Hey I'm Coy Jandreau and this is Comic Book Shopping! We're about to team up
with Zachary Levi yes Shazam himself to buy some sweet comics
that guy hits that guy - POW!
What are we doing?!
I have always been a man-child
and there are so many comics to buy...
You're not ready...I'm not ready...
So we're at Golden Apple Comics, we're here for Comic Book Shopping and I'm
here with Zac Levi to do some deep dive into comics but first we got to talk
about a very particular comic - ya got your face on a comic, man!
I know dude, it's so crazy
Has that gotten any less weird?
I hope it never really fully sinks in. I hope I'm like 95 on some like rocking
chair and I just have this moment over like holy shit I was Shazam! like I
want that to happen and this is so insane for them to like basically recover,
rebrand it to tie in with the movie.
and then the parallel, having all these side-by-side
all of this incredible art that's coming out that people are doing these variants
on and you know and obviously stuff in the past
I mean you're a Silver Age icon, a time before your time
so when you're 95, it'll be like 'in my day they printed comics! on paper!'
how did you begin the world of comics early on in my life you know, four years old
I started recognizing that they were like you know these cool pictures and
things but I couldn't read I don't know that's also great for comics cuz its lot
of action involved you like I can kind of read it that guy hits that guy - POW!
probably like through middle school was like my most fervent years Jim Lee and
Rob Liefeld Marvel and then starting image to like that whole era of mass
which was a dope era of comics pouches no ankles zero feet maybe but now that
like you know Jim is my boss at do you yes I just saw his D did a variant cover
of me as just say I was like what is life right now just writing you and Jim
Lee's our boss he's writing you it's all so surreal and like you know it doesn't
really sink in I was a big Marvel kid I was super into x-men x-force x-factor
all of the exes loved gambit he was my favorite of the x-men all of my other
buddies want to be Wolverine all the time when I say I want to be Wolverine I
mean like when you're about 12 years old and you're still running around like
full-force pretending to be these characters but and I was always like
Cage omens like throwing you know charge cards and Deadpool actually was my
favorite character basically Snake Eyes but with like a really cool fun
personality and Rob like I think the first time I went sending your comic-con
be abundant and I was a total fan no I do Ryan Reynolds's gets perfect yeah he
did such a great job they fixed it we solved the problem
he was unsewn problem and he didn't have katanas coming out of his arms and
shooting Cyclops laser eyes morph from animated series for no reason they kill
morph and they killed Deadpool by Wagner I totally forgot about more dark times
you guys well this moment brought to you by more if we thank you let's go talk
about some modern-day stuff let's do it
so now in the modern day you are playing Billy Batson Shazam you are an actual
superhero how has life changed directly to you getting the role was an
incredible experience just that it's a complete dream come true and not just
the kid in me that always wanted to be a superhero but the actor in me that knew
you know these are types of movies we can make now Mike really well and though
it was super dreamy to get to play Fandral in the Thor franchise that was a
supporting character that didn't really have that much to do so grateful to have
been able to be a part of that but always hoped and believed that I could
be my own superhero right you know and so to get to be the titular character of
this franchise hopefully you know bring honor to it and all the fans for many
many years past when Captain Marvel fans all the way to - Azam fans and you know
that's all super super cool and surreal you mentioned being like a like an inner
child getting to come to play and like the living in that world was there a
moment on set where you realized you were more like Shazam than you thought I
wasn't aware of Shazam when I was growing up as a kid I when I read the
script and I researched the character I realized this is entirely me this is I
have always been a man child a lot of other actors kind of get the short end
of the stick because you know Jason Momoa and Ben Affleck you know these
guys when they get these roles they gotta be out of their mind excited but
then they have to play it real cool and chill I didn't have to do that at all I
get to show up and set in my super suit me like what are we doing come on let's
go save the world I mean that is so fun to be able to
allow the kid in you to let it him be that kid I have always really genuinely
tried to have an optimism and a lust for life and an openness in that and and a
love toward people and I think those are huge parts of the character the heart of
its wide Billy is chosen a sure definitely has you know a little bit of
like kind of fun attitude and stuff but he's got such a big heart so you can't
hide it
for the viewers comics you'd recommend as a gateway drug like what is the first
