Episode 172 - Gunslinger 48 and Spawn 369!

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Wake up. [00:00:01] Speaker B: It's time you paint the piper. Good evening and welcome to the Malbolge. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast. I am your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:41] Speaker A: And I am your co host, David Williams. And it's official, Johnny. Between the two of us, I'm the one who's gone longer without a haircut. [00:00:51] Speaker B: That's true. I did get a haircut. [00:00:53] Speaker A: I got a haircut and David got a. Looks like a bum. [00:00:57] Speaker B: How long have you been busy getting a haircut? [00:01:01] Speaker A: June, sometime in early 2022. [00:01:04] Speaker B: Oh my God. What is wrong with you? [00:01:08] Speaker A: I don't know. I'm a weirdo. You know this Johnny. What isn't wrong with me? [00:01:12] Speaker B: Do you shave your own beard? Do you trim it? [00:01:15] Speaker A: Yeah, I give it a. I give it the scissors and the. Okay, a little bit. A little bit of a shaping. [00:01:20] Speaker B: 2022. That's a long time. [00:01:23] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The last time I had a haircut, my dad was alive. [00:01:27] Speaker B: That's. [00:01:27] Speaker A: That's how I like to think of it. Johnny. [00:01:30] Speaker B: Jesus. [00:01:32] Speaker A: And on that cheery note, we're gonna talk about some dead guys. [00:01:35] Speaker B: Yeah, we are. [00:01:39] Speaker A: Oh, but speaking. Speaking of, speaking of, Speaking of Johnny, I don't know if you heard the news, I don't know if you know who this is very much, but Rip Sam Keith, I thought you say Robert Mueller, also. Bob Mueller. He was the creator of the comic book the max that the 90s HBO show was based off of. He also did. He was the artist for most of the Sandman series. [00:02:13] Speaker B: Sorry to lose him. [00:02:14] Speaker A: Yeah. Rip, it happens. [00:02:18] Speaker B: What a great way to start episode. Your dead dad and a dead comic [00:02:21] Speaker A: artist, a dead FBI guy. Maybe that. Maybe they'll all meet up and have a buddy. A buddy comedy in the afterlife. Hopefully they all end up in that same bar that Bones from Corpse Bride is singing in. [00:02:41] Speaker B: Corpse Bright kind of sucks. [00:02:42] Speaker A: Oh, it's not very good. Aye. Johnny cannot be objective about it. So I was just. There's just. [00:02:53] Speaker B: It's the follow up quote unquote, tonight before Christmas. It was a disappointment. [00:02:58] Speaker A: I love it. I don't care if it sucks, because Johnny, we once had a little dog named Mayhew. We called him Mayhew because when we brought him home, he was on like seven different drugs for this mystery coffee head. Yeah, he literally just wanted attention is what it was. That there was nothing wrong with him. But we always went, mayhew, quit your blasted coffin. And so we named him Mayhew. He was a good dog. He had no teeth, but his Mouth worked and he wanted. [00:03:30] Speaker B: He was named after Peter Mayhew actually played Chewbacca. No, he's also dead. [00:03:34] Speaker A: We couldn't. We couldn't do that because our first hospice dog loved Chewbacca too much. And so Chewbacca is off limits to all their dogs now. [00:03:42] Speaker B: All right, you have that dog that loved Chewbacca. [00:03:44] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, man. [00:03:46] Speaker B: Anytime Chewie showed up on screen, he'd be paying attention. [00:03:48] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, he would. He would come out of a dead sleep underneath a pile of blankets to be like, look at that. [00:03:54] Speaker B: He loved. [00:03:55] Speaker A: I know that guy. It was fun. It was fun. [00:03:58] Speaker B: I met Peter Mayhew once. [00:03:59] Speaker A: You met this you really? That's pretty awesome. [00:04:02] Speaker B: Tulsa Comic Con back in like 2001 or something. [00:04:05] Speaker A: I've heard he was a sweetheart. [00:04:08] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:04:09] Speaker A: I mean, you get big hands. You get like 6 seconds with them. [00:04:12] Speaker B: Yeah, you get 6x with him. I asked him how George Lucas was. He said, he's a nice man. That's all he said. [00:04:18] Speaker A: That's. That's why you gotta take a dog with you, Johnny. Oh. Did you ever watch the Battlestar Galactica from the early 2000s? Not the original. [00:04:27] Speaker B: I never did. I know it's well regarded. [00:04:29] Speaker A: I forget her name, but the. If you look at the posters, it's the sexy lady, the sexy Cylon. Trissa. Trisha. [00:04:38] Speaker B: I know who you're talking about. [00:04:39] Speaker A: But anyway, Wanda and I went to go see her at Tulsa Comic Convention once, and we brought Aoife with us. And literally this lady just sat there with Aoife for like two whole minutes. It was just like. And so we just got to stand there and be like, hey, look at our dog. Look at. [00:04:55] Speaker B: Bring a dog. [00:04:55] Speaker A: Yeah, bring a dog. It's awesome, man. I need to rewatch Battlestar Galactica. That was a good show. [00:05:02] Speaker B: It was a good show. [00:05:03] Speaker A: It was a good show. [00:05:04] Speaker B: It was sour for me because people in my dorm were like, anti Lost and were like, Battlestar collectors. Better. I was. I'm not watching that piece of shit. Because they're. They were like, comparing it to, like, Lost, and I was like, fuck that. [00:05:16] Speaker A: It's not the best show ever, but it is a good show. [00:05:20] Speaker B: How many seasons was like three or four? [00:05:24] Speaker A: Yeah, I think it was. I think it was four because it. It jumped the shit. It was a plus. Excellent. And then it hit a certain point, they're like, we didn't expect to be on the air this long, guys. What the are we supposed to do? They have to find mysterious ways for the Marooned. The Marooned colonists to find booze. [00:05:47] Speaker B: You gotta keep it explained. You gotta explain it. [00:05:49] Speaker A: You gotta explain it. [00:05:50] Speaker B: Well, good thing we got a big explainer on these issues. Because these two issues today are written by Mr. Toga McFarlane, who leaves no word unturned. [00:06:00] Speaker A: Todd the Explainer. Farlan. [00:06:03] Speaker B: Mick Farland. [00:06:04] Speaker A: I took the Mick off. He's just Todd Farlane. Now he's Micklas. Ba da ba ba ba. [00:06:14] Speaker B: You ever watched the Mig? [00:06:17] Speaker A: No. [00:06:18] Speaker B: Some show. I don't know. I've never seen it. I just know it's a show. [00:06:21] Speaker A: I know that. I did watch AP Bio, which has that other person from Always Sunny on it. And that's actually a pretty funny show. [00:06:31] Speaker B: AP Bio. [00:06:32] Speaker A: Yeah. It's got Glenn. What's his face? [00:06:36] Speaker B: Glenn Close. [00:06:37] Speaker A: Yeah, Glenn Close, man. I like Glenn Close. Kind of spooky, is she? Well, she was real spooky as Cruella De Vil, let me tell you that. [00:06:48] Speaker B: That's true. [00:06:49] Speaker A: Oh. Oh, boy. It gives me this Frankie Winky Johnny. [00:06:53] Speaker B: Oh, God. I don't want to think about that. I don't even know what that means. I'm gonna move right past. Because we are respawn where each week we read two issues from Spawn's universe. Except when we don't. Oh, really? [00:07:07] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, because they're at a taxidermy and Bob Hoskins or no, the guy who plays Ron Weasley's dad in the Harry Potter's movies. He's looking at something pickled and he goes. Looking at all these dead things is giving me a shrinky winky. [00:07:21] Speaker B: Oh, boy. What was that rated? R, I think. [00:07:25] Speaker A: It was pg. [00:07:26] Speaker B: It should have been R. Each week we two issues with Spawn's universe. Except we don't. This week is no different. We have two issues in sponsor universe. Yes to Todd McFarland penned issues. Because this week we are doing Gunslinger 48 all the way back from October 2025. And spawn 369. Nice. 369 back from October 2025. So he wrote these at the same time using the similar mindset. There's a little bit of overlap. [00:07:57] Speaker A: It was the same day. He was like, I need to write two scripts. Let's just bust them out. [00:08:01] Speaker B: Let's do it. [00:08:02] Speaker A: Copy, paste, switch some things. He basically. Yeah, he basically copy pastes. Control F ya. Copy and replace with sin. Good to go. [00:08:16] Speaker B: Yeah. And we get two pundits that pretty much say the same stuff. [00:08:19] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. And for this next hour and a half, we're gonna go in depth, doing a side by side Comparison of the two issues. [00:08:27] Speaker B: Yes, we will. Let's make an hour and ten. [00:08:32] Speaker A: Nah, let's go. Let's. [00:08:33] Speaker B: I was rudely awoken from a nap for this. [00:08:37] Speaker A: I'm sorry, Johnny. Nothing's worse than being woken up from a nap. I know because once in college, I had a nice. A nice. A nice whiskey and coke nap that I was having in the middle of the afternoon. And then one of my friends busted in because some guys that worked with his girlfriend came to beat him up because she was. She was telling lies about him to try to impress the older men she worked with at Texas Roadhouse. And so they. [00:09:07] Speaker B: Hell, they killed Stillwater. [00:09:08] Speaker A: Yeah. They kicked in his apartment door and, like, held him down and threatened him with a baseball bat and then broke his windshield as they drove away. [00:09:17] Speaker B: What were they. What was she telling me? [00:09:18] Speaker A: He was doing bad things. [00:09:20] Speaker B: Oh. [00:09:21] Speaker A: Very bad things. [00:09:22] Speaker B: Why was she telling him that? Just to like. [00:09:24] Speaker A: Because she had an alcohol problem. [00:09:26] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:09:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:29] Speaker B: So do most people work at Texas Roadhouse? [00:09:31] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, they could whip up a mean cinnamon butter, but buddy, is it [00:09:36] Speaker B: the one with the peanuts on the floor? [00:09:37] Speaker A: Yes. Yes, it is. [00:09:38] Speaker B: Yeah, they're slipping over those nuts. They gotta take a little bit of grandpa's cough medicine to a little bit of the cooking sherry to ease the pain. [00:09:45] Speaker A: Oh, cooking sherry. Oh, it's a sad, sad state of affairs if you're cooking drinking sherry. [00:09:53] Speaker B: If you're cooking drinking sherry, that's sad too. But also if you're drinking cooking sherry. [00:09:57] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, you should keep the cooking [00:09:59] Speaker B: sherry for the cooking and the drinking sherry for the drinking. [00:10:02] Speaker A: Like the old. The old joke, I like to drink with wine or I like to cook with wine. And sometimes I like to put it in the food. [00:10:08] Speaker B: Oh my God. [00:10:11] Speaker