Episode 170 - Scorched 45 and King Spawn 49!

[00:00:00] Speaker A: I lied to she spawn about the holes in my memory. I pretended not to remember this fight. But how could I forget? Was the day the scorched fel. [00:00:41] Speaker B: Good. [00:00:45] Speaker A: Evening and welcome to the mountain bowls. This is regarding Swan, the world's best Spawn podcast. I am your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:56] Speaker B: And I'm your co host, David Williams. I was gonna try to. Try to do a little bit of a gear shifting noise for that too, [00:01:04] Speaker A: but I'm shifting gears too excited because I text you before we recorded, but. [00:01:09] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:01:11] Speaker A: Together. And in this episode, these might be the two best issues of Spawn we've ever covered. Like, together. [00:01:18] Speaker B: These rock. They're so good. This. This King. [00:01:22] Speaker A: I cried. I cried at both of them. They both made me cry. [00:01:28] Speaker B: I hadn't had enough coffee in the morning on the train when I read King Spy. And I. I was not prepared for it. I put it down and I was like, with what? What it was? [00:01:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:01:40] Speaker B: It's intense, though. It's a great run. Currently, Rory McConville knows what he's doing. [00:01:47] Speaker A: Doing those short stories. [00:01:49] Speaker B: They're nice. I like the. I like that go into episodic. It's. [00:01:53] Speaker A: It's nice. You just throw anyone these new king swans and be like, read this. [00:01:58] Speaker B: Yeah, it's great. It's great. They're real good for. They're real good for putting in free little libraries because it'd be like, this is a whole contained story. [00:02:06] Speaker A: I'm gonna make Megan read king spawn 49 for sure. [00:02:09] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's good. It's good. I mean, like 47, 48, and 49, like, read them together. Read them apart. Whoo. Wonderful. [00:02:18] Speaker A: Just read them. [00:02:19] Speaker B: Yeah, just read them. That's all. Spawn just like goes fucking crazy, and that's what you want. It's beautiful. [00:02:29] Speaker A: This horse is amazing. It's like epic and like X Men shit. Like, it's great. [00:02:33] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. It starts off and you're like, wait, wait, wait. What? Wait. What is happening? How is. How is this allowed to happen at the beginning of this book? [00:02:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:43] Speaker B: Oh, man, the beautiful books. They're absolutely incredible. [00:02:50] Speaker A: What are we doing? Why are we talking about Spawn so quickly? [00:02:52] Speaker B: I mean, I guess we're just. We're just dorkus malercuses on the Internet. [00:02:55] Speaker A: Don't you want to talk about the weather or something? [00:02:57] Speaker B: I mean, do I with. With this quality of book, Johnny, I think we got a. I think we got a lot to say. [00:03:05] Speaker A: We do. We'll get to other tangents, I'm sure. [00:03:08] Speaker B: Oh, they'll come up. [00:03:09] Speaker A: Because. Why will we do tangents? Because we are respawn regarding Spawn. [00:03:18] Speaker B: Yes. [00:03:18] Speaker A: And each week we bring you two issues from Spawn's universe. Except when we don't. I think this is a record for how fast we've gotten to my bit. And today's a do. It's two fantastic issues of Comic Book. It's like. It's, like, worth following the small universe just for these two alone. [00:03:34] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's. [00:03:37] Speaker A: I'm not saying I don't enjoy small in the smallest universe, but I'm saying, like, it's so rewarding when you get something like this. [00:03:43] Speaker B: Yeah. It's both a. You should. You should write it out for the long haul, for the payoff. And a. Dude, this rocks. Just start here all in one. [00:03:55] Speaker A: Today, start a king spawn 49. [00:03:57] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a dog whining in the background. I gotta. [00:03:59] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:04:00] Speaker B: I gotta let her in. [00:04:01] Speaker A: I'm sorry I ever mentioned anything. [00:04:03] Speaker B: Ms. Gert. I'm so sorry, Ms. Gert. Come on, Ms. Gert. Come on, Ms. Gert. Sorry. It's Ms. It's Ms. Gertie. She's a sassy old lady, and she got a. [00:04:15] Speaker A: She wants to be a part of the action. [00:04:17] Speaker B: She had to go to the vet today, so she gets. She gets special attention. [00:04:21] Speaker A: She just wants to know what's going on. [00:04:23] Speaker B: Yeah. She's really, really invested in Spawn. [00:04:27] Speaker A: Aren't we all? [00:04:28] Speaker B: I mean, I know I am. [00:04:29] Speaker A: This is a do. What I. As I was saying, you can keep it in a. Cut it. [00:04:34] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:04:34] Speaker A: You're editing this one. [00:04:36] Speaker B: We'll see. [00:04:37] Speaker A: This is a do. And we do have two issues for you. [00:04:42] Speaker B: Oh, I wish. Oh, it is. It is a doo doo Panca. Two dudes. Two dudes and a doo doo. [00:04:50] Speaker A: I didn't think about that. [00:04:52] Speaker B: That's what you got me for, Johnny. [00:04:55] Speaker A: That's it. [00:04:55] Speaker B: Bet. Yeah, That's. That's all I got. That's what. [00:04:58] Speaker A: That's true. [00:05:00] Speaker B: You want a bad joke, you come to me. Yeah. Yeah. So. So what are we do. Doing on this. This week of. [00:05:07] Speaker A: We are doing Scorch 45. All the way back from the far off land of September 2025. We were doing King Swan 50 all the way back from the far off land. [00:05:20] Speaker B: Not 50. [00:05:22] Speaker A: Oh, God. We're doing Kingspan 49 all the way back from the far off land of September 2025. [00:05:34] Speaker B: Do you remember the 21st of September? Yeah, the. I was trying to think about how I could do the 25th. The 2025 September. But that didn't work very well. [00:05:46] Speaker A: I remember the 11th day of September, David. Do you? Because I never fucking forgot now. [00:05:50] Speaker B: Never forget it. Never ever, ever, never forget that. [00:05:54] Speaker A: David just buys the government line on it. It's all on the up and up. [00:06:00] Speaker B: I buy the line that if Mark Wahlberg had been on that plane. [00:06:04] Speaker A: Mark Wahlberg? What are you talking about? [00:06:05] Speaker B: Was it. Wasn't it Mark Wahlberg that said that if he had been on that plane, it would have gone differently? [00:06:11] Speaker A: Maybe. [00:06:11] Speaker B: Isn't that his thing? [00:06:13] Speaker A: It could be. I don't. I don't remember that nugget, but that's probably true. [00:06:17] Speaker B: Yeah. The bad jokes. The bad jokes about 911 are allowed, Johnny. It's been long enough. [00:06:22] Speaker A: As long as you didn't forget. [00:06:24] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm not forgetting. That's what the jokes are for, to keep you remembering. [00:06:27] Speaker A: Jet fuel can't melt steel beams. [00:06:31] Speaker B: I'm sure. I'm sure Jet Fuel himself is very capable of melting. [00:06:37] Speaker A: Probably a guy named Jet Fuel lives out there. So mad. [00:06:41] Speaker B: God damn it. I know how to do it, you guys. [00:06:44] Speaker A: All I want to do is be a steel worker his whole life. Jet Fuel. That's a good name. Hopefully someone is named Jet Fuel. [00:06:55] Speaker B: I feel. I feel like we now need to make a stupid little cartoon about a guy named Jet Fuel trying to melt steel beams. [00:07:02] Speaker A: You're trying to make cartoons. [00:07:04] Speaker B: Me? I'm not trying to make cartoons. [00:07:06] Speaker A: We didn't have merchandise for this podcast. You try to make cartoons. [00:07:09] Speaker B: Make me T shirt first. I'm saying. I'm saying I have too many ideas and not enough talent to do it. So if I say an idea for something and I'm obviously not going to do it, it's fair game. You guys can have it. Unless we say that we're going to keep it. [00:07:22] Speaker A: I agree with the second part of that statement. As he says in seven at the end of seven. I agree with the second part. [00:07:28] Speaker B: Oh, man. Yeah. Speaking of second parts, do you like seven? I haven't seen seven in a while, but I remember being, you know the line. [00:07:37] Speaker A: I'm referring to the final line of seven. No, you don't. [00:07:42] Speaker B: I don't remember, bro. No. Anything after Morgan Freeman's walk. [00:07:45] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Morgan free. So he does wrath and envy or whatever. It's kind of confusing because he kills Gwyneth Paltrow as, like, a way to get him to be wrath. But, like, why is he. Can't he. She kind of breaks the rules when he kills her. But the last line Is Morgan Freeman walking with R. Ermey? And he goes, ernest Hemingway once said, the world is an abusive place and worth fighting for. I agree with the second part. [00:08:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Fighting. [00:08:15] Speaker A: That's the black cuts the black. [00:08:17] Speaker B: Because he's the guy who did it. No, he's not the guy who did it. Kevin Spacey twist. Oh, Kevin Spacey did all of it. [00:08:24] Speaker A: Yeah, he was John Doe. [00:08:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:26] Speaker A: Good movie. [00:08:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Was it Morgan Freeman that said that, or was it Arleigh Army? [00:08:31] Speaker A: Morgan Freeman. [00:08:32] Speaker B: Morgan Freeman. [00:08:32] Speaker A: Hear my voice? I was doing Freeman. Fucking impression. What? [00:08:37] Speaker B: I thought. I just thought that was your Johnny voice. I'm bad at remembering things, Johnny, because I know you said before you started it. Who said it? And it just, like, bounced off my dome. [00:08:50] Speaker A: You need to watch seven again. [00:08:52] Speaker B: I probably should. It's been a long enough time that I could justify watching it again. [00:08:56] Speaker A: It's good. [00:08:57] Speaker B: It's a Fincher, right? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. [00:09:00] Speaker A: A lot of rain in that movie. It's always raining. [00:09:02] Speaker B: I remember it being. I remember it being fucking disgusting. And that. That apartment right next to the. Right above the. [00:09:12] Speaker A: Of course you remember that. [00:09:13] Speaker B: That's funny as hell. [00:09:16] Speaker A: Of course you remember that part. [00:09:18] Speaker B: I remember the unimportant things. Although it is important to note that they get that apartment and they still love each other, that they survive in that apartment. [00:09:28] Speaker A: They don't survive. He kills her and he gets the death penalty. [00:09:32] Speaker B: But I thought that was. I thought that was Brad Pitt in Gwyneth Paltrow's apartment. [00:09:37] Speaker A: Yeah. Her head's in the box. [00:09:39] Speaker B: Yeah, but. But Brad Pitt doesn't kill Gwyneth Paltrow. [00:09:42] Speaker A: No, he kills. [00:09:45] Speaker B: He kills the other guy. [00:09:46] Speaker A: Yeah, he kills the murderer. [00:09:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:09:48] Speaker A: And they say he's gonna get the death. That's the death penalty for sure at the end. [00:09:52] Speaker B: Yeah, but. But the fact that Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow, as their characters remain, you know, able to live with each other in that crazy apartment until a serial killer. Until a serial killer kills one of them. Yes. [00:10:06] Speaker A: And forces the other one to kill him. [00:10:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:09] Speaker A: Which kills him. [00:10:11] Speaker B: Spoilers for seven for both the people who haven't seen it and the David who have forgotten. [00:10:18] Speaker A: Because the 6th and 7th are John Doe getting killed. Because he is. He's envy. Because he's envious of Brad Pitt's life and Brad Pitt is wrath. He's gonna kill. Because he's gonna get the death penalty for killing a suspect. Like, no question. [00:10:33] Speaker B: No question. [00:10:34] Speaker A: Well, they say something like that. [00:10:37] Speaker B: Something like that. You know what else was good, Johnny? [00:10:40] Speaker A: What? [00:10:41] Speaker B: That New Toxic Avenger. [00:10:43] Speaker A: You watched it? [00:10:44] Speaker B: Yeah. It was good. It was fun as hell. [00:10:46] Speaker A: Okay. [00:10:47] Speaker B: It was a good time. It was good. It was like. It was like a classic trauma film. [00:10:51] Speaker A: His name, Melvin. [00:10:53] Speaker B: Melvin Ferd is in there, but he is not the Avenger. [00:10:57] Speaker A: Oh. [00:10:58] Speaker B: So there's a nice little. A nice little Easter egg. It happens, like, immediately. So it's not really a spoiler, but they do. They do a lot of fun stuff. Like. Like all the signs are, like, strategically weathered in such a way that it's Saint Romaville, but the Saint or the S is. Is worn off, so that way it says Tromaville. [00:11:23] Speaker A: But they live in St. Romaville is the name of the town. [00:11:26] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. It's fun. Not as good as these issues of Spawn. [00:11:32] Speaker A: Oh, well, that's a. That's high praise. [00:11:36] Speaker B: They fucking rock. They're so good, these issues of Spawn. Johnny. From Spawn's universe. Yeah. Yeah. We should probably get. [00:11:44] Speaker A: Let's start it. [00:11:45] Speaker B: Let's do it. Yeah, let's do it. [00:11:47] Speaker A: Scores. 45. Start with the covers. [00:11:50] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:11:52] Speaker A: And we got. I got the Haunt cover. [00:11:54] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:11:56] Speaker A: It's Haunt. It's by Francesco Mattina. And it's Haunt. Like attacking some pigeons. [00:12:08] Speaker B: Those pigeons don't know what's going on. [00:12:12] Speaker A: They're definitely pigeons. He's just fucking up some pigeons. [00:12:14] Speaker B: Yeah, it's awesome. I should have gotten that one. I love a pigeon. [00:12:20] Speaker A: You do love pigeons. [00:12:21] Speaker B: I do love pigeons. [00:12:22] Speaker A: What's the pigeon you love? What's the movie with the pigeon? You talked about a pigeon in a movie before. [00:12:27] Speaker B: Talked about a pigeon in the movie. What was it? I don't know. I'll have to circle back to it. [00:12:32] Speaker A: All right. Think about it. [00:12:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I just think a lot about the both. A real pigeons in real life, and they bob their heads, so I like to mock them and bob my heads when I walk by them. Or then like the. The pigeons from. From the Animaniacs, the Godfather. Pigeons. [00:12:52] Speaker A: The good feathers. [00:12:54] Speaker B: The good feathers. Nice. [00:12:57] Speaker A: I think that's what they're called. [00:12:59] Speaker B: I think. I think that. I think we've looked it up on this very show before, Johnny. [00:13:03] Speaker A: Maybe that's what you're talking about. Yeah, maybe there's a pigeon in something you're obsessed with. You're obsessed with this pigeon. It might have been an issue of Spawn. [00:13:11] Speaker B: Might have been. I know there were a couple of pigeons. Like, I was regularly putting bread out, and there were a couple of pigeons that would sit on my roof and just, like, stare at me until I put the bread down, so. [00:13:22] Speaker A: Really? [00:13:23] Speaker B: Yeah. That was fun. Pigeons are great. [00:13:27] Speaker A: I'm gonna report you to the Chicago City Police. You're not supposed to feed pigeons. [00:13:32] Speaker B: Thanks, Johnny. [00:13:33] Speaker A: I am. [00:13:34] Speaker B: I appreciate it. I have the B cover, Johnny, for scorched 45. The Donaglio cover. [00:13:41] Speaker A: Show me that cover. [00:13:42] Speaker B: It is just. It is just Violator opening his mouth and going Screaming his tongue. Yeah, and he's pissed. Pleasure or pain? It looks like there's some rocks falling down on him. [00:13:58] Speaker A: Maybe both. [00:13:59] Speaker B: Is definitely in hell. It's pretty dope. We love a Violator. He's got a bajillion teeth. [00:14:06] Speaker A: Who did that cover? [00:14:07] Speaker B: Don Julio. [00:14:09] Speaker A: Okay, well, we should probably read the rest of the credits. We popped that sucker open. And we got script plot by John Layman with additional script by Todd McFarlane, which I couldn't spot. [00:14:21] Speaker B: Yeah, I didn't. I didn't clock it. [00:14:24] Speaker A: You change one word. Art by Steven Segovia. Colors by Danae Ribeiro. Letting by Emerald Design. We already covered the covers. Creative Director is one Mr. Todd McFarlane. Editor in Chief is one Mr. Thomas. I want to believe Healy. [00:14:45] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:14:46] Speaker A: I'm giving him that nickname. [00:14:48] Speaker B: He's now Fox Mulder. [00:14:50] Speaker A: Yeah, he's Foxy. Previously in the Scorch, the battle with Eviscerator and her team is upon them, and the Scorched may not survive. [00:15:00] Speaker B: It's even a beautiful. Previously on. That's really all you need to know. Doesn't fucking matter. [00:15:06] Speaker A: It's true. Oh, then we get the opening of the issue is the opening quote of the episode. [00:15:12] Speaker B: Yeah. And the. It's just a single panel splash page here of Eviscerator holding up just the completely mangled Overtkill, while Reaper and Redeemer and she Spawn just lay wasted on the ground. Medieval is nowhere to be seen. [00:15:31] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:15:32] Speaker B: Mm. [00:15:33] Speaker A: If they got Overkill by the balls. [00:15:37] Speaker B: He got. He got no legs. They chopped his arms off at, like, the elbows. He's got spikes through just, like, everywhere. [00:15:44] Speaker A: It's rough. [00:15:46] Speaker B: He. He just keeps dying in spectacular fashion. [00:15:50] Speaker A: That's the joke. [00:15:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:52] Speaker A: He says, after today, the Scorch would be no more. [00:15:56] Speaker B: And then we. We turn the page and we see the battle unfolding, and it's. It just picks up right where the end of the last issue was. And with the Scorched attacking the Viscerator and her crew. [00:16:10] Speaker A: And there's a good job, like, recapping who they are. [00:16:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:13] Speaker A: Whether it's a good. At first issue, because it does, like. It does, like, kind of recap everything. [00:16:17] Speaker B: It does. It does. And like, everybody, every. Every member of both teams has, like, a perfect counterpart. So, like, old Eddie gets his dad. Frank Bishop and Jessica Priests get to go against each other. Young, Young Eddie gets, you know, not his dad. Medieval just gets fucked up. Haunt comes through the. The other haunt. And so we see. We see the battle play out as old man Redeemer saw it play out with slowly everybody on the scorch just getting their ass handed to them. Medieval gets beheaded. Haunt falls to Roo, and Roo, like, absorbs his essence and becomes something almost unstoppable. He says, haunt, Roo, haunt. Roo, Roo, Haunt. Then, you know, Jessica Priest's taken out and Overtkill just gets, like, mangled and turned into a whole bunch of different pieces by Eviscerator. And then we see. We see where everything went wrong. We see that in the original way that Redeemer saw it, Redeemer as himself was Jessica Priest was like, redeemer, take him out now. Take out your dad. And Redeemer paused and remembered, like, even though this man was evil, this man hurt him and his brother. This man was an absolute piece of garbage. He paused and he just couldn't. And that pause is what allowed him to be taken out and the entire Scorched wiped off the face of the planet. [00:18:10] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:18:11] Speaker B: Then we cut to see an old man, Redeemer, in the years between when this battle was originally fought and before he goes back in time to help try to change the world. Just drunk at a bar, feeling pretty sad for himself, [00:18:27] Speaker A: talking about, he's drinking a whole bottle of wine. [00:18:29] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what it looks like. [00:18:32] Speaker A: The bottle is a weird shape. It looks like he's drinking an entire bottle of wine. [00:18:35] Speaker B: Maybe it's. Maybe it's a bottle of brandy. I could see. [00:18:39] Speaker A: Hopefully. [00:18:40] Speaker B: Hopefully. Bottle a whole bottle of wine by yourself is. [00:18:45] Speaker A: It's a headache waiting. [00:18:46] Speaker B: That is a headache waiting to happen. That's not. I watched something recently where people just like, something happened, and they were like, we're going to drink our wine really fast. And I was just like, don't drink wine fast. I can't do it. I got a sympathy headache from it. [00:19:03] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, for sure. [00:19:04] Speaker B: That's. It's rough. So after the Scorched fell, Redeemer and she Spawn just like, couldn't even look at each other anymore. So they parted ways and she Spawn rebuilt her own version of the Scorched with some less than