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Thanks for watching!

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What is up, everybody?

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It's the chairman here live for the first

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time in twenty twenty six.

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And as always.

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This is the USDN Podcast where we are

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for the people, by the people,

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and of the people.

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And tonight on the USDN Podcast,

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we're spotlighting the creator whose

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journey blends hip-hop, storytelling,

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and independent comics from a creative

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house simply known as SIS-One-Five to

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building a comic universe centered on

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black characters and lived experience.

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This is SIS-Fifteen Comics.

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And joining us tonight is creator and

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writer and apparently my cat Evie,

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Malcolm McFadden.

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Malcolm, welcome to the show, dude.

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Hey, what's good?

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Thank you for having me on tonight.

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So let's start off with the

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congratulations.

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Just before we went live about an hour

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ago, I think you are fully funded.

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Congrats, my dude.

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Thank you.

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Let's do a little round of applause.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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And apparently my cat was doing, you know,

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celebration laps as I was reading out the

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intro there.

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Thank you to the cat, too.

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Thank you to the cat.

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But thank you, man.

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I'm really excited.

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That was really awesome to see, too, dude.

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I'm so happy for you.

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yeah man thank you i was really um

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that happened like about an hour ago i

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was actually at work when it happened and

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i was mad excited couldn't wait to like

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you know rush home but uh thank you

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so much it's uh being funded on day

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one it's an achievement that i haven't

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done yet so it was great doing it

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today

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Dude,

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that's a testament to you and your

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creativity and putting together a

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phenomenal campaign.

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I did get a chance to scroll through

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it at lunchtime.

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Very impressed.

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I love the story.

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And it says everything about you, dude.

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You earned that.

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Thank you, man.

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I definitely appreciate that because I

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worked a lot of late nights on the

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Kickstarter and like making the graphics

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and stuff, man.

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And I'm not a designer.

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So I'm with you on that one.

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I try to do as much of my

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own stuff as possible,

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but yet definitely not the easiest thing

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in the world to do.

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But let's dive into your origin story,

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man.

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for people discovering you for the first

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time who is malcolm mcfadden and how did

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six fifteen comments come into existence

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well um melvin mcfadden is a guy from

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well a nerd from annapolis maryland who uh

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grew up you know loving comics who my

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older brothers were always in the comics

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so they got me into comics at an

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early age you know like dc and marvel

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and then so that level comics just never

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stopped

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Um, so once, uh,

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I started always been creating characters

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in my head and everything, you know, and,

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uh, making up storylines,

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but never actually took the time to like

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sit down and write it.

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And what's actually kind of funny,

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cause I took a lot of creative writing

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classes and writing classes, uh,

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throughout life.

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It is never actually sat down to write

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a comic book, but, um,

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I think it was about like,

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two thousand nineteen,

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two thousand twenty around the pandemic.

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I really kind of started taking it

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seriously and I started writing down my

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ideas and writing down my stories.

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And I started seeing a bunch of other

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creators that that were like, God,

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her comics, wise, eager comics,

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concrete comics like I seen them like

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making doing it and then like making

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comics.

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And I started supporting those.

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And then while reading those comics,

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I thought, you know,

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Hey,

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these people are actually out here doing

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it.

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You got these ideas that you wrote down.

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Why not actually try?

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So, you know,

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went about actually did it actually put

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the foot forward to do it and haven't

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stopped moving ever since.

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And it's just been a great ride and

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a great journey since then.

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Love to hear the grind, man.

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I love that.

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So what were some of those early comments

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that your brothers introduced you to?

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I know you said there was some Marvel

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and some DC in there.

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What were some of those titles that really

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kind of stuck with you?

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You were like,

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these are my guys right here.

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So, of course,

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they had a bunch of stuff like they

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had like Captain America,

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they had like Weapon X,

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and they also had like the X-Men comics,

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Superman, Batman.

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They had a bunch of stuff.

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And of course,

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like Batman and Spider-Man were the ones

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that kind of stuck with me.

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those were the comics i was really reading

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as i got older that kind of transitioned

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to me like you know branching out reading

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more different comics started getting into

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like static i started getting to uh

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superman also just uh branching out and

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reading different parts of comics and then

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also branching further from dc and marvel

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out to more indie stuff what's some of

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your favorite indie titles

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Indie stuff,

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and we're talking about real indie, indie,

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outside of image.

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I would say stuff by Godhood Comics.

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Their comic, Magnus, is really good.

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Concrete Comics has a comic called Deja

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Vu.

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There's apartment six comics.

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They have a comic called Book of Dreams

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that is fire.

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I could go on and on about the

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indie comic scene because there's a bunch

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of them out there.

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Oh, yeah.

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Yeah.

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And if we're talking like, you know,

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more indie, more like popular indie,

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of course, Rodney Barnes,

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which me and you were talking about.

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Yeah,

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Crownsville and some of his work with Star

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Wars.

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Y'all don't sleep on Rodney Barnes's work.

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We were just talking about that in

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Crownsville, his newest title.

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I think it's who's doing Crownsville.

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uh i thought i had it next to

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me but i think it's in another room

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um which title is on oh what's on

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i think it's on only press yeah yeah

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but dude it's two issues deep into it

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and it is a phenomenal read it is

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based on a little bit of the third

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one came out third third come out

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yesterday yeah you're right you're

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absolutely right i do have that one it's

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It's in my mess somewhere.

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I'm not going to go through and start

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looking for it.

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But, yes,

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I did pick it up as well.

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Don't sleep on Rodney Barnes' work, y'all.

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That's what we're saying.

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So let's jump into SIS-XV, man.

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So this name, SIS-XV,

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has real emotional weight behind it.

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Can you tell us the story of the

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SIS-XV house and why it became a

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foundation of your brand?

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Okay.

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So, um, six,

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fifteen was the address of one of my

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friends.

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He actually committed suicide.

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And but his house recipe,

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his house was like a hub,

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but just like creativity.

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Like we had his house.

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We did a bunch of things we shouldn't

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have done and just but a bunch of

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creative stuff.

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And we like whether it be people making

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music, people writing music, whatever,

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whatever.

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And it was just a hub for creativity.

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And so, like,

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After that,

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I kind of wanted to keep that the

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essence of that and the essence of him

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also alive, too.

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So I named it six,

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fifteen comics to kind of just keep the

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memory of creativity and the spirit of

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creativity alive and also show old to a

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friend.

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Now, I love that, dude.

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And for anybody out there listening,

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trust me when I say this,

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somebody wants you here.

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Reach out.

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You are not alone out there, y'all.

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Reach out.

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There is somebody who wants you alive and

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wants you in their lives.

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So I didn't want to do an emotional

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moment like that,

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but that was kind of my fault for

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naming it.

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No, no, no.

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i segued into that purposefully so we

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could get that that that moment out there

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because i love the fact that you're paying

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homage to your friend i hate the fact

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that he's no longer here with you right

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because i'm pretty sure he would be right

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there next to you right now in this

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interview creating comic books with you so

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Let's jump into a little music, man.

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You're not just a comic creator.

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You're a hip hop artist and audio

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engineer.

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How does music influence the way you write

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your comics?

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OK, you definitely looked into me.

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Oh, of course, man.

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Of course.

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But that's actually a very good question.

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Music influences a lot.

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Just when going from like writing songs

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and then writing comics, it's kind of.

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It's kind of I tell people this all

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the time.

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It's hard for me now that I write

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comics to write music as much and write

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poetry as much as I used.

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Like,

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it feels like I use the same side

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or part of my brain to do it.

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Like, it's a very weird feeling,

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but it's kind of like like when you

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are when like as a hip hop artist,

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as I've read and made beats on either

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side.

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let's say I make the beat.

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Well, to finish the song,

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I need somebody to rap on it.

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And it's kind of the same with comics.

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So I write the stories with comics.

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So in the comic sense,

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I would be the rapper.

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And I need somebody to make the beat

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so I can put my words over that.

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And then that would be kind of like

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the artist working with the artist to draw

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and do the colors.

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So that kind of process helped with

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comics.

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And just also as in hip hop,

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you got sixteen bars and two verses a

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song so you write that's a lot of

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words so it's a it's a very expressive

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dude comic books you get sixteen to thirty

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two pages you gotta make the best of

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it with the words right exactly so you

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got is it's a very expressive uh genre

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of music so when you go into comics

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it kind of is you kind of still

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get to express yourself the same way but

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just differently you kind of get to show

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it more because there's pictures involved

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so you get to show it more when

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you express it

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And it also gives that same emotional feel

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from when you hear a song that you

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connect to emotionally.

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You can do the same thing with comic

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books and characters and stories within

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comic books.

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First time I read Death of Superman.

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Bro, I'm not going to lie to you.

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young chairman's eyes had some tears in

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them oh and dude that is the perfect

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comparison with hip-hop writing and comic

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book writing i i love that that's freaking

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an amazing comparison that's the way you

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just did that so when you're creating

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characters how much of your own life and

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experiences are you putting into these

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characters in your stories that you're

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telling

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so for some characters a lot for some

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not as much so just so like with

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the character for the kickstarter i have

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right now uh character uh amari king aka

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my he's a lot there's not a lot

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of me in this that character there's a

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lot of things that i think are cool

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that inspire me that i like and things

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like that but

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It's not a lot of me in him.

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So that also makes it fun writing him

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because he's very different than I am.

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He's a lot more serious.

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We have similarities,

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but he's a lot more serious in that

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way.

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And I like to joke a lot.

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So it's fun writing him because I kind

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of tap into a different brain writing him.

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And I also have a character, Malik,

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from my comic book, The Legacy,

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who is basically a younger version of me.

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So it's very easy to write him because

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it's just,

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He's you.

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Ten years ago.

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What I would do, you know?

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So it's very,

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I have a lot of different characters and

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I mainly really like to do the ones

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that aren't like me.

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Cause it's,

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it's fun tapping into like a different

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brain.

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It's weird at times, but it's.

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Yeah, definitely.

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Definitely.

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So you've cited characters like Batman,

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Static, Ninja K, Spider-Man,

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Peter and Miles.

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What did those characters represent to you

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from a creative standpoint?

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Ooh, these are some really good questions.

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Bro, I do my research.

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I will never be accused of not doing

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it.

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The questions is really good.

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So how they influence me.

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So with... And it's all different.

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So Batman,

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kind of like his detective style.

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Like, um...

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And his action,

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static with more so how he's grounded,

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and I can really relate to him.

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Also with Spider-Man, Peter Parker,

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and Miles,

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Spider-Man is actually a very easy

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character as a nerd to really connect

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with.

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So those aspects of that, and Ninja-K,

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the action, the action with Ninja-K,

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just how cool and there's

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He would be like a character.

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I guess people call him like or farming.

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So like a hundred percent.

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Yes.

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Dude, I like that.

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So your goal is to create dope stories

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centered around black characters.

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Why is this mission so important to you?

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It's very important to me because growing

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up,

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it's very important because growing up,

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you see a lot of heroes.

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You see a lot of comic books, action,

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stuff like that,

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but you very rarely see black characters

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and stuff,

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especially when I was growing up.

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That's more so changing now,

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which is very good,

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and I'm glad to be a part of

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that.

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Big time.

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Yeah,

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and I'm really glad to be a part

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of that,

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but it's very important to me just for

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that nerd growing up to have something

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that he...

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can see that looks like him,

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something that he can relate to,

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and just about giving him a dope story.

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Because a lot of times with...

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And there's no knock on this,

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but a lot of times with Black stories,

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we get a lot of Black stories with

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the Black trauma things,

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and it's very centered around you being

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Black.

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And sometimes I just want a Black

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character just being Black in a comic book

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world.

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And so that's kind of what I wanted

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to bring to the table.

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And I also want to say no knock

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on...

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um on i don't want to say no

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knock on anybody that does you know like

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tell the black story and tell the black

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trauma because those stories still need to

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be told but i think there's also stories

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that need to be told that just show

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us in this comic book fashion you know

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so yeah i like that i do that

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that's you

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That's the perfect answer, man.

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Jeez.

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That's a real answer.

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Ask deep questions, get deep answers.

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That's what I'm talking about.

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Out page forty four.

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Yes, this is the mountain.

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Fifteen comments, man, man.

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Hey, shout out to Paige.

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Shout out to Paige.

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Me and him actually worked on a comic

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together, Beer and Bullets,

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that just released.

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And we're actually working on another

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comic called The Bear,

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which is kind of like a spinoff of

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Beer and Bullets in a way.

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It's a very fun spinoff that we're working

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on right now.

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So shout out to Paige.

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She has a lot of stuff cooking in

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the comic book scene.

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hop on instagram shoot me a message over

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at the usdm podcast and we'll get you

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featured as well we'll bring you and

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malcolm on at the same time so we

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can talk about y'all's work together bet

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bet the a page hit them up i

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mean it's easy dude all it needs a

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message and an email and we can make

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it happen so

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How do you balance real-life struggles

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with comic book twists so stories feel

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authentic but still fun?

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That's my dude, Lloyd.

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What's up, Lloyd?

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Hello, Lloyd.

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What's good, bro?

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Lloyd's going to be on here soon, man.

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He's finally getting his book edited, and,

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dude,

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I'm excited to read his book as well.

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But, Lloyd, we're looking forward to you,

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man.

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yeah what's good lloyd i'll definitely

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check that out but um what was your

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question again how do i balance uh yes

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with the with the comic book twist so

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your stories feel authentic but still fun

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Okay.

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So actually that's kind of,

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that's one of the easiest parts because

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I'm a nerd.

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Like my whole life I've been struggling,

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you know,

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I've gone through struggles and I've

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thought about my struggles in a comic book

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way.

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Like as a nerd,

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I think we all have had the moments

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where you're going through life and it's

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like something happens and you're like,

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man,

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if I had the powers to do this,

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I would do this.

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Not even two hours ago when I was

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leaving the office, bro.

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So, yeah,

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so that's literally so that's kind of

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really easy to do because you kind of

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just take your life and your struggles and

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you you just put yourself in these stories

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that you love to read all the time

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that you're already reading all the time.

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And that kind of helps you,

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especially now as an adult.

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And you kind of know things that you

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went through and you have a different

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brain and thinking about it.

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You can kind of shape those into stories

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and into ways that people connect with.

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But it's also still in a comic book

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fashion.

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So just to give you an example.

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sorry for the long wind answer, but no,

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no, this is the perfect answer, dude.

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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Just to give you an example, my character,

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I have a character, uh,

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Vorley and then she deals with anger

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problems.

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So she has powers,

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but her emotions affect her powers.

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And then when I was a kid,

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I had,

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I used to go to anger management and

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stuff like that.

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And, um,

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I kind of took that and use that

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with her.

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Like if I had powers,

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like I will really kind of have to

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hone in my anger because I can literally

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destroy whatever.

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and i can't use my powers correctly in

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how i want inefficiently if i you know

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yeah use control definitely feel that one

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too like literally like two and a half

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hours ago when i was having to work

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with some people and i'm just like come

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on guys really like if i was dark

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vader i would just force choke you right

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now every day trust me every day i

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What are you doing?

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What are you doing, bro?

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Don't worry about it.

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Just don't worry about it.

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Right now I'm force choking you in my

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head.

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Yeah.

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Or just like using the Jedi mind tricks.

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Like you don't want to bother me right

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now.

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Exactly.

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Like, dude,

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you see me knee deep into this.

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Come on.

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so where is sis fifteen comments right now

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as a company and what projects are you

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most excited about not not the one that

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just come out what you have working on

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in the future okay so right now of

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course you know the kickstarter campaign

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is going for the king's domain um but

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right now with it being the top of

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the year um i spent a lot of

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two thousand twenty five really kind of

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working behind the scenes,

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working to put together projects and

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finish projects up.

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And all the work and stuff that I

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was doing behind the scenes has really

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paid off to where this year I think

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I can release maybe three or four books

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this year,

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which will be a great achievement for me.

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It'll be a huge achievement.

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So I'm knock on wood.

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But still like that,

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where we are right now is kind of

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taking –

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uh the building blocks like taking the

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building blocks and kind of just you know

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now really expanding from that and kind of

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building out the house i guess like we

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laid the foundation and now it's kind of

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time to build the house so that's where

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we are and then projects in the future

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um

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I got a good couple of projects.

