Episode 144 - Spawn 364 and King Spawn 45

[00:00:36] Speaker A: Good evening and welcome to the Malibols. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast. I'm your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:45] Speaker B: And I am your co host, David Williams. And Johnny, that was a very good. A very good reenactment of me walking into the comic book store. [00:00:53] Speaker A: You want Spawn? [00:00:54] Speaker B: Me want Spawn? We want Spawn. Real good, real fast. [00:01:00] Speaker A: Yeah, pretty much. That's pretty much what I do. I got a couple Star wars in there, but mainly my stack is all Spawn. [00:01:07] Speaker B: I just. I just went through my unread stack of spawns, Johnny. Guess how many are in there. [00:01:13] Speaker A: 30. [00:01:13] Speaker B: Oh, there's like 27. [00:01:15] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, I was about to say mine's about the same. [00:01:18] Speaker B: Oh, it's. It's. I mean, I could make. I could make a decent pillow for somebody coming over for a sleepover and I ran out of pillows. I can make a decent pillow out of a stack of Spawn comics for him. [00:01:32] Speaker A: Oh, that'd be nice. [00:01:33] Speaker B: I mean, I've got enough in the boxes that I could also, like, unfold all the old ones and make a nice blanket for them. [00:01:39] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I've got a whole. Whole shebang. Yep. Kept all my spawn. Got all my spawn to read. Got all my spawn. I have, like, the various tiers. I have, like, stuff I've read and haven't filed yet. I've got stuff that's filed and put away, and I've got stuff I haven't read. So I've got like whole. All Spawn tiers of stacks. [00:02:00] Speaker B: I have. I have. I basically have those, but I also have like sub. Sub stacks elsewhere. Like, I have what I think the next two we're going to read are in my bag that I keep just so that way, if I think about it, I can read it on the train. And so sometimes I'm like, where the fuck is this book? Oh, it's just in my bag. [00:02:16] Speaker A: Just in your bag? Yeah. [00:02:17] Speaker B: Bad content. [00:02:19] Speaker A: There's like a slight panic when I'm like, trying to, like, get ready and I can't. Like the night before I'm gonna read it and I can't find it. Yeah, that little tinge of pain. But there's always the Internet. I could always go buy it online. [00:02:29] Speaker B: That's true. That's true. I mean, it's not like it's not hard to get your hands on some Spawn these days. [00:02:36] Speaker A: No, it's really not. They're Spawn at every turn. [00:02:38] Speaker B: They're making it very easy, and they're going through a lot of the older stuff and putting it in together in collections. So yeah, like. Like that Hell Spawn. That for a while. The complete Hell Spawn. You could only get it used for like $150. Hey, guess what? It's 30 bucks now. [00:02:56] Speaker A: Hey. And the Adventures of Spawn. [00:02:58] Speaker B: Oh yeah. [00:02:59] Speaker A: The. [00:02:59] Speaker B: The very, very fun cartoon. And the, the like manga inspired Spawn. Spawn Guns. God Killer. [00:03:09] Speaker A: They made they release that? [00:03:10] Speaker B: Yeah, they did. They only had the one book at the store, so I didn't grab you a copy. [00:03:15] Speaker A: That's okay. [00:03:16] Speaker B: Sorry about it, Johnny. [00:03:18] Speaker A: Oh my God. [00:03:19] Speaker B: How dare I? [00:03:20] Speaker A: How dare you? [00:03:22] Speaker B: But I do check every week now because I feel like the announcements for what gets released are more muddled than usual. [00:03:30] Speaker A: There's just a lot. [00:03:31] Speaker B: There's just so much. Oh boy. [00:03:35] Speaker A: It's a full time job keeping up with the Spawn. [00:03:37] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I mean, it's a full time job making the Spawn too. So, you know, you gotta. They put that energy into it. So we gotta put that energy into it, Johnny. Yeah, that's what we call being good Spawn readers. [00:03:52] Speaker A: It's a symbiotic relationship. [00:03:54] Speaker B: We literally cannot function as human beings without our Spawn. I feel like I have have hit that because, like, man, it's amazing how quickly my day turns around when I just have to listen to us talk about Spawn. Like whether it's for qc, for a completed episode or editing. Like, I'm always like, grumble, grumble, grumble, grumble. And then it starts and it's like, oh, hell yeah. [00:04:20] Speaker A: Yeah. It's always fun. [00:04:22] Speaker B: Past energy from us giving it to future me. It's wonderful. [00:04:26] Speaker A: I had read Spawn in a few weeks or a week or so. So, like, reading these issues were a delight. [00:04:32] Speaker B: Oh man, they were very good. Very good. [00:04:37] Speaker A: I know we've been hard on the old Todd father, but this is a fun one. [00:04:39] Speaker B: The. [00:04:41] Speaker A: It has some great Todd father things. [00:04:43] Speaker B: I was about to say, the Todd father stuff that it does was just absolutely incredible. Like it's the. The balls to the wall shit doesn't make sense. But in a good way. [00:04:53] Speaker A: This is crazy. Yeah. And King Spawn is really nice as well. [00:04:58] Speaker B: I had a. I had a major problem with King Spawn, Johnny. It took me like two and a half minutes to read it. And I was so short. [00:05:06] Speaker A: It's like. It's like this one confrontation. I mean, it's cool. This guy's like crazy, but it's just funny. [00:05:12] Speaker B: It just. It just. It's too well paced, Johnny. If they're getting. If they're getting paid by the page. Well, I mean, I guess it's the same it's the same rate because it's the same number of pages, but damn. Yeah, make me work for it a little more, why don't you? Roy McConville. [00:05:29] Speaker A: Yeah, it was just a. Like a quickie. [00:05:32] Speaker B: My coffee hasn't hit yet. Sorry, Johnny. [00:05:34] Speaker A: Your coffee hasn't hit yet. I'm on my second cup. [00:05:39] Speaker B: I foolishly decided to go for a run instead of having coffee and breakfast, so. [00:05:44] Speaker A: That's okay. [00:05:46] Speaker B: What a fool. What a fool I am. [00:05:48] Speaker A: No. [00:05:51] Speaker B: I just got to. I just got to make sure I'm faster than the shambling zombies for when we're in the post apocalyptic world filled with zombies for some reason. [00:05:59] Speaker A: Because it always will be. [00:06:01] Speaker B: Because it always will be. Yeah, there's some really good Spawn to talk about this week, Johnny. So why don't we stop beating around the bush and just get straight to it? [00:06:10] Speaker A: I know for once we're not like talking for 20 minutes. [00:06:13] Speaker B: And why would we get straight to it? Johnny, what are we doing here? [00:06:17] Speaker A: Oh, we didn't do the introduction. Oh, my God, we're going so fast. We are respawn regarding Spawn, where 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. Like we were saying, two fun issues of Spawn. It's been a while since I read some Spawn. I was on vacation and I was just. We were. Hadn't recorded for a little bit, so it's good to get back into it. [00:06:41] Speaker B: Yeah, it's very good to get back into it. Not to blow up your spot, Johnny, but the sunlight is hitting that Gatorade bottle behind you just right. And it is just like, luminous. It's amazing. [00:06:52] Speaker A: Oh, my God, look at that. Blue Gatorade. That's hilarious. This is. It looks like a glowing crystal. [00:07:00] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like. Wasn't there an Indiana Jones thing that glowed blue? No, the crystal skull. [00:07:07] Speaker A: Yeah, it did the. The antidote. [00:07:10] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's what it was. [00:07:11] Speaker A: The antidote in Temple of Doom. [00:07:13] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. [00:07:14] Speaker A: At the beginning. [00:07:20] Speaker B: I was. We had dim sum for an employee's birthday earlier this week. And it had the big lazy Susan in the middle. And took all my willpower to not just say, you give me the antidote and spit it really fast. [00:07:35] Speaker A: He's a real small guy. It's like his ashes or something. [00:07:40] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:07:40] Speaker A: I love he. He's like, so long la she. And then Lance. [00:07:48] Speaker B: I like how the. The driver tries to. Tries to sneak out and make no noise. And there's literally chickens going like, you know, you don't have to sneak that hard, dude. [00:08:01] Speaker A: Yeah. Hilarious. Oh, Temple of Doom. How we love the. Even though problematic is hella. [00:08:09] Speaker B: Hella problematic. [00:08:10] Speaker A: Hella problematic. [00:08:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Pradomatic. That's the machine that makes the Prada bag. I eat properly with those children. We're doing down with Kali Ma. [00:08:21] Speaker A: I've got a Prada bag right here. Look at this. I bought this vape in Virginia, and it's shaped like a purse. [00:08:28] Speaker B: That's good. That's not a product, you know, That's a. That's a. That's a Louis Vuitton. [00:08:33] Speaker A: I know, but, like, I didn't realize it. I was just, like, trying to get a vape, and I was like, that one looks normal. It's just, like, a solid color. I'll get that. It's a fucking purse. It has, like, a purse chain. [00:08:44] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. [00:08:45] Speaker A: You can, like, shape like a purse. It's ridiculous. [00:08:50] Speaker B: I've never had. [00:08:51] Speaker A: Megan thought it was very funny. [00:08:52] Speaker B: I've never, never thought of accessorizing my weed. [00:08:57] Speaker A: This is a weed. This is nicotine. [00:08:58] Speaker B: Oh, nicotine. Okay, Come on. [00:09:00] Speaker A: Stop blowing up my spot. [00:09:01] Speaker B: Hey, Johnny, what are we talking about? We've. How many times have we talked about the green world here? [00:09:06] Speaker A: I know. We know. We're both friends to it. My mom doesn't listen anymore. Don't worry. [00:09:11] Speaker B: I think. I think my mom got lost and was like, I don't know what they're talking about anymore. [00:09:15] Speaker A: The novelty has worn off for her. Definitely. [00:09:18] Speaker B: It's a job now. It's a job now. [00:09:21] Speaker A: Yeah. She's like, I can just talk to you on the phone. I have to listen to you talk about spawn. [00:09:26] Speaker B: Although sometimes you talk about all the. [00:09:27] Speaker A: Bad stuff I've done now, David, because my mom's not listening. [00:09:30] Speaker B: Dish. Dish. Jenny, did you say. Did you say a bad word? [00:09:36] Speaker A: I said some bad words before. I jaywalked one time. [00:09:41] Speaker B: Hey, it's no longer. That's no longer an offense in Chicago anymore. [00:09:48] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [00:09:48] Speaker B: It's no longer. It's decriminalized, I guess, is what you would call it. So you can no longer get a ticket for it. [00:09:55] Speaker A: I mean, just jaywalk all over the place. [00:09:57] Speaker B: I mean, I'm already jaywalking all over the place. What are you talking about? [00:10:00] Speaker A: I mean, that's how it works. It's Chicago, baby. You just gotta go. [00:10:03] Speaker B: Yeah, it's just called. It's literally called look both ways. And if you're safe to cross, do it. If you're not Safe to cross. Don't go. It really. It really frustrates me when people just sit there, they stare at the walkie guy, and that's the only thing they pay attention to. I've. I've seen so many people almost get taken out by only paying attention to the walk sign and