Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: You have a deal. Now let them out.
We'll be taking the kid as well.
Good evening and welcome to the Malibu. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast.
I'm your co host, John Fisher.
[00:00:45] Speaker B: And I'm your co host, David Williams. And it's Johnny. It's.
It's. It's. I'm very excited because we're doing the show.
[00:00:54] Speaker A: You're very excited?
[00:00:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:57] Speaker A: Why?
[00:00:58] Speaker B: Because I get to talk to my friend about Spawn today.
[00:01:00] Speaker A: Yeah, I know.
[00:01:01] Speaker B: Yeah, it's been. It's been a.
[00:01:03] Speaker A: You've done it 167 plus fucking times.
[00:01:06] Speaker B: Yeah. That doesn't mean that I'm any less excited.
[00:01:09] Speaker A: All right, that's okay. I'm excited too.
[00:01:11] Speaker B: Yeah, it was a. It was a busy day and this is just like a nice little easy week.
[00:01:20] Speaker A: Yeah, it's been busy. That's holidays right into the busyness of the year.
It's all busy.
[00:01:27] Speaker B: Yeah, everything's busy.
We're busy. You're busy.
[00:01:31] Speaker A: Spawn's busy. Spawn's Tobias is busy. Javi's busy.
[00:01:36] Speaker B: Todd McFarlane is busy.
[00:01:38] Speaker A: Evidently.
[00:01:41] Speaker B: Jason Bloom is busy making the movie.
[00:01:44] Speaker A: Cricket. Put in a cricket noise.
[00:01:47] Speaker B: Put in the noise at cricket.
[00:01:49] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know about that.
[00:01:53] Speaker B: Look at. One of these days we'll get some news about how it's not happening, I guess.
[00:01:59] Speaker A: I don't know. It's a tough nut to crack because it depends on the budget they want to go for respawn can be anything. You can make a Spawn movie that starred Sam and Twitch. That would be awesome.
[00:02:08] Speaker B: It could be that you could do the.
[00:02:10] Speaker A: You know, the classic Barely in it, like.
[00:02:12] Speaker B: Yeah, the classic horror. Low budget. You don't see the monster for any time because it's expensive.
Or.
[00:02:19] Speaker A: They can make it all with AI.
[00:02:22] Speaker B: Don't give them any ideas, Johnny.
[00:02:24] Speaker A: Oh, they're. I'm sure they're working on it. I had a YouTube ad that was all AI actors. And I was like, I wish I would have videotaped it. There's a saying.
[00:02:32] Speaker B: There's a progressive TV ad that's literally all A.I.
[00:02:36] Speaker A: It says. It.
[00:02:37] Speaker B: It says you're gonna take.
[00:02:38] Speaker A: They have those subtitles right now. They're gonna take those away soon.
[00:02:41] Speaker B: Yeah, I believe it.
[00:02:42] Speaker A: It's the one with all the animals, right? It's like Zootopia.
[00:02:45] Speaker B: Yeah, it's bad. It's not a good.
[00:02:47] Speaker A: It's real bad.
[00:02:47] Speaker B: It's very.
[00:02:48] Speaker A: Tell. Human being did not put intention into it.
[00:02:51] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. That's the worst. I want. I want to see. I want to see the fuck ups. I want to see the, the whoops. I want to see the, the element of not harvest it.
[00:03:02] Speaker A: To get a llama, put it in a suit and get it behind the wheel of a fucking car.
[00:03:07] Speaker B: Or just like fucking, you know, just like a crude 2D animation or just like rotoscope. It just do some fucking rotoscoping of a goddamn llama and put her behind a car.
[00:03:17] Speaker A: See, progressives not that confusing because they just have flow and they have. The other guy.
Yeah, the blonde guy.
[00:03:25] Speaker B: Yeah, whatever his name is.
[00:03:26] Speaker A: Capital One confuses me because they got celebrities and then they got the Capital One guy and like who. And now they're mixing them. There's one where Samuel Jackson talks the Capital One guy and I'm like, they're on the same level. You can't have both.
[00:03:42] Speaker B: I just realized I haven't seen a Capital One commercial in a very long time.
[00:03:46] Speaker A: Really?
[00:03:47] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't think since like the last Avengers movie.
[00:03:50] Speaker A: What?
[00:03:51] Speaker B: Yeah. How did. How have I missed out on Capital One commercials? Whatever. I still missed.
[00:03:56] Speaker A: You don't watch enough football, evidently.
[00:03:58] Speaker B: I watch zero football.
[00:03:59] Speaker A: So not even with the Bears winning.
[00:04:02] Speaker B: Nope, nope. Johnny, here's the thing.
[00:04:06] Speaker A: I wear my Bears hoodie, bitch.
I'm on board.
[00:04:09] Speaker B: I'm. I'm excited for the Bears. But football, I hate football. Football is the most boring sport to me to watch.
[00:04:16] Speaker A: Oh my God.
[00:04:17] Speaker B: Because per, I've got it into football, per, like three and a half, four hour game, there is like 12 total minutes of action. And it's just like a lot of.
[00:04:27] Speaker A: Talking and a lot of commercials.
[00:04:30] Speaker B: A lot.
At least, at least with baseball there's a rhythm. So with the down.
[00:04:35] Speaker A: Give me a break about you talking about long ass games like nothing happens. Fucking baseball. That's why they're both beautiful because you put them on and you can talk to a friend or do something else or have like a, you know, a beer or a mocktail if you prefer. Whatever you want and just chill out.
[00:04:53] Speaker B: Maybe, maybe a beautiful Coca Cola.
[00:04:56] Speaker A: Yeah, with a AI generated fucking polar bear.
[00:05:01] Speaker B: You better not hear my polar be.
[00:05:03] Speaker A: We're not here to talk about AI generated stuff. We're talking about stuff with artists.
[00:05:07] Speaker B: We are here to try to get money from Coca Cola though.
[00:05:11] Speaker A: Absolutely, absolutely. I take that money. I used to love the Coca Cola.
[00:05:15] Speaker B: I mean, I mean if we could get some of that if we had.
[00:05:17] Speaker A: A Coca Cola polar bear.
[00:05:19] Speaker B: Yeah, me too. I had a collection of Coca Cola polar bears. I had a Coca Cola polar bear nighty.
[00:05:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I had a, in glass bottle Coca Cola that I bought, I bought two of them at Silver Dollar City and went in sixth grade. My friend Andy Gardner and I drank one and I was like, this is so good. I'm gonna save it. I saved it for like months and finally I got a cold and drank it. It was great.
[00:05:40] Speaker B: Oh, nice, nice. My dad would do that a lot. He would, he would buy the, the weird special issue bottles of Coca Cola and then just never drink them. And so I had to empty like 60 bottles of 25 year old coca Cola when we were cleaning out his stuff.
[00:06:02] Speaker A: Oh my God.
[00:06:03] Speaker B: We took a, we took a couple of sweets.
[00:06:04] Speaker A: Glass bottles.
[00:06:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Of the glass bottles. You should have sold that, Johnny.
[00:06:09] Speaker A: People are into buying like old food.
[00:06:12] Speaker B: I, I know, but the process of going through the action of actually having to unload them for money is way more than I.
[00:06:21] Speaker A: And then it becomes yours. And then you're that guy that has a bunch of. He has to sell.
[00:06:25] Speaker B: Yeah. So selling stuff for the birds.
If I, if I feel it deserves to continue in this world beyond me, it will be free to whoever comes across it first. I do not need to recoup anything from it because I guarantee you I've already sucked all of the value out of it. That's the way I live my life, Johnny.
[00:06:43] Speaker A: I, I, I kind of agree with that. When I moved, I gave away a lot of stuff.
[00:06:47] Speaker B: Like if it, if it's, if it's of no value to me, then there's no potential value in it for me to try to get out of it. Other than, you know, I gave away.
[00:06:56] Speaker A: Like a, it wasn't a long box, it was like a half box full of comic books that I'd read.
[00:07:00] Speaker B: I, I was clearing out some stuff and I had like a giant moving box full of comics that I just threw it in the alley and 20 minutes later it was gone.
[00:07:10] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah, exactly. And those will live on. It's kind of nice. Yeah. Most I did with some board games when I moved too.
[00:07:17] Speaker B: Yeah, it's, it's fantastic.
It's freeing.
[00:07:21] Speaker A: It is freeing. It's very freeing. I see people that are burdened with stuff and it's just disturbing.
[00:07:27] Speaker B: We're too, we're too, I mean, we do make too much trash. But we are afraid of calling our trash what it is trash.
[00:07:36] Speaker A: And getting it has value to someone else. That's great. Or they can throw it away.
[00:07:40] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't, I don't need it.
[00:07:42] Speaker A: You might have changed someone's life with a Box of comics, David. You never fucking know.
[00:07:47] Speaker B: I hope somebody enjoyed the hell out of it.
[00:07:48] Speaker A: They might have found our podcast because of that.
[00:07:51] Speaker B: I didn't throw in any Spawns there.
[00:07:53] Speaker A: Of course not.
[00:07:54] Speaker B: Why would we?
[00:07:54] Speaker A: Because we are respawn regarding Spawn, where each week we're bringing two issues from Spawn's universe. Except when we don't.
It's been a while. We had like three weeks of don'ts. Yeah, because we had a violator. We had a day off because we deserve days off for New Year's. And we had a Tom Christmas.
[00:08:12] Speaker B: So.
Yeah, dang right.
[00:08:15] Speaker A: It's been three don'ts in a row. Yeah, well, we're not connecting four because we're doing a two issue episode. We're back to our regular format.
[00:08:23] Speaker B: That was a nice. That was a nice tie in with the board games there.
[00:08:26] Speaker A: They feel so long ago. They feel so long ago. The holidays, they're still affecting us.
[00:08:31] Speaker B: So long ago, but also just like yesterday.
