Episode 119 - Gunslinger 36 and Scorched 34

[00:00:00] Speaker A: He's been thrown into a strange world that makes very little sense to him. He's adapted as best he can, but he doesn't belong here. He won't survive if he has to stay. Good evening and welcome to the Malibols. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast. I'm your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:50] Speaker B: And I am your co host, David Williams. And Johnny, I don't know what. I don't know what the world is going to look like in this, the next few years, the next few days, the next few hours, but I know that I can count on you. And I can count on Al old Albert Simmons to come at me at least once a week. You sure can, in some form or another. [00:01:13] Speaker A: That's true. Yes, it is. I think we should say, because we're recording this on New Year's Day. Happy New Year. [00:01:20] Speaker B: Happy New Year. Happy New Year. [00:01:22] Speaker A: What do you usually do on New Year's Day besides record your Spawn podcast? [00:01:26] Speaker B: Oh, well, that's. That's about it. That's about it. Honestly, it's become a new tradition in the. In the household here. [00:01:36] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah, I usually watch movies and order, like, fried chicken. [00:01:41] Speaker B: Yeah. It's usually a holdover from those. Those long, long, endless days of Christmas break. And I just don't know what to do with myself yet. And so I'm like, ah, the couch is already perfectly, perfectly assembled for me to sit on it all day. [00:01:58] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm also usually impossibly hungover, but I'm not this year. [00:02:01] Speaker B: So that's good. That's good. That's a good. It sounds like a terrible way to start the new year on a hangover. [00:02:07] Speaker A: Oh, David. [00:02:08] Speaker B: What? [00:02:09] Speaker A: I forgot. I almost texted you this, but it was like two in the morning. [00:02:12] Speaker B: Yes. [00:02:13] Speaker A: I was playing video games. I was winding down. I thought I'd pop on some Pluto TV. Guess what channel disappeared on January 1st? [00:02:19] Speaker B: You're gonna tell me the Godzilla channel. It's gone, motherfucker. [00:02:27] Speaker A: So when I clicked on, all it said is, this channel is no longer active. And it just played ads. [00:02:33] Speaker B: What? What a piece of garbage. [00:02:36] Speaker A: And the James Bond channel is gone too. [00:02:38] Speaker B: But they were literally just advertising the James Bond channel last night. Pieces of shit. [00:02:42] Speaker A: I was gone when I looked. [00:02:44] Speaker B: I was watching the. The Next Generation channels. [00:02:47] Speaker A: So nice. James Bond. James Bond. The James Bond channel is good, but it's hilarious because they play them in order so you get like. If you turn on, you're stuck in, like, the Roger Moore era. You're like, oh, God, I'm Stuck. Roger Moore. [00:03:00] Speaker B: I. I never. I never got a taste for Roger Moore. I know Roger Moore was my mom's favorite because she thought he was sexy and wasn't problematic like Sean Connory. [00:03:12] Speaker A: Oh, he's problematic. [00:03:14] Speaker B: Roger Moore. [00:03:16] Speaker A: I mean, not him, but the character of James Bond. [00:03:18] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. But. But no. Apparently Sean Connery has long been known as kind of a nasty man. [00:03:23] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I knew that. [00:03:24] Speaker B: Yeah. But no, My mom liked Roger Moore, but we didn't watch very many of them. [00:03:28] Speaker A: The Spy who Loved Me is really good, but most of them I don't like, except for that one. [00:03:33] Speaker B: What about Moon? Isn't Moonraker supposed to be good? Isn't Jaws in Moonraker? [00:03:37] Speaker A: Yes, but he originates in the Spy who Loves Me. [00:03:39] Speaker B: Man, I. Fuck it. Jaws is a great character. [00:03:42] Speaker A: Yeah, he's pretty cool. [00:03:43] Speaker B: How do I could swear I've never seen the Spy who Loves Me, but I know about Jaws. [00:03:49] Speaker A: He's in Moonraker as well. He can spot back for two of them. [00:03:52] Speaker B: I don't think I've ever seen Moonraker either. How do I know about. I don't know. [00:03:56] Speaker A: I mean, the Spy who Loved Me is, like, the most parodied one. It's one that, like, Austin Powers is most similar to. It's. It's like the ultimate 70s James Bond. Like, it's. It's great, but. And it has a great song, which always matters. [00:04:16] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, always. Definitely. The man with the Golden Gun. [00:04:21] Speaker A: Not a great Bond movie, though. Good. Good song. [00:04:23] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. What are you talking about? It's got Christopher fotherfucking Lee in it. Of course. It's a good James Bond movie. [00:04:28] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, it's okay. [00:04:29] Speaker B: With his third. [00:04:31] Speaker A: Yeah. He has a third nipple. It makes him a freak. [00:04:34] Speaker B: That movie makes no sense. I've seen Liver Let Die a lot because while I was away at Boy Scout camp one year, there would usually be, like. When my sister or I went away for camp, there would usually be, like, a gift waiting for us when we got picked up. And one year, my gift waiting for me was a VHS copy of Live and Let Die. And my sister was like, I fucking love the song. So congratulations, this is yours now. [00:05:01] Speaker A: Hilarious. [00:05:02] Speaker B: A good song. [00:05:04] Speaker A: Yeah. I like the Living Daylight song and Movie are both good. Goldeneye, obviously. Great song. I will say I love no Time to Die, the newest one. I thought it was fantastic, but the song's garbage. [00:05:29] Speaker B: Boo. [00:05:30] Speaker A: The Sam Smith song. That's just, like, completely forgettable. [00:05:33] Speaker B: I mean, that's. I mean, in a nutshell, Johnny, that is popular music since the mid century. [00:05:40] Speaker A: No, wait, it was the Billie Eilish song. Sorry. It's also forgettable. [00:05:44] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Well, most pop music is forgettable these days. It's a feedback loop of there's one thing that everybody likes. And so everybody tries to then capture that sound again since everybody liked it. And. Yeah, everything's too smooth nowadays. We need a little bit more fuzzy edges and unkempt. Unkempt lyrics. [00:06:08] Speaker A: Are you talking about, like, fuzzy edges? Like crazy continuity? Trying to make sense of it. [00:06:14] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. That is one. One aspect that we need more of. [00:06:18] Speaker A: And little fuzzy edges. [00:06:19] Speaker B: Like typos, Johnny. Yeah, we need more typos. [00:06:25] Speaker A: Then we're talking about Spawn, baby. Because we got two issues of Spawn. Because we are. Regarding Spawn, where each week we bring you two issues from Spawn's universe. Except when we don't. [00:06:34] Speaker B: Except when we bring. [00:06:35] Speaker A: You had a long run of guests. It was the holidays. We had lots of people over. Yeah, we had. [00:06:40] Speaker B: Johnny. I'm gonna clean the house once a year. So I'm gonna make sure that I get as much use out of it as possible. So if people are coming by, they're coming by when the house is already ready. [00:06:51] Speaker A: We had Spawnography over for Christmas. [00:06:53] Speaker B: Yes, we did. [00:06:54] Speaker A: Last week we had Rob Dus come and speak about Spawn. Kills every Spawn. [00:06:57] Speaker B: Yes, yes. He left a whole bunch of little bitty things that I keep finding, like, in the corners of my house. I'm like, what is this, Rob? [00:07:04] Speaker A: This is a Crash Bandicoot action figure. Sorry, Spawn. Bandicoot, Spawn de Coot, Crash Spawn de Koot. Yeah, no, we're talking Spawn. And we're bringing you two issues because we're back to our regular format after a nice run of guests. And this week we have gunslinger 36 all the way back from. Hold on, October 2024 from last year. Johnny last year. And scorch 34 all the way from October 2024. So these were born in spooky season, but they're being covered in the new tide. I don't know. What do they call New Year? [00:07:46] Speaker B: The New Year. [00:07:48] Speaker A: What's the last day of Christmas? Like the. The Christmas cycle first. [00:07:52] Speaker B: So it's. It's January 6th, unfortunately, and it is known as either 12th Day or Epiphany or King's Day or one of the. [00:08:05] Speaker A: Finest days in this fucking country. [00:08:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Because that's when King Cakes go on sale, so. Fuck, yeah. There's a bakery over by us that makes exceptional King Cakes. [00:08:18] Speaker A: Nice. Has a baby in it. [00:08:20] Speaker B: They they put the baby on the side, so that way you can put it in. [00:08:24] Speaker A: But yeah, get a baby on the side. [00:08:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:28] Speaker A: In Mexico they started doing it with Baby Yoda. Baby Yoda became like a gay icon. They read an article about it, it's really interesting. [00:08:36] Speaker B: Okay, so, so Baby Yoda is both a gay icon and the Mexican Baby Jesus, huh? [00:08:42] Speaker A: Yeah, I guess. [00:08:44] Speaker B: Okay, I mean, I'm here for it. [00:08:46] Speaker A: He became a gay icon in Mexico and they put him in King Cake sometimes. [00:08:51] Speaker B: Fabulous, fabulous. Baby Yoda and the Babadook man. [00:08:56] Speaker A: Sorry Grogu. Sorry Johnny. [00:09:00] Speaker B: I'm not that much of a Star wars pedant. Come on. [00:09:03] Speaker A: But I mean, that's a good, you gotta say it's a good name, man. Because everyone was calling it Baby Yoda and Grogu, it's like, it's pretty good. [00:09:09] Speaker B: It is a good name. [00:09:10] Speaker A: It is good name, you know, it's so funny. [00:09:13] Speaker B: It's no Babu Frick, though. [00:09:15] Speaker A: Babu Frick's a good name. I remember, I go on the Star Wars Leaks subreddit sometimes where they suppose like spoilers or like people like, you know, a lot of it's lies, but some of it's real and are just like rumors and stuff. And one guy, one time like a year before the episode came out was like, my uncle worked on the Mandalorian and Baby Yoda's name's Grogu. And everyone was like, yeah, right, your uncle. Yeah, right. Hahaha. And then like when it happened, he like, see? And everyone's like, holy shit, he was right. [00:09:44] Speaker B: I always love those, those posts that are. Somebody comments to themselves and they're like, you see, motherfuckers, I was right. It's great. Yeah, that's, that's how I feel a lot of times when, when Wanda is like, holy shit, you were right about something. And I was like, it happens, I promise you. [00:10:03] Speaker A: Occasionally the soft clocks. Right? Twice a day. [00:10:07] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. Although not so much anymore since. Since we're in the digital era and a stopped clock, a stopped digital clock is just blank. So that's true. Unless all time stops twice a day. Would we know if time stopped twice a day? [00:10:24] Speaker A: I guess we wouldn't. [00:10:25] Speaker B: How many, how many time adventures that involve freezing time are currently going on right