Episode 158

November 14, 2025

01:20:11

Episode 158 - King Spawn 47 and Scorched 43

Episode 158 - King Spawn 47 and Scorched 43
RE:Spawn
Episode 158 - King Spawn 47 and Scorched 43

Nov 14 2025 | 01:20:11

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Show Notes

Welcome back to the Malebolge! This week your co-hosts, Johnny and David, are covering some excellent issues from Spawn's Universe!

First up is King Spawn 47, byt Rorty McConville and Yilderay Cinar!

Then, it's Scoeched 43, by John Layman and Stephen Segovia!

Show some love to Marv Del Mundo, whose awesome Jesica Priest art is featured in the Spawning Grounds of Scorched 43!

Lonny Bones does our music!

Come say, "hi!" to us on insta!

May the Scorched be with you!

 

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Episode Transcript

[00:00:00] Speaker A: It's not too late. It's not too late. It's not too late. I repeat this to myself over and over up until the last moment when reality forced me to face the truth. Good evening and welcome to the Malbolge. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast. I'm your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:53] Speaker B: And I'm your co host, David Williams. And not to blow up our spot, Johnny, but today begins the proper watching of the Nightmare Before Christmas. [00:01:04] Speaker A: Because it's Halloween. [00:01:05] Speaker B: Because Halloween. So you watch the opening number and only the opening number today and then starting tomorrow you can watch Jack's Lament up until the Taking to the sky with zero seeing through the fog. Right. That has to be reserved for Christmas Eve. And then the rest of it you can watch on Christmas. [00:01:29] Speaker A: It's a long way to watch an hour long movie, Johnny. [00:01:33] Speaker B: There's. There's been debate about whether you watch it at Christmas or at Halloween. And that is the correct way to split the difference. [00:01:41] Speaker A: It carries you through the whole season. [00:01:43] Speaker B: Through the whole season. You watch like five or six. Five or six seconds a day also. [00:01:48] Speaker A: I say nay to that. It's definitely much more a Halloween movie than it is a Christmas Christmas movie. [00:01:52] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. If we're gonna, if we're gonna label Tim Burton Christmas movies, Batman Returns and Edward Scissorhands are much more Christmassy. [00:02:02] Speaker A: Yeah, they are. They really are. [00:02:04] Speaker B: Edward Scissorhands is a. As a. Goes on every year for me. [00:02:09] Speaker A: Sweeney Todd reminds me of Christmas for some reason. I think it came out at Christmas, but like. [00:02:13] Speaker B: Yeah, it came out during Christmas break while we were in college. Yeah, I remember that because there were a whole bunch of OSU theater people in Tulsa that weekend and we all, we were all at the theater without having planned it. [00:02:26] Speaker A: Yeah. And everyone was being complaining about the singing probably because they were snooty. Yeah, I like the singing in Sweeney Todd. It's like realistic. It's like the characters are singing. [00:02:35] Speaker B: It's. It's fine, it's fine. I mean the, I didn't have any problem with it because I didn't hear the original, the original cast recording before going in. So I didn't have the basis of comparison. [00:02:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:49] Speaker B: If you compare it to that original cast, it's that there's no, there's no comparison. None whatsoever. [00:02:56] Speaker A: I mean, as far as just like straight singing ability. Yeah. But I think the story is told well in the movie and it's a, it's a good. Deserves to exist. [00:03:03] Speaker B: Yeah. And I can sing along with it and not feel like I am doing a terrible job. [00:03:09] Speaker A: Exactly. You can sing better than Alan Rickman. [00:03:12] Speaker B: I don't know about that. I don't know. [00:03:14] Speaker A: Have you heard him? He's like, he's flat. You're flat. Get a gig. [00:03:21] Speaker B: I think I'm usually sharp, so that's fine. We balance out to being. [00:03:24] Speaker A: Did you watch that video I sent you about the trumpet man? [00:03:27] Speaker B: No, I didn't. [00:03:29] Speaker A: What? [00:03:29] Speaker B: When did you send the trumpet man video? [00:03:31] Speaker A: The angry trumpet man? When I said something about I called you a sucka and I was like, for context. And there's a video of a man called another man a sucker. Oh. [00:03:40] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. [00:03:43] Speaker A: The guy who yells at the trumpet man. [00:03:44] Speaker B: I saw that. I. I saw that, but I. I didn't watch the video because I was walking when I saw that. [00:03:49] Speaker A: And then you need to watch it because this guy in New York that yells at this guy playing a trumpet and one of his insults to him is, I'm an NYU film school graduate sucker. And he keeps yelling at him, you're flat. You're flat. Get a gig. Get a gig. [00:04:06] Speaker B: I really do need to watch it now. [00:04:07] Speaker A: It's really funny. It's a classic Internet freak out. [00:04:10] Speaker B: Sorry. Sorry, Johnny. YouTube links take me a while to get to. [00:04:14] Speaker A: Okay, so you're afraid you're gonna click on some alt right content? [00:04:19] Speaker B: No, it's just. It's just I have to. YouTube videos tends to be a little bit longer than any of the other garbage that we have. And so I need. I need to know that I don't have to pay attention to my surroundings to click on it. [00:04:32] Speaker A: It's only like a two minute video, so it's worth it. But yeah, YouTube's weird. It's always a click away from alt right content. I feel like. [00:04:39] Speaker B: I mean, mine's always a click away from plumbing tips or. [00:04:44] Speaker A: Okay. Or. [00:04:45] Speaker B: Or no. Yeah, yeah, I. I get. I mean, I guess that means I'm almost a click away from, you know, the, the super conservative, a home renovation guy or something. [00:05:00] Speaker A: Mike Rowe, the dirty jobs guy. No, I think I watch too much Nerds because, like, if I start watching stuff, eventually the next video will just be why Disney's too woke. It's like a picture of like Ray crying or something. [00:05:14] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. I only use it for when I need to learn how to fix something so I don't have. [00:05:19] Speaker A: I mean, that's good. [00:05:20] Speaker B: Come by. Yeah, people who just sit down and watch YouTube, like, that's their, their streaming video. Of choice. It baffles me. [00:05:30] Speaker A: I mean, there's some cool YouTube videos. It's good if you want to learn about video games or you want to learn trivia about things, but not actually watch the thing. [00:05:40] Speaker B: That's true. That's true. You can get reaction videos. [00:05:43] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:05:44] Speaker B: That's. I was. I spent much too much time as a younger brother having to watch my older sister and all my friends play video games and stuff while I did nothing. [00:05:54] Speaker A: So, yeah, you're ahead of the times. [00:05:55] Speaker B: I'm. I am good on that content. Thank you very much. Please pass me with that. [00:06:00] Speaker A: You're ahead of the times. Yes. We are recording today on Halloween. It's coming out a few weeks after, but we were recording on Halloween, so it was extra spooky. [00:06:10] Speaker B: Happy Halloweeny, Johnny. [00:06:12] Speaker A: Happy Halloweeny. [00:06:13] Speaker B: We got a little Halloweeny. He's sleeping right now. [00:06:16] Speaker A: Little Halloweeny dog. [00:06:18] Speaker B: Halloween dog. I should have got him a little, like, witch's hat and a little pumpkin. He would have just slept on it, though. [00:06:23] Speaker A: I was listening to. They released this year a super deluxe, like, four discs. I mean, it's just four discs on Apple Music, but it is four discs, I guess, if you bought it, of Frank Zappa 1978 Halloween concert. [00:06:36] Speaker B: Oh, nice. What was the. What was the word of the night? [00:06:40] Speaker A: He didn't say a word of the night. [00:06:41] Speaker B: Oh, because. Because that was. The thing is, there was always, like, the phrase of the night, and he would shoehorn it in everywhere. [00:06:47] Speaker A: I mean, he had a lot of his little catchphrases in there, But I listened to the first disc, and he didn't mention a word of the night. [00:06:52] Speaker B: Dang. [00:06:52] Speaker A: It also might be edited. So, like, I don't know if they cut it out. [00:06:56] Speaker B: There was one, the. The live album I had. It was. It was the ring of fire was the word of the night. And so. So, like, everywhere, they had like, the little. The little guy pop up and say, I got this crystal ball. He would say, I have this ring of fire. [00:07:13] Speaker A: Did they make it about buttholes? [00:07:15] Speaker B: No, it's just. It was like Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire. [00:07:18] Speaker A: Fire, I know, but. [00:07:20] Speaker B: But, but, yeah, I think. I think he did. I think he did make it about Johnny. It's Frank Zappa. Of course he made it. [00:07:24] Speaker A: Yeah. He's gonna make it about a butt if he can. [00:07:27] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:07:28] Speaker A: Broken hearts for. [00:07:30] Speaker B: They are. [00:07:30] Speaker A: Broken hearts are for. So what you gonna do? I heard some songs. The reason I thought of that was there was a song called Two Drowning Witch. [00:07:41] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Ship. Ship arriving too late to Save a drowning witch. [00:07:45] Speaker A: Good song. [00:07:45] Speaker B: Yeah. That's the. That's the album that has Valley Girl on it, right? [00:07:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:07:49] Speaker B: Nice. [00:07:50] Speaker A: And, like, the picture is like a triangle and a triangle. [00:07:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:07:52] Speaker A: The one triangle is the ship, one triangle is the witch. [00:07:55] Speaker B: Apparently that was, like, a popular pop art thing in the 80s around that time where it was just abstract shapes. And then the name of it gives it like, oh, okay. I can see that being the thing. [00:08:09] Speaker A: Yeah, I get it. [00:08:10] Speaker B: Pretty exciting. [00:08:12] Speaker A: It's pretty exciting. But, yeah, I was listening to that this morning. Getting ready for Halloween. [00:08:17] Speaker B: What else were you doing to get ready for Halloween this morning, Johnny? [00:08:20] Speaker A: I got some daylight donuts and a sausage roll and a glazed donut. [00:08:24] Speaker B: I haven't had daylight donuts in so long. [00:08:26] Speaker A: Dude, they're, like, the best. [00:08:28] Speaker B: They're the best. They're the best. [00:08:30] Speaker A: They're so good. They, like, melt and they have this, like, crunch to them. It's amazing. [00:08:33] Speaker B: And they're like, four cents a piece. [00:08:37] Speaker A: I. I bought a sausage roll, two donuts. It was like 250. [00:08:39] Speaker B: Damn, I love donuts. [00:08:42] Speaker A: It was less than $3, and I tipped 20. [00:08:45] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Everybody's gonna think you're wild for tipping 20 down there. And it's like, I'm just used to it. [00:08:51] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. And it's way less because, Megan, I went to dinner and it was $30. I was like, what? I was like, did they forget to put something on the check? And she was like, no. And I'm like, oh, wow. [00:09:03] Speaker B: Wow. Interesting. Dang. Well, no, Johnny, I mean, today to get ready for Halloween. What else did you do today? [00:09:13] Speaker A: I read the Spawn today for Halloween. Oh, I watched today's show. Oh, nice transition. As we all know, I'm a huge Today show