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Faith, Art, and Perseverance: Building a Christian Comic Book Universe | Ep 271 · Voices for Voices®

• 0:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast.
• 0:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm your host, founder of Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes.
• 0:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We are excited to have you with us, as you have been with our covering and just hitting that 270 total episode mark on our way to 300 in studio, out of studio episodes combined, by the end of 2025.
• 0:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: The guests that we have are powerful, they're inspirational, uh, and they're just like you, you and I and this episode, uh, as well as uh, we'll be going to part two with the guests we have with us on this particular show is really amazing.
• 0:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm just learning more about him here and kind of the research leading up to our discussion really blown away that he's taking time out of his day to be with us and to talk and share and all that.
• 1:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So you may know him as the founder or president of Kingdom Comics.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: He is Brian Bradley and, brian, we want to thank you so much for taking time out of your day for joining us and just thank you.
• 1:31
  Brian Bradley: Well, thank you for having me on.
• 1:33
  Brian Bradley: It's an honor for me to actually come on here and talk about Kingdom.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Comics.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Maybe for me and our viewers and listeners that may not be as familiar with you and your story and how you got your start, your inspiration for the work that you do, if you'd be able to maybe start kind of on the early years and how that progressed.
• 2:02
  Brian Bradley: Well, kingdom Comics actually began in 2003.
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  Brian Bradley: At that time it was just me, by myself.
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  Brian Bradley: I would publish maybe one comic book every year, every two years, really, really, really part-time.
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  Brian Bradley: Over the years I brought in other creators and right now we're publishing monthly.
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  Brian Bradley: So we have a creative team of different writers and artists really all over the world contribute to the different books that we publish.
• 2:28
  Brian Bradley: But it started with me all by myself, like I said, in 2003.
• 2:34
  Brian Bradley: It was a decision I made because I wanted to glorify God and use my talents, and something that I wanted to do even prior to that, because as a child I always wanted to be a comic book artist.
• 2:48
  Brian Bradley: So over the years I kind of dabbled with that, a little bit here, a little bit there.
• 2:52
  Brian Bradley: Even when we were children, my friends and I we used to kind of make little comic books and at one point we even used to distribute them to the local libraries and local comic book stores.
• 3:05
  Brian Bradley: So it was a very small time.
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  Brian Bradley: Then I got away from it, but along about 1999 and then 2000, I decided I wanted to start to do actual, real comic books and do it on my own as a self-publisher.
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  Brian Bradley: And there's been some highs, there's been some lows, but I stuck with it.
• 3:22
  Brian Bradley: And right now and there's been some highs, there's been some lows, but I stuck with it.
• 3:24
  Brian Bradley: And right now, like I said, we're publishing every month.
• 3:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's great and I think for really anybody.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: They're never too old to dream, they're never too old to kind of go after something that they may have been interested in, and even individuals that are on the younger side of the spectrum watching and listening to families.
• 3:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That you know, if you dream it, and it's something that you have a passion and an interest which I sense from you with.
• 3:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, sticking with something that's longer has been something more than just you know the paycheck and stuff there has to be.
• 4:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know that emotional involvement, the tie in with God and the faith.
• 4:12
  Brian Bradley: I tell people during Kingdom Comics or anything you love, oftentimes it's a labor of love because the returns don't necessarily come back right away as far as financially, but you still get labor at it anyway because you love it.
• 4:25
  Brian Bradley: Oftentimes the return is just seeing the completed product and, in my case, the satisfied customer who come back for more.
• 4:35
  Brian Bradley: Ultimately, of course, this is a ministry and really sowing seeds of the gospel through our comic books.
• 4:44
  Brian Bradley: And I emphasize, our comic books are not Bible stories, they are original characters, original storylines.
• 4:49
  Brian Bradley: I tell people we're kind of like a Christian Marvel comics.
