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Thanks for watching!

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what is up everybody it's

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the chairman of the united

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states department of nerds

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where we are for the people

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by the people and of the

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people and this

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good-looking fella next to

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me is duke electric and

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tonight we're going to talk

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about his brand new kickstarter greg

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Duke, welcome to the show.

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Hey, Chairman.

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Nice to be here with you.

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And I'm sorry,

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I'm still feeling that intro.

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It hyped me up so much to get into this.

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It does.

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I love my intro.

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It's one of my favorite

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things about the podcast here.

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I can't thank my good friend, Kelvin.

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black mac over on the smoke

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pit for hooking that up for

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me and giving me that it is

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an awesome thing but you

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have an awesome thing going

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on right now and we're

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going to dive into that

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tonight so so right now you

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are working in the

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entertainment industry you

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do live music yeah

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animation with some pretty

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big names like Warner Bros, Netflix, PBS,

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Nickelodeon, and DreamWorks.

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Now,

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how has that influenced what you're

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doing right now with your

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very first comic book?

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I think with a lot of that, you know,

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working in animation industry,

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I've learned a lot of just, you know,

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how to structure a project

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and structure how to go

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about each stage of a

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project and work your way from, you know,

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from nothing to having something.

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And I kind of treated this

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like an animation process,

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almost like a storyboard.

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And yeah, I just,

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one of my main focuses in

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animation when I'm working,

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I usually coordinate and manage and PA.

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So I work a lot with different departments,

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but my main departments are

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post-production and storyboards.

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I've learned a lot with

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storyboards over time, how to, you know,

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how to make a good storyboard, how to,

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you know, lay out a story, how to,

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you know, make things look good.

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It's a pretty common theme, actually,

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amongst some of the other

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comic book artists that

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I've interviewed in the

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past is they work with

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storyboards for different projects.

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know television companies

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whether it be netflix or

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hulu or whoever that's kind

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of like a big thing and a

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good like with their

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starting points like yes I

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do this for money but it's

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to fund me doing my comic

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book you know and it's a

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good exercise like I I

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don't do storyboards myself

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but I know a lot of people

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and work with a lot of

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people like you said that

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are in comics and they do storyboards

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And, you know, it's just good exercise.

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It keeps their craft up, you know,

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gives them practice during

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the week and gets them paid.

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And then, you know,

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they take that skill and

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then they put it towards, you know,

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their projects, right?

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Oh, yeah, definitely.

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So what kind of challenges

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have you faced kind of from like,

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not necessarily,

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you're not transitioning

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into comic books.

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Comic books is kind of like

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your side project that you're, say,

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a hobby for you.

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Yes.

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Like,

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have you faced many challenges and like,

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kind of like,

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for in getting into that

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part of the world or yeah I

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would say you know I I've

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always admired comics I

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always read comics and um

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you know I usually like to

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learn how to do things that

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I like just so I can get a

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better understanding of it

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comics has been interesting

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because you know

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I just have never fully done it.

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I did one comic a long time ago,

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which was actually the

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first version of Greg before it was Greg.

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And it was in high school.

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And I really had a good

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experience doing it.

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And it was very interesting.

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learning the process of

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going from your sketches to

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your inks and then adding

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your color and your text

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boxes and all that stuff.

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And so my biggest challenge

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on Greg was just getting my

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art to a level that I could

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find acceptable to

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put out there for people to

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buy because I have really

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high standards when it

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comes to you know art and

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music and stuff and I just

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want to make sure people

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are getting the best that I

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can deliver and if you know

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if it's not there I'm not

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going to put it out right

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so I think that passion

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shows man right down to the

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the bright pink suit thanks

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man thank you you know you

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got to look good you got

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you're selling a product

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and also you look good you feel good

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you know your work is good

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and I'm on the usdn podcast

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so I gotta look good for

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you man I'm here I'm here

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you're one up in me the

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best I can do is a a

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chairman t-shirt hey that's

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something right shout out

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to colin who makes my

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t-shirts for me she's amazing um

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So do you work in both

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digital and traditional media?

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How do you decide what tools

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you were going to use when

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you were drawing Greg?

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Because you're the man.

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You do it all.

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You wrote it.

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You inked it.

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You colored it.

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You did the lettering.

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You did the whole nine.

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So the only thing I did some

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of the lettering,

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I didn't do a hundred

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percent of the lettering.

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I did use some typeface for

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some of the stuff just to save time,

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but a lot of the effects

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and other things I,

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I did the lettering for, um,

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just to put it out there.

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But, um,

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The overall though, yeah,

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I didn't know actually where to start.

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I started this project, you know,

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I used to draw a lot when I

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was in high school and when

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I was younger and I got

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more into music and other

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things throughout my life

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and I kept putting my art

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on the back burner.

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You know,

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you have a bad art teacher or bad

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art experience a couple

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times and you're like, you know what?

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I think we all experience that.

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Just like that one art teacher,

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just teacher in general who

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like the moment you walked

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into their classroom, you're like,

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you're my pariah this semester.

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Yeah.

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And you know, it's,

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it's hard to find a good

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teacher that will like, you know, kind of,

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you know,

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make that fire turn into a

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bigger flame to get you

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into that you know passion

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in that zone and you know

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it took me working in

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animation to you know kind

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of watch people do art to

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be like oh like because I

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sometimes would just draw

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things because I'd be like

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okay I'm going to draw this

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and and then I would draw

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it and I'd be like oh it

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doesn't look good or

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there's a mistake and I

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would just be like okay

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that's just going in the

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garbage like I'm going to

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do another thing I'm going

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to try it again

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And, you know, when you watch people,

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you know, in animation or any art,

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you know,

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they kind of just do things in

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layers and as painting.

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So it's just kind of like, well,

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here's my starting part.

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And I'm just going to erase that part now.

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And I'm just going to redo that part.

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And I'm just going to keep

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doing it until I get it.

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And so there's a lot of that.

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My art skill wasn't where I

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wanted to be at the beginning of Greg.

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I wish I had the picture.

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I have a funny picture of

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just like where it was.

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And I remember drawing it.

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I was like,

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I don't think I should be

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doing this like this is

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going to be awful and I

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just you know I just kind

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of you know I work is busy

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music's busy life's busy

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and so I had to find a way

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to fit this in so I would

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basically just do like if I

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had ten minutes I'd do

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writing or if I had thirty

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minutes I'd sit and watch

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tv and draw and then a lot

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of the time I usually just

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try and do my sketches I'll

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do my drawing and then

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I'll take a picture of it on

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my phone or a device, move it digitally.

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I'll do another pass digitally.

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And then if I like what I see digitally,

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but it's too digital and

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it's not like the details I want,

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I'll then take it back to sketching.

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I'll just print it off.

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Like I'll print a black and

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white thing of it.

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I'll just redraw it and then

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I'll do ink and then I'll put it in.

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And if I don't like any parts of that,

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then I'll just redo those

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sections digitally.

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And then usually I'll color it.

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digitally and yeah from

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there I think that's uh

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when I talked to fran he

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like I was telling you

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before we got started the

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artist over on for

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vidalirium that's how he

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does it as well he he does

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paper takes a picture of it

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works on it digitally

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sometimes he'll reprint it

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and then when he finally is

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done coloring is a blessing

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because it can cover up

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some of like a part maybe

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where you're not quite

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satisfied with like something you're like

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adding color and depth will,

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will fit that in the final

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process of the page.

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So, but that seems to kind of,

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I like that technique and

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that's a lot of technique

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that I see a lot of the

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bigger artists out there doing it.

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Like the, you know, the DC guys,

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the Marvel guys,

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like a lot of them have

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YouTube pages that are

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phenomenal where they show

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you their process.

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Oh yeah.

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And they're just like,

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they make it look so easy.

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Just I'm like, they're like, Oh,

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it's easy.

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And you know,

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As they do the whole.

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Page from a comic book.

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And you're like no that's not easy.

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And some of those guys too.

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They'll like really.

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Get into Photoshop and stuff.

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And you see that with some of like.

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Some of the issues of Batman and stuff.

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Where the lighting and everything.

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And you're just like whoa.

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There's something about this

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that's really crazy.

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And really cool.

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And really detailed.

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But yeah like.

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people that master Photoshop

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and are good artists,

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like they take things to the next level.

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Oh yeah.

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And they're, they're phenomenal.

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I'll praise to a man.

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Cause I know that that is

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not an easy thing to do.

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So let me ask you this.

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I know you're a fan of comic books.

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Was there a one particular

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comic book for you that said,

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I think I want to do

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something like this one day.

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Maybe, um,

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I, you know, obviously,

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when I got back into comics,

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because I got really into comics as a kid,

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and animation got me into comics.

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My cousins got me into

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comics because they

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collected X-Men when they

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were older than me and stuff.

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I think Todd McFarlane's

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work really inspired me

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into wanting to do stuff

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like his Spider-Man.

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Okay,

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I was going to ask you if it was his

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Spider-Man or his Spawn

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when he went indie.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Todd McFarlane's Canadian,

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so Canadian heritage all the way.

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I think he still lives up there,

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if I'm not mistaken.

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He might.

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He moves around.

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I've seen different... I

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think he might have a place somewhere.

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I don't want to say... It might be Nevada.

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I'm not sure.

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Possibly.

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I think he goes back and

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forth a lot from Alberta to the States.

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But his story is just really influential.

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Just a guy who lived in a trailer,

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grew up playing baseball, got an injury,

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became Todd McFarlane,

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the comic book creator.

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Dude, that's a... Like...

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Yeah, no, he honestly,

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when a few years back when

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I got back into comic books,

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like my daughter wanted to

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stop by our local comic

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shop and just have a look around.

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And as I was browsing the shelves,

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I was like, what the hell,

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Spawn is still in production?

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Yeah.

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I was just like dude I love

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spawn I remember getting to

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like the first you know

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fifteen or twenty of the

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the books when they first

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came out and still having

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those somewhere I mean I

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know where they are now I

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know what bots they're in

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but um but back you know a

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couple of years ago they

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were still at my mom's

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house and then like just

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falling back in love with

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his stuff like because at

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first I was just like I'm

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just gonna do spawn again

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yeah and then I discovered um

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What's his name?

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Tinian.

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And once you discover Tinian,

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you kind of go into a cave

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of Tinian's work.

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And you realize how much work he has.

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And you're like, oh my god,

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I'm going to get lost in this.

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And you do.

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It consumes you.

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Because his work,

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to me... I don't really

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have a Mount Rushmore, but...

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Mike Farland and Tinian are

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like up there with me with

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like Capullo and Jim Lee and those guys.

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So, but no,

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I a hundred percent get where

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you're coming from with

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Todd because they don't

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call him the Todd father for nothing.

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yeah definitely and you know

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just and just him having

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his own project that he's

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like this is my thing I've

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been working like he worked

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on his since high school

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and like he just kicked ass

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and you know persevered and

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pushed and just got his way

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into you know comics and

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you know just work and look

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at image today yeah image is probably

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From a publisher standpoint,

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they publish more books per year, I think,

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than any other publishers out there.

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Oh, yeah.

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And they're the home to the

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most indie creators out there.

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Yep.

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Well,

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and some of the biggest flagship

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comics now, like, you know, Walking Dead,

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like, you know.

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Invincible, Transformers now, G.I.

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Joe, Spawn, that list just keeps going.

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Battle Beast.

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Right.

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So, I mean...

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Yeah, he knew what he was doing,

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and he brought his friends with him.

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Because now, I mean, you look,

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you got spinoffs under Image.

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You have what was Skybound.

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You have, I don't know if Tiny,

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I think Tiny Onion is just

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independent because they do Boom Studios,

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and they also work with Image,

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and they also work with Dynamite as well.

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But then you have Ghost

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Machine that I'm absolutely

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infatuated with right now.

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I think those guys are doing

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some of the best work out

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there right now with their works,

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with Rookettes,

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and it's just finally

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hitting the shelf again.

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So, yeah, dude.

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Shout-outs to Todd McFarlane.

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We love you, dude.

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Absolutely.

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So...

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We're going to talk about the pink suit.

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You're known for rocking

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this hot pink suit at conventions.

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Can the fans expect to see

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you at upcoming conventions

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during the Kickstarter

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campaign or after with your

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promotion of Greg?

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So I think at the moment,

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my next thing I'm doing,

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I'm doing a Guelph Comic

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Con out in Ontario, Canada.

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It's the Comic Book Jam,

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at the Dragon Bookstore in Guelph.

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And they have a lot of

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They have a lot of creators

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coming to do tables and stuff,

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and it's free, which is awesome.

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So just come in, meet people, hang out,

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buy books, get them signed.

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It's going to be a lot of fun.

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That's the only one I'm

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doing that is during the

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Kickstarter campaign,

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but I will be doing a Kitchener

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Halloween market at the

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museum in Kitchener, Ontario.

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And then I'm doing a punk

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rock flea market in Kitchener.

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I see you were talking about

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that on your Instagram.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So that will be later in November.

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That would be a lot of fun.

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I'm not going to lie.

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As soon as I seen it was

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like a punk rock festival, I was like,

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damn, I kind of want to go to that.

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Because there's nothing like

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that around here.

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That would be amazing.

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Yeah,

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and I figured... Punk rock in comic

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books?

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Come on.

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Yeah, well,

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I think I might be the only

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comic book person there, but... Oh,

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really?

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That's even better for you.

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Yeah, I was just like, you know what?

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I'm going to go sell my

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comic at this punk rock

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event because there's

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nothing more punk rock than

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having a comic that's pink

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with a guy in a pink suit

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and selling comics about

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people's heads exploding from good looks.

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So, you know, it's, you know...

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that's the perfect segue

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dude because we're about to

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talk about greg nice so for

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listeners who are brand new

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what exactly is greg and

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how did you get the idea

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for such a while over to

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the top premiere you know comic book

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Yeah, so Greg is a man with a condition,

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and his condition is that

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he's so good-looking that

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if you see his face,

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your head will explode.

