Issues in the Making

Webmonkey PSA: Donate Button Now Live

webmonkey — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:01:25 +0000

Hello, Issues fans and supporters. This is your cheeky neighborhood Webmonkey, checking in for a PSA. As you can imagine, Issues is a labor of love made for comic fans by comic book fans. We’re all donating our time, our money, our talent, our imagination - hell, even some of our comic book collections! - to pay for the spectacle you’re hopefully enjoying. Not to sound like PBS or anything, but…we can’t do this without the support of Viewers Like You. Any donation, small or large, is greatly appreciated and will be recognized both on the website and in a to-be-determined way in the webisodes. Whether it’s $1, $5, $50, or $500, your helping keep Zeke, Mack, Jackson, and the gang alive. So what are you waiting for? That donation button in the sidebar is brand spankin’ new and ready to go!

Thanks so much, true believers.

Besides, the webmonkey doesn’t get paid and would like to be kept in bananas. Would it help if I did the webmonkey dance?!

Issues Cast Announced. Hollywood Trembles in Awe & Fear.

Scott Nap — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:05:07 +0000

Face front, true believers! No need to look up to the sky - the (brave and foolish) souls below have officially signed on to breathe life into the wild and wacky world of comic book retail. From local theater and student films to big budget television and feature film productions, these actors have tackled all forms of the cinema world and have now turned their attention to conquering the new frontier: web media. Feel free to take a look at their bios (available on the “Meet the Cast of Issues!” page), marvel at the new images, and to explore the rapidly-expanding production blog (which is where you’re standing now and is the brainchild of our hardworking WebMonkey). Have any questions? Feel free to email us at issuestheseries@gmail.com.

And now, without further ado, I present to you our lovely and talented cast. They all have Issues…and soon, so will you!

NOAH ROTHMAN as Zeke

LOUISE FLORY as Mack

KEVIN SEBASTIAN as Jackson

DANIEL HALDEN as Leslie

KATIE RITZ as Madeline

AUTUMN WEISZ as Bobby

TOM HANLEY as Jared

SARAH CROCE as Jane

SEAN BEATTIE as Ennis

JOANNE COLAN as Gwen

So a Supes fan and a Bats fan walk into a bar…

Scott Nap — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:44:04 +0000

Oh! I’m sorry; I didn’t see you there! Welcome, gentle reader/viewer/general true believer, to another installment of “Issues Production Blog”….

Wait, this is the first entry? Shoot. I knew I was looking off of the wrong script…

So you’ve stumbled across our little corner of cyberspace- thanks for joining us in this adventure. No, seriously, please, stick around. Half of the fun of watching a web series is trying to figure out how the crew pulled it off under budget. This blog will, over the course of the next few months, serve as the main location to watch this step-by-step process.

Want to see audition tapes from the casting process? You got it. Behind the scenes while the crew sets up (curses and all)? Consider it done. And you can bet your sweet bippy (whatever that is) that there will be plenty of outtakes and gags behind the camera AND in front of it.

The battle cry thus far in development has been ‘Young and hungry’. Issues was developed by Scott Nap, a NJ filmmaker who was tired of strikes and bad management and as such, developed this series to gain control. Translation: he was mad as hell, and he wasn’t going to take it anymore! So he donned a cape, a mask, did some push ups, filled up the gas tank in his car and became an avenger of comic book fans everywhere!…but since there aren’t many super-villains in suburban NJ and the thought of tights made him want to scream, he wrote this script and here we are.
In all seriousness, Issues is a few weeks from primary production at Comic Relief in Lawrenceville, NJ and everyone is thrilled with the progress so far. Expect to see all kinds of hilarity, mishaps and drama…oh, and you can get that in the actual episodes too!

Hang with us, fellow “bookies”!

-Issues HQ -