Grail Hunters Comic Podcast S04E04 - SDCC 2022 Special featuring Tad Pietrzykowski

In this San Diego Comic-Con Special Episode, Neville chats to Tad Pietrzykowski

Next week Neville will be travelling to San Diego Comic Con where he will be hosting a panel to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of some of Australia's most iconic comics and the creators behind them 

In his preparation for the panel, many of the great creators behind titles such as Southern Squadron, The Dark Nebula, Jackaroo, Flash Damingo, Phantastique, Nightshade and The Rock took time out of their schedules to chat to him about the story behind the stories. With the consent of the creators I will be releasing them over a number of short episodes so collectors and readers passionate about the books and stories can enjoy them as much as he does.

In this episode Tad lets us see under the covers..or is that behind the covers of The Dark Nebula.

 

Find out why The Dark Nebula was almost a “the comic that never was” and we also  talk about the evolution of the character to what we know him to be now. From multiple designs and colours, Tad wanted a point of difference and not make it not look it’s a copy from the US. Inspired by characters like The Green Hornet, The Lone Range, and wanted to created “The Dark Nebula”. The intention was also to make sure the characters biggest weakness is not the other characters he takes on but rather his biggest weakness is doubt and internal conflict.

 

From “Just wanting to tell a story” to creating a character embedded in Australian Comic Universe folklore, The Dark Nebula will probably survive us all! We talk about Cyclone and Oz Comics, and how the tyranny of distance meant that Tad was isolated and doing his own thing for long before the advent of OzComics and Cyclone. Tad reflects on the origins of Cyclone and how the team anchoring the titles came to know each other and work together, and how a life changing event (which almost ended his life in fact) made him refocus on The Dark Nebula.

 

Looking forward Tad lets us in to things to come! Issues 12, 13 and crossovers with Southern Squadron, the Reverie universe and much more, including actually writing stories about other characters than Dark Nebula!

 

Crack a beer, and enjoy the episode