Episode #107: Chad Derdowski, Author/Illustrator of Fortune Favors the Bold, Part 1 of 2
https://archive.org/download/Podcast107_201708/Podcast%20107.mp3
In this week’s episode, author and illustrator Chad Derdowski comes on the show for a two part episode to talk about his book, Fortune Favors the Bold: The Saga of the Scissorwulf, a blast to read and even more entertaining to learn about. It’s basically an R rated Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-style book with lots of references that former children of the 80s will well appreciate. If you want a Cliff’s Notes version of the podcast, the main hero, the Scissorwulf is basically as follows:
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Scissorwulf = Conan (by Frank Frazetta here) + Warduke (from D and D, redrawn on deviantart by MassimoAtlas) + Darkwolf (From Fire and Ice, drawn by Frank Frazetta) + Jack Burton (from Big Trouble in Little China)
And Fortune Favors the Bold is basically a mix of HP Lovecraft, comedic parody, pulp men’s fiction, comic book, and Choose Your Own Adventure all mixed in one (plus probably a few other references I’m missing):
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Chad also does a reading of one of the storylines in the book, so you get a preview of the writing and the beginnings of one of the adventures.
Dark wolf says: stay tuned for more 80s references next week in Part 2!
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Between Two Worlds, the synth EP follow up to Long Ago Not So Far Away is now out for streaming on Bandcamp.
The bonus track, called “Flight of the Cloudrider” has a 80s movie mashup music video (see if you can identify all the movies!) which is available on youtube. This app was largely created with the iphone app Auxy.
Stay tuned. Follow along on Spotify! There is also a growing extended Thirteenth Hour playlist on Spotify with a growing number of retro 80s songs.
As always, thanks for listening! To be continued …
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