Episode 127 - King Spawn 40 and Scorched 36

[00:00:00] Speaker A: You don't know how long I've been waiting for this day. You took everything from me, you piece of everything. Good evening and welcome to the Malibols. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I was trying a new way to say it. [00:00:49] Speaker B: It was nice. It was lovely. It was wonderful. [00:00:51] Speaker A: Thank you. I am your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:54] Speaker B: And I am your co host, David. What? [00:00:59] Speaker A: Your name's David Fisher? Yeah, we got married over Valentine's Day, guys. [00:01:02] Speaker B: That's why. That's. That was the little bit of life that happened, Johnny. And I was smoochin'and it turned into a. I am an ordained minister and I married us on the spot. [00:01:14] Speaker A: I'm an ordained minister too, so we married each other at the same time. So we're double married. [00:01:19] Speaker B: So come and get our marriage government. [00:01:25] Speaker A: Yeah, come get us, Donald Trump. [00:01:27] Speaker B: Yeah, I thought you were. I actually thought you were gonna say Donald Duck and then go, and that would have been accurate. [00:01:32] Speaker A: Come get us, Donald Duck. No, Pan. [00:01:37] Speaker B: Man. I can't get into Donald ducking. I've just this. It just feels like you're wearing less when you're only wearing a T shirt. [00:01:45] Speaker A: You know, it's weird. [00:01:47] Speaker B: It's. It's not good. Speaking of Donald ducking, Johnny, look at. Look at this segue. I just had a. I just had a thought. And you know six degrees of Kevin Bacon, right? [00:02:00] Speaker A: Yes. [00:02:00] Speaker B: So I have fewer degrees of separation, potentially between myself and George Lucas than you do. [00:02:09] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah. Because remember that my uncle worked for Lucasfilm. I'm kidding. [00:02:14] Speaker B: Oh, God. [00:02:15] Speaker A: The classic kid thing to say in the 90s. [00:02:17] Speaker B: Because that Pug that I. That I had fostered a while ago, Ms. Puggy. Snort snort, who was very loud on the record, if you remember, lived in the same building that George Lucas owns two floors of in town. So it's very possible that the very dog that I held onto in her last moments got a couple of head pats from old Georgie Porgy himself. Maybe even some leftover mall spaghetti. [00:02:44] Speaker A: Maybe she was the inspiration for Babu Frick. [00:02:47] Speaker B: Actually, maybe she did have some impressions. Whiskers. Impressive. [00:02:53] Speaker A: He had nothing to do with that movie. [00:02:55] Speaker B: Except for. Obviously except for the cash he got. [00:03:00] Speaker A: He already got the cash. [00:03:02] Speaker B: Oh, so he doesn't get anything on. [00:03:04] Speaker A: I don't think so. He bought it for like $4 billion. Like, I think that he just bought. [00:03:08] Speaker B: It outright, but it's still got his name on it. Right. [00:03:13] Speaker A: Based on characters created by George Lucas. [00:03:15] Speaker B: Because I thought there was something about that. You're entitled to Some sort of monetary compensation, if you might appears in the credits. [00:03:23] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, I think it says based on Start. Either says based on Star wars created by George Lucas or based on characters created by George Lucas. One of the two. He helped out with the Mandalorian a little bit. [00:03:34] Speaker B: Nice. By that you mean he came in and did jokes on. Oh, fuck, what's his name? Dave Filoni. Yeah, he did. He did. [00:03:44] Speaker A: There's a picture of him with the baby Yoda puppet. That's pretty cute. [00:03:47] Speaker B: So, man, I would like to see pictures of George Lucas hanging out with Werner Herzog. I wonder what they would talk about. They would actually probably talk about mall cafeteria spaghetti, wouldn't they? Yeah, that's something. [00:04:03] Speaker A: He evidently also visited the solo set because he came up with the bit that Han Solo drops on Orlando's capes when he's, like, messing around with them. According to Ron Howard. He said that he came by the set and came up with that bit of business. [00:04:16] Speaker B: It was just. He touched something and it fell and he was like, no, I meant to do that. It's. It's a joke for the movie. [00:04:22] Speaker A: He's always trying to make Han look stupid. It's hilarious. He made him, like, the coolest of the first two movies. And then like, Return of the Jedi. He's just a idiot. Yeah, he's like. Yeah. I don't know. [00:04:35] Speaker B: He's just an old guy who's just like. It's just a big beast down at the bottom of that. That. That ship there. [00:04:41] Speaker A: He just. He just. Oh, I'm talking about Return of the Jedi. [00:04:43] Speaker B: Oh, not the last. Oh, the Force Awakens. [00:04:45] Speaker A: He's not idiot in the Force Awakens. Sorry. I'm not. I'm. I'm sorry. He's a big idiot in Return of the Jedi. [00:04:50] Speaker B: Okay. [00:04:51] Speaker A: Because he doesn't have anything to do. [00:04:53] Speaker B: Well, I mean. [00:04:53] Speaker A: But also, like, sits around. [00:04:55] Speaker B: He just got. He just got thawed out of carbonite, Johnny. He's disoriented. He's discombobulated, I guess. [00:05:02] Speaker A: Yeah. You do have fewer degrees separation to George Lucas than me. That's great. [00:05:05] Speaker B: Oh, man. I'm gonna. I'm gonna lord that over you until you meet him and I no longer have the leverage. Even though this is just a. You definitely have more Star wars, probably. Yeah, you've definitely, Definitely. You've fewer. So that means you were definitely closer to. [00:05:26] Speaker A: I met Thomas Healy in person at spawncon. That's one degree of separation right there. [00:05:30] Speaker B: But we both. We both did. I guess you did meet or Zukowski twice, and I've only met him once. [00:05:38] Speaker A: You also did an episode of a podcast with Thomas Healey. [00:05:41] Speaker B: Oh, but no, but you. But that didn't. You've met Thomas Healy twice too, so you've got a stronger correction. [00:05:46] Speaker A: That's true. [00:05:48] Speaker B: You talked. You talked. You gave him a book recommendation. I didn't even get a book recommendation. [00:05:52] Speaker A: He wrote it down in his notebook. [00:05:54] Speaker B: Oh, nice. That's. That's a. That's a success. [00:05:56] Speaker A: Honestly, right before I see him post stuff. He would really dig that book. [00:06:01] Speaker B: What we need to do is we need to find his. We need to find his P.O. box and just send him a copy so he doesn't have to bother trying to find it. Because it's a hard to find. [00:06:09] Speaker A: It is. It's like a $26 paperback. [00:06:11] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Because I mean, the only place you. I can really find it is Amazon. And then it's like used, but since it's out of print, it's jacked up. [00:06:21] Speaker A: That's fucked up. [00:06:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:23] Speaker A: Oh, they're finally reprinting. I'm so happy because they. I've always wanted a copy, but in the 80s, Joe Bob Briggs wrote a book, Joe Bob Goes to the Drive In. That's like a bunch of review. A bunch collected reviews that he used to do, like syndicated in papers. [00:06:37] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:06:37] Speaker A: I hated him for. And they're re releasing it. Dark Horse is doing a new edition of it. [00:06:44] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:06:45] Speaker A: I pre ordered it on Amazon. [00:06:46] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Awesome. [00:06:48] Speaker A: Probably should have pre ordered it through my comic shop, but I didn't think about that. [00:06:52] Speaker B: Well, Johnny, I mean, there's always time. [00:06:54] Speaker A: That's true. [00:06:55] Speaker B: I wonder who's you. I bet there's probably some prominent comics person doing the COVID since it's a Dark Horse production. [00:07:03] Speaker A: It's. There's illustrations inside, but I think the COVID is the same cover that it was in the 80s. [00:07:10] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:07:11] Speaker A: Okay, I'm pretty sure. Which is just like pictures of young Joe Bob. [00:07:15] Speaker B: I know a lot of comics folks enjoy terrible movies. Yeah. And that Joe Bob introduces a lot of terrible movies. [00:07:24] Speaker A: It's just hilarious. He was talking in one of his shows or an interview, I can't remember which. But in one of his modern shows, and he was saying it was funny because back in the day, because he was covering like sleazy movies, it was all these conservatives that like, were trying to quote, unquote, cancel him. [00:07:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:07:39] Speaker A: Back in the day in like the 80s and 90s. And he said now that he, like, because of the way, you know, he presents himself Talks and stuff. Now it's the other way around. And now the. The woke left is trying to cancel. [00:07:51] Speaker B: Him because he dresses like a cowpoke. [00:07:54] Speaker A: No, I can't remember why. There was some shit during the pandemic because like some old articles of his, you just came up and he like evidently wrote for Tacky Mag, which was a conservative magazine. But it's like, it's just a magazine, folks. People can make magazines. [00:08:12] Speaker B: And I mean for them especially, especially back then it was. I mean, do you want it? Do you want to get paid or do you want to be poor? [00:08:20] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. [00:08:21] Speaker B: That's. [00:08:21] Speaker A: That's what he said. He's like, I'm a journal. I'm like for hire journalists. I just needed money. So that's why I wrote stuff in that. [00:08:29] Speaker B: But I mean, I mean like fucking. That's. That. That would be like being upset at Paul Harvey because basically only conservative radio carried his little news program. [00:08:42] Speaker A: Well, I think like also just like the nature of movies he covers is kind of like, you know. Yeah, he does like play into the jokes of like sexualizing women sometimes. And. But we love Joe Bob. [00:08:55] Speaker B: Yeah, but that's, that's a. That's a. An overriding cultural thing. [00:09:00] Speaker A: He's also kind of playing a character, like a, you know, like Elvira or something. [00:09:04] Speaker B: Are you telling me that the celebrities that are face face celebrities go up and it's not really them? You're telling me that Ozzy isn't actually Ozzy. His name is actually John and he's a different person entirely. How dare you. [00:09:16] Speaker A: Yes, Joe Bob Briggs name is John Bloom too. [00:09:19] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Oh, so. So if. If. If everybody who's famous is actual name is John and their stage name is something else. What are you hiding, Johnny? [00:09:29] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:09:31] Speaker B: What is. What is your actual name, sir? [00:09:34] Speaker A: My jellicle name? [00:09:37] Speaker B: Well, no, I don't want you to ascend to heaven. Come on. [00:09:40] Speaker A: No. Cats have. There's. They explain in one of the songs. The cats have three