Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: I will resurrect Malbolgia, your one true lord and master. Hell's throne belongs to him. No one else.
Good evening and welcome to the Malibu. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast. I'm your co host, John Fisher.
[00:00:48] Speaker B: And I am your co host, David Williams. And Johnny, for about 16 years I've been complaining about Oklahoma's weather, getting drunk and coming up here to Chicago and that tornadoes are now a thing up here. And well, it seems that a little bit of Chicago's weather has followed you back home to Oklahoma. It has.
[00:01:09] Speaker A: I got 7 inches of snow this weekend.
[00:01:11] Speaker B: I'm pretty sure that's more snow than we get.
[00:01:13] Speaker A: 7.2 was the final count.
[00:01:16] Speaker B: Very nice. I did like seeing on social media. People were like, we're gonna see how many wieners deep this snow is. And they'd have like a steak with some hot dogs on it.
I think Tennessee got one. Wieners deep.
[00:01:31] Speaker A: Hey, good for Tennessee.
[00:01:33] Speaker B: That's. That's a lot of snow for a not oftenly snowed upon region.
[00:01:39] Speaker A: I bet they're freaking out.
[00:01:40] Speaker B: I bet, I bet.
[00:01:41] Speaker A: I mean Tulsa's freaking out.
[00:01:43] Speaker B: How was the. Did you see a whole bunch of kids sledding?
[00:01:47] Speaker A: No, I saw some kids building snowmen and like playing.
I see them sledding. I didn't go by any hills. I'm avoiding hills, David. I have a. I have a.
I have a.
[00:01:57] Speaker B: You're hill phobic.
[00:01:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I got a front wheel drive Toyota Corolla.
Oh man, I bet the back weighs like a featherweight.
[00:02:06] Speaker B: Oh yeah, that's true.
Well, I mean you also have. You also have a problem if you just have a real wheel drive fucking old ass beater.
That'll just run you in circles, man.
[00:02:16] Speaker A: I need a four wheeler.
[00:02:17] Speaker B: That's what you need. Yeah, four wheelers are fun as shit.
[00:02:21] Speaker A: I've never been on one. I would love to.
[00:02:23] Speaker B: I'm bad at driving them. But I've got a lot of experience of holding on to somebody in front of me for dear life. Being like, oh, wow, it's fun. It's fun as hell. It's probably risky to do it at this point.
[00:02:35] Speaker A: Was it a hot babe in a bikini?
[00:02:37] Speaker B: No, it was usually either my sister or the only person who was willing to let me hold on to them and not get disgusted.
[00:02:47] Speaker A: Who's that?
[00:02:48] Speaker B: It depended on the group.
I was not a very well liked child, Johnny.
[00:02:54] Speaker A: Yeah, right.
[00:02:55] Speaker B: Have I told you that?
So our close. Not our closest neighbors, but our reasonably close neighbors out in the middle of the country who. Their mom was a teacher at our school, so we spent a lot of time with them. They. We'd hang out at their house while my parents were finishing up work.
Their favorite joke to say was that I was gonna grow up and my job was gonna be speed bump.
I was gonna grow up to be a speed bump. They were saying I was. I was fat and was useful only to be run over by cars. Johnny. That was the. That was just a daily insult.
[00:03:30] Speaker A: So I've never known you as fat.
[00:03:33] Speaker B: Well, I lost weight in college. That's why.
[00:03:36] Speaker A: Yeah, you're. You're svelte.
[00:03:38] Speaker B: I gained. I gained weight in college and then started losing it.
I gained the freshman 50.
[00:03:46] Speaker A: Oh, I gained a lot freshman year. I was big.
[00:03:48] Speaker B: There was that a lot of meal plan to use. And taco mayo was in the bottom.
[00:03:52] Speaker A: Of my freshman 50. Not the freshman 15.
[00:03:56] Speaker B: I gained 50 pounds freshman year. Yes.
[00:03:59] Speaker A: Oh, Lord.
[00:04:00] Speaker B: Yeah, it was insane.
[00:04:01] Speaker A: I gained a lot when I was living in the dorms before I went back into the theater. Yeah, I was big. There's one picture of me that I fucking hate that I'm just like, oh, my God, look at Jabba the Hutt.
[00:04:11] Speaker B: I don't.
I'm. I was never much of a being in pictures person for a really long time, so not a lot of pictures of that time exist. But then.
[00:04:21] Speaker A: Oh, well, good for you.
[00:04:23] Speaker B: Oh, just so perfect. So perfect. But now. Then I started running around Boomer Lake and that. That got it. That got it. It's a 5K right there.
[00:04:31] Speaker A: And then you start hanging out with theater people where they make you take pictures all the time.
[00:04:35] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. You can't hide around theater people that you're going to be in that picture no matter what.
[00:04:40] Speaker A: Yep. And you're going to do a little.
[00:04:41] Speaker B: A little. A little post.
[00:04:43] Speaker A: Funny. A sketch. A sketch in the picture.
[00:04:45] Speaker B: The.
The hardest thing for me was just coming to the realization that my mouth is going to be open in pictures no matter what I do. It's just. Just go with it. Mouth will be open in some capacity.
[00:04:57] Speaker A: Just like Pac Man.
[00:05:00] Speaker B: I love. I love those little bitty, tiny white pills, Johnny. I love it. I love eating some fruit. Which one?
All of them.
[00:05:07] Speaker A: This is a new weight loss pill that they just came out with the.
[00:05:11] Speaker B: The Ozempic in pill form. Yeah, yeah. No, not that I'm the old weight loss pill. I'm the tapeworm egg hydroxy cut, the.
[00:05:21] Speaker A: Stuff they sell at Target. Hydroxy cut or whatever.
[00:05:23] Speaker B: Three weeks later, you take the deworming. Pill. Did you know about that?
[00:05:27] Speaker A: It's like, no.
[00:05:29] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. In the. In like the 60s and 70s, the weight loss pill was literally tapeworm egg.
And then you took the dewormer to get rid of the tapeworms after you hit your ideal weight. And a lot of people would just like, over overtake the eggs pill.
And then the dewormer wouldn't work enough, and so they would just have tapeworms.
[00:05:49] Speaker A: That's crazy.
[00:05:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:50] Speaker A: I remember my friend Scott decided to get a hydroxy one cut one time, and he was like, it's fucking. Because they're just like crazy caffeine pills.
[00:05:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:58] Speaker A: I'm all jacked up. I can't do it. He was like, freaking out.
[00:06:02] Speaker B: Wanda was telling me about some other.
We were, you know, just watching some television and there was a, you know, a Wegovy ad, and she was like, it's giving me. And I don't remember what it was, but there was apparently a big non hydroxycut weight loss pill at the end of the 90s that her mom was really into Hydraxica.
[00:06:22] Speaker A: It was more like 2000s.
[00:06:23] Speaker B: Yeah, it was. It was also, like, much more infomercially than commercially.
Right?
[00:06:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:31] Speaker A: Do I love the commercials? Try to trick old people into thinking it's the news?
[00:06:34] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:06:36] Speaker A: They have like a ticker tape on the commercial and it's like a news. And I'm like, this is a commercial.
[00:06:41] Speaker B: It's. It's wild. That was always the worst part about not having cable is that a certain time on the weekends, you went from actual programming to just blocks of infomercials. And it was like, oh, man, I had some good.
[00:06:53] Speaker A: There's some good infomercials, though. I like. All the music ones are always fun to watch.
[00:06:57] Speaker B: I like to. I like the Ron Popeil infomercial. Those were always good.
[00:07:01] Speaker A: Rotisserie. The rotisserie.
Rotisserie.
[00:07:04] Speaker B: Johnny, I had a revelation yesterday, and Ron Popeil was sleeping on the. Ron. Popular for vegetables.
[00:07:13] Speaker A: Oh, my favorite was the Red Devil portable outdoor kitchen.
[00:07:18] Speaker B: I didn't. I never saw that one.
[00:07:20] Speaker A: Oh, man. I watched the Red Devil commercial and they eventually. I think they eventually sold the Magic Bullet.
[00:07:25] Speaker B: Oh, okay.
[00:07:27] Speaker A: And this lady, like, it was like, they're having a house party. One of the ladies was, like, smoking a cigarette inside, and she was like the comic relief, and she was like, dinner's always a production. They're, like, showing how to make dinner in the Magic Bullet.
[00:07:39] Speaker B: Magic Bullet's actually pretty fucking awesome. We got the off brand over here and it comes in handy, Johnny. That's good. Yeah. I always liked the Chef Tony commercials where he would go from song drywall to cutting tomatoes.
[00:07:53] Speaker A: Like, oh, yeah, the knives. This was crazy.
[00:07:55] Speaker B: The Miracle Blade 3 series.
[00:07:56] Speaker A: He'd be like, chopping it and I'm like, oh, my God. He's like chopping through a brick wall.
[00:08:00] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, boy.
Hilarious. All the. If I. If I am reduced to cutting drywall with my kitchen knives, Johnny, I probably.
[00:08:11] Speaker A: Have run out of a nightmare.
[00:08:13] Speaker B: Yeah, that sounds like. Like the old meth commercials with the.
The. I don't sleep at night, but I got the cleanest house on the street. Meth.
[00:08:23] Speaker A: Ooh, meth. No, David.
[00:08:25] Speaker B: Not even what's there.
[00:08:26] Speaker A: I don't eat and I don't sleep, but I got the cleanest house on the street. Oh, meth, Ooh, meth.
