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DFPN.

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Thanks for watching!

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What is up, everybody?

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It's the chairman of the United States

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Department of Nerds,

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where we are for the people,

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by the people, and of the people.

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And tonight,

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we are taking a trip down the nineteen

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eighties New Orleans in a city soaked with

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secrets, jazz and supernatural shadows.

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And our guide tonight is the talented

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mr christopher ford chris welcome to the

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show man oh thank you so much for

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having me i'm really excited to get into

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uh talking about the comic we're excited

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to have you on and to have a

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chat about dark pink now tell us what

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inspired that name dark pink um well it's

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uh

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When I came up with the idea for

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the project,

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I was in a comic book shop in

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two thousand and six and I saw a

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cover for Daughters of the Dragon number

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two,

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the Marvel comic with Missy Knight and

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Colleen Wing.

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And

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I it just hit me when I saw

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like the cover I saw her.

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I had never seen Misty or call it

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out.

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I wasn't really big into you know those

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two characters and it just something hit

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me like I gotta.

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I have to do a comic book about

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a detective with a robotic arm.

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And so the first thing that came was

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doing that.

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And then the second thing was Dark Pink.

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It just had to be the name because

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I wanted her to have pink braids.

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And then I just kind of figure out

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everything else from there.

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And so, you know, I thought it's catchy.

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It kind of describes the way the character

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looks.

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It's also a play on her name,

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Dara Pinkerton.

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So you got...

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a lot of the letters and and everything

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kind of working together so i thought it

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was clever you know trying to be i

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know it works dude i like it yeah

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yeah yeah i thought it would be something

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kind of catchy and um something someone

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would see and at least be somewhat

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intrigued that and the way you advertise

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this comment because i swear to god every

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time i got on facebook instagram your

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advertisement dude was so well on point

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man

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Like,

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it was literally everywhere I looked,

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I was seeing advertisements for Dark Pink.

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Well, thank you.

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Thank you.

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Yeah, I, like, made it a point.

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I figured, you know, like I said,

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I basically had this idea in my head

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since two thousand and six,

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nearly twenty years.

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And finally.

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you know figured out how i could actually

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create it and launch it and all of

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that um and i figured you know i'm

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gonna put in all this blood sweat and

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tears i want to make sure i push

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it um as best as i can and

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um basically like one of the things i

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did is like i i saved the money

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for years to uh

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Create the comic book.

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So I was going to use the money

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I saved to pay the artist and everything.

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And then I decided pretty late in the

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process to use that money that I was

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going to use to create the comic book

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to market it to create a Kickstarter and

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market it on Kickstarter.

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That way I could make the money back.

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but also already have a built-in fan base

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instead of just spending all the money

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creating the comic book and it not

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happening i think you secured a nice

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little bag and i think you got a

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budget set for the rest of the series

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uh yeah yeah it went pretty well um

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yeah pretty well it's just done okay you

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know relatively speaking i mean we are

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like in the top

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One percent.

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Yeah.

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Of comic book Kickstarters ever,

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which like blows my mind because if you

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see you go on my Kickstarter, you know,

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my goal is just to get like six

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thousand dollars.

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Yeah.

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I think that's about the average anybody

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can really shoot for is that six thousand.

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And then like when I clicked it,

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you know,

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when I had started following the project,

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I kept seeing it go up.

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I'm like, dang.

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Yeah,

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I am like blown away by how well

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it's been received.

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I mean, you know, of course,

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I think it's a really good idea.

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You know,

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I created it and I'm super biased,

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but to actually...

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You earned it.

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Thank you.

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Yeah, this response,

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I'm humbled and I really appreciate it.

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And it just gives me that reassurance that

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I've created something that people are

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interested in.

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I'm on the right path.

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And it just encourages me just to keep

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going.

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And we're in the home stretch of creating.

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This first one, I already have ideas.

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A script for the second one,

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I got an outline for like eight

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issues i'm here for it i'm here for

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all eight yeah and i'm just kind of

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you know learning the process like

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actually of how much time and effort and

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you know all the things you have to

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do to actually like produce a comic book

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um you know but this wasn't your first

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first foray into writing you also have

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three children's books underneath your

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belt so

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Yeah, yeah, I'm a lifelong writer.

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I've always enjoyed writing and creating

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my own worlds.

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I mean, I'm a huge comic book nerd.

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So, you know, just reading them,

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watching the X-Men on Saturday mornings

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back in the night.

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i'm right there with you yeah i always

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wanted to you know create something it

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would be like you know for me like

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eighties was gi joe and transformers oh

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yeah nineties was like power rangers and

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the x-men and i always wanted to you

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know create something that could

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you know fit in those universes um you

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know because it's the things that i was

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interested in and you know uh like i

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always wanted to do a comic book but

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i i can't draw so no one i

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don't think anybody wanted to see my stick

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figure story of uh dark pink um so

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i kind of just sat on it for

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like a long time and i decided i

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knew i could write a book

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you know, because there's no art required.

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So I went into writing like my children's

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books, you know,

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like about me and my dad and trying

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to put like positive imagery out there for

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young people.

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And now, yeah, you know,

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now that things have like kind of

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progressed, like in two thousand six,

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like there was no way for me to

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even consider like creating a

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But now, you know, with social media,

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you can actually like reach out to

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artists.

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You can promote and get your stuff out

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there a lot easier.

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And, you know,

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the stars just kind of aligned finally.

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Good work and got some good traction,

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like writing my books and everything.

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And then the time came and I was

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able to kind of put this whole thing

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together.

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And here we are.

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I like it, man.

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The comic book itself was...

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I think you immediately sent me the PDF

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version of it.

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It was really enjoyable.

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I like where the story is going from

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the roots in England to New Orleans.

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I think they went to where...

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It was England to New York to New

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York and then New Orleans.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And I thought that was really cool how

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it wasn't what I was expecting for a

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story that was set in New Orleans.

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So how did you end up in the

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city of New Orleans for the comic book?

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Well, I live in Houston, Texas.

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And New Orleans is our sister city.

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My dad is from Louisiana.

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I've been to New Orleans dozens of times

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in my life.

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Guilty.

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Guilty.

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It's literally like a four and a half,

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five hour drive in a forty five minute

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flight from where I live.

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So it's been a part of life.

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me like my entire life like i have

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all kind of crazy memories from being on

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bourbon street when i was too young to

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probably be on bourbon street and seeing

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all kinds of weird things and stuff and

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your old kids shouldn't be saying but yeah

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You know, so like, I also know that,

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you know,

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a lot of combos are like set in

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New York or fictional cities and things

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like that.

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And since I wanted to tell a story

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with like mysticism and monsters and

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things of that nature.

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New Orleans is perfect for it.

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Yeah, then New Orleans,

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if you want a place.

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I think there's more haunted tours in New

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Orleans than there is anywhere else in the

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United States.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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It's, you know,

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the city is just like steeped in history

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and lore.

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And, you know, it's a very,

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very fascinating place.

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And I think it's just like the perfect

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place to tell like this kind of story.

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No, dude, I like it.

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I think it's the perfect setting for this

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type of story.

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And having been to New Orleans myself more

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times than I'm willing to admit to,

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the vibe,

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even when you're there during the day,

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it just everything feels unsettling.

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yeah yeah yeah it's a it's a very

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very unique place it's like um like no

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other place that you know you can really

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like that's considered like a

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quote-unquote like touristy place like

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it's uh it's got some some up to

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it so that's one way to put it

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yeah so

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You've combined this idea of like the noir

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of the eighties, the supernatural horror,

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but you took it a step further and

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you combined that nineteen eighties New

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Orleans jazz feel directly into the story

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where you can listen to the music and

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read the comic book together.

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How did you come up with that?

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Because that is brilliant.

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Well, I love music.

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You know,

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growing up in the eighties and the

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nineties,

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I would consider the best era for a

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lot of, a lot of musical genres.

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Without a doubt, without a doubt.

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yeah so like i just wanted to incorporate

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like the things that i love the things

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that i find interesting the things that i

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enjoy like that's the fun thing of like

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you know being a creative and you know

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coming up with something you can just

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throw in all the stuff that you like

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yeah um i'm a big music person you

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know um and like that was one of

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the early things that i came up with

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you know once i kind of started to

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piece like the project together was i

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wanted to figure out a way to incorporate

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music like i i knew um i wanted

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to do a purple rain cover like

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Fifteen years ago.

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There's something about a Purple Rain

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tribute cover.

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I know we were talking before we went

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live,

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but it's one of those things where...

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If I'm in the comic book store and

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I'm just so happen to be flipping through

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the dollar bin or something,

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if I see a Purple Range review cover,

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it's coming home with me.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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No.

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Instant buy.

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Yeah.

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You know,

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it just it's so iconic and it's just

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cool.

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It just looks good.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Like only Prince could take a purple

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velvet suit and a purple Harley Davidson

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in the rain and make that shit cool.

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Yeah, with frills.

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If it had been anybody else on that

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motorcycle,

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it would not have been that cool.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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No, no.

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You know, Prince is the man.

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So it's like my personal favorite musical

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artist, you know, of all time.

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It's like him and Sade.

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And so, like,

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I knew I had to put the Sade

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cover.

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When I seen that,

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when I seen that one.

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And I think you included the music in

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there, too.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I was like,

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this is my dude right here.

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Like, this is my dude.

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The intro features like Smooth Operator.

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That's the name of the issue.

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Number one is Smooth Operator.

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And yeah, you know,

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I just wanted to do something,

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like one that I enjoyed,

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that I would find interesting.

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But also, you know,

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do something that was unique.

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Like,

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I don't see a lot of music integrated

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into, like, comics.

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Of course, you know, like Marvel and DC,

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like, they can't do it because...

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I think I've seen one other.

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And I don't remember what it was.

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And I want to say it was from.

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It was actually another Kickstarter.

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It was called the Cryos.

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But it was a nineteen eighties punk.

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But the soundtrack was amazing for it,

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too.

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And it was something about that eighties

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and nineties, man, whether it was R&B,

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hip hop.

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know pop or punk just the music vibe

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completely different so just such a man

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such a great generation of music yeah yeah

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you know i i i think that it's

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um you know something that

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is also kind of underrepresented,

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you know, in popular culture now.

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It's like, we, now the,

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I guess because we're old,

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but the nostalgia now is like early two

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thousands.

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It still blows my mind, dude.

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Every single time.

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Yeah.

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And I'm just like, no,

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we got to go back to the other

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stuff, you know, get to the good stuff,

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the stuff that inspired the early two

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thousand.

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So.

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So, yeah, I mean, you know,

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when I hear people say the mid two

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thousands,

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I sit there and stare at them like,

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what the hell are you talking about?

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Mid two thousands.

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yeah i'm like oh it's twenty twenty five

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i guess that does make sense yeah i

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know like i said i i was looking

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at um like my copy of dollars of

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the dragon is like two thousand and six

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on there i was like i've been working

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on this for nineteen years um yeah like

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time flies but you know it's it was

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such a

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like the eighties were such an influential

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time, like in pop culture at, you know,

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it's, it's,

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it's always a good time to go back

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to that time, you know, when you're,

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Oh yeah.

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Without a doubt.

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Without a doubt.

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It's, I still watch, um, the Goonies and,

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um,

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Back to the Future, the Ghostbusters.

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I'll still watch the old school Teenage

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Mutant Ninja Turtles, Scooby-Doo.

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I go back and I still watch all

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that stuff.

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Yeah, yeah, no, Back to the Future.

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I mean,

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action movies to me were like born in

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that time frame with Rambo and Terminator.

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Yeah, yeah, no, I...

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I had a Robocop homage piece of art

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made.

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I'm definitely one hundred percent going

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to Back to the Future.

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uh homage cover for for one of the

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the future issues that's one hundred

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percent i had to got to um you

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know terminator the the terminator one uh

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movie poster i want to do something with

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that i want to do like the the

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eighties horror movies i want to do like

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a friday the thirteenth homage and like

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home street like it's is this don't create

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my wallet i would just give you my

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wallet now

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yeah i this is i'm trying to create

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stuff like i would want to see and

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i know other people would want to see

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and you know it's also funny that um

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younger people they weren't so much

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exposed to it but they'll still see it

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and it'll draw them in because it was

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you know all the art and the music

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it was so creative and so well done

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that you know all you have to do

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is show somebody

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If you play a Michael Myers theme song,

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people immediately know what that is.

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All that stuff,

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they call classes for a reason.

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For those people not familiar with Dark

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Pink...

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and your main character Dora Pinkerton

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tell everybody who Dora Pinkerton is and

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kind of give us the background on her

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character because she's a fantastic

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character and then the Fresh Prince thing

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you did with her chef's kiss dude uh

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thank you thank you yeah I I was

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pretty like for like kind of the prequel

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story of her being younger in her teenage

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years like the

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French intro.

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So that was brilliant.

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I'm not even going to lie to you.

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That was as soon as I seen that's

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where it was going with the story.

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I was like,

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is he going to do it?

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And then it went to it.

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I was like, I like it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I really, you know, just again,

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like just incorporating the things that

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influenced me, the things I grew up with,

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the things that I find interesting,

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I wanted to just include.

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And so like, yeah, Dara is

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Pinkerton.

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I like to describe her as Misty Knight

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meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets

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Whitley Gilbert from a different world

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with a little bit of like Miles Morales

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kind of wisecrack-y with a little bit of

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like Monie Love,

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the eighties female rapper from the UK.

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She's a young woman.

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She grew up in the UK.

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Through a mishap that we'll get into in

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a future issue,

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she lost her arm and her father created

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the cybernetic golden arm for her because

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he's a tech whiz and a genius.

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And she's just having kind of her regular

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teenage life and everything.

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She has a little issue at her boarding

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school and they have to move,

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her and her family, they moved to America.

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So she goes to America,

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she goes to college in America, graduates,

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and then her parents go to New Orleans

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on a vacation and they disappear.

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And she decides to move to New Orleans

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to try and find out what happened.

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She's not a seasoned veteran.

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She's not an expert detective or anything

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like that.

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She's literally the first time we see her

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in the comic book, in the main version,

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she's literally on her first case and

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messing it up.

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So... She's just Dora.

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Just Dora.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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She is, you know...

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Definitely green behind the ears and...

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Just a young person just trying to...

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She's just trying to figure out what

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happened to her parents.

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And then she gets into...

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gets involved into you know deeper and

00:20:56.786 --> 00:21:00.147
more sinister things you know that's when

00:21:00.188 --> 00:21:04.929
the the new orleans lore and uh you

00:21:04.949 --> 00:21:08.770
know monsters and uh conspiracies and all

00:21:08.810 --> 00:21:10.692
of that good stuff kind of comes you

00:21:10.711 --> 00:21:13.053
know a bigger thing is at play um

00:21:13.093 --> 00:21:15.473
but she's like you said she's very green

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she's not seeing any of that yet she

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just was literally

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trying to figure out this case that she's

00:21:21.329 --> 00:21:23.250
working on because she needs to make some

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money and also kind of like learn the

00:21:27.775 --> 00:21:29.455
skills like on the fly so she can

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start investigating what happened to her

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parents.

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So, you know, she's she's smart,

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she's brave,

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but she's also just a person and she's

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just trying her best and she doesn't have

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all the answers.

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She's not going to be, you know,

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out here just

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you know solving things instantly and

00:21:48.911 --> 00:21:51.310
kicking you know all the button went in

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all the fights you know she's just like

00:21:54.352 --> 00:21:56.771
oh this thing is happening let me deal

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with it and you know just do it

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doing the best that she can i think

00:22:00.573 --> 00:22:02.634
that you know i'll try to create her

00:22:02.773 --> 00:22:06.994
as a very relatable character um she is

00:22:07.035 --> 00:22:09.275
like everything about her like her story

00:22:09.295 --> 00:22:10.935
could be your story you know what i'm

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saying

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I want,

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I want people to be able to connect

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with her.

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I didn't want her to be like,

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you know, like a Superman or a Batman,

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you know, someone that, you know,

00:22:23.903 --> 00:22:27.145
you can look up to because they're,

00:22:27.205 --> 00:22:28.546
you know, they have their stuff together.

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Like I want her to be someone you

00:22:31.268 --> 00:22:32.909
are looking over at like, oh,

00:22:33.009 --> 00:22:33.368
I know her.

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And, you know,

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if I was in that situation,

00:22:37.605 --> 00:22:39.086
I'd probably do the same thing.

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And that's one of the keys like to

00:22:42.729 --> 00:22:45.050
her character is like her relatability and

00:22:45.070 --> 00:22:46.892
that she is, like I said,

00:22:46.951 --> 00:22:47.832
far from an expert.

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She's just a person just trying to do

00:22:49.634 --> 00:22:53.276
her best and trying to go on.

00:22:53.336 --> 00:22:55.336
Now, I like her as a character, dude,

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and she's probably one of the more unique

00:22:58.858 --> 00:23:01.381
characters I have come across in

00:23:02.566 --> 00:23:04.767
my years back in the comic books and

00:23:04.827 --> 00:23:07.368
that's why the moment i had seen her

00:23:07.429 --> 00:23:09.109
and i had read the kickstarter and all

00:23:09.130 --> 00:23:10.411
that that's why i was just like

00:23:10.431 --> 00:23:13.353
immediately put it in my favorites and

00:23:13.673 --> 00:23:16.335
just like follow it you know and see

00:23:16.355 --> 00:23:18.276
where we're going with it and i was

00:23:18.296 --> 00:23:21.278
like oh damn let me you know back

00:23:21.298 --> 00:23:23.078
this before i forget because i do want

00:23:23.098 --> 00:23:26.520
to get in on this and thankfully i

00:23:26.540 --> 00:23:27.461
was able to get in on it

00:23:28.811 --> 00:23:30.333
Looking forward to getting my dark pink

00:23:30.373 --> 00:23:31.593
shirt because, you know,

00:23:31.613 --> 00:23:34.575
I got to get my Prince Amai shirt.

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Oh, okay.

00:23:37.276 --> 00:23:37.856
Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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We got them printed up,

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like ready to go.

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Just waiting, like I said,

00:23:43.318 --> 00:23:46.361
waiting on the art to be finished.

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All the...

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It's gonna be a very thorough package.

00:23:53.854 --> 00:23:56.576
Like it's gonna be over pages worth of

00:23:56.855 --> 00:23:57.957
art and story.

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The main story alone is fifty-four pages.

00:24:01.898 --> 00:24:02.259
That's brilliant.

00:24:04.082 --> 00:24:05.202
Yeah,

00:24:05.222 --> 00:24:08.525
I didn't want to leave it on a

00:24:08.545 --> 00:24:09.145
cliffhanger.

00:24:09.185 --> 00:24:13.229
I wanted to tell a complete issue, story.

00:24:15.289 --> 00:24:16.830
It sets the things to be continued,

00:24:16.871 --> 00:24:18.432
but you'll get a resolution.

00:24:18.451 --> 00:24:20.314
Yeah, but so many comics,

00:24:20.374 --> 00:24:23.715
especially in the Kickstarter world,

00:24:24.396 --> 00:24:26.939
it'll take four issues to tell the first

00:24:26.959 --> 00:24:27.419
story.

00:24:28.138 --> 00:24:31.682
And by going ahead and spending those...

00:24:34.563 --> 00:24:36.785
extra money and fifty four pages or fifty

00:24:36.805 --> 00:24:38.625
two pages is a lot of pages for

00:24:38.906 --> 00:24:40.127
a single issue comic book.

00:24:40.167 --> 00:24:41.509
Normally we're looking at twenty eight to

00:24:41.548 --> 00:24:42.128
thirty two.

00:24:43.210 --> 00:24:45.192
And let's say on average,

00:24:45.813 --> 00:24:48.736
if you go with a.

00:24:48.756 --> 00:24:50.457
A not well known, but decent.

00:24:53.900 --> 00:24:55.402
Artists, we're talking like seventy,

00:24:55.501 --> 00:24:56.383
eighty bucks a page.

00:24:57.423 --> 00:24:59.605
So you put the commitment in.

00:25:01.150 --> 00:25:03.131
for it and that's appreciated i can

00:25:03.171 --> 00:25:06.073
guarantee that yeah yeah yeah i mean

00:25:06.093 --> 00:25:08.913
that's one of the reasons why um it's

00:25:08.953 --> 00:25:11.115
kind of kind of taking so long because

00:25:11.215 --> 00:25:13.317
like i didn't want like you know i've

00:25:13.336 --> 00:25:15.038
been working on it and i had it

00:25:15.097 --> 00:25:16.878
in my my head for such a long

00:25:16.919 --> 00:25:20.461
time i wanted it to be like amazing

00:25:20.560 --> 00:25:21.961
i wanted to be incredible at least to

00:25:22.001 --> 00:25:24.103
at least blow my own mind yeah um

00:25:24.792 --> 00:25:28.535
So, like, I hired, like,

00:25:28.555 --> 00:25:31.636
the best artists that I could get.

00:25:31.656 --> 00:25:34.298
You know, like, for the covers, we have,

00:25:34.317 --> 00:25:34.397
like,

00:25:34.417 --> 00:25:36.159
people that have done stuff for Marvel.

00:25:36.539 --> 00:25:38.000
Yeah.

00:25:38.039 --> 00:25:38.401
It's funny.

00:25:38.421 --> 00:25:40.301
Some of those artists I have covers of.

00:25:40.902 --> 00:25:41.883
I have some of their covers.

00:25:42.866 --> 00:25:43.508
Yeah, yeah.

00:25:43.587 --> 00:25:45.410
So, I mean, you know, we have,

00:25:45.710 --> 00:25:46.131
you know,

00:25:46.191 --> 00:25:49.013
like Karan Grant did the Purple Rain

00:25:49.054 --> 00:25:49.694
cover.

