Full Transcript for Episode #513 -- High Hopes

there are 38 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:15.159 so many Indiana Jones novels out there. They have to 39 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:18.400 have a wealth of of event of material with which 40 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:19.479 to pull from as well. 41 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:22.319 Oh, there's plenty of those novels. And there's also there's 42 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:25.159 also a couple of unpublished comic books, you know, that 43 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:28.400 were pitched and you know, supposedly started production but didn't 44 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:30.680 didn't fly. With the close sales toward the end of 45 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:34.400 the Dark Horse run. But even then, that's that's really irrelevant. 46 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:38.199 There's just so much potential storytelling. I mean, my god, 47 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:39.879 we could get a you know, I would, I would 48 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:42.719 pay big money for a five or seven issue mini 49 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:47.680 series focusing on Indy and a young short round. You know, 50 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:52.120 Indy and has adventures with Wu Han from exactly People 51 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:56.039 of Doom, you know, just all you know, Indie with 52 00:02:56.120 --> 00:03:00.639 Abner Ravenwood, you know, I mean this The potential I 53 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:03.319 think is is that you know, Indy even Indian Mac 54 00:03:03.439 --> 00:03:04.360 during World War Two. 55 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:07.520 Yeah, there there's plenty there, you know, unlike Star Wars 56 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:10.000 that you know there are there are huge swaths of 57 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:13.680 Indiana Jones's life that we that have not been been 58 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:15.680 thought about. So yeah, I'm excited about that. 59 00:03:16.759 --> 00:03:19.360 The other bit of news the fact that, you know, 60 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:20.840 the fact I don't really think we're gonna get any 61 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:23.599 more Indiana JNG movies. No, it's gonna sort of like 62 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:27.080 it's gonna it's gonna give I think Lucasfilm Publishing a 63 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:29.599 bit more of a free hand, you know, right, hav 64 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:32.360 to be extrapolated by Cannon, although you know, when you 65 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:35.280 think about it, Star Wars doesn't really doesn't like Cannon 66 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:37.439 that there's retools that are revamp set, right. 67 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:40.599 But yeah. The other bit of news that I was 68 00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:42.560 excited about, and I think's probably you probably have this 69 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:44.919 one pegged as well as the announcement of Ryan Gosling 70 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:47.719 as a ghostwriter in the Marvel Years coming in twenty 71 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:49.759 twenty eight, which I thought was kind of cool and 72 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:53.199 directed by Sean Levy who did dead Pools and Wolverine, 73 00:03:53.240

--> 00:03:54.919 And isn't he doing Starfighter as well? 74 00:03:55.319 --> 00:03:55.759 He is? 75 00:03:55.919 --> 00:03:58.599 Yeah, so yeah, Ryan Gosling is his new DeNiro. I 76 00:03:58.599 --> 00:03:59.879 guess who knows. 77 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:03.560 Although I will admit and I only say this because 78 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:06.719 because I love Nicholas Cage's ghost Writer, right. I love 79 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:08.879 the first one. I even liked the second one, which was, 80 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:12.159 you know, universally panned and rightfully so, but it was entertaining. 81 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:14.199 But I just I just thought it was kind of 82 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:16.920 cool in this sort of little oh hey, how about that? 83 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:20.600 You know that Ryan Gosling apparently had pitched Kevin Fagy 84 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:24.160 about being ghost writer, and then of course you know 85 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:27.759 Ama Mendez was in the first ghost Writer who. 86 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:32.480 Is married to Ryan Gosling. Yeah, yeah, So also I 87 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:34.240 would like to point out somebody pointed out that when 88 00:04:34.279 --> 00:04:36.240 Nicholas Cage played ghost Writer the first time, he was 89 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:39.519 forty one. Gosling will be forty seven when he films his. 90 00:04:40.279 --> 00:04:45.879 Oh it's too old. Oh I'm kidding. Of course, he's 91 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:47.439 not too old. It'll be fun, you know. 92 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:48.279 You know. 93 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:51.160 I also enjoyed the fact that we're getting I guess 94 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:53.399 you know, again not Star Wars related, but we're getting 95 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:54.399 a Black Panther three. 96 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:58.240 Yeah, they're gonna eight and they're gonna age to Challah 97 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:00.360 the second up, and. 98 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:03.600 He's being played by the young man from the what 99 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:04.560 was the alien movie? 100 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:09.399 Oh, Alien Romulus. He was phenomenal in that film. I've 101 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:11.360 not seen The Long Walk, but just based on that 102 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:13.920 performance alone, the guy can do anything as far as 103 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:14.519 I'm concerned. 104 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:17.800 Oh, totally, totally, yeah, yeah, but you know, I guess 105 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:20.040 you know. This is a Star Wars comics podcast, although 106 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:21.439 I think it should be said that Jeff and I 107 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:25.560 are planning, you know, to do an Indiana Jones comics podcast. 