Episode 124 - King Spawn 39 and Scorched 35

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Today is a blessed day for us all. Praise be to the Lord and to Satan. Good evening and welcome to the Malbols. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I'm your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:48] Speaker B: And I am your co host, David Williams. And Johnny, I'm. I'm a little pissed off right now. [00:00:54] Speaker A: Oh yeah? [00:00:55] Speaker B: Why? Can't guess what I'm pissed off about? [00:00:57] Speaker A: So I'm just the Oscar nominations as a guess. [00:01:01] Speaker B: I. I wish, I wish I had paid enough attention to have a good fire back for that. No, it's that fucking New Orleans has gotten more snow this year than we have. [00:01:12] Speaker A: It's true. [00:01:12] Speaker B: Give our snow back, you bitches. Or at least, at least, at least give us more king cakes. I'll take. [00:01:18] Speaker A: Or trade us for some gumbo. [00:01:20] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. Oh hell yeah. [00:01:22] Speaker A: Maybe some anduli sausage. [00:01:24] Speaker B: That shit is so good. [00:01:26] Speaker A: It is cornbread. [00:01:28] Speaker B: There's a. Oh yeah, there's a Cajun chef I follow on Instagram and his thing is he's like, you gotta have that motherfucking cornbread. [00:01:35] Speaker A: Oh, nice cornbread. [00:01:38] Speaker B: And it looks spectacular. He. He basically just cooks on a propane stove in a half shack on the bayou. And it looks so good. [00:01:50] Speaker A: This one's awesome. I never had a crawdad. [00:01:54] Speaker B: I've had like peeled crawdads. So that way they're basically just expensive shrimp. Yeah, but I. I mean, you know, my sister and I always used to play with them in the mud puddles. [00:02:04] Speaker A: Oh yeah. [00:02:05] Speaker B: After the rain. [00:02:06] Speaker A: They had them at that really bad Chinese buffet in still water. New China. They had them. But I would not trust you to crawdad. [00:02:14] Speaker B: I had a. I had an oyster Rockefeller from there once. [00:02:18] Speaker A: Oh my God. Why? [00:02:21] Speaker B: Because I was 20 years old and thought I was invincible. [00:02:25] Speaker A: Did you? Okay. [00:02:26] Speaker B: Yeah, I. I didn't get sick, surprisingly. It just didn't taste very good. [00:02:31] Speaker A: That place was awful. [00:02:33] Speaker B: Yeah, but it was cheap as it was. [00:02:35] Speaker A: She was like six bucks. All you could eat. [00:02:36] Speaker B: Yeah, I couldn't. I mean, all you can eat buffets are expensive now. Shit. [00:02:41] Speaker A: What was the one. The good place. Hunan's. They had the lunch special. [00:02:44] Speaker B: The one Way out by the Dragon Slayer. Yeah, I think it was. [00:02:47] Speaker A: Hunan was great, man. [00:02:49] Speaker B: Oh, the dragon lair, for those unfamiliar with still water was the 1 strip club in Stillwater, Oklahoma. [00:02:56] Speaker A: First strip club I ever went to. [00:02:57] Speaker B: I never went to it. But a lot of that. A lot of that glitter made its way home on Wanda, so. Because. [00:03:03] Speaker A: Oh yeah, I've been. I've been twice. I went to The. [00:03:06] Speaker B: Because I don't know about. I don't know if the people out there know, but theater people, especially theater techs, fucking love a strip club. They went with surprising frequency. [00:03:16] Speaker A: Yeah, they're great. Only you spend a shitload of money. [00:03:21] Speaker B: Man. That's. That's, like antithetical to my being where I'm like, you know what? I would like to sit at home and not spend any money. [00:03:29] Speaker A: Exactly. Instead of sitting at a strip club and spending all your money. [00:03:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Because it's. You got it. You got to justify your being there. It's like sitting at the bar. If you're at the bar for more than 15 minutes, you got to buy another drink. [00:03:41] Speaker A: Onora features a exotic dancer as the main character. And it's a really good movie. [00:03:46] Speaker B: Nice. [00:03:47] Speaker A: Just nominated for an Academy Award. [00:03:49] Speaker B: Nice. Is it streaming yet? [00:03:51] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know if it's like. I don't think it's, like, on Somewhere for Free yet. I think it's still, like, you have to pay for it. [00:03:57] Speaker B: I know that's one that we were. Friend of the pod. John Michael said that we should watch. [00:04:03] Speaker A: Yeah, it's really great. It's a lot funnier than I expected. It's the same director as Tangerine and the Florida Project. [00:04:09] Speaker B: Okay. [00:04:10] Speaker A: Which are both really good. [00:04:11] Speaker B: I know of those, but I haven't seen either of them. [00:04:13] Speaker A: It was excellent, but the best. The best Oscar nomination was A Better Man. The Robbie Williams monkey biopic was nominated for best Visual Effects. [00:04:25] Speaker B: Best non. Andy Serkis, Chimp makeup. [00:04:28] Speaker A: No, Best visual effects. Straight up, baby. [00:04:30] Speaker B: I mean, singing in the classes. Music for your masses. Give no head, no backstage passes. Have a proper giggle I'll be quite polite but when I rock the mic, I rock the M. [00:04:42] Speaker A: If you're listening. Haven't heard of this monstrosity. There's a movie that just came out called Better man, and it's about the famous British singer. [00:04:52] Speaker B: Apparently. Apparently he is the in. In Britain. [00:04:55] Speaker A: So he's the in Britain. Robbie Williams. Not Robin Williams, Robbie Williams. I think he had a famous Christmas song that kind of broke through here. [00:05:03] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:05:05] Speaker A: But it's a biopic about him, but he's. He is represented on screen by a CG ape that looks like Caesar from Planet of the Apes. And I sent David a clip of it, and it stuck in my head. [00:05:17] Speaker B: Yeah. And I, I, I was confused more than anything. [00:05:22] Speaker A: It's confusing. It's some good dancing. [00:05:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:25] Speaker A: I mean, I mean, choreography's good. [00:05:27] Speaker B: I would say the, The Amount of work that went into it is admirable. But I don't know if I would go so far as to say best. [00:05:36] Speaker A: Visual effect, dropping that Jeff Gold Violator Bloom quote. They thought so much about if they could, they never stopped thinking about if they should. [00:05:44] Speaker B: Yeah, but I mean. [00:05:45] Speaker A: And why should you? What if every biopic was just a CG animal? [00:05:49] Speaker B: I don't know. Well, we can, at least we can hope that they didn't use one of those chronically underpaid CGI camps that, that Marvel uses and dumps. [00:06:00] Speaker A: So hopefully they just use AI. Good old fashioned AI ain't got to. [00:06:05] Speaker B: Pay no artists that way. [00:06:07] Speaker A: Exactly, Johnny. [00:06:07] Speaker B: We probably have enough banks. We've talked about it before. We should probably just coast on a. [00:06:12] Speaker A: Yeah, we just give them all our episodes to AI and be like, make episodes about. Just plug in the issue numbers. [00:06:18] Speaker B: We'd still. We'd have to do severe QC to make sure it's not making us say stuff that will have people come at us. [00:06:26] Speaker A: I mean it's the Internet, David. Just like YouTube. How like you'll watch one Star wars video and the next one's like an alt right video. It's like, what? [00:06:33] Speaker B: Oh, speaking of Star Wars, Johnny. So my lanyard that I wear at work that has my badge on it is my Star wars lanyard. And I was at Baskin Robbins picking up some ice cream yesterday and the lady at the register was like, I love your lanyard. I know people who think Star wars movies are boring and I don't understand it. So the good word about Star wars getting out there, Johnny the Baskin Rug. [00:06:56] Speaker A: Good. Yeah. Star wars isn't boring. I was talking to a friend of the Pod Bran last night. We're playing Halo and we were, we were marveling at the glow up in the public perception of the prequels. How like it's like the best Cinderella story is like how much people love the prequels now. [00:07:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:07:13] Speaker A: And especially if you talk to younger kids. Like there's a 28 year old I work with and he's like, yeah, Phantom Menace is fucking classic. He has like no hesitation. [00:07:21] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, that's. There are people in the world who don't know a world pre prequel and Right. Something that already existed before you were born. Like there's, there's a built in kind of. Oh, this is, this is good shit. This has to be good shit or it wouldn't exist. [00:07:37] Speaker A: We didn't have to deal with all the 30 year old like Gen Xers being mad at the prequels. Those Were for me and my generation, baby. [00:07:45] Speaker B: Yeah, they were wizard. [00:07:46] Speaker A: They were wizard. What else is wizard? Or I guess, what else is demon? You kind of a wizard. I mean, not right now. [00:07:54] Speaker B: You can have. You can have a demon wizard. [00:07:56] Speaker A: Not in the current comics. He's not a wizard because he ain't got no powers, at least in this issue. But we're talking about a wizard in a way today. And he's super Wizard Annie. He's Al Simmons. And that's because we are talking Spawn. Because we are respawn, where each week we bring you two issues from Spawn's universe. Except when we don't. This week, we do have two issues. We've got king spawn 39 all the way from October 2024. And scorched 35 from November 2024. [00:08:28] Speaker B: It just occurred to me that the order in which we read these are the order I laid out to try to keep them as far apart between issues as possible. And we've been covering December issues for everything. But now at Kingspawn, we're back in October. Damn. [00:08:43] Speaker A: Hey, man, who knows? Maybe it's the very end of October. I don't know. Hey, we're just covering them. [00:08:47] Speaker B: Yeah, we don't. We don't make the things. We just like them. [00:08:50] Speaker A: We just like it. We're trying to keep up, man. There's like, six. I didn't go for a week at my comic book shop because I just didn't go buy it on the bus. I was taking a different route to work. And I had, like, fucking six issues of Spawn waiting for me. And a nice house on the lake. [00:09:05] Speaker B: Oh, very nice. There was. There was one week. I think it was the week of New Year's that there was just no Spawn at all. But every other week has been, you know, chock full of Spawn. [00:09:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:16] Speaker B: And we wouldn't have it any other way, Johnny. [00:09:18] Speaker A: At least we're chock full of Spawn. That's a brand of coffee, not nuts, man. [00:09:23] Speaker B: You know, maybe we could get in on that coffee business. We could sell Chock Full of Spawn. Yeah. [00:09:29] Speaker A: It's like. No, it's not a bunch of issues of Spawn. It's coffee. [00:09:32] Speaker B: It's coffee. It's. We could buy green coffee. We could sell green coffee because it's necroplasm. [00:09:38] Speaker A: Is green coffee a thing? [00:09:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Green coffee is unroasted. [00:09:42] Speaker A: Oh, okay. Green coffee. [00:09:44] Speaker B: Green coffee. [00:09:46] Speaker A: Someone who's definitely roasted. What? [00:09:49] Speaker B: I said you'd have to roast it yourself. So it'd be a pain in the ass. So it would Be Al Simmons. [00:09:53] Speaker A: Yeah. Because he's roasted. [00:09:54] Speaker B: Yeah. And a pain. [00:09:55] Speaker A: He got roasted in the fires of hell and the fires of Jason Wynn and Jessica Priest burning him alive. If we're going by movie continuity. [00:10:03] Speaker B: Yeah. And it got super, super crispy. [00:10:04] Speaker A: We need to figure out. We need to read the issue where Jessica kills him. Is it a Curse of the Spawn? I think it is the retcon that sounds. [00:10:12] Speaker B: That sounds like we need to look it up. [00:10:14] Speaker A: So I think it's pretty sure it's in Curse of the Spawn and, like, the three issue Jessica Priest arc. I'm pretty sure. Which I think I might have. [00:10:20] Speaker B: Okay. Because I know Curse of the Spawn is one of the hardest ones to find. It's much maligned, though. The. The good issues. People tend to love the good issues, but as a whole, people are like, boo. So, yeah, it's. It's hard to find those issues. If you have any. [00:10:36] Speaker A: I have to open books in Logan Square. I mean, I bought. I think I gave you one. Yeah. It was the one with, like, cyan, and there's one with Sam and Twitch. I found a box that had, like, 20 copies of each of those in. [00:10:46] Speaker B: Holy crap. [00:10:48] Speaker A: It had so much Curse of the Spawn, but just those two issues that. [00:10:50] Speaker B: Must have been, like, overstock from one of the smaller, smaller stores that was just like, I got to get this out of here. [00:10:56] Speaker A: Yeah, they have one big, long box there that randomly, like, rotates. I think they're like a quarter. [00:11:01] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:11:02] Speaker A: Yeah. So if you ever need a copy of Curse of the Spawn, the one with Cyan on the COVID or the one with right before that or after that with Sam Twitch on the COVID they have it at Logan Square Open books in Chicago, Illinois. [00:11:13] Speaker B: Or email regarding spawnmail.com and we will figure out a way to get you a copy in the mail. [00:11:19] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. But