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Ep. 176. My Interview with the Talented Kevin Davis! · Vigilante Vibes Podcast

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Hello to all the comic fans, Marvel geeks, and all the nerds
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in between. Welcome to another episode of
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the Vigilante Vibes Podcast where we talk all things Marvel
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without the toxicity that's taken up way too much time in
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each and every fandom. I'm your host, Megan Nicole, and
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today I am so very pleased to introduce a very special guest.
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Occasionally on my show I get the opportunity to interview
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excellent comic creators and today is no different.
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Please welcome Kevin Davis. Good to be here.
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Nice to meet you finally. Yeah, we've talked so much
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online, but we never actually like connected like this.
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Yeah, it's the first time. Yeah.
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So welcome. Very excited you're here.
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Glad to be here. So why don't you tell the
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audience a little bit about you? So my name is Kevin Davis and I
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have a publishing company called Kevin Sidon Entertainment.
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It's it's been in the works for about 3 years.
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That's when I started my comic journey actually was three years
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ago. I started reading comics around
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2020. So I did not grow up reading
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comics, but I got into writing because I want a love
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storytelling and I want to bring back the originality and the
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creativity and just have a blast with with an imagination.
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And I want to get kids reading. I want to get people reading in
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general, from kids to adults and just have fun.
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I've been a published author for four years.
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I put my first book four years ago, but I took it down like
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last year or two years ago because I need to revamp it and
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I can I wanted to make it better.
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So that's the story about my life and now I'm in a better, I
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guess seasoned, where I can actually talk about my life and
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I should open up a bit about it and not be afraid this time
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around. And I'm a full-fledged nerd.
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I love horror, fantasy, Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Image, all of
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them. I love that you mentioned Image
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and Dark Horse and the other indie comics because it's like
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every time someone says I'm a nerd, I love all of Marvel and
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DC and I'm like, you know, there's so much more out there.
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Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
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So you said you took down your comic because you're in?
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A No, it wasn't a comic. It was.
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It's like this one novel, my worst novel.
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Oh, novel. OK, so you removed it because
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you're going to start it over because you're in a better place
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in your life. I think that's very admirable
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because I think a lot of people give the story about their lives
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and it can be seen from so many different perspectives based on
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where you're at in life and if you're over the things that's
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happened to you. So I think when I see comic book
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creators, novelists, anything, who write a story about their
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life, I always hope, like I hope you give an update later or you
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look at it differently later. So I love that you did that.
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Oh yeah. And when I first wrote it, I, I
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didn't really have the knowledge that I have today.
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And I don't think I was very closed off and I didn't really
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open up as I wanted to because I didn't really know how to.
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But now I'm like, I'm a bit more mature than I was back then.
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So I can give a better perspective of what I've went
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through and how I overcame this and that.
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Wow. So are you working on that
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currently right now? Yes, that's one of the things
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I'm working on. I work on multiple projects at
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the same time because I'm crazy. My anxiety could never,
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absolutely not. It's funny, one of my actually
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is so my novel is actually your poetry book too.
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So I've been sharing some my poetry that I write and one of
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the poems is called caps ID me dealing with anxiety.
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So that's so that's so that was actually really fun to write
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because I can actually open up about it and just be flat out
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honest. It's just been just be me.
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Oh wow, I love that so much. That's so great.
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You really do it all. Like I've been.
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Told yeah, you write a novel, you have comic books, you do
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poetry. I believe you do a newsletter
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like. A magazine newsletter or
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something? Magazine How do you do all this
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and keep sane? Well, I have, I come from a
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family of business literally 'cause all my mom is a business
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owner, my, my father's, my dad is a business owner, my sister's
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a teacher and my other sister has her own business and I come
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from a family creativity. So it was really like a fast
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pacing family. So it, I ask myself the same
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question sometimes too, but I have like so many tabs open on
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my laptop. So like, that's how I kind of
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balance things out. Other than on top of that, I
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actually have an amazing group of friends that also that works
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with me and help me be organized even better.
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Like I have a friend that does spreadsheets for me to help me
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get all the products out my head so I know what I'm doing.
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Then my comic artist, my main artist, she also organizes my
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stuff, too, to help me with, like, editing videos or coming
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up with comic ideas and just trying to find ways to get that
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balance of chaos and not just that is being overwhelmed.
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And I'm also been drunk again, catching up on sleep because
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that was time. I did not.
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I barely slept. I went to sleep.
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I was like, sleep by 5:00 in the morning.
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Yeah. Because my mind just keeps going
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and going. And I just have so many ideas I
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want to do in my head. So I try to get them down and I
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can't sleep. I just get back up and start
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working. And I got in, I had to learn to
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get to take care of my mental health because I because I won't
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be able to do this if I don't have energy or have that balance
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to tell stories or to push my company out there.
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I feel like you learning that, you know, mental health is
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wealth, especially in the creative business.