different names that you can name. The family calls them the name they call themselves and their angelicle name. [00:09:52] Speaker B: That's actually pretty awesome. [00:09:56] Speaker A: I'm glad I'm explaining cats on this a spawn podcast. [00:09:59] Speaker B: I. I ostensibly have watched the. The stage recording production of Cats a couple of times, but I remember good. I remember all about it. All I remember is memory. I don't even remember the rest of the song. [00:10:16] Speaker A: That's all you remember? [00:10:17] Speaker B: That's all I remember. And. Oh, an accident. [00:10:21] Speaker A: An accident. The humans had an accident. [00:10:23] Speaker B: There's Never was there ever a cat so clever as magical Mr. Mistoffeles. I also remember that. [00:10:28] Speaker A: That's true. Hell yeah, that's true. [00:10:30] Speaker B: And we all say, oh, well, I never was there ever. I can't stop. Clever as magical, mysterious. Come on. The. That's all. That's all I remember. I haven't. [00:10:46] Speaker A: Get this weird AI David where, like, Jesus comes up behind to hug a pet and it morphs into a human and hugs him back. I'll send you a couple. They're AI generated. But Brandon Tom found them, of course, and started sending them to me, and now they've infected my feed. [00:11:01] Speaker B: Oh, what. Johnny, have we considered. So in reference to the. That classic what if Jesus Came Back? Like that song, I do believe that was Colin Ray, not Colin Ray. Colin something. [00:11:18] Speaker A: Is that a Christian song from the 90s? [00:11:20] Speaker B: It's a. It's a. It's a country song that ostensibly is very, very Christian. But what if the next coming of Christ is as a new organism, an artificially intelligent organism, A skynet, if you will. I don't know. [00:11:39] Speaker A: That sounds like a spawn villain to me. [00:11:42] Speaker B: Jesus. Jesus on the Main Line. It could be Jesus on the Main Line, Johnny. [00:11:48] Speaker A: I don't know what you're referring to. [00:11:49] Speaker B: That's. That's a. It's a. Oh, so the Jesus on the Main Line is a song that. That Woody from Quantum and Woody references all the time. Quant. Quantum. Quantum. And Woody is a fantastic early 90s comic book about two brothers, two adoptive brothers whose dads die, and he was a quantum physicist, and they're going through all of his old shit after the funeral, and they find these power bands that they put on, and unless they knock the power bands together every 24 hours, they disassociate into particles. Okay, so. So adaptive brothers. And they're also estranged, so they're just like grumble, grumble, grumble, clang, grumble, grumble, grumble. And Quantum is very well put together and well spoken. And Woody is just a idiot. And it's great. [00:12:40] Speaker A: Kind of like Goofus and Gallant. [00:12:42] Speaker B: Kind of. Kind of. Only a more crude. More rude. Crude and tacky, if you will. [00:12:48] Speaker A: Rude, Crude and tacky. [00:12:50] Speaker B: Yeah. Jesus. [00:12:52] Speaker A: Well, you know who's not rude, crude and tacky? Well, he kind of is. [00:12:55] Speaker B: I was about to say nobody. Nobody we're about to talk about. [00:12:58] Speaker A: That's for sure, actually. I mean, Al's kind of rude, crude and tacky. I guess in the scorched. I mean, overkill would be rude, crude and tacky. [00:13:12] Speaker B: Yeah, overkill would Definitely be the. The crudest. [00:13:19] Speaker A: I'm not talking the crudes. [00:13:21] Speaker B: The. Oh, man. There should be a spawn. Crude crossover. Could you imagine a caveman spawn? Oh, Johnny, I need caveman spawn. [00:13:30] Speaker A: Caveman spawn. That'd be cool. [00:13:32] Speaker B: Or would technically caveman spawn have been before Kane, so. Or no, because of if that was, like, the first family and that was already post caveman times. What happened to the cavemans? [00:13:46] Speaker A: They went out and became caveman in the Garden of Eden. [00:13:48] Speaker B: There's a real. There's a real continuity error. [00:13:50] Speaker A: They're on their way to become caveman when he killed his brother. [00:13:53] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:13:54] Speaker A: Or left the Garden of Eden or. [00:13:56] Speaker B: That was the invention of the stone tool. [00:13:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:13:59] Speaker B: I mean, it was Una bunga. [00:14:03] Speaker A: Oh, God. [00:14:04] Speaker B: Yeah, that's probably that. That probably would have been the first utterance of the term. Oh, God, Johnny. [00:14:12] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:14:12] Speaker B: Getting that. Hitting that head with that. That rock with. [00:14:17] Speaker A: Yes. [00:14:18] Speaker B: With Kane's favorite weapon. That probably also means that the Rock is his favorite wrestler, too, doesn't it? [00:14:24] Speaker A: Probably. [00:14:26] Speaker B: He says, I can smell what the Rock is cooking. Yes. Yes. It smells like necroplasm because everything smells like necroplasm to him. [00:14:33] Speaker A: Yeah. Because he is rude, crude, and tacky. We're talking about some rude, crude, and tacky folks this week on. Regarding Spawn, where each week we bring you two issues from Spawn's universe. Except when we don't, and this week is no different. We have the rude, crude, and tacky Mr. Albert Simmons. [00:14:51] Speaker B: Yes. [00:14:52] Speaker A: And he is rude in this. He ruins a man's life. [00:14:54] Speaker B: He does. And the man. The man who. The man whose life he ruins turns into the. The tackiest. [00:15:01] Speaker A: Yes. [00:15:02] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:15:03] Speaker A: This is Alistair Albert Simmons in king spawn number 40. It's 40, baby. It's over the hill. [00:15:08] Speaker B: It's. It's 40. It's a man. [00:15:12] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm a man. I'm 40. [00:15:16] Speaker B: Just counting down the days until I can buy that shirt and wear it all day for my birthday. Johnny. [00:15:21] Speaker A: I got about a year. [00:15:23] Speaker B: I got three years. Three years. [00:15:25] Speaker A: Congratulations, Youngin. [00:15:27] Speaker B: Maybe. Maybe we can buy the same shirt. Just share it. That's what we should have done before. [00:15:34] Speaker A: The first two years, and then you. [00:15:36] Speaker B: Can have it because we're. Is Bran, like, right between us? Because we could each. We could just buy the one shirt and share it amongst all of us. [00:15:45] Speaker A: Yeah, I think Bran's right between us. Or maybe the same age as me. [00:15:49] Speaker B: Oh, that would be wonderful. [00:15:51] Speaker A: So king spawn number 40, and our second issue up today is scorched 36. And let me Tell you, David. [00:16:00] Speaker B: I just recently edited the episode in which you confused scorch 35 for scorch 36. And so I am very excited to hear your takes on this particular issue of Scorched Johnny. [00:16:12] Speaker A: It's great. I mean, these. Both these issues are awesome. No spoilers. [00:16:16] Speaker B: They're so goddamn good. [00:16:17] Speaker A: I was like, holy. This is crazy. This is like why we. This is why we do this. Homer Simpson. [00:16:22] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. [00:16:25] Speaker A: It's really good, really exciting stories. And they're just. This King Spawn one really plays with the format. And like. [00:16:34] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:16:35] Speaker A: Just ask the big question of, like, what is Spawn's collateral damage? It's really interesting and really cool. [00:16:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:40] Speaker A: And 36 on the scorch is just what you want from Scorch. It's big mission, action packed. The scores are back together. Going to the Vatican. [00:16:49] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's the. Maybe. Maybe Johnny. Maybe Johnny. This is the source of the old Pontiff's double or bilateral pneumonia right now. [00:17:00] Speaker A: He's just got. [00:17:01] Speaker B: He's got some haunt particle in there. [00:17:05] Speaker A: The Pope is sick as we're recording. [00:17:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:08] Speaker A: Oh, and I forgot to mention. King spawn is from November 2024, and scorch is from December. November 24th. [00:17:15] Speaker B: Holy. The COVID The COVID says December. [00:17:20] Speaker A: I think it's just a typo. I think it's December because the COVID. [00:17:23] Speaker B: The COVID also doesn't have the correct writer name on it. [00:17:29] Speaker A: Oh, you're right. [00:17:33] Speaker B: Whoops. Whoopsie. Somebody. Somebody just like uploaded the form. The. The form. King Spawn out outlay or layout? And we're like, yeah, that's the right one, right? Yeah. Okay, let's go. [00:17:47] Speaker A: Yeah, let's go print it. I mean, they are making a lot of comics. [00:17:50] Speaker B: It's. It's hard enough just keeping straight, making goof them ups about the books that have already been produced. Johnny. I can't imagine the sort of technical actual production putting it together. [00:18:04] Speaker A: Yeah, it's got to be a daunting, never ending task. [00:18:07] Speaker B: Like, not as. Not as bad as putting together a. A book to put to print on the Gutenberg Press. But definitely, definitely. Pretty big. [00:18:21] Speaker A: Pretty big. [00:18:21] Speaker B: Pretty big. [00:18:22] Speaker A: We'll start with that big number 40, king spawn. [00:18:24] Speaker B: Let's do it. The big four. Oh, this is spot. This is King Spawn's midlife crisis here. I mean, this is the one where he buys a red. A candy apple red sports car and then almost immediately crashes it. [00:18:41] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm about there 39, like a week. So less than a week. [00:18:49] Speaker B: Yeah, almost. Yeah. Yeah. [00:18:52] Speaker A: My knees Hurt just thinking about it. [00:18:54] Speaker B: Take some. Take some ibuprofen, Johnny. [00:18:57] Speaker A: It'll help. [00:18:58] Speaker B: It's the over 35 vitamin of choice. [00:19:02] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, yeah. I'm staring down my mortality now as I take it away with issues of Spawn. Like Spawn through the Hourglass. So go the Days of Our Lives. Oh, man. You watch Days of Our Lives? [00:19:19] Speaker B: No, but they should definitely make a Spawn flavored soap opera. That would be wonderful. Could you imagine. Could you imagine just your. Your grandma spending all day on the couch watching the exploits of Terry Fitzgerald and Albert Simmons fighting, vying for the. [00:19:36] Speaker A: Affection of Wanda Passions had some, like, supernatural elements to it. You ever heard of this? The soap opera Passions? [00:19:45] Speaker B: I've heard of them. I've heard of it. I don't. Yeah, I don't. [00:19:48] Speaker A: I think Days of Our Lives is still on. [00:19:50] Speaker B: I think General Hospital is still on, too. I think that Just One recently won an award for being, like, the longest running soap opera or something like that. I don't know. Soap operas and comic books have a lot in common. [00:20:04] Speaker A: They do? [00:20:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Like, most. Most episodes of soap opera