Episode 154

October 10, 2025

01:13:07

Episode 154 - Deadly Tales Of The Gunslinger 8 and Gunslinger Spawn 45

Episode 154 - Deadly Tales Of The Gunslinger 8 and Gunslinger Spawn 45
RE:Spawn
Episode 154 - Deadly Tales Of The Gunslinger 8 and Gunslinger Spawn 45

Oct 10 2025 | 01:13:07

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Show Notes

Again with the rootin' and the tootin'--it's a Gunsligner-centirc episode, ya SPAWNverts! 

This week, co-hosts Johnny and David come the following on RE:SPAWN, the world's best SPAWN podcast:

Deadly Tales Of The GUnslinger 8, by Jimmy Palmiotti and Patric Reynolds, and

Gunslinger 45, by Todd McFarlane and Carlo Barberi!

Give a follow and some love to artist Marco Itri--he's doing some great SPAWN artwork, and is featured in the Spawning Grounds of Gunslinger 45!

Lonny Bones has graciously provided our music--keep the love train going and give some to tha Bones!

Visit us on intsa, say, "HELL-o" or something!

May the Scorched be with you!

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Episode Transcript

[00:00:00] Speaker A: What do you think? [00:00:01] Speaker B: Ain't seen nothing like that before. [00:00:03] Speaker A: I got a bad feeling about that one for sure. Good evening and welcome to the Malibu. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast. I am your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:46] Speaker B: And I'm your co host, David Williams. And Johnny. Johnny. This is our first October record this year. [00:00:53] Speaker A: Welcome to spooky season. [00:00:54] Speaker B: Yeah, that means, that means we're gonna have a guest skeleton. Come on in. Clickety clack and clack. [00:01:00] Speaker A: Even though spooky season starts like September now. [00:01:03] Speaker B: I mean, you mean July 5th. [00:01:06] Speaker A: July 5th. [00:01:06] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's almost Halloween time and it's very hard to find actual Halloween stuff in stores because everybody bought it two months ago. [00:01:15] Speaker A: Everyone bought it all. [00:01:16] Speaker B: Yeah, I've been taking pictures of the random shit I see while taking runs. The inflatables just keep getting more and more ridiculous. I saw. Oh yeah, I saw a pirate riding a shark skeleton today. What? [00:01:35] Speaker A: A skeleton pirate? [00:01:36] Speaker B: It was a skeleton pirate. Yes. Okay, I, to be fair, I did love it, but I was just like, this is absolutely ridiculous. [00:01:44] Speaker A: That's crazy. [00:01:45] Speaker B: Yeah, it is crazy. It's also fun to see the houses during this time that have like the year round spooky stuff that you don't notice until spooky stuff is out. Like there's a house that has their yard lamp, has little gargoyles on it. Oh, there's another house that their weather vane is a little witch. [00:02:04] Speaker A: That's great. It's spooky season. I haven't really done anything spooky yet. I mean, I guess I watched Scream 3. [00:02:09] Speaker B: You watched your day you turned 40? Wait, you did that? [00:02:12] Speaker A: No, I didn't turn 40. [00:02:14] Speaker B: Damn. [00:02:15] Speaker A: Was Logan's birthday, I think. [00:02:17] Speaker B: Is he 40? [00:02:19] Speaker A: No. [00:02:20] Speaker B: Ah, dang. [00:02:21] Speaker A: Well, he's 39. [00:02:23] Speaker B: Well, way to put, way to put Logan on blast us. Yeah, take that, Logan, you're 39 year old. So, Johnny, it looks like you're recording from a different place today. [00:02:37] Speaker A: I am recording from a different place. [00:02:39] Speaker B: Today and perhaps a different time. What's this? What time, what time does your. Does your watch say, Johnny? [00:02:44] Speaker A: It says 7:39pm oh, and that's. [00:02:48] Speaker B: That's Tulsa time that you're living on. [00:02:50] Speaker A: Living on Tulsa time, baby. I moved. David graciously helped me move this week and I am now living in Tulsa, Oklahoma. [00:03:00] Speaker B: Very exciting. Very exciting. [00:03:02] Speaker A: So this western themed episode is appropriate. [00:03:04] Speaker B: Very appropriate. Very appropriate. I'm excited to hear all of the things that I'm missing. That's okay because Tulsa has a really Cool flag. They updated it like seven years ago and it kicks ass. [00:03:17] Speaker A: Yeah, Tulsa flag's great. [00:03:18] Speaker B: It's great. [00:03:19] Speaker A: I don't know, it's just really fun being back and a little different pace than Chicago. And dude, I gotta find my comic book shop. Wednesday before Wednesday though. [00:03:28] Speaker B: There's a couple there. So you should be. You should be. [00:03:30] Speaker A: Okay. [00:03:30] Speaker B: I mean, Johnny, you got a couple of Wednesdays before. You absolutely gotta get it hooked up. [00:03:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:36] Speaker B: Just gotta make sure you remember which ones you accidentally missed. [00:03:40] Speaker A: Just give me all spawns. [00:03:43] Speaker B: All spuns, all the time. [00:03:45] Speaker A: They're gonna be so confused. [00:03:47] Speaker B: I mean, you'll single handedly be the person in Tulsa buying Spawn. [00:03:52] Speaker A: No, I'm sure there's some people buying Spawn. [00:03:54] Speaker B: Well, Johnny, I am sure you will find them. [00:03:58] Speaker A: I hope so. [00:03:59] Speaker B: Hope so. Yeah. That would be good. You could have little. Little hangouts. [00:04:03] Speaker A: Yeah. And why are we looking for people that like Spawn? [00:04:07] Speaker B: Well, because, Johnny, we like to talk about Spawn to people. [00:04:11] Speaker A: That is true. Because we are respawn where each week we bring you two issues from Spawn's universe. Except when we don't, this week is no different. [00:04:19] Speaker B: No different at all. [00:04:20] Speaker A: Two issues for you. And like I said, they're western themed. Celebrating my move to Oklahoma. [00:04:24] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a tumbleweed blowing through this. You can hear it. Listen. [00:04:31] Speaker A: Wow. [00:04:31] Speaker B: Wow. Tumbleweeds. [00:04:33] Speaker A: Amazing. [00:04:34] Speaker B: It's always really fun to see a tumbleweed. Actually. Tumbleweed. It's like. Oh, holy shit. [00:04:40] Speaker A: There it is. [00:04:41] Speaker B: They do the thing. [00:04:44] Speaker A: The two issues we have today are Deadly Tales of gunslinger number eight from July 2025. [00:04:50] Speaker B: It's really good. [00:04:52] Speaker A: And gunslinger 45, also from July 2025. [00:04:57] Speaker B: It is, it is, it is. Yeah. So, Johnny, if I may. If I may start this episode off on a bit of a downer. We've. We've talked about this particular person a couple of times on these very specific western type episodes. Because he was like the master of spaghetti western poster art in the 60s and 70s. But Renato Casario died this last week. Johnny. [00:05:28] Speaker A: Sad. [00:05:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:30] Speaker A: So every time homage covers to him on gunslinger issues. [00:05:33] Speaker B: Yeah. So every time. Every time we cover another after Cesario cover, we're gonna have to rip him. We'll have to take a couple of shots maybe. [00:05:44] Speaker A: Okay. [00:05:44] Speaker B: A couple of shots of. What do they drink? What's the Italian liquor of choice they don't have? Oh, yeah. No. [00:05:50] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:05:51] Speaker B: I'd rather Limoncello than Krapa. Jesus. Yeah, that stuff's rough. [00:05:57] Speaker A: A wine. [00:05:58] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe we should just wine drink a whole bottle of wine. Oh. Oh, God. [00:06:04] Speaker A: No, that sounds like a headache. [00:06:05] Speaker B: That. That does sound like a headache. Drinking wine too fast is. Makes for no bueno. [00:06:12] Speaker A: No, I don't. I don't really dig. I mean, I like having a wine with dinner, you know, like a glass. But I don't like, like doing a full bottle. Just like. Oh, man, it gets my head all messed up. [00:06:23] Speaker B: Yeah, I gotta. I gotta spread it out over a couple of days at least. [00:06:27] Speaker A: Oh, absolutely. Have you listened to the Life of a Showgirl yet, David? [00:06:32] Speaker B: I have not. [00:06:33] Speaker A: Oh, I have. [00:06:34] Speaker B: Is it good? [00:06:35] Speaker A: Yeah, it's good. [00:06:36] Speaker B: Oh, nice, nice. I made a fall festival type spooky playlist for work that I've been listening to to make sure it's appropriate all week, so. [00:06:49] Speaker A: Okay, good. [00:06:50] Speaker B: So that's what I've been doing instead. [00:06:52] Speaker A: Yeah. One time I was at work, my former work, and we put on a Halloween playlist and the witch doctor came on and was like, yee. It was like, oo ee wah ting ting wahala, bing bang. I was like, oh my God. Yikes. [00:07:07] Speaker B: Yes indeed. Wanda asked if I had put the purple people leader on it and I was like, no. And then her randomly listened to it and it's probably for the best. [00:07:18] Speaker A: What does it say? [00:07:19] Speaker B: Just, it's just weird. Like, I don't know if it's inappropriate. I don't think it's inappropriate, but it feels like we should maybe not say. It ends with him going to Tequila, like out of nowhere. Like with the. Weird with the. With the. They given the aliens Tequila so they go crazy. Because that's. That's the old. That's the old side. Johnny is Tequila is the drink that make you crazy, which is dumb. [00:07:48] Speaker A: I just remember the chorus. Apparently it's like a song has a plot. [00:07:53] Speaker B: So, yeah, he's an alien that comes down and everybody's scared of him. And he's like, no, no, no, no, no. I just want to play rock and roll. And so he's got like a horn on his head that he plays rock and roll through. And so they get him on like a late night television show and he just places rock and roll for the people. [00:08:13] Speaker A: Did he actually eat people? [00:08:15] Speaker B: I don't think so, no. [00:08:17] Speaker A: Okay. [00:08:18] Speaker B: He was unfairly maligned. Nobody saw him eat a person. They just made a judgment based on the way he looked with his one eyed, one horned flying ness. And purple being. Justice for purple people, Johnny. [00:08:29] Speaker A: Yeah, justice for purple people and purple