The Hump Day Show #033 – working on a illustrated logo

A summary of the thirty-third Hump Day Show

The video transcript captures an extensive, informal, and wide-ranging livestream conversation primarily focused on comic book culture, creators, and industry dynamics, interspersed with humor, art discussions, and community interactions. The dialogue features several creators and commentators discussing topics like comic crowdfunding, digital readership analytics, the legacy and styles of prominent comic artists, and the challenges of sustaining indie comics. They also touch on the drama and controversies within the comics community, including social media disputes and the influence of various personalities. Additionally, there is significant discussion about adaptations and portrayals of superhero characters, particularly Superman and The Flash, in movies and television, with commentary on their evolving narratives and fan reception. The stream also includes updates on ongoing creative projects, art commissions, and promotional shout-outs to community members and their works. The tone is casual, at times irreverent, and peppered with jokes and banter among participants, reflecting a passionate but candid insider’s look at the indie comic scene and fandom.

Highlights

• Insightful discussion on the challenges and realities of crowdfunding indie comics, including financial and production hurdles.
• Revealing analytics about digital comic readership showing fast page turnover and reader engagement patterns.
• In-depth talk on comic art styles, influences, and the evolution of artists like Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld, and Mark Silvestri.
• Commentary on superhero movie adaptations, particularly Superman and The Flash, highlighting fan expectations versus modern interpretations.
• Open discussion of community drama and controversies, including social media conflicts among comic creators and fans.
• Promotion of indie creators and projects, with encouragement to support artists through commissions and crowdfunding.
• Creative brainstorming for “Hump Day” themed art projects centered around camels, showcasing community collaboration.

Key Insights

• Crowdfunding Realities and Artist Sustainability: The conversation reveals the complex economics behind indie comic crowdfunding. Many creators invest heavily upfront, often funding colors, lettering, and printing themselves before seeking backer support. This challenges the notion of crowdfunding as purely a pre-order mechanism, highlighting the risk and dedication required. The discussion underscores the need for business acumen alongside artistic talent to sustain a comic career in this environment.
• Digital Reader Engagement is Fleeting: Analytics shared during the stream show readers spend only a few seconds per comic page, including splash pages that artists pour effort into. This suggests digital comics attract fast readers rather than collectors or deep analyzers, posing challenges for artists who hope their work will be closely studied and appreciated. It also points to the need for creators to adapt to new reading habits in the digital age.
• Artistic Evolution and Industry Influence: The panel’s detailed discussion about artists like Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld, and Mark Silvestri highlights how comic art styles evolved through mutual influence and editorial direction, especially in the 1990s. This sheds light on how the “Image era” changed comic production, favoring stylized, heavily rendered visuals but also creating a vacuum in traditional monthly production skills. This background is crucial for understanding current artist trajectories and the legacy of 90s comics art.
• Superhero Adaptations Reflect Changing Fan Expectations: The critique of recent Superman and The Flash adaptations reveals tension between traditional heroic ideals and modern cinematic interpretations. Fans and commentators note attempts to “de-age” and humanize iconic characters, sometimes alienating longtime fans who prefer aspirational, straightforward portrayals. This reflects broader challenges in adapting legacy characters to contemporary media while balancing nostalgia and innovation.
• Community Drama Impacts Creator Collaborations: The transcript exposes ongoing conflicts within the comics community, particularly involving social media disputes, blocklists, and factionalism. These interpersonal issues affect collaboration opportunities, streaming appearances, and fan interactions. It underscores how community dynamics can be as impactful as creative work in shaping indie comics culture.
• Indie Creator Support is Vital: Multiple shout-outs and promotions for indie comic projects, artists, and crowdfunding campaigns emphasize the importance of community support. The discussion encourages viewers to engage with creators beyond passive consumption, such as commissioning art, backing campaigns, and sharing content, which is critical for sustaining independent creators financially and creatively.
• Creative Collaboration and Humor Foster Community: The lighthearted brainstorming about “Hump Day” camel-themed art and jokes about character concepts illustrate how humor and collaborative creativity help maintain engagement and morale within the community. These moments balance the heavier discussions on drama and economics, showing how community culture thrives on both serious and playful interactions.

Detailed Analysis

The video transcript showcases a multifaceted conversation that blends industry insights with candid commentary, personal anecdotes, and fan culture. The creators candidly discuss the financial strain of producing comics independently, noting that many must self-fund significant portions of their work, including coloring and lettering, before crowdfunding campaigns can even begin. This highlights a crucial tension in independent comics publishing: creators must be not only artists but also savvy project managers and businesspeople to survive.

The sharing of digital readership analytics reveals a paradox in the digital comics world; despite the time and effort poured into artwork, reader engagement is often superficial and fleeting. This has implications for how comics are crafted for digital platforms, potentially requiring new storytelling techniques or visual approaches that cater to rapid consumption habits rather than traditional, immersive reading.

The panel’s deep dive into comic art history enriches understanding of how the 1990s “Image Comics” era reshaped the industry, both positively and negatively. While it fostered groundbreaking styles and artist autonomy, it also contributed to a decline in traditional monthly production discipline. The discussion around artists like Jim Lee and Mark Silvestri illustrates the complex interplay of influence and adaptation that shaped modern comic art, offering valuable context for fans and creators alike.

Superhero adaptations are another major focus, with the panel debating the merits and drawbacks of recent films and TV shows. The consensus leans toward a nostalgia for classic heroic portrayals, lamenting the loss of aspirational qualities in favor of darker, grittier, or more “relatable” versions. This conversation captures a broader cultural debate about how iconic characters can evolve without losing their core identities, a key challenge for franchises with multi-generational audiences.

Community dynamics are also front and center, with multiple references to social media conflicts, personality clashes, and “blocklists” that affect who collaborates and appears on shows. This reveals how closely intertwined personal relationships and professional opportunities are in the indie comics scene. The candidness about drama suggests a community grappling with its growing pains and the challenges of maintaining cohesion amid diverse viewpoints and personalities.

Throughout the transcript, the participants emphasize the importance of supporting indie creators through commissions, crowdfunding, and promotion. This serves as both encouragement and a call to action for fans to actively participate in sustaining the ecosystem, recognizing that independent comics rely heavily on community engagement beyond traditional retail sales.

Finally, the lighter moments involving creative projects like the “Hump Day” camel art and playful character designs demonstrate how humor and shared creative endeavors help bond the community. These moments provide an essential counterbalance to the more serious discussions, showing the vibrant and human side of indie comics culture.

In sum, this transcript offers a rich, unfiltered snapshot of the indie comics world, blending industry insights, personal reflections, community issues, and creative enthusiasm into a compelling narrative that both fans and creators will find illuminating.

The Hump Day transcripts with time stamps.

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Oh [Music] my god. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] Hey, hey, [Music] [Laughter] [Music] hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat up [Applause] [Music] here. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Music] Heat up here. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] What’s up everybody? What’s up? What’s up? Howdy. Hail to the chat. Let’s uh quickly acknowledge the chat. We got uh Palier in the chat. John Apple which is on the panel. Dale is was in the chat saying hello. So was uh well Marcus is

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on the panel. Hello to you Marcus. Edwin’s in the chat. Elseie’s in the chat. Aka Pad Peter is in the chat. Thanks everybody for being here. Tank Barrett in the chat. What’s going on guys? Oh you know I don’t know. I try I stay away from everything. Everybody’s crying. Apparently, I heard uh what’s his name’s feelings of when I was kidding around about Mandy and Dale and all the nonsense over there. What’s his name? Uh Art of Roy. He was Oh, I hate you. You You were teasing Mandy. I love Mandy and

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Dale. Don’t Don’t get butt hurt, Art of Roy. I’m just playing around. I don’t care that much. It’s just a joke, man. Just talking trash like everybody else. Of course, it’s stupid. I mean, I didn’t say that much. So, no, I just I just heard that rumor somewhere. Well, the the I heard that rumor that Mandy was her husband left her for a guy. I don’t No, I’m just That’s just the rumor I heard. What? Yeah. I don’t know. There was there there’s this rumor going around that

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that that he fell in love with some [  ] and there’s a video of somebody getting married or something. I don’t know. I’ve never seen the video. I don’t know about it. That’s what I read on on some either it was on X that I read or somebody mentioned it and I was like what is happening? Of course, it could have been totally just they were joking around too. I don’t know. Anyways, so it’s all good. Yeah. Yeah, that seems that seems crazy to me. Yeah. Quite [  ] crazy.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I don’t know. Maybe it’s from the the you know the what’s up R.J. in the in the chat. Maybe it’s from the Lord Raptor Jesus you know crew area and war campaign and all that stuff. I don’t know. Like I said I don’t know. I just thought I heard that. I was just like, “What is happening? That sounds nuts.” Because people were saying now she could be shipped to Dale, right? Because now she’s single and Dale’s just got a girlfriend. It’s that’s not his wife.

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So, everybody was saying that. I was like, “Oh, I guess that’s a possibility.” Doesn’t she have children? So, she’s not married or or if she’s not married, so what? She could take them kids with her. No, not usually not. But but anyway, so like I don’t know. That’s and I think that’s what made Art Roy mad. So I just don’t know. And I I think that’s what made Art of Roy. But yeah, so that that I’m just kidding. I don’t care. I love Mandy and Dale.

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Okay, guys. Calm down. I’m still on your side. Art of Roy. Down with Omar. Omar’s a douchebag. Down with that. Up with the don. No. Down with the don. Up with Well, no. Apex says, “Is Vandy single?” I thought she was married. You see, I don’t know. She’s married. She’s married. I don’t know. She’s happily married in a loving relationship with Dale. I mean, with her man. Oh man, we’re going to get in so much trouble. [ __ ] We’re get eapped. They’re going to drip

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me a new [  ] That’s what you get for mentioning the omnibus. Oh, what did you do to us, Ober? Yeah, I already got some stank over on [  ] what’s his name’s channel over there with Don. I got stank all over me. Oh, yeah. I see Don was disavowing on on Twitter. Geez. I think he was disavowing someone else. Oh, he wasn’t disavowing Omar. No, more than usual. No, I more than usual. I think that’s probably true, John. Yes. Oh, [ __ ] I think Yes. I think Don was hurt by the end of our show. I think we sh stayed on

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one hour too long. Too long, right? You have to You have to understand who you’re streaming with. And if certain people and I can’t say who because I can’t say who and you guys all know why you you want to care. No, but I’m not going to. Yeah. Yeah. Don’t bring that steak over here, Marcus. Yeah. Right. No, I think uh Oh, [ __ ] Have to stay on point. That’s what That’s what it is. You have to stay on point. Um, if you let certain people start to freelance what they’re going to say, there’s some

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trouble be happening. It might have been my fault, Marcus. I did try to bring up the topic to some extent because I wanted to be able. Yeah, it was my fault. No, but some of us aren’t really adults about that stuff and and and that was apparent. It’s been established. It’s been a thorn in my side now for like a long while, man. Yeah. Once once the one comment was made, it was very clear that there there’s no uh there’s no middle ground or whatever. The the mind is set, right? So,

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Yep. That’s it. Once Yeah, that’s it. And I think that’s it’s like let’s put it this way. It’s like the name of cable. The mind is set. There’s no changing, right? The spice must flow. In that case, I’m going to show you what I finished. I finished my drawing from the from the uh from this thing. So, this Oh, let’s let’s make you big. Oh, yeah. I like that. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I like it. So, this is why I don’t want I hope you didn’t do that for nothing.

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Who are you drawing that for? Oh, I did not do that for nothing. Uh, as a matter of fact, it’s going to be a trading card. And I and I did get paid for it. Oh, good. Nice. Great. And I’m sending it to him as kind of like, oh, wow. I’m going to send it to him anyway because I got piles of these drawings that I don’t know where to put them and I don’t mind having copies of them, you know? I don’t need the original, so I’m going to send it to John, right? Because why not, you know? And then

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John, you said this John fellow starts his last name starts with an L. Um, and I’m in a hotel, so if everything looks a little weird, that’s why. And, uh, Oscar Coreno’s coloring it and it looks really cool. So, I’m sure he’s Wow. But I did not post it. I did not post it because I let him post it because of his issue. I’m not going to post it. I’ll let him. I’m afraid of getting burned and I don’t want to post these to be honest. I mean, I sent him I sent these to him so he

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could post them, right? Usually I would say on the studio I posted I did this and I let me take a screenshot of this screen and it’s going to be a clip right now. Yep. And look, not only one, I did two. I was so bored on the pump proudly endorses because I finished these two. pump day tra. Yeah. Look, not just one, but two. Jesus. What happened? We thought I was so bored. I was just like, I’ll draw another one, I guess. I’m What are we gonna All right, so now we’re here. Dale, now what I do with these,

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John? Do I burn them like all the other people? What are we gonna do this weekend on the studio? on on Joe Santag is going to be on and Joe Santag will be on. Yeah. And that’s fantastic. New comics gate king. I’m gonna draw Reaper Destroyer then again. What? He’s a new comic skate king. How do we do that? Obviously, I can’t be doing this, right? Official. He’s a comics gate officially a comics on the one show. But he’s offic Yeah, he’s the comics gate king. He’s officially a comics.

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That’s pretty cool. Then he nice. Yeah, I won a 12. I already drew Reaper Destroyer though, John. I will you want Oh, we did it. So I Yeah, but I don’t know if I want I want to see if there’s other characters that are in that book. Oh, I do have I mean I’ll draw Reaper. I thought Reaper Dashroy was a pain in the ass to draw to be honest with you. I’m cool character. Just a pain in the ass to draw. Look at this guy. This guy is awesome. I do have I do have some cool news. It’s

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completely unrelated from all the drama. You guys know the uh that gun the gun gothos picture that I drew? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I was I was listening or I was watching on the haunted pizza stream this afternoon. Okay. Mark and everybody on the panel all loved uh all loved the picture. Fantastic. All when four or five of them all all of them complimented me on it. So I was like I I felt pretty damn awesome. Oh good. Congratulations. That’s awesome. Yeah, it’s great. It It is going to go in the art of gun

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goth book. Man, I better set I I better send mine mine to Mark Coulson so he can put mine. Hurry up, man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I’m gonna uh John, you got the hookups or what? How do How do I What do I do? Well, I uh I emailed it so I I can get you his email. Okay. So he uh he was supposed to be on but he dropped out because I think he I think he secretly hates Don. Is that what it is? I think we dropped out. No, no, no. Oh, he dropped. Did I send this to you already? I You mentioned something about it.

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Uh I I’ll I’ll DM it to you if you want it, of course. Yeah. Yeah, too, when I finish coloring it. So if you want if you want it, of course. Yeah. I ordered a copy of Gun Goth itself and then I ordered a copy of The Art of Gun Goth and that one is going to go up on my wall. Yeah, I think that’s a good idea. Nice. I was going to draw I was looking forward to drawing Gun Goth this weekend, but that’s not going to happen, right? I guess I could, but he’s not on the show. Let’s see.

