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The SKTCHD and Off Panel September 2023 Chat-stravaganza!
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AvatarDavid Harper
8:00
Hi all! Just finalizing my coffee and then kicking it off! Lots of questions in the queue.
Scott H
8:02
How do you make your coffee? French press, Mr.Coffee, chemex?
AvatarDavid Harper
8:02
This is a topic one, so let's start here. At home, I make it with a Nespresso machine, and because I am an urchin who doesn't like the taste of actual coffee, I make myself a caramel americano with steamed half and a half.
8:03
My friend who was a barista tested drinks on me and that one she made and it's set forever. I am doing this at a coffee shop, though, where the amazing folks at Black Cup made me the same drink.
Will E.
8:03
You could talk to any deceased comic book creator and ask them one thing: who would you talk to and what would you ask?
AvatarDavid Harper
8:04
The natural lean is to go with a legend, like Jack Kirby or Stan Lee or Mœbius or someone of that sort.
8:05
I'm going to go with someone more personal. There aren't many artists who were more specifically up my alley than Mike Wieringo, the guy who co-created Impulse and did some of my favorite work on The Flash, amongst a whole lot of other things.
8:06
I wouldn't have any big life questions for him, but he by all accounts was a wonderful person and incredible artist. So, in lieu of something big, I'd ask him how he brought so much joy into his art, and what was the key to doing that?
It's very difficult for me to not look at Mike's art and just smile, which is a rare gift.
Michael D
8:06
I know Mark Millar is polarizing and your mileage may vary on his line of books but have you been reading any of his recent output like Night Club, Ambassadors, Nemesis Reloaded or most importantly Big Game?   He continues to work with great artists, yes, but beyond that curious of your thoughts on the books.  { I for one have enjoyed a great deal of them)
AvatarDavid Harper
8:07
I have not been reading much of it. I started reading Ambassadors because of the art and I liked the first issue, but then my shop was shorted #3 and I never finished it off. I could have bought the trade but I just didn't.
8:09
The biggest draw to Millar's work these days is the artists he works with. He brings some of the best to the table. That said, while I used to really enjoy his work - as recently as Starlight, I loved his work - it hasn't worked for me in the Netflix era. It isn't that he's trying to make shows. It's just it all feels mean-spirited and like it's going for a vibe I'm not into.
I passed on The Magic Order volume drawn by Stuart Immonen, so you know how hard that pass is these days.
Scott H
8:09
If Off Panel had been around in the late 80's - early 90's and you not only invented podcasting but also made friends with Jim Lee, what issue of X-Men (or maybe something else) would you have wanted him to drawn you into?
AvatarDavid Harper
8:10
Congrats to me for inventing radio in the 1980s or 1990s! Bigger congrats to me for meeting my friend Jim Lee!
8:11
That answer is shockingly easy, and I've known it since I was a kid. It IS NOT the scene where Gambit, Wolverine, and Jubilee play basketball, though.
The first full X-Men story I read was X-Tinction Agenda, the crossover between Uncanny X-Men, New Mutants, and X-Factor.
8:12
There's this one scene where it introduces the key players in the issue, the "Dramatis Personae" as they put it in Latin. Here it is:
Everyone looks cool as hell, but particularly Jubilee, Wolverine, and Psylocke.
I want to specifically be in that panel with them, looking cool and vaguely tough.
Then I want to never appear in an X-Men comic again, and everyone will be like, "WHO WAS THAT GUY?!"
8:13
It was me, the inventor of podcasts. And you'll never know why.
G.O.D.S. Plan
8:13
There's a lot of talk about G.O.D.S. and how expensive it is and everything. Are you still going to buy it?
AvatarDavid Harper
8:13
That's good to know that there's a lot of talk about GODS, because I have not been hearing it, even though we're now I believe under a month from release.
8:14
The answer is yes, though. I am of course going to buy it. I do not like that it's $9.99, but it's triple-sized, it's Jonathan Hickman writing, it's Valerio Schiti drawing, and it's Marte Gracia on colors.
8:15
More than that, it's Hickman taking a big swing on a new idea, something he's always best at. At a bare minimum, it will be cool and look incredible. At a maximum, it will be a Marvel comic unlike anything I've ever read. That's a desirable range!
8:16
According to my pals at Big Bang Comics, it doesn't sound like I'll be joined in reading it, or even anticipating it.
8:17
I was surprised to see Marvel EIC CB Cebulski respond to them and say that they didn't break up the length as per a request from Hickman. That makes me more excited, even if it does bring into doubt whether Cebulski fully comprehends why Big Bang was saying orders are going to be low.
It also makes me think the reason we know almost nothing about it is because it's Hickman and he hates revealing too many details. That air of unknown makes me more excited. But we shall see in about a month!
Michael D
8:17
You’ve mentioned previously about your love for Star Wars Rebels so I’m dying to know how Ashoka is landing for you thus far.
AvatarDavid Harper
8:18
It's been...okay.
As with all of the non-Andor shows, Ahsoka's pacing has been not the best. It also is running into imagination blocks (due to cost, I am sure) that Clone Wars/Rebels didn't simply because of budget.
8:19
I'm still in on it, and I like a lot of it, but it just feels a bit undercooked so far, and I'm waiting to feel like the episodes are as long as they are for a reason rather than "this is how Disney+ does it."
8:20
Plus, I have really grown to loathe The Volume, the place where Disney shoots all big budget stuff now. It turns everything into visual tofu, and not in a good way. Andor popped for a lot of reasons, but its use of actual sets actually made a big difference.
Plus: I NEED MY THRAWNNNNNNN!!!!! *cries* (Not really but I am excited for my guy to show up)
Mark Tweedale
8:20
So it turns out LEGO wants to take an independant comic and do a whole bunch of sets from that comic's world and they've put you in charge. What comic do you pick and what are some of the flagship LEGO sets?
AvatarDavid Harper
8:21
At first I missed the "independent comics" and my immediate answer was The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl.
I'm going to go with Bone, though. Feels like a good fit.
8:22
Gran'ma Ben's home. Barrelhaven Tavern. Somehow they'll make a set for the Great Cow Race
There would be caves involved.
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