Female Speaker: Well first welcome to Comic-Con.
I'm guessing this is not your first time.
Vincent Martella: Thanks.
No.
It's definitely not my first time.
I think this is our fifth year coming to do Phineas and Ferb panel series so it's - I
feel like bit of a veteran now to Comic-Con in a great way because there's a lot of fun
every year.
Female Speaker: And what are you looking forward to this year?
Vincent Martella: Well I actually - I got in last night so I got t like walk around
the convention floor for preview night and I really enjoyed seeing a lot of the booze
not to crazy busy cause I get to like kinda like sneak around and see them all in without
them being super packed and the AMC walking dead booth looks really, really cool this
year so it's awesome.
Female Speaker: I haven't gone there yet.
Vincent Martella: Yeah.
It's kinda all designed like the prison in the show so it's very cool.
Female Speaker: And do you - are you -do you read any comic books as well of just strictly
the team.
Vincent Martella: I've read a few.
I've read a few graphic novels but I don't read a ton of comic books.
I read a few but the graphic novels I've read have been really, really cool so.
Female Speaker: Well let's talk about Phineas and Ferb.
Big fan of the show.
I think it's really awesome when I discovered what it was like where has this been like.
So what do you think that appeal so much to people like old and younger?
Vincent Martella: Yeah.
Well thank you number one.
I appreciate you saying that but I think the appeal the show for you know both kids and
adults because I know we have even like college students who have told me that they really
like the show like college age viewers and I think what does that is really just our
writing.
I mean our writers like to write to make themselves laugh and it just so happens that they're
humor is ridiculous enough for kids to love as well.
So we have a great sense of immaturity as well as a great sense of maturity as well
and so we got these jokes in there that you know kids are never gonna get.
We have references to like things like Miami Vice that you know were on before I was born
so you know the kids aren't gonna get those but the parents are gonna get them and so
it's always the biggest compliment when I hear parents of kids who are fans of the show
saying thank you so much for doing that show that you know we can all watch together and
I - you know I'm not pulling my hair out having to watch the show with my kids.
I actually really find it funny so that's a huge compliment to us because we want families
to be able to watch the show and we want parents to like the show with their kids and not you
know freak out about it.
Female Speaker: And after -I think this is our fourth season so after so many seasons,
so many episodes you still get surprise by the kind of stuff they come up with?
Vincent Martella: I definitely do because we have a lot of language on the show that
is completely made up for a lot of the inventions that I make and so I'm constantly surprise
when they give the script.
I'm like really.
Okay.
Well.
Yeah.
Alright.
I'm gonna have to ask how they want all of these to be said today.
So it's definitely - they definitely keep me surprised especially with you know like
what we're doing with the Mission Marvel, you know, a couple of years ago I never would
have thought we'd have the opportunity to do something like that but you know Disney
got hold to the rights to Marvel the kinda became much more exciting option for us to
explore and so things like that I definitely think they've surprised me in the moment but
I don't think there are any limitations to what we were able to do with Phineas and Ferb
and I think that's a great part of being on a show like this.
Female Speaker: Okay.
So my next question was gonna be about the Marvel episode - Mission Marvel.
Just give me a tease a little bit about what we can expect from that episode.
Vincent Martella: Yeah.
I mean basically it's a really cool Phineas and Ferb in Marvel kinda cross over thing
that we're doing this special involves characters from all your favorite Marvel comic books
and as well as you know not just super heroes but the villains too are all gonna come to
Danville and interacting with Phineas and Ferb and all your favorite characters from
our show and there's a bit of a dilemma about their super powers that happens because of
Dr. Doofenshmirtz and the villains and I don't wanna give too much away about what happens
with the powers but it ends up being fun and the things that Dr. Doofenshmirtz does are
pretty ridiculous in the show but it's gonna be a lot of fun.
I think people are really gonna like it fans of both Marvel and Phineas and Ferb I think
will find it that we stay pretty troop to this as far as material.
Female Speaker: Can Dr. Doofenshmirtz any more ridiculous that he already has?
Vincent Martella: Trust me he definitely can because I mean the villains in Mission Marvel
come to Doof assuming he is the greatest super villain of all time.
Little do they know.
Little do they know what they are in for so yeah this episode is very, very funny.
I gotta good thrill out of it just recording it so I'm excited to see it.
I haven't seen it yet.
Female Speaker: And is there out of all the things the Phineas and Ferb have invented
is there something that if you could bring to life you'd be like for a day like this
is what I do.
Vincent Martella: You know I always really like the episode where they are being back
together when we get like this the 1980s band called Love handle back together for our parent's
anniversary and I've always thought you know it would be pretty cool if I was able to just
get broken up band to back together just for one event for my own benefit just for someone's
birthday, for someone's anniversary I can be like you know what you know I'm gonna get
Pink Floyd back together.
