A Comic Conversation Ep 43 - Your Mom's Comics - Los Angeles Comic Con 24

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[00:00:27] Here we go nerds. Another exclusive interview at LA Comic Con for another con edition of...

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[00:00:36] I had the pleasure of talking with indie comic creators Hector and Vanessa Cepeda from your mom's comics to talk about their latest book.

[00:00:43] So get ready to travel in time, live the warrior's way and immerse yourself in Mesoamerican culture. It's time for another...

[00:00:50] A Comic Conversation!

[00:00:52] Alright nerds, your boy Young Phil, we are doing another LA Comic Con interview here. Now with me on this episode, the guests that we have here, guests are an independent comic book duo with an original historical fiction story with some cultural impact, at least for me and my culture.

[00:01:11] But here to tell us about their upcoming title, The Warrior's Umbra, please welcome Vanessa and Hector Cepeda.

[00:01:17] Hi!

[00:01:17] Hello!

[00:01:18] How you guys doing today?

[00:01:19] Good and yourself?

[00:01:19] I'm pretty good. How's your guys' con been so far?

[00:01:22] Busy.

[00:01:22] Extremely busy.

[00:01:23] Yeah.

[00:01:23] You guys been getting a lot of, kind of like interest in the book?

[00:01:27] Definitely a lot of interest and so has our website so far.

[00:01:29] Good.

[00:01:30] You guys seen like an uptick in the website?

[00:01:31] Yeah, we have.

[00:01:32] Awesome. Awesome.

[00:01:33] So before we get into kind of like your story and everything like that, what I'm going to

[00:01:36] do is ask you guys a couple of like introduction questions, things like that, just to kind of

[00:01:40] get you guys more familiar with the audience.

[00:01:43] So we have a segment on our show called Growing Up Geeky.

[00:01:45] What did you guys geek out on when you were kids?

[00:01:47] Our Rangers.

[00:01:48] Anything superhero related.

[00:01:49] Yeah.

[00:01:49] It must be hurting right now that we're doing an interview in the middle of Amy Jo Johnson.

[00:01:53] Definitely.

[00:01:54] Yeah.

[00:01:54] Pink Rangers on stage right now.

[00:01:56] Yeah.

[00:01:57] Yeah, for me honestly it was Power Rangers, Dragon Ball Z and then when I got into more

[00:02:02] anime.

[00:02:02] Nice.

[00:02:02] Who's your favorite DBZ character?

[00:02:04] I would say Vegeta.

[00:02:05] That's all of our favorite characters.

[00:02:06] Yeah.

[00:02:06] There's something about Vegeta that we all relate to.

[00:02:08] Just like fiery Latinos, right?

[00:02:10] It's the asshole in him.

[00:02:12] Yeah.

[00:02:12] It just speaks to me.

[00:02:13] Right.

[00:02:13] You know, he's like, I hate you all.

[00:02:17] So if a movie was made about your guys' life, who would play you and why?

[00:02:21] Oh God, I don't know.

[00:02:23] That's a great question.

[00:02:24] I'm very chaotic so my life has been all over the place.

[00:02:29] No clue.

[00:02:29] Yeah, I got nothing.

[00:02:30] I got nothing.

[00:02:31] Like new actors, just like people who...

[00:02:33] It would have to be.

[00:02:34] Yeah, I'd be a new actor for sure.

[00:02:35] Yeah, and just cast somebody who's like me.

[00:02:37] No, that's me right there.

[00:02:38] That's me.

[00:02:38] Yeah.

[00:02:38] Yeah.

[00:02:39] The crazy one.

[00:02:40] She's getting angry right now.

[00:02:40] Just walking out the door.

[00:02:46] No, you're right.

[00:02:47] You got me on.

[00:02:48] 30 seconds, you already know who I am.

[00:02:50] Yes.

[00:02:52] So let's get into it guys.

[00:02:54] So how and when did your love for writing come by?

[00:02:57] Because you guys worked together on the writing on this, right?

[00:02:59] Yes.

[00:03:00] Actually, he's the one that started about a year ago trying to do his own thing.

[00:03:04] And then when I was reading it and going through it, I was just kind of like, this does not...

[00:03:08] It's not cohesive.

[00:03:09] It doesn't really like have a proper storyline.

[00:03:11] And I'm a reader.

[00:03:12] So I was just kind of like, this isn't good.

[00:03:15] Yeah.

[00:03:15] So then that's when he, we decided to just scrap that one and we just started our own.

[00:03:20] Okay.

[00:03:20] So I started coming up with the storyline for the most part.

[00:03:22] And then he came in and brought in like the historical facts and like all the details

[00:03:26] that we needed.

[00:03:27] And I just kind of, we strung along.