characters. [00:19:24] Speaker A: We got Monolith, Ravenspawn, and Soulcrusher. [00:19:28] Speaker B: Yeah, I'd Read that team book. That'd be good. But apparently they never fought that. I mean, obviously there's a whole bunch of hotheads there, if you can imagine, trying to keep that team together. It's hard enough keeping the team that works together together. Yeah. And then Redeemer is just sitting there just like, replaying this all again and again and again at the end of the world. And he says, which is. Which is what? I came back here to prevent this ruin with, like, the. I love how the Earth is ruined so much that a big chunk of the moon is taken out. [00:20:02] Speaker A: You punched a hole in the moon. [00:20:04] Speaker B: Yeah, we love the moon. And so. [00:20:09] Speaker A: Favorite fucking commercial. Well, Mr. That was. [00:20:12] Speaker B: That was. That was the original. [00:20:14] Speaker A: Boy, aren't you. [00:20:15] Speaker B: No, I was singing the original flash animation that the Quiznos commercial was based off of. [00:20:20] Speaker A: Whatever. [00:20:21] Speaker B: Because the sponge monkeys originally sang about loving the moon because it is close [00:20:26] Speaker A: to us, but they also love Quiznos. Yeah, because they gave it to us. [00:20:30] Speaker B: Yeah, true. Um, but so we. We cut back to the battle as it is happening now. And we were being like, reaper, listen. Fucking listen to me. I've been trying to tell you that our dad is back. Don't fucking pause for an instant. He's gotta go. Get him the hell out of here. You gotta kill him. I froze last time. And it cost us the entire world. And then we see a little. A little. [00:20:58] Speaker A: A little. [00:20:59] Speaker B: A little bit of as Eddie old [00:21:01] Speaker A: man, you sell him short. He doesn't say it like that. He's like, really nice. He's like, I need you ready. Don't let fear control you. You said him before. You can do it again. Yeah, he's a lot nicer than you were. [00:21:13] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm trying. I'm trying to paraphrase. [00:21:15] Speaker A: Okay, but like, why paraphrase when your paraphrase is longer than what he says? [00:21:21] Speaker B: Come on, Johnny. But no, but. But also you can sort of see the like. Like, old man Eddie is just like. He knows how hard it is for him because he had to do this. So he's like, I know. [00:21:36] Speaker A: You know, conundrum. [00:21:39] Speaker B: Yeah, you've got this, Eddie. And so then. So then we. We cut from the. The staring at yourself, at Eddie staring at himself in the mirror, stealing himself for what he needs to do 2ed in media fight where he's just like, hey, fucker, go back to hell. And just blows his dad into a big hole. That's really all that's left. [00:22:00] Speaker A: Yeah, he blows the hell out of him. [00:22:02] Speaker B: Yeah. And then the battle that we knew that Happened. Just completely turns here. Like, Bishop goes down, he just gets Jessica Priest, just chains him to the ground. And just. She says, no matter how many times come, I'll just keep killing you no matter how many times you come back. And she just like. Just like beheads him with her chains. She got to kill him a third time, Johnny. This is the third time she's killed him. [00:22:31] Speaker A: And then Medieval's like, haha. Eviscerator swords her ass. [00:22:36] Speaker B: He says, viscerator, my old foe. You could die again too. You vexed me for centuries. Demoness no more. Oh, man. Yeah. Haunt just like punches Roo right in the heart and just like, explodes her. Yeah. And then in the quiet with just like Viscerator and her team's body parts just strewn about, old man Eddie says, it's finished. It's done. We finished them. But then Jessica Priest says, well, most of us did anyway. [00:23:09] Speaker A: But they're like, rose can fix him, right? And like, yeah, no problem. [00:23:12] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then. And then Jessica Priest is like, Redeemer. What's wrong? And he's just like, oh, I didn't. I didn't tell you the truth. Jessica Priest. I don't remember this fight because it's not the fight that happened. [00:23:25] Speaker A: You mean the future's been changed? [00:23:28] Speaker B: Hell yeah, it has been. And he says, and then she wonders if the apocalypse that he saw and witnessed, is it still gonna happen? And he's like, I don't know. We're in uncharted territory now. His. His glimpses of the future are no longer of any assistance to them. [00:23:44] Speaker A: Then we get a hero shot of the Scorch. Reaper. Reaper. Reaper, Redeemer. Eddie. And Eddie. Ed and Eddie. Eddie. You get Eddie, you get Medieval, you get Jessica, you get Daniel Gilmore, AKA Haunt. [00:24:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:02] Speaker A: And then it's all shiny and cool. [00:24:04] Speaker B: It's great. There's a. The. The Hans Zimmer fanfare builds. [00:24:09] Speaker A: The Pirates Caribbean theme is playing. [00:24:13] Speaker B: Actually, that actually be pretty excellent. [00:24:18] Speaker A: That's the secret about that theme. It can be anything. It's not necessarily just pirates. It can be. You can put that song to anything. [00:24:23] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. [00:24:43] Speaker A: But it's also really similar to the Backdraft theme, which Hans Zimmer also did. [00:24:47] Speaker B: I've never watched Backdraft. [00:24:49] Speaker A: Neither have I, but I've heard the backdrop thing. It goes. It goes. [00:25:01] Speaker B: So it's like a beta version of the Pirates of the Caribbean theme. [00:25:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:05] Speaker B: Nice. Excellent. And then, Johnny, we get an epilogue in hell at Castle Fleabiac. [00:25:14] Speaker A: Oh, of course. [00:25:15] Speaker B: Yeah. And we get we get Johnny. I recognize these speech bubbles a little bit. [00:25:21] Speaker A: They're slimy. [00:25:22] Speaker B: Yeah, they're old Vinnie. Old Vinnie Vindicators bubbles. He's. He's. He's being a shitty older brother to his sister is what he's doing. [00:25:34] Speaker A: You failed you. [00:25:37] Speaker B: He's busting her chops. But viscerator or who? She's a. She's a tough cookie, Johnny. She's a mean customer. She's like, ah, Vinny. Ah, Vinnie. You don't know. You don't know. I had plans. This plan may have failed, but my backup plan. Oh, my backup plan. The original backup plan that I teamed up with Frank Bishop for, which is [00:26:02] Speaker A: a lot of fucking. [00:26:04] Speaker B: Yeah. There's a reason I took Frank Bishop as my lover. He's a useful fool. [00:26:10] Speaker A: I also like how he is separated. [00:26:13] Speaker B: Yeah. It took me a couple of tries to see what was happening there. I was like, huh, huh, huh, huh. [00:26:19] Speaker A: Her e's a fool. [00:26:21] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we see what viscerator's backup plan was. And there's just like hella fleabiac eggs with little fleabiac embryos in them just growing like mother horde of xenomorph egg style. [00:26:37] Speaker A: Yes. [00:26:39] Speaker B: Next time I'll bring an army. [00:26:42] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:26:43] Speaker B: Look at that. Oh, look at all those little fleaby x. I don't think I can't think of enough v names for all of them, Johnny. One of them has to be the Vivisector. [00:26:53] Speaker A: One of them has to be the Vendetta. Er. [00:26:58] Speaker B: One of them has to be the Victoria, the Victorinator. The Victoria or the Victorinox. And they've got this little Swiss army knife. [00:27:08] Speaker A: I don't get it. [00:27:09] Speaker B: Oh, Victorinox is either the brand name or like the line name for Swiss army knives. [00:27:20] Speaker A: Interesting. [00:27:21] Speaker B: So I think. I think it's the Victorinox Swiss army knife is I think what it is. [00:27:25] Speaker A: Oh, wow. I didn't know that. [00:27:27] Speaker B: They also make watches. Victorinox. And it's a fun word to say. [00:27:32] Speaker A: I'm sure one of those little eggs is named that. [00:27:36] Speaker B: Probably. Also maybe Valerie. Also maybe Valerian. Also maybe voodoo. You got voodoo voudon, Voudoon. But I guess you could have the multiple spellings of voodoo. Voldor, Voldor, Volkswagen. [00:27:55] Speaker A: What? [00:27:58] Speaker B: It starts with a V, Johnny. There's a lot of names here. We gotta get through. [00:28:02] Speaker A: It's true. [00:28:03] Speaker B: A lot of eggs, boy. Yeah. [00:28:07] Speaker A: Scorched skull to end the issue. [00:28:10] Speaker B: We sure do. And. Oh, man, that was a hoot. That was a hoot of an issue, Johnny. And then we got. Then we got Spawning Ground Presents fan art. And we got some kick ass Jessica Priest fan art and the style of Akira, some cool pose ones, and also a medieval Spawn. A little cover action there on what appears to have been a blank cover. [00:28:38] Speaker A: This guy's name that did the medieval spawn is Commander Biscuit 66. [00:28:43] Speaker B: Commander Biscuit? [00:28:45] Speaker A: Owner of its order. [00:28:46] Speaker B: 66, probably. And he doesn't want to be too evil, so he can't have the three of them. [00:28:52] Speaker A: He's a biscuit. [00:28:54] Speaker B: I love a biscuit. Any more Sponsor Universe Johnny? [00:28:57] Speaker A: Every day. [00:28:58] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Then don't miss these ongoing titles. We got the core four there, none of which we have covered soon 50. [00:29:06] Speaker A: Kingsbound. 