what's up sweaties I'm Jon Schnepp I'm at Comic Bug here in Culver City standing
here with the record in Miller also a giant comic book sweaty what's up to him
nice to be here I went up to Marvel and DC and going to try to get a job could
not get a job I got this small little movie called Deadpool if you heard of
that yeah this is some fucked up shit hey man I'm so happy that we're here at
your store you come and shop here all the time yes this is my comic book store
every fan has their store this one is mine
alright Jim let's go check out the comics alright
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what got you into doing animation you run blur studios how that all started I
was an illustrator right I loved to draw and then I loved to tell stories and
then after college I went up to Marvel and DC in New York I try to get a job
just emptying a trashcan could not get a job at all and then I
got a job at Sony image works and that was like at the dawn of the computer age
it used to be big expensive computers to do computer graphics every day in the in
the art community it was like there was an elite group that worked on these
hundred thousand dollar computers and I'm like fuck it I can do more shit on
my four thousand dollar computer at home so we quit in borrowed $20,000 from my
wife's grandfather we started blur and so it's three people
and we've just sort of grown since then and then we kind of fell into this video
game market some say that the cut scenes from the Old Republic are some of the
best cutscenes ever made they created a game and Lucas created the world we were
just borrowing things for a while but it was great to be included I think one of
the best cutscenes I've ever seen that you actually did was the Justice League
cutscene what was that game called DC Universe Online C Universe Online never
played that but I watched it on YouTube like 2500 times because it was so
amazing it was literally the Justice League movie that me and a bunch of
other nerds always wanted to see Geoff Johns had written the backstory and sort
of you know outlined what the story the game was and there was one little
sentence in there it said and Lex Luthor defeated all the superheroes which made
her vulnerable when Brainiac comes back and and I'm like a fuck I want to see
that moment I want to see and decline their thing was you got to make
something that we remember and I said well how do you make memorable shit well
we gotta fuckin kill people that's what we got to do so I'm going to kill
everybody are you cool with that and they're like sure
I talked about the goons now you know an Eric Powell check out all these flavor
comics right here we have ended yeah it's the goon if you don't know who the
goon is the goon is a badass kind of like almost like a bouncer in Chinatown
in the past who fight zombies how would you describe your collaboration with
Eric to make the good Eric is amazing we've known him for a long time now I
have known Mike Richardson at Dark Horse for a long time
and I tried to get the comic so they said yes and then and then we developed
it and Eric wrote the script it's fucking great which I think you know
normally in these things in Hollywood like the creators are often pushed aside
we didn't want to do that we brought you know Eric right in and Eric weird the
script and it's great it's just a hard one because it's not Disney it's not
generated so it took a while and then we pitched it and we got a lot of nose and
then we did Kickstarter and we raised on money to do it we've done an animatic
for the storyboard animatic the whole movie and we used it to pitch it and
we're going to have an announcement soon I can't make it but it will happen we
have never given up look I pitched in on this on that Kickstarter I got a
kick-ass how much you wanted to give 150 bucks so we got Paul Giamatti as Frankie
and Clancy Brown as the goon I mean that's a fantastic team up right there
it was amazing I pitch it an army of Darkness me good seller but it's just
army of Darkness meets good fella why is this not happening I know if you want to
check out the goon by Chinatown it's like a graphic novel that he did goes
into the great one it goes a little back into the history of the goon character
so I think it's fantastic what would you recommend the goon like an intro I think
you should start the beginning rough stuff the collected trade it's the first
issues I think it's a great introduction to this crazy fucking world
look he's being eaten by rats it's amazing it's got a sense of humor it's
got war it's got action it's got everything it's ultra violent it's so
much flavor hey let's check out some of the rest okay let's go
so you did Deadpool how did that all get started how to blur make that a little
trailer that launched the movie the DC Universe thing you talked about this guy
drew Crivello who is an executive ox was working on the x-men movies and he saw
that trailer track me down and said hey I think maybe you shouldn't be some
other directors bitch maybe you should be directing your own
thing and you haven't directed anything but I got this small little movie called