people eaters. [00:08:34] Speaker B: But is he a purple thing that eats people or does he only eat Purple people. [00:08:41] Speaker A: He's a purple thing that eats people. [00:08:43] Speaker B: Okay, come on. Come on. You can't. You can't draw the pedantic line when we've gone this far, Johnny. [00:08:53] Speaker A: That's true. [00:08:56] Speaker B: Yeah. But, yeah, it's spooky season. It's fun times. [00:08:59] Speaker A: Nope. Is kind of about a flying purple people eater. [00:09:02] Speaker B: Kinda. [00:09:03] Speaker A: You sing that song in it, too. [00:09:04] Speaker B: I think it's also largely about an animal ripping your face off. [00:09:09] Speaker A: Part of it. [00:09:10] Speaker B: Part of it. Yeah. [00:09:12] Speaker A: That's a crazy movie. [00:09:13] Speaker B: It's very crazy movie. [00:09:15] Speaker A: I liked it a lot. [00:09:17] Speaker B: I should probably watch it again. [00:09:19] Speaker A: Yeah, it's one to revisit. I watch Sleepy Hollow. That's my favorite spooky season movie. [00:09:24] Speaker B: Oh, Johnny, can we. Can we discuss that your previously described taste in women could very much easily be boiled down to Ichabrod Crane's mother. [00:09:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:40] Speaker B: Yeah. How have we not talked about this before? Ichabod Crane's mom. [00:09:45] Speaker A: That's Tim Burton's ex wife. [00:09:47] Speaker B: Oh, really? [00:09:47] Speaker A: Yeah. Lisa Marie. [00:09:48] Speaker B: Oh, that. Wait, that was Lisa Marie. Really? [00:09:50] Speaker A: Her name. No, her name's just Lisa Marie, not Lisa Marie Presley. Her name's just Lisa Marie. [00:09:55] Speaker B: Oh, interesting. [00:09:57] Speaker A: She was a model and actress. She played the Martian lady in Mars Attacks. [00:10:01] Speaker B: Oh, I thought that was. I thought that was Lisa. I thought that was Lisa Marie. [00:10:05] Speaker A: Yes, that's not Lisa Marie. [00:10:06] Speaker B: But that's the same. That's the same. [00:10:08] Speaker A: That's the same person. [00:10:09] Speaker B: Weird. Weird. But anyway, Tim Burton's got a type. [00:10:13] Speaker A: And I grew up loving Tim Burton. [00:10:14] Speaker B: So Ichabod's mom. Hell yeah. [00:10:16] Speaker A: Ichabod. [00:10:18] Speaker B: Ichabod. Although now that we're on it, we definitely have to say Christina Ricci and Sleepy Hollow. Hell yeah. I had a subscription to Sci Fi magazine as a young man, Johnny. And one of those issues had the red carpet photos from the Sleepy Hollow premiere. And let's just say that Christina Ricci's red carpet outfit left nothing to the imagination. [00:10:43] Speaker A: Oh, my. [00:10:43] Speaker B: Oh, my. Bonk. Indeed. [00:10:47] Speaker A: Double bonk. [00:10:49] Speaker B: Double bonk. We're both. We better stop it, Johnny. Three bonks and we're out. Yeah, we've got to be careful from here on out. [00:10:57] Speaker A: What's your favorite spooky season movie that you always watch? [00:11:01] Speaker B: Obvious. It's gonna be predictable. It's Candyman. [00:11:06] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that's right. [00:11:07] Speaker B: It's Candyman. Oh, boy. I've already watched it twice this year. Wow. Well watched. Put it on in the background and been like every once in a while, Right? Oh, got a spooky season. Yeah, it is. It is spooky. [00:11:24] Speaker A: I also like watching Blair Witch. [00:11:26] Speaker B: Oh, nice. That's a good one. [00:11:27] Speaker A: Evil Dead 2. [00:11:29] Speaker B: I like to throw the Lost Boys on in the background too, because that's a perfect movie to just like wander in and out of. [00:11:35] Speaker A: Yeah, it's got a great soundtrack. [00:11:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Is Tim Capello on there yet? Dang. Tim Capello. Tim Capello is the greased up sax guy, if you didn't know. [00:11:42] Speaker A: Okay. Yes, okay. That you talked about. [00:11:45] Speaker B: Yeah, I forgot his name the last time I talked about it, but it is Tim Cappello. Okay. Still actively making music. [00:11:53] Speaker A: That's nice. [00:11:54] Speaker B: And he still believes Johnny Drag Me. [00:11:57] Speaker A: To Hell is another one. [00:11:58] Speaker B: Oh, that's a good one. That's a real good one. I just threw on the monkey. [00:12:02] Speaker A: Oh, that's great. [00:12:04] Speaker B: I forgot how funny that movie. [00:12:07] Speaker A: So funny. [00:12:07] Speaker B: Absolutely ridiculous. [00:12:09] Speaker A: Yeah, it's ridiculous. And it's just really catches out, like Stephen King absurdity. [00:12:14] Speaker B: Yeah. And like the way the voiceover talks about his brother, it's very much like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This was. This is some Stephen King nonsense. [00:12:22] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, definitely the way the brother comes back and is like an evil maniac. [00:12:26] Speaker B: Yeah. No Randall flag, though. Sad. They're not trying to get it into the Dark Tower universe yet. [00:12:33] Speaker A: No, not yet. [00:12:34] Speaker B: We'll see. We'll see. Maybe. I have a co worker who's currently reading the Stand for the first time. [00:12:42] Speaker A: That's a good gateway to the Dark Tower. [00:12:43] Speaker B: So I keep trying to be like, next, you need to read the gunslinger. Read the gunslinger. Next. They're like, it takes me a week to get 40 pages in this. It'll be a while. [00:12:55] Speaker A: It'll be a minute. That's funny. [00:12:57] Speaker B: It's a big ass book, Johnny. [00:13:00] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I remember. Small ass type. [00:13:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Being in high school and being able to finish a book like that in three days. Damn. [00:13:08] Speaker A: I remember binge reading Dreamcatcher, which is. [00:13:10] Speaker B: Almost as thick but much harder to get through. [00:13:14] Speaker A: I liked it. I like the book. I mean, Stephen King's so easy to read. Even his bad books are like. [00:13:19] Speaker B: That is the problem, Johnny, is he. [00:13:21] Speaker A: Is very easy to read, very enjoyable, very folksy. And like, even his bad books are readable. [00:13:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:28] Speaker A: I haven't read a Stephen King I really disliked, but it's because I've avoided kind of the ones that are considered not great. [00:13:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't think I've ever hated one. Actually. I don't even think I've ever disliked a Stephen King book. I might have been confused by him. Like the. The dead. Wait, The Dark Half the Dark Half was kind of weird. I don't know if I fully enjoyed it, but I didn't, like, not like it. Okay. Did you ever read the Dark Half? [00:13:58] Speaker A: No. [00:13:58] Speaker B: It's. It's. It's a weird. It's a weird one. You know what else is weird, Johnny? [00:14:04] Speaker A: Gunslinger. [00:14:04] Speaker B: The world of gunslingers. [00:14:07] Speaker A: It's weird. Wild and wet. [00:14:09] Speaker B: Weird, wild and wet. What. What west are you in? A wet west. [00:14:13] Speaker A: Well, the gunslinger was wet. He's in that, like, goopy guy. [00:14:16] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I guess that's true. I guess. I guess in the desert, all. All wet is on the inside. [00:14:24] Speaker A: Yes. No, I'm not talking of deadly tales. I was talking of the goopy. The goopy guy. That gunslinger finds himself trapped in that. [00:14:31] Speaker B: We get a couple more rules. [00:14:33] Speaker A: I don't know the rules of this guy. If you're in there for a minute and you hold your breath, you'll get sucked out. But only the second person that came in. [00:14:42] Speaker B: But then. But then there are some creatures that are physiologically incapable to incorporate with this be. So I guess we'll get there. [00:14:53] Speaker A: We'll get there. [00:14:54] Speaker B: We'll get there. But we got to make a pit stop first, Johnny. [00:14:57] Speaker A: It's more than a pit stop. It's. It's a journey. It's a destination. [00:15:01] Speaker B: Yeah, well. [00:15:02] Speaker A: And that is Gunslinger Deadly Tales of the Gunslinger Number Eight. [00:15:07] Speaker B: Yeah, I was gonna say destination covers. [00:15:10] Speaker A: Oh, destination covers. [00:15:12] Speaker B: Yes. [00:15:13] Speaker A: Of Deadly Gunslinger Number eight. [00:15:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:17] Speaker A: And I have the lovely A cover. And you know why? [00:15:23] Speaker B: Oh. Oh, Johnny, trust me. I know why. [00:15:27] Speaker A: Because it's a Bjorn Baron's cover. [00:15:29] Speaker B: It's the. I'm pretty sure I did what I always do and I went to the shop and I was like, okay, I'm gonna see what the second cover is. And then I was like, okay, yeah, actually, never mind. Not even gonna bother looking. [00:15:41] Speaker A: But now take the Bjorn Barons, please. [00:15:44] Speaker B: It is badass. I'm trying to decide if I think it's the best Bjorn Baron's cover we've ever had. [00:15:51] Speaker A: Whoa. [00:15:53] Speaker B: An incendiary remark, regardless of which cover you're choosing. [00:15:57] Speaker A: But indeed it is. [00:15:59] Speaker B: It's just perfect for the book. And it's gorgeously rendered, like. Like the texture of the hat. Like, that hat has been shot off this head multiple times, Johnny. [00:16:10] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, it's all beat up. His face. Just like the crags and how gnarly it is. [00:16:17] Speaker B: Yeah. And, like, it looks like his teeth are about to just like. Like if he opens his mouth, the teeth would just go fall out. [00:16:24] Speaker A: Fall out. Yeah, he's smoking a hand rolled cigarette. You can tell. [00:16:27] Speaker B: Yeah, that. [00:16:29] Speaker A: Yes. There's a close up on his face in the rain. [00:16:31] Speaker B: Yeah. And there's the like. What is that? The collar of his jacket. Just like. You can feel like it's moving. [00:16:40] Speaker A: The detail is just amazing. [00:16:42] Speaker B: It is very good. Oh, we can't. We can't forget the. There's like some wisps of green smoke coming out of his eyes. The skulls on the hat band, the. [00:16:52] Speaker A: Green glowing eyes, the glow of the cigarette. [00:16:56] Speaker B: And it's raining. We can't. We. We didn't