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Because he hates John. He hates Don. Well, I mean, even though he’s paid him a few times to work for him, right? I know. Well, no. Don, he he didn’t like because Don needs to pay him to get him on the show. Grease his palms a bit because Don Don needs to pay people to get It’s Don versus John and he he had and Mark Bolton had to choose sides, obviously. Obviously. Yeah. Oh, there you go. There you go. So he couldn’t get any of that. Dale, you you joined our our chat pretty late. Did you see any of that? Well, at

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the end of the week, at the end of the show, Yeah, I did. I I I’m the one who commented, “Oh boy, here we go.” As soon as as soon as the topic of Comics Gate came up. Oh my god. Oh, hey guys, check out my new character. Um Um Thank you, Apex. I I got a new character, Marcus. His name’s the Detective Eye. Check it out. I need a detective. Yeah, that reminds me of something. Thanks, Apex. I’m gonna retool it. I’m gonna come up with a with a with a with a uh somebody out of the Florida

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called the Slog. Oh, you know what? Instead of the bog. Oh, that’s funny. Now, I’m going to change this to the perverted eye. There we go. The perverted eye. Perverted eye. perverted ice. How did I know? Boobs. Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. Yeah, put put like a nipple in here. Well, the character itself the character itself is is an admitted ripoff of Roarshack and and Mr. A. And that’s not Yeah. And the question that’s not you know I like I don’t know. I don’t know. I had

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a different mask and he said, “No, I want a mask like this.” And then I don’t It’s just a guy in a suit. I mean, basically, you know, I didn’t put gloves on. I forgot his gloves. So, Oscar’s going to put gloves on them. I go, “Yeah, that makes sense.” He makes it easier to draw hands anyway when they have gloves on. Did you Did you all see the homework I put in the DM group? I gotta Yeah. Yeah. I I started thinking it’s like, okay, so Omar’s going to draw a

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sexy camel and evil Ginger’s going to draw a zombie camel. Oh, that’s a good idea. Yeah. And Marcus will draw on the humps of the superhero camel, right? Oh, yeah. So, so now now I’m like, well, I have to do something different. Marcus will draw the the romance version of the camel. Oh, yeah. The romance. Two camels with their necks intertwined kissing. You know what? Uh, by the way, this Yeah, thinking of romance or non-romance, how about we not talk about butt sex on s this Saturday in front of

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Mama Donna? I was like, John was John Longbox was sitting there looking at his phone because he’s trying not to listen. And I finally said, hey, John, so this is what’s going to happen that the next book you’re going to put out for Road Tales 2, The Patriarch, right? to get just to get Don to stop talking about it. Somebody’s been looking at some nasty porn. Geez. Yeah. Yeah. Well, then Mama Donna comes in. Mama Donna comes in and says something that’s like just jabs right into it like I

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don’t care. Blah blah blah. I don’t care. I don’t remember what she exactly said, but it was just like what the hell’s happening. It was funny. But you stop you saying that in front of your mother. Oh, a cyber camel. Nice. I like it. Oh my. Yeah. So, hopefully we we’ll come up with some logos and we I’m gonna I’m want to work on a new intro and spotlight everybody uh and your your art, too. And and I know like uh like Don’s got a nice intro with everybody. So, just And I had

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been wanting to do that. I just kept putting it off and forgetting about it because I like the intro that that’s already there so much. But yeah, we’ll make a I think we can talk crap about Don. So what you’re saying is tell my this one time in Baghdad buttsuck story. No, Tank, you’re allowed to you’re allowed to tell us because you were not involved. I was like, “Oh my god.” I mean, I I’ve heard everything. Hey, you can talk about that all you want over here. It’s fine.

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I I don’t I missed I missed that thankfully. So it’s not ballers for God’s sake. That’s they have that, you know, ballers in the Jack show have that that stuff cornered. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And if you like to watch balls in the Jack show, you like to watch. Sometimes I like to watch them, sometimes I don’t care, you know. Sure. I find I used to watch him religiously. I find Cecil really funny. So, I used to watch it on a regular basis, too, but I just it it seemed to get

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repetitive after a while. Well, it’s the same. Yeah. Ever since they lost the [ __ ] and Dale like and his wiener coming out, it just wasn’t the same, you know. Check out just isn’t enough anymore. That’s true. He wants to get Donnie back on. He keeps trying to get it back. Donnie. Yeah. Donnie back on. Yeah, I like Dale. Dale’s like the was one of the best arts in the history of comic books. I mean, this is ridiculous. He’s pretty good. Yeah. Oh, Tank says his uh his butt sex

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story in Baghdad is surprisingly wholesome. Well, Don, yeah, I have this I have this Marine buddy. I have this Marine buddy who’s like, “Man, when I was out serving in Iraq during Desert was after Desert Storm, uh he’s like, “Man, there there was crazy [  ] out there. like there there’s nomads and [  ] and all these these farmers or whatever and they call the them them uh you know those those goat farmers out there and [ __ ] like they don’t see people for months and years

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out there you know in the wilderness. Oh no no no you’re not Yeah. And he’s like that’s why they call him those things because because they see the goats all the time, right? And it’s like hello hello. Well, you know, heavens he said they they saw so many weird [  ] out so many weird things out there on patrols and [  ] that uh it was uh what a mess it had some truth and merit. Usually usually Yeah, usually those things do have start some sort of truth. Yeah, I I I’ve heard other things

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similar from other veterans. I’m sure things about the Navy. Did John Did we lose John because of the conversation? Oh, he’s a Isn’t he a former Marine, too? Well, yeah. He Yeah, he may he might Yeah, we might have reminded him about stuff. He’s got to go. Oh [ __ ] I hope not. Oh, no. See See, not only did you What happened, John? burn a bridge with Art of Roy. You burned a bridge. Yeah, I know. John, listen. We lost you, buddy. It It’s not hard to burn a bridge with Art of Roy. I mean, he he has definite

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I I’ve heard I’ve heard. Yeah. I mean, yeah. John, I don’t know what happened. I don’t know why we lost you. You’re not in the back room, buddy. Try try to go out and come back in or refresh your browser or something. How about uh what happens? Honestly, you know who we need on this stream? We got to get Queen Mickey on this stream and they get going. We do need to get some more people on here because like the Rex and Tank Ferret haven’t shown up in months. Yeah. Well, Rex is working nights

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and then Peter, we’ve lost Peter to to work as well. So, what about what happened to um what who am I thinking of? Uh, what? Not just Peter. Who? There was somebody else we’re missing that used to come on a lot. I got a Oh, his internet died. Oh, man. Hopefully you get it back up. I thought it was because I brought up the Marine story. I was going to ask you, John, uh, what if you had any stories from, uh, being out there or Yeah. Who who was the other person who was on here all the time?

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Oh, James T. Yeah, James used to come by. He should come and take some victory laps over the Superman movie. Did isn’t he made about $100 million now on that? Didn’t he personally make $100 million on the Superman movie? Well, somebody had to straighten him out of that. It was him. It was Acipad. Acipad took all part. You know what? I can I can drop the link in the bigger group. See if anybody wants to come in. Yeah, because I I I gotta bail early because I have so much stuff to do. It’s

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not even funny really. Hey, congrats on your Sodality comic. It seems to be Oh, yeah. Yeah. So, it was my big launch this week. I’ve been Thanks. Thanks to everyone who’s been promoting it. I should drop a Can I post a link? I Well, hang on a second. I don’t know if I can post a link through um You should be able to. Do you have a wrench, sir? Let’s see if it works. You can ask. He He’ll do it for you. What’s up, Lya 76, sir? Oo, War Path. Uh, that sounds dangerous. Stay off the internet. She’ll kill you.

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Not in Minecraft, YouTube. In Minecraft, not in real life. What’s up, Mononttoya? You want me to drop the link to your comic? Oh, I’m I I’m typing her out right now. Let me Let me send the invite to the bigger group if anybody wants to come on. Where is James? James was a little quiet on uh on u I wonder what he thinks. Well, he said that we were we were neutral, but I don’t think that’s on this on the Hey, Tank, that might be a good thing. I don’t you know what I mean? I don’t

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think we’re neutral. We’re neutral than what? Well, we’re, you know, he can say, he said, he can say whatever he wants. It’s his show. We’re neutral on our show. And I’m like, James, I don’t think we’re that neutral on the show. I mean, what are you talking about? I’ll check to see if it works, Dale. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. It not that neutral. And And Mama said, “If you don’t like if you don’t like Yeah. Yeah. Definitely not.” I was like, “What is going on?”

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Yeah, even she’s comics skate to the core apparently. I know that that Yeah, that really I don’t expect that guy to be on again. Yeah. Yeah. Both both links worked uh for uh All right. Let’s see what happened to the cover. Oh, one link sent me straight to the starting page. Uh Helder’s link goes straight to the the first page. Yeah. Yeah. I I think I linked to the to the landing page. Yeah. Go straight to the Yeah. Go straight to the the cover. Yeah. But check it out. I I I’ve got

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or tanks. Sorry. Tanks. Global Comics has decent analytics on it. So I can see how many readers, unique readers, how many page views, how many You told the way to get out of there, John, and kick its ass and come back. Did you see, Dale? Did you see that they they’re they’re going to do a print on demand with Yeah. Yeah. That that’s exciting with Comics Wellspring which Comics Wellspring kind of had a deal like that already except it was kind of set up where basically you preloaded and you got on their store

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and you like so like let’s say you made some comics from Comics Wellspring then you could put in an order for I think a minimum of 25 comics and then they would print them on demand. And when when they got sales through their store. Yeah. A lot of people use that. This was this one’s for you, Dale. Oh, he shared on Kenny did. Awesome. Yeah. But it it’s it’s interesting because not only does it show like the individual hits and stuff like that and you know where they come from, but it

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also shows how long readers stay on pages and readers do not stay on pages long at all. That’s a Does it does it show me on the cover page that I’ve been on it for like a whole month or whatever? The whole two weeks or whatever? Well, that’s really interesting. So, we all sit there because I have it up on a browser to to to go and read most of it because I’ve seen I’ve seen you work on it, right? So, and I’ve read the reviews. Um, but I gota I gotta read it, man. I’m so bad at

00:33:38
reading comics. I suck at it. So, so what he’s saying is we all spend a lot of time um like trying to make these drawings as good as possible and these people aren’t even looking at them. Yeah, this it it’s true. It’s that’s really interesting. Well, you you have to understand also like people who are reading digital comics are generally just pure readers. They’re not collectors. They’re not artific. They’re not even necessarily, oh, hey, I’m gonna it’s what do they call it? Uh

00:34:14
what what what does your boy Zach call it where it’s um campaign bucks or something like that? Oh um right. Right. Uh um cultural war bonds. C cultural war bonds. Yeah. There’s not really any of that in the No, I didn’t think digital world. So you’re just getting pure readers and like it it tracks every page. So, you get like a ton of people on the first page like like OMR like he was talking about where he just brings up the first page and then you get a ton of people on the the last page too. Mhm.

00:34:52
And then you get, you know, certain pages and pages with more panels and more dialogue obviously take a little much a little more. But even like a page with like five five panels, you know, and maybe like 50 words of dialogue in the whole page, like people are going through them like in five seconds. Wow. It’s incredibly fast. And like the splash page, yeah, it’s five seconds and it’s like, okay, you know, you drop a big splash page on it. Your butt off on that splash page and they’re like on it for three seconds.

00:35:33
Yeah, exactly. So that’s like I could see that being almost like upsetting. Yeah. Yeah. I can see where artists would would be happy with that. He’s great at it. Yes. Oh, that is really interesting. What’s up, Wargo? And the chat, he’s available for commissions. Check his art out over on his YouTube page on here. Get get some artist. Not me. Yeah, if he wants to come on. He’s He’s a little uh I don’t want to say controversial, but Oh, is he? He’s not. I don’t know. Are is Wargore

00:36:14
controversial? Are you controversial, Waridor? He he has a a strong stance and he don’t give a [ __ ] about nobody. Oh, we just dealt with that. Okay, that’s fine. You can stand. But he’s bad. He’s badass artist. And you know where he stands. Like that’s what I really like about Wars. Every day my heart is in my in my uh throat with this. I’m like, “Oh my god.” Oh, he says he can’t. I guess he’s working. I have to work with you and you’re doing this. Please stop. Please stop.

00:36:51
Yeah. So, Pete says he’ll jump on at 11. Uh, I shared the link to if anybody else wants in the bigger group if they want to jump on. You guys want to see the analytics page? Sure. Sure. If you want to show. All right. Let’s see. I’ll share the I’ll share it. Um, hang on. Whoops. I assume I can share this. I don’t know why I wouldn’t be able to. Let me know when it’s up if I don’t hear. All right. [Music] There we go. Is it up? Yeah, it’s up. There it is. I see it.

00:37:41
Oh, wow. Yeah. So, it goes through all the pages and shows you what people spend time on and like the read times, you know, the these are this is 5 seconds here. Yeah. And they’re just plowing through it. And how many pages is this comic? 24 pages. It’s 28 internal pages, but I put a front cover, back cover, and inside covers on both of those, too. Oh, hey, it’s Elliot Rodriguez. What’s going on, guys? Can you guys hear me? Hey, Elliot. What’s up? Yes, sir. What’s going on? Can you guys hear me?

00:38:24
Yeah. Yes, I can. Can you hear us? Yeah. Yeah, hear you guys. Perfect. What’s going on, guys? Oh, yeah. I got I got a few minutes to hang out, but uh to come on. That’s okay. Thanks for hopping on. Yeah, no problem. Thanks for having me. When did I see you? Did I see you today or yesterday? The days are the internet days are on somebody else’s show. I forgot who it was. Um um was it Ethan’s show? Um no, Monday. Monday I was on uh Post Kangs with Men. That was it. It was Post Kangs.

00:39:00
Yeah. Wow. You’re doing some big time. Oh, wow. Wow. Yeah. I’m trying to get out there, man. Well, John likes Elliot a lot, so yeah. Yeah, that’s all. What are you What are you implying there, Marcus? I’m I’m afraid of You know, John did John does draw a lot of penises. There is that. I can’t wait till he draws my penis. He did. Didn’t he draw it in that Fantastic Four? I mean, uh, Elliot, did you get your penis draw? What happened? It was a fun piece. I’m joking around.

