Interviews – Josh Burcham

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Yes. Hello and welcome to the latest Geekcast

Radio Presents interview that will be syndicated

on all things Transformers, the Beast Unleashed

podcast, and of course, The Pullback. I am one

of your hosts, TF2 and Mike. Joining me, as always,

Steve Megatron. Hello. I simply have a penchant

for intelligent conversation. Sadly, in almost

12 years, you've never found that with me. Tonight,

we're joined by that compelling colorist, the

artist extraordinaire, Mr. Josh Burcham. How

are we doing tonight, guys? Good to see you.

Nice to meet you. Yes. Absolutely. Very interesting.

This is going to be an interesting conversation,

folks, because in case you didn't know, Josh

is currently the full artist on IDW Publishing's

Transformers Beast Wars. I want to say ongoing,

but I don't want to – I don't know what it is

yet because sometimes IDW will be like, oh, we're

going to do Transformers Galaxies and it's the

next iteration of Spotlights. And then, oh, wait,

no, it was a limited series. So while I love

IDW and I love everything they do, I don't know

what to call this series because I don't know

if it has a specific end point or not. I hope

not because I want you guys to be – have jobs

and give us – creative awesomeness and everything

else. Right. It's technically billed as an ongoing,

but I think, I mean, just like any of the other

ongoing series, they're just kind of playing

it by ear and see how long sales will let us

continue. But yeah, we don't really have an end

point in mind just yet. Awesome. Very cool. Very

cool. All right. I'm going to pass it over to

Steve to start the interview and let's get going,

Steve. So. Uh, where did you grow up? I actually,

uh, yeah, I'm native to the Pacific Northwest

here. I was born in Oregon, uh, raised partly

in like, uh, the Vancouver Portland area of Washington,

Oregon. And, uh, yeah, I'm here, central Oregon,

just kind of here in the Northwest. Nice. So

did you always want to be a, uh, artist for comics?

Honestly, not really. Probably not until about

high school did it really pop into my head. I'd

always been, I guess, quote -unquote, an artist.

Sketched and drew and doodled here and there

before I can remember. But I didn't actually

take it seriously until about high school age.

I was taking some graphic design classes. kind

of pushing, not really pushing, but letting you

know that there's creative opportunities for

careers and stuff like that. I was right about

the time that Dreamwave was coming out with Transformer

comics too. So everything was kind of intersecting

and like, Oh, maybe I can do this someday. Yeah.

I remember those days of, of Dreamwave. So yeah,

that, that resonates with me as well. Right.

Yeah. So tell us the story of how you broke into

the business. Yeah. Like I said, around high

school, I was probably about, I probably had

the idea of doing it like right around 16 or

so. And I was getting back into art, getting

back into drawing. But at the time, I didn't

really have a way to kind of put it online. And

that's where I, right around there is kind of

when I found. the online message boards and stuff

like that. And so I was like, there was a pretty,

pretty big fan art community back then. You know,

a lot of the people who you see drawing books

now, Nick Roach and Casey color and Andrew Griffith

and all those guys, we were, we were all posting

on these boards at the time. We were just fan

artists, you know, and you know, I wanted to

be a part. And so I didn't have a way to put

my drawings online. So I found another way to

contribute, which was doing the digital coloring

with Photoshop. Photoshop from my class. And

so I was doing that. We did some assignments

in graphic design class that was kind of comic

book related and kind of intersected. Like I

mentioned, Dreamwave was popping up. And so right

there is where I kind of discovered the similarities.

Like, oh, what I'm doing here is like pretty

much the same process they're doing for comic

books. I thought about pursuing that. And one,

the thing I did back then, AOL was, you know,

America online was still the thing. And I thought

for the heck of it, you know, I'll, I'll do a

search. I'll type in dreamwave, you know, what

could, what could happen. And you know, when

you're looking for profiles or whatever, and

a couple of names popped up, one of them was

whatever, but one of them, he was a guy, he was

actually like a production manager at dreamwave

productions. And. So I just instant messaged

the guy. I was like, hey, you know, I'm Josh.