thing you'd like come to your mind you'd recommend for someone else to dive into
if they've never touched a comma honestly what's cool like you know like
that Silver Age kind of stuff was was really innocent and still had a
tremendous sense of wonder if you really want something that's got much more
in-depth storytelling I would start in graphic novels and like a why the last
man I think that's actually a really good intellectual stimulation of getting
into a deep story with mythology and all this stuff and it's so include it's so
intense and inclusive you just yeah oh yeah in a tickle so many of our tastes
as you know anything post-apocalyptic I'm yeah like let's go what is your take
on them on the apocalypse and whatever I want it in my ear holes in eyeballs and
there's a monkey and and there's a monkey iCIMOD oh good well that's why
we're here we're gonna check out some comics of our own right now so you have
evidence some stuff let's check them out
this book I recommend almost everyone this is Edie the score who's a
cartoonist and it retails all of the Silver Age and Golden Age and the
classic stuff and he tweaks the mythology so this is a complete
retelling so this is ten years of coming from the onset of x-men almost through
Phoenix from one man's mind that's super cool okay cool Huck is effectively the
boy scout of heroes but he doesn't know what his powers are and he's just trying
to figure it out and the whole book I mean there's a lot he's a giant dude
trying to figure out what his life is the innocence of Superman the innocence
of Shazam but a completely new mythology and moyen that spells hook he looks like
the guy in the sand it looks like Dawber from coach who was
in the stand with Gary Sinise and he said mo o n guys it's a deep cut over
over stacks on stacks so holding your lobster so Batman had a resurgence with
the new 52 so Scott Snyder has this insane book called the court of owls
this takes place before most the Batman's we know it is a very young
Bruce and the art is just staggering yeah that's real good
and I love that the style is so photorealistic but also still comics I
ya know it's it's a cool like slightly heightened but but still real yeah so
Scott Snyder really reinvented Batman in a way that didn't hurt any other follow
me very cool very hard areas very difficult
70 years here's a new please to everyone that's not possible loves you while in
the world of Batman do you know the painter Lieber man so he I'm gonna open
this I'm gonna do a cardinal sin at a comic store guys I'm sorry world
his work is frame by frame painting and then in fin a comic book style so the
way he goes into art is he thinks a bit like a painter but it's it's drawing
with ink and pen like we're used to occur but that translates into like this
very splotchy more aggressive line work and I think that really translates to a
Batman Joker story so you've never read Batman this is a great place to start
viewers of this show might catch on that this will be a book I recommended nearly
every time Deadpool Spidey so the 90s Deadpool is I think a high
bar for a type of comedy search I think that 6t spider-man is a high bar right
I've never seen them written together where they didn't sound like a similar
character Joe Kelly who took over in the 90s for double he's the one that gave
him the multiple personalities he's the one that like branched out to feel crazy
came back to Deadpool and he writes spider-man
like spider-man and Deadpool like Deadpool and you could close your eyes
and hear their voices it's it's incredible already you can't really
close your eyes and hear their voices because in order to hear their voices
you have to read we're in college but the art style is Ed McGuinness who
helped bring Deadpool to the limelight and then so it's two og graders coming
back to Deadpool and it's a team-up book that doesn't feel like it's pandering
Spidey Deadpool Volume one highly recommend it so I personally am a go
every Wednesday pick up floppies at the store kind of guy because I love the
individual comic feel lap this is immortal Hulk this is a horror comic a
heartache of the Hulk it's a full-bore full terror full Stephen King version of
the Hulk Banner finally loses it snaps and tries to kill himself and he can't
because the other guy won't let him and he basically haunts him so it's a
psychological thriller with the art of a horror comic what that deals with Banner
just trying to be dead like that's Hulk Wow I think this book is so slept on and
it's such a different so that is what I recommend for you shall we check out
those go let's do it do it so this is our beautiful stack of the week awesome
what do you think a lot of good things I'm very excited we're it'll hook right
on top super-good tried to make classic and modern and DC Marvel big houses and
Mindy's oh yeah
I hope we introduce you to something new here thanks for shopping with us
appreciate it I'm cor John drove this has been comic
book shopping I'd like to thank Golden Apple for having us I'd like things
Zachary Levi for joining us and I found out today that Shazam likes Deadpool
comics that made me very happy and of course I would like as ever to thank
comic books for existing thanks guys