fan. And I was watching the Today show with my dear mother, and they had their costume reveals. The theme was, like, random. They try to tie it together. They tried to tie it together with saying it was like a road trip. And they, like, did this video where they stopped the different places where people's costumes were from. But, like, someone was Prince. [00:09:42] Speaker B: Okay. [00:09:42] Speaker A: Prince was Craig. Craig. Host Craig. Al Roker, your favorite guy. He was. He was a sweetie from Rocky Balboa. From Rocky. And then Carson Daly was Rocky. [00:09:54] Speaker B: Nice. [00:09:55] Speaker A: Savannah. My girlfriend was Meryl Streep from the Devil Wears Prada. [00:10:00] Speaker B: Okay, so we've got Minnesota. [00:10:03] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:04] Speaker B: We've got. We have Rockies in Philadelphia. Then we've got New York for the Devil Wears Prada. [00:10:10] Speaker A: New York. And then they went to California because one of the Today show weekend anchors, so I don't know their name. As one of the Saved by the Bell girls. [00:10:18] Speaker B: Okay. [00:10:19] Speaker A: Willie Geist was Wayne Newton. So they stopped in Vegas. [00:10:23] Speaker B: Okay. [00:10:24] Speaker A: They went to Florida. Because the one guy that does the Weeknd was Jimmy Buffett. His Jimmy Buffett costume was pretty good. [00:10:31] Speaker B: Nice. I mean, the Jimmy Buffett costume seems like it would be easy to pull off, but like the clothes can easily wear you is the problem. [00:10:39] Speaker A: But he had like the yellow, yellow shirt, the Jamaican flag, sweat bands he always wore. He had a ball cap. The ball cap was really well done. I mean, if you work at NBC, I'm sure you're going to get makeup people. Hopefully. [00:10:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:54] Speaker A: So I watched the Today show. I saw those. [00:10:56] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:10:57] Speaker A: And then today I'm going to go to Costco. [00:11:02] Speaker B: That's. That's spooky. [00:11:04] Speaker A: And then I'm going to get a spooky dad move. A skeleton. [00:11:07] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. How big is that skeleton? [00:11:09] Speaker A: It's one of the big ones. [00:11:10] Speaker B: Nice. [00:11:11] Speaker A: He's moving it to like he does like a boxing class at a gym that he teaches and he's taking the skeleton to the gym. I don't know if he's going to fight the skeleton. I'm unclear. I don't know what's going on with the skeleton at this gym, but I'm helping him move it. [00:11:24] Speaker B: He's filming a YouTube YouTube video about how to banish the skeletons. [00:11:28] Speaker A: Yeah, I guess. And then I'm going to a Star Wars Unlimited pre release event. [00:11:32] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Is this. This is a release of an expansion to the card game or correct? Hell yeah. [00:11:39] Speaker A: You like this one? It's called Secrets of Power and it's all about the Senate during the Clone Wars. [00:11:45] Speaker B: Nice. Is. Is the Senator from Nebu, Jar Jar Binks in there? [00:11:51] Speaker A: There's a Jar Jar Binks cards. The Padme card. [00:11:54] Speaker B: The clutch. The clutch. Vote for handing over power to Senator. [00:11:59] Speaker A: Palpatine, fellow delicate dello feligates. Misa. Granting the Chancellor emergency power to the supreme Chancellor. [00:12:12] Speaker B: Nice. Does that mean there's going to be the little ET guys? Because I know the ET guys. [00:12:17] Speaker A: Hopefully. They better be. [00:12:19] Speaker B: They better be. [00:12:19] Speaker A: They were the most powerful card in the expansion. [00:12:21] Speaker B: They better have like, like fists full of Reese's Pieces that they just like. [00:12:27] Speaker A: Pocket sand, make flowers grow. Yeah, because you recall et's a gardener. Et's like a botanist. [00:12:36] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, right. Something like that. [00:12:39] Speaker A: He's like a fucking like ancillary stuff. He's like a botanist for his planet. [00:12:44] Speaker B: Yeah, because he's like A. He's just like a. Is like a grad student that's on. That is accompanying his. His Ph.D. advisor on their sabbatical or some like E.T. [00:12:56] Speaker A: Started out a lot like Gremlins. It was called Night Skies. It was all about these little Gremlin esque. Speaking of Christmas movies, ETs and Steven Spielberg got a hold of it and changed it to be more heartwarming, but it was originally like, much more Gremlin esque. [00:13:12] Speaker B: I don't. I don't know if you can get much more heartwarming than Gizmo, though. Like when he accidentally spills his. His paint water on Gizmo and he's like. [00:13:30] Speaker A: I watched Gremlins 2 last weekend. Is a spooky movie. Nice with elements too. [00:13:36] Speaker B: Christopher Lee. Speaking of releases today. Christopher Lee. [00:13:39] Speaker A: Christopher Lee. Leonard Malton. [00:13:42] Speaker B: That's a stacked cast. [00:13:43] Speaker A: What did Christopher Lee have that released today? [00:13:45] Speaker B: Well, the. That we released our commentary on something that had Christopher Lee in it for our Halloween episode. Yes, yes. [00:13:54] Speaker A: They released today. Two weeks ago. [00:13:58] Speaker B: Time doesn't make any sense anymore. [00:13:59] Speaker A: I'm just glad that every episode we spend five minutes explaining what day it is now. I'm sure people are fucking riveted and. [00:14:06] Speaker B: What the difference between when the weather is. Johnny, how's the weather, D? [00:14:10] Speaker A: Oh, my God, it's chilly. [00:14:12] Speaker B: What's the weather in your neck of the woods? To borrow a phrase from. [00:14:15] Speaker A: Yeah, from Al Ro the Clone. He's a. He has MK Ultra issues or something. [00:14:20] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:14:20] Speaker A: There's a clip of him. Someone says Holy Ghost and he freezes for a full minute. There's a clip, and it's like he's MK Ultra because that's like one of his trigger words is Holy Ghost. So if you ever see Al Roker go Holy Ghost, it'll freeze. Right now it's 44. In Tea Town, in Tulsi Town, in Tulsa town, it's 44. What's the. What's the. What's the temperature in Chicago right now? [00:14:44] Speaker B: It is 44. [00:14:49] Speaker A: Twinning. [00:14:51] Speaker B: Who. Who gets to be the Danny DeVito one? [00:14:54] Speaker A: Me. [00:14:54] Speaker B: Oh, dang it. That's the better one. [00:14:56] Speaker A: Yeah, you better start working out. You're Arnold Schwarzenegger. [00:14:59] Speaker B: Could be Conan. [00:15:00] Speaker A: Well, speaking of twins, we got twin excellent episodes. So we got twin issues. Yeah, issues for one episode. We're making two issues and we're creating one episode. We're getting two issues of Spawn's universe and creating one episode of Respawn's universe. [00:15:17] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. I still can't Believe I still call them episodes instead of issues. What a dingus. [00:15:21] Speaker A: I do too. It's just like. It's just hard. [00:15:24] Speaker B: You make the mistake once and your brain's like perfect. No notes. [00:15:28] Speaker A: Yeah. You did it. That is. We are doing two issues from Spawns universe. Because we are respawn for each week. We bring you two issues from Spawn's universe. This week is no different. We have two issues for you. We have all the way back from the far off land of July 2025, we have king spawn 47. And all the way back from July 2025, we have scorched 43. [00:15:58] Speaker B: Hell yeah. These are good ass books, Johnny. [00:16:02] Speaker A: Yeah. I really like them both. [00:16:03] Speaker B: So good this king 40. Kingspawn 47. Dare I say excellent jumping on point. [00:16:09] Speaker A: It is. It's a good like little short story that makes. [00:16:11] Speaker B: It makes me wanna. Once this episode drops, I'm gonna have to go buy a whole bunch of the. As many copies as I can and put them into free little libraries. To say we cover this and episode number. [00:16:24] Speaker A: You should. [00:16:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:25] Speaker A: Yeah. It's a really good kind of like short story. It's good for Halloween. It's like a little Tales from the Crypt kind of. [00:16:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Both very good Halloween EP issues. [00:16:37] Speaker A: Yeah. So I'm glad we're reading them today. [00:16:40] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm glad I'm. I got to read them and talk about them with my buddy Johnny. [00:16:46] Speaker A: Yeah. Did you watch any other Halloween movies this year? [00:16:49] Speaker B: I haven't yet. I mean obviously. I watched Candyman twice. Just because I gotta. I can't not. I watched a couple of new things. I watched Bring Her Back. [00:17:03] Speaker A: Heard that was good. [00:17:04] Speaker B: Her. [00:17:04] Speaker A: That was gnarly. [00:17:05] Speaker B: It's. I recommend it to everybody. Except for people I know who have children. Don't. Don't watch Bring Her Back if you have children, it'll fuck you. [00:17:13] Speaker A: Watch Terrifier 3 instead. [00:17:15] Speaker B: I finished. I finished Terrifier 3. It took me like four weeks. Five weeks. [00:17:20] Speaker A: Like four hours long. [00:17:21] Speaker B: No, it's. It's like. It's almost two hours long. But I just kept being like, oh, I just. I got to be in the mood. I got to be in the mood. It was. [00:17:29] Speaker A: Terrifyer 2 was like 2 hours and 45 minutes though. I swear to God. Terror 2 is a long ass. [00:17:35] Speaker B: Because they got that whole like angel subplot going on. Yeah. [00:17:38] Speaker A: They got the whole like 20 minutes from like skinning that poor woman. [00:17:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh man. Although maybe. Maybe we might not see a terrifier 4. Johnny. I don't know if You've seen the. [00:17:48] Speaker A: Why is that? What's the news? [00:17:49] Speaker B: The 1. The actress who was hung upside down and chainsawed has some not great allegations against the entire production team. Like, they left her upside down for 10 hours straight and took naked photos of her without her permission. Oh. [00:18:08] Speaker A: So on Terrifier three. [00:18:10] Speaker B: On. No, on the first one. Oh. And then also have not produced the 1% worth of profits that they said that they would pay her. [00:18:18] Speaker A: Yikes. [00:18:19] Speaker B: Yes. Yeah. [00:18:20] Speaker A: Well, I'm glad. I never really liked those movies that much. I. I'm on the right side of history. I don't know. They just. [00:18:27] Speaker B: They. [00:18:27] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:18:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:28] Speaker A: They're not for me. [00:18:30] Speaker B: I think. I think stopping. I don't think they needed to make 3. I think 1 and 2. Trying to go above and beyond from 2 is just too much. [00:18:39] Speaker A: Yeah. Because that's what you do. You do child death. And that's what they did. [00:18:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:42] Speaker A: Like 14 times, 20 kids die. [00:18:46] Speaker B: Yeah. It's like. That's the. The thing that got me on the. The Saw films. It's just like. I just. [00:18:54] Speaker A: There's 10 of those puppies at a certain. [00:18:57] Speaker B: At a certain point. Like, it's so much worse when you, like, care about the characters that at a certain point, they're like, the character doesn't matter. Just make it gnarly. And it's like, I wanna. I wanna feel something. I don't just want to be like, look at all that blood. [00:19:11] Speaker A: Yeah. I want to feel. John Song's funny, though, because it just has such a weird continuity. It's fun to watch for that with all the weird cops and, like, how they keep bringing characters back. Oh, yeah, Everyone's. Everyone's