Episode 110 - Spawn Kills Every Spawn 1 and Scorched 32

[00:00:00] Speaker A: This is how the story ends. With one spawn to rule them all. Last spawn standing me. Good evening and welcome to the Mal Bulge. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I am your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:46] Speaker B: And I am your co host, David Williams. And Johnny, I hear you went camping recently. Did you see any Bigfoots? [00:00:55] Speaker A: No Big feet. I saw an armadillo. [00:00:58] Speaker B: That's close enough. You didn't get the bubonic plague from that there armadillo, did you? [00:01:05] Speaker A: No, I got a stomach buff from my nephew and was sick at a campsite for two days. [00:01:09] Speaker B: But I think I'd rather have the plague. Geez. [00:01:12] Speaker A: It was a great time. I mean it was a lot of fun. But yeah, we got. I went camping with my family and one of my nephews brought along a little present which was a stomach virus that we all got over the course of 24 to 48 hours and sounds to me. So it's like being on the Oregon Trail a little bit. [00:01:27] Speaker B: Sounds to me like you may have violated that take nothing but pic or take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints rule. Pretty hard, huh? [00:01:34] Speaker A: Yeah, I left some piles of something somewhere. [00:01:36] Speaker B: Some vital fluids. [00:01:39] Speaker A: Yes, there was a bathroom, but it was a three minute walk away. [00:01:41] Speaker B: Oh, geez. [00:01:42] Speaker A: So you can understand how difficult that might be. [00:01:47] Speaker B: That's. I mean, you know, you gotta plan those things out. I don't even want to think about the logistics of having to set up the latrine for a campsite because you want it close enough that you can get to it, but far enough away that it's not like living in the sewer. [00:02:01] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean it was like. It was like showers and stuff. Like it was like a real. [00:02:06] Speaker B: Ooh, fancy. [00:02:07] Speaker A: Yeah, it had showers in a bathroom and stuff. [00:02:09] Speaker B: I haven't been camping since my boy scout days, so. [00:02:13] Speaker A: Oh, really? [00:02:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Many a fun trip. But being outside in the stars, you could see the sky. I bet. How was the sky down there? [00:02:21] Speaker A: That was great. And the weather was good in Texas. It was like 90s in the day and 60s at night. So. [00:02:27] Speaker B: That's perfect. That's perfect. Just cold enough to start a fire and. But that There's a burn pan. [00:02:33] Speaker A: We couldn't do a fire. [00:02:36] Speaker B: Boo. [00:02:37] Speaker A: Yeah, I know they need some rain down there in Texas. [00:02:40] Speaker B: I mean, it rained a bit while we were. While you were gone up here, so. Yeah, we could just connect a hose to our rain and just like spray Texas with it. [00:02:50] Speaker A: No, they wouldn't accept it because it's not from their country of Texas. Just like the electricity. [00:02:56] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. They are on their own independent grid. Which is what leads to a lot of problems during those ice storms. [00:03:02] Speaker A: I remember I'll be in Texas over Christmas, so hopefully there's no more ice storms. [00:03:08] Speaker B: Hopefully Santa will bring them some good weather. [00:03:11] Speaker A: I hope so. [00:03:12] Speaker B: Get your nephews to write Santa. Dear Santa, want good weather. [00:03:17] Speaker A: Want good weather for Uncle Johnny to be able to fly in and fly back on time. [00:03:21] Speaker B: Oh, geez. Johnny, I just realized something. [00:03:24] Speaker A: What? [00:03:25] Speaker B: Growing up when I was little, it always seemed like everyone had an Uncle John. I had an Uncle John. All my friends had an Uncle John youn're John, baby. You're Uncle John. For the generation Is this Generation Alpha that they are. [00:03:39] Speaker A: Yeah, probably. [00:03:40] Speaker B: They the end of Z. I don't know. [00:03:42] Speaker A: He's 1's 11. 1's 9. I don't know what that would be. [00:03:46] Speaker B: They're 9. 11, Johnny. [00:03:48] Speaker A: They're 9 and 11. [00:03:49] Speaker B: It was an inside jab. The flu. The stomach bug was an inside jab. [00:03:55] Speaker A: It's possible. [00:03:55] Speaker B: Literally. [00:03:57] Speaker A: It was nice. [00:03:59] Speaker B: I love that you're continuing on the legacy of Everyone has an Uncle John. [00:04:03] Speaker A: I try. I try really hard. Yeah. No, I had no choice in the matter. [00:04:07] Speaker B: That makes it even better. But you know what? We don't have any choice in the matter of Carry on the legacy of Gianni. [00:04:13] Speaker A: What's that? [00:04:14] Speaker B: That's the legacy of Spawn. [00:04:16] Speaker A: Yes, the ever growing legacy of Spawn. [00:04:18] Speaker B: We have been touched by the hand of fate to do Spawn. [00:04:22] Speaker A: Yeah, Spawn kills every Spawn that we're covering today. My camping trip would fit very much in this with all the fluids and bodily humor going on. [00:04:32] Speaker B: Oh, it's so childlike. And I love it. [00:04:34] Speaker A: Yes. [00:04:35] Speaker B: So what. [00:04:36] Speaker A: This is Respawn, where each week we bring you two issues from Spawn's universe. Except when we don't. This week is no different. We've got two issues. Two modern issues of Spawn from this last summer as of this record. First up, we've got the zany antics of Chibi Spawn in Spawn kills every spawn number one. [00:04:56] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:04:57] Speaker A: From July 2024. And then we have scorch. Scorch number 32 from August 2024. [00:05:07] Speaker B: So this is. I know what you did last summer, Johnny. And that was buy some Spawn comics. [00:05:13] Speaker A: It's crazy to me. We're already talking about last summer. [00:05:15] Speaker B: Well, that's the way NPR does it. NPR always refers to the summer that just passed as last summer. So, like, it'll be March 2024. And they'll say last February in reference to February 2024. And it's a bit of a mind fuck. [00:05:30] Speaker A: Okay. [00:05:31] Speaker B: I always. [00:05:32] Speaker A: I always think it's crazy. We're already past the summer and it's like halfway through October over. Halfway through. [00:05:38] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, Johnny, the. This. This problem that we got with time moving forward at the speed of time. We gotta stop it. [00:05:48] Speaker A: We gotta slow down. I don't have time to read all this spawn. [00:05:51] Speaker B: I'm gonna be. I'm gonna be. I wouldn't say buried, but I have a feeling I'm gonna be cremated. I'm gonna be incinerated with all my unread spawns, Johnny. So I can read them in the after life. [00:06:01] Speaker A: How is it possible to play six hours of Diablo's new expansion a day and then also respawn? [00:06:08] Speaker B: Aren't there loading screens? [00:06:10] Speaker A: Yeah, I guess I can read it in the. They're very quick. [00:06:12] Speaker B: You're going to have to learn the. You're going to have to take a speed reading course then. Yeah. [00:06:17] Speaker A: Yeah. They came out with a new full expansion for Diablo 4. So I've been playing that a lot, obviously. [00:06:23] Speaker B: Excellent. [00:06:24] Speaker A: That's very fun. [00:06:25] Speaker B: That's. The world needs a little bit more Satan Journey. [00:06:29] Speaker A: And then they keep trying to trick me. Todd McFarlane, she's trying to get me because like Amazon, I like looked at the Diablo toys once on Amazon and they keep popping up. They're like on sale all the time now. Like, buy these Diablo 4 toys. [00:06:40] Speaker B: I bet Todd McFarlane has a little alert on his phone that he doesn't check the comments, but he does have a tracking for when Johnny's doing something hell related but not directly spawned. And he's like, I gotta get that motherfucker. [00:06:51] Speaker A: I gotta get him to buy the toys. [00:06:55] Speaker B: You're going to get a personal phone call and he's going to be like, please, Johnny, please, I need you to buy these Diablo toys. They aren't popular enough. [00:07:02] Speaker A: I'll say no, Todd. Father. I will say no. I'm buying Sheldon as the Flash. Thank you very much. [00:07:11] Speaker B: I'm sure he'd take it. I'm sure he'd be like, okay, fine. [00:07:14] Speaker A: Everybody loves that fucking figure. Everybody loves Sheldon. [00:07:16] Speaker B: Honestly, it's fucking hilarious. [00:07:19] Speaker A: The show, the. [00:07:20] Speaker B: No, the figure. [00:07:21] Speaker A: Yeah, it is hilarious then. [00:07:24] Speaker B: And you know, the Toddfather's no stranger to maybe drumming up a little controversy. [00:07:30] Speaker A: That's true. [00:07:32] Speaker B: So I'm sure it made him laugh. And now that people are talking about it, it's basically free advertising. So he's laughing all the way to the bank. [00:07:39] Speaker A: He sure is. [00:07:40] Speaker B: He's running at the speed of a human dressed up as the Flash, which is just regular, normal speed. [00:07:46] Speaker A: I got to catch up on some of the Spawn that I was behind on all my trip. So that's good. [00:07:51] Speaker B: That's. I think you might be doing better than me. I think I might be a couple issues behind still. [00:07:57] Speaker A: Yeah, I need to sit down. I got a big old stack of Spawn. [00:08:00] Speaker B: It's been a couple of big weeks recently. [00:08:03] Speaker A: Well, yeah, And I didn't pick it up for a week because I was in Texas. So, like, I came back this week, and I had, like, the double stack. [00:08:09] Speaker B: They had to go in the back and bring out a big old box, and you're like, so part of that is mine? No, all of it. [00:08:16] Speaker A: I picked it up on Thursday, and it was different people that are normally behind the counter on Wednesday. And I think one of them judged me hard that all I had was Spawn in my stack. [00:08:28] Speaker B: How dare they? How dare they? [00:08:30] Speaker A: I know. [00:08:30] Speaker B: They are comic book purveyors. [00:08:33] Speaker A: That's probably just me projecting. They probably weren't judging me. [00:08:36] Speaker B: I mean, Johnny, we're all a little bit embarrassed, like, the things we like, but, you know, at a certain point, you get over it. It is also very jarring to walk into a store that you go into on a regular basis, and none of the people you normally see are there. It's like, what is this? [00:08:53] Speaker A: Yeah, it is weird. [00:08:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:54] Speaker A: I usually go on Wednesdays, and I just missed it on Wednesday. [00:08:56] Speaker B: So, yeah, the Wednesday crew is at home recovering from the Wednesday, and it's like, well, where's the. With the. Who is the. [00:09:04] Speaker A: Speaking of not being embarrassed or being embarrassed of what you like, we got an issue about a fanboy for our first issue up. Oh, yeah. It's all about the world's craziest fanboy. [00:09:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:09:16] Speaker A: Chibispawn. [00:09:17] Speaker B: Chibispawn. He is definitely not embarrassed about what he loves. Johnny. [00:09:21] Speaker A: He's not embarrassed. [00:09:22] Speaker B: He's not embarrassed. I would go so far as to say he might be a role model for enjoying the things you love enthusiastically, but a role model for nothing else. [00:09:34] Speaker A: Yes. That's about all he's a good role model for. And if you remember, we did cover Spawn kills Everyone Number one on our Comic Con episode. Go give it a listen. It's got a little bit of a hot mic, but it's still a good listen. [00:09:46] Speaker B: It cools down a little bit after a minute or two. Yeah. [00:09:50] Speaker A: Real hot. [00:09:51] Speaker B: Yeah. We stop yelling because we're so excited and start speaking regularly, but more excitedly. [00:09:58] Speaker A: Had A lot of adrenaline going. [00:09:59] Speaker B: Yeah, it was a good time. [00:10:02] Speaker A: It was. [00:10:03] Speaker B: And at this point, we have not yet covered Spawn Kills Everyone two yet. Because it's not a new series. And we just haven't gotten to it yet. [00:10:14] Speaker A: And we're trying to keep up with the new series. [00:10:16] Speaker B: Yeah, keep it up with the Spawns, as