Episode 18: San Diego Comic Con Recap

Aside from the fact that you're like packed like sardines in a can with so many people and touching so many things, but also just like I think your body is like exhausted. This makes it. This is like a really negative. What I was going to say, though, is that I always get sick before because I'm always stressed out trying to host and work and shoot stuff before comic Con. So I always get sick the week before Comic Con, which I did, so that I'm not sick

after when everyone else is sick. So I feel like, no, that's not it. It's because my body has already developed those antibodies or whatever. Yeah, no, it's I think it's like a combination of that. I think it's a combination, especially in San Diego, where it's super hot outside, go inside and it's like blasting cold. It's just the perfect combination of events to make sure that you're sick after me. Luckily, I didn't spend too much time on the floor places

most comic cons. I'm not on the floor that much unless there's something I really want to buy. But unfortunately, and we'll get to it, all the pops that I would have wanted sold out in fifteen minutes. I didn't even have a shot. Then I was talking to Kyle and his brother isn't a DBS fan, but had like he could have picked him exclusive. Yeah, he could have picked him up for me, but he didn't know anyone who wanted it. And I was like, oh, okay, alright, breathe.

But you know one thing that's fortunate for me is as a like sneaker head and so on who wear streetwear, I'm used to re sale being like one to two hundred dollars more. Well, funco pop resales are easy. Compared to that, it's like, oh, I have to pay forty bucks for something, Okay, that's no problem. Like my first pair of Easy I've spent five on Well, that's why you got to be I feel like we're friends with some people that either Funko or the one that I

know that sold out that crashed Um. I see you put it in our notes that Crash Funimation site is the West from Dragon Ball Super. Crashed Funimation are good friends at Funimation who we're working very hard to try and get those exclusives for people. People going crazy. Yeah. I mean it's so funny because I do often sleep on how popular weis is as a character because there's so many I feel like in this new rendition of dragon Ball dragon Ball Super, there's just so many dope

new characters that's like, who who do you want? You know? I think the same thing would happen if a Chomp

of Figure came out, you know. Yeah. What I was going to say for people that don't know is that they had set up an exclusive like so that you wouldn't have to necessarily stand in line, like you could apply early to be a part of to get comic con exclusives, which is a huge and when we say exclusives are like toys, figures, merchandise that is exclusive to comic Con, where you're not going to be able to get it other places, or you'll be one of the first people to own it. So yeah, it's crazy. Yeah,

so what I mean? You were every panel? Which was which panels did you do? Just as a recap for people, I did People of Color and Comics at sky Bound. That was moderated by Hector Navarro, who I love dearly. I also did a live version of my show Natural Selection a nerdis House. Oh yeah, if he was in the audience, um, laughing and heckling. Uh, both those things.

You were a live program is so great because we had a live studio audience, but we also were live streaming to everybody, and so we had technical difficulties, as you do when you're when you are dealing with live programming.

So I hosted that. I host a show called Natural Selection at noticed its debate show, and then when I did Brown Girls and Gaming, which was moderated by Danielle Radford at sky Bound, I had a panel called Most Dangerous Women where we actually debated about the representation of women and a lot of the films that have come out this year and not all not all that great, some of them even Superhero One. Some of them didn't fare so hot. Some of them didn't pass the Bechdel test.

So that's great, But shout out to becktel cast here on our here on our network. Check out that podcast about the representation of women in media and film. And then, um, I don't I don't know. I feel I've talked too much. Now. I did a bunch of panels. Where I did, I did a bunch of panels. But what I wanted to say was that it was very humbling. I used to go to Comic Con when I was ten, back when my family was living in San Diego, and I would stand in line to get the Dragon ball Z voice

actors to sign my VHS tapes. It was a lot different back then. It didn't fill up the whole con. There wasn't as many people, weren't really as many lines and stuff. And to be asked to be on panels is it just makes me feel like my voice is important. And you know, we got to meet a lot of Nerdificent fans and just daily sightguys fans and just coming up and letting me know that if he both you and I that are our voices matter and are important in this nerd dumb So Yeah, yeah, thank you guys

for being so dope. Yeah, it was fun time. This was definitely a good time for me, probably my like

first time super professionally doing it. Like I've always had like a pro badge and like I've done a few panels before, but this is like the first time I like moderated a panel and like for a big company, which was funny because it was sky Bound, which if you were listening to last week's episode you know that you know they came from Image, and I talked to them about that and how they are carrying over for the Image kind of philosophy of letting it because just

like Image, sky Bound, the creators of their brand get to own their ips as well, and they're they're really excited that, you know, they got a little shout out on the episode and also that, uh that we're kind of talking about that and both me and Danny work with sky Bound now, and I was like, I don't know if we mentioned that that yeah we're we're like now it's um but yeah, no, it was like super cool to do that, especially because like that's like the