one of Jigsaw's apprentices. Evidently. He had so many apprentices. [00:19:26] Speaker B: Well, it's because the. There's 10 of them. And didn't he die in, like, the second one? [00:19:29] Speaker A: The third one? He dies of cancer. [00:19:34] Speaker B: Oh, man. There's a. There's another series. I can't remember what it is, where everything is basically just like, they've written themselves into a corner, but every. But they want to keep making that money, so everything's just a prequel. Am I thinking of the Hellraiser series? I might be thinking of Hellraiser. You might be, because Hellraiser does that too. It gets. The first two were like a continuous movie, and then after that, they're just like, I don't know, a shitty cop. [00:19:59] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:20:00] Speaker B: I don't know. Why don't we make a cenobite that has CDs in his head. They call him CD. [00:20:05] Speaker A: See, that's cool. [00:20:07] Speaker B: And then have one female Cenobite and call her the woman. [00:20:13] Speaker A: Hey, that was. That was the 80s, man. You had one female. [00:20:16] Speaker B: That was. That was pretty progressive. Clive Barker. Ludicrously progressive. Hard. Hard to be a gay man in the 80s and be a well regarded writer, man. [00:20:26] Speaker A: I like the Night Breed. That movie is really good. [00:20:29] Speaker B: I'm reading. I'm. I'm reading Cabal right now, which has like. I guess it's the beginning of the Night Breed group. [00:20:38] Speaker A: Okay, so is that the book is based on specifically? [00:20:42] Speaker B: No, it's. It's like. It's a. The novella before Nightbreeding. So it's just where he puts together like the concept of the Night Breed. [00:20:49] Speaker A: Okay. [00:20:51] Speaker B: It's about a. A guy who goes to see a therapist and the therapist is a serial killer and convinces the guy that he did it. Oh, and then to escape. Escape persecution. Persecution, he runs away to join the Nightbreed. [00:21:05] Speaker A: Hey, that's what I'm going to do. [00:21:07] Speaker B: Hey. Hey. [00:21:07] Speaker A: I'm run away to join King Spawn right now in this issue of King Spawn. [00:21:12] Speaker B: I don't want. I don't want to join King Spawn where he is right now. Johnny. [00:21:16] Speaker A: I don't. He said this. [00:21:18] Speaker B: No, thank you. Look at that. Like they say, hard times make hard men, Johnny. And I guess hard places do the same thing. Because to get our Spawn to look like that, that's a. That's a pretty hard place. [00:21:32] Speaker A: Yeah, but before we get to the hard place, let's start with the covers. [00:21:35] Speaker B: Let's get to the. [00:21:36] Speaker A: This is a hard place because it's a. It's a hardcover. Not hardcover, but it's a cardstock cover. [00:21:41] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a high quality, high quality cover. [00:21:44] Speaker A: High quality cover. All of it's high quality. And it smells like ink. [00:21:48] Speaker B: This. This book rocks so fucking much, Johnny. [00:21:52] Speaker A: Smells like ink. You ever think about how wet these pages are when they've ink both sides of them? They gotta be like super wet. Right. [00:21:59] Speaker B: Well, I mean, if you've ever seen like the old presses for newspapers and stuff, there's just like those long stretches of them not doing anything and that's like to dry them off. So. So I assume that these also undergo a long drying off process before they get cut. [00:22:14] Speaker A: It's crazy to think about that these are like made somewhere. [00:22:16] Speaker B: Yeah. That there's literally somebody that gets paid probably minimum wage to watch them go by on a. Like at super speed and make sure Nothing gets tangled up on them. [00:22:27] Speaker A: Yeah. So we start with the covers. And on king of pawns 47, I have the A cover. And it is the Federico Sabatini cover. Sabatini with Mefuria, with help from Nefuria on colors. [00:22:43] Speaker B: I imagine it's a good cover. I like that. It basically puts us in a first person shooter view of one of these ghoulies that's attacking Spawn. [00:22:53] Speaker A: Yeah. There's three zombie ghoulie people. [00:22:56] Speaker B: And one of them is you. [00:22:57] Speaker A: And one of them is you. And they're going after King Spawn. He's got his new look with his scarf and his sword and his chains. [00:23:07] Speaker B: And, like, his spikes have reproduced so many spikes. [00:23:12] Speaker A: A lot of spikes. [00:23:14] Speaker B: A lot of spikes. He's a spiky guy. It's a good cover. I like that The. The chains, like, sort of melt into the. Into the brambles and thorns that are just all around. [00:23:25] Speaker A: Yeah. Just like a really nice, good look at this King Spawn here. Yeah. [00:23:30] Speaker B: And there's, like a light behind him. And it's like he is the harbinger of the light. And these little dark creatures are like. Yeah, we don't like you. Nah, we're gonna get you. [00:23:41] Speaker A: We're gonna get you, Sponny. [00:23:43] Speaker B: Excellent. [00:23:44] Speaker A: But there is a B cover. [00:23:45] Speaker B: This is a B cover. I have the B cover. Johnny. It's. [00:23:48] Speaker A: Do you. [00:23:48] Speaker B: Tomaselli. [00:23:50] Speaker A: Oh, it's a deleted scene from Spawn the movie. [00:23:52] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a Francesco Tomaselli. [00:23:54] Speaker A: And it's a deleted scene where Spawn and Wanda are hanging out. [00:23:57] Speaker B: Yeah. So it's. The top is Spawn and Wanda sharing a nice little moment. They've got their foreheads pressed together. And then it's like in front of. They're doing that in front of, like, a red background that, like, dissolves into Spawn's cape. And he's just like, ha. Jumping off the roof of a church in front of some. Some stained glass windows. It's got, like, a little bit of that soft focus and, like, some. Some points of light that it's like. It's like. It's an advertisement from 1991 for. For a restaurant sort of lighting aesthetic. And it's great. [00:24:36] Speaker A: It's beautiful. Yeah, it's really cool. But Terry Fitzgerald wouldn't like it. [00:24:41] Speaker B: Oh, no, he would be. He would be furious. But, man, Al and Wanda look so. Please. [00:24:47] Speaker A: They look happy. [00:24:48] Speaker B: Like, we have never seen them that happy. And ever. We've only ever seen them tortured. [00:24:54] Speaker A: Yeah. If only they'd show us the release. The deleted scenes. [00:24:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:57] Speaker A: Michael Jai White wants you to. [00:24:59] Speaker B: Yeah, I want them to too. [00:25:01] Speaker A: I want them to do too. I want you to, too. Let's pop it open. Let's pop it open. King spawn 47. We got the credits. [00:25:10] Speaker B: Yes, we do. [00:25:11] Speaker A: We got script plot by none other than Roy McConville. [00:25:15] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:25:16] Speaker A: Art by Yildre Sanar. [00:25:17] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:25:18] Speaker A: Color by Ivan Nunes. Lettering by and World Design. We already covered the covers. [00:25:25] Speaker B: Yeah, we did. [00:25:27] Speaker A: Creative directors, Tom McFarlane and editor in chief is one Mr. Thomas Keighley. [00:25:31] Speaker B: Yes, they are. [00:25:33] Speaker A: Previously in King Spawn. Spawn has been trapped in the abyss with no way out. [00:25:40] Speaker B: That's true. That's true. [00:25:42] Speaker A: He was trapped. [00:25:43] Speaker B: He was just like, sucked. [00:25:45] Speaker A: It was like he was sucked in. We didn't really get much Spawn last issue. It was mainly about Officer Lynch. Yeah, we kind of showed Spawn a little bit last issue. But this one's pretty much all Spawn. Yeah, this is all Spawn. It's all going according to plan. Get your Joker costume ready for tonight, David. [00:26:11] Speaker B: Johnny, don't you know I am the Joker. [00:26:13] Speaker A: You're going to see that Joker for Halloween. I knew it. [00:26:16] Speaker B: Have to. You have to. [00:26:17] Speaker A: Johnny, you want to know how I got these scars? [00:26:21] Speaker B: I would like to know, actually. Yes. [00:26:23] Speaker A: A skiing accident. [00:26:25] Speaker B: Hey, hey. That's frightening to me. I've known too many people who've hurt themselves in skiing accidents. [00:26:32] Speaker A: Yeah, that's why I don't go fucking skiing. [00:26:34] Speaker B: It's dangerous as hell. I know. [00:26:37] Speaker A: Just launching down a slippery slope. [00:26:40] Speaker B: Yeah. I know a dude who broke his neck and literally, the doctor said he would have died if the person who came by and poked him didn't poke him when they did. And it like, realigned his head so his blood was able to circulate again. [00:26:52] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:26:52] Speaker B: Yeah. That shit's scary as hell. [00:26:56] Speaker A: It is scary. What else is scary is the abyss. [00:26:59] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:26:59] Speaker A: Look at where Spawn has been banished to. [00:27:02] Speaker B: This is where this. This is where some. [00:27:06] Speaker A: Yeah, this is like a. [00:27:08] Speaker B: It's like if you. It's like if you imagine the slug based villain of Godzilla, that's what these guys look like. It's like if Mothra were evil. Yeah. And in her larva. [00:27:19] Speaker A: What are you gonna do on the. What are you doing on Monday, David? [00:27:22] Speaker B: What do you mean by on Monday? What's happening? [00:27:24] Speaker A: November 3rd, baby. It's Godzilla day. [00:27:26] Speaker B: That's Godzilla day. [00:27:28] Speaker A: Evidently. I just saw an article about this. I don't know. It's Godzilla day. [00:27:32] Speaker B: Oh. I mean, I'll probably pull the trigger and buy one of those stupid limited edition the hetero Action figures that they've been putting out this year. [00:27:40] Speaker A: Oh, nice. Yeah. The third is Godzilla Day. They're showing Alma. Drafthouse is doing some marathons. Return of Godzilla is being played in some theaters. [00:27:51] Speaker B: Nice, nice. [00:27:52] Speaker A: Hopefully maybe they'll bring back the Godzilla channel for it. [00:27:54] Speaker B: I, I, we can only hope, Johnny. We can only hope. [00:27:57] Speaker A: Yeah, Spawn's in this abyss where there's all these cut up creatures. [00:28:01] Speaker B: And why are these creatures all cut up, Johnny? [00:28:03] Speaker A: Because Spawn's been hacking and slashing with his sword. [00:28:06] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like bone sword. It's metal as hell. [00:28:10] Speaker A: He's lost track of how long it's been there since the Wraith banished him there. [00:28:14] Speaker B: Yeah, and he's, he's like mutated and he's grown his horns and his, his symbiote has put out extra spikes everywhere. Spiky guy. [00:28:24] Speaker A: He's fighting this like slug creature. That kind of looks like one of the Kaiju on Pacific Rim. [00:28:28] Speaker B: Yeah, it does. [00:28:29] Speaker A: That one that has like the knife head. [00:28:31] Speaker B: Yeah, I think its name is knife Head. [00:28:33] Speaker A: I think it is. [00:28:36] Speaker B: I love, I love the Kaiju names are similar to Star wars name and that. They're just like. Yep, that's what it is. [00:28:43] Speaker A: Hammerhead. [00:28:44] Speaker B: Hammerhead. Savage Opress. [00:28:47] Speaker A: Greedo. She's a Greedo. Greedy motherfucker. [00:28:50] Speaker B: Speaking of, did you hear that the. Apparently they announced a 4K restoration of the original theatrical release? [00:28:56] Speaker A: It was leaked. It wasn't announced. Okay, but so they're re releasing in 2027. A New Hope is coming to theaters. They announced that. [00:29:06] Speaker B: Okay. [00:29:07] Speaker A: They didn't announce what version, but then leaked, which is a hilarious way to leak. Is