they say. [00:10:19] Speaker A: Keep it up with the Chibis. [00:10:21] Speaker B: So what's this Chibi up to on these covers we got, Johnny? [00:10:24] Speaker A: Well, we've got. I have the A cover. [00:10:28] Speaker B: I also have the A cover, which is by Rob Duenas, the man himself. [00:10:34] Speaker A: Who does the sketch known as Sketchcraft. The author of all the pictures in this book. The author of the pictures. The artist. Why did I say author? [00:10:43] Speaker B: I mean. I mean, I don't know. He did create. You could refer to a creator as an author, I think, right? Yeah. If you're a weirdo like you are. No offense. [00:10:55] Speaker A: Yes. No, that's okay. [00:10:58] Speaker B: Similar to the interiors of this book, this. Okay, no offense, but this man might be a little crazy at the sheer amount of detail he has been able to get into every page of this book. And this cover is no exception. [00:11:16] Speaker A: I agree. [00:11:17] Speaker B: There's little Easter eggs on like every square inch. It's amazing. [00:11:22] Speaker A: It's Spawn riding the Violator Mobile, the classic toy. He's Chibi Spawn, to be specific. [00:11:28] Speaker B: He's got his friend Batty hanging around with him. No, Buddy. His friend. Buddy. [00:11:33] Speaker A: Buddy. [00:11:34] Speaker B: He's just floating next to him, shooting. [00:11:38] Speaker A: Shooting double guns. And they've run through. Looks like main Spawn. [00:11:43] Speaker B: And there's. [00:11:43] Speaker A: They run through. I've run Al Simmons and exploded in like a Crash Test Dummy action figure. [00:11:47] Speaker B: Exactly. Because there's the torso and then all the limbs. Man, I loved Crash Test Dummies. [00:11:52] Speaker A: Me too. I had those. Did you have those action figures? [00:11:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I did. And then I had the car that was designed to crumple and hit their little buttons. [00:12:01] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:12:02] Speaker B: And if you got some good speed on that, their heads would go so damn far that you almost couldn't find them. I think my grandmother's driveway is still potentially littered with the unrecovered pieces of Crash Test Dummy dolls. [00:12:17] Speaker A: That's hilarious. Yeah, I had some of those toys too. I used to love them. It's funny that like a commercial PSA became a kids cartoon slash toy line. [00:12:27] Speaker B: I was all in on Crash Test Dummies all. And there was like a 3D animated 45 minute long movie that they came out with that came with like an exclusive black and green doll. I watched that shit all the time. [00:12:40] Speaker A: Sweet. [00:12:40] Speaker B: I found it on YouTube once recently and started watching it and was like, I remember every second of this. It was insane. [00:12:49] Speaker A: I might have seen that, too. I just remember there was a show. [00:12:51] Speaker B: Yeah, there was. There was a show. I think the show was 2D animated, though. [00:12:55] Speaker A: It was maybe like the opening credits were 3D or something like that. [00:12:59] Speaker B: They didn't do very many movies if they came out now. There would be a new movie every week, though, Guaranteed. [00:13:06] Speaker A: Crash. Just tell me the movie. Part 10. [00:13:10] Speaker B: It would be the new. The new Never Ending, Not Neverending Story, Land Before Time. [00:13:15] Speaker A: But, yeah, that's the A cover. And there are many covers. Here, let me pull this up here. Oh, sorry. I had a tab open. Listening to Baton Rouge from Garth Brooks. [00:13:27] Speaker B: Not Oinko Boingo, but it's Oinko Boingo season. [00:13:30] Speaker A: I listened to a lot of Oinko Boingo, too. I was listening to Oinko Boingo last night when I was playing Diablo. [00:13:34] Speaker B: You haven't done nothing but listen to the Misfits and scream about wanting skulls while you're walking down Michigan Avenue. [00:13:41] Speaker A: I have listened to a lot of Misfits, too. I really like the album Famous Monsters. When they came back in the 90s. I think it's like their second album with Michael Graves. [00:13:52] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the main singer, Scream on it, right? Yeah, yeah, it's real good. Yeah. [00:13:59] Speaker A: That's a lot of fun. There's one song, Forbidden Zone, it's about the Planet of the Apes that I probably is my number one listen to song every year. It's just because it's like two minutes long, and it just, like, gets you pumped up this. [00:14:11] Speaker B: It's amazing how. How nerdy those guys are. Yeah. [00:14:16] Speaker A: I mean, like, later on, by the time they're in their later albums, it's just like it's Dracula's party because with. [00:14:23] Speaker B: Glenn Danzig, they're talking about just randomly stabbing people in bathrooms. [00:14:28] Speaker A: Yeah, he's a little more intense than anything to babies. [00:14:33] Speaker B: And now he's just. Now he's just talking about his cat and, you know, is all beefed up and is carrying, like, the largest bags of cat food you've ever seen. [00:14:44] Speaker A: Directed movies. [00:14:46] Speaker B: Glenn Dancing. Directed movies. [00:14:48] Speaker A: Yeah, he directed. Supposed to be a pretty Bug Nuts horror movie a couple years ago. [00:14:53] Speaker B: I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna have to look into that. I bet it is insane. [00:14:56] Speaker A: Speaking of insane, we got four other covers for this. [00:15:00] Speaker B: I didn't even know there were that many. [00:15:02] Speaker A: We got the classic blank. [00:15:03] Speaker B: All right. [00:15:04] Speaker A: You know? [00:15:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:06] Speaker A: Then We've got a 2024 SDCC PX Previews, Black and White Limited. Limited to 500 copies. Is this like a black and white of the A cover? And it'll set you back a pretty $36 if you want it. I guess there's only 500 of them. [00:15:27] Speaker B: So, I mean, that number has the potential to do nothing but go up too. [00:15:33] Speaker A: Then there is a Todd McFarlane cover, which has, like, Chibi Spawn with a sword saying I'm number one. Looking a little crazy. [00:15:42] Speaker B: Yeah. I went back and forth between choosing that one or the one that I got. [00:15:47] Speaker A: He's got the belly just like Todd McFarlane likes to talk about drawing. [00:15:51] Speaker B: He's got crazy eyes. [00:15:53] Speaker A: He's got crazy eyes. [00:15:55] Speaker B: Not enough teeth, though. [00:15:56] Speaker A: Yeah. Very low amount of teeth for the Toddfather. [00:15:59] Speaker B: But I guess it is Spawn and not Violator. So. [00:16:02] Speaker A: Yeah. Then our final cover is a black and white version of the Todd McFarlane cover. And that'll set you back. It's also SDCC 2024 exclusive, and that'll set you back $49. [00:16:13] Speaker B: Ooh, that's not bad at all. [00:16:16] Speaker A: Not bad. Especially if you paid $4 for it. [00:16:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Sometimes the exclusives are a little bit more expensive. It's like if you're getting a book that has a spicy cover, the spicy cover is always like $2 more. [00:16:29] Speaker A: The ones that's put in the bag. [00:16:31] Speaker B: Yeah. But if you're getting a book like Money Shot, which is about space explorers that sell porn tapes that they make with the aliens they visit to fund their space travels. If you're gonna get a book like that, you have to get the spicy cover. There's no reason to get the COVID that you can. That all the old women on the bus can see. You gotta commit to the bit, Johnny, man. [00:16:52] Speaker A: I was reading Fangoria on the plane when I went on this camping trip. And I turned the page. It was like, most disgusting picture I've ever seen. I was like, oh, shit it, like, hid it and just, like, put it away. I was like, this is a plane. I don't wanna get marked as a psychopath. [00:17:06] Speaker B: How many of those Fangorias did you let your nephews look at? Are you correct? [00:17:09] Speaker A: They don't want to. They don't like scarce scary stuff. I offered. [00:17:12] Speaker B: At least. At least they. They know what they do and do not like at this point. [00:17:17] Speaker A: Which is funny, because I feel like when I was that age, I didn't like scary stuff. I was very curious about it and like, I did like, scary stuff. I guess I just. I would just get really freaked out. [00:17:26] Speaker B: I was very susceptible to scary things. I remember once my sister played a joke on me with a very obviously fake severed hand after I got my hair cut. And I would not forgive her for it for weeks because it scared the piss out of me. She just basically just had me look at it. She was like, david, come here. Look at this. And then pointed at it. And then I freaked the fuck out. I ran out of this. I ran out of the barbershop and refused to even go back in there. I was like, I'm gonna stay out here. [00:18:03] Speaker A: I remember. No, I remember like my like freaking myself out would be like walking down the horror aisle at Blockbuster. [00:18:11] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:18:11] Speaker A: And I see how long I could take it before I'd be like, fuck this and like run out of there. [00:18:16] Speaker B: Or the. The pop up Halloween shops for the scary mask section. [00:18:21] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. No, there's one time I really freaked myself out because they had the full Freddy Krueger with like the faces in the chest that you could buy. And I saw that and I was like, nope, nope. Because like, I love freaked me the out. [00:18:32] Speaker B: Yeah, Freddy Krueger was scary, man. [00:18:36] Speaker A: He's a scary man. [00:18:37] Speaker B: Very, very effective monster. [00:18:39] Speaker A: So let's crack this baby open. [00:18:41] Speaker B: Yes. [00:18:41] Speaker A: Spawn kills every spawn. Number one. [00:18:44] Speaker B: Smell that wonderful July air. [00:18:48] Speaker A: My comic still smells good. [00:18:49] Speaker B: The amount of ink that's on here, I'm sure it's will smell good for a while. Especially if you put it in a bag. Dude. [00:18:55] Speaker A: That's fucking. Dude. Fangorias, man. Those things, they're like dark ink. They smell like. They get you high when you open one of those. [00:19:02] Speaker B: That's great. Like sniffing a Magnum 44. [00:19:04] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. There was a specific brand of Star wars trading card game, the Wizards of the coast one that I played a lot in the 2000s. Those smelled really good. They're like, addicting. [00:19:15] Speaker B: They probably. The unopened packs now probably stick together like a motherfucker though. [00:19:20] Speaker A: Yeah. Because there's just so much ink. [00:19:21] Speaker B: So much ink. [00:19:24] Speaker A: So. Script plots by John Lehman. Art is by Rob Sketchcraft Duenas. Hopefully I'm pronouncing that right. [00:19:31] Speaker B: Please correct us if we don't. [00:19:33] Speaker A: Color by Robert Nugent. Lettering by John Lehman. [00:19:37] Speaker B: He's pulling double duty. Nice. Oh, yeah, he's on that. Erica Schultz. Tip. Let me put my words here. [00:19:46] Speaker A: We already covered the covers. [00:19:47] Speaker B: Indeed. [00:19:48] Speaker A: Creative Director is Tom McFarlane and editor in chief is Thomas Healy. No. Previously on. Because this is a number one I. [00:19:56] Speaker B: Like that they didn't. Previously on Previously. Spawn killed everybody at a convention and then made some bum bums from his bum. [00:20:06] Speaker A: And now he's back and he's warning us to look away from the comic kids. [00:20:09] Speaker B: Yes. [00:20:10] Speaker A: It ain't for the squeamish. And the first page is just Chibi Spawn shooting all his chains out and completely decimating Al Simmons. [00:20:18] Speaker B: Yeah, he's chopped his head off. He's shot his chain through his chest. He's chopped off his big right foot. A detail that I love in this book, Johnny, is that when all of the Spawns die, instead of getting X's over their eyes, they get, like, the most elaborate crosses. [00:20:35] Speaker A: Yeah, I didn't even notice that. I see it now. That's awesome. [00:20:42] Speaker B: What else would a hell being have on their eyes when they die? But, yeah, Chibi Spawn's just fucking hell up in this. In this rat alley next to