Episode 148 - Scorched 41 and Spawn 365

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Armageddon is upon us. The end times I've been screaming about for years are finally here. Save yourself because no one else will. Get your family to safety. Grab your supplies. And most important, grab your guns and Bibles. Good evening and welcome to the Malbols. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast. I'm your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:55] Speaker B: And I'm your co host, David Williams. And Johnny. Yeah, you know, coffee hasn't yet. Damn it. [00:01:06] Speaker A: Stop talking about the coffee. You need to be your own coffee. [00:01:10] Speaker B: I'm like David lynch over here. I gotta talk about coffee all the time. I was gonna say. I was gonna say last week, last week I went to go see Chuck Tingle talk and he determined through very scientific processes that Chicago is. Is in a relationship with death. So congratulations, Chicago, now dating death. [00:01:30] Speaker A: So for those who don't know, who's. [00:01:32] Speaker B: Chuck Tingle, Chuck Tingle is. [00:01:34] Speaker A: By those I mean me, but. But I know you mentioned him before, I just don't remember. [00:01:37] Speaker B: Chuck Tingle is an enigma. He is a writer who got started by writing highly imaginative, highly imaginative, highly ridiculous, massively inclusive erotic novellas. He writes one a week and has done for 12 years, something like that, and has recently started writing horror novels. So he had a. He has a new book out. It's called Lucky Day. He had a book release party and the book release party, he was like, I'm not gonna talk about. I'm not gonna talk about the book, but we're gonna figure out what monster Chicago is dating. So he determined that Chicago was dating Death. [00:02:21] Speaker A: As in Venus. [00:02:22] Speaker B: As in like, like the final destination personification of death. Yeah. [00:02:28] Speaker A: Right. [00:02:29] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:02:30] Speaker A: I mean, he doesn't personify that. [00:02:31] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:02:32] Speaker A: Do they ever show him? They ever show up? They should. [00:02:36] Speaker B: But like, like there's the understanding that it has a consciousness and a will. [00:02:39] Speaker A: Right. It has. It has a. [00:02:41] Speaker B: That's a. Not like. Not like as you mentioned, Thanos and Pretty Lady. Death from the Infinity Gauntlet. [00:02:49] Speaker A: Yeah, they should have made it so we wanted to. Death. [00:02:51] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Josh Brolin would have been pro it. He's. He's. He's made movies where he's been made to things before. Oh, yeah, he was in the remake of Old Boy. [00:03:04] Speaker A: Oh, did he? A squid? Oh, no, he. His daughter. [00:03:07] Speaker B: Daughter, yeah. [00:03:07] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Even worse spoilers for he ate a squid and his daughter. Does he eat the squid in the remake? [00:03:15] Speaker B: Yeah, he eats the squid in the remake. [00:03:16] Speaker A: Okay. [00:03:17] Speaker B: Yeah, the. The. The rods. [00:03:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:21] Speaker B: Fighting to choke it down, interestingly enough. [00:03:26] Speaker A: Because he said it wasn't his original idea because it was remake. That's the only Spike Lee movie that doesn't say a Spike Lee joint. This is a Spike Lee film. [00:03:33] Speaker B: Interesting. I also think he kind of, like, shoves it, like he's not a fan. [00:03:38] Speaker A: I don't think. I think he's not happy that he did it. [00:03:40] Speaker B: I don't. I think very few people are. I don't even think it made money. So I don't even think, like, the executives are happy that it happened. [00:03:48] Speaker A: No. Was it just called Old Boy also? [00:03:50] Speaker B: Yeah, it was just called Old Boy. [00:03:52] Speaker A: I couldn't remember. Yeah, yeah, but Odisa, the original Odisa for the win. Yeah, I watched that. Osu. At, like, the film. They would show those films. The film club would show a film like once a month. [00:04:03] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:04:04] Speaker A: And I saw. Boy. [00:04:05] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. [00:04:06] Speaker A: I. Yeah, real nice. What a nice film. [00:04:08] Speaker B: I wish. I wish I had just watched the original instead of the remake because now I have no desire to watch the original because it's. [00:04:14] Speaker A: Oh, really? You haven't seen the original? Oh, no. [00:04:19] Speaker B: My squid games. [00:04:20] Speaker A: Was him eating that squid? [00:04:21] Speaker B: Yeah, My. My dumb self. I didn't realize it was a remake until, like, halfway through. [00:04:26] Speaker A: I know someone else that did that too. And they're like, I didn't know it was a fucking remake. [00:04:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:30] Speaker A: Old Boy. Man. Some crazy. [00:04:32] Speaker B: Oh, boy. The old. [00:04:34] Speaker A: It gives the oldest of boys. [00:04:36] Speaker B: It gives a new connotation to the term Old boys club. [00:04:40] Speaker A: Indeed. Yeah. There's no. No one eats anything crazy in these issues of Spawn. Well, I guess kind of that monster, like, sucks Spawn into his chest or whatever. [00:04:50] Speaker B: But that's not really. You don't. I mean, unless you're. Unless you're the thing and you. You've got a mouth chest that. That. A chest mouth that opens up. [00:04:58] Speaker A: Yeah. You don't eat through your chest, David. [00:05:00] Speaker B: I mean, not yet. I'm trying. [00:05:03] Speaker A: So scary that part of the thing. When he bites those hands off. It's so fucking scary. [00:05:07] Speaker B: The man. Perfect, perfect use of an individual who had had medical discoverment. [00:05:15] Speaker A: But, like, how do you execute those practical effects? [00:05:20] Speaker B: I don't know. It's wild. And the sad thing is, Johnny, my first introduction to the thing was people laughing about how was it the remake? No, no. Was people laughing about how corny the effects looked. What? Yeah. Yeah. So that way. [00:05:35] Speaker A: What the fuck are you talking about? [00:05:36] Speaker B: So that way. By the time. By the time I was in. By the time I was a freshman in college and I was working in a lab with a guy who. He, like, if he wasn't at work. He was at home watching movies, smoking cigarettes. And he was like, I know everybody says they look fucking stupid, but the effects in the thing are great. You should watch the thing. Don't laugh about it. It's a good movie. And he was fucking right. Thank you very much, Michael, wherever you are. [00:06:03] Speaker A: People don't know how to watch movies. Do you think the thing has bad social effects? Jesus Christ. Practical effects, man. There's no such thing as a bad one. Because if it's bad, it's usually funny. [00:06:13] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:06:14] Speaker A: There's no such thing as a bad CGI is not funny. It's just, like, irritating. [00:06:19] Speaker B: It's just bad. Bad. [00:06:20] Speaker A: It's just really bad. It's just like, bad practical effect is usually at least funny. [00:06:24] Speaker B: Yeah. At least you. [00:06:28] Speaker A: There's nothing funny about bad cgi. [00:06:29] Speaker B: There's nothing. No, it's. It's removed all my laughs from me, Johnny. I have no more laughs because bad CGI is so sad. [00:06:36] Speaker A: The only CGI that's funny that's bad is when the rock shows up. Because it's so baffling that they tried that. It's like you guys fucked around and found out. You found out. We were not ready for that. [00:06:47] Speaker B: No, no, no. They were not ready for that. That. That technology was not ready for that. [00:06:51] Speaker A: Yeah, we as a species were not ready to try to make a human being out of cg. [00:06:56] Speaker B: Maybe. Maybe it was a little deus ex machina because we were not. We as a species were not prepared for basically naked Scorpion Rock. It would have been too much for our minds to fathom. [00:07:09] Speaker A: Look, like Johnny Bravo. [00:07:12] Speaker B: They should have just put fucking animated Johnny Bravo. [00:07:14] Speaker A: Yeah, they should just put fucking Johnny Bravo on there, because then they could. [00:07:17] Speaker B: Have had a whole side story. Story of him trying to woo Evelyn, just like, hey, mama. [00:07:22] Speaker A: Yeah, I remember how hyped he was in that movie and how underused he was. But I remember all that marketing was like the rocks in a movie. [00:07:31] Speaker B: Well, because, I mean, that was when he started doing movies and it was. [00:07:34] Speaker A: That's his first movie. [00:07:34] Speaker B: Yeah, it was a big deal. It was a big deal. [00:07:36] Speaker A: Big deal. [00:07:37] Speaker B: And now it's. Now it's. If a wrestler isn't in movies, it's like, what the is wrong with you? You're not living up to your contractual obligations. [00:07:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:07:46] Speaker B: The world might be a terrible place, Johnny. I'm just now realizing this. [00:07:50] Speaker A: Well, what's not a terrible place most of the time is Spawn Universe. [00:07:57] Speaker B: Most of the time. [00:07:58] Speaker A: Oh. I mean, it's a Fun time. I don't mean like terrible is like quality. [00:08:03] Speaker B: Oh. It's always. [00:08:03] Speaker A: We're end up on the Todd father's hit list. [00:08:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:05] Speaker A: He doesn't come after us. [00:08:06] Speaker B: Definitely. Definitely. [00:08:07] Speaker A: No, he doesn't read the comments, so he doesn't care. [00:08:09] Speaker B: Yeah. I would say, Johnny, that issues in the Spawns universe are like practical effects that even when they're bad, they're at least fun. [00:08:19] Speaker A: Exactly. You're right. Yeah. They're like the practical effects. [00:08:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:23] Speaker A: I also found out when I picked up my giant sack of $60 spawn because I moved, so I don't go to my comic book store. I used to go to my comic book store five days a week. So, like, I would just pop in there if I had extra time, you know, even if I didn't have stuff to pick up, I just like look around or like talk and say hi to the guys. And now it's like out of my way. And I usually only go when I go get my haircut because my barbers right next door, as we know, because I jumped out of the chair. [00:08:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:50] Speaker A: Subscribe to Deadly Tales one time, but I. So I usually just go when I get my barber because I'm so behind anyway. And I had $60 worth of spawn comics waiting for me. [00:09:01] Speaker B: That's so much. That's so much fun. [00:09:03] Speaker A: And there's one Star wars in there, so that's still. [00:09:08] Speaker B: That's still like, so a lot of $55 worth of $55 a spawn. [00:09:15] Speaker A: But I was talking to them, and I was like, we had so much Spawn. And they're like, remember the days used to buy every cover? And I was like, yeah, there's only when there's only four. And then they're like, there's still people that buy every cover for all of them at this store. And he's like, yeah. I'm like, give them my sticker. They need to listen to this podcast. Yeah, they do, if they're not already. [00:09:35] Speaker B: That's. That's impressive. [00:09:37] Speaker A: That's impressive. I mean, I know like, tiny Spawny does it and stuff. And I'm sure. [00:09:41] Speaker B: I mean, I am there. I would be absolutely. I don't know if you can be more drowning than drowning, but I would be extra drowning in Spawn if I bought every cover. [00:09:54] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I have. I have doubles a lot of the covers. But just the beginning. [00:09:58] Speaker B: Yeah, just the beginning. No, no, no. [00:10:01] Speaker A: And had a pandemic check in my pocket to burn. [00:10:04] Speaker B: Yeah. I also have. [00:10:05] Speaker A: Is it a manic episode, David? [00:10:07] Speaker B: Yeah, well, you know Maybe this will be a manic episode. We'll see. [00:10:11] Speaker A: We'll see. [00:10:11] Speaker B: We'll see. I mean, one of these issues that coffee kicks in. [00:10:15] Speaker A: Maybe it will be. [00:10:16] Speaker B: One of these issues is pretty manic. [00:10:18] Speaker A: Oh, God. Yeah. One of them's really good, though. [00:10:22] Speaker B: One of them is amazing. But what are we. What are we doing here, Johnny? What are we talking about? [00:10:27] Speaker A: We are respawn regarding Spawn, where each week we bring you two issues from Spawn's universe. Excep. When we don't. This week is no different. We have two issues from Spawn's universe. [00:10:37] Speaker B: We have. [00:10:38] Speaker A: I'm doing Scorch first. [00:10:39] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's fine. I think that's what we usually do. [00:10:41] Speaker A: Yeah. Because we can't wait to get to it. We scores 41 all the way back from May 2025. And spawn 365 all the way back from June 2025. Mainline spawn. Mainline and mainline. Scorched. [00:11:00] Speaker B: Mainline. Scorched. Scorched. On the main line. [00:11:04] Speaker A: There's gonna. One day there'll be a Scorch spin off Knights. [00:11:10] Speaker B: It'll be. Oh, that. They already did a singed, didn't they? The sin. Yeah, because the singed was Spawn kills every Spawn. They should just. [00:11:21] Speaker A: I wanted them to have to retcon how Javi knew how to write the Scorch. He's illiterate, and he wrote the Scorch in the sand in the first issue in Fire. We need to. How the hell did he do. [00:11:34] Speaker B: We need to just. [00:11:36] Speaker A: They need to cut back in Deadly Tales. Somebody's like, here. Here's how you write the word Scorch. And he's like, oh, okay. That's the only word he knows. [00:11:43] Speaker B: Somebody. Somebody is like, this is important. You're going to need to use this one day. I mean, Scorched Origins. [00:11:51] Speaker A: They already did that because we saw the origins. What could they do? Scorched colon. [00:11:55] Speaker