Comic Con Experience

Special Look at the Comic Con Experience 
By: Fred Richani
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Episode Transcript

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Hey, everybody, This is fredRachhani of TSC News right here in emin
N. It's New York Comic ConWeek, right here in New York City,
and today we're gonna look back atour most fun times at NYCC and
wizard World, celebrities, artists,cosplay, and a little bit of everything
in between. What's up, everybody. This is fred Ricchani of TSC Gaming

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standing alongside our old friend Dale,the Gears guy, the Gears of War
guy. Dale. It's been afew years since we last saw you at
Philly Comic Con. Still looking good. It's actually our first comic con and
what brings you here today? Actually, it's always fun to come out,
always fun to converse with the community. But for me, it's about the
kids. It's about having a goodtime, you know, just about repping

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Gears of War and doing what wedo. And how long you've been going
to these things for about three yearsnow. This is probably our second time
here at Philadelphia. You know it'sgetting better and better every year, so
you know, we're gonna try andkeep it a tradition and keep on coming.
This is a kick ass costume.Did you design this yourself? Know?
Me and a group of friends did, some guys who work in the
industry, and myself, and wewent ahead and got it done, got

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it detailed all up, got thelighting in, got a lot of props
together. I don't make my ownweapons. A guy from Blind Squirrel props
he was able to go ahead anddo this DBS for me, So a
lot of props to him. Butyeah, great job overall for everybody,
sortily strapped. I don't want toknow. That's it. I'm good.
You're good to go. And doyou work in the video game industry at
all? No, I don't.I'm an engineer. Wow. Great,

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So so I do a lot ofdesign work, and I do a lot
of detailing all the electronics in hereand in my helmet and other things that
you see. I went ahead andput in a lot of a lot of
the paint, all that good stuff. So you know, we work together,
we get it done. And whatis the best part of Gears of
War in your humble opinion? Ohmy god? For me, A lot
of people will say the multiplayer,But for me, it's a story because

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I'm very I'm a very story drivenindividual. It's really they put a lot
of heart and soul into it,and for me, it's probably one of
the best parts of the game.On that note, what is the best
part of comic Con? For thosethat I've never been to comic Con like
myself, the best part of comicCon is probably the community. It's the
people that you see here, becausewithout these people, there is no comic
Con. Without everybody here of everyshape, size, color, creed,

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race, there is none of this. So when you come to something like
this, look around, look atthe community that you're surrounding yourself, and
if you like this type of environment, if you like this type of excitement
in your life, come on outtry it. It's really a lot of
fun. Yo. We're just heretoday. I'm here with my wife.
We're having a good time, youknow, representing a little Overwatch today.
Can't we can't wait to get homeplay that new Gears of War. You

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know that armor is still ready togo at any moment, so you know,
next next con it'll be out thereready to rock. So I can't
wait. And we've actually had acouple of incarnations of Gears. We had
the Gears of War Ultimate Edition,which was an awesome remaster. We're getting
Gears of War four which is comingout this Tuesday. For anybody that hasn't
played now, oh you haven't.Now, No, if you had the

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Ultimate Edition and if you pre ordered, you got to player early. So
it's sitting at the house waiting forme. So I can't wait. Okay,
So Dale the VIP. Now besidesDale, the all VIPs, because
there's a lot of us out therewho have it. They're playing right now.
I'm jealous. I'm real jealous.So for any fans haven't had a
chance to play Gears, admittedly Iwas a little late to party. I
loved it. What can you tellus about it? I would get some
fans excited. The nice thing aboutGears that's always been there since the very

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first iteration was that it took awaythe distance, so it made it more
personal. When you went out andyou killed somebody, it made it more
personal. It took it to thatmid range, that close range you got
the feel of it was visceral,and it carried itself not only in single
player, but multiplayer are the sameway. You go in, you go
ahead and you hone your skills insingle player, and then you get in

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multiplayer and you just let loose haveit. So you know, that's the
thing that's always remained consistent. Rod'sdone the same thing with it when he
was at Epic, just like himand Cliff did it at Epic. They're
now doing it with a coalition.So you know, it's really nice to
see that that DNA has transferred forwardinto Gears for It's changed as we last
spoke, especially es sports and withGears of War getting in the mix,