[00:03:29] Okay.

[00:03:29] Are you as historically versed as he is now?

[00:03:32] No.

[00:03:32] Not at all.

[00:03:33] For me, like I just did like the broader story plots.

[00:03:35] Okay.

[00:03:36] So that's, I just want certain things to happen and she just fills in the gaps.

[00:03:39] Gotcha.

[00:03:39] To line everything up.

[00:03:40] Did you guys kind of just like do a lot of research on, like culturally?

[00:03:44] I did.

[00:03:44] Like you were just like, I want to do something culturally and then you just did a bunch of

[00:03:46] research on it?

[00:03:47] Yeah.

[00:03:47] I researched for hours, days, nights.

[00:03:50] Even when I was at work, I was just reading books.

[00:03:52] I learned how to speak, read like some old Italian, some old Spanish, which is really

[00:03:56] like nerve wracking because it feels like you're having a stroke while you're reading it.

[00:03:59] Yeah.

[00:04:00] Cause it sounds, it looks familiar, but it's not familiar.

[00:04:02] Like I don't know.

[00:04:03] Yeah.

[00:04:03] And it's, it's one of those things where, you know, you, you start reading the history

[00:04:07] and like, damn, I didn't know all that.

[00:04:08] Yeah.

[00:04:08] Yeah.

[00:04:09] I did something similar recently where I like just started researching the Olmec and I'm

[00:04:13] like, God, the Olmec were badass, man.

[00:04:15] Yeah.

[00:04:16] It's, it's something, it's definitely something.

[00:04:18] What sucks and what makes it really difficult is a lot of it was destroyed and burned down.

[00:04:22] You know, a lot of that is just gone.

[00:04:24] So we don't know.

[00:04:25] Maybe we only know like maybe 10%, 20% of what they were.

[00:04:28] Right.

[00:04:28] Which is crazy because we documented so much.

[00:04:31] So much.

[00:04:31] It's just like, um, a lot of that documentation was destroyed.

[00:04:34] Yeah.

[00:04:34] And the Spanish just kind of destroyed everything.

[00:04:36] Yeah.

[00:04:37] And it's, it is just crazy how much culture comes like, especially from us from Mexico.

[00:04:41] Like, you know, especially with the belief of the Virgin Mary and all that, all

[00:04:43] that comes from, you know, the belief of the mother earth that the indigenous

[00:04:47] believed back then.

[00:04:47] Yeah.

[00:04:48] And I think that's why we, uh, as, as the people that we are, that's where we gravitated

[00:04:52] towards Christianity so much because it, it, it, they definitely, you could see that,

[00:04:57] um, the figures that they adopted and gentrified and kind of converted into their own.

[00:05:02] Right.

[00:05:02] Like you have, of course, the Virgin Mary or all souls day instead of the other, like

[00:05:06] all of that, because they could not get them to fully assimilate to the religion.

[00:05:11] So they just kind of took bits and pieces and then kind of adopted it in.

[00:05:14] Gotcha.

[00:05:14] Yeah.

[00:05:15] Uh, so Hector, just cause you were the writer on the main writer on the story.

[00:05:18] Um, do, have you always wanted to be a writer?

[00:05:21] Was it just something that came up or?

[00:05:22] No, um, it came from pretty much just me reading a story by, um, Neza Huaca Gil.

[00:05:27] It's the, it's pretty much the whole basis of what the storyline is from.

[00:05:31] He basically, um, it's, it's pretty much a poem in the first few pages.

[00:05:35] Right.

[00:05:35] Right.

[00:05:35] Right.

[00:05:35] Right.

[00:05:36] Right.

[00:05:36] Right.

[00:05:36] So he was known as a poet warrior king.

[00:05:38] Um, but he was, you know, banished from his kingdom and whatnot.

[00:05:41] And he was like, looked through the forest and all that stuff, chased down.

[00:05:45] But pretty much he decided to stop sacrifices.

[00:05:48] And with for seven years and basically a famine, and many people were dying, you know, people

[00:05:53] were starving to death, all that stuff.

[00:05:55] And so that's pretty much how I got the basis of my story.

[00:05:57] And I was just like, you know what?

[00:05:58] There's not many stories about Mexicans, Hispanics, and in general.

[00:06:02] Right.

[00:06:02] And I feel like we became so used to Europeans having fantasy novels.

[00:06:06] You know, we know about fairies, dragons, everything.

[00:06:09] But what do we know about Mexico?

[00:06:11] What do we know about, you know, South America and all that stuff?

[00:06:13] Right, right, right, right.

[00:06:14] I mean, and we have a lot of rich history.

[00:06:16] We do.

[00:06:16] There's a lot of fantasy.

[00:06:18] I mean, basically we have our own comic book characters embedded in our culture.

