Episode 132 - King Spawn 42 and Deadly Tales of The Gunslinger 3

[00:00:00] Speaker A: It feels increasingly like we're trapped in a world that's spiraling further and further out of control. Which begs the question, can anything out there possibly slow down all this madness? Or we all just lambs being led to our own slaughter. Good evening and welcome to the Malibols. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I am your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:56] Speaker B: And I am your co host, David Williams. And Johnny, it is an ancient Mariner and he stoppeth one of three by thy long gray beard and glittering eye. Now whyfore stoppest thou me? [00:01:11] Speaker A: You doing Shakespeare? [00:01:12] Speaker B: Me? No, I'm doing. I'm doing. I'm doing Christopher Marlowe. I'm doing Samuel Taylor Coleridge. At you. The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner. It's still April. [00:01:22] Speaker A: Hey, it's still poetry month. [00:01:23] Speaker B: Oh man. [00:01:24] Speaker A: Actually, I didn't memorize a poem. [00:01:26] Speaker B: I think I like the rhyme of the Ancient Mariner now than when I was forced to read it the first time. [00:01:31] Speaker A: Okay. [00:01:32] Speaker B: Oh man. The bridegroom's doors are open wide, and I am next of kin. The guests are met, the feast is set. Mayest hear the merry din. [00:01:39] Speaker A: May we? I love a merry din. [00:01:42] Speaker B: There was a ship, quoth he. Hold off and hand me Graybeard loon. Graybeard loon. [00:01:50] Speaker A: All right, I'm gonna bring a poem next time, so I'm gonna one up you. [00:01:53] Speaker B: Hell. Hell yeah. I'm excited to see it. [00:01:56] Speaker A: That's good. Who wrote that? [00:01:57] Speaker B: Samuel Taylor. Taylor Coleridge. [00:01:59] Speaker A: Oh, you just said that. [00:02:00] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, it's. It's real good. [00:02:02] Speaker A: If anyone has three names. I can't remember. [00:02:04] Speaker B: Sorry. It's too much. It's too much. He was definitely. He was a fancy pants lad. Fancy pants lad. But I know it's. It's good if you. If you don't have the time to sit down and read the whole rhyme of the Ancient Mariner. You could just listen to the Iron Maiden song. It's. It gets you there. It gets you there. [00:02:20] Speaker A: Okay. [00:02:22] Speaker B: Coleridge. Coleridge is one of those romantics that was obsessed with the. The God of nature. And not so much. No, I kinda, kinda. He was. He was. He was a proto. He was a proto follower of the green. [00:02:38] Speaker A: He's a follower of the green world. Of the Emerald Council. What are they called? [00:02:43] Speaker B: Not the part, I think it. Not the Parliament of Trees. That's the Emerald. [00:02:48] Speaker A: Emerald Parliament. [00:02:49] Speaker B: Emerald Parliament. Probably. Yeah, that sounds. Yeah, that sounds right. [00:02:53] Speaker A: Sure. [00:02:54] Speaker B: Yeah. But yeah, Romantics were big. They were basically all just radagasts. Yeah. They just all wanted to sit underneath a tree with a. With a bird, building a nest in. [00:03:08] Speaker A: Their beards, smoking some reefer. [00:03:10] Speaker B: Yeah, basically. And then the Victorians came along, and then they were romantic about industrialization. And then everything goes downhill from there. [00:03:18] Speaker A: Okay, I didn't know that. I'm a romantic. [00:03:21] Speaker B: Are you romantic in the poetic sense or romantic in the traditional sense of what we think of? Romantic? Because the romantic poets weren't really into mushy love stuff. [00:03:34] Speaker A: I'm the second one then. [00:03:36] Speaker B: Their romance was with nature, not with other people. [00:03:39] Speaker A: Okay, well, nothing funny over here, David. I don't want to fuck a tree. [00:03:47] Speaker B: That's. That's definitely the only way. I am a romantic, though. I am. I am pretty. Nope. I don't. I don't understand. I don't understand it, Johnny. [00:03:59] Speaker A: Well, like human romance? [00:04:00] Speaker B: Yeah, like human romance. Like the whole, the whole, the whole thing. It's. I don't know, I just. I don't do very well with it. [00:04:09] Speaker A: I'm beginning to understand. [00:04:11] Speaker B: As I said before, Johnny, I'm either you either get all of me or you get none of me. And romance is. Is like teasing out little bits. It's like a game, and I'm terrible at games. Johnny. Anybody who's ever. [00:04:21] Speaker A: It is like a game. [00:04:22] Speaker B: Anybody who's ever played catan with me knows that I'll just get drunk and I will make sure that somebody else wins because I just want to be with my friends. [00:04:30] Speaker A: Oh, man. I'm gonna have you come play catan with me. And you'll be. I'll win. [00:04:33] Speaker B: Oh, hell. If you want to win catan, bring me to your catan night and I will help you win. Because I not. I'm like the world's least competitive person. [00:04:43] Speaker A: There's one time back in the day when I was working at Margaritaville on Navy Pier. [00:04:48] Speaker B: Wasted away again, you see. [00:04:49] Speaker A: I was wasting away. It was, you know. [00:04:52] Speaker B: Did you find your lost shaker of salt, though? [00:04:55] Speaker A: Every night I had to find all the shakers of salt and put them away because I fucking worked there one time on my big table in my section, which is like your money maker table. Group of like 6, 20 something, sat down, busted out Settlers of Catan at Margaritaville on Navy Pier. Like, what the fuck kind of psychopath are you? You're gonna play Settlers of Catan? Like a three or four hour fucking board game at a fucking Margaritaville? [00:05:19] Speaker B: That was. [00:05:19] Speaker A: You're insane. [00:05:20] Speaker B: That was most definitely medical students from Northwestern is what that was. [00:05:25] Speaker A: Probably. They seemed to type. They gave Up. But like, I was like, are you serious? You're like fucking four hours. This is my. I gotta turn and burn you guys. Baby. It's how I make my fucking rent. Let's go. [00:05:36] Speaker B: They tried to pay you in sheep. We don't accept sheep here. [00:05:40] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't need any chaff or sheep or iron or rocks. I don't need any of that stuff. [00:05:45] Speaker B: This is a port. Yes, technically, but it's a port of. [00:05:50] Speaker A: Port of indecision, as Jamie. Jimmy Buffett called it. That's one of his famous songs. [00:05:56] Speaker B: Very nice. I'm not very well versed in the oeuvre of Jimmy Buffett. [00:06:03] Speaker A: Jenny Buffett. Yeah, I messed it up too, when I said it. [00:06:08] Speaker B: His. His alter ego. [00:06:11] Speaker A: I like Jimmy Buffett. [00:06:12] Speaker B: Like, I mean, I like Jimmy Buffett. Yeah. He seems. He seems like he was a chill guy. [00:06:16] Speaker A: He was a chill guy. He was a good American songwriter. He had his thing. [00:06:20] Speaker B: I only know the song Margaritaville because that's the only song that 100, 103.3 star FM in Tulsa, Oklahoma ever played. [00:06:29] Speaker A: I like pirate looks at 40. I like son of a. Son of a Sailor. I like. [00:06:34] Speaker B: I know the name Cheeseburger in Paradise, but I don't know. [00:06:37] Speaker A: I like Cheeseburger in Paradise. [00:06:38] Speaker B: I would. I would like a cheeseburger. [00:06:39] Speaker A: I like 5 o'clock somewhere. Even though he's only featured on. It's technically an Alan Jackson song. Oh, I like. [00:06:47] Speaker B: I don't know. Alan Jackson did the Chattahoochee, right? Yeah. Okay, Okay. I like. I like Alan Jackson. Yeah. [00:06:54] Speaker A: Who does like Alan Jackson? Handsome man, blonde haired. Raven. [00:06:58] Speaker B: I like that. I like that. Early 90s, first wave of pop country, probably. [00:07:04] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:07:05] Speaker B: Because I was a child and thought that was. I never didn't listen to non country music until I was like seven. [00:07:12] Speaker A: Me too. That's in my family, like at that time when that pop country was like getting big. Garth Brooks, like, it's all you listen to. [00:07:18] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:07:19] Speaker A: That's all you listen to. [00:07:19] Speaker B: Oklahoma. That's like. That's like all there was to listen to. Yeah, especially because Garth Brooks, homeboy, hometown hero, basically, to all of Oklahoma. [00:07:29] Speaker A: Yeah, he's definitely not a homeboy. [00:07:31] Speaker B: Or Brooks and Dunn. Brooks and Dunn's pretty dope. [00:07:34] Speaker A: Brooks and Dunn were great. [00:07:35] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:07:35] Speaker A: Brooks and Donna. And don't forget the ladies. You got Wynonna Judd. [00:07:40] Speaker B: Oh, you got Trisha Yearwood, who sang Fancy. [00:07:45] Speaker A: Here's your one chance, fans. Isn't that. [00:07:48] Speaker B: It's Reba. [00:07:49] Speaker A: Reba McIntyre. [00:07:51] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:07:52] Speaker A: She Became an actor. Good for them. [00:07:54] Speaker B: Hell yeah, man. Good times. That's good shit. [00:07:58] Speaker A: I love early 90s country. [00:08:00] Speaker B: I, I have a problem with people who say they listen to everything but country. And it's like, I think, I don't think you've listened to the right. Either that or you're too full of yourself. [00:08:09] Speaker A: I listen to everything but crap. [00:08:10] Speaker B: And that's country and rap and then, and then we get like fucking club bangers like Old Town Road with goddamn Billy Ray Cyrus. Oh, man. Remember the year Achy Breaky Heart came out? Shit. [00:08:24] Speaker A: I mean, I remember when it came out, it was huge. [00:08:26] Speaker B: Shit, it was everywhere. It was everywhere still. Actually, one of my neighbors over the weekend had a birthday party for a two year old in their backyard and they, they busted out the Achy Breaky Heart at one point. [00:08:39] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:08:40] Speaker B: It was pretty great. [00:08:41] Speaker A: Just don't tell my heart, My Achy Breaky heart. [00:08:43] Speaker B: I just don't think you'd understand. [00:08:45] Speaker A: What I understand though is that we have, from what I understand about this. [00:08:49] Speaker B: Podcast, is we, we talk about anything but what we were supposed to talk about. [00:08:55] Speaker A: Sometimes we get there. That's why we're here. We're here for the banter, we're here for the camaraderie. Right? [00:09:02] Speaker B: Yeah. We take the longest road possible. It's, you don't want to, you don't want to. You don't want to get home so soon. You want to take a little bit of time. You want to, as the romantics did, take a constitutional and fill up the