Episode 116 - Gunslinger 35 and Spawn 357

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Spare me your lecture, Hellboy. And what you gonna do with your gun? That won't hurt. Good evening and welcome to the Mal Bulge. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast. I'm your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:45] Speaker B: And I'm your co host, David Williams. And oh, Johnny, it's hit that time of year where it's not like super cold, but it's just like perfectly cold enough that it's better in the blankets. So I'm gonna. I'm just gonna sleep in this bed over here and yell my side of the conversation at you. So probably not going to see. It's going to be. It's going to be nice and cozy in there. I'll try to. [00:01:08] Speaker A: Yeah. I did not want to get up. [00:01:13] Speaker B: Me either. Me either. It's. It's just so nice and toasty in the bed. Johnny, why. Why did we make these comfortable places to sleep? So comfortable? [00:01:22] Speaker A: I mean, that's what they're for. [00:01:24] Speaker B: I mean, it's. I feel like we should probably. [00:01:26] Speaker A: Yesterday was a shit day in Chicago. It just snowed and was sloppy and then rained. [00:01:30] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, it was. It was fun at work. It felt like being in a snow globe. So that was fun. But other than that, can you imagine? Do you remember that Bible story about that one guy who falls asleep and uses a rock as a pillow and like, dreams of heaven? Could you imagine using a rock as a pillow, Johnny? [00:01:51] Speaker A: Uh, no, that would hurt. That would suck. [00:01:53] Speaker B: I'd like to say that was Cain, but that's just me. [00:01:57] Speaker A: Yeah, we wish. [00:01:58] Speaker B: That's just me putting some spawn on it, man. [00:02:01] Speaker A: Putting your own spawn on it. [00:02:04] Speaker B: I saw a video of Korean stone beds, which are just like hard beds that have a heating coil underneath them that apparently a lot of people like to use. Oh, I could not. I could not do that. [00:02:18] Speaker A: Really? A stone bed. [00:02:20] Speaker B: I don't know if it's actually made of stone or if it's just called stone because it's a flat board. I would wake up so achy, Johnny. I'd be like, oh, my bones. [00:02:32] Speaker A: Yeah. Javier has probably slept on a rock bed many a time. [00:02:36] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Yeah, he's probably slept on the old dusty trail, used an old rotten log as a. As a pillow. [00:02:46] Speaker A: Mmm. [00:02:48] Speaker B: I wouldn't be surprised if he's also slept inside of something dead to keep warm, like an old west version of the taunton. [00:02:58] Speaker A: He does call upon many creatures of the night in this issue we're covering today. [00:03:03] Speaker B: Oh, yes. Yes. What sweet music they make, Johnny. [00:03:06] Speaker A: He could just make a Pillow out of worms. [00:03:10] Speaker B: Imagine trying to get that in the shape you want. You'd just be like, punching them and they'd be, eh. [00:03:16] Speaker A: Well, welcome, everyone. Welcome to. Regarding Spawn, where each week we bring you two issues from Spawn's universe. Except when we don't. And this week is no different. We have two issues. Two modern issues of Spawn here for you. [00:03:28] Speaker B: Yes, we do. [00:03:29] Speaker A: And like I mentioned, one of them is our friend Gunslinger, who likes to sleep on rocks. Javier in gunslinger number 35. And then we are on to mainline spawn for our second issue, which is spawn 357. [00:03:43] Speaker B: Spawn is on the main line. Yes, he is Indeed. [00:03:47] Speaker A: We're already seven past that 350. Can you believe it? [00:03:50] Speaker B: All right. It's hard to believe, Johnny, but here we are. [00:03:54] Speaker A: Feels like it was just yesterday. [00:03:56] Speaker B: It really does. Oh, man. But so much has happened, both, you know, in the world and in the comics. [00:04:04] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that's true. [00:04:06] Speaker B: It's good. It's good. These are some good books this week, Johnny. I'm real excited to jump into them with you. [00:04:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Are you doing another double feature this weekend, David? Are you doing Glicked? [00:04:17] Speaker B: Uh, we're just doing. We're just doing Wicked. Well, well, it might be going to see Wicked and then on the way home, picking up a dog who might be approved for adoption. So. So what would that be? [00:04:34] Speaker A: That's a double feature. [00:04:37] Speaker B: I can't think of. [00:04:38] Speaker A: If you combine dog and Wicked, it creates Dicked. [00:04:41] Speaker B: I was about to say, I can't think of an appropriate. [00:04:44] Speaker A: You're getting dicked this weekend. [00:04:46] Speaker B: Oh, boy. You know, we love. Gotta get it. [00:04:50] Speaker A: You're going to see Wicked. [00:04:51] Speaker B: Yes. Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. I have been told I am not to make any other plans for Saturday. So that way, movie can happen at whatever time. We feel good to go. [00:05:01] Speaker A: Okay. [00:05:02] Speaker B: I am. I. And I am very excited. It should be very. [00:05:05] Speaker A: Yeah, it looks fun. I've seen the show once. It was good. [00:05:09] Speaker B: Yeah, I saw. [00:05:10] Speaker A: I saw it on touring production in Tulsa. [00:05:12] Speaker B: Yeah, at the Pacific. [00:05:14] Speaker A: Yes, sir. [00:05:14] Speaker B: I saw it there, too. [00:05:15] Speaker A: Wow. [00:05:16] Speaker B: It would be hilarious if we had gone on the same night. [00:05:18] Speaker A: That would be funny. [00:05:19] Speaker B: But no, it's a good show. I'm just. I'm just sad that the second. The second movie is gonna be not none of the songs anybody knows. [00:05:30] Speaker A: Right. [00:05:31] Speaker B: But, you know, all I remember from. [00:05:33] Speaker A: The second act was a bunch of wizard of Oz like, references. Like guy turns into a scarecrow. [00:05:36] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's the. The formation of Fiero into the scarecrow is kind of that whole Point of that song. Whoops. That's the no Good Deeds song. That's the. That's the same in Twitch Case Files song. Johnny. [00:05:52] Speaker A: Indeed. I don't know that. I only know like Popular and Defying. [00:05:57] Speaker B: Gravity both in the first film. I know there's a whole second, a whole second half to come. [00:06:03] Speaker A: Have they filmed it? [00:06:05] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:06:06] Speaker A: Do they film them both? [00:06:07] Speaker B: I don't know. It seems dumb for them to have not. Although I guess they didn't film Dune at the same time. But I have a feeling Dune probably was more expensive than Wicked is. [00:06:20] Speaker A: Wicked looks pretty lavish. Probably more expensive. [00:06:23] Speaker B: They. They threw money at that they like everything's Wicked and no one mourns the Wicked. [00:06:30] Speaker A: I saw hilarious reel where there was like a pastor at Target and he had the wicked Legos and he was like, look, it's got a website at the bottom. Www.wiki.com. it goes to a porn site. They're trying to get our kids to look at porn. And that's not true. If you go to wiki.com it's for the movie. [00:06:46] Speaker B: Yeah, well, but they just some preacher. [00:06:48] Speaker A: On Instagram or TikTok trying to drum up some controversy. [00:06:52] Speaker B: Well, specifically on the Barbies. The QR code did send you to a porn site. [00:06:58] Speaker A: Really? [00:06:58] Speaker B: I don't know how they've. How they've corrected it, but I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah, no, it actually did happen. Wanda. Wanda works for the Mattel company and they had an entire meeting about it. [00:07:17] Speaker A: Uh. [00:07:17] Speaker B: Oh. So yeah, it's. It's a thing. It's a thing. [00:07:21] Speaker A: I didn't realize. I thought this preacher was just crazy. Yeah, no, but the Wicked toys particularly do that. [00:07:27] Speaker B: Yeah, the Barbies. The Barbies specifically. Because I think it was just on the Mattel marketing side. [00:07:36] Speaker A: Oh boy. Yeah, I bet there was a big meeting about that. [00:07:39] Speaker B: And they had to ship. [00:07:40] Speaker A: Barrel was probably there. [00:07:42] Speaker B: They had to ship all the product back to the warehouses to get new packaging. So that means that the pre corrected packaging is gonna go up on ebay in like six months and sell for like $6,500 or some shit. [00:07:56] Speaker A: Oh, nice. The porn edition. Isn't that what get your Wicked dolls the porn edition. [00:08:02] Speaker B: Well, I mean, I guess. I guess there literally is a rule about it, Johnny. But the rule here is Spawn is good. [00:08:11] Speaker A: The rule here is the rule of the wild west. [00:08:13] Speaker B: Yeah, the no rules just right. Oh wait, no. That's the outback. [00:08:18] Speaker A: That's the Outback. [00:08:19] Speaker B: That's. When are we going to go to The Outback again. That was fun. [00:08:22] Speaker A: I go to the outback any day. [00:08:24] Speaker B: Fucking that fucking brown bread they bring at the beginning. Just still slaps so hard. It's so good. [00:08:29] Speaker A: Well, there's another ghost show in Rosemont. What? September. August. [00:08:32] Speaker B: Oh, there is. Nice. There was something else happening in Rosemont that I wanted to go to. It's just so hard to get to that freaking Outback, though. [00:08:41] Speaker A: I know. You got to walk down the highway. [00:08:43] Speaker B: Yeah. It's like. It's like two miles from the nearest transit station. And there's no. There's no paste bust that goes by it. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. [00:08:51] Speaker A: Worth it, though. Worth it for the Bloomin Onion. [00:08:53] Speaker B: It was. Oh, man. Yeah, it was. It was worth it. [00:08:56] Speaker A: I like steak and shrimp for like $10. [00:08:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, boy. It was amazing. [00:09:01] Speaker A: I had a deal that good since I went to Ruby Tuesdays at SpawnCon. [00:09:07] Speaker B: I had. I had a pretty good deal not to. Not to. Not too far away. Pretty recently. Jesus. That's what I meant to say it was. I used some loyalty points at a sandwich place, and basically the cost of my sandwich was just the additional price of the avocado I added. So I got a whole sandwich place. It's called. Oh, geez. It's a little French baguette sandwich shop. I think it's called Leah Baguette. Okay. Down in the Loop. It's between the train and work. And I usually on Fridays after recording, just like I'm going to eat a sandwich on my way to work. And that's where I stop. Baguettes, Johnny. Maurice, the baguettes. Hurry up. [00:09:53] Speaker A: Sorry, I'm really tired today. [00:09:54] Speaker B: It happens, Johnny. We are. We are sleepy men. But you know who is not a sleepy man? Johnny. Well, actually, I guess technically he is sleepy because he's in a coma. [00:10:04] Speaker A: He's in a coma. But he's not. He's usually not sleepy. [00:10:07] Speaker B: He's usually not sleepy. That Javi. That Javi, the gunslinger. [00:10:10] Speaker A: And we are starting with gunslinger number 35. All the way back from the far off land of September 2024. [00:10:19] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Actually, pretty far away. [00:10:21] Speaker A: Yeah, actually a little bit far away. We're nearing up as of this record, we're near the end of November, Johnny. [00:10:30] Speaker B: I still remember being surprised that it was the end of March of this year. What the hell happened? [00:10:35] Speaker A: We all had to hurry up and get to Wicked, so we had to make the year go faster. [00:10:39] Speaker B: Don't never underestimate the power of theater kids in large numbers, Johnny. If you learn nothing else from this podcast, Learn that. [00:10:50] Speaker A: So we always start with the covers. And I have the A cover. [00:10:56] Speaker B: I also have the a cover by Mr. [00:10:58] Speaker A: Von Randall. [00:10:59] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. It's. It's a very good cover, Johnny. It's. It's just some classic hobby. [00:11:05] Speaker A: It's Javi doing his James Bond where he's pointing the gun at the camera. [00:11:08] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's smoking his cheroot. It's like. I like. I like that. It's got, like a bend in it. Like it's been in his pocket for a couple of days. [00:11:19] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:11:21] Speaker B: And he's just, you know, he's a cool customer, Johnny. I wouldn't want to. I wouldn't want to actually be on this end of the pistol in real life, but no, it's a. It's a great little visage. [00:11:34] Speaker A: I always like the idea or like the trope of, like, someone shooting the cigarillo out of their mouth. [00:11:38] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's always fun. [00:11:40] Speaker A: Maybe that's what he's about to shoot. About to shoot a cigar out of a guy's mouth. [00:11:43] Speaker B: Well, we gotta. Well, we gotta. We gotta set this up, Johnny. We gotta pretend that we're there smoking some cigarettes. [00:11:50] Speaker A: And he goes, stop smoking. [00:11:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:51] Speaker A: Shoots us. [00:11:52] Speaker B: It's like the. It's like the old west flavor of William Tell. He has his. He has his son go stand by that tree with a cigarette in his mouth. [00:12:02] Speaker A: And just shoots it right off. [00:12:03] Speaker B: He shoots it right off. [00:12:05] Speaker A: There's also a B cover by Mirko Kolak. [00:12:09] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. And it is. It's kind of the same pose, only a different angle and much, much scarier. It's just. It's just a close up on the pistol in front of gunslinger's face there. And gunslinger is like, ah. And he's got nasty meatball face. And it's like, ah. It's. It's gritty and it's nasty and it is glorious. [00:12:35] Speaker A: It reminds me of the poster for the Outlaw Josie Wales. [00:12:38] Speaker B: Yeah, it does. [00:12:39] Speaker A: Which is like Clint Eastwood, like, screaming and shooting some guns. [00:12:42] Speaker B: I would be surprised if that were not an inspiration, Johnny. Yeah, but. But yeah, it's. [00:12:47] Speaker A: He's screaming in an empty chair. Anyone remember that? [00:12:52] Speaker B: I do, I do. [00:12:54] Speaker A: But then he's been talking to an empty chair at the rn. [00:12:56] Speaker B: How dare you, sir? But, yes, I like that. Like, there's not a clean edge on this cover at all. Like, everything is frayed. Like, it's. It's literally this man in black has fled across the desert and the gunslinger has followed. [00:13:17] Speaker A: Yeah, it's good. I like them both. But I actually may prefer the B cover. The one I don't have. [00:13:23] Speaker B: No, I definitely prefer the one I have because it's got those really good. That really good detail on the pistol holster. Pistol holsters. I'm a sucker for these. These holsters, Johnny. [00:13:37] Speaker A: So let's crack it open. And we got the credits. And as usual on Gunslinger, as always on Gunslinger, we have script plot by Todd McFarlane, art by Carlo Barberi, colors by Ivan Nunes. Lettering as Tom Warzachowski. Cover artists, we covered them. Creative directors Todd McFarlane and editor in chief is Thomas Healy. Previously in Gunslinger, the gunslinger is in a coma after his running with the police. Memories of his past are running through his head. [00:14:13] Speaker B: Nice. [00:14:14] Speaker A: It's funny, I was reading this. Oh, boy. At the bar. [00:14:21] Speaker B: Same bar or different bar? [00:14:23] Speaker A: Same bar. Cleo. [00:14:24] Speaker B: Hey. Well, loyal, loyal, loyal customer base they got there, Johnny. [00:14:29] Speaker A: Yeah, no, it's a good spot. It's right by my fucking house. I don't want to go into it. But being at home isn't the best right now, so I've been spending a lot more time outside the home. [00:14:41] Speaker B: Johnny, there's a reason that third places exist. [00:14:44] Speaker A: There is. [00:14:44] Speaker B: Your third places exist happens to be Cleo's. This just means that if you're visiting Chicago and you want to maybe try to run into one of the co hosts of your favorite Spawn podcast, it's a pretty good. Pretty good bank. [00:14:58] Speaker A: Pretty good chance I'll be there. But I was reading it and this guy noticed and he was like, hey, is Tom McFarlane. Is Tom McFarland still writing Spawn? And I was like, no, but he is writing this one. And I pulled out Gunslinger Spawn. He was like, whoa, I didn't even know that existed. That's awesome. [00:15:13] Speaker B: Awesome. Oh, man. Proselytizing. [00:15:16] Speaker A: I talked about spawn for like 10 minutes, but I didn't. There's that moment, David, where you're like, do I tell them I have a Spawn podcast or not? And, like, I didn't because it just didn't seem like it was going to come up naturally. But usually it ends up coming up. [00:15:31] Speaker B: Well. I mean, you could always use the. I mean, if you didn't know this existed and you wanted to kind of keep up on current Spawn topics, you could give this a listen and just like, slide a sticker over like it's a $10 bill. [00:15:45] Speaker A: Yeah, here you go. [00:15:48] Speaker B: Then. [00:15:49] Speaker A: The word I need to. The word podcast actually has come up a lot. The podcast with strangers. Because, like, they'll be like, what's your Instagram? And I'm like, I don't have one. And they're like, well, I say I don't have a personal one. And they're like, what do you mean? Well, funny you should mention it. [00:16:03] Speaker B: Yeah, well, my. Mine is. I maybe, maybe foolishly told some people at work who then will tell other people who I've never met before. And then like, one of the first things they'll ask is they'll either ask about my dogs, because that's not a secret, or they'll ask how my podcast is going. And I'm like, wait, how do you know? [00:16:23] Speaker A: How do you know about this? Are you a spawn head? [00:16:26] Speaker B: Maybe they're a spawn vert, Johnny. I work with some spawn verts. Maybe. [00:16:29] Speaker A: Maybe all of us do. We just don't know it. [00:16:31] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, we're everywhere, Johnny. [00:16:36] Speaker A: Just like Master Chief. But this issue starts the last one left off. [00:16:42] Speaker B: Mm. This man is neither a master nor a chief. He's just. [00:16:46] Speaker A: Nor a master and commander. [00:16:47] Speaker B: No, definitely not. There's not a. Not a HMS Beagle in sight. Right? It was the HMS Beagle in that. Right. [00:16:54] Speaker A: Surprise. Because I remember there's HMS Surprise. [00:16:57] Speaker B: Okay. I. Is. Is Charles Darwin in that movie? For some reason, I remember there being a Charles Darwin in that. [00:17:05] Speaker A: No, there's. Okay, Stephen Maturin, who's the doctor on the ship. [00:17:09] Speaker B: Okay. [00:17:10] Speaker A: Who is. He has like Charles Darwin esque ideas. [00:17:14] Speaker B: I might be confusing that with the stop motion animation film the Missing Link, where Victorian society has hired Charles Darwin to find near extinct species for the rich people to eat. It's a good movie. [00:17:37] Speaker A: I didn't know that was the plot of that. [00:17:38] Speaker B: Well, it's. It's kind. It's. It's a subplot because it's about finding Sasquatch and then they bring Sasquatch to England and then this society is like, hmm, a single of their species. You say, hmm, we should eat them. What a strange. What a strange. Flex, Johnny. I got a lot of money. I'm gonna eat weird meat. [00:18:02] Speaker A: Is. That's Aardman movie, right? [00:18:06] Speaker B: I can't remember if it's. It's. It's. It's the L name that I can't remember. Even though you just like. Like a. Yeah, it's a Leica film. [00:18:15] Speaker A: Okay. Those are always pretty good. [00:18:17] Speaker B: Yeah, it's got. Yeah. David Tennant is actually Charles Darwin, if I remember correctly. [00:18:24] Speaker A: Okay. [00:18:24] Speaker B: And it also, Johnny, it has a huge Ackman in it too. He's huge. [00:18:30] Speaker A: Hugh Jackman plays the Sasquatch. [00:18:32] Speaker B: He plays the guy who finds the Sasquatch? Oh, an explorer. He plays the Wolverine. [00:18:39] Speaker A: Yes, he does. [00:18:39] Speaker B: Yes, he does. He plays, like, 17 versions of the Wolverine in Deadpool and Wolverine. [00:18:45] Speaker A: I know they should have spawn Wolverine in there. [00:18:49] Speaker B: I mean, I'm sure if Marvel paid them enough money, how Todd McFarlane would be willing to do a crossover. [00:18:56] Speaker A: Yeah. Was there. I'm surprised that, like, Deadpool never looks at the camera and was like, eat your heart out, Todd McFarlane or something like that. [00:19:04] Speaker B: They did get that Rob Liefeld can't draw feet joke in there. That was fun. Yep, yep, yep. [00:19:10] Speaker A: I'm sure Rob Liefeld's just loving it, you know? [00:19:13] Speaker B: You know, who doesn't give a shit, Johnny? Rob Liefeld. He's like, yeah, you know, well, shut up, because people buy my artwork. And that's. That's an argument. You really can't fight because people. People will eat it up. He has a devoted fan base, Johnny. [00:19:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:34] Speaker B: Unlike this guy, who is just about to get his ass handed to him by one Mr. Gunslinger man himself, Javier. [00:19:42] Speaker A: So, yeah, we're still in the coma. Javier's in the hospital, and we've transported back to the Old west where he's having a memory about, well, these angels just killed a family and he's coming to kill them. [00:19:56] Speaker B: It's a weird. So we end the last issue with the reveal of Javi's traumatized body. And this is a memory that his body has of a time that it got massively traumatized. [00:20:13] Speaker A: Yes, it does. [00:20:14] Speaker B: Yes. So. So it starts off with this. This outlaw that Javi has just pinned down, and it turns out he's an angel, and he's. He's extending his wings and being like, mm. Cogliostro said that I'd be able to trap you this way. Aha. You hell spawns. I understand you. [00:20:34] Speaker A: He says he