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I got my project called Theme of the

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Queen of War,

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which is kind of my answer to missing

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more like the warrior woman type of comics

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and stuff like that.

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So I kind of made my own,

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which is something I've been wanting to do

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forever.

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So I made that.

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And this project was kind of very

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ambitious project.

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I probably should not have done it.

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But it worked out.

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It took a risk.

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Those are the best ones sometimes.

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They are.

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I took a risk kind of making the

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project, but it worked out.

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Like I said,

00:21:01.402 --> 00:21:03.221
like last year was building and it kind

00:21:03.241 --> 00:21:03.682
of worked out.

00:21:03.742 --> 00:21:05.502
So that's sometimes that Nat twenty just

00:21:05.563 --> 00:21:06.463
rolls in your favor.

00:21:06.884 --> 00:21:07.183
Right.

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It does.

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It definitely does.

00:21:15.807 --> 00:21:17.727
I got a bunch of other comics.

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I got Subject Zero number two,

00:21:20.188 --> 00:21:22.028
the Legacy number two.

00:21:22.108 --> 00:21:23.828
Right now, we're also just building.

00:21:23.868 --> 00:21:24.490
We started out,

00:21:24.809 --> 00:21:25.970
got all the number ones out,

00:21:25.990 --> 00:21:28.510
and now we're just building out a series

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and trying to finish them out.

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I'm hoping this year I can finish out

00:21:33.172 --> 00:21:35.192
the first volume of Subject Zero,

00:21:35.593 --> 00:21:36.272
one of my series.

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I'm hoping I can finish out the first

00:21:38.013 --> 00:21:40.193
volume this year and have a trade

00:21:40.233 --> 00:21:42.035
paperback by the end of the year.

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Oh, nice.

00:21:43.316 --> 00:21:44.056
Ambitious.

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I love it, dude.

00:21:44.916 --> 00:21:45.817
Let's go with it.

00:21:46.298 --> 00:21:48.019
Let's go.

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So what lessons have you learned building

00:21:50.681 --> 00:21:53.021
this indie comic brand that you wish you

00:21:53.041 --> 00:21:54.202
knew at the start?

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And this is a question mainly for me

00:21:57.085 --> 00:21:57.526
because

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We were talking beforehand.

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You know what I'm working on.

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So this is one of those double questions

00:22:03.674 --> 00:22:04.815
where I'm like, yeah,

00:22:04.855 --> 00:22:05.575
let's tell the people.

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But also when I'm listening back later,

00:22:08.516 --> 00:22:08.776
I'm right.

00:22:08.875 --> 00:22:09.536
I'm making notes.

00:22:09.576 --> 00:22:10.176
I'm making notes.

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That's that's actually a very good

00:22:13.857 --> 00:22:14.258
question.

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And I actually think about that a lot.

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So.

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Going back to when I first started making

00:22:20.400 --> 00:22:22.640
comics, there's a lot.

00:22:23.259 --> 00:22:25.059
Patience would be definitely one.

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Patience is one thing because, you know,

00:22:26.861 --> 00:22:28.080
you got to wait for your artist,

00:22:28.500 --> 00:22:29.921
wait for... After you write,

00:22:29.941 --> 00:22:31.541
you got to wait for every level.

00:22:31.582 --> 00:22:32.942
You got to wait for something.

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And also just patience.

00:22:37.522 --> 00:22:41.983
I think how I started releasing comics,

00:22:42.044 --> 00:22:43.804
I think I would have done a little

00:22:43.824 --> 00:22:44.904
things differently.

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Tried to, like...

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Really,

00:22:48.517 --> 00:22:50.179
I kind of threw myself into the wolves

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with how I wanted to, you know,

00:22:52.180 --> 00:22:53.240
build out my universe.

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But it was the vision I had in

00:22:54.501 --> 00:22:54.962
my head.

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And I was like a pit bull with

00:22:56.203 --> 00:22:56.304
it.

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Like, I need this.

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This is how I want people to experience

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it.

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This is my vision.

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And so far,

00:23:01.188 --> 00:23:02.828
it's working out how I wanted it to.

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But I just think...

00:23:05.111 --> 00:23:06.051
I would have took a little bit more

00:23:06.093 --> 00:23:08.115
caution and kind of not threw myself to

00:23:08.154 --> 00:23:09.037
the wolves as much.

00:23:09.076 --> 00:23:11.400
So really patience.

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I've learned to work,

00:23:12.761 --> 00:23:15.786
how to work with artists, you know,

00:23:16.247 --> 00:23:16.907
learn to let,

00:23:16.968 --> 00:23:18.670
sometimes let the artists be the artists,

00:23:18.990 --> 00:23:20.972
like let the artists do their thing.

00:23:21.574 --> 00:23:23.096
Like, you know, I write it and then,

00:23:23.195 --> 00:23:25.096
you know, kind of let them, you know,

00:23:25.278 --> 00:23:25.857
build on that,

00:23:25.938 --> 00:23:27.599
let them build the vision because that's

00:23:27.619 --> 00:23:28.119
what they do.

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They're artists, you know,

00:23:29.381 --> 00:23:30.382
that's their expertise.

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That's why I'm that's why I'm paying them

00:23:31.844 --> 00:23:32.203
to do it.

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So let them be let them be them.

00:23:35.406 --> 00:23:36.147
A lot of lessons,

00:23:36.188 --> 00:23:37.689
but I think really just to drive it

00:23:37.729 --> 00:23:39.150
home is really patience,

00:23:39.210 --> 00:23:42.413
just patience and just kind of being more

00:23:43.213 --> 00:23:44.776
efficient with my movements,

00:23:44.996 --> 00:23:45.957
if that makes sense.

00:23:46.544 --> 00:23:48.704
Efficient with your time, your movements.

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Yes.

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Trust in your artist to deliver because

00:23:51.865 --> 00:23:52.705
nine times out of ten,

00:23:52.726 --> 00:23:54.406
your artist is going to deliver exactly

00:23:54.426 --> 00:23:55.326
what you're looking for.

00:23:55.386 --> 00:23:56.606
They know what you're looking for.

00:23:57.567 --> 00:23:59.208
And I would say, you know,

00:23:59.248 --> 00:24:00.969
they can see things that you don't see

00:24:01.028 --> 00:24:02.328
that you may not have.

00:24:02.348 --> 00:24:03.150
That's it right there.

00:24:03.750 --> 00:24:05.329
That's that's the big one right there.

00:24:05.789 --> 00:24:06.770
And also, I will say.

00:24:07.673 --> 00:24:10.496
For those who back Kickstarters and we're

00:24:10.556 --> 00:24:12.396
all guilty of this to some degree,

00:24:12.997 --> 00:24:15.719
be patient with your artists,

00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:17.480
be patient with the guys writing this.

00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:17.901
Trust me,

00:24:17.941 --> 00:24:20.842
they want this done just as bad as

00:24:20.862 --> 00:24:22.903
you want it in your hands to hold

00:24:23.003 --> 00:24:23.703
and to read.

00:24:24.365 --> 00:24:24.865
Exactly.

00:24:24.884 --> 00:24:29.688
And one of my what's what's in the

00:24:29.728 --> 00:24:32.450
box man's from last year.

00:24:34.693 --> 00:24:36.776
one of the kickstarters that was delivered

00:24:36.816 --> 00:24:40.439
was no start to finish from the time

00:24:40.559 --> 00:24:42.461
i backed it to the time i held

00:24:42.520 --> 00:24:45.284
it in my hands was a solid year

00:24:45.324 --> 00:24:48.547
plus not all of them take a year

00:24:49.146 --> 00:24:52.289
not all yeah that's true but for those

00:24:52.309 --> 00:24:54.011
who like me who love to back indie

00:24:54.031 --> 00:24:56.233
comics and support indie comments like

00:24:56.294 --> 00:24:58.435
that be patient with your people

00:24:59.328 --> 00:25:00.711
They want this book done.

00:25:00.750 --> 00:25:01.531
They want it finished.

00:25:01.571 --> 00:25:02.492
They want you to read it.

00:25:02.512 --> 00:25:03.733
They want you to have it just as

00:25:03.773 --> 00:25:04.535
much as you want it.

00:25:05.016 --> 00:25:06.317
Just be patient with them, man.

00:25:06.637 --> 00:25:07.838
That's all I'm saying out there, y'all.

00:25:07.939 --> 00:25:09.861
Just be patient with them because trust

00:25:09.881 --> 00:25:09.981
me,

00:25:10.041 --> 00:25:12.865
nobody wants this book done more than the

00:25:12.904 --> 00:25:13.605
man who wrote it.

00:25:14.394 --> 00:25:14.953
Zach,

00:25:15.034 --> 00:25:17.015
and could I speak to that real quick?

00:25:17.736 --> 00:25:18.516
No, absolutely.

00:25:18.955 --> 00:25:20.217
Because just, yeah,

00:25:20.237 --> 00:25:21.978
I actually got into a whole argument with

00:25:22.117 --> 00:25:23.338
somebody about this.

00:25:23.398 --> 00:25:25.519
But like, so especially with that,

00:25:25.559 --> 00:25:27.901
if you're back in Kickstarters, sometimes,

00:25:29.060 --> 00:25:29.862
especially if you know,

00:25:29.902 --> 00:25:32.182
if the creator lets you know that the

00:25:32.222 --> 00:25:34.503
project isn't done and that the funds will

00:25:34.544 --> 00:25:37.506
go to finishing the project, just...

00:25:38.465 --> 00:25:39.625
like you said have patience with that

00:25:39.666 --> 00:25:41.787
creator and also if that creator is giving

00:25:41.807 --> 00:25:44.728
you updates on the project and showing how

00:25:44.788 --> 00:25:46.608
it's going please just uh give them that

00:25:46.648 --> 00:25:49.009
grace because they're where all of us

00:25:49.089 --> 00:25:51.570
indie creators are also human and also um

00:25:52.151 --> 00:25:53.711
this is this is a especially if that's

00:25:53.770 --> 00:25:55.672
a first time creator i think definitely

00:25:55.692 --> 00:25:57.833
you want to give them some grace because

00:25:58.192 --> 00:25:59.772
it's like i said there's things i wish

00:25:59.833 --> 00:26:01.973
i knew when i started they're learning

00:26:02.013 --> 00:26:04.335
lessons the hard way the very first time

00:26:05.015 --> 00:26:06.856
exactly they're they are jumping into

00:26:06.876 --> 00:26:08.778
something they have never done before so

00:26:09.118 --> 00:26:11.240
definitely give them the grace but also on

00:26:11.259 --> 00:26:15.663
the creator side of things creators um be

00:26:16.023 --> 00:26:18.445
be open with your backers because they are

00:26:18.506 --> 00:26:20.428
giving you their money they are giving you

00:26:20.448 --> 00:26:21.749
their money they're believing in your

00:26:21.808 --> 00:26:23.430
dreams so make sure i will say this

00:26:23.490 --> 00:26:25.152
you can tell the difference between a

00:26:25.231 --> 00:26:26.313
first-time creator

00:26:26.893 --> 00:26:28.433
And a creator who's been at it for

00:26:28.453 --> 00:26:30.394
a while because they will give you those

00:26:30.454 --> 00:26:32.656
updates weekly, bi-weekly.

00:26:33.317 --> 00:26:35.458
Some people will post once a day like,

00:26:35.498 --> 00:26:35.798
hey,

00:26:35.818 --> 00:26:36.778
just want to give you all the heads

00:26:36.898 --> 00:26:37.078
up.

00:26:38.539 --> 00:26:40.201
This is where we're at with things and

00:26:40.280 --> 00:26:41.162
things are happening.

00:26:42.303 --> 00:26:43.843
And they're pretty good about it.

00:26:43.923 --> 00:26:44.243
Yeah.

00:26:45.867 --> 00:26:46.748
Yeah, patience.

00:26:47.368 --> 00:26:48.528
Yeah, definitely have patience.

00:26:48.648 --> 00:26:50.349
And then apply it to the rest of

00:26:50.369 --> 00:26:51.069
your life, too.

00:26:51.430 --> 00:26:51.930
Exactly.

00:26:52.270 --> 00:26:52.790
Patience.

00:26:53.770 --> 00:26:55.112
That's what my mom would tell me.

00:26:56.873 --> 00:26:59.594
This is the one thing I learned in

00:26:59.614 --> 00:27:00.334
the military.

00:27:01.193 --> 00:27:02.255
Patience.

00:27:02.414 --> 00:27:02.775
Yes.

00:27:04.611 --> 00:27:06.872
So this is another deep one, dude.

00:27:06.892 --> 00:27:07.653
I hope you're ready.

00:27:08.272 --> 00:27:08.553
Okay.

00:27:08.712 --> 00:27:12.674
What does success look like for six,

00:27:12.755 --> 00:27:17.637
fifteen comments in the next few years?

00:27:17.698 --> 00:27:18.198
Okay.

00:27:18.218 --> 00:27:18.837
Next few years.

00:27:18.857 --> 00:27:20.318
So we're saying like about like three,

00:27:20.338 --> 00:27:21.338
four.

00:27:21.398 --> 00:27:22.720
Let's go.

00:27:23.140 --> 00:27:24.340
Twenty thirty.

00:27:24.980 --> 00:27:25.421
Twenty thirty.

00:27:25.441 --> 00:27:26.182
For instance,

00:27:26.201 --> 00:27:27.461
because I know where I would like to

00:27:27.501 --> 00:27:27.883
see you,

00:27:28.363 --> 00:27:29.884
but I want to know where you want

00:27:29.903 --> 00:27:31.324
to be seen and what you want to

00:27:31.364 --> 00:27:32.404
be and where you want to be.

00:27:33.330 --> 00:27:35.250
twenty thirty it's just crazy that that's

00:27:35.330 --> 00:27:39.051
an actual number yes we're closer to

00:27:39.092 --> 00:27:46.294
twenty thirty than we are to twenty twenty

00:27:46.394 --> 00:27:48.814
okay didn't think about it like that but

00:27:48.854 --> 00:27:56.135
that's very true so um twenty thirty it's

00:27:56.155 --> 00:27:58.516
about okay so twenty thirty i think where

00:27:58.756 --> 00:28:00.936
i would with success means for six or

00:28:00.957 --> 00:28:02.517
ten comics would be two

00:28:03.959 --> 00:28:08.462
definitely have more of the first arcs of

00:28:08.522 --> 00:28:10.944
my characters wrapping up i think that's

00:28:11.065 --> 00:28:13.847
where i have plans where where my plans

00:28:14.028 --> 00:28:16.109
had are right now uh knock on wood

00:28:16.230 --> 00:28:17.871
is to have more so around four or

00:28:17.911 --> 00:28:20.354
five years to have the first arcs of

00:28:20.394 --> 00:28:22.976
my characters to be fully done fully done

00:28:23.096 --> 00:28:26.378
yeah to the point that's pushing one issue

00:28:26.419 --> 00:28:27.180
per comic

00:28:28.347 --> 00:28:31.609
a year so five bullets per story or

00:28:31.630 --> 00:28:35.030
four books per story for one arc one

00:28:35.191 --> 00:28:37.172
arc some of my stories are four some

00:28:37.192 --> 00:28:38.492
of my stories are five some of my

00:28:38.512 --> 00:28:40.354
stories are three so they're all different

00:28:40.394 --> 00:28:42.253
so they vary like i said subject zero

00:28:42.295 --> 00:28:43.674
that would i'm trying to wrap up this

00:28:43.714 --> 00:28:46.476
year is only three so that's why that

00:28:46.536 --> 00:28:48.237
one is the first one to easily just

00:28:48.277 --> 00:28:49.317
be wrapped up and finished

00:28:49.938 --> 00:28:51.378
So I want that.

00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:52.400
So yeah, you're about right.

00:28:52.420 --> 00:28:52.819
Like, uh,

00:28:53.060 --> 00:28:55.001
basically about four or five books a year.

00:28:55.041 --> 00:28:56.542
Like I said, I can, like I said,

00:28:56.563 --> 00:28:58.204
I worked to have that happen this year.

