[SPEAKER_04]: Is up everybody.
[SPEAKER_04]: Welcome to comic book club.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm Alex.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm Justin.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm Pete and we are coming to you for a couple of places on the internet We are alive on YouTube twitch LinkedIn Facebook Instagram maybe a couple of other places not kicked tonight Maybe we don't know The world not kick.
[SPEAKER_04]: I know I do I've been loosening up all day getting ready.
[SPEAKER_03]: I kicked from kick trying to kick Pete.
[SPEAKER_03]: Did you had your first shift at Starbucks?
[SPEAKER_03]: How did it go?
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, all of the ads, I always did that same bit.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't.
[SPEAKER_02]: New apron, drop what's up, you guys like yours or what's up.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so just to describe this for any of our audio podcasts listeners, because we do audio podcasts as well to all major platforms, and if you want to add free versions of this podcast and all the podcasts, we do patreon.com slash comic book club.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, we talk about Brett Macris.
[SPEAKER_04]: Straight bowling.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's shift in New Orleans.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's a music restaurant.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was there this weekend.
[SPEAKER_04]: It was fantastic at a time, but he kind of on the side.
[SPEAKER_04]: I guess makes these amazing aprons back in the day.
[SPEAKER_04]: He made us a couple and he recently made an awesome moon night one that I got to see in person.
[SPEAKER_04]: Again, very cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: But Pete, he made a new one for you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you want to describe it for folks?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it is all green as Justin pointed out, and what's hilarious is this says Pete in Japanese, and Brett texted me a picture to be like, hey, you know, check out what I may figure, which is so sweet.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm so, I was like, what does it say?
[SPEAKER_02]: And he was like, he didn't want to give away the surprise that it said Pete.
[SPEAKER_02]: So he was like, why don't you use Google Translate?
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like,
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't fucking know how to use that.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you're kind of doing the lead.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm making the work so hard for such a nice thing that he did for me and I'm not, you know.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, no, this is a apron, I hope you know this, but this is an apron from Sochabodo Day.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I know, yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, which is your favorite anime that you've been obsessively watching.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's amazing.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ed, it's about like a ninja who settles down and works at a coffee shop, is that.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, he's well kind of, he's an assassin and he's like really bad at that, but then he realizes that like love is the most important thing, so he starts a family and then they have like a grocery store bodega restaurant type thing and then once it's actually like a like world famous assassins like grow up, they all start working with Mr. Sakamoto and he welcomes them in and like he's an assassin grocery store
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and but he's like really zen and cool about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like I've made some horrible decisions, and now I'm gonna write these wrongs By training more assassins.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, by helping them out and guiding them in life
[SPEAKER_04]: That sounds very nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I'm glad excited for your new apron.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm excited to order a Grande Latte from you later on The show as well.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, but we gotta keep this moving folks because we have an amazing gift We have a favorite guys to talk about talk about and talk to you here.
[SPEAKER_03]: We talk about him with so much
[SPEAKER_04]: He does great work out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's be talking shit about him.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's why he's been roasting all right, all right, all right, all that.
[SPEAKER_04]: We have he has two amazing books that are coming up.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's always doing a lot of stuff, but destruct the terminator is coming out tomorrow from D.C. And very soon, one of our favorite titles is doing a very special issue.
[SPEAKER_04]: Feral number 21 is coming out on the 25th.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ladies, gentlemen, Tony, fleas, Tony.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hello.
[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome, welcome.
[SPEAKER_00]: Happy to be here.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is, I think, my second time back since we fixed the pronunciation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it got to be totally fleece again, me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: I got to be honest with you, I still get nervous every time.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't put down your toes.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is, it's a choice.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you correct people on the pronunciation, or you just let them cook.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I felt like we were, I was like, here are these are my guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want them to be saying it, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, because that's what you were, you know, I'm just dipping in somewhere and they say fleece, I don't care.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you guys, you know, we're, you're family now.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I want to do the next year.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a badge of honor.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just being right about one thing is, and in a year, you're going to change it back to fleece, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: You said, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: As I said, keep it on your toes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_00]: Smart.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, Tony, as I mentioned, you have a lot of big stuff coming up, but I also mentioned at the top of the show that we have a chef that we are friends with that in New Orleans and every week on the show he either creates or curates.
[SPEAKER_04]: A cocktail for us in this week, he made one based on death strokes, specifically, it's a very long name.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wait, does Deathstroke retire and become a man from stray dogs?
[SPEAKER_04]: Spoilerers.
[SPEAKER_04]: Cross over.
[SPEAKER_04]: Spoilerers.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can order that at a bar any time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what you're talking about, every bar ten.
[SPEAKER_04]: But it's got whiskey, Amaro, Arnjlikur, Blood Orange Juice, activated charcoal, simple syrup, Agnister of Bitters and Blood Orange Rind.
[SPEAKER_04]: and Brett notes that this cocktail could buy.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a lot of the same two-tone elements.
[SPEAKER_04]: We find a desk stroke right whiskey because this dude is hard and spicy.
[SPEAKER_04]: Amaro and orange liquor, blood-arched juice, black sip.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, syrup, all these things are made up of his favorite colors and with words like blood.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, there you go.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not delicious, actually.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would try.
[SPEAKER_04]: I love the activated charcoal.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's like gunpowder.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I have a bunch of unactivated charcoal, is that the same thing?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah, you need to take a bite out of it.
[SPEAKER_04]: no problem.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, so that's a cocktail for you, Tony, but let's actually talk about the book.
[SPEAKER_04]: So this is, as I mentioned, coming out tomorrow, it has art by Carmine D. Giantamentico, and it is part of the next level initiative, which is also going to see, Batwoman is coming out tomorrow, and the low bow is coming out tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_04]: And as far as I understand it,
[SPEAKER_04]: essentially new reader friendly ideas like they're not out of continuity they're in the main DC continuity but they're supposed to be like with the absolute books you can jump in here you can jump in with this one is that sort of all kind of the basis did they pitch that to you or how did you come on board yeah that was I don't know if they initially said that but by the time we started talking by timely told me that it was called all in or it was called
[SPEAKER_00]: For a minute there, they were like, it might be called level up or power up or I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when they started talking about that part of it, we had been talking destro for a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then they were like, it's going to be this.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be Scott Young and Greg Rucca and you and I was like, when they said that, I was like, oh, Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the series.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they said they wanted it to be like a, like I'm making an image comic about destro basically.
[SPEAKER_00]: Make my own book, Old Destroke.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're not retconning.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're not getting rid of stuff that we don't like, but it's all in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: But just treat this as if I'm doing an issue, one of the destruct that you
[SPEAKER_00]: if you never read a single DC comic before, you could pick this one up and just start reading it.