not. [00:10:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:22] Speaker B: The cars coming down the street. [00:10:24] Speaker A: You gotta look out for the cars. You gotta look both ways for across the street. [00:10:27] Speaker B: Yeah. It's wild. [00:10:29] Speaker A: Learned that in elementary school. [00:10:30] Speaker B: Yeah. Although street crossing was much less of a event in elementary school since crossing the street usually meant you were in the car. [00:10:40] Speaker A: You're in the car. [00:10:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So because, like. Yeah. We didn't really walk anywhere in Muskogee. Like, if you were walking, you were walking from the car to the grocery store in the parking lot. So, like, you never. I never really crossed streets as a. [00:10:55] Speaker A: Child for you, but you made it sound like that was like a universal thing, like all the kids. [00:10:59] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. So sorry. Yeah. Everything I say is particular to me, Johnny. [00:11:06] Speaker A: Okay. Because I'm like, kids in the city, they cross the street all the goddamn time. [00:11:10] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's true. [00:11:12] Speaker A: Better look both ways, but you better do it. [00:11:14] Speaker B: You better do it. [00:11:15] Speaker A: We probably learned that on Sesame street. And that was an urban environment. [00:11:19] Speaker B: Does the urban environment, if you think. [00:11:21] Speaker A: About it, is Sesame street technically, is it. Because. Is it New York City in canon? [00:11:27] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it's. Because I think it's down in the Village. [00:11:32] Speaker A: It's what? [00:11:33] Speaker B: I think it's like, down in the Village. Yeah, like down in there. Because that was the. That was the thing was there a lot of kids in the urban environment didn't have direct representation for their learning. [00:11:48] Speaker A: Okay. [00:11:48] Speaker B: Very exciting. [00:11:49] Speaker A: That was one of the reasons for Sesame Street. [00:11:50] Speaker B: Yeah. Because, I mean, a lot of. A lot of kids in a. There wasn't a lot of kids. Television that was informative at that time. But anything that was would have been like, you know, Mr. Rogers neighborhood where it was separated and kind of isolated in a home environment. [00:12:05] Speaker A: Like, idealistic. Yeah. [00:12:07] Speaker B: And the idea was of this was meeting children where they are instead of trying to have children transport themselves to someplace that they're unfamiliar with to learn. [00:12:17] Speaker A: Okay. [00:12:17] Speaker B: Because learning can happen everywhere, Johnny. That's the beauty of it. [00:12:21] Speaker A: Yeah. Unhoused folk like Oscar the Grouch hanging out. [00:12:23] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oscar the Grouch was always my favorite. Not because he was a grouch, but because he was green. The grumpiness was just a perk. [00:12:34] Speaker A: I always liked his design. Yeah. He's pretty cool. [00:12:37] Speaker B: That's pretty good. [00:12:37] Speaker A: My favorite was probably Ernie I like. [00:12:42] Speaker B: Or Grover I like Darnie. I'm much more of a Bert than an Ernie. [00:12:47] Speaker A: You are. It's more of an Ernie than a Bert. [00:12:49] Speaker B: That's why. That's why we fit. That's why we fit. You're over here, you're over here trying to bring your rubby ducky into bed and I'm just trying to read my book. [00:12:59] Speaker A: Hey, man, you gotta have the rubber ducky. [00:13:02] Speaker B: I mean, he is the one makes bath time so much fun. [00:13:05] Speaker A: That's what I call my vape. I call my rubber ducky. [00:13:07] Speaker B: You should make rubber ducky shaped ones and then all the jeep people could get on it. [00:13:12] Speaker A: I'm sure there's definitely a rubber ducky shaped vape. I guarantee you it exists. [00:13:18] Speaker B: They need you to be large and cumbersome, so that way you can't stick them in a pocket very well. So that way it encourages you to quit. [00:13:26] Speaker A: It's just like a. Yeah, it's like an albatross hanging around your neck. [00:13:29] Speaker B: You could literally make one in the shape of an albatross that you wear. [00:13:33] Speaker A: A rubber albatross. [00:13:37] Speaker B: Think of how much vape juice that thing could hold. Those birds is big. [00:13:40] Speaker A: Oh, baby. That'd be full of Nick juice. [00:13:43] Speaker B: I mean, if Rescuers down under was anything to go by. Albatross. Woo boy. Big. Too big for that Runway. But we were, we were trying. We patted ourselves on the back too early for not getting disturbed. [00:13:54] Speaker A: I know we were on track. Then we messed it up. [00:13:58] Speaker B: Oh boy. [00:13:59] Speaker A: We said in a second. I think your coffee sticking in. [00:14:01] Speaker B: Yeah. I think it is taking me in the wrong direction though. [00:14:04] Speaker A: So out of these two fun issues of Spawn, first up, I didn't even say what we did. I didn't even say which ones we're doing. I didn't say that. [00:14:11] Speaker B: No. [00:14:11] Speaker A: Okay. We are doing spawn 364 king spawn 45. [00:14:17] Speaker B: A full year of Spawn on rank title. Johnny. You can start January 1, 2026 and read a different issue of Spawn every day and not have an overlap. [00:14:28] Speaker A: Wow, that's pretty cool. [00:14:31] Speaker B: That would be a hell of a challenge. Oh, boy. It seems innocuous enough, just one comic a day. [00:14:38] Speaker A: But then, you know, then it gets in the way. Yeah. [00:14:41] Speaker B: Like March and you're like, oh, man, I'll just read five on Saturday and then by July you've got a stack of 32 that you have to get to. Yeah, yeah. [00:14:50] Speaker A: There was a film critic, Brian Collins, that did a horror movie A day for a long time, man. [00:14:58] Speaker B: I used to. I mean, when I moved up to Chicago, I didn't do very much because I had no money and a lot of the people that I hang out with now hadn't moved up here yet. And so I literally watched one movie every day. I had the Netflix. That's what I did. It was wild. [00:15:15] Speaker A: Too shabby. [00:15:16] Speaker B: I can't imagine doing that anymore. It would be awesome to be able to, but I don't think I'd be able to. [00:15:23] Speaker A: I probably have time to watch a movie a day if I. I don't know. It's tough. [00:15:27] Speaker B: It is tough. I. I could do the. Watch a movie where I turn it on and then just do other shit while it's going. But not to actually pay attention to the movie. Right? [00:15:38] Speaker A: I only like to do that with movies I've seen before. [00:15:40] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Like putting. [00:15:43] Speaker A: Try to pay attention to a new movie. [00:15:45] Speaker B: It's. It actually works really well to do that with Ghibli films after you've watched them, to just put those in the background. Because that like, aura of, of the. Whatever they have, it just like seeps out into the real world and it's just like, ah, that's nice. It's real nice. But watch them. You gotta watch him through the first time. Don't be, don't be doing our boy Todoro wrong. No way, no way, no way. He's a big. He's the, he's the spirit of the forests. Johnny. [00:16:16] Speaker A: I watched a movie. I watched Jurassic World, Rebirth. [00:16:19] Speaker B: How is that? [00:16:20] Speaker A: Good? [00:16:21] Speaker B: Good. Nice. That's. That's what. [00:16:22] Speaker A: Good. [00:16:23] Speaker B: That's what I. [00:16:24] Speaker A: It was a lot of fun. And it was its own, like, standalone thing. It wasn't like connected to like the Chris Pratt junk. [00:16:30] Speaker B: Excellent. [00:16:32] Speaker A: Just like a mission team on a mission, baby. [00:16:36] Speaker B: That's what we like. That's what we like. [00:16:38] Speaker A: The T. Rex gets a real fun scene. I love the T. Rex. The pterodactyls are terrifying. [00:16:45] Speaker B: I believe it, man. I'm scared enough of the fucking seagulls that are sitting around downtown Chicago. I can't imagine fucking pterodactyls. [00:16:56] Speaker A: The only complaint I would have is they try these new like, kind of like made up creatures called Mutadons to replace the raptors. [00:17:03] Speaker B: Are those the dudes with the big fat foreheads? [00:17:05] Speaker A: No, that's the D. Rex. He's in there too. But the Mutadon's like flying raptors, but they don't look as good and they're just not. They kind of Miss that flare of those raptors, man. I miss those classic raptors. [00:17:17] Speaker B: Those classic raptors are amazing. [00:17:20] Speaker A: Yeah. There's a perfect design. And they're so well executed in those. [00:17:24] Speaker B: First two movies on those fucking animatronics with the big, big claw. [00:17:30] Speaker A: The clicky finger. The clicky claw. [00:17:32] Speaker B: Oh, man, so good. Oh, oh, oh. [00:17:35] Speaker A: When they, like call off the other one. [00:17:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:37] Speaker A: Ooh. Barbie did not like that. My cat was like, what the fuck are you doing over there? [00:17:43] Speaker B: I think it's. I think it's funny that it's hard to think of any current summer blockbuster that seeps its way into, like, daily life as much as Jurassic park did. Because literally after Jurassic park came, anytime we went to a hotel as a family, we always had to see whether they had velociraptor proof door handles or not. And we always commented on them about whether it's a velociraptor proof door handle or not. [00:18:11] Speaker A: Okay. At a hotel, huh? [00:18:12] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, Most of them, Most of them velociraptors could get into most hotel doors, Johnny. [00:18:17] Speaker A: Yeah, they have that classic, like, little. [00:18:19] Speaker B: Bar handle which is, I guess by design because depending on where you are, you kind of want to stumble into the hotel room. [00:18:28] Speaker A: That's the thing. By the end of the Chris Pratt movies, they were like using key. The raptors are so smart. They're using like fucking key cards to get into hotel rooms. [00:18:35] Speaker B: Basically, nothing's safe. They're going to get into that mini bar and rack up a huge bill and you're going to have to pay it. [00:18:41] Speaker A: Yeah, you move, you move those gummy bears, you're fucked. That's $30, man. [00:18:47] Speaker B: If only they were gummy bears that were like. If they were gummy bears that were worth $30, that would be an experience. But if they're just like the, the old Haribo that are hard, usually in. [00:18:58] Speaker A: A special bag like container. [00:19:00] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I mean, Mitch Hedberg had a joke about that. Glass Coke in a glass harmonica. Individually wrapped cashews. Yeah, it's impossible to replace. [00:19:11] Speaker A: Johnny, the joke is lost on me. [00:19:13] Speaker B: Oh, no, just the, that the, that's. You can't replace the items in the mini. In the mini minibar because it's impossible to replace because it's things like Coke and a glass harmonica. [00:19:25] Speaker A: Okay. [00:19:26] Speaker B: Or like individually wrapped cashews. Nobody individually wraps cashews, but mini bars have them. Sorry, sorry for murderizing that Mitch Hedberg joke. [00:19:35] Speaker A: That's okay. I like Mitch Hedberg. [00:19:36] Speaker B: Funny as hell. [00:19:37] Speaker A: Let's do, let's start this Year of spots end this. Year of spawn. [00:19:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:42] Speaker A: With 364. [00:19:44] Speaker B: Oh, this means that we can finally discover