Ep[isode 171 - Rat City 19 and Sam And Twitch Case Files 19!

[00:00:00] Speaker A: There's an unspoken bond between partners. They know some cases just won't let you go. They live on, buried deep down inside. And when a case like that comes bubbling back to the surface, your partner should be there for. Good evening and welcome to the Malibu. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast. I'm your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:53] Speaker B: And I'm your co host, David Williams. And Johnny. It was one of those classic spring days that Spawn started with a little bit of snow in the morning. And it was like 62 degrees by the middle of the afternoon. [00:01:04] Speaker A: Wow. [00:01:06] Speaker B: Wonderful. I was looking at my. I was looking at my ring camera this not too long ago, and it was like this morning. Snow everywhere this afternoon. Sunny, no snow. [00:01:19] Speaker A: You see that when I snuck up to your door at 3am and put a plant in front of it? [00:01:22] Speaker B: No, I didn't. I think. I think you know. I think you know where the motion sensor limits are. Like a little sneak. [00:01:31] Speaker A: I didn't kidnap Nancy Guthrie. I'm just putting that out there. It wasn't me, all right? [00:01:35] Speaker B: I haven't. I haven't heard anything about that in a couple of weeks. [00:01:38] Speaker A: Yeah, because it went cold. What the hell's happening? [00:01:40] Speaker B: I don't know. It's wild. She did. If anybody's. If anybody's kidnapped for more than like, three days, that's kind of what I automatically assume. [00:01:51] Speaker A: Because when you think about, like, keeping a person contained, alive, fed, healthy, it's hard. [00:01:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:56] Speaker A: Especially somebody who's their will. Yeah. Yeah. It was like 70 something. [00:02:00] Speaker B: I know how certain. Certain older individuals, it's hard to keep them alive when they want to be alive. [00:02:07] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. Yeah. [00:02:09] Speaker B: Sad. [00:02:09] Speaker A: I just imagine like a Coen Brothers type movie where like these criminals, like, kidnapped her, like ransom, and they wake up and she's dead. They're like, what the. She's dead. And they're like, Shibusami's, like, freaking out because she was supposed to die. That's what I think happened. [00:02:25] Speaker B: I'm sorry. Samantha got three. [00:02:28] Speaker A: I know. I love you, Samantha Guthrie. I'm sorry. She's not listening to this shit. [00:02:32] Speaker B: We just gotta let people. Gotta let people know. We gotta let people know. But yeah. [00:02:37] Speaker A: Oh, man, I love Savannah. Savannah Guthrie. That's Savannah. [00:02:41] Speaker B: Jesus. [00:02:41] Speaker A: You even know her name? [00:02:42] Speaker B: No, I don't even watch the show. [00:02:44] Speaker A: I watch today's show every day when I can. [00:02:46] Speaker B: That's why. That's why I don't know the names. [00:02:48] Speaker A: I watched it today. [00:02:49] Speaker B: Nice. How was it? [00:02:51] Speaker A: It's fine. They had Ryan Gosling on for project Hail Mary. [00:02:56] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:02:57] Speaker A: That. [00:02:57] Speaker B: That looks. That looks like fun. I like Miller and Lord. I love, like, an isolation in space movie. Like the. Did you ever see that Sam Rockwell movie Moon? Yeah, that was. That was fun as hell. [00:03:10] Speaker A: Directed by David Bowie's son. [00:03:12] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, I remember. Oh, the dogs have started. [00:03:17] Speaker A: The dogs are growling. She hates David Bowie. [00:03:20] Speaker B: She hates fucking everything, evidently. [00:03:24] Speaker A: Yeah, it looks good. The rock monster is evident. Or the rock alien friend in the trailer is evidently a puppet. [00:03:29] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. [00:03:30] Speaker A: I thought it was cgi, but. I mean, cgi, but it's a puppet. [00:03:33] Speaker B: That's awesome, man. [00:03:36] Speaker A: Fuck Miller. Lord make great movies. They made 21 Jump Street, 22 Jump Street, Lego Movie. They're supposed to make Solo till they kicked him off it. [00:03:47] Speaker B: Solo would have been pretty fun with them at the helm of it. [00:03:49] Speaker A: Yeah, it would have been awesome. [00:03:50] Speaker B: It would have been good. [00:03:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:52] Speaker B: Solo. [00:03:52] Speaker A: Yeah, solo. Solo. David. [00:03:58] Speaker B: That. That means alone. [00:04:00] Speaker A: We were just talking about being alone solo. Star Wars Story. No, we were just talking about that because I want to do it for our Star wars day, David. Like, search. Use AI to search for when. I said we do. Listen. [00:04:12] Speaker B: I listen to the last three minutes of our last Star wars episode, and you were like, I don't know. What do you want to do? And I was like, let's do Star Wars. And you're like, yeah, okay, [00:04:21] Speaker A: well, I go back on it. I can change my mind. I just haven't convinced me. You have to convince me. [00:04:27] Speaker B: I convinced you a year ago. What are you talking about? [00:04:30] Speaker A: Last change in the world, David. [00:04:32] Speaker B: I just said, I think we should do this, and you were like, yeah, okay, full support. [00:04:35] Speaker A: Okay, fine. [00:04:37] Speaker B: You saying you don't full support me anymore, Johnny? Oh, I never have the dissolution of a partnership right before your very ears. [00:04:44] Speaker A: No, it's. [00:04:45] Speaker B: It's. [00:04:46] Speaker A: That's what a pod. That's what every podcast is, isn't it? [00:04:48] Speaker B: Eventually, yeah, eventually. Eventually we just grow to. We just go get so bitter and we grow to hate each other. But we need each other, or one [00:04:55] Speaker A: of us gets canceled. [00:04:57] Speaker B: Who will it be? Take place your bets. [00:05:00] Speaker A: Place your bets now. [00:05:01] Speaker B: Send your bets to Regarding spot podmail dot com. [00:05:04] Speaker A: It'll be me. [00:05:07] Speaker B: I don't know. That's. That's the thing about it, Johnny, is it's hard to. It's hard to predict. [00:05:15] Speaker A: Hard to predict. [00:05:16] Speaker B: Hard to predict. Like Wanda literally said in her list of three people that she would have been absolutely, what, 100% positive would be safe to be around no matter what? Like, number two was Neil Gaiman, so. And yet that's how they get you. Maybe. Maybe when I hit 43 years old, I should just like move to the country and just become a hermit and never see anybody ever again. And it's like, we're good. [00:05:42] Speaker A: Everyone probably should. State of the world. [00:05:47] Speaker B: Well, I mean, if we're. If we're talking about a post apocalyptic type situation, I hope that the event that brings the post apocalypse around takes me with it because I don't even want to deal with any of that shit. I don't want the stress. I don't want the having to hard scrabble fight to survive. Just let me. Let me go out in a blaze. [00:06:08] Speaker A: Yeah, the aliens will save us. [00:06:12] Speaker B: They come in peace, Johnny. [00:06:14] Speaker A: Yeah, they come in peace. You never know. [00:06:19] Speaker B: Never know. [00:06:20] Speaker A: Speaking of not. Not cancel creators, though. We got a lot of great creators. [00:06:23] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:06:24] Speaker A: In these two issues of Swan. [00:06:26] Speaker B: Yes, we do. [00:06:26] Speaker A: That. We're covering this week from Swan's universe. [00:06:29] Speaker B: And why are we covering them this week, Johnny? [00:06:31] Speaker A: Because we are respawn where each week regarding Spawn. Each week we bring you two issues from Spawn's universe. Except when we don't. Yeah, this week is no different. We have two issues from Spawn's universe. Two of our favorite series, and one of them has a new beginning. [00:06:47] Speaker B: Yes. [00:06:48] Speaker A: Because we are doing Rat City 19, all the way back from the far off land of October 2025. [00:06:56] Speaker B: Dang. [00:06:57] Speaker A: And Sam and Twitch case files 19, also from October 2025. [00:07:02] Speaker B: Mm, good books. [00:07:06] Speaker A: Yeah, I didn't dress up for Halloween that year. I was too busy. [00:07:10] Speaker B: I don't really ever dress up for Halloween, basically. Unless Wanda says you're putting this on. [00:07:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:07:17] Speaker B: Although I think. I think from this year at work, they always have a fall festival thing instead of a. They don't call it Halloween because I guess that's too. I don't know, it's a fall whatever. And so all. All of the administrative teams always have like, group costumes. And I think we have to do a group costume this year because we've not done it for the past two years and it's just gotten to be a bigger and bigger thing and I'm dreading it. I really don't want to do it. [00:07:49] Speaker A: But if you cast a Pulp Fiction, you'll go as Samuel Jackson. [00:07:56] Speaker B: I think we know who's getting canceled first. [00:07:58] Speaker A: Exactly. That's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to get you the punch. No, if you shaved your beard, you could do John Travolta. He's got long Hair. [00:08:10] Speaker B: Yeah, I could. I could. I could just go as a Royale with Cheese. [00:08:14] Speaker A: You could probably the problem. You. You look most like, like currently, if you kept your hair. Eric Saltz, the drug dealer, who he go to his house to do the. [00:08:24] Speaker B: The Or. I do kind of look like Robert Redford in that Mountain man movie a little bit. Hairs may be a little long, but [00:08:35] Speaker A: everyone thought that was Zach California. [00:08:36] Speaker B: I thought it was Zach Californiakis. I was. I was part of everybody. [00:08:41] Speaker A: It blew the Internet's mind. [00:08:43] Speaker B: It blew my mind because who. How do you get a gift from a movie that. That's all. That's that old Johnny now speaking. Speaking of Robert Redford, Johnny, did you see that? Robert Redford dying is what it takes to get Barbra Streisand back in front [00:08:57] Speaker A: of public, I guess. [00:08:59] Speaker B: And singing again. Maybe she shouldn't have sung. [00:09:03] Speaker A: I actually didn't see that part. [00:09:04] Speaker B: She's a. She's maybe a little out of practice. [00:09:07] Speaker A: It was my dear mother's birthday, so we were at dinner and then we. So