I'm Clint Emerson and welcome to season two of can you survive this podcast, where the interview is just as dangerous as the scenarios I put my guests through.

From hostage situations to natural disasters, car jackings, active shooters, and more,

if you're looking for the skills necessary to survive these situations,

then this is the show for you.

Another episode of Can You Survive this podcast with me, Clint, and today's guest has created an illustrated comic books and graphic novels for all major publishers.

Titles he's worked on that I'm sure you've heard of is Batman, Martian, Manhunter, Firestorm, Shazam,

and his acclaimed five-year run with The Spectre for DC Comics.

The New Mutants, The Punisher, Weapon X, Wolverine, The Hulk Unchained for Marvel Comics,

Grim Jack for First Comics, X-Files, and the list just goes on and on and on.

Today, we have professional illustrator Tom Mandrick.

Hey, Tom, how you doing, buddy?

All right, Clint.

How about you?

Good, man.

I'm glad you're here.

And I got to say, obviously, my favorite things you've worked on were the right kind of crazy,

which is my memoir of debauchery, divorce, and all kinds of crazy deployments, the 3Ds of fun there. And then the most recent was 100 Deli Skills combat edition.

So, I mean, you did an awesome job on those. Everybody loves the art in all the books you've done

for me, uh, to include myself, of course. I'm, I'm biased. I think they're badass. Well, they were

both great projects to work on a lot of fun. And it's funny how we got together on those, you know,

just out of nowhere, you know, a friend of mine called me and said that you were looking

for an artist and I got in touch with you. The next thing you know, we're two books in.

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