now? [00:10:31] Speaker A: Could be tons. [00:10:32] Speaker B: Could be tons, man. That's fun to think about. Sometimes I would, I would, I would use my time stopping power to take a like 16 hour nap. [00:10:44] Speaker A: Oh yeah, that's right. That's all I think I would always. [00:10:45] Speaker B: Do is just sleep yeah, be like, fuck, I'm just gonna. Or like, like pausing a movie in the theater so I can go to the bathroom and grab a few more snacks. [00:10:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:59] Speaker B: I would be so irresponsible with it. Maybe I shouldn't be a superhero, Johnny. Don't let me sign up for him when the sheet gets passed around. [00:11:09] Speaker A: Well, we got a time hopping superhero that we're talking about yesterday. [00:11:12] Speaker B: Yeah, he would probably be even more irresponsible than me doing his. His time stopping abilities. [00:11:22] Speaker A: Oh, if he did that, he would. [00:11:24] Speaker B: Definitely kill some people instead of, you know, refreshing his snacks. [00:11:29] Speaker A: No, he would freeze time and just go kill everyone that fucked with Amy. Because of course we're talking about Mr. Javier, Mr. Gunslinger. [00:11:36] Speaker B: The entity known as Javier. [00:11:38] Speaker A: The entity known as Javier. [00:11:39] Speaker B: I guess that's a future. It's a future Spoiler. Sorry. [00:11:43] Speaker A: I mean, they talk about it in this issue. [00:11:45] Speaker B: Yeah, but speaking of issues, Johnny, and like we do, we always got to start with the COVID And what cover do you got this time? [00:11:53] Speaker A: For this one, I have the A cover. [00:11:57] Speaker B: Nice. Who did that? A cover you got there. [00:12:01] Speaker A: A cover is by Paul Giamatti. Renaud. [00:12:07] Speaker B: Can you imagine if Paul Giamatti did a. A Spawn cover? That would be great. [00:12:11] Speaker A: Just a bottle Merlot with a Spawn cape on it. [00:12:14] Speaker B: I am not drinking any Merlot. Or. Or maybe. Maybe Paul Giamatti as Violator in King Spawn. [00:12:22] Speaker A: Or as Cog. [00:12:23] Speaker B: As Cog. He would be a much better cog than a Violator because, I mean, they. [00:12:28] Speaker A: Get all buff like J.K. simmons did for Red Juan when he could become sin. Buff. Paul Giamatti. [00:12:35] Speaker B: Imagine. Imagine those. Those quiet pastoral movies that he would be making after that where he's just buff. [00:12:43] Speaker A: He's like the headmaster of a school and he's like beating the. Out of the kids. [00:12:48] Speaker B: The Holdovers was a wonderful movie. [00:12:50] Speaker A: Yeah, I heard it was good. But yeah, I got the A cover. It's Javier standing over some. A dead skeleton's been shot in the head. But it's a magic skeleton because it's got necroplasm blood coming out of it. And there's other animated skeletons coming after him. [00:13:05] Speaker B: Man, what's with Javi and skeletons? He's. He's just like. He's addicted to the skeletons. [00:13:13] Speaker A: Oh, speaking of which, just pop that shit in there, dude. Right here. Because Skeleton Dance, that famous cartoons in public domain as of today. [00:13:21] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. The. The. The Betty Boop Skeleton Dance or the. Yeah, nice. [00:13:27] Speaker A: Oh, man, I'm pretty sure just the one called Skeleton Dance. [00:13:31] Speaker B: The old the old Fleischer cartoon, at least. [00:13:32] Speaker A: Yeah, I think so. But it's public domain. Today I saw a list of things so I could. Like, what can we rip off for our podcast now? [00:13:39] Speaker B: Hell, yeah, let's do it. Also, I mean, if it is the Betty Boop, Betty Boop is awesome. [00:13:47] Speaker A: Betty Boo's back. The musical. Supposed to be great. [00:13:49] Speaker B: She gets into so many fucking spooky situations. It's. It's like this. [00:13:55] Speaker A: Cartoons are always kind of scary. [00:13:56] Speaker B: Tangentially, horror. It's a great, great. Do you know she started off as a dog? That was the original concept of her. [00:14:04] Speaker A: Really? I didn't know. [00:14:05] Speaker B: Which is why her. Her head is stylized in a way. She was supposed to be a dog and, like, dance for cats or something like that. Or she was supposed to be a cat that danced for dogs. Yeah, she was supposed to be an animal. Real weird. [00:14:18] Speaker A: I mean, Mickey started out as a rabbit. [00:14:21] Speaker B: You mean Oswald? [00:14:23] Speaker A: Yes, he's his own entity now. [00:14:25] Speaker B: Oswald the lucky rabbit. Oswald the Cobblepot. Like to show her my French. [00:14:31] Speaker A: I have Oswald the lucky rabbit hat. In the next room, I have an. [00:14:33] Speaker B: Oswald the Lucky rabbit. Coffee cup. [00:14:36] Speaker A: Nice. [00:14:37] Speaker B: Nice. Because when the Epic Mickey came out, there was just like, all the merch, and I was like, ah, must have it. [00:14:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:43] Speaker B: And then Epic Mickey. Epic Mickey 2 came out, and everybody was like, what the fuck is this? That lasted for 15 minutes. [00:14:50] Speaker A: Poor Oswald. [00:14:52] Speaker B: Yeah, but he's got Wilhelmina. [00:14:56] Speaker A: Is that his girlfriend? [00:14:57] Speaker B: That's. I do believe Wilhelmina is the. The mini analog. [00:15:04] Speaker A: Okay. Oswald and Wilhelmina just rolls off the tongue like Mickey and Minnie. [00:15:10] Speaker B: Nice. This is. This is definitely a very good. A very good cover. Johnny, this cover A. That you have. Oh, yeah, I do like. I like that. That one skeleton in the background looks like he's running, and the other one's just like, I'll take my time. [00:15:27] Speaker A: I'm sitting back. Yeah, but that one's gunning for him. [00:15:31] Speaker B: Yeah, I have. I have cover B, but Jonathan Glappy in cover, which is just. [00:15:38] Speaker A: Oh, man, great. [00:15:40] Speaker B: It's just a hobby basic. So it's got this big crease in it, so it looks like it's like a poster that somebody folded up and put in their pocket. And it's just Javi in front of a depiction of the sun filled with arrows. [00:15:55] Speaker A: That's pretty badass. [00:15:56] Speaker B: Yeah, it's got that Jonathan Galapian grittiness to it. You can tell he took his brush and was just like. [00:16:07] Speaker A: Mess it up. [00:16:07] Speaker B: Yeah. And the hat is real tall. That's the Key. [00:16:10] Speaker A: Yeah. And it's got a bend in it. [00:16:12] Speaker B: Yeah. And an arrow. [00:16:14] Speaker A: Oh, I kind of regret not getting that cover now. [00:16:16] Speaker B: I, I. Now, if there is a Jonathan Glapion cover, kind of just. I'm like it getting the Jonathan Glapion cover unless. And it only becomes a problem if it's Jonathan Gladia versus Mark Spears or Jonathan Glapion versus, like, a. Like a Bjorn Barons or a puppeteer Lee. It's really hard. It's really hard to pass up a puppeteer. There's supposed to be some awesome Puppeteer Lee covers coming up this year, too. [00:16:44] Speaker A: Okay, cool. [00:16:44] Speaker B: I think, I think 360 spawn. 360, I think, is supposed to have a great puppeteer Lee. [00:16:50] Speaker A: That would make sense. [00:16:51] Speaker B: And I think that comes out tomorrow, so. [00:16:54] Speaker A: It does. [00:16:55] Speaker B: I think so. It doesn't. It. [00:16:57] Speaker A: Oh, man. [00:16:58] Speaker B: I don't remember what time. [00:17:00] Speaker A: Who's on time after time. Yeah, that would make sense because it was March, and we did 350. And if it's 12 months after, it'd be 360 in January. [00:17:11] Speaker B: Well, at least 10 months after. [00:17:13] Speaker A: Within 12 months would be March. [00:17:15] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That makes sense. Damn. [00:17:21] Speaker A: That'S crazy, man. How do you measure a year in the spawn? [00:17:29] Speaker B: How about spa? Are there any other. Are there any covers for this, this issue, Johnny, or. They're just the two. [00:17:39] Speaker A: No, that's it. [00:17:40] Speaker B: Okay. Awesome. [00:17:42] Speaker A: Just the two. [00:17:42] Speaker B: Well, we should probably start measuring this. Measuring this spawn for this season of Spawn and crack it open, huh? [00:17:51] Speaker A: Yeah, we got the credits here. [00:17:54] Speaker B: All 525,600 of them. [00:17:57] Speaker A: Hopefully not. Don't want to read all that. [00:18:02] Speaker B: We would, though. [00:18:04] Speaker A: We would. We'd have to. We got script plot by Todd McFarlane, art by Carlo Barberi, colors by Ivan Nunes, lettering by Tom Wojciekowski. [00:18:13] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:18:14] Speaker A: We already covered the covers. Creative director is Todd McFarlane, and editor in chief is Thomas Healy, Our father. Our father who art an editor. [00:18:24] Speaker B: How would be thy name, Healy, be thy name. [00:18:26] Speaker A: That's right. [00:18:27] Speaker B: There you go. [00:18:29] Speaker A: Previously in Gunslinger. As Javier recoups from his injuries in the hospital, questions about his past begin to arise. [00:18:36] Speaker B: I mean, that's. That's basically been gunslinger 1 through 35 in a nutshell. [00:18:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:42] Speaker B: He's always hurt. He's always questioning. [00:18:47] Speaker A: Yep. We kind of pick up where we left off last time with big boss. [00:18:54] Speaker B: Man calling America, being like, that's my son I see on your television. I need him freed. [00:19:01] Speaker A: He's like, yo, dude, he shot cops. [00:19:03] Speaker B: Yeah, so. So there's a Phone call between, I guess, whatever the, the governmental building in Guyana is. And like, he's, he's on the horn with like four different departments in D.C. being like, I need my son. And they're like, he shot cops. And they're like, I need my son. Like, they got him on camera killing a dude in his home. It's like, I need my son. [00:19:28] Speaker A: Still need him. [00:19:30] Speaker B: Uh huh. And then, and then it gets to the point where it shows us the White House. And then they're like, damn it, we have to cave to this guy because we need, we need Guyana to be part of the Southern Coalition. And then I'm going to assume this is, this is bureau adjacent, where we turn to where this guy just like casually walks into Joelle's office and is like, hey, Joelle, do you have a minute? We got a bit of a problem. [00:19:56] Speaker A: And slams a folder down. [00:19:58] Speaker B: That's. That. I think that's going to take more than a minute to, to. To rectify. [00:20:05] Speaker A: And she's like reading the file on Javier and she's like, this high level contact. Son is the shooter. [00:20:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:10] Speaker A: Isn't this still the top of the news? And then looks at the TV and yep, there it is. [00:20:15] Speaker B: Nice. So they're, they're just sitting there stewing in the issue. And then we cut back to the hospital room, and the doctor and a nurse are like, dude, what the fuck is wrong with your body? It looks fucked up on the outside, but it's kind of okay on the inside. What the shit have you been doing? And Javi's just like, let's just say I've had a rough life or have led a hard life. [00:20:41] Speaker A: That's it. That's it. [00:20:44] Speaker B: And they're like, okay, yeah, whatever. Just let us know if you feel like they'll let us in on