A: It's just. Bad joke o', clock, Johnny. [00:10:14] Speaker B: Evidently nothing. [00:10:16] Speaker A: Two hours of the worst jokes you've [00:10:17] Speaker B: ever heard focused at an hour ten. [00:10:20] Speaker A: Ah, I lied. [00:10:23] Speaker B: Okay, well, let's get to it then. This is gonna be two hours. First up, we got gunslinger 48. [00:10:28] Speaker A: Yes, we do. [00:10:29] Speaker B: And we start with the covers. I have the A cover. [00:10:32] Speaker A: There was absolutely no reason to get anything other than the A cover. Sorry, Mirko Kolak. Who does the B cover? [00:10:39] Speaker B: Google it. Oh my God. [00:10:42] Speaker A: It is a pretty cool cover. The B cover. But say covers, it's choice. It's. [00:10:47] Speaker B: It's the inside of a blown out belly. [00:10:52] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just like right through, like right through the chest. Yeah. Because there's some ribs there. [00:10:58] Speaker B: Yeah. And like a backbone. It's like, it's like inside whatever creature human he'd shot through. [00:11:03] Speaker A: It's shot to the heart, Johnny. And Javi's to blame. [00:11:07] Speaker B: Yep. Because he's sitting there framed by the gore. [00:11:11] Speaker A: It would have been funny if they invaded a heart shaped hole. Bjorn Barron doesn't have that much whimsy, though. [00:11:19] Speaker B: This is usually pretty serious. [00:11:21] Speaker A: Yeah, this is. This is as serious as a heart getting blown out of the chest, Johnny. [00:11:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:27] Speaker A: Oh, it's all gooey and. Oh, just like. Like seeing these fucking fractured vertebrae is. It's making me. [00:11:34] Speaker B: Yeah, it takes a second to kind of soak in what you're seeing. What am I looking at here? [00:11:37] Speaker A: You gotta. You gotta sit up straight because you start feeling all of them and it's like. Ah. [00:11:41] Speaker B: Yeah, posture can help you grow 2 inches if you have good posture, according to TikTok. [00:11:46] Speaker A: Yeah, well, unless that gunslinger blows your back out. [00:11:50] Speaker B: That's true. But yeah, it's the real realistic, textured Bjorn Barons 3D model. You just see all the details and all the guts and bones and it's really good. [00:12:02] Speaker A: Yeah, it's. It's real gooey. It's the gooiest Bjorn Barons we've seen in a while. And then that B cover, that Marco Collak cover is, I would say, Johnny, it's a very Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles style cover. Could you. You could just imagine the four. The four brothers there in place of the. The gunslinger getting ready to attack these obvious street punks, Right? Yeah, I can. [00:12:30] Speaker B: I can see. I mean, the. The background kind of looks Ninja Turtle. [00:12:33] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, because there's like New York in the background and there's just. Just like. Like Javi is standing on a pile of bodies just shooting at these obvious street punks that are coming at him. [00:12:45] Speaker B: Ninja Turtles hate street punks. [00:12:46] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, they do. They hate punkers. No, wait, wait, wait. That's Casey Jones. [00:12:52] Speaker B: Casey Jones hates bunkers, but they admire Casey Jones, so. [00:12:56] Speaker A: Yeah, they do. He better watch his speed, Johnny. There's trouble ahead and trouble behind and ain't, you know, that notion just crossed my mind. [00:13:08] Speaker B: Is that from Ninja Turtles? [00:13:09] Speaker A: No, that's the Grateful Dead. [00:13:11] Speaker B: Okay. I was like, I don't remember there singing Grateful Dead in Ninja Turtles or singing a song. [00:13:16] Speaker A: It's what I always think of whenever I think of Casey Jones. There's a song by the Grateful Dead called Casey Jones. [00:13:23] Speaker B: I imagine it's probably what the comic book character is named after. [00:13:26] Speaker A: I mean, have you seen pictures of Eastman and Laird? They're like Ben and Jerry Lite. So it's probably. Probably. I Could do with some ice cream. [00:13:40] Speaker B: Ice cream's always good. [00:13:41] Speaker A: Yes, it is. You know what else is good, Johnny? Give them credit where it's due. [00:13:46] Speaker B: Yeah, we gotta pop it over to the credits. Here we got script, plot by Todd McFarlane, art by Carlo Barberi. [00:13:52] Speaker A: Yes, we do. [00:13:54] Speaker B: Colors by Ivan Nunes, lettering by Tom Wojczykowski. Oh, yeah, we already covered the covers. And creative director is Tom McFarlane, and editor in chief is Thomas Healy. Previously in Gunslinger, Javi's companion Linda has been arrested, and he aims to get her back. [00:14:13] Speaker A: And you can tell this. You can tell this comic book is written by a man, Johnny, because ostensibly it is about a woman who doesn't show up the entire issue. [00:14:22] Speaker B: It's true. [00:14:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:24] Speaker B: There's another woman. [00:14:25] Speaker A: So there is another woman, and then [00:14:28] Speaker B: there's a sick woman. [00:14:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:31] Speaker B: And Javi claims he hasn't done this in years. Even though he just did it. [00:14:34] Speaker A: Even though he just did it. And he somehow. He somehow. He somehow ends with more necroplasm than he had at the end of the last issue. Episode. [00:14:42] Speaker B: Issue what? [00:14:43] Speaker A: Right. [00:14:43] Speaker B: How's that possible? [00:14:44] Speaker A: I don't know. Also, his. His origin story doesn't jibe with. [00:14:50] Speaker B: Yeah, it's just playing free, Luke. So I was like, what is this? The Canada? We don't even know this happens. [00:14:56] Speaker A: Was that episode 317, issue? 317 or issue three? Ninth. [00:15:02] Speaker B: It's like 307 or something. [00:15:03] Speaker A: 307? 309. [00:15:05] Speaker B: 309. It's the one that comes with the. [00:15:07] Speaker A: With the. There's Augur Erasure, Johnny. Augur Erasure? Yeah. [00:15:12] Speaker B: I don't know what's going on here. We'll never know the true origin of Gunslinger's origin. But we open in a garage with Wyatt working on a car. What kind of car is that? [00:15:25] Speaker A: I have no idea. I would call it a muscle up. [00:15:30] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:15:31] Speaker A: You know, I know what car is supposed to pick me up from an Uber. I can tell, you know, like a modern Toyota from a modern. Looks like a Toyota, but that's about. That's about it. [00:15:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:45] Speaker A: No, unless it's. Unless it's the 87 Oldsmobile Delta 88 that I had in college. I don't know cars, Mana. I love a boat car. A boat that is. Yeah. It's got the bench seat that you can just slide around in. Oh, hell yeah. Hit the thin little steering wheel. They don't have the thin steering wheel anymore. I miss it, Johnny. [00:16:09] Speaker B: They're all thick. [00:16:10] Speaker A: Yeah, they're all. [00:16:11] Speaker B: They beep at you for everything. [00:16:12] Speaker A: They're all full of safety features. Oh, yeah. [00:16:14] Speaker B: They're all woke. All these woke cars riding around. [00:16:16] Speaker A: Oh, I hate all the beeps. I hate all the beeps. That's neither here nor there. [00:16:21] Speaker B: Somebody beeps. Yeah. Why is working on a classic car? He said he'd much rather you're sipping on an ice cold beer, but there's [00:16:29] Speaker A: work to be done, Johnny. [00:16:32] Speaker B: That's what pays the bills. You know why a magical shaman, he's worried about paying those bills, man. Could he just like materialize money out of a hat if you wanted to [00:16:44] Speaker A: or. I mean, he knows. He knows Javi, so he probably knows where Javi buried all his. [00:16:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Why is working his ass off here. [00:16:53] Speaker A: This duffel bag full of 200 year old gold. Here, just take some of this and. Yeah. Why is. Why is under there doing the classic. Give me the quarter inch wrench. Ratchet. Quarter inch ratchet. And then he's like, come on, boy. I need it. [00:17:06] Speaker B: He comes out of the car and we see the boy. [00:17:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:09] Speaker B: Sitting there with Javi, who has returned to Wyatt. [00:17:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Javi says, where's Linda? [00:17:16] Speaker B: She's not here. She took off and the feds got her. [00:17:19] Speaker A: What's a what? I love. I love that they're keeping up that bit. He should know what a fed is by now. [00:17:28] Speaker B: He doesn't learn anything. [00:17:30] Speaker A: He's been. He's been. He's been detained by them for. For sake. [00:17:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:36] Speaker A: I like how he tells the kid to skedaddle. Skedaddle. [00:17:39] Speaker B: He like, rustles his hair. [00:17:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:42] Speaker B: He's like, what do you mean she's gone? He's supposed to take care of her. He's like, I tried, but she tried to kill herself and ran away. [00:17:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:51] Speaker B: Which didn't seem much like Linda's personality. No happened. [00:17:54] Speaker A: But no like. And it's. It was all in like a couple pages. Well, cuz it was like mostly in backstory. Cuz why is like, remember, I. I can't let you. I can't let you know those pills. [00:18:08] Speaker B: Like, wait, what did this come from? [00:18:12] Speaker A: And so then Javi's like, where'd they take her? Wife says, I don't know. Read some news though. Looks like they caught her not far from here. So wyatt goes to Dr. Google. [00:18:23] Speaker B: The old desktop, the old apple. [00:18:27] Speaker A: Why is like, look at. Javi's like, you know, I can't read. What the hell is this? [00:18:31] Speaker B: It's like, look, they took her [00:18:34] Speaker A: and [00:18:34] Speaker B: they're looking for you. They're gonna have to get justice for you. Killing those people, even if they're taking on the wrong people. [00:18:42] Speaker A: Yeah. And then somehow in the news story, this lawyer, this picture of this lawyer comes up, and Javi says, ho, ho, ho. I know that lady. I seen her before. And Wyatt's like, are you out of your mind? You're a fugitive. [00:18:57] Speaker B: Are you out of your bulk in mind? [00:19:00] Speaker A: You can't go just traipsing up to this lady and trying to get her to help somebody that she's never met. [00:19:05] Speaker B: I gotta make this right. So stop preaching and just help me. [00:19:08] Speaker A: Mm. Stop preaching again. Start reaching for the phone, calling people up. And then we cut to the office of one lawyer. Erica. [00:19:21] Speaker B: Erica with a K. Just like Eric on Phantom of the Opera. [00:19:26] Speaker A: Erica of the Opera. [00:19:28] Speaker B: Because in the book, his name's Eric with a kid. [00:19:34] Speaker A: Carrick. Eric with Eric with a K. No, [00:19:39] Speaker