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all these shooters getting in the mix. Do you feel like the boom of
esports has hurt or helped the experiencefor the casual gamer or like the regular
gamer when it comes to shooting gamesonline, esports is one of those monsters
that comes into a game and ifyou're not really hardcore, then esports is
just something that you casually watch.If you are a horrorcore, then you

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look at it and you say,I can be a pro at this.
I can go ahead and make somecash at this, and there's nothing wrong
with that in either sense. There'scertain things that are done with esports that
I do like and that I don'tlike. I don't like the fact that
sometimes it takes away from the casualgamer. It puts more emphasis on those
pros and their loadouts and their matchupsand what's cutting edge, and that does

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eventually trickle down into the casual scene, but not to the point where I
feel that casuals really benefit from it. So, you know, esports is
good. It helps the companies makemoney, it helps them make more games.
But I like to see the strongbalance that you have a strong single
player, you have a strong multiplayer, and then if it's warranted, you
go ahead and you have a stronges sports scene as long as companies do

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it that way. And I thinkthat Gears may be trying to force it
a little bit because they see allthe money that's with esports right now.
Just like with titan Fall. TitanFall one of my other favorite games.
Those guys they went out, theylisten to a lot of their critics.
Now with titan Fall two, they'reputting some esports things into it. But
now they've got a single player,now, they've got a more robust multiplayer.

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Now they've got to you know,all these things now and they will
eventually get to an esports just likewith Gears. Now, Gears is pushing
that focus. They see the money, but at the same time they're giving
us a brand new story, greattools, great functionality, hoard Let's not
forget about Horde mode because for uscasuals get together with a fee of your
buddies and you get hoard going andit's it's a great night. And for

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anybody that hasn't been any of thesecons, I've been going for the last
few years, You've been going fora long time doing your thing? Look
looking good right here? What canfans expect and any tips as far as
what they should do coming in there? I mean not everybody, of course
can be that gears guy or thatoverwatched guy, but how can they make
the most out of their con experience. Honestly, when you come to a

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con, you have to remember acouple of really important things. Shower,
please shower. Use deodorant, It'simportant, please please, for all of
us, it's important. But honestly, stay hydrated, make sure you have
food. Nobody wants to pick youup off off the ground, because it
will happen, and you need tomake sure that you take care of yourself
and be safe. Be safe whileyou're out here, Be safe while you're

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at the cons. You know,be aware of your surroundings, especially in
a big con like up in NewYork. Stay safe, guys, but
have a good time. Remember it'snot about judging. It's not about looking
at somebody and looking down on them. It's about a bunch of geeks and
nerds getting together, having a goodtime, expressing something that we love in
a lot of different ways. Youknow, have fun, enjoy yourself.

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But remember don't take it too seriously. It's not that important. Where can
fans find you online? If yougo on Google and you search for that
Gears guy, just all one word, that Gears guy, I'll pop up
with no problem, it'll It'll popyou up with a link to my Facebook
page, my tumbler, all thatgood stuff. I'm doing great. We
have a great show over here.Look at all this stuff over here.
We love with the Transformers. Wegot Bending Napko and I have a lot

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of interviews today. We got Capcomright here, we have Konami. They
had a Yu gi Oh tournament goingon. It has been insane. Right.
So, this is a mechanized dieselpunk scale model that I've made.
Is a walking tank. I've beendoing this for a couple of years and
this year I finally got one thatI can produce and it's gonna be a

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resident kit. I'll have a kickstarterfor this next month November, and the
kids will come as a without anysoldering, so you don't need to know
any soldering to put all the electronicstogether, and the kid can be all
screwed together, no gluing as well. Either that or you can get it

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fully painted and assembled like this,and so there will be two options,
at least two options that you canget this in. Uh. When you
get this assemble, it comes inthis box over here, and it'll be
shipped over from across the pond.I'm curious, how is this scene in
Singapore as far as comic cons anyexhibitions like this? Yeah, we have

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a Singapore Toys, Games and ComicsConvention, but it is a lot smaller
it was just last month. Yeah, but it's a lot smaller. I
mean New York has like three orfour times a number of people just living
in this city, and everybody hereis it's just really great and really enjoying,
you know, the cosplay and andand and all the gigging out over

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here. The cons actually always good. It just it's getting more and more
I guess crowded and overcrowded in certaintimes, but the guests are pretty good.
But yeah, it's it's just veryvery crowded. You've been just walking
around in Zach Ryder's swag. Yeah, I've seen you get more reactions and

