[00:00:00] Speaker A: It.
[00:00:00] Speaker B: You ever wonder why so many people hate cockroaches, especially women? Why is that? It can't hurt them. It doesn't bite. And humans are a thousand times bigger, so why are they so afraid of it?
Because it's ugly.
The Malibu. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast.
I'm your co host, John Fisher.
[00:00:58] Speaker A: I'm your co host, David Williams.
[00:01:01] Speaker C: Yes. And this is Martez, or I do stand up comedy. I go by DJ Slider bite on the Internet.
[00:01:07] Speaker B: DJ Slider bite is welcome. Welcome.
[00:01:11] Speaker A: That means I don't have to make a whole bunch of bad jokes, because good jokes will be incoming. You're welcome, everybody.
[00:01:18] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, I'm going to try my best. This subject matter is a little iffy in this book.
[00:01:24] Speaker B: It's a little weird.
Yeah. Sorry. I don't remember how weird it was whenever I signed up for it.
[00:01:32] Speaker A: It's absolutely wild. I can't decide if it's good or not.
[00:01:38] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know. It's got some interesting stuff, so welcome. This is regarding Spawn, where each week we talk about, usually two issues from Spawn's universe. This week we're doing one because it's an oversized issue. It's a beefy boy, unwanted violence, number one, all the way from January 2023.
So about exactly a year ago, it came out.
I guess it is a wild book.
[00:02:09] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:02:09] Speaker B: But we'll get into it. What is your history with Spawn, Martez?
[00:02:14] Speaker C: Just the movie from the movie from the. I've seen the show the cartoon on HBO, but it's one of those things I need to rewatch as an adult to kind of get the magnitude of it. Because I worked at a movie theater for ten years, and I remember one of my managers complaining about they didn't show a big boss battle with Spawn and some other guy. They just showed the guy trying to hunt Spawn down. And then all of a sudden, Spawn just had a whole bunch of his body parts were just laying around. They didn't even show it in the cartoon. I want to rewatch that as an adult to see if it still holds up.
[00:02:49] Speaker A: It's good.
[00:02:50] Speaker B: I've been watching it off and on for the last year or so.
[00:02:53] Speaker A: The movie is wild. It's something. It's something. But the cartoon is pretty good. Yeah.
[00:02:59] Speaker B: I love the movie as a kid.
[00:03:01] Speaker C: Oh, I got two questions. Did the cartoon end, did they give it an ending? Or did it just get canceled where they just didn't finish?
[00:03:08] Speaker A: I think it got canceled after, like.
[00:03:10] Speaker B: Yeah, there wasn't, like, a definitive end.
[00:03:12] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:13] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:03:13] Speaker A: It ends on several questions that never get answered.
[00:03:16] Speaker C: But I remember specifically, it was a woman that was like an angel, and she fought people. I remember her secretary was like, hey, there's another spawn. And then they showed a flashback of her killing other.
[00:03:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:31] Speaker C: And so I didn't know if he fought her or not. I just remember seeing that.
[00:03:34] Speaker A: That's Angela. And Angela is no longer the property of Todd McFarlane Productions. She belongs to.
[00:03:44] Speaker B: They got. She was created by Neil Gaiman in Spawn, and then they had a falling out, and he got the rights to her and sold her to get to.
[00:03:54] Speaker C: And what is Marvel doing with that? Like, are they doing anything with it?
[00:03:57] Speaker A: She's an Asgardian. She is Loki and Thor's brother.
[00:04:02] Speaker C: No. Okay. All right.
[00:04:05] Speaker A: Yeah. Sister, brother, sister.
[00:04:06] Speaker B: What is that complicated?
[00:04:07] Speaker A: They're Asgardians. It doesn't really matter.
How many things has she.
[00:04:13] Speaker C: So she was that woman that they shoehorned in the one Loki movie.
[00:04:17] Speaker B: She was the villain, kind of. She had a little bit.
[00:04:21] Speaker A: I don't think she's been in any of the movies yet. She's only been in the comics.
[00:04:25] Speaker B: Hare is also their sister, though, so I think I know what you mean. And I think they're both the sisters.
[00:04:30] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:04:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:31] Speaker C: Because I just felt like they kind of shoehorn that plot in just to have a woman.
[00:04:37] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:04:38] Speaker C: It was one of those things that just kind of didn't make sense. I thought it was the same character.
[00:04:42] Speaker B: No, different. But she joined the Guardians of the Galaxy for a little bit in the comic books. She's been all over the place.
[00:04:51] Speaker C: No. Okay. All right. Yeah.
That's hilarious then. Okay. Because they totally set that up, and I thought that was going to be a big fight or something like that, but it didn't.
[00:05:00] Speaker B: I think they do fight in the cartoon.
[00:05:01] Speaker A: I know that there's a lot of unused film cells of Angela doing stuff for this series, so I think she might have been bigger in the upcoming season that got canceled.
[00:05:13] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah. But, yeah. She's no longer part of Spawn's universe.
[00:05:17] Speaker A: Which sucks, because she was awesome.
[00:05:19] Speaker B: She was awesome. But this is. I guess you call it a two shot.
[00:05:23] Speaker A: A two shot.
[00:05:24] Speaker B: I don't know. It's kind of like a one shot, but it's a two shot.
[00:05:27] Speaker A: A twofer, a wham, bam, no, thank you, ma'am. That would be three issues. A wham, bam, thank you, ma'am.
[00:05:32] Speaker B: Yeah. You don't want to thank anyone for this.
I don't really know. I was looking for any kind of interview online. I don't know what inspired Tod McFarland to break off and do this. Maybe he wanted to work with this artist. I'm not exactly sure, but it's just kind of this little side story. But, martez, we always start out by talking about the covers. Because Spawn's got all the covers, and this one's just kind of. Is it Mike Del Mundo does the COVID right?
[00:05:55] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I think he does everything.
[00:05:57] Speaker B: Spawn up on the building, his cape going everywhere. It looks pretty cool.
[00:06:01] Speaker A: Yeah. I have the only variant, which is just the all natural owl version. So no trade dress, nothing. So it looks pretty cool. It's like a poster. It's really good. He's got that glowing green orb. He's got the cape. It's great. There's a big ass moon up on a church.
[00:06:17] Speaker B: Pretty classic spawn stuff.
[00:06:19] Speaker A: Although that's like a grave on the top of a high rise building.
How important do you have to be? Yeah, because, look, he's on top of a building because he's looking down on the city. And then there's a grave.
[00:06:30] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:06:31] Speaker A: How important do you have to be to be buried at the top of a high?
Or maybe spend a lot of time sitting on churches, maybe that's what it is.
[00:06:41] Speaker C: Yeah. It's something where this little symbol is. But I get what you mean, though. This symbol. It's like a cross or whatever it is.
[00:06:48] Speaker A: Yeah, it looks like a grave, but it's probably just a cross on the top of a. Because that's at least 50% of the animated series. Him just sitting on top of that church being like, what is going on?
[00:06:59] Speaker B: Yeah, he sits on a church of the movie, too. Before he got his secret base, he used to love to chill in churches.
[00:07:04] Speaker A: Best place to brood.
