[00:00:00] Speaker A: Dream or not, Gunslinger realizes that running away from this nightmarish abomination would be useless. So he does what he feels is the only thing left to do. Gunslinger fights back.
Good evening and welcome to the Malibu. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast. I am your co host, John Fisher.
[00:00:52] Speaker B: And I'm your co host, David Williams. And Johnny, it's that time of the year again where it's just really gross outside. It's. It's just. It's just like gross, is it?
[00:01:02] Speaker A: It's not that bad.
[00:01:03] Speaker B: It's just like gross.
[00:01:05] Speaker A: You're a weenie.
[00:01:06] Speaker B: Yeah, I am a weenie. I am a weenie. But. But in my defense, I went for a run. I took a shower. As soon as I was done with my shower, I immediately started sweating again. So.
Ew. They were, they were talking on the radio this morning about humid days being extra hard because you don't sweat so you don't cool down. So. Oh, you gotta, you gotta drink. You gotta drink some beverages. So everybody out while you're listening to this right now. Take a drink now. Drink more. Drink.
[00:01:37] Speaker A: I got water and a coffee drink. And I've already drank a cup of oj.
[00:01:44] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah.
[00:01:45] Speaker A: I got plenty of beverages. I take five. It takes me five beverages to wake up.
Hey, coffee, sparkling water, orange juice, regular water.
[00:01:56] Speaker B: Or do you just stick with.
[00:01:58] Speaker A: No, usually I just do the sparkling in the mornings, I guess. Only three drinks.
I used to drink Diet Coke and I'd have a Diet Coke in there, but I don't do that anymore.
[00:02:07] Speaker B: Oh, man. Oh, how'd you win? How'd you wean yourself off of crack there, Johnny?
[00:02:11] Speaker A: Just cold turkey, man. Oh man, I've been like two, like, I don't know, like maybe two months soda free.
[00:02:17] Speaker B: That's. That's insane. That's insane. I own, I occasionally do of like a full fat Coke and that's. That's really all I do. I haven't had soda regularly for a very long time.
[00:02:27] Speaker A: I was addicted to it, David.
[00:02:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean it is. It's good shit. That's why. It's real good shit.
[00:02:33] Speaker A: I mean, Diet Coke is very refreshing.
[00:02:35] Speaker B: I mean, I personally don't like the taste of aspartame, but I understand that.
[00:02:40] Speaker A: If chug enough of them, you'll get used to it.
[00:02:43] Speaker B: I also don't like when they're like, we don't put any sugar in this, but we did put like some fucking erythritol in it. So it's like it's both Spicy and cold at the same time. Why? It's gross.
[00:02:55] Speaker A: That's erythritol.
[00:02:56] Speaker B: Erythritol.
It's. It's a non glucose sugar alternative. They usually add it to things that. Like, if you get monk fruit in the raw. Monk fruit in the raw has erythritol added to it. It's.
It's like the go to sweetener for people on keto diets.
[00:03:17] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:03:18] Speaker B: Because it.
Whatever the. The mechanisms there, I don't. I don't care enough to look into it, but. But it keeps it whatever in. In ketosis instead of glycolysis, so.
[00:03:30] Speaker A: Okay, good to know.
[00:03:32] Speaker B: But, yeah, it's. So if anybody's ever like, I'm on a diet and I brought everybody baked goods, and you're like, this is cool. Ah, it's spicy. Oh, it's cool. Spicy, cool. Then you know it's the erythritol.
[00:03:43] Speaker A: Erythritol. Okay. I had some strawberries for breakfast with my orange juice, David.
[00:03:48] Speaker B: Oh, nice. How much sugar did you add to those?
[00:03:50] Speaker A: I didn't add any. I used to like to do that where you dip them in sugar.
[00:03:53] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's real good. So we used to use the powdered sugar, too, so it stuck real well.
[00:03:58] Speaker A: We used to use equal.
[00:03:59] Speaker B: Equal. Oh, man.
[00:04:01] Speaker A: My mom would just dump a bunch of equal on a plate and we'd get strawberries and we just eat them, dip them in the. Equal.
[00:04:07] Speaker B: Equal. I remember my dad used to use sweet' n Low in his tea. We always had two. Two pinks.
And if you were at a restaurant that didn't have the pinks, dad wasn't getting tea.
[00:04:18] Speaker A: Damn.
[00:04:19] Speaker B: I didn't. I didn't even know you could put, like, real sugar in iced tea until I was probably 12.
I was like, wait, I thought. I thought tea had to have the pink stuff.
[00:04:29] Speaker A: Tea had to have the pink.
I've been drinking a lot of tea since I put soda.
[00:04:34] Speaker B: What kind of tea? Just regular tea or like a green.
[00:04:36] Speaker A: Tea tea or like a mushroom tea? Calorie sweet tea.
[00:04:41] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:04:41] Speaker A: Or just regular tea. What about sometimes a regular sweet tea?
[00:04:46] Speaker B: Man, I love a tea that's so sweet it makes you feel like your teeth are about to fall out. Is my go to. Like, it's got to have so much sugar. It's thick.
[00:04:55] Speaker A: I know it's good. I love a sweet tea with a.
[00:04:58] Speaker B: Little bit of lemon. But it's got to be real lemon. It can't be like that. That fake. The fake lemon flavoring that stuff's weird.
[00:05:06] Speaker A: I don't like lemon flavored. Like, lemon fake flavored stuff. It reminds me of dish soap.
[00:05:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Is real gross. That's real gross, man.
They do. They do tea club at work. So, like, if anybody ever just, like, doesn't want to do work, they're like, hey, tea club, let's make some tea.
Tea is very good.
[00:05:23] Speaker A: Well, let's. Let's sip the tea and we've got to talk. We got some stuff to sip the tea about. Whatever the kid. Whatever the kids say.
Kermit's on the tea.
Kermit's drinking it. We love Kermit.
[00:05:35] Speaker B: Kermit is the best.
[00:05:37] Speaker A: Yeah. He's the king of memes. He's the tea sipper. He's the one where he's like. Him with, like, the Darth Sidious robe on where he's, like, talking to himself.
[00:05:46] Speaker B: I. I stole my management style from Kermit, which is just everything is on fire and you run around in the back going, that's. That's what I do most days.
[00:05:54] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:05:55] Speaker B: Gotta have that. You gotta have, like, the noodly arms flapping around in the air.
[00:05:59] Speaker A: Gotta have the noodly arms. Noodly doodly noodly.
That's always weird when you see their legs.
In some of the movies, they show their legs and it's like, whoa. Like when he's riding the bike.
[00:06:11] Speaker B: Yeah, Yeah. I was about to say famously riding the bike. I could not imagine how much fucking of a headache that one shot in that one movie was.
[00:06:19] Speaker A: And he, like, ice skates in Christmas Carol.
[00:06:22] Speaker B: Yeah. Or in Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas. Like, there's the boat in the middle of the pond, and the boat is going. And the puppets are being moved while the boat is moving in the pond. And I'm just wondering how they. They pulled that off.
[00:06:37] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
Like, I've never seen Emmett Otter.
[00:06:40] Speaker B: Emmett Otter is the most gentle thing in the entire universe. I would recommend it. It's definitely. It's definitely a must watch for Christmas.
[00:06:49] Speaker A: Is it a feature film?
[00:06:50] Speaker B: It was a made for TV movie, so it's like 54 minutes long.
[00:06:54] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:06:54] Speaker B: But it's based off a children's book.
[00:06:56] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:06:57] Speaker B: But it's.
It's good. It's. It's excellent.
[00:07:02] Speaker A: All right, I'll have to check it out.
No, we're sipping the tea with Kermit because Kermit the Frog is our guest today.
[00:07:13] Speaker B: That's right. That's right, Johnny.
[00:07:15] Speaker A: Hey, Pretty good Kermit D. Frog here.
[00:07:20] Speaker B: It's very easy to accidentally fall into our making fun of George Lucas voice when you're doing Kermit the Frog.
[00:07:25] Speaker A: Kermit. George Lucas are adjacent. Yes.
It's like poetry. It rhymes.
[00:07:31] Speaker B: Well, I mean, you know what they say that a good character design means that you don't need specific details to be able to tell which character is which. Which means George Lucas is a good character design.
[00:07:43] Speaker A: He's a good character.
[00:07:44] Speaker B: You see that guy in silhouette? You're like, that's George Lucas.
[00:07:47] Speaker A: That's George Lucas. He's eating spaghetti and drinking a Diet Coke at the mall.
Have you ever seen the picture look up George Lucas spaghetti or George Lucas Mall?
[00:07:56] Speaker B: I did. When you.
[00:07:57] Speaker A: No, I know. You have the viewer, the listener.
[00:08:00] Speaker B: In case you haven't listened to our Star wars episodes, which, if you haven't listened to the Star wars episodes, they probably don't care enough about Star wars to then Google George Lucas spaghetti.
[00:08:10] Speaker A: It's worth it.
[00:08:11] Speaker B: It's. It's a good one. It's a good one.
[00:08:12] Speaker A: What else is a good one? What I've been trying to say is we're sipping the tea about some gunslinger action today.
[00:08:17] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Sipping the whiskey.
[00:08:19] Speaker A: Double gunslinger. A tale of two gunslingers.
[00:08:22] Speaker B: More like the whiskey.
[00:08:23] Speaker A: Yeah. Sipping the whiskey.
[00:08:28] Speaker B: That's. That's just what grandpa called his morning tea, right?
[00:08:32] Speaker A: Oh, boy. That's just a twisted tea.
You know, I love those.
[00:08:36] Speaker B: Oh, man, I'm gonna twist. The tea is good.
[00:08:39] Speaker A: They call me the twisty boy.
[00:08:41] Speaker B: Get twisted. Twisted.
[00:08:44] Speaker A: It's my dream to be on the picture on the can.
[00:08:48] Speaker B: I would collect that can if it had your face on it, Johnny.
[00:08:51] Speaker A: They're bringing back the collectible cans for this new Jurassic World, like they did with Star wars episode one.
[00:08:58] Speaker B: Oh, nice.
[00:08:59] Speaker A: There's, like, a whole series of Dr. Pepper with, like.
[00:09:01] Speaker B: With the characters.