50 is hilarious. He's like holding the 50. That's funny. Is that the COVID I have? [00:29:12] Speaker B: It's almost like he's. He's forging it out of necroplasm. [00:29:16] Speaker A: We should have a guess for that episode. [00:29:17] Speaker B: We should do that. We really should. [00:29:20] Speaker A: Yeah, get on that, David. [00:29:22] Speaker B: Yeah. What are you talking about? [00:29:24] Speaker A: What? You can do it too. You can text people too. [00:29:29] Speaker B: Can I, though? I'll see what I can do. I'll see what I can do. All right, then we got the Image Classics ad. We got the Diablo Foy. The Diablo 4 ad. Diablo Fore, which wasn't announced for Switch [00:29:46] Speaker A: 2, which pisses me off. [00:29:48] Speaker B: Boo. [00:29:48] Speaker A: I just want a portable Diablo IV so I can play on my girlfriend's couch so she can yell at me and hit me with a frying pan. [00:29:55] Speaker B: Oh, you don't want to. You don't want to have a portable Diablo 4 so that way you and your girlfriend can raid from the same couch. [00:30:02] Speaker A: I play Diablo 4 with her. [00:30:04] Speaker B: Why not? She bad at video games. Maybe. [00:30:07] Speaker A: Actually don't know. [00:30:09] Speaker B: You don't know till you ask. [00:30:10] Speaker A: Well, she's gonna listen to this. So she'll know. [00:30:16] Speaker B: I mean, that works. Communication. [00:30:19] Speaker A: She wouldn't like Diablo 4. It's all icky. It's like. Like takes place in a cave and like, you just walk around and I've. [00:30:26] Speaker B: I've. I've heard stories of the movies you two watch together. What about Diablo 4? Would she not like when she watches movies with you, Johnny? [00:30:33] Speaker A: Because it's. It's like. [00:30:35] Speaker B: Is it a different kind of. [00:30:36] Speaker A: It's all numbers based? No, it's just all numbers based. Just. It's just like dopamine. Like. It's just like a dopamine Chase. [00:30:44] Speaker B: You saying. You saying your girlfriend doesn't deserve dopamine? [00:30:47] Speaker A: She does, but I don't know if she Gets it from Diablo, but everybody, [00:30:51] Speaker B: everybody gets dopamine from Blizzard products. That's literally their secret. That's their secret. You can absolutely hate everything about what you're doing, but you're still like, give it to me, give it to me, give me. [00:31:04] Speaker A: You told me Wanda's playing arc raiders. [00:31:07] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, she just started playing arc raiders. She was. She was playing only human, and I was like, that sounds a lot like what? All my friends are playing arc raiders. And then later that night, she was like, lol. The person I play only human with says, we're gonna start playing arc raiders next. Hilarious. [00:31:27] Speaker A: That's great. It's fun. [00:31:29] Speaker B: Also funny. I told my friends that she was going to start playing this, and they were like, tell her to get good at the shotgun. We need. We need that for a rating party. And apparently Wanda's weapon of choice is the shotgun. [00:31:42] Speaker A: There you go. [00:31:44] Speaker B: All of my. All of my friend groups are slowly melding into one another. That's a big, happy family. [00:31:50] Speaker A: Good. [00:31:50] Speaker B: Is it good? I can't. I can't hide from one group of people with the other group of people. Now, Johnny. It's all the same group of people. You don't have. You don't have multiple groups of friends. So that way sometimes you hang out with these friends so that way you don't have to deal with the other friends. [00:32:05] Speaker A: I'm a linchpin, baby. People come to me. You are my birthday party last year. [00:32:09] Speaker B: I've seen every time I've ever done anything with you, Johnny. It's amazing. Like, you are always the center overlap for any sort of Venn diagram. It's incredible. [00:32:21] Speaker A: I like people, they like me. [00:32:24] Speaker B: It's impossible to not like you, Johnny. If I ever met somebody who didn't like you, I think I would, like, reflexively have to punch them in the face. [00:32:33] Speaker A: There's a couple. [00:32:35] Speaker B: Tell me who they are and I will punch them in the face. [00:32:37] Speaker A: No, don't. [00:32:38] Speaker B: Don't put them on blast on the podcast. Or maybe do. And that'll be the. It'll be a metaphorical punch in the face. Ha. Fuck you. [00:32:45] Speaker A: George W. Bush is one of them. [00:32:47] Speaker B: I'm going to throw a shoe at that fucker. [00:32:49] Speaker A: Oh, you should. He likes it. [00:32:52] Speaker B: No, no, I don't want to do it if he likes it. That's the opposite of what we're trying to do. [00:32:57] Speaker A: Well, that was scores.45. [00:32:59] Speaker B: Sure was. It was amazing. [00:33:02] Speaker A: I need a cigarette. [00:33:04] Speaker B: Smoke him if you got him. [00:33:23] Speaker A: Next up we have King Swan 49. [00:33:28] Speaker B: Yes, we do. [00:33:29] Speaker A: He's Right on the edge. I feel. I feel. I feel him. I'm about. I'm 39. I must be 40 in less than 48 hours from now. [00:33:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. A couple episodes ago, we recorded on my birthday. This. This. This episode we record just a little bit before Johnny's birthday because unlike me, Johnny actually likes to do stuff for his birthday, so that was unavailable. It makes me sad. [00:33:54] Speaker A: Pisces, baby. I gotta celebrate myself. [00:33:56] Speaker B: It makes me sad because now I have a whole bunch of Alamo Drafthouse gift cards that I could have used if we had done your birthday like we always did. [00:34:05] Speaker A: It was only like two or three years in an Alamo Draft house. [00:34:09] Speaker B: Now that I. Now that I have the gift cards, it's way over there. I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna have to give them the. See if I can convince Eli to go over there. Oh, no. It'll be so hard to convince our friend who also loves movies, to go see movies for free. [00:34:24] Speaker A: I stole half of that Alamo Drafthouse. I'm serious. I stole it. [00:34:30] Speaker B: Nice. [00:34:31] Speaker A: I was waiting. I. I want. There's the last hat. And I kept. I saw it, like, three times. There's one left. I was like, well, I'm gonna buy it. It's only 20 bucks. [00:34:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:39] Speaker A: I waited the front for, like, five minutes, and no one came up. [00:34:41] Speaker B: There was. [00:34:42] Speaker A: I didn't see an employee anywhere. [00:34:46] Speaker B: Excellent. Those are always fun things to do. Let's hope. Let's hope the statutes of limit. I. I'll cut that out so the statute of limitations can have lapsed. [00:34:56] Speaker A: Keep it in. What are you gonna come for me? 10 wigs? [00:35:00] Speaker B: I don't know. You are significantly closer to Austin, Texas, now than you were. [00:35:05] Speaker A: I don't think they. I think Sony bought it. I don't know if they're the same thing. [00:35:09] Speaker B: I don't know. Who knows? Alamo Drift House is fun. I couldn't do every movie there, but [00:35:15] Speaker A: no, it's fun every once in a while. [00:35:17] Speaker B: It's really good. I also just, like. I like being able to order a whole bunch of junk food. It's like, repeatedly just like, bring me some more of this, please. [00:35:28] Speaker A: One time I ordered cookies, and it was 20 minutes, and they bring my cookies. So I ordered cookies again, and then they brought me. Within two minutes, they brought me two orders of cookies. [00:35:39] Speaker B: Damn. [00:35:40] Speaker A: The server was kind of pissy. That, like, he's like, you didn't want the second? I was like, no, I was just. I wanted the first one. It was like a movie was going On. So he was like, okay, never mind. I was like, I'll pay for both. It's fine. [00:35:50] Speaker B: That's always. That's always. The bad part is, like, you feel like you can't do much. Too much complaining, which I guess is fine. You shouldn't complain too much. What's another set of cookies, Johnny? Cookies is good. [00:36:03] Speaker A: Yeah, I. I ate them all. I ate all the cookies. [00:36:06] Speaker B: You know, Johnny, if Kingspawn were cookies, I would eat all of the cookies that were kingspawn 49. [00:36:13] Speaker A: I would eat all 50 of them. [00:36:17] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Better than cookies. Kingspawn 49. I'm saying it now. And you can hold it to. Hold me to it. Better than. [00:36:27] Speaker A: Depends on the cookie, my friend. [00:36:30] Speaker B: That's. Yeah, I probably shouldn't say that because, I mean, we're talking cookie cake. Fucking love cookie cake. [00:36:38] Speaker A: I'm not the biggest cookie cake fan. [00:36:40] Speaker B: See, the thing about the cookie cake is it's like the most concentrated way to get as much sugar as possible into your body at once, man. [00:36:48] Speaker A: I can take a leave of cookie cake. [00:36:50] Speaker B: What I love about it. Oh, well, I will eat your cookie cake. How about that? [00:36:55] Speaker A: The best cakes are cheesecake and ice cream cake. [00:36:58] Speaker B: Oh, absolutely. Cheesecake and ice cream cake. Fucking rock. It's very hard to get an ice cream cake, though, because so many people are just like, I don't like an ice cream cake. Just give me cake or ice cream. [00:37:07] Speaker A: It's like, no ice cream cake. [00:37:09] Speaker B: We're getting the fucking ice cream cake. And you have to have a significant number of people ready to eat it at once because it's not like you can really save it. And they're always huge. Yeah, man. Ice cream cake is good. [00:37:24] Speaker A: It is. [00:37:25] Speaker B: Cheesecake is amazing. [00:37:27] Speaker A: I love cheesecake. [00:37:28] Speaker B: There's a place. There's a place that Wanda and I order Mexican food from that always has like, buy one, get one free cheesecakes. And it's somehow the best cheesecake we've ever had. And it's just from like a random Takanazo over Awesome. Over on Fullerton. [00:37:45] Speaker A: Buy one, get one free. [00:37:46] Speaker B: But yeah, it's buy one, get one free. Their buy one, get one freeze are always either cheese cheesecake or, like, eggs. And there's absolutely no way I'm going to order eggs and have them delivered to me and then eat those eggs that have been delivered to me. That's gross. What? [00:38:06] Speaker A: They're buy one, get one free eggs. They deliver them to you? [00:38:09] Speaker B: Yeah, they make like breakfast tacos with eggs. It's or a huevos Dish and they'll deliver them to you. And I'm not going to eat delivery eggs. Yeah. [00:38:18] Speaker A: What do you mean? [00:38:19] Speaker B: Because it's. It's a taco place, and sometimes. [00:38:22] Speaker A: Why are you getting delivery? Why don't you just walk there? [00:38:24] Speaker B: Oh, because it's. It's way the fuck. It's way the fuck away. [00:38:27] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:38:28] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. If I could walk there, I would walk there. It would take me, like, half an hour on my bike. [00:38:34] Speaker A: So they deliver a whole cheesecake to you, and you get a whole free. [00:38:37] Speaker B: Oh, it's slices. [00:38:39] Speaker A: Okay. I was about to say. I was like, what the fuck? [00:38:41] Speaker B: Yeah, Sorry. So, yeah. [00:38:42] Speaker A: How much cheesecake you guys eaten? [00:38:45] Speaker B: Not enough, if you can believe it. Cheesecake is delicious. [00:38:51] Speaker A: It is. [00:38:53] Speaker B: Yeah. Speaking of huevos. The huevos on this Rory McConville for this Kingspan 49. Shiny. Pretty big. [00:38:59] Speaker A: It's an intense issue. [00:39:01] Speaker B: Oh, boy. This is. I like, how fucking. Just like. What's the word I'm looking for? Not cerebral. Like. Like conceptual. The issues are