we're not talking Curse of Spawn. We're talking King of the Spawn Kingdom of the Planet of the Spawn. [00:11:28] Speaker B: I would. If the new Spawn movie doesn't have Andy Serk in itself in it, Johnny, we should riot. [00:11:35] Speaker A: He'd be a good clown. He'd be a good Malbolia. [00:11:38] Speaker B: Yeah, he would be. He would be a good motion capture for Malbolia or he would be a good Fleabiac. [00:11:43] Speaker A: Yeah, just any of those kind of, like, demon motion capture. [00:11:46] Speaker B: Yeah, that's basically. It's basically just bastardized Gollum of Fleab. [00:11:50] Speaker A: He's really good. You know, he's. He needs more appreciation in. I feel like he gets overshadowed by what happens to him. He's really good in the Last Jedi as Snoke. He's like, hmm, Snoke is cool in that movie. Like, he's kind of lame in Force Awakens. Doesn't really do much. [00:12:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:12:03] Speaker A: But in Last Jedi he's a. He's a ruthless bastard. [00:12:06] Speaker B: When he still has. [00:12:07] Speaker A: Andy Serkis does it. [00:12:08] Speaker B: When he's still got Kylo Ren under his thumb. [00:12:11] Speaker A: Right. He's a big jerk to Kylo Ren until he gets cut in half. [00:12:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:12:15] Speaker A: And what's funny is like, people hate that or like whatever. When I saw it in theaters, people lost their fucking minds when they cut Snoke in half. People went great. People were doing backflips. [00:12:23] Speaker B: Yeah. Because he was. He was set up to be so much bigger and not as easily done in as that. And it was very. It was very jarring. [00:12:31] Speaker A: It was. But Ryan Johnson, I think, made the right decision if the third one would have lived up to. If they hadn't brought back the Emperor. Because that just like fucking kind of ruined it, in my opinion. I know you like Rise of Skywalker more than I do, but I mean, I feel like I like. [00:12:44] Speaker B: I like it because it's a Star wars movie, Johnny, and it's the newest one, so that means I like it the best. [00:12:49] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:12:51] Speaker B: You know these rules. [00:12:52] Speaker A: Yeah, those are rules. But no, Snoke don't sleep on his Snoke performance in Last Jedi. He's really a cold hearted bastard. [00:12:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:00] Speaker A: And hot take. He's pretty good as Gollum. [00:13:04] Speaker B: I don't know, Johnny. [00:13:05] Speaker A: Those movies, I don't know about that. [00:13:07] Speaker B: Those movies weren't, you know, very up here. They were kind of meh. [00:13:12] Speaker A: They're showing them at Alamo Drafthouse, but they're all sold out, damn it. Like for months. Like there's like one a month and they're all sold out. [00:13:21] Speaker B: That's. [00:13:21] Speaker A: Those are tiny theaters. You've only been to that one time. That was the biggest theater, I think the one we were in. But they're not very big. [00:13:28] Speaker B: That's. Man, I cannot imagine. I would love to do that going back to the re releases in the theater, but I cannot imagine a day in like the next five years that I would have three and a half free hours to just sit in the theater. [00:13:44] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. That's the truth. [00:13:46] Speaker B: That's. I mean, I would love to see the Brutalists, but everybody's like, it's got an intermission. Oh, man, I. I cannot afford intermission movie at this point in my life. [00:13:56] Speaker A: Yeah. Eli reached out and wanted to go on Monday, but it was like, dude, it's negative 25. I'm not leaving my house to see. If I. If I go to that movie, I'm gonna, like, bundle up under a blanket and fall asleep. It's probably still cold in the movie theater. It's so cold out, you can't get warm anywhere. I'm not going anywhere. [00:14:10] Speaker B: You'll be. You'll be bundled up like. Or you'll be in the fetal position. Like Adrian Brody in the bottom of that pit when he gets killed in the village. Spoilers for the village. [00:14:18] Speaker A: Yes, I guess so. Nice poll. [00:14:21] Speaker B: I hate that movie so much. [00:14:24] Speaker A: Me too. [00:14:24] Speaker B: I was so excited for it because it came out when I worked at the movie theater and we had a. The night before it premiered, employee only screening, and we were like, whoo. And then at the end, I was like, why did I not go home? Why did I stay here for this? [00:14:37] Speaker A: I was so on board because he had just made signs, which I loved. I loved his other movies. And the Villagers. I was just like. I was right. Properly disappointed, mate. Yeah, it was just. It was so the mental gymnastics to make the twist work. It's just like, oh, it's not even fucking worth it. [00:14:53] Speaker B: It's bad. [00:14:54] Speaker A: Yeah. And also, like, Adrian Brody's performance shouldn't have happened. [00:14:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. [00:15:01] Speaker A: A little bit of Tropic Thunder action. [00:15:03] Speaker B: Mo that spells Adrian Brody should have said no. [00:15:07] Speaker A: Although it did give us Bryce Ellis Howard, who we loved. [00:15:10] Speaker B: Oh, yes, yes, we. We do stand a queen. Anybody who's able to run away from a Tyrannosaurus rex in heels and also save people. Other people along the way deserves all of our. [00:15:22] Speaker A: And also directs Star wars stuff. [00:15:23] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:15:24] Speaker A: She directs the Mandalorian. She directed episode of Skeleton Crew. [00:15:27] Speaker B: She was also the. The titular lady in the water. [00:15:30] Speaker A: The titular indeed. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. [00:15:35] Speaker B: Mr. Heap, that movie was awesome. [00:15:38] Speaker A: You should talk that movie about bran. Bran likes that movie. [00:15:41] Speaker B: They. [00:15:42] Speaker A: My. [00:15:42] Speaker B: Like my freshman year at osu, they played it at the. The student union auditorium, and that's how I saw it. [00:15:50] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:15:51] Speaker B: And it was. It was fine. It was. [00:15:53] Speaker A: I went on a date to Shrek 2 there with a girl. Didn't work out. [00:15:56] Speaker B: Shrek 2 is a good one. Except for Shrek 2 was also in the movie theater when I worked there. And boy howdy, boy. [00:16:02] Speaker A: How like five times. [00:16:04] Speaker B: I mean, yeah, I saw. I saw it a lot, but it was the filthiest movie theater I have ever seen. [00:16:08] Speaker A: Oh, I bet. [00:16:09] Speaker B: With all the kids, kids, kids movies. [00:16:11] Speaker A: And they're acting like Shrek, so they're farting and wiping boogers on everything. [00:16:14] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Oh, man. [00:16:17] Speaker A: Well, it's only five hours into the episode. We should probably talk about King Spawn. [00:16:21] Speaker B: Yeah, probably. But we should probably start where we normally start, huh, Johnny? [00:16:25] Speaker A: That's the covers. And we got two covers today. I'm rocking the A cover by Sean Crystal. And it's pretty badass. [00:16:33] Speaker B: I am also rocking that cover because it, as you say, is badass. It was. [00:16:39] Speaker A: I showed up, got a chunky, crazy spawn. [00:16:41] Speaker B: Yeah, I was. There's absolutely no way I wasn't picking up this. This cover because it's got. It's purples and greens and yellows and a real stylized spawn. I love a stylized spawn. It's kind of like a. It's. It's like he was a late night Cartoon Network early, circa. Yes, early 2000s. Like, you could. You could imagine this guy coming up right after Space Ghost. Coast to coast. Actually, I guess that was. [00:17:07] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, definitely. That was 90s and 2000s. Space Coast. Coast to coast went to like. I'm gonna guess like 2003 or 4. [00:17:15] Speaker B: Like, this is the kind of Spawn you could imagine doing a crossover episode with Metalocalypse. [00:17:20] Speaker A: Yes. [00:17:21] Speaker B: And then the Dead. [00:17:21] Speaker A: I could definitely see that. [00:17:22] Speaker B: Singing a song about Al Simmons serving the Malbolia. [00:17:25] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just super stylized. He's chunky. I love the colors. I love a purple and a green. One of my favorite Halo armors I Rock is like a purple and a green. [00:17:34] Speaker B: One of your favorite comic book characters ever of all time, who you base your life around is purple and green. [00:17:39] Speaker A: Who's that? [00:17:40] Speaker B: The Joker. [00:17:41] Speaker A: Joker? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You know it, David. I'm the Joker, baby. [00:17:45] Speaker B: You've been Joker pilled. [00:17:46] Speaker A: I'm Joker pilled. [00:17:48] Speaker B: You're the one making the Joker pills and handing them out to children. [00:17:52] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm burning DVD copies of Folly I Do and leaving them on the bus. Oh, man. And with the DVD player, because no one has a DVD player anymore, so I have to leave the DVD and a DVD player. [00:18:01] Speaker B: So it's tough. Well, it's a good thing you can get a DVD video player for cheap season. [00:18:05] Speaker A: You can? Yeah. You get a Blu Ray player for like 80 bucks or less. [00:18:08] Speaker B: I should really get on that. My DVD player that I bought? [00:18:11] Speaker A: You want my own? You got my Blu Ray player, David, I just bought a 4K player. [00:18:14] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. [00:18:15] Speaker A: So I have a Blu Ray player I don't need. You can have. [00:18:16] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:18:17] Speaker A: I've Got next time I see you is yours. [00:18:18] Speaker B: I've got to come bring you some stuff anyway. [00:18:20] Speaker A: Okay, Cool. [00:18:21] Speaker B: Trade. [00:18:22] Speaker A: I shouldn't have said anything. I should have wrapped it up and I got it for you. [00:18:26] Speaker B: Hey, guess what, Johnny? My memory is shit. So you could probably still do that and I'll believe it. [00:18:31] Speaker A: Sweet. But yeah, I'll give you that because I just bought a 4K player. [00:18:36] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Hell yeah. [00:18:37] Speaker A: A dedicated player. It's nice to have a dedicated player. It works really well. The movies look beautiful, wonderful. Always look better than streaming. [00:18:45] Speaker B: Oh, always. Yeah, it's. It's a sad fact of life that streaming is so much simpler. So it's typically what I do. But man, even. Even though I'm paying these people for the privilege of watching this stuff, sometimes I'm like, did you. Did you really have to lower that refresh rate as much as you did right there? Jesus. [00:19:02] Speaker A: Yeah. Jesus. I can't look like potato quality. [00:19:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:04] Speaker A: It's funny to me now. Like, it makes me feel old, but like, I. I'll be talking about a movie that someone at work hasn't seen. I was like, oh, I can let you borrow it. And they're like, I don't have a. [00:19:14] Speaker B: Lapt shops now don't have a right optical drive. [00:19:18] Speaker A: Mine doesn't. [00:19:19] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I had to. I had to buy an optical drive so I could use the TurboTax disc that my mom sent me because you can file up to four times every time you buy a thing. So when she buys it, she just ships the disco. [00:19:32] Speaker A: Oh, hell yeah. [00:19:33] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:19:33] Speaker A: Yeah. So great cover. The. The chains, like glowing. I love it. [00:19:38] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. [00:19:39] Speaker A: It's Sean Crystal one to watch. [00:19:41] Speaker B: Yeah. It feels. I can't tell if it's. It's got like the. Like a. Like a pastel, like an oil pastel or like a really high quality crayon feel to. [00:19:51] Speaker A: It does. [00:19:52] Speaker B: Like, especially with the. The black lines on the outside of the necroplasm. I like that. It's, you know, not a single solid line. It's got that. That texture to it. It's real good. [00:20:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:20:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:03] Speaker A: There is a B cover. [00:20:04] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. And it is by. It is by somebody that we. We have if you Positive thoughts on a lot in the past upon Randall and it's good. [00:20:14] Speaker A: It's just. It's just complete. This other color. [00:20:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Compared to this, it's Nothing compares to this. [00:20:19] Speaker A: It's just like spawn. Like blocking with a shore. He's about to block something. [00:20:23] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. He's standing but it's just. [00:20:26] Speaker A: It's just like classic spawn colors. Doesn't pop like this one. Yeah, it's good. It's a good spawn. [00:20:31] Speaker B: He's. He does have. In Vaughn Randall style, he does have what looks like an anime sword. It is big. You could imagine it in a Final. [00:20:39] Speaker A: Fantasy with giant chains on it, which is also very anime. [00:20:43] Speaker B: And then, you know, probably the densest cloud of bats we've seen on a cover in a while. [00:20:48] Speaker A: Yeah. I wonder if there's exactly 39 for the issue, just like the rats on the 350. [00:20:55] Speaker B: That would be. That would be hilarious if that were now a mandate from