Episode 145 -Deadly Tales Of The Gunlsinger 6 and Gunslinger Spawn 43

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Distracted by the sudden return of his hat, the gunslinger barely has a moment to respond to the familiar sound closing in from behind. Sh. Good evening and welcome to the Malibu. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast. I'm your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:49] Speaker B: And I am your co host, David Williams. And all I have to say to that, Johnny, is she. Gotcha. I was expecting him to say that as Perry White, but he didn't. [00:01:04] Speaker A: He didn't in the New Superman. Yeah. What's that actor's name? [00:01:09] Speaker B: Wendell Price. [00:01:10] Speaker A: Yeah, Wendell Price. [00:01:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:12] Speaker A: Yeah, we saw the new Superman last weekend. [00:01:14] Speaker B: Yeah, it was real fun. [00:01:15] Speaker A: It was fun. It was good. It was a good James Gunn movie. I liked the World Building. I liked how it started. And the main actors were all really good. [00:01:24] Speaker B: I guess. I guess the worst thing you could say about it is it's a James Gunn movie. So if you don't like James Gunn, you're probably not gonna like fun. [00:01:31] Speaker A: I feel like even if you didn't like other James Gun movies, you might like this one. [00:01:35] Speaker B: Maybe. [00:01:35] Speaker A: This is some James Gunny, though. [00:01:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:38] Speaker A: Like Brand said, like before they saw it, like, is there a scene where guy dances around to a song and kills people? And I was like, yes. [00:01:44] Speaker B: Yeah, it. It definitely. It definitely tamps down some of the James Gunier stuff since it was PG. PG? Or was it PG 13? [00:01:53] Speaker A: P 13. [00:01:54] Speaker B: BG 13. Yeah, a little. A little on the leash, as they say. Does anybody say that? I don't think anybody says that. [00:02:01] Speaker A: You do, apparently. [00:02:03] Speaker B: I do now. [00:02:04] Speaker A: Yeah. I like the Lois Lane actor. I liked Clark Kent's actor. I like Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor. [00:02:10] Speaker B: It was. It was really weird listening to the lady who played Lois not talk for 45 minutes straight as. As Midge because she was she in. She's the. The titular marvelous Mrs. Maisel. [00:02:27] Speaker A: Okay, I've never watched that. [00:02:28] Speaker B: And. And. Jesus Christ, the amount of words that they've been able to shoehorn into every episode of that show is incredible. [00:02:36] Speaker A: Gilmore Girls levels, maybe? [00:02:38] Speaker B: Well, I mean, it's Amy Sherman Palladino, so. [00:02:41] Speaker A: Is it? [00:02:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:02:42] Speaker A: Oh, I didn't realize. Oh, well, yeah, duh. [00:02:46] Speaker B: Like so much dialogue, it's insane. But yeah, very fun. [00:02:50] Speaker A: I thought that was good. And to pick up a previous thread for earlier episode. I thought she was hot. [00:02:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. [00:02:57] Speaker A: Bonk. [00:02:58] Speaker B: 100 op. You should. You should probably watch a little bit of that revival action, Johnny. I think you'd. I think you'd get a hit out of that milquetoast brunette that. [00:03:07] Speaker A: What's Revival. [00:03:08] Speaker B: Revival is the. The show based off of the Tim Seeley and Tim Norton comic book about a strange incident in rural Wisconsin where for some reason, everybody who died at this one particular period of time have come back to life. [00:03:23] Speaker A: Oh, cool. [00:03:24] Speaker B: Yeah, it's fun. [00:03:26] Speaker A: That sounds fun. Good premise. [00:03:28] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a couple. A couple of local boys, Tim Seeley and Mike Norton. [00:03:34] Speaker A: Let's see it. [00:03:35] Speaker B: It's a. It's a good take on. A good take on the zombies. [00:03:39] Speaker A: Okay. [00:03:39] Speaker B: Because they're not really zombies. [00:03:41] Speaker A: They're kind of zombies. You know, Else is kind of a zombie. [00:03:45] Speaker B: This guy, Mr. Mr. Tobias E. Gunslinger. [00:03:50] Speaker A: Tobias E. Coyote, I thought was his name. [00:03:54] Speaker B: He should. He should probably. He should probably adopt a coyote and named it Wiley. He's a friend to both the Roadrunner and the coyote. Johnny. [00:04:04] Speaker A: He'd unite them. [00:04:05] Speaker B: He would. He is. He is. He is anti Acme. [00:04:08] Speaker A: But you see, they release a Comic Con. They're actually going to release Acme versus Coyote. [00:04:14] Speaker B: Oh, really? [00:04:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:04:15] Speaker B: Nice. Next year, are they gonna finally release Batgirl 2? Probably. No, I have it on good authority that it's probably. Or not me personally, but I have. [00:04:27] Speaker A: Read accounts that I've heard it's not good. [00:04:29] Speaker B: A good. A good authority that it's probably the best. That it doesn't come out like all of the people who worked on it should be, you know, understandably given credit for all of their hard work. But that as a movie, it kind of. Yeah, I can only. That's only a secondhand opinion that I can hold because I can't see it. [00:04:46] Speaker A: Yeah, you might love it. It could be your favorite movie of all time. [00:04:48] Speaker B: It does have Brendan Fraser Fraser as Firefly. He just burned. [00:04:54] Speaker A: My favorite movie of all time is coming to 4K next month. Mastering Commander. [00:04:58] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:04:58] Speaker A: Steelbook. I got it reserved. [00:05:00] Speaker B: They should. They should do a re release in 40x so that way you can get this. [00:05:04] Speaker A: Oh, that'd be. That'd be a wet 40x. You'd be rocking and rolling. It'd be relaxing though. The boat rocking and rolling. [00:05:12] Speaker B: I don't know. I don't know. I read a book once where there was a scene where a cruise ship is adrift on the sea. And while I was reading those four pages, I was just like, okay. Oh, God. Oh, no. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. I got. [00:05:29] Speaker A: You watch Poop Cruise on Netflix yet? [00:05:31] Speaker B: What's that? [00:05:32] Speaker A: You watch the Poop Cruise documentary on Netflix? [00:05:33] Speaker B: No, I haven't. [00:05:35] Speaker A: You remember the Poop Cruise? [00:05:36] Speaker B: Yeah, I do remember the Poop Cruise. [00:05:37] Speaker A: From Like, I don't know, 2021. It might have been pre pandemic. I can't rem. [00:05:41] Speaker B: I think it was just pre pandemic. [00:05:42] Speaker A: Yeah, it was like, 2019 or so. Yeah. They have a documentary on Netflix because. [00:05:46] Speaker B: It was Nora Cruise. [00:05:50] Speaker A: There wasn't a virus. They were just trapped on the cruise. Had to poop in bags. [00:05:53] Speaker B: Oh, okay, okay, okay. [00:05:54] Speaker A: That was. There was. There was a cruise where they were trapped offshore. That might have been that. There was also a Covid cruise where they, like, kept them quarantined for a while. [00:06:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Apparently you. You always. You're always likely to get some kind of tummy virus if you go on. [00:06:07] Speaker A: I got sick one time on a cruise. You're around, you're like, smashing this giant fucking tube. [00:06:12] Speaker B: They are. [00:06:13] Speaker A: With a bunch of strangers. [00:06:14] Speaker B: God. And I refuse. I refuse to step on a single one of them. Johnny. Yeah. [00:06:18] Speaker A: If you watch Pooh Cruise, you'll never want to go on one again, even if you did want to go on one. [00:06:21] Speaker B: Things. Things aren't meant to be that. I mean, I understand that it is in, like, physically possible through engineering, but we can. We can only laugh at the natural order so. So much before it starts to collapse on us again. Johnny. Yeah. [00:06:36] Speaker A: God's like this cruise ship. [00:06:38] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. He says that, like three times a week. [00:06:41] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. The poop cruise is pretty disgusting, but it's a really fun documentary. It makes you really not want to be on a cruise. They open the. Okay, so the cruise is, like, out of power and they're stuck on the water. They're supposed to be shitting in these red, like, plastic bags, these biohazard bags. No one's doing it. They're all just shitting in the toilet and leaving it in there. So the toilet's, like, overflowing. And one day they decide, like, to boost morale, they open the bars, like, all you can drink, which is, like, the worst idea, because then everyone has to piss. That's a shit. And they're fucking drunk. [00:07:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:07:17] Speaker A: I mean, they're going to do fucking stupid shit. [00:07:21] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Also, also, I can't be that far away from the sight of land. Fucking fascinated by the ocean and the things that are in it. But no, Yeah. I don't. I don't belong out there. I don't. I can't do it. It gives me the heebie jeebies. [00:07:36] Speaker A: I like it, but I've always only done it on a cruise ship or, like, a safe boat. I like the movie Master Commander. It's like, what I Say is my favorite movie. [00:07:44] Speaker B: It's a good movie. [00:07:45] Speaker A: So maybe I yearn for the. I yearn for the adventure of the sea. [00:07:49] Speaker B: You wish to be. You wish to be back in the times where if 25% of your crew made it across the ocean, you were doing pretty good. [00:07:56] Speaker A: Actually, maybe not then. [00:07:59] Speaker B: You don't like. Day after day, day after day we stuck nor breath nor motion as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean. Water, water everywhere. And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere. [00:08:13] Speaker A: Nor any drop to drink, not even a drop to drink. [00:08:18] Speaker B: That's what happens when you kill the fucking albatross, Johnny. [00:08:21] Speaker A: I know. Don't kill the albatross. [00:08:23] Speaker B: And then life and death personified personifications of life and death start playing craps for your soul. And they're like I'm gonna take this guy. Haha. [00:08:33] Speaker A: The master commander. Someone tried to shoot an albatross and they shoot a man on accident because. [00:08:37] Speaker B: You shouldn't fucking shoot the albatross. [00:08:40] Speaker A: Yeah, and they should do an emergency surgery on himself. [00:08:44] Speaker B: You ever heard about that? That Russian doctor in Antarctica who did an emergency appendectomy on himself. No, that's fucking. That's like the most baller move I could ever think of doing is being able to a. [00:08:56] Speaker A: That's probably what the ma Commander things based on. [00:08:58] Speaker B: Well this