[00:06:22] We don't like it because we're so used to, you know, Japanese, which is fine.

[00:06:26] But I wish to, you know, like introduce this to the world.

[00:06:30] Right.

[00:06:30] No, that's a great inspiration.

[00:06:33] So this is the first story you've ever written?

[00:06:34] First story I've ever written.

[00:06:35] Okay.

[00:06:36] So it's safe to say that this is your first comic book, right?

[00:06:39] Yeah.

[00:06:39] Well, technically second.

[00:06:41] My first one, I didn't like it at all.

[00:06:43] Gotcha.

[00:06:44] But like the first one you're publishing, right?

[00:06:45] Yeah.

[00:06:46] With that, I mean, why a comic book?

[00:06:49] Like why not a book?

[00:06:50] Why not?

[00:06:50] Why did you choose comic book over, or graphic novel over the other mediums that are out

[00:06:55] there?

[00:06:55] To be honest, I, it's hard for me to really sit there and describe because you know, in

[00:06:59] book you have to be really detailed.

[00:07:00] Right.

[00:07:00] Of like how they, you know, to really describe them to people, like how they look, how they

[00:07:04] walk, how they breathe.

[00:07:05] Yeah.

[00:07:05] So you felt like it would represent the culture better.

[00:07:08] Yeah, definitely.

[00:07:09] And I feel like doing it, especially because all the art's in black and white, and I feel

[00:07:12] like that can leave a lot of imagination up to the person.

[00:07:14] Okay.

[00:07:14] You know, like the color that they're wearing, you know, cause you know, back in those days

[00:07:17] it was very colorful.

[00:07:19] You know, every building that they had, had rich colors, you know, and it wasn't just stone.

[00:07:23] Right.

[00:07:23] Right.

[00:07:23] So I felt like that can be just to your imagination.

[00:07:26] It could really fill in the gaps.

[00:07:28] Right.

[00:07:28] Cause I was going to ask you, you know, I've got the ash can right here.

[00:07:30] So within the ash can book, uh, it was black and white.

[00:07:33] And a lot of times with ash cans, it's because you haven't had a colorist come in or anything

[00:07:36] like that.

[00:07:37] So the book is intended to be black and white.

[00:07:39] It's intended to be black and white.

[00:07:40] Yes.

[00:07:40] That way the reader has more of an option of how they would dictate their colors because

[00:07:44] everybody has a different color palette.

[00:07:46] Right.

[00:07:46] For instance, I just prefer black and white because if it's too much color, I get distracted.

[00:07:50] Gotcha.

[00:07:51] And then I just lose focus.

[00:07:52] And I don't know, like I lose the story, I lose everything, but black and white, it's

[00:07:55] really easy for me to stay focused on the story itself.

[00:07:57] I've noticed that a lot with indie creators, they go with the black and white and for almost

[00:08:02] the same reason.

[00:08:03] Mm-hmm.

[00:08:03] Um, and, and I find that interesting, you know, cause I, I do enjoy colors and things

[00:08:08] like that.

[00:08:08] Just kind of like seeing what, especially with something like this, just see kind of like

[00:08:11] culturally how everything would be.

[00:08:12] But I do also like the way you guys have gone with this, uh, because it is different and

[00:08:17] it sets you apart and everything like that.

[00:08:18] Um, so Hector, you also, you also did the artwork on it, right?

[00:08:21] Yes.

[00:08:22] Um, do you, again, so how long have you been drawing?

[00:08:24] Like, is it something that you've been doing kind of like all your life?

[00:08:27] I've been doing it on and off since I was about four years old.

[00:08:29] Okay.

[00:08:30] So like, you know, in year four, like you just draw stick figures, you draw whatever you think is

[00:08:33] cool.

[00:08:33] Right.

[00:08:34] And then I picked it up again when I was like 16.

[00:08:36] Okay.

[00:08:36] I started drawing my favorite cartoon characters, all these things.

[00:08:39] And it pretty much led to the point where like, I wanted, I was just shading.

[00:08:42] Like my favorite thing was to shade, like using black and white.

[00:08:44] Okay.

[00:08:44] I use charcoal or not, but I just, you know, create volume texture, just using black and

[00:08:49] white.

[00:08:49] I got really comfortable with that.

[00:08:50] And then I took a break from it because I wanted to focus on my nursing career.

[00:08:53] Okay.

[00:08:54] And I just remember telling somebody that if I ever pick up a pencil again, I don't think

[00:08:58] I could ever put it back down.

[00:08:59] Gotcha.

[00:08:59] And now that's pretty much of what has been my focus on is just create something that

[00:09:03] I feel proud of.

[00:09:04] Nice.

[00:09:04] Do you have any favorite artists, anybody that inspires you?