Spawn. [00:21:00] Speaker A: If there's an animal on the COVID has to be the exact amount of animals as the issue number. [00:21:03] Speaker B: I bet Mark Spears was just sitting there being like, let me get. Let me get that. 360. Man, there's gonna be so many cats on this thing. [00:21:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Fun fact. If you didn't listen to our 350 episode from last year with Spawn Hunter, he revealed that on the Jonathan Galapian cover of 350, they're, in fact, 350 rats. [00:21:24] Speaker B: I have. I have not taken the challenge of trying to count them because it's hard enough for me to count the 15 dogs that I have in my house accurately. That I would. I would lose track somewhere around 120 every single time. [00:21:39] Speaker A: Hard to get to 350, as Tom McFarland knows. [00:21:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:43] Speaker A: We pop it open and we've got the credits. And the script plot is by the man himself, Todd McFarlane. Art by Yildira Senar, who we love. We stan. A legend. [00:21:53] Speaker B: It's so good. [00:21:54] Speaker A: The art's amazing. It's probably my favorite part of this issue, for sure. [00:21:56] Speaker B: Absolutely. Me too. [00:21:58] Speaker A: Color by Ivan Nunes. Lettering by Mworld Design. We already covered the covers. Creative director is Todd McFarlane, and editor in chief is Thomas Healy. [00:22:08] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:22:09] Speaker A: Previously in King Spawn, an assassin is sent after Al Simmons to take him down and bring him to the angelic forces. [00:22:18] Speaker B: That absolutely happened. Yes, indeed. [00:22:19] Speaker A: Yeah. We ended with the assassin attacking him and Spawn's reveal that he has demon wings. [00:22:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:24] Speaker A: Or angel wings. [00:22:25] Speaker B: Or vampire wings. [00:22:25] Speaker A: I think vampire wings. Vampire wings. Yes, vampire wings. [00:22:29] Speaker B: The big, leathery bat wings. Yep. The most coveted accessory at the goth club. [00:22:36] Speaker A: The leather bat wings. You tell me, man. Bats. Cutting a dance, cutting a rug to Depeche Mode. [00:22:42] Speaker B: Either that or he just borrowed them from Papa. [00:22:44] Speaker A: Oh, he does have some nice bat wings. And ghosts. Yeah. He needs to fly around. [00:22:48] Speaker B: Yeah, he should. I'm sure the. The considerations that go into such big touring productions, having to set up flying rigs at every. Right, That's. [00:22:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't think that's gonna work. And also, like, he is the band, so it's, like, so much writing on him. They don't want to endanger their entire, like, economy. [00:23:08] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, because, yeah, the. The Faceless or the Nameless Ghouls are literally set up to be replaceable. Their Nameless. [00:23:14] Speaker A: David. It is. It's a new year. We got a new concert coming up. That means we'll probably at least get some new singles before August. [00:23:20] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. [00:23:21] Speaker A: There's a new tour of Ghosts. So that means either a whole. I don't know if they'll do a full album because usually they do a tour off a couple singles off the new album, and then they do another tour. The album hits. [00:23:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:30] Speaker A: Or they could do like an EP or something. Or. Lp. [00:23:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:33] Speaker A: Lp. [00:23:34] Speaker B: Because. Yeah. Last. The one we went to was right after the. What, Mariana Cross and Kiss the Go Goat came out. No, our preparation for Imperium. [00:23:46] Speaker A: No, they already had a couple. Imperium. So it was after. [00:23:49] Speaker B: Because that was the Hunters. [00:23:50] Speaker A: Hunter's Moon had come out. [00:23:51] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:23:52] Speaker A: And I think. Call Me Little Sunshine, maybe. [00:23:54] Speaker B: Okay. And then, yeah, they were premiering Kaiserian, but they. [00:23:58] Speaker A: But they, like, hit it, remember? [00:24:00] Speaker B: Or, like, the sound messed up and Bran was like. [00:24:03] Speaker A: Like, he. [00:24:04] Speaker B: He's. He's yelling at the sound guy. [00:24:06] Speaker A: Yeah. But it happened at multiple concerts. And there was this whole conspiracy theory because it was supposed. They had a contract that that song was supposed to premiere on Jimmy Kimmel Live, but it got delayed and like, that. Maybe they couldn't play it at full volume or something interesting. Or there's just something wrong. And it happened in multiple shows. [00:24:26] Speaker B: But there's conspiracy. I'm. I'm an individual. That if something happens the exact same way multiple times in a row, it weren't. It weren't no accident. [00:24:36] Speaker A: When I Saw Ghosts one time before I saw it with you, I saw them with you. He messed up the lyrics on which image? [00:24:41] Speaker B: Oh, no. [00:24:42] Speaker A: He, like, stumbled and, like, stop singing. And I was like, oh, no, I love that song. [00:24:47] Speaker B: I can imagine. It's. It's grueling. And I mean, I. I misspeak here. And I'm saying it for the first time every single time. I can't imagine. [00:24:56] Speaker A: No, he's quite the performer to be doing all those shows. [00:24:58] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's got kids. Damn. [00:25:01] Speaker A: Speaking of guys with kids, we open on one of the most famous guys. [00:25:05] Speaker B: With kids, one of the kid having this guys, Twitch has almost as many kids as I have dogs. [00:25:10] Speaker A: Yeah, it's Twitch and Sam. Sam and Twitch. [00:25:13] Speaker B: Yeah. And they're looking. They're looking quite nice. [00:25:16] Speaker A: No, it's great. Like I said, I love the Yildir Sennaar art. Like, just like, how. How tactile it feels. [00:25:23] Speaker B: Yeah. Like smooth and tactile all at the same time. It's a great combination. [00:25:28] Speaker A: Everything feels like it has weight to it. [00:25:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:30] Speaker A: I don't know. Yeah, it gives really good stuff. [00:25:33] Speaker B: It gives. It gives the. The street level action, the. That good gravitas that we like. [00:25:41] Speaker A: In the top corner of this first page of Sam and Twitch, we get something that'll be throughout the entire issue, which is Todd McFarlane talking at you. I'm sorry, I mean, Al Simmons monologue. There's a lot of Todd father talk. A lot of Todd father exposition in this one. [00:25:56] Speaker B: It's. It's a lot of. A lot of justification for why Al Simmons is doing what he's doing instead of just being like, yeah, Al Simmons is doing what he's doing. That's fine. [00:26:03] Speaker A: Basically, Spawn saying he's pissed off. He needs to wipe out everybody because it's senseless killings like this shit. And he's referring to the crime scene that Sam and Twitch are at. [00:26:14] Speaker B: There is a body underneath a very bloody sheet. One of the shoes of this body is knocked off. In the nasty parts of the Internet, Johnny, where certain videos are found, a lot of people would rate them as shoes still on or shoes off. Because the scale of shoes on, it's not as intense where shoes off means you better buckle in before you. You look at this. [00:26:45] Speaker A: Oh, boy. Yeah, that freaks me out. [00:26:47] Speaker B: Yeah, it freaks me out, too. And I'm the one. I'm the one who goes there. But I'm not the only one. Because Greg Capullo admitted watching a lot of cartel retaliation videos in order to get the musculature on the New 52 Joker, where he cuts his face off, right? Like, he's like. He's like. I've watched a lot of videos that I am sorry I watched, but I can tell you that that is the most accurate skinned face in comics. [00:27:15] Speaker A: Oh, God. Greg Capullo, don't do it. [00:27:18] Speaker B: Oh, man. Greg Capullo's metal as hell. [00:27:20] Speaker A: Yeah, he is. Well, they lift up the sheet at this crime scene, Sam does, and it's a young boy, 15. He was only 15 years old. Says Michael Kane. He was only 15 years old. [00:27:35] Speaker B: I like the. I like that. I don't know if it's a real Michael Kane tweet or a fake Michael Kane tweet, but the. It's. Why do we. Why do we fall down, Master Bruce? It's to pick ourself back up. Batman Begin. [00:27:48] Speaker A: It's probably not really Michael Kane. [00:27:50] Speaker B: I think it's. I think it's fake. [00:27:51] Speaker A: And Spawn's just pissed off that this kid is dead and he's sickening that he can't stop it. [00:27:57] Speaker B: Too many of these deaths out there. [00:27:58] Speaker A: John, Sam and Twitch talk to another cop and they take the body to the morgue and it kind of pulls out. [00:28:03] Speaker B: I forgot to. I forgot to look if there was actually a morgue at 17th and Broadway in Manhattan. Not going to do it now. Because nothing is less exciting than hearing somebody Google Maps. [00:28:14] Speaker A: I mean, you can always cut it out. We pull back. We pull back and we see the source of this voiceover. Spawn watching over the crime scene. [00:28:26] Speaker B: Yeah, I love this. I love this pull out so much because it's. It's so dynamic and like the conversation is still going. And you can see like whenever one of the three is talking, they're. They're moving differently and it's just so well done. It's very good. [00:28:42] Speaker A: And Spawn's pissed off about these angels that are throwing him with blood. He's like, come on, don't you know heaven ain't gonna help you? [00:28:47] Speaker B: Yeah. What's what he says vampires are the only ones with powers and they don't need that. They don't need the angels help. In fact, they hate them. [00:28:57] Speaker A: Oh, boy. [00:28:59] Speaker B: And then we get this two page spread of Al Simmons and it is a. Oh, it is a very good one. [00:29:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:05] Speaker B: Yilda Ray is getting to do all of. All of the. The good poses for everybody. And it looks like there's has Al Simmons, since he's lost his powers, had these little line of spikes all up his arms and legs. [00:29:18] Speaker A: I don't know. That might be a specific touch to this artist, I think. [00:29:22] Speaker B: I mean, it's fucking dope. I can already feel myself hurting. Hurting my little fingies. On the action figure based off of this, you pick him up and it's like, ow. [00:29:33] Speaker A: Just like that gunslinger man. That gunslinger will get you. [00:29:35] Speaker B: Oh. Oh, yeah. With his black metal wrists. [00:29:38] Speaker A: His gauntlets. Yeah, he'll spiky. [00:29:40] Speaker B: Yeah, I think you did. I think you actually hurt yourself on those while you were recording one time. Yeah. When you were pulling the. What do we call that segment again? We haven't done it in so long. [00:29:50] Speaker A: Todd's Toy Talk. [00:29:51] Speaker B: Yeah, Todd's Toy Talk. We should do that again sometime. [00:29:54] Speaker A: We have to get more toys, and I have to find a place to store them. I do have a couple toys I could open up. Yeah, I have that papa figure, but I always want to open that up. Not in my closet, because it's like a million pieces and it looks really cool. [00:30:04] Speaker B: I mean, I've got a couple right over here. We just have to. We just have to remember about him. [00:30:08] Speaker A: Okay, let's do one today. [00:30:10] Speaker B: Okay. Hell, yeah. [00:30:11] Speaker A: You're gonna open up a toy. [00:30:12] Speaker B: I'm gonna open up a toy. Very exciting. I'm excited now because new toy day means that I get to take it to work and everybody gets to be like, oh, got another one. [00:30:21] Speaker A: You got another one. We haven't got a toy of this new form of Albert Simmons yet. We may all. You have to usually add a little scarfie. Yeah, it'd be a good figure. [00:30:30] Speaker B: It would be a good figure. There's a great figure. [00:30:33] Speaker A: I might be able to use my spawn skins again from Call of Duty because Brand started playing Call of Duty, so I might have to get it nice. [00:30:40] Speaker B: Hopefully. Hopefully you can play against Thomas Healy. [00:30:42] Speaker A: Who I know reportedly tried to. I don't know if he's on Xbox. [00:30:46] Speaker B: You just gotta call him up. Like Thomas. [00:30:49] Speaker A: Statistically, probably not, because most people are on PlayStation 5 Xboxes. I'm like the last Xbox fan in the world. I just prefer the controller, David. [00:30:58] Speaker B: I mean, I'm. I'm still sad that they don't have the big. The big boy from the original. [00:31:04] Speaker A: The. The Duke. [00:31:05] Speaker B: That one. Oh, man. Everybody hated it because it was so big, But I hate. I hate it when it's too small. I like being able to. [00:31:11] Speaker A: I was, like, holding on to a loaf of bread. That Xbox controller. [00:31:14] Speaker B: Yeah, it was great. [00:31:16] Speaker A: So then we cut to Spawn. Well, Spawn's talking about how much heaven and hell treated the vampires like shit and the heavens shouldn't trust them. And cut back to the pre forementioned, the aforementioned fight with the assassin. Yeah, we got Spawnless leathery wings fighting this hooded assassin guy. [00:31:36] Speaker B: Yeah. And they're just. They're fighting. And assassins kicking Spawn into the trash. And then Spawn kind of hints that maybe this assassin is a blind assassin. Because he's like, he didn't. He didn't. He didn't do anything. [00:31:49] Speaker A: When I revealed he didn't notice my cool wings. [00:31:51] Speaker B: Come