Lucia

Jesper third wheeling the Kerch boys. They’re talking politics and scheming bullshit and working through finances and Jesper is truly left just fixing a craft in the corner. It’s crazy how his two favourite people start talking to each other and suddenly everything is boring as hell. Jesper goes “let’s go out tomorrow” and Kaz is working all night and Wylan is working all day and “no, that’s too expensive” “it’s not smart for us all to be seen in public together right now” “I’ve got a hearing in the morning, Jes” “a ship is getting in, it’s going to be a big, rowdy night.” He’s going to kill them.

Wylan third wheeling Jes and Kaz. There’s a longer, more intense history there. These bitches are always fighting over a word being mentioned that once came up between them three years ago. Wylan, committing to Jesper, is Kaz’s brother in law. He signed up to be a part of this “family” apparently. Why these two still talk to each other is beyond him because three weeks ago Jesper forgot he said he’d come by to fix up some windows and then made excuses and forgot again so Kaz finally brought it up by literally sinking one of Jesper’s stocks.

And then of course, Kaz third wheeling Wesper when Wylan is very much in the mood to have some fun and…Wesper PDA and Kaz just sitting there questioning his choices. Or, really, Wesper caring very deeply about the mental health of someone whose girlfriend is fighting at sea for months at a time. Kaz somehow literally working around the clock to a degree that is more self-destructive than before. He will get so mopey and so mad and so impulsive some weeks. Wesper needs to take him out and walk him like a puppy. They’re his siblings showing up to poke him and piss him off on purpose but they are also his self-appointed babysitters.

….Jesper’s letters to Inej being so whiny sometimes:

“Your boyfriend keeps stealing my boyfriend. They’ve been talking about some fucking insurance policy for an hour. Girl come back.”

“No one is any fun anymore. Wylan keeps going to work ‘because someone needs to ruin my father’s legacy’ or ‘I need to know what’s going on if I’m going to change anything’ and he leaves in like…in the morning. Like. At 7. In the morning.”

Episode 3 guest is music producer Žarko Pak.

Watch full video on the Joker Out official YT channel ⬇️

Animation is a dying art and any animated movie at all is great news. Especially in the age of fucking AI. We LOVE to see an animated movie with real artists that is genuinely a labour of love.

But for EPIC, specifically, this is so so important because the musical is a concept album. It's just songs. This means all the art for it, all the visuals we have, is made by the community. Yes, some of it was commissioned, but so much of it was made simply because the artists that made it wanted to, they chose to.

Hundreds of artists have made so so many animatics and animations for EPIC in their own styles for every song in the musical. This community is built on these artists who have done so much for the visual storytelling of the musical.

1. Being alive

2. Being happy