Geek Syndicate
people said them. They’re both almost just aspects of me, which is even more disturbing! So what I’ve done is taken aspects of myself and turned them into my girlfriend and her granddad and make them have some pseudo-relationship. Yeah, I’m going to be seeing a therapist for years after this! That’s probably not the answer I would have chosen to go for, but it’s probably the most accurate one! GS: Talking of the sort of humour and stuff, one of the things that I thought was quite cool when I was reading issue one were the adverts. So how did they come about? Just to explain to the readers if they haven’t seen it yet, these are adverts that have literally been taken from the 50s and slapped in the middle of a comic DB: That’s because I always like that whole *starts singing* “let’s all go to the lobby and get ourselves a treat”, that sort of thing. I wanted there to be intermissions in it, toilet breaks I guess you might say. It’s meant to be not fully immersive, but it’s meant to be a forgotten film studio, they are films, they’re not a literal translation of a film to a comic. There’s a lot of things where people sort of go when I was at college and they called panels frames and that stuff like that and they’d frame your shot, moving the angle of the panel and that sort of thing but then I thought it’s actually quite tricky sometimes because I’ve got to fit it into quite a narrow panel and how can I make these narrow panels look interesting but I wanted to have that film kind of feel. It is a film and they used to have those things where they’d show films back to back but there were adverts in and you could just walk in in the middle and just sit there until it got around to the end and you’d just sit there until it got back around and be like “oh well that’s what happened in the beginning”. I wanted it to have that feel and each issue has the adverts in. I don’t know what you got in the preview. Did you get the extra bits that are at the end of it? GS: No it was literally just the two adverts and that was it DB: Because at the end of the first one there’s a pin up for another film by this studio called My Reptilian Bride, which isn’t going to be a book but I just wanted to do movie posters. There’s that one and there’s going to be one for The Rocket in Space for issue two. There are o ?????????????????????
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