time. [00:09:17] Speaker A: Very nice. Very pickeresque. [00:09:19] Speaker B: Apparently, jumping straight to the Victorians. Apparently Charles Dickens was notorious for just like doing nothing but walking around all day. Like, if you wanted to talk to Charles Dickens, you had to walk with him on his strolls around London. And he walked for like 10 hours a day, just aimlessly. [00:09:37] Speaker A: When did he have time to write? [00:09:39] Speaker B: I don't know because I think he also had a family, so I think he would write during the day and then when he was supposed to be with his family, would go, I can. [00:09:48] Speaker A: Get that big pacer. I like to pace. Then I'm talking on the phone. I'm walking back and forth. [00:09:54] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:09:55] Speaker A: I'm thinking, I'm walking back and forth. [00:09:57] Speaker B: Yeah. If I'm, if I'm talking on the phone, it's usually because I'm walking from one place to another and I'm like, I need something to do. And I, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta do this. [00:10:07] Speaker A: Versus I call you and be like, hey, David, can we not record tonight? I'm sorry. [00:10:12] Speaker B: I'm pacing. I can't help it. I can't sit down. [00:10:15] Speaker A: But what do we record? We record respawn regarding Spawn. [00:10:19] Speaker B: Yes, we do. Where? [00:10:20] Speaker A: Each week we bring you two issues from Spawn's universe. Except when we don't. This week is no different. We have two issues for you from Spawn's universe. Two great issues from Spawn's universe. Two of my favorite titles right now from Spawn's universe. [00:10:33] Speaker B: They're fucking good. [00:10:35] Speaker A: I think the top tier titles right now are Deadly Tales, Rat City, King Spawn and Scorched. [00:10:42] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. [00:10:43] Speaker A: What do they have in common now, David? Who's not riding them? I'm sorry. I just got to troll the Thoughtfather a little bit. [00:10:52] Speaker B: I mean, you. I. I could just imagine him at home being like, johnny, how dare he. [00:10:57] Speaker A: Johnny Fisher's coming after me. He's making Rasta Spawn. He's gonna make one of the figures. He's gonna make a Billy Kincaid figure. He's make one of the dead kids. Look. [00:11:13] Speaker B: We do know that he puts both people he likes and people he dislikes into the book, Joni. So if we can't. If we can't get the former, we might as well try for the latter, right? [00:11:22] Speaker A: That's true. I'm just hoping we get. If Rob Duane gets another series, we get a little background. Little respawn booth at spawn, Kong 4 or whatever. [00:11:32] Speaker B: That would be awesome. [00:11:33] Speaker A: I could die happy. Yeah, maybe I'll mention it to him. [00:11:36] Speaker B: Maybe that's. What. We might as well use our platform for something, Johnny. [00:11:40] Speaker A: That's true. That would be crazy to be in a Spawn comic. [00:11:44] Speaker B: Yeah, but speaking of Spawn comics, Johnny, which ones are we reading this week? [00:11:47] Speaker A: This week we are reading, I believe, in this order. King spawn 42. The answer to Life Universe and everything. [00:11:54] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:11:54] Speaker A: Thanks for all the fish and the lost number. [00:11:57] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:11:58] Speaker A: Which are 4, 8, 15, 16, 23. [00:12:00] Speaker B: 42. [00:12:03] Speaker A: And deadly tales. The gunslinger number three. [00:12:07] Speaker B: Yeah. Trace Dry. [00:12:11] Speaker A: That's. This in German. [00:12:14] Speaker B: Do you know three in Russian yet? I need to. I need to dust up on my. On my Russian. I have a. I have a co worker who's Russian. And I haven't learned a single word. I should. I should start. Need a little more often. It'd be like. How do you say this? This. How do you say this? [00:12:38] Speaker A: That's Duolingo. [00:12:39] Speaker B: How do you say this? [00:12:40] Speaker A: King Swan 42 is from February 2025. And Deadly Tales. The Gunslinger is from February 2025. [00:12:47] Speaker B: Hell yeah. It's A. It's a great month. That February. [00:12:50] Speaker A: It's my birthday. [00:12:51] Speaker B: Aquarius. Aquarius. [00:12:54] Speaker A: You're an Aquarius? [00:12:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. What are you? [00:12:59] Speaker A: Makes sense. I'm a Pisces baby. [00:13:00] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:13:02] Speaker A: Can't tell by my tears. [00:13:05] Speaker B: That's all the astrology I know is that I'm an Aquarius. That's about where it ends. [00:13:11] Speaker A: What do you know about Aquariuses? Aquarius eye. [00:13:15] Speaker B: I know that I am one. [00:13:16] Speaker A: Okay, I'm gonna look into it. I want to see what you're up to, David. [00:13:19] Speaker B: I know that every time somebody's like, this is totally an Aquarius thing, I'm like, oh, yeah, I do that sometimes. Yeah, I do that. But I could never. I could never, like, lay out what they do. Something, something you out. [00:13:34] Speaker A: I'm gonna read up something. [00:13:35] Speaker B: Something loyal. Something, something. You could count on them. Something, something. [00:13:40] Speaker A: That's true. [00:13:43] Speaker B: But you know, it's not funny. Johnny. [00:13:46] Speaker A: These issues, King Spawn, I mean, yeah, they're different. [00:13:50] Speaker B: There's. There's. There's very little intentional laughter. And usually when we say that it's a bad thing, but. Oh, man, it's just because they're. Things are so tight, both of these issues. So tight. You could bounce a quarter off of them. Johnny. [00:14:04] Speaker A: And I like this King Spawn a lot. I'm glad Rory McConville took over. This is indeed what King Spawn has become, which is street level spawn. [00:14:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:15] Speaker A: Which is not what it was. [00:14:16] Speaker B: Yeah, no, it's definitely. [00:14:18] Speaker A: It was cosmic, like fucking like it's end of the world cultists crazy spawn. [00:14:24] Speaker B: Yeah, it started. It started as fucking main title Batman and is now just detective comics. [00:14:32] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Which is. [00:14:35] Speaker B: It's fine. Yeah, it's. It's fine. It's just weird how these things go. [00:14:40] Speaker A: It is weird. And maybe it'll get more. Maybe we'll get more bigger. More bigger. David. Maybe it'll get bigger. I think as time goes on. [00:14:49] Speaker B: I like more bigger. [00:14:50] Speaker A: More bigger. Well, we always start with the covers. [00:14:53] Speaker B: Yes, we do. [00:14:54] Speaker A: I have the A cover by Francesco Tomaselli. [00:14:59] Speaker B: It's a very good one. [00:15:00] Speaker A: And it's spawned with his, like, cape going crazy all over the place. [00:15:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:05] Speaker A: Like a crazy gun. The sun's shining in your eyes. [00:15:08] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's got like a blurry. He's got like, dark side omega beams coming out of his eyes. [00:15:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Looks pretty cool. [00:15:16] Speaker B: Yeah, it's really great. It looks almost like it's intentionally out of focus. So that way you could pop on a pair of those old fashioned 3D glasses and it would be 3D. [00:15:26] Speaker A: It does look like that. [00:15:28] Speaker B: Pretty great. [00:15:29] Speaker A: Pretty great. [00:15:29] Speaker B: Yeah. And that cover B. That cover B is a Thaddeus Roebuck. And I don't think my shop had this one, Johnny, because I definitely think I would have gotten this one. But it's like a. It's like a. Would you say it looks kind of like a. A watercolor Spawn? [00:15:48] Speaker A: It doesn't look like a watercolor Spawn. [00:15:49] Speaker B: It's. [00:15:50] Speaker A: It's like Spawn's headshot. [00:15:51] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's fucking beautiful. If Spahn were to become president, this is the poster that they. Or the. The picture that they would put at the entrance to every VA across the country. [00:16:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:02] Speaker B: Could you imagine Spawn as president, and you. You're a veteran going to get your dialysis, and this is what greets you when you enter the building. [00:16:11] Speaker A: We got your new figure. It's President Spawn. He comes with a pen. He can sign the paper. [00:16:21] Speaker B: He's got executive orders. [00:16:24] Speaker A: I feel like my Todd McFarlane. The first time I do an episode is like, okay. And every time I do sequentially gets worse and worse. [00:16:31] Speaker B: I mean that. I think that's the beauty of the Todd McFarlane impression. [00:16:35] Speaker A: He was pressured. [00:16:38] Speaker B: But no, it's a. It's a beautiful. It's a beautiful. [00:16:41] Speaker A: That's great. It's awesome. Yeah, I think that's. [00:16:43] Speaker B: It's so good. [00:16:45] Speaker A: That one takes the cake. [00:16:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:46] Speaker A: We're not comparing the covers. You know, there's. You know, hey, there's equal room for both. That's why there's two. [00:16:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:52] Speaker A: But, you know, they're both. [00:16:54] Speaker B: They're both. They're both excellent covers, though. [00:16:56] Speaker A: Yeah, man. [00:16:58] Speaker B: I do have. I do have cover envy, though, now. [00:17:01] Speaker A: Cover envy? Yeah. [00:17:03] Speaker B: I feel that the covers. The COVID is not what we're here for, is it, Johnny? [00:17:07] Speaker A: No, it's not. It's the contents inside. It was made by a bunch of people, and they have a thing called credits. [00:17:14] Speaker B: What are those, Johnny? [00:17:15] Speaker A: These people are. [00:17:15] Speaker B: Oh, goodness. And who are those people, Johnny? [00:17:20] Speaker A: We've got script plot by Rory McConville with Todd McFarlane on additional script. [00:17:24] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:17:25] Speaker A: Art by Yildray Sennaar. [00:17:26] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:17:27] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. This art's great in this issue. [00:17:29] Speaker B: It's awesome. [00:17:30] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Color Ivan Nunes. Also. Hell, yeah. Lettering and world design. [00:17:37] Speaker B: Not too bad this time. [00:17:38] Speaker A: Yeah, we already covered the covers. Creative director is Todd McFarlane. Editor in Chief is Thomas Healy. [00:17:45] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:17:47] Speaker A: Previously in King Spawn. After