How a deep-nerd comic book writer ended up writing for the Sonic TV series with Justin Peniston
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Interview Timeline
Justin Peniston has a deep love of comic books and all things nerd. He’s written for DC comics, IDW, independent comic companies, has his own indie web comic and he’s a writer on the new Sonic TC series. We spoke about his comic book writing, about Sonic and the show, and about general nerdy things. {Hunter Black (Big & Tall Tales, 2016)
1:11 – Justin talks about Hunter Black.
3:55 – Justin talks about his interest in Dungeons and Dragons.
5:13 – Justin talks about animation writing.
7:09 – Justin talks about how he got into animation.
9:19 – Justin talks about the business side of doing a webcomic.
12:54 – Justin talks about plotting his webcomic in advance.
16:36 – Justin talks about Hunter Black’s alignment.
18:29 – Justin talks about the character’s anger.
19:36 – Justin talks about working in the comic industry and starting out by creating an ashcan issue.
24:31 – Justin talks about the length of comic book scripts.
25:01 – Justin talks about the additional work he did and the failure of a comic series pitch.
27:24 – Justin talks about the difference between comic book and animation writing.
27:59 – Justin talks about his connection with the Sonic game.
29:24 – Justin talks about seeing the game as a puzzle and writing for video games
31:45 – Justin talks about his ashcan comic.
33:10 – Justin talks about his favorite comic books and how much he loved DC comics.
36:56 – Justin talks about the Marvel Cinematic Universe and their success.
39:27 – Justin talks about attending comic book conventions. He also discusses connecting with Geoff Johns.
42:46 – Justin talks about being inspired by Star Wars, GI Joe, and other things.
45:14 – Justin talks about the role-playing games he played. He goes into detail about a Star Trek game he’s playing.
51:49 – Justin talks about the fantasy he enjoys including Tolkien.
56:43 – Justin talks about his writing process.
59:19 – Justin talks about working in an animation writers’ room.
1:01:34 – Justin talks about working at the Hard Rock Hotel and other work he did.
1:04:39 – Justin talks about having loved Narnia and John Carter of Mars.
1:09:21 – Justin talks about playing sports.
1:11:03 – Justin talks about when he first started writing.
1:13:50 – Justin talks about his high school experience.
1:17:35 – Justin talks about his favorite comic movies.
1:21:05 – We discuss Tony Russo, the 70s, and Spider into the Spider-Verse.
1:22:50 – Justin talks about his favorite shows.
1:26:37 – Justin talks about the Sonic show.
1:29:15 – Justin can be found at hunterblackcomics.com and on twitter at hunterblackcomx and at justinpeniston.com and at the Popskl podcast group. Also hunterblackwriter on Instagram.
Links of interest
https://amzn.to/3a84i3f
https://hunterblackcomics.com/
https://www.justinpeniston.com/
https://twitter.com/HunterBlackComx
https://www.facebook.com/moose0225
https://www.instagram.com/hunterblackwriter/
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