can't stand to look at the old man, but he does know how hell spawns work. [00:20:38] Speaker B: What kind of booze was he sucking down in the Old West, Johnny? Was he. Was he like a rock gut, man? Because I have a feeling, Cogliostro. Yeah. I have a feeling that strawberry ribbon. Yeah. Moonshine probably was few and far between in the Old West. And so we've got a little. There's. There's a lot of narration voiceover in this, so tons. [00:20:59] Speaker A: Tons of it. You could say the tog father was being a little prolific in this one. [00:21:04] Speaker B: Yeah. So I think this is going to work much better as a. Just go and read it than a recap of any amount of detail without Us reading the whole thing. But so, you know, basically we've got ourselves a standoff now here between Javi and this angel. And the angel is just like slowly, each time we see him gets another bit of armor. [00:21:31] Speaker A: I know, it's like doink. [00:21:33] Speaker B: It's the coolest transition. And then, you know, they're. They're at a standoff because. Because this angel's like, those guns ain't gonna hurt me. We get a nice little note from Thomas Healey that says, this is before Javi realizes that if he puts his blood all over his bullets, it'll kill angels. And then the angel pulls out these gigantic frickin space blasters and is like, yeah, I know these aren't gonna work on you either, so let's just. Let's just do it the old fashioned way, huh? Yeah. [00:22:06] Speaker A: They drop the guns. [00:22:07] Speaker B: They drop their guns. [00:22:08] Speaker A: And then Javi says what every Republican says to a Democrat. Your move, baby killer. [00:22:14] Speaker B: And just like that, Johnny, we're talking about Davey Death again. It's inescapable. [00:22:19] Speaker A: Why do we keep coming up? [00:22:21] Speaker B: We keep coming back to it. It sucks so much. But yet. So the baby killer's move is he shoots like sonic beams out of his hands. He makes Javi go, oh, God, my head. [00:22:36] Speaker A: Vibrations. [00:22:36] Speaker B: Yeah. And then. And then the angel stops. And then he does it again. Oh, and it's worse the second time, Johnny. And. And Javi's just like, it sucks. [00:22:48] Speaker A: And then get a great screaming Javi face. [00:22:51] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. With the mask like conforming to his mouth and like going in as he's screaming. It's awesome. There's also. There's also no. There's also no gunslinger nose, which is beautiful. Beautiful appreciated. And then who drew him with the nose? [00:23:10] Speaker A: He had a pretty intense nose. That someone. Was that Von Randall. [00:23:12] Speaker B: I'm trying to remember. I know. Bret Booth, I think put some. Put some mighty nose on there at one point. [00:23:21] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. [00:23:23] Speaker B: I don't know. Nose continuity. Yeah. It's not our job. Who knows? We just read the things. And then as Javi has been, you know, weakened by these sonic blasts, the angel comes up behind him and just like, knife to the throat, just like. [00:23:41] Speaker A: Starts sawing at it. [00:23:43] Speaker B: Yeah. And then while the angels saw Javi's neck, Javi reaches into his coat and pulls out a couple of daggers and ha. Punches him right in the angel's eyes. [00:23:56] Speaker A: Yep. You'll double punch in the eye. [00:23:58] Speaker B: As the narration says, this fight will be an eye for an eye. Except in this case, both eyes belong to the Same person. And then the angel's just there like, ah, my eyes. This is. This is very much like the doctor that gets dispatched in the Phantom, Johnny. And why. I had a healthy. A healthy fear of microscopes for so long. So it's good to get that eye trauma back, Johnny. That's what we need. And then while the angel is just, like, flailing about because he can't see anything, Javi just, like, goes over and starts digging and starts digging, and he brings up fistfuls of earthworms and is like, these will help recharge my necroplasm, and just, like, shoves them in his neck hole. He's like, put the worms in there. Get the worms in there. [00:24:45] Speaker A: Should have used oatmeal ties them. [00:24:50] Speaker B: Well, I mean, he didn't have the guy who knew what was what. Oh, shit. What's his name? [00:24:56] Speaker A: Long Patch Up. [00:24:57] Speaker B: Patch Up. No, not. Not Patch Up. The. The main jerk. [00:25:01] Speaker A: Oh, Long Clay. [00:25:02] Speaker B: Long Clay. There was no Long Clay to guide him, Johnny. [00:25:05] Speaker A: If you haven't read the Race of the Broken Lands by S. Craig Zoller, check it out if you like Gunslinger. [00:25:10] Speaker B: Yeah, definitely. [00:25:11] Speaker A: You'll love it. [00:25:12] Speaker B: Definitely. Hopefully we can. We can talk about it enough. It'll go to get another printing because it's kind of hard to find. [00:25:18] Speaker A: It is expensive. It's like a $25 paperback. [00:25:20] Speaker B: Yeah. And that's used from somebody on Amazon. [00:25:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:24] Speaker B: I don't even think there's a. I don't even think there's a first run place that carries it anymore. [00:25:28] Speaker A: It was supposed to be made into a movie by Ridley Scott, like, a decade ago, but it's never come about. [00:25:36] Speaker B: I don't see how it would be filmable. [00:25:38] Speaker A: I don't see how it would be made into a movie. It's like a despicable piece of. There's a lot of despicable things that happen in that book. [00:25:46] Speaker B: Like the amount of disgust people have for Bone Tomahawk. [00:25:51] Speaker A: Right. [00:25:51] Speaker B: And Bone Tomahawk is like 5% of race of the Broken Land. [00:25:56] Speaker A: Right. It's like both. Tomahawk was like, okay, let's take this kind of general structure and just tone it way down. [00:26:01] Speaker B: Way down. That soup smells gruesome. Or that tea smells gruesome. No, it's because it's soup. Okay, I'll have some. Oh, fuck it. I love chicory. I love Patch Up. Oh, boy. Such good shit. But yeah, so Javi's. Javi's using his bandana to hold those worms in his neck. And then after he. After he's got himself kind of bandaged up there a little bit. He calls forth all the rest of the creepy crawlies and the dark beasts of the night. So he's got worms, maggots, roaches, snakes, the ravens and the crows. [00:26:36] Speaker A: He busts out his little oven and he makes some worms with his creepy crawlers oven. I like how they were like, how do we make the easy make oven for boys? We're like, I know they'll make worms. [00:26:46] Speaker B: Let's paint it green. Give them bugs, man. [00:26:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:52] Speaker B: Fucking cooking shit with 100 watt light bulb, Johnny. Good times. Good times. [00:26:58] Speaker A: I always wanted those, Those like little McDonald's. They're like a McDonald's easy. [00:27:03] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I remember. Yeah. I was not to be too much of a little boy Johnny, but I was much more, much of a remote control car kid. I could have cared less about baking. I just wanted to have a little thing that went zoo. [00:27:19] Speaker A: I had a couple remote control cars. [00:27:21] Speaker B: They were great. They were great. [00:27:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:24] Speaker B: It's a fun time. The only problem is those battery packs took like four hours to charge. So it was like, I want to play. But yeah. [00:27:32] Speaker A: Javier is like looking like Jesus on the cross. [00:27:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:35] Speaker A: He's got snakes and worms and all this kind of stuff coming to him. [00:27:41] Speaker B: And you know, that said in the generation John, I like Jesus upon the cross. Gunslinger mocks the angel with a familiar pose. [00:27:50] Speaker A: He's like, remember this? [00:27:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:52] Speaker A: Even though the angel can't see well, like the. [00:27:55] Speaker B: It looks like the angel's eyes are regenerating because he's got like baby blue eyes that are just like half blood. So. [00:28:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:28:03] Speaker B: So like with his, with his new eyes, the first thing he sees is this sacrilegious pose and enrages him. And then in the background we see that Javi isn't the only one that has backup. Only the angels backup aren't the creepy crawlies and the birds, but a whole bunch of angels. And I always, I always forget that like the non human shaped angels look so much like the fucking Fleabiacs. [00:28:28] Speaker A: Right? [00:28:30] Speaker B: But I guess it makes sense since they were, you know, everybody who was a demon was, was once an angel until good old, good old Lightbringer himself was like, hey, what's, what's. Why you not giving us this stuff that you're giving these humans? Yeah. [00:28:45] Speaker A: Lucifer is supposed to be beautiful, not ugly. [00:28:47] Speaker B: Yeah. That story to come when we cover Violator number one. [00:28:52] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:28:53] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:28:54] Speaker A: All the angels are beautiful in that. And then they fall. [00:28:57] Speaker B: That's such a fucking good book. I can't Wait till we get to cover it. But we're covering this now. Yeah. [00:29:03] Speaker A: Hopefully our guests we want for it works out. [00:29:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Very excited. Stay tuned. Stay tuned. [00:29:10] Speaker A: Can't say yet because it's not confirmed. [00:29:12] Speaker B: Yeah. But Javi's just standing there, like, slowly getting covered by more and more worms as the angels come toward him. And it's. It's like a shot. Shots cut. And it's like, angels coming. Javi covered angels coming. Javi covered angels coming. And then they clash. The angels attack and they find out that there's nothing inside of all of these creepy crawlies. Johnny. Oh, my God. The bugs and the roaches made like. [00:29:43] Speaker A: A Javi scarecrow out of worms inside of his coat. [00:29:46] Speaker B: Yeah, they've eaten him, actually. He's. He's. He's snuck away. These angels, they haven't learned all of his tricks. Johnny. And so he's just like, hiding in the shadows behind them, and he sees them being like, where'd it go? Where did he go? And then charges at them, looking feral without his coat. Yeah. [00:30:03] Speaker A: Lean and mean. [00:30:04] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's just like, fucking. Just clawing at him. He's just going. He's just going, ham mano e angel. A nice little pose there. It's good. And then a couple of the angels grab him and just start flying away. And so they've got him like a, you know, like a. Much like the Mexican flag. Johnny. That has the eagle with the snake and his talons. These angels have this Javi in their talons and they just. They just fly away. I like this one little panel that just. It's. It's like an empty panel and it just has a boot at the top of it to indicate that he has been taken above the borders of the panel. So much fun. [00:30:55] Speaker A: They just take him higher and higher. [00:30:57] Speaker B: Much like your love is taking me. Johnny. [00:31:01] Speaker A: Yeah, get that Statue of Liberty moving, baby. [00:31:03] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. With that pink goo lifting me higher. And then as they fly over the forests, they just drop it. And then he does like a. You know, he hits every branch on the way down. Johnny. [00:31:23] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:31:24] Speaker B: And, oh, boy. He smashes his face like, oh, boy, look at that. And then. And then he finally hits the ground. And he hits the ground so hard that his hat goes flying just like, woo. Oh, boy. Not laughing at Javi. I'm laughing at the cartoony nature of this story. Johnny. Man, I love this book. Johnny. It's a good one. And then we see Javi broken and just laying like, half in a creek. Just like, for all we know, dead. And then it flashes back to Javi in the coma with his broken body. And he says he's literally been through hell and back. And why would anybody think that journey would leave him untouched? Johnny. And so that is the origin of his bodily scars, is. It's evidence of his journey through hell. [00:32:28] Speaker A: Yeah. We get that shot of him looking pretty gnarly. [00:32:32] Speaker B: Yeah. But I do like that we don't see the light source. We just see the beams of light. So it's almost like. Like little baby angels singing. [00:32:43] Speaker A: Yeah. The light shineth down on Javi like. [00:32:46] Speaker B: He is the chosen one. And then we get to see the doctors again. Being like, this body shouldn't work. What the hell is going on? Let's get an EKG going. That's something we can do. [00:33:00] Speaker A: This poor bastard shouldn't even be breathing. [00:33:03] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. That's what I like. I like. I like. From when he got captured, that's all that the medical people have been able to say. I don't know what the fuck to do. This body shouldn't work quite yet. [00:33:15] Speaker A: Yet here he is. [00:33:16] Speaker B: And then. And then we cut to South America. Johnny. Guyana. [00:33:20] Speaker A: Huge mansion. [00:33:21] Speaker B: Yeah. Big. Big. Big, Big. So big. Look at all those trees. We cut to a big boss man watching some television. Johnny. He's watching American television in South America. [00:33:34] Speaker A: And it's the CRN lady from the Pundits, and she's talking about Javi and all the chaos he caused in North Dakota. [00:33:42] Speaker B: And they've got a picture of him that they're showing. Yes. And then. [00:33:46] Speaker A: Which is funny because it's like a headshot. It's like, where'd they get that picture? [00:33:49] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I mean, he waited way too long to put that mask on. So they've got plenty of. Plenty of coverage. I wonder if that's a still from the. When he killed Mr. Boss Man. Yeah. [00:34:03] Speaker A: I mean, this was what it's gotta be. [00:34:04] Speaker B: Yeah, he's. He's got. He's got stank face going on there, man. That is a. That is a scowl. And the last panel, at the last panel says, a cell number. A cell number is quickly dialed. And then we got the mouth of this big. This big boss man who's watching this television. Just say, I just saw my fucking son on tv. Make a call to your American contacts in Washington now. [00:34:30] Speaker A: So his son. [00:34:31] Speaker B: His son. This must be the father of the man whose body Javi was thrown into. So. [00:34:40] Speaker A: Right. [00:34:43] Speaker B: Interesting. [00:34:44] Speaker A: The plot thickens. [00:34:45] Speaker B: Plot thickens. He's. He's connected to a Big boss man. Joni. [00:34:49] Speaker A: Yeah. We know that Deadly Tales is going to be telling his full origin story. So it's like they're gonna. They're kind of revealing some stuff here. There's gonna be some big reveals coming up. [00:34:58] Speaker B: Very nice. Very exciting. And then we have the stellar necroplasm meter. Johnny. [00:35:08] Speaker A: Still at one. [00:35:09] Speaker B: Still at one. Oh boy. Then the spawning ground is a highlight of some SDCC 2024 stuff. So there's pictures of the ballroom where the Todd father gave his presentation. [00:35:25] Speaker A: Yes. [00:35:26] Speaker B: Picture of Todd McFarlane and Keanu Reeves hanging out talking about Berserker. Berserker. There's the Todd father and David Des Malchin talking about comics. And I don't. I. This is a perfect. A perfect picture for their two personalities, it seems. Johnny. [00:35:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:47] Speaker B: Todd father's just like. Yeah. David Desmouchens. Like, are you sure? The. A gunslinger. A gunslinger cosplayer. Johnny. I wish they had. I wish they had said which gunslinger cosplayer this is. [00:36:05] Speaker A: I know we could have shouted them out. [00:36:07] Speaker B: Could have shouted him out. But I mean, I guess we could just shout out gunslinger, but that's. That doesn't get us anywhere. And then just like the hubbub around the image. The image. Booth Genie. Mort Spawns Universe. Johnny. [00:36:19] Speaker A: I think so. [00:36:20] Speaker B: I will. They got some ongoing titles for you to not miss. Yeah. Look at that. Oh, look at that. That spawn there. That spawns the spawn we're about to cover. So, ah, got the Witchblade ad again. And then Fallout is the toy ad on the back. Very nice. [00:36:38] Speaker A: Pretty classic. [00:36:39] Speaker B: Pretty good. That was. That was Gunslinger 35, Johnny. [00:36:43] Speaker A: Gunslinger 35. A breezy fight with an angel. [00:36:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:48] Speaker A: Pretty classic gunslinger stuff because we didn't. [00:36:52] Speaker B: Read the entire narration. A pretty. A pretty angry at God issue too. We don't get those. We don't get those too terribly often. Javi was not having it with this angel. [00:37:10] Speaker A: Next up, we've got spawn 357. [00:37:15] Speaker B: Yes, we do. Yes, we do. And I believe it has a couple of covers. Johnny. [00:37:21] Speaker A: Indeed. And I've got the. A cover here. I've got the Martial Toledano. [00:37:27] Speaker B: Surprise of surprises. Johnny. I also have cover a. [00:37:32] Speaker A: It's awesome. [00:37:33] Speaker B: It is awesome. [00:37:34] Speaker A: It's like. It's like a spawn going across the River Styx. [00:37:39] Speaker B: Yeah. He's got the ferryman there behind him. [00:37:42] Speaker A: Just like Charon, I believe his name is. [00:37:44] Speaker B: Yeah. It's like. It's like he's in Venice, only it's hell because it does look like a Venetian boat very much. It's got the cool lamp on the front and just, like, some skulls. Because who doesn't like a good skull? [00:37:58] Speaker A: The only reason I know that guy's name is because of the video game Hades. [00:38:02] Speaker B: Hey, you know what? I know things of equal value from much, much less good sources. [00:38:14] Speaker A: Yeah, Hades is a good game. [00:38:15] Speaker B: And then there's a cover that we don't have, Johnny. A cover B that is actually drawn by the person who did the interior art for gunslinger 35, random connection, Carla Barberi. Barberi cover. And this is hilarious. It is Al Simmons being crushed by a gigantic hand. [00:38:38] Speaker A: Yeah, like, Al Simmons getting picked up like an action figure and crushed. [00:38:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Whose hand is that? I don't know. Oh, wait, is that Trimmer's hand? Trimmer's not that big, is he? [00:38:48] Speaker A: No, Trevor's not that big. [00:38:50] Speaker B: Whose hand is it, Johnny? Who's. [00:38:52] Speaker A: Who's a giant demon? We don't know. Maybe Arizen. [00:38:56] Speaker B: I have a theory that it's a demon. A dancing demon, maybe. [00:39:01] Speaker A: Yeah. Once more with feeling. [00:39:03] Speaker B: Yeah. So those are some very good covers. Very good covers. And we got a. As we always do with a book, we got a pop open that cover, Johnny. To get to the credits we got here. We got script plot by Rory McConville. We got art by Bret Booth, inks by Odessa Corona, colors by Robert Nugent, lettering by Tom Orzikowski, the Tom father himself. We covered the covers. Todd McFarlane is the creative director. And then the Tom father with an H, Thomas Healy, is our editor in chief. And then previously. And Spawn. Spawn and Lyra come searching for answers and end up prisoners of the nefarious Nero. [00:39:47] Speaker A: No, it didn't happen previously at Spawn. [00:39:50] Speaker B: Yeah, no, it didn't. [00:39:51] Speaker A: This confused the shit out of me because I was like, did I miss an issue? Because previously we had the Tale of Lyra and they just ended like, okay, we're going to work together. And that was it. [00:39:59] Speaker B: Yeah, because. Because before the Tale of Lyra, they. They attacked that vampire's house and killed that guy who was masquerading as blood. [00:40:08] Speaker A: Right. [00:40:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:40:10] Speaker A: So it kind of ruins the, like, structure of this book because it, like, tips its head. It, like, tips its hand at what they're doing. Yeah, because it's supposed to start, like, in media res here, but we already. It mentions that they're prisoners of the nefarious Nero. [00:40:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:40:24] Speaker A: Which they're not even really prisoners. [00:40:26] Speaker B: Yeah, he's just. He's just standing there fiddling. Johnny, the world is on fire. And he's just fiddling away. [00:40:32] Speaker A: Is That a Nero joke? [00:40:33] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Nero, who fiddled during the fall of Rome. Right. [00:40:37] Speaker A: I don't know shit about that. [00:40:39] Speaker B: Oh, well, you're welcome. [00:40:41] Speaker A: So a guy, like, played the fiddle while Rome was falling. [00:40:44] Speaker B: Yeah. So he was. He was, like, the last emperor of Rome. And the thing is that he was. I guess he was such a bad emperor that it's just like, while Rome was being sacked and was on fire, he was like, you know, I'm just going to go practice some violin over here. Don't bother me. Unless you're looking for the hootenanny and the hoedown, don't come for me. And what a hootenanny and a hoedown it was, Johnny. [00:41:06] Speaker A: Goodbye, Rome. [00:41:07] Speaker B: Goodbye. [00:41:08] Speaker A: Speaking of Glick. Speaking of Glicked. [00:41:12] Speaker B: With the. I just heard that apparently a lot of people are upset that Denzel Washington doesn't speak like a Brit. And Gladiator 2. [00:41:22] Speaker A: What? [00:41:22] Speaker B: Like what? What? I guess. Although I guess with Denzel Washington, you have to drum up a reason to not like his performance, because. Did you know that Denzel Washington is a very good actor, man? [00:41:36] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:41:37] Speaker B: Oh, man, he's very good. Even. Even in that ridiculous series the Equalizer, where there are many factual inaccuracies, he is still amazing. It's a good series. It's fun. Have you seen any of them? [00:41:52] Speaker A: I haven't seen them. I