progress the plot by, like, three seconds because you have to have a little bit of each. Each bit that's going on. [00:20:19] Speaker A: Right, right. And they also end on cliffhangers and have, like, callbacks and, like, characters come back and, like. Yeah, very similar. [00:20:29] Speaker B: I'm here for it. We should. We should petition to have a Spawn flavored soap opera. [00:20:33] Speaker A: We got a Spawn flavored King Swan, and we always start with the covers. [00:20:36] Speaker B: It is a great taste. That tastes great. Johnny. [00:20:39] Speaker A: I've got the Thaddeus Roebuck cover. [00:20:41] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:20:42] Speaker A: The A cover. [00:20:44] Speaker B: Got that. A cover. [00:20:47] Speaker A: He's like Spawn smashing. He's like Spawn smash. Yeah, he's, like, busting through the ground. [00:20:51] Speaker B: Or kind of ground. Kind of a little bit like that. Like that Spider man cover where he's, like, holding up the sewer that's falling on him. Only. Only he's busting through the ground. [00:21:08] Speaker A: There's a bunch of bones everywhere. [00:21:11] Speaker B: Like, I guess it's more akin to. It's like he was buried and he's busting out of a. He's busting out of a grave. Yeah. [00:21:19] Speaker A: I don't like his. But yeah. Or he was like, a bunch of bones fell on top of him. [00:21:24] Speaker B: Has that happened in Spin in any Spawn comic yet, Johnny? That somebody's used their. Their. Their mortal remains to escape from hell, and then they bust up out of a. Oh, I guess Nyx literally just did that, didn't she? Okay. [00:21:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Nick's Just did that in the issue. [00:21:40] Speaker B: That's a good idea. I'm glad that they had it. I've got the. The COVID B. The Marco Faya cover. And it's. It's just. I got it because I know you were getting the A cover, and I figured we should get coverage because I didn't feel overwhelmingly a sense to get either one of them because they're both pretty solid. But this one is just. It's Spawn. And the black part of his. His. His uniform is just skulls, just piles of bodies. It's so many skulls. [00:22:13] Speaker A: All the people he's killed, so all the death he's left in his wake. [00:22:18] Speaker B: Yeah, it's good. It's good. I like it. I like the heavy inking on it. It's real nice. [00:22:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Both solid Spawn covers. [00:22:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:27] Speaker A: We pop it open and we got the credits, and they're different. [00:22:34] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness. [00:22:35] Speaker A: Because King Spawn is no longer being written by Todd McFarlane, is now script plot by Rory McConville. [00:22:40] Speaker B: It's just additional scripted by Todd McFarlane. [00:22:42] Speaker A: Additional script by Todd McFarlane. Art by Yildiray Sennaar. Color by Ivan Nunes. Lettering by AIM World Design Cover artist, Estaddy's Roebuck. Oh, wait. We already covered the. I don't know. I don't read the COVID artist. Why did I do that? We already covered the covers. Creative director is Todd McFarlane. Editor in Chief is Thomas Healey. [00:23:04] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:23:05] Speaker A: Previously in King Spawn. Still powerless, Spawn continues to bring the fight to those seeking to enslave humanity. Enslaved. Spelled wrong. [00:23:17] Speaker B: And that's. That's how you would spell it if you were turning the word enslave into a corporate name. Like Enslave is an engine competitor. Enslave wants to turn the. The dinosaurs that they reconstitute into beasts of burden. [00:23:34] Speaker A: Yes. It opens with our opening quote of the episode. [00:23:38] Speaker B: Yeah, that's a. That's not something we do very often, Johnny. Opening with the. The very first thing we read in the issue. [00:23:46] Speaker A: Yeah. And someone yelling at Spawn. He says, you took everything from you piece of everything. [00:23:51] Speaker B: And John. John Spawn is. Is beat up and. And looking a little ragged on the floor of this. This warehouse. He's got, like. He's got his teeth bared, but that's because his flight. His face is just, like, gone. [00:24:08] Speaker A: Yeah, his mask face is just ripped. Yeah, he's looking pretty down for the count. [00:24:14] Speaker B: Yeah, he is. No, no spikys up the arms on this one, though, Johnny. So. No, the idea of that is dashed sad. Then we cut to two months earlier the night Hell's War ended. And we're. [00:24:34] Speaker A: We're at a wedding. [00:24:35] Speaker B: We're at a wedding. And Johnny. Oh, man, a wedding is nice from time to time, don't you think? [00:24:41] Speaker A: I like going to a wedding. [00:24:42] Speaker B: I like going to a wedding. They're real fun. I didn't appreciate them as much the, the first time around when everybody was getting married because I was like, oh, there's so many of them. I don't want to leave the house. And now I'm like, I need a fucking wedding stat, y'all. Somebody, Somebody, please. [00:25:01] Speaker A: And we've got a guy. [00:25:03] Speaker B: Yeah, it's the A man. It's the father of the father of the groom doing his. His father of the groom speech. [00:25:12] Speaker A: Yep. Good old Steve. [00:25:13] Speaker B: Steve. And he is, he is, he is calling me out, Johnny. He is saying that David is an indecisive little guy. And whoo, boy, that must just be a distinction of David's, is that we have trouble deciding things. Yeah, it's very true. I also wish you the deepest sympathies if you've ever had to go to a restaurant with me. Because my tactic now, watching him choose. [00:25:41] Speaker A: A movie, for example. [00:25:42] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:25:43] Speaker A: Or which toy what he ultimately picks. [00:25:47] Speaker B: That's true. That's true. I can't tell you how many times I've hemmed and hawed over movies and then watched five minutes of it and been like, this is terrible, terrible. And done something else. [00:25:56] Speaker A: I'm downsizing my streaming. I just canceled Netflix. [00:25:59] Speaker B: Oh, dang. [00:26:01] Speaker A: I mean, you could always redo it at any time if there's any. I just haven't watched it in months. And I'm like, what am I doing paying 20 something bucks a month for something. [00:26:07] Speaker B: I don't use the anti Monopoly stuff to keep one streaming site from having. Everything was garbage. Because now you have to have 40 million. 40 million different streaming things to watch. One thing sucks, right? Dumb, stupid. [00:26:26] Speaker A: I mean, if I ever there's something I really want to watch on Netflix, I'll just reactivate it. But like, yeah, that's the beauty of the streaming services. So always cancel them. [00:26:33] Speaker B: Yeah, there's cancel them every month. There's not been anything on Netflix recently. That's really been superb. Really? [00:26:40] Speaker A: Either Squid Game season two, I guess. [00:26:42] Speaker B: I didn't watch Squid Game season one. I didn't. [00:26:45] Speaker A: I didn't either. [00:26:46] Speaker B: I didn't have care. [00:26:48] Speaker A: I want to see it. I just am really bad about watching TV shows because I choose to usually watch a movie, watch a movie, or play video Games. I think mainly my. Most people's like, TV time is what I do with video games. So sorry, Television, you better get better or maybe I'll watch you. [00:27:08] Speaker B: I need the. I need the. The. The guaranteed every 40 minutes dopamine hit that you get from TV since. [00:27:15] Speaker A: Because you got to get on video games, man, you get that shit every fucking six minutes on those. [00:27:19] Speaker B: Because that's the problem. That's the problem with movies is they know that they can string it out because they got you. And it's like, please give me something or I will leave. I will watch an eight hour movie if it is eight episodes of a television show, because I get a guarantee. [00:27:34] Speaker A: Let me tell you. You want some dopamine. Let me tell you about a little game called Diablo 4. It's just a dopamine blizzard just makes dopamine extractors. [00:27:44] Speaker B: Yeah, they're just working in the lab making dopamine. [00:27:48] Speaker A: Yeah, they're not games, but. But yeah. Steve here is giving his father of the bride speech. [00:27:53] Speaker B: Father of the groom. [00:27:55] Speaker A: Father of the groom. Oh, my God. And then it like. Oh, it's like Steve Martin. I get it that. [00:28:02] Speaker B: I get it now too. [00:28:04] Speaker A: He kind of looks like him. It does in that second panel especially. [00:28:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Nice. [00:28:11] Speaker A: Hopefully Steve Martin's in the King spawn movie. Confirmed. [00:28:15] Speaker B: That would be wonderful. [00:28:16] Speaker A: This would be a good story to tell in the King spawn movie. It's small scale. [00:28:20] Speaker B: Yeah, it would. [00:28:23] Speaker A: But yeah. So he's given the speech in the panel. Or like the art is showing the audience, the wedding guests, and they're slowly over the course of like four panels. Like, they look. They look happy. Some look a little concerned or confused. Then they look really concerned and confused. And then there's this like, holy. [00:28:42] Speaker B: Just like full blown panic. I like, I like how, how the. The bald guy hits full blown panic on the third panel. And then like in the fourth panel, he's just like frozen. [00:28:53] Speaker A: Yeah. The girl on the right, because she's like the first to notice in the second panel, she's like, something's up. [00:29:00] Speaker B: Yeah, she's got. She's got. She's got like. It sounds. It's like she's. She's listening to a really good song and has that kind of stank face. [00:29:08] Speaker A: Yeah. She's like, what the. And then everyone like, yeah. Starts to run away. We turn the page. It's because Steve has turned into a demon. [00:29:16] Speaker B: Yeah. God damn it. Not today. He's got the. The Hulk. Very, very. He and the Hulk must have the same tailor since he has burst every Part of his pants. Except for the Granule region, yes. I don't know. He's a demon. He's a demon, Johnny. Steve. Steve the demon. [00:29:39] Speaker A: Steve the demon. And this is the moment, the reason he turns to this demon. Because this is the moment that Hell's war ends. They all lose their power. So he no longer can mask himself. [00:29:49] Speaker B: The. So it's. It's the night the dead zones expanded. [00:29:55] Speaker A: Yes. And so it no longer turns, I'm assuming his wife. And just like, ed, I'm sorry. [00:30:00] Speaker B: Yeah. And she's just like, everybody's stampeding out there. Some guy picks up a chair and tries to hit him with it. And he's just like, ah. Ah. [00:30:12] Speaker A: Decades ago, Hell sent him to gather intel. But he abandoned that mission and immediately hid away from the years living life as a human. But that ended the nights the Zed zones expanded. [00:30:22] Speaker B: And then he's. [00:30:23] Speaker A: What a way to reveal yourself to your family? [00:30:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:26] Speaker A: As a demon. [00:30:27] Speaker B: Yeah. That