– We get to NPR where I meet up with Robert and segment producer Jim Wallace. Robert and I cram into a small recording booth while the techs get Frank Miller on the line from NYC.

– Interview goes great. It’s about an hour long, and we cover the “Sin City” books, film, and ethos. Both Robert and Frank are articulate, eager speakers, so the hour flies by (Frank tells me I out-Catholic’ed him on my “Daredevil” run, which I find kind of funny). After we wrap, Jim tells me he’s now gotta somehow cut the piece down to eight minutes for NPR broadcast (the entire interview will run on NPR’s website shortly after the piece airs). I pick Robert’s brain about using Troublemaker’s Austin facilities for “Ranger Danger” (as always, he’s very accommodating and encouraging) and Malcolm and I head back to the house.

– On the drive home, we crack one another up with the outlandish premise built off Mewes’ meeting with Erin Gray (Wilma Deering from the “Buck Rogers” tv show) the previous day. Ms. Gray had generously invited Mewes to a ComiCon over in the UK in June. Mewes and I turn it into a what if scenario: what if Mewes gets there, only to discover that he’s to dress up as Twiki from “Buck Rogers”, in complete Twiki costume, minus a face-plate. For the three days, he’s expected to follow Ms. Gray around, doing his best Twiki impersonation, never mentioning that he’s Jason Mewes. Mewes ups the stakes by insisting I go as well, only to discover the Con’s insisting I hang off a chain around Mewes neck and play the role of Dr. Theopolis. We riff on this for the entire ride home.