[00:00:00] Speaker A: You. Hey, y'all. It's your co host, David Williams. And I just wanted to let you know that that ding dang chatter that keeps coming across my file has happened again. I tried my best to get rid of it, but it still shows up at about 30 minutes to 45 minutes. And then again, a couple of little blips at around an hour seven. I hope it doesn't depreciate your enjoyment of this episode. Just wanted to let you know up front so that way, you know why I sound a little weird. Thank you for listening, and may the scorched be with you.
[00:00:34] Speaker B: You're right. It won't end. I've done everything I can to find another way. But the truth is, the only way to ever cure this problem is to put someone else on the throne permanently.
That someone is going to be me.
Good evening, and welcome to the Malbols. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I'm your co host, John Fisher.
[00:01:32] Speaker A: And I am your co host, David Williams. And, Johnny, I've been looking through this stack of patron saints. We got, you know, the cards, trying to see who's going to gaze down upon us as we record this week. And I think we got to go with the original hard ass, Mr. Jason Wynn.
[00:01:51] Speaker B: Oh, nice.
[00:01:52] Speaker A: Just sitting there, smoking his little skinny black cigar. Just mean mugging. Oh, man. Martin Sheen. Good face.
[00:02:00] Speaker B: Good face. He's good in that movie.
[00:02:04] Speaker A: He does more than he needs to in that movie.
[00:02:06] Speaker B: He does a lot. He's really giving it all. So I left my card sitting on the dresser in the office, where it's become my spawn, like ground zero, basically.
And I was sitting there, and Wanda came in and saw the cards, and the Jessica priest card was on top where her boobs were hanging out, and she has her legs crossed. And she was like, what are these cards? And I was like, oh, they're spawn, the movie cards. And she was like, okay, so what.
[00:02:34] Speaker A: You'Re saying is it maybe would have saved you a little bit more face if you had just been like, I got dirty cards at the comic book shop. Yeah, maybe I bought those original pornographic Nintendo cards.
[00:02:45] Speaker B: Yes. Yeah, I know.
Leave luck to heaven.
[00:02:49] Speaker A: I feel that way a lot myself, that there's more shame in having to hide the spawn than there is or ever would be in having to.
[00:03:00] Speaker B: It really has taken over, like, our office in the house. It's like, basically like my spawn room now of comics and cords and microphones and everything.
[00:03:09] Speaker A: Yeah, my actual desk is in a different room, but I record in the extra bedroom. Just because it's, like, soundproof it a little better. And at least once every other week, Wanda's like, do you want to just move your computer in? I'm like, no, I don't want to spend all the time in this tiny little room.
I'm lazy and don't want to move my computer. Sometimes.
[00:03:30] Speaker B: Yeah, sometimes you just got to leave.
[00:03:31] Speaker A: It, and then you just slowly just become part of the room. Johnny, I have a feeling that eventually we're just going to become little bitty minions.
We're just going to get, like, little pug faces, and we're going to be like, little bitty clowns, and we're just going to be.
[00:03:50] Speaker B: God, leave us alone, man. That new spawn figure came with demonic minions. Did you see that?
[00:03:55] Speaker A: I did not. No.
[00:03:57] Speaker B: It was a king spawn figure that just came out, and it came with little minions. Like that one. Bjorn barons cover.
[00:04:03] Speaker A: Awesome. We're going to look that up real quick.
[00:04:05] Speaker B: Let's see where he has his little spawns with him.
But people are getting in the mail recently. I think it's out figure.
[00:04:15] Speaker A: Like King nightmare spawn, basically, yeah. Okay.
[00:04:19] Speaker B: It might be a kit bash. I haven't done my research.
[00:04:21] Speaker A: No, it's an actual. It's King Spawn and demon minions. Oh, you can't.
[00:04:27] Speaker B: No, but I mean, it might be a kit bash of, like, the nightmare spawn from the.
[00:04:32] Speaker A: Yeah, like an official kit bash. He's also got wings.
Yeah, there's one. One of these demon minions is just like a roly polly, little fat guy, and he's cracking me up.
[00:04:44] Speaker B: Yeah, they're pretty funny.
[00:04:45] Speaker A: He looks kind of, like, slimer.
[00:04:47] Speaker B: Be worth getting for the minions alone.
[00:04:49] Speaker A: Yeah, it would be. I've been real bad about keeping up on the toy news, man. The paint on that looks awesome. I should probably get it.
[00:04:56] Speaker B: I'm trying to wait. Because they do get. Except for a few, they normally get cheaper and more accessible. But sometimes the main normal spawn one that just came out, that mortal Kombat one, is harder to get. Like, you can't get it for under like 30 or $40 on Amazon.
[00:05:11] Speaker A: Which one? Because who was it?
[00:05:13] Speaker B: The newest one.
[00:05:15] Speaker A: Was it a spawn? Safari has all of them. And there's like 13.
[00:05:19] Speaker B: There's a million. Yeah.
[00:05:22] Speaker A: I didn't realize, man. It's like when we were talking to Ty and he was talking about all the different versions of the original figure, and it's like, so many versions.
[00:05:32] Speaker B: So many versions of Spawn. No, it was the one that came out called, like, shadow spawn or something like that. And it's pretty much just a normal looking spawn. And I think that's why people want it, because it's, like normal looking spawn. He has a gun hand ready, so you can put in any of those guns from the accessory pack.
[00:05:48] Speaker A: Put the cork gun in there.
[00:05:50] Speaker B: Put the cork gun. He has a cape that's actually on him, unlike the one that sits on the throne. Because that cape is, like, attached to the throne. Pretty much, yeah.
[00:05:59] Speaker A: I'm just real sad that. That platinum edition of Disruptor that has the original antispawn painting on it. I'm just sad that's not across the board, the one they went with. That's the one that you have to hunt for.
[00:06:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:13] Speaker A: It's so cool. It's so cool.
[00:06:16] Speaker B: It's a nice little reference to bringing all the history together.
[00:06:20] Speaker A: It would be great if he had a little visor. You could flip up and it was a sculpt of Martin Sheen's face underneath there.
[00:06:26] Speaker B: Yeah, that'd be the ultimate.
Maybe they'll do a kickstarter Jason Wyn figure because the kids, everyone wants a Jason Wyn.
[00:06:36] Speaker A: Or it could be like a box set of Jason Wyn throughout the years. Comics Jason Nguyen animated series Jason Wynn movie Jason Wyn. And then it goes to anti spawn and then his disruptor. Disruptor. Doesn't he become redeemer at some point?
[00:06:50] Speaker B: Because I think I'm at, in the comics, he's being possessed and manipulated by clown. So you see him with a lot of clown makeup. A be.
[00:06:59] Speaker A: That would be a good figure.
[00:07:01] Speaker B: You see his face with the clown. That's definitely the cliffhanger. One of the issues. But clown is, like, taking him over.
[00:07:07] Speaker A: There should be more clown variant. Imagine. Imagine, like, Al Simmons figure. That's the clown variant.
[00:07:13] Speaker B: Yeah, man. Yeah. Like the Joker fight it, but they could clownify it.
You see the Joker fied variants?
[00:07:21] Speaker A: Yeah, I have. Some of them are pretty awesome.
[00:07:24] Speaker B: They're hilarious. They're just funny.
[00:07:26] Speaker A: It would be hilarious if instead of doing a clownified, they just did a Joker fied spawn.
[00:07:32] Speaker B: Why not?
[00:07:33] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, it's all in the family. It's all in the family.
[00:07:37] Speaker B: They've met.
[00:07:38] Speaker A: Yeah, multiple times.
[00:07:39] Speaker B: Batman is canon, and they've met canonical.
[00:07:42] Speaker A: Like, the shoelace comes from Batman cleaving Spawn's face in twain.
[00:07:48] Speaker B: Actually, that's not true because he shoelaced.
[00:07:52] Speaker A: His face back together after Batman.
[00:07:55] Speaker B: I guess that's not true, though. It's not true.
[00:07:57] Speaker A: Really?
[00:07:58] Speaker B: Yeah. There's another thing that Houdini does to him or something. And it's a big confusion. I'll look that up. Put a pin in that.
[00:08:04] Speaker A: Okay. Johnny, are you saying that we maybe have an incomplete knowledge of the history of Spawn? Yes, we got to work on that. How about we work on it together? A couple of issues of Spawn at a time, Johnny.
[00:08:17] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe we'll find. Maybe we'll find. Whoops, I just googled, how did Spawn get shoes? I guess we'll find out.
Probably the shoe store. We'll find that out later. But let's find out what's in these issues of Spawn. Because we're bringing you, like we do most weeks, two issues from Spawn's universe. An older, more classic issue and a more modern one. Right now we are covering the early three hundred s or early to mid. Almost getting up there. Yeah, we're at 326 for a classic issue. All the way back from January 2022. So a little almost two years ago as of this record. And then the more modern is Spawn 346 from October 2023.
So not too long ago.
[00:09:06] Speaker A: Not too long ago at all. And it seems like no time at all between. Because the end of this book is still very fresh. And I feel like I just read it for the first time a couple of days ago instead of two months ago.
[00:09:20] Speaker B: Yeah, well, the spawn has been trickling out. It's been a lot slower paced. So it's like we're almost catching up on some of them.
[00:09:27] Speaker A: Yeah, they're shifting gears to make sure that they meet correctly at 350 day.
[00:09:33] Speaker B: Yeah. And also probably working on the other books. It's just, like, going to be a little different what we're used to. But we were used to spawn every week. The first time in history, David. So we were.
[00:09:44] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, we were very spoiled.
It's become a new thing now that if I walk into the shop on a no spawn week, the guys are like, we're sorry. Is the very first thing they say.
[00:09:57] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what Pat has always given me.
[00:09:59] Speaker A: Shit.
[00:09:59] Speaker B: When there's no spawn, Pat comes up.
[00:10:01] Speaker A: To you, like, wringing his hands, like, oh, Johnny, Johnny, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
[00:10:08] Speaker B: No, he likes to like, one time he was like, oh, since there's two spawns this week, I can save this for next week, since there's not going to be one. And you can feel like it. And I was like, no, I'll just take them all now.
[00:10:19] Speaker A: Well, I mean, I did have that experience where I had Covid during a spawn week. And after Covid, it was a non spawn week. So I got to pick up my Covid week. Spawn the week that there was no spawn. So I wouldn't recommend that track, though. So don't get Covid to get your spawn fixed.
