Origins in Comic Reading with Steve/Megatron and TFG1Mike

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Welcome to The Pull Bag. Join us as we dig out

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our latest comics and discuss them with the rotating

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panel of the GCRN crew. So sit back and enjoy

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this week's Pull Bag. Hello and welcome to The

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Pull Bag. This is episode 384. I am TFG1 Mike.

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Joining me is Steve Megatron. The last time you

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were on, we did one of our chapters on Batman

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The Adventures Continue, so there is that. Hello,

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sir. How are you? Heyo! I'm doing well there,

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Michael. I think we're about due for another

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Batman run -in. Oh, yes, very soon, very, very

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soon. It's going to be a Christmas of bats or

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a Christmas with the Joker or something. We're

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here to do Origins, and you guys might be wondering,

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who's the guest? We're the guests on our own

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show. So I will put this link in the show notes.

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Way back when, seven years ago or so. Steve and

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I recorded episode three of this podcast where

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we debuted The Pull Bag Origins, where we talk

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about how people got into or out of comics and

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what their reading habits are and whatever else.

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So I've been on a podcast retirement for the

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past or semi -retirement for the past eight,

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nine months since my computer is in storage.

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That is being rectified soon. Hopefully by Halloween,

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I will have my stuff back and everything else.

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But while I've been on hiatus, I'm like, oh,

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I should do something with the pullback origins.

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I should reformat it. I should figure out what

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questions and how many questions and whatever.

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So I came up with a bunch of questions. I had

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a bunch of other people come up with some questions

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that I could add in here and whatever else, and

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we ended up with 25 questions. It's a nice odd

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number. I wish it was an even number, but it's

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an odd number, and that's fine. So I figured

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we've been doing this new series starting in

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episode 381 with my buddy Jeremy Fine. Episode

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382 was John and Maggie from the Rod Pod and

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Married with Comics. Go check them out. And episode

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383 was Edward and Kendra Hale who do a bunch

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of stuff with Dark Knight News, DC Comics News,

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and a bunch of other things. And I figured, oh,

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let's have some fun and let's have us answer

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the questions. and see what kind of conversation

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we can come out of it. So that's what's going

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on tonight. The first question, did you grow

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up reading comics, and at what age did you first

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remember reading or noticing comics? Megatron

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first. Well, I can't remember exactly what year.

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I want to say it was like five or six. We used

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to get them from the local drugstore. Yep. Which

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was initially how my dad got me into them. I

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think we were up there for something else, and

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he's like, hey, why don't you come over here

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and look at these comics? And it was, I got a

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couple of G .I. Joe, I got like an X -Men, got

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a Nightfall Batman comic. Mm -hmm. And those

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were dark. Yes, they are. Especially for that

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age. To begin with, I was like, these are not

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very much fun. And then I think I got one of

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the animated series ones around that time. Either

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that or my mom found them and ordered them. Because

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those were back in the days when you could have

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subscriptions and have them delivered in the

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mail to your house. Yes. Um, and so I did, I

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had, I had comics that were brought every month.

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Uh, I had GI Joe, I had, um, Batman, the animated

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series, and I had the regular Batman line that

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would show up, uh, in the mail, uh, every month.

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And I thoroughly enjoyed them. Yes. Uh, for me.

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I knew of comic books, but I was more of the

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animation side, and I am six years older than

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Steve. So being born in 1980 versus 1986, yeah,

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when I was six, seven, eight, nine years old,

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it was all about animation and cartoons and action

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figures and toys and all of that. I knew about

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comics. I knew where the Batman 66. television

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show came from i knew where the the animated

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uh versions came from at the time like you know

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adventures of batman and not adventures of batman

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and robin what the hell is the name of that damn

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show the old batman show anyway the old animated

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cartoons anyway yeah there you go the ones where

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they had him cross over scooby -doo at one point

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or another Um, so I remember all of that. I remember

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in the nineties when I was like 91, 92, 11 or

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12, I would do the drugstore thing. Like you

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said, I would also go, there wasn't nothing more

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special than going into a Walden books and spinning

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that spinner rack. And I remember, I think the

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first comic I got was from a Walden books and

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it was like, a middle part of some Spider -Man

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story that was going on at the time. I think

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it had something, not necessarily the clone saga,

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but it had something to do with, um, either Mysterio

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or Rhino or something. But I remember around

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that time, obviously 94 was when Spider -Man,

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the animated series came out for Fox kids. And

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I had kind of read here and there. I had read

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one of those Batman Dark Stories like you did.

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I don't remember which one it was. I have no

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clue. My mom found it at some flea market or

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something. That's the other thing. You used to

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be able to find comics at the flea market or

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garage sales or yard sales or whatever kind of

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thing. Well, you also used to be able to go to

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comic shops and they had the quarter bin. Yep.

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tons and tons of comics in the quarter bin. And

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that's how I started collecting Transformers

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was I found some of them in the regular area,

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but there were some that they had so many of

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them or they were in bad shape or just not pristine

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shape enough to sell for the regular pricing.

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And then they had them in the quarter bin and

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I just stocked up. Yep. All right, next question.

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As a kid, was there a parent, friend who just

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said, here, kid, read this comic, go away, you

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bother me kind of thing? We've kind of already

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answered this, but still have to ask it. I would

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assume for both of us it's our parents. Oh, yeah,

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totally. My mom, your mom, that kind of thing.

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Yeah, my dad's the one that initially sparked

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it, and then my mom kind of enabled it. There

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you go. When we were kids, which characters were

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our favorites? As far as comics, I always liked

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Batman, and I liked the Riddler. I hear they

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talk to each other on Waze now. They do. They

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complain about each other, and it's quite humorous.

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I used Batman on Waze to get me back home from

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the airport after dropping my family off. There

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you go. For me, it's pretty much Batman and Spider

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-Man. Because when I was a kid, I was all about

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Batman. Especially, you were only three years

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old at the time, but when that movie came out

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in 89, people can say, and we've said plenty

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on the GCRN about Batman 89, people can say what

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they want to about whether that movie holds up

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now or not, but back then, when that was the,

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literally, the comic book movie that started

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this whole revolution that we are currently living

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in, it was just seeing that trailer, seeing those

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promos, seeing the movie, like, I remember that

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movie so vividly. I didn't even get to see it

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in theaters, but I got to see it on VHS and everything

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else. And it's so funny because after its theatrical

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run, both Sears and JCPenney would have it running

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every Christmas for like two years, from 90 to

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92. I remember any time during Christmas time

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after Thanksgiving. You'd go into like the electronics

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portion of the store or wherever they had TVs

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in Sears or JCPenney because JCPenney always

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had a kids section. Please edit that. So JCPenney

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always had a kids section and I would just sit

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there while my mom shopped and I would just watch

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Batman 89 the whole time. So that movie really

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was. was game changer for me and then spider

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-man it's it's spider -man it's you know it's

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a kid in a costume who has to you know live up

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to these this responsibility he has and he has

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to use you know with great power comes great

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responsibility so i was never into the transformer

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stuff as a kid i never read the marvel us or

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uk run because transformers to me was the cartoon

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Same thing with Turtles. I never got into Turtles

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when I was a kid until the cartoon, and then

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obviously much later with the IDW stuff. So there's

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that. All right, next question. DC or Marvel?

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The age -old question. I would have to say DC.

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For me, it's... Since starting the podcast and

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since getting into comics full time, it hasn't

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really been about the companies. It's been about

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characters. So like if DC has a Batman Beyond

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story or series that I want to read, I'll read

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that. If DC has a He -Man story or a Thundercat

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story or whatever story, same thing with Marvel.

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If Marvel has a Spider -Man arc that I want to

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read, I'll read that. If they have an Iron Man

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story, I'll read that kind of thing. But if I

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really do have to choose, I'm probably going

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to say DC as well because I've really dug what

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a lot of the DC writers and artists have done

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within the New 52 and even Rebirth as well. I

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haven't read very much Rebirth, but I'm going

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to rectify that soon. So there's that. Next question.

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What other publishers do you enjoy reading? IDW,

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Dark Horse, Dynamite, Xenoscope. I'm trying to

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think, so publish. Lion Forge. I read a lot of

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other publishers. Image Comics. Image Comics

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has got some great stuff. I've read a little

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bit of Image. I've read a little bit of... I've

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read a little bit of Dark Horse in the past,

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but I've pretty much been an IDW guy for a while

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because they actually hold all of the properties

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I care about. Star Trek, Transformers, G .I.

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Joe. Honestly, they're really my only go -to.

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What I find is so interesting about, like, Image

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Comics and Dark Horse and others is that, like,

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with Image specifically, there's, like, multiple

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series in there that I absolutely love, that

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kind of thing. But you're right, IDW is kind

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of where the whole licensed character, you know,

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all the... All the franchises we love kind of

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stand and are, so that's pretty much the same

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for me. Next up is print comics, digital comics,

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which one, both, either or, and why? I'm kind

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of torn on this because I like digital in the

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sense that I can read them anywhere. I don't

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have to bring them with me, and they don't take

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up any space. I prefer to have them in my hand,

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especially if I'm paying that money. I prefer

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to actually have them with me. There's a difference

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when you're reading it in person or when you're...

