Episode 102 - Spawn 354 and Gunslinger Spawn 32!

[00:00:00] Speaker A: They want you to be afraid. Don't fall for it. Subscribe now to my podcast for the truth you need now. Good evening, and welcome to the Mal bowls. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I'm your co host, Jon Fisher. [00:00:48] Speaker B: And I am your co host, David Williams. And Johnny, I'm going to assume that the news that we need now is Spawn is good. Spawn is fun. Spawn is love. That's what we got. [00:01:01] Speaker A: Spawn is love. I've got to record on Zoom. I'm going to start it now. [00:01:06] Speaker B: Okay. [00:01:07] Speaker A: I'm sure we'll be fine, but keep it in. [00:01:10] Speaker B: Double it. [00:01:11] Speaker A: Double it. Now we're recording on Zoom. See, we do double. Everybody we got recording on our own end, recording on Zoom. That way, we can bring this to you in case there's a technical glitch. [00:01:20] Speaker B: We're also both very, very worried about stuff failing while we're in the middle of it. So we're like, ah, yeah. Redundant systems. [00:01:30] Speaker A: Redundant. We only had to go back and re record, like, a whole segment episode once. I remember that we'd like, something stopped recording on your end or my end, and then we went back and had to, like, kind of redo a second issue. [00:01:43] Speaker B: Yeah, it wasn't very much that we had to. [00:01:46] Speaker A: No, it was like, 20 minutes. [00:01:47] Speaker B: Yeah, it's not bad, but cross your fingers. 102 episodes. [00:01:50] Speaker A: It's probably our best 20 minutes because we got to rehearse it beforehand and do it again. Hey, first and only time. [00:01:56] Speaker B: There's a reason. There's a reason they tell you to rehearse like you're at a performance. It helps. It does help get those. [00:02:03] Speaker A: Who says? Who says that? [00:02:05] Speaker B: Oh, that was a big thing in marching band. Was rehearsed like your own performance. [00:02:10] Speaker A: I thought you meant. Podcasters say that. Podcasters rehearse. [00:02:17] Speaker B: Could you imagine? We have to have rehearsal. Four rehearsals per episode. [00:02:22] Speaker A: Oh, my God. No. [00:02:23] Speaker B: You just show up every day for 2 hours and be like, so how does this joke go again? [00:02:28] Speaker A: Yeah, what are we gonna say about this page? [00:02:31] Speaker B: You're really. You're really going with that one? We're going with that one. Okay. We're going with. [00:02:35] Speaker A: No, we can say on the record, no rehearsals. You're getting the straight uncut, raw. If you couldn't tell, it would be. [00:02:42] Speaker B: It would be incredible if we kept all of my jokes in, if they were rehearsals. Like, if I had rehearsed those jokes. Oh, boy. We would need an editor. [00:02:55] Speaker A: You get noted to death. The big studio bigwigs would be cutting all your jokes. We like jokes. We don't like to cut jokes. No, we like to cut a, we like to cut a, cut a rug. [00:03:06] Speaker B: Cut a dashing figure. [00:03:08] Speaker A: We like to cut a dashing figure. And who cuts a dashing figure more than Mister Al Simmons? [00:03:13] Speaker B: Oh, Mandy Terry Fitzgerald. Possibly. But, but it's close. It's close. Depends. [00:03:20] Speaker A: Depends on if and gunslingers. He's got that tall, tough guy look, macho guy mentality, whatever the Todd father said. [00:03:27] Speaker B: Yeah. He's also got, he's currently got those Carlo Barberry like, impossible obliques going on. So, you know. [00:03:34] Speaker A: Yeah, he's cut. He's just cut. [00:03:37] Speaker B: Yeah. In more ways than one, but yes. [00:03:41] Speaker A: Welcome to Respawn, where each week we talk to you about two issues from spawns universe, except when we don't. This week we are doing our classic format with two issues, but we're doing two modern, it's a classic format, but a modern spawns. We, last week, before recording, David held up the stack of modern spawns we have yet to cover, and we decided we'd put the classics on hold. They'll always be there, as David said. Yes, and we can always go back to them, but we like to try and stay a little bit relevant with what's going on in the comics currently. And as you all know, if you're listening to this show, there's been a shitload of spawn recently, except for, except for this week. This week was the spawnless week of August. [00:04:24] Speaker B: The previous, the previous two or three weeks were like three and four issue weeks. So it's just like, ah, it's nice to have a, it's nice to have a breather so we, so I can get caught up. [00:04:37] Speaker A: Exactly. Yeah. I got a few more to read too. I don't think I've read misery yet. [00:04:42] Speaker B: It's, it's, uh, it's nice. It's nice. It's, uh, misery. Misery. I understand that misery is supposed to be about Cyan, but for me, it's all I'm going to be. Uh, get some straight talk from Granny Blake. [00:04:58] Speaker A: That's what you're there for, huh? [00:05:00] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what I'm there for. [00:05:02] Speaker A: That's, that's the thing is, we're calling it the Swan a sons. We're in the, Granny Blake assigns. [00:05:06] Speaker B: She's all over, she's in like three books right now. Right. Is she in main title or she only in two. So she's only in two. [00:05:14] Speaker A: She's just in Kingspawn. Misery. They talk about her in one of the other ones. But she's not in there. [00:05:21] Speaker B: Hey, man. We Stan Granny Blake. [00:05:24] Speaker A: We do Stan Granny Blake. [00:05:25] Speaker B: She sees. She sees the. The good in Al Simmons. Even after he has traded in his soul to be a. A member of Hell's army. [00:05:33] Speaker A: She sees him as an angel. Yeah, but we know he's no angel. And we're covering. Spawn 354 is our first issue of today. [00:05:45] Speaker B: Indeed. [00:05:46] Speaker A: Followed by gunslinger 32. [00:05:49] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:05:51] Speaker A: Spawn 364, all the way from June 2024, and gunslinger from May 2024. [00:06:00] Speaker B: Hmm. [00:06:01] Speaker A: So just a few short months ago from when we're recording or a few. [00:06:07] Speaker B: Long months ago, both simultaneously. I was about to say it doesn't seem like very long ago that these came out, but there's been so much story since then that it's just. [00:06:19] Speaker A: There's been a lot. [00:06:19] Speaker B: It feels like this should have been coming out around Christmas time. [00:06:23] Speaker A: Yeah. Just with all the spawn. [00:06:25] Speaker B: Yeah, we got a. We were. We were talking about how. [00:06:27] Speaker A: Remember that Christmas spawn episode, that spawn issue? It's so funny. [00:06:31] Speaker B: Hey, I'm excited to talk about it again. [00:06:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Every year. Every year with a different guest. That's our guess what we're gonna do on Christmas. [00:06:38] Speaker B: It's fun. It's a good one to reread, man. Now I just want a snowball. [00:06:43] Speaker A: Yep. You want one of those snowballs? That. A little. [00:06:46] Speaker B: Little greggy. I love a. I love a cookie covered in powdered sugar. Taste wise, not mess wise, because I always end up wearing black shirt. I end up with, like, it looks like I had an incident with toothpaste afterwards, just covered in white. [00:07:05] Speaker A: When I was younger, I couldn't get up in the morning without getting toothpaste on my shirt. I don't know what was wrong with me. [00:07:10] Speaker B: I was somehow able to get, like, ketchup behind my ears while I was eating french fries. So I don't. [00:07:15] Speaker A: That's disgusting. [00:07:16] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm amazed that I'm not just like pigpen and have the cloud of dust that follows me around. [00:07:25] Speaker A: Did you put the french fry behind your ear? [00:07:27] Speaker B: I have no idea how I did it. No, it's just. It happens. I think. I think I go into. It's cause I go into a little bit of a fugue state when I eat. Cause I'm just like, hum nom, nom, nom, nom. Kind of like Garfield. Just throwing fistfuls of that lasagna into his mouth. [00:07:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:07:44] Speaker B: I come to afterward when I'm sated, and I'm like, oh, what happened? [00:07:49] Speaker A: You need to go get some ketchup on your ear. And get one of those McDonald's collector cup meals. [00:07:55] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. They got a shrek, they got a snoopy. [00:07:57] Speaker A: You got a jurassic park. [00:07:59] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:08:00] Speaker A: I saw that f in nineties guy shout out on instagram, got the Jurassic park cup. [00:08:05] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:08:06] Speaker A: But they're not glass. [00:08:07] Speaker B: They're not glass. Huh? [00:08:08] Speaker A: They're plastic. [00:08:09] Speaker B: Well, I mean, probably way cheaper to produce, easier to ship. [00:08:15] Speaker A: I know. The classic ones were fucking. The glass. [00:08:18] Speaker B: Yeah, but the glass ones were fucking. You shouldn't drink out of them because they got less. [00:08:24] Speaker A: Oh, no, really? [00:08:25] Speaker B: Yeah. There's a guy on instagram that goes around to. To like, what are they called? Antique stores or consignment stores. And he always just goes to the collectible cups and he's like, hey, look at this. I got my little black light, I got my little lead pin. And he's just like, lead, lead, lead. [00:08:45] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:08:46] Speaker B: So, like, all those Star wars collectible cups that everybody loves. Chock full of lead. It's all in the paint. [00:08:52] Speaker A: Wow. [00:08:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:53] Speaker A: Oh, okay. I bet. Yeah, yeah. Those Star Wars Burger King cups everyone likes. Yeah, I think they were Burger King. [00:09:02] Speaker B: Yeah, they. And. Cause apparently they didn't start, apparently, like, ceramics and painted cups as far to like, the late nineties. Still had a lot of lead in them. They only. They only started regulating against lead being and stuff quite recently. In terms of things. It's a little. [00:09:28] Speaker A: Comic books had lead in them, probably. [00:09:30] Speaker B: I wouldn't be surprised. So that. That way, Superman. That way, Superman couldn't read them for free. He'd had to pay for the issue. So that way. [00:09:37] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. He can't see through lead. Huh? [00:09:39] Speaker B: You can't see through lead. Nope. Which is how. Which is how Batman hides. Hides stuff from him. But then Superman's always like, Batman, what you got in the lead thing? I know you're hiding something from me. [00:09:51] Speaker A: Yeah, that's the thing. It's like, it's behind lead, you know? [00:09:55] Speaker B: Batman's got to have his secret. [00:09:58] Speaker A: He's like nothing, I swear. [00:09:59] Speaker B: He's got a. He's got a gin up, a new secret every couple of issues, because he ends up having to reveal it. [00:10:07] Speaker A: That's Batman for you. [00:10:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:09] Speaker A: We're not talking Bruce Wayne, we're talking Al Simmons. [00:10:11] Speaker B: Today we are. Here we are. Al Simmons has no secrets. Except for when he does. When he does, he's a jerk about it. So. [00:10:20] Speaker A: Yes, he's jerk about many things, but, you know, he's had a tough life and let's. Let's. Let's go to another chronicle in this life. Let's. Let's go to chronicle chapter 354 from June of 2024. Spawn. Main title. Spawn. And we've got a main man. [00:10:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:41] Speaker A: On the COVID Hell, yeah. Puppeteer Lee. [00:10:44] Speaker B: Puppetee Lee. It's. Oh, Jesus. This is an amazing cover. It's got Al Simmons in all of his terrifying glory, standing over a body and just, like, ripping it apart. Just ripping the arm off, like, the chest. And the torso is all split and exposed. And he's just got his foot in there, and he's yanking on that arm. [00:11:07] Speaker A: Oh, I feel like he's about to yank it off and beat someone else with it. [00:11:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:12] Speaker A: Or eat it like a turkey leg. [00:11:15] Speaker B: But it's also in that oil style that it almost seems like it would be a religious painting. That somebody commissioned for a church in, like, the late 18th century. It's great. Oh, boy. [00:11:31] Speaker