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more pictures being dressed as Zach Ryder. Then some people that are dressed as
Deadpool and have all these crazy costumeslike Star Wars everything. What's the power
to Brosky, Like, it's thetruth. When someone says woo woo woo,
you say you know it back tothem. You came all the way
here from Portland, Oregon selling thisawesome product. Now I don't drink,
but this inclines to me to drink. Maybe I'll put some Seltzer water in

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here. This is the bar Tendocartridge slash flask. Dude, how does
awesome concept come about? Well,basically, like you know, I was
trying to think out my first likeproduct. I wanted to go into a
small business and something. I waslike, Okay, what am I really
good at? And I was likeretro video games. It's like, well,
some really good at drinking alcohol.So like kind of merge those two
things together. And we've been comingto shows like this, and after we

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got kickstarted in twenty thirteen with theflask, then we've been expanding labels.
We just dropped two new labels,Bottle Toads and contraband they're actually pretty sick.
I think you like them. Butyeah, we've got ten different parody
labels we we just developed last yeartoo. We did another Kickstarter which was
again over one hundred percent funded,and for the warp Shot glasses, the

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Trey Force ice cube tray, theuh Kegaman Buster pine glass, and then
the Capper Gun bottle opener. Itlooks like the old like duck on gun.
These cons have grown exponentially over theyears. How long have you been
going to these things? Not justas a vendor but just in general?
So three years that's when I reallystarted growing regularly. We started. Our

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first show was C two E twoin Chicago, and nas show is growing,
and then you got New York herehe had fan ex Bowl in Toronto.
Like all of these shows have grownlike over fifty percent, over one
hundred percent, like for some ofthem. Know what he talks about Indie
Box, Well, basically, we'rea monthly subscription service where every single month
we're gonna ship you a brand newcollector edition indie game for Windows, Mac,
and Linux, and it's gonna haveall kinds of cool stuff inside,
including the stuff that we all usedto get in games, like manuals and

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soundtracks, and then a whole lotmore. We've done controllers and figures and
posters, cloth map, you nameit, we've probably done it. Very
cool. How this whole concept comeabout, You guys have only been around
for a year and a half.Start of blow Up got a packed crowd
here and you're a comic con.What led to all this? Well,
basically, we looked at the indiegames industry. I've been in games for
like my whole life working in games, and so we saw that indie games

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are really saturated market, the onlygames one way you download them, and
so we wanted to help out indiegame developers and then also come up with
something really cool. So we werelike, let's bring back a really old
concept, which is an actual boxcopy of the game, and so we
just went with it, did thatand had you know, a lot of
sales our first month and it's justbeen blown up ever since. And with

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INNI games, I love about itis they kind of take it back.
I gather some unique concepts, butyou see a lot of games are really
retro looking, like Galaxy and ExtremeExorcism. Do you feel like what's old
is new again in terms of indiegames? In some ways, I think
there's like a resurgence of like allthis really cool stuff that we used to
do as a gaming community. Butbecause of like the bottom line being kind
of what it is with bigger developers, that we've gotten away from all the

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really cool stuff. I mean Collector'sedition. Now you're buying it at at
eb games or game Stop for likeone hundred and fifty dollars, two hundred
dollars, and it didn't used tobe like that. Now you just get
sixty dollars game that DVD and likea halsh sheet of paper. That kind
of sucks. So now what we'redoing is we're packing all these boxes full
of really cool stuff and it's twentydollars a month. That's awesome. Man.
Well, five years from now,where do you see indie box going

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as well as the indie games industry. Hopefully we're supporting indie game developers and
a lot bigger capacity. We wouldlove to be able to just basically provide
all the profits that we get fromall this game and just like shoehorn different
developers into the next level of theirgame development careers, and we would love
to do even bigger and better boxesas well. It's awesome. Man.

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Where can fans find you online onTwitter and Facebook at the indie Box and
then also at www dot the IndieBox dot com. Frederick Chanie here for
the sportscore dot Com, joined bya very special guest whenever all time favorite
guests dim in Dallas, page Ido in Dallas, Unstoppable and what brings
you here? To the wizard WorldComic Con and Philly sign of a bunch
of autographs, seeing a lot ofthe fans. You know, it's cool

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because I get to talk to alot of people who come up through me
and go, dude, I'm doingdd B yoga. I love it.
Or I saw the video on Arthur. You know that never give Up thing
was awesome. So I mean thatvideo and I'm sure you'll put a linked
up on your page of the disabledventure I Helped Walk Again is over four
point seven million hits in just overthree weeks. That's pretty strong. Change.

