Episode 174 - Deadly Tales Of The Gunslinger 11 and Gunslinger 49!

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Ah, more guests. This is turning out to be quite the gathering, and you're more than welcome to come on in and join the party. Foreign. And welcome to the Malibu. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast. I'm your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:54] Speaker B: And I'm your co host, David Williams. And damn, Johnny, that was high zoom. The zoom. [00:01:00] Speaker A: I tried it. I was gonna. I turned it high. I went high because I was thinking of Mario jumping high. [00:01:07] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:01:09] Speaker A: Galaxy 2. [00:01:10] Speaker B: How was that? Galaxy 2, whatever it is. [00:01:14] Speaker A: Mario 2. The Galaxy Mario. Too cold. The Galaxy. [00:01:17] Speaker B: The Galaxying. How was it? I've heard that it's a fun. I've heard that it's a fun movie. [00:01:22] Speaker A: That it is. [00:01:23] Speaker B: Some people are overanalyzing it. [00:01:25] Speaker A: Yeah, they are. It's fun. I had a great time. Hour and a half. [00:01:28] Speaker B: How was Rosalina? I fucking love Rosalina. [00:01:30] Speaker A: I like Rosalina. She was great. [00:01:32] Speaker B: She's the mother of the stars. She's a badass. [00:01:35] Speaker A: Are you gonna love it? The first one? I thought it was better than the first. [00:01:38] Speaker B: Nice. I have a friend who said their favorite part was the Star Fox cameo. Spoiler alert. [00:01:45] Speaker A: That's fine. They released a poster. I got spoiled by the Internet before I even saw it. They were nice on a headline from ign. I was like, what the. Like, star Fox is confirmed. It's in the Mario movie. And I was like, what? [00:01:59] Speaker B: How was. How was Donald. Donald Glover's turn as Yoshi? Did he do a good job? [00:02:05] Speaker A: He's great. He didn't say a lot of stuff, but he. [00:02:07] Speaker B: I'm glad Yoshi doesn't say a lot of stuff. [00:02:12] Speaker A: I was more impressed by Benny Safdie, one of the Safdie brothers. He's a director. [00:02:17] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:02:17] Speaker A: But he did the voice of Bowser Jr. Oh, nice. [00:02:21] Speaker B: Nice. [00:02:22] Speaker A: It was fun. [00:02:23] Speaker B: Was. Is there. Is there a breakout viral song, like, from the first one? [00:02:27] Speaker A: No, that's what I was like, what? There's no song. They flirt with it. It's like he's gonna go into a song and they don't do it. I was so confused by that. I was really confused why I didn't have another song. [00:02:38] Speaker B: It was great. I mean, still stuck in my head. [00:02:42] Speaker A: I saw a headline that Jack Black was jealous after when I'm just K. Got nominated for an Oscar. He's like, I've seen so many songs like that in movies. [00:02:54] Speaker B: That's kind of the thing. Yeah, yeah. But I mean, Ryan Gosling and everything. [00:03:00] Speaker A: I mean, he was. He was being playful. He was like, yeah, I Was jealous. [00:03:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:03:05] Speaker A: Jack Black. I don't think he's bad. I don't think he's on the Epstein list or nothing. [00:03:08] Speaker B: No, no, he's. He's a fun guy. [00:03:11] Speaker A: Yeah. It seems like he really enjoys. [00:03:13] Speaker B: Do we talk about last week? Did I mention that I saw Anaconda and it was fun? [00:03:17] Speaker A: No, you didn't mention. [00:03:18] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I watched Anaconda, and it's fun as hell. [00:03:21] Speaker A: Okay. [00:03:24] Speaker B: It's a really good. You just. You just shut your brain off and you watch it, and you have a good time. That's good. It doesn't think too hard about itself, and you shouldn't think too hard about it either. [00:03:35] Speaker A: Yeah, I didn't think too hard about Mario. I saw with Tom and James and Rachel, and we just had a great time. [00:03:42] Speaker B: Nice. [00:03:42] Speaker A: And I know it's like, whatever. It's like, for. It's like dangling keys in front of me. Whatever they say, like, on the reviews. And I'm like, okay, it's. Let's just chill out a little bit. It's. [00:03:50] Speaker B: It's entertainment. Were you entertained? That is. That is the bar we're trying to clear here. [00:03:55] Speaker A: Dude, it's so funny. I was talking to my dad, and he was laughing at me. So seeing this Mario movie, he's like, are you gonna be. He has no understanding of, like, modern pop culture. She was like, you guys think you. The four of you, will be the only childless adults there? And I was absolutely not. There's no. I can tell you right now. There's 12 tickets sold to the show. At its bottom, the others are childless adults about my age. He was like, I can't believe that. I don't believe you. And I called him after, and I was like, yeah, yeah. He was confused by it. I had to explain. It was like, dad, my first memory is playing the nes. I've played every Mario, almost every Mario game that's ever existed. I even played, like, Mario is missing or whatever. Like. Like, I've grown up with this guy, like, my whole life, never set him down. And, like, it's. It's good. And it was just funny because, you know, I work a lot. I have a job that requires a lot of hours and haven't played as much video game as I did in my previous job. And I was like, dad, you play more video games than me. Because he plays, like. He plays, like, I don't know, Candy Crush or King Richard. What's it called? Royal Kingdom. [00:04:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:00] Speaker A: Have you seen those commercials? [00:05:02] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:05:03] Speaker A: They're like. They're like, we gotta help King Richard and his family. Why they always mention his family in those commercials. [00:05:09] Speaker B: I don't know if we're gonna care. [00:05:10] Speaker A: Like, oh, I gotta know about his family. [00:05:12] Speaker B: But you can play them. You can play them offline. And there's no ads, so that's. [00:05:16] Speaker A: Yeah, there's no ads. I play it when I'm getting my coffee, like, Rob Lowe. [00:05:19] Speaker B: My mom. My mom plays, like, 17 different versions of Wordle every day. And it's like, mom, I don't. I don't need to hear about your wordle today. I'm glad that it helps you and it's good for you, but I don't. I don't need to know what the word award today was. I don't need to know what kakamimi words you put in there. That it accepted. That's. [00:05:39] Speaker A: That's fine. So I was talking to my dad, and I was like, you play more video games than I do now. It's working so much. He was like, what are you talking about? I was like, you play that. I see you, like, we watch TV together, and you'll just start playing Candy Crush or whatever. He was like, that's not a video game. I was like, what would you consider it? Did he pause for, like, five seconds? He goes, entertainment. I was like, that's a video game. And I wanted to say it's a shitty video game, but it is a video game. You could be playing good video. [00:06:10] Speaker B: Oh, I think that's a. It's a ringing endorsement. Johnny's dad. [00:06:14] Speaker A: It's entertainment. Then I blew his mind when I told that video games were more than movies. Like, what, the last? Like, two or. They surpassed him a few years ago, I think. [00:06:22] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, that's. They're much more interactive and less. [00:06:27] Speaker A: Well, I think. And I think Covid. Really? [00:06:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:30] Speaker A: A lot of people got in the games and didn't before. [00:06:33] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. It's always. It's always been. It's always been a large contingent. It's just never been seen as being as forward as it is. It's always been. It's always been more of a novelty than, like, main title, and now it's Main Title. [00:06:49] Speaker A: But now you can make, like, a game that's super niche, and the Internet will find it. Like, you make, like. I'm sure they got, like, surgical or whatever, you know, Dave is Job simulator, the game. [00:07:00] Speaker B: He's gonna. He's gonna type a. He's gonna type up a safe. A safe travel route for hazardous materials. He's Gonna send a box full of dry ice. [00:07:09] Speaker A: You should make it to a game. [00:07:11] Speaker B: Somebody would fucking play it. Somebody would spend way more time playing that than I actually spend at my actual job. And that's like trucker simulators. Trucker simulators are huge. [00:07:21] Speaker A: I know. They look cool. [00:07:23] Speaker B: Yeah. And there are people who like, spend buku bucks on like rigs. [00:07:28] Speaker A: Yeah, I've seen it. You know, it's overdue for a video game, though. [00:07:32] Speaker B: What's that? [00:07:33] Speaker A: Sponsor Universe. [00:07:34] Speaker B: Sponsor universe? Yeah. [00:07:35] Speaker A: Give us a Smash Brothers. I've been playing Smash Brothers since Mario. We need a Spawns Universe. Smash Brothers? [00:07:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Or just. Just Mortal Kombat Spawn edition. It's just all the different Spawn characters. [00:07:47] Speaker A: Yeah, but it's so clunky. It sounds fun and wacky. I like Smash Brothers better just. [00:07:52] Speaker B: Just that since there's already an inroad to. [00:07:55] Speaker A: It would be more. You're right though. It would be Mortal Kombat Spawner exists in Mortal Kombat. Spawn has his toe. He's like a. He's like a cameo in video games now. Yeah, I'm saying he needs his own game. [00:08:07] Speaker B: Yeah, he does need his own game. [00:08:10] Speaker A: But not just him. I want the plethora of characters. Like maybe. And people love Red Dead Redemption. [00:08:16] Speaker B: There's to be like an MMORPG of Spawn's universe. [00:08:20] Speaker A: No, those games suck. They're boring. You could be playing an mmorpg. [00:08:25] Speaker B: No, they're boring. [00:08:27] Speaker A: I think they're boring. [00:08:29] Speaker B: You could be. They could be. Oh, it could be like an old school, like Mario world style thing where there's like different worlds. Like there's the western world and you play around with the western stuff. And then there's the. The hell proper world. And you got like the curse of Shirley Johnson shit. And you got like fucking Sin and Malbolia and Nyx now. [00:08:51] Speaker A: I like that camera idea. See, what I'm saying is what is one of those popular and most well regarded video games of all time? What is Redemption two? [00:09:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:09:00] Speaker A: So think about it. [00:09:01] Speaker B: And they. They could make it. They can make it with like the horse. The. The. The horse mechanics where if your K7 Letha Diesel it, it's dead forever. We're not getting that symbiote. So back at all you hit zero necroplasm. [00:09:17] Speaker A: That'd be a really weird game. [00:09:21] Speaker B: You gotta keep that. You gotta keep that meter up. None of this. None of this. Todd McFarlane spottle never hit zero on his power meter. And he hits it 14 times. [00:09:30] Speaker A: Is it like two or three times? [00:09:32] Speaker B: Yeah, that's still more than he said it was going to. [00:09:36] Speaker A: What I'm saying, David, is Gunslinger Swan. Specifically. Gunslinger Swan would make a good video. [00:09:43] Speaker B: Yeah, it would. That would be good as hell. You could. You could reskin the old lucasarts Outlaws game with Javi. [00:09:51] Speaker A: Oh, my God, I forgot about that game. Yeah. That's fun. The game was fun. [00:09:55] Speaker B: That was fun game. Yeah. The western precursor to Dark Forces. [00:09:59] Speaker A: Did you play Dark Forces? [00:10:00] Speaker B: I did play Dark. I was very bad at Dark Forces. [00:10:03] Speaker A: It was fun, though. [00:10:04] Speaker B: It was. There was kind of scary. Yeah. There was one level like. There was like a trash moat level that I just could never get past because I could never find the door I was supposed to go in. [00:10:14] Speaker A: That's what old video games were like before the Internet. You couldn't look it up. [00:10:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:18] Speaker A: Yeah. You ever have Rebel Assault? [00:10:22] Speaker B: No, I never played Rebel Assault. [00:10:24] Speaker A: Was it good play Fate of Atlantis? [00:10:28] Speaker B: Nope. [00:10:29] Speaker A: It was like. It was like Monkey island, but it was Indiana Jones, you know, that. [00:10:34] Speaker B: I don't think I. I might have at one point, but right now it's. [00:10:37] Speaker A: It's called Indiana Jones the Fate of Atlantis. It's basically the monkeys Monkey island style gameplay, but it's Indiana Jones story. [00:10:44] Speaker