even mention that it's raining, Johnny. [00:16:59] Speaker A: I did. [00:17:00] Speaker B: Oh, you did? Oh, sorry. Yeah. I think I was too busy typing in Deadly Tales number eight to get the second cover. [00:17:07] Speaker A: Second cover is pretty badass though. [00:17:08] Speaker B: Yeah, the Thaddeus Roebuck cover. And it is. It is just like a silhouette of. Of the gunslinger in front of a fiery background. And then in his chest is that man with the red eyes. Just like the classic opening the saloon doors. [00:17:26] Speaker A: I think there's a typo here. [00:17:28] Speaker B: Oh. [00:17:28] Speaker A: Because it says the COVID artist says the B cover is Marco Falia, but everything online says it is Thaddeus Roebuck. I don't know. [00:17:36] Speaker B: I'm trying to see if on the. On the. The actual cover, if I can. I don't. I don't see the signature anywhere. Johnny, we need to write in to Spawning Grounds and give them the old fashioned. You made this mistake on this page of this book. Could you imagine if they still printed Spawning Grounds like that in the back of every issue? [00:17:57] Speaker A: Yeah, I think the Internet just got it wrong, Johnny. [00:18:00] Speaker B: What are you talking about? The Internet is never wrong. [00:18:04] Speaker A: We gotta talk about this cover. It's like the gunslinger is a saloon. [00:18:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:08] Speaker A: And the man with the red eyes is walking through his chest. [00:18:11] Speaker B: That's a good metaphor for how the evil enters you, Johnny. It's like your body is a saloon and it is befouled and besmirched by these dirty, dirty outlaws that just kick their way through your swinging doors. Yep. I don't know if I've shared the story or not yet, Johnny, but in my childhood home main bathroom, there was actually a pair of saloon doors that separated the sink from the shower and toilet area. And man, you don't know how many times I delayed having to take a bath by just pretending I was a cowboy walking into a bar with those saloon doors. [00:18:51] Speaker A: I bet. Just I think you have mentioned that. [00:18:53] Speaker B: Before to me over and over and over again. And then the rightly so. My parents Took them down because I think I smashed holes in the walls with it. [00:19:02] Speaker A: Uh. [00:19:02] Speaker B: Oh. I was a very destructive child, Johnny, if you can believe it. [00:19:06] Speaker A: I don't believe it for a second. [00:19:09] Speaker B: You could talk to my mom about it. How about that? [00:19:11] Speaker A: Okay. I'll hit her up. [00:19:13] Speaker B: Hey, she lives not too far from you. [00:19:15] Speaker A: Yeah, so is your sister. I was just. I was on your sister's street today. [00:19:18] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Nice. [00:19:19] Speaker A: I went visit my friend James. [00:19:21] Speaker B: I should give you her. So that way you can just be like, yeah, this is Johnny. [00:19:24] Speaker A: Connections across family. [00:19:27] Speaker B: I mean, connections. It's all we have. [00:19:29] Speaker A: You met my dad. [00:19:30] Speaker B: Yeah. Finally I got to meet Papa Bill. Papa Bill Fisher. [00:19:34] Speaker A: He said you ran up the stairs like a deer. [00:19:40] Speaker B: I mean, what else was I supposed to do? Was I supposed to go up slower than I normally do? That's true. I don't know. When I have a task to do, Johnny, I like to get the task done. [00:19:51] Speaker A: Gotta get it done. [00:19:51] Speaker B: Don't like to leave things hanging. [00:19:54] Speaker A: Don't leave us. We don't want to leave anyone hanging on this issue, though. We covered the covers. [00:19:58] Speaker B: Yes, we did. [00:19:59] Speaker A: And now we're gonna open it up. And we got the credits. [00:20:03] Speaker B: Yes, we do. [00:20:04] Speaker A: With script. Plot by Jimmy Palmiotti. Art by Patrick Reynolds. The classic duo colors by Lewis nct. [00:20:11] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:20:12] Speaker A: Lettering by Tom Wojczykowski. Cover artist. We covered them. It's difficult to get there, but we did cover them. [00:20:19] Speaker B: We figured it out. [00:20:21] Speaker A: Creative director is Tom McFarlane. Editor in Chief is Thomas Healy. Previously in Deadly Tales of the Gunslinger. The gunslinger makes it uneasy alliance with Ziana as they search for a common enemy. [00:20:35] Speaker B: I love that information in the previous video. [00:20:38] Speaker A: So we just listened to a pronunciation video of Zianya. [00:20:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:41] Speaker A: And is a name of Aztec origins. [00:20:43] Speaker B: Very nice. Yeah, it's appropriate. I'm sure that was something Jimmy Palmiotti knew and just, like, had in his back pocket. He didn't even have to look it up. He was just like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what I'm gonna call her. Don't worry about it. Yeah. [00:20:55] Speaker A: I think it's the first time we've seen her name. So it's just one of those things like they do in Spawn, where they spoil stuff in the previously on. [00:21:01] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a wonderful tradition, Johnny. [00:21:04] Speaker A: Another wonderful tradition is starting these Gunslinger to Deadly Tales. Like a splash page. [00:21:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:10] Speaker A: It kind of gives you, like, an overview of what's gonna happen a little bit or, like, a little splash. [00:21:14] Speaker B: Mm. This is this also. It looks like an awesome movie poster, Johnny. [00:21:19] Speaker A: It's badass. [00:21:20] Speaker B: Mm. [00:21:21] Speaker A: You've got Zhonya and Tobias back to back. [00:21:25] Speaker B: Yeah. Each with a weapon drawn, horses away. [00:21:28] Speaker A: From the sunset, and just kind of sums up where we are. They're riding to kill Captain Lane. [00:21:33] Speaker B: Mm. [00:21:34] Speaker A: And the title of this issue is. [00:21:35] Speaker B: If Looks Could Kill Cause. A Common Danger Unites Even the Bitterest Enemies. Johnny said Aristotle. Yeah. Captain Lane. Is that common danger? That very theme comes into play in kind of a funny way later in the book. [00:21:56] Speaker A: It does. [00:22:01] Speaker B: I like that this book is getting a smidgen more silly, but because it's getting silly in, like, the right way instead of just being like, huh? What? So, yeah, we turn the page, and it's just Ziana and Tobias riding their horses, and they come to the edge of a town, and Tobias is like, you should probably not go with me. It's gonna make things more complicated. And she's like, hell, yeah, let's complicate shit. [00:22:31] Speaker A: Let's complicate some shit up. [00:22:33] Speaker B: So they. They. They ride from the outskirts of town into the cemetery where the. Let's see it. I'm assuming it's the preacher and his assistant are burying some bodies, talking, you know, talking. Wondering who these people on horseback are and, you know, maybe talking a little shit about the. The local crew of individuals who dead. [00:23:00] Speaker A: Brewster just like a drunk. [00:23:02] Speaker B: Well, so the Brewsters are the family that run the town, and they're all no goodniks. So it's just, you know, nobody. No one. No one mourns the wicked. As they say. [00:23:12] Speaker A: Johnny, these Brewsters are bad boys. [00:23:15] Speaker B: They're the bad news Brewsters. [00:23:17] Speaker A: They are. [00:23:18] Speaker B: So. So Tobias and Zeonia come up and, you know, start talking to the preacher and his assistants. And the preacher is doing some sly. You want to come to church? Come on. [00:23:34] Speaker A: You answering the call. [00:23:35] Speaker B: Let's go to church. [00:23:36] Speaker A: Come on. [00:23:37] Speaker B: Come on. [00:23:38] Speaker A: Let's tithe a little bit. [00:23:39] Speaker B: Yeah. And then the preacher is like, you know, having this lady here with you is gonna cause lots of trouble. She could just hang out with us in the church if you want, until you're finished. And she says, absolutely not. Not going to happen. And Tobias is just like, yeah, okay, sure. Whatever you say goes. [00:23:59] Speaker A: Yep, you got it. [00:24:00] Speaker B: And then he looks at some of the recent gravestones around where these two were working, and. Johnny, that's not the word you want to see in a graveyard. [00:24:10] Speaker A: It's a baby baby. There's four babies. [00:24:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:16] Speaker A: Baby, baby, baby, baby sister. [00:24:17] Speaker B: Four. Four dead babies. Too many, Johnny. [00:24:21] Speaker A: Yeah, something's going on. [00:24:22] Speaker B: Something, something. And then we get the opening reading. Yes. Yes, indeed. [00:24:28] Speaker A: Ain't seen nothing like that before. [00:24:29] Speaker B: Yeah, he ain't seen nothing yet. [00:24:34] Speaker A: So they ride off away from the graveyard into the town, Roosterville. [00:24:38] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. And Tobias decides that he's going to stop by the. The saloon, because that's where the preacher said that the military man, Captain Ryder, was staying. [00:24:51] Speaker A: Yes, Actually, we actually had. You have to mention the actual name of this town. [00:24:55] Speaker B: Yes. [00:24:56] Speaker A: Because it's got to be a reference. [00:24:57] Speaker B: Yeah. Mead. [00:24:58] Speaker A: It's Danzig, baby. [00:24:59] Speaker B: Oh, it is. [00:24:59] Speaker A: Unless that's a real town. Welcome to town of Danzig, baby. [00:25:03] Speaker B: Oh, the meat is the meat. The meat is the name of the saloon. Yeah. It rips off the heads of little girls and sticks it on its own wall. [00:25:10] Speaker A: Well, Johnny, I got something to say. I killed a baby today. Oh, my God, it's perfect. Whoa. Because all the babies are dying. [00:25:19] Speaker B: I got some. I hope the second verse doesn't show up in any way, shape or form. [00:25:24] Speaker A: Well, it almost does. [00:25:29] Speaker B: Yes. [00:25:29] Speaker A: Get to the hotel, and Zanya is gonna go off on her own. [00:25:33] Speaker B: And she's like. [00:25:33] Speaker A: I'm like, stay out of trouble. [00:25:35] Speaker B: I'm gonna go to the store. I pick up some stuff. So Tobias walks up to the barkeep, and it's very easy to