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hi I'm coach Andre and this is comic
book shop and we are here at Golden
Apple comics in the heart of Hollywood
right on Melrose and we are about to be
joined by David Harbor yes Hellboy
himself we make some changes it along
the way no this is right up my alley
this is bedtime reading this is a geek
paradise we're gonna talk Hellboy we're
gonna talk stranger things and most
importantly we're gonna buy so many
comics it is time for some sweet sweet
comic book shopping
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so we're here with David Harbor and
we're gonna talk some comic books and
I'm wondering man you're in so much
rounder content were you a comic book
kid growing up I was more of like a
videogames kids
Star Wars rate as the Lost Ark is big of
mail order rings the big of me the
actual comic books I didn't really get
into and plug got into like graphic
novels kind of in my 20s
four and Aquaman and all those got like
that was more cartoons and video games
for me kind of getting it from that
world was their favorite character going
out we were obsessed with he-man yes of
the universe which I think that comic
came after the toys and then the other
one that I loved was the one lion-o and
pan Thor Thundercat how is that not a
movie oh my god we need to write it
society get to it write it you know was
really big was like the cartoon Dungeons
and Dragons cartoon where they went on
the roller coaster and they went into a
tunnel and they fell into dungeons and
they met the dungeon master that was
like a big into that it was like playing
a video game you get no control you're
just watching the world
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is there anyone now through like the the
movies and the DC and marble taking off
there any characters you're like I will
see it if Deadpool's in under Iron Man
oh yeah I mean I see all those movies I
really like all of them I've always been
a huge fat man fan and I even like the
Adam West show and like certainly like
Michael Keaton and Christian Bale Ben
Affleck a messed up guys who decide to
take vigilante justice in their own yeah
that's my kind of superhero like not so
into the pure-hearted one it's like
Superman and to do it for the good of
humanity I like the ones that do it for
selfish reasons of working out their own
personal demons right from the
therapists couch right to the street
club so that mean like dad sometimes
they put on a hat and their officer
hopparoo up revealing myself assume so
now of course we got to talk about
Hellboy and stranger things let's go
look at the Hellboy comic books
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so we are in the holy grail of Hellboy
right here it is and there's also
strange things which see what a
coincidence Oh crazy good news so we're
going to start with the Hellboy world
because Mike Mignola's style is so
iconic so beautiful and to me the movie
looks like it's ripped and right out of
that these are frames from that what was
the pre pro process of designing the
Hellboy in your way to look just so much
like him a lot of that was done by Joel
Harlow who's the makeup guy for this all
is a huge Hellboy friend he was really
excited to be able to do this with
makeup I mean he's an old classic
monster guy and be able to do it
practically and not have it be CGI at
all an entire practical outfit we did
stuff with scarring on his face and kind
of all throughout his body he's a bit
more busted and scarred up then the
other thing is I was really interested
in the code and even rips in the
particular coat as he fights there's an
iconic rip that he always gets on his
shoulder and you see this shoulder we
recreate that rip in one particular
aspect of the fight and also even this
little thing it's an interesting almost
British style overcoat because it has
this indented lapel ish type thing up
here and you see how it it does buckles
a little bit like that I remember being
very stood with the costume designer
where we put a wire in it so that it
could have this buckle to it we've done
a little bit of work with the Hellboy on
these horses and like kind of direct
shots of the Osiris club going out
fighting these giants Hellboy in these
shots that are like pulled right from
the comic and that I found that really
exciting about this piece
was there a comic you'd recommend for
people that have never picked up a
Hellboy comic we pull a lot of our story
from Wild Hunt of course we do our own
things with it you can't just do it
because people have read it all right I
love conquer worm I love Hellboy and
he'll that stuff too and then there's
other stuff just from the BPRD that i
love to like i love a character called
lobster johnson he's got some of his own
stuff in the wash by character that
Hellboy used to love and actually
Hellboy dressed up for us Halloween when
he was a young demon speaking of
wardrobe and then dressing up you added
the iconic hopper hat because he hides
himself part of his character
I'm obsessed of this world I pitched
this idea I wanted this hat that was a
thing called an open road it was
something like Eisenhower used to wear I
love detectives with classic hats you
have one with Gene Hackman and the
French Connection as well sort of iconic
Cowboys used to have hats and then of
course you have the Indiana Jones fedora
so I pitched it to them and I even had
this hat designed by a friend of mine in
New York and then I wore it and they
were like we don't like it we hate it
we're not going to do it I don't want to
get rid of it and I was like [ __ ] you
guys I put my other wife foot down we're
gonna do this
for my first pull for David I'm gonna
say you got to check out what Jodie
Howser is doing with stranger things
it's the kids and it's almost like we
were talking about the 80s and the
Dungeons & Dragons and the the watching
the cartoons it's a different
perspective than the show so it actually
feels like a side mission yeah that's
super cool so even if you've watched the
show even for your signature on the
ships Jodie Hauser's an incredible
writer I think stranger things is a
world built for expanding out from
nobody's missing a major character in
this to find this guy called chief
hoppers gonna have a lot of will buyers
you know two through four and uh so
speaking of world expansion there's also
this book called Marvel's that is an
anniversary of this books they
remastered it and the entire book is
painted and it retails some of us like
click iconic and classic bits in the
Marvel Universe from the position of the
audience watching out and then at the
end and miss remaster they tell you
where it comes from what panel reflects
what and every bit of the universe wow
this is some nerdy stuff comic book sure
this is a geek paradise I'm gonna move
on to some more recommendations hiccup
