Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (00:13):
Hello. It’s Sizzle and Morgan from the Post comic show. I said it right for once, and this is our first show back in 2002. 2022. I had to stuff something up

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (00:27):
Bad. I’m

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (00:27):
Living in the future. I’m living in the future. Yeah. So this is episode 17, I believe. So, yeah. Today we’re talking to Peter Lane from Kevin, the Sky CA’s library is the comic that he does. And yeah, so let’s get on with the show. See you all in

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (01:12):
Just a few seconds too long. Hey.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:16):
Hey. How you doing, Peter?

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (01:17):
Hey Peter. How? Hey

Peter Lane (01:18):
Man, how’s it going?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:20):
And someone’s using my phone. Sorry, someone’s using my phone. Love

Peter Lane (01:23):
That

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:23):
Intro. I’m commenting on myself.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (01:27):
Yeah. Thousand 2 22. It’s okay. Thanks, Peter. Yeah, yeah, we’re right into it. All right, we’re good to go. We going 2022. Welcome. Welcome. First of all, to the first show for the year. Good to have you here. You are in Sunny Victoria, I believe. Yeah.

Peter Lane (01:49):
Or

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (01:49):
Not so sunny Melbourne, Victoria. There you go. Very good.

Peter Lane (01:53):
Currently 33 degrees.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (01:56):
33 degrees. There you go. Nice. Toasty. Let’s go. Says Sped Z. All right, so first question, let’s just get right into it. So tell us about your comic journey. What got you into comics? What got you interested?

Peter Lane (02:16):
Well, it kind of started when I was about eight years old and I walked into a secondhand bookstore in Tasmania, and I found a copy of Marvel Tales 106, and that reprinted amazing Spider-Man, 129, which is the first Punisher. And that started my comic journey. I also picked up an issue of Green Lan as well when I was there, but all I can tell you about it is how Jordan was holding a sword on the cover. And needless to say, I was a marble zombie after that because the DC one didn’t really have much, much of an impact on me. And yeah, it went from there. Yeah,

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (03:02):
Grew up comics. So as a kid, really big into comics. Was it like you save all your money, you throw ’em into comics? Or was it more of just along with a few other things, read a few comics here and there. Well, you were obsessed.

Peter Lane (03:17):
Yeah, it was mainly comics. I’d get toys and stuff. I’d get Masters of the Universe action figures, and they’d have little mini comics with them and read those. I remember

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (03:30):
That.

Peter Lane (03:31):
Yeah. Also got into those too, so yeah.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (03:34):
Did you have the He-Man with the Sword and the thing on his back that you press and he goes, did anyone have that? It was a toy. I didn’t have that one. I cheated. The elastic band breaks and then he’s just, that’s it. Yeah, you can’t, so then you’ve got to manually do it. Anyway, we digress. Alright. So what took you then from reading comics to wanting to write comics or write in general? And I suppose another question to that, was writing in general something that you were always interested in and wanted to do and then it led to comics? Or was it always just comics first?

Peter Lane (04:20):
Yeah, I was always into writing. I did a writer’s workshop certificate for class when I was in college. So yeah, I was always into the writing side of things. I had a go at doing artwork, like I did a comic strip early on for local newspaper called the Lilydale Progressive in Tasmania, called Bullocks the Boar. That’s last very long. Yeah,

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (04:53):
There you go. So you did a little bit of art, started going down that way, and then went more down the writing path?

Peter Lane (05:01):
Yeah. Yeah.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (05:04):
What sort of things were you writing or wanting to write? Was it sort of speculative fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, romance? You never know. I mean,

Peter Lane (05:14):
It was mainly funny animal stuff, the and all that kind of jazz, because I got into CBU as well early on too, and I loved that for the first 150 issues or so.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (05:32):
How is that all?

Peter Lane (05:36):
He got a little bit loopy after a while, but I’m sure you know all about that.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (05:42):
He’s a decent body of work we’ll say with that. Okay. So what would be your key influences with moving towards what sort of style you like to write?

Peter Lane (05:59):
Well, Dave Sim bu I was influenced by a lot of Marvel comics and stuff as well. Yeah, it mainly, and I also, I enjoyed James O Bars, the Crow and all that kind of stuff. So I had a bit of a mix of different things that I enjoyed and I was inspired by. So

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (06:23):
Yeah. Cool. And any particular sort of films or novels, anything like that, that really kind stuck with you? Maybe when you were a teenager or something, or that really resonated?

Peter Lane (06:38):
All the usual things like Return of the Jedi and stuff like that. Again, not just the comic book, the Crow, but I enjoyed the film, the Crow Terminator two, all the AR films, all that kind of stuff. I mean, yeah, pretty much.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (06:59):
Okay, so big blockbusters, lots of action and animals also.

Peter Lane (07:07):
Yeah, animals.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (07:10):
So let’s start then talking about Sky’s Cavern Library. So this guy there, that’s the one I haven’t seen that one.

Peter Lane (07:22):
Nice. Yeah, that’s a variant cover. Variant cover for River Re issue one that’s coming up should be February-ish.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (07:31):
Right. Okay. So it’s coming out February now. This isn’t the first instalment. Do you want to just give us a bit of background on where this started, what’s been done so far? All that sort of stuff?

Peter Lane (07:43):
Yeah, yeah. So I’ve got Jason Paul’s to do the artwork of the Hippo and the Phantom and all that kind of stuff. What’s his phantom business?

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (07:56):
Is that a well known? We’ll talk about it later about

Peter Lane (08:02):
This Reverie one. It’s an anthology, and so it’s got a few different stories in it, but it’s mainly just an intro disguised Kevin Library’s world with a little eight page primer in there. So you get the basic kind of gist of what it’s all about. And then it’ll springboard from there into an ongoing series. I nearly said next year, but we are in next year, so it’ll be in 2022.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (08:30):
I’ve done that a few times myself this week.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (08:34):
So we’re doing

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (08:34):
It next year and they’re like next year. That’s so far away. What do you mean? It’s so far? Oh, that’s right. We’re already there.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (08:40):
Yeah, I’ve done, I think I’ve done it with you sizzle once or twice as well. Yeah, it’s hard to get used to. We’re in 2022. Okay. So initial anthology coming out next month-ish, sometime around then, and then a series. Do you a plan for how long that series will be, or are you just sort of going to wing it depending on what comes up?

