Speaker 1: Hi, everybody.
Speaker 2: This is Chandler, and this is Chris, and this is Danny.
Speaker 1: And you're listening to the podcast. Guys, We're back with
Speaker 1: another Marvel Zombies episode. Because Chris can't get enough of
Speaker 1: Marvel Zombies, can you? I want more?
Speaker 3: Give me more, Zombie more.
Speaker 1: And we have a very special guest with us, Danny
Speaker 1: Huerta Crossman cosplay. You are an awesome cosplayer, Danny. We're
Speaker 1: so excited to have you on this podcast episode.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So me and Chandler have been to the Marvel
Speaker 3: Red Carpet premieres and have done the whole cosplay thing.
Speaker 3: But I want to hear about what the experience is
Speaker 3: like through your eyes and your experiences. What are some
Speaker 3: of your favorite characters that you've together through some of
Speaker 3: the different events and what were they.
Speaker 2: So I'm very fond of things by Nature. One of
Speaker 2: the first ones, which will always be like one of
Speaker 2: my more favorite ones was Doctor Strange. That's actually where
Speaker 2: I met Chandler and Dylan as well. So Doctor Strange
Speaker 2: has always been a go to Red Guardian. Of course,
Speaker 2: really it did kind of it sunk its teeth into me.
Speaker 2: Once you started getting a little bit more in depth
Speaker 2: with the character itself, because you know, what they've done
Speaker 2: with the MCU version really as opposed to what the
Speaker 2: comics had in store from has made them kind of endearing.
Speaker 2: But I've done Mister Knight and hell Fire Galla Moon Night.
Speaker 2: Those have been fun. Mister Knight was fun. I was
Speaker 2: one of my first real attempts at three D printing
Speaker 2: a helmet, making a helmet for the first time and
Speaker 2: using the lights for the eyes. Well, I like, it's
Speaker 2: not my favorite one because I like the lights going
Speaker 2: on in the eyes, but you're blind when it does that.
Speaker 2: Hell Fire gallam Moon Night. That was a labor of love,
Speaker 2: unto I think I'll revisit that anytime soon, probably not.
Speaker 2: Galactus was a fun one. I love that one of
Speaker 2: something for me about Galactus has always just been deep rooted,
Speaker 2: you know, in my love for Martl and Ameo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you looked amazing as Galactus, by the way. That
Speaker 1: was at the Fantastic four World premiere.
Speaker 2: Which was a blast, Thank you. That one. That one
Speaker 2: was interesting. My first time dealing with the foam to
Speaker 2: build a costume in July in l a very hot Yeah,
Speaker 2: I went, I went into I came out of that
Speaker 2: event weighing less than I went into it.
Speaker 1: I believe it. I will say, though, you did such
Speaker 1: a good job. I remember I didn't even know it
Speaker 1: was you. You're like, it's Danny, and I'm like, I did.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know. He looked so good as Glauctus.
Speaker 2: Thank you I did. I mean, it's outside of Marvel.
Speaker 2: I know it's weird that I do outside of Marvel cosplay.
Speaker 2: I did a gender bend on Himniko Toga for my
Speaker 2: hero Academia, but I mean it goes back in the Superheroes,
Speaker 2: so I mean, let's be honest. It just brings you
Speaker 2: right back home. I did a gore the god Butcher
Speaker 2: I've done. Kingpin's an easy one for me. I just
Speaker 2: shave everything, put on a white suit and a Hawaiian shirt. Bam,
Speaker 2: you fit it.
Speaker 1: It's an amazing roster of characters, of course, but you
Speaker 1: know you wore a red Guardian to this premiere of
Speaker 1: Marvel Zombies, which recently happened, and that looked so cool.
Speaker 1: It was in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, right, Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was so awesome. First time I've heard of nothing.
Speaker 2: But like crazy fun events that co op in there.
Speaker 2: Of course I walk in there, We're treading on a
Speaker 2: hollowed ground, so I kind of keep that in mind.
Speaker 2: But I mean the amount of events that go on
Speaker 2: there and being able to actually be a part of
Speaker 2: that and it be Marvel Zombies was what I never
Speaker 2: ever thought that in like my wildest dreams, I would
Speaker 2: do anything for Marvel outside of you know, put together
Speaker 2: a tas play and walk on the red carpet or
Speaker 2: being a fan pit. Literally going from the shoot that
Speaker 2: we did for the marketing and promo, still in the
Speaker 2: makeup and costume, that was something else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we should fill in some information here because you know,
Speaker 1: you were selected as a handful of cosplayers to be
Speaker 1: zombified by Marvel Studios themselves. So what was it like
Speaker 1: to be hand selected by that studio? Because I think
Speaker 1: they only did like six cosplayers or something. It wasn't
Speaker 1: that many.
Speaker 2: It was a childhood dream company. I had never thought
Speaker 2: my wildest dream like Marvel would reach out to me
Speaker 2: for anything. Yeah. Good. Growing up, I always thought, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe if I could do something for Marvel, I'll have
Speaker 2: this bucket list of doing something in some small way
Speaker 2: for Marvel Official like that, that'd be cool. You know.
Speaker 2: I go in to Comic Con. I thought, you know, hey, cosplaying,
Speaker 2: I get featured on some of these Red Carpet premieres
Speaker 2: in their live streams. I was like, that's amazing, and
Speaker 2: just being able to be part of that. I didn't
Speaker 2: think it'd get much better. So wonder Con is when
Speaker 2: I fell into Red Guardian, because it was already starting
Speaker 2: to prepare for Thunderbolts. So that's where I had my
Speaker 2: black Widow. Red Guardians, made the helmet, made the shield
Speaker 2: for it, you know, order the costume. I'm really good with,
Speaker 2: you know, augmenting things. But then I wore that to Thunderbolts.
Speaker 2: Fast forward to me getting into the Thunderbolts Red Guardian,
Speaker 2: and it looked really good. I kind of felt like
Speaker 2: this hero like Alexi was more or less built for
Speaker 2: you know those those older dad bought super soldiers.
Speaker 1: So you look just like him off the screen.
Speaker 2: Thank you, And made the helmet for that one, made
Speaker 2: the new shield for it, and then I wore it again,
Speaker 2: all right. I wore it at San Diego Komova. That's
Speaker 2: where things got really interesting. I was having a blast,
Speaker 2: you know, I was just putting the energy out there
Speaker 2: that you know Alexi Shostakov has. You know, he's not
Speaker 2: mild mannered, he's not reserved, He's very boisterous. He wants
Speaker 2: he lets you know that he is a world player,
Speaker 2: was a Guardian, you know. So I had a fun
Speaker 2: with that, and I think that's kind of, you know,
Speaker 2: going off on a tangent. Part of the reason we
Speaker 2: do this. We have fun with these characters that were portrayed,
Speaker 2: even if you're not conseplaining the point of these characters
Speaker 2: to bring in something that you enjoy, so you have
Speaker 2: fun with me. Was that the Marvel booth for the
Speaker 2: cosplayer then Marvel six one six cosplay meetup. I was
Speaker 2: on their reel. I opened it, I thought it was over.
Speaker 2: I thought this that was cool. Marvel's real at San
Speaker 2: Diego Comic Con. Then Marvel reached out and told me
Speaker 2: about this project and if I'd be interested. I was like, say, one,
Speaker 2: tell me how high and I will jump that high.
Speaker 2: And that led into the Marvel Zombies project, which taught
Speaker 2: me completely by surprise, and they zombiefied one of my
Speaker 2: Red Guardian costumes, which I actually still have up here.
