Episode 123 - Spawn Kills Every Spawn 4 and Gunslinger 37

[00:00:00] Speaker A: I know you bought this book for the bloodshed, brutality and butchery, mayhem and murder, slaughter and senseless violence. And more than anything else, to see Spawn meet an ugly, untimely end. But not like this. Good evening and welcome to the Malbolge. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast. I am your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:51] Speaker B: And I am your cheerful, carefree co host, David Williams. [00:00:55] Speaker A: Cheerful, carefree? [00:00:56] Speaker B: Yeah, you gotta. We started the episode with some of John Lehman's legendary alliteration. I figured we should probably carry it on throughout the episode. [00:01:07] Speaker A: Okay. I'm the tragic and tired John Fisher. [00:01:15] Speaker B: I was gonna say the. The jolly and jovial John Fisher, but that's it. [00:01:19] Speaker A: Okay. That's better. Jolly and jovial John Fisher. [00:01:22] Speaker B: Unless. Unless you can find. You could say what? Jaded? And. [00:01:28] Speaker A: I'll take jolly and jovial. I had a pretty good. [00:01:31] Speaker B: I can't think of another. I can't think of another J word. Except for Jomoka as in Jamoca shake. Oh man. [00:01:36] Speaker A: I had a pretty good day yesterday, so I'm in a good mood. A relaxing day. [00:01:40] Speaker B: Nice. [00:01:41] Speaker A: It was a cold day in Chicago, so I stayed inside and rediscovered. [00:01:44] Speaker B: I did leave the house once. [00:01:46] Speaker A: Yeah, I did for once. But I rediscovered Diablo 4. David, I've been playing Diablo 4 again. [00:01:53] Speaker B: Oh no. Oh no. You say we better. We better hurry up and get through this so you can get back to it. [00:01:58] Speaker A: No, it's true. And I'm on a time limit because the reason I started playing again is the end of this season. It's your last chance to unlock all the season pass rewards. So I gotta blaze through these things in like tonight. [00:02:09] Speaker B: Oh boy. Well, we will. We will get you there as fast as we can, Johnny. [00:02:14] Speaker A: But first, we're on the other side. I'll be playing Diablo 4 on the other side of two issues of spawn. [00:02:20] Speaker B: Yes. [00:02:21] Speaker A: Or from Spawn's universe, to be more precise. Not to put too fine a point on it. [00:02:25] Speaker B: No, no. Well, I mean, no. Definitely not too fine of a point. Technically you've expanded it. It's the expanded universe collapsing its to a point. [00:02:35] Speaker A: What's going on with no home here. When's that coming out? [00:02:37] Speaker B: The guys. The guys at the shop said that they like canceled it. So that way they could re solicit it at a later date. So I'm wondering if it's just. I don't know if it's a. Like a creative issue or if. If you notice the books that came out last week, it was like the road to hell starts here or Something like that, or All Hell Breaks Loose or whatever the next crossover is. I'm wondering if they're trying to wait until after another sort of crossover to happen. [00:03:08] Speaker A: I know they're lease on working on issue three because. Four, I think because Jonathan Glaffing was posting some stills from it. Looks pretty cool. [00:03:16] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm. [00:03:17] Speaker A: I mean, gotta find out what's going on with that little girl. [00:03:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. I am very excited for it and very sad that they. They postponed it. [00:03:26] Speaker A: So that gives me time to pre order it. [00:03:28] Speaker B: Now I bet you feel real dumb for having run out of your barber's chair with the. The lather still half on your face. [00:03:35] Speaker A: I didn't do it yet. I still haven't done it. I didn't go get my books this week. [00:03:40] Speaker B: Oh, man. Too cold. [00:03:42] Speaker A: It was too cold. Well, I. The bus route I usually take. I had access to a car. My car this week. So I decided to, like, take the car to work a few times. So I didn't go by the comic shop. [00:03:54] Speaker B: Well, I mean, usually I take the. [00:03:55] Speaker A: Bus, but it was just like, cold and I had other things going on. I had to use my car. So. Yeah, try to take the bus to work, though. [00:04:01] Speaker B: Well, Johnny, that's fine. The books will keep. If my. If my continuing stack of unread books is any indication, the book's okay. [00:04:10] Speaker A: I'll just have a more exciting week next week. [00:04:12] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:04:14] Speaker A: No, I'll probably go tomorrow. [00:04:17] Speaker B: You'll have. You'll get so many books in one day that you'll be like, I can't go to work until I read all these books. And then the next thing you know, you missed work. Whoops. [00:04:25] Speaker A: Uh, oh, no. I probably have enough time to read them all if I got them right when they opened at 11. I could do that before I got. [00:04:32] Speaker B: To go to work and sit in the corner. Be like, don't mind me. Can I sit behind the desk, read these? [00:04:39] Speaker A: No, let's go to the barbershop and I'll get a haircut and sit there and read it. True. [00:04:42] Speaker B: That works. [00:04:43] Speaker A: We're not reading future issues of Spawn, which I will be picking up from my comic shop. But we're reading past issues of Spawn from a few months ago as of this record, and could be years ago. When you're listening, it could be decades ago. [00:04:58] Speaker B: Could you imagine, Johnny, that people are still listening to this? Decades from now? [00:05:03] Speaker A: I will be just trying to get a retouch with my midlife crisis agent. [00:05:08] Speaker B: One of us will be dead, and we'll be reliving the glory years. Sorry to bring it down, Johnny. [00:05:13] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Jesus Christ. These are the glory years. Somebody help me. [00:05:19] Speaker B: Oh, man. I mean, nobody ever told you life was gonna be this way, Johnny. [00:05:24] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know. I think it always seems like the past is better. I don't know. Every time I look back at the past. Not necessarily. I don't know. I feel like I'm a better person constantly and have done stupider things in the past. So, like. Well, some things were better in the past. Not everything is better in the past. You learn and become a better person. [00:05:47] Speaker B: It's very. It's very easy to just immediately be like, yeah, things were better in the past because. Because the good. The good spots always shine the brightest. [00:05:55] Speaker A: And then you don't remember the bad. [00:05:57] Speaker B: Yeah. When you get. When you get around to thinking it, you're like, oh, oh, oh, oh, no. Oh, oh, no. Like, I could never be. Imagine being a college student ever again. Holy fucking shit. As awesome as it was for most of the time, the bad times were exceptionally awful. [00:06:17] Speaker A: Well, at least we got a good thing happening today. David reporting on Inauguration Day. David's so excited. [00:06:24] Speaker B: I prefer. I prefer to celebrate the true holiday when. Which is the birth of Martin Luther King Jr. Yeah. [00:06:31] Speaker A: How dare they encroach. [00:06:33] Speaker B: Yeah, how dare they? [00:06:34] Speaker A: If this had been Columbus Day and it would have been Biden, like, Trump would have had a fit. Yeah, well, I mean, he's encroaching on Columbus Day. He wouldn't have cared about Martin Luther King Day, obviously. [00:06:46] Speaker B: Obviously he doesn't. No. Kanye shot his wad too early with George W. Bush. What was that name? I said I don't know. Bush. [00:06:59] Speaker A: That was an early viral moment, though. Yeah, that was a very early viral moment. It might have been, like, before YouTube even. [00:07:07] Speaker B: What was what, 2005? YouTube started 2006, 2007, because it started, like, our first couple of years of college. [00:07:16] Speaker A: Yeah. But it was. I think it was my sophomore year that it started because I thought it was amazing because I could watch all these Oingo Boingo music videos I'd never seen. That's literally what I used it for at first, those music videos. [00:07:30] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I mean, what else are you going to use it for, Johnny? That's still what I use it for, basically. [00:07:36] Speaker A: I use it for video game tips and tricks videos, Diablo videos, tips and tricks. I like Scammer Call, like the Guy who Fucks with Scammers Kit Boga. He's pretty good. [00:07:52] Speaker B: There was a whole this American Life about guys doing that with the African prince scammer guys. Yeah, it was fun. It was fun. I guess I do watch a lot of home maintenance videos. Like how am I supposed to fix this goddamn thing? Oh, I know. YouTube, right? [00:08:11] Speaker A: YouTube is good for that. What else? I watched a lot of. Watched a lot of Chris Hansen recently. [00:08:18] Speaker B: You. You introduce those predators getting caught, Johnny. [00:08:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Catch those predators. I don't know, it's a real morbid thing. It's something I used to watch a lot in college. Yeah, he's back producing YouTube content. [00:08:31] Speaker B: There's a. There's a comedian on Instagram who also does that. That's. It's pretty interesting. [00:08:38] Speaker A: The watchers catch a predator. [00:08:39] Speaker B: No, no, no, that. That like lures. Lures predators to places because he's pretending to be like a 14 year old girl. [00:08:50] Speaker A: Okay. [00:08:50] Speaker B: And gotchas and gotchas them. [00:08:53] Speaker A: Oh man, it's a. It's a wild thing. I don't know. Maybe we should cut that out. I don't want to admit that I watch that. [00:08:58] Speaker B: Hey, somebody's watching it, Johnny. Might as well be us, right? [00:09:02] Speaker A: Yeah. We're not here to talk about YouTube. Even though we are. Because we are respawn. [00:09:07] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:09:08] Speaker A: And each week we bring you two issues from Spawn's universe. [00:09:10] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:09:11] Speaker A: We don't. This week we are bringing you two issues from Spawn's universe. Woo. And those issues. Those issues are those Isam issues. British or country? I can't tell. Our spawn kills every spawn number four from October 2024. And gunslinger spawn 37 from November 2024. [00:09:37] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Well, Johnny, there's honestly not much difference between what we consider country and what used to be proper British. Because the British at around the time of colonialism would have spoken about what we think that the Appalachian hillbillies sound like. [00:09:57] Speaker A: Okay, with. [00:09:58] Speaker B: With maybe a little bit of, if you'll excuse the phrase English, put on it with. With how they speak now. But