the events of spawn number 360, spawn's powers have returned and a new mission has presented Itself. [00:17:57] Speaker B: I don't. I don't know if I've ever seen them do the underlining. Like it's an actual title of a book in the previously before. [00:18:07] Speaker A: Can you click it? Is it a hyperlink? [00:18:11] Speaker B: No, it's just formatting. Yes, because you, you know, you either usually either italicize or underline the name of a book when you refer to it. [00:18:21] Speaker A: Right. Well, it's becoming now people just referring to comic books as books. That's like the cool thing to say. Maybe that's why. [00:18:28] Speaker B: Oh, no, but I. I mean, even. Even way back in the day, anything that's published. [00:18:34] Speaker A: I know. [00:18:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Would be referred to in the same way. I guess it depends on if you're doing Chicago or MLA or. There's so many different styles, Johnny. Oh, man. Writing guides. [00:18:45] Speaker A: Arrogant, that shit. [00:18:47] Speaker B: I love to do that, man. I love. I love to get drunk on a Friday night and format a works cited page. Oh, it's wonderful. [00:18:58] Speaker A: That's hilarious. I mean, it was always kind of fun. [00:19:00] Speaker B: It's like a. It's like a Zen garden, only you don't it up at the end. [00:19:04] Speaker A: I was good at English. I was an English minor. [00:19:07] Speaker B: I was an English major. [00:19:09] Speaker A: Well, the story begins four days ago. [00:19:12] Speaker B: Four of them. [00:19:13] Speaker A: There's some moms who are just like, this is ridiculous. They're waiting on this other mom, I think, and they're just like, what the hell? She's taking forever. [00:19:22] Speaker B: Are they moms? I guess they are moms. [00:19:26] Speaker A: Are they kids? [00:19:27] Speaker B: Okay. I mean, there. There are two people going up to this house, you know, complaining about somebody being taken too long. So it's like anybody waiting for me to show up someplace, like, God damn it, David, why are you always 10 minutes late? Late? Like, I can't help it. The more I try to be early, the later I get. So be happy with 10 minutes. Sorry about you. You're on time. [00:19:54] Speaker A: I'm always on time. [00:19:55] Speaker B: You're like. You're like perfectly on time. It's. It's a little spooky. [00:20:01] Speaker A: No, I am. I know exactly. My mind's like the 24 o'clock on the show. 24. She's like, boop, boop, boop, boop. [00:20:11] Speaker B: Just all the time. You're the human metronome. [00:20:15] Speaker A: I'm the human metronome. These people in this house are the human fucking sausages. [00:20:21] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:20:22] Speaker A: Dead. [00:20:22] Speaker B: Yeah. That's why they're taking so long to answer the goddamn door. Fuck. It's the stuff of goddamn nightmares, folks. [00:20:30] Speaker A: Yeah, there's a voiceover that starts. And we see that this voiceover is Brock the Shock Fennel. Of course. Our third pundit. [00:20:36] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. All by his lonesome this time. No, no other two ponies. [00:20:40] Speaker A: He looks like he's on a real network. [00:20:41] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Although. Oh, we can't be entirely sure because there's no. There's no information as to what channel he's on. So he could just be, you know, filming from his. Filming from his balcony. [00:20:57] Speaker A: That's true. It looks like the video where Trump came out and apologized for the. Grab him by the video. [00:21:04] Speaker B: Wait, you're. [00:21:04] Speaker A: That video. [00:21:05] Speaker B: No, I was like. [00:21:07] Speaker A: He had like a background that's just like buildings. He was like what I said was locker room talk. [00:21:12] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Yeah. No, I didn't. I didn't actually watch that video. [00:21:15] Speaker A: Okay. [00:21:16] Speaker B: I tried. I tried. I try to avoid watching any video. [00:21:18] Speaker A: That'S only back in 2016, David. It was almost fucking 10 years ago. [00:21:22] Speaker B: Jesus God damn Christ. [00:21:24] Speaker A: That was the October surprise. I thought he was gonna lose because of that. [00:21:27] Speaker B: And yet here we are. [00:21:30] Speaker A: Here we are. Brock Shock Fennel is telling us that there's been four families that have been slaughtered and the sons taken from their home. [00:21:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:41] Speaker A: All the sons are between the ages of 7 and 10. There's no clues to where the boys are. [00:21:47] Speaker B: None. [00:21:48] Speaker A: And there's a guy kind of intercuts this guy running down the alley. [00:21:51] Speaker B: Mm. And he's. He's running for his life. He's. He's sweating bullets, Johnny. [00:21:56] Speaker A: Yep. [00:21:57] Speaker B: And he gets swiped by some chains. Yeah, he does. He gets swiped by some chains while our opening reading is happening. [00:22:04] Speaker A: Yes. [00:22:04] Speaker B: Huh. Then pulls him up and we turn the page into a nice two page spread here. And it is Spawn. Ooh, ooh, ooh. [00:22:12] Speaker A: Johnny, looking great. [00:22:14] Speaker B: Oh, man, this is so good. [00:22:16] Speaker A: Back in his full glory. He's got his powers back. He's ready to go. [00:22:19] Speaker B: He's just. He's just, you know, he's. He's not even. He's not even putting any effort into tangling this guy up. He's. He's not breaking a sweat at all. [00:22:27] Speaker A: No. [00:22:28] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:22:28] Speaker A: He just lifts him. Then we cut to the home of Terry Fitzgerald. And Katie's daughter is, like, freaking out. Just having a nightmare. [00:22:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. Oh, man. Having that nightmare and waking up. Oh, nightmares suck, Johnny. [00:22:41] Speaker A: I don't have one in a long time. I think I mentioned I'll probably have one. You fucking asshole. [00:22:45] Speaker B: Sorry about it. I think I had one like, last week. [00:22:48] Speaker A: Oh, boy. [00:22:48] Speaker B: That's the problem. I hate. I hate dreams. Dream Sleep. Sleep where I dream is always the worst. Sleep dreams. It always feels like you. You're doing fucking work and then you wake up and it's like, I'll be. [00:23:02] Speaker A: I don't hate dreams. Some of them are good, but a lot of them are really stressful. [00:23:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:07] Speaker A: At least my dreams. [00:23:08] Speaker B: Yeah, me too. It's like awake. I. I'm just stressing about the. That one class that I forgot to go to for an entire semester. And then I wake up and I'm like, shit, Shit. Fuck a shit. [00:23:18] Speaker A: I've had that dream. I've had a dream that I didn't graduate college. [00:23:21] Speaker B: I. I think it says something about how traumatic of an experience college is that everybody has the I fucking completely forgot to go to a class for an entire semester dream. You shouldn't do that to yourself. It's. It's bad. It's bad. That's why I never became a grad student. I'm good. [00:23:43] Speaker A: Yeah. I just said to go for it. [00:23:46] Speaker B: That's what you got. You gotta. You gotta learn the. Learn the hard way, but not the. Not the way. Not. Not the way for Katie here. No, no, no, no. That's. That's. We don't want that for Katie. She's looking. Jeez, man. This look she has when she wakes up and Terry is coming in, is that's what's gonna haunt me? Good Lord. She had. She had a. Oh, I wonder. Hmm. I wonder if we're gonna see sometime in the future what is affecting her dream. Maybe something's reaching out to her. That's a very affected look. I feel like it. It portends future nastiness within the story. [00:24:26] Speaker A: Seems like it. [00:24:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:27] Speaker A: It could be. [00:24:28] Speaker B: Now Terry's there being a good dad, as he always does, because he's Terry fucking Fitzgerald, handsome as ever. Yeah. He climbs down the stairs and there's the babysitter that he's. He's relieving, telling her about how hard things have been. And he's like, Wanda was. Wanda was the one that was good at this. And she's reassuring him that he's doing. He's doing just fine. It's good to see. It's good to see his smile there on. In that one panel. [00:24:55] Speaker A: Oh, man, the shirt's doing fine. [00:24:58] Speaker B: The shirt's doing fine. [00:25:00] Speaker A: Yeah, he's looking good in that shirt. [00:25:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, it is. It is. Yeah, he is. He has aged beautifully, John. Look at that little. That little touch of gray on the sides. And then there's a. Somebody. Somebody pressed the doorbell that it's a little. A little ding dong. A little ding dong. [00:25:18] Speaker A: Oh, that'll be your cab. But no, no, it's. It's the FBI. [00:25:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:26] Speaker A: Special Agent William Lynch. [00:25:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Who? Not too shabby. Not too shabby himself. [00:25:32] Speaker A: He's a handsome. He looks like a cornball, though. [00:25:34] Speaker B: Yeah, he does. He does indeed. [00:25:38] Speaker A: He reminds me of the cornball FBI agent in no Time to Die. No, there's like a. There's like an evil, like, dweeby FBI white guy in that movie. And this guy kind of reminds me of him. [00:25:51] Speaker B: I can see it. I can see it. And Special Agent William lynch says that he wants to know if Terry Fitzgerald has a minute to talk. And then we cut from there to the house that we opened the issue on. Police tape everywhere. A little memorial on the sidewalk in front. And Spawn materializes in the living room with the guy that he tracked down in the alley. Turns out this guy is actually a demon named Krauss. A half breed demon, but he has special abilities. He's a. He's a tracker. He's a. He's basically a demonic blood bloodhound. And once he gets the scent, he can find. He can find whatever he's looking for, providing that thing is still living. So Krauss transforms into his demon form and then starts to, you know, get a. Get a sense of the vibes. Like, I like his. I like his facial expression when he's trying to feel out, like. Like he's trying to sense the stuff. He's just like. He goes from very stressed out to just very calm. [00:26:54] Speaker A: All of a sudden, they've been bouncing around for the home with these abducted boys. Earlier in the issue, he sees. Got no signals from any of their rooms. [00:27:01] Speaker B: Spawn's like, how is that possible? And Krauss says, my best guess is probably one of Hell's new arrivals. And then we get the asterisk to nothing. The asterisk of footnote fame. [00:27:11] Speaker