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I don't know. I like the texture of it on my

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hands. I like being able to read it, and I like

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being able to... have the art in my hand as opposed

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to on the computer, which, I mean, yeah, I save

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a lot of the art stuff on the computer, but it

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doesn't, I don't know, it's not the same. So,

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yeah. For me, I started out in print when I started

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reading way back in 2013. As I've mentioned before,

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this is all Steve's fault because he's like,

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ooh, Batman number 13 of New 52 starts Death

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of the Family, and it's the Joker face or the

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Joker's not face or the Joker whatever face he

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does or doesn't have. So I started pretty heavy

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on print, and I had a good – I didn't have like

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17 different long boxes, but I had a good print

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collection. And then one thing absolutely killed

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me on print. never try to read an omnibus all

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at the same time this is the like the trades

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where it's like 12 issues in one thing and it's

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like yay thick and it's like literally i was

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reading punisher welcome back frank for recording

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one of our punisher month episodes back in 2013

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and not because of the comic but because of the

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weight of the comic I literally was falling asleep,

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and the book fell out of my hand on the floor.

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And I'm like, okay, no. And I know that our good

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friend Lady Wreck, Amy, she had been doing the

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underbase for Moonbase 2, which is their version

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of the comic show that they did for Transformers.

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So I had been listening to that at the time,

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and... She kept talking about comiXology and

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guided view and this, that, the other thing.

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And I'm like, what the heck is this? So I finally

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went and looked at comiXology and I'm like, Ooh,

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guided view. Ooh, storyboard. Ooh, I love this.

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So I am firmly in the digital realm when I want

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to read comics, when I want to read the story,

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when I want to see the art, I'm locked into digital.

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Like there, there's just no. If, ands, or buts

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about it. However, I would love to have a print

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collection of, say, the IDW TMNT run in their

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hardcover collection books that they do, that

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kind of thing. But for me reading them, I have

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to read them digitally because I read them on

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my computer. Okay, next question. Who are some

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of your favorite comics writers and why? I don't

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know if I can actually name any writers, like,

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specifically. Because, honestly, I don't really

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pay attention to that. Although I would say,

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like, Paul Dini would probably be one of them.

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So, I mean, I guess, like, in that instance,

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but I don't, again, really pay attention to all

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that. For me, there's a lot. There's a whole

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list. Kyle Higgins, who did the New 52 run of

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Nightwing. He's done Power Rangers with Shattered

00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:40.680
Grid in the first 31 or so issues of Power Rangers.

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Scott Snyder, who did the Batman New 52 run.

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Dan Juergens, who is currently doing the Batman

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Beyond run, which sadly is coming to an end,

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which sucks, but it is what it is. There's just

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so many writers, and why I like the writers that

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I like is because Kyle Higgins specifically,

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between him and Gail Simone on New 52, she was

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on Batgirl, he was on Nightwing. Those stories

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just grabbed me because I love those characters,

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and the way that Kyle wrote Dick Grayson Nightwing

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I felt was very animated series kind of. But

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it still told its own story. But since he grew

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up on the Batman the Animated Series and the

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DCAU like we did, that was his influence kind

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of thing. And the stories that he told with Nightwing

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were really great. With Gail Simone and Batgirl,

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really, really good psychological stuff there.

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Very, very fun. So, yeah. And then there are

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a lot of others. Tom Zoller. I absolutely love

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his stuff. He did Love and Capes. He's done Long

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Distance. He's done Warning Label. He's done

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Cupid's Arrows. A bunch of really, really cool,

00:19:01.769 --> 00:19:06.990
fun romance comic type stuff. There's so many

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writers. And I actually just – it's funny. I'm

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glad I'm talking about this now because I'd forget

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about it. I actually forgot about it when we

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recorded episode 375 of Altered Geek, which no

00:19:17.250 --> 00:19:25.140
one will ever hear because – anyway. So I'm basically

00:19:25.140 --> 00:19:29.380
poor. I have to be sadly because I can't do a

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physical job and I was born disabled with cerebral

00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:35.559
palsy and I was born with brain damage. So I'm

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on supplemental security income. And in order

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to be on that program, you cannot have any other

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financial resources. That's the whole point.

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If you need the program. Anyway, so it's very

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rare that I get a chance to back Kickstarter

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projects or whatever else. And what I've said

00:19:59.089 --> 00:20:03.150
to Karen was, okay, well, I'll unsubscribe from

00:20:03.150 --> 00:20:05.869
Disney Plus for a month so I can use that money

00:20:05.869 --> 00:20:08.670
towards this thing. So I'll kind of pick and

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choose kind of thing so that way I'm not adding

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to the bills and the money spending kind of thing.

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So I backed Jimmy Palmiati and Dave Johnson's

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Pop Kill on Kickstarter. It's basically what

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if two former Siamese twins who are now separated

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ran the two biggest cola companies in the world.

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It's basically the cola wars of the 90s, but

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in a whole new setting kind of thing. And I'm

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like, ooh, I have to check this out. I cannot

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wait to cover this on this podcast at some point,

00:20:50.039 --> 00:20:52.920
but Pop Kill, Jimmy Palmiati, Dave Johnson. I

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don't remember the artists off the top of my

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head. I'm sorry. But, like, reading that makes

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me want to go check out all the other stuff Jimmy

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Palmiati has done. And one of the things I had

00:21:06.519 --> 00:21:09.259
been meaning to check out for the pullback was

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the Batwing run that he did with Justin Gray.

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which was done in the New 52, where he took over

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at Volume 4, where Luke Fox became Batwing. So,

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yeah, there's just so many writers out there

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and just so many good stories being told. There

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are a couple stinkers, but you know what? You

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focus on what you enjoy and you go from there.

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All right. What defines a good story to you?

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Something that is kind of inclusive of itself,

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meaning that it's not diving over into three

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other or four other different series. Something

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that's kind of self -inclusive in its own series

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that it's going in on. But also something that

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it has... Like, for instance, I've enjoyed miniseries.

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uh, like six part mini series, because usually

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you get like a nice little book ended story,

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but I like where they also leave it open for

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future, uh, type stuff. And when I say that,

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I mean like I've, I collected like Marvel comics.

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I collected, um, as far as like transformers

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and I collected a dream wave transformers comics.

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And, um, some of those were some of my favorite

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comic books. And I'm not saying that. I disliked

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IDW's run because I haven't read enough of it

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to really know, but I did enjoy some of the limited

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run stuff. I liked the spotlights. It was a one

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-off. You got kind of a flavor of the characters.

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I liked the Beast Wars comics that came out,

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albeit there was only two miniseries and it was

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brief. But I enjoyed those. They were something

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I found entertaining, and it was touching on

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different parts of the... the fandom that I was

00:23:03.400 --> 00:23:05.859
familiar with. And, and I guess part of it is

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like good storytelling and, and coming up with

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a new inventive way of, of playing within the

00:23:10.920 --> 00:23:13.259
playground that, that you've been given. Um,

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not that it has to conform to continuity as far

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as with the comics. Um, because like the beast

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wars, they, for instance, made it fit, um, in

00:23:23.480 --> 00:23:25.980
between like the season two and three aspect,

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um, and kind of made it work. Um, in that instance

00:23:31.950 --> 00:23:36.329
but again it doesn't have to do that um but i

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i enjoyed like even the marvel stuff where it

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was kind of a lot of it was one -offs and then

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some of it was like it touched on the overarching

00:23:42.509 --> 00:23:46.029
story but it did gradually build across the entire

00:23:46.029 --> 00:23:50.109
marvel run uh even if some of the some of the

00:23:50.109 --> 00:23:53.730
um uh issues didn't necessarily relate there

00:23:53.730 --> 00:23:58.609
were aspects that could be related So so those

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those aspects or, you know, even like the current

00:24:00.809 --> 00:24:03.869
run of the Batman animated series continues line

00:24:03.869 --> 00:24:07.130
where they're kind of picking up where the series

00:24:07.130 --> 00:24:09.769
left off and kind of continuing some of the the

00:24:09.769 --> 00:24:11.730
missing plot threads that weren't necessarily

00:24:11.730 --> 00:24:17.250
remembered in the series or brought up or brought

00:24:17.250 --> 00:24:21.569
up. Yeah, absolutely. For me, what defines a

00:24:21.569 --> 00:24:27.029
good story is. something that isn't just the

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same old, same old, something that, like, I can

00:24:33.769 --> 00:24:36.289
not necessarily look at, because this will come

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in the next question. Like, when I see a comic

00:24:39.289 --> 00:24:41.230
cover, whether it's a single issue or a trade,

00:24:41.390 --> 00:24:43.890
you know, most comic covers will have, like,

00:24:43.970 --> 00:24:48.670
splash writing on them, like, oh, you know, Nightwing

00:24:48.670 --> 00:24:52.579
in danger, hung up. by prankster or whatever

00:24:52.579 --> 00:24:54.500
kind of thing. Like they'll have some sort of

00:24:54.500 --> 00:24:57.119
something to grab you on the cover. And I think

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for me, what defines the, a good story is that

00:25:03.140 --> 00:25:11.579
you can bring in a new audience as well as paint.

