Pete's Basement is a weekly podcast filmed in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bordered on the southwest by Williamsburg at the Bushwick inlet, on the southeast by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and East Williamsburg, on the north by Newtown Creek and Long Island City, Queens at the...

, featuring four guys, Pete, Ramon, Adam and Steve. They discuss comic books released every week, comic book related movies, cartoons, websites of interest, writers and artists in the comic book industry. They also travel to comic book conventions in the local New York City Metro area and interview various artists, writers and editors in the comic book industry such as Tom DeFalco

Tom DeFalco

Tom DeFalco is an American comics writer and editor, well known for his association with Marvel Comics and in particular for his work with Spider-Man.-Career:...

, John Layman

John layman

John Steele Layman is an American comic book writer and letterer.-Biography:Once an editor for Wildstorm, a branch of DC Comics, Layman turned to writing comics full-time in 2002 and mainly writes for Marvel Comics....

, J. Scott Campbell

J. Scott Campbell

Jeffrey Scott Campbell is an American comic book artist. He has had several pen names, including "Jeff Scott", but is best known as J. Scott Campbell...

, and J.M. DeMatteis, to name a few. The podcast can be downloaded via iTunes

ITunes

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 or watched directly online at their website.

The launch of Pete's Basement

Pete's Basement launched its first podcast (episode) on January 8, 2008.

Season 1 consisted of 48 episodes, plus two Skrull

Skrull

The Skrulls are a fictional race of extraterrestrial shapeshifters that appear in publications by Marvel Comics.-Publication history:The Skrulls first appeared in Fantastic Four #2 and were created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby....

 episodes, totaling 50.

Season 2 consists of another 50 episodes. Their 100th episode (technically Episode 48 of Season 2) was aired on December 1, 2009.

Season 3 is currently in production. Each episode is aired on Tuesday every week. (information as of February 4, 2010)

Episode layout

Pete's Basement episodes are usually somewhere between 30 to 50 minutes in run-time. Most episodes consist of the panel (Usually Pete, Adam, Steve and Ramon) sitting at the "round table" discussing the current weeks release of comic books.

Some of their episodes will be "Segment" shows where the guys record their own reviews at their own leisure (usually in their own home), to be edited together into an episode. Roger usually directs while Steve usually edits. Frequently, various Post Production tasks will change hands.

How it is filmed

The show is filmed using one main camera that shoots the panel head on and two side cameras, which capture the angles of the panel discussions.

About The Basement

The show was created by Pete DeLuca, Roger Kenny, Adam Wiesen, Steve Deninno and Ramon Chamorro.

The panel: Pete, Adam, Steve and Ramon, review comics each week with lively and sometimes unyielding banter. This podcast is not intended for young children. Each episode is prefaced with a "Viewer Discretion Advised!" card.

Guests grace the panel frequently throughout the series.

Guests have included: Peter "The Other Pete" Hellers, Laticha Sotero, Jessica "Skrull Adam" Mascitti, Rich DePinto and Fallen Angel

Fallen Angel (comics)

Fallen Angel is an American fictional comic book heroine created and owned by writer Peter David and artist David Lopez, who appears in her self-titled monthly series. It was published by DC Comics from July 2003 until it was canceled with issue #20 in May 2005 because of low sales. It resumed...

 artist J. K. Woodward

J. K. Woodward

James Kenneth Woodward, known professionally as J.K. Woodward, is a comic book artist known for illustrating the monthly series Fallen Angel, published by IDW Publishing. Woodward has employed painting, digital assistance, as well as the more traditional pencil-and-ink and CMYK color method in his...

. The Basement also got an exclusive interview via The Pete Phone with John Layman, current writer of the comic Chew

Chew (comics)

Chew is an Eisner Award-winning American comic book series written by John Layman with art by Rob Guillory and published by Image Comics. It is a story about an FDA Agent who solves crimes by getting psychic impressions by eating things, including people....

. Layman gave the Basement a first look at Chew #8 before its release on January 27, 2010.

Season 3 Episode 4 has Steve reviewing Chew #8 before its release, thanks to John Layman.

Press

"The Basement" was interviews by the New York Daily News

New York Daily News

The Daily News of New York City is the fourth most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 605,677, as of November 1, 2011....

. The article was published in October 2009 .
Other interviews include one done by the Greenpoint Gazette - a local news publication in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bordered on the southwest by Williamsburg at the Bushwick inlet, on the southeast by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and East Williamsburg, on the north by Newtown Creek and Long Island City, Queens at the...

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Interviews

• J.K. Woodward Interviewed by Pete's Basement
• J.K. Woodward Guest on Pete's Basement 100th Episode
• John Layman
  John layman
  John Steele Layman is an American comic book writer and letterer.-Biography:Once an editor for Wildstorm, a branch of DC Comics, Layman turned to writing comics full-time in 2002 and mainly writes for Marvel Comics....
  
  Interviewed by Pete's Basement