Episode 105 - Monolith 1 and Scorched 31

[00:00:00] Speaker A: I be careful with that attitude, dear Miss Priest. See, I don't give a shit if I die. Good evening, and welcome to the Mal bulls. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I'm your co host, Jon Fisher. [00:00:47] Speaker B: And I am your co host, David Williams. And I am sorry to announce, Johnny, but it is unofficially the end of summer. Not geologically or atmospherically the end of summer, but the end of summer as we know it. [00:01:02] Speaker A: Yes, we're recording this on Labor Day. [00:01:04] Speaker B: And, uh, well, so long, hot, hot times. Uh, so long, cool things to do so, so long all the tourists meandering in wide, wide rows down the sidewalk that I can't get around so you go downtown. [00:01:22] Speaker A: I don't really go downtown that much. [00:01:23] Speaker B: I mean, it's fun. You should do it, but do it after the summer is over, because then you don't have to be like people. [00:01:30] Speaker A: Yeah. I like this time of year. I like it when it gets cooler. [00:01:33] Speaker B: I'm a big fan of. Big fan of the fall, and it's. [00:01:36] Speaker A: Perfect time for spawn. I got into spawn in the. In, like, the August, September, October time. [00:01:42] Speaker B: I would say that the burr months are definitely spawn months. Because they're all spawntober. We've got Spawntober. We're in Spawntober. Then up, coming up, we've got Spontober. And then after that, we got Spontober with the eating festival. And then spontober with the Christmas festival. All this four spawntobers in a row, Johnny. [00:02:01] Speaker A: Wow, that's a lot of spawn. [00:02:03] Speaker B: You're telling me. [00:02:05] Speaker A: And there is a lot of spawn because this week we're doing a new title, a mini series. The first of a mini series. Along with a. One of our tried and true favorites as well. Because this week we're doing a monolith number one and scorch 31. [00:02:22] Speaker B: Two ones. One number one, two ones, and 131. [00:02:27] Speaker A: Monolith was announced. You know, probably it was about a year ago. [00:02:32] Speaker B: Cause it was at New York comic con about a year ago. [00:02:36] Speaker A: Something I was really looking forward to because of Sean Lewis being back. I don't know. We'll talk about it. Scorch 31 is a lot of fun. [00:02:45] Speaker B: It's hard to go wrong with the scorched. Not gonna lie. [00:02:47] Speaker A: It is. Yeah. David. As I mentioned last episodes, David's torturing me. A, making me work here on Labor Day. And b, Star wars outlaws have come out. I've only been able to play, like, 4 hours of it. I always liked the underworld in Star wars. It's fun. Like, the cantina and, like, the Jabbas palace. Javas palace was always cool. Kind of scary when I was a kid. Like, a little scary. Not, like, super scary. [00:03:11] Speaker B: All right. It's a little spooky. Their rancor is pretty. [00:03:15] Speaker A: I was just more scared by the idea that he could kill anyone at any time and no consequences. I was like, oh, my God. [00:03:21] Speaker B: I. Oh, yeah. Being a warlord, all that. [00:03:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:24] Speaker B: I don't know. The. The peephole. The peephole always freaked me out. Long cybernetic eyeball that pops out. [00:03:30] Speaker A: Yeah. That guy. He's fun. That might be some technology they have on this prison that monolith finds himself in. [00:03:36] Speaker B: I would assume so. This is a. This is a pretty space prison. [00:03:39] Speaker A: We should get started. [00:03:40] Speaker B: Get into it, Johnny. And how are we? [00:03:42] Speaker A: Wow, look at that. I didn't even say the normal thing about. This is respawn. And each week, we bring you two issues. I said what the issues were. Yeah, but this is respawn. Welcome. [00:03:50] Speaker B: Welcome. Yeah, we're going to talk some spawn. That's what we do. [00:03:54] Speaker A: That's what we do. If it's your first episode, now you know. [00:03:57] Speaker B: Yeah, now you know. And this first issue of Spawn we're going to talk about. Actually doesn't have spawn in the title. [00:04:02] Speaker A: I can't believe I fucked that up on number one. Cause that's a. That's a jumping on point, David. [00:04:07] Speaker B: Oh, man. Oh. Can't go back. Time goes in one direction. Much as we've learned in monolith. [00:04:14] Speaker A: I wonder if this is one person in the world's introduction to spawn. Like, they just saw this, had no idea what it was, and bought it. [00:04:20] Speaker B: What a wild introduction. Yeah, absolutely wild. But I guess it's no more wild than just, like, picking up a random spider man and being like, wait, wait. Who the fuck are all these people? [00:04:31] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. This was confusing to me, and I've read a lot of spies. [00:04:34] Speaker B: Yeah, well, we should get. We should get into it. We should try to figure out what's going on. We got this. We got this cover. [00:04:41] Speaker A: Yes, David, we always start with the covers. [00:04:45] Speaker B: Yeah. The first printing seems to have only come with one. With one cover, Johnny, is what I'm seeing. And the second printing had a Todd McFarlane cover on it. [00:04:55] Speaker A: Yes. So there's two covers, technically, but the first one, the one I got, I didn't get the second printing. [00:04:58] Speaker B: Yeah, me either. [00:04:59] Speaker A: Is Valerio Gian Giordano. [00:05:01] Speaker B: Mm hmm. [00:05:02] Speaker A: And it is. [00:05:03] Speaker B: We're much better at saying polish names. Than we are italian names. Scusi. [00:05:09] Speaker A: Excuse us. [00:05:10] Speaker B: It's got Monolith. He's shackled and on his knees and surrounded by future cops. Yeah, future cops. They look all. They all look like black noir from the boys. [00:05:21] Speaker A: Okay. [00:05:22] Speaker B: And then in the background, in the background, there's just this looming face of Omega spawn. [00:05:27] Speaker A: Yes. [00:05:27] Speaker B: Monolith isn't looking very good on his. On his own cover there. He's looking pretty. [00:05:32] Speaker A: Looking pretty beat up. [00:05:33] Speaker B: Yeah, looks like he might have thrown up on himself a couple of times. Who, buddy? Yeah, that's rough, rough stuff. [00:05:40] Speaker A: He's going to jail. And the Bee cover is by Todd McFarlane, not bee cover, the second printing cover. Excuse me. [00:05:48] Speaker B: Yeah, you excuse me. [00:05:51] Speaker A: Ten minutes. Looking at fucking up. You might as well get it right. [00:05:53] Speaker B: You better cut that shit off at the pass. Or. Or don't cut that shit off at the pass. Then we'll get letters and then we'll have to read them. [00:06:02] Speaker A: No, it's the. [00:06:03] Speaker B: Oh, no, it's the worst thing to ever happen. Correspondence. [00:06:08] Speaker A: It's the second printing cover, and it's a close up of monolith by Mister Todd McFarlane. [00:06:13] Speaker B: And he is in similar, similarly not good fashion, because that looks like he is in the midst of a scream of pain, not a scream of joy. [00:06:21] Speaker A: Yeah, he doesn't look happy. [00:06:23] Speaker B: Look at those teeth, though, man. I bet Todd loved being able to come back and do some teeth. He was like, hold on a second, guys. I wonder if. I wonder if every once in a while he just gets a hankering to draw some