sucks. And then he's running away. He's running in the rain. We see him trying to call Anne. He's like, pick up. Pick up, Anne. Pick up. And then he's. He's down and out in Red Alley. Johnny. He's living on the streets. He's. He's seeing the vampires going around killing his. His Hellborn brethren. And he's like, I gotta. I gotta fix this. I gotta fix this. So he goes to Purgatory, Johnny. The bar. [00:30:58] Speaker A: The bar. Purgatory with Caliban. [00:31:00] Speaker B: And, man, it's good seeing Caliban again. Yeah, I like Caliban. Not enough. Not enough cigarettes in this. This issue, though. [00:31:12] Speaker A: He's got a cigar. [00:31:13] Speaker B: Well, but not like four of them. [00:31:15] Speaker A: I know he doesn't have, like, one in each hand. [00:31:18] Speaker B: So they. They sit down, they start talking. And Caliban's like, so, what do you want? And Steve. Steve, the demon's like, well, A, I need my face back. And B, I need some mind wipes for. [00:31:31] Speaker A: Yeah, I need to mind wife. Like 100 something people. [00:31:34] Speaker B: 150. [00:31:35] Speaker A: 150. He's like, whoa, you had your mind. [00:31:39] Speaker B: I like. I like this beat the Caliban takes. And he's just like, huh? You. [00:31:45] Speaker A: It's like, that's not even possible. There's a wait list for the. To get the face job done. [00:31:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:53] Speaker A: He's like, you gotta wait on the wait list. I'm scared, David, because I gotta go get my real id. Oh, no, you know, I'm afraid. I don't. Afraid. [00:32:01] Speaker B: Afraid that you're Going to be put on a wait list. [00:32:03] Speaker A: Yeah. Or something like that. Because I got to get it before May. [00:32:06] Speaker B: Well, because that's when your thing expires. [00:32:08] Speaker A: No, that's when you have to be able to fly domestically. You have to have a real id. [00:32:12] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Well, I should probably do that. [00:32:16] Speaker A: Yeah, if you plan on flying. [00:32:17] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. That's true. I don't know why they just didn't make it. Fucking. [00:32:22] Speaker A: Unless you have a passport, you're fine. [00:32:25] Speaker B: Johnny, do I strike you as the kind of man who has a passport? I can. I can travel the world from the comfort of my couch with. Through the glorious productions of one Mr. Rick Steves. Johnny, thank you very much. [00:32:43] Speaker A: Caliban's like, no, you can't. My wife. 150 people. Jesus. [00:32:47] Speaker B: Yeah. Caliban gets so upset with him because he's like, dude, you're. It's like. He's like. It's like been looking under a fucking rock. You just gotta wake up and smell the necroplasm. This is your life now. Like, there's no going back. [00:33:01] Speaker A: You're a demon on the run again. [00:33:03] Speaker B: Yeah. And then Steve's like, why did this happen to us? And Caliban's like, ah, it's not a why, it's a who. And then we flash forward from the wedding, but not from the where we were at the beginning before the beginning. Oh, man. Nothing like time. So we get a nice little confab in the alley between the boys and Spawn just like, call them up and they're like, hey, Spawn, we need to talk to you. And Spawn's like, what's this about? And so they're. They're asking him about this no goodnik who is the only survivor of a horrible slaughterhouse massacre. At a poker game. Look at that. Poker game, Johnny. That's a. I don't think. I don't think those are approved bets or antes ahead in a hand. [00:33:56] Speaker A: No, he's not an er do. Well, this guy. They say that none of them have criminal records. He's just a guy. [00:34:02] Speaker B: Oh, running the run of the grill. One of the Run of the Grill Moop. [00:34:07] Speaker A: Run of the Grill Moop. So basically, this one guy survived this massacre. And I'm thinking that. [00:34:14] Speaker B: And he's. He's not. He's not giving any information. And they're like the. The guys. The detectives who are attached to this particular case are real shitheels. So if he were to talk, they would have gotten him to talk. [00:34:31] Speaker A: And he said the only person they'll talk to is you. [00:34:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I like. [00:34:35] Speaker A: So. [00:34:36] Speaker B: I like the. The unclouding of Twitch's glasses in this close up. So that way you can see him just like staring. Staring daggers at Spawn. [00:34:47] Speaker A: Yeah. Yildir, Sam and Twitch are really good. [00:34:49] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, they're real good. [00:34:51] Speaker A: I mean, all of his art's great, but they're particularly great. [00:34:55] Speaker B: This is. This is obviously post. Post Indiana Sam, who's taken a little bit better care of himself. [00:35:02] Speaker A: Yes. He's a little more put together. Clean shaven. [00:35:06] Speaker B: His hair is at least brushed. And then we cut back to Steve's story. And he tells the further fallout of this night. How the reveal of his true nature made his wife lose her mind. And his daughter in law couldn't bear to be married to the son of a demon anymore. And David took that so hard. And he hung himself. [00:35:36] Speaker A: Yeah. Rough. [00:35:37] Speaker B: And it was three days before anyone found him. And that's. That's yikes, Johnny. That's. Yikes. [00:35:46] Speaker A: Yeah. And the demon just watches the funeral from afar. [00:35:49] Speaker B: Yeah. In the rain. [00:35:51] Speaker A: Very sad. [00:35:52] Speaker B: Yeah. And then, you know, he is his little over his little. His little narration is, I vowed revenge. And as he's saying he vowed revenge. Revenge on who did this to us. We get an awesome panel of Spawn just sorting through some vampires. [00:36:08] Speaker A: Yeah. Just cutting it right up. [00:36:11] Speaker B: He's. He's got the old choppy changy on him. [00:36:15] Speaker A: And then he says, if I'm gonna win, I'm gonna need an advantage. [00:36:18] Speaker B: Yeah. So. So he goes back to Caliban and, you know, starts, you know, he's like, I'm a desperate man. I need. I need the last resort. Caliban's like, I need powers. I think. I think I. I think I can get you something. [00:36:34] Speaker A: He might know a guy who can help. [00:36:38] Speaker B: And at this point, I like the. The shift of the. The balance of power between him and Caliban. Because earlier Caliban was the one with all the power. And now that Steve has nothing to lose, Caliban is so scared of him. Look at him. [00:36:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:52] Speaker B: The fear and all those red eyes, boy. And then we're in the hospital room, the lovely hotel room of the lone survivor from the poker game. And Spawn comes out of the shadows as he wakes up and says, heard you had something to say. So speak scary man, that Spawn. This guy's like, he took my face. My face. [00:37:23] Speaker A: Took my face down to the bone. [00:37:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:27] Speaker A: Like, yeah, I. That's happened to me like 50 times, dude. [00:37:30] Speaker B: Yeah. He's like, he just killed the other guys. But he. He fucking took my face. And then he was like, hey, I know you have children and a wife. I'll take their face. And then he's like, that's why. That's why I had to. That's why I had to get you here. I'm so sorry. And then. And then Spawn just like quickly looks behind him because he's like, I should have been set up. And then he gets shanked. He gets shinked or shinked with. [00:37:56] Speaker A: They look like webbing. They look kind of like haunt. [00:37:59] Speaker B: It's like a spider man got him. Interesting. [00:38:03] Speaker A: Turn the page and it's Steve the demon in. [00:38:05] Speaker B: Steve the demon in haunt. [00:38:07] Speaker A: Get out in a haunt. Haunt suit. So we kind of imply that he got some haunt powers from Caliban. [00:38:15] Speaker B: He has the arm bump here at the end, Johnny. I guess that. I guess that was part of the torture. Part of the torture is that he sanded down the arm nublies. [00:38:24] Speaker A: He must have. [00:38:25] Speaker B: Well, could you imagine if that's part of your like part of your being just having it sanded smooth and yeah. [00:38:32] Speaker A: Steve has gotten hot gear in an effort and lured Spawn to this hospital to kill him. [00:38:38] Speaker B: Yeah. It's a fucking great final panel. Like I like. [00:38:42] Speaker A: Holy shit. [00:38:43] Speaker B: This whole the haunt of it is great. [00:38:46] Speaker A: Yeah. It's such a great reveal. [00:38:48] Speaker B: Yeah, There we go. [00:38:49] Speaker A: Such a great little story. It's like a two part. Really. It finishes the next issue. [00:38:53] Speaker B: Oh really? Because you haven't read. Oh yeah. As. As we have mentioned before we started recording these two issues mark the last of where I have currently read up to. So I got. I got some work to do. [00:39:09] Speaker A: I know what you're doing this weekend, buddy. [00:39:11] Speaker B: Oh man. Sleeping. Because I'm tired. Maybe. Maybe if I use my stack of Spawn comics as a pillow. [00:39:19] Speaker A: You'll get a by Osmosis. [00:39:22] Speaker B: Then we get that. [00:39:23] Speaker A: Yeah. We end with the King Spawn skull classic. [00:39:29] Speaker B: Then we get some spawning ground. Presents fan art. That's some good fan art, Johnny. Look, we got a. I think that's. I don't know if that's Evil Ernie or not. I don't know. I don't think. [00:39:41] Speaker A: I don't think. [00:39:42] Speaker B: I don't think Evil Ernie had a. Had a cape of eyes. So that's a fucking great guy. [00:39:48] Speaker A: That is. [00:39:50] Speaker B: There's. There's a. The. The CAD file model and then the actual printed model of a little owl figurine. It's pretty good. Could you imagine having a warhammer army of just hell spawn? That would be pretty great. [00:40:05] Speaker A: I really like that middle one at the bottom. [00:40:08] Speaker B: Yeah. With the pink tones. It's great. Yeah, it's real good. Any more sponsor universe, Johnny? Yeah, well, don't miss the ongoing titles. [00:40:21] Speaker A: We get the ad for the Core 4 here. [00:40:23] Speaker B: It's a good one. This is a good one. I'm sad, Johnny, because the week that Scorch 37 came out, they didn't have that Bjorn Baron's cover. And I don't know why. Because I wanted to fucking get that thing. Look at it. [00:40:33] Speaker A: That's the one I got. [00:40:36] Speaker B: Ha ha. It's so fucking good, man. The freak. Fucking. Every time I think of the freak now, I think of DJ Slider Byte being like, this guy. The fuck's wrong with this guy? [00:40:48] Speaker A: Yeah, I saw Martez not too long ago, and he was asking me if they ever made a sequel to Unwanted Violence, and I was like, not yet. I don't think they're going to Image Classics ad and then our favorite toy ad, the UFC toys. You both big UFC guys. [00:41:04] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm a big fan of UFC. I'm a big fan of Philippians 4:13. [00:41:10] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't. [00:41:11] Speaker B: I don't know. I don't know what that one is. [00:41:13] Speaker A: We need Logan on to talk about this. He