Peter Lane (09:04):
I do have a number in mind, but I’m not sure I’ll reach that number.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (09:11):
Is it above 53,000 is a big number. 3000 is

Peter Lane (09:13):
A big number, should really go lower. It’s not like 300 cvis. It’ll probably be more like 25 ish issues in the long run. That’s still

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (09:23):
A decent chunk of work. Nice. That’s

Peter Lane (09:24):
Decent, right? Yeah. But yeah, we’ll see how it goes.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (09:29):
Okay. All right. So we’ll wind it back a little bit. So some of the aspects of the story there is this character, whose name I can’t remember, the Fox, whose name is, oh, that’s Sky. That’s the sky, not the, okay, that makes sense. Sorry, I’m getting muddled up between the female characters and the fox. So Right, that’s Sky, then that makes sense. You have this sort of situation where you have a cabin, you have a library. Now I’m aware that I’m just saying everything that’s in the title, but people need to know that I have much more in depth knowledge than just that. But I’m aware that I’m saying the title. So one of the things, I love the art soul, and immediately as soon as you see it, you are kind of taken back to that era that we’re all familiar with, just the way the thing is laid out and the artwork is just amazing. Anyway, so there’s a real kind of nostalgia thing I think straight away when you pick this thing up. But one of the aspects that I love, and particularly as a writer is one of the concepts is you open up one of these books and you become kind of enveloped within the story of the book for a certain amount of time. And that’s the whole sort of rationale behind the thing. But as a writer, that’s fantastic because it means you’ve got limitless possibilities. I mean, how many books are there? How many different ideas?

Peter Lane (11:00):
Yeah, that’s right.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (11:02):
It’s a genius move, I’ve got to say, because you’re not really limited. Thanks. Do you remember where that idea came from or what was the origins of the idea?

Peter Lane (11:16):
It’s kind of funny, that writer’s workshop class I was talking about earlier.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (11:23):
Well,

Peter Lane (11:24):
The teacher in that she basically said one class, look, you need to come up with something in 10 minutes to do a quick story for. I want you to come up with anything. You can do anything you want. And this was to all of us, of course, in the class. And so I’m basically sitting there thinking, okay, what can I throw against the wall? So I thought a fox, he can be a white fox, he can be in a cabin, he can have books in there, but what can the books do that’s more interesting? Oh, that people can jump into them and become part of the story. But what else can I throw against the wall? Well, he can have a library assistant called Chris, who’s a half elf, and she owns a bird eating spider as a pet. So I threw all these ideas against the wall and quickly put together a story and bang. That’s amazing.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (12:29):
There you go. So there is a theory that I’ve heard floating around that, particularly with riders, that there’s this thing where you get this, the first idea that you get or the first main thing that you get, and it invariably becomes the best thing that you’ve done, or the main thing the rest of your career is trying to get back to that original thing that you had. It’s really interesting that yours was like a quick, I got to tell you something. What amazing. Just

Peter Lane (13:00):
Put on the spot and I had to come up with something and it’s like, okay, cool,

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (13:07):
There you go. I wish I could do that.

Peter Lane (13:10):
I had to strain myself to think of anything. That’s why I just started throwing ideas against the wall

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (13:17):
And they all stuck. It really works. And like I said, the thing I love about it is just the possibilities are kind of endless, which is daunting in a way because it means you’ve got to think of something for every issue, but it also means anything’s open. And I also love without wanting to give anything away, I like the way the bookish nature of the whole journey that everyone goes on becomes part of the story itself and the way that things function in that world, that you disappear into the book for a certain period of time and then you come back. That logic becomes part of the story as well. Yeah, I like that too. Thanks. Really, really cool idea. And there’s a bit of a, I don’t know, for me, there’s a bit of a doctor who is kind of possibility to it because there’s all these different errors, but there’s the one constant all the way through is Dr. Who, which is your kind of sky figure. But then the companions can change and the elements can change and everything. No darex though, which I’m not saying is a bad thing. We There’s just too many and now they can fly. Come on man. Anyway, sorry, I digressed. Did you have a question?

Peter Lane (14:32):
I can put ’em in the story, but I might get sued.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (14:36):
You’ll have to call them far or something. I have to have two noles instead of one and go backwards or something. Just give him feet and he’ll be right. Did you have a question? Sizzle?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (14:50):
Oh, do I have a question? You’re throwing it to me already. Totally threw me off there. I wasn’t prepared or anything. Okay. Oh, you put me on the spot. This is where I want to throw things against the wall.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (15:08):
Do you want me to give you more time and then I’ll come

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (15:10):
Back to you? Yeah, give you more time, then come back to me. I’ll actually think about it.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (15:13):
Okay. Alright. I’ve

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (15:14):
Been busy watching you.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (15:18):
Okay, well that’s your warning then that it’s coming up with this one. So tell me a bit more about Skye and about the fox. So is there, because again, he’s present throughout the whole thing, is there a backstory there or is it more like he just has to be there for this thing to work? And if there is a backstory, what are you willing to divulge about that backstory?

Peter Lane (15:42):
There is a backstory. He used to be a knight at one point.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (15:49):
Oh, okay.

Peter Lane (15:51):
He doesn’t come from earth,

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (15:54):
Hence the talking costs thing.

Peter Lane (15:57):
What else can I tell? So yeah, there is a backstory and I’m going to reveal bits and pieces as it goes along.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:03):
Oh yeah, nice.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (16:04):
Okay.