I came back after she had. You didn't say I was going to the bathroom. [00:09:14] Speaker B: You didn't say, happy birthday, Mom. We're watching the Oscars instead. [00:09:17] Speaker A: We did after. [00:09:18] Speaker B: It was. It was. Conan did a great job. [00:09:21] Speaker A: Yeah, he was. The funniest joke for me was when after like a couple awards were given out, he was like, we got a tie and a no show. It's a real humdinger. [00:09:30] Speaker B: There were. There were a couple of upsets. There were a couple of upsets. Benicio Del Toro got robbed. I mean, Sean Penn did do a really. A really good job, but I think Benicio. Benicio doesn't have an Oscar yet. And Sean Penn's got, what, two of them? Three of them now. [00:09:43] Speaker A: Did you watch that? We never talked about it. What, one battle after another? [00:09:47] Speaker B: Yeah, I watched it. Yeah, it's a good movie. And Benicio Del Toro is fucking fantastic. And he's doing like 50 million things. Like, Leo is just really cool to see. [00:09:56] Speaker A: Like a movie that really captured that pinchon. Like it's seen or pinchin. However you fucking say it. I say punch on. I think you're supposed to say Pynchon. [00:10:04] Speaker B: I've heard it both ways. [00:10:07] Speaker A: Like, I liked Inherent Vice, the movie, but I loved the book so much and it was different enough that kind of. I didn't like it as much. [00:10:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:14] Speaker A: But this I really enjoyed. [00:10:16] Speaker B: Yeah, it was the. The main character being like so full of themselves and being like, oh, everything I do is so important while doing Nothing but, like, everyone around them just, like, getting shit done for seemingly the benefit of only the main character is very. It's wonderful. It's great. [00:10:35] Speaker A: It was fun. Good movie. [00:10:37] Speaker B: It's a good movie. Best movie of the year, technically, according to the Academy. [00:10:42] Speaker A: According to all those child molesters. [00:10:45] Speaker B: Sinners had a great showing, though. Ryan Coogler's hair was awesome. [00:10:51] Speaker A: And Weapons won an Oscar. [00:10:53] Speaker B: Yeah, that was awesome. That was like, one of the first Oscars given out. [00:10:55] Speaker A: I know. I need to watch that. I haven't seen it. [00:10:57] Speaker B: Can't believe Ed Harris has not aged since Apollo 13. Holy. [00:11:01] Speaker A: He looks the same. [00:11:02] Speaker B: The exact same. It's wonderful. But yeah, I was at our buddy Eli's house, and it was a lot of people come over. There were seven or eight other people. [00:11:15] Speaker A: That was the most people in one household in America watching the Oscars, probably. They're the Lotus rated in four years. [00:11:21] Speaker B: Oh, boy. That sucks. Well, this is the first Oscar I've Oscars I've seen in, like, 12 years. So that's my. [00:11:28] Speaker A: Invited you last year. [00:11:32] Speaker B: Yeah, you probably did. I probably made up some sort of excuse, but it was nice because there was a Thunderstorm and Eloy's TV's right next to his window, and so there were just like, dramatic thunderbolts at appropriate times. It was great. [00:11:45] Speaker A: That's good. [00:11:48] Speaker B: Then I tripped in an alley on my way back home, and I don't even want to think about what I fell in. [00:11:53] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Are you okay? [00:11:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:56] Speaker A: You have a little too much champagne. [00:11:58] Speaker B: No, it was. It was raining, and the. The only. The only dry spot was walking behind some dumpsters. And so I took my chances. [00:12:06] Speaker A: And what the hell were you walking to? [00:12:08] Speaker B: I was walking to the pink line. [00:12:10] Speaker A: Yeah, the pink line. Yeah. [00:12:11] Speaker B: And it was just. Since it had rained so much, there was just like the biggest puddle I've ever seen. And there was no way around it except for behind these dumpsters or in the middle of the fucking street where cars were driving. So I took my chances. I chose poorly. I should have gone where the cars live. [00:12:27] Speaker A: Go where the cars live. [00:12:29] Speaker B: Go where the cars live. Always do it. But you know where cars. You know where else cars live, Johnny? [00:12:35] Speaker A: Well, futuristic cars. [00:12:36] Speaker B: Future. Ooh. They live in the future city. [00:12:39] Speaker A: In Rat City. [00:12:39] Speaker B: In Rat City, yes. [00:12:40] Speaker A: We have a scene on the highway in this. [00:12:42] Speaker B: Yeah, on the. The. [00:12:49] Speaker A: The GWB George Washington Bridge. [00:12:52] Speaker B: The George Washington bastard. Wait, what? [00:12:55] Speaker A: He was a bastard. [00:12:56] Speaker B: He was. [00:12:57] Speaker A: I watched some of Ken Burns. [00:12:58] Speaker B: Shit. [00:12:58] Speaker A: I know what's going on. [00:13:02] Speaker B: Oh, boy. [00:13:03] Speaker A: Once the government reveals that there's aliens, you think they'll let Ken Burns do a documentary about the government? [00:13:08] Speaker B: Didn't they just. Didn't they. Didn't they already do that to distract from the Epstein files? [00:13:13] Speaker A: They said they're going to, and they didn't. Oh, but today they just Reddit heard aliens.gov. seriously? That's real. [00:13:23] Speaker B: Oh, we live. We live in the greatest timeline, Johnny. [00:13:28] Speaker A: If I get real, real into it, aliens are probably demons that the Epstein people were worshiping and, like, sacrificing babies too. So we. [00:13:42] Speaker B: Oh, my God, that happy note. [00:13:44] Speaker A: What's going on? I think this simulation is breaking. [00:13:47] Speaker B: It definitely is. It's definitely running towards the end of it where it's like. I don't. I don't know. We've tried all the good permutations already. Just throw some of the random shit in. Yeah, it's breaking down, Johnny. Slowly. [00:14:03] Speaker A: Well, at least we have spawned to keep us going. [00:14:05] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:14:07] Speaker A: And according to Spawn, we make it all the way to the year, like 20. What? Windsor at City Place take place. [00:14:13] Speaker B: Oh, it's like 20. Is it 2400 or 2700? [00:14:18] Speaker A: I can't remember. [00:14:20] Speaker B: I know it's a few hundred years in the future. Wait, don't be. Yeah. Yeah. [00:14:25] Speaker A: So hopefully we make it. [00:14:27] Speaker B: Hopefully. [00:14:27] Speaker A: Oh, speaking of the Oscars, you see the Moulin Rouge, Little. [00:14:31] Speaker B: The little. The little Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor up there, just randomly inserting lines from film. Yeah, it's great. It was great. 20. [00:14:41] Speaker A: That's 20 years old. [00:14:44] Speaker B: Damn. [00:14:44] Speaker A: 25. 25. 25. 25, 25. [00:14:47] Speaker B: Yeah, man. Good movie. Mm. [00:14:52] Speaker A: Yeah, we got rat city. 19. 19. Oh, we didn't mention your Stephen King. 19. [00:14:58] Speaker B: Well, we mentioned it. We mentioned it at the end of the last episode where we talked about. But there's 19 the night. [00:15:04] Speaker A: You ever read Stephen King? Or if you haven't, I'll explain it. He loves 19. It's in everything. [00:15:09] Speaker B: It is. [00:15:10] Speaker A: It's the mythical number, the Dark Tower. It is probably what the lost numbers were based off. [00:15:14] Speaker B: I. I would be surprised if that weren't a reason that. Isn't 19 one of the lost numbers? [00:15:20] Speaker A: No. [00:15:21] Speaker B: No. Oh. [00:15:22] Speaker A: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 is 1. [00:15:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:26] Speaker A: How far are you in Lost? Been watching or you give up? [00:15:29] Speaker B: I. I just have been. Not brain capacity to even watch tv. I'm still. I'm still where I was like, episode 14 of the first season. [00:15:40] Speaker A: He find the numbers yet? [00:15:41] Speaker B: He hasn't found the numbers yet, no. [00:15:42] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:15:44] Speaker B: They just. They just Ahmed. [00:15:49] Speaker A: Saeed. [00:15:49] Speaker B: You. Yeah, I fucking. I got fucking bad brain. [00:15:54] Speaker A: Saeed got bad brain because that COVID vaccine you got, bitch, I got a [00:15:58] Speaker B: bad brain because I'm stupid. But Saeed just came back from being captured by Crazy Lady Rousseau. And everybody's like, what, the French lady from the recording? Yeah, I was thinking of Ahmed Best. I got Jar Jar Binks on the mind. Johnny. [00:16:16] Speaker A: I was thinking about. I was talking about Megan. And I watched the Mobile, Alabama, Leprechaun in honor of St. Patrick's Day. It got me thinking about early viral videos. I thought about, dude, that video's so good to me. It looked like a leprechaun to me. [00:16:38] Speaker B: I haven't watched that video. It's so, like. I like the Eyewitness Sketch. [00:16:42] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like a little dot. That was, like, one of the 2006. That was one of, like, the first viral videos. [00:16:49] Speaker B: I remember that was up there. That was up there with Bub rub. Yeah. [00:16:54] Speaker A: Whistle tips. But we watched that. We were thinking about early viral videos, and we started talking about Lonely island and then Natalie Portman one. But the second Natalie Portman rap, they did, like, 10 years later. There's one part where she goes, say something nice about the prequels, bitch. And he goes, say something nice about Jar Jar Binks. And he goes, he's tall. [00:17:16] Speaker B: Oh, there was. There was somebody on. There's this. This lady on Instagram who just fucking loves Star wars, has all Star wars things, and Jar Jar is her favorite, and she's got, like, a whole case of those Jar Jar lickitung tongues. Tongues. And this. This other guy made her a gigantic lickitung lightsaber hilt for her lightsabers. It's awesome. And instead of making lightsaber noises, it makes Jar Jar noises. [00:17:43] Speaker A: That's hilarious. I wonder how that candy's holding up. I bought one for my dad as a joke. I got it for him, like, for Father's Day. [00:17:51] Speaker B: Like, when they were coming out or recently. [00:17:54] Speaker A: No, they came. I mean, it was like a year after the movie came out. It was old. It was crumbling. The Popsicle or the lollipop was, like, crumbling, man. [00:18:02] Speaker B: That's. [00:18:02] Speaker A: Those things were everywhere because they didn't sell a single