what our birthday issues are, Johnny. Very exciting. [00:19:51] Speaker A: So I would be the 27th issue. No, I would be like the. Oh, you just go through all the days. [00:19:54] Speaker B: Yeah. So I would be the 35th issue. I'd be issue 35. Ooh, ooh, ooh. That's. That's a good one. Isn't that, like, right at the beginning of the. Greg Capullo or probably Capullo started earlier than that. [00:20:08] Speaker A: Might start a little earlier than that. [00:20:10] Speaker B: I think 35 has Sam and Twitch on the COVID of it. [00:20:14] Speaker A: How do you know that? [00:20:15] Speaker B: Because I'm pretty sure I bought that one from a backstory. A backlaw. A stock bin. Yeah, it's Sam and Twitch in the alley in front of a. A poster that says wanted, and it's got a picture of Spawn's face. Oh, hell yeah. That's a great issue to have. And let's see. Yours would be 58. [00:20:38] Speaker A: Sorry, 31 days in January. [00:20:39] Speaker B: Sorry to blow up your spot. [00:20:41] Speaker A: That's okay. [00:20:44] Speaker B: Yours is. Ooh, yours is excellent. Yours is creepy ass Spawn holding on to a kid, probably. Oh, it's orphans. It's. [00:20:55] Speaker A: It's the. It's Eddie and his brother. [00:20:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, hell yeah. [00:21:00] Speaker A: Andy. [00:21:01] Speaker B: Eddie and Andy with that sweet. With that sweet Kiss jacket and fucking Snake. [00:21:08] Speaker A: Yep. [00:21:10] Speaker B: Oh. Two excellent issues to have for birthday issues. Nice. We lucked out, Johnny. Good job. Good job, Mamas. Williams and Fisher, for making sure the boys have good birthday issues of Spawn. Okay, we got tangented again. Sorry, Johnny. I. I rode this. I rode this train right off the cliff. [00:21:30] Speaker A: We were talking about 364, and we always start with the covers. I have the Fede Melee cover. [00:21:38] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:21:39] Speaker A: The A cover, which is a lit Spawn lit by a streetlight. He's hanging out on a street lamp. [00:21:49] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. It is like, classic creepy. Spooky. [00:21:53] Speaker A: Yeah, and he's got a gun. He's, like, crouched on the street lamp with the city in the background. Pretty cool. [00:22:00] Speaker B: And there's the moon. The moon is almost entirely hidden by both his cape and the title, but it's still there. [00:22:07] Speaker A: Still there? [00:22:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:08] Speaker A: It says, hell hath arisen. [00:22:10] Speaker B: Yes, it. Yes, it hath. Yes. [00:22:12] Speaker A: The last few. [00:22:13] Speaker B: It hath. [00:22:15] Speaker A: Last few issues, it kept saying, hell on Earth is coming, or whatever. It said. I have. What cover do you have, Dude, I. [00:22:20] Speaker B: Have cover B. I've got the Barbary cover, and it is a little Spawn in front of the big guy. That we talk about. I don't know if they've given him a name. Yeah, they did, but I can't remember. [00:22:35] Speaker A: Doing a great job here. [00:22:37] Speaker B: Yeah, I was having trouble remembering some names. Like, especially in the next King Spawn, I totally forgot what the name of the dude that. At the beginning I was too lazy to go back. But yeah, it's. It's real good. It's real good. It's just. It's very much like a. Like a poster. Like a. Like a movie poster. [00:22:57] Speaker A: Yeah, it's pretty cool. [00:23:00] Speaker B: If we would rank them, I definitely think the Fede Melee cover is the better one. [00:23:04] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, yours fits the issue more obviously. [00:23:06] Speaker B: Yeah, this does fit the issue more. And they both have completely different tones to the colors. I do like the orange, but it's. [00:23:16] Speaker A: Got a nice border on it. [00:23:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:18] Speaker A: Hell hath arisen. Let's arise. You crack it open. We got script plot by Todd McFarlane, art by Brett Booth, inks by Del Sol Nugent, lettering by Tom Wojciekowski. We already covered the covers. [00:23:37] Speaker B: Oh, there's a little parenthetical here that Robert Nugent also helped with the Carlo Barbary cover. [00:23:45] Speaker A: Nice. [00:23:46] Speaker B: I put a little parenthetical. Boop. [00:23:49] Speaker A: With Robert Nugent, creative director is Tom McFarlane. Editor in Chief is Thomas Healy. [00:23:55] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:23:56] Speaker A: Previously in Spawn, Spawn starts to assemble a team to take out a threat larger than anything he's ever faced before. [00:24:05] Speaker B: Yeah, he did that. [00:24:07] Speaker A: He did. [00:24:08] Speaker B: He did it. He did it. And the first. The first members of that team, the Little Goonies. [00:24:14] Speaker A: The Little Goonies, they jumped right over. [00:24:16] Speaker B: They were just like, ah, the Omens. I don't think. I don't remember seeing them in this issue though. So. [00:24:23] Speaker A: No, they should have been with them fighting. [00:24:25] Speaker B: Yeah. On this fucking two page spread page. [00:24:27] Speaker A: Yeah. Where the hell are the Minions? [00:24:29] Speaker B: Come on. Don't. Don't ask where the minions were between 1938 and 1942, Johnny. [00:24:35] Speaker A: Yeah, they were helping him. [00:24:36] Speaker B: Don't do it. [00:24:39] Speaker A: I think they, like, got around that by like, freezing them till after World War II. [00:24:43] Speaker B: I think we've talked about this before. [00:24:45] Speaker A: Yeah, we have. [00:24:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:46] Speaker A: They like. They definitely, like, acknowledge they didn't help Hitler. [00:24:53] Speaker B: We open with classic nine panel page here. Johnny. Feels like it feels like reading an old Marvel. Marvel comic book. [00:25:01] Speaker A: Yes. [00:25:01] Speaker B: Nine panels. [00:25:02] Speaker A: It opens on Heaven, the reaches where few are allowed to step foot. And it says the people who have stepped foot there don't want to go back. So shitty. [00:25:12] Speaker B: Although it looks real nice. It looks like we got a little bit nice looking. Nice A little bit of cloud city action going on here. [00:25:18] Speaker A: Yeah, it looks a little cloud city esque. And it has like a really. It looks like a mega church on the inside. [00:25:23] Speaker B: Yeah. I like how there's a waterfall. A waterfall from the. From the clouds, man. This fucking. This fucking Dutch angle right here is wild. It's like we're at the POV of somebody walking down it. These people, they vow to never return because they know the Lord can be both cruel and petty. [00:25:41] Speaker A: Like, some angels come up and they're talking to somebody like, yo, looks like Nick's is responsible for this incursion. [00:25:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:47] Speaker A: And it seems all the angels have died. [00:25:51] Speaker B: Yeah. And then. And then we get a full page spread of God. [00:25:59] Speaker A: God, like a Tom McFarlane character, he's. [00:26:04] Speaker B: Slumped back in his. His throne like. Like Dr. Doom after a defeat at the hands of the Fantastic Four. He's got. He's got his metal halo and his crown of fiery thorns and like, his face is all blacked out, but you could tell his eyes are on fire. [00:26:29] Speaker A: Mm. This is a golden armor. [00:26:32] Speaker B: This is a great. This is a great image. [00:26:35] Speaker A: Yeah. God looks like a fucking murderer. [00:26:37] Speaker B: And there's like a. There's like a cross light in the back that is just. I know, the cross light majesty. And he's basically saying, nuh, fuck this Queen of Hell. [00:26:49] Speaker A: Yeah. The earth ain't hers, it's mine. [00:26:51] Speaker B: Yeah. He says I have to make that message painfully clear to her. And then we learned that that message will be delivered in the form of the wrath of God. The wrath of God. Oh boy. Also, the throne of Heaven is also made of skulls, Johnny. [00:27:11] Speaker A: I know. I was like, what the hell? [00:27:13] Speaker B: What the hell? It's like. It's like they got the same designer or something. [00:27:18] Speaker A: Yeah, they got the same designer to design the thrones of hell and Heaven. [00:27:23] Speaker B: I'm sure it happened. [00:27:25] Speaker A: And then we cut to another mystical realm. [00:27:29] Speaker B: Yes, the green world. Yeah. The true birthplace of the universe's origins. I mean, that's. That's. That seems a little redundant. I think it should say the true birthplace of the universe or the universe's true origins. [00:27:44] Speaker A: The birthplace of the universe. Yeah. That's a little wordy. [00:27:48] Speaker B: Take another pass at it, Toddfather. But yeah. And then. And then there's a big tree. It's a nice. It's a nice big gnarled tree. It's like the. It's like the Keebler elves tree. There's like a. There's like a kitchen in there and they're pumping out the Cookies. [00:28:03] Speaker A: Pumping out the cookies. [00:28:04] Speaker B: But. But we have like almost a shot for shot re. Reimagining of the previous nine panel page. Only all of the ingredients are. Are Green World. Because we got that same crazy Dutch angle on the hallway of trees. [00:28:23] Speaker A: Right? And it's the. The tree soldiers are coming to report. [00:28:26] Speaker B: Yeah. And they're to. To Mother Gaia. [00:28:31] Speaker A: Mother Gaia. We haven't seen her in a minute. [00:28:32] Speaker B: Sitting on her. Her throne of tree. [00:28:36] Speaker A: Tree. Throne. No skulls here. [00:28:39] Speaker B: None. Well, she. She eschews that. That nasty humanity, Johnny. [00:28:45] Speaker A: Yeah. They ruin her Earth all the time. [00:28:47] Speaker B: Yeah. If it ain't got chlorophyll, it needs to get chlora out. [00:28:51] Speaker A: Nick's lust for power has made her blind to know she's being corrupted by the very seat she sits upon. So she's like, if. If this shit goes bad, I'll just destroy Earth again. [00:29:01] Speaker B: She's like, I don't fucking care. I've done it before. I've done it before. I'll do it again. [00:29:07] Speaker A: Yeah. It says here that she's done it two times before. [00:29:10] Speaker B: Yeah. And her strategy is she starts by poisoning the water and then making the air unbreathable and then sending the world into darkness for untold centuries until she's just like, yeah, okay, it's fine. It's good. [00:29:24] Speaker A: Life can come back. [00:29:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:26] Speaker A: Then we cut to another mystical realm. [00:29:28] Speaker B: Hell. A place. [00:29:30] Speaker A: Hell. [00:29:31] Speaker B: A place known as the Shadows for the damned. [00:29:35] Speaker A: Is it. [00:29:36] Speaker B: I mean, according to the. This issue of Spawn364. Yes, it is. [00:29:41] Speaker A: Yes. [00:29:42] Speaker B: It's even got. It's even got the quotation marks. So we should do we need to call up Thomas Healy and say, hey, Thomas Healy, can you start putting little footnote references for. For all of these things? Yes. And then it is another nine panel page. And then we get another shot for shot remix of the first two nine panel pages, only with all Hell stuff. Although this. This Dutch angle of. Of the hallway in Hell is a little more straight on instead of Deborah. [00:30:13] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. But yeah, they're like, yo, the forearm guy comes up. [00:30:18] Speaker B: Yeah. The guy that we first met in spawn. 350. [00:30:22] Speaker A: 350. He's like, as requested, your servant has arrived on Earth near Spawn. [00:30:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:28] Speaker A: Then we see Nyx on her throne made out of Malbol's head. Yeah. [00:30:33] Speaker B: Fewer. Fewer skulls on the. On the throne of Hell, Johnny. There's just the one. Just the one. [00:30:39] Speaker A: Just the Malbolia skull. The Malscolja. [00:30:44] Speaker B: And she says, good, good. Now we'll see if Spawn will voluntarily Trigger his power from my servant. Or whether more humans need to be sacrificed. And we learned that, you know, she don't. She don't. Nyx don't give a shit about Earth. Earth is just. It's just. It's just a means to an end to her. [00:31:04] Speaker A: Right. But what could her plan be? What does she desire? [00:31:08] Speaker B: I don't know. I don't know if she's still playing that pretty close to the vest. [00:31:13] Speaker A: She is. [00:31:13] Speaker B: Mm. And then the next page is basically just the assembled players. God and Gaia and Nyx and how they're all basically. Basically, this is just saying, hey, these guys are all gonna fight for Earth. And then after we see that, we see exactly on Earth where the. Where Nyx's agent, as they. Is that what they call them? Agents? Servant. Agent Nyx's servant has appeared. [00:31:44] Speaker A: Our giant behemoth thing. [00:31:46] Speaker B: We turn the page and we get the assembled forces that are going to protect the Earth from this being. And it is a wonderful two page spread. Yeah. It's badass of everybody. We've got Cygor. Hell yeah. We got Curse of Spawn. We got good old Redeemer. [00:32:07] Speaker A: Redeemer. [00:32:08] Speaker B: Jesus. We got Al Simmons, of course, front and center. We got Jessica. We got Trimmer. We got Mandarin. Spawn. We got Haunt. We got Medieval. We got Bullet. [00:32:21] Speaker A: Bulletproof. [00:32:22] Speaker B: Bulletproof. We got Monolith. We got Javi. And then we got the Freak just pulling up the back. [00:32:30] Speaker A: This is like the scorch times 20. [00:32:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:33] Speaker A: So this is it. The moment when the genie finally comes full on out of the bottle. From this day forward, history will tell the day when super beings went from unified myths. Whoop. What? What? Unverified myths. Went from unverified myths to actually existing. It will forever change the course of Earth's history. [00:32:54] Speaker B: Now, Johnny, I have an issue with this. [00:32:57] Speaker A: Yes. [00:32:58] Speaker B: In that literally the first issues of Spawn were so obsessed with making sure that we knew that the youngbloods fucking existed in this universe. [00:33:08] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:33:09] Speaker B: The young bloods were super beings. [00:33:12] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, they definitely got rid of. They're definitely not following that canon. I mean, the old, you know. [00:33:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:18] Speaker A: Hey, come on, Dave. Comic book. [00:33:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:33:21] Speaker A: He's also only been spawned for five years, which doesn't make any sense because Siam was a child. [00:33:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Sion has aged like 15 years. [00:33:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:32] Speaker B: But Terry Fitzgerald has not. And for that we say thank you. Sigh. You have remembered the face of your father. [00:33:40] Speaker A: So here they are. [00:33:42] Speaker B: Here they are. And then we flip the page to another two page spread and it's basically the Assembled. Assembled. All of them from the other side looking right onto this servant of Nyx. [00:33:56] Speaker A: Yes. He's made out of heaps of bodies and a big skull. [00:34:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:02] Speaker A: Breathing necroplasm. [00:34:05] Speaker B: We see in the background there's some tanks from the army. [00:34:09] Speaker A: Some tanks, thank you very much. [00:34:12] Speaker B: So they're all just like watching it stomp towards the land. And then we turn the page and it's Washington D.C. six hours earlier. And then we get the, like the war room at the, the Pentagon and the, all the, all the assembled military men are talking about what they need to do. [00:34:33] Speaker A: This one guy's got a gnarly scar. [00:34:35] Speaker B: Yeah, he does. It is. [00:34:39] Speaker A: Like right down his face. [00:34:40] Speaker B: Right down his face, right through his eye, right through his mouth. Makes you. What, Makes you wonder what he did to get that. [00:34:48] Speaker A: I know. [00:34:49] Speaker B: And right now they're the one. One guy's like, what about these costumed beings? Do we need to worry about them? And scar guy's like, no, no, no, no, fuck them. They're small potatoes right now. But if they get in our way, we'll fuck them up. They'll be collateral damage. [00:35:04] Speaker A: And we're doing the thing that Todd father's been obsessed with recently because this is six hours earlier, then we eventually go to one hour earlier, then we go to two hours earlier. [00:35:13] Speaker B: No, is this, is this one hour and two hours earlier than the six hours earlier or is this one hour earlier than the two page spread with the assembled. [00:35:24] Speaker A: So I'm thinking it's, I think it's all reserved. I think it's all related to the two page spread. [00:35:29] Speaker B: Okay, so the pundits happen before the two page spread, but after this war room meeting. [00:35:37] Speaker A: The war room meeting is six hours before. [00:35:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:40] Speaker A: Yes, correct, correct, correct. [00:35:44] Speaker B: But yeah, we get the pundits again. And I have to say I, I don't think I can trust the CRN lady anymore, Johnny. [00:35:55] Speaker A: Why? [00:35:55] Speaker B: Because she says it's like something terrifying, something out of a bad Godzilla movie. And. [00:36:00] Speaker A: Johnny, there's no such thing, there's no. [00:36:02] Speaker B: Such thing as a bad Godzilla movie. Movie journalism is dead, Johnny. This, the info buzz guy is incensed. He is, he is angry. He's usually pretty cool. Maybe a little, maybe a little, you know, maybe a little smarmy at times, but he is just like full on upset. He's, he's got his, his eyebrows going grr. And he's got his, his papers that he's putting towards the front. [00:36:30] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:31] Speaker B: And then old Brock the shock here actually, with a little bit of actually decent Advice for Brock the Shock. [00:36:41] Speaker A: Run. [00:36:41] Speaker B: Just run. Just fucking just get the. Just get the hell out of here. Save yourselves. [00:36:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:51] Speaker B: This freak who calls himself Spam or Prawn respond, whatever the fuck his name is. [00:36:58] Speaker A: Oh, my God. You just hear the top father writing that and laughing. [00:37:03] Speaker B: As if there hasn't been massive amounts of issues in which we know that Brock the Shock Fennel knows very well the name of Spawn. [00:37:12] Speaker A: Spawn is. [00:37:15] Speaker B: Like, not even. [00:37:16] Speaker A: He's just freaking out. He's scared about this big behemoth. [00:37:18] Speaker B: Spam bra. Fun times. It's fun times. Like, all of the pundits have been tweaked just a little bit. It's kind of fun. [00:37:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:33] Speaker B: Then two hours earlier, from presumably the two page spread. That's the. The conference of Spawn and his. His assembled. His assembled group in fucking, like, Mustafar with the lava turned off. [00:37:49] Speaker A: Yeah. What the hell is this place? [00:37:51] Speaker B: Like an abandoned church factory? [00:37:54] Speaker A: Yeah. Pretty cool. Respawns many. [00:37:58] Speaker B: It looks awesome. But, like, how is that. How is that an inconspicuous place to meet up? Like, unless it's fucking Chernobyl. And then, you know, Spawn does the. Does the. Like, we're waiting. We're waiting on she. Spawn. And then she shows up and she's like, you're 20 minutes late. And she's like, I'm doing the work. What are you talking about? And then Spawn is a jerk about it, and he's like, you better. You gotta do both. Remember, you're military. [00:38:27] Speaker A: Military? Yeah. She's like, don't do that. We're not going there. [00:38:32] Speaker B: As if we needed another reminder that Spawn himself was a military man. Al Simmons. And then Haunts. Like, I read the report, too, dudes. This beast is highly radioactive. Shit. And so. So Spawn goes with Haunt to track the beast. And he's like, okay, Jessica, you're in charge of everybody else. I'm gonna go see if I can find this behemoth that we're looking for. [00:38:58] Speaker A: Yeah. And she says she's been in contact with over 30 others. Hoping that they all meet up and help. [00:39:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, I mean, according to the SEC. This two page spread. And all 30 of them did not show up. [00:39:08] Speaker A: No. But some of them did. [00:39:10] Speaker B: Spawn is sitting there on the coastline with Haunt because they found the path that this beast is gonna take. And we're 23 minutes earlier, Johnny. Oh, boy. [00:39:22] Speaker A: Exact time. [00:39:23] Speaker B: One minute for every flavor in Dr. Pepper. [00:39:26] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:39:30] Speaker B: And Haunt's just like, all right, so what are we doing, Al? And Al's like, I gotta play plan B. And his plan B shows up. But it's focus. The fastest man in the Spawns universe. [00:39:40] Speaker A: It's focus. Wonderful. If we get that Focus series. [00:39:43] Speaker B: I don't know. I mean. I mean, this. This implies that we need to remember he exists. So that way we'll go buy the comic book. Johnny. Yeah. [00:39:51] Speaker A: I feel like this is, like, kind of soft reintroducing him. [00:39:53] Speaker B: I don't even think he's been in an entire comic's birth worth of pages yet, because he was in, like, four pages in the one book he was in. [00:40:02] Speaker A: He showed up. He's like, what's going on? [00:40:03] Speaker B: Yeah. And it was just like, I tied up all these bad guys. Okay, see you. Bye. Haunt asks, is he one of yours? Al says, I'm hoping. And Focus says, all the people. All the people are going crazy. They're. They're freaking out. They're causing traffic jams. Yep. So, you know, if we. If those people don't get out of that traffic jam real quick, as soon as this guy hits, it's going to get real bad real quick. And then Monolith. Monolith shows up and he's like, count me in. I need this planet to survive for different reasons than yours. I was like, okay, sure, yeah, fine. We'll take you. [00:40:43] Speaker A: Sure. [00:40:43] Speaker B: We'll take the help and monoliths. Like, we must get everyone, including villains and vampires. And Al Simmons is like, hold on, hold on. Wait a second. Fucking vampires. And then Monolith says, you better. You better play nice with the people on this planet or you're not gonna have a goddamn planet. I've seen it before. Total genocide. And then as Monolith is doing the pointy finger and yelling at Spawn, Haunt's like, guys, time's up. It's too late. And we see in front of the. In front of the moon, we see this beast just walking forward, way, way far out. That he also apparently has that Godzilla minus one ability to fucking, like, doggy paddle with all of his body above the water. Yeah, very cool. Very cool. I don't care what the physics are. It's fucking awesome. [00:41:35] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't care. [00:41:36] Speaker B: I don't care. I don't. I don't go to. I don't go to a Godzilla movie hoping for things to be scientifically accurate. No, because scientifically accurate Godzilla would be very sad, boring. Especially if it were the 1998 Matthew Broderick Godzilla, because then it would just be like a lizard. A lizard goo with a whole bunch of tumors. But yeah, I like the. I do like that, like. As it gets closer and blocks out the moon, there's like a whole bunch of helicopters and fighter jets that are just going like. Yeah, like little fleas. It was massive. It's massive. And then, unexpectedly, the creature stops in its tracks for 60 seconds. It stands. [00:42:20] Speaker A: 60 seconds exactly. [00:42:22] Speaker B: Exactly. And then it speaks Johnny. [00:42:26] Speaker A: It spins, and he says, the opening reading. [00:42:29] Speaker B: The opening reading to respawn episode 144. That's what it says right here, which. [00:42:33] Speaker A: Was bring me Spawn. [00:42:37] Speaker B: There's a little. Those little asterisks says, c. Respawn episode 144. [00:42:41] Speaker A: Oh, wow. We're in there. [00:42:43] Speaker B: Thanks, Thomas Healy. And it's like it, like. It, like, opens its eyes real big as it says this, and they're, like, red. And they look kind of like. They do kind of look like laser eyes spooling up to shoot some lasers. [00:42:58] Speaker A: They do. Definitely see that happening. [00:43:00] Speaker B: Yeah. We get the necroplasm meter to end the issue. 