Peter Lane (16:05):
There will be an origin story.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (16:08):
Cool. Okay. And

Peter Lane (16:10):
How he came into Kevin Lowry, why he’s there, why he has all these books. There is a reason for it.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (16:19):
Cool. That that’s good. That’s good. Yeah. And I like the way it started just by jumping in as though everything, this is just what exists. I like that because you just get straight into the story, but good to know. Yeah. That there’s a backstory that we’re going to hear about down the track. That’s

Peter Lane (16:34):
Pretty cool. Yeah, I was kind of inspired, but you know how Star Wars, the First Star Wars, it just jumps into it. It doesn’t explain everything you just throwing into the middle of the story. That’s kind of what I was trying to achieve with that. Yeah, so get to the good part rather than this is where he came from, blah, blah, blah.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (16:56):
Yeah. When he was a teenager, he found an orb of wisdom or whatever, and then you don’t want to start with that. You just want to get straight into it.

Peter Lane (17:04):
Yeah. I mean there are interesting stories in the backstory, but I thought the best place to jump into would be where he is currently at with the Kevin Library and the books and all that kind of stuff.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:18):
No, that makes sense.

Peter Lane (17:20):
Yeah,

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (17:21):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:22):
Love it. The lights turned off.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (17:26):
That light in the background signals that it’s time for sizzle to ask a question now that he’s

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:31):
Sorry for me to ask a question. Okay. My question, I was actually queued by someone in the audience, so that was nice of you. Shit,

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (17:39):
You absolutely, I’m cheating.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:42):
I’m cheating. So what’s this about Sky Andes?

Peter Lane (17:47):
Oh yeah. A giraffe called Vivian Jones.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:53):
Yes.

Peter Lane (17:55):
Yeah. Yeah. There might be a little bit of a crossover coming up.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (18:00):
Oh, snap.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (18:02):
Which the magic of your books make possible. Of course, yes. Vivian’s from a world that’s just all giraffe people. So yeah, pretty

Peter Lane (18:11):
Cool. Which will be ing in this guy, I’m sure.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (18:14):
Yes.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (18:17):
There you go. So

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (18:19):
That’s actually just anyone wondering that’s coming to present. Just my little plug.

Peter Lane (18:23):
Yep.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (18:24):
Presents four or five, I can’t remember which

Peter Lane (18:28):
I think issue four, but

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (18:30):
Yeah, four. I think it’s four actually. Yeah.

Peter Lane (18:32):
Yeah. I think it’s issue four. Yeah.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (18:35):
Oh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (18:35):
Sweet. I should know this. But yeah, it’s not like I worked for come or anything, but yeah,

Peter Lane (18:41):
And I’m not sure whether that’s going to come out before issue one or after issue one, but

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (18:48):
We see what

Peter Lane (18:49):
Happens. I know the EE one will come first, so that’ll be the launch pad. But yeah, there we go. Thanks, Zach. Issue

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (18:56):
Four. Thanks Zach.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (18:58):
There we go. Alright, so people can look out for both of them and they can snag them as soon as they come out. So I have a couple of standard questions that I normally ask because I’m super predictable, but it’s a bit different for this sort of genre. And so normally I’ll ask about the protagonist and what sort of protagonist do you have? Do you kind of gritty single-minded characters or self-destructive or whatever, that sort of stuff. But it is a little bit different. Normally ask about the protagonist and then about the villain or the antagonist or whatever, but it is a slightly different sort of, I don’t know, genre or style. And particularly because it’s more episodic I suppose, with the different books that you go into and all that sort of stuff. So I don’t actually know how to ask this question, but obviously you’ve got Skye, but maybe if you wanted to tell us a little bit about the Elfin lady creature, who is his assistant slash companion and maybe what sort of protagonist do, what are you drawn to, that sort of thing.

Peter Lane (20:09):
Well, sky himself, I’ll just say, I mean, he’s a nice guy. Basically, if you treat him well, he’ll treat you well. If he knows there’s something a bit weird about you or you need to be educated in some way, then he might throw you into a specific book about something that makes you rethink the choices in life that you’re making. As far as far as Chris goes, there’s a backstory to her as well. She’s a half elf. I will let you know that she is kind of the product of two worlds. I’ll just say that. Yep. Nice. But as far as her personality and all that, she’s bubbly and outgoing and Tina, but she’s got typical teenager problems. She has to go to school and she has to deal with stuff that she doesn’t want to at the moment. But the good thing for her, unlike a lot of other teenagers, is she can go into Sky’s cabin library and jump into her book to forget her problems every now and then,

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (21:24):
Which is a bit of a metaphor for reading as well. Yeah. That’s what a metaphor is. I still get confused between that and and whatever the other ones are anyway. Right.

Peter Lane (21:39):
Yeah. Does that answer, does that make sense? Yeah,

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (21:43):
Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. And like I said, it’s one of the things I like about the comic is it’s not your standard good dude versus bad dude, rah. There’s a lot more depth and a lot more playfulness I suppose, in the narrative. Yeah,

Peter Lane (22:02):
That’s what I’d say too.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (22:04):
Yeah, it’s got that. And again, the art style, that kind of classic art style really lends itself well to that style of easygoing things are going to happen and it’s going to be an, I suppose it’s more adventure than drama and play to the throat and gut spilling out stuff. Classic adventure sort of stuff.

Peter Lane (22:30):
Yeah, exactly. And on that note, I’m making it all ages as well. It won’t be gr and gritty and all that kind of stuff. I mean there’s room for that and of course in the industry and all that. But I wanted to make this a little bit different in that anyone can read it and I think that’s a good idea. It’s not just kids, but that’s a good way to go. I don’t want to limit my market as it were.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (23:01):
And it’s particularly appealing that sort of story as well. And again, it does remind me of that classic, you know how sometimes you want to, I dunno if you do, but I do. Sometimes you think I want to read a 1970 Sci-Fi novel. You know what I mean? I want to read something from that era where it was just the style that they did things in was a bit different to now and the villains and the protagonists, they didn’t have to have a drug problem, they didn’t have to have their parents murdered or anything. It was more of this adventure and new worlds and all of that sort of stuff

Peter Lane (23:38):
I

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (23:39):
Get. Yeah, exactly. And again, it’s a metaphor for escaping into a book. It’s like into a

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:47):
Book. Funny should mention adventures.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (23:54):
Ooh.