• 4:52
  Brian Bradley: So we got all the superheroes, you got the supervillains, you got the dynamics between characters that we've made up, fictional characters.
• 5:02
  Brian Bradley: But the essence of the gospel is represented in all the subject matter of our books.
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  Brian Bradley: It's just from a different stance.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, and for many viewers and listeners that don't have that upbringing you touched on it but just really emphasize you know how how important that that is that that probably is a big part of you know when you wake up every day and when, when you, when you go to work, that it's not just Brian Bradley Kingdom Comics, it's again, it's a, it's a higher power, somebody that is really guiding this and ministries for him and for his kingdom.
• 5:50
  Brian Bradley: We're ambassadors, all of us, and we've given our life to the Lord.
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  Brian Bradley: He doesn't take us to heaven right away.
• 5:57
  Brian Bradley: There's a purpose for us here on the earth and part of our purpose is to fulfill our gift, our callings, by using our gifts and talents, and that way he works through us.
• 6:10
  Brian Bradley: And, yeah, we are here on assignment and we are ambassadors, and it's important to remember that.
• 6:18
  Brian Bradley: You know, my life is not for Brian Bradley.
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  Brian Bradley: My life is for God to use me to reach others using my talents and my gifts, and I've been blessed to this point to really be.
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  Brian Bradley: They're all pretty much fully manifested right now.
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  Brian Bradley: Everything he's given me, everything he's, I believe, made me to be, I mean as far as a husband and a father, but also in terms of the gifts and the talents which he's given me, and this is Kingdom Comics.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, and there's so many different aspects of comics.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Just that whole process of, as you mentioned, you have the characters and they got their profiles and that's like one side, and then the story for a particular comic and who they're interacting with, and and all that.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Then you have you mentioned, like you know, the illustrator and there's a lot, of, a lot of moving pieces.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So there's uh I I would think that you know a good amount of project management and uh, in the scheme of, uh, you know getting all the pieces together and obviously that takes time.
• 7:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It doesn't happen overnight and I've run into this myself is you have an idea, you have thoughts, and it may not manifest until that first tangible thing for six months or a year or two years, and it's hard to talk about that to individuals that I don't want to say they're not entrepreneurial, but you know you have to.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You can get really into the nuts and bolts of it, Like you know.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Well, why are you doing this thing today?
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Well, because it is going to have an impact and it's going to be needed in a month or six months, and so perseverance, I think, is huge, especially when you're managing, like, those different pieces of like hey, I could give up right now, like you know, because so-and-so's behind and I got this deadline and that deadline Can you talk about?
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know that perseverance and you know how you kind of manage those pieces.
• 8:26
  Brian Bradley: Eyes of faith, the ability to see something before it manifests.
• 8:31
  Brian Bradley: When you work on a project, you have to see the end result.
• 8:36
  Brian Bradley: So that has helped me, knowing that what I'm striving for we're going to bring it to pass, that what I'm striving for we're going to bring it to pass, and with our artists and with our writers, I mean at this point we're flowing, so we don't really struggle too much with knowing that we're going to have a comic book every month.
• 8:53
  Brian Bradley: We just have done it long enough now to where we trust the process.
• 8:58
  Brian Bradley: Originally it was a little bit more of a challenge because it was just me, by myself, but even then I could still see the end as I began and I kind of kept my focus on and still, you know, every goal before me.
• 9:14
  Brian Bradley: I keep my eyes on the end project.
• 9:17
  Brian Bradley: So, and I believe, and I have faith, that we're going to bring everything to pass, and it does, it comes to pass.
• 9:25
  Brian Bradley: As far as you know, we now, like I've said, we publish comic books regularly.
• 9:29
  Brian Bradley: We publish actual, physical, real life comic books.
• 9:34
  Brian Bradley: And what you gotta stick with you gotta, you have to.
• 9:36
  Brian Bradley: You know the Bible says you have to count the cost and you have to know what you're doing and what it's gonna cost you.
