This is 99% invisible.

I'm Roman Mars.

One summer day in 1972 when David Daniels was a kid,

he found himself out in the front yard of his family's home.

I was at the apartment, just sitting and enjoying the afternoon.

For once in my life I wasn't doing anything.

David was nine years old and living in the suburbs just outside of LA.

That's producer Christopher Johnson.

As David sat in the grass taking in that Cali sunshine, he was pretty sure if he was alone. And then on the other side of a big

creaky gate nearby, he heard footsteps. And all of a sudden, the door swing

open. The door swing open.

David looked up to find a grown man, a total stranger, now standing in the front yard with him.

He walks right in, sees me sitting there, looks at me.

Now I looked up to the guy, he had like a streak, black hair

with a bare streak of gray over his temples.

And he said, want to read a comic?

And I said, want to read a comic? And I said, yeah.

So he hands David this little comic book,

about the size of your average cell phone.

And it says, this was your life on the cover cover and it has like a movie screen and there's an angel and a naked guy staring at the screen like this was your life

He said you want to read it to me? Okay, I mean, it's a comic. I've always loved comics. I'm addicted to comics.

Inside, David found a 21-page story illustrated in simple black ink.

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