00:39:39
I said, did you did you get uh Did John draw your penis? No. It’s a kid. Hey, I got to be dick man for two hours on He drew a nice piece for um Oh, there there there it is. That’s a great look. Is that a trading card? Yeah, this is a sketch card for uh I think the pronunciation is Halier. Alier. Oh, yeah. That’s Yeah, I love your cards. Yeah. So, and then this one’s yours, Marcus. I got yours done also. Oh, thank you. This is one these are the ones that I that I got on Saturday that I was on the

00:40:17
the studio. Finally finished some of these up. This one’s yours. Oh. Oh, that’s terrific. I love that. Yeah, that’s great. Great. Studio again. And I want to draw that guy. Yeah. So, so that that the guy with the skull mask thing, he’s he’s the villain, right? Yeah, he’s one of the villains. There’s a bunch of villains. Here’s Madonna. Really, really good design. A look at that. Very, very strong design on that. Thank you. His whole look, I I like it. Sweet. And I got to do RJ’s. R.J’s is in

00:40:54
the chat. What’s going on, R.J? You want to do yours? right now. Who’s RJ in the chat? Yeah, R.J. William, the creator of Call Sign Call Sign Orion. I had him on the show. Yeah, I had him on the show today. This one’s Warore. Yeah, that sounds like a plan, sir. You let me know when you start that. I I’ll do some with you. We’ll we’ll draw glamour girls and adult entertainers on sketch cards. We’ll put their stats on the backs on how many times they got banged. How many guys?

00:41:27
What’s that? What’s that lady’s name that has like a thousand? Oh, that she did in 24 hours or the 500 or whatever. Blue. Bonnie Blue got her pacifilitis. Yeah. Wasn’t she like European or English? Right. I want to say she was English. I have no idea. I think she’s Didn’t she She did the first 500, right? And now she’s going for a thousand. Is that right? I don’t think she’s done it yet. She’s a walking STD at this point. Jeez. Yeah. Hey, no shaming though. No shaming.

00:42:05
Deserve shaming. No [ __ ] shaming. Yeah. Does it Does it I don’t know. I don’t know. The men deserve the shaming. Maybe. So, maybe. Yeah. They I think I think they do. R.J., you’re confusing me there because I read this. I like to watch. And then you put dot dot and I do insert adult female stars and then it says you guys everything. Yeah, you guys. Uh yeah. Oh, she already did the 1K. Holy cow. Yeah. I Jeez. I I don’t Yeah. And it’s all documented right somewhere on the interwebs.

00:42:46
I’m sure for her only her only fame. Elliot, it was a it was a lot of fun drawing your character a couple weeks ago. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, I was really happy with all the artwork you guys did, man. It was amazing. I I was really stupid to draw both characters. I do that all the time on the show and I’m like, why did I do this? Yeah. Yeah. Thank you very much. Yeah, you guys got a great setup there. Good show. Great show. Well, thank you. Even though you’re not coming back on ever. Never.

00:43:30
No, I think you guys got the rest of July set up, right, man? I Well, people the thing is they say they’re going to be on and then things change. Yeah, there’s been a lot of cancellations of late. Yeah, like the last two, three shows people have canceled. That’s I’m assuming it’s just scheduling. It’s not because because they don’t like Dawn or or us. Yeah. Yeah. They don’t like me. But that’s okay, right? It’s I said mean Yeah. I may say mean things about Rob Lifel and then they get mad,

00:44:02
right? How dare you like Rob? I’m too old for Rob Life. Oh, okay. I I I did buy all his X-orse and all those X-Men and all those comics and uh you know I I got them all. I understand. But I’m a gener I’m like like drawing wise like I I I can’t break it. I’m from a generation before you know the how to draw comics the Marvel way type of thing. No. Yeah. Look, they respected the anatomy more. They were more realistic. They uh Yeah. Yeah. And it’s nothing against nothing against those guy. Like I play I

00:44:38
play that that on the show on our show. I’ll play like I hate him. So that that’s part of the part of the show. But I don’t hate anybody. What do I care? You know, I like I like Rob’s stuff now better um generally. It’s designed much better and um you know than it was in the past. It’s more solid. Yeah. No. Yeah. The one thing I always praise about Rob is uh his ability for creating, hyping, just uh tapping into tapping into the the the things that we love the most because

00:45:13
Oh, yeah. It’s amazing. He’s got great designs and Deadpool cable Yeah. Like we drew Deadpool once and I was just finishing it up and it is a fun looking character. I mean it’s really like you said it’s a great that’s not like I wasn’t even I I remember when he came out but I wasn’t even buy you know I you get kids you don’t buy as many comics as you used to and all that. So I’ll play the character and try to drive Don crazy. That’s not a job. Admittedly that’s not that’s not hard to

00:45:49
do. It really isn’t that hard to do. Unfortunately, that’s not hard to do. Well, well, Pete aka Pat isn’t on the on the studio, so he can’t join in with his Rob criticisms. Well, Rob, he knows more about that stuff than I do, but he still likes Rob. I mean, yeah. Does he? That one time. Yeah, that one time I was It was going off for him. The lowest Rob was a Captain America run, you know? That was like, oh boy, that was a tough That was tough. But he likes that. I’m like, okay.

00:46:29
You know, when they took over Heroes Reborn. O that was fun. You know, but Jim’s stuff was really good. Will, you know, Wilson’s stuff was really good. No, nobody remembers the Iron Man stuff. Will I you know he he really Wil’s Iron Man was really complicated Iron Man. He he he complicated Iron Man and he could more complicate and now nobody could draw. Thanks Wills. But it was great, you know. Um and Jim Lee’s Fantastic Four while you know it looks great. You do a great thing which isn’t easy to

00:47:10
do. Joining the thing is not easy. Yeah, it is tough. What? She was going to do 2K? That is nuts. She got kicked off of OF for that. Wow. Like they even have standards for horse. That’s crazy. That’s crazy. What’s going on, Tank? She’s a [ __ ] Like, who cares? And the Avengers, they had And Walt Simons ended up writing the Avengers. I mean, it was not I bet you if I go back and read them, they’re not bad. But the Captain America got all the hate because he drew that picture with his giant

00:47:44
boobs. Yeah, that’s what everybody remembers from Heroes Reborn. All I remember from the Avengers is Swordman was in it, which was unusual. Thank you. Thank you. The swordsman. Yeah, that’s because if if it who was running who was editing that was that Rob or Jim? Somebody read the 70 early 70s swordsman was in the Avengers and he married Mantis in Giant Size Avengers 4. He was a tree, you know, they had that Celestial Madonna um storyline and uh that’s probably why somebody has a affection for the

00:48:26
swordman. Who who who uh who had big boobs? Who was drawing her with big boobs? Your boob drawing Captain America with big boobs. Yeah, Captain America. Oh, Rob Lifelo drawing. I can hear the disappointment. No. Did you know Did you know that Chuck was supposed to write that? Yeah. Yeah. He’s I saw that. I have I’m behind on Ask Chuck Dixon. It’s so easy to get behind. I I’m I’m getting kind of tired. Is it easy to get behind? I’ve been trying to get behind for like two, three

00:48:56
years. I haven’t been able to get any. Oh, is this more your your potty mouth anal sex talk that you ruined the studio with? He encouraged Don. It was terrible. Yeah. All part of his plan. Don was remembering his his Navy days, you know. It was terrible. Yeah. Sorry, I I distracted everybody. I’m sorry. That was funny. It went on. John, did you want to share any stories of uh your time in the service out? Did you do any tours out in uh out in the middle Middle East or whatever? Yep. Nine times.

00:49:43
Marines, right? Yeah. Well, I’m uh I’m dual service. I I did my first four years and the rest of my career I was an army paratrooper. Oh, like Tucci. Yeah, I believe believe he was. You’ve always marines and army as well. I know of him, but I don’t know who he is. Really? Yeah, I’ve heard the name, but I just I I’m not familiar with with uh the person. He’s like one of the OGs of all this gangster [ __ ] Yeah. Yeah. A lot of people like got started with the whole thing because

00:50:31
they started watching you boy Zach. Oh yeah, that’s right. Yeah. Well, I was late to the game and uh I took my time figuring out kind of where I wanted to be in indie comics. So, and even then I still try to avoid uh drama as much as possible. Wait. And you wanted to be here? What? What the Oh, no. Well, wasn’t really wanting He was part of the drama because of who he was. He wasn’t really wanting to be in the drama all that much, right? Yeah. Who? Your boy. Yeah. Yeah. He’s not

00:51:10
He got sucked into it. Yeah. I mean, he got played. He moved out of the drama because he got like, “Oh, I don’t want to be on live streams.” And I was just at the end of him being I think I heard him on a live stream once and that was the end. I listen to now he’s got his whole other thing which is why unfortunately I’m not subscribed to him anymore. I just I’m not subscribed to him either. I couldn’t stomach his constant videos. I didn’t I didn’t mind that he was

00:51:38
taking now called the zeros so much. But I didn’t like that he was just trying to he was rolling all other re Republicans in with that like we were all terrible human beings. I’m like, “What are you doing? Aren’t you Wait, what?” Yeah. Aren’t you one of us? One of us. I mean, that was kind of the whole your whole point. And all those zeros are doing YouTube because of him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Yellow I I listen Well, I’m doing it because of him, too. I’ve listened to Yellow Flash. I don’t

00:52:15
you know now I don’t anymore because he was boring but I stopped a long ago but he had said that he started doing this because he will listen to your boy Zach that was like part of his origin and now Zach is giving him a hard time for not liking stuff. Yeah. I mean that was I was kind of Zach’s whole I don’t know. I mean he Caleb, he had some great videos back in the day and maybe he still got some videos, but I just can’t be bothered. Ethan said that. Yeah. Tearing up the comics right there

00:52:54
in the parking lot streaming from his phone and [  ] Yeah. What What was the point of that? You already bought the bank, so it’s like who who cares what you do with it now? Well, that Well, it was his it was his rebellion. It was his defiance. Yeah. It was a stickick. It was his [  ] It was his stick. He was the first one to do it. Yeah. Yeah. I’ve been meaning to I’ve been wanting to go to the gun range and take uh take it like a couple of shitty comics that are really gay or whatever uh or lame

00:53:26
and shoot them and shoot them up. Yeah. Yeah. And use that as an intro video. But I I don’t think you can do that on a live stream. You get struck videos. Yeah. Yeah. Ethan said that he’s scrubbing his whole channel that there’s gonna be nothing on there. Yep. Your boy Zach is It’s just called Comics Matter now. Oh, your boy Zack. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He’s been doing that for a while. Yeah. Yeah. He he he used to always just delete like old videos all the time. Yeah. Almost drive everybody crazy. Well,

00:54:08
sometimes I wonder if he he just does contrarian things that drive people crazy on purpose. I don’t know. I I wonder if he’s got like if or somebody’s documented all his videos from when he was a diversity in comics. Like if there’s anybody out there who’s like got all that stuff and made a channel, you know. What’s up, Peter? Oh, we summoned Peter. What’s going on, Peter? Yo, what we doing? How’s everyone? Yeah, doing good, man. Caleb, what’s going on, chat?

00:54:49
What’s going on? Shadow, where do we all? Guess it is 11 your time. I’m working on the hump day logos. I got two two ideas. too. I’m working on a Humpy logo myself. Dale told me I should be doing a a camel with a sexy chick. And so that’s going to be the next thing I work up. Make a couple of them. I was thinking out and buns out, you know. Yeah. I was thinking like a quasi quasimoto camel. Oh [ __ ] I was thinking of a crosseyed Superman camel like the guy who plays Superman. Oh man.

00:55:33
Is he Hey, Pete. Did you Pete, did you hear James de James James the original Jim Lee? James Lee, he made millions off of that Superman movie. Did he? He’s making millions. Every time Every time there’s a positive, he tweets of something. He retweets something about the movie. I wrote him a letter. This is how it should be, right? Yeah. Yeah. It’s like this. What’s their stock at? Is it even above $11? I don’t know, Pete. I’m just teasing because you’re here. No, I’m looking I’m gonna look it up

00:56:07
right now. Let’s see. I didn’t anybody see Did anybody watch Superman yet? Yeah. I’m gonna go watch it tomorrow. Yeah, I’m trying to remember you say you liking it. Yeah, I didn’t see it yet. I want to see it. I’m not nuts about like the guy that the whole like kind of like when Shane says, “Boy, the trailers really turned me off.” I’m kind of that I’m that really I like the the Captain America I mean the the Fantastic Four trailers better than Superman trailers and I think

00:56:34
I really like this Fantastic Four trailers either Pascal and everything right well no that that goes without saying but like the whole idea of the trailers like the the way that that six that 60s vibe was kind of neat. Yeah. I mean that that that was cool. I mean, whoever is doing the art, you know, I don’t even really like I don’t really like Fantastic. It was cool that they’re they’re bringing in the whole Fantastic 4, that goofy Hervey the robot they had in the 80s. That’s cool to have him in there.

