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Boston Comic Con · Multiple Nerdgasm

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  welcome to the show we um we went to Boston Comic-Con this weekend we did
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  this is Jenna and Matt with you here today yeah we uh we drove all the way up
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  from Rhode Island it's a long long drive was about 40 minutes we actually didn't
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  even know about this convention um until a week before so we weren't super
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  prepared for this one it's not going to be the most indepth show but but we do
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  have some stuff to talk about yeah this is the first uh non-pa convention I've
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  been to uh in America and it's the first convention since we moved here uh just
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  two weeks ago just two weeks ago hence the the lack of preparation and a lot of
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  our stuff is still on a boat on its way here so uh yeah but uh but I have a
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  really good time I uh it's very different to conventions in Australia in
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  that it's focused a bit more I think on like it's very comic specific that's
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  right yeah it's a lot less pop culture yeah we have the ones in Australia are
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  more broad um and this one I mean it was that the guests were I feel like because
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  they had William Shatner and they had um Karen Gillan and Jenna Coleman from
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  Doctor Who and John Baran from Doctor Who from Torchwood but mostly uh the the
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  rest of the stuff is Comic based and there are Doctor Who comics and there
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  are Star Trek Comics so and there are but they're not really they don't have
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  anything to do with the comics themselves they're the actors from the
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  TV shows but I I do see how it ties in yeah those things all go together I
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  think but uh but yeah it was very very uh focused uh with the stuff that was on
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  show was a lot of artists yeah and they did have some comic book artists and
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  writers there they had Frank meller there yeah exactly yeah sorry that's
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  true and uh yeah a lot of a lot of comic book artists uh and and writers there
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  and I felt bad because I read a lot of comics but I don't know the names of
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  people CU I kind of just read them when I don't pay attention and that may made
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  me very aware of the fact that that I should pay more attention to that and
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  find out who it is that I like there's probably a theme amongst the ones that I
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  like yeah and the fact that there wasn't very much reception inside the
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  convention center right so I couldn't check myself for example there was a guy
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  there who who clearly from the poster does art for spidergwen which is a
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  series that I'm enjoying at the moment uh but like I said because I I don't
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  know I'm I'm I'm a terrible comic fan I don't pay attention to that so uh I I
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  wasn't able to fact check and I didn't want to go up and embarrass myself but
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  that's okay you can't really Fanboy out over it so that's right but we did uh we
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  said hello to a bunch of people uh and we saw some great stuff uh and big
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  thanks to our friends at tracky Mock Liz at track um they had a booth there uh if
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  you guys over at a convention or if you're just interested in comic book art
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  uh literally made from the real pages of comic books yeah she makes a lot of
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  wallets and zipper pulls and pins and like light switches things like that
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  yeah they're awesome all out of old Comics I got a I got a brand spanking
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  new spidergwen wallet that I bought uh at Boston uh so yeah trackimo.com t r a
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  c m o.com MH check them out there were a
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  couple of artists that you and I fanboyed over yes um accidentally cuz we
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  didn't realize they were going to be there I know I know um there's one
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  there's one guy I love uh we've actually posted some of his art on the nerdgasm
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  page before his name is Jay Salvador and he does the super emo friends um the one
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  we posted was jar jar but he's he just does a lot of com Book characters or pop
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  culture characters looking very sad with some something relating to them mhm yeah
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  they're always underneath some text underneath they're always clever and and
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  a bit sad my my favorite one is the Peggy Carter one from Captain America
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  and it says we never danced and that just really gets me yeah so it's just
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  her looking sad yep uh yeah the Jaa Binks he had hung himself which I think
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  we posted it on the Instagram at one point uh yeah and there's a greo one
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  where it says it wasn't even loaded yep uh Batman my parents are dead yeah bun
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  of cute things you should check him out it's uh super emo friends but I I was
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  really excited because I've like I've seen his art before and I like I follow
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  him on Instagram I love his art and then I saw the booth there and when I went
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  over and talked to him like that was actually him that was the artist so that
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  was pretty cool yeah well I I had a similar experience because I read a lot
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  of comics like web comics on on r RIT and uh and there was one in particular a
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  while ago that really made me laugh uh and we were just walking around and I
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  saw that comic on a table I looked up and there was a guy sat there and I
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  realized it's Shen who does Al turd Comics Covetous Shen I don't know if
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  he's Covetous he was lovely does he sell diamonds perhaps uh but yeah he was he
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  was really lovely and he was there he I think this is uh possibly even the first
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  convention that he did so I'm pretty sure it is yeah yeah he was really
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  nervous about meeting everybody uh and yeah he's a really awesome guy and he
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  was really friendly yeah and his Comics are so funny they're really good I see