big the big thing. I mean, everything is big at come. Being on a panel is big. But like when you get to do the moderating that you know there's someone used to have a monopoly on it, and now I feel like a few spots are going to open up without trying to sound too messy. Then also I was

shout casting and hosting an off site activation. They have this thing called Experience in San Diego where they had an e sports stage and people could three people would play with a professional Fortnite player and it was and we had raffles. Then it was like a legit raffle. I want to be like, I wish more people were able to enter, but it was literally impossible because the kids, like kids, kids had that thing lock because pretty much the raffle what we were giving away, I said it

so much that I remember it. And we were giving away three four Hurts curved monitors, three g t X ten seventy graphics cards, and also one d X Racer chair, six boxes of the Dominion board game, six Roku Expresses, and eight Lucid sound headphones, which I think are great if you are an adult and above like, I'm I'm losing my mind at the idea of a eight year old getting a g t X ten seventy, like is

gonna build it. I mean, because the thing is like if your parents like a like a supercomputer nerd, they're gonna set that up for you. But if not a parents are gonna be like what and will they even know that they'll be able to sell it almost a thousand dollars because of the crypto minors, you know, selling like it's it's insane, And I think we genuinely thought it would be an older base, but we underestimated how

big the Fortnight is for kids. And when the kids found out that they had a chance to play with pros and actually have a chance, a better chance that when they were lining up, like the experience didn't open up till eleven, they were lining up at like ten o'clock and then waiting, then running to the table, then lining up because because they would open like a ten thirty, but we wouldn't start to leven and they would be just a line around we every time, every day we

had to like sign ups filled up after ten fifteen minutes, and lots of times we didn't even make it that far because of how long a game with a pro last, because you know Fortnite can last anywhere between thirty seconds to thirty minutes, but we have a pro player, it's always lasting at least thirty minutes. But like at first were like these kids, but then it became heartwarming when we found out like two main things made it hard warming.

One these were like some of these kids first wins ever at this game, and you know, so like they are losing their minds because like this game that seems so hard to them that they thought they'd never be able to win. They just would lose it, and they would be so happy because this pro player got them the chance to get a win. And to the parents really loved him because they were on this huge kind of tightan tron up there and talking and the parents were like, is there a way we can get the

footage for this? It was like it was wild. It was like, oh yeah, I forgot I think in the same way like Comic Con was humbling. Also, it just makes me realize how big video games are, like the like if I told my parents when I was a kid that I wanted to play this video game and get a win, I don't think they'd understand how important that is for me now. And I feel like a lot of parents now get it, and we're super excited to help their kids have this win. Yeah, gosh, I

was really proud of you. I liked seeing all the stuff that you were doing. What I was proud of you too. Yeah, I was seeing you up there there. This house was a cool thing, I think, uh uh, you know, because before it was at Pecco Park out in the sun. Yeah, and this kind it was like, I really don't remember my top broke. Oh my gosh.

So if we're talking about behind this, and we'll get into some of the trailer drops and things that some of the big news that happened at Comic Con in this wrap up, but just you know, we like sharing our personal experiences. So I had a zip up top and my zipper broke in between my panels. Um, it was my fault. Well, I was wearing a one piece and if y'all when you have to go pee, you gotta take that one piece all the way off. It looks good, especially when it's add out. It looks good.

I looked like it was funny. Hector was like, are you a character from Overwatch? Like it was just like a cool looking racer. It was like to to give credit to that and also help people image. It did look like a sexy widow maker like romper. Yeah, yeah it was. It was a short, little um one piece with like shorts and stuff. But you had to you

had a zipp it. So when it was my zipper broke on my way to host my live show that was in front of a live audience and live stream to thousands of people, and I couldn't get it to go back up. So I just basically, if you can imagine if he put it good, I think when he said the dress that j Lo wore, the dress that j Lo war with it like going all the way down to her navel, that's what I looked. I mean, And I had to like we week because it was me,

Danny Erica Ishi. We were walking there at that big anime, sweat behind my head the whole time, and then we got there and she put a shirt on. Danny was like, I need a shirt. Well, I didn't have tape, Iffy, and you know, in those situations, something might pop out and so um, something anything. And it's really funny because everybody was like, no, dude, but that's fun Like I

personally don't care. I don't really care, but I can't speak for everyone on the live stream watching they might have cared, so you know it is against twitch t os. You're also like, yeah. It just also reminded me just how little I know about women's clothing, because I'll see shirts like that and I was like, oh, I didn't realize it needs to be secured. I just thought it was just the strength of the clothes that kept them together. You know, That's what I always believed. I was wrong.

How are you getting around? Because those it was packed? Like I It was funny too, because coming from Wednesday to Saturday, it was wild seeing how incrementally more packed the sidewalks cat and it was rough. Yeah, everybody was using the service called bird was that Oh yeah, thank you for bringing that up. It was as a scooter.