teeth, and he's like, guys, I need to draw some teeth. Give me something to draw. [00:06:37] Speaker A: That's why they call him the dentist, maybe. [00:06:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:40] Speaker A: You know, that's one of his other nicknames. [00:06:41] Speaker B: It's a long running nickname. We didn't just make it up. No, not us. [00:06:45] Speaker A: Not at all. There actually is a third cover. There's a sketch cover of the Todd McFarlane. [00:06:49] Speaker B: Is that also for the second printing? [00:06:52] Speaker A: Yes, and they're all worth $3, so you can get them for cover price is what they're supposed to be worth, so. [00:06:57] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. Very exciting. It's gone up a penny. [00:07:00] Speaker A: It's gone up a penny. [00:07:02] Speaker B: Still got this 299, this new use stamp on it. Yeah, we cracked this bad boy open. Oh, we got some credits. [00:07:11] Speaker A: Yes. We got script plop by Mister Sean Lewis, returning after his king spawn and scores runs. [00:07:16] Speaker B: Welcome back, sir. [00:07:17] Speaker A: Art by Valerio Giangiordano. Colors by Ulysses Areola, lettering by Nworld Design. They do it cover the covers creative director is Todd McFarlane. Editor in chief is Thomas Healy. [00:07:31] Speaker B: And, Johnny, the year is 30 30 Ad. [00:07:36] Speaker A: See, remember that? Because I got confused later because of the time travel show. I was like, what the fuck? This doesn't make any sense. But it makes a little more sense. [00:07:44] Speaker B: And then we're the deep recesses of space, Johnny. And we're in pretty cyberpunky looking space here. [00:07:50] Speaker A: Yeah, it looks like something out of alien or, like, very alien. [00:07:54] Speaker B: Well, it's the other side of cyberpunk that we've not been in much in Rat City. [00:07:59] Speaker A: It's like the dirty space truckers. [00:08:01] Speaker B: Yeah. It's a nasty, nasty future prison that still has razor wire on top of it. It's good to know that prison technology may have advanced somewhat past razor wire, but they've never left it behind. [00:08:15] Speaker A: Some things are tried and true. [00:08:17] Speaker B: I'm just surprised at how clean they can keep it. A plastic bag catches on some razor wire and that bag's gonna. That bag's always gonna be there. That shit never goes away. [00:08:26] Speaker A: Just floating in the wind like tears and rain. [00:08:29] Speaker B: But no, no, the tears in the rain disappear. The bag doesn't disappear. The bag just there. I know. [00:08:33] Speaker A: I just thought. I was just thinking of Blade Runner. [00:08:35] Speaker B: You just got Blade Runner on the mind. [00:08:38] Speaker A: Yeah, he's very blade Runner. Very alien, very Ridley Scott Sci-Fi and you hear it, says the narrator, gets a little sassy. Yet this night it's talking about the space station and how it's silent with their defeated fear. But this night there's a sound. Do you hear it? Yeah. You hear it? [00:08:55] Speaker B: Yeah. You hear it. [00:08:56] Speaker A: It's a sassy narrator. [00:08:58] Speaker B: We're in the future, Johnny, and we hear it much like we smell what the rock is cooking. We hear what the. We hear with the. Well, we don't know what's making the noise, but we hear it, Johnny. [00:09:08] Speaker A: It's bang on the door, and it's monolith fighting some alien dudes. Looks like he's in the Star wars cantina. [00:09:15] Speaker B: He's currently got, like, something that he's wrestled to the ground and he's, like, prying its jaws open to fucking break its head. Oh, boy. [00:09:23] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like a triangle head. [00:09:25] Speaker B: Yeah, demon. [00:09:26] Speaker A: Like a shark head. Demon, alien thing. [00:09:29] Speaker B: All the other prisoners are just sitting there watching, trying to figure, like, you can see them kind of debating what they're gonna do when whoever wins wins. [00:09:39] Speaker A: Yeah, they look terrified. [00:09:40] Speaker B: Probably not good for either. Either way is probably not good for them. But it's monolith he's been playing possum, trying to find out, trying to find answers to his questions. And I don't know about you, Johnny, but this doesn't really seem very possum y to me. [00:09:56] Speaker A: No, he's really not. He's pretty wide awake, and he's like. He wants to know who stopped him from getting to earth. Riffs. The triangle heads head off. Right off, right off. [00:10:06] Speaker B: He's pulling it out, and there's some spine coming with it. Oh, it's like a mortal kombat fatality over here. [00:10:11] Speaker A: Yeah, definitely. [00:10:12] Speaker B: Because, you see, Gianni, and these end times, the spawns were called upon to save this universe. So. So, uh, they also, whoever kept monolith from being able to get to earth, they effectively, uh, what call blocked him, right? He has his calling, and they were like, ha ha. It's like raisin de etre cock blocking, right? [00:10:35] Speaker A: I have no idea what you're talking about. Raisin. [00:10:38] Speaker B: Raisin diet, deit, whatever. It's however you pronounce it, it's latin or reason for being. [00:10:45] Speaker A: Okay. [00:10:46] Speaker B: Raisins. I like raisins. Raisins are good. Johnny, what do you feel about raisins? [00:10:49] Speaker A: I like raisins. Like a little box of raisins. Yeah, why not? [00:10:52] Speaker B: Yeah, I prefer grapes, but raisins, raisins are all right. [00:10:56] Speaker A: I. Mm hmm. [00:10:57] Speaker B: I'm one of those people that will preferentially go for the oatmeal raisin cookie. [00:11:01] Speaker A: I don't really like oatmeal raisin too much. It's okay. [00:11:05] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:11:06] Speaker A: I like an oatmeal cookie, but I don't. The raisins give it a weird texture, man. [00:11:10] Speaker B: That just means that if we're, we're in a position where there's an oatmeal raisin cookie and there's two of us. We both know where it's going. [00:11:16] Speaker A: I mean, if there's no other cookie, I want some of that oatmeal raisin. I want half of it. [00:11:21] Speaker B: I mean, oatmeal raisin cookies aren't as good as those cheap ass hard oatmeal cookies with, like, the slacken icing on top of them that you can get a whole pack for a buck 50 from Walmart. [00:11:31] Speaker A: Yeah, those are good. [00:11:33] Speaker B: Those are s tier cookies. [00:11:36] Speaker A: They are really tasty. [00:11:38] Speaker B: And this is Sumteer in the prison fighting. Beautiful, beautiful segway. [00:11:46] Speaker A: He just wants to know, who knows who stopped him from getting to earth. He's using this guy's head that he ripped off to bash people. With. [00:11:52] Speaker B: Yeah. Cause all these other prisoners with the death of triangle head, dude, are like, well, shit, now we have to do the thing that we're scared about doing. And they all attack monolith en masse. [00:12:04] Speaker A: I think he more attacks them. I think they're just, like, scared and looking around. [00:12:08] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:12:09] Speaker A: Monolith is wild, man. [00:12:11] Speaker B: That's right. That makes it that much worse that they weren't okay. Oh, boy, man. Monolith's kind of a meanie butt. [00:12:19] Speaker A: Yeah. And the soldiers run in. Cause there's disruption. He just throws that giant ass head