00:51 a brief history of collecting comics

03:05 the rise and fall of comics in the 90s and 2000s

09:46 Valiant Comics is a dark future version of myself

11:50 working with public domain characters

14:00 TurnKey business style comics (origin stories)

17:00 my writing challenge

17:18 more about valiant comics

19:01 death by diversity

20:18 those cool valiant comic foil covers and the glasses

20:54 bad Comics with good covers

21:29 how I found comic pirate sites (please no crush me)

23:40 the rabbit hole of old comics (after buying some trash comics)

26:39 '90s was a time of Bad Girl Comics

27:50 and then there was Dawn

31:23 it turns out they're all the same silly stories

32:49 Jesus Christ demon Slayer

34:30 the pirate site is a resource

36:44 Antarctic press put out a cache of old digital comics

37:07 conclusion

The Dawn comic.

The cover art

The interior art later on…

And believe me it gets way worse. This was one of the only tame pages I could find in this book where someone isn't having sex, being torn apart, or screaming the f word.

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