00:28:58.444 --> 00:28:59.645
And if everything goes well,

00:28:59.705 --> 00:29:01.247
that will happen again next year and the

00:29:01.267 --> 00:29:01.867
year after that.

00:29:02.288 --> 00:29:04.390
So that's in my plans.

00:29:04.450 --> 00:29:06.912
So knock on wood once again, but yeah,

00:29:08.492 --> 00:29:10.233
And that's what success looks like for me.

00:29:10.253 --> 00:29:11.974
And also having a lot more,

00:29:12.755 --> 00:29:15.416
a lot more, building a bigger fan base,

00:29:15.977 --> 00:29:18.019
having more of a presence at con events

00:29:18.038 --> 00:29:19.019
and stuff like that.

00:29:19.339 --> 00:29:22.080
And that is real success to me.

00:29:23.422 --> 00:29:24.942
yeah just building our fame and connecting

00:29:24.982 --> 00:29:26.824
with uh the lot more of the indie

00:29:26.844 --> 00:29:28.746
creators like i've done a good job in

00:29:28.766 --> 00:29:30.406
this last year connecting with a lot of

00:29:30.426 --> 00:29:32.749
it and i just it's been dope too

00:29:32.828 --> 00:29:34.730
so far so i just want to continue

00:29:34.750 --> 00:29:37.011
that so that's what success looks like for

00:29:37.051 --> 00:29:39.452
me in the next few years that that's

00:29:39.593 --> 00:29:41.535
that's that's one of the big ones i

00:29:41.555 --> 00:29:43.796
was gonna recommend like i'd love to see

00:29:43.816 --> 00:29:45.938
you at cons i'd love to walk into

00:29:45.978 --> 00:29:49.000
my local comic shop and don't have six

00:29:49.039 --> 00:29:50.881
fifteen sitting on the shelf you know what

00:29:50.921 --> 00:29:51.642
i'm saying that too

00:29:55.230 --> 00:29:59.336
I know Powerscape.

00:30:00.076 --> 00:30:01.597
He was on here not that long ago.

00:30:02.719 --> 00:30:06.083
He got his book one and book two

00:30:06.262 --> 00:30:07.723
into a comic shop's

00:30:08.874 --> 00:30:12.336
in canada local but also in a few

00:30:12.395 --> 00:30:14.897
spots in new mexico and a few other

00:30:14.917 --> 00:30:17.819
places stateside recently so that was huge

00:30:17.940 --> 00:30:19.340
i was so happy to hear that he

00:30:19.381 --> 00:30:21.242
was able to get his book into some

00:30:21.282 --> 00:30:24.345
comic shops locally i want to say greg

00:30:25.045 --> 00:30:27.606
the comic book greg by a nerd in

00:30:27.626 --> 00:30:30.288
the sky also he's in a few local

00:30:30.328 --> 00:30:33.230
comic shops dude he's you will know him

00:30:33.250 --> 00:30:34.791
when you meet him because he'll be wearing

00:30:34.811 --> 00:30:36.252
a bright pink suit

00:30:37.135 --> 00:30:37.737
I liked it.

00:30:37.856 --> 00:30:38.298
I liked it.

00:30:38.317 --> 00:30:39.980
That's tough.

00:30:40.722 --> 00:30:41.924
He's such an awesome dude.

00:30:41.984 --> 00:30:43.867
He's he works in an animation studio as

00:30:43.929 --> 00:30:44.249
well.

00:30:45.270 --> 00:30:47.736
Super great dude, but bright pink seat.

00:30:47.756 --> 00:30:49.097
That's how you know it sale.

00:30:49.218 --> 00:30:49.378
Okay.

00:30:50.741 --> 00:30:51.502
Yeah,

00:30:51.522 --> 00:30:53.045
I would love to see you in comic

00:30:53.065 --> 00:30:53.586
shops.

00:30:54.948 --> 00:30:57.310
Hopefully we meet up at a con sometime

00:30:57.351 --> 00:30:57.730
here soon.

00:30:57.770 --> 00:30:59.554
We're both kind of close to each other.

00:30:59.594 --> 00:31:01.596
So that'd be really dope to be able

00:31:01.616 --> 00:31:03.659
to do and be able to sit down

00:31:03.739 --> 00:31:06.623
live with you and sign some books together

00:31:06.643 --> 00:31:07.545
or something like that.

00:31:07.565 --> 00:31:08.365
That'd be really fun.

00:31:08.885 --> 00:31:09.246
See, that's,

00:31:09.286 --> 00:31:10.787
that's the stuff that I really want to,

00:31:10.807 --> 00:31:11.488
that's what I'm saying.

00:31:11.508 --> 00:31:11.708
Like,

00:31:12.048 --> 00:31:14.108
like be having more presence at cons.

00:31:14.189 --> 00:31:16.029
Cause I talked to a lot of creators

00:31:16.510 --> 00:31:18.771
all the time online and we have great

00:31:18.811 --> 00:31:19.471
conversations.

00:31:19.531 --> 00:31:19.952
We're cool.

00:31:19.992 --> 00:31:20.633
We chop it up,

00:31:20.913 --> 00:31:22.153
but I don't get to meet them.

00:31:22.233 --> 00:31:22.653
And you know,

00:31:22.953 --> 00:31:24.795
I'm a face to face type person.

00:31:24.835 --> 00:31:25.915
Like I was, you know,

00:31:26.056 --> 00:31:27.757
I was there before we started and

00:31:27.777 --> 00:31:28.698
everything was online.

00:31:28.758 --> 00:31:31.019
So I'm a, I like to meet people,

00:31:31.058 --> 00:31:31.939
feel people's energy,

00:31:32.180 --> 00:31:33.279
give people my energy.

00:31:33.339 --> 00:31:35.300
Like, so I definitely want to, you know,

00:31:35.340 --> 00:31:36.201
connect with people more.

00:31:37.849 --> 00:31:39.049
I feel you on that one, dude.

00:31:39.210 --> 00:31:41.550
I know like the COVID thing,

00:31:41.990 --> 00:31:42.830
I became a recluse.

00:31:42.891 --> 00:31:45.071
I'm still pretty much basically a recluse.

00:31:45.692 --> 00:31:46.251
And it's one of those,

00:31:46.271 --> 00:31:47.672
the only time I really come out is

00:31:47.711 --> 00:31:50.952
for cons and comic book events and that

00:31:50.972 --> 00:31:51.653
kind of stuff.

00:31:52.432 --> 00:31:54.292
So I'm definitely with you on that one.

00:31:55.413 --> 00:31:57.374
So you mentioned being inspired by other

00:31:57.834 --> 00:31:59.233
black indie creators.

00:31:59.734 --> 00:32:02.494
How important has just community as a

00:32:02.575 --> 00:32:05.256
whole been in your current journey with

00:32:05.296 --> 00:32:06.336
CIS-Fifteen Comics?

00:32:07.498 --> 00:32:09.058
Oh, it's been very important.

00:32:09.479 --> 00:32:10.839
It's been very important because, like,

00:32:11.941 --> 00:32:13.741
it's actually been dope that some of the

00:32:13.781 --> 00:32:15.864
comic creators that I was, like,

00:32:15.923 --> 00:32:17.924
studying and looking up to coming into

00:32:17.984 --> 00:32:19.405
comics, like Weisinger Comics.

00:32:21.326 --> 00:32:23.269
Weisinger Comics has been great about

00:32:25.009 --> 00:32:25.390
Frederick.

00:32:25.410 --> 00:32:26.730
He's been great about, you know...

00:32:28.092 --> 00:32:28.991
giving me advice.

00:32:29.251 --> 00:32:30.373
Uh, any,

00:32:30.492 --> 00:32:32.692
even if I don't even be asking him

00:32:32.712 --> 00:32:34.473
something, he gives me great advice.

00:32:34.493 --> 00:32:35.953
Just that's the best advice.

00:32:35.993 --> 00:32:38.615
Half the time is that unsolicited advice.

00:32:38.634 --> 00:32:39.816
Like, Hey, I noticed this.

00:32:39.895 --> 00:32:40.655
What about you?

00:32:40.715 --> 00:32:42.316
Try this exact.

00:32:42.336 --> 00:32:43.936
That's literally what he does.

00:32:43.997 --> 00:32:45.896
Like he literally helps me out.

00:32:45.957 --> 00:32:46.337
You feel me?

00:32:46.377 --> 00:32:47.597
So it, it,

00:32:47.738 --> 00:32:49.238
it's been great with the community.

00:32:49.397 --> 00:32:51.378
Uh, just having conversations with people,

00:32:51.558 --> 00:32:53.539
uh, bouncing ideas off of people.

00:32:53.740 --> 00:32:53.819
Um,

00:32:54.779 --> 00:32:56.342
Just working with them.

00:32:56.422 --> 00:33:00.865
And it's really great because there aren't

00:33:00.884 --> 00:33:02.346
a lot of comic book creators.

00:33:02.405 --> 00:33:03.826
So your friend group,

00:33:04.067 --> 00:33:05.248
you're probably the only one.

00:33:05.269 --> 00:33:07.269
I know some people think it's a huge

00:33:07.309 --> 00:33:09.211
community.

00:33:09.291 --> 00:33:09.852
It's not.

00:33:10.452 --> 00:33:11.173
It's not.

00:33:11.292 --> 00:33:12.994
It's small and they're spread out.

00:33:13.755 --> 00:33:16.076
is exactly we're all spread out we're not

00:33:16.115 --> 00:33:17.936
like living all in the same areas like

00:33:17.977 --> 00:33:20.498
like i said you're probably the only comic

00:33:21.018 --> 00:33:22.659
comic book creator in your friend group

00:33:22.818 --> 00:33:24.859
you feel me so it's nice to like

00:33:25.320 --> 00:33:27.260
meet people that are doing the same thing

00:33:27.300 --> 00:33:28.942
you go through the same struggles you go

00:33:28.981 --> 00:33:31.603
through you know so it's that community it

00:33:31.644 --> 00:33:33.845
helps you not feel so alone in this

00:33:33.924 --> 00:33:35.925
you get what i'm saying so it's been

00:33:35.965 --> 00:33:36.546
very important

00:33:37.586 --> 00:33:38.386
Definitely, man.

00:33:38.448 --> 00:33:39.048
Definitely.

00:33:39.328 --> 00:33:41.311
So this is one of those questions I

00:33:41.352 --> 00:33:43.015
throw out to every creator that's kind of

00:33:43.055 --> 00:33:43.596
been on.

00:33:44.096 --> 00:33:46.461
What advice would you give to creators

00:33:46.540 --> 00:33:48.763
sitting on ideas but afraid to take that

00:33:48.804 --> 00:33:50.146
first step like you did?

00:33:51.295 --> 00:33:51.855
Oh, leap.

00:33:52.115 --> 00:33:52.296
Leap.

00:33:52.316 --> 00:33:52.915
Just fucking do it.

00:33:52.935 --> 00:33:53.696
Leap, yes.

00:33:53.737 --> 00:33:54.416
Just fucking do it.

00:33:54.436 --> 00:33:56.198
Do it, yes.

00:33:56.258 --> 00:33:57.358
Like, the Shia LaBeouf joint.

00:33:57.439 --> 00:33:57.839
Do it.

00:33:58.180 --> 00:33:59.059
Like,

00:33:59.461 --> 00:34:01.541
it's really you standing your own way.

00:34:01.602 --> 00:34:01.741
Like,

00:34:01.801 --> 00:34:03.462
I think a lot of times I see

00:34:03.482 --> 00:34:04.523
creators, I talk to creators,

00:34:04.544 --> 00:34:07.246
they be like, I got this whole...

00:34:07.286 --> 00:34:08.146
That's exactly.

00:34:08.186 --> 00:34:09.507
They be like, I got this whole Bible.

00:34:09.768 --> 00:34:12.909
I done mapped out my whole universe for

00:34:12.989 --> 00:34:13.849
fifty years.

00:34:14.331 --> 00:34:15.630
The character goes through this, that,

00:34:15.650 --> 00:34:16.112
and the third.

00:34:16.172 --> 00:34:16.911
I done wrote it out.

00:34:17.112 --> 00:34:17.713
Blah, blah, blah.

00:34:17.813 --> 00:34:18.733
And I'm like, okay, so...

00:34:19.724 --> 00:34:21.925
do it like just like you spend all

00:34:21.945 --> 00:34:23.985
this time creating it and then you you

00:34:24.045 --> 00:34:25.907
so in love with it like bring it

00:34:25.927 --> 00:34:27.306
to life so you can see it i

00:34:27.347 --> 00:34:30.429
think you people be so afraid to just

00:34:30.849 --> 00:34:32.889
leap people be so afraid so it's like

00:34:32.909 --> 00:34:34.630
this uh i tell it's this story all

00:34:34.650 --> 00:34:36.190
the time this is this is what helps

00:34:36.251 --> 00:34:38.371
me just to do things it's the same

00:34:38.411 --> 00:34:39.572
story i tell all the time it's like

00:34:40.193 --> 00:34:41.534
there'll be a summertime you know what

00:34:41.574 --> 00:34:42.914
summertime you go to the pool you go

00:34:42.954 --> 00:34:44.574
to the outdoor pool or the indoor pool

00:34:44.614 --> 00:34:45.896
whatever summertime is hot

00:34:46.693 --> 00:34:48.014
And then they open up the pool,

00:34:48.034 --> 00:34:48.875
they say you can jump in.

00:34:49.034 --> 00:34:50.496
But you always think about it because

00:34:50.516 --> 00:34:52.057
like, oh, you'd be like, oh, that's cold.

00:34:52.117 --> 00:34:53.318
That's going to be cold when I get

00:34:53.358 --> 00:34:53.679
in there.

00:34:54.300 --> 00:34:55.960
So you hesitate to jump.

00:34:56.021 --> 00:34:57.161
But once you jump in there,

00:34:57.181 --> 00:34:58.822
you already know that the water is going

00:34:58.842 --> 00:35:00.505
to be warm once your body get used

00:35:00.545 --> 00:35:01.465
to it and you're going to be good.

00:35:01.965 --> 00:35:04.007
So just leap, just take the leap.

00:35:04.067 --> 00:35:04.987
Just forget you.

00:35:05.047 --> 00:35:05.746
It's going to be cold.

00:35:05.766 --> 00:35:06.347
It's going to suck.

00:35:06.367 --> 00:35:07.387
You won't go through things.

00:35:07.467 --> 00:35:08.568
It's going to be, you're going to,

00:35:08.588 --> 00:35:09.547
you're going to go through hardships,

00:35:09.568 --> 00:35:11.307
but just take that leap because once that

00:35:11.347 --> 00:35:12.909
water gets warm and you swim in,

00:35:12.929 --> 00:35:13.829
you won't have a good day.

00:35:13.909 --> 00:35:14.349
You feel me?

00:35:14.648 --> 00:35:16.829
And so that would be my advice.

00:35:16.869 --> 00:35:18.429
Just kind of just to leap and just

00:35:18.449 --> 00:35:20.150
to kind of study, study too.

00:35:20.490 --> 00:35:21.791
Also, I'm saying just leap.

00:35:22.150 --> 00:35:23.070
I'm saying just leap,

00:35:23.090 --> 00:35:27.172
but also study the game and stuff like

00:35:27.211 --> 00:35:27.411
that.

00:35:27.532 --> 00:35:29.413
Don't be afraid to ask for advice.

00:35:29.833 --> 00:35:32.213
you would get amazed how many comic book

00:35:32.253 --> 00:35:34.373
writers how many comic book artists

00:35:35.795 --> 00:35:38.416
publishers who will give you advice

00:35:38.876 --> 00:35:42.717
exactly you have to ask right just if

00:35:42.757 --> 00:35:44.518
they if they don't say anything if they

00:35:44.557 --> 00:35:46.478
don't give you advice okay they didn't do

00:35:46.518 --> 00:35:48.599
it all right so just ask somebody else

00:35:48.619 --> 00:35:51.960
exactly you would be surprised how far you

00:35:51.980 --> 00:35:55.920
will get just by i know when i

00:35:55.981 --> 00:35:57.802
first started doing new comic book day and

00:35:57.862 --> 00:35:58.061
i would

00:35:59.436 --> 00:36:01.197
I would be taking pictures of the comic

00:36:01.217 --> 00:36:01.458
book.

