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breakdownHeat Vision caught up with creators Caleb Goellner and Buster Moody to task about the origins, the collected edition, and the future, of? Not just in terms of what series/concepts/shows inspired it creatively, but why do a comic in the first place? Caleb, you were on the other side of the comics journalism thing at the time…Working in comics journalism definitely inspired my eventual shift to comic creation, but more in a philosophical way than a mechanical way.
When I first started thinking about, I was around five years deep covering comics and running around in Portland’s comics scene. That meant, among other things, that I got to meet and otherwise be around awesome creators on a regular basis. After awhile, I started to pick up on who seemed genuinely happy and energized and why. I realized I’d been suppressing the comics beast within. So I tried to shed my fears, anxieties, and ego by drawing my own comics again for the first time since junior high and wrote my first comic script, which was forNo. 1. A friend told me that I’d get hooked and I did. Fortunately Buster — who was already a comics pro — agreed to team up with me.To answer “why comics?” I would simply say because comics are by far the dopest storytelling medium that exists. I love film, animation, music… but comics are just my preferred form of entertainment/story consumption. Also, anyone can make a comic. The entry point into comics is way more accessible than more specialized mediums.specifically is a distillation of various types of media Caleb and I loved, but chief among those mediums was comics —Buster, you call it a distillation of the things you love — what is it about things likethat have kept them fun and bypasses the over-thinking of other pop culture properties like DC or Marvel’s superheroes, or, do you think?One of the things I like about the above-mentioned properties are their versatility of creature design.all seem to embrace the "fun" aspects of action stories, and can explore unique ways of expressing that fun. The character designs usually reflect that. Aside from very cut-and-dry good vs. evil parables, by and large these properties also stay away from moralizing and talking down to their audience. It’s hard to overthink "Evil is trying to destroy our world -- we must protect it." I don’t think it’s necessarily a good thing to sympathize with genocidal villains. So many times watching Big Two-based movies you can be led to think ‘You know, maybe weeliminate half the population?’ when hopefully, very obviously that is not something anyone should be doing or considering. Hopefully people realize that’s not ok.I think I just like monsters and monster slayers more than some of the more messiah-y superheroes from the Big Two, you know? Manga, anime, and tokusatsu are full of heroes who don’t think twice about blowing up bad guys who personify bad ideas. In tokusatsu, there are obnoxious giant inanimate objects kidnapping schoolchildren by the bus-full and knocking over skyscrapers. It’s immensely satisfying to watch somebody in a cool motorcycle helmet and matching scarf do a bunch of cartwheels, shout something ruggedly poetic about justice and love, then kick the monster so hard that it bursts into a fireworks display. That’s not to say I don’t also love things like Superman saving the universe by singing, but I’ll take the virtue of theAlong the same lines of not overthinking things,is part-parody, part-homage, and part-unselfconscious expression of joy; it’s at once complex in its mix, and also very simple because it reads very straightforward in its execution — it’s not snide or ironic in what it does. It’s just fun. Is this directly your excitement translating on the page, or are we missing the blood, sweat and tears of you managing to fake sincerity really, really well?Thank you! When I work on comics I really am trying to share joy. I can get pretty cynical and deadpan to guard myself against the stresses of modern life, but when I watch tokusatsu or read comics and manga, there are these moments when I feel like I’m watching an amazing play during the last 15 seconds of a tied-up NBA final or something — I’m feasting on a bespoke triumph. Like every page ofmakes me want to shout “A person thought this up, drew it, and now I’m shouting! Being alive is cool!”and other comics, I’m chasing becoming worthy of creating something that might make somebody else feel similarly.Sincerity is one of those things that I feel is pretty undervalued these days. Most media has a layer of irony or cynicism attempting to shield the work from criticism. Those type stories definitely have a place in our society and time, butreally is an unabashed expression of optimism and energy in the face of anxiety, sardonic cynicism, and trends of current post-modern angst. There are still things to be hopeful of in life, even if stuff can get rocky.Sonic the Hedgehog
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