https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYRSjUDFLHw
0:30 – The genesis for Florida Man was in 2013 when Newt was working in a hotel in New Jersey. He encountered a homeless man while taking out the trash. This homeless man was bearded and presented Newt with a couple of equestrian medals. He was wearing a t-shirt that said “Epcot” so Newt thought, “Epcot…Florida…Florida Man.”
2:00 – “From 2015 to 2019, I hit this serious time where I was very, very creative and I pumped out an insane amount of screenplays.”
Oh sure. Newt “The Ideas Man” Wallen over here.
Big Titty Cyborg Massacre
Zonar: The Busty Barbarian
Jugs Ahoy! Naked Pirates of Death
He was cranking this shit out. In more ways than one. Newt is just FULL of ideas. As long as we’re talking strictly about tits and gore. If it’s not tits and gore, Newt isn’t interested.
He’s watching Gone with the Wind. “What the hell is this? Why are none of these bitches naked? How come nobody is getting their head chopped off?”
2:30 – In 2015, Newt was now working at a cinema, and one of his employees needed help with his homework. I’m not even joking. It was about American folk heroes. So Newt started unleashing his knowledge about Paul Bunyan and Johnny Appleseed and whatnot and this further cemented the idea, in Newt’s mind, that Florida Man should be an American folk hero.
3:15 – Oh…this one is subtle. Either he didn’t explain it well or I’m misinterpreting this or I’m just really on the ball today.
But he makes a vague reference to how in news reports, when somebody is unknown, they’ll refer to the person as “Florida man”, if he’s from Florida. So like, “Florida Man Shoots up Walmart. Still at Large”, for example.
So Newt’s idea is that what if this generic “Florida man” was actually one person doing all of these things? He’d be a folk…hero? I guess.
4:30 – “It took me three weeks to write over 200 pages.”
How many of them were good, though? We’re looking for quality over quantity here, Newt. We don’t want 500 bad scripts, we want 1 good one.
“I used the structure of Beowulf to do the layout.”
Where does he even know this from? He read the Old English original? There was a film adaptation years ago, and I saw it in the cinema, but I don’t remember anything about it. It was a weird animation or CGI type thing but as for the story, I don’t remember anything. Maybe that’s what he knows it from.
“The next piece that fell into place was the title: Florida Man Saves Christmas. I thought that that was eye-catching enough that people would be like, ‘What the fuck is this?’ Because there are other Florida Man comic books but they’re always more like true crime or this loveable white trash loser.”
Wait…what? There are other Florida Man comics? And he knew this and still used this title? Let me look this up.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097HRLS8D?
There’s one from about June 2021. It’s a comedic comic book about a redneck from Florida. There’s one review on Amazon. The reviewer gives the comic 1 star out of 5. I’m getting a glimpse of the future here.
If you go to the guy’s website, there’s a “sexy” drawing of a crocodile removing a bikini-clad woman’s g-string. Again…same fucking shit as Newt is doing.
Has it worked for this guy? Is the comic book industry falling over themselves to hire Mike Baron? Is Mike Baron independently wealthy from these shit comics that he churns out?
https://www.amazon.com/s?i=digital-text&rh=p_27%3AMike+Baron&s=relevancerank&text=Mike+Baron
Actually, if you click the “Mike Baron” link on Amazon, you get the above page. He’s written a lot of stuff. He’s written Punisher comics, Star Wars, Swamp Thing, Daredevil, The Flash.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Baron
There’s his Wikipedia page. He’s written for Marvel, DC, and some of the bigger tertiary publishers. He’s been doing this since 1974. He’s in his 70s. He’s won industry awards for his writing.
He also does independent comics, like Florida Man. I don’t know if he owns the character or is just doing it for some tiny company.
Newt knows this. Newt knows that there’s an existing character called Florida Man, which seems to have a similar tits and lowbrow humour theme, and he still went ahead with this. Why didn’t he just change the fucking name? It’s not like “Florida Man” is a good name. It’s SHIT. It’s something that would take two seconds to come up with.
It’s unbelievable. Won’t Mike Baron go after Newt for copyright infringement now? Maybe Florida Man is so generic a name that you can’t copyright it. But that just leads to more problems. Why didn’t Newt choose a name that could be granted copyright protection?