B: They could. They could do, like. They could pretend that. Oh, I know how they could do it, Johnny. So. So. So Spawn is the general of Hell's army. That is to lead Hell's army to victory. And if you. If you kind of put it together, the Scorched is currently Spawns army to lead Spawns army to victory. So it could be a previous Spawn and a previous, previously previous Spawns team. And they would just have a different name other than the Scorched. [00:12:32] Speaker A: Like a medieval Spawn team. [00:12:34] Speaker B: Like a medieval. [00:12:35] Speaker A: They have like a plague doctor. They have medieval Spawn. They have like a hard spawn. [00:12:39] Speaker B: The problem with that is there's already Medieval on this team. [00:12:42] Speaker A: I know. Okay. I don't know. Like, what if they did like. [00:12:46] Speaker B: But, but yeah, if they did like, any Napoleonic Wars. If they did, like, Revolutionary War spawn. [00:12:52] Speaker A: Well, Napoleonic wars or. [00:12:54] Speaker B: Or what? Any of the spawns from the. The Carlo Barbary. [00:12:59] Speaker A: Yeah, that. That Run and Spawn where they're just dropping spawns left and right. [00:13:02] Speaker B: Gumshoe Spawns, Team Spawn, Centurion Spawn. I want to see. I want to see a comic that is a private detective's office that. That's helmed by Gumshoe Spawn. And it's just all private eyes running around. [00:13:17] Speaker A: Would be said in the 40s or. Yeah, like the 30s. [00:13:19] Speaker B: Yeah. It would have to be like, full on. Full on noir. Plus Spawn. [00:13:23] Speaker A: I'm down. [00:13:24] Speaker B: I'm dead. That would be amazing. [00:13:27] Speaker A: Scorched Gumshoe spawn. [00:13:29] Speaker B: I think we just gave ourselves some projects, Johnny. [00:13:31] Speaker A: Yeah, let's pitch it to Thomas Ely. [00:13:33] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:13:34] Speaker A: But no need to pitch Scorch because it's a very successful series, hopefully. I don't know how to look at sales of comic books. I'm hoping these are all being successful. [00:13:44] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't. I rely on occasionally looking. [00:13:48] Speaker A: I just assume they keep making a shit ton of small Thomas that are doing well, but if they scale them back, they're probably not. [00:13:53] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, that's. That's. That's usually a good way to look at it. The more things get canceled, the less popular they are. Right. I mean, shit's still getting second printing, so that's. Yeah, that's good. [00:14:06] Speaker A: No, people are. I think people are responding. Spawns. Spawn's back, baby. [00:14:12] Speaker B: I mean, there's a Spawn. There's a Spawn for every taste. [00:14:15] Speaker A: And he never left. No, he never left. But he's back. [00:14:17] Speaker B: He's back. Yeah. [00:14:18] Speaker A: And better than ever. [00:14:20] Speaker B: Don't call it a comeback, Johnny. He's been here for years. [00:14:25] Speaker A: No way. [00:14:26] Speaker B: No way. [00:14:27] Speaker A: This is kind of a comeback for Scorched. I feel like it's been a while since we've done Scorch. [00:14:31] Speaker B: I think it's just because we haven't done a Scorch. [00:14:34] Speaker A: I just love Scorch. [00:14:35] Speaker B: I also. I also feel like Scorched. Scorched. [00:14:38] Speaker A: They skipped a month. [00:14:39] Speaker B: They skipped a couple months. Yeah. I feel like they've got like a six week release schedule. [00:14:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:43] Speaker B: Every four week. [00:14:44] Speaker A: It's not as often. You know, you're right. [00:14:46] Speaker B: But that's okay. It's worth waiting for. [00:14:48] Speaker A: It's worth waiting for. And we always start. So this is scorch 41. Can't believe we're at 41 and we always start with the covers. [00:14:58] Speaker B: Yes, we do. [00:14:59] Speaker A: I've got the. A cover by Raymond Gay, and it's Plagueswan. [00:15:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Haven't seen that guy in a while. [00:15:07] Speaker A: Standing over a big glowing butthole. [00:15:11] Speaker B: A gaping maw, I think they call it. Johnny. Emphasis on the gaping. [00:15:16] Speaker A: Oh, Jesus Christ. I knew you could fucking say that. [00:15:19] Speaker B: And you didn't stab me. [00:15:21] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm gonna stop you. I just hate, like. Come on, man. You know, like, use, like, porn, terminography. [00:15:27] Speaker B: Cut it out. We could take it again. [00:15:28] Speaker A: No, it's fine. No, do it. I want you to put you on blast. [00:15:36] Speaker B: But I mean, look at it. It's massive. [00:15:38] Speaker A: It is. It's like a. It's like a. It's just like a. The abyss, but it's glowing and shooting out lightning. Like orange lightning. [00:15:47] Speaker B: It's. It looks like it's got like, a whole bunch of worms coming out of it. Like. Or like tree roots. [00:15:52] Speaker A: Yeah, it's intense. [00:15:54] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real great. It's real great. Would it be reverse lightning if it's coming out of the. The. The hole there? Since. I don't. I'm not sure. I guess. I guess lightning doesn't necessarily have to come from the sky. That's just usually where the ions build up. [00:16:11] Speaker A: It's like some creatures rising from it or something. Maybe. Or maybe that's why he came out of. He like, popped out. [00:16:16] Speaker B: Hey. [00:16:16] Speaker A: Motherfucker. [00:16:17] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I mean. Yeah, because he. [00:16:19] Speaker A: Yeah, the lighting matches the lighting in his eyes. [00:16:22] Speaker B: He's got that like. Like jack O. Lantern mouth. [00:16:26] Speaker A: Good old Plague Spawn. [00:16:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:28] Speaker A: Old reliable. [00:16:30] Speaker B: I'm excited for him to just, like, come creeping around a corner sometime soon. He'll be back. [00:16:35] Speaker A: Yeah. According to Spawn365, he's come back Willy nilly. [00:16:40] Speaker B: Yeah. No, it's. [00:16:41] Speaker A: Which I don't understand is a comic book thing. But, like, come on, we'll get to it. Yeah, it's just like. This is so lazy. [00:16:51] Speaker B: Yeah, we're not talking about that one yet, Johnny. [00:16:53] Speaker A: We're not talking about that one. All right. What cover you got? [00:16:56] Speaker B: I have the COVID B. I've got the Vaughn Randall cover. And it is this beautiful. [00:17:02] Speaker A: Oh. [00:17:03] Speaker B: Portrait of Jessica Priest holding onto Medieval's sword in front of, like, a. I mean, we've already talked about it, but I would call that, like, the personification of death as the virgin mother. Right. [00:17:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Lady Death. It's like a ghost cosplay goes to band. [00:17:22] Speaker B: Yeah. Late. It's. It's A skeleton with like Mary Magdalene shroud and a halo and a crown of thorns. So there's a lot of. There's a lot of really stuff in there. It's. It's a rare, like, white background cover, and it's very striking. [00:17:38] Speaker A: I like that one a lot. [00:17:41] Speaker B: It's great, actually. Also very rare. The content on the inside of the book matches the COVID because it is Jessica Priest holding medieval sword. And this is a Jessica Priest medieval spawn issue. [00:17:54] Speaker A: And it's kind of a motherly moment for her in this issue. Just give some tough lessons. [00:18:02] Speaker B: That's only like a third of the actual storyline in this book. Book, man, there's so much in this book, but it is just so good. [00:18:09] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a lot of fun. [00:18:10] Speaker B: Yeah. We should probably get into it, Johnny. [00:18:12] Speaker A: Whoa. Before we get into it, we gotta get into these credits. [00:18:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:16] Speaker A: I'm not talking Star wars currency, baby. [00:18:20] Speaker B: I wonder what the has. Somebody definitely has worked out an exchange rate between Imperial credits and dollars, haven't they, David? [00:18:29] Speaker A: Let's find out. [00:18:32] Speaker B: I didn't know you had to look it up. I thought you would either know off the top of your. Your head or just be like, we don't have time for that. Ain't nobody got time for that. [00:18:40] Speaker A: Reddit tried to figure it out. [00:18:41] Speaker B: Seems like it would be awfully high because they, they always use low numbers of credits. [00:18:46] Speaker A: Well, in Galaxy's Edge is one to one, because credits just mean a dollar. But this guy says. Someone says like 58 bucks. That seems right. $17. Okay, $17. [00:18:59] Speaker B: $17. No, is that a. Is that a Imperial or a Republic credit? And I guess Old Republic or New Republic. [00:19:08] Speaker A: This is. [00:19:08] Speaker B: This is a wormhole, Johnny. [00:19:09] Speaker A: We gotta get off this. I don't know. Republic credits. Republic credits are no good out here. I need something more real. Can I do Watto? Is that offensive? [00:19:21] Speaker B: I mean, as long as you don't. As long as you don't lean into the certain stereotypes of it. Yeah, but I think that Watto was fine. [00:19:29] Speaker A: Okay. [00:19:30] Speaker B: You're not. [00:19:31] Speaker A: I like Watto. [00:19:31] Speaker B: Yeah. Watto sees a. I would say he's a fun guy, but. No, he buys himself. [00:19:38] Speaker A: He's a fun guy. [00:19:40] Speaker B: He's got that. He's got that funny, jiggly, jiggly double. [00:19:44] Speaker A: Chin that eventually flies. He's got little wings. [00:19:47] Speaker B: He's got that little stubble on his double chin. Hilarious. [00:19:51] Speaker A: I love wano because that implies you swindled me. [00:19:54] Speaker B: He wakes up every morning and sh. [00:19:57] Speaker A: Yeah, just like Donald Duck has to shave his fucking beak. You Ever think about that? Because the episode went on the raft, he gets stubble on his beak. That means he shaves his beak. [00:20:06] Speaker B: Oh, no. [00:20:08] Speaker A: Think about it, David. [00:20:09] Speaker B: The. Sorry. I'm just now thinking about, like. The only thing I can think about visually now is the Disney Peter Pan where Smee's trying to lather up Captain Hook to give him a shave, and he accidentally lathers up the seagull and shames the seagull. Seagull's butt. Do you know. Do you not know what I'm talking about? Have you never seen the animated Peter Pan? [00:20:33] Speaker A: Yeah, I've seen. I don't have it memorized. [00:20:35] Speaker B: Oh, well, I don't have it memorized. [00:20:36] Speaker A: Either, but we're more Kathy Rigby family. [00:20:39] Speaker B: When. When Smee shaves a seagull's butt. [00:20:43] Speaker A: You remember that? [00:20:43] Speaker B: You. You remember that, Johnny? [00:20:45] Speaker A: I don't remember because he's just got. [00:20:48] Speaker B: Like, the little nothing, and then he gets upset and flies away. And then Smith's just like, oh. [00:20:54] Speaker A: The only reason I know about the Donald Duck thing is it's Thomas Pinchon. It's in Inherent Vice. One of the characters freaks out about it. I would never notice. Yeah, I've read, like, three of them. I read all the easy ones. [00:21:12] Speaker B: That's not really. That's not really saying much, Johnny, because I. I would say probably crying of Lot 49 is the easiest one I've ever read. And it's. I read that one occasionally. You gotta, like, buckle up your seatbelt and just be like, okay, where are we going? [00:21:24] Speaker A: They're requiring Lot 49, Vineland and Inherent Bias. [00:21:29] Speaker B: Vineland's the one about the Godzilla hunter, right? [00:21:32] Speaker A: That's a very, very, very, very small subplot, but. [00:21:34] Speaker B: Yes, but that's. That is the reason I wanted. [00:21:36] Speaker A: There's a. There's a government agent who's constantly in Godzilla footprints around the world, like, stressed out, trying to, like, figure out where Godzilla is. And it doesn't ever, like, explain it or go into it. It just uses another Godzilla footprint every time he calls it. [00:21:49] Speaker B: I mean, what do you need, Johnny? If that. If that were a real job, I would. I would be applying immediately. But we were talking about credits, Johnny. [00:21:57] Speaker A: We're talking about good jobs. We're talking about credits. These good boys do good jobs. We got script plot by John Maitland. Script plot. Script plot by John Layman, Todd McFarlane. On additional script art by the man himself, Steven Segovia. [00:22:15] Speaker B: All 41 issues. [00:22:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Colors by Danae Ribeiro, lettering by Emerald Design. Cover artist is Raymond Gay. Wait, wait, wait. What am I doing? [00:22:26] Speaker B: We already covered the COVID Come on, Johnny. Go with the program. [00:22:29] Speaker A: Creative Director is Tom McFarland and editor in chief is Thomas Healy. [00:22:33] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:22:34] Speaker A: Previously in the Scorched, Eddie Frank confronts both his past and future simultaneously. But with the scorch by his side, he knows he won't have to face these challenges alone. [00:22:47] Speaker B: Nice. That's like the hell version of Cheers where everybody knows your name. They're always glad you came and they're. [00:22:56] Speaker A: Always glad you came. Do you know that song's got. You ever listen to that full song? [00:23:02] Speaker B: No, I don't think I have. [00:23:04] Speaker A: There's a really weird lyric in the second chorus that's not in the first one. Instead of like, you know, in the first one, it's like making your way in the world today to say everything you got. [00:23:16] Speaker B: Yep. [00:23:17] Speaker A: Sometimes you gotta get away. Okay. In the second verse, it's like saying things that are bad. Like you're in dad or like whatever. Then it's like. And your husband wants to be a girl. [00:23:30] Speaker B: What? [00:23:31] Speaker A: Not kidding. Sometimes you gotta go where everybody knows your name. So weird. [00:23:38] Speaker B: Weird. I mean, very specific. 