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What does a professional comic book anchor do? Well, luckily we tricked one to join us on the podcast

and we're going to pick his brain for secrets because your geek history lesson is now in session.

Hello and welcome to Geek History Lesson. I am Jason Inkblot and I am Ashley Victoria Robinson.

Welcome to your mind university because you have stumbled onto the podcast where we take one character, construct or creative.

From popular culture and teach you everything you need to know about them in about an hour.

And I am so excited today because we don't have to do the heavy lifting on this one.

We tricked someone more talented than us to join us.

That's right. This is, so a couple, was it a month ago? A couple, once ago, we did an episode about comic book shops

and sort of the secrets of running a comic book shop. And when I was talking to today's guest,

it kind of sparked on me that we could do the same thing except about comic book inking,

which like I think comic book lettering is sort of an unknown. It's such an important part of comic books

and art that people don't think enough about. And they are literally the heavy lifters.

I mean, I've seen pages of Jim Lee's art look great because of the Inker.

And I've also seen pages of Jim Lee's art look terrible because of the Inker.

So the Inker again is such like there's a final polish that can like really determine how great that art looks.

And I'm so happy that we have a talented Inker here. No, I'm not saying that Inker's a talent.

This is going down a wrong way. We have a really good one.

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