Comic Book Jumping On Points and TV Trends

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at SCP -21. So without further ado, here's our

question of the week. The first one being, are

there shows that you once were loving, but have

had the feeling to pull the plug on? A few of

these get touched on in the future presentation

part of the show with movie revolt Dan and myself

talking comic books, but a few shows that I've

kind of pulled the plug on are, for instance,

like Supernatural, Black Lightning, Supergirl.

agents of shield some of these have been gradually

over the past year or so but that's kind of the

boat that I've been in is kind of just dropping

shows I don't really want to pick up any new

ones for the most part unless it's like something

I'm really interested in lethal weapon I'm kind

of on the rocks with but being that the series

is pretty much ending anyway give or take which

we'll get into later. I don't know. I don't know.

There's not much I would give up at this point

because not much is left that I currently watch.

The other question is, what are the tech gadgets

you bring with you everywhere you go? For instance,

Digital Trends published an article saying that

they've got some like noise -isolating earbuds,

some cord organizers, a mini power bank. USB

rechargeable lighter Smartphone camera lenses

which then I'm kind of thinking about Just because

the camera quality on my galaxy s5 kind of sucks

The RFID wallet which I'm increasingly thinking

about they have a TNG, Star Trek, Icelinear chip,

USB drive, which is interesting, although the

storage isn't really there for the cost. They

have a nano keychain flashlight, they have a

keychain multi -tool, a folding Bluetooth keyboard,

a health tracker, and a plethora of other items,

an 8 -bit Doe Mini Zero Bluetooth gamepad, which

I didn't even know they made these. It's about

the size of a Nintendo Game Boy Gamepad, which

I might have to add this to my my list for it's

$17. They have many arcade games. They've got

GoPro Hero, they've got Bluetooth smartwatches,

more power banks, more Bluetooth speakers. Now

for me, I pretty much carry like all of my USB

chargers or at least a variation of them. USB

plug for the wall. I carry all of my flash drives

and external hard drive because I never know

what I'll need that may not be in the cloud.

I do have a Bluetooth remote that I can take

pictures or video with my phone on a phone tripod

that I have, which I carry with me because I

never know if I'm going to need it for stationary

purposes, which I plan on using once... I get

some kind of remote video type stuff set up.

I plan on getting a remote microphone. I do have

a lapel microphone, which is kind of eh. It was

like five bucks, so it's not really that great

a quality. But I have those plethora of items

that I carry with me. I always carry a notepad,

extra pens, stuff like that. I have an iPod.

I have a set of, funny enough, Phillips -over

-the -ear headphones that I use for everything

from my phone to my iPod. So those are kind of

the items that I carry with me. So what are some

that you carry with you guys? And so this week's

question is, since this week's episode of the

feature presentation with movie revolt Dan and

myself is about comics, What are some comics

that you wish to see hit the big screen or hit

the small screen like for instance myself I want

to see Batman hit the small screen again. We've

had everybody else hit it except for Batman So

it remains to be seen what happens there, but

that that's kind of my goal there So switching

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of fun to converse and to kind of play around

with voices, which has spawned the fact that

I'm going to be recording some Dr. Seuss books

in character voicing for Halloween. So among

those books are Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch

Stole Christmas, and Red Fish, Blue Fish. So

look forward to seeing those or actually more

so hearing those on episode of Altered Geek probably

next week. It's going to be kind of a special

episode of the podcast, so there'll probably

be two next week, just or possibly more, of me

reading those or having a possibility of having

more of these things in the future. So anyways,

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them over. So, without further ado, we'll be

going into our review section of the podcast

where I'll be covering Last Man Standing episodes

one through three so far. I'm trying to DVR my

favorite show but it's not on. Oh, well maybe

it got canceled. You know, the TV business can

be a heartless bastard. Hey, cancel. Why would

they cancel a popular show that everybody loves?

Maybe they're a bunch of idiots. Just try another

channel. Oh, no, Mike. They don't just take a

show off one network and put it on a different

one. Hey. There it is. You're right, Mr. B. Am

I wrong, or is it, like, way better on this network?

Way better. Way better. I'll be damned. I've

never heard of this happening before. Well, it's

pretty rare, but the show must have a lot of

loyal kick -ass fans, huh? So without further

ado, we're gonna be covering last man standing

So anyways, they they mentioned the first episode

is welcome Baxter. So like haha welcome back

Baxter and they kind of poke fun at ABC throughout

the entire episode of the fact that The You know,

they kind of start out with, you know, why would

a station cancel a highly rated great show and

then, you know, Tim Allen's character Mike Baxter

goes, because they're stupid. And then it kind

of goes through. So anyways, the return episode,

they have recast two characters, Boyd. and Mandy

because boy just for whatever reason kid you

know aged out or they just didn't want to use

that actor anymore and it's easier so Mandy they'd

replace because the actress didn't want to return

so yeah so anyways they brought also Robert Forrester

back as Bud Baxter in this episode Jay Leno it's

funny that he's in the series at all so they

start off the first episode mentioning how Ryan's

in a funk since the election, doing little aside

from watching cable news and moping around his

house. And so Mike snaps him out of it, advising

him to focus more on his family than the current

political climate, which backfires because Ryan

takes this to mean he should move to Canada,

which culminates in Boyd running away from home.

And then it kind of goes in this whole thing

where Mike has to has to kind of, well, one,

he knows where Boyd's at because they're working

on a dirt bike. Two, they said, but in the episode

they mentioned it's a birdhouse. Two, they managed

to get papers for Ryan to apply to be a US citizen

so that he can vote and make a difference, which.

is an interesting twist for it. The second episode,

Man vs. Myth, which has to do with Mike Baxter's

father passing away, and Mike refuses to admit

that he's sad because his father rarely showed

him affection. And then... So it's a constant

battle between the family and Mike about throwing

away Bud's stuff. And then Kristen and Ryan want

to take over the marijuana store that he owned.

And so, you know, Mike just wants to get rid

of everything that reminds him of his father.

And then Kyle gets a new office job at Outdoor

Man, where he's in a slew of annoyingly disturbing

costume changes throughout the episode. And Mandy

just seems to be like kind of, I don't know,

I'm not really a fan of this actress on here.

And it may have to grow on me, but I'm just really

not a fan. And then the third episode is Mike

giving away the business. We're giving Mike the

business in an effort to save Outdoor Man, which

I think this is the best one we've had so far

of originality is on the episodes. But it's I

mean all the seasons been pretty strong so far

but In order to save outdoor man from a hostile

buyout by a larger corporation Ted, you know

that they they mentioned how Ted's tackle box

got bought up by this other company Mike proposes

to expand and improve the Outdoor Man chain.

However, Ed is leaning towards selling. Mike

convinces Ed to not sell. But then Ed announces

that he's retiring, leading Mike to worry that

he may have hurt Ed's feelings and dromed to

leave. But Ed assures him that he's not, and

it's just his right time to leave, so he retires

and leaves Mike in charge. Everybody groans at

the end of the episode about the changes, and

Mike's like, I hear there's a bunch of people...

from Ted's tackle box that are laid off looking

for work and so everybody jumps to work. Jay

Leno's got a couple of funny lines in this and

so does the neighbor and everything. So it's

a really fun episode. A lot of idiocy between

Mandy and Kyle in this which is nothing different.

The next episode is Bride of Frankenstein. And

then they've got one flew into the empty nest

and then the courtship of Vanessa's mother, which

is after that. So that's that's all they have,

you know, planned thus far into the season. So

it remains to be seen how many more episodes

there are. It doesn't really say this is at least,

you know, for the first half of the season that

they've got so far. I've been enjoying the show.

