The StarWell Foundation is a production of OMV Podcast Inspired by “The Villain Wrangler” community thread on tumblr This is part 1 of a 3 part between season minisode series. There are 2 ways to access parts 2 and 3. The first way is with your StarWell ID badge. If you backed the kickstarter campaign for season 1 or have bought a StarWell ID badge from the OMV online store then these episodes are already with the bonus file found on the back of the badge. Along with 2 episodes of How Crime? The...
Sep 18, 2024•21 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast The StarWell Foundation is a production of OMV Podcast The night of the big StarWell Fundraising Gala is now while the StarWell team makes some last minute adjustments and the fate of Mary's department rides on her shoulders. Inspired by “The Villain Wrangler” community thread on tumblr SEASON FINALE EPISODE! Featuring voice actors Kae Giroux Brett Kelley Mike Davis Kaine Winneg Jon York Jennifer Rawlings Remani Lizana Colin Vignault KT Baldassaro Sarah Gherri Joe Van Allen Kristen Chesler Sam H...
Jan 02, 2024•55 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast The StarWell Foundation is a production of OMV Podcast What comicbook story is complete without a game changing weapon? And a multi-pronged plan is hatched. Inspired by “The Villain Wrangler” community thread on tumblr Featuring voice actors Kae Giroux Brett Kelley Bob Savage Mike Davis Kaine Winneg Jon York Jennifer Rawlings Danielle Squiers Remani Lizana Colin Vignault KT Baldassaro Sarah Gherri Joe Van Allen Kristen Chesler Sam Harris Fried Jeremy Ruiter Fahad Rahmat Ian Patriarca Jeremy Ruit...
Dec 24, 2023•41 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast The StarWell Foundation is a production of OMV Podcast "No more Villains will work with you." Crushed, Mary tries to find a way to get back in the criminals good graces. Inspired by “The Villain Wrangler” community thread on tumblr Featuring voice actors Kae Giroux Brett Kelley Bob Savage Mike Davis Kaine Winneg Jon York Jennifer Rawlings Danielle Squiers Remani Lizana Colin Vignault KT Baldassaro Nichele Herrick Sarah Gherri Joe Van Allen Kristen Chesler Sam Harris Fried Kamilla Cheskiewicz Edw...
Nov 22, 2023•38 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast The StarWell Foundation is a production of OMV Podcast This episode was partially funded by Shane Ross, an Associate Producer backer on the StarWell Kickstarter campaign. Mary Dare's grant doing some entertainment with a wizard goes terribly wrong as Malvarmo tries to help them avoid great violence. Inspired by “The Villain Wrangler” community thread on tumblr Featuring voice actors Kae Giroux Brett Kelley Bob Savage Michelle Arslan Mike Davis Kaine Winneg Stevie Norman Will Munro Jon York Steph...
Oct 27, 2023•36 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast The StarWell Foundation is a production of OMV Podcast Mary takes her chances convincing a super strong villain to say something inspirational while a gang of bad guys treat her to some tale tales. Inspired by “The Villain Wrangler” community thread on tumblr Thanks to the kickstarter backers for allowing me to make this and helping me pay actors musicians and artists. 2 down and 4 more to go. StarWell ID badges, @BKArtworks Flapjack pins and OMV merch bundles have all been shipped! Now that bac...
Sep 05, 2023•35 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast The StarWell Foundation is a production of OMV Podcast In Ep 1 the Freeze gun toting Malvarmo helps Mary recruit Athlektra to visit some kids but the superhuman athlete has some demands of her own! Inspired by “The Villain Wrangler” community thread on tumblr Thanks to the kickstarter backers for allowing me to make this and helping me pay actors musicians and artists. 1 down and 5 more to go. StarWell ID badges, @BKArtworks Flapjack pins and OMV merch bundles will be shipping out this month. Re...
Aug 03, 2023•34 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast Here we go! Episode 1 will be released on Thursday August 3rd! It's ready, I'm excited and I couldn't have done it without all the kickstarter backers who supported this project. I was able to make something and importantly I was able to pay other people. We helped actors, musicians and audio technicians by paying them for their work and I think thats rad. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTED THE STARWELL FOUNDATION, SEASON 1. Marty Day Brendan Wilson Danielle Squiers Brett Kelley: @BKArtWorks Jr...
Jul 30, 2023•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast We're almost at the end of the for The StarWell Foundation audio drama Season 1 so here's a bit of an update. We made the initial funding AND the first stretch goal of an additional special episode! There is still time to share and promote and possibly get the 2nd stretch goal so backers can see a map of Brava City! I connected with some other podcasts to promote the campaign, talk villains, podcasting, audio drama making and more! Updated! With new links! And since we're so close to the end of ...