goddamn one. I ever seen this on shelves forever. I mean, episode one stuff was on shelves, like, three years. [00:18:08] Speaker B: Yeah, they. They. They went hard on the marketing, and they have not gone that hard on marketing since. [00:18:14] Speaker A: That was, like, the peak. Yeah, like the peak of it. [00:18:16] Speaker B: It's insane. [00:18:18] Speaker A: It was like the special editions Lost World, Jurassic Park, Episode one and Episode one was kind of like a failure. [00:18:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:26] Speaker A: Because they just, they was. It was over saturation. Not it wasn't a failure, but like the marketing was too much. [00:18:30] Speaker B: Yeah, it was too much marketing. Yeah. Because that was also around the time where, you know, people were realizing, oh, hey, the original Star wars action figures are worth mucho bucks because there aren't any of them. [00:18:41] Speaker A: But then there's way too many. If you get a fan ministry, it's like five bucks. [00:18:45] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like they were good figures. It's like the, the comics market in the 90s where everybody was like, number one means that it's going to be lots of money. So we're going to make lots of number ones. And so every six months your title starts over at number one. So you can get a number. Another number one. [00:19:01] Speaker A: I read a number one this week, David Read. When I went to St. Louis, I picked up the number one of the new Phantom of the Opera and it's really good. [00:19:09] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Hell yeah. [00:19:11] Speaker A: It's kind of those monsters. Comics have been really good. I read the Dracula one. I skipped a couple of the others, but maybe I'll go back and get them. [00:19:19] Speaker B: I haven't picked any of them up. I might have to consider that. But we'll see because I might have comic book saturation going on. [00:19:28] Speaker A: It's fun. It's a good remix of the story. It's doing its own thing, but still hitting some beats. And the guy at the end, each first issue has letter from the author and he kind of explained his history with it. He's really excited to have some fun with the story. [00:19:44] Speaker B: Nice. Very exciting. Well, speaking of fun stories, Johnny, we [00:19:49] Speaker A: got Rat City 19. [00:19:50] Speaker B: We got Rat City 19 right here to go on. [00:19:53] Speaker A: I got the A cover. [00:19:54] Speaker B: I also have the A cover. [00:19:57] Speaker A: Here's the deviant shirtless. [00:20:00] Speaker B: Oh yeah. And a big old back to tank [00:20:05] Speaker A: in a bacta tank. [00:20:06] Speaker B: Yeah, it's awesome. It looks like it's done kind of in. It looks kind of like it's colored pencils maybe. Who does is done by Gianrico Bonaccorsi. [00:20:22] Speaker A: Nice. [00:20:23] Speaker B: Yeah. The deviant shirtless in a bacta tank. That's. [00:20:28] Speaker A: It's got some kind of a sickly green glow to it. [00:20:31] Speaker B: Yeah, it's got a little bit kind of like the Matrix POD esque thing where it's the. The tank and then a whole bunch of circuitry and it reminds me of [00:20:40] Speaker A: the color of that glass. Like the green glass reminds me of that. The LEGO space series in the 90s. [00:20:44] Speaker B: Oh, hell, yeah. Oh, yeah. [00:20:46] Speaker A: I can't remember what. What it was called, but. Because there was one that had orange clear pieces. That one was really cool, too. [00:20:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:51] Speaker A: And there's one that was like, ice. Space. It was like space ice. [00:20:56] Speaker B: Yeah. And I think it was. It was blue, right? [00:20:58] Speaker A: It was blue, but they had, like, the clear pieces. [00:21:00] Speaker B: I had the. I had the. I had the. One of the ones with the green ones. Yeah. [00:21:06] Speaker A: So my favorite Lego pieces. [00:21:08] Speaker B: They were awesome. Well, there's a. There is a second cover, Johnny, that neither of us have the COVID Google it. [00:21:14] Speaker A: What are you doing? [00:21:15] Speaker B: By Marco Falia. And it is. It is. It's a fucking movie poster, is what this is, Johnny. It's the deviant on his knee, kind of either genuflecting or maybe getting ready to fly up in the air superhero style. [00:21:31] Speaker A: Behind the chairman. [00:21:33] Speaker B: Yeah, in front of the chairman. [00:21:34] Speaker A: In front of the chairman. [00:21:36] Speaker B: Chairman's just, like, back there in the shadows with his triangle of face just glowing. Yeah. It's a good cover. It is Marco Falier, this cover. [00:21:50] Speaker A: We pop the sucker open, we got the credits. [00:21:53] Speaker B: Yep. [00:21:54] Speaker A: Script plot by Erica Schultz. Art by Zay Carlos. [00:21:58] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:21:59] Speaker A: Color by J. David Ramos. [00:22:00] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:22:02] Speaker A: Lettering also by Erica Schultz. We already covered the covers. [00:22:06] Speaker B: Sure did. [00:22:07] Speaker A: Creative director is Todd McFarlane. Editor in Chief is Thomas Healy. Previously in Rat City, the deviant fights for his life and soul to become the champion of the progeny. Not prodigy. [00:22:20] Speaker B: He is not a fire starter. Terrific Firestar. [00:22:23] Speaker A: Terrifyzado. [00:22:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:27] Speaker A: Yeah. Basically, we left in media fight between Arif, Peter and the Chairman. [00:22:35] Speaker B: Yep. And the Chairman, whose name escapes me. [00:22:39] Speaker A: We'll find it out. They say it. And then we also left off with Quinlan and Izzy. Kizzy. [00:22:47] Speaker B: Kizzy. [00:22:52] Speaker A: The aforementioned gwb. The Georgia Washington Bridge. And a big, like, overkill type guy comes after him. [00:22:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Like a literal cliffhanger. Because Kizzy's holding on for dear life. [00:23:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:02] Speaker B: Yeah. And, well, we start Johnny with a low cap. With a low cap in the PTS New York headquarters sometime before. And it's Dr. Nomics. Just like grumbly, grumbly, grumble. Setting a. Setting a bomb. Grumble de grumble. Talking to somebody. Talking to a lady who is very banged up, Johnny. [00:23:28] Speaker A: Yes. [00:23:29] Speaker B: What's her name? She is very bandaged. Oh, yeah. [00:23:31] Speaker A: The. The general. [00:23:33] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:23:33] Speaker A: Security officer. [00:23:34] Speaker B: Yeah. The one who gets the absolute shit kicked out of her by Peter. [00:23:39] Speaker A: Security officer. I had a crush on her. [00:23:42] Speaker B: Right. Oh, shit. That's. That's who I thought, but I didn't want to. Victoria. Yes, yes, yes. Yes, Victoria, yes, yes, yes. And Victoria's like, you gotta. You gotta. You gotta set the detonator to be something very obvious and unforgettable. So that way it's very easy to remember to. [00:24:02] Speaker A: Dude, I was cracking up. My mom has cable. And we were flipping the channels the other day. Great pastime that I miss. And Ocean's Eleven was on. And that movie's great, but the part where he's like, they're gonna blow the safe, and they don't. They gotta replace the batteries. It's so funny. He's, like, shaking it and clicking it, clicking it, clicking it. And they blow it open. And the acrobat guy's like, where's the fuck you been? He doesn't talk the whole movie. [00:24:28] Speaker B: It's a good movie. It's a very good movie. [00:24:30] Speaker A: It is very stylish. And Brad Pitt's always eating a snack, which I always enjoyed. [00:24:36] Speaker B: I like eating a snake. [00:24:37] Speaker A: He's always eating, like, a shrimp cocktail or, like, a taco or. [00:24:40] Speaker B: It's. [00:24:41] Speaker A: It's fun. [00:24:41] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real fun. [00:24:45] Speaker A: And so, yeah, I find out my. My advances would be rejected. Maybe because Nomad says, the things I do for an ex. Referring to Victoria. [00:24:55] Speaker B: Yes. [00:24:57] Speaker A: And I'm not trying to pigeon anybody. [00:24:59] Speaker B: No. [00:25:00] Speaker A: Maybe she would date me. [00:25:02] Speaker B: Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe there. Maybe things are easier in the. In the future. [00:25:08] Speaker A: Hopefully. [00:25:11] Speaker B: Why would the future exist if it weren't for the betterment of all kind? And so. [00:25:17] Speaker A: So that the politicians can eat our intestines or whatever. [00:25:21] Speaker B: Mmm. My favorite part of being alive is to feed the rich. [00:25:26] Speaker A: That's what we do. [00:25:27] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. And Dr. Nomux is like, okay, Victoria, you're sure that this is only gonna blow up the lab, right? It's not gonna blow up the whole building, just the lab. [00:25:41] Speaker A: Oh, my God. That scared me. [00:25:43] Speaker B: Puppy says, that's a lie. That scared me. She scared me. [00:25:47] Speaker A: She knows it's gonna blow up the whole fucking building. [00:25:50] Speaker B: Yeah. And so Dr. Normwix is like, yeah, that doesn't inspire confidence. And then the old bastard himself, Dr. Bose, summons Dr. Nomix into the lab and is like, Dr. Nomics, where have you been? We need to bring Lieutenant Karn back as soon as possible, and we must have this EMP trigger working by then. And he's like, here, get it working. And so Dr. Bose hands the EMP trigger to Dr. Nomics, and she's like, [00:26:22] Speaker A: ooh, [00:26:24] Speaker B: obvious and easy to remember is the thing you say. Hmm. [00:26:31] Speaker A: And then we cut to Bridgeport, Connecticut, many years ago. [00:26:34] Speaker B: Yeah, we got A little. A young Peter Karn praying in church with his little angel and devil on his shoulders. [00:26:42] Speaker A: Little angel butt. I bet you love that. [00:26:45] Speaker B: He's got a little butt. [00:26:46] Speaker A: Little chubby angel. [00:26:51] Speaker B: And so it's Ash Wednesday. It's Ash Wednesday and there's a like one of the progeny or the snake is like winding his way around the priest as the priest is giving the ashes on Peter's forehead and Peter's like wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. That's not how I remember this. [00:27:08] Speaker A: This snake wasn't here, this wasn't here. [00:27:10] Speaker B: And then he like shoots back into his own body and then he's like. But it's like I'm not in control. Something is pushing me. It's