Episode 75

Episode Transcript

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Sir, I'm detecting a subspace message. I'll put it on speakers subspace dare
to wonder. Hey, this isDoug Jones, and you are listening to
side Fiction Radio greeting sci Fi Universe. Owen Cotter here, join me,

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your host, as we discuss allthings geek, chic and out of this
world on Science Fiction Radio, yourgalactic transmission portal to all things science fiction
and beyond. Hello everyone, So, Owen Cotterer was Sci Fiction Radio episode

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seventy five, Big seventy five.I hope everyone's having a beautiful day or
beautiful night. This is area atseven eight pm Central Standard Time on Thursday,
April twenty fourth, That is todaywhen you're listening to this on a
subspace reading network for iHeartRadio. Wegot some amazing lineup of different pre recorded
interviews we did this past weekend overat Yellow City Comic Con and beautiful Amarillo,

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Texas. Starting with Sylvester McCoy whoplayed the Seventh Doctor and the original
Doctor who from eighty seven to eightynine. I believe, amazing interview with
him, whole bus of cool comiccreators, sci fi authors and beyond.
So get forward and look forward ratherthis amazing lineup of interviews we have.
We were trying to get in abig guest for seventy five. He is

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out of town for a few weeks, so we're gonna maybe bring him on
for episode eighty that'll be a reallygood one as well. Got some great
guest line up for seventy six,seven eighty nine. We are going to
be for listeners right now. Thisis Thursday, April twenty fourth, seven
apm Central Standard time, five tosix pm Pacific. We will be this
coming weekend at level Up. Lvlup and Las Vegas, Nevada. Level

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Up is an amazing gaming event centeraround gaming, anime and fandom. It's
gonna be held at the Las VegasConvention Center and Beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada
from April twenty sixth to the twentyeighth. So if you're in the Las
Vegas area, if you're a creator, are gonna be there, showcase anything,
or an actor whoever you're gonna beYouTube personality, just let y'all know
we're gonna be down there, Sofeel free to reach out to us on
our Facebook page or you can contactus on our site at ssifiction dot com

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and reach out to us and wecan interview you or help promote you down.
We'll be on location all weekend longcovering that event, so that's gonna
be amazing. Also, we willbe coming to you after that, We'll
doing some other things and of course, you know, pick a month or
so, do some filming, catchup on some things, and then after
that we'll be well. Of course, we'll also be in July coming from
Sandy Yukama Con twenty twenty four.Then after that STLV fifty eight year Mission

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in Las Vegas, which is aStar Trek themed event at the Rio Hotel
All Suites in Las Vegas, Nevada. As well, we'll be coming to
you from this event next weekend Apriltwenty six to twenty eighth, and level
up in beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada. We've got some news updates before cracking
into the break and then go intothe interview segments that we recorded Yellow City
Comic Con. This week, itwas announced that Keanu Reeves will be joining

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the Sonic The Hedgehog universe and theSonic The Hedgehog three movie A Shadow the
Hedgehog. So that's pretty cool toknow he was gonna do that. And
also I think I just Elbow's inthere as well. Fallout just to launched
this past week or so. Wehave got our episode two review. We
also have three, four, five, six, seven, and eight that
will be dropping on the side atsidefiction dot com. If you have not

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seen Fallout, I highly recommend seeingthat show if you're a fan of the
video games. It's a true gemof a show that really homages to the
all the different various games and it'sjust an amazing series. Follows three character
We have our We actually got screenersearly before the show came out, so
we have a really great overview ofthe show as well on our site at

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side fiction dot com. But thestory centers around three characters. Main characters
one is Lucy, she's a vaulttech vaulter. She's been in the vault
her whole life. And the secondone rather is Maximus who's part of the
Brotherhood of Still. He is asquire, but some things go down where
he gets on the journey in anadventure as well. And then the third

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character is a character called Cooper Andrews, which is a ghoul and you'll see
his backstory. He's a two hundredyear old ghoul kind of like a zombie,
but he's a human, but you'llhave to see what happens. His
stories, in my opinion, themost fascinating, and he really stands out
as the best character of all Imean, I like all the characters,
don't get me wrong, but hisstory arc is just powerful and I think

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he's one of the best characters.They could have an actor who portrays him
as amazing, and Balton just absolutelynails that character and they all do a
great job with that character is justamazing. So if you haven't seen that,
I highly recommend checking out followed AmazonPrime Video. So also for fans
of sci fi goodness on Apple tvPlus, it has just been announced that

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for All Mankind will have a seasonfive theun by our co creator Ronald D.
Moore, And it's also they're goingto have a Star City spinoff series
that's also announced for Apple TV Plus. So I'm really excited that if you
have not seen For All Mankind wehear at Sci Fiction Radio and sci fiction
dot Com, highly recommend, Imean highly recommend checking out that series.

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It takes place spans many decades fromthe first season, which takes place in
the sixties, seventies, eighties,nineties, early twenty first, since I
think this next season maybe like fiftysixty years starting with the Apollo Race between
the Russians and the US all theway up until we're at Mars and beyond.
So that's the next season. Soit's gonna be amazing without spoiling,

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a high amazing drama series, powerfulstorytelling. In my opinion, one of
the best science fiction television series.It's more of an alternate hit history of
NASA in the Space Race, butone of the best series ever made of
science fiction goodness that I've ever seen, and I highly recommend checking it out.
Also, the character Ed Balwin isamazing. That character. He also

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the actor that plays Ed Baldwin alsoplayed the rebooted Robocomp. He played Robocomp.
He was in the first season asthe main character of Kovach in a
altered Carbon and he's but he justnails ed Ball and that character is amazing.
He's He's plays an Apollo astronaut thatthen goes on the journey and there's
a lot of adventuring and things aroundthe galaxy. And you know the new