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Like if there's something that shows up, that

00:25:14.279 --> 00:25:17.940
is just a complete nerdgasm reference to something

00:25:17.940 --> 00:25:24.220
you already know. It's so funny. Like one of

00:25:24.220 --> 00:25:26.460
my little pony comics that Nicole and I, Beatles

00:25:26.460 --> 00:25:28.980
Diva and I had covered a couple of years ago

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on the show. One of them had an Optimus Prime

00:25:32.259 --> 00:25:35.339
doll in the background. And I'm like, OK, I know

00:25:35.339 --> 00:25:37.920
it's IDW, but that's just funny. You know, that

00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:42.740
kind of thing. But as far as, you know, the good

00:25:42.740 --> 00:25:48.099
story, it's like. If it draws you in and if it

00:25:48.099 --> 00:25:52.799
makes you want to read it more than once, if

00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:55.460
it's an element that you haven't learned before,

00:25:55.579 --> 00:25:59.700
if it's something that changes the character

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so dramatically, whether you like it or not,

00:26:02.539 --> 00:26:06.519
it's still good writing to you because it's taking

00:26:06.519 --> 00:26:09.140
you out of your comfort zone kind of thing. So,

00:26:09.140 --> 00:26:13.839
yeah. All right. What does the story have to

00:26:13.839 --> 00:26:19.460
have to draw you in? What does the story have

00:26:19.460 --> 00:26:23.039
to have in it? Yeah, what does the story have

00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:26.079
to have to draw you in? This kind of goes back

00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:28.299
to what I was saying about the cover of the book.

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Say you're in a comic... I don't want to say

00:26:33.539 --> 00:26:35.059
grocery store because they're not in grocery

00:26:35.059 --> 00:26:37.759
stores anymore, I don't think. But say you walk

00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:43.980
into the comic shop and you see... uh kevin conroy

00:26:43.980 --> 00:26:47.059
batman fighting beast wars megatron and you only

00:26:47.059 --> 00:26:49.119
see like what it says there you don't actually

00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:52.420
see that you don't notice their images on the

00:26:52.420 --> 00:26:55.259
on the cover of the book so what does the story

00:26:55.259 --> 00:26:58.299
have to have to draw you in like sometimes we

00:26:58.299 --> 00:27:00.339
only read one or two issues and then we never

00:27:00.339 --> 00:27:03.680
read it again or we read a whole trade and it's

00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:06.140
like i need more of this now like i want to go

00:27:06.140 --> 00:27:10.200
spend all this money to have this entire run

00:27:10.200 --> 00:27:14.720
kind of a thing I would say that it would have

00:27:14.720 --> 00:27:16.779
to have certain characters that I know are going

00:27:16.779 --> 00:27:21.319
to be in it, as well as, honestly, cover art.

00:27:21.400 --> 00:27:23.779
Cover art is like one of those big things that

00:27:23.779 --> 00:27:29.160
will automatically draw me in. Yeah, absolutely.

00:27:32.700 --> 00:27:39.519
Absolutely. All right. Who are some of your favorite

00:27:39.519 --> 00:27:50.150
comics artists? Nothing I will remember. I remember

00:27:50.150 --> 00:27:52.569
anybody that's done the Transformers stuff, I've

00:27:52.569 --> 00:27:56.930
been pretty solid into. So those automatically

00:27:56.930 --> 00:28:03.890
get my attention. Like Bertram and... Oh man,

00:28:03.990 --> 00:28:08.369
I forget who did it. Don Figueroa. Don Figueroa,

00:28:08.470 --> 00:28:13.170
yep. So those ones generally draw me in pretty

00:28:13.170 --> 00:28:16.980
well. I'm not as familiar with some of the modern

00:28:16.980 --> 00:28:19.539
artists that are involved with Transformers.

00:28:19.559 --> 00:28:21.900
I will say the people that are doing the Star

00:28:21.900 --> 00:28:25.140
Trek comics and the Transformers stuff, though,

00:28:25.180 --> 00:28:28.799
are doing a bang -up job. I don't know who they

00:28:28.799 --> 00:28:31.099
are, which is almost kind of blasphemous as far

00:28:31.099 --> 00:28:34.759
as comics are concerned. But in the grand scheme

00:28:34.759 --> 00:28:37.579
of things, they're doing such a good job that...

00:28:38.119 --> 00:28:40.799
I'm not focusing on them. I'm focusing on their

00:28:40.799 --> 00:28:43.960
art, and I'm enjoying it. So I guess it's a testament

00:28:43.960 --> 00:28:47.460
that although I may not know them by name, I

00:28:47.460 --> 00:28:55.400
enjoy what they've done. Where to begin? I would

00:28:55.400 --> 00:28:57.920
say only because right now as we recorded this,

00:28:58.059 --> 00:29:01.859
he just shared another one of his upcoming variant

00:29:01.859 --> 00:29:06.039
covers. Livio Ramondelli is a Transformers art

00:29:06.039 --> 00:29:10.670
god. when it comes to covers. Love Livio's stuff.

00:29:12.710 --> 00:29:15.789
Alex Milne, who has done some Transformers stuff.

00:29:15.849 --> 00:29:20.750
A lot of the Phase 2 stuff from More Than Meets

00:29:20.750 --> 00:29:27.369
the Eye. Alex Garner from Batgirl, who did some

00:29:27.369 --> 00:29:29.809
Batgirl stuff for covers and things like that.

00:29:30.710 --> 00:29:33.490
Kei Zama, who did some of the last... She's got

00:29:33.490 --> 00:29:38.019
some great art on some of the last... uh, uh,

00:29:38.160 --> 00:29:40.619
transformer stuff before the, the universe ended,

00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:44.259
uh, pretty much all of the TMNT artists that

00:29:44.259 --> 00:29:48.039
have done stuff, Dave Wachter, uh, Dan Duncan,

00:29:48.319 --> 00:29:51.859
uh, Ben Bishop, uh, love all of their stuff.

00:29:51.980 --> 00:29:55.259
And then, like you said, there's so many, um,

00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:58.440
and sadly I'm not at my, I don't have my computer

00:29:58.440 --> 00:30:00.319
right now to actually go through a whole list

00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:04.440
of, of the ones, but just absolutely love, uh,

00:30:06.450 --> 00:30:09.750
Love the art and comics. Do you have a favorite

00:30:09.750 --> 00:30:16.369
non -superhero title? Well, I'd have to say Star

00:30:16.369 --> 00:30:22.150
Trek. There you go. Or Transformers. Yeah, for

00:30:22.150 --> 00:30:29.230
me, it's... I'm trying to think. It changes all

00:30:29.230 --> 00:30:34.369
the time, but... I'd say in recent memory...

00:30:34.839 --> 00:30:41.359
I Hate Fairyland by Scotty Young. Oh, that's

00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:47.880
such a good, good title. Sadly, it came to an

00:30:47.880 --> 00:30:51.000
end, but it was a really, really good title.

00:30:52.359 --> 00:30:55.059
What is your favorite run of a series? So, like,

00:30:55.059 --> 00:30:57.960
is there a certain, like, Court of Owls, the

00:30:57.960 --> 00:31:00.039
first arc for Scott Snyder, that kind of thing.

00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:03.259
So, do you have a favorite run of a series of

00:31:03.259 --> 00:31:10.960
comics? Well, like I said, I enjoyed the Beast

00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:14.960
Wars run from IDW, both of them. The Ascending

00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:18.940
and the Ascension. Probably some of my favorite

00:31:18.940 --> 00:31:22.619
ones, considering they didn't really focus on

00:31:22.619 --> 00:31:28.160
the core Beast Wars cast. Although they focused

00:31:28.160 --> 00:31:31.779
on the fact they have to mop up Megatron's mess,

00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:38.559
and they still failed. But no, I have also enjoyed

00:31:38.559 --> 00:31:43.559
the various miniseries of the Transformers vs.

00:31:43.720 --> 00:31:46.799
G .I. Joe, which we've been getting those since

00:31:46.799 --> 00:31:49.960
the 80s when G .I. Joe basically introduced Transformers.