Deadpool if you heard about it and I said in fact I have in fact I've read
all the comedies and read the script too because the script had leaked online so
then we we developed it we did the little test and then it just didn't
happen and in Hollywood like stuff gets to a point like you get a budget you get
a movie star you get everything and then the studio says yes or no and then if
they say no everybody walks away quickly and that's kind of what happened and the
in the leak which happened at comic-con I literally got home from Comic Con put
my bags down from getting off the train 22 consecutive Comic Cons this will be
my 23rd and my phone starts blowing out with like dude your shits online oh my
fucking god and I was horrified I mean I felt sick to my stomach because I
thought Fox would kill me Wow yeah and they didn't they greenlit
your movie I know Bellamy okay ah
you may Deadpool that movie went out of everybody's projections except for mine
because I had predicted it was going to make over 100 million dollars that's
right I was right on it you did and I'm glad I was right because it was such an
incredible film your sensibilities with Ryan Reynolds everybody on the team made
a fantastic movie what is next for you I mean
Deadpool - I know you're not working on that any words about Deadpool - and
anything you want to say about that you know I was going to do it for a while
and then I wasn't sad about that but I wish them the best of luck
I'm sure it's going to be great because the characters great and Ryan was born
to play that guy and I'm we're going to a a big anthology animation thing that I
can't quite announce yet and another big movie that will happen hopefully start
shooting next year so Tim why don't you recommend a couple Deadpool comics to
the viewers we got to go batch right here oh man I'd say anything Deadpool is
great I particularly like daniel ways run because he's a fucking nut he came
up to the set one day and visited we got Rob's new cover I got I got an original
signed one yeah cuz this cover from Rock definitely I'd recommend Jerry Duggan
and Brian Pitz is Deadpool which is like I mean come on like just look at the
cover right there I'm in madness so let's get into some other comic books I
want to pick out some comics that you want to get let's get okay
oh I heard this comic was total shit yeah but it's pretty garbage around I
would never recommend it to you I would not buy this comic
this is his comic ladies and gentlemen and it's great I haven't read it but I
will now
Shaolin cowboy bear I got all these I already got it
well I don't have this so this brand new will brand new brand new fellow I don't
have this one yeah this is some fucked up shit
this is one I just picked up and I've read mad at you you really like the
horse yes anything Mike Allred is on I highly suggest just check it out it's
like sixties flavor okay you got the Dark Knight Returns is Frank Miller you
got Azzarello and John Romita Jr with the Joker it's sort of like it fills in
the blanks of what happened to Robin from Frank Miller Starkie I have not
read this I will here's another one right here came out last week Batman by
Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Reese oh this is fantastic I'm gonna buy one
myself but I got a reckon I'll get it for sure
do you want to grab Paul have that Tokyo ghost it's fantastic
they give me
little gets a little a little weird little artsy but it's a stereo Spalla
by David Mazzucchelli I got as many years ago when it first came out I'd
highly suggest reading it that's a lot of fun here's the best thing about your
local comic book store if I saw this online I probably would never buy it but
I come here they recommend it you recommend it I get a chance to look at
the shelves and go holy fuck I didn't know that that was there or oh my god I
love this artwork this is amazing that's why he come to a comic book school
my back is breaking my back is breaking here so we should get over to your
program okay let's go let's go
so Tim explain to us what a pole list is okay so this is one of the best reasons
you come to the comic book store is you can tell them this is the list of comics
that I like every week and they when when the new ones come in they'll pull
them for you I would happen to be here like two weeks
ago so my my pool is kind of small but they give you a stack of stuff if I like
when I was in Vancouver shooting Deadpool these guys did my pull list for
me and sent me a box every month of my comics up in up in Vancouver so it was
great for today that's it hot is that not enough for you I'm king of the Nerds
yes really for damage check it out 350 30 to 350 I gotta spend some more money
we're bargain
you know yep thank you the pleasure thank you very much
okay so you've been watching comic book shopping at the comic bug in Culver City
thank you so much Tim Miller for buying this incredible stack of amazing
material it is my pleasure you don't have to thank me for something I do on a
regular basis well hey man let's let's read a man all right get out of it are
you going to help me I'm going to totally help me slip my back you look
like a sturdy lad
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