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hi I'm Coy Jandreau here for Comic Book Shopping! We're at Golden Apple Comics on
Melrose and I'm here with Jack Dylan Grazer, star of Shazam! and Freddy
Freeman himself - Captain Marvel Jr.
It's magic in this place
People will be like, "oh dude that's a sick comic, oh good for you!"
it's hard to believe really that I'm actually doing this
I'm all those things I'm a jack of all trades (literally) puns!
Wanna do some comic shopping? let's do it
so you're in the world of comic books and in the movie you play someone that
knows all about comic books how much did you know growing up growing up i was
just obsessed with batman i think from when i was like 4 until now actually
currently I love that many more than anything I wanted to know everything
there was to know and then I guess this project came along and I was like this
is the perfect opportunity for me to get this research and like you need to have
this research I mean that was in preparation for Freddy but also just cuz
I wanted to do I use the excuse of work to read comics all the time that's the
move you did the right choice yeah and the thing is about Freddy it's not just
I have to know some about Shazam I have to know everything there is to know
about the whole DC Universe in general, so I did a lot of stuff from like the
Fawcett comics to Detective Comics was like 30s and 40s I did some deep dives
so we're at our first draft picks Oh conveniently whoa what is this what is
happening so the first one I'm gonna recommend a little bias here so Jeff
Jones riding it it was kind of your boss yeah Jim Lee also teaming up to work on
Shazam which is pretty cool and you're in this which is I am in this so I think
this comic in particular it's only an issue for is a great way to introduce
people to Shazam but like this world is nuts and you're part of that world
So I'm gonna recommend the world and you Shazam #4, and also
while we're here one of my favorite things about Freddy Freeman is he's
unique in the Shazam family when he was Captain Marvel jr. he stayed a teenager
yeah he was a kid for a while which is awesome but then I don't get to wear the
suit no oh yeah of course I do there's sequels yeah yeah so in that you were
actually part of the Young Justice team which was one of my favorite teams in
comic books and they just brought this back Brian Michael Bendis one of the
hottest writers of all time is bringing back Young Justice and this is the book
that you were once a part of the team of Brian Michael Bendis is writing it so
this is practically a frame from Shazam the basic you were in yeah what's it
like to know that you can walk in here it's so surreal because as a kid or as
an actor in general you dream about being in movies like this and being part
of like a franchise where it's like I don't know like it's a dream come true
literally it's hard to believe really that I'm actually doing this so - so far
so you've grown up in a time where comics were already popular yeah like
when I was a nice glad to hide that Spiderman tree what's it been like in
the zeitgeist like growing up with comics being the mainstream I feel like
I wouldn't have to be ashamed like be like oh do that this a comic oh good for
you right so that kind of feels good this is like so I know and I could just
bring this to school hey guys look I got Ike Leggitt Loch Ness - I don't know
it's just it's so crazy think the thing that I've idolized my whole life like
DCE like because I grew up with DC rather than Marvel sorry any other funds
now that I'm a part of it it's just so unreal now your character is this
awesome gee-whiz sidekick yeah he's very like shucks and back and head and I
think a spider-man personally I know you're a DC yeah chuckling yeah
so my next recommendation for you is this just started up and this allowed
actually kidding oh yeah Warner Brothers this is marvel at post
Nik Spencer who is an incredible writer he just took over spider-man
Ryan Otley has this really clean almost Silver Age style like beautifully so and
it all looks like it's in motion I like that it feels like it's flowing and I
think that comics happened between the panel's if there was a team-up between
any Marvel and any DC character who would you pair together maybe Thor and
Shazam just cuz they got with the the lightning thing that's the reoccurring
theme you're like a sommelier of comic book I try to be really are they just
really pops it's got a lot of color flows very nice just the motion that's
yeah that's that's a tough thing to do I love that sure let's do it yeah
so I'm always curious about what people want to do next and you're at this great
spot you're covering the genre market great man like it pushes a more - or the
biggest rounder films of all time like what else do you want like what do you
wanna do a play you want to do it indeed I would loved I think I want to explore
the indie realm a lot more that's so because that's just really fun that's
really like family oriented it's really small like it's like a you know it's
kinda like this it's just like everyone knows each other's name I mean I would
love to play Batman one of these days yeah
now before playing Batman is there any interest in a Robin is there like who
would your Robin that's degrading I'm gonna play Robin
okay so Mason maybe Timothy sha'lame and I play Batman how would that oh yeah now
do you have any interest in following that path and doing like stand-up comedy
going into dramas that yeah din of comedy I would love to do that I feel it
