Episode 131 - Spawn 361 and Gunslinger 40

[00:00:00] Speaker A: You'll not deceive me, cowboy. A good evening and welcome to the Malibolge. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast. I am your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:44] Speaker B: And I am your co host, David Williams. And Johnny. April is the cruelest month. [00:00:51] Speaker A: Did you get an April Fool's prank pulled on you? [00:00:54] Speaker B: Breeding lilacs out of the dead land? [00:00:57] Speaker A: Someone messed up your lava. [00:00:58] Speaker B: Mixing memory and desire. [00:01:00] Speaker A: Ooh, I like that. [00:01:02] Speaker B: Stirring dull roots with spring rain. Wow. It's National Poetry Month, Gianni. [00:01:09] Speaker A: Oh, it is. Okay, good to know. Wow, I should write a poem. [00:01:13] Speaker B: Well, that one was. That was the Opening of the Wasteland by T.S. eliot, so. [00:01:18] Speaker A: Oh, I like it. It was good. It gave me chills. [00:01:20] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:01:21] Speaker A: First you made me religious, now you're gonna turn me into a poet. [00:01:24] Speaker B: Hey, I mean, Poetry foundation is in Chicago, so there's no better place to be a poet, Joni. Except for maybe, I guess, France in the twenties. [00:01:34] Speaker A: I should read my poetry. [00:01:36] Speaker B: Poetry's fucking good. Poetry's hard to get into, but not. Not as hard as everybody makes it seem like, because some. There's a lot of trash poetry, so you can kind of just skip over that. But if you find something that. That speaks to you, get it. And a good place to start, Johnny, is Charles Simic. S, I, M, I, C. Okay. He. He played around with like, he. He kind of. It was kind of like Toy Story before Toy Story. He likes to give personified voices to inanimate objects, like paper clips and stacks of paper and stuff. [00:02:10] Speaker A: Okay. [00:02:11] Speaker B: Just fun as hell. It's real good. [00:02:13] Speaker A: Okay, interesting. I'll check it out. [00:02:15] Speaker B: He was the Poet laureate of the USA for a while. He started this. [00:02:19] Speaker A: T.S. eliot. [00:02:21] Speaker B: T.S. eliot was an expatriate, so he. [00:02:24] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. I said I always liked T.S. [00:02:26] Speaker B: Eliot. Oh, I thought you said like T.S. eliot. [00:02:27] Speaker A: No, I always liked T.S. [00:02:28] Speaker B: Eliot. [00:02:29] Speaker A: I was just thinking of my poets. William Wadsworth Longfellow. I like him a little. Wordsworth, the great bard. [00:02:37] Speaker B: Yeah. My favorite poem of all time that I have memorized is by a terrible person. Ezra Pound. Uh. Oh. On a station at the metro. The appearance of these faces in the crowd. Petals on a wet black bow. [00:02:52] Speaker A: I need to have a poem memorized. That's a fucking dope move. You just have a poem busted out. [00:02:56] Speaker B: It's fucking two lines. [00:02:57] Speaker A: Yeah, but still, it makes you sound really important and cool. I don't have any fucking poem memorized. Cats. I got cats. [00:03:06] Speaker B: Hey, that's poetry. [00:03:07] Speaker A: You ought to ask Mr. Mesophilis. The most the original Conjuring Cat. There could be no doubt about that. [00:03:15] Speaker B: Oh, beautiful. Well, I mean, cats, famously based on a book of poems by T.S. eliot. [00:03:22] Speaker A: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. I have a copy in my room. Next. [00:03:25] Speaker B: Oh, hell, yeah. The bookstore that actually just went out of business because the people were tired of working and decided to retire that had the 1 of 500 copies of the John Wayne Gacy book also had a first edition of Old Possum's Book of Curious Cats. [00:03:43] Speaker A: Practical Cats. [00:03:44] Speaker B: Practical cats for like, $850. And it was like, oh, man. [00:03:49] Speaker A: Happy birthday, Johnny. [00:03:51] Speaker B: The bit would have been so good. But I don't. I don't know where it went to when they closed the shop, so I can't follow. [00:03:58] Speaker A: It belongs in a museum. [00:04:02] Speaker B: So do you. [00:04:04] Speaker A: It's true. I'm feeling it. No, yeah. I mean, poetry. It's like poetry. It rhymes. Just like the prequels. Yeah, just like Gunslinger and. And King Spawn here. Not even King Spawn. God damn it. Thank you for getting Kingspan today, because Gunslinger and Regular Spawn Main is what we're covering today. Main title. Main title. Reggae. [00:04:29] Speaker B: Russ. Rasta Spawn. [00:04:31] Speaker A: No, reggae is like, in a restaurant where you like something regular. They say reggae. [00:04:35] Speaker B: Ah. [00:04:36] Speaker A: It's like restaurant lingo, but, yeah, that's a joke on that, I guess. Nice, Rosta. Spawn. [00:04:43] Speaker B: I mean, Adrian, bro, please don't do that topping Farland. [00:04:46] Speaker A: Oh, God. Don't do it. Don't be tempted. It's gonna end badly. [00:04:55] Speaker B: We should. We should erase this before he accidentally hears it. Oh, God. I got a great idea for a new Spawn roster. Spawn. [00:05:02] Speaker A: We're gonna do Rash the Spawn. We're gonna have three figures. [00:05:08] Speaker B: He's got the real green smoke, you know. [00:05:13] Speaker A: That Necroplasm. Oh, yes. We are doing two issues from Todd McFarlane from Spawn's universe. That is Spawn361 and Gunslinger40. [00:05:23] Speaker B: And why are we doing this, Johnny? [00:05:25] Speaker A: Why are we doing that? Because we are. Regarding Spawn. A poetry podcast. [00:05:30] Speaker B: Oh, shit. Now we have to. Now we have to. To review these in couplets. [00:05:35] Speaker A: Yeah. Get to work. No, we were. Regarding Spawn, where each week respawn. Where each week we bring you two issues from Spawn's universe. Except when we don't, it is a normal episode. Today, we are bringing you two issues from Spawn's universe. Twice the fun, twice the danger, twice the excitement. [00:05:51] Speaker B: Double your pleasure and double your fun. [00:05:54] Speaker A: That's the statement of the great men. Double McGum, baby. [00:05:56] Speaker B: Double mint gum Fucking slaps. That shit's so good. [00:05:58] Speaker A: Is it good. Okay. [00:06:00] Speaker B: Have you never had double mint? [00:06:01] Speaker A: Yeah, I've had it. It's good. That's nothing crazy. [00:06:04] Speaker B: I like it because, because it. With the two mints, it. It tempers the spiciness of a peppermint. And a regular spearmint gets a little boring after a while. But double mint is just like the perfect balance. [00:06:17] Speaker A: Okay. [00:06:18] Speaker B: Also, there's no sugar free option. And dogs can't have the. The non sugar additive in gum. [00:06:24] Speaker A: Oh, I know. Oh, David, I know. So when we had Cassius, my friend Aaron worked at a gas station, got a ton of free expired candy and shit. And I left. The one thing I took was I took this pack of sugar free Sour Patch Kids gum. I opened it, had one piece, set it on the coffee table, and then we went to lunch, came back, he was. The dog had eaten the whole thing. [00:06:57] Speaker B: Tropy had done that so many times, like people. [00:07:00] Speaker A: So we had to give him the hydrogen peroxide to make him throw up. [00:07:03] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:07:04] Speaker A: And it was. It was Sour Patch Kids gum. So it was the most rainbow colored, craziest looking throw up I'd ever seen in my life. [00:07:10] Speaker B: That's. [00:07:11] Speaker A: This dog threw up. [00:07:12] Speaker B: That's awful. Rip Cashes. [00:07:14] Speaker A: I know. Rip Cashes. He's a good boy. But he was just like, why am I. Why are you doing this to me? I'm throwing up. Hydrogen peroxide. [00:07:21] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, hydrogen peroxide. We have. We have one dog that was a. That was a street dog. And hydrogen peroxide doesn't touch her. She's got like a cast iron stomach. Damn, the things I have seen her eat off the ground. Things that color should never be anywhere close to a mouth. And she's just like, so. [00:07:42] Speaker A: Damn. Yeah, street life. Yeah, street life. [00:07:51] Speaker B: Like street shirts. [00:07:55] Speaker A: So Jackie Brown soundtrack. [00:07:56] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Yeah. I don't know. [00:07:58] Speaker A: You ever seen Jackie Brown? [00:07:58] Speaker B: I saw Jackie Brown in high school, so it totally went over my head. [00:08:02] Speaker A: Oh, you're a famous Tarantino hater. [00:08:06] Speaker B: Where did this, where did this, where did this bit start, Johnny? I'm not. [00:08:10] Speaker A: Because you said he didn't like him. [00:08:12] Speaker B: Oh, no, I don't. I don't. I don't dislike him. [00:08:15] Speaker A: You just don't seek him out. [00:08:16] Speaker B: I do. Yeah. I don't seek him out. [00:08:19] Speaker A: Oh, I seek him out. [00:08:20] Speaker B: I don't. I don't think I've seen a movie from him that I didn't actually like. But I don't rewatch movies. And since I watched most of those movies between high school and college, most of the memory of them just Kind of faded away like tears in the rain. [00:08:39] Speaker A: We remember