[00:07:06] Speaker B: Best place to brood. So we pop open that cover, and we've got the credits here. We got to run through the credits. So we got script and plot by Todd McFarlane.
[00:07:14] Speaker A: Yes, indeed.
[00:07:15] Speaker B: Art by Mike del Mundo.
[00:07:17] Speaker A: It's excellent art, at least.
[00:07:19] Speaker B: Excellent art. Colors by Mike del Mundo and Marco de Alfonso. Lettering is Tom Warzachowski. And anne world design cover artist is Mike del Mundo. Tod McFarland's creative director and editor in chief is Thomas Healy.
[00:07:33] Speaker A: Hell, yeah.
[00:07:34] Speaker B: So it just starts with the beginning of conflict, which is just like, what? Okay, conflict. When did it start? It just shows, like, a bunch of really bad stuff from the last. I don't.
[00:07:46] Speaker A: Yeah, last few years or so. Maybe even longer back than that.
[00:07:51] Speaker B: I don't know if migrants sleeping under, like, a blanket you got a guy get arrested.
[00:07:57] Speaker A: Just people getting mowed down by a tank. That's no good.
[00:08:00] Speaker B: There's like a not good at all bounty hunter mass with, like, bombs on it. I don't know what's going on there.
[00:08:07] Speaker A: But essentially it's saying that conflict boils down to people can't get along. It says that conflict started with Eve, not because Eve did anything, but just because Adam now was no longer alone and had to learn to live with other people, which is actually pretty hard to do, learning to live with other people, you know?
[00:08:25] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, it's true. That is what conflict is.
[00:08:28] Speaker A: You no longer get to just sit on the couch in your underwear. You have to put on pants.
What's that pants nonsense?
[00:08:35] Speaker C: Yeah, put on pants. You got tolerate people sometimes.
[00:08:38] Speaker A: Yeah, I get it.
[00:08:39] Speaker B: I just love that it starts with, like, this is what conflict is. And the second page is awesome with that cape.
[00:08:45] Speaker A: Yeah, it's awesome. It also firmly establishes that this is a small right foot spawn for these couple of issues.
[00:08:54] Speaker B: He doesn't have the big boot because, see, in some versions of spawn, he's a big right foot boot Martez. So you got to watch out for that big boot.
[00:09:02] Speaker C: Oh, really? Does that mean something different or something?
[00:09:05] Speaker B: It's just later on. Yeah.
[00:09:06] Speaker A: His original design, his feet looked the same, and then after, like 30 issues or so, they were like, let's make 1ft really big and spiky. And I just like the magic feet. No.
[00:09:18] Speaker C: Okay. That might have been something I've noticed before or never really paid attention to. Now I'm going to pay attention to it.
[00:09:24] Speaker B: Yeah. He's got to watch his feet every.
[00:09:26] Speaker A: Month or so on Reddit. Somebody's like, why does he have one Bigfoot? What's that for? And everybody's just like, it looks cool. What does it matter?
[00:09:34] Speaker B: It's his Bigfoot to stomp on people. But he gets like, yeah, there's, like, people in his cape.
[00:09:39] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:40] Speaker B: Crying.
[00:09:41] Speaker A: There's bats.
[00:09:42] Speaker B: Bats flying around.
[00:09:43] Speaker A: It's a real good two page spread.
[00:09:45] Speaker B: No, I like this page a lot. Yeah.
[00:09:47] Speaker A: We just focus more on, apparently Al is an empath and can feel the emotional screams of everyone who's been oppressed, which is something I don't think we've explored before. Have we explored that he can feel the emotions of oppressed peoples?
[00:10:03] Speaker B: I feel like it might have been mentioned maybe, but it's not something we really explore a lot. You're right.
[00:10:07] Speaker A: Empathy isn't something you typically associate with people from hell.
[00:10:13] Speaker B: Issue to issue, David.
[00:10:15] Speaker A: Right, issue to issue. Speaking of issues, we got Mark here. Him's waking up in the morning, washing his face. We learned that Spawn has a bed. Which, hell, guys got to sleep, I guess, but he never uses.
[00:10:29] Speaker B: See this guy? This guy here? This is Mark. And he is like his man in the chair.
[00:10:35] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:10:35] Speaker A: He does all the tech.
[00:10:36] Speaker B: He does all the tech for him. He lives in his secret base.
[00:10:40] Speaker A: Well, he's forced to live in his secret base. Was forced to take in the base as well. Which, for somebody who can feel the emotions of oppressed people. To then abduct a guy, that doesn't make any sense.
[00:10:55] Speaker C: So is this a theme? Because they never set up, like, him being abducted, put in this place?
[00:11:01] Speaker A: Yes, that happens in the main series.
[00:11:04] Speaker B: So Spawn is on issue, like, almost to issue 350 on the main spawn issue. So there's a ton of spawn. And this is just a spin off. But it's assuming you have the knowledge of stuff that's happened. So you're kind of jumping in a little bit. But it's hard. You kind of have to, because what else are you to do? Read 350 issues of Spawn like I do?
[00:11:25] Speaker C: Yeah. No, that's understandable. Yeah, it was just notice. Just didn't understand this guy's predicament. You just see him in here.
[00:11:34] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:35] Speaker B: He was a reporter that was forced to come work here at Spawn secret layer. And look at Spawn's bed.
[00:11:44] Speaker A: And hang out with Cygor and all that.
[00:11:47] Speaker B: Spawn would have a bigger bed.
[00:11:49] Speaker A: You think that could hold, like, a leg. Because he's got big, beefy leg.
[00:11:54] Speaker B: He's got big, beefy legs. I know.
[00:11:55] Speaker A: Also, we just learned that he weighs 600 pounds. So hopefully, that's a good, strong bed. But so Spawn's just chilling in a chair, brooding. He's doing the classic.
[00:12:08] Speaker B: Yeah, he's just, like, chilling in the dark in a computer chair, which is a creepy thing to do.
[00:12:13] Speaker A: And then he decides to change back into his human form. And he's got actual sunglasses here, Johnny. He doesn't have necroplasm sunglasses.
[00:12:23] Speaker B: No, he picks them up.
[00:12:24] Speaker A: So Martez Spawns are fueled by what's called necroplasm. It's a green hellgoo. And they can use it kind of like Green Lantern's ring. To make anything that they can think of. They can make disguises, they can make weapons. They can make sunglasses, particularly. And in the main title, Spawn makes his sunglasses from his hell goop. But here he's got, like, physical sunglasses that he bought at the. So who knows?
[00:12:52] Speaker B: Big difference.
[00:12:53] Speaker A: Big difference. Big difference.
[00:12:56] Speaker C: Okay.
Yeah.
[00:12:58] Speaker B: Now, you see, he's kind of the man in the chair because he's looking up all these dudes.
[00:13:02] Speaker A: Because he's looking for a whole bunch of dead drug cartel members. Because that's how he knows that the freak is currently running rampant on all these drug cartel guys. And he's like, I got to find the freak.
[00:13:15] Speaker B: And if there's a bunch of dead drug cartel, I'll be able to find the freak.
[00:13:18] Speaker C: No, I was going to ask, is that the freak's main thing?
[00:13:24] Speaker A: I guess the freak hasn't been given much of a motivation besides the fact that he just does wild violence.