Peter Lane (23:56):
Yeah. The adventures

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:57):
Are special by Comex. I’m doing my little thing today.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (24:05):
Okay. So Oh sorry, you were going to say something. You go, you go. No, no,

Peter Lane (24:09):
But I mean it doesn’t mean I can’t take characters from Sky’s world and maybe put them in a put ’em in something like Presents Noir. There’s another little cross thing for you there.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:25):
Yeah, nice. Thank you very much.

Peter Lane (24:28):
I could take a character from Sky’s Kevin Library and tell a slightly darker story over there, but the main Skyes Kevin Library book will be all ages.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (24:39):
Yeah, that makes sense. And I agree with Dean on this one. Yeah, it’s nice.

Peter Lane (24:44):
It’s good to have a funny, yeah.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (24:51):
So what do you find is the most challenging thing about being a writer in the comics industry? Or some of them are more challenging aspects. It doesn’t have to be just one thing

Peter Lane (25:08):
In the Australian industry or

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (25:11):
Overall whatever you like. Yeah, Australian industry or just in general being a writer with comics.

Peter Lane (25:18):
Most challenging. Probably finding the time really to do it all. If you’ve got a day-to-Day job and you want to come up with stories and all that, and especially if you’re in the middle of doing your job and say you’re in the middle of a meeting and then it’s like, I’ve got an idea for a story, remember? And then you’re trying to learn everything in the meeting. So that’s challenging.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (25:47):
I do have some very, and God, I hope no one from my work is watching this, but I do have some very specific advice for that one in general. So number one, always bring a pad.

Peter Lane (25:59):
Yes.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (26:00):
Number two, write really small so they don’t actually know what you’re writing and then straight away look very attentive as though you’re writing a note, but what you’re really writing is notes for you so you remember when you get home, it makes you look like you’re really paying attention. Wow. He’s writing notes about this super boring thing that I’m talking about at work. Anyway, freebie, if you guys want that one, it looks

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (26:22):
Good and you’re getting something done. I love it.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (26:25):
Right. You go carry a pad, write stuff down. Looks great. Okay. So yeah, so finding the time, all that sort of stuff. This is another fan favourite that I always ask if you had a couple of minutes to sit down with your protagonist, and this might be hard to not give too much away, but if you were sitting down with Sky, we’ll do both actually. We’ll do Sky and then we’ll do Chris, if you had five minutes to sit down with each of them, what would your advice to them be as they, let’s say as they are at the end of the issue that’s just coming out with Rie next month?

Peter Lane (27:07):
I would tell them to be wary of anyone that comes into the library and also as well that it’s not just because the world kind of revolves around the, especially sky. He mainly hangs around the library. He might go out every now and then to climb the mountains or whatever and have a bit of exercise, but he’ll mainly stick around the library and there’s reasons for that. But I would tell him that maybe think about the world at large and be careful about the future because you might not want to drag anything out of a book and have it escape and

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (27:58):
Something bad. A little lovecraftian about that one. There you go. There’s going to be tentacles coming out of the book and I’m just writing down something, but it’s to do with exactly what we’re doing here. I’m not writing notes for something that I’m going to do. That’s exactly ripping my, cool, cool, cool. Okay, so that is ominous. That’s pretty cool though. Alright, so of the stories that you’ve, the one you’ve got out, the one that’s coming out, pick a villain, any villain or a character? Any character, and yes, Zach, this is that question. They’re in the car with you, you’re going through McDonald’s, drive through, what do they order? So you’ve got to pick someone first. It doesn’t have to be a villain because again, so maybe Sky, he’s in the back. What does he order from the McDonald’s?

Peter Lane (29:02):
I could pick a villain if you like.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (29:04):
Go for it. Go for it. Oh, go for it.

Peter Lane (29:06):
There will be two fairly major villains coming up and I think if they were going through the Drive-through at McDonald’s, they might not pick something from the menu. They might pick the person asking what they’d like.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (29:29):
They would choose an individual that suits their appetite, depending on who’s standing,

Peter Lane (29:35):
Depending on what they feel like that night.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (29:37):
There you go. Okay.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:41):
They sound very friendly.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (29:47):
Cool, cool, cool. All right, so a broader sort of industry question, actually we might go back a bit. So rumour has it that you used to run a comic book shop in the bird Berg.

Peter Lane (30:01):
Is that Yeah, Bundaberg you call

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (30:02):
It? Yeah,

Peter Lane (30:04):
Bundaberg.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (30:05):
So tell us a bit about that, how you came into that, what it was like running the business? Yeah, anything.

Peter Lane (30:13):
Well, it was kind of the early nineties, so for a start it wasn’t the best time to run a comic store. It was around the time when Marvel was approaching bankruptcy

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:29):
That time.

Peter Lane (30:30):
So yeah, it was interesting time. A lot of my customers ended up being male mail ordering from outside of Bundaberg post. A lot of my regulars. Yeah, just because it wasn’t such a great time to have a comic book store, but I kept it going. I probably could have kept it going, but I decided to move on and do other things for the time it lasted. It was fairly decent, just that period around the nineties, it just made it a little more difficult.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:08):
Yeah, it would’ve,

Peter Lane (31:09):
Yeah.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (31:09):
Yeah, that’s a tricky time compared to, I mean it’s tricky in every era, but yeah, that was a tricky time. So if you had your choice, who would you like to collaborate with on a project or in the industry?

Peter Lane (31:29):
Arthur Rhodes.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (31:31):
Geez, there there’s no hesitation there. No

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:34):
Hesitation there at all. That’s awesome.