[00:10:40] Speaker B: That's like wearing tight shoes. Just with the relief of taking them off.
[00:10:44] Speaker A: Boo.
Just get the baggy shoes so that way you can feel like a bum all day and it's great. Nothing's better than feeling like a bum, Johnny.
[00:10:54] Speaker B: Yep, it does feel nice, as we know. Drinking that strawberry ripple, reading some spawn.
I wasn't drinking strawberry ripple, though. I was drinking a twisted tea when I was reading this last night.
[00:11:05] Speaker A: Did it have lemonade in it? Was it an Arnold Palmer?
[00:11:08] Speaker B: It was a half and half. Yeah, I like the half and half one.
[00:11:11] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:11:11] Speaker B: I got it 711 on my way home from work.
[00:11:13] Speaker A: That's delicious.
[00:11:15] Speaker B: It was refreshing.
[00:11:16] Speaker A: I'm a big fan of the lipton. Brisk, because it basically tastes like plastic. And there's something about it that's just like, nah, give it to me. Give it to me.
[00:11:24] Speaker B: Really?
[00:11:24] Speaker A: Yeah. I could do it. I just need something to drink.
[00:11:28] Speaker B: I mean, the twisted teas are basically just alcoholic versions of that.
[00:11:31] Speaker A: Yeah, I can't drink those on the way to the work. On the way to the work.
[00:11:36] Speaker B: No, you really can't. To be clear, I was drinking on the way home from work.
[00:11:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:40] Speaker B: Not on the way home. At home.
I wasn't busting it out on the bus or nothing. I was patient.
[00:11:47] Speaker A: Sometimes a bus beer is just what the doctor ordered.
[00:11:50] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I always like taking the metra too. That's always fun because you can actually drink it like you're.
[00:11:56] Speaker A: Yeah, that's fun. I have a friend who takes the metra every day. And he actually kind of hates the beverage car because everybody takes it as permission to talk to each other. And he's like, don't fucking talk to me. I'm trying to.
[00:12:12] Speaker B: There has to be a certain car to drink the beer, I think.
[00:12:16] Speaker A: Either that or you might have to, like, for byobs, you have to pay a cork fee. You might have to pay, like, a bottle, know.
[00:12:24] Speaker B: Really interesting.
That's funny. I don't know. It's been a while since I've been on the metro, but I've only been on it once.
[00:12:31] Speaker A: But you know what I've done more than once, Johnny, read this issue of Spawn.
[00:12:36] Speaker B: I know. I've read it twice.
[00:12:37] Speaker A: No cork fees here.
[00:12:39] Speaker B: Nope. But before you pop the cork, you gotta check out the label. There might be a little dust on the it, but don't let it fool you about what's inside.
[00:12:47] Speaker A: A well dressed individual comes over and presents it to you and says, would sir like to inspect the label?
[00:12:54] Speaker B: You say, why, yes, I would.
[00:12:55] Speaker A: Yes, I would. And what kind of label are you working with today, Johnny?
[00:12:59] Speaker B: I have the barberry cover with spawn sitting on a power line. Hopefully he's not getting electrocuted. I guess it could technically be, like, some kind of other wire, I guess.
[00:13:14] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a telegraph wire. He can feel the messages going to the warfront in his bottom. It's like, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
[00:13:24] Speaker B: It might feel good.
[00:13:26] Speaker A: It's when his legs gets tired. He likes it as, like, a little massage for his thighs.
[00:13:33] Speaker B: He's sitting on top of a roof with, like, water towers and sheds and shit. On top of the roof.
[00:13:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:38] Speaker B: Pretty cool. And he's just stalking. There's red caves hanging down. He got some chains hanging down.
[00:13:44] Speaker A: That is the exact one I have, and it is, as you say, very good. I actually, several years ago, used to live across the street from the Baxter building. The building in which the entirety of child's play takes place. Oh, yeah. And it used to have a water tower on top of it, but one day, it just, like, fell off into the parking lot next to it.
[00:14:05] Speaker B: Oh, my God.
[00:14:06] Speaker A: Yeah, it luckily didn't hit anybody. Some people were trying to load a U Haul, and I think a couple of them got sent to the hospital because the water knocked them off their feet. But, yeah, I was just, like, walking to work, and I was like, that's not supposed to be there. What the heck?
[00:14:23] Speaker B: It's a waterfall. It's a water tower. Maybe spawn knocked it off.
[00:14:27] Speaker A: Maybe it was right after they filmed that movie doom three in town. Dhoom. The Bollywood buddy cop film.
[00:14:37] Speaker B: Oh, really?
[00:14:39] Speaker A: So luckily, it didn't fall on them while they were filming the movie.
That might be bad. The last recorded images of the water tower on the Baxter building.
[00:14:51] Speaker B: Well, there you go. You got to watch doom three.
[00:14:54] Speaker A: Baxter? Yeah.
[00:14:57] Speaker B: Is that what it's called? Isn't that where the Fantastic four live?
[00:15:01] Speaker A: I still think it's called the Baxter building, though.
[00:15:03] Speaker B: Oh, interesting.
[00:15:05] Speaker A: Okay, looking it up.
[00:15:07] Speaker B: There's a second cover here for this. 326. And it is a Bjorn Barron's cover. I don't have it, but I'm looking at it, and it's pretty cool. It's she spawn on a motorcycle shooting a little angel guy.
[00:15:20] Speaker A: Yeah, speaking of demonic minions.
[00:15:23] Speaker B: Yeah, she's shooting a little Bjorn Baron's minion.
[00:15:26] Speaker A: He's, like, just, like, right through the.
[00:15:30] Speaker B: Back there on her motorcycle that she loves.
[00:15:34] Speaker A: She spawn loves motorcycle.
[00:15:36] Speaker B: I changed the back of my phone. I told you, she spawned.
[00:15:40] Speaker A: Because when you showed me that, I noticed that you could see the drop down ceiling in the back.
[00:15:46] Speaker B: I know she's inside.
[00:15:47] Speaker A: You know for sure that you're inside.
[00:15:50] Speaker B: Yeah. But, yeah. Really cool. Bjorn Barons cover. He had a really great streak here.
They're just getting him to put out some work.
[00:15:57] Speaker A: Yeah, they are.
[00:15:58] Speaker B: It feels like every cover for the last few has had a Bjorn Barron's. At least one of them. Some of them, too.
[00:16:04] Speaker A: An update, Johnny. It's not the Baxter building. It's the Brewster building.
[00:16:08] Speaker B: Brewster.
[00:16:09] Speaker A: Brewster building.
[00:16:10] Speaker B: Sounds like a rooster that drinks beer.
[00:16:12] Speaker A: Yeah. And for anybody who's spent any time in Chicago, you know that the follow up to this is Charlie Chaplin used to live in the penthouse of the building.
[00:16:21] Speaker B: Oh, really?
[00:16:22] Speaker A: Yeah. He was, like, the first occupant of the penthouse of the Brewster building.
[00:16:27] Speaker B: Well, lady da, then it was Chucky.
[00:16:31] Speaker A: Yeah, it's where Chucky lived. There's also a really good dive bar there called Galway Bay, that they're the ones that used to have just, like, a wall full of old school video games and consoles, and you could just play video games, and they got a popcorn machine. And they got carry. Man, I need to go back to Galway.
[00:16:50] Speaker B: Oh, man, they got a popcorn machine. I love the bars. They got a popcorn machine.
[00:16:54] Speaker A: Yeah. And, like, if you show up and the popcorn machine isn't on, you're like, hey, can we turn on the popcorn machine? They'll turn it on for you if you ask.
[00:17:02] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:17:02] Speaker A: Because when they're busy, they have it going. But if they're not, just ask.
[00:17:07] Speaker B: That's a big thing in Lakeview. There's a lot of popcorn machines, and it's.
[00:17:11] Speaker A: It's a great bar food. It's a great bar food.
[00:17:15] Speaker B: Keeps you drinking the beer. Keeps you around.
[00:17:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Doesn't fill you up as much as nuts do, so that way you drink more.
[00:17:22] Speaker B: Exactly. Well, we're about to fill up on this issue because we're popping it open here. We got the credits.
[00:17:28] Speaker A: Smell that bouquet, Johnny?
[00:17:29] Speaker B: The smells pretty good.
[00:17:30] Speaker A: You got to let it breathe a little bit.
[00:17:32] Speaker B: This one's been sealed up because I gave my other copy to Logan to read, so this has been sealed, so it actually smells pretty good.
[00:17:38] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:17:39] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
The visual of me smelling it. Now we're on Zoom this time.
[00:17:44] Speaker A: Yeah, I can see Johnny's beautiful face.
[00:17:47] Speaker B: It sucks though, because I can't take naps during your rant and wake up.
[00:17:56] Speaker A: Well, at least it's good to know that my rants are good for something.
[00:18:02] Speaker B: No, they're good for a quick power.
[00:18:03] Speaker A: Nap is nothing to shake a stick at.
Speaking of rare vintages, Johnny, there's quite a rarity in the credits of this book, right?
[00:18:14] Speaker B: It doesn't. It's just Roy McConville on script. Plot. No additional script or dialogue or plot by Todd McFarlane. Just Roy McConville, script, plot.
[00:18:23] Speaker A: He did a good job.
[00:18:25] Speaker B: And a non rarity. A non rarity is Carlo Barberi on art.
[00:18:29] Speaker A: Yeah, non barb. Bar rarity. Not a bar rarity, but a barberity.
[00:18:35] Speaker B: We ain't talking about the pony rarity.
[00:18:38] Speaker A: We did.
[00:18:39] Speaker B: No, we're not.
[00:18:40] Speaker A: No. Okay.
[00:18:41] Speaker B: I know you're a brony. I know you love rarity.
[00:18:44] Speaker A: I don't know any of their names.
[00:18:45] Speaker B: You don't know any of their names? What is rarity?
[00:18:47] Speaker A: I know, like, twilight Sparkle. Is Twilight Sparkle one of them? That's the moody one, right?
[00:18:53] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:18:55] Speaker A: I think that's like the emo teen.
[00:18:59] Speaker B: I know there's twilight sparkle, apple Jack, rarity, pinkie pie.
[00:19:05] Speaker A: Pinkie pie.
[00:19:06] Speaker B: Fluttershy. Shit. I fucking know all of them. Oh no.
[00:19:09] Speaker A: I know. Uwk randomly wandered into my little pony convention and just had a blast. And so they gave him an honorary. What do they call.
Not a Persona specifically because that's just.