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I feel like that's something people don't really get until
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years, years later after they've like killed themselves trying to
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make it to where they want to be.
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So I feel like you finding that out so early on kind of puts you
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at an advantage in the creative field.
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Yeah, that's because that's, that's also where I started my
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magazine because my magazine, I it's a lifestyle comic culture
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horror magazine, where it's where in a magazine you get
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interviews of other creators. So I try to like market them,
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take put them out there too and show there are other creators
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like me. And so I have comic strips to
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show sneak peeks of upcoming comics, comics from me and
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articles, business articles talking about my friend Dennis
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Knight writes articles for my magazine giving advice about how
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how to, to bake into the comic industry and like the do's and
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don'ts. And then I have mental health
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articles that I write. So I try to like keep it
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balanced. So I'm psych interview comic
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mental health articles and like because I, because I want you to
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be informed, but I don't want it to be so heavy because it is a
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heavy topic to talk about. So I want you to have fun with
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the magazine, but also know that this happens, but also have fun
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reading comics at the same time. And also these these are also my
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creative friends that I've met over over over my time so far.
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That's an also the industry that you can check out.
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So if anyone wants to check out this magazine it the link will
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be in the show notes, so be sure to check that out.
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So I see you mentioned that you have some things about horror,
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and I got the opportunity to review one of your comics, Skin
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Shifter. So is horror a big thing for
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you? Yes, horror, fantasy, it's it's
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literally my strong suit of writing.
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I've I've noticed that is my strong suit of writing.
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And I my I fell in love with horror as as as I grew up more
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as I love Alien, I love Stranger things.
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I love even even Predator, I love The Conjuring, Insidious
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sentence through the Black Phone, so many different types
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of horror and science fiction fantasy.
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And then Lord of the Rings, Hobbit, I can go on all day
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about about it. But yeah, it's horror and
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fantasy is my go to a lot of time.
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Then I'm also trying to challenge my writing to get like
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comedy and drama and I kind of trying to branch out because not
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everyone likes this certain things.
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So I try to like go to different areas, like to potentially reach
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other people. That makes sense, I'm not a
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horror fan by any stretch of the imagination, I get nightmares.
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But I really did like skin shifter.
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Skin shifter. My mouth can't figure out how to
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say it and I have been struggling for like 2 weeks and
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I don't know, it broke me, but I really enjoyed it.
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What I liked the most about it was that the dialogue of the
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comic was very, very relatable. It was very modern.
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It would, it would be how I would talk to my friends, which
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you don't see very often because it's either perfect diction,
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perfect pronunciation, perfect everything.
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But then that's not how people talk, you know?
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So that's what I really liked about yours.
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Yeah, when I'm writing, I don't try to be like so fancy, like
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trying to talk like Shakespearean.
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And I'm saying I'm just going to be raw and real.
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Like that's later. How I'm building my brand is
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being raw and real and even in my in my comics.
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Because when I'm writing my comics, I try to put a message
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in there, especially about mental health and like self
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discovery. But I try to put it in a way
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where you can also entertain, be entertained, but also don't be
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like this idiot because you end up like this or was it?
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Or if you're feeling lost like this character, if you go this
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route, you'll be on a better path.
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But if you go down or this path, not so much.
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So I try to bring out like that, that rawness that we don't
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really see on meet media at all. And, and I always, I always say
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it's not that hard to be original.
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And Ski Shifter is actually based on my, not my novel Jackal
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body. It's actually a Jack is ski
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Shifter is a, my novel Jackal Body.
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So that that novel is actually out.
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It's been out for like 2 years now, I think, or a year.
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Time has flown so far as I kind of lost count.
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It all messages together it like I'll look back on Facebook
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memories. I'm like those a year ago.
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That was a few months ago. Yeah, so Skin Shifter is
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actually based on my novel Jackal Body.
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You can get that on Amazon. And and so I'm actually
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revamping the skin shift to comic because the version you
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got, it was like the man, the original Mango version of it.
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And we've happening it with the new, with my with the new
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artist, which is my main artist because he just got back in
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contact a year ago. Afterlife happened, but she was
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the reason I started to get into comics.
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But she's my very first artist. And so I mean, I'm actually, we,
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we deserve having to redesign as a graphic novel.
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So next time you get to skin shifter, you're not only have
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issue 1 again and in a new art style, you're also begin to re
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issue 2 and 3 all together. So it's going to be like 90
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pages or so, maybe more when the graphic novel comes out.
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Oh wow, that I would actually be interested in seeing.
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Because there it was. Really.
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I really was compelled to the story.
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It just kept bringing me back in and I was like, wait, that's it.
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What's going to what? I was just introduced to Jackal
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Bunny and you're just going to rudely end it?
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Not even like horror. That's.
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Crazy. Yes, I, I, I love ending on
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clefangers 'cause I want to see, I want to sink you in and get
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you interested in wanting some, but you want to know more.