A: Well, the other cover is pretty great too, because it's got one of our favorite dudes on it. Malbolgia male. Boy, it's got some classic swan stuff, that 354, the Carlos Barberry B cover. [00:11:45] Speaker B: It's got the. It's got the Mount Bolger. It's got the violator with his little long jaw and his. He's wet. He's wet, Johnny. [00:11:55] Speaker A: He's wet. He's dripping. [00:11:57] Speaker B: It's got Wanda from Al Simmons funeral. [00:12:01] Speaker A: Yeah. A lot of classic swan imagery on there. [00:12:03] Speaker B: Yeah. I really wish they hadn't put up this puppeteer Lee issue cover, because I totally would have gotten that. I'm pretty sure I didn't even bother looking at what the second cover was when this one came out, because I was just like, puppeteer, get it, get it. [00:12:17] Speaker A: Gotta get it. Yeah, no, it's the Carla Barbara one's great too. I just love, like. Although, like I said, classic spawn imagery. Love to see Mount bullshit. [00:12:26] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's fun. It's got a fun layout too, cuz. Cuz, like, it's got a lot of negative space there, but it. It, like, sees around in a really compelling way. [00:12:38] Speaker A: Yeah, that's pretty cool. [00:12:40] Speaker B: Like, it seems. It seems like a challenge where Carlo was like, I'm gonna make a cool cover, but a lot of it's gonna be empty. And somebody was like, oh, no, you're not gonna be able to do it. There's a lot of empty space here, but it's still a great cover. [00:12:52] Speaker A: He pulled it off. [00:12:54] Speaker B: I am sad that the image logo covers up that giant night gun. [00:12:59] Speaker A: I want to see the rest of that gun. I like it. I like when it has the tape. Like the tape on them. [00:13:06] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, like the. Like the grip tape. [00:13:08] Speaker A: The grip tape on the. What am I trying to say? [00:13:11] Speaker B: Clip the. I think the grip. It's called the grip. Oh, the grip. [00:13:18] Speaker A: Oh, it looks like it's on the clip. [00:13:20] Speaker B: Oh, wait, yeah, that one has it on the magazine there. [00:13:23] Speaker A: That's just so you can reload it easier, I guess. [00:13:25] Speaker B: Yeah, because those things. Those things are really smooth, and any. Any extra friction you can get on it makes it easier to pop it out. [00:13:34] Speaker A: Okay. [00:13:35] Speaker B: Because there's. There's a. There's a little ketchup at the top of it. Ketchup. Uh, that, you know, you can. You can push it back with your. With your thumb and pull the magazine out. But if you don't have any grip on the magazine, your hands just gonna slide down it like a. Like a banana. [00:13:51] Speaker A: Like a. Like a slippery banana. [00:13:53] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a. The minions are gonna come out and they're gonna go, banana. [00:13:59] Speaker A: Who's your dialect coach? The minions? [00:14:01] Speaker B: Yeah. They speak better than I do. [00:14:04] Speaker A: That's a deadpool line. [00:14:06] Speaker B: Oh, that I haven't seen yet. [00:14:08] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm gonna make. I'm just gonna make Deadpool references. Since I know you haven't seen it. [00:14:12] Speaker B: I think I might have all of the spoilers now, so. [00:14:15] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, the Internet spoiled the shit out of that movie. [00:14:19] Speaker B: That's just the cost of living, I guess. [00:14:21] Speaker A: Just straight up clips recorded in the theater, being put on instagram, whole cloth. [00:14:26] Speaker B: But, I mean, I can't go see it by myself because then I'll get in trouble. And Wanda's. Wanda's like, it's not worth going to the theater for, so I gotta wait. I gotta wait. [00:14:36] Speaker A: It's got a 90 day, almost a 90 year. A 90 day theatrical window, too, which is rare these days. [00:14:42] Speaker B: Oh, man, that's. That's. That's nice. [00:14:45] Speaker A: Three whole months. Remember when it was. Take, like a year. [00:14:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. It used to be like the movies was. I remember. See, when I worked at the movie theater, we had. So Catwoman was in theaters forever because there was this one old guy who would watch a matinee every day. [00:15:04] Speaker A: What? [00:15:05] Speaker B: So until we were forced. Yeah, there was one old guy. Every day, he'd come to see the Catwoman movie. [00:15:11] Speaker A: That's so weird. [00:15:12] Speaker B: We called him the Carmike grandpa because it was Carmichael cinemas is where I worked. [00:15:17] Speaker A: Did he come to other movies frequently or just Catwoman? [00:15:20] Speaker B: He came to three or four movies a week. He saw every movie. But if there was female nudity in a movie? Oh, who am I kidding? At that time, there was no such thing as male nudity. If there was nudity in a movie, he was there every day. [00:15:37] Speaker A: Wow. [00:15:38] Speaker B: Every day. It was. It was. [00:15:40] Speaker A: Get that man a computer. [00:15:42] Speaker B: It was kind of. Kind of sweet in a disgusting way, but, hey, that's. That's the backbone. That's the backbone of the. Of the movie economy, Johnny. It's like they say that it's not the tourists who spend thousands of dollars in Vegas that keep the city afloat. It's the little old women with their little nickel buckets of tokens at the slot machine every afternoon. It's the. It's the old perverts watching the. [00:16:12] Speaker A: I guess so if Catwoman used to suffer through that movie, like, multiple times. [00:16:17] Speaker B: He had to have seen it at least 30 times. [00:16:20] Speaker A: And I'm pretty sure it's PG 13. So you're not even getting nudity. I mean, you're getting, like, scared to the cloud females, and you're getting. [00:16:25] Speaker B: You're getting the, like, spaghetti noodle. Very smooth animation for most of it. [00:16:33] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Yeah. She's, like, computer animated for half of that movie. [00:16:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:37] Speaker A: It's like, yeah, early cg people are scary. [00:16:43] Speaker B: The only bits of it, they still are, but, yeah, the only bits of that movie I've ever seen are. Is, like, the last little bit leading up to the start of the end credits. And it's just like, what is going on here? [00:16:53] Speaker A: Yeah, no, it's a wild movie. [00:16:55] Speaker B: It's smooth and not very naturalistic. [00:17:02] Speaker A: Not at all. [00:17:03] Speaker B: Not at all. Not like this. Al Simmons on the COVID of Spawn 354. [00:17:07] Speaker A: Very naturalistic. [00:17:10] Speaker B: I could imagine walking into puppeteer Lee's studio and seeing Al Simmons standing there posing for the. For the painting being like, can we take a break yet? My arm is tired. [00:17:21] Speaker A: Yeah. Did you get it yet? [00:17:23] Speaker B: This rotten body is really messing with my head, dude. I need to go get some air. [00:17:28] Speaker A: It stinks. So we pop it open and we got the credits. [00:17:35] Speaker B: Yes, we do. [00:17:36] Speaker A: We got. Script plot by Rory McConville with Todd McFarlane on additional script art by Brett Booth. [00:17:43] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:17:45] Speaker A: Inks by Adelso corona. Colors by J. David Ramos. [00:17:49] Speaker B: Beautiful colors. [00:17:51] Speaker A: Lettering is the one, the only Tom Wojczakowski. And we already covered the covers. Creative director is Todd McFarlane, and editor in chief is Thomas Healy. [00:18:02] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:18:04] Speaker A: Previously in Spawn. Spawn is on the run with his newfound ally while the vampire legions close in. That's right. His newfound ally, whose name we find out. Yeah. [00:18:16] Speaker B: We get to learn it now finally. [00:18:17] Speaker A: Kind of throw away, kind of a throwaway line. She's like. [00:18:20] Speaker B: Says it just, like, in the middle. It's like in the breath between attacks from the vampires. [00:18:25] Speaker A: Yeah, that's better than what was I watching? Star Trek into darkness was on Pluto the other day. And when he's like, my name is Khan. And, like, everyone's like, uh. Cause, like, none of those characters know who Khan is. So it's just like, okay, cool. [00:18:40] Speaker B: He's not got the distinctive. The distinctive, uh, chest going on there. [00:18:47] Speaker A: Yeah. Benedict Cumberbatch. Not a great choice for Khan. Noonan Singh. [00:18:53] Speaker B: He's not evil enough. He's not. He's not angry enough. Oh, man. Wrath of Khan movie. [00:19:00] Speaker A: Yeah, that is a good movie. [00:19:01] Speaker B: Fucking. That little earworm thing they put in there. They got. [00:19:04] Speaker A: Oh, oh, there's that shot where there's, like, an obviously giant ear that they're putting it in. [00:19:14] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:19:15] Speaker A: No. Wrath of Khan's. Good. Star Trek into darkness, not so good. [00:19:19] Speaker B: Not so good. Good makeup. Good makeup. And Star Trek into darkness. [00:19:22] Speaker A: But, I mean, it looks good. It's JJ Abrams. It's gonna look good. Just that script, it ends with, like, spock beating the shit out of con on top of a cardinal. It's so weird. I forgot that because I was watching it. And, like, he's like, on top of, like, a floating car beating up spawn. And I'm like, not spawn. Oh, my God. I'm getting it all crossed. [00:19:42] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:19:43] Speaker A: But it's like, does Spock really beat the shit out of people? [00:19:46] Speaker B: No, because that's. He wrestles with. Because he's half human and half vulcan, but he wrestles with the fact that he's human and he has more emotions than a regular vulcan. And so he very rarely lets his emotions get out of. Out of hand. He's. He's usually cool. Cool like a cucumber. And that if you throw him in front of a cat, the cats get scared. [00:20:07] Speaker A: Cuz he's. Oh, cuz he's a cucumber. [00:20:08] Speaker B: Cucumber. [00:20:10] Speaker A: I get it. [00:20:10] Speaker B: I'm trying to. [00:20:11] Speaker A: Why are cats afraid of cucumbers? [00:20:13] Speaker B: Uh, because. I don't know. [00:20:15] Speaker A: Um, they think they're snakes. [00:20:17] Speaker B: That's the only thing I could think of, is that they look kind of like snakes. Either that or every cat has tried a cucumber and done that. [00:20:26] Speaker A: They don't like it. [00:20:27] Speaker B: They don't like it. Yeah. [00:20:28] Speaker A: So we. We open up. [00:20:30] Speaker B: We open up. We open up on our good friend Brock, the shock fennel. [00:20:33] Speaker A: He's sitting there on tv. And Al is sleeping. [00:20:36] Speaker B: Sleeping. Yeah, this is. This is fun, because prior to the. The battle for the throne of hell, if you remember, we got that original. That scorched base that was just like a russian base that they just, like, cleared everybody out of. [00:20:58] Speaker A: Yes. [00:20:59] Speaker B: Spawn has a bedroom, and he. Sometimes he just goes and he just sits in his chair and, like, stares at the bed. [00:21:05] Speaker A: But now he's actually sleeping because he lost his powers. [00:21:08] Speaker B: Yeah, but now he's just an old man falling asleep with the news on. [00:21:11] Speaker A: Hmm. Wow. Oh, my God. I feel so seen. Not usually diablo four playthroughs, though. [00:21:20] Speaker B: Doesn't. Doesn't sleep. It seems like sleeping with the news on would just give you terrible, terrible dreams. [00:21:26] Speaker A: I sleep falling asleep to am radio news sometimes. It's very soothing, but it's more like talk radio by the time I'm going to sleep. It's not. Not like talk radio. It's just like WGN. But the am warmth of lulls me sleep very well. [00:21:44] Speaker B: I mean, as long as there's not any. Any lightning in, like, a hundred mile radius. Cause then it'll give you the. [00:21:51] Speaker A: Yeah, I was doing that last night. [00:21:52] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:21:54] Speaker A: There was some really loud thunder. [00:21:56] Speaker B: Well, the thunder rolls, Johnny. [00:21:58] Speaker A: And the lightning strikes, and Al Simmons. [00:22:01] Speaker B: Wakes up, and Al gets awoken by Cyan. [00:22:07] Speaker A: Cyan? [00:22:08] Speaker B: Yeah, she's. She's got spike from. From cowboy bebop hair here. It's real nice. [00:22:15] Speaker A: Yeah, she really does. I actually just saw Cowboy Bebop the movie in theaters last weekend. [00:22:22] Speaker B: Cowboy bebop the movie? I don't think I've watched the movie. Is that like a. Like a wrap up to the. To the show? [00:22:29] Speaker A: No, it takes place somewhere in the middle of the show. [00:22:31] Speaker B: Okay. [00:22:31] Speaker A: It's just like. It's like, an extended episode. But they were showing at the Logan theater, so I went, oh, hell, yeah. [00:22:36] Speaker B: I need to go look that up, because that show is great. That show is great. But. So, yeah, Cyan's just like, hey, I've never seen you sleep before. And he's like, you get old and things happen. [00:22:50] Speaker A: You fall asleep. [00:22:51] Speaker B: Yeah, he didn't need to sleep until recently. And then he's like, how did you find me in my secret lair here? And Cyan's like, please, please. [00:23:01] Speaker A: I've known dad's passwords for years. He needs to change his passwords. [00:23:04] Speaker B: Either that, or it's, like, the family password. And so you can't change it, because everybody is supposed to know it, right? [00:23:11] Speaker A: But it's like, if you're doing high security spawn shit. You need to get some, like, really, you know, elongated passwords. [00:23:20] Speaker B: Yeah. You need to have a minimum of 15 characters with at least three of three of the following five items. Letter capital special. [00:23:32] Speaker A: I guess we should all do that now because they stole our Social Security numbers. [00:23:36] Speaker B: Yeah, they stole everything. We had a. We had a cyber event at work, and we had to implement new passwords and, oh, geez, I'm. I can't remember fucking four letter names. I have to now remember a 16 digit password. [00:23:55] Speaker A: Boo boo, data man. I figured they got everything on me. I don't know. [00:24:00] Speaker B: I mean, I don't. I don't think that I am. If they look at my. At my stats, I don't think that they're going to me preferentially for anything. They're not going to get. They're not going to get much of a. Of an advance on a credit card with my numbers. [00:24:17] Speaker A: I'm just. Yeah, you got to watch your credit. Make sure they're not fucking with it. [00:24:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Somebody did try to open a bank account at Wells Fargo under my name. That was exciting. [00:24:26] Speaker A: Really? [00:24:26] Speaker B: Yeah. I got the little letter in the mail saying, hey, they failed all the pass checks. Did you do this? And I was like, oh, no, no, not me. [00:24:36] Speaker A: I definitely did not. [00:24:38] Speaker B: Oh. [00:24:41] Speaker A: But, yeah, Cyan's there to basically, her mom says. She said her mom came to her dream and said that. Wanted me to tell Al. Wanted Cyan to tell Al not to worry. [00:24:53] Speaker B: Don't keep looking for her, because she's out of there. She's onto her own business. [00:25:00] Speaker A: Love how surprised Al gets. She made it out of hell, and he's, like, holding his arms up. [00:25:05] Speaker B: Yeah, but, like, everybody made it out of hell. That was the. Like, everybody was forced out of it. He shouldn't be so. But, I mean, I guess, you know, it was a very emotional time for him. It was. It was like what potentially felt like years to him while they were walking through hell. [00:25:22] Speaker A: Yeah. He also sleeps with his sword on his back, which is funny. That probably hurts. [00:25:27] Speaker B: I mean, it can't be comfortable just sitting with the sword on your back like that. I can't imagine. Like, you probably wake up and you're. [00:25:34] Speaker A: Like, oh, oh, boy, my back. [00:25:39] Speaker B: It doesn't even take that much to make me do that anymore. [00:25:42] Speaker A: And Cyan tells him she's not coming back. She's got other things to take care of, so get on with your life. [00:25:47] Speaker B: Mm hmm. But that also. She's glad he made the right choice. W r t the throne of hell. [00:25:55] Speaker A: Which gives Al a little bit of happiness. [00:25:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Which. Which is great, because then. Cause the entire universe since then has been al being like, shit, I thought I was doing the right thing. Did I do the right thing? I don't know if I did the right thing, but. [00:26:11] Speaker A: But it's nice to hear from Wanda that she thinks you did the right thing. Absolutely the right choice. Was it, though? [00:26:17] Speaker B: And then we get. [00:26:19] Speaker A: We cut back to now. That was a flashback to a few months ago. Two months ago. Yes, just two months ago. It's spawned in our mystery hell slash heaven. [00:26:30] Speaker B: Lady running from some vampires. [00:26:33] Speaker A: Running from some vampires in the woods. [00:26:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Cuz they just, uh, they just. They both attacked Jason blood's the mountain house at the same time, and now. [00:26:43] Speaker A: They'Re escaping at the same time. [00:26:44] Speaker B: And lady. Lady used that massively overpowered swords to kill a changeling instead of Jason blood. So I bet she was. I bet she was like, fuck. [00:26:56] Speaker A: God damn it. [00:26:58] Speaker B: Now I gotta get another one of those. [00:27:00] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. It's like the special vampire killing sword. [00:27:03] Speaker B: I gotta get it blessed by all the. The friars of Saskatoon or something. [00:27:09] Speaker A: That reminds me of when I was playing elden ring and there was like some, you know, it's really hard. There's like this really hard boss. So I went around and I got these, like, special mushrooms and built this thing that, like, helped me, like, strengthen me against the boss. Took forever. Made like five of them in the game. And I was like, well, surely I'll beat them. I'll use all five of these. And I was using all five and then I died. And so, like, that was like hours of work just throwing away, basically. Basically when I stopped playing the game. [00:27:35] Speaker B: So you can. You can. You can relate. You, uh. You know what she's feeling in this moment, huh? [00:27:40] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like stabs with this awesome sword you got is the wrong thing. And it's just like, what the fuck? [00:27:45] Speaker B: Yeah, fuck this guy. Shit. [00:27:47] Speaker A: Yeah, fuck this guy. [00:27:48] Speaker B: So they run, they run, they run. [00:27:51] Speaker A: They get to a motorcycle. [00:27:53] Speaker B: Yeah, this. This is good. Run. Like they're jumping over logs. We got a nice overhead overhead shot. [00:27:58] Speaker A: But yeah, the overhead shots like little Looney tunes. They're like, zoom, zoom, zoom. [00:28:02] Speaker B: Yeah. And I was like. I was like, can you drive? Do it. A cool motorcycle looks a lot like the bat cycle from the Christopher Nolan movies. [00:28:15] Speaker A: It does. [00:28:16] Speaker B: So they hop on. Lady is driving. Al is in the back, just. He's doing the gunner bit, shooting blame, blame and the blame, blame and the blam. [00:28:28] Speaker A: Yeah, pretty cool. Action scene where they're running through the woods on a motorcycle, and he's shooting. [00:28:33] Speaker B: Yeah, this is off the back. This one panel of it's from behind. And Al Simmons is turned around and shooting is amazing. I could not imagine trying to do the blocking for that to make it look like what it is. It's amazing. Brett Booth's ankles are very fun, and. [00:28:55] Speaker A: Spawn's head's like raw meat. Yeah, because he doesn't have the power. [00:28:59] Speaker B: He looks. He looks a lot like headpool in the comics. [00:29:02] Speaker A: Which one's headpool? [00:29:04] Speaker B: Headpool is the disembodied head of zombie Deadpool from the zombie universe. [00:29:11] Speaker A: Does it fly? [00:29:13] Speaker B: No, he. In the comic books, he actually has to be carried around because he's literally just a head in the movie. [00:29:21] Speaker A: There's a floating head. [00:29:23] Speaker B: I'm sure they probably made him float for the movie. [00:29:26] Speaker A: It has a propeller thing, like a little propeller hat, I think so. Maybe I'm misremembering, but I'm pretty sure. [00:29:32] Speaker B: Well, the. The popcorn bucket at least had, like, the. It was like the. The old leather football helmet with a propeller on top of it, so. [00:29:39] Speaker A: Oh, it did? Yeah, that's kind of so if the. [00:29:42] Speaker B: Popcorn bucket is anything to go by. [00:29:44] Speaker A: There was a head pool popcorn bucket as well. [00:29:46] Speaker B: Yeah, I have a friend who got one. [00:29:49] Speaker A: Nice. I thought it was just the wolverine with the mouth. [00:29:52] Speaker B: I think there were, like, four of them. [00:29:54] Speaker A: Okay. I was looking at the alien popcorn bucket. My friend Eloy sent it to me. It looks pretty cool. [00:29:59] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:30:00] Speaker A: It's like a cryo tube with, like, a facehugger on the outside. [00:30:03] Speaker B: Oh, hell, yeah. [00:30:03] Speaker A: You, like, put your hand in. They've also got alien churros at Webster. Ooh, not Webster, but regal, I guess. Webster's the one I call the one I go to, but. So, yeah, I'm gonna go see alien Tuesday. Maybe I'll get some alien churros. [00:30:19] Speaker B: Are they shaped like aliens, or do they just have, like, green? [00:30:22] Speaker A: There's normal churro. They have a green. [00:30:23] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. [00:30:24] Speaker A: Green icing. [00:30:25] Speaker B: They've got. They've got acidic icing. [00:30:28] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah. If you eat the icing, it melts your insides. [00:30:32] Speaker B: They are missing a very awesome opportunity by making special edition straws that have just, like, a big face hugger on the front of them. So that way. [00:30:43] Speaker A: Oh, that's a good idea. [00:30:44] Speaker B: I mean, it would be very annoying to drink out of, I think. Probably, but would be a very cool collector's item to have. [00:30:52] Speaker A: I had a straw that, like, had a dog's face on it. [00:30:55] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Yeah. [00:30:57] Speaker A: I think it was from, I think it was from Wendy's. [00:30:59] Speaker B: Yeah, I I think I remember those because I think they had, like, a dog and a cat. I think they had, like, a fish, too. [00:31:05] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, if you, you would, you drank out the straw. The dog thing would attach to your face. Yeah. Face hugger straw. That's a good idea. [00:31:12] Speaker B: Yeah. And I could make it a crazy straw, too. Man, I love a crazy straw. I hate cleaning a crazy straw, but I love a crazy straw. [00:31:20] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Impossible to clean. Well, maybe they'll make another alien and we can suggest that they do face hugger straws. [00:31:28] Speaker B: Yeah. 20th Century fox. Or I guess Disney get at us. [00:31:32] Speaker A: That's two big. Disney rated our movies in like a month. [00:31:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:36] Speaker A: Cause you got Deadpool and you got alien. [00:31:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:40] Speaker A: All these Disney adults are ruining it. [00:31:42] Speaker B: Yeah. How dare they? We're gonna start Disney bounding as, as xenomorphs. [00:31:52] Speaker A: Does that make the alien queen a Disney princess? [00:31:55] Speaker B: Yes, it does. They have literally announced that Anastasia is now officially a Disney princess. [00:32:02] Speaker A: Really? [00:32:03] Speaker B: I think so. Either that or that was just somebody saying, hey, she is a Disney princess now. But I think, I think I've seen something where they've been, like, they had, like, official art of Disney princesses, and it actually has Anastasia in there. I. Okay, they're gonna put Anastasia in there and not put Bartok in there as a princess? Come on. [00:32:23] Speaker A: Give me a break. He's Bartok the magnificent. [00:32:25] Speaker B: Oh, sure. Blame the bats. Where we go to bats getting batty. [00:32:32] Speaker A: Yeah, there's a bunch of bat, a bunch of vampire bats. [00:32:34] Speaker B: Yeah, look at them. And then we cut to Jason Nguyen in a bunker surrounded by all of his screens on the, on the horn with his, uh, fixer. Fixer. He's, he's chasing after spawn and mystery lady. And Jason Wynn is like, just, just let him go. We got, you got more important things. Don't get caught. And then right after Jason Wynn says, don't let anybody know