on their YouTube page. Disney uploaded a bunch of clips of the 4K restoration of the original ones. And they're supposed to be private, but they didn't set them to private. And then they immediately took them down after people saw them them. So they, they, they uploaded to YouTube, forgot to put it on Private. People saw it, were like, what the. This is the old. This is the original. This the original cut. And it's like in 4K, but it looks good, exists. And then they took it down. But a bunch of stuff leaked. Yeah, they're coming. They've been working on them, so I cannot wait. [00:29:43] Speaker B: I hope they do that for all the rest of them so that way I can get. [00:29:46] Speaker A: They are. They are. [00:29:46] Speaker B: Yup. No, but it's full glory. [00:29:49] Speaker A: Yeah, it'll be an HD glory. [00:29:50] Speaker B: I had to, I had to break the news to somebody last week that Yubn removed from the current version of Of Return of the Jedi. And he's like. They were like, what the. [00:30:00] Speaker A: What? [00:30:01] Speaker B: They don't have. They don't have villain helmet bongos anymore. And I was like, nope, nope, they do. [00:30:07] Speaker A: They're just in the background and they don't really play them very much, but. [00:30:10] Speaker B: Song is gone. It's the greatest song of all time. [00:30:13] Speaker A: I know it ended the. I know you're telling me, man. [00:30:18] Speaker B: But yeah. [00:30:18] Speaker A: So Spawn's fighting this knife head. [00:30:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:21] Speaker A: He chomps him, he bites him. [00:30:22] Speaker B: He's been. He's been narrating about, you know, being in this hole, this abyss. Time moves weird here, right? [00:30:29] Speaker A: So he's hoping. It's only been a few days on Earth. Yeah, he's been down here a long time. [00:30:33] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's like, so I hope it's not too late. And then he. Oh boy. He. He kills this big old knife head worm and he reaches in and pulls out its heart and just eats it. [00:30:45] Speaker A: So he takes a bite of it. [00:30:46] Speaker B: He's been. He's been reduced to being the monster. Speaking of. Speaking of the Night breed, Johnny. That's what the Night Breed do. The Night Breed eat the dead. [00:30:56] Speaker A: Efficient. And he. The heart powers him. He gets enough. He gets his final pieces to fuel his escape. [00:31:06] Speaker B: So this is the cave that he was originally sucked into the abyss from, right? Johnny. [00:31:11] Speaker A: Yes. And he's right where he was left off. [00:31:13] Speaker B: We get the opening reading and he's like, it's not too late. It's not too late. Up until the last moment when reality forced him to face the truth. Johnny. [00:31:21] Speaker A: And it might be too late. [00:31:23] Speaker B: That is the. He is in the cave and he sees Lieutenant. Detective. Detective. Agent. Agent Lynch. [00:31:32] Speaker A: Agent Lynch. [00:31:33] Speaker B: And he's just like a withered, desiccated husk. And Spawn is, well, Spawn is just there with like his. His glowing hand of light and he's just like flying. And I like how we get three whole like large panels of him just like staring down. And it's just like. [00:31:53] Speaker A: It's been a week since he. He's been gone a week. [00:31:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:57] Speaker A: And he failed. All Andy and all the boys. Everyone. [00:32:00] Speaker B: Yeah, all of them. [00:32:01] Speaker A: They're dead. [00:32:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Not only did he fail, but everybody else who tried to help has also, like, they're burdened with the ghosts of those past. Like our buddy with the cherry with the Charlie Brown cowlick. Just like, keeps seeing Agent lynch everywhere. And he's like, ah, haunted by. [00:32:19] Speaker A: Does he. [00:32:20] Speaker B: Yeah, right. [00:32:21] Speaker A: He just sends his corpse after him. He doesn't see him everywhere. He just sends Swan reanimates his corpse and. Oh, okay, he's not seeing things. That's real. [00:32:30] Speaker B: Okay, I thought he was seeing things. [00:32:32] Speaker A: No. [00:32:33] Speaker B: Okay, that makes sense. [00:32:34] Speaker A: Swan's controlling his corpse and, like, he kills him with his corpse. [00:32:37] Speaker B: Okay, yeah, Spawn. Spawn just goes on a killing spree here. He's like, everyone who fucked everything up is getting it. And then we get this nice two page spread of just like a montage of all the ways he's dispensed the people. Oh, boy. We got a. Like a crucified guy. We got somebody dropped on a. On a fence. A guy gouging out his eyeball. Eyeballs. A guy just, like, full of glass shards. Some guy that got the Darth Maul treatment there. [00:33:09] Speaker A: Yeah. He gets all his revenge on the people that helped the Wraith. [00:33:12] Speaker B: Yeah. All those people responsible for this atrocity. Those directly involved, those who assisted, and those that looked the other way. [00:33:20] Speaker A: And the Wraith assassins, just chilling, walking down the alley. Spawn's like, nope. [00:33:24] Speaker B: Spunk gets the drop on him and, you know, like, chains him into a bajillion pieces. [00:33:30] Speaker A: He cuts up a lot of people in this issue. [00:33:32] Speaker B: Yeah, he does. Spawn is angry. Yeah. [00:33:36] Speaker A: He's pissed. [00:33:37] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we cut to the Wraith and we see how the Wraith is living his life that he's stolen from all these children over these years. And he's just like, suburban dad. [00:33:47] Speaker A: He's like, suburban douche. Yeah. [00:33:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:49] Speaker A: You know, he's got a little Patagonia bag. [00:33:51] Speaker B: Yeah. He's the chairman of the local running club. He's just, you know, fucking going to Whole Foods, making himself a salad here or some soup. And Spawn. Spawn finds a shadow behind his fridge and Shadow blasts in there and just takes. The Wraith takes him. He takes him elsewhere, and we. We like, close to black. And then we open up on the Wraith's eyes, and he is armless and legless at the bottom of a. Bottom of a grave. [00:34:24] Speaker A: Yes. Swan's cut off his limbs. [00:34:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:28] Speaker A: Awful. [00:34:28] Speaker B: Yeah. And Spawn's like, hey, guess what? I've killed everybody that you've made arrangements with and have also made better arrangements with other demons. So, first off, you are absolutely on your own. Now, good news is, though, I have bargained to give you eternal life, and you're gonna be living eternally at the bottom of this grave, rotting, with no way to remove yourself from it forever. [00:34:57] Speaker A: He erased all knowledge of his spells from his brain. [00:35:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:00] Speaker A: You'll never escape. You'll just rot until the end of time. This is. [00:35:05] Speaker B: This is the most badass way that Spawn has ever dispatched anybody. [00:35:10] Speaker A: Yeah, it's pretty awesome. He's pissed. [00:35:12] Speaker B: Yeah. And as. As Spawn is shovel in the. Shovel in the dirt on the Wraith side on the Wraith. He says it won't bring back any of those he tortured. But it's something. And it's all I've got to offer. [00:35:26] Speaker A: Then it mirrors the panels where Spawn was buried in the Abyss. But it's the Wraith getting buried in his grave. [00:35:32] Speaker B: But it's still got like the slowly disappearing bits of Spawn. So that way it goes from, you know, all Spawn than just a silhouette, than just his eyes, then nothing. [00:35:42] Speaker A: Yes. [00:35:42] Speaker B: It's beautiful. It's awesome. [00:35:45] Speaker A: Real creepy Halloweeny story. [00:35:49] Speaker B: Oh boy. [00:35:50] Speaker A: But. But the only thing about it is it's a little short cuz. That's it. [00:35:53] Speaker B: Yeah, that's it. But man, it's got. It's dense with nastiness. Oh boy. [00:36:02] Speaker A: Oh yeah. It's. It's gross. [00:36:03] Speaker B: This is. This is. This is the shit that we're here for. [00:36:06] Speaker A: Well, if like King Swan is indeed like R rated HBO version of Swan, this definitely fits that. [00:36:11] Speaker B: Oh yeah, definitely. [00:36:13] Speaker A: This is hilarious. Compare this, the last issue of Spawn. So entirely different focus on one person. The other one has focused on like 8000-8000 people. [00:36:26] Speaker B: One of them is an elephant man telling stories about. Ah, no, we don't need to worry about that story now. [00:36:31] Speaker A: You need to worry about how I met Taylor. [00:36:34] Speaker B: You know, we don't even have to tell you about Taylor right now. [00:36:36] Speaker A: You don't even know how Taylor became a superhero. You don't even need to know. [00:36:39] Speaker B: Nope. And then we get the Spawn crown to. In the issue. [00:36:45] Speaker A: Spawning Grounds. The Spawn Grounds. [00:36:47] Speaker B: And the Spawning Grounds. Yeah. We get the mailbag with some fan art. Johnny. Some suitably creepy fan art for a. Suitable for a very creepy issue of King Spawn. [00:36:55] Speaker A: I like the. The one in the middle at the top. That's kind of cartoony. [00:36:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:59] Speaker A: That's all the necroplasm coming out of Spawn's mouth. [00:37:02] Speaker B: That's pretty cool. [00:37:03] Speaker A: And then the bottom left is like a Spawn the Movie one kind of. [00:37:06] Speaker B: It does kinda. The one in the middle on the bottom kind of with the way that they've. With the way that they Texture to the mask. [00:37:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:14] Speaker B: Has a. The. The one on the bottom. The one on the bottom, right? Yeah. [00:37:19] Speaker A: Oh my God. Anytime you give texture to the spawn blacks the black part of the mask. It makes it kind of look like the movie. [00:37:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:26] Speaker A: Which was a great costume. [00:37:28] Speaker B: It was. It was an excellent costume. Excellent. You need more sponge Universe. Johnny. [00:37:33] Speaker A: Always nice. [00:37:34] Speaker B: Don't get missed the ongoing titles. And Johnny, look there. Look at there. We Got scorch, number 43 right there. We're not gonna miss that one. We're gonna cover that in a few minutes. We are. Then we get the Witchblade ad. Very exciting. [00:37:49] Speaker A: Available now. [00:37:50] Speaker B: Yeah. And then the UFC toy ad is the back panel. [00:37:55] Speaker A: Okay. I haven't confirmed this of my own, but someone told me this. Logan Branham told me this. [00:38:00] Speaker B: Okay. [00:38:01] Speaker A: On the 4th of July this year, I think they're doing a UFC match on the lawn. [00:38:06] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. And the real. Yeah. And the green room is the fucking Oval Office. They're going to be walking to the ring from the Oval Office. [00:38:16] Speaker A: Are you serious? [00:38:17] Speaker B: I'm fucking serious. [00:38:18] Speaker A: It's. [00:38:18] Speaker B: And it's. [00:38:19] Speaker A: It's over, dude. [00:38:20] Speaker B: And it's part of that CBS Paramount fuckery. [00:38:23] Speaker A: Oh, my God. This is just the end of the world. They need Spawn to come wipe them out. [00:38:28] Speaker B: Yeah. We could only hope, Johnny. [00:38:31] Speaker A: Oh, my God. That's crazy. That's so funny. [00:38:34] Speaker B: I weren't. [00:38:35] Speaker A: True. [00:38:36] Speaker B: I wish. I wish I could actually laugh about it, but I'm just crying. [00:38:40] Speaker A: I've gone to the point of insanity, David. So it's. [00:38:43] Speaker B: It's all just so fucking dumb. [00:38:47] Speaker A: What? [00:38:47] Speaker B: What? It's so dumb. [00:38:49] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, people I know in my life