The podcast delves into the contrasting financial and popular reception of "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" as compared to "Rogue One" and "Solo," highlighting the nuances in audience engagement and box office performance. Danny J. Quick joins the discussion to elaborate on his creative endeavors, particularly the Kickstarter campaigns for "Ace Blade" and "Ballad of the Black Rose." Furthermore, we explore the intriguing premise of comic book characters that possess the potential to be reimagined within the horror genre, including notable figures such as Scarlet Witch, Doctor Doom, and Brother Voodoo. The episode also touches upon the participation of Blerd Station in the Urban Action Showcase, alongside details of an upcoming IG Live session this weekend, promising a rich array of content that celebrates diverse narratives in the comic and cinematic realms. As we navigate these multifaceted topics, we invite listeners to engage with the conversation and reflect on the evolving landscape of storytelling in popular culture.

“When justice gets dark… heroes get real.”

Join us Thursday 10/23 @ 8 PM EST as we talk to Danny J. Quick, creator of Aceblade & The Ballad of the Black Rose!

He’s bringing the smoke, the stories, and the soul behind his comic universe

Then we’re flipping the script:

Which Marvel or DC icons could truly THRIVE in the world of horror cinema?

LIVE on Blerd’s Eyeview where heroes and horror collide!

#BlerdStation #BlerdsEyeview #Aceblade #BNN #ComicBookTalk #HorrorHeroes #BlackExcellence

Takeaways:

• The podcast discusses the box office performance of 'Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker', comparing its numbers to those of 'Rogue One' and 'Solo', noting that 'Rise of Skywalker' was less popular despite being a mainline film.
• Danny J. Quick elaborates on his comic projects including 'Ace Blade' and 'Ballad of the Black Rose', currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter, emphasizing the importance of independent comics in the industry.
• The speakers explore the idea of which comic book characters could be adapted into horror films, suggesting characters like Scarlet Witch and Doctor Doom due to their dark and complex natures.
• The podcast highlights upcoming events such as the Blood and Bourbon event and the Urban Action Showcase, where Black comic creators will showcase their work, including the presence of Blerd Station.
• Danny J. Quick expresses his passion for storytelling, particularly focusing on narratives that represent Black experiences in genres typically devoid of such representation, like Westerns and horror.
• The episode concludes with discussions on the integration of comics into various media formats, including video games and live-action adaptations, and the need for diverse storytelling in horror.

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That's right, it is Friday Eve, as I like to be known as I. Hello, everybody.

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So let's get this party started.

My man.

My brother Navy Montel in the building.

What's going on?

What's good, man?

How you doing, sir?

Man, I am tired, bro.

Today was rough.

I actually had to call out of work because one thing I've learned as I'm getting older is when the body speaks, you listen.

Yeah, when the body speaks, you listen.

So let me tell you, my body was.

It said you got on the count of three to let them know that you keeping your black ass here because.

Because I was feeling some pain I have never felt.

Let me tell you.

Let me tell you.

I was doing the thing, but I'm a little bit better.

I think I'm about 80.

I still feel the pain, but I got a pillow in my chair, so I'm good right now.

There you go.

Two new things.

What's happening?

I have acquired and I gotta make sure I put the microphone, so.

Oh, okay.

Oh, is that 40?

That's at 400.

400, yep.

Yeah.

And didn't even realize this existed.

I actually heard of that one.

I heard glimpses of it, but I had no idea they did that.

This was a.

A crossover.

But this.

I got this.

Those that are listening, he's holding up a Star Trek and Green Lantern crossover comic.

That's number one.

I heard of that one.

Yep.

This was one of six.

This was this.

This was a six.

There was a limited issue, it was a limited run.

And I didn't know anything about comic block.

Have you ever heard of them?

No.

Apparently it's a blind box.

It was a blind box service.

It must be very short lived in.

No clue whatsoever.

This was part of the stuff that I had gotten.

So.

Yeah, I mean, not everybody can have such great blind boxes like a taco Noir facts, which if you go into the taco noir.com and use your blur's eye view at checkout, you get 10 off any item of their choosing.

How are you, man?

I'm tired.

You know, I went to bed like, I was in bed by 11, but I didn't crash down until like 12.

My wife had to get up early.

So when the alarm went off, it went off at like 1:30.

So when I went off, my brain is like, damn, did you sleep.

It?

I literally thought it was for me because I don't get up until like a couple hours later.

I'm like.

And then I seen the light was on.

I'm like, oh, no, honey's up.

She's.

Because she went in early for like ot.

She went in early.

I'm like, okay, okay, okay.

Go back to sleep.

Go back to sleep.

The ship, right?

Black Spartans in the building.

What's up?

What's up, brother?

What's going on, man?

You lucky duck.

I was over there saying.

I was over there saying it's Star Trek and the Green Lantern crossover, which is hard to find.

You lucky duck.

I didn't, I didn't realize I had it until I saw that I had it and I went, yeah, I gotta share it with my brothers.

Yeah.

Oh, gotta share with the family.

Oh, I'm not knocking it.

That's hard.

That's definitely hard to find.

But it's.

That's a good one, though.

I can't.

I can't knock it.

Hey.

Hey.

Guess what?

My second command is here.

Oh, my gosh.

Look, before we get, before we do, I. I have to check because since had a haphazard day.

How are you?

He beat me to it.

I know.

We'll talk.

We'll talk normally.

Normally we do.

And I just didn't have time to rock it out today.

The skin is so vibrant.

There's who.

I said the skin is so vibrant.

Yeah.

Oh, baby.

I just.

I just did life.

There goes the hair.

You.

You never disappoint me.

Right?

See here?

Blur eye view.

If you give generously, you get, you get, you get.

I keep my hair done.

See, we over here.

We can get our hair done.

