this time,

which is like suburbs of Cincinnati, sort of.

And it's like not a real city.

It's just a bunch of suburbs that don't really have a universal commerce area.

So there's like, no comic book stores that I could find.

But he had a copy of the Dark Phoenix saga in trade paperback that he had borrowed from somebody and was showing it to me because he was obsessed with Storm.

And he was like, look at this character.

Was there anything else you wanted to bring up about this story?

Do I have that right?

[chuckles] Yeah, I was looking for a comedy.

I've been looking for a comedy for over a decade, and Tig is a friend of mine.

And so when she called a couple years ago with a poetry cancer film, it sounded like the opposite of funny.

Um, but Tig said, "Hear me out.

It's the rock star of spoken word poetry, um, and also, I've been friends with Andrea for twenty-five years, and Andrea is one of the funniest people I've ever known." And, you know, Tig understandably, has a very high bar for humor, so if she thought that, I had no reason to, uh, disagree.

And so, yeah, in the end, I hope, um, it really does sort of subvert the terminal illness genre of films, in that it sounds very dark and sad, but I think most people, after seeing the film, uh, leave having laughed a lot, and they leave, um, quite joyful.

You think?