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It will come out, it will come out soon, don't worry, it's
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coming. So I, I always love ending on
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clefangers. I will say it does get crazier,
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but it you won't. But it's not the type of crazy
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that's going to be giving you nightmares, I promise.
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I don't worry about me. I'll figure it out.
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It's not a big deal. But it was, it was fun.
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It was a fun read because there was twists and turns I did not
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see happening like at one point. Spoiler alert for anyone who has
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not read it yet, if you haven't, you really should.
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When everyone turns and everyone is following a certain plan.
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I was like, wait a minute. So all these characters that I
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became what I I felt comfort in because they were the starting
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ones. I was like, still never do
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anything wrong. They're amazing.
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At the end I was like what? What did he do to me?
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Why did he do that? Yeah, and The funny thing is my
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inspiration behind Jacob Bunny is that if you've done a Netflix
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movie, the babysitter when a when a group of friends make a
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deal with the devil and stuff. Yeah, that was one of my
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inspirations. Pants skin shifter and split.
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And I really love alter ego type of stories.
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I do too and it's in. I think this is part of like one
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of my most fond. I've been writing Jacob Bunny.
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And if you actually read the novel version, you're actually
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read, if you read the novel, you're actually will see issue
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1-2 and three if you read the novel version.
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But even the novel ends on the cliffhanger.
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So I would say that because there will be a Jacob Bunny
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sequel novel as well, that would be 4-5 and six in comic form.
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So yeah, you can actually get the full Flash story of issue
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1-2 and three in the novel version before that comic, the
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graphic novel comes out. So wow.
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Well, so have you, have you been to conventions or anything with
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your novel and your comics? Haven't started yet?
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Started yet? That would be really fun.
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I would really love to see that that have your own stand with a
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Jackal Bunny cut out. That would be amazing.
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Yeah, a lot of people have been asking me, have I gone to, have
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I been going to conventions yet? I'm saying not yet.
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I'm literally just started out not long ago and I'm still
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learning about all these conventions.
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I'm like, I only knew about like the San Diego New York Comic
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Con. I didn't even know about the
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smaller conventions like Baltimore or Michigan.
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Or oh, they're smaller like there's.
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So like, there's so many conventions I'm just learning
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about. I was like, and then even in my
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city, I didn't even know about conventions that go here.
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So I was like, I got to start out my local city first, watch
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I'm anywhere else. Yeah, they have them everywhere.
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Like they're like in our Expo center where I used to.
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I just moved where I used to live where they had like little
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neighborhood dog shows and stuff.
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They have them there. It's like they're so small, but
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it shows you the community of the nerds of where you live
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because you're like, you look around, you're like, where have
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all of you been? Who are you people?
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I had no idea. I live around other nerds.
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So yeah, you should definitely at least a small one.
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Get your feet wet. That would be so fun.
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Yeah. And I will say that real there
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are plushies in the works. So there is a Jack of Bunny
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plushy coming soon. Yeah, I have multiple plushies
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on the way. That's that's in the words
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coming soon from Jack of Bunny to Arch Fire and to upcoming
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Mother upcoming comics. So I'm expanding my business
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into that atmosphere and and also potentially 3D printed
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action figures maybe down the road.
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That's still until we determined thing 'cause I'm not, I'm like,
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I'm not really. I was hesitant about plushies,
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but action figures has a whole different medium.
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I was like, we'll see. We'll we'll see about especially
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if I somehow get a demand of like you want to actually figure
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out this character or these characters.
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It's like I'll think about it you.
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See, you already have all the merch for the conventions, you
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just got to pull that trigger. Yeah, and I, I designed my own
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clothing too, so I already got like the merchandise, everything
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to go. So I'm like, I will make my way
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to conventions. I just have to figure out how to
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do it and research how to how to sign up for stuff.
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But when I start going, I'm going as a fan because I don't
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want, I don't want to work. I just want to just nerd out and
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just cosplay, but also have my branding on me so people still
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see that I do have, I have my own brand, but when I first
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started, when I first started going, I'm going out to fan for
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a little while and like to survey the area to see how it
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is, how it's set up. I was like, I'm gonna get a
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table. But right now I just want to be
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a nerd and just have fun. Just now I don't want to be.
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I'm not a business owner at the moment, but I technically still
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am because you have, I have, I'm branding on me.
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Yeah. But I'm not working at table.
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Today, so just go get some stickers made, take them with
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you and every person you talk to, give them a sticker.
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That's what I did with my with our podcast.
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So it's still fun. You can still be a nerd.
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You get to know people. It's very fun.
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But then when you go with your own booth, you're still a fan.
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It's fun. You bring someone with you, you
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give each other breaks so you can walk the circuit and you get
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to get to know fans and also have a candy bowl.
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But I know it sounds funny, but I know it sounds funny.
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But anyone with a kid will stop at your booth if they have a
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bowl of candy because they just want to get through the whole
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thing. They don't want to have to buy
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their kids something. And they say, oh, lollipops, I
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promise you will get way more people because that's me.