Blade Runner, at least. [00:08:43] Speaker B: These are the texts of our time, Johnny. [00:08:47] Speaker A: That's like poetry. I've seen things you wouldn't believe. The whole speech from Roy Batty. [00:08:52] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, it's great. [00:08:55] Speaker A: He's like transport ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. It's amazing. [00:08:59] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a good movie. [00:09:02] Speaker A: Things you wouldn't believe. Great movie. I love Blade Runner. And Blade Runner 2049 was good, too. [00:09:09] Speaker B: Yeah, that was fun. It was very, very moody and atmospheric. [00:09:14] Speaker A: It had Ane Jaramus as the robot lady with AI Armis. [00:09:20] Speaker B: And it also had that Ryan Gosling. [00:09:23] Speaker A: I mean, we like him, too. [00:09:25] Speaker B: Like, I like. I like Ryan Gosling. [00:09:26] Speaker A: You like two sexy people. What's the problem? [00:09:28] Speaker B: It also had the. The grumpy ass Harrison Ford man. [00:09:32] Speaker A: I love. Yeah, he was in a T shirt. No, but he was just in a gray T shirt. That was his costume. He was like, no, like, hey, we got this huge coat for you and all this. He's like, gray T shirt. [00:09:44] Speaker B: He's like, I got to be able to fly out of this. And like. [00:09:46] Speaker A: Yeah, I got to be able to. Yeah, I got to be able to get my private jet and fly and crash on accident. [00:09:51] Speaker B: It says, we better get this before I break my leg again, guys. All right. All more power to Harrison for it. He just doesn't give any shits. [00:09:57] Speaker A: It's just so funny that he's just in a gray T shirt in that movie. That's his costume. It's like this, like, luscious sci fi epic, and he's just, like, in a gray T shirt. Cracks me up. [00:10:06] Speaker B: That's. That's what I would do if I ended up in a, you know, a desolate. A desolate area and a. Like, one of the top floors of an abandoned hotel. Who am I dressing to impress? [00:10:16] Speaker A: That's true. [00:10:17] Speaker B: The holograms. [00:10:19] Speaker A: I mean, the holograms look like Andy de Armas. I'd be trying to impress them. [00:10:23] Speaker B: I mean, we do like. We do like an animatronic holographic advertisement. We have talked about that before. [00:10:30] Speaker A: Oh, everyone loves that. [00:10:31] Speaker B: Oh, it's so good. It's so good. [00:10:33] Speaker A: But we don't get any of those because this isn't Rat City. This is Spawn and Gunslinger. [00:10:38] Speaker B: Just Spawn and Gunslinger. [00:10:41] Speaker A: Not just, I'm sorry. We gotta be nice to the Toddfather this week. A couple weeks ago, we beat him up pretty bad. [00:10:48] Speaker B: Yeah, we sure did. [00:10:50] Speaker A: I like these issues better than those two. [00:10:53] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Them. [00:10:55] Speaker A: I did. There's some weird parts. 361's got some funky stuff that I was like, interesting. [00:11:00] Speaker B: Still a little bit of the making his own cow paths like I talked about last episode. We talked about him. But. [00:11:08] Speaker A: Why does he like the one on one fight so much? Both these are one on one fight issues. That's just like his thing. [00:11:14] Speaker B: I mean, I think a one on one fight is. I don't know. Because I can see from a drawing perspective it's something dynamic that you don't have to exactly do detail in the background for if you don't want to. And it gives you an ability to have something happening while you're like info dumping without it just being like two people standing there having a conversation. So it's, it's like a dynamic thing. [00:11:43] Speaker A: It's like a dance. [00:11:44] Speaker B: Yeah. But since he's not drawing these, I wonder if it's just because that's like his safe zone. He knows like that's something that is almost always going to work just having a comic book with people fighting and saying things back and forth to each other. So. [00:12:01] Speaker A: Yeah, no, it's true. Both these feature one on one fights. [00:12:05] Speaker B: And neither of them were Carl. Thank Christ. [00:12:08] Speaker A: No Carl. There's no Carl in this issue. [00:12:11] Speaker B: We're going to have to revisit that one day. Are we too tough on Carl? [00:12:16] Speaker A: I don't know. It was just stupid. [00:12:18] Speaker B: He was pretty awful. [00:12:21] Speaker A: It was just like, what the fuck is this guy? Okay. And he's gone. Okay, thank you. Thanks, Carl. [00:12:28] Speaker B: He hung around for what, like 150 years to just be dispatched instantly? [00:12:33] Speaker A: Yeah, but we always start with the covers. So we're starting with spawn 361 and I've got the A cover. The Bjorn Barons. [00:12:45] Speaker B: Awesome. I, I that's the assignment, Johnny. If there's a Bjorn Barons, you get the Bjorn Barons. [00:12:50] Speaker A: And Swan's like commanding this army of little imps and like a big cockroach. [00:12:57] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. Yeah, it's more like a centipede than a cockroach. [00:13:02] Speaker A: More like a centipede. [00:13:03] Speaker B: If you get, if you put a, if you put a, one of those little flat caps and some page boy suspenders on them, he'd be right at a. Right out of James and the Giant peach. [00:13:13] Speaker A: Yeah, he would be Ms. Spider. [00:13:16] Speaker B: Oh. Oh, geez. Ms. Spider is way too much for a little, little children to be like. [00:13:25] Speaker A: Turned on by her. [00:13:26] Speaker B: Frightened and intrigued all at the same time. They made that spider sexier than they needed to make her. [00:13:34] Speaker A: This spider was sexy. It's okay. [00:13:36] Speaker B: She was French. Bonk. Bonk from a spider. [00:13:42] Speaker A: Sorry, Ms. Spider. [00:13:43] Speaker B: I was always a fan. I was always a fan of Mr. Grasshopper because he was just a fucking old curmudgeon. But I was like, that's gonna be me. [00:13:52] Speaker A: I actually really like the B cover a lot. [00:13:55] Speaker B: Got to look up the B cover. Who. Who does that B cover? [00:13:59] Speaker A: Francesca Tomaselli. [00:14:00] Speaker B: Oh, man. Yeah. Tomaselli cover is always very good. [00:14:03] Speaker A: And it's this awesome. Like, it's just really cool. It's like this little scene. This is a couple just like, you know, neck and in the street with Spawns above them. And she, like, kind of notices him. [00:14:13] Speaker B: It's very Batman. [00:14:15] Speaker A: Yeah, it's really cool. I like it a lot. It tells a little story. [00:14:19] Speaker B: There's that. That guy in the background who's obviously watching them. It's a couple of them in the background. [00:14:25] Speaker A: Girl's hot bonk. [00:14:29] Speaker B: Ms. Spider is there. Holy crap. Yeah. Thomas. Ella does a good cover too, but unfortunately, if I know there's a Bjorn Barrons, that's. That's all I've got eyes for. Johnny. [00:14:42] Speaker A: Yeah. If I would have seen this on Sally, I might have picked that one. But I. I just pre order the A. [00:14:46] Speaker B: So, I mean, I had to make the. The tough decision to get the Nyx cover that didn't have Nicks on it. Because I knew that you wouldn't have cover B for when I picked up Nicks. [00:14:58] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:14:59] Speaker B: That's. That's okay because the. The B cover was a Glapian cover, so. [00:15:06] Speaker A: Not too shabby. Yeah. We pop this puppy open and we got the credits. Gotta give credit where credit is due. [00:15:14] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:15:15] Speaker A: Script plot by Todd McFarlane. Art by Mr. Brett Booth. [00:15:19] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:15:20] Speaker A: Inks by Adelsa Corona. Colors by Robert Nugent. As he does lettering by the Tom father, Tom Wojakowski. We already covered the covers. Creative Director is Todd McFarlane and editor in chief is Thomas Healy. Previously in Spawn. Spawn refused to listen to the warnings. He foolhardedly jumped into battle and was killed. Wow. [00:15:47] Speaker B: I mean, that could just be the previous layout of every Spawn. [00:15:51] Speaker A: Yeah, he always fails to heed the warnings he doesn't heed. [00:15:54] Speaker B: Yeah, he doesn't follow anybody's advice but his own. [00:15:58] Speaker A: No. Good old Al Simmons. Especially when the Todd father writes him. He's just a bullheaded kind of a jerk. [00:16:06] Speaker B: Jeez, somebody just ran into the wall. It was a massive thunk. A human or a dog? It was Cable, the guy who can't see nothing. [00:16:19] Speaker A: Nice. [00:16:20] Speaker B: Oh, Doc. Yeah, sorry, Doc. [00:16:22] Speaker A: I was like the guy from the X Men comics? [00:16:24] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cyclops son from the future. [00:16:28] Speaker A: Yeah, I figured that's who you, man. [00:16:31] Speaker B: Duh. We've got a. We've got an ursatz Deadpool in here. We might as well talk about cable. [00:16:37] Speaker A: Yeah, There's a word, Deadpool, at the end of this. Why does Deadpool show up? [00:16:41] Speaker B: I don't know, Johnny, but who that guy