like I'm on autopilot, running on instinct. But they aren't my instincts. [00:27:23] Speaker A: And Arif and the Chairman are like, what the fuck's going on? He's like superpowered now. [00:27:27] Speaker B: Yeah. And like, like Peter's given him the, the green glow of power punch. And it comes out as like the progeny. Steak. [00:27:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:37] Speaker B: The necroplasm. And then all the progeny are sitting around watching and the dogs like we knew the champion would be the hell spawn. The fox is like, was that before or after they started fighting? [00:27:50] Speaker A: If you could pick like as a magical familiar for an adventure, which one of these animals would you pick? [00:27:54] Speaker B: Oh boy. Either the fox or the crow. [00:28:01] Speaker A: I picked the crow or the cat or the rat might be useful. You like go get me this from this place. And he runs in there and gets it. [00:28:07] Speaker B: Yeah. Can you just like keep in your pocket? [00:28:10] Speaker A: Yeah, but I think the crow would be useful too. Be like, what do your crow eyes see? [00:28:14] Speaker B: Yeah, I see whatever. Yeah. [00:28:17] Speaker A: Just like you said about the scout [00:28:18] Speaker B: ahead, you just tell him to get the fuck out of here. Go to. Go to safety. Go get out of here. It's like fucking Sisu. Did you see Sisu? [00:28:27] Speaker A: Sisu. [00:28:28] Speaker B: Sisu, the, the Norwegian film about. [00:28:30] Speaker A: No, I haven't seen it with, with the guy from Avatar. [00:28:32] Speaker B: Oh, I didn't know he was in Avatar. [00:28:34] Speaker A: Peter Lang or what's his name? [00:28:36] Speaker B: I don't, I don't remember. I'd have to look it up. [00:28:38] Speaker A: And I'm the really grizzled guy. [00:28:39] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. It's a really crystal. [00:28:41] Speaker A: Yeah. He's the bad guy in all the Avatars portrait. [00:28:44] Speaker B: Cuz he, he's, he's out. [00:28:46] Speaker A: Stephen Lang is his name. [00:28:47] Speaker B: He's out in the fields with his dog. And then at just like strategic points, he's just like, get the out of here, dog. And then the dog disappears during the action and it's like, oh, thank you. Thank you. [00:28:58] Speaker A: Get that dog out of here. [00:28:59] Speaker B: Get. Get the out of here. It's. That movie is badass. I'm excited for the second one. [00:29:06] Speaker A: Okay, cool. Let's check it out. [00:29:08] Speaker B: Yeah. And so, yeah, the progeny are just watching the fight go. And then it's at one point they get splashed by blood and they're like, yes, she will fall by the savage vengeance of our warrior's hands. [00:29:23] Speaker A: And they kind of are like remixing Peter's life. [00:29:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:26] Speaker A: They show every moment of lust, which is him with a young lady. [00:29:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:30] Speaker A: Maybe kissing a tree house or something. [00:29:32] Speaker B: Oh, no. Is this the back of a truck, Johnny? [00:29:35] Speaker A: It's a truck. They're in a truck. [00:29:37] Speaker B: Oh, that is the bed of a truck. They're turning that truck bed into a bed. I could have been really lewd there. Couldn't. [00:29:45] Speaker A: He's got the Nirvana shirt on with the baby penis. [00:29:47] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. And then every moment of sorrow, and he's standing at his brother's. Standing in the rain at his brother's grave. [00:29:59] Speaker A: Some really bad texts on the grave. It's like they forgot. Oh, I forgot to put that in there. Put it on there. [00:30:08] Speaker B: It. [00:30:08] Speaker A: Lucy was typed at Microsoft Word. [00:30:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:11] Speaker A: No offense, I love this comic, but it's just funny. It made me laugh. [00:30:14] Speaker B: Every confidence and every doubt. It's just him and Rhys. We, the progeny, were there, always been there. And then this. That's sort of a two page spread with all these little panels on one side and the other side, just the Peter Cairn just up the chairman's face with a punch. Oh, man. [00:30:40] Speaker A: And he gets even more up. [00:30:42] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:30:43] Speaker A: Because the project's like whispers. You're like, end his suffering. Kill him. Do it. Do it. Basically. [00:30:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:49] Speaker A: And like Anakin, he does. He slices his head off. [00:30:53] Speaker B: Yeah, he just. Just kicks it right off. [00:30:55] Speaker A: He kicks it off. Does he kick it or punch it? [00:30:59] Speaker B: I guess he. I guess. I guess he punches it because. Yeah, it looks like he. That's what's. Yeah, he punches it because his hand's already there. [00:31:08] Speaker A: He punches the heads clean off. [00:31:10] Speaker B: It just. It just goes, my God. And then he goes, what have I done? Our champion is ready. If it wasn't clear, the. The narrator for the progeny is the snake. Obviously the most. The one with the best enunciation, the easiest to hear. [00:31:35] Speaker A: They're like, hey, yeah, what are you [00:31:36] Speaker B: saying to me, huh? And then Arif says, you gave that man, no quarter. You shall receive the same. And he just, like, sucker kicks Peter right in the face. [00:31:53] Speaker A: Whoa. He's beating the shit out of me. [00:31:54] Speaker B: Yeah. He's like, I can actually feel the pain. What the. Holy crap. So I guess Johnny, if you. If you die in the battle to the death in your mind, you die in real life. Although he doesn't know that this is in his mind yet. Just spoiler for like, two pages from now. [00:32:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:10] Speaker B: So Arif just, like, puts forth his. His little. His. His lightsaber there. And then we cut away from the fight in limbo and we go back to the GWB and we see Quinlan helping Kizzy up off the side. And then we see in the background that weird pseudo overtkill. And then as soon as Kizzy gets up back onto the bridge, Quinlan gets grabbed by this overtkill and says, you were with the demon. I saw you with the demon. I'm gonna send you to the angels now. And hell, you are. [00:32:49] Speaker A: And picks, like, a piece of rebar. [00:32:51] Speaker B: Yeah. Kizzy just smacks it right in the head. Drops Quinlan. And then Kizzy's like, come on, we're getting out of here. [00:32:59] Speaker A: Then the bridge collapses. [00:33:00] Speaker B: Yeah. Crumble, crumble, crumble, crumble, crumble. And then we cut back to Arif with his lightsaber sword at Petyr's neck. And are says, you have done enough to earn this end. And Peter's thinking, yeah, you're right. I deserve this, don't I? [00:33:15] Speaker A: The snake's like, no. [00:33:17] Speaker B: He says, ah, bites it, bites a reef in the face. I guess it's got like, crazy poison bubbles up. Yeah. And he's just like. Blood is bubbling out of his mouth. And he says, I'm sorry for Dan. And that's basically the last word of substance out of his mouth is his brother's name as he dies in the real life. [00:33:42] Speaker A: He dies. [00:33:43] Speaker B: Yeah. We see if we cut to the. The hospital room where they have him on the life support, and it's just like, ah, he's coding. And then. And then as they're. As. Somebody's trying to get a crash cart in there, another doctor comes in and is like, no, there was a crash on the bridge. There's a whole bunch of dying people. If he's dead, take the shit and get out there. We got other people to save. [00:34:06] Speaker A: Time of death, 1105. Now let's move, people. [00:34:09] Speaker B: Hell yeah. That's some. That's some. Speaking of George Clooney, Johnny. That's some. That's some, er, shit right There. Yeah, that's some. The pit shit right there. [00:34:18] Speaker A: George Clooney is a little more empathetic, though. He's a pediatrician. [00:34:22] Speaker B: Mmm. I don't understand how pediatricians do it. I couldn't. My pediatrician died a couple months ago, and it made me real sad. [00:34:32] Speaker A: I don't know what happened. Dr. Adelson. [00:34:34] Speaker B: Dr. Mike Stratton. He had a beer gut. [00:34:36] Speaker A: He was old when I was a kid, so he's likely long dead. [00:34:38] Speaker B: Rhoda Harley. [00:34:39] Speaker A: I like his office, though. He had, like, a fish tank and, like, toys. [00:34:42] Speaker B: Oh, nice. I think adult. Adult doctors should have more things that children doctors have. I would love for my doctor's office to have a fish tank in it. That would be awesome. Yeah. [00:34:52] Speaker A: And toys. [00:34:54] Speaker B: The little. The little. Little wooden blocks on the wire. Things that go from one side to the other. [00:35:02] Speaker A: Oh, I had a Dennis at 3. Arcade machines. He had Donkey Kong. [00:35:05] Speaker B: Oh, hell, yeah. [00:35:06] Speaker A: Like moon raiders or, like, moon something. It was like, you're on this, like, vehicle on the moon, like jumping over pits and, like, shooting things. [00:35:14] Speaker B: Nice. [00:35:15] Speaker A: I think Space invaders. [00:35:16] Speaker B: Nice. That's an awesome dentist. [00:35:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:21] Speaker B: Nice. [00:35:22] Speaker A: And then Peter's just like, I can't believe I killed these people. [00:35:24] Speaker B: Yeah, He's. He's. He's standing victorious in the middle of this column coliseum, and the broadies are just floating next to him. And Peter. Peter is thinking, I didn't want to kill them. And the progeny go, what? You did? He's like, get the fuck out of my head. I'm like, where do you. Where do you think we are? We are in your head. And then he's like, so this was all fake? And they were like, no, not fake. Just not happening in the real world. Real consequences, just not a. As Freddy Krueger logic would have it, Johnny, if you die in your dream, you die in your mindscape. You die in real life. So. [00:36:04] Speaker A: Hey, Merry Christmas. It's me, Freddy Krueger, the King of Christmas. I'm sorry. I read you so hard on that. I was like, damn, I'm rough on it. [00:36:13] Speaker B: I walked right into it. So we got to keep bringing it up. It's got to be a thing. Now, next time I see you on [00:36:19] Speaker A: Christmas, I'm going to come dress as Freddy Krueger. [00:36:23] Speaker B: Please don't. [00:36:23] Speaker A: Wanda would be like, he's the classic Christmas character. What do you mean? [00:36:27] Speaker B: Wanda. Wanda would do what Tootles does in Hook, and she would open the door and then close