Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: Excuse me. What's your strongest bottle of liquor?
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.
[00:00:49] Speaker B: Ooh, and we're singing, huh? And then I am your co host, David Williams.
[00:00:56] Speaker A: Oh, wow. That sounds like some, like, weird experimental art singing.
[00:01:01] Speaker B: It's the sondheim that got thrown in the garbage is what it is.
[00:01:05] Speaker A: You sound a little bit like long.
[00:01:06] Speaker B: Legs saying, I could be in my later years, I could star in a horror action thriller franchise. Starter potential.
[00:01:20] Speaker A: Not really very actioned.
[00:01:22] Speaker B: Not really very action. Okay.
[00:01:23] Speaker A: Cause. But you haven't seen it, huh?
[00:01:24] Speaker B: I haven't seen it. They're definitely angling for that to be a franchise, though, weren't they?
[00:01:30] Speaker A: I think they might. Long legs could stick around.
He said he sings in a high pitched voice and dances weird.
[00:01:36] Speaker B: It's about to say, you're gonna say, he's got legs.
[00:01:39] Speaker A: He's got legs. They're long ones. Speaking of movies you haven't seen, I saw the substance.
[00:01:44] Speaker B: Nice, nice. It's really good. Good substance.
[00:01:47] Speaker A: Very good substance.
[00:01:48] Speaker B: I like, I like that. It just gets. It's the substance. Did they even give it a name, or do they just call it the substance throughout?
[00:01:56] Speaker A: It's the substance, baby.
[00:01:57] Speaker B: That's wonderful. I like it. That's the name. It takes away that choice paralysis you have. It's like, do you want some substance or not? I was like, well, what kind of substance? It's just the substance.
[00:02:09] Speaker A: The substance? Yeah. It was a really good body horror. Demi Moore's great. Really gory, really over the top. But I'd highly recommend the substance. It's probably, by the time you're listening to this, it's probably out of theaters and on Mubi by now, but you can go. Go listen to Mubi or not listen to Mubi. Go subscribe to Mubi.
[00:02:28] Speaker B: Is this the first theatrical release that Mubi has produced?
[00:02:33] Speaker A: I don't actually know.
[00:02:35] Speaker B: Interesting.
[00:02:36] Speaker A: It's possible.
[00:02:38] Speaker B: Just. Just what we need, Johnny. Another subscription.
[00:02:41] Speaker A: Well, I mean, it's a really popular movie, and I imagine it'll be exclusively on Mubi when it streams.
[00:02:46] Speaker B: So, like, I have a feeling that's part of what producing that's part of the deal helps convey. Nice. Well, that's awesome. I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna have to look into seeing that before it disappears from theaters. Yeah, I like a good body horror.
[00:03:00] Speaker A: Yeah, it's good. It's very Cronenberg esque.
[00:03:02] Speaker B: Wonderful.
[00:03:03] Speaker A: I like body horror too. It squeaks me out. But I enjoy it.
[00:03:06] Speaker B: I mean, that's the point. That's what we go to the movies for, Jenny, is to feel.
Whether it's feel uncomfortable, to feel things.
[00:03:15] Speaker A: And that's why we read spawn, is to feel things.
[00:03:17] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. To feel anger and sadness and, well, misery, levity, misery. Yes, today we feel the misery, but it isn't miserable. But it is, miss.
We're fine. They're miserable in the book. It's fun to read about their misery.
Unfortunately. It's very weird talk about misery.
[00:03:40] Speaker A: Unfortunately for those characters.
[00:03:41] Speaker B: Like, this is a fun book. It's not really a fun book, but it's a fun.
[00:03:45] Speaker A: No.
[00:03:47] Speaker B: Do you get what I'm saying?
[00:03:48] Speaker A: Yeah, it's. I mean, it's a good title for it. It's very dour and serious and deals with some serious subject matter.
[00:03:59] Speaker B: Yes, it does.
[00:04:00] Speaker A: And then we have King Spawn, which is him, like, stapling himself together.
[00:04:05] Speaker B: It's definitely one of the goofier ones.
[00:04:06] Speaker A: Right now, this week, we're covering misery number two, all the way back from July 2024.
And Kingspawn 36, all the way back from July 2024.
[00:04:21] Speaker B: What a coinky dink.
[00:04:23] Speaker A: What a coinky dink. And this is regarding Spawn, where each week we bring you those two issues from Spawn's universe.
[00:04:30] Speaker B: Those two issues every week.
[00:04:32] Speaker A: I knew you were gonna fucking say that.
[00:04:36] Speaker B: I mean, hey, we've only recorded how many episodes, Johnny?
[00:04:40] Speaker A: 109. Well, like, more like 120.
[00:04:44] Speaker B: At least. It's consistency. Consistency is key, Johnny.
[00:04:47] Speaker A: That's true.
[00:04:48] Speaker B: And usually, if we do an old one and a new one to. Because there's vast decades of Spawn to cover. But since there's so much new spawn coming out, we're doing a couple of new issues.
[00:04:59] Speaker A: Like, we have a couple new issues. Like I said, misery number two and King Spawn 36. Two top father written issues.
[00:05:06] Speaker B: Yes, indeed.
[00:05:07] Speaker A: Two very different issues.
[00:05:09] Speaker B: Three artists total across these two, Johnny.
[00:05:12] Speaker A: That's right. There is.
[00:05:13] Speaker B: There's a double duty going on in King Spawn.
[00:05:15] Speaker A: Yeah, I didn't even realize that till, like, the second time I read it.
[00:05:20] Speaker B: And then you were like, oh, hey, this art is different. What?
[00:05:23] Speaker A: I was like, wait, this really changes all of a sudden?
[00:05:25] Speaker B: It does.
[00:05:26] Speaker A: And it does.
[00:05:27] Speaker B: I think it's effective, though. So, yeah, that's all that matters.
[00:05:31] Speaker A: That's all that matters to. But we're not on cock and King spawn yet. We're talking misery.
And we always start with the covers.
[00:05:39] Speaker B: Yes, we do.
[00:05:40] Speaker A: There are two covers. One of them, there's not much to talk about, because one of them is just a black, blank cover.
[00:05:46] Speaker B: Okay. Surprised I didn't end up with that one. Good job, David.
[00:05:49] Speaker A: Yes, good job. But we have the a cover, of course, which is by Donna Giulio.
[00:05:59] Speaker B: It's great. It's cyan. Just, like, levitating in the middle of a street in New York City, like, surrounded by shadow people. And she's got bright light coming out of her forehead.
[00:06:10] Speaker A: She has a third eye going on.
[00:06:12] Speaker B: She's gesturing. She's like, welcome, my ghost people. Come to me. What are we doing?
[00:06:17] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a pretty good cover. There's a ghost guy with a lighter.
There's a really sad ghost woman.
Just a bunch of ghost people.
[00:06:26] Speaker B: They're all going in all different directions, so it's not like they're even like, who? What's this glowing lady? They're just doing New York City sidewalk business, Jenny.
[00:06:35] Speaker A: Yeah. Maybe this is what it looks like when she's invisible to her.
[00:06:38] Speaker B: Hmm.
[00:06:39] Speaker A: Maybe think about that.
[00:06:41] Speaker B: Interesting.
[00:06:42] Speaker A: How about Da?
[00:06:43] Speaker B: Interesting.
[00:06:44] Speaker A: Catch me outside.
[00:06:45] Speaker B: How about Da?
[00:06:46] Speaker A: Yeah, how about that? Wow. You're just not in tune with what's popular with the youth, Johnny.
[00:06:52] Speaker B: I don't know if you can tell, but I'm not a youth no more.
You're no longer a ute, no longer a youth. I don't.
I don't care. A lot of times I do care about mu ding, though.
That has taken me by storm. I love that fat little pygmy elegmi hippo.
[00:07:10] Speaker A: One time I was on a radio show promoting a play, and the other guest was some australian woman over the phone that went on before us, and she has some famous pig. So I was once a radio guest, shared a radio spot with a pig.
[00:07:21] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Was it a pig that thought it was a sheepdog?
[00:07:26] Speaker A: It was something like that, yeah. Did something crazy. And it was like getting all this international acclaim. Like, they had the pig on the radio show or the owner, I guess.
[00:07:34] Speaker B: Did it somehow communicate with spiders in the barn? Hey, that's actually pretty awesome. I would be excited to. I would cede as much of my time as necessary to the famous pig.
[00:07:45] Speaker A: We did. We listened to the famous pig because he was right before us, so we were waiting to go on to promote one of my plays.
[00:07:50] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:07:51] Speaker A: But, you know, the pig got top billing. All right. Yeah, let's. Let's talk misery.
[00:07:56] Speaker B: Mm hmm.
[00:07:57] Speaker A: So we pop it open. We already covered the COVID there.
[00:08:00] Speaker B: Let's commiserate.
[00:08:01] Speaker A: Let's commiseriate. We got script plot by Todd McFarlane, art by Simon Kudransky. Color by SEO Plasencia, lettering by Angerworld Design.
We already covered the COVID Creative director is Todd McFarlane, and editor in chief is Thomas Healy.
[00:08:19] Speaker B: Yes, indeed.
[00:08:21] Speaker A: Previously in Misery.
Cyan is attacked in the subway and goes on the run from police to hide her dark secret.
One thing I always forget is this. Shares a title with one of my favorite books.
[00:08:36] Speaker B: I've never read misery.
[00:08:38] Speaker A: Really?
[00:08:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:39] Speaker A: Oh, it's a great. It's probably one of the best Stephen kings for sure.
[00:08:42] Speaker B: Is that the one where the writer gets abducted and changed to the biddenness? Yes, that's the one. That, uh, fucking powerhouse lady was in the movie version.
[00:08:52] Speaker A: Kathy Bates.