on. He's like, I had a whole reveal planned, and I got nothing and we. [00:31:56] Speaker A: Get this interesting note. [00:31:58] Speaker B: I love. I love this note. I love this note. [00:32:00] Speaker A: I went back and looked. It did not happen. I went back and I reread that issue didn't happen. It says here that I was hoping if he was a vampire, I'd hesitate. No, I'd rip them from one of his own. That. It has a asterisk. It has a note. Actually, it was Cygor C. Last issue. Thomas. Neither of those things happened last issue or the issue before. It just. It just didn't happen. You're not gonna gaslight me, Thomas Healy. [00:32:25] Speaker B: Oh, I think. I think that just means that Thomas Healy is a Cygor stand. It is. Like, anytime Psychor did this, he's gonna. [00:32:32] Speaker A: It could be inferred because there are some vampires standing there and, like, spawns. Like, here he comes. And, like, Cyborg busts into the room. But then it cuts. [00:32:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:40] Speaker A: So I guess we're left to infer that's he's ripped the wings off and sewed them to spawn. [00:32:44] Speaker B: Well, I guess he would have ripped them off and then the Tinkerer. Yeah, Tinker would have, like, just, like, sewed him onto the suit. [00:32:52] Speaker A: They do it real quick before they die. [00:32:53] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. It's not because. I mean, he can't just take this to the. The dry cleaner that also does alterations. Like, you can't just walk in with some bloody bat wings and be like, hey, I don't know. [00:33:03] Speaker A: This is a little sweaty. I consider this powers. Todd McFarlane. I think you're cheating a little bit here. Hey, for a cool shot. [00:33:09] Speaker B: Well, I mean, I think he was. [00:33:10] Speaker A: Just like, oh, wanna have bat wings? What if you have big old bat wings, they're like, well, they don't have powers. He's like, oh, he's ripped them off. Cyborg ripped them off. [00:33:18] Speaker B: This just means. This just means that we might get a Spawn with wings figure in the same form as the Redeemer and Adam. [00:33:25] Speaker A: Or there's the. They made a statue. That angel one. [00:33:28] Speaker B: Yeah, well, but that was. That was from a. That was from a. But that was angel wings. These are. These are vampire wings. [00:33:33] Speaker A: Well, I think the King Spawn figure has wings. [00:33:35] Speaker B: The. But. But is that not the King Spawn? That's like a demon King Spawn spawn, though. Yeah, yeah, but that's not Al Simmons King Spawn. As far as I know, it's just a cover. [00:33:45] Speaker A: It's just. It's like a version of King Spawn. [00:33:47] Speaker B: Yeah, but I mean, I don't know. I mean. [00:33:49] Speaker A: No, I mean, I definitely. I agree with you. That they will probably make an action figure. [00:33:54] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, it seems. It seems this whole time that the K7 Letha is continuing to be alive. It's just suffering because it's cut off from its source of. [00:34:04] Speaker A: Right. It's alive. [00:34:05] Speaker B: Yeah. It's just, you know, in pain. [00:34:09] Speaker A: Yeah. And Todd McFarlane likes to remind us. And Al Simmons, therefore, likes to remind us, because if we remember from the Servers issue, they are one. [00:34:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:18] Speaker A: From issue 10, Al Simmons. [00:34:20] Speaker B: Yeah. It's a one for one. Todd McFarlane's gonna play himself as Spawn in the movie King Spawn. [00:34:29] Speaker A: No, that reminds me of that fucking comic I sent you that someone had drawn. Is a bunch of superheroes doing hot ones. [00:34:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:36] Speaker A: And Spawn's mask was pulled up and he was white. Like, that just seems so wrong to me. I'm just like, oh, it makes me like. [00:34:42] Speaker B: They obviously didn't read the second issue of Spawn. Yeah. [00:34:47] Speaker A: Or they were doing. They could be like, oh, it's Jim Downing, and. Well, yeah. Right. You don't know Jim Downing is. [00:34:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:51] Speaker A: But, like. Yeah, there was this comic online that someone drew of superheroes doing hot ones, and one of Spawn was there. [00:34:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:56] Speaker A: This mask was pulled up so he could eat. [00:34:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:58] Speaker A: And he was white. Do your research, people. [00:35:01] Speaker B: Come on. It's not that hard. [00:35:02] Speaker A: I mean, we're fucking lucky they didn't make him white in the movie. Honestly. [00:35:05] Speaker B: I mean, it was the 90s. Yeah. [00:35:07] Speaker A: It was the 90s. [00:35:08] Speaker B: Yeah. They did it. Still one. They did it to our. To our man, Terry Fitzgerald. [00:35:13] Speaker A: They did. They sure did. [00:35:14] Speaker B: Surprise. [00:35:14] Speaker A: Hate it. [00:35:15] Speaker B: I'm surprised they didn't make cyan a little white baby, too. [00:35:18] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:35:19] Speaker B: I could imagine them having done that, being like, come on, guys. [00:35:23] Speaker A: Too many. Too many people of color in this movie. It's the 90s, God damn it. People want to see white people. So they're fighting. [00:35:31] Speaker B: Yeah. And. [00:35:32] Speaker A: And we go into this is. We go to the tactic Talks with Todd McFarland is what I was getting to, where he's. He likes to mention. And Spawn likes to mention he was trained in the military, baby. [00:35:41] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. [00:35:42] Speaker A: So even though he doesn't have his powers, he can still kick this guy's ass. [00:35:47] Speaker B: He was trained to the military, but. [00:35:49] Speaker A: The way he's gonna kick his ass and he breaks down to us a very detailed Todd McFarlane dialogue. Is he gonna let this guy think he's fucking winning? [00:35:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. He's gonna give him a. He's gonna give him the fake out, Johnny. [00:35:59] Speaker A: I do like that. He, like, wraps the way around him and like suffocates him a little bit with the wing. That's. [00:36:04] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. That's a good. That's a good thing. It's. It's very Keanu Reeves coming out of the egg bubble in the Matrix. Right. He's got his face against it. It's fun. I do. I do like that. [00:36:18] Speaker A: I watched the first half of the Matrix on a plane. [00:36:20] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Very nice. How was it? Hold up. [00:36:23] Speaker A: It's good. [00:36:24] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:36:24] Speaker A: I got to about the point where they were doing kung fu or where. [00:36:28] Speaker B: He learns kung fu or where he's actually fighting Agent Smith where he learns kung fu. [00:36:32] Speaker A: I got to like the dojo scene. So like an hour in maybe. [00:36:35] Speaker B: I mean, it's. It's not a. It's not a long flight down there. [00:36:38] Speaker A: No, it's not. I started late. I was like napping and reading. And then I was like, oh, I'll put pop on one of these movies. And for some reason, the Matrix spoke to me. [00:36:46] Speaker B: I mean, it speaks to us all, Johnny. [00:36:48] Speaker A: It does. It surrounds us. It binds us. It penetrates us. [00:36:52] Speaker B: It's all that we see and feel. [00:36:54] Speaker A: So, yeah, they're having this Very Matrixy. Even this fight's Matrixy because it's in an alley. [00:36:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:59] Speaker A: And they're punching each other. [00:37:00] Speaker B: Yeah. And we're getting. You know, I would be. I would have been happy just having this fight. Be a fight with no narration at all. But we're learning, right? Al Simmons is. Is not putting his full effort toward it. [00:37:14] Speaker A: And you got it. Sometimes you gotta act like you're giving it your all. But then when you have the. You have to give them an opening and it's gonna hurt like hell. [00:37:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:21] Speaker A: So he lets him stab him in the abdomen. [00:37:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man, that's like the. The automatopoeia is just shank. [00:37:30] Speaker A: Then the assassin has this little vial like a flash grenade. And it's like, I hear you. Spawns don't like light. And he throws it down on the ground. [00:37:36] Speaker B: No, he doesn't throw it down. He just holds it up. So it's like the light of Elendir from the. That Frodo. [00:37:42] Speaker A: Oh, he just holds it up. You're right. [00:37:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:43] Speaker A: Some kind of angel light shit. [00:37:45] Speaker B: Yeah. And this is. This is where I think we're led to believe that this assassin is either blind or wearing, you know, very, very, very light absorbent contact. [00:37:52] Speaker A: I think he's blind. You mentioned earlier that he didn't. He was like, oh, now I see why he didn't react to the bat wings. Yeah, yeah, he's blind. I mean, he's the blind. He's the zatoichi. [00:38:01] Speaker B: It's, it's very, it's very rare that the, the Todd father doesn't just point it out. Exactly. And makes you infer from context. [00:38:10] Speaker A: Neo goes blind in the Matrix 3. I've never seen it. [00:38:14] Speaker B: I know I've seen it. I don't remember a damn thing about it. [00:38:17] Speaker A: He was blind. [00:38:18] Speaker B: Is that the one, Is that the one where the. The robots attack them at their home base in the real world? [00:38:24] Speaker A: Yes. [00:38:24] Speaker B: Okay. [00:38:25] Speaker A: It's mostly in the real world. [00:38:27] Speaker B: Okay. I definitely saw that one at Star World 20 in the theater that had the reclining seats so the screen was like up kind of near the ceiling, so you had to recline to watch it. It was a very weird experience. That was a very weird theater. [00:38:41] Speaker A: It's kind of a weird movie. [00:38:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:43] Speaker A: Matrix 3 though, pretty good. [00:38:44] Speaker B: Good. [00:38:45] Speaker A: Matrix Revolutions. Yes, Revolutions. [00:38:48] Speaker B: What was the second one called then? Just Matrix 2. [00:38:51] Speaker A: Reloaded. [00:38:51] Speaker B: Reloaded. Okay, what about Animatrix? Where does that fit in? [00:38:55] Speaker A: It's like some of it's in between the first and second. Some of it's like way before. Some of it's inconcurrent with the movies. [00:39:02] Speaker B: Okay, what about John Wick? Is John Wick a Matrix based fever dream that Neo is having before he's extracted? [00:39:08] Speaker A: It's a video game that Neo's playing. [00:39:09] Speaker B: On the ship just in his downtime. That's how he relaxes. [00:39:14] Speaker A: Dude, I was at McDonald's. Spoiler alert or humble brag. I was going through the McDonald's drive thru the other day. [00:39:20] Speaker B: Woo. [00:39:21] Speaker A: And I had ordered on the app, so I had my name like John Fisher. And the guy was like cracking up when he answered. And he was like, are you John? I was like, yeah, John Fisher. And he was like, man, your name's so close to John Wick. And I was like, because my name is John. Like, I was like. He thought it was awesome. He's like, you should change your name to John Wick, man. I love John Wick. And I was like, okay, it was hilarious. [00:39:43] Speaker B: You should just change your name to Baba Yaga instead and be like, hey, dude, that's me. I live at a chicken hat Chicken hut or a hut with chicken legs. [00:39:50] Speaker A: A hut with chicken legs. That chases you down. [00:39:53] Speaker B: Man, those fucking Russian. Russian folk tales are frightening as all get out. The Slavic tales. The Brothers Grimm didn't touch them for good reason. They were way too frightening. [00:40:03] Speaker A: I mean, I would imagine so, yeah, it's a frightening landscape. [00:40:06] Speaker B: Yes, it is. And then. [00:40:08] Speaker A: So Spawn's knocked out by the light. [00:40:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:40:10] Speaker A: And then this guy shoots him with two darts. [00:40:12] Speaker B: Yeah. He gets. [00:40:13] Speaker A: Paralyzes him. Also hilarious to bring it all home. This guy's name is Matrix. [00:40:20] Speaker B: Is that pro? That's probably why you were thinking about it, John. It was. It was stuck in your brain. I like that. After he hits Al Simmons with the darts, he goes. You feel that you're paralyzed for the chemicals on those darts. [00:40:32] Speaker A: Like, very. Taught me far. It's like, yeah, no, I'd be a little more surprised. You got hit with darts and nothing happened. [00:40:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. And then uncharacteristic for the Todd father here, Johnny. We get mere minutes later instead of an exact time. What the hell? [00:40:49] Speaker A: Exact time. I know. [00:40:50] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, I guess we forgot to say that Matrix called in backup. Yeah. [00:40:55] Speaker A: Matrix will await transport. [00:40:56] Speaker B: And so the. Then this nondescript white van pulls up and some guys pile out of it and they throw Spawn into the back. [00:41:04] Speaker A: Interesting. Shouldn't spawn weigh like 350,000 pounds? [00:41:08] Speaker B: Yeah, this. This one guy right here just looks like he's just like throwing. Throwing bags of laundry in the back there. [00:41:14] Speaker A: That mother's strong. [00:41:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:41:16] Speaker A: You ever seen. You ever seen Phantasm? The. Like the ball one? [00:41:21] Speaker B: No, the horror movie. Oh, I. Every time I see clips of it, I'm like, shit, I need to watch that. And then I. [00:41:27] Speaker A: It's really good. The first two are excellent. I would definitely recommend the first two, but there's a big tall guy. Agnes Scrim plays him. He's like the tall man, I think he's called. But at one point, he just. He picks up a casket underneath his arm and starts walking with it. Has a body in it, you know? And this kid just goes, that mother's strong. [00:41:43] Speaker B: You got to be shitting me, man. That mother strong. Oh, man, I miss. I miss the. The child commentary from old horror movies. [00:41:56] Speaker A: There was always a kid. [00:41:57] Speaker B: Yeah, there was always a kid. There was always a little bit of cheese in horror movies. And now it's got to be fully intense the whole time. There's no. No room for jokes, Johnny. [00:42:05] Speaker A: Which occasionally got to be able to have a. [00:42:07] Speaker B: It's good. [00:42:08] Speaker A: Like a spooky. A 24 style trailer. That's so intense. You have to see the movie. [00:42:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:42:14] Speaker A: You seen the trailers for that movie companion? [00:42:16] Speaker B: No, I haven't even. Do I. Oh, wait, is that the. [00:42:20] Speaker A: It's like a new horror movie for the barbarian people. [00:42:22] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, I have. I've. I'VE seen the teaser advertisement, but I haven't seen the full trailer. [00:42:27] Speaker A: Yeah, that's all I've seen. I. I was the filmmakers recommended not to watch the full trailer, so I didn't. [00:42:33] Speaker B: I mean, I just keep forgetting. [00:42:34] Speaker A: I. Yeah, you saw the teaser where she, like, lights her hand on fire. [00:42:37] Speaker B: Yeah. More often than not, I see the. The people being like, in horror, you got to do something different. So Presence is from the ghost's perspective in a haunted house, which honestly, that made me. That. That just made it sound like I thought it was stupid. That sounds awesome. [00:42:55] Speaker A: But I want to see Presence. [00:42:57] Speaker B: Yeah, we should. We should, we should. [00:43:00] Speaker A: They already made that movie. It was called the Others, David. With Nicole Kidman. Because they're ghosts the whole time. I mean, I. Oh, you haven't seen that? [00:43:08] Speaker B: I haven't. Well, Johnny, Johnny, I do believe that that movie was made before that and it was called Sixth Sense. [00:43:15] Speaker A: It was. But the Others is a little. [00:43:17] Speaker B: Because Haley Joel Osmond twins. [00:43:19] Speaker A: No, he's alive and well. [00:43:22] Speaker B: Thankfully. Thankfully. By all accounts, Haley Joel Osmit had a rough run of it there. [00:43:28] Speaker A: Seems like he's going well. [00:43:29] Speaker B: Seems like he's doing well. [00:43:30] Speaker A: They've been. Jake Lloyd. [00:43:32] Speaker B: Man, being a child actor is rough. [00:43:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Especially when everyone just shit on you like after your performance, like of a lifetime. Like you imagine being in Star Wars, Everyone just like shitting on you as a nine year old. [00:43:43] Speaker B: Fuck. People fucking suck. But I mean, kind of the same thing happened to Macaulay Culkin. And everybody loved Macaulay Culkin. And then they were just like, nah, fuck this kid. [00:43:51] Speaker A: Fuck this kid. [00:43:52] Speaker B: What? [00:43:53] Speaker A: What, what happened? So they got Spawn in the back of this van. [00:43:58] Speaker B: They got him chained up with the. They don't have the. They don't have the wings chained up, though. Interesting. Spread out. And there's. There's that one guy that just won't shut up. Johnny. If I were a bad guy and I were on this crew, it's very easy to figure out which one I would be. [00:44:17] Speaker A: Assassin's not having it. [00:44:18] Speaker B: I would be Ernie, the guy they tell to shut up and still doesn't shut up. And then Ernie's just like, man, I've always been interested to see what you're like under this mask. Spawn. And then he removes the spa. The. The mask and he's like, huh, Matrix. It's weird. It kind of looks like you. [00:44:37] Speaker A: And then the assassin just goes, shh. And we see that it's Al Simmons. [00:44:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:44:42] Speaker A: And then remember, the one rule is to always let them think You've won. [00:44:45] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we get the. The subtly coded flashback, and with the rounded panels, we see back to. As Matrix is calling in the transport. We see Al Simmons come up off the ground and stab Matrix right through the chest with his sword. [00:45:02] Speaker A: That's when you introduce them to the pain party as they started themselves, says Todd McFarlane. [00:45:08] Speaker B: And then we get a badass pose of Al Siman standing over this body with the bloody. With the bloody sword, man. [00:45:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:15] Speaker B: So good. [00:45:15] Speaker A: And we're back back in the day. The Presence. The Presence. We're back in the presence. David. He says he darts a guy. Throw some darts in his head. [00:45:26] Speaker B: Yeah, they're just having a. They're having a van fight, man. That's one of the. One of the great cinematic joys is a van fight. [00:45:34] Speaker A: Fighting in a van so good he chokes one guy with a chain. [00:45:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:38] Speaker A: The van flips and all is quiet. [00:45:41] Speaker B: Yeah, the van. The van is just, like, laying there on. On its top, and then all of a sudden, the doors bust out, and. [00:45:48] Speaker A: It'S Al Simmons, who's been, like, pondering in this while this van fight's happening. He's pondering like, I want my powers back, but should I get my powers back? Because that means everyone gets their powers back. Is it better? Can I protect more people with my symbiote back? But does he want that when a world has, like, when Heaven and Hell also has theirs? So he's inflicted. [00:46:07] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's. It's. He. He's. He's wondering what's better, if everybody is removed from the conflict or whether having sort of an arms race is kind of the better way to have it. I don't know. That's above my pay grade, Johnny. And so then. So Al Simmons climbs out of the back of the van, and he has to make sure that we know that he puts his costume back on Johnny. He's not gonna just leave it for somebody to. [00:46:31] Speaker A: Yeah. Not leave it for someone to find. [00:46:33] Speaker B: He's like. It just got. [00:46:34] Speaker A: He takes Matrix out of the van and throws his naked body in. In the Dumpster, like, next to the Dumpster. And then. [00:46:41] Speaker B: And then he. Al Simmons does his, you know, walking down the streets of New York City, you know, openly carrying weapons, and nobody says a thing to him. [00:46:50] Speaker A: I know. He's just, like, strolling down Broadway. [00:46:54] Speaker B: Yeah. Like, I like how he. He walks by a mail truck. It's got the little. Yeah, I love a mail truck. Mail trucks are awesome. Yeah. And then we get the King Spawn crown To end the issue, Johnny. [00:47:07] Speaker A: There it is. We got a spawning grounds that we've had recently. We've had a lot of toy art. [00:47:13] Speaker B: There's some good. There's some good figures here, Johnny. There's actually the previously spoken of king Spawn figure. [00:47:20] Speaker A: Yes. With the. [00:47:22] Speaker B: With the little. With the little glumpy dudes. I like the little glumpy dude. There's a Spawn the movie figure. Which Spawn the movie figure. Hell, yeah. Good looking figure. [00:47:30] Speaker A: Yeah, no, they're all pretty good. I like the stained glass. That's the Spawn fiend or buddy. [00:47:35] Speaker B: Yeah, that's a. That's a great figure. I like the. I like the hands on that figure. I wonder which one that is. It's very. It's very cartoony as well. [00:47:44] Speaker A: It's got, like, chunky hands to hold weapons. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good swan. [00:47:48] Speaker B: He's got, like, Sonic the Hedgehog shoes. [00:47:51] Speaker A: Gotta go fast. [00:47:52] Speaker B: Yeah. Do you need more sponsor universe, Johnny? [00:47:54] Speaker A: Always. [00:47:55] Speaker B: Oh. What? I'm looking at this page, Johnny, and it says, need more Spawns universe. But very faintly under Spawns universe, it just says Spawn. So it looks like they just didn't completely delete Spawn and just slapped Spawn's universe on it. What do you see where it says need more in Spawn's universe? If you look behind it, mine has a faint echo of. It just says Spawn. I don't know if you can see it very well. [00:48:19] Speaker A: Oh, you're right, it does. [00:48:21] Speaker B: Yeah. It's like they just erased it and wrote Spawn's universe slam. [00:48:25] Speaker A: It's like a stamp slamming on it. [00:48:27] Speaker B: I mean, I guess the answer to that, Johnny, is don't miss these ongoing titles. [00:48:31] Speaker A: Yep. [00:48:32] Speaker B: Good books there. [00:48:32] Speaker A: Also hilarious is that they use the gunslinger spawn title treatment here and on the mock up. [00:48:37] Speaker B: Yeah, but not on what's. [00:48:38] Speaker A: On the issue. [00:48:40] Speaker B: It still just says gunslinger. Yeah, the most. The most recent one that I have right here next to me does just say gunslinger. [00:48:48] Speaker A: Yeah, they all do since, like, issue, like, six or seven, right? [00:48:51] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. What's that? What's that, bud? [00:48:55] Speaker A: Is that an Ewok? [00:48:56] Speaker B: No, that's. [00:48:57] Speaker A: He sounds like an Ewok. [00:48:59] Speaker B: He says, yup, dub Ting tang. [00:49:01] Speaker A: Yup, dub. [00:49:03] Speaker B: He's. He's gonna play the. The helmet. Zyla the Stormtrooper helmets. [00:49:09] Speaker A: Then we got the Image Classics ad. [00:49:11] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:49:12] Speaker A: And to end the issue, we have use the Music Maniacs and. [00:49:17] Speaker B: Hey, look at that. [00:49:17] Speaker A: Look at that. [00:49:18] Speaker B: Ozzy Osbourne's doing a king spawn 30, 39 there, Johnny. He's got his bat. [00:49:22] Speaker A: He's got the wings. I saw. They're making a movie. Music Maniacs. Flavor Flav. [00:49:27] Speaker B: Nice. [00:49:28] Speaker A: Gotta get it, Gotta get it. [00:49:30] Speaker B: Flavor Flav, like, the fucking, like, adopted the. The US Women's water polo team. Like, like, funded them and made sure that they were able to, like, you know, have the time off from their jobs to. To go to the Olympics. And then, like, was their biggest supporter. It was awesome. [00:49:50] Speaker A: That's great. [00:49:50] Speaker B: If you haven't looked into the story, Flavor Flav, basically adopting a polo team is great. [00:49:54] Speaker A: That's awesome. But, yeah, that's Kingspawn 39. [00:49:57] Speaker B: That's King Spawn 39. [00:50:15] Speaker A: Next up, we've got the very excellent Tipping My Hat. Tipping my hand is a hand or hat. [00:50:20] Speaker B: That's your hat. [00:50:22] Speaker A: Whatever. When you, like, show your hand. Tipping your hand. [00:50:25] Speaker B: Yeah, well, because tipping your hand usually is. Is a bad thing because then you're showing everybody. What's your card? [00:50:30] Speaker A: Yeah, I am. I'm tipping my hand a little bit here because I'm saying this is an excellent issue. I'm spoiling my own review, but this is a really great issue of scorch. It's issue 35. [00:50:40] Speaker B: It's so good. Let's. Let's just go ahead and spoil it now. Johnny, everybody. This book rocks. [00:50:48] Speaker A: So much fun. It's just like, a great mission in a cool location. The colors and, like, the art is amazing. [00:50:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:50:54] Speaker A: Seeing the Scorch back together as a team, Jessica back in costume. It's awesome. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. We got to start with the covers, which are also awesome. [00:51:03] Speaker B: Yes, indeed, because I have the A. [00:51:05] Speaker A: Color, the Thaddeus Robet cover. [00:51:06] Speaker B: I also have the Thaddeus Roebuck cover. It's a very good one. [00:51:11] Speaker A: It's like she Spawn, Jessica just, like, chilling in some chains. [00:51:14] Speaker B: Yeah. She's, like, made a hammock out of some chains. And it's just hanging out with. [00:51:18] Speaker A: Just very happy. Very pleased with herself. [00:51:20] Speaker B: Two of the biggest guns in existence. Yeah, it's got a nice. It's got a nice background color to it. It's real good. [00:51:27] Speaker A: Yeah. I just like how pleased she looks like. She's just, like, killed, like, a million people. [00:51:31] Speaker B: Yeah. And some good hair action, too. It's. [00:51:35] Speaker A: Oh, great hair. [00:51:35] Speaker B: Still got. Still got that life of its own. It's a good cover. And then the B cover is the Zay Carlos cover. That is for those who have been keeping track. The protagonist facing away from the. The viewer, looking over their shoulder, surrounded by dead bodies. And I only didn't choose this cover. Because I had just gotten the hobby version of this cover and was like, I should. I should vary who I'm getting my cover artists from. Also, I didn't want any snide comics from or comments from anybody at the shop, being like, you're just buying it because it's got globes on it. It's got maximus. [00:52:19] Speaker A: I mean, it's a nice spot. She's given constantly a run for his money. [00:52:23] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:52:24] Speaker A: Bonk. [00:52:24] Speaker B: But, yeah, we need it. You knew it was coming, Johnny. But yeah. [00:52:29] Speaker A: Yeah. And I'm very. I don't know. But it's not, like, overly sexualized. It's not, like, gross or, like, oh, yeah. It's just, like, she's in shape. She's gonna have a nice ass. [00:52:37] Speaker B: Yeah, she's real good. But it was. It was largely just because I didn't commit to getting all of the Zay Carlos ones of that. Of this style. And I was like, I'll do one, and then I'll get one of the other ones. Because I like to have variety, you know? [00:52:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:52:52] Speaker B: Consistently inconsistent, but there's so many dead bodies on this. On this cover, Actually, I was. [00:52:56] Speaker A: I would tip my hat this time. I'll tip my hat, not my hand. [00:52:59] Speaker B: Okay. [00:53:00] Speaker A: I tip my hat to Thomas Healy. Because with she Spawn, I can see it getting very overly sexualized with the covers, and it really doesn't happen. [00:53:06] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, it doesn't. [00:53:08] Speaker A: I'm sure there's a lot of submissions that are like. I'm sure there's plenty. [00:53:11] Speaker B: I have. I have been on even the tame side of the Internet, Johnny. And even the tame side of the Internet Internet plays up the vava and the voom especially. [00:53:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:23] Speaker B: Which part is the vava and which one is the voom or they. Or does it have to be all together to make any sense? [00:53:31] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:53:32] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:53:32] Speaker A: I don't know who the vava or the voom is. [00:53:34] Speaker B: Hold on to your vooms. [00:53:38] Speaker A: Javi's the vava. Jessica's the voom. [00:53:41] Speaker B: And then who's the cha cha cha? [00:53:43] Speaker A: Mark. [00:53:43] Speaker B: Mark. Yeah. Mark's. He's got his little maracas. [00:53:47] Speaker A: He's just like, cha, cha cha. Let's go to work. Mark Rosen. Oh, yeah, baby. Cover is great, too. [00:53:56] Speaker B: Yes, absolutely. [00:53:57] Speaker A: B for butt. Butt cover. [00:54:00] Speaker B: We can't make that a thing, Johnny. That's. That can't be our legacy. I would much rather Leisure Suit Larry on Twitch be our legacy. [00:54:07] Speaker A: Oh, God. [00:54:08] Speaker B: Cover be the butt cover. [00:54:09] Speaker A: Why you gotta bring up Leisure Suit Larry? [00:54:11] Speaker B: Again, because we're on a. We're on a run, Johnny. We're on a run. Well, let's. Let's run into this book by opening the COVID that we just talked about and get these, get these credits out to who need them. So we've got script plot by John Layman with additional script by Todd McFarlane. The art continues to be by Steven Segovia. And it used to be fucking awesome. Colors by Danai Ribeiro. The lettering is by and worlds design. We covered the covers. Todd McFarlane is the creative director and Thomas Healy is the editor in chief. Previously in the Scorched. Jessica's plan comes to fruition as she plans her exit from the agency. [00:54:49] Speaker A: Actually accurate. [00:54:50] Speaker B: Yeah, actually accurate. And she's. [00:54:52] Speaker A: There's a spawn. That was not accurate, I think. Or a gunslinger spawn. [00:54:56] Speaker B: Well, there was, there was the. The. Yeah, it was a main title spawn because it, it spoiled what spawned the. [00:55:02] Speaker A: Opening of the issue. [00:55:03] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, I like that. But this does kind of make it seem like she's planning to plan and she's almost done with the first plan to get her plan. It's exciting. [00:55:14] Speaker A: I love it when a plan comes together. So we open our prologue 200 years ago, deep below the Vatican in a chamber unknown to the elders of the church, even to the pontiff himself. [00:55:23] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:55:25] Speaker A: Spell was complete. A summons was cast. [00:55:28] Speaker B: The priests say, rise, infernal one. And from somewhere in the dark void of time, a hellspawn was conjured up and brought forth. [00:55:38] Speaker A: And we get an awesome two page spread of these like priests. [00:55:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Summoning medieval in these, in these flowing robes. And this one guy, tortured hands, is holding this gigantic grimoire, the Johnny. If I saw. If I saw that book laying around, I would be like, again, I'm not touching that. [00:55:58] Speaker A: What's it called in Wicked? [00:55:59] Speaker B: Is it. It's a grimoire, is it not? The grimoire. [00:56:02] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. [00:56:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:03] Speaker A: Well, yeah, I was just making sure. [00:56:05] Speaker B: Oh, I think so. That's just a general name for a magic book, right? [00:56:09] Speaker A: Okay. I don't know. You tell me. [00:56:11] Speaker B: Oh, as far as I know. [00:56:12] Speaker A: Okay. Well, that's what they called him. Wicked too. Motherfucker. [00:56:15] Speaker B: That's because Precedence. I'm gonna. I'm gonna hazard a guess and say that book's probably bound in human skin. [00:56:22] Speaker A: Bound in flesh and blood. [00:56:24] Speaker B: And then, you know, they caught up with Black Phillips brother Brown Herbert and. [00:56:29] Speaker A: Cut his head off and made a candle out of it. [00:56:32] Speaker B: Brown Herbert. [00:56:33] Speaker A: Brown Herbert. [00:56:38] Speaker B: Cuz I wanted, I wanted to mention Stoner Goat. [00:56:40] Speaker A: He's like you could like give me your soul, man. He just. [00:56:44] Speaker B: He just hangs out in the woods and is like man, you want to. [00:56:49] Speaker A: Like give me your soul or something? [00:56:50] Speaker B: He's the. He's the one. The birds all just hang out on his horns because he's so docile. Those. Those parents had no problem with the kids hanging out with Brown Herbert. [00:56:59] Speaker A: No. They'd be down with it. [00:57:01] Speaker B: Medieval spawn is there and he's got like necroplasmic chains holding him down. Yeah. And this is one of the earliest times the medieval spawn. New arcane forces would forever be trying to control his. The Destiny. [00:57:17] Speaker A: Yeah. There's a Z before destiny. Zedesty. [00:57:19] Speaker B: The Destiny. The Destiny calls. Johnny, you must answer. [00:57:25] Speaker A: You must. [00:57:26] Speaker B: You must. [00:57:27] Speaker A: We got our opening quote. [00:57:28] Speaker B: Yes indeed. [00:57:29] Speaker A: Praise be to the Lord and to Satan. [00:57:31] Speaker B: Yeah. And all assembled there are just like wide eyed and just like, yes. Praise be. Praise be. And somebody is asking the dude with the grimoire, you know what kind of savior did they summon? Savior for? What? And they're like, yeah, it's a hell spawn that nobody's seen for like 300 years. [00:57:49] Speaker A: John of York. [00:57:51] Speaker B: And there's a nice little drawing of him. We get a nice little. A nice little note here saying that the last thing John of York remembers before being dragged here before these priests. It was assistance some witch maiden. You know. [00:58:07] Speaker A: See the medieval Swan Witchblade miniseries. That's a nice little throwback. That's fun. [00:58:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Which we now have to cover that Johnny. [00:58:15] Speaker A: Shit. Was. [00:58:16] Speaker B: Was planning on it anyway. At least I was. I don't know about you. [00:58:19] Speaker A: I don't know man. There's so much modern Swan dude. [00:58:22] Speaker B: We gotta. We gotta. This. This has to sustain us through retirement, Johnny. [00:58:27] Speaker A: I know. I know. [00:58:28] Speaker B: And we won't be able to retire until we're like 106. [00:58:31] Speaker A: That's true. I want to become a Bomar Monk. Which are a Star wars species that's very briefly seen in Return of the Jedi. When they walk into Jabba's palace, there's like a spider thing and he goes, but they're monks who take their brains out and put them in jars and walk around in spider bodies. [00:58:47] Speaker B: Interesting. [00:58:48] Speaker A: So I should just do that. [00:58:49] Speaker B: Yeah, that would be great. [00:58:50] Speaker A: And Jabba. Jabba's lets them live there because that was once a monastery that he converted into his palace. Took it over. But he allows them to live there. [00:58:58] Speaker B: He would do something like that, wouldn't he? [00:59:00] Speaker A: Oh, Jabba. [00:59:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:59:02] Speaker A: You're the Jeremy Allen Weiss playing Jabba's son in the mandalorian movie. [00:59:07] Speaker B: What? [00:59:08] Speaker A: Yeah, but that's true. [00:59:13] Speaker B: I'm assuming it's probably gonna be CGI and he's just gonna do the voice. Oh, I was. I was hoping it was gonna be like, him in a. Him in a big slug suit would be awesome. [00:59:23] Speaker A: That'd be hilarious. With like, big, muscular arms. [00:59:27] Speaker B: He's so stressed out. Java's Jabba's son is the one in Clone Wars. [00:59:31] Speaker A: They call him like, stinky or something. Yeah, I can't remember his actual name. [00:59:35] Speaker B: Yeah. And then this. This priest is like hellspawn. You are where fate has beckoned you and what power you possess is ours now and forever. [00:59:46] Speaker A: And prologue. We go back to where we left off last issue where Mark has just slammed his head against the mirror. He's freaking out. Substance style. [00:59:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:59:55] Speaker A: And he's also nominated for many Academy Awards. [00:59:57] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. I heard that what's. What's her face. The young, young Demi Moore and there got snubbed for a. For a nomination. That's sad. [01:00:10] Speaker A: Yeah, she was good. [01:00:12] Speaker B: And then Redeemer and Overtkill are there. [01:00:14] Speaker A: And like, Margaret Qualley is her name, by the way. [01:00:17] Speaker B: Okay, awesome. I never. I never actually knew her name. And you know, again, we get the. The story about. About Mark and, you know, the. The void. [01:00:26] Speaker A: Oh, shit. I was thinking this is the issue. This next issue. That's hilarious. This is still a great issue. [01:00:32] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a great issue. But Marcus. Marcus still wrestling with the void that Medieval left in his brain that made him crack. And in his. In his freak out state, he grabs a piece of glass and jumps it. Overkill. And stabs him right in the chest. [01:00:47] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like, come on, man. What the. [01:00:49] Speaker B: Come on is like, you little. And then there's a Hulk clap and makes him fly back against the wall. [01:00:58] Speaker A: Fuck. Wham. [01:01:01] Speaker B: And Redeemer's like, hey, stop that, Roka. Stop that. And Overkill's just like, next time I'm gonna fucking kill him. Says he snaps his goddamn neck. But, you know, close enough. [01:01:10] Speaker A: So she's. Jessica's basically just been kind of voiceover in the whole time, talking about how she promised she would help Mark and she's gonna accelerate his plans. [01:01:17] Speaker B: Yeah, we cut to her at the. The basement. The. The third sub basement of the agency. She. She goes up to or the 35th floor, one of the two. Or the 35th subfloor. Oh, and she walks up to this door that is guarded by these two goons. [01:01:36] Speaker A: Got a cool scarf. [01:01:37] Speaker B: Yeah, she does. And so. So they're like the security protocols here are pretty advanced. You gotta, you gotta do all this biometric stuff. And so she hand scans, eye scans, presumably does a little beep, boop, beep. [01:01:49] Speaker A: Beep, beep, beep, boop, boop, boop, boop. [01:01:51] Speaker B: Punches in a code. Then the security guards like, what are you doing here, Jessica Priest? Like, you're not paid enough to know. And he's like, okay, fine for me, I guess, I guess you learn in the agency if you're one of these security guards, there are certain questions you have to ask, but you do not ask follow up questions. Because I think, I imagine Jason Nguyen is a boss that if you try to double check to make sure with a follow up question that he's sure of what he's doing, that he doesn't tend to treat you very well. Jessica herself just walks right into the Matrix. [01:02:27] Speaker A: Basically it looks like the Matrix. [01:02:29] Speaker B: Yeah, it does. [01:02:30] Speaker A: Very Matrix. Heavy episode here. [01:02:32] Speaker B: Green lights all over the place. And this is a vault where Jason Wade keeps all of his dirty secrets. So Jessica Priest starts to 90s hacker movie. It just tack attack us. Gets some information that she was looking for. She finds about something called the Black Brotherhood. That sounds sinister. And then, and she's like, okay, I've. I've erased my digital footprint now to get out of here. [01:02:59] Speaker A: Time to run. And then bam. [01:03:02] Speaker B: Yeah, she gets sucker punched there right by Bishop. And he's got his, he's in his two face era. The whole, the whole one side of it is all burned up his face. Charlotte Lynn's there and Bishop is just picking Jessica up and like throwing her against the fucking servers. Like, come on, man. If this is where Jason Nguyen keeps all of his dirty secrets, there's probably