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Serious Issues: A Comic Book Podcast with Andrew Levins

Serious Interview: Ryan Griffen

We spent an afternoon speaking with Ryan Griffen, creator of the TV series Cleverman, which mixes the world of superheroes with stories from The Dreaming. Ryan is also the co-writer of the brand new Cleverman comic book, which we reviewed earlier this week in Episode 66. 

We talk to Ryan about his comic book inspirations - and his aspirations to write comics about Aboriginal characters for Marvel and DC. We learn a few things about the second season of Cleverman and the future of the comics based on the show.

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Serious Issues is a weekly comic book review podcast, hosted by Andrew Levins and Siobhan Coombs at Kings Comics in Sydney.

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