Speaker 2: Every time I walk into this office. I look at
Speaker 2: it and I'm.
Speaker 1: Just like, yeah, yeah, because I guess you provided the costume.
Speaker 1: Then they put the makeup effects in latex and everything
Speaker 1: on it. How long did it take to going to
Speaker 1: get into that look oo oo?
Speaker 2: So it was a two part so it was a
Speaker 2: two day shoot, well day and a half. First day
Speaker 2: was the hero sheet. So I went over there with
Speaker 2: my second costume, gave it to the costumes to work
Speaker 2: their magic. These two Amanda and Frederick. They were going
Speaker 2: to town on these things. Now these are this was
Speaker 2: another thing. These are professional costumers that have credits to
Speaker 2: their name, light Guardians of the Galaxy, like Venom, like
Speaker 2: various Star Wars projects, the Walking Dead, you name it.
Speaker 2: And they were like, are you sure? Are you sure
Speaker 2: we could do this? We're going to tear it up,
Speaker 2: like have at it right. So I had my second
Speaker 2: suit that I wore for the main filming of us
Speaker 2: before we got zombified, and that whole first day of
Speaker 2: shooting and almost I think they went overnight. They spent
Speaker 2: zombifying all of our other costumes. Luckily I was a
Speaker 2: to give them a full set so they didn't have
Speaker 2: to wait for me to get done with the filming
Speaker 2: that we were doing initially to zombify it and made
Speaker 2: their life a whole lot easier. But the second day
Speaker 2: was when we got into it. So getting into costume,
Speaker 2: getting into makeup, it was about a two hour process.
Speaker 2: Mine was a little bit easier because I had the helmet,
Speaker 2: so all they had to do was really zombie fire
Speaker 2: around the eyes, bring it up into the ears and
Speaker 2: around the face. They had the zombie prosthetic that look
Speaker 2: where it was like bitten out of my face and
Speaker 2: the two special effects makeup artists wants to town on that.
Speaker 2: But overall to get into the zombie about two hours,
Speaker 2: it was about two hours.
Speaker 3: That is incredible. Now I have some rapid questions for you.
Speaker 3: One of the things that I love about the Marvel
Speaker 3: premiers is that they go all out and you see
Speaker 3: some pretty amazing things. Like at the Fantastic four premiere,
Speaker 3: they had a drone a show, a legit drone show.
Speaker 3: Didn't you go to an Indiana Jones one It wasn't Marvel,
Speaker 3: Bo's Disney Chandler and John Williams gave a concert.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was in a surprise for everybody. Yeah, amazing.
Speaker 3: So I think you know with the Marvel Zombies premiere.
Speaker 3: For me, I didn't get to go, but I from
Speaker 3: seeing it from the outside, I know that being at
Speaker 3: the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, that's where it was right amazing.
Speaker 3: It is the incredible place to have this event. They
Speaker 3: do Cinnespias screenings there as well. It is a perfect
Speaker 3: immersive environment for a Marvel Zombies event.
Speaker 2: What else was there.
Speaker 3: At the premiere as far as decor goes, so the
Speaker 3: main area where it was upstairs in their pavilion.
Speaker 2: I forgot what the actual kind of hosting of all was,
Speaker 2: but the main one if you could, you could go
Speaker 2: back and see where we were around that throne. They
Speaker 2: set that up to look like the Asgardian Throne room
Speaker 2: from you know, if you've already seen Marvel Zombies, you
Speaker 2: know that that very very infamous uh scene in there
Speaker 2: or it was kind of a gotch you for almost
Speaker 2: everyone in the everyone there. The outside was a little
Speaker 2: bit more mild. They had barrels knocked over, They had
Speaker 2: a bar off to the side the fountain they had
Speaker 2: completely filled with what was that Jones SODA's that had
Speaker 2: Marvel Zombies labels. They were custom made for that that's
Speaker 2: a shout out right, I'm telling you that's that's actually
Speaker 2: something cool. I still got two of them up over here.
Speaker 2: I got the Blade and the Thanoswing. So I went
Speaker 2: on that one big screen up over there. They had,
Speaker 2: you know, the outdoor set up for the seating, and
Speaker 2: I forgot I'm gonna I want to eventually pull up
Speaker 2: her name. But they also had two other cous players
Speaker 2: join them. One was the Zombie Captain America and the
Speaker 2: other was Zombie Captain Marvel and Zoe Captain America was
Speaker 2: wandering around Zombie Captain Marvel when I saw her. She
Speaker 2: was mostly in the outside kind of patium area, and
Speaker 2: then there was the main room where they showed where
Speaker 2: you had the showrunners and the majority of the other
Speaker 2: guests in there. So very very quaint kind of set up,
Speaker 2: but it was very comfortable.
Speaker 3: One of the best things about the premiers is being
Speaker 3: able to meet people that work in the industry, maybe
Speaker 3: even meeting one of your favorite celebrities, maybe even getting
Speaker 3: one of your props or costume pieces signed by said celebrities.
Speaker 3: So I know you've been to a lot of these,
Speaker 3: so can you just name drop some of the celebs
Speaker 3: that you've gotten to encounter, maybe you've gotten autographs from
Speaker 3: and then did you get to meet anybody at the
Speaker 3: Marvel Zombies premiere.
Speaker 2: Let's see, let's start things up with some names. So
Speaker 2: got to meet Blake Lively, Rob I Felt, Pedro, Pascal,
Speaker 2: Chris Evans, Vincentinofrio, Simoulu. He's one of a shunk. She
Speaker 2: is one of my comfort movies. I love that movie.
Speaker 2: So that was a big deal for me, you know,
Speaker 2: meeting Yeah, Ralph Einsten who played Galactis, I love that one,
Speaker 2: David Harber, Florence Pugh, Loose Pullman, everyone for Thunderbolts. That
Speaker 2: was a big deal for me. But I'd have to
Speaker 2: say kind of going back to Multiverse Madness still to
Speaker 2: this day, one of the my favorite people I ever
Speaker 2: had the chance to meet, and I never thought I
Speaker 2: would was Sir Patrick Stewart met him. I actually got
Speaker 2: to speak some words with him. He signed my multi
Speaker 2: Verse of Madness poster. It's one of my grails. It's
Speaker 2: one of my most favorite possessions and it's just a print.
Speaker 2: I mean, I do have my original Thunderbolts shield signed
Speaker 2: up by the Cat. I got the Galactus helmet signed
Speaker 2: by Ralph I have an Infinity Gauntlet and hold on,
Speaker 2: I got let me bring up here. I'll say it.
Speaker 2: This Infinity Gauntlet is, and I think we've talked about
Speaker 2: it before at least once or twice. The Infinity Gauntlet
Speaker 2: is the comic that really hard charged me into Marvel,
Speaker 2: first one I ever owned and read. I mean I've
Speaker 2: read and owned comics plenty before, but Mom was always
Speaker 2: buying those and so it was Dad. But this one,
Speaker 2: I remember buying it by an allowance. But the Marvel
Speaker 2: Legends Infinity Gauntlet signed by just about everyone on there,
Speaker 2: so that was that was done before the premieres. But
Speaker 2: this is, you know, a pretty clear runner up. There's
Speaker 2: another small one I have signed by Chadwick Boseman. I
Speaker 2: will never ever get rid of that and never sell that.