was. This was maybe, maybe. But yeah, it was like 70, early 70s or something like that. [00:09:06] Speaker A: Oh, maybe not then. Those books were written in the 70s and 80s so it's possible. [00:09:10] Speaker B: But. But yeah, doing surgery on yourself and cutting out a vestigial part of your intestines that's just there to up. Actually probably left over from when ancestors of ours were able to eat grass and stuff. It might have been more of like a seacum than whatever. Okay, so. [00:09:32] Speaker A: Gotcha. [00:09:33] Speaker B: Before we. Before we refined what we. What we ate as a diet. [00:09:38] Speaker A: Yeah, let me grab some Doritos real quick. [00:09:40] Speaker B: Now we're going to have to develop a new Doritos stomach. [00:09:43] Speaker A: I get a cheeseburger in 50. [00:09:45] Speaker B: In 50 million years. They're going to be like what the fuck is this? [00:09:48] Speaker A: You want me to eat grass? No thank you. I'll eat this thing out of the 711 hot case. Hey, I just not eating grass though. [00:09:55] Speaker B: I just discovered that one of the most prolific weeds in my backyard is edible. [00:10:00] Speaker A: Chow down. [00:10:01] Speaker B: Yeah, it's comparable to. [00:10:02] Speaker A: Get the word. [00:10:03] Speaker B: It's pretty good. Okay, that's pretty good. Get the world cheaps quarters. [00:10:07] Speaker A: Oh, my cat's coming to up the recording. Barbie. No, come on. Barbie. She wants to with something. She just got that look in her eyes. I want to something up, man. [00:10:17] Speaker B: What she. What she needs is the feather on a stick. [00:10:20] Speaker A: I know. It's over there, though. Hi, Barbara. No, it's okay. It'll be good. Keep all this in. People love this touch, the slice of life. [00:10:31] Speaker B: I mean, I fucking love a slice of life. That's one of the best parts about a lot of anime shows is we put Barbie's picture. [00:10:38] Speaker A: Oh, we could put Barbie's picture on the Internet. [00:10:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:40] Speaker A: If I ever do an Instagram post game, which I promise I will. [00:10:42] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I mean, the Internet is made for cats, Johnny. [00:10:45] Speaker A: The Internet is made for cats. They're doing a cat screening of cat videos at Alamo Drafthouse. I was thinking about maybe trying to go on a Sunday. [00:10:52] Speaker B: Nice. Like. Like viral cat videos? [00:10:54] Speaker A: No, I think just, like, they're submitted every year, and then someone, like, edits it and it's released in the theater. So it's like the 20. It's like the 2025 edition. They might screen it. They might also do a music box. [00:11:04] Speaker B: Yeah, but music box, you can't order. You can't order nachos at your chair. [00:11:07] Speaker A: At the music box, and then not get them. And then have to send another note, said, I never got my nachos, and then you get two nachos. [00:11:14] Speaker B: That's always fun. But I'm always a little paralyzed with fears. Like, do I pay attention to them? To trying to order something new or to pay attention to the movie? Because, like, at home it's. You just pause the movie and then you make a microwave burrito. Yeah, but not at the music box. But you know what else you don't do at the music box, Johnny? [00:11:32] Speaker A: What? [00:11:33] Speaker B: Read comic books. Because there's movies going on. [00:11:35] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, maybe in the lobby if you're early for a movie. [00:11:38] Speaker B: Well, I guess. I guess that's true. [00:11:40] Speaker A: I'm trying to think if I've read a comic book in the music box. I haven't. One time I was early for a movie and a guy spoiled the movie. [00:11:45] Speaker B: Oh, what a dick. [00:11:46] Speaker A: Walking out of the earlier screening. [00:11:48] Speaker B: Man, that's the worst we received Once. [00:11:50] Speaker A: Upon a time in Hollywood. And have you seen it? [00:11:53] Speaker B: I have not. [00:11:54] Speaker A: Okay, well, he spoils the ending, but. [00:11:55] Speaker B: I know it's about the Manson family parts of it. Oh, Johnny. This means that when the parts that he talked about came up on the screen, you could do the Leonok, the DiCaprio. You can just be like, oh, I. [00:12:08] Speaker A: Can do the meme no, he's. There's a weapon that comes back into play. I mean, do you care if I say it? [00:12:13] Speaker B: I don't. [00:12:14] Speaker A: Okay, cool. No, it's a five year old movie. It's fine. [00:12:17] Speaker B: I'll get to it. [00:12:17] Speaker A: He walked out and goes, I didn't expect the flamethrower to come back. And that's just like such a huge. Like, it's like, okay, well, I guess there's a flamethrower and it comes back at the end. Perfect. [00:12:27] Speaker B: It's actually pretty dope. That makes me. That increases my want of putting it to the top of my list to watch. [00:12:33] Speaker A: You should watch it. It's really good. [00:12:34] Speaker B: I just keep forgetting to think about it when I sit down to watch stuff. Because I sit down and I'm like, there's nothing on. [00:12:38] Speaker A: Think of it. Think of it fondly when you sit down on the couch. [00:12:46] Speaker B: I'll try. I'm gonna. [00:12:47] Speaker A: I'm gonna work in Fan of the opera anytime I can because I know. [00:12:49] Speaker B: You hate it, but the. The music does rock and I mean, just strung together. [00:12:55] Speaker A: It doesn't work for you. [00:12:56] Speaker B: No, I just don't. I don't. I don't know what it is. It's. It just doesn't. [00:12:59] Speaker A: You don't like the managers? That's what it is. No, they're probably your favorite characters. [00:13:04] Speaker B: Yeah, they're pretty good. I. Fuck. I love Carlotta because everybody loves a diva. [00:13:10] Speaker A: I know. [00:13:11] Speaker B: There's that. I. [00:13:12] Speaker A: We said talked about this last week. You don't have to ruminate on this. It's fine. [00:13:15] Speaker B: I mean, it's. It's an ongoing. It's an ongoing issue in my life. Johnny, there are multiple people, not just you, who are like. But why don't you like it? I don't know. I don't. I don't know. By all means, I should. [00:13:27] Speaker A: You ever seen it live? [00:13:28] Speaker B: Yes. It was all the Pac. [00:13:30] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. We talked about that. Yeah. Yeah. God damn it. [00:13:34] Speaker B: Sorry, dude. [00:13:35] Speaker A: All right, well, let's talk about things we do like, which is. Oh, well, we gotta talk. We gotta introduce the show. We haven't even done that yet. This is regarding Spawn, where each week we bring you two issues from Spawn's universe. Except when we don't. And each week could bring you Fan. [00:13:53] Speaker B: Of the opera talk and updates on Barbie. [00:13:55] Speaker A: Updates on Barbie the cat who's now taking a shit. [00:13:59] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's good audio. Get that. Get that sand. [00:14:02] Speaker A: Yeah. Hopefully you get the sand scrape. Yeah. For each week, we need two issues from Swans Universe. Except we don't. This week is no different. We have two issues for you and it's a western themed episode, baby. Oh, that's right. Because it's Deadly Tales the gunslinger number six and vanilla gunslinger number 43. That's not a diss, David. As we know. [00:14:28] Speaker B: Vanilla is a flavor. [00:14:30] Speaker A: Vanilla is a flavor, as the Nick Weger says. [00:14:33] Speaker B: Also weird. Weird Al. Because Weird Al once had a conversation during an interview where it's like, you think of vanilla as clear when you're a child, but like, vanilla is fucking good. So Weird Al pro Vanilla. [00:14:45] Speaker A: I got. I did one of those YouTube mixes where you just recommends you like a song you've listened to and it just like keeps going. It eventually played this great. I forgot about. I'll just send it to you. But Nick Wagar did a video for Funny or Die called Gungan Style. It's a period Gangnam style and it goes in a wild direction that you'll love. It's so funny, but he's in it. It's really funny. [00:15:06] Speaker B: Is it? Is it Misa? Gungan style. Gunkan style. [00:15:10] Speaker A: Misa Jaja Binks. Misa Gunkan from Naboo. But it takes a wild turn. That's cool. [00:15:17] Speaker B: Okay, okay. I believe it. Oh, speaking of Weird Al, RIP Tom Lehrer. [00:15:21] Speaker A: Who's that? [00:15:22] Speaker B: He was an old school. Old school funny musician guy. [00:15:26] Speaker A: Oh, really? [00:15:27] Speaker B: The. A lot of Yakko's like learning stuff, like the state capitals songs and stuff. Those are basically based off of Tom Lehrer because he had a. Like a periodic table song where he's saying all the elements. Very funny. [00:15:41] Speaker A: That's cool. [00:15:42] Speaker B: Very, very. Putting knowledge into his. His stupid stuff. [00:15:47] Speaker A: Very, very fitting down this hell themed podcast. You bring up that he died before you bring up the fact that Ozzy Osbourne died. [00:15:53] Speaker B: Ah, yeah, true. Well, my dad listens to a lot more Tom Lehrer than he listened to Ozzy Osbourne. [00:16:00] Speaker A: That checks. [00:16:01] Speaker B: Ozzy just went home. That's all that matters. [00:16:03] Speaker A: Yeah, he was down there. He's down there chilling with Nick's right now. [00:16:05] Speaker B: He's just. He's just hanging out with some. Some pug ghosts and. Funny that you bring that up before your favorite. Your favorite wrestler of all time. [00:16:15] Speaker A: Yeah, Hulk Hogan. I like him as a person, not a wrestler. Terry. What's his name? [00:16:20] Speaker B: I don't. [00:16:20] Speaker A: Terry Hogan. [00:16:21] Speaker B: Isn't that his wife? Isn't it? [00:16:23] Speaker A: His name's Terry. [00:16:23] Speaker B: I thought his wife's name was Terry. [00:16:25] Speaker A: No, his name's Terry. I promise. [00:16:26] Speaker B: I don't know what his actual name is. [00:16:27] Speaker A: Terry. I'm telling you, it's Terry. [00:16:30] Speaker B: Okay. [00:16:32] Speaker A: Yeah, he died too. [00:16:33] Speaker B: You know what else died, Johnny? Our flow on this episode. [00:16:37] Speaker A: It's Terry, God damn it. It's probably not. I'm probably wrong. [00:16:40] Speaker B: We could look it up real easy, but that would distract us from Terry Boella. [00:16:44] Speaker A: Bolia. Yeah, I'm a fan of him. Not Hulk Hogan. [00:16:48] Speaker B: You like his beer? His America beer. [00:16:50] Speaker A: I like his beer. I like his penis videos he sends to people or whatever he did. I like him saying the N word. He's a great guy. I'm just kidding. I don't know. I don't want to shit on fucking Hulk Hogan. I mean, we all make mistakes, Rip. I had an action figure. I had Hulk Hogan action figure. [00:17:05] Speaker B: He was big for kids in the early 90s. Fucking huge. I've. I've mentioned it on this podcast before, but watching Suburban Commando as a child, and he drinks antifreeze to keep getting freeze frozen by the