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And so he has to wear a hood and...

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to protect himself he wears

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like a full like body suit

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and you know he has like

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under under layers and

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everything just because you

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know any person that sees

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his face or his skin or

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anything that light that

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shines from his good looks

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will just kill you basically

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So this is his origin story for Greg,

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Greg issue zero.

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We're all safe because you

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promised me that this is

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not an autobiography.

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So we are all safe tonight.

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Yes, yes.

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You're all good.

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My good looks do not match Greg,

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but they can be powerful at times,

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I've heard.

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We've got CJ in the house

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from Nightmares and Nerdscapes.

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What's up?

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How you doing, man?

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You're into horror and horror movies.

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He has the podcast and the

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YouTube channel for you.

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He does some phenomenal work

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in breaking down your horror movies.

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Nice.

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I'll have to check that out.

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So this is right up his alley.

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Yeah.

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You've got heads exploding.

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Yeah.

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Message me.

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I'll send you a digital copy of Greg.

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But, yeah,

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so this issue is basically his birth.

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He's being birthed.

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It's his birthday.

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His sweet mama, Angie.

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Yep, his sweet mama, Angie,

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is giving birth to him.

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It's been, you know,

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twenty-four hours of labor,

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and everyone's tired.

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Everyone's getting to the point of,

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you know, we've got to push this boy out.

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And she does that final push,

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and out comes Greg.

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And it causes some issues

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for other people because

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they're looking at the movie.

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That page.

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of this comic book.

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Phenomenal.

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Thank you.

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Yeah, it's just Yeah, my,

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my wife got me to do that panel.

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I didn't want to do it.

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And she was like, No,

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you need to have this panel.

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Good for him pushing him to do that page.

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Because that page was amazing.

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Yeah, yeah,

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I was when I when I had I was like,

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I don't know.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.

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and uh yeah it was it was

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crazy and so I did it I put

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it in ever since I printed

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it the first time I was

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like I don't know if this I

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don't know that that single

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page right there is worth

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the asking price in my

00:19:59.048 --> 00:20:00.909
opinion just that bright

00:20:00.989 --> 00:20:02.750
light then what you see of

00:20:02.790 --> 00:20:06.713
his face melting I was like oh I'm like

00:20:07.454 --> 00:20:09.636
that's how you start issue

00:20:09.676 --> 00:20:11.617
zero comic book for a

00:20:11.718 --> 00:20:13.219
character like Greg.

00:20:13.618 --> 00:20:15.500
I was just like, this is perfect.

00:20:16.040 --> 00:20:17.862
Like he knew what he was doing.

00:20:18.261 --> 00:20:19.502
And now when you tell me like, Oh no,

00:20:19.542 --> 00:20:20.804
my wife made me do that page.

00:20:20.824 --> 00:20:23.086
I was like, yeah, yeah.

00:20:23.145 --> 00:20:24.366
She, she knows her stuff.

00:20:24.386 --> 00:20:25.606
She's very good at film.

00:20:25.768 --> 00:20:29.849
And, uh, she, uh, she, yeah, I, cause I,

00:20:29.950 --> 00:20:30.451
I had, she was like,

00:20:30.471 --> 00:20:31.510
you need to have something in between.

00:20:31.530 --> 00:20:32.392
I was like, I don't know.

00:20:32.451 --> 00:20:34.594
I feel the, like it works fine, whatever.

00:20:34.653 --> 00:20:35.634
And she's like, don't you need something?

00:20:35.653 --> 00:20:36.214
So I, I,

00:20:37.329 --> 00:20:38.691
One night I just did one and I was like,

00:20:38.750 --> 00:20:39.172
is this good?

00:20:39.211 --> 00:20:39.951
Like, I don't know.

00:20:40.031 --> 00:20:40.873
And I put it in and I was like,

00:20:40.932 --> 00:20:41.673
I guess that works.

00:20:41.733 --> 00:20:41.834
And,

00:20:42.634 --> 00:20:44.056
and then I was still kind of like

00:20:44.076 --> 00:20:44.516
hesitating.

00:20:44.536 --> 00:20:46.298
I was like, and I almost didn't put it in,

00:20:46.357 --> 00:20:46.478
but.

00:20:46.863 --> 00:20:48.824
She pushed me, and I agree with her now,

00:20:48.844 --> 00:20:49.444
a hundred percent,

00:20:49.484 --> 00:20:50.806
because everyone likes it.

00:20:51.385 --> 00:20:53.106
That's a good call.

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Definitely a good call.

00:20:55.008 --> 00:20:57.390
And that's the foil print on

00:20:57.410 --> 00:20:58.130
the Kickstarter.

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I haven't posted it yet,

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but that's going to be what

00:21:01.771 --> 00:21:02.792
I'm hoping to have as the

00:21:02.813 --> 00:21:04.574
Kickstarter print.

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So if you don't want to buy

00:21:05.375 --> 00:21:06.434
the comic and you want the print,

00:21:06.474 --> 00:21:07.115
it's going to be eight and

00:21:07.135 --> 00:21:09.017
a half by eleven print of that.

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That's foil of that shot.

00:21:13.180 --> 00:21:14.319
Oh, that would be awesome.

00:21:14.359 --> 00:21:14.980
That just...

00:21:16.231 --> 00:21:18.452
framed on the wall I don't

00:21:18.472 --> 00:21:19.473
know if you can see that

00:21:19.673 --> 00:21:21.714
but let me we're talking

00:21:21.734 --> 00:21:23.736
about todd mcfarland the

00:21:23.756 --> 00:21:26.837
capullo spawn cover for

00:21:26.877 --> 00:21:28.318
batman spawn to the one

00:21:28.338 --> 00:21:30.259
they just did last year

00:21:31.240 --> 00:21:32.961
that's so good I had to

00:21:33.001 --> 00:21:33.761
pick that one up I have the

00:21:33.801 --> 00:21:34.962
original one and I remember

00:21:34.982 --> 00:21:37.964
reading it yeah I I

00:21:38.005 --> 00:21:39.325
remember the scene from

00:21:39.365 --> 00:21:41.586
that book that like opened

00:21:41.626 --> 00:21:43.708
my like head to horror was like when um

00:21:44.238 --> 00:21:45.337
I forget who the character was,

00:21:45.357 --> 00:21:45.958
but he just, like,

00:21:46.058 --> 00:21:48.098
stabs that guy in the eyes, and, like,

00:21:48.338 --> 00:21:49.398
blood's just everywhere.

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And I was just like, holy shit,

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I'm reading that.

00:21:51.940 --> 00:21:53.340
My favorite thing from that book,

00:21:54.101 --> 00:21:56.201
and I know we're all based on this, but,

00:21:56.401 --> 00:21:58.402
you know, us both being, you know,

00:21:58.521 --> 00:22:00.623
Capullo and MacFarlane fans,

00:22:01.083 --> 00:22:02.542
when Batman hits Spawn in

00:22:02.563 --> 00:22:04.063
the face with the Batarang,

00:22:04.123 --> 00:22:05.544
and it splits his face open.

00:22:06.284 --> 00:22:08.244
And he wrought that for

00:22:08.525 --> 00:22:11.467
years with just the sewn up face,

00:22:11.507 --> 00:22:12.827
the stitched together face.

00:22:13.428 --> 00:22:15.108
And it became canon.

00:22:15.809 --> 00:22:18.912
And I was just like, Todd, you sweet man.

00:22:19.432 --> 00:22:20.432
You knew what we wanted and

00:22:20.492 --> 00:22:22.053
you gave it to us for years

00:22:22.173 --> 00:22:23.693
after until he finally, you know,

00:22:24.075 --> 00:22:25.976
he healed himself in a new arc.

00:22:26.056 --> 00:22:29.298
But yeah, that book was phenomenal.

00:22:29.337 --> 00:22:31.618
War Dog was an amazing book.

00:22:31.659 --> 00:22:32.740
If people can get it,

00:22:33.444 --> 00:22:34.726
I got two copies myself

00:22:34.766 --> 00:22:36.067
because one's a reader and

00:22:36.488 --> 00:22:39.430
one's a collector and yeah

00:22:39.470 --> 00:22:41.991
that's awesome but yeah but

00:22:42.291 --> 00:22:43.933
um yeah and then for the

00:22:43.973 --> 00:22:44.973
rest of greg it just turns

00:22:45.035 --> 00:22:47.717
into uh just a bloodbath of

00:22:47.977 --> 00:22:49.238
people's heads exploding

00:22:49.417 --> 00:22:50.778
and people having amazing

00:22:50.798 --> 00:22:52.279
it was just like you're

00:22:52.299 --> 00:22:53.101
like when are people going

00:22:53.121 --> 00:22:54.382
to stop coming in and it's

00:22:54.422 --> 00:22:55.542
like another nurse and then

00:22:55.563 --> 00:22:56.344
it's a janitor you're like

00:22:57.064 --> 00:22:58.505
what the hell people stop

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going in and what are you doing

00:23:00.828 --> 00:23:01.808
I was going to have one more

00:23:01.868 --> 00:23:04.069
person originally come in, and I was like,

00:23:04.109 --> 00:23:04.670
I think there's just too

00:23:04.690 --> 00:23:06.570
many people coming at this point.

00:23:06.590 --> 00:23:07.490
One more would have never heard.

00:23:07.730 --> 00:23:08.791
One more would have never heard.

00:23:09.771 --> 00:23:12.133
Just like someone obscure walking by,

00:23:12.173 --> 00:23:13.212
you know, and just being like, ah!

00:23:13.232 --> 00:23:17.615
Somebody, you know, another dad walking by,

00:23:17.674 --> 00:23:18.494
and then all of a sudden just, boom!

00:23:19.740 --> 00:23:19.921
Well,

00:23:20.942 --> 00:23:23.744
there's more to that later and later

00:23:24.184 --> 00:23:26.208
issues of that event.

00:23:26.268 --> 00:23:27.409
I like the segue because

00:23:27.429 --> 00:23:28.750
that was the next question.

00:23:30.151 --> 00:23:31.853
So you blended the humor,

00:23:32.653 --> 00:23:34.194
the absurdity of Greg,

00:23:34.316 --> 00:23:35.596
and you got some classic

00:23:35.636 --> 00:23:36.978
comic energy in there in

00:23:36.998 --> 00:23:38.199
the later part of the book.

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What...

00:23:40.269 --> 00:23:40.470
Like,

00:23:40.730 --> 00:23:42.192
where are you going with this series?

00:23:42.231 --> 00:23:43.613
I kind of feel like...

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Because you kind of... You know,

00:23:45.694 --> 00:23:46.875
when we got to the later

00:23:46.915 --> 00:23:48.577
pages of Greg Zero,

00:23:49.398 --> 00:23:51.320
you kind of get to see

00:23:51.340 --> 00:23:53.323
where Greg is later in life,

00:23:53.363 --> 00:23:54.403
which is really cool.

00:23:55.565 --> 00:23:56.625
Very non-traditional...

00:23:58.709 --> 00:24:02.430
Role as an adult, Greg, because I mean,

00:24:02.549 --> 00:24:02.809
really,

00:24:02.869 --> 00:24:04.830
how do you find a normal job when

00:24:04.871 --> 00:24:06.271
you have to wear a hood on your head?

00:24:06.791 --> 00:24:07.511
Yeah.

00:24:07.531 --> 00:24:08.771
So but where do you see this

00:24:08.791 --> 00:24:11.212
going for you and Greg as a whole?

00:24:12.034 --> 00:24:12.374
So, yeah.

00:24:12.394 --> 00:24:13.193
So right now.

00:24:13.273 --> 00:24:14.993
So in the in-betweens

00:24:15.055 --> 00:24:16.214
between that section and

00:24:16.255 --> 00:24:18.576
the birth of Greg,

00:24:19.615 --> 00:24:20.576
we see some like newspaper

00:24:20.635 --> 00:24:22.136
articles of like where he's been,

00:24:22.176 --> 00:24:23.237
where he's going, what happened.

00:24:24.317 --> 00:24:25.377
So basically,

00:24:25.678 --> 00:24:28.159
I'm kind of doing it in a style where.

00:24:29.550 --> 00:24:30.652
We have his beginning,

00:24:31.272 --> 00:24:32.773
and then we have his end.

00:24:33.775 --> 00:24:34.395
Well, yeah, definitely.

00:24:34.415 --> 00:24:35.115
You can't wear customer

00:24:35.155 --> 00:24:36.557
service wearing a hood as well.

00:24:36.577 --> 00:24:38.058
I don't know.

00:24:38.078 --> 00:24:39.519
Some of the kids today might try.

00:24:39.901 --> 00:24:40.642
True, true.

00:24:41.162 --> 00:24:43.604
But yeah, for this,

00:24:43.663 --> 00:24:45.425
I'm just basically taking

00:24:45.486 --> 00:24:47.748
it to almost his end of his career.

00:24:47.768 --> 00:24:49.509
So the next issue catches up

00:24:49.589 --> 00:24:51.211
where we leave off in this.

00:24:51.271 --> 00:24:53.993
So he's in his career as a great fighter,

00:24:54.974 --> 00:24:57.115
wrestler guy basically he's

00:24:57.455 --> 00:24:58.395
he fights in this thing

00:24:58.435 --> 00:24:59.756
called the fighter g

00:24:59.796 --> 00:25:03.198
tournament and uh do y'all

00:25:03.238 --> 00:25:04.198
have a spinsters up there

00:25:04.538 --> 00:25:05.798
you know we do we do we

00:25:05.958 --> 00:25:07.219
have those yeah yeah we

00:25:07.239 --> 00:25:08.219
have the spirit halloweens

00:25:08.259 --> 00:25:09.598
too we got we got that it

00:25:09.618 --> 00:25:10.380
took a while we took a

00:25:10.400 --> 00:25:11.099
while but we got them

00:25:11.721 --> 00:25:12.863
All right, good, good.

00:25:13.163 --> 00:25:13.864
You got to have at least

00:25:13.923 --> 00:25:15.326
thirty Spirit of Halloweens.