80s. 80s were a wild time. I mean, that was. That was around the time of Lola too, right? Johnny, the song. [00:23:50] Speaker A: I was just weird. It was like weird. Transphobia for no reason looks like a lady. [00:23:54] Speaker B: I mean, transphobia was kind of baked into things for a very long time. [00:23:58] Speaker A: Still is. [00:23:59] Speaker B: Still is, unfortunately. And it's fucking stupid. [00:24:01] Speaker A: The transphobia. We open. [00:24:02] Speaker B: To be fair, the transphobia is stupid. [00:24:06] Speaker A: We knew what you meant. [00:24:07] Speaker B: Okay, just. Just need. [00:24:10] Speaker A: We knew what you meant. [00:24:11] Speaker B: Okay. Okay. [00:24:13] Speaker A: So we open on Castle Mouth Warren. [00:24:15] Speaker B: I mean, it looks an awful lot like Castle Grayskull to me, Johnny. [00:24:19] Speaker A: It looks like the toy of Castle Grayskull. Yeah. [00:24:21] Speaker B: Although. Although a bit more. A bit more dead bodies hanging in front of it than Castle Grayskull ever did. [00:24:28] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a little more friendly in the kids cartoon. [00:24:31] Speaker B: This is Skeletor's vision board for what he's gonna do with it after he captures the ca. [00:24:37] Speaker A: Yeah. And we get a big guy on the throne. [00:24:41] Speaker B: Big guy in a little chair. He looks so uncomfortable. [00:24:44] Speaker A: Chair. [00:24:45] Speaker B: It's like, ah, you gotta call me in here. I gotta sit in this small ass chair. Who dares? [00:24:50] Speaker A: I dare. It's the viscerator. [00:24:53] Speaker B: Yeah. I gotta say, Johnny, we've not been in hell in a very long time. And this is. This is just the dopest shit. I love it so much. [00:25:02] Speaker A: Yeah, it's cool. She's coming to see this Fucking, dude. He's like a big old green demon. [00:25:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:08] Speaker A: He's got a skull necklace, like, made of human skulls or human skulls. [00:25:13] Speaker B: It's kind of. He kind of looks like he's inspired by Kali Ma a little bit. [00:25:19] Speaker A: He also looks like. Yeah, Kalima. [00:25:22] Speaker B: It's like Kali Ma mixed with an orc. [00:25:25] Speaker A: Yeah, like an orc from World of Warcraft a little bit. I'm getting orc. He's giving orc. He's sending orc. What are the kids say? [00:25:33] Speaker B: Yeah, he's giving orc. [00:25:34] Speaker A: He's a skibidi orc. David. [00:25:37] Speaker B: He's got that orc Rizz. [00:25:39] Speaker A: You got that orc Rizz. And yo. She's like, yeah, I'm the viscerator. I'm here. And he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. We've heard about you. You're just chasing after the medieval hellspawn. Yeah, it's like, yeah, but I'm back and I'm ready to continue the mission that Malbolia entrusted me with. [00:25:56] Speaker B: Yeah, she's. She's trying to fill the void her brother the Violator left after he disappeared. Get out. We get two footnotes of previous reference on this page. [00:26:06] Speaker A: Johnny scores 25 and spawn 343. She's like, but first, I want the dude that's in this iron maiden. There's, like, an iron maiden sitting there. [00:26:18] Speaker B: Oh, man. A rough way to go. The iron maiden. Johnny. [00:26:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:22] Speaker B: Always makes me think of Sleepy Hollow. [00:26:26] Speaker A: I know. The mom. [00:26:27] Speaker B: That's so, like. It's like, the only time I think I've ever seen a movie actually, like, depict the act of being iron maiden and. Except, you know, because usually it's just like a distant shot and screaming and maybe some blood out of the bottom. But that is just like. You're all up in it. You're looking at her eyes. [00:26:49] Speaker A: It's so funny because I remember interview with Tim Burton. He's like, I was shocked I got rated R. And I'm like, what? He's like, I would have loved that movie when I was 12. And it's like, yeah, yeah, but. And I did. [00:26:59] Speaker B: It absolutely needs to be rated R. You see. You see Spine stump on the. On the headless horsemen? [00:27:08] Speaker A: Yeah. Whole movie. There's, like, 15 decapitations in that movie. [00:27:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:14] Speaker A: There's probably more like nine. [00:27:15] Speaker B: There's a tree full of severed heads. [00:27:17] Speaker A: Yeah. And they stab it and, like, picks it up like, come on. [00:27:20] Speaker B: The house bleeds. [00:27:21] Speaker A: That is really good practical effects. [00:27:23] Speaker B: Oh, it's so good. I need to watch that movie again. [00:27:27] Speaker A: It's almost time. [00:27:27] Speaker B: It's. [00:27:28] Speaker A: It's almost fall, so it's perfect time for Sleepy Hollow. [00:27:31] Speaker B: It's also. It's also got, like, one of the original practical effects. Johnny the little. The little bird in the cage. Optical illusion. Optical illusions. The original practical effects. [00:27:42] Speaker A: You can do magic. It's a simple trick called optics. I used to watch that every day after school for, like, a year. [00:27:49] Speaker B: Damn. [00:27:50] Speaker A: This is one of the first DVDs. [00:27:51] Speaker B: I had talking about talking about God, actually. [00:27:53] Speaker A: The first DVD I had. Yeah. Oh, I could. I can. You want me to quote Sleepy Hollow at you? [00:27:59] Speaker B: Just recreate. Recreate what you imagine the script looks like from your watchings of the movie go. [00:28:06] Speaker A: It starts with a guy getting decapitated. And it cuts and he goes. He's in New York City, and there's a guy in the river. And he's like, help here. Help here. And they go. Constable Crane. Ichabod Crane, is that you? It is. And I discovered something which was lately a man. I told you I could, like, do the whole movie. [00:28:29] Speaker B: I didn't say to stop. [00:28:31] Speaker A: No, I know. I don't want to do the whole. [00:28:32] Speaker B: Thing, but that could be a bonus episode. Johnny, Johnny, Johnny Recites Favorite movies. [00:28:38] Speaker A: Murder Needs no Ghosts. Rise from the Grave. [00:28:42] Speaker B: It's good. [00:28:43] Speaker A: It's a great movie, man. [00:28:45] Speaker B: We should probably review that for a Halloween episode sometime. [00:28:49] Speaker A: Okay. I'd do it. [00:28:50] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:28:50] Speaker A: I watch it every year. But, yeah, the Iron Maiden scene. Sleepy Hollow. We've got someone in this Iron Maiden. And it's Frank Bishop, our buddy. [00:28:57] Speaker B: Hey, He's. He's. [00:29:00] Speaker A: He died and went to hell. [00:29:01] Speaker B: He's like a double dead now, right? [00:29:04] Speaker A: Yeah. And this guy's, like. Got him displayed like Han Solo and Carbonite. [00:29:08] Speaker B: Yeah, this. This big. This big demon guy just needs a little salacious crumb. [00:29:14] Speaker A: Yeah, he does. Every big guy should have a little guy with him. But he's like, yo, I'm gonna keep this guy in this Iron Maiden for an eternity. Because his mission, he failed to secure the soul of she spawn. [00:29:27] Speaker B: Mm. [00:29:28] Speaker A: He's like, well, I can use him. [00:29:31] Speaker B: Yeah. Then he accuses. He accuses Viserator of going mad. I think a madness has touched your brain. [00:29:39] Speaker A: He disses her. He says, you're friendless and alone. Like, damn, man. [00:29:43] Speaker B: What a. [00:29:44] Speaker A: That's rude. [00:29:45] Speaker B: Oh, man. And then she says, hey, who said I was alone? I have something better than friends. I got brothers, family. [00:29:54] Speaker A: Family. [00:29:54] Speaker B: Then Vin Diesel. [00:29:55] Speaker A: Vin Diesel pops up with a Corona. [00:29:58] Speaker B: Like. Like, comes around the corner real quick. [00:30:00] Speaker A: And it's the Vandalizer, the Vaporizer, the Vacillator and the Vindicator. [00:30:04] Speaker B: The Fleabiac brothers, all the Fleabiacs, except for, you know, the one that's missing Mr. Violator. This is a great vaporizer. Look at him. He just, like, comes over the back of the guy and bites right into his shoulders. Yeah, Yeah. I gotta say, right up the top, Johnny. The only bad thing I think about this issue is it's missing that good, good vacillator, vacillation. [00:30:28] Speaker A: I want him to vacillate a little bit. I thought he had an opportunity to. I thought he was going to. [00:30:34] Speaker B: Yeah, but no, like, the only time he speaks, like, he's like, I know exactly what I want. And it's like, oh, come on. [00:30:40] Speaker A: No, you gotta vacillate. [00:30:41] Speaker B: Yeah, but we got. We got our. We got our buddy Vinnie there, and. Oh, man, Vandalizer is a big brute. [00:30:48] Speaker A: It's fun to see the Fleabiacs. [00:30:50] Speaker B: Yeah. Love a Fleabiac. [00:30:52] Speaker A: And they're just beating the shit out of this guy. [00:30:55] Speaker B: Yeah. And old. Old Vinny's just like, you know, we don't. We don't have much compassion for our sister, but nobody gets to fuck with her. [00:31:05] Speaker A: Don't fuck with my family. And they rip this guy's guts out. They, like, rip his arm off. [00:31:13] Speaker B: Yeah, they. They rip his arms off. They just, like, disembowel him. I'm surprised that Todd McFarlane and his additional script didn't have Vandalizer say, let's play Alien. Yeah, I know, because he. He just, like, just like, dives through this guy's chest. [00:31:36] Speaker A: And this is where I thought he was going to vacillate. He goes, come, Vacillator. You're missing out on all the fun. And I thought he was going to be like, should I? Shouldn't I? [00:31:41] Speaker B: But I mean, I guess it's probably implied at this point because that's what he always does. [00:31:47] Speaker A: Yeah. Vaporizers. Rips. Oh, no, that's a Vandalizer. [00:31:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:52] Speaker A: Rips his head off. He's just. This guy got owned. [00:31:56] Speaker B: Yeah. So. And then. And then, you know, in a. In a callback. In a callback to that original. That original Violator miniseries, the vacillator comes out and he says, I get his kidney. [00:32:09] Speaker A: Yep. [00:32:09] Speaker B: Because they are all fighting over the sweet meats. [00:32:13] Speaker A: They're eating them. [00:32:15] Speaker B: So while that. That man lies viscerated, the viscerator herself viscerates. The iron maiden opens it up, and it's Bishop and is like, you why are you rescuing me? She says you swore you would do anything to get revenge on Justicle priest for killing you. Just as I vowed the same against John of York, the medieval hell spot. Your death didn't end our partnership. [00:32:43] Speaker A: And then they kiss. [00:32:44] Speaker B: And then. [00:32:45] Speaker A: They really do. [00:32:45] Speaker B: Yeah, they really do. [00:32:47] Speaker A: I thought that was awesome. It was funny. It was just funny. [00:32:49] Speaker B: So the. The. They obviously teamed up because they knew that they had their targets were both teamed up. And so they were like, oh, this is a thing of convenience. And then just through. You know, it's a. It's a tale as old as time, Johnny. Two people teaming up with a kind of singular goal. You know, maybe finding new goals along the way. Yeah, yeah, it's very sweet. [00:33:16] Speaker A: We cut the Scorch hq. [00:33:18] Speaker B: They deserve each other. They're both terrible people. [00:33:20] Speaker A: I know. They're both just crazy in the kiss. I wonder if he, like, makes her change into her lady form. [00:33:25] Speaker B: I. I do not know. I'm sure. I'm sure somebody will clarify at some point. Don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to, Johnny. [00:33:35] Speaker A: True. [00:33:37] Speaker B: Yeah. Before I disrupted you back at Squish headquarters, we got. We got Eddie hanging out with Eddie. [00:33:45] Speaker A: Yep. We got old Eddie, who is Redeemer, hanging out with young Eddie, who is Reaper. Reaper. He's got his arm around him. I like old. Even though it's like a huge retcon and they just changed his appearance one day. Yeah, Yeah, I like old. I like old Redeemer. [00:34:01] Speaker B: Old Redeemer is pretty great. He just. [00:34:03] Speaker A: He seems like a chill guy. [00:34:04] Speaker B: He just looks like. Like somebody drug and a medieval wizard into modern day and was like, okay, now we gotta make you look like a guy who belongs in this age. [00:34:15] Speaker A: Put him in a suit. [00:34:16] Speaker B: And that's. That's how they would. That's how they would make him look. It's good. [00:34:19] Speaker A: Yeah. So they're gonna go out, they're gonna have a. [00:34:23] Speaker B: A little drink. [00:34:24] Speaker A: Ski and Jessica's like, what the fuck? We're like, down. Overkill Haunt just bailed and like. No, no, no. We're just going out for a drink and a chat, man. [00:34:32] Speaker B: Yeah. Johnny, would you like to have a drink with yourself? No, no, I don't think I would either. [00:34:41] Speaker A: I would annoy myself. [00:34:42] Speaker B: I would. I would just spend the whole time being like, God, this guy doesn't shut up. [00:34:46] Speaker A: No, I would just be like, I don't know. Maybe I'd like myself. [00:34:51] Speaker B: I don't. I don't think I'd hate myself. [00:34:52] Speaker A: I just I like myself, but I don't know if I'd have a good. If we'd have a good relationship with, like, hanging out with another version of myself. [00:34:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Because it would be one of those things where it's like, yeah, yeah, I know. Yeah, yeah. You don't need to say anything. I know. And so you would just, like, be sitting there in silence and every once in a while look at each other and be like, yeah. And that's. That's okay for a little bit, but I think it would get boring pretty quick. [00:35:17] Speaker A: Yeah. So they're going out for a drink, and Jessica's just like, all right, well, hope he tells you more about your apocalyptic vision, because we don't know all. There's like, call if you need us. We're going to the sports bar. [00:35:30] Speaker B: Young Eddie's like, I'll tell you if he tells me anything. Good. But we're just. We're just trying to see. You