anything else. But in Javi's recollections, there are a couple of. A couple of the more higher profile battles that he's had. Yeah, it's kind of flashed back. [00:20:58] Speaker A: Yes, there's. And he's left alone with a cop. [00:21:01] Speaker B: Yes. And the cop starts saying. Saying things to him and he's like, you son of a bitch. You killed my brother. [00:21:10] Speaker A: You shot at my brother. [00:21:11] Speaker B: Yeah. He's like. And so Javi's giving him some lip and he's like, you know, why don't you start asking about the man that I killed? You know, that he was a problem because he literally paid you off. The cop gets like super upset at him and is like, you're lucky I can't touch you. And Javi's like, yeah, but I could touch you. Just punches. Bops him, punches him across the room. That's it. Yeah, that's an amazing. An amazing amount of force in that punch, Johnny. [00:21:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:42] Speaker B: And then. And then the door flies open and there's a cop and a nurse. And the cop is like, jesus, Bill, what happened? [00:21:49] Speaker A: And the nurse is like, I just fell. [00:21:52] Speaker B: The nurse is like, this patient needs quiet. Get. Get out of here, Go. Leave the patient. And then, you know, the cop just like. He can't say anything. And so he just like wipes the blood off his mouth and leaves the room. And then we. We just see a panel of just Javi just. Just sleeping sweetest dreams. [00:22:15] Speaker A: Smiling. Yeah. [00:22:21] Speaker B: And then. [00:22:21] Speaker A: Then they start giving him tests. [00:22:23] Speaker B: Yeah, a battery of tests have been ordered. So he's getting an mri, he's getting some X ray, he's getting some. Oh boy, I don't know what. [00:22:31] Speaker A: KG or something. [00:22:32] Speaker B: Yeah, they say he defies logic and there's no medical reason that he needs to stay anymore. So he doesn't. [00:22:39] Speaker A: He's in jail. [00:22:41] Speaker B: They. They give him the Luigi. Luigi Mangielli treatment. From the hospital to the police station. Manganiello Mangione. Oh yeah, like Chuck Mangione. That's right. And then while he's waiting in the cell, a lawyer comes in and says, hey, I'm Judith, I've been appointed by the state to your legal case. You wanna, you wanna fill me in on some information about what's happening? And hobby's like, why do I need a lawyer? And she's like, the state is accusing you of murder and we need to defend yourself. [00:23:21] Speaker A: It's like they literally other charges too. [00:23:24] Speaker B: Yeah, they literally caught you on security cameras killing the guy. And Jav's like, I don't know what that means. We should start tracking the. Don't know what that means. Cuz I bet there's probably at least one in every issue. [00:23:38] Speaker A: There's one every few issues. [00:23:40] Speaker B: Don't know what that means. [00:23:42] Speaker A: Oh, Javi. [00:23:44] Speaker B: And basically it boils down to he's facing life in prison or worse. [00:23:50] Speaker A: She's like, you better cooperate with us because, you know, let's do it. [00:23:55] Speaker B: And unsurprisingly, Javi's not. Not terribly cooperative. [00:23:59] Speaker A: Yeah, he's like, what's your name? He's like, ask them, what about your accomplice? Leave her out of this. [00:24:05] Speaker B: And then we use that to shwoomp right over to where Linda is currently hanging out with Wyatt in his auto repair Garage. [00:24:16] Speaker A: Yep. [00:24:18] Speaker B: And what. Linda's just like, why. Why am I here? And why is like, we gotta keep you safe. What has Javi told you about his life? It's just like, that much. And why. It says he. He really. He really should have. You deserve to know what kind of you're tied up in, so you've earned. [00:24:35] Speaker A: The right to know the truth, all of it. [00:24:40] Speaker B: So Wyatt starts filling her in on basically the story of Javier the Gunslinger. Basically, like, his name's not Javier. He's not who you think he is. Who he actually is is probably going to be pretty hard to comprehend. But. But he starts with, he's. He's from a time when the country was warring against itself, when cowboys and horses ruled Western America. Man, I would vote for a horse as president in a second. [00:25:11] Speaker A: Yeah, Horse ruled America. [00:25:13] Speaker B: Man. That would be so great. Today we call it the Civil W. [00:25:19] Speaker A: Oh, they put the full war in. [00:25:21] Speaker B: They put the full war in there. The Civil War. I wonder if that was a reaction to people being like, why didn't you put the whole word? And he's like, we gotta put civil war in there. At some point, we gotta put civil. [00:25:32] Speaker A: War more in there. [00:25:35] Speaker B: And basically, when he lived during the Civil War, he witnessed a ton of bad stuff, and the worst of which was the death of his sister. But he was. He was torn away, robbed of revenge. He was torn away from his time and place before he could. He could extract his vengeance. And we get a nice. A nice panel of the old. [00:26:04] Speaker A: The Flash. [00:26:04] Speaker B: The old incident. Oh, I should have looked to see if that was literally a. Because Carlo Barberi was the artist on main title at that time. I wonder if he just took a panel from Spawn running out of necroplasm and exploding and creating the incident. If it's the same, I bet he redrew it. Probably. I don't know. Only one way to find out, and I'm too lazy. [00:26:34] Speaker A: Yes. At a box over there. I'm never. I'm not getting that out. [00:26:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. It would be easier to just get him on the podcast than ask him. [00:26:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:42] Speaker B: And then. [00:26:43] Speaker A: So this man was sucked forward 150 years into today's world, and very little of it makes sense to him. [00:26:50] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we get the. The opening reading that is accompanied by some really cool sequences of Javi just, like, in full. Full cowboy regalia, just standing on a busy downtown street, like, huh, what's going on? And then a badass panel of him just sitting on the biggest chopper you've ever seen, smoking cigarettes just Lighten up one of his cigarettes. It's pretty dope. And then what's the difference between a. [00:27:19] Speaker A: Chopper and a motorcycle? [00:27:20] Speaker B: Well, so a chopper is a motorcycle, but a chopper has been customized in ways like the. The frame has been customized or the wheels has been customized. So it's not a stock motorcycle. Got a motorcycle that has been chopped up. [00:27:35] Speaker A: I get it. Chopper, I never knew. [00:27:39] Speaker B: It's also one that's made from a very, very, very pissy robot who doesn't like to do anything you tell him to. [00:27:46] Speaker A: Yes, that's true. That's Chopper. [00:27:47] Speaker B: Chopper. I love Chopper. Surprising no one. He only. He only listens to one person, and he only listens to her, like, half the time. [00:27:58] Speaker A: Yep. [00:27:59] Speaker B: And then. Then Wyatt starts in with some. Some Javi's shortcomings, like he can't read or understand modern technology. And there's just a shot of him in, like, a 7 11, like, curiously examining the back of a bag of cheese. [00:28:14] Speaker A: Yep. [00:28:17] Speaker B: And then, you know, Wyatt mentions that he has enemies. He's got some modern enemies and some old timey enemies. There's one particular enemy that. That knows all of Javi's weaknesses. [00:28:32] Speaker A: Cogliostro. Slash. Sin. [00:28:33] Speaker B: Yeah, Cog. Sin. Leostro. [00:28:38] Speaker A: And Linda's like, wait, you're saying he's 150 years old? He's like, look, I'm saying Javier isn't even his name. Or that he's occupying the real body that is his. [00:28:46] Speaker B: Linda's just like, I don't believe any of this. And why I said I wish it weren't true. Linda. Honestly, I do. Which is the greatest apology in the history of apologies. Like, listen, this is some up, but it's. It's what's there. [00:29:04] Speaker A: It's true. Sorry. [00:29:07] Speaker B: And then we get a nice little flashback to. To the first appearance of a major character. Johnny augur. [00:29:17] Speaker A: Yes. Spawn 309. [00:29:19] Speaker B: And Pancho Deadhead. Cogliostro. [00:29:22] Speaker A: Dead head. He cuts his head off. [00:29:24] Speaker B: He cuts his head right off. [00:29:26] Speaker A: I forgot he did that. [00:29:29] Speaker B: But to survive, Javier has had to commit atrocities of his own. Acts of violence he believes are deserved. Against those deaths and violence which you are now a part of, you'll be hunted too. And Linda's just, like, bearing her face in her hands, like, ah, Jesus Christ. [00:29:47] Speaker A: What have I got myself into? [00:29:49] Speaker B: She's like, I knew this was bad. I didn't know it was this bad. [00:29:53] Speaker A: And then from cut back to the police station. [00:29:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Where Javi is talking to the lawyer again. And so she's like. So you say you say they did something to your sister. What did they do to your sister? He's like, well, they killed her. She's like, what? And she's like, proof. He's like, I was there. You were present when your sister was killed. And Mr. Neely was there. Who else? And what's your sister's name? Javi's like, yeah, it happened a long time ago. No one's ever gonna believe it. And I gotta say, Johnny, Javi is looking pretty. Pretty juicy. [00:30:30] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:30:31] Speaker B: In this jail cell. Just like, he's got. He's scruffy and he's. He's got that je ne sais quoi. [00:30:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:39] Speaker B: And his hair is just real nice. Oh, boy. And. And Joelle. Is that her name? [00:30:46] Speaker A: I think so. [00:30:47] Speaker B: Make sure. Judith. Judith. The lawyer is like, come on, sir. I'm trying to. This is my job. You gotta help me help you. And Javi's like, man, you are way in over your head. You aren't gonna believe me if I tell you the truth, so maybe just stop. Maybe just don't do it. And Judith is like, it's my job. I'll see you tomorrow. And then she leaves the police station. [00:31:15] Speaker A: And as she's going to her car, someone's like, yo, Judith, a word. And some dick in a suit. [00:31:20] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's. He's FBI. [00:31:23] Speaker A: He does the classic, you're off the case. It's FBI now. Yeah, of course. [00:31:28] Speaker B: And then Judith is like, oh, bullshit. Let me see your badge. And he's just like, floop. It's just like, whatever. I don't care. I'm still on this case. You have to fight me for it. She's like, have your boss call me. So she wants, what, the. The Minister of Defense to call her directly? Pretty great. [00:31:47] Speaker A: And he goes off and meets up with this guy named Raul. [00:31:50] Speaker B: Yeah. And Raul's. Raul's just, like, chilling against this hatchback there. And this. This G man has obvious distaste for Raul. [00:32:04] Speaker A: Yes. [00:32:05] Speaker B: And you know, what's. Did he say what his name is? No, I don't think we get his name. FBI. FBI. Man's just like, man, I don't know why America. Why America uses you. And I don't like. I don't like it. Don't like it. And Raul's