00:57:10
But I don’t know. I just something about it just I guess burnt out. I don’t really like Well, nobody likes PJ Pascal. Why? In any movies, I’m not sure. But I’m not that crazy. I’m not that I think I think Pedro’s I I really think Pedro’s fine. I mean, he’s he’s he’s an actor, you know, like Yeah. I mean, he he’s just tired of seeing him in everything that’s coming out. Yeah. But he but he sells though. Like he’s like what what has he been in that

00:57:39
wasn’t successful? What has he been in that he’s been really the star of? The Last of Us. I like Game of Thrones. He’s not the star of The Last of Us no more. When that Wonder Woman movie was bad, 84 movie was bad. He was in it. Yeah. Like it still made money though. That’s the thing. Yeah, I like that movie too. And um that was also movie, but there was no sequel after that. Yeah. 84 was exceedingly woke because they let Patty Jenkins do what she wants. They didn’t let her do what she wants in the

00:58:16
first movie and everybody loved it. They let her go in the next movie and and then that’s why it it has nothing to do with how much money it made or didn’t make. Um, you know, you know, they the only reason why this is the way it is is it’s a backlash against Man of Steel and uh Batman vers Superman. That was such a dark take on Superman that they had to redo it with like brighter colors. I mean, they have to because that’s just you look at it and you put the two characters next to

00:58:50
each other and one guy looks like Superman and one guy looks like well Superman’s teenage son, but the is in the costumes, you know. Yeah. Both of their costumes seem to fit them correctly as well. Well, they they CGIed his muscles to make sure it fit. You didn’t like Superman, right? Uh, no. I mean, it’s I think it’s it’s it’s not great and it’s not like terrible. It’s It’s really in the middle. But the one observation with with with Superman that I don’t know everyone missed is

00:59:29
that James Gun literally like if you’ve seen enough James Gun movies and you know you know his movies. Yeah. Well, no. I mean he uses um like he uses stuff from every single one of his like previous movies into this movie. like he um he I think he recycles a lot and I don’t know if that was like out of convenience or out of him thinking you know he’s like doing like the greatest hits of and and people will respond to it but uh you know everything from like you know like giant eyeball gag uh a room

01:00:07
full of video game players uh to control drones like pretty much uh it’s it’s a lot of stuff But I I didn’t think the movie was engaging. I just wasn’t like into it. Some people are though. You saw it? Yeah. Was that you saw it? There’s a Yeah, I saw Yeah, I saw it last uh you can see James Gun through and through if you watch both the Suicide Squad movies and obviously if you watch u Guardians of the Galaxy, but the the Suicide Squads movies are so cookie cutter, but they’re fun. Like they’re not not good,

01:00:47
you know? I thought they were fun. I think somebody was what was it just oh they were saying on the pontificators I was listening to them earlier and one you know Clint Helinsky really liked it and he was saying well this Superman it was refreshing that he wasn’t the inspiration he was just another superhero and other super but like my Superman’s inspirational like it’s he’s an inspirational character and he aspirational and inspirational like he’s the leader he’s the OG of the

01:01:19
superheroes period. Yeah. Make him not I mean they I know they made a Supergirl like DC Comics did which you know ultimately is really a mistake because she should be the only one left. Well yeah or that’s 50 you can’t get away from having a Supergirl now. Yeah. Or there there can be a Supergirl. She just can’t be Kryptonian. Right. Right. Yeah. Which which they did in Crisis. They changed her. Yeah. because John how well that worked out. That’s because John Burn may made her decide when he took over he decided that

01:01:55
there’s only Superman. There isn’t a bunch of differentience. But then um Jeff Loe, so Jeff Lube, right, and team Michael Turner, Aspen Comics, they they did the genius move of their Supergirl was Kryptonian, but she was from uh Kandahar. She was from Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. And that’s like but that’s also where the within the comics, right? like that’s when they leaned into the s silver age and it’s kind of like it was a a lot of good reads but it kind of decompressed and then you they brought in crypto like

01:02:34
they kind of brought in all of these like uh more fun elements and yeah they had like a couple really good storylines and it it just it never carried over from that point on though you know and um like that’s why you have to respect the work of John Burn because the way he set it up is the way to continue it and you have to stay away from the silver age. You have to stay away from the golden age. So John Burn got really pissed at TC because and we he was on it three years but he wrote all the he wrote and drew

01:03:09
two of the comics even he took over even three of the comics. So he really did like five or six years of work on it. Yeah. Amount of time. But then all of a sudden they started DC started promoting not his Superman, they promoted what was a silver age Superman and he was like, “What the heck are you doing?” Well, Superman, John, there’s the one we do in the comics and the one that’s on everybody’s under right. Yeah. And and if you look at the animation, you look at the Super Bowl TV

01:03:41
series, um like the Ruby Spears stuff, like it all of that technically should have been like the John Burn universe and it it like it wasn’t, you know, and um No, I get that. But look, he he he set it up and it lasted like, you know, until the 2010s. I mean, it’s it’s it’s one hell of a run. The whole the Snyder krypton krypton was from John Burn. Uh yeah. Yeah. Like borrowed a lot. Yeah. Cuz like like you can kind of argue that the codeex is John Burn called that the Matrix. Like there’s

01:04:23
there’s there’s very easy uh overlays and the um like I don’t know like it I I I do like Man of Steel. I I like that movie through and through. Uh it’s hard not to compare the two of them. Like it’s unless you’re Rob Lifel who says they’re both excellent to me. Yeah. Because Rob has like no taste of anything. He just he says I’m gonna cheer up for Hollywood because I live in live in Hollywood. He my son’s in Hollywood and he wants to be an actor and I’m not going to sit

01:04:59
there and ruin an actor. Unless you’re Marvel because Marvel I didn’t get that free drinks at a party. Even though I’m a 57 year old man, I’m gonna [ __ ] like a 15. Yeah. Geez. Tell us how you really feel. I don’t I don’t really I at first I was like, “Oh, I like him online.” And I’m decided he does. He goes after people hard. Yeah. He he um you know like when he went over uh after Greg Capollo and Scott Snider for the New 52 Pac-Man you know like while those

01:05:34
two guys really were injecting like new lore, new characters, like new mythology and it was it just worked. Everyone loved it. And he like when he went and he like would you know put out the DMs like right away and you know Scott Snider was like dming him while he’s like freaking out online. He’s like hey is this performative or or like are you really like pissed off type? Yeah. And and dude, like it kind it I think that was that was one of those moments where you’re like, “Wow,

01:06:10
like this guy really is, you know, he like he’s convinced that like everything that happened with him with Extreme Studios was like somehow wasn’t um like his books were guaranteed sales no matter what.” like, you know, and and it’s not like people were buying those books because they followed the stories and and like that’s a major disconnect. And I I just feel like he he thinks what people didn’t buy those books for the stories. Yeah. Yeah. But but but from his perspective, you know, like it’s it’s

01:06:50
like he um like he he doesn’t respect the reason why those books sold, you know, like he it’s because of him and his characters and his designs and you know, like you know, if if if he’s such a great creation machine, uh who cares if he lost the rights for Young Blood? Like create the new Young Blood. Like can’t do it. like now like he’s holding on to Kodiak from the New Men and characters that no one cared about. Like it’s it’s it’s it’s really weird. Like I and everything he’s doing now, I

01:07:24
don’t get the uh selling 50 issues a night on whatnot and pretending that it’s, you know, next level sales. It’s that’s just it’s just lies. I didn’t like what he said about he was on with Malar and then he was said about what he said about like John Ramita Jr. first took over and it says blocky blocky blocky. Everybody look like our other artists like unless they get in big dispute usually you’re not sitting there behind their back picking on them. That’s not something artists

01:07:58
usually do to each other. I don’t know. I’ve seen a lot of artists on the internet the past few years, Marcus. Yeah, but you’re still not supposed to do that. He’s not supposed to be one of those guys. Yeah, that’s what I mean. Especially the guys who are not involved. Like if you’re involved with the whole CG thing and you’re ripping other artists, like that’s a John Men thing, you know? That’s not something everybody should be doing. Yeah. Yeah. You would think Rob Lifewood

01:08:28
would be like way above that, right? Because of the status he Right. kind of cultivated, right? The Right. Right. Like he he’s got a huge following and go ahead. I I do feel like there is something to the point that if you go through Extreme Studios, only a few of those guys uh stayed in comics. And if you look at if you compare, you know, like the comic book boring talent staying in comics, if you compare Extreme Studios to uh Wild Storm Productions, uh like it’s very I mean it like you

01:09:05
really have Pino like Penosian the only one but he he did work for Wild Storm too. He was more like a freelance guy. Um, but like you know, like some people can say Fraga, but but Fraga uh, you know, like he’s he’s he’s only done a little bit outside of like the Rob Liyfeld career and the Rob Lifeeld guys did not continue careers in comic books and you kind of want to say like did did they get burned out and they just took the first opportunity and like just never looked back. So, I don’t know.

01:09:45
I listened to Joe Mad’s uh interview, speaking of which, get back into comics, and he basically said that he’s now too slow to do comics. Yeah. Well, he was too slow when when he was He was always too slow, right? Yeah. Yeah. Because he never really Yeah. You know, he he wasn’t they never made him at Marvel. He was an intern and so he was sweeping up and and and he and he learned by being there but they never really made him they never made him a Rita Raider. You know that’s the oddest

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thing. It really those guys used to help me out a lot and they just one day his style hit and they hired him and you know he did a lot of those comics without knowing exactly what he was doing. He was saying he loved doing them and he loved comics but you know it was kind of interesting how that well that’s also the unintended consequence of the image era where that is the image that’s exactly right you know that that in-house like this is how you’re going to learn like this is how you’re going to do it this is how we

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do it here um that type of environment you know the image because every it was almost like they didn’t know what to do it’s like like we have to draw in this whole new style. People love it. It sells a lot of comics, but then it’s like the institutionalized style that could get comics done monthly went away, you know, and it it created a a vacuum. And there there there’s a lot of guys now that I look at like Dave um Dave Hoover, Paul Ryan, and I just feel bad. Like I I I feel like horrible because

01:11:31
they’re they’re cross-hatching. They shouldn’t be cross-hatching. It’s not Alex Savia. Yeah. Right. Yeah. You know, his style all of a sudden he’s got cross-hatching all over his layouts on Spider-Man and you know that’s not how he draws, right? Yeah. What’s wrong with crosshatching? Well, no, there was a cross-hatching and there was an image style that guys were doing that they weren’t image style artists that the editor editorial was telling them to do. I’m cross-hatching the [ __ ] out of this.

01:12:05
Yeah. You guys better not hear Doug Bacon talk about this. Yeah, but what’s natural for like Duck Bacon wouldn’t be natural for Alex Savia at that point. Yeah. And they’re they’re all digital, you know. They were forcing everybody to crosshatch, right? They were Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I wouldn’t say they were forcing I I would say like well editorial I think they editorial well either they like it was the big Herb Trippy thing and everybody said why did Herb do that and it’s Herb had

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claimed that editorial never told them but to get work he tried to do his best you know Rob Lifel imitation you know and then it’s it’s I think Mark Sylvestri commented on that also didn’t he? He said uh like back in those night in the 90s he uh he spent a lot of time imitating Jim Lee style that he didn’t really embrace his own. Well, yeah, but yeah, because previously his style was much more based on semma. Yeah, he was up with with Conane and and all that stuff or Savage. He was on

01:13:10
Savage sword. I kind of forget. But yeah, but it’s um I would say it was it’s the other way around. If if when you look at the timeline, Jim Lee and Wels Bertacio are are imitating Mark Sylvester and Dane Green from uh Uncane the X-Men. Yeah. Yeah. Like it’s if if if you lay it all out and you know it kind of makes sense when when you go into like the Birth of Homage Studios and those two guys like basically renting out a entire like office building. Um, and then like when they break away, you kind of want to say

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that um, you know, like I think Jim Lee was learning way more from Mark Sylvester because Mark Sylvester, if you look at his timeline on Cyber Force like it’s Mark there’s more Mark Sylvester in Cyberforce than like Jim Lee is in Wildcats like after issue uh, five. Well, Sylvest was, you know, Sylvester was the older artist. I mean, not Jim Felino. He was the older guy and he was the guy who had work before any of them in Marvel for years. He did he did Spider-Man, web Spider-Man. He did Revenge of the Monolith Limited

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um graphic novel. Dude, I still I still think Valentino has the best Guardians of the Galaxy. I really do. dur during that time. A little comment on uh on Sylvestri at when they move off to Homeish Studios and they uh they get Cyber Force one and two and Wildcats one and two. Mark Sylvester starts playing catchup and once they do that crossover, Mark Sylvester starts emulating Jim Lee and there’s that little two, three year window where Sylvester is trying to do what Jim is doing because Jim is so good

01:15:12
at it, right? No, they were they weren’t imitating each I don’t know if that’s like the right way to phrase that. They were they were working like they were No, no. I I Mark Mark said in an interview he’s like, “Yeah, I started kind of trying to do more gimmlys or he there’s an interview I saw where Yeah, but that but that that could just mean like a panel or two or like a pose or two. Um, I got the impression that he was like he was referring to his style like his entire style back in the 90s was so

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trying to do his trying his attempt at imitating uh Jim Lee’s rather than doing his own stuff. That’s what I understood from it. Yeah, but you saw that same interview then, huh? Yeah. But I think so. Yeah. Go ahead. But with with some of this, you have to consider that they’re sharing anchors, they have assistance, like they’re sharing a lot of the same resources. And you know, Williams was on Sylvester for, you know, for a little bit, too. Like Scott Williams uh could have chosen

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between Jim Lee and and Mark Sylvestri. So like that’s where the the line work and the line weights and that’s the separation of um you know penciling versus inking you know and um but Jim Lee had uh like yeah for sure like his his combination of proportions and uh just the time he was willing to put into the pages uh dwarfed even Mark Sylvestri you know and and I would say even like uh like throughout the years. Like Sebestri makes better choices on his pages to to get them done. Yeah. Like

01:16:52
like you you’ll see he’s very economic when it comes to like 22 24 pages. But Jim Lee, it’s almost like every single page is just this like like eyeball [  ] And it doesn’t have to be. Yeah. Like is that a technical term? Yeah. Right. The [  ] of the eyeball is important. Yes. Like so Jim would put in the 12 hours to do the page and and everybody else kind of shooting for the eight to 10. Yeah. Jim was a beast back in the day, man. This stuff was two hours. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

01:17:29
You think he works on his pages as long now? Wow. I saw there was one page two that I looked at was great. Yeah. Well, he maybe spend more time on the next issue because he’s he’s a month behind. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think I think the next one’s going to be two months. Two or three months and then books. Late books. Who has late books? It’s not five years late. What’s the difference? Yeah. I I I would kill for a two-month delay. Yeah. Right. Well, everyone, I think I’m going to

01:18:06
bounce out of here because I’m really busy. What What’s the time frame that you need these camel illustrations? going to give it a month or so. A day. Okay. No rush. Oh, okay. Well, I guess I didn’t need to work. I’m going to name I’m going to name uh pizza two weeks. So, uh yeah, like two weeks. Everyone just You got two weeks in in two weeks. I think two weeks is generous. Should be like Can I Can I show what I got so far, Dale? Absolutely. Yes, sir. Love. All right. So, I’m kind of going

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high concept on this one. So, the idea is I’ll have this such and and then I I’ll be able to put different illustrations inside the outline of the camel so you can have different different things going on in there. Yeah, that’s my idea anyhow. I like it. Very cool, sir. Very cool. Yeah. All right. Well, you guys have a good night and I will see you next week. See you. Have a good night, Dale. See you later, buddy. I thought he never leaves. Yeah. Yeah. No, I love Dale. I just like to say

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these stupid things. Yeah. Yeah. I have to be on I have to get it out now. I have to be on my best behavior for Joe Sante. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, he’ll fire it right back at you. No, I’m sure. But I want to kind of establish that first before I start. Well, I wouldn’t make fun of Joe. I wouldn’t make fun of Joe anyway. I mean, you know, he’s got a great comic book. Thank you. You know, I always thought for the longest time that Kayla was his wife. Oh, yeah. That’s funny. Yeah. when CG you could never know.

01:20:07
No, she’s right. Wife train. So, Marcus, are you going to work on getting Queen Mickey on or what do or do I have to shout out to her? I’m not gonna get Queen Mickey on. I don’t know what to think about Queen Mickey to be honest with you. She’s She’s a whale. We got to get her on Queen Mickey. You know you know people go, “What’s the deal about Queen Mickey?” Two things. Gary Martin wants to sleep with her and she buys a lot of art. Oh. Oh, I thought it was the other the

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two things. Her tits. One tit. Oh, well that goes without saying. Oh. Oh, okay. But she the self-proclaimed queen of CG, right? Yeah, she got away with that. That was funny. She’s always said that and and but when people say they don’t like her and she’s a grifter, you’re kind of like, well, that’s kind of true, too. We don’t know why she spends money. She spends money now. She spends she at the beginning she didn’t spend money. She spends money now. Oh, I see. And she spends money like basically on

01:21:14
the gray beards, not so much anywhere else. Oh, that is true. That is true. And she’s bought a lot of stuff from Gary. She really likes that his stuff. Now, now is Gary wants to sleep with her. Is that what you’re saying? That’s a joke. Well, wait. Gary, you know, because I don’t Gary doesn’t really want He never said that, but Oh. Oh. Oh. Little flirtation. You imagine. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, because she’s a girl, right? There’s not many of them. Got a giant rat.