00:36:01.498 --> 00:36:02.119
I'd be like, hey,

00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:03.380
here's what I'm reading right now.

00:36:03.460 --> 00:36:04.440
Boom, boom, boom.

00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:05.501
Here's the artist.

00:36:05.541 --> 00:36:06.262
Here's the writer.

00:36:06.322 --> 00:36:07.543
Here's this and here's that.

00:36:08.083 --> 00:36:11.367
You would be surprised the number of

00:36:11.427 --> 00:36:13.327
writers and artists who would hit me up

00:36:13.407 --> 00:36:14.728
and be like, hey, man,

00:36:14.768 --> 00:36:15.710
thanks for the shout-out, dude.

00:36:15.869 --> 00:36:16.590
We appreciate it.

00:36:16.610 --> 00:36:18.271
We're glad you're enjoying the book.

00:36:19.193 --> 00:36:21.675
And I'm like, oh,

00:36:21.715 --> 00:36:24.197
writer so-and-so just said they gave me a

00:36:24.237 --> 00:36:24.597
shout-out.

00:36:24.617 --> 00:36:24.697
What?

00:36:24.777 --> 00:36:24.958
What?

00:36:24.978 --> 00:36:28.760
Like, dude.

00:36:29.590 --> 00:36:30.371
I'm still working up.

00:36:30.552 --> 00:36:33.333
I love spotlight and indie creators,

00:36:33.373 --> 00:36:35.534
but there's that little piece of me down

00:36:35.594 --> 00:36:35.894
inside.

00:36:35.914 --> 00:36:37.615
I'm like, one of these days,

00:36:37.655 --> 00:36:38.677
I'm going to reach out to some of

00:36:38.717 --> 00:36:41.878
my favorite writers on the bigger tables

00:36:41.918 --> 00:36:44.840
and the bigger projects and go, hey,

00:36:45.240 --> 00:36:45.981
let me think.

00:36:46.021 --> 00:36:48.543
Maybe I could get you on here to

00:36:48.583 --> 00:36:50.043
talk about this one or that one.

00:36:51.001 --> 00:36:51.561
But right now,

00:36:52.541 --> 00:36:54.202
I'm just enjoying the indie stuff right

00:36:54.242 --> 00:36:54.422
now,

00:36:54.663 --> 00:36:56.943
putting the spotlight on y'all because I

00:36:56.963 --> 00:36:58.625
think y'all deserve it a hundred percent.

00:36:59.105 --> 00:37:01.306
I'm a hundred percent with you on that.

00:37:01.347 --> 00:37:04.027
Hopefully one day when you're sitting at

00:37:04.047 --> 00:37:05.248
that big table, you can go,

00:37:06.088 --> 00:37:08.431
it's the chairman over there at the USDN.

00:37:09.010 --> 00:37:09.791
A hundred percent.

00:37:09.811 --> 00:37:10.572
A hundred percent.

00:37:10.612 --> 00:37:12.273
You will be up there too giving interviews

00:37:12.353 --> 00:37:13.532
and you're also your comic.

00:37:13.833 --> 00:37:14.213
Yeah.

00:37:15.922 --> 00:37:17.143
So, yeah,

00:37:17.244 --> 00:37:18.686
I am working on two different ones.

00:37:18.746 --> 00:37:21.407
I've got notebooks full of content right

00:37:21.467 --> 00:37:21.768
now.

00:37:21.929 --> 00:37:24.710
And the moment all this behind me gets

00:37:24.771 --> 00:37:26.713
organized and I can settle in,

00:37:27.233 --> 00:37:28.735
I'm going to start the official right.

00:37:28.755 --> 00:37:30.115
And I got my artists picked out for

00:37:30.235 --> 00:37:30.655
one of them.

00:37:31.577 --> 00:37:33.418
and yeah we're gonna do it it's gonna

00:37:33.458 --> 00:37:35.880
be an experience i'm gonna try to take

00:37:35.940 --> 00:37:37.501
everything i've learned from all the indie

00:37:37.541 --> 00:37:39.983
creators i've talked to and just kind of

00:37:40.003 --> 00:37:41.784
put together something that i hope people

00:37:41.804 --> 00:37:45.007
will enjoy so definitely hey that's that's

00:37:45.086 --> 00:37:46.407
that's what it's all about right there

00:37:46.427 --> 00:37:52.371
yeah but tonight is all about malcolm so

00:37:52.492 --> 00:37:55.853
if somebody was to discover you tonight

00:37:56.454 --> 00:37:59.757
since fifteen comments malcolm mcfadden

00:38:01.030 --> 00:38:03.010
Where would you want them to start with

00:38:03.070 --> 00:38:04.952
your comic books?

00:38:05.152 --> 00:38:06.052
Oh, that's very easy.

00:38:06.072 --> 00:38:06.672
The legacy.

00:38:07.034 --> 00:38:07.514
The legacy.

00:38:07.534 --> 00:38:08.974
It may not be my most popular.

00:38:09.074 --> 00:38:11.655
It may not be my most praised comic.

00:38:12.056 --> 00:38:14.518
But that is my heart and soul.

00:38:14.557 --> 00:38:16.599
That is my comic.

00:38:16.659 --> 00:38:18.380
It's actually dedicated to my dad.

00:38:18.420 --> 00:38:19.601
Also, rest in peace to my dad.

00:38:20.481 --> 00:38:21.661
It's dedicated to my dad.

00:38:21.702 --> 00:38:24.403
It's dedicated to just me, my life,

00:38:24.744 --> 00:38:25.503
experiences.

00:38:25.885 --> 00:38:28.286
It's dedicated to also my son and just

00:38:28.326 --> 00:38:29.507
leaving a legacy behind.

00:38:29.967 --> 00:38:32.329
it's really it's that is my heart and

00:38:32.349 --> 00:38:34.550
soul story so if somebody it mean it's

00:38:34.612 --> 00:38:36.572
not my most popular story like people

00:38:36.592 --> 00:38:37.835
still like it but it's not my most

00:38:37.914 --> 00:38:41.016
popular story but it's it's my story it's

00:38:41.157 --> 00:38:42.679
it's you know my heart and soul story

00:38:42.699 --> 00:38:45.322
i think every writer every artist has that

00:38:45.561 --> 00:38:46.222
one book

00:38:47.003 --> 00:38:50.025
that they did that's kind of like that's

00:38:50.065 --> 00:38:53.409
the one that they feel the most strongest

00:38:53.489 --> 00:38:56.570
about that's like their baby they're the

00:38:56.650 --> 00:38:58.032
one that they hold near and dear to

00:38:58.052 --> 00:38:59.994
their heart and i and if somebody says

00:39:00.054 --> 00:39:01.594
they don't have one of their own books

00:39:01.635 --> 00:39:04.398
like that they're lying to themselves

00:39:04.498 --> 00:39:07.199
because i think every writer every artist

00:39:07.239 --> 00:39:10.143
has that one it may just be one

00:39:11.177 --> 00:39:13.639
Yeah, because typically as an artist,

00:39:13.719 --> 00:39:16.340
this is like most artists will say this

00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:19.782
in any medium, any genre, whatever.

00:39:20.101 --> 00:39:22.742
They'll say like their most popular thing

00:39:22.822 --> 00:39:24.184
is not their favorite.

00:39:24.344 --> 00:39:26.425
And then their favorite one is normally

00:39:26.545 --> 00:39:27.646
the least popular,

00:39:27.706 --> 00:39:32.427
like the middle bar of things.

00:39:32.447 --> 00:39:33.108
That is true.

00:39:34.489 --> 00:39:37.010
But let's get down to the nitty gritty,

00:39:37.030 --> 00:39:37.349
man.

00:39:37.429 --> 00:39:39.130
The King's Domain.

00:39:40.253 --> 00:39:42.215
We do know you are a hundred percent

00:39:42.255 --> 00:39:45.396
funded and I'm so happy to be sitting

00:39:45.416 --> 00:39:47.579
here with you right now saying you are

00:39:47.619 --> 00:39:48.699
a hundred percent funded,

00:39:49.900 --> 00:39:51.362
but this is what we're here to talk

00:39:51.402 --> 00:39:52.623
about is the King's domain.

00:39:52.643 --> 00:39:54.244
We got to know you now let's get

00:39:54.264 --> 00:39:55.385
to know the King's domain.

00:39:56.809 --> 00:39:59.670
So it's currently live right now.

00:39:59.971 --> 00:40:02.012
It's issue one, issue two,

00:40:02.592 --> 00:40:03.873
which I'm about to get in on.

00:40:04.693 --> 00:40:07.614
For those hearing about it tonight,

00:40:08.396 --> 00:40:10.297
what is The King's Domain?

00:40:10.916 --> 00:40:13.458
And what kind of story are readers

00:40:13.759 --> 00:40:16.280
stepping into with The King's Domain?

00:40:17.740 --> 00:40:17.981
Yes.

00:40:18.001 --> 00:40:19.342
Oh, I love this question.

00:40:20.838 --> 00:40:22.420
I'm going to drop something for you that

00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:24.740
I don't think I've told anybody else.

00:40:25.300 --> 00:40:27.262
There may be only actually one other

00:40:27.302 --> 00:40:29.143
person who knows this for real.

00:40:30.222 --> 00:40:31.543
Let's go, dude.

00:40:31.563 --> 00:40:32.463
Let's go.

00:40:32.503 --> 00:40:33.184
So the King's Domain,

00:40:33.204 --> 00:40:34.985
just to start off with how I got

00:40:35.025 --> 00:40:35.445
the name.

00:40:35.505 --> 00:40:38.626
The name is actually so just it kind

00:40:38.646 --> 00:40:40.728
of goes with my six fifteen,

00:40:40.907 --> 00:40:41.989
the name of my company.

00:40:42.469 --> 00:40:44.251
so at the there was this one night

00:40:44.291 --> 00:40:45.911
where we were actually at the at my

00:40:45.931 --> 00:40:48.054
friend's place uh we were chilling it was

00:40:48.074 --> 00:40:49.876
a night before we went to king's dominion

00:40:50.456 --> 00:40:52.257
and then me and my friend were actually

00:40:52.277 --> 00:40:54.840
writing a song and then we just called

00:40:54.880 --> 00:40:56.922
it the king's domain it was like yo

00:40:56.942 --> 00:40:58.824
this our domain we kings this we that's

00:40:58.844 --> 00:41:00.865
what we call going kings to me tomorrow

00:41:00.885 --> 00:41:02.427
so we called it that and then so

00:41:03.387 --> 00:41:05.090
when i went into this book and i

00:41:05.110 --> 00:41:06.431
had the character's name i called him

00:41:06.490 --> 00:41:08.233
amari king and i was kind of going

00:41:08.253 --> 00:41:09.835
with names and that's why i call it

00:41:09.855 --> 00:41:11.777
the king's domain because like it's like

00:41:11.976 --> 00:41:13.978
him since his last name is king and

00:41:13.998 --> 00:41:15.601
like this is like his domain and what

00:41:15.661 --> 00:41:17.543
he's trying to protect and stuff like that

00:41:17.983 --> 00:41:18.164
so

00:41:19.730 --> 00:41:20.971
That was actually how I got the name.

00:41:20.990 --> 00:41:21.471
And that's,

00:41:21.490 --> 00:41:22.811
I think the first time I actually said

00:41:23.070 --> 00:41:25.231
that to somebody, but, uh,

00:41:25.251 --> 00:41:26.733
the King's domain is a story about my

00:41:26.753 --> 00:41:28.954
character, Amari King, AKA my he's,

00:41:29.313 --> 00:41:30.994
he is a protector of animals and a

00:41:31.074 --> 00:41:32.175
fighter for the innocent.

00:41:32.394 --> 00:41:34.416
And he's on this mission to take out

00:41:34.476 --> 00:41:36.255
this criminal organization called the

00:41:36.356 --> 00:41:37.297
alpha organization.

00:41:37.697 --> 00:41:40.277
And they profit off animal cruelty and

00:41:40.297 --> 00:41:42.378
they just profit off being evil people.

00:41:42.679 --> 00:41:43.298
Like they're just,

00:41:43.318 --> 00:41:44.420
they just need to be dealt with.

00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:44.699
All right.

00:41:44.780 --> 00:41:46.721
They they're bad for humans and animals,

00:41:46.740 --> 00:41:47.581
just the earth period.

00:41:48.101 --> 00:41:50.103
so he has made it his mission as

00:41:50.143 --> 00:41:51.585
a protector of animals and a fighter of

00:41:51.606 --> 00:41:54.068
the innocent to bring them down and then

00:41:54.108 --> 00:41:56.871
so in this series you will follow him

00:41:57.293 --> 00:42:00.436
try him uh uh trying to bring them

00:42:00.476 --> 00:42:02.458
down like pursuing them and trying to stop

00:42:02.498 --> 00:42:03.659
their whole organization

00:42:04.300 --> 00:42:05.822
And to answer your second question,

00:42:05.862 --> 00:42:07.083
the type of story that they're going to

00:42:07.143 --> 00:42:09.126
get with this is, I actually,

00:42:09.306 --> 00:42:10.447
I love that you asked this because I

00:42:10.487 --> 00:42:12.509
just came to this realization just like

00:42:12.548 --> 00:42:13.108
the other day.

00:42:13.510 --> 00:42:15.911
So with this type of story, oh,

00:42:15.972 --> 00:42:16.813
I forgot the name of it.

00:42:16.833 --> 00:42:17.572
It's a weird name.

00:42:17.652 --> 00:42:18.894
But there's type of stories where, like,

00:42:18.914 --> 00:42:20.215
you have these adventure characters,

00:42:20.536 --> 00:42:21.757
these characters of, like,

00:42:21.856 --> 00:42:22.677
myth and legend.

00:42:22.717 --> 00:42:24.059
So, like, characters like,

00:42:24.539 --> 00:42:25.900
have you ever seen the movie or the

00:42:25.940 --> 00:42:26.981
comic The Phantom?

00:42:27.643 --> 00:42:28.844
Yeah, yeah, no, dude.

00:42:29.766 --> 00:42:31.250
The fact that Phantom is about to get

00:42:31.289 --> 00:42:33.115
another rerun in comic books makes that

00:42:33.155 --> 00:42:34.119
statement even better.

00:42:34.795 --> 00:42:38.179
exactly exactly so that so fandom like

00:42:38.199 --> 00:42:39.760
characters like the phantoms are like

00:42:40.059 --> 00:42:42.181
characters like that you would tell about

00:42:42.362 --> 00:42:45.565
over a camp story uh campfire so like

00:42:45.724 --> 00:42:48.086
um those type of characters so he is

00:42:48.786 --> 00:42:50.228
i kind of made that i kind of

00:42:50.248 --> 00:42:52.050
came to realization that i made that type

00:42:52.070 --> 00:42:53.811
of character actually reading the new

00:42:53.871 --> 00:42:56.072
phantom series that you just mentioned so

00:42:56.152 --> 00:42:58.014
i came to that realization that i made

00:42:58.034 --> 00:42:59.876
that type of character and not really

00:42:59.936 --> 00:43:01.858
realizing that i did when i've been loving

00:43:01.878 --> 00:43:02.978
that type of character forever

00:43:03.458 --> 00:43:06.143
so that's always i remember reading him on

00:43:06.182 --> 00:43:09.226
the newspaper you know back in the day

00:43:09.266 --> 00:43:11.128
see i didn't i i got into him

00:43:11.188 --> 00:43:14.413
through the movie the movie and then i

00:43:14.452 --> 00:43:16.376
got into the comic league i didn't even

00:43:16.396 --> 00:43:18.077
know it was a comic for years it

00:43:18.097 --> 00:43:19.260
was a comic strip

00:43:21.557 --> 00:43:23.918
And it's Sunday paper.

00:43:24.099 --> 00:43:24.858
That's dope.

00:43:24.938 --> 00:43:25.978
I did see that because I looked into

00:43:25.998 --> 00:43:26.539
the character.