[00:08:33] Speaker B: Don't meth.
[00:08:35] Speaker A: Ooh, meth.
[00:08:36] Speaker B: Man, that was a great. That was a great PSA commercial.
[00:08:39] Speaker A: Yeah, it was freaky. Freaky deaky.
[00:08:41] Speaker B: I think, I think to me personally, more effective than the. This is your brain on drugs with the fried egg, because.
Yeah, I love. I love a fried egg. How is that supposed to questions? You're gonna say I'm delicious and gooey.
[00:08:58] Speaker A: A lot of questions.
We had Scruff McGruff.
[00:09:02] Speaker B: Rough McGruff. Chicago, Illinois 606.
It was 5:2. I thought it was.
I don't remember. I don't know. I guess it was a P.O. box.
[00:09:12] Speaker A: What's the real zip code?
[00:09:14] Speaker B: Well, 60601 is a. No, 60611 is a downtown six. Oh, downtown is all 6061 something.
West is 6065 something. I think north is 6060 something.
Okay, so I guess it would depend on where the post box was, but I would assume it would have been in the big post office that goes over Congress Parkway. Downtown. Right. That would be the most logical spot to put Scruff McGruff.
[00:09:45] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, it depends on where it was located.
[00:09:48] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess. I don't know, but like, the address was literally just the guy's name. That's awesome. I wish my address was just David Williams. Zip code redacted.
Could you imagine?
[00:09:59] Speaker A: So you get a lot of good pre sanded storage, pre sorted, standard mail.
[00:10:05] Speaker B: That's a lot.
[00:10:06] Speaker A: A lot of what I get psa.
Throw that shit away. That's an ad, baby.
[00:10:11] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. That's a first class.
[00:10:13] Speaker A: Stick it in your ass.
[00:10:14] Speaker B: I think.
I think it should be illegal for people to send junk mail in those Perforated tearaway envelopes that they have like a check that they send checks in there should be illegal for things that aren't actual money for you.
Because then I feel. I feel obligated to open it and be like, what is this? Oh, this is some garbage. And then I.
That's seconds of my life that I'm not getting back, Johnny. You know what I could have been doing? I could have been reading Spawn with that time.
[00:10:44] Speaker A: You could have been reading Spawn?
[00:10:45] Speaker B: I could have specifically. Johnny. I could have been reading some.
Oh my God. Now we got.
[00:10:52] Speaker A: What are you reading?
[00:10:54] Speaker B: The ones we read for today.
[00:10:56] Speaker A: We read Spawn for today.
[00:10:58] Speaker B: Did we? Oh, shit. Did you not fuck. I did.
[00:11:01] Speaker A: I read them.
I read them.
[00:11:03] Speaker B: I read them. Okay, good. As long as we've established that we have read the comic book. Why? Why? Why are we reading comics, Johnny?
Why?
[00:11:11] Speaker A: Because. Because we enjoy it.
[00:11:13] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. There's no other reason.
No other reason at all.
[00:11:18] Speaker A: Because we are. Respawn.
[00:11:20] Speaker B: Yes, we are.
[00:11:20] Speaker A: Regarding Spawn.
[00:11:21] Speaker B: Yes, we are.
[00:11:22] Speaker A: For each week we're bringing you two issues from Spawn's universe. Except when we do not, we got two piping hot issues in the cold Winter blast. Everyone's.
[00:11:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:34] Speaker A: Facing the aftermath this winter blast. So this will come out.
Well, like the 30th, but it's still gonna be fucking snow. I bet if you listen to this.
[00:11:41] Speaker B: Probably Piping Hot issues. Cuz they're from the summer.
[00:11:44] Speaker A: They like those hand warmers. You bust them out of the plastic, you shake them.
[00:11:48] Speaker B: Oh yeah.
[00:11:48] Speaker A: You wait 15 minutes and they're hot as hell.
[00:11:50] Speaker B: Do you remember. Do you remember those old fashioned ones that were basically just like a big fucking zippo so that you basically had like an open flame that you shoved in your.
[00:11:59] Speaker A: No.
[00:11:59] Speaker B: Oh, they were made for like hunters and stuff and. Well, I guess sounds like a problem. Yeah. Yeah. It's funny to think that the way you used to warm up your bed was you filled a pot with burning hot coals and just shoved it under the blankets with you.
Wow.
[00:12:15] Speaker A: And you should never smoke in pajamas. You heard that Frank Zappa song.
[00:12:20] Speaker B: You could start a fire and burn your face.
[00:12:23] Speaker A: Maybe you should live in Managua.
You could go unnoticed in such a place.
[00:12:30] Speaker B: Yeah, you should go and stay with your mama.
[00:12:35] Speaker A: Mama, she can do your laundry and cook for you.
[00:12:38] Speaker B: There we go. I don't remember the rest of it.
[00:12:41] Speaker A: You ain't really made for being out in the street.
Well, we read two issues from Small's Universe and they're piping hot because they're out in the street.
[00:12:51] Speaker B: Yes, they are, Mel.
[00:12:53] Speaker A: Medieval spawn number four.
[00:12:55] Speaker B: Yes, indeed.
[00:12:56] Speaker A: From July 2025. Holy shit. A year ago.
Feels like a million years ago.
[00:13:02] Speaker B: Oh, geez. It feels like a very long time ago.
[00:13:04] Speaker A: In 368, from September 2025. So not too long ago.
[00:13:08] Speaker B: Yeah, I remember the 21st night of that month. Johnny. I just realized something.
So I just got some new headphones, and obviously, I am now the official villain of the podcast, because your headphones have a green cable and my headphones have a red cable, so I have. I have bled the Kyber crystal of.
[00:13:27] Speaker A: Your sith headphones, Luke Skywalker.
[00:13:30] Speaker B: Yeah, Luke Skywalker. So. So now that we have. Now that we have that distinction down pat, I am the villain.
Yeah, that's true. That's true.
[00:13:42] Speaker A: We have villains galore and heroes galore. And two rollicking issues from Spawn's universe for you today.
[00:13:48] Speaker B: Yes, indeed.
On balance, pretty good.
[00:13:51] Speaker A: What?
[00:13:51] Speaker B: Unbalanced. Pretty good. A little. A little wacky, but I'm. Balance. Pretty good.
[00:13:56] Speaker A: What's pretty good?
[00:13:57] Speaker B: The. On balance, like, you take the two of them together, and you average them pretty good.
Because one of them is. One of them is very good, and one of them is there.
[00:14:09] Speaker A: I mean, it's crazy. I love it.
I'm in the topic for all. I'm like, all right, I'm so long for the ride.
Whatever this guy seems to decide to do, I'm going for it.
[00:14:18] Speaker B: Oh, boy. It is just very much like, I like reading the issue. I was like, I've missed an issue, haven't I? Nope. Haven't missed an issue.
That's how it is, Johnny. It's what we like.
[00:14:32] Speaker A: Feels. He's right. He doesn't think about the comments, David. He isn't. Yeah, that's right. Off the cuff.
[00:14:38] Speaker B: It wakes up. Wakes up fresh every day.
[00:14:39] Speaker A: Wakes up fresh at 100. He's 100 every day.
[00:14:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Unfortunately, when he wakes up fresh, that means he's forgotten all the continuity.
[00:14:47] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:14:48] Speaker B: He's like, what did I do yesterday? It doesn't matter. Let's just go.
[00:14:51] Speaker A: He just likes cool stuff. He's just banging his toys together. That's what he likes to do.
[00:14:55] Speaker B: It could work if you can get it.
Love it.
No, I did not see you playing with your toys again, sir.
[00:15:01] Speaker A: They keep threatening everything. Threatening. There's another one that's coming.
[00:15:04] Speaker B: Spaceballs two. Yes. Baseballs two is coming. Okay, let's go.
[00:15:08] Speaker A: Did you see the Masters of the Universe trailer?
[00:15:10] Speaker B: I did. Did you see that? People were up.
[00:15:12] Speaker A: Shit. Did you See about Masters Universe. Sorry.
[00:15:15] Speaker B: Gen X. I'm. I love. I love best.
[00:15:18] Speaker A: Oh, my God. I knew you were. Did you.
[00:15:19] Speaker B: Did you see that? There was Internet backlash about. Oh, my God. Prince Adam has pronouns on his.
[00:15:27] Speaker A: That was funny.
[00:15:28] Speaker B: He's he man.
[00:15:31] Speaker A: That's the joke. I got the joke. Yeah, it's funny.
[00:15:33] Speaker B: Yeah, it's funny. That is funny.
[00:15:35] Speaker A: That's a funny joke.
[00:15:36] Speaker B: It's funny. I like it.
[00:15:37] Speaker A: What's the problem?
[00:15:39] Speaker B: I don't know. People are dumb. My problem. My problem.
[00:15:42] Speaker A: It's kind of making fun of the pronoun thing.
[00:15:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:45] Speaker A: They should be on the side of it.
[00:15:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:48] Speaker A: It's just making. It's just a funny thing. It's just fucking funny. I thought that was funny.
[00:15:52] Speaker B: I thought it was hilarious. Of course. Of course. Yeah, it's good. My.
My problem. My problem, though, is that we see Prince Adam as Prince Adam, and Cringer is already in fucking battle cat mode. He just doesn't have his saddle. What the fuck is with that? Cringer doesn't turn into battle cat until Prince Adam turns into he man.
[00:16:11] Speaker A: I don't know. So he's like, your sister like it. You have, like, hand me down toys.