B: with a K at the end, you big dope. [00:19:44] Speaker A: But. But we learned that Linda. Not Linda. Erica has a bad habit of working late, which is working late useful for one Mr. Gunslinger, because he slips in after she's been working for too long. [00:19:58] Speaker B: He's like, you really need to use AI for this. And you get done with work faster. [00:20:03] Speaker A: He doesn't. He doesn't know anything, but he knows that AI will help you out. [00:20:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:08] Speaker A: Although he would if he were be able to read. He'd probably read it as Al. He'd be like, al can take care of this. And now I think everybody's talking about, [00:20:15] Speaker B: it's my friend Al. I know him. Owls out there's name have been ruined because of our typeface. We've talked about this before. [00:20:21] Speaker A: Yeah. Poor Al's. [00:20:25] Speaker B: What's the L? What's the little thing on the L called? It has a tail in their name for it. [00:20:31] Speaker A: Would it be a serif for a lowercase L? I don't think it would be a serif because you can technically have the little weepy L with sans serif. [00:20:43] Speaker B: It's just. It's a national tragedy. Anyone? I weep for men named Al because everyone just calls him AI now. [00:20:50] Speaker A: It's a built in nickname. So Javi comes in, he asks Erica, where'd they take her? And she's like, wait, who the. What are you talking about? Wait, I know you. You're that motherfucker. You're that son of that cartel lord. And the Javi's like, hold on, hold on, hold on. I got a magic trick to show you. [00:21:10] Speaker B: And he goes, bloop. [00:21:11] Speaker A: He spawns up, and he says, I needed you to see that. So you'd believe what I'm about to tell you. And she's like, what the fuck? [00:21:17] Speaker B: Yeah, what the hell is that? [00:21:18] Speaker A: Look he did. She's like, there are cameras in this building. Being on camera is how you got arrested in the first place. And he says, don't care. I need you to help Linda. Then she goes, well, throw yourself in. And he's like, I like that. So he tells her. He starts to tell her about himself, about how he was born in 1841 and he's not a perfect man. [00:21:48] Speaker B: Catch up for gunslinger till now? [00:21:50] Speaker A: Yeah, kind of. Kind of? Yeah. Born in 1841, not a perfect man. But circumstances led him to having many enemies. Most of them wanted him dead. And then they killed his sister. And then he gets sucked from his time into this time. And then after he gets sucked into this time, he needs a body so that way he can continue to live in this time time. And so he found a beat up schmuck in the alley. [00:22:20] Speaker B: Yeah, but it's at a old western town. This is all very confusing. [00:22:23] Speaker A: Okay, so. So he takes the body before he comes in time. [00:22:28] Speaker B: No, I read that issue too. Augur has the body and he, like, takes it whenever. Like Sons of Anarchy Cogliostro. [00:22:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, anyway, there's a body. Javi takes the body. Javi gets sucked through time, and then he meets Al and Jessica Priest, and then a big monstrosity attacks the United States, Oregon. And. And then Javi's like, I was there. I was fighting that demon guy I was helping. Mm. So here's where Linda comes in. It's like I was using her to move me around in one of them moving contraptions. [00:23:11] Speaker B: Even though you could drive a motorcycle. He could drive a motorcycle for a bit. [00:23:15] Speaker A: It's like, what's so hard about driving a car? Fucking. Have you seen. Have you seen some of the people who are out here driving cars? Javit could do it. [00:23:24] Speaker B: Java can do it. [00:23:26] Speaker A: And he's like, she's an innocent. I just needed her. And it's not her fault that she's in jail just at the wrong place at the wrong time. And Eric says, I don't even want this case. It's dangerous. You're dangerous. They said you're the sum of some cartel leader. I can't do this. My mom needs me. She's sick. And Javi says he's. Oh, sick mom. You say, take me to your mother, but he says, take me to your mother. [00:23:52] Speaker B: Yeah, quite the question. [00:23:56] Speaker A: I want to go see mom. And then we cut to an alley hang. Ooh, classic Spawn. Alley hang between. You got Tremor, Tremor and Abel from the Bible. And Plague Spawn just like drooling Portland, [00:24:12] Speaker B: I guess, after that organ attack, [00:24:16] Speaker A: I guess. And. And Abel's just like, what the fuck is the. Is Plague spawns problem? I thought. I thought all the spots stuck together. What the shit's going on? Why is he here? [00:24:27] Speaker B: This guy? [00:24:28] Speaker A: Trevor's like, I don't fucking know, dude. He's not speaking. I don't know if he's human. I don't know whose side he's on. [00:24:36] Speaker B: Darker Deer was like, he seems to be playing both sides. He's like, hey there. Fought the beast. [00:24:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:41] Speaker B: So, you know, just be cool. [00:24:44] Speaker A: Yeah, just. Just ignore him so he doesn't eat you. [00:24:47] Speaker B: And so then also Sin was there. Remember that? Yeah, that was weird. [00:24:52] Speaker A: Said my brother came back. I've killed him how many times already. That can't stay dead for nothing. So then Flake spawn, like, creeps away, act so creepy, and he just, like, [00:25:07] Speaker B: sneaks around, sulks in the alley, just sulking around the alley. [00:25:11] Speaker A: Then he comes across this old man in a basement underneath a. Like a naked light bulb, just shining harsh light on this wall of newspaper articles that he's been pasted up. [00:25:27] Speaker B: I didn't know that newspaper's still active. [00:25:30] Speaker A: All right, me either. I mean. I mean, he is an old man. He must be from his collection, Johnny. [00:25:35] Speaker B: They love old. They love the old printed media, those old people. [00:25:38] Speaker A: Yeah, they sure do. They might be. They might be onto something, Johnny. I agree. Yeah. [00:25:43] Speaker B: I love printed things. [00:25:45] Speaker A: This old man says, the rapture, as you know, is upon us, and God will send his chosen ones to deliver us from these wicked times. So tell me, my child, are you here to deliver us our salvation? That's actually a good little bit of dialogue writing from the Todd father. Not gonna lie. I don't know where it's fucking going. It might just be some bullshit, but [00:26:05] Speaker B: he might not ever pick this up again. [00:26:06] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a strong. It's a strong little bit of dialogue. [00:26:09] Speaker B: It's like, this week, he's like, I want to do Blank Spot in the alley with Dark Redeemer and Tremor. It's like, what? Okay. [00:26:19] Speaker A: Oh, well, it's like. [00:26:20] Speaker B: This is like. That's where I feel like he's getting. Like he's getting it mixed up. Because this feels like almost like more of a sequel to the Spawn main story with a little bit of gunslinger in. Yeah, that's why reading these two issues together was a little confusing. I Was like, am I reading the same thing? [00:26:32] Speaker A: It's like. It's like he wrote one entire issue and was like, oh, shit. I need to. I need to. To break this into two. Can I make it into two different series and just be done for the month? Yeah, okay, let's do that. [00:26:42] Speaker B: Because the. The pundits, which we go to next, is all about the organ attack. This seems like it should be out of Spawn, not Gunslinger. [00:26:49] Speaker A: Yeah. I think they would still be talking about this madman being loose and his. Yeah, his female companion being arrested, and maybe they'll catch that madman. [00:27:00] Speaker B: I'm just thinking he's getting his goodness. He's crossing the streams. [00:27:03] Speaker A: And the. He. He mess. He messes up the tone of the. The pundits too, because the crn. CRN lady has this fucking flippant. And when we return, the latest from the world of golf. And the CRN lady never has that flippant turn at the end. That's usually Info buzz, dude. Yeah, they're all just. They're all just like, smash. Smashing now. I don't know. [00:27:26] Speaker B: Like, the sign behind Brock the Shock Fennel just says modern War. [00:27:30] Speaker A: Modern War. It reminds me a little bit of, like, the opening. The opening. Little bit of Starship Troopers. Intergalactic War. [00:27:40] Speaker B: Great opening. [00:27:42] Speaker A: That was on Pluto TV the other day. It was great. [00:27:44] Speaker B: I haven't watched a lot of Christian Nightmares. God, no. Kitchen Nightmares. [00:27:49] Speaker A: Christian Nightmares. [00:27:50] Speaker B: Christian Nightmares would be an interesting show, though. [00:27:52] Speaker A: And Johnny, I think they call that Spawn. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kitchen Nightmares. It's fun. That's Gordon Ramsay, right? [00:28:01] Speaker B: Yes, sir. [00:28:02] Speaker A: Nice watching that. [00:28:04] Speaker B: I'm watching Chris Henson. I was watching Tom Came over the other day. We were watching some. Chris Hansen. We were cracking up. Always great to see Awful exploited television. Is that To Catch a Predator now it's called Takedown. He has a new show. [00:28:20] Speaker A: Oh, dang. [00:28:21] Speaker B: He's still doing it. It's like modern. He's still doing it, baby. He's still doing the questionable where he's getting confessions from people without reading them their rights. [00:28:30] Speaker A: I mean, it's a winning strategy. Johnny, you're watching it. [00:28:33] Speaker B: So it's true. [00:28:35] Speaker A: Must be doing something right. [00:28:37] Speaker B: Yeah, he created his own channel for it. There's a streaming and YouTube channel called True Blue, and it shows Chris Henson, like, true crime shows and a baseball podcast. I have no idea. [00:28:52] Speaker A: Don't tell Todd, Father. He's gonna. He's gonna lose. [00:28:54] Speaker B: He's gonna love it. Oh, I love Chris Chance's True Blue. He's gonna be. It's all like like, it's, like, from the dugout, and, like, occasionally, that'll be on there. And I'm like, what the fuck is this? [00:29:02] Speaker A: We're gonna be. We're gonna be rigging Spawn, and he's just gonna. Spawn's gonna start like. Like, catfishing fucking predators and. [00:29:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:11] Speaker A: Luring them to a house in the suburbs and being like, hey, guess what? You're not here to do what you thought you were. [00:29:18] Speaker B: How's the lemonade? Oh, you said you wanted to eat her ass. What do you mean by that? [00:29:30] Speaker A: Oh. Then we cut to Erica Lawyer Erica's house, where her mom is sick in bed, and she just brings this. Brings this imposing figure in with her, [00:29:45] Speaker B: and she's like, all right, I'll take him to my mom. Whatever. [00:29:47] Speaker A: Yeah. And she's like, mom, I brought somebody to see you. And she says, my eyes ain't too good. Hello