I enjoyed it the first time it was on. I like

the few digs that they've done on Fox but Their

slogan at the top of their their banner for season

7 actually says new home new season same attitude

And it's you know It's on at the same time. It's

you know, it's basically in the same slot just

different channel But yeah, I really enjoy this

shows is one of the few that I Wouldn't mind

watching several more seasons But yeah, so anyways

that's that's kind of my thoughts on the season

I give this so far like a four point five out

of five I really give anything a five point five

just because I Don't think everything is perfect

on everything I would say the first episode I

gave more of a a five out of five, although some

of the trope had been done before. The second

episode I gave a little bit more of a four. I

enjoyed it, but it seemed, I don't know, too

down. But it did kind of show that the Mike Baxter

character does care about his father, despite

everything. And then the third episode, I think,

has been the strongest so far, which I would

have given a five. just coming right off of it

but yeah it's I mean it's still it's still doing

great I mean I don't I don't mind it and then

the fact that they've you know picked it up a

year after the season 6 finale I really love

this show so without further ado gonna be moving

on to the next part of the show which is hot

topics of the net Did you ever notice that everything

seems to be breaking news anymore? Like, seriously,

it's just getting to be absurd. I thought it

was funny that CBS News actually posted an article

stating that breaking news, you know... If you're

just joining us, I'm covering some breaking news.

You know news is breaking because I'm telling

you so and I might touch my earpiece like this

and it's also important you read breaking news

right there on the corner of the screen. Yeah,

faith. Salie on CBS News the other day posted

this how every station has like a breaking news

thing or alert or You know basically don't turn

away from our channel every cable news outlet

has the same thing It's like a staple like block

piece of garbage images on everything now And

they've showed it on CNN, MSNBC, Fox. Everything

is important right now. It's the boy who cried

wolf. And they were saying that breaking news

is not a new angle on an ongoing story. It's

not a presidential tweet. And it's not something

that 45 million Americans are under the threat

of extreme weather. They're basically saying

that historically breaking news meant a trusted

broadcaster interrupted a program with an urgent

report of something everyone should know, which

rarely happened. So people would snap to attention

because some man was making a, as the world turns,

stop turning type motion. And then they show

the absurdity of it, of the cable news and the

24 hour channels needing news all the time where

it says, You know, like there's an image that

they screenshot saying, breaking news, Justin

Bieber facing judge at video bond hearing. Who

cares? Or, you know, I don't know. It just seems

like news is just, you know, breaking news is

just fake urgency. And that's what they've kind

of commented on here. It's... It's rather interesting

when you look at it. And that's the same thing

with pop culture and with superheroes and everything

else. If you look at Twitter, everything is like

a, oh, check this now, oh, wait, blah, blah,

blah. It's, you know, everything is like this

immediate like pay attention to me thing on everything.

It doesn't even matter what it's about, whether

it's a film, whether it's an article, and then

you see like hundred websites post the same thing

right after each other and it's it's like okay

we get it you know it everybody's got the same

news there's no point in everybody doing the

same thing pretending like this is like this

huge announcement when it's not like it's not

it would be like running comic -con every day

all year It would get old and you would just

not care Whereas it's like during a specific

set time You know it I don't know I I felt like

that was something that kind of hit the nose

on the head there and People were kind of you

know Not that it was like a hot topic thing,

but something that just kind of interested me

there the other thing that was posted is and

I saw this on Unlinked in the other day and They

said that music piracy is still rampant, despite

Spotify and Apple Music helping to resuscitate

the music business. They're saying that they're

convincing music fans to pay to stream, yet it

remains very high. Although they do state that

86 % of consumers use legitimate services, roughly

38 % are engaging in piracy. according to the

International Federation of the Phonographic

Industry. Most pirating today is done via stream

ripping, where websites create an audio file

ripped from a YouTube video or another legal

site. Recurred music revenue hit 17 billion globally

last year, an 8 % increase driven mostly by streaming,

which itself enjoyed a 41 % increase in revenue.

The funny thing about it is... they they keep

whining about it like but there's really nothing

they can do about it like yes they've they've

kind of killed the the old old ways of doing

it but every time it's like It's like the three

-headed dragon. You chop one head off, three

more heads grow. You chop one more head off,

three more heads grow. It's like the program

I used as a school joke in middle school. One

down, three up. You close one window, three windows

open up. You close one window, three windows

open up. No matter how many doors they close,

there's always going to be another method of

doing it. And yeah, there's legal streaming and

there's commercial based and everything else.

but the thing about it is is they kind of brought

it on themselves I mean look how long that they

were kind of I mean I get it everybody has to

make money and people are complaining that you

know the fans killed or destroyed the music industry

by refusing to pay for it but yeah I mean it's

It's just it's kind of just a broken system like

I mean, yeah, we don't have Napster. We don't

have things like that now, but There's really

no way around it, I mean it's gonna happen Like

myself I find it easier just to add a bunch of

music to a playlist on YouTube and just play

the playlist rather than goof around with all

that like I don't even want to mess with it I'm

so lazy with it anymore like it's not even worth

me messing around with like I'll just build a

playlist and then I can just set it on on play

and then just listen to all of it and I'm perfectly

fine with that but like I've used the stream

rippers but mostly for if I'm trying to get a

specific sound bite of something and use it within

the podcast. Like, you know, for instance, like

the Last Man Standing thing that I played a second

ago. Like I'll use it for purposes of that. Like

I don't really care to do the music thing anymore.

Like I rarely listen to music as it is. I'm more

of a podcast listener again. And so like it doesn't

faze me. But it's still interesting to see how

this is still a rampant problem that that still

hasn't gone away. Something else that was interesting

that I noticed the other day, they said that,

and this was on ink .com, there's a new font.

They did a study with 400 students and found

a new font that's scientifically proven to help

you retain what you read to increase memory and

it's free. So I'm going to experiment with this

and then kind of give my thoughts on it as a

future point in time. They said that researchers

at Armit, University of Melbourne have invented

a new font called Sansforgetica, which I guess

they demonstrated to increase retention. It says

you can download it or add it to Google Chrome

for free, which I downloaded it on my work laptop

just to kind of see how it looked. But basically

what it does is... It takes a phrase and kind

of chops pieces out with little circles or little

squares of things. Basically, you can use it

on any PC or Mac or whatever, but it allows you

to convert any on -screen text to that if you

install the Google Chrome extension. It almost

kind of reminds me of something from like transformers

or something, but it's really really strange

It's more difficult to read than a regular typeface,

which I guess is by design is what they state

but the desirable difficulty you experience when

reading information formatted in it prompts your

brain to engage in deeper processing So I'm going

to download this thing and kind of see how it

goes and let you guys know next week what what

I think about it and whether it's done anything

for me. Because I think it's kind of an interesting

concept because we do see so much information

online now that we literally do forget a lot

of stuff because they kind of break certain degrees

of this font on purpose. This is that students

remembered 57 % of what they read in it compared

to 50 % of what they read in Arial. which resembles

basically the same thing, although it's a little

bit different. It's more of a puzzle piece type

design. I wonder how much of an increase, though,

compared to a standard font, whether it actually

does what it says it does. The other thing that

kind of came out earlier in the week was Windows

10's version 1809, take two, their guide, which

that builds and what breaks, and Microsoft explained

in detail all the conditions that led to the

catastrophic data loss when installing the first

release of Windows 10, and what you can expect

from the second wave of releases, and this is

my whole pet peeve with it. If they knew, if

they knew something was broken, why would you

send it out there? So like, I guess it's one

of the worst Windows rollouts in history according

to Computerworld. At least since Windows 3 .1

is what they say. I don't know how it turned

out because I don't get the update. It says last

week's rollout of Windows 10 left some PCs with

empty documents, photos, and other folders and

managed to mangle user profiles for others. They

said that the net result was mayhem with Microsoft

yanking the upgrade three days later. It says,

a week after the initial assault, we're told

that Microsoft has solved all the problems and

has begun a test rollout of the new improved

latest version of Windows, which is only going

to the insider beta testers. So, yeah. So if

you're running 18 .09, they... It says there

are three builds that you need to be aware of.