[00:16:15] Speaker B: My. My older cousin. Those were the toys that he left at my grandmother's house. And they're a little.
[00:16:21] Speaker A: They're a little older than us.
[00:16:22] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. My sister. My sister was into. She ra a little bit, but, like, I was, you know, well into turtles era, so Masters of the Universe was all old by the time I was capable of thinking of anything.
[00:16:35] Speaker A: But since it'd be like the toys to see the flea market, be like, what the fuck is this guy? And, like, throws the side.
[00:16:40] Speaker B: But since those were the toys that were left at my grandmother's house because, you know, my cousins that were my age didn't want to play with them, and so their older brother was just like, yeah, we'll leave them at Rean's. And so I. I played with them there, and I was. I thought they were awesome.
[00:16:53] Speaker A: That's cool.
[00:16:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:55] Speaker A: Have you watched any of the media or, like, consumed any of the story?
[00:16:58] Speaker B: Yeah, I used to. I used to watch Masters of the Universe an episode or two before I went to sleep when it was on Netflix.
[00:17:04] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:17:04] Speaker B: It was just. It was fun to just be like, what is this? What is going on? Oh, it's good for a toy advertisement, I'll tell you that. Yeah. Yeah. I tried to watch a little. I tried to watch a little bit of the Kevin Smith one, but I was not that into Masters of The universe.
[00:17:21] Speaker A: Yeah, I feel like you had to care.
[00:17:22] Speaker B: Yeah, it was. It was evil.
[00:17:25] Speaker A: Spawn is very masters of the universe, though.
[00:17:27] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. Like, they. They whip up characters just to sell an action figure like nobody's business.
[00:17:33] Speaker A: I mean, that's what Tom Farland does.
[00:17:35] Speaker B: Yeah. We're in the toy business, Johnny. There was a. There was a good.
The Netflix documentary series. The Toys that Made Us.
[00:17:43] Speaker A: Oh, I love those. I watched them all.
[00:17:45] Speaker B: The. The. The he man one with the old man who just goes, bong.
Yeah.
[00:17:51] Speaker A: I want one about the 90s Star wars specifically. They got like a footnote mention on the Star wars one. But I want to learn about the power of the Force line that ran from 1994 to 1995 to almost.
Oh, I think they stopped it in 2000.
[00:18:07] Speaker B: Johnny. I think what needs to happen is you need to submit a letter to Netflix producers and say, hello, my name is John Fisher. I would like to be part of the documentary that carries on the 90s Star wars line.
[00:18:22] Speaker A: I loved those figures, man.
They were great. I had a lot of them in. The episode one figures were great too.
[00:18:28] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, I would watch an episode about the 90s Galoob. Action Fleet.
That's what me. That's what me and my friends played with at recess every fucking day.
[00:18:40] Speaker A: Action Fleet was bomb.
[00:18:41] Speaker B: Yeah.
I had a X wing. I had a Y wing.
I had Slave 1 now.
Now renamed Boba Fett's Spaceship or Fett's Fire Spray.
[00:18:55] Speaker A: That's what they call in the car game because it's a fire spray class.
[00:18:58] Speaker B: But I like.
[00:18:59] Speaker A: He doesn't have. He doesn't name his ship. You know, he doesn't name it.
[00:19:01] Speaker B: Yeah, I did like that. That. It did come with a little bitty Luke Skywalker or not Luke Skywalker, a little Han Solo and carbonate that you could just like tuck in its. Its compartment.
[00:19:14] Speaker A: Actually was great.
[00:19:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:15] Speaker A: My favorite was the At. At I had because I had a little side hatch that open. It was like a lamp.
[00:19:20] Speaker B: I didn't have any of the. The ground vehicles. I only had ships. At.
[00:19:23] Speaker A: At. I like the snow.
The snow speeder.
[00:19:27] Speaker B: Snow speeder. Nice. I think I might have had an A wing too.
[00:19:31] Speaker A: I never had the A wing. My brother had the A wing.
[00:19:33] Speaker B: I never had.
[00:19:33] Speaker A: We never had a Y wing.
[00:19:34] Speaker B: Between the two of us, I had a Y wing. The problem with the Y wing is the. Like the. The.
The.
I'm gonna call them the cells because I don't know what they're called in the Star wars universe, but the. The backs of the engines kept falling off. They like they didn't hook on very well.
[00:19:50] Speaker A: Oh no.
[00:19:50] Speaker B: That was the only problem.
[00:19:53] Speaker A: So good.
[00:19:53] Speaker B: Well, you can't get anywhere without an engine. It made for good. It made for good story time because if you were flying around in the yard at recess and one of those bad boys fell off, you have to go, oh no, I'm hit. I'm hit. Crash landing.
It's fun.
[00:20:06] Speaker A: One of my favorites was they made an action fleet rancor.
[00:20:09] Speaker B: Oh, nice.
[00:20:10] Speaker A: That could eat your figures and poof them out.
[00:20:12] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
[00:20:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:14] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
That is great.
What about that?
Oh boy. What's it? The. The guard that gets eaten that apparently get crawls back out of the rancor's stomach after Luke Skywalker kills it.
[00:20:30] Speaker A: The Malachi or the goat?
[00:20:33] Speaker B: The Gamorrean guard.
[00:20:34] Speaker A: He does.
[00:20:35] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:36] Speaker A: There was apparently old canon or new canon?
[00:20:38] Speaker B: The old canon Gamorrean guards.
[00:20:41] Speaker A: He bites him in half though. I don't.
[00:20:43] Speaker B: Dude, don't look. Don't look at me. I'm just. I'm just sharing the Star wars maybe.
[00:20:48] Speaker A: Oola climbs out the little Star wars.
[00:20:50] Speaker B: Lore I know and have bothered to keep up with. What are you talking about? I know a lot about Star wars. Just not enough. There's too much Star wars to know.
[00:20:58] Speaker A: Not enough for me.
[00:20:59] Speaker B: That is true.
That's true. But that's the beauty about Star wars is it covers a lot of things and a lot of people can have their own little niche and you can.
[00:21:08] Speaker A: Focus on what you want.
[00:21:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Much like Spawn itself. Spawns unit.
[00:21:12] Speaker A: Yeah. There's like 16 titles right now. You can watch whatever the hell you want read.
[00:21:17] Speaker B: I have to tell you, Johnny. So unfortunately it was not a 12 year old boy, but an 11 year old boy. I have a friend who invited me over for some games and I brought for their 11 year old boy issue 48 of King Spawn. He fucking loved it. So nice. The.
The 1112 year old boy falling in love with Spawn is evergreen, Johnny.
[00:21:41] Speaker A: That's what we want.
[00:21:43] Speaker B: That's the cycle we want to see repeating.
[00:21:45] Speaker A: I bet he thinks Spawn's a badass after that issue.
[00:21:47] Speaker B: Oh, he better literally said, I enjoyed that. I look forward to reading the rest of the series.
[00:21:55] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:21:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:57] Speaker A: That's awesome.
[00:21:58] Speaker B: I was pretty excited. It took all. It took my willpower to not be like. You want to hear a podcast about it?
Yeah.
[00:22:07] Speaker A: Wait till he's like 14.
[00:22:08] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:22:10] Speaker A: P. Were PG 14.
[00:22:14] Speaker B: Or awesome.
[00:22:15] Speaker A: We say a lot.
[00:22:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Or whatever it is that they have in Britain.
[00:22:20] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I can't remember. PG12. They have a bunch. They have a whole ton. Shitload of them.
[00:22:26] Speaker B: Or like Canadian, I guess. I think the Canadian. It was. It was 14 and not 13.
Yeah. I always loved seeing the Canadian ratings on movies. TV14. TV14.
[00:22:37] Speaker A: Too young, but seems to be one of those. That moolah.
[00:22:41] Speaker B: Yeah.
I remember wondering, like, the difference between specifically video games. The difference between kids to adult rating. And everybody.
[00:22:52] Speaker A: What's the ka is the.
Is the. Is lower.
[00:22:56] Speaker B: Right.
But then everybody.
Everybody is.
[00:23:01] Speaker A: Do they get rid of. Do they get rid of one of them? Yeah, it's a little confusing.
[00:23:04] Speaker B: They might have gotten rid of one of them after a while, but at one point they both existed. Rated M for mature was a stamp of approval in the 90s. It ain't got a name and not. We're playing.
[00:23:15] Speaker A: That's what I say. This would have an M. And this is a Medieval Spawn number four.
[00:23:21] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
Yes, indeed.
And Johnny, we start, as we usually do with the covers because, yes, they're beautiful.
[00:23:32] Speaker A: I've got the Thomas Notchlick with Steve Cannon. And special thanks to Magnus Arts cover. It's a triple header and it's Medieval Spawn.
It's like a rocky crevice.
[00:23:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:45] Speaker A: He's peering into the distance.
[00:23:48] Speaker B: He's just.
[00:23:49] Speaker A: He's got a really intense, pensive look. Pensive look.
[00:23:53] Speaker B: It's like. It's like raining behind him.
[00:23:55] Speaker A: And there's a skull impaled on a sword.
[00:23:58] Speaker B: That's awesome. Look at all those bones.
[00:24:00] Speaker A: One of the two.
[00:24:02] Speaker B: It's an impaled skull, Johnny. Does it matter? Not really. Not really.
[00:24:06] Speaker A: Just bones.
[00:24:08] Speaker B: It's the. It's a very. It's a very gritty cover. Very Thomas Natchlick. Like with the. The salmon twitch. Gritty New York City, only its gritty Medieval Spawn.