00:43:27.338 --> 00:43:29.260
That's how I figured out what the type

00:43:29.300 --> 00:43:31.880
of name of this type of story is,

00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:33.679
but I can't remember it.

00:43:34.820 --> 00:43:35.661
Yeah, just stories.

00:43:35.681 --> 00:43:36.820
You're going to get that type of story,

00:43:36.840 --> 00:43:39.981
like adventure type and myth type of

00:43:40.001 --> 00:43:40.380
story.

00:43:40.661 --> 00:43:41.762
Mythological type of story.

00:43:41.782 --> 00:43:42.922
Nah,

00:43:42.942 --> 00:43:44.161
that's some of the best ones to me,

00:43:44.222 --> 00:43:44.541
man,

00:43:44.641 --> 00:43:46.963
where you discover that you've written

00:43:47.023 --> 00:43:48.382
something completely original,

00:43:48.443 --> 00:43:48.603
but

00:43:49.427 --> 00:43:51.809
It's like, it's very,

00:43:52.128 --> 00:43:53.610
like it reminds you of this character over

00:43:53.650 --> 00:43:53.909
here.

00:43:54.510 --> 00:43:55.490
It's really dope that the fan,

00:43:55.570 --> 00:43:57.451
I love that Dynamite is doing all these

00:43:57.871 --> 00:44:00.452
old reruns of comic books like that.

00:44:02.353 --> 00:44:04.594
And they're doing some big IPs this year.

00:44:06.014 --> 00:44:08.155
I mean, they've done Powerpuff Girls,

00:44:08.615 --> 00:44:10.257
Gargoyles, you name it, man.

00:44:10.297 --> 00:44:12.498
Dynamite has been on it, dude.

00:44:13.402 --> 00:44:14.983
Oh, they did do that new Gargoyle.

00:44:15.083 --> 00:44:16.744
I got to get that.

00:44:16.864 --> 00:44:18.005
Thank you for reminding me because that

00:44:18.025 --> 00:44:18.967
was the series that I was like,

00:44:18.987 --> 00:44:19.806
I'm going to get this when it comes

00:44:19.867 --> 00:44:20.387
out on trade.

00:44:23.269 --> 00:44:25.271
They did Gargoyles and they did Gargoyles

00:44:25.311 --> 00:44:26.132
the Dark Ages,

00:44:26.172 --> 00:44:28.614
which one of our podcast friends,

00:44:28.755 --> 00:44:31.097
Drew Moss, did the artwork on.

00:44:32.378 --> 00:44:33.878
What is the Dark Ages like,

00:44:33.898 --> 00:44:34.998
taking it back?

00:44:35.099 --> 00:44:36.599
It's the prequel, basically,

00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:39.699
to the Gargoyles before they came to New

00:44:39.739 --> 00:44:40.699
York or wherever it is.

00:44:40.739 --> 00:44:41.039
Yeah.

00:44:41.500 --> 00:44:42.400
Dude, it's really good.

00:44:42.661 --> 00:44:43.481
I got to check that out.

00:44:43.541 --> 00:44:45.001
Dude, it's really good.

00:44:45.021 --> 00:44:46.121
You can probably find it on Trade

00:44:46.161 --> 00:44:48.561
Paperback now on the Dynamite's website.

00:44:49.422 --> 00:44:49.882
Oh, back.

00:44:50.101 --> 00:44:50.543
Oh, yeah.

00:44:50.583 --> 00:44:51.682
See, that makes it easy.

00:44:51.702 --> 00:44:53.523
Because that's what I do.

00:44:53.563 --> 00:44:55.083
Whenever I discover something like that,

00:44:55.103 --> 00:44:55.503
I'm like,

00:44:55.943 --> 00:44:57.403
how come I'm just now finding out about

00:44:57.443 --> 00:44:57.784
this?

00:44:57.864 --> 00:44:58.764
And I hop on the website.

00:44:58.804 --> 00:44:59.905
I'm like, Trade Paperback.

00:45:00.891 --> 00:45:02.050
Send that to the house.

00:45:04.552 --> 00:45:05.052
Thanks.

00:45:05.291 --> 00:45:06.132
Cause don't get me wrong.

00:45:06.192 --> 00:45:07.072
I love singles,

00:45:07.873 --> 00:45:09.733
but if I'm just discovering something for

00:45:09.773 --> 00:45:11.554
the first time and it's on like issue

00:45:11.594 --> 00:45:13.873
ten, that means in my head,

00:45:14.373 --> 00:45:15.835
that means there's two trade paperbacks

00:45:15.875 --> 00:45:16.255
out there.

00:45:17.335 --> 00:45:17.755
Yep.

00:45:17.775 --> 00:45:19.556
So let me get those two trade paperbacks

00:45:19.795 --> 00:45:21.936
and then I'll play catch up and pick

00:45:21.976 --> 00:45:23.916
up with the single issues on issue eleven

00:45:23.936 --> 00:45:24.416
or whatever.

00:45:25.413 --> 00:45:26.994
And I just like to read trade paperbacks.

00:45:27.074 --> 00:45:27.614
I like that.

00:45:27.735 --> 00:45:28.434
I love singles,

00:45:28.494 --> 00:45:31.456
but when you read the whole arc at

00:45:31.938 --> 00:45:33.559
one sitting, that's what I love.

00:45:33.719 --> 00:45:34.840
So that's the way I am with Ghost

00:45:34.880 --> 00:45:35.179
Machine.

00:45:35.219 --> 00:45:36.840
I love collecting Ghost Machine comic

00:45:36.860 --> 00:45:37.101
books.

00:45:37.141 --> 00:45:38.501
I love their wraparound covers,

00:45:38.521 --> 00:45:39.402
their connecting covers,

00:45:39.443 --> 00:45:40.384
and stuff like that.

00:45:42.005 --> 00:45:43.666
But a lot of the times,

00:45:44.266 --> 00:45:47.409
I have all their current trade paperbacks,

00:45:48.128 --> 00:45:49.369
and I just like to sit down and

00:45:49.429 --> 00:45:52.291
read the first eight issues I got here,

00:45:52.612 --> 00:45:52.992
wouldn't go.

00:45:54.800 --> 00:45:56.742
because it's such a good story such a

00:45:56.782 --> 00:46:01.565
good story but so what i know we

00:46:01.585 --> 00:46:04.445
were just discussing this a little bit but

00:46:04.626 --> 00:46:06.887
uh where does it fit within the larger

00:46:06.967 --> 00:46:09.349
vision of cis-fitting comics for the

00:46:09.389 --> 00:46:12.869
king's domain oh where the king's domain

00:46:12.929 --> 00:46:13.951
fits it um

00:46:15.423 --> 00:46:16.445
For each of my series,

00:46:16.485 --> 00:46:18.846
the way that it is a connected universe,

00:46:19.065 --> 00:46:20.206
but for each of my series.

00:46:20.226 --> 00:46:21.166
That was my next question.

00:46:21.186 --> 00:46:22.168
I'm glad you brought that up.

00:46:22.288 --> 00:46:23.108
Right.

00:46:23.168 --> 00:46:24.588
For each of my series,

00:46:25.510 --> 00:46:27.570
I wanted them to stand alone so you

00:46:27.590 --> 00:46:28.672
can read them.

00:46:29.012 --> 00:46:30.152
Like if you were a fan of one

00:46:30.192 --> 00:46:31.253
and not really a fan of the other,

00:46:31.273 --> 00:46:32.853
you can just read one.

00:46:32.934 --> 00:46:34.934
Like you don't have to read the others

00:46:35.295 --> 00:46:37.556
to know about the other series.

00:46:37.936 --> 00:46:40.038
Because that was when I love DCMR,

00:46:40.077 --> 00:46:42.119
but sometimes that gets on my nerves.

00:46:42.358 --> 00:46:43.420
So convoluted, man.

00:46:43.820 --> 00:46:44.420
Yeah,

00:46:44.882 --> 00:46:46.985
I'm not even reading that side of the

00:46:47.065 --> 00:46:47.606
universe,

00:46:47.666 --> 00:46:49.248
but I have to know about it to

00:46:49.489 --> 00:46:51.032
know what's going on in this pocket of

00:46:51.052 --> 00:46:51.532
the universe.

00:46:51.592 --> 00:46:52.394
Oh, wait till people,

00:46:52.454 --> 00:46:54.739
they drop the Secret Wars and realize

00:46:54.759 --> 00:46:57.242
there's multiple wars going on in Secret

00:46:57.282 --> 00:46:57.623
Wars.

00:46:59.681 --> 00:47:01.943
like then they got extra they got like

00:47:02.123 --> 00:47:04.606
so many like spin-offs that are part of

00:47:04.626 --> 00:47:06.509
the main events and stuff like that where

00:47:06.628 --> 00:47:08.550
i wanted my universe to where you where

00:47:08.590 --> 00:47:10.793
they stuff will cross over and you know

00:47:10.853 --> 00:47:13.155
they will have big events but you can

00:47:13.315 --> 00:47:15.637
just stay with one storyline i didn't know

00:47:15.657 --> 00:47:17.478
if the big event happens you can jump

00:47:17.518 --> 00:47:19.521
onto that event and then you can jump

00:47:19.561 --> 00:47:21.443
right back on to what you were already

00:47:21.503 --> 00:47:22.864
reading you if you want to do the

00:47:22.884 --> 00:47:23.505
whole universe

00:47:24.085 --> 00:47:25.525
that's cool of course i would love for

00:47:25.545 --> 00:47:27.626
you to but like i want to make

00:47:27.666 --> 00:47:30.449
it so it is kind of all-inclusive to

00:47:30.489 --> 00:47:32.971
like if you want this side and so

00:47:33.010 --> 00:47:34.552
where the king's domain kind of fits he

00:47:34.592 --> 00:47:36.893
kind of fits on not really like the

00:47:37.034 --> 00:47:38.914
superhero or vigilante but he kind of fits

00:47:38.934 --> 00:47:40.715
in like i said that adventure side of

00:47:40.755 --> 00:47:42.996
my universe so he kind of fills that

00:47:43.038 --> 00:47:44.619
void of things and kind of he moves

00:47:44.659 --> 00:47:47.039
around he uh he mainly you'll see mainly

00:47:47.079 --> 00:47:48.940
his story in africa but he kind of

00:47:48.981 --> 00:47:50.963
still will move around like worldwide and

00:47:51.003 --> 00:47:52.623
do things throughout the series

00:47:54.025 --> 00:47:55.768
And it sets you up for success later

00:47:55.907 --> 00:47:56.068
on.

00:47:56.969 --> 00:47:57.469
That way,

00:47:57.608 --> 00:47:59.670
if you're coming to an arc and you're

00:47:59.692 --> 00:47:59.831
like,

00:47:59.851 --> 00:48:01.112
how do I want to do this arc

00:48:01.273 --> 00:48:03.655
or a I'm at a lull in this

00:48:03.775 --> 00:48:04.335
one story.

00:48:05.255 --> 00:48:06.936
let me tie him over here into this

00:48:06.996 --> 00:48:08.858
other story for a couple of issues or

00:48:08.918 --> 00:48:09.217
something,

00:48:09.257 --> 00:48:11.818
or for arc over here while I'm trying

00:48:11.838 --> 00:48:12.978
to figure out what I'm doing with this

00:48:13.018 --> 00:48:13.259
guy,

00:48:13.298 --> 00:48:14.420
but I can bring them over here and

00:48:14.440 --> 00:48:16.240
do something and you can just move them

00:48:16.280 --> 00:48:16.561
around.

00:48:16.581 --> 00:48:16.661
Like,

00:48:16.900 --> 00:48:19.782
like this one didn't really work for me.

00:48:19.802 --> 00:48:20.762
Let me, he's okay.

00:48:20.782 --> 00:48:22.063
He's going back to a solo issue.

00:48:22.443 --> 00:48:23.583
It gives you a lot of leg room

00:48:23.603 --> 00:48:25.224
to play with your characters within your

00:48:25.324 --> 00:48:25.885
universe.

00:48:26.425 --> 00:48:27.726
So it's always really cool when I see

00:48:27.746 --> 00:48:29.065
people going, Hey,

00:48:29.126 --> 00:48:30.766
I have these five stories go in.

00:48:31.226 --> 00:48:32.927
They can all be in the same universe.

00:48:32.967 --> 00:48:33.108
Yeah.

00:48:33.885 --> 00:48:34.106
Right,

00:48:34.286 --> 00:48:35.306
and then they could all be in the

00:48:35.327 --> 00:48:35.927
same universe,

00:48:35.987 --> 00:48:39.530
but what happens in this doesn't really

00:48:39.570 --> 00:48:40.751
affect what happens in the other.

00:48:40.791 --> 00:48:41.532
And if it does,

00:48:41.873 --> 00:48:44.394
it won't be a lot for you not

00:48:44.414 --> 00:48:45.376
to know what's going on.

00:48:45.396 --> 00:48:46.496
You get what I'm saying?

00:48:46.577 --> 00:48:47.818
Yep.

00:48:47.878 --> 00:48:48.699
I like that.

00:48:49.018 --> 00:48:49.860
And to me,

00:48:49.900 --> 00:48:53.362
that's just – it makes sense, you know?

00:48:53.463 --> 00:48:54.503
Right.

00:48:54.543 --> 00:48:55.824
Because, I mean –

00:48:56.266 --> 00:48:57.425
and I love Easter eggs.

00:48:57.465 --> 00:48:59.126
So you can Easter egg your own character

00:48:59.166 --> 00:49:00.648
in your own story in the background.

00:49:01.307 --> 00:49:02.307
I love those.

00:49:02.407 --> 00:49:04.829
They're all in the shared story.

00:49:05.188 --> 00:49:07.269
There's nothing better than reading a

00:49:07.329 --> 00:49:08.070
comic book.

00:49:08.889 --> 00:49:11.811
And I can't remember the last time I

00:49:11.851 --> 00:49:12.231
seen it,

00:49:12.592 --> 00:49:14.052
but it was just one of their other

00:49:14.172 --> 00:49:15.833
characters from the same writer and

00:49:16.652 --> 00:49:18.574
walking through the background of a story.

00:49:19.313 --> 00:49:21.974
And it was just like, wait,

00:49:22.014 --> 00:49:23.655
is that that one character from the,

00:49:23.695 --> 00:49:24.695
from the other book he does?

00:49:24.715 --> 00:49:24.795
Yeah.

00:49:25.416 --> 00:49:26.135
Exactly.

00:49:27.677 --> 00:49:30.277
In the next comic of that character that

00:49:30.297 --> 00:49:31.597
you've seen in the background,

00:49:31.637 --> 00:49:33.858
you see him in his comic book,

00:49:34.418 --> 00:49:35.858
and you see the other character in the

00:49:35.898 --> 00:49:37.358
background of it.

00:49:37.378 --> 00:49:39.260
So they just literally passed each other.

00:49:39.699 --> 00:49:41.940
Two characters, same universe,

00:49:42.641 --> 00:49:44.221
passing by on the same panel,

00:49:44.280 --> 00:49:46.581
on the same page, two different stories.

00:49:46.621 --> 00:49:47.782
It was really cool to see.

00:49:48.882 --> 00:49:50.563
That's creative that day.

00:49:51.023 --> 00:49:52.463
I might have to steal that idea and

00:49:52.523 --> 00:49:53.403
do something like that.

00:49:53.483 --> 00:49:53.943
Steal it.

00:49:54.655 --> 00:49:55.695
Cause right now,

00:49:55.715 --> 00:49:57.097
that's what's great about comic books,

00:49:57.157 --> 00:49:57.376
right?

00:49:57.416 --> 00:49:58.677
Everybody has stole something from

00:49:58.737 --> 00:49:59.217
somebody.

00:50:00.998 --> 00:50:01.257
Right.

00:50:01.777 --> 00:50:02.177
But that's,

00:50:02.277 --> 00:50:03.958
but that is like the Easter egg thing.

00:50:04.099 --> 00:50:05.259
I love Easter eggs too.