Really?

Really?

Oh, I.

Look, I can't talk.

I'm.

I'm 10 seconds away from me and Don King and Buck.

We get this point.

You know, someone's gonna throw a red and white suit my way.

And I'm gonna make it.

I'm gonna make it.

I'll make it work.

The amount, the amount of hate outlook.

I know.

Chat Is the devil.

I do not promote it in any way, shape or form.

But however, I mean, they be having some really good tips for the black skins and the hairs and such.

So those are also putting in your resume.

Yeah, that always.

Yeah, I need to do that myself.

For those who are in the Columbus, Ohio area, please come down to Columbus, Ohio to the La Chaveda Cigar Lounge.

October 26, 7pm we are having the Blood and Bourbon event going down.

We will be premiering the Blurred Station concept video for Blood dealers, which is a Blur Station original you live action show that you will be seeing.

So if you're in.

In the area, come through, come holl at your boy, come talk to the people, some of the people of the cast.

And yeah, we're gonna have a little fun this.

This past Sunday.

A lot of fun.

Three days.

Y' all got three days.

Three days, lady.

Mandalore, you have something.

First off, shout out to David Crouching Killer B.

Nice.

Where are you?

Okay.

You are.

Hi.

On my.

On my reading list.

Legend has it, signed by Sanford Green.

Nice.

So that's on my reading list for the.

For the past week.

Roots.

Amazing.

I have my number.

I gotta get my hands on that one.

I gotta get my.

Really?

We're gonna.

We're gonna flex.

We're gonna flex.

Okay.

Yeah, that we.

I gotta get my hands on that one.

Roots of madness.

Stephanie Williams.

Correct if I am wrong.

Yeah.

Yes.

And also temporal.

She's Stephanie Williams.

I'm giving you all flowers.

Dude, you've been on the show before.

We've talked to you in person before.

This woman has had a year.

Banner year.

Like she has.

Not non stop, non stop.

To the point that she's come up in conversations.

That woman is big.

She's due for a visit.

She's like, just give me the link.

I said, let me know when you're free.

Just say, know when you're free.

I'm like, I. I'm not impinging on anything.

You are busy.

So shout out to Stephanie Williams.

Look, Stephanie, I need you to make sure that your next contract is.

Is long term and not just a freelance.

There we go.

Now we'll gladly have you over at Blur Station.

He'll break.

I mean, dip your toes in the water.

Lake Minnetonka.

Yeah, that part.

That part.

So, yeah.

Yes.

Christy said that's when she found us.

She believed that's when she found us when Stephanie was on.

So, yeah, it is.

She's definitely.

That woman is busy.

She's actually come up in conversation with.

We were having a In our black empires building group on.

On ig.

Her name came up as like a female writer for Storm.

Like it's me and.

Me and Lady Mandalore have said it was like.

It is well past time.

Don't get me wrong.

Yeah, the past what?

Three writers have done great job with hero Ayadelli.

Shout out to him.

He's done a great job with his last run with her.

We need a woman to run the.

Run the ship, please.

Yeah, it's.

It's.

It's.

We.

We.

We want it.

There's.

Important.

If you can't.

If you.

If you ain't been in it, I need somebody that knows.

At the time.

At the time we were saying Eve Ewing should take.

Take the realm.

She's.

She's.

She's another one that's on the.

On the moon storyteller that writes.

That has wrote Luna.

She's.

She's another one that there.

We have a.

We have a long list.

Let's just put it that way.

Yeah.

Oh, sister.

Sister samurai.

Sister.

Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Writer Sister samurai.

She's like I said, long listed.

There's literally a long list of black women who could write stories.

Yeah, definitely that.

Here's what I would love to see.

We get us a beautiful black writer like Stephanie Williams, artist.

I want to see Ryan Oakley.

Okay.

Okay.

I would love to see Ryan.

I love Ryan.

Ryan.

He talked.

Yes, you did, you did, you did, you did.

Go check out room for the first day to have him on.

Okay, Here we go.

Oh, that.

No, hold on.

Okay, okay.

And leave it there.

Leave it there because I gotta.

I gotta.

I gotta put this up because I mad putting Jocelyn.

She's actually one of my choices too.

That's cool.

Come, please.

Let's go.

This cover is gorgeous.

Yeah.

I want this on my wall now.

I want that on my wall.

Screw the noise.

I need.

I need to give you.

I stood in her Booth for like 25 minutes talking about marriage.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was nice.

I just turned to a random page and look at the storm brewing from ahead.

I'm just.

That's man.

See, this is why I appreciate the genre, especially the.

In the indie comic scene, we don't get this enough.

No, we don't.

And the fact that we're getting.

The fact that we're.

We're in the arena now where we're getting more and more of it.

We want more and more of it.

And it's like, yeah, we want some.

We want a woman to write.

We want a black woman to write Storm yes, we do.

But we also want them.

We also want those indie comics.

Bring me those indie comics, please.

There's.

There's lots.

There's so many.

The stories that are coming.

The.

The stories that.

The stories that have come out of every indie comic writer and artist that we've had on either Rufla Blurs, Navy Montel or her Blurs.

Have you any person that.

That we've known.

Midnight comics from Ray Comics.

Like.

The list goes on.

Next step, comics like Vashemer Valentine and that entire crew.

Ray Comics.

TJ and his.

Yeah, yeah, they.

It's extensive.

Stranger.

Don't make that face.

She's coming on this.

The show this Sunday.

I'm just saying.

He's coming on the show this Sunday.

I forgot to say.

It was locked in.

Busy also also for Blurred Station.

If you guys loved the first episode of Unmuted with Cedrical Williams, come check out the second episode this Saturday on IG with Cedrical Williams.

See, Blur station is busy this weekend.

We are busy this weekend.

