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Exclusive Interview with Comedian and ‘Primo’ star, Carlos Santos

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Carlos Santos is an Actor/Comedian based out of Los Angeles. He is best known for playing Chris Morales on the Netflix original series, Gentefied. He’s also been featured on Vacation Friends (20th Century), “The Valet” (HULU), and the Prime Video series “Undone”. Carlos and the members of the improv group “Spanish Aqui Presents”, host a monthly all-latine comedy variety show at The Paramount in Boyle Heights. He also tours the country doing stand-up comedy. Carlos just wrapped on the first season of “Primo”.

Primo follows a San Antonio teenager balancing college aspirations, societal expectations and a hectic home life anchored by his single mom and five uncles. Based on the life of creator Shea Serrano.

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Interview with Mini Marvel Writer/ Illustrator Chris Giarrusso

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Chris talked about how he and his brother would read Charles Schulz comics strips growing up. He went to art school and then later he got a job at Marvel comics. He worked in the bullpen where he learned the ins and outs of the comic world. He later got an opportunity to work on a little series called Mini Marvels. Chris Giarrusso’s art helped create the mini Marvel world. After that ended, he got an opportunity to work at Image comics on a comic called Savage Dragon, with one of his favorite artist Eric Larson. Here he created, G-Man a young superhero who gains the powers of super strength, super endurance and flight when he wears a magic cape.  His first appearance was in “Comic Bits”, published in Image’s Savage Dragon series. 

After that Image published volume one Learning to Fly in 2009. Then volume 2 Cape Crisis, was published in 2010. 

Chris said he still reads comics. He’s a big fan of Transformers, TMNT, and He-Man. He said that he likes the current run of Transformers that Skybound is writing. I asked him with Dynamite writing ThunderCats and Silverhawks if you would ever consider doing coverage for that run. He stated he would love to do a variant cover for either SilverHawks or ThunderCats. He said he if Dynamite would reach out he would say yes. (So Dynamite if you are reading this article reach out to Chris Giarrusso and make this happen!)

He said earlier this year, Marvel reached out to him about doing a series of variant covers on ongoing comics from X-Men to Venom to Spider-Man and Moon Knight. The list goes on. At the time of the interview, Marvel had just dropped the news that Godzila would be coming to the Marvel universe. I asked him if he would like to do a Mini Marvel Godzilla variant and he said yes. I also asked him if he would ever think about going back to Mini Marvels and doing a Multiverse version.  He said a multiverse Mini-Marvels would be great. (So Marvel if you are reading this article, give us a Mini Marvel Multiverse)


He also talked about working on Officer Clawsome with his buddy Brian “Smitty” Smith, a New York best seller. You can get it from Walmart, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million, Target, Bookshop and Powell’s. 

Check out the link for the full interview. We talked about so much other stuff.


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New Spawn comic series ‘The Deadly Tales of the Gunslinger’ – Interview with writer James Palmiotti

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Jimmy Palmiotti is a writer and inker of comic books. He has also written for video games as well as television and film. In 2013, DC Comics tapped Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti to relaunch the Harley Quinn series. The 30-issue series would consistently be a top seller at DC. 

I got to sit down and talked about how Todd McFarlane reached out to him about working on new Spawn series The Deadly Tales of the Gunslinger.  Jimmy talks about how with fans who haven’t read the Spawn comics can jump in on this series. It will show how he became the Gunslinger. The interior art is by Patric Reynolds, and cover A is also by Patric. 

We also talked about his Kickstarter for The Deadly Trio: Doomsayer #1. It’s an all new sci-fi action-adventure series by Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner, Brian Pulido & Billy Tucci! Its goal is $15,000. There are 25 different tiers you could pledge. Each tier includes an exclusive. It starts at $5 and goes all the way up to $699. There are 6 days left, and they have just unlocked 65K. You can go to their Kickstarter page and check out all the cool stuff.

There are a lot of great artists contributing covers. Giuliano Peratelli, Amanda Conner, Hedwin Zaldivar, Ben Caldwel, Joel Gomez, Billy Tucci, Jose Varese, Chad Hardin, Joseph Michael Linsner, Dan Lawlis, Leandro Oliveira, Diego Bernard, Rain Beredo, Eve Sousa, Wes Hartman, Ezequiel Dominguez, and Fred Marinho.

Later in the interview Jimmy blew my mind when he said at one point, we could have had a Kevin Smith and Robert Rodriguez team up on a Marvel movie. Go check out the full interview. 

NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 05: Kevin Smith and Robert Rodriguez attend IMDb at New York Comic Con – Day 1 at Javits Center on October 5, 2018, in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for IMDb)
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Jeff Finn seeks the truth in new Jim Morrison documentary – Interview

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Jeff Finn is a documentary filmmaker who has set out to uncover the real story surrounding the death of Jim Morrison of The Doors. Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison is a first of its kind “documystery” series that will make its global TVOD/Digital release on January 13, 2025, following Morrison’s 81st birthday, and will be available on all the major platforms of Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play, and YouTube TV, with more to follow.

A dozen years in the making, Before the End’s cryptic tagline encapsulates its investigative approach: “One Man. Countless Myths. And in between lies the truth.” Z-Machine founder, Jeff Finn’s extraordinary detail work breaks the decades long hermetic seal on the traumatic formative years that forged a brief hellacious life, through Morrison’s controversial career as lead singer of legendary 1960s rock band, The Doors, to his reported 1971 death by “heart failure” in Paris at age 27. Morrison’s ostensible demise, technically an unsolved cold case, formed its own rabbit hole of reasonable doubt, which inspired Finn to consult with private investigators and forensic analysts.

Before the End transcends “rock doc” in the same sense that Jim Morrison was more than a rock star. Featuring unprecedented content, from shocking corroboration about Morrison’s early life, to harrowing revelations about his stardom, and fresh evidence that contradicts his professed death, Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrisonisproudly unauthorized because it “seeks the unvarnished truth.” The documystery reverse-engineers long-controlled narratives while it explores the notion of Morrison the nonconformist as neurodivergent, and deconstructs – through on-camera interviews with family, friends, lovers, classmates, and associates – key distinctions between Jim Morrison, rock god,” and James Douglas Morrison, introverted outsider.

Among those interviewed and/or featured are Morrison’s cousins, Ellen Edwards and David Backer, lovers, Anne MooreGayle EnochsJudy Huddleston, and Suzanne Roady-Ross, friends, Mirandi Babitz and Salli StevensonElektra Records founder, Jac HolzmanThe Doors booking agent, Todd SchiffmanThe Doors roadie, Gareth Blyth, screenwriter, Randall Jahnson, rock critics, Ellen Sander and Richard Meltzer, UCLA classmates, Philip Oleno and Richard Blackburn, UCLA roommate, Ron Cohen, UCLA professor, Dick AdamsFlorida State University roommates, Bryan Gates and John McQueen, FSU professor, Ralph TurnerAlameda High School swim coach, Ash Jones, childhood friend, Jeff Morehouse, Paris-era acquaintances, Philippe Dalecky and Gilles Yepremian, and exclusives via Jim’s brother, Andy MorrisonRobyn WurteleMorrison’s enigmatic Paris-era assistant, and “Mr. X,” a mind-blowing anonymous source.

Z-Machine is a truly independent production company helmed by writer and filmmaker, Jeff Finn, whose tie-in book, 127 Fascination: Jim Morrison Decoded, is forthcoming.

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