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show in of course season five,hopefully he's in it. He'd probably be
an old man, and as inthe first season, he's like younger,
he's like thirties. And of coursein this last season, if you've seen
any trailers, you notice he's gotgreat hair and he's got a beard.
So if he's alive, he's anold man. Uh, probably seventy maybe
then maybe older than that. Ithink the second season takes place maybe a

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decade or so later after the fourthseason. So also fans of Zack Snyder,
not Justice League, but Rebel MoonPart two. The Scargiver is now
out on Netflix. Just came outApril nineteenth. If you've not seen it,
This new movie is a little bitmore action packed and the last one
that takes place in the village.They're coming after the Village The Imperium,

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so ily recommend checking out. AlsoAnthony Hopkins character Jimmy the Robot, one
of the Jimmy robots from The Imperium, is in it and he also does
fighting. He does fight. Ofcourse, we knew that was coming,
so check that out. Rebel MoonPart two. The Scargiver review is also
on our site at sci fiction dotcom in the sci fi movie section.
So I want to see a somewhatspoil a free review of that. Dunbar

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an amazing writer Dominic check that out. He did an amazing review of that.
As we said before, we alsobe doing episode three, four,
five, six, seven, eightof the Fallout series that is on Amazon
Prime Video. Got a few morenews updates before he crack into the awesome,
awesome, awesome interview. Segments startwith Sylvester McCory's seventh Doctor Who actor

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from eighty seventy eighty nine. Thisweek has been announced that the original model,
this is the three foot model Ibelieve of the USS Enterprise from the
origin the original series by Gene Rodenberry, has been found. I'll read you
a little bit snippet of this articlefrom our site at sci fiction dot com
were created by our amazing writer KierenBert. The first model of the USS

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Enterprise was disappeared in the nineteen seventieshas returned to creator Gene Rodenberry's son,
Eugene Rod Roddenberry, after being missingfor decades. The miniature had become the
subject of much discussion, fueled byits brief appearance on an eBay and auditori
in Autumn nineteen twenty. Twenty twentythree was used in the opening credits of
the original Star Trek Show. Itwas like the one that flew across the

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screen everything. It was quickly takendown in the seller's Contacted Heritage Auctions in
Dallas tanks as to authenticate it.The auction house helped facilitate to its return
to Roddenberry's son. And then ofcourse it says, this is not going
going home to adorn my shelves,said mister Roddenberry's CEO of Roddenberry Entertainment to
the Associated Press. This is goingto get restored and working on ways to

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get it out to the public sothey can see it. In my hopes
that will be land in the museumsomewhere. That's awesome. Joe my Dealina
Heritage, as executive vice president,said they were contacted by people who discovered
the model and storaging it and boughtinto their office in Beverly Hills. Once
it was there, he and hiscolleague instantly knew that it was the real

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thing. Rodenberry said he appreciates thateveryone agreed returning the model to him was
the right thing to do. Whilehe didn't go into any details on the
agreement reached Rodenberry did comment, Ifelt it important to reward that end show
appreciation for that. The first episodeof the original Star Trek series aired in
nineteen sixty six and the US andwas created by Geen Ronberry. Jean Rodenberry
passed away, of course, innineteen ninety one at the age of seventy.

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The Great Bird of the Galaxy franchiseis still going strong, spawning multiple
TV shows and films. That's prettycool that they found that model. But
this course is also that model wasin the picture of the famous photo on
his desk. I believe he hadit for a while and it's supposed to
be missing for years. That theyfound it there it is. So you
got the one in the Smithsonian andI've got the three footer. It's pretty

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darn cool. A couple more newsitems here, and we got about three
or four minutes and we'll break thecommercial. Then we'll bring you some amazing
interview segments that we recorded this pastweekend. A Yellow City Comic Con Joker
Too VALI I Do is going tobe coming out here in a little bit.
Official teaser trailer Reaction is on oursite at sidefiction dot com and the
last of the news from this pastweek. The Paramount has confirmed the future

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of Star Trek Lower Decks. Ithas been canceled, but Star Trek's Change
the New World has been renewed fora fourth season. So if you likes
the original series and you want tosee Pike and Spock, especially a decade
before the original series with Shattner,it is currently production of third but now
it's going to be renewed for afourth season on Paramount Plus. So highly

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reckooned and you check that series out. They're both great series for animated.
Star Trek Lower Decks is one ofthe coolest series ever and of course Strange
New Worlds being omaji to the originalseries, Era is one of the most
solid serial episodic serialized storytelling I've everseen. Amazing series. Love the portrayal
of Spock done by Ethan peck Ansonmounts nailing, just looks and just resonates

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the oplement epitemy of Pike, CaptainPike and everyone from the actress that plays
a Herrah to Yeoman what's called Una, who's the second number one played by
Rebecca Romain O'Connell. Of course,j O'Connell is also in Lower decks.
They both play First Officer's pretty cool, so I highly recommend checking both those
shows. Out. Of course,there will not be renewing Lower Decks for

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another season, So we're about tobreak the commercial break. Wanted to tell
everybody wrapping up for people, justif you're just tuning in, but we
will be next weekend and beautiful LasVegas Nirvana at the Level Up lvl Up
event at the Las Vegas Convention Centerfrom April twenty sixth the twenty eighth.
We'll be covering It's a massive gamingcentered around gaming, but also pop culture

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and fandom and lots of cosplays,auto gaming showcase, all kind of cool
things that are going to be there, or gaming competitions and beyond. I
believe that the event expects over onehundred thousand attendees. I believe if I'm
not mistaken, And so if youwant to go find out about that,
by the way, go to ourevent section on scifiction dot com. Go