If.

If it's not the unmuted series taking place Saturday, we will also be at Urban Action Showcase this Saturday.

We'll be at the blood and Bourbon event Sunday in Columbus, Ohio.

We are busy.

Yes, we are.

Hey, I always did one of Kenny Crumpton's job.

I guess I'm doing it my own way now.

Kenny Crumpton here is for the local news for Fox 8 News.

He's a local celebrity.

He's the only brother I've ever seen who.

Whose job I've wanted in newscast.

He doesn't have to wear a suit.

I think the only time I've seen him wear a suit it was during COVID So he couldn't go anywhere.

He is at every local event doing something, having fun.

And I'm like, dude, all he's wearing is jeans and the button up.

Yep.

As long as you clean and you show hygiene, you can do it all.

Or like Black Spartan always says, don't be a dick and you won't get jumped.

Don't repeat that.

Don't repeat that.

The sponge.

Especially now since his vocabulary has increased.

That's.

I was like, please, I'm so sorry.

He said the sp.

She says the sponge there.

Barbecue sauce.

Millions.

This guy's attention right now.

So.

Okay, good, good, good.

Hey, I was watching that the other day, so I'm not judging.

Well, the good thing is your beard survived the onslaught of what, two kids?

He said so far.

Oh, no, we done.

No, we done.

No, I have, I have.

I am Happy with my two boys and a girl.

I'm done.

I am done bringing other children into the world.

I am done.

But they still gonna sit on your lap, so stand by to stand by.

Case in point.

Yeah, but he ain't grabbing at your face like he was when he was.

He was young.

No, he.

No, because he wants.

He wants to run full speed.

That's why I can't wait for him to turn 5 and I can put football pads on him like, here, go hit people.

I got a question.

And.

And this is a Star wars question.

So, you know Lady Mandalore's that you gotta.

Gotta.

Yeah.

I felt her eyes get big.

There was a list that.

That came out the other day that was talked about with.

Who was it?

Cbr.

CBR dropped a list about the.

The.

I guess the intake of how many.

How.

How much each Star wars film has taken in.

Huh.

Yeah, I saw that.

Yeah.

And they said Rise of the Style.

I.

Maybe I read that wrong.

Yeah.

Rise of Skywalker said It was like 47 million.

That was their take.

Like, I'm like, no, there's got to be more than that.

Wow.

I mean, double check it real quick, but.

Yeah, that sounds right.

I'm not.

Yeah, it's got to be more.

I mean, I'm not saying it's not the best at the series, but I just know it could get more than.

I don't.

I don't know if they were using.

If they were going by the opening weekend amount versus.

That's gotta be it.

That's gotta be gross.

Because, like, if you're saying gross, I'm like, oh, it's got to be way more than 47 million.

You know, people.

Yeah.

As much hate as it gets, it still got watched a lot.

Yeah.

Still gets rewatched.

So, yeah, 47 million just seems like a low number for.

I mean, like I said, if it was opening weekend.

Okay, that makes sense.

But overall, I'm like, no, that doesn't sound right.

And unless they're just modestly minusing production costs and like, here, this is what you get at the end.

Yeah, it was opening weekend.

For rising domestically is 176 million worldwide.

Oh, no.

In a worldwide gross of about 374.

That's got to be.

So it must be opening weekend.

Opening weekend was lower than its two predecessors.

Right.

Right.

Now the list.

The other.

The other things that were on there that I. I'll never give hate to Solo.

Never.

It's bad timing.

It was.

Solo was bad.

Solo was bad timing because it's a watch.

That's a good film.

Rogue One got.

Sing your song, baby.

Sing your song.

What is he talking about?

He is singing in that acapella alto.

The crazy part.

The crazy part.

We were watching Star wars.

The Clone wars, and he was glued to it.

So the moment you mentioned Star wars.

What?

He wanted to apparently voice his opinion.

But no, it's Rogue One in Solo are great films.

Rogue One is absolutely fantastic.

Yeah.

Which is why.

Wait, was it even on the list?

Yeah, it was on there.

Yeah, that was on the list.

And I was shocked that.

I mean, it was low, but I was shocked that it was that low.

And I'm like, as much talk as that movie got, especially the ending.

I thought it was a top five.

You know what I mean?

I think it was the top five.

But yeah, it was.

It was low.

It was a low number.

It wasn't like Rise of Skywalker low, but it was low.

Between that one and Solo, I'm like, those are two movies that should not get the hate they got.

And I don't believe exists.

Agree.

I don't why every time you exhale, I never like hearing what you have to say.

You don't want a Han Solo like.

But I wasn't like, oh, let me hurry up and throw my money at it.

Yeah.

It wasn't a horrible movie.

It was.

It was.

It was.

It's a.

It's a standalone movie that actually could have went into some other territory.

It should have made money.

Yeah.

They keep sleeping on.

On Darth Maul, which, like, for what.

Blows your mind.

Blows the mind because.

Sorry, when you get that.

When you get that turn at the end, you're just like, wait a minute.

Nothing.

Why we spend all this time with them over there.

Right?

You did all this build up, and I like, you gave us everything you we wanted.

You gave us backstory and.

And everything.

Right.

And then you drop it.

I don't give a good rats about this.

This man doing a castle rush.

I don't need to see it.

He said it a billion and a half times.

I'm good on it.

I want to see.

To be honest with you, the Kessel Run was a lot more impressive than how he speaks about it.

I just put it that way.

Yeah.

I'm like, oh, I didn't know you had all that going on.

But okay.

But it worked.

Yes.

It was good.

It was good.

It was good.

Yeah.

Oh, not the capes.

Come on.

Right?

Comics.

What's going on?

Fourth wall's in the building.

We have a special guest Tonight, for those who've been paying attention, writer of Ace Blade.