[00:08:34] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:08:35] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[00:08:35] Speaker A: So we are reading back to Westerns Deadly Tales, the Gunslinger number nine, which is.
Can I just say, it's a fucking like masterpiece. I love it. I hadn't read Spawn in a while, I will admit. A new Spawn in a long time.
As you can tell by the episodes we did. But man, this was really good.
[00:08:57] Speaker B: Oh man, it's so good.
[00:08:58] Speaker A: And Gunslinger46 was just a fucking hoot. And it's just.
It's just what I expected. And it just scratched that like. Okay. It is crazy. I'm so glad these two books exist because Dal at chapter challengers asked me, is there an EW2 gunslinger's books? I was like. I grabbed him by his suit and I said yes, because Tom McFarland has his reigns on one of them. That's cool. And it is its thing. But like the other one's what you want from something called Gunslinger.
[00:09:30] Speaker B: True, true. You gotta. You gotta have the high and the low.
[00:09:33] Speaker A: They're not low and bad. They're just. It's crazy. I mean, Todd McFarlane his writing in current now and I have a Spawn fan. I have a fucking Spawn podcast. But like he has his tics and he does his stuff and it's just like, this is crazy.
[00:09:49] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:49] Speaker A: Like, it's fun to read.
[00:09:51] Speaker B: Yeah, it is.
[00:09:52] Speaker A: I'm glad I'm consuming it.
[00:09:53] Speaker B: It's just in case I forget to mention it when we get there, he has. He has a way of directly referring to the action that is happening with like. As if he's been speaking about it that I. That I very much enjoy.
[00:10:09] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Like, he's like, I've just been talking to you forever, buddy.
[00:10:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Because he either. Does he. He says exactly what we are also seeing, or he's just like, yeah, you saw it. So we could just go from there. There's no rhyme or reason. It's great.
[00:10:22] Speaker A: But yeah. Devin tails. Gunslinger number nine and gunslinger 46.
[00:10:26] Speaker B: Yes, indeed.
[00:10:27] Speaker A: Both of them from August 2025 were a cutting ass edge podcast.
[00:10:31] Speaker B: Yours says August, mine says September on the Deadly Tales, but the insides is August. Oh.
[00:10:37] Speaker A: I think September's right.
[00:10:39] Speaker B: I don't know. We'll see.
The Image Comics.com says September 17th is when it was published, so maybe it was originally set for Thomas Healy.
[00:10:48] Speaker A: Get to work. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
You're a genius.
[00:10:53] Speaker B: Did you. Did you see that? Modelo made a special holiday version. Oh, I talked about this last time, didn't I?
[00:11:00] Speaker A: What does it look like?
[00:11:01] Speaker B: Oh, it's. It's just got a red label instead of a white or a black label. And it's.
[00:11:07] Speaker A: What do they want, a fucking award?
[00:11:08] Speaker B: Yeah.
Or they just want you to drink it. It's good.
[00:11:13] Speaker A: Model is refreshing.
[00:11:14] Speaker B: Yeah, I love a model. I like a beer flavored beer. Yeah.
[00:11:17] Speaker A: I like beer that tastes like beer. I don't like. I spent a long Fruity beers.
[00:11:21] Speaker B: Oh, I love a fruity beer, though I don't really much like condiments. There is a situation and a purpose for every beer. I feel like.
[00:11:30] Speaker A: Like if I go to a brewery. Yeah, I'll get the light beer first. I'll try something else. But like, I don't know.
I don't. I don't love like an IP, like a hard IPA. It's like 9.8 or whatever like that.
Not for me.
[00:11:42] Speaker B: I can only have one of those if it's like 110 degrees outside. My core body temperature is high. Yeah, I like. I like a Hazel.
[00:11:52] Speaker A: I want something tastes like a sandwich.
[00:11:57] Speaker B: I actually Pipeworks made a Chicago dog flavored beer once.
[00:12:02] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Really?
[00:12:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, no, no, it wasn't a Chicago dog. It was a collaboration with Manny's. So it was a. I do like a pickle beer.
[00:12:11] Speaker A: I can imagine. That's good. So pickle in there.
[00:12:13] Speaker B: It was a corned beef sandwich. So it tasted like corned beef, rye and fucking mustard and pickles.
It was wild. It was not what you had. You did not have two of them. It was interesting to try.
[00:12:30] Speaker A: You don't have two sandwiches either. You might have two hot dogs.
[00:12:34] Speaker B: I mean, you can't. You can't have two corned beef sandwiches. Jesus, you would be insane. You'd have a heart attack.
[00:12:39] Speaker A: You have two hot dogs, though. You could definitely have two hot dogs.
[00:12:42] Speaker B: I'm man, Johnny. Nothing makes me feel older than. I'm good after one hot dog. Now, now, it used to be you have to have two hot dogs or you were fries.
[00:12:51] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm probably good, but now it's.
[00:12:54] Speaker B: Just like, man, I can't eat as much as I used to, Johnny. It's sad. It's so sad.
[00:12:58] Speaker A: Oh, get a physical job, David, and you'll eat amounts of food you never knew possible.
[00:13:03] Speaker B: Johnny, does this look like the face of a boy who was made for physical labor? Yes.
[00:13:09] Speaker A: You look like a coal miner.
Which silver mine is a plot point in our first issue today.
[00:13:16] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
[00:13:17] Speaker A: Which is Deadly Tales Gunslinger number nine.
[00:13:19] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
[00:13:20] Speaker A: And as always, we start with the covers.
And I've got the. A cover.
Pretty.
[00:13:29] Speaker B: A cover. That's a pretty wicked looking cover there, John.
[00:13:31] Speaker A: With Steve Cannon.
Yeah, it's awesome. It's got like zombie hands coming out.
[00:13:37] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:13:38] Speaker A: And like a crazy skull with a headdress.
It's just awesome.
[00:13:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
And gun. And Gunslinger is just there with his cigarette, his little cheroot, his cigarillo.
[00:13:55] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:13:56] Speaker B: Just. Just chill with all these zombie hands coming at him. Johnny, I would not be that calm.
The fuck.
This is no place for a cigarette.
[00:14:05] Speaker A: It's like an opening dream sequence in Day of the Dead where she's in the army base. All the hands come through the wall.
[00:14:12] Speaker B: I get. I get that one in the mall one confused, which I'm assuming happens a lot is the mall.
[00:14:18] Speaker A: Dawn of the Dead is the mall.
[00:14:20] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:14:20] Speaker A: That's what hesitated and said Day of the Dead.
[00:14:23] Speaker B: Yeah. And which is the one that's good.
[00:14:25] Speaker A: It's crazy. It's almost like a play.
[00:14:27] Speaker B: Which is. Which is the one where the guy gets, like, just ripped apart in his.
[00:14:31] Speaker A: Day of the Dead.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: Dead. Okay. I always.
[00:14:33] Speaker A: The third one's Grizzlier. It's the one in the army base where they don't leave and it's all fucked up. And there's like the helicopter pilots who they have to keep alive because, like. But they, like, disagree. There's, like politics. It's very much like a play. Like, takes place in, like, one room almost.
At the end there's, like 30 minutes of insane carnage.
[00:14:53] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:14:54] Speaker A: It's a great film.
[00:14:55] Speaker B: I should probably watch him again. I should probably get over myself and start watching zombie movies again, huh?
[00:15:01] Speaker A: That trilogy Is amazing, Nigel Dawn.
[00:15:03] Speaker B: It's a natural cycle.
Also, the natural cycle is I got the COVID B. The Marco Falia cover.
[00:15:12] Speaker A: And it is peeking around a corner.
[00:15:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Gunslinger puking around a corner and bullet goes bing right next to it.
[00:15:19] Speaker A: He hit right bumper and he's taking cover.
[00:15:22] Speaker B: Yeah.
The only problem I have with this, Johnny, is this bullet is still in the casing, which is a big pet peeve of mine.
Even more of a pet peeve than knives that are sharpenable.
The casing stays in the gun, y', all, just in case.
If you see. If you see a bullet fire. You see a bullet flying with a casing. Somebody threw it.
[00:15:49] Speaker A: That's funny. I mean, you gotta depict the bullet.
[00:15:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:53] Speaker A: It's shorthand.
[00:15:55] Speaker B: It could be argued that it is. It is tapered with a flared base, which occasionally the bullets have, but there's no. That's very clearly a firing pin there. So flared base, good use of shadow. So I like the color. It's a coat pops. It's nice. Yeah.
Marco Falia does a good cover.
My. My nitpickiness aside, this. It actually kind of looks like this is almost a Scene from the 96.
Good. The bed. No.
Quick. And the dead.
Quick.
[00:16:31] Speaker A: And the dead's great.
Sam Raimi joint.
[00:16:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:34] Speaker A: Send help. Comes out very soon.
[00:16:37] Speaker B: Man, I'm excited. It looks absolutely unhinged.
[00:16:41] Speaker A: Bruce Campbell's gonna be in it.
[00:16:43] Speaker B: That. That, that fucking car's gonna be in it.
[00:16:48] Speaker A: Yeah. It's so. I love Sam Raimi. I'm sorry. I just love Sam Raimi. God, if he could direct a fucking gunslinger movie, wouldn't that be a treat?
[00:16:55] Speaker B: That would be amazing.
[00:16:57] Speaker A: He would kill it. I mean, this is, this issue which was what we're talking about. Issue number nine is very Drag Me to Hell. It sets up like a demon esque kind of. It reminds. I instantly thought of the beginning of Drag Me to Hell when I was reading it.
[00:17:08] Speaker B: Ted could be pretty K7 Letha'd.
Gunslinger Ted Raimi. Ted. Yeah.
[00:17:17] Speaker A: He's too goofy.
[00:17:18] Speaker B: No. You sure? Well, I mean, he. He played a dramatic role in Candyman. He's the. The boyfriend who's. Who's making out with the lady who says Candyman five times.