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  him and read it all the time that's why I was kind of like yeah I I felt like a
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  bit of a fool cuz I was like oh oh yeah oh you I like you like like an idiot and
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  uh yeah but alterd Comics go to alto.com to check those out they're awesome there
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  are a couple of there's a whole table of web comics like that they're they're
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  great they're like they're good observations yes like clever little
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  thing like yeah observational comedy yeah like little quick strips but yeah
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  yeah they're very clever uh Sarah scribbles is another one that I've seen
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  a lot of and I really appreciate I really enjoy them they're very um girl
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  focused cuz she I guess she's a girl there are there are a few uterus ones in
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  there they are funny yeah I laugh I still laugh and I yeah she was there as
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  well so that was also uh a little like oh wow cool I didn't like I said I
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  didn't didn't expect to meet people that uh you know I I didn't expect to meet
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  those people ever you know what I mean so it was yeah it was it was pretty pretty
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  cool um there was also a booth there you may have seen Tentacle Kitty
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  before um I think they're Plushies that were based on a web comic series um I
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  have one of the the little pink one it's a it's like a cat face with tentacles
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  sprouting off of it you've probably seen them they're pretty adorable yeah
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  they're great they they look like the um
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  the GitHub yeah they do yeah uh they um
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  I mean yeah he has tentacles as well right oh yeah octocat I think it called
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  yeah so it was written by um some guy wrote them for his wife I think he was
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  it says on the kickstarter they had a Kickstarter to make the plushies a
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  couple of years ago um I actually followed it so it's like it was cool to
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  see them all in person at their own booth yeah but he um so he wrote this
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  comic for his wife Who Loved tentacles and he loved cats so he just combined
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  them because he wanted to make something cute and then they made a couple of plush
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  and then wanted to make I think the pink was the first one they wanted to make
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  some different colors and started a Kickstarter for it mhm and they kind of
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  took off the web comic is not really my taste but I do think they're pretty
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  adorable yeah check them out people really like the comics I really like the
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  cat yeah tentacle cat.com sorry tle Kitty tentacle kitty.com uh if you're
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  into cool kind of gentlemanly clothing
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  with a video game theme uh well and we are yeah oh yeah
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  there was a a booth there they do ladies too yeah they do they do they didn't
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  have a a huge amount um at some coats yeah at the at the con but there it's um
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  valante design uh and they make these
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  freaking awesome coats and vests and and stuff and they're very um they themed
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  like they've got a link themed coat and an Assassin's Creed themed coat but
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  they're like very functional yeah I I mean they
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  are if you look at it you definitely see Assassin's Creed in it but you could
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  also get away with wearing it yeah I feel like it works like there's a fine
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  line with that stuff like some of the uh some of the Assassin's Creed jackets I'm
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  like they look like cosplay yeah yeah right whereas this doesn't it just looks
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  like yeah a very fancy coat I think if you there was one the Assassin's Creed
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  one I tried it on uh it was awesome but they didn't have my size which was lucky
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  for me lucky because we don't have that much money yeah I mean they're not cheap
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  but there's a reason for that they're really high quality they that expensive
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  either honestly for the quality of them but it's not like I didn't I didn't
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  bring that with me to to to the convention uh but they do custom stuff
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  too like they do like they do stuff on commission like uh vest and that kind of
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  stuff and they're high quality but the Assassin's Creed one if you put the hood
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  on I mean it looks like an Assassin's Creed uh jacket but if you take the hood
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  off I mean it just like it looks like coat like a really really high quality
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  coat like and they leather and and and like high quality materials and stuff
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  like that they do a really cool job for those of you listening in Australia who
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  have been to other conventions there they kind of remind me of either Gallery
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  Serpentine or loose lemur yeah exactly that that kind of stuff but video game
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  specific like if if those guys kind of made stuff that was based on the games
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  yeah it's very cool yeah it was cool actually because we've we've been to so
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  many conventions in Australia and we've covered so many there it was nice to see
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  different artists yeah I agree like I I loved that part of the conventions in
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  Australia I liked people's handmade stuff yeah but it kind
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  of got a bit stale after every convention was the same booths so I knew
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  what to expect and it yeah like they might have one or two new things but it
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  wasn't it you didn't get the the kind of magic of discovering a whole new booth
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  at a con yeah where this was just an entire new convention so that was
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  prettyy cool one thing I really really liked was the rets they're like the most
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  adorable little hand puppets they kind of look like uh what's that guy they
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  remind me of Franklin from aresta development in except they're like comic
