark. Probably not a big deal. *innocent whistle* Around 81 minutes in, Argent Adept gives us a "Damage -1" token. Then, Citizen Dawn begins laughing ominously in the background. 95 minutes into the episode, Guise makes his appearance. He's exhausting. As a result of that, starting around the 97 minute mark, Christopher loses it and reveals the secret behind where all of Sentinel Comics comes from. It's not pretty. Then! A bit after 99 minutes in, Christopher and Adam disagree on the air! Don't worry - they work it out. One of our favorite things that happened in this panel is that we drop a spoiler for our future plans at 109:50ish, but no one really seemed to pick up on it. Wonder what we meant by that... Probably nothing important! Right? The final musical interlude from Anthony occurs at 112:30, though this is not the final song of the episode! After that, just a bit of closing words. We're entirely overwhelmed by how great our listeners are, and how wonderful the Sentinel Comics community is. Seriously, you people are amazing. We close the episode with another "Christopher and Adam" singalong. Goodnight and good luck.

Corporate shenanigans! Ready to meet the CEO and more? It's time to talk about RevoCorp! Show Notes: Run Time: 90:18 We dig pretty deep into untold tales and history to reveal the RevoCorp story. This is all stuff that happens on the sidelines (for the most part) of the Multiverse, but we'll cover how it ends up impacting the world of Sentinel Comics. The Q&A section features people questioning our lies. It's good to see that we're getting that message through. Also, last week's question in the Spoilers section was from Matchstickman. Sorry for making that clear in that episode! We hope that Matchstickman can forgive us. And also forgive us for what Adam does in this episode. Sorry for the brief show notes today - we just got back from Gen Con yesterday and are still recovering. Speaking of Gen Con, next Tuesday's episode will be the recording of the First Annual Gen Con Live! The Thursday after that, we'll release a "Gen Con Retrospective" interlude. And then back to the regularly scheduled hero and villain episodes next month, starting with Haka!

Time travel and psychic shenanigans! The many forms of Vanessa Long! Show Notes: Run Time: 105:49 We deal with multiple realities - and multiple Vanessa Longs (Vanessas Long?) in the first ten minutes, so buckle up! Brief show notes today, because: Gen Con! So, we promised a link to the Lazer Ryders Soundtrack in the show notes. Here it is on Spotify. It's also available on Bandcamp. Not sure if there's a better place to get it, but those are both pretty legit! Also, for a sample, check out the song Trevor chose for our episode-ending music. The questions segment has a bunch of nonsense about Biomancer's creations, the Cult of Gloom, and even the kingdom of Cooltopia? I don't know what's happening with our own podcast these days. In the future section, we have two spoiler sections. The last bit of the Sentinel Tactics future is spoilers (from 95:30 to 96:35), and the entire Sentinel Comics RPG timeline segment is also spoilers. (from 97:09 to 99:20). As mentioned, we're already at Gen Con! If you'll be at Gen Con on Saturday, come crash our Letters Page Live recording panel on Saturday! Also, because we're in Indianapolis and away from our office all this week, we've already recorded the RevoCorp/Benchmark episode! It's too late for your questions! While we're gone, if you want to ask questions for upcoming episodes, I'll leave you with this hint: we have just begun to cover the Prime Wardens and their nemeses...