it right in your face because she hates. [00:36:33] Speaker A: I just imagine, like, him at Like a corporate office, like, Christmas party. Like, that's what I thought you meant. Like, he's, like, up on, like, the 15th floor, like, a corporate office building in the 80s. [00:36:44] Speaker B: He's at Nakatomi Plaza. [00:36:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:48] Speaker B: Hey. Yes, yes, yes. And so then Peter is mourning. Hold on a second. Yeah. So, yeah, Peter just falls to his knees there in his mindscape. And, like, the black, gnarled roots of his mind just, like, take their bodies and make them disappear. [00:37:20] Speaker A: And he's like, I'm gonna kill you. He's coming at the progeny. [00:37:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:25] Speaker A: Like, we'll see you in hell. [00:37:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:27] Speaker A: Reality just shatters like glass. [00:37:29] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's just, like, falling, and he falls and he's. And he. He hears speaking in his brain. Come on, Karen. I know you're stronger than that. You may not be a real hellspawn, but you're still a real soldier. You were chosen for a reason. And then Peter's like, where'd those damned demon plushies send me? And then he. He lands and he says, this looks like. This looks kind of like the in between, only with more lava. And then some German has yelled at him. [00:38:03] Speaker A: He says, ich glaub, ich spinner, which is a colloquial German term, which word for word, it means, I believe that I spin and weave. But basically it means, like, I must be going mad, or I think I'm [00:38:15] Speaker B: crazy, or as I live and breathe, or my stars and garters. [00:38:21] Speaker A: My stars and garters. [00:38:25] Speaker B: And then as we turn the page, Johnny, we see that it is Becker. Good old. Good old Dr. Becker himself. The grumpy. The grumpy Harlem drug slinger himself, as portrayed by one mister. Oh, I forgot his name. I was hoping I would get there. [00:38:50] Speaker A: Becker Joe Drug slinger. What is he? Is he a pharmacist? [00:38:54] Speaker B: No, he's a doctor. He's a doctor who. He's kind of a bad doctor. [00:38:59] Speaker A: Becker's little. I've never seen a minute of Becker in my life. There's probably, like, 15 seasons the. [00:39:04] Speaker B: The WB had. It was part of their, like, afternoon syndicated television programming that, like, Becker was on the second I got home in middle school. And so I was like, yeah, I'll watch this. Because I could watch TV while I did my homework so good. And so I would watch Becker and do fucking algebra. [00:39:26] Speaker A: Wow. [00:39:26] Speaker B: Stupid. It's bad. [00:39:27] Speaker A: You would watch. I'm kind of in phases. First it was like the Fox animation block, like, when I was young, in elementary school, because it was Animaniacs. Batman. [00:39:37] Speaker B: Oh, absolutely. [00:39:38] Speaker A: And then some other stuff, but those are ones I really remember. I think Power Rangers was in there. And then, then I got into Wishbone really hard. And that came on at 4 or 4:30. [00:39:49] Speaker B: Oh man, wishbone was awesome. [00:39:51] Speaker A: I watched Wishbone every day. And then my brother got into Dragon Ball Z. And that was on after school on Toonami. So you'd always watch Toonami. [00:40:01] Speaker B: Nice. Yeah, it was always episode of Becker's and an episode of that 70s show. And then my mom ended up falling in love with that 70s show. So we would just. [00:40:10] Speaker A: Yeah, she likes that Hyde guy. Hyde's your favorite character. [00:40:17] Speaker B: We'd go to. We'd go to Hastings and we'd rent the DVDs from the boxed sets. [00:40:21] Speaker A: Oh my God, you'd rent them. [00:40:23] Speaker B: That's hilarious. Yeah. And then, you know, at a certain point we were like a couple of seasons in, I would be like, hey mom, guess what I got you for your birthday. Hey mom, guess what I got you for Christmas. Oh boy. [00:40:37] Speaker A: I gotta argue about someone on Facebook because in one of the episodes he put in a post about how the he was. He. It was my friend Chris. Like we weren't really in a fight, but I corrected him. In one of the episodes that takes place a few years after Star wars, he calls. He like is like talking about his Darth Vader action figure. He calls him Dark Lord of the Sith. He's like, that wasn't established to like the prequels. I was like, actually in the Star wars novelization which came out in 1976, they call him Darth Vader, the Dark Lord of the Sith. [00:41:09] Speaker B: Nice. I'm pretty sure that fucking Eric Foreman himself was enough of a nerd that he was. He was. He fact checked Topher Grace. Topher Grace, Totally fact check. [00:41:24] Speaker A: There's just these things that like I guess George Lucas talked about or they're in the novelization, but like everyone just knew that Vader fell into a pit of lava. Yeah, like. Like where did that come from? And then also like the Dark Lord. Like I knew what Sith were before the prequels. Like, here's a Sith. They never say in the movies, but they were Sith. [00:41:43] Speaker B: No. Yeah, it's awesome. Star wars is great. Great lore. It's good. [00:41:47] Speaker A: We got two more months. I'll be seeing one in the theaters, baby. [00:41:50] Speaker B: Oh yeah, in 4K. [00:41:51] Speaker A: Oh, that's what we should do for Star Wars. Oh, but it won't be out by then. Damn. [00:41:56] Speaker B: Oh, you were talking about Mando Mandalorian. Oh, Johnny, we Forgot the, the witty retorts that Becker slings back at Peter after he says, becker, [00:42:11] Speaker A: I used to watch you on TV after school. He says, welcome to hell, Yankee. [00:42:17] Speaker B: Yeah. Then we get skulled in the issue and Becker's on in that hole. He's got a. He's got an outfit that's got like a mouth in the middle of it. [00:42:28] Speaker A: Yeah, it looks cool. [00:42:28] Speaker B: It looks like the. It looks like the mouth off of like a samurai mask with the. The big tusks and the. It's nice. Then we get the new generation, New stories, New youw ad. We get the Image Classics ad. Yes. We get the House of the Dragon accessories for your dragon figurine ad. Dragon sold separately. And then the back of the issue ad is the spawn Call of Duty toy ad. That. [00:42:59] Speaker A: Very nice. I have something that I'm gonna do spotlight on, but I don't remember if the right ad is the next comic. We'll find out and if not, I'll do a spotlight on it anyway. And that's Rat City 19. I think I said this before, but I always think of that because I listened. I had the CD, it was like a 6 CD of the Gunslinger. And the narrator was really good, but he'd always be like 19. Whenever he said 19, it was really gritty. [00:43:29] Speaker B: My friend would listen to most of them on audiobook. And I know it's described in the text of the book how oi sounds, but in my mind, I always thought of oi as going oi, oi, oi. But how does he sound? He goes, oi. [00:43:48] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. He says, like really deep Oi. [00:43:50] Speaker B: And it's like, that's what it says that it's supposed to sound like. But it took both of us aback because he actually read the books first and then listened to them on audiobook again. And he was like, wait, what? Oi. What happened to you? [00:44:03] Speaker A: Oi? [00:44:04] Speaker B: What happened to my little Billy Bumbler? He dies, unfortunately. It's fucking tragic. I cried. Spoilers for like a 20 year old book. [00:44:15] Speaker A: But Al Segura, no, It came in 2004. Says, yeah, it's 22 years old, man. [00:44:24] Speaker B: Good books, good books. [00:44:47] Speaker A: Next up, we have another 19 SAM twitch 19 case files. Yes, but not the only Sam Twitch case files. There's another comic series called Sam Twitch [00:44:57] Speaker B: Case Files that doesn't clear it up at all. [00:45:01] Speaker A: The new one, the current one, the [00:45:04] Speaker B: one from October 2025. [00:45:07] Speaker A: Correct. [00:45:08] Speaker B: And I do believe, Johnny, that like all other comic books, this comic book has a cover. [00:45:15] Speaker A: Unless if this book is Sold without a cover. It is stolen. You must report it to the FBI. [00:45:20] Speaker B: Yeah, you must. [00:45:22] Speaker A: That little imprint that's on every book. [00:45:23] Speaker B: Yeah. The publisher and the author have made no money on this book if you sold. [00:45:30] Speaker A: Because that's what they do. When you send like mass moment paperbacks back to the publisher, you would rip the front cover off and they would like, re. Like to get money back or something and then they rebind them. [00:45:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:38] Speaker A: If you bought this book without a cover, you're a piece of. [00:45:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Piece of. [00:45:43] Speaker A: Or you just got market paperbacks are dead. [00:45:46] Speaker B: Yeah. That's sad. Now there's only the expensive books that you have to. [00:45:50] Speaker A: For book talk, they got to be like this big and be like. Have the big block letters of the titles. You can see it on the tick tock. [00:45:55] Speaker B: Like I like the book that I [00:45:57] Speaker A: could just throw my back recently. Books are crazy. All the buying, all like the sides have like designs on them and like on the pages. Like books are wild. [00:46:06] Speaker B: I don't, I don't need that. I don't need that. It's. The book is going to get abused as I read it and I want something that I don't feel like I've sunk a small fortune into. So that way I'm comfortable with it being beaten up by the end. [00:46:19] Speaker A: I love a mass market paperback. [00:46:21] Speaker B: Yeah, they're great. They fit right in your pocket. [00:46:24] Speaker A: Put them in your back pocket takes a promise. [00:46:28] Speaker B: It's your date. You put a little dress or a tuxedo on it or maybe, maybe it's feeling a little flirty. It puts on a kilt. [00:46:34] Speaker A: I brought my copy of Watership down to prom. I did not. That's not true. [00:46:43] Speaker B: It's the perfect one, Johnny. No other book would have been acceptable. [00:46:48] Speaker A: Yeah, Bunnies. [00:46:50] Speaker B: This fun. This fun carefree book about some rabbits in a field. That's all. Yeah, but that book has covers, Johnny. It's famously got the COVID of the book that's just got a one bunny on it. [00:47:03] Speaker A: Yeah, that's like the mass market paper book. I always think of the one you read like ninth