some empty pizza boxes from Todd Father's Pizza. [00:20:54] Speaker A: Mmm. Pizza. [00:20:55] Speaker B: It's too early to be talking about that, Johnny. So, you know, a little cheapy. Spawn saying he's given us a brief overview of what's going to be in this. There's going to be murder, there's going. [00:21:06] Speaker A: To be mayhem, all sorts of grim, grisly stuff. [00:21:08] Speaker B: Yeah. We get the first of a repeating motif of alliteration for the disgusting acts that Chibi Spawn is going to enact in these issues. And it's great. I didn't know. I didn't even think there were that many E words for killing some people. Yeah, it's great. [00:21:32] Speaker A: And he says. He warns that there will be blood. And apologies to all Daniel Day Lewis fans. He says, in case he didn't get. [00:21:39] Speaker B: It, what we need to do. This means that now we need to get Daniel Day Lewis to unretire from acting to come play Chibi Spawn. [00:21:50] Speaker A: That'd be perfect. I enjoy the nuances of playing Chibi Spawn. [00:21:59] Speaker B: He hates the world, but he needs it. [00:22:05] Speaker A: I abandoned my Spawn. [00:22:09] Speaker B: He would disappear into that role beautifully. [00:22:12] Speaker A: You seen There Will Be Blood? [00:22:14] Speaker B: I have, but not for a very long time. [00:22:16] Speaker A: Me too. I don't remember shit about it, but I remember liking it. [00:22:18] Speaker B: I remember liking it. I remember just. [00:22:21] Speaker A: I remember he kills him with the bowling pin at the end. [00:22:22] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Cause I remember there being a bowling alley. I'd be like, bowling alley. And. And then now I can't think of a bowling alley in somebody's house without somebody getting murdered on it. [00:22:31] Speaker A: Yeah, I saw it when it came out. I didn't. I don't think I saw it in the theaters, but I think I probably got it in Netflix in the mail. [00:22:37] Speaker B: I got it in the. At Hastings or Blockbuster. When they sell off their excess stock of new releases once. [00:22:47] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:22:48] Speaker B: Once the fervor for it dies down a little bit. That's where I got my copy. Man, that was. That was always fun. [00:22:54] Speaker A: I saw this article that Redbox is shutting down, but they're like, not disposing of their machines. And there's just like red boxes are gonna be littered across the country. [00:23:03] Speaker B: That seems. That seems bad. [00:23:07] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. There's gonna be broken red boxes in front of every Walgreens in the world, man. [00:23:12] Speaker B: I mean, at least the raccoons will have homes now. [00:23:14] Speaker A: We gotta crack into that thing and get some free DVDs. [00:23:17] Speaker B: Yeah, like those. There was a train that was stopped this last week in Chicago and people, people opened up those. Those freight canisters and we're just walking away with boxes of stuff. [00:23:32] Speaker A: Oh, boy. [00:23:32] Speaker B: I was walking home and there were like. There were helicopters everywhere. And I was like, what the fuck are those for? And then I get home and I see the news that some people were looting a freight train and they were all just like casually carrying boxes to their cars like nobody was trying to stop him. It was crazy. [00:23:48] Speaker A: So Chibi Spawns, like cuts to him, like fast cutting around. He kills Medieval. He gets kills she spawn. Time for she capitation. I like that one. [00:23:58] Speaker B: Capitation. I like. I like that he's dressed up as a baseballman and buddy is back there with the catcher. Sn. [00:24:13] Speaker A: Which one? [00:24:14] Speaker B: Gunslinger. He calls him Cow Puncher. [00:24:16] Speaker A: Oh, Cow Puncher. He kills Gunslinger. [00:24:19] Speaker B: Yeah, he kills. Is that Anime Spawn? Good mech. And I thought the Anime Spawn was the mech. [00:24:25] Speaker A: Yeah, it is that. It is Anime Spawn. Like the. Or Magnus Spawn. [00:24:28] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it's called. Yeah, Manga Spawn. [00:24:31] Speaker A: Manga Spawn. [00:24:32] Speaker B: Then he kills Redeemer. He like. He like decapitates Redeemer and cuts off his jaw. That's insane. Double he kills Ninjaspawn. I like how he kills them all in different ways. [00:24:43] Speaker A: Yeah, I like his little kind of chainsaw thing he uses a couple times. [00:24:46] Speaker B: Yeah, he's very creative. He's an artist of death, Joni. He's like Art the Clown, where the art he produces is the deaths. [00:24:59] Speaker A: Yes. [00:25:01] Speaker B: And then we cut to Chibi Spawn on a two page spread just lording over the Malbolge, burning up all of the spawns that he's killed and all the Fleabiacs and all the Fleabiax. And the. I thought this was. I thought this was Sam Burke the first time I saw it. This decapitated head. It's totally fucking Billy Kincaid. Because there's a fat. There's a fat spawn body right next to it, Johnny. [00:25:25] Speaker A: Oh yeah, yeah, it is Billy Kincaid. [00:25:27] Speaker B: He decapitates Kitty Killer Kincaid himself. [00:25:31] Speaker A: And you can see there's some good Easter eggs because like he has the actual different Fleabiacs. Like there's the one with the one big eye. Yeah, I can't remember if that's viscerator. [00:25:39] Speaker B: I think that's Vacillator. [00:25:40] Speaker A: Vacillator. But he has the actual different ones. A lot of good, A lot of good little Easter eggs in this. He's just burning them all. [00:25:47] Speaker B: Yeah, they burn. They burn. Would you like Fred Spawn with that, Joni? [00:25:53] Speaker A: I mean, sure. I take a spawn Happy Meal. [00:25:56] Speaker B: I like that. His, his gun is of. Made from the violator. [00:26:02] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like, it's like. [00:26:04] Speaker B: It's like his mounted violator's head on the barrel and it's shooting out of his mouth. It's very good. [00:26:10] Speaker A: And then we calm it down a bit. Yeah, we calm it down and slow it down. And he does a little breaking of the fourth wall here. He's like, that. [00:26:19] Speaker B: That didn't actually happen. That was just me fantasizing about what I wanted to. [00:26:23] Speaker A: And just don't call me Albert. [00:26:26] Speaker B: He introduces Buddy the Bat. This is my best pal, Buddy. Buddy's a bat. [00:26:32] Speaker A: Gives out a little poot. [00:26:34] Speaker B: It says poot. So he complains a little bit about, you know, how he's not considered actual canon and that he's been left out. And he doesn't like that. He says he's the most important spawn. [00:26:50] Speaker A: And he chops up his. He chops up his copies of Spawn. Kills every spawn. Like a Looney Tunes. [00:26:57] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's like, this is very Looney. [00:26:59] Speaker A: Tunes, the whole thing. [00:27:00] Speaker B: And then he does the classic 90s Calvin sticker where he's peeing on his comics. [00:27:05] Speaker A: Calvin peed on a lot. [00:27:07] Speaker B: Yeah, Calvin peed on a lot of things. [00:27:09] Speaker A: Ford logo, the Chevy logo. [00:27:11] Speaker B: I mean, it depended on what kind of car it was on. [00:27:13] Speaker A: That's true. [00:27:14] Speaker B: Sometimes, Sometimes Fords would have the Calvin peeing on the Ford logo. Because Ford was bad for a real long time. And that cracks me up. [00:27:21] Speaker A: I just feel bad. Cuz like Calvin's like not evil. He wouldn't pee on something. [00:27:25] Speaker B: Yeah, he, he, he got co opted real, real fast. I don't get it. [00:27:30] Speaker A: There's rumors that the alt right was coming for the Stormtrooper. But I guess that fell off. [00:27:34] Speaker B: I mean that. I think that hits a little too close to home there, don't you think, Johnny? [00:27:38] Speaker A: Right? It's like, hello, these are the Space Nazis. [00:27:42] Speaker B: Somebody, somebody realized that, you know, the Nazis themselves were called Stormtroopers. Everyone's like, hey, maybe let's, let's obfuscate a little bit. Put a couple of layers of irony on top of this. First. So then Chibi Spawn says he's going to start his story where the whole issue he has with all the other Spawns started. And it started at Comic Spawn Spawn Con. [00:28:09] Speaker A: David. I was there. I met Chibispawn. It was great. [00:28:15] Speaker B: Yeah. Did you get an autograph for him? Did you have to pay 60 bucks for it or did you wait till it was free? [00:28:19] Speaker A: I wait till it was free. [00:28:21] Speaker B: I like that. It's $10 cheap. I love. The cans are all references to people. Like you got Spaz, the ILM guy. I like that. The cold brew coffee cans are trimmer. [00:28:35] Speaker A: Yep. [00:28:37] Speaker B: Next to him there's somebody drinking a la Creeache out for blood orange juice. [00:28:44] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. The details are just crazy. [00:28:48] Speaker B: You could spend. We can't go over all of them because you could literally spend hours pointing all of them off. But so, so yeah, Chibi Spawn's sitting at his booth selling autographs. And over the course of the page they get cheaper because nobody's there. And he's like, this sucks. Then on the next page, it's a two page spread and he says it's a frickin ghost town around here and it's just jam packed. But there's a little bitty island of no people around him. [00:29:15] Speaker A: Yes. And just littered with energy drinks. But yeah, in the crowd you've got so many like references and just like things. You got Todd. This is just what I'm looking at. Toddfather's there. [00:29:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:26] Speaker A: You got Sam and Twitch. [00:29:27] Speaker B: You got Wanda and Terry. [00:29:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Like the Fairly Odd parents. [00:29:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:32] Speaker A: Are there? [00:29:33] Speaker B: Yes indeed. [00:29:34] Speaker A: Oh yeah. I miss Wanda and Terry. There they are. [00:29:36] Speaker B: You've got. You've got. Most, most image titles have a Spawn version of them. Like I hate Violator Land for I hate Fairyland Dragon. Dragonspawn for Savage Dragon. They got spawn wars. Spawn DeLorean. [00:29:53] Speaker A: I was like. I was. I thought Spawn Bandicoot was an interesting one. Like no one thinks about Crash Bandicoot that often, but there you go. [00:29:59] Speaker B: Some people do. They got Jay and Silent Spawn. [00:30:04] Speaker A: Crash Bandicoot is someone's favorite thing in the world. Probably many people's. [00:30:07] Speaker B: Probably many people's. I know. I know a lot of people who like Crash Bandicoot. It's like Sonic the Hedgehog for people who don't. Who have an attention span. [00:30:17] Speaker A: Yes. [00:30:18] Speaker B: Teenage Mutant Ninja Violators. [00:30:21] Speaker A: Yeah. And then there's kind of a sadder note, but there's the Swan Comics Kayfabe. And I saw Sketchcraft said on Instagram that he had drawn this before. He had. Yeah. [00:30:34] Speaker B: Because this issue came out like, before Ed Pisscore. Very soon after the. After that. I have a feeling it was set long before that. [00:30:42] Speaker A: So he decided to leave it in as a tribute. So that's just why I brought that up. [00:30:45] Speaker B: So that's Rip Ed Piscore. [00:30:48] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:30:49] Speaker B: We got Spawn, Kirby and Clown. [00:30:51] Speaker A: Lee Jay and Silent Spawn. Yeah, Howard Spawn. [00:30:55] Speaker B: It's. There's just so much. There's a grifter spawn in the front there. [00:30:59] Speaker A: I don't know how a Howard Spawn would be like Howard Stern spawn. [00:31:03] Speaker B: I mean, he would just be. He would just be crass and rude and ask to see some demon tits or something. [00:31:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:09] Speaker B: He would ask Violator about his mom's Bajungas since he knew that he was born from a human mother. That's exactly what. That's exactly what Spawn. Howard Spawn would do. [00:31:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Not you. [00:31:23] Speaker B: Not me. Not me. I've never said the word bajongas before. It was actually kind of fun. Oh, no. This might turn me into a terrible shock jock personality. Johnny. [00:31:35] Speaker