Akash'Bhuta, Akash'Thriya, and more! Show Notes: Run Time: 118:27 This show covers more time than any other episode. It's also one of our longest episodes! Appropriate. Around 5:40, we posit that this episode won't be longer than the Argent Adept episode. We were wrong. But just barely! Still, we shouldn't have been surprised. It takes us about half an hour to go through the first couple hundred million years. Then, we start slowing down, only covering thousands or even hundreds of years at a time. Bear with us! We eventually get more into the blow-by-blow stuff that happens in the pages of Sentinel Comics. Recommended listening: the Argent Adept episode, and the Naturalist episode. At the beginning of the question section - around 45 minutes in - we clear up a thing that we straight up did wrong. We have officially said before the Akash'Bhuta's first appearance was in Prime Wardens #1. There is no way that's correct. Her first appearance was in Virtuoso of the Void #12, and we even know that! We were shocked to look back at what we'd released publicly. We just wrote down the wrong first appearance. We're very sorry. On to the rest of the fantastic questions! So much to unpack! A few fishy things happen in the other questions. Another letter from the Cult of Gloom, Princess Cool asserts that she's the original, and we're pretty sure that Biomancer is up to something... In the future section, we first go over when the timeline split occurs in the Akash story. Then we talk about the rough stuff going on in the Sentinel Tactics timeline. For the Sentinel Comics RPG timeline, we have to use the SPOILERS tag. From 107:00 to 114:22 so that we can talk about [redacted] and [redacted]. We also take one more question! Enjoy! As we mention at the end of the episode, we're recording on Thursday this week, and we're actually recording TWO episodes on that day, due to Gen Con. So! Get your Visionary and RevoCorp questions in by early Thursday morning at the latest! Anything after that won't make the cut! Looking forward to seeing some of you next week at Gen Con!

Buckle in, folks! We're going to meet a bunch of Virtuosos of the Void today, as well as delving into the Void itself! Show Notes: Run Time: 117:59 In the first portion of the podcast, we go through the history of the Argent Adept's appearances in the pages of Sentinel Comics, from his origin in the Toll of Destiny limited series, through the Virtuoso of the Void ongoing series. We cover a ton of stories at a pretty breakneck pace, as we had SO MANY fantastic questions that we wanted to make sure to let your wonderful input shine, you lovely listeners! We finish that entire overview in about half an hour! The majority of the rest of the episode is questions! Shortly after the 40 minute mark, Christopher gets real passionate about music. This speaks to why/how Argent Adept was created. Heck, we both go into even more music stuff in the next 5-10 minutes after that. Just after 80 minutes in, we talk about the cross-over promo card we made with Worldbuilder's Charity. You can get that card - in normal card form, foil card form, or both - here! Spoilers! Many spoilers! Pretty much the entire future section is a spoiler, and it's tagged as such within the episode. If you're wanting to skip the spoilers, don't listen to anything between 107:52 and 114:33. That's where we spill the beans! Thanks for listening! Get your questions in for all flavors of Akash'Entities now!

The longest interlude we've ever recorded, by far! So many questions answered! The name of this episode is most certainly not "Lightning Round". Show Notes: Run Time: 83:50 We cover tons of characters in this episode. A ridiculous amount of them. And almost as many different stories. Ready for hopping all over the place? Strap in - it's going to be a bumpy ride! Just after the 50 minute mark, Adam and Christopher have a debate about who would win in a fight between two villains, and Adam actually convinces Christopher! It's a surprising outcome for everyone. Rather than listing all the characters we talked about, here's a list of the things we didn't talk about, even though we did get questions about them! Galactra Quetzalcoatl Major Flay Seer Idolator Revenant Green Grosser Blood Countess Zhu Long All Slaughterhouse Six members Those characters all do count as Nemeses, but their stories have to wait for the episodes they are important in, so feel free to ask more questions about them. Here's the next month's schedule! August 1st: Argent Adept August 8th: Akash'Bhuta, Akash'Thriya, and more! August 15th: Visionary/Dreamer August 22nd: RevoCorp/Benchmark August 29th: Gen Con Live! August 31st: Post Gen Con Retrospective Interlude If you're at Gen Con, come to the Gen Con live recording on Saturday at 3:00! Get your Argent Adept questions in now! See you next week!