B: I think it's about time for a new Monkey island game. [00:10:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:50] Speaker B: Is there. Is there an appetite for that for anybody other than me? [00:10:52] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, Tim Schaefer went on to his form double fine like they're beloved. [00:11:01] Speaker B: I just. I just like silly goof em ups. [00:11:04] Speaker A: You just like silly goof em ups? [00:11:05] Speaker B: Just like silly goof em ups. That's all. That's all that game is. [00:11:08] Speaker A: The Jones was a little more serious, I think. [00:11:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. I was just thinking of the. The. The. The rhyming joke battles you have to do in those games where somebody says a setup and you have to choose the correct punchline or else you lose. [00:11:30] Speaker A: That's fun. Do you ever play Grim Fandango? [00:11:33] Speaker B: Yes. I was very bad at it as [00:11:35] Speaker A: well, but it was hard as shit. [00:11:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:11:37] Speaker A: That's the first game I looked up like a playthrough because I couldn't figure out how to play it. [00:11:41] Speaker B: I got. I got stuck on the having to throw down the bread for the pigeons and have them pop a balloon so they fly away. [00:11:50] Speaker A: So that's the first eighth of the game. [00:11:53] Speaker B: I know I could never figure out what the fuck I was doing. [00:11:57] Speaker A: I just want to know the story and experience the worlds and stuff. So I just looked up how to do it online. [00:12:01] Speaker B: They should. They should just make a. They should just Make a grim fandango movie. Because I would. I would watch the hell out of a skeleton. You know, hard boiled. Hard boiled skeleton detective fiction. Not even really detective. [00:12:15] Speaker A: He becomes. It's more like Casablanca. [00:12:19] Speaker B: Only. Only Day of the Dead esque. Instead of. [00:12:25] Speaker A: It's noir. [00:12:25] Speaker B: It's not. [00:12:26] Speaker A: It's noir. [00:12:28] Speaker B: Yeah. And technically every femme is a femme battle in that. Because they're all dead. [00:12:35] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:12:37] Speaker B: I love the. I just love the. The aesthetic of it. It was great. [00:12:43] Speaker A: Yeah, it's fun. [00:12:44] Speaker B: It's very good. [00:12:46] Speaker A: Oh, I was trying to transition to gunslinger, but you started talking about more video games. [00:12:52] Speaker B: Sorry, Johnny. I was enjoying having a conversation, you know. [00:12:55] Speaker A: I know. We got to keep it on track is what people want. [00:13:01] Speaker B: Is. Is that what they want? I don't know if they want. Do you want us to stay on track or do you want us to go on more tangents? Let us email that. [00:13:10] Speaker A: We started this four year, three years ago, like one guy on Reddit. So we needed a coach that would whistle. Remember that comment on Reddit? Yeah, we need like a mediator that would, like, whistle if we got off topic. I mean, red is strange. That place is crazy. [00:13:27] Speaker B: A third person does keep us from having to cut out a lot of. A lot of silence. That keeps it. Keeps it going. Keeps it going. But I don't think they keep us on track. Yeah, I think an extra person just makes us go on more tangents. [00:13:41] Speaker A: Probably that's fine. [00:13:44] Speaker B: But they're good tangents, Johnny. Just like I would say us, you could say they're tangents or spin offs. Oh, right. [00:13:54] Speaker A: What kind of spin offs? [00:13:56] Speaker B: Well, like, much like a tangent, it is a spin off from the main conversation we're covering. [00:14:02] Speaker A: What is the main conversation, David? You have to do it. You have to do it. You have to do it. Can you do it? You have it memorized. [00:14:09] Speaker B: I was getting there and you were. [00:14:10] Speaker A: No, you do it. [00:14:11] Speaker B: And I was saying that Spawn's universe is a spin off of Spawn proper. And today on regarding spot where we cover two issues of Spawn or from Spawn's universe, except for when we don't. We are covering two univers, two issues from Spawn universe. [00:14:27] Speaker A: Oh, you're terrible. You didn't get it right at all. You miss all the. You miss all the key marks that people want to hear. [00:14:34] Speaker B: I. I listen to it every week and it just like immediately leaves my brain [00:14:40] Speaker A: each week. [00:14:42] Speaker B: What did I say? Did I say each month? [00:14:44] Speaker A: They just said, where are we? You sayin? [00:14:49] Speaker B: Well, anyway, Johnny, we're covering two issues From Spawn's spin off universe. [00:14:55] Speaker A: Okay. [00:14:56] Speaker B: The wacky gunplay world of Javi and Tobias. Yeah, they should make a cartoon. Javi and Tobias in Wacky Westernville. They just go around in, like, Yosemite Sam. It up, [00:15:15] Speaker A: David. In two years, you'll just be able to put that into chat GPT and it'll make you a two hour. [00:15:20] Speaker B: I don't even think we have to wait two years. Next week maybe. [00:15:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:25] Speaker B: Could you imagine Tobias meets with Yosemite Sam? He wouldn't know what to do with it. [00:15:33] Speaker A: What would you do if you met Yosemite Sam? [00:15:36] Speaker B: I would stand stock still. Because in front of him is the only place he's not gonna hit with a bullet. I am not moving. [00:15:45] Speaker A: Yeah, I like Yosemite Sam. [00:15:47] Speaker B: I like Yosemite Santa. He's fun. [00:15:48] Speaker A: What's your favorite Looney Tune? [00:15:50] Speaker B: My favorite Looney Taz. [00:15:52] Speaker A: What? [00:15:53] Speaker B: Taz. Fucking Taz. Mark. Marvin the Martian is second, but it's always been Taz. Okay, what? Did I choose the wrong answer? [00:16:07] Speaker A: No. Are you gonna ask me mine? [00:16:10] Speaker B: Nope. Johnny, you know you're prompt me for [00:16:13] Speaker A: anything on this episode. You didn't prompt me for the intro. You know, I'm just like. I'm, like, sitting here, like, twinkling my eyes, and you're like, jesus. [00:16:22] Speaker B: So how. Johnny, Johnny, what is your favorite Looney Tune? And why is it also Taz? [00:16:26] Speaker A: It's not Taz. He's not even in the top five. [00:16:30] Speaker B: Oh, really? You wanted to name off that top five. Start at number five. Number five. [00:16:34] Speaker A: Five. Okay, hold on. I gotta go backwards. Can I rank it? I'm gonna do top to bottom. [00:16:40] Speaker B: Okay. [00:16:42] Speaker A: I love Bugs. [00:16:43] Speaker B: Bugs. I mean, it's a classic. [00:16:44] Speaker A: He's my number one. Bugs is my number one. I'm a Bugs. I like Mario on Mario Kart. I like Bugs Bunny on Looney Tunes. There's Daffy Duck. [00:16:52] Speaker B: Daffy Duck's good. [00:16:53] Speaker A: Because, like, in each of us, there is a Bugs and a Daffy Duck. [00:16:57] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, absolutely. [00:17:00] Speaker A: Then probably Porky Pig, Marvin the Martian, and then my per. One of my personal favorites. But he doesn't get above all those guys. He's only in, like, one or two, but he got a lot of traction. Is Michigan J. Frog. [00:17:18] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, Michigan J. Frog is good. He's. [00:17:21] Speaker A: He's. [00:17:21] Speaker B: He's who you want to emcee your events. [00:17:24] Speaker A: I remember seeing that as a kid, and I was like, that's the best cartoon I've ever seen. I love that one. I can't. What is it called? It's Called, like, the Frog that. Say it has some weird title, but I'm gonna look it up. [00:17:37] Speaker B: Hold on. I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say number three for me is Gossamer. Gossamer. [00:17:43] Speaker A: Gossamer. Gossamer's the big monster. [00:17:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Number four is Bugs. And number five. Ooh. What would number five be? Ah, Roadrunner. [00:17:54] Speaker A: Roadrunner's a good choice. [00:17:55] Speaker B: I like the Roadrunner. [00:17:56] Speaker A: I did like Roadrunner. Lasikated. It's called One Froggy Evening is the episode of Michigan Cherry Frog where a man is driven insane because this frog will only dance for him. Or maybe he's smoking that devil reefer. [00:18:10] Speaker B: I remember that. I remember that. And then, yeah, like, it ends up with him in the nut house, right? [00:18:18] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, with the frog. I think he finds him. Someone buried him in concrete at the base of a building. He, like, walks by a demolished building and, like, opens this thing and finds it. He's like a cursed object. He should be at the Warren's little. Yeah, he should be. [00:18:35] Speaker B: It gets blessed every week, along with [00:18:37] Speaker A: Annabelle and the Valak notebook or whatever Valak comes from. All right, well, I guess time for the big confession. [00:18:46] Speaker B: What's that? [00:18:47] Speaker A: Because we always do Deadly Tales first, right? [00:18:50] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Yeah. [00:18:51] Speaker A: So this came out. [00:18:52] Speaker B: How is that a confession? [00:18:55] Speaker A: I'm getting to it, David. [00:18:56] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:18:59] Speaker A: The pay confession comes out. [00:19:01] Speaker B: Okay. [00:19:01] Speaker A: Is this issue, as we know, we always start with the covers. Yes, but I think it's important to note, to preface my confession, this issue came out. Let's see. Hold on. Give me one second. This issue came out November 2025. I had just moved, and there were some gaps in my spawn collection. When I closed my account at the place in Chicago, Shout Out Challengers. Until I opened my account at the place in Tulsa. Shout Out Comics Empire. And I missed some issues. And I woke up today, I was getting my issues together to read on my lunch, and I don't have it. [00:19:54] Speaker B: You don't have it? [00:19:55] Speaker A: I read it on my phone. [00:19:57] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:19:58] Speaker A: I read it on my phone. Just this one. I have guns. I have the second one. I have gunslinger 49. This is the only issue I missed, I think. [00:20:04] Speaker B: When you read on your phone, do you. Do you zoom in and out on it, or do you use the guided Ready? [00:20:10] Speaker A: I zoomed in. Out. [00:20:11] Speaker B: Okay. Because that guided read is actually pretty cool. It'll go like. [00:20:15] Speaker A: Yeah. I couldn't figure out, David. I couldn't figure out how to turn it on. That's the Kindle app. [00:20:21] Speaker B: Oh. I. I've only Ever done it in the Comixology app, so. [00:20:27] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:20:29] Speaker B: What have you done? Well, interesting. Well, does it give you both covers then on the digital? [00:20:35] Speaker A: Yes, because the very last page is the be covered. [00:20:37] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:20:39] Speaker A: And it gives the ads. But we'll compare the ads again because I don't know if it has the toy hat. We'll see. We'll see, we'll see. Don't spoil it. We'll find out. Yes. The final page is the Beacon. [00:20:52] Speaker B: Nice. [00:20:53] Speaker A: And it was 2.99 on the Kindle store. [00:20:58] Speaker B: It's a whole dollar cheaper, Johnny. Yeah, it's 3.99 in pages. In pages. In paper form. Well, nice. Nice. Well, so I guess we should talk about the A cover. [00:21:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:12] Speaker B: Because that's the first cover to start with and I guess, Johnny, you have the A cover. [00:21:18] Speaker A: I do because I have it digitally. [00:21:20] Speaker B: Is there. Is there a special digital cover too? Or is it just still the same too? [00:21:24] Speaker A: No more special digital cover. Do they do that? [00:21:28] Speaker B: I don't. Some sometimes remember NFTs. [00:21:31] Speaker A: They do. NFTs still non fungible tokens. [00:21:37] Speaker B: Oh, Johnny. I lost my shirt on non fungible tokens. [00:21:41] Speaker A: What? [00:21:42] Speaker B: I went in hard. I was like, these. These boys, they're never gonna funge. [00:21:47] Speaker A: I played a. There's a tops digital Star wars trading card game, but it wasn't a game. It was just like. You owned cards. Yeah, and I played that for like a year. Nice. I don't know what it is. [00:22:00] Speaker B: I did that with a. There was a. A warhammer card game that started digitally and then became a. [00:22:06] Speaker A: But it wasn't it. But this wasn't a game. Yeah, it was just. You bought car. Non fungible. You had cars in your collection. [00:22:14] Speaker B: I mean, they did that for baseball cards