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  Brian Bradley: You have to be prepared to pay that cost.
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  Brian Bradley: But if you are, I think God is faithful and he will bring to pass what he's called you to do.
• 9:50
  Brian Bradley: You just have to stick with it.
• 9:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, so beautifully said, and having that faith and believing in the times of despair, yeah, you have to have those eyes and that goal, that kind of bullseye, like here's where we're going and there's going to be a bunch of different pieces and little things, administrative things, that we might not think about, like, oh well, if we want to have a trademark on a particular character, a particular series, there's paperwork and there's a process and that could take a certain amount of time.
• 10:37
  Brian Bradley: And you need more than just yourself.
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  Brian Bradley: Also, the pieces have to fit together to where you have your artists, your writers, but you also have your administrative people and all that.
• 10:51
  Brian Bradley: It all has to fit together, because none of us is called to do the whole thing by ourselves, especially something like Kingdom Comics.
• 10:57
  Brian Bradley: I could never do this all by myself, and I knew that.
• 11:02
  Brian Bradley: But the Lord has provided people and is yet providing people, and it's moving.
• 11:07
  Brian Bradley: It's not stagnant, we are moving.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, and so I'm just thinking.
• 11:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So trust in, obviously, trust in the Lord, but trust in those individuals who are part of your team, absolutely part of your team, absolutely.
• 11:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Did that come easy and natural, or did it take time?
• 11:34
  Brian Bradley: Because for me it's taken some time.
• 11:36
  Brian Bradley: Yeah, it takes time.
• 11:37
  Brian Bradley: I mean, over the years there have been several individuals who I thought you know maybe were perfect fits for Kingdom Counting and they turned out not to be.
• 11:46
  Brian Bradley: And you know, you come across a lot of different people and sometimes that can become discouraging, but in it all there are right now those who are part of Kingdom Con, who should be, but it wasn't easy.
• 12:02
  Brian Bradley: You go through a lot of different people and it can be discouraging, but right now I think the right people are in place and people who I trust, people who I've worked with now for several years, and you know, we all are pulling from the same rope and again I attribute that to God.
• 12:20
  Brian Bradley: I contributed to him providing the right people.
• 12:21
  Brian Bradley: I contributed to him providing the right people, and sometimes it's not who I expect it to be and sometimes people who I expect to be a part of Kingdom Comics are not.
• 12:35
  Brian Bradley: But as of today, we've got a good little team.
• 12:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is our place.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, and, like you said, you're all pulling from the same rope.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: However, whatever it took to get there, but that's where you're at and you have that sense of peace at this point.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But, again, it's taken some time.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That it's not.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, I win the lottery and all of a sudden, like boom, the people just show up, and then you're yeah, yeah.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So what excites you the most about comics?
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: The fact that as a young boy, that was something that you were interested in and you know it continues to this day.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean I'm thinking for myself.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean I wanted to be an astronaut and all these, you know, just big things and they, one reason or another, didn't, didn't happen, and I think that they're all in again.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Everything's in God's time and and for him, I guess, what, what's?
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: What's that like today of of kind of realizing that, wow, I was able to kind of keep things.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, keep your mind on the prize, I think, is what you meant.
• 13:56
  Brian Bradley: Well, I like the visual art as a kid.
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  Brian Bradley: By the time I became an adolescent the story started to hit.
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  Brian Bradley: I used to love the X-Men.
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  Brian Bradley: I just I fell in love with the X-Men.
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  Brian Bradley: I mean, when I was a small boy I liked the art of Superman, the art of Batman.
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  Brian Bradley: But when I hit adolescence I kind of came back to comic books and it was because of the X-Men and I just I fell in love with the storylines.
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  Brian Bradley: I fell in love with the writing.
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  Brian Bradley: I think that I'm probably more of a writer than an artist I do both.
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  Brian Bradley: But I really relate to some of those stories back then the Dark Phoenix saga, the Brood, the X-Men storyline dealing with the brood.