like, yeah, whatever, man. And then he calls somebody up, says, hey, it's Raul. Boss needs you to turn up the heat. [00:32:29] Speaker A: And then we get a little backstory on Raul Jimenez. [00:32:32] Speaker B: Yeah. The backstory occurs while he's driving his. His. His Mercedes His Mercedes wagon to a cabin in the woods. Johnny. And as we all know, nothing but good things happen at Cabins in the Wood. [00:32:47] Speaker A: Yes, they're always a pleasant cabin in the wood. [00:32:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:54] Speaker A: Oh, nice. The lovely Evil Dead musical. [00:32:57] Speaker B: The best musical that ever. [00:32:59] Speaker A: That music was a piece of shit. [00:33:02] Speaker B: I would go to it to get in the spot flash zone. Absolutely. [00:33:05] Speaker A: But the songs suck. [00:33:07] Speaker B: Yeah, they get stuck. [00:33:09] Speaker A: What the was that? It's like, not even in line with the tone of Evil Dead. They don't say, like Evil Dead. Yeah, I don't know. It's totally a little off, I would say. [00:33:20] Speaker B: Yeah, it happens. [00:33:21] Speaker A: But I should be in the bag for it. [00:33:23] Speaker B: Yeah, you really should be. [00:33:24] Speaker A: David. Plays I've directed in the city have had a splash zone. It's not that big a deal, an intentional splash zone. No. [00:33:34] Speaker B: It'S just everyone's so overcome with emotion that you're splashed with the tears. [00:33:39] Speaker A: No, there's often blood and sometimes it gets a lot of control. [00:33:43] Speaker B: I've been to one of your plays. It's very exciting. If you're in. If you're in Chicago and you get a chance to see a play written by one John Fisher, you should go see them. They're very. [00:33:54] Speaker A: Shucks. Yeah. He's in the cabin in the woods. [00:33:57] Speaker B: And then he's just. He's just chilling. But we learned that he is. He is one of the top fixers for his. His cartel boss. And he prides himself on leaving and always having the proper leverage for any given transaction, so. So Raul has quite a reputation. I would say. His reputation is probably about as big as his belt buckle there. Look at that. It looks like he looks like a Who just won a. Won a bull riding competition. [00:34:25] Speaker A: He does. And then while he's lying, relaxing, we see these footsteps out in the woods. [00:34:32] Speaker B: Yeah, it's Bigfoot, Johnny. [00:34:34] Speaker A: Or footprints. Yeah. [00:34:34] Speaker B: Sasquatch is gonna get him. [00:34:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:34:37] Speaker B: And then. Then the cabin just explodes while Ryul is trying to take his nap. And then a big red. A big red hand reaches down and grabs him by the face. Johnny. And who is it? It's Monolith. [00:34:51] Speaker A: It's Monolith. And he says, I hear we're both looking for the gunslinger. [00:34:55] Speaker B: And he's just. He's just holding them by his head. Oh, that's gotta hurt so bad being held just by your head. Yeah, by those fucking hands with those big old claws on him. Ah, geez. If I saw Monolith in real life, I would totally piss myself just like. [00:35:13] Speaker A: Yeah, me too. Like, I was pretty terrifying. [00:35:15] Speaker B: And he would take a step towards me. I would be like, hold on a second. Let me pee first so I don't get any on you, so that way you don't get even more upset at me. Okay, I'm good now. Let's go. [00:35:25] Speaker A: Okay, now you can grab me. Yeah, It's Monolith. [00:35:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:31] Speaker A: And in the issue with a big cameo. [00:35:34] Speaker B: Pretty nice. We haven't seen that guy in a while. [00:35:37] Speaker A: I know. He saw us. We had his miniseries. We hadn't seen him. [00:35:39] Speaker B: Yeah, excluding his miniseries. We still haven't seen him in a while. I will. I will exclude his miniseries since that takes place before we ever meet him in the first place. [00:35:48] Speaker A: That's true. [00:35:49] Speaker B: Or after. I don't know. [00:35:51] Speaker A: Or after. Or at the same time, whatever. [00:35:54] Speaker B: As the doctor once said, wibbly wobbly timey wimey. [00:35:57] Speaker A: And Javi's got a wibbly wobbly power meter, because it's still at one. [00:36:01] Speaker B: It's still at one. Oh, boy. But for how much longer, Johnny? How much longer? [00:36:06] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:36:07] Speaker B: I could tell you exactly how much longer. Yeah, but that would be. That would be spoilers. [00:36:12] Speaker A: No spoilers. [00:36:13] Speaker B: Then we get ourselves a nice spawning grounds. Johnny. [00:36:16] Speaker A: Yeah, There's a working project. Custom painted gunslinger. And, like, jeans. [00:36:20] Speaker B: Yeah, that looks. That's way doper than it should be. [00:36:23] Speaker A: Like, he's pretty awesome. [00:36:25] Speaker B: He's just. He's just wearing jeans. Like, who would have thought that Javi would be even more badass just in jeans? [00:36:32] Speaker A: Yeah, it's pretty cool. [00:36:34] Speaker B: Then we got cosplay done by William that. I wish there was an Instagram handle so we could follow, but it's good cosplay. [00:36:44] Speaker A: Yeah. A couple of spawn tattoos. [00:36:47] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:36:49] Speaker A: One of them's a Jonathan glapin cover for Gunslinger 22. It's pretty badass. [00:36:53] Speaker B: Oh, man, it is. It is incredible. It's an incredible cover and an incredible tattoo of it. [00:36:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:59] Speaker B: Another one is just Javi smoking a cigarette with his smoking pistols. So he just finished a shootout. He's in a graveyard. Holy shit. [00:37:06] Speaker A: Yep. [00:37:07] Speaker B: Nice. [00:37:08] Speaker A: That's a big one. Is that someone's back? Jesus. [00:37:11] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it is. Holy crap. Or like, a shoulder, at least. [00:37:15] Speaker A: Yeah, maybe a shoulder, man. [00:37:20] Speaker B: It's great. [00:37:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:22] Speaker B: Any more Spawns Universe, Johnny? Always don't miss the ongoing titles. Look at those. We got a. [00:37:29] Speaker A: There they are. [00:37:29] Speaker B: We got the. The Core 4. [00:37:32] Speaker A: We'll be covering them shortly. [00:37:33] Speaker B: Yeah, I think a couple of them we've already covered. [00:37:37] Speaker A: Yeah, we have. [00:37:38] Speaker B: I'm pretty sure all of them. [00:37:40] Speaker A: No, we Definitely haven't covered Scorch 35 since we're covering Scorch 34 this episode. [00:37:44] Speaker B: That's true. What am I thinking? I think we maybe have covered that spawn. [00:37:50] Speaker A: We covered the king spawn, and that's it. Maybe both. [00:37:54] Speaker B: I don't know. We'll see. Somebody out there knows what we've covered and what we haven't. [00:37:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:59] Speaker B: We get the Image Classics ad, which is now a classic. And then the. The movie Maniacs. Is there a toy ad on the back? [00:38:07] Speaker A: All these maniacs, like the dude and Andy Sitzer and David Wooderson. [00:38:13] Speaker B: David. One of. One of them is a maniac. [00:38:18] Speaker A: I mean, they're all maniacs, according to this. [00:38:20] Speaker B: One of them. One of them's a maniac for Bolin. [00:38:24] Speaker A: That's true. That's the Big Lebowski. [00:38:27] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. That's just, like, your opinion, man. Real good. Yeah. And that's. That's Gunslinger 36, Johnny. [00:38:39] Speaker A: There it is. [00:38:40] Speaker B: Pretty good one. [00:38:40] Speaker A: We did it. All right, so next up, we've got scorch 34, which is confusing when I was picking him up, because this also has a gunslinger on the COVID Yeah, it does. Well, at least the A cover. [00:39:10] Speaker B: Yeah, the A cover does the Thaddeus. [00:39:13] Speaker A: Roebuck, which is the one I have. [00:39:16] Speaker B: That is also the one I have, because it is phenomenal. [00:39:21] Speaker A: Pretty cool. [00:39:23] Speaker B: If the Scorched has any sort of red cover, where the. The red cover is both the background color and the color of a large portion of the characters on the COVID I'm probably getting it. It's very. It's very Scorched seven with the Jessica Priest. [00:39:44] Speaker A: Yes. [00:39:47] Speaker B: Which is appropriate because there's Jessica Priest on it. [00:39:50] Speaker A: Yes. And she's the main focus of this issue. [00:39:53] Speaker B: Yeah, she sure is. She's pretty great. Also is. Yeah, that's why. [00:40:01] Speaker A: And then we got a B cover by Paul Renaud, and it's like Jessica standing for, like, a black and white. Like, almost like statues of, like, the other Scorch. [00:40:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:40:14] Speaker A: Evil gunslinger. [00:40:15] Speaker B: I would say it looks demons, kind of like, like, you know, in old churches, they've got the. The statue tableaus of, like. Like a battle or like, a specific incident that happened within the church. It looks like Jessica Priest is standing in front of one of those. [00:40:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:35] Speaker B: But it's dedicated to the Scorched and all the many battles that they have. Thought. It also happens to have a gunslinger on it. So two covers, two gunslingers. No gunslinger in the book. [00:40:48] Speaker A: Nope. [00:40:49] Speaker B: What? At least the. The. The Paul Renaud one has a medieval on it, right? [00:40:56] Speaker A: Who appears in the book. [00:40:57] Speaker B: Yeah, appears very briefly. [00:41:01] Speaker A: Is discussed for one panel. [00:41:03] Speaker B: Yes, but they're both. They're both good covers. But I very much love this. This Robek one with Jessica Priest taken up the middle of Javi. And it's just. It's so well composed and it's beautiful. [00:41:18] Speaker A: Yeah, it's cool. Even though it confuses me, it makes me think it's an issue of Gunslinger. [00:41:25] Speaker B: Well, that happens. That happens. But we gotta. What else happens is we gotta pop this. Pop this. This cover open and give credit where credit is due. So for this issue of the Scorched, we have script plot by John Layman with additional script by Todd McFarlane, art by Steven Segovia, colors by Danae Ribeiro. The lettering is by Antworld Design covered the covers. Todd McFarlane is the creative director, and our father is the editor in chief, Mr. Thomas Healy himself, Ben. Previously and the Scorched. A new haunt has appeared and broken loose from the custody of the agency. She is now on the hunt. [00:42:10] Speaker A: It's a haunt on the hunt. [00:42:11] Speaker B: It's a hunt and haunt. It's a Helen haunt. It's a haunt and good hunt. It's a hunt and good hunt. [00:42:18] Speaker A: It's a hell and haunt. [00:42:23] Speaker B: Man. No. That's what I call musty tv. [00:42:27] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm mad about her. [00:42:31] Speaker B: Nice. Speaking about being mad about her, Johnny. We open on springtime in New York City, and everybody knows that when the warm weather comes back around again, the clothing disappears. [00:42:45] Speaker A: Evidently. [00:42:46] Speaker B: Evidently. And here we've got a tall glass of water. Yeah, we've. The. The amount of fabric on