Speaker 2: It will follow me to my Carave got it chance
Speaker 2: to meet him before he passed god Rest. So that
Speaker 2: guy was an amazing actor, amazing human being too, because
Speaker 2: we talked for a little bit before kind of went
Speaker 2: out his way. So at Marvel Zombies, there wasn't really
Speaker 2: it was mostly the show runners zeb Wells. Oh, never
Speaker 2: I get a chance to meet zeb Wells. This guy's
Speaker 2: a genius, absolute genius. I kind of like to go
Speaker 2: into these things of blank slate outside of you know,
Speaker 2: actors involved with him. It's a nice surprise when you
Speaker 2: see someone who's really been involved with your fandom for
Speaker 2: decades now a show up there. It's an utter surprise.
Speaker 2: So seeing zeb Wells there was amazing. And then he
Speaker 2: comes up and he starts talking to me, and he
Speaker 2: liked the Red Guardian as a zombie. I was like,
Speaker 2: this is amazing. I'm like, who, Yeah, I'm fortunate. I'm
Speaker 2: honestly like less to have been to have these opportunities.
Speaker 2: You know, I know there's tons of super fans out there,
Speaker 2: amazing cause players just amazing overall people, and I'm fortunate
Speaker 2: enough to say I've had this experience.
Speaker 3: Danny. I want to get you your hot take on
Speaker 3: Red Guardian in Marvel Zombies, and I also want to
Speaker 3: hear your non spoiler review.
Speaker 2: Oh Red Guardian and Marvel Zombies. I don't think he
Speaker 2: had evolved to what we had seen him in Thunderbolts.
Speaker 2: He was able to really kind of get more or
Speaker 2: less his family back, and now he's doing everything he
Speaker 2: can to protect him. Was still that very avant guard
Speaker 2: attitude and a little bit of humor in there. Finally
Speaker 2: got a fight he had always wanted. Maybe not in
Speaker 2: the way that he had originally thought it was going
Speaker 2: to roll out, but it kind of moving into what
Speaker 2: we saw, you know, spoiler on this one, you know
Speaker 2: in Asgard or New Asgard is seeing him just wreck
Speaker 2: some zombie parts. I laughed. I was like, this is
Speaker 2: very much a Red Guardian thing to do. But because
Speaker 2: of his super soldier ceremony, he was able to fight
Speaker 2: off the transfer information for an extended period of time
Speaker 2: before it eventually overcame him, and of course it led
Speaker 2: into what we saw there towards the end of it.
Speaker 2: I would like to see some more Red Guardian. The
Speaker 2: What If series gave me, of course Red Guardian and Bucky,
Speaker 2: that whole storyline was great. I think David Harber really
Speaker 2: has given some love to this character and made him
Speaker 2: overall enjoyable to whereas you know, I'm sorry, you know
Speaker 2: this is you know, might be an unpopular opinion, but
Speaker 2: the Red Guardian in the comic books was kind of
Speaker 2: very hum drum for a very long time until you know,
Speaker 2: we started getting moving forward into you know, I want
Speaker 2: to say, what was it. The late nineties is when
Speaker 2: we started seeing a little bit more evolution in the character.
Speaker 2: A spoiler, it was a spoiler free review. Your feeling's
Speaker 2: gonna get hurt. Your feelings are gonna get hurt if
Speaker 2: you go in there. I was telling my now fiance
Speaker 2: is if you get attached to people like walking Ned
Speaker 2: or in Game of Thrones, get ready, get ready, get ready,
Speaker 2: You're about to get your heart broken. But I think
Speaker 2: it was a breath of fresh air in regards to
Speaker 2: Marvel's storytelling, and I'm all in it for season two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is dark and it is tv MA y'all,
Speaker 3: so get on it because it is good stuff. Well
Speaker 3: to celebrate Marvel Zombies and your guest appearance with us today,
Speaker 3: we are going to be covering Marvel Zombies Halloween. It's
Speaker 3: great because it's kind of like two birds with one
Speaker 3: stone here because we are in the month of October,
Speaker 3: our spooky season. If you will Marvel Zombies Halloween trick
Speaker 3: or treat, give the Marvel Zombies your brains to eat.
Speaker 3: The fan favorite freaky franchise returns for a Halloween one
Speaker 3: shot special. And if you love Kitty Pride, this story
Speaker 3: is for you.
Speaker 1: I love Kitty Pride? Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Do you like Kitty Pride, Danny.
Speaker 2: H it's me talking with Larry Houston on Pride of
Speaker 2: the X Men, watching that so much. Absolutely, oh yes. Well.
Speaker 3: The artist on this was Alessandro Viti and Fred van
Speaker 3: lent Is the writer. This was published October seventeenth of
Speaker 3: twenty twelve. What was the top song, Chandler.
Speaker 1: It's a song called One More Night by Maroon five.
Speaker 3: Okay have you ever heard of this? Danny?
Speaker 2: Yes, Maroon five? Absolutely yes.
Speaker 1: This is a song that is once you hear it,
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, I know this song. I know this song.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you want when you walk it, you walk
Speaker 2: into like Target or j C. Pennies or a Macis
Speaker 2: and you're like, oh, oh, there it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be very hooky, which also a very
Speaker 1: Halloween specially you know perfect. Oh well.
Speaker 3: The top movie at the time was RG and This
Speaker 3: is directed and starring Ben Affleck. Acting under the cover
Speaker 3: of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science
Speaker 3: fiction film, a CIAA agent launches a dangerous operation to
Speaker 3: rescue six Americans in Tehran during the US hostage crisis,
Speaker 3: and I ran in nineteen seventy nine. I did not
Speaker 3: watch this movie. I don't like these types of movies.
Speaker 1: I watched it. It's fantastic.
Speaker 2: I did not. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Oh, guys, it's really one of the best movies of
Speaker 1: that era. I mean, I think it was a I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's one best picture for the Oscar
Speaker 1: or something like that. I feel like it. It was
Speaker 1: one of the best movies of the It was fantastic.
Speaker 2: I do believe it. I do believe it did win awards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Ben Affleck proving that he's an amazing director.
Speaker 3: I got one. I remember something our go fuck yourself?
Speaker 3: Hell no, wasn't that a joke that came out of that?
Speaker 1: Maybe? I don't know, it's other joke in a movie.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I feel like there was maybe an SNL skit.
Speaker 3: I don't know anyway, that was what was going on
Speaker 3: on October seventeenth of twenty twelve. Let's get into the issue, guys.
Speaker 1: Let's do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's on the cover? What do we see?
Speaker 1: Well, we see some iconic Marvel characters and they are
Speaker 1: at the door. They are trigger treating. But they don't
Speaker 1: look like themselves. Oh no, they look good do we
Speaker 1: see here?
Speaker 3: It's oh, yeah, it is Daredevil and Black Panther. Is
Speaker 3: that Luke cage over there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: Indeed, Pumpkin buckets are full of break.
Speaker 3: What's fun about this is the campiness of this cover
Speaker 3: because you have the flying bats in the background, and
Speaker 3: you can't have a Halloween themed issue without flying bats
Speaker 3: in the background.
Speaker 1: In the moon of course.
Speaker 2: It really bring kind of brings you back to the
Speaker 2: old days with like the Marvel you know, the the
Speaker 2: Marvel horror stories that they had. Oh it kind of
Speaker 2: emulating with a more fresh spin on how they you know,
Speaker 2: the covers looked in there. I'm I'm all for it.
Speaker 1: That's great. It's great art. And also you know we've
Speaker 1: got the title of Marvel Zombies Halloween and it's got
Speaker 1: all the spooky lettering for Halloween. Very nicker treat, you know,
Speaker 1: time to type whatever typeface. It's it's cool. The colors
Speaker 1: are great. I really like this cover. Actually.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, on the first page, we have a scene
Speaker 3: straight out of The Walking Dead with all these zombies
Speaker 3: getting shot up in a field outside of a house
Speaker 3: that is surrounded by a fence. And guess what's happening
Speaker 3: we see a sniper. That sniper is Kitty Pride, and
Speaker 3: there is somebody calling to her. Mom. Mom, Actually, you
Speaker 3: know what, for the rest of the issue, Chandler, I
Speaker 3: want you to be the kid. Okay, all right, you'll
Speaker 3: be little Peter, I'll be Kitty got it, and and Danny.