yeah, yeah, old timey colonial British would have been much closer to Appalachian English than the Queen's English now. [00:10:16] Speaker A: Well, lady frickin da. [00:10:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Nice. [00:10:19] Speaker A: Good to know. [00:10:20] Speaker B: Very exciting. [00:10:21] Speaker A: So when I mess up my words like thou's and I sound like a weird Appalachian person, I'm sounding British. [00:10:28] Speaker B: Yeah. Actually there's a long standing tradition of great things that are incorporated into Appalachian culture. [00:10:34] Speaker A: I've been to the Appalachian Mountains. [00:10:36] Speaker B: It's a. It's. It's a very. It's a very rich. A very rich tradition of things. [00:10:42] Speaker A: I've been up there. My I have a cousin who. An aunt and uncle who live up there. [00:10:49] Speaker B: Nice. [00:10:50] Speaker A: And we went and visited. [00:10:51] Speaker B: Nice. Did you do any hiking? [00:10:53] Speaker A: Yeah, of course. [00:10:54] Speaker B: Nice. You gotta. You gotta try. We gotta do that Appalachian Trail one of these days, Johnny. [00:10:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:59] Speaker B: Like, the fastest time to have it finished is a month. I could not imagine backpacking for a month. [00:11:04] Speaker A: Oh, man, that sounds tough. We'd miss so much spawn. [00:11:07] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, you would. [00:11:08] Speaker A: You have to get carrier pigeons, like, drop it to you in the wilderness. [00:11:13] Speaker B: Oh, man, we'd be high tech about it, Johnny. We'd just have a friend drone it to us. [00:11:19] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, we could just drone it to you. Yeah, no problem. I could easily do that then with drones. [00:11:24] Speaker B: That would be fine. It would be like a month on the trail. [00:11:27] Speaker A: No problem. [00:11:27] Speaker B: It would be like a drop ship in a video game, Johnny. [00:11:32] Speaker A: I know. It'd be like getting a kill streak bonus. [00:11:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Could you imagine all the. It would be almost exactly like Diablo 4 trumpet around through some of those spooky places in the Appalachians. [00:11:43] Speaker A: Stop it. I'm already getting, like, tensions to want to go play it, David. [00:11:46] Speaker B: Oh, man. It would be like real life Blair Witch. [00:11:49] Speaker A: Oh, my God. I was talking to one of my friends and she had found her middle school journal. One of my old friends, Megan Shout out. Has listened to some episodes. If you're listening, Megan. And she had found her old middle school journal. And I remembered that I had mine. And it is a Blair Witch journal for the year 2000. And it's like this hardcover thing that has all these Blair Witch pictures in it. But it's so funny. It's just a journal with grainy true crime pictures in it. Because, like, all the pictures of Blair Witch are really grainy and brown. So it's just really funny. But there were some good entries. I write a lot about video games I was playing and pizza. [00:12:28] Speaker B: Oh, I mean, Johnny, I wasn't. [00:12:30] Speaker A: I was an eighth grader. [00:12:31] Speaker B: The more things change, the more they stay the same. [00:12:34] Speaker A: Didn't really write much about girls and stuff. I was too much of a nerd. [00:12:37] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, nerds. [00:12:40] Speaker A: Not eighth grade. [00:12:41] Speaker B: It happens, though. I was. I was a mathlete in eighth grade. So very exciting. [00:12:49] Speaker A: Oh, nice. Did you go to, like, competitions? [00:12:51] Speaker B: Yeah, we went to competitions. Competitions in the city. OkC. It was just room. Roomfuls of adolescents on a Saturday doing nothing but math problems for hours to see who's best at math. [00:13:06] Speaker A: One thing you would have enjoyed as an 8th grader adolescent as opposed to doing math, would have been Spawn kills every Spawn. [00:13:13] Speaker B: If I had been allowed to bring Spawn in the house, I definitely would have been a Spawn Fleet Spawn lead. That works. Here's how nerdy I was, Johnny. I was not allowed to do band in eighth grade because they needed a fourth person for the Mathletes team. And so I was forced to be a mathlete instead of going to band. [00:13:38] Speaker A: Oh, that sucks. Arts and schools, man. You could have a whole different life. You could have been. You could have been in a band. [00:13:48] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Oh, very exciting. [00:13:51] Speaker A: Yeah. So, yeah, Spawn kills every Spawn number four. It's time to start with those covers. [00:13:54] Speaker B: Yeah, we got to. We got to. And I think. I think, Johnny, I think we have different covers. [00:13:59] Speaker A: We do. [00:14:00] Speaker B: Because I just realized I have the B cover. [00:14:03] Speaker A: I have the A cover. [00:14:04] Speaker B: Woo. You got that Rob Sketchcraft Duenas episode cover. I almost called it an episode. [00:14:13] Speaker A: I mean, it is a Rob Sketchcraft Duenas episode. Yes. It's Chibi Violator standing on the back of Chibi Spawn who's screaming and he's got Baddy in his clutches. They're just fighting. You tell they're in Violator land because that red sky. [00:14:30] Speaker B: The red sky and the Halloween decorations in the background. [00:14:33] Speaker A: Yep. [00:14:35] Speaker B: Like, as. As Rob said, he's. He's. He's evil. Evil Stimpy in an Animaniac's hat. It's great. It's a great cover. Rob knows what he's doing. Johnny, I don't know if you know this or not. [00:14:48] Speaker A: Yeah, I love the clown on the hat. [00:14:52] Speaker B: It's just poor Betty. Betty's just getting smushed. [00:14:55] Speaker A: He's getting smushed like one of those little stress ball guys. [00:14:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:00] Speaker A: Whatever those guys are. [00:15:01] Speaker B: Yeah, Like, I used to have one. What. What's his. The. The tech guy in Jurassic Park. [00:15:08] Speaker A: I guess that's the OG fidget spinner, I guess. [00:15:13] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess it would be the little. [00:15:16] Speaker A: The little exploding head guy. [00:15:17] Speaker B: I've got the B cover, which is this Jonathan Galapian cover, which was great. It's a very like serious, serious renderings of the singed and Chibi Violators. Chibi Violators team. All. All attacking, you know, a much more serious looking Chibi Spawn there. And it also includes what looks like maybe Johnny, it looks like that might be. Looks a little bit like the girl from the. [00:15:52] Speaker A: Oh, it is. It's a girl from no Home here. [00:15:54] Speaker B: No Home Here here. [00:15:55] Speaker A: Totally. [00:15:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Very. It's very good. It's, you know, the Jonathan Clappian lines and everybody's flying around and it's just. It's it's good. [00:16:04] Speaker A: Who's that in the middle? [00:16:06] Speaker B: It's Teddy bear. [00:16:09] Speaker A: No, the guy at the bottom. [00:16:10] Speaker B: Oh, that guy. [00:16:10] Speaker A: Helmet head. [00:16:11] Speaker B: It looks like Mysterio, right? I guess he doesn't appear in the singed. I don't know. Maybe it is just Mysterio. [00:16:20] Speaker A: Yeah, it's the girl. It's Mysterio. It's like some flamin head spawn. [00:16:27] Speaker B: But it's like Spawn. Mysterio. Weird. There's like a punk spawn. [00:16:31] Speaker A: This is just some dudes. [00:16:32] Speaker B: This is punk spawn. Yeah. [00:16:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:34] Speaker B: Maybe this is like. Oh, this is. This is a little bit Spider man, isn't it? I don't know. It's fun though. I'm here for it. [00:16:43] Speaker A: Yeah, I like it. [00:16:44] Speaker B: Maybe these are all people that will meet and no home here. [00:16:46] Speaker A: And it's got the white background, which is kind of the classic of the Spawn. Kills every spawn. Lisa 1 and 2. I always think of that like white background, like the sparse. [00:16:57] Speaker B: It. It kind of. It kind of conveys a little less seriousness because it's. It's brighter. [00:17:04] Speaker A: Right. [00:17:05] Speaker B: I always. I always assume that a. A white cover comic book is going to be a little. A little bit lighter. Fair. [00:17:13] Speaker A: Right. [00:17:14] Speaker B: I don't know if that's actually what they're going for or if it's just something that I do. [00:17:18] Speaker A: So we pop that sucker open. [00:17:20] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:17:21] Speaker A: We got the credits. Script plot by John Layman. Art by Rob Sketchcraft Oannis. Colors by Robert Nugent. Lettering by John Layman. We already covered the covers. Creative director is one Mr. Todd McFarlane. [00:17:35] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:17:36] Speaker A: And editor in chief is one Monsieur Domicili. [00:17:40] Speaker B: Oui, oui. [00:17:41] Speaker A: Previously in Spawn Kills. Every Spawn. Chibi Spawn is taken captive by Chibi Violator as his fate hangs in the balance. What the fuck? That's supposed to be balance, right? [00:17:54] Speaker B: I do believe it is supposed to be balanced. [00:17:57] Speaker A: Whoops. It hangs in the balance. [00:18:01] Speaker B: Unless. [00:18:02] Speaker A: Hilarious. Is there gonna vote for who's the best? [00:18:04] Speaker B: I mean there's no, there's no. No impassioned plea to please write in and vote on on which Chibi wins. So. [00:18:14] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, must be. Maybe he knew we were going to record our episode on inauguration day. Fate hangs in the balance. [00:18:22] Speaker B: Oh man. [00:18:23] Speaker A: And we open on a big old big old page of action shot of Chibi Violator hanging. [00:18:31] Speaker B: Or you mean Chibi. Oh yeah. Above Chibi Violet. [00:18:35] Speaker A: We're hanging Chibi Spawn by a chain. [00:18:37] Speaker B: Uh huh. [00:18:38] Speaker A: So you didn't know the order I was gonna say? [00:18:40] Speaker B: Yeah. No, I didn't. I. I I interrupted you. I'm sorry about that. I should have let you finish. [00:18:46] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:18:49] Speaker B: David. God damn it. [00:18:51] Speaker A: Reviletor's house. He has a Jack o lantern lamp. [00:18:55] Speaker B: Yeah. He has a similarly themed room to Chibi Spawn where instead of Spawn stuff everywhere, it's Violator stuff everywhere. But also, as Rob said, it's kind of like Halloween town. So there's Halloween decorations everywhere. So he's got a Jack o'lantern lamp and he's got pumpkins on his curtains and he's got little candy corn banners everywhere. Yeah, little flags. [00:19:20] Speaker A: He's hanging him over a tank of. What does he call them? Violatoranas. [00:19:26] Speaker B: Violator Bronnets. They. [00:19:29] Speaker A: This is like a sci fi original movie. [00:19:31] Speaker B: These are some silly little guys. Look at them, Johnny. [00:19:34] Speaker A: Yep. Just chomping away. [00:19:35] Speaker B: Chomping away. And there's, there's. There's just bones sitting on the bottom of the tank. So obviously well fed Violator on us. [00:19:43] Speaker A: It's like a fun Violator action figure. [00:19:46] Speaker B: Oh, we do, we do also open on the opening reading, so. [00:19:50] Speaker A: Yes, we do. Mayhem and murder is what you bought this book for. And yeah, he's threatening him. [00:19:56] Speaker B: Yeah, threatening him. And then we turn the page and we see a little, you know, Chibi Violator starts, you know, letting go of the chain and Chibi Spawn starts falling, like free falling towards the. The tank of Violatoranas. And he's like, let me tell you how I got here. And then we see the image from the last page of the last. The previous issue where Chibi Spawn comes face to face with the singed. [00:20:27] Speaker A: Yep. [00:20:27] Speaker B: And then we see the. The battle that takes place immediately after that. And we start with the gunslinger Violator. Oh, what was his name? [00:20:37] Speaker A: I don't know. I should have had the previous issue with him. [00:20:39] Speaker B: I should have. But his little onomatopoeia for his guns is shoot him up. Shoot him up. I liked that a little bit. And then the Violatrix is coming at and swinging and she's got the rubberiest rubber arms that have ever rubber armed. [00:20:55] Speaker A: And they've all got the bendy arms. [00:20:57] Speaker B: And then the big, the big Mecha Violator starts rolling like running after him and shooting chains at him and little. [00:21:06] Speaker A: Chippy Mecca or like a medieval kind of one. [00:21:09] Speaker B: I guess it's the medieval guy. [00:21:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Boy, really should have read the previous issue again. Whoops. A little Chippy Violators running. Or Chippy Spawn's running away yelling for his momm. And then the big medieval Violator hits him with his violator hammer. Tragedy, catastrophe, Cataclysm, calamity. Then the little Chibi Spawn goes flying off into the distance in a. Leaving a trail of smoke behind him. Because he is caught on fire. [00:21:45] Speaker A: He screams, yowchi. Gunslinger, Violator and Chibi Violators looking over. Dead or not dead, but defeated. Chibi Spawn. [00:21:56] Speaker B: Yeah, Chibi Spawn with his. With his. With the little Todd heads floating around his head again instead of birds. The little Todd McParlins. [00:22:09] Speaker A: That's so funny. That's such a good detail. [00:22:11] Speaker B: It's so ridiculous. And a little Chibi Violators. Like, man, this guy's dumb. What the fuck is he thinking doing coming into Violator town looking like a Spawn? This guy's dumb. [00:22:21] Speaker A: I'm gonna teach this torp the ultimate lesson. I know just the place to do it. The Violator. [00:22:27] Speaker B: I like that he puts Chibi Spawn on a. A big bag called Spawn Sack. [00:22:33] Speaker A: As we know because of the COVID of wizard magazine from the Rob Duanes episode, which, if you haven't listened to, please go listen to. Great episode. A lot of insight into, like, the background of what's going on here. But this is a homage to a Wizard cover. It was like a Halloween Drake. A Pulo Spawn or Violator cover. [00:22:57] Speaker B: We get the Violator Moon up there again too. I love the Violator Moon. [00:23:00] Speaker A: And there's just jack O lanterns everywhere. It's very Halloweeny. [00:23:03] Speaker B: Mm. And there's a pair of tennis shoes up on the. On the electric lines. Always a good touch. [00:23:11] Speaker A: Why do people do that? [00:23:13] Speaker B: I don't know. I'm not entirely sure. I think. I think. [00:23:18] Speaker A: I think. [00:23:19] Speaker B: I think some people, like. I think there's. There's some people who. It's like bullies will beat up kids and take their shoes and throw them up there. [00:23:27] Speaker A: Right? That's the way when I see it in movies. [00:23:29] Speaker B: And I think some people do it as like an homage to or like a. Like a memorial to somebody. Like, they take their shoes of somebody who died, and they're like, we're gonna put their shoes up there. I think, especially in Chicago, I think a lot of it is turf branding. Much like the bending of street signs is a sign of disrespect to whoever is running those corners. You tend to mark your territory with shoes on the line. [00:23:58] Speaker A: Okay. [00:23:58] Speaker B: So based on what the colors or the make are. [00:24:03] Speaker A: There you go. You know more than I do about it. [00:24:07] Speaker B: I know that there's a lot of different reasons to do it. I don't think there's one consistent reason that it's done okay. [00:24:14] Speaker A: He comes into his house and his dad's a dad. Violator. [00:24:17] Speaker B: Yeah. His dad's basically Ed Bundy, but single parent. [00:24:22] Speaker A: Yep. And he calls him Felip Felipe. He's fell. [00:24:28] Speaker B: Actually. I guess his dad's not. Not Violator. Ed Bundy. Because his dad's actually a good dad. [00:24:34] Speaker A: I know. He makes some snacks. [00:24:36] Speaker B: Yeah, he makes some snacks. And he actually asks him how his day was instead of being like kids. I like how he said, did you have a nice night? Only if you think totally kicking spots ass is nice. [00:24:51] Speaker A: That's nice, son. [00:24:52] Speaker B: Then that's. He says that a couple of times. He's just like, I'm gonna be in my room contemplating murder. That's nice, son. I do like how to. To bring around the stark differences between Chibi Spawn and Chibi Violator is Chibi Spawn's got a dog. Chibi Violator's got a little demon goat cat. [00:25:17] Speaker A: Yep. Demon violator cat. [00:25:19] Speaker B: Mm. [00:25:19] Speaker A: He must be a Battlestar Galactica fan because his door says frag off. [00:25:23] Speaker B: Either that or a lobo. The main man. [00:25:28] Speaker A: Does he say frag? [00:25:29] Speaker B: He says frag. Don't they say frack in Battlestar Galactica? [00:25:32] Speaker A: You're right. They say frak. Sorry. [00:25:34] Speaker B: Obviously. So it must be a lobo. The main man. The last Czarnian. [00:25:38] Speaker A: I mean it means like kill in like video game terminology. Yeah, I guess it probably means kill in real life terminology too. Probably because you're a cold hearted bastard. [00:25:47] Speaker B: I mean if you're getting caught with fragments of exploding stuff. I would assume so. I would assume so. And then we. We bring. And that pretty much brings us back to where we started, Johnny. And we get a. A more pulled back view of Chibi Violator holding Chibi Spawn over the violator. Rama Rana violator. Rama Violator rana tank. And we get to see more of the detail in Chibi Violator's room. And he's got all the toys. He's got that big Malbolia. Like it looks like a big Malbolia plushie sitting in a chair. He's got some of the best Violator Violator covers going on. There's that one in the background of like Violator with a little trick or treat bucket. [00:26:35] Speaker A: Yep. He's got the big Swan Video game is playing. [00:26:39] Speaker B: Yes indeed. [00:26:40] Speaker A: I do like the different Violator toys. Is like the skinny one with the arms and the bin. And then cop is like the beefy one. [00:26:46] Speaker B: Yeah, the beefy boy. I like that. He. He worked in the original Violator title treatment on the toy box. There. [00:26:54] Speaker A: Yep. [00:26:54] Speaker B: The classic one that they're still using on the current Violator series. [00:26:58] Speaker A: I mean, why improve on Greatness? [00:26:59] Speaker B: Yeah, as. As Thomas Healey said, it's a good title. Look at it. It's good. And then Chibi Spawn's doing the. Trying to, you know, be like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I don't want to kill you. I want to kill Spawn. And Philip's like, what are you talking about there? [00:27:20] Speaker A: That's really stupid. And it's completely different from my plan to become Top Violator. [00:27:24] Speaker B: Top Violator. You're probably the lamest violator who's ever lived. [00:27:30] Speaker A: Oh, they're just going back and forth like classic cartoon characters. [00:27:33] Speaker B: Yeah. And then the little squabble is broken up by Philip's dad being like, hey, I brought you some snacks, and you brought him some McCloowns and some heart lollipops. [00:27:48] Speaker A: Heart lollipops? Yeah. Heart corn dogs, kind of. [00:27:52] Speaker B: And what look like pumpkin milkshakes. And then they're like, hey, okay, awesome. Well, let's. Let's call a truce while we eat. But then as soon as we're done, we're gonna get back to fighting. [00:28:05] Speaker A: Right before Zach is in, he calls him anus breath, which reminds me of an ET where he says penis breath, and that always is, like. Felt really controversial to me. Someone calls him a penis breath and E.T. [00:28:19] Speaker B: That was some. That. That was very something that an older sibling would say, and you'd be like, oh, that's a good one. [00:28:26] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. [00:28:27] Speaker B: Even though you're not entirely sure what it means, you're just repeating it because your oldest sibling said it. [00:28:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:28:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:34] Speaker A: They eat the snacks, which look, you know, pretty good. Except for the hearts. [00:28:37] Speaker B: Except for the hearts. Yeah. [00:28:38] Speaker A: Or something. [00:28:39] Speaker B: I can't decide if they're tater tots or if they're like, chicken nuggets. [00:28:43] Speaker A: Either way, I do. [00:28:45] Speaker B: I do like that Chibi Violator eats his snack like Garfield eats lasagna. Yeah. [00:28:51] Speaker A: He just throws it in his mouth. [00:28:55] Speaker B: And they're. They're like. As they're finishing up their snack, they're. They're talking about how, you know, Spawn was like, you ambushed me, and that was a cheater move. And Chibi Violators, like, what are you talking about? And then they get back to it, and they got the classic just dust ball with. With parts out of it, parts flying around. Yeah. [00:29:16] Speaker A: They call him singe Knockoff. He's saying he's a knockoff. [00:29:19] Speaker B: You take that back. You take that back. I like that. There's in the background. There's, you know, the Violator action figure that has the little potato heart in its hand. I wonder what that. I wonder what that clown sauce that they dumped. Whatever that stuff is in is. Because, you know, the cloud's definitely got a special branded sauce. [00:29:37] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, it's probably good. It's like the Szechuan sauce with Rick and Morty fans. Gotta get the sauce. [00:29:44] Speaker B: Then Chibi Spawn gets punched out of the window and