Welcome to another installment of The Hour Cosmic, your favorite comics game show! This week, our guest is "Revival" and "Battlepug" artist Mike Norton!

On this week’s show, among other things, we discuss:

- The mysterious world of Pug Conventions!
- Mike's (almost) total lack of memory of working with Kid Loki!
- Matt's obsession with the origin of Dex-Star!

Let's meet our guest, shall we?



Mike Norton is the artist on "Revival" for Image Comics. Some of his past work includes Dark Horse's"The Occultist," Image's "It Girl and the Atomics," DC's "Green Arrow/Black Canary" or "Trinity," and more. You can check out his great webcomic "Battlepug," buy some original art from Cadence Comic Arts, check out his website, or follow him on Twitter (@themikenorton).

As always, your hosts are:



Chad Bowers – South Carolinian, GI Joe enthusiast, co-writer of “Subatomic Party Girls" “Down Set Fight,” and “Awesome Hospital” with Chris Sims, and writer of “Monster Plus.” He teaches us cool expressions like “Oh, snakes!” and has a lot of opinions about barbeque.

Matthew Meylikhov – Bostonian, cat and beard enthusiast, co-writer of “Detective Space Cat” with Colin Bell, writer of “Morning Glories Babies,” "Morning Glories Academy Study Hall" (both backmatter for the Image Comics series "Morning Glories") and “Control,” and letterer extraordinaire. He reads more comics than anyone on the planet, and has sworn off White Castle for life.

Brian Salvatore – New Jerseyan, New York Mets enthusiast, host of “Input/Output,” a music podcast, and occasional blogger/freelance writer. He has never met a dog he didn’t like (even that one that bit his leg when he was 10), and has baked better bread than he ever thought possible.

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