getting. [00:39:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:14] Speaker B: And it's like, here's a fun concept. Let's do this. It's a spooky. It's a spooky house that people get sucked into and then their souls get tortured. [00:39:22] Speaker A: And this one has a great concept. [00:39:24] Speaker B: This one has a great concept. It also has some great covers. Johnny. We should start with covers. [00:39:29] Speaker A: I start with the A cover, which is Spawn. Looks like he's sitting on a stool. [00:39:34] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like the. The stool of hell. [00:39:38] Speaker A: And he's just, like, holding his cape and, like, his fist. He's, like pondering himself. [00:39:43] Speaker B: Oh, he is very ponderous. [00:39:45] Speaker A: He's pondering himself. He's like, do I exist? [00:39:47] Speaker B: He's. He's leaning against something because that. His. His big. His big right arm or big left arm is. Is definitely lean. Like, he's. He's like. He's. He's leaning. Leaning against the wall. Wall and ponder. And. Yeah, it's great. It's got a great colorway. It's that. It's that Donaglio cover, Johnny. [00:40:08] Speaker A: It is, Yeah. [00:40:09] Speaker B: I have the. I have the B cover, which is tonally the exact opposite. It is very. [00:40:16] Speaker A: Mine's warm. Yours is cool. [00:40:17] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's the Fede Melee cover, and it is sponge crawling out of the eye socket of a skull. It is awesome. It is like. I think it's a watercolor. Holy shit. Yeah, it's the watercolor Spawn crawling out of his skull. It's very blue and dark purple. [00:40:42] Speaker A: It looks like he's on Hoth. [00:40:44] Speaker B: Kind of. Yeah, I'd believe it. He just cut up a tauntaun for his. His little buddy to hang out in. [00:40:51] Speaker A: Right. [00:40:54] Speaker B: Let's pop open these excellent covers, Johnny, and see where the credit is due and needs to be given. We've got script plot by Rory McConville with additional script by Todd McFarlane. Also. Didn't clock it this time. [00:41:09] Speaker A: Didn't clock it. He might have been off the clock. [00:41:12] Speaker B: Art by Dudu Pancica, inks by Julio Ferreira, color by Ivan Nunes, lettering by and world Design. We covered the colors. Creative director is Todd McFarlane, and the editor in chief is. What's his nickname again? [00:41:29] Speaker A: Johnny the Truth is Out There. [00:41:32] Speaker B: And editor in chief is Thomas the Truth is Out There Healy. Yes. Previously in King Spawn, Spawn traps the souls of horrible people in his secret death house. [00:41:45] Speaker A: That's true. [00:41:47] Speaker B: Yeah. Succinct. And if that sounds awesome, if you haven't read spawn 48, it's even more awesome than that little blurb makes it seem. Yeah, it was an amazing issue. But so we start. [00:42:02] Speaker A: I think Rory McConville's batting for the. Because the movie's supposed to be called King Spawn, and he's batting for that. Like, he's. [00:42:08] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. These are. [00:42:09] Speaker A: These are all, like, accessible, like, kind of like movie. You could easily stretch any of these out into a movie. [00:42:14] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, absolutely. So we start with a guy walking home through the alley, talking on the phone to his significant other. Obviously, there was a small misunderstanding, but they're trying to put it. They're trying to put it right. He walks by a cat. [00:42:35] Speaker A: Meow. [00:42:36] Speaker B: And then an old lady comes up, and then black. Then the guy wakes up, and he wakes up in, like, the Inception world where the stuff's folding all over each other and falling apart. [00:42:52] Speaker A: I will say, okay, he's wearing a scarf. And, like, just the. The nature of this issue and, like, what it deals with. I think it's totally a Freddy Krueger reference. [00:43:02] Speaker B: Definitely. [00:43:03] Speaker A: It's a Freddy Krueger colors. It's the stripes. [00:43:06] Speaker B: Yeah, well, it's also. It does look like it's pretty cold when they're walking around. So maybe it's around Christmas time [00:43:15] Speaker A: off. It's Freddy Krueger. [00:43:17] Speaker B: No, but Freddy Krueger died at Christmas time. That's why his color. His. His sweater is that shirt. [00:43:22] Speaker A: That's not true. [00:43:22] Speaker B: No, they. It was at the Christmas party that the parents got. [00:43:26] Speaker A: No, it wasn't. That's not true. [00:43:29] Speaker B: What. What I. I thought it was. [00:43:32] Speaker A: It's not in the Movies. [00:43:33] Speaker B: I could have. I could have distinctly remember. I could have sworn that I distinctly remember one of the movies, it being at Christmas time, which is why his sweater is red and green like that. The parents got together and they were like, we're gonna have a Christmas party and let's invite the janitor. And then. [00:43:50] Speaker A: No, that's not. That's not. [00:43:51] Speaker B: And then killed him at the Christmas party. [00:43:54] Speaker A: That's not in the movies. [00:43:55] Speaker B: Really. Did I. Did I just fucking imagine that? Did I whip that up from whole cloth? [00:44:02] Speaker A: Yes. So the only thing I'm finding is [00:44:06] Speaker B: I could have sworn that was in like five or six. [00:44:09] Speaker A: No, he said it was just the most. The reason Wes Graham chose it because he read a magazine article in Scientific American that said the pairing of red and green is most difficult for the human eye to perceive correctly. [00:44:20] Speaker B: Yeah, there is. [00:44:22] Speaker A: There was a commercial where he dressed up as Santa Claus in 1989. So maybe you saw that. That. [00:44:27] Speaker B: No, I could have sworn it was. I could have sworn I saw it, like in the film that they mention. [00:44:33] Speaker A: No, no, really? No, I rewatched all those recently. Like in the last, like 15 years. I mean, by recently. No, it's nothing to do with Christmas. I'm serious. [00:44:48] Speaker B: I. I just have a. Cuz. Cuz it was. It would have been while I was illegally streaming. [00:44:53] Speaker A: It was. No, it was just something some fucking kid on the playground told you had made up. [00:44:58] Speaker B: No. Cause it would have been when I was watching them for the first time in college. [00:45:03] Speaker A: Then you lived in an altered dimension. [00:45:05] Speaker B: I must have dimensions. This is my fucking Mandela effect. [00:45:10] Speaker A: It's not in the movies at all. [00:45:12] Speaker B: Wow. Okay, then you learn something new every day. [00:45:18] Speaker A: Are you serious? You really think that was true? [00:45:20] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. I distinctly remember there being a part in one of the movies where they mentioned that they killed him at a Christmas party, which is why his sweater is green and red. [00:45:29] Speaker A: That doesn't happen like. [00:45:31] Speaker B: Like some. Like one of the parents saying that that is the time that they killed him. Like a distinct memory of it. Wow. Interesting. I might live. I might live in a parallel world, John. [00:45:46] Speaker A: No, you just made up. You're just making up shit whole cloth. I don't trust anything you say now. [00:45:50] Speaker B: Wow. Interesting. Interesting. [00:45:54] Speaker A: I mean, I looked up Freddy Krueger Christmas and it mentions nothing about anything in the movies. Like that would come up first, right? Yeah. I mean, wow. [00:46:05] Speaker B: Interesting. [00:46:05] Speaker A: There's an amateur YouTube video with 180 views. That's a guy addressed as Freddy Krueger saying, Merry Christmas. [00:46:14] Speaker B: Beautiful. Beautiful. Okay, well, [00:46:20] Speaker A: Merry Christmas. [00:46:21] Speaker B: But also. Oh, I can't hear it. Zoom. Must be cutting it off. [00:46:29] Speaker A: Is this a guy in his living room? This is nine years ago. Has 180 views. And that's one of the first things that comes up. So, you know. [00:46:35] Speaker B: Okay, yeah. I'm not too proud to admit when I'm wrong, Johnny. I just don't know where that fucking came from. [00:46:43] Speaker A: I love proving you wrong. [00:46:45] Speaker B: Where the fuck did this memory come from, Johnny? [00:46:47] Speaker A: There's no memory. You're insane. [00:46:51] Speaker B: Wow. Okay then. Well, speaking of insane, Johnny never went [00:46:57] Speaker A: to a Christmas party. They came to his house and killed him. [00:46:59] Speaker B: And it wasn't around Christmas time. [00:47:01] Speaker A: No, he was a pedophile. They came and killed his ass. [00:47:05] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. I know. I know why they killed him. [00:47:09] Speaker A: No, it was never Christmas. Not the remake. Not in the fucking. [00:47:13] Speaker B: Wow. Not in. Not in Fred. Not in Freddy vs. Jason. [00:47:17] Speaker A: No. [00:47:18] Speaker B: No. Okay. Huh. Well, thanks for. Thanks for helping me to not trust my brain even less than I already do. [00:47:28] Speaker A: Where's this memory coming from? [00:47:29] Speaker B: I have no idea. But, like a distinct sense memory of sitting at my desk in my apartment at 2 in the morning, which is when I watched those. [00:47:40] Speaker A: That was a dream, Dave. [00:47:41] Speaker B: You fell asleep trying to be very quiet. No, I'm. I was in college in college. Fully awake at 2 in the morning, [00:47:49] Speaker A: just railing Adderall constantly. [00:47:53] Speaker B: But anyway, guy wakes up. [00:47:55] Speaker A: What do you mean, but anyway? [00:47:57] Speaker B: Well, I'm trying to get back to the story. We don't need you. [00:48:00] Speaker A: You're from alternate dimension. My theory is you fell asleep and had that dream. [00:48:08] Speaker B: Maybe that is. [00:48:10] Speaker A: What do you mean, maybe? Or you live in an alternate dimension, [00:48:13] Speaker B: one of the two. I don't know how to. I. Johnny, I honestly don't know how to set up the experiment to figure out which of those two is incorrect. So that way it must be the other. I don't. I don't know how to set up [00:48:26] Speaker A: that experiment from Kurd Drummond at osu. [00:48:29] Speaker B: No, it was. It was in my apartment. The one behind the bowling alley. [00:48:32] Speaker A: Okay, I'm gonna find the. I'm go to that apartment, find that desk. It's probably still back by the dumpster. [00:48:38] Speaker B: No, I. It. Actually, I. I had it until we moved to this house and I. I threw it away. [00:48:45] Speaker A: And I go by a replica of that. I'm gonna go to Irving park and get it. And then we're gonna sit there in a dark room