3822. Spawn's not doing too bad. [00:43:08] Speaker A: Not too shabby. [00:43:09] Speaker B: Too shabby. The Image Classic set. [00:43:14] Speaker A: Yeah. No spawning grounds in this one. [00:43:15] Speaker B: No. That's sad. But do you need more sponsor Universe, Johnny? [00:43:19] Speaker A: No, but we're getting it. [00:43:22] Speaker B: Well, yeah. Yeah. Whether you want it or not, it's coming at you. So we got the. The Core four there going on. No. Hey, look, it's the Kingspawn we're about to cover next. What's Synergy? [00:43:34] Speaker A: You know what? [00:43:35] Speaker B: Synergy. [00:43:36] Speaker A: Then we got a couple toy ads. We got the Mortal Kombat, the Sub Zero. [00:43:41] Speaker B: The reimagining of the original game. [00:43:44] Speaker A: Yes. The second movie had a trailer coming out soon, I believe. [00:43:48] Speaker B: Interesting. That was a second. Man, that was so long ago. 2020. [00:43:53] Speaker A: Yeah, that was a long time ago. It was made in the middle. It was like one big Covid movie. [00:43:57] Speaker B: Yeah, because it was a fun, dumb time to distract ourselves from this terribleness of the world. Yeah, I enjoyed it. [00:44:05] Speaker A: I thought it was fun. [00:44:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Real good. [00:44:08] Speaker A: I like the 90s one, though. [00:44:09] Speaker B: 90 woods is classic, classic. [00:44:12] Speaker A: It's just the song and the music in that is just ridiculous. [00:44:15] Speaker B: Yeah, it's got a. It's got a sweatier premise. Yeah, you love those. You love those sweaty 90s comic book movie premises. [00:44:23] Speaker A: It's not even a comic book movie. That's a video game movie. [00:44:25] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Video Jesus. I thought even worse. I thought I was saying video game, not comic book boy. Brain dumb. [00:44:33] Speaker A: Brain dumb today. [00:44:34] Speaker B: Coffee. Already done. It did its magic and it left. [00:44:38] Speaker A: Oh, no, no. [00:44:40] Speaker B: The. The Warhammer Space Marine and like Blood Angel General. I'm sure that guy has an actual name. Yeah, he's definitely a Blood Angel. It's a little skull with the wings on it is for. [00:44:54] Speaker A: Is that what that is in the Warhammer universe? [00:44:57] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a. It's a faction. It's a group. [00:45:00] Speaker A: Because my Nazis. [00:45:02] Speaker B: I mean it's it's all. It's all a. Like a. A universe wide dictator and it's basically these armies of the dictator conquering the galaxy. So yeah, basically it's. It's ridiculous space Nazi stuff. [00:45:25] Speaker A: That's funny. [00:45:26] Speaker B: But yeah, the miniatures I had were specifically designed to be Blood Angels. [00:45:33] Speaker A: Did you play? [00:45:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I played when I was like 11 and 12. It's a lot though. It's a major time commitment. No, I bet it's a major time commitment. It was. And my, my mom. My mom let me do it even though it was real gross and nasty. But it's because I. My dad was real big into Civil War reenacting at that time and it was the. Okay, if you aren't just like a complete turd while we're supporting your father at his reenactments, we'll let you do this crazy nonsense that you want to do. And so, so I would actually more often than not be at the place playing Warhammer in my. My little Civil War reenactment uniform that, that my mom. My mom made us all mostly period accurate costumes to wear to support my dad. And so I'd be in my little Civil War costume playing futuristic battle games. It's fun. [00:46:35] Speaker A: Nice. That's hilarious. [00:46:37] Speaker B: I was real bad at it though, so that's okay. The other. The older guys will only. Only let you win so many times before. They're like, hey kid, I'm. I'm gonna stop going easy on you. [00:46:50] Speaker A: I'm gonna stop you. I'm pretty good at Star Wars Unlimited. I went to a sealed deck last weekend or a couple weekends ago. [00:46:57] Speaker B: Nice. [00:46:57] Speaker A: I went 2 and 2 and 1 or. Yeah, 1, 2, lost one sealed deck. [00:47:01] Speaker B: So that way you. You show up with an unopened deck or they provide you with an unopened. [00:47:06] Speaker A: You get six packs and you make a deck out of it there. So it's like randomized. It evens the playing field a lot. [00:47:12] Speaker B: That sounds awesome. [00:47:14] Speaker A: It's really fun. [00:47:15] Speaker B: Nice. I just learned. I just learned that a guy at work is a competitive Yu Gi. Oh player. I thought that was awesome because he was like, yeah, sorry I wasn't here last week, but I was in Indiana Doing some, like, regional Yu Gi oh championships. And I'm like, really? That's insane. That's awesome. I never. I never. I've never known anybody who played Yu Gi oh. It was the. It was the. You know, it just. It just missed me because Pokemon hit me full in the face. And Yu Gi oh was like, for kids a couple years after me. [00:47:48] Speaker A: There was a time when I was in 10th grade, David, I was the number one ranked Star Wars TCG player in Oklahoma. [00:47:53] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:47:54] Speaker A: I almost. I lost in the final round of the finals to go on to Gen Con, which was like the big convention to play. [00:48:01] Speaker B: Happens in Indiana, in Indianapolis. Yeah, I have. I have a friend who goes every year. [00:48:05] Speaker A: I want to go. It'd be fun. [00:48:07] Speaker B: I mean, I could put you in touch with him. He's. He's going to go this year if it hasn't happened already. Actually, I think it happens in the spring. [00:48:14] Speaker A: It happens like in August. My August is pretty packed. [00:48:17] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, it's not like. It's not like Indiana is inaccessible from at any point in time. Well, it's inaccessible in that you then have to go to Indiana, but. But it's not like you can't ever get to Indiana. [00:48:29] Speaker A: No, I know. [00:48:29] Speaker B: Gen Con will be there next year. Well, that. That was spawn 364. We forgot to close out the issue. [00:48:38] Speaker A: That was spawn 364, baby. It was like a episode. It was like Independence Day. [00:48:43] Speaker B: Yeah, it was real fun. [00:48:45] Speaker A: Real. [00:49:00] Speaker B: Man. I have somehow managed to trick my Instagram algorithm into largely being funny videos of cats. And it is. It is so good because that's what the Internet. That's all we need the Internet for, is cat videos. Everything else could just go the away. [00:49:19] Speaker A: Cat videos. [00:49:19] Speaker B: Cat videos. That's. That's why it was created, pretty much. It was a compilation. I saw yesterday of cats that were too fat to do anything. And so, like, they would try to lick themselves and they'd just be like. Or they try to scratch and their leg would just be out here, like. [00:49:35] Speaker A: Just like flopping around. [00:49:37] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. [00:49:38] Speaker A: Poor kitties. [00:49:39] Speaker B: Yeah, cats shouldn't be that fat, but if they are, I'm gonna laugh at them. [00:49:45] Speaker A: The fucking Garfield over there. Welcome back, everyone. [00:49:48] Speaker B: Yes, welcome, welcome. [00:49:49] Speaker A: We just talked about cats. If we decide to leave that in. [00:49:52] Speaker B: I mean, we probably should, because talking about cats is wonderful. [00:49:56] Speaker A: Yeah. Not Cats the Musical. Unfortunately. [00:50:00] Speaker B: Unfortunately for Johnny. Fortunately for me. [00:50:02] Speaker A: Fortunately for me, we're not talking about cats in the musical. I did just watch Fan of the Opera live at Royal Albert Hall. [00:50:08] Speaker B: Oh, nice, nice. Phantom of the Opera, one of the. [00:50:12] Speaker A: Best pieces of entertainment around. [00:50:17] Speaker B: It's. It is a highly regarded recording of musical theater. I will. [00:50:23] Speaker A: I'm just a fun show man. That show just works. [00:50:25] Speaker B: I will give it its. I will give it its merits that it is due, but that doesn't. [00:50:30] Speaker A: Right. [00:50:30] Speaker B: No. [00:50:31] Speaker A: Why don't you like. Fan of the. How do you not like it? [00:50:35] Speaker B: I don't know, but I just. I just. I just do not enjoy it. I do not enjoy it. I will. I. It is impossible to deny that literally the song, the Phantom of the Opera and Masquerade are 100% certified bangers. [00:50:52] Speaker A: That's true. They both are. [00:50:54] Speaker B: They're incredible. But I just watching it, experiencing it, I am just like, Jesus Christ, we have to be here. I could go be doing something else. [00:51:04] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:51:06] Speaker B: It's a hard to quantify thing because, I mean, I've seen. I've seen it a lot. I've seen it a lot. It is Wanda's favorite show and I have seen it a lot in support of that. And so she's always like, we've seen it so many times. How do you not like this show? And it's like, I don't know. It doesn't do it for me. It doesn't. [00:51:30] Speaker A: Wow. [00:51:31] Speaker B: I can't believe you and I. I make reference and jokes about it all the time. Fucking Carlotta. I love Carlotta. We named the dog after Carlotta. I love the. I love the. The producers, the scrap metal guys. [00:51:46] Speaker A: But they're managers, David. [00:51:48] Speaker B: They're managers. They're managers. I just. It's just doesn't do it for me. I don't know. [00:51:53] Speaker A: My managers must learn that their place is in an office, not the arts. And as for Ms. Christine D. [00:52:05] Speaker B: Come. [00:52:05] Speaker A: On, man, you're killing me over here. Oh, I just read the book. I'm all high on Phantom and you're bringing me down. [00:52:12] Speaker B: Sorry, sorry. I can't. I can't help it. It's. It's just. I don't know. I was. I was a little goth kid in high school, but I went in a separate direction than following the Phantom. [00:52:24] Speaker A: See, I was a soft goth, so. [00:52:26] Speaker B: So, yeah, fan. [00:52:27] Speaker A: The offer was perfect for me. It's like for soft goths. [00:52:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I was. I was. I was a new metal goth, so. So I did okay. I did like the cold