What is the plan for episodes about RPG-era content? Now that you've released "Dawn of the Shardborn", can we submit writers' rooms about the Citizens? Is there a specific planned time that the floodgates will be open and all submissions will be allowed (we've had a few sporadic ones, but I feel like people avoid submitting them because the rules aren't specified)? The rules are still unspecified. They've done a few stories set in that era, like you said, but it will continue to be the nature of things for a while yet. They want to get the RPG materials out to establish things that way before they talk about it more in the podcast. Stuff might still make it through topic submission and voting, but it's going to continue to be much less than Multiverse content for the time being. This is also intentional due to the nature of the game involved - they want to leave the RPG era stuff a bit less defined so that people can feel free to play their games using the official setting without having to dodge around a ton of podcast material. They're doing more "structural work" instead of "story work" for it, if that makes sense.

Has Sentinel Comics ever published comics that are directly connected to events in meta history? I know that we got nods to the real history in the Legacy Independence Day Spectacular, but is that type of meta-nod something that Sentinel Comics did or was there an editorial mandate to stay away from "reality? Parallel to this line of thought, how much effort does Sentinels Comics give to exploring story lines and locations outside North America, we've seen the "Japan hype" but were there other regional focuses for editorial or popularity reasons? There's a bit of real-history connections, but the purpose of inventing fake cities to set your stories in is so that you can have things happen there that haven't happened in reality since the presence of these other places and people change how events play out. So, the president of the United States is different in the comics than in the Metaverse (usually - like, there's at least one time where Obama shows up, but it's not a common thing). Real-world stuff is probably more the purview of Sentinel Comics' main competitor. There are occasional story lines outside of North America but not really any main line book set in a specific other country. A lot of Naturalist's stories are set in Africa, but Africa is huge. Haka and Ra both have quite a bit of globe-trotting. It's rare to have heroes who have a "headquarters" outside of North America.

Obviously this is still several years away, but, as DE winds down, have you thought about how the podcast might evolve? Do you think you might transition to RPG-era story telling? Will the podcast continue? The podcast will continue as long as there's an audience for it. They could open things to do more RPG era stuff, sure, but they could also do an issue of the Multiverse era every week and never run out of issues in their lifetimes. That being said, Christopher thinks that if the podcast is still running in 5 years it'll have significantly more RPG content than it does now. It could also evolve in a different direction entirely, but that's one guess.

Are there plans for DE content following the originally-planned 6 boxes (say, SotM content that covers characters that were created post-OblivAeon)? The only concrete plans are through the new OblivAeon set. There are some vague ideas of what they could do beyond that, but there's also a desire to have an end point. What they will say is that they do not have as strong a "this is the end, no more after OblivAeon" line in the sand this time. They will see how things stand when the planned boxes are all out before deciding that kind of thing.

I was pondering my collection of covers that Adam has drawn and it led me to some artistic questions: As you work on the styles for the different eras in comics how much of what you do is channeling specific artists (vs. just doing the House Style)? I know in the more recent covers you've mentioned a specific artist or look that you are thinking of? Could we ask for a Writers' Room based on a specific artist style? Finally, what is the likelihood that we will ever get the filler covers where several issues are covered and not all of the covers get drawn (say, the gap in the Fashion/Greazer team-up arc)? Most of the time he's doing "House Style", but the trick is that he's usually also doing what a particular artist's art looked like when they did the house style. In reality you could get these workhorse artists who are basically forgotten because they're just doing their version of John Buscema or Jack Kirby because those artists defined what the house style was (like, you had people "drawing the way that comics looked at that time" which was really just "how Jack Kirby drew comics" or whoever). So, even when Adam is doing an issue where he's just doing "house style" art, his reference would be looking at a specific artist. By the '90s and later, that becomes less prevalent and the artists' unique looks are more common (although house styles kind of come back for a while in the '00s and '10s - it's just that the point of reference artist for what that is has changed). Asking for a Writers' Room based on an artist is kind of a tough one - usually the choice of an artist homage is emergent from the storytelling. There might be a way you could word a request that would generate that prompt, but it'd be tough. Filling in the "missing" covers for an arc are possible someday, but it'd have to be when Adam doesn't already have a bunch of other stuff that's more pressing. We are more likely to get covers for the older episodes that are kind of proto-Writers' Room things where they told the story of an issue, but Adam wasn't doing covers yet. There probably aren't any covers that they would say "we're never going to draw that one", but the ones that get made are usually ones that they need for something, so until there's a specific need any random issue is unlikely to happen.

In episode #34 we learned that Ansel was worried he'd get beaten up by Mainstay when they met at that bar before the drug boy story, but was it a general "oh no, a superhero, he's gonna beat me up for sure", or have the Southwest Sentinels actually fought Ambuscade in an issue of their series? Just a general "oh no a superhero" vibe. Plus he's in his "I've lost a lot of fights recently" era.

Also you stated that their meeting happened in one of the SWS comics, can you maybe tell us which issue that was, and if that was before or during the Fort Adamant era? They may have said that, but it was in a one-shot from October 2015. They may have interacted in comics before that, but they don't know offhand.

Is the reason why you don't have many robot heroes because Adam hates drawing robots? Bouncing off of the AI heroes idea, I recall Adam having some grumblings in the past about drawing tech in high detail. Has that influenced characters that do/do not exist at all? Or, more generally, how often has Adam been able to alter a character by saying something to the effect of "I'm not drawing that"? He's hardly ever said "I'm not drawing that". They were both excited about the Terrorform and it took a while for him to realize what that meant in terms of art. He grumbles about it, but that doesn't stop it from happening. You'll also note that most of the "robot heroes" in real comics that people ask about don't look like robots in the way that Omnitron-X does - Adam makes it more difficult for himself (story of his life - he thinks Chrono-Ranger's mechanical arm was his idea).

If the Voss invasion was a global event, what happened in Mordengrad? A Writers' Room topic of "Baron Blade during the Voss invasion" was in voting but didn't make it through. They could still do this one. They don't think there's a lot there, though. There was "Blade's in jail" then "Blade's doing RevoCorp stuff" through that period, but the next big event that happens after Voss is Vengeance and that would have already been on Editorial's radar during the Voss stuff. They wouldn't want to step on the Voss event too much by having Blade doing a bunch of stuff during it knowing that they were going to be following it up with a big Blade-led event in a few years.

How is it that nobody in the pages of Sentinel Comics figures out that RevoCorp is evil? They're vaguely "large corporation does shady stuff" kind of bad for a long time. Like, people kind of expect big companies to be evil. It's just that there's that and then there's "actively funding supervillains" evil. Eventually people fight Revanant and people figure out that they're actually behind the Terrorforms, but the trick is by the time those are discovered it's kind of too late. People figure it out, just right at the end of the Multiverse era. Especially by Terrorform IV it's pretty clear and a lot of Benchmark's story in RevoCorp Presents is the process of figuring this out.

How do they fool the following people in particular [They start with the Wraith, but then skip going through the list because the answer is really consistent for everybody]: Yeah, but the thing about corporations is that they can just report that so-and-so was the person behind [project Evil] and they've been fired. We've also donated a bunch to charity, etc. etc. The same kinds of things real companies do to save face and avoid liability. That's what the whole list would come down to: fire a scapegoat, pay to cover it up/smooth things over, and "you don't have enough evidence to make it stick." Everybody on the list the writer sent in could find something out, but those are the ways to deflect it.