Let's talk about NINE villains! Nine times the goodness! Show Notes: Run Time: 72:47 There's a lot of rambling nonsense and nonsensical rambling in this episode, but there's also a lot of good story! Just before the ten minute mark, Adam divulges his scale of animal evilness, from most evil to least evil. So, that's probably a useful thing for all of you out there in internet land. Then, a bit after the fifteen minute mark, The Ennead start taking over Egypt, and we talk for the next 5-10 minutes about how locked down that whole situation was. Right after the 26 minute mark, we tell a few but very minor story about Set after The Ennead event. I'm calling it out here because I really like the story. It's not an important story, but it's fun. Just how many times do we say "reservoir" in this episode? Right before 34 minutes in, we do a "and then they all died" bit THAT IS TOTALLY TRUE. They all died. Period. The next thing we do is answer a question - our first question of the episode - in which we reveal a retcon that happened within the pages of Sentinel Comics. As promised, here's a link to the page of the ARG in which Ra and The Ennead showed up for the last time in the Multiverse. SPOILERS! Starting at the 60:50 mark through 68:25, we talk about spoilers for the Sentinel Tactics timeline, so if you want to wait until it's released to play through the story content yourself, skip this spoilers segment. Thanks for listening, everyone! Thursday is the longest interlude ever! Talk to you then!

Is Ra the true Egyptian God of the Sun, or just a madman with the power of fire? Or, is he something else entirely? Show Notes: Run Time: 106:57 We start with a quick overview of who Ra is, and then start breaking down his long and somewhat convoluted story. Let's dig right in. In the first ten minutes of the show, we reveal Ra as a villain (of sorts) and then kill him off (sort of), and not at all as a joke! And it's not even the most exciting ten minutes of the show! Starting just before the seventeen minute mark, Adam attempts to name all nine of The Ennead. He does... OK. More on those folks next week! Around 28 minute in, we start getting into just HOW all of this Egyptian mythology stuff has been translated into modern Sentinel Comics. Lots of great questions in today's episode, with a ton of story stuff covered entirely in the Q&A segment. At 55 minutes, we get a question that sparks a REALLY long answer with a ton of story. Enjoy! Wow, this is a long episode. Whew! Lots of big reveals in the future section. We talk about the future of a minor side character from the card game timeline and what happens to them in the Tactics timeline. And then! In the RPG timeline section, we go into SPOILERS! Skip from 96:55 to 103:55 if you want to avoid major story spoilers for the RPG. In a couple days, we're recording the episode about The Ennead AND the interlude about Nemeses! Get your questions in now!

An episode about a slavering rat beast! Show Notes: Run Time: 76:10 Just a warning: we rehash some old jokes this show. We're out of material, folks. You heard it here! We're already washed up. But there are also some actual reveals in this episode! Like Plague Rat's real human name from before he was fully rattened! This is an episode of cautionary tales and important life lessons. Brush your teeth. Don't play in the sewers. Don't do drugs. Or crime. Stay in school, kids. We go from drug dealer, to rat beast, to infectious rat beast, to captured rat beast... look, a lot happens with Plague Rat, actually. You'll just have to listen to the episode! And we have a decently long Q&A segment today! Lots of fun stuff there. Good questions. Strange answers. And even a few twists! And we wrap up with a glimmer of hope for the future. Next week is Ra!

Today is an American holiday, so we're going to talk about an All-American hero! Show Notes: Run Time: 83:50 Look forward to all manner of voices from Adam in today's episode! About 10 minutes in, we introduce the robot named CON. And yes, we will explain CON in this episode. It's about time! At the 20-minute mark, Adam refers to human flesh as, "Delicious, delicious flesh." We just want to mention right now: we do not support or advocate cannibalism. Adam does not consume human flesh and he does not think of it is actually delicious. That line about delicious flesh was from Plague Rat's point of view. Right after that, we explain how time travel works. So, that's cool. Around the 47-minute mark, we say that Chrono-Ranger mostly acts in the main canon timeline just after saying that he act in a bunch of different timelines. Turns out, both are true. In the bulk of Sentinel Comics, he's doing stuff in the primary timeline, but in his occasional solo limited series, he shows up in and alters many different timelines. In the future section, we actually reveal a decent amount of story, both from the Tactics timeline and the RPG timeline. A lot happens to Jim Brooks in both futures, including two different name changes. Thanks for listening! Get your Plague Rat questions in now!