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to just click the event section directly, and there is an article titled It's
time to Level Up in Las Vegasthis April, and it goes over in
depth. There's also a video presentationfrom my level Ups YouTube channel kind of
going over what it's all about.Takes place at the Las Vegas Convention Center,
Like we said, West Hall startingFriday, April twenty six, eleven
am for VP holders and we'll rununtil six pm on Sunday, April twenty

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eighth. We over there covering Expressall week long. So if you're in
the area Las Vegas, you likevideo games, you like anime, you
like pop culture, fandom, scifi and beyond, highly recommend checking out
of it out. It's gonna beamazing. One of their headliners is Christopher
Judge, who most people know fromStargate asg won his TILK, but he's
also amazing video game voice actor,so from God of War especially. He

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run the actual it was like theequivalent of the Video Game Awards of the
Academy Award for Video Games more orless, gave an amazing speech to We
got to actually talk with Chris severalyears ago before he had just gotten started
doing some video game voice acting,and yeah, he was very happy to
start all in this new next phaseof his career with the video games and
everything. We always, of courseloved him at Target. One of the

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best science fiction alien characters ever made. And created. So that was a
really really good treat. But hopefullywe'll get to talk to him this year
and do a follow up interview,talk to him about his games. He's
been voice acting over the past fewyears and so on. They're also gonna
have Sonny so Jack, he wasa Family voice actor as a Family Guy
voice actor, be there as well. Christopher Judge, lots of YouTubers and

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influencer will be there as well.And if you want to get tickets,
you can go to their Level UpExpo website And there's also several options for
those tickets where were wrapping up here, including a one day badge ranging from
forty to fifty five bucks, athree day bats for eighty five, and
the VIP Bats for two hundred.There's also what's called a squad pack for
two hundred and fifty which includes athree day bat, four three four three

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day badges. There's also a partythat's a massive party. I believe it's
taking place at the Paias inside thePalms Casina Resort. There's a party from
nine pm until three to eight mat the Chaios Club at the Palms Casino
Resort. If you want to purchasea table. What's included table for the
whole night and ship the six guests. Twenty drink tickets for single well drinks
guess for the after parties. Mustbe twenty one and above of course and

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have a valid ID. So yeah, check level up up and Vegas.
If you're there, we'll be thereof course all week along a twenty sixth
to the twenty seventh. So withside Fiction coming to you from SI Fiction
Radio. We'll come to you nextweek in Las Vegas. It's stay tuned.
We'll be coming to you here soon, bringing some awesome interviews, starting
with sevest McCoy here a Yellow CityComic Con on day three, joined with

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Sylvester McCoy, how is your daygoing there? Great? Yeah, really
nice. Yeah, it's been fine. Lovely people up here and the Panhandle
of Texas. That's true, that'sright. You've done things. Of course,
you were originally in theater and donea lot of theater you've done,
of course, Doctor Who's seventh Doctor? How did you get into like the
gateway into theater and then what wasthe gateway into Doctor Who? Of course

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the seventh Doctor? Well, thegateway into theater was that in the sixties,
I worked in the city of London, which was the is the financial
capital of you know, of London, the actual city, old ancient part
of London. I hated every fiveyears of it. And then the Swinging
sixties arrived and you were allowed todrop out and become a hippie. I

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was expected, and so I droppedout and became a hippie. At the
same time, theater opened up andthe Roundhouse it's called. It's very famous
now. It's a great place wherethe Rolling Stones played and I was a
bouncer to the Rolling Stones when theyplayed there, and various other things in
theater. So I got a jobin there because they needed a hippie who

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could count, and I fitted thebill. So as when I was there,
there was an act called Brian Murphywho's quite well known in Britain.
His wife was an assistant administrator,so he'd hang out collect the tickets I
was selling, and we'd lun aroundthe One day a director committed and said
to Brian, heyy, Brian,someone has let me down. I got

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this show. Do you know anyyoung actors that might fit? And he
said, that's the guy in thebox office. He's out of his head.
So he came up and said hedo you want John Marshall and I
said yes, and that was it. I became an actor. It's amazing
you've done a lot of things withthe Doctor Who franchised, coming up on
sixty years of the franchise. Whatdoes this role of Doctor Who mean to
you? And how did you likethat particular portrayal of the doctor of that

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generation? You mean my doctor?Oh? I like my Doctor? Well,
I mean, actually I found itdifficult to watch myself on the screen,
but after thirty odd years I lookat it now and it's as if
I'm watching someone else and it's quitegood that guy. You know. Do
you do you like it's like watchingyour son? Does your son in the

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film as well? Or No?It's just like I'm so old now I
look that's how my son would look. The overall impact of Doctor Who is
the message of positivity ultimately the whatis it? What do you take from
all the work? Of course you'vedone Hobbit as well, Radagast's eight,

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there were Kowski's and I was alsoin Rob Zombies. What's it called there?
It is over there? Rob Zombies, No hanger, No, it's
the monsters. Yeah, The Monsters. Yeah, cut that and come back.

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Yeah, well got it. TheMonsters based on the originally the new
one based on the original series.Yeah, it was a prequel of how
the Monsters came from Transylvania to Americaand onto black and white television. So
I was in that. I meanin loads of things, a lot of
things you also were believing in,not most people. If you've seen it,
the nineteen ninety six Doctor Who movie, Whi's filled in kind of like
the it's basically the glue that connectedto the new modern day Doctor Who.

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If you think about it, Yeah, that's true. I was in that
as well. We made that inCanada. That was that's I mean,
it's also I realized after a fewyears it's somewhat satirical about America because the
first time the Doctor comes to America, he opens the tardest door, steps
out and gets shot. Welcome toAmerica. But you do come back in

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the big finished productions. You've donea lot of audio dramas with that.
How is that bringing back that iconiccharacter to the franchise that's always been so
beloved. Well, no, it'sgreat. When when when they stopped me
Doctor Who, we didn't stop makingit. Sophie ldered my companion and I.
The fans were not allowed to die, and so they started making audio

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dramas and films and that's how thatwas born. Big Finish was born out
of that, and now the fansare actually running doctor who you know wrapping
up? Is there any words ofadvice since you've done theater and some amazing,
amazing roles over the years she couldgive the people getting into acting that
would kind of guide them on track. Well, you've got to give.