It's a scooter service that's popular. I don't know if they might have it in your town, but they haven't in San Diego, where you can rent a scooter like and just drop it off wherever you get this app, you just hop on you scooter wherever you need to go and then you leave it or you can keep renting it if like you're planning to scooter back. Yeah, it's yeah, there there was two Bird and Lime and they had bikes, but no one wanted the bikes. Everyone

was on the scooter. And I saw one in Korea Town, so one had a Bird, and I lost my mind. I was like, oh this It was like you know when you like buy a car and you look and it's your car and you love it, and then you see the that model on the street. That's what it felt like when I was like, oh did this exist? And I just never saw it? But yeah, I wrote it. Once it goes super fast, at least the Lime does. The Bird apparently doesn't go that fast. The Lime zooms.

I was worried also because apparently like you're supposed to wear helmets, but like the city was laxed. But I think and I knew this because I just know how

bureaucratic infrastructure works. As more people came, they got more strict because if when it's Wednesday and it's like a handful of people kind of just going and there's not much traffic, you're like whatever, But when there's tons of cars, tons of people, and then you have these jackalopes on the like people were just riding in on the sidewalking, Like no, that's not. You gotta be on the street. And I know why you don't want to be on the street, because you don't have a helmet, and that's

why you shouldn't be riding it, right right, right. Yeah, I didn't even step on one because I'm terrified that I'm going to get hit by a car, which has already happened to me when I was walking across the crosswalk in college. Um, I don't wanna even add any more elements to make that happen. Uh. Yeah, so I'm

a little I'm a little scared of it, but yeah. Um. The other thing that I saw that was cooled was, of course, because I'm a big Dragon Ball Z person, they had an interactive dragon Ball super area that was outside the Marriott, which was connected to the convention center, and so you could ride Nimbus, which is the cloud that Goku rides from dragon Ball Z. You could play Dragon Ball Fighters, I believe you could play there. You could like take all these photos with Vegeta and Goku,

and it was was really neat. It was so cool. Another thing, like you were saying, it was so cool to see young people, young and old people getting so excited about it and the people working it were like really working it. There was a lady, an older lady, that was doing the photo booth and she was like, now do your hand like a maya, and now do it like this, Like she posed me in a billion different ways, and I just was like, this is so cool because this is what I grew up with, and

it's just I'll never not be geeked out by. They also changed all of the elevators in the Marriott to Dragon moll Z characters, and I just thought that was so neat. Yeah, that's that's the first off and foremost. That's my biggest regret was not making it to that. Yeah, I kept missing it. Also, I just literally was either doing the panel or hosting the thing, so I just didn't have like I was going to have like two hours to kind of walk around and do my Nerds stuff.

But are Activation was so successful that the experience asked us to extend it an hour and I was like, okay, but I want to go do Nerds stuff. But one thing that I remember when I went to the Funimation party the first day that they were so excited about is that anime was in hall age and I didn't consider that that like all this time in hall Age, we really anime really hasn't had that much of a presence.

I'm sure like that they might have done it a year or so or any time, but since in recent memory, that's the biggest kind of anime hall age event that we've had in a while. And that's really cool, not only that you know it was anime, but also that it's, you know, kind of like an anime that anime s

announce try and look down. It's like, oh cool, Like, I'm sure you like your niche anime, but it's not gonna Yeah, and just to remind people of what hall ages, it is the biggest hall where they do all of the trailer drops. Anytime that you see like the cast of Wonder Woman or Aquaman or whatever, it's going to be there in hall Age, people will spend the night overnight trying to get in. It's always so completely sold out.

Impact and Yeah, and the fact that they had the dry Conball supermovie that's coming out there and it was also packed for that, and they had the voice actors there is incredible. That just shows how big that fandom is. If you're sleeping on it, it is huge. Yeah, And I think I want to also echo because you're shouting out the people who were into it. Definitely, I want to shout out they kind of because a lot of times. And it was funny because Milana vine Troupe was talking

about this how she was voice of squirrel Girl. Yeah she's a voice of squirrel Girl. Um. But also she when she she said her first comic Con experience was getting paid like a hundred bucks today to act in this and so yeah, these all those like activations that those interactive things are actors who are doing it, and so it's so fun to see them commit, and it is funny when they're paired with someone who doesn't want

to commit as much. So I went to the d C Experience activation and for the Doom Patrol, they had this room where like it was supposed to be a chief lab and it's like a scientific lab. And this guy was given it his all, like if there was an oscar for activation was like, yes, welcome to my lab. And he was doing it. It was great. And then he goes like, what are you cooking up over here? And then the other person acting the boom was like, okay, so here is zebra popcorn and this is like just

totally flat, not in character. But I was like, oh man, yeah, it's so funny. And then did you get bombarded by the Godzilla one at all? That one where they stopped so they had a Godzilla activation where they had it was pretty huge, and I felt bad for the scientists because they had people in like the giant like yellow has met suits going around scanning things. And then a person in the sue would come to you be like, have you seen Godzilla activity? And I was this was