chamber, slip knot, mud vein route instead of the Cure Phantom. [00:52:45] Speaker A: The pesh mode. [00:52:46] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:52:47] Speaker A: So the better route. So I took the better route. Is one who won out in the End. Huh? Depeche Mode or Slipknot. [00:52:54] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Slipknot could have stopped after their. They could have stopped after Iowa. Fully. Full stop. [00:53:02] Speaker A: Okay. [00:53:03] Speaker B: But I mean, I guess one of their members did just get engaged to Kelly Osborne right in front of the Prince of Darkness himself. [00:53:11] Speaker A: Oh. At his, like, farewell concert. [00:53:13] Speaker B: Yeah, it was. Because it was beforehand and like, when he started to do his. Kelly, will you marry me? Ozzy goes, you're not marrying a daughter of mine. [00:53:22] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:53:24] Speaker B: Ozzy's fucking great. Did you watch the. The video of Papa singing at the concert? [00:53:31] Speaker A: I did not. [00:53:33] Speaker B: Papa did. Oh, what did he do? I forgot. [00:53:36] Speaker A: Last one I saw him was doing Bohemian Rhapsody for some of the Queen members. [00:53:40] Speaker B: But yeah, he. He did. He did one of the songs at the farewell concert. [00:53:44] Speaker A: That's cool. [00:53:45] Speaker B: Yeah, Pretty awesome. Sad. Sad to know that Ozzy's death is probably quite nice. [00:53:53] Speaker A: Hey, gang, it's your co host John Fisher cutting in here just to say that this episode was recorded a couple weeks before Ozzy did pass away. So it appears you can blame David for that one. Thanks, David. R.I.P. ozzy back to the episode. [00:54:13] Speaker B: Yeah, he's given us a lot of. A lot of joy in the years. [00:54:17] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:54:19] Speaker B: You know who else has given us a lot of joy in these last couple of years? Johnny. [00:54:23] Speaker A: Rory McConville. [00:54:24] Speaker B: Rory McConville. You knew exactly where I was going. I was going to say Rory McFucking Conville, but you know. [00:54:29] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:54:32] Speaker B: And Rory McConville happens to write King Spawn now. And we got Kingspawn 45 to cover Johnny. [00:54:39] Speaker A: Absolutely. And we start with the covers. And we've got. With the covers, I've got the puppeteer Lee. Of course, the A cover. [00:54:46] Speaker B: Yeah. There's the. The B cover. The Von Randall cover is excellent. But there's absolutely. It's like the Bjorn Barons or the Mark Spears. If there's a puppeteerly, you're getting the puppeteer Lee. [00:55:00] Speaker A: Sorry, Puppeteer Lee. [00:55:02] Speaker B: It's. Oh, it's so good. It's like a. It's like an homage to the issue one of the original 93 Violator series where it's the violator with his little. His little spawn balloon. [00:55:18] Speaker A: Yep. [00:55:18] Speaker B: Or I guess clown with a spawn balloon with the violator behind him. [00:55:23] Speaker A: Violator in the background. Yeah. [00:55:25] Speaker B: And. [00:55:25] Speaker A: Oh, is that puppeteer. Leave that one light source. [00:55:29] Speaker B: And a clown with a balloon has never been more terrifying than this. Like even. Yeah, even Bill Scars. Not Bill Skarsgard. It was Bill. [00:55:39] Speaker A: Mm. [00:55:39] Speaker B: Okay, Bill. And not even Bill Skarsgard in his pennywise get up. Is it as frightening as this? It's close, but I think, yeah. [00:55:49] Speaker A: This clown looks like he's gonna eat you. [00:55:50] Speaker B: Clown. Clown frightens me more than Pennywise does, mostly because Pennywise assumes that you're just frightened of clowns in general, which is kind of the whole thing of it. But I'm not frightened. [00:56:02] Speaker A: You love clowns. [00:56:02] Speaker B: I think clowns are fucking great. [00:56:05] Speaker A: I know you love clowns, you clown. [00:56:07] Speaker B: They're. They're silly and they're dumb and like, I love the. I love the. They do things and they do it intentionally wrong. And you're like, no, no, no, don't do that. Don't do that. It's like Mr. Noodle on Sesame Street. [00:56:20] Speaker A: Yeah, he's a clown. [00:56:21] Speaker B: He's a clown. [00:56:22] Speaker A: Yeah, we love Mr. Noodle. [00:56:24] Speaker B: I do love Mr. Noodle. [00:56:26] Speaker A: RIP. [00:56:28] Speaker B: Elmo's Twitter. No. [00:56:30] Speaker A: RIP. Mr. Noodle. [00:56:31] Speaker B: Oh, Mr. Noodle died. [00:56:32] Speaker A: Michael Jeter. [00:56:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:33] Speaker A: He died of AIDS. [00:56:34] Speaker B: Oh, shit. I didn't know that. [00:56:36] Speaker A: Yeah. Michael Jeter. [00:56:37] Speaker B: Oh, man, now I'm sad. I'm gonna go watching Mr. Doodle after this. [00:56:41] Speaker A: Yeah, Michael Jeter, he was like the. He was in a bunch of movies. Green mile, Jurassic Park 3. [00:56:46] Speaker B: Oh, the one that I haven't seen because my sister didn't like Tea Leone at the time. Yeah. Okay. [00:56:52] Speaker A: Nice. It's fine. [00:56:56] Speaker B: By all means. I should have watched it because Alan Grant was my favorite character, and Grant is back for it. But. [00:57:02] Speaker A: Yeah, come on, man. [00:57:03] Speaker B: But I watched Lost World so many times that I got, like, Stockholm syndrome into loving Ian Malcolm before just being like, oh, no. Ian Malcolm fucking rocks. Yeah, he's an asshole, and I should want to punch him. But Jeff Goldblum plays him perfectly. [00:57:19] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:57:21] Speaker B: But, yeah, Puppeteer Lee cover, it's excellent. The Von Randall cover does have, like, a. The classic pile of bodies and, like, Spawn, like, tearing his face off and in consternation. [00:57:33] Speaker A: Yeah, pretty cool. And it's like kind of like those Spawn Origins collections. Like, cover. Yeah, like the square with the white. [00:57:40] Speaker B: Yeah, it's good. It's good. But it's no Puppeteer Lee. Sorry. [00:57:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:57:45] Speaker B: We pop this puppy open, give some credits where they are due. We got script plot by Rory McConville with additional script by Tom McFarlane. The art yields a raisonar. Oh, it's so good. Color by Ivan Nunez. The lettering by and World design cover the covers. Todd McFarlane is the creative director and Thomas Healy is the editor in chief. And previously in King Spawn. Spawn continues to protect the child, but soon he will have to make a heartbreaking decision. You know, it happens anytime you. Anytime. Anytime you got children bad, you gotta make heartbreaking decisions. And we start in the Tinkerer's workshop. [00:58:28] Speaker A: So, yeah, the Tinkerer's working on the Wraiths. Like, assassin guy here, his Darth Maul. [00:58:32] Speaker B: Yeah. And while he's, like, cutting out these cybernetic implants, wakes up, and the Tinkerer says, what the Christ? [00:58:42] Speaker A: This assassin dude just, like, fucking grabs the Tinkerer by the face and throws him across the fucking room. [00:58:47] Speaker B: Yeah. And then just, like, steps over his body and leaves. And then we cut to Al Simmons walking with this child that he has rescued from the Wraith. The Wraith. And he's. He's got, like, an inner monologue talking about the evil that he's spent the years fighting. But there's nothing that compares to the horrors humans inflict upon each other. At each time. I think I've seen the worst. Humanity finds new ways to disgust me. Who? [00:59:17] Speaker A: There's the Wraith, looking like a fucking college professor. [00:59:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Just like, hey, how. How. How you doing? Howdy doin? He's like, ah, good. I'm glad you came to your sisters. And so they. [00:59:33] Speaker A: Remember the racemen, like, committing, like, crazy terrorist attacks all over the world. [00:59:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:59:38] Speaker A: So Spawn's like, are you done killing? He's like, for now. [00:59:40] Speaker B: And then, you know, he's like, all of this. All of this death and destruction is necessary, even though it's unpleasant. And so Spawn's like, okay, you can have this child. And the. So Spawn scoots this child over to the Wraith, and the Wraith just, like, looks down at him, pulls out a knife, and slits his throat just, like, right away. Just, like, right away. No hesitation. And then the boy crumbles into a pile of earthworms. [01:00:10] Speaker A: And it was an illusion. It was Spawn playing a funny on him. [01:00:15] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. And Spawn's like, you're not going to get this child. And the Wraith is like, dude, I. I need this child. I need to give him to Malik very specifically, this child. If I could use any other child, I would go get another fucking child. But the terms of our agreement is this goddamn child. [01:00:33] Speaker A: Okay? [01:00:35] Speaker B: And then the Wraith gives him, like, a breakdown of what it is. You know, 400 years ago, he met Malik because the Wraith himself was just a drunkard looking down the barrel of an early grave. And Moloch was like, if you give me five children, I'll give you 25 more years of life. And then every 25 years. They renew the contract. And so for 400 years, the Wraith is just. Every 25 years, killing some children, giving them to milk. [01:01:05] Speaker A: That's a lot of children to kill. [01:01:07] Speaker B: That's a lot. That's four times every hundred years. Times four. So that's 16. 16 times 25. Oh, boy. That's like almost 300. [01:01:19] Speaker A: No, because it's 400 divided by 25 years. That's 16 times. And five children every time. [01:01:26] Speaker B: Five children. Okay. Not six. [01:01:28] Speaker A: So it would be 80. [01:01:29] Speaker B: 80. Okay. Not. Not 25. Jesus. 25 children. One for every year. [01:01:34] Speaker A: No, five every 25 years. [01:01:37] Speaker B: Okay. [01:01:39] Speaker A: This guy's just secured a bunch of wealth because he's been alive for so long. And power shows him throughout the years and centuries. [01:01:47] Speaker B: Yeah, and. And while. And. And the Wraith is just like, you know what? I just. I just love living. And Al's like, I don't give a shit. You're. You and your fucking master are done. [01:02:00] Speaker A: He's like, I don't give a shit about Moloch. He's not my master. It's just a business arrangement. [01:02:03] Speaker B: Yeah, and. And Al's just like, you're not getting the boy. And the Wraith is like, man, I've already. I've already done that. On your brain. I know exactly where he is. Don't give me that. And you're not going to be able to save him because, you know, look at this. I was alive when witches were around. I learned some witch magic. [01:02:22] Speaker A: Yeah, you learned how to do a. [01:02:24] Speaker B: An imprisonment spell. Yeah, that Al just walked right into. Al's good at walking into traps. He. He does his best. He does his best. Bones, I got you for three minutes. You ain't going nowhere. [01:02:40] Speaker A: Spawn's like, that's right. And just starts boxing him. [01:02:43] Speaker B: Yeah. And then Moloch just, like, ha. And, like, pushes him. It repels the wraith. Not wallock the Wraith. The. The wraith just goes, oh. And, like, repels Spawn with his aura. [01:02:55] Speaker A: And it shows Spawn's, like, brain, like, searing. So he's doing something to his mind. [01:03:00] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we cut back to Terry in the safe home house with the child. [01:03:06] Speaker A: With Andy. [01:03:08] Speaker B: Terry's just like, dicking around on his phone. And then he hears