[00:17:28] Speaker A: I think he's too goofy looking.
[00:17:30] Speaker B: He's. He's matured. He is. He is a. Not a senior citizen.
[00:17:36] Speaker A: He'd be like the candy shop owner. Like the fucking reporter in town.
[00:17:41] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah. Western.
[00:17:42] Speaker A: A guy with a long face like that's gonna be like a businessman. I'm sorry.
[00:17:45] Speaker B: Yeah. He'd have the bowler hat. That would. Some. At some point.
[00:17:48] Speaker A: Yeah, he'd have a bowler. Yeah, exactly. I can see him in Western.
[00:17:51] Speaker B: Totally.
[00:17:52] Speaker A: But he would be like a shop owner.
[00:17:55] Speaker B: Oh, boy. He'd have like the. The arm things for his sleeves. One of those.
[00:18:00] Speaker A: Yeah, he'd have a. He'd have a blue apron on with a white and blue striped shirt with his sleeves rolled up. And he'd be like, oh, my God, the gunsling is at it again.
[00:18:10] Speaker B: He would be the. He would be the bartender slash candy store owner, slash barber slash undertaker. And he would.
He'd put on a new hat.
[00:18:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:24] Speaker B: And it would just be like the same hat, only one's a little dustier.
One has a bullet hole in it, one's covered in blood, one has a whole bunch of candy stuck to it.
[00:18:35] Speaker A: Oh, my God, Johnny.
[00:18:37] Speaker B: I think. I think we're gonna write this movie and we're gonna submit it to Sam Raimi and say, hey, if you can get the. If you can get the rights, we will give you this script for free.
[00:18:47] Speaker A: I'll give him a script.
[00:18:49] Speaker B: You don't even have to pay us nothing.
[00:18:52] Speaker A: Who got paid to write this, though?
[00:18:54] Speaker B: Who got paid? I don't know, Johnny.
[00:18:56] Speaker A: That would be the credits, which we popped this sucker open and we got the credits.
We got script plot by Jimmy Palmiotti, of course.
[00:19:04] Speaker B: Yes, indeed.
[00:19:05] Speaker A: Art by Julio Ferreira. A new artist.
[00:19:08] Speaker B: Yeah. I was about to say this, that they weren't on number eight, were they? Because that was old Patrick.
[00:19:13] Speaker A: That was our classic.
[00:19:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:15] Speaker A: He does an amazing job.
[00:19:18] Speaker B: I really like this art. It's like old school. Old school horror comic.
[00:19:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
Colors by Ulysses Sariola, lettering by Tom orzakowski.
[00:19:30] Speaker B: Yes, indeed.
[00:19:30] Speaker A: Dr. Tom. Tom O.
We already covered the covers.
[00:19:34] Speaker B: Yes, indeed.
[00:19:35] Speaker A: Creative Director is Todd McFarlane and editor in chief is Thomas Healy.
Previously in Deadly Tales of the Gunslinger. The Gunslinger and Zhonya add a third to their group. The new gunman should come in handy.
[00:19:50] Speaker B: I had to. I had to look back to see who that was, because it was way too long ago.
[00:19:54] Speaker A: Me, I. I read the eighth issue as well.
[00:19:58] Speaker B: I was like, wait, who's this guy? Oh, okay, right. He's the. He's the drunk military guy.
[00:20:02] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:03] Speaker B: Who. Gunslinger kicks out of bed and we start. Johnny.
It's a clear night with a full moon, and we just see a. A house. Just like. Oh, I guess it's the.
Not a house yet. There's a. There is a building, but it's, I guess probably like a foreman's building.
[00:20:23] Speaker A: And there's a. Yeah, it's like.
Or like the office.
[00:20:27] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a mine opening right into the mountains. And Johnny, he didn't ask to be brought into this world.
All he ever wanted was to belong, to be loved, to have a chance at a normal life.
And who is he, you ask?
Well, we very quickly discover that he is basically like Ape man. Yeah, he's. He's. He's like.
[00:20:50] Speaker A: He's like a demon Ape man with.
[00:20:52] Speaker B: With wild claws and hair and glowing red eyes.
But something had ruined him from the inside, Johnny. And he's just, he's just climbing through this mine. He's just scribbledy, scrabbled in and all this, all this chaff is falling on him.
These rocks. Then we cut to a window with a breeze just blowing through. Johnny.
How nice is that? Gotta be. Just being breezed through.
[00:21:24] Speaker A: There's a young child in bed with her teddy bear.
[00:21:27] Speaker B: She hears a noise so she gets up.
[00:21:29] Speaker A: Wendy Thomas.
[00:21:32] Speaker B: Yeah, I wonder if she's adopted.
Maybe, maybe.
She hears a noise and she gets up really quick and she's like daddy. And she drops her teddy bear and she's like oh no, Mr. Teddy.
And so she bends down to pick the teddy bear up off the floor and as she picks it up off the floor we see from under the bed those glowing red eyes.
[00:21:53] Speaker A: Some red eyes.
[00:21:55] Speaker B: He is back, Johnny. And then we cut to her parents room and there's a crash and an ay.
And dad's like oh hell no. And he grabs his revolver that is conveniently on the nightstand and yeah, gotta.
[00:22:09] Speaker A: Do it in the old west you got the windows open.
[00:22:10] Speaker B: I mean you got. Yeah, I'm surprised it's not under his pillow. And so they, they run to her room and they bust in and they just see this big gaping hole in the middle of the floor. The narration over the top says that it was safer below the constant darkness. The inadequate guidance. Guidance. And the insufficient nutrition had lasting devastating effects though.
[00:22:33] Speaker A: And mom and dad's like, Mom's like what's that? Dad's like, I don't know. We got. It's got our girl. So he jumps down in the pit basically like, yeah, this thing like ripped a hole in the floor and dragged this girl to hell.
[00:22:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
In darkness, Johnny, only bad things grow.
[00:22:49] Speaker A: And it's blocked.
[00:22:50] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:22:51] Speaker A: It's caved in on itself. And he's clawing his fingers raw.
[00:22:54] Speaker B: It's clown. He's just. Yes. Yelling her name. Becky. Becky.
Johnny, it wasn't his fault.
But it's going to make everyone feel his pain. Because in the end, misery loves company.
Yes.
[00:23:09] Speaker A: The narration referring to this beast.
[00:23:11] Speaker B: Yeah, the beast. The he beast.
The he beast who dragged this girl.
[00:23:17] Speaker A: To hell and ate her. Probably.
[00:23:19] Speaker B: We don't know yet. We can assume at this point, but we don't know.
[00:23:22] Speaker A: I would assume he ate her.
[00:23:24] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, that tends to be what beasts do when they steal young children.
[00:23:31] Speaker A: What else are they gonna do?
[00:23:32] Speaker B: Let's just cook them up nice and plump.
Nice. Make a little rabbit stew.
[00:23:37] Speaker A: Oh, God.
[00:23:39] Speaker B: And then we cut to a jail cell. Oh, we got. We got. We got a little kid there who's very talkative.
He's talking about. He's talking about. His name's. His name's Billy Brewster, but people just call him Dynamite because his dad almost blew up his mom the first time they met.
[00:23:56] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm like, okay.
[00:23:58] Speaker B: And now he's. Now he's. He's good. He's good at blowing stuff.
[00:24:01] Speaker A: He's good at Dynamite. I mean, if your name's Dynamite, you gotta get good at dynamite.
[00:24:04] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. That's true. And this. This. This new.
The third. The new gunman. To.
To. What's the fuck? Gunslinger? And Zion. Yez. Shit. What's this. What's his name? It's not Javi. It's.
[00:24:20] Speaker A: It's Captain Ryder.
[00:24:21] Speaker B: No, no, no. Tobias.
[00:24:23] Speaker A: Tobias is Ryder also. He's not just the guy.
[00:24:26] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I was getting there, but I had to get the. I had to get the right gunslinger.
[00:24:30] Speaker A: Okay. It's tough.
[00:24:32] Speaker B: It's been too long since we've seen all Tobias for me to remember Johnny. But. But Ryder is just listening to Dynamite and he's like. Yeah, yeah. Huh?
Yeah.
[00:24:46] Speaker A: He kind of looks like Bespin. Han Solo in that. In this panel, which is my favorite. Han Solo.
[00:24:51] Speaker B: Yeah, does.
[00:24:52] Speaker A: He's got the jacket, the long sleeve jacket.
[00:24:54] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
And Ziana is just, like, propped up in the corner. And Tobias is just there, arms crossed, like, right at the. Right at the gate. Just, like, staring, just waiting for somebody to come by.
[00:25:12] Speaker A: And despite the conversation around him, he's lost in moments before.
[00:25:19] Speaker B: Time, when life was simple, the world felt less foreboding.
[00:25:23] Speaker A: Ooh, I would like one of my favorite lines.
It's in Michael Mann's Miami Vice.
I think it's from, like, 2007. 6.
The one with Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell.
[00:25:35] Speaker B: I have. I haven't seen it, but it rings a bell.
[00:25:37] Speaker A: They're talking on the roof, like these cops. He goes, do you understand the meaning of word foreboding?
He goes, what?
It was as in bad shit happening right now.
It's awesome.
[00:25:48] Speaker B: Nice.
Are you saying I should go watch Michael Mann's Miami Vice?
[00:25:54] Speaker A: It's a great movie. I love it.
[00:25:56] Speaker B: I mean, it's a Michael Mann, so it's pretty good, right?
He's the lots of cocaine guy, right?
[00:26:03] Speaker A: I don't think he does cocaine. Probably it's Shane Black Sudoku again.
[00:26:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Who knows?
[00:26:11] Speaker A: He's sober now.
[00:26:12] Speaker B: Dane. Doc. Nice.
Congratulations.
[00:26:15] Speaker A: He got Robert Downey Jr sober. Or helped him. Or they helped each other.