heard they're good. [00:41:54] Speaker B: They're fun. They're a very good time. Denzel Washington, as previously stated, very good actor. [00:42:01] Speaker A: Yeah, I really like them in Fences. [00:42:03] Speaker B: Oh, man, I haven't seen Fences. I don't. I. I don't have. I have to, like, drum up the mortal. The, like, moral fortitude to watch something so intense. [00:42:15] Speaker A: I saw it in theaters. [00:42:16] Speaker B: August. August Wilson is not something that you trip on too lightly. No, definitely not. [00:42:23] Speaker A: We trip on this spawn. [00:42:24] Speaker B: Yeah, we do. We trip into the agency where Jason Nguyen is chomping his cigar and saying, what happened? And we got a scientist standing in front of a eviscerated Fleabiac that's just got, like, nothing. Its chest is exposed, its heart and shit is all taken out, but its intestines are still just hanging out. They're trying to figure out why this demon Fleabiac, like, broke loose and, like, decided to suicide itself by. By agency guard. So that's. That's interesting. That's interesting to see. [00:43:05] Speaker A: And this is their last specimen. [00:43:07] Speaker B: This is the last specimen. They're trying to grow a virus. Trying to grow a virus, John, to. To give powers back. Isn't there A. Isn't there another something or other where powers are given via virus hours ago? [00:43:24] Speaker A: I mean, there's the virus in the movie Heat 16 that Jason Wind is trying to unleash upon the world, but that doesn't. [00:43:31] Speaker B: That doesn't give powers. That just kind of turns you into goo. [00:43:36] Speaker A: Isn't there an X Men were like, people get a virus, they become mutants or something. [00:43:40] Speaker B: I mean, maybe it would surprise. It wouldn't surprise me because I know in the Boys, it's a. It's like a cocktail that's been given, but it's not exactly a virus. But then Jason Wynn's just like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear your concerns. Just. Just do the job. He kind of. He kind of tim guns this. He's just like, make it work. [00:44:00] Speaker A: Make it work. That's what a good boss says. I say that all the time. [00:44:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Very exciting, Very exciting. And then we cut to Lyra and Spawn being held captive by the nefarious Nero who. I haven't seen this guy before. Johnny, have you seen this guy before? We haven't seen this guy before, have we? [00:44:19] Speaker A: No. [00:44:19] Speaker B: Have we seen this guy before? I don't think so. [00:44:21] Speaker A: I haven't. I mean, he may have been in Spawn before. There's like 150 issues I haven't read. But. [00:44:25] Speaker B: But yeah, they're in. They're in that house where they thought that they were attacking blood and it turned out to be the mimic. And this guy, he's awesome looking. Look at that. Oh, boy. Brett Booth is just going all out on this guy. Yeah, he's got. [00:44:42] Speaker A: He's got like the Marvel signature, like magic circles. [00:44:45] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's got. He's got Spawn and Lyra like chained up with these glowing chains. Yeah. And he says, you think breaking into my home is the best way to get it. It being help. And we see that we are in this man's living room and he's got big, big, big painting of some kind of. That looks like somebody standing on a pile of skulls. He's got a. What looks like a dragon skull and a Cyclops skull over there on his bookcase. Yeah, man, this guy is into some spooky shit. Uh huh. Uh huh. And you know, there's a. There's a de. Escalation of tension here. And Nero releases the magical chains that are holding Spawn and Lyra down. And Nero's like, let me guess. You want to look different because you don't have your powers and so you can't change your form. [00:45:50] Speaker A: Everyone's coming here to get their faces altered. [00:45:53] Speaker B: Yeah. And Lara's like, no, no, no. We want to cure vampirism. And it's like, yeah, yeah, no, that's not happening. He says, if a cure for vampirism existed, blood destroyed it long ago. [00:46:08] Speaker A: And Spawn's like, well, Caliban, when he was smoking four cigarettes at the bar, told me differently. [00:46:13] Speaker B: Neuro calls him an imbecile. Don't trust that imbecile. And then he's like, no, wait. Wait a second. How did you. How did you find this address? Who gave it to you? And Spawn says his name was Smith or Smythe. He didn't give up the information willingly, Johnny. And then we see. We cut to just a trash pile with this man unceremoniously shoved into a trash bin. [00:46:39] Speaker A: Yeah, he's been bullied. It's like he's been bullied in middle school. [00:46:42] Speaker B: Yeah. And then Nero just, like, waves it off. He's like, yeah, whatever. Okay, fine. I gotta. I gotta. I gotta go get my beauty sleep. Please see yourself out. [00:46:51] Speaker A: I have a meeting with the Gilded Pantheon in the morning. [00:46:57] Speaker B: And then. And then we cut to Lyra and Spawn just, like, Batmaning on the side of this rooftop. And Lyra's like, what do we do now? And Spawn's like, the same thing we do every night. [00:47:10] Speaker A: Pinky tried cure vampirism. [00:47:16] Speaker B: And then while they're having a brief discussion, Spawn's phone rings, and he's like, oh, hold on a second. I got an informant. [00:47:24] Speaker A: And he has a badass flip phone. He has, like, a razor phone. [00:47:27] Speaker B: Yeah, look at that. Oh, man. [00:47:29] Speaker A: Which is, I feel, like, fitting for Al Simmons. I feel like he would resist the smartphone. [00:47:33] Speaker B: He would be like, my. I have a coworker who wants to be more present in all of his. All of his relationships, especially with his children. So he specifically went out and bought a dumb phone that he can literally call and text, and that's all he can do. So the first time anybody sees it, they're like, what the hell is that? And he's like, it's my dumb phone. [00:47:58] Speaker A: Yeah, my cousin has one that's like. It looks like the paper white Kindle, but it's smaller. And I think you can do text, email, maps, and calls. I think that's it. [00:48:12] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the fancier version of what my coworker has. His doesn't do maps or emails. [00:48:18] Speaker A: Okay. [00:48:19] Speaker B: But, yeah, it's exciting to see the people are now intentionally buying less smart objects so they can be more connected by the. [00:48:29] Speaker A: I would like to be able to. I would like to be able to. I would like to be able to have like an iPhone, like device that wasn't my phone. Yeah, I would just have in my bag. So if I needed to use maps or send an email, but then have a phone in my pocket, there was just a phone. Yeah, that would be ideal. I guess that's possible. But. [00:48:47] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, the only thing stopping you, Johnny, is you. [00:48:52] Speaker A: That's true. [00:48:53] Speaker B: Yeah. You could. You could have a cool Al Simmons flip phone. [00:48:56] Speaker A: I did. I had a RAZR back in the day. [00:48:58] Speaker B: I had the. I had the free flip phones, but they were still no less. Man. The nothing. Nothing is a testament to human ingenuity. More than the early 2000s cell phone explosion. Jesus Christ. [00:49:17] Speaker A: There were so many types. [00:49:18] Speaker B: There were so many of them, and so many of them were so cool, but only oversold, like 400. 400 units. So they stopped making them, man. Wild, wild, the wild west. And then, well, Spawn's basically like, we gotta go. We gotta go find my informant who's trying to help us track down some people who are doing nefarious things. So basically, this catches up to the in media autopsy that we started in with people trying to get a virus that can restore their powers in these dead zone times. [00:50:00] Speaker A: And they're using magic technology, gene augmentation, whatever they can get their hands on that'll give them a leg up. Just like when they created the Emperor again. [00:50:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Yep. [00:50:11] Speaker A: Because I think he's like, somehow Palpatine returned, like, how did this happen? And then Dominic Monahan's like, sith magic science. And that's like. That's how they explain it. [00:50:23] Speaker B: Mm. And so they. They find their way to the industrial district, Johnny. And they go into a warehouse that is just littered with demon Fleabiac type bodies. And they're like, look. So. Looks like someone beat us to it. You think this is blood? Al says, at first glance, I'd guess these have been here at least a day. And Myra says, it certainly smells like it. As Toucan Sam would say, Johnny, follow your nose wherever it goes. [00:50:51] Speaker A: Smell terrible. [00:50:52] Speaker B: It's got to smell so bad. I bet they don't smell good when they're alive. Much less. Or. Or. Or to keep it on top, on topic, Johnny. I thought they smelled bad on the outside. [00:51:03] Speaker A: Yep. [00:51:07] Speaker B: So they. They decide to divide and conquer to try to see if they can find anything that isn't just a goopy. A goopy corpse. And then Al's like, new to Flashlight. And she says, nah, nah, nah. I'm good. And then David, he doesn't say that. [00:51:23] Speaker A: He's asked her if he's a torch. Is he British? [00:51:25] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, obviously. [00:51:27] Speaker A: Is Rory McConville British? [00:51:29] Speaker B: I don't know. Somebody is, because that's what they call him. [00:51:32] Speaker A: England, they call it a torch. [00:51:34] Speaker B: But since we're in America, I wanted to make sure that nobody thought that he had, like, a torch. Like, from a sconce. And he took a lift with. [00:51:42] Speaker A: He took the torch and went in a lift back to his flat. It's just funny how. Like, it was just funny to me that Lyra says they're gonna. They're gonna, like, you know, scope out the warehouse. And she goes, I'll take the West End, which is a very British thing. And then immediately says, need a torch. [00:52:04] Speaker B: Johnny Files, you just. You might have just revealed the joke that Rory McConville put in there to see if anybody caught it. [00:52:12] Speaker A: Speaking of wicked and girls. Do, do, do, do, do, do. Great song. [00:52:16] Speaker B: So Lyra can produce. Produce fire. And Al goes, interesting. You never mentioned you manipulated energy. [00:52:27] Speaker A: You never asked. [00:52:29] Speaker B: So we follow. We follow Lyra on her search of the West End. [00:52:35] Speaker A: The West End search. [00:52:39] Speaker B: And then she starts hearing some katang, katang, katang, katang. And she's like, huh? The fuck? And then she finds a big, like, shipping container, and she's like, hey, is someone in there? Hey. Hello? And then we hear from inside. Yes. Oh, thank God. Please, I'm being held prisoner. [00:53:01] Speaker A: Can you help me? [00:53:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Which. Which is. Anybody who's ever played any sort of game or seen any kind of movie knows it's probably. That's probably a trap, Johnny. It's a