Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (00:08):
Hi everyone. Shane here, or Sizzle as I’ve been starting to be called. I’m here with Lucas, who’s launching a Kickstarter for Angry Squad, Veeva Loss, angry, I think it was. And I’m here. We’re joined by Rob as well, who’s just lending me a hand. So thanks, Rob. Pleasure. So we’ve got, he’s just launched a Kickstarter. I’ll just go over where it’s the, just down on the bottom of the screen there. So angry Fred kickstarter.com/squad. Just check out the Kickstarter. Lucas, tell us a little bit more about your Kickstarter.

Lucas Scheffel (00:42):
Yeah, well thanks guys for having me on the show. I really appreciate it and I really like your new name, Shane. Sizzle’s a good one. I was talking to you about that the other night. It’s kind of cool. Yes, so Angry Squad, Viva Horse Angry is launching today. So last year on the exact same date, I launched Angry Squad Code Angry, which debuted a character named Angry Fred and his team of Trigger happy counterparts called The Angry Squad. And it was sort of my first sort of comic book that I’ve ever written and teamed up with an artist to create. And so a year later I’m doing a Follow-up sort of a volume two to that. And this story is a little bit more fun, a bit more vivid, a bit more just I guess pure escapism. Still got a little bit of heart compared to the previous book.

(01:38)
But yeah, this one’s just a lot more fun and it sort of takes place maybe, let’s see. It takes place well and truly after the first instalment. So there is a kind of gap between Code Angry and Veeva Loss, angry. There’s a gap in there that I need to explore, but you’ll get little hints of that in this book as well. But yeah, so this story we pick up with Angry Fred, and basically what happens is Angry Fred’s war buddy, a guy named Battle Jackson and angry Fred’s former lover, rusty Moores, who angry Fred met during the Vietnam War when he was touring in the Vietnam War as a young guy. They all come back from the Dead Battle, Jackson and Rusty Moores, and they basically play a bit of havoc on Angry Fred’s life and turn it upside down where he gets a little bit seduced and seduced by his past lover and then his ex, right-Hand Man Battle Jackson goes on this little journey of his own and sort of has a few regrets and sort of comes after angry Fred and turns into something larger than anyone can handle.

(02:53)
And yeah, it just becomes this sort of emotional turmoil. There’s this love triangle and there’s this huge sort of tyranny of emotions, and so the Angry Squad have to basically go after angry Fred and all these other guys and stop them from taking down the man that they call angry. And so that’s I guess the story in a nutshell in the book. Cool. Sounds awesome. Cheers. Can you talk us through the characters that make up the Angry Squad? Because the artwork looks so fricking cool and the character design is amazing. Awesome, man. Thank you. Thank you. I’d love to know about each individual sort of character. Yeah, yeah. So obviously we’ve got Angry Fred at the forefront. He’s based off my late dad, Fred. He’s a character that I sort of pulled from some films like short films and feature films that I made with my dad.

(03:46)
My dad wasn’t obviously angry at all, his name was Fred, but the way the costume that he wears and stuff is something my dad wore in some of the films and stuff and just some of the mannerisms and all that. So Angry Fed is an old washed up sort of go-to guy. He used to be, he was a war veteran obviously, and he was the guy you’d go to back in the day to sort things out, but now he’s just this guy that does odd jobs for people cleaning up things in this universe and so forth. So there’s him and alongside him, I guess you could call his right hand man at the moment, is a young helicopter pilot called Marcus Knight, who’s like a crack helicopter pilot. He’s actually based on me. When I was in the films that we made, I started against my dad and we played these two characters very different to the stories then.

(04:41)
So that character is kind of based on me. And then you’ve got the two, I guess you’ve got the two hit woman, the two mercenary hit woman, lad Lily and Little Marie La Lily is sort of this hot blonde, good looking, sort of hit woman who’s got this sort of superpower where she can scream quite loudly and tear things down. And then you’ve got Little Marie, who is a mercenary who’s a bit harder. She’s got tats on a tattoo sleeve on her arm and shoulder and stuff. And so she’s a bit full on, but she has the ability to shrink and to become small and go into places. It’s kind of like Ant Man I guess in that sort of sense. And then wrapping up the squad, you’ve got Mama, actually, there’s one other person I forgot, but anyway, I’ll get to that in a minute.