knows about mma. He's watching a lot of pro wrestling, too. [00:41:20] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:41:21] Speaker A: Pro wrestling is, like, having a resurgence. I feel like. [00:41:25] Speaker B: I feel like if you. If you don't pay attention to it, it feels like it. It grows and wanes, but I think the people who are into it are always into it, and it's. It's always pretty big. [00:41:37] Speaker A: I just think since they added Raw to Netflix. [00:41:39] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, we're watching it. Yeah, Probably. [00:41:42] Speaker A: Probably there's a reason I shouldn't cancel Netflix. There you go. [00:41:45] Speaker B: Probably also. Also, like, soap opera and comic books fucking. The pageantry and theater of wrestling moves forward incrementally because you have to have all these fights, right? [00:41:59] Speaker A: And that's the issue. That's king spawn 40. [00:42:02] Speaker B: That's king spawn 40. [00:42:03] Speaker A: To be continued in 41. [00:42:20] Speaker B: Oh, look at this, Johnny. If you search for scorch 36, it brings up. There's apparently a. A disc golf company called Scorch that has a popular. A popular size disc called number 36. And there is a scorch disc, number 36, that has King Kong fighting Godzilla on it, so. [00:42:45] Speaker A: Oh, wow. So there's a golf disc. Like disc golf? [00:42:49] Speaker B: Yeah, like disc golf. [00:42:50] Speaker A: Oh, okay. Like this golf. Okay, that's one. Scorch 36 we're talking about. A different scorch 36 today. [00:42:56] Speaker B: Yes, we are. [00:42:58] Speaker A: If you look up Rat City, like, sometimes, like bike parts pop up. I think like Rat City is. [00:43:05] Speaker B: It's real. It's real weird how. SEO, Johnny SEO. [00:43:11] Speaker A: I feel like I was looking up like Rat City number five or something. It like brought up a bike part. [00:43:16] Speaker B: Interesting. Interesting. [00:43:18] Speaker A: Yes. Rat City 5. Yes, it brings a bike because there's a Rad City 5. It's a power bike. $2,000. Okay. [00:43:29] Speaker B: Wow. Nice. But does it have a Godzilla and a King Kong fighting on it? [00:43:34] Speaker A: Doesn't look like it. [00:43:35] Speaker B: Boo. This king. [00:43:38] Speaker A: I remember that it was five. [00:43:39] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, it's weird what we remember precisely, Johnny. I can't remember Dave goddamn Filoni's name, but boy. [00:43:49] Speaker A: But I can remember the reel that the AI generated. Reel the Instagram showed me. That was two Jenna Ortegas dancing with Leonardo DiCaprio. So weird, man. [00:44:03] Speaker B: That's ridiculous. Skynet. [00:44:05] Speaker A: No, but scorch 36. Scorch 36. [00:44:09] Speaker B: Scorch. [00:44:09] Speaker A: It's a big action packed romp. [00:44:11] Speaker B: Yes, it is. [00:44:12] Speaker A: But I'm getting ahead of myself because we gotta start with the covers. [00:44:15] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:44:17] Speaker A: I have the Donaglio cover. [00:44:18] Speaker B: I also have the Don Julio cover. [00:44:20] Speaker A: Plague Spawn. [00:44:22] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:44:23] Speaker A: Looking crazy and scary looking. Like the Cloverfield monster. [00:44:26] Speaker B: Yeah, like, it's like. It's like the Plague Spawn was a exhibit at the zoo and he's smashing through the glass. I like, I like how they, they emphasize like where the actual hand of Plague Spawn is pressing against the glass. It's real. It's real. Well done. It's real. Well done. Yeah, scary shit. [00:44:49] Speaker A: His head looks like the Cloverfield monster a little bit. [00:44:54] Speaker B: It's a gaping. That's the gaping mauve I've ever seen one, Johnny. [00:44:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:59] Speaker B: And then. But the B cover, there's a Von Randall cover. Yeah, it's. It's Jessica Priest standing triumphant over a axed in the head. Fleabiac. [00:45:13] Speaker A: Yeah. And just like with her fist in the air, screaming, giant sniper rifle. [00:45:16] Speaker B: Yeah. And she's got her. She's got her foot up on it. [00:45:19] Speaker A: Like giving Javier run for his money. Caked up, if you know what I'm talking about. [00:45:26] Speaker B: Yeah, These are good, real good covers. Good covers. Yeah, we like. We like it. The scorched. [00:45:34] Speaker A: We do like the Scorch, but it's also the Duz back. [00:45:37] Speaker B: Yeah, at least. At least the names are right on the front. [00:45:44] Speaker A: That's true. No, I'm glad that those back. I thought it was weird when they dropped the. Yeah, the Scorched Gunslinger. It's weird. The gunslinger is just gunslinger. [00:45:54] Speaker B: I don't know, Johnny. [00:45:56] Speaker A: Because they still refer to as Gunslinger Spawn. [00:45:59] Speaker B: Who knows? Who knows? [00:46:01] Speaker A: Who knows why they do these things? [00:46:03] Speaker B: We'll have to. We'll have to ask them. So we, we pop open these beautiful covers and we get met with the credits. So let's get to it. We got script plot by John Layman with additional script by Todd McFarlane. Art, Todd father art by Steven Scovia. Colors by Danai Ribeiro, lettering by and World Design. We don't cover the covers. Creative director is Todd McFarlane. The editor in chief is Thomas Healy. Previously in the Scorched. After escaping her employment with the agency, Jessica and the Scorched seek to save Medieval Spawn. And Johnny. We get the return of some beloved characters on this very first page. [00:46:48] Speaker A: The pundits. [00:46:49] Speaker B: The pundits. Look at them. Look at them go. [00:46:52] Speaker A: I like this Vatican terrorist attack. [00:46:54] Speaker B: Like, I like that. They've all updated their. They've all updated their style a little bit. [00:47:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:47:02] Speaker B: CRN lady has very, very pointy point, pointy hair. [00:47:08] Speaker A: And our entertainment guy is now working for MaximumNews.com. [00:47:11] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's got a big, like, cop mustache. [00:47:16] Speaker A: Yeah. He went fucking conservative. [00:47:17] Speaker B: Rock the shock has just lost his. His. His hairline has just crawled back a little bit. [00:47:24] Speaker A: Yeah. And they're all just relaying that there's been a terrorist attack at the Vatican where there's a group of possibly superpowered people and one of them is dead. [00:47:37] Speaker B: Yeah. And similar to an event in Paris few months ago, which I remember very well, that's when the Scorch were running away from the agency. They. [00:47:51] Speaker A: Yep. [00:47:51] Speaker B: They blew up a sizable portion of Paris. [00:47:55] Speaker A: Indeed they did. [00:47:56] Speaker B: The Scorch don't care about no collateral damage, Johnny. [00:48:00] Speaker A: No, just like Spawn in the last issue, the collateral damage may come back to haunt them, Taunt them. [00:48:08] Speaker B: We go then directly into a great two page spread of the aftermath. It's burning rubble in Vatican City and there's dead bodies and there's like. It's like somebody made a haunt out of marshmallow and then set it on fire. It's. [00:48:24] Speaker A: It's like. [00:48:25] Speaker B: It's literally like the Stay Puft Marshmallow man goop that falls at the end of Ghostbusters. Yeah. [00:48:30] Speaker A: It's like a. Christy Sparkle's face at the end of the substance. [00:48:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:36] Speaker A: Did you see the substance? [00:48:37] Speaker B: Yes, I did, man. I fucking. [00:48:39] Speaker A: Your face is like crawling. [00:48:41] Speaker B: Yeah. And then it. And then it lands on her star and she can See the palm trees that have popped up every once in a while, which means that in her. In her self obsessions, she has spent a lot of time laying with her head on her star and being like, ah, this is how I will be remembered. [00:48:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:57] Speaker B: So fucking gross, like, substance. When her face is stuck in the back of the. The monstrosity, I forget what its name was. [00:49:07] Speaker A: And I think it was Monstro Lizzu. [00:49:11] Speaker B: I can't call her out. And she's like, man. [00:49:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:15] Speaker B: It's crazy. I spent that whole time being like, oh, my God. Oh, oh. Oh, no. [00:49:20] Speaker A: Yeah. Monster Lizzo. [00:49:24] Speaker B: Yeah. One of the most uncomfortable times I have ever had watching a movie, and it was incredible. [00:49:31] Speaker A: It's a great movie. [00:49:33] Speaker B: Very cool. [00:49:34] Speaker A: One of the grossest parts is when Dennis Quaid's eating that shrimp. [00:49:36] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Yeah. [00:49:37] Speaker A: He's got, like, pink goo everywhere, and he's just like. [00:49:39] Speaker B: He's just, like, throwing it. Oh, man. [00:49:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:43] Speaker B: Oh, Dennis Quaid. What a perfect asshole in that movie. [00:49:46] Speaker A: Yeah. Dennis Quaid has a perfect. [00:49:52] Speaker B: Yes. [00:49:53] Speaker A: But yes. The haunt is smeared on the sidewalk in the middle of this destruction. [00:50:00] Speaker B: And there's a cop and, you know, some. Some. A guy with a camera. So I'm assuming that's some news. [00:50:07] Speaker A: We're getting narration from Jessica the whole time, and she's like, I love this. And we put it to a vote. Either we go in loud or going. Going quiet or going loud. It was unanimous to be loud. [00:50:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Can't say I minded. [00:50:19] Speaker A: Can't say I minded. After a lot of time working for Jason, she was pissed off. [00:50:23] Speaker B: She was done sneaking around. [00:50:25] Speaker A: And it's the same street two hours ago. [00:50:27] Speaker B: It's literally the exact same. Exact same view, only there is now. The buildings are all intact. [00:50:34] Speaker A: And the scorcher there, and they're looking badass. And Jessica's smiling. She's happy to be fighting again. [00:50:39] Speaker B: Yeah. And she says, hand over Medieval Spawn now. And the obvious, what I assume to be additional script by Todd McFarlane, I don't bother adding, or else. [00:50:54] Speaker A: It does sound like Todd. But they're getting attacked by these people called the Black Brotherhood. [00:51:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:02] Speaker A: Who look like. They're like. They're like Star Wars Vatican soldiers. [00:51:07] Speaker B: Yeah. It's like. It's like. It's like the. The pontiff played too much Halo and was like, you know what? I think we should update our Secret Service uniform. [00:51:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:51:17] Speaker B: It's real good. And everybody's an action pose. [00:51:20] Speaker A: And I like how happened next was the obvious part. [00:51:24] Speaker B: I like how Overkill's action pose is Just standing there. He's so big, he doesn't need to pose. [00:51:31] Speaker A: And the vat. And Jessica's like, well, the Vatican has one of the best security forces in the world. And the Black Brotherhood