you're there. [00:33:02] Speaker A: Immediately. Immediately, like five vampires pop down. [00:33:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:05] Speaker A: And he's like, uh, I'll call you back. [00:33:10] Speaker B: Uh huh. And then, so the vampires have figured it out. There's a lady vampire who says, you're one of win's people, aren't you? Now what are, now what are you doing all the way up here? So they're, they're trying to figure out wins game. [00:33:27] Speaker A: And so he starts eradicating the vampires. [00:33:30] Speaker B: Yeah, they start, they start to attack him. And he just like, 1st 360, no scopes. This dude doesn't even look. Doesn't even look. Just blames him. And we cut away from him too. We're back in the chase, in media chase Johnny. [00:33:46] Speaker A: And then Spawn's like Keith on the road of the city. I got someplace we can hide. It shows all his wounds and how headpool he is. [00:33:56] Speaker B: Yeah, and it says that since his. So apparently his symbiote isn't dead. So his symbiote is still changing and doing all the things, but it grows weak, so it's like hobby and that it doesn't heal very fast. [00:34:11] Speaker A: And he goes, I need to ask you, who the fuck are you and how do you still have powers? [00:34:15] Speaker B: Yeah, the question we've all been waiting for. [00:34:19] Speaker A: She's like, she's like, this isn't the. [00:34:21] Speaker B: Best time focusing on the road here, bud. [00:34:24] Speaker A: Yeah, try to drive. We're getting chased by a bunch of vampires. [00:34:27] Speaker B: But Al, Al asks, she's from heaven. Are you from heaven? [00:34:32] Speaker A: Are you an angel? [00:34:35] Speaker B: And she is very. [00:34:37] Speaker A: The most beautiful creatures in the whole universe. [00:34:40] Speaker B: She is very upset at that implication. She says, no, I don't work for them assholes. Oh, no, she doesn't work for them asshole. So she calls Alan asshole. [00:34:49] Speaker A: Yeah, she didn't work for heaven. Her name's Lyra. [00:34:52] Speaker B: Her name's Lyra. Like the little girl from his dark materials. [00:34:56] Speaker A: Never read it. [00:34:57] Speaker B: She's got a daemon and everything. [00:34:59] Speaker A: Good books. I'm familiar, I just never. I tried to read the golden compass, I think at one point, but just didn't stick. [00:35:07] Speaker B: This is not fair. [00:35:08] Speaker A: Well, I'm sure there'll be another reboot movie in the next five years. [00:35:11] Speaker B: Well, I mean, they got that HBO show right now, so. [00:35:13] Speaker A: Oh, they do? [00:35:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:15] Speaker A: Okay. [00:35:16] Speaker B: That was. [00:35:17] Speaker A: Well, yeah, but I can't keep up. It's like a show going on now. [00:35:22] Speaker B: I think it had two seasons. I don't know if it's still going. [00:35:27] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, it had Rosamund pike in it. [00:35:29] Speaker B: And then Manuel Miranda. [00:35:32] Speaker A: Oh, boy. [00:35:32] Speaker B: And the dude who always plays characters with multiple personalities. [00:35:40] Speaker A: James McAvoy. [00:35:42] Speaker B: Yeah, James McAvoy McAvoy. [00:35:45] Speaker A: I think. Oh, you mean the professor X. Yeah, yeah. I don't know how you say it. James McAvoy, he makes he John McEnroe. [00:36:00] Speaker B: But yeah, we learned that Lyra gets her parents her powers from her parents. And they were on different sides of the war, Johnny. That's why she's immune to the dead zone, she thinks. And spawned with the obvious question. So you're a hybrid. If this issue were made in like, the late seventies, early eighties, Johnny. There would be a different h word there, and it would feel yucky. [00:36:32] Speaker A: I don't know what you're referring to. I'm assuming you can't say the word. [00:36:35] Speaker B: There's a Cher song about it as far as I will go to saying it. [00:36:40] Speaker A: Okay. [00:36:41] Speaker B: You'll figure it out. [00:36:43] Speaker A: All right. [00:36:44] Speaker B: She's not real thrilled about being a hybrid either. You know that. She's like, hey, wait, maybe we should stop talking because. Yeah, you got. You got company. And then they get attacked by more vampires. [00:36:56] Speaker A: Heads up, here they come. And spawn Ames. True. And just starts blaming them. [00:37:01] Speaker B: And then we get this. [00:37:02] Speaker A: You get the middle page. Is this full two page spread? [00:37:06] Speaker B: Yeah, with. With just neurom and blam, blam, blam, blam. And this, man, I love the. I love the diversity of the vampires. They're all, all different. Yeah, it's real good. [00:37:22] Speaker A: Yeah, you got the lady with, like, Jessica kind of hair. You got, like, a guy with, like, glasses. [00:37:29] Speaker B: Yeah. There's a dude with. There's, like, an eighties punk rock guy in plaid pants with a big mohawk. [00:37:37] Speaker A: And there's one with an afro. [00:37:39] Speaker B: There's the bald one. All different kinds of vampires freeze from the animated series without his dome. He does a purple hair in the back. It's great. [00:37:53] Speaker A: And spawn's just shooting off the back of a motorcycle. I don't know. It's a great action scene. You really feel the propulsion. [00:38:00] Speaker B: Yeah. This dude with the glasses looks like tech. Either tech, the clone from bad batch or the nerdy kid from BK kids. [00:38:12] Speaker A: He does kind of like the BK kids club. Kid IQ, I believe his name was. [00:38:18] Speaker B: Nice. [00:38:19] Speaker A: Love those kids. Kid Vid. He was super cool. Nineties. He loved video games. [00:38:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:26] Speaker A: And he was the leader, I think. [00:38:29] Speaker B: I don't. I don't remember. [00:38:31] Speaker A: And he was like, the most upfront. [00:38:33] Speaker B: I have were there for. [00:38:34] Speaker A: They show the most hunt. [00:38:36] Speaker B: We should probably not get onto that tangent. That's a dangerous. A dangerous rabbit hole to fall down. But. But, so then we. We move off of this excellent two page spread, and it's just more Lyras driving and spawns shooting behind them as they go. But then there's a sneaky, a sneaky, nosferatu looking guy who's, who flew around front and just flies right into the front wheel of the motorcycle. [00:39:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:07] Speaker B: So he gets absolutely smushed, and Lyra and Al get thrown from the motorcycle as it disintegrates from the impact. [00:39:17] Speaker A: So there is jaws, lingo, snaps. Kid Vid iQ JD, which is the dog wheels, which is the child in a wheelchair. And boomer. [00:39:33] Speaker B: He's the boomer. He's the demolition expert, right? [00:39:37] Speaker A: No, boomers. Like a tomboy girl who plays sports. Okay, imagine that. [00:39:42] Speaker B: Whoa. That's. That's the. This is the wokest thing ever, Johnny. [00:39:47] Speaker A: Yeah, super woke. Yeah, that's the kids club. So there's, like, seven of those fuckers. [00:39:53] Speaker B: Kid vid looks awfully like Max from mighty Max. [00:39:57] Speaker A: He does. He just looks like a nineties thing. [00:39:59] Speaker B: Yeah, he's super fucking cool, Johnny. I'm not gonna lie. [00:40:03] Speaker A: He's super cool. [00:40:04] Speaker B: He's the coolest dude. [00:40:06] Speaker A: Gotta love Kid vid. [00:40:07] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. He looks a lot like Spaz. The, the gutterpunk from early, early Spawn, spazzak, Kid vid. [00:40:15] Speaker A: They're all interchangeable, but yeah, the, the nosferatu vampire crashes into the front of the motorcycle and sends them all flying. [00:40:23] Speaker B: And then Alice, Spawn's just like, Jesus sucks. It's a great, a great little bit of lettering from that Jesus. It's got, like, a wave to it. So he's just like Jesus. Not quite irish. It would be hilarious if he, if he was like, jesus. [00:40:40] Speaker A: Jesus. [00:40:42] Speaker B: He somehow turns. He somehow turns irish for 3 seconds. But, yeah, so. So Spawn and Lyra get grabbed, and, and Eddie's there. [00:40:54] Speaker A: Reaper's there. [00:40:55] Speaker B: He says, tell our Lord we've got him to. Or dial our Lord, which is great. [00:40:59] Speaker A: Dial, yeah, dial him up. Facetime our lord. [00:41:05] Speaker B: And then they literally facetime him. So Lenny Kravitz, vampire, is just holding the FaceTime up for blood to. Excellent, excellent use of technology. [00:41:18] Speaker A: Yes. [00:41:19] Speaker B: I love how, as technology advances, it's always like, oh, man. Well, now, this sort of thing can't happen in stories because obviously, you've just got a. A way out of it. But I love when they incorporate, when they incorporate the technology into the story, because now, nowadays, nowadays, the fashion is to just say, oh, yeah, this happened in 1991, so nobody can call on a cell phone because these people don't have the super, the money to buy the super expensive phone. [00:41:48] Speaker A: A lot of facetiming villains in the last few issues we've been covering. [00:41:52] Speaker B: But, hey, you know, that's how, that's how they communicate nowadays. [00:41:56] Speaker A: It's true. [00:41:57] Speaker B: That's what the kids are into. They're sending TikToks to each other. Jason Blood doing a little dance, threatening spawn while he's doing a dance. [00:42:09] Speaker A: I thought that nice house of the lake did a really good job of using technology as, like, telling a story, because it would show emails it would show tweets, messages. It was pretty cool. [00:42:19] Speaker B: That's fun. That's fun. It's. It's. It's harder to do to make it so that way it's not a deus ex machina. Machina. Deus ex machina. So it's sometimes easier to just set it in a time where there's none of that stuff. But I do, like, the actual drawing everything in. It's. It's fun, but yes. So blood is, like, now. [00:42:43] Speaker A: You know how vampires felt for many years? Being hunted. [00:42:46] Speaker B: Yeah, you're. You're just a little weenie man out there, and you ain't got no power, powers, and. Yeah, your powerless little weenie man. How's it feel, huh? Little weenie man? Then he. Jason blood. J is his name Jason? [00:43:03] Speaker A: I don't think so. I don't know why I keep saying Jason blood. [00:43:05] Speaker B: I don't know why I keep saying Jason blood either. Jeez. Woo. But anyway, blood's like, hey, you know what? And you're gonna do. You're gonna do exactly what I tell you to do. You know why? Cause I got some leverage over you. And he's like, hey, leverage, show yourself. [00:43:19] Speaker A: I think he's just known as blood. And his alter ego is Matthew Ramus. [00:43:22] Speaker B: Okay, and where the hell did I get Jason? Probably Jason. [00:43:28] Speaker A: I don't know. Probably Jason Nguyen. [00:43:30] Speaker B: But anyway, the leverage that blood has over Al is that he's got Eddie. He's got vampire Eddie. And he's like, hey, Getty, he says, hey, spawn, watch this. Eddie, kill yourself. [00:43:42] Speaker A: And he does, and he tries, and. [00:43:44] Speaker B: He just takes his gigantic anime scythe and just, like, shoves it into his chest a couple of times. He shunks it, then he gishes it. [00:43:53] Speaker A: And Eddie, stop this. [00:43:56] Speaker B: Al doesn't like that. [00:43:58] Speaker A: And then blood does the captain America and says, no, I don't think I will. [00:44:03] Speaker B: Eddie. Eddie's just, like, slumping down because, you know, he just skewered himself. [00:44:10] Speaker A: Just skewered himself with the world's biggest sky. [00:44:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. And blood's like, you know, this is. I'm gonna. I'm gonna treat you so poorly that you're gonna remember this as a happy memory. [00:44:24] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:44:25] Speaker B: Boy, that's gonna be. That's gonna be bad. [00:44:27] Speaker A: That's gotta be bad. [00:44:28] Speaker B: It's gonna be bad. Especially with the history of what Al's been through. It's gonna have to be some bad stuff to make him think that. Then the next panel, there's a green light across the sky. It's the Green Lantern. Johnny. He's coming. He's coming. We're in. We're in sector 20 614. He's protecting his people. [00:44:44] Speaker A: I don't know. I think there's someone else who flies around looking green in the spawn universe. [00:44:49] Speaker B: Never. Never. But the question, well, the question is which. Which Green Lantern of section 20 614 is it. Is