Speaker 3: You're all everybody else, all the zombies and me. Fisto.
Speaker 1: I guess it's really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, alrighty mom, Mom, I think there's something in the walls.
Speaker 3: Weren't you watching the monitors?
Speaker 1: I was right. I want to see it. We see
Speaker 1: the zombies on their TV monitors.
Speaker 3: Well, this is an old house. I'm sure all you
Speaker 3: heard was settling. Scratch, scratch. Oh, there's something in the wall.
Speaker 3: His eyes widened, and she says back, and this is
Speaker 3: not just any sniper rifle. This looks like a Tommy
Speaker 3: gun sniper rifle. This is like a million bullets coming
Speaker 3: out of this thing. Come out where I can see you, dirty.
Speaker 1: Little mom, bad word?
Speaker 3: Wait, well hello there, how long have you been stuck
Speaker 3: back there? Well it's a kitty, my god, I can
Speaker 3: feel every bone beneath the fur.
Speaker 1: We we better feed him then and keep him safe, right, Mom?
Speaker 3: I'll name him Blackie Original with sweat bullets, you know,
Speaker 3: coming down her head. Well, this is a fun little
Speaker 3: easter egg. On the next page, what do we see
Speaker 3: here in that top corner.
Speaker 2: We'll see man Thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's a calendar and we see that it's
Speaker 3: October and man Thing is the month of October. Now
Speaker 3: is this like every Marvel like creature gets a month
Speaker 3: or something, or is this like a pin up calendar?
Speaker 3: What is going on with this pin up?
Speaker 1: A man pin up?
Speaker 2: I kind of have a feeling this was sold in
Speaker 2: stores at one point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right, Well, so who which Marvel hero
Speaker 1: would be on your birth year, our birth month?
Speaker 2: Danny Marvel hero of February. It's gonna be Temple Easy.
Speaker 1: Because he's just he's so romantic, he's a gentleman.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with Marvel monsters here
Speaker 3: because it's the theme. And I'm gonna say Dracula because
Speaker 3: didn't that issue with Storm and Dracula come around around
Speaker 3: my birthday anyway?
Speaker 1: Maybe?
Speaker 3: Maybe no, that was a Halloween. That was a Halloween.
Speaker 3: Maybe Dracula is mine.
Speaker 1: You gotta make one, Okay, April is my birth month.
Speaker 1: And what is a Marvel monster that goes with spring?
Speaker 1: And actually I'm gonna go with Schuema.
Speaker 2: Gora, thank you, thank you for calling him. I can't
Speaker 2: I can't win. The other name.
Speaker 1: What was it, Jayantrou or whatever?
Speaker 2: Gargantos.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know why, but that's that's just what
Speaker 1: came to mind, that that's the monster for April.
Speaker 3: So the kid figures out that, hey, wait a minute,
Speaker 3: there is a date circled on here and it says Halloween, Like, mom,
Speaker 3: what is that about? Like on the calendar? And Kitty
Speaker 3: kind of explains Halloween and what it is and that,
Speaker 3: you know, it was kind of something they did before
Speaker 3: the plague. She would dress up when he was she
Speaker 3: was about his age, but you know, probably not his dad,
Speaker 3: who we learn is Peter Resputen, because I guess they
Speaker 3: don't have a Halloween in Russia. And while she's explaining everything,
Speaker 3: we see a zombie shambling through the meadow, approaching the
Speaker 3: greenhouse where they are just unsuspectingly, you know, doing their
Speaker 3: gardening and stuff, and that zombie steps on a land mine.
Speaker 1: Caboo.
Speaker 3: Yes, Kitty, you know Blackie the cat, the new pet,
Speaker 3: is being mischievous and getting all over the place, and
Speaker 3: kidd He's like, uh, yeah, I gotta watch out for
Speaker 3: this cat because cats like to get in everywhere. Okay,
Speaker 3: so you know, the kid's fine. The kid can take
Speaker 3: care of the cat.
Speaker 1: Mom. Mom, can I ask you a question you just did?
Speaker 1: Can we celebrate Halloween?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: I don't know about that.
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 3: Well, holidays are for a whole community, and there's just us.
Speaker 3: It's a distraction from trying to stay alive.
Speaker 1: Are you saying? If Dad was still here, we'd.
Speaker 3: Do it, not necessarily, but Dad isn't with us, because
Speaker 3: because I got distracted. I can't let that happen again.
Speaker 3: We've got to keep focused on staying alive.
Speaker 1: But now we have black. You know, there are three
Speaker 1: of us.
Speaker 3: Again, the number of us isn't really the point.
Speaker 1: But it'd be fun to be somebody else for.
Speaker 3: A day, you're telling me. But we don't have that luxury.
Speaker 1: Oh come on, mom. If we don't get to have
Speaker 1: any fun, what are we staying alive for?
Speaker 3: Which is a very good question, exactly right?
Speaker 1: What are we alive for if not for to have
Speaker 1: good times?
Speaker 2: Ysolt?
Speaker 3: So little Peter Resputant is rummaging through the basement and
Speaker 3: he finds the perfect Halloween costume and also decorations. By
Speaker 3: the way, what do we see, Danny.
Speaker 2: He's wearing a little bee suit in the Wolverine costume.
Speaker 1: The kid is so disappointing. He's like, this was for
Speaker 1: a hero. You couldn't find a spider Man.
Speaker 3: Well not everyone would agree, but he was always my hero,
Speaker 3: small and fierce, just like you. Oh that's so endearing,
Speaker 3: so cute and convenient. That they were growing pumpkins in
Speaker 3: their greenhouse, right, Well, of course she made the jack
Speaker 3: o' lanterns. Although you know what I will say, I
Speaker 3: call bs on kittie because if this were those zombie apocalypse,
Speaker 3: you gotta save those pumpkins for food. So I'm hoping
Speaker 3: that she like, you know, did something with the seeds.
Speaker 3: She's gonna like, you know, make a whole pie. You know,
Speaker 3: she will.
Speaker 2: Reuse those pumpkin bag, that pumpkin bread.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's actually like a lot of decor in
Speaker 3: that house for Halloween, so they did pretty well. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 3: but the little boys, yad, it's just.
Speaker 1: You said there'd be candy.
Speaker 3: Oh right, I forgot about that. I might be able
Speaker 3: to scavenge some in the SAMs in town. I'll be
Speaker 3: right back. Say some bobbing apples for me.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, bye mom, Lucky, let's go play into Becky.
Speaker 1: Oh Lucky, come here, boy see a door.
Speaker 3: We see little Peter like looking out the window forlorn, like,
Speaker 3: oh no, where are you? And then we see the
Speaker 3: cat in the field amongst the zombies, and so the
Speaker 3: little boy has to go running and choosing after him,
Speaker 3: and the door clinks right behind him. What do you
Speaker 3: think of the art this? I feel like this is
Speaker 3: a fun page to comment on the art Danny, what's
Speaker 3: your hot take?
