GBBP Extras 13-15: DC in DC 2018

Three bonus episodes in the feed this week for subscribers! (Meaning, go to our feed, hit subscribe, and you can hear all the glorious awesomeness inside!)

We’re bringing you some roundtable interviews from the first (hopefully annual) DC in D.C. event that took place at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., on January 12-13, 2018.

Across the bonus episodes, we hear from John Ridley, Denys Cowan, Alice Randall, Candice Patton, Caity Lotz, Danielle Panabaker, Shea Fontana, Mariko Tamaki, Agnes Garbowska, Julie Benson, Shawna Benson, Russell Tovey, Marguerite Bennett, Vita Ayala, Steve Orlando, and Mark Russell! Talk about star power!

I did a write-up of the event (and one panel in particular) over at SYFY Wire, so go check that out if you’re so inclined. In short, the creative talent behind DCTV’s current and upcoming shows (Arrow, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Freedom Fighters: The Ray, Black Lightning) joined writers and artists from many of the company’s books in a series of panel discussions and screenings focused on the intersection of entertainment and enlightenment—and the confluence of pop culture and human culture.

A slate of panels turned the spotlight onto the growing influence of African-American voices in the DC universe, the role and increasing prevalence of women in DC’s stories across media, inclusion for LGBTQ characters, and issues related to trauma and PTSD in the company’s storytelling.

This kind of thing doesn’t typically happen in Washington, D.C. In fact, this kind of thing in comics doesn’t typically happen anywhere. At least not nearly enough.

These three episodes each focus on one of the panels. We bring you media room interviews that you won’t see on the panel video. The two panels not featured are the first and last of the day, but they’re still well worth checking out, and DC is streaming all of them: