"I'm more into the Spawn toys. They're really cool. They're coming out with a Techno Spawn series and another series, The Dark Ages, which are really cool"
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Nerd enthusiasm is doing a lot of quiet work here. Jason Mewes isn’t delivering a manifesto; he’s letting fandom talk for him, using product names like passwords. By specifying Spawn toys instead of the broader, safer category of “comics,” he signals allegiance to a particular strain of 90s pop culture: darker, edgier, anti-hero obsessed, and unapologetically commercial. It’s not highbrow; that’s the point. The pleasure is in the material object, the sculpt, the collectibility - the feeling that taste can be held in your hand.
The repetition of “really cool” reads less like lazy description and more like sincerity with the guard down. Mewes’ persona has often leaned on chaotic, stoner-comic energy; here, the excitement is oddly meticulous. He’s tracking lines (“Techno Spawn,” “The Dark Ages”) the way sports fans track trades. That specificity gives the quote authenticity and an accidental intimacy: this is what he cares about when the cameras aren’t asking about craft.
There’s also a cultural timestamp embedded in the phrasing “they’re coming out with.” It situates him inside the hype cycle of collectible culture - the pre-social-media era of waiting for releases, scanning catalogs, building identity through what you’re into. The subtext is a kind of resistance to respectability: let other actors talk about “process.” He’s talking about toys, and making that feel like a legitimate, even joyful, mode of adulthood.
The repetition of “really cool” reads less like lazy description and more like sincerity with the guard down. Mewes’ persona has often leaned on chaotic, stoner-comic energy; here, the excitement is oddly meticulous. He’s tracking lines (“Techno Spawn,” “The Dark Ages”) the way sports fans track trades. That specificity gives the quote authenticity and an accidental intimacy: this is what he cares about when the cameras aren’t asking about craft.
There’s also a cultural timestamp embedded in the phrasing “they’re coming out with.” It situates him inside the hype cycle of collectible culture - the pre-social-media era of waiting for releases, scanning catalogs, building identity through what you’re into. The subtext is a kind of resistance to respectability: let other actors talk about “process.” He’s talking about toys, and making that feel like a legitimate, even joyful, mode of adulthood.
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