00:25:51.678 --> 00:25:54.441
Robin Smith did the Sade cover.

00:25:55.102 --> 00:25:55.982
Kari Evans,

00:25:56.042 --> 00:25:57.525
who did the cover of that Daughters of

00:25:57.545 --> 00:25:59.567
the Dragon number two that I saw that

00:26:00.228 --> 00:26:01.388
inspired this whole thing.

00:26:02.430 --> 00:26:05.051
Um, he did the, uh, the Malcolm X,

00:26:05.711 --> 00:26:08.513
uh, homage cover, and he's doing a,

00:26:08.614 --> 00:26:09.854
one of the short stories.

00:26:10.615 --> 00:26:12.796
Um, as well, and for.

00:26:13.777 --> 00:26:16.718
The interior, um, we have, uh,

00:26:16.817 --> 00:26:20.720
this artist, he's, um, like, worked for.

00:26:21.901 --> 00:26:24.320
Like, DC, he's done, like,

00:26:24.500 --> 00:26:27.122
he did the Assassin's Creed comic book for

00:26:27.221 --> 00:26:27.862
Ubisoft.

00:26:29.761 --> 00:26:31.542
Super, super talented guy.

00:26:32.942 --> 00:26:34.762
You know, he's doing, like, a great job.

00:26:34.782 --> 00:26:39.064
He literally sent me a page today that

00:26:39.203 --> 00:26:39.624
featured, like,

00:26:39.644 --> 00:26:42.345
some of the people that did the tier

00:26:42.365 --> 00:26:43.664
to be featured in the comic.

00:26:43.924 --> 00:26:44.644
Yeah.

00:26:44.724 --> 00:26:45.785
And everybody looks great.

00:26:45.805 --> 00:26:46.825
I'm like, okay, perfect.

00:26:46.884 --> 00:26:49.486
So, yeah, you know, it's...

00:26:51.569 --> 00:26:54.372
The support has been so overwhelming that

00:26:54.432 --> 00:26:57.653
it's allowed me to put more into the

00:26:57.693 --> 00:26:58.315
project.

00:26:58.595 --> 00:26:59.935
Yeah.

00:26:59.976 --> 00:27:02.597
You know, because, yeah,

00:27:02.637 --> 00:27:05.660
PJ is a little bit more than eighty

00:27:05.880 --> 00:27:07.161
dollars a page, I wish.

00:27:08.342 --> 00:27:11.423
And that was like if you're going you're

00:27:11.463 --> 00:27:13.506
starting at like you're you're.

00:27:14.627 --> 00:27:17.868
upper-lower to mid-lower tier,

00:27:18.650 --> 00:27:20.430
we're setting the eighties of page.

00:27:21.010 --> 00:27:22.310
And I know there's some artists who are

00:27:22.371 --> 00:27:23.991
like, you know,

00:27:24.011 --> 00:27:25.412
they're not even gonna roll over in their

00:27:25.451 --> 00:27:26.292
bed for that much.

00:27:26.813 --> 00:27:27.972
Yeah.

00:27:27.992 --> 00:27:28.073
Yeah.

00:27:28.093 --> 00:27:28.173
Yeah.

00:27:28.192 --> 00:27:29.953
A lot, a lot of, a lot of,

00:27:30.013 --> 00:27:31.154
a lot of people won't like,

00:27:31.174 --> 00:27:32.775
they won't even put ink on the page

00:27:32.875 --> 00:27:34.215
or do your lettering for that much.

00:27:34.934 --> 00:27:37.696
Yeah, yeah, and hey, like, I understand.

00:27:37.737 --> 00:27:39.638
Like, I'm, you know,

00:27:39.679 --> 00:27:42.040
we're spending money on the project,

00:27:43.080 --> 00:27:45.762
but the quality is because we're creating,

00:27:46.084 --> 00:27:48.244
like, a really high-quality project.

00:27:48.285 --> 00:27:48.526
Like,

00:27:48.965 --> 00:27:52.367
the colorist we have is a guy named

00:27:52.407 --> 00:27:53.288
Marco Lesko.

00:27:53.750 --> 00:27:56.171
He just won the Eisner, which is, like,

00:27:56.191 --> 00:27:56.392
you know,

00:27:56.451 --> 00:28:00.275
the Oscars of comic book stuff for

00:28:00.315 --> 00:28:01.375
coloring for...

00:28:02.772 --> 00:28:03.614
For Godzilla.

00:28:03.653 --> 00:28:05.214
For IDW.

00:28:06.075 --> 00:28:07.817
And that's his second Eisner.

00:28:07.856 --> 00:28:09.837
So we have like a two time.

00:28:10.238 --> 00:28:12.079
Eisner winning artist.

00:28:12.279 --> 00:28:14.121
A colorist doing the colors.

00:28:14.582 --> 00:28:16.262
And the stuff looks great.

00:28:16.442 --> 00:28:18.124
You know again I'm biased.

00:28:18.183 --> 00:28:19.605
But I think it's one of the best

00:28:19.644 --> 00:28:19.905
looking.

00:28:19.945 --> 00:28:21.326
Like indie comics.

00:28:22.307 --> 00:28:22.547
Um.

00:28:23.499 --> 00:28:24.339
that you can find.

00:28:24.819 --> 00:28:28.241
I think it's right on par with Marvel

00:28:28.602 --> 00:28:30.544
and DC and all that stuff.

00:28:30.624 --> 00:28:31.263
I really do.

00:28:31.324 --> 00:28:32.724
I think it looks really good.

00:28:33.865 --> 00:28:35.067
From what I've seen,

00:28:35.126 --> 00:28:36.847
just from what you have sent me,

00:28:37.929 --> 00:28:40.631
and I love how colors can be blended

00:28:40.691 --> 00:28:42.932
and layered and textured to really give

00:28:42.971 --> 00:28:45.114
you an environment that feels like you can

00:28:45.173 --> 00:28:48.055
immerse yourself into.

00:28:48.075 --> 00:28:49.096
I always say this,

00:28:49.656 --> 00:28:51.037
those are your make and breaks.

00:28:51.357 --> 00:28:52.618
The people who do your colors,

00:28:53.476 --> 00:28:54.656
who do your line work.

00:28:55.616 --> 00:28:58.558
Even the guy who does your lettering can

00:28:58.598 --> 00:29:00.259
make and break a good comic book.

00:29:01.740 --> 00:29:02.481
To me, that's where

00:29:04.121 --> 00:29:05.800
you know, money should be spent,

00:29:06.181 --> 00:29:08.221
that and advertising and marketing the

00:29:08.241 --> 00:29:08.582
book.

00:29:09.261 --> 00:29:10.843
And I think you've done all those

00:29:11.643 --> 00:29:13.303
absolutely brilliantly.

00:29:13.522 --> 00:29:15.663
Well, thank you.

00:29:15.703 --> 00:29:16.044
Thank you.

00:29:16.064 --> 00:29:17.243
Yeah, I appreciate it.

00:29:17.263 --> 00:29:17.683
I do.

00:29:17.884 --> 00:29:18.443
I'm very,

00:29:18.503 --> 00:29:22.244
very proud of how it looks and the

00:29:22.305 --> 00:29:23.826
work that, you know,

00:29:23.846 --> 00:29:27.086
PJ and Marco and Kari and Karan and

00:29:27.126 --> 00:29:28.807
Robin and Danny Perez,

00:29:28.826 --> 00:29:30.946
who did the Fresh Prince story.

00:29:32.208 --> 00:29:32.807
I still love it.

00:29:33.448 --> 00:29:37.190
he did uh danny did the the lines

00:29:37.210 --> 00:29:40.250
the coloring and lettering okay for that

00:29:40.290 --> 00:29:41.671
whole story like he's one of the few

00:29:41.691 --> 00:29:43.491
people that can actually do the whole

00:29:43.531 --> 00:29:45.772
thing and like i think it came out

00:29:45.792 --> 00:29:47.513
great and carly is working on one of

00:29:47.534 --> 00:29:51.055
the short stories and um we have tyler

00:29:51.095 --> 00:29:53.276
lenas who's working for marvel he did uh

00:29:53.556 --> 00:29:57.458
the other short story okay you know i

00:29:57.478 --> 00:29:59.317
know you got that one where the vampire

00:29:59.357 --> 00:30:00.219
looks like blade

00:30:00.950 --> 00:30:01.911
From the comic book.

00:30:02.250 --> 00:30:04.031
Yeah, Francisco Tomaselli,

00:30:04.071 --> 00:30:08.035
who's doing Hulk right now from Marvel.

00:30:08.095 --> 00:30:10.336
I've got quite a few of his covers.

00:30:10.676 --> 00:30:12.037
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:30:12.718 --> 00:30:14.058
I was just in the shop,

00:30:14.098 --> 00:30:15.839
and he did the cover for, you know,

00:30:15.859 --> 00:30:17.260
he's doing the King Spawn stuff,

00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:18.321
and I just saw it.

00:30:18.622 --> 00:30:19.682
I got a bunch of it, I know.

00:30:20.222 --> 00:30:22.664
Yeah, he's super, super talented.

00:30:22.704 --> 00:30:24.746
And he's really, really nice, too.

00:30:25.205 --> 00:30:26.686
No, he's a very, very nice guy.

00:30:26.727 --> 00:30:28.888
He actually hit, he saw the ad,

00:30:29.688 --> 00:30:31.628
And he DM'd me on Instagram.

00:30:31.648 --> 00:30:31.989
He was like,

00:30:33.210 --> 00:30:35.090
please let me know if you need something.

00:30:35.730 --> 00:30:37.372
And he turned out at a really good

00:30:37.432 --> 00:30:37.791
rate.

00:30:38.031 --> 00:30:39.472
And I was like, absolutely.

00:30:39.972 --> 00:30:41.713
So...

00:30:41.854 --> 00:30:44.215
I've had conversations with him on

00:30:44.316 --> 00:30:46.537
Instagram because I would...

00:30:47.607 --> 00:30:49.089
Back when I was doing a heavy comic

00:30:49.130 --> 00:30:51.031
book and before I transitioned over to

00:30:51.092 --> 00:30:53.433
like doing these types of interviews,

00:30:54.174 --> 00:30:55.816
I would just do the weekly comic book

00:30:55.836 --> 00:30:56.978
drops and that kind of stuff.

00:30:57.018 --> 00:30:59.400
And it seemed like he was in my

00:30:59.460 --> 00:31:01.221
stack of comic books like two or three

00:31:01.281 --> 00:31:01.781
times.

00:31:02.748 --> 00:31:04.390
And I was always tagging in a minute.

00:31:04.430 --> 00:31:05.029
He's like, dude,

00:31:05.049 --> 00:31:06.231
you don't have to always tag me.

00:31:06.251 --> 00:31:07.452
I'm like, yeah,

00:31:07.472 --> 00:31:09.894
but I'm putting out there what I'm reading

00:31:09.934 --> 00:31:10.476
to people.

00:31:10.576 --> 00:31:13.578
I want them to know the talent doing

00:31:13.598 --> 00:31:14.400
what I'm reading.

00:31:14.980 --> 00:31:15.280
And I'm like,

00:31:15.320 --> 00:31:16.541
I'm sorry that you come up two and

00:31:16.582 --> 00:31:17.162
three times.

00:31:17.201 --> 00:31:21.006
And that's a tribute to you because I

00:31:21.026 --> 00:31:21.987
know your work now.

00:31:22.126 --> 00:31:23.848
And anytime I can notice your work,

00:31:23.888 --> 00:31:24.690
I'm going to pick it up.

00:31:25.987 --> 00:31:27.008
Yeah, yeah.

00:31:27.028 --> 00:31:27.708
Hey, little bit,

00:31:27.788 --> 00:31:31.108
I'll give you a little bit of breaking

00:31:31.128 --> 00:31:31.269
news.

00:31:31.329 --> 00:31:34.471
I haven't told anybody this before.

00:31:34.651 --> 00:31:34.971
Oh, shit.

00:31:35.050 --> 00:31:36.892
Okay, let's go.

00:31:36.912 --> 00:31:40.593
Francisco is actually working on a short

00:31:40.613 --> 00:31:42.673
story for Dark Pink number two.

00:31:43.674 --> 00:31:44.474
Oh, snap.

00:31:44.694 --> 00:31:45.575
That's what's up.

00:31:46.016 --> 00:31:47.375
Yeah, yeah.

00:31:48.037 --> 00:31:48.176
See,

00:31:48.196 --> 00:31:49.457
that's where I think a lot of people

00:31:49.477 --> 00:31:51.258
don't realize is a lot of these guys

00:31:51.278 --> 00:31:53.598
who do covers and stuff like that,

00:31:54.400 --> 00:31:58.101
are uber talented and are also very good

00:31:58.141 --> 00:32:01.782
writers as well yeah yeah he um he

00:32:01.803 --> 00:32:03.482
had posted like some interior stuff he was

00:32:03.502 --> 00:32:04.864
just like messing around because he's

00:32:04.884 --> 00:32:06.144
trying to get marvel to like let him

00:32:06.163 --> 00:32:08.944
do some interiors and stuff um and i

00:32:08.964 --> 00:32:11.165
was like this looks amazing and after we

00:32:11.185 --> 00:32:16.528
did the um um the blade cover um

00:32:16.548 --> 00:32:18.748
i was like would you like so it

00:32:18.768 --> 00:32:20.348
was right it is a blade cover

00:32:21.652 --> 00:32:22.771
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

00:32:22.951 --> 00:32:23.492
Because I was like, dude,

00:32:23.532 --> 00:32:25.053
it looks just like Blade from the comic

00:32:25.093 --> 00:32:25.353
book.

00:32:26.012 --> 00:32:26.613
Yeah, yeah,

00:32:26.633 --> 00:32:29.193
that story is actually going to be an

00:32:29.314 --> 00:32:30.074
homage.

00:32:30.094 --> 00:32:32.134
That short story is like six pages.

00:32:32.154 --> 00:32:33.454
It's going to be an homage to the

00:32:33.474 --> 00:32:39.115
intro to Blade I. Oh, dude, yes.

00:32:39.155 --> 00:32:41.537
Yeah, Kari Evans is doing the interior.

00:32:41.717 --> 00:32:42.876
She's got one page left.

00:32:42.916 --> 00:32:44.498
It looks crazy.

00:32:44.538 --> 00:32:46.538
Dude, I can't wait to see that, man.

00:32:46.557 --> 00:32:47.738
Yeah, Kari's going to do it.

00:32:47.758 --> 00:32:50.179
Yeah, that's kind of like the...

00:32:51.214 --> 00:32:52.634
got kind of like the dream team working

00:32:52.694 --> 00:32:53.214
on that one.

00:32:53.234 --> 00:32:56.355
Cause like the coloring Francisco's did

00:32:56.375 --> 00:32:58.175
the cover and car is going to do

00:32:58.256 --> 00:32:59.017
like the inks.

00:32:59.396 --> 00:32:59.777
Um,

00:33:00.277 --> 00:33:01.977
it's going to be the most action packed

00:33:02.057 --> 00:33:03.356
part of the pack.

00:33:03.617 --> 00:33:07.178
Cause this is like five pages of Dara

00:33:07.218 --> 00:33:09.459
fighting vampires with a sword and a gun.

00:33:10.338 --> 00:33:12.858
Um, you know, doing so.

00:33:13.358 --> 00:33:14.819
Yeah.

00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:17.240
I can love it, dude.

00:33:18.140 --> 00:33:18.259
Yeah.

00:33:18.279 --> 00:33:19.500
I can't wait for people to see that.

00:33:19.661 --> 00:33:20.740
You have no idea.

00:33:20.760 --> 00:33:20.921
Like,

00:33:23.171 --> 00:33:23.590
I'm pumped.

00:33:23.990 --> 00:33:26.751
I could get the little hair standing up.

00:33:27.452 --> 00:33:29.192
It's going to be really, really good.

00:33:29.294 --> 00:33:32.575
I've already seen the inks and stuff.

00:33:32.615 --> 00:33:34.615
He's only got one more page to go.

00:33:34.915 --> 00:33:36.636
It looks good.

00:33:36.656 --> 00:33:38.057
He's doing some crazy stuff.

00:33:38.238 --> 00:33:38.538
As a

00:33:41.618 --> 00:33:45.382
you know, Blade fan.

00:33:45.481 --> 00:33:47.682
I still put Blade being responsible for

00:33:47.722 --> 00:33:49.284
creating what we have now as the MCU.

00:33:49.463 --> 00:33:50.744
Oh, absolutely.

00:33:50.944 --> 00:33:51.546
Absolutely.

00:33:51.586 --> 00:33:53.626
Like, heck, he might have saved...

00:33:53.646 --> 00:33:55.528
That movie might have saved Marvel

00:33:55.729 --> 00:33:56.368
altogether.

00:33:56.388 --> 00:33:56.568
Period.

00:33:56.709 --> 00:33:57.089
It did.

00:33:57.630 --> 00:33:57.910
It did.

00:33:57.950 --> 00:33:58.730
That's been said.

00:33:59.490 --> 00:34:01.432
Yeah, it was so, like,

00:34:01.752 --> 00:34:03.273
well done and then well-received and made

00:34:03.294 --> 00:34:03.614
a bunch of money.

00:34:03.634 --> 00:34:05.515
And it saved Wesley Snipes' ass, too.

00:34:06.135 --> 00:34:06.455
Yeah.

00:34:06.635 --> 00:34:07.876
Yeah, it was, like...

00:34:08.795 --> 00:34:09.235
Yeah,

00:34:09.275 --> 00:34:11.137
that project needs to be studied and

00:34:11.177 --> 00:34:13.079
someone needs to do a documentary just on

00:34:13.498 --> 00:34:15.061
what Blade did for like everybody

00:34:15.121 --> 00:34:15.661
involved.

00:34:16.322 --> 00:34:16.961
Exactly.

00:34:17.402 --> 00:34:18.182
The project.

00:34:18.423 --> 00:34:21.266
And yeah, so, you know,

00:34:21.286 --> 00:34:22.626
that's one of my favorite movies.

00:34:22.646 --> 00:34:23.188
So I was like,

00:34:23.288 --> 00:34:25.170
I got to do a Blade thing.

00:34:25.250 --> 00:34:27.190
I will sit down on a Saturday morning

00:34:27.210 --> 00:34:28.251
and watch Blade one,

00:34:28.291 --> 00:34:29.853
two and three back to back to back.

00:34:30.563 --> 00:34:32.184
Yeah, I actually like Blade III.

00:34:32.204 --> 00:34:33.664
I know people don't like it.

00:34:33.684 --> 00:34:34.005
People hate it.

00:34:34.065 --> 00:34:34.684
I don't know why.

00:34:35.264 --> 00:34:36.905
I thought it was pretty good.

00:34:37.005 --> 00:34:38.387
I like Triple H in there.

00:34:38.407 --> 00:34:39.688
I like Ryan Reynolds in there.

00:34:39.708 --> 00:34:41.007
I like Jessica Biel in there.

00:34:41.108 --> 00:34:42.509
Well, I know you're a big WWE guy,

00:34:42.728 --> 00:34:43.710
so I knew you were going to like

00:34:43.730 --> 00:34:44.610
the Triple H part.

00:34:44.909 --> 00:34:45.931
Yeah.

00:34:45.951 --> 00:34:47.711
Don't think I didn't Instagram look at

00:34:47.751 --> 00:34:51.074
you, too, because when I do these things,

00:34:51.094 --> 00:34:53.434
I like to see and get into people's

00:34:53.454 --> 00:34:55.795
stuff and see what they're following,

00:34:55.835 --> 00:34:56.456
what they're doing.

00:34:56.536 --> 00:34:57.336
I know you got one of the...

00:34:58.847 --> 00:35:01.028
probably nicest shoe collections I've ever

00:35:01.048 --> 00:35:01.809
seen in my life.

00:35:02.309 --> 00:35:02.969
Oh, thank you.

00:35:02.989 --> 00:35:03.750
I appreciate that.

00:35:03.769 --> 00:35:04.771
And I'm not a shoe guy.

00:35:04.811 --> 00:35:06.911
Like I've tried before in the past,

00:35:07.032 --> 00:35:10.753
but I'm one of those guys where the

00:35:10.793 --> 00:35:13.195
moment I get home, shoes are off.

00:35:13.614 --> 00:35:15.496
I'm like, I'd rather be barefoot.

00:35:16.376 --> 00:35:16.936
Oh yeah.

00:35:16.956 --> 00:35:17.996
If I could go out barefooted,

00:35:18.077 --> 00:35:19.538
I would probably just go out barefooted.

00:35:20.552 --> 00:35:22.693
It's a terrible hobby because I barely

00:35:22.713 --> 00:35:23.454
wear the shoes.

00:35:23.614 --> 00:35:26.036
It's such a weird thing.

00:35:26.056 --> 00:35:27.016
But yeah, I mean, you know,

00:35:27.097 --> 00:35:28.518
it's like the things I like,

00:35:28.539 --> 00:35:31.820
I like comic books, I like sneakers,

00:35:32.242 --> 00:35:35.523
I like eighties pop culture, anything,

00:35:35.744 --> 00:35:38.547
nineties pop culture thing and music and

00:35:38.586 --> 00:35:39.067
wrestling.

00:35:39.306 --> 00:35:41.409
And, you know, that's kind of just me.

00:35:41.449 --> 00:35:43.490
So are you WWE or AEW?

00:35:43.530 --> 00:35:44.130
Which one do you...

00:35:44.871 --> 00:35:46.092
I mean, I'm both.

00:35:46.211 --> 00:35:47.652
I don't mind both.

00:35:47.753 --> 00:35:50.753
I went to WrestleMania this year,

00:35:50.893 --> 00:35:52.373
and I went to All In.