[00:13:32] Speaker B: He's a good guy. He was a bad guy.
[00:13:35] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:36] Speaker B: Now he's like a good guy, but he just goes around and kills criminals. Like we see here.
[00:13:41] Speaker A: He used to kill for bad reasons, and now he kills bad guys for good reasons.
[00:13:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:47] Speaker A: I don't know. It's a good question, though.
[00:13:49] Speaker C: Yeah, no, I got another question, too. So are there a lot of spin offs like this?
[00:13:52] Speaker A: Yes. So currently, for all spawn titles that have been published since 1992, there are, as far as I can count, 25 different titles that have been published since 1992. Most of them are miniseries. Only a few of them are ongoings. And then upcoming, we have like, eleven more titles that are supposed to start in the next year or so. So it's almost like trying to follow Batman, where there's so much Batman that it's very difficult to remember where you.
[00:14:28] Speaker C: I mean. But does he plan on making other.
Completing this story at least, or keeping it going with more episodes?
[00:14:36] Speaker A: With more issues for unwanted violence, specifically? Yeah, I think it's just the two issues.
[00:14:43] Speaker B: I think it's just the two issues. Which makes it kind of confounding.
[00:14:46] Speaker C: Yeah, because it just ends with no, because what they're trying to find out, and it was still like they didn't find a file. It just ended with a bigger question.
[00:14:58] Speaker B: Yeah, there's like a whole warehouse of.
[00:15:01] Speaker A: Files or something, which is the next episode, but it kind of dovetails into the main story a little bit.
[00:15:09] Speaker B: But you can looking for these people.
[00:15:11] Speaker A: It's a sweaty transition from this to the regular title.
[00:15:18] Speaker C: Okay, so in the regular title, there is an issue of angels and demons living among us and spawn trying to find files to find out who's who.
Okay, that makes sense, because to me, it just seemed kind of weird to only have two issues of this for the whole year, and then it end like that.
[00:15:37] Speaker B: This is like a flashback to a little bit earlier time where. Yeah, during this time spawn was obsessed with files and finding these shadow players, as he calls them.
[00:15:47] Speaker A: It's almost like a deleted scene from the main title. They were just like, let's do something with this.
[00:15:53] Speaker B: Yeah. It's like they slotted it in there and something that had happened a few years ago and kind of explains a little bit of it.
[00:15:59] Speaker A: But we're in Peru where we learned that some drug cartel people are stealing children, which is terrible. But I do like how this one guy taking this one child just says, yoink. Because that's not what you expect a kidnapper to say.
[00:16:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:13] Speaker A: Is yoink.
[00:16:18] Speaker B: That's the other thing that's kind of weird about this story. It's like an amalgamation of kind of, like, conspiracy theories because it has the whole kidnapping or just stuff that's, like, hot button political in America because you have the police stuff in the second issue, and in this one, you have all the child kidnapping, which there's, like, that movie. It was really popular.
[00:16:39] Speaker A: Yeah, the one that.
[00:16:41] Speaker B: Sound of thunder. No, not sound of thunder.
[00:16:43] Speaker A: Sound of freedom.
[00:16:44] Speaker B: The sound of freedom. I don't know. People are obsessed with child trafficking, and I know it's a bad thing.
[00:16:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:51] Speaker B: But it's just interesting that it's just a weird thing to put in the story.
[00:16:56] Speaker A: It is weird.
[00:16:56] Speaker B: Especially the second part. I don't know.
[00:16:58] Speaker A: Well, anyway, the second part that we should. Let's just run through the second part, because it makes me very uneasy, and I don't like it. But anyway, these kids.
[00:17:05] Speaker B: These kids are getting kidnapped, and they're bringing them to this dude who's like.
[00:17:10] Speaker A: I'm pretty sure he's the drug boss. So he's the boss of this cartel, and he epsteins them, and, well, the freak doesn't like that, so the freak deals with it.
[00:17:23] Speaker B: But this is like, it's pretty gnarly.
[00:17:25] Speaker A: It's pretty gnarly.
[00:17:26] Speaker B: It's just like, damn. It's just so funny. I can't say fuck in these comic books, but you could have a guy who's kidnapping children and epstein them.
[00:17:36] Speaker A: Yeah, but, hey, at least he gets his comeuppance. I think that's what makes it. If you were able to walk off Scott free, then that's when we'd get into a problem. And I like how the freak's just, like, mid beating this guy up, and then Al just shows up and is like, hold on a second. I need you elsewhere.
He's like, can I see you in my office for a second?
[00:17:56] Speaker B: I do love this reveal of the freak. He looks like a pirate ghost.
[00:18:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:01] Speaker B: He does actually glued tape onto the guy's daughter's face.
[00:18:05] Speaker A: Yeah. That's wild.
[00:18:07] Speaker B: He glued tape. You don't need to glue tape.
[00:18:09] Speaker A: You do if you're the freak and you want to make a point. What do you think of the freak here, martez? You think he's a little.
[00:18:19] Speaker C: It's just a lot of subject matter is a little bit.
It's a little bit different. So, no, he's an interesting character and everything.
I like his character. I want to see more stuff with it. It's just, this is just the subject matter is kind of crazy. And then they introduce you to it as that. They open up with this.
I'm familiar with the spawn cartoon, but they just didn't open up with things like this. So it's just an interesting thing, and it's just to show you going on.
[00:18:52] Speaker A: Yeah, this is a pretty big departure from normally what they show in any sort of spawn two, which is what makes it so interesting to read, because it's like, wait, now, where did this come from? Why are we diving into this particular topic now?
[00:19:10] Speaker B: Yeah, it feels like, I don't know. Tod McFarland, the Todd father, had some kind of, like, some dark things you need to work out.
[00:19:17] Speaker C: Yeah. Because I remember the.
Yeah, Billy. Yeah. And I remember drawing a picture of him back in the day. He was on a comic book, and I drew it and just didn't understand, like, oh, this is a weirdo type character that they probably wouldn't even make a cartoon if they were to make a movie.
They would have to handle that very lightly.
[00:19:39] Speaker B: Yeah. He would definitely be neutered if they made a movie.
[00:19:42] Speaker A: You could even say they have to handle it with kid gloves.
[00:19:47] Speaker B: You wouldn't want to say that.
[00:19:49] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:19:52] Speaker B: In the comic books, he takes people's.
[00:19:54] Speaker A: He does finger paints where he takes children's fingers, cuts them off, covers them in paint, and slaps them on a piece of paper.
[00:20:02] Speaker C: No, I mean, that's the Kincaid person, not this.
No. Okay. Yeah, but this guy.
[00:20:09] Speaker A: This guy's just a nasty man.
[00:20:11] Speaker C: Yeah, but does it explain, like, oh, he's half dead creature, he's a ghoul, or he just used bad makeup?
[00:20:17] Speaker A: Oh, the freak.
[00:20:18] Speaker C: Yeah, he drank a lot of high fructose corn syrup.
[00:20:21] Speaker A: I think the freak is actually a dead guy.
[00:20:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:25] Speaker A: His backstory is very vague because it increases the freak value of him. So he's basically just like a walking skeleton.