Peter Lane (31:37):
I like his style. It’s got a little bit of old school, but it’s got the fun factor and it’s got detail, it’s got everything and it just looks really cool in my, yeah, I

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:51):
Wouldn’t know how to describe it either, but yeah, Arthur Adams awesome.

Peter Lane (31:56):
Yeah.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (31:57):
So for those that don’t know, what would be some of his bigger pieces?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:04):
Well, I met him in What about yourself?

Peter Lane (32:09):
Well, he did, the story that he really blew me away in was a three parter and fantastic four, I think it was 3 4 7 to 3 4 9. And it was where the Fantastic four get replaced by Spider-Man, Wolverine, ghost Rider, Wolverine, ghost Rider, and Grey Hulk. So they had to be the new fantastic four for a three parter. It’s fun stuff.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:40):
Zach thinks you should have picked someone else.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (32:47):
Cool. So this one’s a little bit left field and it’s only apt because it’s what my family watched a couple of nights ago as we’re going through. So we’ve done the Marvel.

Peter Lane (33:00):
Yeah, good choice. Sorry. Good choice.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (33:06):
We’ve done the Marvel because I have a young son, so we’ve gone through everything. Now we’re going through some of the dc My son is already made up his mind that he for some reason abhors Superman and I dunno why, but he’s got a thing about Superman. Anyway, so I wanted to ask you about Aquaman because I really want to like him and I really, there’s some ideas in there about the Atlantians and the splitting up and the different thing and the trench and all this sort of stuff. And everything in me wants to like this. I think it’s right down my alley. There’s all of these, it’s just a whole world you can explore a, you’re familiar with the comic side of things and I suppose the question, I’ve never read an Aquaman comic, if you have any exposure to it, are they worth reading? Because I just can’t, it just seems like fish

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:04):
Straight to the shaking of the head.

Peter Lane (34:06):
No, I haven’t read any Aquaman comics, I’m afraid. There you go.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:13):
Going to say all my Aquaman comes from like myself, comes from Justice League. If there was no Justice League, there’d be no Aquaman in my life.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (34:22):
Alright.

Peter Lane (34:23):
Yeah.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (34:24):
Well

Peter Lane (34:25):
He’s very much like a de Lister, isn’t he? I mean, I know he had a billion dollar movie, but I don’t know, maybe it was just luck.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (34:37):
That movie was the main reason why I’m asking because they’re the first few minutes of it. I’m looking through and I’m thinking, and then there’s some really cool ideas and I thought I should explore this because the whole, I like the different worlds and all that sort of stuff. And then the movie went on and I just thought, I don’t think I could do this. Oh, here we go. Ah, I shall write a note. I haven’t read back new,

Peter Lane (35:02):
I’ve read that. Yeah, no, I agree. Atlantis itself is interesting, but I just don’t find the character of Aquaman appealing at all, unfortunately. But everything around him is cool. I mean there’s plenty of stuff you could do with Atlantis for sure. I future story,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:25):
I don’t know if that whole mixing of races and all that sort of stuff, I think that’s just a movie thing. I don’t remember anything like that in the comics. I’m not sure I could be wrong. Like I said, I didn’t read actual Aleman, but I don’t remember that being explored in Justice League at all.

Peter Lane (35:41):
Yeah,

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (35:44):
I was going to say some stuff, but I’m not, I was thinking some stuff as you were talking, but I’m not going to say that stuff. All right. Okay, so that’s the Aquaman question. So I will put you down for a new, here we

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:55):
Go.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (35:58):
Okay.

Peter Lane (35:58):
Wasn’t too fond of the Justice League movie either. Was that Justice League thrown? Okay. Yep.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (36:05):
Right.

Peter Lane (36:06):
The new 52 kind of a

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:11):
Duncan doesn’t hold back.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (36:15):
Not a fan of the water based characters.

Peter Lane (36:18):
I wouldn’t disagree.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (36:21):
Okay, so maybe this is a question for anyone that’s listening as well. Is there a character that would smell worse than Aquaman? I mean, he’s hit with fish all day. He’s swimming in poop and urine all day with the fish. He’s got to have a funk on. I mean, do they have showers in Atlantis? How is that going to work? He’s rubbing himself with more smush. Anyway. So a question to the audience, how yourself, Pete as well, which character would possibly smell worse than Aquaman?

Peter Lane (36:59):
If you’re talking all fiction, then maybe, do you remember Stink? All from Masters of the universe, the stink all figure.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:09):
He used to stink. Really? That was his power.

Peter Lane (37:13):
He stunk pretty bad. Yeah. Oh wow. In his name.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (37:20):
Oh, here we go.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:20):
Duncan’s gone for man thing and swamp thing.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (37:23):
Swamp thing’s a good one. I can’t believe I didn’t think a swamp thing. Absolutely. Yeah, he would wreak.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:28):
Oh yeah, Zach’s got a good one. Killer Croc would absolutely

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (37:32):
Stink Clay face. Yeah, that’s true.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:35):
Raw meats. Rotten meats as his diet. Oh, nasty.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (37:42):
I mean, I’m glad I asked. I’m glad we got to the bottom because it’s an important issue and I think in these sort of covid times, we need to really focus in on what’s important. And these are the questions that matter. Yes, seriously. This is what we’ve got to get to the bottom of. Alright, so circling back. Sorry, pardon me. Sorry. It’s the covid. So we are coming to the best question of the night.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:12):
Ah yes.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (38:13):
Anticipating it. So favourite food, watching your favourite movie together, what would that combination look like?

Peter Lane (38:23):
Nando’s and either terminated two or total recall with Arnie. The

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:30):
AR

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (38:31):
Total recall with

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:34):
Nandos. Nando is good choice. I’m a big fan.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (38:37):
Very good.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:38):
Good choice.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (38:39):
Very, very good. All right, fantastic. Okay, well was there anything else that you wanted to, before we get to the gift section of the

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:47):
Yeah, the gift section of the,

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (38:51):
Was there anything else you would like to share with the viewers slash listeners slash folks?