a couple seasons ago. [00:22:18] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm sure they still exist for baseball cards. [00:22:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Probably the problem with the digital cards, Johnny, is they don't sound as cool when you clip them to the spokes of your bike. Sounds a little bit more expensive when you got that phone going. [00:22:34] Speaker A: I got The Arrow video 4K of mouth of Madness. [00:22:39] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:22:39] Speaker A: For Christmas. And Megan, I watched it. She'd never seen it. [00:22:43] Speaker B: Nice. [00:22:43] Speaker A: And the creepy kid on the bike, he has cards in his little spokes. When she's passing on the road, he turns into an old man. And guess who plays that little kid? [00:22:53] Speaker B: No idea. [00:22:54] Speaker A: You've already referenced him this episode. [00:22:57] Speaker B: This episode? Who have I referenced this episode? I can only think of the Looney Tunes characters that I preferenced. [00:23:06] Speaker A: What have you done? [00:23:07] Speaker B: Oh, really? Really. Fucking Christian. Not Christian. Fucking Anakin Skywalker himself. And Hayden Christensen. There we go. [00:23:15] Speaker A: He's that little kid on that bike in the Mouth of Madness. [00:23:18] Speaker B: Nice. [00:23:18] Speaker A: A great John Carpenter movie. [00:23:21] Speaker B: Nice. I haven't seen that one. Are you serious? I have. Yeah. No, I'm serious. Yeah. [00:23:25] Speaker A: You love it. [00:23:26] Speaker B: I'm sure I would. The any HP Lovecraft is a human being kind of. Bah. But like anything sort of based on HP Lovecraft ideas. I really like it. [00:23:37] Speaker A: It's also like a spoof on Stephen King and like hysteria surrounding Stephen king in the 80s and 90s. [00:23:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. [00:23:43] Speaker A: I think you dig it. [00:23:44] Speaker B: I'm sure. But I'll give it a. I'll give it a. I'll give it a look. [00:23:48] Speaker A: See, it'll be good come. Come October. [00:23:50] Speaker B: Yeah, we'll be Johnny speaking. Speaking of all that. [00:23:55] Speaker A: Oh, God, we still haven't talked about the covers yet. [00:23:58] Speaker B: Yeah, speaking of. Speaking of. Will be good come October. Cover B is going to be really good come October. [00:24:05] Speaker A: But we still talk about COVID A. Oh, my God. You should talk about tokens and cards and the spokesman. [00:24:14] Speaker B: What can I say, Johnny? Tangents. We're in spin off land, baby. [00:24:19] Speaker A: Cover A is Javi. It's by Marco Falia. And it's Mojave. Oh, no, it's Tobias. [00:24:26] Speaker B: Yes. [00:24:27] Speaker A: Tobias having shot a man just to watch him die. [00:24:31] Speaker B: Yeah, he did. He's very. He's very Johnny Cash. He's very man in black. Only black and red. Brown. [00:24:38] Speaker A: And it's against a white stark. [00:24:40] Speaker B: It's got that. It's got that harsh white light of, you know, of the westerns. They got that harsh sun [00:24:51] Speaker A: and then on a western town and it's awesome. [00:24:53] Speaker B: Yeah, it's pretty great. And you can just like. Like the soul and the smoke are leaving the bullet wounds into the sky. [00:25:02] Speaker A: But I would say B covers a little more. My jam. [00:25:07] Speaker B: B cover is a little spookier. It is a purple bonacoursi and it is Tobias being held in the slippery little appendages of a very Lovecraftian style monster. [00:25:23] Speaker A: Just can't even describe it. [00:25:25] Speaker B: Just blasting away at something that's like a mouth but with an eyeball in it and surrounded by eyeballs and fingers all at the same time. It's. [00:25:33] Speaker A: Well, that one part looks like. Do you remember the original? They cut it out in the special edition. If your original cut in Star wars is the one Aliens just like. Obviously a guy with his hand and like a sock. [00:25:41] Speaker B: The. The thing in the. The trash compactor. [00:25:44] Speaker A: No, in the cantina. [00:25:47] Speaker B: Oh, No, I don't remember what. [00:25:51] Speaker A: I'm gonna send you a picture. Hold on. This is worth it. [00:25:53] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, there's a whole bunch of eyeballs around, and it's very dark. It's very. It's very creepy. Like, you just know that that thing is gooey. [00:26:05] Speaker A: Yes, it's really cool. I like the purple. That guy. [00:26:09] Speaker B: Oh, wow. [00:26:10] Speaker A: They deleted him in the special editions, but in the original Star wars, the werewolf guy is talking to him. [00:26:15] Speaker B: Oh, nice and. [00:26:16] Speaker A: Hated those ones. [00:26:18] Speaker B: That. That looks. It's very close. It's very close. [00:26:21] Speaker A: Little hand guy in Star Wars. Yeah, his name is Dice. His name is Dice Ibigon. [00:26:35] Speaker B: Oh, that. That's like the least acronym Star wars name I've ever heard. Unless, of course, he's got a gambling addiction. And then they all have gambling addictions. I guess that's true. [00:26:49] Speaker A: All right, so we normally we crack it open, but I load. I'm loading. [00:26:54] Speaker B: You load, Johnny. [00:26:56] Speaker A: I haven't read a digital issue since, like, one of the medievals. [00:26:59] Speaker B: Dang. [00:27:01] Speaker A: And I read. I read. I think I read the Christmas digitally. No, no, I didn't give it to Tom. [00:27:05] Speaker B: I read. I read the Christmas one digitally every year because I can't find the. I can't find a copy of the. The Christmas one in time to get it here because I don't think to order it until, like, December 13th. And I'm like, ah, fuck. Then I just never buy it. What a bum. [00:27:23] Speaker A: That's okay. I think I ended up with your copy. Or was that my copy? We got signed. [00:27:29] Speaker B: That was your copy that we got signed because you bought it at the. You bought it at the show. And I don't think the. The big lot we bought had one in there. No, no, but what do we do after we. What do we do after we pop open the. After you load that. That insides. Johnny. [00:27:47] Speaker A: Oh, my God. You scroll back to the beginning, don't accidentally click on anything, and you go to the credits. You got script. Plot by Jimmy Palmiotti, art by Judo Pansica, inks by Julio Ferreira, colors by Ulysses Aiola, lettering by Tom Orzakowski. Cover artist are. Mark. We already covered him. I don't even get to say it again. Creative director Todd McFarlane and editor in chief is Thomas Healy. Previously in Deadly Tales of the Gunslinger. Only the gunslinger part is italicized. [00:28:25] Speaker B: I was about to say [00:28:29] Speaker A: the gun singer and his companions are attacked by a horrific monster in the caves under dancing. We are 148. [00:28:39] Speaker B: 138. [00:28:41] Speaker A: 138. Sing your favorite Misfit song, David. [00:28:44] Speaker B: Right now, my favorite. I want Ch. [00:28:50] Speaker A: I like I Ain't no Goddamn Son of a. Oh, man. [00:28:55] Speaker B: At Brand's. At Brand's birthday, it was at Elston Electric and they got the Biscuit there. That's the. The Converted Chuck E. Cheese band that plays dog themed versions of Misfits songs. And they say I ain't no dog Gone Son of a. Instead of Goddamn son of a. [00:29:14] Speaker A: That's pretty awesome. [00:29:15] Speaker B: Yeah, it was pretty great. [00:29:17] Speaker A: Where were they? [00:29:18] Speaker B: They were at Elston Electric. It's the. The. [00:29:21] Speaker A: They have like a night where you go see it. [00:29:23] Speaker B: Well, it's at the Barcade. That's at the salt shed. And then like twice a night they run through their routine. [00:29:30] Speaker A: Did you see it? [00:29:31] Speaker B: Yeah, it was awesome. For Brand's birthday. [00:29:34] Speaker A: That's amazing. [00:29:34] Speaker B: Yeah, it was super cool. Wanda. Wanda spent a lot of time just like shaking her head like, whatever. [00:29:42] Speaker A: No dog on. Son of a bitch. I just met her. That's like. They still say, oh, but son of a bitch. [00:29:48] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:29:49] Speaker A: She's a dog. [00:29:50] Speaker B: And instead of we, we. We go where Eagles Dare, it's we go where Beagles Dare. [00:29:57] Speaker A: That's so stupid. That's hilarious. I love that. I want to see that. [00:30:01] Speaker B: Their. Their April Fool's joke this year was that they. They reskinned them to be icp. And I forget what the joke was. Oh, Insane Clown Puppies. They said they're the insane clown. [00:30:16] Speaker A: Oh, the puppy. [00:30:16] Speaker B: Like that. [00:30:17] Speaker A: You're probably like that. She growled when you said that. [00:30:20] Speaker B: Yeah, but that's Mr. Dingus. So he didn't actually hear it. That was just serendipitous now. [00:30:26] Speaker A: He heard it. He felt the energy. [00:30:28] Speaker B: He does. He does feel the energy. Amber is definitely the color of his energy. [00:30:33] Speaker A: You gotta keep us on track. So I have. I feel bad looking at my phone. [00:30:38] Speaker B: Okay, so we start with a splash page of Tobias just like covered in gore and you know, a little bit of a. A recap of what happened because the last issue just ended with. With Tobias just trying to fuck up this big beast. [00:30:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:55] Speaker B: And then we get a. Is he dead? And it's. It's the. The team just hanging around. It's the sheriff. And Billy and Ziania have found their way down into the caves where all the boys are. And they're the. The two wolves that are befriended. Tobias and the. The sheriff. The sheriff is like, how did you guys get down here? And they're like, yeah, we just followed these wolves. [00:31:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:22] Speaker B: And then a nice little. A nice Little bit of wordplay here because the. The wolves kind of helped them navigate through the dark tunnels, and one of the guys is like, well, without them, I thought we were. And then Tobias wakes up and says, dead. Dead. [00:31:40] Speaker A: He looks like a dead man. [00:31:42] Speaker B: He does. Well, Johnny, he technically is a dead man. He. He pulled a knives out three there, Johnny, and he woke up dead man. [00:31:50] Speaker A: Welcome to that, man. Good movie. [00:31:53] Speaker B: It was a good movie. It was fun. I liked it. [00:31:56] Speaker A: I liked it. [00:31:57] Speaker B: It was good. Yeah, I know. I liked seeing Josh Brolin just be an asshole. [00:32:02] Speaker A: Yeah, he was really good. [00:32:03] Speaker B: He plays a really good asshole. Yeah. And then we get a flashback. [00:32:08] Speaker A: I like that it was a total shift because, like, you can't go bigger than, like, Last Onion was pretty broad and big. [00:32:15] Speaker B: Yeah, it was. It was much more. [00:32:17] Speaker A: It was swerve. [00:32:19] Speaker B: Yeah. Although nothing. Nothing beats the cozy atmosphere of the first one. That one's. That one's just a total vibe. [00:32:27] Speaker A: It is. It's very. It's very zeitgeisty, and they all are another way. But, I mean, Johnny felt the most cutting. [00:32:34] Speaker B: It's very. It's very. It's very hard to argue against the murder mystery being part of the zeitgeist. Everything. Everything's a murder mystery if you boil it down far enough, Right? Yeah, I'd like to think so. Live your life in such a way that you. That you aren't the first person that they question on Law and Order is what I say, [00:32:57] Speaker A: I love. I love. I can't pass Ryan Johnson saying how much I love. And everyone's, you can call me a cuck. You're going stupid. But, like, watch the movie if you're like, ah, I love the Last Jedi so much. It's so good. It's crazy. We're so controversial. [00:33:13] Speaker B: That's. I mean, it's just a. It's a car chase in space. [00:33:16] Speaker A: It's awesome in, like, the Kylo Ren Rey stuff. [00:33:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:20] Speaker A: And, like, all of it. And, like, Luke's like. And like, I remember, like. [00:33:23] Speaker B: And the Lean. The. The Laura Dun. Laura Dern. The Laura Dern of it all, Johnny. The Laura Dern of it all. [00:33:30] Speaker A: It's good. [00:33:30] Speaker B: It's good. I love it. It's a good movie. [00:33:32] Speaker A: Feels like Star Wars. [00:33:34] Speaker B: It is. I do believe it is also Wanda's favorite Star wars, so I think it's [00:33:38] Speaker A: number one with a bullet. [00:33:40] Speaker B: It's real good. [00:33:41] Speaker A: Take that, Internet. [00:33:42] Speaker B: Yeah, well, the Internet. The Internet's gonna be upset regardless of what you say. W R T. Star Wars. [00:33:48] Speaker A: So, like, the Phantom Menace. I got prequel cred. [00:33:52] Speaker B: I like. I like basically anything Star Wars. What are you gonna