Sunday, June 7, 2026
Why We Watch Showcase
Sunday, January 1, 2023
Comixology: Library and Annotations | Fan Made Commercials

Recording my guest appearance on Superhero Cinephiles was a fun, wonderful experience. The host was incredible, and the conversation was excellent. Preparing for it, balancing the comic, a notebook, and a pen was a lot more frustrating than expected. What's worse is that it was completely unnecessary. I remembered not just all the regular features using a Kindle affords, but I also remembered manually drawing underlines and highlights, and putting notes in the margins of unformatted PDFs that professors occasionally sent us. It wasn't perfect, but it was still all on a single tablet and required one hand.
This is impossible with large comics because trying to convert one into a PDF crashes PDF readers. So Amazon really should step in and do something. They clearly have the capabilities, with everything the Kindle and ComiXology apps already can do, but they are more concerned with slashing what ComiXology can do in the interest of cost-saving. Nerdsync and other YouTubers have covered that really well.
Credits
Voice Acting
Kiyana Morgan
Music
Christophe Beck's Ant-Man Theme
Owned by Marvel/Disney
Photos
Adobe Stock & Shutterstock
Script Consulting
Julia Yorks – The Baby Writers Podcast
Software
Figma for UI & Final Cut Pro for editing
Play with the Figma files however you’d like
Annotation & Library
Inspiration
Superhero Cinephiles & Nerdsync
ComiXology & Kindle by Amazon
Comics owned by their respective creators or publishers
Purchased through ComiXology or, more likely, Humble Bundle
I’m affiliated with neither
Special Thanks
SUNY New Paltz Comic Books United!
My school’s comic club showed me the wide world of comics outside of the movies
Monday, August 29, 2022
Ant-Man: Movie (2015) | Guest Appearing on Superhero Cinephiles Podcast
From the episode's page, because Perry covered it really well, "This week, Perry is joined by video editor and writer Eddie Thomson of Why We Watch to discuss 2015’s Ant-Man! We discuss the long road this movie took to getting made, from Edgar Wright’s long involvement in the project, switching over to Adam McKay and eventually landing in the hands of Peyton Reed. We also talk about how the heist film aspect helps set this apart from the rest of the MCU and why not every movie needs to end in some world-ending threat."
For people interested in talking with Perry, see what's available to discuss and his contact form.
Our discussion on the Nick Spencer comics is a Patreon exclusive. Re-reading them years later was not entirely what I expected, and that's one of the things that we talk about. It was a great experience though, and it inspired me to cobble together a variant cover for one of the issues.
Like the Doctor Strange poster, this was done with re-used assets in Blender, and then it was finished in Photoshop. The main challenge was laying out and rendering the apps separately and posing Scott. The main issue with Scott is it's an FK rig, so the arms and fingers had to be rotated individually, instead of if it had been an easier-to-pose IK setup. Also I’m sure the scale is ridiculous, but I wanted to balance readability of the phone with showing some background, and perspective is hard.
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Prometheus Poster | Knocked Up Style
This poster may be one of the worst, and potentially most offensive, creative ideas I've ever had. Some stupid part of me hopes it sparks better work that can break through to people who still don't realize how necessary abortion rights are, and how scary the country is about to be for people who can get pregnant. That's why it's hopefully worth sharing.
For context on the mashup, if you don't know, please read "Is ‘Prometheus’ a Feminist Pro-Choice Metaphor?" by Megan Kearns.
Please donate to your local, or non-local, abortion fund. A list of funds is available here, and it's suggested that you do a search to quick make sure that sites and lists like this are up to date.
Monday, May 23, 2022
Doctor Strange (2016) | Fan Made Poster, Co-Created By CGFlow and Other Artists
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Vudu: Disc to Digital Service | Fan Made Commercial
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Vudu: Disc to Digital Service | Fan Made Car/Radio Commercial
Just trying out different things with the channel, as I continue through a bit of a slump with trailers, reviews, and stuff like that.