[00:19:29] Speaker B: A ponytar. A pony avatar.
[00:19:31] Speaker A: I don't know, because he didn't have one prepared. And they're like, okay, dude, we'll give you one so you don't even have to think about it. Nice. Bronies are actually pretty hardcore. Wanda used to do cosplay competitions and we spent a whole day just hanging next to a dude who had entered into the contest and he spent all day in that motherfucking suit. And once an hour or so he would take the head off because his cpu fans in it had stopped working. And he was just like. He looked like he got hit with the water tower that fell off the Brewster building.
The original actor in the Godzilla suit couldn't have been sweating more than this dude did. And he was super sweet the entire time. If I were in that position and sweating and hot that much, I would be the most miserable goddamn human being on the planet.
[00:20:25] Speaker B: Yeah. He was specifically dressed as a brony. As like, a pony.
[00:20:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
I don't think it was one of the canon of pony. I think it was his own version.
[00:20:36] Speaker B: Sure. I get it? Yeah, that's cool. Well, doing their version of the lettering on this issue is Tom Warzachowski.
And we've got J. David Ramos on colors. We've covered the covers. Oh, and there he is, creative director Tod McFarlane.
[00:20:53] Speaker A: We can't get far without him.
[00:20:55] Speaker B: And Thomas Healy as editor in chief. So we know this must be after scorch number one, because it's January, definitely.
[00:21:04] Speaker A: So is this the first one that he's editor in chief in main title?
[00:21:08] Speaker B: I believe so.
[00:21:09] Speaker A: Let me check the 325 real quick. I meant to do that last night, and then was like, no, there's no time.
[00:21:15] Speaker B: There's no time. We would have acknowledged it.
[00:21:18] Speaker A: I just can't remember when the last time we said it was. So I've got 325 right here. Checking it. Checking it. Yeah. He was just editor in, 325.
[00:21:26] Speaker B: All right, so the first main title, editor in chief, Thomas Healy. Right here. You heard it first. 326.
[00:21:32] Speaker A: Going to have to tag him in this post.
[00:21:34] Speaker B: We'll tag him in this one.
[00:21:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:36] Speaker B: So previously in spawn, haunt has returned. But with his savage attack on Spawn, whose side is he really on?
It rhymes.
[00:21:47] Speaker A: Yeah, it's quite accurate.
[00:21:51] Speaker B: Yeah, that's exactly what happened. A lot of other stuff happened too, but that's kind of where we pick up, I guess.
[00:21:57] Speaker A: Yeah. And it picks up directly there. Directly there. No preamble, no respooling some of the previous footage. Just right on it.
[00:22:07] Speaker B: Yeah. Haunt is attacking Al.
They're both going crazy with their chains, and he's got his goopy, stringy stuff going.
[00:22:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:17] Speaker B: And it's just them rolling around and.
[00:22:20] Speaker A: Rolling around in the blood from all of the guys that haunt just killed.
[00:22:25] Speaker B: Right. No care. No care at all.
This poor hotel room or office, wherever they are.
[00:22:32] Speaker A: I think it's a room in a house.
[00:22:35] Speaker B: A room in a house.
[00:22:36] Speaker A: A whirlwind of talons and teeth. Johnny. It's big, big house with lots. And it gives a quick light rooms.
[00:22:44] Speaker B: Just in case, you know. Don't know. That haunt was once a man called Daniel Kilgore. Now, haunt.
[00:22:49] Speaker A: Yeah, he sure is. He sure is.
[00:22:52] Speaker B: But something's different about him, because all that remains in his place is a mindless beast. Haunt's not a mindless beast. We know that. That's not a haunt. We know.
[00:23:00] Speaker A: Yeah. No, the only beastly aspect to the haunt we know is that he's a little scruffy because he's scared of blades.
[00:23:09] Speaker B: Unshaven. Well, we find out, we talk about that a little bit.
[00:23:12] Speaker A: Yeah. And then Spawn knows there's only one language. Creatures like this understand that's a show of superiority. So we've got, again, Spawn trying to just big dog his opponents and appears to work because he just shoots a whole bunch of green beams at him and knocks him for a loop.
[00:23:30] Speaker B: Green beams. I love green beams. Canned green beams.
[00:23:36] Speaker A: You can eat them cold. You can eat them. Know they're good. I do like that. As Al is shooting out all these green beams, we get a pov shot from Han's perspective, because it's got his hands there. It's like, yeah, protecting himself. Like, not the face. Not the face. Maybe he should cover everything but his chin, so that way he gets, like, a necroplasm shape, so he doesn't have to worry about it for a little bit.
[00:24:06] Speaker B: So Hans trying to gain back control of himself, and Kurt Kilgore shows up and starts talking about how he knew Al Simmons.
[00:24:14] Speaker A: It's like, yeah, I knew this guy. I knew this guy.
[00:24:17] Speaker B: I recognize this guy. Yeah, that's what he looked like before.
[00:24:21] Speaker A: He looks exactly like Al Simmons, us soldier.
[00:24:27] Speaker B: That's hilarious.
[00:24:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:24:30] Speaker B: Spawn can see haunt. So haunt, as we know, was a catholic priest who got powers somehow, and this is his brother. His dead brother's ghost is always with him. Yeah, I guess we don't know exactly how he got the powers, because I have haunt number one, but I haven't read it.
[00:24:46] Speaker A: What issue of what series was it where Wanda gets sent to the alternate universe and then gets comforted by priest Daniel Kilgore?
[00:24:57] Speaker B: It's Batman Spawn.
[00:24:58] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:25:00] Speaker B: It's at the end.
[00:25:02] Speaker A: We're looking forward to Batman Spawn two. So we can get the backstory on Haunt, right? Maybe it'll be Batman Spawn haunt, and then they'll spin off a new haunt series.
[00:25:12] Speaker B: Well, that was just like the alternate version of him.
[00:25:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:15] Speaker B: So I guess they met years ago in Guadalajara, and he recognized him somehow, even though he's dressed as.
[00:25:23] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:25:24] Speaker B: Maybe he recognized his fighting. His fighting, so distinct. He's like, oh, that's Al Simmons for sure.
[00:25:28] Speaker A: His aura. Yeah, I mean, he's a ghost. I imagine ghosts can read auras. Pretty.
What good would you be as a ghost or as basically an aura yourself if you couldn't read it in others? So we get a backstory for both haunts to Al, and then Al's like, well, then why did you do this shit? He was my one lead. My one lead.
[00:25:52] Speaker B: The poison's making him erratic. That's why he's acting like an animal. He was poisoned by his girlfriend, Lydia who we know just stabbed him to the wall like, a million knives and poisoned the shit out of him.
[00:26:02] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:03] Speaker B: As we saw in King Spawn.
[00:26:06] Speaker A: Spawn's universe.
[00:26:07] Speaker B: That's right. I knew it was either Spawn's universe or the back of king Spawn.
[00:26:11] Speaker A: World's worst date.
[00:26:13] Speaker B: World's worst date for haunt.
[00:26:15] Speaker A: Yeah. So Kurt decides to be the voice of reason and is like, hey, chill, guys. Just chill. That seems to work really well.
And then, so they start searching the house, and I like this panel of Kurt flying away from Spawn and haunts, and just, like, the wreckage in this room, this is a massive room. And Frederico, is that his name?
[00:26:41] Speaker B: Fegrido?
F-E-G-R-E-D-O.
[00:26:46] Speaker A: Yeah. And, like, his. He's just there with his guts spilling out.
It's a really good panel.
[00:26:52] Speaker B: Yeah. And I love the haunt. Just, like, starts picking up papers, like, what are we looking for?
And then looking for the name Cogliostro.
[00:27:04] Speaker A: Spawn is kind of asking some ground questions.
That way, he gets to understand what haunt is going through, like the poison, if you notice any other side.
So they don't know why Kurt's still hanging around as a ghost. But since haunt has been poisoned, he's occasionally noticed that Kurt just, like, blips out of existence from time to time. That kind of sucks. And then Haunt says, don't know what that means long term for him, but if I can't find a cure, we'll probably both end up in the same place.
[00:27:33] Speaker B: Responses wouldn't count on that.
[00:27:36] Speaker A: Savage. Absolutely savage.
[00:27:38] Speaker B: He's saying one of them is going to hell.
[00:27:42] Speaker A: Which one, though, Johnny? Which one?
[00:27:45] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:27:47] Speaker A: Is that a commentary on the brothers as he's known them already, or just on Al's view of the clergy? Luckily, Al doesn't have to explain himself, because Kurt just comes back in, and he's like, I found something.
[00:27:59] Speaker B: He found something, and he found a box.
[00:28:03] Speaker A: The box. And then they got to try to find the boob tube so they could use a. It's a demonic communication. Communication. Communication device.
[00:28:14] Speaker B: The Martha box.
[00:28:15] Speaker A: Yeah. And he says that some of these shadow players like to keep clear dividing lines between their different lives. Much like myself, I dress in a way at work that I can come home and take off my work clothes and feel like I am no longer at work. So I get it. Hell beings. Good for you.
[00:28:33] Speaker B: Yeah. And we have a divide. There's some things we don't talk about on the podcast. We don't want people doxxing us. Yeah, you got to keep things separate.
[00:28:41] Speaker A: Yeah. Except for in my normal life with everybody I know, it's like, hey, no, that's fine.
This bedroom, Johnny, is the swankiest fucking bedroom.
[00:28:53] Speaker B: Looks like it's from Grand Theft auto.
[00:28:55] Speaker A: Yeah, it's got, like, viewing chairs facing toward the bed.
[00:29:01] Speaker B: Interesting.
[00:29:02] Speaker A: Look at that. Look at that. Interesting.
And then Al's like, we got to go. And Hans like, well, how are we going to get there?
And Sean. I did it again. Spawn just shadow blasts them out of there.
[00:29:16] Speaker B: His name's Sean, right? I thought it was Sean this whole time.
[00:29:19] Speaker A: Spawn, he's a hell Sean.
[00:29:22] Speaker B: Don't you know he's a hell Sean.
[00:29:25] Speaker A: I don't know how many Sean's you've known, but that's probably pretty accurate.
[00:29:28] Speaker B: And then we cut.
[00:29:29] Speaker A: Just like what I was going to say. Martin Sean for Martin.
[00:29:33] Speaker B: Martin Sean. I love Martin Sean.
[00:29:36] Speaker A: So I guess in this parlance, it would be spawn Wallace then, instead of Sean Wallace, if we're going there.