do about it? Huh? [00:33:58] Speaker A: What? [00:33:59] Speaker B: So I said, what are you gonna do about it? Sue me. Don't sue me, please. I don't have any money, George Lucas. [00:34:04] Speaker A: Don't sue me. But it's a good transition from when you were. [00:34:09] Speaker B: You were on a. You were on a transition. [00:34:12] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm trying to. On my phone, David. Oh, it's a. It's a smash cut to a big lore dump. We get a big lore dump, a big lord flashback. [00:34:22] Speaker B: We get a. We get a callback to a character that we've only seen once. [00:34:26] Speaker A: Yes. [00:34:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Actually, I guess a couple of characters we've only seen once with the initial [00:34:31] Speaker A: train flashback way early on. [00:34:33] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. But we cut to the faces of two dirty faces of children being, like, held by their head. It says, see? And the person holding their head says, see what happens when you don't mind your own business? [00:34:49] Speaker A: And then we burn in their house and their business. [00:34:52] Speaker B: Yeah. We cut back and we see it's these two children being sat in front of a saloon hotel that's being. Being caught on fire. And there's the evil mustache twirling bad guy. He's not currently twirling his mustache, but that is a very twirlable mustache. [00:35:08] Speaker A: Johnny, he looking very D. Lewis, right? [00:35:11] Speaker B: He is. He is. He looks like he's about to tell them about how he's going to drink their milkshake. [00:35:16] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what I thought. I was like, okay, like, that's iconic. But, like, the craziest part for me in that movie is when he just beats him down with that bowling pin. Oh, yeah. [00:35:25] Speaker B: Just like right in the middle of [00:35:26] Speaker A: the fight, he kills his ass. [00:35:29] Speaker B: So insane. So insane. And so. Yeah, he says, so, Tobias, Amy, you ready to watch the show? No charge. Of course. [00:35:39] Speaker A: It reminded me a little bit of Matthew Fox in Tomahawk. [00:35:44] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Yeah, okay. [00:35:46] Speaker A: He's like the killer guy. [00:35:47] Speaker B: I can see it. [00:35:48] Speaker A: Rubies wakes up and he shoots his gun. [00:35:53] Speaker B: I need to watch that again. It was a good movie. Love chicory. [00:35:57] Speaker A: I know you do. You are chicory. [00:36:01] Speaker B: Oh, boy. I am chicory. Yeah. And then we see inside that Tobias and Amy's parents are tied to a post inside the burning saloon. [00:36:11] Speaker A: They're beat up. [00:36:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:13] Speaker A: These jar's broken. And they both got black eyes. [00:36:16] Speaker B: Yeah, they're. Oh, man, they've been roughed up so bad. And they're, you know, they're. They have surrendered to their fate and they're you know, yelling at their. At their kids to be like, no, be good kids. You stay there. You stay alive. You stay there, and you stay alive. And Tobias is trying to be like, please take them. Take. Take me. Take me instead. And while Mr. Mushwat mustache twirler sits. Mushwat mushroom. He's, you know, popping a squat to get, you know, face to face with Tobias. And he gets. He gets Johnny. He gets the Donald Trump treatment there. Just shot right across the ear. But they. They made sure to. They made sure to move the. The artists to the front so that way they can capture it better when it happens. So it's not like they were expecting it to happen. [00:37:14] Speaker A: Oh, wow, David, are you talking about a conspiracy theory? [00:37:18] Speaker B: I mean, you may have infected me a little bit with your. With your incisive looks into. [00:37:25] Speaker A: I don't know if I buy that one. [00:37:27] Speaker B: You don't. You don't buy the fact that his ear is completely reformed? [00:37:32] Speaker A: Yeah, there's a lot of. Dude, I think they know. Any public act of violence in America, they know about it. [00:37:37] Speaker B: Yeah, they definitely do. Definitely. Also, if it were an actual fucking attempt, he would. He would not stop fucking talking about it. He would never fit. You've heard him talk about. He was. He was talking to children at the fucking Easter Egg Roll about Joe Biden and the auto. Like, the children are there to just give fucking candy. They don't give a shit. Dude, that's so funny. [00:38:04] Speaker A: It's like. [00:38:05] Speaker B: It's like he's. Yeah, he's sitting there with children. He's like, you know, if Joe Biden were here, he would have had an auto pin instead. In fact, they probably would have just had the auto pin instead of Joe Biden. It's like he's never been around a child. They just don't give a shit about that. I'm sure. I'm. I am 100% positive. He has never been around a child, especially his own, except the ones that [00:38:24] Speaker A: he fucked on Epstein's Island. [00:38:25] Speaker B: Oh, I guess those ones. But you don't. Don't tend to talk to those ones too much. I don't think. Johnny. I don't think that's what he paid for, is to talk to children. [00:38:36] Speaker A: Oh, God almighty, help us get downloaded again in deserting Virginia. [00:38:45] Speaker B: I'll keep an eye open. We'll know. We'll know when the police show up at either of our houses for what bring them. But. But we see that, you know, there's some more. There's some more shots and some More of the lackeys are getting shot. And then we see it's the Doctor from the platform. He says, get your filthy hands off those children. And he's just blasting away with his revolver. [00:39:07] Speaker A: Stalker. [00:39:08] Speaker B: Yeah. And then he immediately gets pumped full of so much lead. Poor Rip, Zeb, Kane, and Amy. Amy rushes out to. To hold him as he falls to the ground and bleeds out. And she says, doc, please, you can't leave me. He says, sorry, Amy. I wish. And then ceases to be. And then. And then the. The narration says, in that moment, a terrible shift. Shift occurred in Amy. A silent hatred destined to find its voice in years to come. And then the. The boss man who got his ear shot sees out of the corner of his eye Tobias trying to run into the burning building and says, hey, boys, where are you going? Pistol whips him, throws him down on the ground and says, I'll crush your skull, you do that again. He calls Amy a bitch. That fucker. How dare you. Amy's a nice person, you son of a fuck. And then he tells them, he has them sit on their knees and says, move even an inch and I'll kill you both. And he forces them to watch their parents burn to death. And then the saloon and the hotel burn down. And Tobias is saying, amy, look away. Amy, look away. And we see Amy just like, subtly harden so much. [00:40:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:28] Speaker B: And she says, they're all going to die for this. [00:40:31] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:40:32] Speaker B: Oh, man. And then we cut back to Tobias as gunslinger being helped up to his feet by. By Ziannia. I keep wanting to say, Zendaya, oh, my God. [00:40:44] Speaker A: You watch the Euphoria? [00:40:46] Speaker B: I have never seen an episode of Euphoria. I've been watching too much Spidey, man. [00:40:50] Speaker A: Yeah, I just. I just. All these people got famous, so. Who the fuck are these people? I look them up. Oh, they're in euphoria. I've never seen it. [00:40:57] Speaker B: I. I watched Wanda and I watched Skins for a while. That's British show about cool teens. And that. That left me with no desire to ever see any more media about cool teens and young 20 somethings ever again. Again. [00:41:18] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:41:19] Speaker B: It just. It just creeps me out. And so, Tobias, tobias, you're only 35 now. [00:41:23] Speaker A: How's Zendaya? She's like 45. [00:41:26] Speaker B: She's not older than us. She's definitely younger than us. [00:41:28] Speaker A: I'm kidding. [00:41:30] Speaker B: I guess. I guess. Every time. You see, she's not. [00:41:32] Speaker A: She's not in high school. [00:41:33] Speaker B: Yeah, she's probably 25. I don't know, actually, I. I'm. [00:41:39] Speaker A: Let's do Price is Right Rules. I'm going to guess 25. [00:41:41] Speaker B: I was going to say probably 30. [00:41:44] Speaker A: Really? [00:41:44] Speaker B: Like maybe just turning 30. [00:41:46] Speaker A: Your 30s. Your guess. [00:41:48] Speaker B: 30 is my guess. [00:41:50] Speaker A: Oh, David. Price is Right Rules. [00:41:52] Speaker B: Oh, you're gonna tell me it was 29? [00:41:54] Speaker A: Yeah, it was 29. [00:41:55] Speaker B: Ah, damn it. That was my second guess. [00:41:57] Speaker A: You got. You gotta go down a couple notches doing Prices. Right? Rules. What are you thinking? [00:42:03] Speaker B: But so, so Ziania helps to buy us up. And the other guy just like, help. He's like, oh, here. Here's your hat, sir. Just like, hands over. Hands over the gunslinger hat. We see the wolves are just, like, chilling. They're like, yeah, they're chilling. Sleepy time. And Ziani is like, can you continue? And he says, doesn't matter. I gotta go. [00:42:27] Speaker A: And no, he says, feel like I've been kicked by a donkey, but I can walk. [00:42:32] Speaker B: And she's like, okay. And she lets him go. And then he just, like, crumples. [00:42:36] Speaker A: Have you looked at the world of donkeys, David, recently? [00:42:41] Speaker B: Did you not know that my mom had a coworker once who bought two miniature donkeys for their daughter, but they didn't have a place to put them. And so for, like, three years, we took care of two miniature donkeys. [00:42:53] Speaker A: And no, David, I didn't know that. Why would I know that? You've never told me that. [00:42:56] Speaker B: And one Thanksgiving, they escaped. So we spent the entire day just roaming around the, the, the. The. The rural areas outside of Muskogee, Oklahoma, trying to find two miniature donkeys. [00:43:12] Speaker A: Did you find them? [00:43:13] Speaker B: Yeah, we found them. We found them. But they. They ran like 15 miles away. Yeah, somebody. Somebody just, like, was able to capture them and put them in there and the. A pin. And like, when we rolled up, they were like, you looking for the donkeys? We got him. [00:43:31] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:43:32] Speaker B: It was wild. [00:43:33] Speaker A: This went free. How'd they get out? [00:43:38] Speaker B: My sister had a. Had a very reactive dog at the time, and she freaked out and like, spooked them so much that they just, like, threw themselves against the gate until they. They broke it and then they just bolted. Oh, man, those little guys go so quick. So. Yeah, Johnny, I know from donkeys, I guess, is what I'm saying. [00:43:59] Speaker A: Okay, Megan, watch donkey. There's a show called Donkey King. [00:44:04] Speaker B: Okay? [00:44:05] Speaker A: This is about a guy who rescues donkeys. He's like, what's the donkey rescue? And she said it was very heartwarming and very emotional. [00:44:10] Speaker B: Oh, I believe it. Donkeys are donkeys. Can Be sweet. But they're also stubborn as. [00:44:16] Speaker A: So, I mean, that's the, that's the. That's the stereotype. [00:44:19] Speaker B: Yeah, that is the stereotype. But that's a lot of equine animals like horses. Horses can be stubborn as shit too. [00:44:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:25] Speaker B: And you. You mix a donkey and. And a horse together and you get a mule, and that's all. Ain't telling a mule nothing. If a mule doesn't want to do it, mule is not going to do it. No. [00:44:40] Speaker A: They're the lowest form of horse. [00:44:43] Speaker B: Well, they're. They're. They're a hybrid between horse and donkey. So they're. [00:44:46] Speaker A: They good for. What's a mule? What's the advantage of a mule over a donkey? [00:44:50] Speaker B: They. They have. They're bigger than a donkey and they sometimes have more stamina. They're a little stronger, so they got. They're a little beefier. [00:44:59] Speaker A: Okay. [00:45:00] Speaker B: If you're a smaller person, you can usually ride a horse instead of a donkey. It just depends on what kind of work you need done. So donkeys are funny. Donkeys. Donkeys. Donkeys can pull a cart, or donkeys tend to have more of a. A pack. You put a pack on their back and they'll carry it. Mule can pull a plow pretty good. [00:45:22] Speaker A: Okay, good to know. [00:45:25] Speaker B: Very exciting. [00:45:26] Speaker A: That implies that Tobias has been kicked by a donkey. [00:45:30] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, I would assume living in the west, in the old Western times, everybody's been kicked by a donkey once or