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  Brian Bradley: That really really got me into comic books more more than ever, and just the years that followed I kept up with it.
• 14:47
  Brian Bradley: I don't keep up as much with secular comic books now.
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  Brian Bradley: I think they kind of veered off and they do different subjects and I just I don't, I don't fool with.
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  Brian Bradley: I mean I would like to.
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  Brian Bradley: I've picked up an x-men comic book here and there, but the writing and storylines I can't get into them anymore.
• 15:03
  Brian Bradley: But in the 80s, 90s, yeah, and to be able to do that now.
• 15:09
  Brian Bradley: Um, it's a blessing, you know I I enjoy being able to write comic books and then publish our own stuff now and even do a little bit of the artwork.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So it's, it's a, it's a satisfying thing is the artwork yeah, is it can you just maybe explain, like on a high level, how uh I mean the artwork?
• 15:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Obviously you're, you're, you gotta imagine it and and think about it and then put it on on paper.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Is that something that, because of all those details, that that uh was that an interest, that you always had that aspect, and then you're just uh able to get into that now, because I know for myself, I love art.
• 15:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I, you know, love going to the, you know art galleries and and just enjoy it.
• 15:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But when I think of like, oh my gosh, like I don't even know where I would have started with one character, one person you know, for you know, maybe that you know that person out there that's thinking like, yeah, I really enjoy this, but you know I draw stick figures.
• 16:15
  Brian Bradley: Well, enjoy what you do.
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  Brian Bradley: I mean, I look at some of my artwork, even from a few years ago.
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  Brian Bradley: I think it's terrible and if you go back to way back childhood this doesn't look good at all.
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  Brian Bradley: But when I did it I enjoyed it.
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  Brian Bradley: I enjoyed every step of it.
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  Brian Bradley: I enjoyed the stick figures.
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  Brian Bradley: I enjoyed when I learned how to draw muscles a little bit, I learned how to draw backgrounds.
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  Brian Bradley: So every step of the way, even though now I can look at it and think this isn't, this isn't very good, I still and I always enjoy to draw.
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  Brian Bradley: So as long as I have that joy and I can see the progress, that's also the inspiration when you can see your own progress.
• 16:58
  Brian Bradley: So it keeps me going yeah.
• 17:03
  Brian Bradley: I think that's true with probably anything.
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  Brian Bradley: So when you can see your own progress with anything, that kind of inspires you to keep going because you know you're getting better.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Have you always been able to be grounded where you're able to be in that moment?
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Because I can just at least think in my mind that how focused one would have to be, whether it's the artwork or the story or the character profiles.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Is it easy for you to be in that moment of being present?
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Or is that just something over the years that your mind kind of knows like, hey, when I'm getting ready to do this, you know I'm going to go to my spot and my mind just going to know it's time to focus?
• 17:55
  Brian Bradley: I never knew I was going to do this until my adult years.
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  Brian Bradley: A lot of it as a child was just fun, just messing around with it, but I always came back to it and in that sense I was more grounded in it than I realized, because it was always something in me that would pull me back to it.
• 18:16
  Brian Bradley: And even when I wasn't particularly interested in going in this direction, even when I had other goals and thoughts, I would always be drawn back.
• 18:27
  Brian Bradley: Pardon the pun.
• 18:28
  Brian Bradley: Come back to Kingdom Comics, or not even Kingdom Comics, I would always come back to drawing comic books.
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  Brian Bradley: Sometimes I would just scribble or just draw a superhero, but it was always in me.
• 18:42
  Brian Bradley: So I don't know if there's ever really been a time when it wasn't, even if I didn't realize it at any, really been a time when it wasn't, even if I didn't realize it at any given time, even when I was doing other stuff.
• 18:50
  Brian Bradley: I think the interest.
• 18:51
  Brian Bradley: It wouldn't take much to spark that interest.
