I'm Coy Jandreau, here at Golden Apple Comics on Melrose Avenue in sunny
Hollywood, California and I'm here with Trevor Stines, who is Jason Blossom on Riverdale
and I rewatched it a thousand times being just country to come true
the more I got to play Jason the more I felt like Jason
more importantly he is a giant sweaty
you excited to some comic book shopping I am super excited yeah
so in addition to playing a comic-book character you're actually a ride-or-die
comic book fan when did all that start how did you get in the world of comics
my first like introduction to the world of comic books was actually the 1990s
Spiderman animated series Spiderman was my gateway drug into comics from there I
launched off and start reading like Batman and Superman and daredevil and
all these other characters so it was the show like we were just flipping through
TV one day or someone flipping through for you were a kid you just came a con
spider-man and they're like oh there's books in this my mom got me like a VHS
tape that had like four episodes and I watched it and I rewatched it a thousand
times and then I had like a Batman Beyond one yeah as well because I was
kind of around the same time period I would literally watch the same episodes
so many times I broke a VCR doing the skip commercial where I'd stop and hit
record again what was the first comic cover you can clearly remember the Todd
McFarlane's amazing spider-man number one from like 1998 or knit so his is
just spider-man time yeah yeah they took over and because he wanted to write and
draw so spider-man number one that like iconic all the webbing behind it
everything exactly yeah and you're still despite a guy like it stuck yeah
beginning I've like gone through phases in my life where like spider-man was my
favorite for a long time and then Batman was my favorite for a while and now as
I've gotten a little bit older I've like come back to just really loving
spider-man and how he connects to my childhood
what's a strong pop culture remember you have I have a lot of nostalgia for for
that time period when we didn't have as many comic book movies that you know
didn't have as huge of budgets behind them and yeah and you were just kind of
forced to like watch whatever you could get your hands on because that was me as
a kid I loved superheroes so much that I literally would seek out anything I
could find like even Shaquille O'Neal Steele yeah like anything I could find
that was even like marginally related to superheroes I tried to like watch like I
unn and ironically love Ben Affleck daredevil I know there are people with
like differing opinions on that film but director's cut is great but like the
only person here the show to talk about Steele so
so you are Jason blossom yeah this is your face on comic books floral and
there's variant covers how has life changed I mean beyond this insanity
being just Gentry to come true yeah my life has changed dramatically since
rivers a life I've got the opportunity to do so many amazing things getting to
like go to comic book conventions as a guest instead of an attendee you know
like in getting to sign pictures and like meet with other creative people and
get to live in the experience and of what it really means to be part of such
an iconic property like I couldn't ask for anything better
what was the first time you heard about Jason well I obviously knew of Archie
comics my entire life I grew up around them I never really sat down to read a
ton of them it wasn't until Riverdale came along when I really like developed
an interest in it Jason blossom is a character from
brother this lovely lady and so yeah like the entire cast of Archie I like
kind of came to knew leading up to the show the world of Archie is vast it's
insane running I mean 702 was out right now comics been running forever was
there a moment on set when you were playing Jason blossom a character these
around forever that you trevor realized you were more like him there are a
couple moments actually where you really like learn more about the character of
Jason and you are really shown how much he really loves his sister Cheryl like
that's their strongest relationship just the amount of care that he has is is
something that I really resonate with the more I got to play Jason the more I
felt like Jason and the more Jason felt like me yeah is there a favorite Jason
blossom moment from a comic book so not you this Risa it's like super recent but
blossom 666 Jason blossom and Cheryl blossom competing to be the Antichrist
in Riverdale essentially I have every single variant cover that they've come
out with because it's just mind-blowing to me that this exists and I get to
enjoy it as a lifelong comic book fan
so now that you're in the comic book space is there anything you want to do
in the world of comics I have plans and I've been talking with some friends of
mine writing my own comic and a dream of mine a while back was to actually start
my own comic book company at some point it's feeling closer and closer honestly
you know I write in general like I write poetry yeah I have a book out now and
it's doing really well people are really liking it so I really want to expand on
my writing chops I don't question before we go shopping so that is very important
I'm preaching what is your gateway drug what would you recommend to someone
you've never picked up a comic before what do you think is a very accessible