00:31:51.720 --> 00:31:57.940
And then, what was the other thing? I've enjoyed

00:31:57.940 --> 00:32:01.140
some of the trades of the old Star Trek stuff

00:32:01.140 --> 00:32:07.319
from DC. Like I have the Ashes of Eden or I used

00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:13.200
to have a lot of the other trades. But I enjoyed

00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:18.279
a lot of that run because DC's Star Trek comics,

00:32:18.359 --> 00:32:21.599
at least their original series ones, took place

00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:23.720
in the movie universe. So they took place in

00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:27.839
a lot of the underlying time periods. And they

00:32:27.839 --> 00:32:29.700
had some pretty good issues. Like they had one

00:32:29.700 --> 00:32:35.259
where Kirk got trapped back in time. And he basically

00:32:35.259 --> 00:32:38.960
lived out the rest of his life on this planet.

00:32:39.839 --> 00:32:47.119
And he died there. And they ended up taking the

00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:50.619
Enterprise on a time travel trip to rescue the

00:32:50.619 --> 00:32:53.539
captain. So he didn't have to die there. But

00:32:53.539 --> 00:32:56.359
in the process, somehow, because, you know, temporal

00:32:56.359 --> 00:32:59.420
mechanics and Star Trek and writing, and sometimes

00:32:59.420 --> 00:33:02.420
they don't have to make sense, Kirk had made

00:33:02.420 --> 00:33:06.339
a... memorial with a giant Starfleet emblem out

00:33:06.339 --> 00:33:11.039
of colored rocks on the ground. Oh, wow. It was

00:33:11.039 --> 00:33:16.359
a beautiful issue. Again, a lot of those old

00:33:16.359 --> 00:33:20.460
comics still ring true to me. I also enjoyed

00:33:20.460 --> 00:33:24.140
the Nightfall saga from the Batman comics because

00:33:24.140 --> 00:33:27.940
you get to see the fall of Batman and the rise

00:33:27.940 --> 00:33:35.009
of Batman again by the end of it. Yep. Absolutely.

00:33:35.009 --> 00:33:38.109
All right. For me, favorite run of a series,

00:33:38.430 --> 00:33:44.910
there are so many. But I have to say that probably

00:33:44.910 --> 00:33:50.450
still to this day, my favorite run was Nightwing.

00:33:51.880 --> 00:33:57.740
Issue 19 to 24 or 26. I forget which one. New

00:33:57.740 --> 00:34:00.240
52 Nightwing, written by Kyle Higgins. Issue

00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:08.420
19 to 24 or 25 or 26. So 25 was the zero -year

00:34:08.420 --> 00:34:12.300
issue. But basically, when Kyle took Nightwing

00:34:12.300 --> 00:34:15.320
to Chicago, absolutely loved that. That was a

00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:19.360
really, really interesting run. So very, very

00:34:19.360 --> 00:34:23.469
cool. What is the one comic you can read over

00:34:23.469 --> 00:34:28.849
and over again, single issue or trade? One issue.

00:34:31.949 --> 00:34:35.010
I don't know. I haven't really read anything

00:34:35.010 --> 00:34:37.949
over and over. I still have some comics, and

00:34:37.949 --> 00:34:40.670
they're in my bin here, but I haven't really

00:34:40.670 --> 00:34:45.489
gone back and read any of them recently. Right.

00:34:47.090 --> 00:34:51.650
Yeah, I don't know. For me, it's... There are

00:34:51.650 --> 00:34:56.210
multiples. The number one thing I can think that

00:34:56.210 --> 00:34:58.690
I've read over and over and over again was the

00:34:58.690 --> 00:35:04.349
entirety of Tom Zoller's Long Distance. All four

00:35:04.349 --> 00:35:07.809
issues of that series I have in a physical copy

00:35:07.809 --> 00:35:11.610
trade that I actually – I bought from Tom for

00:35:11.610 --> 00:35:14.550
Karen for her birthday I think a couple of years

00:35:14.550 --> 00:35:17.750
ago. And I had him dedicate it to her. I had

00:35:17.750 --> 00:35:19.650
him write a little dedication in the opening

00:35:19.650 --> 00:35:24.150
flap of the book. But before I had met her, I

00:35:24.150 --> 00:35:28.010
had read that comic. Anytime I need to look at

00:35:28.010 --> 00:35:33.050
a fun relationship or a kind of geeky relationship

00:35:33.050 --> 00:35:36.150
thing, long distance from Tom Zahler is really

00:35:36.150 --> 00:35:38.769
where I go. And I've got other ones that I –

00:35:38.769 --> 00:35:45.829
what's another one? Pretty much any of Kyle Higgins'

00:35:46.030 --> 00:35:50.420
Power Rangers stuff or – The new 52 Nightwing.

00:35:53.400 --> 00:35:55.739
But yeah, Tom Saller's Long Distance is probably

00:35:55.739 --> 00:36:00.519
the one I've done over and over again. So even

00:36:00.519 --> 00:36:04.139
though we try to be as positive as we can, we

00:36:04.139 --> 00:36:07.260
also have to have a few negative questions in

00:36:07.260 --> 00:36:09.760
here. Are there any comics you avoid altogether?

00:36:13.280 --> 00:36:17.719
I usually stay away from the unknowns. And I

00:36:17.719 --> 00:36:22.000
know that's sacrilege, but it's more so... And

00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:26.639
anymore, I stay away from DC and Marvel. More

00:36:26.639 --> 00:36:29.780
so because I haven't really enjoyed any of their

00:36:29.780 --> 00:36:34.780
runs in years. And I've enjoyed... I mean, the

00:36:34.780 --> 00:36:39.059
Batman Continues, I enjoy that. Yeah. But other

00:36:39.059 --> 00:36:41.659
than that, I stay away from DC. Because I find

00:36:41.659 --> 00:36:44.219
their main storylines are very convoluted between

00:36:44.219 --> 00:36:48.309
multiple lines, and it's very diluted. to the

00:36:48.309 --> 00:36:50.750
point where I feel like they're strong -arming

00:36:50.750 --> 00:36:54.769
you into purchasing multiple lineups just to

00:36:54.769 --> 00:36:57.789
understand the story. And Marvel's kind of guilty

00:36:57.789 --> 00:37:01.650
of that, too. So I pretty much stay away from

00:37:01.650 --> 00:37:05.949
those two, and I gear more towards the items

00:37:05.949 --> 00:37:13.230
that IDW has in play at this moment. But you'll

00:37:13.230 --> 00:37:15.409
still take it like if I sit here and tell you,

00:37:15.469 --> 00:37:18.590
OK, look, just take a look at this. And if it

00:37:18.590 --> 00:37:20.889
grabs you, like if I sit here and send you Pop

00:37:20.889 --> 00:37:24.769
Kill, you know, check it out, look at it. If

00:37:24.769 --> 00:37:27.010
you like it, great. If not, whatever. So you're

00:37:27.010 --> 00:37:30.650
not closed minded to having. No. And we've reviewed

00:37:30.650 --> 00:37:34.730
some comics before that, you know, we we kind

00:37:34.730 --> 00:37:37.670
of decided that weren't for us. And yeah. Yeah.

00:37:38.230 --> 00:37:40.949
And but I mean, we still gave it a shot. We read

00:37:40.949 --> 00:37:44.420
a couple issues and. It just didn't gravitate

00:37:44.420 --> 00:37:48.179
towards our tastes, and so we moved on. Yep,

00:37:48.260 --> 00:37:53.239
absolutely. Comics that I avoid that I just generally

00:37:53.239 --> 00:37:55.139
have no interest in because they're not in my

00:37:55.139 --> 00:37:58.840
wheelhouse, The Walking Dead is a perfect example.

00:37:59.039 --> 00:38:01.480
I'm not into zombies. It has nothing to do with

00:38:01.480 --> 00:38:05.719
how good or whatever the comic is. I'm just not

00:38:05.719 --> 00:38:14.739
a zombie person, so I avoid that. I don't know.

00:38:14.780 --> 00:38:19.079
It just depends on most of the time when I'm

00:38:19.079 --> 00:38:21.159
looking at comics, I'm seeking out the stuff

00:38:21.159 --> 00:38:24.519
that I really want to read. I'm not looking at

00:38:24.519 --> 00:38:28.099
every single solicitation to see if there's something

00:38:28.099 --> 00:38:36.380
new that I may or may not like. So the next question

00:38:36.380 --> 00:38:40.150
is kind of loaded. Are there any comics in the

00:38:40.150 --> 00:38:43.610
past or currently that you wish you had not read

00:38:43.610 --> 00:38:52.329
them? Not read. Yeah, like you had read them

00:38:52.329 --> 00:38:55.130
and you're like, man, I wish I could get the

00:38:55.130 --> 00:38:59.590
last ten minutes back. I can't think of any off

00:38:59.590 --> 00:39:01.909
the top of my head. I know there have been some,

00:39:02.010 --> 00:39:06.409
though. Yeah. I just can't fathom them at the

00:39:06.409 --> 00:39:11.789
moment. I think for me it's more of, to answer

00:39:11.789 --> 00:39:17.530
this question, it's more of, oh, I'm just not

00:39:17.530 --> 00:39:21.070
enjoying this. Like we were saying a minute ago

00:39:21.070 --> 00:39:23.170
about something new that we hadn't read before

00:39:23.170 --> 00:39:25.849
or something that isn't fully established, that

00:39:25.849 --> 00:39:29.090
kind of thing yet, or whatever, or it's from

00:39:29.090 --> 00:39:32.840
someone completely unknown to us. There are plenty

00:39:32.840 --> 00:39:34.960
of probably Frank Miller things, and I have not

00:39:34.960 --> 00:39:36.739
read a lot of Frank Miller, but I'm just using

00:39:36.739 --> 00:39:38.440
him as an example. There's plenty of Frank Miller

00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:44.860
things that I may or may not like. But like you

00:39:44.860 --> 00:39:47.500
were saying earlier about your hesitation to

00:39:47.500 --> 00:39:52.639
the unknown, if I read something that's unknown

00:39:52.639 --> 00:39:55.219
to me and I end up not liking it, it's like,

00:39:55.300 --> 00:39:58.260
oh, God, I wish I could take that time back now.