A: But there's no footnote. [00:27:12] Speaker B: Ain't no footnote. I guess we'll have to make up our own. [00:27:16] Speaker A: That's why I say animal design. You didn't do a good job. [00:27:19] Speaker B: Hey, but they used their commas mostly right this time, so. [00:27:23] Speaker A: Okay. [00:27:24] Speaker B: And Spawn says, just find them. And then his. His little. He gets a johnny. He's got a cheeky little ringtone, too. I wonder what. [00:27:31] Speaker A: I just love how he answers his cell phone. You think he'd have, like, a headset or something. Spawn, like, he can't, like, psychically, like, connect to that. [00:27:39] Speaker B: He says, I told you never to use this wall. This is an unlisted wall. [00:27:43] Speaker A: What's that from? [00:27:44] Speaker B: Spaceballs? [00:27:46] Speaker A: I was like, it's Spaceballs. That's right. [00:27:50] Speaker B: And it's Terry. And he says, like, well, tough titties. We got a problem. And he's like, it's the FBI. They want to know everything. [00:27:56] Speaker A: He's like, what did you say? [00:27:58] Speaker B: Seriously? Nothing. I. I didn't say a goddamn thing. [00:28:02] Speaker A: Except that you give him a message. And then he wants to have a little rendezvous. He has information you're looking for. [00:28:08] Speaker B: What kind of info? Spawn asks. He says you'd know. So Spawn. Spawn Shadow blasts to a rooftop rendezvous with William Lynch. [00:28:23] Speaker A: Look how dynamic this looks. I love the blues. And, like. Oh, yeah, it's really cool. [00:28:28] Speaker B: It's so good. [00:28:29] Speaker A: The colors are great, too. [00:28:31] Speaker B: You can. You can. You can, like, feel how muggy that that rooftop is, too. Oh, boy. [00:28:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:28:39] Speaker B: So Liam. Liam's or William's. Like, hey, I think. I think we could probably help each other out, but not in, like, a skeevy way. Like, he's. He's. You know, he wants to be an ally. And he. He really wants to help save these boys. Because he was basically one of these boys at one time when he was little. 25 years ago to the day, his brother and four other boys were abducted at night. And all the parents were killed much the same way these ones were. [00:29:11] Speaker A: The cops has never had any suspects. [00:29:13] Speaker B: And Spawn's like, so why come to me? And William says, because he's surrounded by corruption. Because even though. Even though William knows what happened when he brought this information up to his. His commanding officers, they've produced evidence that all of those children's parents died in completely separate accidents. [00:29:35] Speaker A: And that one family kind of looks like a young Ray Liotta. [00:29:38] Speaker B: Yeah, he does. And so. So he's. He's. He wants to find justice for these boys. And he knows he has to do it outside of the justice system. [00:29:48] Speaker A: Someone fuck with the files. [00:29:50] Speaker B: Yeah. And then Krass just busts his head in. [00:29:54] Speaker A: He just warps in. His head just warps in there and goes. [00:29:58] Speaker B: Spawn. [00:29:58] Speaker A: It has a lead. [00:29:59] Speaker B: I found something. And then we cut to a black van driving down a dirt road. And then they drive over a spike strip, and it pops all their tires. Goddamn spike strip. As they're. As they're complaining about calling for backup, Spawn just descends upon them from above. [00:30:17] Speaker A: Kicks their ass. [00:30:18] Speaker B: He. In the parlance, Johnny, he layeth the smacketh down. [00:30:23] Speaker A: Yeah. Wraps them up in chains, throwing them around. [00:30:26] Speaker B: Then he busts into the Van? [00:30:28] Speaker A: Yeah, there's a kid. [00:30:30] Speaker B: Oh, there's a kid in a. In a. It looks like a robe. [00:30:33] Speaker A: Some kind of cultist robe. Yeah, what's up with that? [00:30:36] Speaker B: I don't know. Spawn picks him up, says, let's go. You're safe now. And then one of the guys who was driving the van says, what? Dude, you're it. Don't you. Don't what? Don't you know what you've done? The Wraith will destroy you for this. And then shoots himself dead right there in the head. Yeah, so? So it's pretty bad if, you know, the guy's. [00:30:59] Speaker A: The guy's so freaked out, the kids take him. He's gonna kill himself. [00:31:03] Speaker B: We gotta get done with this. Yeah, and then we cut to some other guy who I don't think we've seen before. [00:31:10] Speaker A: No, just some guy. [00:31:11] Speaker B: Some guy. Some guy. [00:31:12] Speaker A: His name's Dimitri. [00:31:13] Speaker B: He says there's been a complication. Someone intercepted the Final Boy. Well, Johnny, I mean, that's. It's kind of the way the slasher films go is people keep intercepting the final Final girl until, you know, she remains the final girl. So the Final Boy. You made it to the end. Congratulations. [00:31:31] Speaker A: Congratulations. Final Boy. [00:31:33] Speaker B: Maybe. I mean, maybe you'll get a. Maybe you'll get a franchise out of it. Dimitri's like, I'll get you a replacement. I'll get you a replacement, boss. And the other on the other end of the phone, they said, I don't want a replacement. That boy has a purpose. And Dimitri's like, okay, okay, right. I'll go get him. And the voice says, no, Dimitri. And then Dimitri gets his throat cut by a shadowy figure behind him. [00:31:57] Speaker A: Yep. [00:31:58] Speaker B: And the phone. [00:31:59] Speaker A: Shadowy figure with a crazy looking face. [00:32:01] Speaker B: The voice from the other end of the phone says, your services are no longer required. Revenant will handle matters from here. And. Whoo. Boy. Johnny. [00:32:09] Speaker A: This is my apprentice, Darth Maul. [00:32:12] Speaker B: This guy. This guy is. This guy is wicked looking. [00:32:16] Speaker A: He looks like a Mortal Kombat character. [00:32:19] Speaker B: He's got, like, one arm that is much bigger than the other arm, but is also like. Like, ripped up maybe. Yeah. [00:32:27] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:32:28] Speaker B: That's like. There's like a. There's like a cybernetics implant in his forearm over there. Oh, boy. [00:32:35] Speaker A: Yeah, there's something seeping through. He's crazy looking. [00:32:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:38] Speaker A: Revenant. [00:32:39] Speaker B: Can't wait for the. Can't wait for the figure for that. It's gonna be gross. Yeah. And then we get King Spawn Crown to end the issue. [00:32:48] Speaker A: Boom. Thrill ride. [00:32:50] Speaker B: Yeah. Good shit. Real good shit. [00:32:53] Speaker A: Then we get the spawning ground presents, the mailbag. Mailbag, huh? [00:32:58] Speaker B: We get Patrick B. Who I think I do believe Patrick B. Has submitted some arts to the spawning grounds before. I recognize the style and the name Patrick B. So he's done a. He's done a custom. [00:33:12] Speaker A: So this is. This is. Actually. He got it from old school tattoo artists. He didn't do it. [00:33:16] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Okay. So it's a. It was one of those spun number one blank covers, and he had his. [00:33:24] Speaker A: Favorite old school tattoo artist. [00:33:25] Speaker B: And it's. It's really fucking dope. Look at it. It's Spawn holding a. Holding a. Like a. Oh, I guess. Yeah. Just he's got his. His green orb, and he's got all of his chains and his spikes, and it's. It's real good. Yeah, it's got, like, his vampire teeth. And then speaking of. Speaking of previous submissions, Johnny, we get Jet. Yeah. [00:33:51] Speaker A: We get young fan artist. [00:33:53] Speaker B: Yeah. His 26th fan art submission, he says. And it's Call of Duty Spawn this time. And it's. Yeah, it's Call of Duty Spawn. Like standing in a field of carnage. [00:34:03] Speaker A: Yes. Staying in the field of dead people. [00:34:06] Speaker B: Underneath a beautiful starlit sky. [00:34:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:34:10] Speaker B: Look at that. That's pretty great. [00:34:13] Speaker A: And Thomas says, that's great. I play Call of Duty all the time. Sykes will play a spawn in some of his cohorts. Maybe one day we can get a group of spawns around together to play Call of Duty. [00:34:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Interesting. Maybe we should call him up. Be like Thomas Healey in Call of Duty. [00:34:29] Speaker A: The Image Classics ad. But wait, Johnny Image Comics? [00:34:33] Speaker B: What do you need more Sponsor Universe. [00:34:35] Speaker A: Oh, shit. I'm sorry. Yes. [00:34:37] Speaker B: All right, well, don't miss the ongoing titles, then. [00:34:39] Speaker A: This is the ad for the ongoing titles. All the March titles coming. [00:34:43] Speaker B: Yeah. That. They done come. They came. They're here. I've read all of those. [00:34:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:34:52] Speaker B: Yeah. Then we get the Emirates Classics, Adam. [00:34:55] Speaker A: Then we get the image class. I was just rushing because I wanted to get to the toy ads. [00:34:58] Speaker B: Oh, the toy ad. The toy ad is phenomenal. Oh, man. Best toy ad we've had so far. I. I also toy ad on the back. [00:35:05] Speaker A: It's fucking Shrek. [00:35:07] Speaker B: Look at his face. He is. He's just like. [00:35:10] Speaker A: He's thinking hard. He's thinking of something sassy. [00:35:13] Speaker B: Shrek. Shrek is pretty sassy. [00:35:16] Speaker A: So it's. It's. They're like statues of Shrek and the dragon that donkey fucks. [00:35:21] Speaker B: Yeah. And remember Donkey the Dragon, because they make little. Little Donkey dragon Hybrids. Yeah, with little bitty tiny wings. [00:35:30] Speaker A: Think about that. [00:35:32] Speaker B: Like. Johnny, the Internet's already thought of that. I'm pretty sure I've accidentally already seen a lot of some of that artwork. [00:35:41] Speaker A: Oh, no, I've. [00:35:43] Speaker B: Johnny, the Internet is sometimes a treacherous place. [00:35:46] Speaker A: Just remember the canonically, don't. That donkey fucks. Yeah, yeah, canonically. [00:35:53] Speaker B: Well, I mean, technically. Technically. So does Shrek. He also. He also has kids. He has, like, nine kids. [00:35:59] Speaker A: That's true. [00:36:00] Speaker B: I think. I'm pretty sure that's the. Like, the storyline for the third movie is. I got too many goddamn kids. I just need some. I just need some rest. I want to be not kidded again. [00:36:13] Speaker A: I didn't realize Shrek was so horny. [00:36:14] Speaker B: I mean, look at him, Johnny. Look at that face. Look at that face. [00:36:18] Speaker A: I just need the franchise. I'm at the franchise. I realize. It's so sexual. [00:36:23] Speaker B: Come on, Johnny. It's. It's Mike Miles. Mike Myers and, you know. Don't. Doesn't