this. This. This individual here, Johnny, is probably less than what is in my little jacket that I'm wearing here. So, yes, just some. Some. Some Daisy Dukes and what looks like a scarf. Not even a real top. Just a scarf. [00:43:10] Speaker A: Just a scarf. [00:43:11] Speaker B: Just a scarf. This woman walking down the street captures the eye of everyone she passes. For obvious reasons. She's not normally a person who wants to attract attention, Johnny. But in this case, standing out is the best way to avoid standing out, which I agree with. I have spent a lot of time trying to be gray, monochrome blend into the background. It never works. Fewer people approach me with bullshit that I don't want wearing a fucking bow tie and a Hawaiian shirt than they ever didn't when I was gray and trying to blend into the background. Okay, so stand out, be yourself. And people won't approach you with bullshit as much. [00:44:01] Speaker A: You gotta stand out above the crowd. Even if I write a shit out. [00:44:07] Speaker B: Loud, tonight is the only place you'll see. [00:44:11] Speaker A: I was in Barnes and Noble with my brother on Christmas and yeah, I saw a goofy movie board game there. [00:44:22] Speaker B: Nice. [00:44:23] Speaker A: How does that even work? I guess you got to go through the trip and get the Power Line concert. [00:44:26] Speaker B: I mean, everybody's got to get to that Power Line concert. [00:44:28] Speaker A: Yeah, we haven't had an episode just you and me since Christmas though, man. [00:44:33] Speaker B: Fucking. We should play. We should have bought that goofy, goofy movie board game and we could have played it. It could have been a super special. We could just sing all the Power Line songs. The two Power Line songs. [00:44:46] Speaker A: No, I felt like I was in the 90s, David, because one in one day I went and got Tex Mex, went to a Barnes and Noble and went to saw a movie in a mall. [00:44:54] Speaker B: Damn. [00:44:55] Speaker A: And the mall was busy. [00:44:56] Speaker B: Jesus. Was. Was it a mall in Houston or a mall in Tulsa? [00:45:02] Speaker A: Oh, is it Houston? Yeah, I didn't go to Tulsa. [00:45:04] Speaker B: Dang. Apparently Woodland Hills Mall has like a new like kind of like a cabela's, but not a cabela's in it. And apparently since that store has opened, that Wooden Hills has just been hella. [00:45:18] Speaker A: Place to be again. Okay. [00:45:21] Speaker B: It was always the place to be because it had fucking that Olive Garden outside of it that everybody went to for prom. [00:45:28] Speaker A: And it was close to. [00:45:30] Speaker B: There was a Toys R Us. Yeah, there was a Toys R Us across the street. And right next to that Toys R Us was that second run movie theater. [00:45:36] Speaker A: Yep. And vintage stock. [00:45:37] Speaker B: And vintage stock. Oh man, so much. [00:45:40] Speaker A: All the stuff you would want. [00:45:41] Speaker B: And just down the street was the Chuck E. Cheese next to the Target, next to the bar that had the big fake shark outside, man. [00:45:49] Speaker A: Oh yeah. Good old days of Tulsa, man. [00:45:53] Speaker B: Isn't nostalgia great, Johnny? [00:45:55] Speaker A: Yeah, but yeah, I saw. I saw two movies over Christmas though. I saw Sonic the Hedgehog 3. [00:46:01] Speaker B: Excellent. [00:46:02] Speaker A: And Nosferatu. [00:46:03] Speaker B: Nosferatu. So Nos. How was Nosferat? Because I'm going to assume you saw Nosferat before you saw Nosferatu. [00:46:10] Speaker A: Yeah. No. [00:46:16] Speaker B: Hey, you knew it was coming. [00:46:19] Speaker A: I didn't see Sonic the Hedgehog two. I only saw one, so three was kind of confusing. [00:46:24] Speaker B: Well, let's see what happens in two. [00:46:27] Speaker A: There's this whole agency they introduced I didn't know jack about. [00:46:30] Speaker B: There was an agency. [00:46:31] Speaker A: All I remember from that might be for the Knuckles show. [00:46:35] Speaker B: I think that might. That might be from the show because. Because two is just Knuckles coming to the world, okay? Like somebody's like, you gotta. You gotta wreck this little blue guy. And so he's like, okay, I'm gonna wreck him. And then, like, Sonic feeds him a chili cheese dog, and Knuckles is like, fuck that. I'm hanging out with Sonic. He's got the cheese dog. [00:46:59] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. Is that really what happens? [00:47:01] Speaker B: Something like that. I don't. There's something. It's not as dumb as them being like, both of our mother's names are Martha. We should be friends. [00:47:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:47:12] Speaker B: But at some point, like, Sonic gets Knuckles addicted to junk food. [00:47:18] Speaker A: I like it. [00:47:19] Speaker B: And I just. [00:47:19] Speaker A: No, I just. Elbow was really funny as Knuckles, actually. [00:47:22] Speaker B: I love how serious he is as Knuckles, saying these ridiculous things. It's great. [00:47:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Good casting. Keanu Reeves is good. [00:47:32] Speaker B: Keanu Reeves was in it. [00:47:33] Speaker A: Oh, he was Sonic 3. [00:47:35] Speaker B: He was Shadow. Right. [00:47:36] Speaker A: He's Shadow the Hedgehog. Yeah. [00:47:38] Speaker B: Very awesome. I should watch it. I should probably watch the. The Knuckles. I should probably not watch children's shows. [00:47:45] Speaker A: Yeah, don't watch the Knuckles show. It's fine. You don't need to watch that. [00:47:48] Speaker B: You know what else? You know what is. [00:47:50] Speaker A: Speaking of which, we gotta wrap this up because I gotta watch the new episode of Skeleton Crew. [00:47:52] Speaker B: I was just about to say Skeleton Crew is amazing. [00:47:56] Speaker A: It's good. [00:47:57] Speaker B: It's good. It's real fun. It's. It's. [00:48:00] Speaker A: The last episode was really good. [00:48:01] Speaker B: It's literally Muppet Treasure Island. [00:48:04] Speaker A: Yeah. No, it is fun. I like Neil. [00:48:08] Speaker B: Neil's fun. [00:48:09] Speaker A: I like Fern Precious. I. Captain. [00:48:12] Speaker B: I accidentally heard. Heard her say her name was Vern the first time instead of Fern. And so I'm always like, hey, Vern. Hey, Vern. [00:48:22] Speaker A: No, it's Fern. [00:48:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Fern Gully. [00:48:26] Speaker A: Yeah. That episode where they're on the spa planet was really fun. [00:48:30] Speaker B: And they find, like, the secret horde. [00:48:32] Speaker A: Yes. And the vat sucks. The Jews lost such a bastard, though. [00:48:37] Speaker B: Yeah, well, that's. That's. That's why I have the comparison to Muppet Treasure Island. It's like he's the Tim Curry one. And it's like, you know, he's the bad guy. It's not going to surprise you when he stabs you in the back, but you can't help but love him. [00:48:51] Speaker A: Right, Jod? Yeah, he's pretty fun. [00:48:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:55] Speaker A: Or the man of many names. Silva. Jod. [00:48:58] Speaker B: All of them. [00:48:58] Speaker A: Dash. Something. [00:48:59] Speaker B: Yeah. I just don't even pay attention because there's too many of them. I do like that shit. What's his name? The fucking robot has a. Like a rat living in his head. [00:49:10] Speaker A: SM33 Smee. Get it? [00:49:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, you didn't. [00:49:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:15] Speaker B: You didn't get that I didn't get that. Wait, wait. Smee is me. What about Smee? What about Smee? Wait, I'm Smee. What about me? Shit. [00:49:24] Speaker A: Is that from Hook or Peter Pan? [00:49:26] Speaker B: Hook. [00:49:27] Speaker A: Okay. [00:49:27] Speaker B: Man, I'm fucking stupid. How did I not catch that was me? [00:49:31] Speaker A: Yeah. SM33, man. [00:49:34] Speaker B: Man, I should watch Hook again. Every time I watch it is it. It's. It's so long. I don't ever remember it being so long. And I'm always like, that's all the ruio there is. Rufio so large in my head for that movie. And he's. [00:49:51] Speaker A: I know, cuz. He was so cool when you were a kid. [00:49:52] Speaker B: He's in there for like four minutes, tops. [00:49:55] Speaker A: Yeah, but he was just so cool. [00:49:57] Speaker B: He shows up, makes fun of an old man for not being able to fly, fight, or crow and then get stabbed. [00:50:03] Speaker A: But he. But he's badass. [00:50:05] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got that. He's got that fucking skateboard with the. The wind sail on it. [00:50:09] Speaker A: Yeah, I had the McDonald's toy, that shit. [00:50:14] Speaker B: Yeah, I think we should rewatch that movie, Johnny. Hello. [00:50:17] Speaker A: I mean, it's a Spielberg. It's probably good. I just know it's like one of his least favorite of his own movies because. [00:50:23] Speaker B: Because of Bad Dad? [00:50:25] Speaker A: No, I just think he doesn't think it's very good. [00:50:27] Speaker B: It's. And I can see. I can see faults in it now as a grown adult, but I was. [00:50:37] Speaker A: A kid, Captain Hook scared the shit out. [00:50:38] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, Yeah. I had a. I had a Captain Hook toy that had extendable legs so you could make them short or tall. [00:50:46] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:50:46] Speaker B: It was awesome. But we're not talking about pirates anymore, Johnny. We're talking about Mark Rosen being approached in the park by a very scantily clad lady and his jaw literally falling to the floor. He's dressed a little bit like Leisure Suit Larry, too. [00:51:06] Speaker A: So he does look like Leisure Suit Larry. [00:51:10] Speaker B: That's why he's so surprised, because Leisure Suit Larry, famously a loser. [00:51:15] Speaker A: All right, just because you mentioned it. We have to read. Hold on. We have to read some of these titles, man. [00:51:24] Speaker B: I'm. I'm surprised. We've talked about that goddamn game so many times on this show, Johnny. You know, I don't ever think about it until we're talking about something. It was like. Oh, yeah, like that horny game for adults they made in the early 90s. [00:51:41] Speaker A: The best one is the 2000. The best title is the 2004 one. Leisure suit Larry, colon, Magna cum laude. [00:51:50] Speaker B: Spelled C U M isn't that how it's still spelled in the Latin, anyway? Magna cum laude. [00:51:57] Speaker A: Yeah, sure. [00:51:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:00] Speaker A: There's also a great 2018 to 2020. There's a. Looks like a little. Oh, is that like duology? Leisure shoes. Leisure Suit Larry. Wet Dreams don't dry. [00:52:16] Speaker B: That sounds like. That sounds like a medical condition. You should get that checked out, Larry. [00:52:20] Speaker A: And then there's a 2020 game called wet Dreams Dry Twice. [00:52:27] Speaker B: How did James Bond not have either of those titles already? [00:52:31] Speaker A: He's. He doesn't need to have wet dreams. He's having sex all the time. [00:52:38] Speaker B: Leisure Suit Larry. [00:52:41] Speaker A: Ah, so weird. I just remember being a kid and walking out of the PC games and always seeing that being. I'm not allowed to look at that one. [00:52:46] Speaker B: Yeah, it was. I mean, there were always advertisements we had because we had the Sierra catalog. [00:52:50] Speaker