a Creeek. And then Terry's like, oh, hell no. Grabs his gun. It's like, al. Al. And then out of the shadows comes the assassin. And it's very. Not Al. [01:03:25] Speaker A: No, Very much not. [01:03:27] Speaker B: And then there's a little back and forth between. We see the Wraith, you know, smashing Al Simmons with a rock and kicking him in the face. And Terry shooting at this assassin and then getting punched and cracked and knocked to the ground. The assassin goes over to Andy while Andy is watching a show about some cute bears and eating some chips. And just like stands over him menacingly. [01:03:54] Speaker A: And he's like, what? [01:03:56] Speaker B: He says, huh? And then we cut back to Al and the Wraith. And the Wraith. The Wraith does something that makes a whole bunch of like roots come up from the ground. [01:04:10] Speaker A: And roots with hands are like tentacles. [01:04:12] Speaker B: Yeah. And they wrap around Al Simmons and they drag him into the ground. And all this time the Wraith is saying, like, I. I've heard of your deeds. I know what you've done. You think you're so badass. Well, let me tell you, you're not as cool as you think you are. Because there are forces much greater than either heaven and hell. And then we see point of view from Al Simmons as he's dragged into the ground. And the Wraith is just like, toodles, I'm in it. [01:04:43] Speaker A: And he gets covered in the dirt and buried. [01:04:46] Speaker B: Cuts to black king spots. Crowned in the issue. Bam. That was. Oh, man. It's a good issue. [01:04:56] Speaker A: It's good. It's fast. [01:04:57] Speaker B: Yeah, it's breezy. Easy breezy. [01:04:59] Speaker A: Beautiful covergirl. [01:05:02] Speaker B: Maybe. Maybe he's born with it. And then, Johnny, it's the glorious return of some spawning grounds. [01:05:07] Speaker A: Spawning grounds. [01:05:08] Speaker B: Spawning grounds. And we have here, first UP is the 29th spawning ground submission by Jet. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. And it is a. It is a version of the. Of Todd's original 1977 style style spawn. [01:05:33] Speaker A: High school Spawn. [01:05:34] Speaker B: Because friend of the pod, tiny Spawny scent, Jet, the. That I guess he sent him the two pack, the one that has the original high school drawing and the Todd McFarlane figure in it. [01:05:49] Speaker A: So yeah. [01:05:50] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Tiny Spawny out there supporting. Supporting the youth artists. [01:05:56] Speaker A: We love that. [01:05:57] Speaker B: Thank you very much for that, Mark. Keep up the good work also. Keep up the good work, Jet. That's awesome. Look at that. Look at him. Look at him. [01:06:04] Speaker A: Pretty badass. Excited for spawn 77, for sure. [01:06:08] Speaker B: Oh yeah. It's gonna be fun because it's gonna have. [01:06:10] Speaker A: That's Mark Spears doing interiors. This is crazy. [01:06:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Very excited. Thomas calls them another banger of a piece. And he's right. It's really good. And then the next submission is a lady named Alicia saying that her 12 year old son wanted her to send this picture of Spawn in that he drew and ask if he could have a job. And. And Thomas Is like, hey, don't laugh too hard. I'm gonna think about that. But we got another, we got another 12 year old drawn spawn art in the back of a Spawn issue, Johnny. And it is dope. [01:06:53] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a fun like Spawn. [01:06:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:06:55] Speaker A: Spawn head. [01:06:56] Speaker B: It's like, it's like, it's like his headshot for his, his professional appearances. It's just his head and the, the collar of his cape. [01:07:07] Speaker A: Pretty cool. Need more Spawns universe. [01:07:11] Speaker B: Do I? Yes, yes, I do. [01:07:14] Speaker A: I don't know if you do or not, but yeah, we get the don't miss these ongoing titles ad with the Core four. You get the ad for the Image classics. [01:07:23] Speaker B: We sure do. [01:07:24] Speaker A: And we get the ad for the spawn issue. One cover statue. [01:07:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:07:29] Speaker A: Like $350. [01:07:30] Speaker B: Yeah. Super awesome. This is, this, this is how, this is how old this issue is all the way back from May. That it. That's still in pre orders instead of just being available. [01:07:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:07:46] Speaker B: And that's kingspawn45, Johnny. [01:07:48] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a fast one. [01:07:50] Speaker B: That was. I just went zoom. I just went zoom. Well, you know what else goes zoom, Johnny? [01:07:57] Speaker A: A dog. It's exciting. [01:07:58] Speaker B: A dog that's excited and oh man, me as dog am excited about these issues. So I think we should probably get to rating these puppies, huh? [01:08:10] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. So first up we had spawn364. And like, you know, I've been sour on the top father lately, but I really like this one. I thought it was really fun. It was just bombastic and just like all over the place in a good way. Like his style just really fits to like these really, like I said, kind of Independence Day story. [01:08:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:08:35] Speaker A: With the heroes coming together and fighting this big behemoth. And I'm excited to see the next issue. But the Brett Booth art, of course, is killer. Like seeing him do all those different characters is so much fun. I always love his. Jessica Priest is one of my favorites. And it's good to see her in this issue. But just seeing that, that two page spread where it's. Everybody is just so cool. Yeah, it's fun. It's, it's, it's just like a fun action movie. Kind of reminds me of. I love the shot of the behemoth guy coming out of the water and blocking out the moon. [01:09:06] Speaker B: Oh yeah. Such a tight shot or panel. [01:09:08] Speaker A: I guess we say shot because we're movie nerds. [01:09:11] Speaker B: I mean if, if they know what we mean there. Yeah, yeah, they got it. We. How many times have we called this an episode? [01:09:19] Speaker A: I know. No, but it's. Yeah, I really enjoyed it. It's fun to see the whole gang together. And I'm excited to see what the next issue is. Kind of a wind up issue, but I still think it works really well. Four bad Godzilla movies. [01:09:37] Speaker B: Figments of your imagination, you mean? [01:09:39] Speaker A: Yes, there are no bad Godzilla movies, but according to CRN lady, there are. [01:09:45] Speaker B: It's good. It's good. Yeah, it's fun. It's a. It's a fun setting up issue. I. As crazy as it is, the. The Todd father's little weird system of flashbacks. [01:09:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:10:00] Speaker B: It helps make it exciting because you can. You can start off with this. This. This nice little triptych of setting up all of the main. The main players of each set. [01:10:11] Speaker A: Setting up the three. The heaven hell, having green world hell, and then going right into like the two page. [01:10:15] Speaker B: Yeah. And then you've got like the hero shots and then just being like, how did we get here? And where are we going? So it's. It's. The Todd father definitely works better when he's allowed to just be like pie in the sky doing whatever the hell this is. This is where he shines. Because having to. Having to bring things like, down and on a more personal level and kind of fill time, he's not as good at that, but like bombastic big. He is excellent at. [01:10:49] Speaker A: I agree. [01:10:50] Speaker B: He's. He's good at swinging for the fences. He's not much of a bunt man and. Yeah, it's great. And this Brett Booth arth. This Brett Booth art is just insane. It's very good. I thought it was great. It's fun. I am also going to give it four. I'm gonna give it four. Four throne designers because. [01:11:19] Speaker A: Four throne designers. [01:11:21] Speaker B: Because apparently they need to have more throne designers. [01:11:25] Speaker A: There's just one. [01:11:26] Speaker B: Because it's just the one. I guess Gaia. I guess Gaia designed her own. She's like, I'm not paying an external contractor. No, I could just do it myself. [01:11:36] Speaker A: Yeah, she's. I just grew my own tree on the ground. [01:11:39] Speaker B: She's like, it's basically me. [01:11:42] Speaker A: Next up, we had kingspawn45, a breezy confrontation with the Wraith and Spawn. [01:11:48] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:11:49] Speaker A: But I like the Wraith character. Like, just. He looks like a normal dude, just kind of insidious. Yeah, it's like, creepy. I'm curious to learn, like, where his powers are from, like, how powerful he is. Yeah, he's able to bury Spawn. That's pretty. Pretty powerful. [01:12:04] Speaker B: It Takes a lot. It takes a lot. [01:12:06] Speaker A: But yeah, it's just this kind of fun confrontation we learn. Not fun, I guess, but we learned the background of the Wraith. The yield race in our art is just fantastic, as always. Just so tactile and. Feels like they're like action figures or something. I don't know. [01:12:23] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [01:12:25] Speaker A: Pretty fun issue. Kind of just setting up for the big final confrontation, I believe. But I'm gonna give it four worm kids. Kids made out of worms. [01:12:38] Speaker B: Four kids made out of worms. Very nice. [01:12:40] Speaker A: Four kids made out of worms. [01:12:42] Speaker B: Like. Like Oogie boogie. That's the only thing this panel was missing was the child going, my books. Yeah, it's. It's excellent. It's. Oh, man, it moves. It's. It knows where it's going and it wants to get us there. It doesn't want us. Get us there too quick. But it's not worried about slowing down unnecessarily. I'm worried about the Tinkerer. He just got his. His face grabbed and his body smash. That's no fun. I worried about Terry. Terry just got his face grab and his body smash. I worried about Al. He just got buried alive. It's. [01:13:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:13:24] Speaker B: Oh, man. [01:13:25] Speaker A: Everyone just gets owned in this issue. [01:13:28] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. Zero punches were pulled in this, Johnny. They spared no expense. Um, and we did kind of gloss. We did gloss over it completely, but this panel of. With it's backgrounded by Moloch. And then it's the Wraith's life as he goes through the years. And it, like, the technology updates as it goes down the page. It's just beautiful, like, because Moloch there with his shiny eyes. [01:13:58] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:13:59] Speaker B: Oh, so creepy. So cree b. It's real good. I am gonna give it four and a half bags of chips, Johnny. [01:14:10] Speaker A: Four and a half bags of chips. [01:14:12] Speaker B: Yeah, you gotta eat those chips. It's good. It's good shit. I like it. I love it. [01:14:19] Speaker A: Sweet. [01:14:19] Speaker B: I want some more of it. [01:14:21] Speaker A: You know, we like, love and want more of. [01:14:23] Speaker B: What's that, Johnny? [01:14:25] Speaker A: Our friends on Instagram. [01:14:26] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. More friends on Instagram, please. We got one today that is, you know, not heavily spawned, but heavily in our interests. And it is slab dragon. Just Laabdragon, as. As it sounds. Spelled just how it sounds, you know, a slab of dragon grab of slag. Slab dragon. And they've got. As it sounds, they are like smaug and have a hoard of slabbed issues of comic