[00:09:07] Yeah.

[00:09:08] Several.

[00:09:09] Yeah.

[00:09:09] One of my favorite artists is the author of Berserk, Kentaro Mira.

[00:09:13] Okay.

[00:09:14] Yeah.

[00:09:14] His art is very like detailed and it's just great.

[00:09:18] I don't know how to explain it other than that.

[00:09:20] Yeah.

[00:09:20] It's a lot of inspiration from that.

[00:09:22] Yeah.

[00:09:22] From that, especially.

[00:09:24] My uncle, he's an artist as well, but he does very like indigenous because his people

[00:09:29] came from, you know, like Guatemala and whatnot.

[00:09:31] Okay.

[00:09:31] So he does very, you know, cultural art pieces.

[00:09:33] So he actually inspired me quite a bit as a kid.

[00:09:36] And he's the one that actually taught me how to color, how to shade and all that stuff.

[00:09:39] Okay.

[00:09:40] Yeah.

[00:09:40] I mean, you're getting closer to where my people were.

[00:09:42] I'm the kind of Wednesday.

[00:09:43] So I mean like, you know, it's kind of getting closer to where we're at.

[00:09:45] Yeah.

[00:09:46] So for both of you guys, were you guys nerds growing up?

[00:09:48] No, definitely not.

[00:09:50] You definitely were.

[00:09:51] I definitely weren't.

[00:09:51] You weren't really a nerd.

[00:09:52] No.

[00:09:53] Was there anything that you nerded out on though?

[00:09:56] So like, you know, not in the aspiration of like, or the way of saying like, oh yeah,

[00:10:00] I liked anime or anything like that.

[00:10:02] Like something that you just really had a passion for.

[00:10:04] No, I mean, I was a, I'm a reader.

[00:10:06] So I, but I have like a huge spectrum, but honestly, if it came down to like something

[00:10:10] that I, serial killers.

[00:10:11] Okay.

[00:10:12] So I picked up the love of, um, you like the, uh, my mom took some forensics classes and

[00:10:19] I remember I would read her books and like, I found this huge fascination for forensics

[00:10:24] and then the psychology behind serial killers and all of that.

[00:10:26] So I really, really started reading a lot of them.

[00:10:28] Okay.

[00:10:29] Um, but that would probably be the only thing that I was like hyper-focused on.

[00:10:32] Are you a horror fan?

[00:10:33] Yes, I am not too, too much.

[00:10:36] Like in the sense of, I would say my, my favorite one is, um, Michael Myers.

[00:10:40] Okay.

[00:10:41] But like, you're not going like, Oh, terrifier.

[00:10:43] I got to watch that.

[00:10:44] No, it's the, it's the sound that gets me like, I like the storylines and all these

[00:10:49] that great.

[00:10:50] I've learned that like 90% of what's like messed up in scary movies is the audio with

[00:10:55] no audio.

[00:10:56] It's fake as hell.

[00:10:57] I mean, it's done with intended purposes of the scare factor.

[00:11:00] Cause they, the sound wave that they use it's for that specific reason.

[00:11:03] But the story, like the movie itself, the storyline, they're not great.

[00:11:06] Like you're just kind of like, Oh.

[00:11:07] I watched one of the newer Texas chainsaw massacre movies without audio.

[00:11:11] And it just, it was no, not scary at all.

[00:11:13] No.

[00:11:13] It was just more like, God, that looks fake.

[00:11:15] It's terrible.

[00:11:15] Yeah.

[00:11:16] You can always tell who's going to get killed first.

[00:11:17] I just want to know how he gets anywhere.

[00:11:19] Just walking.

[00:11:20] I know.

[00:11:21] So why are you so fast where everybody's sprinting everywhere?

[00:11:24] Yeah.

[00:11:25] I feel that way about Michael Myers.

[00:11:27] I'm just like, Michael, same thing.

[00:11:29] Like how are you still going?

[00:11:30] Like how do you catch these people?

[00:11:31] And they're like running for their lives.

[00:11:33] Right.

[00:11:35] Uh, was there anything you nerded out on like, like specifically as a kid?

[00:11:38] Giving you a group as a nerd?

[00:11:40] Specifically.

[00:11:40] I would say my very, my fascination as a little kid was Daredevil.

[00:11:44] Okay.

[00:11:44] Um, the reason why I liked them is cause it was about ninjas and everything.

[00:11:47] It was all street level, you know, just a blind guy just picking ass and everything.

[00:11:50] It was my favorite comic book as a little kid.

[00:11:52] Nice.

[00:11:53] Yeah.

[00:11:53] Were you a turtle fan too?

[00:11:54] Turtle.

[00:11:55] Of course.

[00:11:55] Yeah.