[00:20:34] Speaker B: He wasn't always that way, though. When he first appeared, he was kind of a little more human.
[00:20:37] Speaker A: He's kind of like Eddie the iron maiden mascot where he started out looking kind of like a drug fiend guy and just slowly morphed into a skeleton. Yeah.
[00:20:47] Speaker B: I mean, almost exactly like that. Yeah. He was created by Alan Moore. But yeah, this guy's kind of really concatee adjacent because he fucks with kids and he's a large man.
[00:20:57] Speaker A: Large man, yes.
[00:20:58] Speaker B: He's about to kill him. He's like torturing him. He's got his family here. His wife's hang upside down.
[00:21:06] Speaker A: I guess we missed the big twist of the child before him wasn't the child that was collected off the street, but was in fact his own daughter. Because the freak did a switcheroo of the children, which is fucked up, right?
[00:21:21] Speaker B: Yeah, it's just fucked up.
[00:21:23] Speaker A: Like the child then still takes comfort from this guy. Like, what the fuck? What the fuck? I do like how he has a big red emergency button on the wall that he just smashes to have his tactical team bust in.
[00:21:38] Speaker B: Yeah, that reminds me of the Diet Coke button.
You know about.
[00:21:44] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:21:45] Speaker B: That's the worst thing Biden did is remove the Diet Coke button from the Trump had a diet Coke button on the desk at the White House. You just hit it and they bring him a Diet Coke.
[00:21:53] Speaker C: Oh, no, I didn't know that at all.
[00:21:58] Speaker B: Biden removed it and I'm like, what the fuck, man?
[00:22:00] Speaker C: Yeah, he probably needs pedialyte or something like that.
[00:22:08] Speaker B: He probably does. Looks like David froze, but he'll be back. We'll just keep going.
He probably needs pedialite.
[00:22:15] Speaker C: Oh, that's funny. That's a good way to freeze, though. Usually it freezes in an uncompromising spot.
[00:22:20] Speaker B: Yeah, he's looking happy when he's frozen.
[00:22:23] Speaker C: Yeah, that looks good. Usually it freezes like it's like this.
[00:22:27] Speaker B: Yeah, you're like all ugly and shit to those listening. David is frozen and he'll be coming back.
[00:22:33] Speaker C: No, this is mean. But this guy didn't really get his comeupped, so whatever, because he just, he.
[00:22:39] Speaker B: Gets like, you're blind. Or he's like, I'm going to make around you blind. So he makes everyone blind and then imitates his voice and then they shoot him.
[00:22:50] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, for some reason I forgot about that. I just thought that he just got the freaking left and I was like, that's it.
[00:22:57] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got his big old floppy titties flying around when he gets shot.
[00:23:02] Speaker C: No. All right. Yeah.
Not a lot got done in these episodes or these issues. Yeah, but it was still interesting, though.
[00:23:14] Speaker B: The art is really cool.
[00:23:15] Speaker C: Yeah, the art is cool. The art is different.
[00:23:17] Speaker A: I keep getting tonal whiplash from the heaviness of the subject matter that they're trying to cover and the light, breezy, super comical style of the art.
[00:23:30] Speaker B: Yeah, it is a little whiplashy. And then we go to New York City inside the alleys of Rat City, which isn't even correct. Yeah, it's Rat alley.
[00:23:40] Speaker A: Come on. Issue to issue. Well, but, I mean, Rat City is the name of that upcoming series.
[00:23:46] Speaker B: It is. That's true.
[00:23:47] Speaker A: Then we get our opening reading where the freak is talking about cockroaches, and then he munches on it. He's just like, hop num num num num.
[00:23:55] Speaker B: He likes to eat bugs.
[00:23:57] Speaker A: Classic shorthand for this guy's a weirdo, eating bugs. I do like the close up on him eating it looks like a Polaroid.
It's real fun. Yeah, it's real fun.
[00:24:08] Speaker B: Spawn eats bugs, too.
[00:24:10] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. He has to, because the only way he can increase his necroplasm.
[00:24:14] Speaker B: You got to eat the bugs.
[00:24:15] Speaker A: Got to eat the bugs.
[00:24:17] Speaker B: I like eating fake bugs. I used to love you like ants on a log. Ants on a log. Worm cup or. What is it, the dirt?
[00:24:23] Speaker A: Oh, a dirt cup.
[00:24:25] Speaker B: Yeah, a dirt cup. It's like pudding. Chocolate has, like, crushed up oreos on.
[00:24:30] Speaker A: It to look like dirt. And a gummy worm in it.
[00:24:33] Speaker C: Yeah. And then, like, rainbow worms and stuff.
[00:24:36] Speaker B: Yeah, that's good. I remember there was a kind of candy called bug city.
[00:24:40] Speaker A: Bug city.
[00:24:41] Speaker B: It was like sweet tarts in a jar, but you could use the jar afterwards to hold bugs in. It was the idea.
[00:24:46] Speaker A: Nice when there were candy stores. Used to have a lot of bug shaped candies, or some of them even had, like, the mealworms inside of the suckers.
[00:24:58] Speaker B: Oh, I remember that. That was always so weird to me.
[00:25:00] Speaker A: I mean, it was gag gift stuff.
[00:25:02] Speaker B: Are you supposed to eat it?
[00:25:03] Speaker A: Yeah, you're supposed to eat them, or you can eat them.
[00:25:06] Speaker B: They have the one with the scorpion in it, too.
[00:25:08] Speaker A: Scorpion might be a little harder. Sell. That dude's crunchy, but they made him.
[00:25:14] Speaker B: With scorpions inside of him.
[00:25:16] Speaker A: Yeah. Weird. I don't know. Did you ever have any bug candy Martez, or is that.
[00:25:22] Speaker C: No, I mean, I've seen the. No, I've seen the one with the rainbow worms. I've just never wanted it. I just never wanted to eat anything like that.
And then knowing what I know now about bugs and shrimp and roaches and stuff, they're basically the same. And then when you watch the videos and people eat big bugs from around the world and they say, yo, this tastes like shrimp. This tastes very similar to crab. And so I guarantee they taste the same.
[00:25:51] Speaker B: Yeah, they're seabugs.
[00:25:54] Speaker A: Insects are supposed to be the protein of the future because they have a very low carbon footprint and they breed very quickly, so you can make a lot of them really fast.
[00:26:03] Speaker C: No. Yeah, I don't subscribe to that. People that do that are people that.
[00:26:11] Speaker B: Escargot. But I wouldn't seek it out. Like, if it was put in front of me, I'd try it. I'm not going to seek out to eat bugs.
[00:26:18] Speaker A: Yeah. I'd probably eat a big ass grasshopper if it was roasted.
[00:26:24] Speaker B: That gives you the heebie GB's.
What if it was, like, this big and you're, like, ripping its leg off?
[00:26:29] Speaker A: Well, then it would basically be like eating a lobster, right?
[00:26:33] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's like a lobster.
[00:26:35] Speaker A: The thing that really freaks me out is when there are those gigantic roly polys that live at the bottom of the ocean, when people cook those, that freaks me out. What are they called? I don't remember what they're called.
[00:26:46] Speaker B: I know what you're talking about.
[00:26:48] Speaker A: It reminds me of that scene in the emperor's new groove where they're at the restaurant and kronk smacks it with a spoon and it just, like, rolls open and cuz co is like.
Right? Yeah, sure.
[00:27:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:05] Speaker C: I'm glad I didn't see.
[00:27:05] Speaker B: That's a cartoon.
[00:27:10] Speaker C: Isn't that a cartoon?
[00:27:11] Speaker A: Yes, it is.
[00:27:12] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a. Yeah.
[00:27:14] Speaker A: Yeah. It's got David Spade and John Goodman as kind of a buddy comedy. And Earth a kit, one of earth a kit's last performances.
[00:27:22] Speaker B: Yeah, but freak, he eats any bug, he'll eat a bug burger. Yeah. There's like, a roach burger or like, I saw something about a burger that was coming out that was, like, all a.
[00:27:35] Speaker A: There's a flour alternative that's just ground up crickets that you can buy.
[00:27:41] Speaker B: We'll be living in the freaks world soon enough.
[00:27:44] Speaker A: Man. I have never been less hungry during a recording session because, martez, usually there's lots of food involved in spawn issues, and so we're always hungry by the end of a record.
Not this time, though.
[00:27:56] Speaker B: No, not this time. Yeah. Just thinking about the bugs not doing it for me. Okay, so they're just talking about wallowing and garbage and the freaks. Like, there better be a good reason that you interrupted me for while I was working.
And it better be grand.
[00:28:12] Speaker A: And then, alice, like, I got a job for you. I need you to go do some filing or find some filing.
[00:28:20] Speaker B: And the freak's like, he's like, basically there's a mission that involves hundreds of children and those that love them. I don't know if he means the people that actually want to protect the children or love them in a bad way.
[00:28:31] Speaker A: Well, since he does go to children's cancer ward, I do believe it's like actual the families of the children.
[00:28:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:41] Speaker A: So since the freak is obviously involved in protecting children from bad things, this is a very good mission for the freak to do.
[00:28:49] Speaker B: Yeah. And he says if things go south, he can do whatever the hell he wants. So that's what makes him be like, oh, okay, I'll go to that. I'll do that. And then we get. There's two kind of parallel things to these two issues here. And the first thing is the freak story with like, assassinating the child killers or people that give children cancer.
And then you have what we open on next, which is like, there's a.
[00:29:12] Speaker A: Big protest going on, specifically the Black lives Matter protests, which were very big.
[00:29:20] Speaker B: It's like the protest of like 2020 or so.
[00:29:22] Speaker A: Yeah. So it's a couple of years after the protests kind of waned. So it's a little weird that they came out in the issues when they came out, but they were still on top of everybody's minds. All the people who thought that they were a bad idea were still blaming them for things, which sucks because those people suck.
[00:29:41] Speaker B: But yeah, there's some big protests and then people start throwing bottles and shit. I never went to any of these brands, been to like, protests like that.
[00:29:49] Speaker A: Yeah, I have.
[00:29:50] Speaker B: I've never that hardcore.
[00:29:52] Speaker A: These were the ones where Lori Lightfoot weaponized the boy.
[00:29:56] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:29:56] Speaker B: These are like the ones where Lori Lightfoot took the bridges.
[00:30:02] Speaker C: I mean, I'm just indifferent because I feel like these people in this comic book are really people who are oppressed. And the people who are protesting in Chicago were all people from rich suburbs, from neighboring you. That's why you raised the bridges, because a lot of them didn't know where to. Yeah, they're not from Chicago. So you just raised the bridges and then they had to go back to the north.
The only, this is the one time I'll stick up to Lori Lifewood and just be like the suburb people. Are the people causing this, not the people of Chicago. Let's just raise the bridges. They're going to get confused and go home. And only the people who knew how to maneuver, they knew how to get back to Bridgeport, but everybody else was just, they had to go back to Lakeview or they called their parents to come get.
Is. This is a different field. These are like real people. That's why it's like bottles being thrown and all that kind of stuff.
[00:30:54] Speaker B: Yeah, this is the real deal.
[00:30:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:30:56] Speaker C: And this is different from that.
But no, I don't know. I just think that's the only thing I think is funny, that spawn went over here and kind of caused a diversion. So to freaking go to the hospital to do some stuff, he just kind of. Just kind of stood at this.
It was like he made the situation big because it was already big. He made it big.
[00:31:20] Speaker B: Yeah, he definitely does.
[00:31:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:31:24] Speaker C: He escalates them, or kind of de escalates them, but it's just the fact that they see him and they know who he is. And then it's that one part, the one negotiator is like, can't you just disappear? That's what you do.
Just disappear from this.
[00:31:39] Speaker B: He's standing.
[00:31:41] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:31:42] Speaker A: The negotiator is not till the next issue, though.
[00:31:46] Speaker C: All right, I'm confused. Okay.
[00:31:47] Speaker B: We're getting ahead of ourselves.
[00:31:49] Speaker A: Yeah. So the issue ends on him drawing all of the attention from the protests to himself.
[00:31:55] Speaker C: Oh, yes. Okay. But I still think it's.
I don't want to say it's unnecessary, but it's just like, maybe when you get more information and it's just like, oh, he did have to cause that diversion.
[00:32:07] Speaker A: You could say it's unwanted violence.
[00:32:14] Speaker B: So after, basically, it just shows this protest, and it's getting a little wild.
[00:32:19] Speaker A: There's gas, it's getting wacky. There's, like, horses trampling over, people trampling.
[00:32:24] Speaker B: But then we see the freak's mission, which is to, he goes to this hospital and he visits this young boy who's dying of cancer.
[00:32:35] Speaker A: Yeah, he's in the ICU. He's hooked up to more machines than anybody should need to be hooked up to. And he's just kind of chilling out in the shadows there, kind of trying to survey what's going on.
[00:32:49] Speaker B: What is he reading?
[00:32:50] Speaker A: Well, so the kid's mom is reading the Bible there, and he goes over and he just looks at. So that's apparently a page from the Bible that this kid's mom has.
None of the bibles I've ever been around have pictures in them, or else they would have been much more interesting to me.
[00:33:10] Speaker B: When I was younger, I had an illustrated Bible.
[00:33:14] Speaker A: Oh, boy.
[00:33:16] Speaker B: It was, like, for kids.
[00:33:17] Speaker A: Yeah, I had the kids illustrated Bible, where it was like all of the stories were reduced to three or four sentences.
[00:33:25] Speaker B: Yes, I had that one. But no, she's reading the real thing, real deal.
[00:33:29] Speaker A: The big boy, and he takes his.
[00:33:33] Speaker B: Rusty knife, and he takes the kid's. What is that, a hospital band? What do you call that?
[00:33:36] Speaker A: Yeah, it's an id bracelet. The kid with no name. They don't even give this kid a name.
[00:33:41] Speaker C: I got a side question. This happened to me at my job maybe three months ago, because what do you call that? Hospital bracelet. Hospital bracelet? Yeah.
[00:33:51] Speaker A: All right.
