Episode 51 - King Spawn 10 and Gunslinger 20

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Come on. [00:00:01] Speaker B: Let's hit the trail. Good evening, and welcome to the Malbolge. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. [00:00:42] Speaker A: I'm your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:44] Speaker C: And I'm your co host, David Williams. [00:00:47] Speaker D: And I'm a guest, Bran Morehead. [00:00:51] Speaker B: Look at that. [00:00:52] Speaker A: We got a guest, man. Wow. [00:00:55] Speaker C: We've got toy party. [00:00:56] Speaker D: Wait, am I the first guest? [00:00:58] Speaker B: You're our second guest. [00:00:59] Speaker A: Oh, word. Word. [00:01:00] Speaker D: Okay, the first pressure. [00:01:02] Speaker B: Logan Branham. And we were both in the closet recording because Logan doesn't own a computer. And we almost killed each other because we ran out of oxygen. [00:01:12] Speaker D: Wait, Logan doesn't have a computer? [00:01:15] Speaker A: No. [00:01:16] Speaker B: Okay, he has a cell phone and a microphone, but not a computer. [00:01:20] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:01:22] Speaker B: So, Logan, we're telling our listeners, get a computer. Start harassing Logan on Instagram to get a computer so we can have him back. [00:01:32] Speaker A: Nothing like a public shaming. [00:01:35] Speaker B: Nothing like a public. [00:01:40] Speaker C: I said try that in a small town. [00:01:42] Speaker A: No. [00:01:44] Speaker C: Are you not on that controversy? Some country star basically made a pro lynching song. [00:01:50] Speaker D: Jason Aldean isn't very recently, like, three or four days. That's like the. I think that that's the most extreme reaction you can have, is to say that it's a pro lynching song. But it is a shitty song, and. [00:02:09] Speaker A: That'S bad I can curse on, right? Yes. Yes. [00:02:13] Speaker D: Okay, great. [00:02:14] Speaker C: Our mothers both listen to this show, but we don't have it. Johnny brought up a rather lewd thing last. Don't you remember? Trenches and towers? Trenches? [00:02:26] Speaker A: No. [00:02:27] Speaker B: It's holes and poles, baby. [00:02:28] Speaker D: Poles and poles. [00:02:30] Speaker B: Everyone's got a hole or a pole. [00:02:34] Speaker C: Oh, man. [00:02:35] Speaker A: Both. [00:02:39] Speaker B: At the same time. Well, welcome, everyone. Welcome to regarding Spawn, where each week we discuss two issues from Spawn's universe. And this week, we are covering two really awesome issues, actually. Especially King Spawn. [00:02:53] Speaker A: Great. They're great. [00:02:54] Speaker B: Real good stuff. So that is a long way of saying we are covering for our classic today, king Spawn number ten, all the way from May 2022. And then our more modern issue is gunslinger 20, all the way back from the far off land of May 2023. [00:03:11] Speaker A: So they're about a year apart here. [00:03:13] Speaker B: And this is special because this is our last of the classic, quote, unquote, king spawns. After this issue, we'll just be caught up and just be doing the ones that are coming out, the more modern. So shed a tear for the loss of classic king Spawn, because now we're all caught. You know, if you only listen for King Spawn, I guess you can quit listening or only listen once a month. [00:03:37] Speaker A: Yeah, once a month. It's like going to the comic shop. [00:03:39] Speaker C: Once a month to buy the one title you want. [00:03:41] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:03:43] Speaker A: So, Brad, what is your history with Mr. [00:03:47] Speaker B: Spawn, Mr. Al Simmons? Did you like it growing up? Did you like the movie, or what is your history? Just curious. [00:03:54] Speaker D: With Spawn, I don't have a whole lot of it. I remember all the figurines, like, whenever they were. I guess whenever they were new in the 90s. Really scared me, especially the violator. These guys are fucked up. [00:04:10] Speaker A: And as a result, was, like, a. [00:04:14] Speaker D: Little too squigged out, I think, to ever watch the movie when it was on HBO or Cinemax or whatever. So I've never seen the classic movie, and I've pretty much only read. [00:04:29] Speaker A: Comics. [00:04:29] Speaker D: That you've given to me. So the first ten episodes, I've read all ten of the king spawn in prep for today, plus this gunslinger. And I think I read one more at your house one time, and I could not tell you. Maybe it was a medieval. [00:04:45] Speaker A: Who can say? Maybe. [00:04:47] Speaker B: Who knows? [00:04:48] Speaker D: Kingspawn is pretty tight, though. And we were talking the other day about whichever soul caliber that Spawn appears in, right? [00:05:01] Speaker C: He appears in soul caliber two. [00:05:02] Speaker D: And one of the soul calibers. I think it's soul caliber two. [00:05:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:07] Speaker D: And it's the one that they did like. GameCube got link from Legend of Zelda, Xbox 360 got Spawn, and. [00:05:16] Speaker A: Oh, fuck. [00:05:16] Speaker D: We just figured this out the other day. I can't remember what it was. [00:05:19] Speaker B: It was originally supposed to be cloud, but something got fucked up, and it was the guy from Tekken. [00:05:25] Speaker D: Yeah, PlayStation got the guy from Tekken whose name I am not going to butcher or try to remember it. [00:05:31] Speaker C: His name is Tekken. [00:05:32] Speaker B: I've never been a Tekken man. I've never been a Tekken man. I'm sorry. [00:05:35] Speaker D: Tekken Tom. [00:05:37] Speaker B: Tekken Tom. [00:05:38] Speaker A: Everyone's favorite nickname. [00:05:40] Speaker C: I wonder what his top ten friends were. [00:05:42] Speaker A: Tekken Tom. Oh, yeah. Wow. [00:05:46] Speaker C: Myspace jokes. [00:05:48] Speaker A: We're old men. [00:05:50] Speaker B: Scantily clad girl with sticks. [00:05:52] Speaker A: I remember her. I remember. [00:05:54] Speaker B: Scantily clad girl with sticks and young guy. [00:05:58] Speaker A: That's all I remember from Tekken. Yeah. [00:06:00] Speaker D: I always thought out of all the incredibly japanese fighting games, theirs were sort of the least interesting character designs. They're mostly just like people, right? They don't have, like, street Fighter. There's, like, people, but they're insane looking. And then there's, like, Blanca, who's a green man, has mountain dew colors. [00:06:25] Speaker B: He's electric green man. [00:06:28] Speaker C: Was Tekken the cabinet that you could sit down at to play? Or is that like, the japanese version of Street Fighter. I can't remember which one it was. [00:06:38] Speaker B: Those little shorter cabinets. Those are the japanese versions of arcade cabinets. [00:06:42] Speaker C: Okay, so just all of them? [00:06:45] Speaker B: Yeah, they have a bunch of those at Logan Hardware. Those, like, white shorter ones? [00:06:49] Speaker C: Yeah. Those are always fun. [00:06:52] Speaker A: Those guys who just, like, post up. [00:06:55] Speaker C: At those, they're not moving for hours. [00:06:57] Speaker A: Cigarettes? Yeah, man, smoke some. [00:07:01] Speaker D: Like, it's like your grandma at video poker. Just like hitting the know until, with the lanyard click. [00:07:09] Speaker C: You get the free drink every once in a while. [00:07:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:07:13] Speaker D: You know, most casinos don't even do that anymore. What has America come to? [00:07:16] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:07:18] Speaker C: Well, I mean, America's come to Venita is supposed to be. The new Disney world is supposed to be built in Venita. [00:07:25] Speaker D: This is my hometown. What David is referring to in northeastern Oklahoma. Just announcing a America's heartland themed theme park. It's pretty funny that they're like, it's going to be $2 billion and it's going to rival Disney World. And it's like, you have no idea how much Disney World costs if you think $2 billion is going to do it. [00:07:46] Speaker C: But say they can't even keep frontier city from catching on fire in the summer, they're not going to be able to do anything with $2 billion. [00:07:52] Speaker D: And it might be the same company because I know it's a bunch of, like, Branson investors that are affiliated with silver dollar City, and I'm pretty sure they own Frontier city, too. [00:08:00] Speaker A: Oh, man. [00:08:01] Speaker C: Never gotten food poisoning in my life like I got at Frontier City. [00:08:04] Speaker A: Oh, boy. [00:08:05] Speaker D: I believe that. [00:08:06] Speaker C: Don't get the taco salad. [00:08:07] Speaker A: Don't get it. [00:08:09] Speaker D: Don't get any romaine lettuce. [00:08:11] Speaker C: I would say I got sick while waiting in line for the Whitewater rapids thing. So we stood in line for like an hour, and then I was like, can't do it. [00:08:21] Speaker A: Got to go. Oh, man. [00:08:22] Speaker B: We used to go there a lot. [00:08:23] Speaker A: Frontier city, or that was silver dollar City. [00:08:26] Speaker C: Silver dollar City's in. [00:08:28] Speaker D: Silver dollar city's in Branson or outside of Branson. [00:08:30] Speaker A: Okay. [00:08:31] Speaker B: That's the one I went to. I never went to Frontier City. [00:08:33] Speaker D: Frontier City is the Oklahoma City one. Yeah, I went, like, once. [00:08:37] Speaker C: The cool thing about it is you can look all the way up the interstate when you're on the roller coasters. [00:08:43] Speaker A: Clear view. [00:08:44] Speaker B: I just don't understand. Are they going to build a bunch of hotels as well? Because it's going to be business. Disney World, you have to have, like, a shitload of hotels. [00:08:51] Speaker D: I have no idea. I read an article in the Tulsa world yesterday about it, too, about, oh, the Tulsa commerce person is excited about the possibilities for tourism and stuff, and it was like, the Tulsa International airport is planning ahead, too, and they're like, yeah, we're not really concerned about that right now, but maybe one day, who knows? I can't wait until it's an abandoned theme park on my hometown, because whether it gets constructed fully or not, that's what it will be. [00:09:22] Speaker C: You know, it'll be big when the mcdonald's across the highway starts building a second arch. [00:09:28] Speaker D: There you go. [00:09:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:30] Speaker C: Is that still the world's biggest? Because there was one in bigger. [00:09:34] Speaker D: Yeah, Russia. Of course, they're not included as a part of the world now, according to the western nations. [00:09:39] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:09:39] Speaker C: I guess all the fast food chains pulled out of Russia, and there's now just russian versions of it. [00:09:45] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, that's right. Oh, my God. [00:09:49] Speaker A: Ridiculous. Yeah. [00:09:51] Speaker B: We did a terrible job of introducing Bran. [00:09:54] Speaker D: Yeah, we're just talking now. [00:09:56] Speaker B: No brand. So, Bran, who are you? [00:10:01] Speaker D: What am I? [00:10:03] Speaker A: Explain yourself. [00:10:07] Speaker B: You're a podcaster. [00:10:08] Speaker D: I was a podcast producer for the entirety of the pandemic, just like everybody else. [00:10:15] Speaker C: We waited till it was over. [00:10:16] Speaker D: It's still out there. Yeah. We have about 50 episodes, I think, between the Patreon and non Patreon eps. It's called movie the Musical. I did it with a brilliant theater maker and friend named Ben K. Yeah. Ben is a filmmaker and theater professional here in Chicago, and I am also a theater entertainment professional in Chicago. I grew up in Oklahoma, as you probably alluded. Figured out by the last conversation we were just having. And I've known David and John for, gosh, like, 16 years or 17 years now. 2006 was seven was 17 years ago. Jesus. [00:11:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:02] Speaker C: We met in college. [00:11:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Holy crap. [00:11:06] Speaker D: That's a long time. Yeah. And that movie, the musical. Yeah, like I said, it's still out there. We talked about movies that were adapted into musical theater shows as opposed to. So not west side Story, but Shrek the musical. We got about 50 episodes. Spoiler alert for that whole podcast. Most musicals based on movies are absolute dog shit. That's the general rule. Yeah. [00:11:42] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:11:43] Speaker D: Need anything else for an intro? I think that I'm a nerd. I play a lot of video games. [00:11:48] Speaker B: I saw a article recommended to me the other day just in the algorithm. That was how Beetlejuice the musical became a Gen Z smash. I didn't read it, but I just thought it was a really funny headline. [00:12:06] Speaker C: Yeah, those zoomers love themselves some Beetlejuice. [00:12:11] Speaker A: Of course. [00:12:11] Speaker D: They're filming the second one right now, you know? [00:12:13] Speaker B: I know. Oh, God. [00:12:15] Speaker D: Well, actually, they're not because of the. [00:12:16] Speaker A: Strike, but they were before the strike. [00:12:20] Speaker B: Yeah. They were just like, well, he was back in Batman, so I guess we have to do Beetlejuice now. [00:12:24] Speaker A: He's back. [00:12:25] Speaker D: Yeah, pretty much. I have no idea. No. I do think part of it was driven by the success of the musical and the popularity of it made a ton of money. [00:12:35] Speaker A: And they did an online campaign to. [00:12:39] Speaker D: Get it revived after it closed in the pandemic. [00:12:43] Speaker A: And I believe that was that one. [00:12:45] Speaker D: I'm sorry if I'm wrong. It's, like, wildly popular. [00:12:49] Speaker C: There was also, like, a massive uproar when they got kicked out of their theater. [00:12:53] Speaker A: Right. [00:12:56] Speaker D: There was somewhat of one. It was like I say, it was just associated. That same thing of. For whatever reason, people just love that fucking show. I think it's one of the worst ones we talked about, in my opinion. I think the music and the. God love him. The actor, I think, who plays beetlejuice is very talented. And also, that is the most grating performance. It is just awful. Oh, my God. [00:13:25] Speaker B: I listened to a little bit of it. [00:13:26] Speaker C: It's entirely too self aware. [00:13:31] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just like, speaking of spooky. [00:13:33] Speaker D: But this isn't a show about musicals. [00:13:36] Speaker B: Green sometimes. [00:13:38] Speaker A: Let's talk some spawn. [00:13:40] Speaker B: So King Spawn is a little background for you. Brand Kingspawn is a kind of the flagship spin off series from the main spawn, because there's still a title just called Spawn. Kingspawn is kind of like its dark and gritty cousin. It was a new jumping on point, just a little more modern, as you know from reading it. But this is issue ten. This is a big one, because I. [00:14:05] Speaker A: Remember getting it, and it had that. [00:14:08] Speaker B: Black on the COVID On the a cover, it says black, white, and red all over. [00:14:13] Speaker A: And I was like, whoa. And it is. [00:14:15] Speaker B: It's a black, white, and red. [00:14:17] Speaker D: Just like the newspapers. [00:14:19] Speaker A: Exactly. Everyone's favorite riddle. [00:14:25] Speaker B: Yeah, this is awesome. So we always start out talking the just. I shot you those cover pictures over. So it's this Javi Fernandez cover that might be in the trade paperback too. [00:14:34] Speaker A: I'm not sure. [00:14:35] Speaker D: Yeah, it is. [00:14:37] Speaker B: But it's awesome. It's just spawn on the throne with, like, his horns going. [00:14:42] Speaker A: And the B cover on this one. [00:14:45] Speaker B: Is just a sketch version, which is just like, what is that page called, David? Like, a proof page, or. [00:14:52] Speaker A: What is that called? It's the one I have. [00:14:55] Speaker C: I don't know, it's thick, like construction paper thick. [00:14:59] Speaker B: No, I'm talking about. Oh, sorry. I meant on the sketchbook. It has, like, that outline where it's, like, comic page and, like, a number on it. You know what? [00:15:09] Speaker C: Oh, I don't know what it's called, but I know what you're talking about. [00:15:12] Speaker D: It's called a layout, maybe. [00:15:14] Speaker A: Layout? Yeah, it is called a layout. [00:15:16] Speaker B: Yes. The sketch cover has, like, a layout on the edges, and then David has the super exciting cover, the blank one. [00:15:25] Speaker D: Whoa. [00:15:26] Speaker C: It's got nothing on it. [00:15:27] Speaker D: It's got nothing tight. [00:15:29] Speaker C: So you take it. [00:15:30] Speaker B: They always release those around may every year so that you can get people to draw on them at San Diego Comic