[00:11:55] So you know the whole story about like the turtles being splashed with the same.

[00:11:59] Yeah.

[00:11:59] It's awesome, dude.

[00:12:00] Yeah.

[00:12:00] I love when they tied all that together.

[00:12:02] It's like, you're still not in the same universe.

[00:12:04] Yeah.

[00:12:04] But the turtles are, I really liked it.

[00:12:06] I really liked the fact that they got the ideas cause like, you know, and there was the

[00:12:09] hand and the turtles, the foot.

[00:12:11] Right.

[00:12:12] Yeah.

[00:12:12] It's just like, this is great.

[00:12:14] Right.

[00:12:14] Right.

[00:12:15] Right.

[00:12:15] Right.

[00:12:15] Yeah.

[00:12:15] So awesome.

[00:12:16] Same thing.

[00:12:17] Like splinter and turtles stick in the, uh, and then daredevil.

[00:12:21] Yeah.

[00:12:21] I always thought that was just something fun in general.

[00:12:24] Right.

[00:12:24] Like they did that.

[00:12:25] Um, so you're as far as daredevil goes, are you a big fan of, uh, of the show?

[00:12:29] I love the show.

[00:12:30] Okay.

[00:12:31] I really disliked the fact that Netflix gave it back to Disney, but I don't think Disney

[00:12:35] is going to mess it up.

[00:12:36] I think that at first with the original idea they had, it was going to be like, I don't

[00:12:40] know.

[00:12:41] Right.

[00:12:41] But then now they're going in universe and the same, they, they recast everybody from,

[00:12:46] uh, from the Netflix universe.

[00:12:48] And they're basically now the stuff from Netflix is partly as Canon now.

[00:12:52] Yeah.

[00:12:52] Cause like when I, when I heard like his uniform was going to be yellow and all that, I was

[00:12:55] just like, I can't.

[00:12:57] That's the comics though.

[00:12:57] I know, but it just goes like the feel, the darkness of like, you know, the Netflix

[00:13:01] adaptation of it.

[00:13:02] Yeah.

[00:13:03] His suit just looked like very like sleek, you know, very like ominous.

[00:13:06] Yeah.

[00:13:07] And like, they said he's supposed to have the health kitchen, uh, uh, costume in this movie

[00:13:11] in the show by the end of the show.

[00:13:12] Oh, that's great.

[00:13:12] Yeah.

[00:13:13] So he's going to have like the, the, the black, the dark black and red.

[00:13:15] That's great.

[00:13:16] Yeah.

[00:13:16] I like that.

[00:13:17] That's one of my favorite ones.

[00:13:18] I just actually bought a comic book from the resellers based on, yeah.

[00:13:21] Well, it's like, I love that in, in the, um, in the TV show on the Netflix show, they

[00:13:25] gave him the Kevin Smith costume.

[00:13:26] Right.

[00:13:26] And I was like, Oh, this is awesome.

[00:13:28] Yeah.

[00:13:29] Um, especially like as a daredevil fan, you know, like you, you see all the things from

[00:13:32] the comics showing up in the show, you know, and he's, it's, it is very for, for something

[00:13:36] that's an original story, very comic accurate for the way they do it.

[00:13:39] Oh, definitely.

[00:13:40] Yeah.

[00:13:40] I think that, I think they really took their patience.

[00:13:42] Yeah.

[00:13:42] And then Kingpin in Disney so far has been more comic book than he even was in the show.

[00:13:47] Yeah.

[00:13:48] Cause they made him like ultra powerful in this, like you can punch a like concrete wall and

[00:13:52] it doesn't hurt him.

[00:13:53] Yeah.

[00:13:54] That's accurate.

[00:13:55] I know.

[00:13:55] Very accurate.

[00:13:56] But I really liked the Netflix adaptation.

[00:13:58] They humanized him, you know, like he was just a normal man, just massive in size.

[00:14:02] I don't like when they humanize villains, but I think that when they humanized Kingpin,

[00:14:08] it made him more of a threat.

[00:14:10] More of a threat.

[00:14:10] Yeah.

[00:14:10] And I really liked the fact that he was in the shadows, like no one could say his name.

[00:14:14] It's just all that.

[00:14:14] Yeah.

[00:14:15] Just like, just like the spook factor just rolls to the roof.

[00:14:17] Right.

[00:14:18] Yeah.

[00:14:19] See, I can nerd out on this stuff.

[00:14:20] Yeah.

[00:14:21] Me too.

[00:14:21] But I'm going to continue to move on here.

[00:14:22] Right.

[00:14:24] So, so give us the elevator pitch for where's number, right?

[00:14:27] Like what is, we've talked about kind of what the inspiration for it was.

[00:14:31] Yeah.