[00:33:51] Speaker C: And working in the service industry, we had this person come in with a hospital bracelet still on their wrist. And then he came in and asked for. They were just like. They asked for a menu and everything. We gave them water at first, and then I was just telling my manager, I was like, I don't know if we should serve this person if they ask for a drink, because they still have the hospital bracelet thing on. So I don't know, what would you do? How would you call it? At the end of the day, the person didn't ask for any water. They were kind of weird that they asked for water. They didn't ask for anything to drink, and I think they got soda, but it was just like, this is a whiskey bar. They got a thing on their wrist.
[00:34:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:34:27] Speaker C: I feel weird about serving.
[00:34:29] Speaker A: I wouldn't know how to approach that at all. Oh, boy.
[00:34:32] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know either.
[00:34:34] Speaker C: You've never had to deal with that, John?
[00:34:36] Speaker B: No.
[00:34:37] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:34:39] Speaker A: There's a reason I didn't go into a customer facing physician.
I would just be like, what?
[00:34:47] Speaker C: Yeah, sometimes you got to make. You got to make quick decisions. The manager made the good call, and the person didn't get anything to drink. But I don't know what I would have done. Just me, personally, I'll be like, you got other stuff to worry about.
[00:35:00] Speaker B: Maybe you should be having a drink.
[00:35:02] Speaker C: Yeah.
Or at least snatch that shit off before you come in here.
[00:35:07] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:35:07] Speaker C: But that should just make me think about it.
[00:35:10] Speaker A: I would say most of the people who would be there for a drink and it wouldn't be a problem would have been initially like, oh, I'm going to cut this off and make it seem like I wasn't just at some sort of center, but I don't know. You never know what's going on in people's heads or in their lives. Yeah, I know. Wanda used to actually collect them because she's been to the hospital a lot. And she used to be like, I'm going to keep every single one. And then at a certain point it was like, no, this is just garbage.
[00:35:38] Speaker C: Yeah, I noticed. The one thing all the villains are like, overweight, grotesque, kind of.
[00:35:47] Speaker B: Hey, you're hit right on the money. That's Tod McFarland, baby.
[00:35:51] Speaker A: He falls back on his own, tropes a lot. And one of the things he likes to fall back on is big boss. Like, big boss both physically big in terms of size and importance.
[00:36:03] Speaker B: Yeah, Tod, father, he loves those big guy.
[00:36:08] Speaker A: This guy who's at the other side of the ICU from the sick kid.
[00:36:13] Speaker B: Conveniently, conveniently.
[00:36:15] Speaker A: He is a wretched human being. He is like a fucking pharmaceutical executive who just. He's a bad, bad man. Johnny.
[00:36:24] Speaker B: What does it say he actually did?
[00:36:25] Speaker A: Oh, boy. So it doesn't say what he actually did the story to get there.
[00:36:30] Speaker B: Oh, they poured all the chemicals into.
[00:36:33] Speaker A: Yeah. So his actual crime was poisoning the water table with his company's effluence.
[00:36:42] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:36:43] Speaker A: Trash. He was pouring shit into the river. But like the story they're laughing and chucking it up about at the beginning. I don't know, it sounds like a hairy dog story to me.
[00:36:54] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:36:54] Speaker A: And then he says something condescending about his wife and fuck that guy. And then he says something about, I hope I can get one of those nurses to sponge bathe me. And nurses don't deserve a lot of the shit that they have to go, you know?
[00:37:11] Speaker B: Yeah, no, that's rough.
[00:37:12] Speaker A: Yeah. His name is Neil Gorman, head of a science division for a biomedical conglomerate. And then he gets.
[00:37:20] Speaker B: I've never had a sponge bath.
[00:37:22] Speaker A: I don't know. Me either. I don't know if I would enjoy it, honestly.
[00:37:27] Speaker B: What?
[00:37:27] Speaker A: I don't know if I would enjoy a sponge bath.
[00:37:30] Speaker B: I don't think I would.
[00:37:31] Speaker A: I think I would be very uncomfortable.
[00:37:33] Speaker B: I think so, too.
[00:37:34] Speaker A: Even as somebody who was on a swim team when he was younger, it still takes me like 15 minutes of pumping myself up to be like, okay, I'm going to go to the pool and I'm not going to wear a shirt and we're going to be fine.
[00:37:46] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:37:50] Speaker A: I was always a shirt at the pool kid when I was little.
[00:37:53] Speaker B: Hey, sometimes you got to do it.
[00:37:55] Speaker A: Yeah. Sometimes SPF 100 is what that is actually not really, because depending on the. Because you're normally going to wear a well worn in shirt at the pool because it holds less water and that means more sun can go through it.
[00:38:09] Speaker B: Yeah, it's only, like SPF 75.
[00:38:11] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:38:11] Speaker B: This guy's just a vile villain. And the freak bandages him all up.
[00:38:16] Speaker A: Yeah, just like, coats him and coats him and then stabs him with a. I don't know what it is. He gives him some kind of. I wonder if it's the same trash that he was jumping into the rivers and stuff.
[00:38:31] Speaker B: It might be. It's blue rivers is not good. And it sets off his heart monitor.
[00:38:37] Speaker A: Yeah, like how the freak just plops the name badge or the id badge from the child there as kind of like, this is why this is happening.
[00:38:47] Speaker B: Yeah. You gave this kid cancer, and you're in the same hospital, and you don't even know.
[00:38:53] Speaker A: How dare he? How dare he?
[00:38:55] Speaker B: How dare he? Plop.
[00:38:57] Speaker A: Plop. Do like. Oh, it says plop.
[00:39:00] Speaker B: So then they got a cardiac arrest, so everyone runs to his room to help him.
[00:39:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:39:04] Speaker B: And the freak takes this time to look up the terminal youth children files. Probably.
[00:39:09] Speaker A: Yeah. So he's looking for more people to attack because they've done more bad things to children.
[00:39:15] Speaker B: Yes. So he's found the case files there.
[00:39:17] Speaker A: Yeah. And then it cuts directly from there back to the city and the riot. We've got a mother hiding behind a car trying to keep her child safe.
[00:39:28] Speaker B: Austin's like, what the hell were you doing?
You know there was a protest going on down there. You don't bring a kid to that. Well, maybe you want to teach them your civic duty. Yeah, maybe they're just shopping.
[00:39:40] Speaker A: Maybe. Could have been. Well, but they had a sign. They had the sign.
[00:39:44] Speaker B: Yeah, they had a sign. They were there for the social, because.
[00:39:47] Speaker A: It comes down to just a damn cardboard sign, Johnny. The todfather spells it out very clearly. Right?
[00:39:52] Speaker C: Oh, it shows them with a sign or they had a sign.
[00:39:56] Speaker A: Well, it shows the mother. No, it shows the child on the ground next to a sign after she gets run over by a horse.
[00:40:07] Speaker C: No. Okay. All right, I see that. I am just noticing that they do have on mass. So it's like the story is like a 2020 story.
[00:40:14] Speaker B: Yeah, it's definitely set back around that time because that's the time he was doing all the file stuff.
[00:40:18] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:40:19] Speaker B: He was looking for files for shadow players to find all the people.
[00:40:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:40:25] Speaker C: Where are they at in the main story right now, then? So this is kind of like a flashback.
[00:40:30] Speaker B: Yeah, this is like a flashback. Main story now is he's fighting over the throne for hell, and so he's going down there with a bunch of other spawns because the clown wants to get the throne. And then another guy Cogliostro wants to get the throne.