had clawed its way deep into the Vatican's hierarchy. [00:51:39] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, a poorly. A poorly constructed word bubble there. Yes, yes. But yeah, the Black Brotherhood is a contractor, a private contractor for hire that, you know, have wormed their way into the Vatican and the mafia that protects them. So this is. This is a big. A big coup, Johnny. A big coup. [00:52:04] Speaker A: She knew they weren't gonna hand shit over to us, but that's fine. Bracka, bracka braca bratta tat tat tat. And shooting at him. And Overkill jumps in the way. [00:52:12] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's. He's smashing. And Jessica literally like. Or, oh, no, I get redeemers in the back there cutting guys in twain. [00:52:22] Speaker A: Jessica's just double firing, doing her like double guns. Goldeneye perfect dark. [00:52:28] Speaker B: Yeah. And then. But then she gets so distracted by this release that, that she gets snuck up on by this, this, this guy. [00:52:40] Speaker A: It's like. It's like a heavens Heaven's monolith. It's like a giant hulk with his cross on its skull. It's hilarious. [00:52:49] Speaker B: He's a big beastly man, Johnny. [00:52:52] Speaker A: They have a cave troll. [00:52:55] Speaker B: And Jessica says, you know, she doesn't mind. She doesn't mind having to get her hands dirty. And she knows she's gonna die. And she's not. She's not afraid of dying. She just hopes she gets to take as many of these bastards with her as possible. Possible. [00:53:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:07] Speaker B: And then we cut forward and cut backward in time a little bit to pre. Pre assault. And they're all chilling just in a. Chilling in a little. A little villa. [00:53:19] Speaker A: Yeah. And they're like, jesus, Jess, how many safe houses do you have? [00:53:22] Speaker B: Yeah. She's like, this is one of Al's. He's got him spread all across the globe. And so they're all there in there and they're get ups. Kurt is dressed in his. His vestments and Mark is just passed out on the couch. Kirk's. Kirk's drugging him up so that way he doesn't wake up and try to hurt himself again. It's like we got. [00:53:47] Speaker A: And then we get a great line. It's either Overkill being dumb or a typo. And it could go either way. [00:53:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:52] Speaker A: Says none of you have any idea what we're going up again. [00:53:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:59] Speaker A: I can imagine Overkill saying that. [00:54:00] Speaker B: Overkill's gone from being a very simple and loyal beast to being a big fucking jerk. Jesus Christ. [00:54:11] Speaker A: Yeah. He's like, why is this Frank Zappa song that reminds me of Overkill, which was that it's called Dong Work for Yuta. And it's about. I guess it's about this guy that used to work for Frank Zappa that, like, they could never understand what he says. [00:54:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:54:26] Speaker A: And so in parts of the song, they, like, cut in, like, him saying stuff, and he's like. [00:54:32] Speaker B: I need a. [00:54:33] Speaker A: Dozen towels so the boys could take a shower. [00:54:39] Speaker B: Bartender, bring me a colada and milk. [00:54:43] Speaker A: Just like. He's just like, some, like, Boston or, like, New Jersey. Guy had a terrible accent. But it's a really good song. [00:54:49] Speaker B: Yeah. Nice. It's on Joe's Garage. Joe's Garage? Yeah. [00:54:54] Speaker A: I love Joe's Garage. [00:54:56] Speaker B: It wasn't very long. [00:54:59] Speaker A: Yeah, Joe's Garage is great. Guess you only get one chance in life to sing a song that goes like, this is Jujo's garage. [00:55:18] Speaker B: Oh, but turn that down. [00:55:22] Speaker A: I digress. Like, look, we're talking. [00:55:27] Speaker B: We're talking about all the Catholic boys. [00:55:31] Speaker A: Catholic boys. [00:55:33] Speaker B: Warren Cucuro's in here, Joe. [00:55:37] Speaker A: Catholic boys. Kind of dumb, kind of. Wow. Catholic boys. Vinny Kali Udo, who's the drummer. [00:55:51] Speaker B: Where are they now? Did they all take a bow? [00:55:56] Speaker A: We're seeing Frank zappa for, like, 10 minutes now. [00:55:59] Speaker B: That's because it's good. [00:56:01] Speaker A: Frank Zappa is good, but, yeah, I love Frank Zappa. Does humor belong in music? David? [00:56:07] Speaker B: Does humor belong as somebody who. The most persons. He's the person he's seen live most being Weird Al. Yes, he. Humor belongs in music. [00:56:16] Speaker A: That's the title of Frank Zappa album. Does humor belong in music? [00:56:19] Speaker B: I mean, it's also part of his. His defense to Congress of. I mean, it's just. It's. It's fucking art. If you have a problem with it, listen to some different stuff. [00:56:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:32] Speaker B: It's like, what's wrong with you people? But, yeah, so. So Overkill's like, do we really want to put Mark in fucking Medieval back together? What's. What's. Why would I want to risk my life for that? And Redeemer's like, fucking. Seriously, dude. He put you back together. You were pieces. [00:56:51] Speaker A: He pulls his sword on him. He's like, get that goddamn sword out of my face. [00:56:55] Speaker B: Yeah. And Kurt's over there trying to break him up. But then Cheesebawn's just, like, staring down at Mark, going, God damn it, Mark, you son of a bitch. [00:57:03] Speaker A: How I Can't believe I gotta help you, you son of a bitch. [00:57:06] Speaker B: She's like, how dare you make me care for you? [00:57:09] Speaker A: And a single tear rolls down her cheek. [00:57:11] Speaker B: She never promised to help you. [00:57:13] Speaker A: Kurt's like, jessica, these assholes. Come on. [00:57:16] Speaker B: Yeah. And then he's like, I think I have an idea. And he calls forth his brother. Oh, shit. I've been calling him Kurt. [00:57:25] Speaker A: What's his name? His name is Kurt. [00:57:29] Speaker B: But Kurt is his brother. Because he's calling Kurt, what's his name. He says, kurt, I need you. [00:57:34] Speaker A: Oh, Kilgore. Daniel. Killer Daniel. Oh, my God. [00:57:40] Speaker B: Dk. We got DK in the house. [00:57:42] Speaker A: Dk. Donkey Kong. Dk. Donkey Kong is here. Daniel Kilgore is here. [00:57:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:57:54] Speaker A: I can't believe we messed that up. [00:57:55] Speaker B: They're putting together. They're putting together a plan that involves the kill, the brothers, Kilgore. [00:58:01] Speaker A: He's gonna use his brother's ghosts. [00:58:03] Speaker B: Yeah. He's gonna give it up. And then we cut back to the middle of the fight, and Jessica's about to get punched real hard by the. The Heaven. Heaven monolith guy. [00:58:19] Speaker A: Heaven's Monolith? [00:58:20] Speaker B: Yeah, monolith. And over at Kill, says, look out and tackles him, gives him four, and then punches him through a building. [00:58:28] Speaker A: Yeah. Punches him, like, all the way through, like, half a building. [00:58:31] Speaker B: Yeah. And then haunts, like, Jessica. Fucking head in the game, dude. Head in the game. Work out your issues later. He says, right now it's game on. [00:58:41] Speaker A: And then, boom, they get hit by some heavy artillery from above. And it's the Black Brotherhood. [00:58:45] Speaker B: Yeah, the Black Brotherhood with, like, a. [00:58:47] Speaker A: Fucking Death Star cannon. [00:58:49] Speaker B: Yeah, that's gotta be. It's gotta be fun to get. To be the gunner on that. [00:58:54] Speaker A: Yeah, that's always. That's always fun in Halo to, like, be like, I'm gonna be the gunner. [00:58:58] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. That's what I preferred to do so that I didn't have to try to aim and walk at the same time. I could just aim. [00:59:08] Speaker A: Yeah, we would. That's what Brand and I do. We play. Brand's the driver, and I'm the gunner. [00:59:14] Speaker B: Nice. It's a good team up. It's a good team up. [00:59:17] Speaker A: Yeah, we're good. But, yeah, the heavy artillery. [00:59:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:59:21] Speaker A: And Han's like, I'll take care of this. [00:59:22] Speaker B: And boom. He's like, full frontal assault by Haunt. And then he gets. He gets scoomed. [00:59:28] Speaker A: He gets scoomed by the artillery cannon. [00:59:30] Speaker B: Yeah. And then. And then when the smoke clears, there's just the haunt Goo Haunt, Goop and Black Brotherhood's pieces. Redeemer's. Like, we gotta get. We gotta get out of here before they shoot us too. And so they make their. [00:59:48] Speaker A: So they all run out. [00:59:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:59:50] Speaker A: And we get a little voiceover from Eviscerator who's like, clever. She's being very clever. [00:59:56] Speaker B: Clever girl. [00:59:57] Speaker A: And I know exactly what she's up to. Then we get this great panel of Father Kilgore Daniel or dk. [01:00:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Standing in front of a. A very well lit church that's got the. [01:00:10] Speaker A: You like, hear the. Like, when you look at that panel, I feel like you can hear the church bells. [01:00:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:14] Speaker A: And like the tweeting. [01:00:15] Speaker B: Absolutely. [01:00:16] Speaker A: It's just really. It's really cool. [01:00:18] Speaker B: It's real good. [01:00:21] Speaker A: And so plus there's just something cool about. I know it's like whatever, Catholic church. But like the vestments are pretty cool. [01:00:27] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean there's. I just. I just learned about. There's a. There's a cathedral that was recently finished in. In Russia that apparently very controversial because they definitely have like mosaics of the Russian army on the inside of this. This cathedral. But like. [01:00:46] Speaker A: Cool. [01:00:47] Speaker B: We should bring back cathedrals. Enough of this mega church in a warehouse nonsense. Give me some goddamn this. Hell yeah. [01:00:57] Speaker A: Like, I like their vestments. Like, I like their uniform of a priest. [01:01:00] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got a. He's got a. It's got like that. [01:01:02] Speaker A: No, it's just like. It's like badass. It's like you're like wizards or something. I don't know. I like a cool uniform. [01:01:09] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real good. So Daniel and Kurt are talking and it's like, well, you think they bought it? And it's like, well, they better have. [01:01:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:01:18] Speaker B: Right now we can't worry about that. They know what they're supposed to be doing. They're giving everybody the run around. And we're just gonna sneak behind this picture frame here. [01:01:27] Speaker A: Yep. [01:01:28] Speaker B: Harry Potter down a hidden stairway through. Through a secret portal down some very rickety ass wooden or fucking stone steps. [01:01:41] Speaker A: Yeah. Scary. [01:01:42] Speaker B: Yeah. They say we're here to get what we came for. Where nobody. A place where nobody will be watching while they're having the