run to dive into find a character you're interested in find a recent number one
and see if you like it starting with Scott Steiners run on
Batman in the new 52 you can even find the number one trade court of owls I
think that's a really good jumping on point especially for the character
Batman I mean it's a really really good story I love the court of owls court of
owls the weed of comic books I love corbels and speaking of which let's go
look some comic
for my money I am Bane and war of jokes and riddles are two of the best Batman
arcs of all time war of jokes and riddles really kind of stands out to me
is I know it's about like the Joker and the Riddler kind of going to war and I
love that a through-line of this is about the Joker not remembering what's
funny we're gonna dive into a beautiful anthology which just came back very
recently this is criminal this is like a beautiful spiritual sequel to a hundred
bullets you read hardball yeah this feels like the same world and each
anthology is set in the same environment so you might recognize like a side
character they have a kind of a dance I'd like that but they're like the lead
characters are different they all change okay Mike
Ringo one of the most underappreciated artists in comics every frame looks like
a cartoon in motion I don't understand how his panels work because to me I
don't even see these as stills they look like they're coming at me on Savage Land
yeah there's so much the stakes are always very high why the last man is one
of those comics that like it's a book that everyone has said you have to read
this you have to get this for so long but I feel like it's so that that no
one's picked it up I've been wanting to read Y the last man for so long and I've
just never gotten around to it I'm a big fan of Brian cave on like yeah he's a
great writer one book that I love that is very device from the internet in the
world of DC with Bendis he invented a new character like he did with a certain
Miles Morales in five years we'll look back at Naomi as his DC linchpin the
beginning of that world so Superman tears through her town and then the
whole comic is just her dealing with ramifications and going like why did
this happen to me highly recommend her me yeah yeah thank you
a comic that would not translate actually in my opinion this is issue
number two fight clubs are my favorite movies of all time I was gonna say yeah
they'd never make a Fight Club movie how do you even do it maybe it like Brad
Pitt or something to mess it up but Fight Club is I think one of the rare
translations from book to screen that is as good or better Fight Club to up the
stakes where they couldn't have filmed it the the subversion was all insane all
that world so I'm gonna find you wish you wanted for now there's issue - oh
also when I mentioned the criminal was back yeah they're only on issue two
criminal number one just came out last month okay check out the art in that
Shawn Phillips has been his right-hand man for years his pulping noir style is
just a bold Deadpool and black panther two characters that should never meet
that don't belong in the same world together this book is one of the most
laugh-out-loud funny books because the the team behind it all in comics they're
all like comedian I love that the art is super kinetic very Deadpool sensibility
like this is a Tim Miller frame to full-on Ryan Coogler makanda and that's
your stack there so this book is right after man without fear ended Matt
Murdock got hit by another car and he lost his lack of fears in order to
rebuild himself this is a five-issue miniseries about the people in his world
and Alex believe cover beautiful I love my leaves art and ship sidarsky writing
an accession different take I also see a very important Golden Apple situation
I've been singing the praises of Chuck Palahniuk here's a signed number one
side that's why didn't find over there because it was waiting for me to find it
signed over here this is also signed by David Mack the frames he uses that
wouldn't work in a movie yeah the the energy in here is so much fun the book
has this dirtiness because you see these flies above the panel's which i think is
a fascinating like narrative choice and I also want plug savage sort of Conan
which I'm actually gonna add to your stack this is written by Gary Duggan who
reinvented Deadpool very recently that the dead presidents run and drawn by Ron
garni who was on daredevil for so long so violent and graphic that it is it's a
visceral experience and Arnold Schwarzenegger proves so yeah do I ready
to check out yeah I feel like you got a good yeah you have some reading to do
yeah all right let's to it no good man do you find a lot of good stuff I feel
so good about the stack of comic books yeah so hyped for you yeah
right grand total is 188 61 some knowledge so this has been comic book
shopping and we did a lot of comic book shop where can they find us they can
follow up to make sure you're reading instagram and twitter at trevor
underscore steins you can get my thoughts on these comic books and more
and you can check out my book it's called leather and glass to book a
poetry that's available on Amazon they're like thank Golden Apple comics I
like to thank Collider this has been comic book shopping hunting me down on
Twitter and Instagram at quad rondrell because this is only the beginning I
have so many more recommendations and I love talking comics with you so I'll
help you down thanks guys stay sweaty