out on the street. And what's funny is I was with my friend Ash blogg Itt and Brett Eagleston who were all like actors too, so weird, you know, because we love the arts are participating like yeah and we are yeah of course that. And then the second, the third one I want to shout out is the Jack Ryan, which they were pushing so hard, which I don't know the Vinn diagram of like comic book nerds, and it's huge. Well it wasn't just it is um the guy that's in Jack Ryan. Who is it? Jim Oh? Is that

who did said it? Yeah? John Krasinski, Yeah that's that's Jack. So yeah, they had the whole Jack Ryan experience. That's so funny for him to be dead pan employee to like Jack Ryan. Uh yeah. Like they had these guys in all black, which it was kind of creepy until you remember you were at comic Con. They will pull out a paper with a Manila envelope a message from Jack Ryan. And the first time I was like oh, and the second time I was like noted. And it's

so fun to play along with nerds, I do. I think. I was in the middle of the street and there were Sci Fi was having an entire band, a drumline and everything, and it was they were playing theme from like Spider Man, and they were just having so much fun and people were dancing in the street, and it was like, this is the best part of of nerd dumb like this, this is why we come here. Also because no one's behind a screen. Everyone is face to face.

There's no fighting and arguing and saying awful horrible things to each other. It's just fans being nerds being nerds and geeking out and being you know, all dressed up and stuff and just enjoying these interactive experiences. So I really I love the fact that we have cons because I think it kind of brings everyone back to where how we started. Yeah, I was super good. Um, but with the number one thing that's the hugest attraction for STCC or San Diego Comic Con for people who like

to say things that are really long. Are all those trailers, all those reveals and everything that's coming out. And we'll jump right into that after these messages. Welcome back. Hope you enjoyed those messages. We're about to jump into the fun stuff, the stuff that we were all talking about when it happened. Uh, And I think we'll jump right into it. But Danny wants to kick things off. She has a few things to say. No, No, I was just going to say something about because the first step

on our docket is the Shusam trailer. And David Sandberg, who is the director for it, he previously worked on Lights Out and Annabelle Creation, which a lot of people actually liked. I find his story so fascinating. Have you watched the Lights Out short? Oh yeah, it's so great.

But like to me, whenever people, whenever people are like, well, I can't make a difference, Like I don't have a whole production team and all this stuff, I'm like that man made a three minute short of his wife in his apartment and it launched his career from me got Annabelle. Like if you look at his IMDb, it's really just he worked on a couple of other things, but like

that is what went viral. So go if you're want to be filmmaker trying to you know, anything, just trying to start out, whether it's in horror, sketch, comedy, or whatever, go look at that because that three minute short change this man's life. And anyways, now he's the director of Shasamne. Yeah. And what's interesting too that something of note that I noticed is a lot of these directors have a history

in horror. So you you have, you know, Shazamne with David Sandberg who did lights Out, like you said, but then James One he started and Saw. I was for some reason, I was looking up the history of the Saw movies because I actually am an unabashed Saw fan. And he also did the Conjuring and then he did another superhero movie called Furious Seven. So so and I'm excited too because you know, you know, some people are like I don't see wise man, it doesn't matter to me.

I like you know that that we have a person of color directing, you know, this Aquaman story. You know, we're we're mixing it up, We're giving shots to you know, people of color who you know normally don't get big shots like that. I mean, James One definitely is not a plucky young director. He has a storied resumes, so so it's not like they're really taking a chance. But it is cool to see them mix it up a bit.

And I'm I do like a lot of people have been saying, you know, because look, we all know d C. Everyone feels how they feel about their movies, and but people are like, I'm gonna trust James Waren and I trust both these directors, and I think these are going to be great movies. I do want to say about Aquaman.

So before Comic Con, THEE had released the poster for it, and somebody had edited it so it looked like because in the poster he's surrounded by a bunch of aquatic life, and someone had edited so it looked like a Lisa Frank poster, and you thought it was I thought it

was real. I thought it was real, and I know people were dunking on it, and I was like, I am so excited to see this film with like pink and purple's and like rainbows, and I I truly thought that it was that it looked magical, it looked cool, It looked like a mixture of like if Disney had taken over one of these properties type of thing. And then um, I found out that it wasn't real. So

that's fine. It's dark, but I was I was kind of excited to see a bright also, just like him being I was like, oh, maybe he'll like write a dolphin and being pink and be like anyways, people, people are going to be mad, I said this, But yeah, I mean, look looking at that first scene in the trailer where he's standing against the aquarium wall and the animals are like leave him alone. I don't think you'd be far off in that. So so just think of

that when you think. I like that we get Mira, and Mira actually in the DC comments was a very fun character for me, especially because she got a red lantern ring, which was built of her rage in the split between her family and like her love for Aquaman. So I mean, obviously were we may not make it to red lantern stuff in the next five years, but Mira, I really enjoyed her as a character ever since that

kind of happened. Amber heard, yes, yeah, So so hopping back to the sham trailer, Uh, did anything like stand out for you? If he? I really like, you know, seeing it? I think the best description of it was big meat Superman, which I think this, this franchise needs.