And coming up with the Kickstarter Ballad of the Black Rose, issues one and two, Danny J.

Quick is in the building.

What's good, sir?

Oh, my goodness.

I can put you in the middle.

I can put you on the big.

Screen big time, man.

So you got on the big screen because you.

Big time, bro.

I appreciate it, man.

Thank y'.

All.

Thank y' all for having me, man.

I. I'm listening to y' all talking.

I'm like, I don't remember.

I'd like.

I did like that.

But I just.

I. I think they just didn't market it enough to.

To get Star wars fans into it.

You know, I think it's tough, especially with.

With Star wars fans, to do things without, like, the Skywalkers and without the lightsabers.

So, you know, I. I thought it was a good movie, but I also was not throwing my.

Was not waiting to throw my money at it.

But yeah, yeah, they could have been better.

Like, definitely.

Definitely.

I absolutely saw that as a fight.

I was not giving them my full.

Whatever it cost to go see a movie.

Back then, $15 that I would.

It's not one that I would have.

Like, I.

Me and my family love going to the movies.

Like, it's our thing.

And it's not one that I'm like, okay, everybody has to go see this.

Like, me and DJ probably saw it, or me and my wife probably saw it.

But, you know, it's not one that I like when, you know, the next Spider man comes when through the spider verse or whatever, the next Spiderverse movie comes out, like, we all gonna be there.

Like, we all gonna be there.

Taking a day off.

It doesn't have the cosp together.

Yeah, right.

It doesn't have the same feeling as, like, going to see the Hulk, the first Hulk movie, and then being in the theater and your wife is saying, did that.

And I'm like, no, right?

Damn.

Let me down, Danny.

Let's talk about.

Let's.

You.

You got a couple projects already lining up.

You.

You're working with.

You're working with Blur Station, too, as well, so thank you for that.

So let's talk about Ace Blade first.

Let's talk about who he is, this origin.

And then I. I like this premise behind Ballad.

I seen the title for Ballad of the Black Rose.

I'm like, oh, I already know where this.

I already know.

I could tell.

Just the title alone was telling me.

But let's talk about Ace Blade first.

Absolutely, man.

Again, I appreciate y' all having me on, man.

I've been.

I've been writing Ace Blade for a long time now.

I think.

I can't even think of how many years, but I'll say Ace Blade is a superhero vigilante story.

It's about a man who believes he's the best fighter in the world.

And in order to prove that, he puts on, you know, this costume in.

In Vegas City and fight super villains in a place where anything can be bet on.

And you know, he, you know, he just goes out there and likes to.

Likes to.

Likes to beat up on villains.

So.

But then, you know, the people inherit him or they take him on as their hero and, you know, we love him.

We love explaining.

And.

You know, I was just writing stories, you know, in my free time whenever I was.

Whenever I wasn't on a mission.

And then when we got back, the co creator of Ace Blade, Kristoff, hollers.

He.

He took me to my first comic book convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, Heroes Con.

And like, it.

It was literally like my eyes were opened because I had.

I love superheroes and stuff like that, but I never even thought about the people that make the comic books and stuff like that.

So being at a comic book convention, I was like, oh, these are real people.

Like, these are actual human beings that are making this art and telling these stories.

And I could probably do that.

And, and we had this story, this h. Play story that we were working on.

And I was like, this should be.

It should be a comic book.

It started as a novel.

And.

And then I, you know, I was just like, it should be.

It should be a comic book.

So I started, you know, just learning how to make comic books.

And here we are all these years later.

That labor of love, of learning how to make comics is something that not a lot of people talk about.

And, And.

And just because I know the arena is just what I said it is.

It's a labor of love.

Like, there's times you probably wanted to quit.

You're just like, do I got the money?

Not looking at the watch three hours ago, Maybe.

I don't know.

But you go through the.

You go through the ups and downs of.

Of something that you created, and it's.

It's.

It's like your child.

It's your child.

You know, it was like, you're just like, oh, this kid get on my nerves.

But if I don't do Something, right.

This kid won't be right, you know?

Right.

And, and you have that, that energy.

The love never really leads.

So what is that?

Like, no, yeah, like, like you said, it's a labor of love.

I, I'm thankful for, like, all the people around me who've been patient with me.

I'm thankful, like, for my wife, for making me figure out ways to, to sustain this outside of, you know, we got.

Me and my wife have been married almost 20 years.

We got four children.

And it costs money to make comic books.

You know, it.

You got to pay the artists, you got to pay, you know, colorists.

You got to pay to get them printed, you got to pray, to pay to ship them.

You got to pay for all this stuff.

And my wife was like, that's cool, but we got bills to pay.

Like a wife, right?

Is that, that's cool.

But like, babe, huh?

How are you paying for this?

You know what?

Let me figure that out.

He likes to go on trips and stuff.

And like, for a while she, you know, she, she got a job as a.

At American Airlines so that, you know, we can still go on trips and stuff while I'm, I'm working on the comic books and stuff like that.

You know, I still got my full time job and, you know, we make, we make it work, but, you know, I had to figure out a way to, to do all the things that, you know, get these comic books paid for.

Which is why, you know, we do a lot of Kickstarters, which is why we, you know, we sell books on Tick Tock and all that good stuff.

So, yeah, man, it's a labor of love, but it definitely is necessary.

So go ahead, Navy, I think you got a question.

I don't want to take all the questions all the time, always.

First of all, my man, your, Your library of work is phenomenal.

Ace Blade I've heard of basically for quite a while.

Okay.

I, I love the concept of the hero human, but he is a weapons master, so that is absolute fire.

Yeah.

I was curious, what was your inspiration for creating Ace Blade?

I. I'll.

I'll put it like this, man.

My, my.