there. Come closer. And Javi says, evening, ma'. Am. She says, ooh, nice manners. You could stay. [00:30:00] Speaker B: I can finally say ma' am again. Because I live in Oklahoma. People aren't fucking offended. [00:30:04] Speaker A: Everyone. [00:30:05] Speaker B: I moved to Chicago. The first time I saw someone ma', am, they were like, don't ever call me ma'. Am. [00:30:08] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:30:09] Speaker B: That's true. [00:30:09] Speaker A: That's true. Yeah. That's a very, very difficult thing to stop. [00:30:12] Speaker B: I know. [00:30:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:13] Speaker B: It was tough for a while for me, and then. And here, everyone's a ma'. Am. [00:30:17] Speaker A: Although. Although in college once, I took. I took a class with the poet AI. Oh, man. I fucking love D was great. But there was an individual in my. My class who was from Georgia, so she was. She was like a stereotype of a Southern belle. She's fucking great. She got drunk at a Bulldogs game and fell off a toilet and busted out her teeth. [00:30:42] Speaker B: Wow. [00:30:43] Speaker A: She's fucking. Fucking amazing. She has great stories. And she accidentally called the poet I ma' am once, and I went off on her for, like, 15 minutes about how she refuses to be referred to as ma'. [00:30:54] Speaker B: Am. [00:30:56] Speaker A: And this little. This little lady just had to sit there and take it and just be like, yes. She. She. You could. You could feel her fighting, saying, yes, ma'. Am. Yes, ma'. Am. Oh, man. Oh, it was frightening. The poet. I. Good poet. Crazy lady. [00:31:12] Speaker B: Just don't call her ma'. Am. [00:31:13] Speaker A: Just don't call her ma'. Am. No. Or accidentally or sneak a dog into her class and not tell her it's there. [00:31:19] Speaker B: Like, call her dog. Be like, what's up, dog? [00:31:22] Speaker A: She was great. She was great. [00:31:25] Speaker B: And so Javi comes To the. To Erica's mother. And he. His arm gets a little long and he heals her. [00:31:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:33] Speaker B: And he says he has tried something for years. [00:31:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:37] Speaker B: But this isn't true because he's cured. Whose cancer did he cure? [00:31:40] Speaker A: Like, he gave. [00:31:40] Speaker B: He gave a couple issues ago. [00:31:42] Speaker A: That dude, the doctor who. The kid who found Javi in the barn brought. [00:31:48] Speaker B: He was like, yeah, he secured. [00:31:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, he didn't cure it. He said he gave him maybe. Maybe a couple more years. Yeah. [00:31:55] Speaker B: Yeah. So he kind of did it. [00:31:57] Speaker A: But still, we literally, like, just fucking did it. Was literally last issue. The house goes all like, poltergeist there with just the green light. And then we cut to the morning and Javi and Erica are sitting at the table having some coffee. [00:32:15] Speaker B: Hobby's just eating breakfast in his full regalia, which looks really uncomfortable. [00:32:18] Speaker A: Yeah. And Erica's mom's just putting around the kitchen being like. Like nothing's wrong. [00:32:25] Speaker B: Where's your walker? He's like, I don't need it. I got a good rest. [00:32:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:29] Speaker B: I feel good. Able to do things again. [00:32:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:32] Speaker B: And I love this detail. The three of them talk like long lost friends for a while to talk. [00:32:39] Speaker A: What do they talk about? [00:32:41] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:32:41] Speaker A: Long lost friend stuff. He missed an opportunity for the gunslinger to say, I gotta be hitting the dusty trail. [00:32:50] Speaker B: Yes. [00:32:51] Speaker A: And then Erica says, oh, no. And then. So as Javi's leaving, Erica's mom is like, I wanted. I wanted to say something to you, sir. Thank you. And she gives him a hug. And then Erica's like, yeah, yeah, you know what? Thanks for. Thanks. Thanks, Javi. And Erica gives Javi a hug and she says, I'll take Linda's case, find her the best legal help I can. Actually, I guess she doesn't take. [00:33:18] Speaker B: I can't wait for the legal. The legal case portion of gunslinger. I guess Erica Schultz will be riding it. [00:33:23] Speaker A: Does Javi just show up in. [00:33:26] Speaker B: It was just a trial. [00:33:28] Speaker A: They try to take his knives off of him. And he's like, hold on a second here. Hold on, hold on. Nobody can grab this one. Only I can grab this one out of the house. Hold on. [00:33:37] Speaker B: It's in my hat. He's like, well, the only way all this goes away if I fix my own problems first. [00:33:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:47] Speaker B: It's interesting line of thought, but okay. [00:33:49] Speaker A: Yeah. And so Javi walks to Indiana. Apparently, he can't drive. You can't drive, you know. Oh, I guess he does have the. He does have the dinosaur that turns into the horse. [00:34:01] Speaker B: Of course. [00:34:02] Speaker A: Of course in Indiana Two days later, and we see a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. Although a very nice farmhouse. So maybe like a rich person's escape. Mm. There's an old man sleeping in a bed, and Javi's got a gun pointed right at his forehead. And he says, wake up. It's time you paid the piper. [00:34:25] Speaker B: Opening quote. He goes, you tried to have you had a sexually charged conversation with a 15 year old girl online? [00:34:35] Speaker A: Shoot you, he said. He says, I got all the rats out of town and you didn't pay me, so I'm gonna steal all your children. [00:34:43] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [00:34:44] Speaker A: He's the Pied Piper. [00:34:45] Speaker B: Or is Jeffrey Epstein the Pied Piper? [00:34:47] Speaker A: Oh, but Jeffrey Epstein didn't take all the rats with him to begin with, so he is. He is the rats. [00:34:56] Speaker B: He is the rat. They're all rats. They're all rats. [00:35:01] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. [00:35:04] Speaker B: And we get a power level which is 0047. [00:35:08] Speaker A: Wasn't it at 003 something the last issue? [00:35:11] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:35:12] Speaker A: I don't know. Mine's under the bed over there. So. Fearless listener, please email [email protected] then when we don't have to look at our books. [00:35:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:27] Speaker A: Doing some fan art in the Spawning Ground presents is. Speaking of Sam Keith, Johnny. This. This Tyler Lamp guy is a little bit of a Sam Keith vibe to him. [00:35:40] Speaker B: It's like if Grogu decided to dress as the gunslinger. [00:35:43] Speaker A: Yeah, it's. He does a lot of. He does a lot of gross stuff. Johnny. I was looking on his Instagram, and if there is a way to turn a character into a penis, he has found a way to do it. Good to know. It is interesting. There's Eduardo Cerridilla. [00:36:08] Speaker B: It's got a little, like, kind of COVID thing. [00:36:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Kind of looks a little bit like it's a spaghetti western. Then we got Tak Barak Belong. It's a nice little. [00:36:21] Speaker B: He's looking like the Scarecrow. [00:36:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:23] Speaker B: This big old hat. [00:36:24] Speaker A: He does. He does. He looks like a specifically, like Batman scarecrow. Like, he's. Yeah, he's gonna frighten Bruce Wayne. What scares you? Bruce Wayne? [00:36:34] Speaker B: Yeah. There was supposed to be a third Joel Schumacher. 1. And Nick Cage is gonna play the Scarecrow. [00:36:39] Speaker A: Would have been. That would have been amazing. Can you imagine how banana balls a third Joel Schumacher? [00:36:47] Speaker B: It just would have been like flying around the moon. [00:36:49] Speaker A: It would have been insane. Just think if. Just think if it was like, as like Rococo is the Phantom of the Opera movie, which I know you don't like, but you can at least. You can at least appreciate, like, Phantom [00:37:01] Speaker B: of the Opera, period. Yeah, I know, but you like the movie. [00:37:04] Speaker A: I've. I've seen the movie. [00:37:06] Speaker B: I just. I just watched the movie. The. Everything around the Phantom is great. The Phantom sucks. He's just like a dude of the opera. [00:37:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:14] Speaker B: They show all his tricks. It's so just a weird decision. [00:37:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:17] Speaker B: And Megan and I were cracking up. We were watching it because Raul beats him in a sword fight. And then it's like, he's gonna kill him. She's like, don't kill him. And the next scene, he's like, how are you gonna kill this guy? And it's like, what? You just had him? [00:37:30] Speaker A: Yeah. I didn't say I liked it, Johnny. I just said I've seen it more than I would like. [00:37:35] Speaker B: But you said I didn't like it, which implied, like, you did. I know you like the managers. You love that scrap metal line. [00:37:40] Speaker A: I do. The scrap metal. No, I was just referring to the, like, the lushness of the. Of the production. [00:37:48] Speaker B: And some of it looks really cool. [00:37:50] Speaker A: Like, even. Even though you don't like the movie, you can at least appreciate the production value. That's. That's all I was. [00:37:56] Speaker B: The first, like, hour is pretty good. [00:37:58] Speaker A: I really like. I do really like the drunk guy drinking in the elephant. Elephant, though. That's a. That's a fun little bit. [00:38:04] Speaker B: I like the. Raul rises to the opera standing on a carriage. He's, like, standing on a carriage, riding solo. I was cracking up. Patrick Wilson's great. But also, they do weird things. They decide, like, some lines are gonna speak and some are gonna sing. And the way they choose, it's just wacky because they're, like, speaking in rhyme sometimes, and it's like, what the hell's going on here? [00:38:24] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know. We do. Wanda and I do daily use the meat and my doggie. We go, bye. Bye. [00:38:30] Speaker B: They don't have the dog on the stage version. It'd be too much. [00:38:33] Speaker A: I mean, the only having. Having had a dog that was in a stage production, I can. I can believe it. [00:38:40] Speaker B: Yes. [00:38:41] Speaker A: It was only a college stage production and she was dumb as shit, so everybody just thought she was a stuffed animal. But a bit of a production. [00:38:49] Speaker B: Yeah. Sweet charity. [00:38:51] Speaker A: Yeah. It's a fun show. [00:38:54] Speaker B: It's a weird show. [00:38:55] Speaker A: It is a very. [00:38:56] Speaker B: It's so weird. [00:38:58] Speaker A: It's very weird. But, hey, that's the 60s, I guess. [00:39:02] Speaker B: That's the 60s, man. It had, like, that kind of, like, variety show energy