And so it's basically like they're all fighting for the throne of hell right now.
[00:40:47] Speaker A: It's basically a game of hell thrones.
[00:40:49] Speaker B: Game of hell Throne. But there's only one throne. But that's about to culminate in issue 350, which is coming up here in almost a month.
[00:40:56] Speaker A: Almost a month, exactly.
[00:40:57] Speaker B: Which will be the longest running independent comic book. Creator owned comic book character. Right. Creator owned.
[00:41:04] Speaker A: Creator owned. Creator owned or written by. Yeah. I don't remember what the to. I have to look up what the actual.
But I think it might be, like, independently published or something like that.
[00:41:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:19] Speaker A: Creator owned. I don't know. I don't know. We talk about it enough. And the todd, I think it's creator.
[00:41:24] Speaker B: Owned because it was. David Sim was the one before it.
[00:41:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:41:27] Speaker B: And that was creative owned. Creator owned.
[00:41:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:41:30] Speaker B: They didn't sell.
[00:41:32] Speaker A: Yeah. So child gets run over by a horse, and everybody's like, oh, shit. Oh, shit. And then out of the fog of war comes Al Simmons with just one question. He's got one question to ask Johnny, who did this? Who did this? And then he gets a whole bunch of troopers aiming guns at him. And that's where it ends.
[00:41:53] Speaker B: That's where it ends, yeah.
And this is the spawn power meter, 3113.
[00:42:00] Speaker C: You said it's the power meter. What does that do?
[00:42:02] Speaker A: That is basically his health bar for how much necroplasm he has. It goes up to nine. Nine nine. And goes down to all nines are all zeros. And so he's pretty low powered at this point. Since it's at the threes. It has a very convoluted history that they tried to adhere to very closely at the beginning of the series and then kind of just were like, whatever.
[00:42:32] Speaker C: So how does he recharge it? Or whatever? Does he have to. He has to go somewhere and kind of hang out for a minute.
[00:42:37] Speaker A: Initially, he wasn't going to be able to recharge it at all.
So that way they could make more comic book issues. They found a way to recharge it, and the way he does that is he has to eat bugs and worms. The idea being, since necroplasm is a hell power, if you eat beings that live below the ground and are never exposed to the light of God, that they're full of hell juice.
So he just, like, will go to a dumpster and eat a whole bunch of earthworms out of the bottom of it because they're full of necroplasm.
[00:43:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:43:12] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:43:13] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:43:14] Speaker C: All right. But then it makes sense that they will keep making new spawns. Like, oh, yeah, we made a spawn that spawn ran out of energy.
[00:43:21] Speaker A: Yeah, let's make another one. Yeah. Because the original conception was that once he got to zero power, that he would die. But they got to that before they wanted to, and so they had to come up with a way to keep him going. That's one of the fun things about comics is after a while, sometimes just like, oh, shit, I ran out of ideas. We need to change something.
[00:43:45] Speaker B: Yep. Yeah. It's just kind of a general thing that makes spawn a little unique. Then in the back, you get some.
[00:43:52] Speaker A: Process artwork from Mike Del Mundo, which.
[00:43:56] Speaker B: Is cool to see.
[00:43:57] Speaker A: Very cool. Yeah, it's a couple pages of it. There's not even an advertisement at the end of this. So, yeah, that's unwanted violence issue one.
[00:44:05] Speaker B: That's unwanted violence number one.
[00:44:09] Speaker A: So the fun part now, Martez, is that at the end of all the issues, we rate them one to five. So one of us will go first. So that way you get sort of the feeling for how we do it. But we got to rate this puppy.
[00:44:24] Speaker B: Jim, it's time to rate the puppy.
So, yeah, unwind and violence over one. It's kind of gives me the heebie GB's a little bit. It's kind of a dark story, especially the part with the children kidnapping and Epstein shit. But I do like the art a lot, and I like a big swing. Like, the Todd father's swinging big with this story. I like the freak in it. I like seeing the freak do his stuff. And I love the art on the freak is really great. But I'm going to give it three candy cockroaches. Three out of five.
[00:45:01] Speaker A: Three crunchy cockroaches.
[00:45:04] Speaker B: Three crunchy cockroaches.
[00:45:07] Speaker A: Do you want to go second, or do you want to go last, martez?
[00:45:11] Speaker C: I'll go second because I feel like the fans don't want to hear me last.
[00:45:15] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:45:16] Speaker C: Just because this is, like, my first intro into it, but I know it's more to come, but the way it started off was just kind of weird. Or just the subject matters. And even with this sample art at the end, it's just like, yeah, we really had to paint the picture of the degradation of the shit in Peru. Like, they just showed, like, oh, yeah, we had to redraw the temporary room at least three or four times to get this right. That's just kind of. They're very. Just showing you this stuff. So I'm giving it a two out of five or three out of five. Just because I know the story is going to get better and more exciting. And it's just like sometimes you're not here for the beginning, you're here for the payoff. I just know. I feel like the payoff is going to be like, oh, okay. Yeah, that file was a big deal. I get it. So I'm giving it a two and a half out of five.
[00:46:12] Speaker A: Excellent.
I agree with all of those points.
I also like a big swing. The artwork is just incredible. I love the artwork, but I have to give it two fat bosses out of five.
[00:46:29] Speaker B: Two, because we did get two fat bosses.
[00:46:32] Speaker A: But I have read this single issue five or six times now, and I still honestly don't know what's going on fully.
[00:46:44] Speaker B: I know what's going on. It took me a while.
[00:46:46] Speaker A: Even as we were going through it right now, I noticed other things that they were trying to make it easier to follow kind of where they were going, and I just completely blew past it. I guess a lot of work went into it, much like were they were doing a thing and they were like, we're going to get this going, but it's awfully lopsided.
[00:47:07] Speaker B: Yes. That's a good way to put it.
[00:47:10] Speaker A: The art is great.
[00:47:10] Speaker B: Mike the Lundo do a great.
[00:47:15] Speaker A: Was that was this issue?
[00:47:17] Speaker B: That was part one.
[00:47:18] Speaker A: Part one.
[00:47:19] Speaker B: What does that means?
[00:47:20] Speaker A: That means the next time we see you guys or you hear us, we'll be talking about part two.
Martez, will you be back for part.
[00:47:29] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. If everything stays the same next week. Yes, I will be back.
[00:47:33] Speaker B: Yep. We're doing next week. We'll be recording for part two of unwanted violence. So we get to see where this conclusion goes. Kind of see a little more. It takes like a big turn and it's about something that is hinted at in this issue, but you really get a lot of the police stuff. I definitely think I like the second issue better from what I remember. But we'll talk about it. I don't know.
[00:47:55] Speaker C: Maybe.
[00:47:56] Speaker B: I don't. I don't know.
[00:47:57] Speaker A: I'm going to refrain from trying to analyze it at all right now.
[00:48:01] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a good call, but yeah, that'll be our episode next week as we're going to do unwanted violence.
[00:48:07] Speaker A: Two be very exciting. So read it and come back and listen to us talk about it.
[00:48:11] Speaker B: Our shout out this week on Instagram, of course, is going to be Martez here, our guest, and you can find him on Instagram at Slider bite.