[00:26:19] Speaker B: Nice.
It's a good thing.
Friends, friends. Leaning on friends, Jeremy.
[00:26:25] Speaker A: It's true. And that's what I like about this issue of Gunslinger, because you get like a little friend crew going, yeah, yeah, I like that.
[00:26:32] Speaker B: It's like a found family.
[00:26:35] Speaker A: So deputy walks out of this jail.
[00:26:37] Speaker B: Yeah. A deputy walks over and has a gun pointed at Tobias and says, sheriff Bayan wants to talk with you. So he escorts him to the sheriff's office.
And the sheriff's like, hey, Deputy, I thought. I thought I told you to remove that man's hat.
And the deputy's like, I tried, but it wouldn't budge. So he says, try again. And so he's just there, like, hat won't come off, Johnny. That hat's staying right there.
[00:27:07] Speaker A: The hat's staying right there.
[00:27:09] Speaker B: And the sheriff asks, can you please remove your hat while we speak? Tobias just says, since you asked nicely, and just whoop doffs that shit.
[00:27:19] Speaker A: Pops it right off.
[00:27:21] Speaker B: Easy. It's fun.
[00:27:23] Speaker A: Surprising to me, too, is that the sheriff is thankful that they made it process so easy, because the end of last issue was like, oh, they're gonna fight these guys?
[00:27:32] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:32] Speaker A: But they just gave up.
[00:27:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:34] Speaker A: They went, my give up? My give up.
[00:27:40] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Oh, boy. I don't want to talk about that. So we're just gonna.
[00:27:45] Speaker A: Jar Jar.
[00:27:46] Speaker B: No.
Jar Jar is tangentially related to the anecdote. Okay, okay, fine. I guess I have to talk about it now. The.
[00:27:56] Speaker A: If you want me to.
[00:27:57] Speaker B: The Grok apology for accidentally making child pornography based on somebody's user prompt. Somebody said somebody took a picture of one of the children from Stranger Things and told Grok to make it a naked picture.
And Grock did it.
And then they made Grok put out an apology, and somebody was like, now apologizes Jar Jar.
[00:28:21] Speaker A: Yeah. And he said, may I give up my.
[00:28:24] Speaker B: He apologized as Jar Jar.
[00:28:27] Speaker A: Oh, wow. That's hilarious.
[00:28:30] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:28:31] Speaker A: What a time to be alive.
[00:28:32] Speaker B: David, are we alive? I'm not even sure if we're Alive anymore. Jenny, I think we're having a mass hallucination.
A mass death hallucination.
[00:28:41] Speaker A: Oh, you wish.
[00:28:42] Speaker B: Oh, I really. I really do.
It would be much preferable, but Sheriff Ban is like, you know, I don't really quite approve of what you did, but, I mean, them Brewster boys. Glad to be rid of them. So. So I guess I owe you something.
And he's like, I talked to the mayor and we decided not to charge you for the death of these three boys that you done killed.
But we are going to need your assistance. We gotta. You gotta. You gotta take care of this. You gotta take care of this boy over here. Dynamite. He's the last remaining Brewster boy. And then, you know, he's like. But we haven't told him what happened to his brothers, so you're gonna have to do that. Tobias is like, like, yeah, sure, whatever.
[00:29:27] Speaker A: Yeah, I got it, I got it.
[00:29:28] Speaker B: And it's like. And also, we have another problem that we're gonna need you to take care of for us.
He tells the story of, you know, strange going ons. You know, basically, strange going ons. Like what we saw at the beginning of the issue, Johnny.
[00:29:46] Speaker A: Yes. Child's disappearing, Children's disappearing.
He's like, you notice there's no young people here.
[00:29:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
Oh, I skipped over something very, very important, Johnny. They do. They do. We'd let you walk away if you could just pay the damages that you caused in dispatching the Brewster boys, but I don't think you can pay it, so you're gonna have to work it off. So we got ourselves a little indentured servitude here.
[00:30:13] Speaker A: Classic Western tale. Feels like a Western TV episode.
[00:30:16] Speaker B: Yeah, it does.
And he's like, captain Ryder knows all about it. He can fill you in, but I think. I think you're just the man for the job. And Tobias is just not pleased at being coerced into doing stuff.
[00:30:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:30:31] Speaker B: And then we cut back to the jail sale. Sale cell, Jail sale, jail sale. And Dynamite has finally gone to sleep. And Captain Ryder is like, finally.
[00:30:41] Speaker A: There's never gonna shut up. Yeah.
[00:30:44] Speaker B: And then we cut back to just. Just cutting to. To make fun of the child. And then cutting back to the conversation at hand. I love it. It's hilarious.
And then, you know, the sheriff fills Tobias in on all the things, and Tobias knows they.
Regardless of if he wants to do it, it doesn't matter. He's got to do it.
And then he responds with our opening reading. And as they all leave the sheriff's office, the sheriff's Just like, okay, I.
I put some money down on some food for you down at the saloon.
[00:31:22] Speaker A: So, yeah, it's like, hell, yeah.
[00:31:24] Speaker B: Yeah, that's pretty awesome. And it's like, just. Just chill out there, have some food, and then I'll send some people with your.
With your mission to you directly.
[00:31:37] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:31:38] Speaker B: Tobias is like, okay. Zeonia and Captain Ryder, go on. I gotta. I gotta talk to this boy here.
[00:31:43] Speaker A: Yeah, they'll like, kill his whole family.
[00:31:46] Speaker B: Yeah. He's like, hey, your brother's dead. I killed him.
Not really sorry about it, because they were pieces of shit, but, you know, you deserve to know.
The boy's just like, damn, can we go get some of that food now? Yeah.
[00:32:01] Speaker A: He's like, give me some free grub.
[00:32:05] Speaker B: And Johnny, this is part of the. I forgot what they had done and then looked back at issue 8 and was immediately like, oh, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, they very bad boys.
[00:32:15] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:32:16] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. At the saloon, they're all having some fun. They're eating some grub. They're getting a little. They're getting a little drink on. They're playing a little cards.
And then all too soon, Johnny, Their joyous time comes to an abrupt in because the Wheelers show up. The Wheelers being the parents from the beginning of the issue. And they were like, we were told we'd find you here, and we are expected. And Tobias is like, yeah, outside, let's talk business. We learned that the girl who was taken just turned six.
And that, well, gunslinger. And Zianya and Captain Ryder, they got this.
Captain Ryder's gonna go. He's gonna go do the first. He's gonna, like, scout the area out. And he's like, you guys go get rest.
I'll scope out all the. All the what's and the who's and dynamite's. Like, I want to go. I want to go hang out with this guy. Tobias is like, ryder. Ryder's just like, so writer's not gonna have any ears by the end of this issue. They're just gonna get talked off, Johnny.
[00:33:20] Speaker A: Yeah, Dynamite loves to talk.
[00:33:23] Speaker B: I have no idea what that's like, Johnny, having to be around somebody who likes to talk a lot.
It's weird.
Nobody like that in my life.
[00:33:33] Speaker A: Yeah, no one like that.
I mean, you don't know what it's like to be around them.
[00:33:39] Speaker B: Sure don't.
Sucks to be everybody else.
And then Tobias and Ziana is like, well, we're gonna go. We're gonna go to the motel. The sheriff says he's got some room for us. And Zianna's like a room for me, my own, just like, I don't know, we gotta go see.
So while they're on their way to the hotel, these, these boys on horseback ride out and stop them. And it's like, you with the hat, you shot and killed my brother in law last night in front of the barn. And Tobias is like, are you guys part of the Brewster gang? And they're like, no, my brother in law. Then he's like, just fucking go, please.
[00:34:20] Speaker A: I did you a favor. I did your sister a favor.
[00:34:22] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. So just go home, tell her it's fine.
It's not worth the time or your life. And they're just like my sister. And they, you know, cock their guns, point them at him, and he's just like, damn it.
Gives him a quick blam, blam. Shoots one of them in the air, shoots the gun out of another one's hands, and they take them to the doctor.
You a doctor?
Just so on the side.
I love a grumpy old doctor.
And then he's like, okay, you boys, this is what you're gonna tell your sister. You're gonna tell them that you got harmed running me out of town.
You walloped me real good. And that she just needs to move on with her life. And they were like, she's not gonna believe us. And he's like, look at, look at my face. Look at my face.
She'll believe it. She shows them his face and it's not a very. I like how Zianya is just in the back there, just like cracking up. She's got that, that, yeah, that coy smile. Just like these fucking kids. They finally arrive at the hotel. Johnny, jeez. There's like a whole mini, whole mini mission side quest.
And the, the guy at the desk is like, yeah, we only got one room and we don't, we don't serve her kind here.
Tobias corrects that very quickly, pulls a gun on him. Yeah. He says, they are not welcome. And Tobias says, then welcome her guy, very shakily, is like, here's your key, ma'. Am. They're up in the room, they're both getting ready for bed. I wonder, I wonder how the deciding who got the bed happened. Did they Rochambeau for it? Did they flip a coin to finally.
[00:36:08] Speaker A: Saw his like, fucked up face? Like, you probably need a bed.
[00:36:11] Speaker B: You deserve it.
[00:36:12] Speaker A: You like death incarnate.
[00:36:14] Speaker B: Yeah. And so she's, she's asking, she's like that silver mine we passed. And Tobias is like, yeah, Kinda, maybe. Maybe that's tied up with this. And he's like. But he's also, you know, recounting the story of children and adults and animals just missing never to be heard from again.
And she's just like, you know, I have no idea how that feels.
None whatsoever. Yeah, she. It's very sad. She says it very matter of factly.
[00:36:45] Speaker A: She says, so many youngs would have been taken by things that white men don't understand.
[00:36:49] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:36:50] Speaker A: Demons.