[00:14:31] But just like, without spoiling the story, like what is, what, what do you want the fans

[00:14:36] to know?

[00:14:36] So in that way they, you know, hey, why should you read the book?

[00:14:39] You know?

[00:14:39] It's pretty much like, what does it take to do the right thing?

[00:14:42] Okay.

[00:14:42] Because the right thing could be interpreted wrong.

[00:14:44] For many people, it's like, what's held to the fly is heaven for the spider.

[00:14:48] Yeah.

[00:14:48] It's pretty much in that aspect.

[00:14:50] So it's pretty much like, what, what, because like we look at a war movie, right?

[00:14:54] And sometimes these military people have to do some really horrible things to benefit

[00:14:58] all of us.

[00:14:59] Right.

[00:14:59] And then it affects them in such a way that we cannot describe.

[00:15:02] And that's the whole point of why we call it the horrors number because sometimes the

[00:15:04] brightest lights do have the darkest shadows.

[00:15:06] Yeah.

[00:15:07] That's actually beautiful.

[00:15:08] That is a, that is a very good premise.

[00:15:10] It makes it more real.

[00:15:11] Yeah.

[00:15:12] And it makes it relatable for anybody, even that's not a part of our culture that they

[00:15:16] can relate to the story.

[00:15:17] And I think that's good.

[00:15:17] And for me, I am putting a lot of that reality into the story because sometimes, you know,

[00:15:22] the past does reflect what's present.

[00:15:24] Right.

[00:15:24] You know, cause like there's going to be a lot, it's going to cover so many topics, even

[00:15:28] if it's just based on, you know, this kind of culture and whatnot, it's still going to

[00:15:32] reflect on what's going on here.

[00:15:34] Yeah.

[00:15:34] There's a lot of significance between, you know, the past and the present time.

[00:15:38] Right.

[00:15:38] And that's what he wants to bring into a book.

[00:15:40] Right.

[00:15:40] Right.

[00:15:40] No, that's, and again, it's beautiful.

[00:15:42] That's, that's an awesome kind of concept to go into.

[00:15:45] So before we get into the wrap up questions here, I've got this last thing I had to ask

[00:15:49] you about this, your company name, right?

[00:15:51] Your mom's comics.

[00:15:52] Yeah.

[00:15:53] That is, that was.

[00:15:54] I need to know the origin story.

[00:15:55] I need to know where this comes from.

[00:15:56] Okay.

[00:15:56] So I know that, well, for us specifically, everyone that we know, it's like when we refer

[00:16:01] to our mom, it's always like, oh yeah, my mom this, my mom that.

[00:16:04] But when she makes us mad, it's like, oh, your mom did this.

[00:16:07] Yeah.

[00:16:07] Your mom did that.

[00:16:09] And you know, we have like a really like weird friendship relationship with her now.

[00:16:13] And it's always like, oh yeah, your mom.

[00:16:15] And then like, we'll be walking by each other and we'll just like randomly say like, oh, your

[00:16:18] mom.

[00:16:22] Just like, I don't know why it popped in my head because I thought it was really funny.

[00:16:25] I was like, your mom's comics.

[00:16:26] And he was like, no, no one's going to take us seriously like that.

[00:16:29] And I was like, I think it's funny and it's catchy.

[00:16:31] And like, it's something that's very relatable to us.

[00:16:34] And it's like, it's in our everyday use.

[00:16:36] Yeah.

[00:16:36] I mean, our company name is Time for Tacos.

[00:16:40] Oh, nice.

[00:16:40] There's always Time for Tacos.

[00:16:43] Because we all bond over tacos.

[00:16:45] Yes.

[00:16:46] So it's like.

[00:16:49] So, so before again, before we jump into these wrap ups, the last question I'm going to ask

[00:16:52] you guys here.

[00:16:53] What are you guys nerding out on right now?

[00:16:54] That's a good question.

[00:16:55] I've been nerding out on this manga that I just recently been purchasing.

[00:16:59] It's a vagabond.

[00:17:00] Okay.

[00:17:00] Yeah.

[00:17:00] It's like about a samurai from like the 1500s or something like that.

[00:17:04] And it's pretty much just like his philosophy and everything.

[00:17:06] Right.

[00:17:06] Because he goes from like arrogant to pretty much becoming like this peaceful, you know,

[00:17:11] doesn't want war or anything like that.

[00:17:12] Okay.

[00:17:12] It's pretty much just like seeing him grow.

[00:17:15] Okay.

[00:17:15] That's pretty much what I've been nerding out on.

[00:17:17] Okay.

[00:17:17] I've currently been reading on like Mexico's history from when, basically when they were,

[00:17:24] what is Nueva España?

[00:17:25] Mm-hmm.