(05:34)
There’s Mama Cocos and she’s this sort of African lady who dresses quite stylish and hip and cool. And she was one sort of an enemy of angry Fred and so forth, but now she’s working together with the squad to sort of give them missions and put them on. It comes from my maybe ones, and we’d strapp, I’d have him strapped in an ergo carrier to my body, and we’d walk down the street at Thailand in a city called Chang Mai. And my wife, she always liked to get coffee in the morning, and my son would always walk past the coffee shops and he’d be screaming out like Mama Coco’s in his little 1-year-old voice. And so I got that name from, I took that name from there and named the character that. That’s awesome. And the last character in the Angry Squad is obviously Gary the Gorilla. Awesome.

(06:41)
The artwork that Martin Poso from Napalm Comics has done on that character just looks insane. I gave him a brief, I wanted this gorilla to be playing video games, eating pizza, wearing headphones and Walkman and wearing sneakers, and he took it and ran with it, and it just looks really, really fricking cool. Yeah, it does. But yeah, he’s a character. If you’ve read Code Angry, he’s sort of a character that the squad go up against in the first volume, but in this next one, he’s sort of a part of the team and helping them in a way. But he’s kind of like being a bit of a teenager in this one, not lifting his game. But yeah, that’s the characters and the squad basically. So yeah, I’m an absolute sucker for characters that start out as the Bad Guys and then join the Good Guys.

(07:29)
Yes, yes, yes. Was it the same artist on Code Angry as is on this new one? No, it’s not. So the first on Code Angry, I worked with an artist called Nikita Vassel Chuck, and at the time I had a variant cover artist who was Martin, who’s done the illustrations on this one, on Viba Loss, angry. So I decided to shift gears a bit and change artists with that. So yeah, that’s what we did with that. So I’ve been really impressed with Martin’s work. He originally just did the character concepts. When I first had the idea for this next instalment, I gave the stuff to him and he came back with all these things around. He said, yeah, he says, here’s all the colour palettes, here’s all the designs, looking at the characters, like left and right side profiles and stuff. And he’s like, whoever ends up doing this, this is their good reference. This said, man, you’re going to be doing it. You’ve done such a good job. So he’s like, okay, let’s do this. Yeah, he’s a really cool artist, actually. He’s interesting. He lives in Uruguay.

(08:35)
He works full-time as a designer, and he loves just helping people out, creating comic books. He’s into all things eighties. He loves his wrestling, and I think he even plays in a punk rock band as well, plays guitar. So yeah, he’s a cool dude. Yeah. Did your dad get to see Ko angry or, yeah, it’s interesting. That’s a really good question, Rob. We don’t have to go too far down that road. My dad, at the time, he was in a nursing home, and I think it was hard. I was living here in Queensland and he was over in South Australia at the time, and every week we’d tee up a Skype call, and I think it was just on the backend of him. I’m trying to think just on the backend of him, before he passed away, I was sharing photographs or images of angry Fred and stuff.

(09:32)
And at the time, he still had a bit of cheeky sense of humour, and he wasn’t all that smiley at times and cheerful. But when he saw the artwork, there was a bit of a smirk on his face. But he did pull me up. He did pull me up and said, he looked at the images of angry Fred, and he was like, oh, you haven’t made my nose big enough, because my dad had quite a big nose. He’s like, oh, the noses are big enough. He had to pull me up on that. So he’s always pretty particular on things. But yeah, he got to see images, but he didn’t get to read the book, unfortunately. So yeah, family seems like a big theme of your comics. Has anyone stuck their hand up and thought they’d gar the gorilla or no? No. I dunno. No one’s Gary.

(10:21)
I haven’t put any influence on that. I’ve got obsession with just, I don’t know what it is with me, big gorillas and King Kong and that sort of thing, and naming them odd names and stuff like that. So that sort of stuck, I guess. It’s funny, lab Lily is actually based on, my wife was a character. She played in some of the films, and I think everyone sort of gives me a bit of stick because she scream, this character screams a lot. That’s a sort of superpower of it. Everyone’s like, you sure you want to go there with calling your wife out on that? But yeah.

(10:55)
Yeah, family’s a big thing. Family’s important to me, and we’ve all, in my family, we’re all quite creative. My sister’s quite creative. She owns their own sort of art business and stuff like that as well. So my dad was quite creative as well. So yeah, it’s sort of a big thing to keep that sort of creative legacy going I guess, in this. So yeah. So what brought you to comics with Code Angry after all your short films and all sort of stuff? Yeah, that’s a great question. Gosh, I’ve done filmmaking for probably since, God, what am I? I actually turned 40 today, so I’ve done filmmaking since. Oh, happy birthday. Thank you. Thank you. I’ve been doing film since I’ve been 12, so yeah, I don’t know. I’ve had all these crazy scripts and ideas and stuff along the way, and I felt like I just couldn’t communicate them on a low budget over time.