it going to be Hal Jordan? Is it going to be, oh, fuck. Guy Gardner. Is it going to be the other guy? Is it going to be the lady? Is it going to be that other, other guy? Is it going to be that other lady? [00:45:08] Speaker A: Isn't there a dog? [00:45:10] Speaker B: He's not for sector 20 614. Oh, I'm forgetting his name. But, yeah, he's. Because he's an alien dog. Well, we'll see which Green Lantern it is. There's a whole core. It's one of them. [00:45:25] Speaker A: And someone at Jason Wynn's office is, like, director Nguyen. There's reports of a new hostile in the area. [00:45:29] Speaker B: Mm hmm. [00:45:30] Speaker A: And they're trying to contact fixer, but they can't. [00:45:33] Speaker B: They can't. [00:45:34] Speaker A: This eyepiece is just broken on the ground. [00:45:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Just covered in blood. So, you know, doesn't look good for fixer. [00:45:41] Speaker A: But we didn't see, we didn't see a body. [00:45:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:43] Speaker A: And this is comic book, so we will. [00:45:46] Speaker B: We will see. It will be revealed dramatically, probably, yes. And they've got a, one of the other lackeys is like, I think we got a match on this energy signature. [00:45:55] Speaker A: You can't be certain, but it looks like it might be from green world. And you turn the page as this person is landing, and we get a. [00:46:02] Speaker B: Reveal of some excellent hair. [00:46:05] Speaker A: Some excellent hair on Mister Jim Downing. [00:46:08] Speaker B: Uh huh. [00:46:09] Speaker A: Some excellent ribbons. [00:46:10] Speaker B: He's like, sorry for. Sorry for dropping it unannounced, guys. You know, this is also, you know, since 350, the end of every issue of main title, Spawn has had a reveal of a person. And this issue's reveal is Jim Downing. And it's great. [00:46:28] Speaker A: Yep. [00:46:28] Speaker B: And look at him. [00:46:29] Speaker A: He looks pretty cool. He looks like he got some new digs. [00:46:32] Speaker B: Yeah, he's. He's got kind of a. Kind of an angel ribbon going on. [00:46:39] Speaker A: Yeah, he's got, like, a headpiece on. [00:46:41] Speaker B: Yeah. His, his uniforms got, like, spiky, spiky bits every once in a while. Like, pads. Yeah, he's got a cool, he's got a cool emblem right there on his diaphragm. [00:46:55] Speaker A: Yes. The green world is sitting to the side no more. And, yeah, that's the big reveal. For the end of the issue, we get the power meter, which is still at zero zero one. [00:47:04] Speaker B: Very low. [00:47:06] Speaker A: Very low. [00:47:07] Speaker B: Really can't get lower without we got the spawning ground. [00:47:11] Speaker A: And the first one's a tale of a fan who got Todd to do a head sketch of Spider man in 2007. And then at San Diego Comic Con 2023, he got him to do a spawn, and they're facing each other and framed. So that's pretty cool. [00:47:25] Speaker B: He had apparently always planned for him to be the two headshots looking at each other and just, you know, after he got the Spider man, life happened and, well, as it does, but he finally completed the set, Johnny. And it looks real good. It's real nice. [00:47:41] Speaker A: Yeah, that Spider man is nice. So that's pretty cool. And then we get Todd standing next to a really awesome Spawn cosplay at the Calgary Fan expo. Hopefully we follow them. I don't know if that's one of our friends that's cosplaying there. [00:47:57] Speaker B: I do not know. There's no attribution, so I can't be sure. [00:48:01] Speaker A: But the spawn looks really good. The cape looks good on this one. [00:48:04] Speaker B: It does. I wonder if it's. Is this the mortal Kombat spawn? [00:48:08] Speaker A: Cause it looks like he's almost like. [00:48:09] Speaker B: It looks like he's got the mortal Kombat spawn figure there. So it seems like if that's the figure he's carrying, that it would be the inspiration. He also has that he's got the big right foot, but it's the. The boot form instead of the tree trunk form, so. And I think that's how Spawn is in Mortal Kombat. [00:48:27] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. So he's doing the mortal Kombat spawn specifically? [00:48:30] Speaker B: I think so, yeah. It looks real good. Do you need more spawns universe, Johnny? [00:48:37] Speaker A: Always. [00:48:37] Speaker B: Well, hey, do I have. Do I have good news for you? There's more ongoing titles? [00:48:43] Speaker A: Yes. We get the ad for all the main titles or the core titles. Core four, as we call them. Spawn king, swan, scorching gunslinger. [00:48:56] Speaker B: Got some. Some good covers coming up. Look at those. That gunslinger, endless stairway cover looks great. [00:49:05] Speaker A: He's about to fight, like, some, like, eldritch creature. [00:49:08] Speaker B: Yeah, I like that. That Kingspawn has, like, the classic Todd McFarlane moon. Even though it's not a Todd McFarlane cover, it's just got the moon. And as everyone knows, Johnny, we love the moon because it is close to us. [00:49:23] Speaker A: We love the moon. Is that a song? [00:49:25] Speaker B: We love the moon. It's the. The sponge monkeys, the song that the Quiznos song is based off of. They have a pepper bar. [00:49:32] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:49:34] Speaker B: I also worked at Quiznos, and let me tell you, the amount of people who came in to either sing that song at us or be like, this. This commercial is fucking annoying. I want you to do something about. It was insane. Ma'am, I am making minimum wage. I am a college student at a sandwich shop. I can't do anything about the advertising. [00:49:55] Speaker A: It's like, please leave me alone. [00:49:57] Speaker B: Much like, at the movie theater, people would complain to the lowly high school employees about the cost of the popcorn. And it's like, what am I supposed to do about the cost of popcorn? Yeah, that's not a me problem. [00:50:11] Speaker A: I was at McDonald's the other day and, like, some guy came in and was like, I was waiting on my order, and he was just, like, doing the same thing. He's like, what if there's a. Why is it called a dollar menu and nothing's a dollar? And the lady was like, I don't know. [00:50:24] Speaker B: What are you supposed. [00:50:25] Speaker A: Inflation. [00:50:26] Speaker B: What are you supposed to do? The thing to do. Johnny, do you have the McDonald's app? [00:50:31] Speaker A: I do, yeah. [00:50:32] Speaker B: Okay, good, good. That's how you get the good deals. [00:50:35] Speaker A: Oh, man. They got some good deals on there. Also, how you get the collector's cup. [00:50:40] Speaker B: Oh. Oh, yeah. Nice. I've been told specifically that I am not allowed to get collector's cups. [00:50:50] Speaker A: I was told no cups. [00:50:51] Speaker B: I was told, quote unquote, we aren't my mother in the nineties. [00:50:57] Speaker A: Nice. [00:50:59] Speaker B: Sorry, Shrek cup. I yearn for you, but I I. [00:51:02] Speaker A: Will not have you. [00:51:02] Speaker B: I can. I cannot have you. [00:51:04] Speaker A: Then we get the ad for the image classics. [00:51:07] Speaker B: The new ad that's got eclipse. Is that its name? I don't know. Or radiant black. Radiant black, I think, is who it is. [00:51:16] Speaker A: Is that just its own thing? [00:51:18] Speaker B: Yeah. It's the most recent sort of connected super superhero universe in image that they try to do every once in a while. It's just harder to have a whole bunch of creator owned comics that adhere to one single continuity because that's kind of not the way that creator owned works very well. But, yeah. Yeah, people seem to like it. So that's. [00:51:49] Speaker A: Then we get the Warhammer 40K toys. [00:51:53] Speaker B: Yeah. I wonder if. I wonder if you could legally use them as. As miniatures in a. [00:52:01] Speaker A: No. Cause they'd be too big. [00:52:03] Speaker B: Well, but they could be like your. [00:52:05] Speaker A: Big boy, your giant size miniature. Yeah. [00:52:10] Speaker B: You just have to scale up your board, Johnny. You just gotta go from the tabletop to the backyard and just, like, set it up. [00:52:15] Speaker A: Just play with the. Play with the actual. Actual figure sized ones. Yeah. [00:52:18] Speaker B: And that's spawned 300, 4354. Johnny Deed. [00:52:23] Speaker A: It is. Well, David was just asking one of his puppies, why are you so silly? And then we can say that to this issue of gunslinger. Why are you so silly? [00:52:42] Speaker B: Why? It is. It is hilarious. [00:52:45] Speaker A: Yeah. It's a hilarious issue. [00:52:48] Speaker B: Intentionally so. [00:52:50] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Not silly in a bad way. Silly in a good way. [00:52:54] Speaker B: We have to. We have to specify, because sometimes things are a little silly, just, like, beyond belief silly. But this is. I had so much fun rereading this one, Johnny. [00:53:06] Speaker A: It's a fun little fish out of water. [00:53:08] Speaker B: It's. It's continuing on with my. My favorite thing about Javi being. Namely, he's a dummy. It's. It's a wonderful time. It's a wonderful time. And this wonderful time, as most of these wonderful times, Johnny, begin at the COVID Yeah. [00:53:31] Speaker A: And I don't know. Look at the two covers. I might have gotten the wrong one. Let me see. [00:53:34] Speaker B: What the. Ah, I definitely got the wrong one. Holy shit. What? [00:53:39] Speaker A: I know. Look at that b cover. [00:53:40] Speaker B: What the. How did I. That might have been the week that I didn't check. Cause sometimes I'm just like, eh, whatever. I'll take whatever they give me. Oh, I am upset with myself now. So I have the COVID a. The von Randall cover. It's excellent. It's just Javi on his horse, you know, shotgun, ready to shoot. Sun's going down. [00:54:02] Speaker A: Sun's going down. [00:54:03] Speaker B: It's. It's very good. It's Von Randall, so, you know, it's gonna be good. [00:54:08] Speaker A: Javi looks like he got a bit of a gut in it, though. [00:54:12] Speaker B: It's. [00:54:13] Speaker A: His chest is sticking out. [00:54:14] Speaker B: It's still a defined gut, at least. [00:54:16] Speaker A: Yes. He's a beefy gun. He's just a beefier than normal. He's not as slinky. [00:54:19] Speaker B: Yeah. So he looks as he sometimes can be. Yeah. [00:54:21] Speaker A: But the bee cover is the one that I'm like, damn, I wish I would have got. [00:54:24] Speaker B: Yeah. It is also of Javi on a horse. This is by Kieran Grant. It's Javi on a horse, but they're both on fire, and that horse is. [00:54:35] Speaker A: Like, shooting electrical shit out of its eyes. Yeah, it's just wild. [00:54:39] Speaker B: The hat is taller on the Von Randall, so I'll take that. [00:54:42] Speaker A: Okay. [00:54:43] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:54:46] Speaker A: But it's a little short on that one. [00:54:48] Speaker B: Good Lord. This is. This is like a. Oh, there's. There's a. There's, like, a hand at the bottom. So, like, somebody got. Got exploded in the explosion. [00:54:59] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:55:00] Speaker B: Oh, boy. [00:55:01] Speaker A: No, it's just really, really nice. [00:55:02] Speaker B: That's if they make a. If they make a gunslinger spawn movie. This should definitely be the COVID or poster. [00:55:08] Speaker A: The poster cover of the dvd. [00:55:10] Speaker B: The COVID of the dvd. When I go digging through the five dollar dvd bin at Walmart, this is what I want to come across. [00:55:16] Speaker A: Hey, don't sell it short. If they make a gunslinger spa movie, hopefully it wouldn't be in the $5 bin. [00:55:20] Speaker B: Well, I'm not saying it goes to the $5 bin directly. There's often very good shit in the five dollar bin. It's just been out for a while. [00:55:28] Speaker A: You're right. [00:55:29] Speaker B: So when I'm a 60 year old man digging through the five dollar dvd bin, this is what I want to come across. There we go. [00:55:34] Speaker A: Come across. [00:55:35] Speaker B: That gives me a couple of decades for them to, you know, to make it. To put it together. Yeah, but, you know, we gotta pop this thing open because that's how. That's how books work. Johnny. I don't know if you know this, but book you open, book you read inside. So we got the. We got the credits. They're good. Script plot is Todd McFarlane. Carla Barberry is doing the art. Ivan Nunez is doing the colors. Tamo's doing the lettering. Double Tamo episode. Jenny. Yep, covered the covers. Creative director Todd McFarlane and editor