[00:48:20] Speaker C: Yes. Yeah.
[00:48:21] Speaker B: And we'll post in the link. But they're posting their comedy, really funny stuff, reels, all kinds of good things. So make sure to give them a follow.
[00:48:29] Speaker C: Yeah, follow me. I'm trying my best.
[00:48:31] Speaker B: So anything else to plug? Do you have any shows coming up or anything you're doing comedy wise around the city?
[00:48:36] Speaker C: No, I'm just hitting up a lot of open mics, trying to get back in the groove, so I feel like I'm a month away from being like, hey, I got this show coming up and all that stuff.
[00:48:45] Speaker A: Excellent, excellent.
[00:48:46] Speaker C: So, yeah, just getting back in the.
To. Sometimes you got to get back in the swing of making fun of people's mom and stuff. You just can't get back into it. Now I got to get warmed up.
[00:48:55] Speaker A: That's true.
[00:48:56] Speaker B: You got to go up there and go, how about that Facebook, y'all?
[00:48:59] Speaker C: Yeah. I'm like, Facebook lit.
I don't even call it Facebook. Facebook list.
Yeah. Because older people would laugh at that. Facebook.
[00:49:08] Speaker A: Old people do, like, a small version of a bigger thing. Yeah.
[00:49:13] Speaker C: So you got to be Facebook, or I walk up to a table full of old people. I'm like, are you all tick tocking? You all tickers? Nobody at this table is talking.
[00:49:22] Speaker A: I feel like this is a show for me. I should be going.
[00:49:26] Speaker C: Yeah, no, I try to do stuff for older, like, dad jokes and dad and mom jokes. They like that. Oh, nobody's ticking here. Nobody's a talker. I'd be ticking. Yeah, then they always laugh at that.
Yeah, see? They always laugh at that. I was just like, it's the stupidest stuff.
[00:49:43] Speaker B: Hilarious.
[00:49:44] Speaker A: That's great.
That's my kind of comedy, honestly. Yeah, I'm an old man.
Wonderful.
[00:49:54] Speaker C: I might work this spawn material into some of it. Like, yeah, they kidnapping kids, hopefully. Where's Spawn at?
[00:50:03] Speaker A: Yeah, I think that's the fastest way to lose an audience there, invoking spawn, because even within our age group, we're trying to be like, do you know about Spawn? And people are like, the movie. What are you talking about?
[00:50:17] Speaker B: What is this kind of. I did have some people give me a compliment when I had my spawn hat on.
[00:50:23] Speaker A: Oh, nice.
[00:50:24] Speaker B: When I was at the movies, when I went and saw Godzilla minus one, actually.
[00:50:28] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:50:30] Speaker C: I will say this, though, with the resurgence of everybody likes these new realistic hero books, where they're just, like, invincible in the boys.
[00:50:41] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:50:41] Speaker C: And so I just feel like Spawn was that before that. It was just like, I feel like you got to strike while the iron is hot or one of those basically, these shows wouldn't exist if it weren't for spawn, like, invincible. And sometimes you got to test the ground and what's the one? Kick ass.
[00:51:00] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah.
Most of them literally wouldn't be around because they were image properties to begin with. And the very first image, well, maybe not the very first image book, but image was started so that way Todd McFarland could make a book that he wanted to make the way he wanted to make it.
[00:51:16] Speaker B: Yeah. They wouldn't be around. That's true.
[00:51:19] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:51:19] Speaker B: And he definitely brought the superhero into that darker realm in the. Everyone eventually kind of copied and did.
[00:51:28] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:51:30] Speaker A: Because they never had to comply with.
What's it called? The CaC. The comics code. Yeah.
He didn't have to follow the comics code at all, because by then, the code was voluntary, and he could just be like, I could show a fat guy getting strung up with chains and stabbed with toothpicks.
[00:51:49] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:51:50] Speaker B: I could do R-I-P. Billy Kincaid.
[00:51:55] Speaker A: No peace for him.
[00:51:57] Speaker B: No. Rest in peace.
[00:51:59] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. That's a good one.
[00:52:01] Speaker B: What else is a good one? While you're on Instagram following Martez, be sure to give us a follow.
We are regarding Spawnpod at Instagram. Instagram.
[00:52:12] Speaker A: Yeah, that instagram. While you're there following both ourselves and Martez, give Brian, our music maestro, a follow Brian underscore voyals. Underscore 27. He's a good guy. He's a good guy there, Brian.
[00:52:25] Speaker B: And if you want to reach out to us, we also have email. It's regarding
[email protected]. If you have any questions for us or want to tell us we're wrong or tell us we're right or tell.
[00:52:38] Speaker A: Us anything hot takes on unwanted violence. Issue number one.
[00:52:41] Speaker B: Let us know you got any hot takes. Let us know.
[00:52:44] Speaker A: If you send us an email, Johnny will read it on air. And if you send us your address, we'll give you some stickers. Speaking of Martez, we need to organize getting you some stickers.
[00:52:52] Speaker B: I'll get you some stickers. Next time I see you, I'll give you some respawn stickers.
[00:52:55] Speaker A: Got some stickers.
[00:52:56] Speaker C: All right. Yeah, I work on my obs, so I can just have it in the background.
I'll see if I can get the animation of his cape.
[00:53:04] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:53:06] Speaker C: I could have that in the background.
[00:53:09] Speaker A: Wonderful.
[00:53:10] Speaker B: Yeah. That was always the defining characteristic. You got to love the cape.
[00:53:14] Speaker A: The cape has a mind of its own, too, so sometimes it just does things that it's like, wait, what is it doing? The cape knows. The cape knows it's.
[00:53:22] Speaker B: Like magic carpet on Aladdin.
[00:53:26] Speaker A: Although I think the cape could totally push that boulder out of the way to escape. That's the one thing it's got on carpet.
[00:53:33] Speaker B: Yeah, the cape's pretty strong, and I.
[00:53:35] Speaker A: Don'T think it freezes in the snow either. All the way at the ends of the earth there.
[00:53:40] Speaker B: Is that what happens with the carpet? Oh, yeah, it does freeze.
[00:53:42] Speaker A: Yeah, because that's how Aladdin finds it in the snow. He steps on it, and it just goes boing.
[00:53:47] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:53:48] Speaker A: We talk a lot about 90s child stuff on this show, Martez.
[00:53:54] Speaker B: Hey, Spawn is a 90s child thing.
[00:53:57] Speaker A: It is indeed.
[00:53:58] Speaker B: That's how I originally fell in love, was the movie. And looking at the toys at the toy store.
So we'll see you guys next week for unwanted violence, part two. Yeah, and we'll see Martez again next week for unwanted violence, part hell, yeah, she will.
[00:54:14] Speaker A: Yeah, I guess. Until then, Johnny Martez, may the scorched be with you.
[00:54:21] Speaker B: And also with you.
Did you explain the scorched is spawns like the Avengers, called the scorched. So that's why David says, may the scorched be with you at the end of the episode.
[00:54:33] Speaker C: Okay, those are his people. I was just going to say bye.
[00:54:37] Speaker B: That works too.
[00:54:38] Speaker A: That works too.