because Every scene was just completely different from the last one. Like, kind of like just off the wall. [00:39:10] Speaker A: Yeah. It's like a whole bunch of ideas that didn't fit into other movies. They're like, yeah, just put it in this one. [00:39:15] Speaker B: Put in a Sweet Charity. [00:39:17] Speaker A: That was a Fosse. That was a Fosse, right? Yes. [00:39:21] Speaker B: Need more Spawns Universe. [00:39:22] Speaker A: Absolutely. Hey, [00:39:25] Speaker B: then don't miss these ongoing titles because we have the ad for the ongoing titles and all the November issues. [00:39:31] Speaker A: Yeah, November issues. Not just for Thanksgiving anymore. [00:39:36] Speaker B: Nope. [00:39:36] Speaker A: Get the Image Classics ad. The Spawn Call of Duty ad is the back of the Modern War. Modern War [00:39:46] Speaker B: Walks Beside Me. Modern War Walks on by. [00:39:53] Speaker A: That's considered 48. [00:39:54] Speaker B: It's gunslinger 48. [00:39:55] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. [00:39:56] Speaker B: Take it on a date or not. Or don't. Maybe leave halfway through the date. Maybe. Maybe. [00:40:05] Speaker A: Maybe go to the bathroom and then just never come back. You know, don't do that. Don't do that. If you're gonna leave a date in the middle of it, be like. Be straight up about it and be like, I can't do this in the. Anymore. I'm leaving. Here is. Here is. If. If you do that, you have to pay for everything. Say, here is. Here is dinner. Stay. Have some dessert and an extra drink. This isn't for me. [00:40:29] Speaker B: I'm. I'm leaving. [00:40:29] Speaker A: Yeah, Don't. Don't be a jerk about it. [00:40:55] Speaker B: Next up, we've got spawn 369. Yeah. Which no one really enjoys. It's just too much. You gotta. What are you supposed to concentrate on? You're getting pleasured. You're trying to pleasure. It's just. [00:41:06] Speaker A: I don't know. What, 3, 369? [00:41:09] Speaker B: No. Just six times. [00:41:10] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's. No, no, It's. [00:41:13] Speaker B: It's overrated. [00:41:14] Speaker A: It's. [00:41:15] Speaker B: I don't even know if it's overrated. I don't know if it's rated. [00:41:17] Speaker A: It's a weird configuration. It's not ideal, I should say. There should be. There should be more attention paid by a single individual. And we'll leave it at that. Yep. [00:41:32] Speaker B: And that's the issue. [00:41:38] Speaker A: It's just 369s and then it's all over. It is an issue. I'll give it that. Johnny, it is an issue of Spawn. [00:41:47] Speaker B: Yes. And I like most issues of Spawn, we start with the covers. [00:41:51] Speaker A: Yes, we do. [00:41:52] Speaker B: I have the. A cover. [00:41:53] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:41:55] Speaker B: By Raymond Gay with Steve Cannon. It's a pretty classic, Al. He's got his half mask going. He's got a big Old Sword. Yeah, he does Necro energy zapping all around. It's pretty cool. [00:42:10] Speaker A: It's. It's great. It's a great cover. Raymond Gay does a good job. [00:42:15] Speaker B: Definitely. [00:42:16] Speaker A: Yeah. I got the B cover that. Danny Earl's cover. And it's another instance of Spawn. Spider man in Off Fire Escape. It's pretty cool. Yeah, it's got, like, all the table telephone wires and it's so funny. [00:42:33] Speaker B: I was playing the new Resident Evil in the opening. Starts in a town in the Midwest, and it looks like the city from seven, and all the buildings really close together. Like it's Japan because it's made by Japanese people. So it's just like, where in the Midwest is this? I don't think any of these developers have been to a town in the Midwest. [00:42:53] Speaker A: Yeah, this does. This does look very west side Story. I can just imagine, like, Maria over here and fucking. What's his name? [00:43:02] Speaker B: Frustrated, like. Just tell them. Yeah, just fucking tell them what's going on and everything will be solved. Talk to each other, for God's sake. [00:43:10] Speaker A: Dramatic irony. We get it. [00:43:13] Speaker B: Story drives me insane. [00:43:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:43:16] Speaker B: Makes me so uncomfortable. [00:43:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:43:18] Speaker B: I'm just like, just tell them the information you have and no one will get killed and nothing bad will happen. [00:43:21] Speaker A: Yeah, they happen. Oh, they don't do it. [00:43:26] Speaker B: They can't do it. [00:43:27] Speaker A: Well, they don't do it in Romeo and Juliet either, so. [00:43:30] Speaker B: I know. [00:43:31] Speaker A: But at least we got a good Baz Luhrmann version of that. You think Baz Luhrmann will make a West side Story? [00:43:36] Speaker B: No, Steven Spielberg just did it. [00:43:38] Speaker A: Yeah, but, I mean, Baz Lurman could. Baz Lurman's got a new movie coming out, Right. Didn't you tell me that he did [00:43:43] Speaker B: a documentary on Earth's concert film of Elvis? And then after that he's filming Joan of Army. [00:43:49] Speaker A: I. I'm. I'm excited to see what he does with Joan of Arc. [00:43:54] Speaker B: I like the millions. Ulkovich1, that was pretty good. The Messenger. [00:43:59] Speaker A: I haven't. I haven't seen that one. [00:44:00] Speaker B: There's a Luc Besson. [00:44:03] Speaker A: I remember. [00:44:04] Speaker B: I remember. I have no idea what the hell is going on. [00:44:05] Speaker A: It came out. [00:44:06] Speaker B: I was a kid. [00:44:06] Speaker A: It came out when I was in high school. Right. Didn't it come out early that I [00:44:11] Speaker B: was in middle school? [00:44:12] Speaker A: I just remember my best friend watched it when he had his wisdom teeth out. So he was just high on some fucking Percocets and he was like, I have no idea what happened. [00:44:22] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a really trippy movie. I think it came out between like 98 and 2000. It was one of the early movies I remember seeing at AMC in Tulsa and that opened like 97 or 98. [00:44:32] Speaker A: Okay, nice. Mila Jovovich. Multi Pass. [00:44:36] Speaker B: I went to the AMC last weekend with Tom and saw Project Hail Mary. [00:44:41] Speaker A: Oh, nice. How was that? [00:44:42] Speaker B: It was good. [00:44:43] Speaker A: That's universally. Everybody I've talked to who've seen it has been hell, yeah. [00:44:48] Speaker B: They also had a themed adult beverage and we got one. It was called the Tau Ceti Cooler. [00:44:53] Speaker A: Ooh, what color was it? [00:44:55] Speaker B: The name of this? Purple. [00:44:56] Speaker A: Ooh, that's good. That's nice. That's nice. I have. One of my. One of my co workers said that the only science thing that she had a problem with was that Ryan Gosling puts two tubes in a centrifuge and he puts them right next to each other so they won't be balanced. [00:45:13] Speaker B: He wears a cat's T shirt at one point. [00:45:15] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:45:17] Speaker B: So that's pretty cool. [00:45:18] Speaker A: Nice. Does he do it very sexy, Ryan Gosling. Yeah, we could. We could. That's like the ideal aging pattern. Johnny, he's a beautiful man. Yeah, he looks good in a Scorpion jacket too. [00:45:33] Speaker B: He does. I was thinking about Drive today. One of the songs Real Hero came on. [00:45:39] Speaker A: The Drive soundtrack is Kick Ass. [00:45:42] Speaker B: Oh, it's good. [00:45:43] Speaker A: Yeah, it's real moody and atmospheric and. Well, Johnny, this moody, atmospheric comic book was brought to us by some people who need some credit. [00:45:55] Speaker B: You gotta give him the credit. [00:45:57] Speaker A: We've got Todd McFarlane doing script plot, Brett Booth doing the art, Adelsa Corona doing the inks, Robert Nugent coloring and stuff. Tom Orzikowski doing the letters. We covered the covers. Todd McFarlane is the creative director and the editor in chief is Thomas, the hardest working man in show business, Healy. Previously in Spawn. Spawn is forced to deal with the fallout of Hell's attack on Earth. [00:46:29] Speaker B: Indeed. [00:46:29] Speaker A: And try to inappropriately kiss Jessica Priest again. You forgot to put that in the previously. Yeah, it's just how many. And. And we start on what feels like it's supposed to be an awkward sort of couple situation between Al and Jessica. And it just made me feel icky. [00:46:48] Speaker B: It did. It made me feel icky too. [00:46:50] Speaker A: Yeah, but like, Al Simmons is sitting in his Luke Cage cosplay staring at his big ass computer screens, and Jessica Priest sneaks up behind him and then he falls back in his chair and he's on the floor and he's like, oh, no, Jessica Priest. I can't get up. I need help. It's like, come on, guys. Get a room. And by get a room, I mean get separate rooms because you guys aren't doing this. [00:47:15] Speaker B: No, it's not happening. [00:47:16] Speaker A: If any. If anybody is. If anybody. If Jessica is dating any of her co workers, it's Mark Rosenberg. Oh, Mark Rosen. When he's feeling himself in that little shirt with the button down. [00:47:28] Speaker B: Oh, I don't see it. I see. She go for Javi. [00:47:33] Speaker A: She would like a bad boy, wouldn't she? She just goes for medieval. She likes a man in a helmet. No. No, she wouldn't go for Medieval. Medieval's too much of a dick. But yeah. So it's just awkward and weird and gross and I think we can. [00:47:52] Speaker B: It's not like gross. It's not like gross. This. [00:47:56] Speaker A: When Al stands up and she puts her hand on his stomach and they have an awkward little laugh. No, no, it's. [00:48:02] Speaker B: It's just. It's just weird that he's forcing this. It doesn't. It doesn't. [00:48:07] Speaker A: That's. [00:48:07] Speaker B: Just drop. Just drop this, Todd. [00:48:09] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm gonna. Let's just get to the meat of the issue is Al Simmons has discovered that a whole bunch of angel in the hell energy has popped up in Florida. [00:48:24] Speaker B: Oh, my God. All these coastlines, these mid sized American cities are getting attacked. Oregon, Florida. [00:48:32] Speaker A: Yeah, so. So he's tracking. He's tracking. He's tracking energies from hell and heaven and they're gonna. They're gonna look for him and they're gonna go Florida. [00:48:42] Speaker B: Florida. [00:48:43] Speaker A: Florida. [00:48:48] Speaker B: I'm excited for my Florida time in the new Grand Theft Auto 6. It's gonna come out. Takes place in Florida. [00:48:55] Speaker A: When. When is. Is it coming out? This year? Is it next year? [00:48:59] Speaker B: Believe this year. [00:49:00] Speaker A: This year. Okay, I believe. Excellent. [00:49:04] Speaker B: It was supposed to come out last year. [00:49:05] Speaker A: I'm gonna. I'm. I'm gonna miss, though. We get blank before Grand Theft Auto 6. I know, they're good jokes. [00:49:12] Speaker B: We're gonna get aliens before Grand Theft Auto 6. [00:49:15] Speaker A: We're gonna get World War 3. [00:49:18] Speaker B: I mean, both. It's all the