[00:09:03] Speaker A: Well, dinosaurs. I don't know if it has the human characters as well, but it definitely has the dinosaurs.
[00:09:07] Speaker B: The dinosaurs are the characters that we go to.
[00:09:09] Speaker A: I'm gonna jazz this new Jurassic Park. It's supposed to be. It's getting good early buzz and, like, kind of a reboot. It doesn't follow the Chris Pratt movies, which got. Which were fun, which were a little more ridiculous, I guess. They got bigger and bigger.
[00:09:24] Speaker B: That. That boat scene that they have in the trailer looks incredible.
[00:09:29] Speaker A: They evidently adapted the famous. Well, famous if you're in the book. But there's a scene in the book where they're on a raft and the T. Rex is chasing them in a river.
[00:09:37] Speaker B: Ooh.
[00:09:37] Speaker A: And they have never put it in a movie and they evidently adapted it for, well, this movie.
[00:09:43] Speaker B: Spoilers for people who are haven't read or just now starting Jurassic park by Michael Crichton from 1987. 9. 9.
Close enough, close enough, close enough.
[00:09:56] Speaker A: Yeah. There's a bunch of a fucking spoiler. T. Rex chases them. Wow, what a spoiler.
[00:10:01] Speaker B: In Jurassic park on a raft, Johnny. It's the ingredients that make the cake.
[00:10:06] Speaker A: The raft scene's fun.
[00:10:07] Speaker B: I would hate to be on a raft being chased by an alligator.
By a dinosaur. Also an alligator.
[00:10:14] Speaker A: Kind of like a giant alligator.
[00:10:16] Speaker B: At least with an alligator. I would be like, maybe he's not hungry. And he'll be that cool. That cool alligator. He'll be like Ernie, the alligator from the beginning of the Muppet Movie who scares the shit out of Dom DeLuise.
[00:10:31] Speaker A: Yeah, I would rather get chased by an alligator than a T. Rex.
[00:10:34] Speaker B: Absolutely. Absolutely.
[00:10:37] Speaker A: Yeah. New Jurassic World. Rebirth looks fun.
[00:10:40] Speaker B: Nothing like a Rebirth.
[00:10:42] Speaker A: Nothing like a Rebirth. Come on. It's got Scarlett Johansson. It's got Mahershka Ali.
[00:10:45] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. It would be hilarious if it were Rebirth.
[00:10:51] Speaker A: Regarding birth. It's just about dinosaurs giving birth.
[00:10:55] Speaker B: It was just all. It was just all the science stuff from the first film. Just like following like, we gotta. We gotta find a way to make these dinosaurs give live birth instead of eggs. Because these eggs are temperamental.
Could you imagine? Oh, boy, that would be frightening.
[00:11:13] Speaker A: That'd be a really weird plot.
[00:11:17] Speaker B: I think it would be better adapted into like a reanimator style gross out film.
[00:11:23] Speaker A: Just like birthing dinosaurs. Yeah.
[00:11:27] Speaker B: You could also get what's his face to. Oh, boy. I forget his name because he is everywhere.
[00:11:32] Speaker A: You forget his name because he's everywhere.
[00:11:34] Speaker B: Yeah, the guy, the guy who played the main character in the reanimator films.
[00:11:40] Speaker A: Oh.
[00:11:41] Speaker B: Because he was also in Star Trek and he.
[00:11:43] Speaker A: Jeffrey Combs.
[00:11:44] Speaker B: Jeffrey Combs. He played. He played like 400 different characters in Star Trek. It's hilarious.
[00:11:49] Speaker A: He's great in the Frighteners.
[00:11:51] Speaker B: That's the.
Oh, shit. That's the Lord of the Rings guy film, right? The Frighteners, actually.
[00:11:58] Speaker A: Is it him? It's not him.
[00:12:00] Speaker B: I thought. Isn't that. Didn't that do that?
[00:12:03] Speaker A: Yeah, he's in that. This is gonna drive me crazy.
[00:12:07] Speaker B: Hey, that's. That's how I feel all the time since I can't remember.
Oh, I thought I was gonna stumble into it. I don't remember Lord.
[00:12:14] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, he's in it. He's the. He's the evil who's the.
[00:12:17] Speaker B: Who's the. Peter Jackson. There we go.
[00:12:20] Speaker A: Yeah, Peter Jackson. The Frighteners rocks.
[00:12:24] Speaker B: That's the. That's the one where it's like. Is that the one where the. Like the kid.
That's not a kid. That's the. That's Night Breed. I'm thinking. A night Breed.
[00:12:32] Speaker A: It's not a kid. It's Michael J. Fox. He's like a paranormal investigator and it's like a zany ghost romp. But it gets pretty gross. It's Peter Jackson, so it's pretty gross.
[00:12:43] Speaker B: Pretty gross.
[00:12:44] Speaker A: Lord of the Rings movies are kind.
[00:12:46] Speaker B: Of gross, yet moments gross. Gross enough to not.
I mean, as much as they have isolated some book purists.
Gross enough to not further.
Further push anyone away.
[00:13:01] Speaker A: No, they just got some like. I don't know. You can just see his roots in that. There's just like icky stuff.
[00:13:06] Speaker B: I mean, if.
[00:13:07] Speaker A: Like the decapitations of the Uruk Hai and all that are all pretty. Pretty gnarly.
[00:13:11] Speaker B: If he had made a spin off movie just about what's going on in the Mount Doom region.
It would be so gross. Like if there were just a film about the orcs hanging out.
[00:13:22] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:13:23] Speaker B: A slice of orc life. Oh, it would be so. If. It would be probably pretty hard to watch.
[00:13:28] Speaker A: Yeah, it would be gross. I mean, his. His early movies are gross.
[00:13:31] Speaker B: I mean, Dead Alive is a classic.
[00:13:33] Speaker A: Yeah, I love Dead Alive.
Dead Alive. I love Meet the Feebles. I love Bad Taste.
[00:13:40] Speaker B: Bad Taste. Bad Taste is fun. Bad Taste is he. Peter Jackson puts himself in it like as two people who interact with each other. Right. That's.
[00:13:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:48] Speaker B: That's some incredible shit. I can't even come up with a fake Kermit voice. I couldn't imagine being two different people.
[00:13:55] Speaker A: Yeah, he filmed that over like five years out of his mom's house, basically.
[00:13:59] Speaker B: Nice. And the Zone Puppets, right?
[00:14:02] Speaker A: Puppets. Yeah, it's a puppet movie. It's like a parody of the Muppets.
[00:14:07] Speaker B: Kind of bring. Got to bring back all those puppets, dude. They hold up.
[00:14:10] Speaker A: We love puppets.
[00:14:11] Speaker B: It's like. It's like Hellraiser. You kind of laugh when you see Frank unmelting in the closet or in the. In the attic. But it's also just like gooey and gross and effective, even if it does look a little silly. Yeah, we love.
[00:14:28] Speaker A: It's not silly. David.
What? We're sipping the tea over. We're still trying to get to it.
I haven't even said it yet.
Because we are regarding Spawn.
[00:14:39] Speaker B: Yes, indeed.
[00:14:40] Speaker A: For 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. And they are deadly tales. The gunslinger number five.
All the way back from the far off land of April 2025. And then we have gunslinger number 42, the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
[00:15:05] Speaker B: So long and thanks for all the fish.
[00:15:07] Speaker A: And a lost number 42, as we don't forget.
[00:15:10] Speaker B: Yeah, we can't.
[00:15:10] Speaker A: Don't forget.
[00:15:11] Speaker B: You'll have to. You'll have to tell us them all again, because I don't remember.
[00:15:14] Speaker A: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42. 4, 8, 15,16, 23, 42.
You don't even get that right.
[00:15:22] Speaker B: Nope, I do not. I know. I know that it. I know that it brings you joy, though. And that's really all that matters.
Yeah, I know that. I got you a shirt with those numbers on them.
[00:15:32] Speaker A: You did. And I wore it the other day.
[00:15:34] Speaker B: I was hoping that I wasn't accidentally giving somebody money that I shouldn't have because I couldn't cross check to make sure the numbers were right.
[00:15:42] Speaker A: Right.
And then our second issue. Yes. Gunslinger 42, all the way back, also from April 2025.
[00:15:50] Speaker B: It's a good month for Gunslinger. April 2025.
[00:15:53] Speaker A: It is. These are some fun issues.
Really? Really, really, really, really, really, like deadly tales.
[00:15:59] Speaker B: It's. It's a hoot. It's a hoot and holler.
[00:16:02] Speaker A: It's a hoot. A holler and a hoot.
[00:16:03] Speaker B: Nanny.
[00:16:04] Speaker A: And it's just fun.
[00:16:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
Why don't you say. Why don't we just jump right into it so we can get some of that fun happening, Johnny?
[00:16:10] Speaker A: Okay, let's do it. Let's start with the covers.
[00:16:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:13] Speaker A: I've got the A cover by Marco Faglia.
And it is Javi. Not Javi. Fuck. Tobias. Tobias looking like the devil.
[00:16:23] Speaker B: Tobias.
[00:16:25] Speaker A: It's got, like, him up front, and then it's got him in the back.
[00:16:29] Speaker B: Are you sure the A cover is the Marco Falia cover?
[00:16:33] Speaker A: Is it not?
[00:16:34] Speaker B: Because my B cover says Falia on the back, and it's got the little mphalia on the front.
[00:16:40] Speaker A: I don't know. Maybe this is Chad Harden.
[00:16:42] Speaker B: Then it's not. It's not taking me to the website. Honest. The website.
But it looks like it's got the Marco Falia signature on it. Did Marco Falio just do. Just double cover this?
[00:16:54] Speaker A: What is your cover?
[00:16:55] Speaker B: My cover's the. The homage cover.
That's definitely Marco Falia's signature.
[00:17:03] Speaker A: There's definitely a signature on this one, too.
[00:17:05] Speaker B: Okay. I guess we got a double Marco Falio typo.
[00:17:09] Speaker A: It's definitely not Chad Harden because he's the interior artist and he has a very distinct art style that we'd be able to recognize.
[00:17:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
Was there, like, a third cover?
Oh, it looks like there was a third cover that we don't have at all, Johnny.
[00:17:24] Speaker A: There's a third cover.