could be really hard I love performing like in front of crowds I feel like
really confident and liberated and everything ker I'd rather just be
comedic on another camera safety there's a precaution there so we're gonna live
in the Batman world since I know Batman's your guy we just happens now
Detective Comics 1000 just came out now this is only the second comic ever hit a
thumps because action comics in a thousand last year which is Superman now
bats has joined that crazy party this has all of these variant covers this is
Frank Miller now Frank Miller is oh yeah that's very soon city looking and he's
also what I think they inspired the ben affleck batman is that like yeah yeah
that flavor but this art i think really gets the grittiness of batman it really
gets the tone of gotham it really it's Ocean City this is gonna be Scott Snyder
writing who did the court of owls which is one of the best recent Batman run and
then the inside art is Greg Capullo who also teamed up with tonight er then and
this is your next recommendation and well would you look at that about going
you're already a part of it I know the comics
now every Wednesday new comics come out so Wednesday is my Friday well I didn't
know that vital so this is this week's giant
onslaught Beauty books knowing you're a Batman guy are never gonna grab this bad
boy Tom King is arguably my favorite Batman writer of all time yeah yeah he's
the current Batman writer he just got back on his bat book with leaves his bat
book so Tom King plus Lee weeks I think it's
a great jumping on Batman and I think this artist does animate like almost
animated series style oh okay oh wait another plug look why not blog
and then our boy we talked about before Scott Snyder
this is the Batman who laughs the grim Knight
so it's a spin-off of a spin-off oh that's freaky that's so meta I love that
so instead of his parents getting killed and him doing nothing about it he grabs
the gun from the killer and mows the guy down and becomes basically the Batman
Punisher James so a very dark alternate timeline a very disturbing message for
the kids stark llenan I love it well thank you
know we were talking about like added me before mm-hmm
so umbrella Academy started as a comic by Gerard Way Gerard Way of My Chemical
Romance did this amazing indie run so the Umbrella Academy was a comic for
years and then the show got made after lots of pre-production they almost made
it a movie now it's a show so with the success of that umbrella Academy is back
to promote the glory that is it is Gerard Way and Gabriel Bob they've done
every run of this comic so if you pick up anything it's the same team which is
hard to actually yeah awesome thank you yeah oh he's amazing I would like for
you to show me the way of your sommelier hood whoa this Green Lantern is Kyle
Rayner who's actually my favorite Green Lantern he's super 90s witches Mike
Green Lantern needs creativity to shape the Green Lantern items so how has the
willpower but he has the creativity so they kind of butt heads is how they
shape the Green Lantern hood and how actually becomes parallax so Kyle Rayner
becomes kind of the new established good
so his stuff is all more zany and out there because he's you know comic
artists so we've talked some of the greatest hits of Batman we've talked
Frank Miller we talked Jim Lee we talked Scott Snyder this is an all-star Batman
and Robin yeah we got Frank Miller on words Jim Lee on pencils this is some of
the best Batman art I've ever seen this is the book that started on the god damn
man yeah so grizzled and he says goddamn Batman all the time so this is a great
jumping on point because the mythology starts here and Superman shows up I mean
look at the page so we're gonna keep to Batman but I also recommend this to a
guy you might know exactly oh I think I've heard of him
Brian Azzarello did a hundred bullets which is a great indie book about
basically you get a hundred bullets and you got 24 hours ago so he jumped on
and this is a Joker centric story Batman barely shows up his style of art is so
different it looks like an inker just went crazy on it this is the most
perfect depiction of Joker I think you know why because it's just so it makes
me feel sick and I think that's the best part that's how I feel like if the Joker
were a real person that's how we made would make me want to feel and he is
right there look how uncomfortable is this experience I loved it how come for
uncomfortable this is all right so we did all-star Batman
all-star Superman uh-huh this is Grant Morrison who's Frank quietly who did new
x-men and really changed a style of art and this book is a definitive take on a
reinterpretation of Superman I know Superman's your guy in the movie yeah oh
vascular so I know Freddie Freeman would like this book Jack would like this book
yeah so from Superman to you does like this book and Jack does like this book I
am the suit guy let's go we got a crazy ha let's go check out you ready yeah I
have to dude after know what this is chimichangas are the spice of life and
then Deadpool guy made me so happy
yeah great thank you all the way to Molly boss so much
so this has been another great episode of comic book shopping yeah how you feel
about that haul oh I'm so happy and like chimichanga and my and my my beautiful
comics that you have been yea so generous to give me so yeah I'm very
happy and I will read all of these in an hour so Batman will be versed in his
brain very soon I'm excited to hear about it
And hopefully I'll be a sommelier
just like you pretty soon!