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My whole change my whole business.You know, it's speed to change
your whole business. We I seea lot of times you know yoga and
you said it's not yoga. Whatmade you turn the corner and finally embrace
yoga? Well, really, DDPyoga and ain't yo mama's yoga. You
know it's its own animal. Itdoes have yoga, and I was I

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actually thought about changing the name completelyfrom YRG and everything because of the wall
that people hit with yoga. Butwhen I started looking at it, did
all the researcher on myself and everythingis on the internet. It'd be impos
for me to get away from theword yoga. So I just sigure it.
I'm gonna embrace it. Because somany people say, TDP, how's
your yoga? I go, it'snot yoga. So finally I went,

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you know what, it is yoga, But it ain't the yoga that people
think. They think that it's stillhumming and chanting and all that, which
I got rid of, all thespiritual mumbo jumbo, not that there's anything
wrong with that. For people whoreally love the noma stay and of yoga.
I get that because I do thattoo occasionally. But it's not what
I love to do. I loveto have a really great workout, sweat

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my ass off, increase my flexibility. I keep getting stronger and stronger every
day. If you look at someof the videos I've got up right now
of me doing the superhero push ups, arms straight out in front of me,
arms and feet coming off the grounddoing forty of those. You know,
if you do get the super mymy Psycho push ups where I lowered
for ten, kicked my feet inthe air and then do ten nine eight,

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I do three of those. Mycore strength and overall flexibility is through
the charts. I'm fifty six.So what does DDP yoga do. It
makes you unstoppable. It is thefountain of youth. Jericho was done as
far as you know. Back injuries, Hernie eighty L four not anymore.

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This headline WrestleMania. He got SantinoCaine, Titus Rye, back Broski.
But we had a lot of guys, twenty guys at WWE. We got
over fifteen guys in the NFL.We've got guys in the MMA. I'm
gonna be personally working with Bellator championMichael Chandler. I'm also I've been working

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for quite a while on his comebacktrail with Sean Loffler. It's you know,
it's pretty exciting right now. AndI'm actually gonna go to Parris Island
and working with the Marines in July, which is really gonna be sweet,
very very cool. Now, Isee a lot of wrestlers, as you
talked about in our Embracing Man,what took so long? Well, I

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think it took someone like Chris Jericho, who was injured, you know,
to really be who's hurt and reallythought he was done. And then when
he saw the video of Arthur theNever Give Up, he saw the earlier
version of never give Up Arthur,and that pulled him in. And then
when he started doing it was socool because he called me out a god.
He goes, I'm addicted to this, he goes. If I don't
do it, I feel bad,you know, because it is the fountain

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of youth. And when he gotgot like Chris Jericho really put it over
his biggest star. I mean,he's not just a wrestling star. He's
a rock star dancing with his starsat the game show. I mean he's
a multi faceted, talented cat.And the matter of fact, I just
got a tweet from him let meknow that. Hey, the guys from
Men's Fitness, that's Health and Fitness, that did an article on him doing

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DDP Yoga and they wanted to talkto me about, you know, some
of my thoughts, which is verycool. It's about making the infomercial for
DDP Yoga. It ain't your mama'syoga. It's going to be amazing.
And we've already go we're a milliondollar company now. I mean when that
video came out and it wasn't evengeared at DP yoga, it just inspired
the world. I've got orders fromDubai in Australia and New Zealand, Mexico,

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freaking you know, out in theSouth Cape town, the Nibbia,
South Africa, Chile. I mean, it's crazy how many places. If
you're watching, watch the video that'sright up there on the screen. Never
give up, Arthur, the mostinspirationial video you've never ever ever seen.
DP yoga dot com, dp yogadot com. And you also get to

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be a part of team DDP yogadot Com, which I'm on all the
time. Go to DDP Yoga andcheck it out. That's all I got
for you, Freddy fred Rashani forTSC News. Here at the jam Pack
Jacob Javit Center in Midtown Manhattan forspecial edition and y see, run by