Speaker 2: It really like, I think we said give me Walking
Speaker 2: Dead vibes. I forgot what season, but the house, one
Speaker 2: of the first houses they get into, kind of gives
Speaker 2: me that vibe. Like I'm looking at this like this
Speaker 2: is probably one of the most wholesome places, you know,
Speaker 2: a family, yeah, would would live in prior to the
Speaker 2: whole zombie apocalypse. But now you actually just see the
Speaker 2: how everything has fallen into, you know, lack of repair
Speaker 2: and getting worn out. The trees are kind of echoing
Speaker 2: the world around it as opposed to which as being
Speaker 2: fall It's everything's dying at that, you know, your leaves
Speaker 2: just aren't falling off trees anymore. You have them falling apart.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so much decay, and even more decay on the
Speaker 3: next page, because we get a panel that shows the
Speaker 3: town and all the decrepitness, all.
Speaker 1: The dead zombies is laying around, just everywhere, just littered about,
Speaker 1: a giant mood in the background. And by the way, Chandler,
Speaker 1: I've said this before and I'm gonna say it again,
Speaker 1: but there's two characters that I love when you do
Speaker 1: what is Butler?
Speaker 3: You know who's bursting in? Okay, sure, you know I
Speaker 3: love when you do that. And then I love when
Speaker 3: you do kids. So oh yeah, for whatever reason, your
Speaker 3: kids are always fined. So let's continue with little Peter
Speaker 3: searching down this very scary, horrific street.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's I can't believe he's so calm, going amongst
Speaker 1: all these dead zombie bodies. But he's going, Blackie, you're here, here, here, here,
Speaker 1: And then he turns and sees a house, an immaculate
Speaker 1: house actually with a light on, looking nothing like the
Speaker 1: homes that are in this neighborhood. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: seen this house before. He's kind of mesmerized, and he
Speaker 1: goes up, he knocks on the door, and who should
Speaker 1: be there but an old man.
Speaker 3: It is an old, creepy looking man. He's bald, he's scraggly.
Speaker 3: He looks like, you know, a murderer of some sort.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wants absolutely nothing to do with anybody. What does
Speaker 2: he want? What do you want? Why are you dressed
Speaker 2: up foolishly?
Speaker 1: I'm it's Halloween?
Speaker 4: Why no?
Speaker 2: What isn't? Witless child? The date is clearly the thirteenth
Speaker 2: of October, your day off.
Speaker 1: Oh I was sure I was right.
Speaker 2: Well you're not. You're wrong.
Speaker 4: It's all hollows Eve Eve, which is a completely ridiculous
Speaker 4: idea for holiday if you ask me, and much prefer
Speaker 4: what they call it in Detroit, Devil's Night. Come back
Speaker 4: tomorrow with your tricking and you're treating, and then I
Speaker 4: can help you.
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm not. I'm looking for a cat, a cat,
Speaker 1: a kitten. His name is Blackie.
Speaker 4: If you had any brains at all, you'd be more
Speaker 4: worried about yourself.
Speaker 2: Don't you know what happens on these streets at night?
Speaker 1: Slam, the door goes shut, the kid walks away, sad. Wait, mister,
Speaker 1: how long have you been out here. Aren't you afraid
Speaker 1: of that?
Speaker 3: And then.
Speaker 1: The house is gone?
Speaker 2: What is what's happening here?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an empty lot. The house is now gone.
Speaker 3: And then the little kid realizes own. But then you
Speaker 3: see something.
Speaker 1: Oh he's just lacky. Oh my god, you scared me.
Speaker 1: And then I didn't know that the squirrels get zombified,
Speaker 1: but I guess later we see this character, perhaps they're
Speaker 1: all psychically zombified.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh, that zombiefied squirrel is
Speaker 3: menacing and he is ripping right through Peter's costume. But
Speaker 3: guess what he's saved from the He's say, from the
Speaker 3: zombie squirrel by another zombie Julie power.
Speaker 1: I thought this is Carolina, Oh Carolina, Sorry, this is
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. They have similar powers. Carolina from Runaways.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's from Runaway.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: What do you think of her face? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: she looks terrifying mm hmm, but I love it. I
Speaker 1: feel like this is because Carolina is an alien mm hm.
Speaker 1: And so maybe this is her alien skull coming through
Speaker 1: in her zombie form. Ooh.
Speaker 2: Kind of gives it more of a ghool look as
Speaker 2: opposed to just peer zombie.
Speaker 5: But I mean, yeah, yeah, I think it was kind
Speaker 5: of alluded to that the DNA of extraterrestrial races does
Speaker 5: get affected by the virus differently for h one.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Well, Carolina is grabbing the kid and flying
Speaker 3: him through the air with all of those rainbows, you know,
Speaker 3: floating behind her. I love those. Something about this though,
Speaker 3: is that the rainbows are a little bit more faded.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you notice this, but I remember
Speaker 3: the Runaways her rainbows were like more vibrant.
Speaker 1: Perhaps, yeah, it could be.
Speaker 2: Do you think that's stem marsch is? She's devoid of
Speaker 2: a lot of her humanity in life.
Speaker 3: So now everybody is fighting over a little Peter in
Speaker 3: the Wolverine costume. Blackhawk comes in and shoots Carolyna right
Speaker 3: in the back and then comes crashing through the wall.
Speaker 3: Is metal Just a little bit about this guy. His
Speaker 3: real name is Ken Mack. He appeared in Avengers Academy
Speaker 3: Number one back in twenty ten. His powers include being
Speaker 3: able to transform into an organic red metal like substance.
Speaker 3: It grants him superhuman strength and durability, and despite his
Speaker 3: intimidating exterior, he's generally portrayed as a kind hearted and
Speaker 3: loyal person.
Speaker 1: So that's him, which is why we were confused to
Speaker 1: you was red Skull because he literally is a red skull,
Speaker 1: like he has.
Speaker 2: A red face, and that that's just a product of
Speaker 2: him being you know, his flesh withering, is having the
Speaker 2: zombie virus. So then I'm just sitting there. I'm like,
Speaker 2: there's gotta be I've seen or heard something.
Speaker 3: Of this, but yeah, wow, Well Mettal is crashing the
Speaker 3: wall and we are now on a basketball court outside,
Speaker 3: and there's two and more characters.
Speaker 1: That have appeared. Yes they well, one is one of
Speaker 1: the Power Pack kids, which is why I thought Carolina
Speaker 1: was Julie Power because it's Alex Power or zero G
Speaker 1: I think is his character name. And so anyways, one
Speaker 1: of the Power Pack kids. And then a squirrel Girl,
Speaker 1: which makes sense why there's like rabbit squirrels out there.
Speaker 2: That breaks my heart. I love squirrel Girl so much.
Speaker 1: Oh who I mean, everyone loves her. I love her
Speaker 1: her lying best mischief night.
Speaker 2: Ever and that's not tippy Toe.
Speaker 1: Oh no, tippy Toe. I can't see it.
Speaker 3: I can't see it, you know, to be honest, of
Speaker 3: all of these crazy zombies that are attacking right now.
Speaker 3: I am most afraid of squirrel Girl. You know, it's
Speaker 3: always the cute ones. When they go crazy, they go
Speaker 3: the craziest. She is so cute. I love squirrel Girl.
Speaker 3: Normally I'm scared of zombie face squirrel Girl. So they
Speaker 3: are all fighting over Peter, and uh, this little power
Speaker 3: pack kid lifts them up in a force field.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's like yeah, like zero gravity, basically zero g.
Speaker 3: Little Peter's falling from the sky and squirrel Girl points
Speaker 3: up and says Alex mett o, look manna from heaven.
Speaker 2: Well, well, well what do we have here, Wolverett.
Speaker 1: Come on you guys, let me go go faios up first, yep,
Speaker 1: And the little power pack kid has is Peter up
Speaker 1: in a force filled bubble.