01:21:49
Yeah. Exactly. She’s got those uh attributes and there’s a bunch of things that like just do you observe like uh like you know I can’t I love Katie did and hope she comes in but you know I can’t figure her out either like who if you come into CG like one thing about TG and her fans most of the fans are creators right at some way some level and she’s got a good following she’s got a good fan base. Yeah, she does her anime stuff. She does really good. People People see in the community what

01:22:31
she does for everybody and people support I know. I don’t understand why everybody’s mad at her. She did so much crap. Why would Why are they What does she do though? Like why why would they be pissed? I don’t know. Thought for herself. It’s like a Matt Bar thing. Uh what’ you say, John? Said probably just thought for herself. probably. But I think she has a crush on on uh on Dan Lawless. That’s my my observation. I’ve almost said I think I said that once out loud and nobody paid attention

01:23:09
to me. I posted it. I didn’t really say it. She’s really nice. So I I don’t understand why people on her so much. Yeah, every other week she has some posting that in and years, you know. Hey, look, and I’m and I’m all for a good ribbon and a good joke and you know, I even I’ve said stupid stuff. But what’s really funny, I don’t mean it like I don’t I don’t mean you could go you could go you could go in her chat and and she’s got there’s a ton of a ton of wrenches and you could

01:23:45
post who you want and she’s never going to say, “Well, I there’s certain people she you can’t post. But we know who they are. But for the most part, you know, you could post anybody. You know, I could go there. I’ve done it. I’ve gone over and posted Elliot’s links there. Yeah. And nobody says you’re not you can’t post those leaks because it’s all open to any promotion, any CG promotion, you know. And she pose she she really helps out our buddy Apex here.

01:24:17
Yeah. Maybe it’s the I don’t know. Jealous of the of her clipping all the videos. I don’t know. No, Elliot, I think it’s people get jealous because she got such a huge uh following. She got a following really quickly. Yeah. Within like a month or two, she she got to like 12,000 subs. I think that’s what it has to do with a lot of it. Yeah, I think so, too. and like and she’s called out because she’s promoting everybody and clipping and then Ethan liked her so I want to hire her. She’s

01:24:52
never was hired. She doesn’t work for him, right? People like really get into that and they never forget anything and there was some that helped her build a channel too, right? Because Ethan Oh yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. But what about what about that that whole thing with the anime she liked or something? I don’t know enough about Yeah. It’s controversial. funny, but it’s dumb. I mean, I I hate to say that it’s funny, but it’s it’s a little bit funny, but it’s dumb, you know?

01:25:22
Like, who cares? It’s just an anime. It’s not even It’s not a real thing. No, I know. And then they say awful things. I mean, they say things that could that are almost lielist that they could get sued over some of the things. Yeah, there’s a lot of that going around. So, graphic. Yeah. Yeah. It’s unbelievable. Oh, the memes and the AI stuff. Yeah. Oh, [ __ ] I know. At some point, it’s got to stop. But, you know, that’s what happens when you have a free This is supposed to be

01:25:57
kind of a free speech. It wasn’t like it before you had to be careful. Now, not so much. Right. It’s the internet, too, right? So, I mean, people are going to mean the [  ] out of whatever they want. I mean, I saw like some What was that? Gojo [  ] put you on that list of doing a really good comic, Elliot, and then other people like said, “Take you off.” Remember that? That was Yeah. Yeah, that was that was recently, man. That was I saw that thread. I don’t like I did a comment I did a comment back. I

01:26:30
did a comment back for Dojo cuz uh I know he’s he’s getting back from uh he stepped away from comics because of the drama stuff that he was involved in, but then he’s trying to come back and like the last thing I would want for him is to as soon as he gets back get into more drama. I was like, man, yeah, I I didn’t comment on any of that stuff. I just let that guy talk whatever he wanted. these guys who got the drama, him and Brian Kriscow and all these guys, if they don’t like certain people, they

01:26:59
should just just maybe say it once and then that’s it because it’s just going to get you torn up on Trash Cast. If you don’t want to be on it, then don’t don’t say anything. I mean, you know, there’s a high road. That’s insane. The guy jumps into the thread, starts attacking uh me and Jake, and then he calls us drama farmers. An idiot. Yeah. Well, he’s a big rip guy, right? Yeah. That guy’s been drama farmers. That’s uh that’s Flint Flossy, baby. That guy’s been off the internet before

01:27:45
for bad behavior. Now, who that enlightened guy? Yeah. Oh, I didn’t know that. Yeah. And he got docked at the, you know, he’s now he’s trying to review comics and behave. I think basically I think he said really bad stuff to people. Not like what what happened with you. You know who’s the biggest the biggest guy here who who’s gotten the most amount of hate that’s on this panel? over. Pete. Pete. Pete. Yeah, Pete got blocked by Rob Lifeel. I I get blocked by a lot of people.

01:28:25
No, I’m just kidding. Pete, everybody loves Pete. No, don’t block Pete. Did you? I love Pete. Who else blocked you, Pete? Let’s go to the All-Star. Who blocked Pete? Um, well, before like any of the um the real drop. Todd doesn’t care about you, does he? Like all of the kayf stuff. All those guys block me. Uh, I think German. Oh, Kay Fabe guys hated you. I loved your Kayfabe because I watched them. I like them, but I but after a while I was like, you know, you guys are full of [ __ ]

01:28:56
Yeah. And then um you know, like some other people that I kind of called out and and that’s because you like them, right, Pete? You’re not like you called them out, but you still like them, right? Well, the K. Oh, yeah. I mean I mean it’s like like if you call someone out it’s it could be like hey um you know like like things aren’t what they appear or this person you know maybe is like a real grifter or they’re they’re um you know like they’re they’re just not 100%. or like dude like

01:29:30
like technically I called out a guy from Forbes today and Mark Wade and the the um the guy that wrote the article left a comment in my page like you know and um yeah because because they they went down the route that Superman is an immigrant and I’m like well if you go through the silver age the silver age Superman has he’s not has a social security number. It’s like issue 306. And then uh John Burn um Superman like when he when he crashes in Kansas, he uh when the pod opens, it gives birth to

01:30:14
That’s right. That’s right. to to to the baby. So, you know, like it’s Superman is is birthed inside the USA, right? So yeah, like Yeah, I got to make a video on that. Yeah, like and I keep a list because there’s there’s a lot. And I’m not saying I’m like the final say because I you know Pete Pete, don’t take away my dream of of Superman being an immigrant, being one of me, one of my people, what are you doing, Pete? Well, yeah. And this guy is like, you know, he’s

01:30:49
he’s very friendly. He’s he’s he’s an Eisner nominated uh journalist, but he’s he’s good with Mark Wade and he’s um you know like the entertainment pop culture side for Forbes Entertainment and you know so yeah but like I’ll call that out though and then like I I messaged them. I’m like, “Look, dude.” I’m like, “There is no ill will. Like, this is like a fun little like call out, but um you know, there there’s like another perspective. So, here like here we go

01:31:20
type stuff, you know.” And some people are good with it and some people aren’t, you know, like the Kape guys weren’t good with it. No. Wait, wait, can he be an immigrant still and have a social security number? I mean, what does it even matter? Well, no. I mean, it’s just calling him an immigrant because that’s just the the current catchphrase for everybody. Yeah. After the climate. Yeah, I know. I know. Yes. Got rid of the whole problem by having him born in the United States.

01:31:51
Yeah. He’s through the pod. Inside the pod. Yeah. But we know that’s not how it really happened. He was already a baby when daddy sent him off from Krypton. That’s how That’s how we know it happened. He was already born. John Burn, you got it wrong. How did you do that? Yeah. And I’m just kidding, guys. You know I’m kidding, right? Yeah. Just messing around. Yeah. Yeah. He uh Everybody went so quiet. I was like, I’m just kidding, guys. Like, no. No. I think the Kayf guys

01:32:30
that was a that was definitely a co a co YouTube thing like nobody had anything to do and they they zeitgeist during co and and they and boy they they like they like some really bad artwork. Holy crap. Yeah. And um two two of my friends just interviewed Tom Skioli. Yeah. And you know, so like I I watch that and I’m watching the [ __ ] interview and I’m just like texting him and I’m like, “Dude, I’m like why why can you not press him on?” Because like like Tom Scaly’s like, “Well, you know,

01:33:09
like I tried drawing pages for uh for Marvel after I did God and I wanted to do Iron Man and and wanted to commit to doing pages and see if I could do it.” And it’s almost like Tom like like like like co and that’s why I cannot talk to these people because I I I would just be like Tom like when did you think you were at that level like your your whole niche is I cannot draw and the people like there was like an underground indie thing about that like that’s the whole thing with them. That’s

01:33:43
absolutely right. They were underground artists. And what happened especially with Ed, I don’t know about Jim, but particularly with Ed is that he created that that woozy winks and and they went around comics to book publishing. And book publishing will publish anything. You know, you don’t have like McFarland or John Ba or any of these people that get a comic. It doesn’t even look like a comic book. They will publish avantgard stuff. And there’s a bunch of artists that do that and yeah rug is one of them and and they

01:34:20
are they are want to be underground comics. Underground comics aren’t always good. No, there I think they made it popular for having zero illability to illust like illustrate and they kind of brain like they poison people to thinking like oh like I got zero ability and then I’m still I’m still going to make an entertaining comic book. It’s like no you’re not like was pretty wild. Yeah, but that’s Joe Casey though. Jok I didn’t think that I mean there’s certain things that

01:34:58
Tom Shioli can do. Marvel a straight Marvel comic is not one of them. Yeah. And but he also surrendered like he gave up his style like everything he does like it doesn’t it and he’s like oh I’m just all about the ideas. It’s like well you know what like why don’t you draw like forms like why like why don’t Well, he pretty much does that. I mean, he he does that. His stuff like God was trying to be Kirby and so it worked. There was that goofy Kirby thing and he did that with Transformers and he did

01:35:31
that with that awful awful um whatever that ex that Fantastic 4 archive thing that he did. The um yeah the um what was it? The uh whatever they call them. I forgot. The teeny tiny panels that they all grain design. Yeah. O, that was bad. I didn’t think X-Men game design was any good either. They gave these guys the jobs to like streamline the history of these characters and like he basically had Franklin as Prince Neyar’s son, not not Reed’s son in that. I’m like, who the hell is he? What the what are you doing?

01:36:11
Yeah. And that’s kind of where again too like like they kind of take themselves off the hook. They’re like, “Well, we’re just about the I, you know, like the ideas. I wanted to get all the ideas out there and and and stuff like that.” And he talks about these like, you know, he did these backup stories for like superpowers. So, he did like like this whole like expanded like superpowers like universe. Yeah. Right. Yeah. But then he’s like, I had 20 years worth of stories. And then like his

01:36:40
first story is like toy story with superpower toys. And it’s like [ __ ] that, dude. Like it like, you know, like like it’s not it’s it’s not just like just because I say it’s a good idea or it’s like it’s like comics for New York Times readers. Yeah. Yeah. It’s it’s a little bit like that. But I do feel like the whole school aspect and chasing bookstores. Uh I think I think that that type of format is probably more destructive than than the movie pitch era cuz like we kind of went from like every

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comic every indie comic being a pitchfor movie to every comic book having to get into Scholastic. Like those Yeah. because Bone was such a big hit in Schoolic and nothing is woker than those books in Scholastic at this point, you know? That’s the real market, too, though. Like, that’s that’s I know that my kids got tons of books from school as Yeah. How do you think Harry Potter Harry Potter is so big to so many to so many generations? Because it’s in Scholastic every week. The same

01:37:53
book comes every week. Goosebumps, all that stuff. Yeah. Goosebumps. Marvelous. DC never really cracked that. You know, John Burn had some Batman things in there. Simple Batman like that he was hired to do, but other than that, they’ve ne they’ve had some of their goofy superhero things, but they’ve never really had, you know, the things that are in there. Like you could get Watchman or Dark Dark in the older version in it, but regular comic is not in there at all. Yeah. And the funny thing is it’s like,

01:38:30
oh, like they have to be graphic novels really. It’s almost like Scholastic can also sell regular comic books, but that that’s they go, why is such a big deal? Because that’s why Dave Hickley has been in Scholastic since he had Captain Underpants. My kids have a calculator on their handbook. He’s in schoolastic every single week. And the kids and it’s and the kids love that. Yeah. They’re not going to the comic store. They got the Scholastic book thing coming in. Yeah. Or like dog like the dog,

01:39:02
right? That’s where that all comes from. Where is it sold? It’s rain tamire. That’s all in Scholastic. That is not like they’re not all going to Barnes & Noble and picking that up. They’re seeing it in that in that thing for school for the kids that get in school. And that’s nothing and it’s nothing like and nothing the crowdfunders even the bigger crowdfunders have not been able to crack that. It bone did Bone’s the one the comic and and some of the comics like Darkhor stuff or the um Star Wars

01:39:36
stuff is in there too. Yeah. Like the the bigger problem. Yeah. Cuz like Star Wars had a whole um you know like young adult line too like Yeah. like Clone Wars and you know uh guy named Tom Hodgers um all those weird all those weird gender bending things are in Scholastic. That’s where they’re getting it all and that’s where the libraries order those books from. See Dale should have stayed. This would have been a good conversation for him. He’d like this. Get back in here, Dale.

01:40:13
Poor evil Ginger’s falling asleep. I’m good. I’m alive. It’s just interesting. But that’s where like I don’t know. I watch a lot of Kayfabe and then I’m like these guys don’t because I know a lot of stuff. So like these guys are wrong. Yeah, they were wrong. They’re not right about everything. And they were I would put something in there about George F. ago. George Rez never he inked with the pitigraphs and and Ed was like no he ink with microns and in the early 70s there were no there were no

01:40:47
I was gonna say yeah no yeah and I think microns they were um a Italian company first and oh I forget the name but you used to be able to dig those up on eBay because they were like um they had like a whole different line and somehow they just like fell fell into place with the um fabric castle and then Right. Right. That’s right. Yeah. And um but I don’t I don’t think he in I think that he didn’t ink. I think he inked with the piggraphs. They didn’t look like microns to me.

