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I am not the mighty one. But now I know without a doubt that he's real.

And if he's out there, I'll never rest until

I find Superman,

Warner Brothers and DC they come up with all these fantastic characters,

it's always great to see that because

they've got a rich collection of different characters that we can really
work with.

Showcase has always been like that, as a comic,

it's always a great thing to be able to give a little bit of attention to
something

that's not quite as popular as like the main characters,

Captain Adam and nightshade,

but your fellow Chaldean action heroes.

There was like a list of characters and which ones

kind of felt like the right ones to develop stuff around.

What we were really trying to do with this batch of shorts,

we've always tried to get an art style that fit the comic

that we are adapting as opposed to doing them all in the same style.

So we beat it was really like the Steve Ditko character designs.

It was really like old school cartoons for them

the losers and more of like a classic 60s 70s comic book world war two
style

and then commodity they were just trying to make it look like Jack Kirby

and I thought that was pretty neat.

Then experiment,

I was just really happy that they were able to pick some obscure characters

because we all know Superman, we all know Batman and Wonder Woman

and it was kind of nice to do something that's like a little under the
radar.

What the Scheidt Is this about

the difference between doing a full feature length versus a short is

we actually do get some flexibility when it comes to story

because it makes for kind of almost a more satisfying conclusion

because you can get that sweet satisfaction of a story told like really
quick

without having to expand it into something massive or huge.

Once all this, then

I think you get a little bit more freedom to just try different things,

especially visually, it's easier to kind of get in there and

do some of that stuff or on a big project.

It'd be hard to maintain that style across the whole movie.

I was just really glad to be able to put together new stories

that we tried to make as closely as we possibly could

an adaptation of the comic book and

it was great honor to be able to do this stuff.

There was no hope after the apocalypse war,

the world was a stinking carnival house with bodies rotting in the streets.

When I got the script for House of mystery I remember reading

it was John Constantine and Rick had told me that it was going to be

something of an epilogue to the apocalypse horror movie

that is in a pretty dire place.

There was some sense that we wanted to follow up with the character.

My plan needed the flash and

his speed to recreate a flashpoint.

Apocalypse war ended and then you kind of felt like you know,

John Constantine had done his his best

he had some well earned rest coming his way.

It was the first truly noble thing I've ever done in my life.

Just as soon as some mystery starts up, it's like now that's not going to
happen.

Now we're not going to give that satisfaction to him,

the way the universe works for him,

it's just never going to turn out that we'll ever get that happy ending he
wants.

He's the type of antihero type of character that he's like a Clint
Eastwood,

he really doesn't want to be the hero.

But oftentimes the best heroes ended up

being the people who are called to adventure rather than seeking it out.

No, but house of mystery.

It was a comic book anthology series makes for a perfect setting,

because in that comic series, they just had a myriad of different stories.

So it'd be like either a werewolf story or a ghost story.

And the only consistent thing that went from issue to issue was the actual
house mystery itself.

So that's the perfect setting. You could put John Constantine in there,

and then you just get this myriad of different supernatural stories that
come forward.

You'd know what to do with a bad hand, Joe?

Good.

Luck, always a little bit of dark humor

when you're dealing with John Constantine,

if we just went dire with it,

the movie could be so bleak when we start going through the multiple
deaths,

horrific deaths that he's experiencing.

Within that there is something inherently funny about the situation.

Right? You learn to use a crap burger.

It was just a lot of fun to be able to play with that

and be able to see just how many different brutalized murders

we could possibly inflict on one character.

I think it's kind of funny to see demon children

tearing out their dad's throat you know, are getting eaten by a large
demonic tree.

It's so absurd.

So that's it that locked me in my house

and mystery and throw away the key.

You have no idea what you sit in motion.

I think having the specter in the story was just a great opportunity to be
able to play with that character.

He's just such a big embodiment.

He feels kind of almost like a godlike character for the DC Universe.

At the end of Apocalypse war,

Flash basically resets it under Constantine's direction

that has such huge ramifications,

that it just makes sense in the law of the DC Universe for him

to be the one that kind of intervenes.

Just tell me what you want.

I nothing.

It is the universe that demands restitution.