[00:17:25] Speaker B: Looks like there's a third cover that has Chad Harden's art on it. And it is.
[00:17:30] Speaker A: Well, okay.
[00:17:31] Speaker B: Although.
[00:17:32] Speaker A: So that. Is that the A cover. I guess that's the C cover.
[00:17:34] Speaker B: It's the C cover.
[00:17:36] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. So Marco Falio did two of them, and then Chad Harden did the third. So the first one is Javi. Like I was saying.
[00:17:46] Speaker B: Tobias.
[00:17:48] Speaker A: God damn it, Tobias.
[00:17:49] Speaker B: I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do that at least three times.
[00:17:53] Speaker A: At least. And it's got him looking like the devil. Or looking kind of like Rorschach, actually.
[00:17:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:58] Speaker A: In the background, it's.
[00:18:00] Speaker B: It's a little bit of a serious version of Three Wolf Moon.
It's Tobias in the background with Tobias in the front. And they're both looking very serious.
[00:18:10] Speaker A: Yes.
It's very good.
[00:18:12] Speaker B: It's a good one. I like it.
[00:18:14] Speaker A: They will cry out to me for help, and I will say, no, I'm Rorschach.
[00:18:20] Speaker B: Yeah, bitch. Yeah. I'm eating beans out of a can.
[00:18:24] Speaker A: I'm eating beans out of a can with my mask pulled up.
[00:18:28] Speaker B: I'm wandering around with my little sign that says the end is nigh.
I have the B cover, also done by Marco Falia, Johnny. And it is the homage to the poster of My Name Is Nobody starring Terrence Hill and Henry Fonda.
[00:18:43] Speaker A: Is that what it is?
[00:18:45] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what it is.
Only the.
The original poster for the movie has Henry Fonda with a little bit of a.
A little bit of a little stinker grin on his face, and he's just shooting the guy's hat off. Whereas Tobias, just, like, full on mercs, this guy, just. Right in the head.
But it's a Sergio Leone movie, so. Speaking of spaghetti, Johnny, speaking of spaghetti.
[00:19:11] Speaker A: George, is it really? I've never seen this one.
[00:19:13] Speaker B: I mean, I've never even heard of it. I had to. I had to search for Casario movie poster, and it brought up a whole bunch of stuff. Like Rambo. He apparently did Rambo.
[00:19:27] Speaker A: I think it's Sergio Leone.
[00:19:29] Speaker B: It does say. It says Sergio Leone presents. So maybe he's a producer, produced it. I Guess it was directed by Tonino.
[00:19:37] Speaker A: Valeria, but did the music.
[00:19:41] Speaker B: Nice. Filmed in Technicolor and Van division. It's got Henry Fonda in it.
[00:19:46] Speaker A: I ain't gonna go over there and star in our Italian westerns.
Nobody likes spaghetti westerns.
[00:19:51] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Apparently Casario, the guy who did this poster, also did the Never Ending Story poster.
[00:19:58] Speaker A: There you go.
[00:19:59] Speaker B: I don't remember where it is, but there's a museum somewhere that just has the Falkor puppet and you can go meet him.
[00:20:05] Speaker A: Really?
[00:20:06] Speaker B: Yeah, they've, like, maintained it for the past 40 years.
They look like such strong hands.
Oh, he apparently also made the COVID for a movie called slaps and beans 2.
[00:20:22] Speaker A: Slaps and beans.
[00:20:23] Speaker B: Although I guess that's actually a Nintendo game. Slaps and beans 2.
[00:20:28] Speaker A: Okay.
Sounds like a strange game.
[00:20:32] Speaker B: Slaps and beans 2, the sequel to Trinity Team's popular game dedicated to Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill, which will be released in September 2023.
Slaps and beans. I gotta look this up.
[00:20:43] Speaker A: What is Slaps and Beans? What could it possibly be?
Slapping some beans.
[00:20:48] Speaker B: It's a scrolling fighting game with retro gaming co op or single player look with a platform mechanic that allows the player to control Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill in a revised and improved version of the combat system. System.
It's on steam.
It's only 20 bucks.
[00:21:02] Speaker A: Okay, we should.
[00:21:04] Speaker B: We should. We should.
We should see if our friend Sketchcraft has any thoughts on the game. Slaps and Beans too.
[00:21:13] Speaker A: I still don't quite understand what it.
[00:21:14] Speaker B: Is, but I don't understand it either.
But the guy who did the. The COVID art for this game did the original poster that the homage cover of this issue of Gunslinger Deadly Tales is based on.
[00:21:30] Speaker A: Well, I'm glad we know that there's.
[00:21:34] Speaker B: A cover C. Yeah, the Chris Harden cover that we were.
[00:21:36] Speaker A: Chris Harden cover. And that's where Javi's.
God damn it. Tobias.
[00:21:40] Speaker B: Tobias.
[00:21:41] Speaker A: Tobias.
[00:21:43] Speaker B: Tobias.
[00:21:45] Speaker A: He's jumping at the frame.
[00:21:49] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like dual wielding axes.
[00:21:51] Speaker A: It's the. It's the inside of the mouth view of a future monster that we'll see in this issue.
[00:21:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:57] Speaker A: So this is one of the instances where the COVID matches what happens in the issue.
[00:22:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I think actually even on the first page. Like it on the first.
[00:22:06] Speaker A: Yeah, it shows it.
[00:22:07] Speaker B: I think. I think maybe it. It got pushed to the C cover because. No, no, no. No spoilers. It's spoilers, Johnny.
[00:22:13] Speaker A: We don't want spoilers.
[00:22:14] Speaker B: No.
[00:22:15] Speaker A: So we pop this baby open, we got to give credits where credits are due.
Script Plot by Jimmy Palmiotti Art by Chad Harden.
Colors by Ulysses Areola lettering by Tom Wojkowski.
We already covered the covers. It took us a second, but we figured it out.
[00:22:36] Speaker B: A long and winding road.
[00:22:38] Speaker A: Creative Director is Todd McFarland, and editor in chief is Thomas Healey.
Previously in Deadly Tales of the Gunslinger, the gunslinger falls prey to the Black brothers as they take him back to Wyatt King.
Yes, indeed.
[00:22:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:54] Speaker A: And we jump back into the Lethal Ballyhoo Part two.
[00:22:57] Speaker B: It's a great name. Fucking. I'm all for ballyhoo.
[00:23:02] Speaker A: I'm all for Lethal Ballyhoo. And it kind of sets up.
[00:23:05] Speaker B: Yeah, this is kind of a glimpse of the end of the issue. Is the very first image.
[00:23:10] Speaker A: Yes.
Kind of like a poster. Like a.
Here's what's coming. Like, it's Caesar.
[00:23:15] Speaker B: Yeah. So it's a. It's a lady with one eye dripping blood, wearing pentagram earrings, holding a bloody knife, standing in front of the circus on fire.
And then in her tummy, like, Teletubby style, we see a.
We see an image of gunslinger, axes raised, jumping into the mouth of some sort of beast ready to fight. Yeah. There's, like, a tongue with, like. Like fire and like. Like burning saliva coming off of it that he's about to jump into the gaping maw, we would call it.
[00:23:56] Speaker A: Yes.
And it's basically kind of setting up here that, like, the gunslinger persists in his struggle against the tendrils of sleep, yet the boundary between reality and illusion becomes increasingly elusive. They try to do a little trick at the end to make you think maybe it was all a dream.
[00:24:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
They do a little bit of that. And then we.
We flip on over to see that the blood brothers are carrying or dragging Tobias with them. Well, not really dragging. They have him tied and thrown over a horse. But this. This gives me flashbacks to wraiths to the broken land. Johnny. Because there's way more description of the terribleness of being tied and thrown over a horse than anybody ever needs to read.
[00:24:39] Speaker A: Yeah.
Like, it would be terrible, though.
[00:24:42] Speaker B: It makes me never want to get on a horse again.
[00:24:47] Speaker A: Yeah, it would be probably pretty painful.
[00:24:49] Speaker B: Yeah, I believe it. Especially if you're wounded in any way. Because now we think of travel as you sit in the back of a car or a bus or a plane. Like, chill out. But imagine having to hump it on a horse for 4,000 miles.
Oh, your butt would be so sore.
[00:25:07] Speaker A: You'd be one sore ass.
[00:25:08] Speaker B: Yeah, I like that. There's, like, a frightened bunny or, like, A. That bunny's got like a little of surprise marks around his face. Like it recognizes it. Recognize. Like, hey, I know that guy.
[00:25:22] Speaker A: Is that the gunslinger? And they're taking him to the circus. The greatest show on earth.
[00:25:28] Speaker B: They. And then they. And then they actually drag him inside of a tent. Like. Yes, it looks like the. They are dragging him by his neck. Honestly, they are.
[00:25:39] Speaker A: You should all be dead.
[00:25:41] Speaker B: Quit your fussing. And so they. They untie him and then they shackle him to the.
The rotating. The rotating target of knife thrower.
[00:25:54] Speaker A: Yes, the knife thrower is rotating target.
[00:25:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
And then. And then they walk over to the table full of knives and they're like, which one am I gonna use?
[00:26:06] Speaker A: He asked for a blindfold, so we know it's gonna be scary.
[00:26:11] Speaker B: Yeah, they're gonna have. They're gonna have themselves some fun. They're just gonna blind throw some sharp objects at this dude chained on the wall.
And from there, we cut to Wyatt King's personal trailer and we got Becky. The.
The. The day to day manager of the circus is like, come on, Wyatt. Come on, Wyatt. Get out here.
And Wyatt begins with this. It's Mr. King. Becky.
Jerk.
And then we see that he was getting doodled on by a certain lady.
[00:26:47] Speaker A: A mysterious lady.
[00:26:48] Speaker B: Mysterious lady. And so Wyatt comes out, like, tucking his shirt back into his pants and like, let's, let's. Let's go see what's happening.
[00:26:58] Speaker A: He has like a monster drawn on his chest.
[00:27:00] Speaker B: Yeah. What is that?
[00:27:02] Speaker A: I don't know.
[00:27:04] Speaker B: And he's. He's like, what do we do? We lose another lion tamer?