01:41:20
No, there’s there’s it’s like telling me I’m wrong. I go, “Dude, you don’t know as much as I do.” Yeah, there’s I think there’s pictures of Wizard magazine during uh Avengers um volume three. volume three issue one when there’s like pictures of him in wizard at the drawing table holding a rapid. Yeah, I think you’re right. Yeah, here’s like the gold standard back in the day. There was nothing if you could afford them. I had the comics. I hated you doing croquill and dip like

01:41:59
it was pedographs when I was in college. I hated those things. All they did was couldn’t get them to work, right? And EBS used to draw with those. He did all his whole heroes work with those. Yeah. Because they couldn’t he couldn’t handle using a pen or a brush. Yeah. Or a brush. He said today he tried a nib and it was just awful. And he never got into a brush. I don’t know how he if you look at his line work I don’t know how EVS like his pages even during the holy heroes days just seem like you know 12

01:42:37
15 20our p pages like I don’t know how they like that now yeah I mean like but see I think now it’s like his his process is optimized like kind if you watch how he layers his his drawing it’s very Basically what he does more than anybody else is he just like puts scribble lines in blue and then draws in ink. But there’s so many little draw little lines on his drawings that which is why sometimes and is that once in a while sometimes his characters look posed as opposed to flowing because he’s

01:43:13
not drawing out like drawing like all over the page like with a with a center line of action and and you know like the how to draw comics the Maraway style. Yeah. either the scribble style or the And so, but that’s how he does it. That’s not a criticism. It’s just he does it different. Yeah. Some of the other guys draw. Is he moving differently? Moving differently. Yeah. Like Andy Smith. Oh, he has to do the same. He puts the the I think of these things going on with the chat. Let’s see. Caleb

01:43:56
says, um, recently watched Solo Leveling and then, hey, Mike. Mike’s in the chat. How’s it going? Hey, dropping a like, share, and say hi. Thanks, Mike. Much appreciated, sir. So, so th this isn’t the Hall of Heroes stuff. I just pulled these out earlier. Got the got Cyber Frog 3, two, and and two copies of issue one. But so you think this stuff was rapid. If it’s the first one, I would assume you Yeah, if it’s if it’s Hall of Heroes. Yeah. No, this is a Harris comics. Oh, Har. Yeah, I’m not. Maybe like I

01:44:38
like I would say maybe he it’s still Yeah, I’m I’m a little less familiar with the Harris stuff. Yeah, it’s good though. I mean, yeah, it’s hard. It’s so hard to tell with the coloring too sometimes. Looks a little blurry on this [ __ ] But the thing about you can get away with the It’s like Todd McFaran like to ink with a 102 nib. That’s what like Wimson likes to ink with that. Yeah. 102. I don’t like the 102. I was I never liked them. I like the 107 if I’m

01:45:13
going to use a nib. Um, but but the reason why the brush is such a big deal for superhero for these comics is because the printing process sucked so badly that you couldn’t get any little lines in. So why would they use a nib? Why would you illustrative nib? It wasn’t going to publish anyway. So it all got into being thick lined and a lot of blacks so that the newspapers can print it like Milk Knife or something. That’s really why the brush is a big deal. Damn, look at that. Thank you.

01:45:51
You want to share anything, bud? Yeah, I’m I’m working on uh Supreme and Glory. Nice. Nice. Is that for Rob Lifeeld? Yeah, I’m in I’m in one of the Facebook groups. Figured since I had some free time, figured I’d try to participate a little bit. Sweet. I am I’m also blocked. Yeah, I’m also blocked from that Facebook group. That’s great, dude. That him uh Yeah, Terry Lal, the guy that runs it uh blocked me. Sweet. Oh, that looks great. What’s that? This is one of those times we didn’t

01:46:36
have a guest and so I didn’t know what to draw. So, this is my charact World War II character, Liberty. I published a guy wrote it a few years ago and we gave uh it was like a free graphic novel. We all did eight pages. What was it? 10 pages or something. And uh I drew Nazi symbols and everything. Are you Are you doing a book for that? No. No, not right now. I I haven’t drawn him in forever. I have I put the pages up but without the lettering, but I got to scan in the p the book. I have like

01:47:08
one book. It it supposedly costs like 10 bucks, but we all are going to be It has a forward by Eric Larson. It’s before Larson went nuts. Yeah, I was gonna say, yeah, no, this guy met him at a con and became friends with him. And this guy was a real writer. A real writer. I mean, he wrote coffee table book about um um Alfred Hitchcock and all sorts of books like J about New Jersey. He’s a journalist. I’m not have any connection with them now, but and I was going to do a second story and they did a two, but I

01:47:38
wasn’t in the two, but I was doing a image pitch with Darren Wagner, you know, demifut and and then I got a job at AT&T at AT&T and moved to North Carolina and I was working so much like 60 70 hours a week and uh move, you know, they you know, I had to go to Louisiana and work and I took it with me and he’s like, “You take too long.” I’m like, “Dude, I’m working. We’ll figure it out. Just let me work through. I had like 10 pages that I did for them. We lost Elliot.

01:48:08
Free. Everything I do is free. Not on purpose. So, I didn’t get a chance. My bad, guys. You’re good. Yeah, I was. I just said we lost you. Sorry. Start over. Start over, Marcus. Yeah. Start over, Marcus. What were you saying? Okay. So, this character is creating a battle in the bulge. Oh, no, no. Yeah, I I got Yeah. Yeah. And And I drew tanks and stuff and uh I created the Panzer Vulk uh an android uh android um Nazi robot cyborg. Hey Elliot, in case you didn’t know, this is Marcus’s character and this is

01:48:48
his comic that he made back in uh what year was this Marcus? Whatever it says that we did that that was a free story for that publisher, Steve Busty, to be in that in that. Is that for real? Are you for real? We helped the publisher pay and Joe to do the cover. Wow. Yeah. You did the art. I didn’t do the cover. I did the art on the inside. Yeah. Which is right here. This is Marcus here. And I did I I didn’t do the coloring. I did the lettering. This is uh is this indie? Yeah. Yeah. Back then it was. Yeah.

01:49:28
Wow. I don’t even Yeah, he’s somebody. So, this is Flash Flashback Comics. Yeah, he publish comics. He had Where can we get Where can we get that? You can you can find eBay, Amazon. Oh, nice. It’s about I think it’s running like 14 bucks. But if you can find issue number one of Captain Courage, uh Peter, you have it, right? Peter has it. It’s like $50. That one’s hard to find. Right before he got blocked by from Amazon. So, he’s blocked. I became me and the writer became really

01:50:14
good friends. We were working for this. We were working inking. He was writing and I was inking for this play and this all we were at this comic convention at Ramapo and this po this this uh we were showing some work to this publisher and he goes, “Oh, I I need a retro story.” So, we came up with that kind of Flash Gordon story and then um so we did that and then we started going to cons like me and him and we created our own Courageous Studios because the character we just had had an iconic look. Yeah.

01:50:44
Yeah. And then uh so we had a lot of cons and stuff and we decided we needed to publish a comic. So we self-published a 16page comic, two eight-page stories and a cover. And uh and we published uh we got 16 600 for us to sell at cons or giveaway. It’s like a business card. We sold it for like a buck. It was a buck 25. And we weren’t looking to make any money. And I I had thought I had like I had about 20 of them and I started giving them away to CG guys like at the first Heroes Con like Andy and then and

01:51:18
and fans and stuff. And then I I contacted my writer. I thought he had a box of them. He was like, “We don’t have any of those left.” I’m like, “Uh oh, nobody’s getting any more of these.” And then suddenly, excuse me. He gave them all out. Gave them all out. I posted it. I posted the pages a couple of times online, but you know how it is online. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, sometimes you get get okay, you know, and so I’ I’ve been through all this publishing uh before. I mean,

01:51:47
that’s awesome. A little bit. Um and then when I came in to do this, I wanted to do put all we did two more I did I did two more eight page stories. Three more eight page stories. We’re supposed to do an anthology, but then Diamond said anthologies don’t sell with some some a couple of guys and then so I have stories and covers done. I could put together like let’s see 16 32 pages now. Add that story that nobody saw. I got 40 pages of comics. I could draw two more pages. That fit 60 pages. But now

01:52:24
I’ve What are you waiting for? What are you waiting for? Watch the campaign. I’ve watched all this and I never want to do a campaign ever now. A my writer my writer’s busy with grandkids and I’m doing work with him on Mythic Americas and I think eventually he’ll want to do it but I need to have he owns him half of them and I would not do it without him you know sweet. Also I need to help do it myself because I’m not doing this much work. I have a full-time job. Well, you just have us help you out. We

01:52:58
I’ll help you out. Everybody loses money crowdfunding. Why would you do it? One thing about watching crowdfunder, it’s convinced me not to want to crowdfund that badly. Elliot, are you losing money? Um I mean, you don’t have to ask for that. I’m just I mean I mean like how how could you say no one’s not I mean look how long Elliot’s been working on this thing. I mean like Well, no, but you know what I mean. Like this has convinced me that crowd Yeah, I got you though. I’m overstating it and trying to be

01:53:32
funny. Yeah, and I was just joking. You know what I know? I know that. You know, I wanted to do it in like you have all that work already done. Elliot, I didn’t mean to put you on the spot. I’d like to get it over. No, I’ll be straight up like I mean I’ve invested a lot of my own money into getting my comic done like for colors art. I mean for colors lettering and then also printing. Yeah. And Yeah. my time also. No, but um yeah, but I mean uh I mean part of the game is is that no investing in yourself and so

01:54:01
yeah, I mean my my my whole thing with all this is that I want my book and I want to have it in my hands and so like yeah, I’ll I’ll I have no problem at all drawing as long as it takes. I have no problem uh I can’t I can’t fork up cash for like a 60page book to get colors. No, but but I’ll I’ll I’ll go as far as I can with it and then obviously I’ll have to ask the backers to help me get the rest of the way. That’s the whole thing like what’s like also like what’s a real crowdfund? So we

01:54:29
thought Yeah. Let’s say I would do a cover and five pages and then you crowdfund the comic. Yeah. Now crowdfunding comics is we have to have the comic done f first because it can’t be late. But you’re not supposed to lay out all your money first to have your comic done first. That’s not a crowdfunding. That’s a pre-order. Yeah. Yeah, you know when these guys say Von Coleman, I’ll use an example. Oh, my book is done. Well, your book’s not supposed to be done. Why am I backing it

01:54:55
then? What do you need? If you can already publish this, what do you need my money for? Yeah. No. Yeah. Yeah, that’s true. Because Because you forget the prime principle to all economic things regarding the world. Always be using other people’s money. That’s right. Right. That’s right. So, so what happens to these guys? Like they lay out, if you’re a writer, if you’re if you only write, you’re laying out 40 page comic, you might be laying out $10,000 to publish that comic book, and

01:55:29
that’s cheap. Yeah. Well, that’s [ __ ] Yeah. I mean, you have to pay somebody less than you have to pay somebody $100 and less to do the artwork. If you’re like a big guy, then you’re paying like pro rates and that’s even more expensive. You know, and then you know the bigger guys, the big the the the the kings and the pros. What they’re doing is they’re you go, “Oh, I use my money to live.” Well, when when when Graham Nolan said that, he kind of misspoke. They pay

01:56:04
themselves their page rate out of the money they get. Of course. Yeah. Yeah. And that’s how they make their living. That’s what he meant. That’s kind of a given, right? But when he said that, like the other way, everybody went nuts. You’re not supposed to touch your crowdfunding money, but when you’re going to make 60 to $100,000 on a campaign because you’re a big shot. And thank God bless them. I’m not blaming them. They have to pay themselves their page rate. They can’t

01:56:30
get mortgage at their house. Yeah. Yeah. That’s true. The smaller guys, you know, whoa, I have a job. Yeah. But it’s harder to get the it’s all it’s very different for everybody. Yeah. And so I feel I need help like I need business help like this guy’s got to help me. You know it’s his stuff too. So eventually we’ll get to it. And you know hurry up already. I’m waiting. I’m waiting. I’m waiting. Professionally lettered and maybe colored, you know, if I can afford it.

01:56:56
I’m not I Yeah. Luckily for me, I’ve been able to sell some of my artwork and then use that money to uh fund like to get Yeah. to get some of the coloring done for mine also. And in this this first book, for example, that I’m doing, it’s it’s uh it’s done, but that’s not going to be the approach for the second book because for the second book, I’m planning on having like all the line work done, but I’m going to need money for the coloring and for the lettering.

01:57:23
Right. Right. Right. Like I I’ll have I’ll have enough done to where I can show people what it’s going to look like when it’s finished, but the entire book is not going to be done. That’s that’s a lot of money, right? I don’t I don’t think I have a real problem. anybody wants to do it the way they want. I’m just saying like and I also want to establish myself as an artist without, you know, and that’s been slow. Uh that’s been slow. And that’s why

01:57:46
I only want to do it the way you tell me to do it. I want to work for Rex. That’s my dream. Oh yeah, me too. I want to work on bog my the rest of my life. I I want to be the Bard pretended swamp thing. I’m going to change the subject. I have a question. Which which character does he like? He never talks about Devil Flyier. He talks about the bog all the time. Why did you do a Bog? Bog is his favorite. He He doesn’t even like Devil Flyier anymore. He wasn’t even his first choice. Yeah,

01:58:16
Devil Flyer is like his third rate uh character that that he didn’t even care for. his friend uh John Philendees is the one who picked working on Bog I mean on Devil Flyer and that’s why it’s everything’s centered around Devil Flyer. I see. I didn’t know that cuz he never talks about and Rex wasn’t comfortable drawing it himself initially. Now now he is. I I think now he could pull off just about anything. Rex is a good artist. Like he’s not bad. He’s not horrible. I mean,

01:58:47
and he’s not like like super pro or anything, but he’s good enough, you know, for indie comics. He’s good enough. I think what he should do keeps getting better and better. Pete might want to do this. I’ve noticed that also about him. Put together a comic on those pizza things you draw. Oh, the pizza. Yeah, that make that a comic. And yeah, make it round. Have you ever seen the Makes me nervous? The the Cubert uh Amy Cubert did a issue might have been one or two issues of X-Men and he drew it on uh grocery store

01:59:26
paper bags. Wow. Yeah. Which is really cool stuff. Yeah. Cub’s another level, man. That guy’s insane. I heard he does his covers like they’re like huge. What What issues were those? And and did they look like were they paper bagged? Yeah, they were paper bag issues. Yeah. And I think he may have done something similar for Hulk and I think he even carried it over to to Superman. I think I think it was a little bit like like a motif of his for like 10 years he kept like I love it. I love it. I love it. Well,

