I'm interesting on the Secret Wars (classic from Marvel), I will see if there is free or how much it cost to download it.

I have bad news and good news. The bad news is that GraphicAudio doesn't sell their audio adaptations of DC or Marvel comics any longer. The good news is that some online library systems have it available for borrowing. I checked: hoopla (has it), overdrive (does not have it).

Physical copies may be available on the secondary market.

Wow, did not knew Graphic audio lost the rights, thanks for the info!

Some/most of the Marvel productions done by GraphicAudio appear to have become part of a library controlled/managed by a group called Dreamscape Publishing. I'm not at all impressed by the post-2019 audiobook readings, I listened to a few and was turned off... I suppose it is possible that there are a few gems. The GraphicAudio titles are, of course, very good. The post-2019 efforts feel like work done by the lowest bidder. I don't think it is possible to directly purchase this title from them, but here is a link.

thanks for the link!

I updated several of the lists:

DC - added Batman Unburied
Marvel - added Squirrel-Girl: The Unbeatable Radio Show, Spider-Man: Reflections of a Rock Super-hero, X-Men: The Audio Drama
Indy - Added new/planned releases from GraphicAudio (Ghost, X, Vagrant Queen, The Boys: Dear Becky)

I also reconsidered some of what I had previously considered "Web" stories to be recognized as "Full Cast" adaptations, in the cases of big comic houses and partnerships with podcast platforms.

I am a little more than half-way through Spotify's Batman Unburied. It is not at all what I expected, but I am enjoying it. By design: it starts off somewhat confusing but it quickly starts to make sense. The acting and audio production are excellent. I personally hated(*1) The Long Halloween (graphic novel, I haven't watched the animated adaptation) but there is an element of that story (narrative element, not plot element) that might appeal to the many many fans of that story.

(*1) My hate for it strictly derives from Jeph Loeb's whole-hog theft of plot points, character beats, dialog and image composition from many different pieces of pop culture (typically but not limited to: The Sopranos, The Godfather films, films by Martin Scorcese). I consider Tim Sale an unindicted co-conspirator.

I am not a fan of the Spotify platform. I found it possible to listen to the story by going to the website and using the Share/Embed feature to allow the browser to play the episodes without having to log in. Alternatively, you could just look for another website that already went through the trouble of embedding the episodes for you... there are at least a couple of news/aggregator sites that have done that.

I downloaded and I'm listening many of this ones on youtube, very nice!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfNM...Vwr6jO&index=5

I was surprised to learn about a sequel/prequel to Garth Ennis' The Boys (Dear Becky) that came out in 2020. It is a pretty dumb/unnecessary story, but the audio adaptation by GraphicAudio was a nice capstone to their excellent audio series. It was nice to be able to spend another 3 hours with the excellent cast.

I've updated a couple of the lists: Marvel's latest Wastelanders (Wolverine), as well as the GraphicAudio adaptations of Vampire Hunter D, as they are tied to the Dark Horse Comics publisher.

I finally had a chance to listen to the six episodes of the Squirrel Girl Radio Show, and I must say I was impressed. Generally, I am not a fan of diegetic audio dramas, but this one pulled it off. It did take me two episodes before I got past my inherent distrust of setting each episode being set as a new radio broadcast from the campus radio station... including a couple of the "call-ins" that were IMO even to absurd for the premise... but I was able to roll with it. I think the large cast with fully-formed personalities... that didn't get typical "character introductory arcs"... ended up selling me on this relatively short series.

I finished listening to Marvel's Wastelanders Wolverine. This is IMO the best of the four (so far) Wastelanders stories... it certainly is the one that the does the best job of channeling a comic book, and it also does a very good job explaining the world and its history. It also advances the history of the Wastelanders universe.

As with the other productions, the writing and acting is very good. This is a much more expansive story, and the audio effects (and music) are top notch. I did only a little audio balancing, and I only got one commercial in the entire 10 episodes... it was for HeroForge figures in a way that felt like it could have been in universe... so maybe my feed was configured incorrectly?

I've added something peculiar to the list of Indy "adaptations": Dave McKean's audio adaptation of (some of) his Cages comic. Many will be familiar with Dave McKean's covers and collaborations during (and beyond) the Vertigo era of DC Comics. In addition to his talents as a writer and visual artist, he's also a musician/composer.

I came across some of his collaborations as I was going through a box of old CDs and sorting out some materials I'd long-ago archived (note to self: order a replacement copy of my cracked Signal to Noise CD direct from him while the British pound is depressed), anywho... This effort also directed me to hunt through some old HDD because why spend an hour re-archiving the work when I can spend several days looking through old HDDs (besides, I'm still bitter about my Signal to Noise CD physically breaking, and I'd hoped to find an old archive of that!) The ATA drives were rather straightforward to search, the SCSI less so... again I digress...