(11:50)
And as you get older, you think, oh, how can I make these ideas come to life quicker and bring them all together into one sort of story? And I’ve always read comics as a kid, and I’ve always wanted to make a comic book. And when I was cleaning my mom and dad’s house up after they mom, dad passed away, I had to clean the folks’ house up. I found all these drawings that I had done in sketchbooks of superheroes like Ninja Turtles, Batman, Superman, and I’d actually done my own little comic book stories and stuff like that. I was like, man, I had a real yaning for this. And I was in the back of my mind, I was like, I really want to make a damn comic book. But I didn’t know how. I was like, do I draw it? I didn’t know you could just write it.

(12:37)
And it seems so stupid when I’m saying this, but I didn’t know you could go out and hire an artist and collaborate them. It’s no different to filmmaking. And so I guess when I saw my dad going sort of downhill, my mom was going downhill at the same time, and I had a kid and stuff. I wanted to be around family, but I didn’t want to be going out all the time making a film and sort of being away from everyone. And I thought, this is the perfect creative outlet for me becoming a dad and stuff like that, and being at home and pursuing something a little bit different, but keeping those characters that I created and those stories that I created along the way and bringing life, keeping my dad image and legacy going and that sort of thing. I guess that’s why I got into the whole comic space, but I’ve meeting you guys and Shane and stuff like that.

(13:30)
It’s just been pretty amazing, the support in this, especially the Australian comic book community. It’s unbelievable. You guys are quite amazing. So yeah, it’s a family in itself, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that’s what we’re trying to, especially Shane’s trying to build and encourage. Did you find much of a difference script writing for your films versus script writing for your comics? Yeah, I guess with short films and features and stuff like that, there’s not a lot that’s described on the page. When you build out a scene, you might just have interior bathroom, nighttime or whatever, and then it says A guy walks into a bathroom and maybe there’s a guy with a knife there or something. And then there’s just dialogue along the page, and that’s pace perfectly. One minute a page as in correlation to the duration of a film. When it came to comic books, I was like, how do you write these things?

(14:27)
I want to know. And then I started looking around and I went to, I think it was Walking Dead Script, the first book, the of the series, and I found the script that Robert Kirkman wrote, and I put that up against the comic book pages that Tony Moore had illustrated, and I was just running through and analysing it. I was like, oh, this is interesting. It’s kind of similar, but you’re going into maybe a little bit more description and that sort of thing. So I think it was really just a nice flow and adjustment once I got the hang of it, and I just started writing my own little short stories to begin with it. I didn’t release or anything, I just to play with and have fun with it, and I felt like it’s quite an easy transition for me doing so. Yeah. Were you tempted to, with your drawing background as a kid, were you tempted to draw maybe a variant cover or something for you?

(15:22)
I was, man, but I felt really unconfident in doing that. Yeah, I don’t know. Maybe I’ll give it a go one day. But yeah, I don’t know. I just look at all this amazing art though. It’s just one of the higher tiers get Yeah, true. A rare, that’s a good idea. I should try that in the next one. I wasn’t game enough for this one. I don’t know. I dunno. I dunno if I’m just not at that level just yet. But yeah, I like that. So the Angry Squad’s going to continue after this issue? Yeah, it will. There’ll be a third instalment for sure. Especially if you read this one. You understand why. So I won’t go into too much detail as soon as we get off here. I’m going to go pledge that thingy. Oh, thank you. Thank you so much. What have you got, Shane?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:11):
What have I got? Well, I’m just looking over at the thing. We’ve got seven backers so far, so that’s pretty cool.

Lucas Scheffel (16:15):
Oh, do sweet. Wow,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:17):
Cool. Awesome. You’re up to 592 already, so that’s pretty cool.

Lucas Scheffel (16:21):
Oh, wow. That’s amazing. Thank you so much, everyone. Yeah, that’s unreal. Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:25):
That’s wicked. That’s wicked. Yeah. That’s awesome. So Rob’s asked all the good questions.

Lucas Scheffel (16:39):
We can go home now.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:47):
Well, so this is the same gorilla in the second one as the first one?