I do fan art. Love the Transformer books, you

know, blah, blah, blah. I'd love to get your

thoughts on, like, my work. And I was probably

about 17 at the time. And emailed him some samples.

He said, yeah, sure. I'll pass them on to my

art director and, you know, we'll see. And I

heard back. They gave me some pointers. They're

like, you know, if you could work on this and

that. We think you can be on the right track.

And so, you know, long story short, I kind of

went back and forth. And they were like, we can't

really hire you until you're 18 anyways. You

know, you're not really the legal age. So I was

like, okay, cool. So I was like, I got a year

to practice and get better. And so I did. I practiced.

I redid a bunch of sample pages for them, sent

them back. And I think it was a few months after

that, really. that I got my first offer on a

project, which was the profile books for the

Armada series. And yeah, from then on, it led

to War Within and then I followed the license

over to IDW and been with it ever since. Very

cool. Very cool. Yeah, I actually remember picking

up most of those comics. Yeah, right on. So you've

been a colorist on the IDW Transformer comics

since 2005. So if you had to pick, what was your

favorite project in the previous IDW Transformer

universe before this one started? Yeah, yeah.

I think probably, gosh, what's my favorite? I

don't know. Probably the Wreckers trilogy, I

guess, is probably one I'm pretty satisfied with.

overall and it's one i i really got to like experiment

with color wise you know i tried different styles

for each metal which was you know hit or miss

i guess depending on who you ask you know some

people like some more than others but uh i had

fun and just that idw gave me the the room to

to experiment and try new things different color

styles really cool and so i love That series

holds a pretty cool place in my heart. Working

on the first season of More Than Meets the Eye

was super cool too. Another kind of similar thing

where they just let me do whatever I wanted.

For better or worse, that first season kind of

has its own distinct look to it color -wise,

which I'm pretty proud of. I think some people

did too. Those two series, I guess, probably.

Yeah, that first season. Oh, boy. Man, you don't

want to get caught by some shadow play. Yeah,

for real. No, no, no, no, no, no. You know, it's

funny that you're – it's not funny that you're

a native of the Pacific Northwest, but my – I

have to say it this way just because of – governmental

reasons. My ex -wife and I moved out here a year

ago, so quite literally we could have been your

neighbors because we're in downtown Vancouver.

Yeah, yeah, I noticed that. I remember you saying,

like, seeing on your page that you're moving

to Vancouver. I was like, oh man, I used to live

there. Yeah. Did you grow up reading comics and

at what age did you first remember reading or

noticing them? I never did grow up reading them.

I had like the occasional you know my mom would

go on a garage sale or something like that and

she'd find like a couple of the old like Marvel

Transformers stuff or even some random like Batman

comics because I was really into Batman as a

kid as well and I just kind of had them I flipped

through them but I never thought anything of

them just because they looked really corny to

me and so I never really gave comics you know

you know paid any mind uh not really until like

i said when dreamwave was coming back and they

kind of put you know transformers comics back

in the general consciousness of everybody and

uh i was like oh this is this is what comic books

look like now like this actually looks right

yeah yeah i didn't really have any interest in

going out for really any yeah like any desire

to to make comic books, I guess. I mean, I get,

I mean, my mom tells me I used to like make my

own. I don't really remember, but I guess maybe

it was always destined to be. There you go. Hey,

you know, you gotta have a destiny. You gotta

chase that dream, right? Yeah. Right. Whenever

the dream, you know, catches you by the wave,

uh, as a reader. And I want to preface this as

a reader. And. No offense to the people you work

for. We have to ask you the age -old question.

DC or Marvel? Yeah. I think probably before,

like the MCU, you always catch me saying DC because

I never knew much about Marvel stuff, aside from

maybe the Spider -Man cartoon in the 90s. Right.

It was just also unfamiliar to me, but Batman

was always my guy. you know, the Justice League

cartoon and all that kind of stuff, too, growing

up. I guess I probably always leaned DC back

then, but now that kind of marvels, giving me

a new interest, I'm kind of like, okay, maybe

I like them about the same. Very cool, very cool.