Con. [00:15:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:39] Speaker B: So every may, they do one blank of each one. And then. So because comic cons, and just a lot of cons in the summer, but. [00:15:46] Speaker A: Mainly, for sure, is it usually white. [00:15:49] Speaker D: And this one was black, or is that usually black? [00:15:51] Speaker C: Yeah, usually they're white, but so far, the only ones I know of that have done the black blank covers have. [00:15:58] Speaker A: Been the spawn series. That's cool. Yeah. [00:16:01] Speaker B: So you can take them and get someone to draw you a spawn or a violator or a clown or something. [00:16:07] Speaker C: Or something completely unrelated or something completely unrelated. [00:16:11] Speaker A: Or like, johnny penis. [00:16:14] Speaker C: Johnny could go get his tattoo idea. [00:16:16] Speaker A: Put on a comic book. [00:16:18] Speaker B: The procom signathis smoking the pipe. [00:16:20] Speaker A: Dresses as a ship's captain. [00:16:23] Speaker B: I would definitely get that on a comic book. Find the right artist. That's what I get on comic books, is just the dinosaur from the lost world smoking a pipe. Perfect. But, yeah, the real cover is Javi Fernandez, and he also is the artist here on Spawn. This issue of King Spawn has been always is the script plot by Sean Lewis, with additional script by Todd McFarlane. [00:16:49] Speaker C: I couldn't clock it this time. [00:16:51] Speaker A: Johnny. What's up? I couldn't. [00:16:53] Speaker C: I couldn't clock what the additional script was this time. [00:16:56] Speaker B: I couldn't clock it. This feels like all Sean Lewis. I didn't see any Todd father peppering. [00:17:00] Speaker A: In there with his signature exact times. [00:17:04] Speaker B: This is a pretty tight issue. [00:17:07] Speaker C: Gunslinger, on the other hand. [00:17:11] Speaker B: So art by Javi Fernandez, lettering by. [00:17:14] Speaker A: Anne world design cover artist Javi Fernandez. Yeah, and then we got Tod and. [00:17:21] Speaker B: Thomas as creative director and editor in chief. [00:17:24] Speaker A: Yeah, they do it. [00:17:27] Speaker B: Okay, so. [00:17:28] Speaker A: Hem. [00:17:28] Speaker B: Previously in King Spawn, spawn travels into Greenworld at the invitation of Gaia. Once there, he is attacked by the heap and Simon the Kingslayer. After surviving the crucible, Gaia gives spawn a grave warning. [00:17:45] Speaker C: Also shows him a grave. [00:17:47] Speaker B: Also shows him a pun. So, yeah, since you are reading the trade paperback brand, you don't have that. There's a little previously in King Spawn issue, but it's always interesting because David's been reading the trade paperback for some of the older spawns. So it's fun to see the little differences because there'll be editorial differences a little bit, or, like, clean some stuff up, or just the little things you get in the issue versus the trade paperback. [00:18:13] Speaker C: Or they will have small issues with placing things for the trade paperback. So some things will be duplicated. [00:18:20] Speaker A: It's very weird. Very weird. Yeah. [00:18:24] Speaker B: Comics are a crazy industry, if you think about it. You got four things you have to create a month, every month, and it never stops. [00:18:31] Speaker A: It's almost like a podcast. [00:18:33] Speaker D: It's gripping for real. [00:18:35] Speaker B: Much more grippy, a lot harder, I. [00:18:37] Speaker D: Imagine, but requires much more visual element. Of course, there's planning involved in podcasts. You just kind of. I mean, it's not easy, but you do just kind of talk about what. [00:18:48] Speaker A: The fuck you want to. [00:18:49] Speaker B: The only planning is planning to get fucked by the tech and trying to figure it out. [00:18:53] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:18:54] Speaker D: Allowing enough time to have to restart whatever video chat software you're using three times. [00:19:01] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:19:01] Speaker D: And then editing it and realizing that you are lacking one guest's entire audio or something. [00:19:08] Speaker A: Oh, that's always fun. [00:19:09] Speaker D: Nightmare. That's why we used to. Well, I'll tell you that later. I'm not going to talk about nerdy fucking recording tips on this. While we're chatting here, we're talking about. [00:19:23] Speaker C: Our. We do have that one Apple podcast review of it sounds like we recorded in an alley. [00:19:30] Speaker A: So, yeah, our first review, back when. [00:19:36] Speaker B: We had really shitty audio, was seriously need to get audio worked out. [00:19:40] Speaker C: It was still four stars, though. [00:19:43] Speaker B: It's a good spontal Bowery alley, which I assumed is a typo of bad audio. It's a good spontal Bowery alley, and. [00:19:54] Speaker D: I think Bowery Alley, and I think. [00:19:57] Speaker B: You were supposed to say bad audio, and it just autocorrected or some stupid thing. So I made the joke of, like, well, you can't even write a comment. [00:20:08] Speaker D: Is the Bowery alley. I feel like that's a comic book place. I know it's not crime Alley. That's where Batman's parents get shot. The Bowery is maybe a. I mean, I know it's a real place in New York City also, but I feel like that's a comic book location. [00:20:24] Speaker C: In Spawn, they have what they start referring to as Spawn Alley. It's either Rad Alley or Spawn alley. [00:20:31] Speaker A: Depending on which issue you read. [00:20:33] Speaker C: We think that might have been what. [00:20:35] Speaker A: They were going for, but whatever. It's fine. [00:20:38] Speaker D: Interesting. [00:20:38] Speaker A: We fixed it. We fixed it. [00:20:40] Speaker B: We sound fixed it. [00:20:43] Speaker A: So speaking of fixing, we got and Alley, this issue opens with Terry fixing. [00:20:50] Speaker B: To do some stuff. [00:20:51] Speaker A: He follows the student to the alley. [00:20:54] Speaker B: He follows the student to Alley. Do the classic, I'm going to kill. [00:20:57] Speaker A: This dude and take his suit and. [00:21:02] Speaker B: Dress up as him to get into the exodus building. [00:21:06] Speaker A: So when we last left them, this. [00:21:09] Speaker B: Is the middle of the second arc. [00:21:11] Speaker A: In kind of king spawn here with the quarter priests. And last time we saw Al, he. [00:21:17] Speaker B: Was just in the green world, and we didn't really know what Terry was up. [00:21:23] Speaker D: Greenworld's tight. [00:21:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:25] Speaker B: Cool. [00:21:25] Speaker C: Green world's awesome. [00:21:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:26] Speaker D: I think the last time, Gaia, I. [00:21:28] Speaker B: Think she's the big bad pretty much right now. Or, like, not the big bad, but the big threat of, like, yeah, let's just wipe all this out, guys. [00:21:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:38] Speaker B: That's kind of what's going on across all the books right now. [00:21:40] Speaker C: We learned that she is the mother to both God and the. [00:21:48] Speaker A: Lot. [00:21:48] Speaker C: She's threatening to take all of their toys away from them. And those toys are just. [00:21:56] Speaker B: And so Terry's going to go in, he's going to hear these rumors of this God throne. [00:22:02] Speaker A: And we're not sure quite what he's. [00:22:05] Speaker B: Up to, but he definitely wants to. [00:22:06] Speaker A: Go check it out. But it was a cool. [00:22:08] Speaker B: I don't know. I like the decision in this issue. [00:22:10] Speaker A: To do the red, white, and black. [00:22:13] Speaker B: It's fun because it was issue ten. [00:22:14] Speaker A: Yeah, it's real good. [00:22:16] Speaker C: It gives it. They definitely are. [00:22:20] Speaker A: I think having the first panel be. [00:22:22] Speaker C: In Chinatown is intentional, because it puts it kind of in that super noir y state and just makes. It makes the black and white work so much more. [00:22:30] Speaker B: I don't know. It looks like some good restaurants. [00:22:33] Speaker A: Oh, it does. [00:22:33] Speaker C: I'd go town. [00:22:34] Speaker B: I'm actually going to Chinatown on Wednesday with some friends that are in town. [00:22:37] Speaker A: Oh, hell yeah. [00:22:39] Speaker C: I watched them butcher a turtle eggs at one of those grocery stores. [00:22:43] Speaker A: Oh, whoa. [00:22:43] Speaker C: It was wild. [00:22:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, wow. A tortoise. [00:22:50] Speaker C: It was an actual turtle, not a tortoise. [00:22:53] Speaker B: Cannibal holocaust. Shit. I've seen that on cannibal Holocaust. [00:22:56] Speaker D: Well, that's what I thought of too well. But this one was somebody butcher a snake in actual. In Shanghai. [00:23:03] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:23:03] Speaker D: That was pretty gnarly. [00:23:05] Speaker C: Nice. Those things wriggle a lot afterward. [00:23:08] Speaker D: Sure did. [00:23:09] Speaker A: Oh, boy. Yeah. [00:23:10] Speaker B: I don't know where we're eating my friends. It's Corey, who's much better at than I is deciding. So we're just going to go down for lunch, and then I get to go see Thomas the musical that night. [00:23:24] Speaker D: Thomas the musical. [00:23:26] Speaker B: It'll be a banner day. Some of us know it as. [00:23:34] Speaker D: Dad. You're doing that Wednesday. Cool. [00:23:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:37] Speaker C: I thought you meant Thomas the tank engine. And I was like, hell, yeah. [00:23:41] Speaker B: It was just called Thomas, and it's, like, all in steel, like, with rivets in the font. [00:23:50] Speaker C: One of the songs is choreographed. Like the cyber goths under the viaduct. [00:23:57] Speaker D: Yes. Perfect. Thomas, he's off the rails. [00:24:02] Speaker B: I mean, there is another train musical, so there is precedent for it. [00:24:07] Speaker A: Yeah, there is Starlight Express. Not based on a movie. [00:24:13] Speaker B: We do talk a lot. We bring up Angela Weber quite a bit on this show and musical. [00:24:18] Speaker D: That's not surprising. I also know you bring up the prequel trilogy, and I won't derail us that far. But I did want to say that he's looking a lot like Darth Maul in this. Yeah, he's looking very molly. His crown. [00:24:34] Speaker A: You know, I can see maul sitting on a throne. [00:24:36] Speaker B: He probably does that in clone wars. Doesn't he sit on a throne? [00:24:39] Speaker D: Yeah, especially after he doesn't have any legs. [00:24:41] Speaker B: Yeah, he's doing a lot of sitting. [00:24:43] Speaker D: He's doing a lot of sitting. [00:24:45] Speaker C: After a time, he gets the spider y legs, so he's kind of always on a throne. Yeah, he gets spider legs. And then they find a droid maker to make him actual legs. Him and his brother, savage oppress. [00:25:04] Speaker D: I love that. What alien species is. [00:25:08] Speaker A: Oh, I should have known. [00:25:10] Speaker C: I thought of this because they're from. Yeah, they're from the same planet that the witches are from, but I can't remember. [00:25:19] Speaker B: It's zabrak or zabaric. [00:25:21] Speaker A: I can't remember how to pronounce it. [00:25:24] Speaker C: Cool, because they're from Dathomir. [00:25:26] Speaker D: Dathomir. The Dathomere witches. Yeah, that's what it is. [00:25:29] Speaker B: Yeah, those are cool. They were in Jedi fallen order. [00:25:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:32] Speaker D: So are the zaboraxes, the Zorax, or whatever they're called. [00:25:37] Speaker A: Zorax. [00:25:40] Speaker B: Well, it was interesting because there were always that species. There was a jet yassi. There you go. David's laughing on that species. [00:25:47] Speaker A: There was one council, and there was. [00:25:49] Speaker B: Darth Maul, and people just kind of guessed, is this the same species? That guy just doesn't have the tattoos, and no one knew. And then they did confirm that they are tatoos. [00:25:58] Speaker D: Lucas was like, yeah, totally. [00:26:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:04] Speaker C: I have one job on this podcast, and that's to not let Johnny talk about Star wars for 3 hours. [00:26:10] Speaker A: Fair. [00:26:11] Speaker B: No, it's okay. So Terry's going in. We're not sure what he's up to, but he's going to this exodus building. [00:26:18] Speaker A: He uses janitor's key to get up. [00:26:20] Speaker B: To the secret floor, which. God damn it. Speaking of Star wars, it's 66. [00:26:25] Speaker C: It is, yeah. Also later on, there'll be another Star wars reference later on. [00:26:31] Speaker A: Put a pin in it, Johnny. Execute. [00:26:34] Speaker B: Floor 66. [00:26:35] Speaker A: 66. [00:26:37] Speaker B: This is so funny. I love that. Just like we need an evil floor. [00:26:41] Speaker D: 66. Yeah. They're like six. [00:26:43] Speaker A: Six. [00:26:43] Speaker D: Six is too ridiculous. [00:26:45] Speaker C: Six isn't evil enough. [00:26:47] Speaker D: Would be a real floor. [00:26:48] Speaker A: So we'll go with that. [00:26:51] Speaker D: I love the texture. I love how much because this is in black and white, especially the little detail, like the little close up shit. All the texture just pops so much more than I think it does. [00:27:05] Speaker A: Oh yeah. [00:27:06] Speaker D: In color. [00:27:06] Speaker B: Because we see all the little comic books, little dots and stuff. [00:27:10] Speaker D: Yeah, it's so good. [00:27:11] Speaker C: Yeah. The, what's now considered obsolete technology that Javi Fernandez really likes. What are they called? [00:27:19] Speaker B: A lot of physical duo shade sheets. [00:27:21] Speaker A: Is that what they're called? Yeah, Duo shades. [00:27:24] Speaker B: He uses a lot of, like, he'll use spray paint. He'll use just like all kinds of. [00:27:28] Speaker A: Different materials, which is really cool. That is cool. [00:27:32] Speaker D: Instead of just doing digital, whatever he wants digitally. [00:27:36] Speaker A: Yeah, I do like that. [00:27:39] Speaker C: When Terry steps off the elevator, all of the lights are off. [00:27:43] Speaker A: I always like, just like office buildings. [00:27:46] Speaker C: Where everything is dark. It's like nobody's doing anything there. [00:27:50] Speaker A: Why are the lights on? So empty. So empty. [00:27:54] Speaker C: Except for. [00:27:55] Speaker A: Then you get. [00:27:55] Speaker B: Except for Ab and Zab. Ab and Zab were two very 90s demons that came out around 1999. 