A: That we got right. [00:52:52] Speaker B: And there were always like screen caps and the screen cap they put in there was like one of him changed to a heart shaped bed in his underwear. And it's like, what is this? [00:53:00] Speaker A: What is this game? I just want to play the Incredible Machine. [00:53:03] Speaker B: Ridiculous. [00:53:05] Speaker A: That's funny. [00:53:05] Speaker B: But. [00:53:06] Speaker A: So he does look like Leechesuit Larry a little bit. [00:53:08] Speaker B: So. So this, this tall drink of water asks if he would mind if they joined them. And he says, sure, make yourself comfortable. And then she sits down and Mark stares at her. And then it's like, Jessica. [00:53:21] Speaker A: Jessica. [00:53:23] Speaker B: She's like, it's a disguise, Rosen, in case either of us were tailed. [00:53:28] Speaker A: Now put your eyes back in your head. [00:53:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:31] Speaker A: Bonk to Mark. [00:53:33] Speaker B: He's sitting there rolling up his tongue to put it back. [00:53:36] Speaker A: Yeah. He's like the mask. [00:53:38] Speaker B: Yeah, he's like the. Yeah. So, Johnny, as we know, Mark Rosen and Jessica Priest hanging out in the park usually never ends up very, very well for them. [00:53:48] Speaker A: Usually you have someone getting sniped. [00:53:50] Speaker B: Yeah. And they don't even get to finish their ice cream. That's probably the biggest tragedy. Yeah, but, but Mark says, you look. You look good. And Jessica Priest is like, come on, Mark. He's like, no, no, no, no. I mean, you look recovered. [00:54:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:54:05] Speaker B: Last time I saw you, hot made you a pin cushion. [00:54:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:54:08] Speaker B: And Jessica Priest says the agency has very talented doctors, but Kilgore is going to give me some scars that I'm always going to remember. And then I like, I like the detail of Mark's hand here. Like he's kind of half cupping it, but he's like, yeah, that was your idea. You told him to do that. [00:54:26] Speaker A: Did it work? [00:54:29] Speaker B: Oh, man. And she's like, yeah, absolutely. 100% like a charm. [00:54:34] Speaker A: And he disabled every explosive device within her. [00:54:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:54:39] Speaker A: Lucky. [00:54:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Good thing. Good thing the seminary school got Kilgore trained to pinpoint. Pinpoint with surgical precision. [00:54:54] Speaker A: He probably uses, like, hot vision. [00:54:55] Speaker B: Probably. Probably. I just like to think that, you know, he went to a very weird seminary school where they taught him how to do surgery in case. Because. Because maybe they would send him on a mission somewhere that the church doubles as the hospital. [00:55:10] Speaker A: I mean, if you went to, like, the Opus DEI sects of Catholic, they, like, probably push pins through shit and probably poke each other with spikes. [00:55:17] Speaker B: I mean, there's some. There's. [00:55:18] Speaker A: Is that what they're called? Opus dei? [00:55:20] Speaker B: I don't know. You want to Google it real quick or you want to just go with it? [00:55:23] Speaker A: I don't want to, like, say something bad about a non. Bad. [00:55:26] Speaker B: Let's see. [00:55:27] Speaker A: I think they're from the Da Vinci Code, but I think they're based on a real thing. [00:55:31] Speaker B: Institution of the Catholic Church is founded in Spain. [00:55:35] Speaker A: Maybe not. Oh, there's controversies about them. [00:55:38] Speaker B: Hey, show me a religion that doesn't have controversy about it, Johnny. [00:55:42] Speaker A: Mort. Mortification of flesh practiced by its celibate members. See? Yeah, well. [00:55:47] Speaker B: Hey, Johnny, that kind of ties into the later part of the issue, doesn't it? Bring it back up, because Mark just needs to feel something. [00:55:54] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that's right. He does. Do a little Opus DEI action. [00:55:57] Speaker B: Yeah, he's like, fuck. It was. Oh, shit. It was Paul Bettany who was the Opus. [00:56:02] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what it was. [00:56:05] Speaker B: Paul Bettany is hilarious, but also very creepy when he wants to be. [00:56:09] Speaker A: Yeah, he's a good actor. [00:56:11] Speaker B: I. I can never. I can never think of the word cocktail without giggling a little bit because of. Because of him. From A Knight's Tale. Whereas, like, I just came from a night of cocktails. The was mine. The tails was. I don't know, nice Chaucer, but. Yeah, so. So Jessica Priest is like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Kilgore did exactly what I asked him to, but I need to warn you. And then Mark is like, holy. Jessica, is that a black eye? Audrey, where'd you get that? China. China. [00:56:42] Speaker A: China. [00:56:44] Speaker B: And so Jessica Priest is like, that's what I need to tell you about. Here's a. Here's a little story about what's coming. I was still on medical leave, but I had already gotten some additional access from my. My show of loyalty to the agency. And so I was. Beep, boop, boop, boop out on the security secure channels. One of the last alarm went off and you remember that female hunt that they put by you guys that you. That they fucking damaged on their way out? Well, guess she broke out. That hairline crack was enough for her to get out of her. Her back to tank. [00:57:17] Speaker A: Yes. [00:57:18] Speaker B: And then she went on a rampage. Killed a whole bunch of dudes. Nothing they threw at her slowed her down in the slightest. They even threw Jessica Priest at it. Didn't slow down. [00:57:29] Speaker A: And she was like, nope. [00:57:30] Speaker B: Yeah, she says, I found myself in a position with two choices. Fight or flight. I chose flight. That's the only reason I'm still here today. [00:57:41] Speaker A: Yep. So ran away. [00:57:44] Speaker B: She did. She pulled the old. The old defense against the French as commanded by King Arthur, Right? [00:57:55] Speaker A: Run away. [00:57:55] Speaker B: Run away. Less. Less catapulted cows, but still running away. [00:58:02] Speaker A: Yeah. So she gets the hell out of there. [00:58:06] Speaker B: But the. This haunt is on the loose. How funky. [00:58:10] Speaker A: It's coming for Kilgore. It's coming for Kilgore. [00:58:13] Speaker B: How loose is your hunt? Our hunt is totally loose. And then Jessica's like, okay, I gotta. I should probably get back to work before they realize I'm gone. But tell the team to watch their backs. Win's still looking for payback. And Mark is just like, ah, he's got like a thousand yard stare there. He's so lost. Poor Mark. [00:58:36] Speaker A: Yeah, he looks. [00:58:37] Speaker B: He looks great with that scraggly hair and the little goatee. [00:58:41] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, but he looks like Miami Vice. [00:58:44] Speaker B: Yeah. He says he's trying to get his shit together, but the longer Medieval is out of his head, the worse he's getting. And you know, he's. He's slowly going crazy. He was like, I wanted Medieval out, but every second that he's gone, I go crazier and crazier. [00:58:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:59:00] Speaker B: And then so Jessica Priest is walking away. She starts walking down some empty alleys, and there's a shadowy figure following behind her. Joanie. And as we know, Jessica Priest is very good at dispatching shadowy figures. [00:59:17] Speaker A: So she like braces herself and gets ready to smack him. [00:59:20] Speaker B: But even without her powers, she can be lethal. But not the most lethal, Johnny. And her. Her fists get stopped with a blunt from a very wicked looking hand there, Johnny. And we know that hand, don't we? [00:59:33] Speaker A: We know that hand. That's Mr. Al Simmons hand. [00:59:35] Speaker B: Yes. Someone else holds that particular title of the most lethal. And obviously the first thing. The first thing Al says to her isn't just, hey, Jessica, how's it going? It's should work on your Reaction time a little slow. [00:59:52] Speaker A: And we get Steven Segovia's version of New Spawn here. [00:59:54] Speaker B: Yeah, it's pretty great. That's the cape. The cape shawl is awesome. The, the same size feet. Excellent. I like the. The spikes along his calf are great. [01:00:07] Speaker A: He's got a sword. [01:00:09] Speaker B: Yeah, he's just, he's just carrying a. Carrying a two handed rifle just down the streets of New York City all casual. Which. Which if you look on the other page, you can literally see him walking with it in his. [01:00:22] Speaker A: Yep, he just got it. [01:00:24] Speaker B: Just, just nonchalant, I guess. I guess when you look like Al Simmons, everybody leaves you alone. So you can just kind of open carry. [01:00:32] Speaker A: You can open carry. Yeah. [01:00:35] Speaker B: So Jessica Priest is like, I'm a big girl. I'll be able to take care of myself. You're you. And nobody else I will ever have to fight will be you. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna be safe. I promise. I'll be fine. [01:00:45] Speaker A: She taunts a little bit. So I heard you've been having vampire problems. [01:00:49] Speaker B: And she starts taking off her wig and. Well, I guess she just takes off her wig. She doesn't have any extra clothes anywhere. And. And Al's like. I mean I have been trouble, having trouble with vampires, but it's not like they've been sticking bombs inside of me. [01:01:05] Speaker A: She's like, damn, dude. There's like nagging each other. [01:01:07] Speaker B: Yeah. Who's like, how's that work going for you? And she's like, it's being handled. And Spawn's like, I know you, Jessica. You're playing angles. Why are you playing the angles? And she's like, I'm getting. [01:01:17] Speaker A: She wants out. [01:01:18] Speaker B: He's like this again, this old saw. He's like, cry me a river, please. And I mean, it's just the same, the same issue. Jessica's head. She's tired of just being kind of him being the boss, but not being a very good boss. And she's just sick of it. [01:01:33] Speaker A: Yep. She wants out. [01:01:35] Speaker B: She's gonna help Mark Rosen get Medieval back because she made a promise. And then she's gone. She's Audi 5000 Johnny Dunzo. Uh huh. The enemy doesn't give a shit what you want. You're their enemy. Nothing you do is ever going to change that. I'm going to assume that's a little bit of Todd McFarlane additional script. [01:01:53] Speaker A: Yes, I can, I can see that. [01:01:56] Speaker B: And Jessica Priest is like, I'm going to kill Jason Wynn. I want my life back. And then, then, then some out from out the shadows. Some thugs. [01:02:07] Speaker A: I love it. There's just random thugs that come after them. [01:02:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:09] Speaker A: They're like, oh, what's going on? Some kinky shit. [01:02:11] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's a. It's a New York City alleyway, Johnny. The random thugs are always there. Yeah, some kinky shit. They approach from both sides, Johnny. A pincher maneuver, if you will. [01:02:22] Speaker A: Yes, they do. [01:02:23] Speaker B: Pincer maneuver. Sorry, not a pincher maneuver. [01:02:25] Speaker A: Pincher