1776 3 .1. Wow, why would they use 3 .1? Windows

3 .1? The original release not available anymore.

Upgrading this build can zap all the files in

the indicated folders. 1776 3 .17, the version

you get if you're in the slow or release preview

rings. And 1776 3 .55, the version you hit if

you install Patch Tuesday's cumulative updates.

Yeah, the 3 .1 is the destroyer, as it's been

dubbed on their website, which I find relatively

humorous. But yeah, it wipes out all your documents

and everything. So everything else works, but

that's, yeah. This is, they suggested you roll

back to the previous version and wait for the

major bugs to devour themselves. This is that

1809 has very few improvements none of which

weren't sacrificing a real working PC And Yeah,

it says then the other one the 3 .17 is a partial

reprieve Which again this is Yeah, it's not much

different and then the 3 .55 only the usual bugs

of Windows Yeah, I mean, this is if you lost

all your files in the folders, don't do anything.

Shut down the machine and follow the revert.

I would be so mad. This is, it's apparent that

Microsoft doesn't have a magic wand. Probably

can't do better than run a recuva or similar

undelete package. If you lost contents of your

documents folders and can't pull it back yourself,

you're probably SOL. Yeah, I would be so so mad

if I lost all my files In my folders that that

would oh man that would just make me utterly

mad I'm so glad I hacked my Windows copy so that

I don't run into this problem ever ever again

So that about rounds out this part of this Podcast

so we'll be coming back on the other side with

superhero pop culture depot Okay, so this isn't

totally superheroes there's also pop culture

in here so anyways last man standing has been

renewed possibly for a season 8 which wouldn't

Surprised me because the comedy shattered according

to Fox officials shattered their ratings. Although

they don't say what I Like I said, I'm happy

about it. I love the show As I mentioned in my

my little tidbit review back there, and then

I don't know if you've noticed this when you

watch aero They're having flash forwards instead

of flashbacks now Which I'm all in favor for

but I guess they said that that will remain until

the end of the series They did that on the most

recent episode when it returned and I kind of

had a feeling that's where they were going with

it before hearing this news And then it confirmed

it by the end of the episode So, there's that.

Lethal Weapon, Damon Wayans may not be leaving

Fox's show after all, which they're probably

still going to cancel it. It doesn't really say

either way, but they canceled it so there's going

to be no Season 4 because of his health issues,

but I guess that they've made accommodations

for him. and then they've added two more episodes

to the end of season three to kind of round out

the series and ended on a high note, although

who knows what they'll do if they backed up the

money truck to Damon Wayans and made his stay

that much more pleasurable on set so they may

not stop at season three and they may go to season

four. It just, it depends. But it wouldn't surprise

me if they redact that information and take it

all back. Netflix is considering ending Fuller

House after Season 4 just because they're considering

it. Gotham's series finale, they're gonna make

Penguin fat, they're gonna make him more like

his comic book counterpart. Bane is gonna be

in it. Harley Quinn. So there's that. CW is doing

their Elseworlds. So you've gotten to see images

online of Grant Gustin and Stephen Amell as their

counterpart superheroes. So like Grant Gustin

dressed as the Green Arrow and Stephen Amell

as the Flash. So I look forward to seeing what

they do with that whole iteration and how that

all works out for them. Netflix made this this

article that came out today about how Disney

can't cancel Netflix Marvel TV shows an executive

said as they canceled iron fist like Why why?

So yeah This is shortly after Disney's Decision

of like original programs they're like You know,

basically that Disney has no control over it,

nor Disney Marvel television. But all future

Marvel shows will go straight to the Disney platform,

while it may or may not be true. But yeah, we'll

see how that whole thing goes down. I'm sure

there's a money truck somewhere that... that

decides these things. But yeah, Marvel TV is

basically non -existent in the grand scheme of

things with the whole movie universe and the

fact that everything keeps getting further and

further away from where things are anyway. I

still am like... torn between that like Elseworlds

thing of Arrowverse. I think that that's gonna

be funny. This is Destiny's Will Be Rewritten.

So yeah, I'm looking forward to that. But as

far as the the Elseworlds crossover event where

they introduced Batwoman and they have Superman

in his black uniform and because they did preview

that on Stephen Amell's Twitter They mentioned

that they're gonna swap Supergirl and The Flash's

night on that particular week, so The Flash will

kick it off on Sunday December 9th at 8 p .m.

Eastern, followed by The Arrow on Monday December

10th at 8 p .m. Eastern, and concluding with

Supergirl on Tuesday December 11th at 8 p .m.

Eastern. I'm going to only watch that episode

of Supergirl. I really don't care. beyond that.

So yeah. Yep, yep. That's all I got to say about

that one right there. And then of course there's

like a little bit of controversy going on now.

I guess the original Aladdin screenwriter is...

a little peeved, highlighting some of the shadier

aspects of Disney's live -action remake craze,

which is within Disney's rights, but kind of

is like a moral dilemma. And I kind of agree

with him. It says that... Terry Rossio expressed

his displeasure of the trailer Basically, and

this is quoting him saying so strange that literally

the only words spoken in the new Aladdin trailer

happens to be a rhyme that my writing partner

and I wrote and Disney offers zero compensation

to us or to any screenwriters on any of these

live -action remakes not even a t -shirt or a

pass to the park You know and it says that he's

had other credits whether it's Shrek, Treasure

Planet and Pirates of the Caribbean That he's

usually very prolific and cantankerous Basically

just causing strife on Twitter and It says that

while they're eligible for coverage animated

movies aren't automatically covered under the

normal writers guild of America West contracts

which usually ensure the creators are compensated

for things like reuse of their work, but Disney

owns the scripts outright to these movies wholesale.

As the writers in the 90s were contractors, not

the full -on owners of the scripts, and so it's,

you know, they can do their live -action versions

and reprise as much of the original iconic dialogue

as they like, as with the Cave of Wonders, which

is another thing that they kind of knock on.

And I kind of get it. They have a lot to do with

the success of the animated stuff and then they're

just basically flipping the script verbatim and

reusing it for the live action and for them to

not get a cut of it seems kind of wrong. on so

many levels, so I don't know what you guys think

on that. I personally think that that's kind

of messed up, but yeah. And then in gaming, DC

has their LEGO DC super villains that's come

out, and it's to take down Darkseid and the Crime

Syndicate, and it's got Clancy Brown reprising

as Lex Luthor and... Mark Hamill as the Joker

and Tara Strong as Harley Quinn and Kevin Conroy

as Batman. So basically you get all the original

Justice League cast, in a sense, back involved

with this video game, which I think is awesome.

I'm gonna get this when it comes down to the

the cheaper scale for PC just because I think

it's fun but yeah without further ado gonna jump

over to the featured presentation with movie

revolt Dan and myself discussing comic books

and some of the different things that have to

do with like prequels getting on board with new

comics and of course his new video series called

starting points so we'll be back on the other

side And now, our feature presentation. Alright,

and we're joined by Movie Revolt Dan on this

part of the podcast to discuss comics. Hey, how's

it going, man? Going well. And, uh, so I figured

it would be cool to kind of head this section

of the podcast as kind of a rotating panel of

just talking interesting topics with different

people so that it's, um... Just different interesting

conversations and in kind of diversifying the

the panel Nice so I figured we could talk about

the fact that We're seeing a lot more translations

from page to film on comics nowadays between

television and film and Whether people you know

like or dislike the flexibility that that is

used or the creative licenses in it As well as

kind of touching on on some of the the the jumping

with prequel series to certain characters or

Also pimping out your new YouTube series Yeah,

yeah, I mean obviously, you know comic book movies

have been around for ever really I mean even

back in the old cereal days when you had Captain

America cereals and Superman cereals and things

of that nature. But I think you're certainly,

you know, there are comic book TV shows everywhere.