On one of my old drives, I found the folder of ~1 hours worth of audio tracks that Dave McKean made telling parts of the stories from Cages, fully produced with music and ambient sound effects. I have no distinct memory of where these files came from. The Cages book was one that I was mildly obsessed with... and I felt like I had to be because of the irregular publishing schedule (see also the contemporaneous Taboo / From Hell which was also a PITA to try to get comic shops to order)...

I want to say that something I bought came with a CD... Maybe it was a signed & numbered slip-cased edition? I have to do a deep dive through my archives to look for such a treasure as I don't have that on my bookcase... which doesn't mean I didn't buy one, as the Kitchen Sink collections of the era generally had inferior binding, so if I had shelled out for a S&N copy, I very likely would have also shelled out for a second "reading" copy

I'm reasonably certain that these originated from a physical CD I owned, as the other folders on the HDD were an eclectic collection of stuff I'm physically holding CD copies of: Neil Gaiman's Warning: Contains Language (with the odd last track "Banshee" that rewards you sitting through 20 minutes of silence with a bonus reading), Alan Moore's The Birth Caul, Adrift and Salient (a JJ Muth/McKean collaboration) and Terrance McKenna's Alien Dreamtime... and the busted copy of Signal to Noise!

Anyway, I'm adding this to the list as even though there is precious little current-day information on this, and it isn't something that appears to have ever been republished, and it appears that none of us who paid big bucks back in the day are making this available publicly! It is an enjoyable collection, and nothing Dave McKean should be embarrassed with. For now, let's treat this as a true rarity, and hope that one day the contents get re-released... although frankly I think some bits of the narration could stand to be re-engineered.

A couple of new audio adaptations/imaginings are upon us (Sep/Oct 2022):

Batman: The Audio Adventures (Season 2) is expected to drop on HBOmax on 07 October 2022. I enjoyed the first season's clever mix of noir and camp, I look forward to this. Buzz is that all 10 episodes will drop at once... much like the first season, hopefully there won't be deployment issues the first day. I prefer to have finite/limited serialized audio available for consumption at my pace.

Regarding periodic releases: Marvel's Wastelanders Doom has begun releasing weekly episodes. This is the part of the Wastelander's audio universe I've been waiting for since Dylan Baker was originally teased as Dr. Doom waaaay back. Baker is an excellent star of audio; I first enjoyed his audio-specific talents in the old SciFi.com adaptation of Clive Barker's History of the Devil (*1). The series is written by Mark Waid! I hate the original Wastelanders concept, but I have been impressed by these productions. This is being released on Spotify, but IIRC Apple Podcast subscribers can get episodes a week before they are released on Spotify. I'll wait until almost all of the episodes have dropped before I start to listen to them.

I want to believe that we are less than a month away from Audible announcing the release of Sandman Act III, but I don't expect it until closer to the winter holidays. Act II dropped at the end of September 2022, and Neil Gaiman hinted at the end of August (2022) that fans of the first two productions may want to keep their Audible "credit" ready for something. IIRC it was something like 15 months between the drop of the first act to the second; and if they stick to the original plan to release the remaining (~35) comic adaptations as Act III, that is roughly double the amount of material of either of the first two releases. The post-production (effects, music, etc.) has been incredible for the first two acts, so I don't want to see Dirk Maggs and his team be rushed. I also expect some issues with physical production as well: I bought the first two Acts on physical media... Act I was a single MP3 CD while Act II was two MP3 CDs. My guess is that Act III will be three MP3 CDs. The size of the files for Act II didn't require two CDs, but one of the two discs I received does have a manufacturing defect in the unused portion of disc 2, which would have corrupted the files... so I am just as satisfied that multiple CDs were used!

(*1) The 5-part adaptation of Clive Barker's History of the Devil from Seeing Ear Theater is available on YouTube (and elsewhere) from a few different sources; I recommend giving it a listen. The series was originally "broadcast" via RealAudio, so much of what may have been captured directly (from 1999) is subject to compression effects as well as possible glitches from real-time web delivery of that era. Some of the SET productions did get packaged, slightly edited, and re-released on physical media, and so it is possible that there are some "CD quality" files somewhere, but AFAIK this only saw a physical release on cassette tapes by Dove Audio and is no longer available for purchase.

I've added references for a couple of fan-made audio productions:

• Fables Radio, adapting the first 6 issues of Fables
• Cerebus: The Radio Shows, adapting the first 6 issues of Cerebus

The Fables adaptation is relatively recent (2016), so there is plenty of information on that, it simply flew under my radar.

The Cerebus adaptation is another story. The audio sounds like it could be several decades old. It does claim to be produced with permission, which I totally believe. A few hours of web-scrying haven't turned up any information. I suppose my only hope is to flip through Cerebus' Aardvark Comments to see if I can find any clues. It will have to be prior to issue ~232 which is about the time I dropped the book.

I was semi-surprised to (re?)learn that Dave Sim wants Cerebus to go into the public domain immediately upon his death. I'm not a fan of just about anything he has said publicly for decades, but I totally respect his approach to creator's rights and intellectual property. I'm willing to gamble that if anybody else wants to take a swing at an audio adaptation of Cerebus that Dave Sim would allow it.