[00:27:09] Speaker A: Like, no, the black brothers, they brought back this dude. And he's like, whatever. They're a bunch of idiots.
[00:27:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
Oh, Wyatt's got great hair. But he's.
[00:27:20] Speaker A: He does have good hair.
[00:27:22] Speaker B: He's kind of a jerk.
[00:27:24] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:27:25] Speaker B: And then like, Becky's like, come on, White, I gotta tell you. And he, like, doesn't. He ignores her entirely. And it's just like, it's. Mr. King, I'm not gonna tell you again.
And so he walks into the. The tent that the blood brothers, the black brothers, have been throwing knives and stuff at Tobias. And he's like, what the hell is this?
[00:27:43] Speaker A: Tobias is just like, why, King, I'm here to ask you some questions.
[00:27:48] Speaker B: I like how undaunted he is. He's got. He's like. He's not straight up and down. He's got at least one knife, like, right in his arm. And he's just like, yeah. Hey, can I. Can I ask My questions real quick.
[00:28:02] Speaker A: Yeah.
And then if we remember, they were supposed to be getting Lucy and bringing her back to the circus.
[00:28:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:10] Speaker A: So Mr. King is all pissed about that and yelling at the Black brothers.
[00:28:14] Speaker B: Yeah. And they're like, but this guy. This guy fucked it up. So we're gonna. We're gonna get the information out of him, and then we'll go back and get Lucy.
[00:28:21] Speaker A: You know, he's like, what kind of plan is that? It's like, they're already bad one.
[00:28:25] Speaker B: They're already gone. We're never gonna. We're never gonna catch up. And I do actually like that. It appears that. That Tobias is. Is still actually rotating.
[00:28:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:28:37] Speaker B: He's just.
He hasn't stopped.
It was like, hey, hey, I need to talk to you.
Whenever his head comes around.
Yeah, I do like this insult. I swear, you boys share the same pea sized brain four ways.
And then the classic. But I thought that. And that's your problem. You were thinking.
[00:28:58] Speaker A: He sends him off to go get Lucy and says, don't come back unless you got her.
[00:29:01] Speaker B: And Becky says, don't you hurt her. And one of the Black brothers says, shut up.
And so then Wyatt King and Becky are left with a still spinning Tobias. And Wyatt King grabs himself a knife and is like, now who the hell are you?
And let's see what you got hiding under that mask. And so he pulls the mask down and he's like, let's actually just put that back under the mask again.
I don't want to look at that.
There's a lot of. There's a lot of good, juicy conversation that we can't. Or like, dialogue that.
[00:29:35] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, it's really good.
I do like, he says he's surrounded on all sides by a confederacy of dunces.
You ever read that book?
[00:29:42] Speaker B: I have not, no.
[00:29:43] Speaker A: It's really good.
[00:29:44] Speaker B: I have read the first paragraph a couple of times, though.
I mean, to get around to it.
[00:29:50] Speaker A: It's funny.
[00:29:51] Speaker B: Although there's a writer named Marlon James that he and his editor like to. They do a podcast. They read Dead People. So they. They have a book club club where they talk about books only by people who no longer live.
[00:30:07] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:30:07] Speaker B: And Marlon James hates the Confederacy of Dunces.
[00:30:12] Speaker A: Really?
[00:30:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
So. So why does he hate it?
He has his reasons.
[00:30:20] Speaker A: It's just a funny book about a silly hipster guy.
[00:30:23] Speaker B: He's. He is a big, big time literature man, so he's got many opinions on it.
[00:30:29] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:30:30] Speaker B: But he does. He does love everything. Shirley Johnson. Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson. So. So that redeems him. Right?
[00:30:39] Speaker A: Shirley Jackson.
[00:30:40] Speaker B: Oh, she's old time spooky lady. Have you ever read we we have Always Lived in the Castle?
[00:30:46] Speaker A: No.
[00:30:47] Speaker B: Let's see what else she wrote. You should. You should read we have Always Lived in the Castle. It's fucking awesome.
[00:30:53] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:30:55] Speaker B: Shirley Johnson or Jackson also wrote the Haunting of Hill House.
[00:30:59] Speaker A: Okay. I thought the name sounded familiar.
[00:31:03] Speaker B: Oh, I just remembered. It's Marlon and Jake read Dead People.
But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She wrote the Hiding of the Hunting of Hill House. And we have all. You should read we have Always Lived in the Castle. Johnny.
[00:31:12] Speaker A: All right.
[00:31:12] Speaker B: It's fantastic.
[00:31:13] Speaker A: I'm gonna read it.
[00:31:14] Speaker B: It's so good.
[00:31:16] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:31:17] Speaker B: Where. Where did we. Where did we get. Oh, Confederacy of Dunces. Yes.
[00:31:21] Speaker A: Got off track.
[00:31:22] Speaker B: That first page that I've read multiple times. Because I'll pick it up and I'll read it and I'll be like, I should probably buy that book. And then they don't buy that book. It always makes me want a hot dog.
[00:31:30] Speaker A: It's about hot dogs. He's a hot dog man.
[00:31:33] Speaker B: I'm a hot dog man.
[00:31:35] Speaker A: You can't buy me hot dog man.
[00:31:39] Speaker B: You can buy me a hot dog man.
Yeah, enough with that.
[00:31:44] Speaker A: You could.
I'd be appreciative. I love a hot dog.
[00:31:47] Speaker B: Oh, man, I fucking love a hot dog.
They're so good. And so. So, you know, after Wyatt King recovers Tobias's face so he doesn't have to look at it, he starts doing his villain monologue. Being like, you know, I was a legitimate businessman, and then some degenerate drunk lost the circus to me in a game of cards, and now I gotta learn circus shit.
[00:32:12] Speaker A: I didn't want this.
[00:32:16] Speaker B: It's just so funny how, like, upset he is about having. Having the circus and being the king of the circus.
And he.
I notice that every time Tobias brings up his sister, Wyatt King doesn't say who. He just kind of rolls with it. So that man. That man knows exactly who this guy's sister is.
[00:32:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:32:39] Speaker B: Like. Like a normal person would have been like, how could a beast like you have a sister?
But him's unfazed, Mr. Wyatt King.
He gives. He gives Tobias a nice. Another big. Like some extra spin and throws a knife at him and, well, hits Tobias's wrist.
[00:33:04] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:33:04] Speaker B: Like, just sinks it right in there. Hits his shoulder, you know, picks up an axe and starts throwing some stuff and almost makes it so that way, Tobias can never have young gunslinger children.
[00:33:15] Speaker A: Almost got your fiddle with that one. Then Becky busts in. Is like, what the fuck are you doing?
[00:33:20] Speaker B: Yeah, she brings. She brings all the freaks with them. And all the freaks are like, who's this guy? He's a freak.
Somebody asks, what's his mask for?
Wyatt King says to hide the mangled face of someone who didn't mind their own business. Crystal.
What? Oh, he's a terrible jerk, but he has good lines. And then. And then the final ax that Wyatt King tries to throw at Tobias misses, goes through the tent, and hits a guy who's about to feed a tiger. About to feed a tiger right in the back.
[00:34:00] Speaker A: Pretty funny. He's got, like, a Flintstones, like, ham hock leg.
[00:34:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
Just, like, on a platter. And then Becky tries to be like, Mr. King, what are you doing? Or Wyatt, what are you doing? And he gets enraged, calls her a whore, hits her with a closed fist. What a. What a bastard. Johnny, Becky deserves better than that.
[00:34:21] Speaker A: Yeah, he is a bastard.
[00:34:22] Speaker B: And then the mysterious lady named Mara, who was in his trailer with him, gives. Gives him some suggestions on how to improve the accuracy of his. His axe throwing. And he gives him some tips. And so he tries that. But instead of being effective, Wyatt King hits one of the shackles that's holding Tobias hand.
[00:34:44] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:34:44] Speaker B: So Tobias, like, gets his hand free, pulls the knife out of his shoulder, and throws it right back at Wyatt King.
[00:34:50] Speaker A: It's right in the eye.
[00:34:51] Speaker B: Right in the eye. Knife to the eye. As Frankie would say.
With a great one liner. Oh, it's such a good, great one liner.
[00:34:59] Speaker A: Fueled by a wrath that burned hotter than the desert sun, the gunslinger rips himself free.
[00:35:04] Speaker B: Oh, no, that's not the one lighter. The one letter was. This belongs to you.
[00:35:07] Speaker A: I know. I'm just.
[00:35:09] Speaker B: I was hoping you were gonna say it because you say things better than I do.
[00:35:12] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:35:14] Speaker B: But. Yeah, so. So Wyatt King is being helped by Mara.
He's limping away with his hand over his.
Over his. His. His eye stabbed. His knife, stabbed eye. They walk past the tiger eating.
[00:35:30] Speaker A: Eating the guy who's gonna feed him that he hit with the axe. Yeah.
[00:35:32] Speaker B: Like. Like so quickly. That head is just skull.
The tiger must have gone for the face first.
[00:35:39] Speaker A: He's at that flash right off.
[00:35:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
And.
And so Tobias is there with the freaks, and they're like, you know, if.
If you kill him, then we don't have to deal with him anymore.
That's cool with us.
Tobias is like, hell, yeah.
So we cut to Mara and Wyatt, and Wyatt, like, falls over. Amara's like, enough of this. And she rips the knife out of his eye. And she, like.
Like, catches the blood as it spurts out. And she's like, let's finish what we started earlier. And she rips open her shirt and starts drawing. Finishing the drawing that was there that they were doing earlier.
And as. As she goes, she recites an incantation. And then he, like, his. His. His face, skin, like, gets pulled back like he's turning into something.
And he starts glowing and his hands start gr.
And then. And then we cut to Tobias walking with the. With the. With the axes. And we see a guy just hoofing it. He's hoofing it. He's running away.
And he gets caught up in this breath of fire. And he just turns into, like, a skellington. And then we see Wyatt King in his new form just raising Kaiju style from the ground.
[00:36:54] Speaker A: He's a giant, like hell beast.
Yeah, it was the breeze, fire, and the clowns, like, clowns in the foreground, like, what the fuck?
[00:37:04] Speaker B: That cloud isn't having a good time.
And then we get the opening reading.
