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David Nakayama is back. He was one of our early guests (here’s our first David Nakayama interview), and this time Uncle Black’s at the table too.
We start with Green Lantern. David’s a big GL fan and Kyle Rayner has been his guy from the start, so working on Kyle’s costume redesign was a treat for him. He also went from not sure about Lanterns to completely bought in. His take on the Corps? It needs new territory, not more colors. We get his X-Men wish list too, and he’s honest about the lean years, back when 18-year-old David had a plan to be Jim Lee.
Best story of the night is the Hero Initiative jam piece. J. Scott Campbell drew Rogue on one half and David had to add Psylocke to the other. Campbell’s side? Not a drop of whiteout. Then we get into AI, and David thinks it’s going to make original art worth more, not less. We didn’t get through all our questions, so yeah, there’s gonna be a part two.
Chapters
- 0:00 Stolen valor, right up front
- 0:33 David’s back
- 1:43 Kyle Rayner
- 2:39 How Lanterns is hitting
- 5:15 A new Lantern Corps
- 7:11 If David ran the X-Men
- 8:48 Enough Magneto? Mr. Sinister
- 9:49 Still on the bucket list
- 11:58 Why no sketchbook
- 13:53 The Save Point shirt
- 14:38 The cover that flopped
- 16:25 Talking to fans like a fan
- 19:24 The plan to be Jim Lee
- 20:21 His own book, someday
- 22:10 Variants, foils, collectors
- 26:13 His comic-book Mount Rushmore
- 27:16 Psylocke next to Campbell’s Rogue
- 29:01 Is original art dying?
- 30:08 AI makes the real pages worth more
- 31:24 Stolen valor, the whole argument
- 33:09 Drawing Transformers
- 36:32 Did Hot Rod shoot Optimus?
- 37:51 Harley Quinn, and the tease
- 39:50 Thanks, David
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