[SPEAKER_04]: You've, I feel like from talking to you over the years, you made that a little bit of your specialty.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like I remember we were talking, oh my gosh, I think it was at Baltimore, about Omega kids, and how that ad, the previous event you had tipped it a book on, you were kind of coming, oh blood hunt.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're coming in being like we got a make sure that this is just like anybody who picks this up you don't need to read blood You don't necessarily need to read age of revelation.
[SPEAKER_04]: So same thing with taking that to test stroke like You can't necessarily wash everything out of your brains.
[SPEAKER_04]: So how how do you approach that?
[SPEAKER_04]: How do you make sure that like You're approaching this stuff that has a very deep history with fresh eyes?
[SPEAKER_00]: I just you know, I think about is the like the DC animated stuff not I'm not used that as my reference
[SPEAKER_00]: But I always liked the way they would look at a character and be able to pull out the stuff that either was the most important or the most important for the story that they wanted to tell.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like they look at the whole course of this thing and they go, like, here's what the core of this thing is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's tell the story about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or here's the story we want to tell.
[SPEAKER_00]: This core stuff for this character, we can pull that out and make that the stuff that we focus on in this story.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's more about, it's sort of like,
[SPEAKER_00]: You're highlighting certain stuff with all the rest of it is still there.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're just so I was just coloring minutes before we started speaking.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, I'm probably going to write this in a perfect analogy, but it is like just highlighting the stuff that is just like, well, Destroquette's this and he is this and I want to tell a story that's about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's just take these things and make that be what we're focused on in this story.
[SPEAKER_03]: And can you tell us sort of what those things that you want to highlight, especially given that DC is positioning these books as like there's something personal or passionate coming out of you.
[SPEAKER_03]: The destructs one of those characters that like, people are like, he's an assassin.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a lot of assassins out there, so tell us what makes him special for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: What is that thing where they were like, we want to sort of,
[SPEAKER_00]: bring this guy to the place where he's like the most badass killer in the DC universe, you know, like, but, but, but, and you think back and all like the times that he's been in these big fights, it's Batman, he fought the Justice League, you know, like he's fought the Titans countless times, but there have been key times where he's fought the Titans where he's like, oh shit, this guy is a killer.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I, like, they asked for that,
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, that's cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: However, I don't, like, I like watching an action movie.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I never go home thinking, like, cool killer.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like, so sick.
[SPEAKER_00]: Cloud hair that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But rather than be like, that's not for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, well, what's interesting about that is what about that, you know, like this guy is a killer.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we've been telling these sort of like four color stories about him for whatever, 40, 50 years at the 40 years.
[SPEAKER_00]: at this point.
[SPEAKER_00]: And priest got into some dark stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he's been in dark stuff a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm trying not to get to like over the top.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's not like a...
[SPEAKER_00]: like a god, Grimdark, you know, like, well, why must I kill?
[SPEAKER_00]: But like really tell a story that feels personal about a guy who's also a father, who's also, you know, sort of like a disgraced husband of these amilitary guillies.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's got all this stuff that feels like rich for getting into it and figuring out like, what's he about?
[SPEAKER_00]: And then have all that stuff happening while he's
[SPEAKER_00]: uh, on either on a mission of revenge or being chased or like do all the action stuff that you like to see but have it be happening to this person who, you know, we can show through the way he interacts with the people around him or the way that he interacts with his family that like, this is somebody who's going through something that's fucked.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, it's like I know that no it answers it though like it is it's I agree with you.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is hard to like Come at something that is we and there's a concern to jump around but the comparison to Deadpool is a thing that happens with that story and so you got to like For as much as you're like I just want to highlight the stuff that's different you also have to be different very purposefully.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like and yeah, I would love to like
[SPEAKER_00]: at any time, I'm like, well, he can be funny here.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're just like, well, I don't like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't be super funny, but you cannot be hilarious.
[SPEAKER_00]: He can, he can quit a little bit, but he's not, they don't want him, but you know, bust some people's guts.
[SPEAKER_04]: How do you, I mean, I imagine at least part of this comes from your background as an artist as well, but how do you approach action scenes?
[SPEAKER_04]: Like you're talking about somebody like Destro, who is always 45 steps ahead of everybody else.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I imagine at least part of the writing process you've got to plant out those steps and almost work backwards.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of it is that some of it is like, you know, thinking about martial arts and thinking about like fights, like what I like in a fight scene.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a lot about having a the character have a goal and just working them towards that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the great news is I have Carmen A who is, you know, like, oh, I mispronounced that too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here we go, I think you got the, I think you got the last name, right, which is the tough harder one.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the harder one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Carmen A, I never even heard that said before, but I guess it's like the Italian pronunciation.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's how they said.
[SPEAKER_00]: Carmen A, first I was like,
[SPEAKER_00]: that can't be right.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then everyone said it, and I watched a YouTube video of him saying it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a lot.
[SPEAKER_03]: A lot of our time working on this podcast is just researching names.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no, you guys research names.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pete doesn't even know how to use Google translate.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got, I got no shot.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he's you know, he's great.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a great superhero artist and a great action artist.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so there are times where I go we wanted to look like this this is the kind of action we're looking for here, but half the time I could just go, you know what you're doing.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like have him go crazy here and and you saw in that first issue, like he really goes crazy with that action.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is wild.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what the the art that carbon I does or the the colorist as well that it just feels like we're closer to the action than other comic pages.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I feel like I'm sticking my nose into the universe a little bit and I don't know what it is, but it is wow, it is just dynamic and it's happening in front of your eyes.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he does this, his inks look like fully, like he does a wash on them too, like a great, a great wash.
[SPEAKER_00]: So his final stuff feels like a fully rendered piece and then
[SPEAKER_00]: I have in the colors comes in and really brings everything, you know, makes it all explosive and impulsive contrast, but yeah, it's, yeah, it's a beautiful looking book, I'm very excited about I was familiar with his work before, but I wasn't, I didn't like follow him to every book and I'm just like, I can't wait to see this guy on everything and I'm looking at like his back catalog and going like, I gotta check out what he did with, he did like, you know, 15 years ago, he did that Mandarin.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you were actually there, I remember.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then the first place I saw was on the Battle on Jack Murdock, many series.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that did.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that was Daniel's dad.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he wrote that one, too.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he played a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: When I was starting to work with him, and we were talking about artists and stuff, I really wanted somebody that was a writer, artists as well, and that could, you know,
[SPEAKER_00]: It's sort of like, because it's my first DC book, like I feel a little bit adrift, and it's helpful to have somebody there that's like, oh, I got you, you know, like this will look like a comic book when we're done with it, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, you speak in of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: First off, I'm congratulations, like we did get a sneak peek.