to watch this and probably get you a drowsy pulling m in your soda. And then if you fall asleep and have dreams about Christmas, we'll know that that's. Which is what happened. [00:49:05] Speaker B: There must have been. Damn. [00:49:07] Speaker A: You're, like. You, like, sitting on the desk, like, leaning on your elbow. And you just start nodding off. And then, like, you're in, like, a Christmas Wonderland with Freddy Krueger. Was it around Christmas when you were watching them? [00:49:17] Speaker B: No, it would have been, like, August or September. [00:49:21] Speaker A: That's weird. [00:49:22] Speaker B: It would have been. It would have been very early in this. In the. The semester. Because that was the only time I actually had to watch movies before fall. [00:49:30] Speaker A: I don't know what to tell you. [00:49:31] Speaker B: I. I don't know. I don't know what to. I don't know what to say either, except for we've spent too much time on this and we need to get back to the book. Johnny, it's too good. [00:49:39] Speaker A: Let's do it. [00:49:40] Speaker B: Rip away. [00:49:41] Speaker A: Rip away from discovering you're from an alternate universe. That's fine. [00:49:44] Speaker B: I don't need. [00:49:45] Speaker A: What happens? He wakes up and. What happens. [00:49:47] Speaker B: He wakes up and shit's crazy. Johnny. [00:49:50] Speaker A: It's like Inception. Yeah. [00:49:51] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we see the Spawn speech bubble. Says Dylan. So. Guy's name is Dylan. Let's talk. Dylan is freaked the fuck out, as any sane person would be when meeting Spawn. And. Ooh, Johnny, we get. We get small right foot. Spawn. Hell yeah. He's still. He's still. Still rocking the. The original uniform that he did as of, what, like, six or seven issues ago. [00:50:20] Speaker A: Yeah, [00:50:23] Speaker B: Dylan's. Dylan's freaking out, and Spawn's like, oh, I'm not going to hurt you. And Dylan's like, where are we, Spawn? [00:50:30] Speaker A: He goes inside your mind. [00:50:39] Speaker B: Beautiful, Johnny. Beautiful. And, oh, this close up on Spawn's faces. [00:50:46] Speaker A: So just in case you didn't understand that when I sang it. They're inside Dylan's mind. [00:50:49] Speaker B: Yeah, they are inside Dylan's mind. This is probably what my mind looks like on the inside, too. And Dylan. [00:50:57] Speaker A: No, yours, by the inside. Looks like Freddy Krueger at a fucking Christmas party. That would look at an office. Like, where. [00:51:03] Speaker B: No, no, no. Like. [00:51:05] Speaker A: Like the school. [00:51:08] Speaker B: Like the. You don't see the party. They just mentioned that they. They invited him to a party that they had. So that way they could have an excuse to have him near the boiler. So that way it's easier to put him in there, continue. You know, like, Cask of Amanhiano style. Like, they don't. They don't bring the bricked wall to the drunk guy. They bring the drunk guy and then brick him in. Okay, so you don't See that party? You just see them leaving the party, [00:51:40] Speaker A: do it his house [00:51:42] Speaker B: with the, the killing of him. Oh, they threw him in the boiler at the school, didn't they? Isn't that, isn't that why. Isn't that why. I don't know. [00:51:51] Speaker A: I don't know how to trust you. [00:51:54] Speaker B: I'm pretty. I'm pretty sure they, they pushed Freddy Krueger into the school's fucking furnace. Which is why he. When he comes into the, the dreams, it's in the fucking factory looking shit. And why he's all fucking burned. Did they not push it? Did they also not push him into the school's furnace? Have I just completely forgotten what. [00:52:17] Speaker A: Yeah, no, they throw gasoline on him. [00:52:19] Speaker B: Okay. Is it at his house or is it at the school? Cuz I was always into the impression that they kill him at the school. [00:52:29] Speaker A: I don't think they did it at the school either, dude. [00:52:31] Speaker B: Oh, what the hell? Huh? Weird. Okay then. [00:52:36] Speaker A: But his boiler room, it was at his house? Yes. [00:52:38] Speaker B: Oh, his boiler room. Okay, well at least, at least there was a boiler room. Although a boiler room in a single family home. That's. That's wild. [00:52:50] Speaker A: He also didn't work at a school and wasn't a janitor. [00:52:53] Speaker B: He wasn't a janitor. Oh, he was just. [00:52:56] Speaker A: Oh my God. I think I know where summons is coming from. [00:53:02] Speaker B: What's that? [00:53:03] Speaker A: In Scream, the janitor is dressed like Freddy Krueger. [00:53:09] Speaker B: Also, a lot of this might be coming from. I watched these movies in a single week my sophomore year of college. When you were a janitor, which was 2007, which was. [00:53:25] Speaker A: I can't let it go. I'm sorry. [00:53:26] Speaker B: 19 years ago. So. So I'm working with 19 year old memories of. [00:53:32] Speaker A: But you're so confident. [00:53:34] Speaker B: I don't know what to say, Johnny. [00:53:36] Speaker A: No, it feels like, it feels like stuff that people would make up around the schoolyard. Like stuff people said. Like I heard he was a janitor like before you saw the movie. [00:53:44] Speaker B: I never heard. Like there weren't any fan theories made when I was a child. That was. Everybody was just like, oh, Freddy Krueger, he's scary. And David's not allowed to watch Freddy Krueger. And because everybody knew I wasn't allowed to watch. [00:54:01] Speaker A: You're a little young. You're like what, three years younger than me. [00:54:05] Speaker B: I'm. [00:54:05] Speaker A: Because I was right at the tail end of Freddy Mania. [00:54:08] Speaker B: I'm. But I think I'm two years younger than you. You were born in 87. [00:54:12] Speaker A: 86. [00:54:13] Speaker B: 86, yeah. I'm two years younger than you. [00:54:15] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. So he was. His power had waned by that point. [00:54:21] Speaker B: Yep. He was just. He was just a very popular Halloween costume by the time I was a child. [00:54:26] Speaker A: Yes. [00:54:27] Speaker B: But no. No. Fan theories were floated. Weird. [00:54:31] Speaker A: I mean, that sounds good to me. I'm sorry I derailed this whole episode. [00:54:38] Speaker B: This is important. If it's important to you, it's important to me. [00:54:41] Speaker A: It's just funny to me. [00:54:42] Speaker B: I guess I'll go. I'll never trust another memory of mine ever again. [00:54:46] Speaker A: That's the whole point of this, David. Yes, but if you're at trivia and there's Freddy Krueger trivia be like, oh, I shouldn't. I shouldn't answer these. [00:54:54] Speaker B: I will never be a trivia because I am bad at trivia. [00:54:57] Speaker A: I'm sure he is bad. [00:54:59] Speaker B: They don't write trivia questions specifically aimed at the things I know. So I am bad at trivia. [00:55:05] Speaker A: Okay. [00:55:06] Speaker B: Bad at Jeopardy, Too, so. [00:55:08] Speaker A: But I lost on Jeopardy, baby. [00:55:14] Speaker B: Thank you, Al. Speaking of Al, Al is trying to tell Dylan what is going on. They are in his mind, in Dylan's mind, because the old lady that approached him while he was on his phone was actually inhabited by a demon called Belgauz, and Belgauz did a little body transfer from old lady to him. And Spawn's like, so that's why I'm here. I'm with you in your mind, because we got to get Belgaus. I need your help to destroy him. And Dylan's like, why me? And Spawn's like, it's your fucking brain, dude. Could you imagine Spawn and me hanging out in my brain? He would be like, nah, nah, nah. Too much. I'm gonna go, no. [00:56:00] Speaker A: He'd be in your brain and be like, freddy Krueger didn't wear a Christmas sweater. [00:56:08] Speaker B: So. So Spawn helps Dylan try to find Belgauz within his mind. It's like, you gotta find anything that feels out of place. Dylan's just searching around, being like, let's go over here. Let's look at this weird. And they. They walk by a whole bunch of memories that Dylan has had. [00:56:28] Speaker A: So him playing in the park. Him playing basketball. [00:56:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:31] Speaker A: Him working at a grocery store. A pig. [00:56:34] Speaker B: Yeah. Him hanging out at his grandma's house. [00:56:37] Speaker A: A PlayStation controller. [00:56:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:40] Speaker A: A blender. [00:56:44] Speaker B: Want to put my tender heart in a blender? Watch. It's been running to a beautiful grand piano. An astronaut is in there, some dinosaurs. I guess he probably had a big dinosaur face. Or maybe he's remembering Jurassic Park. [00:57:02] Speaker A: Yes. [00:57:03] Speaker B: Mm. And then. And then Dylan's like, whoa, this is crazy. I'm gonna have to tell Mariner about this when we get out of here. And Spawn's like, wait, who's that? Dylan's like, oh, it's my girlfriend. And then he's like, well, actually, Marnie, not Mariner. [00:57:18] Speaker A: She's a fucking son, Marty. [00:57:20] Speaker B: Oh, I was sitting too far away from it. Your mind is breaking down in real time. Marnie. Marnie is his girlfriend. Well, she was. He's not so sure because they were having the little conversation when he got attacked by bells. Bell. Bells. OG Belgaz. And sorry for the whining, it is Mr. Dingus the dog being upset. He's been very upset this week. [00:57:51] Speaker A: Dingus the dog, Dingus the dogs. [00:57:53] Speaker B: He ain't got no eyes or eardrums. He doesn't know what the hell's going on. [00:57:55] Speaker A: He's a big. He's a big Freddy Krueger fan, and he's pissed. [00:58:00] Speaker B: He says, yeah. [00:58:02] Speaker A: He goes, yeah. He say, bitch sucked by TV antenna or whatever. [00:58:08] Speaker B: He said, yeah, welcome to prime time. [00:58:12] Speaker A: Yeah, there you go. [00:58:14] Speaker B: And then. So Dylan's just like, man, what's all of these things just happening all at once? It's crazy. And Spawn's like, your mind's just in shock. It's expected. We're still. We're still looking for Belgaz. And then Dylan's like, wait, what's that? What's. No way. It's my childhood dog. He ran away. His name is Pedro. He's like, hey, buddy. Hey, buddy. Hey, buddy. And then Pedro turns around, and it's just a horror show. And Dylan is a guest. I would be, too. Jesus, if any of my dogs came up to me looking like this, I would have a heart attack. And Spawn says, it's Belkoz. His presence is warping your memories. We need to work faster. And then Dylan just, like, looks around and is like, oh, hey, over there. I never seen that door before. So they go through this, like, weird steel door just, like, in the middle of Dylan's mind, and