00:25:15.625 --> 00:25:16.907
Definitely, definitely.

00:25:17.509 --> 00:25:19.151
But, yeah, we catch up with him.

00:25:19.211 --> 00:25:20.333
He's in a fighting league

00:25:20.353 --> 00:25:21.594
called the Fighter G Tournament.

00:25:22.935 --> 00:25:24.538
Fantastic scenes, too.

00:25:24.597 --> 00:25:24.959
Thank you.

00:25:26.522 --> 00:25:28.384
The raw greediness of that fight.

00:25:28.424 --> 00:25:30.066
It was like wrestling meets MMA.

00:25:30.125 --> 00:25:31.906
I loved it.

00:25:31.926 --> 00:25:32.646
That's the goal.

00:25:32.767 --> 00:25:35.769
It's kind of like a death

00:25:35.849 --> 00:25:37.069
ring thing where it's just

00:25:37.089 --> 00:25:38.770
kind of like you can bring weapons in,

00:25:38.791 --> 00:25:39.692
you can do whatever,

00:25:40.272 --> 00:25:41.794
but he's the champion of this realm.

00:25:42.034 --> 00:25:44.494
He's spent his life fighting,

00:25:44.674 --> 00:25:45.635
trying to survive,

00:25:45.695 --> 00:25:48.438
trying to avoid killing

00:25:48.478 --> 00:25:50.138
people and also just having

00:25:50.179 --> 00:25:50.779
his condition.

00:25:51.500 --> 00:25:52.839
and so we catch up with him

00:25:53.260 --> 00:25:54.901
in that issue and we kind

00:25:54.941 --> 00:25:57.781
of go through his downfall

00:25:58.182 --> 00:25:59.982
and then we find out where

00:26:00.042 --> 00:26:02.223
he is kind of at the end of

00:26:02.263 --> 00:26:03.203
his career so it's kind of

00:26:03.223 --> 00:26:04.324
like I don't want to say a

00:26:04.364 --> 00:26:06.105
dark knight returns at that

00:26:06.144 --> 00:26:07.424
point but it's kind of like

00:26:07.444 --> 00:26:09.066
we catch up to him after

00:26:09.086 --> 00:26:11.207
this critical huge event

00:26:11.247 --> 00:26:13.086
that happens that causes

00:26:13.586 --> 00:26:14.508
issues I don't want to

00:26:14.548 --> 00:26:16.188
spoil it too much but it's

00:26:16.208 --> 00:26:17.949
an it's an event that happens that

00:26:18.769 --> 00:26:20.670
his good looks do something

00:26:20.710 --> 00:26:23.873
bad and so and so basically

00:26:24.492 --> 00:26:26.555
he then has to kind of face

00:26:26.595 --> 00:26:28.715
the music of what happened

00:26:28.915 --> 00:26:29.957
and there's a mystery of

00:26:30.636 --> 00:26:32.057
why that happened and

00:26:32.098 --> 00:26:33.318
basically from there we

00:26:33.398 --> 00:26:35.280
follow his story of him and

00:26:35.300 --> 00:26:36.902
his manager slash foster

00:26:36.922 --> 00:26:40.765
brother um trying to find

00:26:40.904 --> 00:26:42.066
purpose in his life and

00:26:42.105 --> 00:26:43.365
trying to redeem himself

00:26:43.547 --> 00:26:45.508
from being so good looking

00:26:45.548 --> 00:26:47.730
and killing people but also trying to be

00:26:48.450 --> 00:26:50.851
the man he wants to be and

00:26:50.871 --> 00:26:51.871
go out on a good note.

00:26:52.070 --> 00:26:54.912
And so he didn't ask to be born that,

00:26:55.112 --> 00:26:55.892
that good looking.

00:26:56.311 --> 00:26:57.512
No, it's just a condition.

00:26:57.992 --> 00:26:59.972
And, you know, you know, it's, it's,

00:27:00.073 --> 00:27:01.653
it's not his fault, like you said, but,

00:27:01.733 --> 00:27:02.074
you know,

00:27:02.594 --> 00:27:03.534
unfortunately when you have a

00:27:03.594 --> 00:27:04.453
condition like that,

00:27:04.493 --> 00:27:05.954
there's going to be accidents,

00:27:05.974 --> 00:27:07.275
there's going to be fuck ups and,

00:27:07.535 --> 00:27:08.095
you know,

00:27:08.536 --> 00:27:09.895
and his life's full of them with that.

00:27:09.996 --> 00:27:11.536
And so we kind of learn

00:27:11.576 --> 00:27:13.317
about his life throughout the,

00:27:14.625 --> 00:27:15.185
the series.

00:27:15.346 --> 00:27:15.727
Right now,

00:27:15.787 --> 00:27:19.210
I have kind of seven volumes mapped out.

00:27:19.329 --> 00:27:20.991
I have the first volume done,

00:27:21.031 --> 00:27:23.374
which is basically the

00:27:23.413 --> 00:27:27.458
Legendary Knights volume,

00:27:27.478 --> 00:27:30.441
which is the first issue is the next one.

00:27:31.942 --> 00:27:34.023
And then I have the next volume,

00:27:34.364 --> 00:27:35.404
Occupational Hazards.

00:27:36.185 --> 00:27:38.208
Actually, Greg does get a job in that.

00:27:39.538 --> 00:27:41.078
He does get an actual real job.

00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:42.580
He tries to get a real job

00:27:42.601 --> 00:27:44.142
because he has to pay the rent.

00:27:44.342 --> 00:27:46.384
So, you know, it's it's

00:27:47.423 --> 00:27:48.002
It's going to be good.

00:27:48.083 --> 00:27:49.523
There's a lot of craziness

00:27:49.765 --> 00:27:51.726
and his good looks end up

00:27:51.746 --> 00:27:52.605
having an issue.

00:27:52.826 --> 00:27:54.728
And from that critical event

00:27:54.788 --> 00:27:55.748
I mentioned earlier,

00:27:56.608 --> 00:27:58.369
as Greg tries to redeem himself,

00:27:58.970 --> 00:27:59.990
people from his past

00:28:00.250 --> 00:28:01.751
affected by that event and

00:28:01.852 --> 00:28:04.074
other events from his good

00:28:04.094 --> 00:28:05.013
looks start coming out of

00:28:05.034 --> 00:28:07.096
the woodwork to fight him

00:28:07.155 --> 00:28:08.876
or challenge him or find ways to

00:28:09.846 --> 00:28:12.067
try and uh discourage him

00:28:12.107 --> 00:28:15.088
from uh completing his goal

00:28:15.148 --> 00:28:16.368
of redemption basically

00:28:16.388 --> 00:28:18.650
okay so no I like it dude I

00:28:18.670 --> 00:28:19.849
like that you got it mapped

00:28:20.049 --> 00:28:22.891
out that way and that that

00:28:22.911 --> 00:28:23.911
I think is a golden

00:28:24.010 --> 00:28:25.771
standard to have when

00:28:25.791 --> 00:28:27.071
you're mapping out like

00:28:27.112 --> 00:28:28.413
just a comic book in

00:28:28.472 --> 00:28:30.633
general it's just like I

00:28:30.834 --> 00:28:32.913
have my start and I have my

00:28:32.953 --> 00:28:34.714
finish I'm working on

00:28:34.755 --> 00:28:38.715
everything in between yeah I know um

00:28:39.991 --> 00:28:40.251
Nick,

00:28:40.291 --> 00:28:41.813
who actually writes the Videlirium

00:28:41.873 --> 00:28:43.674
book and comic book, he's like, yep,

00:28:43.795 --> 00:28:44.715
I know how it started.

00:28:45.256 --> 00:28:48.478
I know how I'm going to end it.

00:28:48.818 --> 00:28:49.138
He's like,

00:28:49.159 --> 00:28:50.900
I've got a semi-roadmap on how

00:28:50.940 --> 00:28:52.701
to get there.

00:28:53.442 --> 00:28:57.605
It's like, as we go, that's how we do it.

00:28:57.785 --> 00:28:57.964
Exactly.

00:28:58.046 --> 00:28:58.806
That's cool to have.

00:28:59.326 --> 00:29:00.567
Let's dive into the...

00:29:02.239 --> 00:29:04.278
actual Kickstarter itself?

00:29:04.419 --> 00:29:07.400
What made you decide to do crowdfunding,

00:29:08.200 --> 00:29:10.740
such as Kickstarter to launch Greg?

00:29:11.681 --> 00:29:13.221
So it's kind of an easy question.

00:29:13.240 --> 00:29:14.241
I'm kind of tossing you went

00:29:14.281 --> 00:29:14.882
up there because

00:29:15.041 --> 00:29:16.061
Kickstarter is phenomenal.

00:29:16.102 --> 00:29:16.981
I love Kickstarter.

00:29:17.842 --> 00:29:18.342
So yeah,

00:29:18.481 --> 00:29:21.722
I first I printed some copies of

00:29:21.762 --> 00:29:23.462
Greg the Ash Canada.

00:29:23.482 --> 00:29:24.544
I've seen you were selling

00:29:24.564 --> 00:29:25.824
them in your local comic shop.

00:29:26.095 --> 00:29:27.696
Yeah, I wanted to see how they would do.

00:29:27.896 --> 00:29:29.097
And they've been doing pretty well.

00:29:29.198 --> 00:29:31.000
I just got word that one of

00:29:31.019 --> 00:29:32.981
the stores needs a restock,

00:29:33.142 --> 00:29:35.223
which is great.

00:29:36.265 --> 00:29:36.986
Which is the second store

00:29:37.006 --> 00:29:37.645
that's done that now.

00:29:37.705 --> 00:29:40.308
So I'm kind of just seeing how it's doing.

00:29:40.328 --> 00:29:41.009
It's doing good.

00:29:41.029 --> 00:29:42.171
And I was kind of like, you know what?

00:29:42.570 --> 00:29:42.891
I have...

00:29:43.751 --> 00:29:44.531
I want to get this out to a

00:29:44.711 --> 00:29:45.592
bigger audience,

00:29:45.652 --> 00:29:46.532
but I don't want to be a

00:29:46.752 --> 00:29:48.532
distribution one man

00:29:48.553 --> 00:29:49.512
distribution company where

00:29:49.532 --> 00:29:51.114
I'm just trying to mail everything out,

00:29:51.273 --> 00:29:53.634
especially during this awkward mail time.

00:29:54.134 --> 00:29:57.134
So I figured I would just do

00:29:57.154 --> 00:29:58.414
a Kickstarter and see what

00:29:58.454 --> 00:29:59.234
the response is.

00:29:59.295 --> 00:30:00.035
And I was like,

00:30:00.095 --> 00:30:01.496
if I get the response that

00:30:01.615 --> 00:30:03.556
I that people enjoying this

00:30:03.576 --> 00:30:05.016
and that they want stuff, then great.

00:30:05.076 --> 00:30:06.356
Let's let's let's do it.

00:30:06.376 --> 00:30:07.436
And if not, then.

00:30:08.499 --> 00:30:09.219
then at least, okay,

00:30:09.699 --> 00:30:11.660
I know I can just do a

00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:12.759
different thing with Greg

00:30:12.779 --> 00:30:14.140
and I don't have to keep doing a comic.

00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:16.141
Maybe I can do a radio play or just,

00:30:16.780 --> 00:30:17.980
just write what I need to

00:30:18.020 --> 00:30:19.240
and put it out there as right.

00:30:19.340 --> 00:30:20.500
Yeah, no,

00:30:20.961 --> 00:30:24.102
I think this is one of those where it,

00:30:24.182 --> 00:30:24.922
I know you want to see it

00:30:24.942 --> 00:30:26.222
to the end and it deserves

00:30:26.242 --> 00:30:27.583
to be seen to the end

00:30:27.603 --> 00:30:30.483
because it is such a phenomenal,

00:30:30.523 --> 00:30:32.243
phenomenal kickoff to what

00:30:32.324 --> 00:30:33.824
I feel like will be a great

00:30:34.003 --> 00:30:36.325
series of storytelling for you.

00:30:37.265 --> 00:30:37.525
Um,

00:30:38.358 --> 00:30:39.660
So I know you just launched

00:30:39.740 --> 00:30:41.921
it on the twenty eighth, correct?

00:30:41.941 --> 00:30:43.301
Yeah, I believe so.

00:30:43.402 --> 00:30:44.422
Yeah.

00:30:44.603 --> 00:30:47.304
And for those who were on

00:30:47.324 --> 00:30:49.025
the Facebook group and on the Instagram,

00:30:49.045 --> 00:30:50.685
I did include a link to the

00:30:50.726 --> 00:30:52.366
Kickstarter for y'all.

00:30:53.067 --> 00:30:54.347
If you want to go check that out.

00:30:54.768 --> 00:30:55.989
What I want to do real quick

00:30:56.249 --> 00:31:00.711
is let me do a share screen

00:31:03.133 --> 00:31:04.673
and I want to share that.

00:31:07.435 --> 00:31:09.616
And I'll add that to the stage real quick.

00:31:10.017 --> 00:31:11.877
So this is what the front

00:31:11.978 --> 00:31:14.699
page of the Kickstarter

00:31:14.759 --> 00:31:16.579
looks like for Duke here.

00:31:18.441 --> 00:31:20.540
It's very easy to navigate.

00:31:20.580 --> 00:31:21.942
So I've never shown it from

00:31:21.981 --> 00:31:23.142
this perspective before.

00:31:23.742 --> 00:31:26.064
Normally, I will ask you if I can do a,

00:31:26.503 --> 00:31:26.864
like, hey,

00:31:26.884 --> 00:31:28.305
can we show a sneak peek real

00:31:28.325 --> 00:31:29.105
quick of the comic?

00:31:29.464 --> 00:31:30.625
For sure.

00:31:30.665 --> 00:31:30.806
But...

00:31:32.219 --> 00:31:33.019
I just wanted to show you

00:31:33.058 --> 00:31:33.880
what that looked like.