[SPEAKER_02]: It looks amazing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I cannot wait to kind of read the next stage you and dive into this world.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, but, you know, they say to you, hey, just make an image book at DC and it's like, well, you guys are DC, you know, like, why would I try to take this cookie and put it into this square, it doesn't make sense, but, uh, I know that analogy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, I'm just saying it's, you know, it's kind of a crazy thing to ask somebody to do, you know, um,
[SPEAKER_02]: And you said like, you know, it is your first DC project.
[SPEAKER_02]: Are you excited about that?
[SPEAKER_02]: Are you kind of nervous?
[SPEAKER_02]: How does it feel?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm definitely nervous right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: It comes out tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I never, I mean, I've sold more comics than this before, but this we sold a lot of this thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we sold a lot of it to people that already know this character and already have like ideas about this character.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I am,
[SPEAKER_00]: When I put out an image book, I know that I'm selling it to people who either don't know me or like, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And so we're gonna, we'll probably be okay unless I really screw up.
[SPEAKER_00]: This one is just like, these people don't know me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I feel like in that issue, it definitely has the flavor of what my stuff is like.
[SPEAKER_00]: So in that process, you should get a feeling of like, do I like this guy or not?
[SPEAKER_00]: Do I like this kind of writing?
[SPEAKER_00]: And again, with Carmen, I'm like, well, I know they're going to like that, you know, I feel like I'm doing Oh, I'm going to coast on that a little bit, but it is I am nervous about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I, I'm the kind of person that reads literally everything and every person that I talk to who's written destruct before has warned me, like, don't read any of the comments, and I'm like, why are you talking to me?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the worst thing to say.
[SPEAKER_04]: Why is that?
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I think I have a fair idea, but what if they warned you about?
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's just like either, well, I mean, it's a few different things.
[SPEAKER_00]: People are very passionate about this character or they're very passionate about how this character should not exist anymore, we shouldn't be using this character, and I have opinions on all of that stuff, and it's all sort of going into the work, but I cannot help.
[SPEAKER_00]: because I'm a, I don't know if I'm a narcissist or if it's my insecurity or what, but if it's out there, I'm going to be reading it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you're posting hateful shit, don't worry.
[SPEAKER_00]: I saw it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd either.
[SPEAKER_03]: Encouraging the shit posters.
[SPEAKER_03]: Rarely hear that from here.
[SPEAKER_04]: I am curious about this, and when I ask you more, like, obviously you are doing the work, you aren't like sitting in your cave and going like, oh God, everybody's writing about the stuff.
[SPEAKER_04]: So how do you take that stuff in and then push it away?
[SPEAKER_04]: What's your own?
[SPEAKER_04]: This house looks better in a cave, don't say it's a cave.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very bright cave.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the entrance to the cave.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's still daytime over here, we're on a different post.
[SPEAKER_00]: What?
[SPEAKER_00]: How does time work?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not possible.
[SPEAKER_00]: I see.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think in all that stuff and whatever concoction is going on behind my inside of my head, whatever insecurity drives me, I have a confidence about.
[SPEAKER_00]: However, my story direction is so the only thing that ever gets me is if somebody goes like they fuck this up and then I go oh shit We did fuck you know like if it's like yeah, we made some story mistake or some feet some see it Yeah, but they saw before you saw Yeah, right if they're going like this is the direction they should be going.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like I you know You don't know what we're doing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you know come talk to me in a couple months or whatever So that what you can take it all in and then I'm I'm still gonna tell the story I was telling but I'll just either feel better or worse that day
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, let me say it feels like having read it and without spoiling anything because it does come out tomorrow, but like it feels like you did synthesize a lot of the things you're talking about even the anxieties and found a way to turn them into bullets for him for the story to shoot at us the the readers in a way that is like both dynamic looking backward, but also pretty solidly looking forward.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think you've that be able to synthesize stress and make it into productive creativity is a hell of a skill.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go for 100 issues on this.
[SPEAKER_04]: We do have a couple of questions here in the comments.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is from a mega arrow.
[SPEAKER_04]: Excited for destruct.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you think at some point you can do more titans crossover stuff?
[SPEAKER_00]: Initially, when we first were talking about this, it was sort of like almost like one of the rules was that we're not going to have them having to fight the Titans, because it was like it's the once upon a time in Hollywood thing where it's just like they keep putting you up against these younger guys and they keep kicking your ass and so like that you're not the star of the show anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're the bad guy that gets his ass kicked, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And I feel like there's such a history with the Titans that you want to, like you want to get that pop from that moment, like all they're doing at their crossing over, like what's this version of the Destrope going to be with Titans?
[SPEAKER_00]: And so initially, we were like, we all wanted even, you know, like let's just keep them away from that and really build them up before we do anything.
[SPEAKER_00]: But,
[SPEAKER_00]: We were at the D.C. summit a couple weeks ago now, and I was talking to the people that write Titans, and like we had a couple ideas, and we sort of came up with something that was like, oh, that's the way that this thing would go.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, we're talking about it, but it's a ways or way like I want him to be the star of this thing in a way that he's not, you know,
[SPEAKER_00]: like, just popping up a million different places.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when we get to the end of the first argument, we'll also see that that doesn't mean that you won't see him around, like we're keeping him in here.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when you get to the end of the first article, see how there's going to be DC, we'll be out there.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is from bad guys Mr. Fleece any chance we'll get some ravager Rose Wilson up in here She has some nice moments in Josh Williamson's Robin series a few years ago So I've been interested to see her again.
[SPEAKER_04]: Don't worry.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's if not That's nice No worries.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I was right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was writing rose stuff last night good like
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I think it's pretty, pretty good road stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, we're excited about about Rose.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's sort of, we read the first issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: You see that we talk about her a little bit, and we show, she's on the very first page of the previews.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so she's sort of a window into,
[SPEAKER_00]: like sometimes we're looking at slated through her eyes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: I did want to turn and ask you about Farrell, which is, Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Mark Shrey, fifth for anybody as a reading it.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is, I mean, we've talked about this before, but like the short pitch is kind of like the walk you did with cats, a little bit.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's grown into a lot of different places.
[SPEAKER_04]: But issue 21 is a tribute to the classic GI Joe 21 silent interlude issue we're getting a silent interlude issue which is with cats now that they're in their new status quo What I know that doesn't come out for another week or so we can change what do you want to tease about that if anything Well, we did it all for Pete.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was tired of that city
[SPEAKER_00]: We got to take these cat somewhere else.