in chief Thomas Healy. Previously in Gunslinger. Learning that one of his old adversaries still lives, Gunslinger seeks to learn more about his business dealings. [00:56:23] Speaker A: Yes. So this is when he is. He's seen the bank, and he's decided to go to the bank. [00:56:27] Speaker B: And he's like, I gotta go to the bank. This bank interaction, Johnny. [00:56:31] Speaker A: Hilarious. [00:56:34] Speaker B: How he doesn't get arrested, I don't know, but. So we start, we got Javi and Linda pretending to be a married couple, going to open a. I guess they're going to open a joint bank account. [00:56:46] Speaker A: A married couple of a woman dressed as a house cleaner, and then a guy in the most ridiculous western outfit you've ever seen. [00:56:57] Speaker B: Oh, boy. [00:56:59] Speaker A: Can't believe they let him in the bank with those gauntlets. [00:57:05] Speaker B: They're like, sir, you have a mask around your neck like you're gonna put it up over your mouth like you're gonna rob us. [00:57:10] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I guess post Covid, that's. [00:57:12] Speaker B: Like, a little more accepted, I guess, but it's still a bandana mask. [00:57:17] Speaker A: You can't wear a bandana in a bank. [00:57:19] Speaker B: Not in the west. And we know this is in the mountain west, so. [00:57:25] Speaker A: But they let him in, and this lady's like, so how's married life going? And it's like. They're just like, oh, it's wonderful. We're having a great time. [00:57:32] Speaker B: Javi's just like, it's okay. Like, way to sell it. Way to sell it, bud. This was your plan, wasn't it? Maybe you should put a little effort into it. [00:57:44] Speaker A: It's okay. [00:57:45] Speaker B: Then she's like, here's what we could do for you, money wise. And Javi's like, I just like it simple. Here's a fuck ton of money. Put it in your bank. And ladies like, what? Well, but, like, how? There's lots of ways we could do this. [00:58:04] Speaker A: Linda jumps in there and is like, oh, no. He's a hoarder and doesn't trust institutions. That's why he has giant stacks of money. [00:58:10] Speaker B: Yeah, and then. But, like, this is, like, red flags all over the place. Ladies are like, she's like, yeah, get the boss. It's like she's a croupier at a casino who suspects somebody of counting cards. [00:58:25] Speaker A: Calls over the big boss, who's straightening his tie. [00:58:27] Speaker B: Oh, that's good. Love the little tie. Straighten. It's so good. So big boss comes over. Well, I guess floor boss comes over. [00:58:37] Speaker A: And it's like, middle management. [00:58:40] Speaker B: He's like, hey, so I hope there's no issues here, but we need Mary here. We'll need to walk you through some of our items that we have available to you as far as banking products go. You know, we want to make sure that you're. You're safe, because walking around with that much cash is pretty dangerous, bud. Hobby's just like, nah, I can take care of myself. I don't need no authorities. I said, I can handle these things. And as they're bringing security in, because he's being a little unruly, he starts just reaching into his jacket. [00:59:17] Speaker A: Yeah, he's just like, reaches the jacket to pull out a giant knife, and. [00:59:21] Speaker B: Linda's like, ah, ah, ah. Hold on a second. We need to talk this over in private. Can you give us a few minutes? And so they leave, and then after the leave, Linda's immediately like, you brought a knife to the fucking bank. [00:59:34] Speaker A: You can't bring a knife to the bank. [00:59:39] Speaker B: It was like, I just want to know who owns the business. And it's like, you gotta play the game first, Javi. Like, they put together this plan, and they gotta follow the plan. And he's just like, yeah, fuck. This plan. This plan is stupid. You gotta do the plan, Javi. And then when the lady comes back. [00:59:59] Speaker A: You know, Linda tries to get her to reveal where the boss is. [01:00:03] Speaker B: Yeah, she's trying to smooth things over, you know, be like, you know, your boss must be proud of you, because this seems like you're doing a good job. And she's like, oh, my boss is upstairs. Then Javi's immediately like, upstairs. Let's go upstairs. [01:00:17] Speaker A: Let's go. Can we go? [01:00:19] Speaker B: Like, again with the red flags? Again with the. That's not how the plan works. If you immediately ask to see about upstairs boss, you're probably never gonna see upstairs boss, you're gonna see more of the downstairs bosses. He's not in today, but he's got a. He's got a big ranch over a Culver cliff area. That's some interesting information. And then Javi's just like, let's go. He's like, we got. We got what we need. Let's go. Linda's there trying to smooth it all. [01:00:49] Speaker A: Over again, and the bank lady says she's gonna get him some literature. And Javi goes, I like reading lots. [01:00:59] Speaker B: Oh, the gunslinger doth protests too much. Johnny. [01:01:03] Speaker A: He likes to read what? [01:01:06] Speaker B: His facial expression? As he says, this is great, too. [01:01:10] Speaker A: Yeah, he's just like, uh. [01:01:16] Speaker B: As soon as they get outside, Linda just starts laying into him. Are you the smooth operator, Raider? Javier? [01:01:23] Speaker A: He's like, look, I don't understand any of that. Maybe my head's too thick, but I got the info I needed. [01:01:28] Speaker B: I got what I needed. It was just. And he's like, they get in the car, and they're not going anywhere. He's like, we aren't going. Is there something wrong? What's wrong? [01:01:39] Speaker A: What's wrong? As you brought a fucking knife to the bank. [01:01:41] Speaker B: Brought more than my knife. [01:01:44] Speaker A: He just pulls out a pistol. I got some small daggers. [01:01:49] Speaker B: Linda's just like, fuck this. [01:01:52] Speaker A: No more. [01:01:53] Speaker B: Gets out of the car, slams the door, starts yelling at him. I was like, I can't. I can't hear you. The window's up. I can't hear you. [01:02:04] Speaker A: She's trying to get her to roll down the window. He doesn't understand. [01:02:07] Speaker B: Press the button. And he's like, button. Like on my shirt. My button. Just like, the button. The damn button. He's like, I still can't hear you. [01:02:23] Speaker A: And Linda just says, forget it. Hope you never get out of that car. And I hope you suffocate. Yeah, it's a funny bit. Can't hear him through the car door. [01:02:31] Speaker B: Oh, Johnny. Oh, I hope. I hope that was as good for you as it was for me. This is, like, my fifth time reading it, and I am still just cracking up over the. Just the slapstick bit with the car window. It's good. It's good. The Todd father. The Todd father needs to write more of these scenes. He's very good. He's very good at the comedy. [01:02:57] Speaker A: Yes. Very good at the ridiculous, like, yeah, fish out of water stuff. [01:03:01] Speaker B: It was like, man, she's mad. [01:03:05] Speaker A: So what do you do when you got someone mad? You hide money in some flowers? [01:03:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:03:12] Speaker A: Just check a giant stack of money and go buy some flowers. [01:03:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:03:16] Speaker A: Linda's just gone to the park and is just, like, crying overwhelmed. [01:03:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:03:21] Speaker A: And Javi brings her a nice bouquet. [01:03:24] Speaker B: Javi does a great. A great apology here. Usually. Usually he's real bad at apologies. Like, he's like, yeah, sorry. I was doing that because other things were more important, but it seems like he's learned a little bit here. Definitely. Taylor definitely never would have gotten an apology of this caliber. [01:03:41] Speaker A: Oh, no, definitely. [01:03:43] Speaker B: And Linda's just like, you think flowers are gonna fix this? He's like, I thought ladies liked flowers. [01:03:50] Speaker A: And he says, my troubles aren't yours, but I gotta get this guy that hurt my family. I can't let it go. So he says he'll let Linda get on with his life. [01:03:59] Speaker B: If you gotta take care of your stuff, that's fine. Cause I got this that I gotta do. And so Linda shares her perspective. Then Javier lets her be so. [01:04:09] Speaker A: And see, he's all dressed all normal here. It's like, man, you couldn't dress like that to go to the bank. [01:04:12] Speaker B: To go to the bank. Yeah, but, no. So Javi's out there being like, well, I know about where this guy's supposed to live, but, you know, I can get information in via unofficial channels. [01:04:28] Speaker A: Throws down some money to these two ladies. [01:04:30] Speaker B: He's at a dive bar. He's picking up some information. [01:04:35] Speaker A: Yes. [01:04:36] Speaker B: And then later, it gets dropped off by just, like, the local toe guy. [01:04:41] Speaker A: Then he busts out his pet. [01:04:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Big fiery horse. [01:04:46] Speaker A: Big fiery horse with a big sword on its head. [01:04:50] Speaker B: And then they race across the plains. This. I like this. Racing across the plains. Yeah, it looks cool because there's, like, a little skull in the foreground. [01:04:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:05:00] Speaker B: So great. And then Javi's like, hey, we gotta stop here. I gotta walk from here. You're a big, flaming horse that's gonna give us away. [01:05:10] Speaker A: Yeah. If we're trying to be stealth, not the best. [01:05:13] Speaker B: Yeah. And so he starts sneaking through the woods to get close to the house. This is a massive house, Johnny. [01:05:21] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. With a couple barns. Couple barns. [01:05:23] Speaker B: A couple barns. Like, big ass barns. [01:05:27] Speaker A: Yeah. It's quite a ranch. [01:05:28] Speaker B: Indeed. And look at that old ass tractor. I love an old tractor. But Javi knows that, you know, it's trickier without his powers, but it's comforting because he knows that his enemies also have no powers, so they're in equal footing. [01:05:43] Speaker A: Right. Cause he was so weak. [01:05:46] Speaker B: Then we get our nice little pundits page. [01:05:48] Speaker A: Cut to a pundits page just kind of talking about, well, first the crn lady's talking about, um, trouble in the Middle east. [01:05:57] Speaker B: That's never happened before, Johnny. [01:05:59] Speaker A: Never. [01:06:00] Speaker B: Never. Not in the history of ever. [01:06:02] Speaker A: So she's just talking about that. It's just funny when he does that, when, like, it's just, like, random news is kind of related to the modern world, but, like, has almost nothing to do with the story. [01:06:11] Speaker B: Yeah, but topics topical, self. [01:06:13] Speaker A: No, it's just. It's just funny he does that. But usually by the. We get to the other two pundits, and they kind of bring it into talking about either the costume vigilantes or whatever is kind of more related to the story. [01:06:26] Speaker B: But she actually. She actually kind of crn lady takes it in and brings it up now because she's like. People are talking about how it seems like there's one person providing weapons to both sides. Howl and his moving castle are dropping weapons for both sides, like the casino. [01:06:45] Speaker A: When they go to the casino planet in the last Jedi, and they realize the shipmakers are making both x wings and tie fighters wild. Oh, my God. [01:06:52] Speaker B: It's insane. They also ride around on horse like things. [01:06:58] Speaker A: Why would someone help two people on the same sides of a conflict? Well, let me tell you about the Star wars prequel, children and a man named Senator Palpatine. But no, the. [01:07:09] Speaker B: I was settling in for a lesson. [01:07:13] Speaker A: No, you see, Senator Palpatine, he funds the war. It's all geopolitical. Turn of the frickin frogs game. I know the Infobuzz guy talks about how those costume vigilantes disappeared. He's like, is bankrolling both sides of the conflict some part of their plan? And he's not sure. [01:07:36] Speaker B: Yeah, they're talking about. They're trying to follow the money. And so he's like, there's rumors about, you know, certain. Certain firms in certain sections of the country might be involved in what's northwest. [01:07:50] Speaker A: To be specific, which is kind of where Javi is right now. [01:07:55] Speaker B: And then, well, uh oh. Brock the shock. Ol Brock the shock is basically reiterating the opening monologue from