• 18:54
  Brian Bradley: I've had friends who would be like, hey, you want to do a comic book?
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  Brian Bradley: And out of the clear blue I'd be like, yeah, of course.
• 19:00
  Brian Bradley: So it was always there, even if I didn't realize it was there.
• 19:05
  Brian Bradley: But I guess as a child I hoped to be this, but during the adolescent years and whatnot, you really didn't think that was logical to one day have your own comic book, the desire was there, but at some point I was like that's illogical, why am I going to do comic books?
• 19:24
  Brian Bradley: I have my own comic book company.
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  Brian Bradley: That doesn't make any sense, but it was always there.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: One of the experiences I have is being in that mindset without almost knowing you're in that mindset.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: An example we did a mission trip a couple of years ago to Ukraine, took some humanitarian supplies over, went over and kind of lived with the people for a few days and was able to interview a couple of people one in the legislature.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But when I got back one of the biggest questions was like well, how did you know you wanted to do that?
• 20:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like how did your mind?
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Because I was just made aware of the opportunity maybe a week and a half before I ended up going and so it really wasn't on the radar.
• 20:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I had another trip in Western Europe that was planned and so that was kind of like my cover story for my family, because just for safety things and my wife would not let me get on the plane and all those things.
• 20:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so when I got back people asked why did you do this and how did you know when?
• 20:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And we had a guest on.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: He's Ukrainian descent.
• 20:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: He lives in Ohio, he teaches at a university, and so I had him on the show and we're just talking about his background, his experience of being Ukrainian and all the you know, just the craziness and things that the with the war going on.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And it was after we had finished our conversation I mean, we're still on on zoom, but it wasn't recording, um, it just came up and I said how can people help?
• 21:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And he said, well, they can donate to this organization and this helps get humanitarian and military and all those things.
• 21:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And he's like, well, I don't know what your schedule is like, but if you want to bring your show over and you, you know, get a couple interviews and just you know, get, get some.
• 21:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, just like some short tick tocks and videos of you know being being here.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so I started to think and I was like you know what?
• 21:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like I think I might do it.
• 21:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I didn't know how I was going to do it.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I know I was going to manage it, that manage that, uh, but it was, it was the seed, was already in my mind for something like that.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It doesn't have to be ukraine, but just something of service.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like for me, when opportunities come up, if they're uh, I always say if it doesn't bang, if it's not going to bankrupt me and my family, and yeah, that was super dangerous and there were were missile strikes and counter missiles to take them out, and so all that was going on.
• 22:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I was kind of living that.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But I kind of hearkened that a little bit too with you, that the comic books, that was kind of like I was already embedded in your mind.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So when, like you said, if somebody said, hey, let's, you want to do a comic book, like you didn't really had to take a a whole lot of time, I mean, it's okay if somebody takes, you know, extra time to think through, uh, but your mindset was already there, like well, yeah like well, yeah, let's do it.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And they're like what?
• 23:05
  Brian Bradley: like, yeah, right now, like well, it's, it's always been there yeah, um.
• 23:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead.
• 23:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Oh no, no, I didn't mean to cut you off, you can go ahead.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Okay, yeah.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So I think that's something that's important for, you know, any viewer, any listener, you know, no matter what age they are, if they're a parent or a guardian, that you know, let our people, you know, dream and have that in their mind, not to, you know, squash it because, well, this sounds silly and well, maybe a little bit like in, you know, earlier formative years.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But if that sticks with them as they continue growing and opportunities and the ways and the means are come available, that I found, like with me, with my, my parents, that they're my biggest supporters.
• 24:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: They weren't always able to financially support, but they were always there and said, you know what, like, I'm kind of scary, but you know with me.
• 24:35
  Brian Bradley: I wish that were, you know, recognized more growing up, because my parents they were very supportive but I don't think they fully recognized that.
• 24:43
  Brian Bradley: You know I was, I wanted to be an artist.