is. Well, the. He, like, introduces himself in the next issue. [00:16:51] Speaker A: Okay, yeah, Deadpool is in here. [00:16:55] Speaker B: All right. [00:16:55] Speaker A: I don't like this issue. I changed my mind. No, I'm kidding. [00:16:59] Speaker B: I like. It starts off with a single drop of blood. Johnny. [00:17:02] Speaker A: It starts with a single drop of blood that falls. [00:17:06] Speaker B: Falling. [00:17:07] Speaker A: This is tears of blood. [00:17:09] Speaker B: Yeah, well, no, it's. It's Al Simmons's blood flowing down Nix's arm as she holds him aloft. And it splashes on her face. [00:17:16] Speaker A: Oh, right. Oh, that's what it is. Okay. Yes. She's saying, why? Why couldn't you stay that way? [00:17:22] Speaker B: All you had to do was not go near them. But Spawn didn't. Now he's dead. [00:17:29] Speaker A: And she had to do the one thing she didn't want to do. She needed this damn hellspawn to help trigger her plans. But this wasn't the time. So she basically. [00:17:40] Speaker B: Yeah, so she. She had planned out. [00:17:41] Speaker A: She needs Spawn for her plan somehow, but she can't do it if he's fucking dead. [00:17:46] Speaker B: Yeah. So. So now she's got to give him back all his necroplasmic powers in order to keep him from dying. Real dead. [00:17:52] Speaker A: And I love how just the next. You turn the page. [00:17:55] Speaker B: Yeah, it's just a massive two page spread of necroplasm. [00:18:00] Speaker A: I love the next page, too. With, like, the Earth, like, being. She's undoing the Dead zone thing. [00:18:07] Speaker B: Yeah, it's very. It's very reminiscent of the very first issue of Spawn. With the. [00:18:12] Speaker A: With the. [00:18:13] Speaker B: Yeah, the overhead view of Earth. Would it be an over? I guess it would be an overhead view. Huh. It's weird to think about. [00:18:22] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. Let's talk about space, dude. You want to talk about space? [00:18:26] Speaker B: Space, the final frontier. [00:18:29] Speaker A: Yeah, dude, it definitely is for blowing my mind. But here's something. I was like, this isn't what happened. It was one of the first instances of Todd Father being weird. He says her first actions as Queen were to return every earthly intruder back to their world. Once there, she convinced the Vampire King Blood into sealing the dead zones. That's not true. She just instantly did it. [00:18:50] Speaker B: Yeah, she did it through the grain. [00:18:52] Speaker A: Yeah. She did it of herself. [00:18:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:55] Speaker A: What is he talking about? [00:18:57] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:19:00] Speaker A: That's why I say you're not gonna fool me, cowboy. I'm talking to you, Tom McFarlane. [00:19:05] Speaker B: Well, now you see, but like, it. [00:19:10] Speaker A: Didn'T have anything to do with blood. [00:19:12] Speaker B: It didn't. He just. The vampires were the only ones who still had power, so, yeah, they just took over. I don't know. [00:19:20] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Anyway, continuity error. Weew wee. Continuity police. Excuse me, you have an error in your 361 issues of Spawn. [00:19:31] Speaker B: Could you imagine if we. We could just start a whole other podcast about just continuity errors and it would have more episodes than this one? [00:19:40] Speaker A: You call it sponed. Like spawned. We just. We spawn them. [00:19:47] Speaker B: Spwn. D. Spwn. [00:19:50] Speaker A: Spawned. [00:19:52] Speaker B: You just got spwned. Ooh. Ooh. Johnny, we should make a drop. We should commission. We should commission good old Lonnie Bones to make a sponge drop. I like that. Humanity will be forever ignorant of what just happened. Like, okay, okay. Nobody, nobody will remember that the skies turned green for a half a second. Except for probably good old Gould Brock. The shock. They're turning the clouds gay. [00:20:24] Speaker A: Return the fucking clouds green. And we cut back to the scene on the rooftop and Spawn is resurrected in his full glory. [00:20:32] Speaker B: Scientists will call it an anomaly. [00:20:35] Speaker A: I like how he throws shade at TikTok. People will never pay heed to it as they're too busy staring at their phone screens watching meaningless 10 second videos. [00:20:44] Speaker B: It's a true fact of life, Johnny, that we will forever spend more time watching these goddamn videos on our phone than we do doing anything else. I know I can sit down and get comfy on the couch and be like, I'm gonna read some book. But first let me check Instagram. And then an hour and a half later, I'm like, fuck, I forgot to read book. [00:21:04] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm not so bad about that. My Instagram's weird. My algorithm's bad. [00:21:10] Speaker B: I try, I try. But I'm only one man, Johnny. I'm weak. [00:21:15] Speaker A: You're weak. You're watching these meaningless 10 second videos. [00:21:19] Speaker B: Yeah, he's talking about me, Johnny. Oh. Oh, now I got it out for the Todd. Father. He's calling me out. He's calling me out, Johnny. Yeah, specifically you just like it. Just like a western duel. He's a calling me out. But yeah, every super super being from heaven and hell have also had their powers returned, Johnny. Because much like the. The lore of drinking that you don't break the seal, Johnny. She done Broke. She done broke the necroplasmic seal. And now she's. She's just a stupid thing going every 20 minutes. [00:21:50] Speaker A: Now, I heard that call. It don't break the seal baking in you. [00:21:57] Speaker B: That's just like. That's just how long it takes for your body to process liquids. How many liquids did you drink all at once? [00:22:03] Speaker A: A lot. [00:22:06] Speaker B: Shit. Did you ever play Edward Forty Hands in college? [00:22:09] Speaker A: Yeah, of course. [00:22:10] Speaker B: Oh, man. What a stupid game. Christ. [00:22:13] Speaker A: Yeah, it's really. [00:22:14] Speaker B: It hurts so much. [00:22:16] Speaker A: Yeah. So cold. [00:22:17] Speaker B: So cold. And like, whoever. Like everybody wanted to wrap that duct tape so tight that it just like. Like you could feel your fingers throbbing and freezing all at the same time. [00:22:27] Speaker A: What a stupid fucking game. These things we do to ourselves as children, David. These things we do, these lives we leave. [00:22:32] Speaker B: I'm pretty sure if I drink an entire 40 in one day now, I would just like. I'd be dead for like three days. [00:22:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:40] Speaker B: And that was two. [00:22:41] Speaker A: Two. [00:22:42] Speaker B: Oh, two. Two of them. We used to. We used to be gods, Johnny. [00:22:48] Speaker A: Dude, my friend is. Aaron and Scott invented a game one time called Frat. And what it. All it was was you took a drink and then you hit each other with poster tubes as hard as you could. [00:23:01] Speaker B: That just. That just sounds like regular drinking to me. [00:23:05] Speaker A: Yeah, I guess they called it Frat. I played it one time. I was like, this is the dumbest game I've ever fucking played. Don't hit me with that poster tube anymore. I don't know. They had the poster tubes because Nathan worked at the fucking movie theater is why I had all the poster. [00:23:18] Speaker B: Okay, but at the Car Mike in Stillwater. [00:23:22] Speaker A: No, he worked at. He was a Tulsa friend. He worked at the Hollywood 12. [00:23:27] Speaker B: Okay. [00:23:27] Speaker A: In Promenade Mall before it closed. [00:23:29] Speaker B: Oh, nice. I don't know if I ever. I think I saw one movie there, but I don't think I remember what it was. [00:23:34] Speaker A: Saw a lot there. I always preferred amc, but, you know, what are you gonna do? [00:23:39] Speaker B: I got my. I got my first skateboard at the Market store in Promenade. [00:23:43] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:23:44] Speaker B: Yeah, and then after we left, my mom was like, did you see that they sell drug stuff? And I was like, absolutely not. I was paying attention to them building the skateboard that I wanted. What are you talking about, drugs? Yeah. [00:23:55] Speaker A: Yeah, they did. They had like, drug like shirts. [00:23:58] Speaker B: Yeah. I think they also sold glass pieces. [00:24:00] Speaker A: Oh, they did. [00:24:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:02] Speaker A: Damn. Oh, my God. [00:24:04] Speaker B: Remember. Remember when that intersection in Lakeview had like six. Six head shops in a single block? [00:24:13] Speaker A: I do know exactly what you're talking about. [00:24:14] Speaker B: Yeah. They're down to. They're down to one now. I think it was amazing that they could sustain that. That number for so long, Tuli. Shut up, Kuzco. Shut up. Stop being butts. The. This conversation between Spawn and Nyx, how could that sustain so long? [00:24:31] Speaker A: Yeah, because they want to kill each other. [00:24:34] Speaker B: Yeah, man, they're always fighting. Always fighting. [00:24:37] Speaker A: And she's like, look, I gave everyone their powers. [00:24:39] Speaker B: Yeah. I