[00:17:25] And, um, till now.

[00:17:27] So I've just kind of been reading the history because I am trying to get more connected to

[00:17:30] our roots and like learn a little bit more of where our family comes from.

[00:17:33] Yeah.

[00:17:33] So that's what I've been reading on right now.

[00:17:35] Okay.

[00:17:35] Yeah.

[00:17:35] I'm trying to just reconnect and eventually get to where he knows like all the history

[00:17:38] and all of the pre-Columbian history from the Mexica, the Pura Pechas and all that

[00:17:43] stuff.

[00:17:43] Right.

[00:17:44] But I'm doing it backwards.

[00:17:46] Yeah.

[00:17:46] No, but I mean, that's cool because that will inform later on, especially if you guys

[00:17:49] decide to continue with this particular storyline, you know, that'll continue.

[00:17:53] Like now you can do other storylines.

[00:17:55] Yeah.

[00:17:55] Like the purpose of the reason that we won was like your mom's comics is because this one

[00:18:01] is one storyline that eventually we want to kind of create like a little universe of

[00:18:05] it where we're going to span into different tribes and different cultures within Mexico

[00:18:08] and then eventually, you know, reach like the Central Americans, South Americans because

[00:18:12] I get to my people, get to the Matagalpa.

[00:18:14] Yeah.

[00:18:14] Because like for us, we realize that, yeah, they're different tribes, but at the end of

[00:18:18] the day, they're the same people.

[00:18:19] Yeah.

[00:18:20] So it's like, we were really trying to reconnect with all that.

[00:18:22] Cause like we always come back to, we're never Mexican enough for the ones in Mexico, but

[00:18:26] we're never American enough for the people here.

[00:18:29] Yeah.

[00:18:29] And as first gen, you know, our mom grew up here.

[00:18:33] So she essentially is neither.

[00:18:35] Yeah.

[00:18:35] So it's like for us, we weren't raised with a lot of the Mexican culture, but we're also

[00:18:40] not raised with American culture.

[00:18:42] So we are kind of trying to reconnect slowly.

[00:18:44] And I think that speaks to a lot of people.

[00:18:46] Okay.

[00:18:46] That's awesome guys.

[00:18:47] So let's get into these wrap up questions here.

[00:18:48] I'm going to ask you guys, especially as Mexicans, it's going to be the hardest question

[00:18:52] you're ever, you're ever asked in your life, right?

[00:18:54] Because you can't just choose one.

[00:18:55] It's hard.

[00:18:56] Okay.

[00:18:56] What is your favorite kind of taco?

[00:18:59] Yep.

[00:18:59] Lingua.

[00:19:00] There is a correct answer and you just made it.

[00:19:02] Lingua.

[00:19:02] I'm sorry.

[00:19:03] No, lingua is good too, because you hear a lot of people that actually, you know, they're

[00:19:07] afraid to try lingua and then they try it.

[00:19:08] It's like, Oh my God, this is amazing.

[00:19:09] That is amazing.

[00:19:10] But like I always tell people, cause you know, we, we interview all kinds of people.

[00:19:14] Like, you know, the litmus test for Latinos is Al Pastor.

[00:19:16] You go to a restaurant, they make good Al Pastor.

[00:19:18] The entire restaurant is going to be good.

[00:19:19] Yeah.

[00:19:20] Like for me, it's like any of the pork meats for obvious reasons, but Al Pastor would be

[00:19:24] the one that like, if I'm getting four tacos, I'm getting to Al Pastor and then one

[00:19:27] of a different one.

[00:19:28] Same.

[00:19:28] Yeah.

[00:19:29] We will, whenever we go get tacos, like two of them are Al Pastor and then I probably

[00:19:33] get like chorizo or, uh, or, um, carne asada cause like carne asada is like kind of the,

[00:19:38] the opposite.

[00:19:39] It's like you can, some places will make it like terrible.

[00:19:41] And then some places make it with like, you know, sazon is like really good.

[00:19:44] Yes.

[00:19:44] You know?

[00:19:45] So it's like.

[00:19:46] I never get asada.

[00:19:47] Whenever I go to a taco spot, like I do not ever get like chicken or asada.

[00:19:51] I always either get like Al Pastor, Cabeza, Uche, Lengua, Tripa.

[00:19:56] Like, but yeah.

[00:19:57] So that's like my least.

[00:19:58] Sesos.

[00:19:58] Yeah.

[00:19:59] I can't get down with sesos.

[00:20:00] I can't do it.

[00:20:01] I can't get down with sesos.

[00:20:02] I love them.

[00:20:02] Like I'm one of the few that's like any of those.

[00:20:06] Yeah.