00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:35.940
You can kind of see where he

00:31:36.099 --> 00:31:38.320
is in the pledge and what

00:31:38.361 --> 00:31:40.121
the goal is he's trying to

00:31:40.161 --> 00:31:42.622
reach and how many days are

00:31:42.642 --> 00:31:44.063
left for this.

00:31:44.262 --> 00:31:45.883
But if you click back the project,

00:31:46.723 --> 00:31:50.244
it'll take you straight in to the

00:31:52.109 --> 00:31:53.330
That's where you can make a pledge.

00:31:53.351 --> 00:31:55.231
You can do just a donation to it.

00:31:55.751 --> 00:31:57.333
You can request to get the book.

00:31:57.952 --> 00:31:59.213
I do know there are some

00:31:59.513 --> 00:32:00.914
shipping issues currently

00:32:01.015 --> 00:32:02.115
happening between the

00:32:02.195 --> 00:32:03.797
United States and the world.

00:32:04.777 --> 00:32:07.018
So it's something to keep in

00:32:07.057 --> 00:32:09.680
mind too that especially

00:32:09.740 --> 00:32:11.121
right now that there are

00:32:11.161 --> 00:32:12.181
those issues happening.

00:32:13.102 --> 00:32:14.722
So keep that in mind when

00:32:14.742 --> 00:32:18.605
you are back in the book.

00:32:18.664 --> 00:32:18.845
But

00:32:19.638 --> 00:32:20.459
that's what it looks like.

00:32:20.499 --> 00:32:21.460
I wanted to show that for

00:32:21.500 --> 00:32:23.060
everybody because I've

00:32:23.101 --> 00:32:23.800
never done this before.

00:32:23.820 --> 00:32:25.321
I've never shown kind of

00:32:27.201 --> 00:32:28.002
what it looks like.

00:32:28.022 --> 00:32:29.963
And yeah.

00:32:30.263 --> 00:32:31.544
And the thing is too, with the shipping,

00:32:31.604 --> 00:32:33.505
like I know us and Canada

00:32:33.525 --> 00:32:34.405
having some issues with the

00:32:34.425 --> 00:32:35.566
shipping and stuff, but I,

00:32:35.746 --> 00:32:36.967
I we're finding ways around

00:32:37.027 --> 00:32:38.086
it as best we can.

00:32:38.267 --> 00:32:41.048
And, uh, you know, Oh, thanks man.

00:32:41.729 --> 00:32:42.249
Appreciate it.

00:32:42.308 --> 00:32:42.950
It's really fun.

00:32:42.990 --> 00:32:44.269
It's such a great read CJ.

00:32:45.711 --> 00:32:45.851
Um,

00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:49.402
yeah I'll send me a message

00:32:49.461 --> 00:32:50.563
I'll send you a digital

00:32:51.023 --> 00:32:52.204
copy of it to check out um

00:32:52.884 --> 00:32:54.346
but with your permission

00:32:54.366 --> 00:32:55.907
dude yeah can I show them

00:32:55.928 --> 00:32:57.148
like just a little preview

00:32:57.189 --> 00:32:58.089
of the book oh yeah of

00:32:58.130 --> 00:33:00.752
course of course please so

00:33:00.992 --> 00:33:01.573
I don't want to give too

00:33:01.593 --> 00:33:03.835
much away because so this

00:33:03.875 --> 00:33:05.297
is what the ash can version

00:33:05.317 --> 00:33:06.397
of the book is I believe

00:33:08.338 --> 00:33:09.519
and uh it was really cool

00:33:09.661 --> 00:33:10.942
really dope cover the foil

00:33:11.001 --> 00:33:12.923
I love foil covers that's me

00:33:14.372 --> 00:33:16.173
oil covers have always done

00:33:16.212 --> 00:33:21.698
it for me but um and then a

00:33:21.857 --> 00:33:25.099
little something from uh

00:33:25.240 --> 00:33:26.060
you know I'm guessing this

00:33:26.080 --> 00:33:26.961
is for your son that was

00:33:26.980 --> 00:33:29.963
just recently born no

00:33:30.023 --> 00:33:33.286
relations to greg yeah no

00:33:33.526 --> 00:33:34.406
we want to put that out

00:33:34.446 --> 00:33:35.667
there he was writing the

00:33:35.688 --> 00:33:37.970
comic book before his son was born yeah

00:33:39.087 --> 00:33:40.327
now now my son did blow my

00:33:40.368 --> 00:33:42.068
mind in my heart but he did

00:33:42.088 --> 00:33:44.970
uh not uh did not pull a

00:33:45.009 --> 00:33:46.931
greg and you know destroy

00:33:46.971 --> 00:33:49.152
my my face and I know I

00:33:49.192 --> 00:33:50.311
wasn't sharing the comments

00:33:50.372 --> 00:33:51.712
cj I'm sharing the comic

00:33:51.752 --> 00:33:53.712
right now oh I'm not

00:33:53.752 --> 00:33:55.314
sharing the comic right now

00:33:55.374 --> 00:33:56.413
yeah I don't think I

00:33:56.433 --> 00:33:57.174
thought maybe it was just

00:33:57.214 --> 00:34:00.736
me but oh no that's my bad um

00:34:01.403 --> 00:34:02.523
I do have a copy of it right

00:34:02.544 --> 00:34:03.703
here while you do that.

00:34:04.484 --> 00:34:05.766
The foil, just so you can see it.

00:34:05.846 --> 00:34:06.566
Looks nice.

00:34:08.847 --> 00:34:10.969
Our local printer slash

00:34:11.009 --> 00:34:12.228
comic book shop and

00:34:12.670 --> 00:34:14.990
Kitchener's Comic Studio Press did it.

00:34:15.271 --> 00:34:17.192
And they did a really good

00:34:17.211 --> 00:34:18.733
job with the foil and everything.

00:34:18.833 --> 00:34:19.733
So it's pretty sick.

00:34:19.773 --> 00:34:20.875
So this one's the ash can.

00:34:21.394 --> 00:34:23.456
And then it comes with the

00:34:23.496 --> 00:34:24.597
print backboard.

00:34:25.237 --> 00:34:25.657
Oh, here we go.

00:34:26.538 --> 00:34:28.099
And we also have...

00:34:30.858 --> 00:34:32.838
this on the inside it's just

00:34:32.918 --> 00:34:34.780
a newspaper and stuff yeah

00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:35.500
I thought that was really

00:34:35.539 --> 00:34:36.380
cool how you added the

00:34:36.420 --> 00:34:37.461
newspapers in the middle of

00:34:37.481 --> 00:34:40.282
the comic but here we go

00:34:40.322 --> 00:34:42.744
let me so this is the comic

00:34:42.784 --> 00:34:44.025
book my bad thanks cj for

00:34:44.085 --> 00:34:45.005
pointing that out for me

00:34:46.467 --> 00:34:49.409
but like I was saying this

00:34:49.449 --> 00:34:51.329
is the ash can cover what

00:34:51.349 --> 00:34:52.210
would have been the ash can

00:34:52.230 --> 00:34:54.891
cover which ash cans are

00:34:54.911 --> 00:34:55.913
cool for those of you not

00:34:55.932 --> 00:34:56.773
familiar with it that's

00:34:56.793 --> 00:34:57.934
what an ash can would look like

00:35:00.253 --> 00:35:02.114
And then this is what I was talking about.

00:35:03.257 --> 00:35:05.079
The letter to his baby boy from,

00:35:07.442 --> 00:35:09.945
is that your, or is this from, like,

00:35:10.646 --> 00:35:12.007
is this meant to be from

00:35:12.268 --> 00:35:14.851
Angie is the mom's name to Greg?

00:35:15.231 --> 00:35:19.617
So is this meant to be from mom to Greg?

00:35:20.163 --> 00:35:21.605
yeah yeah so basically it

00:35:21.625 --> 00:35:22.865
was okay it was written if

00:35:22.905 --> 00:35:23.585
you were doing like a

00:35:23.626 --> 00:35:25.427
little uh what are they

00:35:25.467 --> 00:35:26.989
called uh I thank you to my

00:35:27.030 --> 00:35:28.331
son for inspiring me type

00:35:28.351 --> 00:35:29.612
of deal so yeah that's one

00:35:29.692 --> 00:35:30.592
of the questions I wanted

00:35:30.612 --> 00:35:31.974
to ask you to ask you about

00:35:31.994 --> 00:35:32.514
like hey is this a

00:35:33.775 --> 00:35:35.416
no this was just a so

00:35:35.456 --> 00:35:36.315
basically it's supposed to

00:35:36.335 --> 00:35:38.137
be a photo album and uh

00:35:38.157 --> 00:35:38.757
this was supposed to be

00:35:38.797 --> 00:35:40.637
written on the inside of it

00:35:40.657 --> 00:35:42.619
which is just greg's mom

00:35:42.759 --> 00:35:43.739
angie just writing this

00:35:43.778 --> 00:35:45.340
message before she goes

00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:46.860
into labor basically okay

00:35:47.280 --> 00:35:49.041
and um I got my wife to do

00:35:49.061 --> 00:35:49.762
this this is my wife's

00:35:49.802 --> 00:35:51.563
handwriting I knew it was a

00:35:51.623 --> 00:35:52.663
very feminine handwriting

00:35:52.682 --> 00:35:53.664
that's why I was wondering

00:35:53.704 --> 00:35:55.644
if it was like if she wrote like a little

00:35:57.449 --> 00:35:58.291
A little something for your

00:35:58.351 --> 00:35:59.371
son that was just born.

00:35:59.632 --> 00:36:00.192
Yeah.

00:36:00.672 --> 00:36:01.932
I think she put some feeling

00:36:01.972 --> 00:36:03.594
into it with that for sure.

00:36:03.693 --> 00:36:06.155
So, and yeah.

00:36:06.315 --> 00:36:07.356
It's very emotional.

00:36:07.436 --> 00:36:08.456
It's very heartfelt.

00:36:08.536 --> 00:36:09.978
It's really, I was like, oh man,

00:36:09.998 --> 00:36:11.498
that's such a great doc.

00:36:11.539 --> 00:36:12.440
Guy right there.

00:36:12.460 --> 00:36:13.099
Look at that.

00:36:14.240 --> 00:36:14.981
But I don't, like I said,

00:36:15.001 --> 00:36:16.001
we're not going to scroll too far.

00:36:16.021 --> 00:36:17.342
We'll give a couple of pages

00:36:17.623 --> 00:36:20.184
and I love the art on this

00:36:20.664 --> 00:36:24.427
and just every way everything is done.

00:36:25.751 --> 00:36:26.771
And that's, you know,

00:36:26.811 --> 00:36:29.173
here we are with Angie in

00:36:29.193 --> 00:36:30.655
the delivery room getting

00:36:30.695 --> 00:36:32.476
ready to deliver the most

00:36:32.657 --> 00:36:34.358
handsome baby in the world.

00:36:35.219 --> 00:36:36.260
And that's all you're getting.

00:36:36.481 --> 00:36:37.501
You'll have to get the book

00:36:38.021 --> 00:36:38.943
to see the rest.

00:36:39.003 --> 00:36:42.065
I promise you, it does not disappoint.

00:36:42.865 --> 00:36:46.148
Yeah, it's a fun book for sure.

00:36:46.268 --> 00:36:47.409
I know I'm saying that

00:36:47.429 --> 00:36:48.851
because I wrote it and

00:36:49.443 --> 00:36:50.804
made it but it really is

00:36:50.864 --> 00:36:52.164
like I it has a lot of

00:36:52.244 --> 00:36:53.885
crazy influences it's been

00:36:53.925 --> 00:36:54.846
getting good reviews as

00:36:54.905 --> 00:36:56.106
well from some other indie

00:36:56.126 --> 00:36:58.208
reviewers and um it's just

00:36:58.248 --> 00:37:00.150
been an awesome time making

00:37:00.210 --> 00:37:03.130
it and you know the the

00:37:03.231 --> 00:37:04.132
main influence for that

00:37:04.172 --> 00:37:05.652
scene too is uh if you

00:37:05.693 --> 00:37:06.594
remember sam raimi's

00:37:06.693 --> 00:37:08.675
spider-man two with doc is

00:37:08.715 --> 00:37:12.157
like getting dark I use

00:37:12.177 --> 00:37:13.237
that a lot of for the

00:37:13.297 --> 00:37:14.398
reference to just try and

00:37:14.458 --> 00:37:16.619
get you know that vibe

00:37:17.239 --> 00:37:19.601
The hardest part of Greg is

00:37:19.641 --> 00:37:22.244
that when he makes people's heads explode,

00:37:22.425 --> 00:37:24.507
they, they also like orgasm.

00:37:24.527 --> 00:37:25.527
They have like an org,

00:37:25.547 --> 00:37:27.248
like an orgasmic violence thing.

00:37:27.809 --> 00:37:29.431
So I was trying to find a

00:37:29.471 --> 00:37:30.791
way to draw that without

00:37:30.831 --> 00:37:33.313
making it stupid or like too distracting.

00:37:34.896 --> 00:37:35.416
I don't know if you guys

00:37:35.436 --> 00:37:36.197
remember those herbal

00:37:36.297 --> 00:37:37.478
essence commercials from

00:37:37.498 --> 00:37:38.878
the nineties where like

00:37:38.918 --> 00:37:40.420
women are like washing their hand, like,

00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:40.820
Oh yeah.

00:37:40.860 --> 00:37:41.041
Yeah.

00:37:41.822 --> 00:37:44.304
And then like, yeah, I wanted, I want,

00:37:44.324 --> 00:37:45.085
I wonder what I want.

00:37:45.105 --> 00:37:45.804
She, what she's having.

00:37:47.326 --> 00:37:50.208
But that also inspired Greg's powers.

00:37:50.288 --> 00:37:52.909
So basically there's a panel.