[SPEAKER_00]: At the end of the last issue, at the end of the last volume, we sort of wrapped up our pet city story.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're moving into a new place, a new danger, a new situation.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so when we realized, we had this character named Ghost, who's a deaf cat, who we've been sort of like featuring here and there in the pages of Farrell, and he's sort of been a background character.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we wanted to spotlight him and do a silent issue and we realized we were coming up on 21 where like, well, that's what should happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's when you do your silent issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so we have this new location and we thought, well, let's use our silent issue to have Ghost go around this whole place.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's new place that we put the cats in and sort of show the readers a little bit of what's coming up.
[SPEAKER_00]: and what the danger is and sort of set the stage a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Basically, Ghost gets separated from Moosh, who's our big tank of a dog, his buddy, and he spends the issue searching around this new location, this CDC makeshift laboratory, like, looking forward to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if I tell you more than that, that's basically the whole thing because it is a silent issue, like it's a really similar to the happens.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I have a theory of silence, as much as you can talk about it, what are your rules for a silent issue?
[SPEAKER_04]: Because people approach these things in very different ways, in terms of what you can and can't do.
[SPEAKER_04]: Obviously, you're not going to be talking about how do you approach it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, yeah, we just sort of went with what you I Joe 21 was, right, which is there's no
[SPEAKER_00]: talking, but there can be computer stuff, there can be signs, there can be writing, but just the sound is turned off, those are the rules.
[SPEAKER_00]: I looked at all my favorite ones.
[SPEAKER_00]: I looked at, well, I mean, stuff that like outside the box, like Ali, where it's like, you know, seeing like, you know, little short stories, but also stuff like,
[SPEAKER_00]: course of GI Joe, and then I read the Frank quietly one from X-Men, and then on that same time, there was a Daredevil one that the Fendison believed did, because Marvel did that whole month.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then as we're making it skybound, put out like their whole, like a whole line of silence into it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody did their own GI Joe.
[SPEAKER_00]: silent issue with different characters.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the snake guys rules are my rules.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can have signs and computer stuff that you can't have sounds.
[SPEAKER_04]: What does that change if anything in your writing process that when you're approaching the script?
[SPEAKER_00]: It didn't change as much as I thought it was going to go much faster to write it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I guess the script being part did, but I also do the thumbnails
[SPEAKER_00]: And that got more complicated because it turned into like, oh, we really got to think about the panel to panel storytelling.
[SPEAKER_00]: And more than normal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like normally I can, you know, like cover some in dialogue, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like if we go to the next room and it's not clear that they left one room or the other, you can have something to go like, well, where are you going?
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, or something like that, where's just that?
[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't have the dialogue to sort of smooth things out,
[SPEAKER_00]: all on to the artwork.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why did you want to give yourself this challenge at this moment?
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's just fund, I mean, the fun thing about having an ongoing series is you can do a little formal fun stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: We did the patch POV issue, an issue six, the barrel, and that felt like something different.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't see too many comics that are fully from a character's visual POV.
[SPEAKER_00]: and doing this one as a sign that you felt like a way to do another version.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was always thinking about like, what's the way to focus on one of these characters and really be inside?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like with them and inside their head and get into what their deal is.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's one of the nice things about being on such a great project for a while is you get to kind of try to come at it from different angles.
[SPEAKER_02]: uh... i'm very excited i love a silent issue sometimes we're like words or you know they get in the way you know uh... but uh... i do hope that it's so popular that maybe you're like oh maybe we do another one two and a great way to showcase the art and i do think there is something uh... just kind of breathtaking about letting the art tell the story for sure yeah tradition tom and bread really uh... like that especially in ferro
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they go crazy on every issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: But on this one, the pages have more panels and the panels have more backgrounds.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's like, and every room that we're in has like a ton of different cages.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the tone tones like get us out of this place.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's sick and tired of drawing these bars.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, get us back to the jungle.
[SPEAKER_00]: Please do anything else.
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess we're not in the jungle.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're in a forest.
[SPEAKER_00]: But take us to the jungle.
[SPEAKER_00]: Take us to Africa.
[SPEAKER_03]: Are you sick of cats?
[SPEAKER_03]: Has this made you like cats more or less?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think more, you know, I like these, I like our cats more than most people that read the book.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think, like I said, I read all the comments.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just like, I can't believe these guys are having 2G here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't believe these guys can't be mad at Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's just a silly little guy, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: I love cats more now than when we started.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: You did say you get crazy with the art.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wonder about going too crazy because there's some insanely graphic horrifying images done in such an amazing, artistic way.
[SPEAKER_02]: How do you walk that line of like, hey, that's too much blood and guts or has it not been an issue at all?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's an issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's something we always think about.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we definitely like, I think issue 20 was like one of the most like glorious, most horrific.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we've done.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that wasn't even like the point of it, you know, like that was just like we built up so much stuff and all these pieces were moving and then the pages are coming in and we're just like God damn that's just a lot of guts on this page and so it's something we keep an eye on but also like I always sort of fall back on like was a horror story, you know, like every once in a while this sort of thing, you know, just because we're telling it in this different kind of way, like the the
[SPEAKER_00]: things that pop up in horror stories are going to pop up here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Speaking of which, actually, this ties in nicely.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is another comment.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is it fair to say, like I always tell my friends, Horvath owes you a giant debt of gratitude because three dogs made the world safe for beneath the trees, like how Lee and Kirby owed Seagull and Shuster.
[SPEAKER_00]: Horvath pays tribute.
[SPEAKER_00]: very often you know he calls me have every day and says thank you and that's nice.
[SPEAKER_00]: He comes over and puts little oranges on my doorstep and stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: Classic.
[SPEAKER_00]: I make sure that he's paying tribute.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I don't think so.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Korgath
[SPEAKER_00]: was going to make that book no matter what.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think IDW and some of these other publishers saw straight dogs make a ton of money and were like, oh, we should be greenlighting projects.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a place here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: We better.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, let me then let me ask you, what's your next you've done dogs, cats?
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like you need to go cuter and more horrifying at the same time.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're going like acts a lot old baby penguins That was gonna be my first guest, too.
[SPEAKER_04]: My son loves acts a lot old So if you want to ruin that for him, feel free to be great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Honor Empire acts a lot of Honor.
[SPEAKER_00]: So those were huge recently.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like we could get on feel like a horror phone.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, baby.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we always say that we're going to end up back at horses.