Lucas Scheffel (16:54):
It is. It is. So without giving too much away, I guess

(16:59)
In the first one, Gary was controlled by a mind control unit that was around his neck, and obviously they stopped that. But like I was saying earlier, there’s a big gap in between code Angry and Veeva Loss angry, where we don’t necessarily see what happens sort of to Gary and what happens with the squad and what sort of goes on. So that’s something that needs to be explored, but this story is sort of well into the future. So looking at that character, if you understand that. So yeah, so there’s room to go back and forth and explore some more things, but there are other little things that are in this book, the current book, which you’ll be wanting to ask more questions as it goes along as well.

(17:54)
In the world of the book, not so much to you personally, but what makes Fred special? Why are we following him as opposed to your Gary’s or your mama and Well, I guess for him, he’s this old guy who’s on the way out, and instead of being just this massive action hero, he’s got big fists and can get quite angry and take on the world, which is I guess kind of attractive in itself to a reader. There’s heart to him. He’s a grumpy old guy who spits a lot of cuss words and tells people how it is, but as you dig deeper and scratch the surface and other people come into the equation, there’s a lot of heart there. And he’s a guy who I guess wants to fit in, but I was realising his time in the world, things are changing and stuff like that, that his time may be up maybe sooner rather than later. So yeah, he’s got a bit of charisma as well. So yeah, there’s that thing too.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (19:09):
Wow.

Lucas Scheffel (19:09):
Sounds really cool. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (19:16):
What was that? That’s me

Lucas Scheffel (19:18):
Hoping you’ve got a question.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (19:20):
Oh, okay. That’s sound. Oh, okay. So you were saying that you released the last one last year, same day. Yeah. So is the next one coming out on your next birthday? I dunno, I feel like

Lucas Scheffel (19:40):
Leading up to my, I dunno if I’m going to make a tradition where I lead it, every birthday I have, I release a comic book,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (19:47):
But I feel like

Lucas Scheffel (19:48):
This, because it’s my 40th this year, it was a bit,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (19:51):
Yeah, big one. Big one, yeah,

Lucas Scheffel (19:54):
There’s a lot going on and I’m like, oh man, am I bit off more than I can chew? But no, I don’t know. I think it’s a kind of a cool little traditional or cool little thing to do to release it. Release my birthday

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:07):
Is,

Lucas Scheffel (20:08):
I guess it makes everyone sort of think, oh, they have to pledge now because it’s my birthday.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:13):
Everyone listening, you have to pledge now. It’s his birthday. Come

Lucas Scheffel (20:16):
Lemme down. Yeah, yeah, little marketing. So yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:23):
I vaguely remember the big four. Oh, that

Lucas Scheffel (20:25):
You remember. You’re like, not that old are you, Shane? Only 21 or

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:30):
Something. I just looked that old grey.

Lucas Scheffel (20:34):
I hide mine. Mine’s around the side so you can’t see it if I just put

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:37):
That straight on, no, hide mine.

Lucas Scheffel (20:44):
What’s next in the movie making part of your, I don’t, I dunno, Rob, I haven’t made something since 2014. I made a short film back then in Melbourne when I was living there, and I haven’t done anything sort of since. Yeah, I work my day job. I’m a video editor. I work online and stuff like that. Creatively in the back burner, before I did comics, there was a film I was going to make called Redback, and it was a horror film that I’ve written. It was about a redback spider, so it was kind of quintessentially Australian and it sort of explored more so a human being sort of phobia of arachnophobia, that sort of thing, like fear of spiders. And yeah, I spent a lot of time with my first, the guy that did Nikita, who did Code angry, who illustrated code angry. I was working with him at the time doing a lot of concept art, like building out the film and doing storyboards and stuff and trying to get a visual picture for what the film would look like.

(21:49)
And we wrote the script and stuff and we were about to shoot it and all that sort of thing, but things just didn’t line up with our actors and things started falling through and I decided to just put it to the wayside. And then I had a kid at that time, and that’s just sort of focus and priority and that sort of thing. Then my dad got sick and my mom got unwell, and there was just this tyranny of stuff that I had to deal with family wise. But if I had an opportunity to sort of pick that film up, I would go and do it. Right now it’s the script’s ready to go. It’s just in a matter of casting people and finding locations and so forth. But that’s something I would like to do. And another thing I would like to do is explore the angry Fred universe and create an animation or maybe even a short film or something in this world, what that looks like. I dunno. But yeah, it could be kind of cool to explore. Well, we have a friend, Alex Major, who’s a awesome animator. So yeah, if you need a voice for that gorilla, I’m ready. I’m ready. I’ll audition. Yeah, cool. I haven’t even thought that far, what the gorilla sounds like and so forth.