just be like, I'm looking for somebody. And everybody's like, yeah. They're just like, right over there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:25:49] Speaker A: He's staying in this room. [00:25:50] Speaker B: Yeah. This door's unlocked. I'll just. I'll walk you up there. [00:25:53] Speaker A: Especially the scary demon man. He's with this guy's location. It's like, great, dude. [00:25:57] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, I mean, I'm sure. I'm sure you learn at a certain point that if there's a person of certain vision visage that comes in asking for somebody, just fucking tell them where they are. [00:26:07] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:26:08] Speaker B: You don't. You don't want to deal with that. And so Tobias is escorted to Ryder's room, room 2D. And there is a. One of the ladies of the hotel standing outside saying, yeah, he's passed out in there. He's always passed out. And so Tobias goes in, starts talking to Captain Ryder, and he's like, I. [00:26:34] Speaker A: Ain'T says, I'm no captain anymore. Leave me alone. [00:26:37] Speaker B: He's like, but I got questions. I'm looking for Captain Lane. And Ryder's like, why do you. What? Why Don't. No, I'm not gonna tell you a goddamn thing about that madman. I want that part of my life done with. [00:26:49] Speaker A: But I'm gonna kill him. He's like, all right, fine. [00:26:51] Speaker B: Yeah. He's like, let me. Let me. I'll meet you downstairs in 10 minutes. I'll tell you everything. It's the magic words, Johnny. I'm gonna kill him. [00:27:01] Speaker A: And he's like, okay. [00:27:03] Speaker B: And then as Tobias leaves, we get a little voiceover of, you know, he's recognized this in men before who used to be all military all the time and gave their life a purpose, but then were broken after having seen the horrors of war. And then they come back to town and get hassled by the sheriff who thinks he looks like a bum and should just get the fuck out of here. So then he goes up to the woods and he just fucks their shit up. One man versus an entire town's police force. [00:27:36] Speaker A: What are you talking about? [00:27:38] Speaker B: I'm not talking about rainbow. [00:27:41] Speaker A: I was like, what the hell? [00:27:43] Speaker B: Rambo can't leave that past life behind, Johnny. [00:27:46] Speaker A: It's true. [00:27:47] Speaker B: Yeah. So, yeah. So writer starts, you know, he looks at himself in the mirror. He looks at a picture of what I assume is him and his wife and probably no longer wife. [00:27:59] Speaker A: Yeah. Or she's dead or they're not together. [00:28:02] Speaker B: And a medal that he want for something. And he starts trying to take a drink. And then he stops for a second, just throws the bottle of crust. And then we cut from there to the general store where Ziana is looking at a cast iron pan. [00:28:23] Speaker A: There's a bunch of words in this section that we can't say we're not going to. [00:28:25] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a whole bunch of. There's a whole bunch of dick wads in here saying nasty stuff, saying slurs. Yeah. And they keep. They keep being like, you're real interested in that pan, aren't you, lady? What's it with you in this pan? [00:28:45] Speaker A: I can buy you that pan if you'd like. [00:28:47] Speaker B: But. But. So there's this one of these assholes is talking about how, like, I've never seen this lady before. Can I buy this lady? Who's selling? This lady who owns her. Yeech. Yuck. Yuck. Yeah. [00:29:01] Speaker A: Then he's like, oh, I could buy that pan. We can work out a trade of some sort of. [00:29:05] Speaker B: Yeah. And she. She's like, I have my own currency, thank you. And I'd ask you to remove your hand, please. But, like, as she says please, it shows. Like focuses on her eyes and there is. There is no request there, Johnny. [00:29:21] Speaker A: He accuses her of being one of the new girls that the. [00:29:24] Speaker B: Yeah. One of the madame ladies brought in. Yeah. [00:29:28] Speaker A: And his hand Just starts slipping. [00:29:30] Speaker B: Yeah. And she's like, if you don't move that hand, I'm gonna cut it off. And he's like, ha, ha ha ha. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then does the. The hand does move, Johnny, but it does not move off? [00:29:43] Speaker A: No, it moves to her chest. [00:29:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:45] Speaker A: Like gropes her. [00:29:46] Speaker B: And so she just. One swift movement, just. And the hand goes flying. [00:29:50] Speaker A: Johnny cuts you saying right off. It's fucking badass. [00:29:55] Speaker B: He's like, she cut my hand. She took my hand. And she's like, you can have it back. And she just kicks it across the floor. And then this man with an eyepatch picks up the. The. The frying pan that Zianya was looking at and cracks her across the back of the head. And he's like, you gotta tie her up. Vic's gonna want some payback once he stops, you know, once he visits the. [00:30:19] Speaker A: Old doctor back at the saloon. Tobias is sitting there and they're asking if they want any food. [00:30:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:25] Speaker A: She says to push the oyster fritters, but between you and me, the veal won't leave you regretting it come morning. I would not eat the oysters at this place. [00:30:32] Speaker B: Yeah. I would never eat the oysters in anything old Western at all. No, I guess. Unless I could physically see the ocean from the window of the saloon. [00:30:45] Speaker A: Right. [00:30:46] Speaker B: And Tobias just says, nat, just leave the bottle. We'll be fine. Takes off his mask to drink a shot. And Captain Ryder is like, oh, boy. I know a lot of men who wore masks who are trying to hide something deep inside of them, but I'm glad you're wearing that fucking thing because. Yikes. Yeah, yikes. [00:31:07] Speaker A: Gunslinger care. He's right in business. He's like, lane, tell me where Lane is. [00:31:11] Speaker B: Yeah, and so. So then writer's like, ah, I see what you're after. You're some kind of gunslinger. Try to put a bullet in him. You some kind of. [00:31:21] Speaker A: What is this, some kind of Grand Theft Auto 5? [00:31:28] Speaker B: Are you a gunslinger? And is this some deadly tale? [00:31:31] Speaker A: Is this some kind of deadly tale you're trying to tell me? [00:31:35] Speaker B: Next you're going to tell me you're some kind of gunslinger spawn or something. [00:31:39] Speaker A: It's like we're like some. What are we, the Pirates of the Caribbean? [00:31:47] Speaker B: Oh, this hollow is rather sleepy, wouldn't you say? [00:31:50] Speaker A: This is the name of the town. [00:31:52] Speaker B: I know, I know. [00:31:54] Speaker A: Yeah. We're like some kind of suicide squad. That's actually in the movie. Yeah, I think that's where that joke comes from. [00:32:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man, we're punks. I guess we're. I guess we're misfits. We don't fit in, huh? We got to get off this because we could do that for years. And so. So right while Ryder and Tobias are talking, this. This kid just bursts into the saloon, runs right by Tobias and Rider, and goes straight up to the barkeep and talks to him about something while Rider's talking about Lane's recent campaigns of just violence against natives. And Tobias is like, okay, cool. Where can I find him? And Writer's like, ooh. It's like, I don't know. I could probably tell you, but if you're just going by yourself, it's not going to last very long. So. And so Tobias just pulls. Pulls a gun on him. Riders like, oh, okay, okay. He's a vulgate. [00:32:54] Speaker A: He's a vulgate. [00:32:56] Speaker B: And then after that, after Tobias pulls the gun and Rider says, bulgate, the barkeep comes over and is like, hey, Captain. Captain Ryder, I got to talk to you about something. He's like, what? And we learn about the brawl at the store with a woman was involved. [00:33:18] Speaker A: And gunslinger piques his interest. She's with me. [00:33:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:23] Speaker A: Then Ryder's like, she your lady? [00:33:24] Speaker B: No. They still just keep running. And so they get to where they have Zianya tied up inside, talking about three men out front. No idea how many inside. And Tobias asks how many brothers this rooster has. Writer's system. [00:33:41] Speaker A: There's a dead one that they're burying, and then there's one of the sheriffs sell, and then there's three. [00:33:47] Speaker B: Yeah. So he's gonna assume all of them are in there. And Writer's like, is she really that important to you? Tobias is just like, yes. No hesitation. That's the little bit of funny, the no. Yes. [00:34:03] Speaker A: Yes. [00:34:06] Speaker B: So we cut to the inside of the barn. Ziana is tied up. They got the Brewster brothers there. The one with the stumpy hand just yelling and screaming and making a scene. [00:34:17] Speaker A: And the doctor's like, yo, dude, you gotta stop. You've lost so much blood, your hands, like, bleeding out. You gotta cut it out, dude. [00:34:22] Speaker B: One of the brothers is like, you better shut up or he's gonna slap you next. [00:34:26] Speaker A: He slaps Yanya across the face. And then she just doesn't. Doesn't break and says, I'm going to rip your heart out and watch it burn. [00:34:34] Speaker B: Yeah. He's like, what did you say to me? What did you say? His brother's like, hey, hey, hold on. Why don't you. Why don't you actually sit down, Let me have a little bit of fun. Oh, boy. [00:34:45] Speaker A: Yeah, a little bit of fun. It's creepy. [00:34:47] Speaker B: Yeah. And then, you know, the brother who recently had a hand cut off is like, yeah. Oh, I feel a little woozy. Yeah, you just got your hand cut off. Yeah. Piece of shit. So this brother walks up and is like, yeah, gonna have some fun. And Zionia calls him a pig and spits right on his face. [00:35:06] Speaker A: This is something very despicable. Oh, yeah, says that'll come in handy, sweetheart. Oh, God, so gross. [00:35:13] Speaker B: So. Ugh. [00:35:15] Speaker A: I hope these guys get their comeuppance. [00:35:16] Speaker B: Yeah, well, Johnny, unfortunately, that's the end of the issue, so we'll have to. [00:35:21] Speaker A: No, it's not the end of the