Chibi violated. He's like, you know what? You can at least take a punch or take a beating. I'll give you that much. Too bad we can't join voices. Voices. [00:30:01] Speaker A: Too bad we can't join voices. [00:30:05] Speaker B: They're now 30s gangsters. [00:30:09] Speaker A: Yeah. They're gonna take you down to Sing Sing. They're gonna send you up river, David. [00:30:18] Speaker B: Oh, boy. [00:30:22] Speaker A: This violate is a crazy guy. [00:30:26] Speaker B: Little Chibi Violator basically talks himself into being like, yeah, we should probably team up by being like, too bad we can never work together. You're too funny looking and ugly. [00:30:37] Speaker A: He decides we should have a competition to see who can kill the spawn of the Scorch. [00:30:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:42] Speaker A: And that'll prove to them who's best. [00:30:44] Speaker B: I do like how they end up in a. In a sandbox, which is very. [00:30:49] Speaker A: Yes. Fighting. [00:30:50] Speaker B: Very mes on a beam. They're playing around in the sandbox while John Layman and Rob are also playing around in the sandbox. [00:30:59] Speaker A: Yeah. And just like the childish sandbox fights. [00:31:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. Man, I would love to just have half an hour of every day where I could just run back out to the sandbox and just make those tunnels that you would always make. Dig from either side till your hands hit and you're like, look at it. An engineering marvel. Boy, being kid was awesome. [00:31:23] Speaker A: Why don't you make a sandbox? Make one in your backyard. [00:31:29] Speaker B: There are too many. There are too many stray cats for me to ever want to dig in a outside. I'd have to get. I'd have to get a replica of the turtle that I had when I was a kid that had the shell cover that, you know, you never put on. So it was like, what the fuck is the point of that? [00:31:43] Speaker A: Yeah, you gotta have the turtle. [00:31:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:45] Speaker A: Yeah. You don't want to go digging for treasure with those stray cats around. [00:31:48] Speaker B: Oh, no. Oh, no. I'll find something that I do not want. Definitely. Nothing that belongs in a museum is out there. So now Spawn says that his mission has taken on new urgency now that he's. He's agreed to the competition. With Chibi Violator. And he's, he's, he's like, I'm ready because I've got my crack team of. And then everybody's asleep. We got Batty dreaming of being basically Batman. [00:32:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:18] Speaker B: We got, we got Ruff dreaming of absolutely, absolutely destroying the mailman. [00:32:24] Speaker A: You mean brains? [00:32:26] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, brains. [00:32:32] Speaker A: Rough, rough. This seems rough. [00:32:34] Speaker B: Yeah. And then Johnny, the answer to Philip K. Dick's greatest question is apparently yes. Androids do dream of electric sheep. La la la la la la. [00:32:48] Speaker A: Is that the song for Blade Runner? [00:32:51] Speaker B: That was the Happy Tree Friends theme. Do you remember Happy Tree Friends? [00:32:56] Speaker A: Kind of. I never watched it. I know of them. [00:33:02] Speaker B: Very ridiculous. Probably indicative of many more people having many more problems than we realized at the time. [00:33:10] Speaker A: It was like a pair. It was like online, right? [00:33:12] Speaker B: Yeah. It was just a flash animation of very cute happy animals that all in every episode get killed in horribly terrifying ways. [00:33:21] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, I was aware of it, but I never watched it. I had too much going on in my life, David. I had time for that shit. I was eating pizza and video games. Playing video games. [00:33:35] Speaker B: Chibi Spawn gets upset and he's like, you guys gotta wake up. And so they all wake up. He says, look alive. We've got a. We've gotta win. We've gotta win this competition that we've got with Chibi Violator going on. Because we gotta be the best Spawn. And then his, his little monologue is. Is interrupted by. Well, let's, let's not faff around, Johnny. That is the Godzilla noise. Yeah, absolutely. I like how brains ears just go whoop. He's like, what's that? [00:34:17] Speaker A: So there's something big coming for him. But we cut into an interlude. Not the interlude of where I spilled a Diet Coke right before we started and had to go get a towel. [00:34:28] Speaker B: No, no, another interlude. Another interlude. [00:34:30] Speaker A: Another interlude. [00:34:31] Speaker B: That interlude happened that almost seems like it was written by Johnny because it is all Jurassic park themed. We start with one of the best characters we've ever seen. See Jeff. [00:34:48] Speaker A: Jeff Viloom. And it's him in the sexy lying down pose become iconic on the Internet. [00:34:58] Speaker B: Oh, it's perfect. [00:34:59] Speaker A: He's not sure less he's got an open, open, open shirt. [00:35:03] Speaker B: That's true. Cuz I guess they put a bandage on it, right? Bandaged him up. [00:35:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:08] Speaker B: But so then, then basically it's a. He's explaining to them. The scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn't stop to think that they should. And they definitely should not have. And we see immediately from there, some, some scientists running out of a laboratory that's on fire and right behind them is a gigantic violator. Dinosaur. [00:35:34] Speaker A: Violator dinosaur, yeah. And it does a flashback to what happens. [00:35:39] Speaker B: Yeah. And we learned that there are four levels of underground underneath Violatorville, which almost is as many levels of underground as exists in the Loop. Johnny. There are six layers of underground tunnels underneath the Loop. [00:35:56] Speaker A: In Chicago. [00:35:57] Speaker B: In Chicago, Yeah. [00:35:59] Speaker A: Wow. Well, let's go explore them. Let's kill urban explorers. [00:36:03] Speaker B: Oh no. Oh no. I get way too claustrophobic. I used to, I used to go spelunking as a middle schooler and I loved to get just into like little tight rock spaces and be like, haha. In the caves. Oh no, no. Just thinking about doing that now makes. [00:36:18] Speaker A: Me go, nothing developed later in life. [00:36:22] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, interesting. I used to not understand why anybody could be claustrophobic, and now I'm like, oh no, if I can't do this with my head right out of there. [00:36:31] Speaker A: For those of you listening at home. [00:36:33] Speaker B: I just moved my head back and forth. [00:36:35] Speaker A: David's moving his head back and forth. Yeah. I don't know. I'm not, I haven't been in a situation where I've had to be like claustrophobic, but I could imagine I would be. I don't know. I'm stuck in this closet right here recording this. The walls are closing in on me, David. [00:36:48] Speaker B: Oh no, Johnny. Oh no. So I do like that the, the clown. The Violator Ville water tower clown. The top of it looks like a big witch's hat on him, which is a good look for the Violator, her little clown. But, but anyway, there's an ultra, ultra secret laboratory underneath Violator Ville where Violator scientists put together all the ingredients to make the ultimate weapon. And Johnny, this is very clearly referencing the Emperor's new groove and Isma and her, her poison. Her poison for Kuzco. [00:37:30] Speaker A: It is so. Yeah. That's a great movie. [00:37:33] Speaker B: I love that movie so much. I do like how he still has, he still has the long jaw. It's so long and whisper thin. [00:37:44] Speaker A: He's got that long jaw. [00:37:47] Speaker B: And then they do a Jurassic Park. They, they extract the DNA of a Tyrannosaurus rex from a mosquito that's been trapped in amber. And they mix it with cutting edge instrumentation from the murderous mechanical monstrosity known as Cygor. [00:38:06] Speaker A: That's a bovine growth hormone that is radioactive. [00:38:09] Speaker B: Yeah. And then they have some Violator death priests perform demonic sacrifices to bring forth infernal energy. [00:38:19] Speaker A: Yeah. Do they sacrifice about there's a nice picture of Malbol there. [00:38:23] Speaker B: Oh, I. I assumed that this was like a. Like a conference call and that was. It was like a zoom and Malbol. [00:38:29] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:38:30] Speaker B: Give me a. Give me a prayer and I'll give you some stuff. [00:38:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:35] Speaker B: And then we get some of those candles that I like a lot. But something went wrong, Johnny, and Cyrex was unleashed upon the world. And we get a two page spread of Cyrex. Oh boy. He's just tromping through the town, Johnny. [00:38:51] Speaker A: Yes, he's destroying it. But that makes Chibi Swan excited because he says the greatest news ever. Because you know what's gonna happen next. [00:38:57] Speaker B: Yeah, Spawn. [00:38:59] Speaker A: The scores gonna come in any day now to save the day. [00:39:02] Speaker B: Yeah. And Johnny. Speak of the devil. This little devil. Speak of the devil. Just then, guess who shows up. [00:39:10] Speaker A: You got Spawn, the Scorch. [00:39:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:12] Speaker A: You got Medieval Jessica, Gunslinger Monolith and Spawn. [00:39:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. They want to make us. They want to be sure. This is definitely not in continuity. So nowhere in the Scorch's adventures are we gonna see them come to Violator Ville. [00:39:29] Speaker A: We need to bring back fucking Soul Crusher the Scorched. Yeah, he is a good visual difference. And he's cool. [00:39:37] Speaker B: Yeah. And also he's like. He's kind of like Batman in the Justice League where. Where you have to figure out how to get the unpowered person there. [00:39:47] Speaker A: Right. [00:39:48] Speaker B: But it brings it. It brings it down a little to some more street level stuff. Like it's a. It's a good. It's a good balance. I also like that they, they basically have Spawn versions of the bullets from who Framed Roger Radit? The ones that are all old and don't remember what they're doing should be. [00:40:09] Speaker A: Violators or should be. Spawn's plan is to attack the Scorch and Spawn while they're attacking the Cyrax. [00:40:18] Speaker B: Yeah. They'll pick them off one by one. It's the perfect plan. And then we cut to Chibi Violator being like, yes, it sure is. It's a good plan because while they're picking off the members of the Scorch, we'll pick off members of that little annoying Spawn Kids team. Then they'll all be dead, especially that annoying little Spawn kid. [00:40:41] Speaker A: And the Violators will be victorious to be killcluded. [00:40:47] Speaker B: And then as. As the little Violator