00:37:53.449 --> 00:37:56.192
You've probably seen it, Jeff, but it's a,

00:37:56.393 --> 00:37:59.195
it's when the lady sees

00:37:59.235 --> 00:38:00.876
Greg and then she has the

00:38:00.916 --> 00:38:02.157
herbal essence moment.

00:38:02.657 --> 00:38:03.177
Yeah.

00:38:03.277 --> 00:38:04.358
And then her head explodes.

00:38:04.398 --> 00:38:06.139
Basically the nurse.

00:38:06.739 --> 00:38:06.960
Yeah.

00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:07.239
Yeah.

00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:07.500
Yeah.

00:38:07.539 --> 00:38:08.840
Oh no.

00:38:08.981 --> 00:38:09.242
Yeah.

00:38:09.342 --> 00:38:10.963
That's yeah.

00:38:11.063 --> 00:38:11.182
Yeah.

00:38:12.119 --> 00:38:13.201
It is really,

00:38:13.902 --> 00:38:15.802
it's worth the investment in the book.

00:38:16.304 --> 00:38:17.764
It was a phenomenal,

00:38:17.864 --> 00:38:20.586
phenomenal read absurd as it may seem.

00:38:20.646 --> 00:38:22.528
It is just amazing.

00:38:23.150 --> 00:38:25.311
And it's just a fun read.

00:38:25.351 --> 00:38:27.652
If you're into like,

00:38:28.873 --> 00:38:30.335
I love being horror movies

00:38:30.416 --> 00:38:31.896
and that's the vibe I got.

00:38:31.936 --> 00:38:32.918
And I was just like,

00:38:32.958 --> 00:38:33.838
this is right up my alley.

00:38:33.858 --> 00:38:36.380
I love like the B blend horror movies.

00:38:36.481 --> 00:38:38.302
And I know CJ does too.

00:38:38.382 --> 00:38:38.722
So nice.

00:38:40.737 --> 00:38:43.599
So staying in the Kickstarter campaign,

00:38:43.639 --> 00:38:45.061
what kind of rewards can

00:38:45.121 --> 00:38:46.302
backers look forward to?

00:38:46.342 --> 00:38:48.043
Do you have any stretch goals planned,

00:38:48.083 --> 00:38:49.724
exclusive perks that you

00:38:49.764 --> 00:38:50.925
yourself are excited about?

00:38:50.985 --> 00:38:52.226
Or with this being your first one,

00:38:52.246 --> 00:38:53.807
you're like, we're doing the book.

00:38:54.989 --> 00:38:55.829
Yeah, right now.

00:38:55.849 --> 00:38:56.351
That's cool too.

00:38:57.291 --> 00:38:58.532
I like when people just go, hey,

00:38:58.552 --> 00:38:59.333
you're getting the book.

00:38:59.853 --> 00:39:01.715
So I've been talking to our

00:39:01.755 --> 00:39:03.516
print shop out here about that.

00:39:03.536 --> 00:39:04.697
They do a lot of Kickstarter

00:39:04.717 --> 00:39:05.858
stuff and I wanted to get

00:39:05.898 --> 00:39:07.639
some ideas on what we could

00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:08.440
do or like what,

00:39:09.016 --> 00:39:09.918
we can throw in right now a

00:39:09.998 --> 00:39:11.742
lot of the the tiers I have like

00:39:12.831 --> 00:39:13.550
just throwing in like

00:39:13.811 --> 00:39:15.152
everything in those tiers

00:39:15.291 --> 00:39:16.713
up front so like if you get

00:39:16.773 --> 00:39:18.313
the ash can or the first

00:39:18.393 --> 00:39:19.454
edition press like you're

00:39:19.474 --> 00:39:21.295
getting the foil print

00:39:21.315 --> 00:39:21.996
you're getting the

00:39:22.036 --> 00:39:23.536
backboard print you're

00:39:23.556 --> 00:39:25.038
getting you know the the

00:39:25.117 --> 00:39:27.798
in-ad um artwork you're

00:39:27.818 --> 00:39:28.760
getting it signed

00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:29.900
everything's signed hand

00:39:29.940 --> 00:39:32.521
numbered um you're getting

00:39:32.862 --> 00:39:34.063
a letter from me that's

00:39:34.123 --> 00:39:35.724
personalized you're getting

00:39:36.143 --> 00:39:37.143
uh I don't even know

00:39:37.164 --> 00:39:37.824
there's like tons of stuff

00:39:37.864 --> 00:39:39.626
you're getting a digital version of it

00:39:40.126 --> 00:39:43.148
You're getting stickers.

00:39:43.427 --> 00:39:44.829
You're getting a bunch of stuff.

00:39:45.389 --> 00:39:46.851
There's a lot in those.

00:39:46.931 --> 00:39:47.670
I have to pull it up

00:39:47.731 --> 00:39:48.572
actually on my end just to

00:39:48.592 --> 00:39:50.253
make sure I'm getting everything.

00:39:50.273 --> 00:39:51.893
Did I close it already?

00:39:51.914 --> 00:39:54.255
No, I didn't close it.

00:39:54.315 --> 00:39:54.396
Oh,

00:39:54.436 --> 00:39:56.496
you also get your name included in the

00:39:56.536 --> 00:39:58.057
standard print edition.

00:39:58.458 --> 00:39:59.179
Oh, that's really dope.

00:39:59.478 --> 00:40:01.860
You get a social media shout out.

00:40:01.981 --> 00:40:03.081
You get a version of your

00:40:03.101 --> 00:40:04.623
name in the PDF version

00:40:04.722 --> 00:40:06.023
that we'll be sending out.

00:40:06.884 --> 00:40:08.766
And then you get a letter from me.

00:40:09.746 --> 00:40:11.226
And yeah,

00:40:11.246 --> 00:40:14.909
you get a lot of awesome perks with it,

00:40:14.969 --> 00:40:15.769
which, you know,

00:40:15.789 --> 00:40:16.750
I was trying to compare it

00:40:16.769 --> 00:40:18.331
to other Kickstarters and

00:40:18.391 --> 00:40:19.751
stuff that I've backed in the past.

00:40:19.811 --> 00:40:21.452
And a lot of the time, you know,

00:40:21.472 --> 00:40:22.932
they'll charge like so much

00:40:23.052 --> 00:40:24.514
more for like a signature

00:40:24.534 --> 00:40:25.394
and other things like that.

00:40:25.414 --> 00:40:27.315
And like, I understand the value of,

00:40:27.516 --> 00:40:27.735
you know,

00:40:27.936 --> 00:40:28.896
doing that and stuff.

00:40:28.956 --> 00:40:31.557
I seen you had, you have a comic shop tier,

00:40:31.697 --> 00:40:32.338
which is cool.

00:40:32.577 --> 00:40:33.358
Cause I don't see a lot of

00:40:33.378 --> 00:40:34.478
kit starters doing that.

00:40:34.539 --> 00:40:36.300
And that's something that I

00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:38.139
really think is dope to see

00:40:38.159 --> 00:40:38.920
is that you're,

00:40:39.001 --> 00:40:40.001
you're given an opportunity

00:40:40.041 --> 00:40:41.422
for a comic book shop to

00:40:41.501 --> 00:40:43.362
order multiple prints in order to sell.

00:40:43.822 --> 00:40:44.163
Yeah.

00:40:44.182 --> 00:40:44.822
That's really cool.

00:40:45.463 --> 00:40:47.123
And yeah, with those two, like we're,

00:40:47.164 --> 00:40:48.505
we're putting out, um,

00:40:48.525 --> 00:40:49.545
so there's a few additions.

00:40:49.605 --> 00:40:51.126
So obviously there's the Ashkin,

00:40:51.146 --> 00:40:52.827
which is only, there's only one left.

00:40:52.847 --> 00:40:53.746
I only have twenty one

00:40:54.007 --> 00:40:54.867
issues of that left and

00:40:54.887 --> 00:40:56.168
they're all on the Kickstarter right now.

00:40:56.188 --> 00:40:56.288
So,

00:40:57.231 --> 00:40:58.152
First twenty one people.

00:40:58.532 --> 00:40:59.193
Yeah.

00:40:59.373 --> 00:41:01.596
And then our first edition prints,

00:41:02.516 --> 00:41:05.699
we still have only put to twenty five.

00:41:05.719 --> 00:41:06.259
Like there's only two

00:41:06.278 --> 00:41:06.900
hundred twenty five of

00:41:06.920 --> 00:41:07.579
those I'm putting on

00:41:07.619 --> 00:41:08.681
Kickstarter because I

00:41:08.701 --> 00:41:10.563
realized I need twenty five

00:41:10.583 --> 00:41:12.204
because I have to go to some conventions.

00:41:13.644 --> 00:41:13.824
So, yeah,

00:41:13.844 --> 00:41:15.286
the twenty five I'll be selling there.

00:41:15.365 --> 00:41:17.148
But Kickstarter people get

00:41:17.168 --> 00:41:20.230
the first dibs at the number order of.

00:41:20.646 --> 00:41:22.989
being signed, hand numbered to, you know,

00:41:23.030 --> 00:41:23.871
one, two, three, four, five.

00:41:24.070 --> 00:41:26.054
So it's first come first serve on that.

00:41:27.416 --> 00:41:29.460
We have our standard edition, which,

00:41:29.579 --> 00:41:30.661
you know, I'll sign.

00:41:31.163 --> 00:41:32.844
I'll do similar stuff with that.

00:41:35.054 --> 00:41:36.596
And then we have an edition

00:41:36.615 --> 00:41:37.956
called the Bad Economy Edition.

00:41:38.416 --> 00:41:41.380
So that is just basically a

00:41:41.480 --> 00:41:43.262
shrunken version of the

00:41:43.302 --> 00:41:45.965
regular Greg Delivery Room Massacre.

00:41:46.065 --> 00:41:46.485
Here we go.

00:41:46.505 --> 00:41:47.666
I'll bring it back up for you.

00:41:48.086 --> 00:41:48.206
Yeah,

00:41:48.246 --> 00:41:50.188
it's just half the size for the Bad

00:41:50.228 --> 00:41:51.068
Economy Edition.

00:41:51.170 --> 00:41:51.710
And it's just cheaper.

00:41:51.730 --> 00:41:52.050
You know, it was...

00:41:55.117 --> 00:41:56.757
I've seen other comic book

00:41:56.858 --> 00:41:58.458
companies starting to do that as well.

00:41:58.478 --> 00:41:59.739
I know Marvel and DC just

00:41:59.759 --> 00:42:01.639
did a lineup of the miniatures,

00:42:02.338 --> 00:42:04.539
like the eight and a half

00:42:04.579 --> 00:42:06.260
by four and a half or whatever it is,

00:42:07.061 --> 00:42:08.081
which I thought was kind of cool.

00:42:08.201 --> 00:42:09.342
I mean, it's not my thing,

00:42:09.961 --> 00:42:10.742
but I thought it was really

00:42:10.782 --> 00:42:13.583
cool that people are doing that.

00:42:14.092 --> 00:42:15.954
yeah I I still have to do a

00:42:15.974 --> 00:42:18.918
uh a print test of those I

00:42:18.938 --> 00:42:20.360
have that already on my

00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:21.320
computer I just have to get

00:42:21.340 --> 00:42:22.282
to the shop actually I'm

00:42:22.302 --> 00:42:23.021
going to the shop tomorrow

00:42:23.061 --> 00:42:24.884
to print the the uh the

00:42:24.923 --> 00:42:26.766
foil um artwork that we

00:42:26.806 --> 00:42:28.987
discussed okay and uh and

00:42:29.028 --> 00:42:30.510
doing the bad economy print

00:42:30.550 --> 00:42:32.711
so I'll have those pictures right there

00:42:34.295 --> 00:42:37.277
so yeah but overall the um

00:42:37.297 --> 00:42:38.418
bad economy edition I just

00:42:38.438 --> 00:42:39.159
wanted to have something

00:42:39.458 --> 00:42:40.460
you know that people could

00:42:40.480 --> 00:42:41.780
just buy because it is it

00:42:41.800 --> 00:42:43.021
is a bit expensive and I

00:42:43.181 --> 00:42:44.003
want to try to keep things

00:42:44.623 --> 00:42:45.824
as accessible as possible

00:42:45.864 --> 00:42:47.284
and easy yeah a good deal

00:42:47.664 --> 00:42:48.346
and some people just want

00:42:48.365 --> 00:42:49.146
to buy the comic they don't

00:42:49.166 --> 00:42:50.226
want to have the foil or

00:42:50.266 --> 00:42:51.007
have a collector's thing

00:42:51.027 --> 00:42:51.507
they're just like I just

00:42:51.527 --> 00:42:53.070
want to buy the comic and I

00:42:53.090 --> 00:42:54.550
was like well if I can do

00:42:54.610 --> 00:42:55.391
one that's you know half

00:42:55.411 --> 00:42:56.472
the size half the price and

00:42:56.492 --> 00:42:58.253
still you know sign it or

00:42:58.293 --> 00:42:59.715
give a digital download

00:42:59.735 --> 00:43:00.655
code like give some extras

00:43:00.715 --> 00:43:02.056
with it then let's do it and

00:43:02.936 --> 00:43:04.177
So that's what we're doing,

00:43:04.358 --> 00:43:05.159
and then we're giving that

00:43:05.358 --> 00:43:07.079
option to comic book stores

00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:08.240
as well for retail.

00:43:09.420 --> 00:43:10.521
That's really dope, man.

00:43:10.541 --> 00:43:10.922
Like I said,

00:43:10.942 --> 00:43:11.902
you don't see a lot of

00:43:12.784 --> 00:43:14.605
Kickstarter's doing that,

00:43:14.724 --> 00:43:15.746
and I wish more would.

00:43:16.246 --> 00:43:16.505
Yeah.

00:43:16.885 --> 00:43:18.527
Because that's really cool to include.

00:43:20.128 --> 00:43:20.728
Yeah.

00:43:20.969 --> 00:43:22.309
I don't know what stores

00:43:22.329 --> 00:43:23.010
would want to carry.