00:40:00.429 --> 00:40:02.989
This is going to be a pretty fast question here.

00:40:03.269 --> 00:40:05.969
How large or small is your physical comic book

00:40:05.969 --> 00:40:08.590
collection? This question is usually reserved

00:40:08.590 --> 00:40:12.429
for guests that actually have multiple long boxes

00:40:12.429 --> 00:40:15.190
of comics in their apartments or homes or whatever.

00:40:15.510 --> 00:40:18.909
I have half a short box still. There you go.

00:40:20.090 --> 00:40:26.849
And it consists of, and I remembered that this

00:40:26.849 --> 00:40:29.110
question was a part of it, I would have left

00:40:29.110 --> 00:40:32.960
them out. I have the Beast Wars comics. I have

00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:37.960
my Dreamwave comics of the G1 line. Right. I

00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:45.400
think I have the Rebirth Batman comic. Okay.

00:40:46.699 --> 00:40:53.139
And I'm actually trying to dig them out. And

00:40:53.139 --> 00:40:55.639
I'm trying to think what else I got. I think

00:40:55.639 --> 00:41:00.699
I got the Transformers the movie IDW. Uh -huh.

00:41:00.739 --> 00:41:05.079
I know what other IDW comic you have. You went

00:41:05.079 --> 00:41:08.599
out and bought like seven copies of it. Oh, yes,

00:41:08.659 --> 00:41:16.219
I do. TMNT number 55 from IDW. Yes, with, yeah.

00:41:17.179 --> 00:41:21.519
My quote. With Blanchard's quote on it. That's

00:41:21.519 --> 00:41:25.460
right. And with Geekcast Radio used as the quoter.

00:41:29.029 --> 00:41:32.809
Still need a copy of that. Anyway. Here we go.

00:41:32.969 --> 00:41:35.670
I found them. I thought I had more than that.

00:41:37.469 --> 00:41:41.010
What do you have? Well, I actually have less

00:41:41.010 --> 00:41:42.570
comics than what I thought, so I must have got

00:41:42.570 --> 00:41:45.170
rid of some. I have the Transformers Universe

00:41:45.170 --> 00:41:48.829
comics from 3H Productions. Oh, cool. With Furman

00:41:48.829 --> 00:41:55.550
and Kana. So I have the issue one. I paid so

00:41:55.550 --> 00:41:59.440
much for these. Because they were for the 20th

00:41:59.440 --> 00:42:02.719
anniversary year. So I got the Wreckers one.

00:42:03.480 --> 00:42:06.739
I got the Timelines Dawn of Future Past. Yep.

00:42:06.940 --> 00:42:14.420
Which is the prequel to Beast Wars. I have the

00:42:14.420 --> 00:42:16.760
Beast Wars Ascending. I have Star Trek Ashes

00:42:16.760 --> 00:42:20.679
of Eden. I never did get the other Beast Wars

00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:26.159
The Ascension. Or no, The Gathering. The Gathering

00:42:26.159 --> 00:42:29.219
was the first one. I got rid of all of them,

00:42:29.219 --> 00:42:31.860
I think, because I was trying to get the trade.

00:42:33.119 --> 00:42:36.420
Ah, yes. And I never got around to getting the

00:42:36.420 --> 00:42:38.480
trade. I'm going to have to fix that. There's

00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:42.360
comic shops near here. So I'm sure it's cheap

00:42:42.360 --> 00:42:46.139
now, if you can find it. Should be. Should be.

00:42:46.179 --> 00:42:51.019
If not, I'll Amazon it. But, yeah, I've got some

00:42:51.019 --> 00:42:53.820
of those. I think my oldest comic, though, is

00:42:53.820 --> 00:42:56.820
literally the Star Trek Ashes of Eden. and it's

00:42:56.820 --> 00:43:00.659
literally because, I mean, one, Shatner wrote

00:43:00.659 --> 00:43:04.119
it with Judith and Garfield, Reeve Stevens, and

00:43:04.119 --> 00:43:09.599
then Steve Irwin, Jim Palmiati. Jimmy Palmiati,

00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:14.460
yeah. Yes, did the art. Oh, wow. Yeah, let me

00:43:14.460 --> 00:43:18.440
open it up. You can hear the book crackle. The

00:43:18.440 --> 00:43:21.300
glue binding is starting to disintegrate. I'm

00:43:21.300 --> 00:43:24.980
going to have to fix that. Um, Steve Irwin did

00:43:24.980 --> 00:43:28.099
the penciling. The writers were Shatner and the

00:43:28.099 --> 00:43:31.599
Reeve Stevens. Jim, Jimmy Palmiati did the inking.

00:43:31.900 --> 00:43:37.239
Um, Oh wow. The, uh, Gloria Vasquez did the coloring

00:43:37.239 --> 00:43:42.340
and yeah, the, it's, it's pretty slick. It's,

00:43:42.340 --> 00:43:45.760
um, it was written in 95 and it kind of plays

00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:50.579
out his, uh, his written book, um, of, of the

00:43:50.579 --> 00:43:55.710
same thing. And you get to see, quite honestly,

00:43:55.929 --> 00:44:00.070
it's pretty freaking accurate, which is difficult

00:44:00.070 --> 00:44:04.289
to do with actors. Right. And that was something

00:44:04.289 --> 00:44:06.969
that DC was actually really good at at that time.

00:44:07.010 --> 00:44:09.750
And I bought it because not only was it kind

00:44:09.750 --> 00:44:13.309
of Kirk's final hurrah in Starfleet, and then

00:44:13.309 --> 00:44:16.170
they had a lot of the crew show up from the original

00:44:16.170 --> 00:44:19.019
thing. because it kind of takes place before

00:44:19.019 --> 00:44:22.500
Generations where he's on the Enterprise B. Right,

00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:25.000
right. Because they blow away the Enterprise

00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:28.940
A. Of course they do. It explodes. Yes, it does.

00:44:29.780 --> 00:44:35.519
So, yeah, it's a really good issue. I enjoy it,

00:44:35.579 --> 00:44:39.159
so I might have to review it at some point. Absolutely.

00:44:39.460 --> 00:44:43.039
But, yeah, those are what I have. All right.

00:44:46.639 --> 00:44:49.380
What's the one comic you could never live without

00:44:49.380 --> 00:44:53.300
ever? So basically this question is, if the house

00:44:53.300 --> 00:44:56.340
is on fire, heaven forbid, obviously the family

00:44:56.340 --> 00:44:59.659
and everybody's safe, but if there was one comic

00:44:59.659 --> 00:45:03.099
that you had to run back in and save, what would

00:45:03.099 --> 00:45:11.079
it be? I don't know, because honestly, I'm pretty

00:45:11.079 --> 00:45:14.880
sure I could get all of them digitally now. So

00:45:14.880 --> 00:45:18.840
it wouldn't be that big of a loss, but probably

00:45:18.840 --> 00:45:22.659
the dawn of futures past of the Transformers

00:45:22.659 --> 00:45:29.579
because it's a BotCon thing. Yeah. And I actually

00:45:29.579 --> 00:45:32.739
never went to BotCon at that point. I went to,

00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:36.400
I think, the last BotCon they had, I want to

00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:42.360
say. A few years ago. Wasn't the one with Welker?

00:45:43.380 --> 00:45:46.960
Yeah, so that was what, 2015? Something. No,

00:45:47.280 --> 00:45:51.659
maybe it was. I don't know. 2015, 2016. Yeah,

00:45:51.719 --> 00:45:54.460
it had to have been 2015. It was 2015 because

00:45:54.460 --> 00:45:57.280
2016 was in Louisville and you didn't come. No.

00:45:58.019 --> 00:46:00.000
Yeah, so it was the second to the last one. But

00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:07.699
I saw Michael Wilson, I saw Radio Free Cybertron,

00:46:07.780 --> 00:46:12.000
and I saw various writers of the AllSpark Almanac.