00:35:54.153 --> 00:35:54.333
Okay.

00:35:54.373 --> 00:35:55.713
Well, All In was in Dallas, right?

00:35:56.614 --> 00:35:57.795
Yeah, I just wrote.

00:35:57.815 --> 00:35:58.494
My boy was there.

00:35:59.635 --> 00:35:59.835
Oh, okay.

00:36:00.034 --> 00:36:01.295
He was in the press box, yeah.

00:36:02.096 --> 00:36:02.655
Yeah, yeah.

00:36:02.675 --> 00:36:03.235
My boy Black,

00:36:03.275 --> 00:36:04.956
he did the press on that one for

00:36:04.996 --> 00:36:05.195
us.

00:36:05.835 --> 00:36:06.715
Oh, nice, nice.

00:36:06.755 --> 00:36:07.856
Yeah, that was a great show.

00:36:07.976 --> 00:36:09.157
I mean, it was a long show.

00:36:09.317 --> 00:36:09.876
We were in there.

00:36:09.956 --> 00:36:11.297
It was like four, four and a half,

00:36:11.356 --> 00:36:11.978
five hours.

00:36:11.998 --> 00:36:12.958
I don't know how it was for the

00:36:12.978 --> 00:36:14.097
live audience, but...

00:36:15.911 --> 00:36:17.773
Like, I think, like, it was, like,

00:36:19.074 --> 00:36:20.315
starting at two or three,

00:36:20.375 --> 00:36:21.916
and we got to get it out there

00:36:21.936 --> 00:36:22.657
to, like, nine.

00:36:22.996 --> 00:36:25.498
So, yeah, we were going hard.

00:36:25.518 --> 00:36:26.679
But I enjoy both.

00:36:26.699 --> 00:36:29.382
They're two different, you know, products.

00:36:29.422 --> 00:36:30.143
So, you know,

00:36:30.202 --> 00:36:32.945
if you're in the mood for, you know,

00:36:33.025 --> 00:36:34.186
however you want your professional

00:36:34.206 --> 00:36:35.126
wrestling, you can get them,

00:36:35.286 --> 00:36:36.248
just watch either one.

00:36:36.688 --> 00:36:37.949
But, yeah, I like them.

00:36:38.050 --> 00:36:40.271
My week is basically I start Monday with

00:36:40.351 --> 00:36:40.572
Raw.

00:36:41.789 --> 00:36:42.889
Tuesday, NXT.

00:36:43.349 --> 00:36:44.570
Wednesday, AEW.

00:36:45.389 --> 00:36:46.210
Thursday is, like,

00:36:46.231 --> 00:36:49.012
my catch-up day in case I miss something.

00:36:49.711 --> 00:36:51.773
Friday, I do SmackDown right afterwards,

00:36:51.813 --> 00:36:52.393
Collision.

00:36:53.873 --> 00:36:54.273
So, I mean.

00:36:54.313 --> 00:36:57.173
Yeah, yeah, no,

00:36:57.253 --> 00:36:58.574
I have pretty much the same schedule.

00:36:58.594 --> 00:37:00.456
Like, the thing I like about wrestling,

00:37:00.496 --> 00:37:01.215
being able to,

00:37:01.235 --> 00:37:02.896
I just write while I'm watching wrestling.

00:37:03.036 --> 00:37:05.797
So, you know,

00:37:05.856 --> 00:37:07.358
it gives me something to kind of have.

00:37:08.327 --> 00:37:11.251
like on in the background to look at.

00:37:11.391 --> 00:37:14.994
And, you know, they're very, you know,

00:37:15.193 --> 00:37:16.594
like action-based and stuff like that.

00:37:16.614 --> 00:37:18.036
I'm trying to figure out a way.

00:37:18.097 --> 00:37:19.378
It's hard because it's comic books.

00:37:19.657 --> 00:37:21.179
But I want to have like Dara,

00:37:21.739 --> 00:37:25.382
like pedigree somebody or kill somebody or

00:37:25.422 --> 00:37:25.903
something.

00:37:25.923 --> 00:37:27.304
Dude, it could be done.

00:37:28.293 --> 00:37:29.295
I just got to figure out how to

00:37:29.335 --> 00:37:32.257
translate that into an actual still

00:37:32.898 --> 00:37:33.298
picture.

00:37:35.061 --> 00:37:39.005
That's a page with three panels as she

00:37:39.105 --> 00:37:41.666
runs up from behind somebody and then the

00:37:41.708 --> 00:37:43.329
next panel she's grabbing them and that

00:37:43.369 --> 00:37:45.931
third panel that's just them eating it.

00:37:47.228 --> 00:37:48.608
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:37:48.628 --> 00:37:50.230
That's what's perfect about comic books,

00:37:50.309 --> 00:37:51.771
and you can break it down into three

00:37:51.791 --> 00:37:53.831
panels of her arcane somebody out of

00:37:54.052 --> 00:37:54.572
nowhere.

00:37:54.992 --> 00:37:56.134
Yeah, yeah.

00:37:56.514 --> 00:37:57.914
She's going to be into all kinds of

00:37:57.934 --> 00:37:58.434
wrestling moves,

00:37:58.574 --> 00:37:59.835
and we're definitely going to have

00:37:59.936 --> 00:38:02.336
eighties wrestler references, you know,

00:38:02.356 --> 00:38:03.117
I'm trying to.

00:38:04.552 --> 00:38:07.434
I had a Macho Man reference in this

00:38:07.893 --> 00:38:08.353
issue,

00:38:08.853 --> 00:38:11.014
but I had to cut it because the

00:38:11.135 --> 00:38:13.235
original script was like, seventy pages,

00:38:13.255 --> 00:38:15.016
and I was like, I can't do,

00:38:15.356 --> 00:38:17.057
for the main thing, seventy pages.

00:38:17.137 --> 00:38:18.039
But, yeah,

00:38:18.079 --> 00:38:20.059
we had a nice Macho Man reference in

00:38:20.099 --> 00:38:20.260
there.

00:38:21.739 --> 00:38:23.460
Give her a Macho Man jacket at some

00:38:23.501 --> 00:38:24.362
point, just randomly,

00:38:24.382 --> 00:38:26.063
as one day she just pops on a

00:38:26.083 --> 00:38:26.983
Macho Man jacket.

00:38:28.264 --> 00:38:29.903
With the frills, hell yeah, dude.

00:38:29.943 --> 00:38:31.585
Glasses, yeah,

00:38:31.605 --> 00:38:32.965
that's actually a pretty good idea.

00:38:33.967 --> 00:38:36.347
yeah i have some sometimes man but let's

00:38:36.367 --> 00:38:40.431
keep it up how um so you're doing

00:38:40.471 --> 00:38:43.172
this classic nor detective thing how did

00:38:43.193 --> 00:38:45.394
you kind of make that still feel modern

00:38:45.755 --> 00:38:48.217
and unique at the same time instead of

00:38:48.277 --> 00:38:52.239
like it feels like the comic book you

00:38:52.259 --> 00:38:54.740
know but it still feels very modern at

00:38:54.780 --> 00:38:55.641
the same time

00:38:57.110 --> 00:38:59.351
i mean we have dora who is she

00:38:59.371 --> 00:39:00.931
has a cyborg arm you know what i'm

00:39:00.971 --> 00:39:03.831
saying yeah yeah yeah i wanted to throw

00:39:03.851 --> 00:39:06.572
like a little bit of you know alternate

00:39:06.592 --> 00:39:10.733
timeline a little uh steampunk a little

00:39:10.753 --> 00:39:12.813
futurism just like a little bit so your

00:39:12.994 --> 00:39:14.733
arm is unique who come up with the

00:39:14.934 --> 00:39:18.735
arm and the design of the arm um

00:39:18.815 --> 00:39:20.436
that was me um like that was the

00:39:20.675 --> 00:39:20.876
first

00:39:21.777 --> 00:39:25.498
I love characters that have robotic arms.

00:39:25.998 --> 00:39:27.619
Just the design of those characters always

00:39:27.659 --> 00:39:28.139
look cool.

00:39:28.159 --> 00:39:29.119
I love Cable.

00:39:29.878 --> 00:39:30.719
Witchblade, man.

00:39:31.820 --> 00:39:37.481
Yeah, Witchblade, Cable, Bucky, Misty.

00:39:38.501 --> 00:39:41.382
A good Iron Man suit can't be beat

00:39:41.443 --> 00:39:42.963
as far as just looking cool.

00:39:44.182 --> 00:39:45.844
So that was one of the...

00:39:47.617 --> 00:39:49.219
First things, too, that I wanted to have,

00:39:49.298 --> 00:39:51.360
because I always wanted a cool-looking

00:39:51.380 --> 00:39:53.481
character with a robotic arm.

00:39:54.981 --> 00:39:56.202
I wanted to make it gold so it

00:39:56.222 --> 00:39:59.083
could stand out a little more.

00:39:59.184 --> 00:40:00.344
And then, yeah,

00:40:00.364 --> 00:40:04.367
just kind of have it look futuristic,

00:40:04.987 --> 00:40:06.728
but have it set in the eighties.

00:40:07.268 --> 00:40:07.748
That way,

00:40:07.809 --> 00:40:10.329
we could kind of play around with

00:40:10.891 --> 00:40:13.492
perceptions of that time.

00:40:13.512 --> 00:40:14.532
She can kind of have...

00:40:14.873 --> 00:40:16.233
Dara can kind of have things...

00:40:17.094 --> 00:40:21.315
that don't really exist in that time um

00:40:21.396 --> 00:40:23.396
but we just talk it up to like

00:40:23.737 --> 00:40:27.478
her dad invented this or that and her

00:40:27.539 --> 00:40:29.639
her partner um that she's working with in

00:40:29.659 --> 00:40:32.242
new orleans trey like he's like a tech

00:40:32.282 --> 00:40:35.222
wiz so he can kind of like earpieces

00:40:35.262 --> 00:40:39.144
like shortwave radios like stuff that why

00:40:39.164 --> 00:40:41.585
is that there but you know it works

00:40:41.786 --> 00:40:43.407
it works and that's what i love about

00:40:43.487 --> 00:40:44.728
comic books man

00:40:45.469 --> 00:40:48.054
Because you can take something that

00:40:48.114 --> 00:40:49.597
shouldn't be where it is,

00:40:50.679 --> 00:40:52.963
but you can explain it away over here

00:40:53.003 --> 00:40:54.686
and make it work and make it fit.

00:40:55.447 --> 00:40:57.708
yeah and there's no other genre where you

00:40:57.728 --> 00:41:00.588
can really do that outside of tv and

00:41:00.628 --> 00:41:04.811
it makes sense right yeah yeah that's uh

00:41:04.851 --> 00:41:06.871
something i was like uh i was like

00:41:06.931 --> 00:41:09.572
i don't really have to worry about like

00:41:09.612 --> 00:41:11.193
why that's there because i can easily you

00:41:11.213 --> 00:41:12.653
know i can just explain like hey it

00:41:12.673 --> 00:41:14.795
was invented you know my this person's

00:41:14.894 --> 00:41:16.076
really smart and then they

00:41:16.556 --> 00:41:17.175
created it,

00:41:17.376 --> 00:41:19.677
and she's the only person that has it.

00:41:19.717 --> 00:41:21.418
You know, that type of stuff.

00:41:21.518 --> 00:41:23.059
And, you know, comic book readers,

00:41:23.440 --> 00:41:23.840
they get it.

00:41:23.860 --> 00:41:24.240
They know.

00:41:24.440 --> 00:41:28.123
So, you know, it's not like, you know,

00:41:28.403 --> 00:41:29.284
you got to get a bunch of people

00:41:29.304 --> 00:41:29.525
like, oh,

00:41:29.545 --> 00:41:31.485
why does her arm look like it's from

00:41:31.545 --> 00:41:32.987
twenty twenty five and it's nineteen

00:41:33.027 --> 00:41:35.208
eighty five?

00:41:35.268 --> 00:41:37.570
You know, we don't you know,

00:41:37.610 --> 00:41:39.731
we all know from reading comic books that

00:41:39.911 --> 00:41:41.932
we look at comic books as comic books

00:41:42.032 --> 00:41:42.913
and for entertainment.

00:41:43.253 --> 00:41:43.594
Yeah.

00:41:43.753 --> 00:41:44.193
Yeah.

00:41:44.614 --> 00:41:45.175
We know

00:41:46.652 --> 00:41:48.273
like it's not supposed to make a hundred

00:41:48.293 --> 00:41:49.375
percent sense.

00:41:49.394 --> 00:41:50.135
Right.

00:41:50.655 --> 00:41:50.936
Right.

00:41:50.956 --> 00:41:52.115
And we don't read it because of that.

00:41:52.155 --> 00:41:53.476
We read it because we want to be

00:41:53.597 --> 00:41:55.679
entertained and feel like we're a part of

00:41:55.719 --> 00:41:56.378
that world.

00:41:56.998 --> 00:41:57.639
Right.

00:41:57.780 --> 00:41:58.059
Yeah.

00:41:58.539 --> 00:42:00.742
And that's another one of the reasons why,

00:42:00.782 --> 00:42:01.242
like I said,

00:42:01.262 --> 00:42:02.983
it in the eighties was to kind of

00:42:05.164 --> 00:42:08.427
like allow like kind of things to happen

00:42:08.487 --> 00:42:10.088
in the comic book that if it was

00:42:10.108 --> 00:42:12.628
set today, wouldn't necessarily work.

00:42:12.648 --> 00:42:14.630
It wouldn't be as mysterious because if

00:42:14.670 --> 00:42:15.590
you have like,

00:42:16.945 --> 00:42:20.867
if someone saw like a vampire like down

00:42:20.887 --> 00:42:22.288
the street in the middle of the night

00:42:22.467 --> 00:42:23.887
in twenty twenty five there,

00:42:24.009 --> 00:42:26.088
I just break out their cell phone and

00:42:26.128 --> 00:42:26.708
record.

00:42:26.909 --> 00:42:28.849
And then it would just it wouldn't be

00:42:29.570 --> 00:42:30.050
a thing.

00:42:30.170 --> 00:42:32.170
But in the people are like,

00:42:32.291 --> 00:42:33.871
I heard this, you know,

00:42:33.992 --> 00:42:36.032
I heard this rumor or, you know,

00:42:36.092 --> 00:42:38.873
this person did this like it's it's.

00:42:39.813 --> 00:42:42.876
uh it creates that sense of mystery that

00:42:42.896 --> 00:42:46.420
uh helps attention and you know allows us

00:42:46.440 --> 00:42:48.161
to kind of you know have a little

00:42:48.202 --> 00:42:50.664
bit more fun without someone saying oh and

00:42:50.704 --> 00:42:52.326
someone just recorded on their camera why

00:42:52.346 --> 00:42:53.487
didn't someone use their cell phone to

00:42:53.507 --> 00:42:55.188
call the cops it's like because we didn't

00:42:55.208 --> 00:42:57.431
have that shit back then yeah yeah it's

00:42:57.451 --> 00:42:59.853
like let us like you know enjoy the

00:42:59.913 --> 00:43:02.675
the mystery and i like it the road

00:43:02.735 --> 00:43:03.135
of it all

00:43:03.496 --> 00:43:05.597
so i know we're getting vampires what else

00:43:05.717 --> 00:43:07.340
are we going to get from a creature

00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:10.682
monster perspective either in the first

00:43:10.864 --> 00:43:13.266
issue or in later issues are we going

00:43:13.286 --> 00:43:15.527
to just stick it to the uh the

00:43:15.568 --> 00:43:18.351
vampire world no no we're going to take

00:43:18.391 --> 00:43:20.833
the whole ride down the universal monster

00:43:21.954 --> 00:43:24.257
uh my dude that's what's up fine yeah

00:43:24.317 --> 00:43:25.818
yeah like oh you know we're gonna have

00:43:25.898 --> 00:43:26.679
werewolves

00:43:27.199 --> 00:43:29.260
We're going to have zombies, you know,

00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:31.041
we're going to have spirits.

00:43:32.661 --> 00:43:34.402
I got something for you after the show

00:43:34.422 --> 00:43:35.804
that I'm going to discuss with you,

00:43:35.824 --> 00:43:36.784
but I don't want to do it on

00:43:36.824 --> 00:43:37.505
the air, but.

00:43:40.657 --> 00:43:41.679
Okay, yeah, no,

00:43:41.719 --> 00:43:44.661
my whole goal with the project is, yeah,

00:43:44.681 --> 00:43:46.141
I just want to do, like, you know,

00:43:46.161 --> 00:43:48.382
the Universal movie monsters.

00:43:48.483 --> 00:43:50.824
So are you reading the current run of

00:43:50.864 --> 00:43:52.885
the Universal monsters from Image in

00:43:52.925 --> 00:43:53.445
Skybound?

00:43:53.985 --> 00:43:55.166
Yeah, yeah, I'm taking a lot.

00:43:55.186 --> 00:44:01.230
Dude, what's been your favorite so far?

00:44:01.269 --> 00:44:02.010
That's a good question.

00:44:02.030 --> 00:44:04.012
Dude, they've all been good.

00:44:05.985 --> 00:44:07.626
you know i'm a sucker for a good

00:44:08.387 --> 00:44:11.952
uh vampire you know i can't dracula was

00:44:12.172 --> 00:44:15.516
really good and then um the mummy i

00:44:15.556 --> 00:44:18.039
thought was like spectacular the way that

00:44:18.059 --> 00:44:20.521
it did it yeah like how it was

00:44:20.581 --> 00:44:22.384
the curse carried through the family i

00:44:22.423 --> 00:44:25.106
thought was like amazing

00:44:25.699 --> 00:44:26.900
Yeah, you know what?

00:44:27.121 --> 00:44:30.224
When I saw the mummy one, actually,

00:44:30.244 --> 00:44:32.605
because the mummy kind of wasn't on my

00:44:32.806 --> 00:44:36.268
radar for the comic, for Dark Pink,

00:44:36.307 --> 00:44:37.829
but yeah, they did it in a way.

00:44:37.849 --> 00:44:39.831
I was like, oh, that's really inventive.

00:44:41.733 --> 00:44:42.753
I felt the same way, dude.

00:44:42.813 --> 00:44:43.954
I didn't know how well I was going

00:44:43.974 --> 00:44:44.554
to like it.

00:44:45.034 --> 00:44:46.635
And then once I read that issue one,

00:44:46.655 --> 00:44:47.077
I was like,

00:44:47.577 --> 00:44:47.777
Damn,

00:44:47.836 --> 00:44:49.458
I like how they're doing this because

00:44:49.478 --> 00:44:51.740
they're linking the mummy to a bloodline

00:44:51.780 --> 00:44:52.621
into a curse.

00:44:53.001 --> 00:44:53.342
Yeah.

00:44:53.621 --> 00:44:54.083
Yeah.

00:44:54.163 --> 00:44:55.603
I was like, I can get with this.

00:44:55.983 --> 00:44:57.766
Yeah, you can, you know.

00:44:58.635 --> 00:45:00.998
A good story, someone being creative,

00:45:01.038 --> 00:45:02.039
thinking out the box.

00:45:02.599 --> 00:45:03.539
She's brilliant.

00:45:04.221 --> 00:45:08.204
The lady who wrote The Mummy for Skybound

00:45:08.344 --> 00:45:11.306
and Image is really brilliant.

00:45:12.387 --> 00:45:14.409
That took some imagination and I'm happy

00:45:14.449 --> 00:45:16.331
she did it the way she did it.

00:45:16.371 --> 00:45:18.052
I don't really feel like a regular Mummy

00:45:18.092 --> 00:45:19.653
story would have worked for what they were

00:45:19.693 --> 00:45:20.034
doing.

00:45:20.454 --> 00:45:20.795
Yeah,

00:45:20.875 --> 00:45:24.237
that's why I was a little wary of

00:45:24.318 --> 00:45:24.418
it.

00:45:24.458 --> 00:45:25.719
As much as I love...

00:45:26.347 --> 00:45:28.369
The Mummy movies with Brendan Fraser,

00:45:28.409 --> 00:45:29.269
they're amazing,

00:45:29.429 --> 00:45:31.211
and no one can tell me anything different.

00:45:31.231 --> 00:45:31.672
But also,

00:45:31.731 --> 00:45:33.313
that was a curse that was still linked

00:45:33.353 --> 00:45:36.034
to the bloodline to some degree with his

00:45:36.096 --> 00:45:36.476
wife.

00:45:37.175 --> 00:45:37.836
Right.

00:45:38.617 --> 00:45:38.938
But yeah,

00:45:38.958 --> 00:45:42.559
they took it to another level in the

00:45:42.800 --> 00:45:44.422
comic in a very inventive way,

00:45:44.461 --> 00:45:48.585
and I just love seeing creative people

00:45:48.625 --> 00:45:50.065
being super creative.

00:45:50.126 --> 00:45:53.708
Because no new ideas really are

00:45:55.894 --> 00:45:57.614
But you can tweak things.

00:45:57.635 --> 00:45:59.675
You can put your own twist on it.

00:45:59.695 --> 00:46:02.215
You can think outside the box on something

00:46:02.235 --> 00:46:04.217
that's been stuck inside of a box for

00:46:04.257 --> 00:46:06.577
such a long time and really create

00:46:06.597 --> 00:46:09.538
something that people can get behind.

00:46:09.557 --> 00:46:12.637
That's what I love about writing and being

00:46:12.677 --> 00:46:14.438
creative.

00:46:14.458 --> 00:46:16.199
Staying along the lines of Universal

00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:16.858
Monsters,

00:46:17.498 --> 00:46:19.139
do you read anything from Dark Horse?

