Convention-floor pop culture, still on the move.
It Came From The Radio works like a convention table with microphones: quick news, sponsor bumps, guest interviews, and running banter. Its recent episodes move from C2E2 and Long Island Convention of Horror interviews to M-Con talk, trading cards, bowling satire, and creator spotlights.
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It Came From The Radio has the feel of a weekly fan-culture table that happened to become a syndicated radio show. Its center of gravity is the Big Apple Con world, but the conversations stretch across comics, genre filmmaking, authors, artists, gaming events, horror conventions, and sci-fi-adjacent pop culture. The show likes a ritual. Episodes often begin with a station-style disclaimer, a familiar greeting, a roll call of whoever made it into the studio or onto the phone, and then a quick promise of interviews still to come. Then it moves. Recent installments point listeners toward C2E2, the Long Island Convention of Horror, M-Con, the East Meadow Public Library live show, and the Long Island Trading Card Game Show. The guests are treated less like distant celebrities and more like people who have pulled up a chair. Mark Torres anchors many of the excerpts, while figures such as Hassan Godwin, Lee Kalinske, Charlie Saladino, and L-Man Jenny Felde appear around interviews, introductions, and field pieces. The show is loose but not empty. It keeps coming back to practical fan details: who is appearing, what event is scheduled, where tickets stand, what a creator is making, and how a convention or project actually works. That usefulness sits beside goofy throwaways about deep dish pizza, missed phone calls, snowed-in editions, and a guest stuck on a train. There is also a durable radio texture, with sponsor reads, Patreon shout-outs, website plugs, and repeated segment cues. The interviews can swing from creator biography to production logistics to oddball subject matter, including bowling history, satire, horror-film guests, and dark comic ideas. It is not slick. That is the point. It sounds like a long-running scene checking in on itself, week after week, with enough structure to keep the news moving and enough looseness to let personality leak through. For listeners who like convention-floor specificity, independent creators, and pop-culture chatter that still carries a community address book in its pocket, it has a distinct lane.
Made for: For listeners who follow comic conventions, creators, genre filmmakers, fan events, and pop-culture scenes. It best suits people who enjoy informal panel energy more than polished interview packaging.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by blending Big Apple Con radio continuity with on-site convention interviews, live-show texture, sponsor reads, shout-outs, and loose studio banter. It feels rooted in an active fan community rather than built as a detached review show.
we are an hour long weekly syndicated radio show that focuses on the independent comic book writer, artist, and filmmaker with a sci-fi/fantasy slant. Hosted by Sunburst and Designated creator Mark Torres.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Mark Torres gives comic creators, authors and filmmakers room to explain how their projects move from an idea toward finished work.
It Came From The Radio moves between convention-floor interviews, studio discussion and live-audience conversations, with Mark Torres keeping comics, books and filmmaking inside the same lively broadcast frame.
Comic-con floor interviews meet local-radio banter, giving your inner convention completist a chair.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A bowling conversation turns old league history into sly, unsettling pop-culture archaeology.
The Snowden edition of It Came From The Radio lands on one of its oddest and sharpest subjects: bowling as pop-culture noir. A satirical book leads the conversation through women's bowling magazines from the 1950s and 1960s, the reach of league culture, real murders involving…
A new-year anniversary show turns Big Apple Con plans into a lively, local-radio pop-culture rundown.
It Came From The Radio starts the new year by noting 24 years on the air, then eases into its place as the official show of Big Apple Con. Mark Torres sets the tone with anniversary chatter, checks in with Hassan Godwin, and brings in Anthony Rivera, also presented as the Dragon…
A lively library roundtable turns Marvel fatigue and pop-culture detours into easygoing live-radio conversation.
This live pop-culture roundtable celebrates its 101st show at the East Middle Public Library, where host Mark Torres sits down with Charlie Saladino, L-Man, Jenny Felvey and author, actor and singer Dewey. The best stretch tackles weariness with the continuing Marvel universe.
A convention-minded radio collage where a streaming glitch opens into a sharper question about shared spectacle.
The episode works as a lively pop-culture radio sweep through convention culture, interviews, performance, and the everyday friction of streaming.
A loose New York Comic Con stop finds comic-book craft inside convention momentum.
It Came From The Radio uses New York Comic Con as a working setting, not a glossy showcase. Mark Torres starts solo from MFC Studios with news and a preview, then moves to Sire Studios with Dennis Knight, Javier Ortiz, and Michael Dolce.
Bravo recaps with receipts and side-eye.
Famous careers, regular-person details.
Pop culture, overthought with feeling.
Pop culture with studio-room chaos.
Comedy advice for the group-chat era.
Mark Torres opens fast and solo.
Mark Torres keeps the table moving.
Host Mark Torres introduces a live radio show at the East Meadow Public Library, featuring senior correspondent Charlie Saladino and special guest author John Collins, with news and promotions for the Big Apple Con.
Mark Torres hosts a live radio show from a library, introducing a guest named Carl and promoting upcoming conventions and sponsors.
Mark Torres hosts a radio show discussing upcoming conventions and interviews with guests including Patrick Kennedy, founder of the Long Island Convention of Horror.
Peter Newman, voice of Tigra in ThunderCats and Lieutenant Quicksilver in SilverHawks, tells host Mark Torres how he auditioned for Rankin/Bass director Lee Daneker and Jules Bass.
Host Mark Torres and guests discuss their experiences at C2E2, including interviews with Comicbook for Kids founder Mark Weiss and filmmaker George Taramas.
Host Jennifer Elise Feldman and senior correspondent Charlie Saladino introduce upcoming interviews with filmmakers and artist Dave Letterfly Knoderer at the Long Island Convention of Horror.
It Came From The Radio interviews Kelly Gordon about building MCON from a 2011 East Meadow Public Library assignment into a free two-day anime and pop-culture convention.
Mark Torres interviews Rebecca C.
Scream 7 opened at number one with $63.6 million, and the panel discusses Nev Campbell's reported $7 million return after Scream 6, plus the exits of Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega.
Mark Torres hosts a radio show featuring interviews and news related to the Big Apple Con and pop culture.
Mark Torres opens alone at MFC Studios.
Mark Torres marks 24 years on air.
Live show 101 gets loose almost immediately.
Host Mark Torres previews interviews from conventions with authors, voice actors, and filmmakers.