[00:08:53] Speaker B: Kathy motherfucking Bates.
[00:08:56] Speaker A: He didn't get out of the cocka doody car.
[00:09:00] Speaker B: Great actor.
[00:09:00] Speaker A: The book's really good. It's a little more over the top.
[00:09:03] Speaker B: A little more gory as they are, as Stephen King is, the actual writing almost feels dampenous. It's always, like, so, like, you can imagine. You would touch the words and they would feel gross. Like touching a pile of viscera is how I always felt Stephen King was.
[00:09:20] Speaker A: Yeah, I think this pet cemetery is probably one of his grossest.
It's just really, really gnarly. I should probably have kid corpses.
[00:09:30] Speaker B: Gross.
[00:09:31] Speaker A: It's a quick read.
[00:09:32] Speaker B: The corpses, I mean, most.
[00:09:34] Speaker A: Unless it's one of his giant books, they're usually quick reads. Even his giant books can be quick reads. He's easy to read. Yeah, that's why he's so popular.
[00:09:42] Speaker B: There was one I read recently. It was his return to fantasy book. I don't remember what it was called. It probably would have been a good thing to mention, but it was, like, 700 pages, and I read it in, like, a day and a half.
[00:09:54] Speaker A: He's really easy to read.
[00:09:57] Speaker B: It takes me, like, three weeks to read a 120 page book now. Johnny and I read this fat Stephen King in a day and a half. I felt so accomplished.
[00:10:06] Speaker A: That's awesome.
[00:10:07] Speaker B: Easy to read.
[00:10:08] Speaker A: Easy to read. Like, if I haven't found myself in a rut where I haven't been reading for a while, I'll just pick up a Stephen King book either that I've sometimes that I've read before, sometimes a new one, then I'll usually jumpstart it pretty well.
[00:10:18] Speaker B: It's very easy to find a Stephen King you haven't read yet.
[00:10:21] Speaker A: Yes, it is. And I even at one point was trying to read them all, and then I kind of gave up just because it was just like. It's a lot.
[00:10:29] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the way I was in high school, I tried to read every Stephen King I could get my hands on and then was like, I'm just going to put it. Anything that touches the dark tower, I'll read anything else. Maybe I'll wait.
[00:10:40] Speaker A: Yeah, there was a lot of. A lot of Stephen King stuff. It was cool when we were in high school because they came out with like, the new dark tower editions. They had like the chart at the back that showed you which ones were connected.
[00:10:49] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, it was great. Cause, yeah, I was. I was a junior in high school when the last three or the last one came out. Junior or senior or was. It was 2005.
[00:11:01] Speaker A: It was 2004.
[00:11:02] Speaker B: 2004.
[00:11:03] Speaker A: The fall. That was a freshman in college.
[00:11:06] Speaker B: Yeah, it was. It was good shit, man.
[00:11:08] Speaker A: And I ordered the book online.
[00:11:10] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[00:11:11] Speaker A: It was one of the few times I'd ordered a book online for at that point.
[00:11:15] Speaker B: All three of those, I think, wolves of the colla came out when I was a freshman. And literally I had my mom drive me straight to Hastings after we got out of school. I was like, we gotta go pick up this book, Bob.
[00:11:29] Speaker A: Yeah. I remember walking to the bookstore to get Harry Potter.
[00:11:32] Speaker B: I went to a couple of midnight releases for Harry Potter books.
[00:11:36] Speaker A: Yeah. And I got the six. I got the 6th dark tower book came out when I was on a vacation, so I remember buying it in New York City.
[00:11:42] Speaker B: Ooh, nice.
[00:11:44] Speaker A: So it's your condition.
And then I also had, strangely enough, the 7th Harry Potter book came out the day I was leaving England.
[00:11:54] Speaker B: Oh, so you got the english version?
[00:11:56] Speaker A: I have the english edition. It's like a little tiny.
[00:11:58] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:11:58] Speaker A: Of the 7th book. It's just funny because all my other books are this hardcover, american, and there's this tiny. I don't have them anymore. I sold my Harry Potter books.
[00:12:06] Speaker B: But I mean, hey, they bought them.
[00:12:08] Speaker A: And I figured to make a kid happy.
[00:12:10] Speaker B: Yeah. If you have $2,000, you can buy the bound galley of the first book at a bookstore in town.
[00:12:21] Speaker A: What does that mean, bound galley?
[00:12:23] Speaker B: So it's the pre production proofs that they send out for review readers.
So that way everybody can see how it works as a book before they send it to the printers. For real.
[00:12:33] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:12:33] Speaker B: So they're usually advanced copies and have additional errors that they have to finish. But especially for a book that big, it's a document. There were definitely only a few of those made. Yeah, it's at the same place that has the John Wayne Gacy book.
[00:12:48] Speaker A: Johnny, what's the name of this bookstore?
[00:12:50] Speaker B: It's called the book table in Oak park. But they are going out of business and everything is on sale, so.
[00:12:56] Speaker A: And get that John Wayne Gacy letter.
[00:12:57] Speaker B: The John Wayne Gacy book for less than $7,000. Is that what it was? Jesus. $7,500.
[00:13:05] Speaker A: Okay, so hopefully you can get a little discount. Get like 40% off.
[00:13:10] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe.
[00:13:12] Speaker A: Well, this. This book we're talking about is only.
[00:13:14] Speaker B: $3, so, yeah, 40% off of.
[00:13:16] Speaker A: That's not very much, but it's a lot easier. It's a lot easier entry point than.
[00:13:21] Speaker B: Uh, for the John Wayne Gacy book.
[00:13:23] Speaker A: John Wayne Gacy book. It's a lot easier, uh, read, probably, I imagine. Even though it is. Even though it is intense.
[00:13:30] Speaker B: It is intense, yes.
[00:13:32] Speaker A: Not quite as intense as the first issue.
[00:13:34] Speaker B: Oh, no, no. In no way. Or as intense as the next issue. I think. I think the next issue is even more intense.
[00:13:44] Speaker A: Okay. I don't quite remember because I just read number four, so three's kind of a blank to me right now.
[00:13:50] Speaker B: Yeah, me too. But anyway, this issue starts with Cyan just hanging out in bed at Granny.
[00:13:57] Speaker A: Blake's house at 1137 exact time. Baby, it's never an even time.
No, it's always like a two, a three or a four. Like it's ever like 1130.
[00:14:07] Speaker B: It makes it seem more accurate.
It's that insistence on it not being round.
[00:14:12] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just funny. But yeah, she's in bed at 1130. Oh, my God. Time to get up.
[00:14:17] Speaker B: Yeah, get out of that bed. Granny Blake comes by, wants to see if Saiyan wants any of this breakfast she just whipped up.
[00:14:24] Speaker A: Yeah, she's just like. It's always a weird feeling. It's like people have been up and eating breakfast and you're still sleeping and you get up late and everyone's like, ah, look at you.
[00:14:31] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess we still have some stuff. It's like, I guess science slowly gets up. We see that she's got a massive shiner.
[00:14:41] Speaker A: Yeah. From the assault in the subway.
[00:14:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Her lower back's hurting her too. While she's getting up out of the bed, she looks herself in the mirror and that might have been a bad idea.
[00:14:53] Speaker A: Yeah, it kind of sends her into a spiral where she's kind of huddles on the floor in the fetal position.
[00:14:57] Speaker B: Yeah. But we do see that Simon Kudransky Johnny is a devotee of the correct way of hanging toilet paper.
[00:15:04] Speaker A: Absolutely. You can see it.
[00:15:05] Speaker B: At the very least, granny Blake is.
[00:15:08] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:15:09] Speaker B: Over the front, over the top, not over the back. Like emokid, not mullethenne and then cyan gets called the breakfast again. And then, man, this amount of breakfast for so late in the day.
[00:15:21] Speaker A: Yeah. There's, like, seven pancakes there.
[00:15:23] Speaker B: Yeah. There's so many pancakes. There's, like, a bowl of apples or peaches, probably apples.
[00:15:28] Speaker A: She's got, like, sausages and eggs or something.
[00:15:30] Speaker B: Mm hmm. She's got all different kinds of milks. She's drinking a sprite. That looks like a great breakfast. I could go for some pancakes. Yeah.
[00:15:37] Speaker A: I always gotta have, like, three drinks at breakfast.
[00:15:39] Speaker B: So you got your coffee, your water and your orange juice.
[00:15:42] Speaker A: Bare minimum watch.
Bare minimum horseshoe. Sometimes a diet Coke. If I'm feeling crazy. Just like Cyan. Drinking a soda for breakfast.
[00:15:51] Speaker B: Sometimes. There's nothing that beats it.
[00:15:53] Speaker A: Sometimes.
[00:15:54] Speaker B: Yeah. And Granny Blake starts with trying to have a conversation with Cyan, figure out what's going on. And Cyan's being cagey and evasive and not telling the whole truth. She mentions. She mentions what had happened previously with Granny Blake. And Granny Blake's. I ain't telling nobody about that.
[00:16:12] Speaker A: Yeah. She's, like, trying to change the subject. She's like, what about you? Why should we be worried about you? And she's like, what? I didn't tell anyone about that.
[00:16:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Cyan continues to be cagey. And we get a good. This good. Simon Kudranski loves doing this.
Intense conversations. Doing back and forth panels. And then, like, focuses on small details as kind of sometimes when you have to say. When you're having hard conversations, like, you pay attention to shit that doesn't matter. He's very good at conveying that in these. But then after. After a minute, Granny Blake just. She's had enough. And she just slams her hands down on the table. Since the pancakes and the orange juice and the apple's flying.
[00:16:51] Speaker A: Yeah. She goes, bam.
[00:16:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:54] Speaker A: Don't lie to me.
[00:16:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Not now, not ever.