[00:29:43] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, man.
[00:29:44] Speaker A: We need to make sure that Sean Wallace is in the new spawn movie. He needs to be somewhere in there. He could be brock the shock fennel.
[00:29:51] Speaker B: His name's Wallace. Sean Wallace.
[00:29:53] Speaker A: Shut. Damn it, Sean Wallace.
[00:29:55] Speaker B: You gotta reverse it.
[00:29:57] Speaker A: You gotta put my thing down. Flip it, and reverse it.
[00:30:00] Speaker B: Wait, strike that. Reverse it. Like Willy Wonka says. He's back, baby. Coming back.
[00:30:06] Speaker A: He's back.
[00:30:08] Speaker B: Back. By popular demand, colonizer Willy Wonka back.
[00:30:12] Speaker A: By popular demand, you mean the popular demand of movie executives for money, right.
[00:30:18] Speaker B: It just seems like such a weird movie to come out. Who is clamoring for a Willy Wonka prequel?
[00:30:23] Speaker A: I have no idea. I do feel like I've heard multiple, multiple times. That this sort of thing was coming.
Yeah.
[00:30:31] Speaker B: I feel like it's forever. There's been a Wonka prequel in the works.
[00:30:34] Speaker A: But why?
I don't get it.
[00:30:39] Speaker B: Hey, you got to prequelize everything.
[00:30:40] Speaker A: Yeah, but you know what I'm clamoring for. And would like to see on the big screen?
This fucking alternate spawn fight. Look at them. Look at them.
[00:30:49] Speaker B: Yeah, we got revolutionary war spawn just.
[00:30:52] Speaker A: Punching out with Centurion Spawn, punching in the head.
[00:30:56] Speaker B: And they're calling it the zoo. They're in the zoo.
[00:30:58] Speaker A: Yeah. And they're doing prison rules. Where you got to make a show of force, of fighting when you show up. Or else you're going to get picked on by everybody else.
[00:31:08] Speaker B: And, like, mage Spawn is there.
[00:31:10] Speaker A: Yeah, and Orko Spawn is trying to manipulate gumshoe spawn there. I'm still writing that Orko Spawn needs to be voiced by Griffin Newman. Who voiced Orko in the new masters of the universe.
[00:31:22] Speaker B: Of course, then we could get he.
[00:31:25] Speaker A: Man Spawn and battlecat spawn and spawn at arms and Teela Spawn, I guess. Okay, enough. Master of the universe.
[00:31:35] Speaker B: And then we got all the guys. The shadow players are here watching these guys duke it.
[00:31:40] Speaker A: Yeah, we got good hair. Guy having good hair again. He's just like Bartholomew, having to brush it out of his eyes all the time.
[00:31:49] Speaker B: And then someone from off panel asks, what is the point of all this? And they've got a black speech bubble, and it's dark Redeemer.
[00:31:56] Speaker A: Dark Redeemer. Or as we know him now, Abel.
[00:32:01] Speaker B: Abel. We do.
[00:32:03] Speaker A: Yeah. Johnny. I was looking at this last night while I was reading it, and Carla Barberi draws. Draws dark redeemer real good. And it just makes me realize again just how good of an action figure that dark redeemer action figure is.
[00:32:16] Speaker B: Oh, it's great.
[00:32:17] Speaker A: It is beautiful.
[00:32:19] Speaker B: It's really good representation. And the wings are cool, and the detail is great.
[00:32:25] Speaker A: And sort of the color palette works really well. I've seen very few repaints of the dark Redeemer figure, and I think that's because they got it right the first time.
Nobody has any complaints. I certainly don't have any.
[00:32:37] Speaker B: He's pissed. He's like, yo, these spawns are our sworn enemies. You should have killed them. We're heaven people. And it's. Look, I'm just doing what God tells me, my friend.
[00:32:48] Speaker A: They're like, the boss gave us different orders.
[00:32:50] Speaker B: Yeah, we just got to do.
They're saying, what would Jesus do? What would God do?
[00:32:56] Speaker A: And they're doing a. It's an act of faith. And he's like, all right, okay.
[00:33:02] Speaker B: Well, he just really wants to get back into, like, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, I'll do whatever God says.
He's fallen from heaven's graces. He's the dark Redeemer.
[00:33:12] Speaker A: He is Kevin McAllister. And God accidentally threw away his ticket to heaven with the spilled soda and pizza from the party the night before.
He just really wants to go on this family trip, dude.
[00:33:26] Speaker B: He really does.
[00:33:27] Speaker A: And then as dark Redeemer walks away, lady and dude, Jesus, I should be better about learning their names.
[00:33:35] Speaker B: Cordelia and Bartholomew.
[00:33:36] Speaker A: Cordelia and Bartholomew. And he's like, what's going to happen when he finds out you just lied to him? And she's like, bah. We'll deal with that later.
More important things to do, like experimenting on these spawns.
[00:33:48] Speaker B: And she goes, the one on the left, I'd like to use that one for our little experiment, little test.
[00:33:54] Speaker A: Which one is that?
[00:33:56] Speaker B: We don't know, but we'll find out.
[00:33:58] Speaker A: I know I have a favorite.
[00:34:04] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:34:04] Speaker A: We get ourselves some pundits. CRn lady is wearing a. I like what she's wearing. It's got a lot of fun colors on it. Yeah, you can see her little lavalier mic, too. Interesting. It's a nice little detail that I've never seen before. Yeah. They're still talking about the riots and the uprisings that have been going on. They're calling them Spawn marches.
Yep. And how these occurrences in large urban places is, for some reason, making people in the suburbs very uncomfortable with where they live. And it's like, you'll be fine.
[00:34:41] Speaker B: You'll be fine. You don't live in the city.
[00:34:43] Speaker A: Yeah. And then, Brock, the shocks here, they're calling out senators and trying to say, I told you. I told you so. I told you so.
[00:34:52] Speaker B: These so called peaceful protests, he's been warning you about him.
[00:34:55] Speaker A: Yeah, he's been there daily, along with dozens of well chosen guests. I don't know.
Maybe he's right, Johnny. Maybe Brock's got all the truth. All the truth that's fit to publish.
[00:35:07] Speaker B: He thinks he does.
[00:35:08] Speaker A: He sure thinks he does. Yeah, I guess that's kind of how it is. All of these people do think they do have the best, most truthfulest news.
[00:35:18] Speaker B: The best, most truthfulest news.
[00:35:21] Speaker A: That's going to be the Patriot tv tagline, isn't it?
[00:35:25] Speaker B: I mean, it would fit.
[00:35:28] Speaker A: Then we smash cut to Spawn's hideout, and Spawn's just sitting in front of the gigantic computer because he recently kicked Mark out. And now he's like, how the fuck do I work this thing?
[00:35:41] Speaker B: I don't know what to do. Which button do I hit?
[00:35:45] Speaker A: He was like, why did. I shouldn't have fired that it guy.
And Kurt and Daniel are just like, the fuck is he doing? He's just staring at a computer that's been turned off. He hasn't even done anything.
[00:35:58] Speaker B: And Kurt, he's like, man, heaven and hell are real. And he's like, don't worry about.
[00:36:04] Speaker A: Daniel. Daniel the priest is surprised to learn that heaven and hell are real. And Kurt's rather dismissive and says, I thought you'd have been relieved to know the magic sky fairy is real.
Oh, man.
It's good to know that even though one of those brothers is dead and one of them is poisoned, that they still act like brothers.
They're not letting the machinations of supernatural beings get in the way of them kind of being a little shitty to each other out of love.
[00:36:36] Speaker B: Well, it looks like we were right. He recognizes Al Simmons from his.
[00:36:40] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:36:41] Speaker B: He's like, yo, I saw him back in the day.
[00:36:43] Speaker A: We get soldier Al Simmons, and soldier Al Simmons is looking pretty boss, but you'd think he would probably be. He should probably wear a know, some kind of helmet. Yeah, let's just ask him. Let's just ask him for a bullet in the.
[00:37:00] Speaker B: So they were supposed to go on a mission together, him and. And they went and rescued some scientists in Guadalajara, but it went terribly wrong.
[00:37:07] Speaker A: Yeah, it just, like, right out the gate. The target died, and then they just had to fight their way out of there. Then haunt's like, yeah, yeah, whatever. I'm going to go look around. And then he runs into Cygor.
[00:37:19] Speaker B: Big monkey.
[00:37:20] Speaker A: He runs into our bud and he says, go a way, and snorts on him.
[00:37:28] Speaker B: He goes, you got a problem, King Kong? That's why diss. He's probably like, yeah, thank you for calling me King Kong. He's a great idol of mine and a great, like, you.
[00:37:38] Speaker A: Really? You really think so? The puggy started, I guess it's official. It's no longer a recording session of regarding spawn until the puggy throws the pugs there.
She says, he does look like King Kong. King Kong ain't got nothing on him.
[00:38:00] Speaker B: You see the new Kong x Godzilla trailer?
[00:38:03] Speaker A: I have not known.
[00:38:04] Speaker B: Looks pretty cool.
[00:38:06] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:38:07] Speaker B: There's a baby King Kong.
[00:38:09] Speaker A: Oh, baby King Kong. Is it actual baby King Kong or is it like, King Kong's baby?
[00:38:14] Speaker B: It's just a baby. Big gorilla.
[00:38:16] Speaker A: Okay, regular gorilla.
[00:38:19] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like in the grand tradition of, like, the baby godzillas and stuff.
[00:38:23] Speaker A: Godzilla's son. Yeah, I love that one where Godzilla's son is just like, shoved in the cab of a truck with two other people and they're just driving down the highway.
[00:38:35] Speaker B: Oh, when they're driving. Yeah, I've seen parts of that one on Pluto tv. Those are like, the real goofy ones. That suit in the. Gets real bad too at some points.
[00:38:43] Speaker A: Yeah, it does, like, real bad.
[00:38:46] Speaker B: But I do love that he, like, dances when he defeats some guys. That one time he does, like a victory dance.
[00:38:52] Speaker A: Oh, boy, it's great. So what you're telling me is that basically they put harambe in the new Godzilla versus Kong movie?
[00:38:59] Speaker B: Yes, they did. A big harambee meme rip.
[00:39:02] Speaker A: We stand a legend.
[00:39:03] Speaker B: Dicks out for Harambe.
[00:39:10] Speaker A: You can't do that when I'm taking a drink, Johnny.
[00:39:12] Speaker B: Sorry.