[00:37:09] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:37:09] Speaker B: And Tobias, you know, axes in hand, runs and jumps on a overturned wagon and then jumps from that end of the year.
Much in the style of the COVID C or the little Teletubby vision on the first page.
[00:37:28] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:37:29] Speaker B: And he lands on Wyatt King's chest and just, like, sinks those axes in.
As the Wyatt King beast goes down, he says, it's too late. You'll never see your sister again. And then we got the clown and, like, the sharpshooting cowboy come out. And they've got guns.
[00:37:45] Speaker A: Yeah, they got some fucking shotguns.
[00:37:48] Speaker B: And then. And then the gunslinger just, like, collapses. He passes out. Can't focus. He can't. And then he wakes up in a windswept meadow next to Becky and a couple of rabbits. And the rabbit.
[00:38:02] Speaker A: Was it all a dream?
[00:38:04] Speaker B: And Becky. Becky gives him a drink.
And it's like, hey, while you were passed out, I. I drug you over here so that way you wouldn't get fucking burned to death.
[00:38:13] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:38:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. And so the. The circus has reverted to Becky as the owner and sole proprietor. And Lucy and her family, who Tobias saved in the previous issue, are back under Becky's care, too. You know, she's like, well, I guess is there anything we could do?
What can we do for you? But before we could do anything. What's your name? And Tobias just gets on his horse and says, it doesn't matter now.
And he rides off into the.
Not the sunset, but the mountains.
[00:38:48] Speaker A: The mountains.
The mountain range.
[00:38:51] Speaker B: And then we see from the outcropping of Pride Rock. There's a Native American woman standing on a. Or sitting on a horse who's watching Tobias.
[00:39:01] Speaker A: And she looks.
[00:39:03] Speaker B: She looks pissed.
[00:39:04] Speaker A: She looks pissed, frankly.
[00:39:07] Speaker B: I was gonna say with a look of concern, but no, that's straight up. That motherfucker is what that face is saying.
[00:39:14] Speaker A: Yeah, that's the issue.
[00:39:15] Speaker B: Awesome. Gunslinger Skull Day in the issue.
Oh, it's so much fun. It was so much fun.
We had to skip over a lot of the good. The good back and forth dialogue. Because you just got to read it. It's good. Jimmy Palmiotti writes a good dialogue scene.
[00:39:31] Speaker A: Yeah, we wouldn't do it justice if we read it.
[00:39:33] Speaker B: Absolutely not. Got the Spawn Call of Duty advertisement.
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[00:39:48] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:39:48] Speaker B: Spawn's universe is ever expanding.
[00:39:51] Speaker A: Yes, it is.
[00:39:52] Speaker B: We got a Mortal Kombat 1 action figure with that super good sub zero the image classic set. And that is Deadly Tales of the Gunslinger. Number five.
[00:40:03] Speaker A: There it is. A fun romp at the circus. The lethal ballyhoo, part two.
[00:40:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:40:25] Speaker A: All right, next up, we've got gunslinger 42.
[00:40:29] Speaker B: Mm.
We learn a lot this issue, Johnny, about life, the universe and everything.
[00:40:34] Speaker A: Yeah, we learn a lot about angels. I don't know if we really learned anything this issue.
[00:40:39] Speaker B: I was just trying to tie it in with the number.
[00:40:42] Speaker A: Okay, good.
David's going to sleep.
[00:40:45] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm going to sleep. I'm tired, man.
[00:40:47] Speaker A: Ty, Ty.
[00:40:48] Speaker B: It'll just be Johnny talking about the book and quiet tones. And then for me.
[00:40:57] Speaker A: So we always start with the covers.
And I've got the A cover, which is Bjorn Barons.
[00:41:02] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. Look at that.
[00:41:03] Speaker A: And it's Javi. It is Javi this time, not Tobias.
[00:41:07] Speaker B: Yes, yes.
[00:41:08] Speaker A: It is Javi on his horse in front of a farm with, like, a.
[00:41:11] Speaker B: Tractor on his high horse, if you will.
[00:41:14] Speaker A: He's on his high horse, looking pretty cool.
[00:41:19] Speaker B: It is an amazing cover because it's like a. It's a farm scene, but instead of growing crops, they're growing bones. And all of the bones are on fire.
[00:41:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:41:30] Speaker B: And there's a whole bunch of bats in the sky. It's good. Bjorn Barents does a cover that can't be beat. I have the C cover, the Antonio Lucci.
And it is very awesome. It is the classic pile of dead bodies.
And Javi is at the top of it, contributing additional bodies to the pile. And there are some, like, little skeleton guys down here who are Looking like, hey, I'm gonna go get that guy.
There's vultures and buzzards.
[00:42:01] Speaker A: That's cool. It's like a Nightmare Before Christmas hill made out of dead bodies.
[00:42:04] Speaker B: Yeah. It's even got the little. It's even got the little whoop with a little spiral at the end made up of a guy and his arm just, like, hanging underneath.
[00:42:15] Speaker A: It's a cool hill.
[00:42:16] Speaker B: And then there is a.
[00:42:20] Speaker A: If there's a C cover, there must be a B cover.
[00:42:22] Speaker B: Yeah. So there's a Don Aglio B cover. And it is a Javi on a motorcycle shooting a shotgun and, like, whipping a chain, Ghost Rider style. It is awesome. There is so much movement there.
[00:42:37] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, the chains like Flamingo.
[00:42:40] Speaker B: Mm.
He's either in a warehouse or, like, riding in an alley. I think it's a warehouse because it looks like there's on one side and boxes on the other. It looks like he showed up to True Name and Kick Ass and he. Or True Names. Did I say two names in?
[00:42:57] Speaker A: You said two names to Chew.
[00:42:58] Speaker B: To Chew Bubblegum and Kick Ass. And he's all out of bubble gum. Oh, boy.
I maybe do need to.
[00:43:04] Speaker A: He can't. He came to say a name and eat ass and he's all out of ass.
[00:43:11] Speaker B: So now he's just going to start naming stuff. The Moon Scissors, A Lamp.
Regarding Spot the podcast.
[00:43:22] Speaker A: Yeah, it's pretty cool. It's a lot of motion to it.
[00:43:25] Speaker B: It's very dynamic. Those Donaghulio covers always have a lot of motion. The Bjorn Baron's cover, like we always talk about, Bjorn Barons is great. And this.
This Lucci, Antonio Lucci is just like classic, classic horror imagery. It's.
[00:43:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:43:41] Speaker B: It is probably the best three covers on a single issue that we've seen in a very long time. Not that the covers aren't always great. This is just a great cover issue for gunslinger 42.
[00:43:52] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:43:53] Speaker B: And let's see what's going on on the inside of this cover while we cover the credits and give them where they are due.
[00:43:59] Speaker A: You gotta do it.
[00:44:00] Speaker B: Yeah. First up, we got that script plot by Todd McFarlane.
[00:44:03] Speaker A: Yes, we do.
[00:44:05] Speaker B: The art is done by Mr. Carlo Barbery. We have been saying it wrong, Johnny. I listened to an interview with the Todd father himself and he says, carlo Barbary. And.
Oh, oops, sorry, sorry. Carlo did not mean to.
Color by Ivan Nunez. Lettering by the Tom father himself, Mr. Tom Wyszikowski. We covered the covers. Creative director is Todd McFarlane and Thomas Healy is the editor in chief.
And previously in Gunslinger.
Gunslinger and godson agree to an uneasy truth. Oh, to an uneasy truths.
I think that was supposed to be truce.
[00:44:48] Speaker A: I think. So we found a typo.
[00:44:52] Speaker B: Gunslinger and godsend agree to an uneasy truce as they hunt for the same person.
Let's we later learn that they actually do mean in uneasy truths and uneasy truths.
But we start at a place that is held in such high regard lately, Johnny.
The U.S. citizenship and Immigration Services in.
[00:45:14] Speaker A: Washington D.C.
we love them.
[00:45:17] Speaker B: Absolutely.
Forget a guy who is this?
I'm assuming he's a director of some kind, just sitting at his desk going, fuck, what a mess. And he's holding the picture of Javi while he's saying this. So we know it has to do with the massacre he has caused out in Wyoming.
[00:45:37] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:45:37] Speaker B: And so an underling comes in and asks if they. He's gotten a chance to look at that file. Because with the Colombians they want to. They want to trade three prisoners that they have free. One. One guy.
And this boss is like, let me guess, this the one guy.
It's like, yep. Apparently he's the big boss's son.
[00:45:58] Speaker A: So the President wants this swap to happen.
[00:46:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
It's a political victory for him.
And then the boss asks if he. If this underling has looked at the file. And the underling's like, no, no, I've been at the White House, I ain't got time to look at files.
[00:46:14] Speaker A: I'm busy at the White House.
[00:46:16] Speaker B: And the director says, well, apparently he's dead, so that's gonna be a problem.
[00:46:22] Speaker A: Said he died in some. When some mysterious small town got wiped out. Which we remember was in what, 309?
[00:46:28] Speaker B: Something like that by Augur.
Yeah. And Grateful Dead following Cogliosha.
Oh, man. And the.
I still don't understand what happened to that issue.
[00:46:41] Speaker A: I don't understand what happens that issue either.
That's some wild.
[00:46:45] Speaker B: Oh boy. But it does give us the. The first like little story of gunslinger that is being expanded into details. So that's.
[00:46:54] Speaker A: That's, that's true.
[00:46:56] Speaker B: Almost word for word.
[00:46:58] Speaker A: Almost.
[00:46:59] Speaker B: And then from this office we cut to just. Just some straight up gore. It's just an angel with like no head, like no preamble. Just fuck this guy.
[00:47:10] Speaker A: Then there's just like a ripped in hand torso.
[00:47:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
And it's, it's Javi and Godsend. And Javi's like, their boss is going to know that these guys are dead pretty soon. What's the next move? Godson's like, well, find one that can still speak.
He'll give us information and it's like, oh, oh, oh, geez.
[00:47:31] Speaker A: You should have. Still looks alive.
[00:47:33] Speaker B: You should have mentioned that beforehand with Javi.
[00:47:36] Speaker A: Yeah. You got to.
[00:47:38] Speaker B: And the godson's like, your commander, who gives you your. Who gives him his orders? And they learn that it's the High Court of Prosperity run by a General Matthias.