00:50:05.318 --> 00:50:08.380
So one thing I've been doing, um, in,

00:50:08.619 --> 00:50:10.440
especially in this series that just

00:50:10.500 --> 00:50:12.681
released the Kings domain too, there's,

00:50:12.721 --> 00:50:12.780
uh,

00:50:13.601 --> 00:50:15.420
character that makes an appearance that is

00:50:15.460 --> 00:50:18.181
a character in another book but it doesn't

00:50:18.242 --> 00:50:20.702
mess with the story at all but it

00:50:20.722 --> 00:50:23.242
you'll see him appear uh and it was

00:50:23.382 --> 00:50:25.202
it's dope to put those little easter eggs

00:50:25.242 --> 00:50:27.342
i do a lot of easter eggs and

00:50:28.284 --> 00:50:29.943
uh i'm actually been working on the

00:50:29.983 --> 00:50:31.623
crossover between my characters and the

00:50:31.724 --> 00:50:33.764
fact that i've dropped these easter eggs

00:50:34.005 --> 00:50:37.445
makes writing that crossover so easy

00:50:37.465 --> 00:50:39.965
because i can just bring things right back

00:50:40.326 --> 00:50:40.746
into it

00:50:41.306 --> 00:50:42.867
And I'm glad you said that, too,

00:50:42.907 --> 00:50:45.467
because I can read a comic book in

00:50:45.568 --> 00:50:46.407
five minutes,

00:50:47.047 --> 00:50:48.389
but I can never do it in five

00:50:48.449 --> 00:50:48.869
minutes.

00:50:49.148 --> 00:50:50.528
It's going to take me twenty or thirty

00:50:50.568 --> 00:50:52.849
minutes because I'm investigating each

00:50:52.889 --> 00:50:54.690
page in each panel because I'm looking for

00:50:54.851 --> 00:50:56.572
Easter as I'm looking for a little hidden

00:50:56.632 --> 00:50:57.331
details.

00:50:57.952 --> 00:50:59.032
I'm looking at the art.

00:50:59.092 --> 00:51:00.693
I'm studying the art because I want to

00:51:00.773 --> 00:51:03.733
see how they laid out panels and how

00:51:03.773 --> 00:51:06.135
they why did they choose the gutter here

00:51:06.175 --> 00:51:07.956
versus there and that kind of stuff.

00:51:09.864 --> 00:51:10.585
Yeah.

00:51:10.644 --> 00:51:12.206
It takes a unique human being to just

00:51:12.226 --> 00:51:13.188
be like, oh,

00:51:13.208 --> 00:51:14.228
I just read that comic book.

00:51:14.248 --> 00:51:15.831
I'm like, you held it for two minutes.

00:51:15.851 --> 00:51:16.492
What are you talking about?

00:51:16.532 --> 00:51:17.032
You read it.

00:51:17.532 --> 00:51:17.893
Right.

00:51:17.913 --> 00:51:19.094
Did you even look at it?

00:51:19.114 --> 00:51:21.217
Did you study it?

00:51:22.358 --> 00:51:25.541
Did you embrace yourself in the artwork,

00:51:25.581 --> 00:51:26.402
in the story?

00:51:27.143 --> 00:51:28.264
Two minutes?

00:51:28.385 --> 00:51:28.606
Yeah.

00:51:28.905 --> 00:51:31.987
Like normally if I read a book that

00:51:32.027 --> 00:51:32.347
fast,

00:51:32.407 --> 00:51:34.088
it's kind of just to kind of get

00:51:34.108 --> 00:51:34.688
the story,

00:51:34.728 --> 00:51:36.110
but I'm always going to come back to

00:51:36.170 --> 00:51:36.230
it.

00:51:36.269 --> 00:51:36.849
Like I'll do that.

00:51:37.190 --> 00:51:38.391
I'll do something like that.

00:51:38.451 --> 00:51:39.992
If like I'm leaving a comic book store,

00:51:40.052 --> 00:51:41.413
I'll go into my car real quick and

00:51:41.432 --> 00:51:41.853
be like, okay,

00:51:42.152 --> 00:51:43.974
I'm going to go through this story.

00:51:43.994 --> 00:51:44.315
Yeah.

00:51:44.434 --> 00:51:46.255
And then when I get home,

00:51:46.295 --> 00:51:47.275
that's when I really like dive into it.

00:51:47.295 --> 00:51:48.336
Because you're looking for something.

00:51:48.356 --> 00:51:49.717
You're looking for a particular piece in

00:51:49.737 --> 00:51:51.177
that story that you were hoping was going

00:51:51.197 --> 00:51:51.438
to happen.

00:51:51.458 --> 00:51:52.998
That's what you're looking for.

00:51:53.059 --> 00:51:54.300
Because I do the same thing.

00:51:54.320 --> 00:51:54.760
Exactly.

00:51:54.780 --> 00:51:55.840
Let me pull this out real quick.

00:51:58.094 --> 00:51:59.516
Okay, maybe it'll be the next issue.

00:51:59.657 --> 00:52:00.559
But you're going to go home and you're

00:52:00.579 --> 00:52:01.079
going to read it.

00:52:02.181 --> 00:52:04.965
Exactly, exactly.

00:52:05.025 --> 00:52:07.068
So let's jump back into this Kickstarter

00:52:07.088 --> 00:52:08.311
because we could go on about that kind

00:52:08.351 --> 00:52:09.432
of stuff for days.

00:52:09.532 --> 00:52:10.014
Let's do it.

00:52:11.077 --> 00:52:13.561
So why was Kickstarter the right platform

00:52:13.860 --> 00:52:15.081
for this project,

00:52:15.222 --> 00:52:17.625
and what does direct fan support mean to

00:52:17.664 --> 00:52:19.186
you as an independent creator?

00:52:19.567 --> 00:52:20.728
When I say Kickstarter,

00:52:20.807 --> 00:52:22.108
you could have went with Indiegogo,

00:52:22.148 --> 00:52:24.672
but I have discovered myself that I'm not

00:52:24.791 --> 00:52:27.855
a big fan of the way Indiegogo does

00:52:27.894 --> 00:52:31.418
the back end of their business.

00:52:31.438 --> 00:52:31.798
Okay, yeah.

00:52:33.550 --> 00:52:34.570
But that's just a me thing.

00:52:35.150 --> 00:52:36.692
It was something that I recently just

00:52:36.731 --> 00:52:36.911
learned.

00:52:36.931 --> 00:52:40.054
I prefer Kickstarter all straight to the

00:52:40.094 --> 00:52:40.715
means, you know?

00:52:41.936 --> 00:52:43.657
So I don't really know too much about

00:52:43.737 --> 00:52:45.097
Indiegogo's backend and stuff.

00:52:45.137 --> 00:52:46.179
I did do an Indiegogo,

00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:48.840
but I'm not even going to go into

00:52:48.860 --> 00:52:49.001
that.

00:52:49.081 --> 00:52:53.503
But it's really just that Kickstarter is

00:52:53.543 --> 00:52:58.228
kind of the platform for comic books and

00:52:58.367 --> 00:52:59.509
indie books.

00:53:00.891 --> 00:53:02.632
So it's like there's a fan base already

00:53:02.672 --> 00:53:03.793
there on Kickstarter.

00:53:04.112 --> 00:53:05.934
There's like every Kickstarter I have,

00:53:05.954 --> 00:53:08.115
there's times where I see people that have

00:53:08.175 --> 00:53:10.777
just been people from Kickstarter that

00:53:10.818 --> 00:53:11.157
back it.

00:53:11.217 --> 00:53:12.918
And Kickstarter also gives you a lot of

00:53:13.159 --> 00:53:15.440
the analytics and the numbers on the back

00:53:15.541 --> 00:53:16.742
end for you to use.

00:53:17.021 --> 00:53:17.643
A lot of those numbers,

00:53:17.663 --> 00:53:19.184
I don't even know how to use them,

00:53:19.543 --> 00:53:21.244
but they're there just in case I do

00:53:21.284 --> 00:53:22.166
figure out how to use them.

00:53:22.626 --> 00:53:24.806
So that's why I'd use Kickstarter because

00:53:24.867 --> 00:53:26.807
I really do love the platform and I

00:53:26.867 --> 00:53:30.130
love the fan base that's on there and

00:53:30.150 --> 00:53:32.231
just how it works as even a person.

00:53:32.731 --> 00:53:33.891
I bet it's a crate.

00:53:33.952 --> 00:53:35.492
I think I've backed like three hundred

00:53:35.532 --> 00:53:37.853
Kickstarters and I just realized that

00:53:37.893 --> 00:53:38.434
looking at it.

00:53:38.494 --> 00:53:40.954
But you get that super backer sticker on

00:53:40.974 --> 00:53:41.074
you.

00:53:41.115 --> 00:53:41.775
I think I do.

00:53:41.896 --> 00:53:43.077
I think I do.

00:53:43.097 --> 00:53:43.177
Yeah,

00:53:43.197 --> 00:53:45.097
I think I forgot how many is after.

00:53:45.277 --> 00:53:46.498
So I mean, I mean,

00:53:46.557 --> 00:53:48.079
I forgot the number is that number because

00:53:48.119 --> 00:53:49.619
I think I'm getting close to it myself.

00:53:50.259 --> 00:53:52.760
yeah so like even with me you as

00:53:52.780 --> 00:53:54.460
a fan i love how as a fan

00:53:54.501 --> 00:53:56.280
how to use it how it makes it

00:53:56.340 --> 00:53:58.842
real easy for you to bet for kickstarter

00:53:58.963 --> 00:54:00.382
it makes it here's the other thing i

00:54:00.402 --> 00:54:02.943
like too so i thought i'm following you

00:54:03.063 --> 00:54:06.164
on kickstarter it tells me the moment you

00:54:06.204 --> 00:54:06.806
launch yours

00:54:07.585 --> 00:54:09.307
And then the moment I support yours,

00:54:09.708 --> 00:54:10.730
it's going to say, hey,

00:54:10.949 --> 00:54:13.793
congratulations for supporting Malcolm and

00:54:14.333 --> 00:54:15.255
the King's Domain.

00:54:15.695 --> 00:54:17.376
Here's a list of other comic books that

00:54:17.416 --> 00:54:18.297
you may enjoy.

00:54:18.878 --> 00:54:20.460
And some of them are like, oh,

00:54:20.541 --> 00:54:21.302
I like that one.

00:54:21.322 --> 00:54:23.403
And you can go and read about that

00:54:23.543 --> 00:54:23.644
one.

00:54:24.224 --> 00:54:25.827
But every now and then they'll be like,

00:54:26.847 --> 00:54:27.929
they'll offer you something and you're

00:54:27.949 --> 00:54:28.210
like,

00:54:30.023 --> 00:54:30.382
No,

00:54:30.422 --> 00:54:33.065
that's a hard pass for me on that

00:54:33.085 --> 00:54:33.226
one.

00:54:33.246 --> 00:54:33.425
Right.

00:54:33.445 --> 00:54:35.387
I would say nine times out of ten,

00:54:35.427 --> 00:54:35.788
though,

00:54:36.367 --> 00:54:38.150
they're offering you some good stuff.

00:54:39.516 --> 00:54:40.898
yeah so i'm guessing they have like a

00:54:40.918 --> 00:54:42.918
thing that checks your algorithm i guess

00:54:43.117 --> 00:54:44.199
so it knows what type of comments you

00:54:44.219 --> 00:54:45.940
like because that does that for me like

00:54:46.039 --> 00:54:48.059
especially the comic like the comic uh

00:54:48.561 --> 00:54:49.820
especially if you back something that

00:54:49.860 --> 00:54:52.202
gives you stuff like that so that is

00:54:52.322 --> 00:54:55.963
also why um that's also why uh kickstarter

00:54:56.244 --> 00:54:58.644
is one of the platforms i really love

00:54:59.125 --> 00:55:00.625
no i'm with you i think i'm on

00:55:00.664 --> 00:55:01.746
kickstarter every day

00:55:02.545 --> 00:55:05.507
yeah just looking at projects and yeah i'm

00:55:05.588 --> 00:55:07.590
always looking at projects on there and

00:55:08.351 --> 00:55:10.231
going i wonder if i can get that

00:55:10.271 --> 00:55:11.592
person to come on and talk about that

00:55:11.632 --> 00:55:13.614
project or something like that you know

00:55:14.556 --> 00:55:17.958
and then um what was your second question

00:55:18.277 --> 00:55:21.360
about the fan base um

00:55:23.085 --> 00:55:24.467
So that was a different question.

00:55:24.706 --> 00:55:25.806
You already answered that one.

00:55:26.248 --> 00:55:27.827
So that was just like,

00:55:27.887 --> 00:55:30.228
why was Kickstarter the right platform for

00:55:30.269 --> 00:55:31.030
this project?

00:55:31.730 --> 00:55:32.510
Oh, I'm sorry.

00:55:32.570 --> 00:55:33.751
It's the second part of this question.

00:55:34.251 --> 00:55:36.972
And what does direct fan support mean to

00:55:37.012 --> 00:55:38.753
you as an independent creator?

00:55:40.748 --> 00:55:42.228
Okay, that one is really good.

00:55:42.628 --> 00:55:43.590
It means a lot.

00:55:43.809 --> 00:55:44.771
It really means a lot.

00:55:45.791 --> 00:55:46.391
Shouts to...

00:55:46.492 --> 00:55:47.932
I can't name a lot of them,

00:55:47.992 --> 00:55:50.074
but there's a whole bunch of people that

00:55:50.114 --> 00:55:51.695
are on Facebook, Instagram,

00:55:51.715 --> 00:55:53.617
that have always supported me since day

00:55:53.838 --> 00:55:53.978
one.

00:55:54.257 --> 00:55:55.838
They shout out my comic book all the

00:55:55.878 --> 00:55:56.300
time.

00:55:56.420 --> 00:55:59.041
Just Facebook groups and stuff like that.

00:55:59.481 --> 00:56:01.483
The direct support is...

00:56:02.364 --> 00:56:04.324
it's love it's real love just because when

00:56:04.344 --> 00:56:06.507
you as an artist when you put out

00:56:06.567 --> 00:56:09.349
stuff and then people receive it and like

00:56:09.409 --> 00:56:10.710
it and then you put out a piece

00:56:10.789 --> 00:56:12.771
of you basically and they receive it and

00:56:12.811 --> 00:56:15.592
like and support like i i told this

00:56:15.612 --> 00:56:16.974
guy today i think i told him today

00:56:16.994 --> 00:56:18.375
i was like bro if i had a

00:56:18.454 --> 00:56:20.315
dollar for every time i told you thank

00:56:20.356 --> 00:56:22.838
you i would be making live action movies

00:56:22.898 --> 00:56:23.237
right now

00:56:24.898 --> 00:56:25.900
So, like,

00:56:25.940 --> 00:56:28.521
the support means everything because it's

00:56:28.561 --> 00:56:30.663
like I can't – I literally can't do

00:56:30.722 --> 00:56:31.023
this.

00:56:31.382 --> 00:56:32.543
I'm not going to be able to make

00:56:32.603 --> 00:56:34.646
the next book if you guys aren't

00:56:34.666 --> 00:56:36.286
supporting and I can reach the goal.

00:56:36.567 --> 00:56:38.367
So I always try – as a creator,

00:56:38.588 --> 00:56:38.748
like,

00:56:38.768 --> 00:56:40.750
I always try to tell people that comment

00:56:41.050 --> 00:56:43.130
or say anything on the post or anything.

00:56:43.150 --> 00:56:44.231
I try to tell them thank you.

00:56:44.532 --> 00:56:45.373
I appreciate it.

00:56:45.652 --> 00:56:46.733
I'm ready to start trying to speak a

00:56:46.773 --> 00:56:48.155
different language so I can say it

00:56:48.195 --> 00:56:48.594
different.

00:56:48.974 --> 00:56:51.336
So, but, like –

00:56:51.496 --> 00:56:54.539
But it means a lot and it really

00:56:54.639 --> 00:56:55.259
helps out.

00:56:55.358 --> 00:56:57.420
And it's it's it's sometimes it's

00:56:57.500 --> 00:56:58.039
overwhelming.

00:56:58.079 --> 00:56:59.820
Sometimes it's like like like today,

00:56:59.880 --> 00:57:01.422
like people were saying congratulations

00:57:01.442 --> 00:57:01.742
and stuff.