Philip is like, yes. There's an explosion in the back that's like a mushroom cloud with a. With a skull in it. It's very exciting. [00:41:02] Speaker A: Chaos is ensuing. [00:41:03] Speaker B: It's Very appropriate skull to end the issue there, Johnny. [00:41:07] Speaker A: And we get the actual skull to have the issue. [00:41:09] Speaker B: Yeah, and new generations, new stories, new you, Johnny. Got advertisements for the other spin offs. [00:41:16] Speaker A: And Knights Versus Samurai, so those all should be out. [00:41:20] Speaker B: We should have read those already. Oh, did I read them already? [00:41:24] Speaker A: Yeah, I haven't read them all. I haven't read Nice Versus Samurai or the Violator. [00:41:30] Speaker B: The Violator one is good. It's the Plague. It's Plague spawn, Johnny. Not Plague spawn. The Plague we know, but like Plague doctor spawn from medieval times. [00:41:41] Speaker A: Oh, cool. [00:41:42] Speaker B: It's. It was. It's a dope concept. It's a real fun issue. Spawn Origins Collection, Volume 1. Sold only 9.99 Image Classics AD, as we normally know. And then, Johnny, there's a toy for. There's an ad for Violator Toys on the back, see? Violator Toy. [00:42:02] Speaker A: He's zooming in on David Wooderson from days of Confused Gnome Creep. [00:42:07] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:42:08] Speaker A: Yeah. I was like, don't you come for andy sitzer of 40 year old virgin? He's a nice guy. [00:42:13] Speaker B: Yeah, no, he's. David Wooderson is like a nice version of the clown from the HBO animated series. I could see him doing some foul things while looking at pictures of Wanda. [00:42:26] Speaker A: And the big Lebowski's there, too. [00:42:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:42:29] Speaker A: All those movie maniacs. [00:42:31] Speaker B: The dude abides. Johnny, you. You should have just said, the dude abides. You missed it. Dang it. [00:42:37] Speaker A: It's so weird because it's Universal and it's like. You didn't do fucking movie maniacs for Universal. Why aren't you doing, like, the monsters? [00:42:44] Speaker B: Yeah, like the Creature from the Black Lagoon. [00:42:47] Speaker A: Yeah, Come on. [00:42:48] Speaker B: Or the Bride of Frankenstein. Bride of Frankenstein is actually pretty awesome. [00:42:51] Speaker A: Or the fan of the opera. [00:42:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:42:54] Speaker A: All those classic Universal monsters. What's the deal? [00:42:57] Speaker B: Yeah. Or, I mean, Frankenstein himself. Or the Mummy. Or Dracula. [00:43:00] Speaker A: The Wolf Man. [00:43:01] Speaker B: Wolf Man. [00:43:02] Speaker A: There's a new Wolfman. [00:43:04] Speaker B: I mean, they could. They could get on all these, like, do. For. They could do the Dracula. Since Nosferatu's real hot right now. They could do. Yeah, Dracula or the Wolf Man. Because the Wolfman's got a new movie. [00:43:17] Speaker A: I want to see that new Wolfman. I like. I liked his Lee Wannell. I liked his Invisible Man. [00:43:25] Speaker B: I still haven't seen. That's the one that was. Came out just a few years ago, right? [00:43:30] Speaker A: Came out right before COVID David. You know why? Because it was the second to last movie I saw in theaters before COVID. [00:43:36] Speaker B: Was the last one, Cats. [00:43:39] Speaker A: No, it was. Fuck. What was it called. It's that one. It's that Pixar movie about a van with Chris Pratt. [00:43:46] Speaker B: Oh, Onward. [00:43:48] Speaker A: Onward. Onward was officially the last I saw that Wednesday, I think everything shut down, like, Thursday or Friday. [00:43:53] Speaker B: I wanted Onward to be better than it was, but it was just kind of meh. Yeah, it wasn't bad, but it just was in the middle. [00:44:02] Speaker A: It was the last movie I saw. David. [00:44:04] Speaker B: How dare you, Johnny? There's a dog snoring on the floor, and I'm pretty sure it's captured on my audience. It's a good boy. He's a. He's the. He's grandma's crusty white dog. If you know of grandma's crusty white dogs, basically every then there's. There's a joke that, like, everybody's grandmother has a crusty white dog that hates everything. That's. He's the ultimate crusty white dog. [00:44:47] Speaker A: Okay, well, keep all this in in case you do catch the snoring so people have an explanation of why. [00:44:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:44:54] Speaker A: But next up, next up, yeah, we got Gunslinger 37. [00:45:01] Speaker B: Very exciting, Johnny. And I think. I think again, we have contrasting covers because. Do you have the A cover? Because you always get the A cover. [00:45:09] Speaker A: I do have the A cover. [00:45:10] Speaker B: I have the B cover. What's that? What's the A cover looking like, Johnny? [00:45:14] Speaker A: It's Brett Booth and it's Javi in the second generation. Get up is with his Zorro mask, and he's in a river, and he's pretty beat up. [00:45:25] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:45:26] Speaker A: He's got, like, a modern pistol. [00:45:29] Speaker B: Well, we know, we know he's not too terribly picky about which guns he picks up nowadays, Johnny. Yeah, he had that big duffel bag full of them. [00:45:38] Speaker A: He's splunking. David. Maybe he's doing what you did. He looks like he's in a cave. [00:45:42] Speaker B: Ooh, John. Maybe he's at Robbers Cave in Oklahoma, where famously. Famously some. Some. Some outlaws were supposed to see there. I think this was. Either it might have been Billy the Kid was supposed to have hid out there at one point, or somebody like that. Maybe John Dillinger. No, not John Dillinger. He never left the city. Yeah, I think it was Billy the Kid was supposed to have stayed out there. But it's called Robbers Cave because it was famously used as a refuge for bank robbers in the kind of old Westy times. [00:46:20] Speaker A: Okay. [00:46:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:21] Speaker A: I mean, that's what the picture kind of reminds me of. It's like someone's discovering him in Robbers Cave. [00:46:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:25] Speaker A: But there's, like, a flowing water and it reminds me of, like, Red Dead Redemption or Star Wars Outlaws. [00:46:32] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:46:33] Speaker A: A lot of cave exploring in those. [00:46:34] Speaker B: Nice. It is very. That is what I would expect a gunslinger to get up to. I have the B cover, the Zay Carlos cover, which is the one that I've been talking about for a while with the. The protagonist standing with their back to the. To the viewer and looking over their shoulder, just surrounded by dead bodies. And Javi just happens to be standing in the bed of a truck, and the bed of the truck is filled with dead bodies. [00:47:01] Speaker A: You see his butt. [00:47:02] Speaker B: See, it's. It's most. It's all shadow, but, you know, I can. [00:47:05] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:47:06] Speaker B: I can. I can sometimes. [00:47:09] Speaker A: Don't see. David. [00:47:10] Speaker B: Complete data. Yeah, if we. We would pop this open. Johnny, we gotta. We gotta read these credits. Give credit where credit is due, like we always do. We got Todd McFarlane doing script plot. Carla Barberi is still doing the art. Ivan Nunez is still doing the COVID colors. The Tom father himself still doing those letters. I love. I love his story that his wife likes the gunslinger. So he's like, I guess I gotta write all the letters for the gunslinger. The COVID We already covered the covers. Todd McFarlane is the creative director, and Thomas Healy continues to be the editor in chief. [00:47:48] Speaker A: Continues to be. [00:47:49] Speaker B: Continues the. The. The once and future editor in chief, Thomas Healy then. Previously in Gunslinger, Javi's wounds are healing as Monolith seeks to find the Gunslinger spawn. [00:48:04] Speaker A: Indeed. [00:48:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:07] Speaker A: And we open on just a Hilarious. Just a giant fist grabbing a face. [00:48:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Cause. Cause at the end of the last issue, Monolith found Raul, the. The drug runner guy who works for. [00:48:21] Speaker A: Javi's father and Javi's body's father. Javi's father. Yeah, but. But the Javi we know is the entity that is inhabiting Javi's body. [00:48:32] Speaker B: So Javi proper, not the entity known as hobby. [00:48:35] Speaker A: Correct. [00:48:37] Speaker B: This couldn't get more confusing if we tried, Johnny. [00:48:39] Speaker A: No, it's easy, man. [00:48:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:41] Speaker A: After, like, something like loss, there's people in other people's bodies. Like, people turning into people. It's easy. [00:48:47] Speaker B: But, yeah, we've got a little more. [00:48:48] Speaker A: Acclimated to nerd shit now. [00:48:50] Speaker B: Oh, man, it's just. It's just bonkers. It's cuckoo bananas. But. But we learned that Monolith is currently doing a bit that he has where he likes to, like, hold people's heads in his hand and, like, suffocate them just to the point where they think they're about to die and then release them. Before he starts asking them questions. [00:49:14] Speaker A: Yeah, his bit. Nice bit. [00:49:16] Speaker B: It's fucking brutal. [00:49:18] Speaker A: It's brutal. [00:49:19] Speaker B: That's the. Well, that's his opening gambit. That's the. Like, if this were a video game and he were the big boss man, that would be the first thing he did. And then you'd have to keep trying to escape the hand on the face. [00:49:33] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, no, I know. It's just brutal for something you called a bit. [00:49:37] Speaker B: I mean, I'm sure he thinks it's funny. [00:49:40] Speaker A: Yeah, I bet he does. [00:49:41] Speaker B: He definitely does. [00:49:43] Speaker A: He's laughing his ass off. He's smiling. [00:49:46] Speaker B: So he's. He's asking Raul. He's like, so are you a demon or an angel or something in between? And then he drops Raul and is like. The first thing Raul says is, how did you find me? He says, I don't. I'm asking the questions here. Says monolithic. Yeah, you're just giving answers. [00:50:05] Speaker A: Answers. [00:50:06] Speaker B: Now, where's the gunslinger? And Raul's like, who? Monolith says, I'm. I said, I'm asking the questions. And they're all like, I don't know. A gunslinger. Oh, oh, I'm 100% human, by the way. [00:50:19] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm strictly human, by the way. [00:50:22] Speaker B: They said you call him Javier Sanchez. Does that help? And Raul's like, javier, he's the son of the man I work for. He went missing without a word a couple years ago, but he just. He just showed back up. So it's funny that you're looking for him. [00:50:39] Speaker A: This is hilarious. Him exiting the cabin. He