00:46:13.819 --> 00:46:17.199
But, yeah, I didn't go before that, and I had

00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:19.400
to order it on eBay, the comic, and I bought,

00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:24.780
like, multiples. Very cool. For me, for this

00:46:24.780 --> 00:46:29.139
question, like you said, my comics are digital.

00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:32.139
But if I was going, I do still have some physical

00:46:32.139 --> 00:46:34.659
copies. Like I said earlier, I have the physical

00:46:34.659 --> 00:46:37.780
copy of Tom Saller's Long Distance, so that would

00:46:37.780 --> 00:46:39.820
probably be the one that I would run back in

00:46:39.820 --> 00:46:44.659
for. What is the most money you spent on a comic

00:46:44.659 --> 00:46:48.400
or comic item? So this could be a comic book,

00:46:48.599 --> 00:46:51.780
a trade, an omnibus. Omnibuses are the giant,

00:46:51.840 --> 00:46:56.400
giant trades. Or a comic item could be a statue,

00:46:56.599 --> 00:47:00.280
could be an action figure, or a bust, or something

00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:07.039
like that. Well, I don't think I've spent more

00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:11.150
than $20 on something. okay whether it's a figure

00:47:11.150 --> 00:47:17.829
or um or a comic like comics i kind of cut the

00:47:17.829 --> 00:47:21.829
line at like 10 right it's hard for me to spend

00:47:21.829 --> 00:47:28.010
even close to that um yeah but i i think the

00:47:28.010 --> 00:47:33.710
most i've spent about like 20 24 yeah for me

00:47:33.710 --> 00:47:40.769
it was um There are plenty of statues and stuff

00:47:40.769 --> 00:47:42.489
that I've wanted to buy, but I just never could

00:47:42.489 --> 00:47:46.730
afford them. I think the most money I spent on

00:47:46.730 --> 00:47:49.090
a comic was like, I don't know, 11 bucks or something

00:47:49.090 --> 00:47:52.309
for some variant cover or whatever. May have

00:47:52.309 --> 00:47:56.090
been $25 for like a multiple variant. Like if

00:47:56.090 --> 00:47:58.150
you wanted to get all the variant covers, spend

00:47:58.150 --> 00:48:02.659
25 bucks, that kind of thing. Was there ever

00:48:02.659 --> 00:48:04.960
a moment when you were done with comics? Like,

00:48:05.019 --> 00:48:06.900
you just didn't want to read them anymore, you

00:48:06.900 --> 00:48:10.179
had no interest, and you'd rather watch TV or

00:48:10.179 --> 00:48:16.300
cartoons or whatever? Much after DC decided they

00:48:16.300 --> 00:48:22.840
were going to foobar their New 52. That's pretty

00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:26.119
much when that happened for me. Because the storylines

00:48:26.119 --> 00:48:29.869
not only started to stink, but... I just found

00:48:29.869 --> 00:48:35.449
them not very entertaining. Right. For me on

00:48:35.449 --> 00:48:39.829
that one, because I had only been in comics here

00:48:39.829 --> 00:48:42.030
and there throughout my entire life, and then,

00:48:42.110 --> 00:48:45.630
you know, when we decided to start this show,

00:48:45.730 --> 00:48:47.909
we actually started this show on Geekcast Radio,

00:48:48.010 --> 00:48:50.969
our flagship show of the network, because you're

00:48:50.969 --> 00:48:54.630
like, ooh, the Joker, his face, Batman 13, you

00:48:54.630 --> 00:48:57.269
need to read it. And I'm like, okay. And then

00:48:57.269 --> 00:49:01.329
that started the genesis of this podcast. Um,

00:49:01.469 --> 00:49:06.590
so ever since 2013, late 2012, early 2013, I

00:49:06.590 --> 00:49:09.590
haven't, I've there, you know, I'm still into

00:49:09.590 --> 00:49:11.969
comics. I'm still covering comics on the show,

00:49:12.030 --> 00:49:15.329
obviously, but I'm not buying as much. I'm going

00:49:15.329 --> 00:49:18.289
to be at some point, hopefully, but cause I'm

00:49:18.289 --> 00:49:19.929
going to work that into my budget kind of thing.

00:49:19.949 --> 00:49:23.230
But so I can have more stuff for the show, but

00:49:23.230 --> 00:49:28.219
yeah, there so far I'm. There isn't one thing

00:49:28.219 --> 00:49:29.860
or another. Now, there have been some things

00:49:29.860 --> 00:49:32.119
with certain companies that have happened that

00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:36.440
I find are just kind of deplorable. But other

00:49:36.440 --> 00:49:39.360
than that, you know, reading the comics, reading

00:49:39.360 --> 00:49:42.380
the material, I still very, very much enjoy.

00:49:44.099 --> 00:49:46.579
I'm not sure this question applies to you because

00:49:46.579 --> 00:49:49.440
you're not really reading stuff. But what are

00:49:49.440 --> 00:49:51.380
you reading right now and what do you think our

00:49:51.380 --> 00:49:56.679
listeners should check out? The only thing I've

00:49:56.679 --> 00:50:00.019
been reading are the Batman Continues, just because

00:50:00.019 --> 00:50:01.940
it kind of takes the animated series to another

00:50:01.940 --> 00:50:07.159
level. Yeah. Yeah, it's so good. For me, there's

00:50:07.159 --> 00:50:10.360
a whole laundry list, folks. Like I mentioned

00:50:10.360 --> 00:50:14.099
earlier, Long Distance from Tom Zoller, Sex Criminals

00:50:14.099 --> 00:50:18.539
from Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky. Pretty much

00:50:18.539 --> 00:50:20.920
anything we've covered on this podcast, you can

00:50:20.920 --> 00:50:22.739
go back through all of our episodes just looking

00:50:22.739 --> 00:50:24.980
at our episode titles and go pick up all of those.

00:50:27.010 --> 00:50:30.949
What character types do you like the most? Heroes,

00:50:30.949 --> 00:50:33.690
heroines, anti -heroes, heroines, or villains?

00:50:34.949 --> 00:50:38.130
What are you really drawn to when it comes to

00:50:38.130 --> 00:50:42.670
reading comics? A character like Q from Star

00:50:42.670 --> 00:50:50.150
Trek. Kind of an anti -hero villain. Right. Kind

00:50:50.150 --> 00:50:53.340
of just a pain that kind of... shows up, which

00:50:53.340 --> 00:50:55.699
they actually did have an IDW comic with all

00:50:55.699 --> 00:51:01.519
the generations of the... Q -Berts? Starships,

00:51:01.599 --> 00:51:04.980
yeah. Ah, yes. They had Q in it, they had a lot

00:51:04.980 --> 00:51:07.019
of the other aliens that have those type of powers,

00:51:07.139 --> 00:51:10.300
and then they had Kirk, Picard, Sisko, and Janeway

00:51:10.300 --> 00:51:13.960
all swapping crews and creating this game where

00:51:13.960 --> 00:51:20.920
they're battling for Q's amusement. To settle

00:51:20.920 --> 00:51:24.079
a bet. And so that was kind of my favorite type

00:51:24.079 --> 00:51:27.880
of setup. But I generally like the flawed heroes,

00:51:28.039 --> 00:51:33.239
kind of like Kirk or Picard. They've kind of

00:51:33.239 --> 00:51:35.239
taken Prime and Megatron to a whole other level

00:51:35.239 --> 00:51:39.059
on IDW. Yeah, they have. I don't know if I like

00:51:39.059 --> 00:51:44.079
Megatron going good. It's interesting because

00:51:44.079 --> 00:51:51.759
I feel like that storytelling point is... He's

00:51:51.759 --> 00:51:56.960
a character you can root for. He still has some

00:51:56.960 --> 00:51:58.699
of his evilness, but he doesn't want to take

00:51:58.699 --> 00:52:02.760
over the world. The reason why I like Megatron

00:52:02.760 --> 00:52:07.980
going good is because he himself is at peace

00:52:07.980 --> 00:52:16.260
with his own tyranny. Okay. Oh. I can see it.

00:52:17.260 --> 00:52:24.630
Yep. So this is actually a holdover from ToyCast,

00:52:24.650 --> 00:52:28.070
but it's – Wow, that's a blast from the past.

00:52:28.429 --> 00:52:34.369
Yeah, well, it's a holdover from ToyCast because

00:52:34.369 --> 00:52:36.750
I applied that question to comics. So back on

00:52:36.750 --> 00:52:39.349
ToyCast when we used to talk action figures and

00:52:39.349 --> 00:52:42.280
things like that, Mighty Mugs and all that. I

00:52:42.280 --> 00:52:45.920
used to ask everybody, do you have a, my parents

00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:49.340
got rid of my toys story? Because I do have one.