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  and video game characters and stuff it's like a Deadpool there's a wamp uh spark
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  like cthulu there was a cthulu one uh and they're like they kind of like come
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  at the Frog where you put one hand in the puppet and control the mouth and
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  then you have like a you get a hand stick uh with them to control the hands
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  or or a hand M and uh I mean you'd have to practice to use them but they're so
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  cool they like I don't know they're really well done she spends a lot of
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  time uh designing them to look like the characters uh we we'll put a photo we
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  got a photo of the booth uh and we'll we'll put that up and we'll link to them
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  it's at ret.com that's ipit TS she's really sweet too yeah Rebecca from rets she's cool
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  and uh yeah they're all handmade and I think she takes commissions as well like
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  if you want something specific made into a puppet she'll do it but I mean I I
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  don't know what she charges but you can I think they have an Etsy uh so you can
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  get in touch with her but yeah they're cool they they're fun I saw the booth
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  and I was like oh my god there was another really cool one
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  similar to that one um it was called
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  zugu and she made uh like fake Taxidermy so plush
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  Aidy of mythological creatures yeah they're really cool yeah that's the same
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  she does commissions so you could get whatever color unicorn or T-rex or
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  whatever head squid yeah or squid they had squid yeah they they were kind of
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  adorable there's a platypus too mhm the Australian theme yeah they have
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  different SI yeah three different sizes I think she does like a small one a
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  medium one and a freaking huge one like it was a huge Dragon y yeah there was a
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  lot of cool art at this place and a lot of different styles different
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  things that I had never seen before yeah yeah I agree so we spoke to a guy called
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  Joseph schaly he's a writer and artist and he's WR he wrote A series called the
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  calamitous black Devils uh which is about it said during World War II uh and
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  this elite team of army operatives who have to fight the Nazis uh and they get
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  sucked through an interdimensional portal into another world and have to
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  fight zombies and and other stuff to try and get back and uh yeah I kind of just
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  bought it when he told me yeah that's what it was about um so that's a cool
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  series and he's also got another series uh he just come out right in a in a
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  graphic novel in a graphic novel yeah I think so yeah the infernal pack yeah and
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  he's working on a new one um and I believe he's going to come on and talk
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  to us about it uh a bit later on in a couple of months yeah hopefully we can
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  get him get him on he's um going to be doing a Kickstarter soon yeah for the
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  new one so so we're going to have him on and he can tell us a bit more about what
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  it's about I think it's a sequel uh to to the calamus black Devils
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  I think or the infernal pack or possibly both maybe I think we'll have him tell
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  us yeah you know what he he's probably the best qualified to talk about that
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  and I'm making a fool on myself so uh but you can visit his website and and
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  check that out yeah justy.com we'll link to all this stuff in the show notes
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  obviously but the art style is really cool yeah cool what caught my eye to his
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  Booth was all of the horror art yes as you probably know we're both big horror
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  movie fans yeah and he had some Friday the 13th art up that yep and he
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  immediately caught my eye he had a Howard Philip Lovecraft yep portrait uh
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  there as well uh and you know we're here in Rhode Island uh being fans of that
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  that's if that doesn't make any sense that is where Lovecraft is from oh yeah
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  sorry so uh there was some cool cosplay stuff uh there a lot of cool cosplay
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  stuff yeah we posted a picture actually on our Instagram of givewave Studios MH
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  um they make some really awesome stuff this one super impressive was very
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  Pokemon Centric I think because obviously Pokémon go has taken the World
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  by storm um I really liked the Pokedex phone case yeah it it makes me wish that
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  I had a phone that people made phone cases for yeah I mean it would be
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  annoying uh I think pretty quickly but it it was a flip it like a flips open
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  but it looked awesome and oh yeah it looked it looked great I think it was 3D
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  printed too oh okay that's that's cool um I really liked the ray costume they
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  had there that was pretty impressive uh we'll post a picture of that too cuz
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  that was really awesome yeah but I I and that was impressive but I think the most
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  impressive was the uh the buba Fett yeah
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  he they built uh from I believe it's the Japanese he found an action figure yeah
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  it's a Japanese Boba Fett action figure which is very stylized um and then just
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  built it yeah yeah he did an amazing job he's got nsy page um I had to look at it
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  before it's it's got a lot of cool cosplay stuff um you can get Ray's mask
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  yeah right or her staff um a lot of Pokemon stuff you can get a little in
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  egg incubator cool yeah no the it's really good high quality stuff if you're
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  into cosplay and and but you're not like looking to build uh everything yourself
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  y it's like yeah his stuff is really good and they were super adorable and
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  excited to talk to us yeah that was pretty cool yeah they're yeah really
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  lovely but we'll post all of these pictures on the Instagram