Reading and creating, what format do you prefer,

print or digital? Which one, both, either or,

and why? That's a good question, yeah. For creating,

all my work is done digitally. I think I moved

digitally probably a good while ago, maybe even

close to 10 years ago. I do everything digitally,

even drawing and stuff, like all the Beast Wars

stuff like that, it's all digital. So definitely

creating, I definitely lean digital. It's just

so... I don't want to say easy because it's not

like it's easy, but it's a lot more convenient.

I guess the tools are kind of there, built in,

ready to go to help you. It's really convenient.

As far as reading goes, I mean, nothing can really

beat having a physical copy, but I do like to

read it digitally. I especially like the guided

view stuff that some comics do. It's just kind

of... keeps the surprise of some things you know

sometimes there'll be a big reveal and you'll

accidentally flip to and you're like oh no and

you kind of spoil yourself i think the guy that

you kind of paces is that well i do like that

yeah it's funny i've been doing the pull bag

our comic podcast for almost eight years now

we're actually recording this a week before that

show's eighth anniversary and Ever since then,

probably halfway through the first year, I found

Comixology, and I have been singing the praises

for their guided view. And recently I just had

to – I recorded something that won't be out for

a while, but I'm like, I promise, folks, I wish

they were paying me to say this, but they're

not, sadly. But, like, seriously, every other

word out of my mouth when I talk about comics

is Comixology guided view. It's really great.

It's a really great invention. Yeah, it's a great

way to read comics. How is it working with Eric

Burnham? And can you walk us through the creative

process you both are using to bring us the Beast

Wars comic? Sure. Yeah, funny story. I actually

met, in a way, online Eric a few years ago. Somebody

on Twitter was just like, hey, we need comic

book guests. If you want to join our podcast

later today, I was like, I'm bored. I'm not really

doing anything. So I said yes. And I guess Eric

said yes. And so we were the two guests back

then. And we had no idea who each other were

at the time, but we met each other back then.

And so it's kind of serendipitous that we're

working together now. But he's really great to

work with. Really cool guy. He's open to any

suggestions or anything that I have or the rest

of the editorial crew has. pretty flexible with

the script and pacing and stuff like that he's

like you know i write it out this way you know

certain way and if you have better ideas go for

it you know because it's ultimately it's all

about the story that we're trying to tell you

know whatever serves the story best and so he's

been he's been really cool really supportive

the whole team has it you know uh on the whole

book it's it's been really really great creative

process yeah i know because um it's kind of funny

that um your whole journey through all this i

was looking at your your deviant art uh a couple

weeks ago and and saw some of your beast wars

art and i was like oh that was directly an inspiration

for what we're seeing now yeah yeah right and

i enjoyed every bit of it nice yeah beast wars

has always been a soft spot it's a real privilege

to get to work on Now, what exactly drew you

to Beast Wars, as opposed to some of the other

ones? Yeah, I mean, I grew up aware of Transformers,

and I was a fan of whatever G1 stuff that I had.

But I was born in 85, so by the time I was a

little kid, it was already in full swing. So

I had random VHS. uh copies of you know miscellaneous

episodes and i had a recording of the the 86

movie on on vhs because it was on tv my parents

did it for me so i would always like re -watch

you know those few episodes in the movie like

over and over but uh when beast was hit you know

in the mid late mid late 90s i was you know like

13 years old so i was kind of uh you know the

target audience that they're going for you know

the young kids you know whatever and so you know

beast wars was really kind of you know you know

it's kind of the same with you know people who

are a little older you know when g1 came out

they were like 10 11 12 that kind of age and

so beast wars was almost kind of like my g1 you

know it was it came out you know at the perfect

time you know spending all my allowance on all

the toys and kind of stuff, you know, trying

to convince my parents to get up for me and waking

up early Saturday mornings to watch the show,

new episodes. And, uh, so yeah, it was, it was

really, yeah, I had the foundation with G1, but

Beast Wars really kind of hooked me into it.

