 From our great friends, Keith and John!Top 3 Cartoon Sidekicks: Fresh from the Boston Comic Con, The Swass-Cast returns with a brand new episode featuring our good buddies from the Secret Identity Podcast.
Matman and Brian join us to discuss the top 3 cartoon sidekicks of all time and some of the choices will surprise you. From the funtastic to the fantastic, the lists are sure to entertain. We also do one of our very funny mailbag segments where we read a lot of our hate mail. Some people like to read their good comments, we like to read our negative ones. This episode features lots of cartoon talk between friends.
Please join in the fun and download this episode now. Always remember the episodes are available in Video and Audio format on Itunes and you can always enjoy on You Tube.http://www.youtube.com/TommySwass
 Brian and I would like to thank Jim and the entire staff at the Boston Comic Con for once again putting on the best show possible! Over the next week we’ll be sharing some stories and interviews we did, but here is where we just wanna talk about the show itself!
First off, the show had an incredible mix of creators; veterans, current stars and up and comers. The entire guest list was made up of not only talented but friendly and kind people. I didn’t hear one person complain that a creator was rude to them.
Next were the vendors! There was something for everyone whether it was comics or toys and prices ranged from incredibly affordable to ‘need a credit card to get that’. Brian and I both walked out with a bunch of stuff AND still had some money left over. That makes our wives happy.
The venue was a great space. The Hynes Convention Center is spacious, has easy to get to bathrooms and is attached to a great and fairly affordable food court. Despite the incredibly large turnout, there was still room to move between the aisles and get whatever you needed. The space between the aisles made it easy to spend quality time with creators or just dig in comfort for that certain treasure.
And the fact that both the Bruins and Red Sox lost their games mere miles away from us made the vibe in Boston that much better.
So thanks you again for an incredible day and a great kick off to the Secret Identity Con Tour 2012! Unfortunately every upcoming show has to measure up to this.
 by Brian LeTendreOur good friend Jamie over at 80s Tees gave us a heads up this week that the Onion A.V. Club reviewed Secret Identity in their weekly podcast column. The reviewer gave a nice overview of what we think makes Secret Identity stand out from the crowd, and also specifically talked about issue #417. Along with the positive feedback, the article also touched on what the reviewer didn’t think worked so well, particularly with the second shows of each week. Overall, I thought it was an insightful and very fair review--you should give it a read. You can read the full article here.
My favorite quote of the review:
“Skip minutes 15 to 50, and the episode is perfect.”
Happy Opening Day everyone! Our national pastime is back. Today kicks off the first full day of the 2012 MLB season. Last night the Miami Marlins debuted in their new stadium, falling 4-1 to the St. Louis Cardinals in a game that was dominated by pitcher Kyle Lohse. Today, we get a full slate featuring some great matchups, like Red Sox vs. Tigers, Mets vs. Braves, Cubs vs. Nats and of course, Dodgers vs. Padres.
The start of baseball season also means that the Secret Identity All-Stars fantasy baseball league is underway. Good luck to everyone and don't forget to set your rosters!
To celebrate Opening Day, enjoy these great San Diego Padres video below. The first is a biography on Mr. Padre Tony Gwynn, and the second is former Padre great Trevor Hoffman getting his 600th save (with the Milwaukee Brewers, another of my favorite teams).
 Get ready for more Secret Identity…and Darrell and Chris and Joe and Jeff!!!
A few weeks back, Brian and Matman joined the crew of the ‘No Apologies’ podcast. We’re not sure how much of the insanity wasn’t recorded or left on the cutting room floor, but what was left is some incredibly funny moments and some excellent roundtable conversation.
Here is the Press Release!
“In this very special episode we are joined by Image comics Red Spike writer Jeff Cahn, Marvel comics writer / letterer Joe Caramanga and Matt Herring and Brian LeTendre who are the hosts of the podcast Secret Identity (now also playing on the radio in New York). We get into some great conversations about all age comics, movies, digital comics, music and much, much more!”Direct mp3 download
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 It’s finally here!!!!
You have heard Brian and Matman talking about Secret Identity ‘Radio’ and now we can share the details.
If you live in the Albany, New York area than you can hear Secret Identity on your radio on Sunday night at 8 PM on 100.3, The Point where upstate rocks with ‘Today’s Modern Mix!’