twice. [00:45:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:40] Speaker B: So then the sheriff is like, I'm going to continue down that tunnel over there to going after that creature, see if it heads back to the surface and is like, if anybody wants to go, it's like, if anybody wants to leave now, I totally understand. And dynamite is like, I nope, I just got here. Let's go. Let's go get it. It's like, can we maybe take the wolves with us? And they're like, grr. Maybe, Maybe not. And so. So they all leave. They live. They leave Ziania and Tobias alone. And in the parlance of where this is going, Johnny, they take a long rest. [00:46:22] Speaker A: They take asleep baby. [00:46:25] Speaker B: So Tobias. Tobias passes out. He can feel his skin healing as it heals. [00:46:33] Speaker A: I think about that all the time. Like, I was watching the stuff human body can go through when you have to. Like, I was watching the Ken Burns American Revolution doc on PBS one day, and there's this guy that walks for like two days straight. Jesus, can you imagine? [00:46:52] Speaker B: No, I could not imagine walking for two days straight. That's insane. [00:46:55] Speaker A: If you had to, I guess. [00:46:57] Speaker B: I guess if there's no alternative. So Ziania watches over Tobias until she also gives. Gives into the sleep. And then later she wakes up. And she wakes up Tobias with a. You hear me? Wake up. She's like the wolves. The wolves left. [00:47:15] Speaker A: I think one thing, they slept like two hours, an hour, I don't know. [00:47:18] Speaker B: But they. They slept long enough for Tobias's clothing to repair itself. [00:47:23] Speaker A: And that's how you know it's not written by Todd McFarlane. [00:47:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:47:27] Speaker A: One hour and 33 minutes later. [00:47:29] Speaker B: And he would also have said exactly how the clothing repaired itself. But here Tobias just says it's another thing I can't figure. So they go. They go after. They go in the direction of the wolves and writer and sheriff and Dynamite and Zionia says it's none of them, it's bigger. And they get attacked by basically a cave troll. Johnny comes at him with a pickaxe and he's got like his intestines flying out. [00:47:53] Speaker A: And he's something like some horror comic or some shit. Yeah, he looks like a comic book Day David. [00:47:58] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. Out of a comic book. [00:48:01] Speaker A: He looks like Resident Evil. A Resident Evil boss. [00:48:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Or like a Swamp Thing villain. [00:48:06] Speaker A: He's even got like a weak point with this like red guts hanging. [00:48:09] Speaker B: Yeah, his guts are just like FL them behind him. [00:48:12] Speaker A: It was a video game. You definitely shoot the red guts. [00:48:14] Speaker B: Yeah, definitely. And so Tobias is blasting at him and Zani has got her hook blade. It digs it gash four inches deep. Johnny. And then he picks freakin. He's a freaking freakenstein with sharp razor sharpened teeth filed to points. He's got that. He's got that Christopher Walken and Sleepy Hollow dental procedure done. So after Ziannia cuts him, he like grabs her by the head and throws her across the cave. [00:48:44] Speaker A: Oh my God. [00:48:45] Speaker B: Throws her into the wall. And then Tobias just keeps like. Tobias is distracted. And so the beast grabs his hand that has a pistol in it. Tobias just shoots the hand clean off. Yeah, shoots him in the hand, shoots him in the neck and then runs out, runs out of bullets. And so the beast takes his remain. Its. Its arm and just like holds Tobias up against the wall and is like slowly choking him out. And Tobias like entreats Ziannia. He's like Zionia the torch. And she, she's like broken on the ground there, but she's able to turn her turn around real quick and kick the torch up into Tobias's hand. And so Tobias grabs it and says die you son of A bitch. And just jams the torch down the beast's mouth. [00:49:36] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:49:36] Speaker B: Just, like, engulfs in flames. And then he just. He just stands there and watches it burn. [00:49:45] Speaker A: Your shot is fully formed now. [00:49:48] Speaker B: Yeah. And then he says, what did I just kill? And then he says. He. He says to Ziania, we have to move from here. And so they. They run. They run down basically the only pathway they have. And it's just a tunnel with a light at the end of it. [00:50:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:06] Speaker B: And they come across a staging area. There's. There's some. There's some more weapons. There's what looks like some refreshments. And they say that this can't be for the beast they just killed. He was too big to live here. So they keep moving and they're following along, and there's lights along the path. And then they come across a whole bunch of carcasses. [00:50:27] Speaker A: Horse skeleton. I think it's a horse. [00:50:30] Speaker B: Yeah, it looks kind of like a horse. And then out of the shadows, a gun comes. And they say, keep walking or I'll blow your brain straight out of your heads. And then we turn the page and we get the opening reading. And we see that it's a big cave that has children in cages hanging from the ceiling. And some of the children are starting to morph into something that isn't human. And we see Moses Nash, who says the opening reading, one of the guys who was helping look for the lost children a couple issues ago. And he is. [00:51:05] Speaker A: David didn't have the dialogue for her because he had a misprint. [00:51:08] Speaker B: And he's. He is mutated and just, like, cancerous and tumorous. And then we see Ryder and the sheriff and Dynamite just bound and gagged on the floor. [00:51:17] Speaker A: He's kind of like Davy Jones in, like, Pirates Caribbean. He's like. He's got, like, barnacles. [00:51:22] Speaker B: Yeah, he does have barnacles. [00:51:23] Speaker A: And, like, he looks like. It's weird. [00:51:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:29] Speaker A: And then definitely creepy. [00:51:30] Speaker B: Definitely creepy. So something's going on. And there's a couple more monsters in the back in addition to the one that has the gun on Tobias and Syania. And the next, the final exit. Then we get that cool gunslinger skull in the issue, Johnny. [00:51:48] Speaker A: Yes. [00:51:49] Speaker B: We get a new generations, new stories, New, you add. [00:51:53] Speaker A: Yep. All those great delicious spawns. Spin off spawns. [00:51:59] Speaker B: Ooh, spawn off. Have we said that before? I feel like we've said that. [00:52:01] Speaker A: Yeah, we've said it before. [00:52:03] Speaker B: Then we get the image. Classic sad. [00:52:05] Speaker A: Yes. [00:52:06] Speaker B: Then we get a fallout toy ad. [00:52:08] Speaker A: Yeah, there's A toy ad on the digital version. [00:52:10] Speaker B: No toy ad in the digital version. Sad. Well, right next to the Fallout Toy ad. The back of the Fallout Toy. The back of the. [00:52:18] Speaker A: Have we had the Fallout before? [00:52:19] Speaker B: There's one of the member of the brotherhood. We haven't. There's Ellie Pursenell. I don't remember what her name is. [00:52:25] Speaker A: Put it back. This is the first time we're seeing this ad. Yeah, this is. Yeah, it is a dude in a gas mask. [00:52:33] Speaker B: And then there's New Vegas. [00:52:35] Speaker A: Sorry. [00:52:35] Speaker B: Yeah, there's. Whatever his face is. They're pretty good toys. They're pretty good toys. [00:52:42] Speaker A: Justin Thoreau. No. [00:52:44] Speaker B: Who is it? [00:52:46] Speaker A: Matthew Perry. Plays in the game. [00:52:49] Speaker B: What's his name? The dude from Dale Cooper. [00:52:53] Speaker A: Walter Goggins. [00:52:55] Speaker B: No, not Walter Goggins. The Ellie Personnel's dad. [00:53:01] Speaker A: That's not him. That's. That's not him. That's someone else. [00:53:04] Speaker B: Okay, well, he's in like a checker suit and then the back of the. The back of the. [00:53:09] Speaker A: Maybe it's him. I haven't watched. [00:53:10] Speaker B: The second cover ad is McFarlane Sports Picks. And there's some. They're doing sports figures again, Johnny. Like they did in the 90s. [00:53:20] Speaker A: I know. I remember those. [00:53:21] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Pretty exciting. [00:53:23] Speaker A: We don't get the toy ad on the Kindle version, so I give it. I have Kindle version zero stars. [00:53:30] Speaker B: Yeah, that's Deadly Tales of the Gunslinger. Number 11, Johnny. [00:53:34] Speaker A: Oh, thank heaven. [00:53:35] Speaker B: Deadly Tales 11. [00:53:47] Speaker A: Next up, we have gunslinger. And we have. We have. I have gunslinger. It's not on my phone anymore. Isn't this. Isn't this grand? [00:53:59] Speaker B: This is. This is. This is great news, Johnny. [00:54:02] Speaker A: It's great news for me and for you. We've Gunslinger 49. [00:54:06] Speaker B: Yes, we do. [00:54:07] Speaker A: And we have. [00:54:09] Speaker B: We have covers, Johnny, do we not? [00:54:11] Speaker A: We have covers. I have the Francesco Mattina cover. Nice tavi and, like a little puffy. This came out in the fall. It's very fall. [00:54:21] Speaker B: It is very fall. [00:54:22] Speaker A: It's got leaves and he's like in a nice sweater. [00:54:28] Speaker B: Looks like he's got a little scarf on. He's got a. He's got his pumpkin spice locker. [00:54:32] Speaker A: That's what I mean. I meant scarf, not sweater. He's just going into the fall. [00:54:36] Speaker B: Yeah, there's some nice. Nice dead leaves blowing around. [00:54:40] Speaker A: And some dead leaves in his mouth, too. He's smoking a cigarillo. [00:54:43] Speaker B: Yeah, he is. [00:54:44] Speaker A: Oh, joint. Maybe a joint. [00:54:46] Speaker B: I don't know. He does seem to like the green. Sure does. [00:54:50] Speaker A: Does he? [00:54:52] Speaker B: Necroplasm. He's full of necroplasm. [00:54:55] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Weed is necroplasm related. I mean, it could be in a small video game. One way to restore your necroplasm should [00:55:04] Speaker B: be to smoke some weed. [00:55:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:55:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:55:07] Speaker A: It's like, it's like. Okay, that's weird. [00:55:09] Speaker B: Well, no, it would have to be. You'd have to. Since. Since Spawn could canonically top up his necroplasm by eating creatures that live far away from the light, he would have to eat, like, some, some white asparagus that was grown in a dark room or some shit. [00:55:29] Speaker A: What the hell? [00:55:31] Speaker B: But do you know about that White asparagus is just regular asparagus that's been grown in the dark room. [00:55:36] Speaker A: I know that. [00:55:37] Speaker B: Oh, you didn't know that? Weird. Also, it's coming up on asparagus season. I love asparagus. Fucking love asparagus. So good. [00:55:46] Speaker A: I don't know. I guess too. [00:55:48] Speaker B: It's, it's good as hell. The season is so short. You got it. He's gotta get it. Well, it's gotta get it while it's available. I have the B cover, Johnny, the Carlo Barbary cover. And it's just Javi walking in the rain. It's very, very dramatique. Damn, look at him go. [00:56:06] Speaker A: He's just, like, trying to catch a bus. [00:56:09] Speaker B: Yeah, trying to catch a bus with that, that heater in his hand. That's how he's gonna flag the bus, make it stop. But yeah. Well, we should probably pop this. [00:56:19] Speaker A: I was in a Lowe's parking lot and I saw Van just open, carrying, strapped open, carrying. [00:56:27] Speaker B: That's so weird. [00:56:28] Speaker A: That's so one of Lowe's, baby. You might have to shoot a guy. [00:56:33] Speaker B: He's not gonna get that last, that last pine board, Johnny. That man will end up with all of the two by fours. You bet your ass. [00:56:42] Speaker A: I love how Home Depot and how low smell. [00:56:45] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. There's something about a, a home improvement store. Most stores smell good, but, like, it's the, it's like the whatever, whatever protective oil is put on most of the, the tools mixing with the sawdust. [00:57:01] Speaker A: Yeah, it's, it's real good. [00:57:03] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a good smell. It's very good. [00:57:06] Speaker A: And they have the fake bathrooms. As a kid, like, pretended like, [00:57:11] Speaker B: you know, not everybody pretends. [00:57:13] Speaker A: Johnny, did you actually do it? [00:57:15] Speaker B: I, I, I didn't. But I do know from some people who have worked at Home Depots that, like, invariably when you start working at Home Depot or Lowe's, your first week or two, it's your turn to clean