00:46:20.940 --> 00:46:21.380
Yeah.

00:46:21.400 --> 00:46:22.539
Did you read Los Monstros?

00:46:23.449 --> 00:46:24.769
No, I didn't read that, though.

00:46:24.791 --> 00:46:26.630
So Los Monstros is about a werewolf

00:46:26.670 --> 00:46:27.371
private eye.

00:46:28.972 --> 00:46:29.871
Okay.

00:46:29.931 --> 00:46:31.952
And his first mission that takes place

00:46:32.193 --> 00:46:34.494
during the first five issues of the comic

00:46:34.514 --> 00:46:37.735
book is him finding a vampire princess.

00:46:39.135 --> 00:46:43.177
Because the entire world is like monsters.

00:46:43.336 --> 00:46:45.378
Like Los Monstros is a monster city.

00:46:45.398 --> 00:46:45.478
Okay.

00:46:46.663 --> 00:46:47.563
Run by monsters.

00:46:47.623 --> 00:46:50.264
Everybody's a monster.

00:46:50.344 --> 00:46:51.784
It was such a dope read.

00:46:51.804 --> 00:46:53.103
I think it's out right now on trade

00:46:53.164 --> 00:46:54.505
paperback if you can find it,

00:46:54.965 --> 00:46:56.605
but I think it would be one of

00:46:56.625 --> 00:46:59.206
those where with what you're doing with

00:46:59.226 --> 00:46:59.686
your story,

00:46:59.706 --> 00:47:01.806
you could pick it up and go, oh,

00:47:02.045 --> 00:47:03.487
this is legit.

00:47:03.606 --> 00:47:05.306
It's kind of in that same world of

00:47:05.367 --> 00:47:05.987
dark pink.

00:47:06.027 --> 00:47:07.766
You know what I'm saying?

00:47:07.847 --> 00:47:09.128
I think you would really enjoy it.

00:47:09.507 --> 00:47:09.867
Yeah.

00:47:09.947 --> 00:47:13.989
I like the Monster City idea because I'm

00:47:14.028 --> 00:47:15.389
trying to kind of

00:47:16.032 --> 00:47:19.594
create something like here with dark pink

00:47:19.614 --> 00:47:23.215
where there are you know we're gonna run

00:47:23.255 --> 00:47:25.536
through like different monsters like there

00:47:25.697 --> 00:47:27.518
are you know they're normal people and

00:47:27.557 --> 00:47:28.659
everything else but

00:47:29.813 --> 00:47:30.152
You know,

00:47:30.273 --> 00:47:31.532
another one of the reasons why I said

00:47:31.552 --> 00:47:33.333
it in New Orleans is because if someone

00:47:33.373 --> 00:47:35.253
did tell you in New Orleans, like, hey,

00:47:35.273 --> 00:47:37.175
I think I saw a werewolf over there.

00:47:37.695 --> 00:47:39.735
It wouldn't be like the craziest thing

00:47:39.755 --> 00:47:41.096
that you know.

00:47:41.115 --> 00:47:42.476
They didn't see the person on Bourbon

00:47:42.496 --> 00:47:43.956
Street doing something completely the

00:47:43.996 --> 00:47:44.376
same.

00:47:44.755 --> 00:47:45.317
Exactly.

00:47:46.277 --> 00:47:47.536
You know, I want it to be,

00:47:47.697 --> 00:47:49.737
you know, kind of a mix of reality,

00:47:49.777 --> 00:47:50.898
but also fantasy,

00:47:50.938 --> 00:47:52.918
like dark fantasy and having a world

00:47:52.958 --> 00:47:55.119
where, you know, people are.

00:47:56.242 --> 00:47:59.724
like, open to the idea of, like,

00:48:00.224 --> 00:48:03.166
monsters actually existing and, like,

00:48:03.226 --> 00:48:05.186
what that would mean to be stuck in

00:48:05.226 --> 00:48:08.809
a place where, you know,

00:48:08.829 --> 00:48:11.590
werewolves exist and, you know,

00:48:11.650 --> 00:48:13.711
zombies might pop up.

00:48:13.911 --> 00:48:16.172
But, you know, no one's, like,

00:48:16.612 --> 00:48:17.514
the police aren't, like,

00:48:17.534 --> 00:48:18.713
super excited about, like,

00:48:18.753 --> 00:48:19.954
going to help you out.

00:48:20.655 --> 00:48:21.315
Yeah.

00:48:21.355 --> 00:48:22.916
And then you have, like,

00:48:22.936 --> 00:48:23.856
a young woman who...

00:48:25.048 --> 00:48:25.289
You know,

00:48:25.329 --> 00:48:26.929
kind of doesn't know any better and just

00:48:26.949 --> 00:48:28.431
takes the cases that are kind of given

00:48:28.471 --> 00:48:28.990
to her.

00:48:29.110 --> 00:48:31.431
And, you know, he's just like, oh, well,

00:48:32.052 --> 00:48:33.293
this sounds weird,

00:48:33.353 --> 00:48:35.112
but I'll go check it out and then

00:48:35.132 --> 00:48:36.534
gets caught into the stuff.

00:48:36.594 --> 00:48:38.235
And then she reacts like how you and

00:48:38.355 --> 00:48:40.036
I would react in the situation and just

00:48:40.056 --> 00:48:42.856
trying to get out while solving the case.

00:48:44.092 --> 00:48:44.914
No, I do.

00:48:44.934 --> 00:48:45.335
I like it.

00:48:45.675 --> 00:48:46.175
I really do.

00:48:46.536 --> 00:48:48.898
It's such a unique concept from start to

00:48:48.938 --> 00:48:49.420
finish.

00:48:49.940 --> 00:48:51.322
And I can't wait to see what's coming

00:48:51.461 --> 00:48:52.342
next for it.

00:48:52.983 --> 00:48:55.567
But so you have like this touch of

00:48:55.606 --> 00:48:55.927
fear.

00:48:55.967 --> 00:48:56.869
You have some mystery.

00:48:56.909 --> 00:48:58.992
You have Dara really coming up now.

00:48:59.532 --> 00:49:01.092
She's trying to find her parents.

00:49:01.253 --> 00:49:03.715
She's really trying to discover who she

00:49:03.755 --> 00:49:05.876
herself is and find her identity.

00:49:06.478 --> 00:49:08.539
So what kind of messages or emotions do

00:49:08.559 --> 00:49:10.780
you hope readers will kind of take away

00:49:10.820 --> 00:49:13.922
from Dara's story and like the whole story

00:49:13.963 --> 00:49:14.503
in general?

00:49:16.155 --> 00:49:20.018
um that is a good question uh as

00:49:20.157 --> 00:49:22.719
cheesy as it might sound i want there's

00:49:22.760 --> 00:49:24.802
no such thing as a cheesy answer when

00:49:24.842 --> 00:49:27.244
it comes to this i want people to

00:49:27.284 --> 00:49:30.286
feel like hope um like i want people

00:49:30.347 --> 00:49:34.409
to like see dara like see like the

00:49:34.469 --> 00:49:36.351
good that she does but also like the

00:49:36.391 --> 00:49:40.954
struggles um that she has um and feel

00:49:42.175 --> 00:49:43.737
like hopeful because she's a hopeful

00:49:43.777 --> 00:49:46.641
person like she's going there to find her

00:49:46.701 --> 00:49:49.182
parents she truly believes like in her

00:49:49.222 --> 00:49:50.844
heart that she can find them she can

00:49:50.864 --> 00:49:53.248
figure out what can happen like what

00:49:53.288 --> 00:49:54.688
happened to them and even though she

00:49:54.728 --> 00:49:56.650
doesn't she has no idea how she's gonna

00:49:56.690 --> 00:49:57.012
do it

00:49:57.831 --> 00:49:59.753
She's literally learning on the fly.

00:50:00.253 --> 00:50:02.416
But I want people to go on that

00:50:02.496 --> 00:50:04.978
ride with her to see her succeed,

00:50:04.998 --> 00:50:05.918
to see her fail,

00:50:06.259 --> 00:50:07.559
to see her keep going,

00:50:07.601 --> 00:50:08.601
to see her scared,

00:50:09.061 --> 00:50:12.485
to see her unsure at certain points.

00:50:12.505 --> 00:50:16.568
There's literally going to be a scene in

00:50:17.349 --> 00:50:20.630
the first issue where she does something.

00:50:20.650 --> 00:50:23.713
She makes a decision and she knows it's

00:50:23.733 --> 00:50:24.474
a bad decision.

00:50:25.545 --> 00:50:27.666
But she literally, she's like,

00:50:27.726 --> 00:50:29.148
I don't know what else to do.

00:50:29.327 --> 00:50:31.210
So I'm just going to try this.

00:50:31.510 --> 00:50:32.891
And, you know, Trey is like,

00:50:33.490 --> 00:50:34.891
I don't think this is a good idea.

00:50:35.891 --> 00:50:36.873
And she's like, I know,

00:50:36.913 --> 00:50:38.474
but I don't have a better idea.

00:50:38.653 --> 00:50:40.034
Because this is like her second case.

00:50:40.054 --> 00:50:41.516
She doesn't know what she's doing.

00:50:41.576 --> 00:50:43.856
She's just like, I think this will...

00:50:44.878 --> 00:50:45.619
This may work.

00:50:45.778 --> 00:50:46.619
Maybe it won't.

00:50:46.818 --> 00:50:48.059
And we're just going to do that.

00:50:48.099 --> 00:50:50.942
And it's going to be a lot of

00:50:51.322 --> 00:50:52.043
that, like,

00:50:52.083 --> 00:50:53.503
a lot of trial and error for her.

00:50:53.543 --> 00:50:55.103
Like, I didn't want her, like I said,

00:50:55.123 --> 00:50:56.025
I didn't want her to be, like,

00:50:56.065 --> 00:50:58.626
misty as far as, like, you know,

00:50:58.686 --> 00:50:59.847
in the comments, misty, like,

00:50:59.867 --> 00:51:01.188
knows exactly what she's doing.

00:51:01.208 --> 00:51:01.708
She's a bad woman.

00:51:03.128 --> 00:51:04.849
and you know she knows how to get

00:51:04.889 --> 00:51:09.072
things done like I wanted Dara to not

00:51:09.293 --> 00:51:11.193
to be basically the complete opposite of

00:51:11.233 --> 00:51:13.074
that I mean we think about it she's

00:51:13.114 --> 00:51:15.396
a twenty four year old kid fresh out

00:51:15.436 --> 00:51:18.757
of college and really she's not had a

00:51:18.818 --> 00:51:22.480
chance to really start living a life yeah

00:51:22.500 --> 00:51:24.862
before her parents disappear and she packs

00:51:24.922 --> 00:51:27.043
up everything and just I'm going to go

00:51:27.083 --> 00:51:29.103
find my parents and figure it out you

00:51:29.423 --> 00:51:30.385
know as I go along

00:51:31.195 --> 00:51:31.375
Yeah.

00:51:31.534 --> 00:51:31.695
Yeah.

00:51:31.735 --> 00:51:34.157
She literally was like, you know, grew up,

00:51:34.418 --> 00:51:36.099
you know, affluent.

00:51:36.119 --> 00:51:37.521
She was kind of privileged, you know?

00:51:37.740 --> 00:51:37.940
Yeah.

00:51:38.061 --> 00:51:38.342
Yeah.

00:51:38.362 --> 00:51:40.304
She went to like a really nice boarding

00:51:40.344 --> 00:51:42.726
school when she went to New York.

00:51:42.746 --> 00:51:44.166
She went to a really nice college.

00:51:44.186 --> 00:51:45.829
She was Clarence from eight mile.

00:51:46.329 --> 00:51:47.510
Yeah.

00:51:47.750 --> 00:51:48.349
Yeah.

00:51:49.650 --> 00:51:50.070
Yeah.

00:51:50.090 --> 00:51:52.652
She goes into like the darker side of

00:51:52.672 --> 00:51:53.052
things.

00:51:53.293 --> 00:51:53.713
But, you know,

00:51:53.733 --> 00:51:56.574
she still has that like like a little

00:51:56.596 --> 00:51:59.978
bit of naivete, you know, but, you know,

00:52:00.018 --> 00:52:02.858
she has a good heart and her intentions

00:52:02.918 --> 00:52:03.619
like she's.

00:52:04.039 --> 00:52:06.121
genuinely wants to do the right thing even

00:52:06.141 --> 00:52:07.802
though it's most of the time half the

00:52:07.822 --> 00:52:09.224
time she's not sure what the right thing

00:52:09.264 --> 00:52:11.445
is to do she's just gonna just try

00:52:12.045 --> 00:52:14.588
and you know i i think that people

00:52:15.268 --> 00:52:16.730
you know will be able to relate to

00:52:16.769 --> 00:52:18.952
her and i think people feel like i

00:52:18.992 --> 00:52:20.572
want people to cheer for her because i

00:52:20.592 --> 00:52:22.574
think she's like she's definitely one of

00:52:22.594 --> 00:52:25.496
those those characters especially because

00:52:25.516 --> 00:52:27.137
i mean right now we don't know how

00:52:27.197 --> 00:52:29.400
she lost her arm but we know it's

00:52:29.440 --> 00:52:31.420
there we know she has it we know

00:52:31.460 --> 00:52:32.862
her dad wants her to keep it a

00:52:32.942 --> 00:52:33.402
secret

00:52:35.034 --> 00:52:36.697
So we know she has this,

00:52:36.717 --> 00:52:38.039
I don't want to say it's a disability

00:52:38.079 --> 00:52:39.519
because it's not in her case,

00:52:40.961 --> 00:52:43.585
but she's not this, you know, normal,

00:52:43.625 --> 00:52:44.545
perfect child.

00:52:45.887 --> 00:52:47.248
She's kind of broken,

00:52:47.329 --> 00:52:49.251
but we want to cheer for that person.

00:52:49.472 --> 00:52:49.652
You know,

00:52:49.692 --> 00:52:51.393
you find yourself wanting to cheer for

00:52:51.414 --> 00:52:51.974
that person.

00:52:53.153 --> 00:52:53.815
Yeah, yeah.

00:52:53.894 --> 00:52:56.297
And a lot of this first issue,

00:52:56.737 --> 00:52:58.938
like in the prequel that you read,

00:52:59.759 --> 00:53:01.501
you know, yeah, her parents tell her like,

00:53:01.541 --> 00:53:04.402
hey, do not show people this.

00:53:05.483 --> 00:53:07.606
So she literally walks around with long

00:53:07.646 --> 00:53:10.427
sleeves and gloves on all the time.

00:53:11.228 --> 00:53:12.510
And

00:53:13.030 --> 00:53:15.172
Even in the first issue,

00:53:15.211 --> 00:53:16.954
in the main issue, in the story, like,

00:53:17.655 --> 00:53:20.378
she covers her arm for a lot of

00:53:20.438 --> 00:53:22.219
it because she's still, like, living,

00:53:22.340 --> 00:53:24.342
like, what her parents told her to do.

00:53:24.521 --> 00:53:25.802
And she's not sure, like,

00:53:25.842 --> 00:53:28.525
how people will react to it or if

00:53:28.545 --> 00:53:30.367
people will accept her, like, for...

00:53:31.721 --> 00:53:34.461
having a golden robotic arm randomly.

00:53:35.882 --> 00:53:38.842
She's trying to fit in even though she's

00:53:40.664 --> 00:53:42.483
meant for more.

00:53:42.523 --> 00:53:43.585
She's young.

00:53:43.625 --> 00:53:45.585
She doesn't know that quite yet.

00:53:45.664 --> 00:53:47.766
She hasn't come into that part of herself

00:53:47.806 --> 00:53:48.005
yet.

00:53:48.246 --> 00:53:50.467
right yeah exactly so you know this is

00:53:50.527 --> 00:53:53.327
the whole story is to kind of carry

00:53:53.447 --> 00:53:55.608
us to that point like eventually i want

00:53:55.628 --> 00:53:57.869
her to be a lot like missy knight

00:53:57.949 --> 00:54:00.411
you know like yeah my long-term goal would

00:54:00.452 --> 00:54:02.411
be like you know starting the eighties

00:54:02.472 --> 00:54:04.793
with her in her twenties and then get

00:54:04.853 --> 00:54:06.634
into like the nineties with her in her

00:54:06.693 --> 00:54:09.496
thirties and she you really see that

00:54:09.576 --> 00:54:13.157
evolution of her um to being like a

00:54:13.297 --> 00:54:14.398
like a legit hero

00:54:15.057 --> 00:54:16.938
instead of just a person like a private

00:54:16.978 --> 00:54:19.619
detective trying to figure some stuff out

00:54:19.679 --> 00:54:21.139
nah dude i like that man i like

00:54:21.159 --> 00:54:23.601
that so much so new orleans has this

00:54:23.661 --> 00:54:27.282
powerful connection to both folklore and

00:54:27.382 --> 00:54:30.764
monsters and ghosts and goblins but also

00:54:30.963 --> 00:54:31.403
faith

00:54:33.902 --> 00:54:36.684
Did you pull from like legends or local

00:54:36.824 --> 00:54:37.885
myths from the area?

00:54:37.905 --> 00:54:38.286
Because I mean,

00:54:38.327 --> 00:54:40.208
you can't walk around New Orleans without

00:54:41.090 --> 00:54:42.650
somebody handing you a pamphlet for a

00:54:42.710 --> 00:54:44.893
ghost tour or a haunted mansion or

00:54:44.954 --> 00:54:45.673
something like that.

00:54:46.135 --> 00:54:47.356
How much of that kind of stuff?

00:54:47.376 --> 00:54:48.536
And I know you've spent some time in

00:54:48.556 --> 00:54:49.458
New Orleans as well.

00:54:50.278 --> 00:54:52.101
How much of that kind of like real

00:54:52.121 --> 00:54:53.643
life stuff did you kind of pull into

00:54:53.682 --> 00:54:54.182
this book?

00:54:55.480 --> 00:54:58.123
A lot, a lot.

00:54:58.143 --> 00:54:59.724
There will be a scene in a very

00:54:59.744 --> 00:55:03.668
famous New Orleans cemetery in issue

00:55:03.708 --> 00:55:04.228
number one.

00:55:04.748 --> 00:55:05.650
The floating graves?

00:55:06.411 --> 00:55:07.952
Yeah, with names and everything.

00:55:07.972 --> 00:55:09.253
I don't want to spoil it,

00:55:09.273 --> 00:55:13.217
but there is one of the famous ones.

00:55:13.538 --> 00:55:16.059
There will be a scene at that cemetery.

00:55:17.701 --> 00:55:18.161
The first...

00:55:21.228 --> 00:55:21.949
the second case,

00:55:21.989 --> 00:55:24.715
the person that comes and gives her the

00:55:25.195 --> 00:55:27.119
new case is a very

00:55:29.922 --> 00:55:33.244
You know, like she thinks that her sister,

00:55:33.864 --> 00:55:35.626
who she hired a daughter to find,

00:55:36.567 --> 00:55:37.827
was abducted by the devil,

00:55:37.987 --> 00:55:39.068
like the devil himself.

00:55:39.648 --> 00:55:40.548
Yeah.

00:55:40.728 --> 00:55:43.811
So, you know, she, you know,

00:55:44.090 --> 00:55:45.512
a woman of faith and they have like

00:55:45.532 --> 00:55:47.932
their talk and, you know,

00:55:47.952 --> 00:55:49.713
talk about that a little bit.

00:55:49.813 --> 00:55:50.213
You know,

00:55:50.755 --> 00:55:53.376
there's a lot of multiple references to,

00:55:53.936 --> 00:55:56.617
you know, New Orleans being a place where,

00:55:57.197 --> 00:55:57.559
you know,

00:55:58.458 --> 00:56:01.663
weird, mystical things happen.

00:56:02.945 --> 00:56:04.967
People will make comments on, hey,

00:56:05.007 --> 00:56:05.929
we're in New Orleans.

00:56:06.208 --> 00:56:09.853
This is either not strange at all or

00:56:09.914 --> 00:56:10.534
where have you been?

00:56:10.574 --> 00:56:12.958
There's literally a guy dressed as the

00:56:12.998 --> 00:56:15.561
devil on one of the corners of Bourbon

00:56:15.581 --> 00:56:16.702
Street every time you go there.

00:56:18.416 --> 00:56:19.577
yeah yeah yeah so i think it's been

00:56:19.597 --> 00:56:21.217
the same guy since i was a kid

00:56:21.257 --> 00:56:23.920
going there probably probably are honestly

00:56:24.199 --> 00:56:26.161
um yeah you know so all of that

00:56:26.242 --> 00:56:29.163
you know like the faith the the lore

00:56:29.222 --> 00:56:33.306
the uh superstition the voodoo um we have

00:56:33.365 --> 00:56:36.568
a character lady lavo she's like basically

00:56:36.648 --> 00:56:38.228
you gotta have a you gotta have a

00:56:38.248 --> 00:56:39.429
voodoo priest

00:56:40.329 --> 00:56:40.610
Yeah,

00:56:41.052 --> 00:56:44.119
she's a real person who is a New

00:56:44.159 --> 00:56:46.344
Orleans native who people literally

00:56:46.384 --> 00:56:47.065
thought was a witch.

00:56:49.402 --> 00:56:52.905
And people aren't sure if she's, like,

00:56:52.945 --> 00:56:53.226
dead.

00:56:53.865 --> 00:56:58.469
And, you know, she should... So, you know,

00:56:58.489 --> 00:56:58.630
like,

00:56:58.670 --> 00:56:59.851
she's a character that's going to be

00:56:59.951 --> 00:57:00.592
introduced.