issue. [00:35:23] Speaker B: It is not. Oh, no. [00:35:25] Speaker A: The action still has to happen. [00:35:27] Speaker B: Yeah, we cut. We cut back to the outside, and Tobias is just, like, walking towards the front of the barn. And Writer's like, wait, we need a plan. No time. [00:35:35] Speaker A: Like, no time. They run out guns blazing. [00:35:38] Speaker B: And they. They do really good for not having any plan. [00:35:41] Speaker A: Unfortunately, shoot the guys in the neck. [00:35:43] Speaker B: Unfortunately, this horse, poor horse, gets it. But it allows Tobias to kill the guy on top of it. And it's just like, this is blam, blam, blam everywhere. Blam, blam. [00:35:55] Speaker A: Pretty awesome. [00:35:55] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real good. [00:35:58] Speaker A: Tobias comes to Zianna and cuts her loose. [00:36:01] Speaker B: She says, take the doctor. Leave his bag. You sure? She says, no, but. And so Tobias is leaving, and these wounded Brewster brothers are like, wait, you can't leave her here with us. Tobias just says, shut your bath. Like Shaft. [00:36:21] Speaker A: And it shows a little panel of Zion's hand on a. On a bone saw. [00:36:25] Speaker B: Yeah, with a bone saw. It just cuts the. It just cuts the outside with Ryder and Tobias just, like, standing there and just, like, chilling, listening to the screams. [00:36:37] Speaker A: Listen to the guys being tortured. [00:36:39] Speaker B: Yeah. And Tobias is, like, oddly soothed by it. He's like, ah, it reminds me of the sounds of hell. And then obviously, Ziana was in there for a really long time because it's, like, dark when she comes out. And she sets the fire, the barn on fire as she leaves. And it's just like, come on, let's go. So they go to do a little washing up. Zianna asks about Lane, and Tobias is like, writer Ryder, what you got for us? His name is Ryan Ryder. Did his mother hate him? [00:37:19] Speaker A: I guess. [00:37:20] Speaker B: I bet he got called Ry Rai. [00:37:21] Speaker A: Rah Rai the Bear. [00:37:22] Speaker B: Ry. And so Ryder's like, yeah, okay, we're gonna need some more people Professionals, if possible, but it's hard to find them. [00:37:33] Speaker A: Because of the missing children thing going on. [00:37:34] Speaker B: Yeah. And then Tobias is putting the pieces together, and he's like that crazy with all the baby. And then from off panel, there's an everyone, stay where you are. And it's Sheriff Behan. Put your hands up. You are all under arrest. [00:37:51] Speaker A: Then gunslinger skull thing in the issue. [00:37:56] Speaker B: They got him kind of surrounded. Well, not really surrounded, but at. At odds on the back foot, as they say. The end. For now. [00:38:08] Speaker A: For now. [00:38:10] Speaker B: And then we get the spawn Call of Duty toy ad. [00:38:15] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:38:16] Speaker B: Very exciting. I don't know if you saw, but Ty recently received some information directly from McFarlane Toys themselves about unannounced Call of Duty Toys, and he has all of them now, so. [00:38:33] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:38:34] Speaker B: I actually think they sent him copies of each of them. [00:38:37] Speaker A: That's great. [00:38:37] Speaker B: That's pretty cool. Yeah, Ty's got the hookup. It's awesome. New Generation, New Stories, new youw ad, Mortal Kombat 1 toy ad. And then the Image Classics ad on the back. [00:38:51] Speaker A: That's it. [00:38:52] Speaker B: That's Deadly Tales of the Gunslinger Number eight, Johnny. [00:38:54] Speaker A: Pretty badass issue, that. [00:38:56] Speaker B: That tail was pretty deadly. Not gonna lie. [00:38:58] Speaker A: It was deathly. A lot of people died. So many people deserve to die. [00:39:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, a lot of. A lot of people do deserve to die, Johnny. [00:39:07] Speaker A: No, I mean the issue. [00:39:08] Speaker B: They were so nasty. Treating her rough, knocking her around, and always talking so tough. [00:39:13] Speaker A: Johnny, you need blood. He's got more than enough. Why is he little shot? Oh, because people deserve to die. Oh, sure you do. [00:39:25] Speaker B: I thought you meant just in general. Why am I singing Little Shop? Well, come on. Do you know this isn't the Little Shop, like once a month. [00:39:32] Speaker A: I used to. [00:39:33] Speaker B: It's good. It's good. [00:39:35] Speaker A: I was obsessed with it in sixth grade. [00:39:36] Speaker B: It's real good. That's real good. [00:39:38] Speaker A: It's awesome. [00:39:39] Speaker B: Yeah. I learned about it from a priest. [00:39:42] Speaker A: I learned about it because I saw it on TV one time, was like, this is the coolest movie ever made. [00:39:47] Speaker B: Yeah. Have you seen the. The original with Jack Nicholson as the crazy guy? [00:39:52] Speaker A: A long time ago. He's the crazy guy. [00:39:53] Speaker B: Yeah. That movie is, like, 47 minutes long, but it feels like it was made. [00:39:57] Speaker A: In, like, a day. [00:39:57] Speaker B: Literally. [00:39:58] Speaker A: Look it up. It was made, like, over the course. They have, like, access to a set, and they're like, let's do it. [00:40:03] Speaker B: Hilarious. [00:40:11] Speaker A: All right, so next up, we've got Gunslinger Classic. Well, classic original gunslinger 45. [00:40:18] Speaker B: Gunslinger cult 45. [00:40:20] Speaker A: And 2. Two zigzags. Maybe that's all we need, man. [00:40:26] Speaker B: That is a. Think of the. Speaking of Thaddeus Roebuck, Johnny. Thaddeus Roebuck's got that. That cover. [00:40:32] Speaker A: A cover. [00:40:33] Speaker B: Oh, boy. This had to have been. I got the B cover because I know you got the A cover because, man, that. That A cover is awesome. [00:40:41] Speaker A: Yeah, it's cool. [00:40:42] Speaker B: Yeah. It's like a sand worm. [00:40:46] Speaker A: Like a sandworm descending upon Javi. Not Tobias. [00:40:51] Speaker B: Or like shooting. [00:40:52] Speaker A: About to shoot it in the maw. [00:40:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:40:54] Speaker A: Of its mouth. [00:40:56] Speaker B: Oh. [00:40:57] Speaker A: With a stark white background. [00:40:59] Speaker B: Insane. For good. So good. [00:41:02] Speaker A: Pretty epic. It's got like a hand painted style. [00:41:05] Speaker B: Yeah. There's some gnarly teeth. Call them graboids, Johnny. That's what it looks like. [00:41:12] Speaker A: It's called graboids. Exactly. [00:41:13] Speaker B: It's just like a graboid, man. Well, I have to be covered. The Federico Sabatini cover. And it's just Javi standing on a pile of carnage smoking a cigarette. And there's flames like sparks flying up into the air and crow feathers falling. [00:41:34] Speaker A: Down out of the air and blackened feathers falling down. [00:41:39] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. And Javi just sitting there smoking a cig. Very nice. [00:41:47] Speaker A: Pretty badass with these covers. [00:41:49] Speaker B: These covers, Johnny, they're hiding. They're hiding a deep evil within. So we should probably see what there is. [00:41:56] Speaker A: Let's pop it up. [00:41:57] Speaker B: So we got these credits. Gotta give them where they're due. We got script plot by Mr. Todd McFarlane. I couldn't tell, honestly. [00:42:06] Speaker A: Yeah. No way. [00:42:06] Speaker B: Swear to God. Couldn't. Art by Kyler Barbary, color by Ivan Newts, lettering by Tom Orzykowski. We covered the covers. Todd McFarlane is the creative director and Thomas Healy is the editor in chief. Previously in Gunslinger. The gunslinger, having been swallowed by a monstrous angel, has only moments left to live. [00:42:32] Speaker A: Yeah, he got swallowed by this big old goopy oil. [00:42:35] Speaker B: Yeah, like, like, like evil. Evil Venom. Even more evil than Venom is. [00:42:41] Speaker A: Yes. [00:42:42] Speaker B: Yeah, like evil angel venom. Yeah. With like a chest mouth. Yes. Just like swallowed him up. It's like it opens with Javi just. [00:42:54] Speaker A: Floating inside this creature and he's like, why did I come here? Why did I try to help Godsend? That was stupid. [00:43:01] Speaker B: Yeah. We came here to Hafa's daughter and his daughter's the one that did this. Come on, even bother trying to save her, it says, instead, I'm here and time's running out. And then we get bam. Awesome 2 page spread of all the. [00:43:19] Speaker A: Heaven forces just bearing down on Godsend. [00:43:22] Speaker B: And we've got Godsend's daughter there, you know, wings spread, you know, ribbon Flapping around the big spear in her hand, saying, you betrayed God to her father. You understand? You're a traitor, and he's punishing you for that. [00:43:39] Speaker A: She says, I'm glad I can help with it. [00:43:41] Speaker B: Yeah. And then she just, like, she removes. [00:43:43] Speaker A: She pulls the big blade that she plunged into his back out. [00:43:46] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's just like, oh, they were trying to get you. They were trying to get to me. That's why they took you. She says. She says, they took me because despite my being your daughter, I can be trusted. [00:44:03] Speaker A: Okay. [00:44:05] Speaker B: Oh, sure. Yeah, that makes sense. And so she's. She's talking about how he mistreated her as when she was young, made her feel little and small. And Godsend is like, trying to be like, wait, no, wait, I never did that. She doesn't want to hear his lies. She's had a lifetime of those. And so she has a couple of her Heaven pals pick Godsend up, say, hope we don't die too quickly. Be ashamed to not bring you back alive so God can deal with you personally. So, obviously, John Lucy Monstrosity heals his wounds. Yeah, she obviously does not have the hellforged flame swords, Johnny. The one that instantly cauterizes as it cuts heads off that the Horseman has. [00:44:48] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:44:49] Speaker B: Sleepy Hollow they gotta cauterize after the fact. [00:44:52] Speaker A: That or a lightsaber. [00:44:54] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's. [00:44:55] Speaker A: Lightsaber cauterizes. [00:44:56] Speaker B: Yeah, I think. I think a sword from hell would be more applicable in this situation than a lightsaber. No lightsabers in spawn yet. Yet. Close