and whomps a guy with it. [00:12:25] Speaker B: With the. The whomping, we turn into a little bit of an introspective narration here. I like that the flying head through the door kind of thematically matches the arc of Monolith's spaceship as it flies through the heavens. [00:12:41] Speaker A: Sure. I like his spaceship. It's like an asteroid with a cockpit. [00:12:45] Speaker B: Yeah. It's like they've turned comets into vehicular transport, and soon the universe would be gone, which is why the spawns, monolith included among them, have been called to save the universe. They have the power, Johnny. The power of Grayskull has led them to defend the universe. [00:13:09] Speaker A: He's got to get back to a time when they did turn the tide. [00:13:13] Speaker B: Not only is he a soldier called for a fight, but he's like a time soldier who's being sentence to the time where reinforcements would be necessary, but he's delayed. That seems like a wild. A wild way to fight war time war style. Glad we're not a part of that. [00:13:29] Speaker A: We might be. Chris Pratt's movie was all about that. [00:13:32] Speaker B: It's a fun concept, but terrifying time war. [00:13:36] Speaker A: This is where I started to get confused, because he gets sucked in this prison colony, which is a dead zone. Then it says, drag your monolith into now, our current time. I guess that means 30 30. [00:13:46] Speaker B: Whatever time the recent past was was sometime not 30 30. And I don't know if that's a. Like, he's instantly transported to 30 30, or he's then stuck in that dead zone on the prison colony and, you know, waits it out real time. Yeah, the time juice is a little lacking on. [00:14:07] Speaker A: Yes. But, yeah, he sucked by a tractor beam. Classic. [00:14:11] Speaker B: Mm hmm, mm hmm, mm hmm. [00:14:13] Speaker A: Did Star wars event the tractor beam or Star Trek, probably. [00:14:17] Speaker B: I don't know if it was one of those that created it or if it was an idea that already existed. [00:14:22] Speaker A: It was talking about 1960s, so. [00:14:24] Speaker B: Oh, it says that it was coined by ee Smith in his novel Space Hounds of IPC in 1930, 1931. [00:14:32] Speaker A: There you go. [00:14:34] Speaker B: There we go. [00:14:35] Speaker A: There you go. 1930. Tractor beam. [00:14:38] Speaker B: It's almost in the, it's almost in the public domain then, Johnny. Tractor beam's for everybody. [00:14:43] Speaker A: Well, now we know the origin of the word tractor beam. [00:14:45] Speaker B: This tractor beam having prison colony is run by a man that we've seen before and who, you know, is getting a little bit of the Terry Fitzgerald's treatment on this introduction page here. [00:14:56] Speaker A: Yeah, they got his booty showing off. [00:14:58] Speaker B: Omega spawn. Two big old globes, two Christmas hams right there. [00:15:03] Speaker A: Mm hmm. [00:15:04] Speaker B: He's just scowling at his, like, tree computer. [00:15:08] Speaker A: Yes. And he's like, oh, you found my former, my former Herald Monolith. Ha ha ha. [00:15:13] Speaker B: Time to put him in his place then. [00:15:16] Speaker A: The ugliest lackey that ever existed. His face is like, rotting. [00:15:20] Speaker B: His tongue's hanging out, arm ripped off. He's missing half of his head. And he says, the one you mentioned, the monolith, he's crushing everyone's head. My lord, Omega is not surprised by this. [00:15:31] Speaker A: So he draws his sword and heads out. [00:15:34] Speaker B: He still thinks he's a free man. Monolith has a crazy, crazy sword. Johnny, if I can get on this train already, I have no idea how the fuck you would sharpen this sword. Yeah, I don't know. Some sort of magic. I couldn't even imagine that sword. Yeah. And then we cut back to Monolith. He's just standing on a pile of bodies. [00:15:59] Speaker A: He living up to his name. He's the monolith in the middle of these dead bodies. [00:16:04] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. The monkeys are gonna throw a bone up at him before they go crazy. Apes. [00:16:09] Speaker A: Yep. [00:16:09] Speaker B: The apes. And he's just like, that should. That should bring them to me. That should be enough. [00:16:15] Speaker A: That should be enough to get their attention. [00:16:17] Speaker B: Yeah. The tactic is clear, Johnny. Make enough of a ruckuse. The prison wants to send something in, namely guards, but co opt their plan by having something go out, namely Monolith. [00:16:31] Speaker A: Yep. And then comes omegaspawn. Yeah, he's like dragging his sword across the ship. [00:16:38] Speaker B: They clash. Like, Omega sneaks up on Monolith while he's. While Monolith is out there looking for Omega Spawn. And like, as the sword is coming down, Monolith gets a, like a ping, a flash, something. [00:16:55] Speaker A: It's a vision of him in like, a fucking garden of Eden type area. [00:17:01] Speaker B: It's like that little pocket of heaven where Al just met Gabriel. Gabriel, yes. [00:17:09] Speaker A: Yeah. And then you see Monolith's little boy. And strangely enough, he's just a normal little boy. [00:17:14] Speaker B: Just a normal little boy. Yeah. [00:17:16] Speaker A: I mean, I guess that's. I don't know. You don't. We don't know the origin story of how that little boy became monolith. [00:17:20] Speaker B: Yeah, no, that's. That's kind of what I was wanting out of this miniseries. But that's not what they gave us. [00:17:26] Speaker A: That's not what they gave us. [00:17:27] Speaker B: Anyway, Monolith. Monolith sees this little boy and is immediately like, oh, no, I'm. No, no, no, no. And ripped his head off too. Jesus. There's some hedgehog trauma going on in this, Johnny. [00:17:38] Speaker A: There's a lot of kids killed in this monolith miniseries. [00:17:42] Speaker B: Yeah. At least once. [00:17:43] Speaker A: There's some kids killed in the next one. Yeah. [00:17:45] Speaker B: Monolith tosses this head away and it flies through the air and lands. And it's only after it lands and comes to a standstill that we learn it wasn't actually a little boy, but one of Omega Spawn's lackeys, who obviously had some sort of psychokinetic hoodoo going on. [00:18:04] Speaker A: I wonder if this guy really hugged him. [00:18:06] Speaker B: I would assume so. [00:18:07] Speaker A: Little boy did. [00:18:09] Speaker B: So how. That's how the logistics of being able to rip that head off work, Jonny. [00:18:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:14] Speaker B: Omega starts, you know, being like monolith. We could have been such a good team, you and I. You could have served me the classic, and we could have been the best. And yet. What do you have to do? Monolith turned on him, apparently. [00:18:26] Speaker A: Yeah. He was his herald, and now he turned on him. [00:18:28] Speaker B: We've got some actual turning on him. Because just like, while Mon. While Omega is given this little villain monologue here, monolith is just like, I'm gonna come at. I'm gonna come at you. I'm coming at you. So, so Omega does, like, a hulk jump and slams a big old rock onto him or something. [00:18:45] Speaker A: Yeah, it's. It's. He, like, does like, a slam forward, like a druid in Diablo four. It's like he causes, like, a. It, like, ruptures the ground and causes, like, an explosion outward. [00:18:55] Speaker B: Yeah. And it, like, throws rocks at him. And Monolith is over there. Or Omega's over there