• 24:45
  Brian Bradley: I mean that just for them.
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  Brian Bradley: I also wanted to be a basketball player and it just was kind of all there together.
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  Brian Bradley: But I think and again, no fault of them but I had more of a focus been on.
• 24:58
  Brian Bradley: Brian wants to be a comic book artist and no one knows, maybe even earlier I I would have made it and being a better artist and all types of different scenarios played through my mind.
• 25:11
  Brian Bradley: But I guess the point is that the road may have zigzagged, whatever, but I ended up here anyway and I did.
• 25:18
  Brian Bradley: I ended ended up right where the Lord wants me, Maybe some zigzags and some off-road traveling, but here I am.
• 25:28
  Brian Bradley: It is important to recognize your children and their talents, even if they do seem frivolous or childlike.
• 25:34
  Brian Bradley: Recognize the talents that your kids have and push them in that direction.
• 25:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, give them opportunities.
• 25:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're getting close to the end of this particular for part one.
• 25:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We'll come back with part two, but before we finish up, how can people that aren't familiar with you with Kingdom Comics, how can they pick up copies?
• 26:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Okay, I can tell you.
• 26:07
  Brian Bradley: What we've just released now is an app where we've published over 130 different comic books and we have we put them on our app.
• 26:17
  Brian Bradley: We have a new app where you can download all of them.
• 26:19
  Brian Bradley: We have an new app where you can download all of them.
• 26:20
  Brian Bradley: We have an app for Apple as well as for Google Play, and for $4.99 a month, you have access to all 130 plus of our comic books that you can download on your phone or tablet.
• 26:33
  Brian Bradley: Plus, we're adding a new comic book every month, so that's the main thing that we're doing right now comic book every month.
• 26:39
  Brian Bradley: So that's the main thing that we're doing right now, and through that you get an entire catalog of Kingdom Comics and all the books that we've published to date.
• 26:46
  Brian Bradley: And to find that, if you went to our website, kingdomcomicsonlinecom, you'd see information and it'll give you a link to where you can download the app on your Apple or your Android and you can check out all that we've done.
• 27:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There's a lot on there.
• 27:04
  Brian Bradley: Different artists, different writers, even writers from Marvel Comics.
• 27:09
  Brian Bradley: I mean Joe Rubenstein, who contributed to the Wolverine limited series, among a lot of other things.
• 27:14
  Brian Bradley: He has done, I think, three covers for us.
• 27:18
  Brian Bradley: Yeah, he's done three different covers for us.
• 27:19
  Brian Bradley: We've had many different guest artists who have done our different comic books.
• 27:24
  Brian Bradley: We have the Anointed Seven as our main title, we've got Kingdom Comics Presents, we have Votery, we have Sir Caliburn, we have, we Are Reefahane, we have Quiver and we have Bridge.
• 27:37
  Brian Bradley: So those are our different titles.
• 27:39
  Brian Bradley: Like I said, we're like a Christian Marvel comics but we're better.
• 27:43
  Brian Bradley: So I just wanted to get that out there Again.
• 27:46
  Brian Bradley: That's kingdomcomicsonlinecom.
• 27:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And do check that website out and that app just sounds amazing to have access to all the previous comics and then, as as they roll out each, each month, that that that becomes part of that catalog that you get you get access to, and we all have a lot of us that have a smart device that is either Android or Apple.
• 28:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So that's a great way to you know, get in, get in touch and have people be able to consume your content wherever they're at, if they're traveling, if they're on a plane, a train, if they're on the beach, wherever, wherever they're at, and that's that's so awesome.
• 28:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I'm going to ask you a little bit about the app when we come back for for part two.
• 28:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But, brian, thank you so much for joining us on this part one of the show.
• 28:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's been a beautiful conversation, inspiring Absolutely, and for you, our listeners or viewers.
• 28:53
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• 29:02
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• 29:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We'll see you next time.