2000 is when they were kind of introduced in the comics and they were. [00:28:10] Speaker A: Introduced talking about, I'm pretty sure pulp fiction. [00:28:14] Speaker B: They're like movies. It was very 1999 cool. Which is hilarious. [00:28:19] Speaker A: But they're just two deep. [00:28:21] Speaker D: Ab and Zab. [00:28:23] Speaker B: Yeah, they have like longer. It's like Abba Cadabra and Zaba. [00:28:28] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:28:28] Speaker B: They're probably biblical names, but I don't remember. [00:28:31] Speaker C: It's just Abba Zababar. [00:28:34] Speaker D: I don't think that's a biblical name. [00:28:38] Speaker C: Speaking of, I remember Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. [00:28:42] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, those are some cool names. [00:28:44] Speaker C: They danced in the fire, Johnny, and didn't get burned. [00:28:47] Speaker A: They sure did. [00:28:49] Speaker D: Veggie tails taught me that. [00:28:51] Speaker B: Is that what happened to them? They got put in a. [00:28:56] Speaker D: Were. Well, because they were jewish. The king or whatever throws them into the. Puts them in, like, the furnace. Or the oven. [00:29:04] Speaker C: Yeah, I think it's a bread oven. [00:29:05] Speaker A: I think it's a bread. [00:29:06] Speaker D: I think you're right. I think he's like, you're getting baked, bitch. And he puts them in there. I'm pretty sure this king liked burning people, too. I think that that was, like, the first part of the story is he's like, I love burning. That's what I do to people that I don't like. [00:29:24] Speaker A: And then they see. Yeah. [00:29:27] Speaker D: That the big part of the story is that their faith was so strong. The king or the guard or whatever looks in and can see them in the flames. [00:29:35] Speaker C: I think they're supposed to be dancing instead of writhing. [00:29:38] Speaker D: Instead of writhing, they're dancing around and they're not consumed by the flame. [00:29:43] Speaker C: I remember that it's a bread oven because I always imagined that they were wearing bread as shoes while they danced. I don't know where that came from, but it seemed important at the time. [00:29:55] Speaker A: That's awesome. That would be great. [00:29:58] Speaker D: Such a good visual. That's amazing. [00:30:03] Speaker C: Oh, man. [00:30:05] Speaker D: Ab and Zab are dabbing, smoking cigarettes. [00:30:10] Speaker A: That's also their signature thing. [00:30:11] Speaker B: They always have a cigarettes. [00:30:13] Speaker D: It's always blasting darts. [00:30:16] Speaker C: It's always an entry into that. Jim Jarmish coffee and cigarettes going on. [00:30:23] Speaker A: Always. [00:30:25] Speaker C: Then Bill Murray shows up. [00:30:26] Speaker B: We turn and we get one of those awesome. [00:30:28] Speaker A: Terry shows up, two page spreads. [00:30:31] Speaker B: We got to turn the comic. [00:30:33] Speaker D: Oh, it's so good. I've just been looking at that this whole time we've been talking about. [00:30:37] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just like, you get, like, the world is, like, kind of a chessboard almost, and all the different demons. [00:30:45] Speaker C: That creepy grin from the. [00:30:49] Speaker A: Hmm, wonder who that could be. I don't know. I don't know. It must be the Joker. Must be the joker, right? [00:30:59] Speaker C: We do get a guy who looks awfully like Lex Luthor there. Right above terror at the bottom. [00:31:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:05] Speaker B: He's like a social media billionaire, tech billionaire, getting. [00:31:10] Speaker A: The. [00:31:10] Speaker C: He's got the comedian lady. [00:31:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Morona Morana. [00:31:17] Speaker B: Morana. She's a villain we haven't encountered, except for, like, she's just, like, peppered in here. She obviously was in some earlier issue. [00:31:23] Speaker A: But we've only covered 30 of 335 issues. [00:31:31] Speaker C: Whoa. [00:31:32] Speaker B: The mainline spawn, there's 342 issues now. [00:31:36] Speaker C: We have a real bad habit of 1992. [00:31:41] Speaker A: Wow. [00:31:41] Speaker C: We have a real bad habit of being like, look at this new character. And then a couple of weeks later, Johnny being like, david, this person was in issue 302. [00:31:51] Speaker D: This person has been alive as long as I have. [00:31:54] Speaker B: Yeah, basically there was one that was like, in the first year introduced that we thought, or in the first, like. [00:32:00] Speaker A: 20 issues introduced the curse. We thought it was a brand new. [00:32:04] Speaker B: Character, like, talked about it multiple times. [00:32:06] Speaker C: We had both already read all those. [00:32:08] Speaker A: Issues too, and we just forgot that he was introduced. [00:32:12] Speaker B: I mean, just 300 issues. [00:32:13] Speaker D: It's so many. Yeah. Come on. Go to Wikipedia if you want to remember, if you want to know all that Shit. [00:32:21] Speaker A: Right? [00:32:21] Speaker B: And that's why King Spawn is great, because it's a good jumping on point, and you get that kind of essence of spawn without having to. [00:32:31] Speaker A: Read 300 issues. [00:32:32] Speaker C: You also get this badass, one winged Asriel at the bottom there, man. [00:32:37] Speaker B: Everybody. [00:32:38] Speaker A: He's so cool. Love Asriel. [00:32:41] Speaker B: Yeah, no, this is great. [00:32:42] Speaker A: And then we got the automatic machine. The automatic in a bag. Yeah, just bust it out. [00:32:50] Speaker D: And those cool night goggles. Those night vision goggles. [00:32:52] Speaker C: Yeah, those are great. He's looking really Wes snipes here. [00:32:56] Speaker B: Yeah, looking a little. [00:32:58] Speaker C: Yeah, he's going to do a little. [00:33:00] Speaker A: Tax evasion after this. [00:33:06] Speaker B: They just launched a new Blade comic. [00:33:07] Speaker A: I saw at the comic book shop. [00:33:09] Speaker C: Blade number one, the Blade show is currently postpones due to the strikes. [00:33:16] Speaker B: Oh, really? Is it a show or a movie? [00:33:19] Speaker C: I'm pretty sure it's a show. It might be a movie. [00:33:23] Speaker D: Everything's a show. No, you got to make a show. [00:33:26] Speaker B: Even movies are shows. [00:33:28] Speaker D: You need to take a 90 minutes of story material and drag it out over 10 hours for maximum effect. [00:33:35] Speaker C: Exactly. [00:33:39] Speaker D: Who's playing Blade? Do they know? [00:33:42] Speaker C: Mahershala Ali. [00:33:43] Speaker D: Oh, whoa. That's cool. I did not know that was coming out. Well, I'm sure he'll be great. [00:33:49] Speaker B: It was announced a long time ago. [00:33:52] Speaker C: Yeah, it's had a lot of issues, and now it's postponed. [00:33:56] Speaker B: Seems like Marvel's kind of floundering right now. They don't really have a direction or just a lot of stuff getting released, but I don't even know. I haven't been keeping up with it. I don't know a single person that watches secret wars with their secret AI credits. [00:34:09] Speaker D: That opening. We watched that together, right? Yeah. [00:34:13] Speaker B: Yeah, we watched. [00:34:15] Speaker A: Do you know that, David? [00:34:16] Speaker B: The credits are AI generated. [00:34:17] Speaker C: Really? Oh, that's awful. [00:34:19] Speaker D: The whole credit sequence is AI. Yeah, it looks like it's AI generated. [00:34:24] Speaker A: Gross. Gross. [00:34:27] Speaker D: No, like weird fingers or anything, but otherwise, yeah, it's got that feel for sure. [00:34:32] Speaker B: I mean, I just feel like, I don't know. It's just me. But after Endgame, I was like, all right, well, nothing is. Everything else is just like. [00:34:39] Speaker A: And then after that, after Endgame, I. [00:34:43] Speaker B: Was like, everything else is just like, extra. It's like I already saw the ending, man. You can't fool me twice. [00:34:48] Speaker A: No. Does the spawn group, what are they called? [00:34:55] Speaker D: What's the team? [00:34:56] Speaker A: The spawns? [00:34:57] Speaker B: The scorched. [00:34:59] Speaker A: The scorched. [00:35:02] Speaker D: Think they're, is that Illuminati adjacent or is Illuminati on God's side? I guess they think they're, I don't know. [00:35:08] Speaker B: There's Illuminati, like, groups on God and hell. [00:35:11] Speaker C: There's like the, the court of priests is kind of illuminati esque. [00:35:16] Speaker D: They're very illuminati. [00:35:18] Speaker A: Yeah, those freaks. [00:35:19] Speaker B: And this exodus corporation sticks around and they're kind of secret society like, okay, this place where the other. [00:35:28] Speaker D: What's the, like, radical group 30, psalm 37, psalm 130. Psalm 313-7137. Okay. [00:35:36] Speaker C: I think there's, like, throughout the run, different sort of pseudo illuminati groups pop up. [00:35:44] Speaker A: Sure. [00:35:44] Speaker B: They're all kind of connected. [00:35:46] Speaker C: At the very beginning of the run, it's all like the mob, because in the early 90s, that's what New York. [00:35:52] Speaker D: Was, was the mob, the big bad guys. [00:35:54] Speaker C: So there's like six or seven mobs that they roll through before they start. [00:35:58] Speaker A: Doing other groups of bad guys. It's real fun. [00:36:02] Speaker B: Plus, as the early days, Tom McFarland, he loves a good, like, gangster bad guy. [00:36:08] Speaker D: What are his other big, because I feel like this is the one he's known for the most. Right. Like this comic series. This character. What are his other big ones? [00:36:16] Speaker A: I'm really. [00:36:17] Speaker D: He not familiar. [00:36:19] Speaker C: Co created Venom. He had. [00:36:21] Speaker D: Oh, that's right. Yes. I knew that. [00:36:23] Speaker C: A real big run on Spiderman in the. You're a Batman nerd. He did Batman year two. [00:36:32] Speaker D: Oh, I've never read that. I'm a big fan of year one, but I would read that it's nowhere. [00:36:38] Speaker C: Near as good, but it's still, wait. [00:36:40] Speaker D: Is that the one where he's got a gun? Oh, I have read that. [00:36:44] Speaker C: Because he gets the gun from the guy who shot his parents, and then he basically sends that guy to jail. Yeah, it's wild. [00:36:54] Speaker D: Yeah, that's right. [00:36:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:00] Speaker B: Other characters he's created, I mean, he launched Image comics is a big claim to fame, as he was one of. [00:37:06] Speaker A: The six people that helped launch that, other than creating. [00:37:10] Speaker B: He co created the character haunt, who. [00:37:12] Speaker A: Never really took off until scorch. [00:37:15] Speaker B: I feel like he created a couple. [00:37:17] Speaker A: Characters for other, maybe video games or something. [00:37:21] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:37:21] Speaker A: But mainly spawn and running image and. [00:37:27] Speaker B: Making toys and everything. [00:37:30] Speaker D: Toys. [00:37:32] Speaker B: It was all Spiderman till he broke off. Or he was mainly known for Spiderman till he broke off. And it was a big deal in the 90s whenever all the guys broke off and left all the big. The big two, Marvel and DC, and started image, which is now arguably the third one. It is. And not of quality, just of scope and size. [00:37:58] Speaker D: Yeah, market share. [00:38:00] Speaker B: Market share, exactly. [00:38:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:03] Speaker B: These cool goggles come in handy, too, because. Well, not right on this page after this struggle. [00:38:08] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. [00:38:09] Speaker C: He gets stabbed in the eye. [00:38:12] Speaker A: Oh, man, that sucks. Never mind. [00:38:16] Speaker B: Just stopping that knife, like, right in front of the eye. Is there, like, a movie where that happens? [00:38:20] Speaker C: Well, there's in the Phantom with Billy Zane. [00:38:23] Speaker A: They've got the microscope that's got the. [00:38:28] Speaker C: Blade attached to the focus, and that's how they blind the scientist. I was scared of microscopes for, like, 15 years because of that. [00:38:36] Speaker D: Also in the musical Oklahoma, he's got that. [00:38:39] Speaker A: That's how he tries to get curly. [00:38:42] Speaker D: Remember? That's how Judd tries to get Curly. It's like a viewfinder, kaleidoscope thing that's got. [00:38:52] Speaker C: I've seen that movie so many times, along with the mandatory yearly watching of it in school, but I don't remember a goddamn thing that happens in it. [00:39:01] Speaker A: That's fair. [00:39:01] Speaker D: It's very long. [00:39:03] Speaker C: I remember Surrey with the fringe on. [00:39:05] Speaker A: The top, and that's it. [00:39:07] Speaker C: I remember going to whatever outdoor theater it is in Oklahoma that performs only. [00:39:12] Speaker D: Oklahoma and just discovery, like, outside of Tulsa. [00:39:16] Speaker C: And it's just so hot because there's no shade for the. [00:39:22] Speaker D: Imagine being in that show. It's on concrete. The whole draw of it is that they have a real horse and a real Surrey with fringe on top. And there's a house that they set on fire, and that's the draw of it. [00:39:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:35] Speaker D: Imagine dancing in boots and jeans on concrete in the Oklahoma summer for the entire summer. [00:39:42] Speaker A: It's just, like, awful. That sounds awful. [00:39:46] Speaker B: It sounds, though. [00:39:47] Speaker C: It sounds like what wrestlers do when they're trying to make weight where they lock themselves in their closet trash bags. [00:39:55] Speaker D: I never went as a kid, so I didn't go until I had a friend in it in college, and I was like, oh, this is awful. [00:40:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:02] Speaker C: Imagine trying to corral an eight year old during that. [00:40:08] Speaker A: No, couldn't do it. Thank you much. [00:40:11] Speaker D: Is this ab and or Zab? That's, like, standing over him after ab or zab stabs Terry. He looks like Mick Jagger or, like, in this. I love his. [00:40:27] Speaker A: Just like. Yeah, I don't know. [00:40:30] Speaker D: He's so gaunt, and they all get that sort of dog look to them when they go full demon. [00:40:39] Speaker C: It's Zab. Zab is the one with the black leather jacket. [00:40:43] Speaker A: No. [00:40:44] Speaker B: Javi Fernandez, the artist on this is excellent. [00:40:48] Speaker A: I don't know how long he's been. [00:40:49] Speaker B: Around, but he's definitely going to blow up, I feel like. And hopefully he sticks on king spawn. [00:40:53] Speaker A: For a while, but. [00:40:56] Speaker B: You never know if it keeps going. [00:40:58] Speaker A: He might have to move on at some point. But they'll have someone, I'm sure. But he's just. I don't know. It just gives it this, like, it's gritty and beautifully grotesque a lot of times. [00:41:13] Speaker B: And just like, those spreads he'll do of spawn on the throne or just like the one we just saw. They're awesome. [00:41:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:41:19] Speaker D: There's one coming up on two pages. [00:41:22] Speaker A: Where he talks to Terry. Yeah. So cool. [00:41:26] Speaker D: And it almost looks like, especially since it's just this single color issue, it makes his cape almost look like muscle fibers or something. It's really cool. [00:41:38] Speaker C: Yeah. I like to describe Javi makes everything. [00:41:43] Speaker A: Feel very gooey and visceral, and you. [00:41:48] Speaker C: Kind of feel a little gross after having looked at it, because you can almost feel the texture of. [00:41:54] Speaker A: It's great. [00:41:54] Speaker D: Gooey, but also, like, sharp and pokey everywhere. [00:42:02] Speaker A: What's. He talked to him? [00:42:03] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, they talk about Wanda. [00:42:05] Speaker A: Well, yeah. [00:42:06] Speaker B: So he's basically fighting to this throne. And this was, like, a big. For us, reading it almost close to a year, because it's ten months in that when you turn, this is, like, one of my favorite page turns in the comics. And then the spawn so far is when he's walking in that room, you. [00:42:21] Speaker A: Turn and he's just on the throne. [00:42:23] Speaker B: And you're like, no, you're not supposed to do that. [00:42:26] Speaker D: Yeah, it's wild. It's a bold choice to basically have that decision be made in between issues off screen. [00:42:35] Speaker B: I thought that was awesome. [00:42:36] Speaker D: And through a Terry centric episode. Yeah. To reveal the title of the fucking. [00:42:41] Speaker C: We totally blew past how Terry didn't. [00:42:44] Speaker A: Die or lose an eye. [00:42:45] Speaker B: Hey, lucky. [00:42:46] Speaker C: Very lucky. [00:42:48] Speaker B: But don't go using microscopes or talking to Judd, because he'll take it. [00:42:51] Speaker A: He'll take your. [00:42:54] Speaker B: Love. The I love spawn, like, leaning in. [00:42:56] Speaker C: Here and he's, like, melting. [00:42:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:43:00] Speaker D: So good. [00:43:02] Speaker C: It's terrifying. It's terrifying. [00:43:07] Speaker A: And yet the throne is actually composed. [00:43:14] Speaker C: Of the souls of all the people. [00:43:18] Speaker A: That Al Simmons has killed. [00:43:20] Speaker C: And it's fun to see them kind of break out of his body here. [00:43:23] Speaker A: That's gross. [00:43:24] Speaker B: That's, like, on gnarly. [00:43:26] Speaker A: Yeah, like, six. [00:43:28] Speaker B: And we talked about it before. [00:43:30] Speaker A: It's the one where we learn that. [00:43:33] Speaker C: She'S supposed to give birth to a new version of Freddy Krueger or something. [00:43:37] Speaker B: The dream child. [00:43:38] Speaker D: That one, yeah. [00:43:40] Speaker B: And he pulls his chest open. All the faces come out. I just remember being so terrified, so I didn't even see the movie, but I either saw an image of it in Fangoria. Sure, I saw something of it. It must have been an image in a magazine, like a comic shop. I was so terrified of that idea of the faces coming out of his chest. I couldn't get it out of my head. It scared the shit out of me. [00:44:03] Speaker C: It's pretty wild. [00:44:04] Speaker A: It's pretty wild. But I didn't see the movie, so. [00:44:07] Speaker B: I don't know where I saw. You know, maybe I saw it on, like, a Halloween costume, because I would. [00:44:11] Speaker A: Get freaked out, like, walking down. Even the. [00:44:14] Speaker B: I get freaked out by the Halloween costumes as a kid. Like, the big stores, like, the really freaky latex mass. I'd be like. [00:44:19] Speaker A: I'd, like, run away. [00:44:22] Speaker D: I feel like it was on the back of the VHS or something. [00:44:25] Speaker B: And you probably. [00:44:26] Speaker D: Don't worry. [00:44:27] Speaker B: Big shot. It was like a money shot. [00:44:29] Speaker A: Big thing. [00:44:31] Speaker C: My sister did a goof them up on me when I was, like, four years old with a fake rubber hand. [00:44:37] Speaker A: At my barber shop that I went