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the same people that put together NewYork Comic Con, which is later to
spall. But hey, we're herea special edition right now. We're gonna
show you all the highlights of thisgreat event, cosplay, artwork, comic
books, chaos in a good way, and much much more. But until
then, I think I'm gonna grabbingmyself some Walking Dead comic books. How'd
you get involved in the industry.I went to college at Pratt Institute and

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I went for animation. Always wantedto draw comic books. I started working
at smaller publishers. I went toXioscope, then Boom Studios, and now
I work at Aspen Comics. Idid Fathom the Elite Saga, and now
I'm doing all new Soul Fire Monthly. Biggest influences growing up were hands down
Jim Lee and Mike Turner. Boththose guys influenced me made me want to
draw comics, you know, JimLy with Hush and Michael Turner with his
flash covers. And then we didSuperman, Batman, and then I went

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back and got into Fathom and Witchbladeand soul Fire and everything they did.
So working at Aspen now and workingon his creations has been a dream come
true. And how great is thisindustry especially nowadays? I mean ten years
ago, I mean, yeah,there were comic conventions, but I feel
like it's gotten so much bigger overthe years. Yeah, it's great.
I mean the movies definitely bring alot of people in. So the more
people that get into this stuff andthink it's cool, like we all think

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it's cool, better and I loveit. So let's just say I had
maybe one fourth of the artistic talentthat you had, Okaye, like maybe
less than that. All right,what advice would you give me to get
my artwork out there and have asuccessful career like you? I would come
to conventions, you know, bringyour portfolio around. All your kids in
college in high school that want todo this, you know, put a
packets together, bring your portfolio,show us to artists, show us to

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editors, and just get the ballrolling with meeting people and try to network
and also put your stuff online.Devian Art Twitter all that stuff. He's
got an awesome book that he's goingto talk about now, sir, Yes,
sir, Right or Wrong? AWriter's Guide to Creating Comics Right or
Wrong. It was a series ofcolumns on Newsarama back in the day,
publish it there for years, andthen eventually took a lot of those old

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columns, refigured them, kind ofcleaned them up, posited them, and
put them into the book. It'sfor people that want to write comics.
Know they can write comics, maybedon't know how to get started, or
don't know where to go, whereto go to do it. So I
put together the book that's a biblefor anyone that wants to write comics or
make comics, can't draw them themselves. When I started writing comics two thousand

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and two thousand and two, Iwas publishing online in two thousand and one,
two thousand and two, so Iwas in front of that movement.
You know, you look at myseries like a Nightmare World, which has
been published now by image. Whatyou see in the books is what I
was putting online in two thousand andone, two thousand and two. So
to me, it's just all aboutwhat do you want? What do you
want to do to get it?You know, So for me it was

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just something. I love comics,I love the medium. I love how
you can tell stories with this mediumthat you can't tell them in other ways.
So for me, this was it. This is my only path,
and comic books has always kind ofhad its own culture. Do you feel
like it's grown over the years withthe popularity of movies and Walking Dead and
all these other series? Unquestionably?Unquestionably, you know, I I first

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started going to conventions my later highschool years and things like that, and
even just since I started doing conventionsregularly and things like that, the amount
of change you see the conventions,the mainstream recognition things like walking or The
Avengers and things like that. Thediversity in the medium as well. Now
it's not just a superhero thing.You know, there's horror, there's comedy,

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there's Slice of Light. So yeah, there's just been this tremendous evolution
of the medium and of the cultures, which really it's really cool. Great
artist, Brian Kanng, Sir,you had a lot of great artwork here,
as you could say, we gotWalter White, Gus Fring, Jesse
Pinkman, Darryl Dixon from The WalkingDead, just some awesome stuff. How'd
you get involved in art? Basically, I've been joring since I was a

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kid, like always, you know, joined the Peanuts characters, comic books,
sports, so you know, justpretty much made a career out of
it. And you're obviously very talented. But when did you decide like,
hey, I think I'm talented enoughto make a whole career out of this.
Uh, probably like twenty years ago. Yeah, so I've been doing
it for about twenty years, youknow, freelancing. What would you say

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is your first big break? Uh, probably working in Marvel, Like I
did some stuff Marvel back in thenineties, you know, just like pin
ups, covers, filling issues andyou know, working on snowballed into like
other companies and stuff like that.So, so we spoke off camera about
the convention scene, how it's haschanged in just in the last twelve Monthsbody