just, like, rips the door off. Yeah, he just carries it with him. [00:50:47] Speaker B: Like a monolith's like, I didn't ask for a story. I just wanted to know if you knew him. And it's like, Monolith, that's like the bare minimum he could get away with to explain what position he's in. Come on, dude. [00:50:58] Speaker A: Yeah, Todd's. Todd's version of Monolith is a little hard boiled. [00:51:02] Speaker B: Oh, he's a hard ass. And then later, they're in the car or the. Like the. The Range Rover and rolls like, hey, are you comfortable back there? And Monolith's like, you being a smart ask. I'm asking the question. [00:51:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:51:18] Speaker B: Oh, he ain't got no time for comfort, Johnny. And he's like. He's like pink panthered in the back there. [00:51:25] Speaker A: Just stuck in there. [00:51:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, hilarious. And then we cut back to the. The appointed attorney that Javi has who's trying to get as much information as she can before she's taken off the case. And Javi's just like, it's. It's not gonna do you any good. I mean, if I talk to you, you're not gonna know what I'm talking about. You're not gonna believe me, so it's not really gonna help. And so then. Then they're at a. They're at a stalemate. So Javi's refusing to say anything, and this lady's refusing to give up. So. [00:51:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:51:58] Speaker B: And from there, we cut to Linda and wya. And Linda's just following up on some of the information that Waya has just given her. And she's. She's. She's like, Javi keeps asking about or talking about his sister. What do you know about her? And Waya's like, not very much. And we get a little flashback panel of basically all that Wyatt knows is that she was alive. Now she's not. [00:52:24] Speaker A: Yeah, she was alive and then she was shot in the head. [00:52:27] Speaker B: Oh, boy. So rough. He's like, he doesn't. She doesn't. He doesn't like to talk about it very much. I mean, for somebody who mentions it a lot, that his sister is dead and he wants to avenge his sister. He doesn't. He doesn't get into very many specifics. He. Why a. Doubts he ever will. [00:52:42] Speaker A: Accepted into Deadly tales. The gunslinger. Probably. [00:52:45] Speaker B: Yeah, probably. Well, but he's probably not going to talk about it. We're probably just gonna see it. [00:52:49] Speaker A: We're probably just gonna see it. [00:52:50] Speaker B: Probably just gonna see it. But, yeah, so. So why is like, that's. That's basically what consumes his every waking moment, and it's turned him into the being he is. And Linda's like, yeah, maybe, you know, he's having a rough time, and it's making me think that, you know, I need to maybe brush over some stuff with my family, so maybe I should go find my family. And why is like about that? [00:53:13] Speaker A: Let me turn on the news. [00:53:14] Speaker B: The news for you. And it's Linda's sister over there. They're being like, linda, please come home. We want to make sure that you're not a part of this. Please come home, dude. [00:53:25] Speaker A: The craziest thing is why it must be like a retro gamer because he's got a CRT tv. [00:53:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:31] Speaker A: You know how expensive those things are these days. [00:53:33] Speaker B: But he does. He does have a digital versatile disc. [00:53:38] Speaker A: Digital versatile disk. [00:53:39] Speaker B: Digital versatile disc video player there, Johnny. [00:53:42] Speaker A: Indeed. [00:53:43] Speaker B: And it's on the. It's on, like the. It's on the stand. That. That when it rolled into your classroom in elementary school, you knew it was going to be a good day because you were probably going to watch the first 40 minutes of the Lion King for the 15th time. [00:53:57] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:53:58] Speaker B: Or. Or a Catholic school. It meant that the teacher didn't actually want to teach Bible study that day, so we were going to watch great stories. Bible stories. Stories that are true. They tell of God and his love for us and his power, too. And it was just. [00:54:15] Speaker A: What was that? [00:54:16] Speaker B: It was just little cartoons about Jesus and his apostles. Okay, and then we cut back to the final minutes that this lawyer lady has with Javier. [00:54:27] Speaker A: Did we say that she saw her family on tv? [00:54:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I said she saw her sister. [00:54:31] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:54:32] Speaker B: At least. At least I thought I said that. If I didn't. Whoops. [00:54:35] Speaker A: That's not her mom. [00:54:36] Speaker B: Is that not her? No, because I thought her mom was. Oh, I guess it could be your mom. I don't know. I'm confused about the family dynamics, Johnny. I know they explain it in one of the. In one of the pundits. [00:54:47] Speaker A: Yeah. They actually talk about it here, but. [00:54:49] Speaker B: I assumed it was her sister because I thought her mom was sick. But then, so at the very last minute, Javier's dad's hired lawyer walks in, is like, lady, you gotta get out of here. This is my client now. Goodbye. Shoo. Goodbye. Ta, ta. See you later. And then right before she goes, Hadtie's like, judith. Judith, wait. Help, Linda, please. And like, that's. That's nothing to go on. She can't help with the. Just help. Please. [00:55:17] Speaker A: Help, Linda, please. Yeah. [00:55:19] Speaker B: And then this. This guy starts, you know, trying to figure out what's going on. So that way, you know, he's doing his lawyer thing and Javi's trying to, like, extrapolate the whole family dynamic from this lawyer without just straight asking. [00:55:37] Speaker A: Yeah. To see Spawn. 308. When he first took over the body, the. [00:55:42] Speaker B: This lawyer is like, hey, guess what? You're still going to jail. But your father has specifically chosen the prison because he basically controls it. So you're gonna be. You're gonna be just fine. It's gonna be like the Goodfellas. The Goodfellas prison. Prison where they're. They're in there cooking the gravy, they're cutting the garlic with the. The razor blade. [00:56:02] Speaker A: Yeah. He's gonna be. He's be living fat and happy in the. In the. In the old Sing Sing. [00:56:08] Speaker B: Gotta Sing Sing. [00:56:11] Speaker A: Do you. [00:56:13] Speaker B: I mean, I just did, didn't I? You did Then we get the, then we get the pundits, which is, gets us, gets us. Brings up something that I've been very upset about quietly and haven't really brought forward. But we get here definite that Linda and Javi met in North Dakota and they have been going west from there to try to get, you know, west from there because it's western. So they're going west from North Dakota. So there is absolutely no way in their adventures that Javi and Linda would have been anywhere fucking close to Gettysburg, because that shit's all the way in goddam Pennsylvania. [00:56:56] Speaker A: Oh my God. [00:56:57] Speaker B: So it doesn't make sense for Javi to have been peeing on the sign saying Gettysburg next four miles or whatever, because that's on the other side of the country. [00:57:07] Speaker A: That's because a Canadian wrote this. [00:57:11] Speaker B: I guess that's true. Okay, rant over. But that's, that's bothered me since he did it, since he tinkle tinkled on that sign. [00:57:20] Speaker A: All right, well, tinkle tinkle on that. The Connie Chung CRN lady calls her a chambermaid. Is that a proper term? [00:57:29] Speaker B: I, I, I mean for, for a Western? Yeah, it would be a proper term. [00:57:35] Speaker A: It just sounds like something changes your piss bucket. [00:57:38] Speaker B: I don't think, I don't think anybody's still called chambermaids now unless they're in like the living village of Jamestown or something like that. [00:57:45] Speaker A: Right. [00:57:46] Speaker B: Then the, the breaking news. They used to be info. Now Guy, you know, he's given, he's given, he's given like personal color to the story. He's like personal tragedy and overcoming the hardships and the like. It's the pure American American family story of struggle and strife. [00:58:07] Speaker A: So her father died and she had to drop out of community college to help support her family. [00:58:12] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, Brock the Shock is just a fucking jerk off, jerk off. I'm not even gonna repeat his words because it's bad. [00:58:20] Speaker A: Yeah, he just like, basically is just like accusing her of being illegal, being a cold blooded killer. [00:58:25] Speaker B: He's, he's repeating incendiary rhetoric that is of the times, of these times, unfortunately. [00:58:32] Speaker A: But of course, he ends with patriots like yourself who do care about truth needs. He can subscribe to my blog. He's always got a get that in there. [00:58:44] Speaker B: I'm just waiting for Brock the Shock to start a Patreon. [00:58:47] Speaker A: I'm sure he has one. [00:58:49] Speaker B: Or his own social media company. And then we cut from there to the little prisoner transport bus. I like this bus, Johnny. It's a good bus. I love it when Carlo Barbera draws vehicles. They're always good. [00:59:04] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a good looking bus. [00:59:06] Speaker B: So Javi is chained in this bus with a whole bunch of other inmates and the cops, the cop and the biggest inmate in there all like, hey, guess what? [00:59:15] Speaker A: Yeah, you're cool. [00:59:16] Speaker B: Just fine. We're gonna take good care of you, obviously, instantly. Okay. Okay. And then, you know, Javi eventually fall, drifts off to sleep, and then all of a sudden, foom Monolith just attacks the bus. Just right through the middle. He. He cuts some guy in half. Look at that. He's this like fucking. Whoever was sitting in the seat, he jumped through, just absolutely moiterized. [00:59:46] Speaker A: Yeah. Good thing that wasn't a Javi. [00:59:49] Speaker B: Could you imagine? He's like, whoops, if this were a Guy Ritchie film, it would have been Javi. And he would have been like, fuck. [00:59:57] Speaker A: What am I gonna do now? [00:59:58] Speaker B: Put a tea cozy on his head. And then. And then, you know, Monolith is there in the wreckage, looking all mean and dark, and he's searching through the rubble and he picks up a guy. He says, are you the gunslinger? The guy goes, what's that? The monolith says, guess that means no. And just like, chucks him, throws him to the heavens. Yeah, he throws him like he's an upset Philadelphia fan. And that. That inmate is a battery. [01:00:25] Speaker A: Does someone do that? [01:00:26] Speaker B: That's a long running joke that Philadelphians like to throw batteries at people. [01:00:31] Speaker A: Oh, God. [01:00:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:33] Speaker