same. It's all tied together. David. [00:49:21] Speaker A: Yeah, the aliens start World War iii, they'll end it. [00:49:25] Speaker B: That's for sure. [00:49:26] Speaker A: That's true. And hopefully I will die in that so I don't have to deal with any of the fallout. [00:49:31] Speaker B: If those crafts can do what they do in those videos, man, we're. [00:49:35] Speaker A: Yeah. If they got those little ack ack guns and they. And they just turn you into a red skeleton. [00:49:42] Speaker B: Yeah, it might happen. [00:49:44] Speaker A: Or they accidentally turn you into old timey comedian red skeleton. Could you imagine? Terrible. [00:49:50] Speaker B: Red fox. What are they turning to? Red fox. [00:49:52] Speaker A: Red fox. Or what about Red, Green? [00:49:55] Speaker B: Or Roddy Dangerfield? [00:49:58] Speaker A: I can't believe it. I'm losing to a rug. [00:50:02] Speaker B: I get the respect. You ever see Back to School, the movie? He Goes Back to college. [00:50:07] Speaker A: I have, but I haven't seen it in a very long time. [00:50:09] Speaker B: So the house band, Danny Elfin does the soundtrack and the house band at the house party is going to go Boingo. [00:50:13] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:50:14] Speaker B: They SING Dead Man's Party. [00:50:16] Speaker A: Nice. The. The most. The most Rodney Dangerfield thing I remember is from Rover Dangerfield. No, no, actually, I probably rented that [00:50:26] Speaker B: shit from the library. [00:50:27] Speaker A: Is actually from the sequel direct to video for Casper. [00:50:35] Speaker B: What? Casper? Spirited Beginning. [00:50:37] Speaker A: Yeah, that one. Yeah. And Rodney Dangerfield says, my wife is so slow, she takes an hour and a half to watch 60 minutes. That's the most Rodney Dangerfield I remember. That's also. [00:50:51] Speaker B: That's a pretty good joke. [00:50:53] Speaker A: Also. Coincidentally, that's all I remember about Casper Beginning. [00:51:00] Speaker B: I remember being pissed. It was direct the video. Because I loved the first one. It had great special effects. I was like, second was just direct the video. [00:51:05] Speaker A: Yeah, the first one was great. I love the. Oh, it's so gross. [00:51:08] Speaker B: But I love dark. [00:51:09] Speaker A: When the uncles are eating their food and he's trying to sweep up under him. They're like, we're gonna eat that again, you little pip squeak. [00:51:17] Speaker B: Well, like, her dad dies. I remember being like, her dad died. That's crazy. They bring him back to life. [00:51:21] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Because. Because he. Because he. [00:51:22] Speaker B: He falls down a pit. [00:51:23] Speaker A: He's drunk and he falls down an elevator. [00:51:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:27] Speaker A: I was like, what, he goes to happy hour with the boy? [00:51:32] Speaker B: Yeah, with the ghosts. I just remember thinking that was grim when I was a kid and I saw that, I was like, this is weird. Yeah. Devin Sawa comes down. He's right. He's like. [00:51:44] Speaker A: Yep. He's. He's. He's Casper the. And then. And then. And then they get like a reverse Disney's True Love's Kiss where Christina Ricci kisses him and he turns back into a ghost. And then he scares all the partygoers out of the house. [00:52:02] Speaker B: And Dan Aykroyd's in it as a ghostbuster. [00:52:05] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:52:05] Speaker B: Remember there's like a montage where people are going in to deal with the ghost and he goes out, he goes, who you going to call? Somebody else? Like that exorcist from Saturday Night Live or that priest from Saturday Night Live is in it. [00:52:16] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. It's a Good movie. [00:52:18] Speaker B: We just launched Saturday Night Live UK last weekend. [00:52:22] Speaker A: Just Saturday Night Live uk, it just launched last weekend. [00:52:26] Speaker B: The first episode was hosted by Tina Fey. [00:52:29] Speaker A: Is it good? I don't know. [00:52:30] Speaker B: I'm gonna watch that shit. [00:52:32] Speaker A: Let's say the, the original version isn't good. [00:52:35] Speaker B: No, exactly. I don't need to see worse comedy with British accent. [00:52:38] Speaker A: I'm not, I'm not allowed to say that. I mean, God, God love Kenan Thompson. That man knows how to make a chick. [00:52:49] Speaker B: But SNL hasn't been funny for a long time. [00:52:53] Speaker A: I was, I was never an SNL kid. [00:52:54] Speaker B: Last time I tried, every time I try to watch it, I'm like, this is fucking painful. [00:52:59] Speaker A: Yeah. I was always a mad TV kid, but SNL got the better musical guests, so it's true. So I'd always try to catch the musical guest on SNL between the mad TV shenanigans. [00:53:10] Speaker B: You know, I learned today that I didn't know in the early 90s. Before that and like up till the early 90s, the halftime show, the super bowl wasn't a big deal. They did like marching. I mean, you would have loved it. They do marching bands and shit. [00:53:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:22] Speaker B: Then one year fox did a 20 minute in living color special and pulled away 20 million people and not. And like half them didn't go back to the Super Bowl. [00:53:31] Speaker A: Oh, dang. [00:53:32] Speaker B: And so the next year they got Michael Jackson. [00:53:35] Speaker A: Nice. And now it's become a crazy thing. It's crazy, Johnny. [00:53:42] Speaker B: It's huge. [00:53:44] Speaker A: It's insane. [00:53:45] Speaker B: Bad Bunny show is really good. [00:53:49] Speaker A: Somebody did a super cuts of all the time. A super cuts. A super cut of all the time. He goes, hey. And the like the text below it was like trying to play Ocarina of Time. Like, hey, dude, there's this, there's a [00:54:05] Speaker B: show I listen to. It's AM radio show that's on from 1am to 5am I don't listen to it live. [00:54:09] Speaker A: 740K RMG. [00:54:11] Speaker B: No. [00:54:11] Speaker A: Oh, that's what my dad listens to. [00:54:13] Speaker B: It's on WGN in Chicago. But I listen to it on a podcast now. The next day. [00:54:17] Speaker A: Nice. [00:54:17] Speaker B: Well, the other side of midnight. And they just talk about like news and like take callers and they talk about like aliens and just weird shit. But this guy called, a caller called in and goes, hey. The host's name, Lionel was like, hey, Lionel, I just want to say, isn't it weird? Don't you think, Mom, Donnie sounds like Bad Bunny. And he was like, what? He was like, isn't that weird? How they sound the same. He's like. So you called to tell me that you think Mom Donnie, the mayor of New York sounds like bad bunny, like the dame. He's like, yes. And he was like, click on the guy. [00:54:53] Speaker A: You know, Johnny, that might be. That guy might be cooking with something. [00:54:56] Speaker B: He might be onto something there. [00:54:57] Speaker A: He might be. He might be cooking some crack, but [00:55:01] Speaker B: he might be cooking some of that cooking cherry. [00:55:05] Speaker A: That's what he's got. Speaking of cooking Sherry, Johnny, half a world away, we got a feast. [00:55:09] Speaker B: Look at this. [00:55:09] Speaker A: Look at this. There's a whole roast. Pig is the greatest chandelier of all time. [00:55:17] Speaker B: Yeah. What's a dead Fleabiacs? [00:55:19] Speaker A: It's. It's Sin hosting that man that he stole from his bed a couple issues ago that he didn't he hire Tremor to do that. And Tremor is in the other issue now. Who. Who pulled this? Who pulled this man out of his bed? [00:55:34] Speaker B: I don't remember. [00:55:34] Speaker A: Well, anyway, so this guy's like, you're. You're from hell. You know, we don't need to eat. And Sin's like, yeah, but you need to. You need to act like a human. And the first thing you got to do for that is learn how to fucking eat. [00:55:47] Speaker B: I know the matrix is telling me my steak is juicy and delicious. [00:55:51] Speaker A: Why, oh, why didn't I take the blue bell? [00:55:54] Speaker B: And then it does like a big spread where we're going to Sin's mind. He's thinking about. He's like, we gotta get not bullshit back. So we got this imposter on the throne. [00:56:03] Speaker A: Yeah. And it's like, he's like the Violator. The violator is gonna try to twist things to his own end. Because even. Even back when I was Hell's first. Hell's first resident and I got forcibly assigned to work with the violator on hell's greatest weapon. He just wanted it for himself. So we need. We need the boss. The one man to whom we can all answer to come back. [00:56:29] Speaker B: He's like, in this. Oh, my God. How dare you. [00:56:31] Speaker A: Yeah, get this. [00:56:33] Speaker B: Call her a sex worker, for God's sake. [00:56:35] Speaker A: Yeah. All this profession. [00:56:38] Speaker B: Worker who sits on the throne must be the first to fall. [00:56:41] Speaker A: Yeah. And then he. He. He forced chokes. He force chokes this guy. So that way. He's. [00:56:47] Speaker B: One time I worked at a restaurant. It was a Margaritaville Navy Pier. We were opening it. Our GM was trying to give us inspirational speech. Right before he opened. He was like, I believe in this profession. It's one. It's the oldest Profession. And I was like, what? Being a waiter, it's not. Came out like the 1800s. Like, it wasn't a thing to like, trains exist. And I was like, so confused why he said that. [00:57:08] Speaker A: Johnny. I think, I think. I think there was a secondary job you were supposed to be doing. [00:57:13] Speaker B: I guess you weren't supposed to be [00:57:16] Speaker A: taking their drink orders. Johnny. [00:57:18] Speaker B: I was just. I was like. I saw a museum exhibit on this because the Art Institute did a great installation or like, feature called, like, Food and Art. And it was all about the history of food and art through art. And like, yeah, restaurants didn't start popping out to like, there were kitchens attached to like trains and hotels and stuff. But that's like really the birth of the restaurant and like waiters and stuff. [00:57:44] Speaker A: Yeah. Nice. Because I guess. I guess it is kind of a birth of the leisure. Having leisure time would kind of birth the ability to go somewhere else and kind of be waited upon. [00:57:57] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what I think. All this TSA nonsense, just conspiracy theory to get us to the airport early to spend more money, probably on beer and burgers and. [00:58:07] Speaker A: And that, that sushi that for some reason everybody continues to buy, even though there's. Everybody has a story of. Well, I had the airport sushi. [00:58:18] Speaker B: I just use that when I wanted. I use that when I called at work one time I said I had Costco sushi. I did, and it was fine, but I just said I was sick because I didn't want to go to work. Yeah, I've only done it like twice in my life. [00:58:28] Speaker A: Nice. All right. I told. [00:58:31] Speaker B: I faked sick at school, going