A: Don't do it. Spawn Topic. There's Spawn Topic. Like Hot Topic. [00:31:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:41] Speaker A: Love a Hot Topic. [00:31:42] Speaker B: Spawn. Spawn Formers for Transformers. So much David Psy. Gore Force. [00:31:49] Speaker A: Yeah. This is just great fun. Giant page. You just spend like 30 minutes picking apart. [00:31:55] Speaker B: I spent a whole train ride just staring at these two pages, Johnny. [00:31:59] Speaker A: Yeah, pretty much. But then a lone man approaches. [00:32:05] Speaker B: His name is Royce. I'm assuming this is a guy who's. Who is known and influential in the medieval Spawn world because he is decked out in a medieval Spawn hat. He's got a little Medieval Spawn. My Little Pony. He's got Medieval Spawn and Witchblade Comics coming out of his bag. Yeah, he's got a top clown patch. Oh, he must be a top. He must be a Top Cow guy, Johnny. [00:32:32] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Oh, it is. Because look, there's a little scud. The Disposable Assassin. He likes Top Cow. He likes the. He likes the Bajungas. Whatever you said. [00:32:43] Speaker B: But yeah, whatever I did say, it's. You've got that problem now, Johnny. [00:32:48] Speaker A: And that's what I associated with Top Cow when I was a kid was just like. [00:32:51] Speaker B: I mean, I. I think that's what they were ladies. I think that's what they were going for. [00:32:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:57] Speaker B: I mean, obviously. [00:32:59] Speaker A: Obviously. [00:33:01] Speaker B: Obviously. [00:33:03] Speaker A: But. [00:33:04] Speaker B: And then. Yeah. [00:33:05] Speaker A: This guy basically is asked where the medieval panel is, and she responds. Sad. [00:33:10] Speaker B: Yeah. A bunch of Ingrid. No, nothing wrestling while he's walking away. And then he gets. He stops because he gets. He's cuts. He gets caught by some. Some angel cosplayers. [00:33:26] Speaker A: Yes. [00:33:26] Speaker B: Who are like. They're like, there he is. There he is. [00:33:30] Speaker A: They want to get a selfie with him. [00:33:32] Speaker B: Yeah. But first they want to dress him up, Johnny. [00:33:35] Speaker A: And they throw all this stuff on him. [00:33:36] Speaker B: I like how. [00:33:37] Speaker A: Dress him up like Gunslinger. [00:33:38] Speaker B: I like how part of the costume for Gunslinger is they give him nice big round buns. [00:33:44] Speaker A: Yes. He's got a shiny butt. [00:33:47] Speaker B: To my knowledge, we've not had any foveation on hobbies, but have I missed that? Is Javi Gunslinger now the new Nightwing? [00:33:59] Speaker A: He might be. Maybe that'll be a thing that happens. But I don't remember really looking at his butt too much. I only remember, like, Terry's. [00:34:06] Speaker B: Yeah, Terry's the only one I remember. [00:34:08] Speaker A: Yeah. They dress him up as a little Gunslinger Spawn. [00:34:11] Speaker B: I do like that it has a little tag that says Gunslinger Cosplay. He's got a big hat. I like how they even give Buddy a hat. [00:34:22] Speaker A: He's shooting the guns, which have quirks in them. [00:34:24] Speaker B: He looks just like a mini Gunslinger Spawn, but cuter and ridiculouser. [00:34:29] Speaker A: I like when they use the logos for the comics in this. That's fun. [00:34:31] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real fun. [00:34:32] Speaker A: Every time he says Spawn, it's like the logo. When they say Gunslinger Spawn, it's the logo. [00:34:37] Speaker B: And we see a couple more booths that run in the front panel. We've got Angel Ball Z. We got Tony Haunt, Powerpuff Clowns. Powerpuff Clowns. So they're trying to take pictures of him after he's. He's dressed up, and he's just, like, slowly seething until he explodes and throws the costume off. And he says, no. Hell no. I won't do it. I am not cute, ridiculous, harmless little baby. [00:35:02] Speaker A: They all run because he's having a tantrum. [00:35:03] Speaker B: Yeah. I do like that this action is happening on the phone that the Spawn Con attendees were trying to take his picture with, which is fun. [00:35:14] Speaker A: He's gonna go viral for freaking out at Comic Con. [00:35:16] Speaker B: Yeah, he is. [00:35:17] Speaker A: And then he Public freak out video. [00:35:19] Speaker B: Yeah. He storms out and he's like, that does it. I'm out of here. And then we got the whole Todd McFarlane funded Spawn Hockey team standing there going, who's out of there? Who's out of here? Who's leaving? Who's that? [00:35:34] Speaker A: He walks right by Medieval and she Spawns Booth. Their autographs are $500 each. [00:35:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:41] Speaker A: I will say, I like how he draw. I like his style on the regular characters. Yeah, because she's spawning his Medieval look. Pretty badass. [00:35:47] Speaker B: They. They are. [00:35:48] Speaker A: It reminds me of the 2D animated Clone wars version of Star Wars. [00:35:52] Speaker B: Yeah, I. I like that. In the background of this panel, there's also the Bone cousins from Bone. [00:35:59] Speaker A: Oh, Bone. Yeah, I read some of Bone because it was actually reprinted in Disney Adventures, if you can believe it. [00:36:07] Speaker B: It's. It's great. It's. It's a very good fantasy story that is very accessible to children, but isn't, like, a children's story. [00:36:18] Speaker A: Cool. [00:36:18] Speaker B: I could believe that. [00:36:19] Speaker A: Did the guy get canceled or anything yet? [00:36:20] Speaker B: Not that I know of. Jeff Smith, I think. [00:36:22] Speaker A: Is it? [00:36:23] Speaker B: I'm pretty sure Jeff Smith is a saint. [00:36:25] Speaker A: He walks outside and there's a big one of those inflatable arm gunslingers. [00:36:28] Speaker B: Yeah, he's like, gunslinger. Give me a break. He's not that popular. [00:36:31] Speaker A: See, this is the thing they got wrong about spawncon. This is like a tropical setting. It was like palm trees. It was like snowing in Denver in October with like 5 inches of snow on the ground. [00:36:42] Speaker B: Hey. Hey, Johnny. The. I don't think. I don't think the attendees would be able to stand outside in the 5 inches of snow in these costumes. They would have to. They'd have to do the Midwestern Halloween costume, where it's your Halloween costume under your winter coat because it snowed. But this is. This makes me laugh because one of my. One of my coworkers was actually watching me rearrange my toys because they had all fallen down on my desk. And they were like, my neighbors have that as one of their Halloween decorations. And it was gunslinger. So there's a house in Chicago that has gunslinger spawn decoration for Halloween. [00:37:28] Speaker A: I walked by a house the other day. They had a full Pennywise, like, popping out. [00:37:32] Speaker B: Nice. I see a lot of those 12 foot tall skeletons. [00:37:36] Speaker A: Yeah, those are fun. [00:37:37] Speaker B: Those are real popular. I saw my first. [00:37:39] Speaker A: Everyone Loves the Skeletons are Back. [00:37:40] Speaker B: Baby Jack Skellington that they. That's new this year. I saw my first one of those in the wild today. [00:37:46] Speaker A: Oh, cool. [00:37:47] Speaker B: Well, not today, but recently. [00:37:48] Speaker A: Is it like a really big Jack. [00:37:49] Speaker B: Skellington Yeah, it's about. It's about 15ft tall, and it's very skinny. [00:37:54] Speaker A: Oh, my God. I bet he's a skinny man, that Jack. So he's walking home cursing, and he walks by a Spawn the Plague movie. Like, Billboard. [00:38:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:06] Speaker A: There's Olus Cafe. [00:38:07] Speaker B: I like. I like the tagline is born into darkness, sworn to justice. [00:38:14] Speaker A: Glappian tattoo. Orjicowsi Pastry. [00:38:18] Speaker B: Greg's gym. [00:38:19] Speaker A: It's just all the artists and, like, swan folks. Some of them. I can't. I need, like, a magnifying glass for this, I swear. [00:38:26] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, he's definitely doing, like, some zoom in on digital and writing it and zooming back out. [00:38:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:33] Speaker B: Um, so he's just. He's just complaining all the way home. He says, it's not fair. It's not fair. And then he finally gets home, and you see that there's. There's spawn paraphernalia just still all over the house. Like, he's got a spawn scooter and a Spawn bike that are just, like, tossed in the driveway. He gets home as. As he. As he opens the door to walk inside, he says he's. He's. He started formulating a plan for how he can get back at all the Spawns. [00:38:59] Speaker A: Is that a bow in his hair? [00:39:01] Speaker B: Yeah, well, it's his. It's his shoelace ends in a bow on the top of his head. [00:39:06] Speaker A: Oh, okay. It took me a second to figure out. [00:39:09] Speaker B: Got it because he's. He's also got the shoelace. [00:39:12] Speaker A: He's a shoelace face Spawn. [00:39:13] Speaker B: He's meatball head spawning. [00:39:16] Speaker A: And his mom's there. [00:39:18] Speaker B: His mom's there. His mom and his dog. His mom is a Spawn. His dog is a Spawn. His mom looks like Earthworm Jim. [00:39:25] Speaker A: She does a little bit. [00:39:26] Speaker B: His dog is named Brain, and his brain is just sitting out of his head. [00:39:32] Speaker A: He sops off to his room, says he doesn't want to think about the convention or that day or anything remotely related to Spawn ever again. [00:39:38] Speaker B: And then he slams the door to his room, and, Johnny, it's full of spawn stuff. Whoops. [00:39:46] Speaker A: Looks like the office of my house. [00:39:48] Speaker B: Oh, man, I wish the office of my house looks like this and this. Oh, man, there's so much stuff in here. There's, like, the original Spawn drawings. There's, like, one of the first pinups from one of the first issues on his wall. There's, you know, the original Sam at Twitch action figures where Sam has a donut. [00:40:08] Speaker A: There's that poster that comes in, like. [00:40:09] Speaker B: The fourth Issue or so there's Spawn pillows. There's. There's every. I feel like every Spawn toy that is ever created is going to end up in this book. There are some. There are some Spawn toys that he draws that haven't been made yet, I'm pretty sure. But everyone that ex. Every sort of memorable piece of memorabilia that exists, I have a feeling is in this book somewhere. It's insane. [00:40:36] Speaker A: The detail. [00:40:37] Speaker B: There's the Spawn video game that we heard Terry Fitzgerald's talking about and those blah, blah, blah. It's not too long ago. [00:40:44] Speaker A: Yeah, the Super Nintendo game. So he just goes crazy. He's tired. All this Spawn stuff. Just ripping down the posters, smashing his dressers into each other. [00:40:52] Speaker B: And then exactly two seconds later is. He's. He's thinking of that two page spread earlier where he is king of the Mal bulge and is just setting fire to all the Spawns. And then in, in his room, he is setting fire to all his Spawn toys with the Spawn Zippo that we know exists because the Spawn hunter himself has one. [00:41:15] Speaker A: That's right. [00:41:17] Speaker B: And then while he's burning his stuff, his mom comes in and she's like, what's all this racket, Albert? And why do I smell smoke, Albert? [00:41:26] Speaker A: He's just remodeling with bedroom with fire. [00:41:28] Speaker B: Yeah. I like how she has violator slippers. [00:41:31] Speaker A: Oh, nice. I didn't even notice that. There's so much to notice. [00:41:34] Speaker B: There's so much to notice. And she, you know, understandably freaks out because he's burning shit in his room. [00:41:41] Speaker A: Yeah, don't want to do that. [00:41:43] Speaker B: You are in big trouble, young man. [00:41:45] Speaker A: Not usually. Usually teenagers be burning the weed in their room. You know what I'm saying? [00:41:49] Speaker B: Yeah. Why does it smell like a skunk out in here? [00:41:53] Speaker A: I never, I was never brave enough to ever, like, try to. I wasn't really into weed till like college, so, like. [00:41:57] Speaker B: Yeah, me either. [00:41:58] Speaker A: I never, like, smoked weed at my house, so. Mom, I never tricked you. I never lied to you. I never smoked weed at our childhood home. [00:42:08] Speaker