[00:36:53] Speaker B: They destroy the land, but the land remembers. She's like, if they were smart, they'd move somewhere fucking else.
[00:37:00] Speaker A: No, we stay.
[00:37:02] Speaker B: Yeah, we planted our flag here, Johnny. Manifest destiny.
Yeah, I like how Tobias is just, like, very.
Yes.
She says she'll call upon the spirits to guide the little girl and the others back to savvy savior. Safe safety.
[00:37:20] Speaker A: There you go.
[00:37:21] Speaker B: How did I mess up the word safety? Tobias.
[00:37:24] Speaker A: David.
[00:37:24] Speaker B: Tobias is like, do you really believe that? And she's like, you motherfucker.
I know, I know. I know more about the goings on of my family, my family's place, than you'll ever know.
Just, like, chucks the liquor bottle at him. He catches it and he's like, I'm sad. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. So there's a, you know, that seething hostility of him being responsible for killing his whole. Her whole family. And it's like, but I promise, when this is done, we're gonna go after Lain. That promise makes me think that as soon as they're done with this, they're gonna get hooked into another thing. And they won't get Lain just yet.
[00:38:05] Speaker A: They're hooked into another scheme.
[00:38:07] Speaker B: You'll have to come back for the next season of Deadly Tales of the Gunslinger. Do they get lain?
[00:38:13] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just a nice little scene here.
[00:38:15] Speaker B: Yeah. And she's like, that's fine. Getting that child back is more important anyway.
Elaine can wait.
And then Tobias just, like, sits in the dark and drinks, chasing the oblivion and hoping the nightmares don't follow.
Then it's the next day, and all of them are standing around the hole and the Wheelers in the Wheeler child's room.
And Dynamite's just like, hell, yeah, I can take care of this. I got these guys.
And then they're all outside the house, and he's like, it's. It's ready. We're going, we're going. Woo. He's like, wait for it.
And then just this little bitty.
And he's like, yeah.
[00:38:57] Speaker A: Yeah, like.
[00:38:59] Speaker B: Like any young boy with an Explosion. Just like.
And they're just like, I expected more out of that. And Ryder was like, I thought he was gonna blow the whole place up.
And so they go back in and Ryder and Tobias are going down the hall and Tianya's like, I'm here. I'll drag you out when you're done. Tobias says, kid did a good job.
Got a clean path. It's a high praise from a gunslinger. That's true. Writer's like, you smell that? Like sulfur. They start down the caves into the miles of abandoned cave.
Some creature must be doing this. Tobias is just like, I wouldn't be surprised by anything doing this, honestly.
[00:39:45] Speaker A: Yeah. He's like, I've seen a lot of shit in the last nine issues.
[00:39:50] Speaker B: Yeah. And then. And then there's some cracks. A little crack, crack, crack. And Ryder's like, you feel that?
And Tobias gives us the wide eye, the round eye of surprise.
And the. The cave floor just starts collapsing down and they just start running and running. It's very Indiana Jones. Yes.
[00:40:10] Speaker A: It's like collapsing behind here.
[00:40:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
It's just following them as they go. And then they run into a dead end.
And Tobias is just like, I got one shot at this. While he's readying the lasso, he tosses the lasso and then the ground breaks underneath them.
And then we end on. An image of the lasso has caught on to an outcropping, but they're both falling, falling towards large stalagmites that are very, very, very sharp.
And Tobias just says, damn. To be continued.
[00:40:43] Speaker A: To be continued. Next issue. It's a nice little gunslinger skull logo.
[00:40:49] Speaker B: It's a real cliffhanger, Joanie.
More like a real cliff faller.
[00:40:53] Speaker A: Cliff faller more like it, I guess.
[00:40:56] Speaker B: Cave faller.
A real spelunker.
[00:41:00] Speaker A: Get the call of Duty toy ad.
Sexy looking figures.
[00:41:04] Speaker B: Yeah, with that nice little posable cape there.
[00:41:08] Speaker A: You gotta love it.
[00:41:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Got the new generation, new stories, new U. Add some Sam and Twitch. Some Rhapsody, Rap City. Some Rat City. Some Black Book, Black Ritual. Book of Nyx. Wow.
My ability to read and say words is kaput.
[00:41:27] Speaker A: It's okay. We only cover comic books, David.
[00:41:32] Speaker B: The most important thing in the world, Johnny.
[00:41:35] Speaker A: Then we've got a Sub Zero action figure ad.
[00:41:37] Speaker B: Such a good action figure. Look at that.
[00:41:39] Speaker A: It looks great. I love Sub Zero.
[00:41:41] Speaker B: I'm excited for the new Mortal Kombat movie.
[00:41:44] Speaker A: Yeah, I can't wait. We talked about it.
[00:41:45] Speaker B: We haven't talked about it in a while, so. Still excited?
[00:41:48] Speaker A: Did a while. Yeah. I'm still Excited?
[00:41:49] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:51] Speaker A: Great image.
[00:41:52] Speaker B: Classic set on the back there.
And that's Deadly Tales of the Gunslinger Number nine, Johnny.
[00:41:59] Speaker A: That's was amazing.
Next up we have Gunslinger Classic Gunslinger Vanilla Gunslinger reggae. Gunslinger number 46.
[00:42:20] Speaker B: Yes, indeed.
[00:42:22] Speaker A: What do you think of that?
[00:42:23] Speaker B: What do I think of Gunslinger 46?
[00:42:26] Speaker A: I don't know. So what do you think of me.
[00:42:27] Speaker B: Saying that about Gunslinger 46? Yeah, I think. I think. I think that's what's up next.
[00:42:34] Speaker A: And what does it start with?
[00:42:36] Speaker B: Gunslinger46.
[00:42:38] Speaker A: Every issue of Spawn, David. What does it fucking start with?
[00:42:43] Speaker B: The COVID Yes. Okay.
[00:42:49] Speaker A: What is wrong with you?
[00:42:51] Speaker B: I think we were both trying to get there. You were just being more aggressive about it than I was anticipating.
[00:42:56] Speaker A: I was.
[00:42:57] Speaker B: I thought you were gonna let me take my leisurely stroll to the COVID conversation.
[00:43:02] Speaker A: I got a bedtime, David.
[00:43:04] Speaker B: I got a bedtime too, but yeah, got a couple of covers, Johnny. What kind of. What kind of COVID you get?
[00:43:10] Speaker A: I got the. A cover. The Raymond Gay.
[00:43:12] Speaker B: Oh, it's a double Raymond Gay episode for you, Johnny.
[00:43:16] Speaker A: It's Double Raymond Gay Day and it's Gunslinger and it's Modern Gunslinger. He's in an alley with his motorcycle and he's like, yeah, so what? I shot him. He's like, shrugging.
[00:43:26] Speaker B: Yeah, it's pretty awesome. The. The juxtaposition of Gunslinger spawn next to some graffiti is choice. Yeah.
[00:43:34] Speaker A: And he's just like, what do you want from me? He's like, kill the guy.
[00:43:37] Speaker B: He's like, what, me worry?
Yeah, he's Alfred E. Newman. It's a good alley. It's a real good alley.
[00:43:44] Speaker A: Alfred Newman's kind of creepy.
[00:43:47] Speaker B: Yeah, he's kind of a weird guy.
[00:43:50] Speaker A: Just on Matthew, they'd be like, mad and they'd show you his face. It always kind of freaked me out when I was a kid.
[00:43:55] Speaker B: Yeah, it kind of creepy.
[00:43:57] Speaker A: Who's the crack guy? He's a janitor. I can't remember his name.
[00:44:00] Speaker B: Sylvester.
[00:44:01] Speaker A: Yes, it's Sylvester. You're right.
[00:44:03] Speaker B: P. Smith.
Is that his name?
[00:44:07] Speaker A: I know Sylvester.
[00:44:09] Speaker B: I. I know it's Sylvester, but I don't. I. I think it's. I think his last name.
[00:44:12] Speaker A: Where did you fall? Were you a mad or a cracked kid?
[00:44:17] Speaker B: My mom would let me have mad, so I was more of a mad kid. But I like.
[00:44:21] Speaker A: I like cracked.
[00:44:22] Speaker B: I liked how naughty the nasty cracked could get.
[00:44:26] Speaker A: Oh, got nasty.
[00:44:28] Speaker B: It was.
It was real gross. Because the. The first crack they ever tried to bring into the house, I remember, was it said Leonardo decapitated, and it was Leonardo DiCaprio. Being decapitated and his head flying off. My mom was like, you know, out go. No, no.
[00:44:46] Speaker A: Out in the woods for some kid to find.
[00:44:50] Speaker B: Well, the problem is, Johnny, I was so far out in the woods, I would be the only kid to find it.
[00:44:56] Speaker A: Do you ever find porn in the woods? That's like the myth, right?
[00:45:00] Speaker B: No, I never found porn in the woods. I did find a whole bunch of deer blinds that people used to hang out in. And I used to just be like, ooh, a treehouse in the middle of nowhere. And would just fuck around in them.
[00:45:10] Speaker A: That's funny.
[00:45:11] Speaker B: And then set a couple of fields on fire.
And then my sister and I would play on the hay bales and accidentally rip them to shreds.
[00:45:20] Speaker A: Uh. Oh.
[00:45:21] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Yeah, we did a lot of. A lot of dumb shit.
It was fun, though.
That's a long way of saying, Johnny, that I have cover B, the Jonathan Rebay.
[00:45:32] Speaker A: Speaking of dumb shit. That's fun.
Not the COVID I'm talking about the issue.
[00:45:37] Speaker B: And this cover, Johnny, is gunslinger on a can only be described as a nightmare with a nightmare.
It's a real nightmare.
Skeletal, partially fleshed horse with a little, like, forehead plate that has a big spike on it. So it kind of looks like hell's unicorn. It's real good and it's green fire and chains and just real fun.
[00:46:04] Speaker A: Remember the Last Unicorn? I bet you love that movie.