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I mean, it's like becoming apriest or. You know, you you
sadly in some ofay that your firstlove has got to be the acting.
Powerful words, Sylvester, I wantto thank you for joining us. Yes,
sir, so one coming to youfrom Yellow City Comic Con twenty twenty
four, last day signing on.We're here at Yellow City Comic Con on

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day two with alas all kind ofcalled battles tech goodness. What kind of
bouts like goodness you have? Well, I have some of the starters here
to show people off between our opentabletop game Alpha Strike Clan Evasioniers. When
we did the first kickstarter several yearsago, which is when a bunch of
folks left and then came back duringfifty years later, going we know how
to do this and had great technology. The other boxes were earlier for the

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original setting of Intersphere, and Ijust I'm here teaching people how to play
and I'm not selling a single thing. Very cool and how long have you
been playing the game since it wasgraded? Or no? The game?
This is the fortieth anniversary, butI've been playing on and off since nineteen
ninety two, or rather it's twentytwelve. It was the twenty fifth anniversary,
and I bought the special box setwhen Catalyst was first taking up the

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license and producing it. So Igot introduced to a twelve mech box set.
Nice. There. Do you paintthese miniagers as well? You can
give them all and you paint themright. Oh, that's the whole point.
Let me grip this is one ofthem. How they come in the
box. Very cool, it's greatplastic in that, and you could we
Our thing is you can play justlike this, right, or you paint
them up. Painting is part ofthe hobby. But unlike some games,

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we know sit there and say ifyou don't paint, if you know,
because We're here for fun and throwdice. Other games are here for fun,
but they really push the painting.And Lauren Coleman and Randall Bills,
these gentlemen have been involved with Fasterthrough FanPro and that they've been involved as
authors, as supplement writers and thatand the rules for thirty five years in
Battle Tech, and they will explainto you you can play with rocks as

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long as we can tell the rocksapart. Our record sheets are available for
free online at bg dot BattleTech dotcom and download section. Alpha Strike uses
smaller cards. They're like magic thegathering side. Oh I shouldn't have said
that, but Matt and style cardsthat you can go online with our builder
at the same site and it'll printthe cards for you. You build your

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army and they'll give you the cards. So these are the cards Tech me
the bike cards. This is arecord cheat for our hex base, the
original Vergin if I could reach.So as you get oh wow, there's
some cards right think sleeve. Butthis is what they've reduced all of this
to to play like there where wemeasure and have three D terrain and it's

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made simpler for faster play, largerarmies, so these go three D too.
Yeah, oh yeah, a lotof people like I have Eroescape terrain
where I just wasn't good for here, but I take it and I set
it up. We've got our hillsand all that, so you can you
know, what you see is whatyou get. It's well marked on our
maps. We have hexes and itsays level three woods one that kind of
stuff, and you but you canmake your own maps. You know,

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you don't have to play on anofficial map, custom map. BattleTech goodness.
Where do people go out to findthem about to get the game?
Is there like a sight or saidbett? Was it? Well? BG
dot BattleTech dot com. That's wherethey have news and they have the free
download section and the what we callthe MUL the Master unit list where for

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total warfare, this is called theduty. These big record sheats make your
army or do the cards for yourarmy in Alpha Strike, and there's a
download section where they have almost allthe record sheats and you can go to
catalysts and buy books e the PDFfor otherwise for the collections of record sheets
by time frame, because this gamein time wise starts in the year twenty

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seven fifty. Currently we're in theyear thirty one to fifty two, so
there's this expansive library. Well,it's a rich history. So many novels
are out and by those are goodnovels. Yeah right, and they're just
always doing, constantly gotten. Imean, I just picked up at an
exclusive event in Chicago right before acalled Cadeptocon. We call it Kerensky Con.

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Alexander Krensky's a big guy in thesetting, and so they named the
con after him. And all thebooks they gave me for being a Monster
backer are two kickstarters. They hada level that was five thousand dollars and
the first one they called it theFull Kerensky and then this last one,
which is getting ready to be shippedto the backers, they called us the

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Big Kappa. That's awesome. That'sawesome. That's all cool. Catalyst is
a wonderful company. I adore thisgame. It's about fun and throwing dice,
okay, and you can take thisgame as far as you want.
You take pictures or force packs orthey're pre set, but you can mix
and Matchum, we just how dowe put how do they put out the

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minis? Well, we have waysto say. This is an assault team
or a command team and that,and so they put them together so you
can go to the shelf and buysomething that's kind of what you're looking for
army as well at that point,right, Yeah, we deal with a
point value and a lot of thegames I played up with some ten thousand
points, but some mechs are liketwo hundred points. Some mechs are three

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thousand and four thousand points. Doesdepending like this strength of how like the
arms? Yes, there's there's Theyhave a system for it. When they
put the point values. It's howmuch tonage? Because these things are thirty
three thirty five feet tall. Yeah. I like to say, if you've
seen the movie Pacific Grim, yougot an idea what we're talking about,
except we put one person in ourmech Warrior, and so uh it goes

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into what what size the frame is, what it can handle, and all
the different equipment, how much armor? I trust me, I don't want
to do the maths. So allgood. This is totally cool. And
for people that want to get intothis, what kind of words can you
give them like that? They wantto like what it's like, the kind
of the baby steps to very themto begin and just get a box or
how will they go into getting init? Let me grab something real fast.
Yeah, you're good. You gottacheck SOS again. There you go