assault outside. And we can get Sir John of York. Look at him. [01:01:55] Speaker A: Yeah, there he is, chained up. [01:01:57] Speaker B: Chained up. [01:01:58] Speaker A: Sir John of York in all his glory. Medieval spawn. [01:02:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Looking very menacing. [01:02:04] Speaker A: And the issue after this is really good too. [01:02:06] Speaker B: Nice. Gonna have to read it. [01:02:07] Speaker A: If you read it, I'm excited for you. [01:02:10] Speaker B: Get to work. [01:02:11] Speaker A: David, you Hello. Do you remember that video? [01:02:18] Speaker B: I think so. Yeah. It's like a little kid. [01:02:20] Speaker A: It's just a little kid. Yeah, it's just a little kid that says hello. It's a classic. [01:02:24] Speaker B: We get scorched skull to end the. In the issue. It's real good. [01:02:28] Speaker A: And we got a spawning ground. Presents NYCC 2024. [01:02:32] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:02:32] Speaker A: New York Comic Con. [01:02:33] Speaker B: Yep. And we get a couple of shots of the Todd father by himself, signing a dude's arm, hanging out with Jim Lee. And look at this. Johnny with a good friend of ours, the Spawn hunter. [01:02:45] Speaker A: The Spawn Hunter. [01:02:47] Speaker B: Look at him right there. Oh, man. I can't tell who's. I can't decide who's. Who's happier, the Todd father or Ty. [01:02:54] Speaker A: They look great. And we get a really cool cosplay Shark in the Dark. [01:02:58] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we get Fede Melee posing with like a. A print of his. One of his posters. That's pretty cool. [01:03:07] Speaker A: Pretty cool stuff. Looks fun. [01:03:09] Speaker B: Again, Johnny, you need more Spawns Universe. [01:03:13] Speaker A: Yes, always. [01:03:17] Speaker B: Don't miss its ongoing titles as we know the Core four. [01:03:20] Speaker A: Yeah, we get the exact same ads as we did in the last issue. [01:03:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:03:25] Speaker A: Image Classics and ufc, baby. Ufc. Toy ad. Sorry, Action figure or statue? [01:03:32] Speaker B: Yeah, they don't look like they're very articulated. [01:03:34] Speaker A: No, I don't think they are. [01:03:37] Speaker B: That's scorched 36, Johnny. [01:03:40] Speaker A: That was it. It was an action packed, whiz bang of an issue. [01:03:43] Speaker B: It was Wizard. [01:03:44] Speaker A: That's a wizard, Annie. [01:03:45] Speaker B: Yes. Yes, indeed. And well, Johnny, like. Like you do. Like you do. You always. You always know. You see a dog on the street, you're like, that's a good. That's a good dog. That's a good dog. Right? Doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what they're doing immediately. It's a good dog. [01:04:02] Speaker A: So maybe, I don't know, we're gonna see more attuned to dogs on the streets than I do. [01:04:07] Speaker B: I will. I. People are always surprised that I can see a dog from like a block away. They're like, how did you know that dog was there? And I was like, I was looking. [01:04:16] Speaker A: I was looking for a dog. [01:04:18] Speaker B: Well, much like these are good dogs, we should rate these puppies, Johnny. [01:04:24] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. So first up Today in these two stellar issues, we had king spawn 40. It's a fun little, like. It's like, what a great way to tell a story in the Spawn world. Like, from the point of view of this demon whose life was ruined. It's Just like one of those great things that comic books can do. You take a concept, you're like, what is the extremes? I can stretch that. What would possibly go on within those boundaries. And like, it's a really cool idea for a story. The art is fucking fantastic. He's becoming one of my favorite artists for sure. Yildirae Sennaar. [01:05:03] Speaker B: Unfortunately, Johnny apparently has done a lot of X Men. So guess what you get to do? You get to fall down an X Men hole if you're gonna follow some Yildira snow. [01:05:12] Speaker A: No, I'm just gonna follow him and Spawn. Really good stuff. I just love this story of this desperate demon. And it's just cool to see that, like, side story from his point of view. Response is kind of like a presence in it. We get Sam and Twitch. I mean, it's got the whole package. [01:05:29] Speaker B: Yeah. The entire. [01:05:30] Speaker A: I'm gonna give it. I'm gonna give it five red eyes for all the red eyes that Steve our demon has, man. [01:05:39] Speaker B: Fucking Steve Martin. Ben Stein needs to show up and say, I got some complimentary red eyes for you. Wow. [01:05:48] Speaker A: Wow. There's a commercial from 25 years ago. [01:05:54] Speaker B: I. I constantly think of that beach ball that he washes the red off of. [01:06:00] Speaker A: Yes, I remember. Yeah. Five out of five, baby. It's a great issue. Art's fantastic. The storytelling, it's just so refreshing. I mean, after the Todd father's run, God bless him. [01:06:13] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:06:14] Speaker A: This is just so refreshing. I was like, so happy to read it. And I'm really glad that we've got Rory McConville on King Swan, because I love you, Todd Father, but it was a little samey. Your King Spawn, the street level stuff, yeah, it's. [01:06:29] Speaker B: That's not. That's not the Todd father's niche. [01:06:34] Speaker A: And if that's what Yielder or if that's what Rory McConville is going to do with King Spawn. Making more interesting stories about Spawn. I hope that's kind of what he. He does. [01:06:43] Speaker B: Yeah. So it's. It's. He's the king. He's the king, Johnny. And these are his subjects. And he's having to quell descent. Yes, I. I agree. This issue's fan tastic. It's so well written, it's so well drawn. It's absolutely a fantastic idea. I'm surprised they haven't like. I bet when this story was pitched, everybody was just like, why didn't we fucking think about this sooner? Because it's just. It's just a perfect, perfect little whoop. Little whoop. Right in there. I am also gonna give it five. I'm gonna give it five silhouettes of Spawn reflected in Twitch's glasses. Because I just realized that you can see Spawn's reflection in his glasses. [01:07:30] Speaker A: Yes. Do you know what that means, David? [01:07:34] Speaker B: That means that we got ourselves another entry into the Hellfire Club. [01:07:39] Speaker A: That's when we both give it five out of five. [01:07:41] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. It's wonderful. [01:07:44] Speaker A: I have a feeling we might have another entry. Maybe. [01:07:47] Speaker B: We'll see. [01:07:47] Speaker A: I don't know. We'll see. We'll see. [01:07:48] Speaker B: We'll see. [01:07:49] Speaker A: We'll see. So our second issue was scorched 36, the assault on the Vatican. The Scorched back together. I just. I love this issue. I really. Scorched is probably my favorite of the books right now. It's just been cooking real well. [01:08:07] Speaker B: It has been. [01:08:09] Speaker A: It has been. I am just excited to get it every month. And this story was just. It's epic. They're saving John of York. They're going in there. They're fighting everybody. There's like, a Hulk heaven. Hulk guy. [01:08:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:08:26] Speaker A: This is just what you come to comic books for, really. I mean, this is the kind of stuff we really do. And also, we take him for granted. But Steven Segovia. [01:08:34] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:08:35] Speaker A: It's great at the action and just so much fun. I don't know. It's just this. This comic book feels alive. It's just such good momentum of storytelling. [01:08:46] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. [01:08:48] Speaker A: I'm gonna give it five priest callers. [01:08:54] Speaker B: Oh, nice. I think those have an actual name, but I don't remember what it is. [01:08:59] Speaker A: I don't either. Yeah. Five priest callers out of five. [01:09:03] Speaker B: Yeah, but this is definitely. This is. This is probably has now become my. If people don't know where to start with Spawn, I would probably just be like. Just read the. Just read the Scorched. You'll figure out who the people are as you go. You know, you don't need to have known everybody beforehand. Especially if there are already people who are into comics. Just be like, you'll. You'll learn who they are. It's just like reading a X Men book. You'll. You'll be fine. Yeah, it's. It is excellent. John Layman is just putting it all out there. Steven Segovia is picking it up and putting it back down again. And in the carnival parlance, John Lehman puts two nickels, and Steven Segovia puts a dime. And then they get together and drink them some wine and have a good time while they're doing it. Because it's incredible. And I'm also gonna give it five, Johnny. So we got another. Another Hellfire Club entrance. I'm gonna give it five of Al Simmons's safe houses because he's got them. [01:10:11] Speaker A: All over the place. Pretty swanky. [01:10:13] Speaker B: He's got. He's got. He's got homes in different area codes. [01:10:18] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Oh, Lord almighty, help me. I love it. Love it. That's another entry in the Hellfire Club. What do we call a double Hellfire Club episode? [01:10:31] Speaker B: I mean, we could call it the Double Deuce. Like, strong bat style. The Double Deuce. [01:10:38] Speaker A: Double. Dude, that sounds like a. Sounds like a double poop. [01:10:46] Speaker B: Is that. Is that pooping twice in a row or is that like. [01:10:49] Speaker A: I don't. [01:10:51] Speaker B: Let's get. Let's get into the mechanics of this terrible thing. You just. You just evoked. [01:10:55] Speaker A: No, not a double Deuce. [01:11:01] Speaker B: It could be. It could be extra. Extra Hellfire. Like extra. Extra crispy. [01:11:06] Speaker A: They're extra. It's extra crispy Episode. [01:11:08] Speaker B: Woo. I like extra crispy. [01:11:12] Speaker A: Yeah, this is extra crispy. He's got two. Five out of fives. [01:11:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:11:15] Speaker A: Great issues. I had a fun time reading them. I couldn't wait to talk about them, obviously, because I was like, for two weeks. Thought we were covering the Scorch issue. [01:11:23] Speaker B: Yeah. But yeah, yeah, the. The amount of times Johnny was like, have you read them again yet? You got to read them again. Come on. We almost. He wanted to talk about him before we talked about him on the podcast. [01:11:36] Speaker A: You know that last night. [01:11:37] Speaker B: You know, that's bad, Johnny. We can't talk about him before we talk about him on the podcast. [01:11:40] Speaker A: Yeah, it ruins it. I read him again last night at Cleo's. [01:11:44] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [01:11:45] Speaker A: Why? Enjoy the Cleo's chicken sandwich. [01:11:47] Speaker B: Ooh, delicious. Is that a spicy chicken sandwich or just a regular? [01:11:50] Speaker A: It's a grilled chicken sandwich with like, lettuce and tomato and onion and you can add avocado, which I do. [01:11:56] Speaker B: Ooh, hell yeah. [01:11:57] Speaker A: And it's got like a really good, spicy chipotle, like, mayo