D C has been too dark. It would be fun to lighten it up with something lighthearted and interesting, especially since we were going to get the dark epic film with Aquaman, which I love that that we do have black black Manta and they pulled the mask because very few times, like people didn't know, specifically me, I didn't know for a while black Manta was black until they pulled the mask off. He very very rarely pulls it off. And I gotta say, I'm super excited. And also Jason

Momoa being Jason Momoa, I know it's it's peak Jason Momoa. Definitely, it seems like what's cool about mixing it up because I will say Snyder and Nolan has kind of had a chokehold on the d C series. It seems like it's only been them, and that I think might have been part of the problem whether no matter how you feel about their films, love them or hate them, you gotta admit that, like the reason they don't bleed together is because you've only had like two people touching it.

So to have these two new directors kind of with their I mean, the last time we have a new director cough cough, Patty Jenkins, like it was a smash hit. It's not even to say that necessarily Snyder or or Nolan is bad. I mean, Nolan has like the definitive Batman movie trilogy. But when you are letting just two directors do all of the movies, they bleed together because

every director has their own style. When you splash in some Patty Jenkins, some James want I mean so Patty and James want to, you know, it'll it'll mix it up. And when you do get that dark d C it'll pop because of that. And it just you know, you just can't put a whole bunch of iceberg lettuce in a salad. You need some tomatoes, you need some carrots, you need some onions, and that's what what's going to

make a good salad. And I think that's been the difference and why it seems like kind of like Marvel took the lead because from the jump, Marvel had so many hands and so many different parts of their salad, where we're finally getting to the other parts of the d C salad. So I'm really excited to see what they came from. Where they're coming from, and it seems like they're going to pass the torch um and you'll

see what I mean in just a second. Well, um, I did want to say Gail Simone, who is a noted comic book writer but also for a Wonder Woman specifically, she actually tweeted and was like, so, was d C the winner of the con because it feels like that I almost thought it was a joke. I mean, the answer, first off and foremost is yes. But all so d C was running against no one because we didn't have Marvel, Star Wars didn't really have a presence, and besides that,

all the other brands pretty much had established series. So I do think they won, but they had no one really up against them, I hear you. But it still could have been horribly received, you know the trailers in there, but instead everyone seemed to get very excited about them.

So yeah, they've they've they've definitely did good, you know, because they because you're right, DC could have just been by themselves and still lost the con you know, but they are constantly talking about they did come out with the dope trailers and all you heard about Wish Zam

and Aquaman. I was talking about this earlier, I think, on Candy Dinner because we were wondering why Marvel isn't coming out with anything because there isn't a D twenty three that year, because that's usually why Marvel kind of holds there reveals, and I came to the conclusion it's because Marvel can't talk about anything without oiling the next Infinity War because if you think about it, we have one movie than Infinity War. Anything we'd see behind that

is going to kill it. I mean just literally anything, because every movie you talk about confirms that that person lives. So to keep with the lore of Infinity War, you can. We definitely because they have a three contract deal, three part of Jolla and Peter Parker. But I feel like people like I don't want to call him plebs, but rag folks aren't checking in on that. I still think even like I don't want to say my mom, but like I feel we'll say, my older brother, because he

doesn't really follow this stuff. I feel like he at least would be like, oh no, wait he that Peter Parker, that new One only got one film, He's probably going to get a couple more. I don't even feel like that's a spoiler. I just feel like that's common math is those newer characters that they just introduced that made the millions are probably not getting killed off. But to move on to a glass was another trailer that dropped m Night Shamalan, who I have a little story here.

If he did, I tell you he did? You read what I wrote next to it? Currently Danny's hotel roommate. Yes, um, he had the room across from me at Comic Con and it was funny. Yeah. He Actually one of my girlfriends was trying to slip. I gave her my badge so that she could have it for the day because I was on these panels off site and she was trying to stick her badge back under my door and M. Knight was like so fascinated. He was like, what are

you doing? And I came out in like my gym clothes with like a bathrobe on, and he had like the rest of the members of Glass standing right there, and we all just like didn't go in our room, so we're all just standing there talking and then they asked to take a picture with one of my friends, and I don't know, it's little things like that. Danielle Radford said that she was in the elevator with I Forgot, a famous comic book artist, and she was like, I just had a I just had like a five minute

conversation with them about comics. And it's like little things like that when you're at comic con where everyone's kind of on the same level, everyone's excited about the same things, everyone's in the same area. That it's that's also cool as you you're around some of your favorite creators. Oh,