know, basically, Young Eddie's trying to figure out where he dies and old ass Eddie begins. [00:35:43] Speaker A: Right? [00:35:44] Speaker B: Like, where does that change over happen? That's dangerous knowledge to have, Joni. [00:35:50] Speaker A: Then Jessica finally says, we've all been thinking. I'm getting tired of all you boys bailing on me. We're no goddamn team anymore. [00:36:00] Speaker B: Medieval. Savage. Savage. Since you're the leader, whose fault is it? [00:36:04] Speaker A: I know. This back and forth between Medieval and Jessica issue is just great. [00:36:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Medieval is such a jerk. [00:36:11] Speaker A: Yeah. He's such Johnny York. Jesus Christ. [00:36:13] Speaker B: Ah, Jes. [00:36:14] Speaker A: He's John a jerk. [00:36:15] Speaker B: Jesus. He. I would not want to get a. I would not want to get a beer with John of York. He would be inseparable. [00:36:21] Speaker A: Absolutely not. [00:36:21] Speaker B: Like every small slight that happens across the entire bar, he would just be like, I must. I must intercede. And I was just like, oh, fucking sit down. Christ, eat some of these cheese fries before they get cold. Come on. [00:36:36] Speaker A: He's trying to chill out. [00:36:37] Speaker B: He's wearing his helmet. He's trying to put him, like, a little mouthful. [00:36:42] Speaker A: The lady demands a beverage. He's a. He's a m' lady guy. [00:36:48] Speaker B: Yeah, he's a. He's the toxic fedora guy. [00:36:52] Speaker A: He's a toxic fedora guy. So she's just like, yo, I hear you're refusing. I love how she calls him John of York. Whatever name I'm supposed to call you. Yeah, I hear you referring. Refusing to change back into Mark Rosen. Which is up. Which is up. [00:37:07] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. That's what he said. He said, you will never come back. [00:37:10] Speaker A: Basically, I have overtaken this vessel. [00:37:14] Speaker B: What a wild, what a wild thing to say. He says, yeah, I have, I have no desire to be an adversary. I've grown to respect you as a warrior and as a leader. Gets a, gets a little Klingon there. But, but this is the biggest. However. However. She's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mark already filled me in. [00:37:37] Speaker A: She's like, okay, you want to. Then she's like, you want to take over for Rosen? Knock yourself out. She's like, now follow me. And she's like, first you gotta fix overkill. And he's like, I don't know. [00:37:50] Speaker B: That's like 20% of overkill too. Sorry. Overtkill. [00:37:55] Speaker A: Over hushed tones. [00:37:57] Speaker B: I said that, I said, I said overkill too loud. [00:37:59] Speaker A: You have to say in hush tones, David. Don't forget Overkill. Poo. Poo. Remember that issue was just like issue seven. [00:38:09] Speaker B: There's just so much. It's like it was written by a. [00:38:14] Speaker A: Do they say literally excuse? Like, like a turd, Like a big creepy turd? [00:38:18] Speaker B: Like a, like a green, a green runny one or something like that? Yeah, yeah. Oh, man. [00:38:24] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like it was, it was. [00:38:26] Speaker B: It was written either by or for an eight year old old, which, which has its charm. But. [00:38:34] Speaker A: Yeah, Ron Howard just did an interview, kind of like a little tell all about the. Making a solo. I mean, just, it was just a couple like blurbs. But he hadn't really talked about it because he took over from Miller and Lord, if you remember, because they got fired. And he was like, George Lucas is only advice. He called me, he said, remember, ron, it's for 12 year old boys. [00:38:54] Speaker B: Well, I mean, isn't. Isn't that kind of what Star wars started out as for? [00:38:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, it's what it is. It should be for 12 year old boys. [00:39:00] Speaker B: Well, I mean, Star wars should be for everybody, but it should, it should especially be for the 12 year olds. [00:39:07] Speaker A: 12 year old girls too. [00:39:08] Speaker B: Yeah, just 12 year olds. 12 year olds. 12. 12 year old wookies. [00:39:11] Speaker A: But now you get your andor. If it's for adults, like if I was 12, I probably wouldn't like andor too much. [00:39:16] Speaker B: Well, it's, it's a, it's great for tv. It's not just great. [00:39:20] Speaker A: Oh yeah. [00:39:21] Speaker B: It's just great for TV. TV. Speaking of 12 year old wookies, somebody in my group, Chat, my, my friend Chat, recently found a picture of Lumpy. And it was like, is this real? And it was like, hell yeah, Lumpy's real. The holiday special, Baby's Lumpy's watching that salacious. That salacious dancing lady while his grandpa's sleeping in the chair next to her. Oh, wait, no, no, no, no. The grandpa kicks him out of the living room so he can watch it. [00:39:47] Speaker A: So he can watch the lady dance the Twilight dancing. He's like. [00:39:54] Speaker B: Oh, fucking Lumpy. [00:39:55] Speaker A: Now that we're talking Star Wars, I'm going to use this opportunity because you're going to be so happy, David, that I'm watching the later seasons of the Clone wars and they've sucked me in. I stopped. It stopped being background noise. Like the last eight to 10 episodes I've actually been watching. Oh. [00:40:10] Speaker B: I mean, a lot of those first couple of seasons are literally just filler. It was like, we need 22 episodes a season. [00:40:16] Speaker A: Yeah, but I just watched the arc with Yoda chasing down the visions and Qui Gon Jinn. That was awesome. [00:40:23] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:40:25] Speaker A: And he said all the visions about Sidious and everything. And I watched the first one with the bad batch shows up. [00:40:32] Speaker B: Oh, nice, Nice. I love the, like, the. All of the. The Clone Trooper episodes where it's like Clone Trooper Academy. It's just like. It's awesome. It's like Starship Troopers without, you know. [00:40:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:46] Speaker B: Without the nastiness of Starship Troopers. [00:40:50] Speaker A: Really makes me wish they could have made that Star wars show. He wanted to make, like, the episodic TV show back when it was at Lucasfilm. They're working on Star Wars Underworld. [00:41:00] Speaker B: It was called. [00:41:00] Speaker A: They have a hundred scripts written. [00:41:02] Speaker B: Jesus. [00:41:03] Speaker A: They wrote like, a hundred scripts. It was like a. Kind of like, Clone wars was live action. [00:41:07] Speaker B: That would have been fun. [00:41:08] Speaker A: It was just too expensive. [00:41:10] Speaker B: I was. I would watch. I would watch a Star wars soap opera with, like, low production value and people, like, half forgetting their lines, but I think it would be great. [00:41:20] Speaker A: Yeah, they're called. It's called Episode two, Attack of the Clones, David. [00:41:22] Speaker B: Hey. Hey. Nah. Because there's. There's too much. There's too much invested in the first half of Star wars episodes, too, for it. [00:41:31] Speaker A: No, I'm just talking about the scenes where, like, standing in an apartment talking to each other. [00:41:34] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Yeah. [00:41:34] Speaker A: They look like soap operas. [00:41:35] Speaker B: Yeah, that. That would be great. I would watch. I would watch the. Out of that. Just wait until you get to. No, I'm not. I'm not even gonna say. Wait till you get to just. Just enjoy the ride. It's such a good ride. [00:41:45] Speaker A: Okay. [00:41:47] Speaker B: I was thinking of. I was thinking of one particular individual's ending. And it's. It's great, but I Think you already know all about it. The. [00:41:54] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, I know. I know. [00:41:56] Speaker B: The final confrontation between Yield Obi Wan and a particular individual who killed his master. [00:42:04] Speaker A: That's not the rebels, though, is that in rebels? [00:42:07] Speaker B: We've already. We've already. We've already been over. [00:42:09] Speaker A: We've had this exact conversation. Anyway, back to Spawn. [00:42:12] Speaker B: Savage. [00:42:14] Speaker A: Savage Opress. She's like, you gotta fix Overkill. This is what Rosen was supposed to do. So I gave him three weeks, so you get four because you're stupid. [00:42:22] Speaker B: And he's like, I don't. I don't know what any of this is. [00:42:25] Speaker A: And he's like, after that, you need to organize a database from computer files. [00:42:28] Speaker B: He's like, what? [00:42:29] Speaker A: Huh? [00:42:30] Speaker B: He's like, javi here being like, I don't. I don't know what that means. [00:42:34] Speaker A: He's like, huh? And then she goes, okay. And she's like. Does this badass action moment. Goes to the shooting range. Wall grabs this giant gun and just. Tech, attack, attack, attack. And shoots down the shooting range. [00:42:45] Speaker B: It's like, why. Why are you doing this? What? [00:42:48] Speaker A: She's like, yeah, there's a vertical rise. The recoil is off, so you need to fine tune this dude. [00:42:53] Speaker B: It's like, what are you. What's. What's the point of all this? What? [00:42:57] Speaker A: She goes, you know nothing about machines, engines, or electronics, and we need all those things. So you want to take Mark's place? I've got plenty of muscle. That's all you got. [00:43:06] Speaker B: You know nothing, John of York. [00:43:08] Speaker A: Yeah, you know nothing, Johnny York. You're a big, dumb, dumb. [00:43:12] Speaker B: And she. She says muscle. She says, what do you give us? You give us muscle. We got muscle. We got muscle and spades. [00:43:19] Speaker A: I can call Monolith up. We're homies. [00:43:22] Speaker B: We could. We could. We could borrow. We could borrow Cy Gore from somebody for 20 minutes. [00:43:27] Speaker A: Yeah, Cyborg's fine. He's not doing anything. [00:43:29] Speaker B: This is like, you know, we don't have Mark Rosen's brain. Only Mark Rosen's got Mark Rosen's brain. That's valuable. And she gives him. She gives him the ape together. Strong speech. And then she's like, also, I think you're full of. [00:43:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:43:46] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:43:48] Speaker A: Quit if you want. I don't care. [00:43:50] Speaker B: Like, Jessica Priest could have just. Just started out yelling at him, but like this, like, exposing him to his weaknesses and why those weaknesses don't work for the team is just masterful. [00:44:03] Speaker A: It was great. And kind of hot. [00:44:07] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, Johnny, we skipped over something very important. No, wait, Never mind. That's in the next issue. Never mind. [00:44:16] Speaker A: No, he didn't. This is very thorough. [00:44:18] Speaker B: No, yeah, yeah, I was. I was gonna. I was gonna point out, I think I found the Todd Father's additional script. But no, that's straight up out of the one that's just written by the Todd Father. [00:44:27] Speaker A: Yeah, there's a lot of additional script in that fucking one. [00:44:29] Speaker B: There's two. There's. Jessica Priest is in both issues, and that doesn't happen to us very often. So I. [00:44:34] Speaker A: That's true. [00:44:35] Speaker B: Conflated my. My priests. [00:44:38] Speaker A: So we're back at the castle. The Fleabiacs ate that dude. [00:44:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Another fighting over the throne. Yeah, I'm gonna look. I'm gonna look pretty regal sitting on that throne. Like hell. The throne belongs to me. I like that. The vacillator's just like holding on to the. Oh, which. Which brother is that? Venerator. Venerator Vandalizer. Oh, there should be a vendor. There should be like a little nerdy Fleabiac called the Venerator. He's their lawyer. [00:45:12] Speaker A: Yeah. And then we got. We cut to the other castle where we got Bishop and Viscerator chit chatting. [00:45:20] Speaker B: Standing on the balcony, just watching. Watching hell flame around. [00:45:27] Speaker A: They're like, you want a rematch against the Scorch? We weren't strong enough last time. And she's like, well, let's increase our odds. Then we cut to Earth where Eddie's are drinking at the bar. [00:45:41] Speaker B: To Andy and to them. [00:45:43] Speaker A: And then there's a weird dude looking at him. [00:45:45] Speaker B: Yeah, man. I mean, Andy. Andy. The shit that happened to Andy happened so far in the past for future Eddie that, you know, no matter how much it hurts, Reaper Eddie, what happened to Andy, it's just, you know, you know, it's. It's just eaten his future self up inside. [00:46:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:46:09] Speaker B: Just so bad. [00:46:10] Speaker A: Then we cut to New York, where she warped Kilgore Haunt. He's just walking that female haunts there. [00:46:18] Speaker B: He's just walking down the alley. And she's hunting him. She's haunting, hunting him, vowing to soon kill her predecessor. [00:46:30] Speaker A: And Jessica's just looking out a window. [00:46:34] Speaker B: And Mark Rosen stumbles in. He's like, I'm back. I'm here, I'm back. It looks like he probably has a pretty massive headache from Jon of York, having been there for a little bit because he's got his glasses on inside and he's just like, hungover. He's like, I don't know what he says. I don't know what happened. I blacked out and then I came back. I had medieval sword and I had medieval's helmet and there was a message on the wall. [00:47:06] Speaker A: I was wrong scrawled in the sword, which is like kind of a dick move. But. [00:47:10] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, I mean he could have looked for some paper, but I. Obviously his understanding of like paper or parchment doesn't translate to the. The modern world. So he wouldn't know about like fucking post its or you carved into the. [00:47:25] Speaker A: Wall or is that a mirror? [00:47:27] Speaker B: It looks like the wall because the shelf breaks up the lines of the letters. So I think he literally just carved it into the wall. [00:47:37] Speaker A: He says I was wrong. And