[00:46:07] Speaker B: The Last Unicorn Scared the shit out of me.
[00:46:11] Speaker A: Yes, Scary.
So my grandma had it, but she had it taped on vhs, like, off tv, like, part of it. Yeah.
[00:46:19] Speaker B: Oh, nice.
[00:46:20] Speaker A: Commercials. And we would watch it.
[00:46:22] Speaker B: I loved. I loved. We used to tape cartoons off of. Off of tv. And it was always fun to, like, come across them five or six years later and be like, whoa, look at these old commercials.
I remember.
I remember there being enough time between us recording some Scooby Doo episodes off of TV and us watching them, that there were only three commercials. Every commercial break.
So every commercial break was literally like 45 seconds. So it was just not enough time to do anything.
You couldn't pee, you couldn't get a snack. You just had to sit there and watch the commercials.
[00:46:58] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:46:58] Speaker B: And now commercial breaks are like fucking five minutes.
[00:47:02] Speaker A: I remember the first time I saw Star wars was in my grandma's basement. It was a New hope.
[00:47:06] Speaker B: The first.
[00:47:06] Speaker A: And I. It opened. I don't know if we were watching on TV or was a bad tape version or what, but they're like, we're gonna watch Star Wars. I was like, oh, cool. I sat down and I turned on, I guess it was probably on tv. It's probably like usa. It's probably around the holidays or something.
These show it and it just was them pulling up to the ass to the Death Star. And I thought that was the beginning of Star wars for. Until we rented it.
[00:47:30] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:47:30] Speaker A: I thought it was like 45 minutes long or an hour long because like it just went from that to the end.
[00:47:35] Speaker B: It was, it was a made for TV movie.
[00:47:37] Speaker A: I didn't know they were just like, we're watching Star Wars. I was like, sweet. I've heard about this.
[00:47:41] Speaker B: I mean that's a pretty bitchin 45 minute long movie. Yeah, but you're like, who's that old guy that just got, just got cut down?
[00:47:50] Speaker A: Well, Johnny, I just remember, I remember the seeing the cockpit and then I remember that.
[00:47:55] Speaker B: Nice.
Well, speaking of cockpits, Johnny, cockpits are filled with pilots.
And the pilots of this issue are them that get credited.
[00:48:07] Speaker A: They are as follows and shall read to us.
[00:48:09] Speaker B: If we, if we pop the. Pop this cover open, we've got script Pilot. Wait. Script plot by Todd McFarlane.
[00:48:19] Speaker A: I see what you did there.
[00:48:21] Speaker B: We've got Carla Barberi doing the art copilot.
Colors by Ivan Nunez, lettering by Tom Rosikowski.
We covered the covers. Todd McFarlane is the creative director.
The editor in Chief is one Mr. Thomas Healy.
Previously in Gunslinger.
The gunslinger ignites the pendant and frees himself from the belly of the black beast.
But with his body weakened, he must find the strength to keep fighting.
[00:48:53] Speaker A: Yeah, it's some crazy shit. The gunslinger's been like on this mission to save Godson's daughter. And they're in this tower of angels.
[00:49:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:49:01] Speaker A: Fell inside a beast.
[00:49:02] Speaker B: Yeah, A beast with like a weird chest mouth. And it's like, it's got these weird rules.
[00:49:09] Speaker A: And then there for 30 seconds you're gonna turn into dead.
[00:49:12] Speaker B: And then when it realizes that it accidentally ate something angelic, it just like freaks out and explodes in a bajillion pieces.
Yeah.
Oh, this, this.
It's wild.
So we open with some, you know, some level setting. Johnny.
Yes.
[00:49:31] Speaker A: Godson's daughter.
[00:49:32] Speaker B: Yeah. Because Javi.
[00:49:34] Speaker A: First it starts with Javi thinking of his sister.
[00:49:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Javi's like, oh, my sister. And he's like, well, I couldn't save my sister, but maybe I could save Godson's daughter. That's maybe kind of a, you know.
[00:49:44] Speaker A: So I ripped her wing off and threw her out a window.
[00:49:49] Speaker B: Just like completely pissed Godsend off.
Yeah.
And then, you know, pissed off all the other angels and I blew up the top of the building. And then we get this nice two page spread that you have to turn the. Turn the book around to do. And it's. It's Javi with his. His angel wings and he's just like wreathed in flames. And like his mask is loose. I like that. That mask being loose makes him look a little bit like Grifter from the Wildcats.
[00:50:17] Speaker A: He does.
[00:50:18] Speaker B: And we get, you know, a little bit of some narration here that in order to perform the explosion, he had to willingly use some of the last bits of necroplasmic energy that he has that his body needs because A, he's not doing too well on the. The physical front.
He hurt himself. He's been hurt by others. He's got this whole angelic infection thing going on.
[00:50:46] Speaker A: He's allowing the angelic part to come through and it's fucking with him.
[00:50:50] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's like, I just gotta. I just gotta bluff long enough for them to run away and then I can collapse and he'll be damned if he doesn't go down without a fight. Johnny, it's great. Two, two page spread here.
[00:51:03] Speaker A: Pretty awesome.
[00:51:04] Speaker B: Oh, boy. And then he steps out of the fire and steps out of the smoke and he sees the big. The big, like super armored angel just impaled on a big spike. And he's just like, help me.
I know where he's at.
He being General Mattius.
Matthias. General Matthias.
[00:51:27] Speaker A: Who's this general?
[00:51:30] Speaker B: He's the like, angelic general who's kind of rogue.
[00:51:34] Speaker A: Oh, right, right, right, right, right, right, right.
[00:51:36] Speaker B: And then Javi just like removes one of the spikes going through the. The angel and is like, okay, speak, but no, I could stab you again if you don't make me happy.
Why did you take. Why did he take godson's daughter? And the angel's just like, no, no, just following orders.
[00:51:55] Speaker A: Just following orders, sir.
[00:51:59] Speaker B: Real helpful, real helpful. And he's like, oh, it's following the orders of General Thompson.
Javi's like, eugene.
[00:52:05] Speaker A: Eugene Thompson. I just went to high school with it.
[00:52:09] Speaker B: That Javier gets his location, Johnny. And then kills the angel with the spike.
[00:52:18] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Hi. He's just bloodless. He's. He's ruthless. He's not bloodless. He's very bloody.
[00:52:23] Speaker B: His blood lust.
[00:52:25] Speaker A: He has the blood lust.
[00:52:26] Speaker B: Got the blood lusts. Yes.
Then recut from there.
[00:52:31] Speaker A: It's like the CIA or whatever, where they're still looking for Javi.
[00:52:34] Speaker B: Yeah. And they're like, he, He. He had the accomplice. I don't think she was very smart. You should be able to track him down through her. And so there's just like this fucking stuffed shirt. Who gets this fucking dossier thrown at him? And he's just like, angry boss.
And then we cut to Wyatt's auto repair shop, and Linda's just. Oh, Linda's just adrift, filled out, which is like.
[00:53:01] Speaker A: This is an interesting subplot that popped up out of nowhere.
[00:53:04] Speaker B: Oh, boy. She is. She's. She's lost everything. Her freedom, her family, her friends.
[00:53:09] Speaker A: There are, like, eight bottles of pills next to her.
[00:53:12] Speaker B: Yeah. And she's just like, oh, boy.
It's not good that she picks up a pill bottle.
[00:53:17] Speaker A: I'm asking, how is she on the run and getting all these pills? I just want to know.
[00:53:20] Speaker B: I don't know. I don't know, Johnny. She picks up another bottle.
There's no pills in there.
[00:53:25] Speaker A: Empty.
[00:53:26] Speaker B: And another. Johnny.
And then why is like, they're all empty, Linda.
Ain't nary a pill left.
[00:53:34] Speaker A: I took them all.
[00:53:36] Speaker B: I can't let you harm yourself, no matter how much you're suffering. And then just ignore that.
[00:53:41] Speaker A: That's it.
That's all you get. A Linda.
[00:53:45] Speaker B: Just back to Javi.
[00:53:46] Speaker A: She's now collecting.
[00:53:50] Speaker B: I do like that we get the little. A little spice of Linda.
[00:53:53] Speaker A: It's been a while. Yeah, it's interesting. It's. It's. It's interesting. That's for sure.
[00:53:59] Speaker B: I mean, gunslinger, he. He hears. He hears some more angels creeping up behind him. He doesn't need another confrontation, Johnny. He's already wounded. And he's like, any of you take. Take another step, and I'll rip your wing off like I did Janelle's. And he, like, holds up her just.
[00:54:13] Speaker A: Like I did to this one.
[00:54:16] Speaker B: So who wants to look like this?
[00:54:19] Speaker A: Very O Ren Ishii in Kill Bill, Volume 1, where she holds up the head if any of you pricks. Whatever she says, it was on the soundtrack. He always had, like, dialogue clips on his soundtracks.
[00:54:32] Speaker B: Nice, nice, nice. And so after holding up the wing, Javi just, like, stares at them with his smoky eye. He's got a nice smoky eye.
And the angels are just like. He's insane.
But they've misread the situation, Johnny. Javi isn't just. Isn't insane. He just isn't afraid anymore.
[00:54:52] Speaker A: It's also hilarious because the angels just look like some millennials.
There's like, a guy in a suit and, like, a girl.
[00:54:59] Speaker B: A girl with a. Like, a shaved side haircut. And Javi's got His big. His big knife out. And then he's like, who's first? And then he lets his little. His little. His little lizard dinosaur jump off his.
[00:55:13] Speaker A: Shoulder, comes out and says, meep.
Also, like, what if this. I like how it tries to explain what's going on. But, like, this is your first issue. It just goes. Just goes. Makes. He goes. The tiny lizard living. His hat drops to the floor, then transforms, and it's like, okay, it's got.
[00:55:30] Speaker B: A lizard living in his hat.
