Alternative comics

We're going to be talking about creative journey.

cinematic storytelling, indie comics, local comics, ancient aliens, A51, scorpion rage, world mobility, and what it really takes to swim big when you're building your own lane.

Ladies and gentlemen, creators, readers, and believers, skeptics, and everybody who has ever looked at the sky and said, nah, that was not a weather balloon.

Give it up for my man, the one here, the big boss himself, Giovanni the Scorpion.

So that's how we do it, family.

A big old massive weapon to my man, Right here, Giovanni Sticco for pulling up to the Karma Crusaders podcast to take us inside the world of Scorpion, Anunnaki, and 51.

Now, we've talked Rage, Transformation, Ancient Gods, Area 51, Indie Hustle, Cinematic Storytelling, and kind of what it means to build your own universe when nobody hands you the keys, right? So this is the beauty of Indie Comics.

It's raw.

Today, he is back to talk about Justice Machine.

See, he was an early independent comics pioneer who launched his Justice Machine through Noble Comics in 1981, helping establish one of the first career-owned superhero universes in the direct market, and showing that ambitious superhero comics could succeed outside of the industry's major publishers.

Over the years, I've always been a big Gustovich and Just- Justice Machine fan.

Over the summer, I got to know him and got him to do these two tapings.

And Marvel and DC did.

Of course, they weren't going to help them out, even though when Marvel first started out, DC helped them distribute, which turned out to be a big mistake for, on DC's part.

But anyway, misconceptions, I would say, would be that, that the independent comics weren't really all that good or worthwhile in general.

But then I was never that involved in the industry other than doing the work.

I have a section 12 flavor.

That's going to be, and you know, the Avenger, you know, so we do a lot of things to connect our world together and, And the book that I'm working on right now is we have a fake podcast slash infomercial called Indie Comics Deep Dive with Mona and Sam.

I have two digital hosts that talk about the comic books because when I did it myself, you didn't want to hear me drone on for 20 minutes about talking about my own comic books.

Sorry, guys, don't tune out.

So...

That was, you know, I used the unreliable narrator.

So I had Bubble Sinker, which was the hot chick, come on Indie Comics Deep Dive with Mona and Sam to be interviewed.

So she gave her side of the story, but since this was a comic, I could use the unreliable narrator and show what really happened as she told us a totally different story.

readers can create their own inmate, yes, you heard me right, your own little prisoner out there, enter the world, unlock lore, and potentially become part of the future mythology of Panopticon.

That's not Indie Comics standing still, baby.

That's Indie Comics grabbing the controller, kicking open the cell door, and yelling, we're building universes now, baby! You heard? So today, we're talking creative journey, sci-fi, mystery, oppressive psychology, interactive storytelling, indie innovation, and why the scariest guard might be the one you actually never see.

Ladies and gentlemen, crusaders worldwide.

Lock the cell, dim the lights, and watch the tower, and make some noise for the one, the only, Mr. Mech.

I mean, that's pretty dope.

I mean, he already told you that you're going to die, but it will be a glorious death.

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