I mean, I mean, you could, you could argue perhaps

there's too much of them. There's a gluttony

of them. You know, now with, we have the DC app,

the unlimited, I forget what they're calling

it, DC Universe. Yep. And they have a Titan show

and they're getting other shows on there. Like,

Doom not Doom Patrol. I can't think of the name

of it. It is to patrol Doom Patrol and I think

there's gonna be a Harley Quinn animated series

with Kelly cuckoo cuckoo or cuckoo or I could

ever say my name or cool Yeah, something big

bang theory penny. Yeah. Yeah, so there's a lot

out there. I mean And then you just obviously

outside of just the superhero realm another some

announcements of another there's a lot of like

image series and aftershock books a lot like

it seems like a what a lot of comic book creators

are doing right now to kind of make their money

in a way because, you know, comic books don't

sell necessarily, you know, what they used to.

in a roundabout fashion because now you have

digital sales, you have trade paperback sales,

but they end up getting much more of their money,

especially for an image book or aftershock book

where they own the rights of the world and characters

that they're creating is getting things optioned

for possible Netflix series or TV series. You

have someone like Mark Miller or Mark Millar,

depending on how you pronounce it. He has a partnership

with Netflix and he has legitimately comics that

he's making that or designed to possibly be Netflix

shows. Like right now, The Magic Order, for example,

is a comic that he is out. It's like this grown

-up Harry Potter world in a way, but deals with

magicians. It's pretty brutal, but I could see

it being a possibly good Netflix show. There's

actually a good Netflix logo on each book. And

then you have a lot of image series that recently

got not a... There's this book called God Country,

which was written by Donny Cates and drawn by

Jeff Shaw. And Donny Cates is probably the biggest

name, not the biggest name, but the hottest name

in comics right now. He kind of came along really

strongly in the last year or two. And God Country

was like one of his, it wasn't his first book,

but it was like perhaps his breakout title. And

that's becoming a film and he's writing it. And

then other books like this book called Skyward,

which is this. world that exists where there's

no gravity and aftershock has books that are

becoming their other like there's times where

you there was like one issue and people are in

there and they're trying to get them optioned

and you have a lot of people like collectors

actual comic collectors who are They try to buy

books specifically for the first issue thinking

like, oh, this might be something someday. I'm

not that. I'm not the type of person that buys

a book because it might be potentially worth

money one day. I tend to just buy stuff that

I want to read and enjoy. If it ends up being

worth something, fine. But what the new series

that you're talking about that I started doing

is more directed towards readers because I know

when it comes to comics. I know you read comics

here and there. It can be daunting because there's

so much to read. And it's challenging, especially

if you want to jump into stuff that's new, that

comes out on a Wednesday. It's like, well, I

want to read a Black Panther comic. Well, good

luck, because there's a lot of ways to approach

that. So the idea with Starting Points is I look

at ongoing series. So series that are currently

going that are starting new arcs. So they should

be more welcome to jump in and start reading.

So you don't have to, you can pick up that book

and even if you've never read an issue of it

before, kind of get what you need to know. New

series that I tried it. Again, I'm not looking

at shows that I think are books that might make

someone money, but based upon the creative team

or the concept I think people would be interested

in, and then graphic novels because I know that's

a big way people read comics nowadays because

it's cheaper because buying the first issue of

graphic novel being 10 to 15 bucks against an

issue where issues are like $3 .99 now. That's

the focal point of the series. I just had the

first episode out. Viewing why is much better

than a lot of the other stuff I was doing so

hopefully it'll catch on so I think that that's

kind of a needed thing at this point just because

we have so many different comics and so many

different storylines with varying characters

like if you look at Batman he's got like Usually

anywhere between two to four different instances

going at a time or more just depending on things

the same with like various members of the Justice

League and Like I'm not too well versed on the

Marvel side I know a lot of what's goes on and

the the DC side is as opposed to that but It

does get very daunting just trying to figure

out where's a good jumping on point because either

they reset every few years or they do a soft

reset every couple of years at a specific issue

number and it just gets hard because the jumping

around between different stories that connect

and trying to figure out what you actually, you

know, what would be the best point of it. And

Mike's kind of had that conversation with me

with IDW and their Ninja Turtles and Transformers

comics kind of telling me, okay, you can kind

of skip this and kind of start here if you wanted

to start here, but. It's yeah, I think that in

the world of comics I think because there's so

much of it out there It just makes it difficult

unless you you kind of have this Guide or or

even you know a show like yours. That's that's

going to kind of tell people Hey, you know if

you want to get on in a good series. This is

where you want to go Yeah, I think people have

the idea that because the movies are popular

that it's causing the comic books to be popular

But that's not necessarily the case per se and

I think a lot of it It's because you know we

have seen that effect like the Walking Dead comics

have been ridiculously You know sell really well

like volume one of Walking Dead is constantly

one of the best top selling graphic novels each

month because people like that show and it's

it's easier to jump on to you because you have

one continuous story and it's interesting too

is what the comic world has been changing for

some time in the sense of you have a lot of people

that came in after my generation even in your

generation they switched with shifted more towards

manga, it became more popular. And I think it

happened for a lot of different reasons. I think

in a large part is because there was a, if you

ask a lot of people my age why they got into

comics, it was because myself included in the

90s cartoon TV series, like X -Men and Spider

-Man, but after like, the heyday of those, they

kind of went downhill a great deal, and you didn't

necessarily have the same level of quality, so

they maybe weren't bringing in new readers. And

Ming is a lot easier to jump into. You had the

rise of Toonami and Pokemon and video games,

so I think that allowed more people to go to

that world. Dragon Ball Z, I remember, was huge,

especially in my high school years. Oh, yeah.

I was huge into Dragon Ball Z. I even... I wasn't

a big fan of manga itself but I was able to have

an appreciation for it and for the art style

and it took me a minute to get used to the fact

that everything is the opposite of what we're

used to with regular comics. But it was nice

seeing the differences and the similarities between

the the animation source and of what i was used

to watching on television even though the manga

you know for instance dragon ball z was always

behind uh television series uh it was still fun

to to kind of keep track and see where they may

have changed something where uh something may

have looked better in the manga or looked better

on the television series and Yeah, that that

was like a huge anime for me that I I was into

I did watch a little bit of Pokemon It was kind

of beyond me as far as the series. Yeah, not

necessarily the video game and the cards but

Dragon Ball Z was kind of my thing for for manga

purposes But yeah, I definitely agree the the

90s television series were a lot of what drove

me into comics and the fact that you can walk

into your local drug stores and some of the smaller

bookstores and they had comic racks and in my

first introduction to Batman was actually the

nightfall comics Which my dad picked up for me

and I had a couple of the animated series comics

as well when that was going on and My mom set

me up with some GI Joe as well, which I had for

a while. Yeah But yeah, that was definitely where

it started, I think, before it started to kind

of fall off the bandwagon. Yeah, I mean, comics

have an up and down. They're still, as a whole,

relatively really popular when you incorporate

digital and trade paperbacks and things like

that. You're not selling a million copies an

issue like sometimes you did in the 90s, but

a lot of that, too, was inflated because of things

like variant covers, and you had the speculator

boom, where people thought, oh, OK, we're going

to be able to make money off of these, and that

necessarily didn't happen. I kind of feel like

that's happening again, where we do have a lot

of speculators, in large part because of things

like YouTube. There's a lot of YouTube channels

where I do comic book haul videos myself, but

I never, in the sense of do it in the... Because

like I said, like I think these are books are

going to be worth money more more so because

there were things I like to read and talk about.