that have children are not getting their SNAP benefits tomorrow. [00:38:56] Speaker B: Yeah. No, that's fucking ridiculous. [00:38:59] Speaker A: Yeah. And it's all the Democrats fault. [00:39:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Because we don't want to. We don't want to make people. [00:39:04] Speaker A: Because people pay $7,000 a month for health care. [00:39:09] Speaker B: Christ. Oh, well, that's Kingspot 47, Johnny. [00:39:13] Speaker A: That's King Spot 47. A bright light in this dark time. [00:39:18] Speaker B: Much like that cover A, Johnny. The bright light that Spawn brings. [00:39:23] Speaker A: We love him. Welcome back. [00:39:42] Speaker B: Yeah. We're back and better than ever. [00:39:46] Speaker A: We've got another back and better than ever. We got a new. Another issue for you, baby. [00:39:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:51] Speaker A: Scorched 43. [00:39:53] Speaker B: 433-443. And you know, we gotta. We gotta cover the covers on this one before we get any further, Johnny. [00:40:01] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:40:02] Speaker B: What I have. I have cover A. Do you have cover A, Johnny? [00:40:06] Speaker A: I do. [00:40:06] Speaker B: All right, let's talk about COVID B first, since neither of us have it. And so I can explain why I didn't choose it. Okay, so cover B is the Bjorn Baron's cover. And it has Overtkill standing on a pile of bodies carrying. Carrying just a mutilated corpse. And it's an excellent, disgusting, beautiful, Bjorn Baron's cover that I specifically did not choose and went instead with the Tauntaun Revival cover, which is cover A for one, maybe two very important reasons, John. [00:40:45] Speaker A: Oh, Lord almighty. Is it because of Jessica Priest's ass? [00:40:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:40:49] Speaker A: Oh, bonk. [00:40:50] Speaker B: Yes, absolutely. I told you this the day I picked it up, that we're gonna have to talk about it. [00:40:55] Speaker A: But it's a well drawn ass. [00:40:57] Speaker B: I had the. I had both of the covers in my hands and I was looking at them and decided I would much rather look at Jessica Priest sass than Overkill and all of his dismembering people. Glory. No, shame to Bjorn Barron's because it's a great cover. [00:41:13] Speaker A: But shame to you, David. [00:41:15] Speaker B: Hey, I am who I am. I don't know. Needs to. No. Needs to. [00:41:21] Speaker A: Yeah, I know I gotta fucking stay ahead of your ass. Well, besides Jessica Priest fucking ass. [00:41:27] Speaker B: But there's. [00:41:28] Speaker A: What else is on this issue? [00:41:29] Speaker B: There's like big nasty guys that she's about to just blow away with this gigantic gun, which is also big old gun. The. The second reason that I chose this cover, because I love a Jessica Priest with a big fucking gun. [00:41:43] Speaker A: That's a cool gun too. It's got like different textures, like a big cable on it and like writing on the, on the barrel. [00:41:48] Speaker B: It's. It's. It's like straight out of Akira. Yeah, yeah. It looks like it's a bitch to fudge it. Hold up an aim, though, because it's so. [00:41:57] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. She probably just shoots like a bus sized missile. [00:42:01] Speaker B: She probably has to like use a foot to balance the back of it to aim. [00:42:07] Speaker A: And there's like taunt on revolver signatures. [00:42:10] Speaker B: There's like a. There's like a ruined city in the background and the sky is all nice. [00:42:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:42:14] Speaker B: Ultimately, Johnny, I like this cover much better than the Bjorn Barons cover. [00:42:18] Speaker A: I did too. I'm just not, you know, David. I'm just not an overkill guy. He's not. He doesn't do it for me. [00:42:22] Speaker B: Yeah, he's. [00:42:24] Speaker A: He's goofy, but like, I don't. He's not like my fave. He's not one of my guys. [00:42:28] Speaker B: I kind of. I kind of wish that, like, they would not rebuild him for the.45. [00:42:33] Speaker A: I know. Just let him dead for a bit. Just keep him dead. [00:42:35] Speaker B: Let him be. What? Gone. [00:42:37] Speaker A: Like, I like. Cygor's my guy, you know, Al's my guy. Jessica's my guy. [00:42:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:42:42] Speaker A: Mark's my guy. [00:42:44] Speaker B: Gunslinger, both of them. [00:42:45] Speaker A: Gunslinger's my Guy. Both of them. Taylor was my guy till he became a ninja. Whatever. [00:42:52] Speaker B: Whatever the fuck that is. Yeah. [00:42:53] Speaker A: Whatever he was doing. But, like, you got your guys, and Overkill's just like. He's always just kind of there to me. Yeah. [00:42:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Even. Even outside of the fact that he started as, like a. A very. A very tasteless joke. He was just like an extended poop joke. I don't really like the way he looks. I think he looks bad. [00:43:12] Speaker A: Yeah. He looks like a rejected Ninja Turtles villain. [00:43:16] Speaker B: That's the best he does. [00:43:22] Speaker A: Wow. He's just not my favorite. [00:43:23] Speaker B: No. Yeah. [00:43:24] Speaker A: I like the curse. The curse is cool. [00:43:25] Speaker B: Curse is awesome. Haunt is good. [00:43:28] Speaker A: Haunt is good. [00:43:29] Speaker B: The dragon. [00:43:30] Speaker A: Three of villains. [00:43:30] Speaker B: Yeah, I think. [00:43:32] Speaker A: I mean, Clown, of course. Where's Clown been? [00:43:34] Speaker B: I just been hanging. [00:43:35] Speaker A: They can bring Sin back for one panel. They can't bring Clown back for the dead. Dude, I. I completely forgot. I think about that. Like, that just pops in my head. [00:43:43] Speaker B: That single panel. [00:43:45] Speaker A: Panel. He's alive. [00:43:47] Speaker B: I mean, fucking Nyx is an excellent villain right now. [00:43:50] Speaker A: Yeah, Nyx is cool. I like the Wraith. I don't know. Yeah. Overkill's just not. He's not one of my guys. Yeah, he's just not one of my guys, you know? And not everyone can be. [00:44:02] Speaker B: No. [00:44:02] Speaker A: I wouldn't even consider Haunt one of my guys. He's like, okay. But I mean, recently, this issue. Yeah, I like Haunt, but he's not like, my favorite. [00:44:12] Speaker B: Yeah, he's. Well, he was also created from a different universe to begin with, so he kind of. [00:44:19] Speaker A: True. [00:44:19] Speaker B: He kind of gets shoehorned in here. [00:44:20] Speaker A: He always feels like. And hot. Like. [00:44:22] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, fucking. Fucking. Eddie is redeemer. Is my guy. That guy's awesome. Yeah. Fucking. I love it when Eddie and Eddie go out for drinks. They need a. They need another. Another Eddie from another timeline. So they can be Ed. Edd. Eddie. [00:44:37] Speaker A: Yes. They need to get one more Eddie. [00:44:38] Speaker B: Yeah. And then who would be Plank? They could just make their own Plank. [00:44:41] Speaker A: It'd be the medieval spot. Helmet on a piece of wood. [00:44:47] Speaker B: They don't even bother inviting Mark Rosen. They're just like, hey, Mark, I need. We need to borrow that helmet. [00:44:52] Speaker A: We see that helmet. [00:44:54] Speaker B: Well, we gotta. We gotta pop these. Pop these bad boys open. John, read these good things that. Who made these good things, Johnny? And give credit where it is due. First up, we got script plot by John Layman with additional script by Todd McFarlane. The art, as always, by Steven Segovia and the colors by Danai Ribeiro and World Design doing The lettering. We covered the covers. Todd McFarlane is the creative director and Thomas Healy is the editor in chief. Previously in the Scorched Haunt has left the team and the Scorched have relocated to New York. [00:45:30] Speaker A: So basically they do a Ninja Turtles 2 here. Move into a cool New York abandoned piece of infrastructure. Yeah, because the Turtles two, they move into the cool abandoned subway. [00:45:40] Speaker B: No, that's Turtles three. That's Turtles in time. [00:45:43] Speaker A: No, they're already in there. Turtles in time. [00:45:45] Speaker B: Really? [00:45:46] Speaker A: Yes. They move in two. [00:45:47] Speaker B: See, two is the one that I've. [00:45:48] Speaker A: Seen the least because it starts with them dancing through the place in three. They're like dancing in it. They're already in it. Move in there. There's no plot in the modern world in three, David. It's all in the past. Of course, three is the one you've seen the most. Oh, now I'm just mad. [00:46:02] Speaker B: Well, so I had one and I watched the hell out of one, and then we taped three off of the television and I just never saw two very much. That is the most angry I've ever. [00:46:15] Speaker A: I know. I was pissed and it sucks. I was like, don't be tell. I watched two. Like, now I realize one is better. When I was a kid, I liked. [00:46:24] Speaker B: Two more because it was the newer one. [00:46:26] Speaker A: Yeah. And they move into the subway. [00:46:27] Speaker B: Okay, fucking two. [00:46:30] Speaker A: But they got in the subway. [00:46:31] Speaker B: But they've got April o' Neill's awesome shitty apartment above her family's Bleecker street store in one that gets burned. [00:46:38] Speaker A: No, I love one. One's. One's great. [00:46:40] Speaker B: One is very closely tied to the actual run of comics. [00:46:43] Speaker A: Yeah, it's. It's good. [00:46:44] Speaker B: It's. It's an amazing movie. [00:46:46] Speaker A: It's so crazy that they made that like that, like, because, you know, they could have just done it like the cartoon and made it ridiculous. Yeah, they kept it pretty grounded. [00:46:52] Speaker B: You know, I think about, like. Like the griminess of everything in that is like, I want everything to be that grimy from here till the end of Eternity. It's so. [00:47:04] Speaker A: It was the. Until the Blair Witch Project, it was the highest grossing independent film of all time. It was an independent film. Yeah, it was bought by New Line. [00:47:14] Speaker B: And I just learned recently that all of the actual Turtle actors get a. A regular full face cameo at some point. Like, I think the. I think the Donatello actor is the guy who's in the back of the cab when Mikey's fucking getting attacked by the foot. [00:47:34] Speaker A: Okay. [00:47:34] Speaker B: I don't remember who all the rest of them. [00:47:36] Speaker A: The guy who Plays Mikey, I think plays Kino in the second one. [00:47:39] Speaker B: One of them, One of them is the pizza delivery driver. [00:47:43] Speaker A: Kino. [00:47:44] Speaker B: No, in the first name. It's the same one. It's the same guy. [00:47:48] Speaker A: No, it's not the same guy. [00:47:49] Speaker B: They got the. They got. They got pizza. [00:47:51] Speaker A: Kino is also a pizza delivery. [00:47:52] Speaker B: Pizza delivery guy. Continuity. [00:47:54] Speaker A: Kino, that's. He's. He's also a pizza delivery character. [00:47:57] Speaker B: Very nice. [00:47:58] Speaker A: That's how he meets them. [00:48:00] Speaker B: I mean, he did. [00:48:01] Speaker A: From you watching Ninja Turtles 3 a lot. [00:48:03] Speaker B: There is there. I mean, there is literally in the comics a section where they discover that this one pizza place throws away their pizzas at the end of the day. And Mikey shows up and just like makes friends with the guy. So instead of putting them in the dumpster, we'll just hold them until Mikey shows up. So probably is Kino. [00:48:24] Speaker A: That's smart. [00:48:25] Speaker B: That's real smart. That's real smart. So. [00:48:28] Speaker A: So here we are in New York City, the home of the Ninja Turtles. The home of the scorched. [00:48:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:32] Speaker A: The home of this couple. A couple going on a date. [00:48:36] Speaker B: Yeah. In Central