A: That's crazy. [01:00:34] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't. I don't know. I think it. I think it's. It came from a football thing. I don't know if it means anything or if it's just somebody started throwing batteries because it's all they had. But it's. It's a. It's an association that exists. And then this copper who was driving the bus shoots. Shoots Monolith in the back. And. Well, it doesn't do anything. No, it doesn't do anything except for getting him chucked across the. The place as well. That guy. That guy's not living no more. [01:01:08] Speaker A: He's a Todd father. Like commentary here. There can't be a fine time at times, a fine line between courage and stupidity. In this case, the large piece of debris that breaks the guard's rib cage tells us it's the ladder. Nice little Todd father flavor there. [01:01:25] Speaker B: Yeah. And then. And then Monolith turns to another guy being like, what about you? Do you know about the gunslinger? And then Javi's like, hey, I think you're looking for me. I think it's me you're looking for. [01:01:39] Speaker A: But I'm stuck under this fucking bus. [01:01:41] Speaker B: Yeah. And then Monolith is like, if you are the gunslinger, do you know Cobby's like, yeah. He calls himself Sin now. And Coelios insists. Or Monolith is like, okay, good. That's you. I'm takin ya. You're coming with me. [01:01:55] Speaker A: So Monolith is looking for Cogliostro, AKA Sin, we think is dead. [01:02:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I think he's. Yeah, we think he's there. Is he not dead in 350? [01:02:07] Speaker A: He got disintegrated. [01:02:09] Speaker B: Did not, did not, did not. Somebody ask us about this? Was it Ty asked us if we thought he was dead? [01:02:16] Speaker A: Yeah, probably. [01:02:17] Speaker B: And we. We both said unequivocally, oh yeah, that dude. Crispy critter. [01:02:22] Speaker A: But he's dead. He'll come back. [01:02:23] Speaker B: Yeah, we'll see. But now having gathered what he's looking for, Monolith disappears. He'll be half mile away in less than nine seconds. Johnny. Hoo boy. [01:02:35] Speaker A: Awesome. There's some good top father right there. [01:02:37] Speaker B: Yeah. That's a quick boy. [01:02:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:02:40] Speaker B: A mile in 18 seconds. [01:02:43] Speaker A: He's doing like that Hulk traveling like he did in the back. [01:02:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:47] Speaker A: Where he would just like jump across. [01:02:49] Speaker B: The original Superman flying was just him jumping around. [01:02:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:02:55] Speaker B: And then we cut to Washington D.C. and one of the people who was just working with the Guyana government to get Javi's dad what he needed vis a vis. Javi is like, are you fucking kidding me? Win Marsha. I like that. Her name is Marcia. Gather the team now. [01:03:16] Speaker A: We cut to South America and Javi's father just slams down his whiskey. He slams the table and spills his whiskey. [01:03:24] Speaker B: Yeah. I lost my son once before. I'll be damned if I let it happen again. And then we get a nice little. A nice little ending panel of Javi and Monolith just sitting in the woods in the night. [01:03:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Reminds me like the Iron Giant. [01:03:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Only I'm definitely not going to cry as hard when Monolith died. No. [01:03:44] Speaker A: Because he'll be back. [01:03:48] Speaker B: And then we get the very low necroplasm meter to end the issue. [01:03:52] Speaker A: 0001. So we end on a little bit of a cliffhanger there. [01:03:57] Speaker B: Yeah. And we get spawning ground presents. Some more toy art. Johnny. And it's all T Rex. [01:04:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:04:05] Speaker B: It's all gunslinger toy art. It's all real good. [01:04:09] Speaker A: Yeah. Hobby's looking badass. [01:04:12] Speaker B: Such a great figure. Such great figures. [01:04:14] Speaker A: I like that. Classic gunslinger design. [01:04:16] Speaker B: Yeah. You need more spawns Universe, Johnny. [01:04:20] Speaker A: Always. [01:04:20] Speaker B: Don't miss the ongoing titles. Then the Core four. Look at them. [01:04:24] Speaker A: Yep. We got the ad for the core four. [01:04:26] Speaker B: We got the AD for that last Rory McConville spawn there before the Todd father resumes main title duties. Yes, but then also probably the last. [01:04:39] Speaker A: But is it Roy McConville switching to something? [01:04:41] Speaker B: I do believe he's switching to King Spawn, is he not? Because I was about to say this is the last. This is the last Todd father King Spawn before duties are taken over by Rory McConville. [01:04:52] Speaker A: There you go. [01:04:53] Speaker B: And John Lehman holding steady on the Scorched Image classics again. And then, I mean, we've already talked about them already. The Movie Maniacs. [01:05:03] Speaker A: The Movie Maniac. These guys are such maniacs, dude. We can't get enough of them. [01:05:09] Speaker B: Definitely can't. [01:05:10] Speaker A: I just think it's funny that, like, this, those three movies are the ones that are the back of a Spawn book. This is, like, so completely different. [01:05:20] Speaker B: It makes sense. Some. Somebody thought it made sense, Johnny. [01:05:24] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, it's free advertising. Come on. [01:05:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Nice. And that is Gunslinger 37. [01:05:29] Speaker A: There it is. Gunslinger 37. All wrapped up nicely. Yeah, except not. [01:05:34] Speaker B: Except both of them. Both of them ended on cliffhangers, kind of. [01:05:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:05:41] Speaker B: Very exciting. And, well, while we talked about dog snoozing, maybe those snores coming up through the. Through the audio, Johnny, I was not sleeping or snoozing during either of these issues. So I think, Johnny, it's time that we rate these puppies. [01:05:58] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. [01:05:59] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:06:02] Speaker A: First up, we had Spawn Kills. Every Spawn number four. It's like a hoot cartoon. Like a demented Ren and Simpie. Kind of like Rob was saying of Chibi Violator versus Chibi Swan. [01:06:15] Speaker B: Yeah, it's very much the show that I would want to turn on immediately when I got home from school. [01:06:22] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, it's like Animaniacs. It's like any of those. Yeah, it's just like. It's like a 90s fever dream kind of edgy cartoon. Fever Dream? Yeah, like those 90s edgy cartoons that we loved so much as kids. Not edgy in a bad way. [01:06:36] Speaker B: It's zany and it's wacky and it doesn't take itself too seriously. But that doesn't mean that it doesn't have a lot of thought and heart put into it, which is what a lot of these. These goofem arounds. Sometimes people treat them flippantly, but you can tell that there's, like, actual attachment as The. This book is being put together. They're like, man, this is gonna be great. And they're not just like. Yeah. It's just some stupid thing. It's very hard to really say much more about it than what we already have because it's fucking incredible. It rocks so hard. [01:07:13] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, the art is great, just like we said on the other issues. It's fun, it's funny. What more can you say? [01:07:21] Speaker B: Yeah, what more can you say, Johnny? I think you have to give it a rating. [01:07:24] Speaker A: Then I'm going to give it four beefy violator toys in the background. [01:07:29] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. Out of five, that beefy violator. It's so good. There's just so much. There's so much jam packed into this book, Johnny. It's hard to. [01:07:38] Speaker A: I know. [01:07:39] Speaker B: It's hard to go wrong with anything. I'm gonna. I. I agree with everything. Everything that you've said, everything that we've previously said about this book. It's just great. You should just go out and read it and get it. Everybody read this book. It's so much fun. I'm gonna give it. I'm gonna give it four violismas with the. The. The Pink potion of Cyrex. [01:08:07] Speaker A: Cyrex. [01:08:09] Speaker B: So good. [01:08:10] Speaker A: And then we had Gunslinger 37, which is kind of a fun little Adventures of Monolith mixed in with some Javi adventures as well. They come clashing. I don't know. I quite enjoyed this issue. It was just. This plot's getting there. Like, there's intrigue with, like. Like, who Javi is and how his father's gonna factor into it. Like, there's intrigue that hasn't been in a while. And it's like telling this overarching plot. You have Monolith coming in, looking for Cogliostro. That piques my interest. Like, what's going on there? It's just really cooking well. And I think that the storyline from, like, the murder on has been pretty cool because the Todd father tends to just write things that are like three or four issues long and then, like, have another fight with a random dude. But this has been pretty consistent. Like, yeah, story going on. So I've been enjoying it. Alexey, Linda back more center. I do wonder what's going on with Taylor sometimes, but I'm sure we'll find out eventually. Yeah, he comes back. It'll be epic, mate. [01:09:15] Speaker B: Yeah, well, it'll be awesome. He'll. He'll. He'll stumble in in a very ignominious fashion. Like, he'll probably Again, he'll probably try to walk in like a tough guy and his pants will fall down or something. Yeah, something like that. [01:09:31] Speaker A: Trip. It'll just trip. But I mean, the Carlo Barberi art, always clean and effective. Good issue. Good issue Gunslinger. I'm gonna give it 4. 4. Subscribe to my blogs from hell yeah. [01:09:46] Speaker B: 4. 