X-Band: The Phantom Podcast

The team Dan Fraser, Jermayn Parker and Stephen East join together along with contributors Duncan Munro, Mikael Lyck and Ankit Mitra to discuss EVERYTHING that has been published and released in the year 2022.

We do it in two hours. Grab a glass of milk or start that park run and enjoy!
2022 see's 11 countries publishing the Phantom, 98 comics from around the world. That is roughly two Phantom comics released a week. It also see's 30 brand new (never been published again anywhere) Phantom stories released in 2022 which is roughly every two weeks, you could buy a comic featuring a brand new Phantom story.

Please note we go over the results of the Frew Survey competition we held. A full analysis will be up on our website along with the video draw of the five winners. Thanks to everyone who voted.

If your one of the phans who can only listen to some parts of the podcast, below is a timeline of what we discussed.

• Tale of the Tape: 2 Minutes 30 Seconds
• Our Best Phantom Comics for 2022:
• Our Best Non Frew / Fantomen / Indian Cover: 26 Minutes
• Our Best Frew Covers: 30 Minutes
• Best Frew Cover Survey Results as Judged by You: 34 Minutes
• Our Best Fantomen Covers: 43 Minutes
• Our Best Indian Covers: 46 Minutes 30 Seconds
• Our Best Writers: 51 Minutes 30 Seconds
• Our Best Story Artists: 1 Hour 30 Seconds
• Our Best Stories Published by Frew: 1 Hour 7 Minutes
• Best Frew Stories Published by Frew Survey Results as Judged by You: 1 Hour 12 Minutes
• Our Best Stories Published By Fantomen: 1 Hour 19 Minutes
• Our Best Fantomen Issue: 1 Hour 20 Minutes
• Our Best Issue Published by Regal / Shatki: 1 Hour 21 Minutes 30 Seconds
• Our Best Frew Issue: 1 Hour 22 Minutes 30 Seconds
• Best Frew Issue Published by Frew Survey Results as Judged by You: 1 Hour 29 Minutes 30 Seconds
• Our Best Phantom Merchandise for 2022: 1 Hour 35 Minutes
• Our Best Chronicle Chamber Moment for 2022: 1 Hour 44 Minutes
• Our Overall Phantom Reflection on 2022: 1 Hour 49 Minutes
• What will be the Big Phantom News for 2023: 1 Hour 58 Minutes 30 Seconds

You can email us at [email protected] or chat with us via our social media profiles with your feedback at Facebook, Twitter and or Instagram. Would love some feedback on what we discussed on the podcast and on the following topics:

• What are your favourites? Do you agree or disagree with us? Did we miss anything?
• What was your best Phantom Merchandise for 2022?
• What was your best Chronicle Chamber moment for 2022?
• What do you think will be the big Phantom news for 2023?

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Something a little special this time around as we interview Norwegian Ivan Pedersen who is a long time phan & has worked on 6+ publishers living the dream as a phan. Majority of phans who have a social media profile would know off Ivan. Jermayn Parker flies solo chatting with Ivan as they hash out some online arguments throughout the last 20 years.
It is a rather in depth interview as we start at the beginning and go through his phan years to working on the character. As we found out, he has helped coloured stories, consulted and provided scans of original newspaper strips for a lot of publishers including Frew, Fantomet, Comics Revue, Hermes, Zauberstern and Dolmen. Has their been any other phan or person who has worked with more publishers?

You will learn how Ivan ticks including his views on black and white verses colour and surprisingly the one Lee Falk story he would scrap from his collection of stories - yes you read that right!

We also get Ivan's opinions on some subjects like our Phantom Bible, modifying or adding to Lee Falk's lore, being called a troll, publishers printing three or four daily panels to a line and much more.

If you want to learn more about buying comics from his Facebook group here or you find his Fantomet (Norway) / Frew & newspaper stories index here.

If you are a patreon of Chronicle Chamber, make sure you login to your patreon account as we have a bonus chat with Ivan which is just for our patreons.

If you have any feedback on the subjects touched up, you can email us at [email protected] or chat with us via our social media profiles with your feedback at Facebook, Twitter and or Instagram.

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The team join for the last X-Band: The Phantom Podcast of the year as we discuss all the latest comics being released and Phantom related news for December. We also have some phun stating our Phantom related Christmas wish for 2023.

Please note that our reviews of the Indian comics Regal Publications #26 and Shakti #6 will be up on our website and YouTube channel after this podcast comes out.
If your one of the phans who can only listen to some parts of the podcast, below is a timeline of what we discussed.

