[00:00:00] Speaker A: Now, now, boys. I gave you the courtesy of hearing about your heroes. I ask only for a few moments of your time as I tell you about my adventures.
Good evening, and welcome to the mal bowls. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast.
I'm your co host, John Fisher.
[00:00:51] Speaker B: And I am your co host, David Williams. And Johnny, it's been much too long, much too long since we've been in these old ass spawn issues.
[00:01:01] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, they're good.
[00:01:03] Speaker B: They're good. There's a reason spawn's been around for over 30 years.
[00:01:06] Speaker A: Yeah, they're a lot of fun. And, like, I love it. I'm loving this whole run of these old issues. It's been great.
[00:01:11] Speaker B: It's like a blast of fresh air. Well, maybe not fresh air. A blast of weirdly smelling air that doesn't smell bad, but doesn't smell good, but isn't true.
[00:01:22] Speaker A: Maybe it kind of smells like the hot topic smell.
[00:01:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:01:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:01:25] Speaker B: Like the original. I went to a mall recently, Johnny. First off, mall was hopping. And the year of our lords, 2024. It does my heart pretty good to see a mall jump in business. But all of the stores are the exact same store. They have the same lighting, the same layout, the same stuff. And it's sad.
[00:01:48] Speaker A: What kind of stuff do they have? Is it, like, Spencer's gifts or where they want?
[00:01:52] Speaker B: Like, the. Spencer's gift and the hot topic are now the exact same store. There's no difference between them. Except for Spencer sells dildos and hot topic doesn't. I think they're owned by the same company, probably, but then those also are, like, the exact same as every other t shirt store in the mall. And, like, all the shoe store is all the same. Like, there's no differentiation between the Skechers store and the foot locker store and the. And the air Jordan store. Because here in Chicago, we got air Jordan stores. I don't know if those are elsewhere. I never saw until I was up here, but, yeah, I've never seen one. Yeah, it's wild. But there was also one of those tchotchke shops. I do believe it was called the asian store. No, no, sorry. The Asia store.
They had a whole bunch of beanie babies in the back. And they were labeled as rare antique beanie babies. And, Johnny, I'm not one to be pissed off about getting older. I love the fact that I am aging, but what the fuck are you doing calling beedy babies antiques?
[00:02:55] Speaker A: I mean, they're 30 years old.
[00:02:57] Speaker B: That's not antique.
[00:02:59] Speaker A: How is antique?
[00:03:00] Speaker B: Uh, I I was under the impression that antique Minta was at least a hundred years old.
[00:03:06] Speaker A: Oh, wow. Okay.
[00:03:07] Speaker B: That apparently it's 75 years, but now apparently 30 years makes it day.
[00:03:13] Speaker A: You know, the world just keeps getting faster and faster. You can't keep up.
[00:03:16] Speaker B: If you, uh, if you are a collector and you happen to know what makes something antique, please email
[email protected]. It would be very helpful for this now certified antique.
[00:03:29] Speaker A: Well, yeah. Well, by this, by your metric, then, if baby babies are an antique, this is an even more of an antique. The issue, we're one of the issues we're covering today.
[00:03:38] Speaker B: Yeah, indeed.
[00:03:38] Speaker A: Because it's from 1993.
[00:03:40] Speaker B: Can you. Can you imagine antique spawn? Can you imagine antiques roadshow in the year 2100?
[00:03:46] Speaker A: And we know Beanie babies. We looked it up when Bran was on the show. Beanie babies were the most popular item of 96 or 95. 97. It was 95. Okay, so they're a couple years after spawn. There you go. Spawn and beanie babies. You'd have been one happy nineties kid.
[00:04:00] Speaker B: You imagine if they had made a spawn beanie baby. Holy shit.
[00:04:03] Speaker A: That would've been awesome.
[00:04:04] Speaker B: Holy shit. I had some.
[00:04:06] Speaker A: I had some meanie babies. Oh, there's, like, a cat. It was a cat that had been, like, run over by a car, like a tire track in him. And, like, there was. I had a parrot that was, like, vomiting.
That's pretty funny.
[00:04:18] Speaker B: That's pretty. That's pretty great.
[00:04:20] Speaker A: Those are probably worth, like, thousands of dollars now because they're like. They're like parody and they were rare probably because, like, no one cares. But, yeah, meanie babies.
[00:04:30] Speaker B: Until. Until they get the garbage pale kids. Reboot that garbage pale kids cards are now everywhere again.
[00:04:35] Speaker A: So I know they are. They're. Those kids are celebrities.
[00:04:40] Speaker B: Yeah. They made. I saw what, like, garbage pail kid candy. And it was like, that's. No, no, it's like snot.
[00:04:49] Speaker A: Is it just like, goo?
[00:04:50] Speaker B: I think they were gummies.
[00:04:53] Speaker A: I see, like, snot and, like, vomit when I think of them.
[00:04:55] Speaker B: It wasn't. It wasn't like a gross out candy. It was just a basic run of the mill, you know, like, haribo style candy.
[00:05:03] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:05:03] Speaker B: Which.
[00:05:04] Speaker A: There's some weird ass candies out there. Like the. The sour drops where you put, like, the sour goo onto, like, a gummy or whatever. You seen that?