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  um uh well that's unusual is that Thunder are we like in a bomb shelter
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  right now well I mean this is still going we just had a blackout yeah all
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  the power's gone out here and uh I mean we're still recording because this is on
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  my laptop but uh whatever this is highly irregular I
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  wish this was during Necro
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  well that's cool anyway I guess we can finish this up but yeah we'll keep going
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  yeah so I mean the I don't remember where we
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  were we covered uh GX uh the GX
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  Australia GX Australia the uh the queer Gaming Expo in Us in Sydney uh while we
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  were still there uh and we met at at this convention we met the guys uh who
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  are putting on flamecon which is I guess the New York York uh queer queer
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  equivalent that's a weird phrase equivalent queer equivalent of of
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  ComicCon mhm uh so yeah it actually it makes me wish that I knew that it was
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  happening earlier so that we could go yeah uh because it seems awesome man
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  they have a huge list of like stars and
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  yeah comic authors and everything coming but like you know we only just found out
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  about it it's happening this weekend's no it's in New York uh so we're not
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  going to be able to make it down there but if you if you're in the area if we
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  have listeners in that area uh and you're interested like these guys seem
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  really awesome and uh it's the same people uh involved as did GX and and do
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  gamerx here and uh and their conventions are always really good and friendly and
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  uh very welcoming to everyone yeah they're just a really great time if if
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  you're nervous about cons these are probably some of the best ones to go to
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  Def good for first everyone's just awesome so how did you feel about so this was at
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  the seaport um World Trade Center how did you feel about the
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  venue I I liked it I it got warm in there got very warm in there but it did
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  it did but I mean it was very very hot
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  and very humid outside that day um thunderstormed later so yeah I mean I
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  can understand cuz it's a lot of people in one space it's a lot for one one
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  building to keep up with yeah totally but it did it it got very warm in there
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  U other than that I thought uh it was pretty pretty good actually like for the
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  there were a lot of people and it got a bit crowded at one point uh this was on
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  the Friday too so it might it might have been even busier on the Saturday but I
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  felt it was pretty good it didn't get as crowded I think as Supernova does no
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  there are some parts of supernova and actually of Oz ComicCon where you just
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  can't you can't walk yeah it's too tight the booths are too close together this
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  space well yeah it gave a lot of space there were times when it was very busy
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  but you were still able to get by yeah um yeah overall this is a a really
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  fun convention I would definitely go again yeah I do wish uh cuz some of the
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  Stars right they they had some panels but to get to Frank Miller's panel or to
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  William Shatner's panel I think you you had to get VIP tickets oh okay um I
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  think that was true of both of them I'm not 100% sure but the problem with it
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  was that everybody All of the Stars didn't come on one day yeah yeah you
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  kind of if you wanted to see everybody you had to get a three-day pass yeah or
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  just miss out I think in a weird way like in Australia we had the problem
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  where it's hard to get people out there at all but once you get them out there
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  they're there for three days like they go anywhere else so they they're going
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  to be there taking pictures signing autographs doing panels all day because
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  whereas uh yeah this it seemed like you know like uh William shaton was there
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  just for the Saturday uh some of the people people were there just on the
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  Friday some were there Saturday and Sunday some were just there Sunday like
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  and I would have loved to see Shatner again he was one of my favorite
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  panelists ever so in conclusion we had a really awesome time U big thanks again
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  to Liz uh at tracky Mo for uh for helping get us in uh without much notice
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  thanks Liz you're the best yeah seriously go to trackimo.com uh and have
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  a look she's got some really awesome stuff yeah go buy all her
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  stuff uh and then and check out some of the other artists that we talked about
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  um you can find us on Instagram at multip nerdgasm and we posted a lot of
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  pictures of the the booths yeah we've
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  got photos of the rets uh the zooo
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  the uh the cosplay the all the things yep so uh yep give wve yeah so and head
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  once in a while we'll put up a specials um episode hopefully we'll be able to do
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  it more often now that we're kind of spread around the world so can cover
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  some the Australian conventions and we will hopefully be able to cover all of
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  America yeah we'll see it's a big country but we'll do our best got to
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  make some contacts exactly all right well thanks for listening we hope you
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  enjoyed the show yep we're sorry if it wasn't you know as uh in-depth as they
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  usually are but we didn't have a huge amount of time this time yeah next next
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  next con we'll be doing interviews uh and possibly even some some video odds
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  and ends if we can must the equipment
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  that's right thanks for listening
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  bye