00:57:00.831 --> 00:57:01.351
And, you know,

00:57:01.371 --> 00:57:03.795
she's going to kind of help guide Dara

00:57:03.815 --> 00:57:05.936
through those kind of those mystical

00:57:06.056 --> 00:57:09.199
elements of New Orleans, like,

00:57:09.219 --> 00:57:10.440
in future issues.

00:57:10.500 --> 00:57:11.780
So, yeah, I mean,

00:57:11.840 --> 00:57:14.603
New Orleans is a character, like,

00:57:14.983 --> 00:57:15.664
in this story.

00:57:15.684 --> 00:57:16.985
Like, you will read...

00:57:17.525 --> 00:57:17.925
dark pink,

00:57:17.965 --> 00:57:20.027
and you will know that this is happening

00:57:20.088 --> 00:57:24.951
in New Orleans, and this is, you know,

00:57:24.990 --> 00:57:27.032
an important aspect of the story.

00:57:27.371 --> 00:57:28.012
You know, like I said,

00:57:28.032 --> 00:57:29.233
I wanted it to be set there.

00:57:29.253 --> 00:57:29.614
I love that, dude.

00:57:30.474 --> 00:57:30.695
Yeah,

00:57:30.795 --> 00:57:31.835
that's why I wanted it to be set

00:57:31.855 --> 00:57:34.396
there, because I think, like I said,

00:57:34.456 --> 00:57:36.878
you know, such an interesting city,

00:57:36.918 --> 00:57:38.519
has so much stuff going on that...

00:57:38.760 --> 00:57:39.800
So much history.

00:57:39.860 --> 00:57:40.581
I mean, it's like,

00:57:41.161 --> 00:57:43.463
when you walk down the cobblestones

00:57:44.543 --> 00:57:46.824
downtown there, I mean,

00:57:46.985 --> 00:57:47.045
it

00:57:48.228 --> 00:57:50.731
it's hard to describe like unless you've

00:57:50.771 --> 00:57:53.813
actually walked the streets down there and

00:57:53.853 --> 00:57:56.074
got some beignets of course yeah i mean

00:57:56.094 --> 00:57:57.094
you can't go there without getting

00:57:57.114 --> 00:58:00.556
beignets but just walking around like we

00:58:00.577 --> 00:58:03.318
we took our daughter there admittedly what

00:58:03.358 --> 00:58:04.860
she's probably too young but we went

00:58:04.880 --> 00:58:06.221
during the day i do want to put

00:58:06.260 --> 00:58:10.063
that out there it was during the day

00:58:10.083 --> 00:58:12.545
she brought her flute with her because she

00:58:12.585 --> 00:58:14.005
wanted to play street music

00:58:15.304 --> 00:58:17.987
with the jazz artists down there.

00:58:18.967 --> 00:58:20.447
And we found this one little place that

00:58:20.467 --> 00:58:22.869
had a piano sitting outside of it.

00:58:23.590 --> 00:58:25.371
And there was nobody that said you

00:58:25.391 --> 00:58:26.090
couldn't play.

00:58:26.572 --> 00:58:27.711
So my daughter sat down and started

00:58:27.751 --> 00:58:29.012
playing piano as well.

00:58:29.753 --> 00:58:31.153
And the guy stuck his head out of

00:58:31.173 --> 00:58:32.114
the bar and was like,

00:58:33.476 --> 00:58:34.036
how old is she?

00:58:34.536 --> 00:58:35.956
I think at the time she was ten,

00:58:36.817 --> 00:58:37.318
twelve.

00:58:38.878 --> 00:58:42.300
I'm like, oh, she's ten, eleven, twelve.

00:58:42.320 --> 00:58:42.820
They were like,

00:58:44.130 --> 00:58:44.630
Oh, damn.

00:58:45.269 --> 00:58:46.170
Did she play like that?

00:58:47.010 --> 00:58:47.170
Yeah,

00:58:47.190 --> 00:58:48.851
she's been doing it since she was five.

00:58:48.891 --> 00:58:51.112
So I see she's holding a flute.

00:58:51.132 --> 00:58:51.833
Does she play flute, too?

00:58:51.893 --> 00:58:53.333
We're like, yeah, she plays that, too.

00:58:53.893 --> 00:58:55.873
They're like, OK, anything else?

00:58:55.893 --> 00:58:56.695
We're like, yeah, oboe.

00:58:57.454 --> 00:58:59.275
And the guy was like, hang on.

00:58:59.635 --> 00:59:00.096
He goes in,

00:59:00.115 --> 00:59:01.356
he comes out with his guitar and they

00:59:01.376 --> 00:59:03.717
sit there and played music together.

00:59:03.737 --> 00:59:05.777
And that's the whole reason we went to

00:59:05.838 --> 00:59:08.239
New Orleans was for her to have that

00:59:08.378 --> 00:59:10.920
one little experience to play music on the

00:59:10.960 --> 00:59:11.320
street.

00:59:12.199 --> 00:59:12.458
you know,

00:59:12.498 --> 00:59:14.739
in new Orleans and we accomplished that.

00:59:14.760 --> 00:59:14.800
So.

00:59:14.820 --> 00:59:16.181
No, awesome.

00:59:16.280 --> 00:59:16.840
That's awesome.

00:59:16.900 --> 00:59:17.141
Yeah.

00:59:17.302 --> 00:59:18.501
Like, um, yeah.

00:59:18.621 --> 00:59:21.463
One of, um, like, uh,

00:59:21.483 --> 00:59:22.443
this is my guy right here.

00:59:22.483 --> 00:59:24.085
That's the guy at the comment on the

00:59:24.125 --> 00:59:24.706
screen right now.

00:59:24.726 --> 00:59:25.405
That's Mac.

00:59:25.985 --> 00:59:27.047
AKA your boy.

00:59:27.726 --> 00:59:28.907
He was the one that was kind of

00:59:28.927 --> 00:59:31.168
like, Hey,

00:59:31.349 --> 00:59:32.489
you think you can get him on?

00:59:32.710 --> 00:59:33.809
I'm like, he's been on my radar.

00:59:33.829 --> 00:59:35.130
You've been on my radar for a while.

00:59:35.170 --> 00:59:36.632
So let me reach out.

00:59:37.829 --> 00:59:38.610
Well, yeah, yeah, man,

00:59:38.630 --> 00:59:40.735
I appreciate you suggesting this.

00:59:40.775 --> 00:59:42.697
Like, I had a great time.

00:59:42.737 --> 00:59:45.302
Yeah, and I was going to say, yeah,

00:59:45.422 --> 00:59:48.847
one of Dara's home bases, like, you know,

00:59:48.887 --> 00:59:50.291
she'll have her detective office.

00:59:50.650 --> 00:59:50.791
Mm-hmm.

00:59:52.010 --> 00:59:54.632
But another place she'll spend a lot of

00:59:54.652 --> 00:59:56.313
time at is a jazz club.

00:59:57.652 --> 00:59:59.634
And yeah, you know,

00:59:59.713 --> 01:00:03.034
and she's going to befriend the bartender

01:00:03.094 --> 01:00:03.496
and, you know,

01:00:03.556 --> 01:00:05.876
he'll be kind of like helping her like

01:00:05.896 --> 01:00:07.317
get word on the street and stuff like

01:00:07.356 --> 01:00:07.677
that.

01:00:07.717 --> 01:00:09.137
So, yeah, you know,

01:00:09.177 --> 01:00:11.918
the music and the mystical side of New

01:00:11.978 --> 01:00:13.440
Orleans is going to be like on full

01:00:13.480 --> 01:00:13.920
display.

01:00:14.639 --> 01:00:17.342
it's such a draw dude it's like i

01:00:17.382 --> 01:00:20.844
said it's really hard to explain unless

01:00:20.884 --> 01:00:24.106
you've been there and you've walked like i

01:00:24.146 --> 01:00:27.849
love jazz i love live jazz and to

01:00:28.429 --> 01:00:30.630
watch my daughter play it granted there

01:00:30.650 --> 01:00:32.813
was only probably about ten people walking

01:00:32.833 --> 01:00:34.134
through the street but they seen a little

01:00:34.153 --> 01:00:35.735
girl playing the piano so naturally

01:00:35.755 --> 01:00:37.556
they're like what's this little girl

01:00:37.576 --> 01:00:38.416
playing a piano

01:00:39.519 --> 01:00:40.981
And then he's like, you know,

01:00:41.001 --> 01:00:42.681
can you play anything like that on your

01:00:42.702 --> 01:00:43.063
flute?

01:00:43.603 --> 01:00:44.224
And she's like, eh.

01:00:45.324 --> 01:00:46.284
And she's like, let me try.

01:00:46.806 --> 01:00:48.586
And she held her own.

01:00:48.666 --> 01:00:51.128
So it was really cool to watch her

01:00:51.608 --> 01:00:52.610
attempt to do that.

01:00:52.969 --> 01:00:56.012
And it kind of was like a little

01:00:56.052 --> 01:00:56.952
checkmark for her.

01:00:57.393 --> 01:01:00.275
So I was happy to have her do

01:01:00.315 --> 01:01:00.516
that.

01:01:00.556 --> 01:01:00.896
Yeah.

01:01:02.398 --> 01:01:02.597
So...

01:01:04.351 --> 01:01:05.634
Let's talk a little bit more.

01:01:05.753 --> 01:01:09.197
I know the Kickstarter has ended.

01:01:09.358 --> 01:01:10.018
You still?

01:01:11.679 --> 01:01:13.041
Okay.

01:01:13.081 --> 01:01:14.923
I think even I got in on it

01:01:15.023 --> 01:01:15.585
after it hit...

01:01:16.615 --> 01:01:18.896
technically ended, but people can still,

01:01:19.577 --> 01:01:21.559
and I want to really hit this home,

01:01:21.958 --> 01:01:25.041
just because a Kickstarter has ended does

01:01:25.081 --> 01:01:28.483
not mean you can't still pledge to the

01:01:28.523 --> 01:01:29.202
Kickstarter.

01:01:29.503 --> 01:01:30.965
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:01:31.065 --> 01:01:33.646
A lot of, you can enable...

01:01:33.666 --> 01:01:34.987
It's misconceptions, I think.

01:01:35.367 --> 01:01:36.628
People don't do it,

01:01:36.648 --> 01:01:37.889
which is weird to me.

01:01:37.949 --> 01:01:40.250
You might as well keep it going.

01:01:40.690 --> 01:01:42.731
There's basically pre-orders.

01:01:43.112 --> 01:01:44.893
So, yeah, it's still up

01:01:47.112 --> 01:01:47.393
You know,

01:01:47.494 --> 01:01:50.414
you just go to Kickstarter and type in

01:01:50.454 --> 01:01:53.215
dark pink comics and it'll be the only

01:01:53.235 --> 01:01:54.114
thing that shows up.

01:01:54.275 --> 01:01:56.596
And yeah, you know,

01:01:56.615 --> 01:01:57.936
it's like a full breakdown,

01:01:57.996 --> 01:01:59.976
like the story and the characters and got

01:02:00.056 --> 01:02:02.556
a couple of pages from the comic in

01:02:02.577 --> 01:02:05.498
there, like a bunch of the additional art.

01:02:07.719 --> 01:02:07.998
Yeah,

01:02:08.139 --> 01:02:12.440
it's just something that is like been a

01:02:12.460 --> 01:02:12.760
very,

01:02:15.318 --> 01:02:16.561
a passion project of mine,

01:02:16.581 --> 01:02:18.043
something near and dear to my heart.

01:02:18.222 --> 01:02:19.786
And I put a lot of effort and

01:02:19.826 --> 01:02:20.407
time into it.

01:02:20.427 --> 01:02:22.510
And I think it shows in the project.

01:02:23.090 --> 01:02:24.532
It does.

01:02:24.552 --> 01:02:26.916
When you land on a Kickstarter's homepage

01:02:27.878 --> 01:02:28.759
and you can tell

01:02:29.639 --> 01:02:31.882
like the amount of passion and the amount

01:02:31.902 --> 01:02:34.003
of work and the amount of thought that's

01:02:34.043 --> 01:02:36.106
gone into it just simply from that first

01:02:36.146 --> 01:02:37.867
page when you the loading page you know

01:02:37.887 --> 01:02:40.650
what i'm saying yeah yeah yeah yeah i

01:02:40.670 --> 01:02:42.711
put a lot of time and i try

01:02:42.731 --> 01:02:44.614
to flex my little writing muscles to try

01:02:44.634 --> 01:02:47.115
to create like a nice little narrative and

01:02:47.135 --> 01:02:49.177
like explain everything because yeah like

01:02:49.217 --> 01:02:51.699
it's something that is um important

01:02:52.641 --> 01:02:54.523
uh to me and you know i want

01:02:54.543 --> 01:02:56.846
to you know give a good impression you

01:02:56.865 --> 01:02:59.608
know of the project um because i do

01:02:59.829 --> 01:03:01.411
you know i do think that it's a

01:03:01.512 --> 01:03:03.092
it's a really good project that if people

01:03:03.112 --> 01:03:05.076
check out like they'll they'll like it's

01:03:05.416 --> 01:03:07.157
um like has a little bit of everything

01:03:07.237 --> 01:03:09.099
you know some some it does

01:03:10.097 --> 01:03:11.018
some music.

01:03:11.697 --> 01:03:12.418
I think, you know,

01:03:12.438 --> 01:03:13.539
we got a few jokes in there,

01:03:13.559 --> 01:03:15.780
like Dara will crack a joke, you know,

01:03:15.840 --> 01:03:19.242
to kind of diffuse, you know,

01:03:20.623 --> 01:03:22.304
more tense situations.

01:03:22.403 --> 01:03:23.405
So, you know,

01:03:23.425 --> 01:03:25.085
we got a few Easter eggs, you know,

01:03:25.126 --> 01:03:26.927
homages to all kinds of stuff from the

01:03:27.027 --> 01:03:28.847
eighties, like for anybody.

01:03:28.867 --> 01:03:30.509
That was like my favorite,

01:03:30.969 --> 01:03:32.429
one of my favorite things when I was

01:03:32.469 --> 01:03:33.190
going through.

01:03:33.650 --> 01:03:34.851
And then when you sent me like the

01:03:34.891 --> 01:03:35.291
prequel,

01:03:36.530 --> 01:03:38.030
it's just the references to like the

01:03:38.150 --> 01:03:39.791
eighties and early nineties.

01:03:39.811 --> 01:03:41.552
And I was just like, like this,

01:03:41.592 --> 01:03:43.813
this thing speaks to me so much.

01:03:44.335 --> 01:03:44.715
Yeah.

01:03:44.954 --> 01:03:46.195
Yeah.

01:03:46.356 --> 01:03:47.135
No, I, you, like I said,

01:03:47.155 --> 01:03:49.518
it was like a song to our generation.

01:03:49.538 --> 01:03:50.378
You know what I'm saying?

01:03:50.599 --> 01:03:52.219
It was like that perfect love song for

01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:52.579
us.

01:03:53.994 --> 01:03:55.856
Yeah, I think anybody can enjoy it,

01:03:55.956 --> 01:03:59.757
but it's a deeper level of enjoyment for

01:03:59.797 --> 01:04:03.960
people that grew up in that era or

01:04:03.981 --> 01:04:06.503
are fans of just stuff in that era.

01:04:08.284 --> 01:04:10.144
I know we talked about it briefly with

01:04:10.184 --> 01:04:12.027
you being in the top one percent of

01:04:12.106 --> 01:04:13.967
Kickstarter basically all time,

01:04:13.987 --> 01:04:18.170
which is absolutely insane to think about.

01:04:18.831 --> 01:04:21.092
Were you surprised by the scale of the

01:04:21.132 --> 01:04:22.474
support that you received?

01:04:23.114 --> 01:04:24.076
Because, I mean, you think about it,

01:04:24.115 --> 01:04:26.219
a typical kit starter runs about thirty

01:04:26.239 --> 01:04:26.679
days.

01:04:27.420 --> 01:04:28.842
Twenty eight to thirty two days, I think,

01:04:28.902 --> 01:04:30.485
is what the average is on those.

01:04:31.126 --> 01:04:32.849
So were you surprised with how fast that

01:04:32.869 --> 01:04:34.672
thing went like that?

01:04:35.847 --> 01:04:36.728
Yeah, I was shocked.

01:04:37.588 --> 01:04:38.507
I was hoping,

01:04:38.527 --> 01:04:40.708
I put in a lot of time before

01:04:41.889 --> 01:04:42.789
I pre-planned it.

01:04:42.829 --> 01:04:47.192
I'd been working on the project for about

01:04:47.291 --> 01:04:49.072
nine months before I actually launched it

01:04:49.273 --> 01:04:52.373
on Kickstarter, prepping everything.

01:04:52.414 --> 01:04:54.675
I wanted it to go as well as

01:04:54.735 --> 01:04:56.195
possible, but you never know.

01:05:02.623 --> 01:05:05.626
I was just hoping to get enough money

01:05:05.686 --> 01:05:06.608
to make it.

01:05:08.650 --> 01:05:10.972
I think you set your goal and you

01:05:10.992 --> 01:05:12.974
want your goal.

01:05:14.356 --> 01:05:14.898
For some reason,

01:05:14.938 --> 01:05:16.860
if it goes over that goal, then hey,

01:05:16.900 --> 01:05:17.300
cool.

01:05:17.780 --> 01:05:18.661
I now have equity.

01:05:18.842 --> 01:05:18.943
I can

01:05:20.389 --> 01:05:21.510
I can use for other stuff.

01:05:21.871 --> 01:05:22.190
Yeah.

01:05:22.331 --> 01:05:22.510
Yeah.

01:05:22.570 --> 01:05:23.670
Yeah.

01:05:23.731 --> 01:05:24.271
It did so well.

01:05:24.291 --> 01:05:26.512
It allowed me to hire, you know, the,

01:05:26.572 --> 01:05:27.652
like Francisco,

01:05:27.733 --> 01:05:29.253
like I could hire him cause you know,

01:05:29.414 --> 01:05:30.114
we did so well.

01:05:30.233 --> 01:05:32.235
I could hire the, uh, the, uh,

01:05:32.255 --> 01:05:33.936
Marco to do the coloring.

01:05:33.956 --> 01:05:35.416
Cause I made enough money.

01:05:35.516 --> 01:05:38.358
Like I could afford his rate and these

01:05:38.438 --> 01:05:40.057
extra side stories and,

01:05:40.739 --> 01:05:42.418
and also like as proof of concept that

01:05:42.639 --> 01:05:43.159
I, you know,

01:05:43.199 --> 01:05:44.760
I can do a dark pink number two

01:05:44.800 --> 01:05:47.282
because create enough interest.

01:05:47.322 --> 01:05:48.282
But yeah, I mean, I was,

01:05:49.061 --> 01:05:50.663
Like, hopeful, but, you know, like I said,

01:05:50.682 --> 01:05:51.403
you never know.

01:05:51.443 --> 01:05:53.605
But super appreciative.

01:05:54.065 --> 01:05:54.686
I'm so glad.

01:05:54.726 --> 01:05:56.387
Like, for example, like,

01:05:56.427 --> 01:05:58.148
we had a tier where you could become,

01:05:58.208 --> 01:05:59.708
like, a recurring character.

01:06:00.550 --> 01:06:04.532
And I remember, like, I was like, okay,

01:06:04.811 --> 01:06:07.313
I know personally three people that will

01:06:07.333 --> 01:06:07.873
do this.

01:06:08.454 --> 01:06:09.375
Like, my friends.

01:06:09.556 --> 01:06:10.596
Like, and my brother.

01:06:10.615 --> 01:06:10.996
Yeah.

01:06:11.277 --> 01:06:11.416
Yeah.

01:06:12.096 --> 01:06:13.396
Like three people.

01:06:13.516 --> 01:06:14.896
If I can get three other people to

01:06:14.936 --> 01:06:17.398
do it, that'd be awesome.

01:06:17.498 --> 01:06:18.478
Be super amazing.

01:06:18.777 --> 01:06:20.619
And that covers almost half the initial

01:06:20.659 --> 01:06:21.579
fee of the book.

01:06:21.838 --> 01:06:22.099
Yeah.

01:06:22.398 --> 01:06:22.659
Yeah.

01:06:22.759 --> 01:06:22.918
Yeah.

01:06:22.938 --> 01:06:25.139
It would just be a nice huge time.

01:06:25.179 --> 01:06:26.840
Because I know that that type of tier

01:06:26.880 --> 01:06:28.460
is usually between eight hundred and

01:06:28.501 --> 01:06:30.081
twelve hundred bucks, depending on.

01:06:31.311 --> 01:06:31.710
You know?

01:06:32.291 --> 01:06:33.032
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:06:33.813 --> 01:06:34.974
If I would have got six people,

01:06:34.994 --> 01:06:36.074
I would have made twelve hundred bucks.

01:06:36.094 --> 01:06:38.456
That would have been like literally like a

01:06:38.516 --> 01:06:39.038
third,

01:06:39.217 --> 01:06:41.119
like almost a third of what Conor raised.

01:06:41.639 --> 01:06:43.280
But we ended up getting almost thirty

01:06:43.320 --> 01:06:43.702
people.

01:06:44.541 --> 01:06:46.264
That's insane, dude.

01:06:46.684 --> 01:06:47.965
Yeah.

01:06:48.606 --> 01:06:49.586
Insane.

01:06:50.206 --> 01:06:52.809
That made your proof of concept cemented

01:06:53.009 --> 01:06:55.331
in stone that this was absolutely going to

01:06:55.371 --> 01:06:55.612
work.

01:06:56.364 --> 01:06:56.824
Yeah, yeah.

01:06:57.304 --> 01:06:58.806
I was like, these people, like,

01:06:58.846 --> 01:07:00.846
this is like a new IP that,

01:07:00.905 --> 01:07:01.586
you know, like,

01:07:01.626 --> 01:07:03.347
completely random out of the blue.