trying to block the big old pieces of boulders with his crazy ass sword. [00:19:04] Speaker A: He doesn't want things to flourish. He wants things to die. Yeah, he wants things to die. [00:19:09] Speaker B: He's like Darkseid. He's looking for the anti life equation to destroy all life that's ever existed. [00:19:14] Speaker A: That just reminds me of. I think they talk about that in the Justice League movie. Isn't that in there? [00:19:21] Speaker B: Yeah, that's Darkseid's whole thing because Darkseid's the big DC Thanos type guy. Thanos actually is in love with death and thinks that bringing more deaths will make her love him. So that's really why he wants to wipe out half the world. But Darkseid is like the moodier emo kid version of that, where Darkseid wants to rule over the nothing of non existence. He doesn't care about trying to make the personification of. Of death fall in love with them. He doesn't care about balance. He doesn't care about fucking anything. But just like. Like he wants to die so bad, he wants to take the whole universe with him. Johnny. [00:20:06] Speaker A: Yeah, Vegas mom's kind of like that. He wants to destroy all the universes. [00:20:10] Speaker B: Monolith gets the two hander on his head from Omega. And Omega smashes his head into a bulkhead, cracks his skull while he's crunches it, you know, crunches it while he's feeling so good about it. As we turn the next page, the crack of Monolith's skull is part of his plan. Johnny. Part of his having Omega put down his defenses a little bit. Like, he puts down his sword. He stops paying attention to this body that should be, you know, pretty lifeless. Cause it's got its head cracked. While Omega is distracted, monolith grabs his unattended sword and just, like, schwaaa right. [00:20:45] Speaker A: In, stabs him right in the abdomen. [00:20:47] Speaker B: Yeah, look at that. [00:20:48] Speaker A: Omega uses his powers to keep the inmates at bay. Cause he gets stabbed and it opens some cell block doors. [00:20:54] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess. I guess it's like the whole prison is, like, attached to his brain. Oh, killer. And overt kill style. [00:21:03] Speaker A: Yes. You know, normal things. It makes perfect logical sense. [00:21:06] Speaker B: Yeah, it'll make sense. It'll make sense of the next issue. Yeah, it's kind of like Omega has to think about all the things all the time. And if he loses any of his attention, something falls somewhere else. Due to this distraction. Not only the. [00:21:25] Speaker A: Since they lowered their defenses. [00:21:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Not only the cell blocks opened, but other things that have been held dormant through Omega's power start to not be so dormant. [00:21:34] Speaker A: And then Gaia breaks through. It's the green world. [00:21:37] Speaker B: Yeah. So we got this alien prison planet and we got the tree grower in the middle of it. Gaia is the last resistance to Omega spawn. Behold Gaia, the mother of nature. She, like, splits them up and is like, boys, boys, stop fighting. She, like, grows a tree wall right between them. [00:21:55] Speaker A: Yep. [00:21:56] Speaker B: So that monolith is. [00:21:58] Speaker A: Monolith sees his chance to just try to fucking run out of there. He's gonna bunch through the hole. But Gaia stops him by building a rock wall. [00:22:07] Speaker B: Gaia's not gonna let him get away. And Monolith says, why did you do that? And Gaia says, cause you can be better. Omega is consumed with hate. He wants the same for you. You're so close. Don't give him that victory. Then basically, it's like, hey, you can. You got it. You got a choice to make now, buddy. You can either be a man or a monster. It's time to decide your fate. Let me get a skull to end the issue. New generation, new stories, new you, Johnny. New you ad. [00:22:36] Speaker A: New you ad. [00:22:37] Speaker B: Warhammer 40k is the toys. [00:22:39] Speaker A: We get two toy ads in this one. [00:22:41] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. We get our favorite movie maniacs ad back. [00:22:45] Speaker A: I know. With Sheldon has the flash. Everyone's favorite toy. [00:22:49] Speaker B: Everyone's favorite toy. That's monolith number one, Johnny. [00:22:52] Speaker A: That's monolith number one. Wow, that was fast. [00:22:55] Speaker B: Yeah, that was fast. What happened? I'm not sure what happened in monolith. [00:23:00] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:23:02] Speaker B: Some punching, some tree, growing. [00:23:05] Speaker A: No, I just. I find this. I mean, we'll talk about in the review section, but I find this whole monolith exercise just mainly confusing. [00:23:12] Speaker B: Yeah, it would be nice to see the original pitch to see, because I feel like there's a lot of context that's missing. But that's for the review section, Johnny. That was monolith number one. [00:23:25] Speaker A: There it is. [00:23:37] Speaker B: Next up, Johnny, we got another issue of some spawn's universe to cover. [00:23:43] Speaker A: Indeed we do. [00:23:44] Speaker B: Indeed. [00:23:45] Speaker A: Scorched 31. [00:23:46] Speaker B: Scorched. Scorched number 31. I'm very excited, Johnny. You know how much I enjoy scorched. Very much is how much I enjoy scorched. Don't you ever think that I'm not enjoying scorched? [00:23:58] Speaker A: It's probably my favorite of them right now, currently. [00:24:01] Speaker B: Yeah. It's hard to choose between that and main title spawn for me right now. [00:24:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:07] Speaker B: And Rat City. [00:24:09] Speaker A: And Rat City. I forget. Yeah, I was talking about the main four, I guess. But, yeah, Rat city's one of the main ones now. Yeah, that's ongoing. [00:24:17] Speaker B: That ain't no mini series with confirmation of at least 30 issues planned out or a story arc for 30 issues planned out. So, you know, once they get to 30, why would they. Why would they cancel it? Why? That would be dope. [00:24:29] Speaker A: Why not get all the way to 333 halfway to the mark of the beast. [00:24:34] Speaker B: It's also fun because scorched used to be Sean Lewis's old stomping ground, so it's fun to see a new post scorched Sean Lewis and a new post Sean Lewis scorched together in one, Johnny. [00:24:49] Speaker A: Yes. All together. [00:24:50] Speaker B: And I can see from you waving that around that we have different covers. Johnny. [00:24:55] Speaker A: Oh, do we? [00:24:56] Speaker B: There are definitely. We're definitely. I got the b cover here. Looks like you got the A cover. [00:25:01] Speaker A: Oh, nice. I got the A cover, which is haunt with his haunt spiral jumping it doing, like, a spider man type pose jumping at you. Pretty cool, but, yeah, just pretty classic haunt. [00:25:14] Speaker B: The Raymond gay cover. [00:25:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:16] Speaker B: Yeah. He's got those whipty flips of not not web. We still don't quite know what the flippity flips are. [00:25:23] Speaker A: Necroplasm. No, not necroplasm. I guess they're like ectoplasm. [00:25:27] Speaker B: Ectoplasm. I smell a crust over here, Johnny. [00:25:30] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, he is a haunt. [00:25:32] Speaker B: They could also just be, you know, stay puft. Marshmallow goo. [00:25:36] Speaker A: Yeah, he does kind of look