I'm gonna get the band back together and make that happen so that would be really cool.
Female Speaker: It's a good thing.
That's a good thing.
Nothing too crazy.
It could happen.
Vincent Martella: No it's not too crazy.
It's something reasonable enough that I think would be really cool, fun thing for me to
you know do for myself.
Female Speaker: And since we're at Comic-Con correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think
there's ever been a Phineas and Ferb go to Comic-Con episode.
Vincent Martella: No.
There -I mean there has been something very similar to this.
They go to a convention for two of their favorite fantasy/sci-if movie franchises.
One of them is similar to the Lord of the Rings and one of them similar to sort of like
Startwars Starstreak and it's a big -it was sort of a big like battle at the convention
between the different fans of like what's better and what is a more -what is a better
franchise overall and
Female Speaker: Just like real life?
Vincent Martella: Yeah exactly, exactly and the creator of the special effects of the
two franchises has to kinda come in and like teach us that no it's okay.
Don't worry and it's played by Kevin Smith actually the voice so that's pretty cool.
Female Speaker: So if Phineas and Ferb were to come to Comic-Con what do you think they'd
be up to.
Vincent Martella: I think they'd probably create like the biggest booth there.
I think for whatever their favorite franchise was it may just the most in sane interactive
booth you can think off where all the fans can come and have an adventure of their own.
Female Speaker: I would totally go to that booth.
Vincent Martella: I would too.
I would love that.
I wish most of the things we do on the show were things I can actually do because they
are really cool.
Female Speaker: And now I wanna switch to the Final Fantasy that you're doing as well.
It's Final Fantasy 13-2 or is it.
Vincent Martella: Yeah.
I mean it's called Lightning Returns and I actually don't know what he final title of
the game is gonna be but that's what they're presenting it at Comic-Con right now and it's
actually great because I went over there last night.
Like I said I was there for the preview night and they let you play the game which I didn't
know they we're gonna allow people to play it here at Comic-Con so I went over the I
played it for a little bit and I like put in the headphones and I was listening and
immediately I was just hearing my voice and it was so weird for me.
I was like oh my gosh okay cool.
It's awesome cause I didn't -I wasn't expecting to be able to get to play the game and you
know hear my self but they have it here on the floor so it's really cool I hope people
check it out.
Female Speaker: That was gonna be my question.
Is it weird?
And so are you a gamer?
Just
Vincent Martella: Oh I love -I love video games.
I constantly play them.
I just got Injustice a little bit ago and I have not stop playing that with my friends.
Female Speaker: Is it the super hero fighting.
Vincent Martella: Yeah, yeah.
Female Speaker: Oh my gosh.
I started playing that.
Vincent Martella: It's super hero fighting game which is awesome.
Female Speaker: So do you -do some of your friends end up playing the Final Fantasy games
and they're like this is -like this is so weird I'm hearing you.
Vincent Martella: Yeah.
You know the thing with me is I never try to like especially with my friends I never
like constantly talk about the things that I'm working on so I still remember back in
high school when I did the first Final Fantasy video game that I worked on where hope was
you know playable character and a lot of people that were really, really excited about that
who were final fantasy you know fanatics who I didn't know that that was something that
they like to do and so yeah I've had a lot of people who are definitely hardcore Final
Fantasy fans who have greatly enjoyed game too.
I hear my voice as I play the game which is pretty cool.
Female Speaker: And what do you think is like a misconception that people have about voice
actors or actors that do voices.
Vincent Martella: You know I - the strangest thing for me is I don't think a lot of people
know how voice acting happens in general.
I don't think people know how animation works or how the video games that they play get
made because I've taken a you know few friends to sessions of Phineas and Ferb or different
things that I've worked on and people have been like really surprised that that is actually
how that works.
Most people you think that when I do Phineas they adjust the voice.
I've tried to do it but it's just actually like the voice actor creating the voice not
for some reason people don't actually know that actors are doing that so I feel like
yeah there are a lot of people who don't fully understand.
I mean most people at Comic-Con I feel like they know how it works but there are definitely
a lot of fans of you know animation and video games who don't actually know how it works
so.
Female Speaker: Can I just say how excited I was like to hear Phineas.
I was like oh my god.
Vincent Martella: Oh awesome.
I'm glad.
Thank you so much.
Female Speaker: And my final question for you will be so Doofenshmirtz has its own blog
channel.
Vincent Martella: Yeah.
Female Speaker: I think that Phineas and Ferb should get their own too.
Vincent Martella: I think we should get one too.
I'm gonna have to talk to some people about that.
I'd like to call my brother and see what we can do about that.