Speaker 3: And then he continues on, let you go.
Speaker 2: Why do we do that? You're the first one sack
Speaker 2: of oregans we've seen in ages.
Speaker 1: All I want I want to find my cat. Have
Speaker 1: you seen him? His name is Blackie. Oh. Their mouths
Speaker 1: are open so big?
Speaker 3: Oh oh is he serious?
Speaker 1: Shut up? You guys are bad and stupid and that's
Speaker 1: why you're dead. You don't have any parents and no
Speaker 1: one loves you and you're all hungry all the time,
Speaker 1: so you shouldn't be laughing at me just because I
Speaker 1: care about something other than myself.
Speaker 2: Oh, that put us in our place. No, guys, it's
Speaker 2: one of you. Grab a lamb.
Speaker 1: No, No, when.
Speaker 2: I let go of my zerogi, feel make a wish.
Speaker 3: My gosh. But then, uh, the little old power pack
Speaker 3: boy is getting shredded into by a bullet, and Kitty
Speaker 3: is in the distance with her sniper and she says, here, baby,
Speaker 3: come to mama. And then little little Peter.
Speaker 1: What does little Peter do? He uses his his costume
Speaker 1: claws to stab dark Hawk in the eye. Oh, he comes,
Speaker 1: grabs him and says, I'm sorry, Mama. I know I
Speaker 1: shouldn't have gone out. You were right. I should have
Speaker 1: watched Blackie closer. I'm sorry he's gone. And later you
Speaker 1: know what to do. Right, hold my breath.
Speaker 3: And as she's carrying him and they're running full speed
Speaker 3: right at a wall, Kitty uses her phasing power and
Speaker 3: they go right through, and she says, good boy, damn it,
Speaker 3: what do we see zombie squirrel or squirrels? No, they
Speaker 3: were all inside of the school, in this hallway with
Speaker 3: the lockers, all those red eyes. They are going to
Speaker 3: kill everything.
Speaker 1: And then there's this high school moment where Carolina says,
Speaker 1: nice job, squirrel girl, You're not as useless as you
Speaker 1: look and sound and act.
Speaker 3: Thanks Carolina. Do you think maybe I can eat with
Speaker 3: you now? As if oh my god, even a zombie
Speaker 3: girl the mean girls in high school exist.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Caroline is not a mean girl. I mean,
Speaker 1: I will give the zombie the benefit of the doubt,
Speaker 1: but Caroline is not a mean girl.
Speaker 3: I think. I think it's kind of like red kryptonite.
Speaker 3: You know, it's like everybody who's a zombie turns into
Speaker 3: a mean girl. I think that's how it is. Actually,
Speaker 3: let me take this back. I remember that there were
Speaker 3: some zombies that are super intelligent that they will maintain
Speaker 3: their humanity if they are fed, and the you know,
Speaker 3: the more hungry they are, the less human they become.
Speaker 3: I see, So it is possible to just barely hang
Speaker 3: on to that humanity.
Speaker 2: And then ring me if I'm wrong. There's a flip
Speaker 2: side of that token too. If they go long enough
Speaker 2: without feeding, the zombie virus will burn itself off and
Speaker 2: they'll either die or revert back.
Speaker 1: Oh well, you know, kiddies, trying to protect them, and
Speaker 1: they're obviously they're making moves on her and Peter. And
Speaker 1: out of the corner comes somebody that starts saying a
Speaker 1: riddle or more of like a phrase.
Speaker 2: Please to me too, I hope you guess my name.
Speaker 2: That's puzzling you. The nature of my game.
Speaker 1: Nah, what's puzzling me is how far I can ram
Speaker 1: this fist up your small intestine before I yank it
Speaker 1: out and swallow the slimy tribe?
Speaker 2: What and dark oxen in? They're illumin children want a pity? Really,
Speaker 2: so few elders love to teach in the old ways,
Speaker 2: the true ways.
Speaker 1: The old ways are gone and forgotten, man, that's why
Speaker 1: they're old. Ooh, and then he just lights dar Hawk
Speaker 1: up in fire, all ablaze.
Speaker 2: Who Yes, I've seen many threats to the human animal
Speaker 2: come and go in my years, and you thought, and
Speaker 2: though you remain among the most efficients, you are also
Speaker 2: the least imaginative.
Speaker 1: D burning on the inside, knew. I can feel it.
Speaker 1: I can feel my heart boiling as metal is burning
Speaker 1: from the inside.
Speaker 2: The mindless other not bound to any nationality, or faith
Speaker 2: or sexuality of your skin color politically acceptable because your
Speaker 2: hostility is so perfect by the fallen you or me.
Speaker 1: Oh, and here comes the fisto, Yes, majestic a f Yeah,
Speaker 1: look at all that swilly, red smoke red cape is caping.
Speaker 1: We've got, We've got.
Speaker 2: I cannot wait till we see more of him in
Speaker 2: the MCU.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, not wait. The glimpse of him and iron
Speaker 1: Heart was fantastic. Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3: What happens next is he's leaning over a cowering captain Pride,
Speaker 3: who is protecting her son Peter. And they were by
Speaker 3: the lockers in this school hallway, and the pisto says.
Speaker 2: There's so few, there are so few souls left in
Speaker 2: this world. I can hardly be blamed for preserving those
Speaker 2: whom I still might around, particularly this night, my own
Speaker 2: feast day. Countless millennia of all follows eaves.
Speaker 3: I'll never let you have him.
Speaker 2: So all mothers say. And countless are the women's souls
Speaker 2: have acquired, and their misguided efforts to make the words stick.
Speaker 2: Remember this day, Peter rests, Pute and Pride, What should
Speaker 2: I say? Peel true after your blessed medal colossis of
Speaker 2: a father, And when I next come to you and
Speaker 2: make you an offer to our moodule benefit. You will
Speaker 2: have sympathy for what I did for you and your
Speaker 2: mother this name.
Speaker 1: And swow she's gone.
Speaker 3: Might ah whew, that's one way to spend an evening,
Speaker 3: he says Catherine inside of their house, all safe and snug.
Speaker 3: Once again, Little Peter's crying. Hey, hey, brave little guy,
Speaker 3: what's the problem. We made it, like you always like,
Speaker 3: I always tell you, we'll make it.
Speaker 1: Oh why why does it matter if in the end
Speaker 1: I'll just go with him?
Speaker 3: Hey, now, listen to me. Nothing's predetermined, Okay, nothing, especially
Speaker 3: not him. You've got choices.
Speaker 1: Did Dad end up with him?
Speaker 3: Dad? Are you kidding? He walked right past old Man's
Speaker 3: scratch like it wasn't even there. Your father was the
Speaker 3: best and the most noble person I ever knew, and
Speaker 3: up until the very end, he believed things would get better,
Speaker 3: that there was an end to this plague and humanity
Speaker 3: would make its way back. And we see a really
Speaker 3: cute photograph of Colossus and Kitty Pride in front of
Speaker 3: the ex mansion in their glory days.
Speaker 1: Oh do you believe that, Mom?
Speaker 3: I I believe this is folloween, she says, as she's
Speaker 3: wiping the cheers from his face. Where the dead are
Speaker 3: with us in spirit, not just in rotting flesh like
Speaker 3: they are every other day. That means your father's here.
Speaker 3: Can you feel him? And so I believe? Oh, I
Speaker 3: stumbled across a present for you when I was on
Speaker 3: my way back here and discovered you were gone. Why
Speaker 3: don't you go take a look? And then Peter is
Speaker 3: looking through this.