maneuver. The lobster. [01:02:30] Speaker B: And this guy, this guy in the front with his little knife, he's like, don't worry, we'll take your wallet, dude. Maybe the girl, too. [01:02:37] Speaker A: I will take your wallet. Like, look at that guy. You think that guy has a wallet? He's like a giant hell beast with, like, a gun. He didn't need a wallet. [01:02:46] Speaker B: I mean, he's approaching a giant hell beast with a gun with just a knife to ask for the wallet. So he's obviously not in his right head. The guy behind him. The guy behind him, his expression is ridiculous. He's like, yeah. Spot and Jessica don't say a word. But with a single glance, they know exactly what each of them needs to do. And what aggravates them most, Johnny, is that they even have to waste nine seconds taking these shitholes out. [01:03:16] Speaker A: That's nine seconds. That's the Todd Father. [01:03:20] Speaker B: And so we get a quick little beat em up of, you know, Jessica Priest doing her split kicks that she always does. And Al basically shoving his. If this were a 3D book, that. [01:03:32] Speaker A: Yep. [01:03:32] Speaker B: That. That boot would be coming right at our face. [01:03:35] Speaker A: Yep. [01:03:36] Speaker B: And he sends the little. The little guys. The guy's little knife flying. And then Jesus, like, pulverizes the fuck out of this guy's mouth. [01:03:44] Speaker A: Yep. [01:03:45] Speaker B: Jessica Priest is like, let's get out of here. And then Al Simmons gives, like, the most, like, backhanded motivation ever. And he's like, you know, I don't know if you're actually gonna pull it off, but if you do kill Jason Nguyen, tell him I say hi. [01:04:03] Speaker A: She's like, I'll do just that. [01:04:06] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Al Simmons is a fucking jerk, Johnny. [01:04:09] Speaker A: Yeah. If you do manage to pull it off. [01:04:17] Speaker B: Come on, man. But then we get the epilogue, and we get the one. The one instance of medieval in this. It's Mark said he always used to catch glimpses of John of York in his reflection, but now he sees nothing. He feels something. He's desperate, though, to feel something, anything. Once again, Johnny. And so he starts smashing his head into the mirror. Oh, boy. [01:04:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:04:48] Speaker B: And then, like the rest of the scorched come in there. Obviously they weren't just having sitting around beer times. Because they're all. They're all suited up. And Haunt and Overkill are like, huh? Oh, no, we don't see medieval's face. I'm assuming Redeemer. Redeemer. Yeah. Sorry, what did I say? [01:05:07] Speaker A: Medieval. [01:05:08] Speaker B: Medieval. Jesus. Wow, man. We don't see Redeemer's face, but I am assuming he has some sort of shocked expression on it. [01:05:17] Speaker A: Yeah, no, he's blind. He's like, what's going on? [01:05:20] Speaker B: Well, but he could. He could see. [01:05:21] Speaker A: I know. [01:05:22] Speaker B: I don't know how he sees, but he sees. [01:05:24] Speaker A: He sees. [01:05:25] Speaker B: Maybe he sees through the eyes of others. [01:05:29] Speaker A: Yes. [01:05:30] Speaker B: Isn't there an X Men that, like, has no eyes, but can connect their brain to the eyes of other people? [01:05:35] Speaker A: You know more than me. [01:05:38] Speaker B: It's hard to know much of anything about X Men, honestly. Yeah, there might be. Either that or I'm making up. But if there's not, somebody please write me an X Men story where somebody can see through somebody else's eyes. [01:05:50] Speaker A: This sounds like a good idea. And then we end the issue with the scorch skull. Yeah. With Mark passed out after banging his head against the mirror. [01:05:58] Speaker B: Yeah. And Haunt all. [01:06:02] Speaker A: No, I love. [01:06:03] Speaker B: I love the concerned expression on the Haunt face. [01:06:06] Speaker A: He's Catholic. He knows what's up. He's like, opus Day. [01:06:12] Speaker B: He's like, that's a cardinal sin. It's a cardinal sin, Mr. Rosenberg. And then. Yeah, we get another spawning ground Presents fan art Again, Johnny. It's a double fan art episode. [01:06:21] Speaker A: Yes, it is. [01:06:22] Speaker B: We start off with some awesome Cosplay by OT3. And it's the classic she spawn with the. The all black suit and the Malbolgia M. And a big fucking blade. [01:06:37] Speaker A: Giant blade. [01:06:38] Speaker B: Look at that. Look at that thing. That blade is as big as she is. Damn. Then there's a. Another. Another. Another tattoo. A she spawn tattoo. That's. What error would this be? Because this was. Is this still a Nyx or is this the Jessica Priest? [01:06:58] Speaker A: I think it's Nyx. Pretty sure it's Nyx. [01:07:02] Speaker B: I think it's a Nyx. Yeah. But it's pretty awesome. So it's the. The red suit, Nyx with the. The little Ariana Grande ponytail coming out of the top of the suit and. [01:07:10] Speaker A: Like a steampunk, like. Like eyeglass thing. [01:07:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Much like Fixer in Main Title was wearing. [01:07:18] Speaker A: Yes. [01:07:19] Speaker B: Not to be confused with Raul the Fixer from gunslinger number 36. Different fixer, different fixer. Then we got some fan art by Mr. Dan, which is Jessica Caprice sitting there giving the. Yes, we can fist. [01:07:34] Speaker A: Yes. And then we got my favorite fan art by Crusetta. Yeah, it's just a really fun Jessica. It's like a. I don't know. It's got a lot of personality in the. In the picture. [01:07:46] Speaker B: Yeah, it's great. It's good hair, too. Oh, again, you've already. You've already said yes, but do you need more Sponsor university. [01:07:57] Speaker A: You know it. [01:07:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, look, look, look. Look at this. Gunslinger 37. We haven't read that one yet. Coming out in November 2024. [01:08:06] Speaker A: It'll be coming up then we got the Image Classics ad. [01:08:10] Speaker B: Yes, yes, indeed. [01:08:11] Speaker A: And this one is Music Maniacs. [01:08:14] Speaker B: This is the second time we've done Music Maniacs, right? [01:08:17] Speaker A: Yes, we've done it before. [01:08:19] Speaker B: I think I remember talking about Eddie. [01:08:21] Speaker A: Yep. [01:08:22] Speaker B: Yep. There they are, Mr. Crowley. Nice. Excellent. Very good. That's scorched number 34, Johnny. [01:08:34] Speaker A: Indeed. [01:08:35] Speaker B: So now that we've. Now that we've gotten through these two, I don't know if you've been hearing her snort this whole time, but we got this little. Got this little puppy here. She's in a bag in my jacket. Because she. [01:08:45] Speaker A: Yes. [01:08:45] Speaker B: Likes to be. She likes to be swaddled. So I think we need to rate these puppies. [01:08:50] Speaker A: Joanie, it's time to rate the puppies. So first up Today, we had Gunslinger 36. Kind of giving a little bit of. I don't know, it's actually a good jumping on point. It gives you, like a catch up on Javi's history a little bit. Going into some new story territory with Javi's body's father. [01:09:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:09:18] Speaker A: Carla Barberi, always solid, always very good art. [01:09:24] Speaker B: Just. Yeah, they're killing it on the art across all of the titles right now. [01:09:30] Speaker A: But, yeah, it's a good gunslinger story. I like that. It's kind of trying to tie together some of his past and acknowledging things that we were wondering about. So I'm going to give it three and a half bags of chips. [01:09:46] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. Doesn't understand bags of chips that you're confused by. [01:09:52] Speaker A: Yes. [01:09:53] Speaker B: I love. I love this. Like, he's got one. One eye squinted and one eye really large, and he's like, the fuck is this? [01:10:00] Speaker A: What are these chips? [01:10:03] Speaker B: Oh, he needs Taylor to talk about some sort of app game about it. Yeah, I agree. It's a great little. A great little place to. To start. I think it is. I. I think it would be a fine jumping on point yeah. Provided you, you know, you're not gonna know everything. But there's a good amount of stuff here. There's this some amount of forward motion that you can presume from what's happening here. It's not like what's gonna happen next. It's. You can be like, ah, okay. So I can kind of see where things are going, but it's not fully revealing its hand. So it's got a good little bit of momentum. The. The sort of to be continued final splash page, I think works really well because, you know, fucking monolith out of nowhere, and it's like, oh, holy shit. Monolith. [01:10:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:10:52] Speaker B: Real good. Art is great. It's good. I'm gonna give it 3.75. Oh, Wyatt candles. Because I fucking love this design of candle. [01:11:05] Speaker A: Okay. [01:11:05] Speaker B: It's one of my favorite thing about comic books is seeing creepy old candles. [01:11:10] Speaker A: I didn't know that. You probably like Nosferatu. I'm pretty sure there's some creepy candles in that. [01:11:14] Speaker B: I'm sure I would absolutely love Nosferatu. [01:11:17] Speaker A: You like the witch? [01:11:18] Speaker B: Yes. [01:11:20] Speaker A: Yeah, like the witch. You'll like it. [01:11:23] Speaker B: Do they bring back? Do they bring back? [01:11:28] Speaker A: Yeah. Black Phillips or the goat? [01:11:29] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, that's. [01:11:30] Speaker A: That's the twist is it's a goat. [01:11:32] Speaker B: That's the. That's the vampire, man. [01:11:37] Speaker A: Ditchtalk would sold with that goat. [01:11:42] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Yeah. 3.75 candles. Like a candle in the wind. [01:11:50] Speaker A: Then next up, we had scorch 34. Really fun issue. I like this issue. It's cool. It's just a funny twist to see Jessica all dolled up and half naked. Bonk. [01:12:07] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, but it's. It's unavoidable. We should probably put a couple, two, three in here just to. [01:12:12] Speaker A: Yep. Just bonk away. But yeah, I don't know. I liked it. I like to get into Mark's struggle with medieval. It's a fun little spawn cameo. Getting to see Steven Segovia draw spawns. Always a treat. Yeah, I liked it a lot. I'm going to give it four. I'm gonna get four badass sunglasses because Jessica's got some. We didn't mention it, but Jessica's got some pretty cool sunglasses on this issue. [01:12:38] Speaker B: They're. They're big and chunky to hide the black eye that she has. Yeah, yeah, they're real good. I. I agree. I mean, I know I say it a lot, but I think we sleep on the Steven Segovia art a lot because. Yeah, he's not very flashy, but it is Amazing. Like, I still. I still think about that. That one panel of them ripping open the bodies. What was that? Was that Redeemer's body? [01:13:06] Speaker A: Yes, in that one issue. [01:13:07] Speaker B: Yeah. And just being like, holy shit. Steven Segovia does a great job. An amazing job. It's a. It's a good little. I like that. It's. It's. There's so much juggling going on. Like, we've got Jessica Priest trying to do her agency stuff, and then we've got this out of nowhere female haunt that's gonna just everything up and we've got Mark and you know, Al Simmons has to show up every once in a while and