grade. [00:47:08] Speaker B: And this book, as we mentioned Johnny, has some covers. [00:47:11] Speaker A: You know what really fit in your pocket? Well were mass market paperbacks, movie novelizations. Those fuckers were like thin. [00:47:18] Speaker B: Oh. But then they got like those like half an inch. They got like those, those high gloss, that high gloss section in the middle. [00:47:27] Speaker A: Oh yeah. [00:47:28] Speaker B: Oh yeah. [00:47:28] Speaker A: But they're usually only like 200 pages or less. [00:47:31] Speaker B: Yeah, they were. And they were all based off the screenplay and they basically Came out before the movie did. Yeah, yeah. [00:47:37] Speaker A: Sometimes we're different or had alternate scenes. [00:47:39] Speaker B: Yeah, very exciting. What cover do you have for this one, Johnny? [00:47:46] Speaker A: I've got cover A, which is by Federico Sabatini with Mafuria. It is Sam and Twitch pulling up. And in the front, you're peering through that to them. They're pulling up a crime scene, obviously, because there is a fence covered in a chain link fence. The hole in it surrounded by blood. [00:48:10] Speaker B: Yeah. And what looks like maybe a finger or some intestines or something in a [00:48:16] Speaker A: really ominous hospital with a lot of crosses. No, those are always. [00:48:23] Speaker B: Nothing like a. Nothing like an ominous hospital. Johnny, we love it. [00:48:26] Speaker A: Yes. [00:48:28] Speaker B: Well, I have the B cover. I have the Donna Guillo cover. [00:48:32] Speaker A: Kingdom Hospital was actually, I think, the first Stephen King thing. [00:48:35] Speaker B: I digest fun. I didn't realize until a couple years ago that it was actually a remaking of the Lars Von Trio show that it is apparently better. But I don't know. I still think. I still think the Eric. When the arrogant surgeon loses his. Loses his hands and then it's his stubs. Say hands go. Here is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. [00:48:58] Speaker A: Oh, you mentioned that before. Yeah, I forgot about that. They came out as like 9th or 10th grade. And I watched it. I was like, oh, it's pretty good. [00:49:05] Speaker B: I. [00:49:05] Speaker A: Maybe I should read some of his books. And I started reading his book. [00:49:07] Speaker B: Nice. It was. [00:49:08] Speaker A: Book of his I read was Dreamcatcher. A book he like, hates. [00:49:13] Speaker B: Yeah, that. [00:49:14] Speaker A: I loved it. I thought it was great. [00:49:15] Speaker B: First book I read by him was Eyes of the Dragon. [00:49:21] Speaker A: Okay. [00:49:21] Speaker B: Because I was interesting. Yeah, it was good because it was. My mom was working at a pharmacy that had a. It was a. What was it? Drug warehouse. She was working at drug warehouse. And it. [00:49:33] Speaker A: They have the paperback. [00:49:34] Speaker B: Had the paperback rack and the. The COVID of that book had a fucking dragon on it. And I was like, I'm gonna read this. And since my mom get a discount on everything in the store, she was like, sure. [00:49:44] Speaker A: Comic racks at like Walgreens. [00:49:46] Speaker B: Yeah, I remember at Homeland they used to have like the little tourney rack. And that's where all the quick trip. [00:49:51] Speaker A: They used to. [00:49:52] Speaker B: If I ever got Star wars comics, that's where I would get them is from the little tourney rack. [00:49:57] Speaker A: One time my mom bought me, like it's a gift a comic already had. And I was like. It was like, we can take. She's like, I'll get you the next. She bought me the number one. And I need the Number two or something. I was like can we take it back and get a refund? She was like no, you can't take a two dollar comic back to Walgreens get a refund. So she's bought me the other one. They replied weren't even $2 then who knows how much they were 150 if that. [00:50:20] Speaker B: I was actually at the shop a couple weeks ago and somebody asked if, if they buy back used books and they were like we'll buy, we'll buy. We'll buy collectible books. But like you read these books and bring them back now we're not going to pay you. Yeah, no, it was quite hilarious. But yeah, I got the donogly cover Johnny and it is a Sam and Twitch like like fighting against a whole bunch of spooky hands. [00:50:53] Speaker A: Look at the hands on Drag Me to Hell at the beginning. [00:50:55] Speaker B: Yeah. They're just. Because they're in a morgue and they're, they're trying to, to shut them into one of the, the body bays and then they're just like coming out. [00:51:03] Speaker A: I'm gonna freaked out. Oh this thing. [00:51:06] Speaker B: All right. [00:51:06] Speaker A: So I've been like reading about aliens and there was a, the, my. The Bay, Bayview mall incident in Miami in 2004. It's the most like there's pictures of it, not for the inside of them all. There's no security cameras, no arrests were made. There's the most cops I've ever seen like outside of a mall. And there are stories that night on TikTok and like social media that they were the giant shadowy beings appeared in the mall and were walking around. [00:51:34] Speaker B: Okay. I remember, I remember hearing this. [00:51:35] Speaker A: Do you remember this? [00:51:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:37] Speaker A: I had never heard of it. I was like what the hell? It really freaked me out. And the official story is that a bunch of teenagers shooting fireworks of people but there's no video of the fight of the fireworks. No one was arrested. And like I don't know man. Aliens. Yeah. No big shadowy aliens are walking around. They're going to hot topping like chilling. They're like I want a Nightmare Before Christmas shirt. [00:52:03] Speaker B: They say I want an ironic shirt from their childhood. I don't know why our aliens are that. I would like to buy a fake penis from Spencer's. [00:52:13] Speaker A: I. I want some smelly lotion from Bed Bath and Beyond. [00:52:17] Speaker B: Let's hit the anti alien works. [00:52:19] Speaker A: I mean. Yeah. Why are they talking like robots? They're aliens. [00:52:23] Speaker B: They're gonna go get their ear pierced at the pagoda. [00:52:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:52:27] Speaker B: Maybe hit up Claire's from his for Some accessories. [00:52:31] Speaker A: Anyway, so a bunch of aliens showed up in Mall in 2024 in Miami. [00:52:35] Speaker B: Very nice. What better place? Welcome to Miami. [00:52:39] Speaker A: I mean, welcome to Miami. Ayuami ami. [00:52:43] Speaker B: Oh, boy, that was one of my first. My first cassettes I ever had was Big Willy style. [00:52:48] Speaker A: All night every day to the break of dawn. [00:52:51] Speaker B: Yeah, good shit. Good shit. Yeah, we pop open. [00:52:55] Speaker A: So let's pop these. Oh, you forgot to say it has Phantoms of the Past, part one. [00:52:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:00] Speaker A: New arc with a very surprising first credit, David. [00:53:04] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. And that surprising first credit is plot script by Mr. Thomas show me the money. Funny. Healy. That was the nickname, right? [00:53:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:13] Speaker B: Okay. [00:53:13] Speaker A: It was the hardest working man show business. Oh, I don't know what it was. [00:53:17] Speaker B: Whatever. [00:53:18] Speaker A: Use your AI to figure it out. Like you did on the Star Wars, Jerry. [00:53:22] Speaker B: We got art by Mr. Vaughn Randall, color by FCO Plasencia, with Sheila Saldana doing the color flats, lettering by the indomitable Tom Orzikowski cover artists. We already covered the COVID artists. Creative Director is Todd McFarlane and editor in chief is Thomas. The hardest working man show business Healy. He's double duty in it, Johnny. And here we got a new case begins. Phantom of the Past, Part one. [00:53:53] Speaker A: Phantoms. [00:53:54] Speaker B: Phantoms. Oh, oops. [00:53:57] Speaker A: That's a sequel to Phantom of the offers. Phantoms of the Operas. [00:53:59] Speaker B: Phantoms of the Operas. They could do. They could do like a Batman Incorporated type thing. And every country has a theater that's. That's haunted by a phantom that is some sort of amalgamation of that cultural presence. And then they all join in a club and they talk about how. How best they. [00:54:23] Speaker A: We got like fan of the old Opry. We got ourselves a Phantom. [00:54:31] Speaker B: Oh, boy, that's fun. You should. It's a free idea for somebody. But so we start off, Johnny. I feel like Thomas Healy started writing this. This new arc before the other one ended. Because didn't Sam just move into a new apartment already? A new. Nice apartment. Nice new apartment with Mr. Nostradamus, who. Yeah, Curiously absent. [00:55:01] Speaker A: Maybe this is a prequel. [00:55:04] Speaker B: We're doing a sequel. But we got Sam Burke, Detective Sam Burke. He's walking into his. His apartment building carrying box of classified documents, some guys hanging out in the stairwell, smoking. And he's like, what have I said about smoking inside, huh? And then Sam Burke proceeds to go up to his apartment and smoke inside. But so Sam has brought home all of the case files left by a recently retired detective. [00:55:40] Speaker A: And a pizza. [00:55:40] Speaker B: And a pizza, of course. And so Sam gets up to his apartment, he grabs himself a beer A Corona extra. Yeah. He sits down. [00:55:50] Speaker A: Corona. [00:55:51] Speaker B: Corona's good. [00:55:53] Speaker A: Unless it's old and it gets skunky. [00:55:54] Speaker B: Yeah, I like it out of the can better than out of the bottle because those. Those clear bottles, they get skunky so quick. And so Sam gets himself some pizza, a beer, and a cigarette, and just sits down and organizes all of these leftover case files from the newly retired detective Jack o'. Shea. And Sam has a. Has a couple of rifles on his wall in his living room of his studio apartment. Yeah. [00:56:25] Speaker A: Elephant gun. [00:56:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, it's a muzzle loader. It's a musket, and there's obviously just a rifle above it. I don't think a musket would. Or a muzzle. Muzzle loader, because I guess it's technically not. A musket would take down an elephant. I think that would be a long shot, Johnny. Okay, well. [00:56:44] Speaker A: Sorry. Well, took down Charlie Kirk. Grandpappy's old rifle or whatever. [00:56:51] Speaker B: Yeah, that. [00:56:53] Speaker A: That load of. [00:56:55] Speaker B: And so Sam's just having himself a hard time. He's organizing