give the orders. Or have you forgotten? I'm your queen now. That's your move to shoot your chains against me. [00:24:50] Speaker A: Classic Toddfather dialogue. [00:24:52] Speaker B: Classic. Classic. [00:24:53] Speaker A: And then she just slams him to the ground with his own chains. [00:24:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:56] Speaker A: And we cut to the bowels of hell. [00:24:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:59] Speaker A: Where the Malbors. [00:25:00] Speaker B: One might say the Mal. The. The. The bowel. The bowel moles of Hell. Bow. [00:25:08] Speaker A: Bowa. [00:25:10] Speaker B: That sounds like a euphemism for a bowel movement. [00:25:13] Speaker A: That's, like, the biggest bow. Bolger. [00:25:19] Speaker B: I can see that that kindergartner is saying that. That's funny. But, yeah, we got angry Nick sitting on the throne down in the bowels of hell. And then what she asked them to do is, after she asked them to bury all these bodies in the last issue, she sent them back out with a big fucking bag and was like, put all those bodies in this bag and bring them to me. Right. Oh, ma'am. [00:25:51] Speaker A: So they do, and she's gonna. I'm gonna make you a part of my executioner. And she, like, fuses all these dead bodies together, make one bigger. [00:25:57] Speaker B: She basically makes. She basically makes an Oogie Boogie out of dead beasts instead of bugs. [00:26:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Out of, like, dead angels and demons and stuff. [00:26:07] Speaker B: Without the benefit of a burlap sack. So he ain't gonna see what's all in him. Yeah. [00:26:11] Speaker A: He needs a burlap sack. [00:26:12] Speaker B: Map bugs. But first, her avatar must complete its mission. Johnny. And so we cut back to Nix and Spawn duking it out on this rooftop. Basically saying that if you don't. If you can't be ready, if you can't be ready for any of this, then I'm gonna need to find somebody better. Spawn says, turn around, Nyx. It's about the time you fall apart. [00:26:44] Speaker A: And I need you now, tonight. And I need you more than ever. Just fucking attacks her with, like, his necroplasm tendrils. [00:26:54] Speaker B: Yeah. You've forgotten where we are. I'm the one that controls shadows here. [00:26:59] Speaker A: Not you, Earth baby. [00:27:05] Speaker B: Then it is the time she spits these flies and she's spitting limit Spawn. [00:27:14] Speaker A: All right. [00:27:15] Speaker B: And he blocks him with his hand. [00:27:19] Speaker A: All right, I'm putting a stop to this. [00:27:22] Speaker B: Hey, what are you talking about? But, yeah, she vomits cockroaches and shit right at him. And using. Using the power of his shadows. [00:27:35] Speaker A: Yeah, I guess he spawned those cockroaches and cyber. They're already in there. [00:27:39] Speaker B: Yeah, I thought she. I thought that she was using them. I don't know. I don't know. I was confused about this part. [00:27:48] Speaker A: Peaches. Obey my commands. [00:27:50] Speaker B: I gotta stop this guy. He's being a butthole. [00:27:53] Speaker A: So. Yeah, he makes her vomit. Bugs, I think. [00:27:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. I read these last week in preparation of last record. And then thought they were still in my bag to read this morning. And then was like, whoops, I took them out. So I'm working on a week's. A week's worth of memories to remember what happened to the book. [00:28:16] Speaker A: Okay. [00:28:17] Speaker B: Sorry, Johnny. [00:28:18] Speaker A: I'm sorry. I canceled recording last week. [00:28:20] Speaker B: It's my fault. No, it's fine, Johnny. Hate me. It's never gonna hate me. How. How dare you? [00:28:27] Speaker A: I can tell. I know. I had to do laundry. [00:28:33] Speaker B: What are you talking about? You can wear a pair of underwear for four days and they're still clean. Johnny. Don't you know that? Four times. Frontwards, backwards, inside out, in front, inside out and backwards. There you go. [00:28:45] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:28:46] Speaker B: How many. How many pairs of underwear did you lose 75% of their wearability on by washing them? Motherfu. [00:28:53] Speaker A: A lot. [00:28:55] Speaker B: Please. I need an exact number. I need to know how many pairs of underwear you have in your possession. [00:29:01] Speaker A: I don't know. I probably, like, 16 or 17. [00:29:05] Speaker B: Ooh, that's a. That's a nice amount. I guess that's. I guess that's about two weeks worth. Because that's about how long it takes before you're like, shit, I gotta do laundry. [00:29:15] Speaker A: Yep, two weeks worth. [00:29:17] Speaker B: And Spawn says, you may be Hell's queen, but I am Earth's king. A power you'll never enjoy. [00:29:25] Speaker A: He makes her bow with his powers. [00:29:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:28] Speaker A: Brings her down to her knees. [00:29:30] Speaker B: And then, like, like, shoots necroplasmic winds up at her. [00:29:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:39] Speaker B: King of the dead. They'll come for you. They'll all come. And Al says, I'm counting on it. And then he drops her. And then he explodes the body. Jesus. [00:29:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:54] Speaker B: And then. And then, like, he. He rips. He rips his mask off like the symbiote. He screams. He screams just a little. He does a little Kylo Ren here. He has a little bitty conniption. [00:30:09] Speaker A: Tantrum. Yeah, a little tantrum. He's like. He's mad that he will never go to notice someone's peace. Every single enemy in existence. [00:30:19] Speaker B: Which is impossible. Johnny. And that knowing that only strokes his rage further. And 10 full minutes pass while he collects himself. Johnny. [00:30:31] Speaker A: He just sit there collecting himself. Hey, man. Self care. Whatever you got to do. [00:30:35] Speaker B: Yeah. He wishes he wasn't so flawed, Johnny. Don't we all. Holy shit. The deepest. The deepest thing that Spawn has ever said. He wishes he wasn't so flawed. [00:30:45] Speaker A: Same, Al. Same. [00:30:48] Speaker B: Wow. That was some. And then. And then we get the reveal of the green Deadpool. [00:30:55] Speaker A: There's a Green Deadpool guy. [00:30:56] Speaker B: Tremor. That's not Tremor. That's looks like Tremor. [00:31:00] Speaker A: I think it's Tremor. [00:31:01] Speaker B: It is it. Oh. But wasn't Tremor working with somebody else? He was working with the lady in the. So I guess. Wait, are these. Are these people associated with what's her face in the yellow jacket? [00:31:13] Speaker A: I don't know. There's a Bone Spawn. [00:31:17] Speaker B: Yeah. He looks pretty fucking cool. And so it continues. An endless stream of constant conflicts that, as these three beings now show, won't allow Spawn to ever have any real joy in his life again. As they slowly erode his humanity. Oh, that's bleak, Johnny. [00:31:37] Speaker A: That is bleak. [00:31:38] Speaker B: This is. These motherfuckers never give me a moment's peace. We flash back to hell with Nyx on the throne and her executioner standing before her. And she's. She's basically doing her cackling evil end of. End of Act 2 antagonist thing where she's just going. I like how there's. There's just dead bodies flying off of the executioner. [00:32:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:13] Speaker B: It's so gross. [00:32:18] Speaker A: Reminds me of a boss in a Castlevania game. It's just a big mass of bodies, but it was like sentient. [00:32:26] Speaker B: Sentient, Sentient, massive bodies. Which would be very frightening to see in real life. [00:32:35] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:32:37] Speaker B: Then we get the necroplasm meter. [00:32:42] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:32:44] Speaker B: Spawns back up from 0001. Actually, I guess he was at.0000 the last time we saw. Huh? Because he died. [00:32:50] Speaker A: Yeah. He's at 3193. [00:32:54] Speaker B: Not too terribly much, but not too bad. Then we got some spawning ground Presents fan art. Whoo. And it looks like they've got a. The McFarlane. Discord has been having some fan art competitions. One of these is the winner from Alex in the Bathtub. Yeah. It's a Spawn with a clown. It's good. [00:33:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:18] Speaker B: There's another one by Eskivoart. And Nestocolors. It's a big old. It's a regular spawn, but he's got the proportions and sword of a medieval spawn. Yeah, so it's a medi. Medieval spawn? No, like a sort of. [00:33:37] Speaker A: I don't get it. [00:33:37] Speaker B: Like a. Like a sorta. Like a sorta medieval spawn. [00:33:42] Speaker A: Okay, I get it. [00:33:45] Speaker B: And then another one by Jose Realart. It's just got a spawn green orb and yelling into the void, screaming, shooting his chains. Very appropriate for this issue. [00:34:00] Speaker A: Yes, he screamed a lot and he. [00:34:02] Speaker B: Threw some chains and he green smoked Nimor spawns Universe Johnny, you gotta get. [00:34:10] Speaker A: The green smoke comes with the Rasta spawn. It goes with the