Hello there this week in Marvel Lights. This is Marvel.com Associate Editor

Mark Strom coming to you from sweltering hot Glendale up in the Valley of Los Angeles with Jeff

Allen Marvel's Avengers Assemble Director. Hey. Hey, how's it going Mark?

Good.

How about you? Yeah, it's going.

Very good.

It's very nice and cool in here.

It's cooler in here that it is outside.

And so that's a very good thing.

Yeah, so now you are the director on the series.

One of the directors.

One of the directors on the series.

And I'm a little curious just to sort of start out with I think people have a very good idea

of what a director does in an episode of live action television or in a film but I

don't think many of our readers really understand what it is a director does in animation.

So I was wondering if you could just sort of break down what your work consists of for like an average episode of

Avengers Assemble.

Sure, yeah. First, I go online and I start reading reviews of movies

that I don't like. And second I'm sorry it's just a lot of yelling at

the storyboard artists and no no not at all Basically we get the scripts and figure out how to turn them into wonderful

cartoons. And it's great because the scripts are already so well written and visually stunning, you know, just you get all these awesome images when you're reading these things because it's like every script we get is like a sequel to the Avengers, the movie, the live action movie.

So it's like, okay, we get to turn this script into basically a blockbuster, a 22 minute blockbuster.

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