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I, I don't care what you're selling.
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I don't care what you're doing at a con.
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If you have a candy bowl, I will at least hear you out because
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you're giving me a service with that lollipop because I'm
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telling. You.
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That was from anyone listening right now does not have to pay
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for that tip. That was a free one.
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Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
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So you mentioned some things that give you your inspiration
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like Stranger Things, which I am so far down the rabbit hole
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right now. Like it's unhealthy, but what
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are some other things that inspired you?
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Scooby-doo, as you can see behind me.
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I didn't even notice. Like scooby-doo.
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See I grew up with all the Scooby Doo's from the original
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to where it is now. Power Power Rangers.
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I'm a huge Disney kid. The Lion King, toy store, Toy
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Story, Moana, Snow White, Tangled, Raponzel.
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That's the name Raponzel, Cinderella, literally everything
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Disney I watch. I I still go back and we watch
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them now just because I was like, if, if I when I need a
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break from horror, I go to Disney at Pixar or go to or go
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to Warner Brothers for scooby-doo and just have a
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blast. And then while I'm watching, I'm
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also getting inspired for pictures to story that I want to
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do. So scooby-doo, I'm actually
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creating a comedy mystery of my own with the talking animal.
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I'm not just going to be a doll. I don't know what it's going to
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be yet, but it's in the works that I'm working on and I'm
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working on it. Like get into comedy and drama.
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Like like drama was like Bridgeton.
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I I went and got into. I tried with Bridgeton, it was
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soft. I couldn't do it's, I don't like
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romance. So like the whole time I was
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like, it's going to pick up soon.
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It has to. Then I was like on the third
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season I was like, yeah, screw this.
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That's ridiculous. Yeah, it's not for everyone.
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I I wash it all the way through so I might get inspiration.
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Like how can I use that comes up, comes up concept, but make
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it better and not boring. So yes, I actually do watch the
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whole thing. Even though it was boring, I'm
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still going to watch it. Yes, 'cause I'm getting inspired
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to do my own thing. What was Adam Sandler?
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A huge Adam Sandler fan. Happy Gilmore, Happy Gilmore 2
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grown-ups, Jack and Jill, Hotel Transylvania, all of everything.
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Adam Sandler a huge fan. A huge fan of The Rock
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especially. Especially see him as a man, how
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he balances his family and business.
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That's like dude, you running everywhere.
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I'm like 1 post of you saying you're in Mexico, next post
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you're in Spain, next one my next post your family.
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I was like dude, how the crap do you balance that?
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I don't. Think any of these people
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actually sleep? Because sometimes I'll see a
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celebrity. They're just bouncing around the
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world and like I am so tired reading this Instagram post
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There's no way. Oh yeah.
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Oh yeah, and The Rock has been one of my big inspirations
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'cause he bounced out his companies and everything he do.
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And I still see him with the Smashing Machine.
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That looks great. And I love he's going back to
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his rooms of actually acting and not being himself in his movies.
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Looks like now that's the I'm like, that's the right Johnson,
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that's not The Rock, that's the right in the Smashing machine.
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But we need that guy back. He's finally back.
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I've heard, I've heard great things about the movie, but I'm
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a huge UFC fan, like an unhealthy huge UFC fan.
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So when I saw it, they were making, I was like, Oh my God,
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this is it. My life is complete.
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And then they said it was The Rock in it.
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And I was like, oh, why? Why did you do that?
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But it does. See the aesthetic of film.
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But then I saw the trailer, yeah.
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And I was like, Oh my gosh, it's not the same character that's in
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like 8 different movies. Thank God.
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When I saw the behind the scenes, I was like, that's The
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Rock. Yeah, right.
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No, I'm like that's Dwayne. That's not The Rock.
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That is freaking Dwayne the actor.
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Not The Rock the action star. That's the rain, the actor.
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Thank God. I was like, dude, and then I
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looked at him sets and looked at him side to side with the guy
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he's playing. I'm like holy smokes you got the
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entire aesthetic of a dude Like what in the world?
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He's a white man. Like it's, it is so much 'cause
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when I first saw the trailer, I like was like, I guess Dwayne's
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not in this. And I was like, Oh my God,
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that's him. He was crazy.
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But like, I saw so many bad reviews about it.
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Not that I care 'cause like some of my favorite movies have been
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just flops. Technically not in my heart,
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but. Yeah, I don't.
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I don't listen to people's views a lot of time.
23:43
No Rotten Tomatoes like. Yeah, screw them.
23:46
But but they don't Yeah, I don't care for Rotten Tomatoes,
23:50
especially when Superman came out.
23:53
I saw the I was I was on a trip when Superman came out and I was
23:57
in I was in Indianapolis when it came out.
23:59
I got to I got to sit on at Max. That's the first movie I got to
24:02
see on at Max and I got read the reviews and you were like so
24:08
much hate to my Henry Carrel was better.