00:43:23.269 --> 00:43:24.170
I'm sure a lot would,

00:43:24.231 --> 00:43:26.632
but I just... Honestly, that's not bad.

00:43:26.773 --> 00:43:28.974
It's about US dollars,

00:43:29.034 --> 00:43:29.815
and you get twenty...

00:43:30.929 --> 00:43:33.309
uh copies of it well looks

00:43:33.329 --> 00:43:34.590
like sixty you get twenty

00:43:34.630 --> 00:43:36.271
digital twenty signed and

00:43:36.291 --> 00:43:37.530
then twenty of the economy

00:43:37.570 --> 00:43:38.670
edition that's really dope

00:43:39.130 --> 00:43:40.632
yeah and then I'll sign

00:43:40.652 --> 00:43:41.692
them all too for the store

00:43:41.731 --> 00:43:43.411
so you know they'll get

00:43:43.672 --> 00:43:44.731
that thrown in as well as

00:43:44.791 --> 00:43:46.552
the incentive to sell them

00:43:46.612 --> 00:43:48.913
you know um no that's

00:43:48.972 --> 00:43:50.373
that's really cool that's

00:43:51.574 --> 00:43:52.454
like I said that's you're

00:43:52.474 --> 00:43:53.494
the first person I've seen

00:43:53.534 --> 00:43:54.873
to really do something like

00:43:54.914 --> 00:43:55.634
that and I think that's

00:43:55.673 --> 00:43:57.394
really cool to to offer

00:43:57.414 --> 00:43:59.514
that to comic book shops yeah

00:44:00.213 --> 00:44:02.514
And, you know, it gets the comic out there,

00:44:02.534 --> 00:44:03.195
it gets, you know,

00:44:03.295 --> 00:44:04.295
it gets people interested

00:44:04.335 --> 00:44:05.597
and it also brings people

00:44:05.637 --> 00:44:07.719
to the shops and, you know, I'm, you know,

00:44:08.259 --> 00:44:10.000
I'm trying to push this as much as I can,

00:44:10.019 --> 00:44:10.221
you know,

00:44:10.240 --> 00:44:11.782
it's a passion project and it's

00:44:11.802 --> 00:44:13.023
a hundred percent indie,

00:44:13.043 --> 00:44:15.625
a hundred percent organic and, you know,

00:44:15.864 --> 00:44:17.465
it's a hundred percent just, you know,

00:44:18.186 --> 00:44:19.648
punk rock trying to get it out there,

00:44:19.688 --> 00:44:20.327
you know, so.

00:44:22.230 --> 00:44:23.030
I like it, man.

00:44:23.090 --> 00:44:23.110
I...

00:44:25.686 --> 00:44:26.586
Yes,

00:44:26.606 --> 00:44:28.748
I'm impressed that you thought of that

00:44:28.847 --> 00:44:31.090
because that to me is a big

00:44:31.190 --> 00:44:35.333
one for not only you to do that,

00:44:35.414 --> 00:44:37.155
but also to give that

00:44:37.215 --> 00:44:39.016
option to comic book shops to do.

00:44:39.056 --> 00:44:39.836
Because like I said,

00:44:40.396 --> 00:44:41.858
it's not something you see often.

00:44:41.898 --> 00:44:44.079
And if you do see it,

00:44:44.601 --> 00:44:45.961
it's a whole hell of a lot

00:44:45.981 --> 00:44:47.762
more than a hundred Canadian.

00:44:47.862 --> 00:44:49.003
Yeah, yeah.

00:44:49.291 --> 00:44:50.753
and you know I have a I have

00:44:50.773 --> 00:44:51.773
a good relationship with

00:44:51.793 --> 00:44:53.034
our printers out here and

00:44:53.175 --> 00:44:54.396
you know basically I was

00:44:54.416 --> 00:44:56.157
just like how can we do

00:44:56.197 --> 00:44:57.458
this like how can we get

00:44:57.938 --> 00:44:59.340
you know and things a lot

00:44:59.380 --> 00:45:00.601
of a lot of comic books are

00:45:00.641 --> 00:45:01.842
printed in canada and

00:45:01.862 --> 00:45:03.764
shipped to the states so we

00:45:03.903 --> 00:45:05.324
we you know these the our

00:45:05.545 --> 00:45:06.485
comic studio press that

00:45:06.925 --> 00:45:08.867
does all my stuff um

00:45:08.887 --> 00:45:10.389
they're an awesome company

00:45:10.668 --> 00:45:11.630
they have tons they have a

00:45:11.710 --> 00:45:12.871
website we can order indie

00:45:12.891 --> 00:45:14.733
comics and stuff and um

00:45:15.432 --> 00:45:16.653
But they're a comic book shop,

00:45:16.873 --> 00:45:18.315
family business, you know,

00:45:19.034 --> 00:45:20.556
and they just operate a

00:45:20.596 --> 00:45:22.416
print shop as well as a comic book shop.

00:45:22.536 --> 00:45:23.617
And they help people with

00:45:23.657 --> 00:45:26.000
Kickstarters and comics and everything.

00:45:26.639 --> 00:45:27.199
That's really cool.

00:45:27.219 --> 00:45:29.822
That's how Image got its big thing started,

00:45:29.862 --> 00:45:31.362
too, is they bought a print shop.

00:45:31.842 --> 00:45:32.003
Yeah.

00:45:32.884 --> 00:45:33.364
And yeah,

00:45:33.403 --> 00:45:34.304
these guys are just doing the

00:45:34.324 --> 00:45:35.686
best they can trying to get stuff out.

00:45:35.706 --> 00:45:37.746
And their goal right now is to try and,

00:45:37.947 --> 00:45:38.206
you know,

00:45:38.827 --> 00:45:40.128
with everything being as crazy

00:45:40.148 --> 00:45:41.048
as it has been with, you know,

00:45:41.068 --> 00:45:42.070
with Diamond shutting down

00:45:42.090 --> 00:45:42.809
and all these other things,

00:45:42.849 --> 00:45:43.650
they're trying to be like, hey,

00:45:43.670 --> 00:45:44.070
you know what?

00:45:44.539 --> 00:45:45.239
I still don't think they've

00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:46.280
shut down all the way.

00:45:46.300 --> 00:45:47.121
No, but I do.

00:45:47.402 --> 00:45:49.182
I do know that a lot of

00:45:50.282 --> 00:45:51.443
people have jumped ship

00:45:51.523 --> 00:45:53.085
already and moved over to Penguin.

00:45:53.625 --> 00:45:54.005
Yeah.

00:45:54.106 --> 00:45:54.365
Yeah.

00:45:54.885 --> 00:45:56.666
And so are these guys out here like, hey,

00:45:56.686 --> 00:45:58.467
we got indie comics, the Canadian,

00:45:58.728 --> 00:45:58.987
you know,

00:45:59.469 --> 00:46:01.289
they're they're ready to export.

00:46:01.349 --> 00:46:02.670
So that's really cool.

00:46:03.090 --> 00:46:03.831
Yeah.

00:46:03.911 --> 00:46:04.931
And good for them being

00:46:05.211 --> 00:46:08.393
still a family family run shop like that.

00:46:08.574 --> 00:46:09.594
That's that's really dope.

00:46:09.614 --> 00:46:10.155
Yeah.

00:46:11.195 --> 00:46:12.416
You don't see a lot of that

00:46:12.615 --> 00:46:13.516
at all anymore.

00:46:14.081 --> 00:46:16.322
Yeah, I remember when I moved out this way,

00:46:16.422 --> 00:46:19.264
and I went to this mall, and I saw it.

00:46:19.304 --> 00:46:19.545
I was like,

00:46:19.565 --> 00:46:21.385
that's such an interesting comic shop.

00:46:21.425 --> 00:46:22.626
And then I went in, and I was like, oh,

00:46:22.646 --> 00:46:23.726
this is also a print shop.

00:46:23.766 --> 00:46:26.407
Like, this is a pretty good combo here.

00:46:26.427 --> 00:46:27.349
That's really cool, yeah.

00:46:29.090 --> 00:46:33.592
So people who are new to indie comics,

00:46:33.672 --> 00:46:35.612
why is supporting Greg on Kickstarter,

00:46:35.652 --> 00:46:36.934
and really just any comic

00:46:36.974 --> 00:46:39.996
book on Kickstarter, so important to...

00:46:41.701 --> 00:46:44.289
both the artist and what it

00:46:44.349 --> 00:46:46.135
is that you're trying to give to people,

00:46:46.635 --> 00:46:47.277
in your opinion.

00:46:49.614 --> 00:46:51.135
I think the number one thing

00:46:51.175 --> 00:46:53.275
is it helps give, you know,

00:46:53.615 --> 00:46:54.536
it shows people that

00:46:54.577 --> 00:46:56.077
there's value in the

00:46:56.097 --> 00:46:58.179
product and in the story, in the art,

00:46:58.398 --> 00:47:01.561
in the overall, you know,

00:47:01.820 --> 00:47:03.181
need for new stories and

00:47:03.221 --> 00:47:04.262
new creative things.

00:47:04.442 --> 00:47:06.862
And, you know,

00:47:07.043 --> 00:47:07.963
a lot of these companies and

00:47:07.983 --> 00:47:08.844
stuff look for that.

00:47:08.885 --> 00:47:09.925
And if they see it, oh,

00:47:10.105 --> 00:47:12.527
it didn't make its quota or

00:47:12.547 --> 00:47:14.007
didn't make the pledge

00:47:14.027 --> 00:47:14.748
number or whatever.

00:47:15.188 --> 00:47:16.710
That's seen as like a negative, right?

00:47:16.769 --> 00:47:18.371
So that's the number one thing.

00:47:18.431 --> 00:47:20.273
If you can do anything for

00:47:20.373 --> 00:47:21.735
anyone's Kickstarter, you know,

00:47:21.775 --> 00:47:22.856
send a couple bucks,

00:47:23.056 --> 00:47:24.277
do just a regular pledge.

00:47:24.297 --> 00:47:25.219
You don't have to order things,

00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:26.039
but just showing that

00:47:26.079 --> 00:47:27.581
there's interest in it goes

00:47:27.601 --> 00:47:29.885
a long way to helping an

00:47:29.945 --> 00:47:30.945
artist or writer or

00:47:31.025 --> 00:47:31.927
whatever the project is.

00:47:31.947 --> 00:47:32.967
And we've also seen a lot of...

00:47:33.853 --> 00:47:36.514
bigger names do kickstarters

00:47:36.574 --> 00:47:37.996
to get their like passion

00:47:38.036 --> 00:47:39.436
projects funded we've just

00:47:39.456 --> 00:47:40.637
seen it recently with mark

00:47:40.657 --> 00:47:42.858
spears and his monsters

00:47:43.458 --> 00:47:44.259
which you know muster

00:47:44.298 --> 00:47:45.559
started out as a card game

00:47:45.579 --> 00:47:46.860
that he then adopted into a

00:47:46.940 --> 00:47:48.701
comic book and I think the

00:47:48.800 --> 00:47:50.360
first volume was actually

00:47:50.860 --> 00:47:51.802
issue one was done a

00:47:51.961 --> 00:47:52.581
hundred percent on

00:47:52.621 --> 00:47:53.882
kickstarter before it got

00:47:53.922 --> 00:47:56.364
picked up by um the keen

00:47:56.423 --> 00:47:58.425
spot is who picked it up

00:47:59.378 --> 00:48:01.478
And I think they're on issue six now,

00:48:01.539 --> 00:48:03.161
and that's a phenomenal read.

00:48:04.101 --> 00:48:04.181
Wow.

00:48:04.201 --> 00:48:08.443
Dude, Smart Spears is phenomenal.

00:48:08.463 --> 00:48:12.626
That's great.

00:48:12.646 --> 00:48:14.748
Smart Spears has some very unique,

00:48:15.027 --> 00:48:17.489
very good art, and his storytelling has,

00:48:17.590 --> 00:48:17.909
like,

00:48:18.610 --> 00:48:20.271
being a pure artist at first and

00:48:20.291 --> 00:48:21.952
then going into the storytelling portion,

00:48:22.213 --> 00:48:23.414
he's absolutely killing it.

00:48:23.434 --> 00:48:24.594
Yeah, definitely.

00:48:24.795 --> 00:48:24.894
Yeah.

00:48:25.818 --> 00:48:28.041
It just goes to show what

00:48:28.081 --> 00:48:29.402
Kickstarter means to the

00:48:29.842 --> 00:48:31.063
independent artists out there,

00:48:31.543 --> 00:48:32.364
even for the big name

00:48:32.403 --> 00:48:33.744
artists out there who are

00:48:35.226 --> 00:48:36.166
trying to get their passion

00:48:36.206 --> 00:48:37.947
projects funded and what it

00:48:37.967 --> 00:48:39.188
could possibly do for them,

00:48:39.228 --> 00:48:41.210
such as we've just seen Mark Spears.

00:48:41.251 --> 00:48:42.572
Granted, it is Mark Spears.

00:48:44.434 --> 00:48:45.715
getting his book picked up

00:48:45.735 --> 00:48:47.077
by an actual publishing

00:48:47.117 --> 00:48:48.077
company and getting it

00:48:48.117 --> 00:48:49.639
published by them versus

00:48:49.679 --> 00:48:51.081
him trying to crowdfund it

00:48:51.422 --> 00:48:52.382
each and every issue.

00:48:53.063 --> 00:48:55.286
So it does go a really long

00:48:55.326 --> 00:48:57.068
ways and it helps artists get discovered.

00:48:57.449 --> 00:48:57.849
Who knows?

00:48:57.909 --> 00:48:59.271
We may see Duke electric's

00:48:59.331 --> 00:49:01.494
name on a big comic book

00:49:01.614 --> 00:49:02.534
one day when we walk into

00:49:02.554 --> 00:49:03.596
our local comic shop.

00:49:03.956 --> 00:49:05.297
Maybe, maybe that'd be cool.

