Geek Syndicate
the toilet which is nice! Not like now where it’s half an hour before the film finishes in the cinema and you’re busting and it’s ruining the film for you, like Lord of the Rings. I missed the end attack in the Tower of Doom or whatever it was because I needed to go to the toilet! GS: As you mention, a couple of Easter eggs there; Last of the Summer Wine and Chas and Dave, two very British things and the comic is set in England. Most of these B movies are set in America so why set it in Britain? DB: All I know of fifties America is B-movies, and the sort of infomercials and things like Reefer Madness. There are some really good ones I found online which I was watching the other day and they’re hilarious. There’s one about how to go on dates and stuff, “Rules for Dating”. They’re just so awkward and my god, if you went on dates like this you’d never get laid again! They’re absolutely atrocious. I would really like to do a kind of Surf Nazis Must Die-esque book at some point because I do like that whole thing. Someone said “oh you’re trying to be a rockabilly now you’ve done this” and I went “no, I’m a teddy boy” because I’m not a rockabilly, not that I’m a teddy boy, but if I was going to be one or the other I’d be the British one because that’s what I know. It’s that thing of “I know this era in British history pretty well”. If I could, I’d only ever do period work. First World War era to the 50s, all that time is fantastic, I love it. But the 50s I’ve got a particularly soft spot for just because for a world carrying on in the threat of nuclear annihilation it was really positive and hopeful. There was a lot of bad stuff and I don’t romanticise the past, there was a lot of bad stuff, but I think kind of there was a hopeful attitude, the way of the future and that sort of thing and it was endearing in a way. GS: Very much the whole sort of, and I’m side stepping at the moment but, Captain America and Iron Man. You’ve got the Howard Stark thing. This is the future and the way of the future technology. We’re stepping into a new generation of technology DB: Whereas, and I’m one to talk about looking back, it’s all I ever do, the way they envisioned the future...this is before they’d even got a man on the moon. Some of the stuff in the B-movies, as much as they might laugh at them were pretty accurate with what they thought GS: They did a good job. So talking about being accurate and the Bmoves, the robot itself; very simplistic but a very scary design. How did that design come about? Was it the first one? DB: No I did a few. Originally it wasn’t meant to be eight feet tall, but one