Frew Comics Review

• Vote on the Best of 2022 Frew survey (link): 2 Minutes
  
• Frew #1933: 3 Minutes
• Frew #1934: 18 Minutes 30 Seconds

Fantomen Comics Review

• Fantomen 25-26/2022: 55 Minutes 30 Seconds

Daily / Sunday Stories Progress Discussion

• Sunday 193: "Return of the Temple of the Gods": 1 Hour
• For Those Who Came in Late video for a recap of the series.
  
• Daily 262: "The Breakout": 1 Hour 4 Minutes 30 Seconds

News

• Wulfric Media's Kickstarter campaign didn't reach the target: 1 Hour 9 Minutes
• Release of the Phantom Bible (link to listen to Ep 237): 1 Hour 10 Minutes 30 Seconds
• Release of the Mallon Diary, Calendar and Poster (link): 1 Hour 14 Minutes
• Review to come
• Release of the Perth Mint Phantom coin (link): 1 Hour 20 Minutes
• Review to come
• Boss Fight Studio Wave 2.0 pre order (link): 1 Hour 23 Minutes 30 Seconds
• Boss Fight Studio 'King Comics Super Heroes' PVC Figurines Now Out (link): 1 Hour 31 Minutes 30 Seconds
• Link to find a shop near you to buy these
• Peter David Go Fund Me Campaign for his ill health (link): 1 Hour 35 Minutes

Christmas Themed Questions:

• What is your Christmas wish / miracle. What would you like to see? 1 Hour 36 Minutes
• Have you brought yourself a Phantom Christmas present? 1 Hour 37 Minutes 30 Seconds
• On the back of Dan’s article of the Phantom and Christmas covers. Do we need to see a Phantom Christmas themed story? 1 Hour 39 Minutes

You can email us at [email protected] or chat with us via our social media profiles with your feedback at Facebook, Twitter and or Instagram. Would love some feedback on what we discussed on the podcast and on the following topics:

• Would you like to see more TPBs from Frew?
• Do you like the themed Mallon diary and wall calendar?
• Do you like the new KFS style guide? Does it work for the new Perth Mint coin?
• How many of the Boss Fight Studio boxes will you be buying? One or two to keep intact?
• Would you like to see more Christmas themed comic covers and products?

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We are getting excited about the confirmation on the official KFS Phantom page that a new TV series is in development. Obviously with the very small notice given we don’t know much at all, but that’s not going to stop us speculating wildly!

For big news like this, we’ve got Chronicle Chamber members from all over the world to share in the excitement with Mikael Lyck, Ankit Mitra and Duncan Munro joining Dan Fraser and Jermayn Parker. Given we know next to nothing (read “absolutely nothing”) about what this series is actually going to look like, we decided to make out like this podcast as a pitch meeting with KFS where each of us pitch our concept to the showrunners, hoping to get greenlit for our idea to make the series.
The five elevator pitches are:

• A Defenders reboot, centred around a near-future Kit Walker NYPD who grows into his Phantom legacy as a team develops to battle a new-age Ming.
• A two-speed narrative, with a season-long Presidential coup in the 21st Phantom’s time developing alongside episode-length tales of past Phantom’s from the Chronicles.
• A post-apocalyptic world creates a Mad Max-style ‘jungle’, where the story of a mysterious Phantom fighting for the moral good is told almost exclusively through the eyes of others.
• We follow the earliest adventures.of the 21st Phantom as he develops, through to the eventual avenging of his father’s murder by Rama Singh.
• A “Year One” style series with a new young Phantom developing his craft, with a focus on character development and a secondary "Year One" storyline of the very first Phantom.

Please note, we had some connection issues with the recording of this podcast so please bare with any glitches on the video and or audio.

Some generic questions about the Phantom TV Series we discussed and would love your input as well:

• All but Ankit Mitra had a tv show with a 'Year One' theme. Would you like to see that or an established Phantom?
• Does the show need to be about the 21st Phantom?
• Would a Defenders of the Earth themed TV Show work with Flash, Lothar and Mandrake?
• Is establishing the lore important throughout the show for 'new' fans?
• Does Billy Zane have to be involved somehow?
• What is more important with your actors? Their voice, strength or their acting skills?
• Are we allowed to show the Phantoms eyes throughout the show?
• Can we have Singh as bad guys? The 1996 Phantom movie, famously changed them to Sangh.
• Does the Phantom need to stay in the jungle during the TV show?
• How can the TV Show find the balance to be removed from the 'White Saviour' problem like Tarzan and other super heroes from a bygone era?

If you have any feedback on our pitches, you can email us at [email protected] or chat with us via our social media profiles with your feedback at Facebook, Twitter and or Instagram. Please also let us know of your own pitch.

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Sit down, relax and enjoy the first episode of X-Band for 2016! This episode the guys discuss all the news that's come out over the holiday period, discuss some of the goodies arriving for the Phantom's 80th anniversary and explain just what is going on with Frew Publications.

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