B: Hey, me either, Johnny. We were a couple of good boys. [00:42:11] Speaker A: We were some good boys. Yeah. [00:42:13] Speaker B: Good boys. Now we need our moms to call out and be like, you were good boys. Didn't smoke weed in our home. [00:42:18] Speaker A: But yeah, so he's got this like crater of Spawn toys that have all melted, which got to smell terrible. [00:42:22] Speaker B: Yeah, it's got to smell so bad. He basically. He basically gets grounded. No more smashing or crashing or bashing or breaking things or burning things. And no more noise, Johnny. I think that she says, no more killing, even imaginary killing. So he's like, well, if I can't do any of that, what can I do? And she's like, here, I bought you some comics. [00:42:42] Speaker A: And they're all Spawn and Scorched. [00:42:44] Speaker B: They're all the Spawn homage covers. [00:42:48] Speaker A: Yeah, you got spawn 300. [00:42:50] Speaker B: You get that? Scorch. Scorched. The style of the old X Men. Yeah, the interconnected covers with that lady on it that. [00:42:58] Speaker A: We still don't know who she is. [00:42:59] Speaker B: Nope. We do. We do. In the most recent issue of Spawn, we're actually introduced to her in Media Fight Splice. [00:43:09] Speaker A: Oh, okay. All right. We gotta read that. [00:43:12] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Obviously that's part of the stack you haven't gotten to yet. Yeah, it's sandwiched somewhere between violator number one and gunslinger number 36. [00:43:22] Speaker A: Basically. Yeah. There's a big stacker in the room next door. [00:43:25] Speaker B: It's going to fall over and you're going to get pinned into that closet. You're going to be like, help, help. I'm still by my Spawn collection. So little Chibi Spawn is so upset by his mom buying him Spawn comics that his head just explodes. [00:43:41] Speaker A: Boom. [00:43:43] Speaker B: And he says. And he says, this, dear reader, is where our real story begins. Right here, right now. With me making a vow to be the one and only Spawn. I going to kill Spawn. I'm going to kill every Spawn. [00:43:58] Speaker A: Starting next issue. [00:43:59] Speaker B: Starting next issue. To be. To be Killtinud. [00:44:04] Speaker A: Killtinued. What a little rascal. What a little stinker. [00:44:11] Speaker B: So fucking hilarious. And then we get a. Obviously we get a skull to end the issue. But. Oh, man, he's just. [00:44:19] Speaker A: And buddy's back there, like action pose. [00:44:22] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got. He's. He's dual wielding his blasters again. That are Spawn face blasters. I just realized. [00:44:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:31] Speaker B: God, this book is good. [00:44:32] Speaker A: Joan Ends with a classic skull. [00:44:36] Speaker B: Then new generation, new stories, New you. AD Got Sam A Twitch Violator, Rat City Misery upcoming. [00:44:43] Speaker A: And we get to spawn Origins collection ad for only 9.99. [00:44:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:44:47] Speaker A: Still a great price ad for the new Witch Blades. We get a top cow. [00:44:51] Speaker B: Yeah. Speaking of good fucking stories, Johnny. [00:44:55] Speaker A: Have you been reading it? [00:44:56] Speaker B: Yeah, I've been reading it. It's fantastic. Johnny, speaking of Diablo. [00:45:02] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a toy ad. Because Diablo 4 toy ad. [00:45:05] Speaker B: This is obviously the Todd father trying to convince you to buy. [00:45:08] Speaker A: He's trying to get me. [00:45:08] Speaker B: He's like, look at this, look at. Look at that. Cool fucking. You don't want to buy that goddamn skeleton. [00:45:12] Speaker A: Johnny, what's wrong with the Sorcerer? I want the Sorcerer. [00:45:15] Speaker B: That big red guy up there. [00:45:17] Speaker A: Yeah, but there's a blue one. No, the Sorcerer is the bottom left one. The red lady. There's a blue one that kind of looks like one of the sorcerers I made. And I want it, but I don't. I feel the pull. I feel the call. [00:45:32] Speaker B: I think that's how. I think that's how. I think that's how alcoholics feel. [00:45:36] Speaker A: Yeah. I haven't bought any toys in a while. I just got too many. [00:45:40] Speaker B: Yeah. It got to the point where I was like, ugh. But I'm gonna. I gotta. I gotta pace myself or I'm gonna have no room for any of these. [00:45:47] Speaker A: Yeah. And enough people give them to me now, they'll just take them as gifts. [00:45:52] Speaker B: That's. That's a good. That's a good tactic. [00:45:55] Speaker A: Once you're known as a spawn guy. People give you spawn stuff. [00:45:57] Speaker B: Yeah. Could be worse, Johnny. [00:46:00] Speaker A: Hey, it could be a lot worse. [00:46:01] Speaker B: It could be known as the shit guy. And so they just give you shit. [00:46:04] Speaker A: I wouldn't want to be known as the shit guy. Think there's a podcast about shit? [00:46:09] Speaker B: Oh, there definitely is. [00:46:10] Speaker A: Oh, boy. [00:46:11] Speaker B: One. One of the first labs or. Yeah, one of the first labs I worked in, my first professional lab was a gastroenterology lab. And if you work for a gastroenterologist, they literally have collections of shit. They've got shit toys, they've got books about shit. They've got funny shit. They've got dumb shit. I got. For three years, I got paid to make poop jokes, Johnny. It was awesome. [00:46:34] Speaker A: There you go. So there's definitely a shit podcast out there. [00:46:37] Speaker B: Definitely. Definitely is. [00:46:38] Speaker A: And we're not talking about us. [00:46:40] Speaker B: No, it's not us. [00:46:41] Speaker A: You mean. You mean. I mean like a podcast about poop is what I'm talking about. [00:46:44] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, no, that's a. I know. [00:46:46] Speaker A: There'S plenty of shitty podcasts, but we're. [00:46:49] Speaker B: We're having fun with the word play, Johnny. [00:46:52] Speaker A: Okay. It went zoomed over my head. [00:46:54] Speaker B: The literal shit. Then there's the metaphorical. [00:46:57] Speaker A: I'm sure there's a lot this issue. [00:46:59] Speaker B: I'm sure there is also a podcast about. That is just the shittiest thing in the world. Yeah, we need to find that. We should make that maybe a shitty podcast about. Just record on our phones. [00:47:15] Speaker A: Yeah. Like we did in our first few episodes. [00:47:21] Speaker B: Maybe we're the shitty podcast chat, Johnny. Oh, no. [00:47:23] Speaker A: At one point we might have been. I don't think we are. [00:47:27] Speaker B: I don't think we are either. We definitely. We've come a long way, Johnny. [00:47:30] Speaker A: We've come a long way, baby. [00:47:32] Speaker B: Come a long way. Because we just finished Spawn kills every Spawn number one. [00:47:35] Speaker A: That's it. That's Chibi Spawn. Next up today we have scorched 32. It's a double John Layman day. I didn't think about it. [00:47:49] Speaker B: I mean, you didn't think about it, but we did talk about it at the end of last issue episode, Johnny, so. [00:47:54] Speaker A: Oh, we did. I haven't listened yet. I'm sorry. I'm gonna listen after this so I can write the Instagram post so I know what the fuck I'm talking about. [00:48:01] Speaker B: Hey, join. Join the club, Johnny. I never know. [00:48:04] Speaker A: How long was 109? 109. [00:48:05] Speaker B: It was. I think it was 109, actually. [00:48:09] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:48:10] Speaker B: 1 108. Wasn't 108. It was sad. Like an hour sad. I saved as much as I could. Yeah. Scorch 32, Johnny. We gotta cover the covers first, like we always do. [00:48:22] Speaker A: Yep. And I got it pulled up here. I got. I got the A cover. Of course. [00:48:26] Speaker B: I also have the A cover. The Von Randall cover. [00:48:29] Speaker A: He's Jessica. [00:48:30] Speaker B: Yeah, I was about to say. You say of course. But the readers, the listeners can't see it unless they have it in front of them. [00:48:37] Speaker A: Of course I got it because it is Jessica Priest, and I'm a big Jessica fan. [00:48:40] Speaker B: That's literally the reason I chose it as well, because the. [00:48:44] Speaker A: She looks badass. Got, like, a giant gun over her shoulder. [00:48:47] Speaker B: Yeah. She's, like, hanging out in front of a crypt. Not only does she have a big gun over her shoulder, she's got a big gun that she's holding down at her side. [00:48:54] Speaker A: They're pretty similar to the guns that come with the action figure. [00:48:56] Speaker B: It's just a very good. It's a very good Jessica Priest poster. [00:49:00] Speaker A: There's a B cover by Raymond Gay, and it's like Spawn, like, screeching at Redeemer. [00:49:07] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's a badass cover. [00:49:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:13] Speaker B: And again, literally, the only reason I didn't get that one is because obviously I'm gonna choose the one with Jessica Priest on it. [00:49:19] Speaker A: I love that, like, Redeemer's, like, cackling with energy. [00:49:21] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. He's. He's got ball lightning coming out of his hands and off of his sword. And Spawn's got the green smoke coming out of his mouth and his eyes, and there's bats all in the background. It's very. It's Very classic. [00:49:37] Speaker A: Yeah, it's tough to choose, but when I gotta choose on a scorch, I usually go for the Jessica one. [00:49:42] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I mean, recently there was one. Both covers had a Jessica on them. And boy, I sat there in the store like fucking Mr. Burns trying to choose between ketchup or catsup. [00:49:53] Speaker A: It's tough. [00:49:54] Speaker B: It's tough. These are the tough decisions that we have to make, Johnny. But we make them. We crack them open. We can see some other people who made some tough decisions. Cause they're the ones that put their heart and soul into these. And sometimes you gotta make cuts. Kill your darlings, as they say, Johnny. [00:50:12] Speaker A: That's true. [00:50:13] Speaker B: But these are darlings that we never want to kill. First up, we got script. Plot is done by John Lehman, as we already mentioned, with additional script by Todd McFarlane. [00:50:22] Speaker A: There's some tactics talk. They say the word tactics, so you know that Todd McFarlane probably wrote that. [00:50:26] Speaker B: I'm pretty sure there's an actual time number too, at one point. An actual nice art by Steven Segovia, colors by Deni Ribeirio, lettering by antworld Design. We done covered the covers. Creative director is Todd McFarlane and Thomas Healy is the editor in chief. And this one does have it previously, Johnny. So indeed previously in the Scorched, Jessica Priest and the Scorched finally come face to face in a battle none of them anticipated. [00:50:58] Speaker A: That's right. We left off last. They were running out of the nuclear power plant with Zab. [00:51:03] Speaker B: Yeah. And the Scorch show up. And they're like, jessica Priest, huh? [00:51:08] Speaker A: You ain't going nowhere. I got you for three minutes. [00:51:15] Speaker B: Bone size. [00:51:17] Speaker A: You know it. [00:51:18] Speaker B: I say that at least once a week. I'm pretty sure Wanda is pissed off every time I say it don't matter. Because Bonesot, he's ready. [00:51:26] Speaker A: He's ready. And he's Bruce Campbell adjacent because Bruce Campbell introduces him. [00:51:29] Speaker B: But he's also Macho Man, Randy Savage. [00:51:32] Speaker A: That's so much cool stuff in one. [00:51:34] Speaker B: It's such a good movie. We have now become a Spider man podcast, Johnny. [00:51:40] Speaker A: But not just about Sam Raimi's Spider Man. [00:51:41] Speaker B: Just Sam Raimi's Spider Man. One, two, and one and two. Just one and two. [00:51:46] Speaker A: I like three. Three's good. It's really goofy. [00:51:50] Speaker B: Three, I think, would actually probably give us a lot to talk about because there's a lot of loose threads that we could tangent on. [00:51:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, it's definitely the most meddled with. They forced Venom upon him. He didn't want to do Venom, so you can kind of tell. [00:52:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:06] Speaker