00:57:01.782 --> 00:57:02.262
I was like,

00:57:02.762 --> 00:57:04.184
I don't I don't know how to take

00:57:04.244 --> 00:57:05.643
compliments and stuff like that.

00:57:05.985 --> 00:57:07.664
Like it's always hard, isn't it?

00:57:07.684 --> 00:57:08.385
It is.

00:57:08.865 --> 00:57:09.846
It's very hard.

00:57:09.905 --> 00:57:12.467
So so it means everything.

00:57:12.507 --> 00:57:14.987
So it's very important to this journey.

00:57:15.108 --> 00:57:16.407
And it keeps you pushing.

00:57:16.728 --> 00:57:17.608
It keeps you pushing.

00:57:17.708 --> 00:57:19.329
And it also adds pressure.

00:57:19.369 --> 00:57:20.949
I told my wife when I got them

00:57:20.989 --> 00:57:22.590
down like you really don't.

00:57:22.710 --> 00:57:24.530
That's exactly that's exactly it.

00:57:24.590 --> 00:57:25.670
I told my wife I was like,

00:57:26.030 --> 00:57:27.751
it's kind of like I've reached my goal

00:57:27.771 --> 00:57:29.231
and I feel more pressure because like

00:57:29.251 --> 00:57:30.692
people are actually supporting this like

00:57:30.731 --> 00:57:31.032
that.

00:57:31.351 --> 00:57:32.692
I don't want to let these people down.

00:57:32.751 --> 00:57:34.873
They don't spend their money, you know,

00:57:34.932 --> 00:57:35.552
stuff like that.

00:57:36.072 --> 00:57:38.675
So it definitely gives you a push,

00:57:38.755 --> 00:57:40.275
but it definitely adds pressure at the

00:57:40.315 --> 00:57:41.516
same time.

00:57:41.757 --> 00:57:42.637
Dude, trust me,

00:57:43.458 --> 00:57:46.119
like you are my first live show of

00:57:46.199 --> 00:57:47.360
twenty twenty six.

00:57:48.001 --> 00:57:49.282
And I was like sweating and I'm like,

00:57:49.382 --> 00:57:49.862
yeah, I mean,

00:57:49.882 --> 00:57:51.123
this is my first one of the year.

00:57:51.143 --> 00:57:52.503
I got to make sure this is right.

00:57:53.065 --> 00:57:54.505
And I'm glad it was you because you

00:57:54.525 --> 00:57:57.407
brought the good energy back.

00:57:57.867 --> 00:57:58.789
And, dude,

00:57:58.849 --> 00:58:00.809
you'd be surprised how many people will

00:58:00.829 --> 00:58:02.710
come on a podcast and talk about their

00:58:02.751 --> 00:58:03.331
project.

00:58:03.811 --> 00:58:05.972
And they just seem so unenthusiastic about

00:58:05.992 --> 00:58:06.032
it.

00:58:06.052 --> 00:58:06.454
I'm like, dude,

00:58:06.474 --> 00:58:08.275
you just created something amazing.

00:58:08.614 --> 00:58:08.994
Right.

00:58:09.335 --> 00:58:12.117
Show some enthusiasm for your work, man.

00:58:13.117 --> 00:58:14.239
And you definitely,

00:58:14.498 --> 00:58:16.079
definitely brought that energy.

00:58:16.619 --> 00:58:17.800
And speaking of energy,

00:58:18.061 --> 00:58:19.402
let's talk about rewards.

00:58:20.461 --> 00:58:23.063
What can backers expect when they support

00:58:23.264 --> 00:58:24.204
the Kings domain?

00:58:25.891 --> 00:58:27.110
So from the rewards,

00:58:27.351 --> 00:58:28.711
we have a bunch of different rewards.

00:58:29.331 --> 00:58:31.532
I have three covers available.

00:58:32.092 --> 00:58:34.773
We redid the issue number one cover.

00:58:34.793 --> 00:58:36.432
There's a brand new cover for that.

00:58:36.793 --> 00:58:38.733
And we also have two covers of the

00:58:38.793 --> 00:58:40.393
issue number two available.

00:58:40.753 --> 00:58:42.335
So you have three covers.

00:58:42.434 --> 00:58:44.974
And with each physical backer,

00:58:45.795 --> 00:58:48.695
I'm giving them a Fury sticker.

00:58:48.735 --> 00:58:49.456
So my character,

00:58:49.496 --> 00:58:52.317
he has a pet lion who is rare.

00:58:52.336 --> 00:58:53.436
The lion is fleeing.

00:58:53.797 --> 00:58:56.579
yeah wear a black line so i'm i'm

00:58:56.619 --> 00:59:00.021
making him a sticker and um those those

00:59:00.041 --> 00:59:01.461
things you can expect and also you can

00:59:01.501 --> 00:59:04.083
just expect uh when you get your rewards

00:59:04.644 --> 00:59:06.485
um because the project is done i've paid

00:59:06.525 --> 00:59:07.887
for everything the letter and i'm actually

00:59:08.547 --> 00:59:10.469
um after after i get off this interview

00:59:10.528 --> 00:59:12.929
i'm going to be putting the layouts for

00:59:12.949 --> 00:59:14.711
the comic together so i can send it

00:59:14.771 --> 00:59:16.913
to you so that'll be what i'll be

00:59:16.932 --> 00:59:17.733
working on tonight

00:59:18.114 --> 00:59:18.934
go.

00:59:18.954 --> 00:59:19.914
I'm really trying to get it.

00:59:20.594 --> 00:59:21.875
As we talked about with Kickstarters and

00:59:22.414 --> 00:59:23.614
like we talked about earlier with

00:59:23.635 --> 00:59:23.994
creators,

00:59:24.014 --> 00:59:26.795
I'm trying to have the project printed,

00:59:26.896 --> 00:59:28.615
at least a good amount printed so when

00:59:28.755 --> 00:59:30.556
the Kickstarter is done,

00:59:31.197 --> 00:59:32.697
especially since I know I got my goal,

00:59:32.737 --> 00:59:33.436
when it's done,

00:59:33.817 --> 00:59:37.297
I can just start fulfillment as soon as

00:59:37.318 --> 00:59:38.018
the joint is done.

00:59:38.038 --> 00:59:39.818
People don't got to wait for their books.

00:59:39.838 --> 00:59:41.438
This is going to be a forty-five day

00:59:41.458 --> 00:59:42.918
or a thirty day Kickstarter?

00:59:42.938 --> 00:59:44.039
This will be thirty day.

00:59:44.179 --> 00:59:46.179
This is going to be a little shorter

00:59:46.320 --> 00:59:46.420
one.

00:59:46.960 --> 00:59:47.300
Yeah.

00:59:47.400 --> 00:59:49.344
It'll end February fourteenth.

00:59:49.846 --> 00:59:49.947
Yeah.

00:59:49.967 --> 00:59:50.867
It should be the fourteenth.

00:59:50.889 --> 00:59:51.068
Yeah.

00:59:51.188 --> 00:59:51.530
Yeah.

00:59:51.550 --> 00:59:52.833
If you start it on the fifteenth,

00:59:52.853 --> 00:59:54.175
it'll end on the fourteenth of the next

00:59:54.215 --> 00:59:54.456
month.

00:59:54.516 --> 00:59:54.675
Yeah.

00:59:55.150 --> 00:59:56.911
yeah so yeah it'll end on the fourteenth

00:59:56.952 --> 00:59:58.672
so people should definitely expect to get

00:59:58.693 --> 01:00:01.773
their rewards soon um not i'm not because

01:00:01.813 --> 01:00:03.315
especially i'm gonna have i like i said

01:00:03.335 --> 01:00:04.815
i'm trying to release other books this

01:00:04.855 --> 01:00:06.536
year so i'm trying to have this book

01:00:06.576 --> 01:00:08.177
into people's hands before i even try to

01:00:08.217 --> 01:00:10.157
release the next book yeah and then so

01:00:10.257 --> 01:00:11.478
that's kind of how i like to do

01:00:11.538 --> 01:00:13.778
it going uh with the kickstart campaigns

01:00:13.798 --> 01:00:15.420
just to kind of build trust with uh

01:00:15.940 --> 01:00:18.601
the backers and stuff like that dude yeah

01:00:18.641 --> 01:00:20.362
no a hundred percent and it's cool that

01:00:20.402 --> 01:00:22.182
you actually had the funds to be able

01:00:22.202 --> 01:00:23.884
to just to go ahead and get it

01:00:23.923 --> 01:00:24.204
done

01:00:25.269 --> 01:00:26.311
This is at the point where I want

01:00:26.331 --> 01:00:28.192
to remind people that sometimes that isn't

01:00:28.271 --> 01:00:29.873
always the case for kids.

01:00:30.393 --> 01:00:32.574
Sometimes the people who are starting kids

01:00:32.614 --> 01:00:35.215
search are really relying on you to help

01:00:36.657 --> 01:00:39.217
fund the actual book to be finished.

01:00:39.978 --> 01:00:41.780
And then they're going to take care of

01:00:41.840 --> 01:00:41.940
you.

01:00:42.019 --> 01:00:42.539
Trust me.

01:00:43.260 --> 01:00:46.842
Um, I just, I'm trying to think, uh,

01:00:46.882 --> 01:00:47.382
the plague.

01:00:48.335 --> 01:00:50.297
Great, great husband and wife team.

01:00:50.896 --> 01:00:53.097
They hundred percent fund it.

01:00:53.336 --> 01:00:54.958
And that money is going to the artist

01:00:54.998 --> 01:00:57.518
to finish your physical stuff.

01:00:57.538 --> 01:00:59.079
They did T-shirts and all that stuff.

01:00:59.099 --> 01:01:01.338
I will receive my T-shirts, my poster,

01:01:01.699 --> 01:01:03.119
which is a really dope poster that's going

01:01:03.139 --> 01:01:05.440
to eventually be on the wall.

01:01:05.519 --> 01:01:07.561
But be patient.

01:01:07.621 --> 01:01:09.021
A lot of times you're not going to

01:01:09.041 --> 01:01:10.822
get that physical reward right away,

01:01:10.862 --> 01:01:12.141
especially for the comic book.

01:01:12.702 --> 01:01:14.802
Because it's literally you are helping

01:01:14.862 --> 01:01:15.163
them.

01:01:16.693 --> 01:01:18.893
pay to have that book finished and made.

01:01:19.735 --> 01:01:21.574
So for anybody out there,

01:01:21.594 --> 01:01:23.956
whenever you're back in a comic book,

01:01:23.996 --> 01:01:26.257
if you don't want to support someone who's

01:01:26.338 --> 01:01:27.739
not quite finished the book yet,

01:01:28.358 --> 01:01:29.559
they're going to tell you if that book

01:01:29.619 --> 01:01:30.340
is done or not.

01:01:30.960 --> 01:01:32.880
And most of them are really upfront and

01:01:32.960 --> 01:01:33.661
honest about it.

01:01:33.722 --> 01:01:35.202
And you are their make or break.

01:01:36.103 --> 01:01:36.262
Right.

01:01:36.282 --> 01:01:37.182
So remember that.

01:01:38.583 --> 01:01:41.545
So I like it though, dude.

01:01:41.605 --> 01:01:43.106
I know as soon as we're done here,

01:01:43.766 --> 01:01:44.306
I'm going to go

01:01:45.748 --> 01:01:46.427
Do my thing, too.

01:01:46.527 --> 01:01:48.108
I got to put my get my pledges

01:01:48.168 --> 01:01:48.949
in for a couple.

01:01:49.849 --> 01:01:52.090
So you actually showed me one.

01:01:52.170 --> 01:01:53.391
I got it saved on my phone.

01:01:53.451 --> 01:01:55.391
You said a flame vote.

01:01:55.530 --> 01:01:55.771
St.

01:01:55.811 --> 01:01:57.811
Flame vote with Bruno Canarino.

01:01:58.271 --> 01:01:59.652
I got to get that one in tonight

01:01:59.893 --> 01:02:01.293
and I got to get you in tonight.

01:02:02.114 --> 01:02:03.994
And there's a couple of more that we're

01:02:04.014 --> 01:02:04.614
going to have to.

01:02:05.195 --> 01:02:06.315
It might have to be next week,

01:02:06.394 --> 01:02:08.096
but they're going to get back for sure.

01:02:08.615 --> 01:02:08.695
Yeah,

01:02:08.715 --> 01:02:10.416
I'm definitely checking out that flame

01:02:10.436 --> 01:02:10.737
vote, too.

01:02:11.929 --> 01:02:12.548
It's so fun.

01:02:12.568 --> 01:02:13.449
It's so good.

01:02:14.110 --> 01:02:16.190
And I love his stories are good.

01:02:16.510 --> 01:02:18.570
They set up the next story very well.

01:02:18.971 --> 01:02:20.992
They're always very bright and very

01:02:21.811 --> 01:02:25.273
whoever does his colors for him are always

01:02:25.353 --> 01:02:25.873
on point.

01:02:25.913 --> 01:02:29.353
So I'm going to check.

01:02:29.394 --> 01:02:32.996
So if somebody is on the fence right

01:02:33.076 --> 01:02:33.396
now,

01:02:34.135 --> 01:02:36.297
what would you say to convince them to

01:02:36.376 --> 01:02:39.597
take the leap and support the King's

01:02:39.637 --> 01:02:40.117
domain?

01:02:40.782 --> 01:02:42.802
Sell him the book, man.

01:02:42.963 --> 01:02:43.543
Sell him the book.

01:02:43.563 --> 01:02:44.143
Sell him the book.

01:02:44.204 --> 01:02:44.744
Well, man,

01:02:44.824 --> 01:02:47.085
if you're looking for something new,

01:02:47.106 --> 01:02:47.806
this is something new.

01:02:48.027 --> 01:02:49.927
It's something original.

01:02:50.007 --> 01:02:51.389
It's something that's from my mind,

01:02:51.429 --> 01:02:53.329
from my creativity, something that I love.

01:02:53.710 --> 01:02:55.211
So if you're looking for something new,

01:02:55.231 --> 01:02:56.773
an original, something to jump into,

01:02:56.932 --> 01:02:57.793
definitely.

01:02:58.173 --> 01:02:59.695
Especially if you're a new fan of comics.

01:03:00.514 --> 01:03:02.096
Like I said, I'm an indie creator.

01:03:02.135 --> 01:03:03.376
You can grow with me.

01:03:03.697 --> 01:03:04.677
You can be like, hey,

01:03:04.818 --> 01:03:06.778
I was with him when the King's Domain

01:03:06.838 --> 01:03:07.519
first came out,

01:03:07.920 --> 01:03:09.460
and now I'm here when King's Domain One

01:03:09.501 --> 01:03:10.161
Hundred comes out.

01:03:10.222 --> 01:03:10.621
You feel me?

01:03:11.001 --> 01:03:13.123
So like, this is, this is,

01:03:13.463 --> 01:03:14.804
and plus this is a story.

01:03:16.105 --> 01:03:17.346
It's a story that, you know,

01:03:17.385 --> 01:03:18.626
it's about like, you know,

01:03:19.027 --> 01:03:20.907
being a protector, being a provider,

01:03:20.947 --> 01:03:22.849
being somebody that goes out there and,

01:03:22.929 --> 01:03:23.208
you know,

01:03:23.509 --> 01:03:25.550
puts that foot forward for something that

01:03:25.590 --> 01:03:27.492
they want and then something that they,

01:03:27.831 --> 01:03:28.891
they want to change.

01:03:28.992 --> 01:03:31.034
So that's really what this story is about.

01:03:31.094 --> 01:03:31.494
Like this,

01:03:31.534 --> 01:03:33.514
there's this man who has these resources,

01:03:33.554 --> 01:03:35.456
has these powers, well not powers,

01:03:35.476 --> 01:03:36.376
but has these abilities.

01:03:36.996 --> 01:03:40.418
And he wants to actually affect change in

01:03:40.478 --> 01:03:42.097
the world in some way.

01:03:42.458 --> 01:03:43.717
And that's why I can't wait to like

01:03:43.737 --> 01:03:45.639
the series ends and you can to the

01:03:45.739 --> 01:03:46.798
arc ends and you can read it all

01:03:46.838 --> 01:03:47.219
together.