[00:24:19] Speaker A: Yeah, I like it a lot.
[00:24:20] Speaker B: It's real good.
[00:24:21] Speaker A: A lot of emotion in those eyes.
[00:24:23] Speaker B: Yeah, I like how much emotion they're able to get out of these Spawn eyes. They're great. Yeah. Well, I have cover B. I've got the Kayle new cover.
And it is fucking incredible. It's.
[00:24:38] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:24:40] Speaker B: It's.
[00:24:42] Speaker A: It's like his like, finishing pose in a fighting game or something.
[00:24:45] Speaker B: Yeah. So it's. It's Medieval Spawn with the glowing green orb in his hand. And there's like some. Some nightmare images in the background there. And it's very.
It's very good. I was going to say that it's very watercolored, but it's not. It's not Very watercolored. It's.
It's just dope.
[00:25:04] Speaker A: It's very interesting.
[00:25:06] Speaker B: It's good. It's a great color. Great cover.
Great colors, too.
[00:25:11] Speaker A: Great colors and a great cover.
[00:25:12] Speaker B: Yeah, it's really dope. Well, Johnny, there's also dopeness inside of this thing. Won't we.
[00:25:18] Speaker A: There's many dopeness and many dope people to help make it. And that's what we call the credits.
[00:25:22] Speaker B: Dope credits.
[00:25:23] Speaker A: We have script plot by Rory McConville, art by Marco Etri Dope color by Ulysses Areola. Dope lettering by AM World Design.
[00:25:32] Speaker B: Dope.
[00:25:33] Speaker A: We already covered the covers.
[00:25:35] Speaker B: Definitely did.
[00:25:36] Speaker A: Creative director is Todd McFarlane. Dope editor in chief is Thomas Dopemaster Healy.
[00:25:42] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[00:25:43] Speaker A: Previously a medieval spawn, Abraxas has been freed and the order has been them surrounded. There is nothing else to do but fight.
[00:25:52] Speaker B: Yeah, a lot of fighting. Yeah.
[00:25:54] Speaker A: Patrick Dempsey went down and freed Abraxas.
Medieval spawn got a sorcerer and started closing in on him.
[00:26:01] Speaker B: Yeah. And then the fucking jagoffs came over with their banshee lady.
[00:26:08] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Started fucking stuff up.
So we got a. We got a little bit of a flashback for this first page of back before Medieval Spawn and Richard split from.
Shit. I forgot their names.
The other two that they originally started.
[00:26:28] Speaker A: Yeah, it's Cuthbert and somebody.
[00:26:30] Speaker B: Yeah. And they're sitting around the fire, and I do believe this is actually Cuthbert himself being like, hey, Medieval, you should totally show this kid that you're a fucking demon from hell.
You should really let him know. And Medieval's like, I don't think I could do that to him yet. He has been through too much.
[00:26:48] Speaker A: I was wondering why you never take off your fucking helmet, dude. He's got to get nasty.
[00:26:53] Speaker B: Yeah. And then at the bottom of the page, Medieval's little narration is like, I really should have fucking done it, guys.
Whoops.
Sorry about that.
[00:27:06] Speaker A: There's something free about being, like, a piece of clothing and doing work, you know you're gonna be disgusting. You just like, yeah, let it happen.
[00:27:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:12] Speaker A: That happens a lot in winter when you gotta, like, bundle up and wear around your face and, like, you're just like, I'm gonna be gross. But.
[00:27:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
Nothing to it, but to do it.
[00:27:23] Speaker A: Johnny, I bet his helmet stinks.
[00:27:25] Speaker B: Oh, probably.
He. I bet he. He knows very well what his breath smells like in there.
[00:27:31] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:27:32] Speaker B: That's probably why somebody invented gum, because they had to wear a face mask for too long.
And then we cut from there to the fight against Abraxas because Abraxas, you know, got out of its.
Got out of the force field that they had him in. And so all the.
All the warriors are there saying, oh, I'm gonna fight you. And Abraxas is like, which one shall be my host?
Which of you shall host me? The hellspawn. The Black Warlock.
[00:28:03] Speaker A: Little Dempsey.
[00:28:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:06] Speaker A: Dempster pops up.
[00:28:07] Speaker B: Yeah. And he says, you'll get neither.
Seems. That seems like a bit of line, a bit of dialogue that would have been in Sleepy Hollow. You'll get neither. Yes. And then. So Abraxas is like, well, I'll pick another one. There's some just, like, normalized.
[00:28:22] Speaker A: Oh, sorry, that wasn't Dempsey that said that, that was the Warlock.
[00:28:25] Speaker B: Yeah, whatever his name is. I forgot his name already.
[00:28:29] Speaker A: Find it.
[00:28:29] Speaker B: Yeah, we'll come across it.
Oh, he says it, like, on the very last page.
[00:28:34] Speaker A: Bastion.
[00:28:35] Speaker B: Bastion, that's right. Plenty of other puppets to choose from. And the.
[00:28:40] Speaker A: Then dempster. Old dempster. Mr. New.
King of the evil Abbott.
[00:28:46] Speaker B: Yeah. King of the King of the monastery.
He says, enough. Destroy the beast.
And Abraxas decides to take him.
And that grizzled old general in the background says, brother, as he is taken, and he says, ah, holy man. This will do for now. So Abraxas is in the Clerics, the warrior Cleric's body.
[00:29:13] Speaker A: He looks like something out of. Like. He looks like a Star Trek creature. Like something out of V. He does.
[00:29:19] Speaker B: He does.
Or kind of like a Stargate villain.
Yeah, actually, he kind of looks like a Jim Hadar from Deep Space Nine. Yeah, he's looking for that Ketracel white to keep him alive.
Somebody, somebody. Somebody got that one. Johnny. I won't explain it to you. I won't explain it to you. You'll just have to watch Deep Space Nine yourself.
Speaking of. Speaking of, I am on episode four of Lost.
[00:29:46] Speaker A: That's one of the best episodes.
[00:29:48] Speaker B: I just finished the one where we learn about.
Oh, fuck, I keep forgetting. Kate Kane. Yeah. Kate, Kate, what is his name?
[00:29:56] Speaker A: Who?
[00:29:57] Speaker B: The General Fucking.
[00:29:59] Speaker A: Oh, John Locke.
[00:30:00] Speaker B: Locke. That's his name?
[00:30:02] Speaker A: Yes. That's great. Walkabout. That's a great episode.
[00:30:04] Speaker B: That's a good episode.
[00:30:05] Speaker A: Do you see the twist coming?
[00:30:06] Speaker B: I did not see the twist coming.
And then it made sense. After the twist, I was like, oh, that's why his bedroom was that way.
[00:30:13] Speaker A: Yeah. And it's like. He's a weird guy.
[00:30:15] Speaker B: Yeah, he's a very weird guy.
[00:30:17] Speaker A: But enjoying it.
[00:30:18] Speaker B: Yeah. They just found Vincent. Which? Two thumbs. Way, way up.
[00:30:22] Speaker A: We Love Vincent the dog.
[00:30:24] Speaker B: Yeah, so. So, yeah, Abraxas and Dempsey's body just starts fighting the monks and Medieval over there with Bastion and Richard.
Bastion's just like, hey, if you can keep Abraxas occupied, I can whip us up another spell to try to bind him again.
[00:30:46] Speaker A: He's like, you can't leave the circle or else he's gonna try to possess your ass.
[00:30:50] Speaker B: Yeah. And so, you know, these monks keep coming up, trying to attack Medieval, and Medieval is just like, yeah, yeah, sure, we'll take care of these guys. We got it. We got it. Richard and I will stand guard.
Then he turns around and he's like, richard, Richard.
And we see that Richard has gone to the aid of the monks who were just getting absolutely fucked up by this. By this Abraxas and Dempsey.
[00:31:17] Speaker A: This reminds me, remember in Ghostbusters 2 when Rey gets possessed by Vigo for a little bit?
[00:31:21] Speaker B: Yeah, a little. Yeah.
[00:31:24] Speaker A: He turns like a weird. He's like a weird looking creature when he's like, all vigoray.
I, Ray, am now Viggo, the top atheist.
[00:31:31] Speaker B: What a crazy movie. Ghostbusters 2.
[00:31:34] Speaker A: Slime and Burn Wacky.
I love it.
[00:31:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
And Abraxas is like, I could see into your cleric's mind. You humans think you're so important, but I know the truth about your order. I will enjoy your elimination. And then he starts to raise his sword against the old bald general dude. And Richard comes to his rescue.
[00:31:57] Speaker A: The orphan boy. Come then.
[00:31:59] Speaker B: And then there's evil's like, steel himself.
[00:32:01] Speaker A: He's gonna go outside the circle.
[00:32:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:04] Speaker A: Bastion's like, don't, Don't.
[00:32:05] Speaker B: Don't do it.
[00:32:05] Speaker A: He's gonna possess your ass.
[00:32:07] Speaker B: Yeah, just. Just let him. Boy made his choice. And you know, Richard is holding his own there for a little bit. But then, you know, their swords get tangled and he gets the punch to the chest. And Medieval's like, I gotta help that boy. And he exits. He exits the circle. And then as Abraxas is raising his sword to slash down Richard, the old bald general man comes in and is like, aha. I shall save thee, Richard, run.
[00:32:36] Speaker A: He gets a slash across his face. Yeah, it's Kylo Ren, baby.