she's like, it's good to see you, Rosen, but we got work to do. Perfect. [00:47:44] Speaker B: Beautiful. A beautiful issue. [00:47:46] Speaker A: Beautiful. A lot of fun. Oh, Scorch, scold. End it. [00:47:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:47:52] Speaker A: Return the page. And we got some fan art on the sparring grounds. [00:47:56] Speaker B: It's been a while. We got. We got our buddy. It's art by Martin there, Johnny. [00:48:00] Speaker A: Mm, looking good. We got really good. Jessica by Laura Braga. [00:48:07] Speaker B: Yeah, Red rollerball. Doing the. The whole. The. The core four of the team or. [00:48:14] Speaker A: The original out of an anime or something. Kind of. [00:48:17] Speaker B: Yeah. And we got some cosplayers. Oh, man, it's good to see some Spawn cosplayers. [00:48:21] Speaker A: Always good. It's a hard cosplay to do. [00:48:24] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Especially. Especially because the. The suit doesn't stay consistent because it's alive. [00:48:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:35] Speaker B: Gotta get all that fabric for the cape and hope you don't just like get tangled up in it and go, ha, falling down on the floor. You need more score. You need more Scorched Universe, Yanny. [00:48:46] Speaker A: Yeah, I need more Scorch Spawn. [00:48:50] Speaker B: Don't miss the outgoing titles of the core four in Spawn's universe. [00:48:53] Speaker A: I won't. [00:48:54] Speaker B: Nice. It's good. It's good. That cover there for that gunslinger, that Bjorn Barrens is awesome. It's like an Eldritch horror hobby, man. [00:49:07] Speaker A: It's badass, scary stuff. [00:49:10] Speaker B: We got the image classic set. And the toy ad on the back is Diablo 4. [00:49:16] Speaker A: Hell yeah. I've been playing it. New season. Got about a month left. I haven't completed it yet, but it's been fun. [00:49:24] Speaker B: Nice. Based on what you mentioned in the last episode, Johnny, you should not get one of these action figures. Because then Barbie will just be like. [00:49:32] Speaker A: Anna, she'll attack it. She's making noises over here. He's gonna come after me. [00:49:36] Speaker B: Yeah, she knows you're talking about her. Her nemesis, the Diablo dog. [00:49:41] Speaker A: She's gonna kill it. It's so funny. She's just like. Like she sees it on the screen. She's like, I'm gonna get that. And I'll, like, leave it on in town. Because, like, that's where you're safe. Like, you don't really pause the game. Cause it's always online. So you go back to town and there's just this dog running around. And she'll just, like, watch the TV and be like, I gotta kill that dog. [00:49:59] Speaker B: Do you remember when they had that cable channel that was just shows for cats? And it was just like the videos of birds flying around and shit? [00:50:07] Speaker A: Yeah. They have like, 247 YouTube streams of that now. [00:50:09] Speaker B: Nice. That's pretty awesome. [00:50:13] Speaker A: Pretty cool. [00:50:14] Speaker B: Everybody wants to be a cat. Because the cat's the only cat who knows where it's at. Johnny. [00:50:19] Speaker A: Meow. And we're back, and we got another issue. [00:50:37] Speaker B: Yeah. And hell hath arisen. In the meantime, Johnny, Hell hath arisen. [00:50:41] Speaker A: And the hell that awaits us is spawn365. We weren't too hot on this issue. The weirdness starts with the COVID Because I have the A cover. And I don't quite know what's going on here. He's got, like a big robotic finger on his back or. What is that? [00:50:58] Speaker B: I don't. I don't. I don't know. [00:51:01] Speaker A: It's dripping blood. [00:51:04] Speaker B: Yeah. Is it like a. Is it some sort of cybernetic that was previously techno meshed with flesh that he has extricated from the. [00:51:14] Speaker A: I mean, that's what it's like. But it's like I have no context of what the rest of it looks like. It looks like a video game control. It looks like a giant video game controller. [00:51:23] Speaker B: I was about to say it looks like the Discord logo. [00:51:26] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what. I'm just confused. I don't. I don't understand quite understand this cover. [00:51:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:30] Speaker A: If you know this cover is. Email us regarding spawnpodmail.com. [00:51:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, it's. It's done. Well, it's Carlo Barbary, but I don't know what the piece is. But obviously Spawn has wrenched this giant piece of mechanical stuff. [00:51:47] Speaker A: Do you think it's a mechanical dick? [00:51:52] Speaker B: God, I hope not. [00:51:54] Speaker A: Yeah, I hope not either. [00:51:55] Speaker B: I hope not. Although. Although. I wouldn't put it. I wouldn't put it. Let's just say Al Simmons is not above ripping somebody's dick off. [00:52:05] Speaker A: No, he'd do it. [00:52:06] Speaker B: He would totally be like. He would be like the. The police detective in that One Sin City story. I took his weapon. Both of them. [00:52:17] Speaker A: Yep. [00:52:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Played by Bruce Willis. [00:52:20] Speaker A: Executive handwriting. [00:52:21] Speaker B: Yeah. Fun movie. Fun movie. Filled with dark stuff. [00:52:29] Speaker A: Yeah, it was good. I like it. [00:52:31] Speaker B: I like it. [00:52:31] Speaker A: I like Robert Rodriguez. Makes good movies. [00:52:33] Speaker B: A lot of people hate Robert Rodriguez, and I don't get it. [00:52:36] Speaker A: He has fun. [00:52:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:37] Speaker A: He makes movies. His garage on, like, a Mac. [00:52:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:39] Speaker A: It's not to love. [00:52:40] Speaker B: Yeah. He built an entire studio so he can make goddamn Spy Kids for his own children. That's just. [00:52:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:52:46] Speaker B: That's amazing. [00:52:47] Speaker A: Sharkboy. Lava Girl is based off an idea his son had. That's great. [00:52:50] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, I'm. I'm for it. I'm for it. I like Robert. Yes. I think it's good. Well, Johnny, I've got cover B done by our good buddy Mark Spears. And speaking of monkey. Johnny, it's a monkey cover. [00:53:07] Speaker A: It's a monkey cover. [00:53:08] Speaker B: It's Cygor. Obviously. Cygor has been taken over by some sort of malevolent force because his cybernetic eye is red. [00:53:16] Speaker A: He's attacking Spawn, and he's attacking Spawn. [00:53:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Red eye being the international signal for this robot. Be bad. [00:53:25] Speaker A: You know it. [00:53:25] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's great. It's. It feels reductive to say it's a Mark Spears cover, but it's got all of the Mark Spears stuff that we like. And. Oh, man. I don't know if you can see it through the. The thing, but, like, fucking Cygor's hair is, like, lifelike on this thing. It is incredible. Like, every single hair is carefully placed, and it almost feels like if you rub it, it would be a little hairy. [00:53:53] Speaker A: It does. [00:53:54] Speaker B: Yeah. My camera's not very good, but I can see it. Yeah. It's incredible. [00:54:00] Speaker A: Really good. [00:54:00] Speaker B: And then, was it. Was it Mark Spears that we talked about the Cygor Scar continuity being a pain in the butt? I don't remember we talked to somebody about that. Huh. Whatever. But he's got the Scar continuity. [00:54:17] Speaker A: Yeah, but it must have been Mark Spears. [00:54:19] Speaker B: Must have been. But covers, Johnny, covers are meant to be open covers. [00:54:25] Speaker A: You gotta have them. [00:54:26] Speaker B: Gotta have them. I mean. I mean, even if the cover's gone, then by default, the next sheet becomes the COVID It's like. It's. [00:54:34] Speaker A: I mean, like most of my comics in childhood, I'd read them till the covers fell off. [00:54:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Well, you'd, like, leave them out in the. In the tree house, and they'd just be, like, falling apart and flapping, and you hear like, oh, I remember what that panel used to be. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But we. We pop open this cover, Johnny got world record breaking comic up at the top with script, plot by Todd McFarlane, art by Bread Booth. It's great art. Inks by Adelsa Corona, colors by Robert Nugent, lettering by Tom Orzykowski himself. We covered the covers. Todd McFarlane is the creative director and Thomas Healey is the editor in chief. Previously in Spawn, the hellish creature is at a standstill while Spawn's forces awry. [00:55:27] Speaker A: I like how Tom McFarland has also forgot the name of this creature. [00:55:32] Speaker B: Yeah. Did we look it up already? No, no. Yeah, it's whatever, whatever closet, whatever. The name of this beast made of the bodies of dead angels and demons. [00:55:43] Speaker A: Is Beast of the Bodies. [00:55:45] Speaker B: Body beast. [00:55:46] Speaker A: So remember, last issue was kind of like Independence Day. It was a bunch of government people being like, we gotta go. And all the Scorch and everybody, like every Spawn character showed up. [00:55:54] Speaker B: Yes. [00:55:55] Speaker A: Which we get more of in this issue. [00:55:56] Speaker B: Yeah, we get a. Yeah, we get a lot of that. This is. This is like the. If. If the previous issue was Independence Day, Johnny, then this issue is the gathering of the Juggalos, where it's just people coming from all over the place. And it's like, wait, where the did you come from? [00:56:14] Speaker A: You're like, what the hell? [00:56:14] Speaker B: Don't pick that dollar up, dude. [00:56:17] Speaker A: We start off and we also get a lot of words. There's a lot of pontificating about war and warfare from the Todd father. [00:56:26] Speaker B: Oh, man, I don't even know where to start, Johnny. So we should probably just start where it starts with this giant beast. Just. [00:56:34] Speaker A: Oh, no. The dialogue, the narration starts since the dawn of this place. Starts the beginning of time. Oh, my God, David. Oh, Jesus. I'm cracking up because I recently read Phantom of the Opera, but there was a book published in the 90s that I have that I was flipping through called Phantom by Susan Kay. It's just basically fan fiction that got published. And it's the story of Eric the Phantom's life told as a novel, but it literally starts with his birth. And it's like, oh, my God. It's how it started. She's like, I'm giving birth. Like, it's just ridiculous that that's like. I don't know, it's just funny. Every. Every character's story should start with their birth. Like Anakin Skywalker. [00:57:21] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, it gotta come from somewhere. [00:57:24] Speaker A: But this, this. This story starts since the dawn of the planet. It's been an endless battle to see who shall eventually dominate the Mortals that ignorantly populate its lands. Okay. Godfather, Father. Okay. [00:57:39] Speaker B: Really? He really. He really believes in humanity, doesn't he? [00:57:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:57:44] Speaker B: It's been a shadow war for most of it, Johnny, but Nyx is here. [00:57:48] Speaker A: And she's a human. [00:57:50] Speaker B: Yeah. And she's bringing the war out of the shadows. She's bringing it to the people, Johnny. She's the people's queen. She's. She's bringing the war to the people. Yeah, yeah. [00:58:00] Speaker A: While this narration is going on, the big behemoth is just like smashing buildings and shit. [00:58:04] Speaker B: Yeah. It's just. He's just doing his best Godzilla impression. We got Spawn with an immaculate cape. Look at that. That is amazing. Spawn's just hanging out with Haunt on a rooftop, just watching. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Nyx's. Nyx's playing is total domination. So. So she's disobeyed the number one rule of this long going battle for the souls of the planet, which is to remain in the shadows if at all possible. She says, nope. [00:58:35] Speaker A: She's out in the open. [00:58:36] Speaker B: Mm. And she's. She's. She's here for total, total domination. Not only for the world itself, Johnny, but she also wants to just dismiss heaven entirely. [00:58:47] Speaker A: She's gonna take it over to get annihilated. [00:58:51] Speaker B: That sounds like you're there to just drink way more than you absolutely should. [00:58:55] Speaker A: I am. That's from the World's End, David. [00:58:56] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Okay. I was about to say. [00:58:58] Speaker A: I was about to say, have you seen that? [00:59:00] Speaker B: Once, But I don't remember anything from it very much. I remember. I remember Simon Peg being like, we have to. We have to hit all of them. And everybody else being like, what the fuck's wrong with you? And they're being aliens. [00:59:13] Speaker A: Yes. [00:59:14] Speaker B: And I remember laughing, but that's. That's all I remember. [00:59:16] Speaker A: If you watch it again, knowing me well, you'd be like, oh, I can see why Johnny loves this movie so much. [00:59:23] Speaker B: Hey, you know, that's. That I will probably actually get immense pleasure out of watching it again. Because I could probably be like, oh, yeah, that's. Oh, that's. That's Johnny. That's Johnny. [00:59:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:59:36] Speaker B: We could probably just CG a version where it's. Every character is you. [00:59:41] Speaker A: I'm probably a Gary King. I don't want to be too much of a Gary King. I'm a little bit of both. [00:59:47] Speaker B: But the. These humans that are being battled for start fighting back. And so we get a couple fighter jets coming, Johnny. [00:59:56] Speaker A: And they shoot Will Smith and Bill Pullman. [00:59:58] Speaker B: Yeah. And Dennis Quaid. Not quite yet. Randy Quaid. Randy Quaid. Randy. Yeah, Randy Quaidy, the crazy one. Yeah, so they. [01:00:11] Speaker A: Dennis Quaid's also crazy. He's like a crazy one, right winger. [01:00:15] Speaker B: But he was very good in the