[00:20:06] Like Cabeza and Bush, like that's, that doesn't bother me as much cause it's like, you know,

[00:20:10] just face meat.

[00:20:11] Right.

[00:20:11] But sesos I can't do.

[00:20:13] Just the thought of it.

[00:20:15] Right.

[00:20:15] And just like, I tried it once and it's just like I have a texture thing.

[00:20:18] Yeah.

[00:20:19] I was going to ask that because a lot of people it's a texture.

[00:20:21] Yeah.

[00:20:22] Sesos have the weirdest texture.

[00:20:23] It's like eating just fat and I can't do it.

[00:20:25] And I, yeah, I gravitate towards that anyways.

[00:20:27] Yeah.

[00:20:27] No.

[00:20:28] I get that.

[00:20:29] I can't do it either.

[00:20:31] So I'm going to ask you guys this, who would win in a fight?

[00:20:33] Okay.

[00:20:34] And this actually might be one that's, that you might perk up for.

[00:20:37] Right.

[00:20:37] Because I think part of your book has this kind of concept in it.

[00:20:40] Right.

[00:20:40] The Mayan people or the Spanish on an even playing field with the same technology,

[00:20:44] same weapons.

[00:20:45] I think honestly,

[00:20:46] And specifically the Mayans, right?

[00:20:48] Yes.

[00:20:48] Not just the Aztec.

[00:20:49] The Mayans.

[00:20:50] The Mayans.

[00:20:50] I think I really do think the Mayans,

[00:20:52] I mean, if it was even playing field in technology style,

[00:20:55] I think the Mayans would.

[00:20:56] Yeah.

[00:20:56] Because they had a kind of like guerrilla warfare type.

[00:20:58] And then that kind of beat us back in Vietnam.

[00:21:01] And we have like the most advanced.

[00:21:02] Right.

[00:21:02] And we come from, you know, all that European style fighting.

[00:21:05] So I think they would have won if it was equal on equal field.

[00:21:08] Right.

[00:21:08] I say the same thing.

[00:21:09] Like, one of the things I always say, because the Mayans were a little more docile than the

[00:21:14] Aztec in general.

[00:21:15] Yeah.

[00:21:15] But even then there was a ferocity that the Mayans had.

[00:21:18] Yeah.

[00:21:19] And it's like you take the Spanish, the Mayans, give them the same armor, same weapons.

[00:21:23] It's the thinking outside the box that would make the Mayans win.

[00:21:26] Yeah.

[00:21:27] Definitely.

[00:21:27] Definitely.

[00:21:28] Yeah.

[00:21:28] So what's next for you guys?

[00:21:30] Do you guys have any other cons coming up or anything else that you're working on?

[00:21:33] We are currently trying to do the Latino.

[00:21:35] It's a Latino Comic Con in Long Beach.

[00:21:37] Okay.

[00:21:38] We're hoping that we can get one of the dropout showcases.

[00:21:41] Okay.

[00:21:41] So if anyone pulls out, we can respond.

[00:21:43] Well, I hope you guys get that.

[00:21:44] Yeah.

[00:21:44] Yeah.

[00:21:44] And then we have the one here in Anaheim in April that we're trying to get into as

[00:21:48] well.

[00:21:48] Okay.

[00:21:49] To just bring more awareness to our book.

[00:21:50] Right, right, right.

[00:21:51] Hopefully we can help you guys spread out the audience a little more too.

[00:21:54] Yeah, it'd be great.

[00:21:55] Yeah.

[00:21:55] Where can everybody follow you if they want to find out more about Your Mom's Comics

[00:21:59] or The Warriors Umbra?

[00:22:00] So on Instagram, we're Your Mom's Comics LA.

[00:22:03] Okay.

[00:22:03] All together.

[00:22:04] And then our website is yourmomscomics.com.

[00:22:07] Okay.

[00:22:07] Okay.

[00:22:07] We'll make sure we get those in the show notes and everything too.

[00:22:10] Well guys, thank you for taking your time coming up and talking with me here.

[00:22:13] Thank you so much.

[00:22:14] Again, the book is The Warrior's Umbra.

[00:22:17] And like she just said, guys, head over to yourmomscomics.com.

[00:22:21] Pick it up now.

[00:22:22] It's definitely an interesting read.

[00:22:25] It releases November 1st.

[00:22:26] The books will be ready to ship November 15th.

[00:22:29] Okay.

[00:22:29] But we're also doing a digital version.

[00:22:31] Awesome.

[00:22:31] Awesome.

[00:22:31] All available online.

[00:22:32] All right, guys.

[00:22:33] Well, thanks a lot.

[00:22:33] Thank you guys.

[00:22:34] Thank you.

[00:22:35] All right.

[00:22:36] Well, we hope you enjoyed this week's Comic Conversation.

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