108 00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:28.519 So Matt had been planning it for decades and he 109 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:29.680 asked me to come along. 110 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:32.360 So yeah, sure I have yeah, literally, because back back 111 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:36.680 after you know, Disney bought Marvel back when I was 112 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:39.800 still working for the AP. I. You know, I called 113 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:43.639 Axel Alonzo, who was the then editor in chief, and 114 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:45.160 you know, I said, hey, man, I heard you guys 115 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:47.480 visited the ranch and he goes, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, 116 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:49.800 you know it was just it was mostly for background stuff, 117 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:52.040 nothing big. And I said, I got to ask. He goes, 118 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:54.199 what what what are you going to ask that you're 119 00:05:54.199 --> 00:05:57.439 gonna do Indiana Jones? And he goes, I can't say 120 00:05:57.439 --> 00:05:59.000 if we are not, but let me tell you this. 121 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:02.000 It came up. I said, okay, cool. So I have 122 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:06.120 been waiting for thirteen years, so so much so that 123 00:06:06.199 --> 00:06:10.839 you know, I have the indie comics Cavalcade dot com 124 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:12.279 website that I've been paying for. 125 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:15.480 You've been supporting on it, yeah, for a decade. 126 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:18.839 I have the Indiana Jones comics at gmail dot com. 127 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:21.120 I have, you know, the Indiana Jones comics on Blue 128 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:22.600 Skies and. 129 00:06:22.519 --> 00:06:24.519 See, and I suggest that he should have shown Oh no, 130 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:26.800 it's not the year's Honeyt's some mile log at gmail 131 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:29.000 dot com. All one word is our email address. But 132 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:31.800 I guess you're right, Yours is probably better. 133 00:06:32.199 --> 00:06:35.279 That's easier, it's more direct. So and then I even 134 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:37.959 created an Indiana Jones comics subreddit, you know, like three 135 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:41.079 or four years ago. So I'm like, I'm like the 136 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:43.319 only one who uses it, but you know, who knows. 137 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:49.000 We'll see, all right, So Star Wars Comics, not a 138 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:53.120 lot of news, nothing new from Marvel. Marvel gave us 139 00:06:53.160 --> 00:06:58.600 looks at basically the October solicits. Uh, you know, we 140 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:01.120 got to look at some of the the variant covers 141 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:03.199 and the main covers for Book of Boba Fett three 142 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:06.160 and four, as well as The Fall of Kylo Red 143 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:11.759 number three of five dark Horse. All we got was 144 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:18.160 an advanced preview of the High Republic Adventures Pathfinders number four, 145 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:22.360 which is dueout August nineteenth. Should be noted that dark 146 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:25.120 Horse had no Star Wars comics and it's November solicits 147 00:07:25.199 -->

00:07:30.079 last week at all, except for the already previously solicit 148 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:35.279 solicited the Bad Batch Rogue Agent's trade paperback, which is 149 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:37.560 coming out I believe the number third, and then of 150 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:39.920 course we are going to get the Pathfinders trade paperback 151 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:42.399 in December. But other than that, nothing, no news from 152 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:48.120 dark Horse at all. So why well, mad K Studios 153 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:52.000 had a panel with Lucasfilm Publishing and they have got 154 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:56.160 three titles, you know that. They revealed that the Lucasfilm 155 00:07:56.160 --> 00:08:00.720 Publishing panel, one of which is a new graphic novel 156 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:03.319 called Star Wars a new Hope triple Take, which is 157 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:06.680 you know, obviously a look at Leah and Luke and 158 00:08:06.759 --> 00:08:10.399 Han solo. And then they showed us some advanced look 159 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:15.279 from the upcoming and already previously announced Jabas Bounty and 160 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:19.120 the Legend of Beggars Canyon middle grade graphic novels. Should 161 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:20.800 be noted that, you know, it looks like, you know, 162 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:23.920 we will get Jackson, so that's that's always a good thing. 163 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:28.240 But then when they did their own panel with Lucasfilm, 164 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:30.800 mad Cave did say that it is going to have 165 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:33.639 a new series spending in twenty twenty seven called Star 166 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:37.720 Wars X Wing Academy. Oh fun, yeah, yeah, and it 167 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:40.679 looks like it's gonna be a lot of fun. You know, 168 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:43.279 it's obviously it's you know, this is geared toward toward kids. 169 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:45.279 You know, I guess as you know, I guess they 170 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:46.639 call it, you know, middle grade. We'll see. 171 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:47.440 Uh. 172 00:08:47.639 --> 00:08:50.440 We Also, they are going to do another Mandalorian grogu 173 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:52.840 one shot. This one's going to be called Nightmare on Navarro. 