like marshmallow. Launch is made of marshmallow. [00:25:40] Speaker B: But he's a. He's a softie, you know? He is. [00:25:43] Speaker A: He's delicious. [00:25:44] Speaker B: Nutritious. I have the COVID b, the Tauntaun revolver cover, and it is literally just Jessica grabbing some bugs and ripping their heads open. Look at that. Some more head trauma. It's like a good tauntaun revolver. It's. Yeah, it was. It was a. It was a no brainer for me this time, Johnny, because I got the one with the Jessica priest on it. [00:26:03] Speaker A: Yeah, I just kind of took, I think this week, I just took what I got. And I always get the a's, so I prefer the b because I'm a Jessica Priest fan. [00:26:11] Speaker B: These insect monster guys are disgusting. This one's got, like, earthworms coming out of his head. Jesus. Brutal. It's also got the nice white scorched title treatment, which I don't think I've ever seen. [00:26:24] Speaker A: That is pretty nice. [00:26:25] Speaker B: The. The Raymond gay has the red, but, yeah, it's white has crazy. We pop that sucker open, Johnny, we got ourselves some script. Plop by John Layman, with additional script by Todd McFarlane. We got that art by Steven Segovia. This colors by Robert Nugent. Lettering by andworld design double andworld design comic today, Johnny. [00:26:43] Speaker A: Indeed. [00:26:43] Speaker B: Playing double duty, we covered the covers. The creative director is Todd McFarlane, and the editor in chief is Thomas Healy. And I do like how the runner on the credits page is just like a slice from the scorched scorch number one. And it's just got Javi there with his tall ass hat. Look at that hat. Look at how tall it is. That's fun, because there's no other hobby in the issue, so we'll take it where we can get it. [00:27:13] Speaker A: Yeah, he's kind of in. Scorch has become more of, like, a techno thriller type thing. [00:27:18] Speaker B: Yeah, more of a James Bond spy intrigue. [00:27:23] Speaker A: Yes. And Javi's not good at spying. No, it's kind of a blunt instrument. [00:27:29] Speaker B: No, not subtle enough. No shade for being not subtle. It's just this is not a good use of his talents. Previously Johnny in the Scorched. Jessica Priest has abandoned the scorched team and now is fully under Jason Wayne's control. So we start off with Jessica Priest doing Jessica Priest things. [00:27:50] Speaker A: Johnny sniper with this crazy gun. [00:27:53] Speaker B: Yeah, she is in her. Her covert ops gear, all black from head to toe, except for her red face mask and her big old fancy sniper rifle. She's also got a katana there. Very exciting. [00:28:06] Speaker A: Yes. [00:28:06] Speaker B: And we see her. She's got Jason Wynn in her crosshairs, and then she squeezes the trigger. Johnny. And Jason Wynn is no more. Hmm. Interesting. She's killing her boss. Next up, Frank Bishop. [00:28:16] Speaker A: Next up is Frank Bishop. [00:28:18] Speaker B: She's already killed him once. She's more than happy. More than happy enough to kill him again. And then more jason show up. Wait, Johnny, where do all these Jason winds come from? [00:28:29] Speaker A: What the heck? [00:28:31] Speaker B: What is going on? Their faces make my killing them so much easier. As I think of the revenge I'll get. Think about those who need killing the most. And when it's over, I see the true faces of the dead. Oh, I see. [00:28:44] Speaker A: Then Bishop comes out of the woodwork after she's killed all these people that she was imagining were Jason Wynn and Bishop. [00:28:51] Speaker B: Mm hmm. He's like, you could have saved a few from me, though. She's like, well, the get here earlier. So Jessica is working alongside someone she hates, working for somebody that she hates even more. She has to do it. She has to do it. Why does she have to do it, Johnny? Well, we're about to learn that 18 hours earlier, Jessica priest learned that Jason. [00:29:14] Speaker A: Lynn is on, that this put a bomb in her spine. [00:29:17] Speaker B: She just kicks open his office door and says, you son of a bitch. [00:29:21] Speaker A: It gives a little peek a boo of her. [00:29:26] Speaker B: A little bit of the under boob, yes. But no. Jessica Priest is in Jason Wynn's office because she just learned about the suicide squad esque bomb that Jason Wynn has placed on her spine. [00:29:39] Speaker A: That's so funny. That movie, when that one guy just, like, runs, he just, like, takes off immediately. [00:29:45] Speaker B: Yeah. So first off, since Jessica Priest just kicks down Jason Wynn's office door, his. His bodyguard guys have to, you know, neutralize her as a threat. And Jason Wynn needs to get new bodyguards. Jesus. Just Jessica, like, doesn't even break a sweat taking these guys down. After Jason Nguyen does a little bit of explaining himself, then Bishop just comes to the door and is like, hey, you motherfucker. [00:30:12] Speaker A: Hey, you did the same thing to me. Bishop's always, I like the close up of Jessica's eyes. He looks so pissed. That close up on Jessica, you don't get a lot of close ups in scorch. It's usually a lot of, like, wider action, but it's nice to get, like, a close up. [00:30:27] Speaker B: I also enjoy the jason wins doing that jerk thing of blowing his cigarette face. Right. And her cigarette smoke right in her face. Cigarette face. What's a cigarette face? Jeez, I don't know. And she's. She's like. [00:30:39] Speaker A: Imagine, like, a leather face. [00:30:40] Speaker B: That's, uh, what made 30 year olds in the eighties look like they were 62. [00:30:46] Speaker A: Exactly. Peeing around all that smoke. [00:30:49] Speaker B: We learned that not only do they have bombs implanted in each of their spines, but they are also connected to each other's heartbeats. So if Bishop dies, then so does Jessica priest. And if Jessica priest dies, so does Bishop, also connected to Jason wins. So if Jason wins, dies, they both die. And the detonator that Jason Wynn has in his hand is indiscriminate. It's connected to both of them. [00:31:17] Speaker A: Yes. He was like, remember when I did this in the movie? Well, I'm doing it now. [00:31:21] Speaker B: This is very, very little wiggle room, which is why Jessica Priest is having to work with somebody she hates under somebody she hates even more. Yeah, they're both very unhappy about it. You know, we go. We go from this revelation to a little bit of some practice. You know, Jason wins cooked up a couple of. He's ordered a couple more of those ninjas that he likes to fight on his lunch break for Jessica priest and bishop to take. And Jessica priest learns that if she doesn't want bishop to just fucking accidentally kill her, she's got to do all the shit, because Bishop, well, he enjoyed killing far too much, Johnny. And that makes him slappy. [00:31:58] Speaker A: Yeah, he's just sadistic. [00:32:00] Speaker B: He's so focused on the enjoying the killing. He's doing that. He doesn't notice the killing that's about to happen from behind him. [00:32:07] Speaker A: So Jessica has to jump in there and save his ass. [00:32:10] Speaker B: Yeah. She just like kicks him out of the way and throws her katana at the, the attacker. [00:32:15] Speaker A: Yep. [00:32:16] Speaker B: Oh, man. Gets him right above the eye. Can you imagine how, how hard you have to throw a fucking sword to get it to go through the skull right there? Oh, I don't even know if I could stab it. He stabbed