[00:47:49] Speaker A: General Matthias.
[00:47:51] Speaker B: Who is General Matthias?
And we learned that General Matius is on Earth.
And Godsend is like, good, good, good. Javi, I need your gun.
[00:48:01] Speaker A: He said, well, there's only one bullet left.
[00:48:04] Speaker B: Gudson says, that's plenty. And just bams kills this angel, kills him dead, and then he's like, it's time to leave.
I love the. I fucking love the.
The Angela ribbons all up and down his arms.
[00:48:19] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:48:19] Speaker B: Excellent. And then from there, we cut to Madrid, where we see. Is this blood?
Is this blood?
[00:48:27] Speaker A: No, this is the guy from, like, the first issue.
[00:48:31] Speaker B: This is. Okay, so this is just okay?
[00:48:33] Speaker A: This is just some bad guy. I don't remember his name or if we even know his name. He was the one, like, planning in the dinosaur room in the first issue of Gunslinger.
[00:48:39] Speaker B: Oh, okay, okay, okay. The dinosaur room. Man, we haven't seen this guy for fucking ever.
[00:48:44] Speaker A: I know.
[00:48:47] Speaker B: But obviously he is some sort of angel or at least has the wings of an angel. And he's like, both heaven and hell have been kind of fucking annoying to deal with. Guys, we need to send them a message that says, hey, just quit it already.
He's like, send it. Send Godsend a messenger that it would be wise for him to join us or meet with us.
His. He's got a lackey who just stands up and is like, yes, sir. And then shuffles out. And then. And then big bad guy's like, I'd like to have a backup plan. So he goes to his closet full of axes and swords.
[00:49:22] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:49:23] Speaker B: So find me the family member that Godsend is looking for, and we'll see what he does.
[00:49:29] Speaker A: And then back in America, it says, and then they're just flying.
[00:49:34] Speaker B: This is flying. It's just Godsend holding on to Javi and flying around. And Javi's like, so I understand angels don't have powers when they fly.
Are you sure you got a good hold on me? Because I kind of a heavy boy and a dainty flower godson's just like, I'm fine.
[00:49:52] Speaker A: This may be. This made my nethers hurt just thinking about being that high up and just being held by somebody.
[00:49:59] Speaker B: Yeah. With nothing below you. Yeah, that's. That is. That is terrifying. Testicles fully into the abdomen situation.
[00:50:06] Speaker A: Just like, yeah, I just got it again. Yeah.
[00:50:09] Speaker B: And then to have a helicopter sneak up behind you. Yeah, I don't want to be anywhere near a helicopter. I have seen too many videos of people not ducking. No, thank you. I am good. Leave me out of it.
[00:50:22] Speaker A: Why are you watching that?
[00:50:23] Speaker B: What?
I sometimes need to know that I am still alive.
And if I see something disgusting and I feel ha by it. I know. I know I'm still alive and I don't have a problem. If I see something disgusting and I'm immediately like, meh, I know there's a problem.
[00:50:42] Speaker A: Okay, well, good to know.
[00:50:44] Speaker B: I need to. I need to make sure it's. It's. It's feedback. I have to specifically seek it out, which kind of sucks. But I need to make sure that I'm not becoming a psychopath.
Gotta make sure my empathy still works.
But yes. So this helicopter comes up behind them, and they contact their boss. And the boss is like, yeah, you could engage if needed. And they're like, that means engagement.
Just start shooting at him with the minigun.
And they clip. They clip Godson's wings a little bit. And Godson's like, you gotta. You gotta shoot him. You gotta shoot him in the rotor. And Javi's like, the. A rotor?
[00:51:19] Speaker A: What's a rotor?
[00:51:21] Speaker B: God's is like, what. What the. Just shoot it in the back.
So he shoots. He shoots it in the back Rotor. Godson doesn't know that gunslinger is from the 1860s, so that's exciting.
And then.
And then Godsend begins. The. The mayday. The mayday. We're going down. We're going down.
They. They actually have a pretty soft landing for a clipped wing.
And then. And then, Johnny, we get a nice little tie in from. Because the. The Black brothers said. Told Tobias to stop fussing. And here Javi tells Godson to stop fussing as he just. Wait. Shit.
I just realized.
He pulls the dinosaur out of a hat, but he's still wearing his hat.
[00:52:05] Speaker A: Whose hat is that?
[00:52:06] Speaker B: Whose hat is that? Where did that hat come from?
[00:52:09] Speaker A: There's a double hat.
[00:52:11] Speaker B: Or just. Or does he have a.
Another hat on top of his hat?
[00:52:15] Speaker A: He takes off his hat. There's just another hat.
It's like an endless supply of hats, like Russian dolls.
[00:52:23] Speaker B: He's like an old hat vendor who just. Where's the mallstay.
[00:52:30] Speaker A: Caps for sale?
That's funny.
[00:52:36] Speaker B: That's great. That's great. This little dinosaur, like, he's.
[00:52:39] Speaker A: He's.
[00:52:39] Speaker B: He's pulling it out and it's like, ah, like he surprised it, but it, it turns into the big, the big, beautiful fiery horse, Johnny.
[00:52:49] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:52:50] Speaker B: But since Godson still has his wings out, the horse notices Godsend. And it's like, you're a heaven.
[00:52:57] Speaker A: They start kicking at him.
[00:52:59] Speaker B: Javi's like, put your wings away. Put your wings away.
[00:53:03] Speaker A: Hide your heaven. He says, it's like when your parents come over, you gotta hide your heaven.
[00:53:08] Speaker B: Hide the heaven. Hide the heaven. Shit.
His wings get folded away, calming the demon horse, and they both, they both jump on the back and then just like ride to a fucking like Revolutionary war era town with this tall steeple church. And they, they, they go to a house in that town where there's an old man with a cat sitting on a nice. A beautiful wraparound porch.
[00:53:38] Speaker A: Beautiful porch.
[00:53:40] Speaker B: The old man's just talking to the cat. He says, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's like, yeah, I know. They've been watching us for a while. I wish they weren't such cowards that they could just, you know, show themselves. That Godson just like pops around the corner.
Oh, I love this old man. He's great. And apparently this is a man that Godson knows because he says, I always thought of you as a self assured, cocky prick.
Nobody likes anybody in these issues, Johnny. It's hilarious.
[00:54:07] Speaker A: Yeah. Everyone's mad at each other.
[00:54:09] Speaker B: Yeah. And so apparently this is, this is some member of heaven who has disguised himself as a wheelchair bailed bound old man.
And Godson's just yelling at him. And Javi comes around the corner and it's like, what the. Why are you yelling at this old dude?
We're looking for this man's daughter. He might have a clue about it. I think it's funny when Javi comes out and is like, what are you doing? These people are fine. Don't hurt him. And it's. The second he gets a chance, he hurts everybody.
Ha.
And this old man fires back with like, we all picked our sides once, except one side has the devil on it. And they got.
[00:54:45] Speaker A: We all made our choices here.
[00:54:47] Speaker B: You dare?
And then Javi says, you're hurting him.
A godson says, it's not. It's an illusion. My godson continues to threaten the. The old man. And Javi's like, man, just stop it. You're crushing his throat. Man talking.
[00:55:05] Speaker A: You can't learn nothing if you can't speak.
[00:55:07] Speaker B: And then, and then Javi pulls out a gun and he says, so back away.
Giving him a. Give him a chance to say his peace. God damn It.
[00:55:14] Speaker A: He says, peace is P, I, E.
[00:55:16] Speaker B: C, E.
Well, I mean, his piece.
Yeah. Because that's. He. He's speaking a piece of what's happening. So not.
[00:55:25] Speaker A: Okay, sure.
[00:55:26] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that. That actually would be. Right.
[00:55:28] Speaker A: Okay, whatever.
[00:55:29] Speaker B: Wicked. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Speaking. He's not speaking. He's not speaking two piece. He's just speaking a piece.
[00:55:35] Speaker A: Hobby's like, I'm not gonna follow you around. He's gonna bury everyone you don't like.
I got better things to do with my life.
[00:55:41] Speaker B: I mean, fucking. Fucking. Physician to heal thyself Javi.
And then. And then while the. While Javi and Godsend are otherwise occupied, the old man's cat. It's just like there's a. There's another angel coming from far away.
[00:56:02] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:56:02] Speaker B: It's a messenger. He ain't got no swords or nothing.
[00:56:06] Speaker A: Yep. Just a regular dude with angel wings.
[00:56:10] Speaker B: He says, you are not safe.
You are not safe here. And godson says, safe from what? And then the messenger just gets like, laser. Laser beamed right in the stomach.
And it comes from the old man and his glowing cat.
[00:56:25] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:56:25] Speaker B: And the old man, Prince Adam style, turns into he man and the cat into. From Cringer into battle cat, only without the saddle.
[00:56:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:56:38] Speaker B: And they're hunters, known as the Silencers. Johnny. Ooh, I want to read about the Silencers. That sounds awesome.
[00:56:45] Speaker A: A group of elite hunters.
[00:56:47] Speaker B: I mean, then we immediately jump from there. So hopefully that will come up soon.
[00:56:51] Speaker A: Hopefully we'll circle around back to that.
[00:56:54] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we go back. We go back to FBI headquarters and Langley, Virginia, and we see. We see a whole bunch of people, like a boss talking to a whole bunch of underlings from. From like a.
A wall sized screen. And he's like, here's what's happening. And then we cut back to the image of that beast that Nick's made coming out of a vortex in the sea. And they're like, well, guess what? It's heading for California. So. Shit.
[00:57:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Langley, Virginia. I was just in Virginia.
[00:57:27] Speaker B: Were you in Langley?
[00:57:28] Speaker A: I was not.
[00:57:29] Speaker B: Dang.
[00:57:30] Speaker A: I was in Richmond.
[00:57:31] Speaker B: In Richmond.
[00:57:33] Speaker A: Lovely town.
[00:57:34] Speaker B: Nice.
I've not heard anything bad about Richmond, except for maybe that it's sometimes pretty expensive to live there.
But most of. The. Most of the suburbs around D.C. i know. Are expensive places to live.
[00:57:49] Speaker A: Sure.
[00:57:50] Speaker B: Just because lots of people. Lots of people looking for houses over in that area.