sauce. [01:12:00] Speaker B: That sounds great. That sounds fucking great. Yeah, this is fucking great. [01:12:06] Speaker A: One day I'll get you to Cleo's. [01:12:07] Speaker B: One of these days. One of these days. [01:12:10] Speaker A: Because even though, I mean, it's great for late because it's open to like 4am and has food, but it's also just good food and really pretty affordable. [01:12:17] Speaker B: That's. It's hard to go wrong with good and affordable, Johnny. [01:12:22] Speaker A: That's true. It's just like Spawn. [01:12:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:12:26] Speaker A: Yeah, Spawn. Is good and affordable. [01:12:27] Speaker B: 2.99 cheap. [01:12:30] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:12:31] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, you know what else? You know what else is affordable and good, Johnny? [01:12:36] Speaker A: Our friends on Instagram. [01:12:37] Speaker B: Our friends on Instagram because it's free. [01:12:38] Speaker A: It's free to follow somebody. [01:12:40] Speaker B: It's free. Yeah. And the. [01:12:41] Speaker A: The return takes some of your soul when you see AI videos recommended to you like me. [01:12:45] Speaker B: Yeah. The return on investment for that free buy in is just astronomical though, Johnny. [01:12:51] Speaker A: Yes. And we wanted to highlight someone who's featured in the Spawning Grounds this week. [01:12:55] Speaker B: Yes. So in Kingspawn 40, Johnny. [01:12:59] Speaker A: Yeah. And it is our favorite one of the bunch. [01:13:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:13:05] Speaker A: Of that Evan McGuire art. It's that kind of like animated series. Looking kind of pink toned. He does a lot of like pink tone stuff. [01:13:12] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real good. He's got a. Oh, man. Oh, man. He's got Constantine that I want to be Twitch so bad. [01:13:20] Speaker A: He's got the. If you swipe on the picture, he's got the process, which is pretty cool. [01:13:24] Speaker B: Ooh, I love a process shot. [01:13:26] Speaker A: You go to the spawn one and swipe. Yeah. [01:13:28] Speaker B: Woo. That's real nice. [01:13:30] Speaker A: He's got a great art style. [01:13:32] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real fun. I would love to see a Spawn book in this style. [01:13:39] Speaker A: Yeah. Looks like a fun guy. Evan McGuire art. Give him a follow. [01:13:42] Speaker B: He's got a little chicken and waffles. [01:13:44] Speaker A: The High Adventures of Weed wizard and Bong Boy. That sounds great. [01:13:47] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. [01:13:48] Speaker A: There's a little bong if you swipe on it. There's a weed wizard and a bong boy. [01:13:54] Speaker B: His newest post, Weed wizard and Bong Boy. [01:13:59] Speaker A: Pretty cool. Make sure to give him a follow. [01:14:02] Speaker B: It's time to call upon the powers of the green. [01:14:12] Speaker A: Oh, my God, I love that bong boy. He's cute. [01:14:14] Speaker B: Yeah, he's real fucking awesome. [01:14:17] Speaker A: It looks. [01:14:18] Speaker B: He looks kind of like. He's a real stinker sometimes too. [01:14:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:14:24] Speaker B: Oh, man. Yeah. Evan McGuire art. Go, go fucking share the love. He's. He's spreading. He's spreading joy. Go, go. Get you some of that. Get you some of that. Speaking of spreading joy, Johnny. [01:14:38] Speaker A: Mm. [01:14:38] Speaker B: You know who likes to spread some joy? [01:14:41] Speaker A: Lonnie Bones, who does our music. [01:14:42] Speaker B: Lonnie Bones. He certainly spreads joy to me every time that I hear it. So just Google yourself some Lonnie Bones. That's Lonnie with an I with a Y, not an ie. And it just comes up. It just comes up. It's good stuff. You should go listen to it. Especially if you already like the music that's in this. [01:15:00] Speaker A: That would be a reason why you're looking him up. Make sure to look us up on the Internet. We are regarding Swampod on Instagram. [01:15:09] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:15:10] Speaker A: You also reached us@. Regarding swampodmail.com. i want to remind everyone, if you send us a letter with your address, we will send you stickers. [01:15:18] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. Yeah, we have not mentioned that in a while. And if you would like us to say something on air, put it in an email. We'll read the email. [01:15:25] Speaker A: We'll read the email on air. [01:15:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:15:27] Speaker A: And I always like to ask a question, and I just want to ask, what crazy, like, what crazy short story would you want to see? It could be caused by the fallout of Swan's actions. And I think it'd be interesting to see. I don't know. It'd be funny to get, like, a point of view of, like, the people have to clean up after he, like, decimates a building. That'd be pretty good. [01:15:49] Speaker B: We could get those, you know, get those. Those. The cleanup guys from the agency. [01:15:55] Speaker A: Yeah, we use more stories about them. The cleanup guys. [01:15:59] Speaker B: That would be pretty good. That would be pretty good. I would. I think it would be fun to see. See somebody in a very mundane job, like a. Like a teacher or a bus driver, something like that, who somehow, like. Like, gets imbued with spawn powers and uses them to enhance their. Their work. Like, not. Not become a superhero or anything, or just be like, I just graded all these papers in 20 seconds. I've got so much more focus that I could. I could devote to the rest of the time with these kids. That would be awesome. [01:16:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Hit us up. [01:16:35] Speaker B: We're like a fucking. Like a bike. A bike messenger. We could just get shit to you really quick, like, with hell speed. [01:16:43] Speaker A: With Hell speeds. Hit us up. [01:16:45] Speaker B: Yes. [01:16:46] Speaker A: And then we'll hit you up with Sam and Twitch, number nine, and Deadly Tails, the Gunslinger, number two. So two awesome spin offs that we're covering next week. So come back and enjoy those with us. [01:17:00] Speaker B: Yeah, it'll be a real good time. It'll be real fun. It'll be real fun talking about those books, Johnny. [01:17:05] Speaker A: Yep. [01:17:05] Speaker B: I like it. [01:17:06] Speaker A: Those books that. We totally know what they are right now. We didn't just edit in saying it later. [01:17:13] Speaker B: We got. We need to remind everybody to like us, share us, subscribe to us, rate us, tell their friends and family about us. You know, it's nice. It's. We, like. We like doing this, and we want as many people to like what we put out there because we have a fun time doing it. And we hope that we're spreading a little bit of. A little bit of joy. That's what I think. Ooh, Johnny, there we go. That's a good one for your question. There should be some Spawn podcasters who suddenly get imbued with the powers of Spawn, and they use that to increase the enjoyment that they speak spread with their podcast. [01:17:55] Speaker A: I'm just waiting for, like, Todd McFarlane to put in there, like, someone that, like, podcasts about Spawn, like in the world of Spawn and make fun of us. [01:18:02] Speaker B: Well, like, they're ready for it. They could. They could totally, like, expand on the pundits and have like a pundit page. And then like the next page after be. Be like all of the. All of the rest of the discourse around what's happening just like online. And you've got podcast tweets. Yeah, some tweets, some podcasters. There was a. What? There was that. That one issue of the Scorched, where there was like social media posts all over the place. [01:18:26] Speaker A: Right, right, right. And King Swan used it a lot in the early days. [01:18:30] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, so there's precedence, Johnny. There's precedence. We done talked about these books real good, and they're real good. So I think. I think I might be. I might be a little tuckered out from talking about how good these books are. [01:18:42] Speaker A: So I stayed up all night. I was so excited. I couldn't sleep. [01:18:46] Speaker B: Nice. So I have nothing else to say, but may the scorched be with you. [01:18:51] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:18:53] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:18:54] Speaker A: Hell yeah. This is an extra crispy episode. There's some extra crispy issues. That's our new catchphrase. [01:18:59] Speaker B: Extra crispy. I like it. [01:19:01] Speaker A: Do you like extra crispy when you get it? [01:19:03] Speaker B: Yeah, I love most things. Extra crispy pizza. I love a double baked pizza. Okay. Hamburger. Oh, man, I love it when the hamburger patty is a little bit crispy. [01:19:13] Speaker A: Oh, wow. Okay. You're a crispy boy. [01:19:16] Speaker B: Just. Just hamburger, you know, like a, you know, not. Not crispy steak. That's. That's recycled patch. But. But a hamburger, if you're. If you're already fucking cooked. [01:19:24] Speaker A: I mean, if you got some, like, some. Some of them got that like crust, like caramelization crunch on it. You want to steak sometimes. That's pretty good. [01:19:30] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. Or like Pequods. The best part about Pequods is that burnt crust around the edge. [01:19:35] Speaker A: Caramelized crust. I love it. Here we are at the end of an episode, talking about food again. [01:19:40] Speaker B: Johnny, you know what? It's tradition. Why. Why fuck with tradition? It's good. I could go for some extra crispy, though. Fucking fried chicken. [01:19:52] Speaker A: I'll eat anything extra crispy. [01:19:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:19:55] Speaker A: Yeah. What's your. You like Popeyes or. What do you like. [01:19:58] Speaker B: Yeah, Popeyes is probably my favorite. Chicken chain. [01:20:04] Speaker A: Chicken chain. [01:20:04] Speaker B: After you read Harolds. Oh, I fucking love Heralds. [01:20:08] Speaker A: That's really good, Harold. [01:20:11] Speaker B: There's a. There's a Harold's truck that stops. There's two Heralds trucks that regularly stop by work. [01:20:17] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [01:20:19] Speaker B: And we all know which one is the good one and which one is not the good one. [01:20:24] Speaker A: So it goes. [01:20:25] Speaker B: How do you. How do you get your Heralds? [01:20:28] Speaker A: I used to go to the one down in Wicker Park. [01:20:30] Speaker B: Well, no, how. Like when you get a Herald. What's your Heralds or. [01:20:34] Speaker A: Oh, man, it's been so long since I ordered, I don't remember. [01:20:36] Speaker B: Oh, man, mine's just lemon pepper. Mild sauce. That's the way you got to get it. [01:20:41] Speaker A: I think that's what I just definitely get lemon pepper. [01:20:44] Speaker B: They just. They just, like soak it on there. Oh, man. Mild sauce on some fries is one of the greatest things. If you guys haven't had Chicago style mild sauce, you should. You should get there. It's real good. It's excellent. [01:21:01] Speaker A: That mild, is. [01:21:29] Speaker B: It?