that hard. So even, even sans hell powers, Jessica Priest is just a beast. [00:32:33] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:32:34] Speaker B: Nice little back and forth between them and Jessica Priest being like, I'm not gonna let your ass fucking kill my ass just because you're a dipshit. And he's like, you think, you think I'm afraid of dying? [00:32:47] Speaker A: Opening quote indeed. Then we get a little more context on the mission. We cut back to an hour before. [00:32:53] Speaker B: Yeah. So this is, this is a weird, this is a weird, like nested flashback where we were in the action and then we were 18 hours earlier. And now this isn't 1 hour earlier than the 18 hours earlier. This is just 1 hour before the action at the beginning of the book. So 17 hours. [00:33:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:10] Speaker B: 17 hours after Jessica priest kicked. Now jason went story. [00:33:14] Speaker A: Sure. [00:33:15] Speaker B: But so yeah, Jessica priest and bishop are getting their orders in the back of a helicopter from Charlotte Lynne and Jessica notices a strange, familiar camaraderie almost. Bishop and Charlotte Lynn. Obviously there's a hierarchy of, you know, needs to, needs to follow the chain of command. And bishop doesn't do that. He just comes flat out calls her Charlotte and Jessica Fries is like, the fuck? [00:33:38] Speaker A: That's weird. [00:33:38] Speaker B: The fuck. Not the way you're supposed to talk to your superiors. So I would be interested to know what all the going betweens she thinks there is. What does she go to first? Does she think that they're in cahoots organizationally? Does she think they're in cahoots? Just old fashioned affair. [00:33:57] Speaker A: Does she think that she's a demon in human skin? [00:34:00] Speaker B: I'd be very interested to see what the calculus Jessica priest has for what she's thinking about what's going on here. But we don't get any of that. Jessica Priest is pushing it aside and she's like, well, it's time for the mission, so we'll deal with that later. [00:34:13] Speaker A: Yep. [00:34:14] Speaker B: Jessica Priest is great at compartmentalizing. [00:34:17] Speaker A: She's got good instincts. Because there is something not right about Charlotte Lynn. [00:34:21] Speaker B: Absolutely. And to bring it back to the earlier discussion, Javi can't fucking compartmentalize to save his ding dang life. He can't even hide his excitement about how bad he wants to kill somebody to even be invited to a proper meeting with them. So Jessica Priest is like, we gotta. We gotta live through this mission that we're on. So that's all she's gonna pay attention to. And they drop into this, like, nuclear power plant. It's got the nice little stack right there. And as they land, they're confronted with this big old beastie. Presumably, they have fought their way through the guards at the power plant and now just walked through. And there's this guy is just like, he's the big beastie, and he's covered in fucking sores from having absorbed too much radiation. [00:35:10] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just like this crazy giant beast. [00:35:12] Speaker B: It's very much like a half life creature. [00:35:16] Speaker A: Yeah, kind of with, like, the gross on it. [00:35:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Especially with the fact that bishops were like, I know how I can take this just head on. I want to start shooting it. And so he starts shooting it, and he explodes one of the pustules on it, and it shoots acid at his face and just starts. It gives him the too faced treatment. [00:35:36] Speaker A: Yep. Alien blood pus. [00:35:38] Speaker B: Jessica Priest is like, you know what? He might be an idiot, but he helped me out. I gotta avoid those pustules. [00:35:45] Speaker A: She shoots him out and then, like, throws a fucking grenade, and it's like, eye hole thing. [00:35:51] Speaker B: Yeah, she, like, uh. She, like, shoots a hole just big enough for the grenades to go into. She's very precise too, man. Strong, focused, precise. Johnny. Jessica priest might be the model employee, you know? Yeah, this explosion is. This explosion is awesome. I like the little off color. Jessica priest. [00:36:13] Speaker A: Yeah. How it pulls back a bit too. [00:36:14] Speaker B: Yeah, that's a real good panel by steven segovia. Like, a steven segovia. And then. So they. They've been sent here to locate an asset specifically for Jason wayne. And I think they found it, and it turns out it's our. It's our buddy zab, ye old bad guy of the hell variety. [00:36:36] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, kind of go back and forth, but yeah, yeah, they would help out sometimes. [00:36:41] Speaker B: Not no ab ant there, but just. Nope. [00:36:43] Speaker A: Just. [00:36:44] Speaker B: Zabehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe bishop is like, do you guys know each other? Jessica priest is like, hey, I fought him a couple of times. I know he has powers. [00:36:54] Speaker A: He can create. He can, like, transport people through interventional gateways. [00:36:58] Speaker B: Yeah, indeed. [00:36:59] Speaker A: He's a demon. Wouldn't he be powerless? [00:37:01] Speaker B: Why is. Why is Jason went after him if he's powerless? That speculation gets cut off because as soon as they're outside of this little tunnel here, Johnny, they are greeted by the remainder of the scorched the ashes, you would say. [00:37:17] Speaker A: Yes. His redeemer, overkill and haunt. [00:37:20] Speaker B: Like, that's a nice. That's a nice recently freed prisoner you got there. It would be a shame if we were to recapture him. [00:37:29] Speaker A: Yep. There's gonna be a showdown. [00:37:31] Speaker B: There's an unprinted dun dun dun. Because we know that there is more to come. We get the scald in the Ishijani, much like Jessica priest on the COVID Jessica priest in the content. We've got spawning grounds filled with Jessica Priest fan art, Johnny. [00:37:49] Speaker A: Pretty great. Yeah, well, there's, like, three cosplayers and a bunch of fan art. [00:37:53] Speaker B: Mm hmm. We got our friend, our friends Jordan Norris on there. [00:37:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:59] Speaker B: Talked about Jordan Noor. Really great. That real negative space one. [00:38:04] Speaker A: Yeah, I like that a lot. [00:38:04] Speaker B: There's right next to it is what looks like, you know, a still from Jessica Priest from the scorched cartoon. Yeah, the cosplayers are really good. I have never seen a Jessica Priest cosplayer in real life, and I like that they're. They're doing some focus on it because they've got a couple of. Couple of our friends on yield. Instagram are Al Simmons cosplayers. That's good to see, girl. Jessica Priest getting a little bit of that action. [00:38:32] Speaker A: Yeah, she did the chaletacos. What is it? Chai latte. What the hell is it? [00:38:42] Speaker B: Chai latte cars. [00:38:44] Speaker A: Oh, chai latte cars. Oh, my God. Did a great job recreating the gun. Yeah, from, like, the action figure and those. [00:38:53] Speaker B: Those big fucking. Those big fucking shells on the bandolier. [00:38:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:59] Speaker B: This first one has, like, the original. The original she spawned. [00:39:03] Speaker A: Yeah, that's like the original, like, when it was