02:00:04
I’ve been collecting like big cereal boxes cuz I want the the cardboard on the inside so I could draw on that and it’s paper bagged, right? Like and if I want to paint, I can paint on the smooth side and just paint over whatever images on there. So, I’ve been I’ve been saving a little bit of uh uh cereal boxes because they’re almost 11 by 17 in size. Yeah, you can you can use acrylic on those, too. You can Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nice cardboard. Yeah. Yeah. It’s like very but very smooth,

02:00:33
too. So, you got to be a little careful. Yeah. Right. Unless you want texture, then you can brush it on there with a nice brush that has that’ll give you textured lines with your gesso or your thick acrylic and get a little texture on there. I hate to do this, guys, but I got to get out of here. I got a uh I gota be tomorrow. Yeah, I got I have a I have to catch a train in about four hours. So, Damn. Yeah. Working hard. He works hard for the honey. A train to where? He works hard for the uh Well, it’s a train to

02:01:14
Parksburg, PA. Then I’m getting picked up and then it’s I’m Yeah. Then it’s Maryland. You’re in demand. OCMD. Yeah, busy, dude. Like my I I had my whole day structured to like get some sleep and I couldn’t even do that. Thank you. Plus, I got I got Yeah, I gota shoot videos and I gota record. But, uh, coming up uh I’ll be doing, if you guys aren’t familiar with, uh, Superman Gen 13. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We’ll be doing this and then we’ll be doing Darkness uh Superman. So,

02:01:55
coming up. Cool. Hey, I got that Darkness Superman. Yeah, that’s a good one. Yeah, very nice. Yeah, I I kind like I remember reading this. I’m like I’m I’m vague on what the hook is. Who drew that? Uh Tyler Kirkham. Oh, that’s nice. No. Or was this Francis? I’m sorry. This Yeah, Tyler. Tyler. Yeah. Yeah. Kirkham. Yeah. I mean, it’s it’s nice looking stuff. Yeah. It’s good stuff. He’s kind of a Turner clone at this point. Like a Turner clone. Yeah. Yeah. Tyler and

02:02:35
his new stuff is is his own stuff. Yeah. Yeah. It It was like Tyler Francis and then who’s the one that came up through Aspen crap. Uh, Talon Caldwell. So, it’s Talon Caldwell. Well, Francis Manupal and Tyler Kirk like Dasher. Francis Mountain. It I never really thought of him as a a Turner clone. But I I guess so. I I guess so. Like to me like sometimes it it’s like if if you look at the wrinkles, if you look at the hair. Yeah. If you look specs like that’s kind of where a lot of it comes from, you know. But

02:03:14
they they were also his faces are not very Turnery, you know. But they were um Yeah. Like uh they were anime influenced too. So you have like bigger heads, bigger eyeballs. Oh. Oh yeah. And then also for anyone with the Superman movie, uh we will be getting into the greatest story to have Baby Joey. Yeah. But if you guys aren’t familiar with with Baby Joey, uh this is the book for you. So sweet. This is also upcoming right here. Baby Yeah, that’s some of Barter’s greatest stuff there.

02:03:55
Oh yeah. Yeah, that’s good stuff. I have multiple copies. I don’t remember being that most of that run, so I I go through them right. Yeah, I met Bart. Nice. So, yeah, we got, you know, stuff coming. I just got I just gota get to it. But yeah, guys. Yeah, I’m Wish I really wish I could hang, but I need to No, no worries. But gonna try and work on Yeah. Hey, Peter, uh your your artwork for uh Deathmonger is going to be in the book. I got it colored also. Nice. Well, thank you for that. I

02:04:35
appreciate that. Great looking. And death I guess what? Deathmonger is the villain, right? Like Yeah. Yeah. He’s the bad guy. Great looking villain. Yeah. Thanks, man. Man, I would have loved to get like the whole studio cast in there, but man, I should I should have gone to the studio first. I didn’t I wasn’t expecting so much great artwork from that. Yeah. So much so much great artwork. No, because I know I know the artwork was going to be great, but I didn’t so much. I mean, you guys you guys knocked it

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out. I have real quick before I go. Speaking of great artwork, this is uh Omar. This is your boy. This is Oasum. This is the Opasum guy. Oh, yeah. You got it finished off. Yeah. I I think I saw it on uh Instagram. Oh, nice. That’s a That’s really nice. Yeah, it looks great. Yeah, I think I I sent him a version of I don’t know if it was done with the Yeah, night time. Sweet with the white uh white out stuff. I don’t know if you were done with that because that looks Yeah, it’s too

02:05:41
I’m just like I’m so slow with like kind of like workshopping this and getting it cleaned up so I can like you know because I always just take pictures like I need you know I need to get a little bit better with like postp production type stuff or post press. So but anyway yeah that’s that’s that’s your boy’s character. It’s cool. I’ll let him know. Watch. We’ll add this to the hump day pile for the hump day art book, which yeah, Pete’s gonna make his own hump day

02:06:11
art book. That’s great. I think I have 16 or 17 uh drawings already. That’s That’s the crazy thing. Like I’m almost at like 40 drawings. Yeah, I’m with you there, Marcus. I think I got like Yeah, somewhere around there. again. One was sent out to Nick Gerber. I made money on that one. One is going to be a cover for Cooper. He didn’t pay me yet because Cooper’s poor’s poor. So, I’m not giving him a hard time about it. I got to add some guns on it. It’s nice piece.

02:06:51
Yeah. And real quick, uh quick analysis of Warner Brothers Discovery stock. It’s gained one point since the release of Superman 2025. Oh, great. It’s up It’s almost up to $13 a share. Oh, wow. Wow. At $13 a share, we could all get in on that. I’m getting 50,000 share. I’m gonna get one share just so I could say I could go to the board just like uh James. You can with one share. You can go to Yeah. And yeah, contrary, if you guys want to talk about real entertainment companies, Walt Disney

02:07:34
at 120. So, so wait, wait. So, here here’s the thing. Uh, you know, if you want to go back to when I was going back and forth with James, you would have gained you, you would have gained 30 points if you bought Disney when I told you to buy it that that night. You would have got 30 points because it was it was like 90. It was at 90 or 89. Oh, that’s right. Yeah, I remember you saying that. Yeah, it was at 89. So, whatever. What the [ __ ] do I know? I don’t know. Dave said we have to get DC Comics back to where

02:08:10
they were. The best comic company ever. And I’m like, James, when was that? 1966. [ __ ] Come on. Give me a break. Yeah. I just like I don’t understand like that attitude because I like DC comics and all those comics are great comics but they weren’t Marvel comics but but like realistically though like with and I read a lot guys and there’s very few comics to where I’m like you know like I think most comics are like number five on a scale of one to 10 right and like comics are five like they’re

02:08:51
they can only be so good because they’re paid monthly and they’re they’re meant to be disposable and uh you know like I just think for companies to be successful you have to be consistent with your product. I don’t I don’t think the quality of the book weighs weighs in on much. I just think you need to do the book and people you know people will you know but some of these characters will sell no matter what too. I think I think the better the quality the more of a chance but yes I don’t

02:09:20
think you’re wrong. Yeah. No. Yeah. I mean I Well, well, I’ll tell you one thing. Like, even even now, like with the Fantastic 4 coming out, you know how many people are going to say it’s it’s not as good as the Jack Kirby Stanley stuff. And it’ll be like, “Fuck you. You never read that cuz those books are hard to read.” Like, like, you know, like like when was it good? Like, we can talk about the John Burns stuff, but dude, like even that is not everyone’s cup of

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tea. So, and that’s what I mean. Like it just needs to be a five. It needs to be But the Jack Right. Right. I know the Jack Kirby the Stan Lee if you read it as a whole the the the deal is not it’s oh Stanley writes too much or whatever is what they created during it. If you start like the start reading them it’s way better like than the Jack Kirby copies that they that the guys were doing in the 70s and they were trying to be or Stan Lee copies the writers themselves and they didn’t work. only

02:10:21
Stan Lee could get away with it. Got away with Yeah. It’s a I I just think people storytelling. Yeah. I just think like people go they get into some of this stuff and they act like the source material was really this like thing. And you know like honestly too they did the same [  ] with like the Transformers. They’ll be like, “Oh, the movie should be like the cartoons.” It’s like [  ] you. The cartoons sucked. Like Well, yeah. Well, that’s a whole other thing. Yeah. I wouldn’t say

02:10:50
it’s blasphemy. Blasphemy. Yeah. But it’s like the same [  ] though. It’s like Yeah. Like people they It’s almost like this um they’re almost like a robot. They’re just programmed to freaking say uh Yeah. Like even like with Superman, they’re like, “Oh, it felt like a comic book.” It’s like what the like a movie is a movie like [  ] Like and and why why why would you say that about anything else? Yeah. I’ve got something to look up. Did you ever see my That’s funny.

02:11:20
You probably know who Mike Francesa is. Um, right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know all about him. You’re close enough to New York. Well, he did a review of Superman. You’ve got to hear I heard it. It’s on YouTube a couple days ago on his on his sports show. And he he’s a guy I’ve never read a comic, but who sounds like he’s from the he’s from Long Island. So he I never read any com I think I watched one one Archie comic. I never read any comic books. I read the Daily News since I was five

02:11:53
years old and and and the nuns made me put it away. I looking at the box scores my whole life. I never read any comic books. The best movie ever is The Godfather and and then if if robots are in a movie I’m out. if they’re in space. That’s what he said. It was so norm. It’s so funny because he didn’t get but he went he’ seen all the MCU movies. He says and he was I brought all my kids. They love those movies. I sat on the end and they took a nap for two hours. You know, it was thing. But he did know Superman.

02:12:29
Like he Why did he know Superman? Because he saw the George Superman in reruns in the 60s. where I saw him in the 70s. His Superman is George Reeves. What is Lois doing driving a spaceship? Lois is supposed to fall out the window and Superman’s supposed to catch her like that’s awesome. there there there’s a lot of that to where it’s like it that it is true because even even when it comes even when it comes to Superman though like if you go through the TV shows if you go through the

02:13:08
earlier cartoons it’s almost like and as he gets as he gets older by time he gets into the 90s it’s like he’s so powerful the only thing you can do against Superman is put him get up against Dark Side. They depowered Superman twice. They Yeah, I’ll be back, guys. I gota check on something. Denny O’Neal and Curt Swan and Murphy Anderson depppowered him and they got rid of Kryptonite, but they hacked his powers and then you’re not here, Peter. He grew potent again and then John Burn

02:13:41
depowered him. But he’s never been other than when he was Super Boy the in the last 20 years and this includes all of Shane Davis’s Superman. They’ve been trying to deage Superman trying to put him in his early 20s when clearly Superman and Batman were kind of like older characters. Like I would think they would like the Superman is 78. He was supposed to be 28 or 29. The idea was Superman came out to Metropolis at the same time and he was the same age as Jesus Christ. That’s the

02:14:15
idea of Superman. So, oh yeah, I mean like trying to make him more relevant and make him younger and younger and younger and now they have the guy I didn’t see the movie and I’m sure he’s a fine Superman, but he’s not the leader of anything. He’s just another he’s Superman, but he’s not Superman. the the aspirational inspirational comic character that everybody does a version whether it’s Supreme or or you know Sentry or something. I’m assuming they’re going to build to

02:14:43
that right or it doesn’t mean it’s guys like normies might not get it. We get it. I get it. You know, we get the all that stuff. But this guy’s like what do we need robots? Superman’s supposed to get the bad guys, you know, and cut bullets fly off them and it’s all the 50s TV show. Well, yeah. And but it gets to the point though where it’s like, you know, like these guys are not like I that’s where like I give a so much credit to Zack Snider for that Justice League movie

02:15:16
where it’s like those guys are just like robbing a bank and Wonder Woman just like shows up. Right. Right. Zack Yeah. It’s like they have to do like simple [ __ ] and they can’t be fighting uh like a god from like another hell, you know? Not every second. No. Yeah. You know, and that’s I I think like the storytelling has has broken. I think if if Zack Snider made the same exact movies but light put a light on is everybody wore a brighter costume and and then you could see everything. It

02:15:51
wasn’t always in the dark. It wasn’t always in the rain and they had bright reds and like they do in this movie, bright reds and bright blues. I think everybody would think they wouldn’t have it would have been a bigger hit and they wouldn’t have been remaking it because it would be what everybody want and maybe had him smile a couple of more times because I don’t I like James Gun movies. I love Guardians of the Galaxy. I don’t need Superman being in Guardians of Galaxy.

02:16:17
They bastardized Thor. You know, they stood, oh, this guy’s pretty funny. So now they made him kind of like a James Gun character and now you know it kind of ruined him eventually. But the but the weird thing with Man of Steel is because you know I I was like there like when that movie opened and people liked it and then like slowly it became this Yeah. Yeah. I don’t like like these criticisms crept like it was like this slow bleed type thing to where uh I think more people were like disappointed with Superman uh into where

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like you know like it didn’t have this like um this like self-awareness that the the Donner and Superman Returns had. They do this. They do this to every Superman movie since They did this to every Superman movie since Superman one that all they do is crap on every one that’s not Christopher Ree. And they even crapped on Christopher movies by the time it’s Superman 3 and Superman 4 and they just completely dump on every single one. Like well I saw Superman Returns with my kids. It wasn’t the most action. It was

02:17:25
a good movie. We enjoyed the movie. I remember not hating this movie. And then you find out, oh, he was a pedophile. He was looking in the window. He was spying. Superman does. What are you talking about? That happened in the movie. I don’t even remember it. Yeah. Yeah. No, it’s it’s that that movie too. I think that movie got a absolute raw deal. Uh but I really do feel like the um the Donner movie is so like perfect. Like I don’t think there’s anything Well, that’s that’s of you know

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with with that movie. Yeah. That Yeah. Yeah. And it I think even to this day like you know like all of these interpretations outside of uh like what they’ve done with TV, right? Cuz like you know like you kind of look at Smallville and you’re like holy [ __ ] dude like like they were so ballsy with that. Like that was Louis and Clark. I like that. I don’t remember it that well. I mean I we watched it. I don’t remember it that well, but I didn’t think it was bad. Like, and then Super the the Superman

02:18:29
one that was just on the CW. Like, that guy was a great he was on their stupid shows. He was the best thing on the CW heroes for like two years. He was a great Superman. And then then they not allowed to be in the movies. They have to have some other goofier looking guy. That guy looked more Tyler Haka looked way more like Superman than this guy. This guy’s got two eyes on the side of his head. Yeah, he’s got the fetal alcohol syndrome they like in Hollywood now. You know, it’s the same thing. The same

02:18:59
thing with the Flash. They made that Goofy Flash movie and they had that that terrible human being Flash. He was a terrible actor and they had the guy who was the Flash in the mo in the TV show for seven years. The TV show got bad, but he was never a bad Flash, right? Yeah. And but the other thing they don’t even know what they have. I just I just think a lot of these a lot of what we’re talking about there’s um like companies within companies when it comes to these you know like these