01:07:03.907 --> 01:07:04.166
People,

01:07:04.867 --> 01:07:06.588
thirty people want to be in this comic

01:07:06.608 --> 01:07:06.807
book.

01:07:06.827 --> 01:07:08.088
And then we had a cameo thing and

01:07:08.128 --> 01:07:10.648
another, like, forty people, like,

01:07:10.688 --> 01:07:12.289
agreed to do that.

01:07:12.389 --> 01:07:13.090
I literally,

01:07:13.489 --> 01:07:14.510
one of the reasons why I had to

01:07:14.550 --> 01:07:16.130
do the additional short stories was

01:07:16.150 --> 01:07:17.851
because I needed places to put everybody.

01:07:17.871 --> 01:07:18.911
To put the characters, yeah.

01:07:18.931 --> 01:07:19.052
Yeah.

01:07:19.612 --> 01:07:20.932
Because I was like,

01:07:20.952 --> 01:07:21.893
if I get these six people,

01:07:21.914 --> 01:07:23.255
I have it in the script, like,

01:07:23.275 --> 01:07:23.994
it'll be fine.

01:07:24.034 --> 01:07:25.516
And I had to just kind of really

01:07:25.576 --> 01:07:28.757
expand my thoughts because people are so

01:07:28.818 --> 01:07:31.139
excited about it, which, you know,

01:07:31.159 --> 01:07:33.320
makes me even more excited and, like,

01:07:33.961 --> 01:07:38.324
drives me to do it, you know,

01:07:38.364 --> 01:07:40.365
make the project that much better and,

01:07:41.306 --> 01:07:41.547
you know,

01:07:41.586 --> 01:07:43.347
deliver something that people will like.

01:07:43.547 --> 01:07:45.009
And I think people will.

01:07:45.028 --> 01:07:46.990
Like I said, it's a nice

01:07:47.791 --> 01:07:49.612
It'll be a nice debrief,

01:07:49.672 --> 01:07:52.032
like the main fifty four pages and then

01:07:52.052 --> 01:07:53.713
you get three side stories.

01:07:54.172 --> 01:07:56.134
I got to have a series of like

01:07:56.153 --> 01:07:57.775
five.

01:07:58.335 --> 01:07:58.534
Yeah,

01:07:58.554 --> 01:08:02.755
I have five like Saturday morning PSAs

01:08:03.317 --> 01:08:04.077
like, you know, like the.

01:08:04.157 --> 01:08:04.757
Yeah,

01:08:05.436 --> 01:08:07.177
I've seen the single one on the

01:08:07.197 --> 01:08:08.257
Kickstarter main page.

01:08:08.697 --> 01:08:09.759
I was it was in the prequel.

01:08:10.447 --> 01:08:12.070
Yeah, yeah.

01:08:12.090 --> 01:08:13.452
I was like, this is so cool.

01:08:13.572 --> 01:08:15.195
I used to love those little G.I.

01:08:15.237 --> 01:08:15.797
Joe PSAs.

01:08:15.938 --> 01:08:17.060
Yeah, me too.

01:08:18.282 --> 01:08:19.505
Criminally underrated.

01:08:20.198 --> 01:08:22.501
So, yeah, we have four more of those.

01:08:22.520 --> 01:08:24.061
It's like, you know, we got one about,

01:08:24.101 --> 01:08:25.222
like, adopting pets.

01:08:25.243 --> 01:08:27.725
We got one about not blowing up your

01:08:27.786 --> 01:08:30.908
college lab during science projects.

01:08:30.929 --> 01:08:32.170
I did like the adopted pets.

01:08:32.229 --> 01:08:34.431
I got three adopted cats.

01:08:34.471 --> 01:08:36.734
Yeah, no, like, I have, like,

01:08:36.814 --> 01:08:39.155
my pets and a couple of my pets

01:08:39.176 --> 01:08:40.096
that have passed away.

01:08:40.176 --> 01:08:41.618
I got to put them in there as

01:08:41.698 --> 01:08:41.997
well.

01:08:43.167 --> 01:08:44.429
know i got one she goes to a

01:08:44.448 --> 01:08:46.509
comic con and and uh she gets she

01:08:46.529 --> 01:08:48.710
dresses up as misty knight um like her

01:08:48.789 --> 01:08:51.471
eyes still yeah hopefully it's about for

01:08:51.511 --> 01:08:52.872
people putting on deodorant when they go

01:08:52.891 --> 01:08:55.893
to comic cons um yeah it actually is

01:08:55.912 --> 01:08:57.833
kind of in that vein i'm not even

01:08:57.854 --> 01:09:01.376
you know so yeah it's a lot of

01:09:01.456 --> 01:09:04.016
content like people yeah um like i know

01:09:04.037 --> 01:09:07.518
it's taking a long time um but it's

01:09:07.578 --> 01:09:08.599
one of those things where

01:09:10.202 --> 01:09:11.782
This is your passion project.

01:09:12.221 --> 01:09:15.122
It's already been cemented by being in the

01:09:15.162 --> 01:09:16.764
top one percent of Kickstarter.

01:09:17.404 --> 01:09:20.003
So I think you've earned that amongst the

01:09:20.104 --> 01:09:24.364
following for the book to let it play

01:09:24.425 --> 01:09:28.185
itself out and take the time needed to

01:09:28.525 --> 01:09:30.806
put out what people are expecting of the

01:09:30.846 --> 01:09:31.346
project.

01:09:32.149 --> 01:09:32.670
Yeah.

01:09:32.710 --> 01:09:32.810
Yeah.

01:09:32.829 --> 01:09:34.371
I don't think you're really you might have

01:09:34.530 --> 01:09:35.770
one or two who are like, oh,

01:09:35.791 --> 01:09:37.671
this book is taking six or seven more

01:09:37.731 --> 01:09:38.091
months.

01:09:38.532 --> 01:09:39.511
You're going to have one or two of

01:09:39.532 --> 01:09:39.993
those people.

01:09:40.012 --> 01:09:41.273
But I think for the most part,

01:09:42.073 --> 01:09:45.293
those who understand the process itself

01:09:45.595 --> 01:09:48.234
know and they can tell by what you've

01:09:48.735 --> 01:09:50.615
you're not hiding anything.

01:09:50.655 --> 01:09:53.957
You've literally posted three updates or

01:09:54.216 --> 01:09:55.278
something like that in the last three

01:09:55.297 --> 01:09:55.597
days.

01:09:56.769 --> 01:09:57.488
Yeah.

01:09:58.270 --> 01:09:58.529
I mean,

01:09:58.590 --> 01:10:00.850
you stay on top of everything the way

01:10:01.752 --> 01:10:03.132
a, it should be done.

01:10:03.573 --> 01:10:06.173
So, I mean, but again,

01:10:06.194 --> 01:10:07.454
there's always going to be one or two.

01:10:07.475 --> 01:10:07.574
Yeah.

01:10:07.595 --> 01:10:09.395
I try to post the, you know,

01:10:09.435 --> 01:10:10.056
the arts that you see,

01:10:10.077 --> 01:10:12.318
like stuff is being created, you know,

01:10:12.417 --> 01:10:14.759
like it's not just like in the ether

01:10:14.798 --> 01:10:15.259
somewhere.

01:10:15.680 --> 01:10:15.979
Um,

01:10:16.771 --> 01:10:18.592
You know, it's something, yeah,

01:10:18.613 --> 01:10:20.713
like people have been very understanding,

01:10:20.753 --> 01:10:21.573
you know, like,

01:10:22.274 --> 01:10:24.055
I'll probably give them maybe one person a

01:10:24.095 --> 01:10:26.355
week that'll be like, hey, where's the ad?

01:10:26.376 --> 01:10:28.037
But it'll literally be because they didn't

01:10:28.077 --> 01:10:31.037
like check their email or like look at

01:10:31.057 --> 01:10:31.338
the updates.

01:10:31.418 --> 01:10:32.759
And then I just tell them, they're like,

01:10:32.779 --> 01:10:33.619
oh, okay, well, cool.

01:10:34.760 --> 01:10:35.680
Yes, I mean,

01:10:35.761 --> 01:10:37.220
and that's what's really cool, I think,

01:10:37.261 --> 01:10:38.841
about if,

01:10:40.557 --> 01:10:43.341
You're not just doing this to try to

01:10:43.881 --> 01:10:46.545
rush something through the process.

01:10:47.305 --> 01:10:49.108
And you're being open, upfront,

01:10:49.608 --> 01:10:50.368
and honest.

01:10:51.430 --> 01:10:53.351
Then Kickstarter, I think, is probably...

01:10:54.264 --> 01:10:55.945
one of the greatest things to happen to

01:10:55.985 --> 01:10:57.226
the comic book industry.

01:10:57.287 --> 01:10:58.047
Yeah, I agree.

01:10:58.948 --> 01:11:00.189
I agree a hundred percent.

01:11:00.530 --> 01:11:02.011
Like this would not have been a,

01:11:02.072 --> 01:11:03.194
I wouldn't have been able to do it

01:11:03.734 --> 01:11:04.375
without Kickstarter.

01:11:04.395 --> 01:11:05.756
Even though I plan to do it,

01:11:05.796 --> 01:11:08.259
that plan would not have gone as well

01:11:08.338 --> 01:11:10.600
as doing it the way that I ended

01:11:10.621 --> 01:11:12.823
up doing it.

01:11:12.884 --> 01:11:14.826
I have an interview coming up.

01:11:17.448 --> 01:11:18.829
can't remember if it's the one on Sunday

01:11:18.869 --> 01:11:20.270
or Monday off the top of my head

01:11:20.310 --> 01:11:23.753
because I like October to be a busy

01:11:23.814 --> 01:11:26.315
month because everything I've tried to do

01:11:26.356 --> 01:11:29.639
this month revolves around Halloween and

01:11:29.679 --> 01:11:30.840
giving you that feel.

01:11:33.181 --> 01:11:34.582
I don't know if it's my headset or

01:11:34.622 --> 01:11:34.923
something.

01:11:35.203 --> 01:11:38.466
I keep getting a pop.

01:11:38.506 --> 01:11:41.668
But his comic book will also take place

01:11:41.729 --> 01:11:43.110
in the swamps of New Orleans.

01:11:44.671 --> 01:11:44.872
And

01:11:46.422 --> 01:11:46.722
Again,

01:11:46.762 --> 01:11:48.404
it's going to be Kickstarter will be the

01:11:48.463 --> 01:11:49.844
make or break or whether or not the

01:11:49.884 --> 01:11:51.583
comic book actually gets made.

01:11:51.604 --> 01:11:54.225
Yeah, I know a lot of people say,

01:11:54.265 --> 01:11:54.465
like,

01:11:54.625 --> 01:11:57.185
don't go into a Kickstarter without having

01:11:57.225 --> 01:11:58.345
a finished product.

01:11:59.426 --> 01:12:00.266
But a lot of times,

01:12:00.287 --> 01:12:02.747
a lot of projects won't get made and

01:12:02.768 --> 01:12:05.167
a lot of good projects won't get made

01:12:05.627 --> 01:12:07.588
without Kickstarter being there to fund

01:12:07.649 --> 01:12:07.729
it.

01:12:08.570 --> 01:12:10.551
Yeah, no, it's true.

01:12:10.612 --> 01:12:14.774
Like, it's a difficult balancing act.

01:12:14.814 --> 01:12:14.994
Like,

01:12:15.015 --> 01:12:16.555
because when I started the Kickstarter,

01:12:16.655 --> 01:12:17.976
I didn't have any interior art.

01:12:17.997 --> 01:12:19.858
I didn't even have PJ hired yet.

01:12:19.997 --> 01:12:22.479
Because I got someone else that was going

01:12:22.498 --> 01:12:22.800
to do it,

01:12:22.840 --> 01:12:24.961
but that he couldn't do it.

01:12:25.001 --> 01:12:27.421
So all I had was like the covers.

01:12:27.641 --> 01:12:29.524
Because I did, I was like,

01:12:29.564 --> 01:12:30.923
I got to have something, of course,

01:12:30.944 --> 01:12:31.805
to show the people.

01:12:33.166 --> 01:12:34.506
I had the covers and I had the

01:12:34.546 --> 01:12:34.926
story.

01:12:35.766 --> 01:12:36.927
That part and stuff was done so I

01:12:36.948 --> 01:12:40.649
could express what it would look like.

01:12:40.710 --> 01:12:42.390
It goes back to your writing and being

01:12:42.430 --> 01:12:45.172
able to portray your thoughts and your

01:12:45.453 --> 01:12:48.333
words in a way to make people buy

01:12:48.475 --> 01:12:49.034
into it.

01:12:49.375 --> 01:12:49.975
Yeah.

01:12:50.015 --> 01:12:50.475
Yeah.

01:12:50.515 --> 01:12:51.855
That's a testament to your writing.

01:12:52.077 --> 01:12:52.817
You know what I'm saying?

01:12:53.016 --> 01:12:53.436
Thank you.

01:12:53.957 --> 01:12:56.578
I did like I tried and I worked

01:12:56.599 --> 01:12:58.479
a lot on that Kickstarter page.

01:12:58.579 --> 01:12:59.661
I think, you know,

01:12:59.701 --> 01:13:01.662
it looks I think it looks like I

01:13:01.681 --> 01:13:02.402
put a lot of work in,

01:13:02.421 --> 01:13:04.323
but I really put a lot of work

01:13:04.403 --> 01:13:04.483
in.

01:13:04.703 --> 01:13:05.863
And this is what I like about it,

01:13:05.904 --> 01:13:06.203
though.

01:13:06.965 --> 01:13:09.605
You don't necessarily have to launch your

01:13:09.645 --> 01:13:11.747
Kickstarter right away for you to work on

01:13:11.766 --> 01:13:12.347
the page.

01:13:13.966 --> 01:13:15.728
You can literally start building the

01:13:15.768 --> 01:13:17.389
Kickstarter from the ground up,

01:13:17.868 --> 01:13:20.671
your Kickstarter landing page for your

01:13:20.730 --> 01:13:22.551
project without launching it.

01:13:22.572 --> 01:13:23.953
Yeah.

01:13:23.972 --> 01:13:25.493
And I don't think enough people really

01:13:26.073 --> 01:13:27.715
realize that, that you can do that.

01:13:28.769 --> 01:13:31.331
yeah yeah now mine was set up like

01:13:31.470 --> 01:13:33.171
months before it actually launched i had

01:13:33.271 --> 01:13:34.653
all the stuff that you saw like was

01:13:34.672 --> 01:13:36.313
on the back end like i was just

01:13:36.332 --> 01:13:39.135
like getting stuff ready and i tweak it

01:13:39.154 --> 01:13:41.216
and i change even to to this day

01:13:41.256 --> 01:13:43.377
like i'll like throw in a new page

01:13:43.398 --> 01:13:45.958
that has been completed yeah i've seen the

01:13:46.059 --> 01:13:47.659
one today and i was just like dude

01:13:47.739 --> 01:13:50.442
come on man i like that though i

01:13:50.462 --> 01:13:53.283
love getting those like once or twice a

01:13:53.323 --> 01:13:55.225
week where a page just get gets done

01:13:55.265 --> 01:13:57.206
and you toss it up and you're like

01:13:59.377 --> 01:14:00.216
Like, all right.

01:14:00.237 --> 01:14:01.078
I'm like, keep it going.

01:14:01.818 --> 01:14:02.278
Yeah.

01:14:02.337 --> 01:14:02.597
Yeah.

01:14:02.658 --> 01:14:03.819
It's just that right amount.

01:14:03.918 --> 01:14:04.078
Like,

01:14:04.439 --> 01:14:07.619
it keeps that excitement going for it.

01:14:07.640 --> 01:14:08.720
Because you know it's going to come.

01:14:08.739 --> 01:14:09.341
And when it comes,

01:14:09.381 --> 01:14:11.881
it's going to be freaking amazing.

01:14:12.561 --> 01:14:12.881
Yeah.

01:14:13.122 --> 01:14:13.301
Yeah.

01:14:13.381 --> 01:14:17.944
I'm going to start dropping more of the

01:14:18.024 --> 01:14:19.203
short story stuff.

01:14:19.224 --> 01:14:21.845
Because the one that Tyler Linaz did.

01:14:22.478 --> 01:14:23.037
It's done.

01:14:23.057 --> 01:14:23.877
It's colored.

01:14:23.938 --> 01:14:24.518
It's lettered.

01:14:25.019 --> 01:14:26.538
Yeah.

01:14:26.618 --> 01:14:27.399
It's all good.

01:14:28.298 --> 01:14:29.720
It's kind of hard on that one because

01:14:29.760 --> 01:14:32.500
that one basically will tell the story

01:14:32.560 --> 01:14:37.541
from the main antagonist of this issue,

01:14:37.560 --> 01:14:38.220
the vampire.

01:14:38.381 --> 01:14:42.381
It'll tell the story of issue one from

01:14:42.442 --> 01:14:43.802
his perspective.

01:14:43.943 --> 01:14:44.262
Okay, dope.

01:14:44.283 --> 01:14:44.382
Yeah.

01:14:46.345 --> 01:14:48.326
So like half of the story is like

01:14:48.345 --> 01:14:48.945
spoilers.

01:14:50.525 --> 01:14:50.666
Yeah.

01:14:50.706 --> 01:14:51.987
You know what?

01:14:52.027 --> 01:14:52.806
You bring that up.

01:14:53.087 --> 01:14:54.447
That's one of those things where you don't

01:14:54.527 --> 01:14:56.807
see a lot of where the protagonist is

01:14:58.747 --> 01:15:00.429
how the story is being told from their

01:15:00.448 --> 01:15:01.149
perspective.

01:15:02.088 --> 01:15:02.509
Yeah.

01:15:02.689 --> 01:15:04.109
It's just not something you see a lot

01:15:04.270 --> 01:15:04.449
of.

01:15:05.478 --> 01:15:07.621
Yeah, you know, again,

01:15:07.661 --> 01:15:09.342
because it was so successful,

01:15:09.422 --> 01:15:12.365
I was able to be able to expand,

01:15:12.407 --> 01:15:15.510
like, you know, my storytelling.

01:15:15.529 --> 01:15:18.354
Because I want him, like, even though,

01:15:18.694 --> 01:15:19.614
like we discussed earlier,

01:15:19.654 --> 01:15:20.917
we'll be going through kind of, like,

01:15:21.037 --> 01:15:22.399
the different monsters and stuff.

01:15:22.439 --> 01:15:24.121
But he will still be a constant.

01:15:24.944 --> 01:15:27.268
throughout the story.

01:15:27.307 --> 01:15:30.091
He's one of the main characters,

01:15:30.150 --> 01:15:32.795
even though he's a villain.

01:15:34.577 --> 01:15:36.560
Every story has to have a character like

01:15:36.579 --> 01:15:36.860
that.

01:15:36.940 --> 01:15:38.101
That reoccurring

01:15:38.942 --> 01:15:39.141
Yeah.

01:15:39.202 --> 01:15:41.082
You know,

01:15:41.143 --> 01:15:42.302
it doesn't have to be a villain,

01:15:42.323 --> 01:15:43.162
but it's just got to have,

01:15:43.262 --> 01:15:44.703
you got to have a constant there.

01:15:45.144 --> 01:15:46.944
Whether they're a good guy or a bad

01:15:46.984 --> 01:15:47.283
guy,

01:15:47.344 --> 01:15:48.965
it's just something that kind of opposes

01:15:49.024 --> 01:15:50.744
your main character.

01:15:51.104 --> 01:15:51.905
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:15:51.966 --> 01:15:54.805
Their relationship will get complicated

01:15:55.086 --> 01:15:56.487
and evolve.

01:15:56.747 --> 01:16:00.507
And, you know, like he, like, man,

01:16:00.528 --> 01:16:01.268
I wish I could say it.

01:16:01.747 --> 01:16:02.807
No, no, no, don't do that.

01:16:02.868 --> 01:16:03.769
In his story,

01:16:04.269 --> 01:16:06.248
it'll be kind of explained like his kind

01:16:06.269 --> 01:16:08.050
of fascination with her.

01:16:09.349 --> 01:16:11.292
And that he might know a bit more

01:16:11.353 --> 01:16:11.935
about her.

01:16:12.175 --> 01:16:13.979
Now we're getting to that Buffy territory.

01:16:14.778 --> 01:16:17.279
yeah well you know you can't go buffy

01:16:17.378 --> 01:16:20.538
was another huge influence like you know

01:16:20.559 --> 01:16:22.279
what i'm looking forward to the new buffy

01:16:22.319 --> 01:16:24.779
series as well yeah yeah me too me

01:16:24.819 --> 01:16:26.460
too um i'm not one of those people

01:16:26.479 --> 01:16:30.100
like i love the original classic dude but

01:16:30.140 --> 01:16:31.561
i mean it was based on a comic

01:16:31.582 --> 01:16:32.662
book so it's not like we don't have

01:16:32.862 --> 01:16:35.542
buffy like different the comic book kept

01:16:35.601 --> 01:16:37.922
going where the tv series stopped the

01:16:37.943 --> 01:16:39.903
comic book picked it up yeah and it

01:16:39.922 --> 01:16:41.783
was a fantastic ride i don't care what

01:16:41.904 --> 01:16:42.764
anybody says

01:16:43.626 --> 01:16:46.627
Because it maintained the same writer from

01:16:46.667 --> 01:16:48.648
the TV series to the comic book.

01:16:49.047 --> 01:16:50.387
What was his name?

01:16:50.448 --> 01:16:50.787
Mack?

01:16:50.988 --> 01:16:51.668
Something Mack.