not a backup. This is probably the one place the backup. You can't be, you can't be destroying those servers like that. Come on, man. And then Bishop is like, you're lucky. You're lucky that you've got those bombs in your head to keep me from killing you, because I don't want to kill myself. [01:03:39] Speaker A: Remember, they have bombs and one of them dies, the other one dies. Yeah, and they blow you up. Boom, says Anakin Skywalker. [01:03:47] Speaker B: And Jessica Priest is trying to do a little bit of like, she's like, you know, I've killed you once, I'm definitely going to kill you again. And Charlotte Lynn's there, got a gun, a gun out on Jessica, and she's like, come on Bishop, do your job. [01:04:02] Speaker A: More importantly, to continue the streak. She does the Matrix, like fist grab Doesn't Neo do that at one point? Like the Agent Smith? [01:04:08] Speaker B: I think so, because it's. It's when he's moving real fast and it shows that Neo can move as fast. [01:04:15] Speaker A: Right. [01:04:16] Speaker B: Bishop. Bishop is like, I've had enough of you, Charlotte Lynn. And just kicks her right in the face. [01:04:21] Speaker A: Damn. What a dick. [01:04:23] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's like. He says, I can handle this bitch on my own. Ain't that right, Jessica? [01:04:29] Speaker A: Damn, this guy's a piece of shit. [01:04:30] Speaker B: Yeah. And Jessica Priest is like, hey, guess what? Remember that. Remember that time I got shish kebab by. By haunt. Well, that removed all of my bombs. So all I gotta do is stop your heart for a few seconds and guess what? Those bombs are gonna think you're dead. So she does that, and then, like. [01:04:49] Speaker A: She does the Five Point Exploding Heart technique. [01:04:52] Speaker B: Does that make Jessica the bride? [01:04:54] Speaker A: She is the bride. She's Beatrix Kiddo. [01:04:56] Speaker B: And then we see Bishop's eyes get real big and then, blam. [01:05:02] Speaker A: His head blows up and it blows off half of Charlotte wounds. [01:05:05] Speaker B: Yeah. It's amazingly violent. And Jessica Priest is like, I told you I'd kill you a second time, Bishop. And just walks away. And, you know, we get Chekhov's scarf here. It's probably important that that scarf stays behind, Johnny. Oh, we gotta. We gotta pay attention to scarf continuity. [01:05:22] Speaker A: And then, boom. Later, back at. They're all chilling at Scorch headquarters. Just like drinking beer and eating Chinese food or something. [01:05:28] Speaker B: Yeah. They're all. They're all in their. Their civvies. And Jessica Priest walks in in full. She. She spawn regalia. [01:05:34] Speaker A: She's back, baby. [01:05:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man, I forgot it. I forgot Hans real name. I wanted to call him Mark Rosen, but it's not Mark Rosen. [01:05:44] Speaker A: Kurt. [01:05:45] Speaker B: Kurt's like, she's born. What are you doing here? And she says, I'll tell you later. Pack your ship. [01:05:51] Speaker A: We're going to Italy, baby. [01:05:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:54] Speaker A: So she's found out the medieval. The key to Medieval Spawn lies in Italy. And that's where they're going to go. And we cut back to the agency where we got the cleanup guys. This is hilarious. [01:06:05] Speaker B: I love the cleanup guys. They're just like this. This shit. God, why would you. [01:06:09] Speaker A: The agency must be rough. Just tons of dead bodies. [01:06:11] Speaker B: Yeah. And one guy's like, remember that if we don't do this, they're gonna fucking send us to Alaska. So. And then Charlotte Lynn starts moving again. And one of the cleaning guys is like, ah, I think this lady's alive. And then we get Charlotte Lynn starts to do the voiceover instead of Jessica Priest. [01:06:30] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:06:31] Speaker B: And she's tired of wearing this disgusting. [01:06:33] Speaker A: Human meat suit and tired of waiting for revenge. I like how she continues the. The like, narration and dialogue. That's fun. [01:06:41] Speaker B: Yeah. It would be fun to. To be there and just like. Like, you see her just immediately start talking in the middle of a sentence and it would be like, what? [01:06:49] Speaker A: What she's like. I was thinking to myself first. But yes, the viscerator will turn it into a massacre when she tries to rescue him. Yeah. [01:06:59] Speaker B: Tries to rescue Biddy Bull. And that's a. It's a vicious viscerator that we got there. [01:07:05] Speaker A: It cuts off the head of that poor cleaning guy. [01:07:07] Speaker B: Man. Poor cleaning guys can't get a break. [01:07:11] Speaker A: Should have got transferred to. Should have. Would have been better off in Alaska. [01:07:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Should have just gone to Alaska. Then we get scorched skull to end the issue. [01:07:17] Speaker A: But it's not quite over yet, David. We got some spawning grounds. [01:07:20] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:07:20] Speaker A: We do toy art. [01:07:22] Speaker B: And it's toy art. And it is. It is appropriately themed because it's Jessica Priest action figures. [01:07:27] Speaker A: I like the one with the two spawns. And Jessica looks like an album cover. Yeah. I just like. It's funny. There's two spawns. It just cracks me up. [01:07:35] Speaker B: Let's go. And I like the. That first one has like a. Like a skeleton from the Deadite. Army of. Army of Darkness coming after it's. I can just. I can just hear the Danny Elfman theme spooling up. [01:07:50] Speaker A: Then you get a cool recreation of that scorched cover where she's sitting on the motorcycle. Scorch 9, I believe. [01:07:56] Speaker B: Yeah, it does say Scorch 9 right there. [01:07:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:08:00] Speaker B: A very good Thaddeus Roebuck cover. Some good shit, Johnny. Some good shit. [01:08:03] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:08:05] Speaker B: Again, need more spawns universe. I assume so, since you said yes earlier. [01:08:09] Speaker A: Yep. Got the solicits or the advertisements for the next upcoming issues? Image Classics ads there. [01:08:16] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:08:17] Speaker A: But the toy ad is different. [01:08:19] Speaker B: Yeah, It's Warhammer again. [01:08:20] Speaker A: Warhammer 40K. [01:08:22] Speaker B: Yeah. Space Marines there. It's probably a Blood angel, that guy. I don't know about the dude with the mohawk. I don't know what the he is. He looks like he's from the. The Bear clan. [01:08:32] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know what he is either. [01:08:33] Speaker B: Clan of the Cave Bears or whatever that movie is. That's. That's scorched 35, Johnny. [01:08:40] Speaker A: Yeah. Excellent issue. Even though at first I thought we were talking about scorch 36. Yeah, but I mean, still an excellent issue. [01:08:47] Speaker B: It's. It's hard to go wrong with the scorched issue nowadays, Johnny. You know, you know how it is. Yeah, well, I mean, obviously you can hear it. This guy, this little. This little puppy guy here is upset because he wants. He says, I need you to tell me how good of a boy I am. So I think, Johnny, it's time to rate the puppies. [01:09:05] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. [01:09:09] Speaker B: You're a good boy. You're a good boy. You're a good boy. I know you can't hear me, but you're a good boy. [01:09:15] Speaker A: Okay, cool. So first up Today we had Kingspawn 39. One of the last. The last one written by the Todd father, at least for now. So his run is off. He's back on Main Spawn. But this one is, like I said, the art's my favorite part. It's very classic Todd McFarlane of having a fight with a random new enemy with a monologue over it. Kind of going over the characters motivations and just like, kind of like, like unspooling what's been going on recently. Very classic. Happens in Gunslinger. A lot happens in his version of King Spawn. [01:09:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:09:51] Speaker A: But the art really saves it. Not that that's bad. It's just like. It's. It's just. I don't know. It is. It is what it is. [01:09:59] Speaker B: It's very. It's very. Just think about this compared to like. [01:10:04] Speaker A: The cosmic landscapes of early King Spawn. Like, it's just like kind of a bummer sometimes I think. [01:10:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:10:10] Speaker A: But the art's great. It's a fun fight. [01:10:13] Speaker B: Mm. The boys are looking good in it. Yeah. [01:10:15] Speaker A: Sam's Wish. I like the switcheroo he does where he's like the. He does the Hannibal Lecter switcheroo. [01:10:21] Speaker B: Uh huh. I'd be. I'd be interested in the magic behind the little. The little light vial. Yes, that would be a fun avenue. Like, who did. Who did he get it from? Where did they procure it? [01:10:35] Speaker A: Well, I'm gonna give it three out of five. Shoes off. Because the corpse has got its shoes off. Like, this is just a pretty classic, like good Todd McFarlane king spawn. It's one of the better ones. [01:10:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:10:47] Speaker A: But it's still not my favorite. So I'm gonna give it three out of five. [01:10:50] Speaker B: Yeah, I would, I would agree. I'm gonna say it's like the Middle east of the Road, Todd McFarlane comic book issues. It's not great. It's not bad. It's just. It's utilitarian for what he's getting at. But. So I would. I would give it 2.5, but man, that art. That art elevates it. I think I'm gonna give it 3.5 because I love this art so much. I'm gonna give it three and a half. USPS delivery trucks on the side of the street. Gotta love it because I've never heard of Yilduray Sonar until they started doing King Spawn. And now I want to see them doing stuff elsewhere because it's good. It's real good. [01:11:31] Speaker A: It is. It really is. The next up, we had scorch 35. [01:11:35] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:11:36] Speaker A: Not the issue. I thought it was at the beginning because I read a whole bunch of Scorch. I read a whole bunch of Spawn yesterday. I was trying to be a good spawn reader. [01:11:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:11:43] Speaker A: But it's a leading up to the big battle at the Vatican. They're going to Italy. It's leading up to that. [01:11:49] Speaker B: Is that. Was that a Muhammad Ali fight? The battle at the Vatican? [01:11:52] Speaker A: Yes. He fought the Pope. He fought Father Time New Year. He fought the old man at New Year. No, but it's just great. Set up this rescue medieval storyline. I love the cult. I love Jessica being a badass and sneaking into like, it's like very perfect dark. [01:12:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:12:08] Speaker A: Very 90s espionage. But it's great to see her back in action. Ensued at the end. [01:12:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:12:13] Speaker A: This is a great issue. [01:12:15] Speaker B: I loved seeing Bishop get his comeuppance. [01:12:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:12:18] Speaker B: I would give that guy. [01:12:19] Speaker A: Yeah, Bishop. I love his head explodes. This is a really violent way. [01:12:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:12:23] Speaker A: It blows off half of Charlotte wounds head. But yeah, I'm gonna give it four and a half exploding Bishop heads. [01:12:29] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:12:30] Speaker A: But the art of course is amazing. I love when he gets to play with these greens with like the medieval like chains, like and like all the. The really neon greens. He does. And just like love Steven Segovia. One of my favorites. [01:12:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Especially this. This is probably the most menacing medieval spawn that we've ever seen. [01:12:49] Speaker A: Yeah. That early two page spread in the issue. [01:12:51] Speaker B: It's so good. It's so good. I this, it just continues to fire on all cylinders. There's really no other way to explain it. It's so good. I'm also gonna give it four and a half. I'm gonna give it four and a half brown herbert heads because. [01:13:06] Speaker A: Because there's a brown goat in the summoning circle. [01:13:08] Speaker B: So good. So good. [01:13:10] Speaker A: Yeah, it's really great. And the next issue is just killer. [01:13:15] Speaker B: That's those puppies rated Johnny and, well, I guess now we have to fulfill a promise we made earlier in the episode. Johnny. [01:13:24] Speaker A: That's right. It's time to rewind a segment. We haven't done it in a bit. [01:13:27] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. So we're doing. We're doing Todd's Toy Talk for the first time in a long time. Hell yeah. [01:13:33] Speaker A: Todd's Toy Talk. [01:13:46] Speaker B: All right. So just. Just had to go spelunking for. For a toy to open and. Johnny, we've been. We've been sitting on this segment way too long. We need to. [01:13:57] Speaker A: We need to get it going. [01:13:58] Speaker B: Chop chop. But I'm going to open a figure that I got last year. I actually remember pre ordering it. We've been talking a lot about Spawn as stylized cartoon. And I just happen to have a stylized cartoon Spawn figure here. Commando version. Oh, it's. [01:14:21] Speaker A: Yeah. Kills came out last year. There's like, remasters. [01:14:23] Speaker B: Yeah. If the original figure was released in 2007. So it's a. A re release of an old figure. I'm gonna. I'm gonna open it for you now. Let's get that knife out. Just. This is a good clamshell. Very easy to open. [01:14:45] Speaker A: That's good. Yes. This is the Commando Spawn animated style figure from, like, the Adventures of Spawn. I think it only lasts, like, one or two issues. Maybe it's just like a proof. It just might have been just like a proof of concept. [01:15:05] Speaker B: I think it lasted a few more than that, but it didn't last very long. Now it was more of a fun. More of a like slightly made. More like kind of child friendly. But I don't really know how child friendly Spawn can be. So first up, we've got here, Johnny. It comes with a little card that has a picture of the original toy on it. [01:15:27] Speaker A: Nice. [01:15:27] Speaker B: And on the back it says Commando Spawn. Al Simmons is a man cursed after being betrayed by his government and left for dead. He returns to Earth as a hellspawn. But even with access to hellish powers beyond belief, Al can still rely on his training as a soldier and the weapons and tactics that have saved his life dozens of times. So also, appropriately, we're remembering that Al Simmons was a military man man. [01:15:53] Speaker A: Military man tactics very appropriate to the issues it's got. [01:15:57] Speaker B: It's like a 30th anniversary of Spawn. So it's got a 3 and a Spawn orb for the 0. 