[SPEAKER_00]: We traditionally both started at ponies and it feels like appropriate to once we finish herald to do, you know, take one more swing at horses and sort of like have our, have the final word on it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you would need to find a word on Orson.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the quote from your second soda.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you have a end game in mind for Ferrell?
[SPEAKER_04]: Or do you see it like running like as long as the walking dead?
[SPEAKER_00]: I know what the end of it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot to happen in between now and then we always sort of say 60 issues is sort of like a mantra like something to aim for and if ended up being 60 like we got the 60 and we're like that's it, you know, we're just we're barely selling issues now and Okay, come on We sold issue 21 sold way better than issue 20 like I'm not worried about that, but
[SPEAKER_00]: you know it's hard to do ongoing series right like there's a reason why there's not a ton of image books that they go that long so I would love to get to issue 60 and have it be like this things cooking we can keep going but but we're gonna really fight to do at least 60.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: To talk to Destrook, we've talked, Farrell, what, oh, Pete has a question before I ask you what else.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just wanted to quickly ask, do you feel responsible for creating these kind of horrible images and people's heads at all, or you cool with that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Or, oh, Pete's got a question.
[SPEAKER_00]: I never, this is the first time I've ever thought about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like sometimes I feel responsible at I was at Arnold City last week and so many people that used to be people would bring their kids up and when I would show them what the inside was, they'd be like, oh no, no, no, that's not for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: But now more and more people bring their cool kids up who are like, who can hang and they're like, no, look who can handle it.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were bringing like eight year olds down
[SPEAKER_00]: and animal city like on day one they had bought a fairer boy one and then the next day they came back and bought two three and four and then they would come back and want to talk about the characters they like to stuff so i feel a little bit awesome like i don't feel bad about it but i do feel like that's crazy this kid is really seeing some some sweet shit which he's gonna be in school drawn in his notebook and get the trouble like i'll feel bad about that yeah don't get my phone call it the serial killer
[SPEAKER_04]: This is where I'm a stray bullet over on YouTube.
[SPEAKER_04]: If Feral got picked up for a TV show, what format would you prefer to see it in, animated or live action?
[SPEAKER_04]: And I'll do as a follow-up.
[SPEAKER_04]: If it's live action, would it be real cats or people dressed as cats like in the movie cats?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great question.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_03]: And what would their butt holes look like and just describe them?
[SPEAKER_03]: I think they're like only drop for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're like a dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick
[SPEAKER_00]: Kat's cartoon ideally.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would love to see this thing look like the way Trishon on the way that's how iconic the way it looks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously not real Kat's if we we don't want to do a my little notice and that just be throwing Kat's off of waterfalls left and right.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's too much danger here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like they could do the live live action-line king version of it, where it's the CGI Kat's in real locations.
[SPEAKER_00]: that the part of the charm of this story is that the way Trish draws them acting, you don't get that with real cats, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: You have to stretch it so much and anthropomorphize it so much that people can be invested in the emotions of the characters.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even though you obviously love a cat and you hold a cat and you can view so much character and there are wants and needs and all that stuff into a real cat.
[SPEAKER_00]: to take a picture of it and to film it is a way different thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: You need that.
[SPEAKER_00]: You need them to be able to cock their eyebrows and you know, make it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can take some stuff.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, the last time we were talking at Baltimore, I think we were discussing the potential stray dogs movie, and you were saying that there was a little bit of a trouble in terms of getting people to understand like darker, animated, animal stuff.
[SPEAKER_04]: given not to go a couple of questions back but given the beneath the trees is also a development.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you think there's any way those two could piggyback out of each other?
[SPEAKER_00]: Sure, I would love it if if I open the door for them to to want to publish a teddy bear murder book and then he could open the door for them to want to make my cartoon that would be great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then I would go late tribute at his front door every day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, by a bag of oranges.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_04]: The classic comic book creator tribute.
[SPEAKER_04]: You, like I was taking up earlier, you got Ferrell, you got Dastrock.
[SPEAKER_04]: You always have a lot of other stuff going on.
[SPEAKER_04]: What else do you want to tease if anything?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm doing an issue of the Twilight Zone, Andy Price.
[SPEAKER_00]: We both, the same way Trisha and I both came from ponies.
[SPEAKER_00]: Andy Price was like the number one pony guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: uh, when that book was really cooking, he did issue number one, and he would, they would always bring him in to do like all the big, you know, issues, crossovers and stuff, and uh, I know him from conventions, because we've spent all these years doing
[SPEAKER_00]: really beautiful, like, gothic, almost psychedelic style.
[SPEAKER_00]: That looks like, like, not psychedelic, but like, when squares would draw psychedelic stuff, like in, like, 60s romance comics and stuff like that, like you can sing, just shit like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so we wrote, we got on the phone and sort of kicked out the ideas back and forth and came up with this sort of, like, sort of romance horror,
[SPEAKER_00]: tragic twilight zone story, you know, where it's got the twilight zone twist.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we came up with something, and I wrote the script for it, and he's drawing it right now, and that comes out.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it may, or maybe June.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, it's twilight zone number seven.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's called the taxidermist.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's got a, I grew up.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have a cousin who was like,
[SPEAKER_00]: the person in my life that could draw and then maybe want to draw.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was also a taxidermist.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I grew up as a little kid sitting in a taxidermy shop, just like looking around and stuff and bringing one of that to it as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_03]: And what a different life path that would have been.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it brings a different meaning to us call.
[SPEAKER_04]: Very good.
[SPEAKER_04]: Good suggestion here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Feel free to take it this from shortly in the comics.
[SPEAKER_03]: really good.
[SPEAKER_04]: Free idea.
[SPEAKER_04]: Tony, so good chatting with you, so good to see you as all the as congrats on everything, all these books are great and always looking forward to more.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I appreciate all your, you guys cover my books and like I said, I watch, I read the comments, I tune in to watch, but you guys have to say and it always makes me feel like I did well when you guys were on board with something.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm happy, and I appreciate you guys always
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we love the great work.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're extremely fleece and incredible.
[SPEAKER_03]: To quote one psychopath in this video.
[SPEAKER_04]: Have a great night, Tony.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks, guys.
[SPEAKER_04]: Good luck, sir.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, just to plug the stuff again.
[SPEAKER_04]: Destrope the Terminator number one is coming out tomorrow from DC Comics Check that out.
[SPEAKER_04]: And Feral number 20 on is coming out March 25th from image that the silent issue we were talking about.
[SPEAKER_04]: Both are great, both are humble.