24:10
And then I'm saying that this I mean this Superman, the new one
24:16
is like more accurate comic eyes and I see others like no, Henry
24:20
Carrel was accurate, more accurate.
24:22
And I'm like, how the hell did one movie freaking divide both
24:25
randoms talking about this? I've never read the comic, so I
24:30
don't know. So I just I just legit looked at
24:33
my phone. I was like you say here, he's
24:35
accurate. You say David's accurate.
24:37
I was like, Zach sucks. Well, you just I was sitting on
24:40
Zach's ball. So I was like, OK, now you get
24:42
disrespectful. Jesus Christ.
24:44
So someone who has read the comics, David Corn Sweat is
24:49
basically right off the page. Henry Cavill's, while he does
24:53
make a good Superman, like he has the look, he has the stature
24:57
for it, the script was not Superman.
25:00
Superman is all about hope and, you know, happiness and
25:04
vibrancy. And what Zack Snyder did was not
25:09
it. He tried his but I like the
25:11
Snyder movies, but it it's like they're variants of the actual
25:16
characters. And then you had Gal Gadot, who
25:19
just can't act her way out of a paper bag, but she looked like
25:23
Wonder Woman. And it it's just, it was so
25:26
weird. It was a weird time to be a fan.
25:28
I'm a fan of Gal Gadot, but I hated her in Snow White.
25:32
That whole movie was a mess. I didn't watch it.
25:35
I I hate I movie. Was a mess Gal Gadot is like she
25:40
that felt forced, especially with her singing and.
25:43
She sang. Yeah, yeah, She used to eat
25:46
McQueen. So even the acting it was, it
25:49
was overdramatic. Not in not in a good way.
25:53
Rachel has a beautiful singing voice.
25:55
But yeah then that movie it didn't work.
25:58
The dwarf was horrible that I'm like y'all should've got actual
26:01
people that actually play this part and not hide this tall
26:04
actors to make crappy CGI that was.
26:06
Yeah, Thanks a lot, Peter Dinklage.
26:09
Right, and I was like, dude, I am seriously wasting two hours
26:13
watching this movie right now and I'm going to bloody to my
26:15
sister. Don't watch this movie.
26:16
It was like go watch the original, go watch the which is
26:20
no like this. I don't know what the hell they
26:22
did with this thing. Well, the main actress, Rachel,
26:26
she doesn't even like the original.
26:28
It's like. Yeah, what are you doing here?
26:31
Sounds like when I when I saw the post on her Instagram.
26:34
I'm saying why the hell are you making this movie a political
26:37
statement that's going to turn people off and not even care to
26:41
see a freaking movie? Yeah, and also why are you
26:43
hating on the original? Were literally the entire fan
26:46
base of Disney are who probably wanted to support you or now if
26:51
they not support you. I was like sweetie you need to
26:57
help. You need help with marketing.
27:00
Yeah, her PR people probably with themselves on fire because
27:04
first of all, Snow White was the first animated movie of Disney.
27:08
Even if it's scared you, even if you weren't a fan, you have to
27:12
have that respect because the people who are going to watch
27:14
her movie are fans of the original no matter what.
27:20
And I didn't see the movie because I cannot stand her.
27:23
She has a beautiful singing voice.
27:25
She's not a bad actress, but it's her.
27:27
She just. She just very cocky.
27:30
Yeah, she's just very cocky. It's so weird.
27:32
Like when she said, oh, it's weird that a Prince was stalking
27:38
Snow White. And it's like, ma'am, I'm sorry.
27:40
She wasn't. He wasn't stalking.
27:43
What? What is going on here?
27:44
Wait, why are you so? I don't know why people are so
27:47
obsessed with being different, like reinventing the wheel.
27:52
I just want it, you know, I like the live action Disney.
27:55
I just wanted a live action Disney movie, you know?
27:58
Yeah, I've seen every single last live action.
28:01
So they when they brought him out.
28:04
I dislike Lion King, the live action.
28:07
It didn't it didn't hit me like the like the original dude,
28:10
except with Foster's delts. That hit me off.
28:12
That hit me off. It feels every time.
28:14
Oh wow. The kids are great.
28:17
I just felt Beyoncé didn't. She does.
28:19
She didn't have the spirit of Nala.
28:22
Beyoncé didn't have a. Spirit.
28:24
Yeah, and they I'm like, dude, I still got someone who can
28:28
actually want act and have that tenacity as Nala and that Donald
28:34
Glover about. I think he was pretty OK, but I
28:38
think he was a bit too laid back with the singing.
28:41
I didn't really feel the soul in singing singing, if that makes
28:45
sense. But I liked him over to Beyoncé.
28:48
So I'm like, dude, fantastic actor, fantastic musician and
28:53
producer. My favorite live action so far
28:56
is Aladdin 'cause I think that was like.
28:58
Such a good one. More in tune to the original,
29:02
even paying homage to robbery rooms.