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prepared. Yes you are, Yesyou are. Alpha Strike is open tabletop.
You measured, there's no hexes.We have Beginner Box and this is
the Target special edition of the BeginnerBox called Essentials. It comes with two
mechs, some cardboard popouts to giveyou more things to play with, a
map, twelve page rule book.Then we have Garmored Combat over there,

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which is playing the early and thenthis is when the guys came back with
better technology and they have a wholebunch of minies in here, like eight
minis and more cardboard popouts and moremaps, and it's a bigger rule book
that and so this book is onlytwenty five dollars. That's sixty. This
is like sixty. This one becauseit has thirteen mechs is eighty. It's

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got more blank for the more blank. But you can start with this one
and then if you like it,you can go to that one or go
to this one. They all worktogether. All of these minis play in
that game. They all come withthis card. So you pick up this
box and you can play Alpha Strike. That's totally awesome. Al I wanted

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to thank you for gutting us onthis for people. If you want to
check out BattleTech, check out Alhe's here today, and also just check
out the game in general. Iplayed it for a while and as I've
read the books too, so OversideFiction. Signing off at the comic con,
I'm here Yellow City Comic Con onday two with Brandon only event coordinators.
How are you doing to the Brendan, I'm doing great, man.
It's been a it's been a goodday, like a lot of people and

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we're all having a good time.So you've got an amazing guest lineup this
year. You've got some amazing guestsfrom sci fi and other things. Can
you go over kind some of theguest lineup and what people can look forward
to? Oh? Absolutely, Sowe've got Sylvester mccote, McCoy and Sophie
Aldred from Doctor Who, Uh,the Seventh Doctor and his companion Ace amazing
folks. We've got Mark Ralston andJeanette Goldstein from the Aliens franchise. They've

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both also done a ton of workin other films. We've got uh d
D and Magno Hall and Shelby Ribarafrom Steven Universe, and we've got Kat
Cressida, who's the voice of dD on Dexter's Lab and has done a
ton of other voice over work andvideo games and shows. So I mean
we're pretty loaded, and yeah,it's extremely exciting. I don't know that

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we've quite had a guest line upthis star studded, so it's been people
have been really really stoked and we'vehad a good time bringing them here.
This is y'all's third year. Youalso have a massive gaming acahol and the
cosplay contest and all others have goingon. What the kind of things you'll
like looking forward to for a year? Four? This is actually our eighth
year. What's your eighth year?HYC three? What's the three? Then?
So it's Yellow City Comic Convention.So it's three. It's like,

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ye y s cute. So you'recoming up on a decade here in a
one more year. Yeah, Sowe've actually been in operation for a decade,
but you know, COVID kind ofruined our plans for a couple of
years, and so yeah, it'sour eighth events and we've got, We've
got some fantastic offerings. We partnerwith Amarillo College a lot of our local

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game shops as well, game QuestDay two, comics and games to bring
us TCG tournaments, fighting game tournaments, Warhammer. We've got all those sick
PCs out there from Badger Esports.And our cosplayers are amazing, like we've
we've got totally cool costumes as weOh my gosh, man. Every year,
I'm just tremendously impressed with it.Like I'm blown away by these creators

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who come in and put it alltheir time and energy and then they walk
this stage and and you know,we have our professional cosplayers judge them.
So who are the professional cosplayers thisyear that are here judging the contest that
you asking. We have House Abela, we have Rain, we have Children
of Proteus. Those are those arethe main ones. And Lily May's Steam

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Trunk, My Monkey's my Circus cosplay. So yeah, we're We're thrilled to
have so many tremendous cosplayers who haddone it for so long, and it's
just always amazing. It's our it'sour highest attended event of the day by
far as our cosplay contest standing roomonly in the back. So for sure
for people that want to check outyour event and if they can't make it
this year, maybe for next year, when's gonna be and what can they

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go like to learn some information aboutthe event. Uh yeah, So we
still have our Sunday tomorrow, sowe've got uh, we've got one more
fun filled day, tons of panels, tons of tournaments that we have so
going on, tons of great vendors. But we're always the third weekend of
April every year if we can be. But look look for us around April
May to announce announce our next dates. It'll be around that time and uh

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yeah, we're we're excited to bringit back next year and maybe even one
up ourselves. Who knows. Wegot on winding up, Brennan, Thank
you so much, sir. It'sa home with side fiction coming to you
from Yellow City Comic Con and mrlTexas signing off. You're Yellow City Comic
Con Day two with Calvin. Calvin, you got some amazing art and also
goes to some great cause with yoursuperheros based on something what is that based

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on? Well, my Hi,my name is Calvin, and I and
uh my whole story is I haddevelop a develop a character that's named Joe
Hiro, and his story is alittle bit more unique than all the other
ones because in this universe, inthe universe that I have, he's actually
the only superhero that has a disability, because every other one had lost the
powers through a shot that gives themthat make them lose their abilities. However,

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there's a he went through a loopholeand still had his powers before at
a really young at a really youngage, and so so knowing that,
knowing that part, he's trying toshow the world that he could be superhero
regardless of his disability as disguise asthe Joe Hero, the average superhero that's
super cool. How did you goabout getting this? How did you go
about? Like what it made you? The inspiration a lot uh lack of

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that, I mean believe or not, Like there is diversity in all these
seals, but there hasn't been thediversity in my area. And when I
make my and when I made thesestories, I always see like all the
other shows, like Good Doctor andlike all this other ones, and they
always seem to push the extreme intothat area and not a lot of people
actually share like the super genius aspectof it. And so this one's more

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of a high functioning person on thespectrum and basically like a with his parents
and all hisself. So I tryto bring in like much different stories to
like a make it it, tomake it more unique and everything else.
Could do you do any charity workwith this or anythings you've done with the
comment? Uh? Not yet.I mean I've been doing. I just
basically like do them by myself,sell them at sell them at shows,