he get you horny, baby? [00:36:31] Speaker A: I guess so. Randy, baby, show me. [00:36:35] Speaker B: Show me a Mike Myers movie where he doesn't, and I will show you a Mike Myers movie that doesn't exist. [00:36:41] Speaker A: Okay. He's in Glorious Bastards. I don't think he in that. [00:36:44] Speaker B: Oh, oh, I'm sure he does, but I. I would, because I haven't seen Inglourious Bastards in a very long time, so. [00:36:53] Speaker A: Well, la dee da. [00:36:54] Speaker B: La dee da. [00:36:55] Speaker A: I saw it over Christmas. I was like, at my brother's house, I couldn't fall asleep, so I watched Inglourious Basterds. [00:37:03] Speaker B: Nice. One of the best openings to a film ever. [00:37:07] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that's the opening. That's fucking Christoph Waltz is the best. [00:37:11] Speaker B: Brutal. [00:37:12] Speaker A: Brutal. [00:37:13] Speaker B: That's King Spawn. [00:37:14] Speaker A: Are you talking about Shrek or Inglourious Pastures? [00:37:17] Speaker B: Both. Both of them are pretty brutal. I mean, because, I mean, Shrek starts with somebody. [00:37:24] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. [00:37:25] Speaker B: Kicks open the door of his outhouse. [00:37:27] Speaker A: He smashes into, like, Pinocchio or some shit, punches Pinocchio in the dick. [00:37:31] Speaker B: Well, I mean, that's before Pinocchio shows up. This is. [00:37:33] Speaker A: Oh, right. They show up later. Okay. That's right. That's right. Get these fairytale creatures out of my swamp. That's king spawn 42. And that's Shrek. And Shrek is love, and Shrek is life. [00:37:47] Speaker B: And now we've become a Shrek podcast. So minute by minute, Johnny, he squeezes it happen. [00:37:53] Speaker A: David. You don't have to acknowledge it. Just let it happen naturally. [00:37:56] Speaker B: He squeezes the bug onto the thing to make his toothpaste. He farts in his bath. [00:38:02] Speaker A: Who doesn't? [00:38:04] Speaker B: Bubbles are fun. [00:38:19] Speaker A: And we're back, and it's time for a deadly tale of the Gunslinger. [00:38:26] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah, Johnny. Oh, hell yeah. [00:38:30] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm really enjoying this series, David. I like it a lot. [00:38:34] Speaker B: It's real fucking good. There's. There's no two ways about it, Johnny. [00:38:37] Speaker A: It might be the best one right now. I don't know. [00:38:40] Speaker B: It's. It's pretty. It's pretty tough to be. [00:38:42] Speaker A: I really scratch that itch that west of Sundown used to scratch for me. [00:38:46] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. I like the. I like the playfulness and kind of the overly comicy bookiness of. Of Scorched, but this. This just. It scratches. It scratches the knee that I didn't even realize I needed scratched. [00:39:04] Speaker A: Well, like the ones we mentioned. I feel like the artwork. The ones we mentioned, like our four favorites right now. Rat City, King, Spawn, Deadly Tales, and Scorch, each of them. Also. The artwork complements the writing so well. [00:39:17] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, absolutely. Those four titles all have their own, like, their. Their different flavor and, like, they're different. You know, their different styles, and they all like the. The writing and the art just complement them so well. It's. It's so good. It's like they're. They're fully meshed, these creative teams across those four titles. [00:39:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:40] Speaker B: And this. This creative team. Well. Well, first we should probably start with that. We should probably start where we always do before we start talking about the creative team. Jamie. [00:39:47] Speaker A: That's what the covers. [00:39:49] Speaker B: Start with the covers. What kind of. How we got. We got two covers, Johnny. [00:39:53] Speaker A: Yep. [00:39:53] Speaker B: You get. You got the. You got that a cover? [00:39:56] Speaker A: I do. Marcial Toledano. [00:39:59] Speaker B: It's a pretty good cover. [00:40:00] Speaker A: As gunslinger having escaped the hangman's noose, marching away from two hanged men on his horse. [00:40:07] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's got that nice. That nice green tint to it, and there's all these. All these, like, graves around them. It's a spooky tree, too. It's like the spooky tree of Berenstain. Berenstain, your favorite book. Yeah. One of them, the. The Knight who Was Afraid of the Dark, is another one of my favorite ones. That's a real good one. Do you ever read that? [00:40:29] Speaker A: No. [00:40:29] Speaker B: It's excellent. It's about a knight who's afraid of the dark until he. Until he finds love and then learns that the dark's not so bad. If you have somebody with you. So sweet. It's sweet. But it also has a panel that has a flying roll of toilet paper in it, and that's honestly the first thing I loved about it. [00:40:51] Speaker A: Okay. [00:40:51] Speaker B: Yeah. But, yeah, it's a great. It's a great cover, Johnny. It's a great cover. [00:40:55] Speaker A: Yeah. Nice sunset. Yeah, nice sunset. [00:40:58] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real nice. It's got a nice horse on it. [00:41:02] Speaker A: We love a horse. [00:41:03] Speaker B: Yeah, we sure do. And I've got the COVID B. [00:41:07] Speaker A: B by hold it up so I can see it. I don't want to Google it. Let me see it. [00:41:11] Speaker B: Cover B by Marco Falia. And it is. It's like a classroom classic western. [00:41:16] Speaker A: Oh, that's great. [00:41:17] Speaker B: It's got a. [00:41:18] Speaker A: It's like the dead bodies in his shadow. [00:41:20] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's Javi pointing a gun, but, like, he's all. You just see the hat and the coat and the gun and then his shadow or some of his victims. It's got that nice, like, secret. [00:41:31] Speaker A: Like, 1960s. Yeah, like 1960s Western poster. [00:41:36] Speaker B: Yeah, that's pretty good. [00:41:38] Speaker A: Like that a lot. [00:41:40] Speaker B: We pop these. We pop these open. John. Johnny. [00:41:43] Speaker A: John. You call me John by my Christian name now. That was weird. Don't ever do that. [00:41:48] Speaker B: I immediately was like, oh, geez, what the hell? [00:41:51] Speaker A: There are people in my life to know me as well. John and Johnny. And like most Oklahoma people call me Johnny. Most of my close friends, but, like, a lot of people just know me as John. [00:41:59] Speaker B: Yeah, it felt. It felt bad coming out. I'm pretty sure I used to call you John Fisher. Like, full name John Fisher. [00:42:07] Speaker A: Yeah, you did. But if you know me as Johnny, you're in the inner circle. [00:42:10] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. I'm in the inner circle. Which. Which circle is that, Johnny? Because you got. You got nine circles, I assume. [00:42:16] Speaker A: I have nine circles of friends. Yes. [00:42:20] Speaker B: So saying I'm way down there in the Malbol friend zone. The friend zone Friend zone. Malbol. [00:42:26] Speaker A: Yeah, you're in the friend zone, David. I'm sorry. There's nothing romantic's gonna happen here, if that's what you're hoping for. Speaking of romance. [00:42:32] Speaker B: Ah, God damn it. [00:42:34] Speaker A: But, yeah, if that was the point of the podcast. [00:42:37] Speaker B: Well, show's over, folks. [00:42:40] Speaker A: You want, like, a Friends like, you want, like, a Rachel Ross, like, will they, won't they thing going on here? [00:42:46] Speaker B: I mean, you know, well. Well, Johnny, Johnny, Will we or what we. That's. Ultimately. [00:42:51] Speaker A: We won't. [00:42:53] Speaker B: We got, like, at least 10 years worth of spawn to get through. Maybe at the end of it, we'll grow so Close. [00:42:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:43:00] Speaker B: If Spawn has taught us nothing, it's that occasionally an unwarranted kiss can come out of nowhere. [00:43:06] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. It reminds me of the line from most of my time in Hollywood. It's like when you have a buddy who is like something more than a brother and something less than a wife. That's what you are to me. [00:43:18] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. That's awesome. Well, Johnny, likewise. [00:43:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:43:23] Speaker B: But I have a. I have a. [00:43:25] Speaker A: You have a wife. I don't. [00:43:27] Speaker B: I mean, you have a brother, and I don't. So I don't. I don't know quite if the. The brother sister bond is anywhere similar to a brother brother bond. [00:43:41] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know what the dynamics are. I don't. I don't have a sister. I have no idea. [00:43:45] Speaker B: I know I fucking adored my sister growing up. She fucking hated it. But, you know, if my sister was doing it, I wanted to do it because she was my fucking sister. [00:43:53] Speaker A: I was more of a little stinker. I kind of did the opposite of what my brother did. [00:43:57] Speaker B: I was. I was a stinker in that I always wanted to hang around my sister, and she just got fed up with me. [00:44:02] Speaker A: I wanted to hang around him, of course. Like, I want to be around him, but, like, I liked watching him. I didn't play the same video games he played, except for a few. But, like, I liked watching him play video games. I would definitely, like, hang around and want to be around him. Want to be around his friends. [00:44:14] Speaker B: Yeah, I definitely. Many of my first pop culture opinions were just things that my sister either liked or didn't like. I was like, okay, Becca doesn't like that, so I'm not going to like that either. Or she likes that, so I'm going to like that. [00:44:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I liked a lot of the same stuff as my brother, but I also, like. I wanted to be different, David. I, like, went out of my way to be weird. [00:44:36] Speaker B: I think I came by that naturally, so. [00:44:39] Speaker A: Well, not weird, but just, like, my own things and, like, be obsessed with, like, my own things. [00:44:43] Speaker B: Well, that's, you know. You know, that's healthy. We should all. We should all have our own things. But, you know, my sister and I did grow up in the middle of nowhere, and so it was us. That's all we had. [00:44:54] Speaker A: That's true. [00:44:55] Speaker B: So that's. That. That's also another wrench in that dynamic. [00:44:59] Speaker A: I live in the city. I had. I was. I was filthy with friends. They were coming over, having sleepovers all the Time. [00:45:04] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. I mean, like we. I. When