it leads to, like, a dirty, abandoned hospital. And so they're just walking around it. Maybe it's an insane asylum. I don't know. Maybe it's a prison. But they're walking around, and then they come across just a wall filled with bodies just staked to it. Dylan's like, I no, this ain't my memories, dude. I don't know what the this is. And Spawn says, no, no, no, no, no, no. These are from after your Possession. They're new ones. [00:59:40] Speaker A: He's killed 11 people since Dylan was his ass. [00:59:43] Speaker B: Dang, that's a lot of people. And Dylan's just like. Just like, They're. They're going to think I murdered them. What the. Dude. And so he starts getting mad at Spawn. He's like, you got to do something about this, man. Come on. You got to help me. And. And then Spawn's like, sorry, dude. Here's the thing I didn't tell you. You died the instant Belgaz entered your body. You're literally a dying memory yourself. I didn't want to tell you about it because it's a hard truth, but, I mean, you know, nobody's. Nope. You don't have to worry about going to prison for killing 11 people, because you're not going to be there. [01:00:26] Speaker A: You're not going to exist. [01:00:28] Speaker B: Yeah. And Dylan's just like, no, no, no, no, no. You're lying. And Spawn's just like, okay, I know you're dying. You're pissed. But you gotta focus, bud. You gotta focus. [01:00:39] Speaker A: We're gonna find this demon. [01:00:41] Speaker B: Yeah. And Dylan's just like, you mother. You don't give a shit about me. You only. And then there's a crash. And Spawn's trying to say, I did care about you, Dylan. I did. Let's go. And Dylan's like, I'm not going anywhere with you. So Spawn goes. And Dylan's left alone. And then an injured guy creeps around the corner and is like, we need to have a chat. Dylan. Dylan's like, how do I know you? And he's like, shit. [01:01:14] Speaker A: The guy looks like a Resident Evil protagonist. [01:01:17] Speaker B: Yeah, or like, Rick Flag. And. And this guy's like, no. No response. Spawn's the one that's doing all this. We're on the same side. We gotta. We gotta take him out. We gotta work together. And. And Dylan's like, no, no, hold on. You're the. That. That did all this. You're the one that killed me. And he's like, no, no, no. Spawn lied to you. You're not dying. He's. He's taken over your body so that way he can do some gnarly shit. He's like, I'm. I'm not completely human. I have some abilities. Spawn's trying to steal them from me. So. So we get a nice little. Trying to convince Dylan that this guy is on the level, on the up and up. Honestly, Johnny, being in this position, the choice between super scary, spooky Spawn dude and injured guy. Ooh. I would be hard pressed to. To choose the correct person. [01:02:21] Speaker A: Well, Dylan makes the right decision. [01:02:25] Speaker B: Dylan does make the right decision. But yeah, so. So the. This guy is like, going, get, get, get one of those spikes. And we'll. We'll kill Spawn and we can get you back to your body. And then we see later it's just Spawn walking around. And then he walks down some stairs. And then he gets round eye of surprise and he says, dylan. And we turn the page, and Dylan is just wailing on this guy. He's stabbing his face, and he's got, like, tendrils and multiple eyes coming out. And there's gore and viscera everywhere. Spawn's like, what happened? Sounds like he tried to feed me some. I didn't like that. And Spawn's like, okay, good. Awesome. Your mind is shutting down. You'll be gone in a few minutes. And if you. But if you want, I can place you in another memory so you won't be alone. Angeline says, nah, it's okay, man. As Pedro starts trotting up, Pedro the [01:03:27] Speaker A: dog comes up to him. [01:03:28] Speaker B: And Pedro, he looks like an actual dog instead of a horror show. And he says, I won't be alone. Maybe that's. Maybe that's the additional text from Todd McFarlane since it's got the. The quotes around it. I won't be alone. And Spawn says, goodbye, Dylan, and thank you. This is Dylan. He's hanging out with Pedro. Says, looks like it's just you and me now, Pedro. Just like it used to be when things were the best, right? Right? [01:03:59] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [01:04:00] Speaker B: Oh, damn. Oh, damn. Then we get king skull crown to end the issue. [01:04:07] Speaker A: King skull crown. King skull crown. [01:04:12] Speaker B: King Spawn crown. I saw the skull. [01:04:15] Speaker A: I'm strong. You. [01:04:17] Speaker B: It happens. Oh, Jesus, Johnny. It will be fun to listen to all of these episodes in a row and witness my slow decline into madness. Maybe. Maybe we'll be part of a study one day, Johnny. [01:04:33] Speaker A: Yeah, AI is listening to us right now. [01:04:36] Speaker B: Then we get another spawning grounds. Some more fan art. There's some good fan art here, Johnny. We got a what is obviously the transfer for a tattoo. I'd like to see the tattoo that came out of this from Moon Barker tattoo. Get a nice little classic Spawn from Chains Drew that Al Iris by Artists does a nice little. What looks like a Spawn. The Animated Series spawn. Then we get a nice little peewet kissing. Does a nice little. A little bit of marker work there. And then clay frames has a nice little, like, colored pencil. [01:05:19] Speaker A: Pee wet kissing. [01:05:20] Speaker B: Pee wet. [01:05:21] Speaker A: Kessin, you Gonna kiss my wet pee. [01:05:25] Speaker B: I mean, if I have to. [01:05:27] Speaker A: Oh my God. [01:05:29] Speaker B: Hey, stop. Stop. That is my hand. I'm being chewed upon. Johnny. Do you need more sponsors? [01:05:36] Speaker A: That's not me putting my dick in David's hand. [01:05:38] Speaker B: That was a dog chewing on it's dog. It's a dog chewing on my hand. Need more sponge universe, Johnny. [01:05:46] Speaker A: Always and forever. [01:05:49] Speaker B: Don't miss the ongoing titles. We got the. The Core 4 again. Very nice, very nice. [01:05:57] Speaker A: Then we got a Witchblade ad available now. [01:06:02] Speaker B: And then the UFC toy ads. Is the back of that our favorite back of the COVID ad? Nice. And that is kingspawn49, Johnny. [01:06:12] Speaker A: Yes, it is. [01:06:14] Speaker B: Well, Johnny, speaking of whiny dogs and upset dogs and being chewed on by dogs and Pedro the dog. I think we gotta rate these puppies, Johnny. Mmm. [01:06:26] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. First up, we had scorched 45. Just an excellent issue. It was just like comic book goodness and it just. I loved it. Yeah, great action. I love Steven Segovia. He shines in this issue. And it's just like it's what we want from the scores. It's like the culmination of all this stuff. Like why Briefer came back from the past. It's such a great turning point. It's one of those things of like when you're lowest and you think there's no hope and then like it just reverses and everything works out. [01:07:02] Speaker B: The night is always darkest before the dawn, Johnny. [01:07:05] Speaker A: Correct. Always makes you think of Race to the Broken Land when they get to Catacombas. And then they succeed very easily. [01:07:13] Speaker B: But then they have to fucking go all the way back home. [01:07:16] Speaker A: Well, there's the other third of the book. That middle section is very triumphant. [01:07:21] Speaker B: It's like, holy, what is gonna happen? There's too much book left for this to end happy at all. Don't go into an S. Craig book expecting anything to be happy. [01:07:29] Speaker A: No. [01:07:30] Speaker B: Oh no. Any victory that happens is purely pyrrhic. [01:07:35] Speaker A: But I like, I like that moment. That book. I like it in this where there's just like you're lowest and then it turns around and things work out and it's great. [01:07:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:07:45] Speaker A: It's not what you expect. [01:07:46] Speaker B: Nope. [01:07:46] Speaker A: Victory. [01:07:48] Speaker B: Yeah. It's excellent. [01:07:51] Speaker A: I'm going to give it five. Old Redeemer at the bars. Out of five. [01:07:58] Speaker B: Hell yeah. I. I agree, Johnny. This is John Layman's working his. His script magic. Steven Segovia is doing. I like that. Steven Segovia gets to draw both the battle as it was. And the battle as it. As it actually happened. That's. That's a fun little contrast. It's both of these two guys. The top of their games for this issue. It's so fucking good. Yeah, it just rocks. It rocks. It rocks. That's all you can say about it, really rocks. I'm gonna give it 500,000 little vindicator fleabiac eggs out of 500,000 for bishop. [01:08:46] Speaker A: Then sex. 500,000. A thousand times. [01:08:49] Speaker B: Yeah. They. They kept. She kept him very busy. But, yeah. So five Vindicator eggs out of five, Johnny. That means that this is an entrance into the Hellfire Club. [01:09:01] Speaker A: O feel it sizzling. [01:09:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:09:04] Speaker A: Next up, we had kingspawn 49. [01:09:08] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:09:10] Speaker A: A great short story. Like, I didn't know where it was going. And, like, it was just so. So saint. And, like, even if you know a little bit about Spawn, it's a great story. Like, it's just. It's what he's been doing. King Spawn recently. Or I guess as of September, but that's recently. [01:09:27] Speaker B: That's pretty recent. [01:09:28] Speaker A: It's just been great. [01:09:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:09:30] Speaker A: And it's just these. These, like, Tales of the Crypt type morality tales. [01:09:35] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:09:36] Speaker A: Where Spawn's like a character, but he's not, like, the main character. And they tell these really interesting little stories. And I'm loving it. I'm going to give this. Five PlayStation controllers floating in the air. Out of five. [01:09:48] Speaker B: Nice. I agree. Due to pana art. Incredible. It's so good. The. The concept for each of these issues has been great. This is a. This is a fan Tastic concept. It's so good. It's heartbreaking, though. Oh, boy. But, yeah, I love the hell out of it. It's so good. I'm gonna give it five Pedros. Out of five. Because that is the literal puppy. And if there is a literal puppy, that is the rating. Johnny, you gotta give it. Which means that this is also an entrance into the Hellfire Club. [01:10:28] Speaker A: Which means. What do I call it? What did I call it? [01:10:32] Speaker B: I don't remember. I was hoping you would remember. [01:10:34] Speaker A: Damn it. And you play the Fog War extra crispy. [01:10:38] Speaker B: Extra crispy. Whatever