Credits are inside the video. Please check out the work of the other people who helped put this together. It just would've stayed on the page without them.
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Talking About Fan-Made Movie Trailers | Guest Appearing on The Turtle Stack Podcast
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Iron Man 3 | Mambo No 5 TV Spot (Fan Made)
Another great trailer without the big ticket villain is by Split Second Media. It's in the style of Logan, and that is super fitting.
New start: The FanTrailer subreddit had a Spot Contest in February. Hearing Mambo No. 5 in Iron Man 3 created a backup plan. It became the best option because the movie isn't as comedy heavy as Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp (reviewed here), and Thor Ragnarok. A solid fifteen seconds of jokes, and plot without mentioning Mandarin, was either non-existent, or I would've had to really squeeze material out of the movie.
So, I went humorless and plotless. The first idea was to do Tony getting into a new suit with each name, but there was a surprising lack of moments like that. So, lone suits being used and incorporating Tony's friend's into the Iron Legion became the way to go. Tony himself kinda bookends things. Hopefully, it runs smooth moment-to-moment.
My family and a few friends looked this one over for me. Also Drw.17, Onomatopoeic Pictures, and Joshnitt, all from the community (on Reddit and Discord), helped out tremendously, too. They suggested, among a couple other things, ducking the music volume as needed to bring out the sound effects more, adding studio logos to the beginning, and adding extra dialogue, to break things up a little toward the end.
Additionally, I'd like to give a special shoutout to Ntenis Kapanidis. He was very hands-on with assisting me. He gave me tips on spot making in general, and he recently found and shared a podcast all about teasers and trailers. It's called Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods, it appears to be on all major podcast platforms, and I look forward to listening to it.
As always, please check out the community, and if anything you see sparks an idea, run with it and put together your own videos. Tons of free resources are available, like Blender 3D's video editor, GIMP (free Photoshop), and other tools you may need.
It's not the most complex edit, but just getting back into the MCU and watching Robert Downey Jr. work his magic were just wonderful by themselves. Speaking of getting back into it, WandaVision is pitch-perfect. And I'm proud to say that J.A.R.V.I.S is in this spot!
This video, and others are collected, on-site, here.
Sunday, December 13, 2020
Agent 47: The Silent Assassin | Fan Trailer for Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
The Emancipation of Harley Quinn | Birds of Prey Horror Style Trailer
I'm definitely taking a break from videos after this. I need to get back to basics.
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Booksmart | Teenage Dirtbag TV Spot (Fan Made)
I ended my review of Booksmart saying "One more thing, before or after seeing it, I recommend listening to this cover of Teenage Dirtbag [by Jax]. They match up together pretty well." To put that to the test, I made a short ad powered by the song. Read more for a tiny bit more background and a "Thank You" section.
Two of the greatest gifts of college (SUNY New Paltz) were swing dance lessons and a re-introduction to music. Specifically swing covers of non-swing songs, like this. Before that, it was mainly the soundtrack to The Mask. It just opened up a whole new world, and not just instrument-wise. Whenever a song went from a male singer to a female singer, or vice-versa, they usually wouldn't adjust the lyrics. So gay relationships were finally being "talked" about the same way straight ones have been forever. That's what Booksmart does, too, with Amy (Kaitlyn Dever). Something about that, mixed with the universal relatability of surviving high school, and the personal relatability of not partying until college, struck a chord, made me actually tear up a little, and made the idea more than worth pursuing. Adding onto that, I wanted to replace the raunchiness and wackiness in the real marketing with sweetness that's also more relatable to all of us. And it may have helped lessen the Superbad comparisons.
Saturday, October 24, 2020
The Devil's Advocate Fan Trailer | Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Style
Friday, May 22, 2020
Hitman: Silent Assassin | Fan Trailer For the 2007 Movie
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
The Amazing Spider-Man | Homecoming Style (Fan Made Trailer)
So, what should be done when there's more to say, but movie magic must be maintained?




