the shit out of the display toilets. So what? Yeah, people will actually use them. People is gross, Johnny. I don't know. I don't know. I. I don't know. I don't know what's wrong, Johnny. But we pop open these. [00:57:46] Speaker A: But [00:57:49] Speaker B: it's a nice hard transition. We got some credits for. Credit is due, Johnny. Because not all people are awful. Some of them make beautiful comical books. [00:57:58] Speaker A: But some of these. Some. One of these people might have shit in a Home Depot. [00:58:03] Speaker B: If you've ever shit in a Home Depot display toilet, please let us know at. Regarding spawnpodmail.com. [00:58:07] Speaker A: don't let us know. I was gonna call the cops on you. [00:58:11] Speaker B: I would be very interested to know. [00:58:12] Speaker A: That's just mean you'd be interested to know. [00:58:15] Speaker B: I would be interested to know. [00:58:17] Speaker A: Why? [00:58:18] Speaker B: Because I like knowing things. [00:58:20] Speaker A: You like knowing someone's at a home, but like they either did it because they're an. Or they're get off to it. [00:58:29] Speaker B: Different strokes, Johnny. [00:58:31] Speaker A: Feels like a finish thing. [00:58:32] Speaker B: I mean, I know I. I think some. There's. There's some Internet discourse leads me to believe that sometimes it's purely a holy. I have to go. I can't get to the other side of the lows to get to the bathroom. [00:58:48] Speaker A: What are you doing in the middle of the lows? [00:58:51] Speaker B: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know how everybody's not just like, is there a possibility that I need to ship before I leave the house? I'm just gonna go sit for a couple of hours. [00:59:00] Speaker A: If I'm in a public bathroom. Limited business has a bathroom. I pay for something. I'm gonna try to take a shit. [00:59:06] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. [00:59:08] Speaker A: Why not? [00:59:08] Speaker B: Yeah. There's a free bathroom. Might as well at least try to pee. [00:59:14] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:59:14] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:59:15] Speaker A: You know, you never know to take out. [00:59:17] Speaker B: Take these opportunities to come, Johnny. The individuals who are making their own opportunities to create such lovely entertainment for us. Johnny. We've got script plot by Tom McFarlane. [00:59:27] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:59:29] Speaker B: Art by Carla Barbary, colors by Ivan Ninja. [00:59:33] Speaker A: This tissue's insane. [00:59:36] Speaker B: It is. We got lettering by Tom Orzikowski. We done covered the covers. Todd McFarlane is also the creative director and Thomas Healy is the editor in chief and previously in Gunslinger. [00:59:50] Speaker A: Gunslinger is italicized in this one too. [00:59:53] Speaker B: Yes. Yes, it is. I feel like they just copied paste. [00:59:56] Speaker A: Oh. [00:59:57] Speaker B: Gunslinger develops a plan to free Linda and save himself and Johnny. This book starts with the greatest lion in any comic book of all time. [01:00:08] Speaker A: Leave your shirt off. [01:00:09] Speaker B: Leave your shirt on. So. So we're. We're where the last issue ended. It's Javi in this. This man's room with a gun pointed at him. And, you know, the guy goes, [01:00:28] Speaker A: he says, I told you, I don't have any weapons. Even stripped out naked, you paranoid bastard. [01:00:38] Speaker B: Yeah. And so. So Javi's like, nah, I'm not here for that. I'm for. I. You have something else I need. This man's like, okay, well, there's some money down the hallway. Just go get it. It's all yours. And Javi's like, no, no, no, no. Not your money. Some of your magic. And this guy's like, whoever sent you, they're confused. So do yourself a favor. Get the fuck out of my house while you can. Javi says, you believe your own lies, don't you? So let me ask. I pull this trigger. What color blood splatters on that wall? And we learn. We learned that this man is a demon. And it's ridiculous that he would think that he could. Like, he's talking. Look who he's talking to. Why wouldn't he be like, oh, okay, yeah. [01:01:27] Speaker A: Like, yeah, you're trying to hide it. Like, I mean, he looks like a meatball. [01:01:33] Speaker B: Yeah, he does. [01:01:34] Speaker A: He looks like an old Argentinian, like, tango singer or something. [01:01:41] Speaker B: Just like, sitting and drinking wine in the middle of his vineyard, listening. Listening to a phonograph of some opera. [01:01:48] Speaker A: And Javi does something I did not expect with this man. [01:01:53] Speaker B: What's that? [01:01:55] Speaker A: Well, he becomes him. [01:01:57] Speaker B: Yeah, he becomes him. He. [01:01:59] Speaker A: He. [01:02:00] Speaker B: He says, demon, I need you to give me some of your magic. And so they do a. A handshake. And then. [01:02:06] Speaker A: Then Javi's like, gotcha, sucker. [01:02:08] Speaker B: Yeah. He's like, I am now become you. And he's like, straightening his ties like, I'm dressed like you. [01:02:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:02:16] Speaker B: He's like, I stole some of your illusion powers so nobody thinks I look like a. Like a bad guy. And the. The demon's like, haha, jokes on you. It's only temporary. I was like, yeah, I know. So then he. He leaves, and he's like. He talks to his bodyguards, and he's like, sirs, get my car, please. Oh, also, there is an intruder in my bedroom. And so they go up and they're like, freeze, asshole. And the demon's like, hey, boys, what are you doing? Just stop. Just stop it. And he's got like. He's trying to put his pants on, and they're like, I sat on the ground. He's got a gun, and they just blast him. They blast him. And we Learned that Javi played a trick on the demon that not only did he steal some of his magic to look like him, but he used some of the demon's magic against him and made the demon look like Javi so that he looked like an intruder. [01:03:09] Speaker A: I was like, what the. This is so funny. [01:03:13] Speaker B: And then we get. We get the punch. [01:03:14] Speaker A: So, like, the implications of this at this point and, like, the end of this, I can't even talk about it. [01:03:19] Speaker B: What the. [01:03:20] Speaker A: So, okay, the implication at this point are hobby, like, has switch bodies. It is now they look like Mario of the comic books. That's the implication. [01:03:30] Speaker B: It's like Bob Hoskins. [01:03:31] Speaker A: Yeah, look like Bob Hoskins. [01:03:35] Speaker B: And so then we get the pundits. The pundits talking about how this. This South American drug dealer's son, who has been implicated in all of these murders and shot that guy on camera, has now been found dead in this other gangster's house. And. Yeah, just pundity. They're doing punditry. [01:03:54] Speaker A: Then just like today, you get the only real news. Yeah, the conspiracy theory guy. [01:03:59] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. [01:04:00] Speaker A: That's probably true. The government is just doing this to distract us from the beast. [01:04:06] Speaker B: And then you think we actually went [01:04:07] Speaker A: to that moon, David? [01:04:09] Speaker B: Yeah, we actually. [01:04:10] Speaker A: I do too. People that are like, I don't think NASA exists. They're not going to the moon. Like, yeah, sure, yes, they probably went to the moon. [01:04:19] Speaker B: Just get off it. Get off yourself. So Javi is back at the. Javi is back at the lawyer's house that he. He retained to. To help take care of Linda. And he starts off looking like Javi. And then after he rings the doorbell, necroplasms himself into this guy. [01:04:38] Speaker A: Why is he just going his hobby? [01:04:40] Speaker B: Why is he just going to his hobby? And so the lawyer opens the door, and she's like, who the fuck are you? And he's like, I'm Javi. And she says, don't you fucking. You. You get the fuck out of here. I don't know who you are. And she, like, slams the door in his face. And then she turns around and she's distraught, and she's crying, crying. And then she hears the doorbell ring again. And her mom lets this meatball man in, and she's like, mom, what are you doing? And she's like, this is. This is your friend who you brought over the other day. Don't you recognize him? [01:05:09] Speaker A: I'm calling the police. We learned that they continue their great conversation. Remember, they talk for hours and hours. [01:05:17] Speaker B: Yeah, like. Like their old Friends. And so we learned that this illusion magic is only. Only works on certain people. So certain people will see him as the illusion, and certain people will see him under the illusion. [01:05:31] Speaker A: How do we learn that? Did they say that? [01:05:33] Speaker B: I know it's confusing, but. Wait, did they. I know they said it here. Oh. I don't look like myself to most folks. And that's good. It's what I wanted. So maybe I just read into that. I don't look like myself to most folks. And it's like, but now that Javi's dead, you might be able to help Linda a lot. And she says, damn, you got me thinking. Got the lawyer hat on. And then we cut back. We do a flashback to Javi being lynched and drugged behind the horse. [01:06:16] Speaker A: Famous scene from Gunslinger Spawn number one. [01:06:19] Speaker B: Yeah, well, the. The Spawns universe. [01:06:23] Speaker A: Yes. [01:06:24] Speaker B: One shot where he wakes up surrounded by wolves and, like, grabs his face off a pile of leaves and, like, slaps it back on his face. Yeah. So we. We see here he's getting. He's been drugged by the horse. He gets hauled up into the tree. He gets the Boromir treatment with three arrows right to the chest. Then they leave him in the. The leaves with his face cut off. They even take his identity is what they say. [01:06:54] Speaker A: Then we go completely into a crazy direction. [01:06:57] Speaker B: Yeah. He puts his face back on and, like, heals himself. Like, rides away through the steps and starts, you know, like, remembering Amy. And it's like, amy, why can't I stop thinking about Amy? And then he's like, plague spa. Wait, wait. Why is Plague spawn here? And he's like, exactly what I thought. [01:07:18] Speaker A: Terry. [01:07:19] Speaker B: Why is Terry here? Terry just got shot in the head. What the shit? And then he's like, that. That plague. Plague spawn touched everyone. What's happening? Why are they laughing at me? Who's laughing at him? And Javi just wakes up. He wakes up. He was dreaming, and it was like, whoa. [01:07:34] Speaker A: What? [01:07:35] Speaker B: What the shit? I'm a hell spawn. I don't need to eat. I don't need to dream what the shit's going on. And we learned that, like, everything. [01:07:40] Speaker A: Him being the old him turning into that guy. Yeah. How much of it was a nightmare? I don't know how far was real. [01:07:47] Speaker B: Yeah, well. But it does say here that leaving the lawyer's house is the last of his recollection. But which time? The first time. The second time. [01:07:57] Speaker A: Yes. I thought, too. [01:07:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Who knows? Maybe we'll never know. But. So he wakes up. He wakes up and he's surrounded By [01:08:06] Speaker A: I see the first time. Because otherwise he would look like Mario. [01:08:09] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess. Interesting. I don't know. I don't know. This is so crazy. And so he's just like sitting there and he's like, what the. How the. [01:08:19] Speaker A: Huh? [01:08:19] Speaker B: What? And he, like, looks around and all these animals with glowing eyes and like, what the is this? He's like, those shadows are moving. Holy shit. It's Plague Spawn. They start shooting a plague spawn. He says he's aware that the shadows are moving. Nothing good ever comes from that. The situation is no exception. And the bullets just. They just pass right through Plague Spawn, these bullets. And then he yells, stop at it. And Todd McFarlane, the narration says it doesn't. So Plaguespawn, like, leaps, and then Pano goes black. A feral screech is all that is heard as the thing that touched Gunslinger not long ago finds a way to touch him again. And then they're both gone. And the little. The little dinosaur that hangs around with Javi is just like, huh. [01:09:11] Speaker A: It looks like he's on Halo. Looks like he's in Halo. I know. It's just like a tree, I think, but it looks like he's on a Halo. [01:09:21] Speaker B: Next up, gunslinger number 50. And then we get the necroplasm meter to end the issue, Johnny. And he's very low. He is. He is at 4, 9 for issue 49. Johnny. [01:09:33] Speaker A: Oh, Fan art. [01:09:39] Speaker B: Yeah, we'll get some fan art. We get some cool, cool. Javi. Javi work. It's very nice. Neo moon