park late at night. And we got the classic lady being like, I don't think. I think we should go home now. The guy be like, nah, it's fine. [00:48:48] Speaker A: They probably got a curfew in Central park, don't they? [00:48:51] Speaker B: I'm sure that there's like, officially it's closed at like 11 or something like that. But people go in there. I'm sure they only enforce the curfew on the individual. I'm sure that is left to the officer's discretion. Yeah, that's the word I was looking for. And speaking of officers discretion, Johnny, this officer has decided to put the curfew on this couple. [00:49:17] Speaker A: Yep. And it's an odd looking cop. Yeah, he's just like, oh, he's just following him. Also, we learned this gentleman's name is Andy. [00:49:23] Speaker B: Andy. [00:49:24] Speaker A: Andy. We know some Andes. [00:49:26] Speaker B: Yeah, we know a couple Andes. And this cop, just like, like maniac cop style, just like walks up to him and is literally maniac. Yeah, it's like, you having a good evening, Andy? And like he's revealed under a street light and he's, you know, Eddie Donbie, cop, zombie cop with a ripped skin that says, I beat my kids all over. [00:49:50] Speaker A: It's that. It's his dad. [00:49:51] Speaker B: It's his dad. It's Andy, and it's Andy and Eddie's dad. That spawn kill tattooed. I beat my kids all over. [00:49:58] Speaker A: And yeah, did Elizabeth Salander on Thought. [00:50:00] Speaker B: Thought he was doing a good job. And up those two boys life immeasurably. [00:50:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:08] Speaker B: And so, so Andy's like, what the. What the fuck? And he puts himself between him and his girlfriend and this cop's just like, ah, don't need to worry about the lady. I'm here for you. And he hacks Handy up and he's like, you've been a bad son. Bad son should be punished. And then, and then the. Andy's girlfriend starts trying to run away and the cop, the cop knows his name. Her name. Her name is Cindy. It's like, wait, don't go. Cindy. Hold on, hold on. I need you to. I need you to take a message. Tell Andy's brother I'm coming for him next. Oh, yeah. And then he says, now you can run. [00:50:45] Speaker A: And we all know that's Edward. [00:50:48] Speaker B: That is. That is Edward. Edward Nygma. Wait, no, just Eddie. Just Eddie. [00:50:53] Speaker A: I mean, I don't remember his last name. [00:50:55] Speaker B: Eddie. [00:50:56] Speaker A: Is it Williams? Andy Williams? Eddie. [00:50:59] Speaker B: I don't. I don't remember. That was a very long time ago that we've read the, the issues introducing those boys. [00:51:04] Speaker A: Absolutely, it was. And we're at the Scorch headquarters. An abandoned subway. [00:51:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:11] Speaker A: Wait, no, not really. [00:51:12] Speaker B: And Mark saying a warehouse, the second movie. Am I supposed to be impressed or what? [00:51:19] Speaker A: From the second movie. [00:51:20] Speaker B: You're never going to let me forget that, are you? [00:51:21] Speaker A: No, I won't. Because you were like so confident. [00:51:24] Speaker B: I was so confident. You're right. You're right. I was so confident. [00:51:28] Speaker A: I just think it's funny. I just think it's funny. Yeah. No, it's an abandoned warehouse. But it does have like. Does that Johnny 90s headquarters like Ninja Turtles vibes? [00:51:41] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like. Like the loft. Like the. [00:51:44] Speaker A: Yes. [00:51:45] Speaker B: The just like empty building downtown that no longer exists anymore because they're all multi million dollar lofts. Just kind of like that old school New York artist loft vibe. Right. Yeah. [00:51:58] Speaker A: Right, right. [00:51:59] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:52:00] Speaker A: Or Book of shadows. Blair Witch 2. [00:52:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:03] Speaker A: If you've ever seen it takes place in a giant abandoned warehouse on a loft. [00:52:06] Speaker B: But that's not. That's not in a. That's not in a. That's more in an industrial area. [00:52:10] Speaker A: Right, it's an industrial area. It's in the woods. [00:52:12] Speaker B: Yeah. I was about to say, I feel like that's an isolated warehouse in the middle of the. [00:52:16] Speaker A: It is, but the interior looks very similar. [00:52:19] Speaker B: Or, or if you've seen that sort of pseudo horror thriller film, Alphabet City, this has very, very much Alphabet City vibes. [00:52:29] Speaker A: Okay. [00:52:30] Speaker B: Alphabet City is about. About an artist who lives in a loft downtown in early 90s New York. I'm getting a little. I'm getting a little flirt vibes from Jessica Priest and Mark Rosen here. Johnny. [00:52:43] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:52:43] Speaker B: I don't know here. Am I not supposed to project? I think I might. I think I might be. [00:52:49] Speaker A: I mean, she's also canonically dressed in one of my favorite outfits, a white cutoff bonk. But Mark definitely has nothing to do with Natalie Portman's outfit in Star Wars Episode 2 that I saw when I was in 10th grade. [00:53:03] Speaker B: Definitely not. [00:53:04] Speaker A: Definitely not nothing to do with it. Nothing. [00:53:08] Speaker B: It looks like Mark Rosen has some shoulder pads in his button up shirt here. He looks like 80s cocaine. [00:53:17] Speaker A: He does. Yeah. That's a cool shirt too. He's got it all unbuttoned. He's feeling him. [00:53:21] Speaker B: Oh, he's, he's. He's feeling himself. [00:53:22] Speaker A: Yeah, he's back. Maybe that's. [00:53:24] Speaker B: Maybe that's why I'm getting the vibe, Johnny, because it's like he's got his groove back. And Jessica Priest is put together her life again after. After a whole bunch of stuff. You know, of all of the. All of the shoehorned Lovett stories that we've had smashed into Spawn from time to time, this is one that I don't think I would have a problem. Problem with. [00:53:44] Speaker A: I don't think I would either. I think it would. I kind of got those vibes too. I was giving you hard time. I did get that. I was like, are they flirting? [00:53:50] Speaker B: I like how the big. [00:53:52] Speaker A: I can see it. Yeah, I can see it. [00:53:54] Speaker B: And Jessica Priest is like, I mean, we can make it look like the old place if you want to. And Mark's like, all right, you know, I'm not complaining. This is awesome. And then Jessica's like, shut up. Hold on. Do you hear that? And Mark's like, huh? What? And Jessica's like, into action. They go to the corner, one of the corners of the loft, and they see Kurt, just Kurt by himself. And they're like, what? What do you want? And so they, Mark and Jessica both, you know, suit up real, real quick. And Kurt's just like, I can't be here for very long. I can't be separated from Daniel for. For this long. But he's in trouble. My brother's in trouble. [00:54:30] Speaker A: And Jessica told you shouldn't let the score. She's like, yo, I know. I didn't want to leave him. [00:54:34] Speaker B: I like that. That's Jessica's first response is like, I told you it was a dumb movie. [00:54:39] Speaker A: He's like, I didn't want to, but he wouldn't listen. God damn it. [00:54:42] Speaker B: Yeah. And Kurt's like, and now it's like, we around. And now we're finding out Jessica. Jessica. Ever magnanimous is like, okay, what can we do? And then we cut to less than an hour ago. [00:54:54] Speaker A: That's the additional script by Todd McFarland. [00:54:56] Speaker B: What the. Less than an hour ago? [00:54:57] Speaker A: Yes. [00:54:58] Speaker B: Would. Wouldn't it be 45 minutes ago? No. 40. 43 minutes. [00:55:01] Speaker A: 47. [00:55:02] Speaker B: 42Nd. 47. [00:55:04] Speaker A: 42.5. [00:55:09] Speaker B: We see Daniel walking into this church arguing with Kurt. Obviously. Obviously, this is about them having left the scorched. And Daniel's just pissed and just, like, swiping his, like, be gone, be gone. And he just. He does this in front of the entire congregation as soon as he walks in. And then just like, father, are you okay? Because Daniel has gone back to priest. [00:55:38] Speaker A: And he says, you look troubled, son. Haunted. [00:55:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. And the other priest there that welcomes Daniel in is like, when was your last confession? Daniel's like, it's been a while. And he's like, well, hey, guess what? We're going right now. [00:55:56] Speaker A: When was the last time you told someone that you masturbated? [00:56:00] Speaker B: That's. That's. What. How many Hail Marys do you have to. How many? Because I guess you would just say, I have sinned. And I don't know what the contrition for each of the different sins is. And I don't know if time since your last confession, like, increases the number of. Goes around the rosary. So Daniel is doing his. Doing his confession. He's telling the Father of his sins, and he's just kind of. Kind of working it out, kind of maybe using this as a little therapy session, like. Like, I don't know if that's an abusive confession, using it as a therapy session, but. [00:56:37] Speaker A: And what else would it be? I've never done it. I've never done a confession. I have no idea what it's like. [00:56:42] Speaker B: I did it. We did it as a class for, like, we had religion class every day. Going to a Catholic school. School. So one of the periods was, get out your religion book and we'll learn about Jesus. And, like, they taught us how to do confession. And so the only time I ever did confession was during that part. And it was 24 kids that had to get through confession in an hour. So they were like, get in. Say a sin, and he'll tell you a thing. And Then get out and go do it. And so you just had to, you just had to tell him that you sinned and kind of choose one of the sins that you've done. [00:57:17] Speaker A: Do you remember what sin you told him? [00:57:18] Speaker B: I know. I do not. [00:57:19] Speaker A: Oh, darn. [00:57:20] Speaker B: I do not. Yeah. You know, not the best person to ask on what typically goes on in the confession booth, but at a certain thing. [00:57:27] Speaker A: I know about confession booths, I learned from ghosts. Satanized music video. [00:57:33] Speaker B: Blasphemy. Heresy. [00:57:35] Speaker A: Heresy. Masturbate. [00:57:37] Speaker B: Or isn't there a. Isn't there a Juge Mafuat's confessional booth in Highlander? Doesn't Clancy Brown walk into the, the confessional booth and kill the priest? [00:57:50] Speaker A: That's like kind of a staple. [00:57:53] Speaker B: It is, it is kind of. I mean, also to bring it back to our earlier conversation, Terrifier 3 does have a confessional scene. [00:58:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:58:02] Speaker B: Where Art kills the priest and then kills the confessor. But you know, along those lines, at some point Daniel's like, hey, Father, are you still listening? Father, are you listening? And then just gets sprayed with some blood. And I like that. The, the blood splatter on Daniel's face conforms to the, the grid of the screen between confessor and priest. And there's just glowing eyes behind the screen and it says the Father is gone. [00:58:31] Speaker A: And so Kilgore suits up, starts to get his hot goop out. [00:58:34] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we see it is the other haunt, Johnny, and her name is. [00:58:40] Speaker A: Roo, which is a cool name. [00:58:42] Speaker B: Yeah, really good. And we see that not only is the father dead, but she dispatched all of those congregants before she even got to him. So she is just dead bodies everywhere. Her hands are completely covered in blood. They're just. This is a great two page spread of Haunt V Haunt, actually. [00:58:58] Speaker A: So I think this page is the Todd McFarlane dialogue. This seems so Todd McFarlane. The, like the, the