spawn 26 here, talking about money being evil or money. Money being neutral, but the desire for it and power being evil. [01:08:20] Speaker A: Right. You get another instance of using those dark blue and purple. It makes the words hard to see. [01:08:25] Speaker B: Yeah, it does. It's not as hard to read as it was the other one. So I don't know if there's a color balance with this printing or what. [01:08:35] Speaker A: But, yeah, we got our opening quote. [01:08:37] Speaker B: Mm hmm. Yeah. [01:08:38] Speaker A: They want you to be afraid. Don't fall for it. Subscribe to my podcast for the truth you need now. [01:08:42] Speaker B: And the truth you need now is. We've already discussed Spawn is good. [01:08:47] Speaker A: Probably farther production should make a fake episode of his podcast. [01:08:50] Speaker B: Yeah, they definitely should be hilarious. They should hire. They should hire you to be brock the shack. [01:08:57] Speaker A: Hey, I could do it. Get Alex Jones on there. This rock. The shock is basically Alex Jones predicting Alex Jones. Yeah, well, I guess it's more based off Rush Limbaugh, who is also a precursor to Alex Jones. All these great men. [01:09:16] Speaker B: Speaking of great men, this man. This great man is going to brand some calves tomorrow, Johnny. [01:09:21] Speaker A: Just working on the ranch. [01:09:22] Speaker B: Working on the ranch. Just talking about ranch stuff. And the dogs. The dogs sent something, and they're like, go. Go get em. Go get him. And Javi, with a wide eye of surprise, he's tying his bandana, and he's like, oh, shit, the dogs. [01:09:38] Speaker A: He's like, oh, shit, dogs are coming. [01:09:42] Speaker B: He's like, I gotta run away. And I know I can't outrun him, but I gotta at least try. And then he trips, and they jump on him. Oh, no, Johnny. [01:09:51] Speaker A: Oh, no, they're coming down on him. It looks like the end for Javi. [01:09:55] Speaker B: It does look like the end for Javi. And we actually cut away tastefully while Javi gets his face bitten off by these dogs. To big boss. Man in a chair. [01:10:09] Speaker A: With a man bun. [01:10:10] Speaker B: With a man bun. This is an atypical toddfather. Big boss, no windows. No big windows. He's not just a hulking mountain of a Mandev. He's just a normal man who looks like he belongs on a ranch. And he's got a man bun. [01:10:30] Speaker A: Yep. [01:10:30] Speaker B: And he's just like, jesus, will someone shut those dogs up? [01:10:34] Speaker A: Then his lackey's like, by the way, or the bank. Earlier, a guy dressed like a gunslinger came in. [01:10:40] Speaker B: Yeah. So, yeah. And he was like, yeah, we got a description of the car. They were driving. So we'll check it out. They tell him about. About Linda being there, and they're like, we don't know who this lady is. She might just be. [01:10:52] Speaker A: She's just a civvie. [01:10:53] Speaker B: She's a simmy, you know, guy knows what's what. And he's like, ah, so he's using a human host. Hmm. That means he doesn't have his powers. Hmm. So he sends. He sends Lackey out to go find the car. To go find Linda's car, which shouldn't be hard to find. A little bug with a woke ass bumper sticker. [01:11:11] Speaker A: With a woke ass bumper sticker, yeah. [01:11:14] Speaker B: And then as the lackey steps out of the. Out of the room, the power goes off. And the boss power's out. Having lived for centuries, knows what this means. [01:11:27] Speaker A: And then, boom. Javier just kicks in the door. [01:11:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, boy, look at that. Just one kick. And, like some grim reaper gunslinger fixes his gaze on his target as the howl. As the wind howls. And, you know, Javi's there, and he's got all the dogs. All the dogs are his pals now. And they're just like Grrdenhe. [01:11:46] Speaker A: Yeah. Even without his powers, he's a friend of the animal. He just knows how to sweet talk him. I imagine they jumped on him. He just started scratching behind their ears. [01:11:54] Speaker B: Yeah, they go, like, in mid jump. They go from growling to. [01:12:00] Speaker A: Yeah, to, like, licking his face. [01:12:04] Speaker B: So he just shows up and he just stares at the boss. And the boss is like, ha. So I heard you came from the time rip got distracted by the super team, and Javi's just quietly staring at him, and he's like, come on, I'm sure you got something to say. Why don't you tell me what you did to my men, and we get to see what Javi did to his men. And boy howdy. [01:12:28] Speaker A: Stabbed him. [01:12:28] Speaker B: Stabbed him. Lots of stabbing. [01:12:30] Speaker A: One through the head, one through the head, one of the chest, one through the neck. [01:12:34] Speaker B: Not just into the head, like through the temple, right behind the eyes in that head. Good. [01:12:39] Speaker A: Woo. Yeah, he got him. [01:12:42] Speaker B: But Javi won't dignify letting this man's name escape his lips. So he's keeping quiet, and the guy. [01:12:49] Speaker A: Yep. [01:12:50] Speaker B: The boss just keeps, you know, talking, talking nonsense, and then he signs his own death warrant. Johnny talks about his sister, he talks about Amy, and that is. That is a no no. This is. This is basically. It's basically the slap from the oscars. Only a bit more severe. [01:13:11] Speaker A: Bit more severe. Yeah, keep my sister's name out of your goddamn mouth. [01:13:17] Speaker B: Yeah. So Javi just blows them away. Just one straight to the dome. Blam. And then we see that the whole interaction was captured on tape. So there's video evidence of Javi blowing this guy's head away with a gun. [01:13:33] Speaker A: Yep. And that's the end. [01:13:37] Speaker B: Got that low ass power meter, zero, zero, one. [01:13:43] Speaker A: Just like spawn. They're equals. [01:13:46] Speaker B: Yeah. Then. [01:13:48] Speaker A: And then we get some Reddit fan art. [01:13:50] Speaker B: Yeah. And the spawning grounds, our favorite website, Reddit. There's. There's a. There's a couple of, uh. I guess it's only one blank cover that's filled out. And it's awesome. It's got Javi blasting away. The little. The little, uh, demons. Shit. What are they called? Omens. The little omens. [01:14:11] Speaker A: Clowns little omens. [01:14:12] Speaker B: Yeah. And that one in the front's just like, ah, it's real fun. It's real fun. Then we get. [01:14:17] Speaker A: I like the one that's drawn on lined paper. That's like classic. [01:14:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:14:21] Speaker A: Bottom, right? [01:14:22] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, that's real good. Uh, the one. The middle one in the top, I know for a fact is, um, it's a welder. And so he scratched that into a piece of metal that he was working on. So that's real cool. Makes sense because his name is Cliff Steel and he's a. He's a metal worker. Cliff steel. There's a cosplayer here by the third peep. [01:14:45] Speaker A: Yeah, we got, uh. He's wearing some jeans. [01:14:47] Speaker B: I. Mm hmm. He's wearing some boots. And that hat. That hat seems sufficiently tall, Johnny. [01:14:53] Speaker A: That hat seems very tall. It's got many knives. [01:14:55] Speaker B: It just occurred to me that it's. There's gonna be a fine line between properly tall gunslinger hat and not quite tall enough mayor of Halloweentown hat. [01:15:08] Speaker A: Yeah, that one's. It's like broaching on Halloweentown. [01:15:11] Speaker B: It might. It might be too tall, because if it goes to. [01:15:14] Speaker A: If it, like, curves inward a little bit. Yeah. Yeah, that's the fan art. Check it out. [01:15:19] Speaker B: Hell yeah. They're good. It's good. I already asked you this, but I'm gonna ask you again, Johnny. Do you need more spawns? Universe? [01:15:27] Speaker A: I told you. Yes. [01:15:28] Speaker B: I forget. I forget things and. Woo. Look, coming soon is the issue of spawn 354 that we already covered. [01:15:36] Speaker A: That we just covered. Yeah, it's all the coming soon issues here in the back. Got the image classics ad yet again. [01:15:44] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:15:46] Speaker A: Different toy ad, though. [01:15:48] Speaker B: We get Ellip, we get Ella and Walton. And I don't know that actor's actual name. Shit. [01:15:58] Speaker A: That's awful of you. [01:15:59] Speaker B: Yeah, he was really good. [01:16:01] Speaker A: Yeah, we're talking about the following. [01:16:02] Speaker B: He was really good. I've not seen him in anything else. Or have I? I don't think I have. [01:16:08] Speaker A: I don't think I have. He was hilarious. [01:16:11] Speaker B: And he's. He's. They didn't. They didn't talk. Everybody, like, every interview about the show just talks about Ella. Like she's. She's the only person that anybody ever wanted to talk about. Probably because she's the protagonist of the dang show. [01:16:26] Speaker A: Sure has something to do with it. [01:16:28] Speaker B: Yeah. They should have talked more about Jack Cherry being one of the leaders in the vault. Jack Cherry. I love that guy. He's hilarious. [01:16:40] Speaker A: Which one was he? [01:16:41] Speaker B: He's the. So when vault 33. He's in vault 33 and he's the huskier of the. [01:16:56] Speaker A: Okay, I know you're doing that. [01:16:58] Speaker B: Kinda has a fro that starts a little further back. [01:17:01] Speaker A: I don't. You. [01:17:01] Speaker B: Yeah, the funny. The funny guy. The funny guy. [01:17:03] Speaker A: The funny one. Yep. And that was a funny one. That was a funny gunslinger. [01:17:08] Speaker B: Oh, man. My side actually, I think hurts a little bit, Johnny. I laughed too hard at that one. [01:17:13] Speaker A: You split. You split your side a little bit. [01:17:14] Speaker B: I busted my gut. [01:17:17] Speaker A: Hey, it can happen. [01:17:18] Speaker B: Yeah. You know what? [01:17:19] Speaker A: It was a knee slapper. [01:17:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, you know. You know what else is funny, Johnny? Dogs is funny. Dogs is really funny. [01:17:26] Speaker A: Dogs are funny. [01:17:28] Speaker B: And when dogs are funny, you gotta rate them. So, Johnny, I think we gotta rate these puppies. [01:17:34] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. So first up today, we had spawn 354. I really like this one. It was just action packed. Like Carlo Barberry's art really sells. The motorcycle chase. It was just fun. It was just a fun spawn. Action scene. Extended action scene. The art's great. I love the new Jim downing look. Yeah. Big fan of this one. You get some Jason Wynn. What's not to love? I'm going to give it for sleeping Al Simmons. [01:18:14] Speaker B: I bet he's so. He looks. I bet he looks so peaceful when he sleep. [01:18:18] Speaker A: Yes, he's probably. [01:18:21] Speaker B: Nope. He probably what? [01:18:22] Speaker A: Probably very. Probably very deep sleep. Because he hasn't slept. [01:18:25] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Because he hasn't slept in like 30 years. Oh, wait, I'm. It's not been real time. [01:18:30] Speaker A: It's supposed to be like a. [01:18:31] Speaker B: Well, like five years or so, something like that. [01:18:34] Speaker A: I mean, Cyan's older, so it's got. [01:18:35] Speaker B: To be like a. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's true. I guess she's in her twenties, so maybe a couple of decades, I think. [01:18:40] Speaker A: They said that in the modern comics, Al Sim has been spawned for, like, what did Thomas Healy say? Like, six or seven years? [01:18:49] Speaker B: I don't remember something like that. That would require me having a good remembering. Johnny. Hey, we all try, but yes, yes. This book, it's wonderful. This Brett Booth art is just so vibrant and full of life, and Rory McConville is, Rory McConville is doing a great job of taking all the little pieces and sticking them together for us. He's very good. He's very good at what he does. [01:19:19] Speaker A: Telling the cracker Jack story. Yeah, I mean, like I said, like, once Rory McConville took over, the main spawn became one of my favorites. So, yeah, he's doing a great job. [01:19:29] Speaker B: It's, you know, we learn a lot of stuff. We get to see, so we get to learn some. Al gets some good news. We finally get to learn mystery lady's name as Lyra. We. We get to. To see some of the, some of the things are coming together, like the vampires are putting together. The, that win is, is behind a lot of stuff. Uh, we've got now the mystery of fixer. What's happened? Is he gonna be a vampire now? Is he dead? I don't know. That's gonna be pretty. [01:20:05] Speaker A: Fixer vampire. That'd be cool. [01:20:06] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's got that mask, so he could probably sneak up on Jason win and be like, aha. [01:20:11] Speaker A: I'm a vampire. [01:20:14] Speaker B: It's just great. It's so much fun. It's very good. I am going to give it four and a half. Nosferatu vampires getting smushed by a tire. [01:20:25] Speaker A: Just going right into that tire. [01:20:26] Speaker B: Just going right into it. His sacrifice is maybe a little bit in vain based on what happens in the next issue, but he does what is necessary, when it is necessary, he does it. [01:20:44] Speaker A: And who else does it is Javier. [01:20:46] Speaker B: Yeah, he does. [01:20:46] Speaker A: In gunslinger 32. [01:20:48] Speaker B: No one does it better. [01:20:50] Speaker A: Nobody does it better. This is a hilarious, like, romp of an issue, just like, the whole Linda stuff, the car jokes, like, where he's, like, can't hear through the car, and then he gets some good, like, sneak and gunslinger action followed by some extreme violence. So, I mean, what's not to love? It's all the things you want from Gunslinger. Humor, action, extreme violence. Yeah, it's just crazy how I feel, like, tuned in Todd McFarlane is to gunslinger and really making it work recently and how untuned in King Swan feels. [01:21:23] Speaker B: Yeah, well. Cause he's doing his. He's tuning in on this. He's not tuning in on that. [01:21:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:21:29] Speaker B: So. [01:21:30] Speaker A: But, yeah, no, I love the issue. I had a hoot reading it. I really have liked this Linda stuff. She's like a great foil for hobby. I'm gonna give it five bouquets of flowers. [01:21:42] Speaker B: So sweet. [01:21:44] Speaker A: So sweet. [01:21:45] Speaker B: So sweet. [01:21:45] Speaker A: Yeah, I loved it. It's like a great gunslinger issue. It's one of the best. [01:21:50] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. I definitely, on record, is loving Linda, but she is definitely forcing Javi to grow emotionally in ways that we haven't seen him have to do that before. Cause, like, hanging out with Taylor, it was. They were. Just brought it up. They were just hanging out in dirty hotel rooms, playing app games and eating pizza, making jokes about movies. But, like, Linda's being like, javi, what the fuck is wrong with you? And it's great to see Javi be like, you know, actually having to deal with his world is not the world that he knew now. And he's got a. He's got to do better. He's got to do better. But it is also very good to see that there's something he's wanted to do the entire time we've been having this comic book, Johnny. He gets to do a little bit of it at this issue, and just. Bam. Right in the dude's head. [01:22:50] Speaker A: I know. He gets to finally get a little bit of revenge. [01:22:53] Speaker B: It's. It's great. It's great. I love this book, Johnny. It's a good book. I I'm gonna give it. Oh, and Carlo Barbara Barberi art is excellent. It's. [01:23:07] Speaker A: Oh, of course. I love his facial expressions, the amount. [01:23:10] Speaker B: Of detail that's in it. Like, the only thing that I have against the art in this book is we know that he can zoom in on a porch from far away and have some. Some figures on there. I wish that he had given us, like, somebody sitting in a rocking chair on the porch. That would have been amazing. But, you know, hey, can't get. [01:23:31] Speaker A: Can't win them all. [01:23:33] Speaker B: That would be a shitty thing to knock points off for. But, like, the picture of Linda and Javi in the bank that they get shown to the boss, it's amazing. Like, it's clear. Like, you could zoom into that and. And, like, it would be a big ass picture. It's great. [01:23:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:23:57] Speaker B: Love the color Barbary art. So I'm gonna give this one knife, one pistol, and three daggers. Johnny. [01:24:04] Speaker A: So that's a five. [01:24:05] Speaker B: That's five implements of. Shouldn't be taking them into the bank, but Javi did it anyway, Javi did it. [01:24:10] Speaker A: He took them right in there and his gauntlets. [01:24:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, Boyden, he's just. That they allow him to go anywhere in the contemporary world is impressive. [01:24:21] Speaker A: True. [01:24:22] Speaker B: Like. Like, even. Even in. I'm going to assume that he is currently in an open carry state. Like, even in open carry states, they would be like, whoa, buddy. Whoa, sir, you need to chill out of it. You don't need to bring all that with you to the Starbucks, sir. [01:24:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Two great issues. Like we were saying, two great issues. [01:24:41] Speaker B: That went great together. It was a nice little. That's good. It's a good time. [01:24:45] Speaker A: Nice little double feature. Absolutely. Check them out. [01:24:49] Speaker B: Do it. Do, indeed. [01:24:51] Speaker A: What else you should check out? Are our friends on Instagram? [01:24:56] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. Unfortunately, no friends on Reddit. Just because we don't go there. [01:25:02] Speaker A: Don't really use Reddit. [01:25:03] Speaker B: But if you're on Reddit and you aren't currently following all the guys that are or all the individuals that are featured in the spawning grounds of Gunslinger 32, get your ass to the friending section of Reddit and be like, friend, you and a friend, you and a friend, you do it. Yeah, but for our friends, we have friends on Instagram, Johnny. [01:25:27] Speaker A: We had a little. It's kind of a club or a fan page we wanted to highlight. [01:25:31] Speaker B: Yes, indeed it is. And it's very topical because they love. They love our boy Javi at least as much, if not more, than we do, which seems like it might be a little impossible with the love we have for Javi. But, hey, you know, it's not a contest. We love him. That's all that matters. [01:25:56] Speaker A: We all can love him. But, yeah, it's gunslinger spawn fans. It's the number one place to come and share the love for the greatest cowboy from hell. [01:26:07] Speaker B: Yeah, he's, uh. Man, how. How has there not been a cowboys from hell hobby music video yet? [01:26:18] Speaker A: I don't know. We gotta make it happen. [01:26:19] Speaker B: Gotta make it happen. That and the call me Al, because I. I hadn't listened to that song, like, actively listened to it until you sang it, and I was like, you know what? I'm. I can think of literal scenes from the movie and the television show that would fit perfectly with what he's saying right here. It's perfect. [01:26:42] Speaker A: Someone's got to do it. [01:26:43] Speaker B: Peter Simon obviously spoke Spawn Alseman's spawn into existence several years before it actually happened. [01:26:50] Speaker A: Paul Simon. [01:26:50] Speaker B: Paul Simon. Sorry. Whatever. Whoever. [01:26:53] Speaker A: Whatever. I don't give a shit. [01:26:54] Speaker B: Whatever. His name is Peter Simon and Paul. Peter Paul. And Simon says, yeah. [01:27:01] Speaker A: And while you're over there following gunslinger spawn fans, make sure to give us a follow. We are regarding spawnpod on Instagram. [01:27:09] Speaker B: Yes, we are. [01:27:11] Speaker A: And if you want to reach out to us, you can always email [email protected]. [01:27:17] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Same, same rules apply. If you don't want it read aloud, say, hey, don't rate it, don't read this on the podcast, but we'll read what you say. And if you send us your address, we'll send you some stickers. [01:27:29] Speaker A: Yeah, and I always like to ask a question to kind of spur the thoughts. And today I'm going to ask, did you get the collector's cups from McDonald's? If you did, which one did you get? And do you have any collector's cups of years past? There are some favorites, like the Batman forever, the Star wars. We talked about. Just tell me about your collector's cups. Or we were talking about cups and popcorn buckets and everything else today. [01:27:57] Speaker B: I mean, vessels. We like a vessel, Johnny. We do. Sub question. Which, which of the cups was the one that led you to go get them? Like you were like, I'll take any of them, but which was the one you wanted? May everybody get the collector's cup they want. Well, yeah, speaking of vessels, Johnny, my spawn vessel is feeling a little low. I think we need to fill it up a little bit. [01:28:25] Speaker A: Yeah, let's do some more spawn next week. [01:28:27] Speaker B: What do you say we put a little spawn in our vessels here? [01:28:31] Speaker A: Sounds good to me. [01:28:32] Speaker B: Thinking about, we got to keep doing some of these, some of the big stack of current books. So a couple of newer issues here going on. Scorch number 30, continuing with that John Lehman run. It's doing good things. Doing good things. And then Kingspawn 34. I've totally forgotten what happened in that one, so I don't think I could speak anything about it. [01:28:59] Speaker A: No, I'll have to reread that. [01:29:00] Speaker B: I have to reread that one, definitely. But, yeah, so, you know, go find yourself a copy of Scorch 30 and Kingspawn 34. Read them both, come back, and listen to us talk about them in a week. [01:29:13] Speaker A: Sounds good to me. [01:29:14] Speaker B: I mean, it sounds excellent to me. I was gonna put some spawn in my vessel. Don't forget to like, like us, subscribe to us, rate us, review us. You know, tell your friends and family about us. Wherever you do that on the Internet, while you're also wherever you do stuff on the Internet, look for Lonnie Bones music. That's Lonnie with a y and not an ie, because Lonnie Bones does our music. And it's good shit. It's very good shit. And, well, Johnny, I think that brings me to the point where I get to say the thing. [01:29:53] Speaker A: What's the thing? [01:29:54] Speaker B: The thing. It's the greatest. The greatest catchphrase of all time, Johnny. And it is this. May the scorched be with you. [01:30:02] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:30:03] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:30:05] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. What's great about that phrase is our buddy fake Mike Jones, put that hashtag on his wedding photos because. Or his engagement photos. Cause he put a bunch of spawn hashtags on it. [01:30:18] Speaker B: So hell yeah. [01:30:19] Speaker A: We're making love happen. May the scorch be with you. [01:30:21] Speaker B: May the scorch be with you. We're gonna need to. [01:30:23] Speaker A: So congrats to Mike Jones on the engagement. [01:30:25] Speaker B: Yeah. Woo, man. We're gonna need to share some photos of his wedding when he posts them. [01:30:31] Speaker A: Hopefully get some spawn stuff in there. [01:30:35] Speaker B: I'm sure he will. He'll sneak us something in. [01:30:38] Speaker A: He'll sneak something in. But no, just congratulations to him. Thanks for the shout out on your wedding photos, and thanks for the hashtag, may the scorch be with you. We love to see people use it. [01:30:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Go follow Mike Jones if you aren't. [01:30:51] Speaker A: Yes. Big spawn fan. [01:30:53] Speaker B: Fake Mike Jones. [01:30:54] Speaker A: David. [01:30:55] Speaker B: Yes. [01:30:56] Speaker A: I'm gonna pop over my McDonald's Ave and try to get one of these cups. [01:30:59] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. Gotta get that vessel. Gotta fill that vessel. [01:31:03] Speaker A: Gotta get that vessel filled up with some orange soda or something. [01:31:05] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Well, you're gonna have to let us know which one you get. [01:31:09] Speaker A: I'm gonna want the jurassic park, but knowing me, I'll probably end up with. [01:31:13] Speaker B: The shrek or the. I think a lot of people are getting the McDonald's world one because I think that's the default. [01:31:21] Speaker A: The default. Okay, well, maybe I'll get that, but hopefully I'll be happy with what I get anyway. [01:31:27] Speaker B: I mean, you'll be able to drink out of it regardless. [01:31:31] Speaker A: That's true. [01:31:33] Speaker B: If you get the shrek one, I know a friend who can take it off your hands. [01:31:37] Speaker A: Oh, yeah? [01:31:39] Speaker B: You know them as well. [01:31:41] Speaker A: Somebody once told me. All right, that's good.