Kevin Cruz Invades Reality TV With Comic Males

Comic Males He introduced geekdom towards the public together with his films Clerks and Mallrats. Now Kevin Cruz turns to TV with AMC's Comic Males, a real possibility show set at Jay and Quiet Bob's Secret Stash, the comics shop Cruz is the owner of in Red-colored Bank, Nj. The fanboy auteur informs TV Guide Magazine why his latest project is more frightening than the usual zombie attack. TV Guide Magazine: Are you currently surprised to become back on television after your bad knowledge about Clerks: The Animated Series? Cruz: F--king stunned! When that went in 2000, ABC purchased six episodes and just broadcast two. It will be around the air today! But here's what's really haunting: AMC arrived and stated, "We are ordering six episodes." I am, like, "We are cursed! We are dead!" [Laughs] I felt like I had been in Battlestar Galactica: What went down before may happen again! TV Guide Magazine: Seriously? You are that spooked? Cruz: Nah, really I believe this will work. Since we are just a little much deeper in it, it feels as though it could really pan out. This really is AMC, dude! They do not place you around the air inside a whimsy. They gave this show serious consideration. However I still feel similar to Roy Scheider in Jaws - I have seen the shark close up and I'd rather not undergo that hell again. TV Guide Magazine: But you have been handed the dream timeslot! Derive it. Cruz: It's correct. AMC has nuzzled us safe as cats within the slot immediately after The Walking Dead and before their talk show Speaking Dead. That's our audience! Which means you will certainly see us marketing the Walking Dead comics within our store as well as on our show. We understand how to hug ass. We understand how to polish the apple. I really like [Walking Dead creator] Robert Kirkman. If he found me and stated, "Produce your firstborn child," I'd seriously need to consider it. Not just is his show our lead-in, he's our spiritual godfather. His geekery permitted our geekery hitting the environment. TV Guide Magazine: This series happily fosters the concept comic-book fans can't have sex. The reason for so awesome with this? Cruz: Since it is true! [Laughs] We are pathetic! Look, among the advantages of the dudes within our world is the fact that we're very self-aware. We are in around the joke. Like a kid you are urged to become yourself, when what the majority of us really thought about being was another person - another person much, chilly! But that is all transformed. In older days, we'd bristle at being known as nerd or geek. Now we put on it just like a badge of recognition. TV Guide Magazine: How's your employees in the Stash handling all of this? Cruz: They did not wish to perform a reality show. I needed to back them in it. [Laughs] However that we have seen it we are all wondering why we did not do that sooner. These men are prodigies. They walk towards the beat that belongs to them drums and also have maintained who they really are when confronted with adversity, which in my experience is heroic. There's nobody on television more complicated. You turn a camera in it and comedy happens, drama happens. This show did not begin being concerning the Stash. We'd planned to possess a search to get the best, most fascinating, most acerbic comic-book staff in The United States. [Laughs] Until it had been stated in my experience it was okay under my nose. Initially when i first began speaking with AMC it never happened in my experience to make use of my very own store and my very own men. Seriously! I can not go ahead and take credit with this idea. To show around the TV and find out my incredible friends' faces on AMC - the only real funnel I watch incidentally - will probably be f--king amazing, guy. It is the finest miracle trick within the good reputation for mankind. TV Guide Magazine: And also the moral of the story?Cruz: The greater I avoid things the greater they come out! Comic Males premieres Sunday at 10:01/9:01c on AMC. Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!