it's super fun. Glass. I'm super excited about mostly because I kind of watched Unbreakable bit by bit, like it definitely wasn't like a movie that I fully ingested until I saw Split, and then once that connection was made, I was like, Oh, I need to go back and really watch Unbreakable because I like, I'm curious in m Night Shamalan's superhero universe because it seems very different, very grounded, and it feels like the most accidental, perfect take of

like superheroes in a real world, and so I'm super excited, I don't you know, And I feel like these movies I thought are his most successful movies. So I'm also not like worried about the quote unquote history of you know, his movies, because Unbreakable was amazing, did well. Split was a surprise smash hit. So now it's going to be interesting to see him focus in on this. It's great. Yeah, I'm excited for it as well. I know there are so many fans of this franchise and to kind of

see it all come together. Split was a little bit hard for me. Just this is so fascinating because we talked about my most dangerous women thing is that whenever a woman is hurt, just to be hurt. Like people argue with me about this a lot, but it's Gayle Simone actually is the one that created the website women in Fridges, which if you haven't checked it out, please it'll change how you look at media. It is. It's originally from Green Lantern when he comes home and finds

his girlfriend has been literally fridge. She's been stuck in a fridge, killed and stuck in there, and so Gail made a list of media that either a woman is murdered or maimed or hurt in some way to further the story of a man or the character development of a man. But also just in general, I think a lot of times, a lot when we talked about this on the panel, a lot of times filmmakers use rape, like rape of a woman as her back story, like

that's her character story, that's what made her her. And I don't always agree with that, and so at times it's kind of put me at odds with films that it's been difficult for me to enjoy. And this is me personally, so I don't need people disagreeing with how I feel about it. You can feel about it your own way. But I just know, as a writer and someone that's been around this media film and television and screenwriters so much that it is used too often. I

feel like as a that's all I'll say. And so I mean, I think the equation is there, and it's pretty simple to figure out that when you have men writing women, you only have a limited perspective. And so when you think of like what empowers women, I think men often don't have the answer because obviously only someone who was a woman would know what would empower you. So you're I think it comes also from just the toxic masculinity of like, if you endure some hardcore pain

or you endure some suffering, you come out stronger. And then the next part of the equation is what is the worst thing a woman can endure? And then you have your plot device for Game of Thrones. Um, yeah, yeah, you know, like it definitely is that, and I feel like, you know, it is kind of overused and it is

kind of you know, hard. I mean, there's been dope films that have found new ways to implement it, like that on a film that had like this overbearing special agent Dad that kind of uh, you know trained, like you can also be trained and stuff. You don't have to be scrappy because you got like kidnapped and you know, had all that stuff going. So I definitely know what you mean. And if for those who are like what

it's because split is literally surrounded. The whole motivation is this guy has kidnapped these uh all these teenage women and you find out that that one of them, you know, one of them was raped by her uncle. Yeah, and I just I'm like, does that is that necessary for the story? I guess is my that's the only yeah, because like literally it's like the you know, like the the big reveal at the end and the reason like he doesn't hurt her because she's already been hurt. Yeah. Yeah,

I don't know. I just you know, I respect a lot of the a lot of filmmakers, and I'm just saying I see it a lot, and that's all that's my commentary as a woman. I just see it. I see it often, and I could talk about other films where they've done that, and to me, it's like, I understand, um that you're trying to get a reaction or or if there's you feel like there's a purpose. Is there another way? I don't. I feel like we're going to go so off topic now dealing with this. But I'm done.

I'm done with my my little things. So what I was gonna say is I'm really excited for for everybody. It's hard for me at times to enjoy films when I feel rape is it just used for And I understand that it happens in real life. I just think it happens too often in media as a backstory necessary for women. Anyways, moving on, UM, yeah, we'll just uh knock out the movie that I'm most excited about, which

is Godzilla, King of Monsters. I love Kaiju, I love big monsters, and so I'm super excited that we were introducing more monsters for the King of Monsters to fight. We get Mathra, We're getting all the bangers, King Guidra. Uh, you know, who knows. Maybe we'll get a new m F Doom album, King Guidra album. I don't know. It's gonna be tight. And of course in the footnotes will have links to all these trailers if you have yet

to see them. But it's gonna be fun. TV stuff is gonna be very easy because lots of these trailers are for already established shows. So if you don't know black Lightning, pretty much all of the d C TV shows are getting a season another season. That's what it was about Iron Fist. They rightfully so didn't push it. I guess we can slowly touch on the small controversy they had. Did you hear about that about which one

about Iron Fist? No, let me see a Jeff Lobe who was a producer on it, and a comic book writer came out in the karate kid outfit and was doing like a like offensive kind of white dude doing karate bit that he was called out for by one of the actresses, which might have been part of the bit basically trying to lampoon what everybody hates about Iron Fist without actually presenting any I don't know solutions to it. And so that that was something people were buzzing about.