The time that I spent in Iraq, I like realized that the enemy, like, okay, you get deployed to a place and you're told that there's this mission and you are told that this person is the enemy.

And while I was there, I realized that like, most people, you know, just want to feed their families.

They just want to be happy.

Like the people that I thought my enemies were not my enemies.

And it was a small group of people that were causing a lot of havoc.

And then there was, you know, people who were providing the money for those people to do things, who I really, you know, saw as the bad guys.

So, you know, the story of Ace Blade is.

Is really a man trying to figure out how to.

How to fight greed with his bare fish.

You know, it's.

It's.

It's.

You know, there's these corporations and these people who got all this power, and.

And they think that they can do anything to anybody because they can, you know, use that money that they got to make to make whoever do whatever.

And, you know, an Ace Blade is the story of a man who wants.

Who believes, you know, in himself, in his.

In his abilities, and that his abilities can impact the community around him.

And, you know, you don't got to be a superhero.

You don't have to have superpowers to make a difference.

You just have to be dedicated and you have to commit to it.

So, you know, that's really what the story is.

And there's some cool.

There's a cool dude in a purple ninja suit and with some cool powers and stuff like that involved, but that's what the story is at the core of.

He looks phenomenal.

I'm not gonna lie.

And.

And the.

The whole.

The whole motif of Ace Blade is just, yeah.

Do you really want to mess with this dude?

I really don't want to mess with a dude.

Heck, I don't even want to mess with him or Lumberjacks.

You put that down, right?

I ain't trying to mess with Lumberjacks.

I read him, too.

I'm sitting there going, what?

Oh, okay, okay.

Yeah.

It's like he permanently is mad at you because you owe him money.

So the creator of Lumberjacks, my boy Morgan Iverson, and I told him, like, this dude, like, you read the stories, and he.

He's got a reason to have these anger issues, but he's just mad all the time, and he's like, see, there go there.

There go Morgan.

Right there.

He could double jump, though.

See, he keeps.

He keeps spoiling it because I told him that if a Blade had one superpower, it would be for him to double jump.

And he keeps joking on me about it, but I think.

I think I could make it pretty cool.

Like, I think if you're a fighter.

If you're a fighter and you can double jump, like, that's an advantage over all the other.

But anyway, I don't know if I.

See a brother, the power Is on his profile.

I ain't fighting to do this about the Super Mario me.

No, if you're just gonna know it.

You make a noise when you jump.

You got a problem.

He's like, here he comes.

What the hell?

You don't want no problems with them.

But, yeah, Lumberjacks is that dude, man.

And H Blade and Lumberjacks don't always see eye to eye, but they both, you know, have.

Have the same mission.

And, you know, we're kind of building this universe with those two characters that's the foundation.

And then also King supreme, who's our kind of our.

Our galactic hero.

You know, he's got, you know, you got.

You got ace player who doesn't have any powers at all, and then you got King supreme who literally puts on his crown and can reshape reality around himself.

So, you know, we got.

Yeah, we got.

We got.

We got a lot of stories that we want to tell, and we're excited that, you know, we've been able to.

To do it with.

With a little bit of success for these years.

Okay, nice lady.

Mandalore.

I want to talk about the Ballad of Black Rose.

I'm.

I'm.

I.

First of all, I love the art.

I. I'm.

I always feel like whenever you have the.

I don't want to say it's an older style, more classic style in that art, you're.

You're getting a.

There's a good story, and there's things that you need to look out for.

Do you mind talking a little bit more about.

No, absolutely.

I'm very intrigued.

I've spent a lot of time, you know, doing superheroes.

I love superhero stories, and I spent a lot of time doing superhero stories.

But somebody put out a tweet years ago where they were like, I want to see black people on dragons and black people in, you know, doing magic and all kinds of stuff.

And one of my favorite things growing up was.

Was Western stories.

I love.

I love western stories.

Out.

Me and my wife watched the Riflemen, like, on the regular.

You know, I love, you know, Westerns just because, you know, there's a nostalgia in it and there's, like, a simplicity to it, but there's always, like, a good lesson to be learned.

But the one thing that you didn't see in a lot of westerns was us.

Like, you just didn't see a lot of black people in these.

In these shows that were so great.

But we were in the time period that these people.

These stories were.

Were made.

Black people were.

Were around they just weren't shown, you know, So I wanted to, you know, try my hand at a western story, a family story, and.

And Ballad of the Black Rose is our.

Is my first go at it.

And it's.

You know, it's just a story about a, you know, a family that's trying to start a life, a new life in the wild West.

Mom and dad, Deja, the mom, she.

She has a history as a card shark and a hustler and.

And Boss Rose, he was a gunslinger.

And, you know, they.

They lived a rough life, but they got together and had this child, and they wanted to give their daughter Primrose a better life, you know, than they had, just like Oliver's parents, you know, do.

So they decided to try to leave that behind.

But then this entity.

I'll just say this entity in the hill, of course, yeah, behind their home, you know, gets them in trouble with the law.

So it starts them on this adventure to.

To find out what's going on with this entity and why is it interacting with their daughter.

And, you know, it's a story about family, and, you know, it's an adventure, and it's a.

And it's a wild, wild west story, man, and I.

And I really enjoy it.

And my youngest daughter, Olivia, you know, it's her favorite story that I.

That I have, you know, so I got a sample copy of the second issue already.

The second issue is already done.

Oh, that looks good.

You know, we got the first two issues here.

She.

She.

She was the first person to read it, and she.

She really enjoyed the first two issues.

So, you know, if nothing else, that's.

That's an accomplishment for me.

How old.

How old is your daughter?

She's nine.

Yeah, she's nine years old.

And she read.

She read.

She read both of them?

Yeah.

Yeah, she read both of them.

She's the brace of the operation.

Good grief.