Peter Lane (38:59):
Well, the EE issue one anthology should be out February from what I’m aware.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:08):
Is that a Kickstarter or is that a Straight into the shop?

Peter Lane (39:11):
Straight into the shop kind of deal. Oh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:13):
Awesome. So that’s ry publications.com au for anyone listening?

Peter Lane (39:18):
Yep, that’s the one. And it is got a regular cover as well, but there will be a Skyes Cabin library variant like the one that you showed before. And this one Oh

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:29):
Oh,

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (39:30):
Nice cover. Very nice.

Peter Lane (39:34):
Not reflecting,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:35):
Is it? Oh, sorry, I’m not boosting your up. Sorry.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (39:40):
Oh, that’s good.

Peter Lane (39:41):
Nice.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (39:43):
Oh, I see a spider web. There you go. Very cool. Alright, so thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. It’s been a pleasure. Welcome, Peter. It’s been awesome learning more about Sky’s Cabin Library and the fact that sky’s the Fox, which now makes complete sense. I don’t know what, so we’re now at the section of the show where we gift to you a present for yourself that you can take away and do what you will with, sell it on eBay, frame it, use it to broker Middle East piece, whatever you want. So basically we draw, the idea is supposed to be 10 minutes, no help, just straight from the source and we draw one

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (40:40):
Of the characters.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (40:41):
So we totally did that this week. Yes, totally. Both of us. We didn’t have help from an actual artist at all because that would be

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (40:52):
Cheating

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (40:52):
Spirit of this competition. So we wouldn’t do that. So these are yours. We’ll send them, email ’em through to you. But first of all, we’ll show you the first one if you want

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:01):
Susan. Yeah, we’ll go with Morgan’s first.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (41:04):
Here we go. There you go.

Peter Lane (41:08):
Nice

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:10):
Hands.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (41:10):
And don’t worry too much about his right hand, not existing, I think put it there. But the real reason is it’s in his pocket in one of the books. The right hand is in one book.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:24):
Oh, okay. That’s where it’s,

Peter Lane (41:25):
I love it. I think it’s great. It looks

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:27):
Good. It’s awesome.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (41:28):
It’s recognisable and so I’m very proud that you can is cool.

Peter Lane (41:33):
Yeah, I love it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:34):
And speaking of cheating,

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (41:40):
Oh my God. No way. Come on.

Peter Lane (41:45):
Oh, that’s awesome. That

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (41:47):
Is just

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:48):
Not, just put credit out there. To actually drew this, Zach George or Isaac George from Bronwyn, Spain drew this for me. He’s also doing the crossover of Sky Cabin Library and Vivian Jones in presents coming up in issue four.

Peter Lane (42:05):
Awesome.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:07):
Perfect guy to draw it for me.

Peter Lane (42:09):
Yeah, that’s really nice.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (42:12):
Unbelievable. I think I’m going to have a sore risk next week or something. I’m glad you showed mine first actually. Thank you for that. Because otherwise it would’ve been No, I

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:23):
Did that on purpose. Yeah,

Peter Lane (42:25):
I love them both. I think they’re both great.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (42:29):
Well, and they’ll be worth something at some point.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:35):
And the scary thing about that picture is I think that actually was 10 minutes.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (42:40):
Oh God. Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:41):
Exactly. That’s what I’m thinking as well. This should see my 10 minute versions. Oh,

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (42:48):
Well, some of them. Cool. All right. So 12. I’m looking at you Sizzle.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:00):
Yeah, I guess it’s that time of the night when we do 12.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (43:04):
12 minutes. 12 minutes. Those extra two minutes. That’s Judy. No,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:08):
No. Zach just said 12. I took 12 minutes. He timed it. I was wondering why he was saying 12, and then I realised the reference. Yes. Okay. 12

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (43:19):
Minutes. It looks so good. Well done, Zach. It looks amazing, man. It looks really cool. Yeah. Good.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:25):
Well, thank you, Peter for coming in and having a chat with us, telling us all about your stuff. My last question to you, you’ve told us about rie coming out with the Sky Cabin Library in it Skies. If I say it properly for once I, the actual Skyes library cabin issue, is it issue one that’s coming out?

Peter Lane (43:46):
Yep.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:46):
Yep. Sure. When are you planning that? So people know to look out for it,

Peter Lane (43:51):
Actually, it’s pretty much already done. It’s going to have three stories in it, and they’re all complete because the first few issues, they are going to be like that. They’re going to be complete standalone stories, but they will have elements in them that will continue in future issues when it’s more of a

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:12):
Continuing story. Awesome.

Peter Lane (44:15):
So yeah, they’ll still be important. But yeah. So yeah, three stories in the first all by Jason Paulos, which is awesome. And there’ll be three variant cupboards.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (44:31):
Cool. Wow. Three. Okay. That’s awesome. That’s

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:34):
Awesome. Yeah. Cool. Any timeframe? Timeframe?

Peter Lane (44:41):
Oh, sorry. Maybe

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:45):
If you’re not sure. That’s cool. March. Oh wow, that’s soon. Cool. Awesome. March april, people look out for it. And that’s going to be sold. That’s a re comic, isn’t it? So that’ll be sold at ry.

Peter Lane (44:56):
Yeah. RIE publications. Awesome,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (44:58):
Awesome. Sweet. Cool. Well, I just thought I’d get that out of you before I let you go. Yeah, thank Thanks very much for coming on. Yeah, that’s okay. Yeah, thank you. It’s been awesome. It was great. Yeah, same. And yeah, I look forward to these books as well. Me too. The previews that I got over the older books were awesome. So I really enjoyed reading those and Cool, thanks. So I’m going to now chase them up so I have physical copies, so yes.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (45:28):
Sweet. Thanks Peter. It’s been awesome having a chat. Thank you.

Peter Lane (45:33):
It’s been a pleasure. Absolute pleasure.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:36):
So I guess it’s that time of the night where we go to our next section. So thank you, Peter. Have a good night and cheers.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (45:43):
Pete. See

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:44):
Pete?