02:19:29
No, that’s true. That’s true. Yeah. Yeah. And and it’s like like you kind of think there’s like a cross-pollination and people are like talking and dude like I swear to God you could probably be working on the Flash because the Flash movie was in development for like 10 years, right? Like that movie just No, you’re absolutely right. like like every couple years you would hear like some update that the uh it was called Flashoint and the guys from the Lego movie were working on it like on and on

02:19:58
and it’s almost just like you can just imagine like you know someone like Zack Snider he’s making Justice League and you know he’s making that movie for like couple years and it’s like oh yeah by the way like there’s these TV shows and you know and he would just be like oh like what TV shows well It’s called The Flash. He’s like, “Wait, The Flash is in my movie.” Like like like I just I think these guys are just they’re they work like they’re not most of the CW shows end up to be pretty

02:20:31
bad. They didn’t start off that bad, but they ended up to be bad. Yeah. Because it’s like TV doesn’t keep talent around for long. Well, Green Arrow was good for the first and then FL for the first few years and Flash was pretty good, but everything else was just Legends of the Tomorrow was just weird. It wasn’t really a superhero show. And the rest of them are garbage and they got worse and worse as they got more and more woke because they were made during the wokest of the woke time. The Girl

02:20:57
Boss, all that stuff. But like the CW did do a lot, right? Like it’s almost like the um like who was it? Uh, how many seasons did uh Black Lightning have? It had like four. That’s crazy. I mean, how like how does he get four and Yeah. And and and uh yeah, they came launched like an Aquaman pilot or uh Green Arrow had eight seasons. That’s Yeah, that’s so did Flash and then Legend tomorrow had like six seasons. They were on forever. They didn’t make any money. Now, at the end, they were

02:21:39
all they did get like the girl beats up all the guys and then and the Flash’s wife becomes the boss of everybody and he acts like a complete wimp and the you know, and they and he was a really Flash is a bit of a one-trick pony. So after the third by the third season all the they were really had trouble trying to find something for him to do because the problem with the Flash is that he’s so fast that he literally has to do something stupid to get to to have a story to have an but that’s see like that falls right

02:22:13
into what you were saying about Superman where it’s like there’s it’s like the Flash should I I I get that it’s a fun thing but I think if you’re telling a story like the last thing this guy needs to do is run through time. Like a whole flash point where he ran through time and then everybody was trying to save people and everybody’s really pissed at him that somebody had a daughter that turned into a son and blah blah blah blah blah. They’re all pissed at him. They didn’t even know what

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happened till he told them and it’s like what’s going on said a word trying to parents. So many of these characters are EVs made a ton of money on overpowered on that Flash show. So yeah, I I I did have like a couple friends that loved Flash though. They were always the first two seasons particularly were very good and the actor was good. The main always talk about it. Yeah. Yeah. That first three or four season they were a good ensemble cast. Unfortunately the Flash the actor had no chemistry with Iris. They race swapped

02:23:18
Iris. They were And so she So he’s falling in love with this black girl, but who’s also his stepsister. There we go. Right. One parent was killed. His mom was killed. Right. That was the EBS started, that part. And and Jeff John, the parent was killed by the reverse flash. And then he was kind of adopted by Iris West’s dad, Joe West. And he and they were black. And then like he always had a thing for her. She didn’t have a thing for him, but they were step they weren’t allow they weren’t in any way related,

02:24:00
but they were step brother and step sister. And that was like really weird. I love it. the whole thing. But he had this actor had so much chemistry with other women that they’d make her girlfriend before he would be like with his what he married Iris. The crazy like just kill Iris off and just have him hang out with his other chick with a great ass. You know, the the crazy thing is I haven’t seen any of the CW outside of like the first four seasonsish of Smallville. Uh I never I never engaged in any of those

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shows. I never watched Small I didn’t watch any of the shows, but my dad was watching he watches all superheroes and he’ll watch any of that stuff. And he was telling me that Green Arrow is good. I tried Green Arrow and it came in the middle of some episode. I couldn’t make heads or tails of it and then they had the spin-off of The Flash. I said, “Well, I’m going to watch this.” So, I watched Flash was good and I kind of caught up on some Green Arrow while I was traveling to his

02:25:06
house. Cool. That Green Arrow was pretty good, but again, you know, after a while it’s repetitive. Well, that’s that right. Like that’s most television cuz it’s like your your your job is to um Yeah. Like stay on the air to sell ad space. Like that’s a Yeah. Like that’s the objective. Like they they had EFR Thawn the reverse was his great his great friend ended up to be his enemy and and all this stuff in the first season and the second season they still had another speedster and

02:25:42
then by the third season they had another speedster because who else is you going to have by the fourth season they know what to do and then you guys I’m like kill Iris please God take care John be See, I got I got I got it going a little bit also. Yeah, he’s saying I was I was already supposed to be I’m sorry. Evil I drove Evil Ginger away. He doesn’t watch any of these. Oh man, I’ll bore you on the uh I always have to get up early. Check out John Apple’s YouTube channel.

02:26:25
It’s in the It’s in the description. Uh it might be off so you have to uh copy paste it in. Uh I I need to go ahead and fix the link. Uh but go check out John’s uh YouTube channel and uh tell him to post more videos. And while I got this up, let me uh share uh this tab here. Go check out Avenging Death Ominous and uh go see uh what Elliott’s got over there. Pick up his book. I’m a backer, so you should be one, too. Sweet. and uh get this great comic. I am also a bad Elliot Rodriguez.

02:27:03
Yeah, thank you very much for the support, guys. And thank you to everybody in the chat. And uh yeah, I’ll be uh stream I’m streaming tomorrow. Tomorrow I got my show just going to hang out. Um talk about Superman a little bit and uh oh, and I got to talk about what happened with the newsprint situation. So I’ll talk about that tomorrow. And then uh and yeah, so be sure to get your copy. Get your copy. And uh yeah, thank you very much Omar for having me on. Thank you very much, Marcus. It was

02:27:30
a pleasure. It’s great to have you on and thank you very much, Peter. Yeah. No, it was a pleasure, man. Peter Peter, check out. Thank you. Check out Peter’s YouTube channel. He’s got all this great stuff on here. Look at it’s filled. It’s beautiful. You can go see what’s up with uh Vtorm Wednesdays, Top Cow Tuesdays, his cringefather, the Todd McFarland, the commentary on Ripverse, Joe Casey, his lovehate relationship with Rob Lifeeld here, Rob Lifeel blocked him. You search

02:28:04
Rob Lifeel, Pete comes up. He’s the first one on the algorithm there. Uh he’s got a whole thing on Captain America, Daredevil. Fantastic. Captain America blocked him also. Yeah, Captain America. Hey, the the original continuity Captain America blocked me. Not not Hydra Cap or the one that was lost in Dimensions, not the Jack Kirby’s clap blocked. Yeah, the real Captain. And here we got uh here here we got uh the Vonstein’s Peter’s number one uh actual uh nemesis in the world. Well,

02:28:45
James must have blocked him by now, too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Look at the Steines. Yeah. Soon to be blocked. Nah, there’s nothing but the Ste. I’m gonna have to buy one of these stupid graphic novels from him. I feel bad. Yeah, it’s great. It came out fantastic. So, it was a pleasure helping. Looks nice. Yeah. So, when he’s when he has extra I’m not buying Omega Mission, though. [Laughter] I’m gonna buy it and immediately refund it. Omega. Oh, I have a couple of I have a book I

02:29:22
want to read, but I can’t say whose it is. Oh, here’s your sketch card. I’m not refunding. Wow, that looks nice. That came great. Oh, I gotta go, too. I forgot what how late it is. I have to get up for Yeah, this is your sketch card. This is your sketch card, man. Yeah, it looks great. Looks great. And I’ll be working on this other one next. Yeah, I’m gonna I’m gonna back Omega Mission and immediately refund. Oh my Oh my god. If Omega Mission doesn’t do well, I don’t know what we’re

02:29:57
going to do. Yeah. Well, I if uh you know, everybody’s getting ready to jet here. So, when you guys get ready, I think we’ll call it a show and I’ll keep going. I wish I could stay longer because it’s fun. But yeah, I look forward to doing I look forward to doing some ideas, Omar. Yeah, it looks great. It looks great on your show and blowing it up. I don’t feel like it could talk be this fun on other shows. You know what I’m saying? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, almost guys a little

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bit on the studio, but I’m I’m gonna be the next one. I’m out. All right, Peter, appreciate you, buddy. Is that a glitch? What is that? Real quick. Wait, what’s that? Is that a glitch there? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I drew I just Yeah, I drew the list real quick. We Maybe I’ll go I’ll draw the glitch for Joe Santag this weekend. Sweet. I drew I drew reproduce already. All right, see you guys. Appreciate you, buddy. I’ll see you guys later. You guys be safe. Good night. Elliot.

02:31:06
Yeah, absolutely. Thank you everybody who’s on here. Thank you. The chat. We’ll see you guys later. Uh I’m gonna promote some people real quick and then we’ll head out. Uh like this guy here. Uh let me uh we’ll see you guys later. You’re more than welcome to take off while I uh share this stuff. Uh go check out Marcus over on YouTube. There’s uh Marcus’s channel. Subscribe to him. Tell him how much you love him. Check out his videos. Tell him he’s got to put more up.

02:31:35
Uh let’s see. Let’s uh call sign Orion. R.J. was in the chat earlier. Go check out call sign Orion. And uh back his book. He’s got 24 backers. He’s at $660 over on fun my comic. Call sign Orion. Yeah, I want to draw this character. I got to do some fan art for him. That’d be cool. And um yeah, he’s got a cover by uh Doc Bllelock. Go check that out. And of course, he’s got his model friend available on uh as a I think it’s a card. Go check her out and check the comic

02:32:14
out. It looks great. Looks really good. Looks fun. I like the character design. Um, it’s hard to tell kind of who’s who with these guys here, but um because it it’s the same design for the armor but different colors. So, that’s kind of neat. Kind of like a Power Ranger thing. And of course, this chick’s a total babe. Uh, she’s an actress and she’s been like on a TV show or something. So, check out Call Sign Orion and what what’s her name? Uh, Lisa Foils. Lisa Foils.

02:32:46
Lisa Foils. Yeah, she’s a beauty. You get a trading card from that also. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. I I don’t know if she’s one of the trading cards and I don’t know if he’s got like an extra one or like another one. I’m not entirely sure, but RJ calls Ryan on fun. And then uh let me share this tab here. We got the Opasum issues one and two. This is my co-host over on the Monday show, Aaron Moses. Uh, and this is uh I did the the wraparound cover for issue number one and it’s only$2.75

02:33:22
over on IndiePlanet uh print on demand and you can get that book and I’m sure what maybe three four bucks for shipping for issue number one and then uh you can get issue number two and I think issue two is 250. So you get both comic books a total of uh f the first one was 32 pages the second one here I believe it’s 28 pages and uh for you know 575 you can get issue one and two plus $5 shipping that’s uh a little under uh just over 10 bucks. So go check that out. Um, and we’ll share this guy. Our homie Rex

02:34:02
wasn’t here tonight, but go check out Devil Flyer. He’s got 71 backers over on Fun My Comic, $4,24 USD. And, uh, Rex has got loads of stuff on here. Plenty of stuff to check out. Um, lots of great artwork by John Dillard, Tank Farret. I’ve got some fan art um, in there, sketch cards. He’s got sticker books, digital available. So, go check lots of stuff from bog also. Yeah. Yeah. There’s gonna be a bog backup story and all sorts of stuff. She’s gonna put midnight in there. I

02:34:35
think a two-page little story of midnight. Um, yeah, lots of lots of stuff on there. And then, uh, Dell A was on earlier on the panel, so go check out Dell A’s YouTube channel and, uh, check out his latest, uh, so Vampire Hunter Sodality over on, uh, Global Comics. And I really love his uh nightmare scenario story. Check that one out. It’s really good. And of course, I think he’s got five free issues available uh physical copies of Sword and Chivalry if you go to his website, um the installation.com,

02:35:10
uh which I wish he had here in his info, but he doesn’t. It’s the-installation.com, and you can get uh a free comic. He’ll send it to you, no cost to you, free. And he’ll ship it basically anywhere around the world. Elliot, if you get a chance, go to uh uh Dale’s website and you can get a free comic from him. He’ll send it to you. So, and I think he’s got five left. So, and uh the the link is in in the is in the description below if you want to find it. And that’s all I got.

02:35:40
Nice. Awesome stuff, man. Thank you for having me. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for sticking around, bud. If you uh nice want to say anything on the way out, you’re more than welcome to. Um yeah, bring anything up. No, no, just thank you very much. Uh and I’ll see you guys tomorrow. Tomorrow I’m going to be streaming uh 11:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. Uh just talking about uh newsprint stuff, uh updates on Ominous. I’m going to be offering up more of these sketch cards. So, if you

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want one of these, you can get some uh tomorrow. Remember to back during the stream and I’ll be streaming for about an hour. And then uh and then yeah, and then uh yeah, thank you very much, man. And then I’ll catch you guys later. You guys be safe. What time is your show at? Tomorrow. Tomorrow morning. Yeah. 11:30 a.m. uh Eastern Standard Time. Yeah. For 1 hour. That’s uh a little bit more. 10 10 for us, right? 10 central. Yes, that’s exactly. Yeah, that’s correct. Yeah, we’re on the same time

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zone. That’s right. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. All right. Hey, thanks as always. All right, buddy. I’m going to play my outro. Uh we’ll see you later. Appreciate you. Thanks, everybody. Yeah. Make sure you like, share, follow, and subscribe all of us here on this on the channel and on the panel. Make sure you hit that bell so you know when you uh when you’ll get a notification when we go live. And as always, I want to thank the master mod uh Hower. And uh apparently Tank uh Tank Farret’s in the running for uh wanting

02:37:03
to take over Howerier’s job. So uh Hower, you got some competition out there. I might have to make one of these for Tank. I hope not because he should be on the damn show at some point. We’ll get Hower on the show, too. So, uh, he’s getting ready to, uh, amp up his art skills and do some badassery with us. So, let me hit the outro video and, uh, thanks everybody for being here. Hopefully, uh, you enjoy and stick around for the outro video, too. Give me that watch time, baby. Lers, everybody.

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PETER A DELUCA AKAPD

AKAPAD is a versatile thinker known across Philadelphia, Europe, and even in the vast Multiverse as The Electic One. By day, he excels as an IT Mastermind, assisting individuals, both big and small, with a wide range of simple and complex solutions. In contrast, he is also a talented illustrator, a passionate comic book enthusiast, a creative content creator, and an active live streamer. Additionally, his podcast, “AKAPAD The Film Buff Podcast,” boasts an impressive catalog of over 500 episodes available on nearly every major platform.