Mar 06, 2023•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast The campaign goes live on Tuesday February 7th! I'll be trying to raise $1,500 to produce a 6 episode season following the events of StarWell itself, it's brand new facilitator Mary Dare, her first Villain that agreed to visit children at a hospital Malvarmo along with new heroes, villains, places, challenges, threats and obstacles to overcome. Please consider backing so I can make this story a reality. If you can't help by backing you can always still help by sharing! Share the campaign page, s...
Feb 06, 2023•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Here is the Kickstarter link so we can make new episodes! If you liked this audio drama please check and follow our to keep updated on the upcoming kickstarter to make more episodes of The StarWell Foundation. "The StarWell Foundation" is an audio drama set in a city of Super Heroes. Through the Foundation children make requests to meet famous athletes, movie stars, or even their favorite heroes... But the kids have started to request something new: they want to meet their favorite villains and ...
Dec 25, 2022•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Well, here we are. I toyed with the idea of doing the minimalist "ok, that's it!" and leaving it at that but I feel like that would have been doing the episode a disservice seeing as this one snowballed into a little more than we expected. A few weeks back we released part 1 of the OMV All-Stars and the first half of this episode is going to feature part 2. Turns out we relied on a lot of All-Stars and despite all the planning, we ran out of episodes. Luckily, with Colin getting us all emotional...
Mar 31, 2022•3 hr 48 min•Ep 450•Transcript available on Metacast The emotions are starting to hit. Even just creating the title card for this episode hit me with waves of happy, sad, nostalgia, and relief. There aren't many things I can say I've done consistently for 10 years straight. It turns out a decade is a long-ass time to do anything, especially something like a podcast. But here we are. Our super official, by-the-books anniversary was technically sometime last week but we still have one episode left to release before we close up shop and if the last f...
Mar 26, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep 449•Transcript available on Metacast The closer we get to the end, the harder it gets to write these things. Not because I'm tired or just fed up with it, but because we're talking with so many amazing people and it's difficult to come up with ways of saying how much they mean to us without it becoming repetitive. Like, how many ways can you say "here's another one of our best friends, listen to us thank them for the next two hours."? I guess this week's episode is a little easier because while we were ready to do exactly that, Col...
Mar 19, 2022•2 hr 42 min•Ep 448•Transcript available on Metacast The march to episode 450 continues this week with a multitude of guests who have been featured countless times in the past. And while "countless" might be an exaggeration because you can literally count the number of times they've been on, it doesn't begin describe their impact and contributions to the show over the years. Doing these last few episodes has really shown Alex and me just how many people we've relied on and how they were always ready and willing to give us a hand whenever we asked....
Mar 11, 2022•2 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast If you pull up any random episode of OMV, there's about a 1 in 10 chance you'll hear Brett Kelley's voice. Given that we're almost 450 episodes deep into this thing, that's a pretty insane statistic and goes to show how much of an asset he has been to Alex and me over the last 10 years. Whether it helping us come up with ideas for new stuff, covering a show as an official OMV correspondent, or just calling in to hang out and let us record him for an hour; Bret was, quite literally, always there ...
Feb 26, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Ep 446•Transcript available on Metacast I'm going to preface all of this by saying one thing: maybe bust out the headphones for this one if you haven't already cuz there's some language. You have been warned. With that said, we have an absolutely phenomenal episode for you this week featuring an all-star cast of guests. Over the last 8ish years we've had the of to some from the Baltimore area who are either currently a part of, or were former members of, a group by the name of Super Art Fight. They're no strangers to this show with ea...
Feb 19, 2022•3 hr 26 min•Ep 445•Transcript available on Metacast Posting this episode feels like a triumph. Like we conquered some sort of mythical beast....completed an epic quest. Not through any fault of our guest or anything....but because it felt like the world didn't want this episode to happen. Between technical difficulties and internet issues it genuinely felt like this episode was cursed for a minute. But here we are. And I'm mere minutes away from clicking "Publish" so ya'll can listen to a rad chat we had with Eisner nominated artist Joe Eisma and...
Feb 05, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Ep 444•Transcript available on Metacast This is another one of those "goodbye" episodes. We had our first one with Joe a few weeks ago and now we're back with a double-whammy. You probably already read the title of the episode but this week is back so we can bend his ear for a bit about his experience talking about monsters when he was a tour guide for Universal. (We also had some help from our special guest-host Will who, with his expansive knowledge of monsters, was like a kid in a candy shop talking with Jason.) Talking monsters is...
Jan 29, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep 443•Transcript available on Metacast This episode was a ton of fun to record for a couple reasons. The main one being we got to chat with a local artist who specializes in illustrating watercolor fantasy, dabbles in archery, and is a champion of expressing yourself and living your best life. She's also a friend and former co-worker of one of our best pals in the whole, wide world (unbeknownst to us, we had no idea until after we had reached out to her). Her name is and when she isn't educating today's youth in the ways of the arts ...