substance. [01:00:19] Speaker A: The substance? Yeah. No, I like the discoid. I don't care. Whatever. I like Mel Gibson. I mean, I don't like Mel Gibson. I like Lethal Weapon. [01:00:26] Speaker B: Lethal Weapon is good. It's classic. It's an old timer. So these, these fighter jets shoot some missiles at the beast. I like that. The beast only has one horn. That's. That's fun. [01:00:39] Speaker A: He's a one eyed, two, one horn, flying purple people eater. [01:00:42] Speaker B: Yeah. And in response to being hit by missiles, the beast just like, like shoots out force field beams and puts up invisible barriers around himself. So that way when the fighter jets come back to try to shoot more missiles at him, they crash into this invisible shield that he has. So that's fun. That's fun. It's. It's a real good. It's a real good image here of the beasts turning green and then like radiating out energy and then just after the energy settles, just like being in a clearing of smoke, and then these planes coming by and smashing. [01:01:24] Speaker A: Is an invisible big old force field. [01:01:27] Speaker B: Yeah, but. But from, from here on, they're just referred to as the walls. So this beast has walls around him that keep all the people. It keeps the humans out, it keeps the heaven people out. It keeps the hell people out. [01:01:42] Speaker A: Well, maybe not like an emotional wall like Pink Floyd's the Wall where he's keeping out his fans and loved ones. [01:01:47] Speaker B: Yeah, just like that. [01:01:49] Speaker A: All in all, it's just another brick in the wall. David, I mean, were you ever into the wall? [01:01:54] Speaker B: Yes. [01:01:56] Speaker A: It's good. [01:01:58] Speaker B: Did you really need to ask? [01:01:59] Speaker A: No. I knew. I figured you were. Did you like the movie? [01:02:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Your movie was fun. [01:02:03] Speaker A: Movie's good. I like the Wall. I mean, it's. Yeah, sure, it's about a rich guy being sad that his dad died in World War II, but it's so good. [01:02:12] Speaker B: Yeah, it's fun. [01:02:13] Speaker A: It's okay to be Sad. [01:02:14] Speaker B: Yeah, it's 100% okay to be sad. In fact, I would say you should be sad sometimes. [01:02:20] Speaker A: And it has a good message at the end because he's wrong. It tells a good story. It's a good rock opera. [01:02:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:27] Speaker A: One of the best. [01:02:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:29] Speaker A: Or concept albums, I guess. Whatever you call it. [01:02:31] Speaker B: I mean, I mean, I mean, turning it into a movie kind of makes it a rock opera. [01:02:35] Speaker A: So big old behemoth Guy clears his area with his force field. He puts up his wall. [01:02:41] Speaker B: Yeah, and then. And then we cut to Spawn and haunt, talking and haunts. Like, what's. What's it doing? And. And Spawn's like, it's doing what I do, and it's pushing everybody away. And it says it wants me and only me. And then Redeemer and Monolith, or Redeemer swings by, and he says, spawn, I've gathered the others. What are your orders? And Spawn's like, he won't let you pass, so hold your positions. [01:03:14] Speaker A: Moments later, a new character arrives, like, smash brothers up in here. [01:03:17] Speaker B: Yeah, it's the Disciple. And it's just. It's just Abel from the Bible, like he was before, only on fire. Yeah, it's just like his wings. His wings. [01:03:32] Speaker A: Is this supposed to be the same guy as Dark Redeemer? [01:03:34] Speaker B: I mean, it's the Dark Redeemer suit. [01:03:37] Speaker A: But it's a little different. [01:03:38] Speaker B: It's a little different, but it's also on fire, Johnny. [01:03:40] Speaker A: I know it's on fire. It's just like, here's this guy. Here's a new guy. [01:03:44] Speaker B: Yeah, but I'm. I'm going to assume that this is Dark Redeemer because. [01:03:49] Speaker A: Okay, why. [01:03:49] Speaker B: Why else would they do it so similar? [01:03:52] Speaker A: I don't know, David, but. [01:03:53] Speaker B: I don't know. Those. Those flame wings are pretty dope. [01:03:57] Speaker A: They are. [01:03:58] Speaker B: He's. He's. He's like, nah, nah, nah, nah, Spawn, we're not falling for your bullshit. He's got a little bit of a righteousness complex, too. And haunts like man. I don't know if. I don't know if we're gonna. I don't know if we're gonna survive if we have to fight beside all of these people. Spawn. And Spawn's just, like, got his hand on his face. [01:04:19] Speaker A: He's like, you can't attack. There's barriers. [01:04:21] Speaker B: It's a. He says. He says, it's a trap. [01:04:24] Speaker A: It's a trap. [01:04:25] Speaker B: And the Disciple is just, like, coming through, coming through. Flaming man, coming through. And Spawn somehow, like, just yells at him enough. So that way he stops. And then he's like, okay, well, I'm going to go wait over here until I can do something. Then Redeemer is like, sure, I'll go talk to she. Spawn, and tell her what's happening. So Redeemer flies away. And Jessica Priest says, what do you say? And Renewer says, nothing. We're on our own. [01:04:54] Speaker A: She's like, all right, Spawn's gone. I'm the leader. [01:04:56] Speaker B: Yeah. And so she. She. Here's. Here's what I was referring to in the previous issue, Johnny. Because she relies on her military training to become a leader. [01:05:06] Speaker A: Classic. [01:05:06] Speaker B: Classic. [01:05:07] Speaker A: Classic Godfather. [01:05:09] Speaker B: And so she. She'll be damned if she's gonna let the enemy have the advantage. So she gathers up the scorched of Javi and Cygor and Medieval and Redeemer, and they just go in, guns blazing. Johnny. They land on one of these force field. Yeah, they land on one of these force field walls. And, like, as soon as they hit it, it becomes like they can see it and they're just, like, they're punching it and shooting it. Javi's just giving it both. Both pistols. [01:05:37] Speaker A: And we turned the page. And I got mad. [01:05:39] Speaker B: Yeah. I got very mad, like, because. So we. We. [01:05:42] Speaker A: This says heroes, villains, hybrids, they all make their moves wave upon wave. It'll take less than 4, 5 minutes for all them to realize. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. [01:05:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:50] Speaker A: But they show, you know, curse of the Spawn. Okay. It's fine. [01:05:53] Speaker B: Like a red ver. Like a the. Oh, that's one of those. [01:05:56] Speaker A: Somebody. [01:05:58] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Then the Disciple again, then Redeemer. [01:06:01] Speaker A: Then right up front. [01:06:01] Speaker B: Yeah, right up front, leading this Sin. [01:06:05] Speaker A: Sin who got vaporized. [01:06:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:06:08] Speaker A: At the feet of the Throne of Hell. And, like, it was such a big deal. He died. And, like, the fact that he was built up as this new person, you can't just bring, like, the return of Sin has to be a deal. [01:06:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:06:18] Speaker A: Did we miss it in another comic? Oh, my God. That might have happened. [01:06:23] Speaker B: Which comic, though? [01:06:25] Speaker A: I'm behind on all of them. [01:06:27] Speaker B: I don't know. Like. Well, because, I mean, it wouldn't be any of this. The spin offs. Right. [01:06:34] Speaker A: It wouldn't be scorched. He wouldn't be in spin offs. It wouldn't be King. Spawn wouldn't fit. [01:06:40] Speaker B: He was. He was. He was big in Spawn. It was Spawn and Gunslinger, and he's nowhere near gunslinger right now. Gunslinger is tied up in nonsense. [01:06:51] Speaker A: Yeah. What is it called? So Sin's just back since. [01:06:54] Speaker B: Since back, baby. [01:06:56] Speaker A: It's so weird. [01:06:57] Speaker B: It's time to sin again. [01:06:59] Speaker A: But I was just like, what? And I understand comic books. So it's like. Okay, yeah, they already did that with someone else. [01:07:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:07:05] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I mean, the clown died, too. And he's just back. [01:07:08] Speaker B: Yeah. And, like, that suit was vaporized. Not only was he vaporized, but the whole suit, it, like, turned into a little pile of dust. And he's just got his armor back. [01:07:17] Speaker A: If he's Gonna come back. He should at least be black so he matches the action figure. [01:07:21] Speaker B: He should be. He should also be like. Like a little skinny. Like a little skinny, emaciated guy just being like, yeah, he lost all his power. Yeah, he lost all his power. The last thing we saw of him was a glowing skeleton. He should have started as a glowing skeleton. You know, Dr. Manhattan style, where he has to regrow everything from skeleton. So he's just like a skeleton and then a skeleton with some. Some organs and then a skeleton with a little bit of skin. And then he's just this. This. This naked guy walking around thinking he's better than everybody. [01:07:57] Speaker A: No, it's just sin. He's back, whatever, but he's. What? [01:08:00] Speaker B: I don't know. And so they're fighting, and then somebody. Somebody comes up and tells. Tells Spawn that nothing can get past the new barrier. And Spawn says, no, that's not true. I can. And this is like the fifth time that we've reiterated. The only thing that can go through this barrier is Spawn himself. [01:08:19] Speaker A: Spawn himself. Albert Simmons. [01:08:21] Speaker B: Albert P. Simmons. What is his middle name? He needs a middle name. [01:08:24] Speaker A: Lt. Col. Albert Simmons is his full name. We cut to the pundits, we get. [01:08:30] Speaker B: New pundits, and all the pundits are going crazy. All of the pundits sound a little bit like Rock the Shock right now. This Infobus guy is just, like, completely lost all of his cool. [01:08:40] Speaker A: He's lost his mind. [01:08:41] Speaker B: Yeah, the CRN lady is freaking out. She's got the. [01:08:44] Speaker A: She's like a replacement. She's not the normal lady. Yeah, it's like she's probably really freaking out. [01:08:49] Speaker B: Brock the Shock. Brock the Shock makes sure to. Even though he's shouting about all this doom and gloom and the opening reading today's episode, there's still time to subscribe to his podcast. [01:09:01] Speaker A: Exactly. [01:09:03] Speaker B: So don't worry. Even though the world is ending, you can still podcast. [01:09:11] Speaker A: I love how the Todd father's cultural references are always so old. He's like, you're just gonna look like the walking dead out there. And I'm like, what is this, 2012? [01:09:19] Speaker B: Well, it's probably still relevant to him since Image put out the. [01:09:24] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. Well, yes. [01:09:25] Speaker B: Yeah, so. [01:09:26] Speaker A: But he has, like, five things he knows about. [01:09:28] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. [01:09:29] Speaker A: He knows about Pulp Fiction. He knows about Alien Walking Dead. Alien. [01:09:33] Speaker B: Yeah, that's baseball. [01:09:35] Speaker A: Baseball. [01:09:36] Speaker B: He's at least. He's at least current on his baseball players when he references them. [01:09:41] Speaker A: I do love this. Stripe down behind the pundits. That's like, very classic early Spawn. Like, I was just looking at my computer. [01:09:47] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Turn the page. And Al's still talking to haunt. And apparently Al just, like, gave some blueprints to haunt and was like, can you build this? And he's like, we will build it. And it's like, what. What. What are you building? How are you building it? Is he building it with haunt goop? Is that what's happening? [01:10:08] Speaker A: I think that's what he's doing. Yeah. [01:10:10] Speaker B: And then it's like a 3D printer of Haunt group. [01:10:12] Speaker A: You can just make anything. [01:10:14] Speaker B: This. This is gonna take, like, four hours. Guys. Hold on. Don't. Don't bump me. Don't bump me. And then. And then Taylor. Taylor who? We've been wanting to see what Taylor's been up to lately. So this is exciting. Taylor comes running up, and Focus is just standing there like the Heisman Trophy, just saying, like, stop, stop, stop. What are you doing? Focus. [01:10:36] Speaker A: Civilians aren't supposed to be here. [01:10:40] Speaker B: Taylor's like, no, no, no, no, I'm cool. I got this weird energy shit because my dad was an angel or something. Look at this fucking. This is cool. He turns into. What is this? [01:10:50] Speaker A: I guess we're not up on gunslinger. [01:10:52] Speaker B: Well, no, but that's gunslinger 31 is when he. He deserted Taylor, so. [01:10:57] Speaker A: Oh, you're right. [01:10:58] Speaker B: Yeah. So this is. [01:10:59] Speaker A: So this is a reveal. [01:11:00] Speaker B: This. I guess this is a reveal. [01:11:02] Speaker A: Yeah. It's crazy. [01:11:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:11:07] Speaker A: And he's like a ninja guy. [01:11:09] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's got, like, those weird, weird wrappings, like, mummy wrappings. He's got, like, a cool. A cool, like, jean jacket vest that has the. Has the requisite foobity bits on the back to mimic Spawn's cape. He's got kind of like a Sub Zero scorpion. [01:11:32] Speaker A: It looks like something. [01:11:33] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like a Sub Zero ripoff. [01:11:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:11:37] Speaker B: Yeah. Maybe. Maybe the Todd father got this idea while he was designing that Sub Zero. [01:11:42] Speaker A: Sub Zero toy. Yeah, he probably was. [01:11:43] Speaker B: It's a pretty cool design, though. [01:11:45] Speaker A: Yeah, it's cool. Good job, Taylor. You did it. [01:11:47] Speaker B: Yeah. He's like, I still don't know what's going on. It's like, good job. Good job. Then Taylor's like, I thought you were supposed to help people. And spots. Like, that's what we're doing. Doing. So that reveal, it's also down. And then we go to something completely