this, like. And he's like, what is this? What is this? And then in one of the cases, he comes across something that he recognizes. And he says, twitch and I closed this years ago. And then. [00:57:09] Speaker A: Want to be relaxing, watching the game. [00:57:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:57:12] Speaker A: Instead, it'll be evening. A dark contemplation for Sam. What kind of. What do you think he watches? Football? Hockey? Baseball? Everybody watches baseball. [00:57:21] Speaker B: I was gonna say it's probably a Mets game. He strikes me as a Mets man. One of the things he likes best about Twitch is he gets to park his. His car at Twitch's house over in Queens. And it's a. It's a shorter train ride to Citi Field than from his apartment. Speaking of Twitch's house, Sam goes there in the middle of the night, and Twitch comes to the door, and he's like, sam, Jesus, I was sleeping, and we'll have to wait till tomorrow. And Sam's like, nope. Malwood's case. Look at this shit. And Twitch is like, give me two minutes. Five minutes. Give me five minutes. Let's go. You drive. And they go to a diner, and we get the first instance of the opening reading. [00:58:12] Speaker A: Partner should be there for you, David. [00:58:14] Speaker B: Yeah, Johnny, but if I get canceled, I can't be there for you, so we'll just have to get canceled together. So if you put your money on both of us getting canceled at the same time, that's probably the best choice. [00:58:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:58:33] Speaker B: So we. We cut to Twitch finishing up the. The file at the table. And just going, damn. Can't be him, though. [00:58:45] Speaker A: But he's like, but yeah, it's the same cuts on a new victim. [00:58:47] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's like, maybe it's a copycat. [00:58:49] Speaker A: We never released those pictures. No one would know. [00:58:52] Speaker B: It's like, but what if it's. What's this? This is weird. This is weird. Sam, he says, I know this is the case to put you through the wringer, but it was just one guy. We should bring this to the captain. And so the next day, at the end of the shift, Twitch is like, okay, Sam, when we're going to talk to the captain, keep it cool, put our connections, our thoughts down on the table. We let him say that we're allowed to go on it. [00:59:22] Speaker A: No need to cause a scene. [00:59:24] Speaker B: No need to cause a scene. Sam says, got it. [00:59:30] Speaker A: Then three minutes later, he's screaming at the captain for sake. Captain o' Shave's lazy bum just riding the desk. He should have brought this to us weeks ago. [00:59:40] Speaker B: The captain's like, sam, cool your jets. Twitch, what's your thoughts on this? And Twitch is like, I believe there is a strong enough link to reopen the case. [00:59:51] Speaker A: Or, why does he have such a nerdy voice? [00:59:55] Speaker B: Because he got glasses? Because that's kind of. That's kind of how he is in that animated show. He's a little bit nerd. I mean, he is indeed, sir. And the captain's like, ugh. Ugh. Boy, sure, fine. Look. Look at it. I'll take it to the. I'll take it to the brass. See what. See what they want. [01:00:18] Speaker A: Captain's having a bourbon. [01:00:19] Speaker B: Yeah. At work. [01:00:21] Speaker A: And when you're the captain, I guess you can. [01:00:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:24] Speaker A: Heavy as the crown. [01:00:25] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. Because as soon as. As soon as Sam and Twitch leave, he just says, so Cap knows something is up. [01:00:34] Speaker A: We cut two years ago. Sam's in a building from the movie seven. [01:00:41] Speaker B: He definitely is. Or the mindscape of Dylan from issue 49 of King Spawn. [01:00:49] Speaker A: Just as equally a total cultural touchstone. [01:00:52] Speaker B: Yes, but it should be. Definitely should be. [01:00:57] Speaker A: I know. That felt more like basement vibes. This is, like, in New York. This is like a high rise. [01:01:02] Speaker B: Oh, it's a creepy. It's a creepy hallway with a whole bunch of open doors. [01:01:05] Speaker A: It's a creepy hallway I don't. Wouldn't want to be in. [01:01:07] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Absolutely not. [01:01:09] Speaker A: Sam's got a cool flashlight gun. This is early in their career. He's still calling him sir. Yeah, because I don't think he does that much in the more modern times. [01:01:18] Speaker B: No, he doesn't. [01:01:19] Speaker A: He doesn't respect. [01:01:21] Speaker B: He's lost all of it. [01:01:23] Speaker A: And Sam's running through the hallway, and someone like a ghost man with red eyes comes up behind him and hits him in the back with a fire hydrant. Yeah, not hydrant. Extinguisher. [01:01:33] Speaker B: Yeah, and just knocks him out cold [01:01:36] Speaker A: because you're a very loud man. [01:01:41] Speaker B: And this guy, Zodiac Killer, it is. It looks exactly like him. It's a guy in all black. It's an individual in all black sweats and a mask with a crown of thorns and a big fucking machete. I know. [01:01:58] Speaker A: He's scary puppy. The puppy's scary. [01:01:59] Speaker B: Yeah. And then it says, you've disturbed my work, Detective, at a critical moment when I'm so very close. Now, we are here to open the door. She is coming. And I will open the way. I will allow her to pass through. Do you understand? No. No, I don't. [01:02:17] Speaker A: Cut Sam's throat. [01:02:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:20] Speaker A: We cut back to the modern times. And Sam was lost in thought just thinking about it. [01:02:24] Speaker B: Like, Sam or to Sam. Come on, bud. Which is like, what? Where were you? What are you thinking about? Sam says, nothing, just his case. It's got me remembering some things, that's all. A nice little tete a tete here. Twitch goes, great. Sam says, you regret it. Twitch says, regret what? Partnering with me. Every morning I wake up, screw you. [01:02:50] Speaker A: That should have been the opening quote. [01:02:51] Speaker B: That should have been the opening quote. We can record. [01:02:54] Speaker A: We already referenced the opening. [01:02:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. And then Sam's like, yeah, well, there's a lot to go through here. Good thing I'm organized. Twitch is like, well, actually, you had me do all the reports of cataloging, [01:03:06] Speaker A: so I thought you will. [01:03:08] Speaker B: Which is actually, you know, maybe it's. It's funny because obviously from the first little bit in Sam's apartment, he is very methodical and neat when he needs to be. Just not. Not. It's not his everyday. [01:03:23] Speaker A: And they're looking at the Charlie Day board. [01:03:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:03:27] Speaker A: Like the meme. [01:03:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:03:28] Speaker A: All the pictures and the strings attaching victims to locations. [01:03:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Like, so this is all we had last time. And there's all these things that we might be able to add. You know, six years of nothing, and now this. And they're like, maybe there wasn't six years of nothing. We just didn't put it together. So they're gonna hit up new databases. They're gonna figure out, you know, if this isn't their guy, it's a whole other problem. And then we follow an individual who is deliberately Unrecognizable. And we've got a conversation happening sort of narratively behind them. Two people meeting, and they're like, why are we meeting? We never meet in person. Like, this is contained, right? [01:04:18] Speaker A: They go to McSorley's Old Ale House. [01:04:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Just explain to them that it was a coincidence. That's all. Everything's good. So why am I here? And they're like, well, it's the detectives from the. The detectives from the Malwitz case. The other guy's, like, shitting me, right? That guy's never gonna let this go. Ugh. So there are conspirators trying to cover up what is happening, Johnny. Conspirators. [01:04:45] Speaker A: Then we flash back again to the hallway where the Zodiac guy, do you [01:04:50] Speaker B: understand that, is beating on Sam. [01:04:54] Speaker A: He's about to machete his ass. [01:04:55] Speaker B: Uhhuh. Yeah. Pain causes, like, dude, just stabbing stabs Sam in the chest, like, right between his ribs. [01:05:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:05:08] Speaker B: And punches him in the face. And Sam is just like, ah. This guy says, no, you don't understand. That's not your purpose here. You won't even get to bear witness to her arrival. Who is she? [01:05:22] Speaker A: We'll find out. [01:05:23] Speaker B: I don't know. [01:05:24] Speaker A: And we get a repeat of the speech about partners. [01:05:27] Speaker B: Yes. The opening quote, and it ends on a. A splash of Sam just, like, up on the floor, and this individual with the knife just rearing back to slash him. Then we get blood splatter spawn orbs in the issue. And this is. We get the spawn issue, one figurine, pre order of the first dad, then the UFC toy ad. [01:06:03] Speaker A: All right, Dave, this is what I'm going to say this. I was really hoping we got a Diablo ad, because today has a quick trip. There's new Diablo expansion coming out. They have Diablo gummies? [01:06:12] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. Oh, [01:06:15] Speaker A: it's the trolley fruit punch at Diablo. On them, you get a free in game content. [01:06:19] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Those are. Those are good gummies too. [01:06:23] Speaker A: I know. Diablo 4 Gummies. [01:06:27] Speaker B: That's what I call a win win. Good snack. And in game content, maybe it's like [01:06:31] Speaker A: a big suit of armor made out of. Or you, like, use a gummy worm as a whip. [01:06:37] Speaker B: Or you can basically become Oogie Boogie without his bag. Only it's gummy worms instead. [01:06:42] Speaker A: Just full of gummy worms. I'd wear it. [01:06:46] Speaker B: Yeah. And we get the new generation, new stories, new you add. And the image classic set is the one on the back there. [01:06:55] Speaker A: That's Sam and twitch. Case files 19. Phantom of the Past. Phantoms of the Past. [01:07:01] Speaker B: Ah. You did it too. [01:07:03] Speaker A: Part one. [01:07:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Pretty good books. Well, Johnny, they've been rearing their heads up every once in a while in this