book that they protect and they. They specialize in like the. The Pulpier, more like in the EC comics vein. So it's, there's a whole bunch of like space aliens and dinosaurs and like the fucking Lone Ranger and shit. It's, it's fun. It's. [01:15:18] Speaker A: That's pretty cool. [01:15:19] Speaker B: There's a lot of these books that I've just never heard of just because they've disappeared. And these are just like pristine versions of these, these pulpy vintage things. It's wonderful to look at. I like it. So give them a follow. Give them a follow. If you like more Spawn related things, you give us a follow. We're at. Over on Instagram. Regardingspawnpod. Yeah, we like to interact with you there. [01:15:48] Speaker A: Absolutely, absolutely. While you're on the Internet. Oh yeah, no, yeah, go ahead. [01:15:54] Speaker B: If you don't like to interact with anybody on Instagram, you can always interact with us via email at. Regarding spawnpodmail.com. [01:16:01] Speaker A: Yes. And every week I like to ask a question. This week I would ask, what do you think of Angela Weber's the Phantom of the Opera? Do you hate it like David or do you love it like me? Let me know. [01:16:15] Speaker B: We're gonna, we're gonna discover that there are Team Johnny's and Team David's and Team Johnny is probably getting bigger by the day. [01:16:22] Speaker A: Yeah, let's go Team Johnny. I'm Team Phantom, so. Well, I'm not Team Phantom. He's kind of an abusive guy. [01:16:30] Speaker B: Kind of. He's kind of a creepy old man who likes the young women. He's probably in the Epstein files, Johnny. [01:16:37] Speaker A: He probably is. I've had a. You know, as someone who used to like fan the opera in the youth and identified more with the Phantom, I've had a revelation rereading the book and re watching the musical. Just, you know, that Phantom. Not a good guy. [01:16:53] Speaker B: No, no, he's not. [01:16:54] Speaker A: He's definitely kidnapping. Dragging people around by their hair, yelling at people. [01:16:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Ignoring. Ignoring the one person in the world who loves him for exactly who he is and doesn't need him to do anything special for it. [01:17:08] Speaker A: Only because he wants her to like have sex with her. [01:17:11] Speaker B: Because he doesn't. Yeah, because he doesn't see her as anything other than just an object. [01:17:18] Speaker A: Oh, Phantom. [01:17:20] Speaker B: The Phantom's canceled, Johnny. [01:17:22] Speaker A: Yeah, he's a bad dude. Cancel the Phantom. Yes, let us know. Do you like Phantom of the Opera or do you not? [01:17:31] Speaker B: And if you do, do you have a favorite production? Are you a Royal Albert Hall? Are you a Schumacher film? Are you the original cast recording the local production that you were in? Because there's not. There's not a lot of local productions because I guess there is a high. [01:17:47] Speaker A: There's a lot of special effects. [01:17:49] Speaker B: You gotta. You gotta shell out a lot of money. I remember that, like, the Pac didn't do it until, like, right before they were about to change the cloth on their ceiling because they had to punch a big hole in it for the. [01:18:01] Speaker A: Yeah, they, like, redo the roof. [01:18:03] Speaker B: Yeah. So they were like, okay, this is the last thing we're doing before we do the renovation. That was the only way they could do it to hang. [01:18:10] Speaker A: To hold the chandelier. [01:18:11] Speaker B: Right. Yeah. Because it's got to hang out over. [01:18:15] Speaker A: The audience and swoop down and crash. [01:18:21] Speaker B: Lot 666, then. Lot 6. [01:18:23] Speaker A: A chandelier in pieces. [01:18:27] Speaker B: Subtle, subtle. Andrew Lloyd Webber subtle. [01:18:30] Speaker A: I can do the whole thing if you want me to. [01:18:33] Speaker B: You could have just called it Lot 66 and that would have been, some. [01:18:35] Speaker A: Of you may recall, the Strange Affair. Phantom of the Opera. A mystery never fully explained. We are told, ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier that figured in the famous disaster. Our workshops have repaired it and wired it for the new electric light. So we may get a hint of. It may look like when reassembled, perhaps we may frighten away the ghosts of so many years ago with a little illumination. Gentlemen. [01:19:07] Speaker B: That is. That is. That is a very effective, effective opening because it is. It is fucking loud and it is fucking great. [01:19:17] Speaker A: Phantom's here, baby. It's an announcement. This is Anthem. [01:19:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Speaking of anthems and announcements, we would like to announce that our anthem is done by Lonnie Bones. And you should definitely follow him wherever you can. Just Google Lonnie Bones music. He's there. He's out there. He's making good shit. [01:19:32] Speaker A: Absolutely. [01:19:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:19:35] Speaker A: And while you're out there on the Internet, make sure to find us Rate Review. Subscribe. Tell your friends, family, co workers. Tell the fan of the opera. [01:19:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Make. Make a little. Make a little monkey toy that instead of singing mas or playing the song masquerade says listen to. Regarding Spot on Fridays every week, except for when they forget to. To do the show. [01:20:00] Speaker A: It's only happened three times out of 140, 150. [01:20:04] Speaker B: But like all in the last six months. [01:20:06] Speaker A: So, you know, hey, okay, so what? Only one of them was my fault. [01:20:10] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. Most of them are my fault. I'll. I'll cop to that. The only one that was your fault. [01:20:16] Speaker A: Wait, none of them were my fault? [01:20:18] Speaker B: Well, no, there was. There was just the. Yeah. You're right, because I think it was. [01:20:22] Speaker A: It was because I moved. But you had a whole. We didn't move that long. [01:20:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. And then I forgot. Yeah. They've all been my fault. Whoops. There's probably a good reason that Team Johnny is getting more members as we speak. [01:20:37] Speaker A: It's not just the Phantom. [01:20:39] Speaker B: Well, speaking of. Speaking of speaking and releasing episodes every week as long as we don't forget to do them. Would you like to do another episode in a week, Johnny? Absolutely. [01:20:50] Speaker A: I think I would. [01:20:51] Speaker B: Oh, hell, yeah. What? Would you like to. Would you like to do a little. Would you like to do a little reading of something? Maybe a little north, southeast or west perhaps? [01:21:01] Speaker A: I think west. [01:21:02] Speaker B: West. Okay. Awesome. Well, why don't we do another Rootin Tootin gunslinger action episode? [01:21:07] Speaker A: I like it. [01:21:08] Speaker B: Nice. All right, that means we're gonna cover gunslinger number 43 and deadly tales of the gunslinger number six. And we should probably put together rules for a drinking game for every time we accidentally call Tobias Javi, you take a drink and we'll see how long it takes you to get fucked up listening to the episode. Yeah, we're real bad about it. I'm surprised we haven't started accidentally calling Javi Tobias the other way around. Like, getting it exactly. 100% wrong. [01:21:41] Speaker A: Exactly right. [01:21:45] Speaker B: I know, but. But find yourself a copy of those. Those good Western issues, and we'll talk about them next week. Right here. [01:21:50] Speaker A: Absolutely. [01:21:51] Speaker B: Regarding Spawn. [01:21:52] Speaker A: Well, wow. That felt like an ending. [01:21:54] Speaker B: It did feel like an ending. I guess that means I should say. Johnny, I've got nothing else to say, but may the scorched be with you. [01:22:01] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:22:02] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:22:04] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [01:22:06] Speaker B: Man, this fucking talk of bad Godzilla movies makes me want the fucking Pluto Godzilla Channel. I want that. I want that one. That is the. The child who, like, looks through all the. Like, he's going through the. The deserted places around town just, like, on his bike, trying to avoid bullies, and he stumbles across, like a. He stumbles across like, some bad guys doing some. Some covert deals. And then they almost catch him. I don't remember which one that is. [01:22:41] Speaker A: And where does Godzilla show up? [01:22:43] Speaker B: I can't remember if it's a Godzilla or if it's a Mothra. [01:22:46] Speaker A: Okay, it sounds a little more like a Mothra. [01:22:48] Speaker B: Does sound like. But it's definitely not like the Return of Mothra because it's older. [01:22:53] Speaker A: Old. [01:22:54] Speaker B: But I want that one to come up randomly so I could be like, ah, hell yeah, kid. Dig through that trash. Oh, no. Watch out for Those bad guys. [01:23:00] Speaker A: Yeah. It is nice to have the channel. [01:23:02] Speaker B: It is nice. [01:23:03] Speaker A: We miss it. [01:23:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:23:05] Speaker A: I was watching some bar rescue on Pluto TV the other day. [01:23:07] Speaker B: Nice. Nice. I mean, the Indiana Jones movies have been on pretty constant rotation over here. [01:23:13] Speaker A: Yes, they have. [01:23:14] Speaker B: So that's. That's something. That's something. There's. There have been some good. There have been some good classic horror films on too, but I. I gotta. I gotta be careful just leaving those going. I gotta. I gotta baby those more. Because if Wanda comes down and she sees something that she didn't want to see, then it's gonna be my fault, and I don't want to be dealing with that. Thank you very much. No, that's. I. I learned my lesson that way. The hard way. There's a reason that we. I do not speak of Freddy Krueger aloud around here. [01:23:43] Speaker A: Well, yeah, I know Freddy Krueger's. Yeah, I bet he's a scary guy. [01:23:48] Speaker B: For somebody who easily gets nightmares. Having. Hearing anything about a creature that kills you in nightmares, it's. No, no, it's no good. [01:23:57] Speaker A: That's so funny you mentioned that. Because that's like that joke on Evil Dead Rise when they go, we're watching the Freddy movies, except for the bad ones. Just like Godzilla. [01:24:07] Speaker B: Just like Godzilla. [01:24:08] Speaker A: So now we know there are no bad Godzillas and there's no bad Freddy movies. [01:24:11] Speaker B: Yeah, true. It's true. [01:24:13] Speaker A: Except for the remake was kind of bad. [01:24:15] Speaker B: Oh, I didn't see the remake. [01:24:17] Speaker A: Didn't like it. [01:24:18] Speaker B: Was somebody else Freddy or did they still get Robert Englund? [01:24:20] Speaker A: Yeah, it was Jackie Earl Haley, the guy who played Warshaw in Watchmen. [01:24:27] Speaker B: I don't. Yeah, I think that's. I think that's. It's got. It's tied to Robert Englund. Anybody else? Yeah, anybody else who tries to do it. [01:24:36] Speaker A: I think I'm surprised they haven't tried to get him back while he's still alive. [01:24:39] Speaker B: I don't know. I mean, I'm sure he would be like, hell, yeah, I like money. [01:24:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:24:45] Speaker B: Not only. Not only did Freddie build the house of New Line Cinema, but I'm pretty sure he built Robert Englund's house. Like the physical house where he lives. [01:24:53] Speaker A: Literally. Yes. [01:24:55] Speaker B: Yeah. One, two. Freddy's coming for you. [01:25:02] Speaker A: Welcome to Prime. [01:25:17] Speaker B: Sam.