[00:16:58] Speaker A: It's scary. It's like, okay.
[00:17:00] Speaker B: Yeah. I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of an upset Granny Blake blast. Oh, wow. That's hard to say. Upset Granny Blake blast got Blake blasted.
[00:17:11] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:12] Speaker B: Cyan, you know, obviously quite upset herself. Starts apologizing, and Granny Blake's like, hey, I didn't mean to be so upset, but you gotta. You gotta be honest with me. I can't help you if you are being honest with me.
[00:17:28] Speaker A: And she knew she was upset from the way she walked. She was shuffling and sad. Nothing. The way a teenager should act with all their energy.
[00:17:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Granny Blake says she may be blind, but she. She can see everything when it comes to the people she loves. So, yeah, it's good. It's a nice little. A nice little embrace that they have. Oh, man. Granny Blake's a good granny. Good granny. Oh, man. Johnny.
[00:17:53] Speaker A: Granny Blake's a good Blake.
[00:17:54] Speaker B: Good Blake. We've got some continuity error here, Johnny. What's that on the previous page? She's slamming the table. And there's that whole stack of pancakes on this next page.
Where's the stack of pancakes?
[00:18:09] Speaker A: Cyan ate them real quick, just off.
[00:18:11] Speaker B: The table, all seven of them, like, anime style. Just throwing them in her mouth with crumbs flying around.
[00:18:19] Speaker A: She could have moved him to the other side of the kitchen or something. Who knows?
We cut to the police station, where we have Jenny working on some files.
[00:18:30] Speaker B: Yes. And there's a supervisor or something like that comes over.
I don't know if we've met this lady before.
[00:18:39] Speaker A: I don't think so. I think it's a new character here.
[00:18:41] Speaker B: But they're talking about, you know, Cyan, the little runaway, the escapee. They keep calling her. And then while they're in the middle of talking about it, Jin gets a ominous text message about this very topic.
[00:18:56] Speaker A: The DA doesn't like it when kids go missing.
[00:18:58] Speaker B: Da sounds like a jerk.
[00:19:01] Speaker A: Yeah. So she's like, oh, man, how'd he find out? And the friend's like, yo, he's connected to everyone.
[00:19:06] Speaker B: Don't answer. Leave it on red. Although the problem is, he probably has read receipts on, so he knows that she saw it.
[00:19:13] Speaker A: It would depend if she has read receipts. I think. Hopefully, she's turned them off.
[00:19:18] Speaker B: Yep. And she's like, well, you know what? This is just one child and a stack of missing children that I got to deal with, so I'm just gonna move on to work. And then we get to see very, very top file on her stack of missing children.
[00:19:31] Speaker A: Johnny, it's Simon. It's Simon the Kingslayer.
[00:19:34] Speaker B: The Kingslayer himself. He's grown up a little bit since then.
[00:19:39] Speaker A: Yes. He's been in green world growing up.
[00:19:41] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's got a full suit of armor and everything.
[00:19:45] Speaker A: Yeah. But they think he's still missing. And we know that he is found in his own way, in the pages of kings spawns.
[00:19:55] Speaker B: Yes. He has been found by the heap and been trained by the heap.
[00:20:02] Speaker A: Now they're best buds.
[00:20:04] Speaker B: And so then we go from there to post breakfast. Granny Blake's in a pancake coma.
[00:20:11] Speaker A: She's just taking a nap.
[00:20:12] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, I hear your granny Blake slamming pancakes and taking naps. Man, that sounds like a beautiful day.
[00:20:19] Speaker A: Not too shabby.
[00:20:20] Speaker B: Not at all. Cyan sneaks out. Sneaks out to go grab some fresh air, and, you know, sits at the park because it's close by, watches the children run around.
A child gets hurt, and she's watching the interactions between this child and. And his mother, and she's like, man, remember Wanda Blake? She was fucking awesome.
[00:20:42] Speaker A: She's a good mom.
[00:20:44] Speaker B: Yeah. And so she just sits there for hours. Hours. I don't know what time she leaves. We don't get a time for that, but we get, you know, she's there at 721. She's there at 848.
[00:20:56] Speaker A: And someone approaches her.
[00:20:58] Speaker B: Yeah. She's sitting on this bench, and there's this very creepy man with a very creepy ponytail comes up and starts, you know, saying really creepy things. Johnny.
[00:21:08] Speaker A: Yeah. He's like, you're one of us, aren't you?
[00:21:12] Speaker B: Mm hmm.
[00:21:13] Speaker A: There's a lot of us stuck here like you.
[00:21:16] Speaker B: No one thinks we're worthwhile, worth protecting, but we are.
[00:21:20] Speaker A: I wonder if he's, like a angel or if he's just another powered person or what.
[00:21:25] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know. We get a. We get a little hint of kind of what he's connected to. To. But no actual clarity.
[00:21:32] Speaker A: Right. Because he reaches out for her and grabs her. She's leaving, and she goes, let go. Don't touch me. And, like, grabs his head, and that triggers her ability.
[00:21:42] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we get this two page spread that is just, like, anatomical drawings of humans and probably demons. And just.
We got a hand with. With, like, claws instead of nails and everything.
[00:21:57] Speaker A: Oh, Mandy, it looks like the pages of the Necronomicon.
[00:22:00] Speaker B: Yeah, it does. It does. Or it looks kind of like the souls entombed in Freddy Krueger's body. A little bit.
[00:22:09] Speaker A: A little bit. Yeah, that kind of bubbly.
[00:22:13] Speaker B: So whatever it is, it's not nice. And we can imagine how upsetting it would be to just have all of this flash in your head that Cyan's got going on right now.
[00:22:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:23] Speaker B: And we get another little breakdown of kind of what her power does in the moment. And then the next page, both her and this guy are just, like, getting over the side effects of having terrible things flash through your head all at once. And the guy is very upset, and he's like, they said, I need to deliver them value, and you are value. So he's in deep with somebody, and literally, his life depends on bringing them something that they can use. And he's like, they could use you. But then we got a wee woo coming up and Cyan's like, nope, goodbye.
[00:22:58] Speaker A: I'm out of here.
[00:22:59] Speaker B: She ain't got time for no police.
[00:23:02] Speaker A: Also, you get a fun typo.
[00:23:03] Speaker B: What's that? Which one?
[00:23:04] Speaker A: She's gone by the time the office stepped from his car.
[00:23:08] Speaker B: Nice. Can you just imagine? It's a whole room with a desk and a little stapler and a coffee mug comes out.
It speaks like a squeaky chair.
[00:23:22] Speaker A: Yeah, a whole walking room, mister.
[00:23:26] Speaker B: Walk down me on the walkway. Then we cut to a coffee shop where Cyan's friend, who we met in the first issue, is slinging some skinny grande lattes for 840. That's a great price for a. For a grande.
[00:23:41] Speaker A: 400.
[00:23:41] Speaker B: 8480. What did I say? What? You said 848.40. Whoo. 840 is what I would expect to pay. 480 is not bad.
[00:23:49] Speaker A: The f 480 is not bad. Starbucks? More like $5.
More like $10. More like it.
[00:23:57] Speaker B: Yeah, more like it. I don't know. I only. I only. I get my one Psl a year. And that's basically all the Starbucks I do.
[00:24:05] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't do Starbucks very often, but, you know, in America, you find yourself relying on it occasionally.
[00:24:10] Speaker B: I don't like it. It tastes burnt to me. I don't like it. But over roasting does lead to consistency between batches, so.
[00:24:17] Speaker A: Well, there you go.
[00:24:19] Speaker B: So say Ann's friend whose name I forgot already. Brooke. It's right there. Brooke is like, hey, I gotta go on break. And so she goes. Goes on break. I don't know if we need to talk about her going to the bathroom, but that's where she is. She goes to the bathroom and somebody invariably, as soon as you get into a one hole or bathroom like this, as soon as you close the door, somebody's at that thing being like, hey, hey, hey, hey.
[00:24:44] Speaker A: Knock, knock, knock.
[00:24:46] Speaker B: Occupado.
It's always the worst. You're in the middle of doing your business and somebody comes up and just like, smashes on the door. And it's like, ah, jesus.
So Brooke's, you know, getting ready to leave. She's all, you know, making sure she's good to go.
The banging doesn't stop, and she's like, I said, I'll be right out. And then Cyan appears in the bathroom with Brooke. And Brooke's like, ah, what the fuck? Cyan, how'd you. So Cyan had invisible lidded herself into the bathroom.
[00:25:19] Speaker A: Yes.
Which she was already there.
[00:25:22] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:23] Speaker A: Which means she just sat there and watched her pee and be invisible.
[00:25:26] Speaker B: Oh, man. So she, she pulled the Kevin bacon from Hollow man?
[00:25:31] Speaker A: Sure. Does he watch people pee in that movie?
[00:25:34] Speaker B: I'm pretty sure the first thing he does when he finds out he's invisible is he goes to the women's locker room and watches them shower.
[00:25:41] Speaker A: Okay, well, good job, hollow man.
[00:25:44] Speaker B: That's, uh, what was that, 1998? So 99.
Of course it's necessary.
[00:25:51] Speaker A: Yeah, it's also Paul Verhoeven. It's like over the top.
[00:25:54] Speaker B: Also, man's is trash, so that's what man's is gonna do when they turn invisible.
[00:26:02] Speaker A: That's true.
[00:26:03] Speaker B: Do a little peeping time action.
[00:26:06] Speaker A: The cyan comes in there, and she's holding up a sign that says, need your phone, meet at your house.
And she flips the sign over and.
[00:26:14] Speaker B: Says, can't talk now.
[00:26:18] Speaker A: Great expression on Cyan's face. Yeah, he's very pained.
[00:26:22] Speaker B: You can see that she kind of wants. She wants to talk, but she can't. And that sucks.