A: Because he doesn't really take it that seriously. [00:52:08] Speaker B: Nope. [00:52:09] Speaker A: Which is funny. It's a funny Sam Raimi movie. It's a weird sequel to Spider Man 2. Yeah, it's a good Sam Raimi movie. It's interesting movie. [00:52:17] Speaker B: The Sandman bits are all very good. [00:52:20] Speaker A: The Creole, it's kind of all over the place. [00:52:23] Speaker B: Yeah. It's got bright spots, it's got dark spots. It's got bright spots, it's got dark spots. It is like life, Johnny. It's a little messy, sometimes beautiful, sometimes kind of. What the fuck? [00:52:37] Speaker A: Spider Man 3 is like life. [00:52:39] Speaker B: Spider Man 3 is life, Johnny. So we start off here, hours ago, after weeks in captivity, helpless and in pieces, his brain attached to machines and used as an organic supercomputer. The cybernetically enhanced former Mafia assassin known as Overt Kill is free. And he's punching the shit out of some floor here, Johnny. [00:53:00] Speaker A: He's just beating the shit out of the floor. [00:53:01] Speaker B: He's just saying, vob, vwap, vob, vob, vob. And we got some hands in the front that are protecting themselves, and they're like, ah. And he's just. And we turn the page and Overkill's like, man, that felt good. You could. Did I pass the test? [00:53:20] Speaker A: Mark's just like. [00:53:22] Speaker B: Mark's like, sure, I think I got some data out of that. [00:53:29] Speaker A: He's going to put it in the computer and should get him back to full functionality because they've just freed Over Kill from the clutches of the Agency. [00:53:35] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's. He's getting used to his new body because his body's all back together again. Making sure none of that GVH happens. That's graft versus host. If you didn't catch that. [00:53:46] Speaker A: What? [00:53:47] Speaker B: Graft versus Host. Host disease. It's the main reason that organs get rejected. [00:53:53] Speaker A: Is okay. [00:53:54] Speaker B: The donor organs are seen as invading parasites and the host body attacks them against. Kills them. [00:54:01] Speaker A: Oh, no. Yeah, that's not good. [00:54:03] Speaker B: Nope. Not at all. And Jason. Not Jason Blood. Jesus. Why is everybody. Jason. [00:54:13] Speaker A: There is no someone. Jason Blood doesn't even exist, sir. [00:54:16] Speaker B: Just fucking. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. But haunt. Haunt us there, like. Just like. Should we. Should we have brought this motherfucker back? Look at him. He's fucking crazy. He's. He's into overkill. [00:54:31] Speaker A: Haunts a hot, young Irish man. Irish Catholic. [00:54:34] Speaker B: Look at that. Look at that Strong jock. Good Lord. [00:54:37] Speaker A: You could open strong, John. [00:54:39] Speaker B: You could open a can on that. [00:54:41] Speaker A: Redeemer's not looking. Not too bad himself. [00:54:43] Speaker B: Oh, no. [00:54:43] Speaker A: He's like Redeemer's look. [00:54:44] Speaker B: He's got that. He's got that. That beautiful 80s model vibe. Like, he looks like he just stepped out of a very, very low car with crazy doors somewhere in Malibu. [00:54:56] Speaker A: I like it. We see him out of costume. [00:54:58] Speaker B: It's fun. [00:54:59] Speaker A: He's like, look, we got it. We got it. We gotta have all the hands we can get because we all got blood on our hands. So we gotta use. We gotta use overkill. That's what Redeemer says. [00:55:09] Speaker B: Yes. Yes, indeed. That's what tripped me up with the Jason Blood business this time. I don't know why. Stupid. But. Yeah. So Redeemer is like, we got. We need all the help we can get. So let's do. Let's let Mark do his thing. Let's just go. He's. He's coping with a loss of his own, so let's let him deal with it how he needs to. [00:55:30] Speaker A: Right? He's having mood swings because Medieval is not in his head anymore. [00:55:34] Speaker B: And this is. Man, this. I think this is the last issue of Scorched before it starts getting really, really bad for Mark Rosen. [00:55:41] Speaker A: These guys are gonna drink a mother effing beer. [00:55:43] Speaker B: Yeah. So they go to the fridge, they pull out some beers. They're like, gwen's got Jessica, so she may already be dead. Then over at Kill just, like, crumbles in after them, and he's like, excuse me. Just grabs a fistful of beers and. [00:55:57] Speaker A: Just crushes them into his mouth. [00:55:59] Speaker B: Yeah. He just cracks open all those cold ones just right into his gullet. [00:56:03] Speaker A: I like a nice cold can of beer. [00:56:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. I was talking to somebody recently about yard beers, and those are just the cheapest beer you can find. And throw it in the freezer until it's almost ice. [00:56:16] Speaker A: That's when we were camping our first night, obviously, before we were sick. I requested. My brother's going to the store, and I got 12 pack of lone Star because we're in Texas. Lone Star? [00:56:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:28] Speaker A: I like Lone Star. My dad said that's just above moon piss. Or not moon piss. Sorry. That's just above mule piss. [00:56:36] Speaker B: Well, I mean, there's the old joke that it's like having sex in a canoe, close to water. [00:56:43] Speaker A: Oh, Lone Star. [00:56:45] Speaker B: Well, any sort of cheap beer. [00:56:46] Speaker A: I like Lone Star. Joe Bob Briggs drinks it. [00:56:49] Speaker B: Hey, it's Texas in a can or a bottle, if you get the bottle. [00:56:54] Speaker A: I prefer the bottle, but I got cans. [00:56:56] Speaker B: Bottles are fun. I mean, cans are safer for camping. [00:57:00] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:57:00] Speaker B: You don't want to you don't want to accidentally break a bottle on some rocks. [00:57:05] Speaker A: It also was national park, so you technically weren't supposed to be drinking, but it's, like, no public display of alcohol, so I was just really secretive with it. [00:57:12] Speaker B: Did you? You were like, I can deal with that. And you pull out your brown paper bag that you brought with you from Chicago, and you're like, nobody knows better than this. Nobody knows what this is. [00:57:20] Speaker A: Yeah. It's not liquor. [00:57:23] Speaker B: No, no, no. It's just a drink in a bag. And then while. While overkill still just, like, wiping the beer foam off his chin, Mark's got a beepity beep that's going off, and he's like, finally, I have a hit. So he snuck some spyware into the agency, and he's got a hit on a location for Jessica Priest. He says, it's coming from China. And Redeemer says, what's in China? And we turn the page, and, well, the scorched are in China, Johnny. [00:57:55] Speaker A: Yes. [00:57:56] Speaker B: Only the scorched can go to China. [00:57:58] Speaker A: China. [00:58:01] Speaker B: And, you know, we pick up right where the end of the last issue ended, where, you know, Redeemer's like, you're not taking Zab. And Haunt's like, step aside. And he's all hunched over, and he's got his. His. His goop blades bared. And Jessica Priest is like, I'm not looking for a fight, but if you want to fight, I got my dance. [00:58:24] Speaker A: And she lets out a fucking flash grenade. Bam. [00:58:28] Speaker B: And kicks it off. Zav's like, are you insane? She's bun. We're underpowered against these guys. And she says, yeah, that means they'll underestimate us. She's just, like, throwing capsules of grenades at them, blowing them back. This explosion that blows back Haunt and Redeemer and overt kill is awesome. [00:58:51] Speaker A: Yeah. Just boom. She's doing some badass technical espionage action. [00:58:56] Speaker B: Yeah, she is. And then. And then while they're. While they're running away from that. While Jessica Priest and Zab and Bishop are running away from that explosion, they run into another roadblock. [00:59:08] Speaker A: The guy who owns the nuclear power plant, General Ziren. [00:59:12] Speaker B: Yeah. He's got. Not only does he have some SWAT boys around him, but he's got some fucking demon boys. It looks like he, like, mutated some Nosferatu or something. [00:59:26] Speaker A: Yeah, well, they're not demon. They're made by. I think there's nuclear. [00:59:29] Speaker B: They're probably made by the nuclear power plant there. Yeah, yeah, that's what they do. [00:59:34] Speaker A: If you live in A nuclear reactor you turn into a big beast. [00:59:36] Speaker B: Yeah. So they're much like the. Much like the goopy guy from. With the. The big old radioactive zits that just splashed on Bishop's face a couple issues ago. [00:59:47] Speaker A: Yeah, basically the same kind of thing. [00:59:49] Speaker B: Same kind of guys. And Zab's like, yeah, yeah, his. He thinks that his nuclear reactor will restart my hell powers. And Jessica Priest is thinking, ain't no way. Ain't no way there's enough energy in a nuclear reactor to jumpstart hell powers. [01:00:08] Speaker A: And he sends one of the mutated dudes at him. He's about to crash down on him, but then from the side comes Overkill. He just, like, smacks him into the ground. [01:00:15] Speaker B: Yeah, we get that one panel of. It's just. Everybody's in silhouettes, and that beast is just, like, jumping through the air and he's got his fists behind his head. And, like, you could just. You could just hear. It's like the Balrog music going. That smash is going to be big. But Overkill. [01:00:34] Speaker A: Overkill just intercepts. [01:00:36] Speaker B: Yeah, he hits. He hits. Overt kill. Hits that demon like that car hit Joe Black and meet Joe Black. Bam. Out of nowhere. And then Haunt comes in, and he's slicing off these SWAT guys heads. And it's like, he won't get Zab. She's Bond. Neither will anyone else. And then Redeemer is doing his ding. [01:00:58] Speaker A: Bing slicing and dicing. [01:01:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Then we get a nice full page here of just fighting going on. Everybody's fighting. What is perhaps a partial spoiler for upcoming epis issues of Scorched is that this is a page of the Scorched fighting together, Johnny. Because they are fighting, and they are together. Man. Overt kill looks like mad with. With joy. Look at that. He's just like, ha, ha ha, I'm gonna punch. [01:01:31] Speaker A: And it says that it was that she would. They would work with them as long as it would take this batter the general's troops. Then it was time to switch her tactics. Some tactics talk. [01:01:43] Speaker B: Yeah. And she. She tries to slip away with Bishop and Zab. And then they get. They get a bullet shot right in front of him. And it's Mark Rosen doing some sniper action. Says, you're not getting out of that. This that easily. [01:01:58] Speaker A: Jessica, she's like, looks like I trained him a little too well. [01:02:02] Speaker B: Damn it. They're pinned, Johnny. They've been pincered, maneuvered. [01:02:05] Speaker A: They are pincered. [01:02:07] Speaker B: And so one battle comes to an. [01:02:08] Speaker A: Inch, Johnny, and that general, General Ziren just gets his ripped in half by Overkill. [01:02:13] Speaker B: Yeah. He gets ripped in half so violently that one of his legs falls off. [01:02:18] Speaker A: That's pretty big. [01:02:19] Speaker B: Oh, man. That's so. Man. For overt, I bet that has to feel so good. For overt kill. It's like. That's like, overt kills Bubble wrap. Just ripping dudes in half. They're at a bit of a standstill. [01:02:33] Speaker A: And Han's like, we're taking. Han's pissed. He gets real pissed during this. [01:02:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:36] Speaker A: He is upset, and he's like, I'm taking him. Wind's not touching him. [01:02:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Jessica Priest is not standing down. [01:02:44] Speaker A: So let's do this. [01:02:46] Speaker B: And don't bitch that I didn't give you a chance. I did. [01:02:49] Speaker A: And then he just fucking pins her. [01:02:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:52] Speaker A: Just, like, shoots all his little quills through her. [01:02:54] Speaker B: It's like. It's like, Haunt is an entomologist. Jessica Priest is a dead beetle. And he's just put little pins, hanging them up, hanging her up for display. [01:03:05] Speaker A: Yeah. Just bam. [01:03:07] Speaker B: And Bishop's there like, oh, shit, she