Reporting live from Emerald City ComiCon 2016, Other Planes talks with black cosplayers about identity, race, and gender in cosplay, comix, and action films, speaking with incarnations of the Black Panther, Future Static Shock, Green Lantern, Trunks, Sardonyx, a Vodou Joker and a Ghostbuster.

John Jennings is an award-winning graphic novelist, curator, cartoonist, and Associate Professor of Art. John is currently illustrating the first graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's seminal black science work on slavery and time travel, Kindred.

The first Other Planes podcast features Chicago-based author, filmmaker and innovator Ytasha Womack, author of Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy, and director of the black science fiction film Bar Star City.