I was in middle school, we had lots of. Lots of sleepovers, but they had to be planned well in advance because people don't like their. To just send their children like 20 miles into the country on a whim. [00:45:21] Speaker A: Just hope they find your house. [00:45:23] Speaker B: The first time, the first time anybody came home, came over to my house, like halfway there, they were like, are we not there yet? Are you sure we aren't lost? Yeah, we're not there yet. We're not lost. But speaking of not lost, Johnny, we gotta get back on track. We gotta give credit where credit is due. [00:45:41] Speaker A: That's right. Who we got David, this. [00:45:43] Speaker B: We got script plot, Jimmy Palmiotti, our art. We got Patrick Reynolds. Colors is Lewis and ct, lettering by the Tom father himself. We covered the covers. Creative director Todd McFarlane and editor in chief Thomas Healy. And previously in Deadly Tales of the Gunsling, the gunslinger has a date with some ladies of the night and the rendezvous doesn't go as planned. [00:46:08] Speaker A: Story of my life, brother. [00:46:10] Speaker B: That's the understatement of the century, Johnny. [00:46:13] Speaker A: Oh, God, I don't even know if I want. Yeah, I shouldn't even tell that story. [00:46:18] Speaker B: No, no. If there's any hesitation. [00:46:23] Speaker A: Do you have to. [00:46:24] Speaker B: No, no. If there's any hesitation, you probably shouldn't, but. [00:46:28] Speaker A: No, I just got, like, ripped off at a strip club one time. [00:46:30] Speaker B: Oh, no. [00:46:32] Speaker A: Just by, like, giving away my all. [00:46:33] Speaker B: Like, they didn't give you enough glitter? You didn't go home? [00:46:36] Speaker A: No, I didn't get enough glitter. [00:46:37] Speaker B: Oh, God damn it. I mean, that's. That's. I mean that. That's. That's. Strip club. Johnny, strip clubs are designed to separate you from your money. [00:46:46] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. And I realized that and then I never went back. [00:46:51] Speaker B: I just. I just have an aversion to glitter. That shit's. This shit's insidious. It's everywhere. It never goes away. It's insidious, Johnny. But yeah. Poor Javi. Is this date with the ladies of the night? Oh, man, it was rough stuff. We don't start. We don't start at the rendezvous Journey. We start at a dream. Speaking of dreams, doggy, we got. We got an image here. Hobby big, like Godzilla big. Blasting away above a field of burning. TP warriors falling. [00:47:31] Speaker A: Is he doing this? [00:47:33] Speaker B: I don't know if he's doing this. I mean, we. We have the story. I mean, don't you remember, like, in the first issue, stories of many, many natives killed and, like, no mercy shown? [00:47:46] Speaker A: It better not Be Javi. [00:47:47] Speaker B: Better not be Javi. But I have. I have a feeling. I have a feeling he'd. I have a feeling he'd do it if pressed. [00:47:54] Speaker A: Yeah, he's not a good dude. [00:47:57] Speaker B: Yeah. The night erupted with blood curling screams as death descended, unprovoked and unstoppable. There was no time for mercy. Every soul was claimed to the swift, ruthless slaughter. Every soul except one. [00:48:12] Speaker A: And then these two native managed to get like. [00:48:15] Speaker B: Yeah, they get. They get like blown to execute. Executed. [00:48:18] Speaker A: Oh, it is Javi. [00:48:19] Speaker B: Yeah, he just shoots him in the back. And then they dissolve in a hail of bullets and flame and turn into skeletons and point to a lone mesa across the desert under the kind of. [00:48:35] Speaker A: Devil'S tower a little bit. [00:48:37] Speaker B: And then we see a big circus tent being. A circus tent being put up under the moonlight. And then we see a young lady and a wolf standing. Looking out over the expanse. And then we see another young lady waking up from her sleep. Just like that, the delicate line between wakefulness and dreams is breached. But this time, the fleeting images from the dreamscape do not slip away. They have meaning and linger in her mind, refusing to dissolve into the depths of forgetfulness. The dream was a clear and urgent message demanding her attention. [00:49:16] Speaker A: And then she collects her weapons. [00:49:18] Speaker B: Yeah, she's got like her pouches and her. Her knife and her bow and her arrows. And she loads up her horse and she rides away in the night. And then our. Our buddy from the first episode issue first and second. He. He watches her go. [00:49:41] Speaker A: And where the offense is great. And where the offense is, let the great axe fall. Or the offense. [00:49:47] Speaker B: The offense. Probably the offense. Not the offense. I don't think they're talking about a football game. [00:49:51] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. [00:49:53] Speaker B: Then we cut back to the rendezvous. Johnny. Javi in the cat house, just letting loose on the demons. He shoots one. He shoots one right in the head. Oh boy. Some guys have all the luck, Johnny. [00:50:07] Speaker A: Yep. Belam. [00:50:08] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I guess. I guess this isn't Javi. Don't you remember? His name is not Javi. [00:50:14] Speaker A: Tobias. [00:50:14] Speaker B: Tobias. [00:50:15] Speaker A: Who keeps saying Javi. [00:50:16] Speaker B: Yeah, well, it's because we're. It's because we're used to the current day Javi. And now it's Tobias and Tobias and then. And then the. The demons. [00:50:29] Speaker A: Speaking of Tobias. Tobias Forge. [00:50:31] Speaker B: Oh yeah. Excellent. [00:50:33] Speaker A: Lee Singer Ghost. That new song. [00:50:34] Speaker B: So good. Very good. [00:50:35] Speaker A: Thumbs up. That video is really good too. [00:50:38] Speaker B: Pop up. [00:50:40] Speaker A: I like that mask. [00:50:41] Speaker B: It's great. He's bedazzled the out of it. [00:50:44] Speaker A: It's very fan of the opera. [00:50:47] Speaker B: It's very good. It's very good. And then these demon. These demons are like, they. They gang up on Harvey, and one of them has their hands around his neck, and they, like, crash through the window onto the street below. And the fucking. The fucking townsfolk are just like, the shit. The fuck is this? And Hobby still just, like, shooting them. And they're like, I don't think I could ever shoot a woman. Even if they do have rabies, there's a great line. [00:51:17] Speaker A: Looks to be some very angry horrors. [00:51:21] Speaker B: There's this little Poindexter who's just, like, noted. [00:51:27] Speaker A: And. [00:51:27] Speaker B: Yeah, so. So Javi's just like. He's just blasting. He's blasting. He's blasting until they've all, like. Until he has to reload. And then, you know, as he's reloading, he's like, ladies, are we done? They say, far from it. They attack again. [00:51:45] Speaker A: They attack again, and they're like, hell, possessed and demonic. [00:51:49] Speaker B: And so he just continues. He just continues blasting, and he's, like, shooting them right in the eyes, you know? And then one guy's like, oh, my God, he killed them all. And then the little Poindexter is like, hey, hey, hey, there's. There's still one over there. And Tobias is like, I know you. [00:52:07] Speaker A: I'm nobody. [00:52:08] Speaker B: As he's talking. As he's talking to this. This little Poindexter guy, he just, like, aims behind him and shoots the final. The final demon lady right in the forehead. Then Poindexter asks if I may inquire. You may not. Noted. Such a nerd, Johnny. I like the nerd guy. I don't know if you could tell the reporter. Yeah, I think he's going to be a bad guy because of the last panel of the issue, but I think so, too. He makes me laugh. But then one of the townsfolk is like, man, I mean, like, this lady's still gasping for air. I don't know how you fucking shot her, like, 12 times. Like, it's like the goddamn devil himself done taking hold of her soul. The bias says, yeah, get some rope. And then he takes her to a barn and he ties her up. [00:52:55] Speaker A: Never a great thing to hear. Like, someone's like, get some ropes. Like, something bad's gonna happen. Yeah, we're gonna help someone move or something. [00:53:02] Speaker B: Yeah, true. I mean, I mean, moving, moving, moving could technically be something bad, Johnny. [00:53:08] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. Or it could be something good. [00:53:10] Speaker B: It could be something good. But it's. It's. [00:53:12] Speaker A: I'm gonna be moving Soon. [00:53:13] Speaker B: It's still a. It's still. It's. It's still a trial. The. The having to. To carry and be like, I hate moving, Johnny. It's the worst. I will help you move, though. And be very happy about it if. [00:53:26] Speaker A: You need help, though, so I'll let you know. [00:53:28] Speaker B: Don't. Don't take this. Don't take this as me saying that I don't ever want to help you move. Just. Man, it's a lot of work. [00:53:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:35] Speaker B: And I don't know if you know this, but I'm lazy. Yeah, but. But. Yeah. So then Javi splashes this demon lady with some water and he's like, you're gonna tell. You're gonna talk. I know for a fact, yay. Ain't a human no more because you should be dead. So start spilling the meat. [00:53:53] Speaker A: Yeah. There's no way you're alive right now. [00:53:55] Speaker B: Yeah. It says, I'm looking for Wyatt King. And then she starts trying to make a deal, and he's like, okay, listen. So here's. Here's the deal. If you tell me what I want to know, I'll give you a swift death. If you don't, I'll make it fucking long and horrible. And then he gives her a little incentive and yanks her up by the noose. So she's hanging. [00:54:17] Speaker A: This is the craziest monologue. First, I'm going to hang you. Watch you choke. [00:54:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:54:20] Speaker A: If that don't finish you, I'll let you set you ablaze. And if I sum for God forsaken chance you still cling to life, I'll drag you to the butcher. I'll take you apart piece by piece. [00:54:31] Speaker B: Man. I believe he'd do it, Johnny. [00:54:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Tobias is crazy, man. [00:54:36] Speaker B: Ain't got no chill. No chill whatsoever. So she gives. She gives up. That Wyatt and his group are. They're the crook and crow surface, Johnny. They're a couple of weeks ahead, performing at the towns along the way. [00:54:51] Speaker A: That's kind of cool. [00:54:52] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, that's a. I love a. Love. A circus is good. It's good. Circus is good. Intentionally creepy circus, not as good. But the circus theme is good. Like American Horror Story. Circus took it too far. It took it too far. [00:55:09] Speaker A: Okay. [00:55:10] Speaker