[00:26:27] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:29] Speaker B: So Brooke hands over her phone, and then we see later, Brooke's going home and she's like, hey, did anybody stop by mom? And her mom's like, nope. So Brooke's like, eh, goes up to her bedroom and then, like, cyan, like, materializes in the shadows.
[00:26:43] Speaker A: Yeah, just freak her the fuck out.
[00:26:47] Speaker B: And Hans Brooke back her phone. And apparently Cyan's just been texting people, trying to as Brooke being like, man, cyan sucks. Don't associate with her no more. And Brooke's like, the fuck is this? And Cyan's like, I got a lot of people coming after me.
[00:27:05] Speaker A: They're probably gotta push everybody away.
[00:27:07] Speaker B: They're gonna come after the people I care about. I gotta fucking just. We gotta separate ourselves as quickly as possible. And then she's like, these are probably some of the people that are coming after me. I stole some files from a place that I was held against my will. Let's go through them real quick. Why not going through all these medical files, Johnny, the stealing of protected health information is a felony. So, yeah, they in big trouble if they get caught.
[00:27:40] Speaker A: Big trouble.
[00:27:41] Speaker B: Even though it is to uncover another crime, committing a crime in the uncovering of another crime isn't necessarily.
[00:27:50] Speaker A: Isn't necessarily. Okay, it's still a crime.
[00:27:52] Speaker B: It is still a crime, but. So Cyan and Brooke are there sorting through all these documents. And then we cut to Jen. She's pulled up into her driveway. She's having a driveway moment. The NPR story she's listening to has like, 45 more seconds. And she wants to hear the ending.
[00:28:09] Speaker A: Yeah. She's like, I gotta wait.
[00:28:11] Speaker B: No, she's dreading going inside. And then she very slowly, you know, does.
And she is not warmly welcomed. Her children are away.
Her husband is there, and he's a piece of shit.
[00:28:27] Speaker A: Yeah. Immediately, like, raises his hand to her.
[00:28:30] Speaker B: Yeah. And we get the skull to end the issue. It's not a. Not a very happy ending on this one.
[00:28:36] Speaker A: No, not really.
[00:28:36] Speaker B: Pretty rough.
[00:28:38] Speaker A: It just kind of ends there.
[00:28:39] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the story.
[00:28:42] Speaker A: That's the book.
[00:28:43] Speaker B: New generation, new stories, new you. We got an ad for all of the upcoming spin offs and mini series and new ongoing series.
[00:28:53] Speaker A: Yes. The nice violator cover.
[00:28:56] Speaker B: That's. That's. That's not the violator cover. That was shipped. That's the long delayed one. Only one of them was shipped out recently.
[00:29:04] Speaker A: No, the new one came out.
[00:29:06] Speaker B: The new one did come out. Okay.
[00:29:07] Speaker A: Yeah, it came out this week. The a and B cover came out this week. The C cover came out last week.
[00:29:13] Speaker B: I don't think my shop had a or b, because I checked again this week just to see. And I think they still only have circumental.
Interesting.
[00:29:21] Speaker A: It's all screwed up.
[00:29:23] Speaker B: It's a great book, though.
It's worth the waiting for the screw up. I promise. Y'all go get violator if you have it.
[00:29:31] Speaker A: Sweet.
[00:29:32] Speaker B: We got the spawn origins collections ad there.
Still one through six for $10. Man.
[00:29:39] Speaker A: Can't beat it.
[00:29:40] Speaker B: Can't beat it. Got a witchblade ad. Yeah, switchblade is fantastic. It's real good.
[00:29:47] Speaker A: Looks fun.
[00:29:48] Speaker B: Love, Marguerite Bennett.
[00:29:49] Speaker A: Are they the artist or the.
[00:29:51] Speaker B: She's the writer.
[00:29:52] Speaker A: She's the writer.
[00:29:53] Speaker B: She's the writer. Yeah. Giuseppe is the drawer. The drawer. The artist.
[00:29:59] Speaker A: The drawer, the drawer.
[00:30:02] Speaker B: He's the drawer, but he's the drawler, Johnny. He just stands in the back and goes, y'all, I'm a mouse.
[00:30:09] Speaker A: Ian, he's drawing.
[00:30:12] Speaker B: He's drawling.
World of Warcraft is the toyota on the back.
That's the issue. That's misery number two, Jeff.
[00:30:21] Speaker A: Kind of a little slice of life, technically.
[00:30:24] Speaker B: Misery number 204, if we're being pedantic about it.
[00:30:28] Speaker A: That's what it says.
[00:30:29] Speaker B: What it says.
[00:30:42] Speaker A: So next up, we have king spawn number 36, and we got two covers to talk about. I have the a cover.
[00:30:51] Speaker B: That's a real good cover. Johnny the day cover, Karen Grant.
[00:30:55] Speaker A: And, yeah, it's, like, spawned, like, a crazy venom head, like a giant jaw, just like, screaming.
[00:31:00] Speaker B: That is the one I also have. Yes.
[00:31:02] Speaker A: His chains are just shooting up. Into the heavens. Yeah.
[00:31:05] Speaker B: And it's like watercolor.
[00:31:07] Speaker A: Yeah, it is kind of watercolor. It's cool.
[00:31:09] Speaker B: So the colors are all real bright, but it's still real nasty. It's great. Yeah, it looks kind of like spawn is on fire. And, like, the very. The very barrier of his body is, like, breaking down. It's cool.
[00:31:23] Speaker A: Yeah. Cause there's, like, little flecks of, like, black, kind of, like, coming off the symbiote.
[00:31:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:31:29] Speaker A: And there is a bee cover.
[00:31:30] Speaker B: The skulls are real nice too.
[00:31:33] Speaker A: Yeah, they're all chunky.
[00:31:34] Speaker B: They're all good. This bee cover we got here, Johnny, it's by ki bar. It's real nice. It's got a more classic Al Simmons outfit going on. It's got that big m for Malbolsia.
[00:31:47] Speaker A: And there's just all these hands and arms just reaching up out of the darkness towards, like, reaching up.
[00:31:53] Speaker B: It looks very much like one of the trials that Al Simmons had to undergo in his trek through hell.
[00:32:00] Speaker A: Yes, it does. Very creepy.
[00:32:02] Speaker B: Or like, the helping hands from labyrinth that leads Sarah to the oubliette.
[00:32:08] Speaker A: Those are always creepy.
[00:32:09] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got that puppeteer, Lee, like, single light source on him.
[00:32:15] Speaker A: Yeah. Kabar is at spawn Con, I'm pretty sure.
[00:32:17] Speaker B: Oh, nice. It's a dope cover too. It's real good. Two good covers this week.
[00:32:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Excellent stuff. Let me pop it open for the credits.
[00:32:25] Speaker B: Dude, we gotta pop that open. And, Johnny, as we mentioned before, this is a double toddfather day. A double modfather day, actually, since it's modern.
[00:32:33] Speaker A: Modern toddfather.
[00:32:34] Speaker B: So we got script plot by Tom McFarlane. As we mentioned, two artists. The first artist is Jason, Sean Alexander, and Yilda Ray Sanar. We got color by Ivan Nunez, lettering by Andworld Design. We done covered the covers. Creative director Todd McFarlane and editor in chief Thomas Healye. Which brings us to previously in King Spawn. With granny now safe with Cyan, spawn brings the fight to those that sought to harm her.
Nice.
[00:33:04] Speaker A: Is Granny spelled with an ie?
[00:33:05] Speaker B: Yes, it is. It's the canadian way.
[00:33:08] Speaker A: The canadian way.
[00:33:10] Speaker B: And. And we love. We love finding random connections between random issues of spawns, Johnny. And, you know, it's a double toddfather. It's a double grainy day.
[00:33:21] Speaker A: They mentioned Granny.
[00:33:23] Speaker B: They mentioned Grammy a couple of times, right?
[00:33:26] Speaker A: I think so. We'll find out.
[00:33:28] Speaker B: That's enough for me, Johnny.
[00:33:30] Speaker A: That's all you need.
[00:33:32] Speaker B: So we open in Home Depot, like, Home Depot, Lowe's, menards, whatever.
[00:33:38] Speaker A: Those places always smell good.
[00:33:39] Speaker B: Yeah, they do. I think it's the lumber. And then like, basically all the equipment comes covered in some sort of protective oil.
[00:33:48] Speaker A: Yeah, it all comes together for a lovely smell.
[00:33:51] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real nice, man. I love.
[00:33:53] Speaker A: Yeah, this guy. We were introduced at the very end, the last issue. Jacob Marsh.
[00:33:57] Speaker B: Yes. He's the tinkerer. Yes, yes, yes. I think we get that name later on. Sorry for spoilers for a couple of pages from now, but. Oh, my God, he's the tinkerer and he's. He's got just a cart full of shit. Johnny, look at all that.
It must be some project to get going.
[00:34:14] Speaker A: Yeah, he's got a bunch of shit.
[00:34:16] Speaker B: It looks like he has an accordion, but I don't think it's an accordion.
He's got a lot of stuff. The cashier lady is, you know, trying to make some small talk about all the stuff he's buying. And it's like, yeah, it's a remodel. But we learned that he's got a couple more stops to make. Johnny, he didn't get everything here. I'm going to assume he probably hit several home improvement warehouses slash hardware stores to avoid being put on any government watch lists.
[00:34:45] Speaker A: Yeah, this would definitely get you on one.
[00:34:47] Speaker B: Yeah, especially because I bet he doesn't have a contractor's license, so he doesn't get the good discounts.
[00:34:53] Speaker A: No, I was just double checking that the tinker didn't exist before this in spawn. It didn't.
[00:34:58] Speaker B: Alright, so this is.