to. [00:44:40] Speaker C: And for the rest of the time. [00:44:42] Speaker A: I went to that barber shop, I. [00:44:44] Speaker C: Couldn'T go past a certain area because that's where I saw that fake rubber hand. [00:44:50] Speaker A: And it freaked me out so much. [00:44:53] Speaker C: I cried the entire way home. I'm sure my sister got massive trouble for that. I also like how the little skulls that are normally very sedate and small, holding his cape on are just, like, animated. When he sits on the screaming throne. [00:45:12] Speaker B: He'S, like, super charged. He's so powerful. Like these horns and thorns just growing out of him. [00:45:18] Speaker A: Because he's just, like. [00:45:19] Speaker B: It feels, like, so supercharged powerful from sitting on the God throne. [00:45:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:23] Speaker D: And so he's so full of anger and hate, and it's just like everything has to cry out with his fucking fury. [00:45:33] Speaker A: Yeah. And Terry's right. Terry's the voice of reason. [00:45:37] Speaker B: Even though it's his wife now, Wanda. [00:45:39] Speaker A: He'S like, she's not coming back, Al. [00:45:42] Speaker B: And he's like, you don't get to make that decision. [00:45:46] Speaker A: Weird. [00:45:46] Speaker B: What a fun relationship they have. [00:45:48] Speaker A: Al. Oh, boy. Oh, he's. [00:45:52] Speaker C: It's come a long way from Terry just being the man and the man at the computer. [00:45:56] Speaker B: And then here comes the quarter priests. [00:45:59] Speaker C: They have to have some epic entrance music for. [00:46:03] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:46:05] Speaker B: Jason Wyn's looking like a Quentin Tarantino character over there. [00:46:08] Speaker A: Yeah, he is. [00:46:09] Speaker C: He's like Mr. Black or something. [00:46:11] Speaker B: Maldon is there. Trevor. [00:46:13] Speaker A: Wait, who's. What's that guy's name? Jason Wynn. Yeah. Okay. [00:46:19] Speaker D: That's, like, the funny. It's like all these guys are the violator and ghoul and fucking. And there's Jason. [00:46:29] Speaker C: So Jason Wynn used to be Al Simmons's boss when Al Simmons was still alive before he was spawn. So he's literally a man who joined up with the hell team after a while. He's got a long, convoluted history, but, yeah. So he's the only actual human on. [00:46:47] Speaker A: The team, which is why he has a boring name. [00:46:51] Speaker B: Yeah, because he does go by disruptor sometimes, but not very long. He just goes by it for a. [00:46:56] Speaker A: Little bit to hide his identity for a bit. Word. [00:47:00] Speaker B: But, yeah, Jason Wyn, he was played by our president, Martin Sheen in the movie. [00:47:05] Speaker C: He was president? [00:47:06] Speaker A: He was, yeah. [00:47:09] Speaker B: From. What's it called? Fucking feel good, the show west wing. [00:47:12] Speaker A: West Wing, yeah. [00:47:13] Speaker C: Feel good. [00:47:15] Speaker A: Walk and talk, the series. I never really watched that show. [00:47:22] Speaker D: Me neither. [00:47:23] Speaker C: Me either. [00:47:24] Speaker A: No, neither. [00:47:24] Speaker B: It's just funny to think about now. Like, the theme songs all, like, regal. [00:47:29] Speaker C: Wasn't Dulay Hill on the west wing for a while. I don't know who that was. [00:47:36] Speaker A: He played Gus in Psych, which, if. [00:47:39] Speaker C: You haven't watched Psych, you should watch Psych. [00:47:41] Speaker B: I don't know who that is. [00:47:42] Speaker D: I don't know who any of those guys are. [00:47:45] Speaker A: That's no good. [00:47:46] Speaker B: You wouldn't be a psych guy? [00:47:48] Speaker A: I would be a psych guy. [00:47:49] Speaker C: Yes, I would. [00:47:51] Speaker B: Did you like burn notice? [00:47:53] Speaker C: I watched, like, 20 episodes in one day once and haven't watched any since. But I love the idea of just Bruce Campbell being the shitty roommate who just complains about stuff all the time. [00:48:08] Speaker B: One day I want to watch that show, because I'm just a big Jeffrey Donovan fan from Blair Witch two. [00:48:14] Speaker A: I'm glad he blew. [00:48:15] Speaker D: Awesome. He got that show. That's for sure. [00:48:17] Speaker B: Yeah, he got that show. [00:48:19] Speaker A: Yeah, it's good. I'm sure those residual checks are pretty good. [00:48:23] Speaker D: Oh, I'm sure they are very good. That's, like, on tbs every day. [00:48:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:31] Speaker D: And me tv. That's a great me tv candidate. [00:48:36] Speaker A: Oh, man. [00:48:38] Speaker D: What do these nerds talk about at the end? This is pretty much it for this issue, right? [00:48:42] Speaker B: Yeah, they basically come in and are. [00:48:43] Speaker A: Like, hey, let's talk. [00:48:46] Speaker B: Let's say a bunch of shit. [00:48:47] Speaker C: Yeah, it's basically like, we need spawn to bring Wanda back. So that way we can have him. [00:48:55] Speaker A: And use him and have him be our puppet. [00:48:59] Speaker D: This is not the violator, is it? [00:49:01] Speaker A: That's tremor. [00:49:02] Speaker D: Tremor, the guy who's got the red goopy speech bubble at the top. [00:49:07] Speaker C: Right. [00:49:08] Speaker B: I love how he just chimes in one time. He's like, zap is right. [00:49:14] Speaker D: Yeah. With all this teeth. How do you even talk? That's a know. He's got, like, three. It looks like he has, like, another layer of teeth behind his teeth. [00:49:22] Speaker A: Yeah, the violator is like. [00:49:24] Speaker B: His mouth's like a crocodile. It's extended. [00:49:26] Speaker D: Yeah, he's huge. [00:49:28] Speaker B: Yeah, he's giant. [00:49:29] Speaker D: Does he just talk in English, or does he just make sounds? He have a conversation. [00:49:34] Speaker C: Yeah, they talk in English. If you remember in the movie, his mouth doesn't move. He just speaks, like, into your head. [00:49:42] Speaker D: Oh, I mean, that makes sense. Like, trying to do match the flap on that is like. [00:49:48] Speaker A: Yeah, you couldn't do it. [00:49:49] Speaker C: Which is why he likes to be in the clown form. So he can eat hot dogs and. [00:49:53] Speaker A: Actually eat them and talk. [00:49:56] Speaker C: He loves those glizzies. [00:49:57] Speaker B: And this is basically just, like, we got to keep him on this throne. And they show the throne with all the souls. [00:50:04] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:50:04] Speaker B: It's like him just overloading, like, overdosing on this throne power here. [00:50:09] Speaker A: Yeah. This is the most black metal king. [00:50:13] Speaker C: Spawn has ever been. It's amazing. [00:50:16] Speaker A: Yeah, it's tight. [00:50:18] Speaker B: It's crazy to draw. [00:50:19] Speaker C: Just like, you could almost ask people to tell me what the band name is for this. And see what they give you. [00:50:25] Speaker D: Truly. They should do a cover in the classic metal font, the unreadable. Not classic. The new classic metal font. Just like, the squiggly unreadable. [00:50:39] Speaker A: Right. [00:50:40] Speaker B: It's, like, completely, like, what does that even say? [00:50:43] Speaker D: Yeah, dude, some bands, you're like. You have to squint so hard. [00:50:46] Speaker A: What? [00:50:47] Speaker D: Like, you need to read it at an angle or something. [00:50:51] Speaker C: I feel sometimes that sometimes bands dare themselves to come up with the stupidest name. So that way they can hide it in the font. [00:51:02] Speaker D: Oh, sure. [00:51:03] Speaker A: And then. [00:51:03] Speaker C: So that way it doesn't look as stupid as it actually is. [00:51:06] Speaker A: But it's a little joke for them. It cracks me up. Yes. It's good. [00:51:11] Speaker B: In our individual issues, we get the. [00:51:13] Speaker A: Spawning ground, which is just like it's. [00:51:17] Speaker B: A letters page gallery of fan art this time. Just various fan art that people send in. There's one really gnarly one where Spawn's mouth is, like, exploding. [00:51:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:51:27] Speaker B: I don't even know what's going on, but it's wild. [00:51:30] Speaker A: It's crazy. [00:51:31] Speaker C: I like the one that it's got. [00:51:32] Speaker A: A Polaroid, but they took the Polaroid. [00:51:35] Speaker C: Upside down so they could write on the top of it. [00:51:38] Speaker A: That's smart. [00:51:40] Speaker B: That's like Spawn haunt and she spawn just chilling. [00:51:42] Speaker A: Yeah, no, it's pretty cool. [00:51:44] Speaker B: Good fan art, but, yeah, that's the issue. That is king Spawn number ten. [00:51:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:52:03] Speaker B: So next up we have gunslinger, Spawn 20. We went from ten to 20. [00:52:11] Speaker A: We double it. [00:52:12] Speaker D: I didn't pay attention. I thought this was the first episode of Gunslinger. [00:52:16] Speaker A: Oh, really? [00:52:17] Speaker D: I thought it was maybe also like a spin off. I mean, it clearly is a spin off of some sort, but I thought this might be the first episode because. [00:52:25] Speaker A: It'S like, I don't know, just like. [00:52:29] Speaker D: Jumping in media res. [00:52:30] Speaker B: That's what we want. That's what we want. You can. That's what comic books are for, is. [00:52:34] Speaker A: That you can do that. [00:52:36] Speaker C: How did it work as an entry point? Did it work okay for you, or was it massively. [00:52:41] Speaker D: I thought it did. I was like, yeah, I'll figure out who these guys are. Whatever. It's going to tell me what I need to know. [00:52:47] Speaker C: Yeah, it's wild enough. I could see it being enjoyable, even if you don't know what's going on. [00:52:51] Speaker D: Yeah, that's a nutters, like 15 pages or whatever. [00:52:55] Speaker B: So this is actually written by Todd McFarland. So this is you getting a taste of what Tod McFarlane's like because Sean Lewis is a little more restrained, a little more serious. Tod McFarland's a wacko, man. [00:53:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:08] Speaker B: He's like Willy Wonka of hell things. [00:53:14] Speaker C: He eats all the flowers because they're actually edible. [00:53:18] Speaker A: And we've got chewing up the scenery. [00:53:21] Speaker D: Taking some kind of edible to make this shit up. [00:53:23] Speaker B: No, he's straight laced. [00:53:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:26] Speaker C: He doesn't even drink. [00:53:26] Speaker D: Oh, really? [00:53:27] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:27] Speaker D: He's just a straight edge. [00:53:28] Speaker C: He's just a mild mannered canadian with too many ideas. [00:53:33] Speaker A: Too many ideas? [00:53:34] Speaker D: Yeah, too many ideas. [00:53:35] Speaker B: Yeah. I was saying the other week, so. [00:53:37] Speaker A: If you think about it, brand, when. [00:53:39] Speaker B: We had the wildfires coming from Canada, if you think about it, Spawn is a comic book character from Canada. And what our comic books are, their base form are trees, because they're paper. So we were inhaling pure spawn during. [00:53:52] Speaker D: We were getting pure spawn, dude. It was too much for us. Maybe that's when he took the throne in. King Spawn is what started all this in Tod McFarlane's backyard. [00:54:07] Speaker B: It's what started the hellfire. We got two covers for Gunslinger as. [00:54:12] Speaker A: Well as always with these. [00:54:15] Speaker B: Actually, I think there's three because this has a blank one also. [00:54:18] Speaker A: I'm pretty sure it does. [00:54:19] Speaker C: Oh, nice. [00:54:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:54:21] Speaker A: Or maybe it doesn't. [00:54:23] Speaker C: I didn't get the blank one this time at least. [00:54:25] Speaker B: No, it doesn't. [00:54:26] Speaker A: So. Sorry. [00:54:27] Speaker C: Okay, so it's just got the Victor Blogdanovich and the Merco Colette. [00:54:31] Speaker A: Yes. [00:54:31] Speaker B: Victor Blogdanovich was the one that Bran borrowed from me. [00:54:35] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:54:36] Speaker B: Which is pretty cool. [00:54:38] Speaker A: Looks good, because that was the COVID artist for that month. [00:54:44] Speaker B: Oh, right, he did multiple ones. [00:54:46] Speaker A: That's right. [00:54:47] Speaker C: They've started doing guest spotlight artists, where each month they get a different artist to do all four of the covers. [00:54:55] Speaker A: For the main titles now. [00:54:58] Speaker B: And David always judges mainly the covers by how tall gunslinger's hat is. [00:55:03] Speaker C: Yeah, this one's good. The hat is tall enough. Cover B. Yeah, cover B. The hat's not tall enough on cover b. [00:55:10] Speaker A: It's pretty short. It looks much too much like a bowler hat. Yeah. [00:55:15] Speaker D: He just starts wearing a pork pie. [00:55:20] Speaker C: He's going to eventually come to get just, like, a little irish flat cap. [00:55:23] Speaker A: Yeah, the COVID B. He's like, got some dude tied up. Yeah. [00:55:28] Speaker C: And he's just dragging him behind the horse. [00:55:30] Speaker A: Dragging him behind the horse. [00:55:32] Speaker C: Like he did to that one dude in what was it, like, issue twelve or something? [00:55:35] Speaker B: Oh, my God. The big. [00:55:37] Speaker A: The beer and cake guy. [00:55:38] Speaker B: The beer and cake guy. There was this gangster demon that ate beer and cake, and I was offended. [00:55:46] Speaker A: Oh. [00:55:46] Speaker D: At the same time. [00:55:47] Speaker B: Yeah. He was like. [00:55:48] Speaker A: He was eating cake. [00:55:48] Speaker B: He's like, give me some beer and cake. [00:55:51] Speaker D: Oh, God, you're so full so fast. [00:55:55] Speaker A: Off of both of those. Yeah. [00:55:58] Speaker B: Then David did it. David ate beer. [00:56:01] Speaker C: Not too bad, but it would be much better if it were something salty. It is very filling, very quick. [00:56:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:10] Speaker D: Beer is kind of already a bread, and then you're just eating sweet bread. [00:56:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:15] Speaker C: Although if you double bread. How many sweet treats have you eaten when you've been drunk? [00:56:20] Speaker D: I know, I. Oh, gummy bears. I'll eat a jug. [00:56:30] Speaker B: I'll wake up with, like, a go puff order. Oh, no, I just ordered ten pints of ice cream. [00:56:35] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:56:38] Speaker C: Didn't you pass out after making one once? And luckily it was freezing outside, so your ice cream was safe. [00:56:45] Speaker D: Awesome. [00:56:46] Speaker B: I did. I fell asleep. No contacts. They just left it. [00:56:53] Speaker A: And no one came and stole my ice cream. [00:56:55] Speaker B: It was like, it was down there for, like, 2 hours, but it was. [00:56:57] Speaker A: In the middle of winter. Amazing. [00:57:01] Speaker B: You know, go puff is good for some things. Ice cream is one of them. [00:57:06] Speaker D: I'm offended. You can't buy cigarettes on go Puff or weed. You can't buy weed or cigarettes. So it's just like, change your man. [00:57:14] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, seriously. Who's not changing his name is the. [00:57:20] Speaker B: Script plot writer, which is Mr. Tod McFarland. And then we've got art by Bret Booth. Bret Booth's been doing this whole series. He's going to be doing it up until issue 24, I think they said, at least. And then they're not sure if he's going to keep doing it, but he's got this really wild, eccentric, like, vibrating, energetic style that we both really like. Inkers, el delso corona colors by Ivan Nunes, lettering by Tom Orjiskowski, who's been lettering spawn titles since 1992. [00:57:54] Speaker A: Cool. So there you go. [00:57:56] Speaker D: Got some good fonts in him. [00:57:58] Speaker C: Yeah, they do. [00:57:58] Speaker B: They do. [00:57:59] Speaker D: Does he do King Spawn, too? [00:58:01] Speaker C: No. [00:58:04] Speaker D: He'S basically Todd McFarland, one of the people. Got it, got it, got it. [00:58:08] Speaker B: He does original Spawn, and then he also does Gunslinger because he followed Todd McFarland over there. [00:58:14] Speaker C: He followed Todd McFarland to image, actually. [00:58:18] Speaker A: Oh, that's right. [00:58:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, Tom. Yeah. Tom McFarland's like, I really like this Tom Ordrakowski. [00:58:22] Speaker A: Maybe I should just ask him, or. [00:58:24] Speaker B: I want to find someone like him. And then he asked me. He's like, yeah, I'll do it. [00:58:26] Speaker A: And he's like, oh, wow. [00:58:29] Speaker B: So previously in Gunslinger. Spawn and Gunslinger fight off a group of murderous angels, which leads to Gunslinger taking on a new look. [00:58:39] Speaker C: Man, those murderous angels are fun. [00:58:43] Speaker B: Murdering the angels. [00:58:44] Speaker A: And now we're just back kind of. [00:58:46] Speaker B: Back at the hotel. He lives like the no more heroes character. Travis, touchdown. He actually Gunslinger reminds me a lot of Travis, touchdown. [00:58:56] Speaker A: He's got the coat. [00:58:57] Speaker B: He lives at a hotel. [00:58:59] Speaker A: He's kind of a shithead. [00:59:02] Speaker B: Little stinker. He's kind of a shithead. [00:59:04] Speaker A: He is a little stinker. [00:59:05] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. So gunslinger, just a little background brand in issue 300 of Spawn. Spawns did this thing where he sucked, like, all spawns from all time into the present. So Gunslinger is a man out of time. He was a gunslinger spawn from the. [00:59:21] Speaker D: 18, the cowboy days. [00:59:23] Speaker B: Yeah, cowboy days, civil, wartime, and now has been sucked into time. And he's met Taylor, who's his friend. [00:59:30] Speaker D: And he's Javier, right? That's his name? [00:59:32] Speaker A: Yeah, that's human name. Human name. [00:59:35] Speaker B: So it's kind of a mystery. It's some kind of entity that's hosting this body called Javier. But we're not 100% sure what's going on. [00:59:46] Speaker C: The character of Gunslinger Spawn was originally introduced in, like, issue 216 of the main title, and he had a completely separate name then. And then when they started this title, everybody was like, is this a different guy? Is it a new one? But the letters to the editor have all been like, no, it's all the same guy. [01:00:08] Speaker A: And so we're going to learn about. [01:00:10] Speaker D: We're going to figure it out. [01:00:12] Speaker C: When he changed his name, what publications, he advertised that he was changing his name in, so that way we can. [01:00:18] Speaker A: Check to make sure it was legal. All that good stuff. [01:00:22] Speaker D: Wait, so when did you guys pick up Gunslinger? Like, what? [01:00:25] Speaker A: Issue one. [01:00:28] Speaker D: Oh, you started with one copy. Got it. [01:00:30] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, we started with like eleven, but. [01:00:34] Speaker B: Then we went bounce back, and now. [01:00:36] Speaker A: We'Re all caught up. [01:00:38] Speaker B: We've kind of been bouncing around. This is our growing year. We were bouncing around, but after we. [01:00:44] Speaker A: Kind of rein everything in, we're going. [01:00:45] Speaker B: To be able to do like long. [01:00:47] Speaker A: Sections of in order. [01:00:49] Speaker B: So that'll be good. [01:00:50] Speaker A: Cool. [01:00:51] Speaker B: So we'll be able to do like, go back to the classics, like issues. [01:00:54] Speaker A: Like ten through 40 or something. [01:00:58] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:00:58] Speaker D: You're just getting the court of priests all together this year. By the time you catch up to everything, you'll be sitting on that throne. [01:01:07] Speaker B: Exactly. We'll be sitting on the spot. Gross. [01:01:10] Speaker D: Skulls coming out of your guts and horns coming out of your head. [01:01:15] Speaker B: There's that one podcast we found that hasn't been active in like four or five years. I think they got the episode like 75. [01:01:21] Speaker C: Yeah, they did. [01:01:21] Speaker B: So this is episode 51. [01:01:24] Speaker C: They did an issue. [01:01:24] Speaker D: Nice. [01:01:25] Speaker A: They did an episode, which sounds we're. [01:01:28] Speaker C: About to be exhausting. [01:01:30] Speaker B: That's unsustainable. [01:01:31] Speaker A: That's unsustainable. [01:01:33] Speaker B: Unless that's like your only job, I guess, or you are perfect and don't have to require any editing also. [01:01:39] Speaker D: I mean, what are they, like four minute episodes or something? Are they short? [01:01:43] Speaker C: They're about half an hour. [01:01:46] Speaker D: A little. That's a lot. [01:01:49] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:01:49] Speaker B: So we are the world's best, but we're getting close to be the longest running swamp podcast. [01:01:54] Speaker D: Nice. [01:01:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:01:55] Speaker A: Hell yeah. Definitely put that. [01:01:58] Speaker C: And if Johnny's feeling sassy, he'll put. [01:02:02] Speaker A: It at the beginning of every episode. Yeah, why not? Why not? Why not? [01:02:08] Speaker B: So, yes, Javier stumbles back home into. [01:02:11] Speaker A: His kind of stoner den they have. [01:02:14] Speaker B: Here at this hotel. [01:02:15] Speaker C: So much pizza. Look at all that pizza. I like how there's a bag with a Batman symbol on it too. [01:02:22] Speaker A: There is? Yeah. [01:02:24] Speaker C: It's a red bag on top of a pizza box on the bed. [01:02:28] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:02:29] Speaker B: It is a Batman symbol. [01:02:30] Speaker A: It looks like. [01:02:31] Speaker D: Yeah, it sort of looks like. It could almost look like a spawn mask symbol too, though it's not so far off because it's kind of gnarly looking. [01:02:40] Speaker B: It's from Papa pizza. [01:02:41] Speaker D: Papa pizza. [01:02:43] Speaker C: It's always fun to read because Bret Booth likes to put names in the backgrounds of everything. [01:02:49] Speaker A: So everything has writing on, like in. [01:02:53] Speaker C: The panel where he's taking his boots off, it says, buddy something. [01:02:56] Speaker A: I wonder what's obscured. Budy. What? Burger food. [01:02:59] Speaker B: This is burger. [01:03:00] Speaker A: Burger food. Burger food. [01:03:02] Speaker D: Yeah, burger food. [01:03:04] Speaker A: Then we get Taylor. [01:03:06] Speaker C: Taylor's got a bad case. [01:03:07] Speaker D: Has a case of the quote, the munchies. I love those there. It's so funny. [01:03:13] Speaker B: That's so the munchies. [01:03:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:03:22] Speaker C: I like how Taylor's wearing sandals. Of course Taylor would wear sandals. [01:03:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:03:26] Speaker D: Like some dad ass sandals are know. [01:03:29] Speaker B: He'S kind of coming into his own here. He's always a little nerdy when these guys take him down a peg, unfortunately. It's nice to see him feeling good, looking. [01:03:37] Speaker A: Cool. [01:03:37] Speaker C: It seems like sandals would be the worst thing to ride a motorcycle in because you have to shift by lifting a thing up with your foot. [01:03:45] Speaker A: Oh, man, totally. [01:03:47] Speaker D: I don't know this guy at all, but he does seem like the kind of idiot that wouldn't have taken that into consideration. [01:03:52] Speaker C: He's a moron. [01:03:54] Speaker D: Okay, cool. I was getting that vibe. [01:03:57] Speaker B: So he's the son of this evil, the descendant of some villains from the civil war time. [01:04:06] Speaker A: That gunslinger knew that they ended up. [01:04:08] Speaker B: Having to kill his whole family, so he kind of adopted him. Plus, Gunslinger can't read and doesn't know anything about modern world, so he's like. [01:04:14] Speaker A: His little funny sidekick. [01:04:17] Speaker D: Gotcha. [01:04:17] Speaker B: But they're kind of planting seeds that he's going to get some kind of powers at some point or like he's got some kind of journey coming. [01:04:25] Speaker A: Johnny. Johnny. [01:04:27] Speaker C: Is he wearing the sunglasses that Gunslinger got from that bar fight? A few issues. Oh, that's awesome. [01:04:35] Speaker D: I love that kind of detail. That's awesome. [01:04:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:04:39] Speaker B: Bret Booth, this artist is like the king of little details. [01:04:42] Speaker A: It's really cool. [01:04:46] Speaker B: It'll be interesting to see when he moves on, if he moves on, who they get to do this because he's. [01:04:51] Speaker A: Such a big part of. [01:04:54] Speaker B: But, yeah, some jerks come up. [01:04:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:04:56] Speaker D: This knockoff Vince Vaughn looking ass guy. [01:05:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:05:03] Speaker D: But look at his ass and legs in the first, like, looks incredible. [01:05:08] Speaker B: Oh, man. [01:05:09] Speaker D: He's got quite an ass caked up. [01:05:14] Speaker C: He's got Danny Zuko hair too. [01:05:17] Speaker A: Not quite as long, but he's got. [01:05:20] Speaker D: That Widow's peak going, though. [01:05:22] Speaker A: And then they just, like, are just. [01:05:23] Speaker B: Big, classic movie jerks to Taylor. [01:05:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:05:26] Speaker D: Do you think they would have left had he given them his beer? [01:05:29] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know. [01:05:31] Speaker D: They sound like they're full of shit. [01:05:33] Speaker A: I don't know. [01:05:33] Speaker C: It seems like these seem also like those bad kids from, like, the third. [01:05:37] Speaker A: Episode that had soda. Soda is what they were drinking, and. [01:05:42] Speaker C: They beat somebody else up. [01:05:43] Speaker A: Too bad kids drinking. Yeah. [01:05:45] Speaker B: This is a common trope with the gunslinger issues. There's always people getting beat up, and. [01:05:51] Speaker A: He comes in and saves them. [01:05:53] Speaker D: I do feel like both of these issues, I know we've alley ways have come up a lot, and there's a lot of alleys in these two issues that we've read. [01:06:01] Speaker B: Yeah, spawn is big on alleys. [01:06:02] Speaker D: Big on alleys. [01:06:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:06:04] Speaker D: But also on, like, I feel like a lot of issues. Like, I don't know, seven ish through ten, up to ten of Kingspawn. They were in the jungle and all over the world and also in the green zone and hell a lot. And now, both of these are very other than the throne room, they're pretty. [01:06:26] Speaker A: Much just in normal earth, right? Yeah. [01:06:31] Speaker B: Gunslinger pretty much stays within. It's pretty grounded. It's pretty street level. [01:06:37] Speaker C: You say the Green Zone, and that's a level in the original Sonic the Hedgehog. So that makes me wonder if they have a cartridge like the Sonic and Knuckles, where you can put it in there and play knuckles in the first couple of ones, if they've got one of those for Spawn. And you could play spawn in the Sonic. [01:06:53] Speaker D: You could play as spawn in Sonic. [01:06:56] Speaker B: I always remember trying to be like, my cousin would tell me, he's like, yeah, you can play knuckles in any game. And I'm like, what? And then I finally got this house and tried it. Of course, it didn't work, but he told me, he's like, yeah, it works for any game. [01:07:09] Speaker D: I was like, a rumor. I heard that too. [01:07:14] Speaker C: How cool would it have been to play knuckles in Earthworm gym or play Earthworm gym in Sonic? [01:07:20] Speaker D: Whoa. [01:07:20] Speaker A: Earthworm Gym was awesome. Yeah, classic. That game was hard. Hard. [01:07:26] Speaker D: Yeah, very difficult. [01:07:27] Speaker B: Really hard. [01:07:28] Speaker A: Really hard. [01:07:29] Speaker D: I beat it on the, I think it's on the Super Nintendo port. Or maybe it's the Genesis actually version is on the Switch online. It's on the virtual console or whatever. And I played through the entirety of that, and it was very difficult. But because of that, you can do the rewind feature on all those emulators except for n 64 and up. And it does make some of those old games like that that would have taken you months and months and months to beat. Like, you can do it in a few hours. And it's really satisfying just to be able to go through that very fun game. [01:08:08] Speaker C: The speeder level of battletodes. [01:08:11] Speaker D: Oh, my God. Yeah, that was, like, one that I rented, I think, two times from the video store. And then I was like, I'm never renting that game again because it pissed me off so bad. I was so mad at it for, like, decade. [01:08:25] Speaker B: Yeah, we had the controller. We could do, like, slow mo. [01:08:29] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [01:08:30] Speaker D: Oh, sure. [01:08:32] Speaker B: And that's how we beat it. [01:08:35] Speaker A: Smart. Yeah. [01:08:37] Speaker B: But we had, like, the turbo controller where you could make it. [01:08:40] Speaker C: Yeah, nice. [01:08:42] Speaker D: Slow motion. Or you could have it, like, just tap any button. Yeah. Slow motion. [01:08:47] Speaker A: Was that. It just paused it. Every pause, like, constantly. [01:08:51] Speaker B: Yeah, we get a pause frame on gunslinger popping in and stopping that bike. [01:08:55] Speaker D: Yes. Another sick, full, like, double page. [01:08:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:08:59] Speaker B: And I just thought this was hilarious because it turns into this really sad story about how this guy, all of his friends leave him. His life is ruined by this. [01:09:09] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:09:10] Speaker D: This last little note down here. All his friends left him while they did reconstructive surgery on his face. And he was just haunted by these eyes, these green, glowing eyes for the rest of his life. [01:09:27] Speaker B: I love that. Oh, my God. [01:09:30] Speaker D: Is that Tod McFarlane, like, trying to scare people? Like, he's trying to get them to, like, you better. Don't try to steal motorcycles, kids. [01:09:39] Speaker A: Or just don't cross a spawn, probably. [01:09:42] Speaker D: Yeah, don't cross a spawn. Or don't be like, don't happen. He didn't even cross a spawn. They just happened to fuck with his shitty roommate. [01:09:53] Speaker A: Don't beat up nerds and sandals is the moral. [01:09:58] Speaker B: So this is a new look for Gunslinger that premiered the last issue. He looks a little more like Zoro now. He didn't used to have, like, the bandana head. Yeah, he used to look a little more like spawn. [01:10:09] Speaker A: We're still getting used to it. [01:10:11] Speaker D: The bandana. That bandana head, I didn't think about. I didn't really notice that. [01:10:16] Speaker B: Yeah, he didn't have that before. And last issue, he got in a weird, like, maybe meta thing. He was like, I don't like people confusing us, so I'm going to change my mask. [01:10:29] Speaker D: With, like, regular. [01:10:32] Speaker B: He got. He didn't like that people were confusing him with regular. [01:10:35] Speaker A: Know. They're having a little roommate spat. [01:10:39] Speaker B: Taylor doesn't want to go. [01:10:41] Speaker A: Yeah, I like the get. [01:10:48] Speaker C: But the police are on their way. So that's what convinced. [01:10:53] Speaker D: What's he holding in that frame where he says, get? Is that his gun handle? [01:10:58] Speaker C: It's just a spike because he's got. [01:11:00] Speaker A: Those spikes on his wrist, so it's. [01:11:02] Speaker C: Just peeking up spike from his gauntlet. [01:11:04] Speaker D: Oh, I see. I was like, does he have a little poker that he's, like, famous for. [01:11:09] Speaker A: This little poker thing? Yeah, I see. [01:11:14] Speaker B: I love that gunslinger has to worry about the cops. They're like, oh, shit, the cops are coming. [01:11:18] Speaker A: We got to go. [01:11:18] Speaker C: He does canonically have hella Knives. [01:11:21] Speaker A: Like, he's got knives in his hat. [01:11:24] Speaker C: He'S got knives in his sleeves. He's got knives in his boots. [01:11:27] Speaker A: So it's not out of the realm. [01:11:29] Speaker C: Of possibility that he could just have a little bitty, like, ice pick on him. [01:11:33] Speaker D: A little poker down there. [01:11:34] Speaker A: A little stabby. Yeah. [01:11:35] Speaker D: Speaking of good page turns earlier, this is another great one. [01:11:40] Speaker C: I like the little dinosaur. Just like dinosaurs sneaks past them into. [01:11:44] Speaker D: The bathroom, kind of coming by like the cat running in between your legs. [01:11:50] Speaker C: As somebody with so many small dogs. [01:11:52] Speaker A: Somebody would have tripped over that. Oh, yeah. [01:11:59] Speaker C: The Tod father's also obsessed with doing stuff in bathrooms. [01:12:04] Speaker A: Interesting. [01:12:04] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a lot of bathrooms. [01:12:06] Speaker A: This is hilarious. [01:12:08] Speaker B: I noticed this before. [01:12:09] Speaker A: So whenever they were doing the Avatar. [01:12:11] Speaker B: Toys, the characters talked about Avatar. [01:12:14] Speaker A: Right? [01:12:14] Speaker B: And then they also mentioned some other, like, todd McFarland properties in the issue. So they're doing movie maniacs are coming back, but instead of doing horror, they're teaming up with Warner brothers for their hundredth anniversary. And