00:49:08.331 --> 00:49:10.311
exactly yeah that yes

00:49:10.492 --> 00:49:12.693
exactly and I know

00:49:12.853 --> 00:49:13.875
everybody learns something

00:49:13.954 --> 00:49:15.376
new each and every time

00:49:15.396 --> 00:49:17.516
they do this and I know

00:49:17.556 --> 00:49:18.697
you're you're learning as

00:49:18.717 --> 00:49:19.978
you go and I just told you

00:49:20.039 --> 00:49:22.481
about my friend bruno's you

00:49:22.501 --> 00:49:23.742
know kickstarter how to

00:49:23.802 --> 00:49:25.702
that I'll shoot me a

00:49:25.742 --> 00:49:26.764
message after this and I'll

00:49:26.824 --> 00:49:28.385
shoot that over to you sure

00:49:28.405 --> 00:49:29.945
because I I really do think

00:49:30.927 --> 00:49:32.367
that he's done a phenomenal

00:49:32.407 --> 00:49:33.568
job of putting together a

00:49:33.849 --> 00:49:36.210
really good lessons learned thing so

00:49:37.407 --> 00:49:38.407
do want to say too it does

00:49:38.447 --> 00:49:39.608
help build community as

00:49:39.708 --> 00:49:40.590
well because you're getting

00:49:40.730 --> 00:49:42.170
people coming together from

00:49:42.251 --> 00:49:43.592
different angles of the

00:49:43.612 --> 00:49:45.954
comic book world you know

00:49:45.974 --> 00:49:46.534
people that are just

00:49:46.635 --> 00:49:47.876
interested in just backing

00:49:47.916 --> 00:49:50.038
things you know so far on

00:49:50.057 --> 00:49:51.358
the kickstarter we were

00:49:51.398 --> 00:49:52.840
almost a quarter way to our

00:49:52.900 --> 00:49:54.802
goal and there's people I

00:49:54.822 --> 00:49:56.282
don't even know that are

00:49:56.403 --> 00:49:57.804
you know into it and I'm

00:49:57.844 --> 00:49:58.865
just like oh that's cool

00:49:58.945 --> 00:50:00.126
and it also helps motivate

00:50:00.166 --> 00:50:00.847
the artist to be like hey

00:50:00.867 --> 00:50:01.748
you know what you brought

00:50:01.788 --> 00:50:03.289
something completely new to

00:50:03.309 --> 00:50:04.610
the table too because i

00:50:05.867 --> 00:50:06.387
A lot of people,

00:50:06.427 --> 00:50:07.608
they release like one or

00:50:07.648 --> 00:50:09.550
two issues and then they're like, oh,

00:50:09.590 --> 00:50:09.989
you know what?

00:50:10.030 --> 00:50:10.690
Let me give a little bit

00:50:10.731 --> 00:50:11.590
more backstory and give

00:50:11.610 --> 00:50:13.672
them an issue zero.

00:50:13.913 --> 00:50:14.932
I'm starting with the issue

00:50:14.972 --> 00:50:17.315
zero and we're going with it from there,

00:50:17.795 --> 00:50:19.175
which I think is really cool to do.

00:50:19.717 --> 00:50:20.038
Thank you.

00:50:20.257 --> 00:50:20.358
Well,

00:50:20.398 --> 00:50:22.099
my goal is for Greg is that every

00:50:22.259 --> 00:50:24.679
issue takes it from zero to

00:50:24.739 --> 00:50:28.802
ten in craziness and then leaves.

00:50:28.882 --> 00:50:29.242
I love it.

00:50:29.722 --> 00:50:32.003
I'm telling you right now,

00:50:32.483 --> 00:50:34.224
you started out at a ten.

00:50:34.724 --> 00:50:35.103
Thank you.

00:50:35.644 --> 00:50:37.465
So to get it to a ten by

00:50:37.585 --> 00:50:39.965
issue ten is going to be

00:50:42.027 --> 00:50:43.248
that's going to be some work, man,

00:50:43.268 --> 00:50:46.728
because you really started it cranked up.

00:50:46.748 --> 00:50:48.230
So thanks, man.

00:50:48.269 --> 00:50:48.829
I appreciate that.

00:50:50.048 --> 00:50:51.811
So my last question I had

00:50:51.851 --> 00:50:52.911
for you is what did you see

00:50:52.952 --> 00:50:54.954
kind of continuing beyond issue zero?

00:50:55.233 --> 00:50:56.715
But we've already talked about that.

00:50:57.155 --> 00:50:58.217
So at this point,

00:50:58.557 --> 00:50:59.378
I really don't have any

00:50:59.418 --> 00:51:01.340
more real interview questions for you,

00:51:02.460 --> 00:51:05.925
but anything else that you

00:51:05.945 --> 00:51:08.807
want to share with everybody?

00:51:09.695 --> 00:51:10.335
Yeah, well,

00:51:10.597 --> 00:51:13.739
we got our trailer up on the Kickstarter.

00:51:14.259 --> 00:51:18.842
We had a guy, the name just left my head.

00:51:18.922 --> 00:51:19.943
Two seconds ago, Dan Silver,

00:51:19.963 --> 00:51:21.003
that edited it for us.

00:51:21.503 --> 00:51:23.005
So if you check out that trailer,

00:51:23.025 --> 00:51:24.606
that'll give you a lot of the comic art.

00:51:24.706 --> 00:51:26.086
It kind of goes through the whole comic,

00:51:26.527 --> 00:51:27.967
but it doesn't give anything away.

00:51:28.007 --> 00:51:28.809
You just get to see all the

00:51:28.929 --> 00:51:30.690
cool art and everything going on.

00:51:30.710 --> 00:51:31.791
So that's number one.

00:51:32.030 --> 00:51:33.132
You did have a really cool

00:51:33.172 --> 00:51:34.152
trailer with it.

00:51:34.172 --> 00:51:34.552
Thank you.

00:51:34.963 --> 00:51:37.411
and uh you know I this is a

00:51:37.490 --> 00:51:38.614
passion project it's been

00:51:38.634 --> 00:51:41.822
in the works for a very long time and uh

00:51:45.413 --> 00:51:45.713
Yes.

00:51:46.173 --> 00:51:46.835
He's wearing pants.

00:51:46.855 --> 00:51:47.916
He assured me he was wearing pants.

00:51:48.396 --> 00:51:49.237
I am wearing pants.

00:51:49.418 --> 00:51:52.181
I can prove that right now.

00:51:52.221 --> 00:51:53.382
Look at that pink suit!

00:51:53.842 --> 00:51:54.184
Oh,

00:51:54.264 --> 00:51:56.405
the sharpest dressed guy that's ever

00:51:56.447 --> 00:51:58.469
been on USDN right there.

00:51:58.708 --> 00:51:59.110
Thank you.

00:51:59.190 --> 00:51:59.550
Thank you.

00:52:01.251 --> 00:52:01.753
Yeah, no,

00:52:02.273 --> 00:52:03.775
I actually... I'll say this really quick,

00:52:03.795 --> 00:52:03.956
too.

00:52:04.275 --> 00:52:04.295
I...

00:52:05.474 --> 00:52:08.478
got some help writing uh and

00:52:08.518 --> 00:52:11.179
motivation from uh uh scott

00:52:11.219 --> 00:52:12.721
snyder just because I I

00:52:12.760 --> 00:52:13.561
joined his writing class

00:52:13.581 --> 00:52:15.143
during the pandemic and so

00:52:15.744 --> 00:52:18.065
I actually pitched him greg

00:52:18.186 --> 00:52:19.327
and he really enjoyed it

00:52:19.527 --> 00:52:21.407
and really liked it and uh

00:52:21.447 --> 00:52:22.548
he's been kind of great

00:52:22.588 --> 00:52:23.510
he's got a kit start going

00:52:23.550 --> 00:52:24.311
on right now as well

00:52:24.650 --> 00:52:25.311
Oh, nice.

00:52:25.351 --> 00:52:26.172
Yeah, yeah.

00:52:26.331 --> 00:52:27.032
He's amazing.

00:52:27.092 --> 00:52:28.253
And he's a really nice guy.

00:52:28.393 --> 00:52:30.175
And I come to him,

00:52:30.416 --> 00:52:31.576
he's kind of like the guy I

00:52:31.596 --> 00:52:33.838
don't want to disappoint for comics,

00:52:34.057 --> 00:52:34.539
obviously.

00:52:34.739 --> 00:52:36.039
And so actually,

00:52:36.059 --> 00:52:37.221
I have to email him because

00:52:37.601 --> 00:52:38.521
I need to talk to him about something.

00:52:38.581 --> 00:52:40.402
But which I've been meaning to,

00:52:40.422 --> 00:52:41.463
but I've been busy with my son.

00:52:41.543 --> 00:52:45.166
But yeah, he I joined his writing class.

00:52:45.286 --> 00:52:47.528
And like, I wrote my first volume,

00:52:47.588 --> 00:52:49.429
I would send him versions of it.

00:52:49.469 --> 00:52:50.231
And he would, you know,

00:52:50.251 --> 00:52:51.311
it was a writing exercise.

00:52:51.331 --> 00:52:51.831
So he'd be like,

00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:53.501
why don't you try doing it like this?

00:52:53.561 --> 00:52:55.023
Why don't you try doing it like this?

00:52:55.083 --> 00:52:55.463
And, you know,

00:52:55.583 --> 00:52:57.565
sometimes I didn't agree with, you know,

00:52:57.605 --> 00:52:59.166
the ideas he was giving to me,

00:52:59.206 --> 00:53:00.047
but I wanted to try and

00:53:00.106 --> 00:53:03.028
make it seem like I'm working for a big,

00:53:03.489 --> 00:53:04.510
you know, comic book company.

00:53:04.530 --> 00:53:05.311
I want to try and make this

00:53:05.331 --> 00:53:06.090
as real as possible.

00:53:06.130 --> 00:53:07.952
So I would take his idea and

00:53:07.992 --> 00:53:09.974
just rewrite what I was trying to do.

00:53:10.414 --> 00:53:11.375
Sometimes it worked,

00:53:11.434 --> 00:53:12.436
sometimes it didn't work,

00:53:12.536 --> 00:53:14.237
but some of the stuff, you know,

00:53:15.057 --> 00:53:16.018
that I was planning on doing

00:53:16.257 --> 00:53:17.639
ages down the road come

00:53:17.659 --> 00:53:19.539
back earlier in this volume

00:53:19.579 --> 00:53:20.860
because something that

00:53:20.900 --> 00:53:21.719
scott would be like hey you

00:53:21.739 --> 00:53:23.400
know what try try maybe

00:53:23.420 --> 00:53:24.701
doing this try maybe doing

00:53:24.740 --> 00:53:28.121
that and um and yeah he

00:53:28.161 --> 00:53:30.541
he's he he loved the the

00:53:30.842 --> 00:53:32.262
the version that we ended on

00:53:32.822 --> 00:53:34.963
So I'm ready.

00:53:35.083 --> 00:53:37.626
I sent him the next volume, issue one.

00:53:37.686 --> 00:53:38.367
He was really down.

00:53:39.387 --> 00:53:39.947
Love that, too.

00:53:40.047 --> 00:53:41.068
So, you know,

00:53:41.108 --> 00:53:42.530
it's it's it's let's help

00:53:42.570 --> 00:53:44.972
people realize who Scott

00:53:45.032 --> 00:53:46.393
Snyder is real quick,

00:53:46.413 --> 00:53:47.853
because I don't know if a

00:53:47.873 --> 00:53:49.456
lot of people will know who he is.

00:53:49.476 --> 00:53:53.179
So Scott Snyder, the Batman who laughs.

00:53:55.420 --> 00:53:57.722
Batman, Death of the Jokers,

00:53:58.202 --> 00:53:59.443
Absolute Batman.

00:54:01.657 --> 00:54:01.856
Dude,

00:54:01.936 --> 00:54:06.298
the list goes on and on and on and on.

00:54:06.820 --> 00:54:09.081
Oh, not Batman, DC KO,

00:54:09.260 --> 00:54:10.922
which was just announced this week.

00:54:11.661 --> 00:54:11.902
Yep.

00:54:11.922 --> 00:54:12.822
It's another one.

00:54:13.643 --> 00:54:15.405
But yeah.

00:54:15.445 --> 00:54:17.846
American Vampire, which was phenomenal.

00:54:18.186 --> 00:54:20.327
If you read that, that was a phenomenal,

00:54:20.367 --> 00:54:21.347
phenomenal read.

00:54:21.768 --> 00:54:22.188
Witches,

00:54:22.208 --> 00:54:24.590
which has its Amazon series coming

00:54:25.030 --> 00:54:26.431
out soon as well.

00:54:27.311 --> 00:54:27.771
You knew it.

00:54:27.791 --> 00:54:28.072
Yep.

00:54:28.112 --> 00:54:29.092
That's where I was going next.

00:54:29.132 --> 00:54:29.472
Yep.

00:54:31.206 --> 00:54:35.467
Justice League, Rebirth, you name it.

00:54:38.489 --> 00:54:39.389
I know he's got some other

00:54:39.429 --> 00:54:40.389
stuff going on too right

00:54:40.429 --> 00:54:43.351
now that he's working on, but yeah,

00:54:43.431 --> 00:54:46.632
he's not just like, oh, he's a Snyder.

00:54:46.693 --> 00:54:47.914
No, he's Scott Snyder.

00:54:48.313 --> 00:54:51.215
The dude is coming to his

00:54:51.375 --> 00:54:53.235
own for quite a while now

00:54:53.275 --> 00:54:55.376
and has done some phenomenal,

00:54:55.416 --> 00:54:56.398
phenomenal work.

00:54:57.255 --> 00:54:58.878
So just wanted to put that

00:54:58.938 --> 00:55:01.280
out there when we say Scott Snyder,

00:55:01.320 --> 00:55:04.405
we're talking about the Scott Snyder.

00:55:05.246 --> 00:55:06.347
And I don't want to disappoint him.