[00:32:40] Speaker B: Yeah, he does.
And then Medieval comes in and says, abrexus, turn and face me.
And so they start doing a little bit of. A little bit of fighting. And then Abraxas is like, hey, you know what? Fuck this cleric. I'm going to get this hell spawn. And so he goes and then takes over.
And then Medieval Medieval is just like, yeah, so I got possessed before. It's just like falling asleep. So, you know, in mere moments, the darkness will pass, and then I'll be plunged back into the waking world to discover how much time has elapsed. And then I'll see what I did while I slept. And then, you know. You know, I'll figure out. I'll figure it out from there. He's very. He's very laissez faire about getting possessed and coming back to consciousness happens.
[00:33:31] Speaker A: And then bashing's like, are you back, dude? He's like, yeah, I'm back.
[00:33:34] Speaker B: And he's like, good. Well, I got Abraxas here in this little rat.
[00:33:38] Speaker A: He sucks him in.
[00:33:39] Speaker B: Yeah. And. And Medieval's just like, so what's the damage?
[00:33:44] Speaker A: Everyone's dead.
[00:33:46] Speaker B: Bass is like, just look around, dude. Look at all this.
Medieval says, richard. Where is he? Sebastian's like, he saw your fucking face, dude.
[00:33:56] Speaker A: About that.
Richard's like, stand back, you monster.
[00:34:01] Speaker B: And Medieval's just like, hold on. Don't. Don't. It's still me.
And Richard's just like, you're a monster. I should have. Should have killed you the moment I met you.
[00:34:11] Speaker A: Sad.
[00:34:12] Speaker B: Yeah. And Medieval's little voiceover says, centuries have passed since that day. But I can still recall the look in the boy's eyes.
The fear, betrayal, and hatred. He was lost.
I just hadn't realized it yet.
[00:34:26] Speaker A: And what do you think he was doing with that helmet the whole time?
[00:34:28] Speaker B: I don't know. Maybe he thought he was dashing rogue, who felt that he was too beautiful for the worlds to see so that way he could get his job done. Maybe. I don't. I don't know. I just assume somebody who's wearing a mask all the time doesn't want their face to be seen for some reason or other.
[00:34:43] Speaker A: Whether I like that in running man, when McComb took off his mask, he was hot.
[00:34:50] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Because he was Oklahoman. Yeah. Lee Pace. Beautiful, man. I still. I still perpetually think of him as the pie maker.
[00:34:58] Speaker A: I think of him as in the.
The hobbit. For some reason, he's one of the elves.
[00:35:04] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, he is, man.
[00:35:07] Speaker A: I have said he's British, and I realize he's from Oklahoma, mate.
[00:35:10] Speaker B: Yeah, it's good. It's good stuff. It's good stuff.
[00:35:15] Speaker A: Earlier, the. The Knights order have been like, let's go get that banshee woman. Okay, cool. Yeah. And he comes back, the guy got Kylo Ren.
[00:35:23] Speaker B: Yeah. The old general, man. And he's like, yes, back with the banshee. He's like, guess what? We're going to collapse this fucking cave and just let the banshee wail. Banshees whale.
[00:35:37] Speaker A: And then rocks start falling.
[00:35:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
And Medieval starts talking to. He's like, richard, we need to leave before we're buried alive. And Richard says, I don't. That's. That's my purse. I don't know you.
[00:35:50] Speaker A: I'm done with your lies.
[00:35:53] Speaker B: And Medieval's like, I'm here to help. But then the cave starts falling in on him. Bastion's just like, leave him. Leave him. We got better things to worry about.
[00:36:02] Speaker A: So Spawn uses powers to like, like, hold the cave roof up.
[00:36:07] Speaker B: Yeah. And Bastion's just like, I will make us a portal out of here. And so.
So just like, time condenses for Medieval. He's focusing all his power on not getting smushed. And he's like, I don't know. Time. Time stops existing until Bastion bloops us out of there. And it's like, you know, he stops all the.
[00:36:27] Speaker A: I think he just stops all the collapsing.
[00:36:29] Speaker B: Well, he stops all the collapsing. But then, you know, that. That gives Bastion.
Yeah.
[00:36:36] Speaker A: Makes a Diablo portal. Yeah, Diablo out of there. They fast travel.
[00:36:41] Speaker B: Yeah.
It's like I should have. I should have asked Bastion for help way earlier, you know, like. Like Richard had said, why don't you ask this guy for help earlier?
He just didn't realize how desperate he was to begin with, Johnny. His quest began desperate and ended even more desperate.
[00:36:57] Speaker A: Yeah, it's kind of a coda on this story. Like, it's almost like an ending.
I think they're putting this out in a four issue. Probably a four issue trade paper back then.
[00:37:06] Speaker B: Probably, yeah.
[00:37:07] Speaker A: Because the first issue is big. So, yeah, they usually do them in five or six. Right.
[00:37:12] Speaker B: No, I think this was. I think this is four.
So this is.
[00:37:17] Speaker A: This is the end.
[00:37:17] Speaker B: This is the end.
[00:37:19] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:37:20] Speaker B: You.
[00:37:20] Speaker A: You couldn't realize.
[00:37:21] Speaker B: You couldn't tell by the. The very last words. So. So, yeah, I thought there'd be more.
They, they, they bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop out of there. And then we just see, you know, Medieval Spawn riding his very, very heavily armored horse around, just like, being like, man, I up. I made a big enemy out of Richard.
Boy, I. I couldn't have messed that up worse if I tried.
And he says, but that's a story for another time.
That's the. How is that. How did you not get. That's a meta. Metatextual comment.
[00:37:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I thought there was more. I don't remember how long this minisery was. I can't keep up with these. Are miniseries or ongoing series?
[00:38:06] Speaker B: Let's just say ImageComics.com does say medieval spawn number four, parentheses of four. So okay.
Yeah. So yeah, I have a feeling there will probably be some more continue adventures of Medieval Spawn at some point.
[00:38:22] Speaker A: But I learned some more about Richard.
[00:38:24] Speaker B: Yeah, probably. I have a feeling that, you know, comics is. Comics is. You have to always leave an opening for more story or else you don't get any more money. So.
[00:38:34] Speaker A: That's true.
[00:38:34] Speaker B: We have here our opening and the ending. The ending is the beginning and the beginning is the end.
[00:38:39] Speaker A: Oh my God.
[00:38:40] Speaker B: Oh. Oh goodness at all.
It's all ontologically repeating ontology.
Oh, gotta.
[00:38:48] Speaker A: That's some Willy Wonka shit you just said.
[00:38:50] Speaker B: It's something that one of my favorite professors at OSU always used to say.
Dr. Wachowitz.
He was a modernist scholar. Specifically a joist scholar. So he was.
[00:39:03] Speaker A: He was a bum, David. That means he was a bum.
[00:39:06] Speaker B: That means he was a jaded, grumpy old man. And I fucking loved him. Okay.
He was great.
Then after the spawn skull to end the issue, we get the new generation, new stories, new youw advertisement for the some of the spin offs. Some of them all Sammy Rat City Bloodletter, Curse of Shirley Johnson. Very nice.
[00:39:28] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[00:39:29] Speaker B: Get that image classic set.
[00:39:32] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[00:39:32] Speaker B: Then we get the House of the Dragon accessories to your dragon action figure advertisement Dragon separately. And then the back of the issue ad is the spawn Call of Duty ad.
Yeah. And then the back cover is a nice isolated spawn orb.
[00:39:52] Speaker A: We like it.
[00:39:53] Speaker B: Very good.
[00:39:54] Speaker A: That was medieval spawn 404.
[00:39:57] Speaker B: 404. I guess that makes it one, right?
[00:40:00] Speaker A: Technically that's too complicated for me.
[00:40:03] Speaker B: Yeah, it's math fractions.
[00:40:24] Speaker A: Next up we got spawn 368.
[00:40:26] Speaker B: Yes, we do.
[00:40:27] Speaker A: The mainline spawn 368.
[00:40:31] Speaker B: And it is, Johnny, a year and.
[00:40:33] Speaker A: A half removed from the big 350 event.
[00:40:36] Speaker B: Yes, indeed.
An important. An important thing to pin there, Johnny. It is.
[00:40:42] Speaker A: It's crazy. It's been over a year and a half.
[00:40:44] Speaker B: It's wild to think that 350 was so long ago.
[00:40:48] Speaker A: It was like almost two years ago. Yeah, it was like March or April, wasn't it?
[00:40:52] Speaker B: April, I think because I got away without having an actual jacket.
[00:40:59] Speaker A: Yeah. Wow.
[00:41:00] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:41:01] Speaker A: Damn spawn train keeps rolling.
[00:41:04] Speaker B: Time, time, time keeps on slipping, Johnny.
[00:41:07] Speaker A: But it's spawn 368 and we always start with the covers.
[00:41:11] Speaker B: Yes, we do.
[00:41:12] Speaker A: I have a cover. Oh, the A cover is by Kale.
[00:41:16] Speaker B: New, who did the B cover on Medieval Spawn Number four.
Whoa, whoa. Synergy.
[00:41:22] Speaker A: It is like Spawn. Like, underwater. He's fighting the Pirates of the Caribbean. He's fighting Davy Jones.
[00:41:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:32] Speaker A: Not really. But he's just underwater with his chains and a big sword. He's coming at you.
[00:41:36] Speaker B: It's a good cover.
[00:41:37] Speaker A: You get a lot of underwater spawn.