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hasn't been to an event like this, can just give us an idea.
Photos like when you first started outand nowadays with special Edition and YC and
in a few months of course andyou are Comic Con. It's it's changed
a lot. I mean there's alot of people like now dressing up as
costumes, like you know, doingcosplay, and you know they've been doing
that too much back and back whenyou know, if we first started,

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it's just basically more you know,your everyday com book dealers selling comics,
and now it's uh, you know, all types of media like you know,
toys, comics, graded comics.You know, you have artists at
the show, more artists. Soyeah, it's changed a lot. You
know, just as a kid growingup, my parents gave me a dollar

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a week and me and my brother'spooled our mind together and the only thing
we could get was comic books.So you know, it freed our minds
and took just places that we couldn'timagine before. And then we started making
our own. So I've had somegood opportunities worked on books like Secret Identities
and Shattered, which has been thebest thing I've ever worked on. It's
it's considered like a groundbreaking book andit's required reading some colleges, which is

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pretty cool. It's the Asian AmericanSuperhero Anthology, so we got assembled some
of the top Asian American talent incomics to create original Asian American characters and
heroes, which we felt that itwas very lacking in the industry, believe
or not, because from an industrywith such a strong Asian American creator base,
there really aren't that many heroes,you know, depicted in these stories.

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So we're very proud that we gotto help that cause. I think
as an Asian American, he's alwaysbeen around and he will never go away.
He's very much a part of ourculture. He's in acted, I
think the way to this day.I think he's the only person ever to
be accepted by everyone in the world. You know, he's not made fun

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of by anyone in the world.He I mean, obviously, he's a
very heavy influence on what I wouldlike to be doing. He's a pioneer,
a trailblazer, not just for beingable to beat up anybody, you
know, but for having the courageto do what he did to take the
film world by storm if you will, you know, he I mean,

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he's created martial arts movies in America, you know, and he's still I
think, barring Jeremy Lynn, he'sthe only Asian pop culture icon around.
You know. My name is thought. Admiral Cathos Epetai, Rustage of the
Imperial Klingon Forces and we're here torecruit for our organization. And I understand

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the people to your left are newrecruits. Yes, they've only been with
us a few short months. Iam Lieutenant Ksar best I rad Day.
This is my offspring speak ka sooTi Ra Day. I saw an ad
for a different organization at the timein Starlog magazine, and I said,

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you know, I've never played Klingon. I was sixteen years old at the
times. What the heck, I'llgive it a try. So I joined
this other other organization, worked withthem for four years, saw how they
did things, and it just justthey weren't acting quite right. So we
decided the entire group that I hadat that time, we had fifty three

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people strong in Rochester, New York, where this all started, and then
we formed the IKF and since thenwe've grown over the last eighteen years.
So but it all came from watchingit as a kid. My name is
Tony and I'm a biker scout fromthe Star Wars film. I will mess
with you. You are vin sisaidyou made There'll be as as Batman.

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I see you got the Batman voice. Take that Christian Bale and you are
Hi. I'm Tiffany, and I'mhere as White Tiger, she's a Marvel
character. Well, I actually startedcosplaying because a friend of mine requested that
I worked for her at a comiccon in New York Comic Con, and
in doing that, I started discoveringmore and more characters, and as I
researched them, I started finding onesI really loved, like White Tiger.
And now it's just fun to comeout, dress up, take pictures,

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interact with people, and then startdiscovering new characters and new stories. So
it's fun. Well get shout hearingthis. For people that haven't been a
comic con, what is the bestpart, Oh, it's definitely different for
everyone. For me, it's it'sthe crowds and the looks on people's faces
as they're having fun. Is thecostplaying and also meet you also get to
meet celebrities and also well and makenew friends with thela cosplayers. I think

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a part of it is kind ofseeing the celebrities in a different environment,
like, oh, they're real people, they're face to face with me.
But then it's also interacting with otherpeople and finding out, you know,
who's a fan of what, whereis this coming from? What other artists
are there out there I've never seenbefore. It's just like getting in.
It's an experience that you never wouldhave had before. Thanks so much for
watching, everybody. Stay tuned nextweek for our interview with UFC Fighter New

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