(23:05)
It must be hard working, I guess with video editing and film and stuff. And it’s kind of like a mechanic who’s drives the crappy car because it’s hard to drum up the energy to work on your car when you get home, when you’ve been working on cars all day. Yeah, no, I totally agree. You’re exactly right. Mentally, it’s like you’re so fully into working on someone else’s projects and you want to give it 110%. And then when you do take a break from that and you want to work on your own things, I struggled to even shoot and edit the Kickstarter video for this campaign. I literally only uploaded it last night. I was working on it, and I’m just like, man, I do this every day a breeze. So you put that together with that little short with the explosions and all that sort of stuff.

(24:00)
Yeah. Yeah. Well, it was really well done. Cool. Thank you. Yeah, it’s a lot of fun doing all that, that sort of thing, piecing those layers together and all that sort of stuff. But yeah, I’d like to do more of that. But yeah, it’s just a lot of brainpower and that sort of thing, but I guess if you keep yourself motivated and so forth, gives yourself some time off and stuff. I’m really hard on myself when it comes to all the creative stuff, so I’ve got to be easy on myself. Same. Did you want to tell us a little bit about the Kickstarter itself in terms of have you got reward tier and all that sort of stuff? Sure thing. Yeah. Yeah. So I guess first up, we have reward tiers for people that haven’t jumped on the angry Fred train. They can get themselves the physical copies or digital copies of the previous book. And then aside from that, we’ve got the main Viva Lost Angry book, which comes in a lovely wraparound cover that features the whole squad. On the front of the cover, there’s Angry Fred and Rusty Moores running away from a car exploding. And on the back it sort of wraps around and we see Gary Gorilla on a cliff, a helicopter, and the other members running through the desert. So there’s that. Who’s Rusty Moores? I haven’t heard that.

(25:25)
No. Rusty Moores is the former lover of Angry Fred, and she used to be a USO showgirl during the Vietnam War, and that’s where angry Fred met her, and then she comes back from the dead, and then obviously Battle Jackson, his right hand man in the Vietnam War comes back from the dead as well. So there’s this clash of the Love Triangle, that sort of thing. Genius. Sorry, keep going. I was just like, oh, who’s that cool person? Yeah, so those tiers, I’ve got a couple of variant tiers. I’ve got, what is it, a comic book, homage to the Action comics cover one where we’ve got Angry Fred lifting up the car on that. And then there’s another variant, which is a cool image where Angry Fed’s driving a car and one of the girls is firing a gun back at Battle Jackson, who’s in a hot rod that’s flying through the sky.

(26:25)
So there’s that. And then we’ve got like Martin, the artist, he’s created this cool sort of vintage looking t-shirt that you can grab. And also if you want to be drawn into the comic book, there’s a tier for that as well. So I’ve got a couple of tiers there where you can sort of interact with angry Fred and so forth. So give the audience the opportunity to be a part of the Angry Fred Universe, I guess. They’re really cool things. What else have I got? I’ve got custom playing cards that I’ve got as an add-on, and then as a part of a special tier, because obviously there’s a bit of a Vegas vibe to this story. So I’ve designed some custom playing cards where on the faces of the cards, you’ll see all the characters from the Angry Squad, including the Bad guy and the love interest as well.

(27:17)
So there’s that for people who are into their cards playing poker and that sort of thing. But yeah, I’ve got some exciting stretch goals if and when we get over the target as well. So when that opens up a lot of cool things when, sorry. Yeah, I’d only be more positive thinking when we get over the thing, but yeah, I think there’s something to cater everyone who just want to dip their toes in the water, or for someone who’s wants to go all out and in immerse themselves in the Kickstarter campaign, so yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (27:57):
Awesome. Don’t forget the drawn into the book. Oh, no, we can’t talk about that one because someone’s already taken it. The one liner The first.

Lucas Scheffel (28:08):
Yeah, the first

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:09):
Person in. Got it.