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go to a autism events, andjust bring out the awareness and all that
stuff. Very inspirational topic in thebook. I really like that. How
long have you been doing the artjust in general? Uh? Well with
the with my with my lifestyle.I just got really busy all this stuff.
So books sometimes take maybe a yearmaybe sometimes will take like five months
to five months to a year.Basically I write, I write the whole

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story and get it people, tryto get like one hundred people to like
a correct it and make sure Iget it, get it good. And
then I go through and just drawit, draw it all out. Uh.
Most of my artwork is I tryI try to do a mix of
like a digital media and also likea an also traditional style. So I
have like a whole bunch of likeall my old work it with me,

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like the portfolio sketches an cool goodnessalso and uh then I just bring it
to my other guy, Azida Rantalon, who basically makes all my makes all
my coloring work. The funny thingis, uh, he's all the he
lives all in Hungary and it sayshis English is terrible, but I'll like
to say it just like fix that, fix that, and then you're good,
super cool And this is a thisis a bigger novel. Is this

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all of them combined into one booklike a graphic novel? Or I mean
I'm still during the traditional route oflike producing the comic book, uh through
uh Comic Comic Express and then Iuh, then I just go through then
I actually, once I got enoughbooks in, I had decided I'm putting
like the five issues together in onein one graphic novel. Super awesome.

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Well, Covin, I'll buzz You'retalking to you quick, quite quick as
any website links they can find onabout your book. Uh well, if
I'm basically I'm basically working on Ilive in California, so you could always
check out my h. You couldalways like check out all my every every
comic book I'm sorry, with everycomplic book convention over here. You could

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always find me at the any Californiacomic cons or anything like that. However,
the people who are out of state, you look up the site of
Calvin Kni Comics. Do you wantto spell it out? Yes? Please
C A L V I N NY E C O M I C S
dot com. It's down here indigital awesomoths. Oh very cool and so

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like uh and so I'll show youlike you could get the books digitally.
You could also get the graphic noveland also you can check out all my
other posters that I sell the shows, because you know, I don't try
to like sell copywriter work, butyou know I sell them at the I'm
selling at the art show. Soyeah, very cool. So I'm coming
even Yellow City Comic Con. Checkout covin is awesome comic signing off here

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Yellow City Comic Con twenty twenty four, Yellow City three, I believe y
C three Day two here joining withClark of Too Many. How is your
day going today? Clark? Myday is going really good, awesome,
awesome This morning early I think it'sabout twelve thirty, almost pm in the
afternoon, act some morning you wantto You've got a lot of cool stuff
you do, including like digital stuffwith the art and also wallet's like a

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card wall. It's how'd you getin all this awesomeess? Okay, So
the wallets got into that talking toa friend and he was just running the
idea past me, like, hey, have you ever thought about putting your
artwork on wallets? It's like,now, I never really thought about it,
but it's something that I'm definitely opento. So tried it out.

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Everybody received it really well. Peopleenjoyed it, and so I went from
putting a few of my designs onthe wallets to now I got like half
of my catalog onto the wallets.That's on the internet as well. You've
also got these trading cards. Whatis about that any tops or what?
So with the trading cards, it'sit's very similar with like the Pokemon trading

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cards that the exact same size,except they're all on metal. And then
what I'm going for is the raritydeal like they have with the Pokemon cards.
So I have the regular metal cardswhich features my rainbow scratch drawings on
there, the regular designs, andthen I do a max of five different
variants for those, and with those, two of them are three of three,

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so there's only three copies of them, and then those are rare.
Yeah, they're definitely rare. Andthen I have three of the other variants
that are one of one, soeven rare which features a ghost rare which
is always a one of one.And the reason I wanted to set it
up that way was because I wantedto build more of a rarity aspect with
my rainbow scratch drawings because people,you know, every convention that I go

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to, they say it's something thatthey've never really seen. I'm trying to
stand out. I'm trying to dosomething that's a lot more unique from other
artists. And that's exactly why Idecided to go in that direction. Super
super cool. You also, didyou at bookmarks a kind of other goodies?
Where do people go to find outabout this awesomness on the internet or
instagrams like that? Have a sidebonus question after that's wrapping up. Yeah,
So basically what you would want todo is go to toomni dot com.

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That's the number two MM and whythe number two MM and why?
So you go there and then youcan reach out to me, whether it
be on the side I got allof my socials attached to it. Reach
out to me on the site,you can reach out to me on Instagram,
this book, whatever, all digitalawesomes wrapping up for people that are
entrepreneurs are getting in the art,Is there any words you can kind of

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guide them to get to this kindof level with you on the grid or
on the universe of awesomes? Ohyeah, definitely. What I would say
is maybe start small locally. SoI'm doing conventions like all over the US
at this point, but no matterwhat city you're in, just really get
involved with the scene and see whatdifferent flea markets are going on. Because

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the things are the booths are alot less expensive. So get the word
out early with having a bit ofmoney, and you can build up through
the exactly. And let's say youdo you do a show locally and you
don't make any money or anything likethat. Well, if the boost only
costs like twenty bucks fifty bucks,it's not that big of a deal.
And then it gives you some experience. It gives you experience talking with people

(37:49):
kind of seeing if your artwork sales, which products that you have sell really
well before you start to step outand you know, tackle larger conventions.
Words of WISDM. I like thatman, well Clark as you're talking to
you, sir, Oh with sidefiction, Yes, sir with side fixtion.
Coming in from Yellow City com ConDay two, sonning Off. We're
here a Yellow City Comic Con Daytwo with the art of Daniel Scott Jr.