[SPEAKER_03]: Something about that.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you got my dog going crazy, I'll then talk about cats.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's losing it over him.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_04]: Jazz West fires.
[SPEAKER_04]: Get the Zoomies.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm losing it because we're about to move on to our next action, which is my favorite section because you all make it up.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is your audience.
[SPEAKER_04]: Question.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's weight.
[SPEAKER_04]: There we go.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's happening.
[SPEAKER_04]: I really, I look how happy he is.
[SPEAKER_04]: And for other questions, all you got to do is drop a question in the comments.
[SPEAKER_04]: They could be about absolutely anything, about comics or otherwise, if you need some life advice, you come to us first, okay, talk to us and we got a waiting for some questions.
[SPEAKER_04]: What are you guys drinking tonight?
[SPEAKER_04]: Drinking that very long name cocktail, Justin.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nope, I had dad's poker night on Friday night, and I made a batch cocktail in like a gin gimlet with apparel, so I had How big was the batch there?
[SPEAKER_03]: It was like a couple bottles.
[SPEAKER_03]: It could get a bathtub, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I was like stirred it with a leg bone and Of course, I have a little bit of pacifico to watch it down.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, there we go
[SPEAKER_04]: And Pete, what about you?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, as Tony Fleson was talking about, I was, it's daytime somewhere, and I'm drinking like one eaters.
[SPEAKER_02]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, we got a question here from Straybull that I'm taking Brooklyn to Crescent City Comics tomorrow after he gets out of school.
[SPEAKER_04]: What should a seven year old pick up?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, it sounds like a feral seems to be working.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is that your dog, Justin?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, I'm telling you, he's losing it.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I'm telling you, he's telling the gadgets.
[SPEAKER_02]: Tom Tony laughed and it's okay now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I, yeah, I would definitely say Deathstroke Terminator.
[SPEAKER_02]: No question.
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, what is I'm looking through the list of stuff that we have that we're going to be talking about.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, one that might actually be good that jumps out of Superman on the limited is I think like Dan Slot generally writes all ages anyway.
[SPEAKER_04]: And that's just a silly fun, super bad book full of dance, lot of puns and jokes and deep history.
[SPEAKER_04]: So if you're looking for something to do, that might be one to check out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a lot of continuity in there, but if we can talk about the different kryptonites, I think it'd be good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Lobo's gonna be sick.
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, these are all bad suggestions.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, bat woman's coming out with a number one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just reading the list.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I don't know if you're going a little bit back, but for a seven year old, and I think Brooklyn lights Batman, but Batman little Gotham by Dustin win, that was one of the two.
[SPEAKER_04]: What?
[SPEAKER_04]: He's not two.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, Batman little Gotham is geared towards like six seven eight year olds around there.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's great.
[SPEAKER_02]: My ultimate Wolverines coming out tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Get that one.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's not helpful.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is not helpful.
[SPEAKER_04]: uh... beast bat uh... you're just a little beast battle beast is a good one okay that meant little gothic would be by suggestion thank you peed for yours that's great uh... i one of us is an actual father
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep, Feral I think is good.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is a little horrifying.
[SPEAKER_03]: I see Stray Paul is saying he'd read Feral Yeah, but it's you know, it gets to they get to a certain point.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would say maybe put it down Yeah, it's a little scary, but I don't know Brooklyn knows what's up Bad guys says Oscar thoughts question mark
[SPEAKER_03]: I enjoyed it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought it was a good great movie here.
[SPEAKER_03]: There was some like technical weird things that happened during the actual broadcast, but I thought it was a pretty good Oscars.
[SPEAKER_03]: A lot of films got recognized.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like Conan's like opening a bit as the weapons, uh, character that was fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Conan's so weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's not afraid.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's not afraid of doing weird comedy that I think we just don't have anymore.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, just like unexplained him doing that stuff.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I guess out of town was going on.
[SPEAKER_04]: So this is a very vague question.
[SPEAKER_04]: But was there anything as good as the Dune Sandworm from last year playing in the band?
[SPEAKER_04]: Because that was, I think about that all the time.
[SPEAKER_03]: There was a, one of the members of the band was playing using ping pong battles, paddles to,
[SPEAKER_03]: Hit Timothy Shalame's butt as an instrument at one point fun using the band Conan was imagine what how it would be if he won an Oscar and that was sort of their bit a big production number the opening sketch was good you should check that out.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah I watched the last one.
[SPEAKER_04]: I saw the end credits seed and I thought that was pretty funny So pretty funny.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, really funny.
[SPEAKER_03]: Rise mains were very funny
[SPEAKER_03]: there's some great heartfelt moments to actual the in the moriam was much longer which sounds bad but it was actually really good.
[SPEAKER_03]: They found our way to make it interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: The barber stress in part was the weirdest part but it was cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: The whole thing was cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: This from Shwaikler, what are some of your other favorite things to read watch online?
[SPEAKER_04]: Sounds like he's a cop, I'm just gonna throw that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, this is a very cap code in 21 comic book clubs.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you know?
[SPEAKER_03]: Cap?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, Nark.
[SPEAKER_03]: Other things to read are watch online specifically.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've been reading a lot of books to those count.
[SPEAKER_04]: I read them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Are they going to lie now?
[SPEAKER_04]: I download them from the library.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've been reading ebooks on my e-reader.
[SPEAKER_04]: Really cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's so cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: My kids see me there like, wow.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's really cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it's choking up.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would say there was a movie that came out recently called Nirvana, The Band, The Show, The Movie.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, they have Nirvana the band the show.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can find some of those episodes on YouTube.
[SPEAKER_03]: The full series is off streaming right now, but I got to think it's going to come back because the movie was still a small indie movie, but I haven't actually seen the movie yet.
[SPEAKER_03]: But man, all I've heard is how funny it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it just got to the video, Dean.
[SPEAKER_03]: Exciting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I have a question.
[SPEAKER_02]: Can I ask you about your time down in New Orleans?
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you want to know?
[SPEAKER_02]: What did you eat, man?
[SPEAKER_04]: What is Ray Bowley's give you?
[SPEAKER_04]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I was down in New Orleans for my wife's birthday this past.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, thank you.
[SPEAKER_04]: With her whole side of the family.
[SPEAKER_04]: So it was a big family trip.
[SPEAKER_04]: So pretty intense, type-wise.
[SPEAKER_04]: But
[SPEAKER_04]: My sister launched an amazing job of planning everything out.
[SPEAKER_04]: We did a bunch of New Orleans tourist stuff, particularly because it was a lot of people's first time there, and then the places we ate, she made us some very fancy reservations.