[00:55:31] Speaker A: What? And it transforms into a horse. If you haven't read, you know, 45 other issues of this, you know what's going on. That's some crazy.
[00:55:39] Speaker B: This is some crazy.
And there's no. There's no. Like, a little editor's note. Like, oh, yeah, hobby. Got this from clown's daughter Dakota, who's.
[00:55:48] Speaker A: An archaeologist or invented archaeology and wrote all the books on it, maybe. Or stole the books, went back to the past. I was a little unclear about that.
[00:55:56] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Something about living in dinosaur times in a room with a whole bunch of books about dinosaurs.
I think. I think. No, I think she.
She time traveled and, like, set up shop in dinosaur times. It would, like, time travel to different times and be like, oh, I need to learn about this dinosaur. And then would go back because that's how she could hide from her dad.
[00:56:19] Speaker A: Interesting.
[00:56:20] Speaker B: Yeah. The angels are like, we can't win this. There are too many intangibles.
[00:56:25] Speaker A: We're not prepared. That's a hilarious line.
[00:56:30] Speaker B: And then. And then the other angels, like, you're right. Take the others. Leave.
I'll deal with this. Hell Angels says, you hear those sirens, Hell spawn. It's the humans.
[00:56:41] Speaker A: That's the top of our touch. He always thinks about the real world implications. There's always police comment.
[00:56:46] Speaker B: We don't need that.
[00:56:47] Speaker A: It's happening. Gunsling the other. This is Gunslinger. Yeah, it happened in Gunslinger earlier when he busted up that hotel.
[00:56:53] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. And he. He falls through the roof. That's how he got captured in the first place. And then how. How his mug got put on the tv. And then that.
That drug lord was like, that's my son. That's my boy. That's my boy. Go get my boy.
[00:57:06] Speaker A: That's my son.
My son.
[00:57:09] Speaker B: I've abandoned my boy. And Javi is like, okay, don't look at my son. You guys go. Leave this big fucker over here. And they're like, why? And he's like, because I asked you to.
Tense moments pass, and then they're gone.
[00:57:24] Speaker A: The animals all disappear and Then we get a nice.
[00:57:28] Speaker B: We cut to the fire. The fire trucks pulling up to the building get a little bit of technical talk. They're being like, the water pressure's good up on floor. Fucking 19 on the 19th floor. Johnny.
[00:57:44] Speaker A: 19.
[00:57:44] Speaker B: This. I think. I think there should have been some additional script by Stephen King in these credits.
[00:57:51] Speaker A: He loves 19.
[00:57:54] Speaker B: This firefighter, one of the firefighters, just is looking over. He's like, what the hell is that? And then we see Javi just like, pew. Flying out of the shooting.
[00:58:04] Speaker A: Out of it. It's like opposite 9 11.
It's a building on fire, but he's flying away from it.
[00:58:14] Speaker B: Given how much it was ravaging his body, Gunslinger didn't want to keep his heavenly powers, but he had no choice. He needed to escape. He had to fly away. Johnny.
Yes, God. God answered Jenny's prayer by giving it to Javi.
God made him a bird. Then we get the crazy last far.
[00:58:32] Speaker A: Far of this issue. That's just all these characters that got thrown out windows by Javi hang out in the alley.
[00:58:39] Speaker B: Yeah. So. So Godsend just saved Janelle from. From being splatted. Or Joelle.
And so he's holding his daughter in the alley, and she's just not good. And he's like, oh, this is no good. That motherfucker. He's hurt my baby. He's hurt my baby. And then we get. He man and battle cat come up and battle cats. Yeah. He shows up again, just gives God's.
[00:59:01] Speaker A: Last time we saw them, they were throwing out. He threw that cat out the window and he dived after it.
How did he survive?
[00:59:08] Speaker B: I don't know. Maybe the next issue. Johnny. That's probably issue 47.
I just closed the book. Whoops.
And.
Oh, fuck, I forgot this guy's name. But he's like, I don't know if you've noticed, but my cat friend over here also got hurt. So don't think that you've got, you know, a monopoly on hurt people that you care for.
Godsend.
[00:59:34] Speaker A: Also, the comics should just say his name.
[00:59:37] Speaker B: It should.
They should say this.
I don't think they've said his name since he showed it. Like he turned from the old guy.
[00:59:45] Speaker A: On the porch or something or something like that.
[00:59:49] Speaker B: Like two, two or three issues since.
[00:59:54] Speaker A: He threw his cat out the window.
[00:59:58] Speaker B: And he's like, yeah, we should probably think about moving because, you know, these. These human warriors will be.
Will be here, or angelic warriors. He just says, these warriors, the warriors, they'll come out to play. Johnny. And. And then Javi just strolls up and is like, yeah, Godson, you should probably listen to him. He knows what he's fucking talking about. And Godson's just like, you motherfucker, my daughter's wing off.
He's like, you know, it happens. There's no cure. And Javi's like, well, then fucking find one, then.
[01:00:25] Speaker A: Find one.
[01:00:26] Speaker B: That's what I'd do if she were my daughter. Woo.
[01:00:29] Speaker A: Damn, boy.
[01:00:31] Speaker B: You can't even keep your sister alive, son. What you talking about?
[01:00:34] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Going for Javi.
[01:00:38] Speaker B: Godson's eyes are just on fire. And, you know, Godson's standing there just, like, fuming at Javi. And battle Cat just comes over and is like, hey, Javi, guess what? I'm on your side because you got that animal magnetism.
And then Javi's like, oh, this cat. Oh, he. Man, you're here.
[01:00:56] Speaker A: Cool.
[01:00:57] Speaker B: Awesome.
I don't normally.
[01:01:00] Speaker A: I like how he says, Javi acknowledges the cat's owner. Like, Tom McFarland doesn't remember this guy's name.
It's like a perfect opportunity to say the guy's name.
[01:01:11] Speaker B: Was he like, hey, Thomas, what did.
[01:01:13] Speaker A: I name this guy?
[01:01:16] Speaker B: Did he turn it on?
[01:01:17] Speaker A: The cat guy's down the alley.
[01:01:22] Speaker B: I'm glad you survived, man. Mister. Mister whose name I don't.
[01:01:26] Speaker A: Mr. Cat's owner.
[01:01:30] Speaker B: And Gutson's just like, don't you turn your back on me. And Javi's like, you're a foul mood, huh?
He's being a stinker. Being a stinker. And he Man's like, just like, come on, guys.
[01:01:42] Speaker A: Yeah, guys, we all got issues. Let's just chill out, because guess what? The cops are coming.
[01:01:48] Speaker B: Yeah. And Javi's just like, yeah, you've got a job to do. You gotta save your daughter.
So, you know, either kill me or get out of the way, because we all got bullshit to deal with. And, you know, she's not the only one who's dealing with this sickness.
And so he just. The hobby just, like, turns and storms away, leaving them there.
[01:02:08] Speaker A: That's where he gives the pointing finger.
[01:02:10] Speaker B: Pointing finger.
I do like, though. They have.
I totally read this in the Princess Bride Manor. I'm waiting.
[01:02:20] Speaker A: I'm waiting.
[01:02:23] Speaker B: Oh, he's right. This is a heaven problem.
[01:02:26] Speaker A: Now he heads out.
[01:02:28] Speaker B: He. He walks into that sunset. Even though there's not a sunset, it's just a wall at the end of the alley.
[01:02:35] Speaker A: He says, for what it's worth, she's not the only one that's sick. Oh, way to be A little emo at the end there, Javi.
[01:02:41] Speaker B: Yeah, we expect.
[01:02:43] Speaker A: Look at his.
[01:02:44] Speaker B: Oh, his neck.
So low. 0042.
[01:02:49] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[01:02:50] Speaker B: Oh, boy.
That's insanely low. Then we get a spawning grounds presents in memory of the Prince of Darkness. RIP Ozzy Osborne, some pictures of the Todd father with the Prince of Darkness himself.
You know the classic action figure that was made. Yes, a couple of them. Three need more spots Universe Johnny.
[01:03:11] Speaker A: You killed him because we recorded that episode before he died. And you're like, he's gonna die.
And he died. I had to cut in and be like, this was recorded before he died.
[01:03:20] Speaker B: I'm not magic. You need more sponge Universe Johnny.
[01:03:24] Speaker A: Yes, because it is magic.
[01:03:26] Speaker B: Then don't miss these ongoing titles and the magic held within.
[01:03:30] Speaker A: Give an image Classics ad.
[01:03:32] Speaker B: Yes, we do. And the same Call of Duty ad is the back of the COVID advertisement.
[01:03:40] Speaker A: And that is gunslinger 46.
[01:03:44] Speaker B: It sure indeed was.
There's a lot of monologue in this too. So if you're.
If you want some. Some hella narration, some.
Some long winded conversation, go ahead and pick yourself up a copy of that there.
Well, Johnny, you know who is not prone to long winded conversations? Unless it's the Midnight Howl.
That's some puppies.
[01:04:09] Speaker A: Okay. I was gonna say Gromit.
[01:04:12] Speaker B: You're kidding. Gromit. Grommet's a good boy. He never says a thing.
He just suffers in silence until somebody recognizes it and it's like, oh, boy, I'm so sorry you have to deal with that.
[01:04:21] Speaker A: No, he gets the short end of the stick. He's the brainsman of the operation.
[01:04:25] Speaker B: He never gets a. He never. Wallace always takes credit for all of his. His doings. He's like C3PO when C3PO and R2D2 get lost. And R2D2 frees them from whatever predicament they're in. And C3PO is like, see, I told you I'd lead us out of this, R2. It's a great dynamic. I fucking love it.
[01:04:44] Speaker A: It is. I love Lost and Gromit.
[01:04:46] Speaker B: But you know what else is a great dynamic, Johnny?
These puppies. And we gotta rate them. So it's time to rate the puppies.