Jan 15, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Ep 442•Transcript available on Metacast So this one was pretty neat. We've been big fans of Rob Guillory for some time now beginning with his work on the critically acclaimed Image book CHEW and continuing to his latest project Farmhand (also from Image). You probably don't need us to tell you how good Rob is seeing as there's a couple of Eisners, a Harvey Award, and the 2013 "Jayare's End of the Year Award" for best artist to do the talking for us. (That last one is especially important.) He's arguably the most decorated guest we've ...
Dec 18, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep 441•Transcript available on Metacast It would be virtually impossible to properly convey just how important Joe is both to the show and to Alex and me as a friend. He is one of the main people we leaned on the most when we first started out in 2012 and always made time to come on and chat with us whenever we hit him up. Over time, he turned into our unofficial gaming correspondent, providing brilliant write-ups and reviews in addition to vital coverage in the field at shows like PAX East. He gave us suggestions for potential guests...
Nov 30, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Ep 440•Transcript available on Metacast You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who has left a bigger impact on this show in a mere than Rich Woodall. I've said it before but it still holds true today: he's arguably the kindest and most humble creator we've had the pleasure of talking with. He's got talent for days and it seems like he couldn't stop making things even if he tried. In the past, we've talked at length with Rich about the comics he's made, the people he's worked with, and the projects he Kickstarted. Now, since we last tal...
Nov 20, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep 439•Transcript available on Metacast I'm not sure what else to write here as the title of this episode contains everything you need to know. I guess I can elaborate a bit, though. This week it's just Alex and me and to top off this year's spooky-sodes we're talking about fear. The things that scare us. The things that make us uncomfortable, that make us squirm, that we've been avoiding for years whether we were aware of it or not. The real good stuff. Good, old-fashioned fear. We also talked about The Muppets. Kinda hard to go wron...
Oct 30, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Ep 438•Transcript available on Metacast Ok so it took us a little longer than normal to get to our usual spooky-filled episodes but we promise it was worth the wait because this episode is jam-packed with so many rad things. This week, we had the absolute pleasure of talking with not one, but TWO contributors of the insanely popular ""! For those unaware, "The No Sleep Podcast" is an award-winning anthology series of original horror stories. They've been making content and releasing episodes since 2011 and are set to begin their 17th ...
Oct 23, 2021•2 hr 52 min•Ep 437•Transcript available on Metacast Our guests this week are no strangers to the OMV universe and despite having multiple cumulative appearances under their belts, they've never come on the show at the same time. Until now. That's right. We're trying the whole "4 people in 4 separate locations desperately trying to not talk over each other" and this time we're joined by artists Daniel Govar and Tony Moy! Now, it would be fun to just hang and chat with them about what they've been up to over the last few years, but there is a reaso...
Sep 30, 2021•2 hr 30 min•Ep 436•Transcript available on Metacast We got to talk about Tarzan for the better part of an hour with two guys who are about to Kickstart a Tarzan book next month. It was a pretty great Thursday, I'm not going to lie. Our old friend D.W. Kann is back with us and this time he brought one of his writing partners, Ryan Matta, to talk about the first volume up their upcoming comic Tarzan The Untamed. Rather than re-telling your typical origin story, D.W. and Ryan are adapting a different time in Tarzan's life: "Book one finds Tarzan and...
Sep 11, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep 435•Transcript available on Metacast I was going to leave this super vague and cryptic because this episode contains a major announcement that we cover right off the bat. But I also feel obligated to tell you that afterwards, there's some tasty SPOILERS for The Suicide Squad. We did our best to point it out in the episode, but for those who might tend to skip around, I wanted to make sure it was known. So yeah. Spoilers ahead! Now, back to the vague and cryptic. Check out this week's episode where The Countdown....begins. -Jr.
Aug 21, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep 434•Transcript available on Metacast We've talked about tattoos from time to time over the last 430+ episodes. In fact, the topic of tattoos can be found as early as episode 16 as part of that week's "The Big Question". For those trying to do the math, that was back in July of 2012 and as you probably could have guessed; Brett Kelley was the guest that week. Because of course he was. But this week is different. This week, for the first time ever (we're pretty sure), we had the chance to talk with not just a fan of tattoos but an ac...
Jul 31, 2021•58 min•Ep 433•Transcript available on Metacast This week I learned "squib jackets" are a thing. Like, I always knew about jackets. And with Alex doing SFX makeup I'm aware of what squibs are. But combining the two was never a concept I had thought of until this week's guest, Paul Drechsler-Martell, casually mentioned wearing one on the set of Daredevil a few years back. You see, Paul is a stunt performer. He does the dangerous things you might see in a movie or television show that other people either physically or legally can't do. For exam...
Jul 24, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep 462•Transcript available on Metacast 