B: But I like. I like an old timey circus as a theme. [00:55:13] Speaker A: Okay. [00:55:14] Speaker B: So good. [00:55:14] Speaker A: Yeah, I like a circus. I'm reading a book about a circus. [00:55:18] Speaker B: What's it called? [00:55:20] Speaker A: The Night Circus. [00:55:21] Speaker B: By Angela Carter. [00:55:22] Speaker A: No. Oh, it's by, like, someone Morgenston. [00:55:26] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:55:30] Speaker A: So I think it's a night market. [00:55:32] Speaker B: I'm thinking of Nights at the Circus. [00:55:35] Speaker A: No. Which is. Which is a speculative fiction book. [00:55:39] Speaker B: That's. Knights at the Circus is about an angel who joins the circus because no one else will have her. And in typical Angela Carter way, is wonderful. Fucking love, Angela Carter. Okay, Good shit. Yeah. [00:55:58] Speaker A: I'm enjoying this book so far. [00:56:00] Speaker B: Good, good, good. Tobias says, well, you helped me, so I hope you. I'll give you a swift death. And the swift death is like a. [00:56:09] Speaker A: Wile E. Coyote maneuver. [00:56:10] Speaker B: Just a bundle of dynamite. [00:56:12] Speaker A: Stick a dynamic dynamite in her mouth. Yeah. [00:56:15] Speaker B: Lights it on fire. That just, like, walks away as it explodes. He makes good on his promise, Johnny. [00:56:21] Speaker A: Very Django Unchained. Yeah, this whole scene is very Django Unchained. [00:56:25] Speaker B: And then he talks to the assembled town folks and is like, get some shovels in your preacher. There's work to be done. And then there's, you know, Javi's dig or not. Damn it. Tobias is digging all these. These graves with some of the town folks and the preachers talking over them. Somebody's like, it's so. It's so sad. They don't have coffins. And Tobias is like, you gonna pay for him? And the guy's like, nope, never mind. And so Tobias talks to this guy about the. About the madam herself that, you know, she was. That she was at one time a good woman, but then was corrupted and then slowly corrupted all of the girls in her care. And. And the guy that he's talking to is like, so what's. What the fuck's your story? And Tobias is like, I. I ain't got. I ain't got no idea. I woke up, I got this weird freak suit on, and now two days later, I'm here bearing a whole bunch of demon ladies, just taking it one day at a time. Johnny. And the. The little Poindexter is talking to the preacher, and he's like, why. Why is nobody. No, why is this. This is a funeral. Why is nobody at the funeral? And the preacher's like, well. Well, it would look bad if anybody showed up for a horse funeral. It was like, ah, noted. And then Tobias starts walking away, and he intentionally shoulder checks Poindexter as he leaves. [00:57:53] Speaker A: It's the reporter. Yeah. [00:57:55] Speaker B: And it's just like, oh. And then the. The reporter catches up to Tobias at the saloon and starts trying to ask him questions. And Tobias, like, fucking go away. I don't have anything to say. [00:58:10] Speaker A: James Owen Johnson. [00:58:12] Speaker B: Judge, I was trying to think of who James Owen Johnson would be. Both historically or biblically or in reference to Spawn. And I came up with nothing. [00:58:22] Speaker A: Okay. [00:58:23] Speaker B: No idea at all. Yeah, he's trying to. He's trying to, as a good reporter does. Tries to get attributions to any quotes that he has. So he's just trying to. Trying to figure stuff out. And Tobias. Tobias is just like, don't make me kill you and bury you too. I don't want to do. But I will shut that hole in your face and kill. Get the hell out of here. [00:58:49] Speaker A: It's real good to buy his rides out. [00:58:51] Speaker B: Yeah. On his horse. But then we see Johnson, the bottom James Owen Johnson smiling at him as he rides away. [00:59:01] Speaker A: Red eyes. Red eyes with green glasses. [00:59:04] Speaker B: Says the end for now. And then we get that. [00:59:07] Speaker A: I like that. [00:59:08] Speaker B: Cool. [00:59:08] Speaker A: I like. There's just a little. Little three page. Little arc there. [00:59:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:59:12] Speaker A: Or three. Three issue art. [00:59:13] Speaker B: Yeah, it's pretty good. It's pretty good. And then there's the new gunslinger skull to end the issue. [00:59:20] Speaker A: Yep. [00:59:21] Speaker B: Yeah. Real nice. Real solid. [00:59:23] Speaker A: David. We get. Do we get ad central? Dude, we got two toy ads. [00:59:26] Speaker B: We got so many ads on Call of Duty ad. Then we get. [00:59:29] Speaker A: There it is. [00:59:30] Speaker B: New generation, new stories, new you add for all the spin offs. [00:59:34] Speaker A: Yep. There's controversy in Call of Duty because they finally nerfed. There was a T1000 skin that was like pay to win, basically. So skinny and hard to hit. But they. They nerfed it. [00:59:45] Speaker B: Oh, sad. Isn't that. Isn't that what the Mother Gaia one was too? [00:59:49] Speaker A: Yeah, the Mother Gaia one was the same thing. [00:59:51] Speaker B: Is that still there? [00:59:53] Speaker A: I think they nerfed that too. [00:59:54] Speaker B: Sad. Then we get a awesome Mortal Kombat 1ad with sub zero. Look at this guy. [01:00:00] Speaker A: He looks badass. [01:00:01] Speaker B: Hell yeah, he does. This is Mortal Kombat 1. The Redo of original Mortal Kombat. But they also have an upcoming McFarlane Toys series of original Mortal Kombat figures. [01:00:15] Speaker A: Yeah, Mortal Kombat 1 is. There's a video game called Mortal Kombat 1. [01:00:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:18] Speaker A: Specifically. [01:00:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:19] Speaker A: Because it's like the reboot. [01:00:20] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like the reboot, but this. So they've got toys for that and they also have them for the original. Pretty awesome. [01:00:27] Speaker A: Pretty Mortal Kombat awesome. [01:00:29] Speaker B: It's great. Mortal Kombat's so good. Johnny. [01:00:35] Speaker A: I love the movie. I love the game. I love the song. [01:00:38] Speaker B: Test your might. [01:00:40] Speaker A: Mortal Kombat. What's not to love? Crazy characters. It's so 90s. [01:00:46] Speaker B: A whole bunch of. A whole bunch of stupid jokes. Because it was Made by a whole. Just a whole bunch of friends hanging out, being like, you know what we should do? Over the top violence. Hell yeah. We love it image. Classic said. And then that's the. That's it. That's it, Johnny. It's done. [01:01:05] Speaker A: That's it. It's done. [01:01:07] Speaker B: Deadly Tales of the Gunslinger 3 so, Johnny, this brings us to the time where usually. Usually I talk about a puppy that's near me because I usually have a puppy, but I had to move them all elsewhere because they were getting antsy, so. Ain't got a puppy to talk about, so. So let's talk about these ones. It's time to rate the puppies. [01:01:27] Speaker A: Let's rate these puppies. Hell yeah, it's time to rate the puppies. So first up, we had king spawn 42, which, like I said, like, I thought it was a stellar. If this is indeed what King Spawn is going to be, which is street level Spawn, which I've accepted into my heart, it's no longer Cosmic Spawn, but that's okay. [01:01:48] Speaker B: They got to make room for that new Cosmic Spawn title. [01:01:50] Speaker A: Johnny Cosmic Spawns cover. He's like a planet. He's like a whole planet. [01:01:55] Speaker B: Hey, man, there's a green. There's a Green Lantern. That is a planet. There could definitely be a Spawn. That's a planet. [01:02:01] Speaker A: There could be. No, I just. If this is indeed it, then I think Rory McConville is the right man for the job. This is just really cool, fun start to this awesome arc. It's got some great artwork, some iconic, like, Spawn being Spawn moments, doing detective work, being with FBI agents on rooftops. The colors just pop. The artwork just pops. Everything's so expressive, and it just feels like a great episode of a television show. Yeah, I loved it. Yeah, I thought it was great. [01:02:29] Speaker B: Me too. [01:02:30] Speaker A: I think it's really good. I'm interested. What's going on with this story? What's on with this new guy revenant and who the Wraith is? Yeah, I love the Shrek advertisement in the back. [01:02:40] Speaker B: It's good. It's a good ad. That smirk that kills me. [01:02:44] Speaker A: I just, like, can't say it enough. But, like, man, ILJ Sonar is like one of my favorites now. It's just so. It just makes me feel like a TV show. I don't know. So tactile, but, like, has the weight to it and like, it's just like. Everyone's kind of. It's very cohesive. [01:03:00] Speaker B: Yes, it is. [01:03:01] Speaker A: And the colors, of course, by Avid News are great. That rooftop scene, the Colors are amazing. [01:03:07] Speaker B: Yeah, they are. [01:03:07] Speaker A: I was gonna give it four, but just talking about it, I mean, like, a good feeling. I'm gonna give it five. I would give it five. I'm gonna give it five. Rock the Chalk Fennels. [01:03:18] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:03:18] Speaker A: Man's back. He's on a solo show. He's on network. [01:03:20] Speaker B: He's on prime time back, baby. I. I agree, Johnny. This story is great. And it's. It's such a tonal shift from what Rory McConville was doing on main title Spawn. And it's so intense and creepy and, like, everything feels like it has a stake. And I agree. The artwork is just perfect. The story is incredible, and I'm excited to see where it goes. I am gonna give it five. Crass heads just popping in. Just saying. Hey, I got some news for you. [01:03:54] Speaker A: It's Vaughn. [01:03:55] Speaker B: It's Bonnie. [01:03:56] Speaker A: Come with me. [01:03:57] Speaker B: So you know what that means, Johnny? It's an entrance to the Hellfire Club. Yeah. [01:04:02] Speaker A: It's entrance to the Hellfire Club. [01:04:03] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:04:03] Speaker A: Hear those hell screaming. Yeah, we love to see it. [01:04:06] Speaker B: We sure do. We sure do. And it brings us to Deadly Tales number three, Johnny. Oh, boy. [01:04:14] Speaker A: I mean, again, like I said, this is, like, in the running for best current Spawn comic, I think. [01:04:19] Speaker B: Oh, it's. Yeah, it's incredible. It. There's very little to say about it that isn't just gushing. [01:04:26] Speaker A: So artwork on point just feels like an old western pulp tale. [01:04:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:04:33] Speaker A: Story. I remember Thomas Healy pitches like Deadly or as bone tomahawk meets 310 to Yuma. [01:04:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:04:41] Speaker A: And it feels like that. [01:04:43] Speaker B: And I mean, I know. I