real green smoke. You just put it in there and it comes out. This is a terrible atomic farm. [00:34:21] Speaker B: Do you think. [00:34:21] Speaker A: Do you think it's getting worse and worse as I keep going? [00:34:23] Speaker B: Do you think the little. The little lit end of the big fat doobie that he's gonna have is a little insignia? [00:34:32] Speaker A: Yeah, it's gotta be. He comes with the doobie. [00:34:39] Speaker B: They need to make. They need to make officially licensed spawn grinders. That would be perfect because it's around and it's around with the orb on the orb. [00:34:47] Speaker A: Yeah, we totally do it. [00:34:49] Speaker B: Make a killing. [00:34:51] Speaker A: I like how Rick and Morty become the new, like, stuff on Head Shop stuff. [00:34:58] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:34:58] Speaker A: It's like if you see, like, every head shop you go to has a Rick or a Morty bong or both. [00:35:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Or the. The Pickle Rick. The Pickle Rickle bong. [00:35:07] Speaker A: Everyone loves the Pickle Rick pipe. Yeah, I Pickle Rick. [00:35:11] Speaker B: And they're like, a hundred and fifty dollars. And it's like, holy shit, I'm gonna break that within three seconds of buying it. No, thank you. [00:35:19] Speaker A: Yeah, he's a pickle. [00:35:22] Speaker B: David. [00:35:22] Speaker A: It's funny. [00:35:24] Speaker B: I mean, it is funny. It is. It was funny because it was a pickle. [00:35:28] Speaker A: Yeah. And he got eaten by a rat. Yeah, he fought a rat. [00:35:33] Speaker B: I don't remember. I. I mainlined like, six seasons of Rick and Morty in, like, four days once during the pandemic, so it's all a big blur. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense to me anymore, but do you need more Sponge Universe Johnny? [00:35:50] Speaker A: Yes. [00:35:51] Speaker B: Okay, well, then don't miss the ongoing titles. [00:35:53] Speaker A: I don't want to. [00:35:55] Speaker B: Oh, well, good. Then you shouldn't. [00:35:58] Speaker A: I won't. [00:35:59] Speaker B: Well, fine. Maybe I won't either. [00:36:02] Speaker A: Okay, don't forget, we got the Image Classics ad. Then we have a new toy ad. [00:36:08] Speaker B: Yeah, The Warhammer Warhammer. [00:36:12] Speaker A: 2. [00:36:12] Speaker B: The Warhammer Space Marine 2. And I like that. It's. They've got a painted version and an unpainted version. Because you know it's Warhammer. Because it's Warhammer. [00:36:22] Speaker A: You paint it if you wanted to. [00:36:24] Speaker B: This leather jacket on this. This guy on the bottom is insane. [00:36:28] Speaker A: His sword's cool too, man. [00:36:31] Speaker B: Like an actual leather jacket for a fucking action figure. That's insane. [00:36:34] Speaker A: Pretty cool. [00:36:35] Speaker B: Yeah, pretty cool. That's spawn 361, Johnny. [00:36:41] Speaker A: There it is in all its gory glory. [00:36:43] Speaker B: Turn around. [00:36:46] Speaker A: No. Next up, we got gunslinger number 40 coming at you. Another Todd McFarlane joint. [00:37:06] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:37:10] Speaker A: Leaving where we left off last time or picking up where we left off last time. [00:37:14] Speaker B: Yeah, like in. In media. In media. Bear fight. [00:37:18] Speaker A: Immediate bear mauling. [00:37:21] Speaker B: Before we get to that, we got to cover the covers like we always do, Johnny. [00:37:25] Speaker A: Yep. And I got the A cover. [00:37:26] Speaker B: I got the A cover. This. This was also a no brainer one because this A cover is incredible. [00:37:33] Speaker A: Yes. We have Marco Falia and it's a buzzard or vulture ripping the eye out of a dead man. [00:37:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:42] Speaker A: As Javi looks on. [00:37:44] Speaker B: Yeah. On from the back of his steed, there's just flaming. Flaming mane and eyes and mouth. Yeah, man. This would have been a good. So. So, Johnny, when I was in Boy Scouts, the troop I was a part of, each of the patrols, we were always flaming something because the first one was flaming tents. Because all the tents at Boy Scout camp say no flames and tents and so tent on fire. Hilarious. So then every successive patrol that came after that was flaming. Just something random. Like my patrol was the flaming wolves. And so our insignia was just a wolf with a fire tail and fucking flaming steed. Would have been an amazing. An amazing patrol. Also pretty good Is that B cover, because it is a Javi Fernandez cover. Javier Fernandez does good shit. And it is just gunslinger in red holding up his pistols, just wishing a mother would. [00:38:53] Speaker A: Yeah, it's really cool. Iconic. [00:38:58] Speaker B: It's great. [00:38:58] Speaker A: You love Javi Fernandez. [00:39:00] Speaker B: It is. It is a great cover. But I had. I had to get the. I had to get the one with the vulture and the gross nasty on it. It's just perfect. It's very. It's very old western VHS cover or I guess old western paperback. [00:39:14] Speaker A: Yeah, both. [00:39:15] Speaker B: Both. [00:39:15] Speaker A: Maybe. [00:39:17] Speaker B: Maybe. Maybe like one of those gift packs that is a book and a VHS of the movie based off the book, but only loosely based. So they really only share the name and nothing else because that's how they used to do it. Well, speaking of how we do it. We gotta crack this puppy open, Johnny. [00:39:37] Speaker A: Yep. [00:39:37] Speaker B: And give credit where that credit is due. [00:39:41] Speaker A: Who we got, David? [00:39:41] Speaker B: We got. We got. Script plot by Todd McFarlane, art by Carlo Barberry, colors by Ivan Nunes, lettering by Tom Wozykowski. We done covered the covers. Todd McFarlane is the creative director. Thomas Healy once again, and as always, is our father the editor in chief. Previously and Gunslinger. [00:40:07] Speaker A: Amen. [00:40:08] Speaker B: Javi woke up the mama bear and she is pissed. [00:40:22] Speaker A: That's what happened. [00:40:24] Speaker B: That's exactly what happened. And she is. [00:40:28] Speaker A: She's real pissed. [00:40:30] Speaker B: Real pissed. And so here's where we are with in. In Media Mall, where Gunslinger. Gunslinger decided to save the dog that saved his life at the risk of his own weak body. But now that he's got his necroplasm back, it's not as bad as it could have been. And yeah, so he's just getting pounded into the. Into the snow here. [00:40:55] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:40:56] Speaker B: This is. This is their home, not mine. I should have known better. Stupid can kill a man. Ooh, that's pretty poetic. Stupid kill a man. [00:41:05] Speaker A: He drops the dog. [00:41:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:41:09] Speaker A: The dog comes to his defense. [00:41:11] Speaker B: Yeah. And the bear's like, huh? And then Javi's like, no, you weren't supposed to. No, you weren't supposed to do that. And so, so Javi. Javi finds one of his pistols that got flung out of his holster while he was being mauled. And you know, he's like, I don't want to have to shoot this bear, but I'm going to shoot this bear. And it's like, I really don't want to shoot the spare because, you know, I've had bears and dogs and wolves and coyotes all come to my. [00:41:40] Speaker A: I'll help me. [00:41:41] Speaker B: Yeah, I noticed this bear. Bears, mustangs, buffalo. And it's like, oh, this bear. Oh, this bear. I got to kill this bear. I got to kill this bear. Cuz it's going to kill that dog. And he says, no, it doesn't deserve to die. And he throws his pistol. Then he. He starts to wrestle it. He wrestles a bar, right? He does a. Who wrestled a bar? Was that Davy Crockett that wrestled the bar when he was three? [00:42:08] Speaker A: A bar? [00:42:09] Speaker B: A bar? [00:42:10] Speaker A: The Baronstein bars a bar. [00:42:14] Speaker B: I think they'd be pretty easy to wrestle. Honestly, I could fight. [00:42:18] Speaker A: I could up that little Berenstein bears brat. Little him up. [00:42:23] Speaker B: I think mama bear actually is the one that would frighten me most. She would. She would take off that bonnet that she's got and just be like, ah. When that bonnet comes out. [00:42:32] Speaker A: She's like chasing the rolling pin. [00:42:36] Speaker B: So, yeah, Javi. Javi jumps under the back of the bear and stabs the knife into its back. And as he's stabbing it, he's like, go find your cubs mama. Go find your. [00:42:46] Speaker A: Go find your cubs mama. And then he just goes, dog run. [00:42:53] Speaker B: Yeah. And so they start running and they're. Javi and the dog are running from this bear. This bears. This bear is not having it. And then it gets closer, it gains on them, and it leaps into the air and it's gonna jump on them. But then. Oh, it's a God finger appears. [00:43:14] Speaker A: It's God said he's returned. [00:43:16] Speaker B: And the. The bear is just, like, being held by godson's heaven power. And, like, Javi is inches away from having these gigantic teeth just sunk into his shoulder. And the dog's just like the. [00:43:29] Speaker A: Yeah, the dog's like, what the is going on here? But Scotson, our