Geek Syndicate
sort of thing, but I’m still learning. I’m writing and it’s not the bit I’m used to doing, but I’m really enjoying it and I’ve always come up with things but I’ve never had the opportunity to get it out there. It’s like I’m having to learn in front of people. In the first issue I was trying to cram so many jokes in, and it eases off on the jokes but it’s still funny. GS: So you’ve got the adverts and stuff. When I finished reading that first issue I thought when this comes out I’m gonna buy it because I can see Titan are going to do a really nice job of this, you’re going to put the extras in. If this was Marvel they’d do one page with the robot and the specifications like “these are the metal claws”... DB: I’ve done that in issue two! An eagle cutaway GS: I’m so glad you’ve done that. I really want to see that! DB: I don’t have it on my phone. I apologise, because I would have shown you but it is an eagle cutaway. Issue three which I’ve just finished apart from the extras is going to be another movie poster. In issue one The Reptilian Bride is a double page spread so you can take it out and put it up. It’s a proper pinup. The third one is going to have a Haynes manual-esque Flying Saucer poster. I just wanted detail basically GS: So we’re going to get some nice extras in each issue, but also in the whole graphic novel, the whole collection put together DB: For the graphic novel the plan is, on the assumption that it does well enough that they want to do another book, is to do a ten page, you know like in the 50s, the sort of trailers for upcoming films were so long that there were like ten pages for Family of the Lost that they did a little film with Horror, Mystique, Dinosaurs?
almost those little dress up doll things where you have a figure and you cut up the outfits, and I liked that but thought I could do better than that, so I figured out how to make the robot out of card and am having it as a picture with lots of little people running away from it so can make a diorama of the characters. That one’s not done yet, it’s tricky. That one’s probably going to require pipe cleaners! Not enough in this world requires pipe cleaners anymore! So the graphic novel will have a new cover. I’m looking forward to the graphic novel coming out because I’m looking forward
GS: They had a trailer for It Came. Did you see that? DB: Yeah I did, it was great. It’s funny because I used to be a flash animator years ago and now flash is the most redundant, acidic thing to anybody that uses a computer and it’s like what happened? So there’s hopefully
to it just being done. It will be nice to have something that I’ve done, finished. Obviously I’ve finished things in the past, that sounds like I’ve never finished a book; because the first thing I ever wrote and had published was called Comicarda...it was awful! It was so bad. I was only twenty one and I hadn’t got any pain and suffering in my life yet; I was twenty one. It was in a comic shop with these two guys and only the first issue ever came out. It was basically just Spaced, because it was when Spaced was out but it wasn’t meant to be Spaced. It was meant to be this whole thing where they go into Hell because the ]?[ \??? \ ?^H?[?H ?[[??[?H \?[??? ]\ \?]K[? [? \??^H?[Y?]\?????[? ?? ?\?Z?H?]\???[??[?H ? ?Y] ?\?H?[? \??Y \[? ^H ?[?[??[[? H]?[ ?\? \??Y? [?H[?] ?\???[?? ??H?X] ????] ] ?\? H?\?? [?? H? H [??x?&]?H]?\?????[?? ??H [? Y?\?? ] ??x?&[H??[?? ?]?H ?XZ?H ??YH[???]\??????[?x?&\?H??[?? ??H ?]]?YH ^Z[?? ?] \?H ?H[???]\??H??[?H\?H ?^Z[?? ?[? HZ[[?Z[\? ?X\? [??[?H?]?\??Z]\?[??]8?&\?]?[???H X???X??[?H\??[?] ??? \?H ?[?H[ H^ ?\?[? \?H[?x?&[ ???[? ??YH[?H\? ?[\?H ?[?Y ??????