00:52:49.420 --> 00:52:52.800
So now, do you have a, my parents got rid of

00:52:52.800 --> 00:52:56.260
my comics story? I don't, because like I said

00:52:56.260 --> 00:52:59.719
before, I don't have, I wasn't collecting comics

00:52:59.719 --> 00:53:03.420
as a kid. I don't have one of those stories,

00:53:03.519 --> 00:53:05.940
but I've had to get rid of my comics on multiple

00:53:05.940 --> 00:53:11.639
occasions. Yeah. Because I fell on hard times

00:53:11.639 --> 00:53:15.860
and I needed the money. And it wasn't that I

00:53:15.860 --> 00:53:19.099
wanted to. Because, like, my comics, it was always

00:53:19.099 --> 00:53:22.239
kind of like this. I don't read them often enough

00:53:22.239 --> 00:53:25.659
for it to matter. But I don't want to part with

00:53:25.659 --> 00:53:29.880
them. And so I had this instance where I was

00:53:29.880 --> 00:53:33.019
going. I mean, I had probably two or three long

00:53:33.019 --> 00:53:37.519
boxes worth over the years. And I'm down to,

00:53:37.559 --> 00:53:45.480
like. less than half of a short box so um i i

00:53:45.480 --> 00:53:51.159
i had to get rid of like i had a gi joe run and

00:53:51.159 --> 00:53:56.739
a star wars run and um a couple eternals comics

00:53:56.739 --> 00:53:59.139
couple of x -men not really enough to really

00:53:59.139 --> 00:54:05.000
go on um i had uh power rangers run a short run

00:54:05.000 --> 00:54:08.719
of it A short run of Spider -Man. And I got rid

00:54:08.719 --> 00:54:11.059
of all of those. Mostly because I didn't care.

00:54:12.599 --> 00:54:14.719
The G .I. Joe kind of bothered me a little bit.

00:54:14.840 --> 00:54:16.960
But that was just because I got those in the

00:54:16.960 --> 00:54:20.679
90s. And then I started getting rid of some of

00:54:20.679 --> 00:54:22.139
the other stuff. Like I started getting rid of

00:54:22.139 --> 00:54:27.500
some of my G1 comics from Marvel. And that bothered

00:54:27.500 --> 00:54:32.039
me. Because I had, out of the 80 issues, I had

00:54:32.039 --> 00:54:37.119
probably 68 maybe. Yeah, I had about 68 of them.

00:54:37.840 --> 00:54:40.739
Oh, wow. The other issues I could not get my

00:54:40.739 --> 00:54:43.860
hands on were because they just were so rare.

00:54:45.960 --> 00:54:50.360
I'd never seen them. And that was from scouring

00:54:50.360 --> 00:54:53.400
multiple comic shops in their quarter bin, in

00:54:53.400 --> 00:54:55.559
their regular bin, and stuff would turn up every

00:54:55.559 --> 00:54:58.199
now and again. Like, I had all of the G2 line

00:54:58.199 --> 00:55:01.300
except for two comics, again, for the same reason.

00:55:02.760 --> 00:55:05.360
the last issue and like one of the other issues

00:55:05.360 --> 00:55:10.599
were insanely difficult to get. Um, but again,

00:55:10.940 --> 00:55:13.219
it was just, it was one of those scenarios and

00:55:13.219 --> 00:55:15.659
I needed money multiple times. I was working

00:55:15.659 --> 00:55:19.179
fast food. I had no money coming in. I was not

00:55:19.179 --> 00:55:21.559
to mention, I was also buying transformers toys

00:55:21.559 --> 00:55:25.800
and I kept getting flat tires in my truck. So

00:55:25.800 --> 00:55:28.360
in tires on a truck, even back then were pretty

00:55:28.360 --> 00:55:32.909
pricey. Um, right. So I, I kept having to, take

00:55:32.909 --> 00:55:38.070
my comics, pawn them. I'd get... It was ridiculous.

00:55:38.389 --> 00:55:41.570
I'd get like $100 for them. It was funny because

00:55:41.570 --> 00:55:44.389
I probably could still go to the one comic shop

00:55:44.389 --> 00:55:48.710
and find some of my comics there. And that was

00:55:48.710 --> 00:55:53.550
years ago. But I've had to do it numerous times.

00:55:53.789 --> 00:55:56.010
And then before I moved from Michigan to Colorado,

00:55:56.250 --> 00:56:01.079
I actually offed... I think that's when I got

00:56:01.079 --> 00:56:04.940
rid of my Dreamwave comics and a lot of the other

00:56:04.940 --> 00:56:06.679
stuff. And I was kind of sad to see them go,

00:56:06.860 --> 00:56:10.840
but I think, and I could be wrong, I think the

00:56:10.840 --> 00:56:14.539
reason I got rid of them is I think I had some

00:56:14.539 --> 00:56:18.940
of them digitally. Because I bought years ago

00:56:18.940 --> 00:56:23.260
when I had PredaconEmpire .com, I had a, it was

00:56:23.260 --> 00:56:26.260
from Decepticon Matrix, they had a total dump

00:56:26.260 --> 00:56:29.440
of all of the Marvel Comics line. Somebody had

00:56:29.440 --> 00:56:33.099
ripped them all digitally. The Marvel line and

00:56:33.099 --> 00:56:36.659
the UK line. The US and UK. And I had the G2

00:56:36.659 --> 00:56:40.039
comics on there. So I have somewhere around here

00:56:40.039 --> 00:56:48.639
a CD where all of it is on there. And so that

00:56:48.639 --> 00:56:51.239
eliminated my need for those. I think the Dreamwave

00:56:51.239 --> 00:56:53.179
stuff's on there too. And I had the Armada line

00:56:53.179 --> 00:56:57.070
and Energon line on. Dreamwave 2. They were really

00:56:57.070 --> 00:57:00.969
good graphically by comparison to the TV show.

00:57:02.389 --> 00:57:05.530
Again, it was one of those scenarios I had to

00:57:05.530 --> 00:57:09.289
off them because I needed cash. That seems to

00:57:09.289 --> 00:57:11.949
be the story of my life. I have to get rid of

00:57:11.949 --> 00:57:16.750
stuff because I need money. I'm slowly replenishing

00:57:16.750 --> 00:57:20.670
some things. I'm kind of weighing what I get

00:57:20.670 --> 00:57:24.869
now. But, yeah, I mean, that's kind of what's

00:57:24.869 --> 00:57:26.570
happened to me, and that's why I'm down to so

00:57:26.570 --> 00:57:31.369
few. But I managed to hold on to some. Same thing

00:57:31.369 --> 00:57:34.429
happened with my DVDs. I did offed a lot of those,

00:57:34.429 --> 00:57:39.670
too, for the same reason. Yep. All right. So

00:57:39.670 --> 00:57:43.809
most, and this is very, very true, most creators

00:57:43.809 --> 00:57:48.889
will say don't. Ask me an idea. Don't tell me

00:57:48.889 --> 00:57:51.250
your idea because if you do and then later I

00:57:51.250 --> 00:57:55.030
end up potentially unconsciously using that,

00:57:55.170 --> 00:57:57.429
then you can come back and sue me kind of thing.

00:57:57.570 --> 00:58:04.949
So don't go up to Brian K. Vaughan or Kyle Higgins

00:58:04.949 --> 00:58:08.329
or Jimmy Palmiati and say, hey, this would be

00:58:08.329 --> 00:58:10.849
a great idea for you to put in your comic. And

00:58:10.849 --> 00:58:13.650
if they accidentally do, then you could – but

00:58:13.650 --> 00:58:17.880
so basically this one is – If you could create

00:58:17.880 --> 00:58:21.280
any comic storyline, what would you want to create

00:58:21.280 --> 00:58:23.800
and what characters would you want to create

00:58:23.800 --> 00:58:29.780
it with? So if IDW gave us the keys to the Transformers

00:58:29.780 --> 00:58:32.260
Kingdom or if DC gave us the keys to Batman,

00:58:32.480 --> 00:58:35.840
that kind of thing, what kind of comic story

00:58:35.840 --> 00:58:37.900
would you want to create with the characters

00:58:37.900 --> 00:58:41.800
that you love? Honestly, I would probably do...

00:58:44.110 --> 00:58:46.909
It started out as a fanfic. I never got around

00:58:46.909 --> 00:58:49.989
to doing it the rest of the way, and I did script

00:58:49.989 --> 00:58:55.230
out some of it. I created a series that took

00:58:55.230 --> 00:58:57.769
place between Beast Wars and Beast Machines.

