This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

So first, Gary, I just want to say thank you so much for your time today.

I know you're a very busy man.

I'm super pumped to get to talk to you about comic books and NFTs and kind of where you see those two things colliding.

Real quick before we get into that, I just want to say thank you again because you know, I've been doing this for a year as of Saturday full time owning a business, making content.

I think that in a year I get to talk to a real life super hero such as yourself, absolutely mind blowing for me. So thank you so much.

You're very nice.

Appreciate it. All right. So Gary is going to jump right into it. So my first question.

I just want to provide you with a little bit of context around it. You know, we're kind of seeing a rise in indie comic books, creator owned properties, things like that.

They're having a bit of a renaissance.

And I just want to know where you see that kind of colliding with NFTs and smart technology and smart contract technology.

I believe that NFTs are the biggest medium to new character creation since 1980s after school television.

Ironically, given the way you asked that question, I believe one of the greatest platforms for character creation of all time is comic books.

Yeah, definitely.

I don't know what to tell people, but like Batman was a comic book. Superman was a comic book. You know, and so it's fun because I believe the next Batman, the next Superman, and then taking it to other formats, the next Transformers, you know, those were cartoons made to sell toys.

And then we had card games, magic, the gathering, Pokemon, that became a platform, right? I believe NFTs will create the most significant new IP that we've seen in a very long time that board a cool cats world of women,

and be friends, who knows which ones, but 15 to 25 of these properties, 50 will come out of this era and become popular culture in 20, 30 years.

So how do I see it? I see it as NFTs is the greatest thing that ever happened to independent comic creators. Here's why the likelihood of being an independent comic right now printing a book and creating Spider-Man is impossible.

Yeah, we haven't seen it since spawn, right? Right, and I think we can agree that spawns unbelievable, but let there be no confusion. Spawn is not Batman Superman.

And so we haven't seen it because the format's not big enough to do it. There's not enough people on a date. You gotta understand, and you probably know this, in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, you add almost every kid reading a comic book.

Thus giving Spider-Man, he, man, Shazam, you know, fantastic 4x men a chance. Today that happens in video games. Fortnite can become Spider-Man if they go, if Super Mario, for example, is much bigger than spawn.

That's for the medium, Joel, maps, the medium of just a comic book isn't big enough anymore to create that big of a character. I believe that NFTs will be a big enough medium and a lucrative enough medium, for example, V friends, I've done so well financially with V friends because the NFTs are lucrative.

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