his enemies freeze rays. And my parents had to stop the movie and say, david, don't drink antifreeze. [00:17:25] Speaker A: I know it looks like blue deliciousness and it tastes sweet. [00:17:29] Speaker B: It does get that polypropylene glycol in it that'll your kidneys up. [00:17:33] Speaker A: That's what dogs like it, right? [00:17:34] Speaker B: Yeah, like shut your kidneys down real quick. [00:17:37] Speaker A: Well, not if you're a suburban commando. [00:17:39] Speaker B: I don't know. No, definitely not. [00:17:41] Speaker A: But that's more like something out of Rat City, though. [00:17:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:44] Speaker A: Not gunslinger. [00:17:45] Speaker B: Yeah, now I'm just thinking of the dad who gets frozen and they have to stick him out of the sunroof of the car. [00:17:53] Speaker A: I don't have. I mean, I've seen that movie. I've definitely rented that movie probably multiple times. [00:17:57] Speaker B: The anti freeze and the actual dad getting frozen are the only things I remember about that. [00:18:02] Speaker A: That is stuck in your brain sometimes. That'll happen. [00:18:05] Speaker B: I think I actually watched Mr. Or. Yeah, Mr. Mom more than I watched Suburban Commando, but I don't remember a goddamn thing from Mr. Mom. [00:18:12] Speaker A: Was Mr. Mom, though, Michael Keaton or the. [00:18:14] Speaker B: No, Mr. Mom was the Hulk Hogan movie where he was basically. It was just basically a low rent missed out fire. [00:18:19] Speaker A: What was the. What was the one where Michael Keaton was the mom? [00:18:21] Speaker B: Am I getting. Am I getting my early 90s fathers as mom momities? Well, no, Mr. Mom was the Michael Keaton one. Okay. [00:18:30] Speaker A: Okay. I thought so. He's in the tutu. [00:18:33] Speaker B: Yeah, There we go. Mr. Nanny. [00:18:35] Speaker A: Oh, wow. Wow, what a ripoff. [00:18:40] Speaker B: Yeah, whatever. The early 90s were a wild time. It's got 3.9 stars on IMDb. Jones. [00:18:46] Speaker A: Oh, wow. 3.9 out of 10. That's pretty good. [00:18:48] Speaker B: It's got 6% on rotten tomato. 6%? 6%. [00:18:54] Speaker A: Wow. [00:18:54] Speaker B: Wow. That's insane. [00:18:56] Speaker A: He was eventually a villain like the. [00:18:57] Speaker B: Third three ninjas on a budget of $10 million. Johnny. It made a whopping $4.3 million. [00:19:05] Speaker A: But you got to think about all that video money, all that rental money. [00:19:09] Speaker B: Did it get a lot of rentals, though? That seems like something cheap. [00:19:13] Speaker A: You rented it? I rented it. [00:19:14] Speaker B: It seems like something cheap that they could have thrown on, like an early cable channel just to fill some time. [00:19:19] Speaker A: Oh, of course. I mean, I rented it. What does that say about me? [00:19:22] Speaker B: That means you were a child in the early 90s. [00:19:24] Speaker A: Yeah, that's why I'm doing a swan podcast now. [00:19:27] Speaker B: Hey. I mean, there are worse things that you could be doing. [00:19:30] Speaker A: Barbie, don't you dare. [00:19:35] Speaker B: She's done Off Mike. She's time to. On Mike. [00:19:39] Speaker A: Yeah, she's about to. She's about to the up. I don't want to be so rowdy today. [00:19:43] Speaker B: Maybe it's this heat. She's got the corn sweats like all the rest of us. [00:19:47] Speaker A: Yeah, she got the corn sweats. It was corn sweating earlier. I got corn sweated on by the sky when it rained on me. Yeah, I got caught up in that. [00:19:53] Speaker B: When it just like downpoured for like, five minutes earlier. I saw some people on the top of one of those double decker tourist busts. Although probably a great story to take home. Yeah, I would. I would talk about it all the time. [00:20:07] Speaker A: I would tell everyone about it. Just like I tell everyone about Spawn. [00:20:10] Speaker B: Absolutely. I love talking about Spawn. Johnny, we should probably talk about some spawn. What kind of spawn are we going to talk about? [00:20:15] Speaker A: Yeah, we got Deadly Tales of the Gunslinger. [00:20:16] Speaker B: Oh, we already covered what we were talking about. [00:20:18] Speaker A: Yeah, I already told you. We were talking about. That was five minutes ago. [00:20:22] Speaker B: Like 48 minutes ago. [00:20:23] Speaker A: Then you start talking about Mr. Mom and Mr. Nanny. [00:20:25] Speaker B: Mrs. Doubtfire is better. [00:20:26] Speaker A: Yeah, of course. [00:20:27] Speaker B: It's like the all based on Tootsie because. Right. Tootsie did. [00:20:30] Speaker A: So they're like. They're like Tootsie walks. So they could walk as well. So they could also walk, but I. [00:20:37] Speaker B: Guess that would also probably then have been turned around and been based on. Oh, wait, no. Which came first? Hairspray or. Although I guess. I guess Pink Flamingos came before Tootsie because Pink flamingos was the 70s, so perhaps they're all just trying to capture that good divine John Waters Magic. [00:20:56] Speaker A: I can see that. [00:20:57] Speaker B: That is inexplicable. [00:20:58] Speaker A: I'm sure there's a. I'm sure there's a college paper about this very subject. [00:21:02] Speaker B: And if not. Johnny, we've got a couple hours. We can put one together. [00:21:05] Speaker A: We gotta put. [00:21:06] Speaker B: I could stay up all night writing a college paper about this. Oh, hell, yeah. [00:21:09] Speaker A: I got a hard out, David. A hard out. [00:21:13] Speaker B: Well, then let's get to it. [00:21:14] Speaker A: All right, I got the. [00:21:15] Speaker B: A cover of Deadly Tales of the Gunslinger Number six. [00:21:18] Speaker A: You say of Deadly Tales. Gunslinger Number Six. All the way back from the far off land of May 2025 by Jonathan Uribe. [00:21:26] Speaker B: Nice. It's a new Spawn cover artist. At least to us, Johnny. [00:21:32] Speaker A: Yeah, we haven't covered it before. [00:21:34] Speaker B: I mean, that doesn't mean he doesn't appear on any of the covers in the last 30 years. But the first we're knowing about it. [00:21:40] Speaker A: Definitely, and it's a fine, fine cover. He's just very detailed. Tobias. [00:21:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:46] Speaker A: Jumping through the air. [00:21:48] Speaker B: Doing the classic jumping and dual wielding pistol pose. [00:21:52] Speaker A: Doing the Neo. Doing the John Woo, I guess. [00:21:55] Speaker B: Yeah. There's a pigeon and another pigeon and another pigeon. [00:21:59] Speaker A: Oh, my God. And then in the corner you see like a demon's hand, the person he's shooting at. [00:22:04] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real good. He's got a. He's got a lot of pouches there, Johnny. [00:22:08] Speaker A: A lot of patches that are patched full of D20s, I bet, probably. And he loves to play some games. [00:22:14] Speaker B: There's also. There's also another. Another hand coming down from the top of the. It's. It's covered a little bit. [00:22:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:21] Speaker B: By the title treatment, but yeah, it's a big beast. It's a good one. It's a good one. I have the, the B cover, the Marco Falia cover. And it's got the classic cowpoke riding his horse into the sunset silhouette. And then in the foreground is just the. The Tobias like pensively sitting there with his. His pistol perched. [00:22:43] Speaker A: That was like the picture pop up in the corner on like a Final Fantasy game. Like if they were talking. [00:22:47] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, it definitely does. It's real good. [00:22:50] Speaker A: An old Japanese rpg. Like they would pop up in the corner and have like a little dialogue. [00:22:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:54] Speaker A: Looks great. [00:22:55] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a good one. He looks. He looks lost in thought. [00:22:59] Speaker A: You know what else is great? [00:23:00] Speaker B: What's that? [00:23:01] Speaker A: This issue. Yeah, I just loved it. I just reread it. It's really good. [00:23:05] Speaker B: It's real good. [00:23:06] Speaker A: It's like exactly my problems with the modern gunslinger and one enemy shows up, fights him, and that's it. But this one actually rules. [00:23:13] Speaker B: Yeah, it's also. It's also a dramatic tone shift back from the goofiness of the last couple episodes. Right. [00:23:20] Speaker A: Back in the circus. Yeah. [00:23:21] Speaker B: That. Like serious western action of the first couple of issues. [00:23:26] Speaker A: Yeah, it's definitely back on tone with the art after the circus diversion. [00:23:30] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:23:31] Speaker A: But it's fun to have both. [00:23:32] Speaker B: It is. It is. It's a. It's a big. It's a big Wild West, Johnny. And multiple gunslingers can fit in it. This. This place is big enough for the both of them. [00:23:43] Speaker A: Absolutely. It is. I hope Jim west shows up. [00:23:46] Speaker B: Narms Gordon and the big fucking steampunk spider Creature Machine. [00:23:52] Speaker A: Yes. Created by Arlis Loveless. [00:23:56] Speaker B: Yeah, I got that. [00:23:57] Speaker A: Daily Tales of Gunslinger Number six. Let's pop it open. [00:23:59] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. Give that credit where it's due. [00:24:03] Speaker A: Script plot by Jimmy Palmiotti. [00:24:04] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:24:05] Speaker A: Art back on Patrick Reynolds. Colors by Lewis nct. Lettering by the one, the only, Tom Wojkowski. We already covered the covers. Creative Director is Tom McFarlane and editor in chief is Thomas Healy. Previously in Deadly Tales of the Gunslinger, the gunslinger finally escapes from the clutches of the twisted carnival's ringmaster. [00:24:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:30] Speaker A: Indeed he did. He blew that carnival. [00:24:32] Speaker B: Yeah, he didn't. He left. He left a different ringmaster than when he found it. [00:24:35] Speaker A: It sure did. [00:24:36] Speaker B: It sure did. But was it all a dream, Johnny? [00:24:39] Speaker A: No. [00:24:40] Speaker B: Are you sure? [00:24:41] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm pretty sure it wasn't a dream. [00:24:43] Speaker B: You sure? That big fiery beast that set fire to everything and, like, fucked that one guy up specifically. [00:24:50] Speaker A: It was real, David. I believe. [00:24:52] Speaker B: I enjoyed it. It was good. But. Yes. [00:24:55] Speaker A: Yeah, but now we're back into the more dour. [00:24:57] Speaker B: Yeah. We start on a splash page of just Tobias, head down on his horse, just riding away from the circus. There's maces in the background. There's obvious thunderstorm off in the distance. [00:25:11] Speaker A: Yes. [00:25:12] Speaker B: It's fucking. [00:25:13] Speaker A: That's crazy looking. [00:25:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:14] Speaker A: And it's called. This tale is called what the Soul Desires. And the rain's heating up. It's coming after him, coming down. Lightning's flickering in the sky. It's just this great western landscape. [00:25:25] Speaker B: Yeah. And it starts. It starts actually raining on Tobias's head. And there's like lightning in the background. And as he's just riding through the rain, he sees in front of him a figure. [00:25:37] Speaker A: It's the native girl from the last couple issues they've been teasing. [00:25:41] Speaker B: Yeah. The one who saw him in his dreams. Or saw some dreams. And she was able to interpret them. And he says, what in the hell? And then some lightning flashes again, and it illuminates her, and she's. She's badass on horseback with. With spear in hand, just staring him down. [00:25:59] Speaker A: And then her scream pierces the thunderous roar. She lets out a shriek scream as she throws fucking spear through Javi's shoulder. [00:26:09] Speaker B: The air carries not just rain, but steel. [00:26:12] Speaker A: Slash. [00:26:13] Speaker B: And it hits Tobias, like, right in the trap. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Could you imagine just, like, right there, like, right underneath the collarbone. Oh, boy. [00:26:24] Speaker A: I love the alternating lightning in this. Like, every other panel has, like, a lightning strip. [00:26:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:28] Speaker A: It really gives you a sense of, like, space and, like, location. [00:26:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:33] Speaker A: Very cinematic fight. [00:26:34] Speaker B: It is. It's very good. It's very good. [00:26:36] Speaker A: Like I said, it's just like. I mean, the top Father's mumbo jumbo. This is so much cleaner. [00:26:41] Speaker B: Yeah, this just. It's just rocks. It rocks from COVID to cover. And Tobias. Tobias falls. Falls off the horse. And as he's laying there on the ground and the rain's coming down, this lady comes over and has a bow drawn aimed right at him. And he's like, no, no, no, wait. And she shoots him right in the arm after. She shoots him twice. Shoots him in the chest, and then in the arm. [00:27:05] Speaker A: Black thwack. [00:27:06] Speaker B: And then he shoots back, and he gets her right in the shoulder. And they stare at each other, and then they realize, oh, fuck, there's a. [00:27:15] Speaker A: Oh, fuck, there's a flood. [00:27:16] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a flash flood. [00:27:18] Speaker A: Basically, the water. The land's too dry. And this is a real phenomenon. [00:27:21] Speaker B: Yeah, it's true. [00:27:22] Speaker A: It won't soak up the water. Just, like, bounce off of it. [00:27:24] Speaker B: It happens. Happens while you're gardening, too. So if you're. If you're rooting through your. Your dirt and it's not wet already, you gotta. You gotta, like, lightly. You gotta spray it a little bit and then leave it alone. And spray it a little bit and leave it alone before you put a whole bunch of water on it. Or it's just gonna go. [00:27:39] Speaker A: There you go. [00:27:40] Speaker B: The more you know, Johnny, we know everybody comes to this podcast for gardening tips. [00:27:45] Speaker A: I do. [00:27:46] Speaker B: Yeah. My gardening tip. Plants have been around longer than humans as a species, so they're probably going to do what they need to do without much of your help. [00:27:53] Speaker A: Anyway, good advice. [00:27:55] Speaker B: Let them do what they're going to do. [00:27:57] Speaker A: And Javi. Oh, God damn it. We got to come up with, like, a punishment every time we call Tobias. Javi. [00:28:01] Speaker B: Oh, Boy, if you have to put. [00:28:03] Speaker A: A quarter in the jar, I don't. [00:28:05] Speaker B: Think I have that many quarters. [00:28:07] Speaker A: I know. [00:28:07] Speaker B: Because then it would just be an IOU jar. And everybody knows an IOU jar is not getting filled. [00:28:13] Speaker A: No. [00:28:14] Speaker B: Why does it. Why don't we have that be our email prompt this week is. If you think of a fitting punishment for when we misname Tobias as Javi, email us with what we should do. Regarding. [00:28:28] Speaker A: I should have Tobias on the brain because I'm gonna go see Tobias Forge this weekend. [00:28:32] Speaker B: Oh, you got tickets? [00:28:33] Speaker A: I did. I'm going to go. So me and Chris are gone. [00:28:36] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. I'm sad that I'm not. [00:28:38] Speaker A: You and Bran Ab Brandoned us. [00:28:40] Speaker B: I'm sorry, ma'. Am. I really wanted to go, but it's just not. [00:28:44] Speaker A: I know I was giving you a hard time. [00:28:45] Speaker B: You just wanted to say a Brandon, which was. I hope. I hope you told Brand that that pun. [00:28:53] Speaker A: That's what I said. I said. You branded me. I branded my boy. [00:29:02] Speaker B: But yes, speaking of being a brand. [00:29:04] Speaker A: We'Re going to Outback again. [00:29:05] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. The same outback. [00:29:07] Speaker A: Yeah. No, we're going to different. [00:29:09] Speaker B: I think it's the only outback in the region. Oh, it'll at least not be so treacherous getting to it this time. Jesus. [00:29:14] Speaker A: I know. It won't be like snow city with. [00:29:17] Speaker B: A no sidewalk, bit of highway. Good outback is delicious and affordable. Well, but it's this Outback, Johnny, out back here in the Wild west, not doing so good. Because this flash flood just takes Tobias in its grips. Just. [00:29:33] Speaker A: Yeah, he's washed away like a piece of driftwood. [00:29:35] Speaker B: Yeah, like a piece of griftwood. Going right for the spillways. [00:29:41] Speaker A: Oh, my God. All these ghost puns. [00:29:46] Speaker B: And. And this. This. This lady just sits on her horse and watches him because she. She understands. Hey, she's got to get the out of there. She's going to get swept up in it, too. But she's. She's got unfinished business. And she's like. [00:30:02] Speaker A: I'll get you later. [00:30:03] Speaker B: I gotta. I gotta take care of myself first. And so Tobias just gets fucking drugged until he can get himself out of this sudden river. He grabs onto a. [00:30:15] Speaker A: He's dragged across sharp rocks. [00:30:17] Speaker B: Yeah, he grabs onto like a tree branch or a scraggly bush just hanging out of the ground and pulls himself out. Luckily, his horse, it's right there where he pulls himself out. [00:30:27] Speaker A: But not his hat. [00:30:28] Speaker B: Not his hat. [00:30:29] Speaker A: No, he's lost his hat. [00:30:31] Speaker B: And then he is. He is sad riding in the rain with no hat. And he's. He. He's like, okay, what do I need to do? I need to get shelter. So he's looking. He's looking for shelter, and he rides around and he sees an overturned cart that has a dead traveler in it. And he's like, well, guess what, dude? You don't need this shelter no more. And just, like, drags him out, swoops him out, considers. Considers giving him a proper burial, but is like, nah, dude, I gotta. I can do that when the rain stops. Also, he literally, like, just two days ago, finished burying a whole bunch of people, so sure. [00:31:10] Speaker A: Oh, here comes Barbie again. [00:31:14] Speaker B: We need to. [00:31:14] Speaker A: Barbie. [00:31:15] Speaker B: We should put the. The Godzilla. The. The Godzilla Siren alert sound every time Barbie comes. Comes over. [00:31:22] Speaker A: Yeah, we should. [00:31:23] Speaker B: We should scramble the J. Crew, not the J. Crew. [00:31:26] Speaker A: She's chewing now. She's chewing on my dictionary. Okay. [00:31:28] Speaker B: Hey, she's trying to learn herself some. Learn herself some words. [00:31:31] Speaker A: You don't want to learn some words. Whatever, Barbie. She chewed on my copy of the Color Purple. [00:31:36] Speaker B: Oh, nice. She. [00:31:37] Speaker A: She has little Barbie fang bites in it. [00:31:39] Speaker B: She has good taste. I. I don't mind when the dogs chew on my books, because I mean it. I don't. I don't care. But the. The first dog or the first book that any dog ate that I cared about was a library book. It was Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth. [00:32:01] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know that book. [00:32:02] Speaker B: Oh, it famously has a. Has a. So it's about a guy who goes to the therapist. That's. The whole book is him reliving his life through his therapy sessions. And it's. It's famous for having a. A section of the book where he talks about being 12 years old and masturbating with a chicken cutlet. And that's. That's what most people know that book for. [00:32:23] Speaker A: Thank you, everyone. You can rate, Review, subscribe. [00:32:26] Speaker B: Hey, this is great American literature. [00:32:29] Speaker A: Okay. I thought you say it got chewed on by a dog, and I thought it was gonna be ironic. [00:32:33] Speaker B: Oh, no, no. It's not like. [00:32:35] Speaker A: It's not like it's dog eating a chicken cut. [00:32:37] Speaker B: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, which. Don't read. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. It's okay. [00:32:45] Speaker A: I believe you. [00:32:46] Speaker B: It upsetted me up. It upsetted me, Johnny. [00:32:51] Speaker A: It upsetted you mess up your grammar. [00:32:55] Speaker B: I was furious at it. [00:32:56] Speaker A: Okay, well, do you want to go into it or. [00:32:59] Speaker B: No, no. We'll just. We'll just talk about how Tobias is falling asleep in his Makeshift shelter. [00:33:06] Speaker A: He takes his mask off and just releases a sigh of relief. [00:33:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:10] Speaker A: As he begins to sleep. [00:33:12] Speaker B: And as sleep overtakes him, fragments of his past begin to stir, drawing him into memories long buried. [00:33:20] Speaker A: And he sees the girl from earlier in his mind. [00:33:24] Speaker B: And then he wakes up as a young man played by Adam Driver in a barracks. [00:33:29] Speaker A: Kind of looks like Adam Driver. [00:33:31] Speaker B: Yeah, like a. Like a brown haired, young. Yeah, I could see it. He's a member of the Union army, Johnny. And the great Civil W. The great. [00:33:45] Speaker A: Old woke Civil W. Yeah. [00:33:47] Speaker B: And he. I'm not entirely sure this is a voluntary assignment on his part. It sure seems like he was put there because as, like a favor or as a punishment. Because he's not so much a soldier. A soldier as a. Like a gopher. [00:34:07] Speaker A: He's like a gopher. And he tells him, like, hey, I arrest you from the clutches of the Comanches. And listen, dude, I went through it too. [00:34:15] Speaker B: Yeah. He tells. He tells a story that the general. The general does. He tells a story about. [00:34:21] Speaker A: Which I don't know if I quite believe. [00:34:22] Speaker B: I don't. I don't know. I don't think I believe this general in any way, shape or form, but. Venturing west to claim land in