But I mean, I have no no ill will against those

that that go and try to do what they can. But

I think ultimately for comics to be healthy,

they need to have readers because talking to

some of my the person who does my local comic

book shop, I'm like, we had this conversation

regarding comic speculators recently because

I don't know if you heard about the controversy

behind the comic Batman Damned. But it was the

first issue comic series in the new line for

DC called The Black Label, which is supposed

to be like a mature label. Think like Vertigo,

but through the lens of the DC universe more

so. Yeah, I did hear about that. Yeah. And the

first book was this book called Batman Damned,

which, you know, was like magazine size. It was

a bigger size comic. And it was, you know, had

more colorful language the violence it wasn't

really that more extreme but there was a scene

in which you saw all of Batman it was it was

it wasn't like gratuitous or anything of that

nature was like him he was getting changed and

he was basically like it was Basically, he was

transforming. And you saw little Batman. And

it became this gigantic thing. And to the point

where DC said they were no longer going to re

-release that issue. They're going to edit the

digital version so it's not in the comic and

any reprints that want to include it. So it then

caused that book to go crazy. People are selling

it on eBay. It was normally like a $6 book for

like $60, $100 because people think, oh. this

is going to be able to make me money. Maybe it

will. I personally think that the height of the

book was during that craze. It probably won't

ever reach that again. But all the comic book

stores sold out immediately and I was talking

to them saying, oh, that must be a good thing

because you sold. all these comics pretty quickly

is then not really because those people that

picked up that first issue, they're not coming

back for issue two where there are people who

actually want to read the comic who didn't get

to it because people came in buying five, six

copies. just one or two, but they're not coming

back for issue two. They need readers more so

than speculators because speculators, it's hard

to determine. There's not as much return investment

on someone who's only getting the first issue

of a series compared to someone who's going to

stick with a series long -term. So it's interesting.

They play a part, but it's this weird game with.

comics compared to, I think, even with something

like movies, where it's a hobby and people try

to still treat it as an investment. So it's a

much different type of market to navigate. So

yeah, I think it's kind of interesting that people

are still trying to hold onto these as if they're

going to be worth some massive amount of money.

Because I've never been one to, because I've

always looked at them as they're not an investment,

it's I'm paying for art. I've simply bought issues

just on the premise alone that I like the cover.

Not even open the comic like there's there's

been instances where I've had that But it wasn't

necessarily like an issue one or something like

I've bought all the issue ones of a series I

was planning on collecting anyway And in going

on beyond the first issue, but like I've never

like and yeah, I'll buy some variant covers like

depending like on cost But like overall like

I don't I've never been one of those ones that's

like expected to get my return out of it like

at some point in the future because I've sold

enough comics because I had to Yeah for money

purposes that I realized that they're not worth

anything which you know Whether you buy them

digitally or in person like digitally you get

the benefit of not having the space used but

Have it there's there's something you know to

be desired for for physically flipping pages

Yeah, I mean sometimes it does happen right where

a book does become more something It's not as

common with newer books, but it still does happen

because of different things like I mentioned

walking dead for example like those first issues

of walking dead are worth tons of money because

it was There is a limited print run, so there

weren't a lot of those issues. And then sometimes

things like first appearances, it does happen

on occasion. I don't necessarily think it obviously

happens. There's really no predicting it per

se. And sometimes you'll see like a book earlier,

like right now I mentioned Donny Cates, like

his books, Thanos and Venom. those people were

legitimately selling and making lots of money

off them, but I also think it's kind of sometimes

a self -fulfilling prophecy now in today's world

because of things like YouTube channels where

all people are reading and watching the same

information saying these are the books to get

and then they're kind of feeding into that so

they end up bidding against themselves. So now

it's kind of causing it to... people have spent

enormous amounts of money on issue 3 of Venom

because this new character Noel debuted and You

know, so they're spending all this money and

maybe ten years down the line. It's not necessarily

worth it Sometimes it is like, you know, like

the first appearance of a major character like

Miles Morales or Miss Marvel or something like

that like it can it can get there But it's a

rarity and I'm like you I tend to that's why

I just pick books that I want to read And you

know if I get something it's often, you know

through sales or something like that. That's

like extra because I have a really great local

store that does insane sales sometimes. And one

thing I do love about Marvel comics, the quality

of the physical comics sometimes isn't great,

the paper and stuff like that. But they do, which

I wish like every comic book. that they offer

a free digital code with every book, which I

think is great, because I have a lot of back

issues I have in long boxes that I never really

read, because in order to read it, I have to

drag it out, find it. But if I have a digital

copy of it, I can just download it on my tablet

and read it whenever I want. So I kind of wish

more people did that. DC does it from time to

time. The independents never do it. DC used to

do it, but they also used to charge you a dollar

more. Like yeah on a lot of the new 52 stuff

like they would charge you a dollar more just

to get the digital code Yeah, yeah DC doesn't

do you see will they raise their prices recently

to they were 299 and they went back up to 399

But yeah, they they do it now and doesn't charge

you any extra but it's like random issues like

the first issue of a series Weirdly at every

issue of action comics for some reason or like

the special issue like if the 50th issue sometimes

they add it but I don't know if they'll increase

that now with DC Universe or something, because

I know DC Universe has digital copies, where

Marvel also has Marvel Unlimited, which is, I

think Marvel Unlimited is a fantastic series.

And I'm actually thinking, and I'm kind of writing

the script of doing a video about basically being

a comic reader on a budget, because it can be

expensive to try to read comics, but it can also

be really inexpensive on how you approach it.

either through subscriptions online like Marvel

Unlimited or Comicsology Unlimited, but also

the local library. I get legitimately hundreds

of books from my local library each year and

for free. I tried to start reading manga more

because I do this list on the end of each year,

the top 100 comics of 2018, and I want to try

to make it as inclusive as possible and not just

like, you know, Marvel books because I like Marvel.

So I've been trying to read more manga stuff

and it's challenging. Like you mentioned, sometimes

it's like trying to learn to ride a bike all

over again, but backwards. And I've enjoyed some

stuff, but I thought. about I'm trying to construct

that video because I think that's a big thing

because right now like I don't go to the movies

as much because it's really expensive and there's

really no other option except for waiting for

it to get that at the library but I think movies

have a lot of different or comics have a lot

of different avenues to read you know when you're

if you're getting stuff in a new comic book day

you kind of you know you're limited there but

there's so much out there and even there's a

lot of local libraries have things like Hoopla

and OneDrive, which are these online subscriptions

where you can legitimately get on your iPad or

tablet or computer and read the Dark Knight for

free without having to download it illegally

just by having a link library card. I think a

lot of people don't realize that. They don't

think like comics or app libraries, but a lot

of libraries now, have great comic books, like

my local library is an amazing comic book section.

And if it doesn't have something, they're really

willing to kind of, if you just, hey, can you

get this or I'm interested in this. And more

often than not, depending on how strong your

library branch is, they can either see if there's

something within their network or possibly order

it for you. So if you wanted to start reading

something, that's a good way to do it. Yeah.