it's. I just love it. I'm gonna give it 4.3 fucking leisure suits. [01:13:45] Speaker A: Leisure suit Larry, baby. Magna cum laude. Wet dreams or Wet dreams don't dry? What? Is that even a joke on what dreams may come? [01:13:59] Speaker B: Well, maybe like the dead don't die. What dreams don't dry. [01:14:03] Speaker A: What dreams may. What dreams may come? [01:14:05] Speaker B: What. What dreams? [01:14:06] Speaker A: They should have called it Wet Dreams Bring Calm. [01:14:09] Speaker B: Johnny, I think you just got yourself a job writing the next Leisures. Larry. [01:14:13] Speaker A: Title call up Sierra Interactive. [01:14:16] Speaker B: Man, what Dreams May Come is a pretty good movie up. [01:14:20] Speaker A: We're pretty good. I don't remember much about it. [01:14:24] Speaker B: I mean, Robin Williams dies in a car accident and then his wife commits. [01:14:28] Speaker A: I mean, I remember the premise. I just remember if it was good or not. [01:14:32] Speaker B: It's decent. It's decent. It could be stronger, but it's. It's decent. [01:14:39] Speaker A: Okay. I just remember being dazzled by the visual effects. [01:14:41] Speaker B: Yeah, that's, that's. It's. It's got more put into the visual effects than it does the actual story. But since most of them are practically done it. I. I think I watched it like eight years ago or so and it held up pretty well. [01:14:56] Speaker A: I mean, shockingly, I bet, because I'm doing a Spawn. Spawn podcast and like the Spawn movie. As a kid, I was kind of titillated by anything that depicted hell. Yeah, it was like, freaked me out, but I was like, whoa. Yeah, like, I don't know. [01:15:08] Speaker B: Yeah, me too. What? Like fucking end of days, man. I was so into days. It's terrible movie. [01:15:14] Speaker A: The Gate. [01:15:15] Speaker B: The Gate. The. The ninth. The ninth Gate. Have you read. Have you seen the Ninth Gate? [01:15:20] Speaker A: Yes. [01:15:21] Speaker B: Just chock full of problematic people. But, man, I ate it. [01:15:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:15:25] Speaker B: Ate it up. Jesus. [01:15:28] Speaker A: Omen. [01:15:28] Speaker B: I love. [01:15:28] Speaker A: I mean, you don't see hell in the Omen, but I like the Omen. [01:15:31] Speaker B: Yeah. I always liked when in Mad Magazine with the little Sergio Argones margin arts. I always liked when those little guys were in hell. Like they had little demons with pitchforks. That was always fun. [01:15:45] Speaker A: Oh, the. Oh, the. Like the tracks, like. You talking about the chick tracks? [01:15:51] Speaker B: What are you talking about? In MAD magazine, they don't have like little bitty comics in the margins. And sometimes those would take place in hell. [01:15:59] Speaker A: I like the devils in the chick tracks. They're always like, yeah, you deserve it. [01:16:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. Fucking chick tracts. [01:16:09] Speaker A: It's always used to kind of freak me out because they're kind of gross. [01:16:12] Speaker B: Yeah, they're. They're not subtle either. [01:16:15] Speaker A: No, that's. [01:16:17] Speaker B: That's part of the. They gotta. They gotta be super gross. But because of the. I actually. Did I ever tell you that once I saw a lady on the train open her purse, pull out a chick track, start reading it, finish it, put it back in her purse, pull out another chick. Trust. [01:16:35] Speaker A: They sell them at Quimby's. [01:16:37] Speaker B: Just had like a. A bag. Well, like, she was obviously reading them. Not as. Like she was reading them in earnest. Not as. [01:16:45] Speaker A: Not as like, ironic. [01:16:46] Speaker B: Yeah. And she got them. She got them the. The natural way where you find them on the train and stick them in. She was just like reading little bitty Bible pamphlets that she found on the train. And I was like, why do you keep them? [01:16:58] Speaker A: Don't keep them wild. [01:17:01] Speaker B: Well, that's. That's those puppies rated, Johnny. [01:17:04] Speaker A: Indeed it is. [01:17:05] Speaker B: It was very good. Ratings all around. [01:17:09] Speaker A: Yes. [01:17:10] Speaker B: So. [01:17:11] Speaker A: And go ahead. [01:17:13] Speaker B: I don't. I don't. I don't know how I was gonna do the transition. [01:17:21] Speaker A: Well, we always, like. These issues are chock full of fan art on the spawning grounds. And we always like to highlight someone each week. So we decided we'd pick one of the artists out of the spawning Grounds. [01:17:34] Speaker B: An embarrassment of riches this week. [01:17:37] Speaker A: So many people to pick from. But I picked our favorite, or my favorite at least from the skirts 34. And it is Crusetta. [01:17:50] Speaker B: And that is at CRU U Z E T T A. So an actual real W, but not a W, but a W. Right? [01:18:00] Speaker A: Yeah. And he draws like, kind of like pinup style characters. They're really good. [01:18:06] Speaker B: Yeah, they are. There's. It runs the gamut too. There's Disney characters, there's X Men characters, there's the. The clown twins from Batman Beyond. What are their names? D and D. Dee Dee Dee Dee and dodo. D&do no. [01:18:23] Speaker A: 2B from Nier. Autonomous. [01:18:24] Speaker B: I think they're both named D. And together they're dd. I think that's what it is. [01:18:29] Speaker A: Okay. [01:18:30] Speaker B: There's. There's a Twi'lek. There's a Twi'lek literally painted on the front of a spaceship. Johnny. [01:18:37] Speaker A: Yeah, another space ghost. Last Ronin. [01:18:44] Speaker B: Yeah, Last Ronin is real good. There's a creepy witch doing a double, double, double, double, double, double. [01:18:53] Speaker A: Yeah. So make sure to give them a follow and check out their art. [01:18:55] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. Then while you're. Well, you know, while you're. While you're on the Instagrams, you should. You should follow us too. Give us a. Give us a little. A little follow, a little. A little heart emoji every once in a while. We're at. Regarding Spawn Pod. We like to post bits about Spawn, mostly bits about Spawn podcast, but still bits about Spawn. It's a great place to get a hold of us too. [01:19:19] Speaker A: Absolutely. And if you want to send us an email, you email us at. Regarding spawnpodmail.com. [01:19:26] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:19:28] Speaker A: Each week I like to ask a question so you have something to answer if you want to. And this week I would ask, what's your favorite chick tract? Mine, I think. I mean, Darkest Dungeon's really good. That's the D and D one. But I don't know. I don't remember specific ones. I don't remember specific images. [01:19:49] Speaker B: I don't remember specific ones either. My. [01:19:52] Speaker A: The one where the guy gets AIDS and, like, has, like, wars. It's like, I have aids. I don't remember how he gets it. [01:19:58] Speaker B: My. My favorite part is how miraculously easy it is for everybody to avoid the fate of individuals earlier in the chick track. By the end of them by, like, you just have to have somebody throw a book at your face and you're cured. [01:20:13] Speaker A: That's all you need. [01:20:14] Speaker B: It's all you need, apparently. [01:20:17] Speaker A: But yeah, hit us up on email. [01:20:19] Speaker B: Absolutely. [01:20:20] Speaker A: Please, like, review and subscribe everywhere you can. [01:20:23] Speaker B: Yes, absolutely. And while you're liking reviewing and subscribing everywhere, you can do the same for Lonnie Bones. That's Lonnie with a Y, not an Ie, because he's not Canadian. [01:20:34] Speaker A: Yep. [01:20:34] Speaker B: Yeah, he does our music and he does great music elsewhere. So, yeah, just Google Lonnie Bones music. It's. It's real good. Well, you know what? [01:20:44] Speaker A: Absolutely. [01:20:44] Speaker B: You know what else is some good, Johnny? [01:20:47] Speaker A: What? [01:20:47] Speaker B: Spawn is some good. [01:20:49] Speaker A: Some more Spawn. [01:20:50] Speaker B: You know what else is. You know what else is some good besides Spawn? [01:20:53] Speaker A: The Spin offs. [01:20:55] Speaker B: Well, that and also talking about them. [01:20:57] Speaker A: Okay. [01:20:58] Speaker B: Yeah. So you wanna. You wanna do some good next week with some Good. [01:21:02] Speaker A: I do. [01:21:03] Speaker B: All right, well, we're gonna read Good Number seven and Good Number seven, and then we're gonna talk about it on this. This the show. Good with Johnny and David. [01:21:11] Speaker A: Good with Johnny and David. [01:21:13] Speaker B: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Our next. Our next couple of books that we're going to be reading are. It's going to be one of our favorite weeks, Johnny. [01:21:21] Speaker A: We know it. [01:21:22] Speaker B: This is. You probably already know by the fact that I said two sevens in a row, but it's going to Twitch Number seven and Rat City Number seven. [01:21:30] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Two of our favorites right now. Oh, yeah, can't wait. [01:21:34] Speaker B: It's. It's gonna be a good time. So, you know, if you haven't already picked up copies or read them yet, go find some copies and pick them up and read them. It's. It's been long enough. They're probably single issues up on hoopla. Contact your local library and be like, I would like to Hoopla, please. Let's read some ratsy number seven. Red Sammy. Twitch number seven. Come back and listen to us. [01:21:54] Speaker A: Seven. Seven's all around, baby. [01:21:56] Speaker B: 777. I wish it were an issue that ended or an episode that ended in a. A seven, but it's going to be like 120 or something like that. Not even divisible by seven. Jesus. We up, Johnny, we should just. We should just quit the podcast. We can't even do proper numerology. [01:22:16] Speaker A: Hey, when it works out, it works out. [01:22:18] Speaker B: Jim Carrey from that one movie, very disappointed in us because we don't fit his number 23. We don't fit his thing. Numerology is crazy. [01:22:28] Speaker A: Just like Opus dei. [01:22:29] Speaker B: Yeah, just like us for reading all this. Spawn, possibly. [01:22:36] Speaker A: I agree. [01:22:36] Speaker B: We'll see at the end of it. We should have taken cognitive tests before we started the podcast. So that way. That way we could. We could definitively prove whether Spawn makes you crazy or not. Yeah, well. So, Johnny, we've got all that. We've got all these people that we love. Fill in with our. Our thoughts of Spawn and tell them they should read more Spawn. And I think beyond that, I've run out of things to say. So I should wish you the first of 20, 25. May the Scorch be with you. [01:23:14] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:23:15] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:23:17] Speaker A: Hell yeah. [01:23:20] Speaker B: So, yeah. No, no, Sriratu was good. Sonic. [01:23:24] Speaker A: No, we gotta end on. [01:23:26] Speaker B: So what else? [01:23:27] Speaker A: We gotta find something the public domain we can play right now. [01:23:32] Speaker B: What else went in? Didn't Popeye just go into Popeye Just Yeah. [01:23:37] Speaker A: Play the Popeye song to take us out. [01:23:39] Speaker B: Yeah. S.A. [01:24:46] Speaker A: All right, here we go. He's been thrown into a strange world. I'd burp it for that. [01:24:51] Speaker B: Hold on.