Kansas acquired by his father. Johnny, we know how that acquisition goes. [00:34:34] Speaker A: Yeah, I wonder how that went. [00:34:36] Speaker B: He tells a story about being attacked by the indigenous residents of that land who tortured them and left them as bait for some wolves so that way they could get rid of the wolves from attacking their shepherded herds. And that this general man was the only member of his family survived. [00:34:58] Speaker A: Yes. They killed his. Ate his mom's face, ate his dad. [00:35:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:01] Speaker A: In the last moment, the wolves were turning on him. And then the Comanches all shot the wolves. [00:35:06] Speaker B: Yeah, with arrows right to the face. And that's where this general man gets the most wicked scar upon his face. And then as soon as the general is done telling his story, one of the. One of the. The soldiers comes in and is the captain. Captain. They got him. They got him. I guess he's a captain, not a general. [00:35:24] Speaker A: I think it's important that Tobias says, your concern is noted. Yet my ordeal differs from. I think it's cut off. Yeah, I don't think he was probably tortured or anything. [00:35:32] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't think it was. I think it was much different circumstances. [00:35:36] Speaker A: Which we'll probably find out about one day. [00:35:38] Speaker B: Sure. I'm sure there's. There's gonna be like 400 episodes or issues of this book, Johnny. [00:35:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:44] Speaker B: So this. This Soldier who comes over says that there are four dead soldiers, and there's what looks like a note from the natives, just, like, speared to one of the bodies. And this causes quite a stir in the Captain, not general. And so in the dead of night, they sneak over to where these people live on the fucking land that is goddamn theirs. And he's like, hey, guess what? We're going to kill 20 of these people for every one of ours who died. And so they burned the place to the ground, Johnny. This whole place? [00:36:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:23] Speaker B: They kill everybody except for one person. Tobias walks into a teepee, and he sees a girl cowering. And they stare at each other, and he lets her go. And then back in the present of the story, Tobias wakes up and he. [00:36:39] Speaker A: Goes, it's her guitar. Looking like a corpse. [00:36:43] Speaker B: Yeah, he used to put that fucking mask back on. Stat. [00:36:47] Speaker A: Yeah, I feel like I can smell him. [00:36:49] Speaker B: He looks. He looks like Walter Goggins as what's his face in Fallout, only worse. [00:36:56] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, the ghoul. [00:36:59] Speaker B: Ghoulish and under the bright sun, drying out the desert. He wakes up and he's like, I know what she's after. She's after revenge. Can't say I blame her. [00:37:11] Speaker A: I mean, yeah, I wouldn't either. [00:37:13] Speaker B: And then he. He rides away. [00:37:15] Speaker A: As the late Michael Madsen said in Kill Bill, Volume two, that woman deserves revenge and we deserve to die. [00:37:23] Speaker B: Yeah. Rip. [00:37:24] Speaker A: RIP Michael Madsen. [00:37:26] Speaker B: But. So Tobias starts riding away. And then after he writes for a little while, he sees something in the distance. He's like, it can't be. It can't be. So he gets off his horse, and then his hat, just like his hat, Indiana Jones style, blows up to his feet. [00:37:45] Speaker A: The hat came back the very next day. [00:37:47] Speaker B: Yeah. He asks. He asks it if it missed him. And then we get the opening reading. [00:37:56] Speaker A: There's a sound from behind. He goes, shit. [00:37:58] Speaker B: Yeah. And he turns around and he gets hit with another spear. And then immediately after getting hit with another spear, gets hit with a flying double kick. [00:38:06] Speaker A: Flying double kick. [00:38:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:08] Speaker A: And then the girl wraps her fucking legs around his neck and just fucking chokes him out. Got him in a chokehold. [00:38:12] Speaker B: Yeah. And so he passes out. And then he wakes up. No costume, no mask, tied to a tree. And like we've got right now, it's like, story and, like, flashing to the wolves that he's got called to. The ones that cleaned up that. That. That cabin in issue two who helped him down. [00:38:33] Speaker A: He's calling out to the wolves. He's friend of the animal. [00:38:35] Speaker B: Yeah. The wolves are. The wolves are running at him and he's talking to this lady and. And then we see she pulls out one of his, his, his revolvers and points it at him and she says, I just want my life back. And then we see a shadowy figure stops the wolves and says, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He's got to take care of this himself this time. He's gotta. You just gotta sit back. And so the wolves stopped. [00:39:02] Speaker A: It's the Red Eyed man. [00:39:05] Speaker B: I wasn't sure if it was the Red Eyed Man. Like I don't know if we're trying to think it's a red Eyed man or if it is the Red Eyed Man. [00:39:11] Speaker A: So that's someone else. We'll see. [00:39:12] Speaker B: It's probably the red eyed shadowy figure. And Tobias says, I know who you are and what I did. I want you to know I'm sorry. She says, I'm not. [00:39:24] Speaker A: Blam. Shoots him right in the head. [00:39:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:27] Speaker A: Gunslinger skull. [00:39:29] Speaker B: Yeah. That was a good one, John. [00:39:34] Speaker A: That was good. [00:39:34] Speaker B: That was really nice. [00:39:36] Speaker A: Very cinematic. [00:39:38] Speaker B: Then we got the a toy ad. Spawn Call of Duty. Available now. [00:39:42] Speaker A: Spawn Call of Duty Toys. Get them while you can. [00:39:44] Speaker B: Yeah, I saw one of those at my comic shop last week. Cool. Very interesting. [00:39:49] Speaker A: Cool. [00:39:50] Speaker B: New generation, new stories, new you. All of the spin offs here including the Black Ritual Book of Nyx and Medieval Spawn along with Sam's Witch and Rat City. Then we get the. We get the Mortal Kombat 1 toy toy ad with that super cool sub zero. [00:40:07] Speaker A: Have you watched the trailer for Mortal Kombat 2 the movie yet? [00:40:09] Speaker B: I didn't even know it was out. [00:40:11] Speaker A: It's out. It's awesome. It looks great. [00:40:12] Speaker B: I'll have to look it up. [00:40:13] Speaker A: So it follows Johnny Cage and she's played by Carl Urban and he's just like gruff and just like, oh boy. In over his head. And it looks really fun and funny. Looks very more video gamey than the first one was, which I like the first one, but it's good. This one looks a lot. And they play the song in the end of the trailer. Hell yeah. [00:40:36] Speaker B: Nice. Excellent. Then we get the Image Classics ad on the back there. That's. That's the. That's the whole thing. [00:40:44] Speaker A: That's the full fucking issue. [00:40:46] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the COVID to cover. It's the West Westward expansion of the Gunslinger's Deadly Tales. [00:40:53] Speaker A: Go west, young man. Haven't you been told? California's full of whiskey, Women in gold. [00:41:02] Speaker B: You should have been a cowboy, Johnny. [00:41:03] Speaker A: I am. [00:41:04] Speaker B: Should have learned a Rope and ride. Wearing my sex shoes. [00:41:10] Speaker A: You know what's so funny? When I was a kid, I thought that lyric was. I thought that lyric was wearing my sex shoe. I thought that was something you said. If you had, like, sexy shoes or something. [00:41:22] Speaker B: You're gonna have to put a picture of your sex shoe up now, Johnny. [00:41:25] Speaker A: Wearing my sex shoe. It's just swimming shoes. It's just water shoes. Yeah. [00:41:52] Speaker B: Well, Johnny, next up. When the sun comes down over on my side of town? And that lonesome feeling comes to my door? The whole world turns blue. [00:42:03] Speaker A: Keep going. [00:42:05] Speaker B: There's a rundown bar by the railroad tracks? I got a table for two way in the back. Where I sit alone and think of losing you. [00:42:18] Speaker A: I can't think of the chorus to this. You gotta keep going to get to the chorus. I'm not recognizing it. [00:42:23] Speaker B: I spend every night Underneath the light Of a neon? [00:42:29] Speaker A: Of a neon moon? Cause if you lose you're wanting only. [00:42:37] Speaker B: There'S always room here for the lonely. [00:42:41] Speaker A: We're just gonna sing 90s country for the rest of the episode. [00:42:43] Speaker B: Hey, it's real great for whistle karaoke, Johnny. If any of our listeners are ever in downtown Chicago during either morning or afternoon rush hour and they hear somebody whistling really loudly, it's probably your boy. [00:42:55] Speaker A: Yeah, like, when I came to drop off strawberries, I was like, who's this insane person outside my apartment whistling? [00:43:00] Speaker B: Yeah, it's fucking me. [00:43:01] Speaker A: And I looked down and it was Dave. [00:43:02] Speaker B: Everywhere I go Everywhere I go it's. [00:43:04] Speaker A: Fun Everywhere I go Everybody knows that I cannot run and I cannot hide. I'm done crying over someone like you. [00:43:19] Speaker B: I'm done. Okay. I'm done. [00:43:21] Speaker A: I can't wait for that one live. [00:43:22] Speaker B: That'll be a good one. [00:43:23] Speaker A: We're not done. We're just starting. What are we starting? We're starting Gunslinger 43. Papa. [00:43:27] Speaker B: Yes, we are. Papa, can you hear me? [00:43:30] Speaker A: Starting gunslinger 43. All the way back from May 2025. [00:43:41] Speaker B: We're gonna get a season desist from Babs herself. Hopefully gonna be like, no. Could you imagine? Barbra Streisand listens to our podcast, Johnny. That's what I. [00:43:51] Speaker A: Can you imagine? [00:43:52] Speaker B: That would be incredible. [00:43:54] Speaker A: That would be. I would be honored. [00:43:56] Speaker B: Like that she ate that. She would care about what a podcast is, is. I could probably die happy knowing that Barbara Streisand was counted among our listeners. [00:44:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:06] Speaker B: Gunslinger43. Johnny. We got to cover the covers because we always cover the covers, and we got it. Covers to cover. [00:44:13] Speaker A: I've got a badass Jonathan Glapan Cover? [00:44:15] Speaker B: Hell yeah. I wanted to get the Jonathan Glian cover because I love the Jonathan Glapan covers. But I've been trying the orange background. I've been trying to get the. Trying to get us the spread since I know you've got the A covers. It's. It's awesome. It's just like Javi has walked up to somebody laying on the ground and it's just like they're probably what up bats in the background a la John Woo's pigeon style. [00:44:41] Speaker A: Yeah. And he's just like that kind of like wild