art. [01:09:47] Speaker A: Like that one with the big chin. Look at that chin. He's like Jay Leno. [01:09:51] Speaker B: The. The one in the bottom, right upright. Well, no, it's got like a. He's got like the. The Grifter mask that's loose on the bottom. [01:09:58] Speaker A: No, that's his chin. I'm interpreting. This is his chin. [01:10:05] Speaker B: Hey, guys. [01:10:06] Speaker A: Hey, guys. You hear about Monica Lucy sucking a dick? She was sucking on a dick. [01:10:13] Speaker B: We got a. We got a monk illustration there. That's pretty cool. Yeah, they're cool as good hobby art. Oh, yeah. You need more Sponge Universe, Johnny. Then don't miss these ongoing titles. We got the Core four there. Are you saying. I figured. [01:10:31] Speaker A: I didn't say. I said. Oh, what? [01:10:33] Speaker B: It's a little sing songy. [01:10:36] Speaker A: Maybe [01:10:39] Speaker B: the Core 4 there. Pretty good. Then we get the Image Classics ad. We get the Spawn Call of Duty ad with that nice cool looking cape he's got. [01:10:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:10:47] Speaker B: With that fabric action. Pretty dope. And that is gunslinger number 49. [01:10:53] Speaker A: Johnny ain't it fine. [01:10:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Just like wine and I love wine. [01:11:00] Speaker A: I like wine with like a steak. I like. I wine like a fancy dinner, but I couldn't drink like a bottle of wine. [01:11:05] Speaker B: I mean, I like wine from time to time. It's nice to switch stuff up. [01:11:10] Speaker A: You're a wino. [01:11:13] Speaker B: I like that strawberry ripple. I really, I really enjoy some, some mulled wine. But the last time I made mulled wine, it fucked up my, my carbon monoxide detector and so we freaked out and so I'm not allowed to make mold winter wine in the house anymore. Yeah. What else is wild, Johnny, is the dogs were actually relatively quiet this episode. So they were. Yeah. So that's not a really good segue for me to say we got to rate these puppies, Johnny. But we gotta, we gotta rate these puppies. [01:11:49] Speaker A: We'd rate them good. [01:11:50] Speaker B: Yeah, rate them real good. [01:11:53] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. First up, we had the digital copy of Gunslinger Deadly tales number 11. Deadly tales of gunslinger number 11. [01:12:07] Speaker B: Deadly deadly gunslinger tales. [01:12:08] Speaker A: 11 of the deadly Tales of the Deadly Gunslinger Tales. [01:12:14] Speaker B: Yes. [01:12:15] Speaker A: Super Mario 2, colon the Galaxy Gunslinger Tales. [01:12:19] Speaker B: Woo. [01:12:21] Speaker A: No, DuckTales was good. [01:12:25] Speaker B: DuckTales is great. [01:12:26] Speaker A: Anything with the Indiana Jones font. If you like, try to do the Indiana Jones font. I was like, I'm on board for that. Sign me up. [01:12:34] Speaker B: Yeah, nice. But yeah, deadly tales number 11. It's good as hell. It's fun. It's literally a Dungeons and Dragons campaign and I'm here for it. And art is super awesome and it's, it's fun, it's gross, it's nasty. It's everything I want in a comic book. [01:12:56] Speaker A: Have you ever read any China Melville? Have you heard of China Melville? [01:13:01] Speaker B: I read one. I'm trying to think. It was like Perdido Street Station. Yeah, Perdido Street Station. [01:13:07] Speaker A: In that there's like a. There's like a little section, like there's like a 200 page section of the book where the main characters just like team up with some like a dungeon dragons. Yeah, it's like awesome. They go into dungeons like. Yeah, it's like a bunch of mercenaries that roam the land. [01:13:22] Speaker B: I haven't read it in a very long time though. Yeah, it's. [01:13:25] Speaker A: The book's devastating. [01:13:26] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't remember. [01:13:29] Speaker A: That's one of the best. Well, I think one of the best twist endings of all times. All times. [01:13:34] Speaker B: All times is. [01:13:34] Speaker A: Is. [01:13:36] Speaker B: But yeah. Gun. Tobias does some cool. Unfortunately, Dr. Zeb gets. Gets the dead treatment. We see Amy. Amy's fury rise. We get to see, you know, the child stealing monsters. Yeah. [01:13:58] Speaker A: And the art, as always. [01:14:00] Speaker B: Yeah. And Tobias and Zania are making a pretty good monster fighting team. [01:14:05] Speaker A: They fight a resident evil boss. [01:14:07] Speaker B: Yeah. They do [01:14:10] Speaker A: a great time reading it, even it was on my fucking phone. [01:14:13] Speaker B: It was good. It was fun. [01:14:16] Speaker A: I'm gonna give it four. Shoot the red weak point to. For extra damage. Out of five. [01:14:23] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. I'm gonna. That's a. It's a good. It's a good one. It's a good one. I'm gonna give it. I'm gonna give it four. [01:14:33] Speaker A: Four. [01:14:35] Speaker B: Mustachioed villain. [01:14:37] Speaker A: Oh, poor Daniel days. [01:14:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Or I drink your milkshakes for beating [01:14:45] Speaker A: to death with a bowling fan. [01:14:49] Speaker B: Drink it up. [01:14:51] Speaker A: Next up, we had Gunslinger 49, which was a kind of like a herky. It's like disjointed. It was like a theme park ride that kept starting and stopping and starting because it's just like, we're going to be this. We're going to be this. And I was like, so I'm like five pages in, like, the implications of this. Javi's just gonna look like this fat guy forever. [01:15:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:15:12] Speaker A: But was that all a dream? [01:15:13] Speaker B: I don't know. I. I honestly. [01:15:15] Speaker A: I took it as the first time he left the lawyer's house. [01:15:19] Speaker B: I took it as the second time, but it makes much more sense for [01:15:22] Speaker A: he doesn't look like the old man anymore. [01:15:24] Speaker B: Yeah, true. It makes much more sense because I also didn't understand, like, the lawyer doesn't leave the door, and then the doorbell goes off, and then somehow her mom opens the door while she's standing in front of it and lets this weirdo [01:15:39] Speaker A: man in and he gets coffee with him. [01:15:43] Speaker B: So, yeah, you're right. It makes much more sense for it to be the first time. [01:15:49] Speaker A: I don't know. [01:15:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:15:51] Speaker A: It's also weird because if it's a nightmare, we see stuff from other people's perspectives, like, we see from the lawyer's perspective. So it's like. It's. It's Jav's nightmare. Why are we seeing it from other people's perspective? I don't know. [01:16:05] Speaker B: I don't know, Johnny. [01:16:07] Speaker A: I'm putting David to sleep. [01:16:10] Speaker B: Just. Just an old man. I turn. [01:16:12] Speaker A: Cut that out. Cut that yawn out. [01:16:14] Speaker B: I just don't. [01:16:15] Speaker A: I don't know. It's just. It is. So you go from, like, him stealing a little. [01:16:20] Speaker B: He's. [01:16:21] Speaker A: He steals this guy's body. [01:16:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:16:23] Speaker A: Then goes. And he said, the Lord is like, look, I got this new body. I'm Gonna save her this way. And then it's weird about it, but, like. But then it's all a dream. [01:16:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:16:32] Speaker A: And it's all about him being touched by. It's like, is this not the crossover event thing, Man? I don't. [01:16:37] Speaker B: I don't know. It's. It confuses the out of me. [01:16:42] Speaker A: You got touched by Plague Spawn. Whatever. I'm gonna give it Carla Barberry. We love you. It was great. [01:16:49] Speaker B: Absolutely. [01:16:51] Speaker A: Aren't I saying it wrong? Is it a Barbary? [01:16:54] Speaker B: Todd McFarlane himself said Barbary, so that's why I've started saying Barbary. [01:16:58] Speaker A: Okay, Carla Barbary. I'm sorry if I've been saying your name wrong for three years, but your art is fantastic and fun. [01:17:08] Speaker B: It absolutely is. [01:17:09] Speaker A: I love all your little characters, but. It ends with, like, his. There's, like, plague spawns here. He's gonna kill you. Like, and, like, he gets, like, stuck in his head. Because, like, plague spawn was just the other issue hanging out in the alley. Like, it's like, okay, yeah. It's like he's, like, sitting there saying a while. People love pike spawn. Like, does anyone likes play Spawn? Do you give a about plague spawn? [01:17:34] Speaker B: I don't. I don't know anybody who gives a. About plague spawn by some guy. Yeah. I don't know. So what are you gonna rate this, Johnny? [01:17:43] Speaker A: I'm gonna rate it two and a half. Keep your shirt off. Out of five. [01:17:49] Speaker B: It's a good. It's a good one. It's a good one. It's the best. The best line in the whole book. I agree, Carla Barbary. Art is fucking awesome, but the story makes zero sense. So I'm gonna give it two confused little dinosaurs wondering where Javi went. [01:18:06] Speaker A: He's hanging on the halo. [01:18:07] Speaker B: He's just like, huh? [01:18:12] Speaker A: And he's like. And like, is that the script? He's like, yeah, the last one put the dinosaur. Then he's looking around. Of course it is. [01:18:24] Speaker B: Oh, that's those puppies. Rated Johnny. [01:18:28] Speaker A: They are. [01:18:29] Speaker B: You know what rates really high in my book, Johnny? [01:18:36] Speaker A: Movies you check out from the library. [01:18:38] Speaker B: Yes, also. [01:18:39] Speaker A: But also the rest of the motorcycle. [01:18:42] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Runaway Ralph was the second one. [01:18:44] Speaker A: Runaway Ralph? [01:18:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. [01:18:47] Speaker A: Labyrinth. [01:18:48] Speaker B: Labyrinth. [01:18:51] Speaker A: Indian in the Cupboard. Sorry for saying. [01:18:53] Speaker B: I was actually just thinking that one, because I'm pretty sure I did check out Indian in the Covered. The Rankin Bass, Hobbit. We watch that one a lot too. The Brave Little Toaster. [01:19:05] Speaker A: Oh, my God. All these. All these educational movies. [01:19:09] Speaker B: Banger after banger after banger. The Secret of Nim Fucking Rock a Doodle. [01:19:15] Speaker A: They have Rover Dangerfield. [01:19:17] Speaker B: I don't. I don't think they had Rover Dangerfield. [01:19:19] Speaker A: I love that movie. [01:19:22] Speaker B: Not to say that it's never been at a library. I just don't think it was at ours. [01:19:25] Speaker A: Libraries have switch games now and shit. [01:19:27] Speaker B: Yeah, they got a lot of cool stuff. But anyway, what else is very cool besides rating puppies and the library is our friends on Instagram in the Spawn Unity. [01:19:39] Speaker A: Yes, yes, yes. [01:19:40] Speaker B: This life. This week we would like to shout out Savannah Prezis sp comic art because she does really good art, Johnny. If you can imagine, she does a lot of Batman. She does a of lot. Lotta. She got some Red Sonja. She got some. Some cool, cool Tooth Fairy, scary tooth fairy stuff. She is currently doing a thing where she's trying to get to 5,000 followers and the part of it is a giveaway for a hand inked spawn art that she has done. So go give her a follow. Try to win some spawn art from. From a very good Instagram artist. And that again, is spcomicart, all one word on Instagram. [01:20:31] Speaker A: We love it. [01:20:32] Speaker B: Yeah, we love it. It's good art. Go, go share the love while you're on Instagram. You should follow us, let us know what you think of us. We're at regardingspawnpod, and if you don't have Instagram but still want to get a hold of us, you can send us an email at. Regarding spawnpodmail.com. you know, yep. Right now I'm still waiting for people to tell me why they deserve to get a trade paperback of the 1993 Violator series. It's. I. I guess it's getting to the point now where if you're the first person to send us an email about it, you're probably gonna get it. [01:21:07] Speaker A: So what's to the AI in Sterling, Virginia that's gonna download us again? If you listen to this and you're curious about reading Spawn, we'll send you it and you can. They'll rip off the pages and put it in a little scanner and you can read it. [01:21:20] Speaker B: Yeah. And then you'll know what a good story is. God damn it. [01:21:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:21:26] Speaker B: Yeah. And then you'll make the Violator movie Based off the 1993 comic book, directed by Sam Raimi. You know what isn't AI though, Johnny? [01:21:38] Speaker A: Oh, I don't. [01:21:40] Speaker B: You don't? [01:21:40] Speaker A: I unfortunately don't anymore. Oh, you know, David, it's good to be in your fucking phone. It's it's like you didn't have to have