[01:04:52] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies.
First up, we had Deadly Tales, Gunslinger number nine, which I thought was pretty much perfect. I love the team dynamic. I love the little episode of the week story. The flavor of the week with the monster Drag Me to Hell monster.
The art is great. It just had. I had a rollicking good Time reading it.
[01:05:14] Speaker B: Yeah, it rocks.
[01:05:16] Speaker A: Is perfect. It's exactly what I want from a gunslinger book. And it's what I've wanted. God BLESS you, Tom McFarland, but this is the kind of shit I want.
[01:05:23] Speaker B: Yeah, it's good as hell. It's so good.
Got the monster.
[01:05:30] Speaker A: Five little explosions out of five.
[01:05:34] Speaker B: Five little explosions. Hell yeah. I 100% agree with you, Johnny. This fucking Julio Ferrara art is awesome.
I like it. He does a good skull. Like, he literally opens the issue with skulls. And that's. That's what we like to see.
And yeah, it's just fucking. I like. I like that.
Tobias started with a clear goal.
And then, like, every issue there's somebody being like, ah, yeah, I need you to do this first. Then he's like, okay, okay. That is now my number one goal. And that's like, I got something else for you to do. And he's like, okay, this is my clear goal. Then we'll get to this.
[01:06:10] Speaker A: It's like playing Fallout or Oblivion.
[01:06:13] Speaker B: It's great. It's great. Oh, it's so much fun. I'm so excited to read issue number 10, Johnny.
I am also gonna give this five, but I'm gonna give this five little woohoos for a tiny explosion.
[01:06:26] Speaker A: You got it.
[01:06:28] Speaker B: Scaloo's just like, yeah, right. Both of his hands in the air. You know what that means, Johnny? This is an entrant into the Hellfire Club.
[01:06:40] Speaker A: Five out of five for both of us.
Then we had Gunslinger 46.
It was a hoot. It was a hoot and a half. It was. I was cracking up reading it. Tom McFarlane just has a special flavor. Carla Barberi is still rocking it.
[01:06:55] Speaker B: Oh, absolutely.
He is. He's not taking any days off.
[01:07:00] Speaker A: It's really weird. Like, it just. Cussalinda national is a pill problem.
And they're just like, chill in the alley. Like, it's just. It's crazy. It's very Tom McFarlane. I loved it. I'm four empty pill bottles out of four.
[01:07:16] Speaker B: It's so wacky.
[01:07:18] Speaker A: Out of five? Four out of five. Sorry.
[01:07:19] Speaker B: Four to five. Okay. It's so wacky. It's. It's. I think I've discovered my issue with Todd McFarlane writing so many of these books at once.
And that's my enjoyment from Todd McFarlane comes from not having too much Todd McFarlane.
Yeah, it's like, fucking cookies are great, but if you eat like a whole third of the package of Oreos in a single sitting, you're gonna feel it too. Much. But, like, I mean, you know, two or three of those bad boys at a time. Perfect.
And not having had a Todd McFarlane issue for a while is fucking rocked.
[01:08:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:08:03] Speaker B: Does it make sense? No. Does it have to? Absolutely. The fuck not. No. It's just a wild fried.
I'm gonna give it three and a half.
Tense moments pass.
It's fun. It's good. Carlo Barberi, artist. Excellent.
[01:08:22] Speaker A: Check it out.
[01:08:22] Speaker B: So good. Barbary. Sorry? Carlo Barbary. I'm saying it wrong. This whole episode.
[01:08:27] Speaker A: Me too.
[01:08:27] Speaker B: Boom.
[01:08:28] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[01:08:29] Speaker B: Well, you know what else is excellent, Johnny? That I'm not gonna say wrong.
[01:08:33] Speaker A: Our friends on Instagram.
[01:08:35] Speaker B: Our friends on Instagram.
[01:08:41] Speaker A: You sounded German when you said that.
[01:08:46] Speaker B: Have I turned into Christoph Waltz? Whoops.
I could never be Christoph Waltz. I cannot stay that serious long enough.
[01:08:53] Speaker A: He's kind of goofy, though.
[01:08:55] Speaker B: He's kind of goofy, but he's. He's got a menacing goofy. And I could not be. I can't be menacing goofy. I can only be just a fucking idiot.
I'm not menacing anybody.
But you know who might be menacing us a little bit is Hellspawn Collector on Instagram. Hellspawn Collector. Hellspawn Collector. It's all one word, just like it sounds. And, Johnny, would it surprise you to know that they are a collector of Hellspawn stuff?
[01:09:24] Speaker A: It would not.
[01:09:24] Speaker B: Very specifically. They got a shit ton of action figures and they got all the good ones. They got the. That old, like, statuesque, like the statue version of the nightmare spawn with the big expansive wings and like the fiery hands. Got that real nasty clown like you got.
He's just got a lot of them. They're real good. You should give them a follow.
[01:09:46] Speaker A: Awesome.
[01:09:46] Speaker B: Yeah. Hellspawn Collector.
[01:09:48] Speaker A: Give him a follow. While you're on there, give us a follow. We are regarding Spawn Pod on Instagram.
[01:09:53] Speaker B: Yes, indeed.
[01:09:54] Speaker A: You can also reach us on our email regarding swampodmail.com and, Johnny, if I.
[01:10:02] Speaker B: May, why don't we have listeners ask us questions that we answer for a couple of weeks?
[01:10:12] Speaker A: Okay, what's the question?
[01:10:14] Speaker B: Oh, no. They ask questions, we answer them. Send us some fucking questions.
[01:10:18] Speaker A: Send us some questions.
[01:10:19] Speaker B: Send us some questions.
[01:10:21] Speaker A: We want your questions. We do want to answer them. Any question?
[01:10:23] Speaker B: Any questions. We do reserve the right to say. We're not fucking answering that question.
[01:10:29] Speaker A: I'll answer it.
[01:10:31] Speaker B: We're not gonna get personal on here. We're not gonna. We're not gonna. Maybe there's some. Some lines we're not gonna cross.
[01:10:38] Speaker A: Okay, that sounds Ominous.
[01:10:40] Speaker B: We'll see when we get there. It's a moving line.
[01:10:43] Speaker A: We'll see what we get.
But one question I have, David, is what are we gonna read next week?
[01:10:49] Speaker B: What are we gonna read next week? I mean, what. I don't know. What do you want to read? You want to read some? We got some. Got some lovely, lovely books. We could. We could.
[01:10:57] Speaker A: I want to read the Lovely Bones.
[01:10:59] Speaker B: Oh, the Lovely Bones. That's good. It's good. You wanna. You wanna start reading the Stand? We could just read the Stand.
[01:11:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Why not? Just in a week.
[01:11:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
Or. Or tangentially. We could read some Roland Deschane, a little bit of Dark Tower action.
No, Johnny, why don't we get back into doing these two issues at a time with a little kingspawn 48 and scorch number 44.
[01:11:26] Speaker A: Sounds perfect to me. I love Scorch. Little Kingspawn. Let's do it.
[01:11:29] Speaker B: This is. This is a beautiful looking issues there, Johnny.
Look at this. We'll talk about it next week. So I'm not going to talk too much about it.
[01:11:36] Speaker A: Don't talk about it. Don't mention it.
[01:11:37] Speaker B: But look at. Look at that. Jeez, that is great.
It's a good cover. Great.
So that's kingspawn 48 and scorch number 44.
[01:11:46] Speaker A: And Lonnie Bones is our music. We've got Lonnie Bones online.
[01:11:49] Speaker B: Yes, he does. It's very good music. We love the hell out of it.
[01:11:53] Speaker A: We love it.
[01:11:54] Speaker B: Thank you very much. Lonnie Bones.
[01:11:56] Speaker A: That's what we. That's what we say every week. I think that's it.
[01:11:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, don't forget to like us, subscribe to us, rate us. Tell your friends, family, co workers, your mom, your dad, your sister, your brother, your. Your lover, your ex lover, your random. The random piece of people you. You pass on the street. Just be like, hey, do I have something for you.
If somebody asks you if you have changed, just fill a picnic basket full of some respawn, let the bears at Yosemite distribute it, come back next week and listen to us talk about some more spawn. Because we fucking love doing it.
And we hope you enjoy reading Spawn along with us. It's a journey, not a destination, Johnny.
[01:12:45] Speaker A: It's a journey.
[01:12:46] Speaker B: This. This.
This. The spawns were the friends we made along the way.
The friends were the spawns we made along the way.
[01:12:55] Speaker A: All the spawns were my friends.
[01:12:56] Speaker B: I guess that leaves me with nothing to say, Johnny. Except for may the Scorch be with.
[01:13:01] Speaker A: You and also with you, David?
[01:13:03] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[01:13:04] Speaker A: Hell, yeah.
[01:13:06] Speaker B: This fucking hobby is wacky.
[01:13:09] Speaker A: It's some wacky stuff. We got wacky. We got more Todd McFarlane next week, King Spawn. We'll see how he's doing on that.
[01:13:14] Speaker B: Oh, this says. This says Rory McConnell.
[01:13:18] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, he switched over. Oh, yeah, he switched. I forgot. I forgot.
[01:13:21] Speaker B: He's on. He's on. Main title Johnny.
[01:13:23] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sue me. Okay. Obviously, I'm tired.
[01:13:28] Speaker B: Oh, man.
Love the Todd father. It's just got. He's got that energy. I love that his energy comes across like it's. It's. It's. It's pure energy. It's not concerned with going back and correcting shit.
[01:13:39] Speaker A: No, not at all.
[01:13:41] Speaker B: Full steam ahead.
[01:13:42] Speaker A: He's like a shark. He's always moving forward. Yeah, well, let's move forward.
On to the next phase of the moon, the ending of the podcast.
[01:13:59] Speaker B: What? Well, I mean, for now.
[01:14:19] Speaker A: Sam.