[00:39:16] Speaker A: So Al finds know pestering Saigor. And Al's like, dude, you got to leave my monkey alone. He's like, it's okay. You can go rest.
Thanks for all your hard work. And then as Al and Haunter walking away, we get the Jim downing glowing eyes on Cygor that we know now, that they are the glowing eyes of Jim downing looking through Cygor.
[00:39:44] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:39:44] Speaker A: But in the context of this issue, we don't know. We just are like, smoky eye.
[00:39:49] Speaker B: Something's going on with Cygor.
[00:39:50] Speaker A: He must have been watching some makeup TikToks because he's got himself a little smoky eye, and it's looking pretty good.
[00:39:58] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:39:59] Speaker A: So Al says he thinks he's figured out who ordered the attack. An agent named Arthur Sylvine.
[00:40:05] Speaker B: He's another one of heaven's operatives stuck on earth.
[00:40:08] Speaker A: He runs some logistics companies in North America. And Sylvine and Figreto both started as, like, lieutenants underneath a crime lord called Simon Prox.
[00:40:20] Speaker B: Getting a lot of names thrown out here.
[00:40:21] Speaker A: So many names, I don't even think they even matter in the long run.
[00:40:25] Speaker B: No, they really don't. I don't think they come back.
[00:40:27] Speaker A: And then it turns out that Lydia was one of enforcers. So that's how it ties into haunts. Turns out Lydia wasn't her actual name. It was one of many names she went by.
And it turns out that heaven and hell hate haunt an awful lot. Almost as much as they hate alpha, which is a bunch most hated, man.
[00:40:50] Speaker B: And he's like, look, the Sylvine guy was supposed to have a meeting with Cogliostro tonight. Let's go crash this meeting.
[00:40:57] Speaker A: Party crashers.
[00:40:58] Speaker B: I love how Hans is like Cogliostro. What's the deal with that guy anyway? Yeah, well, he's a drunk.
[00:41:05] Speaker A: He's an immortal being who loves rocks for some reason.
[00:41:09] Speaker B: And hanging out in alleys when he could do a lot of other stuff. And so they both accept to follow his lead. They're going to come along with him.
[00:41:16] Speaker A: Yeah. And haunt's like, wait, hold what? And Kurt's just. Yeah, just say yes, Daniel.
[00:41:22] Speaker B: He gives him Mark's old bedroom. He's like, yeah, there's a room down the hall you can rest in. It's probably Mark's old bedroom.
[00:41:28] Speaker A: It's all computers, but you'll get used to it.
I'm sure. Mark probably actually, in all seriousness, referred to his bed as his charging station.
[00:41:39] Speaker B: Oh, boy. He's got to take a bio break.
I didn't hear that until I was starting to play a lot of Diablo four. And people would be like, brb bio? And I was like, what does that mean? It's like my friend James means they got a pee. You got to take a bio break.
[00:41:54] Speaker A: They obviously haven't discovered the wide mouth bottle that Gatorade comes in.
[00:41:59] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, you can't pause Diablo four. It's always online. So sometimes you just gotta piss your pants.
[00:42:04] Speaker A: Haven't people been marketing, like, gaming catheters? So that way you can just, like, cath up and then fill your bag while you're playing?
[00:42:11] Speaker B: Oh, God.
[00:42:12] Speaker A: I'm sure it's terrible. You shouldn't catheterize yourself if you don't need to, for, please don't. Medical reasons. You can seriously give yourself bad infections. Yeah. So we go now to a warehouse. It's not a derelict warehouse, but it is pretty empty.
[00:42:29] Speaker B: It's pretty empty.
[00:42:30] Speaker A: And we've got a lady yelling at an old lady. An old lady named Iris. Iris we know, or maybe we don't know yet.
[00:42:37] Speaker B: Or maybe we do know, but she's connected to Kaguyostro. She's, like, kind of his helper on earth.
[00:42:42] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't think as of this issue. I don't know if we know much about her, okay? But I know that we know a lot about her now.
[00:42:51] Speaker B: Yes, we know what we know or what we don't know. Who knows?
[00:42:55] Speaker A: Yeah. And this one lady is like, this was supposed to be a meeting with us. And cog. Why the fuck is cog not here? Why are you here? And she's like, well, I don't think you understood the arrangement that Coolios trying to put together.
Angry lady says we're supposed to be partners. And Iris is like, I know.
No, you're supposed to be his.
They don't. They don't take that very well. Is that a joke? I assure you, Coliostro is quite serious. I cracked up laughing at this johnny, because our original introduction to Coliostro, very.
[00:43:36] Speaker B: Not serious at all.
[00:43:40] Speaker A: He's like, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck.
He's like, why don't you use some of your precious powers that you don't want to waste on making me a case of wine?
And don't even bother making it good wine, so that way it's a good use of your powers. Just make it some garbage.
[00:44:01] Speaker B: Make it some strawberry garbage.
[00:44:03] Speaker A: I like to think that the 1989 strawberry ripple is just like, alcoholic strawberry fanta. Yeah.
[00:44:10] Speaker B: I mean, that's what I kind of imagine always.
[00:44:13] Speaker A: Oh, it's so gross.
[00:44:15] Speaker B: There's a slight change in temperature.
[00:44:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:44:18] Speaker B: And it alerts Iris to something uninvited.
[00:44:20] Speaker A: Yeah. Iris is just like, oh, hello. It's a pleasure to meet you, Spawn. It's like when you meet somebody that you've only known through emails, and it's like, it's good to meet you. Even though we know each other, it's good to actually finally, physically meet you. This pug just farted on my lap, and I felt it, and it was.
[00:44:38] Speaker B: Oh, no, it was just a little buz.
[00:44:41] Speaker A: If that's what Spawn is getting from sitting on those telegraph wires, then he's a freak.
[00:44:46] Speaker B: He is a freak.
[00:44:47] Speaker A: And then Iris is like, I'm so confused.
[00:44:51] Speaker B: So he asked if she's Sylvine, even though his name is Arthur. Sylvine. Is it Swan just stupid? Or is this, like, a revelation that she's been Sylviene? She's like, kaga told me so much about you, Sylvie.
[00:45:03] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know. Because it's either that or he's asking after Sylvie.
[00:45:08] Speaker B: Right?
It's one of the two, but Sylvie ain't there. It's just Iris.
[00:45:13] Speaker A: Just Iris.
[00:45:14] Speaker B: And then he's, like, telling these people, he's like, yo, Kagiostro, he's going to use you as you're no longer useful, and he's going to eliminate you. I bet he didn't tell you that part.
[00:45:26] Speaker A: He's going to make you use your powers to get shitty alcohol.
[00:45:31] Speaker B: Yes, he did that to me.
[00:45:33] Speaker A: He's a mooch. I mean, literally, he's a mooch. He's out there trying to get that necroplasm. Spoilers for a couple of issues from now.
[00:45:43] Speaker B: Spoilers for. Yeah, well, the issue we're about to read, it's actually the issue you're about to cover.
[00:45:49] Speaker A: Yeah. So angry lady and her entourage are just like, enough of this, and they transform into the vampires that they are.
[00:45:57] Speaker B: Heaven vampires.
[00:45:58] Speaker A: Heavenly bloodsuckers.
[00:46:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:46:01] Speaker A: And they're like, you will die, and Cog will be next.
[00:46:06] Speaker B: They're about to attack Bon Iris and haunt. Then we get a power meter. That's one nine. 3619. 36.
[00:46:15] Speaker A: Not a good year for Germany. No, actually, no. I guess historically bad year for Germany. But at the time, they thought it was good for them before they realized what was going on. Because that would have been before everybody realized how much of a shit that little failed artist was, right? It would be a couple of years before everybody was like, oh, that was a bad person to have been put into a place of power.
We'll know now, and nobody will ever, ever do it again. No one will ever put an unqualified piece of garbage who thinks they're greater than everybody else in such a position of power. It's not going to happen, John.
[00:46:56] Speaker B: Never. Not in America, not anywhere in the world.
[00:46:59] Speaker A: No. But anyway, we get a spawning ground presents. The breakdown.
[00:47:02] Speaker B: And it's a really good one.
[00:47:04] Speaker A: It's thematically appropriate, Johnny. It's hashtag holiday spawn.
[00:47:08] Speaker B: And guess what? It's hashtag holiday season right now.
[00:47:10] Speaker A: Yeah. So get your hashtag Christmas hats out and put them on your hashtag spawn figures to make hashtag spontaclaws.
[00:47:19] Speaker B: I think my favorite is the violator with three Santa hats eating a hot dog, man.
[00:47:23] Speaker A: Yeah. There's a Santa hat on each horn, and he's eating the hot dog.
It's great. It's so good. There's one that somebody put a Richard Simmons head on.
[00:47:37] Speaker B: Yeah. What's up with that one? That's hilarious.
[00:47:41] Speaker A: It's great. It's great. There's our buddy the decuney.
[00:47:46] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:47:47] Speaker A: Got the clown in an alley set, just, like, holding a whole bunch of decapitated heads.
[00:47:54] Speaker B: Pretty cool. He's got some gifts that people got for people's got.
[00:48:00] Speaker A: Somebody's got a couple of slabbed signed king spawn number. Yeah, dope limited edition issues.
[00:48:10] Speaker B: There's Santa spawn hanging out with Elvira. Yeah, a couple different Santa spawns.
[00:48:14] Speaker A: Real nice. It's real nice. It's real good. Looks like it was a good holiday season.
[00:48:19] Speaker B: Yeah, someone got to spawn the album with, like, a Santa cover.
[00:48:22] Speaker A: Yeah, pretty great.
Somebody got, like, the thing and. Oh, wait, no, that's a jaws action figure.
They live action figure. Is that a crypt keeper?
[00:48:36] Speaker B: It looks kind of like crypt keeper.
[00:48:37] Speaker A: They got Anakin Skywalker. They got a gunslinger.
[00:48:41] Speaker B: They're all just chilling out.
[00:48:42] Speaker A: They got for Christmas. Yeah.
Doing what they do. We got the image classics, and then the my hero academia toys now available at Walmart.
[00:48:53] Speaker B: Johnny, good to know.
[00:48:54] Speaker A: You got to go get those grenader braces.
[00:48:56] Speaker B: Yeah, those are crazy.
[00:48:57] Speaker A: Or grenadier.
[00:48:59] Speaker B: Yeah, grenadier braces.
[00:49:02] Speaker A: Grenadine. You got to go get some grenadine.