Jonathan Glapping style. [00:44:45] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real good. That belt buckle. Holy Johnny. It's a good belt buckle. Yeah, I have the B cover, the Von Randall cover, and it's just white and there's. [00:44:57] Speaker A: Oh, that's cool. [00:44:58] Speaker B: It's like a. It's like a tree made out of dead souls that Javi is just like sitting on for a. Catching his breath a spell. Yeah, he's sitting very anime style with. With his. His guns like pointed in complete opposite sides of his body. And it's like, how do you. How do you twist that way, Sir? [00:45:16] Speaker A: Hold on. I left Barbie's treat things open. She's trying to get to it. Oh, no, David, look. [00:45:21] Speaker B: Oh, that Barbie. Look at that Barbie. It just looks like you're holding on to a shadow. [00:45:28] Speaker A: She's being a bad kitty. Hey, don't attack me. Ow. She's attacking my ankle. She's cute, though. [00:45:39] Speaker B: I mean it. It is honestly their saving grace most of the time. [00:45:43] Speaker A: She's a cute little kitty. [00:45:45] Speaker B: It's very precious. Yes. [00:45:48] Speaker A: Yeah, I love that cover. The Vaughn Randall's great. [00:45:50] Speaker B: I was about to say, did I mention it was the Vaughn Randall already? [00:45:53] Speaker A: You did. [00:45:54] Speaker B: Von Randall does some good covers. I know, I know. In the past I have been like, I. I didn't get the Vaughn Randall because it was a beyond Bjorn Barons, but, you know, when I get the chance to get the Von Randall, it's nice. [00:46:05] Speaker A: You did it. [00:46:06] Speaker B: It's also. It's also very stark. Starkly different from the. From the Gapion where you mentioned the Glapian had a yellow background and this one has just white. Right. It's very striking differences. Yeah. [00:46:16] Speaker A: They're both good covers, though. [00:46:17] Speaker B: Yeah, they are. We gotta pop up with this covers. [00:46:20] Speaker A: To what I thought was an okay issue. [00:46:24] Speaker B: It's. It's an issue. I'll give it that. [00:46:26] Speaker A: We'll get into it. It's a little Todd father confusing. [00:46:32] Speaker B: That's to say the least, Johnny. But we gotta Give credit where credit is due. And as you mentioned, we got the Todd father, Todd McFarlane on script plot duties with Carlo Barbary doing the art. Some great art. Ivan Nunes doing the colors there. Lettering by Tom Orzikowski. Hey, we got another Tom Father. A double Tom Father episode. Johnny. [00:46:52] Speaker A: Yes, we do. [00:46:53] Speaker B: We covered the covers already. Creative director is Tom McFarlane and Thomas Healy is the editor in chief. And previously in Gunslinger, Gunslinger and Godsend. Continue to search for Godsend's daughter. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that happened. [00:47:12] Speaker A: Yeah. So met a guy on a force. He turned into a really buff, like. [00:47:15] Speaker B: Like the angel version of Prince Adam, the he man. [00:47:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:47:20] Speaker B: Hold on. Everybody's barking. [00:47:23] Speaker A: Okay. [00:47:23] Speaker B: Hey. Hey. What are you doing? Moon Pie? What are you doing? Moon Pie. Don't do it. Don't do it. Yeah, I mean, they definitely did some of that. Searching for Gatson's daughter. [00:47:35] Speaker A: Did they? [00:47:35] Speaker B: I mean, that's what. That's what led them to the he man on the port. [00:47:39] Speaker A: This whole Godsend thing seems like this crazy diversion. I'm like, let's get back to Linda and everybody. [00:47:43] Speaker B: I miss Linda. She's been gone for quite a while. Though she does get evoked in this episode issue thing outing. [00:47:52] Speaker A: Yes. [00:47:53] Speaker B: But we do start with a splash page of Javi having his gun pointed right at somebody saying, make a move. It'll be your last. That's a promise. So it starts off well, Johnny. This is. This is a great opening. [00:48:06] Speaker A: Yeah. He looks cool and he's holding his gun on this Prince Adam guy who has a really cool name. [00:48:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:13] Speaker A: That we learn later. It's like his name by me in the 90s. Can we just say it? [00:48:20] Speaker B: Yeah. I was gonna wait till we got there because I forgot what it is. [00:48:22] Speaker A: Let's wait till we get there. Okay. We don't know his name. Who is this guy? [00:48:25] Speaker B: Who is this guy? Well, he's, you know, Heaven Prince Adam. He's got Battle Cat with him, so he's he man. But he's talking about the outcasts. The out. He's got beef with the outcasts, not the cowboy. [00:48:38] Speaker A: These things like this. The top of storing in another. [00:48:42] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's like we can't. We. It's. It's like they start as enemies and they're like, we can't be enemies. We gotta. We gotta. We got a common threat. What's going on? We learned that this guy is, you know, kind of hanging out, waiting for the outcasts to come by. Yeah. Johnny, this is going to be a Real hard issue to talk about because it's a lot. [00:49:01] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. What the fuck? So. So, like, this guy's like, yo. So he's like, I don't care about you. He said, well, the outcasts are gonna care. [00:49:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:09] Speaker A: And they don't give a who. [00:49:11] Speaker B: You like. Yeah. [00:49:12] Speaker A: And he's like, okay, now they know we're all here. [00:49:15] Speaker B: They do. [00:49:16] Speaker A: And then Godson's like, well, that guy definitely wasn't an outcast. Right? You know that. [00:49:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:21] Speaker A: And then Javi's like, is this making sense? That's how I feel. [00:49:24] Speaker B: It tracks. Too bad. I don't know if that clarifies at all. But that's. That's the clarification we've got. [00:49:34] Speaker A: That's the dialogue. [00:49:35] Speaker B: That's what we've got. That's what we're working with. And so the godson asks for Javi's gun again. And then after Javi throws the gun at Godsend, he just like, I want to go talk to this angel had just shot. And the angel says he was on a peace mission. Peace mission. Peace mission. [00:49:54] Speaker A: Peace mission. [00:49:55] Speaker B: And Javi's like that. So. And. Oh, boy. So the angels from General Matus Matius. [00:50:05] Speaker A: Yes. [00:50:05] Speaker B: What are we saying? Matthias or Matthias? [00:50:07] Speaker A: Matthias. [00:50:09] Speaker B: Yeah, from General Matthias bringing, you know, a warning, maybe a potential to collaborate, to maybe not be enemies. [00:50:20] Speaker A: And he's like, how'd you track us? He's like, duh. [00:50:22] Speaker B: Gossip. [00:50:23] Speaker A: Where's the closest cyanide? It's vibration. Give away his location. [00:50:26] Speaker B: Hulk of Sinai. Sounds fucking awesome. [00:50:28] Speaker A: That sounds cool. [00:50:29] Speaker B: And Javi says, I don't understand it. And just, like, completely is like a. Javi should be like, this motherfucking. Could be tracked and, like, be more shrewd about it. I don't feel he's shrewd enough about this. He's not shrewd enough about the shroud, Johnny. [00:50:43] Speaker A: Not shrewd about the shroud, but. [00:50:46] Speaker B: So this. This angel messenger is like, Godsend, Wanted you to be found by this General Mattius and says you should assume everything Godson tells you is a lie. [00:50:56] Speaker A: He says. He said you might be an outcast. He's like another of their lies. So he's not an outcast, whoever the outcasts are. [00:51:00] Speaker B: Yeah. So there's no. Who is the Outcasts? I don't know who the outcast is, Johnny. Are there any. Okay, but. But then the. This angel is like, my. My mission is to tell you that you can meet General Mattius in two days at Warehouse Q in Area 51. [00:51:15] Speaker A: So didn't he call accomplished his mission? [00:51:16] Speaker B: Yeah, he did. He did. [00:51:18] Speaker A: But he's like, kill me. I didn't. I failed my mission. It's been compromised. It's like, well, you just kind of did it. Yeah, but kill me. This guy really wants to die. [00:51:25] Speaker B: He wants to die. And he's like, I'd rather. I'd rather you kill me than General Mattius and Javi. [00:51:30] Speaker A: Matthias. [00:51:31] Speaker B: Matthias. Sorry. [00:51:32] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know. It might be Madius. I think Matias sounds better. [00:51:35] Speaker B: Then we do a quick cut to. To. To he man and godsend. And they're just like, what are you talking about? What are they talking about over there, do you think? Just like, I don't know. It doesn't matter. And then this angel threatens Linda. He says, if you don't kill me and I have to go get killed by my boss, I'm gonna take Linda with me. [00:51:54] Speaker A: I'm gonna kill Linda. [00:51:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:56] Speaker A: He's like, what you say? [00:51:57] Speaker B: And then. And then Javi just pulls out a shotgun and blams him in the head. Head. [00:52:01] Speaker A: Like, head explodes gloriously. [00:52:04] Speaker B: And then we cut back to godsend and he man. And they're like, the. Is he doing over there? Like, obviously, he's shotgunning an angel. Jesus. [00:52:13] Speaker A: Yeah, he's shotgun's head. [00:52:15] Speaker B: You never seen a cowboy pull a shotgun on an angel? What is this, your first rodeo? [00:52:19] Speaker A: Yeah. Come on, guys. [00:52:20] Speaker B: And then Javi comes back to the porch. Godson's like, what were you talking about? Then he man says, let's leave. The outcasts will come soon. And Godson's like, yeah. [00:52:35] Speaker A: He said, we're leaving with him. [00:52:36] Speaker B: Yeah. I was like, wait, we're going with him? [00:52:38] Speaker A: I thought you were about to kill him. [00:52:42] Speaker B: And then we cut from there too. [00:52:43] Speaker A: It abruptly cuts to the pen to. [00:52:45] Speaker B: The Pentagon, where they're discussing the. The big beast that has come out of the water and is making its way toward the coast of Oregon. [00:52:53] Speaker A: Yes, the big beast on mainline spawn. [00:52:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I forgot what its name was again. [00:52:56] Speaker A: Yes, indeed I did. [00:52:59] Speaker B: Whatever. You know what it is, it's the hell that's come down. [00:53:01] Speaker A: It's the guy. [00:53:02] Speaker B: Yeah, this. This. This general at the Pentagon has a. A wonderful mustache, though. I love the mustache. That's just like a big block. [00:53:13] Speaker A: I was like, please don't say womb broom. [00:53:18] Speaker B: Johnny. I would never. That is too crass for David. [00:53:21] Speaker A: Well, I didn't say it. I just said, please don't say it. That's how you get around it. [00:53:29] Speaker B: But yeah. So Then. Then we get a little. A little sea spawn 364, which we covered in episode 