[SPEAKER_04]: We added a place called GW Finns Fish Restaurant, which was
[SPEAKER_04]: Right.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if it was right off the bourbon street, but wherever it was, it was like, we all landed and got there and walked out and my wife was like, there are a lot more sex shops here than I was expecting.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was like, they were exactly as bad as I was expecting.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, because you mapped the ones you wanted to do here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Where I wanted to stop all of this.
[SPEAKER_04]: Get things, yeah, buy things, buy things.
[SPEAKER_04]: Anyway, so that was like a little fancy of the next date was at this place called Luke, where we had a private room all to ourselves, and that was pretty fancy.
[SPEAKER_04]: The third I know Pete this is called building anticipation.
[SPEAKER_04]: The third night we ate in murials which is a classic New Orleans as we ate in the wine room with a private server so again very very fancy.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, yeah, stop not flexing all over us.
[SPEAKER_04]: Good to know my point is that I was going to get to you is that
[SPEAKER_04]: Saturday afternoon.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think Sunday Saturday afternoon.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't even remember what day it was.
[SPEAKER_04]: Saturday afternoon we went to shift and I was pretty nervous because I know the food is good and I know Brett cooks good food and I was like oh my god everybody's going to be expecting it's like private lives on you Alex.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah it's your turn experience and they loved it.
[SPEAKER_04]: It was great and by a daughter.
[SPEAKER_04]: Confidentially told me it was the best food she had all trip my son son
[SPEAKER_04]: She has ever, he has ever eaten.
[SPEAKER_04]: So it was great.
[SPEAKER_04]: And the things that I'll mention I put on this podcast, when I got there, there was a terrible picture of me on the menu.
[SPEAKER_04]: That was a terrible, that was your, he's a look like, yeah, that's the look like, he lives in your headshot.
[SPEAKER_04]: I talked about that, if you, if you search, that was hitters out that online, you'll find it a medium.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's your headshot, that's what trash drivers license pictures I sold myself with for several Now that was actually for my sketch-covidy group Yeah, I wasn't wearing this pictures and for some reason that is the number one search that people are like, oh, here's a picture of him But I'll use the link right now
[SPEAKER_04]: it's how I think of you.
[SPEAKER_04]: So when I got in our friend who we argued with about Star Wars was there and she's like oh wow you're on the menu and I was like okay here we go and the other thing I'll mention this is very deep lore for our podcast but after we ordered the feud we said hello
[SPEAKER_04]: and got all of our food delivered.
[SPEAKER_04]: Brett came out and delivered me a wedge salad that he had been switched.
[SPEAKER_04]: Got him!
[SPEAKER_04]: We had been continuing about wedge salads on our, oh my god.
[SPEAKER_04]: What show was it for?
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't even remember it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, it was for one other man.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wonder man, yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wonder man, they're eating wet salad.
[SPEAKER_04]: We had a big argument about a wet salad that's spilled over into our comic book club discord He brought me a one.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that was just discord fight.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh wow.
[SPEAKER_03]: And let me ask you Alex.
[SPEAKER_03]: Did you enjoy this salad?
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, here's what I want to mention.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yes, it was delicious.
[SPEAKER_04]: He cut he cut it out for me
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, like, what a treasured grandson does for their grand daddy's.
[SPEAKER_04]: What he did was he made the wedge.
[SPEAKER_04]: He cut it up and then he took Prashito and wrapped it around it.
[SPEAKER_04]: So it's still had the shape of the wedge.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_04]: It was pretty delicious.
[SPEAKER_04]: It was a delicious sound.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's very good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: But let me say, I think that's no counts as a win for the wedgeheads.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wait, Pete, your team wedged you were anti wedge.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, was not sir.
[SPEAKER_03]: As soon as it turned on you Alex Pete jumped ship over to wedged wedged territory.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, fair enough.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love a wedged salad.
[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, so yeah, so that was pretty good.
[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, yeah, and then we did a bunch of touristy things.
[SPEAKER_04]: We took a fanboat ride, which was great.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's no one cares the story's over.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm glad that they add.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a great time But like what was your favorite thing that Brett gave you that you besides the wedge sound?
[SPEAKER_02]: Was it if you have a special birthday?
[SPEAKER_04]: He was a wonderful wife Becky brought a
[SPEAKER_04]: Lemon wedge.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think it was a lemon lime wedge for my wife for her birthday with a candle lit it bright actually brought it out and it I delicious absolutely delicious.
[SPEAKER_04]: So there you go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Was Brooklyn there?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, we said you see Brooklyn.
[SPEAKER_04]: Give a high five.
[SPEAKER_04]: We talked about video games very little kids hilarious, man.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah Anything else you want to know Peter?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sorry about my weekend in New York.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, I was it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you were having dad card poker night thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow, so mad.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: I got it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I guess we can probably skip the next section of the podcast right Pete.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you want to.
[SPEAKER_03]: Non-committal Pete is entered a whole new zone.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's no fraud.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright, why don't we move up with her next section, which is trivia and for that we're going to turn it over to Pete LePay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Alright!
[SPEAKER_02]: This is the part we give back to you, the lovely audience.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for still listening.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a super nice of you.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's an opportunity to win $25 free dollars to Midtown Comics Online.
[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, you'll win, don't worry about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just we need a first hand up guy, hey, pick me, and even those things will work.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Straightbow that says, Pete is helping Alex scope departments for him.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was looking Pete, what are you moving down to knowledge?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, man, you know, just still trying to get this house in a ship shop shape, so maybe after a little while.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you know, do that on a quick fire.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great down payment with the insurance money smart shy needs a roommate Pete great guy to hang with
[SPEAKER_02]: It's you know man, that would be dangerous to move to move together.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, boy The Booth in the page I'm happy to do it for a charity if you want Pete.
[SPEAKER_03]: No someone's gonna say me come on folks There's a come on come on come on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's not give it to Cheryl.
[SPEAKER_02]: We can do a charity.
[SPEAKER_03]: They'll be fun Yeah, not saying that it's just nicer when someone is answering the questions That's not no, but I'll play around with a little bit
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, Shurekler says me to play trivia.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, forget you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, like, forget you charity.
[SPEAKER_02]: Great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Today's trivia is about the comic Batwoman and a small nod to the legend Scott Adams.
[SPEAKER_02]: RIP.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks for Dilbert.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, my god.
[SPEAKER_04]: Why don't Pete.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, don't do it to no.
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: You have you googled him at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to just say no.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I have not.
[SPEAKER_03]: Very, very bad.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, awful.
[SPEAKER_04]: What if the worst human being's alive?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, are you serious?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Very bad person.