we call it. [01:10:41] Speaker A: Play the Foghorn. [01:10:42] Speaker B: Yeah, Foghorn. Foghorn Leghorn. [01:10:47] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [01:10:48] Speaker B: I say, I say, I say, I say a boy. I say what I say. I say, I say Foghorn Leghorn. [01:10:55] Speaker A: You sound like you're at the BAFTAs. [01:11:00] Speaker B: Oh, don't put that. Don't put that on me. Don't put that on me. I didn't say that. Okay. Although Foghorn Leghorn probably is modeled off of a very unsavory character type, I'm [01:11:15] Speaker A: not gonna go into it. [01:11:16] Speaker B: Yeah, we don't. We don't need to go into the racist history of cartoons. Not on this podcast. [01:11:20] Speaker A: I'm not gonna go into what you've just fucking said. [01:11:24] Speaker B: Remember what I just. What I say? [01:11:26] Speaker A: I say, I say. Boy, that's like the rave most racist thing I've ever heard, David. [01:11:30] Speaker B: That's what fucking Foghorn Leghorn says, though. [01:11:33] Speaker A: Okay? [01:11:34] Speaker B: You quote him. [01:11:35] Speaker A: He's like a plant. He's based off like a plantation owner. [01:11:38] Speaker B: Yeah, okay, well, then we'll go back. We'll go back. [01:11:41] Speaker A: No, I'm kidding. I want to keep this in, but we need to cancel Foghorn Leghorn. [01:11:45] Speaker B: Okay, I'm so confused about what's going on now because I don't understand anything. [01:11:53] Speaker A: It's Christmas, David. It's Christmas and we're all gonna go [01:11:56] Speaker B: to my board coming at me, and I'm not sure. I'm not sure if you've heard me say something that I didn't remember actually saying in real time. [01:12:04] Speaker A: We're gonna go to school and we're gonna go to the boardroom and we'll have a Christmas party. [01:12:09] Speaker B: Oh, I just need the world to stop for a second or two so I can take a nap. [01:12:18] Speaker A: Stop the world. I want to get off. [01:12:20] Speaker B: Huh? Stop the world. I want to get on. I don't want to leave. That's what Bloom says. Whatever is Bloom of B, Alice stuck and Bloom? [01:12:30] Speaker A: Yeah. He doesn't want to get on. [01:12:31] Speaker B: Yeah, he wants to get on. Yeah, that's what I said. What you said. [01:12:35] Speaker A: Well, Southwing it off is name of [01:12:36] Speaker B: an old musical, which is probably why it's in the Producers as a reference. [01:12:41] Speaker A: It is? [01:12:42] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Very nice. Very nice. What is more self referential than fucking musicals or indebted to reference us? The most. The most postmodern of the most American of art forms. What is the musical? I feel. [01:13:02] Speaker A: I thought it was war. [01:13:06] Speaker B: Other people have done more and better war than we have. [01:13:09] Speaker A: That's true. We do like a musical. [01:13:12] Speaker B: But yeah, if. If put down to it, my thesis would be the theme. The single most American piece of art ever created is the Broadway style musical. [01:13:23] Speaker A: Oh, it's Canadian. Spawn's Canadian. [01:13:27] Speaker B: Although he was part of war, so [01:13:31] Speaker A: he's a lord of war. He's an American. He's an American creation. [01:13:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:13:37] Speaker A: God bless America and God bless Spawn. [01:13:40] Speaker B: Yeah, God bless Spawn. I agree with the second half. [01:13:45] Speaker A: Exactly. [01:13:45] Speaker B: See See, I can. [01:13:47] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [01:13:48] Speaker B: I could do it. I could do a callback. [01:13:50] Speaker A: I agree with the second part. All right. Okay. [01:13:55] Speaker B: Well, you know, what are the second parts? I agree with Johnny. I agree with the spawning grounds because they introduce us to a lot more individuals of the Spawn Immunity, which happens to be pretty excellent. [01:14:07] Speaker A: Correct. [01:14:08] Speaker B: And this week we would like to shout out a member of the Spawnmunity that was featured in the Spawning Grounds of Scorch 45. Yes, sir. That is Deadroninworkshop. And I mentioned that their entrance here was scorched with Jessica Priest walking to a motorcycle, Variakira style. And well, you shouldn't be surprised. They have a lot of anime inspired art and a lot of Spawn. It's not a mix I often see basically just anime and Spawn. It's great. They got a lot of good shit. Check them out. That is again, dead underscore. Ronin [01:14:56] Speaker A: Workshop sounds the winner. [01:14:59] Speaker B: Hell yeah. You know who else is a winner, Johnny? [01:15:03] Speaker A: Lonnie Bones. [01:15:04] Speaker B: Lonnie Bones, because he does our music. Well, not because he does our music, but he is a winner and he does our music. So just take yourself to the Google, type in Lonnie Bones music, find him, listen to it. It's good shit. Yeah. While you're tippity tapping away on the Internet, you should also find us on Instagram. We're @regardingspawnpod. And if you want to contact us in any way, shape or form that's not Instagram wise. You can send us an email at. Regarding spawnpodmail.com but wait, David, what's that? [01:15:35] Speaker A: We have to. We have to play Record Scratch. We got to do a segment. [01:15:41] Speaker B: We do. Is it. Is it related to emails? Hell yeah. So we got emails. We get. We got two spawning grounds in the issues proper, Johnny. And we also get a respawning regrounds. Holy shit. [01:15:56] Speaker A: It's time for respawn every rounds. So we got an email from Tiny Spawn, a friend of the pod. It's very informative. [01:16:21] Speaker B: Yeah, he says. [01:16:22] Speaker A: Morning, gentlemen. Over the last few episodes, you have since mentioned the fact that Sin just popped backed up out of nowhere. No actual explanation as to how the hell he came back. Well, it happened to have some insight into the situation. [01:16:34] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:16:35] Speaker A: While a group of us from the Spawn Unity were in New York for the NYCC, we got invited to lunch by someone within Todd McFarlane Productions. During our conversation, I asked him if they could explain how Sin is back after getting vaporized by Nyx. We were told that Booth was told to fill the panels in that particular issue with all kinds of different spawn characters. He did and was instructed to put CID in one of those panels. No one called until it made it our hands and began to question it. Sorry to inform you, there's apparently no cool backstories that hasn't came back, other than it was an accident. They're running with it. I'm sure at some point they will do some sort of flashback to Slay's return. [01:17:08] Speaker B: Nice. [01:17:09] Speaker A: I'm not sure if you guys have read any of the current spawn issues, but Cynthia's doing something I think is pretty badass, and I'm looking forward to see how it plays out. [01:17:15] Speaker B: Me too. [01:17:15] Speaker A: I look forward to your show every week. It's always a good time. Your pal, Tiny Spawn. [01:17:21] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. First off, thank you very much for the email, Tiny Spawny. Second off, that's amazing information. I like. I like the. The. Oh, whoopsie. I guess we. Yeah, I guess we. I guess we're committed now. [01:17:37] Speaker A: We should have it. We'll have Mark back. Let's have him back for kingspawn50 maybe. [01:17:42] Speaker B: Yeah, we could do that. Let's do it. [01:17:46] Speaker A: Okay, we're calling right now. [01:17:48] Speaker B: Yeah, let's do it. [01:17:50] Speaker A: Okay, we're making it. We're gonna email him. [01:17:53] Speaker B: Yeah. But also for more emails. We've got. [01:18:00] Speaker A: You said that. [01:18:02] Speaker B: Oh, for the. Oh, you're. [01:18:03] Speaker A: Oh, your thing. [01:18:04] Speaker B: Yeah, go ahead. So. [01:18:05] Speaker A: So we like your little experiment. [01:18:07] Speaker B: My little experiment. We love getting emails from listeners. We love getting emails from Tiny Spawny. We love getting emails, period. And don't forget that currently, right now, we have a little thing. I've got the trade paperback of the 1993 Violator miniseries written by Alan Moore, arted by Bart Sears. [01:18:28] Speaker A: Bart Simpson. [01:18:30] Speaker B: Don't have a cow, man. And send us an email with a reason why we should send it to you. And if we like your reason, we'll send it to you. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Love to see your emails. Don't forget to like us. Like us. Subscribe to us. Follow us. Tell your friends, family, co workers, your nephews, your nieces, your. Your dogs, your cats, your Dylan's, your Pedro's, your Marnie's, Frank. [01:19:03] Speaker A: Freddy Krueger. [01:19:04] Speaker B: Yeah. Don't tell your Freddy Kruegers, please. We don't want. We don't want your welcome Freddy Kruegers. [01:19:10] Speaker A: You know that scene with the Christmas party in the office building, and they're like, come here, Freddy. He's like, I have my Christmas sweater on. [01:19:20] Speaker B: Janet from accounting wants to see you [01:19:22] Speaker A: in the mailroom of the school, you, janitor. [01:19:29] Speaker B: I don't know anything, Janet. I don't. Which I guess. I guess it makes sense then, that I also don't know any other words except for wait. [01:19:39] Speaker A: What do we do next week? [01:19:40] Speaker B: Oh, I know a few more words next week, Johnny. Let's do a little bit more from Spawn's universe. [01:19:49] Speaker A: Okay. What do we do? [01:19:50] Speaker B: Why don't we do Salmon Twitch and rat cities. Number 19. [01:19:54] Speaker A: 19. [01:19:55] Speaker B: I am. I am lost, and I need to find the way. And we all know that if you're lost, just find the 19 and it won't lead you astray. [01:20:03] Speaker A: Absolutely. Anyway, go ahead. [01:20:06] Speaker B: So now that I've gotten those extra words out. I don't know any other words, Johnny, except for may the scorch be with you. [01:20:13] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:20:15] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:20:17] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. So, like, did they have, like, a white elephant at the Christmas party? Like, how did it go? [01:20:23] Speaker B: I don't know. I didn't. The. The fantasy that I made up didn't go that far, Johnny. [01:20:30] Speaker A: Surprisingly, some fantasies go too far. [01:20:33] Speaker B: Yeah, some fantasies are final multiple times, [01:20:40] Speaker A: like, 12 times, like, 16. There's, like, 16 of them. [01:20:47] Speaker B: And then they get rem. It. [01:21:30] Speaker A: Hold on. I was gonna do it. Stop looking at me.