Nick's. [00:39:07] Speaker B: You need more spawns universe, Johnny. [00:39:09] Speaker A: You know it. [00:39:10] Speaker B: Guess what? We got some more stuff coming up on this podcast. We got the image classics ad. Ooh. And then Pacific rim is the toy ad in the back of this one. [00:39:21] Speaker A: Yep. Always love Pacific rim. [00:39:24] Speaker B: That is scorch number 31, Johnny. [00:39:27] Speaker A: There it is. [00:39:28] Speaker B: It's doing it. It's doing all the labor that we need it to. He does it more, no less. [00:39:33] Speaker A: He did it. We does it. John Layman, Steven Segovia. They did it. [00:39:38] Speaker B: They did. They did indeed. And Sean Lewis and Valerio. They also done did it. [00:39:44] Speaker A: And now we gotta do it. [00:39:46] Speaker B: Now we gotta do it, Johnny. We got these puppies here. We should probably rate them. [00:39:51] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. So first up today, we have monolith number one. First of a trilogy. Trilogy. [00:40:02] Speaker B: New miniseries that makes it the most Star wars y of any spanish comics we've read so far. [00:40:08] Speaker A: Exactly. And it takes place in a prison colony in space. [00:40:12] Speaker B: In space. [00:40:13] Speaker A: I mean, I don't know. I don't know what to say about this. It's just a little, like you said, it's like, it's lacking some context that we need to really get to engage with it. I mean, I like the art. I like all the aliens. I like most concepts, but, like, it just. And this is also knowing, having read two and three, it just doesn't gel for me. This one is probably my favorite of the three, but it's still confusing. Like, which time season? The time stuff's weird, and we just know. We don't know quite enough about these characters to really grasp what's happening. [00:40:55] Speaker B: Yeah, this very much feels like a mini series that you put out for a long established character for people who know all of their backgrounds, all of their allegiances, and without that sort of setting, it's very. It's untethered. It's in its own little personal dead zone that it's hard to. To really pull from. I agree that this is probably my favorite of the three, but, like, both times I read it, I was like. Or actually, I think I read it three times because I was looking for stuff that I had missed to try to help it out. But every time I read it, I was like, there's obviously several pages stuck together here that I haven't read. What is going on? [00:41:41] Speaker A: Right. That's how I always felt. [00:41:43] Speaker B: You get down in there, like, almost ruining the pages, trying to make one page turn into two. Now it's. [00:41:49] Speaker A: Yeah, I agree. [00:41:51] Speaker B: I can only presume the amount of thought that went into this was enormous. And trying to especially get it to fit in a miniseries, also probably getting it to fit into a calendar of productions, very difficult. The art. The art is amazing. But, yeah, it's. I don't feel that I know monolith and omega enough to really have it mean much. [00:42:21] Speaker A: Right. You wanted some clarification on what they're doing on Omega island and all that stuff, and by the end of this miniseries, you're probably just even more confused. I mean, it does put a. In there, but we'll get there. [00:42:29] Speaker B: Yeah. The time jump is very. Throughout the mini series, I'm trying to avoid talking about the miniseries as much as possible, but throughout this miniseries, there are lots of time jumps and they aren't really outlined very well. [00:42:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:42:45] Speaker B: Like they're, they're treated more as just like a. Oh, yeah. And then we go through time and it's like, wait, hold on a second. [00:42:51] Speaker A: What's going on? Yeah, where are we? [00:42:53] Speaker B: Where's. But the art is awesome. I mean, I really did enjoy just these three or four pages of just monolith and omega. Just Bob doing some beat em ups. [00:43:06] Speaker A: Yeah, I love how gnarly the creatures are. Like, that lackey. Its face is falling off. [00:43:10] Speaker B: Yeah, I would, I would probably read some other stories set in this prison colony. I'm sure there's probably a great escape, a nice, great escape story to come out of this. [00:43:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:43:21] Speaker B: Obviously not now because all the prisoners. [00:43:24] Speaker A: Are fucking dead, but, yeah, just be monolith by himself. I'm gonna give it three child's heads, actually, you know, I'm gonna give it 2.5 child's heads. [00:43:36] Speaker B: Oh, man, that makes it even worse. Half a child's head, Johnny. Whoo. [00:43:39] Speaker A: That's gruesome. [00:43:40] Speaker B: That's gruesome. [00:43:41] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:43:41] Speaker B: It's like a dead baby joke, only potentially more funny. I agree, Johnny. I'm gonna give it two and a half of these little weird dog looking prisoner guys who. There's absolutely no way that collar is staying on that neck. It has fallen off all the time. [00:44:02] Speaker A: You got a tiny. [00:44:04] Speaker B: There has to be a guard who has to attend this prisoner to always just be like, this is whoophenous. [00:44:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:13] Speaker B: Because, yeah, I love these, I love these fucking prisoners in the background. They're great. Also, also the fucking monolith spaceship is. [00:44:20] Speaker A: Yeah, I love monolith spaceship. That's one of my favorite part. [00:44:24] Speaker B: It's so cool. It's such an awesome idea that I've just, I don't think I've ever seen anybody be like, yeah, just turn a comet into a spaceship. [00:44:32] Speaker A: You know, why not? [00:44:34] Speaker B: Why not? It seems like it would have some good solid evidence behind it because, I mean, there's obviously, those rocks can go through space pretty fast. [00:44:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:45] Speaker B: I also like the idea of a dead zone penal colony. I just wish I knew more about the spawns having to save the universe. [00:44:53] Speaker A: Yeah, I agree. [00:44:56] Speaker B: It's fun to have Sean Lewis back. There's some wonderful phrasing in here that is very Shaun Lewis. Yes. [00:45:02] Speaker A: Assassin, narrator's fun. I like the title treatment. It's very, like, old school monster. [00:45:07] Speaker B: Overall, it's eh meh. [00:45:10] Speaker A: Yeah. Meh. Yeah. [00:45:13] Speaker B: I've had worse reading experiences. [00:45:16] Speaker A: Let's just say that. Next up, we had scorch 31. [00:45:21] Speaker B: Speaking of worse reading experiences, no better. This is the opposite of that. [00:45:30] Speaker A: Yes. It's a fun, like, techno, I love the techno thriller kind of way that scorch is going. It's really fun. Jessica Priest is a badass. It's nice to get some focus on her. Bishop's a good foil. He's a little snake. [00:45:45] Speaker B: I mean, scorched has basically always kind of been the Jessica priest show. I think it works best when it drills down on the Jessica priest is the heart and the soul of scorched. [00:45:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:57] Speaker B: Like, the scorched as a team might be more than Jessica, but if you don't have the Jessica right, it's gonna. It's gonna fall apart. [00:46:05] Speaker A: Right. Yeah. I like