01:16:52.828 --> 01:16:55.689
Yeah, I forget.

01:16:55.710 --> 01:16:56.989
But the comic book was fantastic.

01:16:58.970 --> 01:16:59.751
What was her name?

01:17:00.690 --> 01:17:01.511
The Vampire Slayer.

01:17:01.532 --> 01:17:03.051
What was her name in the series?

01:17:05.712 --> 01:17:06.212
The actress?

01:17:06.932 --> 01:17:07.774
Yeah, not the actress.

01:17:07.814 --> 01:17:09.173
I know that was Sarah Michelle Giller in

01:17:09.213 --> 01:17:10.394
the TV series.

01:17:11.095 --> 01:17:12.175
But her character name.

01:17:14.862 --> 01:17:15.002
Buffy.

01:17:15.021 --> 01:17:16.162
She had another name besides Buffy.

01:17:16.182 --> 01:17:16.382
Oh, yeah.

01:17:16.403 --> 01:17:16.783
What was her name?

01:17:16.804 --> 01:17:21.167
Because I don't even think about it

01:17:21.226 --> 01:17:21.646
anymore.

01:17:21.766 --> 01:17:23.108
But there's a story of...

01:17:23.729 --> 01:17:26.591
And it's really cool because where this

01:17:26.650 --> 01:17:28.613
new TV series is going to pick up

01:17:28.693 --> 01:17:33.555
is Buffy is the new person to bring

01:17:33.615 --> 01:17:35.518
up the next Vampire Slayer.

01:17:35.898 --> 01:17:36.279
Yeah.

01:17:36.779 --> 01:17:39.180
And the last comic book run was

01:17:39.600 --> 01:17:40.202
basically...

01:17:41.529 --> 01:17:44.011
the middle aged Buffy in the wind down

01:17:44.051 --> 01:17:45.112
of her career, getting ready.

01:17:45.131 --> 01:17:45.311
Yeah.

01:17:47.233 --> 01:17:48.873
Yeah.

01:17:48.913 --> 01:17:49.894
So I'm like, dude,

01:17:49.913 --> 01:17:51.795
I'm so excited for this TV series to

01:17:51.854 --> 01:17:53.336
pick up that comic book,

01:17:53.716 --> 01:17:55.136
bring it to real life.

01:17:55.516 --> 01:17:57.658
And then the actress, they got to play,

01:17:57.878 --> 01:17:58.979
um, you know,

01:17:58.998 --> 01:18:02.161
the younger Buffy coming up from, um,

01:18:02.520 --> 01:18:03.582
Wednesday, the werewolf.

01:18:03.601 --> 01:18:03.681
Yeah.

01:18:03.702 --> 01:18:05.662
I was like, yeah,

01:18:05.682 --> 01:18:07.583
she was perfect for that role.

01:18:07.724 --> 01:18:07.764
Um,

01:18:08.831 --> 01:18:09.610
Yeah,

01:18:09.631 --> 01:18:12.271
Wednesday is also a really good show.

01:18:12.372 --> 01:18:13.131
It really is.

01:18:14.332 --> 01:18:16.533
And Jenna Ortega as Wednesday has

01:18:16.693 --> 01:18:19.753
absolutely bodied that role.

01:18:20.753 --> 01:18:22.413
Nothing against Christina Ricci.

01:18:22.875 --> 01:18:24.295
I love her version of Wednesday,

01:18:24.875 --> 01:18:28.376
but this more serious Wednesday that we

01:18:28.395 --> 01:18:29.216
get with Jenna.

01:18:29.876 --> 01:18:30.595
Yeah,

01:18:30.615 --> 01:18:31.936
she gets to stick her teeth into the

01:18:31.976 --> 01:18:33.817
character a lot.

01:18:34.037 --> 01:18:34.476
She does.

01:18:35.417 --> 01:18:36.957
And she's not held to what...

01:18:38.510 --> 01:18:39.912
The movie was right.

01:18:39.952 --> 01:18:41.573
She's gotten, you know,

01:18:41.913 --> 01:18:44.256
now two seasons to develop this character

01:18:44.336 --> 01:18:44.756
in her.

01:18:45.858 --> 01:18:47.219
She wants to bring her to the screen,

01:18:47.239 --> 01:18:48.381
which I think is really cool.

01:18:49.122 --> 01:18:50.802
And it's a burden.

01:18:50.842 --> 01:18:51.824
He's basically he's like,

01:18:51.845 --> 01:18:52.725
here's your character.

01:18:54.527 --> 01:18:55.448
Do it, you know,

01:18:55.467 --> 01:18:56.510
figure it out how you want to do

01:18:56.529 --> 01:18:56.609
it.

01:18:56.649 --> 01:18:58.211
Bring your own intricacies to the

01:18:58.251 --> 01:18:59.512
character and roll with it.

01:19:00.416 --> 01:19:01.657
yeah yeah she's done a great job it's

01:19:01.676 --> 01:19:03.778
like right like the whole cast like this

01:19:03.837 --> 01:19:08.161
is just a good dude the casting perfection

01:19:08.201 --> 01:19:11.382
for me yeah like i was like they

01:19:11.403 --> 01:19:15.206
couldn't have done better no i agree i

01:19:15.326 --> 01:19:17.967
agree yeah i just was i was been

01:19:18.028 --> 01:19:20.328
late on season uh two but i just

01:19:20.349 --> 01:19:21.270
i was a little late to it get

01:19:21.310 --> 01:19:22.871
into it as well i just finished it

01:19:22.890 --> 01:19:23.792
like a week or two ago

01:19:24.507 --> 01:19:24.807
Yeah,

01:19:24.828 --> 01:19:26.809
I still have like one or two more

01:19:26.849 --> 01:19:27.448
episodes.

01:19:27.469 --> 01:19:29.250
I have to probably watch them this

01:19:29.270 --> 01:19:31.551
weekend, to be honest with you.

01:19:31.570 --> 01:19:33.412
So get it knocked out.

01:19:33.452 --> 01:19:33.971
But yeah,

01:19:33.992 --> 01:19:36.033
it's like I watched the first season,

01:19:36.573 --> 01:19:36.972
loved it.

01:19:37.073 --> 01:19:38.974
And then I've been so busy working on

01:19:38.993 --> 01:19:39.474
this comic book.

01:19:39.493 --> 01:19:40.914
I just got to stop watching.

01:19:40.935 --> 01:19:42.034
The only thing I would watch would be

01:19:42.095 --> 01:19:43.355
wrestling because I don't have to pay

01:19:43.395 --> 01:19:43.756
attention.

01:19:44.155 --> 01:19:46.877
while i was working so dude i i

01:19:46.936 --> 01:19:49.637
literally do ninety percent of the stuff i

01:19:49.677 --> 01:19:53.018
do which is pulling all my jumbled

01:19:53.158 --> 01:19:55.158
questions and things i want to explore

01:19:55.198 --> 01:19:58.699
with people coming on the podcast and like

01:19:59.300 --> 01:20:01.060
annotating it down and then at the end

01:20:01.100 --> 01:20:02.161
of the day i have to take all

01:20:02.201 --> 01:20:05.622
my brain jumble put it into chat gpt

01:20:05.662 --> 01:20:07.662
and tell chat gpt to organize my thoughts

01:20:07.703 --> 01:20:10.582
into a something that makes sense right

01:20:10.743 --> 01:20:12.484
and that's what i get you know

01:20:15.277 --> 01:20:19.560
I know the ADD is real for me.

01:20:19.579 --> 01:20:21.661
So I just kind of work through it

01:20:21.961 --> 01:20:24.523
and do the best I can.

01:20:24.603 --> 01:20:26.003
It's weird how that comes out as we

01:20:26.024 --> 01:20:26.663
get older.

01:20:27.864 --> 01:20:30.145
And now that we know what it is,

01:20:30.185 --> 01:20:30.707
we can go, oh, yeah,

01:20:30.726 --> 01:20:31.667
that makes sense for me.

01:20:31.707 --> 01:20:31.908
Yeah.

01:20:35.850 --> 01:20:36.570
Because back in the day,

01:20:36.591 --> 01:20:37.930
it's just because you didn't get your ass

01:20:37.952 --> 01:20:38.511
whooped enough.

01:20:39.030 --> 01:20:41.673
yeah yeah right so i'm like yeah that

01:20:41.694 --> 01:20:43.154
was one of the downfalls from the eighties

01:20:43.194 --> 01:20:45.296
and nineties and like lack of uh standing

01:20:45.396 --> 01:20:48.940
of that but uh you know the eighties

01:20:48.961 --> 01:20:50.381
and nineties were amazing that's why we

01:20:50.483 --> 01:20:52.003
you know doing the story set in that

01:20:52.064 --> 01:20:55.948
time and it's going to be yep something

01:20:55.967 --> 01:21:00.351
i gotta what what's coming next man this

01:21:00.452 --> 01:21:02.413
one's been so successful

01:21:04.038 --> 01:21:06.284
When can everybody expect you to start

01:21:06.364 --> 01:21:09.152
flirting with issue number two for us?

01:21:09.733 --> 01:21:12.118
Because I haven't even got issue one and

01:21:12.158 --> 01:21:13.060
I'm ready for number two.

01:21:13.984 --> 01:21:17.047
um well issue one will come out this

01:21:17.087 --> 01:21:20.492
year like uh next month november or

01:21:20.532 --> 01:21:24.136
december where like pj is like winding

01:21:24.176 --> 01:21:26.698
down like the the mayor that's literally

01:21:26.738 --> 01:21:29.060
all we have left is the uh few

01:21:29.081 --> 01:21:31.262
pay well not a few pages but uh

01:21:31.302 --> 01:21:34.065
like the third act yeah of the main

01:21:34.086 --> 01:21:35.587
story so it needs to be drawn you

01:21:35.608 --> 01:21:36.268
gotta bring it home like

01:21:36.988 --> 01:21:38.430
Third act, springing it home.

01:21:39.010 --> 01:21:39.409
Yeah.

01:21:39.430 --> 01:21:39.970
And then we, you know,

01:21:39.990 --> 01:21:41.291
then we'll get it printed up and shipped

01:21:41.430 --> 01:21:41.610
out.

01:21:41.711 --> 01:21:43.792
So that's definitely one percent this

01:21:43.811 --> 01:21:44.073
year.

01:21:44.132 --> 01:21:47.354
And then like I already have the intro

01:21:47.413 --> 01:21:49.055
for number two,

01:21:49.595 --> 01:21:51.555
like written because each issue is going

01:21:51.576 --> 01:21:52.917
to have a musical intro.

01:21:54.337 --> 01:21:54.596
Okay.

01:21:54.617 --> 01:21:56.658
Like the first issue has like kind of

01:21:56.858 --> 01:21:58.479
like the setup.

01:22:00.259 --> 01:22:02.020
And it was set to some Sade.

01:22:02.659 --> 01:22:06.881
And then the second one, you know,

01:22:06.900 --> 01:22:09.122
will have a similar like three-page setup

01:22:09.162 --> 01:22:12.762
kind of showing like the case will be

01:22:14.122 --> 01:22:15.042
set to some music.

01:22:15.063 --> 01:22:18.184
You already know what the music is?

01:22:18.783 --> 01:22:20.244
Yes, I do know what it is.

01:22:20.284 --> 01:22:20.524
Okay.

01:22:21.060 --> 01:22:22.181
I don't want to give it up yet,

01:22:22.301 --> 01:22:23.243
but... No, don't do it.

01:22:23.342 --> 01:22:23.682
Don't do it.

01:22:23.722 --> 01:22:26.586
Have the cover in mind, and the cover...

01:22:27.306 --> 01:22:29.368
The main cover will be what that is.

01:22:29.868 --> 01:22:31.369
But it's another...

01:22:31.390 --> 01:22:33.192
Are we still staying with the eighties R&B

01:22:33.212 --> 01:22:33.511
with it?

01:22:33.692 --> 01:22:34.212
Yes.

01:22:34.613 --> 01:22:35.113
It will be...

01:22:36.923 --> 01:22:41.087
maybe considered the greatest eighties R

01:22:41.127 --> 01:22:42.788
and B album of all time might be

01:22:42.809 --> 01:22:43.329
the cover.

01:22:46.032 --> 01:22:48.413
That's debatable on so many fronts.

01:22:48.713 --> 01:22:50.796
It is, but you know,

01:22:50.895 --> 01:22:52.377
so there's enough hints there that where

01:22:52.398 --> 01:22:53.639
people can start.

01:22:54.238 --> 01:22:57.199
yeah the one that might lend itself to

01:22:57.239 --> 01:23:00.881
something about monsters so okay oh and

01:23:00.921 --> 01:23:02.940
look at those and you might be able

01:23:02.980 --> 01:23:05.582
to figure it out so yeah go get

01:23:05.601 --> 01:23:07.962
your vinyl out the shed and yeah yeah

01:23:08.141 --> 01:23:09.783
and just start dust them off and start

01:23:09.802 --> 01:23:12.443
getting yourself ready so have that done

01:23:12.523 --> 01:23:15.444
like i um told you earlier uh francisco's

01:23:15.484 --> 01:23:17.604
working on the short one of the short

01:23:17.625 --> 01:23:19.064
stories that'll be part of that so

01:23:19.664 --> 01:23:23.930
Probably might launch a Kickstarter in the

01:23:23.970 --> 01:23:25.832
spring.

01:23:26.112 --> 01:23:28.635
I'll be ready to rock it.

01:23:28.755 --> 01:23:30.476
I'm personally following you now on

01:23:30.516 --> 01:23:32.359
Kickstarter, so I know when you'll launch.

01:23:33.100 --> 01:23:34.921
I'm immediately going to get my email

01:23:34.962 --> 01:23:36.082
saying,

01:23:36.122 --> 01:23:38.305
Chris Ford dropped a new Kickstarter.

01:23:39.045 --> 01:23:39.524
Yeah, yeah.

01:23:39.585 --> 01:23:41.487
We're going to have it ready,

01:23:41.506 --> 01:23:42.667
have a lot of good stuff,

01:23:44.288 --> 01:23:46.791
have some really good ideas for some fun

01:23:47.490 --> 01:23:48.591
tier rewards,

01:23:48.792 --> 01:23:53.716
very eighties themed stuff to go along

01:23:53.735 --> 01:23:54.195
with it.

01:23:54.355 --> 01:23:55.457
And so, yeah.

01:23:55.537 --> 01:23:56.837
As long as you don't bring out the

01:23:57.158 --> 01:23:58.779
full windbreaker track suits.

01:24:00.440 --> 01:24:02.462
um nothing wrong with that i don't know

01:24:02.481 --> 01:24:03.762
i think those are okay oh you know

01:24:03.802 --> 01:24:05.703
the ones i'm talking about too yeah i'm

01:24:05.884 --> 01:24:07.824
not talking about the swishy ones yeah

01:24:07.885 --> 01:24:10.367
yeah yeah the ones that look wrinkled uh

01:24:10.466 --> 01:24:11.988
all the time no matter what you did

01:24:12.047 --> 01:24:12.728
to them

01:24:14.177 --> 01:24:15.439
No, you can't be Harry Smash.

01:24:15.920 --> 01:24:17.020
Even the bad stuff is good.

01:24:17.041 --> 01:24:18.761
That's true,

01:24:18.782 --> 01:24:20.203
because I remember I had about five of

01:24:20.222 --> 01:24:22.225
those that I could rock one a day

01:24:22.265 --> 01:24:22.826
if I wanted to.

01:24:22.865 --> 01:24:25.188
Yeah, me too.

01:24:25.228 --> 01:24:25.988
And I live in Texas.

01:24:26.009 --> 01:24:26.828
It's hot all the time,

01:24:26.849 --> 01:24:27.729
and I still was doing it.

01:24:27.770 --> 01:24:32.875
So yeah, we will ship this year,

01:24:33.135 --> 01:24:33.675
number one.

01:24:33.916 --> 01:24:36.537
Number two in the spring, I have...

01:24:38.086 --> 01:24:41.108
um my goal is actually to release two

01:24:41.288 --> 01:24:44.511
and three next year okay okay um you're

01:24:44.530 --> 01:24:48.113
picking up a lot of good experience in

01:24:48.233 --> 01:24:50.213
yeah in this one so i mean i

01:24:50.234 --> 01:24:54.136
know my friend bruno out in the uk

01:24:54.216 --> 01:24:56.137
i think he he right now i feel

01:24:56.158 --> 01:24:57.719
like he's on his third or fourth

01:24:57.759 --> 01:24:58.359
kickstarter

01:25:00.563 --> 01:25:01.444
just this year alone.

01:25:02.564 --> 01:25:06.146
Once you get an idea of how to

01:25:06.207 --> 01:25:06.648
structure it,

01:25:06.707 --> 01:25:09.168
I think you can run it pretty smoothly.

01:25:11.131 --> 01:25:12.832
The way he plans it, when it ends,

01:25:13.652 --> 01:25:15.153
the next one begins a week or two

01:25:15.193 --> 01:25:15.453
later.

01:25:15.512 --> 01:25:17.795
He does fulfillment, out the door,

01:25:18.234 --> 01:25:19.115
next one starts.

01:25:20.377 --> 01:25:22.037
I'm going to give myself a month or

01:25:22.057 --> 01:25:23.819
something just to depress.

01:25:24.539 --> 01:25:26.201
We're going to be working on

01:25:27.805 --> 01:25:29.768
literally every day from here on out.

01:25:30.087 --> 01:25:31.829
I love it, dude.

01:25:32.470 --> 01:25:33.731
As soon as one ends,

01:25:33.872 --> 01:25:36.614
I'm going to contract PJ to start working

01:25:36.675 --> 01:25:36.935
on two.

01:25:37.015 --> 01:25:37.336
Like I said,

01:25:37.376 --> 01:25:39.497
Francisco is already working on his part.

01:25:39.597 --> 01:25:42.060
That's awesome, dude.

01:25:42.240 --> 01:25:43.881
Like I said, that dude is so good.

01:25:45.404 --> 01:25:46.725
Criminally underrated.

01:25:47.626 --> 01:25:48.886
His style is very unique.

01:25:49.626 --> 01:25:52.487
Like I want, he's got that old school,

01:25:52.506 --> 01:25:55.488
like a seventies and eighties,

01:25:55.528 --> 01:25:57.768
like no matter what he draws,

01:25:58.188 --> 01:26:00.189
it feels like there's a horror feel to

01:26:00.208 --> 01:26:00.248
it.

01:26:00.288 --> 01:26:00.828
You know what I'm saying?

01:26:00.849 --> 01:26:01.229
Yeah.

01:26:01.288 --> 01:26:01.408
Yeah.

01:26:01.488 --> 01:26:01.588
Yeah.

01:26:01.609 --> 01:26:04.189
It's just like, it looks like a vintage,

01:26:04.609 --> 01:26:05.489
like a,

01:26:05.529 --> 01:26:07.590
like either like a foreign film or a

01:26:07.649 --> 01:26:09.430
horror film from us from the seventies.

01:26:09.911 --> 01:26:10.211
I know.

01:26:10.291 --> 01:26:11.470
And that's why I love his work.

01:26:11.530 --> 01:26:12.011
Yeah.

01:26:12.051 --> 01:26:13.872
Like I followed him for a year,

01:26:14.032 --> 01:26:14.652
two years now.

01:26:16.560 --> 01:26:18.341
I literally just talked to him yesterday

01:26:18.362 --> 01:26:18.681
and he was like,

01:26:18.742 --> 01:26:21.484
I'm going to send the layouts for the

01:26:21.503 --> 01:26:24.865
story by the end of the week.

01:26:26.027 --> 01:26:28.788
I'm hoping we can expand things.

01:26:28.889 --> 01:26:32.310
I would like to do a prequel story,

01:26:32.671 --> 01:26:33.331
like a series,

01:26:33.350 --> 01:26:33.551
like a

01:26:34.573 --> 01:26:36.295
maybe like a three series,

01:26:36.774 --> 01:26:39.916
three series of like Dara in England,

01:26:40.176 --> 01:26:40.895
in the boarding school,

01:26:40.916 --> 01:26:42.777
like her like little adventures that we

01:26:42.837 --> 01:26:44.417
talk about as her kicked out.

01:26:44.837 --> 01:26:45.676
But, you know,

01:26:45.697 --> 01:26:46.877
I want to talk about other things that

01:26:46.898 --> 01:26:48.257
she was doing over there.

01:26:48.717 --> 01:26:50.238
Like how she lost her arm.

01:26:50.259 --> 01:26:50.538
Yeah.

01:26:51.359 --> 01:26:53.140
Yeah.

01:26:53.279 --> 01:26:56.000
You know, like a limited series for that.

01:26:56.121 --> 01:26:58.381
I would also like to do something with

01:26:58.400 --> 01:27:03.962
Francisco actually with Dara's parents.

01:27:05.188 --> 01:27:06.347
That should be a full up.

01:27:06.688 --> 01:27:08.248
I don't know what the plan is with

01:27:08.288 --> 01:27:08.809
her parents,

01:27:08.828 --> 01:27:10.469
but if you're going to do Francesco,

01:27:10.929 --> 01:27:12.550
it's got to be like a full horror

01:27:12.609 --> 01:27:15.569
issue where it's just like talking about

01:27:15.630 --> 01:27:17.110
like maybe a series.

01:27:17.131 --> 01:27:17.890
Oh, OK.

01:27:18.711 --> 01:27:19.211
Yeah.

01:27:20.011 --> 01:27:20.190
OK.

01:27:20.270 --> 01:27:23.912
Because we once we kind of get deeper

01:27:24.091 --> 01:27:26.993
into like what's going on with

01:27:27.939 --> 01:27:29.400
why her parents disappeared.