And right around that time was the whole internet

and all that kind of stuff too. And finding message

boards and discussion groups and all that kind

of stuff. the right, you know, the right time

kind of thing. So it's, it's really funny that,

that Beast Wars resonates so well because now

it's 25 years later and so many people love the

show as you did. And as I do, um, what do you

think it is about Beast Wars that has people

coming back for more by rewatching the classic

series and reading, uh, your new comic, of course.

Yeah, I think, uh, It's definitely the characters

and the storytelling. You know, some people,

I see a lot, you know, now and then I search

Beast Wars, you know, on like in Twitter and

Tumblr. So I just see what people are saying.

And I always see, you know, a bunch of random

comments like, oh, the CGI ain't that great.

But man, the story, man, the characters, you

know. And I mean, to me, like the CGI still looks

good to me. I like it. But that might be like.

rose -colored glasses you know nostalgia but

uh i mean you look at it it is rough texture

wise and stuff and low poly but they the characters

are animated really well expression gets across

drama gets across really well and uh it's further

enhanced by the great um you know voice acting

by all the voice actors and just the story you

know fun stories The fun, happy -go -lucky one

-offs and then the really cool multi -parters,

like the agenda and all that kind of stuff that

really hook in and draw on the overall continuity

and expand it. A really well -done show. We're

just hoping with the book that we can match that.

I definitely, and I don't know, I don't speak

for Mike, but in my opinion... You do sometimes

when I make you. Yeah, that's true. So in my

opinion, anyway, of being such a huge Beast Wars

fan, it resonates really well with me and I find

it very, very entertaining. And I find the even

even with the new edition of the two new characters,

it still feels like I'm tuned into the original

96 series with a little bit of added depth. Yeah.

That's really cool because that's exactly what

we're going for. I know we've talked about Beast

Wars, but what Transformers generation is your

special generation? Even if it's Beast Wars or

maybe it's not Beast Wars, but what one would

it be and why? I think if I had to choose something

that wasn't Beast Wars, I think Beast Wars probably

does rank out number one, but I think a close

second for me is probably the... The Cartoon

Network Transformers animated series. Really

well thought out. The story was great. The writing

team was awesome. I'm a super big fan of Derek

Wyatt and his designs, his art direction on that

series. I didn't even know him back when the

show came out, but I came to know him going to

conventions and stuff like that. He's a really

cool guy as well. Super big fan. Yeah, it's just...

It was a great, a lot like Beast Wars, great

characters and a great story that it wasn't like

inventing things on the fly, or at least it didn't

seem like, but it had a plan, it had story arcs,

it knew the story it was trying to tell. And

yeah, it was just really enjoyable and a great

contrast to the Baver stuff that was coming out

at the same time as well. Well, and funny enough,

with that series, they actually did touch on

Beast Wars in a multitude of other different

Transformers universes. Right, yeah. There wasn't

enough Rodimus in Season 3, damn it. Oh, I know.

They rusted him. They rusted him. So, what was

your very first Transformers toy? I don't remember

personally, but my mom always says it was the

Targetmaster Cup toy, which I still have, actually.

Nice. Yeah, G1 Cup. I still have the Targetmaster

as well. Very cool. One of the few that has survived

my childhood. I think we all have those stories.

Yeah, I made the mistake of purging. I mean,

I had a lot of them just break just from brittle

plastic, specifically like the Transmetal Megatron.

But having two of them and the arms snapped off

both. But I purged them all. I have only had

the Masterpiece Primal. And I don't know if you

collect the Masterpiece figures at all. But I

just recently started recollecting a lot of figures.

Um, the ones that aren't kingdom are insanely,

uh, expensive now. Yeah, I know. I'm still missing

black or acne. And every time I'm like, Oh, I

should pick her up. And then I look online. It's

like $140. I'm like, uh, BBTS. Yeah. Yes. Sadly,

they're not paying us either. Please give us

a sponsorship, please. I know, they did wonderful.