[00:49:04] Speaker B: Just like, a guy that has, like.
[00:49:06] Speaker A: Grenades for fists and his hairstyle looks like an explosion.
[00:49:10] Speaker B: Yes. Katsui Bagugo, man. Bakugo.
And then. That's it.
[00:49:18] Speaker A: That's it. That's it.
That is Spawn 326, John.
[00:49:23] Speaker B: Indeed it is. In all its glory.
[00:49:41] Speaker A: Motion.
[00:49:42] Speaker B: Next up, we've got spawn 346.
[00:49:48] Speaker A: Yes, indeed. Just take. Just take that two out of the middle there, double it, slap it in. Got yourself a new book.
[00:49:55] Speaker B: Wrap it, slap it. Slap it on a ding dong.
[00:50:02] Speaker A: Yeah, just bag it and tag it and sell it to the butcher at the store, as they say.
[00:50:07] Speaker B: And now we're selling it. We're selling it.
[00:50:09] Speaker A: We're selling it and we're buying it.
[00:50:11] Speaker B: And what we're buying is a copy of this issue. And my reading copy is the a cover by Mike Diodato Jr. Wait, no, wait.
[00:50:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:50:21] Speaker B: Is that the monkey?
[00:50:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:50:23] Speaker B: Oh, never mind then. I'm reading the b cover.
It looks like you got the a cover.
[00:50:28] Speaker A: I got the a cover. Yeah, it's got Cygor.
[00:50:30] Speaker B: Cygor monkey.
[00:50:33] Speaker A: It looks like Cygor's talking on the zoom. Hold on. Oh, no. It decided it wasn't a face. Sad. It's a good one. It's action pose. Cygor, he's just like leaping into action with his one red eye. It's real good. It's real good. I like it.
[00:50:51] Speaker B: And I have the b cover here, which is a real muscular spawn by Kyle new. Kale new.
[00:50:58] Speaker A: It is a real muscular, super muscular. He's got like a 4000 pack going on. Look at that.
[00:51:03] Speaker B: 4000 pack. Just real detailed.
[00:51:07] Speaker A: He's got a 666.
[00:51:09] Speaker B: That's what it is. Come on. It was right there.
[00:51:12] Speaker A: Oh, boy. We'll remember for next time.
[00:51:15] Speaker B: And has the world record breaking comic banner at the bottom.
Tod father feeling sassy. Let's see how sassy this looks.
[00:51:24] Speaker A: I'm going to start saying that every time I put on a hat. Let's see how sassy it looks.
[00:51:28] Speaker B: There's also a c cover this time, David. Oh, a c. And is a kale new variant that is just like a green and black and white one. It's an all natural owl.
[00:51:39] Speaker A: An all natural owl.
[00:51:40] Speaker B: All natural owl cover. So those are your three.
[00:51:42] Speaker A: I like that. Black and white with one color.
[00:51:44] Speaker B: Yeah, it's pretty cool.
[00:51:45] Speaker A: Usually it's red, Allah, Sin City or yellow, but this black and white, except for the necroplasm.
[00:51:52] Speaker B: Yeah, pretty cool. So we crack it open and we've got the credits, some very special credits here, which we'll get to. But Rory McConville is on script plot with Todd McFarlane doing additional scripts. He's got to get it. He's back.
[00:52:04] Speaker A: Yeah, well, he's making sure that the train stays on the tracks on the road to right, right.
[00:52:11] Speaker B: Carlo Barberry did the art yet again. J. David Ramos did the colors yet again.
[00:52:16] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. J. David Ramos is interesting.
[00:52:19] Speaker B: They changed the order on here because it used to be Tom Mordriskowski, then J. David Ramos. Hey, I don't know the politics of comics credits, but, yeah, we got Tom Horjaskowski on lettering. We covered the covers.
[00:52:29] Speaker A: Sure did.
[00:52:30] Speaker B: Todd McFarland's creative director. And Thomas Healy is editor in chief.
[00:52:34] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:52:35] Speaker B: Well, we got someone else to shout out because there's a little box in this intro that says, special thanks to Trent Klaus of spawnworld.com.
I got to meet Trent Spawncon. He was really nice. He works in special effects as his day job, but he's a big spawn fan as well. And he got to host the panels and was just really nice, informative.
[00:52:58] Speaker A: Nice, nice. Good to know. We got spawnverts in high places.
[00:53:02] Speaker B: Yeah. He worked at the company that did some of the de aging effects or the aging effects in some of the Marvel movies. So, yeah, big special effects guy. But he gets a special shout out. Spawnworld.com. It's a great website if you haven't checked it out. Just great resource to finding out about the collectibles and just, like, various things.
[00:53:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:53:20] Speaker B: So definitely go there.
[00:53:21] Speaker A: Yeah. You honestly don't realize how cool he is. But usually when you just, like, you're trying to google something about a history of Spawn, it almost always will take you to spawnworld.com first.
[00:53:32] Speaker B: And it's kind of a retro website, which sheath says he enjoys. It looks like it would have in the 90s, early 2000s. It's pretty cool.
[00:53:41] Speaker A: Yeah. So when I started reading Spawn the first time, there were issues with Neil Gaiman and Tod father and the origins collection number two. There used to be two different versions. One of them had issue nine, one of them didn't have issue nine. And at the time, neither of them had issue ten in them. And so I had to go to Spawn world, figure out which ISBN number had issue nine in it. Searched online at Amazon for ISBN number. This one specifically. Had to order that one as soon as it showed up, flipped through it to make sure it was the one I ordered and not the other one.
[00:54:24] Speaker B: Well, they figured that all out now, so you don't have to have that problem, but, yeah, that's interesting. Yeah. Swan World, Trent, Klaus, check it out. That's cool. They got a shout out. So previously in Spawn, the battle continues to rage across the landscape of hell as several contenders begin their final approach towards the.
[00:54:44] Speaker A: Mm. As I said before, johnny, this is a battle of butts. And you gotta root for a butt. Which butt is like. It's like the Kentucky Derby of butts.
[00:54:58] Speaker B: And they're racing. They're racing across the.
[00:55:04] Speaker A: Buddy derby. There we go.
[00:55:08] Speaker B: They're racing across the wastelands of hell. You got freak, you got gunslinger, you got medieval, you got Reaper.
[00:55:15] Speaker A: So to backtrack, don't forget that this group was split off as, like, a scouting group from Spawn's main group. At the end of the previous issue, Reaper crash lands back at the main group. And so this is Reaper's sort of.
[00:55:29] Speaker B: Right? That was the cliffhanger he smashed back.
[00:55:32] Speaker A: Yeah, because they were like, oh, hey, look, a shooting star. Oh, no, Reaper.
So Reaper and Gunslinger and freak and medieval came across Brimstone, right?
[00:55:45] Speaker B: It's the brimstones.
[00:55:46] Speaker A: We get a nice little picture of brimstone here. And, man, a brimstone figure would be choice too. Imagine sort of the clear plastics. They're like the dyed yellow and red clear plastic.
[00:55:59] Speaker B: No, it would be cool if it was clear plastic and he had a little wheel on the back that would shoot sparks, and he'd have sparks inside.
[00:56:06] Speaker A: That would be awesome. Hell, yeah. We need to bring back interactive action.
[00:56:10] Speaker B: I like how there's, like, different brimstones, though. There's, like, cop brimstone. There's, like, sorcerer brimstone. Looks like there's, like, mexican brimstone. He's got a sombrero on.
[00:56:20] Speaker A: Yeah, there's bandito.
[00:56:22] Speaker B: He's one smoking bandito.
[00:56:24] Speaker A: Yeah, there's, like, maoist general.
[00:56:26] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:56:27] Speaker A: Guy.
[00:56:28] Speaker B: They're all attacking our heroes.
[00:56:30] Speaker A: There's a guy in the back that looks kind of like medieval, only he's got the brimstone head. So I guess when you're inducted into Brimstone's army, he just sets your head on.
He maybe he sets his forehead against your forehead and says, my flames to your flames. But, yeah, brimstone just guts the freak.
They tackle medieval and gunslinger, and then reaper just, like, barely gets out with his life. And Al is like, you did the right thing. You did the right thing. You did good.
[00:56:59] Speaker B: He said that he heard one of them scream, keep the other hell spawns alive.
[00:57:03] Speaker A: Yeah. And so everybody's worried, but Al's like, I know exactly what sin is doing. And then we get a little illustration of what sin is doing, where he's just, like, sucking the necroplasm out of all of these spawns. And we've got, like, kali ma Spawn from the deleted scene from Indiana Jones temple of Doom.
[00:57:24] Speaker B: Punk spawn.
[00:57:25] Speaker A: Punk spawn. We've got samurai Spawn, who obviously was cut out of teenage mutant ninja turtles. Three turtles in time.
And Jessica's like, how do you know this is what he's doing. And spawn's like, honest. It's what I would do so much. Like, when I talked to Christopher priest, or just priest, if we're going to talk to him, talk about him in a comics capacity at a convention once, and I said, sir, you write an amazing asshole. And he says, thank you. It takes one to know.
[00:57:59] Speaker B: And then Redeemer, well, we know it's Redeemer from the speech bubble. And says, it's not that simple.
Here he comes holding the freak's body.
[00:58:08] Speaker A: Yeah, it's very biblical. This is very like Mary Magdalene holding the body of Jesus. And, man, Al looks so remorseful at this. He's, like, bummed that he can't revive him in hell.
[00:58:21] Speaker B: Yeah, he does. He's just like, no, not here. He loves the freak.
[00:58:24] Speaker A: The freak does good work for him.
[00:58:26] Speaker B: That's true. And they're like, well, we can go pick up their trail and find them. And Spawn's like, no, we're not doing that. That's not the plan. And everyone's like, what? We don't want to go get them? No, we're not doing it.
[00:58:35] Speaker A: It's like, we're already late. He's like, I said, we had to leave at 530, and at 535, you come to me and say, hold on a second. I have to go to the bathroom. We're already late. We should have been on the road twelve minutes ago.
[00:58:48] Speaker B: We're trying to get to the throne of hell.
[00:58:50] Speaker A: He's like, we got to make it to Grandma's house before 06:00 or else traffic is going to be terrible.
[00:58:56] Speaker B: He doesn't want to hand him more prisoners. He says it's just a bad idea.