00:55:06.407 --> 00:55:10.331
So you know that I did my

00:55:10.371 --> 00:55:13.295
best to try to impress Scott Snyder to,

00:55:13.434 --> 00:55:13.695
you know...

00:55:15.409 --> 00:55:16.271
like what I was doing.

00:55:16.371 --> 00:55:17.431
That's one of those things

00:55:17.452 --> 00:55:18.693
where if Scott Snyder has

00:55:19.094 --> 00:55:20.295
put that stamp on it,

00:55:20.335 --> 00:55:22.556
you need to get Greg and

00:55:22.717 --> 00:55:24.318
give it a read because I'm

00:55:24.358 --> 00:55:25.179
telling you from my

00:55:25.199 --> 00:55:27.382
perspective as a collector,

00:55:27.501 --> 00:55:28.523
as a guy who's had the

00:55:28.664 --> 00:55:31.987
opportunity to read a lot

00:55:32.027 --> 00:55:33.168
of indie comic books,

00:55:33.387 --> 00:55:34.409
and that's mainly all I

00:55:34.449 --> 00:55:35.670
read is indie comic books.

00:55:35.791 --> 00:55:36.231
It's...

00:55:37.259 --> 00:55:39.179
It's really, really good.

00:55:39.260 --> 00:55:40.199
It's fun.

00:55:40.679 --> 00:55:42.460
It's absolutely absurd.

00:55:42.960 --> 00:55:43.320
Yes,

00:55:43.380 --> 00:55:46.422
but that is what makes this comic so

00:55:46.501 --> 00:55:48.262
lovable and so much fun is

00:55:48.302 --> 00:55:51.523
that you're so handsome.

00:55:52.804 --> 00:55:56.724
You make people's heads explode.

00:55:56.784 --> 00:55:57.746
It's a new concept.

00:55:57.826 --> 00:55:59.266
It's something new on the table.

00:56:00.226 --> 00:56:01.327
Check it out.

00:56:01.947 --> 00:56:02.387
Hell yeah.

00:56:03.148 --> 00:56:03.827
And I will say...

00:56:04.849 --> 00:56:05.971
I don't have scott's seal of

00:56:05.990 --> 00:56:06.771
approval to I don't have

00:56:06.791 --> 00:56:07.351
scott's seal of approval to

00:56:07.391 --> 00:56:08.092
I don't have scott's seal

00:56:08.132 --> 00:56:08.753
of approval to share that

00:56:08.773 --> 00:56:09.233
potentially but I just

00:56:09.253 --> 00:56:09.773
share that potentially but

00:56:09.793 --> 00:56:10.173
I just share that

00:56:10.193 --> 00:56:10.813
potentially but I just want

00:56:10.833 --> 00:56:11.594
to let you guys know that I

00:56:11.614 --> 00:56:12.175
did want to let you guys

00:56:12.195 --> 00:56:12.856
know that I did want to let

00:56:12.876 --> 00:56:13.376
you guys know that I did

00:56:13.396 --> 00:56:13.936
take his writing class and

00:56:13.956 --> 00:56:14.436
that he liked take his

00:56:14.456 --> 00:56:15.036
writing class and that he

00:56:15.056 --> 00:56:15.498
liked take his writing

00:56:15.518 --> 00:56:16.038
class and that he liked it

00:56:16.057 --> 00:56:16.639
and uh he's an awesome guy

00:56:16.659 --> 00:56:17.438
and uh it and uh he's an

00:56:17.458 --> 00:56:18.059
awesome guy and uh it and

00:56:18.079 --> 00:56:18.619
uh he's an awesome guy and

00:56:18.639 --> 00:56:19.119
uh yeah but he's he's

00:56:19.139 --> 00:56:19.721
amazing and his yeah but

00:56:19.740 --> 00:56:20.340
he's he's amazing and his

00:56:20.360 --> 00:56:21.061
yeah but he's he's amazing

00:56:21.081 --> 00:56:21.762
and his writing class has

00:56:21.782 --> 00:56:22.382
been great and he's writing

00:56:22.402 --> 00:56:22.902
class has been great and

00:56:22.922 --> 00:56:23.623
he's writing class has been

00:56:23.643 --> 00:56:24.184
great and he's helped me a

00:56:24.204 --> 00:56:24.684
lot with this book so

00:56:24.704 --> 00:56:25.425
helped me a lot with this

00:56:25.445 --> 00:56:25.925
book so helped me a lot

00:56:25.945 --> 00:56:26.505
with this book so um just

00:56:26.525 --> 00:56:26.985
getting me motivated

00:56:27.005 --> 00:56:27.525
keeping me um just getting

00:56:27.545 --> 00:56:28.387
me motivated keeping me um just getting

00:56:29.313 --> 00:56:30.532
There's expectations I need

00:56:30.572 --> 00:56:31.693
to get this book to for

00:56:31.733 --> 00:56:33.193
myself and as well to not

00:56:33.253 --> 00:56:34.735
disappoint people that have

00:56:34.775 --> 00:56:37.235
put time and energy into looking.

00:56:38.056 --> 00:56:39.396
It's phenomenal, dude.

00:56:39.936 --> 00:56:41.197
I love what you're doing with it.

00:56:42.297 --> 00:56:44.838
But let's start putting the

00:56:45.018 --> 00:56:47.398
seal of approval on this.

00:56:48.679 --> 00:56:50.139
This was an absolute blast, man.

00:56:50.539 --> 00:56:51.920
I had so much fun talking to

00:56:51.960 --> 00:56:53.320
you about Greg and about

00:56:53.400 --> 00:56:54.860
Kickstarters and about you

00:56:54.900 --> 00:56:55.902
and learning who you are

00:56:55.942 --> 00:56:57.001
and where you're coming from.

00:56:57.952 --> 00:56:59.452
Let everybody know where

00:56:59.474 --> 00:57:03.637
they can find you and where

00:57:03.677 --> 00:57:05.378
they can find you on Kickstarter as well,

00:57:05.478 --> 00:57:07.101
like how they can search for you.

00:57:07.528 --> 00:57:07.768
Yeah.

00:57:07.809 --> 00:57:10.331
So you can find me in a couple of places.

00:57:10.391 --> 00:57:11.612
So on Instagram,

00:57:11.632 --> 00:57:14.474
you can follow Greg at Greg

00:57:14.514 --> 00:57:15.356
comic official.

00:57:16.777 --> 00:57:18.518
You can also follow my

00:57:18.559 --> 00:57:22.442
little writing company logo

00:57:22.963 --> 00:57:23.784
place where I do all my

00:57:23.804 --> 00:57:24.764
writing and comics and

00:57:24.784 --> 00:57:27.005
stuff is called a nerd in the sky.

00:57:27.045 --> 00:57:28.106
So at nerd, which I love, by the way,

00:57:28.126 --> 00:57:29.168
I love that.

00:57:30.028 --> 00:57:30.409
Thank you.

00:57:30.610 --> 00:57:31.992
And then if you look up,

00:57:32.112 --> 00:57:34.135
I'm on blue sky as Duke electric,

00:57:34.454 --> 00:57:35.777
Duke underscore electric.

00:57:35.817 --> 00:57:37.880
So you'll find me there.

00:57:39.201 --> 00:57:40.722
And then also we just have, you know, our,

00:57:40.884 --> 00:57:42.525
our website and our mailing list.

00:57:42.726 --> 00:57:43.706
We try to do as much as we

00:57:43.726 --> 00:57:44.568
can on the mailing list.

00:57:44.588 --> 00:57:45.028
Cause you know,

00:57:45.068 --> 00:57:45.929
social media is social

00:57:45.969 --> 00:57:47.032
media and we want to try and,

00:57:47.431 --> 00:57:48.731
keep people healthy and send

00:57:48.751 --> 00:57:50.452
them just emails but you

00:57:50.472 --> 00:57:51.193
know if you're a social

00:57:51.233 --> 00:57:52.193
media person too that's

00:57:52.233 --> 00:57:53.594
fine we got you covered but

00:57:54.253 --> 00:57:56.094
we put some exclusive stuff

00:57:56.114 --> 00:57:56.914
in our mailing list the

00:57:56.954 --> 00:57:57.954
last time we sent some

00:57:58.094 --> 00:57:59.534
actual art from our next

00:57:59.635 --> 00:58:02.356
issue in it so you get some

00:58:02.795 --> 00:58:04.016
you know previews of stuff

00:58:04.056 --> 00:58:04.757
that I'm not going to put

00:58:04.797 --> 00:58:06.856
on social media so ai and

00:58:06.896 --> 00:58:09.657
stuff doesn't steal it so um you know

00:58:11.474 --> 00:58:14.436
It's a cool world.

00:58:14.536 --> 00:58:17.300
We're going to keep on rolling.

00:58:18.179 --> 00:58:19.340
If anyone has any questions,

00:58:19.400 --> 00:58:20.983
feel free to DM me or reach out.

00:58:21.003 --> 00:58:21.663
If you have questions about

00:58:21.682 --> 00:58:22.784
the Kickstarter, reach out.

00:58:23.644 --> 00:58:25.166
The Kickstarter should be

00:58:25.407 --> 00:58:27.007
under Nerd in the Sky.

00:58:27.068 --> 00:58:27.327
If not,

00:58:27.367 --> 00:58:28.989
it's just under... I think it was

00:58:29.010 --> 00:58:30.490
under Nerd in the Sky.

00:58:30.751 --> 00:58:31.891
At first, it was under Greg,

00:58:31.931 --> 00:58:32.793
but I think I changed it to

00:58:32.813 --> 00:58:33.574
Nerd in the Sky just to

00:58:33.594 --> 00:58:35.335
keep it under that title.

00:58:35.494 --> 00:58:37.536
It's under Greg Comic Official.

00:58:38.126 --> 00:58:38.927
okay it's under great comic

00:58:38.947 --> 00:58:39.947
official okay yeah so it's

00:58:39.987 --> 00:58:40.688
under a great comic

00:58:40.708 --> 00:58:41.967
official you just have to

00:58:41.987 --> 00:58:43.668
type in greg issue zero

00:58:43.708 --> 00:58:45.108
delivery room massacre or

00:58:45.489 --> 00:58:46.648
I've also seen if it's just

00:58:46.668 --> 00:58:48.170
typing I just typed in greg

00:58:48.309 --> 00:58:49.030
and it brought it right

00:58:49.210 --> 00:58:50.971
right to it yeah yeah

00:58:50.990 --> 00:58:51.871
there's not too many comics

00:58:51.911 --> 00:58:53.891
named greg so it's uh greg

00:58:53.931 --> 00:58:55.092
is a pretty basic name

00:58:55.532 --> 00:58:57.353
yeah yeah you know most

00:58:57.413 --> 00:59:00.494
gregs love greg I've I've

00:59:00.514 --> 00:59:01.715
shared it with a few gregs

00:59:01.795 --> 00:59:03.295
and they they give it the

00:59:03.335 --> 00:59:04.556
greg seal of approval so if

00:59:04.576 --> 00:59:05.637
you know someone named greg

00:59:05.657 --> 00:59:07.018
share this with them they

00:59:07.197 --> 00:59:10.579
will also love it so I love

00:59:10.599 --> 00:59:11.900
it I love it dude I really

00:59:11.940 --> 00:59:14.400
do that's awesome so that's

00:59:14.641 --> 00:59:16.641
all I got for everybody

00:59:16.661 --> 00:59:19.023
tonight what's coming up for me is on

00:59:19.974 --> 00:59:20.715
What month is this?

00:59:20.755 --> 00:59:21.936
September the twentieth.

00:59:22.757 --> 00:59:25.298
I will have a duo on board.

00:59:26.340 --> 00:59:27.240
And that's I've already

00:59:27.260 --> 00:59:30.184
announced that up on my social medias.

00:59:30.384 --> 00:59:32.186
And then I'll quick turn on

00:59:32.226 --> 00:59:33.666
the twenty fourth and have

00:59:33.786 --> 00:59:35.188
been Lacey back on with

00:59:35.289 --> 00:59:38.132
Shark of War number nine.

00:59:38.211 --> 00:59:38.972
That's right.

00:59:39.213 --> 00:59:41.454
He's up to number nine on that book.

00:59:41.514 --> 00:59:43.436
And it is a phenomenal series.

00:59:43.476 --> 00:59:44.677
If you're into that.

00:59:45.588 --> 00:59:47.972
mutated sharks that are used for war,

00:59:48.313 --> 00:59:49.855
then that is the comic book for you.

00:59:49.875 --> 00:59:51.657
But tonight is all about Greg.

00:59:52.378 --> 00:59:53.579
And this is the chairman

00:59:53.599 --> 00:59:57.766
saying that Greg has the USDN chairman's

00:59:59.362 --> 01:00:00.222
still of approval,

01:00:00.702 --> 01:00:02.722
making him USDN approved.

01:00:03.202 --> 01:00:03.822
Not only that,

01:00:03.862 --> 01:00:05.262
that hot pink suit that Duke

01:00:05.302 --> 01:00:06.184
Electric wore for you

01:00:06.244 --> 01:00:10.525
tonight is also USDN approved.

01:00:10.965 --> 01:00:12.304
And with that, ladies and gentlemen,

01:00:12.324 --> 01:00:13.985
that is all I got for you tonight.

01:00:14.646 --> 01:00:15.065
Duke,

01:00:15.385 --> 01:00:17.505
I cannot thank you enough for coming on,

01:00:18.025 --> 01:00:19.186
sharing Greg with me,

01:00:19.547 --> 01:00:21.327
and the whole council of nerds.

01:00:21.706 --> 01:00:24.188
With that, everybody, we are out of here.

01:00:24.228 --> 01:00:25.208
Y'all behave yourselves.

01:00:25.748 --> 01:00:26.248
Thanks for having me.

01:00:26.288 --> 01:00:26.989
Thanks, everybody.

01:00:27.568 --> 01:00:28.168
See you around.

01:00:28.208 --> 01:00:28.568
Take care.