I got Thrilling 30 Waspinator, I got the new

Kingdom Cheetor, and the Kingdom Blackarachnia,

and they all showed up. Yay! Alright, who is

your end -all, be -all favorite character or

characters from any Transformers incarnation?

You can pick one Decepticon, one Autobot, one

Maximal, and one Predacon. Bringing up a tough

question. Of course. I think my favorite Autobots.

It's kind of the go -to for most people. It's

Optimus Prime. Close to that, it would probably

be Hot Rod. Decepticons? No. But I never really

had a favorite character. I always liked Skywarp.

Just the way he looked, black and purple. how

you get me going. Anything in those colors just

looks amazing. I guess I'd nominate him. I think

Predacons is easy. A lot of people say Megatron.

It's that voice. It just gets me. Boy, favorite

Maximal. I always did like Death Charge. I thought

he was really cool. So, Megatron, do you have

anything to say to Mr. Bertram? I'm putting you

on the spot. Use your voice, dude. I know. Good.

Now leave me. I have work to do. Megatron, terrorize!

Well done. Thanks. When we interviewed David

Kaye way back in 2009, he basically gave Steve

the seal of approval. You're the only person

that does my voice that actually sounds like

my voice. That's awesome. Yeah. It was very cool.

I have talked to Scott McNeil before. I did it

and then I tried to do Waspinator and unfortunately

didn't have any water because I waited like two

hours in line to see him. So I get up there and

I'm like, Waspinator, sick of being evil. What

are some other Transformers characters you like?

I mentioned Hot Rod. He's definitely a favorite.

Not really his character per se, but I just always

thought he was cool looking and his beautiful

mode was like, I want a car like that. Hasn't

happened yet. What the heck? Now that you have

this new opportunity and they're going to sell

a million copies, you know. Yeah, right. One

can only hope. Get those royalties that I don't

get. Yeah, I always liked Wheeljack. He was always

a favorite, too. I even threw in a little visual

homage for Wheeljack in Issue 1. I always liked

his design. I thought he was really cool looking.

Just the whole bumbling scientist kind of thing

in G1. It's hilarious. Absolutely. Are there

any Transformers characters you either dislike

or hate? Not that we want to get negative, but

I mean, they're... Everybody has a character

that annoys the hell out of them. Right. Boy,

I don't know. I don't know that I... I feel like

I would get... I'll get burned at the stake for

saying this, but I don't really get the Starspring

laugh. Not that I hate him or anything. He's

kind of whatever, but... He's just kind of...

He's Starspring. So there's... There's no future

possessions in the comic coming up then, huh?

If there is, I'll just make it Skywarp. Oh, sick

burn. That would be awesome. I'm trying to think

of who would be better, like maybe a Soundwave.

Well, I mean, we did have Ravage, you know, Decepticons.

That is true. That would be cool, actually. Yeah,

that would be cool. Whatever happened to Soundwave?

He got upgraded. I mean, not that I hate Starscream

or whatever. I know some people probably give

me that. He's just not my favorite. Well, that's

why he got blown up too by, you know, by everyone

in Beast Wars. And, you know, Megatron didn't

trust him, but put all of his loyal people in

there. Hasta la vista, Starscream. Right. So

what is your artist vision with the IDW Beast

Wars comic, and how did your style fit into the

classic characters? I think that's probably one

thing that actually got me the job. Just in an

email with David, our editor, I imagine they

probably talked to a few different people that

they had taken on the series. When I submitted

my... It wasn't really a pitch, but it was just

some artwork for them to consider, you know,

to kind of see if I would be a fit. One of the

things that he mentioned was I had a distinct

vision or, you know, kind of visual look for

my take on the characters. That was one of the

reasons why they went with me. I don't know how,

if I have any, like... thought process behind

how it fits or whatever i'm just kind of like

this in the comedy like this is just the lens

the the artistic lens that i see these characters

through um and uh yeah it's just kind of it's

really cool because they're giving me like kind

of pre -reign to interpret things how i want

um when i first uh got the go -ahead on the project,

I asked them, you know, do they want me to follow

the new toys or, you know, what's coming up in

Kingdom? And they said no specifically. I mean,

they sent me some reference for a couple characters

of character models for the new show. But they

said I didn't have to copy them or follow them

or whatever. So it's just kind of... It's been

up to my interpretation, and it's been really

cool. I actually haven't gotten any notes or

any redesigns, nothing like that. It's just kind

of unfiltered. This is how it looks Josh style.