[00:59:01] Speaker A: Everybody just kind of, like, grumbly. Grumbly grumbles. And then Raven spawn starts. Raven Spawn actually comes to Al's defense, which is surprising, because we know Raven Spawn kind of doesn't like any of it, really. But he's like, if we don't want sin to be master of the universe, we don't want him sitting on that throne, lifting his arm in the air, and saying, I have the power.
And then going, then we need to get going.
[00:59:40] Speaker B: He says that.
[00:59:41] Speaker A: He says, amazing. It's so weird, because they get masters of the universe on tv in the southernmost reaches of hell, Johnny.
[00:59:48] Speaker B: And so basically, they're just like, yeah, we got to get this infernal.
[00:59:51] Speaker A: Keep.
[00:59:52] Speaker B: Expend his energies getting there. And that's where we hit him.
[00:59:54] Speaker A: Yeah. And then Al's like, I'll bury the freak. And then we'll get going. And everybody's just like, something's not quite right.
[01:00:03] Speaker B: And we cut to the infernal Keep of the first realm, and we got cataclysm talking to clown, of course. Clown's just like, I want anyone but a damned human. I hate humans. No human on the throne.
[01:00:14] Speaker A: And cataclysm is like, why should I trust you? And clown's like, I'm a hell guy. Been fighting for hell since before you.
[01:00:21] Speaker B: Were like, I've been fighting for. Come on.
[01:00:23] Speaker A: Yeah. Then I like, are those planet eaters we see, John?
[01:00:27] Speaker B: I think they're flebiacs. I think it's some.
[01:00:30] Speaker A: They're pretty. They're pretty gruesome either way. And so clowns like, you gotta watch out for the spawns and cataclysms. Like hell spawns. Those are relics. They belong in a museum.
And then clown's like, oh, this motherfucker. What an idiot. He doesn't say it, but his face just like, collapses. And he's like, oh, boy, not this dumb dumb. He's a dumb dumb.
[01:00:53] Speaker B: He's a dumb dumb.
[01:00:55] Speaker A: And then we see Adam Abel. Not Adam Abel.
[01:00:58] Speaker B: Helmet off.
[01:00:58] Speaker A: Abel. Yeah, with his flowing lock just being like, hey, you think he believes you, clown? And clown's like, yeah, I don't fucking care. I don't care if he believes me. I'm just going to use him anyway. And then Clown says, we've got an invasion to plan.
[01:01:12] Speaker B: He's going for. Everyone's making their moves.
[01:01:14] Speaker A: Then, Johnny, we are again. At that point where it is all.
[01:01:19] Speaker B: Out war, you got like a giant elemental beast. Shooting beams, red beams, orange beams.
[01:01:27] Speaker A: You got a field of desolation with more of those impaled demons. You got psychor and overtkill just tromping through hell. Guys. Like, they're nothing. Oh, man. Overt kill. Overtkill is so excited. Look at that big old fucking grin.
[01:01:44] Speaker B: He loves it. And everything's just getting conquered and reconquered. It's back and forth and back and forth.
[01:01:49] Speaker A: It's like two steps forward, one steps back, three steps forward. Jonah, pretty much. And then we focus in on a very ordered camp. Yes, very nice camp that Nix is surveying from a high vantage point. It actually kind of looks like she's on Pride Rock. And she's like, all that the darkness.
[01:02:07] Speaker B: Of hell touches is yours.
[01:02:09] Speaker A: Yeah. And she's having some reservations. And Jim Downing comes up and is like, hey, dude, it's way too late for us to be worrying about this. We just got to see this through. And they're interrupted by a catch him. Some excellent lettering work from the tomfather. And they see two soldiers chasing after another soldier who's trying to desert. And this deserter is just like, I can't do it anymore. I just can't. I just can't. And the guys who were chasing him were like, yeah, shut up and just murk him right there.
[01:02:43] Speaker B: Seems like this makes Nick sad. She doesn't want any part of.
[01:02:47] Speaker A: You know, they say that deserters are coming more and more frequently, and it's weighing on her. Nick's is in a position that she didn't ask for, and it's got a lot of responsibility. And boy, she's in anguish.
[01:03:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:03:02] Speaker A: And Jim Downing's just mad. I think Jim downing feels a little screwed over by Greenworld as well, but he's better at the gritting it and bearing it until he gets into a better position. Whereas Nix is just like, man, I.
[01:03:15] Speaker B: Don'T even care that he says earlier. He's like, not thrilled about propping up the king of. So, yeah, then we cut to a heaven jet. It's a heaven jet.
[01:03:23] Speaker A: It's got a couple of angels in there. And they're like, oh, there's a distress signal. And as we know, Johnny, in every war story, the distress signal is always a good thing.
[01:03:35] Speaker B: Yeah. It's not what it's supposed to be.
[01:03:37] Speaker A: It's never, as the mon Calamari would say, a trap. It's a trap. Retreat. Have I mentioned before on the podcast, Johnny, how much I fucking love that the squid beings in Star wars are mon calamar?
[01:03:52] Speaker B: It's pretty funny.
[01:03:55] Speaker A: I love Star wars names. They're the best. And then they see somebody crawling out of the wreckage and it's Redeemer. And the angels are like, oh, shit. Oh, shit. Hey, guys, we got a redeemer.
[01:04:08] Speaker B: They're ready to be, like, a redammer.
[01:04:10] Speaker A: Wait, who dispatches?
[01:04:11] Speaker B: No, it could be the bad redeemer. And it is.
[01:04:13] Speaker A: And it is. He just like, light blasts.
[01:04:16] Speaker B: Boom.
[01:04:17] Speaker A: And then we cut into the inside of the heaven plane, and haunt has just snuck up behind the pilot and just ripped their throat out. Look at that. He's covered in blood. And then Al starts kicking a surviving angel around, just like, punting him in the face.
He looks like he's about to get down to some good pummeling of this angel. And Jessica Priest is like, I need to talk right now. Right now, right this second.
[01:04:48] Speaker B: I was like, what's up?
[01:04:49] Speaker A: And Jessica Priest is like, nah, I'm no mathematician. But this doesn't add up.
[01:04:55] Speaker B: Yeah, she's just like, look, even if we beat sin, even if Kylequin holds on, that's not going to fix anything. So what is your actual plan here, Dal? And he says the opening quote, which is, you're right.
[01:05:07] Speaker A: And he says, this beautiful gluteus maximus. Will be the one to grace the throne of hell. So, please.
[01:05:16] Speaker B: Maybe that's how Kurt recognized Spawn. He recognized his butt. It was like, I've seen that butt before.
Yes, Spawn will be the butt on the throne. Surprising no one.
[01:05:26] Speaker A: And it's always a modest growth in necroplasm between the issues. But between the last issue we covered, 326 and this one, there's a great increase. We're at 2242 from Al Simmons. Johnny, he must be getting some of that ambient necroplasm that they talked about.
[01:05:44] Speaker B: Yeah, just sucking it up from Hell's atmosphere.
[01:05:46] Speaker A: Help boosting them up a little bit.
[01:05:48] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, basically, just find out that spawn is dragging all these guys along. He's going to install himself on the throne, which we have reservations about. We've followed him through King Spawn. And we know that it's something he wants. But we don't know if it's the right thing.
[01:06:00] Speaker A: Well, we don't even know if it's something he wants.
[01:06:03] Speaker B: It's what he feels like he must be done.
[01:06:06] Speaker A: It's the best course of action that he can see. Because any other choice is terrible.
[01:06:12] Speaker B: We get a spawning grounds in this one, we get a mail bag. Yeah, big old bag of mail.
[01:06:18] Speaker A: I like to think that just like, a little kid in a page boy hat. Shows up at the spawn offices. And drops, like, a big old sack full of letters on Thomas Healy's desk.
[01:06:27] Speaker B: Thomas Healey flips him a silver dollar and says, thanks, timmy. The first letter is from Ernesto R. From Guadalajara, Mexico. Hey, little tie into the last issue.
[01:06:38] Speaker A: I wonder if he witnessed the battle.
[01:06:39] Speaker B: In which Al Simmons met. He just says he loves it. He just started. He's having fun reading the collection, staring at it for hours. It would be awesome if you included this spawn he drew. You get this fun, like, kind of cartoony spawn that he drew. That's pretty awesome. Good texture on the chains and the gauntlets, as Thomas Healy points out.
[01:06:58] Speaker A: Yeah. And I will say, johnny, johnny, you'll notice this is a small right foot spawn classic. Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. I've noticed that a lot of the fan art, if they do a spawn, a lot of them will actually do a small right foot spawn.
[01:07:14] Speaker B: Even though it wasn't around that long.
[01:07:16] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, for good reason, Johnny, because it's a real good design. And then we got Josu out there bothering all of his coworkers, being, hey, hey, I can relate to hey, me as well. It's thankless work trying to convince your coworkers and your friends and your family members to read bomb.
[01:07:33] Speaker B: Hey, it's not thankless because sometimes we get to have them on our podcast. So that's good.
[01:07:36] Speaker A: Yeah, it's still, thank you for doing.
[01:07:39] Speaker B: Get those words out there.
[01:07:40] Speaker A: And then, Johnny, I can't believe that they printed the whole hilarious fucking message because it's so goddamn long. Alexander G. Good Lord. Fucking edit. Cut some shit out. He just says hi, the entirety of.
[01:07:55] Speaker B: Hi, Alexander G. That's it.
That's the letter.
[01:07:59] Speaker A: Too many words. Too many words.
Alexander G. Also submitted a bit of artwork, and it is actually, holy shit. It is great.
[01:08:07] Speaker B: Yep. Really, really big chested spawn.
[01:08:10] Speaker A: It's great. It's great. It's good. It's wonderful. Need more spawn universe advertisement upcoming as we do covers, image classics advertisement as we always do. And then we got the page punchers advertisement again for the toys on the.
[01:08:24] Speaker B: Back with spawn and anti spawn in the prison yard. Interesting choice. That's it. That's 346. One step closer to getting that booty on the throne. Somebody's booty.
[01:08:35] Speaker A: There were one cheek, one cheek, the edge.
[01:08:38] Speaker B: I guess you could say that.
[01:08:39] Speaker A: Trying to think of all the bad late 90s music that you could, that.
[01:08:42] Speaker B: You sing butts about.
[01:08:44] Speaker A: Yeah, they call it butt rock.
[01:08:46] Speaker B: So what do they call butt rock?
[01:08:48] Speaker A: Butt rocking. I don't know.
I think people just call butt rock songs that they don't like because I've heard, like, bon Jovi et al refers to as butt rock. I've also heard, like, creed and nickelback refers to as butt rock. I think every group kind of has their own definition of butt rock. I've tried to look into it so many times and doesn't make any sense.