one of the figures they're doing is the hangover. It's like a little self promotion because. [01:12:33] Speaker C: The Todd father needed to get some, needed to get so many words out, and he was like, okay, we got. [01:12:38] Speaker A: To put this out. And it's just what showed up. [01:12:41] Speaker B: That's true. I'm thinking about, like, writing a comic. You don't really have a lot of time to probably think about it. [01:12:48] Speaker C: Yeah, no, probably. [01:12:49] Speaker D: No, I think it's like working on, especially back when seasons were, like, 22 to 29 episodes long of a serialized television show or a non serialized but just airing every fucking week. Or, like, South park. Think about those guys output and how I'm not sure if they still do it this way, but there's that documentary of how they go from, like, in a one week span, they make the whole episode. [01:13:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:13:16] Speaker C: And they basically don't do anything until the Thursday before it's supposed to be out because it just takes so long. [01:13:22] Speaker D: Because they're like, altogether it takes so long. Yeah. And so I feel like it's similar to that. You just have to, like, I don't know, just fucking write something down. We got to go, dude. The anchor is going to kill me if you don't get a script today. Or the illustrators. Because every, I don't know, hour of writer's block that Tod McFarlane has is. [01:13:44] Speaker A: Probably like an 8 hours of an. [01:13:46] Speaker D: Artist having to draw it, at least. [01:13:50] Speaker A: Definitely. [01:13:51] Speaker D: I can't imagine so difficult. Some of it, it's so impressive. It's really incredible. [01:13:58] Speaker A: I really appreciate people that can draw. [01:14:01] Speaker B: Because I can't really very much at all. I'm not that design focused like that. [01:14:05] Speaker A: And it's just like, it's staggering what people can do. [01:14:10] Speaker D: Yeah, totally. I feel like the only thing I can draw decently is architectural in know, like, plans and stuff because of all my carpentry experience, but not like. [01:14:24] Speaker A: The. [01:14:25] Speaker D: Depth of field, especially in this frame down at the bottom with the dinosaurs standing on the toilet and Taylor in the background there. Just like that. Kind of like drawing your eye and stuff. Actually, I thought about this. [01:14:38] Speaker A: I wrote this as a note to. [01:14:40] Speaker D: Talk about on some of these bigger panels or even just on this page. Turn, for example, when you're at the bottom, your eyes are at the bottom of the previous page, and you turn when you're reading to, like, do you consciously try to visually avoid spoiling what may be at the bottom of the next page? [01:15:01] Speaker B: I usually just take it all in. [01:15:02] Speaker D: Yeah, that's what I usually do, too. And I'm like, oh, I can't. This blue dinosaur. I'm going to look at that first and then go like, oh, yeah, shit. I got to read from the top. [01:15:11] Speaker A: Though, so I know what the hell is happening. Yeah. I found getting into comics at first. [01:15:18] Speaker B: Was really bad at reading comics. Sure, I was not good at it, and I've gotten better at it, but I would breeze past stuff that was important. And I had a hard time kind of, like, sussing out what I should be following. And now I think, obviously, this journey I've gone on, I've read a lot more comics in the last year than I ever have. So I'm feeling like I'm better at it, but it is interesting. I'm like, yeah, usually I kind of soak in the whole page, and then. [01:15:44] Speaker A: I go back or someone's like, oh. [01:15:47] Speaker B: Man, I can't wait to get to that. [01:15:49] Speaker D: Yeah, totally. Well, and I guess especially if you are reading stuff that's coming out every week, if you're reading it weekly and you're just reading the single issue instead of like the trade paperback or God forbid, like an omnibus or something, it's so easy to just pick it up and read it again in 10 minutes throughout the course of the week instead of like, well, I got to catch up, or I'm reading this 200 page graphic novel that I'm not going to go back a page, probably, unless I. [01:16:18] Speaker A: Reread the whole thing. That's what I like about, and I. [01:16:21] Speaker B: Found, as I've kind of cold in what I like about getting comics is like, I like the highly serialized stuff because that is an experience you could only get in comics. [01:16:31] Speaker A: Totally. [01:16:32] Speaker B: If it's only a six issue miniseries, I would just wait for the trade paperback. But if it's an ongoing series, I want to get the comic. [01:16:40] Speaker D: Totally. [01:16:41] Speaker B: So I've kind of cold out all the miniseries and just get the ongoing. [01:16:45] Speaker A: Stuff, because that's like a kind of. [01:16:47] Speaker B: Entertainment and feel that you can only. [01:16:48] Speaker A: Get from comic books and like, television. [01:16:51] Speaker B: Shows and stuff like that, but specifically. [01:16:53] Speaker A: Comic books, which is what's cool about. Yeah, nice. And dinosaurs are cool. [01:17:02] Speaker B: And then Dakota is here, and she's cool. [01:17:05] Speaker A: She was a villain from, as it. [01:17:07] Speaker B: Says here, see issue four. [01:17:09] Speaker D: I love the footnotes. [01:17:11] Speaker A: They're all over. [01:17:11] Speaker D: I always bought that, too. [01:17:12] Speaker A: I love that. [01:17:13] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like classic. What are they called, David? [01:17:16] Speaker C: I know. I think they're just called footnotes. Or they might be callbacks. [01:17:19] Speaker B: Oh, shit. [01:17:19] Speaker D: Or like a citation. [01:17:21] Speaker B: No, I thought that maybe there was a fancy callback. [01:17:24] Speaker C: There might be a fancy term for. [01:17:27] Speaker A: It, but I don't know what it is. I just call them footnotes. [01:17:31] Speaker D: She's got a fancy hat. This is the second really good hat. [01:17:34] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, she's got a great hat. [01:17:37] Speaker D: Great hat, and the lowest rise jeans ever made. [01:17:44] Speaker B: Craziest ab, like, just like in shape. [01:17:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:17:49] Speaker B: I do love here when Taylor says, I think we're going to need a bigger boat. Like, gutslinger looks so confused, so funny. I love to cry. [01:17:59] Speaker D: Yeah, it's so funny that there's a hangover reference and then a jaws reference with these dinosaurs and not a Jurassic park of any kind reference. I thought that was very funny to me. [01:18:11] Speaker B: They never had the license. [01:18:12] Speaker C: I find it unbelievable that Taylor hasn't. [01:18:15] Speaker A: Made gunslinger watch movies yet, because back. [01:18:19] Speaker C: In what issue three gunslinger spends an entire two pages flushing the toilet. You'd think Taylor would have been like, here, why don't you watch gone with the wind or something? [01:18:33] Speaker D: Gone with the wind? [01:18:35] Speaker A: That's more up your alley. [01:18:37] Speaker B: Yeah, he would like that. It's civil war. [01:18:40] Speaker D: He'd probably like Django. [01:18:43] Speaker B: Probably would. [01:18:43] Speaker A: Probably would. Oh, man. I like the little dinosaur just sitting on her shoulder. [01:18:48] Speaker D: Yeah, I do too. [01:18:49] Speaker C: Little guy. [01:18:50] Speaker A: The little compy. Yep. [01:18:54] Speaker B: A more accurate compy with the. [01:18:55] Speaker D: With the feathers. [01:18:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:18:58] Speaker B: Oh, they started peppering in those. Well, that last jurassic park, they had some feathered lot. [01:19:05] Speaker A: I don't know if it's. [01:19:05] Speaker B: Yeah, it's great. [01:19:06] Speaker A: It's great. [01:19:06] Speaker B: Colin Trevorrow, our favorite, everyone's favorite, everyone's favorite director. [01:19:10] Speaker A: Director. The captain. [01:19:14] Speaker D: I love on this next page where I love whenever his eyes do this, where they, like, leak. [01:19:21] Speaker C: They do like the anime. [01:19:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:19:24] Speaker D: Where they're, like, glowing. They're glowing out of his fucking head. He's so focused or freaking out. There's a lot of that in the earlier king spawn stuff in the first several episodes of that. [01:19:38] Speaker A: Yeah, it's real fun. [01:19:39] Speaker B: Just so kinetic. [01:19:40] Speaker D: Yeah, it's great. [01:19:41] Speaker B: Frenetic. Everything's with Bret. Boo. [01:19:43] Speaker D: The socks lying in the background. [01:19:45] Speaker C: I love how many socks there are. Why are there so many socks? [01:19:48] Speaker D: Good. [01:19:49] Speaker C: I'm trying to figure out what this shirt says. [01:19:52] Speaker A: Looks like it says dumb Peter. I don't know. Petrol. That's always funny. [01:20:02] Speaker C: I like how Dakota's hat's got the little break in the fringe so she can do the one eye. [01:20:08] Speaker D: Hell yeah. It's great. [01:20:10] Speaker C: It's kind of like Billy Porter's met gella hat. That had the fringe. [01:20:15] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, that had the little drop. [01:20:18] Speaker A: Yes. [01:20:19] Speaker D: Beautiful. [01:20:20] Speaker A: Oh, man. [01:20:21] Speaker C: A giant explodes from the bathroom. That's not the kind of giant that normally explodes from the bathroom. [01:20:29] Speaker A: Oh, man. [01:20:30] Speaker C: Do you remember seeing that article about the dude who got arrested for saying that he's going to go blow up the toilet at a Walmart? [01:20:37] Speaker B: No. [01:20:38] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. No, I don't think he got arrested. I think it was that people thought in. [01:20:43] Speaker C: Okay. [01:20:43] Speaker D: They thought there was a bomb, so they called the emergency responders. Somebody dropped a bomb in the bathroom. [01:21:00] Speaker B: Hell, man, I wouldn't want to clean that shit up either. [01:21:03] Speaker A: I'll call. [01:21:03] Speaker D: Oh, man. [01:21:06] Speaker A: Literally, Johnny, that shit. [01:21:08] Speaker C: Literally. We're talking about the Tod father here. [01:21:11] Speaker A: This is so cool. [01:21:12] Speaker D: I love this idea. Like, at the top, it says, altering its size on the fly so as to avoid most of the gunslinger's bullets. That's such a cool visual thing of it just shrinking and growing just to dodge bullets instead of moving really quickly. It just changing its size to get out of the way is such a. [01:21:32] Speaker A: Cool idea to me. Yeah, I would love to see that. Yeah. [01:21:37] Speaker B: And then they get all little and they start messing with his guns. Yeah, and he's got the newer guns. See, that's the. He's got the newer guns. [01:21:45] Speaker A: He's got the more modern guns. Oh, yeah. [01:21:48] Speaker B: Cool. [01:21:49] Speaker D: He used to have, like, some six shooters, I assume. [01:21:52] Speaker B: Yeah, he did, but he got some newer ones. [01:21:54] Speaker C: Last year, Al Simmons did a men in black style armory reveal on him. [01:22:01] Speaker A: He's like, look, pick a new weapon. It was pretty great. [01:22:04] Speaker B: Or the Matrix. [01:22:07] Speaker C: Not as many guns as the Matrix. [01:22:08] Speaker D: Going to need a gun. Yeah, no, not as many. Just a couple. [01:22:11] Speaker A: Just a couple. Yeah. [01:22:15] Speaker D: Good fight. Good fight. And it's very funny that Taylor just screams and it's like a record scratch. [01:22:20] Speaker A: Yeah, it's so funny. [01:22:23] Speaker B: I can't do this anymore. And they're like, oh, fuck. [01:22:26] Speaker D: Sorry, kid. [01:22:27] Speaker C: All of them were looking at him. Even the dinosaur is just like, yeah. [01:22:30] Speaker A: The dinosaurs, like, so funny. [01:22:32] Speaker B: It reminds me so much of. Only because I just watched all these that I've talked about. But in the hateful eight, there's the character of Ob, and he's like, the one that. He's the 9th person. [01:22:43] Speaker A: That's not hateful. He's just like, a good person. [01:22:46] Speaker B: He has to go out in the cold to hide their weapons in the outhouse. And he comes back in and he's so pissed off, and everyone's just like. [01:22:53] Speaker A: Are you okay, ov? [01:22:55] Speaker B: I'm sorry, Obi. It just reminds me of that. [01:22:59] Speaker A: Are you okay, Taylor? Sorry, Taylor. [01:23:02] Speaker D: Sorry, Taylor. [01:23:03] Speaker C: She gives him some of that magical socialized medicine there. Yeah, to fix his hand. That's pretty dope. [01:23:12] Speaker A: Oh, that's a couple of pages on. [01:23:14] Speaker D: Whoops. [01:23:16] Speaker B: She basically gets down and just talks to him. [01:23:18] Speaker A: And it's just funny how she's like. [01:23:21] Speaker C: The dinosaur shrinks itself back. [01:23:24] Speaker D: She does a chant of some kind, and I love how. Yeah, they just fight. They fight and have this crazy fight scene. She's like, look, what I came here to say is, I'm here to help, all right? You could have led with that. You didn't have to destroy this motel room with your size shifting dinosaurs. [01:23:46] Speaker A: I don't know. [01:23:46] Speaker C: It was pretty cool, though. [01:23:49] Speaker A: It was pretty. [01:23:50] Speaker B: I like how he's just like, whoa. But it's like shapeshifting. [01:23:52] Speaker A: He's like, yeah, she is coming because. [01:24:00] Speaker B: She wants to kill clown. [01:24:02] Speaker A: Yeah. And Gunslinger has recently had a little showdown with clown back in issues like five and six. [01:24:12] Speaker D: Is this the clown? [01:24:13] Speaker A: The clown classic. [01:24:14] Speaker D: Okay, cool. [01:24:16] Speaker C: Who is the violin as portrayed by John Leguizamo in the 1997 classic? [01:24:21] Speaker A: Yes. [01:24:22] Speaker B: He mentions it a lot. [01:24:23] Speaker C: He does really like that it comes up and he'll just post stuff on instagram, and he'll be like, oh, holy shit. [01:24:29] Speaker A: Remember when I did this? Pretty great. Cool. [01:24:32] Speaker C: He never does that about the pests, you notice. [01:24:37] Speaker D: Oh, man. What a movie. [01:24:39] Speaker A: Or Super Mario Brothers. [01:24:40] Speaker B: He basically drunk the whole time. [01:24:44] Speaker D: Yeah. He and Bob Hoskins. Oh, I believe that. [01:24:47] Speaker A: Oh, man. [01:24:47] Speaker D: You ever seen Bob Hoskins in any other movie? I'm sure he was drunk all the time. He's an incredible actor, but. [01:24:55] Speaker A: He'S one. [01:24:56] Speaker D: Of those british guys like Oliver Reed, who's like, you just are made out of fucking scotch and cigars. [01:25:04] Speaker B: Like a leather. [01:25:05] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. You're pickled by the time you're 55. [01:25:10] Speaker A: That's one way to stay young. [01:25:12] Speaker D: I like how this. I asked why if that was the clown guy, because I feel like between the title of this and that guy, this comic run of gunslinger just loves dropping the from names because it's cleaner. [01:25:29] Speaker A: That's true. [01:25:29] Speaker B: Yeah, it's cleaner. [01:25:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:25:31] Speaker B: The gunslinger, the clown. [01:25:34] Speaker D: They love just losing the definite article completely. [01:25:36] Speaker C: The munchies. [01:25:37] Speaker B: Well, they did that on scorched. Actually, it was the scorched. And then they dropped because it's cleaner. [01:25:43] Speaker D: Maybe that's just Tod McFarland's whole mo. [01:25:45] Speaker A: That's one of the things he just loves. [01:25:47] Speaker D: He's so straight edge. He doesn't need definite articles. [01:25:50] Speaker A: Definitely not. [01:25:51] Speaker D: I hope that's the right piece of speech. [01:25:53] Speaker A: Or people that know real grammar. [01:25:56] Speaker C: Yeah. V is the definite article. [01:26:00] Speaker D: Great. [01:26:01] Speaker A: You know what? [01:26:01] Speaker D: You two are the definite article. [01:26:04] Speaker A: Thank you. [01:26:05] Speaker D: The real deal. [01:26:07] Speaker B: We're the real deal when it comes to spawn. [01:26:09] Speaker A: So basically, the cops are coming. [01:26:11] Speaker B: What's been happening? [01:26:13] Speaker D: I got to get biggest enemy, the police. [01:26:20] Speaker A: He's very much the scrappier spawn. Yeah. [01:26:23] Speaker D: He doesn't seem like he's very nearly as powerful as some of the other. [01:26:28] Speaker C: Have you read an issue of Gunslinger Spawn? Have you heard them say you're the weakest spawn ever? [01:26:34] Speaker A: They don't let us forget it. They don't let us forget it. [01:26:37] Speaker B: Yeah, they say it a lot. But basically, this whole run, all the villains have been, like, just coming at. [01:26:42] Speaker A: Him, and they all know where he. [01:26:44] Speaker B: Is, and he hasn't known why. But I guess Dakota knows. [01:26:47] Speaker A: We don't know. We don't know. [01:26:48] Speaker B: But hopefully we're going to find out soon, because she says, like, I know what you've been wondering about. Everyone's able to locate you. Well, I know. And this is where she gives him. [01:26:57] Speaker A: That socialist medicine and heals his arm, which is nice. Yeah. [01:27:03] Speaker D: Good stuff. Just proved yourself as a very valuable team member, if you can do that. You know what I mean? [01:27:09] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:27:10] Speaker D: Okay, great. [01:27:11] Speaker A: Definitely. Yeah. [01:27:11] Speaker D: Everybody needs a cleric class. [01:27:13] Speaker B: Cleric class. And dinosaurs. Come on. [01:27:16] Speaker A: Yeah, good. [01:27:18] Speaker B: Like a cleric druid I would play 100 hours for. [01:27:22] Speaker D: Absolutely. [01:27:24] Speaker C: Dakota's obviously not a hell person, because she doesn't shadow blast him. [01:27:27] Speaker A: She uses some sort of alternate form of transportation. [01:27:35] Speaker D: Okay, that's a mythos thing. [01:27:38] Speaker C: Yeah. The hell spawn are able to travel through shadows, so they can sure. Anywhere there's a shadow, they can go from one shadow to another, but she can't. [01:27:47] Speaker A: Shadow step is the. [01:27:49] Speaker D: That's why I record D and D Diablo. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's why you're in the closet like this. Yes. [01:27:56] Speaker B: Come to me, spawn. [01:28:00] Speaker A: But she's using some kind of, like, I don't know. [01:28:03] Speaker B: We haven't seen that color before, because definitely it's not, like, green world power. Who knows? [01:28:06] Speaker C: She uses the fire deck. [01:28:08] Speaker A: So she's got a red deck. Perfect man. Magic together. [01:28:14] Speaker B: A red dinosaur aggro deck. [01:28:16] Speaker C: That's what she's playing. [01:28:17] Speaker A: That's what she's playing. [01:28:18] Speaker C: The only thing that can beat her is that dude who has the black deck. That's nothing but rats. [01:28:23] Speaker B: Our friend Aaron Castleberry used to make the most annoying magic, the gathering decks. He would come up with these combos where he'd be playing, and he's like, and then I can tap this forever. [01:28:33] Speaker A: And I have a million life, and. [01:28:35] Speaker B: It'S like, so we can keep playing. But I have, like, unlimited life, and I'm like, okay, I guess you win. [01:28:41] Speaker D: He's so good at breaking a game, right? There's another game that we played that he just made it unplayable after a while. [01:28:49] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Splendor. [01:28:50] Speaker D: Splendor. That was what it was. Oh, my gosh. He, like, broke the game. He figured out a way. Like, now I farm this infinitely, so there's zero chance you can beat me. We might as well just be. [01:29:05] Speaker A: Cool. Good hanging out. [01:29:08] Speaker C: Nice. [01:29:08] Speaker A: Good game. We love Erin. Yeah, we do. But. [01:29:15] Speaker B: We need some horses or bikes or something. And Dakota's like, I gotcha. [01:29:19] Speaker C: Yeah, she got something better than horses. I like how the one on the left, when it comes out, it's got, like, its arms back, like, it's excited. [01:29:26] Speaker A: Like. [01:29:30] Speaker D: Diving in or something. [01:29:32] Speaker B: So the story behind the dinosaurs is Bret Booth, the artist. He was talking to Tom McFarland, and Todd McFarland was like, what do you want to draw? He's like, I've never been able. Like, I love dinosaurs. I want to draw a lot of. So, like, he's been peppering in dinosaurs. [01:29:45] Speaker A: Throughout the gunslinger book, which is cool. Oh, man. Yeah. [01:29:52] Speaker D: That's a cool attitude to have if you're Tod McFarlane. [01:29:55] Speaker A: It's like, what do you want to draw? [01:29:57] Speaker B: He's like, dinosaurs. [01:29:58] Speaker C: We could do that. We can do that. [01:30:00] Speaker D: I'm sure that comes from just having worked with illustrators for so long of just like, yeah, whatever, man. I'll write around. You should get a say in this, too. And I'll write around. Whatever. Especially in this universe where it's just there, as far as I could tell, basically no rules on anything being restricted. It's pretty maximalist. [01:30:23] Speaker C: It's Outback. It's Outback steakhouse in here. [01:30:26] Speaker A: No rules. [01:30:28] Speaker D: Perfect. And as many different main characters as there are pages on the cheesecake factory menu. [01:30:37] Speaker C: Yeah, most definitely. [01:30:38] Speaker B: And the drinks are only $6, baby. Yeah, we all went to Outback before ghost last year. [01:30:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:30:45] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. Great, because I had all those gift cards. [01:30:47] Speaker A: Yeah, that bread they bring out is pretty fantastic. [01:30:52] Speaker B: It's pretty good along the high. [01:30:55] Speaker D: Oh, my God. And it was zero degrees outside. [01:30:59] Speaker B: Yeah, we spent, like, $100 for four. [01:31:01] Speaker D: Of us to have, like, and, like, 16 margaritas. [01:31:07] Speaker C: It was insane. [01:31:09] Speaker A: It was insane. [01:31:10] Speaker B: Almost as insane as this twister of an ending here. [01:31:13] Speaker D: We're just a little. [01:31:15] Speaker A: That clown isn't my boss. [01:31:17] Speaker B: He's my father. [01:31:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:31:20] Speaker C: As a little dinosaur is hunching down so taylor can get up on him. [01:31:27] Speaker A: That little dinosaur, the back guy, he. [01:31:32] Speaker D: Just looks so derpy. [01:31:33] Speaker B: He looks like a dog pooping. Don't look at me. [01:31:37] Speaker A: He does. [01:31:38] Speaker D: And the stance is close to that, too. This is an awesome last panel, though. [01:31:43] Speaker C: Gutslinger is just having a grand old time. [01:31:45] Speaker D: Let's hit the trail. So stoked. [01:31:49] Speaker B: Have you seen those dinosaurs? They have, like, the lost world or the Jurassic park live stuff. They're crazy. [01:31:54] Speaker C: No, I haven't. [01:31:55] Speaker D: I haven't. Oh, I'm sure they're wacky. [01:31:57] Speaker B: I've seen some videos of them, but they're, like, free walking, and they're. [01:32:00] Speaker C: One time, shortly after we moved to town, Wanda and I were at the field museum. And they were doing some kind of dinosaur days thing. And, like, a secret panel opened, and a person in a giant dinosaur puppet costume walked out and scared the shit out of us. [01:32:14] Speaker A: It was awesome. [01:32:15] Speaker D: Cool. So what is this, like, the date? Or is that what it is, a date? [01:32:21] Speaker C: That's a thing at the very end. It's the necroplasm meter. So necroplasm is the juice that runs all of hell spawn. [01:32:29] Speaker D: All the spawns. [01:32:30] Speaker C: And so they start out at nine nine nine. And as they use their necroplasm, it goes away. And the original conception was that as soon as they run out of necroplasm, they forfeit all of their powers. And then their soul just belongs to. [01:32:45] Speaker A: At that time, it was melbolgia. [01:32:48] Speaker C: But then that became a little too complicated. And they've changed it a couple of times. So now it's just kind of a rough health meter. [01:32:58] Speaker A: Got it. Right. [01:32:59] Speaker D: So his is low, I assume his didn't start at nine nine. [01:33:02] Speaker C: No, it did not. [01:33:02] Speaker B: In the beginning of this, he's always been very low. [01:33:05] Speaker A: Got it. Low t. [01:33:09] Speaker C: He needs to order some. [01:33:10] Speaker D: Of those low t spawn. [01:33:11] Speaker C: He needs to order some of those. [01:33:12] Speaker A: Pills that they advertise on the radio. The total tea. [01:33:17] Speaker D: Yeah, total tea. [01:33:18] Speaker B: There's one called Nugenix. I'm like, that just sounds new. [01:33:21] Speaker A: Genics. [01:33:21] Speaker B: Eugenics. [01:33:22] Speaker D: Too close to eugenics. I agree. It's not good. You should have picked something else. [01:33:27] Speaker C: He's no sore. [01:33:28] Speaker D: I don't know. Yeah, he needs that tea. I would imagine that the people behind eugenics might not be anti eugenics. [01:33:38] Speaker C: They're definitely not on. [01:33:39] Speaker D: It could have been intentional. [01:33:41] Speaker B: They always like to apply. It makes your dick bigger, harder. They're always like, oh, yeah, because. [01:33:47] Speaker D: And it helps you in the bedroom, too. Any winks. [01:33:51] Speaker C: It's like hymns and hers that both sell the same sort of medicines. But for hers, they do, like anxiety. [01:34:00] Speaker A: And for hymns, they do get your dick hard. It's great. Yeah, it's great. [01:34:06] Speaker D: I like this fan art on this one, too. The bottom left, that's sort of like. [01:34:11] Speaker C: I can't tell if that's made. [01:34:14] Speaker D: I think it's cut out of cardboard or paper. Like layers. [01:34:18] Speaker A: Awesome. Or foam, maybe. [01:34:20] Speaker D: It's really cool. [01:34:21] Speaker C: And the one right above that is a Franz frazettia. Is that his name? [01:34:25] Speaker A: That classic homage? Oh, yeah. That's cool. I like the spawn gunslinger emoji. [01:34:36] Speaker D: Yeah, it's really good. [01:34:38] Speaker A: I wish I had that. Nice. [01:34:43] Speaker D: I like that weird up the top right is really funky, too. I'm into that. [01:34:48] Speaker C: Yeah, it is the color blocking. [01:34:49] Speaker B: This is creepy. [01:34:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:34:52] Speaker D: In the same colors as kingspawn. [01:34:54] Speaker A: Yeah. Issue ten. [01:34:55] Speaker B: Wow, look at that. All that for still 299, baby. Still only 299. [01:35:04] Speaker D: The back cover is a preview for the next one. [01:35:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:35:06] Speaker D: Is that what that is? [01:35:07] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the preview of the next cover. The June 2023 cover. [01:35:10] Speaker D: Yeah, it looks wacky. [01:35:11] Speaker A: Look at that red. [01:35:12] Speaker B: Because July's pinnacle has not come out. [01:35:15] Speaker A: Yet, right, David, no gunslinger come out this week because we had it. I read them. [01:35:24] Speaker B: Well, there were two, and I read them on the bus. [01:35:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:35:27] Speaker C: We even talked about them a little bit, Johnny. [01:35:32] Speaker B: I read a lot of spawn, David. [01:35:35] Speaker A: Wanda, literally around her this week. [01:35:40] Speaker C: We had the same conversation three times. She's like, you want burgers for dinner? And I was like, I had the burgers yesterday. [01:35:46] Speaker D: And she's like, really? [01:35:47] Speaker C: And I was like, yeah, it was your idea. [01:35:49] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [01:35:51] Speaker D: Yes. We're all at that age and have. [01:35:55] Speaker A: Been with our wandas long enough. It's just like the days run together sometimes. Yeah. [01:36:03] Speaker B: Also this time of year, man, my brain turns into soup. [01:36:06] Speaker C: The years start coming, and then all. [01:36:08] Speaker D: I want to do is be outside. [01:36:09] Speaker B: I just want to sit down and be chill and not have to think because the heat just like. Especially just. Yeah, the heat takes me. [01:36:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:36:16] Speaker D: I want to be stoned in the sunshine and near water. And that's all I can do. [01:36:21] Speaker A: That sounds perfect. Yeah, does sound perfect. [01:36:24] Speaker D: That's what I'm going to do this afternoon. [01:36:26] Speaker C: You know what else sounds perfect, Johnny? [01:36:29] Speaker B: What? [01:36:29] Speaker C: Rate and some puppies. [01:36:32] Speaker A: It's time to rate these puppies. [01:36:38] Speaker C: Why don't brand you? Go last for Kingspawn, but then first for Gunslinger. [01:36:42] Speaker A: How about that? [01:36:43] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. [01:36:44] Speaker A: Okay. [01:36:45] Speaker B: A little circle. [01:36:46] Speaker D: Gunslinger. I give it two great hats. [01:36:52] Speaker C: Two great hats. Two out of five. [01:36:54] Speaker D: Two great hats. No, it's a five out of five. But two great hats. [01:37:00] Speaker A: Yes. Two five star great hats. All right. [01:37:04] Speaker D: Two five gallon. [01:37:05] Speaker A: And cats. Nice. That's a good one, Gunsleyer. I'm going to give it four and a half size shaping. [01:37:15] Speaker B: Size changing dinosaurs. But they're big. They go big because they're big. [01:37:24] Speaker C: Big. [01:37:25] Speaker A: They're larger than the outline would be, right. Yeah, they're busting off the page. [01:37:31] Speaker C: I'm going to give it four and. [01:37:32] Speaker A: A half burger foods. [01:37:34] Speaker D: Four and a half burger foods. [01:37:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:37:38] Speaker B: We're talking about food in the last half of the episode, David. Here I go. [01:37:42] Speaker A: Always how we do it. [01:37:44] Speaker B: King spawn ten. The great red, black, white and red all over. [01:37:50] Speaker A: I'm going to give this five knives to the goggles. Nice, but they don't kill you. [01:37:59] Speaker B: But, yeah, I love this issue. It's that two page spread where you. [01:38:03] Speaker A: See Spawn was just awesome. [01:38:05] Speaker B: I'm so glad. Seems like so long. I mean, it was a year ago. It's great to finally talk about it. [01:38:10] Speaker A: And kind of put that bow on King Spawn here, but, yeah, great issue. [01:38:16] Speaker B: Five knives to the eye. [01:38:17] Speaker C: This was also the time where it was like, we still don't entirely know what's going to happen, but we knew less of what was going to happen. [01:38:25] Speaker A: Here when it came out, and it's just amazing. I'm also going to give it five. [01:38:30] Speaker C: But I'm going to give it five order 66s, because we forgot to pick up the pin that I dropped earlier. [01:38:39] Speaker A: But before Terry walks down the hallway to see Spawn on the throne, it. [01:38:45] Speaker C: Says, a good soldier, trust his instincts. And we all know a good soldier follows orders, Johnny. [01:38:52] Speaker B: Good soldier follows orders. [01:38:53] Speaker A: That's what the clones say. [01:38:54] Speaker C: That's what the clones say. [01:38:55] Speaker A: Yes. [01:38:56] Speaker C: And in the bad batch, crosshairs got a malfunctioning chip that, like, half turns. [01:39:04] Speaker A: Him, so he becomes the villain of. [01:39:08] Speaker C: The show because he only half follows the order. [01:39:11] Speaker A: It's real, David. I'm not. [01:39:14] Speaker B: I'm not as versed in the Filoni verse stuff as you are. You're more into the cartoon. [01:39:19] Speaker A: That's a felonious way to be, Johnny. [01:39:27] Speaker C: Well, what about brand? [01:39:29] Speaker B: Brand? [01:39:29] Speaker C: What are you going to give? [01:39:34] Speaker D: Agree. I have, like I said, I've read. [01:39:37] Speaker A: All of these up to this point. [01:39:39] Speaker D: And this is an awesome issue, and that reveal is really cool. Like I said before, I love that. I think it's a really bold choice to keep that off the page, that him actually taking the throne, and also to show the reveal through Terry's point. [01:39:58] Speaker A: Of view at this point. [01:39:59] Speaker D: The artwork is really awesome. I just keep staring at this dripping skull where he's, like, leaning forward after the reveal. [01:40:07] Speaker C: Yeah, that's great. [01:40:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:40:09] Speaker D: Five out of five for the issue and one out of three colors. [01:40:15] Speaker B: Love it. [01:40:15] Speaker A: Nice. [01:40:16] Speaker D: Yeah, great. [01:40:16] Speaker A: Nice. [01:40:17] Speaker D: Good stuff. I'll probably keep reading this series. This probably converted me to keeping up with Spawn. So if that was the goal for this series, they've succeeded, at least in one. [01:40:29] Speaker A: I think it's a great jumping on. [01:40:31] Speaker D: Point and very fun to read. [01:40:33] Speaker C: Congratulations. [01:40:34] Speaker D: Thanks for pushing it on me. [01:40:35] Speaker C: Congratulations. [01:40:36] Speaker B: That's what we're here for. [01:40:37] Speaker C: You're now what we call Spawnvert. Yeah, spawnvert. That's a spawn convert. Or just a pervert for Spawn, if that's what? You'd rather. [01:40:46] Speaker