That's awesome. Yeah, it's fun. That's the best

way to work, isn't it, as an artist, where your

imagination is the only limit you really have?

Right, yeah. So I'm really grateful for all that.

And as much as it's like a deviation from the

previous Beast Wars comic that IDW put out, I

really love the new take because it kind of adds

this fun flair to the characters that it focuses

on. Natalie, their appearance, but the story,

and there's so many vibrant colors in there and

designs and little Easter eggs if you're looking

for them. Yeah, and I think to pair in with what

I said a second ago, that's part of the reason

I feel like that they went with me is because

it is so different. They want to make sure that

at first glance, this isn't some continuation

of the show or isn't some... Here's what happens

between this and that episode. We're not bound

to the show per se, or it's not attached to any

of the previous comics that IDW did. When you

look at it, you can tell this is something different.

It's not quite what it is. Very cool. Very cool.

What is your favorite part about fan interactions?

Yeah, just all of it, I guess. It's all super

cool. You do this job kind of in a vacuum, and

I only ever talk really with the IDW guys through

email, and very rarely it'll be through a phone

call or anything like that. So it's all digital,

and you go online, and all the interaction online

is... digital you know through twitter or whatever

message boards so it's really cool you know going

to the conventions which has sucked all the covid

stuff you know we haven't had one in a year plus

but uh it'll be nice when we're able to kind

of go back to that sort of thing just because

it is really cool to meet all the fans in person

and you know uh to see and witness you know their

excitement for the series or for the project

or for what you're doing it's just really it

just kind of it kind of pumps you up you know

it's like you know yeah there's actually people

who buy this and who enjoy this and it's like

now i feel psyched and ready to do some more

you know it's really cool and i've met some really

cool people a lot a lot of aspiring artists and

stuff like that who come up to you and Some of

them are really shy and kind of timid or whatever.

It's kind of cool to be able to encourage people.

I had no idea this is what I was going to do

for a job, but I will be the first to admit it's

better than most other jobs out there that a

lot of people work. If you have the skill and

the drive, you absolutely should go for it. do

and it's that's one thing that i like about uh

idw is they're so open to uh to fans um you know

being able to contribute that's you know like

90 percent of you know i guess the the old guard

you know like alex milne and josh perez and like

i said andrew casey and myself and stuff like

we were all fans posting on message boards and

a lot of the new artists Like Anna Malkova and

Beth and all those, you know, they're all fans

as well. IDW is not a shame to draw from that,

which I think is really cool because there's

a lot of really talented people out there who

deserve to live out their dream. Yeah, you know,

people are cool. So what is, I mean, I know you

mentioned part of what your favorite part with

conventions and getting to see people, but what

are some of your favorite things to do when you

go to the convention? Yeah, aside from interacting

with the fans, I think one of the things I do

enjoy most is interacting with my, I guess, co

-workers, other artists and stuff like that.

because yeah it's just like meeting fans or whatever

we only see people like maybe once a year you

know at a convention or if we're lucky a couple

times more and it's just really cool to there's

a great camaraderie kind of there you know and

we're all just the same and we're all geeks and

nerds and we all like nerdy stuff and just having

a laugh and getting drinks and getting to know

each other probably one of the things that I

do look forward to most is just hanging out with

everybody. That is so, so cool. Yeah. I kind

of like the virtual conventions now, but you're

right. I do miss, even though I don't attend

most conventions cause I just can't afford to,

but it's one of those things where it's nice

to know that San Diego comic -con was there or

is there, or will be there again at some point,

whenever this, uh, world we live in changes again.