to school in time. So I wanted to sit here and play gamecube. [00:58:35] Speaker A: Nice. [00:58:36] Speaker B: I was like. I threw up. And I was like, okay. [00:58:39] Speaker A: I was. I wasn't allowed. I wasn't allowed. I like, no, no. I mean like, like, unless I was like actively, actively infectious. Nah, I'm going. I had to go to school sick. There was no. There was no recourse. Nobody could stay home with me. There was nowhere else I could go. It was either go to. If. If I was sick enough, I got to sleep in the back of the pharmacy where my mom worked. But other than that, you gotta. You gotta go to school, buster. Either that or it was leave a 6 year old 45 minutes away from the next person in the world. So you're gonna. [00:59:22] Speaker B: Probably would have been. Exactly. [00:59:23] Speaker A: Aliens needs must. Yeah. Or like, I would have run away and joined the cows who were getting abducted by aliens. Yeah, I want to go with the cows. Yep. Force choking this guy. Sin does. And it forces him to turn into his full hell being. We now that know that he was second in power only to Malbolia. [00:59:49] Speaker B: He's a big, like, goat man thing with, like, four arms. Yeah. [00:59:55] Speaker A: Which Sin very quickly takes two of. [00:59:58] Speaker B: He just goes. It rips off two of his arms. [01:00:01] Speaker A: It was like, hey, if you listen to me, or else you're gonna lose some more arms. It was like, I already. I already got a team together. We're gonna bring back Melbolsia. [01:00:10] Speaker B: Then we get a whole bunch of new Todd McFarlane wackos. [01:00:12] Speaker A: Yeah. That are like, literally these. These two right here are straight up Cenobites. [01:00:17] Speaker B: Johnny, how many teams do we need in this damn universe? I feel like every issue Tommy Farland does, he creates a new team and they usually all die or just disappear. [01:00:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Where'd that fucking he man and Battle Cat go, Dude? [01:00:30] Speaker B: I don't know. That was a weird journey. [01:00:33] Speaker A: That was a weird journey. Then we cut to NATO headquarters in Brussels and we have a council warning of, like, talking about these super beings and what they're supposed to do with them. And this doesn't really go anywhere. There's one person saying, we don't need to worry about and somebody else saying, we need to worry about this. That's. That's it. [01:01:00] Speaker B: Also, this is the third or fourth time in these two issues we've had the note that says issues 364 through 6368. [01:01:06] Speaker A: Yeah. Because that's when Mr. Oogie, Mr. Mr. Hello. Boogie. Attacked Oregon. [01:01:16] Speaker B: Oregon. [01:01:17] Speaker A: Oregon. And then we get the pundits again, Johnny. And Infobus man is looking like he's about to become the Riddler. [01:01:24] Speaker B: Yeah, he looks like the Riddler, dude. They're kind of relaying the same information they did in the Gunslinger. [01:01:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:01:34] Speaker B: A lot of death. Who's gonna protect us? What do we do? [01:01:37] Speaker A: Yeah. Brock the Shock's like, it's time to get serious, you guys. We're probably gonna die. This is seriously. [01:01:45] Speaker B: They announce aliens. The government does that. Tom McFarlanel worked at into spawn 100%. Maybe aliens are just demons. Nephilim de Gin. Gin. Japanese culture. [01:02:02] Speaker A: Aren't djinns like Persian? [01:02:04] Speaker B: I don't fucking know. I can't remember. [01:02:06] Speaker A: I think. I think. [01:02:07] Speaker B: I think. [01:02:07] Speaker A: Gin, you're. Oh, fuck. What's the. Because there's a name for the creatures. Like the. The mythical creatures from Japan. What are they called? What are they called? Because they got like, the. The turtle guys that have the bowl on top of their head. That's filled with a liquid. And the way that you defeat them is by getting them to tilt their head so the liquid falls out. Oh, there's another one that looks like a. A voluptuous woman bending over and they got the buttocks. And then if she gets too close, turns into a mouth. [01:02:41] Speaker B: Oh, my God. I'd be eating. [01:02:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:02:44] Speaker B: Every time I see a butt, I just, like, start walking towards it. [01:02:47] Speaker A: I would. I would. I would not survive. What are they called? Fuck. Not Kaiju. Those are the big guys. Not Kanji. Those are the symbols. [01:02:59] Speaker B: So we cut to Central Park. Someone's sitting there on a bench. [01:03:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:03:06] Speaker B: And then a guy. [01:03:07] Speaker A: And then Inspector. Inspector Gadget comes up. [01:03:11] Speaker B: Inspector Detector here comes up. What's Inspector Detector from? What is that? It's an anime. [01:03:18] Speaker A: Is that from Lupin? [01:03:21] Speaker B: No. So Speed Racer. I should have known. [01:03:24] Speaker A: Speed Racer, Inspector Detector, he's the. [01:03:27] Speaker B: He's the private eye of Government Guy and Speed Racer. [01:03:30] Speaker A: Nice. [01:03:32] Speaker B: Are you adding the Wakashi Speed Racer to your queue to watch? [01:03:35] Speaker A: I. I did not. I did not watch. [01:03:37] Speaker B: I thought that's what you're doing right now. [01:03:39] Speaker A: No, I just remembered that the Koopa. The Koopa troopers from Mario are based off of the. Some of those. Those Japanese mythical beings. And I was trying to see if I could figure out what it was, but no, it's not. It's not happening. Tried to backdoor it, and it didn't backdoor Joanie. But yes, turns out it's Spawn sitting on this bench talking to. Fucking the questions. It's the question. Only with an actual face. [01:04:11] Speaker B: And he's very heavily implied to be from the Trump administration. [01:04:14] Speaker A: Yes. [01:04:15] Speaker B: Which I thought was hilarious because he's like, I know your president doesn't like being bullied. [01:04:20] Speaker A: And yeah, he's like, your. [01:04:22] Speaker B: Your administration doesn't like illegal visitors very much. Got him. [01:04:26] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, walks away and says, we'll be in touch. And then as. As this guy walks away, somebody else comes up. And I was like, ah, the reporter. [01:04:35] Speaker B: Yeah, you gotta set up your dates. You gotta stagger a little bit, Al. You don't want one guy running into the other guys. Like, give him like 20 minutes in between. [01:04:42] Speaker A: Yeah. Geez. Get good a pretty breather or something. And so then we cut to the northern wilderness of Canada. Ah, Tom McFarlane knows about the northern wilderness of Canada. Yes. And we've got just a complete horror show, Johnny. It's. It is an operating room where there's, you know, all manner of humans and angels and hell beasts tearing apart some vampires. Johnny. They're trying to figure out what's going on. They got. They got a lady vampire on one side. They got a man bat vampire on the other side. They're cutting off pieces. They're taken out. [01:05:19] Speaker B: Looks like Guinea Pig up in here. You ever heard of Guinea Pig? It's a Japanese horror movie. Charlie Sheen thought it was real and called the FBI on it, but it's like a woman getting vivisected for, like, two hours, basically. Horrifying missing clips. [01:05:34] Speaker A: I don't think. I don't think I wanna. [01:05:36] Speaker B: No, I wouldn't recommend watching it, but it basically looks like this. [01:05:41] Speaker A: But they're. [01:05:42] Speaker B: They're apparently good special effects. [01:05:43] Speaker A: Ah, must be. But they're trying to figure out what makes vampires not die. And so they're. They're, like, trying to take them down to the very essence of what they are. So they cut the. [01:05:57] Speaker B: Looks like Jeffrey Epstein's kitchen cooking up some humans. [01:06:04] Speaker A: Cooking up some humans. And then they're interrupted by one Mr. Al Simmons, who introduces himself. You all know who I am, what I'm capable of, so put down your tools. And then he's just like. He's just like, hey, hold. Bring one of those. Bring one of those tables over here. I'm gonna hop off. [01:06:23] Speaker B: Yeah, I'll get some surgery here. [01:06:25] Speaker A: It's like those wings you got over there. Put them on me. Put those wings on me. Wings. [01:06:29] Speaker B: Now another, like, okay. He did. Gunslinger got wings. Like, what's the deal giving people wings? [01:06:35] Speaker A: But gunslinger got angel wings, so they're poisoning him. But these are bat wings. These are vampire wings. [01:06:40] Speaker B: So I'm saying Tom McFarland's, like, running over the same ground. [01:06:43] Speaker A: He. He made the molds for those redeemers and the. Yeah, yeah. He wants to make more action figures. [01:06:54] Speaker B: Give him wings on. Put a wing on it. [01:06:55] Speaker A: Yeah. He's like. He's like, you're not gonna sedate me, so I'm gonna fucking feel this. And none of you are trained to fight. I like that. This surgery only takes 72 minutes. [01:07:08] Speaker B: I know. [01:07:08] Speaker A: 72 minutes. [01:07:13] Speaker B: Spawn stands up and he's. [01:07:15] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah. [01:07:18] Speaker B: He says, I rescue a symbiote Hell spawn in the eternity of a vampire. Lethal combination that will soon become known as the wings of damnation. [01:07:27] Speaker A: I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure it's a, like, epic. Epic power metal song by Symphony X or something. [01:07:37] Speaker B: Okay. [01:07:39] Speaker A: Yeah. Spawns looking pretty dope, though. Look at that. It's a hell of a splash page. [01:07:44] Speaker B: His surgery worked. [01:07:46] Speaker A: It sure did. It did something Give me those wings. [01:07:50] Speaker B: That's so funny. What a. What a wild Shotgun against the Wall. [01:07:57] Speaker A: What the. Is happening in an enjoyable way, though. We get the necroplasm meter 4165. We'll get spawning Ground presents. Some toy art. [01:08:07] Speaker B: We got a. Yeah, a lot of good toy art. [01:08:10] Speaker A: I like that. This first one has a little kitty. [01:08:13] Speaker B: Yes. [01:08:14] Speaker A: By the King collector. [01:08:17] Speaker B: I like the cape on the Calcium Father one. [01:08:20] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that's real good. That fabricy cape. Yeah. Some good action figure art. Any more Sponge Universe, Johnny? [01:08:28] Speaker B: I let you say it that time. [01:08:29] Speaker A: Yeah, you sure did. [01:08:32] Speaker B: Yes. [01:08:32] Speaker A: Don't miss these ongoing titles. We got this Core 4 there. Got the Image Classics AD and the Warhammer 40K Space Marines and Nazi Officer action figures. [01:08:46] Speaker B: Love it. Buy one for your. Buy two for your kids. [01:08:50] Speaker A: Buy them a whole lot. And that is spawn 369. Johnny. [01:08:54] Speaker B: Nice. [01:08:55] Speaker A: Nice and oddly quiet tonight. I got a house full of dogs