Yeah.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah.

Olivia definitely the boss around here when it comes to media, anyway, so.

But, yeah, she.

She loved it.

And, you know, the second book, you know, I put something in there that I could tell she really connected to, and I. I really.

Like, there's.

There's.

In my recent history, there's nothing better than that.

Like, there's something I put in there, and I asked her what her favorite part was, and she said it back to me.

Like, there's a phrase in the book, and she said it back to me, and I was like, man, why am I.

Why do I feel these emotions?

What's going on in my heart?

Come Father, let me make you proud of me.

Come listen to me speak up on it.

So I'm excited about it, you know?

You know, I hope.

I hope people enjoy it.

You know, the first one, you know, we did the Kickstarter for the first one, and well, along with Harlem, which is Morgan's other character, it's a spin off from Lumberjacks, and we did those together.

But this is the first Kickstarter for Black Rose by itself.

And, you know, I'm.

I'm just.

I'm excited about it.

When I hear you talk about Ace Blade and Lumberjack and King supreme and now Ballad of Black Rose, I'm envisioning, like, first off, I have an extensive imagination, so it just doesn't shut off.

But seeing Ballad of Black Rose, it put me in the frame of the.

The Harder They Fall.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

It put me in a.

Just add some supernatural elements to it.

But.

And now I see that, and I'm like, yes, more of that, please.

I. I need that.

You know, so I.

And I'm glad Lady Mandalore had segued into it because we don't get to see a lot of that.

Right.

You know, we.

You know, that's why when Said Cheryl said movie, the Harder They Fall dropped.

We were on it.

Folks like us was on it.

Like, when that cast alone sold it, you didn't have to say anything else outside of it.

Like, you could have said, oh, and they're a bunch of, you know, they ain't doing nothing around it.

Like.

Yeah, but look at the cast.

They got to be doing something.

Yeah.

Something got to be going on.

So Regina King and Delroy Lindo, something.

Something's popping, you know, so when I see something like, battle the Black Rose and I, you know, hear about that, the family homestead and then that Old west feel which you mentioned.

The Rifleman.

That's my wife.

That's my wife.

And watching Dylan and Kitty and all of them and the Rifleman afterwards, I'm like.

I'm like, you got your thing, baby, I got mine.

She's like, don't turn that tv.

I said, well, go to sleep so I can turn.

Man.

But I.

We do.

We really look forward to seeing more of stuff like that.

Not just reading about it, but seeing it, like, in another genre.

Have you thought about, you know, now that you're working with Blur Station as well, have you said to yourself, I would like to see one of these in an animation, if not all of them, or in a live action venue?

Yeah, I think I have to.

I'M I'm.

I'm so in the mindset of.

Of making it available where people are, like, think I'm learning as a marketer that, you know, people who read novels are not necessarily people who read comics.

People who read comics are not necessarily people who watch cartoons.

People who watch cartoons are not necessarily people that watch movies.

Right.

Right.

I want to tell these stories in.

In every, you know, possible way.

You know, I want.

I want video.

I want to do video games and I want to do, you know, play.

I want to do.

I. I wrote.

I started writing an Ace Blade stage play a while back and bruh.

Like, I just.

I want to.

I want to make these things available for people where they are because, you know, even though the presentation might change, the message and the themes that the characters represent are.

Are important and need to be shared.

So, yeah, I do want to do, you know, animation, and I do want to do live action, and I do want to, like I said, do video games.

I got so many ideas, but, you know, the comic books are the foundation, you know, Comic books.

I know, you know, we.

I've learned the process of making a comic book, and I can at least get the story out, you know, in the comic book way and using a podcast and things like that.

So the comments come first.

But we definitely are looking to.

To do some live action stuff.

And listen, I.

Like I said, we got.

We're putting Ace Blade.

We're putting all the issues of Ace Blade on.

On Blur Station.

And I haven't talked to him about Ballad of the Black Rose yet, but, you know, everything is possible.

It's got to go up there.

Before I go to Spartan, before I go to Spartan.

I mean, we do have Michael Jai White signed up to do some stuff, and anybody can probably do a double jump.

That's a black man.

It's probably him.

I ain't gonna tell him no.

All right.

Spartan, got a question.

I know, I know.

Battle of Black Rose is.

Is.

Is your baby.

It's the newest thing Shining.

I have to go differently because I. I love Base Play.

I love Lumberjacks because again, he's got that physique.

I'm trying to build up to.

Trying to maintain myself as a unit.

I gotta ask because Harlem, again.

Harlem.

Is such an interesting character.

And number one, I love the.

Whoever the artist is, Respect, because they get the tones, the eyes, the.

The emotion coming out of it.

I just want to say thanks on that.

What.

How did you come up with her?

So.

So Harlem is another one from Morgan Iverson.

Morgan Iverson is the, is the creator of Harlem.

And Harlem is actually a spin off from Lumberjacks.

Okay.

She's Lumberjack's niece.

And we're, we've been pushing Morgan to get that second issue of Harlem out.

So he's in the, he's in the comments.

Right there.

Right there.

That's her name right there.

So we're trying, we're trying so hard.

Like, we've.

It's difficult, man.

It's.

It's so difficult to keep.

To do so many different, you know, projects.

We got so many in our heads that we want to make and we just got to focus on doing.

Morgan just finished the, the Lumberjacks trade, so all four of those issues, you know, are out.

And now, you know, he's working on selling that.

He's working on selling that so he can get money together for the artist.

You know, Wally McNair is the artist right here in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The young legend, as I call him.

And he said, bro, I'm trying.

Yeah, we, we are trying to.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I, I mean, again, I just, I look at her, I'm like, oh, if there was ever a moment for more, for more comics depicting women of color.

Yeah.

And her story again, to Mr. Iverson in the crowd.