voiceover, like the narration. [00:59:06] Speaker B: Oh yeah. [00:59:06] Speaker A: Instinctually hot underestimate. Understands what that means with the ramifications of that claim could lead to. There should be two haunts existing at the same time. It weakens them both disrupts their bio levels. So now one of them has to take the power from the other any way they can. [00:59:21] Speaker B: Yeah, any way they can is very Todd McFarlane. [00:59:23] Speaker A: Just like the power levels and like bio. [00:59:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:59:26] Speaker A: Levels. It's like. Wait, what? They never mentioned this before. Yeah, and he always does that. [00:59:31] Speaker B: So they, they start fighting in this church and it's. It does not go well for haunt so far. Johnny and Kurt. Kurt Appears and he's like, daniel, what are you doing? Just goddamn killer. What do you don't back. And Haunt says, no, not until I find out how she was created and what she knows. And then at that point, she just like continues to. And then she gives him the classic electrodeath from Daredevil. Just right through the chest. [01:00:01] Speaker A: Yep. [01:00:02] Speaker B: But notably the sharp thing that goes through Haunt's body somehow doesn't go through the skin of his clothing. [01:00:08] Speaker A: Yes. [01:00:08] Speaker B: And then that's when Kurt just is like, ah. And runs away and he's like, got. Got to get scorched. Gotta go. [01:00:14] Speaker A: Gotta get scorched. [01:00:15] Speaker B: Because if Daniel dies and so too will Kurt's soul. Oh, man. Ru is just fucking up Haunt's place. Just all over the place. And then she's about to give him a killing blow and she's bound up with all of this red, like, weird. I don't even know how to. [01:00:31] Speaker A: Red Necroplasm. [01:00:32] Speaker B: Yeah, kind of like red necroplasm. And it just like drags her into a vortex and then she disappears. Like right before Jessica Priest and the scorched appear on this scene. Jessica gets to say, damn it, she's gone. [01:00:48] Speaker A: She's like, we're going to need to help Daniel here. Medieval. If you Mark's got any suggestions. [01:00:52] Speaker B: Yeah. And Eddie. Eddie Young. Young Eddie says, where'd that other Haunt go to? And Old Eddie says, looked like Hell's doing. Maybe Queen Nick. And then from there we go to elsewhere. And R is. [01:01:05] Speaker A: There's Rue is like, who the hell are you people? [01:01:08] Speaker B: Yeah. And we turn the page and it is the viscerator and Bishop. Yes. Richly adorned in vestments that we have not seen them. We haven't seen them put their courts together yet, but apparently they are ruling over a court. And they're like, we all. We all want these fuckers dead. We are all too weak to do this. Apart, but together. Ape together strong. As they say. [01:01:36] Speaker A: Apes together strong. [01:01:37] Speaker B: The only way to get to the point that they can defeat these people is for them to become partners. And then we get scorched. [01:01:43] Speaker A: There's Rue, Bishop and Viscery are all just sitting there. [01:01:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:01:48] Speaker A: And scorch Skull to end the issue. [01:01:50] Speaker B: Oh, man. So good. And then we get another spawning grounds with some fan art. Johnny. And it's all Jessica Priest fan art. Because we know Thomas Healy is a sucker for Jessica Priest. Yeah, that's some good stuff. There's some good stuff. Like there's an anime inspired one. There's, you know, Jessica both with weapons and Then one with Jessica, just with probably her most vicious weapons of all. Her fists. [01:02:17] Speaker A: I thought you'd say her brass. [01:02:19] Speaker B: Those aren't weapons, Johnny. Okay, this is. [01:02:22] Speaker A: This is an awesome cowboy Carter. In that top left, one little Beyonce. [01:02:27] Speaker B: Little Beyonce. Oh, single. All the single sunnies, all the single sponies, all the single Spawnies. All the single spon. [01:02:35] Speaker A: That's the Beyonce you pull. [01:02:36] Speaker B: I don't. I don't know very much Beyonce, Johnny. [01:02:39] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know either. [01:02:40] Speaker B: Not gonna lie. She didn't do any new jack swings. So I'm done with her. I'm done with her. Ms. Jackson's my spot. I like that. This one in the lower right gives multiple credits for multiple people having worked on it. And that's awesome. [01:02:59] Speaker A: Yeah, and she's got the classic knife that the action figure comes with. [01:03:01] Speaker B: The. The like heavy metal 2000 knife. [01:03:06] Speaker A: Yep, that's one of the ones that comes with the action figure, Johnny. [01:03:09] Speaker B: There's no way you're sharpening that knife at all. The little overhang you'd never be able to get. Need more Sponge Universe. Always. Don't miss these ongoing titles again then. Yeah, then we get the Image Classics ad. And then we get the Diablo 4 ad. It's the toy ad on the back. [01:03:29] Speaker A: Diablo 4D4. I'm halfway through the season. [01:03:32] Speaker B: Hell yeah. And that is scorched 43, Johnny. [01:03:35] Speaker A: That's scorched 43. You know, it's not that far off. David. He's done Call of Duty. They have these Diablo 4 ads. McFarlane does Diablo 4 toys down the line. I mean, Diablo 4 is gonna go for a while. These Diablo 3 like had like, you know, like a 30 seasons. So there could be some spot armor that comes out in Diablo at some point. That's a possibility. [01:03:57] Speaker B: I mean it is hell based. It is much, much shorter of a walk to get Call of Duty. [01:04:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:04:05] Speaker B: Although I guess, you know, Commando. Yeah, yeah, it would be. It would be nice. I don't does. [01:04:12] Speaker A: I just love that there's a video game out there where the cutscenes feature Bill Clinton and in the multiplayer you can play as Spawn. This makes me happy. [01:04:23] Speaker B: We need every little bit of happiness we can get, Johnny, in this day and age. Does. Does Blizzard play well with those kind of things though? Because. [01:04:30] Speaker A: Yeah, okay, yeah, they do. Activision Blizzard does. Activision Blizzard is the same company now. So technically Call of Duty is the same company as Blizzard. Okay, so video. Like they have crossover. They had an anime crossover with Diablo 4 already. I can't remember which Anime. They had. They have their own properties. Crossover. Like there's World of Warcraft armor. There's Starcraft armor you can get. But they've crossed over a few things, so I think. Yeah, they do. [01:04:54] Speaker B: Nice. [01:04:55] Speaker A: Not. Not on everything, but, you know, on some stuff. It's not like Fortnite up in here. You can't play as like, you know, it's not like Magic Griffin versus Megan 2.0 or whatever. [01:05:06] Speaker B: It's not like Magic the Gathering. [01:05:08] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. There was. [01:05:09] Speaker B: There was a. There was a comic that I saw earlier of. It was basically like somebody at a comic convention. And they're like, this is an amazing Magic the Gathering convention. [01:05:20] Speaker A: That's funny. [01:05:20] Speaker B: I love your Magic the Gathering costumes. [01:05:23] Speaker A: Yeah. Pretty much anything counts. [01:05:25] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. It's wild. It's going to be so annoying to go to. I mean, for people who play competitively, it's got to be annoying to know which. Which series you're allowed to use for your competitions now or not. [01:05:37] Speaker A: Yeah. That's why I stick to Star Wars Unlimited, David. And that's what they'll never have in magic. They'll never get Star Wars. They got their own game, baby. [01:05:45] Speaker B: There's a. [01:05:45] Speaker A: And hot take. The gameplay of Star Wars Unlimited is better than Magic the Gathering, I think. Magic the Gathering I think is a little clunky. [01:05:54] Speaker B: It is. It is awfully clunky. [01:05:56] Speaker A: A little dated. [01:05:57] Speaker B: It's. And it's one of those things that you have to, like, have encyclopedic knowledge of it to be any good at it anymore, and that's just exhausting. Yeah. There's a guy at work that plays competitive Yu Gi. Oh. And he says, like, he's. He's like, I actually really hate playing this game, but I've played it for so long and I have friends in it that I have to keep playing it. He. He recommends nobody gets into playing Yu Gi. Oh. [01:06:23] Speaker A: Yeah. It's always seems like a weird game to me. [01:06:26] Speaker B: But. And apparent. Apparently it's a small fandom. He says that there's probably like 10,000 competitive players worldwide. So. [01:06:33] Speaker A: Okay. [01:06:34] Speaker B: But ultimately he does like it. It's one of those things that he likes it, but he. So he gets the chance to complain about it. But he did get the chance to play a Blue Eyes white dragon not too long ago. And that was exciting. So that is that. That and Magic or Jug of Greed are like the two cards. I know. [01:06:54] Speaker A: Well, David. [01:06:55] Speaker B: What. [01:06:55] Speaker A: I know these two issues of Spawn were pretty good. [01:06:59] Speaker B: Yeah, they were pretty good. And Johnny We've had a lot of. A lot of. A lot of dog interruptions today, so we're gonna need to rate some puppies to erase that. [01:07:11] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. First up today with kingspawn47. It's kind of the end of the Wraith storyline, but it's kind of its own little enclosed like morality tale. Yildreasona's art still just killing. It just got that weight and like, I don't know, like everyone feels like an action figure or something. Like it's got weight and like depth to it. That's really cool. It's just a fun. I mean, it's a fun. I get fun. It's really dark, but it's. It's good. If this is what King Swan is gonna be like, It's. I really liked it. I liked Spawn on his own, fighting through the abyss, getting up there and just having failed completely. But he's like. Well, it. And gets his. His revenge the best way he can. [01:07:56] Speaker B: Yeah, that happens a while. I like it when it happens. [01:07:59] Speaker A: Pretty grim, but really great. [01:08:02] Speaker B: Nice. Yeah. [01:08:03] Speaker A: I'm gonna give it 4.5. Plucking out your own eyeballs. [01:08:09] Speaker B: Oh, boy. That's a job somebody else should do. [01:08:14] Speaker A: Yeah. That shouldn't be your job. [01:08:15] Speaker B: That should be. That should be the crows. The crows should pick your eyeballs out and you shouldn't have to do it yourself. [01:08:21] Speaker A: Yep. [01:08:22] Speaker B: Could you imagine? Oh. Ah. I stuff. Ice stuff. Gets me Johnny, every time. [01:08:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:08:29] Speaker B: Oh, boy. It's fucking good. It's great. I love this Yildirae Sinar art. It's just like. Not only is it nasty and grimy, but like just this. This page of the Wraith making soup is so awesome. It's like he didn't. He didn't need to give us this awesome cutting the. Cutting the carrots, making the soup, but he did. And it makes just the blackness that it goes to that much. That much more impactful. I love that it's basically self contained. As I said. It's a great jumping on port for. For King Spawn now. I love it. [01:09:07] Speaker A: I love it. [01:09:08] Speaker B: I'm gonna give it five bone swords because that thing is wonderful. Wicked. [01:09:13] Speaker A: I love the bone sword. [01:09:15] Speaker B: Love a bone sword. [01:09:16] Speaker A: Yeah. Cool. And next up, we had scorch 43. [01:09:21] Speaker B: Yes indeed. [01:09:23] Speaker A: Scorch is just been this fun ongoing story has been building and building and like evolving and it's just been really cool to see the journey of it. Love the characters. Steven Sevia, always killing it. And we've got like multiple balls