29:06
I liked Little Mermaid, but I feel like they if they wanted to
29:09
have a African American mermaid, they should have did a different
29:13
story and actually did an original story with a a new
29:16
character. That's just my opinion.
29:21
You know, I still I love Holly Bailey, but I just feel like
29:23
that the way they did that it went the wrong way, as I really
29:28
think they should have done a a original story and did something
29:32
else with The Little Mermaid live action.
29:34
If that's just that's my, that's my point point of view on it.
29:37
Yeah, I can see your point. Personally, I think, you know,
29:41
it's a fictional story, so it's like her color has nothing to do
29:45
with the story. So like, do whatever you guys
29:49
want. Just all I asked was for she has
29:53
to have the voice. She has to have a beautiful
29:55
singing voice. And they did they she, Holly
29:58
brought that. And that's when I was like, you
30:00
know, I don't care if you're purple.
30:02
I really don't care at all. That's what I wanted and I got
30:05
it and I'm good. When that movie came out, I've
30:07
seen all these comments. Some are woke this and woke
30:10
that. I was like, it's a fictional
30:12
character, it's not real. It was grown men online
30:18
complaining about it. They said not my mermaid.
30:21
I'm saying it's not a freaking real person or a real thing.
30:25
Well, I. Was like you need to tell me you
30:26
grown ass man online. You guys are mad about a mermaid
30:30
Princess? No, you weren't going to see the
30:32
movie anyways. Right.
30:36
I'm Jake. I'm like, dude, are you all
30:38
seriously that freaking upset about a fictional character that
30:42
doesn't exist? By the way?
30:45
It's a full flash fantasy musical.
30:50
I'm like, brah, what the hell? I'm saying you're like 50-60
30:55
something year old in a nursing home probably or something
30:58
wearing a having a fit over a 20 year old girl playing.
31:06
When I tell you I have a blast reading comics, not comics
31:10
rookie about the comics a minute comments on certain movies and
31:15
that's TV shows and I just look at it and I'm like I'm excited
31:19
to see it because you hate it. That's later I want.
31:21
To go find it. Yeah, that's what that was my
31:25
whole vibe when they said that Jonathan Majors was going to be
31:30
Kang and everyone's like, not everyone, but you know, the
31:33
people were like, I can't believe they got a black guy to
31:36
play. And it's like I was like, oh,
31:38
I'm missing pack and watch. I'm excited because.
31:40
And I'm like. Kang is purple I'm.
31:43
Like Kang is purple. Yeah, like out of all
31:45
characters, he has so many different looks in the comics.
31:50
It. Does this is the hell you want
31:52
to die on? Is it?
31:53
Really, when I've heard about this multiverse thing about the
31:57
character Kang, I was like, who the hell is Kang and why is it a
31:59
multiverse? And I researched it.
32:02
I'm like, oh hell. I was like, Jesus, this dude is
32:06
old and he spreads like wildfire.
32:09
I see. And then and I love how to
32:13
introduce him in Loki as to. Victor Timely.
32:16
Victor, Victor Timely. Yeah, the second scene, yeah.
32:19
Second season, yeah. Yeah, that's black.
32:24
Oh my God, that was the best Marvel show.
32:25
Oh my God, I love that show, man.
32:29
Then look and then the ending of Loki and I understand what what
32:33
Loki going into what he meant, what he was becoming until
32:35
someone explained what he's becoming the God of stories.
32:38
I was like, oh, and then they seem to the comic or where that
32:41
where that goes and say, oh, now it makes sense.
32:46
OK. And then he's back for Doomsday.
32:50
I was like, that makes sense that he's back for Doomsday
32:52
'cause he is the God of stories. So he has to protect the
32:54
timeline. I guess.
32:56
I don't know how how it fully goes, 'cause I didn't read.
32:59
I didn't. I actually didn't read the full
33:01
story of the God of God of stories just yet, sounds like.
33:05
He looks after everything he is. He sees the multiverse, he sees
33:11
the timelines. He keeps track of everything so
33:14
it only makes sense that he will be in the movie.
33:18
And if we all realize a few weeks ago they kind they very
33:22
slightly rebranded The Avengers Doomsday look and it looks much
33:26
more lowly green, not doom green.
33:30
I've noticed that so I'm like, this gives me more excited now
33:36
because I'm like 1. I love Doctor Doom is a
33:39
fantastic freaking character. Oh my God.
33:42
Why did y'all shine up the grain on the movie though?
33:44
I was like what kind of I'm like OK like I'm like is Loki leaving
33:47
the movie? I was like what makes sense.
33:50
He does though. Is Loki the cliffhanger at the
33:54
end of the movie that goes into secret?
33:55
Wars, Secret Wars. I was like, and I read the story
33:59
of Secret Wars and I was like, OK, Secret was.
34:02
It's a lot of story to put in one, like in one freaking movie
34:06
I need. To make it too.
34:08
I'm sure people haven't. I'm so stressed about that.