[00:41:39] Speaker B: No, you don't. That would be fun to see. It would be fun to see Spawn in a little scuba suit.
[00:41:45] Speaker A: Scuba Spawn.
[00:41:46] Speaker B: Scuba Spawn. Then send him to space and put him in the fishbowl helmet.
[00:41:50] Speaker A: Space Spawn.
[00:41:51] Speaker B: Space Spawn. It's a good. It's a good cover. Well, I have cover.
[00:41:54] Speaker A: Like, I don't know. He's like. He's kind of skinny of the head.
[00:41:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Big of sword.
[00:42:01] Speaker A: I'm assuming he's underwater. That's what it looks like, right?
[00:42:03] Speaker B: That is what it looks like. It's either that or like he's flying through the. Like he's jumping through a snowy sky or something.
[00:42:08] Speaker A: Or ashes or something.
[00:42:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:42:11] Speaker A: I don't know. Looks cool, though.
[00:42:13] Speaker B: Yeah, it does.
I have the B cover, the Thaddeus Roebuck cover. And it is just a spooky snowy wood scene with raven spawn and some ravens. And it says, hell hath arisen. Epilogue up at the top.
[00:42:28] Speaker A: Oh, mine says that, too.
[00:42:29] Speaker B: Oh, nice.
[00:42:30] Speaker A: Quite an epilogue this issue.
[00:42:32] Speaker B: Yeah, it is a complete resetting.
[00:42:35] Speaker A: It's.
I don't know what it is.
[00:42:39] Speaker B: Well, let's. Let's. Let's see who made it and then get into it. Johnny, when we pop open.
[00:42:44] Speaker A: Let's find out, David. Let's find out together.
[00:42:46] Speaker B: Yeah. So we start with script, plot by Todd McFarlane, art by Brett Booth, inks by Adelsa Corona, colors by Robert Nugent, lettering by the Tom Father himself, Tom Orzikowski.
[00:42:59] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:43:00] Speaker B: We covered the covers. Todd McFarlane is the creative director, and Thomas Healy is the editor in chief.
[00:43:06] Speaker A: And Queen Amidala is young and naive.
Controlling her would not be difficult.
[00:43:12] Speaker B: Previously in Spawn.
With the destruction of Hel's preacher Spawn, his allies and enemies have all been exposed to the world.
So I guess the big monster was a.
The fucking.
What's the word I'm looking for? Like an evangelist.
[00:43:35] Speaker A: He's a preacher. He was.
[00:43:36] Speaker B: He was. He was. He was Uncle Baby Billy from hell.
[00:43:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:43:43] Speaker B: Come on, now. Yeah, I don't.
[00:43:44] Speaker A: I don't know what that means.
[00:43:47] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't. That's. That's. This is new information after the fact. And they just kind of glance. They don't even. They don't even describe it.
[00:43:56] Speaker A: Maybe they meant creature.
[00:43:59] Speaker B: Maybe creature. Creature would be creature makes a little.
[00:44:02] Speaker A: More sense than Preacher.
[00:44:04] Speaker B: I mean, the problem is that even though they rhyme, they're spelled completely differently.
[00:44:10] Speaker A: Who knows how people's brains work?
[00:44:12] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know, but we start with Spawn addressing the assembled heroes, saying, you've done yourselves proud, every one of you. But now, moving forward, we'll all have to deal with a new reality.
So we're. We're level setting after this cataclysmic event.
[00:44:30] Speaker A: He's doing a huddle. He's doing a team.
[00:44:34] Speaker B: So thanks for coming to this gathering.
[00:44:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:44:42] Speaker B: And it's like we've all been exposed. The world now knows we all exist, and we can never go back to the shadows.
[00:44:47] Speaker A: There's some villains there, too. You got Tremor, you got.
[00:44:49] Speaker B: You got Mandarin.
[00:44:50] Speaker A: Spawn, you got Dakota.
[00:44:52] Speaker B: Is that. Is that blood in the background next to Dakota?
[00:44:56] Speaker A: Maybe it seems crazy to let blood hang out of them.
[00:45:00] Speaker B: Yeah, I do like that. We've got a little. See the past three issues.
Yes.
[00:45:04] Speaker A: See the past three issues.
[00:45:06] Speaker B: And then we get. We get pundits. Like, we've never seen them before, Johnny. Not even our regular pundits. They're just.
[00:45:11] Speaker A: These are in the field.
[00:45:12] Speaker B: In the field pundits. These are the. The on location reporters.
[00:45:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:45:18] Speaker B: For, like, none of the news channels we've ever seen. And they're just talking about. There's no. There's no different spin on all of these. They're just like, look at this fucking rubble. Look at these fucking costume people. What the shit is going on?
It's very cool, though. And then Spawn goes on to say, this government, the media, the Internet, they're not going to let go, nor should they, because the unknown scares people.
[00:45:41] Speaker A: That's. That's cancel culture right there.
[00:45:42] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's funny to think of Redeemer here as old man Redeemer, being like, so what do you think happens next?
Because he doesn't remember the future he just came from.
[00:45:52] Speaker A: Yeah. He doesn't know.
What do you think happens next?
[00:45:55] Speaker B: Yeah. And so some of them are like, are you. So we should be hiding and sponsors. No, no, no, no, no. We can't hide. We got to be out here, and we got to be out here doing. We're costumed people. We're here. Get over it.
[00:46:09] Speaker A: And Jessica is like, yo, they're gonna blame us. They're gonna blame us.
[00:46:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:46:14] Speaker A: They don't even know any of you.
[00:46:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:46:16] Speaker A: Know These people here.
[00:46:17] Speaker B: How. How are. How are the people going to. How are random people going to know who's the good guy? When I'm fucking. I'm fucking a good guy, and I don't even know any of these people. Who are these good people?
[00:46:27] Speaker A: These good people who tell are you.
[00:46:29] Speaker B: Focus is like, what's her problem?
Like, whoa.
[00:46:33] Speaker A: Crazy.
[00:46:35] Speaker B: And then spawns, like, if you recall, some of them were able to do things with their abilities that you weren't. And that automatically makes them good.
They risked everything, like all of you would have. It's like a moment. Many of the heroes analyze one another. So they're all just being like, who the is?
[00:46:50] Speaker A: Yeah. They're, like, looking like, who the is.
[00:46:52] Speaker B: This guy Cygor's got himself, like, he's rubbing his chin, like. And then he says, english much too good. They said you were injured to focus.
[00:47:01] Speaker A: And focus is like, a very important line. I was, but I'm fine.
Great scene.
[00:47:08] Speaker B: So much. So much being held up by that. And so Jessica Priest, like, is like, so if we don't go back underground, if we let people know we're trying to help and Spawn's like, you already know the answer to the question that you're asking, so why even bother answering the. Asking the question? It's like, you do know what people are gonna do though, right? They're not gonna be very excited that all of us heroes banded together and saved the world. No, no, no, no, no. They're gonna be too obsessed with all the people who died. How dare they?
[00:47:32] Speaker A: They're gonna focus on that.
[00:47:36] Speaker B: Holy they. Rightfully so. They just had a big devil preacher come up and smash.
[00:47:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:47:46] Speaker B: And then we got Javi and Taylor. And Javi's looking at him. He's like, what you looking at, boy? And he goes, javi, it's me, Taylor.
You left me.
[00:47:54] Speaker A: Why?
[00:47:55] Speaker B: For your own good. You weren't safe.
[00:47:57] Speaker A: Yeah. It's like, what the hell? This is how we see their reunion.
[00:48:01] Speaker B: Yeah. And then the freak is like, eh, don't listen to him, kid or freak. He just comes out of nowhere.
[00:48:08] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:48:09] Speaker B: It's like he's hogging all the killing. Don't stick with me, kid. I'll let you kill some stuff.
[00:48:14] Speaker A: Then, like Javier to shoot freak.
[00:48:17] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's like, step. Step away from the boy. And he points. He points his gun at the freak's chest. And Johnny, as we remember from that one episode in the early seasons of Lost, where they shoot the marshal and he shoots him in the fucking chest and just makes everything Worse, Instead of shooting him in the head, Phreak is like, here, let me help you. Your gun's always too low. Aim for the head.
I actually really enjoyed the freak showing up because it made no sense. And the freak. The freak makes no sense. He's just an agent of chaos.
[00:48:53] Speaker A: And Poacher's had enough. Because, remember, Poacher and Taylor are great friends. We have no idea how.
[00:48:59] Speaker B: Just that Taylor freed Poacher from some sort. Sort of gig that he was stuck in.
[00:49:03] Speaker A: Freedom from his action figure box.
[00:49:05] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's like, the boy has been through enough. Now do the smart thing and walk away. You know being crazy isn't a superpower, right?
Freak's just like, yeah, you guys. And walks.
[00:49:17] Speaker A: Flips him off, Walks away.
[00:49:19] Speaker B: And then Poacher's just like, how are those two broken arms you got there, Taylor? And Taylor's like, man, I don't know.
Sucks. He. He fixed focus because focus was more likely to die and didn't have any juice left over. Oh, sorry. He being spawned, he didn't have any juice left to fix my arms. So I guess I just got broken arms. And Poacher's like, yeah, yeah, that sucks, man.
Maybe. Maybe. Maybe we can team up again in the future. I'm gonna. I'm gonna.
[00:49:46] Speaker A: I'll be around if you need a favor.
[00:49:51] Speaker B: And Spawn's like, yes, I'm sorry that I couldn't save your arm, but you're a good kid.