old friend from King spawn, and spawn 300 times did. [00:43:37] Speaker B: I thought. I thought. I thought. Godson. I got that. Godson died. [00:43:41] Speaker A: He did. [00:43:44] Speaker B: Then how's he back? [00:43:45] Speaker A: They just don't fucking care. [00:43:48] Speaker B: Because it's not like he lost his powers. He's just straight up died. Yeah, like, he got his head cut off. Right? [00:43:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:43:54] Speaker B: Yeah. I thought. I thought it was hallucinating that. No. [00:43:58] Speaker A: Yeah, no, he died. [00:43:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:44:01] Speaker A: His comics, David. [00:44:02] Speaker B: That is dead as fuck. Oh, man. [00:44:05] Speaker A: Back now. [00:44:06] Speaker B: Yeah, but. So this is. This is Javi's first confirmation that he's not the only one that has had his powers returned to him, which, you know, he. He suspected but had no proof. And I like. I like this. This transition from narration to. To. What's that? Word of dialogue of. And if there's one thing gunslinger has come to loathe, it's angels. I hate them all. [00:44:39] Speaker A: We don't want any part of you, Savior. [00:44:44] Speaker B: He means no harm to anyone, Johnny. That's why he saved him. Come on. [00:44:50] Speaker A: He's like, bullets can't hurt me anyways. Like. Yeah, well, two of them can blind you. You freaks keep forgetting that. [00:44:55] Speaker B: I don't know how. He keeps telling him, like, he keeps giving away his special secret, Johnny. That, of course that they're not gonna die, but they can't see shit after he shoots their eyes out. [00:45:06] Speaker A: Yeah, it would suck. [00:45:07] Speaker B: But my bullets, they're dipped in necroplasm. You know what that means, don't you? I like how. I like how Godson just doesn't react. [00:45:15] Speaker A: Yeah, he's just like, maybe. [00:45:18] Speaker B: Yeah. And Then Javi. Javi negotiates for a release of the bear. And Godson's like, huh, interesting. That bear was just trying to kill you, but now it wants to protect you. And, you know, Javi says, I wonder why. I kind of read that in a. I wonder why. [00:45:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:45] Speaker B: So the bear run away, and then Godson's like, the animals, they seem to like you. They seem to want to protect. To Mr. Gunslinger. [00:45:59] Speaker A: This is so weird. He, like, came there to, like, get a dog to be like, I need to figure out why these animals listen to you. [00:46:04] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's like, so I'm going to take this down. And Javi says. Javi says something that I. I say all the time. The dog stays. [00:46:15] Speaker A: The dog stays and shoots Godson right in the eye. He said he would. [00:46:20] Speaker B: Yeah. It's Chekov's eyeshot. And then as soon as. As soon as they do, Javi and the dog run away again. And we get a. Another. Another narration from the Toddfather that Javi would have shot Gunslinger in the middle of his forehead, which is the only way to kill an angel. But since he's been doing that a lot, they've learned to protect the middle of their foreheads, so he can't do that. [00:46:48] Speaker A: What were. When Godson lashes out in anger, starts shooting like heaven lightning. [00:46:56] Speaker B: Yeah, it's come too far. He's come too far to fail now, Johnny just kind of. Just kind of a little fight. A little fight. And then Godson's, like, sends the. The Heaven lightning again at Javi. And then where the heav. The heaven lightning hit? There's just a whole bunch of smoking rocks and melted snow, and Godson's, like, gone. [00:47:20] Speaker A: You will not deceive me, cowboy. Yeah, Todd McFarlane with your continuity errors. [00:47:29] Speaker B: Yeah. He slams his staff, Johnny, and he creates a massive shockwave that moves everything around him to expose the Gunslinger. But it doesn't. It doesn't expose nothing. And then he takes a couple of pot shots of heaven lightning at random spots in the ground, being like, are you there? Are you there? Are you there? Still nothing. [00:47:51] Speaker A: And he thinks they're wasting time. [00:47:52] Speaker B: Yeah. So he turns to go, but then 20ft away, the ground shifts. Gunslinger possibly rises from the frozen tundra. [00:48:04] Speaker A: Behind Godsend with his hat rising first. [00:48:08] Speaker B: Yeah, it's pretty great. He's just got, like, the snow falling off of him. And then as he starts to sneak up on Godson, the dog just also jumps out of the snow and ruins the surprise. And so then Javi leaps onto Godson's back and just starts wailing on him with his knife. And we once again are reassured that Gunslinger is, in fact, the weakest of all of the hellspawns. [00:48:36] Speaker A: Yes. [00:48:37] Speaker B: But what he lacks in power, he makes up in fearlessness. [00:48:41] Speaker A: So if it's a fight this winged warrior is looking for, then, by God, Gunslinger will give it to him. [00:48:46] Speaker B: It's pretty. [00:48:46] Speaker A: It's going at it. [00:48:48] Speaker B: Powerful image there of Javi stabbing Godsend in the back, while this dog is just like. [00:48:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:59] Speaker B: Like. Like, leapt to bite, but then Godsend moved, and so he's just like, well, I'm committed. Ah. [00:49:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:10] Speaker A: The power meter, it's 934. [00:49:12] Speaker B: Significantly lower than Alice. [00:49:14] Speaker A: Significantly lower. [00:49:16] Speaker B: Then we get another spawning Ground presents fan art, which is much the same thing. This is another. Another winner of a McFarland Discord fan art contest. [00:49:27] Speaker A: Yeah. Pretty cool. [00:49:31] Speaker B: Very cool. That Bernardo Riviera is really cool, too. So is that road right now, Bolshev. Yeah, that is. That is some great hair on that horse. Yeah, I need to. I need to know if it's got a little belly, too, but you can't see because there's a cape in the way. God damn it. Bernardo Riviera. Let us know. Is that horse have a little belly, too? Email us@ regarding spawnpod Gmail.com Again, do you need more Sponsor universe, Johnny? [00:50:02] Speaker A: You know it. [00:50:03] Speaker B: Okay. I do know it. Don't miss these ongoing titles, which I know you know. [00:50:09] Speaker A: You know I know. [00:50:10] Speaker B: Yeah. And you know that I know that you know I know. [00:50:13] Speaker A: We got the Image Classics ad coming up, and now we got the UFC ad for the toys. Our favorite ad. [00:50:21] Speaker B: Absolutely. So good. [00:50:23] Speaker A: We love the UFC toys. [00:50:27] Speaker B: Yeah, they're real fucking cool. Ultra fucking cool. I messed it up. [00:50:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:33] Speaker B: Mess it up. [00:50:34] Speaker A: They are ultra fucking cool. [00:50:38] Speaker B: That's. That's Gunslinger 40, Johnny. Damn, that went by real quick. Just fighting a bear and then fighting an angel. Takes no time at all. [00:50:48] Speaker A: Bing, bing, boom, bing, bing. [00:50:50] Speaker B: Da ding, bang, bang, bang. Wow. That. I mean, since that's. That's the end of the Gunslinger 40, Johnny. And there is prominent within Gunslinger 40, a very good dog. We're gonna have to rate some puppies. [00:51:06] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. So first up, we had spawn 361 by the Todd Father and Brad. Brett Booth should be no surprise to anyone. The art's great. Brett Booth's got that really dynamic art style. It works really well for the story for this fight. I like his Nick's avatar. It's pretty cool looking. [00:51:27] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, she's. [00:51:28] Speaker A: Spawn's just so dynamic and crazy. Once he gets his powers back. [00:51:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:33] Speaker A: As far as the script and plot by Todd McFarland, he's improving over 360, for sure. [00:51:41] Speaker B: It's at least one. It's. It's doing one thing instead of like six. [00:51:46] Speaker A: Like, it seems like the exo had a character like, he put her on the throne. Like, why they, like, hate each other so much. It seems so weird. [00:51:54] Speaker B: I don't know. Maybe. Maybe it's because I know that, like, sitting on Hell's Throne is supposed to, like, consume you. [00:52:04] Speaker A: Right. I imagine that's what it is. So it's become, like, power mad. [00:52:08] Speaker B: Yeah. So she wasn't. She didn't hate him before she sat on the throne, but that was. That was always something that everybody knew it was gonna happen, which is why a lot of people didn't want it to be Al, because if. Could you imagine Al with X, Absolutely no conscience whatsoever. [00:52:23] Speaker A: Oh, God on the throne. Oh, no. [00:52:26] Speaker B: That would be scary. [00:52:28] Speaker A: But I. I enjoy the fight. It's just like. It's this classic Topfather, like, just like a one on one fight, which is. Can be a little repetitive, I guess. I guess we'll see how it plays out. Seems like it's really ignoring a lot of The Seth Rory McConville is setting up, which I'm not entirely