Lucas Scheffel (28:11):
There’s someone who’s already got that. I’ve just noticed that. I think there’s two other tiers. Let me have a look.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:17):
Oh, you’ve got cameos. I saw that. But the one liner,

Lucas Scheffel (28:21):
One liner is gone. Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:23):
The one

Lucas Scheffel (28:23):
Liners gone is gone. There is actually another tier that’s a higher end of tier where you can actually get yourself drawn into the book where you’re going to interact with Angry Fred over two pages. So there was that as well. That’s pretty cool. So that’s cool. Yeah, so there’s that too. But yeah, there’s other tier as well where you can get all the covers of the books, like a triple threat singing get all three covers, so if you’re into that sort of thing. But yeah, I’m excited about the T-shirts and the custom playing cards and just the book itself is a lot of fun. So yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:00):
We’ve got some people saying Gday. So we’ve got Sean. Good day, Sean.

Lucas Scheffel (29:04):
Hey, Sean. Hey, Sean.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:07):
We got Rusty. See, I’m being very slack here. I wasn’t looking at the comments. Hey, rusty. Hey Rusty. And we’ve got the anonymous Facebook user. Nice one. Nice one.

Lucas Scheffel (29:17):
Looks like a fun book. Thank you. Thank you. Anonymous

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:20):
User,

Lucas Scheffel (29:22):
Facebook user. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:34):
Sorry,

Lucas Scheffel (29:34):
Shane, what were you going to say?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:36):
Oh, I wasn’t going to say anything. Actually, if I did, it was gone as soon as, so I’m just looking through the campaign. Sorry. So do you want us to figure out how to, I think I can do this where I can show the video to everyone.

Lucas Scheffel (29:50):
Yeah, you can do that if you like.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:53):
I think there’s a way to do it. Me being technologically advanced,

Lucas Scheffel (30:03):
I’m going to be putting a video up on social media today of my bloopers and outtakes from filming. For filming the video. Yeah. Yeah. I probably make it look like it’s easy, but it’s not. Yeah. Bit of swearing in the background. How do you go creating with a kid running around? He’s good. He’s a good kid. It’s interesting. If you look in the bloopers, in the outtakes, he’s actually in the background commentating on. That was a good take. I didn’t like that one. Awesome. How old is he’s five. He turned five a couple of days ago, so Oh, that’s awesome. I have two five-year-Olds twins. Yeah. I feel your pain and your joy. Yeah. Have you got twins? Is that right? Twins? Yeah. Yeah. Wow, man. Hats off to you. Yeah, cheers. It stays on because my hair’s gone grey instead being steam. No, that’s good. They’re wonderful. It’s a joy to, yeah, it’s real joy.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:06):
Cool. Well, I’ll share the video. This pro hasn’t got any more questions.

Lucas Scheffel (31:10):
No, go for it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:12):
Yep. I was bringing up the screen. It’s doing all sorts of weird stuff to me.

Lucas Scheffel (31:34):
Hi, my name’s Lucas Scheffel, a comic book creator from Australia. In 2020, I launched Angry Squad Code angry, a story debuting Angry Fred, a grumpy old go-to guy and his team of trigger happy counterparts. After the success of this first Kickstarter, angry Fred and his team are back for more action and adventure. As some of you may already know, angry Fred is based on a character my late dad played in a feature film I created. I’m extending my dad’s creative legacy. I want to keep the angry train moving and bring this universe to new and astounding heights. We more than ever need to escape as humans, especially during a time of uncertainty. I’m hoping my stories provide readers with a sense of relief and will be uplifting. Creating stories is important to me. Getting them out of my head and sharing them with the world is even more important.

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So get ready for a high octane ride. With the help of a past lover, angry Fred and his team set out to stop a diluted soldier from wreaking havoc across Las Vegas. And like a 1960s Elvis movie, the heroine’s fate will be decided by a car race through the desert. When angry Fred’s war buddy Battle Jackson and former lover Rusty Moores come back from the dead, it’s on. For young and old Battle, Jackson was angry, Fred’s right hand man during the Vietnam War until he came home in a body bag. Now he’s an unhinged war veteran with a second life, unstoppable powers and nothing to lose. Unfortunately, the sexy and seductive Rusty Moores adds to the mayhem by leading angry Fred astray into an emotional no man’s land. It’s now up to the Angry Squad to stop a twisted love triangle and the tyranny of emotions from taking down the man they call angry.

