![]() Strangelove” the “precious bodily fluids” guy. Scott’s character General Buck Turgidson in “Dr. McCrain is definitely an homage to George C. Can you give some examples of that you think might have influenced this heady brew? What creative influences come together for you with Shrinkage ? Seems like a mashing up of comedy and Sci-Fi/Fantasy influences. Strangelove vibe to crusty Cold Warrior Gen. And when I get crazily into something, I try and make my creative projects take place in that realm so I get to play there and call it “work.” In this case, I thought, “What if you turned the alien invasion genre on its antennae and made them tiny but with an arguably even better way to conquer the Earth – through its most powerful man’s brain?”Īs for where it’s headed…let’s just say there’s going to be excitement, terror, and lust – and that’s just in the amygdala! Let me get this straight: Tiny aliens invade the President’s brain, and a 3-½ Star General and a brain scientist “get shot right up the Most Powerful Nose in the Free World” to “ find and kill or be killed by the Nano-invaders!” How’d you came up with this nutty premise, and can you tell us a some more about where this story might be headed? I mind-melded with Rob about comedy, comics, and brains… mmm brains… HEEB last encountered the cerebrally-obsessed scribe when we joined him in a limo along with Dick Cavett, Dick Gregory, Al Jaffee, and the late great Joe Franklin, on their way to record the “Mount Rushmore” skit for the Kutner-produced allstar comedy album “2776.”įrom what we’ve seen so far of the ingenious and hilarious concepts and characters bursting forth from Kutner’s cranium for his first comic book effort, and the appropriately over-the-top art by Marvel / DC veteran John Lucas, we can wholeheartedly recommend your shaking your shekels in the direction of their crowdfunding campaign. Here are pages 1, 2, 6, and 7 from the first issue of the comic "Shrinkage." They're not consecutive but they add up to give some of the gist of the story.What if aliens invaded… the President’s brain!! Rob Kutner, five-time Emmy winning Conan / “The Daily Show” writer ponders that question / fear in the form of SHRINKAGE, a four-issue sci-fi digital comic he is funding via Kickstarter, that will come out free via the Farrago Comics app. Be sure to keep up with our coverage of Comic-Con 2015, the annual entertainment geekfest that kicks off Thursday at the San Diego Convention Center. A signed print version of the first issue is also currently available at the Farrago booth (#2003) at San Diego Comic-Con International. 1 of "Shrinkage" is now available on Farrago Comics. All eight issues of "Shrinkage" will be free on Farrago, which is available for Apple's iPhone and iPad as well as devices running Google's Android software. ![]() "Shrinkage" is the first original comic on Farrago, a free comic-book-reading app. ![]() "His art walks that same fine line of crazy-real and satirical I do." "John's style jumped up and grabbed me by the throat," Kutner said. Luckily for us, artist John Lucas - best known for his work on "X-Men" and "Deadpool" - makes the unusual story come to life. In other words, a hell of a place to set a story." "It's a Wild West full of inexplicable yet critical happenings, and buried intangibly within is the very mystery of who we are. "I find the brain and brain research so tantalizing, because, while we know increasingly much about it, we also still know laughably little," Kutner wrote in an essay for Kickstarter about his inspiration for the comic. Kutner, who funded the comic using Kickstarter, found himself obsessed by the latest brain-related news from Psychology Today and Scientific American Mind. "And since we know so little about it, I figured it was the least accountable place for me to set a story." "I am absolutely gobsmacked by the mysteries of the human brain," Kutner said. The human brain has to be one of the more unusual backdrops for a sci-fi comic, but it had particular appeal for Kutner. "So we shrink down a brilliant dysfunctional neuroscientist and Cold War general and send them in there to fight back." "The comic is about extremely tiny aliens who feast on radiation and have invaded the president of the United States' brain in order to hijack him into nuking the planet for their dinner," Kutner, a writer on shows including "The Daily Show" and "Conan," said in an interview.
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