34:11
And I was like, and this multiverse has only been around
34:14
with like 445 years now since we started and it's like, but I'm
34:20
like I feel like it's it's not enough time because I was like
34:23
Secret Wars is a massive event and I was like 5 years time you.
34:28
I'm like, and this multiverse wasn't as connected as the
34:31
original Marvel Universe was. So I was like, how are y'all
34:34
going to tie all these together at this pace?
34:39
Well, you have to think. Because you have so many
34:40
cliffhangers, from the Eternals to Moonlight to Miss Marvel.
34:43
Oh, they don't want us to remember Eternals.
34:45
They they don't want us to think about that at all.
34:48
I still remember because it's a massive cliffhanger and still
34:50
pisses me off. I still remember it even though
34:52
it's four years later. I still remember it.
34:56
It's like how like then you introduce Thanos brother?
34:59
Apparently I was his brother in the post quiz scene.
35:01
I was like really? That was Harry Styles character.
35:04
I hate that they did that. I hate that they did that 'cause
35:07
I waited for like 2 years after. I'm like, when's my boy coming
35:11
up? And then it just never happened.
35:13
I'm like you, tease. It's like Marvel, what the crap
35:17
are you doing, man? And then and on the DC side, I
35:25
was, I love what James doing and how he's playing.
35:29
So he's not doing, he's like doing like nothing until this
35:32
actual script that he approves of.
35:35
I was like, thank you. Marvel is just rigging
35:40
everything. Marvel announces a project
35:43
before they have script, a director, everything.
35:47
And it's like, I know people don't think that's a problem,
35:51
but I want to remind you of Blade.
35:55
And that's been, what, since 2019, actually, by the way.
36:00
Yeah. And they still already developed
36:02
hell with it. They're not going to be.
36:05
There's nothing right at this point.
36:06
They don't have they? Don't have a script, they don't
36:08
have anything. Especially how white Reuters
36:10
trolled Marvel and Deadpool prover right there was blade.
36:14
There's always there's only been one blade and always will be 1
36:17
blade and. Then which is a lie, which is a
36:20
lie because there was a series of blade and no one talks about
36:24
it. Exactly.
36:25
No one talks about it, so there's only one blade.
36:27
Yeah, but there there's two blades.
36:28
But yeah, there is 2 blades, but wrestling's don't.
36:31
It's the original and only one that we care about mostly.
36:35
And then White Reyes looks at the camera.
36:37
When Raci says that, I'm like, you're a troll.
36:39
You're a freaking troll. That.
36:43
Was yeah, Brian Reynolds works best off the shock factor.
36:46
He really does. He really does.
36:48
Yeah. And then DC side, not going to
36:54
lie, I wasn't a huge fan of DC at first because one, I thought
36:59
he was very disconnected. I didn't really know, like how
37:03
to feel about it. But I'm a huge fan of Zack
37:06
Snyder, especially Dawn of the Dead movie and Army of the Dead
37:11
movies and 300 movies. And I think he's also one of my
37:16
inspirations are like the dark side of writing when I'm like
37:18
writing them dark. Yeah, his.
37:22
Movies are dark, literally and secretively.
37:27
But also the guy who wrote Hellboy movie.
37:31
I keep mispronounce his first name.
37:32
I was come by the last Del Toro. Oh my God, and you made me think
37:38
about it and I thought too hard about it.
37:39
Now what is his name? I don't want a butcher's name.
37:43
So del Toro. I love how he how his writing,
37:47
especially with monsters. Guillermo.
37:51
Yeah, Guillermo del Toro. Yeah, like I thought I knew it,
37:54
and then I was like, do you actually know it?
37:56
And I gaslit myself there. Oh yeah, and I really love his
38:01
writing on Monsters. So like as I can't wait to see
38:04
his Frankenstein movie on Netflix.
38:05
Oh my God, that looks so beautiful.
38:07
Stunning. And he's Oscar.
38:11
Isaac. And I also, I also write
38:17
monsters in my comics too, that I write zombies and I create
38:22
different types of monsters out of my head.
38:24
And it's funny, my artist who read scripts of my heart stories
38:30
was like, dude, your mind is crazy.
38:35
And there's and the artist, like when he read the script, he said
38:38
he feels the emotion, he feels the stat, the stake of the
38:42
characters going through. And he's like, I want, I can't
38:45
wait to draw this and I want more.
38:47
I. Love that and.
38:49
Yeah, I was like, for real. And then we got some of the art
38:53
done of it and the colorist text me, he's like, dude, are you
38:57
planning to publish this when we finish it?
38:59
I was like, yeah, I have my publishing company.
39:02
And he was like, dude, this is like the best thing he's ever
39:05
seen art wise and story wise. And he said this is even better
39:09
than The Walking Dead or anything, or anything on the
39:11
mainstream. I'm just like what?
39:15
I was like, OK, not not right now.