I wish I had to look, I would put out tomorrow.

We all do, sir.

But no, you, you gotta, you got a story.

You have something right there.

And I was just, like I said, I'm curious because it's different.

It's different and it's out there, but it pulls you in.

And again, we, we've said, we've said this many times on this show that if you have a great story and you have great artistry, then you have something.

And don't get me wrong, I'm hoping Battle the Black Rose does well.

I still want to see that.

I'm with, I am with you and everybody else.

I would love to see more of a western style telling because really, think about it.

I can only name five black Westerns offhand, and two of them came out in the last three years.

But that being said, I mean, I. I gotta ask, you know, and again, Mr. Robertson, I didn't mean to disrespect you and not say that you didn't create it.

And I know you've already defended yourself in the comics in the, in the comments, but, but yeah, that I, I had to point that out because out of all the things that I see, that to me is like, if I was gonna show my daughter, who right now is more obsessed with throwing things and reading things, but that a long way around saying I would.

You know, I'm hoping you guys will show more of that in the future.

Yeah, no, absolutely.

It's, it's the intent.

Like I said, I'm.

So once I get the issue 10 of Aceblade, Morgan is already at issue 4 of, of lumberjacks, and Wally is working on the, The.

The graphic novel for King Supreme.

Once those three are done, we're gonna, you know, we're not, not necessarily going to pause those, but we're going to be able to focus more energy on the other properties that we have.

And that's Harlem, that's Queen Zajay, that's Ballad of Black Rose, that's.

Morgan has a project called When Kingdoms Fall that I, I want him to, to put out.

You know, we got, we got a lot of stuff that we're working on, but, you know, like I said, we gotta, we gotta set the foundation first and the things that sell the best, you know, can then help other stuff get made, you know.

Yeah.

Right now, Ace Blade, King Supreme, Lumberjacks are our best sellers, but we see the interest.

Anytime we go to a comic book convention and we talk about Harlem, we talk about Ballad of Black Rose, we see like, the excitement, like people, People are happy that we got, you know, eight issues of Ace Blade that we got, you know, a.

They.

They love seeing that we've, we've been consistent and that we can make things.

But when we talk about Harlem and Black Rose specifically, we see the excitement that people, you know, that people have for those, for those properties and stories, and we want to get to them.

We definitely want to get to those.

Okay, see this, this is, this is what this platform is all about.

Because it, it.

I don't want to say exposed, but it does expose the, the listener or the person that's watching the show like, oh, I didn't know this comic was by this person or that they had this comic or comics in this case or these many properties.

And not only that, but building a whole universe, you know, which we, we stated earlier in the show, like, you have a lot of independent comics out here now, like a lot of indie comics.

If you go watch Room Full of Blur, she has like another indie comic creator pop up every other Sunday now.

And they're all.

They all look like us.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And, and it's every Sunday and, and they look like us.

And it's necessary to see some of those stories come out, not Some.

All those stories come out that reflect these new, different types of stories.

Now, it's not the same.

And don't get me wrong, the big two, or now the three, if you count image, you know, those are great stories, but over.

After 80 years at one in 70 at another, and then another one's probably hitting 30 or 40, you know, where does your stories end?

Do you have anything fresh?

Do you have something new?

Do you have anything you could tell from a different perspective?

No.

Okay.

Come over here.

Don't get me wrong.

I love the.

Don't get me wrong.

Love the bat, but.

Yeah, but, dude, many iterations of the same character.

It's time to get over.

I need to build it.

As a Batman fan, I cannot argue.

I can't argue against that.

I think that.

I think that.

So it's interesting.

Like, in the past, I. I love the big two also, but I think that they were worried about making money so much because there's always this.

This narrative of, you know, comics are dying or whatever.

So what they.

It seemed like they were doing is if somebody had a good idea, if somebody had a good story they wanted to tell, they would say, all right, which character can.

Can we sell to tell this story?

So even if it wasn't.

Even if it wasn't a Batman story, and they could.

But they could put Batman in it.

And to tell the story, they would do that just so that they can make sure they were making money.

And I understand that from a business standpoint, but then you got all these different Batman stories that aren't true, necessarily true to the core of the character, which kind of died.

You know, I understand.

I definitely understand.

You know, companies got to make their money.

They gotta, you know, make that payroll.

But, you know, at the same time, there's so many.

Now, that's.

That's one of the reasons the indies are doing so, so great, you know, is because we got stories and people are looking for that.

I mean.

Yeah.

I mean, variety.

Yeah.

Case in point.

Hickman working on X Men.

Probably one of the best things that that whole iteration had.

And then what did they do?

We're gonna take you off.

No, wait a minute.

The Krakoan age was great.

Yeah.

The grill, the crock pot.

They had the.

We had him.

We were having him at the breakout and everything.

We were like, do you understand?

And then what did y' all do?

They brought potato salad with Graysons in it.

They just up the whole.

It was like, we'll take you off and put you over here.

And I'm like, let him work with them first because he had a planet away from Earth.

We were happy man.

Talk to our friends and we all had something to talk about instead of the usual stuff, right?

Danny, I, I have a, I have a question that caught me with Ace, King and Jack.

So of course, anyone knows who plays cars is.

That's, that's pretty much a royal flush right there.

So I'm curious, is there going to be some sort of a queen based character or is Harlem that queen based character?

All right, so this was completely coincidental, okay?

We did not intend to make it like this, but there is a Queen Zajay coming.

Harlem is kind of the joker of the bunch, I would say, but there is.

So we got Ace Blade, we got King supreme, we got Lumberjacks.

Queen Zajay is coming.

That's.

If I had it close to me, I would show it to you.

But we already got a preview set for, for Queen Zajay.

And like I said, Harlem is kind of our, our joker.