01:27:29.841 --> 01:27:32.302
It's a little more than meets the eye.

01:27:32.323 --> 01:27:33.404
It's not simply...

01:27:34.305 --> 01:27:35.746
It wasn't by happenstance.

01:27:35.786 --> 01:27:36.966
I'll put it that way.

01:27:37.988 --> 01:27:39.189
I was kind of in the back of

01:27:39.229 --> 01:27:40.770
my head was thinking that,

01:27:41.190 --> 01:27:42.572
but I didn't want to bring that to

01:27:42.591 --> 01:27:44.293
the forefront because I didn't want you to

01:27:44.333 --> 01:27:45.814
give anything away that you didn't want to

01:27:45.835 --> 01:27:46.775
give away yet.

01:27:47.478 --> 01:27:48.259
Yeah.

01:27:48.279 --> 01:27:50.539
But I'm glad that my thought is what

01:27:50.579 --> 01:27:52.140
your thought is when it comes to her

01:27:52.201 --> 01:27:52.521
parents.

01:27:52.622 --> 01:27:52.841
OK.

01:27:53.362 --> 01:27:53.622
Yeah.

01:27:53.802 --> 01:27:54.002
Yeah.

01:27:54.063 --> 01:27:55.543
Well, I figure people would think that.

01:27:55.623 --> 01:27:56.384
So I mean,

01:27:56.404 --> 01:27:58.025
people would probably get two together.

01:27:58.065 --> 01:27:59.287
But yeah.

01:27:59.407 --> 01:27:59.627
Yeah.

01:27:59.646 --> 01:28:01.887
Because it's the driving force for the

01:28:01.908 --> 01:28:02.229
series.

01:28:02.248 --> 01:28:02.889
So it is.

01:28:02.948 --> 01:28:05.570
It's not something that we will just like

01:28:05.610 --> 01:28:06.572
gloss over.

01:28:06.811 --> 01:28:08.733
You know, it's a very important thing.

01:28:08.752 --> 01:28:10.895
It's literally the reason why she's there.

01:28:11.314 --> 01:28:13.277
yeah oh it can't you know i didn't

01:28:13.296 --> 01:28:15.118
want this to be a simple like oh

01:28:15.137 --> 01:28:16.639
they just disappeared randomly like

01:28:16.679 --> 01:28:18.860
there's yeah no there's not there's got to

01:28:18.881 --> 01:28:21.743
be a deeper meaning there yeah yeah so

01:28:21.863 --> 01:28:24.465
i would like it or like a series

01:28:24.505 --> 01:28:27.167
like set in like the sixties or seventies

01:28:27.207 --> 01:28:31.050
with his art style would be like beautiful

01:28:31.409 --> 01:28:33.011
um you know like set in the uk

01:28:33.051 --> 01:28:35.893
it could be you know like a uh

01:28:35.932 --> 01:28:36.894
like a very like

01:28:37.858 --> 01:28:39.338
I don't want to say like Austin Powers,

01:28:39.378 --> 01:28:41.360
but like a James Bond, Austin Powers,

01:28:41.400 --> 01:28:41.961
like sixties.

01:28:41.980 --> 01:28:42.180
Yeah.

01:28:42.201 --> 01:28:43.381
Okay.

01:28:44.082 --> 01:28:47.324
You know, throw in some, you know,

01:28:47.364 --> 01:28:48.086
like the versioning,

01:28:48.126 --> 01:28:50.807
like UK punk rock scene in the seventies.

01:28:50.847 --> 01:28:51.047
Dude,

01:28:51.068 --> 01:28:53.649
that it was literally born in the UK

01:28:53.750 --> 01:28:56.072
in the late sixties into the seventies.

01:28:56.131 --> 01:28:56.492
Yeah.

01:28:56.931 --> 01:28:57.231
Yeah.

01:28:57.311 --> 01:28:57.853
Cause you know,

01:28:57.893 --> 01:28:59.654
like everything is going to be revolved

01:28:59.694 --> 01:28:59.974
around me.

01:29:00.215 --> 01:29:01.895
Music is a very important part of the,

01:29:02.176 --> 01:29:03.577
of the, I like it, dude.

01:29:03.617 --> 01:29:04.618
No, that's, that's,

01:29:08.095 --> 01:29:08.574
You never know.

01:29:08.735 --> 01:29:10.257
Francisco is very cool to work with.

01:29:10.297 --> 01:29:12.600
I think he would be down with it.

01:29:12.661 --> 01:29:15.985
Something we kind of discussed is

01:29:16.046 --> 01:29:16.606
something that...

01:29:18.364 --> 01:29:19.485
like once I kind of get the ball

01:29:19.525 --> 01:29:20.506
rolling with things,

01:29:20.525 --> 01:29:22.868
like I would really love to expand like

01:29:22.887 --> 01:29:23.608
the universe,

01:29:24.108 --> 01:29:26.048
like twenty twenty five is just kind of

01:29:26.088 --> 01:29:28.331
we're setting setting the tables.

01:29:29.011 --> 01:29:32.353
And then here we're going to have at

01:29:32.393 --> 01:29:34.413
least two projects, maybe three,

01:29:34.554 --> 01:29:35.654
maybe four.

01:29:35.914 --> 01:29:36.735
You know,

01:29:36.756 --> 01:29:38.497
I just want to continue because I have

01:29:38.636 --> 01:29:39.396
the ideas.

01:29:39.457 --> 01:29:41.297
I just have to now that I know

01:29:41.337 --> 01:29:44.420
how to execute them now from this,

01:29:44.479 --> 01:29:45.801
I can just continue on with them.

01:29:46.765 --> 01:29:47.046
Dude,

01:29:47.065 --> 01:29:49.609
you literally just answered the last of my

01:29:49.649 --> 01:29:52.270
questions in the last fifteen minutes of

01:29:52.310 --> 01:29:53.471
what I was going to talk to you

01:29:53.512 --> 01:29:53.813
about.

01:29:54.252 --> 01:29:56.595
We talked about it just in the natural

01:29:56.615 --> 01:29:57.336
flow of things.

01:29:57.777 --> 01:29:59.939
But before we sign off for the night,

01:30:00.399 --> 01:30:02.041
let everybody know where they can find

01:30:02.081 --> 01:30:04.143
you, where they can find your Kickstarter,

01:30:05.184 --> 01:30:07.145
and what else you're offering with your

01:30:07.185 --> 01:30:09.307
Kickstarter right now that they can still

01:30:09.328 --> 01:30:10.288
get in on, by the way.

01:30:11.935 --> 01:30:13.756
Yeah, yeah.

01:30:13.775 --> 01:30:14.596
On Kickstarter,

01:30:14.657 --> 01:30:15.817
just type in the search bar,

01:30:15.837 --> 01:30:16.677
Dark Pink Comics.

01:30:16.778 --> 01:30:17.278
It'll come up.

01:30:17.297 --> 01:30:21.039
You'll see a young lady with pink braids

01:30:21.300 --> 01:30:23.680
and an Adidas tracksuit straight from the

01:30:23.761 --> 01:30:24.421
movie.

01:30:25.681 --> 01:30:27.523
Looking you right in your face and you'll

01:30:27.542 --> 01:30:29.224
know that you're in the right place.

01:30:30.663 --> 01:30:31.645
We have really,

01:30:31.704 --> 01:30:34.786
really great rewards and stuff.

01:30:34.805 --> 01:30:36.787
We have this t-shirt.

01:30:36.947 --> 01:30:37.887
I got mine.

01:30:38.427 --> 01:30:39.748
we have a different we have a second

01:30:39.788 --> 01:30:42.710
design t-shirt as well um we got

01:30:42.791 --> 01:30:45.252
autographed copies we have art prints we

01:30:45.292 --> 01:30:48.373
have um you know you can have a

01:30:48.394 --> 01:30:49.975
zoom meeting with me if you want to

01:30:50.015 --> 01:30:54.497
learn like all this money somehow um you

01:30:54.516 --> 01:30:56.377
know all kind of really just cool stuff

01:30:56.417 --> 01:30:57.618
and of course we have the comic book

01:30:57.779 --> 01:30:59.460
and you can find the comic book we're

01:30:59.479 --> 01:31:01.720
actually working on the site the official

01:31:01.740 --> 01:31:02.921
website it'll launch like

01:31:03.837 --> 01:31:07.118
maybe next week okay kind of putting the

01:31:07.238 --> 01:31:08.238
final touches on it that'll be

01:31:08.259 --> 01:31:10.118
darkpinkcomics.com but you can find us

01:31:10.219 --> 01:31:13.319
online uh on social media we're on

01:31:13.399 --> 01:31:16.041
instagram at dark pink comics um on

01:31:16.121 --> 01:31:20.082
facebook at dark pink comics on x and

01:31:20.101 --> 01:31:22.502
twitter at dark pink comics but we don't

01:31:22.523 --> 01:31:25.163
really do stuff over there but yeah

01:31:25.184 --> 01:31:26.784
message me and then i'll go over there

01:31:26.824 --> 01:31:27.484
and talk to you if

01:31:27.585 --> 01:31:29.685
you want so and um you can find

01:31:29.725 --> 01:31:34.229
me at talented mr ford mr ford on

01:31:34.328 --> 01:31:36.489
instagram i've been dropping hints of what

01:31:36.510 --> 01:31:38.530
your instagram was since we came i thought

01:31:38.570 --> 01:31:41.313
you were just gonna straight up say i

01:31:41.353 --> 01:31:43.934
was like i was like okay okay i

01:31:43.974 --> 01:31:45.494
plant the seeds and then i'll let you

01:31:45.515 --> 01:31:46.036
hit it home

01:31:47.837 --> 01:31:49.757
he's working like a well-oiled machine

01:31:49.797 --> 01:31:55.122
already so yeah on Instagram and Twitter

01:31:55.521 --> 01:32:01.826
whatever and on Facebook as well but yeah

01:32:01.865 --> 01:32:05.087
you know I the pages run by me

01:32:05.108 --> 01:32:07.930
so if you message Dark Pink Comics on

01:32:08.050 --> 01:32:09.811
Instagram you'll literally be talking to

01:32:09.832 --> 01:32:13.554
me I know I did that yeah that's

01:32:13.634 --> 01:32:14.435
how I got him here

01:32:15.416 --> 01:32:17.596
yeah so you know you know it was

01:32:17.636 --> 01:32:19.439
cool too because i didn't know because

01:32:19.639 --> 01:32:20.920
like i said you were the first person

01:32:20.979 --> 01:32:22.940
i have ever like really messaged to see

01:32:22.980 --> 01:32:24.801
if they wanted to come on the podcast

01:32:25.462 --> 01:32:26.882
and when you were like yeah sure i

01:32:26.903 --> 01:32:28.965
was like i wanted to be like wait

01:32:29.085 --> 01:32:33.948
you for real yeah i was i love

01:32:33.967 --> 01:32:35.809
to talk about the product dude i love

01:32:35.828 --> 01:32:37.430
to talk about this kind of stuff man

01:32:37.510 --> 01:32:38.291
you have no idea

01:32:38.975 --> 01:32:39.235
Yeah,

01:32:39.256 --> 01:32:40.597
I love to talk to people who are

01:32:40.618 --> 01:32:42.500
passionate about the same stuff that I'm

01:32:42.539 --> 01:32:43.582
passionate about.

01:32:43.921 --> 01:32:45.984
And that's really what's led to where I'm

01:32:46.064 --> 01:32:47.907
at right now is that kind of stuff.

01:32:49.748 --> 01:32:52.573
I was like, because Bruno, who got me,

01:32:53.153 --> 01:32:55.076
he was the very first person to contact

01:32:55.115 --> 01:32:55.856
me to go, hey,

01:32:55.877 --> 01:32:57.238
can I come on your podcast and talk

01:32:57.257 --> 01:32:57.458
about

01:32:58.059 --> 01:32:58.918
my comic book.

01:32:59.279 --> 01:33:00.939
I was like, hell yes, dude.

01:33:01.439 --> 01:33:03.420
And then it's just became this,

01:33:03.439 --> 01:33:05.600
this thing now that I'm like,

01:33:05.859 --> 01:33:08.121
if I can give these guys a home

01:33:08.161 --> 01:33:10.140
to come and talk about their comic book

01:33:10.180 --> 01:33:13.702
and share their passion with everybody,

01:33:13.881 --> 01:33:15.362
the way I like to talk about their

01:33:15.381 --> 01:33:17.922
passion, I'm like, I want to do that.

01:33:18.443 --> 01:33:20.082
And that's where I've been going with my

01:33:20.103 --> 01:33:21.523
podcast ever since,

01:33:21.622 --> 01:33:23.283
because that to me is a lot of

01:33:23.304 --> 01:33:23.503
fun.

01:33:23.543 --> 01:33:24.984
I get to talk to people like you

01:33:25.043 --> 01:33:25.363
and,

01:33:25.918 --> 01:33:29.201
who enjoy putting comic books out there

01:33:29.220 --> 01:33:31.742
for people with new and unique characters.

01:33:32.542 --> 01:33:33.122
And to me,

01:33:34.323 --> 01:33:36.163
this may be my direction going forward,

01:33:36.224 --> 01:33:36.644
period.

01:33:36.965 --> 01:33:38.305
It's just this kind of stuff.

01:33:38.685 --> 01:33:39.506
Now, this was great.

01:33:39.546 --> 01:33:39.786
Like,

01:33:41.027 --> 01:33:43.448
really talking to people that are doing

01:33:43.488 --> 01:33:44.247
Kickstarter.

01:33:44.287 --> 01:33:44.547
Like,

01:33:44.608 --> 01:33:46.349
no one's mentioned my Kickstarter to me,

01:33:46.389 --> 01:33:48.010
like, so talk to me about it.

01:33:48.130 --> 01:33:49.591
So I was like, wow, like,

01:33:49.631 --> 01:33:51.971
I really appreciate the opportunity.

01:33:52.051 --> 01:33:53.672
And yeah, you know, helping people,

01:33:54.052 --> 01:33:55.134
you know,

01:33:55.833 --> 01:33:58.036
like kickstarter is there to help people

01:33:58.076 --> 01:34:00.378
like achieve their goals their creative

01:34:00.819 --> 01:34:03.181
you know goals and dreams and but they

01:34:03.242 --> 01:34:05.644
don't really promote it like you know i

01:34:05.663 --> 01:34:07.105
promote top to bottom dude i don't know

01:34:07.126 --> 01:34:09.328
if you you've noticed that yet but yeah

01:34:09.387 --> 01:34:10.368
yeah no no i had to do it

01:34:10.408 --> 01:34:11.951
myself like i was on the front page

01:34:12.411 --> 01:34:13.672
you'll be on the front page your first

01:34:13.693 --> 01:34:15.493
day and then you'll disappear into the

01:34:15.574 --> 01:34:15.734
ether

01:34:16.615 --> 01:34:19.219
So you have to do it yourself or

01:34:19.259 --> 01:34:21.940
have people like you that know the

01:34:22.180 --> 01:34:24.923
Kickstarter grind and what it is to help

01:34:25.925 --> 01:34:26.765
get the word out there.

01:34:26.805 --> 01:34:30.128
So whenever somebody contacts me about

01:34:30.349 --> 01:34:33.212
coming on the podcast, I immediately, hey,

01:34:33.271 --> 01:34:34.713
I don't just say yes right away.

01:34:34.814 --> 01:34:36.494
I take five, ten,

01:34:36.555 --> 01:34:39.078
fifteen minutes and I actually look up the

01:34:39.118 --> 01:34:40.960
individual.

01:34:41.039 --> 01:34:41.180
I want.

01:34:43.614 --> 01:34:45.056
Okay, I'm sure he'll be right back.

01:34:45.757 --> 01:34:47.020
He said he was having some internet

01:34:47.060 --> 01:34:48.582
connection issues,

01:34:48.601 --> 01:34:49.884
so we'll give him a couple of seconds

01:34:49.904 --> 01:34:52.847
to see if he pops back in.

01:34:53.347 --> 01:34:54.250
In the meantime,

01:34:58.442 --> 01:34:59.921
Hit over to Kickstarter right now.

01:35:00.141 --> 01:35:01.203
Go to the search bar.

01:35:01.563 --> 01:35:03.622
Type in Dark Pink.

01:35:04.063 --> 01:35:06.503
It will be the very first comic book

01:35:06.684 --> 01:35:07.423
that comes up.

01:35:07.885 --> 01:35:09.904
Make sure you give him himself a follow.

01:35:09.944 --> 01:35:12.865
That way, when future issues do come out,

01:35:13.265 --> 01:35:17.567
you'll get a notification saying that he

01:35:17.587 --> 01:35:20.427
has launched his next Kickstarter for the

01:35:20.547 --> 01:35:23.429
next issue of the comic book.

01:35:26.913 --> 01:35:27.274
Also,

01:35:27.534 --> 01:35:32.137
his Instagram was at talentedmrford on

01:35:32.238 --> 01:35:32.819
Instagram.

01:35:34.740 --> 01:35:36.202
Hey, bro,

01:35:36.261 --> 01:35:38.984
I can't thank you enough for reminding me

01:35:39.003 --> 01:35:40.945
that he has been on my radar for

01:35:40.966 --> 01:35:43.507
the longest time and me being able to

01:35:43.547 --> 01:35:46.029
get in, purchase the comic book,

01:35:46.109 --> 01:35:48.152
give him some support, and get him back.

01:35:49.418 --> 01:35:50.480
on the podcast.

01:35:50.560 --> 01:35:51.221
There he is.

01:35:51.863 --> 01:35:52.945
Hey, hey, sorry.

01:35:53.145 --> 01:35:53.346
Nah,

01:35:53.927 --> 01:35:55.090
I was just telling everybody you were

01:35:55.109 --> 01:35:56.934
having some internet problems before we

01:35:56.974 --> 01:35:57.956
launched and...

01:35:59.962 --> 01:36:01.963
I know Mac said he's going over to

01:36:02.003 --> 01:36:04.564
Kickstarter now to do his thing.

01:36:05.244 --> 01:36:06.824
We were actually, we were closing it up.

01:36:06.845 --> 01:36:08.645
I was telling everybody they can go over

01:36:08.666 --> 01:36:11.247
to Kickstarter, search Dark Pink.

01:36:11.646 --> 01:36:12.927
It's gonna be the very first thing that

01:36:12.948 --> 01:36:13.427
comes up.

01:36:13.887 --> 01:36:16.048
Your Instagram is Talented Mr. Ford.

01:36:16.088 --> 01:36:17.309
Make sure you give him a follow.

01:36:17.689 --> 01:36:18.949
When you go over to Instagram,

01:36:19.869 --> 01:36:21.551
search dark pink comments he's going to be

01:36:21.570 --> 01:36:24.152
the first person that pops up in the

01:36:24.212 --> 01:36:26.653
bio of dark pink comments on instagram

01:36:26.672 --> 01:36:28.292
you're going to find all his artists and

01:36:28.372 --> 01:36:29.734
everybody working with the comic book as

01:36:29.793 --> 01:36:32.114
well go ahead and give those guys a

01:36:32.154 --> 01:36:33.716
follow too because they are some of the

01:36:33.775 --> 01:36:36.837
talented artists out there right now and

01:36:36.856 --> 01:36:38.457
they are putting out some great things

01:36:38.497 --> 01:36:42.618
from marvel dc image dark horse you name

01:36:42.658 --> 01:36:44.819
it they're working on it as well as

01:36:44.859 --> 01:36:46.480
working on dark pink four

01:36:47.363 --> 01:36:48.684
Chris here.

01:36:48.703 --> 01:36:49.444
With that, everybody,

01:36:49.545 --> 01:36:51.367
I want to send a special thank you

01:36:51.386 --> 01:36:53.408
to Chris once more time for joining us.

01:36:54.130 --> 01:36:55.692
I hope we can have you back on

01:36:55.752 --> 01:36:56.313
again, dude.

01:36:56.353 --> 01:36:58.335
It was a pleasure to have you on.

01:36:59.114 --> 01:37:02.078
I cannot wait to see what's coming up

01:37:02.179 --> 01:37:03.199
next for Dark Pink.

01:37:03.659 --> 01:37:04.841
You're literally hitting on my

01:37:04.902 --> 01:37:05.601
generation's

01:37:06.615 --> 01:37:07.056
love.

01:37:07.997 --> 01:37:10.000
Everything about this comic book is

01:37:10.140 --> 01:37:12.221
perfect for my generation of people,

01:37:12.702 --> 01:37:14.725
and I'm hoping the generations that are

01:37:15.444 --> 01:37:17.127
after me will discover it as well and

01:37:17.186 --> 01:37:18.408
pick it up and go, damn,

01:37:18.628 --> 01:37:19.949
our parents were actually cool.

01:37:20.551 --> 01:37:21.270
But with that in mind...

01:37:24.180 --> 01:37:26.261
We were actually way cooler than them,

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but that's a whole other story.

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That's what's up.

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You know what?

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We know what's up.

01:37:31.905 --> 01:37:32.867
But with that, everybody,

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I want to say thank you again, Chris,

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for coming on and hanging out with us

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for a little bit.

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Don't go anywhere.

01:37:40.112 --> 01:37:41.353
I'm going to close this out.

01:37:41.552 --> 01:37:43.354
We'll go back and we'll carry on a

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little bit, and then we'll do our thing,

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all right?

01:37:46.777 --> 01:37:47.577
All right.

01:37:47.617 --> 01:37:48.637
Thank you so much for having me.

01:37:48.658 --> 01:37:50.319
I appreciate it.

01:37:50.418 --> 01:37:51.260
Yeah, this was great.

01:37:52.844 --> 01:37:53.448
Appreciate you, man.

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We'll hit the outro.

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Don't go nowhere.