39:17
You're trying to you're trying to gas my head up Now I see I'm
39:19
like, especially I'm still I'm still a new creator.
39:21
And you telling you give me this big of a compliment, like what
39:24
in the world? And then I've gotten so many
39:28
other compliments from other people.
39:29
That's me. Read my writing.
39:31
They say, dude, are you gonna make decent to movies?
39:33
I'm like, I don't know, I'm just getting started.
39:37
I don't freaking know, but I always make the joke sounds.
39:41
I'm like my name might be Kevin, but I'm not Kevin Feige.
39:44
I actually go quality over quantity.
39:47
And I don't do a project until I actually know the story I'm
39:52
doing and what art style I want and if it's a priority story
39:57
that I want to do. And I push stories back because
40:00
they're not my priority because I need more time to develop
40:02
those characters and to the story so I won't be repetitive
40:06
and also don't make it make sense.
40:07
Because I'm literally working on multiple series of comics at the
40:11
same time. So I like, I like, I'm like
40:14
horror, fantasy comedy. I give back to you like 10
40:17
years. So I literally go back and forth
40:21
between like, oh, I got an idea for this one.
40:24
Let me put it down right here. So I won't forget it then.
40:26
So yeah. I could never.
40:29
I can't even watch the series at the same time.
40:31
Like, absolutely not. Oh, yeah, yeah.
40:35
And man. And oh, and I, I'm back to DC
40:39
with James. James is also one of my other
40:45
inspirations too. Since you asked, that was the
40:47
question you asked James, my other inspiration, especially,
40:50
he's a, he's a nerd himself, dude.
40:54
He can write. He can write his tail off.
40:56
And the Guardians movies, Oh my God, I had a blast.
41:01
Those linking movies. I actually had a blast with a
41:04
new Superman. Yeah.
41:06
Me too. I was like, I was like, I love
41:10
both Henry and David, but this like coming out of Superman with
41:15
David, I was like, I do feel a bit more hopeful with this man.
41:20
But I understood Zach's version because I think the way Zach was
41:23
trying to go is like, even in the dark times, that could be
41:25
there could be hope, but he could have tweaked it a lot more
41:29
to make the show more of the hope side.
41:31
You've been too dark. I think he wanted to make it.
41:37
I think he's a talented writer or director.
41:40
I really do. Yeah, he's really good at
41:42
visuals. Yeah, but I don't think that was
41:45
it. I think he needs to do something
41:46
where he makes up the characters instead of pulling from already
41:50
existing. Because I think he looked at
41:52
Superman and said, I just don't like it.
41:55
I want to see it different. I want to add a new one.
41:58
And it's like, you can do that with a lot of characters.
42:02
You cannot do that with Superman.
42:04
I am sorry, but you, you can't. It just stands for too much
42:09
good. You cannot turn him into
42:12
something angry and brooding. He is not Batman.
42:16
He made Batman the comedic relief of the movie.
42:18
It was like, Oh my God. Actually in the Justice League
42:23
version, the 2017 version, that actually wasn't Zach, that was
42:27
Josh Reed, who made Batman a comedic.
42:31
Well, I mean like in the in the Justice League Snyder Cut.
42:36
Oh, well, yeah, he was still a bit comedic, but yeah.
42:38
Yeah. But he was still a little bit
42:40
comedic because I think he did that because like the fan
42:44
backlash, somebody should be a little bit lighter and yadda,
42:46
yadda, yadda. So I think that's what he tried
42:48
to link to and I was like, who gives a fuck what these cry
42:52
babies talk about? Like they they're going to
42:56
complain regardless of what you do.
42:58
So I'm like, just go. I'm like, just stick to what the
43:00
character is. Just think just what you think
43:04
will make a good movie. Just stick to that.
43:06
Don't lean this way. Don't lean that way what you, as
43:10
the person who holds responsibility for these
43:12
characters, think is best for the characters.
43:14
And I think Zach was like, no, I'm not doing that, which is
43:20
fine. It's whatever.
43:21
Yeah, it happens. So we are nearing the end.
43:26
This went by super, super fast actually.
43:29
Can you tell my listeners where they can find you and your?
43:32
Books You can find me on Instagram at I am Kevin Davis,
43:36
official Facebook I am Kevin Davis CEO.
43:41
My my entertainment website, mypublisheriskevinsite.com.
43:45
It's spelled KEVISYD e.com and if you want to see my magazine,
43:52
it's at kvassyinternational.com, which is KEVYS i.e.
43:58
International.com. And listeners, I do know that is
44:01
a lot of links. This man does a lot of things.
44:04
So just looking to show notes under each episode.
44:07
Anywhere you listen to the OR watch this episode, you will
44:09
find every single link there. So thank you for coming on.
44:13
This was so much fun. I had so much fun nerding out
44:16
with you. I never get to do this anymore.
44:18
It's only it's usually just me on the episode, so this is
44:20
really fun. Thank you for having me.
44:22
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