And then, you know, it says, see current issues of Spawn. So that way you know what's happening. And then we get necroplasm metered in.
[00:58:03] Speaker A: The issue he's at 979, ain't it?
[00:58:07] Speaker B: Fine.
[00:58:08] Speaker A: Then we get a Spawning Ground Presents fan art.
[00:58:11] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:58:11] Speaker A: And it's a mixture of toy photography and some art.
[00:58:15] Speaker B: Yeah, it's some good, good stuff. I like this first one figure. This figures, like, poses the hobby figure, like an actual cover from the book and has the COVID there with it. That's a real good. That's a real good one.
[00:58:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:58:30] Speaker B: This. Tom's collectibles. I'm pretty sure I. I saw the process.
The process pictures of them painting this figure. And it's a great looking figure.
[00:58:43] Speaker A: Sweet.
[00:58:43] Speaker B: But I know it took him. It took him a long time. Yeah.
Do good work there. We got some art vod lines and Yujin and Zuran.
Good stuff. We love the hobby artwork.
Yeah.
[00:58:55] Speaker A: Keep them coming.
[00:58:56] Speaker B: Mm.
Hey, Johnny, do you need more Spawns universe?
[00:59:00] Speaker A: I mean, I don't have a choice.
[00:59:03] Speaker B: Well, then you're definitely going to not miss these ongoing titles, huh? Is what I'm hearing.
[00:59:09] Speaker A: Yeah. Definitely not.
[00:59:09] Speaker B: Definitely not. That's the May, the Core 4, if you will.
[00:59:13] Speaker A: Spawn King, Spawn, Scorch, Gunslinger.
[00:59:16] Speaker B: We got the Image Classics ad, and then the Call of Duty spawn AD is the back of the COVID Yep. And that is gunslinger number 42.
Pretty good.
[00:59:28] Speaker A: There it is.
[00:59:29] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. There's a gunslinger slangs some guns.
It slings some guns slang. Slinged.
[00:59:37] Speaker A: Slinged.
[00:59:38] Speaker B: Slinged.
Well, speaking of slinging, I got this little doggie right here who is slinging some looks. Look at her. Look at that little smile.
[00:59:48] Speaker A: Oh, what a cutie. This is.
[00:59:50] Speaker B: This is Genie. She's one of our hospice dogs right now.
[00:59:53] Speaker A: Hi, Genie. Very cute.
[00:59:55] Speaker B: She's gotta wear a diapey. Oh, Genie is a very good girl. I'm gonna rate her the highest number of ratings out of whatever because she's a good girl.
But that also means, Johnny, that we got some puppies that need rating.
So why don't we rate some puppies?
[01:00:12] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies.
So in this double gunslinger episode, first up, we had Deadly Tales, the Gunslinger number five, the Lethal Ballyhoo Part two.
What can I say? It's a. A lot of fun. The circus setting is cool. I really love the dialogue with Wyatt and Javi.
[01:00:33] Speaker B: Just.
[01:00:33] Speaker A: Or Tobias.
[01:00:34] Speaker B: Ah.
[01:00:35] Speaker A: He's like, zap me every time I say Javi instead of Tobias.
The dialogue between them is excellent. It's just a really great western tale and ends with, like, an epic showdown with a really cool final or, like, you know, image of Javi with the double axes Coming at him.
[01:00:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:00:53] Speaker A: I love the art. It really suits the story well. Yeah, it's just fun. Like, I love, like, the playfulness of it with Javi, like, spinning around on the thing. It's got some humor to it.
[01:01:03] Speaker B: Yeah, it does.
[01:01:05] Speaker A: And we see that maybe Wyatt isn't all he seems to be and there's someone else pulling the strings, you know?
[01:01:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Definitely not all it seems to be.
[01:01:13] Speaker A: So looking forward to finding more about that. I will get to Give this issue 5cl clowns with a Gun a great.
[01:01:21] Speaker B: A great rating, but not anything that I would ever like to come across in my real life. Five Clowns with a gun.
[01:01:27] Speaker A: Five Clowns with a gun. No, I don't want to.
[01:01:29] Speaker B: That's the beginning of the Dark Knight, isn't it?
[01:01:32] Speaker A: Yeah, pretty much.
[01:01:34] Speaker B: I agree, man. This. This Deadly Tales is so much fun. I do love how they've tailored. Like, Jimmy Palmiotti is tailoring the tone of his writing to whoever is writing the arc. Like the. The Patrick Reynolds art, everything. It was very serious. And this. It was very serious art. And this Chris Harden art is whimsical and a little looser. And so it's just fitting it in there. It works perfectly. It's. Yeah, I love it. I hate Wyatt King. He's a piece of.
Becky deserved better.
This Mara lady. I mean, I think this Mara lady is going to come back to bite us in the ass.
[01:02:16] Speaker A: Yeah. Something's up with her.
[01:02:18] Speaker B: Yeah, it. It was just a good time. It was a good time. It was excellent. Excellent. Little bit of fun.
I am going to give it four devoured Tiger feeder guys.
[01:02:31] Speaker A: Oh, yes. I love that. That's a nice little detail.
Yeah, no, it was fun. That's what I said. Like, it has a touch of whimsy to it, so it's always good to have some whimsy and spawn.
[01:02:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. We like. We like a whimsy. I like a whimsy.
[01:02:46] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:02:47] Speaker B: But yeah, it's good shit. I'm excited for this. I'm excited for this title to never end.
[01:02:52] Speaker A: I love it.
Next up, we got Gunslinger 42. I mean, it was fine. It didn't really do much for me. It was just like an okay issue.
It has like some of the classic Todd McFarlane stuff.
People in offices talking and exchanging files.
[01:03:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:03:10] Speaker A: People making grandiose claims and being really self righteous.
[01:03:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:03:15] Speaker A: The introduction of a new villain with a specific design and name that they probably will fight and he will disappear forever.
[01:03:23] Speaker B: Yep. Some tying. Some tying into a. A larger universe. First worth of story. Is also very Todd. Father. Toddler likes to keep everything linked.
[01:03:32] Speaker A: Yes, but, I mean, it's fun. I don't know. I'm just curious to see where this team up with Godsend's going. I don't really know what the trajectory is here or what's going to go down.
I mean, it's just like his mission is to look for a family member. Okay. So we'll see where that goes.
But I don't know. I just don't know enough about Godsend. He's not that super interesting to me.
[01:03:54] Speaker B: Yeah, I agree. What. What are the. What are the odds that Godson's daughter and Javi's sister Amy end up being the same person?
[01:04:04] Speaker A: Zero.
[01:04:05] Speaker B: Zero. Okay.
[01:04:06] Speaker A: I hope. Zero.
Confusing as shit.
[01:04:10] Speaker B: More confusing than. Than pulling a dinosaur out of a hat while he's already wearing a hat.
[01:04:16] Speaker A: It's a hat on a hat. Carlo Barberry's got that nice clean art.
Still rocking it.
I don't know. It just didn't really do it for me. I'm gonna give it. I'm gonna give it 3.5. Sleeping cats.
[01:04:28] Speaker B: Oh, that's a great score. This little sleepy kitty, he's just like.
[01:04:32] Speaker A: My cat's sleeping right over there right now.
[01:04:34] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. Hell, yeah.
Don't. Don't. Don't you dare pull out one of those plastic springs. She'll go crazy.
[01:04:41] Speaker A: She'll go, chicken, chicken, chicken.
She chitters at them.
[01:04:46] Speaker B: Just. It's just a little plastic spring. Nothing. Cats. Cats is weird.
[01:04:51] Speaker A: They're great. That's what they like. Who knows?
[01:04:53] Speaker B: They're great. I agree. The art is fantastic throughout. It is.
I mean, it's so much just like trying to set the board up. I feel like if we had had three fewer issues that were just two people fighting while saying quippy things, there could have been, like, actual. Any of this turned into actual story. Instead of just being like, oh, we got. We got up. Up. We got a. Oh, you know, Feels like they're playing catch up on, trying to make sure that everything is. Is. Is tucked in. So I. I think that's probably just like an overarching story issue. Just trying to make sure that everything fits.
So it's. It's not bad.
It's not fantastic, but it's not bad.
[01:05:40] Speaker A: It's just kind of middle of the road. It's just kind of like, okay, it's like, yeah, yeah.
[01:05:43] Speaker B: I think I'm going to give it 3. Castle Grayskull Power transformations.
Silencers.
[01:05:52] Speaker A: For the silencers who we will find out about and they will fight and then they will disappear forever. Yeah, that's my prediction.
[01:05:58] Speaker B: Because. Because Muscle bound warrior guy and Big fucking cat is a classic trope that. That I love.
[01:06:06] Speaker A: I found out my dentist. He's not my dentist anymore, but my former dentist was a He man collector.
[01:06:11] Speaker B: Oh, nice.
[01:06:12] Speaker A: Because I wore a ray shirt from Star Wars Celebration to the dentist one time. He was like, did you go to Star Wars Celebration? And we were talking about it and he was talking about how he went to conventions for he man figures.
[01:06:22] Speaker B: Nice, Nice. Tim Seeley is a very big he man collector and is like, please don't buy me he man figures. I know what I need.
You'll just give me something I already have, right, Tim? See this big, big He Man.
[01:06:38] Speaker A: I was a little too young for He Man.
[01:06:41] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. He man was kind of basically all done. He was. He was the discount toys that we were able to buy for when we went to my grandmother's.
It was my large.
My large introduction to him.
It's funny. As though it's not a. It's not a bad show.
[01:06:59] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:07:00] Speaker B: I mean, if you like watching 25 minute advertisements for toys.
[01:07:06] Speaker A: I mean, who doesn't?
[01:07:08] Speaker B: Who doesn't? Well, I'll tell you who doesn't, Johnny. Our friends on Instagram, they like getting actual content.
The Spawn Unity. They like. They like Spawn and they want to know more about it. And this week, our friend in the Spawn community is actually included in the spawning grounds.
And it is odd lines. That's Vod L I N E S.
And I tell you, Johnny, he's doing artwork. It's good artwork.
[01:07:38] Speaker A: Yeah, he got some cool shit. It's got some whimsy to it.
