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Ep 45: Year of the Yeti with Jeremy Packer

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Zombie Yeti joins us on this episode and not only do we talk Avengers and Turtles but we also talk about the rest of Zombie Yeti's pinball designed artwork.

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Highlights

  • Jeremy Packer has three more games coming out this year in addition to Turtles and Avengers.
  • Marvel wanted Jeremy Packer specifically for Avengers after initial schedule negotiations failed, with George Gomez calling to relay that Marvel rejected all other artist candidates.
  • Jeremy Packer deliberately softened his angular artistic style for Turtles to preserve the '87 series' curvilinear character design.
  • Jeremy Packer has turned down multiple projects including Star Wars comic because he felt he couldn't add meaningful artistic value.
  • Avengers artwork has only two backglass design variations due to time constraints.
  • Jeremy's daughter, an illustrator, helped ink and color the TMNT topper during Avengers production.
  • Jeremy Packer was heavily influenced by comic artists Todd McFarlane and Norm Breyfogle, particularly Breyfogle's Detective Comics work.
  • Marvel licensing requires distinct eras (e.g., X-Men, Spider-Man are separate licenses from core Avengers), limiting character inclusion on Avengers pinball.
  • Jeremy Packer experienced accelerated Avengers production with minimal revision cycles from Marvel approval.
  • Jeff Patterson (This Week In Pinball host) and Jeremy Packer attended the same high school; Patterson's father taught classes and coached.

Notable quotes

“There's I've got three more games coming out this year yet.”
Jeremy Packer
“I didn't have any changes throughout the process. They loved everything, which is great. Between you and me, I wish I would have had a little more time to flesh some things out.”
Jeremy Packer
“I was done in, I started January 1, finished maybe towards the end of February, something like that.”
Jeremy Packer
“I had to kind of soften my hand a bit. And that was kind of difficult, believe it or not.”
Jeremy Packer
“I turned down doing the Star Wars comic version. Um, and it's not because I don't love Star Wars, but it's because I knew I couldn't add anything to it.”
Jeremy Packer
“Iron Maiden, I said throughout, was going to be the last pinball machine I ever worked on... And I remember telling Greg that almost every day.”
Jeremy Packer
“Making myself miserable is really the secret to all of my success. I am very neurotic and I have a tremendously difficult time liking anything I do until I've gotten very far away from it.”
Jeremy Packer
“There's lines drawn in the sand, like the X-Men are a different license, right? Spider-Man is his own license.”
Jeremy Packer
“I'll do every pencil, every sketch up front, get it approved. I'll then move to ink and then I'll then move to color at the end.”
Jeremy Packer
“You can fake it till the cows come home with artwork... but there's a difference between that and oozing passion.”
Josh Roop (host)

Entities

  • Marvel· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Avengers· game
  • Deadpool· game
  • Iron Maiden· game
  • Primus· game
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT)· game
  • Flippin' Out Pinball· organization
  • Loser Kid Pinball Podcast· organization
  • This Week In Pinball· organization
  • Derek Riggs· person
  • George Gomez· person
  • Jeff Patterson· person
  • Jeremy Packer· person
  • Joe Lemire· person
  • Jon Favreau· person
  • Josh Roop· person
  • Keith (Elwin)· person
  • Norm Breyfogle· person
  • Robert Downey Jr.· person
  • Scott Larson· person
  • Todd McFarlane· person
  • Zach· person

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