Also, we'll see the relationship between John and a Spectre and

how they regard one another shows the difference between the two
characters,

not just in their personality, but just in their status and

where they are in the universe at large.

They'll call us back to kill me.

Matt Ryan is fantastic. He just does such a great read.

He's a sweet guy. He's super nice, very friendly, and everything.

But then he gets into the sound booth, and

he just becomes John Constantine. And it's just of the light,

anything worth doing is worth doing.

Right? Hey, Miguel, and D.

He's got such a good feel for even what he would say,

you know, he's since he's been playing that character for so long when
we're recording it.

And he's like, I don't think he'd say it like this, you'd say it more like
this.

And of course, he knows the character better than anyone at this point.

He is constantly

losing track, say,

I perfected that.

Part of the allure of John Constantine has this kind of tragedy of the fact
that

you have this guy who does all these fantastic things,

but it's never going to come out in the washboard.

That's not a nice thought. I think that sometimes you can teach them a
lesson.

And he'll definitely take it their heart.

But I feel like that's something that he might forget over a period of time

because it's just his nature,

he's going to always return to that central character of who he is,

I feels like that's where he's happiest

is when his car never.

There is a through line to the Showcase shorts way.

And when we were talking about what properties that had been sort of under
explored,

it just felt fun to do to sort of different time periods.

Oh, a World War Two era thing

that involved mad scientists and dinosaurs

and the losers were just a good choice

as far as the diversity of different stories.

Gung Ho,

what's kind of interesting about the losers is

that it was almost like a book of characters from different world war two
comics

that were going at the time that they kind of just brought together.

They were always fighting Nazis, or whatever.

But it was a little bit more grounded than there were other series of
comics.

And those were World War Two soldiers fighting dinosaurs.

So what we ended up doing on our short was pushing those two ideas
together,

taking these more iconic characters and putting them into the world war two
versus dinosaurs concept.

Check them out.

I think we were trying to kind of stick to the World War Two feel,

as opposed to like, trying to modernize it too much.

I mean, it's very much set in the 40s.

To me, it was more about trying to be as pure to these original comics,

as we could and just sort of stay in that sort of mindset, timeframe.

But of course, it's like they're on an island Fighting Dinosaurs.

So it's crazy. It's a fantasy movie.

You know, it's a sci fi movie.

As much as it's a World War Two, you know,

I got this, we don't have time to argue,

Johnny, I was born a loser and I'm gonna die a loser,

at least let it be for something

that gets sent into these horrible situations.

They always come out on the bad end of things.

That's sort of the losers lot in life.

You do this? You lose everything.

That's what we do.

I think we could come back. I don't know.

They do go through that portal.

And God knows where that takes them.

We didn't see any bodies. So there's always a chance

and comic books, right.

It's fantasy pulp comics, I think I think they can come back below,

but no one's told me. So.

My grandfather worked for a secret organization.

When the disaster struck. He sealed us in a protected chamber called
command D.

And yeah, that's how I got my name. Rick approached

me about Command D, and he said that he wanted very much

to kind of make it look like a Jack Kirby comic.

And our my eyebrow went up and I was like, Okay,

I wonder how that's gonna work. You know,

Jack style is so like, visually unique.

And I was just really curious to see it, pull it off.

For a lot of it, background design, stuff like that.

It was literally like, just adapt it.

Just take that splash page.

And as closely as you can match the background match the color.

Rick would come to me and show me all these backgrounds.

He's like, you gotta check out these backgrounds we got designed, they just
look so incredible.

And I would look at them and I just couldn't believe how much it looked
like the comic, my jaw drop,

you get a lot of color choices that you wouldn't necessarily see

all the time in film and animation anymore.

It was this very specific work to those books,

the 70s myself and the crew were just such fans of all that

so we wanted to make sure we did injustice as best we could.

He taught me all he could.

He was my only companion.

I only friend

command is a character I think is really fascinating

because I think it scratches on to an anxiety

I think we all have as we all like being around family.

We all like being around friends.

We like feeling comfort. especially when we're a lot younger,

and for commanding to have none of that

just makes for a super sympathetic character.

His final words were, you were the last boy on Earth commanding,

for the sake of humanity, the must survive.

You know, this idea of the last boy on earth,

having to find a way to survive.

