Welcome to Fine Tune and Good Through Taylor, you won stop shop when it comes to animation news and

commentary. I'm Drew's co-host entertainment writer Jim Hill and he and I are recording this week's

show on Friday, July 23rd, 2021. Now Drew, if this were a normal year, you and I might have been

able to record this show together in the exact same place, because more than likely we both would

have been down in San Diego for Comic Con. Realistically, between Preview Night starting at Wednesday,

this is Friday night. So we'd already be exhausted, right, from bringing back to the Hilton,

where the press stuff is, to sneak into the back door at Hall H, hoping somebody's got you a pass.

I mean, we're tired, but we're not the bone-tired way you are on Sunday night. It's at that moment

where it's like, why do I do this to myself? But at the same time, I mean, I really like Comic

Con. I'm just exhausting and is aggravating as it can be sometimes. You do get to see very cool

things. It's pretty much like the later part of today's show. You're going to talk about something

very, very cool that's being offered at this year's Comic Con. Do you have a particular favorite

memory of going down there? Well, you know, last time I went was great because I went down on like

Friday night and came back on Sunday morning. And so I just had Hall H on Saturday. I walked

around. I got to say hello to some of my favorite artists and toy makers. And, you know, that was the

big phase four presentation for Marvel that, you know, had a fantastic four and blade and all that.

And, you know, jumped on a panel right afterwards was on a panel there. And, you know, it was,

it was a whirlwind, but it was really fun. I mean, one year I went down and hosted a panel of

animators from Walt Disney Animation Studios that did comics outside of their profession,

which was very cool and very interesting. A lot of those guys aren't there anymore. But I think

Natalie was on the the panel back then. This was before her. What is it? How to have a career

in animation? Or I came to LA to have a career in animation? There we go, Natalie. Yeah, you know,

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