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I’ve come to Kickstarter to create a new instalment of the Angry Squad so we can get it into as many hands as possible. As an independent creator, the platform allows us to deliver original and fresh stories unbound from normal industry channels. Veeva lost angry artist, Martin Passau has already made a headstart on the book, illustrating the first 40 pages and several high energy car race sequences. Martin was the variant cover artist on Angry Squad Code, angry and has been instrumental in bringing Veeva Loss angry to life with his bold and hyper inked artwork. For the first time, I’ll be offering backers three exclusive tiers where your likeness can be featured in the comic book. These rewards range from cameos to an exclusive one-page role where you can get to interact with angry Fred. If you’re already an Angry Squad team member, welcome back. But if this is your first time hearing about the Angry Squad, don’t worry.

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We’ve got you covered. You don’t have to know anything to read and enjoy this issue. We’ve got a Catch-up reward tier to get you up to speed. Plus, there’s loads of angry add-ons to immerse yourself into the Angry Squad universe. As you are already aware, this project is close to my heart. My goal is to make sure that every backer leaves this experience satisfied and excited about the next instalment of the Angry Fred Universe. Thank you in advance. Your support means the world to me, and I’m sure my father would be pretty tough to see Angry Fred’s evolution if he were here today. What are you waiting for? It’s time to get angrier back. Veeva lost Angry on Kickstarter today, dude.

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Sweet. That’s not the video I watched. I watched the little 32nd one. That was fricking amazing. That was amazing. Cheers, guys. Cheers. That’s amazing. And the character looking like your dad’s character. That is so sweet, dude. Thank you. I mean, I was already getting it, but you’re just like, perfect, perfect sales. That is so sweet. That’s awesome. Thank you. Thank you. I’m glad it, yeah, I’m glad it did it. That’s one of the best ones you’ve ever seen. Yeah, that is. I filmed it on my iPhone as well. I’ve got a camera and stuff, but I was just really lazy. I’m like, I just can’t be bothered. I’ll just put it up.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:40):
You did an awesome job. And we got Leonard

Lucas Scheffel (35:45):
Leonard.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:46):
Leonard, sorry,

Lucas Scheffel (35:47):
Leonard. Yeah, I know Lenny. He’s my friend. He’s actually, he’s my friend from the us, one of my, probably my number one fan at the moment, so one

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:59):
Of many awesome, after that video, many more fans. I saw a Lego in there. Is that an add-on?

Lucas Scheffel (36:07):
Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:08):
I’m looking for myself now.

Lucas Scheffel (36:11):
Yeah, in the first last year when I launched the campaign, I had that as in one of the tiers, iron Tears, but I’ve got a bunch of those angry mini Fig Legos here, so yeah, I’ve just got them as an add-on. You can get, so he’s got, it’s funny, if you look at the picture, it looks like he’s holding a or a staff, but it’s meant to be like a cigar, but it’s like almost the size of him looks like a club or something. But yeah, that’s a nice little thing I want to explore creating figurines and action figures sort of later on, maybe that sort of thing. Oh, that’d be awesome. Are nice to have later on. But yeah, maybe the next one. Yeah, I know. Do you know anyone that creates rines or anything? I’ve been trying to search for people, but I know someone who does custom ones, but not, not churn them out. Yeah, right. Okay.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:17):
Yeah, that’d be awesome.

Lucas Scheffel (37:18):
Yeah. Yeah. You should do one for yourself, Shane. Like a sizzle, sizzle figure. Actually, you’ve done something, you’ve done the funk pop ones, haven’t you? Or not?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:28):
Yeah, yeah. There was a creation by Tony. Yeah, that was

Lucas Scheffel (37:33):
Right. Cool.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:33):
It worked well though. I showed it to my new boss and I said if he pledged, I’d put pants on because the little thing doesn’t have pants on.

Lucas Scheffel (37:43):
Okay. He

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:44):
Pledged it worked.

Lucas Scheffel (37:45):
Oh, wow. Yeah, you’ve just got to buy some pants.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:50):
Yeah, that’s the only problem. His first question to me on my first day was before I went in, you said You’ve got pants, right? I paid for the pants. You’ve got pants, right?

Lucas Scheffel (38:05):
Yeah. Awesome.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:09):
Cool. So is there anything else about the Kickstarter you want people to know, or

Lucas Scheffel (38:15):
I

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:15):
Dunno what you screen on now?