01:03:47.498 --> 01:03:50.860
But he really wants to affect change in

01:03:50.880 --> 01:03:52.059
the world in some way.

01:03:52.099 --> 01:03:54.501
He wants to to like make it better

01:03:54.541 --> 01:03:56.340
when he when he leaves this world.

01:03:56.400 --> 01:03:58.541
So I like to think we all as

01:03:58.920 --> 01:04:01.302
as men and women want to do that

01:04:01.322 --> 01:04:02.041
to some degree.

01:04:02.061 --> 01:04:02.202
I mean,

01:04:02.222 --> 01:04:03.521
there's some people who just want to watch

01:04:03.541 --> 01:04:06.063
the world burn, but there's those of us.

01:04:06.963 --> 01:04:09.143
who really want to affect change and see

01:04:09.184 --> 01:04:10.123
change in the world.

01:04:11.565 --> 01:04:11.824
Yeah,

01:04:11.905 --> 01:04:13.726
and he's up against those people that want

01:04:13.746 --> 01:04:14.905
to watch the world burn.

01:04:14.965 --> 01:04:17.806
So that makes the story interesting.

01:04:17.827 --> 01:04:19.628
It makes it really relatable.

01:04:20.148 --> 01:04:21.648
And like I said, I can't,

01:04:21.789 --> 01:04:23.228
especially if you're with me now,

01:04:24.409 --> 01:04:26.471
back in issue number two on Kickstarter,

01:04:26.990 --> 01:04:28.550
I can't wait for you to be with

01:04:28.612 --> 01:04:31.213
me when the volume one of this comes

01:04:31.273 --> 01:04:33.052
out and you can see the first arc

01:04:33.172 --> 01:04:34.893
and how my character evolves

01:04:35.193 --> 01:04:36.815
starts off, how this starts off,

01:04:36.875 --> 01:04:38.896
and how he will grow from this first

01:04:39.036 --> 01:04:39.197
arc.

01:04:41.358 --> 01:04:42.840
Anybody that's on the fence,

01:04:43.500 --> 01:04:45.041
I'm hoping that gets you on this side,

01:04:45.081 --> 01:04:47.063
but I still got time to get you

01:04:47.123 --> 01:04:47.943
off the fence later.

01:04:48.864 --> 01:04:50.184
Hey, you're here with us now.

01:04:50.224 --> 01:04:51.626
You're in the family,

01:04:51.686 --> 01:04:53.708
so we're going to make sure that we're

01:04:53.728 --> 01:04:54.728
getting it done together.

01:04:54.768 --> 01:04:56.210
That's for sure.

01:04:56.349 --> 01:04:58.472
One last question before we sign it off,

01:04:58.512 --> 01:04:58.811
man.

01:04:59.693 --> 01:05:02.014
When people look back on SITS-Fifteen

01:05:02.054 --> 01:05:02.494
Comets,

01:05:03.213 --> 01:05:06.215
years from now what do you hope they

01:05:06.255 --> 01:05:11.697
say when your stories in your impact i

01:05:11.717 --> 01:05:20.900
just hope okay so like i said i

01:05:20.920 --> 01:05:21.280
want to make

01:05:22.458 --> 01:05:23.079
Oh, this is, oh,

01:05:23.699 --> 01:05:24.659
why did I even take that long to

01:05:24.679 --> 01:05:25.099
think about this?

01:05:25.119 --> 01:05:27.101
You were overthinking that question way

01:05:27.141 --> 01:05:27.722
too much.

01:05:28.063 --> 01:05:28.764
I did.

01:05:28.784 --> 01:05:29.304
I really did.

01:05:29.423 --> 01:05:30.425
I actually had this answer.

01:05:30.505 --> 01:05:32.327
I want, when people think about six,

01:05:32.347 --> 01:05:33.407
fifteen comics, ten,

01:05:33.487 --> 01:05:35.909
twenty years from now, I want ten,

01:05:35.949 --> 01:05:38.271
twenty years from now, the kid that is...

01:05:39.867 --> 01:05:40.987
a teenager right now.

01:05:41.327 --> 01:05:42.668
I want him to be like, man,

01:05:43.268 --> 01:05:45.489
I didn't see myself in things,

01:05:45.528 --> 01:05:47.289
and when I picked up Six Fifteen Comics,

01:05:47.409 --> 01:05:48.170
I saw myself.

01:05:48.590 --> 01:05:50.210
I saw a character that looked like me,

01:05:50.530 --> 01:05:53.992
it inspired me, wanted me to be heroic,

01:05:54.032 --> 01:05:55.733
wanted me to, like the King's Domain,

01:05:55.853 --> 01:05:57.612
take a step forward and make a change

01:05:57.652 --> 01:05:58.172
in the world.

01:05:58.373 --> 01:05:59.793
And so, I want

01:06:01.094 --> 01:06:04.356
I want the younger me to have to

01:06:04.396 --> 01:06:06.576
get that representation that they may be

01:06:06.615 --> 01:06:08.815
yearning for that they may not get every

01:06:08.856 --> 01:06:09.077
day.

01:06:09.137 --> 01:06:11.016
That's what I want people to say ten

01:06:11.036 --> 01:06:11.597
years from now.

01:06:11.677 --> 01:06:14.577
I want the old head in the future

01:06:14.677 --> 01:06:15.597
to be like, yeah,

01:06:15.838 --> 01:06:16.657
when I was a kid,

01:06:16.757 --> 01:06:18.818
I had six fifteen comics, you know,

01:06:18.878 --> 01:06:19.719
that we was on.

01:06:19.739 --> 01:06:21.259
Y'all kids don't know nothing about that

01:06:21.278 --> 01:06:22.298
six fifteen comics.

01:06:22.338 --> 01:06:23.958
Like, I want people to be like that.

01:06:25.019 --> 01:06:25.760
Yes, bro.

01:06:25.980 --> 01:06:26.480
Yes.

01:06:26.639 --> 01:06:27.380
I love that.

01:06:29.554 --> 01:06:31.076
That's it right there.

01:06:31.195 --> 01:06:31.936
It really is.

01:06:32.416 --> 01:06:35.641
Inspire that next generation to step up

01:06:35.701 --> 01:06:36.621
and do what you did.

01:06:37.101 --> 01:06:39.204
And then that generation do the same

01:06:39.224 --> 01:06:39.565
thing.

01:06:40.485 --> 01:06:43.188
But before we let you go, man, Malcolm,

01:06:43.208 --> 01:06:45.751
tell everybody where they can find you and

01:06:45.791 --> 01:06:47.373
where they can find your Kickstarter.

01:06:48.681 --> 01:06:49.161
Real easily,

01:06:49.202 --> 01:06:51.282
you can find me on Instagram at six

01:06:51.302 --> 01:06:52.043
fifteen comics.

01:06:52.083 --> 01:06:53.623
The six fifteen is spelled out.

01:06:53.643 --> 01:06:54.664
You can actually see it on the bottom

01:06:54.724 --> 01:06:56.023
of the video is going along on the

01:06:56.043 --> 01:06:56.364
banner.

01:06:58.344 --> 01:06:59.985
But like it's the six fifteen is spelled

01:07:00.025 --> 01:07:00.126
out.

01:07:00.146 --> 01:07:01.065
So it's not the numbers.

01:07:01.106 --> 01:07:02.706
It's spelled out six fifteen comics.

01:07:03.547 --> 01:07:04.586
You can find me on Instagram.

01:07:04.606 --> 01:07:06.967
You can just Facebook if you put in

01:07:07.027 --> 01:07:09.487
six fifteen comics to whatever social

01:07:09.507 --> 01:07:10.789
media I should come up.

01:07:11.509 --> 01:07:14.030
um also the kickstarter if you follow me

01:07:14.110 --> 01:07:15.012
if you go to my website

01:07:15.052 --> 01:07:16.612
sixfifteencomics.com when you go to the

01:07:16.652 --> 01:07:17.773
website it's one of the first things

01:07:17.793 --> 01:07:19.534
you'll see if you go to any of

01:07:19.554 --> 01:07:22.175
my social media if there's a bio that

01:07:22.195 --> 01:07:24.237
has a link in it that's the link

01:07:24.277 --> 01:07:25.878
that's in it uh and also i'll be

01:07:25.918 --> 01:07:27.699
posting if you follow me i'm literally

01:07:27.739 --> 01:07:29.661
posting every day of this campaign i post

01:07:29.701 --> 01:07:32.503
every day period so if you follow me

01:07:32.663 --> 01:07:34.204
you're gonna see this kickstarter campaign

01:07:34.344 --> 01:07:35.045
you're gonna see it

01:07:36.061 --> 01:07:36.740
Yo and Nerd.

01:07:37.262 --> 01:07:38.342
Don't leave that shit out.

01:07:38.362 --> 01:07:39.722
Don't leave that shit out because that

01:07:39.742 --> 01:07:40.222
shit is good.

01:07:40.563 --> 01:07:41.043
Thank you, bro.

01:07:41.063 --> 01:07:42.003
Thank you, bro.

01:07:42.304 --> 01:07:43.804
Sometimes I be so laser focused.

01:07:45.146 --> 01:07:45.565
Yo and Nerd,

01:07:45.585 --> 01:07:46.967
I also do a channel called Yo and

01:07:46.987 --> 01:07:48.807
Nerd where I basically just talk about

01:07:48.927 --> 01:07:49.527
nerd stuff.

01:07:49.788 --> 01:07:51.568
I just talk about comic book stuff,

01:07:52.250 --> 01:07:52.849
read comics.

01:07:53.309 --> 01:07:53.791
Also,

01:07:53.851 --> 01:07:55.251
I'm trying to talk more about wrestling

01:07:55.271 --> 01:07:56.331
because I watch wrestling too.

01:07:56.371 --> 01:07:58.132
Just all stuff into the nerd realm.

01:07:58.532 --> 01:08:00.934
So it's not really...

01:08:01.153 --> 01:08:02.614
I'm not really trying to be a content

01:08:02.655 --> 01:08:02.914
creator.

01:08:02.934 --> 01:08:03.516
I kind of just...

01:08:04.335 --> 01:08:06.695
like to talk about stuff just being

01:08:06.715 --> 01:08:08.737
yourself yeah facts just being myself so

01:08:09.358 --> 01:08:11.217
uh on that channel also on that channel

01:08:11.338 --> 01:08:13.480
like like you do here i also give

01:08:13.559 --> 01:08:15.920
props to indie creators and indie books

01:08:15.960 --> 01:08:17.921
and i also review kickstarters that i've

01:08:17.962 --> 01:08:20.382
gotten back so yeah thank you for saying

01:08:20.403 --> 01:08:21.444
that too because i definitely would i

01:08:21.463 --> 01:08:22.623
didn't want you to leave that one out

01:08:22.644 --> 01:08:24.864
because that dude i'm not gonna lie i

01:08:24.925 --> 01:08:27.145
probably spent a good twenty minutes today

01:08:27.166 --> 01:08:27.747
at some point

01:08:28.752 --> 01:08:30.752
Just watching you on Yo and Nerd.

01:08:30.773 --> 01:08:32.595
Just because you were talking about indie

01:08:32.614 --> 01:08:34.735
stuff and like, dude,

01:08:34.876 --> 01:08:35.856
I love what you're doing, man.

01:08:35.877 --> 01:08:36.516
Don't change it.

01:08:36.976 --> 01:08:37.578
Thank you, bro.

01:08:37.618 --> 01:08:37.978
Thank you.

01:08:38.018 --> 01:08:38.939
And also to you too.

01:08:38.979 --> 01:08:39.998
I also, before I get,

01:08:40.059 --> 01:08:41.500
I also want to thank you for having

01:08:41.520 --> 01:08:42.001
me on.

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This is also.

01:08:44.002 --> 01:08:45.122
This was dope because this is our first

01:08:45.162 --> 01:08:46.804
time ever having an actual conversation.

01:08:47.465 --> 01:08:49.487
It really was, yeah.

01:08:49.527 --> 01:08:52.229
Outside of emailing back and forth to make

01:08:52.269 --> 01:08:52.930
this happen.

01:08:53.489 --> 01:08:54.570
And I always love it when I get

01:08:54.610 --> 01:08:56.011
people on and there's an instant

01:08:56.051 --> 01:08:57.113
connection like that.

01:08:57.172 --> 01:08:58.854
And it just feels like two dudes who've

01:08:58.875 --> 01:09:00.956
known each other for twenty years shooting

01:09:00.975 --> 01:09:03.118
this shit and talking about comic books.

01:09:03.158 --> 01:09:04.539
This was a great conversation.

01:09:04.619 --> 01:09:05.701
Even when we came on,

01:09:05.860 --> 01:09:07.801
you did a great job of...

01:09:08.882 --> 01:09:10.684
not trying to welcome me but welcoming me

01:09:10.764 --> 01:09:12.064
like we just kind of i came on

01:09:12.085 --> 01:09:13.364
and we just kind of started talking like

01:09:13.385 --> 01:09:17.067
we just kind of it's funny because as

01:09:17.106 --> 01:09:19.627
i was watching yo a nerd today i

01:09:19.667 --> 01:09:21.288
was like me and him are gonna hit

01:09:21.309 --> 01:09:23.569
it off right like it was just like

01:09:23.609 --> 01:09:24.770
one of those things where i'm like

01:09:26.324 --> 01:09:27.405
We're going to hit it off pretty good.

01:09:27.985 --> 01:09:28.405
Yeah.

01:09:28.426 --> 01:09:29.686
We're going to have to do something else

01:09:29.726 --> 01:09:30.806
together later on.

01:09:30.846 --> 01:09:31.707
I'm telling you, dude.

01:09:32.127 --> 01:09:32.547
I'm with it.

01:09:32.627 --> 01:09:33.307
Like I said, I'm all with it.

01:09:33.328 --> 01:09:34.208
Let's do it.

01:09:35.309 --> 01:09:37.310
But let's get you out of here so

01:09:37.369 --> 01:09:38.610
you can go spend some time with the

01:09:38.650 --> 01:09:39.131
family.

01:09:42.292 --> 01:09:46.194
I will be back on Saturday and Sunday.

01:09:46.253 --> 01:09:47.935
I'm quick turning back-to-back days.

01:09:48.055 --> 01:09:50.155
I'm going to have Bruno Caterino on.

01:09:51.076 --> 01:09:51.716
And...

01:09:52.952 --> 01:09:54.393
So Michael Williams will be the

01:09:54.493 --> 01:09:55.193
seventeenth.

01:09:55.453 --> 01:09:58.073
Bruno Caterino will be the eighteenth to

01:09:58.113 --> 01:09:59.493
talk about their projects.

01:10:00.454 --> 01:10:00.895
I literally,

01:10:00.954 --> 01:10:02.215
as I was telling Malcolm earlier,

01:10:02.496 --> 01:10:04.055
I have a whole slew of emails to

01:10:04.095 --> 01:10:05.837
go through and reply to people.

01:10:06.716 --> 01:10:07.938
There's a lot of stuff going to be

01:10:07.978 --> 01:10:10.418
happening the second half of January.

01:10:10.838 --> 01:10:11.759
So stay tuned.

01:10:12.298 --> 01:10:12.538
Plus,

01:10:12.599 --> 01:10:14.520
I got some boxes back there to open

01:10:14.619 --> 01:10:17.421
for what's in the box, man.

01:10:18.220 --> 01:10:19.421
So we're going to have a new episode

01:10:19.442 --> 01:10:20.841
of that dropping this weekend.

01:10:23.649 --> 01:10:24.750
Got to stay busy, man.

01:10:25.069 --> 01:10:26.050
It keeps me young.

01:10:26.069 --> 01:10:27.511
It does.

01:10:27.690 --> 01:10:28.792
It keeps you moving.

01:10:29.511 --> 01:10:30.353
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01:10:54.326 --> 01:10:55.686
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01:10:55.726 --> 01:10:58.648
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01:10:58.688 --> 01:11:01.430
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01:11:01.609 --> 01:11:04.931
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01:11:04.971 --> 01:11:09.994
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