The man was fired from Screenwave for plagiarism. So now he’s concentrating on his comic, which is basically Beowulf with tits and gore. And the name of the character is the same name as an existing character. The existing Florida Man comic is similar in theme to Newt’s Florida Man comic.
Newt thinks that he’s going to get wealthy from this thing. He’s going to be able to quit his job.
As a kid, I had a comic book called Araknis. It was obviously a rip off of Spider-Man. It was not a success.
Nevertheless, Araknis was a much more original character than Newt’s Florida Man is. He didn’t look like Spider-Man. He was some kind of spider daemon/human hybrid as opposed to somebody who was bitten by a radioactive spider. And the name of the fucking character was different. They didn’t just name the character “Spider-Man” and say, “Oh, but this is a different Spider-Man.”
I mean…Newt “The Ideas Man” Wallen. Should be Newt “Other People’s Ideas” Wallen.
I know that I should just move on but how could he possibly go ahead with this? It’s insane. He’s using the same fucking name as an existing character. And Newt’s character is similar to this existing character. And he knows all of this.
Mike Baron is a professional comic book writer with 50 years of experience in the industry. Newt Wallen…I don’t even want to give Newt’s writing credits and demerits. It’s just unbelievable. Why didn’t he at least change the fucking name? It’s so incredibly lazy. This is how he got caught plagiarising for Monster Madness. He didn’t even bother changing the words around.
All he had to do was call the character Georgia Man. Would it have made a difference? Call him Rural Pennsylvania Man. What the fuck does it matter? Just come up with something ORIGINAL. FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE.
4:45 – “But nobody had done Trailer Trash Lovecraft or White Trash Hellboy.”
But we already have the collected works of HP Lovecraft. We already have Hellboy. Somebody already came up with these ideas.
I know that original ideas are in short supply. I know that the entertainment industry rips off other people’s ideas all of the time. I know that comic books are perhaps particularly bad offenders when it comes to ripping off other people’s ideas.
How many Superman rip offs are there? Shazam. Supreme. Prime. If you look this shit up, you’ll find literally hundreds.
But there’s not one example of somebody calling their ripoff character “Superman”.
Oh my fucking god. How much have I written already? Fuck. I have to do this in two parts.
Newt, this is unbelievably bad. I know that the comics are already printed so this isn’t going to be easy. But purchase every bottle of White Out that you can find and remove every reference to “Florida Man” in every single comic. Then write a NEW name in there. An ORIGINAL name.
Assuming that there’s an issue two of this shit, use this NEW and ORIGINAL name. I’ve given you two suggestions already: Georgia Man and Rural Pennsylvania Man. I’ve looked these up. There don’t seem to be existing comic characters with either of these names. I give you permission to use either of these names.
Fucking part 2 tomorrow. There’s another 20 minutes of this shit.
Parts 2 and 3:
https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2022/04/how-did-florida-man-save-christmas-part.html
I can't believe he uploaded this himself and this wasn't just some “interview” where he said all this. It makes it even more non self-aware.He really can't help himself clearly. It doesn't even register that he's basically just doing the same shit that got him fired. You would think he would wildly have learned a lesson from all that, but it took so little effort to see what he is doing here. What the fuck are you doing? Are these ideas so crap that you figure rules or morality don't need to apply? Because you pretend like they're quality ideas ironically too.Might as well just call the character Newt Man or Super Thief at this point. The concept of this “legend” can barely sustain itself. It's like below a straight to dvd concept. This is like the scrawlings of an 8 year old.
There's actually an entire “meme” genre about Florida Man. It's the same exact shit that Newt was talking about where there's a headline that says, “Florida Man did (something)” and the joke is that it's one guy, named Florida Man, who is doing all of this. People have made COMICS about this. As here:https://cheezburger.com/648709/these-10-comics-show-that-florida-man-is-one-of-the-weirdest-superheroes-out-thereHere's the KnowYourMeme page:https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/florida-manThe guy doesn't have a single original idea in his head. This is all ripped off. The “joke” of this comic is based on this stupid “meme”.