Lucas Scheffel (38:18):
Basically, if you want to pledge, just head to angry fred kickstarter.com/squad, and yeah, immerse yourself in that video if you want to watch it again and just pick Aer that’s of interest to you and get yourself immersed in the universe. I’m doing this just to share my family’s creative legacy, I guess. And I really just want to get this out there to get people to sort take their minds off of what’s going on at the moment and sort of immerse himself into something that’s, leave your brain outside and just have some fun, do that sort thing. It’s a book you can enjoy on a few levels. It just seems fun. But then if you want to go into your story and think about your dad and everything, there’s a whole other level of carrying on your dad’s legacy stuff. That’s really sweet. No, thank you so much for noticing that, Rob, because there is, on the surface, if you were to pick up the cover of this book, you’d think, oh yeah, it’s an action packed sort of story and so forth. And there’s got a lot of zany characters and you can latch onto that. But I have deliberately gone in a direction when writing this where there’s a lot of, there is a little bit of heart as well, especially in the main character of Angu, Fred and his journey and everyone else around him as well. So there is that level of, I guess, heart. I like putting heart to things and soul as well. So yeah, that’s definitely in there. So yeah, for sure. Awesome. Well, we encourage people to pledge Now let’s get this thing cracking.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:55):
Let’s get this, someone listen to you,

Lucas Scheffel (39:59):
Get the train moving. They did listen,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (40:03):
It just went up in front of me. Oh, hang on. That might’ve been me buying the figurine.

Lucas Scheffel (40:14):
That’s awesome. I

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (40:15):
Couldn’t help myself if I had to do it while I was thinking of it.

Lucas Scheffel (40:18):
Thank you so much. So cool. Awesome. So cool. Well, that

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (40:24):
Was an awesome video. This is, even if it’s just half as good as the first one, this is still going to be awesome, and it looks like it’s going to be even more awesome than the first one. So get on board people. Angry Fred was amazing, and this looks just as amazing, if not more so I’m loving the new artist as well. His art’s awesome, and it just sounds like a really cool story and semi zombies or whatever they are, that sounds kind of cool as well. Although sexy zombies looking at her hair quite,

Lucas Scheffel (40:56):
There might be a little bit of that in there. Yeah. Shane and I had a glorious miscommunication a couple of weeks ago when the Angry Fred campaign was starting or when you were putting it together. I’ve got a character called Fred Lon who just, while we’ve been talking about, we’ve been calling him Fred, and so Sizzle texted me and said, Hey, do you want to do a Lon card and an angry Fred card? And I thought he meant my Fred as, but make him angry. And I was like, I guess we could just make his eyebrows go down and mad. And then he goes, no, but I want to support both campaigns. And I was like, what are you talking about? It’s a bit late at night. Talk to me another time. Yeah. And then when I saw your campaign pop up, I was like, oh, it’s a totally connection. Right. I don’t know now because I’m going to pick up this comic. It looks awesome. So thanks guys. Can I just say thank you to the comic book community here in Australia? Especially what, I keep forgetting your name now because all I see is sizzle thanks to Shane

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:05):
Sizzle. That’s fine.

Lucas Scheffel (42:07):
And of course you Rob and all the other guys that go on the drink and draws and all the shows, especially like Sean Keenan and comics, movies and stuff, those, and SK and everyone is just, I’m actually staggered at the support and just the love and the communication and everyone’s got your back. It’s truly amazing. I’ve never come across stuff like this in a creative world. Its amazing. Thank you. Well, that’s a pretty good note to go out on, I think. Yeah, it’s, I think so.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:37):
Thank you to the community.

Lucas Scheffel (42:39):
We with some nice heart message. Awesome.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:41):
Yes. Nice. Well, thanks everyone. Pledge away or someone has again, well, I just still noticed the number go up. Awesome. Much.

Lucas Scheffel (42:49):
Oh, fantastic. Thank you guys. Very, thank you so much. From the bottom of my heart. Yeah, I truly appreciate it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:55):
Cool. Well, good luck with your campaign, Lucas, and hope it goes. Yeah,

Lucas Scheffel (43:00):
Stay in touch,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:01):
Stay in touch. Be in

Lucas Scheffel (43:02):
Touch. I’ll probably reach out and have a chat to you about some stuff too, so. Yeah. Yeah. Awesome. Awesome. I’ll get you on the Gary Gorilla voice for sure. Well audition. We don’t, I’ll audition. I’ll line up like everybody else. I’ll blow you away with my sweet. Thank you guys.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:26):
Thanks for coming on Lucas, and thank you, Rob for helping me out.