[00:49:56] Speaker A: Now go home and rest.
[00:49:57] Speaker B: He's like, what?
[00:49:58] Speaker A: That's it?
[00:49:59] Speaker B: Yeah, don't you walk away from me. And Spot's like, what? What do you want? You want me to. You want me to stick around? Be your daddy? Teach you things? Coach you in how to do stuff? Nah, you'll learn on your own.
And Poacher's just like, you could try to teach him, but he has to learn himself before he truly understands.
Yes. And then, Johnny, we cut to halfway around the world with. Holy, holy, holy. What is this?
[00:50:29] Speaker A: Sid is back alive, which is all in one panel. Yeah, he was helping.
[00:50:32] Speaker B: He was helping, and now he's halfway across the world.
[00:50:35] Speaker A: He's like Lex Luthor now.
[00:50:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:50:37] Speaker A: Like, he's not even Cogliostro.
[00:50:39] Speaker B: Yeah. No, he's literally. Yeah, he's Lex Luthor. Literally. Had a green suit, too. And he's sitting in this chair, and he's got himself a little full of wine or. Yeah. Champagne. And he's like, you know, he's like, you know, we should probably be doing some more bad stuff now. I Think. I think now would be a good time to do some bad stuff.
And he's like, you know what? Let us. Let us find a heretofore unmentioned very important person to Malbolge's regime.
[00:51:10] Speaker A: He probably mentioned, like, issue 98, like, back in like, like 1998.
[00:51:14] Speaker B: Probably.
Probably. And so we. We cut to a house where there's this man sleeping peacefully in his bed. And then half of his house just explodes. And there's a demon with a.
A very comical gun. I like it.
[00:51:27] Speaker A: It's like Earth War. Jim's gone.
[00:51:30] Speaker B: He just says, it's time to pay the piper. James Trumbo.
And then we cut to Al's watching the news.
[00:51:36] Speaker A: Like a classic.
[00:51:37] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like a Gen X boomer. It's like a. A boomer.
It's like a pared down Batcave. There's only three screens instead of a wall of screens. And Jessica Priest is like, hey, you got a minute? Trying to figure out what's going on. You're. You're not doing too good, are you? And he's like, ah, no.
And Jessica Priest is like, well, you know, shit happens and we'll take care of it. And Spawn is like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I must do all things by myself. There is no we.
[00:52:05] Speaker A: There is no we.
[00:52:06] Speaker B: Jessica Priest is like, man, I fucking. I'm fucking telling you that you're doing a good job all the goddamn time and you're helping lots of people, and you're still over here being like, woe is me. I must be all by myself.
Oh, man. Angry Jessica Priest. It's great.
[00:52:20] Speaker A: So I'm out of here. So walks away.
[00:52:22] Speaker B: When you're done with your self loathing, the rest of us will be waiting.
[00:52:26] Speaker A: And I was like, jessica, wait. You're right. I'm just tired.
[00:52:29] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:52:30] Speaker A: The fuck up.
Ow.
[00:52:33] Speaker B: Watching the news and she's just being like.
Like, I wish none of this were necessary, but you know, evil's not gonna go away. And we're fucking born and bred fighters. We might as well do some fighting for good. And then for 20 seconds, they just stand there. And then I was like, okay. And hugs Jessica Priest. Thanks.
[00:52:52] Speaker A: And he does not look too excited about the hug.
[00:52:54] Speaker B: No, looks more.
[00:52:55] Speaker A: He's very confused.
[00:52:56] Speaker B: Oh, boy.
[00:52:58] Speaker A: Did he like force kiss her? The other one?
[00:53:00] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. He like, held her against the wall and kissed her.
[00:53:05] Speaker A: Creep ass.
[00:53:06] Speaker B: Oh, boy. It's like the. It's like the. The Todd father's writing his own slash fic here.
[00:53:11] Speaker A: Yeah, it's kind of weird.
[00:53:12] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we cut from there back to Sins Lair and Trumbo is James Trumbo is there. Boxers. Boxers. And since like. So I hear you were like Mel Bolger's right hand man, huh? Used to pick. Pick people for the Hell Spawn program, huh? Oh, yep, yep. You did that. You picked me. You picked me. He's like, no, no, no, you were before my time. You're an old.
[00:53:37] Speaker A: He would know that, like Haunt Yoshi would know that. He was at the first hell spawn, right?
[00:53:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Because he made the. He made the suit with Violator.
[00:53:45] Speaker A: Oh my God.
[00:53:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
And he's like, I didn't. And Trumbo's just like, I didn't. I didn't real that. I didn't do that much in Sins. Like.
But didn't you. Didn't you do a lot?
But when Malbolia was slain, why did you flee and not fight? And Trump was like, he told me to get the fuck out of there. And since like, you know why that means you got some fucking good shit up in that noggin of yours.
We're gonna, we're gonna. Oh, we're gonna use you, James.
[00:54:12] Speaker A: I'm guessing your master needed your escape because he had a Emperor Palpatine like plan to somehow return.
[00:54:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
So we're gonna, we're gonna use that plan that he buried deep in your head and we're gonna Opening reading, resurrect Malbolia, the one and true lord and master of Hell.
[00:54:30] Speaker A: We get a great two page spread with Malbolia himself.
[00:54:33] Speaker B: Yeah. And a whole bunch of hair on.
[00:54:35] Speaker A: His chinny chin chin. A whole bunch of spawns.
[00:54:37] Speaker B: Yeah, a whole bunch of spawns. Like spawns as they were meant to be. As hell.
[00:54:42] Speaker A: As you saw in issue eight whenever they showed Hell's Army.
[00:54:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:54:45] Speaker A: They're supposed to be.
[00:54:46] Speaker B: Or, or if you remember from a little film called Spawn 1997, when they go to Hell and there's all the little.
[00:54:53] Speaker A: Yeah, all the little like loops of white doing stuff on a green screen.
[00:54:59] Speaker B: Great. It's great. And there's like a two headed monster.
[00:55:01] Speaker A: I will lead your army.
[00:55:04] Speaker B: It's very good.
[00:55:05] Speaker A: And then Sin's like, he's going to sit on that throne again. Can I count on your support?
[00:55:10] Speaker B: And Trumbo says 100%. And then sin just. Fucking Joker laughs us to the end of the issue.
Like straight up.
[00:55:17] Speaker A: The power meter's at 4023.
Decent.
[00:55:25] Speaker B: Not too bad. He's been worse.
[00:55:26] Speaker A: Too bad.
[00:55:27] Speaker B: Then no spawning ground, no spawning Grounds. Very interesting, Very interesting, Very interesting. We get the Image Classics Ad Genie. More Spawns Universe. Johnny.
[00:55:37] Speaker A: Why do you think I'm here, David?
[00:55:38] Speaker B: Okay, good. Then don't miss these ongoing titles. We got the core. We got the Core 4. Very nice.
[00:55:43] Speaker A: Swanking small, scorching gunslinger.
[00:55:45] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. Then we get the Mortal Kombat 1 ad with that cool sub zero.
Then we get the UFC toy ad on the back there with four losers.
And that's spawn number 368, Johnny. Eight.
Very good.
[00:56:05] Speaker A: 368.
[00:56:06] Speaker B: Three, six, eight.
Well, Johnny, it's been very cold outside.
And you know what puppies like to do when it's very cold outside?
[00:56:17] Speaker A: Sleep.
[00:56:17] Speaker B: Sleep under a blanket. So that's. That's real good. That's real good.
[00:56:22] Speaker A: They're not causing trouble.
[00:56:24] Speaker B: There are getting a little stir crazy because they've not been able to go outside.
And not only because it's fucking cold, but the other day there was a fucking hawk in my backyard just ripping the shit out of a pigeon. So now I have to. Now I have to find ways to fucking keep a hawk from picking up my tiny ass little dogs and flying away with them for dinner. You know what I didn't need, Johnny?
A hawk. A fucking hawk that I have to worry about with wee wittle doggies. Well, all that's to say, Johnny, is I rate these puppies good. And it's time to rate these puppies that we just covered.
[00:56:58] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies.
First up we have Medieval Spawn number four.
Four, the final conclusion. And like it's conclusion, but it's the beginning. Yeah, I like this series. I thought it was fun. I wish it would keep going. I was ready for more.
[00:57:18] Speaker B: Yeah, I hope it keeps going.
[00:57:19] Speaker A: I hope we get some. Another little. I want to see what Richard becomes to Medieval Spawn. But I like the sword and sorcery of it.
[00:57:27] Speaker B: Oh yeah.
Oh, yeah.
[00:57:30] Speaker A: Was fun.
Really cool fights and just really clarity of action.
I really like the art by Etri. And it was just a fun, fun little miniseries. I don't know. Yeah, I'm gonna give it four out of five possessed rays from Ghostbusters 2.
[00:57:50] Speaker B: Nice.
Very, very.
I really like that this gives me a medieval spawn to give a shit about. Because in all the other. I mean, Medieval Spawns.
[00:58:02] Speaker A: Yeah, I like him in this.
[00:58:03] Speaker B: He's fine.
[00:58:03] Speaker A: He's my favorite spawn.
[00:58:04] Speaker B: Yeah, he's fine. He's not the best, but he's also. He's also mostly a jerk. And here we get him being just, you know, he's filling the owl role. And he's a conflicted. A conflicted individual. And I like that. I like. It's given him some humanity that he's been. He's been lacking.