know the Todd father tried to make Javi seem really serious, but Tobias is a serious. He does not play around. It is. [01:04:57] Speaker A: I'm really interested in this new character, the. The young native girl, like, just to see what. What's up with her. [01:05:03] Speaker B: The young warrior. They don't give her a name yet, do they? [01:05:07] Speaker A: No. [01:05:08] Speaker B: Unless it is planting the seeds. Unless it is one of these names that is mentioned in her dream. [01:05:14] Speaker A: Doesn't seem like it, but. [01:05:17] Speaker B: Yeah, but she also has a wolf pal in her dreams. [01:05:20] Speaker A: No. [01:05:21] Speaker B: No wolf pal in real life, unfortunately. Maybe soon. [01:05:26] Speaker A: Maybe. And I love just the absurdity, like, evil deadness of, like, the. The brothel attacking Javi. [01:05:32] Speaker B: Yeah. And just, like, how, like, those towns. [01:05:35] Speaker A: People react is hilarious. [01:05:36] Speaker B: Townsfolk, it seems like, are shocked by the wrong portions, but they're just kind of like, what the. [01:05:45] Speaker A: It's very Evil Dead. [01:05:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:47] Speaker A: So I obviously enjoyed it. [01:05:48] Speaker B: Absolutely. [01:05:49] Speaker A: Although he blows her up with dynamite it's just ridiculous. It's so over the top, but, like, tactile is the artwork. [01:05:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:57] Speaker A: You know what? I'm gonna give it five mouthfuls of dynamite. [01:06:00] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. [01:06:01] Speaker A: Five. [01:06:01] Speaker B: It's a lot of. It's a lot of mouthfuls of dynamite. I mean, I agree with you, Johnny. This. [01:06:06] Speaker A: This. [01:06:06] Speaker B: This book is amazing. It's so much fun to read. It's so well put together. It's. It's serious and goofy all at the same time. But, like, the goofy doesn't overbalance the serious. And the. The serious isn't so serious that you can't have something goofy. Like. Like, even though it is the most comic book thing in this comic book, it doesn't seem out of place for Tobias to be like, well, I know guns don't hurt them. What else do I have? Dynamite. Okay. It's going to have to work. [01:06:38] Speaker A: We have to try it out. [01:06:40] Speaker B: I'm going to. I'm also going to give it five, but I'm going to give it five casual shots. Because, like, I like. Like this casual shot of Tobias just shooting this demon in the head here. [01:06:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:06:53] Speaker B: And then. And then the other casual shot of Tobias talking to the. The Poindexter and just being like, hold on a second. I gotta shoot this lady. [01:07:05] Speaker A: So that means, David, that's this extra Christmas. [01:07:08] Speaker B: Hell yeah. It's an extra crispy Hellfire Club entrance. Hell yeah. [01:07:14] Speaker A: Spice it up so good. Crisp it up. Double fives. Yeah. No, this is great. This is a lot of fun reading these and going through them with you, and they're just. [01:07:25] Speaker B: They're so much fun. [01:07:26] Speaker A: I said King Spawn, Deadly Tale, Scorched and Rat City are where it's at right now. If you're not reading those, read all four of those. [01:07:35] Speaker B: Absolutely. And you know what else you should be doing, Johnny, if you weren't doing it? [01:07:41] Speaker A: Probably following some people on Instagram. [01:07:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Following some friends of. Some friends of Al, as we say, some. Some other Spawnverts, if you will. [01:07:52] Speaker A: And who are we following today? [01:07:53] Speaker B: This week? This week, Johnny? We got. We got a. We got a Spawn vert from Singapore. Hardcore spawn. [01:08:00] Speaker A: I love hardcore spawn. What? What did you say? [01:08:05] Speaker B: Hardcore spawn, Johnny. [01:08:07] Speaker A: Oh, sorry. I misunderstood you. [01:08:09] Speaker B: I mean, you know, you could. You could do that, too, just probably not on Instagram. [01:08:14] Speaker A: Yep. Free the nipple. Hashtag, Free the nipple. [01:08:16] Speaker B: You could just. You could just Photoshop a male nipple over every female nipple, and there you go. But it's okay. There's actually. I think there's actually people that do that. Pro bono. So that way you can have legal pictures. [01:08:29] Speaker A: That's funny. [01:08:30] Speaker B: The world is the most ridiculous. The most ridiculous thing in existence. Johnny. I don't. I don't even know what's going on anymore. But yeah, hardcore Spawn, they're. I guess, like I said, they're a Spawn fan in Singapore. They're posting lots of stuff on about Spawn. Their very first post is that deluxe reissue of the original Spawn figure that they did not too long ago. I do believe that was the Kickstarter starter. It's gorgeous. And then they also recently obtained the. The statue that we've been talking about of like. Of Spawn from the. The COVID of issue one. And it's. It's looking incredible. So for that, they're going to be our follow this week. [01:09:13] Speaker A: Sweet. [01:09:13] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, absolutely. [01:09:15] Speaker A: Love to see it. While you're following them on Instagram, make sure to give us a follow. [01:09:19] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:09:19] Speaker A: We're Regarding Swamp. Hit us up on there. Or you can hit us up@regarding swampodmail.com. yeah, every leak, I like to ask a question and I guess I inadvertently backed into it, but this is my Mount Rushmore of Spawn titles right now. [01:09:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:09:36] Speaker A: King Spawn, Deadly Tales, Scorch and Rat City. What is your. Oh, listener. What are your four favorite. What is your Mount Rushmore of Spawn titles? [01:09:49] Speaker B: We're gonna have to. We might have to do a Mount Rushmore and a. Of. Of ongoing and amount Rushmore of limited. Limited run. That's true because there are some of these miniseries, like that Violator miniseries was perfect from beginning to end. [01:10:06] Speaker A: Small kills. [01:10:07] Speaker B: Every Spawn too, also perfect from beginning to end. But. But those. Those can't contend with the on. I mean, they're just different beasts altogether. That's the problem. [01:10:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:10:20] Speaker B: Oh, man, Spawn is so good, Johnny. I fucking love Spawn. [01:10:23] Speaker A: I love talking Spawn. [01:10:24] Speaker B: Oh, man, it's so much fun. I love reading Spawn. I love talking Spawn. I love. I love when people ask me random Spawn questions that I know the answers. It's at the point where I'm like, ask some harder questions, please. [01:10:40] Speaker A: We're bringing the Spawn awareness to the world. [01:10:42] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. Speaking of awareness that people need to know about. Johnny, Lonnie Bones does our music and it is fantastic. And you can find Lonnie Bones anywhere. You find music online. It's Lonnie with a Y, not an ie. [01:10:57] Speaker A: That's easy. [01:10:57] Speaker B: Easy peasy. Well, speaking of easy peasy, you know, it would be super easy peasy. Johnny. [01:11:03] Speaker A: What? [01:11:04] Speaker B: Reading some more Spawn and talking about it again next week. [01:11:06] Speaker A: Let's do it. [01:11:07] Speaker B: Let's do it. [01:11:08] Speaker A: You know, I'm feeling. David, I'm feeling something. [01:11:10] Speaker B: What. What are you feeling? You feeling. You feeling hungry? Do. Do you need to go get a sandwich? [01:11:15] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I'm feeling hungry for some spawns. So we need to read scorch 38. [01:11:18] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. [01:11:20] Speaker A: And spawn 362. [01:11:21] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Hell yeah. It'll be a nice balance of excellent issue and some goof em ups. Yeah, yeah, we'll get. We'll get to know. We'll finally get to figure out who this Deadpool guy is. [01:11:37] Speaker A: Oh, boy. Can't wait. There's only three movies about him. [01:11:42] Speaker B: Oh, there really are three movies. Shit, I forgot that there was the. I thought there were only two of them. [01:11:49] Speaker A: Talking about the Wolf. Which one do you forget about? The Wolverine or the second? [01:11:51] Speaker B: The second one or the first one exists? I don't know. But yeah. No, I'm all right. I like. I like Deadpool. Deadpool's fine. Deadpool. Deadpool is like the ultimate example of fans being the thing that's wrong with him, though. There are a lot of Deadpool stories that. It's just like, fucking, come on. We get. We get it. [01:12:12] Speaker A: We get it. We get it. [01:12:13] Speaker B: A little bit of Deadpool goes a long way, I guess, is what I'm saying. But I still like Deadpool, you know? [01:12:18] Speaker A: Sure. [01:12:18] Speaker B: You know, it happens. Huh. Well, that sounds excellent to me, Johnny. So scorch 38, spawn 362. Freedom. We'll talk about them in a week. You'll listen to us talk about them in a week and then you'll let us know, you know, what you thought about both the books and us talking about them. Sounds good to me. [01:12:39] Speaker A: Sounds good to me. [01:12:40] Speaker B: Sounds good to me. Don't forget to like, subscribe. Follow. Tell your friends and family and co workers about us. Spread rate reviews. [01:12:47] Speaker A: Subscribe. [01:12:48] Speaker B: Yes, absolutely. Spread the word. Spread the word. Of Spawn and regarding Spawn, Tell them that are you looking for a place to get content that includes both literary, literary stuff and beat em Ups all in one place? One stuff shop right here. We talk your Shakespeares. We talk your Ezra Pounds. We talk your Todd McFarlanes. We got all of it. [01:13:16] Speaker A: T.S. eliot. [01:13:17] Speaker B: T.S. eliot. We got Pirates of the Caribbean. Oh, yeah. We got fucking Andrew Lloyd Webber. Lots, lots of Weber talk. It's real good. Well, you know, I say that, Johnny, and now I'm feeling. I'm feeling a little like there's nowhere. There's no more words left in the tank. So I think. I think that means that I'm left with nothing to say. But may the scorch be with you. [01:13:43] Speaker A: Also with you, David. [01:13:44] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:13:45] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [01:13:47] Speaker B: Absolutely. Well, Johnny, day after day, day after day, we struck. Nor breath, nor motion. As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean. [01:14:02] Speaker A: Oh, man. I feel like I'm at church. Are we at church? [01:14:04] Speaker B: I don't know if it could be. [01:14:06] Speaker A: I'm still religious. [01:14:39] Speaker B: Sa.