pleased about. [00:52:49] Speaker B: That's. It literally seems like this panel here of the Earth being greenwashed is just like, washing away everything that Rory McConville set up. Just kind of like, oh, look at this. We can just stick. Start fresh. Don't. Don't worry about any of that stuff. [00:53:04] Speaker A: Don't worry about that. [00:53:06] Speaker B: Like, I mean, I guess that's. I guess that's one way to resolve a thread is to just throw the thread away. [00:53:11] Speaker A: But, yeah, whatever. [00:53:14] Speaker B: We. We didn't. We didn't. We didn't create Spawn or start Image comics. [00:53:19] Speaker A: We didn't start the fire, dude. [00:53:22] Speaker B: It was. It's all. [00:53:23] Speaker A: It's been burning since the world's been turned. [00:53:25] Speaker B: I can't think of. I can't think of anything fast enough to make a Spawn centric verse of. We did. [00:53:31] Speaker A: Oh, no, we're not gonna do that. [00:53:34] Speaker B: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. That would be homework. That would have to be rehearsed. [00:53:38] Speaker A: That would have to be rehearsed and worked out. [00:53:41] Speaker B: I. E. Never gonna happen. [00:53:43] Speaker A: I don't know. I'm gonna give it three. I would give it three mouthfuls of cockroaches. [00:53:49] Speaker B: Crunchy. [00:53:50] Speaker A: Three out of Five. Not bad. Just pretty, you know, pretty okay issue. [00:53:55] Speaker B: Nice. I mean, I, I agree totally. The art is kick ass. I got. I like, I. I really love this when Nyx is swinging, spun around by his, his chain and he's just got his big right foot. Just goes. [00:54:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:54:13] Speaker B: But yeah, the, the story is. I don't, I don't. I don't know what it's doing. I'm not upset with it like I was last time, because there's not something totally incongruous to 359 other issues of Spawn. [00:54:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:54:29] Speaker B: But it's just. It literally just seems like, okay, how. What's the fastest way to level set everything back to. We don't have to worry about thinking about what we were doing. It feels. It feels a little like it was done for convenience. Yeah. Which is the thing that I don't like about. About it most. Because I think the idea of Nyx being, you know, having a plan that Spawn is part of and being pissed that he's not playing his role correctly while also building a fucking nightmarish executioner made up of a whole bunch of dead bodies, that's pretty fucking cool. I'm excited to see where that goes. And then like, as soon as the powers come back, like super, super powered beings coming to, to beat up on Al again, that's. That's fun. But it's just not what was happening. No, no, it's. So I think, I think if it weren't for. If there were no Rory McConville, I think I would be just. I would be just fine with this issue. But we gotta deal with the Rory McConville of it all. So I'm. I'm also gonna give it three. I'm going to give it three Queen Nixes because we get a lot of. We got a lot of Queen Nix as Queen Nix in this issue and. [00:55:48] Speaker A: We love to see it like there. [00:55:50] Speaker B: Was like a whole year of no Queen Nyx after she sat on the throne. And it's an amazing design and she's just absolutely furious. It's wonderful. [00:56:03] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:04] Speaker B: And I really want to see what this execution is going to do. I have a feeling he's gonna execute, but who? [00:56:11] Speaker A: The next up we had gunslinger number 40. Another one on one fight. Well, two one on one fights. First he fights a bear and then he fights a Godsend. Pretty classic gunslinger standing in the woods pontificating and having a fight. Like that's like his go to and he doesn't want to move the plot along very much. [00:56:32] Speaker B: Yeah. Him him just being pissed off at Angels because that's what he does. [00:56:36] Speaker A: It was fine. I like the last issue better, I think. I don't know. They're both, I don't know. I like seeing Godsend. The Rhett Booth or the Carlo Barberi. Art's really great. [00:56:47] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:56:48] Speaker A: Vibrant. [00:56:48] Speaker B: It's real good. [00:56:50] Speaker A: The orange of the angel power. [00:56:53] Speaker B: Yeah, it pops in this, this like blue, blue, green background. [00:56:59] Speaker A: Yeah, it really does. I mean, yeah, it's just kind of like a. Whatever. It's just like another fight. Doesn't really move the plot along. We don't know what's going on with Linda or why or anybody. [00:57:11] Speaker B: It's just like, okay, yeah, where's, Where's Taylor? Where's Taylor now that the Angels are back? What the hell's going on with Taylor? [00:57:21] Speaker A: And, like, we had all this stuff going on with, like, his father and, like, all this other stuff, and that's just, like, has been thrown out the window for this bear side story. It's just very strange. [00:57:29] Speaker B: It is very weird. [00:57:31] Speaker A: I'm gonna give it three and a half shots to the eye. [00:57:35] Speaker B: Nice. It's a good one. Shot to the eye. I, I, I agree. It's, it's Gunslinger seems to be the place that they're like, hey, we need to spin some wheels. Let's just spin the gunslinger wheels. [00:57:49] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. [00:57:50] Speaker B: That's, I mean, this is, I, I. [00:57:51] Speaker A: Like spinning those wagon wheels, David. [00:57:53] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I mean, the ka is a circle. Khan ka tet. All things serve the beam. Or for another set of nerds, the Wheel of Time rolls. Johnny. [00:58:09] Speaker A: Okay. [00:58:12] Speaker B: But, yeah, I mean, I like it better than the last issue because it's more consistent from the beginning to the end, whereas the other one was just like, it starts as one thing and ends as something completely different. But, yeah, it's just, it's fine. It's fine. Art is great. I mean, I do like, I do like the Todd McFarlane bluster for the gunslinger dialog because, yeah, it works. It works. It works real well. I'm going to give it, I'm going to give it three, Three and a half. Hurt bear. Eyes hurt bear because it says you're causing it pain. And the bear's just got, like, the round eye of pain, and it looks so sad. And I feel so bad for that bear. [00:59:03] Speaker A: Sorry, Bear. [00:59:04] Speaker B: Well, you know, not bad. Okay, not bad. [00:59:09] Speaker A: Two decent issues to spawn. [00:59:11] Speaker B: Yeah, we've had worse. [00:59:12] Speaker A: We've had worse. [00:59:14] Speaker B: You know what? I think it's been far too long that we've done regularly I guess we did one recently enough, but make up for lost time. Make up for lost time, Johnny. And speaking of dogs and all these dogs we got. I got one dog over here who can't stop fucking clawing at this. This action figure that I got here. So it's gonna get opened whether I open it now or he opens it later. So. So might as well just get to the opening of this toy. Johnny. [00:59:43] Speaker A: What is it? [00:59:44] Speaker B: It is a. Well, this is Todd's Toy Talk. [00:59:48] Speaker A: It's time for Todd's Toy Talk. [01:00:01] Speaker B: So this is. This is an older figure from like 2000, 2001. And it is becomes the left arm of Interlink 6. So there was a spawn, Interlink 6, that were like six different pseudo transformer action figures that turned to different limbs of a larger spawn. And so it's like, shit. What's the. It's like a cyberpunk horror action figure. It's wild. Collect all six to form one giant robot. Johnny. [01:00:38] Speaker A: Gotta do it. [01:00:39] Speaker B: Gotta do it. Let's just. Let's just. Let's just. Let's just get into this thing, rip it open. It's around the time that Spawn.com came out because it says Spawn.com, like six different everywhere. [01:00:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:00:50] Speaker B: Oh, there's a. There's a picture of the robot that it turns into. [01:00:53] Speaker A: Oh, cool. [01:00:53] Speaker B: It's. It's a very anime Gundam robot, only horror. So here we go. Let's. Let's get this. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Smells kind of sweet. [01:01:12] Speaker A: Okay. [01:01:14] Speaker B: It's got that. That 2000s air. It's got that pre 911 air in there. [01:01:19] Speaker A: My favorite kind of air. [01:01:22] Speaker B: And so it's got. Oh, it's got a little. A little instruction booklet for steps for assembling fueling station. Oh, it's got a fueling station. Comes with a fueling station. Oh. Oh, Johnny. It's also got a little bit of an advertisement for the other toys that come in this or that you can get from McFarlane Toys. So there's Spawn series 18, which this is a part of. Spawn, series 19, which is dark Ages. Spawn, the Samurai Wars. Those sound fucking dope. Spawn, series 20. Classic spawn, but also Shrek, full toy line, movie Maniac series four, and McFarlane's 3D animation from Japan, series two. [01:02:06] Speaker A: Okay. [01:02:07] Speaker B: And then some sports figures, some video game figures, some music figures, and some art figures. They have H.R. geiger and Clive Barker. Oh, okay. I guess they had that. I've seen pictures of those Clive Barker toys, and they're. [01:02:21] Speaker A: They're crazy. [01:02:23] Speaker B: Oh, man, they're real bad. Oh, there's also instructions on how to make him morph. Okay. So let's get to the actual figure. So ain't got to cut nothing. It's got these little twisty toes. [01:02:36] Speaker A: Okay. [01:02:39] Speaker B: Twist, twist, twist, twist. [01:02:42] Speaker A: Yeah, these are. I remember this time I was probably was seeing these figures at Target or Sun coast video and I'm sure I. [01:02:50] Speaker B: Probably saw or Sam Goody in the wild once, but just have no recollection of it. [01:02:56] Speaker A: Right. [01:03:00] Speaker B: So we got part of the fueling station. Part of the fueling station. Fueling station is just code for a stand to help the giant robot stay upright. So this is. This is useless by itself. It's for the big robot. [01:03:17] Speaker A: Okay. [01:03:17] Speaker B: So it doesn't have any bearing on the individual figure. I can't tell. I can't tell if it's twist tie or if it's supposed to be like future cybernetic wiring. So I don't know what to pull. Yeah, you see like. Like right there. There's some. Some like wires on it that look almost exactly like the twist dies. So yeah, he's just like a friggin cyberpunk robot guy. Jeez. The tape is the hardest part to get off. Oh, it comes off like a backpack. Yeah, he's got basically a backpack. Ooh. He's a. He's a scary looking. Scary looking motherfucker. That's. Let's get some more light on this guy. [01:04:08] Speaker A: Yeah, it's creepy. [01:04:10] Speaker B: He's creepy. He's. He's scary. He's a no goodnik. He's got this big. [01:04:18] Speaker A: What's that, like wings? [01:04:21] Speaker B: Yeah. Like turns into like. It turns around to. To be like part of the head of the giant robot. Wild. But as it is, it acts as sort of like a cybernetic cape type thing that's got little dooley grabbies and it's got lots of articulation. It's pretty. It's pretty crazy. If only I knew how to. Shoulder claws have multiple pivot points. Yeah. I have no idea how I'm supposed to fold it up to turn it into the. Hey. Oh no. I don't think you have to actually twist it around or anything. I think you literally just like snap them together without changing anything about them. Weird. What a weird. It's a very weird toy. [01:05:24] Speaker A: Interesting line. Interestingly did that. [01:05:28] Speaker B: I mean it looks dope as hell, but it is a very weird line. Does this head come forward? There's a. There's definitely a. Oh man. Oh. Whoa. His head. His head. Johnny. It goes. Whoop Whoop. [01:05:51] Speaker A: Cool. [01:05:52] Speaker B: Whoop. Wow. Interesting. Well, that is an interesting toy, Johnny. [01:06:02] Speaker A: Where'd you get it from? [01:06:03] Speaker B: I got it from comic book shop over in Oak Park. It was just. I walk in and I saw nothing except for one spawn action figure. And I was like, okay, I'm gonna take that. [01:06:18] Speaker A: Nice. [01:06:19] Speaker B: Because I figure if I see it in the wild, I should probably get it. [01:06:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:06:24] Speaker B: Interesting. So, yeah, pictures of this will be up on the. Up on the thing. [01:06:30] Speaker A: Instagram. [01:06:31] Speaker B: It's a very weird toy. That's nice. That's ties. Toy talk, Johnny. [01:06:36] Speaker A: We talking the toys. We did it. [01:06:37] Speaker B: We did it. Yeah. Well, you know what else we like to talk about, Johnny? [01:06:45] Speaker A: Our friends on Instagram. [01:06:46] Speaker B: Our friends on Instagram. Yes, indeed. And this week we just happen to have another one of those friends who's featured in the back in the spawning in the. The spawning grounds with some fan art. [01:06:59] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [01:07:00] Speaker B: And the spawning grounds of spawn 361, to be exact. We wanted to highlight it is Alex in the bathtub who won the. The Discord fan art. [01:07:15] Speaker A: Yeah, he's got that great clown spawn in the back of 361. [01:07:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:07:18] Speaker A: Give them a follow. Make sure to check out their other art. It's pretty cool. [01:07:22] Speaker B: Yeah, they got a lot of Batman. They got a lot of Neon Genesis Evangelion, which is actually kind of appropriate for this weird, like, Japanese robot scary action figure. [01:07:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:07:38] Speaker B: Yeah. They got great stuff. You should. You should go see it while you're. [01:07:43] Speaker A: On there if you want to check us out. We are regarding Swampod on Instagram. Make a post about the episodes and other stuff we're up to. So make sure to give us a follow. [01:07:50] Speaker B: Absolutely. While you were on the Internet, you should also just Google Lonnie Bones music. He does our music. He's pretty great. And he deserves all of the good things that are coming to him. [01:08:04] Speaker A: Indeed. [01:08:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:08:05] Speaker A: And if I want good things to come to us, you can email us at regarding Swan Pod gmail dot com. [01:08:09] Speaker B: Absolutely. [01:08:10] Speaker A: Every week I could add. Ask a question to spur conversation. [01:08:15] Speaker B: Yes, we do. [01:08:16] Speaker A: And today I would ask, what would you. What do you think of the one on. What do you think about these one on one fights that Tobin FR likes to do? Do you like them? You think they're just wasting time? Is it just his comfort zone? [01:08:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:08:29] Speaker A: What do you think? [01:08:30] Speaker B: I think it's probably a little bit of everything. I mean, comics are kind of built around the one on ones and that's usually what you. How many comic books are sold on the. The promise of Two individual characters. You like duking it out. So it's always. It's always fun to see a one on one. [01:08:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:08:48] Speaker B: I mean, that's. That's literally. That's literally wrestling in a nutshell. [01:08:54] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, you're more positive than I am then. [01:08:57] Speaker B: No, I mean, so one of us has to be. [01:09:00] Speaker A: That's right. [01:09:02] Speaker B: And it might as well be you, Johnny. Let us know what you think. These one on ones. I mean, while. While you're at it, if there are any spawn one on one fights that we haven't seen that you'd like to see. What's a spawn fight that you'd be really interested in seeing? [01:09:19] Speaker A: Yeah, let us know. [01:09:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:09:21] Speaker A: Also, make sure to rate, review, and subscribe whenever we get podcasts. [01:09:24] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. Absolutely. [01:09:26] Speaker A: And make sure to come back next week, David. Oh, what are we covering next week? [01:09:30] Speaker B: Well, Johnny, we're going to be covering two issues from Sponge Universe because it's going to be a regular week and it's going to be two weeks. Two. Two issues to cover. How would you feel about Kingspawn 42 and Deadly Tales of the Gunslinger number three? [01:09:46] Speaker A: Oh, I'd love to do both of those. [01:09:48] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. Let's just do them right now. Okay. Intermission podcast continues. Yes, but. Yeah, so go ahead and get yourself some copies of Kingspawn 42, deadly tales of the gunslinger number three. Give them a read, come back and listen to us talk about him next week. We're probably gonna. We're probably gonna like them a lot. I can almost guarantee you that. We're gonna like them a lot. Lot. [01:10:14] Speaker A: I. I can. I think so. [01:10:16] Speaker B: Like. Like if. [01:10:17] Speaker A: I think we're gonna enjoy it. [01:10:18] Speaker B: If we were. If. If I were a betting man, I would say put money on us really liking the. These next two books. [01:10:26] Speaker A: I would say so. [01:10:27] Speaker B: Absolutely. Absolutely. Well, Johnny, I sure do like Spawn, and I sure do like talking to you about Spawn, but I might spawned my vocabulary and run out of things to talk about. So with that, I got spawned. So that means I have nothing else to say except for may the scorched be with you. [01:10:55] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:10:56] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:10:57] Speaker A: Hell yeah, I get sponed, you fucking noob. [01:11:00] Speaker B: Absolutely. Yeah. What are you doing? What are you doing out here? You gotta spone. Least ye be sponed, Johnny. That's the rule. [01:11:10] Speaker A: Yeah. Watch out for the spone. The spone Hammer's coming. [01:11:13] Speaker B: The spone zone. Oh, no, maybe not the spone zone. [01:11:15] Speaker A: You're in the spone zone. I don't know. Hmm. Well, we got. Guess what, David? [01:11:23] Speaker B: What's that, Johnny? [01:11:25] Speaker A: You got spawned. [01:11:30] Speaker B: No, no, sa.