(38:13):
Smister Daniel himself. Hell is yourday going or morning? Brother?
Going really well? Doing really well? Got a lot of people come up
and talk to me. It's goodand engagement. You gonna make a few
sales, that's just fine. Can'tbeat that. You've got a lot of
cool art and you do a specificstyle of arc. Can you talk about
how you go about this, especiallywith rappers of candy? I believe right,
I do. Yeah, everything ismade with candy rappers. I don't
use any paint. I don't useanything other than just the candy rappers,

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the front side, the backside.Everything that I do is that's it for
the last thirty years. So cool, and you've done some amazing work.
You've got like a dart Fader here, and tons of other characters, James
Bond and all these. You evengot the Shadow. What's some of your
favorite ones you've done recently. Myfavorite one right now is the Poison ivy.
I just did this poison Sure,that's a real fans y, super

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cool man, very cool. Okay. I done a lot of work back
in the day, a lot ofbotanical works, so it was just a
natural choice to get one of thosedone and it turned out great, super
cool. How long have you beendoing this overall? And how did you
get into the style of art?Back in nineteen ninety four, thirty years
ago? And I got my BFAin art and it was right in the

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middle class. I wanted to dostained glass and I couldn't afford it,
so I used It's very expensive,so I used candy wrappers instead and it
stuck. Have you ever had anyof these arts like on exhibition rey the
Iman? They're really good? Yes. Actually, I have a portrait of
George Washington up in New York City. It said France's Tavern, Sorry about

(39:43):
that, and it's at the FrancisTavern Museum in the Financial restrict I did
a portrait of George Washington eighteen bytwenty four super awesome. We're two questions
in closing. How do people goabout finding on the internet? First off,
and the last question is how doyou get like inspiring people that are
getting in there? Not just astyle of art, but aren't you know
what's some words of wizard you cankind of give them to guide them on

(40:05):
track if they're already down lader alittle bit. First and foremost, do
art every single day. Every day. You gotta do some thumbnail sketching.
You got to stay disciplined. Yougot to make yourself time to do so.
Secondly, of course, don't listento anybody. Do what your heart
tells you and also tell you that'sah, you know you're we're all covering
our own path. Uh. Thesecond part say one more time website links,

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Twitter is anything on the digital awesomeis all you find is gonna be
pop rap art. It's just likeyou see up here on the display behind
me, and that is all mysocial media throughout every platform. Awesome.
Daniel Absolute pleasure, sir here atYellow City Comic Con Day two, signing
off side fiction Awesomous here a YellowCity Comic Con twenty twenty four, third

(40:50):
Year, Day two joint here withZords. So bout how are you doing?
They sir? I'm doing great?How about you doing awesome? You
have some amazing art, all kindsof variety of pop culture, gold Godzilla,
I got an amazing Lionough, we'lltake some b roll out tonight.
How did you get into doing artand all this. I've always loved art
and especially comic books, and Ihave a degree in art. But I
didn't really learn to do comic booksthere. I just kind of picked it

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up on my own and I justhave a love for it. It just
kept doing it very cool. You, of course, are you seem like
you're a geek Tom and all this. What are some of your favorite characters
that you like to draw? Youknow, or get kind of asked to
draw? Rather well? My artis heavily on uh, inspired by manga
and anime mostly, but I likea lot of the older character especially the
Godzilla creatures and monsters and guide yourgoodness, all the gods will exactly.

(41:37):
Yes, I love those. Icould watch Gozilla a million times, never
get tired of it. Have youseen the new one or what did you
think of that one? Oh?I saw the new one. I loved
that. I also saw the uhthe other one, Godzilla plus one.
I believe it was that. Thatone was really good. That was done
in the omage to kind of likethe original ninetevty four. I believe right
exactly. I highly recommend that one. That one was really good. I'm
last y. Yesterday I came byand you had an amazing lie I know

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from Thundercuts, and you al shoulddo what you do. I think you
do the original sketch, then youtransition into color, right or how do
you go with that? Yes?I did a thing I call sketch Timber
because originally it was Inctober where peopledo ink drawings for that month, drawing
every day for thirty one days,and I thought it'd be cool to do
something for like sketches. So Idid something for sketch Timber. I kind

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of created it in a way.I haven't seen anybody else doing it.
But maybe it'll take off, maybeit won't. From that little piece,
I liked it so much that Isaid, you know, I could make
a poster out of this and justblew it up, made it bigger,
colored it, tweaked a little bitonline it's great, it came out great,
super cool. For people that wantto find out about your art,
where do they go and what kindof words wisdom? Can you give them

(42:43):
the kind of guid and if they'regetting into art? Well? You can
follow me on YouTube. You canalso go to dvnart dot com and check
dv and art right, Yes,dvianart dot com. I'm there as Zepeida
dvonart dot com, so where you'llfind me. I'm also on Facebook as
George Speida. You can follow findingme there as well. Awesome, George,

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absolutely pleasure you coming to you fromYellow City Comcoon. Thank you,
Thank you, sir, say fictionSonny. We're a Yellow City Comic Con,
Day three, last stage. Joinedhere with Henry. He's got a
lot of cool siphon all kind ofgoodies. How's your day go on,
Henry? Oh, doing pretty good? Doing pretty good? Yeah, awesome,
you've got Let's start with this bookseries? What is this all about?
What is this? Also? Supernovaflair wipes out all electronics on Earth.