Speaker 1: Uh it looks like a jack O lantern. Oh, mom, Mom,
Speaker 1: thank you?
Speaker 3: Sure anything?
Speaker 2: Kid?
Speaker 3: I couldn't find any candy at Sam's though, Sorry, I
Speaker 3: don't care.
Speaker 1: I have everything I need. Inside, we see little Blackie.
Speaker 3: All snuggled up and safe and sounded as cute as
Speaker 3: a little kitty in the pumpkin, and the pumpkin.
Speaker 2: Very much as well.
Speaker 1: How sweet, how sweet? And how fun to see Carolina
Speaker 1: Dean and squirrel Girl Zombie and all those characters.
Speaker 2: I'm personally terrified of a squorel girl zombie.
Speaker 1: Me too.
Speaker 3: What was your favorite part of the issue.
Speaker 2: Don'ty Mephisto kind of getting anything with Fhisto's in. There's
Speaker 2: always gonna be some tragic undertones in there. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm making a deal with the devil up over there. Yes,
Speaker 2: we know he's the devil at the actual devil, but him,
Speaker 2: even in the face of the zombie apocalypse, he's still
Speaker 2: finding ways or means to try and corrupt souls to
Speaker 2: really maintain his power.
Speaker 3: I personally loved the little Peter in the little cute
Speaker 3: little Wolverine costurle. Yes, that was adorable. That was perfect
Speaker 3: for a Halloween issue.
Speaker 1: What about you, Chandler, Well, as I said, it was
Speaker 1: fun to see the zombie characters of the Marvel heroes
Speaker 1: that we know, such as Carolina and Squirrel Girl and
Speaker 1: dark Hawk so random. I love the idea of the
Speaker 1: writer being like, so, which characters haven't we seen, let's add.
Speaker 2: Up to the story and which ones are we going
Speaker 2: to kill off so quickly?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, everybody, you can watch Marvel Zombies right now
Speaker 3: on Disney Plus. It is currently streaming the whole series.
Speaker 3: How many episodes is it?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 2: There are four about half hour episodes from Marvel Zombies.
Speaker 2: It does take off from the what if episode, so
Speaker 2: you can double back on that. It's not necessary reading
Speaker 2: because they do do They do kind of spinny up
Speaker 2: in that, but great, great change to the normal heroes
Speaker 2: that we know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Where can we follow your adventures at more
Speaker 3: horrible Red Carpert premieres and your amazing cosplay Where can
Speaker 3: we see your Red Guardian cosplay pictures?
Speaker 2: Oh, you can find my shenanigans on Cross Cannon Cosplays
Speaker 2: on Instagram. I post a lot up over there. I
Speaker 2: like to have fun with this. I love creating everything
Speaker 2: as a collector, as a fan. I've gotten to the
Speaker 2: point where I make my props now and I put
Speaker 2: a lot of that on on my social as well
Speaker 2: as you know, when we meet up, whenever we're at
Speaker 2: a convention or we have enough watch party. That's those
Speaker 2: things are amazing. But yeah, Cross Cannon Cosplays on Instagram.
Speaker 3: Awesome. Well, thank you so much for joining us for
Speaker 3: this spectacular Halloween special of an episode of X Reads
Speaker 3: the podcast. Everybody Please go follow Danny on social media.
Speaker 3: You will be amazed. Happy Halloween, everybody.
Speaker 1: Now it's time for uncanny news.
Speaker 3: News news news news. Oh boy, Chandler. We have a
Speaker 3: doozy of a HUD insider for you today, and this
Speaker 3: is all about the Uncanny experience. The immersive X Made
Speaker 3: Fan Convention, happening in September of twenty twenty six in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Speaker 3: We have a new feature that you the student get
Speaker 3: to decide on.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's an exciting time. As in our world of
Speaker 1: Xavier Institute, we have created sub sector houses. We have
Speaker 1: House Exavier, House Health, Fire, House Pride, and House Morlock.
Speaker 1: And this year or this coming year, we are going
Speaker 1: to introduce a new house for you all, one that
Speaker 1: makes you feel a little.
Speaker 3: Bit more evil, perhaps a little more villainous.
Speaker 1: Perhaps Indeed, Yes, there is a brawl of a vote
Speaker 1: going on between these two houses, and we are going
Speaker 1: to let the people decide, and then we will build
Speaker 1: the house, design its logo, and create its universe within
Speaker 1: our Exavier Institute. Those yes, Chris, who are those two houses?
Speaker 3: Well, the first house we have is led none other
Speaker 3: by the person or the mutant who is right Magneto.
Speaker 3: This is House a Brotherhood themed after the Brotherhood of
Speaker 3: Evil Mutants. So this is more about joining a rebellion
Speaker 3: and standing up for mutant rights in the fashion De
Speaker 3: Magneto does.
Speaker 1: Yes. And on the other side of the vote, we
Speaker 1: have House Sinister. Yes thinking, diabolical thinking, evolution, you know,
Speaker 1: laboratory manipulation, manipulation. Yes Sinister obviously is known for cattiness
Speaker 1: for high fashion, or you know, capes upon capes upon
Speaker 1: capes and having so much fun with himself that he
Speaker 1: clones himself just to have conversations with himself. So Sinister
Speaker 1: is all sorts of personalities and that house is up
Speaker 1: for vote right now, so you guys can decide are
Speaker 1: you going to be in on Magneto and House Brotherhood
Speaker 1: or in on Sinister Nathaniel Essex with House Sinister.
Speaker 3: Mm and what comes with a new house Well, new badge, ribbons,
Speaker 3: new pet rallies, new common rooms, new decor within the
Speaker 3: Xavier Institute x mansion and new programming.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, and maybe a special guest m hm goes
Speaker 1: along with the house. We'll see, we shall.
Speaker 3: Well, let's tell everybody how you can get involved.
Speaker 1: Yes, you can vote on House Sinister versus House Brotherhood
Speaker 1: on our social media platform so you can go to Instagram, Facebook,
Speaker 1: Blue Sky and I Believe, Twitter and we and discord
Speaker 1: our discord channel and you can place your vote. You
Speaker 1: comment on the post and we count across multiple platforms,
Speaker 1: so you can vote on each platform to contribute to
Speaker 1: your favorite house. So go for it. You know, if
Speaker 1: you are all in on Sinister, go all in across
Speaker 1: all of our social media platforms. You can find us
Speaker 1: at the uncanny exp on most platforms, and then we
Speaker 1: get to hear your voice.
Speaker 3: That's right, So polish those animantium claws, tighten your capes,
Speaker 3: and get ready the future. Xavier's hangs in the balance,
Speaker 3: and it's up to you to decide, all right.
Speaker 1: Lose and other news, Chris, we got to meet someone
Speaker 1: pretty cool, someone pretty golden.
Speaker 3: You could say, oh my god, Okay, I wasn't going
Speaker 3: to talk about this because it's not an X Men thing,
Speaker 3: but how could I not talk about this. Have any
Speaker 3: of y'all listening seen this movie called K Pop Demon Hunters?
Speaker 2: I have.
Speaker 1: I've seen my good times.
Speaker 3: I resisted it for so long because everybody was like,
Speaker 3: you got to see this, you got to see this,
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Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: That's the whole world becomes K Pop Demon Hunters. So
Speaker 3: I can't believe that we got to meet EJ who
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Speaker 3: the singing voice of Roomy.
Speaker 1: Yes, she's the one hitting all those high high notes
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Speaker 1: has written K pop songs for her whole career, writing
Speaker 1: for huge acts, including twice one of my favorite girl groups.