I don't think it had like a huge big outcry about it, but it was some It was something that happened, and so just pointing that out, Riverdale getting another season, Star Trek, Discovery Orville Walking Dead's both of them another season, better call Sault really excited season four The Gifted. But the big news was the announcement of a new season of Star Wars clone Wars, which I thought was done. You know, people were very excited. Yeah, yeah, and so

so it's gonna be super cool. But I think that is a sign of DC winning the con because you know, that news came out. I didn't hear about it till I was looking at all the wrap ups. So the fact that the d C trailers and news kind of shadowed Star Wars. Even though it's one Star Wars announcement, I think it's pretty big because that it is a very popular Star Wars animated series. But there were lots of new shows and then a few toys I want to talk about, but we'll get to that after these messages.

Welcome back everybody. Okay, So there's a couple of new shows I want to talk about. There's one that I'm gonna talk so much about, so let me just run through the first. So we have the Mayan m C show. It's basically a spin off of Sunset Anarchy based off of the character Ezekiel Rays, who was part of the mines. It's going to follow them. I'm very curious that what they're gonna do with us, because the whole device, if you didn't know what Sons of Anarchy was that it

was Hamlet. So that was kind of what made it so good and cool and interesting. Some very curious, Uh if the characters they built have the substance to really carry on a spin off series, or if they're going to do another like Shakespeare, which I actually think that would be the most interesting. If they found a way to make this also follow a classic Shakespearean story. Listen. I just want you know, I don't know how many, how much they've already filmed, but I would love to audition.

Just get me, get me in the room. No, but I I will be watching it. Yeah, they didn't promote it as much. I did see. I did see though that they had a big they run it out like what it was a hotel and like the whole backdrop of of the hotel was a poster for this, So it was like several stories long. Yeah. Um, moving on to Disenchantment, Yeah, it seems like it's going to be a fan to see based comedy from Matt Growing Uh

of Theis and Futurama. So you know, at first I was like what because I'm you know, uh, I'm paused on Matt after that week response to that up who controversy. I mean you could you can, you could disagree, but you could also have a better response and than why you mad? Uh, that's not not that's not gonna pass anymore because I think think it through. You don't have to do the change, but you can consider what's being said.

But then I saw who's voicing. We got Abby Jacobson from Broad City and Eric Entrey and I think I might be in because those are two of the funniest people and I'm really excited to you, uh see what they're gonna cook up. Then after that, we have Roswell News New Mexico based, you know, basically the Roswell show that was adapted from the y novel by Melinda Mets called Roswell High. Uh. It lasted three season. It was

pretty popular, then it went away. They're trying to reboot and they're going to age up the character and see and they said they want to tackle tackle modern issues, so I'll see how you know, uh, police brutality and uh and all that makes its way into Roswell New Mexico other than I don't know whatever the kids talking about whatever those kids on the daily is that guys talking about however, that's gonna get into that. And then

we have DC Titans. I'm just rushing to get to hear no no, no, I'm sorry, did I take it from you? You can no no no, no no no

no you could you can announce if you please you. Um. Yeah, So the Titans official trailer dropped in very dark, which they kind of They already warned us that it was going to be dark, that it was going to be It's it's fascinating, Like you said that, d C. At least for the movies Shism and aquamaner using horror directors, and then for Titans, it definitely opens the whole thing looks like it could be a horror film. By the

way that it's shot. We already knew that it was going to be having, you know, more heavy topics and things that they were going to be dealing with, especially with the death of Dick's family. So yeah, but we did not see Robin saying f Batman while murdering multiple assailants, just totally forgetting the code that Batman has repeatedly forced upon all his Robbins, and it's funny. Man. People did

not like it. The ratio. I felt bad because the d C uh it was like DC Titan writer's Twitter account was like, what do you guys think of the trailer? That ratio was wild? I think it had like double digit retweets and like seven hundred plus replies, and people have been mad about it. I mean, one thing that I was really kind of annoyed by is like, obviously I wanted to see how they were going to handle Beast Boys transformations. We don't see that in the trailer.

People are mad about Starfire actually producing Fire. Not that big of an issue to me. What's so funny. One thing that's been genuinely hilarious to me is like a lot of people are like, uh, the way she's dressed. She's dressed like a sex workers. Like have you seen Starfire's design? Also, she looks way more modest than Starfire's design. Like, so I think that she had to delete some of her social media because of awful people, right, because because

people were being racist about her because she's black. Just so everyone knows, Starfires is yellow. She is an alien. She does not have a race, but somehow, And that's what I'm talking about what ownership is. Like people will see an alien and be like, oh, this person is white. And the first the second thing is a fan art of Starfire that has her as a white person, like you see, Like, that is what we talk about in

the kind of unfair ownership of characters. There is a person, there is an alien and alien who is yellow, and you've went and told yourself that this person is Caucasian. And when the creators of the show goes, no, we're gonna have her played by a purse, a woman of color, a black woman. You want to be mad and not only be mad butt her, but write her and be racist, and then to constantly like, oh, she's dressed like a prostitute. Dude, her outfit is literally a skirt in the halter top.