can't die. [01:03:10] Speaker A: No, she can't die. I die. Oh, no. [01:03:12] Speaker B: He's like, do you know what you've done? Do you know what you've done? Go to hell. [01:03:17] Speaker A: Bishop's like, yo, you're out of control. Haunt. Yeah, he's a little bit. You didn't need to stab Jessica like that. That's a little dirty. [01:03:24] Speaker B: Yeah. It's too much. But then Haunt, like, wraps up Zab and throws him over his shoulder like a Continental soldier. Do your Zabs hang low? Do they wobble too low, bro. And then they just walk off into the smoke like some badass badasses, and. [01:03:42] Speaker A: Jessica's just lying in a pool of blood, all poked. [01:03:44] Speaker B: Yeah. Overkill says, what if she spawn? And Redeemer says, leave the traitor. [01:03:50] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [01:03:51] Speaker B: Ooh, that might be a good band name, Johnny. Leave the traitor. [01:03:54] Speaker A: Ooh, that is a good band name. Ooh, I can see that. [01:03:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:03:59] Speaker A: In the vein of, like, show me the horizon. [01:04:02] Speaker B: And then we get an epilogue, and we're in a really fancy. Really fancy cyberpunky building, and Jason Wynn and Charlotte Lynn are looking over Jessica Priest in a hospital bed. And he's like, she's looking. Hunt didn't pierce any of her vital organs. [01:04:20] Speaker A: Yeah, right. [01:04:22] Speaker B: I wonder how that happens, Johnny. So. And there's, you know, she failed her mission, but she did succeed in gaining Jason Wynn's trust. He's like, you know what? She almost died for us. I think we can trust her now. And then, as Jason Wynn and Charlotte Lynn leave, Jessica's hotel or hotel? Hotel. [01:04:48] Speaker A: Hotel room. [01:04:49] Speaker B: Yeah. Great amenities, Johnny. So they close the door and leave, and then we just see the slightest smile come across her face. [01:04:59] Speaker A: Yes. And we know it's a hospital room, not a hotel room. [01:05:02] Speaker B: Yeah, Yeah, I know. I mean, it's a hotel of a kind. It's kind of a hotel California for many people. [01:05:09] Speaker A: That's true. Hospitals are like sad hotels. [01:05:12] Speaker B: Yeah. That depresses me, Johnny, not only because of hospitals, but because we're out of issue because we got a skull to end it there. [01:05:20] Speaker A: Ah. But we have a spawning ground. [01:05:21] Speaker B: We do have a spawning ground. Hell, yeah, we do. [01:05:24] Speaker A: Mailbag time. [01:05:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:26] Speaker A: And Jet is back. [01:05:28] Speaker B: Yeah. We haven't seen a Jet original in some time. [01:05:33] Speaker A: And it's Medieval Spawn, based off one of the bobblehead Spawn. [01:05:39] Speaker B: That had to have been a fun exercise because it gets into the caricature of things and getting to draw big head and little body. [01:05:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:05:51] Speaker B: But, yeah, it is a Medieval with a big head and lots of. Lots of battle damage. His helmet is all cracked up. [01:06:00] Speaker A: The detail on the armor is cool. [01:06:02] Speaker B: Yeah. That chainmail looks so good. It's great, man. Jet is doing. Jet is doing the Lord Spawn's work here. Look at that. [01:06:12] Speaker A: Yeah. I guess we can say he reached out to us on Instagram or his parents did, I guess. [01:06:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:06:17] Speaker A: And they want to send us an issue of Dog Spawn. Yeah. [01:06:20] Speaker B: He has finished the comic book that he. He gave himself to do for this year that Thomas Healy spoke of in our episode where we talked to him. So, yeah, very soon we will see the fruits of those labors. And I'm very excited. Joanie. [01:06:35] Speaker A: I promise you, we will cover it on the show. [01:06:37] Speaker B: I like. As soon as I had that, everybody I talked to, I was then like, hold on. Let me tell you a story. [01:06:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:06:45] Speaker B: I wasted so much time telling that story, but I was very excited, so it didn't feel like a waste to me. [01:06:51] Speaker A: It's just cool that Spawn is connecting people. [01:06:54] Speaker B: Yeah. And, you know, it's this. This young artist is getting into the art world and doing all of this. It's his passion. Shawnee, like, we talked about being unafraid to. To like what you like and to do what you do. It's very exciting. [01:07:12] Speaker A: Just like Chibi Spawn. [01:07:13] Speaker B: Yeah. And then only less violent, less killing everybody, less psychotic, less trying to burn all the stuff in his room. The second letter for this mailbag is also another bit of fan art from somebody named Fire Phoenix. And it is Al Simmons. Just a last poor Yoricking there. And it is. It is real. [01:07:34] Speaker A: It's awesome. [01:07:36] Speaker B: It is real dope. That. That is a vicious looking skull that he has in his hands. Some good cape action that he's got there, especially in the scarf region. Two really good pieces are here. [01:07:50] Speaker A: Some fun mailbag. [01:07:52] Speaker B: Need more Sponge Universe, Johnny. [01:07:54] Speaker A: Always. [01:07:55] Speaker B: Hey, the domesty's ongoing titles. The four. The Core four, Johnny. [01:07:59] Speaker A: Yep. We get the ad for the Core four. [01:08:01] Speaker B: Yeah. The Spawntastic four, if you will. [01:08:04] Speaker A: We also get the Witchblade ad again, which David highly recommends. [01:08:08] Speaker B: It's very good. It is. That's all I have to say about it because this isn't a Witchblade podcast. The toy ad is Pacific Rim, which. Very excited. I have not seen these toys in the wild, Johnny. [01:08:20] Speaker A: I haven't either. I've been looking for them. I haven't seen them. [01:08:23] Speaker B: I would probably snatch one up real quick if I were to come across one because I like those little 4 inch figures. The classic 7 inch figures are great, but I like the little tiny ones because you could put more of them on your desk and throw them at each other and they don't fall apart. [01:08:38] Speaker A: Yeah. It's harder to break school that they made these. [01:08:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Need more Kaiju in our lives. [01:08:45] Speaker A: I would like a Cherno Alpha. He's my favorite. He's the one on the far right, the Russian one. [01:08:51] Speaker B: I think they should. I mean, since they made the Jaegers and the Kaiju so small, if they were to make. If they were to make the actual people for this, they would be like the little Kenner Star wars guys that go in the. [01:09:07] Speaker A: Oh, that was Galoob. That was Action Fleet. Yeah. Kenner was the three and three quarter inch figures. [01:09:13] Speaker B: That would be hilarious if they brought back the little bitty tiny guys that just bend at the waist and they got. [01:09:18] Speaker A: They did. There's a whole new action fleet like line. [01:09:21] Speaker B: Oh, no, I was talking about for the specific rim here. Oh, yeah, they got fucking. [01:09:25] Speaker A: You got a little Charlie Hunham. [01:09:27] Speaker B: Yeah, they got that dude with the big old. The super gold boots. And that's scorch number 32, Johnny. [01:09:33] Speaker A: That is scorch 32. And now it's time to review. [01:09:38] Speaker B: I. Johnny, I am strangely dog less at this moment. [01:09:41] Speaker A: You're strangely dogless. Wow. [01:09:43] Speaker B: How the hell did that happen? [01:09:45] Speaker A: David has a lot of dogs. [01:09:47] Speaker B: I got a lot of dogs and usually I use them to segue into the rating of the puppies, but Johnny, I ain't got no puppies. But I Guess we can still rate them, right? [01:09:57] Speaker A: It's still time to rate the puppies. So, first up today we had Spawn Kills. Every spawn number one. [01:10:05] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:10:05] Speaker A: I mean, what can you say about this? It's really fun. It's just got a great sense of, like, Looney Tunes. Like I said, like, sense of humor. I love all the detail. Easter eggs. It's just like a treasure trove for a Spawn fan. [01:10:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:10:17] Speaker A: The art by sketchcraft is just so detailed and so much fun. And, like, every time I look at it, I see something new even just going through it now. There were, like, five things that I was like. I didn't even realize that. [01:10:28] Speaker B: I'm surprised you didn't say anything about the Spawn. Spontoon. Spontoon or Spinal Tune. Yeah, because there's a Splatoon. [01:10:36] Speaker A: Oh, I never even see that. [01:10:38] Speaker B: Yeah, he's right. It's the bottom. This. This guy that's right on the crease. He's got Spontindo Mario Spawn. Spawn. [01:10:48] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, man. That's crazy. Yeah, I do like Splatoon. [01:10:53] Speaker B: If you are. If you are into a nerdy thing, there is a Spawn version of it in this book. [01:10:58] Speaker A: I just love the mayhem and taking the piss out of Spawn, which is so serious sometimes. It's really nice to see. So I'm going to give this four shit. What do I even pick the world? [01:11:08] Speaker B: The world is literally your oyster, Johnny. [01:11:10] Speaker A: I'm gonna give it four Spawn Bandicoots, maybe. [01:11:13] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:11:14] Speaker A: Out of five. Like I said, it's just great start for the series. And it's something that I think that is good for Spawn just to kind of make fun of it a little bit. [01:11:25] Speaker B: Hell yeah. I agree. It's so much fun for all of this lore to just be. I mean, it's great that we have all of the slow that we can go on to begin with. So having. Having the ability to play around is just. It's great. It's so much fun. I am loving the series. It's hilarious. It's. It's just a good time, Johnny. It's a good reason to go to the comic book store. I am going to give it four heroes in a hell shell. [01:11:58] Speaker A: Four heroes in a hell shell. [01:11:59] Speaker B: Because there were four of them. [01:12:01] Speaker A: So next up, we had scorched 32. [01:12:04] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:12:06] Speaker A: A big old brawl in China. [01:12:11] Speaker B: They didn't break the china. [01:12:13] Speaker A: No, no. John Lehman's killing it yet again. Keeping his Scorch run going strong. I love the tactical espionage Jessica we got going. And just like the more Grounded story. But you do have, like, haunt coming in there. And it really shows how these beans with power is gonna be very powerful now because he just wrecks Jessica in like two seconds. Doesn't even think about it. [01:12:33] Speaker B: Yeah, just. [01:12:37] Speaker A: I like that you get a little bit of the scorched team back at the base out of costume. That's always fun to see. I'm glad that Jonathan Lehman's doing that because. Or John Lehman's doing that because they didn't really do that in the earlier stuff. It was just action, action, action. [01:12:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:12:52] Speaker A: And it's fun to see him kick back and have a beer. [01:12:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:12:56] Speaker A: And see him out of costume. And it makes me more curious about Redeemer. I just want to know who he is. [01:12:59] Speaker B: Yeah, we still. We still don't know what his name is. [01:13:02] Speaker A: Yeah, there's that one issue. They're in the bar. He's about to tell him their name, and then someone threw a body through the door or something. But, yeah, I think this is a fun fight. It's cool to see the Scorch, like, kind of going against each other. This run has just been great. And this is another piece to the puzzle as we move along to the big. Some big reveals later on. I'm going to give it four cans of beer that Overkill drank. [01:13:27] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Jenny. They all at once, man. That's. That's some Andre. Andre the Giant level drink in there. [01:13:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:13:37] Speaker B: Yeah. So I agree. I like that in this issue we have over at Kill cracking open a cold one with the boys and then later cracking open a cold boy with the ones. [01:13:51] Speaker A: That's true. He cracks that general