It's a setting I think that lends itself to this sort of high adventure

and really cool visuals and command D as a character.

He's a good kid that's thrown into a tragic circumstance

and trying to survive the best again.

Let's save Suma

grandfather taught me compassion for all living things, even monsters,

I think you end up just kind of rooting for humanity

just because you want to care for him. And I think we all feel that way.

We all want to feel like we got someone who can look after us and care for
us.

I'm afraid come out and his greatest challenge is yet to come.

The ending to this film, obviously,

it's a it's a cliffhanger.

You know, you got like the lion Rangers

get the nuclear people you got Dr. Qeynos.

It's like the end of this story is just the start of all that.

So it's an all honesty, you could just continue

doing humanity stories from here on out. You're not

going anywhere off to morons.

Sorry, squeaking that diamonds bigger than your head

and has a lot more brings.

For me personally, I've always been a fan of Ted Gordon.

And the opportunity to do a Blue Beetle short,

I had to take cerium oxide,

that's a high grade polishing agent, very expensive,

good beetles, kind of like a quintessential sort of superhero.

He's He's like more of a detective like Batman

he's more about he's like solves crimes with his head. And with his
gadgets.

What we did with Blue Beetle was to try to make it feel like this was made
in the 60s,

and was just kind of a lost episode that was found.

Having lost the game of keep away.

comics and cartoons from that era, just like they have the same vibe

they have that sort of like,

Look can't be.

It just hit me like, hey,

what if we set this up as if it were made at that time, you

always read way more into things that are actually there.

Right at the top of the of the episode,

we have this this title card where the words come out.

And I think with a theme song, too, I mean, the theme song that we ended up
getting

has this almost like Flintstone Z vibe to it.

And I just felt like, well, we need to go all the way with it.

We need to build in all the little quirks and mistakes

and the things that they would have done in those shows back then.

And so we tried to emulate that as best we could.

What was the unique challenge about making this short was

really trying to replicate something

that happened completely organically as a result of the limitations of the
time

when we don't have those same limitations.

And we don't have that same kind of pressure, necessarily.

So like, the Miss color on Blue Beetle that you see, like that's planned,

we had to design the second character model for that.

Otherwise, it would have come back. Correct.

That's not any good for this show.

You know, I had a lot of really talented board artists working with me,

and I just had to keep telling them like make it worse.

make it worse. You're working to make it look too good.

Pull it back. I've never seen the squid so emotionally. What could have
been so

worked up? Nothing surprises quite like an unexpected question.

I think the questions like one of the funniest characters in our short,

of course, we're playing the question very much

as a reflection of his Creator, Steve Ditko.

I'm about to knock you out.

He's a little bit more on the paranoid side.

And he's a real straight shooter.

But then it turns out he's right. He's always right. Dang it.

I hate it. Weird theories

are writing.

You know, I'd love to do more with them.

They just play off each other so well.

You're an incredible hero. And an even better friend.

Friendship isn't objectively really either.

You really are the worst. There was a lot

of stuff that we do visually where I'm like, I hope this works.

But I really hope that works. And the final thing I hope that God comes
across,

and then when you see it with like the classic old cartoon music

and the real like 60s theme song,

and it just like sort of all just came together there.

And that was very exciting to see.

Oh, did you find the blue button? Because one fell off my glove.

This was unlike anything that I've ever done.

And I think the crew could attest to this that they've ever done.

This was four completely different things that

these guys had to switch stylistically in a limited amount of time.

So that was pretty cool.

Because it's like you don't have that opportunity all the time

to kind of play with such wildly different styles.

The question isn't who is going to let

it's who is going to stop me.

Rick told me he was like, you know, this is your chance to get your feet
wet with directing,

see if you can like it and want to keep doing it.

I have a lot of freedom to just sit in a room by myself

do my own thing and try to figure out stuff I get a chance to do it again.

Definitely working at Warner Brothers his animation has been

probably the biggest blessing I could think of. for me.

I grew up being a DC comics fan. So it was this great being able to see
Superman,

Wonder Woman, all those characters and

then see showcase be able to showcase all these other smaller characters.

It's the biggest sandbox that any grown up kid can play in.

I feel like I'm the luckiest guy in the world.

With that kind of power he could take over the world.