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (45:46):
Oh

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:46):
Yes. Sky’s cabin library. Nice. Oh, hang on. Oh yeah, okay. I’ve read nothing. So we’re going to go to Morgan note this way. Go to Morgan.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (46:12):
Yeah, so I also have not read anything, but that’s for a very good reason because I didn’t want to, but also because I have another opening, which I’ve been saving. And the hint I’ll give you is that it bounced into my

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (46:33):
Oh, nice,

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (46:35):
Nice. It’s a kangaroo theme. Get it because it’s bouncing. So this one, yeah. So I wanted to save this one, so I will open this. Now, those of you that may have been involved in the Kickstarter campaign might know what it is. This one, man,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (46:50):
Hang on. A boost. A boost up.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (46:54):
Oh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (46:54):
The colouring book.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (46:58):
I’m going to open this up now. All right. There’s the little

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (47:06):
Sticker. Nice

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (47:07):
Thing. And here’s the, Ooh, it’s got a bit of weight to it. That’s awesome. Okay, let’s see if I can manage to do this. Ah, it looks great. It feels great. Yeah, it does

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (47:20):
Some awesome art.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (47:21):
Yeah, man. Looks really cool. Oh wow. That’s cool. Sorry, I’m discovering as we go through,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (47:28):
Discovering as we go

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (47:30):
Read amongst yourselves anyway, so yeah, that’s really, really cool. So thank you Darren for that one. I’ll put something on Facebook about it as well. And the colouring book, of course.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (47:40):
Colouring book. Yep.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (47:42):
I’ve

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (47:42):
Already opened this one. It’s very nice. The colouring book.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (47:45):
That is so cool. Colouring is something I can actually do not well, but I can do it anyway. Adventures fantastic. That was a Kickstarter that just closed up a little while ago by Mr. Darren Close. Fantastic. Can’t wait to read it. I’ll be reading that tomorrow. And that is my package

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:06):
For today. I have one as well. It arrived today. I have absolutely no idea what it is.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (48:12):
I put it mystery.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:14):
It’s a mystery box, so let’s hope it’s actually a comic shaped,

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (48:21):
Not something embarrassing.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:23):
Yeah. Hopefully it’s not that

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (48:26):
1970

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:26):
Order special. Oh, that’s not, we need to open. Okay. That’s one side out.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (48:39):
I got to say. This is riveting visuals, watching you leaning over, cutting something that we can’t see. It’s amazing to watch. Cutting

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:50):
Something. Hopefully not cutting myself.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (48:56):
God, I don’t like seeing you with that night.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:01):
And it is,

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (49:02):
Hey, it’s a confused expression.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:12):
Oh, I see what it is now. Yep, yep. Oh God, it’s wrapped in so much.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (49:19):
Please be a comic. Please be a comic.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:20):
It’s a comic. It’s a comic. I remember it getting this one now. I just couldn’t read the title through the plastic and it looked like something else. So there we go. I’m just going to boost that up.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (49:30):
Oh, I’ve got that one. I should have used

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:33):
That one. It just arrived today.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (49:36):
Yeah, that was going to be my next unbox

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:38):
Let Doors.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (49:40):
Yeah, awesome.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:48):
Sort of pulling it off

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (49:50):
Sort of if we tilt our head a bit, sort of. It’s also edification that one.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (49:57):
Yeah, it’s actually, if I remember the Kickstarter, it’s adaption of the classic Plato text,

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (50:05):
Which is really, really

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (50:06):
Cool. Which it also says at the top here. So it wasn’t just memory that that came from, it says it right there,

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (50:12):
Which is really

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (50:13):
Cool. Cool. I’m glad it was a comic. I’m glad it was a comic.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (50:16):
Yeah. Yeah, that’s a good one. I might read that one and then review it next time. Yeah, that’s a really cool idea. And really clever idea as well. You can get it into the schools.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (50:31):
Good thinking guys. Good thinking

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (50:33):
Kids don’t want to read the books.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (50:34):
Cols proudly. And I don’t know, sorry, I’m horrible with names.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (50:44):
So am I. Cool. All right, well, bit of a quick one this week.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (50:51):
Yeah, well I’ve got nothing to review. I did promise. If you’re watching Dana, sorry, I’ve just been flat out with work. I didn’t get a chance to read your comment to review tonight. I’ll try to do it next week. I told someone I was going to read their comic and review it tonight and then I didn’t. So I am a tattle tower.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (51:11):
You could do the classic film trope of the kid in high school that hasn’t done his book report and just get up, read the back of it and say, this book is about a person. It is super exciting. I give it five stars. There you

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (51:27):
Go. Five stars.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (51:28):
Five

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (51:29):
Stars. I probably do give it five stars because I’ve read the first one and if the second one is as good or better than the first one, then I’m going to love it.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (51:36):
Yeah. Cool, cool, cool. Well that gives us something for next week.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (51:40):
Next week I’ll do it next week. Hopefully work will slow down, so I’ll have time to read it.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (51:47):
So in it, we’ve got a little bit of time left. I will do a selfless, no, the other one, selfish plug for a Kickstarter that I have starting in on the first of Feb, which is, I dunno, which is for shadow’s daughter six, comics two colour four. I had to add six then that wasn’t, so yeah, two plus four. So two colour comics and four black and white spinoff issues. Okay. This details on my page and everywhere you’ll see it, I’m going to spam everyone. But anyway, so that’s coming up soon. Super excited.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:24):
Is there a pre-launch page?

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (52:26):
There is a pre-launch page. I don’t know how to get that to you, but

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:33):
Let’s see how quickly I can get to it. Let’s see.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (52:35):
Do you want me, I can send you a thing. Do you want to put an add on and we will do it and look, make it look like we, oh yeah, I

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:45):
Put an ad on. Okay. Let’s see what I have. We’ve got, we’re very organised here. You want whiplash?