issue. A lot more than usual or episode. A lot more than usual. [01:07:13] Speaker A: These dogs. [01:07:14] Speaker B: These dogs. And they're puppies. They're pretty good. This little dog. This little dog's Terror. She's cute as hell, but she's kind of a bad dog. I read her. I'd rate her a three out of ten. [01:07:24] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [01:07:24] Speaker B: But if we're rating puppies, Johnny, we should probably get to rating the puppies. [01:07:28] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. So first up, we had Rat City 19. Just continuing the epic story. I mean, it's what the quality we expect from Rat City. It's got great art. It's electric. Just keeping the story moving. Got many threads going. Excited to see where this progeny prodigy, what they do with Peter. Yeah. [01:07:55] Speaker B: Yeah. What happens. What happens with Kizzy? What happens with Q? Yeah. Oh, cue ball. [01:08:00] Speaker A: I just love Rat City. It's just fun, and it's just been a really cool story. We're almost 20 issues in covering it, and it's still a hoot. [01:08:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:08:07] Speaker A: I'm gonna give it 4 out of 5 gravestones with Microsoft Word typeface on them. [01:08:14] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. I. I agree. This is the series is just fun, start to finish. It's all important. It's all good. It's so well put together. It's fan fucking tastic. I love this. I love this series. The art is so good. It just jumps off the page. And Erica Schultz has taken us for a wild ride. I'm. I'm gonna give it four collapsing bridges. Out of five. Jenny. [01:08:43] Speaker A: Nice. And then we had Sam's witch case files, 19 Phantoms the Past, Phantoms of [01:08:51] Speaker B: the Past, Part 1, Phantoms of the [01:08:53] Speaker A: Opera, Phantoms of the Opera, the sequel. But I say it's good. It's a good start. Kind of a. Not a lot happens. Just like the beginning. We got a cool new character, a new, like, Phantom of the Past. [01:09:08] Speaker B: Mm. If you will. [01:09:10] Speaker A: I'll give it four pizzas. [01:09:12] Speaker B: Four pizzas. [01:09:14] Speaker A: Four pizzas and beer out of five. [01:09:16] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. What goes better with a pizza than a beer? What goes better with a beer than a pizza? [01:09:21] Speaker A: Soda. [01:09:22] Speaker B: A shot of Jameson. That's what. [01:09:24] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [01:09:25] Speaker B: Love a pbj. [01:09:27] Speaker A: Pbj. [01:09:28] Speaker B: Pbj fits. Yeah. So Sam and Twitch. I like Sam and Twitch. Thomas Healy, I feel, has a good handle on our boys. Feel like he's brought back a little this. This arc. So Far has a little bit more of their working banter and less of them. [01:09:43] Speaker A: More classic. [01:09:44] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Less of them like fucking hating each other's guts for 80% of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So. So that. It's a good start. I like that. It's. It's like hearkening back to the. Their early days too. Yeah. This new guy is creepy. I like that. There is a conspiracy. There's conspiracy here. And yeah. It's just fun. I. I like it. It's real good. I'm gonna give it. I don't want to give it. I'm gonna give it three and a half Lynchian diner vibes here. [01:10:22] Speaker A: Okay. [01:10:23] Speaker B: Because this is like straight out of fucking Twin Peaks, this diner. [01:10:27] Speaker A: I love a diner. [01:10:28] Speaker B: Love a diner. So good. Excited to see where that goes. [01:10:32] Speaker A: Yeah. Are you also excited to learn about something we brought up in a previous issue that one of our loyal listeners brought to our attention? [01:10:42] Speaker B: Yes, indeed it is. We ask for them, Johnny, and occasionally we get them the emails. [01:10:49] Speaker A: That means it's time for respawning regrounds. You have to read this one because I read the last one. Sucker. [01:11:16] Speaker B: Okay. So this, this, this email happens to come from Tiny Spawny Mark as well. And it's titled Gunslinger 47 error book and it says. Morning guys. I just wanted to let you know that the blank boxes in the Gunslinger book is a known error. Someone within TMP noticed it and sent out an email to the distributors to not sell the book. Whoops. But it was too late. And a lot of shops got the book and were none the riser his local comic shop included. They quickly reprinted the book and it came out a few weeks later. I got all the error copies from my local comic shop just because I could. Lol. That's actually a pretty good flex because then you can. [01:12:00] Speaker A: I got the special error edition. [01:12:03] Speaker B: The story plays out completely differently with the added context. There is a good copy out there. He also says the violator trade is a really cool givvy, but he already has one, so. No thank you. Dang it. That would have been real easy. Have an amazing weekend and keep on spawning. Respawning your pal Tiny Spawny. [01:12:24] Speaker A: Yay. That's so nice. It's good to know. I was curious. [01:12:27] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's. It's funny to. I mean, the. The comics making and selling and distributing process is so. It's a not. Fiber McGee is not the word I'm looking for Gold. It's so Rube Goldbergian that I'm surprised that things like this don't just happen every week with every book. Yeah. But no, that's pretty cool that I technically have a. I have a rare. A rare copy of this book now, Johnny. Potentially. [01:13:01] Speaker A: You do. [01:13:02] Speaker B: We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. If I didn't. If I didn't murderize the life out of these books as I read them, it might be worth something like that [01:13:11] Speaker A: Mortal Kombat convention, like $10,000. [01:13:15] Speaker B: Oh, man, that would be. [01:13:17] Speaker A: So then a janitor found a boxing [01:13:18] Speaker B: or whatever down the workplace, man. Insane. But no. Yeah. Thank you very much. Tiny, Spotty. We love hearing from you. It's. It's good to know that we're not just talking into the void. Although I would talk into a void all day if it was talking with my buddy Johnny. [01:13:35] Speaker A: But absolutely. [01:13:37] Speaker B: If you would also like to send us an email, you can always send us an email regarding spawnpodmail.com and if it's just to say, hey, I deserve Violator 1993 trade paperback. Because I would really like you to do that. Because I would really like to send this to you. I love. I love sending stuff in the mail, and I would love to send Spawn in the mail to somebody who wants it. [01:14:00] Speaker A: Absolutely. Also, you can hit us up at Instagram on. At. Regarding Spawn Pod. Yes. And we have an Instagram highlight. [01:14:10] Speaker B: Yes. [01:14:10] Speaker A: This week. [01:14:11] Speaker B: Yeah, we want to shout out some members of the. Or a member of the Spawn community. And it is Travis ledford, who is instagram.com travis collection or tavis Collection. So his name is Travis Ledford, but it's Tavis Collection. That's T, A, V, I S collection, all one word. And Johnny, he's got. Guess what. Guess what his collection is of, Johnny. Guess, guess, guess. Yeah, it's some Spawn. He's got some pictures of. He's got a Spawn boombox. He's got some slabbed Spawns. He's got some pictures of him with the Todd father himself. He's got some, Some cosplay, I think. Oh, it's. It's. I think it's a friend of his who cosplayed at C2E2. I wonder if that's the same cosplayer we met Johnny. Interesting. [01:15:05] Speaker A: Is he the modern smile with the scarf? [01:15:07] Speaker B: He doesn't have kinda. He's got the big sword. I recognize the sword. But. But, yeah, no, he's got, he's got. He's got a nice little Spawn collection here and pictures of himself with the Todd father. So. Hell yeah, Tavis Collection. Go say Hi to Travis. [01:15:24] Speaker A: Sweet. And say hi to us. And make sure to tell people to rate, review, and subscribe. Tell yourself that in the mirror every day. And then tell everyone you know. [01:15:33] Speaker B: Yeah. And then also tell yourself to go visit Lonnie Bones on the Internet. He does our music. Just Google Lonnie Bones music. It's good shit. [01:15:40] Speaker A: Check it out. [01:15:41] Speaker B: True good shit. [01:15:43] Speaker A: Also check out us again next week. Yeah. We'll be doing two more issues from sponsor universe. What are we doing, David? [01:15:48] Speaker B: Johnny, we're gonna be doing. Doing. So we had this idea to maybe cover Gunslinger 50 and King spawn 50 on the same episode. So we're gonna have a gunslinger without the other gunslinger. [01:16:05] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [01:16:06] Speaker B: Because it's. It's. It's our show. We could do what we want to with it, you guys. [01:16:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:16:11] Speaker B: So we're gonna cover a gunslinger 48 and main title spawn 369. Damn, she's fine. [01:16:18] Speaker A: 369. [01:16:19] Speaker B: Yeah. So find yourself some gunslinger 48 and some spawn 369 and then come back in a week and listen to us talk about him. You know, if you're into that, I'm gonna love it. Absolutely. And, well, Johnny, I think that leaves me with nothing to say, but may the scorch be with you. [01:16:42] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:16:43] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:16:45] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. I don't eat these demonic Diablo 4 gummies. Now get my free Diablo 4 armor. [01:16:52] Speaker B: No, Johnny. That's how the progeny get the necroplasm into you. And they're gonna suck you into the. [01:16:56] Speaker A: With the gummies. [01:16:57] Speaker B: They're gonna suck you into your mind space. You're gonna have to fight to be the champion. [01:17:00] Speaker A: A gummy worm progeny. [01:17:02] Speaker B: What would gummy worm progeny sound like? [01:17:06] Speaker A: I don't know. Whatever that got. Whatever that worm sounds like on Richard. Scary. [01:17:09] Speaker B: Is that Ello? [01:17:11] Speaker A: Is that what he sounds like? [01:17:12] Speaker B: No, that's the word from the worm from Labyrinth. Did you just say hello? No, I said Ello, but that's close enough. [01:17:20] Speaker A: Well, you do love Labyrinth. [01:17:23] Speaker B: Come inside and have a nice cup of tea. [01:17:25] Speaker A: Did you own that or did you get it from the library? [01:17:29] Speaker B: Both. [01:17:35] Speaker A: Sam, Sa.