trap. [00:53:15] Speaker A: Well, that was a lie. [00:53:20] Speaker B: And Lyra just, like, muscles open this shipping container and. And reveals a lady who looks like a librarian. [00:53:30] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like a librarian secretary lady. [00:53:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Who is. Who is just, like, handcuffed in some crazy handcuff. And she's like, you're not a vampire, are you? You're not gonna hurt me, are you? And Lyra's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you're cool. She's just standing there with her fire being like, yeah, no, you're fine. And then Lyra's trying to figure out who put her in there, and she's just like, oh, some demons. Some demons. [00:53:58] Speaker A: I don't know. They wanted my powers. [00:54:00] Speaker B: Yeah, they wanted her powers. Lyra's like, oh, my God, you have powers, too. Which seems awfully fortuitous, right, Johnny? [00:54:07] Speaker A: Yeah, but she's also a hybrid. [00:54:10] Speaker B: Yeah. So Lyra removes just, like. Just, like, grabs the handcuffs and smashes them. And we get the reveal of, you're a hybrid, too. And Lyra's just like, you're a hybrid. I thought I was the only one. She introduces herself as Marjorie. [00:54:30] Speaker A: Marjorie. [00:54:31] Speaker B: Marc. What you doing? And then so she said that she. [00:54:40] Speaker A: I put on. I put on Instagram on our little bubble. I asked if Mark Rosen or Terry Fitzgerald was sexier. [00:54:46] Speaker B: I. Of the responses I've seen so far, it's an even split. [00:54:50] Speaker A: It's an even split. Justin said Terry and Tiny Spawney said Mark. [00:54:56] Speaker B: Said Mark. Yes. I'm going to. I'll put my official stamp on it. I'm team Terry Fitzgerald all the way. [00:55:03] Speaker A: Oh, me too. Team Terry. [00:55:04] Speaker B: Absolutely. They've also given him the best, like, poses. [00:55:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:55:11] Speaker B: Oh, man. He's a handsome man, that Terry Fitzgerald. [00:55:13] Speaker A: Yeah, we haven't seen him in a bit. Come on, Terry. Come on back. [00:55:16] Speaker B: Come on. We need that man in the chair. So Marjorie starts, you know, recounting the night of the vampire, or what she assumes was vampires, the attack that killed all these demon Fleabiackies. And then she's like, ah, holy shit, look out. And it's Spawn. She's like, oh. [00:55:36] Speaker A: A good reaction to seeing Spawn is, holy shit, look out. [00:55:38] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what I would say. That's what I would say. Spawn's like, I see you found something. And then she's like, spawn, this is Marjorie. Marjorie, this is Spawn. Say hello. Demons were keeping her prisoner. [00:55:55] Speaker A: Spawn doesn't buy this shit. [00:55:56] Speaker B: He's like, oh, yeah, he is so. He is so not convinced by anything. It's. It's fun to see Al Simmons just. Just in his Al Simmons mode, kind of being an asshole, but being an asshole for a very specific reason, because he's right, but not just willing to come out and be like, I know what's going on here. [00:56:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:20] Speaker B: We get his incredulousness of. So you're a hybrid too, huh? [00:56:27] Speaker A: And why didn't you escape? [00:56:29] Speaker B: And she's like, I was handcuffed. And he's like, handcuffed. So now they're off. Are your powers back? And she's like, I don't know. And he's like, hey, you know what? Maybe you're right. But also, maybe you're lying. And then, you know, she gets defensive, as, you know, expected, because Al Simmons is being a bit of a jerk. And. And she's like, I'm. I'm leaving. Goodbye. And Al Simmons is like, we have to make sure you are a hybrid before I allow you to leave. And she's like, yeah, you and what army? And he's like, this army? And he just puts a gun on her. [00:57:12] Speaker A: Holds a fucking gun on her. Jesus. [00:57:14] Speaker B: You got exactly five seconds, Jonny. He starts his little countdown, and she's like, wait, what? Huh? And Lyra's like, spawn. And she's like, I'm not lying. And then once he gets down to one, there's a rumble. The boxes surrounding them start to fall down, and out jumps Tremor. [00:57:34] Speaker A: He just fucking headbutts them. [00:57:36] Speaker B: Yeah, he. He, like, tackles. He tackles Lyra and Margaery, and Spawn are thrown back. And I like that this. This busted open crate here has little Spawn and Savage Dragon toys in it. Like little stuffies. And look at all those packing peanuts, Johnny. There's a box of blender blades in the background there. This one says, free chicks. [00:58:00] Speaker A: Free chicks. [00:58:01] Speaker B: That's what it says. [00:58:03] Speaker A: Well, I'll be there. [00:58:09] Speaker B: Very exciting. [00:58:11] Speaker A: And then Tremor busts his way back into the Spawn world. [00:58:15] Speaker B: Yep. And then. And then Marjorie begins to show her true colors, and she says, cut that a bit close, didn't you, Tremor? And he's like, I don't want you saying that I messed up your gambit. He says, now you owe me 20 bucks. So it's. It's fun that they've gone into this being like, we're gonna take bets on how Spawn takes this. And apparently Trimmer often loses because he. [00:58:41] Speaker A: She owes her 60 bucks. [00:58:42] Speaker B: He owes her 60 bucks. [00:58:43] Speaker A: That's hilarious. Like, this demon owes her $60. [00:58:48] Speaker B: Oh, it's a wonderful little bit. Oh, Rory McConville is kidding. Killing it, Johnny. And then Marjorie presses the little button on her. On her chest and turns into Yellow Jacket Lady. [00:59:01] Speaker A: The lady. [00:59:02] Speaker B: The Lady. So is her name actually Margaery? We still don't know. [00:59:06] Speaker A: He calls her Snow. [00:59:08] Speaker B: He calls her Snow. [00:59:09] Speaker A: Oh, so it could be Margaery. [00:59:10] Speaker B: Snow or Snow. Margaery. [00:59:13] Speaker A: Yeah, Snow. Margaery. [00:59:14] Speaker B: And then she. She booshes. And she booshes Spawn. She's Boosh's. It's his Boosh. [00:59:25] Speaker A: It's the Boosh. [00:59:26] Speaker B: It's the Boosh. [00:59:27] Speaker A: Then they start. Then they start fighting. [00:59:28] Speaker B: Yeah, it's just, you know, Lyra versus Tremor. Just some back and forth. And then Lyra gets hit with a big blue beam. And it's Fixer. Fixer is back. He's badass. [00:59:44] Speaker A: Giant gun. [00:59:45] Speaker B: Yeah, that. The Jun. The Jun. The gun that is as big as he is. [00:59:50] Speaker A: Yeah, it's almost as tall as him. Yeah. [00:59:52] Speaker B: He's like, you guys are sloppy. What the fuck are you doing in here? It was in the briefing and Tremors like, oh, we had it under control. Then Marjorie Snow says, hang on. Where's Spawn? And Trimmer's like, I was fighting this lady. I forgot to keep track of him. They're getting what they pay for in hiring Trimmer, Johnny. It's hilarious. So they're just like, whatever. Just grab the Hybrid. We're going Grab the Hybrid. [01:00:22] Speaker A: We can get Spawn later. [01:00:24] Speaker B: And then. And then Fixer. Fixer gets on the horn with good old agent Charlotte Lynn, who isn't, and says, hey, it's Fixer. Let Wind know that the target's been acquired. And then we see Spawn just crouching on a rooftop watching Fly Away, going. [01:00:44] Speaker A: They took my Lyra. [01:00:45] Speaker B: And then we get Necroplasm Meter to end the. End the issue. [01:00:49] Speaker A: He's also at 0001. [01:00:52] Speaker B: Then we get Spawning Grounds presents the Mailbag, where it starts off with some fan art by Wilton, assists Wilton Assis. And Thomas is like, hell, yeah. Thomas Healer loves some fan art. I do like that. He did save my man. That's. That. That was fun. I was. I was cracking up at it for some reason. I just like it. My man. Like, when somebody calls you my friend, I like that. My man. [01:01:23] Speaker A: I say my friend a lot. [01:01:24] Speaker B: It's fun. It's fun. It's fun. These are my friends, Johnny. See how they glisten? And then the next. The next one is an appreciation email from Adam talking about the recent spate of excellent, excellent covers. On main title. Spawn specifically shouts out the Jellicle Spawn From Thaddeus Roebuck spawn 353. [01:01:53] Speaker A: And that puppeteer Lee 354. [01:01:56] Speaker B: Oh, man. Yeah. It's so good. And Thomas Healy is like, hey, awesome. I'm glad that you like these covers. I think they're the best covers in the business. If there's anyone you want, you know who wants, or if there's anyone you want to see, draw a cover for Spawn. Let me know. I'll see what I can do. So, Johnny, I think this is a call to action that we need to get any of these Spawn verts out there who have artists in mind that they think would be very good fits for Spawn covers. You should email Thomas Healy. Send emails to spawninggroundmcfarland.com and be like, hey, you should get this person to do covers. [01:02:33] Speaker A: I would love to see a Spawn cover by Alvaro Martinez Bueno, who does the nice House on the Lake. And now the Nice House by the Sea. The sequel covers great. Arguably the reason we're here because I read an article in Fangoria about that series coming out and that's what I wandered into Challengers and was like, hey, have you ever heard of this comic book called Nice House by the Lake? And they like pointed to the left and it was their recommended book for the week. Yeah, it's right there. [01:03:08] Speaker B: Good job, Johnny. I would say that's why we're here. They should probably. We should try to get them to get Jock to do a cover or two because he draws some spooky shit. One of the spookiest things I ever read was Witches by Jock and Scott Snyder. [01:03:25] Speaker A: Okay. [01:03:25] Speaker B: Oh, boy, oh, boy. It's spooky. [01:03:28] Speaker A: Spooky. Spawn cover. [01:03:29] Speaker B: Spooky. Spooky. Need more spawns Universe, Johnny. [01:03:33] Speaker A: You know it. [01:03:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I do. So you also know that you shouldn't miss these ongoing titles. The Core 4. Core 4. We get an image classic set. [01:03:46] Speaker A: We get a new toy ad. [01:03:47] Speaker B: We get a new toy ad. It's the Music Maniacs, Johnny. [01:03:51] Speaker A: It's the Music Maniacs. We got. [01:03:52] Speaker B: Who's that? [01:03:53] Speaker A: Rob Zombie. [01:03:54] Speaker B: Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper. Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osborne and motherfucking Eddie. We got Trooper Eddie from, you know, Iron Maiden. That era of Iron Maiden. [01:04:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:04:12] Speaker B: Iron Maiden stage show has like fucking 20 foot tall puppet Eddies that like wander around. They've got like. They've got like World War I era planes that crash into the audience. Oh, man, it's become a spectacle, Johnny. We gotta go see it. [01:04:26] Speaker A: That's cool. [01:04:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:04:28] Speaker A: Think they'll sing Phantom of the Opera? [01:04:31] Speaker B: Probably. [01:04:33] Speaker A: Isn't that theirs? The one that goes covered? [01:04:35] Speaker B: Yep, yep, yep. It's from Killers. [01:04:37] Speaker A: Okay. [01:04:38] Speaker B: That's pre Nemo, pre Nico McBrien. Which means I don't listen to it very often because I feel that the Iron Maiden sound wasn't set until Nico McBrien came on as the drummer out. [01:04:51] Speaker A: Of these four people. Rob Zombie, Alex Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Iron Maiden. What's your favorite? [01:04:56] Speaker B: Who's your guy? Oh, definitely, definitely Iron Maiden. [01:04:58] Speaker A: Really? [01:04:59] Speaker B: Definitely. Yeah. Although I do very much enjoy a little bit of Hellraiser and the Thunder. And he Rob Zombie too. Rob Zombie's good. He's. He's not. He's not very whistle. Whistle able. [01:05:15] Speaker A: No. Of the four of them, Dragula least. [01:05:18] Speaker B: Least whistleable. [01:05:19] Speaker A: In my Dragula. I'm using maniacs, baby. [01:05:24] Speaker B: I read a post once that you can't have an argument for continuing to have toxic masculinity when in the 90s you had motherfucking Rob Zombie write a song where he includes every song or every word that rhymes with the word bitch except the word bitch in it. And that. That's peak feminine or peak feminism. It's a peak feminism. [01:05:52] Speaker A: You know the word feminism? [01:05:54] Speaker B: I was about to say peak femininity, but that's not correct. [01:05:58] Speaker A: Peak fell entity. So that's the mystical divinity of unashamed felinty. [01:06:04] Speaker B: Oh, yes. That's the peak of feminism is having the rhyme to every word that rhymes with bitch except the word bitch. In your song you talk about the witches song for. I'm talking specifically about Dracula. Dig through the witches, burn through the. [01:06:22] Speaker A: Ditches and barrel through. Yeah, that's the same song. [01:06:26] Speaker B: He doesn't say the word bitch, so. And then I've just invalidated all that good that he did. Johnny. [01:06:31] Speaker A: I sang bitch like five times. [01:06:33] Speaker B: Fun fact, Johnny. Remember stories about I used to work at a movie theater. [01:06:39] Speaker A: Yes. [01:06:40] Speaker B: So my managers, when I worked at the movie theater, my manager's boyfriend's brother was a dude named Brandon. Brandon played bass for White Zombie and so literally only came to work when they weren't on tour. So he worked at a movie theater. I worked at a movie theater. He worked at a movie theater. Yeah, he was the projectionist at the movie theater when White Zombie wasn't on tour. [01:07:10] Speaker A: That's funny. [01:07:11] Speaker B: That's. Yeah. And that's spawn 357, Johnny. [01:07:14] Speaker A: That is spawn 357. [01:07:16] Speaker B: Oh, what's this? What's this, Johnny? What is this that I see coming my way? Is it a puppy? [01:07:23] Speaker A: You got a puppy? [01:07:24] Speaker B: We got a puppy. We gotta rate it, Johnny. [01:07:27] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. So first up today we gunslinger 35. Kind of a one off. One of those classic gunslingers fights in the desert versus a new villain. [01:07:41] Speaker B: Uh huh. [01:07:43] Speaker A: Pretty standard gunslinger stuff. [01:07:46] Speaker B: Yes. [01:07:49] Speaker A: I mean I liked it, I liked the worm stuff. It was cool. But it just feels similar. Like those Carl issues or any issue where he just goes fights a big guy in the woods. Like it's, it's not really like treading new ground here. [01:08:02] Speaker B: It feels like it's, it's. It's biting time because it needs to get somewhere. But it's gotten, it's, it's ahead of schedule so it needs to slow down a little bit. [01:08:10] Speaker A: They got to wait for gunslinger tales Tales, the deadly tales of gunslinger to come out to fully reveal. But yeah, we get the, we get the interesting reveal of like Javi's body's father is out there somewhere. [01:08:20] Speaker B: Yeah. And that Javi. Javi knew about necroplasmic regeneration from the beasts that live outside of God's light way back in gunslinger days. [01:08:33] Speaker A: Yep. I don't know. I didn't love it. I didn't hate it. So I'm gonna give it 2.5 out of 5. I'm gonna give it 2.5. Big old neck full of worms. [01:08:46] Speaker B: Nice. That's a big old. That's a big old neck full of worms. [01:08:49] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, I don't know. I'm just in a bad mood today. [01:08:52] Speaker B: I guess, but, I mean, that's fine, Johnny. [01:08:55] Speaker A: It just wasn't my favorite. It was just. It was like, okay, we do this flashback and like, yeah, he fights a guy and. [01:09:00] Speaker B: Okay, yeah, sure. I agree. It is neither feast nor famine, as they say. It's. [01:09:09] Speaker A: I'm much more interested in what, like, Linda's up to. Like, where's Linda? [01:09:14] Speaker B: Yeah. What's. What's Wyatt doing? How has she taken that reveal of what Javi is from last issue? Yeah, it's. I mean. I mean, it's. It's gunslinger. So I enjoyed. I enjoyed the fact that it was a gunslinger book that I got to read, and it was kind of gross, which was fun. [01:09:32] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, that stuff is fun. I don't know. [01:09:34] Speaker B: But, yeah, it's. It's. I mean, it's not the. Not the greatest. Not the greatest issue. I mean, the art is wonderful. Even though there's a lot of Todd McFarlane writing going on. The writing's actually very good, but it is very middle. I agree. [01:09:48] Speaker A: You do get that great line of it's eye for an eye, but this time it's the same eyes. [01:09:53] Speaker B: Very good. I agree. I'm gonna give it 2.5. Hats flying up from collision with the ground, just going, woo. Yeah, there's some fun. There's some fun lore built into it. You know, that if we hadn't been introduced to any of these concepts before, there would be a whole issue about why Javi knows that the earthworms will do what he needs them to. But, yeah, that's fine. Yeah, that's good. [01:10:27] Speaker A: On the other hand, we have spawn 357, which is a fun. Like, it's Lyra and Spawn's first mission. Even though the previously on Ruins it. I like how it just kind of starts with them on a mission. [01:10:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:10:42] Speaker A: Even though the previously on ruins it. [01:10:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:10:46] Speaker A: I mean, I love the Brett Booth art. It just vibrates like we always say. But it's just like. I really like Lyra as a character, so I'm glad to see her running around. Marjorie seems fun. Seems like a cunning foil. Like, we got like the whole crew, Fixer, Tremor, Marjorie, all working for the agency. [01:11:08] Speaker B: Yeah, the sort of intergroup dynamics of them. Of Tremor just being a big dummy, and Marjorie, you know, being. Being cunning, but also being, you know, like, Trimmer and I are right here. And Fixer being above them and being like, y'all are idiots. [01:11:25] Speaker A: Yeah, I like that dynamic. [01:11:26] Speaker B: That's fun. [01:11:27] Speaker A: No, I thought it was a really fun issue. Like, you said you could see Spawn being an asshole in a classic way. I give it 3.5 Savage Dragon Action figures falling out of the crate. [01:11:39] Speaker B: Hell yeah. I agree. It's. It's fun. It's. It's fun to see Spawn and Lyra teaming up. It's fun to finally get some. Some. Some character on Snow Margaery, Snow lady in the yellow jacket. Learning that Lyra can, like, produce fireballs is fucking cool. She would be a git on your raiding party. [01:12:07] Speaker A: A gat? Did you say gat, David? [01:12:12] Speaker B: I said a get. A get, as in you want to have her on your team, and she's. [01:12:16] Speaker A: Also got a gat, if I'm using that word right, which I don't know if I am. [01:12:22] Speaker B: Bonk. [01:12:23] Speaker A: Oh. [01:12:24] Speaker B: Oh, Johnny, you just. [01:12:25] Speaker A: I was trying to get through a fucking episode. The last two episodes. I've been way too horny on main. I was trying to get through an episode without saying bonk, so I didn't. [01:12:33] Speaker B: But you're the one that brought it up. [01:12:35] Speaker A: Ah, God damn it. No, you said get. [01:12:38] Speaker B: I said get. [01:12:39] Speaker A: Yeah, but you're accent made it sound like cat. Well, Johnny, you ever heard the story of Darth Plagueis the Rizzler? [01:12:50] Speaker B: Now? In for a penny, in for a pound. Do you need. Do you need to bonk for any other part of this entire episode? [01:12:57] Speaker A: I don't know. I thought when Marjorie was dressed as a librarian, she was kind of hot. [01:13:01] Speaker B: Okay, awesome. [01:13:02] Speaker A: Bonk. Great. [01:13:06] Speaker B: That's classic. That's a. She's all that, though. So, you know. [01:13:09] Speaker A: Exactly. [01:13:10] Speaker B: That's classic. Classic, classic. I'm going to give it. I'm also going to give it 3.5. I'm going to 3.5. Crushed, crushed manacles, crushed handcuffs. That Lyra just goes shwonk. [01:13:25] Speaker A: Just rips right off. [01:13:26] Speaker B: Yeah, that was super. [01:13:27] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know. I really like. Mainline Spawns are a lot of fun. Yeah, I really like where it's going. Rory McConville's killing it. [01:13:35] Speaker B: Lots of twists and turns, lots of characters. It's a great big juggling act and he's doing a very good job with it. [01:13:43] Speaker A: Yeah, coming off that Lyra issue that I really enjoyed. It was good. [01:13:48] Speaker B: Yeah, good stuff. [01:13:50] Speaker A: Hopefully they can find that cure and cure poor Eddie. [01:13:54] Speaker B: Yeah, here's hoping. [01:13:56] Speaker A: And all the vampires, I guess, cure all of them. [01:13:59] Speaker B: So, Johnny, they recently on the radio were talking about how there is a loneliness epidemic. Yeah, I don't like this. I feel that it is something we need to specifically tackle to avoid people remaining lonely in this loneliness epidemic. And the only way I know how to do that, Johnny, is by introducing listeners of the program to other friends that we have in the Spawns universe community over on Instagram. [01:14:33] Speaker A: Yeah, we got a lot of good friends on there. [01:14:35] Speaker B: A lot of good friends who are highlighting. This week, this week specifically, we have a friend. It is only underscore Spawns. And they. I'll give you. I'll give you a guess as to what they post. [01:14:52] Speaker A: Let me think. Only Spawns. [01:14:54] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. [01:14:56] Speaker A: Holy shit. [01:14:58] Speaker B: What? [01:14:58] Speaker A: I just pulled up Instagram. Spawn World just posted a picture. Go to Spawn World. Spawn world, Trent. All 324 spawn new stance editions. All CGC graded. That's crazy. You see that? [01:15:12] Speaker B: Hold on. Spawn. Too many. Too many accounts. Start with Spawn. Holy. [01:15:21] Speaker A: That's a lot of fucking graded spawn. Wow. [01:15:25] Speaker B: Includes Curse of the Spawn, Spawn, the Dark Ages, Spawn. Miscellaneous, an all Spawn main series book from the secondary distributor. We really need to get down to Indiana, Johnny. [01:15:35] Speaker A: No, this is Trent. This is Spawn World. Trent, that's not. [01:15:38] Speaker B: Oh, he's. He doesn't. He's not the one who has the museum in Indiana. [01:15:43] Speaker A: No, that's Punk G47. [01:15:45] Speaker B: Okay, okay. [01:15:46] Speaker A: Punk G42. [01:15:48] Speaker B: That's incredible. [01:15:49] Speaker A: Yeah, that's crazy. Anyway, sorry, I got distracted by that when I pulled up Instagram. [01:15:53] Speaker B: Yeah. So, man. So what do you think Only Spawns has on it, Johnny? [01:15:59] Speaker A: Only Spawns? [01:16:00] Speaker B: Only Spawns. And, well, they. They make good with their promise. They got some spawn stuff there. They got a spawn stuff. They were a backer for the Kickstarter for Medieval Spawn. Very nice. [01:16:13] Speaker A: Good. [01:16:15] Speaker B: They're just out there enjoying some spawn stuff. Oh, look at that. [01:16:18] Speaker A: They have the, like, chart. They have, like, the evolution of Spawn. That's pretty cool. [01:16:22] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, 2, 3, 4, 5. Oh, that's medieval. 