Understandably, you could say. Probably it's because he's lived for so many centuries that he's become jaded and that's why he's an asshole and scorched, etc. But no, it's fun. I liked. I liked Abraxas. Abraxas was fucking creepy. Bastion was cool. I like a crazy. I like a crazy mage.
I would very much like to see this. This Richard and Old General man team with their just like occults weapons that they use against everybody. It's pretty cool. It was fun. That's a. It's a great little mini series and a nice little jumping on point. I. Johnny. I'm also gonna give it four. I'm gonna give it four little bitty caged rats that have Abraxas in them.
[00:59:00] Speaker A: Let's just squish the rat.
[00:59:01] Speaker B: It's very. It's very rats of Nim. Right there it is.
[00:59:05] Speaker A: So.
[00:59:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:59:06] Speaker A: They're scary eyes four. And next up we have spawn 368, which is a smorgasbord. What else can you say about a Todd father issue?
[00:59:13] Speaker B: Oh boy. It is.
[00:59:14] Speaker A: Those are being about smorgasbord spawn. Having a meeting with everybody to sin.
[00:59:21] Speaker B: Putting a plane.
[00:59:22] Speaker A: Sizing each other up.
[00:59:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:59:24] Speaker A: To the freak. Like trying to get Taylor. And it's just.
It's. It's just like so stream of consciousness. Just like he's like. And then this happens and this and.
[00:59:33] Speaker B: This and this and this.
[00:59:35] Speaker A: He's always moving forward. Like I said.
[00:59:37] Speaker B: Yeah. There's always. There's. No matter what direction the main title spawn goes in, you. You're going to be able to trace something back to something that happened in this issue.
[00:59:47] Speaker A: Meticulously spending many issues showing Cogliostro's turn to villainy. He's now turned into like the Joker or Lex Luthor.
[00:59:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:59:57] Speaker A: Which is funny.
Even though he died in 350.
[01:00:01] Speaker B: Yeah. In a very terrible way. Like got vaporized.
[01:00:06] Speaker A: I think he just forgot that happened. And no one was like, have the heart to tell him.
[01:00:11] Speaker B: I mean, it's possible.
[01:00:12] Speaker A: And then you get the weird Jessica Priest interlude where he hugs her forcibly yet again.
[01:00:17] Speaker B: That shit's so fucking weird. I don't. I don't understand what's going on there.
[01:00:21] Speaker A: I was laughing along with it though. I had a good time. The Brett Booth art is always amazing. It's like very dynamic, electric, but it's just this top. Other stuff's like.
[01:00:32] Speaker B: I don't know.
[01:00:32] Speaker A: It's just.
[01:00:32] Speaker B: It's wild.
[01:00:33] Speaker A: I'm excited about bulges coming back. Yeah, that was cool.
[01:00:36] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[01:00:37] Speaker A: But it's just very stream of consciousness. It's very.
A guy banging his toys together, which I guess is what he's doing, which is, you know, more power to him.
[01:00:44] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm here.
[01:00:45] Speaker A: Three and a half toasts of the pink champagne that Sin is drinking.
[01:00:49] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. I mean, it was fun. It's. It's wackadoo. And we love the wackadoo.
[01:00:56] Speaker A: It just feels like there's no substance to this. Like, it's just like every issue is like a man and then. And then. And then as might as well be like a new clean slate the next issue.
[01:01:03] Speaker B: Yeah, it's just. Yeah. I hope. I hope it. I hope it goes somewhere after this. It.
We can't. We cannot ignore the fact that the Brett Booth art is incredible. It is so good. But, yeah, it's. It's wild.
It's. It's fun because we've been off of it for so long. But I have a feeling that if we have to read a lot of these issues in a row, it's going to be like, come on.
[01:01:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I agree.
[01:01:27] Speaker B: I'm going to give it three comical guns held by a hell beast. Going to pick up James Trumbo.
[01:01:33] Speaker A: It's like a pop gun. It has a cork in the end.
[01:01:35] Speaker B: Yeah, it looks like it.
It's very Looney Tunes.
Yeah, not too bad. Could be worse.
[01:01:43] Speaker A: Could be better, could be worse.
[01:01:45] Speaker B: Well, you know what is not worse and is infinitely better? Johnny. Regardless of how good the books are.
[01:01:52] Speaker A: Our friends on Instagram.
[01:01:53] Speaker B: Our friends on Instagram and the Spawn mutity. It's beautiful community. I love it.
It's the community I want to retire in. And this week we would like to shout out NC17 creations. That's NC17 creations.
And this is a Lady in Texas ratings. Yeah, it's Johnny's favorite rating.
It's a spooky lady in Texas who. Who really like Spawn.
They. They hit the. The flea markets and got just them, a big stack of old 90s spawn action figures and have just been opening them up for people on Instagram. And it's fucking great. It's so good.
I think. I think she actually has almost all of the movie figure sets.
[01:02:46] Speaker A: Those are good figures.
[01:02:47] Speaker B: Yeah, good figures.
[01:02:49] Speaker A: So those playsets they made in that time, like the monsters and that they were really cool.
[01:02:54] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real good. So it's NC17 creations. Go give them. Go give them some love. Tell them, hell yeah, Spawn.
[01:03:01] Speaker A: Do it.
[01:03:01] Speaker B: Do it.
[01:03:02] Speaker A: While you're doing that, tell us. Hell yeah, Spawn. We are regarding Spawn Pod on Instagram.
[01:03:06] Speaker B: Yes, we are.
[01:03:06] Speaker A: You can also reach us at gmail@. Regarding spawnpod.gmail.com.
[01:03:11] Speaker B: Yes, we certainly can.
[01:03:13] Speaker A: I would ask this week, what did you think of the Medieval Spawn miniseries as a whole now that we've included it?
[01:03:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:03:19] Speaker A: Did you want more? Did you want less? Did you want something different?
[01:03:22] Speaker B: If you've read the previous Medieval Spawn miniseries, how does it. How does it stack up? Does it scratch an itch? Is it completely different?
[01:03:31] Speaker A: You know, let us know.
[01:03:33] Speaker B: We're gonna have to cover those someday, will we, David?
[01:03:35] Speaker A: We might be done before then, probably.
[01:03:38] Speaker B: Well, I mean, yeah, there's a lot of Spawn to get through. We'll see. It's.
[01:03:42] Speaker A: We'll see. Hey, it's our format. We can do whatever the hell we want.
[01:03:44] Speaker B: It's day by day, Johnny, is how it goes.
[01:03:47] Speaker A: Day by day.
[01:03:49] Speaker B: While you're on the Insta. While you're on the Internet.
[01:03:53] Speaker A: Insta. Internet.
[01:03:55] Speaker B: Yeah. While you're on the Internet, you know, telling us what you think about the Medieval Spawn series, take yourself over to Googler and type in Lonnie Bones music and give him some love. Because Lonnie Bones does our music, and it's fucking awesome.
[01:04:11] Speaker A: We love him.
[01:04:12] Speaker B: Yes, we do. And you know what else we love, Johnny.
[01:04:15] Speaker A: We love people who rate, review, and subscribe.
[01:04:18] Speaker B: Yes, that's not the direction I was thinking of, but we do love those. Do you know what else we love, Johnny?
[01:04:24] Speaker A: More Spawn.
[01:04:25] Speaker B: More Spawn. There we go.
Just. Just more of the hero villain dynamic. Johnny is thinking of the people, and I am thinking only of us.
[01:04:35] Speaker A: I have the. I have the green core, David. I have the lightsaber.
[01:04:38] Speaker B: I blood my Kyber.
Well, Johnny, why don't we read a couple more Spawn issues next and talk about them in a week?
[01:04:46] Speaker A: Let's do it.
[01:04:47] Speaker B: And why don't we have a hell of a good time and read Salmon Twitch number 18 and Rat City number 18?
[01:04:54] Speaker A: Hell yeah.
[01:04:54] Speaker B: Because that's.
[01:04:56] Speaker A: That's the conclusion of the Salmon Twitch arc.
[01:04:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
And we also haven't done them in a little bit because that's the way of the cycle works.
[01:05:05] Speaker A: That's how it goes.
[01:05:06] Speaker B: So find yourselves Copies of issues 18 of both Rat City and SAM and Switch case files and read them. Come listen to us talking about them in a week.
[01:05:15] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[01:05:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
Well, we already covered all the other stuff, Johnny, so at this point, I've got nothing left to say. But may the scorch be with you.
[01:05:26] Speaker A: And also with you, David.
[01:05:28] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
[01:05:28] Speaker A: Hell yeah.
Our podcast will be rated T for teen on video games. It'd probably be. It had to be M. If we say all.
[01:05:36] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, we.
[01:05:37] Speaker A: We'd have to say M on video games. We'd be our movies.
[01:05:41] Speaker B: I do believe on TV we've got the explicit tag on Apple podcasts.
[01:05:48] Speaker A: Killing ourselves here.
[01:05:50] Speaker B: It's just so fun to say naughty words, though, Johnny.
It is.
[01:05:54] Speaker A: Eat and die.
[01:05:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Bastard.
[01:05:58] Speaker A: Poopy.
[01:06:00] Speaker B: Peepee.
[01:06:03] Speaker A: Poopoo. Peepee.
[01:06:09] Speaker B: Fart.
Sam.
[01:06:50] Speaker A: And I. Oh, wait.
[01:06:53] Speaker B: Take that again.
[01:06:54] Speaker A: I will rest.
What does it.
[01:06:57] Speaker B: Take that again.
[01:06:58] Speaker A: Oh, my God.