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Aliens follow that shockway through space,trying to take advantage of distressed populations.
Now the storyline branches, the utansebranch here is the humans captured by
the aliens taking off worlds. They'retrapped on a planet where you can't breathe
the air for more than a daywithout burning out your lungs. However,

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the mother of them all was verypsychically gifted, and so the whole population
inherits that, forming a very differentkind of human culture. On the Earth
branch side, we recover after theflare, getting into genetic engineering and making
those mistakes, then back into spacewith some alien tech that was left over,

(44:12):
allowing for moving moons around, terraformingplanets, big scale engineering. It's
totally cool. How many books intotal have you done in this series?
And do you have any told booksso far? How any upcoming ones you're
gonna be working on. I haveone more trilogy that will tie together all
the loose ends, and that's whatI'm currently working on, so I look

(44:35):
forward to that. What are theseones about? Right here? These are
standalone science fiction adventures, everything froma solar flare catastrophe to garage inventor stories,
a little bit of magic here andthere. The Amarella books, which
takes place here and oh portal toanother world, time travel all over the

(45:04):
map, all different kinds of stories. So you got a new one here
that you were mentioning with, likethe thing going up up the space?
Now is that? What is thatbook about? Right there? This is
the garage inventor story, And wherea person who happens to sell things at
one of these conventions, working withhis three D printer, discovers some physics

(45:30):
and very tiny dimensions which gives hima fantastic discovery that nobody will believe.
So he and his girlfriend, whohappens to do streaming videos, have to

(45:52):
make a demo that will be sofantastic that people will actually believe what its
discovery. Is nice for people thatare getting into authoring their own novels or
books, is there or any writingsin general? Is there some words of
wisdom you can give them to kindof keep them on track or guide them

(46:15):
to the next level and beyond.If you can already write a series,
you know, a sequence that youknow where people do things and things happen.
Some people can do that, somepeople can't. If you can do
that, then you have to keepwriting because it's a craft. The more

(46:36):
you do, the better you get. So just keep writing, write a
lot of stories. Don't get hungup on one particular story that takes forever
to finish, and if you haveto write several different things at once,
do that. Just keep writing.Also keep writing, Henry absolutely pleasure.
Is there a website people can checkout our Amazon books or anything that Henry

(46:59):
Melton dot com, Haarmelton dot com. Check it out on side Fiction.
Last day, Yellow City Comic Con, Day three, signing off. We're
at Yellow City Comic Con day twowith the art of Logan pack Logan himself.
How's her the morning going, sir? It's going great so far?
Yeah, awesome, doing amazing.You've got a wide butter of things,
including this amazing piece here. Whatchyou're gonna get some beeral here in this?
It's the art for the event.Talk about what is in that?

(47:21):
What you got in the Christian ofthe So yeah, they have me do
the art depicting all the guests forthe show, and uh, I thought
it would be cool since we haveone of the doctors from Doctor Who here.
Uh he's gotten a little pamphlet thatadvertises the event, so he knows
he's got to show up there andhe rounds up the crew. He's got

(47:42):
Steven Universe. He's got some there'san alien coming off the top of the
tartist here. It's trying to hitcha ride, so he's got some some
of the alien's crew members in thereto help keep that guy back. But
yeah, so awesome. It's gotkind of an eighties almost goonies like poster
feel at retro. How did yougo about getting that esthetic? I don't
know, maybe it's just subconsciously inthere, but I love old movie posters,

(48:05):
man, Like that's I'll just pourover that stuff, just over and
over. So it's a it's agood time. But for sure you do
a lot of things, and notjust the art for the event, but
you also do the event Star WarsWalking Dead. How do you go about
getting the likeness of these characters hereand these Star Wars universe and all scorts
with Walking Dead and all that,and getting them so accurate looking to they're

(48:29):
like this is yeah. So theInternet is an incredible resource nowadays. There's
so many pictures and I'll usually picklike a pose picture I want to go
for, so that's super core.But then I'll also pick some other ones
that are more like mood pictures,like lighting and stuff, and so that
is always where I start. I'llstart with the likeness, trying to get

(48:52):
that down, and once I getlike the mood of the expression that I
wanted the character, then I don'talmost don't even have to worry about the
rest of it. To me,like that's the It all kind of flows
from that point. So that's prioritynumber one, and I probably spend honestly
a third of the time just gettingthe likeness right, and then the rest

(49:14):
is Yeah, so so it's athat's a big, a big piece of
it. So that's super awesome.You got a John Wick? Awesome?
And so over here too. Howlong did it take you to do that
one? And what was your favoriteparty like getting that put together? Is
that made one off or made forsomeone in particular? Just what was that?
No, that one was just becauseI wanted to do it. Buddy
was like, hey, you shoulddo a John Wick. What if he

(49:35):
had like a pencil in his pocketor something, and he does. It's
on there, but there's a lotof little Easter eggs in there. There's
a necklace that his wife gives him, there's the there's all kinds of cool
stuff. But uh, yeah,that one, Uh didn't take a ton
of time. It took a littleless time than they usually do because it
was less about the small, tinylittle details and more about the color impact

(49:57):
on that one. And so U, I don't know. They range me
between fifteen hours for like the quickestones all the way up to maybe fifty
hours if there's a lot of charactersin there. So wow, well wrapping
and take some serious time wrapping up. Is there any kind of words of
advice you could you give artists thatare trying to get up to this level
of art? Ooh, I wouldsay, draw the stuff that you're passionate

(50:22):
about, because if you're passionate aboutit, you won't mind putting the time
into it. You won't even mindbeing frustrated over it because you love it.
So draw the stuff that you're passionateabout and start from there. And
from there, I mean, justdifferent resources. Try and get into digital
so that you can get some reallyhigh quality prints made, at least for

(50:44):
the coloring side of things. Butthere's man, it's a different world now.
I mean you and I both knowthat, Like with artwork, it's
there's so much potential and possibility outthere that wasn't available when I started doing
this stuff. So totally. Isthere any website links that you could shout
out to Twitter's, Facebook's website andjust in general shouting about your Yeah,
it's an art of logan pack PA c. K. It's probably in

(51:08):
the description or whatever down here somewhere. Oh there it is. But uh
yeah, art of logan pack oneverything. I keep it, keep it
simple, so awesome logan Absolutely pleasure. Ohen coming to you from Yellow City
Comic on day two. Signing off, This is Owen Potter. Thank you
for listening to sign Fiction Radio.Don't forget to visit our website at www

(51:31):
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