[01:09:11] Speaker B: I've never heard that before. Butt rock.
[01:09:13] Speaker A: Butt rock. It's not made for shaking your booty, Johnny. Speaking of booty shaking, I think we.
[01:09:18] Speaker B: Need to time to rate the puppies.
I'm shaking my booty back to 326. We get a haunt spawn team up fight. We get some action between the various spawns that are trapped in the zoo. Get some more intrigue with Cogliostro. You know, it's a decent issue. Just doesn't have like. It has like, three things going on, but not one standout thing. I don't know, it was just like a good moving the pieces a little bit issue. I'm going to give it 3.5. Al Simmons's butt when he's a soldier. That's how Kurt recognizes him.
[01:09:53] Speaker A: I mean, very recognizable. Very recognizable. I agree, Johnny. I agree very much. Art is beautiful, fantastic. But it is also. It's starting a whole lot of threads that will then follow. I am also going to give it three and a half. I'm going to give it three and a half. Pov. Po. V. Face shields. Pov. That's the french version in France, right?
[01:10:14] Speaker B: POV.
[01:10:15] Speaker A: Face shieldings from haunt as spawn hits him with the necroblast. Nice.
That's a great image. The art is spectacular. The art is spectacular.
[01:10:25] Speaker B: Yeah, it was a lot of fun, but just kind of setting the pieces issue. But then we've got 346, which is basically as two threads. Here you have the thread of everyone going through hell. And then you cut our way to clown for a little bit. But mainly it's just our friends. Well, at least you have the three threads. And then you cut to green world, folks. But I think this is great. I love what spawn, mainline spawn has been doing leading up to 350. It's just like a really fun, epic story that each issue is a little piece more. And it just feels like it's building towards something that's hopefully going to be really cool. So I'm going to give this one 4.5 bandito brimstones. Because I love that little detail.
[01:11:04] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. I agree. So one thing that I like, cocarlo Barberi's is still awesome, but I like seeing an earlier in the run and the newer in the run. It seems like this is going to sound bad, but I mean it in a good way. He's gotten a little stingier about lines. So it's just real fun to see sort of where he puts his focus of small line details on current versus when he started. And it's great. I like watching how it's changed, because obviously it's going to change over the course of time. Rory McConville is fucking great at writing spawn.
[01:11:42] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[01:11:44] Speaker A: This is some good shit. We got good writing. We got good art. I am going to give it four desiccated punk spawns.
[01:11:50] Speaker B: Yeah. Poor punk spawn. We never knew ye rip rest in sin's belly. R-I-S-B. Because sin sucked out your necroplasm.
[01:12:02] Speaker A: Well, it'll take a minute to figure out what that acronym is. Hold on a second. R-I-S-B-S-S-Y-N.
[01:12:16] Speaker B: Yes. That's what we're going to put on his grave.
[01:12:18] Speaker A: Rest in sin's belly because sin sucked out your neck. Repair.
[01:12:23] Speaker B: Sure.
[01:12:26] Speaker A: Good job. Good job. Wonderful.
[01:12:29] Speaker B: It's funny because both these issues play fast and loose. Different kinds of spawns. And I like that. That's always funny, just to see what other spawns I can think of.
[01:12:36] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. There had to have been a meeting where they came up with, like, a long list of all the spawns they wanted to see, and they're like, okay, how many can we shove into each issue, right?
[01:12:45] Speaker B: And how appropriate is it?
[01:12:46] Speaker A: How many views do we need to see each of them from T. Rex? Maybe? The toddfather and Thomas Healy both have, like, a bingo card of all the different alternate forms of spawn they think are going to show up in a couple of issues, and then when they get to review them at the end, they mark them off. Whoever has the most marks off doesn't have to buy the drinks.
[01:13:06] Speaker B: That's funny.
[01:13:06] Speaker A: Or, I guess, dinner, since the todfather doesn't drink.
[01:13:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:13:09] Speaker A: So speaking of all these alternate spawns, Johnny, there is one particular alternate spawn that I, myself, and you, too, I do believe, have a very soft spot in your heart for. In my heart for.
[01:13:24] Speaker B: Yes.
[01:13:24] Speaker A: And that is the cosplayer spawn.
[01:13:27] Speaker B: The cosplayer spawn.
[01:13:29] Speaker A: The cosplayer spawn, and one specific cosplayer spawn actually featured in the spawning grounds of Spawn 326. And that is west coast Morpheus. Because not only do we have a soft spot for cosplayer Spawn, but we talk about the matrix a whole fucking lot. And if you go visit our friend west coast Spawn, you will see he dresses up as Spawn. He dresses up as Morpheus. He dresses up as a lot of other things, too, but mostly spawn. Morpheus. It's like our interests intertwining in cosplay, Johnny.
[01:14:03] Speaker B: Yeah, he's awesome. He loves Morpheus. Loves Spawn. What's not to love?
[01:14:07] Speaker A: Yeah. The only thing he doesn't dress up is boobalicious Jessica priest. So maybe we'll give him a ring and be like, hey, Morpheus, we have a secret assignment for you.
[01:14:20] Speaker B: No, this is awesome. He seems really cool.
[01:14:22] Speaker A: Yeah, he seems like a really cool guy. So go give him a follow. And it's just west coast Morpheus on Instagram.
He's got a lot of great shit to show you.
[01:14:31] Speaker B: Yes.
[01:14:32] Speaker A: While you're over there, it's very important that you go visit our friend Brian. Brian does our music. Brian underscore voyals. Underscore 27. It's great shit. Absolutely.
Phenomenal shit. Like real good shit.
[01:14:47] Speaker B: He does our music. What's not to love?
[01:14:49] Speaker A: Then we're over there, too. Maybe not as phenomenal shit too with us. We got a regarding spawn pod is what we are over there.
[01:14:58] Speaker B: We're posting all kinds of fun stuff.
[01:14:59] Speaker A: Come give us a holler. Give us a holler if you want to holler at us. Not on Instagram. We've got an email account that you can send us letters and stuff to regarding
[email protected]. We'd love to get your letters.
[01:15:15] Speaker B: And if you do send us an email, make sure to put your address in there. We can send you some stickers, and.
[01:15:21] Speaker A: Johnny will also read your email aloud on air. Send us an email. You'll get your email read on. I mean, make sure you don't say disparaging things about people you know. Listen to this podcast, unless you want to share secret messages to a friend that, you know, listens to the podcast, so that way you can get a text from them later that week and then be like, you son of a bitch.
[01:15:43] Speaker B: And then you put me in the podcast.
[01:15:46] Speaker A: That's fine. So you get your message read on air and a sticker. What's not to love?
[01:15:52] Speaker B: Yeah, and I just want to ask for my prompt this week since we had the lovely holiday spawn, what are you going to be doing to bring Spawn to your holiday season? Are you going to watch Krampus? Are you going to watch the night before Christmas? Are you going to dress up as Santa Spawn? Are you going to make a spawn wreath? Just if you have any Christmasy spawn stuff that you do, we'd love to hear about any.
[01:16:13] Speaker A: If you've got either the redeemer or the dark redeemer action figure, maybe bargain with your family to get that to be the treetopper instead of the regular.
[01:16:23] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, put the dark redeemer up there and say, you know, that's actually Abel from the Bible.
And they'll go, what are you fuck are you talking about?
[01:16:32] Speaker A: Johnny knows from personal experience.
[01:16:34] Speaker B: I know from personal experience.
[01:16:37] Speaker A: Better personal experience than me. Every time I try to break it up, Wanda is immediately like, I don't fucking care. Just stop. I'm going to stop you right there. Save your.
So, Johnny, sorry to spoil the surprise, but I have a Christmas gift for you.
[01:16:55] Speaker B: What's that?
[01:16:56] Speaker A: What's that? It's another couple of hours talking with me about some spawn.
[01:17:01] Speaker B: Oh, but I do believe our next episode will be even more than just you and me talking about Spawn. Am I right?
[01:17:09] Speaker A: Wait, Johnny does that mean you're getting me a gift?
[01:17:13] Speaker B: I got you a gift. Yeah.
We're going to be covering. The very special Christmas issue of Spawn. Which is spawn number 39.
[01:17:23] Speaker A: Yeah. And we will have a special holly jolly guest to help.
[01:17:29] Speaker B: We're going to have our friend Bran Morehead. Who was guest for some king Spawn episodes. Got to talk about some king spawn. And they're going to be back to talk Christmas spawn with us. It'll be a lot of fun.
[01:17:41] Speaker A: Yeah, it'll be a hoot. So it's also our gift to you. Because we freaking love talking to Bran. We hope you love listening to them as much as we do. They have lots of good insight as a non spawn person. Into what's going on. So it'll be real fun to hear their thoughts. On one of the wackiest spawn issues. To ever be published.
[01:18:03] Speaker B: It's pretty wacky. It's called Noel number 39. Get ready for it.
[01:18:08] Speaker A: It's also good for. It's a good way to get people into Spawn. At this time of the year. Because it's self contained. It's thematically appropriate, it's wild.
What more do you need?
[01:18:22] Speaker B: That's all you need.
[01:18:23] Speaker A: That's all you need. So read spawn number 39. Come back and listen to us talk about it in a week.
[01:18:30] Speaker B: Sounds good to me.
[01:18:31] Speaker A: Sounds great to me, too. And that, Johnny, I think that brings us to the part of the show. Where I bid you. May the scorch be with you.
[01:18:43] Speaker B: Oh, yes. Well, my bid you, may the scorch be with good sir. And also with you, is what I usually say.
[01:18:50] Speaker A: And also with you, good sir. Yes. Thank you. Thank you.
[01:18:54] Speaker B: Well, everybody set out your cookies and get ready. Because Santa Claus is coming to town next time. So don't forget the milk cookies. Give out a carrot for the reindeer.
[01:19:04] Speaker A: Don't forget a little bit of strawberry ripple for the coliostro.
[01:19:07] Speaker B: Yes. For Santa Cagliostro.
[01:19:09] Speaker A: Maybe some turkey legs for the clown.
Get a cat. So that way the clown has somebody to talk to while he eats. Because he likes to talk.
[01:19:18] Speaker B: He likes to talk to cats in the alleyways. He likes to talk while. Eats a hot dog, too. For the violator. Just leave it all out or Santa won't come.
[01:19:35] Speaker A: It.
What do you think, buggy? Is it dope?