144, right, Kirjani, correct. [00:53:37] Speaker A: Yes. [00:53:38] Speaker B: For the year of Spawn. And then, you know, just making sure that you remember that this is happening in mainline stuff. Spawn. We cut back to the porch, and Godson's like, I promise he's still going to give us answers. And Javi's like, so you're not in a rush to get your daughter back? What's going on here? [00:53:55] Speaker A: He wants to survive first. Says this guy. [00:53:57] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like, survive first. So Javi takes that as we got a retreat. And he says, always knew, you heaven bastards. [00:54:05] Speaker A: Riella and Godson, in a glorious moment, reveals this guy's name and says, Taser. [00:54:10] Speaker B: And it is spelled don't take the babe differently now than it is in. At any other point in the book. It's spelled with the Z the first time, and every other time it's spelled with an S. Yes. [00:54:19] Speaker A: I think there's two with a Z and then the rest are with an S. Yeah. [00:54:22] Speaker B: His name is Taser. And so Taser get the. Or is Taser the cat? Oh, no, Taser is the cat. [00:54:28] Speaker A: He's talking to the guy. [00:54:29] Speaker B: So Taser sends his cat after Javi because, you know, he can't abide being called yellow. And Godson's like, this is a waste of time. It's not going to hurt him. And Taser's like, like, just watch. That cat's going to rip him from head to toe. And then. [00:54:46] Speaker A: Then Javi uses his animal powers to take over the cat. [00:54:48] Speaker B: And, like, instantly, he's like, okay, he's mine now. And the Taser is shocked. No one's ever survived this tiger's attack. He grabs the knife and starts, you know, brandishing it towards Javi. And Javi's like, oh, you want to play knives, huh? [00:55:03] Speaker A: Then Taser suddenly calms himself, and then. [00:55:05] Speaker B: It'S like, I know a place we can hide. Cloak us and take there. Take. Take us there. And Godsend's yes, we're all going, says Godsend. A ball of energy. Godsend reads Taser's mind and takes them to the coordinates that Taser is thinking. [00:55:21] Speaker A: Of, which is a farmhouse. [00:55:23] Speaker B: Yeah, lots of farmhouses in this. And then they go into the barn. They're like, we can talk inside. This conversation doesn't really go anywhere. It's just an excuse for Javi to, like, be like, I'm gonna sit on these hay bales. You guys go do some stuff. For a little bit. [00:55:38] Speaker A: Is this hilarious? Like, how many fashions you think there'll be? He's like, four or five. And it's like, what are you talking about? [00:55:43] Speaker B: What is this? And, you know, Gutson's like, hey, hey, if you're not feeling up to this, you just stay here and rest. And Javi's like, yep, that's good. I'm gonna be here. I'm gonna be resting. Javi knows something serious has happened to his body. So he's not gonna go. He's not gonna go to this fight that Taser and Godsend are going to. Taser and Godsend, leave Javi behind in this. In this. This barn. And Javi is just like. Like, oh, God. Oh. Oh, God, my body. My body is bad because I keep cutting myself open to get blood from my bullets. Oh, God. It's taking a toll on my body. [00:56:19] Speaker A: That's gonna suck. [00:56:20] Speaker B: And then. And then it's like, fuck this. I don't have any more bullets to put blood on. I need to distract myself. And how does he distract himself, Johnny? He finds a horse friend. He just hangs out with a horse. [00:56:33] Speaker A: Why not? [00:56:35] Speaker B: I'm surprised that this whole issue isn't just what Javi does when he hangs out with the horse. Just, like, grooming her, giving her some oats. [00:56:43] Speaker A: Give her some oats. [00:56:44] Speaker B: Maybe teaching her to barrel race, changing her shoes. He becomes a farrier. And then hours later, Godsend and Taser return soaked in blood. [00:56:59] Speaker A: I like, we think we know this. Matthias is like, yeah, we know where he is. He's Area 51 in Aisle Q. [00:57:05] Speaker B: They told him, yeah, yeah. And they're like, how are you doing? How you doing, Javi? And he's like, I never felt better. And so he's like, I'm going with you guys. And they're like, hey, wait, wait. You're the gunslinger and you're leaving your guns behind. And he says, oh, I got other tricks to handle you angels. Then we cut to Madrid, back to the boardroom of the guys that we saw, you know, a couple episodes ago. So. A couple issues ago. Last issue. The issue before. When did we see the boardroom? Last issue. [00:57:33] Speaker A: Last issue. [00:57:33] Speaker B: Yeah, they're talking about Nyx and what she's currently doing and how, you know, let's fucking with their plans. And they're like, but maybe. Maybe. Maybe she's more powerful than we thought. Like, someone should call General Mattias Matthias. Matias Matthias. Matthias. [00:57:55] Speaker A: Matthias is a real name. [00:57:57] Speaker B: I'm sorry, I don't. I don't understand. Why it's not sticking in there. Matthias. Matthias. [00:58:03] Speaker A: It wouldn't even be Mattius. Because that means the. I would have to be before the a. [00:58:06] Speaker B: My tires. [00:58:07] Speaker A: No, he likes my ties. [00:58:09] Speaker B: I don't think of a drink with a. Some. Some. [00:58:12] Speaker A: He's got a little umbrella in it. [00:58:13] Speaker B: A little bit of lime. I love a Mai Tai. It's good. [00:58:17] Speaker A: Matthias. [00:58:17] Speaker B: But so while they're. While they're. While they're in the. Having this discussion at the boardroom, just Godson and Taser and Javi just crash through the window. Whatever these. [00:58:28] Speaker A: Bam. [00:58:29] Speaker B: Whatever these people may have been planning. The strategy just got changed and there's. [00:58:35] Speaker A: Like killing everyone in the boardroom. But then. [00:58:37] Speaker B: But then we see. [00:58:38] Speaker A: Godson sees his daughter. Janelle. [00:58:39] Speaker B: Yeah, just run it away. Godson's daughter was part of this. Whatever this is. It's my daughter. She's here. Let's go. But a hidden microchip goes off in gunslinger's head. Gunslinger. This is she. Spawn, the disturbance of the Pacific has reached land. We need you here. Whatever you're doing, drop it and leave now. That's. That's. [00:59:00] Speaker A: No. [00:59:01] Speaker B: Relieve the. [00:59:02] Speaker A: And that's a very abrupt end. [00:59:03] Speaker B: Necroplasm meter to end the issue. Johnny. [00:59:07] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, there's my daughter. Oh. Oh, go. [00:59:12] Speaker B: I mean, to. To its credit, there is more action than sometimes happens in a very Todd father gunslinger issue. [00:59:19] Speaker A: But it's just a weird issue, man. [00:59:22] Speaker B: Like softly introducing a whole bunch of other bad guys without specifically naming them. So you can kind of come back and be like, oh, yeah, it's one of those factions that Godson and Taser box. What? [00:59:32] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Interesting. [00:59:35] Speaker B: We get a spawning ground. Presents some fan art. Some good fan art. Johnny, we got a. Yep. Somebody did a cover. Looks like a good cover. Oh, it looks like they did what they would want to do for a cover and then added the title treatment. So I don't think it's a. One of the blank covers. We got a couple of figures that looks like people. [00:59:58] Speaker A: Almost like melted plastic. Yeah. One of them coming out of a spray paint can. [01:00:02] Speaker B: Yeah. I think it might be somebody who does art with spray paint cans. And they made spray paint can look like fire and robe. It's pretty fucking cool. [01:00:14] Speaker A: Pretty cool. [01:00:14] Speaker B: It's pretty fucking cool. I wish that. I wish the resolution of the pictures in the back of this were a little higher. I think that would. Yeah, that would help. But I mean, you want to get as much art in there as possible, so sometimes you gotta make. You gotta make some sacrifices. There's a little action figure. There's a nice big black and white, like, inked art page of just Javi with gun in one hand and brass knuckles in the other. Just like. It's glorious. [01:00:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:00:44] Speaker B: Need more Sponge Universe, Johnny. [01:00:46] Speaker A: Always. [01:00:47] Speaker B: Well, don't miss the ongoing titles. We got the Core 4 there. [01:00:50] Speaker A: Core 4, Spawn King, Spawn Scorch, Gunslinger, real good. [01:00:54] Speaker B: Image Classics AD. And the Spawn Call of Duty AD is the back of the COVID toy head. And that's. [01:01:01] Speaker A: Indeed it is. [01:01:01] Speaker B: Gunslinger 43, Johnny. [01:01:03] Speaker A: It's a man. It's 43. [01:01:05] Speaker B: It's an issue of. It's an issue of Comic Book. [01:01:08] Speaker A: Indeed it is. [01:01:09] Speaker B: Speaking of an issue of Comic Book, Johnny, sometimes dogs are good, Sometimes dogs are not so good. But, you know, we always got to rate them on the scale from good to best. So let's. Let's rate some puppies. Johnny. [01:01:25] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. First up today, we had Deadly Tales. The Gunslinger. Number six. [01:01:32] Speaker B: Absolutely. It's not evil enough. Turning back number six. Not even. [01:01:35] Speaker A: It's not evil enough. Yeah, you see? One more number to make it six. Six to make it order 66. I love it. [01:01:43] Speaker B: I just learned. Tangent. I just learned that the Gangster's Disciples originally started as the Devil's disciples in year 1966. So there you go. It's evil enough to be a street gang. Devil's Disciples 66. [01:01:58] Speaker A: Okay. [01:01:59] Speaker B: Very exciting. [01:01:59] Speaker A: We're back to the Patrick Reynolds art. We're back to a more somber cinematic tale from the circus. But like I said, it's like the antithesis of what I don't like about modern. About the original Gunslinger is like, it's just one on one fights, but this is like one on one fighters, raw. Use the environment. You feel it. And it's just very exciting. Very thrilling, very cinematic. You get this flashback to some of Tobias's past or maybe not at all what it seems. [01:02:28] Speaker B: We know he's got a sketchy past. [01:02:30] Speaker A: That's got a sketchy past. And he did some shitty things. We did let this girl go. But I really like her character. She seems pretty badass. She's kicking his ass. [01:02:42] Speaker B: Handily. [01:02:43] Speaker A: Handily. I just thought it was really exciting. Love the art. Love the sparse dialogue. [01:02:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:50] Speaker A: Like the lightning and the storm and the flood. Just all the environment stuff is great. I'm gonna give it 4.5 hats because the hat came back. [01:03:03] Speaker B: I mean, it's. It is definitely the. The benchmark of. Of what we talk about the hat. It's. It's real. It's a real good book, Johnny. Like you said, it's. It does the. Just one person, like a new