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (52:53):
Oh yeah, whatever you want. Last one. Whatever you want. Doesn’t have to be one of mine.

Voice Over (52:58):
It starts with a knock on my door at 3:00 AM Ginger and Man Mountain are standing there giving me the stink eye, like I’m supposed to know who the hell they are. The little guy says something about Giant wanting to bring me in and then it all gets a little too real.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (53:59):
I recognise that music, I recognise that music.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (54:06):
Yeah, man. Make it once, use it a million times. That’s the motto.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (54:10):
Nice. Well I just sent you a link to everyone.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (54:14):
Oh, sweet. There it is. Heaps. There’s

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (54:17):
No way I can say that out loud or put it into a thing and someone can type it out.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (54:22):
No, it’s a massive thing. That’s all right. I’ll be spamming it with everyone anyway, but just as a FYI. That’s coming up.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (54:30):
Well, just so I can say what’s coming up as well, just to not be left out, even though I’ve done it quite a few times tonight we are hoping to launch the Kickstarter for Presents three. The book is Ready, presents three and presents new R three. They are both finished. They’re going for proofs as soon as the printer opens up from their Christmas holidays. So we’ll be able to show proofs when the Kickstarter starts, which we’re hoping is the 17th. Hopefully they can get the proofs back to us in time of this month.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (55:08):
Wow, okay. Alright. Yeah. Nice.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:11):
So hopefully I can get myself organised and get that ready. But that’s the current target. Hopefully I don’t let everyone down. I’m making a bit of habit of doing that lately, but here’s hoping I don’t this time.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (55:24):
And we’re talking four stories in each,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:30):
Four stories in each eight pages, each story. So that’s a total of eight stories. So foreign presents, four in noir. I think this will be the first issue that doesn’t have something that’s continued from previous issues.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (55:50):
Oh, so it’s all new, is it?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:53):
I think they’re all new. Oh, hang on. No, noir has a story continuing. Sorry, but it’s just one. The rest are all, I think they’re all standalone. I don’t think they’re continuing. No, I should have just shut up and not even tried to explain that. But yeah, so there’ll be lots of stories.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (56:12):
So let’s say someone looks at the campaign, thinks this is fantastic, but I particularly like that story and there was a previous story. Where would someone go to pick up instances of presents, would you say if the Kickstarter’s not running like volume one,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:31):
Where could they possibly Comex shop?

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (56:44):
Hey, that’s the one nice one.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:49):
Oh that’s fun. But the Kickstarter itself will actually have the ability to add-ons. Kickstarter has, they’ve had it for a little while now. Not very long though. And there will be add-ons where you can get the previous issues so they all get posted out together.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (57:07):
Oh, okay. Cool, cool, cool. Okay, so if you’re doing the latest one, you can get all the others as part of the kickstart. You

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:13):
Can get new R one, R two or presents one or presents two.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (57:18):
Oh great.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:19):
And there’ll be other things in there as well. Most likely. We just haven’t verified those things yet, but there’ll be definitely older issues of one and two.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (57:29):
Yeah. Is there a thing that you can cut out and send it in? Oh, hang

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:32):
On. Well my explanation was way off, way off, way off. I’m going to correct myself now. I was thinking of four because we’re in the middle of planning four, even though we’ve got three coming out and I was mixing up four with three. Three has the end of the stories that continued from one, two, and three.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (57:53):
Okay.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:55):
Miles off. Miles

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (57:56):
Off. That makes sense then. Alright. Okay. So this is the closing one that you have to get, get the end of the story for the first two.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:04):
Yeah, for presents, presents new. I had mostly standalone stories but presents the colour one. It’s all four stories have continued through from one, two, and they’re ending in three.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (58:20):
Right. Okay, that makes sense.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:23):
I got a bit confused then. Sorry about that. Peoples,

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (58:26):
That’s confusing. Okay, cool. All right, cool. Well that’s good. That’s good. The end of an era and then shortly after the beginning of a new one. The

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:35):
Beginning of a new one.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (58:37):
Yeah. Sweet.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:41):
Cool. Alright. I dunno if I should mention it here, but moving forward, we know there are people out there who don’t support Kickstarters. I’m not interested in doing Kickstarters, who’d rather just get the comic studio. Comic Studio is going to be opening a shop soon where you can pre-order anything that’s coming out in the Kickstarters and just get it directly from the shop.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (59:05):
Ah, okay. Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:06):
So that’s coming out soon. I’m building that onto the site as we speak and yeah, so you won’t need to go to Kickstarter if that’s not your thing.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (59:17):
Okay. Agree each to their own.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:19):
I’ll inform you all of that when we get to next week or how we’re progressing.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (59:27):
Great. All right. Nice one. Thank you sir.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:33):
Thank you. Thank you for covering for me tonight. Thank you. That much appreciated. Even though you threw me into it halfway through, but apart from that, great. Thanks.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (59:43):
We’ll make it a thing. At least one question per show. I’ll throw it away, but you won’t know

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:50):
When. Okay. I’ll try to come up with one question each. Show

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (59:53):
A question. You know, there’s a bunch of easy ones you could do. You just cheat it. You just ask favourite colour or something like that and then you’re done. Oh

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:02):
Yeah. Okay. I didn’t think of anything. That simple.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (01:00:07):
Cool.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:08):
Cool. Thank you Morgan. I guess that’s our time to go out. Thank you everyone for joining us on our first show for 2022 or 2022. As other people say it, instead of 2,200 and something, which I almost said at the beginning of the show. So 20 for us to go. Have a good night. Thank you for joining us. Bring your friends next week. Same s comic show time. Same Oz Comic show channel. I know, I couldn’t help myself. Oh, we’re getting spammed tonight too. The comments have been spam by bots.

Morgan ‘The’ Quaid (01:00:50):
Yeah, I’ve seen a bit of that.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:51):
Yeah, there’s been a lot of it. It’s just random letters. Anyway, I will hit the right button this time and we shall go. Goodnight all. See you Morgan.