[00:34:59] Speaker A: I just feel like this guy might be from earlier issues, but it appears not.
[00:35:03] Speaker B: I don't know. He definitely. He definitely has a nineties feel to him, especially with his.
[00:35:06] Speaker A: Oh yeah. He feel like there's like two thousands or there's 200s we haven't read.
[00:35:11] Speaker B: There's a bunch. He definitely looks like somebody tried to update the BK Kids club.
[00:35:19] Speaker A: Yeah, he does. He's like IQ. He looks a little like Beaker in that one panel.
[00:35:23] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
He looks a little bit like beak man.
Maybe a little like the hair color is wrong, but he's got that crazy scientist vibe to him.
[00:35:34] Speaker A: Yeah. I liked Peekman's world.
[00:35:35] Speaker B: I loved Peekman's world.
[00:35:36] Speaker A: I bet you did. He's right up your alley.
[00:35:40] Speaker B: He had a big rat friend. How could you not like it?
The penguins that are forced to watch Beekman's world because it's the only show they get on their television in Antarctica.
Hilarious. But so these additional stops that the tinkerer Jacob needs to make are the pharmacy. So he goes into the pharmacy and he's looking at the, he's looking at the first aid section, he's looking at some band aids, he's looking at some aspirin, and it goes up to the pharmacist, and he's like, what's the strongest over the counter painkiller you have?
[00:36:17] Speaker A: You know, just like a normal thing. You ask a pharmacist, I mean, I can. I guess it is.
[00:36:22] Speaker B: I can imagine that somebody's being like, man, I don't want to go to the fucking er. So I can't get some pain meds, but I hurt. What can I get?
That seems like a reasonable question to ask in a pharmacy, but then to include asking for directions to a liquor store on top of it, right?
[00:36:38] Speaker A: That's the part where I'm like, okay.
[00:36:42] Speaker B: So he gets directions to the liquor store from the pharmacist.
[00:36:45] Speaker A: It's also funny because the pharmacist says it's always open. Unfortunately, she, like, hates the liquor store.
[00:36:50] Speaker B: A teetotallin pharmacist there, Johnny.
[00:36:53] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:36:54] Speaker B: Then Jacob shows up at the liquor store, says the opening reading, asks for what the strongest bottle of liquor is.
[00:37:04] Speaker A: Excuse me, what's your strongest bottle of liquor?
[00:37:06] Speaker B: Which, I mean, I bet the guy at the desk is probably, the counter is probably very confused because that's probably what obvious 17 year olds ask, thinking that.
[00:37:17] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly.
[00:37:18] Speaker B: It's like, shouldn't you know stuff by now?
[00:37:22] Speaker A: What would you direct them to the Everclear?
[00:37:24] Speaker B: That's. That's what I. Either that or some vodka because. Yeah, like, some 151 maybe. Probably. I would probably push them more towards a 151 or something because. Because Everclear is cheap as shit. But if you're going to be selling something with, like, a brand, their brand is there strong, that it's better for the. It's better for the business.
[00:37:44] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:37:44] Speaker B: And then we get some spooky vibes going over here, Johnny. We got the full moon between some leafless trees. We got a door that doesn't look very inviting.
[00:37:57] Speaker A: We got lit in the alley, a.
[00:38:00] Speaker B: Bloody needle, and then Al Simmons calling Jacob a pussy.
[00:38:04] Speaker A: Just do it, you pussy.
[00:38:06] Speaker B: Jacob hands over the bottle of booze.
[00:38:09] Speaker A: That's the strongest liquor they have.
[00:38:11] Speaker B: Yeah, that looks like it comes in an olive oil bottle.
[00:38:14] Speaker A: Yeah, this is an olive oil bottle. I was gonna say the same thing.
[00:38:17] Speaker B: And then Jacob's there, you know, sterilizing. He's. He's gonna burn his fingies doing it that way, Johnny. He's got his fingers right, right above that flame. That needles gonna get real hot real quick.
[00:38:30] Speaker A: Mm. Hmm.
[00:38:31] Speaker B: And then Jacob, we get a close up on Jacob's forehead, and he's just, like, drenched in flop sweat. He's just like, oh, boy. I'm not. I'm not a medic. Hopefully those painkills work.
[00:38:40] Speaker A: Al's like, you're all I got, so just do it.
[00:38:42] Speaker B: Yeah. And then Jacob's like, this is stupid, but he starts doing some sewing work. Yeah.
[00:38:48] Speaker A: Speaking of body horror, here's some body horror for you.
[00:38:51] Speaker B: He's doing a cross stitch for his grandma so she can put it in her living room. He just happens to be doing it on the dead guy.
[00:38:58] Speaker A: Al Simms got busted the fuck up. His arms split. Yeah.
[00:39:01] Speaker B: Like, Al Simmons is not in a good way.
[00:39:03] Speaker A: He looks like he fought art the clown.
[00:39:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. That he could walk away from an encounter with art the clown is impressive.
[00:39:11] Speaker A: If anyone could, it'd be Swan.
[00:39:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Or, you know that lady from terrifier two whose father gave her the angel Persona? She was able to walk away a little bit. Not undamaged.
[00:39:25] Speaker A: No. So, Jake, she has her hand cut off, right?
[00:39:28] Speaker B: Yeah. And then, like, she gets melted.
[00:39:29] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah.
[00:39:30] Speaker B: Yeah. But she's still alive. She's still alive and talking about it on tv. Jenny. Holy geeze.
[00:39:37] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that's right.
[00:39:38] Speaker B: I don't know how they're gonna top that.
[00:39:39] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know. That's a wild movie.
[00:39:42] Speaker B: So wild. Jacob's going along, doing the stitching, and then after a little bit, he's like, okay, in order to finish this, I gotta use this gigantic fucking fish hook right here.
[00:39:54] Speaker A: So sorry.
[00:39:56] Speaker B: So take. I'd take a drink if I were you. And then. And then, you know, he finishes with the hook and he's there. I just gotta make sure that it's not going to get infected. So I got to cauterize it. So pulls out, like an old fashioned welding torch.
[00:40:10] Speaker A: Yes. And just lays into it.
[00:40:14] Speaker B: Let's just say Al Simmons is no stranger to being crispified.
[00:40:20] Speaker A: Yeah, but it still hurts.
[00:40:22] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we cut from there, too. Big boss office. Johnny big windows, big art.
[00:40:29] Speaker A: No.
[00:40:29] Speaker B: And we got blood here. And he's talking to some of his underlings, you know, trying to see how things are sitting, you know, how his empire is running. His underlings are thinking that this is more of a carefree fun time than blood is. And blood is very upset with them. I know we have an angel in captivity. Bring me that angel. So they drag. They drag this angel in. Blood starts talking to him. Blood's like, let's cut a deal, huh? You help me, I help you, right?
[00:40:58] Speaker A: Yeah, why not?
[00:40:59] Speaker B: Yeah, why not? And then, you know, we get a little time cut here, and they've been. They've been. They've been sorkinning, Johnny. They've been walking and talking. They've been getting to the top of the building. While they're sharing this information, Blood drops a little bon mont. Like, I bet. I bet you as an angel, I bet you really miss flying, don't you? And then just throws him off, off the top of the building.
[00:41:24] Speaker A: Just throws him out the fucking window.
[00:41:26] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:27] Speaker A: And he's like, tell security to clean up the mess before the police come.
[00:41:30] Speaker B: Yeah. Then we cut to Al Simmons in all of his bandaged glory, just, like, cradling a little cup of tea, you know?
[00:41:40] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:41:42] Speaker B: He's decided that he has the time to get better, Johnny. And we all need to remember that we have the time to get better.
[00:41:51] Speaker A: It's a good thing to remember if.
[00:41:53] Speaker B: You think you don't have time to get better. No, no, no. You take the time. You get better. The only way you're gonna get better is if you take the time. So therefore, you have to take the time.
[00:42:03] Speaker A: You must.
[00:42:03] Speaker B: You have the time. He's, you know, just thinking about getting better, really. He's just slowly doing stuff. And then Jacob's like, hey, hey, hey, I got something to show you. And he starts nerding out and being like, I did this, and I did this, and I did this. And Al's like, I don't. I'm not a nerd.
[00:42:22] Speaker A: Just show me.
[00:42:22] Speaker B: Just show me the thing.
And Jacob has made Al basically like an exoskeleton. That'll help make it seem like he still has his hell powers. It'll increase his strength. It'll increase his stamina. All that good nonsense. It gives him a badass hidden. Hidden wrist knives and everything.
[00:42:43] Speaker A: Gun on his chest, lots of pockets.
[00:42:46] Speaker B: And he's like, thanks for this, Jacob. There's an abandoned office across town that has a brown paper bag of money in it. That's for you.
[00:42:56] Speaker A: Hopefully, it's still there.
[00:42:57] Speaker B: Hopefully. Hopefully nobody stole it. And then he apologizes for calling him a pussy.
[00:43:01] Speaker A: Thanks.
[00:43:02] Speaker B: Thanks, Todd.
We could have done without the callback, but whatever.
[00:43:07] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:43:08] Speaker B: Then spawn basically goes and does a Batman trying out his new toys montage.
[00:43:16] Speaker A: There's a shift. There's a shift in the art.
[00:43:19] Speaker B: Yeah, there is a shift in the art. This is very.
[00:43:21] Speaker A: That's a great last panel for Jason Shawn Alexander to end on with the big reveal of Swan and his mech suit kind of thing. Glory. Pretty cool. And then you cut to the new art.
[00:43:32] Speaker B: Yeah. And so Spawn's jumping rooftop to rooftop through the alleys. He's landed in superhero pose. He's walking into what turns out to be one of his hidden armor.
[00:43:45] Speaker A: Many safe houses.