where the story is going. Working for win with the bombs in the spine, and we're gonna get a showdown with the scorch next issue. [00:46:15] Speaker B: Yeah, it's gonna be pretty great. It's nice to, it's a nice, it's a nice middle issue that just keeps things going. John Lehman has probably been the best we've come across at keeping the action going at a reasonable rate during these middle issues. Like, we know we have to get into the building. We know we have to get the asset. We know we have to take people from here to here to get them to fight. And he's very good at plotting that out. So that way, you don't feel like it's the setting up. Like, the setting up feels like it has consequences versus just being necessary. [00:46:59] Speaker A: That's a lot of fun. I'm gonna give it four exploding pus sacks. [00:47:04] Speaker B: Whoo. Man, be careful with those, Johnny. You'll go blind face. [00:47:11] Speaker A: Yep. [00:47:11] Speaker B: I definitely agree with you. I am going to give it for little tiny Jessica's in the background of blowing up this passec guy just because I think that's a really cool, awesome little Jessica priest pose in the background. I like Jessica priest, and I like the scorched. And also, Steven Segovia's art is still great. [00:47:34] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Like I said, there's, like, close ups on Jessica. [00:47:37] Speaker B: It's consistent close ups on Bishop. I feel like Steven Segovia feels kind of like he's lived in this world for so long, he's having a little more fun with it. Not that it felt like he never had fun doing it. It's just like he's a little bit, like, you know, let's. Let's try a little bit different. Well, I guess that's them rated, Johnny. [00:47:55] Speaker A: Yeah. And we were lucky. We had a plethora of people to call out, not call out, shout out in the spawning grounds that we wanted to give attention to on our weekly shout out. [00:48:07] Speaker B: Mm hmm. [00:48:08] Speaker A: And this week we're gonna do Joe Colton cosplay. And, yeah, they did a lot of great cosplay, but they did a she spawn that's in the fan art of scorched 31. [00:48:19] Speaker B: Also does a lot of Diablo flavored cosplay. [00:48:22] Speaker A: Yeah, she did Lilith from Diablo, which is excellent. [00:48:25] Speaker B: She did Anaxon Amun from the mummy, 1999. She's got a lot of Wonder Woman. It's real good. Oh, oh, she's got tall vampire lady from resident evil. [00:48:35] Speaker A: Resident evil village. Yes. The lady Demistra or something like that. [00:48:41] Speaker B: Something like that. Oh, she's got a lightsaber. Gianni. Lightsaber cosplay. [00:48:44] Speaker A: Pretty cool. [00:48:45] Speaker B: It's pretty cool. Yeah. Give her a follow. [00:48:47] Speaker A: A lot of good stuff. [00:48:48] Speaker B: While you're over there, you should also maybe give us a follow. We're not wearing costumes too often. We do have a couple of cosplay pics from c two e two where we dressed up as Sam and twitch. [00:48:59] Speaker A: That's true. [00:49:00] Speaker B: That's overdeveloped at regardingspawnpod. We're having a good time there. Reach out to us. Talk to us. Have fun with us. That's what we're there for. And if you would like to talk to us in a bit of a longer form format or, you know, you don't like the messaging system that Instagram uses, you can always send us an [email protected]. [00:49:21] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:49:22] Speaker B: We look forward to your letters. [00:49:23] Speaker A: Yes. And each week, I like to ask a question to spurgeous any thoughts. And this week, I'm just curious what you guys think about monolith. I know I saw some other people that didn't like it on Instagram, but, you know, I'm just curious what you think of monolith number one. If you thought it was a good start or if you agree with us and think it's, like, maybe a little confusing or just lacks context, let us know. [00:49:45] Speaker B: Please give us your full, unvarnished thoughts. [00:49:48] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:49:49] Speaker B: I can't guarantee that we won't accidentally absorb them into our own thoughts, but we'd like to hear what you think about it. It's an interesting swing, and we love an interesting swing, even if unsuccessful. It was. It's fun. [00:50:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:08] Speaker B: You know what else is fun, Johnny? [00:50:10] Speaker A: Read more. [00:50:10] Speaker B: Swan, the music that we have in this episode. [00:50:13] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:50:14] Speaker B: It's done by Lonnie Bones. Lonnie Bones music is super fun. Just look him up. Lonnie bones music. Just google it. Solani with a y, not an ie. But to your. To your answer, yes, spawn. More spawn is more fun. More spawn equal. More fun, Johnny. [00:50:31] Speaker A: Mm hmm. [00:50:32] Speaker B: And I would like to have fun again sometime soon, if I may. [00:50:36] Speaker A: That sounds good to me. [00:50:38] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:50:39] Speaker A: I say. What do you. [00:50:41] Speaker B: Oh, oh, okay. Yes, please. [00:50:43] Speaker A: I'm gonna say it. Enlighten me, because I got him in front of me, we've got misery number one. [00:50:47] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:50:48] Speaker A: And Kingswan 35, both by the toddfather. [00:50:51] Speaker B: Another dual toddfather. That's. [00:50:55] Speaker A: Yes, it's a modfather, because it's a modern toddfather. [00:50:58] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's true. I don't think we've covered. We haven't covered two new toddfathers before. But also, not only is it a double toddfather episode, it's a double granny Blake episode, Johnny. [00:51:11] Speaker A: That's true. Double Granny Blake. [00:51:13] Speaker B: Double granny Blake. [00:51:14] Speaker A: Love that. [00:51:15] Speaker B: You know, we're here for it. The lady's good. [00:51:17] Speaker A: Love us some granny Blake. [00:51:19] Speaker B: Yeah. So go ahead, read those, and then come listen to us talk about them. Don't forget to like us. Subscribe to us, review us anywhere that you like. Subscriber review. Tell your friends and family, tell your co workers. Hopefully you can use the instagrams. To find somebody else who likes spawn as much as you do. And, you know, maybe talk to them about spawn, maybe a few. If you see somebody at the comic book shop buying some spawn, be like, hey, hey, you want to hear some random guys on the Internet. Talk about that book you read? Give them a shot, or don't. [00:51:49] Speaker A: Or you just leave people alone in public. [00:51:51] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. Don't be a jerk about it. So do bother them, but don't bother them if you think it's going to bother them. Well, Johnny, as you can tell, I am making no more sense. So I think I should probably just say, may the scorch be with you, and get out of here. So may the scorch be with you, John. [00:52:11] Speaker A: And also with you. [00:52:13] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:52:14] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [00:52:15] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:52:16] Speaker A: All right, so I guess you gotta go to lunch, huh? [00:52:21] Speaker B: Yeah. Where was it going with this, Johnny? [00:53:05] Speaker A: I don't know.