and they've not been much of a menace tonight. [01:09:01] Speaker B: I know. What the hell happened? [01:09:02] Speaker A: I don't know. So, Johnny, even though there's an absence of dog, I think it's time that we rate these puppies. [01:09:10] Speaker B: It's time to rate the puppies. First up, we have. Gunslinger 48. Is a kind of a hodgepodge as well. Just like kind of move along the story. Now that we're done with the whole Godson's daughter thing, we're going back to the Linda thread. We don't see Linda. There's a lot about Linda. [01:09:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:09:30] Speaker B: Wyatt's got to make that money, pay those bills, fixing those cars, hire. [01:09:36] Speaker A: Hire young boys from the neighborhood to give them a job to keep them off the streets. [01:09:41] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, I always. We always. Dog on the Todd Father. I like these issues. They're fun. They're just so wild and just unpredictable. [01:09:48] Speaker A: They don't make any sense. [01:09:49] Speaker B: I guess that's part of the fun of it. But I'm gonna give this Three Tremors chilling in an alley. [01:09:56] Speaker A: Hell yeah. [01:09:57] Speaker B: Out of five. [01:09:58] Speaker A: It's a good score. It's a good score. I. I agree. It's. It's still that same banana balls action that we came. [01:10:05] Speaker B: 2. [01:10:05] Speaker A: Gunslinger 4. I just really wish it would find a plot to follow. [01:10:10] Speaker B: American Schultz is taking over. So. Yeah, that'll help a lot. [01:10:14] Speaker A: That'll. That'll help a lot. Oh, man, that'll be real good. Oh, yeah, those. Those announcements were real nice. It's a lot of aimless one. Wonderful fun. But you know, because we get like [01:10:29] Speaker B: wrap up from the Spawn main title Stuff in this, we get a recap of everything that's happened so far. Kind of. [01:10:35] Speaker A: Yeah, we get. [01:10:36] Speaker B: We get him curing a woman's mother from cancer so she'll defend Linda in court. [01:10:41] Speaker A: Yeah, and then we get gun to the face to wake up an old man. I don't know. It's fun. Carlo Barbera is still kicking ass. Oh, yeah. [01:10:50] Speaker B: Art's great. [01:10:51] Speaker A: I'm gonna give it. I'm gonna give it three. Three fully recovered mothers making breakfast and then talking to. How? [01:10:59] Speaker B: Talking like old friends. What are they talking like movies? What the fuck are they talking about? Horses. The news. I don't think I've ever hear about Nancy Guthrie. No one's found her yet. Isn't that crazy? [01:11:15] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know, Johnny. You'd have to ask the Todd father. Maybe he'll make a whole series about just what they talked about at breakfast. [01:11:23] Speaker B: The gunslinger breakfast. [01:11:24] Speaker A: Maybe he'll. Maybe he'll write a black box plot play about the breakfast between Erica Javi and her mother. Yeah, I'd watch. I'd watch that. That's compelling. That's kitchen sink drama right there. [01:11:42] Speaker B: Our second issue today was mainline spawn 369, another hodgepodge. It starts with a weird flirty scene with Al and Jessica. [01:11:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:11:54] Speaker B: And then we get some sin, you know, doing some stuff. Building another team of wackos. Yeah, a little bit at the NATO headquarters. Yeah, it was mean people in Central park, some clandestine. And then we go to a black ops site in Canada where aliens and demons and humans are doing experiments on vampires, and Spawn decides he's gonna get some wings. He could have just flown southwest as a child. They would have given him some wings. [01:12:24] Speaker A: Or had a Red Bull. [01:12:26] Speaker B: Yeah, he had Red Bull, too. What's up with that? [01:12:29] Speaker A: I don't know. [01:12:31] Speaker B: That's his cell phone. I thought. I thought he has his Red Bull in his hand. [01:12:34] Speaker A: No, no, he could have had. He could have had a Red Bull and it would have given him wings. [01:12:38] Speaker B: Oh, right. They give you wings. Those commercials are weird. [01:12:41] Speaker A: Yeah, they are. They're. [01:12:43] Speaker B: They're unsettling for some reason, to me, they're very. [01:12:46] Speaker A: Yeah, it happens. [01:12:50] Speaker B: Red Bull's a British product. [01:12:52] Speaker A: It is. Started in Britain. [01:12:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:12:55] Speaker A: Nice. Well, you know who didn't start in Britain? Todd McFarlane started in Canada. [01:13:01] Speaker B: That's true. But. Yeah, I mean, it was wacky. I'm here for it. But it kind of treads the same ground as that gunslinger with the pundits. [01:13:12] Speaker A: It's like it's like the exact same issue with the ingredients swapped out. [01:13:17] Speaker B: Yeah, it's interesting. [01:13:18] Speaker A: It's like that. That low quality argument against Mexican food where it's all the same three ingredients in different form factors. [01:13:26] Speaker B: But I'm also gonna give this three out of five, and I'm gonna give it three roast pigs. [01:13:33] Speaker A: Hell yeah. The Brett Booth art in this issue is fan. [01:13:37] Speaker B: Also, a lot of sins. Just eating a leg of a pig. He's eating a ham. [01:13:39] Speaker A: Hockey. Yeah. I mean, he's a man of incredible tastes, Johnny. He knows what he likes. He likes that strawberry ripple. [01:13:48] Speaker B: Strawberry ripple with some fucking ham hock. [01:13:50] Speaker A: Yeah, man. Nothing's. Nothing's better than going to the. Like the grocery store near me sells the smoked hard to eat meat bits. And there's nothing better than just getting drunk and going to the fridge and being like, oh, I got smoked rib tips. Hell yeah. They're good as hell, Johnny. I can't believe we didn't talk about Al Simmons butt. He's doing the Terry. [01:14:10] Speaker B: Oh, he's showing off his butt. That's why Jessica Priest was hitting on him. [01:14:15] Speaker A: Brett Boothar's is awesome. It's wackadoo. Kind of doesn't know what it's doing, so I'll be excited once it hits a groove and actually goes somewhere. But it was fun. So I'll give it three of the best chandeliers you've ever seen. Out of five. Behold. [01:14:32] Speaker B: She's singing to bring down the chandelier lot. [01:14:37] Speaker A: 665. [01:14:38] Speaker B: That's the other thing that sucks about the movies. They move the chandelier to the end. So it's just like the Phantom does nothing. Disappears for a month and then comes back. It doesn't make any sense. [01:14:49] Speaker A: Well, you know, it does make sense, Johnny. [01:14:52] Speaker B: Our friends on Instagram. [01:14:53] Speaker A: Our friends on Instagram. And this week, we would like to shout out one dark nerd. It is Nomadic Underscore. Nerd. Underscore Corner. Not Kerner Corner. Nomadic Nerd Corner. [01:15:08] Speaker B: Okay. [01:15:09] Speaker A: He has a hell of a Spawn collection, Johnny. He's got action figures, he's got Spawn comics, he's got 40k figures. He also has some Star wars stuff thrown in for good measure. So it's like kind of a visual representation of what this podcast is where it's ostensibly about Spawn, but any. Any excuse to talk about Star Wars. And it's gonna happen. [01:15:32] Speaker B: It's gonna happen. [01:15:33] Speaker A: It's gonna happen. Yeah, go ahead and give him a follow. And while you're on the Internet, you know, on Instagram, give us A follow. We're regarding Spawn Pod. [01:15:45] Speaker B: Hit us up with an email regarding spawnpodmail.com. [01:15:48] Speaker A: yes, yes, yes. And if you would like to try to win a 1993 violated TPP, just send us an email and say, hey, I want that. And you know, if you convince us, we'll send it to you. It's a good ass. It's a good ass miniseries. You don't even have to. You don't even have to fight Tiny Spawny for it because he already has a copy he gave up. It's like. It's a. It's a gift from both us and Tiny Spawny. It's the gift that keeps on giving in a way. You know what else is the gift that keeps on giving, Johnny? [01:16:22] Speaker B: Our music. [01:16:22] Speaker A: The music we got from Lonnie Bones. It's great. Google him. Lonnie Bones music. It's fantastic. You know what else is fantastic, Johnny? [01:16:32] Speaker B: More Spawn. [01:16:33] Speaker A: More Spawn. Well, specifically doing this podcast with you, my buddy J. And so why don't we do. Why don't we do this again in a week and read a couple more issues from Spawn's universe? [01:16:45] Speaker B: Sounds good to me. [01:16:46] Speaker A: You want to do. We'll call it the S episode. The S. Because why don't we do scorch number 46 and the curse of Shirley Johnson number two. Okay. Oh, yeah. Good couple of comics. [01:17:03] Speaker B: Sound like the progeny. [01:17:04] Speaker A: I do sound like the progeny. It's. It's infectious. It's fun. It's fun to do. To just put S's in everywhere. [01:17:12] Speaker B: Sounds like a snake. [01:17:13] Speaker A: Dragon. Dragon. I don't do the tongue thing. Oh, yeah. Oh, man. Johnny, you know what? I just rewatched a couple nights ago because I wanted something to fall asleep to, and it was fantastic. [01:17:27] Speaker B: Mulan Shrek. Oh, my God. [01:17:30] Speaker A: Shrek is a good goddamn movie. [01:17:32] Speaker B: I. Oh, my God. [01:17:34] Speaker A: I hadn't seen it in years. It's so good. Go fucking watch Shrek. [01:17:41] Speaker B: You want to see that hot ass dragon. [01:17:43] Speaker A: Oh, man, I could be. I could be taken away to a dungeon. [01:17:49] Speaker B: Okay. [01:17:50] Speaker A: Get smaugged. Smoke me, Mommy. [01:17:54] Speaker B: Oh, boy. [01:17:55] Speaker A: I should stop talking. Johnny, I should say nothing more than may the scorched be with you. [01:18:00] Speaker B: And also with you. David. David wants to. A dragon. [01:18:06] Speaker A: Just imagine how cute those little kids would be. It would just be me. Little me's with little wings. Actually, that might be even more frightening than I'm imagining. [01:18:15] Speaker B: That's frightening. [01:18:16] Speaker A: That's. That's. Although Donkey and Dragon's children are pretty cute. [01:18:22] Speaker B: Yeah, they're pretty cute. [01:18:23] Speaker A: I can just imagine that I would probably get destroyed in the process, and then I would be blissfully free of any worries or cares or stresses. So that's. That's fine. [01:18:33] Speaker B: That's sad. [01:18:34] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, that's part of. That's part of the experience, Johnny, is you also leave sadness behind. [01:18:42] Speaker B: I don't know what else to say. [01:18:46] Speaker A: Well, we started on a downer note. Might as well have a upbeat downer note. [01:18:50] Speaker B: Yeah, we started on death, and now non existence is better than existence. So that's. That's what you want for your Comedy Spawn podcast? [01:19:04] Speaker A: Hey, I mean, as long as I come back next week, that's all that matters, right? [01:19:12] Speaker B: That's what they say. [01:19:29] Speaker A: Sam.