She's kind of the wild card.

And if you've read, you've read her comic, you know why?

She can, she can be a little, she could be a little, a little hot headed, I guess.

So that's why I asked the question.

Not the wild card.

Charlie from Always in Sunny and Philadelphia.

Not that kind of wild card.

We don't need that type of wild card.

Glorilla and Cardi B had a kid.

How close am I in that comparison.

Now?

Because I was just gonna be fine.

I need liquor in my cup.

The hell?

I don't know if anybody's that wild.

I don't think there's nobody that wild, bro.

Not yet anyway.

Anyone that you can pay to be that wild and still sustain it, that's.

Part the sustainable part, right?

You have created such a.

You and everybody together has just created such a beautiful and vibrant universe.

And this is just one of many in this entire cosmos of black comic creators, sir.

This is, this is amazing what y' all have created with starting with Ace and then going from there.

But you said you did a stage play.

Don't think I was gonna go past that, sir.

I said I started, I started writing a stage play because I was like, you know, I, I love going to, to plays, I love musicals and stuff like that.

So I was like, I, I have written a, a video game concept for Ace Blade.

Like, I, I just, I'm just always trying to think of ways that we can, you know, get people involved.

And I know that the black community would Come out and support.

Oh, God, yes.

You know, I. I know that, you know, black people will come out and see you if you got something to show them, you know, if you got something for them to.

To see, that's good.

And if it.

If word of mouth says, yo, y' all gotta go check this out.

It's new and it's fresh, people will do it.

People will go out and we'll do it.

But no, I didn't.

I didn't finish the stage play.

But we did do an escape room with Ace Blade for about two years in my.

I had a comic book shop next to my wife's hair salon, and I built an escape room with all working puzzles.

It was literally designed for the people to come in and, you know, they get trapped with Ace Blade with one of the.

Bill with one of the villains, and then you have an hour to escape or the whole room explodes.

And, you know, man, see you coming.

To North Carolina, bro.

I would have a reason to drive across the line, bro.

You could have kept it together, bro.

I tried so hard.

I tried so hard to keep that thing afloat, man.

But it was like.

It was just me working.

Like, I'm.

I'm not.

I gotta get better about, you know, working with people and trusting people to come in and take care of the things that I make.

And I just.

People were coming in and breaking the.

Breaking it, you know, breaking the.

The puzzles and stuff like that.

And then, because we made them all ourself, you know, we.

We had just like, what is wrong with you people?

Where's your whole training?

Why do you need to break says on the wall?

Don't push or pull too hard.

They just ripping it out.

I'm like, bro, I gotta fix that.

But.

But, yeah, man, it was just.

It was.

It was too much to keep going.

But we had a great time with it, and everybody who.

Who did it, you know, they really loved it.

So, you know, we.

We thought about doing like, a mobile version and bringing it to comic book conventions and stuff like that, but, you know, it's.

We got.

We got a lot of ideas, man.

We just got a lot of.

A lot of ideas.

I think that escape from idea did seem pretty cool, though.

But, yeah, look, me and this.

Me and this crew, because it's.

It's about seven of us.

We're.

We're trying to see at another convention if time allots to do an escape room ourselves.

Like, I know we could.

I know we could pull it off.

I'm not worried about that.

Like, I know we could pull up.

I'd let lady Mandalore run the game.

At that point.

It was like, look.

Look at you.

Baskets.

Don't touch nothing.

Don't move nothing.

Yes, ma'.

Am.

Everything.

Read everything out loud.

You can touch it.

It's only the last thing you touch.

Damn.

So, yeah, I.

But that's something I always wanted to do is.

It's an escape room.

I was like, I don't have the.

The people outside of my son that's willing to, like, I don't know if this means, oh, you're no help.

Get away from me.

Things can be frustrating, man.

It's.

But that's part of the fun of it, I think.

You know, me and my family, we've done.

We've done a few.

And, you know, there's certain people in the family who.

Who get frustrated, you know, cross a little bit, and then, you know, they just need to take a.

Take a breath, take a five or ten minutes, and then they'll get back into it.

It's the ones.

It's the ones.

You'd be like.

You're sitting back.

You're like, I told you to turn it counterclockwise very much.

I said it three times.

You were arguing amongst yourselves.

Well, you know what?

We're all gonna die.

Let's just.

Yeah, let's just die.

Okay, that's fine.

I would be that one in the corner with the orange folder talking about, I told you not to hit the switch, you dummy.

Told you it's the card with the s.

Learn your letters.

We're all gonna die.

Danny, we're gonna take a break.

We're gonna come back if you want to stick around, if you can.

We're talking about characters, okay, that could be make.

That can make great horror films.

We've seen a couple.

They've been able to pull it off.

All right?

And we're gonna talk a little bit more about some of the this.

This country fried blackness that you got going on, too.

I like it, man.

Gonna make me drive across North Carolina just to come visit.

Right now.

I'm about to come across.

I'm in Virginia, too.

Just let me know.

Just give me.

Give me a direction.

I was just up there in Virginia today.

Y' all got a casino up there that my wife likes.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, Lord, here we go.

There it is.

We'll be right back.

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All right, all right.

There we go.

We are back.

Let me get myself off the screen.

There we go.

We are back with our guest, Danny J.

Quick of Ace Blade Battle of the Black Rose.

And we are talking about some of these comic book characters that could make a great horror film.

Now, we've seen.

We've seen Wanda and Doctor Strange, which was directed by Danny.

Well, no, directed by Sam Raimi.

Samurai.

Yeah.

Always get him his Ted mixed up.

And.

And actually there were scenes that Wanda.

Yeah, Wanda was a bit much.

I understand, but she was still a bit much.

So we've seen that.

We've seen.

We've seen how they mishandled John Constantine.