[00:43:47] Speaker B: Then he picks up a plate of meat.
[00:43:51] Speaker A: Yeah, like a bron some of the Flintstones would order.
[00:43:53] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. It's like brontosaurus ribs.
[00:43:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:43:56] Speaker B: He brings them over to a cage. But for what reason, we don't know. And I'm really liking this new art here, Johnny. It's real dingy and gritty, but in a very clean way.
[00:44:07] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a good way to put it.
[00:44:09] Speaker B: Like, it's. It's very Derek Robertson. So it's got kind of that. That nastiness feeling that the boys has just from being Derek Robertson art. It's got a lot of that on it, and I like it.
[00:44:20] Speaker A: Yeah. Sonnar does a good job.
[00:44:22] Speaker B: And so we see some biker gang guys who are under the thumb of the vampires, and they're arguing in an abandoned biker gang.
[00:44:31] Speaker A: Angels, to be specific.
[00:44:32] Speaker B: Ah, yes. Holy rollers, if you will.
[00:44:35] Speaker A: Holy rollers.
[00:44:36] Speaker B: If that's not their name, Johnny, I would be very sad.
[00:44:38] Speaker A: Are they old dogs or are they wild hogs?
[00:44:41] Speaker B: They're old. They're old, old, old hogs. They're old wilds.
[00:44:47] Speaker A: Old wilds.
[00:44:47] Speaker B: Old wilds. They're hog dogs.
[00:44:49] Speaker A: Which movie do you prefer, old dogs or wild hogs?
[00:44:52] Speaker B: I'd rather be an old dog.
[00:44:54] Speaker A: Okay. That's the one with Tim Allen and all them.
[00:44:57] Speaker B: I don't know which one is which.
[00:45:01] Speaker A: They're both by the same director, I'm pretty sure.
[00:45:03] Speaker B: Just name alone. I would much rather be an old than a wild.
[00:45:07] Speaker A: There you go.
[00:45:08] Speaker B: So these holy rollers are, you know, talking about how many that they've lost in all their recent scuffles. They've lost six people just to spawn alone, I do believe, is what they're saying.
And then they've got their. Their big. Their big fucking computer screen.
[00:45:24] Speaker A: Sorry, I'm playing with my Al Simmons action figure.
[00:45:26] Speaker B: No, no, no worries. And they're talking about.
[00:45:28] Speaker A: I got the Al Simmons action figure we opened a couple weeks ago.
[00:45:31] Speaker B: Yeah, with a. With the backpack that turns into a rocket launcher.
[00:45:35] Speaker A: I left the backpack in the other room. I just had the figure with the gun.
[00:45:40] Speaker B: That's all Al Simmons needs, honestly.
[00:45:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:45:44] Speaker B: I like how this guy refers to. He's gonna do his computer magic.
[00:45:48] Speaker A: My computer magic.
[00:45:51] Speaker B: He's no Mark Ronce. Why did I just forget Mark's last name? Rosen. He's no Mark Rosen.
[00:45:56] Speaker A: Mark Rosen. No, he's no Mark Rosen.
[00:45:58] Speaker B: He's no Mark Rosen, but.
[00:45:59] Speaker A: Or Terry Fitzgerald.
[00:46:00] Speaker B: Or Terry Fitzgerald. Yeah, that's true. Terry Fitzgerald was computerin in the early nineties, which meant you had to be a big ass nerd to know what was going on, right?
And then 20 minutes later, while this guy's just staring at his screen, Johnny, this happens to me at work not too long ago. I was having to write a document and was having a hard time keeping what I needed to write and my attention going at the same time. And so it's just, like, at the computer, like, basically falling asleep while I was typing. And then somebody came over, and I was immediately like, what?
They didn't have a gun in their hands, but yeah.
[00:46:41] Speaker A: Cause spawn sneaks up on our computer. Guy here with a gun.
[00:46:44] Speaker B: Yeah. Somebody coming up on you while you're falling asleep at your computer wakes you up pretty damn quick, I bet. And we learned that this man's name is Tyrone, and Spahn believes that they're looking for him.
[00:46:57] Speaker A: I believe you're fucking looking for me, he says.
[00:47:00] Speaker B: And then we get a nice little first full spawn from this new artist.
[00:47:06] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:47:08] Speaker B: There's some machismo bluster here.
[00:47:11] Speaker A: Yeah. I like the idea that the place is wired for gunfire frequency. If you shoot, it sets off alarms.
[00:47:17] Speaker B: They've got that shots. This is where the shotspotter, this is where the Chicago shotspotter contract got transferred. Was just, this guy was to the holy rollers. So Al's just like, man, I don't like you. I just want you dead. I want all your people dead. And this guy's like, hey, if you kill me, you're gonna have to kill everybody. And Spawn's kind of like, you know what?
I think I could deal with that then.
[00:47:39] Speaker A: Just the classic, you know who my dad is, right?
[00:47:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:47:43] Speaker A: My dad's a lawyer.
[00:47:45] Speaker B: He's like, I know exactly who your dad is. Why do you think I'm fucking here?
[00:47:49] Speaker A: I'm here to piss off your dad.
[00:47:50] Speaker B: Yeah. And then when he's down, when Tyrone is down on the ground, Al picks him back up and puts us, puts a knife to his throat. He's like, I need you to call your men.
Call him. Call your men. And he finally does.
[00:48:03] Speaker A: He does. And he goes wee wee.
[00:48:06] Speaker B: And they come running with katanas and knives and axes and chains and what looks like a javelin in the background there.
So, yeah, they just rush in quite the menagerie of weapons and Tyrone's like, I see you're wearing a fancy suit. You think that fancy suit's gonna get you out of here? I don't know about that, bud. So then it's quiet for a couple of seconds.
[00:48:31] Speaker A: They run in, and then we're just kind of staring at each other.
And Spawn says, only one of you is leaving alive.
[00:48:38] Speaker B: Yeah, real nice. And then we learn what Al's secret plan was, Johnny.
[00:48:44] Speaker A: We learned who he was feeding those brontosaurus ribs to.
[00:48:46] Speaker B: Yes, we do. And the secret plan is anime fists coming through the wall there. Right?
[00:48:53] Speaker A: Nothing but whose fist is it?
[00:48:55] Speaker B: Majesty and speed lines. And it belongs to our good, good friend Johnny Psychor.
[00:49:05] Speaker A: Yep. He's there. He pops in.
[00:49:08] Speaker B: This is great. I have a feeling that when they laid out this issue, that one of the biggest arguments was who gets to do the Cygor panel on the very last page. Yeah, that's where everything shuffled from. So I think that's one of the reasons why Jason Shawn Alexander got that great spawn panel in the middle.
[00:49:30] Speaker A: It's kind of his farewell business.
[00:49:32] Speaker B: If he's like, if I don't get to do psycho, I at least get to do a fucking badass spawn. But, yeah.
[00:49:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:49:37] Speaker B: Cyborg's back, and he's stitched up even more than ever.
Yeah.
[00:49:42] Speaker A: Very frankensteiny, if you can imagine.
[00:49:44] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Like, they. It looks like they've literally stapled his. His fingernails back on.
[00:49:51] Speaker A: Yeah, no, it does. Oh, my God. That'd be painful.
[00:49:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Cycort. He's back.
[00:49:57] Speaker A: He's back. We're here to wreak havoc.
[00:49:59] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we get King Spawn sculta. And the issue we do get. We do get a tease at the end. It does say, next issue, psych orc.
[00:50:07] Speaker A: On wild, which is true.
[00:50:09] Speaker B: So that means it's gonna be a whole bunch of blurred out bits. And the black bar, 1999, plus shipping and handling. And you have to. You have to be 18 or older to call.
[00:50:21] Speaker A: Yeah. If you're watching Comedy central past 02:00 a.m. that's what they'll be showing. Girls got wild commercials.
[00:50:28] Speaker B: Psych work.
[00:50:28] Speaker A: And wild warning. This video contains not content not suitable for children.
So I was. Remember the beginning of the commercial?
[00:50:35] Speaker B: Yeah, the commercial was, like, seven minutes long.
[00:50:38] Speaker A: There's, like, a full 30 minutes, like, infomercial one.
What a time.
[00:50:42] Speaker B: What a time did. I mean, people had to have bought them.
I never knew.
[00:50:47] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm sure they were very popular.
[00:50:48] Speaker B: I never know anybody who had one. But, like, I would I got bored over the course of the infomercial. Like, it's amazing to think that there's literally an advertisement for porn on the television, and it's.
[00:51:03] Speaker A: That's so weird.
[00:51:03] Speaker B: Boring.
[00:51:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:51:05] Speaker B: How? I don't know if that says more about me or more about our society, Johnny.
[00:51:11] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know.
[00:51:13] Speaker B: This is. This is. This is confession time on regarding.
Bless me, Johnny, for I have sinned.
[00:51:19] Speaker A: I will forgive you.
[00:51:21] Speaker B: So we got spotting ground present. Some fan art. We got some lovely fan art here, Johnny. Some non canonical fan art, I guess you could say, since fan art's traditionally regular art. But we've got some different medias going on. We got hella tattoos. We got somebody who customizes sneakers. We got somebody doing customized skateboard decks. It's awesome.
[00:51:46] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:51:46] Speaker B: A lot of good shit here.
[00:51:48] Speaker A: That's some really vibrant, cool tattoos.
[00:51:50] Speaker B: They're incredible. I like this. This one on the bottom has, like, the animated series spawn at the very front.
[00:51:59] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. That's awesome.
[00:52:01] Speaker B: I can't decide if that's a spawn medallion that he's in front of or a stained glass window. I think it's a medallion.
[00:52:08] Speaker A: I can't tell.
[00:52:08] Speaker B: It's a little. It's a little. It's a little dark.