00:58:58.449 --> 00:59:02.869
Oh, wow. Okay. It was called Transformers Age

00:59:02.869 --> 00:59:06.750
of Dissolution because it's before the Maximals

00:59:06.750 --> 00:59:10.690
arrive, but it explains how Megatron took command

00:59:10.690 --> 00:59:16.199
of the planet by himself. So it begins with you're

00:59:16.199 --> 00:59:20.000
dealing with a little Predacon faction of an

00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:23.199
up -and -coming crime lord, kind of in the sense

00:59:23.199 --> 00:59:29.719
of Beast Wars Megatron. And there's a plethora

00:59:29.719 --> 00:59:34.480
of villains that I created with some licensing

00:59:34.480 --> 00:59:38.659
of similarities to some other Decepticons that

00:59:38.659 --> 00:59:46.269
were Predacons. You come to find out that Depth

00:59:46.269 --> 00:59:49.469
Charge had, even though he was destroyed on the

00:59:49.469 --> 00:59:53.969
Beast Planet, made it back to Cybertron. They

00:59:53.969 --> 00:59:59.610
put him in a new body, and he's talking to the

00:59:59.610 --> 01:00:01.989
Council of the Primes, or the Primals, and so

01:00:01.989 --> 01:00:04.590
he's talking to Leo Convoy and Big Convoy, and

01:00:04.590 --> 01:00:06.849
another one that looks kind of like Primal, and

01:00:06.849 --> 01:00:10.139
another one that's... You know, like Rodimus

01:00:10.139 --> 01:00:12.559
or some of these other primes that are kind of

01:00:12.559 --> 01:00:14.280
sitting at his council and he's telling them

01:00:14.280 --> 01:00:17.340
that, you know, the Beast Wars went totally out

01:00:17.340 --> 01:00:21.719
of control. And, you know, that as far as he

01:00:21.719 --> 01:00:24.380
knew, things were still going on and they're

01:00:24.380 --> 01:00:26.980
just blowing him off. And he's like, you morons,

01:00:26.980 --> 01:00:30.519
you know, and it kind of leaves. And you find

01:00:30.519 --> 01:00:33.320
out that Tarantulas is also back on the planet.

01:00:34.860 --> 01:00:39.460
Same thing. revitalized because of the Predacon

01:00:39.460 --> 01:00:45.179
Council, Tri -Predacus. And so he's opted to

01:00:45.179 --> 01:00:49.559
keep a robotic version of his tarantula form.

01:00:50.619 --> 01:00:53.340
So he has drones that are in the Council that

01:00:53.340 --> 01:00:55.780
are spying on the whole thing, and he kind of

01:00:55.780 --> 01:00:58.940
chuckles to himself, like, ah, they're still

01:00:58.940 --> 01:01:02.780
trying to unravel the webs that happen on Earth.

01:01:05.130 --> 01:01:07.650
And then these crime lords, they're going through

01:01:07.650 --> 01:01:09.530
and they're scavenging, trying to find, because

01:01:09.530 --> 01:01:14.670
they're kind of on a run -down part of Cybertron.

01:01:14.969 --> 01:01:20.070
And Megatron crash lands on the planet as his

01:01:20.070 --> 01:01:26.130
dragon form. And so he's, like, damaged bad.

01:01:26.769 --> 01:01:30.050
But he's still strong enough that he could take

01:01:30.050 --> 01:01:34.150
them out if he needed to. So he's scorched and

01:01:34.150 --> 01:01:38.329
everything kind of comes out and decides to take

01:01:38.329 --> 01:01:41.789
command of this little squad and in turn takes

01:01:41.789 --> 01:01:44.170
out their leader, essentially placing himself

01:01:44.170 --> 01:01:48.210
as the head. And then so they go on and he starts

01:01:48.210 --> 01:01:50.750
working on his version of that virus that he

01:01:50.750 --> 01:01:58.280
used in Beast Wars. Well, yes, the same one that's

01:01:58.280 --> 01:02:00.159
used in Beast Machines, but he used it on a smaller

01:02:00.159 --> 01:02:03.579
scale in Beast Wars to lock them into beast mode.

01:02:05.019 --> 01:02:07.400
Oh, right. There's an episode where he does that.

01:02:07.480 --> 01:02:09.480
He does kind of lock them into a beast mode of

01:02:09.480 --> 01:02:12.380
sorts. And so he's working on that, but amplifying

01:02:12.380 --> 01:02:17.360
it. And so it kind of locks them, reverts them

01:02:17.360 --> 01:02:23.039
into their beast form, into their primitive forms,

01:02:23.219 --> 01:02:27.880
which essentially ruins all of the... non -Predacons

01:02:27.880 --> 01:02:34.679
and Maximals. So he's basically gone. There's

01:02:34.679 --> 01:02:36.320
a little bit of time travel involved, but he

01:02:36.320 --> 01:02:41.360
basically wipes out Cybertron. So it's kind of

01:02:41.360 --> 01:02:43.219
playing the long game of what happens between

01:02:43.219 --> 01:02:47.400
the two up to the point where he's in his citadel.

01:02:50.159 --> 01:02:53.320
the maximals arrive and get shot down so it's

01:02:53.320 --> 01:02:56.219
it it was i never got very far with it but i

01:02:56.219 --> 01:02:58.159
that was kind of the long game of what i'd planned

01:02:58.159 --> 01:03:00.260
to kind of bridge the gap because there was kind

01:03:00.260 --> 01:03:03.539
of not really enough backstory of like how did

01:03:03.539 --> 01:03:06.019
this happen you know like how did waspinator

01:03:06.019 --> 01:03:08.460
get flung by the planet you know and shot back

01:03:08.460 --> 01:03:11.599
to cybertron and you know how did he become thrust

01:03:11.599 --> 01:03:15.460
and yeah so i mean yeah i mean those were some

01:03:15.460 --> 01:03:18.559
of the things that i wanted to see but yeah it'll

01:03:18.559 --> 01:03:27.010
never happen Yeah. For me, God, there's so many

01:03:27.010 --> 01:03:35.989
things. I want to, I don't know, there's so many

01:03:35.989 --> 01:03:41.289
answers I could put here. Just based on what

01:03:41.289 --> 01:03:45.429
I've read from IDW's Phase 2 and with Megatron

01:03:45.429 --> 01:03:48.530
becoming an Autobot, there was a cover on one

01:03:48.530 --> 01:03:52.780
of the issues where it's rodimus and megatron

01:03:52.780 --> 01:03:56.559
like driving down a hill in their alternate modes

01:03:56.559 --> 01:04:00.760
and i'm like oh rodimus and megatron buddy cop

01:04:00.760 --> 01:04:03.659
story kind of thing or something i don't know

01:04:03.659 --> 01:04:15.650
uh there's another one where um i wanted uh Not

01:04:15.650 --> 01:04:18.150
necessarily like what happened in Triple Takeover,

01:04:18.269 --> 01:04:21.289
the G1 cartoon episode, but basically I wanted

01:04:21.289 --> 01:04:23.969
Astrotrain and Blitzwing to team up again against

01:04:23.969 --> 01:04:28.869
Springer and Sandstorm or something, like two

01:04:28.869 --> 01:04:31.849
other Autobot triple changers. I wanted a triple

01:04:31.849 --> 01:04:37.690
changer. Oh, Combiner Wars this, Combiner Wars

01:04:37.690 --> 01:04:41.630
that, Gestalts and all this. How about a triple

01:04:41.630 --> 01:04:48.679
changer war? That would be cool. But yeah, I

01:04:48.679 --> 01:04:51.960
leave all the creations as far as comic stories

01:04:51.960 --> 01:04:54.199
and using the characters, I leave that up to

01:04:54.199 --> 01:04:57.079
the professionals. I just love reading the stuff.

01:04:58.679 --> 01:05:01.639
Alright, final question. What is the one piece

01:05:01.639 --> 01:05:08.119
of advice you would give the comics fandom? Enjoy

01:05:08.119 --> 01:05:11.380
what you enjoy. Don't be critical. Don't harass

01:05:11.380 --> 01:05:18.440
the creators. And... Even if you don't like the

01:05:18.440 --> 01:05:21.360
story and you like the art, there's always something

01:05:21.360 --> 01:05:25.239
you're going to like or dislike in a comic. Right.

01:05:26.179 --> 01:05:29.199
For me, I'm pretty much the same as what you

01:05:29.199 --> 01:05:31.840
just said, except I put it in a way where it's...

01:05:31.840 --> 01:05:40.219
Well, let's see here. For me, comics is for everyone.

01:05:40.619 --> 01:05:44.960
There's room in comics for... Anyone and everyone.

01:05:45.300 --> 01:05:48.599
If you like horror, there's a corner of comics

01:05:48.599 --> 01:05:51.119
for that. If you like westerns, I'm sure there's

01:05:51.119 --> 01:05:52.920
a corner of comics for that. If you like superheroes,

01:05:53.260 --> 01:05:55.940
there's plenty. If you like giant robots, that's

01:05:55.940 --> 01:05:59.619
great too. Like Steve said, enjoy what you enjoy

01:05:59.619 --> 01:06:03.099
and don't focus so much on the negative kind

01:06:03.099 --> 01:06:10.840
of thing. Comics are for us all. All right, folks,

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