And that's the thing too. I've noticed a lot

of comics are starting to show up. in our local

libraries around here just because it's another

way to get people involved in reading. It's you

know especially in the day when you know everybody's

kind of not really wanting to read a lot of the

classics. I mean, some people do, but primarily

because they're in the TV and the film universe,

so often people are wanting to go after those

comics, and so if they can boost people's literacy

by having them go to the library and actually

get these books for free and read them, it's

kind of a... A win -win for both sides. I mean

comic industry is getting a win and so is the

the local library and people winning Yeah, by

by reading so yeah. Yeah, I've I used to go to

the local library and that's how I would rent

television series just because I want to I would

want to try a show but I didn't want to necessarily

buy them and often More often than not, a lot

of the video stores, like pretty much the only

video store left around is Family Video. And

they're somehow still expanding, which I don't

understand how, but I'm thankful for them still

being in business. And they're not uber expensive

like Blockbuster was back in the day. But I use

them periodically to check out new TV shows that

I don't necessarily find on services like Hulu

or Netflix. It's a very cost -effective way of

doing that. I definitely see the merit in going

to a local library. My wife goes there for the

kids and picks up handfuls of books every week

for these kids. They just love it. Yeah, I literally

I have right now I have 30 books out of the library

I know I have 30 books out because I'm not allowed

to get any more into a return some I mean, I

have some head hole on hold right now. So I have

to try to I'm also video games, too I know your

your video game player. I just you know, there's

my there's a Not not as I don't think as many

video games, but I just got the new man and from

the library has been playing that But I was curious

to regarding like right now. Do you are you?

Are you reading comics currently or are you kind

of just off and on I was curious what you're

doing It's kind of off and on and it's not that

I don't want to read them It's it's been more

so just trying to find series that I'll enjoy

like I kind of was given a bad taste in my mouth

from the new 52 and I've read a little bit of

when they they brought back DC after the new

52, but I didn't have necessarily the money to

get back involved because when Uh, that whole

shakedown was going, I was going through a job

transition. I didn't leave the house. So like

when, when I used to work at the car a lot, I

used to on my lunch breaks, uh, stop at my local

comic book shop and I would go in there and I'd

read some comics. I'd buy a bunch of comics and

then, you know, it would kind of be like my,

my go -to place every week. Um, and It's still

the same comic shop. I've been going to for the

last like I don't know 20 years, but nice. It's

yeah, I mean I Like if I go in there I can still

find comics I sold them years ago when I was

broke and needed gas money, but Transformers

comics they never leave the store, but I still

check on them periodically to wait for them to

drop in price to pick them up again But but yeah,

I mean it's it's Definitely one of those things

that I enjoyed reading them when I did and I

still have some select issues of certain series

that are in my my tote downstairs, but Yeah,

I just haven't gotten back into anything that

that was really like grasping my attention Yeah,

not that I wouldn't read them again. If I found

something I just I I've been out of the loop

so long. So yeah, I got I went through that too

and that's where like Marvel limited helped me

catch back up with a lot of stuff and the library

as I mentioned That was kind of I kind of got

back in when DC rebirth was happening Yeah, I

also brought that up because I don't you know

the one thing DC's doing right now, too You talked

about getting books at like the corner store,

which unfortunately they don't do enough of I

wish and I wish they did that more than they

do. But what DC is trying to do currently is

try to sell comics in more places. And they started

doing this thing with Walmart where they have,

they call them 100 page specials, where it's

100 pages of comics. It's a combination of reprints

of old stories and usually a new story. And they

have one for Batman, Justice League, Wonder Woman,

Superman. And I think they're five dollars and

they're like in these cardboard things. It's

it's challenging because every Walmart's different

I know my local Walmart keeps them where they

have like the magic card and stuff like that

But but it's I was curious if like because I

was always wondering like who the hope I think

for DC was that it would attract You know non

comic book readers to try to pick them up because

I would see you know Hey, why not? It's hundred

pages for five bucks, but I think I don't know

if it's really having that impact, because I

don't know how any general people traverse that

kind of collecting area that has the baseball

cards and stuff like that. And so if you're looking

to get into comics, most of those stories are

pretty self -contained, so you can kind of read

them without having the back knowledge that they

do have them there. I picked up a couple myself.

I picked up a Batman one. No, I picked up a Superman

one because it was written by Tom King and a

Justice League one It has like be prints of like

some of the new 52 stuff But also the Batman

one the Superman one has a story written by Tom

King a new stuff But it's kind of like a combination

of both. So We'll see if that actually it seems

like they're selling pretty well. So But I don't

know who they're selling in them to exactly Yeah,

I would be interested to find out how that's

getting sold as well just because just what their

numbers are on it more than just It's trying

to appeal to comic collectors. I would think

that those would be like better suited in the

magazine area or Although I don't know that many

people that still read them I mean I still like

kind of old -fashioned in that sense like I honestly

don't like reading magazines on a tablet Yeah

but that's more so because I like to actually

see the page. I was always wondering why they

didn't put it like that. I think some people

said they were in their toy section, which I

kind of get, because if you have action figures

of Batman and Superman... Why not have a comic

there too? So I think that depends on the store

because you know what with Walmart, I have seen

like some images of them though that like they

clearly were not stacked in the proper fashion

you can imagine with Walmart. But I do think

that comic book stores and companies are realizing

they kind of have to go beyond just the direct

market, which is the local comic book store and

try to find new avenues. And that was one thing

they're trying and I think it makes sense that

even having those spinner racks at your local

write -a -hitter or what have you, but I think

if they do that, they have to try to rethink

the prices that they make. They have these true

-believer comics, Marvel does, that are reprints

of old stories for a dollar. To me, if I'm Marvel,

I'm calling up CVS and saying, hey, if CVS is

still a thing, why not have a thing, a rack near

your... check out counter. I'm sure like, you

know, when you have a parent with a screaming

five -year -old, you're like, maybe we can give

them that to try to, I don't know. I think it

might be a good way. Cause you, you heal a lot

of stories for people who their first comic.

Rarely, for a lot of people, it wasn't necessarily

a comic book store. It was someplace else, like

a grocery store or a newsstand. But now, newsstands

and grocery stores don't necessarily have them

outside of a Barge and Noble, which is a bookstore.

Yeah, and like I said, my first comics were picked

up at a local drugstore, which was basically

raided at the time before they bought out that

company. Yeah, I mean that's what that's where

I got it and then there was this bookstore called

Little Professor which was in my local mall and

and I used to they used to have a pretty nice

Comic book section that that I would kind of

raid in there years ago and like I think that

having like a dollar price point would work really

well to you because I Like I know for myself

like I have no problem picking up a dollar hot

wheel car for the kids like as a here Here you

go, you know token be quiet, you know So, I mean

like I think that would be like the perfect perfect

price point or a dollar a dollar 25 or something

You know something reminiscent of when comics

were around that when we were growing up I know

that they weren't quite that low but still it's

I remember them being You know like a dollar

$1 .80 or something or $1 .90 or something like

that But I used to also I don't know if this

is the thing anymore that they still do I don't

think so, but do you know if they still do subscription

based Like were you you they mail them to you

Yeah, I know Marvel does I don't know if DC still

does it but I know Marvel still has that Has

those services that they'll they'll mail them

to you which is kind of good too because sometimes

you can actually get like a Pretty solid discount

where like you're you're paying a bulk price

rather than issue by issue because what Marvel

guaranteed Yeah, because what you what Marvel

likes to do is like the first issue sometimes

is an extra dollar But if you do that subscription,

I do kind of can avoid that I'm not sure if DC

does or I know I don't I know Valiant They have

bundles like that that you can do through your

local comic book store, which is another kind

of indie publisher. But yeah, they do still exist.

I don't know if they're as popular as they once

were, but I do know some people who do use them.

Yeah, because that's how I used to get predominantly

most of my comics in the 90s, or at least in

the early 90s, was I used to get everything sent.

through the mail whether it was that or like

when Television shows like you could buy VHS

tapes of like Star Trek episodes They would have

like two on a tape or three on a tape or something

like that and you could order them through the

Because that's that's how my mom did everything.