[00:52:11] Speaker A: It's a little dark picture.
[00:52:13] Speaker B: Hella good shit.
[00:52:14] Speaker A: Hella good shit.
[00:52:16] Speaker B: Need more spawns universe, Johnny.
[00:52:18] Speaker A: You know it.
[00:52:19] Speaker B: Don't miss these ongoing titles. Then we got spawn king spawns. I want gunslinger.
[00:52:25] Speaker A: The main four.
[00:52:26] Speaker B: Yeah, the Mount Rushmore of Spawn.
[00:52:30] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:52:32] Speaker B: Then we get the witchblade ad again, which again? It's very good.
The movie maniacs with everyone's favorite with what's his face is Flash.
[00:52:44] Speaker A: Sheldon is the flash baby from Big.
[00:52:46] Speaker B: Bang theory with Pennywise and with Aragorn.
[00:52:49] Speaker A: They just announced they're doing some shrek figures.
We should tell Tom.
[00:52:52] Speaker B: Yeah, we should. Which ones? Which ones are they doing? They better do all of them.
[00:52:58] Speaker A: They're doing Shrek and Fiona. No, I think the dragon.
[00:53:03] Speaker B: The dragon? So is it Shrek dressed up in his armor?
[00:53:07] Speaker A: No, just normal shrek.
[00:53:09] Speaker B: Then why would they put the dragon there? You got to save the dragon for donkey. It would be better.
[00:53:13] Speaker A: They're two separate figures.
[00:53:14] Speaker B: Donkey with Shrek.
[00:53:16] Speaker A: Let me see if I can find this. Yeah, it's Shrek and the dragon.
Two separate figures. They're twelve inch scale pose figures. Oh, my God.
[00:53:25] Speaker B: Oh, geez. Those are gigantic.
[00:53:27] Speaker A: You need a giant shrek. We have a friend, Tom, back in Oklahoma, guys, who only sends our regarding spawn account shrek memes. And they can be some of the most vile, weird memes on the Internet. Let me tell you what.
[00:53:39] Speaker B: They never disappoint, though. Like, every time it's like, oh, it's another shrek one. And then you read it and it's like, oh, okay. Actually, I get it.
[00:53:47] Speaker A: I can get behind that.
[00:53:49] Speaker B: Who doesn't like Shrek? If you find somebody who doesn't like Shrek, you probably don't need to know them because that's good shit.
[00:53:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:53:57] Speaker B: Well, that's the. That's the issue, Johnny. That's Kingspaw number 36.
[00:54:02] Speaker A: That's it. That's the full shebang.
[00:54:04] Speaker B: Surely is.
Well, Johnny, we gotta put out an alert. There's a.
We gotta set off the alarms. There's a loose dog in here.
[00:54:15] Speaker A: Johnny, there's loose dog in your room.
[00:54:18] Speaker B: Running into shit. He's getting stuck. We gotta. We gotta put out the alert. Some people need to rate him on his performance.
[00:54:25] Speaker A: So do you mean it's time to rate the puppies?
[00:54:28] Speaker B: I mean it's time to rate the puppies.
[00:54:32] Speaker A: So, yeah. First up, we have misery number two, number 204. And this is kind of like the fallout from the first issue.
Kind of setting up where it's gonna go, but just kind of. Mainly.
Yeah, fallout from the first issue and just a little more character development on Cyan.
Like I said, I like the grounded, realistic art. It's a restrained story from the Todd father. Knowing where it ends kind of like smirches my score a little bit just because, like. Yeah, it's kind of a very unsatisfying ending.
[00:55:04] Speaker B: Because it kind of doesn't.
[00:55:06] Speaker A: Because it kind of doesn't.
Not kinda. It just doesn't.
[00:55:11] Speaker B: No. Yeah. Like I described it previously as, it's the free shareware version of the Misery series that you get for free.
[00:55:20] Speaker A: Right.
[00:55:22] Speaker B: And you can buy the rest of it.
It very much seems like a proof of concept for this character having her own title.
[00:55:31] Speaker A: Right. Where I was more thinking it was going to be a contained story. That would be its own thing.
[00:55:35] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:55:36] Speaker A: But very much a proof of concept. But needless to say, great art.
[00:55:42] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:55:43] Speaker A: Intriguing story.
You like the characters? We love Granny Blake.
[00:55:48] Speaker B: Yes, indeed.
[00:55:50] Speaker A: I'm gonna give it three bouncing pancakes out of five.
[00:55:55] Speaker B: We got those. Got those fluffy flapjacks.
[00:55:58] Speaker A: Fluffy flapjacks.
[00:56:00] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:56:00] Speaker A: You know, it's just kind of. I don't know. Misery might not be what I turned to swan for, but I'm glad I read it and all that. But I, you know, that's not terrible. Yeah, just give it three out of five.
[00:56:10] Speaker B: I'm glad that they're, they're developing Cyan as. Yeah, me too. Like, she was inundated with all of this insanity when she was a child, so it's. It's nice to see that. I mean, it kind of sucks that she gets these powers from having been exposed to Al Simmons, but. Yeah, well, yeah, it also kind of puts a bit of a more emphasis on the fact that interacting with Al Simmons does not leave you unaffected at all, ever. So Al just needs to just be like, everybody's going to be affected one way or the other. Just got to do it the right way.
[00:56:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:56:52] Speaker B: So I agree.
Artwork is fantastic. I think the Todd McFarlane Simon Kudransky team is a very good one.
[00:57:02] Speaker A: No, they work well together.
[00:57:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
There's a lot conveyed through fucking facial expressions. Simon Kudransky is amazing at that. And I think it buoys the rough, rough stuff that the toddfather is writing. I enjoyed the heck out of it. As weird. As weird as to say that I enjoy misery.
[00:57:27] Speaker A: But you do enjoy misery loves company.
[00:57:29] Speaker B: Yes, indeed it does. I am gonna give it three and a half Necronomicon ex mortis pages in the middle here because the book of the Dead.
[00:57:40] Speaker A: Yeah, I had the book of the Dead, Evil Dead edition that came out in, like, the early two thousands, and it was like the full book.
[00:57:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:57:49] Speaker A: And with the dvd. But, like, man, that thing smelled so good because it's all like, rubberization. It had the most unique smell. It's just so funny. I always think of that smell.
[00:57:58] Speaker B: That's definitely not how a book bound from human flesh would smell, though, John.
[00:58:02] Speaker A: No, it smelled like nice rubber. It ended up disintegrating. It's completely disintegrated. I think I threw it away. Yeah, latex was a surprise possession.
[00:58:09] Speaker B: Latex rubber does that.
[00:58:10] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:58:12] Speaker B: It's always fun to see when somebody has latex rubber costume makeup. Things from movies from the eighties that they've had in storage for 30 years almost.
[00:58:24] Speaker A: Yeah, they're just, like, disintegrating.
[00:58:26] Speaker B: They sold the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie costumes at auction a few years ago, and they're terrifying looking nightmare.
[00:58:37] Speaker A: They look zombies.
[00:58:38] Speaker B: Nightmare fuel. Holy crap. They're, like, falling apart around the teeth, but the teeth are still. Oh, God.
[00:58:46] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:58:48] Speaker B: So, yeah, three and a half pages and so good.
[00:58:51] Speaker A: We love it.
[00:58:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:58:53] Speaker A: Our second book today was Kingspawn 36.
It's a fun little one where Al gets some surgery done by the tinkerer and we get some action at the end with Al's new suit.
I like that he's taken an evolution of this new spawn with the scarf. There's another revolution of it with this also, it feels like this will probably be exclusive to King Swan, that he has this mech suit, but, yeah, probably. I don't know. It's fun. I like the kind of, like, gross, needly. The needles squig me out. David. Yeah, it wasn't so bad reading this, but speaking of needles, the substance has a lot of needles in it, and it really got to me.
[00:59:36] Speaker B: I don't know if I've mentioned it to you before, but one of the things that made me have to stop watching saw movies was that one where the. I think it was the lady who got away and became.
[00:59:49] Speaker A: Yeah. She falls in the needle pit.
[00:59:50] Speaker B: Yeah, the needle pit. Oh, fucking Jesus.
[00:59:54] Speaker A: Yeah. Saw two.
[00:59:55] Speaker B: Saw. Damn. I heard a story that apparently somebody forgot to check for needles when they built the pit, so they had to go through it syringe by syringe to make sure that nobody had any needles in there.
[01:00:08] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[01:00:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Talk about a bad day at work.
[01:00:11] Speaker A: The needlepit. Don't like it.
[01:00:13] Speaker B: No, do not.
[01:00:14] Speaker A: But King spawn, I did like. Like I said, I like the reconstruction. I like the new suit, obviously. I love the return of Saigor and where that goes. That's really fun.
[01:00:24] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. The next issue is going to be real fun for this.
[01:00:28] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. It's a blast. Yeah. I mean, I think that we were kind of down on King Spawn for a while when the Todd father started riding it, but I think it's picking up. It's. I've accepted that it's different than what it once was, you know?
[01:00:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:00:43] Speaker A: It's more of just like a grittier, little more street level spawn now, which wasn't always.
[01:00:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:00:51] Speaker A: But I miss the cosmic aspect of it.
[01:00:53] Speaker B: Yeah, me too. But it's. At least it's settled on a lane for now, at least, so.
[01:00:59] Speaker A: Yes. And I'm starting to enjoy the ride in the lane. Just letting me. Letting the ride take me over.
So I'm going to give this three and a half of my strongest bottles of liquor.
[01:01:11] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
That's not a bad. That's not a bad.
Not a bad amount. Three and a half bottles of liquor.
[01:01:17] Speaker A: I like both artists, obviously. Like, I think this is probably the end of Jason song Alexander's run, but it was great to have him for a few issues.