Jodi sorry about
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so in the career side yeah you've done
the Holy Trinity now the DC Suicide
Squad okay you're in Dark Horse's hell
direct and oh of course
Aaron Sorkin future of the Marvel Black
Widow fan a long movie the tree but I
haven't shot that one I heard that and
so if I tell you anything about it they
will kick me out of the movie Marvel
snipers are hiking so here you try to
tap the other but yes I I apparently
will be in the new sandal of black widow
Marvel Hulu which I'm very excited so I
was gonna pivot away from that safely
cuz I'm not gonna be that guy oh so my
question was with the Holy Trinity of
comics being accomplished what is a
career goal that you would like to do
next there's certain projects that I'm
kind of developing and working on like
I've never had much of a plan and I
think that that's been somewhat to my
benefit so I feel like now what happened
great problems so we exploded my Batman
earlier about the hopper parallel that I
saw when I for a base of any The Killing
Joke to me yeah a foundation book I've
heard about this and I've never read it
I'm perfect okay so if you're gonna read
any Joker origin and with the Joker
trailer just drops I feel like this ties
in nicely this is about how it only
takes one bad day to go from Batman to
the Joker to go from level to unlevel
and this kind of paints the picture and
the art is staggering the story's
amazing and if you're only going to jump
into one book it's basically I mean Tim
Burton endorses under cover this is Wow
the iconic feel robbery so being that
you knew the world growing up I never
got to dive in I'm gonna recommend this
time I love this okay good this is great
so your next one for you
in the wonderful world of comics every
Wednesday is a new comic book and this
is the happy place
spider-man's the most successful
character in the game there's a
character I think you'd like oh yeah
names taskmaster okay and this character
basically he has photographic reflexes
so he can see someone fighting and
watching them for five minutes you can
fight exactly like interest there's an
incredible fighter and Deadpool's only
guy that took him out cuz Deadpool's
crate
so he just popped up an amazing
spider-man and a just our new run and
basically he looks like a boss he's a
skull in a suit and this is the guy that
I think oh this guy right here
I'm just I think you're gonna go face
where does he come from it's one of
those characters that like flips in and
out of so many different comics origins
money he pops up in black widow pops up
and Captain America pops up in a
Deadpool sorry those two and then we
were talking black widow before Jack
Kirby is a legend Jack Kirby was being
human that he shapes most the Marvel
cosmic stuff Amazing Adventures was an
anthology title so the first half is
Jack Kirby on Inhumans and the second is
jumbo shrimp on Black Widow now this is
literally issue number one and I feel
like as you're diving into Black Widow
John Besh Emma and the way presenta
Black Widow is the move for sure wow
that's beautiful
this one so George Perez did this issue
of marbled fanfare and to me his Black
Widow costume is the most logical so
this book I recommend for you to get the
flavor of Black Widow has an intelligent
character a writer a leader finally this
run of daredevil is near-perfect and
this is I think Black Widow at summer
for prime you want the character to be
more down-to-earth after the events of
infinity song like you can introduce you
can just solo thing you'll have to go to
space
I think this world would play finally in
this section till we move Black Widow
just got her own solo title back so the
first issue is very oversized it's huge
this is actually a compilation of
different comics so this is a like an
anthology and then the new run takes
place at the princess bar so it's a lot
of women being badasses the art is
beautiful it's really clean but hyper
realistic and I think this is a Black
Widow
Marvel tends to you know occasionally
make a comic that is a test run to what
my new well so it's just an idea
mmm just printed on me I just thought
maybe wonder what they're going to do
with it
who knows but let's go let's go over
here where things are safer from
spoilers
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you've made a lot of decisions here
you've put me in a lot of directions I'm
sure there's something you know but it's
something that I just loved I wasn't
even aware there was a comic world
around it but I love Rick and Morty that
television show I big it is brilliant
stranger things is the best show on
television but it is the second best
show on television and look there is a
versus Dungeons & Dragons issue this
seems like it was written for me thank
you guys for writing this and I'm going
to go home and read this and you get
your own copy as well
we printed it just in time the inks
drying so we're sorry about that we're
sorting through it but it's here for you
amazing
all right that's number one draft pick
let's go get some more okay
all right so I'm sticking with Batman
because once again that vibe seems right
Tom King is a writer on Batman that's
actually an ex-cia operative this is I
am bane now I am bane is a contained
graphic novel wherein we discover that
Bane is not a guy with venom like in the
Batman and Robin movie that just goes to
me Bane's greatest strength is that he's
intellectually equal to Batman but he's
stronger so this is a cat-and-mouse game
of psychological warfare between a
character that's human and a character
that's superhumanly strong and it opens
up with Bane literally having taken out
all of the Robins carving blood I am
begging to the odd and hanging them not
not grandpa oh it's brutal I love it
right like I love brutality metal is
[ __ ] a get there you know yeah you
know this is right up my alley
this is bedtime breathing all right so
we got our whole stack let's go check
out do it all right
oh we got a ton of stuff about psychotic
individual solving crime but get snakes
in there now 130 176 let's put it on the
card
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thank you very much very much appreciate
your that was fun
right there's a bread let's go I'm gonna
save this
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I'm cor John drew this has been comic
book shopping I'd like to thank David
Harbor it was so great showing him
worlds of comics he didn't know
introducing him to books and learning
all about Hellboy that man was so
invested in hell the way the jacket the
skin everything strains of things
obviously very important but I'd also
like to thank Golden Apple and I'd like
to thank comic books for existing for
always being there for being wonderful
comic books pick up some comics guys
thanks
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