[SPEAKER_02]: awful terrible.
[SPEAKER_02]: I should have done some searching.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's crazy that you saw that he died without seeing any of the negative headlines about him.
[SPEAKER_04]: Even as obiturized were like Scott Adams world's worst person, dad.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's really, it's rare that a really bad person dies.
[SPEAKER_03]: Who had another thing that he did, like a cartoon, like a comic strip?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: And he also died several months ago, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_04]: So you've been holding onto Scott Adams since he died.
[SPEAKER_04]: And all of the obituary said it was terrible.
[SPEAKER_04]: And in the intervening time found out nothing about him.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's still laying in D.C., when people are kicking him on their way to work.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great, how do you want to continue with this Pete, but let's pick another person.
[SPEAKER_03]: I also won't move you where you're gonna say.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, let's pick another do you have another corps on your list?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: I would have to change everything up.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's not say it's name.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is there any way you could do this without paying tribute to a dead person?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah Yeah, let's just read the questions here we go.
[SPEAKER_02]: What no no question number one
[SPEAKER_04]: be these basketballs keep disappearing from the lock cage to care to explain see Jennifer ball goblin it's death worth it uh... it's is very funny that everybody's like i don't know he died yeah but i should clear so new broke the news that he died we broke the news that he's terrible shorkler says a graca is correct yes
[SPEAKER_02]: Question number two, who is the incredible artist for the Stu Batwoman number one?
[SPEAKER_02]: Is it a, Danny?
[SPEAKER_02]: B, well, one of you fuckers is making shit up.
[SPEAKER_02]: See, Chris Lier.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: Really nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's funny that we broke the news that he died, but not that he was awful.
[SPEAKER_03]: And P is the only one who didn't know how awful he was.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you love Dilbert.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was a fan, yes, I had no idea it was attached to A, Danny or Danny, it's D, A, and I, yes, yes, yes, all right, that was correct.
[SPEAKER_02]: Here we go, last one, question number three.
[SPEAKER_02]: Who is the bat in the new bat woman number one?
[SPEAKER_02]: Is it A, Kate Caine?
[SPEAKER_02]: B, hey, I like my human's crunchy, so Eldente?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, see, Joey, don't, Dente.
[SPEAKER_03]: here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Al Dente.
[SPEAKER_03]: A. K. King?
[SPEAKER_04]: That is correct.
[SPEAKER_04]: Congratulations, Schoicler.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're getting a gift card to Midtown, Comics, Shoot Us an Evil, and we won't get that to you.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the second prize is, of course, you're going to forever be known as the Scott Adams of Comic Book Club.
[SPEAKER_03]: Congratulations.
[SPEAKER_04]: Congratulations.
[SPEAKER_04]: Great, and probably nothing further to say about that, Peter.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I was talking.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was given a shout to Babylon 5.
[SPEAKER_04]: Babylon 5?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_04]: why.
[SPEAKER_02]: Unfortunately, an awful person was in it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Babylon 5 was also very sexist.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, he was in Babylon 5.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's funny.
[SPEAKER_03]: Back from he was like popular.
[SPEAKER_03]: They did it.
[SPEAKER_03]: They didn't make sure of Dupers.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's interesting to show us about one, five.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, well, as we all know, let's move on from this new comic books are coming out tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_04]: Lots of stuff coming out.
[SPEAKER_04]: Pete, what are you looking forward to?
[SPEAKER_04]: What are you excited to read that we haven't read yet?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'll tell you, I'm looking forward to, and not just because he was on the show, but I am looking forward to Desstroke Terminator number one.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, this is going to be sick.
[SPEAKER_02]: The team on this is just unfug and believable.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I can't wait.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right, Justin, what about you?
[SPEAKER_03]: What are you looking forward to?
[SPEAKER_03]: There is a genuine lot of stuff coming out.
[SPEAKER_03]: A lot of number ones that are exciting, but I'm gonna shout out planet, she'll help number five.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is one of the most exciting books on the stands right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: I believe it was revealed that it's been canceled this week, which is the best setting.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, definitely, are you serious?
[SPEAKER_03]: I think so, yes, read it while you got it.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's so good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Looking forward to tonight's season.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you very much.
[SPEAKER_03]: uh... night city number two uh... from dark horse comics man kins book which the first issue is uh... wild and he goes deep on all things and there was one other one i was looking forward to the century number one from marble comics
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow, Paul Jenkins back on the century is very exciting.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we'll see what twist is going to go on this good guy who's also a bad guy.
[SPEAKER_04]: That was definitely going to be my pick.
[SPEAKER_04]: I love the Paul Jenkins century stuff.
[SPEAKER_04]: So very excited about that.
[SPEAKER_04]: But I will also shout out to Kyle Stark's books.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's actually three Kyle Stark's books are coming out to my eyes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Kyle Stark's Wednesday, I always call it.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I am looking forward to all of these devil on my shoulder.
[SPEAKER_04]: Number four, the final issue that really dark revenge tale.
[SPEAKER_04]: We've also got end of life.
[SPEAKER_04]: Number two from DC Comics in Vertigo is coming out and that first issue was a blast.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a assassin comes home and
[SPEAKER_04]: his hope is as weird as anything else and then the third one one of my favorite series running right now wrestle heist number four yes comics that's just so funny and so ridiculous and exactly art so blue on the title uh yeah it's good to see Kyle drawing his own stuff is yes he just excels in it and folks that before you move on we do have a question that we should answer from Stanley 299 are you doing an invincible pod
[SPEAKER_04]: Hmm, that is a good question in the answer is, yes, Stan Lee, we are.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was about to plug it actually.
[SPEAKER_04]: Potvincible, our invincible podcast is returning tomorrow with the show.
[SPEAKER_04]: There are three episodes in the show.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're going to have three episodes up tomorrow, and then we'll be covering it every week in the potvincible feed.
[SPEAKER_04]: As it comes out, so look for that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Very excited to have the show back and excited to talk to you guys about it and folks That is it for this week.
[SPEAKER_04]: Shoot.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you for Tony.
[SPEAKER_04]: Please thank you too for Tony Please I don't say Tony.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you for any please.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just thank you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you, Lord for Tony.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you for tuning.
[SPEAKER_03]: Please
[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you Tony, please check out Destroke the Terminator number one.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's coming out tomorrow So you mentioned fair old number 21 is coming out March 25.
[SPEAKER_04]: Check that out as well.
[SPEAKER_04]: Next week on the show Right north and Gavin Gweetree are gonna be Talk about their new run on the flash
[SPEAKER_04]: very exciting there.
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