D: Pervert for Spawn? [01:40:47] Speaker C: Pervert for Spawn. I like that. Well, now that you're a spawnvert, we get to try to convince you about some upcoming titles that they announced at. [01:41:01] Speaker B: So, yeah, you're joining us. The episode after Comic Con Bran. And for our kind of bonus segment this week, they announced five new titles coming out for Spawn's universe over the next few years. So we figured we're going to tell you what they are and try to convince you to read. [01:41:21] Speaker D: Don't just tell me the title first. I want to see if I can come up with any description for what. [01:41:28] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, that's what we'll do. Okay. So I'll give you the title, and you kind of try to figure out what it is. So the first new series is going to be Sam and Twitch. [01:41:39] Speaker D: I have no idea who those people are, actually. No, I've seen. I've seen an action figure at your house. It's like some classic detective looking guys. [01:41:49] Speaker B: Yes. [01:41:50] Speaker D: So are they detectives? [01:41:51] Speaker A: Okay, cool. [01:41:54] Speaker B: They are these detectives. [01:41:56] Speaker D: Is it a comedy focused one? [01:41:57] Speaker A: Are they, like. They seem like. [01:41:59] Speaker C: Depending on the era, dopey. [01:42:02] Speaker D: Okay. [01:42:02] Speaker B: Depending on the era. Yeah. They've been very serious and a little. [01:42:06] Speaker A: Dopey, but you probably, if you remember, know. [01:42:10] Speaker B: Yeah, they definitely are Abbot and Costello. [01:42:12] Speaker A: Inspired because they got the. [01:42:14] Speaker B: Especially Sam. He's pretty goofy. [01:42:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:42:17] Speaker B: So that's going to be the new series. It's going to be a cop series. [01:42:20] Speaker A: Or detective series about them that Todd. [01:42:25] Speaker B: McFarland is going to be doing. [01:42:27] Speaker A: So that'll be cool. So the second one is gunslinger, but prequel. [01:42:36] Speaker B: They haven't come up with a title yet because they don't have a title. [01:42:39] Speaker A: Cool. [01:42:41] Speaker D: It's probably going to explain why he's Javier or whatever. [01:42:45] Speaker B: Yes, I imagine so. Give us some background on what he. [01:42:49] Speaker A: Was doing in the civil war. Great. [01:42:52] Speaker B: The next one they announced is Spawn kills every spawn. [01:42:57] Speaker D: Sounds sick. Pretty self explanatory, too, that one. It better live up to that. It would be disappointing if that's not what happened. [01:43:06] Speaker A: Yeah, well, David. [01:43:07] Speaker B: So it's technically a sequel to this thing they did called Spawn kills everyone. [01:43:11] Speaker A: And you read that, right? [01:43:12] Speaker D: I haven't read it yet. [01:43:13] Speaker A: I have it, but I haven't read it. [01:43:15] Speaker B: And who does he kill in it? [01:43:17] Speaker C: Like, link everyone. Let me bust out the trade paperback real quick. [01:43:22] Speaker A: Link? [01:43:23] Speaker B: Yeah, like, he kills, like Link and like Superman. [01:43:26] Speaker D: Oh, wow. Literally everyone. [01:43:28] Speaker C: Yeah. There's Spider man villains. There's Deadpool. [01:43:35] Speaker A: There's the Hulk. [01:43:37] Speaker C: There's Donald Trump in the red skull. [01:43:44] Speaker D: Spawn. He's very nasty. He's been very mean to me, folks. [01:43:47] Speaker C: Oh, Johnny. [01:43:49] Speaker A: Johnny. He. I just turned a page. [01:43:53] Speaker C: I don't know if you could see this, but he's sitting on a toilet. And then out come a whole bunch of bum bums. Out come a whole bunch of bum bums. [01:44:00] Speaker A: What in the know. [01:44:04] Speaker C: He kills Aquaman. [01:44:07] Speaker A: He kills Link. [01:44:08] Speaker C: Harry Potter. Ooh, is that solid snake? [01:44:11] Speaker A: I think that's solid snake. [01:44:13] Speaker C: He kills Boba fet. He kills Robocop. He kills Judge Dredd. [01:44:19] Speaker A: Kills Robocop. [01:44:20] Speaker B: Damn, he really does kill everybody. [01:44:22] Speaker C: He kills Rick from Rick and Morty. [01:44:26] Speaker D: Good. [01:44:27] Speaker A: Wow. [01:44:31] Speaker D: Is this a post ready player one? [01:44:34] Speaker C: No, this thing, it's something that Marvel's done it a couple of times for, like, deadpool and stuff. So every once in a while, they. [01:44:41] Speaker A: Just put out weird sort of pseudo. [01:44:44] Speaker B: Extra canonical post ready player one, though, unfortunately. Spawn's in ready player one. [01:44:49] Speaker C: Yeah, for, like, a split second. [01:44:51] Speaker A: Oh, he's in the. Yeah. Oh, wow. [01:44:55] Speaker C: I blanked on the name for a second, but if we could back up, if you need the reference for it. Sam and Twitch are like the stock and bloom of the Spawn universe. [01:45:05] Speaker D: Oh, sure. I'll take that. I'll take that. [01:45:09] Speaker C: Because I wouldn't be surprised if at some point, twitch just started yelling fat at perfect fat. [01:45:17] Speaker A: Oh, if you got mad at him. Yeah. Spawn kills Every. [01:45:21] Speaker B: Spawn is going to be a more humorous title. [01:45:23] Speaker A: Sure. [01:45:24] Speaker B: It is about spawn killing all the spawns outside of continuity. [01:45:26] Speaker A: So that should be fun. [01:45:28] Speaker D: Fun. [01:45:28] Speaker A: And then there's one called Misery based. [01:45:34] Speaker D: On the Stephen King. [01:45:35] Speaker C: Yeah, definitely. [01:45:36] Speaker B: What else would it be? [01:45:37] Speaker D: Except for it's spawn in the bed. Dakota. [01:45:42] Speaker C: I don't know. [01:45:43] Speaker D: Or the old lady from the Green zone. Yeah, she's breaking his feet. [01:45:51] Speaker B: So misery is actually Terry's daughter, Cyan. She got some powers. It's kind of like rogue, but a little more fucked up. Like, if she touches you, she sends. [01:46:02] Speaker A: Back the misery, the worst misery you. [01:46:05] Speaker B: Ever cause on another human being. [01:46:07] Speaker A: She sends it back to you, but. [01:46:09] Speaker B: At the same time, she also experiences it and experiences the worst stuff she's done. So that's the concept behind misery, and it's going to be a new character. So that'll be fun. [01:46:21] Speaker A: That'll be fun. That sounds pretty cool. Good name. [01:46:26] Speaker B: And then there's one that we don't know much about called no home here. [01:46:31] Speaker A: No home. I don't know. [01:46:36] Speaker D: No home here. All the bars that king or that spawn has been, like, banned for life from because he comes in and fucks shit. Up. [01:46:49] Speaker B: We don't goop everywhere. [01:46:50] Speaker D: We don't serve your kind everywhere. He kills hundreds of people every time he comes in. [01:46:56] Speaker A: In the most violent way you've ever seen. Oh, yeah, that would be fun. No. [01:47:01] Speaker B: So no home here? [01:47:03] Speaker C: No way home. [01:47:05] Speaker B: No way home. It is going to be something about one of Billy Kincaid's early victims and their journey through the afterlife. So that'll be kind of interesting. [01:47:15] Speaker D: Okay. [01:47:15] Speaker B: But we don't know much about it, but that's it. [01:47:17] Speaker C: So if you don't know brand, Billy Kincaid was the son of a senator and a serial child murderer who dressed up as an ice cream. [01:47:28] Speaker A: He's. [01:47:28] Speaker B: He's in King Spawn a little bit. [01:47:30] Speaker D: He's in the beginning of King Spawn, and it sort of explains, but it doesn't. I could infer. [01:47:40] Speaker B: Titles. Pretty exciting. It's going to be crazy. Hopefully. Justin Haley was saying, man, I don't know if I can afford, like, five. [01:47:45] Speaker A: New titles, but I think some of. [01:47:47] Speaker B: Them probably won't be monthly, and some of them will probably just be miniseries, I imagine. [01:47:51] Speaker A: Sure. [01:47:52] Speaker C: Or some of them might be, like, unwanted violence where it's just two issues. [01:47:57] Speaker B: Two issues are, like, cool, thicker. [01:47:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:48:00] Speaker D: So, yeah, limited run kind of things. Wow. [01:48:03] Speaker B: Coming out. [01:48:04] Speaker D: So how many different comics are in. [01:48:09] Speaker C: The Spawn universe saying active or over. [01:48:13] Speaker A: Time, let's say active, upcoming. [01:48:18] Speaker C: Active. There are currently four. And then there are those five upcoming titles. But over the years, what? There have been, what's w in the Alphabet? [01:48:35] Speaker A: Is that like 24? Yeah, or, like, 23, because there have. [01:48:40] Speaker C: Been, like, 23 different titles within spawn. [01:48:43] Speaker A: Since they started it. [01:48:45] Speaker B: Oh, because you have it on the spreadsheet? [01:48:47] Speaker A: Yeah, I have it on the spreadsheet. [01:48:49] Speaker D: Oh, I see. [01:48:49] Speaker C: I'm going to have to make a second one. Twitch. It'll have to be same and twitch volume one, and same and twitch volume two. [01:48:55] Speaker A: Dang. [01:48:56] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Yeah, we got content till the day we die. [01:49:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:49:01] Speaker B: I'm going to die in this closet recording this. God, what a lie. [01:49:06] Speaker D: We'll upgrade your system before. [01:49:09] Speaker B: I hope I don't die in this apartment. [01:49:10] Speaker A: That would be the most sad part. [01:49:12] Speaker D: Yeah, that would be sad. [01:49:14] Speaker A: I want to move at least one. [01:49:15] Speaker B: More time before I die. God damn it. I love moving. [01:49:19] Speaker C: Speaking of sad, when we're sad, we like to look to our friends, don't we? [01:49:24] Speaker B: We do like to look to our friends, and we have a lot of friends on Instagram. And every week we like to give a shout out to one of those. [01:49:31] Speaker A: Of course, we're shouting out Bran, who. [01:49:34] Speaker B: Will also be tagged in the episode. [01:49:37] Speaker A: But we also want to shout out. [01:49:40] Speaker B: Account we discovered in the last few months and has followed back, really supportive, called the Spawn Fiend. [01:49:47] Speaker A: Yes. [01:49:48] Speaker C: And there. [01:49:49] Speaker B: And it's in the cool misfits font. [01:49:52] Speaker A: The fiend misfits font. But he's a toy photographer that does. [01:49:58] Speaker B: Really cool stuff with spawn action figures. And you should give him a follow. [01:50:06] Speaker A: Yeah, you definitely should. Man. I love the pulling them up right now. I love the misfits. [01:50:13] Speaker C: We talk about the misfits a lot on here brand. I don't know if you noticed, but it lends itself quite well to the topic at hand. [01:50:21] Speaker A: The misfits. Yeah. [01:50:23] Speaker D: I bet it's good music to listen to and read this. [01:50:26] Speaker A: Or you could go, like, know, norwegian. [01:50:30] Speaker D: Doom metal or something. [01:50:32] Speaker B: That's what David listens to. [01:50:33] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what I listen to. A lot of funeral doom, a lot of black metal. You know how it. [01:50:41] Speaker B: No, but he's a cool, um. [01:50:44] Speaker C: He's got a nice little clown that's actually very menacing. It's like that original series clown, but. [01:50:48] Speaker A: He'S frightening the way he's lit him. [01:50:52] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got a lot of that. [01:50:54] Speaker C: He's got that wanda in her wedding dress. [01:50:58] Speaker A: Yeah. And that owl, like the soldier owl got Tiffany. [01:51:02] Speaker B: No, that's cool. [01:51:03] Speaker C: Tiffany from the horny series. [01:51:06] Speaker A: Uh oh. Bonk, bonk. [01:51:10] Speaker B: While you're over on instagram, make sure to give us a follow. We are. Regarding spawn pod, we're always posting fun reels and pictures of our comics and stuff we do on the episode. [01:51:21] Speaker A: So check us out there. [01:51:24] Speaker B: Also, while you're there, make sure to check out Brian voyals, 27. Oh, Jesus. What's his new handle? [01:51:29] Speaker C: Brian underscore voyals. Underscore 27. And Brian is Brian for all these? Yeah, he's changed it all right. It'll be linked. [01:51:39] Speaker A: That's okay. That's fine. [01:51:41] Speaker B: What he didn't change is that he does our awesome music, so make sure. [01:51:44] Speaker A: To give him a follow. [01:51:45] Speaker C: Yeah, definitely. [01:51:47] Speaker B: And if you want to reach out to us at regarding [email protected], drop us a line. [01:51:53] Speaker A: Yeah, drop us a line. [01:51:55] Speaker B: Corrections, comments, concerns, anything you'd like. [01:51:59] Speaker A: Yeah, what kind of a question are. [01:52:02] Speaker C: You going to have them try to answer to? [01:52:05] Speaker A: That's right. [01:52:06] Speaker B: Every week I like to ask a question to have people write in on the email. And this week I'm going to say, which of the new titles are you most excited about? Are you excited about Sam and Twitch? [01:52:15] Speaker A: Gunslinger? [01:52:16] Speaker B: Civil War? Spawn kills every spawn, misery or no home here. Personally, I'm a Sam and Twitch guy, so probably that. But I'm also really excited for no home here, because it's the one we know the least about. [01:52:27] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm real excited for Salmon. Twitch, obviously. Also gunslinger. Civil W. Should be pretty good. [01:52:33] Speaker B: Civil W. I grew up. [01:52:35] Speaker C: My father was a civil War reenactor, so I have a soft spot for civil War type things. [01:52:43] Speaker A: Also cool. [01:52:45] Speaker C: Wanda and I have a friend who was also real big into reenacting, specifically the cross dressing. Reenacting. That happens because there were a lot of women in the mid 19th century. Who dressed up as men to enlist in the civil war. [01:53:04] Speaker A: And there are reenactors who still keep that tradition up. [01:53:10] Speaker C: And I learned that even though there's a big sign on the bus that says, no guns, you're allowed to carry your muzzle loading rifle because it is an artifact and not a weapon anymore. [01:53:22] Speaker D: Wow. [01:53:23] Speaker B: So. [01:53:25] Speaker C: The gun laws need to be changed. Because the guns that the laws were written for. Are artifacts and not weapons. [01:53:33] Speaker A: Fair. Interesting. [01:53:36] Speaker C: Very exciting. [01:53:36] Speaker B: Interesting how that works. [01:53:37] Speaker A: Yeah, sweet. [01:53:40] Speaker B: So, yeah, hit us up. Let us know what title you're looking forward to. [01:53:44] Speaker A: Brand, thank you so much for coming on. [01:53:46] Speaker D: Hey, thanks for having me. [01:53:48] Speaker A: Yeah, anytime. [01:53:49] Speaker B: So keep up with that, king Spawn, and we can have you back, and we can talk some more and, yeah. [01:53:54] Speaker D: Maybe I'll come back at, like, episode. I don't know. What would be another number? Episode 50. [01:54:02] Speaker C: So this is episode 51. So you've already. [01:54:05] Speaker A: Oh, no. [01:54:06] Speaker D: I mean, King Spawn issue. I said episode issue. [01:54:11] Speaker B: We'll be coming up on 30 or 25 soon. Yeah, we could do in a few months. 30 would be good. Maybe every even number. [01:54:18] Speaker A: Every ten. Sure. Yeah. [01:54:21] Speaker B: Sounds fun. [01:54:22] Speaker A: Great. [01:54:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:54:23] Speaker A: Thank you. This is awesome. [01:54:24] Speaker C: Speaking of reading spawn, you want to read a couple of spawns for next week, too, Johnny, just to keep the thing? [01:54:31] Speaker A: No. [01:54:31] Speaker B: Might as well. What were you thinking, Dave? [01:54:33] Speaker C: Next week we're going to be reading, as we do, a classic and a contemporary. Our classic is going to be Spawn 308. And our new one's going to be king Spawn 22. [01:54:43] Speaker A: So that'll be a real fun episode to talk about. [01:54:46] Speaker B: Switch, big Sam. And big Sam issue there. [01:54:49] Speaker C: Definitely. He proves his bona fides as a badass. [01:54:53] Speaker A: So I think that just leaves me to say, johnny, may the scorched be with you. And also with you, David, may the. [01:55:02] Speaker C: Scorched be with you too, as well. [01:55:03] Speaker A: Bran, we're not going to forget you. Thanks. [01:55:07] Speaker D: I love. I feel very warm. Hot, even scorched, in fact. [01:55:12] Speaker A: Well, guys, I'm out of here. [01:55:15] Speaker B: I just bought my tickets to the Disneyland opening in Venito, Oklahoma. So I gotta go. [01:55:20] Speaker A: Good. [01:55:21] Speaker B: I'm gonna check out these rides. [01:55:25] Speaker C: Get yourself a burger. Food at that world's largest ex world's largest mcdonald's.