[01:07:41] Speaker B: It's. It does have kind of that.
A little bit of Scotty Young whimsy, but also that, like Mike Magnolia. Everything is. Everything's a little creepy.
[01:07:55] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like creepy too.
[01:07:57] Speaker B: It's good shit. You should follow them.
[01:08:00] Speaker A: Yeah, give them a follow.
[01:08:01] Speaker B: Great stuff.
They got this. They got this fun little Darth Vader.
They got this. They got this great Godzilla.
Oh, apparently the COVID for Godzilla vs Los Angeles.
[01:08:12] Speaker A: Oh, cool.
[01:08:13] Speaker B: Nice.
They got the Demon Etrigan.
[01:08:17] Speaker A: Neither making a Godzilla Lego set official Godzilla.
[01:08:20] Speaker B: Oh, nice. That's awesome.
[01:08:22] Speaker A: I saw that in my newsfeed and thought of you.
[01:08:25] Speaker B: Nice. Oh, man. They need to bring the Godzilla channel back.
[01:08:29] Speaker A: I'm sad.
[01:08:30] Speaker B: Tv, Please.
[01:08:32] Speaker A: Pluto tv.
[01:08:32] Speaker B: They're all on Max now. But I don't know which one I want to watch. I just want one.
[01:08:36] Speaker A: No, I just like one picked for Me?
[01:08:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[01:08:39] Speaker A: I've been watching recently when I don't know what to watch.
There's a 247 Mystery Science Theater channel on YouTube.
There's also one on Pluto, I think.
[01:08:48] Speaker B: Nice.
[01:08:49] Speaker A: But I've been popping some Mystery Science Theater on there.
[01:08:52] Speaker B: Excellent. Nothing wrong with a little Mystery Science Theater.
[01:08:56] Speaker A: Love those little robots.
[01:08:57] Speaker B: Yeah, they're real fun.
You know what else? You know what else? We love Johnny. He's not robotic, but he makes very good music.
[01:09:05] Speaker A: He does Lonnie Bones.
Find him on the Internet.
[01:09:08] Speaker B: He. Yeah.
[01:09:08] Speaker A: Wherever you get music.
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[01:09:25] Speaker A: Do it.
[01:09:25] Speaker B: Do it.
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[email protected] Absolutely. Every week I like to ask a question to spur question answering.
[01:09:40] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[01:09:41] Speaker A: And this week I would ask why. I don't know. I just see such a. There's just such a different quality. There's just a wide gap in quality of the writing between these two issues.
[01:09:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:09:51] Speaker A: And it's just like, what do you guys think about Todd father still writing gunslinger? Would you like to see someone else take over mainline gunslinger? Are you cool to Todd father doing it? He's done it the whole time so far.
What do you guys think?
[01:10:03] Speaker B: What do you guys think? Yeah, that's. Should he. Should he hang up the spurs?
[01:10:08] Speaker A: I swear he's overworking himself, man.
[01:10:10] Speaker B: Yeah, he's doing too much.
He's doing too much. He needs to.
The expansion of the universe needs to be in the hands of other people a little bit more.
He. He hired an editor in chief. He should be able to trust his editor in chief.
[01:10:28] Speaker A: I know he does. He likes doing it, probably. But, like, I don't know. I just feel like his gunslinger's getting a little stale.
[01:10:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:10:35] Speaker A: Especially compared to the other one, you know?
[01:10:36] Speaker B: Yeah. I imagine it's a lot like my job now has me out of the lab more than I would like to be. And any chance I get to just be in the lab and touch some. I'm like, I'm doing it right, and I'm sure that my technicians probably do a more efficient job of it since they do it every day. Then when I come in and they're like, God, this guy. Guy's just fucking up our flow.
I'm sure that's exactly how it goes.
[01:11:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:11:00] Speaker B: Dang.
[01:11:01] Speaker A: Well, let us know. And if you send us a letter, we will read it on air.
[01:11:05] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[01:11:06] Speaker A: Unless you tell us not to.
[01:11:07] Speaker B: Oh, yes. That's the way it goes.
[01:11:09] Speaker A: And if you send us your address, we'll send you some stickers.
[01:11:12] Speaker B: Absolutely. Because we got Still. We still got stickers for you.
[01:11:14] Speaker A: We got stickers.
[01:11:15] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, you know what else we got for you, Joanie?
[01:11:19] Speaker A: More Spawn.
[01:11:19] Speaker B: More. More regarding Spawn.
Yes.
[01:11:22] Speaker A: And next week we're going to be regarding Violator.
[01:11:26] Speaker B: Yes.
[01:11:26] Speaker A: Because we're doing the 2024. Violator number two.
[01:11:29] Speaker B: Yes. Violator origins.
[01:11:32] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[01:11:33] Speaker B: I think that's the medieval spawn one, because then I think.
[01:11:38] Speaker A: Right.
[01:11:38] Speaker B: I think three is plague spawn.
[01:11:40] Speaker A: I took all the violators with me to Virginia, but I didn't get to them.
[01:11:43] Speaker B: Or Viking spawn. This might be Viking spawn.
[01:11:45] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:11:46] Speaker B: I don't know. It's good. I'm excited to read it again.
[01:11:49] Speaker A: Sweet.
[01:11:49] Speaker B: It's good.
[01:11:50] Speaker A: I took them all with me to Virginia, but I didn't get to them because I was reading Fangoria.
[01:11:55] Speaker B: I mean, that's a good one.
[01:11:57] Speaker A: Good quality shit in there.
[01:11:58] Speaker B: That's a good quality. You wanna. You wanna read Fangoria for next week's episode too?
[01:12:03] Speaker A: Sure, I'll talk about it.
[01:12:06] Speaker B: Yeah, you could talk about it. I don't think we can cover it proper, though, because Violator 2 is a pretty beefy boy. So.
Yeah, it'll be. It'll be a lot of. A lot of episode.
[01:12:17] Speaker A: Those Fangorias are beefy boys. They're 100. 100 pages.
[01:12:20] Speaker B: Oh, geez. That would take us a week to do.
With all the tangents we take, we'd never. We'd never stop recording.
[01:12:28] Speaker A: 100 page. Yeah.
[01:12:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
Well, yeah. Awesome. Well, thank. Thank your. Thank you to all of you who. Who Listen.
[01:12:38] Speaker A: Thank your lucky stars.
[01:12:39] Speaker B: Yes.
Reach for the sky, o'. Bannon. If you could, like, subscribe.
Rate us wherever you rate us. Give us a review if you can. If you got some time, just say review.
Tell your friends and family and co workers and neighbors and that guy on the bus and, you know, the people you walk by on the sidewalk in a fancy restaurant, just, like, be, like, read some spawn.
You know, whatever.
Just get the word out. Because Spawn is good.
We want more people to know about it.
[01:13:12] Speaker A: We do.
[01:13:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
And on that, I think I've run out of things to say, Johnny. Except for may the scorched be with you.
[01:13:21] Speaker A: And also with you, David.
[01:13:23] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[01:13:24] Speaker A: Hell, yeah.
[01:13:25] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
Hell, yeah.
I should really make that.
I Should really bring back that Hell yeah. Drop that. That I made for that Sketchcraft episode.
It's just like us saying, hell yeah 14 times.
[01:13:39] Speaker A: Bring it back.
[01:13:40] Speaker B: And then from the movie the Hell yeah.
[01:13:44] Speaker A: Love that.
[01:13:45] Speaker B: That's a good one.
I wish I could get it clean, but it's got, like, a lot of gunshot noises and clinkity, clinkity chains in the background, right?
Eh, we'll see.
[01:13:57] Speaker A: This got me wanting to watch some spaghetti westerns. That's where we were talking about Sergio Leone.
[01:14:02] Speaker B: I mean, you should probably get on it.
Yeah, we should probably do. We should probably do a special episode where we watch the Good, the Bad and the Ugly with one of the Branham brothers.
[01:14:12] Speaker A: That would be fun.
[01:14:13] Speaker B: That would be fun. I don't think. I don't think it would take very much convincing.
[01:14:17] Speaker A: No, it wouldn't take me. I got my Blu ray right over there.
[01:14:20] Speaker B: I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure. You say, hey, Logan, you want to watch a Wes? And he would be like, yes, we're doing it.
Wait, you did say Western, right? Not Wes Anderson. Okay, yeah, we're doing it.
[01:14:30] Speaker A: We should watch Duck, you sucker.
[01:14:32] Speaker B: Yeah, we should. We should. We should watch something.
[01:14:34] Speaker A: Yeah, I love a western.
[01:14:37] Speaker B: I haven't watched too many westerns, but I have enjoyed the ones I've watched because, like, Magnificent Seven is a classic.
Okay.
Bone Tomahawk. I'd say Bone Tomahawk is a classic.
[01:14:50] Speaker A: But I'd say it's a classic. It was 10 years old at this point. You can say it's a classic.
[01:14:54] Speaker B: It's. It's an excellent movie. Oh, man. I. It. It's on Pluto TV all the time. And every time that.
Every time chicory is on. On screen, I'm like, up. I'm stopping what I'm doing.
[01:15:05] Speaker A: Gotta watch it.
[01:15:06] Speaker B: Yeah, gotta watch it.
Oh, love chicory so much.
[01:15:10] Speaker A: Bone Tomahawk. Great movie. If you like Deadly Tales. You love Bone Tomahawk?
[01:15:13] Speaker B: Absolutely. Or alternatively, if you like Bone Tomahawk, you'll like Deadly Tales.
[01:15:18] Speaker A: One of the two.
[01:15:20] Speaker B: Both to match Made in Helven.
[01:15:24] Speaker A: A match made in Helven.
[01:15:26] Speaker B: Helvin.
[01:15:27] Speaker A: I'm Melvin Helven.
[01:15:29] Speaker B: Here's my son Kelvin. He's Kelvin Helven.
[01:15:32] Speaker A: I'm Kelvin. Melvin.
[01:15:34] Speaker B: Kelvin and Melvin Helvin.
[01:15:36] Speaker A: I think I've gone crazy.
[01:15:39] Speaker B: Enough. Time with me will do that to you, Johnny. I'm best in small doses.
[01:15:46] Speaker A: I've learned sa.
[01:16:12] Speaker B: It.