She ordered everything subscription -based. So

we would get a delivery every month of various

comics or television shows and so that was something

that I just remembered. So I don't know if you've

seen, but Netflix actually canceled its first

comic book series. Yeah, I saw that they've canceled

Iron Fist, which I wonder if it's going to be

canceled or if they're just going to be combining

some shows. I have a feeling that might be what's

really happening. Because I find that kind of

interesting but it that Netflix is kind of starting

to actually cancel shows or at least talk about

Canceling them being that nobody knows what they

get rated anyway Yeah, I mean they've cancelled

some like that was some programs I know like

was it some of the talk shows and things like

that some of the sitcoms and think they have

You know, it's not the first show to be camped.

It's the first Marvel show to be be cancelled

And I know it's probably the least watched of

all the Marvel shows because of how bad the first

season was. I haven't watched the second season

of Iron Fist, but I heard it was a much improvement,

which I'm like, it could be possible not to.

But I do wonder if they're going to try to bring

Iron Fist and Luke Cage into one book or into

one series because they... For many years, they

had the Power Man and Iron Fist book, and they

also had those characters, like their side characters,

and doing a Heroes for Hire series. So I wonder

if that's an avenue they're gonna go, or if it

has anything to do with the fact that Marvel

is getting their own, or Disney, I should say,

is getting their own series, and they're supposed

to be doing some stuff for that, so maybe Marvel's

not. I don't know who was the power to say what's

canceled and what's not, but I do wonder if it's

just a sign of things to come because pretty

soon, with Marvel announcing that, they're gonna

be having some miniseries on their network starring

major movie characters like Loki and Scarlet

Witch. If Netflix is like, it's not maybe worth

it because they're not gonna be able to compete

with that level of production. I don't know,

but I am psyched for season three of Daredevil,

so. I wonder too if they're starting to see the

writing on the wall and that it may be a contracted

thing between Disney and Netflix that may be

allowing the characters to be freed up almost

in the vein of the television or the film rights

to certain characters. It's possible. I don't

know how the rights work for those compared to

the... The movies, obviously, they had to come

to that Sony deal to get Spiderman. From my understanding

is that Netflix retains the rights to all those

characters, but right now Marvel is getting all

the X -Men characters, so you never know. It

could be down the line if that's the next target.

I don't know. I do worry about having too much.

Because honestly, right now, the last series

of Marvel TV that I've watched was Punisher Season

1. I didn't watch the last season of Luke Cage.

I didn't watch the last season of Jessica Jones

or Iron Fist. I have interest in them, but I

was just getting the time. I wasn't as excited

about them that I was compared to other series

and other things out. And I just wonder if we're

hitting a wall. When it comes to just how much

content out there, especially streaming wise

that maybe that they don't have the cache they

did when they first debuted Yeah, I'm like I

used to watch all the superhero shows that run

at least like you know, like Gotham Supergirl

arrow legends the flash and then Agents of shield

and then then Netflix Got all their they're very

serious going and then some of the other ones

would show up on other stations as well and then

didn't last very long anyway and I think there

comes a point where like there's only so many

shows you can actually physically watch To where

you have to kind of pick and choose what's your

favorites like the DC universe like I know some

of the listeners of the show like like Titans

and some of the concepts of the other shows that

are coming to the DC Universe. I have zero investment

in any of the stuff that's coming to the DC Universe

app, aside from maybe the Harley Quinn show,

just because I'm curious in its animation. I'm

not a huge fan of Deep Patrol. I've not read

a lot of them, but I'm just interested in seeing

it. Honestly, because... see Brendan Fraser in

a series like that. But I am somewhat more interested

in the Swamp Thing TV show, because I think that

could be good if it's done right. But I don't

know. I have not watched Sign In, so I don't

know how good that is. Yeah. The Doom Patrol

has me intrigued just because Brendan Fraser

and then I believe Kelsey Grammer is tied to

it, too. Oh, nice. As a character. some kind

of a like old doctor character type thing and

In the swamp thing like I I believe they had

like an 80s or 90s swamp thing shown back in

the day, too They had a they had two films like

in one was dressed directed by Wesley Wes Craven

And there was another one. I don't know if they

had a TV I know they had a TV card, too And I

don't know if they had a TV show they might have

it's crazy with stuff They stuff they had for

you know, there was a flash TV series and who

knows Yeah, I remember the Flash TV series and

then they tried to make like a really crappy

Justice League. Yeah, we've come a long way,

for sure. So I think I am remembering the film,

the 1982 Wes Craven film of Swamp Thing. I think

I'd seen it briefly. I know that they're going

to introduce them or they've at least insinuated

that in DC Universe, or not DC Universe, but

Legends of Tomorrow. to kind of connect it to

the DC Universe app. And because these are all

basically produced by the same group. But I'm

I'm a little intrigued by that as well. But I

think like I've even dropped like I mean, I started

watching Black Lightning last season, which was

really good. It got pretty strong. They had a

had a pretty strong cast. but I've kind of hit

this wall of amount of shows that I actually

want to watch as opposed to which ones I was

watching just to kind of fill the the quota of

superhero shows that I was watching and so like

I've dropped a few other ones so like I'm pretty

much just watching The Flash, Arrow and Legends

of Tomorrow where the only ones that I actually

like want to watch week to week at this point

as far as DC stuff I'm years behind with with

all those it was just one of the things where

I just I felt behind and then I kept falling

behind further and further and I just Couldn't

like the last thing I saw of legends of tomorrow

was the first season in which I wasn't really

a big fan of the first I already got much I already

got much better Which I get I like you can tell

there was an idea that way there just didn't

come together but Yeah, like I just kind of felt

behind with that. The one thing that I'm really

looking forward to, if it does actually come

out when it comes to like the DC stuff, is the

new season of Young Justice, because that was

a that's a fantastic cartoon. So I'm excited

to see if they actually do have the season three

like they indicated that they would. Yeah, that

I did enjoy Young Justice. I watched that a couple

of times on Netflix when that was on there to

kind of Give it its its run to try and get it

a new season because it definitely needed one

Yeah, but it was kind of the closest thing we've

gotten to the DC animated universe from like

the Bruce Tim verse that we've gotten since Mm

-hmm, although new cast so And then now we're

getting like prequel series or everything whether

it's like Krypton or the new Pennyworth Kind

of yeah I don't have any investment in any of

that. I don't know what you feel about it, but

So I don't like you never know what could be

good like that's always my mark when it comes

to anything like when people tend to Write things

off because of an idea or something seems bad

like because like who needs another Joker movie

But then people start seeing images for the walking

Phoenix Joker movie and seems like people are

turning them around like I I saw people talking

about the Pennyworth show and think it's oh it'll

be stupid and it's like I don't know it might

be good like I never thought Legion which is

a character in X -Men who's always been kind

of like just not a great character personally

but his TV show is fantastic so who knows what

you can do I mean So it could work, will it?

I'm not sure. I thought Gotham would work better

than it did. I'm saying that as someone who only

watched the first two seasons, because I thought

they would make it more like the book Gotham

Central, which is like NYPD blue in the Gotham

universe. So maybe the, what was, there was the,

I have not watched Krypton. I don't have cable,

so if it's not streaming on any service, I don't

have access to it. So. If it comes available,

I'll be honest with that one. I'm like, how are

you going to do a series about Krypton? And then

I'm hearing people saying, it's actually really

good. And I've seen the other bringing Lobo into

it. I'm like, they're really going full force

with it. So I'll check that out once I have access

to it. But that's my thing. I just try to. No

matter what the idea might be on the surface

it might you never know what'll turn out to be

it could end up being Fantastic like I never

thought I'd want to need another planets of the

apes movies, but those ended up being great So

we'll see I trying to do the wait -and -see approach

for most things Yeah, I try not to like I got

on that bandwagon when the new Star Trek series

came out of wanting to hate it from the get -go

and then I went through it as a week -to -week

reviewer on Future Imperfect and eventually changed

my tune as the series went on and I was like

okay like I give it kudos for this I like what

it did here and I tried to stay more on the positive

side than not necessarily what I didn't like

about it or that it tried to fit in the this

very specific time period of the canon, even

though there were there were aspects that I still

had problems with. And there's a few I still

have issues with, but they they they're planning

on elaborating on it as the series goes on. And

I've kind of come to this conclusion that every

show kind of sucks in its first season because

it doesn't really know what it's doing. Yeah.