Speaker 1: And yeah, she got brought in early and we got
Speaker 1: to go to the Grammy Museum and hear her and
Speaker 1: the music executives from Sony talk about making the music
Speaker 1: of K pop Demon Hunters, and it was quite insightful
Speaker 1: about how long they were working on it for almost
Speaker 1: ever eight for eight years, I think, like Demi, yeah,
Speaker 1: pre pandemic or first first conversations in twenty eighteen, which
Speaker 1: is just crazy to think about working on this and
Speaker 1: then yeah, working through Pandemic and having it come out
Speaker 1: in June of twenty twenty four, and can you imagine
Speaker 1: just being blindsided because you're like, this is a fun project,
Speaker 1: It's got fun, catchy songs. People will like it. No,
Speaker 1: everybody loved it. The world I I love to and
Speaker 1: like say is how my father who's almost seventy loves it.
Speaker 1: Seen it twice and my nieces who are seven love
Speaker 1: it and watch all the time. So like the age range,
Speaker 1: and I love it. I'm forty three, so it's just
Speaker 1: like we're hitting every generation with this movie and they
Speaker 1: love it. It's wild the history making of these songs.
Speaker 1: Billboard chart topping, record breaking fictional girl group, mm hmm.
Speaker 3: And I love the fact that, like EJ when she
Speaker 3: created Golden, she literally was just humming it in her
Speaker 3: head and she was on her way to the dentist
Speaker 3: and she's like, oh, let me just put this on
Speaker 3: my little recorder here. No no, no, no no no,
Speaker 3: And then like that turned into this massive hit, and
Speaker 3: it was such an honor to be able to be
Speaker 3: in the audience which she played it for us. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, she played the original recording of When this
Speaker 3: Melody Birthed into the world. How magical, so cool.
Speaker 1: Oh, I love it.
Speaker 3: Well, she is a delight and you know, we got
Speaker 3: to take pictures with her afterwards, and I hope that
Speaker 3: she skyrockets to superstardom because I could tell she is
Speaker 3: just an incredible human and what an amazing talent.
Speaker 1: Eju rock absolutely, Oh my gosh. Wow. Well, this Grammy
Speaker 1: Museum is in downtown LA. You know what else is
Speaker 1: in downtown LA, the LA Convention Center, and what happens
Speaker 1: inside the LA Convention Center, Los Angeles can That's the
Speaker 1: segue we all were looking for, weren't we.
Speaker 3: Oh right, Well, as we alluded to in our last episode,
Speaker 3: we hit the scene at ELI Comic Con hard. It
Speaker 3: is so surreal because for me, I used to work
Speaker 3: at the convention for like five years as the community manager,
Speaker 3: and I have loved that convention so hard for so
Speaker 3: many years, and now I'm back helping with the X
Speaker 3: Men cast and the Marvel Rivals cast, and it's amazing.
Speaker 3: This is a definitely a great year for LA Comic Con.
Speaker 3: I must say. With the Marvel Rivals, Chandler, you got
Speaker 3: to moderate a panel and also host the cosplay contest.
Speaker 3: Tell us about your experience.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So, as Chris mentioned, I was the moderator of
Speaker 1: the Marvel Cast panel. So the voice actors of Adam Morlock,
Speaker 1: Storm Silock, Winter Soldier, nay More, Dagger, Iron Fist, Jeff
Speaker 1: the land Shark, they were all on stage and I
Speaker 1: got to ask some questions about, you know, being their characters,
Speaker 1: finding their voice. Three of them play the game and
Speaker 1: they stream it on Twitch. It's really fun and so
Speaker 1: that was engaging to do on the main stage of
Speaker 1: the West Hall and the Gaming Hall, so it was
Speaker 1: really fun to be up on this large stage with
Speaker 1: the large, you know, jumbo screen behind you and look
Speaker 1: at out at all the people in the audience that
Speaker 1: are dressed up in their little characters that they love
Speaker 1: so much. My favorite was the Iron cosplayer in the
Speaker 1: front hall who had the big sign that said cheaper
Speaker 1: town Halls because Iron Fist when he heals his alt line,
Speaker 1: it's in Chinese, I can't quite say it, but it
Speaker 1: sounds like cheaper town halls. I thought that was really fun.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, the cosplay contests happened right after, and
Speaker 1: you were instrumental in making that happen, so thank you
Speaker 1: so much about getting people signed up, registered in line,
Speaker 1: and then we got to call them up on stage.
Speaker 1: They did a couple poses and they got to yell
Speaker 1: the character aultline and the cast were the judges and
Speaker 1: they got to pick their top five winners, and it
Speaker 1: was really cool. We got donated prizes from Funko Pops
Speaker 1: or Funko Collectibles so whatever they're called, and Marvel Games
Speaker 1: themselves Marvel Rivals gave in game currency and they donated
Speaker 1: I think like three hundred or five hundred dollars worth
Speaker 1: of in game currency. It's really cool. Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: That's amazing. I would love to give a shout out
Speaker 3: to the winner of the contest, who was dressed as
Speaker 3: Blade so cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he looked great mm hmm.
Speaker 3: And we saw some cosplay from the Rivals themselves.
Speaker 1: Oh right, Well, Alpha has been casually costplaying as Silock
Speaker 1: at multiple appearances. Alpha Takahashi, the voice of Siloc but
Speaker 1: Layah Mountjoy, the voice of Winter Soldier, debuted his Bloodstone
Speaker 1: or blood Camera blood Hunter outfit from the skin from
Speaker 1: season one and it looked amazing. It was super cool.
Speaker 3: M yeah, so good. Well, while you were while we
Speaker 3: were busy with the Marvel Rivals, we also had the
Speaker 3: X Men ninety seven cast, and we had the voice
Speaker 3: actors for Jubilee and Morph and sun Spot, and Adrian
Speaker 3: Huff joined us to Nightcrawler amazing. Yeah. And Leonora Zan
Speaker 3: was there of course, the voice of Brogue. Her and
Speaker 3: I had such a fun time. After the con was over,
Speaker 3: we actually stayed at the hotel an extra two days
Speaker 3: just uh so that we can hang out at the
Speaker 3: pool and like decompress. So I me and Leonore. That's
Speaker 3: like our goal now after the cons is to have
Speaker 3: a nice pool, you know, outing before check out. I
Speaker 3: loved it. Yes, Ali Comic Con, big success. Oh oh oh,
Speaker 3: I forgot to mention the Okay, so Jade, I love you.
Speaker 3: Who works Sally Comic Con. She hooked me up with
Speaker 3: a photo op with Elizabeth Dowson.
Speaker 1: Amazing.
Speaker 3: No, I got to meet this scarlet witch. Oh my god,
Speaker 3: Like I'm such a dork. My smile in the photo
Speaker 3: so big. Yeah, you were super happy. I was super
Speaker 3: happy and she just seems so cool. So I'm so grateful.
Speaker 3: I got to have my picture take in with Elizabeth Olsen. Yay, yay.
Speaker 1: Well cool, Yeah, that's super fun. And we got, you know,
Speaker 1: more stuff coming up, guys, stay tuned for cool projects
Speaker 1: that we're working on, cool events that we're putting together.
Speaker 1: And yeah, we can't wait to do more and bring
Speaker 1: more content. And you know, obviously x Reads went on
Speaker 1: a nice little hiatus. Chris and I needed to hunker
Speaker 1: down on Uncanny Experience and make sure it was the
Speaker 1: best it could be. And so it's fun to be
Speaker 1: back and creating episodes for you guys.
Speaker 3: Yes, and stay tuned because of the next episode, I'm
Speaker 3: going to recap my adventure at New York Comic Can.
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