1, 2, 3, 4. It's not until the fifth iteration of Al Simmons spawn that he gets the big right foot. [01:16:34] Speaker A: Okay. [01:16:35] Speaker B: Oh, hey, look. Somewhere in the middle 166. He goes back to having a small right foot. One of the Philip Tan. Brian Haberland. Okay, nice. Interesting. That's some cool shit. They're fun. Go follow them. Share, share the love. End this loneliness epidemic. Reach out, reach out. [01:16:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:16:55] Speaker B: And touch some spawn. Only spawns Only spawns only underscore spawns only spawn. [01:17:01] Speaker A: Sounds like a spawn porn account now. [01:17:03] Speaker B: I mean, I think. I think that was. [01:17:05] Speaker A: That's the joke. [01:17:06] Speaker B: That might have been the joke. [01:17:07] Speaker A: Oh, I just went whoosh. [01:17:09] Speaker B: It might have been less. It might have actually been more obvious than the West End. And you want a torch. Yeah. Congratulations, Johnny. You have learned comedy. [01:17:22] Speaker A: Sorry. My mind just doesn't go there, David. You know, I'm not horny on Maine very often not. [01:17:27] Speaker B: You're not. You're not one for the low hanging fruit? [01:17:30] Speaker A: I mean. Depends. [01:17:34] Speaker B: Well, you know who isn't low hanging fruit, Johnny? [01:17:38] Speaker A: Lonnie Bones. [01:17:39] Speaker B: Lonnie Bones. That fruit is at the top of the tree. You gotta bust out a ladder and a grabber to get at that shit. [01:17:44] Speaker A: Yep. Cause he does our music and it's good shit. [01:17:47] Speaker B: Mm, yes, it does. That's Lonnie with a Y. Lonnie Bones at Apple Music. You'll find it. It's good stuff. We are over. We are also over on Instagram doing our part to end the loneliness epidemic regarding Spawnpod. And we're posting stuff. It's fun. [01:18:05] Speaker A: Come find us. Come talk to us. [01:18:06] Speaker B: Come talk to us. [01:18:08] Speaker A: If you want to talk to us somewhere else or send us long form talking, you hit us [email protected]. [01:18:14] Speaker B: Absolutely. [01:18:15] Speaker A: And every week I like to ask a question to see if anyone has any answers for the question. [01:18:23] Speaker B: And this is saved that Mark Rose and Terry Fitzgerald question for here. [01:18:28] Speaker A: I could say it. Yeah, I could. The theme and warrant the issues, I guess I want to ask, have you ever slept on a rock? You ever used a rock as a pillow? You ever used a log as a pillow? You ever slept outside like Javier? [01:18:41] Speaker B: I. So when I was a Boy Scout, you know, there's like honor societies within Boy Scouts. One of them is called Pine Tree. No, not Pine Tree. Order of the Arrow. Pine Tree is something different. Pine Tree is like lean in. But Order of the Arrow is like the fraternity within Boy Scouts. [01:18:59] Speaker A: Like the Boy Scout Illuminati. [01:19:01] Speaker B: Yeah, basically. It's also basically to get to the top ranks of the Order of the Arrow, you have to know somebody who is at the top ranks of the Order of the Arrow to let you in it gets very secret society. But the first step in becoming a member of the Order of the Arrow is you have to spend a weekend sleeping under the stars. Not talking, fasting, doing charitable works. So I spent a weekend sleeping in random spots without a tent in the middle of the woods, not talking to the people who I was sleeping near and eating, like, two apples a day. [01:19:39] Speaker A: Wow. [01:19:40] Speaker B: And cleaning up campsites. It was intense. So, yes, I have. And it's not fun. [01:19:46] Speaker A: Okay. [01:19:47] Speaker B: Built John. [01:19:48] Speaker A: I really never have. I'm sure I've taken a nap on the ground at some point, but I've never, like, slept on the ground. [01:19:53] Speaker B: Yeah. Outside, you can. You can always change that. There is an outside, Johnny. You could just go sleep. [01:19:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm gonna take a nap in the park. Yeah, I took it a nap in a park before. I don't know if I was on a blanket, though. It's tricky. [01:20:07] Speaker B: Well, you know what else is tricky, Johnny? [01:20:10] Speaker A: Actually, I don't. I don't know what you're gonna say. What is tricky. [01:20:13] Speaker B: Tricky is not enjoying spawn. [01:20:17] Speaker A: It is tricky not to enjoy spawn. You have to really try hard. [01:20:20] Speaker B: Yeah, you have to really try hard, and. Well, Johnny, we're going to try our hardest to make sure that you don't try hard and enjoy some spawn. And so why don't you. You want to enjoy some spawn together again next week. That was a long walk to boy. So you want to read a couple. What do you want to read next week that we can talk about and enjoy? [01:20:43] Speaker A: You know what? Let's. Let's do a double Todd father week. How about misery number three and King Spin spawn 38. [01:20:50] Speaker B: Not making it easy for ourselves, are we, Johnny? [01:20:53] Speaker A: No. [01:20:54] Speaker B: Misery number three in Kingspawn 38, you say? Yeah, actually, I could be down for that. That. That would be very good, because Misery up until. Up until it ends. Misery is very good. [01:21:07] Speaker A: Yeah, up until it doesn't end. [01:21:09] Speaker B: You mean up until it just stops? [01:21:12] Speaker A: Yeah. This is the shareware version of Misery. [01:21:16] Speaker B: You have to send in a Cashier's check for $25 to get the rest of the misery story. Well, that sounds great, Johnny. So let's read some misery number three, kingspawn38, come back in a week and talk about it. And you all out there also read misery number three, kingspawn38. Or don't. You know, sometimes if you want to just skip it and just hear what we have to say about it, that's fine. That works. Yeah, there's a lot of spawn out there. You do not have to read all of it. [01:21:45] Speaker A: But we do. [01:21:48] Speaker B: We are under contractual obligation. Malbolgia owns our souls if we don't. So we gotta. [01:21:56] Speaker A: Yeah, we sold our sweet. We have to read All Spawns or we're going to go to hell. [01:22:01] Speaker B: And not. Not even the good Hell. Where we get to be parts of the Hellspawn army, just like we got. We have to go to the bad pits that old Vinnie was showing Billy Kincaid. They're not good. [01:22:16] Speaker A: I don't want to go there. [01:22:17] Speaker B: I don't want to go there either. I would like to know about the psychic ice shrimp. I do not want to be a victim of the psychic I. Shrimp. No, definitely not. While everybody is reading misery number three in Kingspawn 38. To come back and listen to us talk about it next week. I think they should also tell other people to read Spawn. To listen to respawn. To like and subscribe. And tell friends and family members about it. Because as. As we've said, we are prostit. Proselytizing the word of our Lord Spawn. [01:22:47] Speaker A: We are prostitutes for Spawn. [01:22:49] Speaker B: Yes. Yes, indeed. Definitely. Definitely playing into that Spawnbert theme. Yes. That's what you should do. Don't forget to like us and subscribe to us everywhere you can. [01:23:01] Speaker A: Please do. [01:23:02] Speaker B: Yeah. And Johnny, I think that leaves me with nothing to say. But may the scorched be with. [01:23:11] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:23:12] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:23:14] Speaker A: Hell yeah. That's funny. You ate only apples for a week or a weekend. I worked with people, and they did an apple cleanse where they only ate apples for 10 days and they were fucking miserable. [01:23:25] Speaker B: Oh, geez, that sounds terrible. That's. I mean, since it was. It was specifically so that way, you know, you're supposed to humble yourself by fasting, man. Since then, I have never been able to not eat an apple core. I'm just like, I'm going to eat this whole fucking apple. Because lots of fiber. Lots of fiber in that core. [01:23:47] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, I see it. Around the core. I like an apple, though. Costco apples are really good. [01:23:53] Speaker B: Ooh, nice. Nice. I love an apple, too. There's so many different kinds of apples. I just learned about retired engineer who as his retirement project wanted to save as many varietals of apples as possible. And has personally preserved something like 300 different varieties of apples. Oh, that's insane. [01:24:15] Speaker A: What kind of apple you like? You like a crispy one? Like a tart? [01:24:18] Speaker B: I. So it depends on. It depends on the application. If I'm just eating the apple I want to. I want a Sweet, crispy boy. I do not want anything mushy. I do not want anything tart. [01:24:31] Speaker A: I like a tart. [01:24:32] Speaker B: Apple tart is reserved for cooking in my. [01:24:36] Speaker A: Okay. [01:24:37] Speaker B: In my. I think red. Red Delicious apples should be sent to the deepest part of the Malbolge because they suck. Fucking disgusting. Jesus Christ. They're the worst. They're so bad. [01:24:49] Speaker A: I know. They're the worst kind of apple. [01:24:51] Speaker B: Who out there is preferentially buying Red Delicious? [01:24:53] Speaker A: I don't know. [01:24:54] Speaker B: There's got to be some kind of government conspiracy, like with government cheese, where they pay dairy farmers to make the cheese, and then they have the strategic cheese reserves. There probably has to be a program for Red Delicious. That's the only reason. That's got to be the only reason that it's still around. [01:25:11] Speaker A: Yeah. And plus, it just looks like the classic apple. [01:25:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:25:15] Speaker A: But, yeah, Red Delicious sucks. [01:25:17] Speaker B: Yeah. Boo. Honey crisp. Honey crisp is good. It's a good one. [01:25:20] Speaker A: Honey crisp. [01:25:22] Speaker B: Galaxy crisp or cosmic crisp is good? Cosmic crisp is good. [01:25:25] Speaker A: Well, as they say, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. [01:25:28] Speaker B: Mm. And we don't need to see one for, like, 400 years. Johnny. [01:25:36] Speaker A: Apple talk.