enough. Just let the. Just let Frank Miller write another gang story, and they'll all have lightsabers. [00:45:16] Speaker A: I mean, they have, like, light swords. They're pretty close. [00:45:19] Speaker B: Yeah, but then Janelle's like, you. You deserted your mission from God. Why would you do that? [00:45:27] Speaker A: We're on a mission from GAD she. [00:45:29] Speaker B: Says, and I know you've got friends. Where are your friends? And Godson says nothing. She says, it's amazing how you cowards protect each other. And then she. She does the. [00:45:39] Speaker A: Then she goes, give me your hand. I got something to show you. [00:45:43] Speaker B: Just fucking cranks his pinky all the way back. [00:45:48] Speaker A: Just, like, breaks his finger. His middle finger. [00:45:50] Speaker B: Oh, his middle finger. Oh, geez. I thought it was his pinky. [00:45:52] Speaker A: Oh, you can't even flip anyone off. [00:45:53] Speaker B: Oh, no. She says, it's called strength. That's. Oh, like, when. When that happened, I. I think I was, like, audibly gasped on the train and just, like, was looking around to see if anybody caught me. And then she's like. She's like, I've. I've learned a little bit of torture to how to get. How to get the answers I want. I'll show it to you now. And she's like, simultaneously sends some of this black goop into Godson's head and into his mouth. The rationale being all of our thoughts start in our head, and then we speak them with our voice. [00:46:35] Speaker A: We verbalize it to others. [00:46:37] Speaker B: She's trying to, like, stimulate him to think about the things that she wants to think. Think about with the thought that it would automatically start his vocal cords to. To say things come out of his mouth. But he's just. He's just there with a thing in his brain and a thing in his mouth just be like, being like, yeah, oh, my God. It was just like, this isn't working. God damn it. For two long minutes. [00:47:02] Speaker A: Two long minutes, she waits. [00:47:06] Speaker B: She doesn't look away even once, Johnny. And then she's like, okay, well, if you won't tell me, then the pendant you always wear, that has all of your information on it. Well, wait, hold on. Where'd your pendant go? Where is it then? And then we cut from there to Javi inside the black thing. And it's like, you know, Godsend didn't even know that Javi stole his pendant before he jumps back into this black angel. [00:47:33] Speaker A: I don't even know if we even. [00:47:35] Speaker B: I didn't even bother. I thought about going back to look at it, and I didn't do it. [00:47:39] Speaker A: I don't think he does. [00:47:40] Speaker B: I don't think he does either. But then Javi's just like. You know, it's weird because this thing, it causes a little bit of light, and then while I hold it, if I scream, the beast screams. So, you know, maybe I'll just see what I can do. And so he. He, like, charges it up with some. Some light. Like, it's one of those old, like. Like tornado shelter fire flashlights with a little crank on it where you crank it up, and the more you crank it, the brighter the light is. Yes. And so Javi Church starts, like, charging this thing's light, and, like, as through doing that, his angel wings pop out because. Because his body's so sick, it can't charge the light and keep the angel wings inside of him. Its bounty is overflowing. Johnny. So. So I think. I think we're supposed to be led to believe that there is, like, some of the original Garden of Eden magic in this pendant that Godsend is carrying around. But so. So Javi is, like, just fully infused with. With heaven power. And as. As we all know, Johnny, even a black abyss cannot hold itself heavenly back. A heavenly presence. [00:48:57] Speaker A: As we know. [00:48:58] Speaker B: We all know. As we know. Yes. But then. Then, like, gunslinger, like, just like. Like, even though he was shining and shimmering, just, like, stops glowing and just, like, folds in on himself and, like, he closes his eyes and, like, drifts away and folds into a little bitty ball. And then he opens his eyes again and then he explodes. Loads out of the beast. Just. Boom. [00:49:27] Speaker A: The beast goes everywhere. [00:49:30] Speaker B: And so Javi's there, like, he's got knives in his hands and he's got his. His wings real big. [00:49:36] Speaker A: He's like, you got one chance to leave. I kill after that. [00:49:40] Speaker B: And then, like. Like, what's left of the beast is like, it didn't have wings when I ate it. What the hell? You said it was a hellspawn. And then the Techno angel is just. Just like, barrels at him and is like, ah. Javi fights back and he's got. He. He ropes these angels up because he doesn't have his guns. Remember, he left his guns. So he ties the rope about around this. This weird black angel and this techno angel and, like, pulls the rope so. [00:50:12] Speaker A: Tight, mashes them together, because from past experience, he knows they're incompatible. That'll disrupt both of them. [00:50:21] Speaker B: So the black. The black goopy angel incompatible with technology. So interesting. And then Janelle's just like, tim, take him. And I like how in the, like, the bottom of this panel, we just see the. The Black angel and the Tech angel just being, like. [00:50:39] Speaker A: Forming together. [00:50:40] Speaker B: Like, it's a. It's a little bit like the monster from the End of Substance. [00:50:46] Speaker A: A little bit, yeah. [00:50:49] Speaker B: But then. But then we learned these angels attacking Javi aren't actually attacking Javi. That's just. Oh, no. A decoy. Javi did a real quick. He did a real quick switch him around and made them think that one of his. One of their teammates was Javi. [00:51:07] Speaker A: Classic. [00:51:09] Speaker B: Yeah. The logistics of that are. We'll talk about that later. But he just. He reappears behind Janelle and just, like, puts a knife to her throat. And it's like, ah, ah, ah. He's like, you think they give a shit about you? They don't. They wanted you to think otherwise. And Gudson's like, gunslinger, you better not. I will kill you myself if you harm her. And Janelle's team are just, like, retract all their. Their wings really quick. And they're like, the bus. She's in trouble. Until one of them says, no, she's expendable. [00:51:46] Speaker A: They want to bring a gunslinger alive no matter the cost, but she's expendable. [00:51:49] Speaker B: Yeah. And Javi's like, see? I told you. So here's what we're gonna do. Cuts off one of her. [00:51:56] Speaker A: Cuts her wing right off. [00:51:57] Speaker B: Yeah. And Godsenda says, no. What have you done? And actually, Johnny, Javier knows exactly what he's done. [00:52:09] Speaker A: If you cut off one wing, they can't fly again. If you use both wings, they go. They slowly turn insane. [00:52:15] Speaker B: Yeah. And then, like, the. The other angels, like, try to shoot a energy beam at Javi and Janelle, and they miss. And then Javi's like, hey, you see that hole they just made you're going through? It's just like that other dude threw the cat. [00:52:33] Speaker A: I know. Cat. Remember that guy that was there for two issues with the cat? Who. [00:52:38] Speaker B: Who? It couldn't. It didn't name him consistently. [00:52:41] Speaker A: Yes. [00:52:42] Speaker B: Oh. And so Gutson's just like, no, no, no. It goes after her. And so now that they're out of the picture, we don't have to worry about them anymore. And then inside, Gunslinger's body repels every assault that these angels throw at him as though he's bulletproof. [00:53:00] Speaker A: And then his body begins to burn from the inside. [00:53:02] Speaker B: Yeah. And he glows brighter and brighter until. [00:53:10] Speaker A: He explodes. [00:53:11] Speaker B: Johnny. It's. He blows up the whole top of this building. [00:53:17] Speaker A: He just explodes and blows it up. Yeah. [00:53:19] Speaker B: Yep. Hit the coombs. Then we get a. We get a necroplasm meter to end the. [00:53:26] Speaker A: It's very low. [00:53:27] Speaker B: Very low. But it's not zero. [00:53:29] Speaker A: It's 0013. [00:53:31] Speaker B: Man, that's low as hell. [00:53:33] Speaker A: Yeah, it's low as hell. He expended a lot of power. [00:53:35] Speaker B: Boy, that. That. Having that. Those angel wings inside of him wouldn't do him no good. [00:53:42] Speaker A: No. [00:53:42] Speaker B: No. [00:53:43] Speaker A: Then we got the spawning grounds, which has some great fan art. [00:53:46] Speaker B: More fan art. It's all Javi, all the time. This. The. This first. This big one. This Stephen Lechowski. That one's really good. I like the cartoon. It's real good. And it's just the inks, so it's not colored, but it's got a lot of motion. Then we got this Marco. Marco Etri. Which. He's the spooky. He's the spookiest fucking gunslinger, Johnny. [00:54:09] Speaker A: Yeah. He's, like, smiling like the devil. [00:54:11] Speaker B: Yeah. He looks like the man in black. Then we got Chopra art with classic gunslinger coming out of a saloon with guns blazing. Mm. And then Demar Douglas has a nice. Looks like it will be a classic, classic Gunslinger cover, Johnny. [00:54:31] Speaker A: Yeah, it looks like a cover for real. [00:54:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:54:34] Speaker A: You should get in that spanuary. [00:54:35] Speaker B: Yeah, sure. Sure should. Any more sponsor universe, Johnny? [00:54:40] Speaker A: Always. [00:54:41] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. Don't miss the ongoing titles at store. Name tbd. [00:54:46] Speaker A: Yes, we'll find out. I'll let you know. My local comic shop soon. [00:54:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:54:52] Speaker A: We get the Image Classics ad and another Call of Duty ad. I saw an article that Xbox lost 300 million in call of Duty sales by having it on their Game Pass service. [00:55:02] Speaker B: Jesus. [00:55:03] Speaker A: The next Call of Duty is not included with Game Pass. [00:55:05] Speaker B: I was about to say. Are they not gonna do that again? [00:55:09] Speaker A: Nope, they sure aren't. That's the issue. That's gunslinger 45. [00:55:13] Speaker B: That sure is. Well, Johnny, the issue at hand is that we've given a brief overview of what happens in these books, but we haven't really commented too pointedly on them. That's