How a deep-nerd comic book writer ended up writing for the Sonic TV series with Justin Peniston Check the book out here https://amzn.to/3a84i3f 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/ https://www.