Let's make some excuses! Show Notes: Run Time: 28:36 Since we got immediately down to business on Tuesday's Deadline/Lifeline episode, this interlude is a good deal more... fast and loose. Things we cover in this interlude: The Wraith and Ermine Chokepoint or Choke? Our brothers Gen Con (Dark) Visionary James Bowie David Bowie Knives K.N.Y.F.E.s Paige Huntlys (Paiges Huntly?) Sergeant Steel Stargent Seal Animals Also, as promised, here's an art! How do we get through ALL OF THAT in under half an hour? Guess you'll just have to listen to the whole thing to find out! Oh, also, the very exciting upcoming schedule! July 4th: Chrono-Ranger July 11th: Plague Rat July 18th: RA! July 25th: The Ennead July 27th: Interlude - Nemeses August 1st: Argent Adept Things are really heating up here on the Letters Page! And not just because it's a hot summer here in St. Louis. But also because of that!

Tarogath... the destroyer? Or savior? Or just all-around jerk? You decide! Show Notes: Run Time: 86:29 This is a no-nonsense episode! (Meaning we only engage in minimal nonsense.) It's not the longest episode we've recorded, but it might be the most jam-packed with exciting info! We start off by talking about the Enclave of the Endling, including proper pronunciation of the names of many Endlings and their fallen races. Got questions about the Enclave of the Endlings? Submit a question! We'll do an Interlude on the Enclave some day. More info on blood magic and vampires and such today, around the 23 minute mark. And in the questions, as well! Shortly after that, we actually delve into more of the details of the OblivAeon event than we've revealed before. Makes sense, as Tarogath is rather important to that event! Just after 41 minutes in, Christopher said, "Tarogath, who became the villain Deadline, who then became the villain Lifeline." (Italics for emphasis.) Definitely meant hero there. Just talking too fast. Whoops! Lifeline's not a villain. This coming Thursday's Interlude has already been recorded, but you still have some time to get your Chrono-Ranger questions in! Send 'em our way, buckaroos!

Today, we talk about Michael Conteh of Conteh Energy Corporation! Surely, that's where you know him from, right? Show Notes: Run Time: 61:31 Right in the beginning, we mention that The Operative will come up later in the podcast. And then we follow-through on that promise! We talk about stuff between The Naturalist and The Organization - which does happen to involve The Operative - just after the six minute mark. Lots of exciting things in today's episode, including space adventures, business take-overs, and even the origin of Akash'Thriya! The Naturalist has to deal with Equity early on, but we'll also hear from the Slaughterhouse Six - lots of people want to kill The Naturalist, apparently. As we have done before and we will certainly do again, we discuss how unsettling birds are in this episode. Listen to the few minutes leading up to the 30 minute mark for that gem. I'm certain it'll come up again in the future. The future holds a lot for The Naturalist, but we can't spoil TOO much for now - lots of story things will come up in the long run! We've already recorded all of the episodes from now through the end of June, so send in your questions for the Chrono-Ranger episode! We'll announce our schedule through the beginning of August next week.

Let's talk about a shady organization that reaches throughout the Multiverse! Show Notes: Run Time: 67:07 At the beginning of the podcast, Christopher predicts that this episode will have a run time of an hour and twelve minutes. Turns out, didn't even make it that long! This episode, we cover F.I.L.T.E.R. in all of its incarnations, get into The Block - the extradimensional F.I.L.T.E.R. prison and HQ, and also talk about the story of Sergeant Steel and his Steel Squadron! Just before the 17 minute mark, we mention that the K.N.Y.F.E. episode is essential listening for the story we're about to tell. If you haven't listened to that one yet, go do so! We get to introduce the character of Felix Stone in this episode! Exciting times. (We also dispose of him. Whoops! Spoilers.) You also get to learn of A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.! As promised, here is the Time-Crazed Prisoner from The Block: As we mention at the end of the episode, the next few recordings are all going to happen pretty quickly. Paul and I will be out of town for a wedding in a couple weeks, and we're all more nose-to-the-grindstone than ever right now, so we're doing a pile of recording this coming Friday, and then skipping a week for weddings, and then doing another pile of recording the Friday after that. So! Hit us up with questions for these characters ASAP! The Naturalist Deadline / Lifeline Chrono-Ranger Thanks for listening!