in the air. It's bouncing real well. Like they've got Haunt going off on his own. We've got the cop, Eddie's father, coming after him. It's just in a really good place right now. I'm really enjoying it. And like I said, Stephen Segovia, unsung hero of the score. She's been doing it the whole time. [01:09:51] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man, it's so good. [01:09:53] Speaker A: It's so good. Just so clean and action packed. [01:09:57] Speaker B: And the muscular churro under Andy and Eddie's dad's skin where he's ripped it off is just. [01:10:03] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm going to also give this 4.5. I'm giving it 4.5. Bloody confession booths. [01:10:10] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Hell yeah. I. I agree so much, Johnny. John Layman is doing magic in this book and Steven Segovia's art is just like, it's, it's just right there. It's what, it's what, what he needs. They're, they're a great team and they put together a great story and there's just all these threads. I love that the viscera is still a going concern. I like that the, the partnership between Viscerator and Bishop is still a going concern. I like that, like, totally forgot about Eddie and Andy's dad being resurrected like six issues ago. It's just so much, so much fun and so good. I am gonna give it four and a half swag filled Mark Rosens because, man, I love the swag. Our boy had it rough for far too long and seeing him get his groove back is excellent. Yeah. [01:11:08] Speaker A: Happy for him. Awesome. [01:11:10] Speaker B: That's his puppies rated. [01:11:12] Speaker A: That's rated. [01:11:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, Johnny, you know what one of the best things about Spawn is all. [01:11:21] Speaker A: The friends we made along the way. [01:11:22] Speaker B: Hell yeah. It's almost as if that the destination or the journey is the destination. Right? So, yeah. So we've got an embarrassment of riches today of potential friends to shout out from all of these spawning grounds. So we had to make the tough decision to decide first between a Spawn related or a she spawn related shout out. And well, Jessica Priest is our guy, Johnny. As you said earlier, she's one of our guys. And so today we would like to shout out at Marv Delmundo from spawning grounds of scorched 43. And he, as it says on his Instagram, is freelance artist. And holy shit. He does everything. [01:12:08] Speaker A: Yeah, everything. [01:12:10] Speaker B: He's got. He's got a fair amount of spawn. He's got a real nice clown, like cover that I think he might have Done for that contest a while ago. If there is a property you like, he has images of it on his Instagram. Like, he's got fucking Carmen San Diego dudes. It's awesome. And it's. It's good art. It's great. It's wonderful. So give him a follow. [01:12:35] Speaker A: Yeah, give him a follow. Give him a follow. Give us a follow. We are regarding Swan Pod. You can reach us on Instagram. You can reach us on email at. Regarding spawnpodmail.com I would ask your question. This week will be. It shall be. [01:12:57] Speaker B: How long has it been since your last confession? [01:13:00] Speaker A: Yeah, how long has it been since your last confession? No, my question this week will be, what movie did the Ninja Turtles move into the south island, in your opinion? [01:13:11] Speaker B: That's an easily googleable answer, Johnny. [01:13:15] Speaker A: Oh, that doesn't count. [01:13:16] Speaker B: You need. It needs to be. It needs to be more engaging. Like, okay, I want your confession. [01:13:21] Speaker A: Give me your last. Give me your spawn confessions. Did you forget to get an issue? Did you spend all your savings on Spawn figures? I want your spawn confessions. [01:13:33] Speaker B: I was gonna. I was gonna say maybe is David stupid for having seen Turtles three more than Turtles two, but. Yeah. [01:13:38] Speaker A: Or that. [01:13:39] Speaker B: Or that. Or that. [01:13:40] Speaker A: My spawn confession is. I have a lot of ideas. [01:13:42] Speaker B: Red Spawn, Johnny. That would also be my. [01:13:45] Speaker A: That would also probably a lot of people's Spawn confession is. [01:13:48] Speaker B: Especially now with. [01:13:49] Speaker A: With all the. [01:13:50] Speaker B: All the Spawn there. There are several series that I haven't even started yet. [01:13:54] Speaker A: Yep. [01:13:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:13:56] Speaker A: But yeah, so let me know while you're letting us know on the Internet. Go say hi to Lonnie Bones. He does our music. [01:14:03] Speaker B: Yes, he does. [01:14:04] Speaker A: You can get it anywhere you get music. Lonnie Bones. Lonnie with a Y. [01:14:08] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. Not the Canadian way. No way. No way. And while you're on the Internet, like us, like our. Like our. Like our podcast, you listen to this episode. Give it a little heart. Just wherever. Wherever you're getting podcast, review us. Give us a review. That would be awesome. Tell your friends, family, co workers, neighbors, enemies, acquaintances. [01:14:29] Speaker A: Tell your priest. [01:14:30] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:14:30] Speaker A: When you confess to your priest. I haven't listened to Respawn. [01:14:33] Speaker B: That would be a wonderful way to get. [01:14:38] Speaker A: Get a listener. Be like, well, Father, I've sinned because I've listened to 20 episodes of Respawn last week. [01:14:44] Speaker B: You get a. The priest then has to go and listen to them to see how. How much of a punishment he has. [01:14:49] Speaker A: To give them inadvertently gets into Spawn. [01:14:52] Speaker B: And then. And then part of it, part of their acts of contrition that they Give out later is you have to listen to episode 156 of regarding Spawn. The world's best spawn. Puck. With Johnny and David. [01:15:03] Speaker A: Amen. [01:15:06] Speaker B: That would be awesome. [01:15:07] Speaker A: Yeah. Let them know. [01:15:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:15:08] Speaker A: Get the word out. [01:15:09] Speaker B: Tell your priest. Hey, I've known some pretty groovy priests. One of my. One of my favorite authors of all time, I've learned about from a priest. I learned about Little Shop of Horrors from the same priest. [01:15:19] Speaker A: My uncle was a priest. He was cool. [01:15:21] Speaker B: Nice. They're not all bad. [01:15:24] Speaker A: They're not. [01:15:25] Speaker B: They're not. They're just. [01:15:27] Speaker A: They're not all good either. [01:15:29] Speaker B: That's. That's the other side of the coin. Not the same side of the same coin, but. [01:15:35] Speaker A: No, that's right. Two sides of a different coin. [01:15:37] Speaker B: Yeah, the different sides of the same coin. [01:15:39] Speaker A: Different sides, the same coin. Something with a coin. [01:15:43] Speaker B: Something about Judas Iscariot's payment for turning in Jesus. [01:15:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:15:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:15:51] Speaker A: What would be really meant of us, David, who would be to read some more issues with Spawn for next week? [01:15:57] Speaker B: So why don't we drop some coin on a couple more issues? And, Johnny, why don't we do some issues that I have zero problem with dropping money on? I don't even see how much they cost anymore. I see them and I'm like, I'm getting those two. [01:16:10] Speaker A: I'll invest in these guys. [01:16:11] Speaker B: Yeah, why don't we do a Little Rhett City 15 and Salmon Twitch case files number 15. [01:16:17] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. The case files is heating up. Yeah, we're getting to the hump of the story. The main meat of it, I feel like. So that's really exciting. [01:16:27] Speaker B: This is. [01:16:28] Speaker A: Rat City's always firing on all cylinders. [01:16:30] Speaker B: Based on the issue of Sam and Twitch that came out last week, we've got maybe this and two more issues of this story, since the most recent issue is part one of the next series. [01:16:42] Speaker A: All right. [01:16:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm real excited about that. So find yourself some copies of these Salmon Twitch in rat cities number 15s and read them. Come listen to us in a week, man. [01:16:53] Speaker A: Do it. [01:16:54] Speaker B: They're good issues to cover. Well, Johnny, this has been fantastic. Best Halloween ever. [01:17:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:17:05] Speaker B: Yeah. So I think I'm left with nothing to say, but may the Scorch be with you. [01:17:11] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:17:12] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:17:13] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [01:17:15] Speaker B: I was just thinking about it earlier, Johnny. If I were to get knuckle tattoos, it would have to be Hell, yeah. [01:17:22] Speaker A: It would have to be Hell, yeah. [01:17:23] Speaker B: It would have to be Hell, yeah. [01:17:24] Speaker A: Mine would be Teenage mutant Ninja Turtles 2 rules, TMNT 2 R, U, L, E, Z. [01:17:34] Speaker B: You're going to add a couple of. [01:17:35] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm going to add a couple of knuckles. What's the problem? [01:17:38] Speaker B: Just do rlz. [01:17:40] Speaker A: Yeah, rlz. [01:17:41] Speaker B: Right. [01:17:42] Speaker A: TMTT rules, too. [01:17:44] Speaker B: And then you could, you could, you could flash that, and then I could be like, hell, ye. Yeah. [01:17:47] Speaker A: TMNT2 rules. [01:17:49] Speaker B: Hell yeah. I like the, the sausage Nunchucks. [01:17:55] Speaker A: Yeah, that's always good. [01:17:56] Speaker B: I always going back and revisiting it every once in a while, because that's one of the things that I will rewatch is the turtles movies. Haven't rewatched Turtles in time since I was like, 12, though, so. But they should. [01:18:09] Speaker A: I'm gonna have to correct you again. [01:18:10] Speaker B: They should have just gone Bebop and Rocksteady. Why did they do the two? What? What do you mean? You have to correct me again when I. [01:18:18] Speaker A: Hold on, hold on, hold on. [01:18:20] Speaker B: There might be pepperonis or salami, but that's a type. [01:18:23] Speaker A: No, no, no, no. Not about that. [01:18:24] Speaker B: Oh, isn't. Isn't three called Turtles in Time? [01:18:28] Speaker A: No, that's the name of a video. [01:18:30] Speaker B: Oh. [01:18:31] Speaker A: It's just called Teenage mutant Ninja Turtles 3. [01:18:33] Speaker B: Oh. I always thought it had a subtitle like Lost in Time or something like. Oh, dang. [01:18:39] Speaker A: No subtitle. [01:18:40] Speaker B: Oh, dang. Oh, dang. [01:18:42] Speaker A: No, check it. Double checking. Ah, it didn't in the theater, but upon home video release, it was subtitled Turtles in Time. Well, so there you go. I'm, I'm wrong. Well, well, actually, I'm not wrong. [01:18:55] Speaker B: I guess, I guess we're both right. [01:18:56] Speaker A: We're both right. [01:18:57] Speaker B: Yeah, we average out to both being right. A lot of average. [01:19:01] Speaker A: I, I, I just remember that I would get confused too, because there's also video game clothes. Turtles in Time. Yeah, it was really fun. [01:19:07] Speaker B: Yeah, that was the, Was that the one that was the multiplayer cabinet that they had, or was that the. [01:19:12] Speaker A: It was the sequel to the. It was the second of the big arcade ones. [01:19:16] Speaker B: Nice. Hell yeah. [01:19:19] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [01:19:19] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:19:20] Speaker A: Cowabunga. Tubular. What do they say? What else do they say? [01:19:24] Speaker B: The, the pizza. Pizza. Pizza.
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