4. [01:09:47] Speaker A: 4. [01:09:47] Speaker B: Blobs. [01:09:48] Speaker A: Rock the shock Fennel. I almost said Rob Sketchcraft to wa this. Rock the Shock Fennel. Subscribe to Rob's blog too. Maybe he has one. [01:09:55] Speaker B: Absolutely. I'm sure he has a. I'm sure, sure he has a email newsletter that he puts out every month, every week, something like that. A substack. [01:10:03] Speaker A: Yeah, subscription service. Four out of five. It's good. Solid issue Gunslinger. [01:10:08] Speaker B: Yeah, I agree. I agree fully. It's. It's a middle issue. But that also, you know, it's. It's a getting us somewhere middle issue, which is always very much appreciated. And, you know, outside of the Monolith miniseries, I always enjoy seeing Monolith. He's. [01:10:26] Speaker A: He's hilarious. [01:10:27] Speaker B: He's. He's a fun character because he's kind of like. He's kind of. Kind of hulk like, but he's also kind of like Data, where he's just very like, no nonsense, just everything is just the literal truth, which. Which I find I find fun because surprise, surprise. Data is one of my favorite Star Trek characters of all time. Data and Wharf are probably the two top for anybody counting out there. [01:10:55] Speaker A: Top two. [01:10:56] Speaker B: Top two. And both of them very socially awkward. I wonder if there's a theme. But yes, I enjoy it. That it's great. Color by Rare art is always a treat. And when the Todd father hits, he hits. And he's hitting right here. So I'm gonna give this four police buses. [01:11:19] Speaker A: Did you like that bus? [01:11:20] Speaker B: Cause I like it. [01:11:21] Speaker A: It's a good bus for some reason. Reminds me of the Mario Kart level on the highway. [01:11:29] Speaker B: I mean, maybe it's a Mario Kart inspired bus. [01:11:32] Speaker A: No, that would be in Spawn kills every swan. You got the wrong book. [01:11:38] Speaker B: Monolith jumps on the bus and goes, woohoo. Yeah, or I'm gonna ween. And you know, both good books. You know what else is good, Johnny? [01:11:54] Speaker A: All this great toy photography in the back of gunslinger. [01:11:58] Speaker B: Absolutely. Gunslinger 37's got all this great toy photography. And the one that speaks closest to me, I feel I really like a process shot. And one of them has a process shot in here. It's got the artists themselves doing some painting on the gunslinger's super tall Hat. So I'd like to make them our shout out for the Spawn community this week. Johnny. And I'm gonna stumble over this, but it is fan art. Fanartoozly. I can't tell if I'm supposed to double the T or not. I don't think so. Fan art. Ousley. F A N A R T U E S L E Y. And they do a lot of 3D, 3D modeling of, like, custom action figures. And Johnny, Johnny, if you're a nerd, you're definitely gonna like the things this. This artist creates because they. They got some nerdy shit, and it is very good. [01:13:01] Speaker A: A lot of Dragon Ball Z. [01:13:02] Speaker B: They make a lot of Dragon Ball Z figures, and they got some. They got a blue eyes, white dragon. They got some demon hunter, which is, you know, there was some demon hunter in the back of Spawn for a while. It was part of the toy ads. [01:13:14] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [01:13:15] Speaker B: And then they got, you know, they got the gunslinger. They got a Batman. They got, like, a dragon, man. They got a whole bunch of, like, little DND figures that they make. But, yeah, that's real awesome. That's. I'm not a visual artist, and people who are good at visual art are very exciting. Oh, hey, look, they've got a Last Samurai. Tom Cruise. [01:13:35] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [01:13:35] Speaker B: Very exciting. They spent a lot of time doing his face. Oh, they got a Michael B. Jordan. They got a One of the. Oh, the Dora Milaje from Black Panther. They got some. They got an Orc from World of Warcraft. They got this. They got this Strawberry lady from probably Fortnite. [01:14:01] Speaker A: Pretty cool. [01:14:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, they got Ahsoka. They got the Star Wars, Johnny. [01:14:08] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [01:14:10] Speaker B: They got everything. It's a real cool page. You should give them a follow. Yeah. [01:14:15] Speaker A: Yeah, pretty cool. While you're on there, give them a follow. Make sure to give us a follow. We are regarding SpawnPodmail. Well, we're also at Gmail, but regarding Spot Pod is our Instagram. Yeah. [01:14:27] Speaker B: While you're. While you're on the Internet, both following fanart Ousley and us on Instagram, just go to the. Do a quick Google and do Lonnie Bones music and follow Lonnie Bones anywhere. You can follow Lonnie Bones because he does our music and it's awesome. That's Lonnie with a Y, not an ie. Speaking of mail dot com. [01:14:46] Speaker A: Sorry, my brain's dead. [01:14:48] Speaker B: Hey, Johnny. It happens. I've forgotten more things on this podcast than you will. Than you will ever be able to. So you've got a lot of catching up to do in the forgetting department. [01:14:59] Speaker A: Okay. [01:15:00] Speaker B: But speaking of, speaking of mail.com, you know, send us emails regarding spawn Gmail.com. [01:15:08] Speaker A: And every week I like to ask a question help spur emails. And this week I would ask what's your favorite 90s like cartoon? Like kind of like zany cartoon, not like Batman, the Animated Series, but you know, kind of in the spirit of Spawn kills every spawn. I'd have to say Animaniacs probably. [01:15:28] Speaker B: That's. I think that's the gold standard because there's just so much in Animaniacs that was just so good. Like you got the Godfather pigeons, you got the, the, the little girl who keeps getting into danger and her, her super stressed dog who has to, has to get her out of the situations. [01:15:48] Speaker A: And like I know it's red and simply inspired Reddit Symphony always kind of scared me. [01:15:51] Speaker B: I was never allowed to watch one in Stimpy if it would too gross I bet. Yeah. Rude, crude and tacky. My mom said. [01:15:57] Speaker A: Well we were allowed to watch it but it scared me sometimes it was just like so intense. [01:16:02] Speaker B: I. I must say. So since I didn't have cable, I didn't get to watch like Cartoon Network until. Unless I was at my grandparents house. Man, I fucking loved Johnny Bravo. Johnny Bravo and Ed. Edd N Eddy. Oh man. Oh yeah, that was my jam. [01:16:18] Speaker A: Okay. [01:16:20] Speaker B: So stupid. [01:16:22] Speaker A: I liked cow and chickens. [01:16:24] Speaker B: Although it is, it is fun to go back and see that for all of his could be a very skeezy, skeezy person. Johnny Bravo was very pro consent. [01:16:35] Speaker A: That's good. [01:16:36] Speaker B: More, more pro consent than Pepe Le Pew at least. [01:16:39] Speaker A: Well that's good to know. Yeah, we don't want to kill all our heroes now, baby. [01:16:48] Speaker B: Well, speaking of, speaking of consent. We consent to you liking and subscribing and sharing us everywhere. [01:16:55] Speaker A: Oh my God. [01:16:56] Speaker B: Uh, it's a two party state, Johnny. We have to make sure everybody is informed on their getting on. They're getting recorded. And we want you to know that we would like for you to record a review and a star rating on us where you can and to tell people about us. [01:17:14] Speaker A: Yeah, please do. [01:17:16] Speaker B: Because we have fun doing this and we want more people to have fun with us. Speaking of more fun with more people, Johnny, would you like to have some more fun again later with some more Spawn and absolutely give the people something else to laugh about because Spawn is while serious and good, also very funny. Yeah, way funnier than it should be, right? [01:17:45] Speaker A: Usually. [01:17:47] Speaker B: So why don't we come back in a week and read ourselves some. Why don't we read. Why don't we read that penultimate Todd McFarlane, kingspawn, and a Stay in the Course, John Lehman, Scorched. That sound good? [01:18:02] Speaker A: Sounds good to me. You know I love a scorch. [01:18:03] Speaker B: Yeah. So that would be kingspawn 39 and scorched 35. [01:18:08] Speaker A: Sweet. [01:18:09] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. It's gonna be a fun time. Get yourself those issues and read them and come listen to us make goofems. [01:18:17] Speaker A: Please do. [01:18:17] Speaker B: Yeah, I like making goofems. Yeah. And much like Monolith and his opening bit, my ending bit, Johnny, remains the same, which means I have nothing else to say. [01:18:30] Speaker A: Are you gonna suffocate me? [01:18:31] Speaker B: I am gonna suffocate you. [01:18:32] Speaker A: I'm gonna ask me a bunch of questions. [01:18:36] Speaker B: Who's asking the questions here, Johnny? [01:18:38] Speaker A: But you are, David. [01:18:41] Speaker B: Well, I'm gonna ask you. Do you feel what the scorch does cooking? But that's not what. May the. May the scorch be with you, Johnny. I don't want to. [01:18:49] Speaker A: I both feel what they're cooking, and also may the scorch be with you too, David. [01:18:52] Speaker B: You smell what the Scorched is cooking. That's actually pretty fun. Should have gone with that one in the first place. [01:18:58] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that'd be a great tagline. [01:19:01] Speaker B: We can make a spawn with the big arched eyebrow. [01:19:04] Speaker A: Never forget the Scorch, the name invented by the illiterate Javier, who writes it. [01:19:08] Speaker B: In the sand that he writes it in fire. Oh, man, Johnny, these books are great. I love them. [01:19:17] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I love them. [01:19:18] Speaker B: I love talking to them. [01:19:19] Speaker A: Fun times. [01:19:19] Speaker B: Talking. I love talking to you. [01:19:20] Speaker A: You like talking to them? [01:19:22] Speaker B: Oh, man. [01:19:22] Speaker A: Talk to your comic books. [01:19:23] Speaker B: Boy, I love. I love how you go through the world so carefree and angry and you like to shoot things and you don't tell anybody anything, which would be very helpful if you did. [01:19:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:19:34] Speaker B: Yeah, that's me. That's me on the train. That's how I get a. That's how I get a seat, is I. I talk to my books. And then people are like, this guy. I'm gonna go sit next to the person smoking a cigarette. Leave this guy. Leave this guy alone. [01:19:47] Speaker A: Oof. That's always rough. [01:19:48] Speaker B: Oh, that's. That's the worst. [01:19:50] Speaker A: People do it still. [01:19:52] Speaker B: Yeah, especially as it gets colder during the summer. It's usually people smoking weed on the train, but. [01:19:58] Speaker A: Which is still not great. [01:19:59] Speaker B: Yeah, but it's better than the fucking shit that they. This, because everybody smokes like the black horse. I think is. Is because it's the cheapest one. And all smells sour before it's even old and sour. [01:20:15] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [01:20:16] Speaker B: It's. It's the worst. Don't, don't, don't smoke cigarettes. Y'all be nasty. [01:20:21] Speaker A: Don't do it. [01:20:22] Speaker B: Don't do it. We accidentally turned this into a psa. An anti smoking psa, Johnny. [01:20:28] Speaker A: That's okay. Have you ever seen the Cats anti drunk driving psa? [01:20:32] Speaker B: No, I haven't. Like Cats like Meow Cats or Cats like Jellyfish Cats the musical. [01:20:39] Speaker A: I haven't known they did, like a driving psa. I'll send it to you. [01:20:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:20:45] Speaker A: And we can end with audio of that. An accident. An accident. [01:20:55] Speaker B: Accident. [01:20:55] Speaker A: The humans had an accident. [01:20:58] Speaker B: There was a child in the car. A child. It.