true. So I think it's about time that we got to rate these puppies, Johnny. [00:55:33] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. First up, we had Deadly Tales, the Gunslinger Number eight. [00:55:40] Speaker B: Oh, it's so fucking good. [00:55:42] Speaker A: It was so good. I mean, it's just like a classic Western. Like Bone Tomahawk, Nasty, gnarly pulp Western. And there's nothing really supernatural to this issue, which is cool. Yeah, it's just like a real. Just like a western story. The guy happens to be a hell man. [00:56:02] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. I like the. It's a couple of people have a job to do, and they. They get a tiny little adventure in the middle of the adventure they're already doing. [00:56:14] Speaker A: Yeah. A little sidetracked mission. [00:56:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:17] Speaker A: But the art just is amazing. Like the expressions cells that you can feel the creek of the leather and the dryness of the desert. You can just feel it. And I like Zhonya a lot. She's cool. She's a cool partner for Gunslinger. [00:56:33] Speaker B: Yeah, she is. It's gonna be real sad when she has to kill Tobias. [00:56:37] Speaker A: Yeah, I like Ryder, too. I like Ryan Rider. He's cool. [00:56:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:41] Speaker A: Hopefully he can deal with his demons. [00:56:43] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:56:44] Speaker A: I just love the action scene where they're just like, no plan, just go guns, no time. So cathartic. After the torture of Zeona coming up, and, like, you're just like, oh, my God, they're gonna torture. This guy's gonna sexually assault her. [00:56:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:56] Speaker A: And then they're just like, fuck it, Just go there. Just blow them all away. It's awesome. [00:57:01] Speaker B: The. That one specific motherfucker gets shot right in the knee. [00:57:05] Speaker A: Yeah, no, it's. It's awesome. And like, I just love Deadly Tales. It's one of my favorites going on right now up there with Rat City and stuff. But I'm going to give this five frying pans out of five. [00:57:20] Speaker B: Hell yeah. It's real good. I agree. It's. It's fun as hell. I do like that. It's, you know, it's. It's been good the entire time, but I feel like it's starting to hit a certain little stride that it's allowing itself to have the funny stuff that's not really funny, but it's kind of funny in context of what's happening. And it's. It's great. It's great. That's one of the best parts about, like, real serious things is when they have the little bit of funny in there that makes the. I'm. I. I don't know if I. I think I'm afraid for this story coming up with all the baby death, Johnny, because. [00:58:00] Speaker A: Yeah. What's gonna happen here? [00:58:02] Speaker B: Jesus Christ. That is. That is very depressing. [00:58:08] Speaker A: We'll find out. [00:58:09] Speaker B: But yeah, the art. Art is excellent. I. I like this. The guy helping the preacher dig the graves is, uh, he's very chicory coated to me. [00:58:22] Speaker A: Yes, Chicory from bone. Tomahawk. [00:58:24] Speaker B: Well, maybe. Maybe like a smarter chicory. But he's just the fat guy with the beard that's in everything. And I love a fat guy with a beard. Yeah. I think also, Johnny, I have to give this a 5. I am going to give it 5 thrown bottles of whiskey for Ryder trying to dry out out of five. [00:58:46] Speaker A: You know what that means, David? [00:58:47] Speaker B: That means that it is an entrant into the Hellfire Club. [00:58:51] Speaker A: We both give it five out of five. Yes, it is. [00:58:53] Speaker B: I really wish we had been keeping track in real time of which ones were in the Hellfire Club so we could refer back to that will never. Well, now that you have maybe two man. Now that you have time, Johnny, you can just listen back to all the episodes and you can start that wiki we've been talking about. [00:59:11] Speaker A: None of that much time. I have to find a job. [00:59:13] Speaker B: So what if I pay you five bucks? That's a job. [00:59:21] Speaker A: Technically. [00:59:22] Speaker B: Five bucks an hour. That's not even. That's not even a minimum wage. [00:59:28] Speaker A: That's not a minimum wage. Like livable. Come on, David. [00:59:32] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. No, I'd be a terrible boss in that. [00:59:35] Speaker A: In that regard, but yeah, I Mean, what can you say? I just love Deadly Tales. [00:59:39] Speaker B: I mean, it's such a good book. It's very good. [00:59:45] Speaker A: The other side of the coin. I'm kidding. We like to beat up on the. [00:59:49] Speaker B: Same side of the same coin, Johnny. [00:59:51] Speaker A: Same side of the same coin. We have gunsling. [00:59:53] Speaker B: Does that book smell real good? Yes. I saw. I saw. You just give it a big old snifferino. [00:59:58] Speaker A: Yeah, it smells good. They both smell good. [00:59:59] Speaker B: Oh, hell, yeah. Very nice. I like the. [01:00:02] Speaker A: I like the smell of a comic. [01:00:03] Speaker B: I like the. The COVID on the. Does your. Your gunslinger 45? Yeah. It's got, like, a texture to it. [01:00:11] Speaker A: Yeah, it's nice. Yeah, I noticed that myself. Maybe they're gonna be doing that from now on. [01:00:15] Speaker B: Who knows? [01:00:18] Speaker A: But this issue is just. It's just in this crazy Godsend arc, we had such momentum building with Laura and, like, his father. Remember that? [01:00:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:28] Speaker A: The Javi's body's father. [01:00:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:30] Speaker A: This is kind of stuff has just disappeared for this nonsense storyline with godson. [01:00:35] Speaker B: I'm still waiting for Dakota to come. [01:00:36] Speaker A: Back, and Dakota hasn't come back, and Carl has showed up, at least in regular Spawn. He's a superhero now. Something like that, I guess was found out in regular Spawn. [01:00:49] Speaker B: Where's Linda? Where's Maya? [01:00:51] Speaker A: It's just so weird that he went on this Godsend. Like. I don't know. This is just a weird sidetrack. It's just like they had that weird guy with the. With the cat that he threw out there. [01:01:03] Speaker B: Like, it's just fucking he, man. [01:01:04] Speaker A: And then. And it's that. And then. And then of like, a little kid that the Godfather does, and it's just not working for me this time. I'm sorry. [01:01:10] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. Yeah, it's. It's like. It's trying to justify having its title, but it's not. It's not doing it well. [01:01:19] Speaker A: I just want you to get back to what it was going. There was a really great striver. Felt like Thomas Healy was like, okay, you need to plan this out. And he's like, okay, I will. Because, like, there was, like, characters. There were multiple storylines, and now that was just thrown away for this Godsend thing. [01:01:31] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's just, like, what he is. [01:01:35] Speaker A: And it makes. It's just all these rules that make no sense. And, like, all this stuff that. It's like, oh, the rules of the. The angel that sucked him in and just like, what the hell? [01:01:44] Speaker B: I don't know. It's gonna be funny. [01:01:45] Speaker A: I don't want to be so negative. I mean, Carlo Barberry's art is amazing. I do like the ending where he just explodes. That's fucking awesome. [01:01:51] Speaker B: That is pretty cool. I like that they finally brought the wings of it. [01:01:55] Speaker A: Like, I don't hate it. [01:01:57] Speaker B: It's. [01:01:57] Speaker A: Obviously you shouldn't come here for logic, but like, it's just so. It's just so much. And then, and then, and then. And sometimes it just gets like, old. [01:02:04] Speaker B: It's. It's very. It's very deus ex machina in that the Todd father changed his mind and he wants this to happen. So that's what happens, whether it makes logical sense or not. Right. I must say that compared to some recent issues of Gunslinger, there's actually something that happens between the first and the last. And so instead of some. [01:02:26] Speaker A: No, I know, some. [01:02:27] Speaker B: Some mindless slap arounds, but. But yeah, it is. I finished reading it and I was just like, what? What did I read? Like, you know, it's that old meme of the. Of like the. The dude in the powdered wig looking at something and then looking up being like, huh, it's wild. It's zany. It's. It's fine. It could be much better, I feel with very little, Very little poking and teasing, it could be much better. That's the thing that I have a problem with. [01:03:02] Speaker A: I just feel like it's. Gunslinger had its stride going and kind of lost it with this. With this whole distraction with fucking Godsend, who I thought was dead anyway. [01:03:11] Speaker B: He was fucking killed, so. [01:03:13] Speaker A: But the art's good. [01:03:13] Speaker B: Yeah, the art is amazing. This scene of. [01:03:16] Speaker A: There's some great two page spreads. [01:03:20] Speaker B: Wings is incredible. Incredible. Yeah. [01:03:22] Speaker A: Carlo Barberry. Always. Carl Carlo Barbary. Sorry. Always crushing it. [01:03:27] Speaker B: Always. [01:03:28] Speaker A: But I'm unfortunately gonna give this two deus ex machina pendants out of five. [01:03:33] Speaker B: Where the did this pendant come from? [01:03:35] Speaker A: Pendant? This pendant just came out of nowhere. He's like, oh, he's way to get out there. He had a pendant and it's like, we're supposed to know what this pendant is. [01:03:43] Speaker B: Oh, boy. I'm gonna be a little bit more magnanimous and give it a. A straight up the middle. 