different. And then Spawn's just like, okay, okay. Oh, I just said his name. What is his name? The fast guy. No, he sends the Fast guy on focus. Focus. Yeah. He's like, go, go, go. Check the perimeter of those. Those current barriers and report back. And focus is like, I'm on it. And then focus, like, somehow runs through all of the barriers. So not just Al Simmons can go through those barriers. We spent a lot of time focusing on Al Simmons being the only one who can get through those barriers to find out it's not true. John. And then, like, focus. Like, gets through it so far that he goes up and he, like, touches the beast and then comes back and he's like, I touched it. [01:12:45] Speaker A: I touched it. I fucking touched it. You watch the new Jurassic park yet? [01:12:50] Speaker B: I have not, no. [01:12:51] Speaker A: They touched the dinosaur. [01:12:52] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Oh, fun story. I was trying to shoehorn this in anyway, but so one of my technicians at work, one of their cousins was born in 1993, so recently had a Jurassic park themed Jurassic park themed birthday party. And so my technician has been getting caught up on the movies. And they fucking love them. [01:13:13] Speaker A: Yeah, it's great. [01:13:15] Speaker B: Hell yeah. They've been. They've been doing a lot of stuff with DNA specific assays lately. And they're like, it makes so much sense when I watch it now. I'm glad I waited. [01:13:26] Speaker A: But I like all the Jurassic park movies. I like three. I like Jurassic World. I mean, I like them all. The news one was really good. [01:13:31] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what they said. They said they liked the new one too. [01:13:34] Speaker A: You should watch it. You'd like it. Yeah, dinosaurs. [01:13:36] Speaker B: Gotta wait for it to come out. Come out of theaters. [01:13:38] Speaker A: I know it'll be on Peacock soon. I think you can rent it now. But it'll eventually be on Peacock because it's NBC Universal. [01:13:43] Speaker B: Nice. There's been a lot of good stuff on Peacock. [01:13:47] Speaker A: Does Peacock have live channels yet? Because I just saw they're adding 31 to Paramount plus, which makes me worried they're gonna get rid of Pluto TV and just merge it into Paramount Plus. [01:13:56] Speaker B: I don't know. I think they do some simulcast stuff, but I don't think they have anything. Just like, on a rolling basis that's live. [01:14:02] Speaker A: Dude, it's stupid. Disney has like five channels at a time, but they don't have a Star wars channel. Hello. They have a Homer Channel. They have like a Disney Channel, Classics Channel, like a Bluey Channel, and like, something else. [01:14:14] Speaker B: Johnny, sounds to me like you need to write them a letter and say, just give us the Star Wars Channel. [01:14:18] Speaker A: Give us a Star wars show, episode of Clone wars, behind the scenes documentary, a movie episode of andor episodes of. [01:14:25] Speaker B: Those old droid cartoons? [01:14:27] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:14:28] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:14:30] Speaker A: I never changed the channel. [01:14:32] Speaker B: And so. So when Focus gets back and reports that, you know, he could touch the beast and he could feel its energy, and he got through the wall, Al's just like, you hear that Monolith? Go do that thing we talked about. And then. Monolith. What things they talked about? I guess Monolith is going to, like, gather people of a certain kind who can get through the. Through the barrier. But. But then. Anyway, then Spot and turns to all assembled after Monolith leaves, and it's like, okay, guys, let's go get this bastard. Before going. [01:15:07] Speaker A: Each instructions. [01:15:08] Speaker B: Yeah. It gives them all instructions in case he doesn't return. So it's basically the. All of the different groups leading up to the fight for the throne of hell, where he's like, okay, if I don't show back up, this is what you guys need to do is. He's doing it again. [01:15:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:15:25] Speaker B: Yep. So. So Shadow Blast. [01:15:29] Speaker A: Shadow Blast right next to him. [01:15:32] Speaker B: Comes out of its own shadow. Which is. Which is choice. And then as he shows up, like, a little. A little vision of Nyx comes up, and she's like, ah, Al Simmons, I need you to do something for me. And he's like, I won't do it. And she's like, no. Well, then, I killed these people. [01:15:49] Speaker A: I'm gonna kill this family. [01:15:50] Speaker B: Yeah. And so they like, oh. So the Beast just, like, rips the. The roof off of this house and sees the terrified family and then steps on them, and it's like, ah, Crushes them. Crushes them. And she's like, I'm gonna keep doing this until you ask. You do what I ask of you, Al Simmons. So it's like the beatings will continue until the morale improves. [01:16:14] Speaker A: Yes. [01:16:16] Speaker B: And then. And then he does the. He pulls the Tommy Lee Jones from Men in Black, and he's like, eat me. Come on, you ugly bastard. Eat me. [01:16:28] Speaker A: Eat me. [01:16:30] Speaker B: And so it picks him up and then starts, like, trying to shove him into his chest. [01:16:36] Speaker A: Yes. Add him to the pile of corpses that he's made out of. [01:16:38] Speaker B: Because what little we know, we do know that Al Simmons's power is important to making this Beast fully operational. It is not yet fully operational. And it's that infusion of Al Simmons necroplasm. I guess it's got. It's got a specific flavor. It likes. I don't know. Whatever. [01:17:03] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know. It's got to have. Is Al Simmons is his battery. [01:17:08] Speaker B: Yeah. And Al's like, juice him up. It says, al, was it expensive? Expecting for it to try to shove him into his chest? And then we get a. It's an act that will not go unnoticed. Like, okay, so it's gonna put stuff in its chest. Good job. [01:17:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:17:22] Speaker B: That's what's gonna happen. Oh, geez. We're almost done, Johnny. Oh, I gotta take a breather. [01:17:30] Speaker A: No. We get one last crazy, ridiculous thing. You flip the page. [01:17:33] Speaker B: We flip the page. [01:17:33] Speaker A: It's focused and hot hanging out. And they're like, what are we gonna do? [01:17:36] Speaker B: Yeah. And hot's like, hot like sp. Focus. We gotta go save Al. [01:17:39] Speaker A: And Taylor's like, don't do it. It's gonna swallow you up too. [01:17:42] Speaker B: Yeah, Yeah. T. Taylor being the voice of reason. What the hell? Something massive has happened. And then we. We see a new guy. It's a. It's an oont from. [01:17:52] Speaker A: It's an old. It's a giant elephant man. [01:17:56] Speaker B: Right? [01:17:56] Speaker A: And he goes. He says, listen to Taylor. He's right. He's already learned the best way to exploit that giant's weakness. Time you learned that lesson too. So says the Poacher. [01:18:07] Speaker B: The necroplasm beater to end the issue. But. [01:18:10] Speaker A: So the Poacher is a classic total chaos toy. [01:18:13] Speaker B: Okay. [01:18:14] Speaker A: From the old McFarlane line. I don't know if he's ever been in a comic before or that he's just pulling it from that line because, like, it's an old 90s figure. Because I remember that. I was like, I remember that guy. And I like looked it up and yeah, they made a couple different versions of him. [01:18:27] Speaker B: Nice. Well, he's. It's a pretty awesome design. He's just a pot bellied elephant man with. With like Rufio style armaments. All he needs is a skateboard and a mohawk. [01:18:39] Speaker A: He's an elephant getting revenge. He's the elephant, but he's the poacher. [01:18:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:18:44] Speaker A: I'm excited to see what's going on here with this guy. [01:18:48] Speaker B: I want to see the. I want to see the training montages between the poacher and. And Taylor. [01:18:52] Speaker A: Yeah. They're like hanging out together. [01:18:54] Speaker B: How. Yeah. And how wado wada fits into this. Wada. [01:19:03] Speaker A: Wado. [01:19:06] Speaker B: The. The old. The old man in. [01:19:09] Speaker A: Why? [01:19:09] Speaker B: Why, why did I think wada? [01:19:12] Speaker A: Because you're thinking of water. [01:19:13] Speaker B: You got me. You got jiggling double chin on my mind. Look at that. Look at that little chubby bastard. Just the Nubian. The Nubian. [01:19:24] Speaker A: Nubian. Yeah. Yep, we got a power level. It's 3691 on the power meter. We got Spawning Ground presents fan art. Yeah, it's focusing on one artist. [01:19:37] Speaker B: Yeah. Art of Will Taurus on social media. He's a. They call him super fan Spawn. Superfan Will Torres. Meeting out. Meeting the Todd father himself. [01:19:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Pretty cool. [01:19:49] Speaker B: Showing his artwork. It's some good artwork. He got it. He got it signed by Thomas. Not Thomas, Todd. The Todd father. [01:19:56] Speaker A: Thomas McFarlane. [01:19:57] Speaker B: And like, I like. I like that. Todd has some little. Little notes. Great artwork. Nice art. Nice work. Mr. T. He kind of. [01:20:06] Speaker A: His art kind of is like space ghost. [01:20:08] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's very. [01:20:09] Speaker A: He's got that round head like a Diglett. [01:20:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Can you imagine? A Diglett becomes a Spawn and it just like. Just a whole bunch of little popping out. [01:20:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:20:22] Speaker B: Yeah. Awesome. You need more sponsor universe, Johnny. [01:20:27] Speaker A: You know it. I need that Core four. [01:20:29] Speaker B: I got those Core four ads again. Yep, yep, yep. We got the Image Classics ad and then the toy ad on the back is the same as before. Johnny. Diablo 4. [01:20:39] Speaker A: Diablo 4, Diablo 4. I gotta get that Lilith toy. It looks awesome. Yeah, it's not in this picture, but that is Spawn. [01:20:45] Speaker B: 365, Jenny. [01:20:47] Speaker A: 365. Look alive because it's coming at you and it's crazy and it has a lot of weird shit and it's very Todd father. [01:20:54] Speaker B: What? What happened? I don't know what happened. [01:20:57] Speaker A: Let's break it down. Let's. Let's. Let's break it down. [01:20:59] Speaker B: David, let's break it down now. No, this is your transition time. Oh, this is my choice. [01:21:06] Speaker A: This is your show. [01:21:09] Speaker B: Oh, I gotta say something about dogs. [01:21:11] Speaker A: Yeah, you gotta say something about dogs. Because everyone. Okay, every 10 episodes, like to remind everyone, David has a lot of dogs. [01:21:16] Speaker B: Yes. We have 18 right now. [01:21:18] Speaker A: Eighteen dogs. [01:21:19] Speaker B: Eighteen. Yeah. Look at this one. Look at this one. This one's got neurological issues and she just had a big seizure a couple days ago. [01:21:25] Speaker A: Oh, poor puppy. [01:21:26] Speaker B: This is Tootsie. [01:21:27] Speaker A: Hi, Tootsie. [01:21:28] Speaker B: Yeah, she's not. She's not dressing up as a woman and taking the soap world by storm yet. But she should be. She should be. No, but she's looking around. She's looking around. She likes it. But anyway, Tootsie is a puppy. And as we like to say, Johnny, it's time to rate the puppies. [01:21:51] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. So first up, we had scorched 41. I love this issue. I thought it was cool, just the building of, like, the Fleabia and Bishop coming back. It's cool that they're, like, using villains again. Like, it seems like sometimes in Spawn, they throw out a villain. He's dead, he never comes back. Or he comes back in a weird way later. Like in Spawn365. Yeah. But I, like, the Bishop and Viscerator are going to come get their revenge. And I love the Scorch headquarters. Just, like, story. Just like Jessica being, like, schooling him on what they need as a team, what it means to be a team, what it means to be a team player. It's just a great little episode, a little issue. Like, I love it. I love Steven Segovia's art. I love the Scorch so much. It's my favorite right now. [01:22:44] Speaker B: It's so good. It's so good. [01:22:46] Speaker A: I mean, it's great that there's this issue that has, like, you know, it has, like, a fight between the demons and the guy that ripped him apart, but it's just like, a talkie issue, and it's amazing. [01:22:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:22:54] Speaker A: I'm going to give it five kidneys out of five. [01:22:58] Speaker B: Five kidneys out of five. Hell, yeah. That vacillators. [01:23:01] Speaker A: Save me the kidney. [01:23:02] Speaker B: Steven Segovia art is amazing. This, Johnny, is probably the epitome of a middle issue or a. A linking issue, but it is just done so well. John Layman is just incredible at this. Um, yes, it's fun to see Jessica go over, like, superhero teams aren't just a whole bunch of big meatheads who can beat people up. There's, like, strategy involved in putting them together. I. I honestly really love that the. The Viscerator and Frank Bishop are an item and are like, yeah, it was awesome. Our. Our love will be wreathed in blood. It's awesome. And Mark Rosen being back. We love Mark Rosen, and he's not out of his gourd like he has been when medieval disappeared. So I. It's great. It's absolutely great issue, Johnny. I'm gonna give it four and a half Iron Maidens. [01:24:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Can't wait for more Scorch. Next up, we had spawn365, which is. I mean, start off with good. The art for Booth is amazing. [01:24:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:24:15] Speaker A: Kinetic. All the characters look badass. [01:24:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:24:19] Speaker A: Muscly. Just like gods, like. [01:24:22] Speaker B: Yeah. The new character designs. [01:24:25] Speaker A: Character designs are fun. I love the sub zero, Taylor. I like the idea this. I like this poacher guy shows up. It's hilarious. It's a giant