30 is a nice little touch. It's a fun little card. I'm going to use that as a bookmark. [01:16:07] Speaker A: Nice. That's why I use my cards. [01:16:09] Speaker B: Yeah, getting into it here. Looks like there's a. [01:16:17] Speaker A: All right, so is there a website that takes you to a porn site on that toy? [01:16:21] Speaker B: No, there. There are no QR codes. [01:16:24] Speaker A: NAR probably just tells you to spawn.com, which is not a porn site. [01:16:30] Speaker B: Yeah, my Zoom keeps full screening and not full screen. I have no idea what's going on. [01:16:39] Speaker A: Sounds like you got a presence, David. [01:16:41] Speaker B: Yeah, I must. There's a. Nicole Kidman is here. What? [01:16:44] Speaker A: Oh, I'm pro. [01:16:50] Speaker B: Nicole Kidman Ghost. Hell, yeah. [01:16:51] Speaker A: She'd be a good she spawn. [01:16:53] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, she would. And her most recent movie, we know that she would be very convincing and being aroused by killing. [01:17:04] Speaker A: I don't know anything about that movie. [01:17:06] Speaker B: Oh, don't spoil it. I've only seen the trailer, but it's the. The one where she. She's the CEO and she. Baby girl starts a. Yeah, that one. [01:17:17] Speaker A: She kills people in it. [01:17:18] Speaker B: Oh, no, she. She has lots of sex in it. [01:17:22] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [01:17:22] Speaker B: It is aroused by her. Her young intern. [01:17:25] Speaker A: I thought you're saying she kills people in that. [01:17:27] Speaker B: Oh, no, no, no, no. I was. I was leaning more into the original Jessica Caprice arousal story. [01:17:33] Speaker A: Right. The fires in her loins. [01:17:36] Speaker B: Yeah. So we got this figure coming out here. We're gonna get some of that good old smell. That 2024 air smells like Joe Brandon. [01:17:47] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [01:17:49] Speaker B: So he's minimally articulated, so basically only his arms and his head move. His head doesn't even move, so basically only his arms move, which is just fine for me because I don't need lots of articulation. He's a nice chunky boy here. He stands real nice, and then he's got, like, this backpack. Gatling gun. Gun. [01:18:10] Speaker A: Oh, sweet. [01:18:12] Speaker B: On the back, it's got this gigantic peg, so it's not going to fall out of. Look how big that is. Hey, it goes. It goes like, all the way through his heart. [01:18:21] Speaker A: Nice and sturdy. [01:18:23] Speaker B: Yeah, that's a nice. It's a nice flexible thing. Let's get this gun in his hand. [01:18:32] Speaker A: Yeah, I had some of these pre ordered, but then I canceled them because I was, like, trying to purge, having so much stuff. But I've got some toys to open. We can do some stuff in the next few weeks. [01:18:42] Speaker B: Yeah, I just. I just committed to basically having these be the last ones I order for a real long time. [01:18:47] Speaker A: Got a stockpile. [01:18:49] Speaker B: Yeah, but it's hard because when you have a spawn podcast and nobody and people don't know what to get you for your birthday or Christmas, they're just like, yeah, I'll get you some spot stuff. And it's like, please, please, with the love of God. Oh, I'm having a hell of a time getting into his hand. [01:19:03] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Go in, go in. [01:19:08] Speaker B: It's like, it's like too closed up top for the. Ah, there it goes. I got it in there. I gotta turn it. Oh, that's the problem. I gotta turn it. There it goes, There it goes. All right, there we go. We got, we got Al Simmons. He's got his Gatling gun. He's got grenades on his shoulders. He's got a bandolier, he's got a big knife, he's got pouches. He's got two feet that are the same size. Oh, that is a. That is a nice solid figure, Johnny. [01:19:37] Speaker A: That's great. Big chunky boy. [01:19:38] Speaker B: Look at him. [01:19:39] Speaker A: I love that. [01:19:40] Speaker B: That's awesome. So great. He's got kind of the bane from Batman and Robin proportions, which he does. As we know. I'm pro Bane from Batman and Robin. [01:19:51] Speaker A: Monkey business. Well, that's a great figure. Yeah, I'll figure out something to open up next time. [01:20:01] Speaker B: I'll have to get some pictures of this guy so we can put it in the episode. [01:20:07] Speaker A: Episode image. [01:20:09] Speaker B: And speaking of pictures of toys, Johnny. Yes, we, we, you know, when we get the opportunity, we like to help promote people who we can follow on Instagram and are inspawn proper. So everybody knows that we like a spawn the movie figure. It's a great figure. So our shout out this week is going to be at Cavernado Sponkos. That's C A V E R N A D O S B O N E, C O s. If one of those blancos. Yeah, and they've got, I mean, they got hella action figures, Johnny. They got a lot of Batman. They got a good amount of spawn. They got, ooh, a Superman. I like Superman. They got the Phantom with his little zebra print undies. [01:21:06] Speaker A: Dracula. [01:21:07] Speaker B: Oh, speaking of Batman and Robin, he's got Dr. Freeze. Not the movie. Dr. Freeze, the comic Dr. Free. [01:21:13] Speaker A: Mr. Freeze. [01:21:14] Speaker B: Doctor. Yeah, it is Mr. Shit. [01:21:17] Speaker A: Even though he's a doctor. Isn't that crazy? [01:21:20] Speaker B: Yes. [01:21:21] Speaker A: He should be pissed. Maybe that's why he's so mad. Yeah, I love this shadow figure. The shadow. [01:21:26] Speaker B: He's got that remastered first the. That Kickstarter original spawn figure redo. Oh, man. Oh, that is a. That is a nice figure, Johnny. [01:21:38] Speaker A: He's got some cool figs. Yeah, give him a follow. [01:21:41] Speaker B: Hell yeah. The ghost who walks. I, I appreciate anybody who's a fan of The Phantom. Phantom. [01:21:47] Speaker A: I know you are. You're a fan of the Phantom. [01:21:49] Speaker B: Yeah, I wonder, I wonder if that means he's Australian, because as we know. Oh, he's Brazilian, because as we know from. From Rob Dwayneus Scratchcraft himself, the Phantom is still big in Australia. [01:22:01] Speaker A: Interesting. Yeah, that's right. He did say that. [01:22:03] Speaker B: Cool. [01:22:04] Speaker A: We'll give him a follow. And while you're following him on Instagram, be sure to give us a follow. We are regarding Spawn Pod on Instagram. Come drop us a line. If you want to drop us a longer line, like an email, you hit us up at. Regarding SpawnPod gmail.com. every week I like to ask a question to spur those thoughts. And this week I would say, what are your thoughts on the Matrix trilogy? Are you pro the sequels? You anti sequel? I guess it's more not a trilogy. It's a quadrilogy. Now a made up word, but it's a quadrilogy. [01:22:37] Speaker B: What are you gonna. What are you gonna do about it, Tony? Oh, I forgot to mention, it also comes with a base, this toy, but. [01:22:41] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [01:22:42] Speaker B: Got such a wide stance. It doesn't really need the base. [01:22:44] Speaker A: It doesn't really need a base. I like them all. They're all great. [01:22:48] Speaker B: My thoughts on. On the Matrix are. It's hard to say anything about it because it's so fundamental to our current understanding of the entire world. [01:22:58] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, they're monumental in pop culture. [01:23:01] Speaker B: Yeah. So it might not have created a lot of the ideas that it presents. So it's not like played a lot of homage to philosophies that came before it, but it is like the urtext for what we have to deal with in daily life a lot now. So it's, it's monumental and it's excellent. And every time I see what's his face eating that Matrix steak, I want to eat that steak. [01:23:29] Speaker A: Joey Panel on Pants. [01:23:31] Speaker B: That's right. [01:23:32] Speaker A: It's not Panellonis. I don't know what his last name is. [01:23:34] Speaker B: I just call him Pants because I don't remember how. [01:23:36] Speaker A: Joey Pants. [01:23:38] Speaker B: It's very Italian to drop the last bit of a word off. [01:23:42] Speaker A: Yeah. Please make sure to rate, review and subscribe wherever you can. Wherever you get podcasts. [01:23:48] Speaker B: Yes. [01:23:49] Speaker A: Tell your friends, family and coworkers while you're on the Internet if you want to look up Lonnie Bones. He does our music. [01:23:55] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. With a Y. I guess. I guess we should have said Johnny. While you're plugged into the Matrix. [01:24:03] Speaker A: While you're plugged into the Matrix. Let's plug in again next week, David. What are we gonna plug into? [01:24:08] Speaker B: Absolutely. Let us do some plugging in. You know, it might not be the real world, but it is definitely the world that I have so much. So much fun being in. And I don't know if you can tell by the fact that I've got this huge shit eating grin on my face, Johnny, but you might be able to guess what we're gonna read for next week. [01:24:28] Speaker A: Is it Rat City? [01:24:30] Speaker B: It is Rat City number eight in Salmon Twitch case files. Number eight. [01:24:34] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:24:35] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Oh, man, speaking of the Matrix. That's right in that cyberpunk vein. Hell yeah. So, yeah. Oh, man, that's gonna be great. Talk about firing on all cylinders. And that's the. I do believe that is the extra large, but still only 299 episode of that or issue of that arc. [01:24:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Cool, let's read those. [01:24:58] Speaker B: Let's read eight. Hell yeah. Okay, let's. Let's avoid as many eights next to eights as possible right now, Johnny. [01:25:06] Speaker A: Oh, sorry. [01:25:07] Speaker B: We don't need that. We don't need that Internet. [01:25:10] Speaker A: I was thinking. I forgot that means Heil Hitler. I was thinking the crazy 88s from Kill Bill. [01:25:15] Speaker B: Yeah, so. [01:25:16] Speaker A: Well, yeah. [01:25:18] Speaker B: Fuck Nazis. We don't need them. [01:25:20] Speaker A: Don't need them. [01:25:22] Speaker B: Superman and Captain America literally spent their entire careers punching them. And who are we to say that Captain America and Superman are wrong? [01:25:30] Speaker A: Not me. They're gonna kick my ass. [01:25:31] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Please punch all the Nazis. And on that note, Johnny, while we cook up some more stuff to talk about Spawn next week, I think I've run out of things to say. Except for may the scorched be with you. [01:25:44] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:25:46] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:25:47] Speaker A: Hell yeah. I love that animated style on that commando spawn figures. [01:25:52] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real good. [01:25:54] Speaker A: It reminds me of the Gendy Kharkovsky Clone Wars. [01:25:57] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Yeah. [01:25:58] Speaker A: You watch those? [01:26:00] Speaker B: I haven't yet. No. They're on. They're. [01:26:02] Speaker A: They're really good. [01:26:03] Speaker B: I've heard that they're really good. [01:26:04] Speaker A: It's also a spawn Candy Harkovsky Spawn. Have we said that before? I feel like we said that before. [01:26:09] Speaker B: Yeah, I think we have. He's also got the Johnny Bravo proportions. He just needs a big pompadour. I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna have to make a pompadour to put on him and make him put a little speech bubble that says. [01:26:23] Speaker A: Hey, mama, talking to the Jessica figure. [01:26:27] Speaker B: Oh, man. Man, we really do need some. [01:26:30] Speaker A: Some cartoony spawn yeah, let's get gimme Karkovsky on here. [01:26:33] Speaker B: Like, not even, like, adult animation spawn. Give me some Saturday morning cartoon spawn that if I were a child, my mom would have watched it with me and been like, yeah, this is actually pretty dope. [01:26:45] Speaker A: Yeah, I would love to see something like that. The HBO show is like, you. I'm gonna. You in your eye socket. It's so intense. [01:26:52] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's. Yeah. The clown is vile. Yeah, he is the violator. I guess. [01:27:01] Speaker A: That'S what they say. [01:27:21] Speaker B: Sa.