“This is real exciting for us,” said Brian via the satellite! “Getting Secret Identity on the radio is a big opportunity for us and I can’t wait to hear what the folks in New York think.”
Now if you are one of the many who don’t live in the broadcast area you can hear the show on streaming audio! By going to www.thepointontheweb.com (and then clicking onto the ‘Listen Live’ button), you will hear the show as it hits the airwaves.
“When we first started doing the show all those years ago, we thought of where it would go,” added Matman by smoke signal, “and we never thought we’d end up on the radio. This is a great opportunity for us and to be honest, I’m a bit nervous!”
So give a listen and let us, and the station know what you think!
We also need to thank Mike Thompson and Adirondack Broadcasting for taking a chance on some ‘solid gold ear candy!’
 Now that we've gotten through the holidays, convention season is almost upon us! Kicking things off in 2012 will be Mike Carbo's New York Comic Book Marketplace.
Taking place on Saturday March 31, 2012 at the Penn Plaza Pavillion, NYCBM will be featuring some big names from the comic industry. The guest of honor is none other than Mr. Stan Lee himself, and he'll be surrounded by other legends like Joe Sinnott, Dick Ayers, Jim Steranko, Irwin Hasen, Mark Royer, Arthur Suydam, Bob McLeod, Rich Buckler and many more.
In addition to the stellar guest list, the show will feature over 100 dealers, and you'll find everything from twenty-five cent comics to DVDs of your favorite childhood cartoons.
As the spiritual successor to the old Big Apple shows, the NYCBM provides an opportunity to meet and actually spend some time with the creators you'd wait in line fo hours for at bigger shows. There's tons of deals to be had, and a good chance you'll bump into us as well.
Head over to www.nycbm.com for more info, as further details and ticket prices will be announced soon.
If you've listened to the show lately, you know that we are tweaking the format of the second show each week beacuse there are plans afoot to get Secret Identity on a radio station in the near future. While those plans are still very tentative, the show format for the second podcast (the one that usually airs on Fridays) is going to chage to more closely resemble the old "Second Helping" episodes. These shows are a grab bag of comics, TV, movies, games, music and interviews--everything that makes up Secret Identity in one show.
It's been almost fifty episodes since we had the old format, and there may be some listeners out there who came aboard the Secret Identity train more recently, during this run of All-New Secret Identity shows. If things seem a bit confusing to you new listeners, that's understandable. If you'd like to get a taste of the old format before it arrives in the next week or so, there is a ton of old shows that you can choose to sample from. On our page over at Drive Thru Comics, we have over 200 of our shows archived, dating all the way back to issue #200 of the Secret Identity Podcast. Not only are there dozens of our "Second Helping" shows, but it's a great place to grab back episodes that feature interviews with creators you might have missed. In fact, in the comig weeks, I'm going to do some posts on the blog here highlighting some of the old episodes and the interviews in them, for folks who never got a chance to hear them the first time around.
If you really want to take a trip back in the wayback machine, you can visit our page over on the Internet Archive, where the first fifty or so episodes of the podcast from 2006 are posted.
SO, I guess what I'm saying is that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Despite the occasional tweaks to the format of our shows, we still talk about the things we (and you) love each week, and we still have a wonderful community of listeners that like to hang out and discuss the things they are passionate about. Thanks as always for your support, and for spending time with us each week. It means the world to us, and it's why we are still recodring Secret Identity after six years.
--Brian and Matt
P.S. If you do check out any of our old episodes on Drive Thru, please support them as well by cehcking out some of he thousands of comics they have. Drive Thru is a champion of small publishers, and many of our friends have their books over there. Drive Thru has always supproted us and they allow us to make episodes available through them, so please show them some love.
 Today, many major web sties are going dark to stage a protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA).
If you are not familiar with either of these acts, you should take today to get familiar with them. Online piracy and copyright infringement is something we hear and talk about in relation to comics all the time, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. No matter your personal politics, this is an important issue that anyone who uses the internet should know about.
Wikipedia is one of the major sites that have gone dark today, but you can still find information on both SOPA and PIPA, as well as a good FAQ through their main page, www.wikipedia.org.We will now return you to your regular programming.
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