elephant man. [01:24:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:24:36] Speaker A: Wonder how tall he is. There's no scale, really. [01:24:39] Speaker B: No. [01:24:40] Speaker A: I guess there's some, like, building rubble, but I Don't know how big that Rubble is. [01:24:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:24:44] Speaker A: I don't know how big he is. But anyway. But yeah, just the issue, like, it's just so much word jargon in the narration about like, warfare and fate and starting at the beginning of time, there's always been war. [01:24:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:24:57] Speaker A: And it's just Sen shows up and Sin shows up and it just feels so cheap and weird. Unless we miss it in another thing, which. Which I don't think we did. [01:25:06] Speaker B: I mean, it. It is. It is possible. We do have to put that caveat in there. But I don't. I don't think we. I don't. I don't think we did. [01:25:13] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know. It's just. People just show up and willy nilly and there's a fight and Spawn just like yells things. It's just very run of the mill. Like Mid Todd McFarlane. [01:25:24] Speaker B: Yeah. It's. There's. There's very little. There's very little extra I could say on top of the. That. Johnny. It's. The art is amazing. Absolutely. The story is questionable. [01:25:39] Speaker A: Like the fact he says like three times. Like the barriers I'm the only one to get through. It's like, yes, yes, yes. [01:25:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:25:45] Speaker A: We're paying attention. [01:25:46] Speaker B: It's. It's a whole issue made off. Made out of like two pages of. Of story. [01:25:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:25:54] Speaker B: So. [01:25:56] Speaker A: But it's nice to see Brett Booth drawing, like, the different characters. It's always fun. He does a good job with him. I like Jessica a lot. [01:26:02] Speaker B: Yeah. His Redeemer is also very cool. This disciple looks fucking awesome. [01:26:07] Speaker A: Yeah. His is like three or four new characters and designs introduced in this issue. It's just like, blah, blah, throw more at it. [01:26:14] Speaker B: It's. It's as Nick Wagger would say. Johnny. It's Unga Pachka. [01:26:20] Speaker A: Okay. [01:26:20] Speaker B: It's a bit too much. [01:26:21] Speaker A: I'm gonna 2 the Walking Dead references. [01:26:24] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Yeah. I. I agree with that, Johnny. I'm gonna give it two fighter jets that crash right into this invisible barrier. Johnny. Because it. Much like a jet crash. Exciting, but also not good. [01:26:40] Speaker A: Doesn't it happen Independence days or just missiles that hit the shield? There's like a ship flying dude on accident. [01:26:44] Speaker B: Well, because. Yeah, they're. They're trying to. They're trying to shoot the. They're trying to shoot the. The ship and all of their missiles it. Which is how Randy Quaid ends up going into the one unprotected spot to blow him up. [01:26:56] Speaker A: Right. [01:26:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:26:57] Speaker A: Hello, boys. I'm back. Yeah. You know Todd McFarlane it is what it is. [01:27:06] Speaker B: Is what it is. That's those puppies. Rated Johnny. One incredible issue and one issue that exists. [01:27:14] Speaker A: Exactly. [01:27:15] Speaker B: I always feel really. [01:27:16] Speaker A: Universe contains multitudes. [01:27:18] Speaker B: I always feel really bad when we don't like anything. [01:27:20] Speaker A: I know sometimes we're gonna be honest. We're gonna lie. [01:27:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:27:23] Speaker A: People come to us for honesty and hard hitting news. [01:27:26] Speaker B: And dumb jokes. Facts. [01:27:28] Speaker A: Yeah, and dumb jokes. [01:27:29] Speaker B: You know what else they come to us for, Johnny? [01:27:32] Speaker A: Music. [01:27:33] Speaker B: Well, they come to us from. No, they come to Lonnie Bones for music. Lonnie Bones music. [01:27:36] Speaker A: I'm skipping all over you. Don't. Don't ask me. I don't know where we are. [01:27:39] Speaker B: No, they come to us to know. Who do they need to know in the. The Spawn Mutiny? Johnny? Who out there in this awesome collection of people who love the Lt. Col. Albert Simmons and his ilk. And we'd like to share that with them. And today we have somebody who is. [01:27:57] Speaker A: I think his middle name is Francis. That's just a guess. [01:28:00] Speaker B: Francis maybe. I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure Granny probably mentions it at some point. I'll have to look up all the granny stuff, but. So we want to shout out somebody today. [01:28:13] Speaker A: It is Francis. [01:28:14] Speaker B: Albert. [01:28:14] Speaker A: Francis Sims. [01:28:15] Speaker B: Nice. Albert F. Simmons. But I thought. [01:28:18] Speaker A: I knew that I should trust myself more. [01:28:21] Speaker B: Speaking of other names, Johnny, we're, we're. We're sharing members of the Spawn community here. We're going to shout out an Instagram here and we actually want to shout out somebody who is featured in the back in the spawning grounds of scorched 41. But the attributed Instagram handle to them is not actually to the cosplayer. So we're shouting out the cosplayer because Spawn cosplay is fucking awesome. Yeah. [01:28:44] Speaker A: It attributes the picture to the photographer. [01:28:47] Speaker B: We found the cosplayer. It is Matt Sanchez and their handle is visionarts. All one word. Like it's spelled, like it sounds. Visionarts. He does a lot of Iron Fist and Wolverine cosplay as well. He also does some Superboy. He does. He did the classic Superman point or Superboy pointing at the back of his jacket pose. [01:29:14] Speaker A: Love it. [01:29:14] Speaker B: It's very nice. He dressed up as somebody with a red lightsaber. I'm not sure if you could technically say he's. He might be a Knight of Ren. He's definitely not Kylo Ren because he doesn't have a mask. [01:29:28] Speaker A: But I mean all the knights are. Well, I guess not all of them have masks. Most of them have masks. [01:29:32] Speaker B: He does. [01:29:32] Speaker A: They all have Masks has. [01:29:33] Speaker B: He's got a. He's got some pretty dope ghouls. [01:29:37] Speaker A: Yeah, I like that part on Rise of Skywalker where they're. The Knights of Ren are walking down the Star Destroyer, and one of the stormtroopers shows the other one and he goes, knights of Ren. He. The other one goes, ghouls. [01:29:50] Speaker B: Was that one of the famous people that was doing a cameo? [01:29:53] Speaker A: Probably. [01:29:54] Speaker B: Probably. But yeah. So Matt Sanchez at Vision Arts, they do some awesome cosplay. You should go check it out. And especially their Spawn cosplay. [01:30:05] Speaker A: What's crazy is, once you know that one in the interrogation scene is Daniel Craig, he walks exactly like James Bond. It's hilarious. You got to watch for it. Ray's getting interrogated, and she like mind tricks. And that's Daniel Craig. And it's like, you can tell. [01:30:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, I'll have to look for that. [01:30:24] Speaker A: Next time you watch Force Awakens, which is a Christmas movie. [01:30:28] Speaker B: I mean, there was a time where Star wars movies were just by default, Christmas movies. Christmas comes around, you go to see a Star wars movie. [01:30:35] Speaker A: And then also they used to show them on Christmas Day on, like, USA back in the day. [01:30:38] Speaker B: Oh, I didn't know that. [01:30:39] Speaker A: Yeah, they used to. [01:30:40] Speaker B: Interesting. Interesting. [01:30:42] Speaker A: Well, that's considered. Force Awakens reminds me of Christmas. BB8's Like a Christmas orb. He's like a ball. [01:30:47] Speaker B: He's totally a bauble. Bauble, Johnny. [01:30:51] Speaker A: There you go. [01:30:52] Speaker B: You know what else? You know what else is good for Christmas Day or any day? [01:30:56] Speaker A: Music. Now we're doing the music. [01:30:58] Speaker B: We already. We already talked about lollipops. [01:30:59] Speaker A: Oh, following us on Instagram. Yeah, we are. Regarding Spawn Pod. [01:31:04] Speaker B: Yeah, that's like Christmas to us when you do that. [01:31:06] Speaker A: And we can also send us an email regarding spawnpodmail.com. [01:31:10] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:31:11] Speaker A: Today's question I asked, are we wrong about anything? Has the Taylor thing been revealed? Has Sin been revealed? Because there's a big backlog of Spawn here. [01:31:18] Speaker B: There's a big backlog of Spawn. It's a whole lot of issue number ones for all the side things. So I don't think, like, I don't think the Book of Nyx is going to have it in there. I don't think Bloodletter is going to have it in there. [01:31:27] Speaker A: You're right. [01:31:28] Speaker B: Maybe medieval, but it's definitely not in the Violator series. I can tell you that for certain. [01:31:36] Speaker A: Yeah. So, yeah, let us know if you're wrong on anything, because this is a big possibility, please. A lot of moving parts. [01:31:42] Speaker B: Please try to keep Please try to keep it to. If we were wrong about things in this issue, these issues. Not. [01:31:48] Speaker A: No, anything. [01:31:49] Speaker B: Oh, anything. Oh, boy, oh, boy. [01:31:51] Speaker A: Get your laundry list out. [01:31:53] Speaker B: I mean, that is a good way to. To have engagement. [01:31:57] Speaker A: It is. [01:31:57] Speaker B: What are we stupid about? Johnny, please learn us a thing or two. [01:32:00] Speaker A: Oh, God. Everything. Don't ask that. [01:32:04] Speaker B: I mean, it's just. [01:32:05] Speaker A: Don't ask me. That's Madame Yuri. [01:32:10] Speaker B: Yeah, well, don't ask me. [01:32:12] Speaker A: Not senor. Whatever she would call Raul because Raul's like asking her, Madame Giri, who is this man? [01:32:23] Speaker B: Well, he's a V count. Does she refer to him as V count or does she refer to him as something else? [01:32:29] Speaker A: Do not ask me, monsieur. I think she's monsieur. But he does ask her. [01:32:35] Speaker B: I mean, she. [01:32:37] Speaker A: And she spills the beans. So, yeah, give. Give us an email, give us a follow, and come join us. Next week we'll be covering two other issues from Spawn's universe. [01:32:48] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. Absolutely. [01:32:49] Speaker A: And what are we covering, David? [01:32:50] Speaker B: Next week we are going to have us another rootin tootin time, Johnny, because it's going to be another double gunslinger week. We're going to be reading Deadly Tales of the gunslinger number seven and regular gunslinger 45. [01:33:06] Speaker A: You love to see it. [01:33:07] Speaker B: You do love to see it. And then maybe one of these days we will read the Gunslinger. The man in black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed. [01:33:17] Speaker A: The desert was the apotheosis of all deserts. I remember it says that. [01:33:22] Speaker B: That would be a fun book to cover. We could get Logan in on that one. [01:33:26] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know if he's ever read it. [01:33:28] Speaker B: Oh, man, he should. It's a good book. [01:33:31] Speaker A: It is. It's even on Just its own. It's. [01:33:33] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. It's a wild series. I mean, I can see people losing. Losing the plot at some point and being like. [01:33:39] Speaker A: Yeah, especially if you are into other Stephen King. [01:33:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:33:42] Speaker A: You kind of have to like, have. Know about him to really get it. [01:33:45] Speaker B: I mean, it's fucking great. I mean, he writes himself into the story, which is fun. And he's like, who the what. What the is going. [01:33:52] Speaker A: I know, dude. Hilarious. [01:33:54] Speaker B: Oh, man. Oh, Stevie, I love it. But yeah, that's Deadly Tales of the Gunslinger 7 and Gunslinger 40 45. [01:34:02] Speaker A: Cool. [01:34:02] Speaker B: What we're in next week to be very exciting. [01:34:04] Speaker A: Sounds good to me. [01:34:05] Speaker B: Read them. Come listen to us. [01:34:08] Speaker A: Well, Johnny, absolutely. [01:34:10] Speaker B: This was great time, Johnny, but I mean, I've already. I've already depleted all my outrage and my humor in this one episode, so I've got nothing else to say, but may the scorched be with you. [01:34:26] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:34:27] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:34:28] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [01:34:29] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Sin. [01:34:33] Speaker A: Sin's back. [01:34:35] Speaker B: What the. I can't. [01:34:37] Speaker A: I thought that cracker was dead, and. [01:34:39] Speaker B: I just can't ded. It's gonna. [01:34:41] Speaker A: I don't know. It was just really annoying. [01:34:43] Speaker B: It was gonna ruin my whole day if I keep thinking about it, but I can't stop thinking about it. It's just like, what? [01:34:48] Speaker A: Why forget? Did you forget about 350? [01:34:52] Speaker B: I mean. I mean, the Todd father is doing a lot of stuff. Maybe he was just like, did I do that or did I just think it? Do you ever have that where you're like, did I actually do that, or did I just think about doing it all the time? All the time? [01:35:04] Speaker A: Or did I dream about it? [01:35:06] Speaker B: Ooh, that's a big one. I like to. I like to go by, do I have a sense memory of having done it? But if it's like, something that I do every day, it's like, oh, is that a sense memory from today? Or from, like, three weeks ago? Fucking. [01:35:20] Speaker A: You actually don't know, do we? Did we just record a podcast or are we just starting? And I just imagined an episode in my head. [01:35:25] Speaker B: Oh. Oh, yeah, Johnny. We're covering two books today. We're covering scorched 41 and spawn 365. Oh, my. We haven't clapped yet. We gotta clap. Okay, you ready? [01:35:36] Speaker A: Three, two, one, clap. This is a nightmare.