174 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:56.480 Uh, and they're gonna do a Phineas and Therred Star 175 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:00.039 Wars graphic novel crossover. Oh fine, which makes it a 176 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:02.440 lot of sense because A I love Yeah, how can 177 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:05.679 you not? And B you know they you know, Phineas 178 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:07.720 and verb hass you know has dot a Star Wars 179 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:09.039 crossover on TV as. 180 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:10.639 Well, right, they're great? 181 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:13.320 Oh yeah. So and that's that's literally it. 182 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:16.639 You know, so we have yet to we we don't 183 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:18.559 know yet if we're going to be able to review 184 00:09:19.720 --> 00:09:23.440 prematurely any of the the the the the do books. 185 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:25.759 From I don't because matter as a matter of fact, 186 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:29.080 my shot didn't get any copies of The Mandalorian grows 187 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:30.840 with Danger in the Dark one shot that came out 188 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:31.639 last week. 189 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:33.200 So even if we wanted to buy one, we couldn't. 190 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:35.600 Wow, well we could, I mean I could get it digitally, 191 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:37.159 but you know, I'd better have a hard copy. 192 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:39.399 But and we're you know, we're still waiting to hear 193 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:41.080 from Mad Day if we're going to be on their 194 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:45.639 media list, which we've not yet heard obviously, you know, 195 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:50.159 I've been asking since January they were announced, and so 196 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:53.200 but then, you know, nothing really happened, and of course 197 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:56.639 last week being SCC, I didn't really expected news, but right, 198 00:09:57.279 --> 00:10:00.559 you know, so we'll see but u because it looks 199 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:01.879 like fun stuff, you know, especially that. 200 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:02.600 X Ing Academy. 201 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:05.120 Yeah, that sounds like a lot of fun. 202 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:06.679 Yeah, because it's it's good. 203 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:09.720 It's being written by Scott Peterson and Josh Preuit, art 204 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:11.600 by Craig Ifs, and so that that's gonna be that's 205 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:13.399 gonna be a blast, and it looks like that's going 206 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:15.440 to be part of mad. 207 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:18.799 Case paper Cuts imprint. So uh, but you know, the 208 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:19.360 best way. 209 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:21.200 To describe that, you know is, you know, if you 210 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:25.600 remember Scholastic book fairs, it's pretty clear we're gonna find. 211 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:27.399 These paper Cuts books that Scholastic book fairs. 212 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:29.799 Yeah, which is not a bad thing, it's just maybe 213 00:10:29.879 --> 00:10:32.639 not what the average comic book reader is looking for. 214 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:35.960 And you know, and the discussion on the Star Wars 215 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:39.480 Comics sub reddit, even on our our page on the 216 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:43.120 placebook has sort of focused on the fact that, you know, 217 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:45.919 we really were hoping for something from Marvel for anything, 218 00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:48.720 but you know, it's still early and we got New 219 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:50.799 York Comic Con coming up in the fall, and that's 220 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:52.480 typically you know if memory service. 221 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:55.039 That's kind of what Marvel kind of goes really. 222 00:10:57.120 --> 00:11:00.159 In the announcements, and I think this year will will 223 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:03.600 probably have something their last hour as a new were 224 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:06.120 sitting based company, you know, their last the last n 225 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:08.360 y see see actually being based in New York. 226 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:09.919 City, right because they're heading for the coast. 227 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:15.159 So that's that's so we got. 228 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:17.799 All right, well that is it. So we'll if anything 229 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:19.960 happens a dream now and then come back next Wednesday 230 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:22.919 and we'll let you know what's going on. We don't 231 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:24.120 have any books next week, right. 232 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:26.639 So the next the next book coming out is August 233 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:28.559 twelup and that's the fault or Pylo Wilson. 234 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:29.320 But we want to fuck. 235 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:31.320 So we'll be back then to discuss that. We'll be 236 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:33.440 back next week to discuss anything that happens between now 237 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:36.559 and then until then. For Star Wars splash page, I've been, Jeff, 238 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:40.600 I've been that. May the Force be with you. 239 00:11:44.039 --> 00:11:46.759 The Star Wars splash page theme song is Mark can 240 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:50.480 can handle on Chris Cape. 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