So as an artist and you've, you've kind of, I

don't think there is a heart. And so the question

is as an artist, what has been the hardest part

of being an artist in this new world we live

in? So basically was it easier pre COVID? Is

it easier now? But it seems like you're. like

you've already said, you basically only talk

to the other team members through email. You're

not going into the IDW. You weren't going into

the IDW offices every day and sitting at a desk

and working. So how much, if there is a difference

between before COVID or, or now as we're living

through it, being an artist and doing all that.

Yeah. I think for the most part, it's pretty

unchanged. There was a little period, you know,

when, just when, printers weren't open just distributors

weren't distributing that we had to shut down

and uh i you know there was probably about two

weeks where i didn't i didn't do any work not

that i didn't have any work to do but they were

just like you hold up well everybody gets everything

figured out and uh now that that's all rolling

i mean it's yeah kind of business is business

as usual so we're recording this interview right

after issue two of Transformers Beast Wars from

IDW has released. Can you give us any teasers

for issue three? Anything you can say that you

can get away with saying without David Marriott

saying, oh, you shouldn't have said that on that

podcast. Not that I would say that. I don't know

the guy. You ask a question like that, and last

time we asked a question like that, Maurice LaMarche

revealed to us that he was going to be Mr. Freeze

in Arkham City, and it just blew up. Oh, yeah.

But is there anything from Issue 3 that you can

kind of tease us with? Hmm. What happens in Issue

3? The cover has Tarantulas doing his web world

thing. Yeah, right. I mean, it's hard to say

anything because it is a sequential story. It

picks up right after number two. It just continues

on the story, so I don't know if I can really

say much without spoiling it. Other than your

favorite characters are probably in it, like

Megatron's in there being Megatron, and Tarantulas

has some cool stuff. Dinobots, there's a little

more screen time, or whatever you call it. That'll

be cool, kind of get a little more... sense of

who she is as a character. Very cool. You'll

just have to read to find out. Of course we will.

And since we're covering it every month inside

the pull bag here on All Things Transformers,

we obviously will. Alright. Would you like to

inform the fans of where they can interact with

you online? Sure, yeah. You can absolutely find

me I'm probably the most active over on Twitter.

You can find me at JCBridgeham. I've also got

an Instagram page that I'm semi -active on. Every

once in a while, I'll calmly give a little tease

of what I'm working on. So if you want to ever

catch a peek, sometimes I throw up a little something

on my stories there. And my handle on there,

I think, is just at DCJosh. Yeah. You can find

me over there. Other than that, people friend

me on Facebook. I'm not super active on there,

but you're more than welcome to if you want to

find me over there. Yeah, that's about it, I

think. All right. We would like to thank Mr.

Bertram for taking the time to chat with us in

this latest Transformers interview here on the

Geekcast Radio Network. Steve and I will be back

after this. Thank you so much, Josh. Yes, thank

you. This has been an awesome, awesome time.

It's been a distinct pleasure for sure. Thank

you for having me. We're going to turn Cybertron

into a giant mud pit. The Beast Unleashed podcast.

All right. That's it. Our interview with Mr.

Josh Burcham, IDW artist, colorist, the artist

and colorist on the new Transformers Beast Wars

comic. That was awesome. Oh, yeah. Very, very,

very much so. Very cool. Very cool. Yeah, so

coming up next on All Things Transformers, as

we are always late with the news because we don't

break the news, we just react to it. In the next

episode, you'll hear us talking about all of

the news from the Hasbro Investor Day call or

whatever the heck that was. So that's what's

coming up on All Things Transformers. The pull

bag, it'll be after issue... So we've got 404

not found. And then we've got Radiant Black issues

one and two coming up inside the pull bag. Why

don't you close it out, Megatron? Excellent.

Yes. Don't you have a lawyer to call? Apparently

your cat does. Good. Now leave. I have work to

do. Yes. Diecast construction. It's a lost art.