2.5. But I'm gonna give it 2.5. Godson swan. His daughter. Yep. [01:03:55] Speaker A: You see that hole your friends just made? Now you're going through it like, what kind of like one liner is that? Javi, come on. [01:04:02] Speaker B: Oh, boy. I'm surprised that. That there wasn't a whole page of he grows brighter and brighter and brighter and brighter and brighter and brighter. [01:04:13] Speaker A: I did like that he blew up. I'm excited to see where that goes. And maybe this is. Hopefully this is the end of the storyline and I'll be happy. We'll get to see all our old friends again. I don't mean to be so down. [01:04:21] Speaker B: That man and the cat are down at the bottom of the building somehow and they catch Godson's daughter. That's. I have a feeling that's going to happen. [01:04:29] Speaker A: The cat, like. And it's just we're doing. Not doing it a great service by pairing it with Deadly Tales, which is like one of the best. [01:04:36] Speaker B: That's true. [01:04:36] Speaker A: Spawn titles right now. We're not doing really a service here doing that. So I will say that. [01:04:41] Speaker B: But I. I do not think I could get through a whole another episode of having to do a double check Todd father at this moment, Johnny. I would probably rage quit in the middle because it wouldn't make any sense. [01:04:57] Speaker A: Yes, exactly. [01:04:58] Speaker B: So. [01:04:59] Speaker A: So not a we love you, Todd. [01:05:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:01] Speaker A: I don't know. [01:05:02] Speaker B: Maybe, maybe, maybe. I love the enthusiasm. I love the enthusiasm. [01:05:05] Speaker A: I feel like Thomas, he's gotten busier with the Book of Nick, so he can't like, wrangle in the Todd father as much. [01:05:11] Speaker B: Yeah, the Todd father definitely needs to be wrangled. He needs a. He needs somebody walking around being like, nope. Slapping his head. [01:05:22] Speaker A: But we love him and he's a crazy genius like George Lucas. And, you know, in 20 years, we'll be looking back on these, saying how great they are. [01:05:29] Speaker B: Yeah, true, true. Like, we didn't know how good we had it after. After Todd McFarlane sells Spawn to Disney. [01:05:40] Speaker A: Oh, no. [01:05:40] Speaker B: Could you imagine? [01:05:42] Speaker A: I don't want to. I don't have to, but, you know, I do have to do. [01:05:47] Speaker B: What's that? [01:05:48] Speaker A: Unfortunately, every day usually is. Get on the Internet. [01:05:50] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. [01:05:51] Speaker A: I mean, but you can do fun stuff on the Internet sometimes. Like, look us up. [01:05:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:56] Speaker A: And look up our friends. [01:05:57] Speaker B: Yeah. This. [01:05:59] Speaker A: This issue, we wanted to highlight a friend from the spawning grounds of Gunslinger. [01:06:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:06:06] Speaker A: Who are we highlighting this week? [01:06:07] Speaker B: We are highlighting the Arco itry. And that's the one with the very, very spooky gunslinger. [01:06:15] Speaker A: Spooky gunslinger. Halloween Gunslinger. [01:06:17] Speaker B: And if you look at his. If you look at his page, Johnny, he's got a hella spawn up there. All kinds of spawns all over the place. He happens to be an Italian artist. And that's really cool. Shout out to Spawn fans across the ocean. We love to see it. [01:06:34] Speaker A: He's got hella spawn. [01:06:35] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [01:06:36] Speaker A: No, and he Collects hell spawn. [01:06:38] Speaker B: It's. He's got a. He's got like a custom made medieval Spawn helmet. It's awesome. [01:06:45] Speaker A: So give him a follow. And while you're following him, make sure to follow us. We are regarding Spawn Pod. [01:06:48] Speaker B: Yes, we are. [01:06:49] Speaker A: And if you want to reach out to us via email. We are regarding swampodmail.com. [01:06:54] Speaker B: You absolutely are. [01:06:55] Speaker A: Each week I like to ask a question. Yes, this week the question I will ask is, what's your favorite spooky movie to watch? [01:07:04] Speaker B: That's a good one. [01:07:06] Speaker A: We already kind of talked about ours, so we'd just like to know what yours is. Is it the new spawn 4K that's coming out this weekend? [01:07:14] Speaker B: Is it only for Those with the 4K player? Sad. [01:07:18] Speaker A: Hey, I gave you a Blu Ray player. Just wait 10 years, I'll give you a 4K player. [01:07:23] Speaker B: But then Spawn will be out on something else that's better than 4K. I know. [01:07:28] Speaker A: It'll be out on. On Brain. It'll be straight to your brain, man. [01:07:33] Speaker B: I. I don't need any more interference with my brain working at all. I imagine I would be quite insane if I had to download right into it. [01:07:43] Speaker A: If you want music directly into your brain. Oh, yes, like our music, you can watch Lonnie Bones online or look for Lonnie Bones online. [01:07:50] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got a. He's got a couple of videos. He's been. He's been posting the. Because he did the soundtrack for a independent film and he's been posting some trailers for that. So, you know, pretty cool, cool stuff. We love Lonnie Bones music. Just. Just Google it. Lonnie Bunch music. You know what? You know what else? You know what else you should google, Johnny? [01:08:16] Speaker A: What? [01:08:17] Speaker B: You should. You should Google. What should we read for the next episode? Go ahead and give it a shot. What's. What's it tell us. Yeah, yeah. What's. What's. What's a what? Google AI saying what we need to read for the next episode. [01:08:28] Speaker A: You really want me to ask you? [01:08:30] Speaker B: Yeah, go ahead. [01:08:30] Speaker A: All right, I'm asking AI. I'm saying I am the host of Spawn of the Spawn podcast called Respawn. What issues from Spawn's universe should we cover in our next episode? [01:08:39] Speaker B: It's thinking awfully hard. [01:08:40] Speaker A: Oh, no, it's thinking about, like, issues. [01:08:44] Speaker B: Like issues. Like issues with the podcast. Like faith. [01:08:48] Speaker A: It's like. No, it's like theme issue. Faith, redemption and damnation, power and responsibility, Identity, humanity in the self, betrayal and moral ambiguity. Okay. Then it lists a bunch of that would. [01:09:00] Speaker B: That would actually be fun to do. [01:09:01] Speaker A: A whole bunch of. Just random. But this is a bunch of random spawn arcs that we could do. Whatever. Fuck off, chat boo. [01:09:10] Speaker B: Well, let's. [01:09:11] Speaker A: What do we actually. [01:09:12] Speaker B: Let's ask a real human. Well, Johnny, what we're going to do next week. You're not going to like it. I promise you, you're not going to like it. It's your least favorite books ever put together, all in one. We hate doing these episodes. We dread them every time they come up. [01:09:29] Speaker A: What is it? I can't. I don't know. [01:09:31] Speaker B: We're going to be doing rat City number 14 and Sam and Twitch case files number 14. [01:09:35] Speaker A: Hell yeah. [01:09:36] Speaker B: Hell yeah. A little bit of sarcasm. [01:09:38] Speaker A: I don't dread those. [01:09:39] Speaker B: You're being sarcastic. I was being a stinker. [01:09:42] Speaker A: You're being a stinker. I love those. [01:09:44] Speaker B: I'm very excited. So. So use Google, the real Googler, not the Google AI to say, where can I buy Red City 14 and Sam and Twitch 14? Buy them, read them and come listen to us talking about them in a week. [01:09:58] Speaker A: Absolutely. [01:09:59] Speaker B: Very good. [01:09:59] Speaker A: We'll be here next week. [01:10:01] Speaker B: Real fun time. Don't forget to like like us everywhere. You can like us. Subscribe to us. If you haven't subscribed to us, give us a rating or a review. We like. We like reading the ratings. We haven't gotten a review in a long time. [01:10:13] Speaker A: Johnny, review us. [01:10:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Please, please. Tell your friends, family, co workers, random people you meet at anything. Go to. Go to. Go to a real fancy event. [01:10:28] Speaker A: We'll see a spooky movie in the theater. Scream about Respawn at the end. [01:10:32] Speaker B: Do it. I mean, you could probably make some really good friends screaming about Spawn at a spooky movie. [01:10:38] Speaker A: You probably could. [01:10:39] Speaker B: Yeah. Especially. [01:10:40] Speaker A: I saw a Spawn shirt at a movie at the Music Box one time. [01:10:43] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Very exciting. Very rare Spawn shirts. [01:10:46] Speaker A: I know they're hard to get. [01:10:48] Speaker B: Well, Johnny, with that, I think I've run out of things to say because we talked about too much gunslinger. It took all my words, Johnny. All of them. So I've got nothing to say. But may the Scorch be with you. [01:11:03] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:11:05] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:11:06] Speaker A: Hell yeah. [01:11:06] Speaker B: Hell yeah. It's a good season to be reading some Hell people, Johnny. [01:11:12] Speaker A: It is. It's perfect time to be reading a lot of Spawn. [01:11:14] Speaker B: Don't even have to be embarrassed to be reading something spooky on the train during October. It's a. Everybody's used to it. [01:11:22] Speaker A: They better be. [01:11:23] Speaker B: Yeah, they better be. They better be reading Spawn. [01:11:26] Speaker A: You better be reading Spawn out there. [01:11:27] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I am. I have to. [01:11:32] Speaker A: I have to. [01:11:33] Speaker B: I have to. We have chained each other to. To our respective podcast chairs. [01:11:38] Speaker A: Yes, to my new chair, my new Johnny. [01:11:41] Speaker B: Johnny is changed to a chair that is locked with a key that resides here in Chicago. And I am changed to a chair with a lock whose key resides in Tulsa. [01:11:51] Speaker A: Never. [01:11:52] Speaker B: The two shall meet. You shall meet. We have to. We have to, like, scoot ourselves around. Luckily, our chairs have casters or else. [01:12:01] Speaker A: We would be, thank God, very screwed. Yeah, we'd be over it. [01:12:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:12:07] Speaker A: Well, David, I guess I won't go anywhere. Because I can't. [01:12:10] Speaker B: I guess. I guess we gotta talk about something else, don't we? [01:12:12] Speaker A: Let's talk about these chains. [01:12:14] Speaker B: Sure do chafe, don't they? Shit. Should have thought about wearing long sleeves first. It hurts. [01:12:23] Speaker A: Let's talk about modern emergency American politics. [01:12:50] Speaker B: Sam.
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