So sorry to interrupt. So with that, someone

who's never really watched Star Trek before,

would I be able to minus the films? Would I be

able to like pick up that series and kind of

understand what's going on? Yeah, because I mean,

it's it takes a few characters from the original

series and kind of uses them. So like you it

makes nods to the original series. And there's

a few characters that show up. But for the most

part, like everybody in it's completely new.

Like there's no characters that are really recycled

from anything. Season two does pull from. The

original series cast and when I say the original

series cast I mean the Captain Pike Enterprise

not the Captain Kirk Enterprise Because it's

still ten years before Kirk gets the Enterprise.

So it's Captain Pike and you get Spock who's

a junior officer on the Enterprise and Gene Roddenberry

the creator of Star Trek his wife played a the

first officer named number one, which is being

played by Rebecca Romaine Really on season 2

and The guy that was in The in humans show they

got cancelled the the lead male actor on that

I don't know what character he played on that

but he plays captain Christopher Pike for season

2 Well, I think I played black bolt was the main

character in that show Interesting so like cuz

I I apologize cuz I am a new but it comes to

the lore of Star Trek. So Captain Pike, was he

actually a character in the original series or

he was just someone who was referenced in the

series? Well, he actually was in the original

pilot. So like the only character that was taken

from the original pilot and reused with William

Shatner was Leonard Nimoy Spock. He was the only

carryover aside from the Enterprise from the

original pilot. for the second pilot and they

other than that like nothing like everything

else every cast member was different the tone

was different so he was only in that one episode

and never actually fully aired but they used

it as more or less filler on a season two or

three episode called the menagerie where Some

horrible accident happened to Pike and Spock

commandeers the Enterprise to deliver him to

this planet that he visited On the original pilot

of these aliens that more or less could create

illusions with your mind and give you So if like

your body's basically wheelchair bound and you're

you're unable to move you're like almost like

Stephen Hawking They could make it so that you

wouldn't be confined by the shell of your body.

You could still Live like a normal life, you

know as far as you knew So it's it's kind of

it was an interesting thought anyway And so they're

gonna kind of reference some of that information

in season two But you really wouldn't have to

watch the original Star Trek really to get any

of that It's it's kind of building It's a whole

new setup, but then if you watch everything after

that, you'll kind of get the picture So it's

cool. It's standalone, but it still fits in the

the cannon Yeah, so I have the actually have

that CBS all access thing and I was like maybe

I'll watch it but like I don't know if I'll get

it like if I Need to go back and like watch see

we're gonna start track stuff. So it's good to

know yeah it's it's it's very much like you could

because a lot of the stuff they've kind of completely

changed and updated because of modern technology

so it's not um as dated as the original stuff

so but yeah it's it's it's interesting so like

like i said it's kind of the same boat like i

try not to since that i've kind of tried to keep

my options open like i'll watch check something

out i may not like stick with it But I'll at

least give it its, you know, due, you know, process

of checking it out like like I did with like

Black Lightning and various other shows that

I've kind of tried to to watch and then decided,

no, it's not for me. I get you, I get you. It's

hard, you know, like there's a lot right now

what there's like 20 series right now, just comic

book stuff. straight up, if you can include Walking

Dead, two series, all the WBGs, CW stuff, the

Netflix stuff. Now all this stuff coming out

from it's insane. It's impossible. And I think

we'll maybe hit a wall in the sense of like,

you know, we're seeing Iron Fist being canceled.

I'm certain we'll see other shows. I know Gotham's

coming to an end. So in inches of shield got

canceled. There used to be, I think, a point

in time where a lot of those stuff was bulletproof,

but I think now it's not as much. I don't think

more Iron Fist being canceled. If you said that

five years ago to me or whenever Daredevil that

Iron Fist would only last two seasons and being

canceled, I'd be like, wow, that's really shocking.

Considering just you know defenders not being

as good as many hoped and aren't just not being

what people wanted And it seems like there's

these interests elsewhere. I think it kind of

makes sense Yeah, I kind of see the the bubble

bursting as far as like televisions concerned

and it may be like focusing down on certain aspects

and characters like CW is already kind of planning

on doing a batwoman show if the soft launch from

the crossover episode works, but Which they'll

probably launch it. I mean, let's be for real

Yeah, I mean I'm not saying like in two years.

We're not gonna have any of the shows I just

think it'll you know, it gets you only have so

much airtime So I don't know how much it arrows

been on what for six years now seven years now

Yeah, I mean I that's a long time for any show

like that's that's I guess I guess small little

was on for ten years But well Supernatural's

gotta be 13 Geez, yeah, that one can end anytime

now. Yeah. Yeah, so a lot We'll see but yeah,

but yeah, that's That's basically the the conversation

I was going for So anything that you'd like to

tease on your next episode of starting points

or Another of your video series that you're working

on Yeah, so I would just yeah the hopefully I'll

be dropping starting points every every Sunday

I'm gonna be gonna be my attempt. Well, I'll

just be going through that week's comics I'll

see if you want to check that out. I've been

trying to do more reviews as well on on specific

single issues and I've been doing some videos

where picking out some aspects of my comic collection

that going through like I did one where I went

through all my Age of Apocalypse books and then

possibly do one going through all my books connected

to the Civil War, the massive crossover that

went on. But yeah, I think that's it. And I know

the other big thing that we're working on, not

just me, but All key cast radio is just the top

100 wrestlers stuff that's going on So I don't

know if I'll be part of that, but I'll be providing

a list and uh listening along with everyone else

So I'll be a part of the graphics team Yeah,

I'll be in the the I'll be in the audience holding

a sign saying a brick flare number one. So nice.

I'll be like macho man Yeah, he's up there too.

Yeah, that was that was one of my favorites of

the old guard anyway. Yeah and I'm hoping, because

time's gotten away from me on this, that I can

get the new website going. Soon, sooner rather

than later, I may fix what I can and then just

work on the little things as I go so that I can

go ahead and launch it before I get tired of

the layout. Because I've been looking at it for

about six months now. But one of the things I

like about it though is I'm going to be able

to incorporate the video show. into the website

and people will be able to watch it as well as

read through the the episode post that Whether

you decide to like write a review or write something

in there they'll be able to scroll down and kind

of You know how like on some websites the video

follows you as you go. Yeah So yeah, you'll be

able to do that So hopefully it doesn't annoy

people You know, I know like Yahoo is notorious

for that where they have like those autoplay

videos, but no No, I'm not one of the autoplay

people. I hate that. Yeah. Yeah, which is like

evil because it's like I didn't I clicked on

a reading article not a speaking article, so

Um, but yeah, no, that's cool. I, I, I, yeah,

I was just, I was just joshing. Uh, but yeah,

so stay tuned to geeky. You know, if you're listening

to this and wants to subscribe to you. So, um,

I tend to do at least three videos a week is

usually my, what I try to shoot for, um, covering

mostly comics since I, but I also have, uh, some

lists coming up. Like I mentioned, I'll be doing

my top 100 comics of 2018. That usually goes

up at the beginning of December and might be

doing some best of lists for comics videos as

well. I'm trying to do some like real comic editing

in the past. I've just kind of shot and talked.

So trying to be hip with all the new kids and

what they're doing. But yeah, let me know what

people are thinking, if they've been enjoying

it. Like I said, the starting point video did

pretty well. So it seems like people will keep

doing that as long as people are watching. Awesome.

So until next time, get AlterGeeky with the AlterGeeks.