And Sennaar seems really cool. Like you said, it's clean but gritty. It does remind me of the boys a little bit.
[01:01:32] Speaker B: Yeah, it's, it's good. It's good. He's, he's got good action, like we say, emphasis on the. All the lines are clean. So it's very easy to tell what's happening, which. Yeah, his saigor looks amazing and, yeah, I, the, I'm getting into where this story is going. It's, it's getting me, it's, it's getting me back in there, Johnny. It's getting me back in there. I am gonna give it three and a half Tyronesen, because Tyrone is how I imagine John Travolta imagines himself to be with his new bald hairdo.
[01:02:07] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:02:08] Speaker B: And that makes me laugh.
So three and a half tyrones.
[01:02:13] Speaker A: Three and a half tyrones.
[01:02:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:02:16] Speaker A: So that's those puppies rated, rated and dated.
[01:02:22] Speaker B: Yeah.
Stamp it dated July 2024.
[01:02:28] Speaker A: Yes. Both of them are. Well, what's not dated is fashion is our friends. It's fashion. Well, some fashion can be dated.
[01:02:37] Speaker B: Well, not current fashion.
[01:02:39] Speaker A: Not current fashion. Not things that are the fashion.
[01:02:41] Speaker B: Yeah. And art. Art is always in fashion, Johnny. It's not dated. Yeah, art can be dated, probably.
[01:02:47] Speaker A: It can be. Of course it can be. But it's always in fashion to create fun arthem. And this week for our on mic shout out, we wanted to shout out one of the artists from the back of Kingspawn 36.
[01:03:00] Speaker B: Yes, indeed.
[01:03:01] Speaker A: And which one did you settle on, David?
[01:03:02] Speaker B: It was Ricky Marino seven.
That's Rickymerino seven, numeral seven. And he's the guy who did the spawn and clown shoes.
And that's what he does. He does custom kicks. He says. And it's, it's great art. I, this is stuff that I never would have ever thought to have ever done in my life. And even if I had thought of doing it, execution would never be anywhere near, anywhere near.
[01:03:38] Speaker A: These are great.
[01:03:39] Speaker B: He's got some boba Fett, Air Force one's that look like Johnny would gobble up Dexter's lab.
He's got some gotama. He's got snoopy and Woodstock, it, Halloween.
[01:03:53] Speaker A: Just a whole bunch. They're a lot of fun. Those alligator ones near the top are cool, too. Yeah. He's got some custom sneakers and he did some spawn stuff. So give him a, give him a follow.
[01:04:03] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real cool. It's awesome. People continually blow my mind with how.
[01:04:09] Speaker A: Talented they are, Jenny, with the stuff they make.
[01:04:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:04:13] Speaker A: Yeah. It's pretty cool.
[01:04:15] Speaker B: Like, how did you, how did you think to do this? Why did you think to do this? I'm glad that you thought to do this.
[01:04:21] Speaker A: You thought to make a swan podcast?
[01:04:23] Speaker B: I mean, I can't take all credit for it. I think we decided to make a swan podcast.
[01:04:28] Speaker A: I know. I'm just trying to make you feel creative so you don't feel so down on yourself.
[01:04:32] Speaker B: Oh, no, I'm not. I'm not feeling down on myself. I'm just. I'm just in awe of creativity, Johnny.
[01:04:38] Speaker A: Okay, everybody.
[01:04:40] Speaker B: Everybody's creativity manifests in a different way. And so you can't. You can't get. You can't get too jealous of somebody else's creativity. Just because they're doing cool shit doesn't mean that it takes away from your ability to do cool shit.
[01:04:52] Speaker A: That's true.
[01:04:52] Speaker B: And everybody's cool shit's gonna be different. And Ricky Marino has some cool shit. So definitely, definitely check them out.
[01:04:58] Speaker A: Give them a follow. While you're over there, make sure to give us a follow. We are regarding swan pod on Instagram, and if you want to reach out to us, we are regardingspawnpodmail.com.
and question of the week is, if you had some custom sneakers, what would you want on them? Would you want spawn?
Would you want Star wars?
Would you want King spawn? I don't know. Just what kind of special sneakers would you like if you had some custom sneakers?
[01:05:29] Speaker B: I'm trying to. I'm trying to think of what I would get on it, and I don't know.
[01:05:33] Speaker A: I don't know. It's a tough call. Cause, like, your shoes are something you wear every day, but I guess you probably only bust those out for special occasions. But still, it's like, I don't know. I've, like, maybe a lost shoe. Like, a dharma initiative shoe.
[01:05:46] Speaker B: That would be cool.
[01:05:47] Speaker A: Or spawn.
I don't know if I'd want the one with the clown on it. That's a pretty bold statement, wearing the clown around.
[01:05:53] Speaker B: I mean, it's a stretch, but I think the ones that I would want would be ones with the handprint squirrel from Kung Pao with nuts in the handprint.
[01:06:11] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:06:11] Speaker B: Have you seen Kung Pao?
[01:06:13] Speaker A: I mean, yeah, like, 20 years ago, so.
[01:06:16] Speaker B: But just to jog your memory, at one point, he uses a squirrel as a chest protector. And then after he gets punched in the chest by this guy, the squirrel has taken the brunt of it and just has, like, a handprint in it and is still able to walk around and just. Thanks.
He fills the. He fills the handprint with nuts. And the squirrel just like.
[01:06:44] Speaker A: Okay, I don't understand, but, like, the squirrel has a handprint in the squirrel?
[01:06:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:06:52] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:06:52] Speaker B: Like, the squirrel has been smushed, and it has a hand.
[01:06:55] Speaker A: Okay, I got it. I got it.
[01:06:57] Speaker B: So it's like you took a thing of clay and just put your hand into it, but it's a squirrel, and it still wanders around, and then the handprint is filled with nuts, and then it goes.
That's what I. That's what I would want, because I would have to explain it, and nobody would fucking get it except for one of my best friends, the. The one person I have known my entire life who I still keep in regular contact with.
[01:07:17] Speaker A: All right, well, that's amazing. Custom shoes.
[01:07:20] Speaker B: If you're gonna get custom shoes, make them as custom as fucking impossible. Right?
[01:07:24] Speaker A: I mean, that's true. That's pretty specific.
[01:07:28] Speaker B: Speaking of pretty specific, Lonnie Bones spelled the non canadian way with a y and not an ie. He specifically does all our music, and he specifically does other music, and you should look him up. Lonnie Bones. Just google it. Lonnie bones music. He does.
[01:07:47] Speaker A: And specifically, we need to specifically mention what specific issues we're doing of spawn next week.
[01:07:53] Speaker B: Specifically.
[01:07:54] Speaker A: Specifically which issues we need to. We have to.
[01:07:57] Speaker B: We have to. Okay, well, then, if we. If we have to do this again, Johnny, why don't we do a couple more of these more. More modern books? We're almost to the point, I think, where we can start going back to classics, but let's get a couple more under our belt. So we have a little more.
[01:08:12] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, we got to do a few more weeks of this. Yeah, there's so many. Let's do it.
[01:08:15] Speaker B: Let's do it. All right, awesome.
[01:08:16] Speaker A: Let's get a little crazy.
[01:08:17] Speaker B: Well, Johnny, this week was a double toddfather week. Next week, it's gonna be a double John Lehman week, Johnny.
[01:08:24] Speaker A: Ooh, that's exciting, man. No, that's great.
[01:08:27] Speaker B: I don't know. It's gonna be like, a four hour episode, but no.
[01:08:31] Speaker A: Yeah, there's a lot to talk about.
[01:08:32] Speaker B: Next week, we'll cover the first in the series of spawn kills every spawn. Spawn kills every spawn. Number one. There's so much in that book, Johnny. I am so excited to cover it.
[01:08:44] Speaker A: Dad's a hoot.
[01:08:45] Speaker B: And then the second. The second John layman we got coming up is scorched number 32. And we're.
We're. We're so close to, uh.
To a big reveal in the scorched right now, Johnny, we are close. So good. But, yeah, so go read spawn kills every spawn. Number one. And scorched number 32 and come back in a week and listen to us talk about them.
[01:09:08] Speaker A: Yeah, sounds like a plan.
[01:09:10] Speaker B: Sounds like a great plan. Me.
[01:09:12] Speaker A: Please remember to rate, review and subscribe wherever you get podcasts, please, and let people know about us.
[01:09:17] Speaker B: Your friends, family, colleagues, everybody who could possibly like podcasts or spawn, please let them know. And, well, Johnny, I mean, I had a very good time talking about some spawn today. I was not miserable in the least.
[01:09:32] Speaker A: No, not really at all.
[01:09:34] Speaker B: We got. We got a good monkey reveal. Oh, boy. Cycord's left me a little speechless, Johnny. So I'm gonna have to say, may the scorched be with you.
[01:09:42] Speaker A: And also with you, David.
[01:09:44] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
[01:09:45] Speaker A: Hell yeah. Well, David, it sounds like we both.
[01:09:48] Speaker B: Have a little bit of homework, okay? Besides just the spawn.
[01:09:51] Speaker A: Besides just the spawn. You need to go watch the substance.
[01:09:54] Speaker B: Okay.
[01:09:55] Speaker A: And evidently I need to go watch kung pao.
[01:09:58] Speaker B: Okay. We'll see who laughed more and who was more scared at the end of it.
[01:10:03] Speaker A: The substance is a little funny.
[01:10:05] Speaker B: I mean, Kung Pao is a little frighteningly bad, so.
[01:10:09] Speaker A: Okay, well, I just can't wait to see the squirrel with the handprint in it. I gotta. I gotta know.
[01:10:14] Speaker B: Yeah, you got it. You got it. Man.
[01:10:18] Speaker A: That'S a lot of nuts.