right in half. [01:13:54] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, sure does. With. With a vengeance. It's. That's the. The thing about John Lehman's run on this. This series. Johnny has just been. He's been so invested in making sure that we know these characters, and it's fun to know them while they're beating the shit out of some other people. It's. Yeah, it just heightens everything. I agree. I agree with the four. I'm gonna give it four general legs falling off after being ripped in half. [01:14:28] Speaker A: Well, guess what, David? [01:14:29] Speaker B: What's that, Johnny? [01:14:30] Speaker A: We gotta open the mail bag because we got a letter. [01:14:33] Speaker B: Another mail bag. [01:14:34] Speaker A: We got a G. What do we call it? I don't even remember. [01:14:37] Speaker B: What did we call it? What did. [01:14:40] Speaker A: We haven't done it in so long. [01:14:42] Speaker B: Respawning regrounds. [01:14:44] Speaker A: Oh, that's what it is. Yep. So, guys, guess what? We got a letter, an email. So it's time to go through the email here on a fresh installment of Respawning Regrounds. We get to play the fun song. [01:15:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Again. Finally. [01:15:20] Speaker A: So we got a letter from Mark Zovak tinyspawny on Instagram. If you don't follow him, give him a follow. And like the promise says, we're going to read it on air. [01:15:28] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:15:30] Speaker A: Salutations, fellow Spawn Heads. I have every intention of reading every title in the Spawns universe, and I've done so up to this point. I will be honest, I did not have high hopes for Misery when it was announced. Cyan having empathic powers did not sound like something I could get into. Then I read the first issue and was blown away by how good it was. The first issue comes out of the gate swinging, doesn't hold back. I'm not sure if anyone else would have written such a sensitive issue. Todd did it in such a way that it didn't come off as offensive. It was a very dark and gritty book that is very grounded in reality. [01:15:57] Speaker B: Hell yeah, it is. [01:15:58] Speaker A: Cyan is starting her journey, discovering who she is and learning how to control her powers. I don't want to give anything away, but it's definitely one of the people need to read. I finish each issue wanting more. Issue four just kind of ends. [01:16:09] Speaker B: Yeah, it does. [01:16:09] Speaker A: Yes, it does. If you flip to the last page, which is the Spawning Grounds page, we find out why. This story is one Todd has had for a while and wanted to get it out there. He says that if there's enough interest from the fans, he would like to turn into ongoing series. He's hoping for a female writer to take over. I really hope this happens. We get to continue to follow Cyan on her journey of discovery. [01:16:28] Speaker B: That would be cool. [01:16:29] Speaker A: Out of all the new titles, there's only one dud. This is just my opinion, so don't come at me. I think the Monolith comic series is poorly written. It slightly redeems itself on the last page of issue three. The story as a whole, though, is full of holes and starts in a weird place that we agree it does start in a weird place. [01:16:43] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a mess. [01:16:45] Speaker A: The dialogue between Omega and Monolith is even cringeworthy. I also think the plot was way too weak and didn't keep my interest. I only finished reading it because I thought it would get better. Nope. I'm a huge fan of the Spawn universe as a whole. All the titles are great. So one bad apple and a bunch is to be Expected. May the fourth be with you, Mark Zovak tinyspawn on Instagram. [01:17:06] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:17:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:17:08] Speaker B: I mean, I agree, like, I agree wholeheartedly with all of that because issue four of Misery does just end. Monolith is. I think that's always. [01:17:19] Speaker A: I don't know, we kind of like. We kind of like Monolith better than. [01:17:22] Speaker B: I'm coming around to it, but it is. It is not very well put together. [01:17:26] Speaker A: The first issue is not good. It's not a good starting point. The second issue kind of redeems it a little bit, and I think that we'll see the third. I haven't read it yet, but we will be soon. [01:17:34] Speaker B: It's taken me so many rereads to get to the point where I kind of like it that I understand it should be a little more engaging immediately. And it is. It is not. It's. [01:17:44] Speaker A: Yeah, I agree. [01:17:45] Speaker B: It's the most homework feeling of any Spawn comics that we've had to read. [01:17:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:17:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:17:51] Speaker A: Well, I'm glad, Mark. I'm glad you're digging Misery. Yeah, that sounds good. And we dug it too, and we'll be covering it over the next couple months or a month or so. [01:18:00] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [01:18:01] Speaker A: Thanks for writing in. [01:18:02] Speaker B: Thank you for the letter, Tiny Spani. We. We love hearing from people. We love hearing from you. Especially you. You always give us the goods. Always. You're giving us the goods on Instagram. You're giving us the goods in the responding regrants. [01:18:14] Speaker A: And also exclusive, I guess we can say, has agreed to be our guest for Deadly the Gunslinger Number one. [01:18:21] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:18:22] Speaker A: So we'll have Tiny Spawny on the show and he'll be soonish. [01:18:26] Speaker B: He'll be bringing the goods, Johnny. Can you believe it? [01:18:28] Speaker A: Yeah, he will be. [01:18:31] Speaker B: Well, speaking. Speaking of bringing the goods, Johnny, there was one particular person who brought some exceptional goods this issue, and we would like to make sure that more people know about them and follow them. [01:18:47] Speaker A: Absolutely. So if you aren't following, we mentioned on the back of the spawning grounds on Scorch 32, we have Jet. [01:18:56] Speaker B: Jet, yes. [01:18:58] Speaker A: And so if you want to follow him on Instagram and see all his cool adventures with Dog Spawn and his action figures and just his journey as. [01:19:05] Speaker B: An artist, his interactions, a lot of interactions with Todd McFarlane at NYCC this year. [01:19:09] Speaker A: So that's fun to see. [01:19:11] Speaker B: Yeah, it's great to see. [01:19:13] Speaker A: So what does that handle there? [01:19:14] Speaker B: The handle is Jet Lucanus. [01:19:18] Speaker A: Nice. [01:19:18] Speaker B: Yes. [01:19:19] Speaker A: We'll link it in the episode post as always. So give him a follow and keep up with his Spawn Adventures. [01:19:25] Speaker B: Yeah, do that. Help support. Help support all of these young artists to keep doing what they love. Because the world needs more people passionate about things they do. And the only way that we can do that is by supporting the ones that do it. Yeah. Speaking of supporting the ones who do it, Johnny, Lonnie Bones does our music. And you guys should go. Love him too. That's Lonnie with a Y. Just Google Bonnie Bones music and you'll get there. [01:19:49] Speaker A: You got that great. Got that great responding Regrowns theme song. [01:19:52] Speaker B: Yeah. We finally get a bust. We get a dust the. We get. Knock the dust off the top of it. Give it a little while you're on the Internet on Instagram. Give us a follow too. We're regarding SpawnPod. We're posting some stuff. We're fiddling around in the Spawns universe there. It's a great little place to get together and chat. [01:20:14] Speaker A: Yeah. And if you want to send us a longer form email, get featured on Respawning Regrounds, we'll read it on air as we just did. Send us an email regarding spawnpodmail.com and I always like to ask a question to spur those emails. And this week I'd like to ask what was your favorite Easter egg in Spawn Kills Everyone number one. I'm just curious what everyone liked the best. There's so many. [01:20:40] Speaker B: Oh, I. I can't. [01:20:42] Speaker A: I don't know. I can pick. Mine might be Sam and Twitch the same and Twitch is good. I didn't even really mention that. But them in line. [01:20:47] Speaker B: Yeah, that was fun. I think. I think the Sam and Twitch action figure with the Sam with the donut might be my favorite. [01:20:55] Speaker A: Yeah. Nice little Easter egg. [01:20:56] Speaker B: Either. Either that. [01:20:57] Speaker A: That's in Chibi Spawn's room, right? [01:20:59] Speaker B: Yeah, that's in Chibi Spawn's room. Either that or the canonical Fleabiak brothers. [01:21:05] Speaker A: Yeah, that's pretty cool too. Yeah, that was pretty cool when I noticed that. [01:21:08] Speaker B: It's amazing detail and oh boy. I have a feeling that Spawn archives and you know, punk G42 and Ty, the spawn hunter himself might be in cahoots with the creators of this book to make sure they get everything in there. [01:21:29] Speaker A: Be calling the Spawn Avengers together. [01:21:31] Speaker B: Yeah, like what? What else can we put in here? What's something nobody knows too much about? They'll be like, ah, yeah. What about this bit? It's almost an encyclopedia. [01:21:41] Speaker A: Almost. [01:21:42] Speaker B: Almost. [01:21:42] Speaker A: Yeah, it's great. [01:21:43] Speaker B: Almost. Well, speaking of calling the Spawn vengers together, Johnny, you want to reconvene this fearsome force of two of us talking about Spawn on the Internet in about a week. [01:21:55] Speaker A: Yeah, I do, but I want to twist it up and read two issues that don't have Spawn in them. [01:21:59] Speaker B: Oh, I mean, go off King Spawn. [01:22:03] Speaker A: All right, so let's read Kings. Well, not King Spawn. Let's read Rat City Number Five and Sam and Twitch case files Number Five. [01:22:13] Speaker B: You normally don't have to twist my arm to read more Spawn. And, like, you have to twist my arm even less to get me to read some Rhett City and some Salmon. Twitch. Joni. [01:22:23] Speaker A: Yep? It's five for five. [01:22:25] Speaker B: I will pay you for the honor of reading these again. [01:22:28] Speaker A: Okay, I'll take five bucks. [01:22:31] Speaker B: Damn it. It's on air. [01:22:32] Speaker A: You can sell me now. [01:22:34] Speaker B: I have to do it. Fuck. Let this be a lesson to all. You don't tell your friends that you're going to give them money in a public forum. [01:22:41] Speaker A: They'll make you do it. [01:22:42] Speaker B: Beholden to it. Well, that sounds wonderful. [01:22:45] Speaker A: Just remember, Number Fives, Rat City and Sam and Twitch Number Five. [01:22:50] Speaker B: Next week, we'll do it lives. No, we won't do it live. We will do it live, and then we will record that live, and then we will release that recording of the live. Well, that sounds great to me, Joni. We got a. Don't for. Don't forget to read those books and come back and listen to us next week. It'll be a be a hoot. It's always a hoot. If you don't want to come back next week, at least read Rat City then. Just enjoy it, because Rat City is fucking awesome. Don't forget to like and subscribe to us. Anywhere you like and subscribe. Tell your friends, your family, your coworkers, anybody who likes Spawn about us, you know. Don't forget to read more Spawn, Johnny. That's what the world needs now. [01:23:40] Speaker A: Spawn. Sweet spawn. [01:23:41] Speaker B: Sweet Spawn. And I think, Johnny, that I have run out of additional things to say, which means there's not much to say, but may the scorch be with you. [01:23:52] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:23:54] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:23:55] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. So just go out there and love what you love. Be like Chibispawn. Be unabashed about it. [01:24:01] Speaker B: Be like Jet. Start developing new skills based on the things you love. [01:24:06] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm gonna go develop a new skill with things I love by learning how to play Diablo and Respawn at the same time. Go. [01:24:13] Speaker B: Dude, there's not enough time in the day, Johnny. You better get to it. [01:24:19] Speaker A: All right. Here I.