I'm Coy Jandreau and we're here at Golden Apple comics in the heart of Hollywood
right on Melrose and I'm here with Alexandra Shipp yes Storm herself!
one day it's gonna work what incredible I gotta read this I'm gonna figure out the
logistics and we're about to do some sweet sweet comic book shopping you
ready oh I'm so ready
so we're here at a comic store and you play a very important character in the
world of comics I'm curious did you read comics growing up random geeky stuff
most definitely I loved reading comics but I was very much so like I loved the
TV show the x-men TV show but I loved figuring out where storm came from when
I first saw her on screen I remember thinking oh my gosh she's brown and
being so excited about that to see storm I wanted to know more about her and then
it was years and years of waiting for my powers to come in yeah you know I'm
still waiting but I'm I've got hope that one day it's gonna work tomorrow so
we're gonna get to x-men comics in a minute so Superman red Sun is an
alternate reality where he lands in Russia instead of America so this is a
very intense very different Superman effectively it is it is a almost bizarro
but instead he's Russian and it's a very intense very utilitarian very hard
Superman wow so we also got Naomi this also ties in the world of Superman but
look at nails lettuce yeah but she looks like me she's incredible I love a queen
with natural texture what I love about this is that it's actually a little bit
darker when it comes to its color palette so that you feel like you have
to focus a little bit more orange initio okay there it is
regi Hudlin who is a Titan of comics and John Romita Jr one of my favorite
artists of all time and this issue stormer black panther getting married I
love that you know exactly what I'm gonna be looking well I'm just saying
this is like one of the most iconic moments in the history of comic books it
is so incredible the idea to have a king and queen of Africa because I think for
any black person that's always kind of been something that we want he's trying
to escape his own stuff she's trying to find love and family and community and
the way that they come together is really beautiful we'll talk about that
more in the next section this is actually where we're going okay so
you've already played a number of iconic women some fictional some nonfiction is
there a difference between playing someone like Kim or alia versus storm
Kim Cube's wife and straight out of Compton and alia I had an opportunity to
be able to talk to people who had actually had interactions with them who
were able to tell me about them and their type of humor like with Kim I got
to meet Kim that's so real because for me I'm a very physical actor I like to
think about how they walk how they talk but would someone like storm or or or oh
you know you really only have comic books with storm I'm able to figure out
if she has claustrophobia then like in certain situations she's gonna maybe try
and make herself bigger in order to combat feeling like she's being caved in
on were you an eighties nineties hip-hop kid growing up when it was current
growing up my parents loved hip-hop I grew up listening to Tupac biggie smalls
and everyone and just really loving verse loving the idea of of poetry and
being able to turn that poetry into something physical that you can then
perform for other people I'm gonna tie x-min to hip hop real quick all right so
this is e deepest scores hip hop family tree this is salt and pepper and it
leads into the era the year before the movie you look at these pages I smell it
oh please is that weird you're a bookstore there
it is isn't that newspaper style this leads directly into Straight Outta
Compton so this is a prequel to the movie frame-by-frame the retelling of
the origins of all of that credible I want to give this cute know
what loses bananas so the same dude completely revamped the x-men from the
beginning he retells it in his own way so if you know the x-men there's still
new discoveries Joe how hard it was for me to find this individually and you
already know but the whole time this is Chris Claremont John Tomita jr. yeah the
mohawk for me is the standard these are most of the comics that I read this
issue yeah it's her going on a walkabout in Africa it's her analyzing what it
means to be a queen we're gonna go through this quick cuz I have a lot of
x-men for you oh love it new x-men Grant Morrison the art is Frank quietly so
that is another awesome restart to the x-men when are we gonna talk about the
over-sexualization of female superheroes I don't know anyone whose boobs could
hold that up we should start that conversation at some point not now I got
two books that counter that very point trying to as we evolve into society
newer books I thought that might come up
in order to this unleash there's a certain order all of this Tom Taylor
he's working on x-men he just finished this x-men read run but you'll notice
look at how all the women are dressed the thing is is like storm doesn't have
a ten inch waist these actually look like women because we're not only
combating the male visuals when it comes to how powerful women should look but
also young girls I remember growing up thinking like I don't know if I'll ever
have a six-pack and a quadruple G boom cup size but does that mean that I can
be a hero so personal so this is your ever-growing stack o carry and I'm an
x-men
so you use social media to bring attention to a lot of causes a lot of
important things storm is very much that character is that something you drew do
the x-men during a storm was that parallel there I think that it was just
a serendipitous you know I really like to focus on socially commentated things
so I made a promise to myself when I first started acting that everything
that I did would have a subliminal higher vibrational message underneath
and that's why I love playing storm she not only is a powerful black woman but
she also represents a possibility for a lot of people of color
so if there was a gateway drug in comics if someone's never read a comic book I
know you know comics any comic in the world what's the number one draft pick
it's this comic named choo-choo is an incredible incredible world this guy who
whenever he eats he can see the entire life and interaction that it had so he
mostly is a vegetarian because why would you want to see like a cow getting
slaughtered and eating a burger but he helps to solve crimes in this
post-apocalyptic vegetarian type of world so he's like taking nibbles of
people who have died and figuring out how they got killed instead of solving
crimes it's such an interesting concept to think that what you eat had a life
before it got to your mouth and I think that a lot of people don't think that
way either this is a book that Lynn's not super here I'm trying to not just
pick superhero stuff we know you're into the graphic novels themselves this is
sex criminal Volume one this is Matt Fraction and Shipp sidarsky as an artist
these two people realize that when they bone time stops and how do they use that
power to rub some banks obviously so there's bone and there's crime there's
insanity and the art is so lively behind the colors are incredible
these are dollar books because I love the worldís true believers you know
they're true believers program yeah all the dollar so if you've never had a
comic it's a great place to jump on fantastic cause I didn't majority of my
studying so what calls out to you oh I might have put two books in there
particularly I might and then there's one behind yes I am obsessed with saga
this book is about these two people who are from I'm talking like thousands of
years feuding planets she is a badass general corporal whatever key is the son
of like a great warrior he's got ram horns and like an awesome
sword that he's like hella good at and they're basically running in this like
Romeo and Juliet intergalactic saga it's fantastic highly
recommend if you are trying to get into comics true believers they're all
literally a dollar there's a bunch of stuff here but for now it's good the new
comics
female Furies is a group of intergalactic badass women it is a
basically a DC Justice League not a swim in it called the female Furies the
limited series only a six-issue run but he has number three a little dream of
death I've never read this book I'm gonna own that but I've been called to
it so many times because I love the colors I love the covers Zoe Quinn is
writing goddess mode this book has been on my polis forever and haven't gotten
to it yet so I'm gonna go sight unseen and say it's dope cuz I assume it looks
great so sight unseen goddess mode I found my list I'm gonna be checking it
out so we should actually check it we got a lot of comics yeah I'm gonna wear
blue lipstick from now on
please oh yeah it's 348
awesome enjoy thank you ready for some knowledge am I so much learning this is
so exciting this has been another episode of comic book shopping I'd like
to thank Golden Apple comics I would like to thank Alexandra Shipp go see a
certain movie June 7 Phoenix and how you feeling I'm feeling like I got a lot to
read but this is probably not the time to tell you that I can't read and as
always I would like to thank comic books for existing go out read some comics see
x-men June 7th