So what more modesty do you know she's wearing in the In the footage that has came out, she is literally wearing a purple dress that covers her up more than the purple purple outfit she normally is. Truly, don't this is? You know, we tackled this before with people writing Kelly Marie Tran, But I'm just like, she's an actress.

She doesn't control literally anything. She doesn't control her costume, she doesn't control her lines, she doesn't control any of that, and so to write her specifically is insane to me.

And I don't know, I'm once again disappointing. So she I found out she um she disabled her comments on Instagram, but I wonder if she's still oh this is This gets even worse because you know it would have been bad if they're just openly just like because she's black, apparently the new uh take is that she's not the right kind of black, that she should be light skinned, which you know, if if we didn't get enough colorism

as is. It's disgusting and it's funny because stuff like this will come out, and then when people say DC fans are the worst, they get so offended, But it's like, look, if you're offended, then you need to be jumping down the throats of everybody who does stuff like this. If you are part of a fan base that is called the worst fan base, looking at you as well, star Wars.

Every time you see someone saying something racist and horrible, you need to be adding them because the thing that gets people saying it isn't even necessarily taking the comment, the receiving the comments, or the fact that they're saying it, but to see the retweets and the people agreeing them

and the agreeing with them. So when outsiders are seeing these like horrible racist things about Kelly Marie Chan or in this case Starfire, and then they're investigating in there clicking on it, and there's a whole group of people just being like yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's what makes people blame the whole fandom. But if they were to click on it. This has happened to me before. I can't put my finger on it, but some racist trash

what's happening? And I was like, oh, this seems like this is rough, and I click on it and I see people just tearing this person apart from me to that, and then you're like, oh, Okay, that's how it should be. That's how the fandom should be. Yeah, it's like, we need to check the people within our fandoms because because it does like it does make us look bad as a whole, because every time someone says something gross under the guys of just wanting their show the way they

want it, that that reflects on the whole fandom. Unfortunately. Yeah, I think it's important to speak I I have before as as a DC fan because my favorite and most beloved character in all of superhero history as wonder Woman. So I am the biggest wonder Woman fan and I always whenever I speak up, I say d C fans, we we It still pisces people off. I'm not saying

you you, I'm saying us, we need to chill out. Um. I can't even say all the things I want to say because I'll get bleeped on here by our producers. So but anyways, you know what, one of the good things that I want to say that happened at Comic Con was there was a meet up for Rose Tico for Kelly Marie Marie trans character in uh in Star Wars, and it was great. So many people came out, people dressed up like her, people were wearing her shirts, and

they all met together. And she had no idea. I know, I sent I sent pictures to my friend Chris, whose friends with her, and um, just because I wanted him to know that so many people were supporting her. So that was a really positive, great thing to see and to see the fandom coming together and be like, no, we're not gonna let you push out one of our people. Yes. Um. And it was cool too because it was dope to see so many Asian Americans kind of able to cost

play us. Heard it's just a dope thing. Uh but yeah, we are running out of time, but just just off rip faive toys. The DBC toys broke the Colm very proud about that, like Danny said earlier, the Broadley uh and all that, And then they had these teenage mut Ninja Turtle Necka toys that were based off of the original movie. Oh I think did Hector. Hector bought them and the diorama that comes with and it was super cool.

We'll post pictures of that and uh, you know this is this is gonna be the thing we do after CONS. So we didn't do one for a X because that was a mess um but uh but yeah, so if we go to CONS, we'll be wrapping it up for you. Who's bees there's anyway? All out of words. I feel like we both we are. It's so funny because when the drops, it'll be you know, like, yeah, hopefully will be recovered. But right now we are still in We're still trying to adjust. Yeah, but I just real quick,

only one thing to plug. August eleven, I'll be in Portland's with the White Women Guys. We will be performing in the Stumptown in profess. If you are out there, come through, say what's up. It'll be a good time. And you know you can follow me on if you

wi away on Twitter and Instagram. I'm at miss Danny Fernandez and thanks to everybody that if you was there handing out our Nerdificent shirts at the con I forgot because I packed him in my bag but had to run around so many places I forgot to hand him out. So maybe we'll do a giveaway. I think we'll do a giveaway on our on our Twitter, so definitely follow us on there if you want to win a shirt, and if you want to get one of yourself, you can. We have a merch store at T Public. Yeah and yeah,

be kind to each other, y'all. Okay, life short, be nice to your fellow nerds. Seriously. Quick shout out to Zach McKeever and Booth Holding It Down, producer Dan Goodman Holding It D in new Produce on the On the Deuce. But yeah, like I said, he gets a fellow nerds, and uh, stay nerdy. H