enemy, shows up and they just fight. And that's all the issue is. But it feels like there's actually weight to it instead of just like, oh, who is this? We gotta get through this guy. This. It's great. And this. Well, we talked so much about Patrick Reynolds being incredible beforehand, but yeah, Patrick, this Patrick Reynolds and John Jimmy Palmiotti team is just real good killer. Real good. I'm gonna give. It's a good issue. I'm gonna give this four and a half fat soldiers coming to give bad news. Oh, man, look at that guy. That guy is beard. Hashtag beard goals, Johnny. Look at it. It's so. [01:03:59] Speaker A: Oh, nice beard. [01:04:00] Speaker B: It is a nice beard. Yeah, it's a good book. [01:04:03] Speaker A: It's good. I love the deadly tales. [01:04:05] Speaker B: Those tales. [01:04:06] Speaker A: And then we have reggae gunslinger. [01:04:08] Speaker B: Vanilla gunslinger. [01:04:11] Speaker A: Reggae guns. Not reggae gunslinger. Reggae swans. [01:04:16] Speaker B: Played by Adrien Brody. [01:04:18] Speaker A: Oh, no. [01:04:23] Speaker B: The art in this one is incredible. You gotta admit, Johnny, that Carlo barberry. [01:04:27] Speaker A: Yeah. The art's incredible. The story is just weird and kind of confusing, if I'm gonna be honest. [01:04:33] Speaker B: Again, again, it feels very much like a first draft. That's. That's what it feels like. [01:04:38] Speaker A: Yeah. And like, it kind of introduces this new faction, the Outsiders, but it doesn't. And it's just like very. It gives non comm. It's very non committal to what it's even about. It's like they're all kind of just ambling around. Yeah, there's no, like, driving. There's nothing that drives. And then it just ends. Yeah, but we don't even know his daughter is like. Do we know his daughter, like, works for Heaven and all of a sudden she's is there at the office? Like, that hasn't been established. [01:05:01] Speaker B: Well, I mean, what they do formlessly establish, Johnny, is Javi now has a saber tooth cat. So that's really all that matter. [01:05:09] Speaker A: That's really all that matters. [01:05:10] Speaker B: Really all that matters. And he hangs out with a horse. Javi is certified horse girl. [01:05:15] Speaker A: Yes, he is a horse girl. I don't know. It just didn't do it for me, especially reading it right after reading this awesome Deadly Tales that. [01:05:21] Speaker B: Yeah, it just. That very quickly kind of does it a disservice on any subpar. Gunslinger is following up this with his dead details. [01:05:31] Speaker A: Deadly Tales. I feel like it's like building towards something. It has little peppering hints and like, I always feel like gunslinger. It's like. Is it actually building towards anything? Is there just this, like, ambling series of fights? [01:05:43] Speaker B: Yeah, it's just. [01:05:44] Speaker A: I don't know. I mean, I love Deadly Tales, but the top of Farland Gunslinger hasn't really been doing it for me recently. [01:05:50] Speaker B: It's. It's spinning its wagon wheels, Johnny. [01:05:53] Speaker A: This godson arc just is like. [01:05:54] Speaker B: I'm like, ah, you already killed Godsend. What the. [01:05:58] Speaker A: Yeah, we already killed Godsend. [01:05:59] Speaker B: I don't give a about Godsend since worked so well in Kingspawn. That was a great little bit. [01:06:08] Speaker A: Yeah, man. But art is good. I like the. I mean, I do kind of love a little bit of the ridiculousness of it. I mean, that's the Todd father. That's why he's charming. Like, it's just ridiculous. Yeah, like this guy, like, begging to be killed. He shoots him three times the head, and he just walks back to the conversation like. [01:06:25] Speaker B: It's hilarious. Is. Is pretty great. It's pretty great, Javi. Pretending like it's nothing. [01:06:32] Speaker A: I'm gonna give this issue two Pentagon mustaches. [01:06:38] Speaker B: Nice. [01:06:39] Speaker A: Just a mustache. That's all I'm gonna say. [01:06:41] Speaker B: Mustache. [01:06:41] Speaker A: Two out of five. [01:06:42] Speaker B: Two mustaches out of five. [01:06:44] Speaker A: Actually, I'm gonna give it two. Avenue Warehouse Q in Area 51. [01:06:48] Speaker B: Okay. [01:06:48] Speaker A: Because that's just hilarious. [01:06:50] Speaker B: Nice. I, I, I agree with you. This is a mess, is all you can really describe it as. I'm sure we'll get somewhere eventually. But this, it's very jejune, Johnny. It is neither good nor bad. It's just something that needs to be gotten through. So it's kind of just there, whether you like it or not. I'm gonna give it two knife jokes because I like how when Taser pulls a knife, Javi pulls a bigger knife. [01:07:20] Speaker A: Okay. [01:07:25] Speaker B: So I'm gonna give it two knife jokes. [01:07:27] Speaker A: All right. We each gave it a two. [01:07:28] Speaker B: Excellent. Well, Johnny, speaking of excellent, you know who else is excellent? [01:07:34] Speaker A: Our friends on Instagram. [01:07:35] Speaker B: Instagram. And this week, we're gonna shout out a friend we learned about in the. What is this called? The Spawning Grounds. [01:07:45] Speaker A: What is this called? Yes, yes. [01:07:47] Speaker B: The spawning grounds from gunslinger 43. And it is going to be. That's J E V A H O Creations. And they're the one that made the little. The little Gunslinger action figure. And if you look at their. If you look at their profile, they do a lot of. A lot of different characters in sort of that Masters of the Universe weird proportion style. It's great. [01:08:19] Speaker A: Yeah, it's really cool. [01:08:19] Speaker B: It's great. It's It's a lot of fun. There's a lot of stuff to go through. You won't be disappointed. [01:08:27] Speaker A: There's also a sexy Velma. [01:08:29] Speaker B: Yeah, there's also. [01:08:30] Speaker A: I mean, that's where. That's redundant. [01:08:34] Speaker B: There's a. There's a Shrek, too. That there's. I like this. I like this little astronaut skeleton that he's got up at the top there. That's pretty cool, actually. I don't know what their ginger is that they've got up at the top there. It's real good. [01:08:47] Speaker A: Yeah, they're fun. They're really fun. And they got a good gunslinger. [01:08:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:08:50] Speaker A: Good golly. Good gunslinger. Give him a good old follow. [01:08:53] Speaker B: Do it. Do it. [01:08:54] Speaker A: A lot of Gill man representation. [01:08:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Very fun. [01:08:58] Speaker A: Cool. [01:08:59] Speaker B: Also, while you're on the Internet finding about incredible people, you gotta look at bloody bones. Don't be. Don't be out here being like, oh. [01:09:06] Speaker A: My God, don't be sleeping on Lonnie Bones. [01:09:09] Speaker B: Just. Just Lottie Bones. Music in the Googler and we'll get you. There you are. Music. And they do a good job. [01:09:14] Speaker A: While you're on there, make sure to follow us on Instagram. We are regarding Spawn Pod. [01:09:18] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:09:18] Speaker A: You can also reach out to [email protected] and per David's request, the question this week is, yes, what should our punishment be every time we mess up? Tobias or Javi's name. [01:09:29] Speaker B: Yes. Or. Or in addition, if there's anything else that you've noticed that we mess up on lot. [01:09:36] Speaker A: Oh, God, don't open that door. [01:09:40] Speaker B: Give, give, give some additional suggestions for something that can cross over to multiple different types of episodes so that way we don't have to remember specifically for these episodes. Right. [01:09:51] Speaker A: We're going to get 200 emails. [01:09:54] Speaker B: All of them are going to be, you've got to drink every time. So we're just going to end up being drunk. Imagine, Imagine. Could you imagine being drunk trying to record this podcast? [01:10:04] Speaker A: It would usually those episodes are not very good. [01:10:07] Speaker B: It would be incoherent. [01:10:10] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. That's why I don't do it anymore. [01:10:14] Speaker B: Yes. Please let us know what our punishment should be. Please don't make it too cruel. We do. Or do we reserve the right to veto? But we will. We will. We will give everything a fair shake. [01:10:25] Speaker A: You know what I'm not going to veto is more spawn, David. And next week we're going to be covering more spawn. [01:10:29] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. What kind of more spawn are we going to be covering then? You Sound like you know the answer to that. [01:10:34] Speaker A: Yes. I want to do Violator Number Three. [01:10:36] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. That sounds awesome. Love the Violator. It's great. [01:10:42] Speaker A: This is the Plague Doctor one. [01:10:43] Speaker B: Is that. What? [01:10:44] Speaker A: Is this the Plague Doctor one? [01:10:45] Speaker B: Yeah, this is the Plague Doctor one. [01:10:47] Speaker A: Sweet. I can't wait. [01:10:48] Speaker B: It's. It's real good, man. Plague. [01:10:50] Speaker A: We're doing the big beefy boy. Just one issue. Violator Number three gonna be good. [01:10:55] Speaker B: So, I mean, there's got to be copies of them hanging around. Go find yourself a copy of it. It's. It's good. If you aren't reading the Violator Origins series that is already completed and probably very soon to be in a trade paperback, you gotta get it. It's fucking good. [01:11:11] Speaker A: You can also get all of them for, like, 30 bucks on eBay or something. [01:11:14] Speaker B: It's. It's fucking great. It's so good. [01:11:16] Speaker A: It is really good. [01:11:17] Speaker B: I'm really excited to talk about that next week, Johnny. [01:11:20] Speaker A: Well, yeah, me, too. [01:11:20] Speaker B: I got. I got this guy. I got this guy right here. He's starting to get antsy, and when he gets antsy, he doesn't calm down. So I should probably. [01:11:27] Speaker A: Yeah. Sorry to speed through to the end here. I have. [01:11:29] Speaker B: Yeah, we gotta. [01:11:30] Speaker A: I have a date with my girlfriend. David. [01:11:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I gotta. I got a terrible dog to take care of right now. Look at him. Look at him. He's such a shoot guy. Oh, he says. He says, johnny made a scorched be with you. [01:11:45] Speaker A: And also with you, sweet guy. [01:11:46] Speaker B: This is dingus, so you can say, and also with you, dingus. [01:11:49] Speaker A: And also with you, dingus. [01:11:51] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:11:53] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. All right, well, you go play with your dingus, and I'm going to go talk to a woman. [01:12:00] Speaker B: That's. That. That's. That's about how it always works out. Yeah. Yeah, I would say. [01:12:04] Speaker A: Yep. [01:12:09] Speaker B: Dingus waits for no man. Ram. [01:12:51] Speaker A: Well, I left my beverage over here. Give me one second.