a smartphone, and then to do anything, you'd have a smartphone. It's like that with AI phones, like the next 10 years. Yeah, I'm not doing that shit. [01:21:54] Speaker B: Yeah, it's fucking stupid. [01:21:56] Speaker A: But you know they're going to push it. [01:21:58] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. I know. I absolutely do. It sucks. It sucks. The world's terrible, and we're going to be unable to do anything about it. Which is why you should listen to Lonnie Bones, because it'll make you forget about this shit for a little bit, [01:22:10] Speaker A: because it's real good. And Lonnie Bones on your little pocket computer. [01:22:16] Speaker B: As far as far as I know, Lonnie bones is not AI. Please, please email us at regarding spawnpod Gmail.com if you know differently. Wait, he lives in Sterling, Virginia, you say what? [01:22:27] Speaker A: No, AI. If AI is listening to this again, you have to email us and tell us you listen to it. [01:22:32] Speaker B: Yes, you have to. I wish I knew. I wish I knew. [01:22:37] Speaker A: Code speak so I could speak THX 1138. [01:22:45] Speaker B: It's a good time. It's a good time. You know what else is a good time, Johnny? [01:22:49] Speaker A: Reading more Spawn. [01:22:50] Speaker B: Reading more Spawn is always a good time. Would you like to maybe read some more Spawn so we can talk about it? So that way the. The AI bots can learn about it down in Stern, Virginia, in about a week or so? [01:23:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:23:00] Speaker B: Well, you want to. Why don't we learn them something real nice, like some salmon twitch and some rat city number 20s. [01:23:07] Speaker A: Oh, I loved. I love. I was gonna say I love the 20s, but I'm like the year. I don't really care for it. I mean, I do. It's kind of fun. It's like prohibition, like all that, you know, you like. [01:23:19] Speaker B: You like doing the Charleston, those things, like 20s. [01:23:22] Speaker A: Like. I like people in their 20s. I don't. No anymore. I'm 40. [01:23:26] Speaker B: I don't want to hang out with anybody under the. [01:23:28] Speaker A: I like a 20 bill. I like a 20. There's nothing like a nice. You know, you see in the ground, you. You find a $20 bill on the ground. That's a good day. [01:23:35] Speaker B: I can't remember the last time I found a $20 bill. [01:23:38] Speaker A: I do. Exactly. When I lived in Chicago, I lived on a busy intersection and there's a wind was blowing like crazy one day, I just look at my back chain link fence and smack against it as a $20 bill. [01:23:48] Speaker B: Nice. [01:23:48] Speaker A: I looked. I looked. Every time I went by that spot, I looked to see if there's a $20 bill. In fact, I look at chain link fences all the time to see if there's any money in them. [01:23:57] Speaker B: You're like. You're like a dog one time who [01:23:59] Speaker A: found it, I found the equivalent of like 25 cents. Now, basically, if in a quarter, you're [01:24:05] Speaker B: like my dogs, when they. They found half a. Half a rotten cheeseburger in one bush, they're always like, the cheeseburger it's gonna be there. [01:24:14] Speaker A: I think we had this exact conversation on this podcast before. [01:24:17] Speaker B: We did. Well, if you want more conversations like this, read yourselves the twenties of both Sam and Twitch, Case files and Rat City, and then come back and listen to us talk about them. We'll probably have this exact same conversation again. Yeah, yeah, we got to reiterate it so they know. $20 bill. Isn't that. What? Isn't that your dad's nickname? Oh, wait, your brother's name is Bill? [01:24:40] Speaker A: It is. But if my dad's name is Bill, they used to call him Dollar Bill at the job he had in the 80s. [01:24:45] Speaker B: I mean, when he was a young buck. Dollar bill in the 80s is worth $20 now. So with inflation, he's now $20 bill. [01:24:57] Speaker A: Yeah, why not? [01:25:00] Speaker B: Don't forget to like, like us. Subscribe to us Rate review. [01:25:06] Speaker A: Review [01:25:08] Speaker B: the rate Rate Review. Recycle. [01:25:11] Speaker A: Tell your friends. [01:25:12] Speaker B: Sterling, Virginia. Your friends tell. Tell your local data center to download us again. [01:25:20] Speaker A: Download us again. Oh, God Almighty. Are you gonna build. They're gonna turn old office buildings because people don't go to the office buildings anymore in the data centers. [01:25:29] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, they just. My hometown of Muskogee is supposed to get a big one in an old office building. Now they're gonna build a whole new campus for it because there's just empty land out there that's cheap as so [01:25:44] Speaker A: near the heat of the land, like 8 degrees [01:25:48] Speaker B: at least. [01:25:54] Speaker A: We live in. We've become like Rat City. In the last, like, six months, we were all just like, sitting around looking at our phones. I'm like, wait, we live in like. [01:26:01] Speaker B: But none of the cool. We don't have the cool haircuts or the neon. [01:26:05] Speaker A: People have cool haircuts. And you know, you can wear whatever the you want now, David Post Covet. You can walk around in a bra and a Scottish kilt and no one would tell you anything. [01:26:19] Speaker B: Well, the problem with wearing a kilt is everybody wants to lift it up and be like, you're wearing underwear under there. You wear underwear under there. [01:26:25] Speaker A: Who wants to do that? You? [01:26:27] Speaker B: No, Pete Every time I have worn a kilt, random strangers will come up to me and be like, what you got? What you got today? [01:26:34] Speaker A: Because the tradition is you don't wear underwear, right? [01:26:36] Speaker B: Yeah, but me, I personally wear underwear because I'm not. [01:26:41] Speaker A: There's like old Irish men just so. [01:26:44] Speaker B: So Wanda used to do cosplay, and she used to make me be a part of her cosplay. And she was really into Outlander for a while. And there was a convention where all of the people from the show Outlander were there. And so she made Outlander costumes for us to be in. My costume had a kilt. We were standing in line to get photos with the cast of Outlander, and there were horny 50 to 60 year old women. Every single one of them was like, boy, let me see what's under your skirt. What? [01:27:18] Speaker A: Whoa. [01:27:19] Speaker B: Old women just want to see young boy skirt. No panties. That's what they want. It was wild. [01:27:28] Speaker A: No panties. [01:27:30] Speaker B: Well, you don't just. You don't just refer to your underwear as panties. I think it's funny to call them panties. [01:27:34] Speaker A: No, boxer briefs. I say, where are my boxer briefs? [01:27:42] Speaker B: No, I say underwear. [01:27:43] Speaker A: I just say underwear. I said just say underwear. [01:27:45] Speaker B: That's still so many more syllables than panties. I need to get my panties on. [01:27:51] Speaker A: I don't like the word panties. [01:27:51] Speaker B: Get your panties out of a twist, Johnny. Come on. I ain't got nothing more to say to you. But. But may the scorch be with you. God damn it. [01:27:58] Speaker A: Well, let me be boxer brief and say. And also with you. [01:28:08] Speaker B: Walked right into that one. [01:28:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:28:12] Speaker B: Oh, man. [01:28:14] Speaker A: So do you want to hear the craziest conspiracy I've heard recently? [01:28:18] Speaker B: What is that? [01:28:19] Speaker A: That when Trump got shot in the ear, at that moment, they replaced it with an alien and like, carted off his body. Like, why would you just do that in public? Why would he just do that? Like when he's sleeping? [01:28:34] Speaker B: That's a massive mess. What? How would the logistics of that even work? [01:28:40] Speaker A: I don't even know. But this guy was like. He was on a radio show I listened to at a WABC New York, and it's a late night show they used to listen to in Chicago, but now I was listening to his podcast the next day and this guy called in, he was like, I believe that when he got shot in that ear and he popped back up, he was an alien from that moment on. And the host was like, uh huh. What makes you believe that? [01:29:08] Speaker B: Imagine having to be the host for a show like that. [01:29:11] Speaker A: I would love it. Oh, that's my dream. That's what I do. David. [01:29:15] Speaker B: Yeah. You get me saying wild shit over here. Yeah, you go. [01:29:21] Speaker A: You say you believed in today? [01:29:24] Speaker B: What did I say? Oh no, it was the. [01:29:27] Speaker A: Oh, it was the ear. [01:29:28] Speaker B: It was. It was the. It was the fake assassination attempt. [01:29:31] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. Getting grill pilled. What do you think about jfk? [01:29:37] Speaker B: What do I think about jfk? [01:29:38] Speaker A: Saran Saron or whoever. Whoever it was. Oh, he's from the Chopra. [01:29:43] Speaker B: I mean, I don't think. I don't think anything good came out of it. No. [01:29:51] Speaker A: You think the official story is like 100. What happened? There's no other powers evolved. Just one guy shot him. [01:30:01] Speaker B: That one's. [01:30:02] Speaker A: Oh, there comes another 100 downloads from the data center. [01:30:05] Speaker B: That one's. That's. That's really hard to believe that it's. That one man could be so lucky. [01:30:11] Speaker A: Remember the Lone Gunman? The X Files spin off? [01:30:15] Speaker B: The three. The three conspiracy theorists, theorist guys? [01:30:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, they were awesome. [01:30:19] Speaker B: They were fun. I never watched the spin off, but I liked the episode. [01:30:23] Speaker A: There was an episode where they prevented a plane being run into a building before 9 11. I'm not kidding. That's true. [01:30:31] Speaker B: Well, I mean like you know that like they were making Lilo and Stitch around the time of 9 11. [01:30:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:30:36] Speaker B: And the original, the original like final sequence of Lilo and Stitch was a big jumbo jet flying around downtown Honolulu. Like barely missing buildings, mountains. [01:30:47] Speaker A: Changes to mountains. [01:30:48] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [01:30:50] Speaker A: And the Spider man trailer. [01:30:51] Speaker B: Remember the original Spider man trailer? The. The web in between the towers in, in seventh grade? No, I guess it was eighth grade. We didn't have English class. We had writing class. We just had to write like we got a prompt at the beginning of class and we just had to write against it. [01:31:07] Speaker A: Who was your teacher? Fucking William Shakespeare? [01:31:10] Speaker B: Her name was Mrs. Jones. [01:31:11] Speaker A: Okay? [01:31:12] Speaker B: And she was. She was mean until you got to know her. And then she was fucking lovely. But. But one day we had to write an argument about something that we didn't like and like, just something we didn't like that had happened. And I wrote. I wrote a little paper about how I thought they just should have fucking kept the Twin Towers in fucking Spider man and not have it taken an extra year to come out. Because why erase the. Why erase our history? Don't let the terrorists win. That was basically my whole paper. So don't let the terrorists win, Johnny. [01:31:44] Speaker A: We know who, who agrees with you. [01:31:46] Speaker B: Who's that? [01:31:47] Speaker A: Steven Spielberg. Because he left the ruins of them in AI which came out after 9 11. [01:31:53] Speaker B: Also fucking Martin Scorsese saying he's never going to take the Twin Towers out of the end of Gangster New York because it's a story about where we come from and not, you know, letting people beat us down and forget our pasts. [01:32:08] Speaker A: Well, there's a good bookend to two issues of a western comic book, which only one of them I would consider a western. [01:32:15] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. The other one is a little bit of a. It's become a little daze of our lives. [01:32:21] Speaker A: It reminds me of, like. I don't think. I think the tough one's on crocodile or something. Smoking that K2 or something. It reminds me. What it reminds me is. It reminds me of one time I bought K2 at a gas station when they're selling Oklahoma before they stopped selling a gas station. It's that brief time. And that was. That was the shit that was like. It was literally like potpourri from Pier 1. They spray painted with, like a chemical agent. [01:32:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:32:44] Speaker A: Like that's what it looked like. [01:32:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:32:46] Speaker A: And it reminds me of that excellent. Sa.