[00:05:12] Speaker B: I've seen. I've seen, like, the sour gel that you just, like, squeeze.
[00:05:16] Speaker A: Yeah. Or you squeeze it in, but there's some where you put it on a thing.
[00:05:18] Speaker B: Oh, no, I've never seen it.
[00:05:19] Speaker A: Yeah. I had a friend that used to work at a gas station. They would bring home expired candies.
They were really weird. And give them to me.
[00:05:27] Speaker B: So that's great. That's great. I had some friends who were obsessed with fundip. But speaking of fun, I just had a fun dip. Oh, really?
[00:05:35] Speaker A: Yeah. Cuz Wanda's work, they gave out some Valentine's like goodie bags from the management. And they had some fun dip in it. And she gave it to me. So I was a lucky boy. Well, speaking of dipping into some fun, that's what we do on this show is we dip into some spawn.
[00:05:52] Speaker B: Yeah. We don't slap into a. Snap into a.
Dip it into some spawn.
[00:05:58] Speaker A: Snap into a slim chin.
[00:06:00] Speaker B: Oh, you're trying to say slime.
[00:06:00] Speaker A: I know what you're trying to say.
[00:06:02] Speaker B: We're trying to say, but we slap into some spawns.
[00:06:05] Speaker A: Jim, that's another good nineties commercial. Is the slim Jim commercial with the macho man? Yeah, but, yes, so welcome, welcome. Regarding spawn, if this is a first time listening or just as a reminder, we do two issues of spawn every week. Except when we don't. This week, we are doing two issues. Yes, indeed. We are on a modern. We've got our more classic and our more modern. As we like to do. And as we've been kind of talking about in 1993. The old classic spawn we are covering today is spawn number 14, which is a violator centric issue. So we've been hanging out with violator a lot recently, which has been nice. He had a moment.
[00:06:50] Speaker B: We're going to slowly develop guts that don't fit into our pants.
[00:06:55] Speaker A: Violator had a moment in the nineties. And then our second issue up is spawn 348. We're on that road to 350.
Just a couple issues away.
[00:07:04] Speaker B: We know where it ends now, but it's still fun to go back and view the road.
[00:07:08] Speaker A: Yes. Because maybe, you know, you're catching up and haven't read it. Or it's in the future. Yeah, those are what we're covering.
[00:07:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:15] Speaker A: And the first one, if we're covering it, we got to cover the covers.
[00:07:19] Speaker B: Yeah, we do.
[00:07:19] Speaker A: So we start with spawn number 14. All the way back from the far off land of September, 1993.
[00:07:26] Speaker B: Ooh, nice, nice. How are you? How are you reading number 14 today, Johnny?
[00:07:30] Speaker A: I'm reading 14. Floppy.
[00:07:33] Speaker B: Ah, me, too. I got a floppy. I have, like, everything up to, I think, 20.
[00:07:37] Speaker A: Yeah, I think you took. I have 22. I think that box had doubles of.
[00:07:40] Speaker B: Everything up to 20.
[00:07:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:07:41] Speaker B: I think they did. So that's, that's exciting. There's some good back matter in this one also.
[00:07:45] Speaker A: What's exciting for me, I think just to follow up with something we announced at the end of last week episode or in the middle of last episode, we were going to comic Con.
[00:07:54] Speaker B: Put it at the end. We're going to just put it at the end.
[00:07:56] Speaker A: Yeah, but I was going to talk about comics I was going to buy at Comic Con.
[00:07:59] Speaker B: We don't need to talk about that just yet.
[00:08:01] Speaker A: Okay. Well, okay. Well, now I have a goal, though, at least. Cause I know I went up to 20. So, like, if we're covering these early ones, I can start looking for like, 20 to 60 and then beyond. So I'll have something to look for at conventions when I go.
[00:08:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:15] Speaker A: So that'll be exciting because you gotta get that back matter. But, yeah, so we've got the COVID here for Spawn 14, and it's got some classic friends, or I guess a classic friend in his two forms.
[00:08:26] Speaker B: Hey. Well, I mean, up until recently, I mean, recently, it would have been two friends, but, you know, back then, they were still the same boy. Right?
[00:08:34] Speaker A: They're still the same guy. Yeah. And they were both a little different. They both beefed out and beefed up.
[00:08:40] Speaker B: Yeah. They're opposite ends of the spectrum here, Johnny. We got tall and lanky and short and round.
[00:08:49] Speaker A: Yeah, the, um, classic clown and classic violator. And violators got those, uh, bug eyes, the fly eyes. They're so scary.
[00:08:59] Speaker B: Yeah, the, and the, the long jaw and the. The ludicrously. Ludicrously long, whippy arms with those crazy.
[00:09:10] Speaker A: All of his joints are wild looking.
[00:09:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Man, I wonder if, how much ibuprofen the violator has to take whenever his joints hurt. Like, do those require extra strength ibuprofen?
How would you, how would you, how would you rub them?
[00:09:25] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know. They're so spindly.
[00:09:27] Speaker B: Could you imagine creature comforts in hell, Johnny? That's what we gotta discuss.
[00:09:33] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, we already tried to figure out how he would eat and, like, stuff with closing his mouth, but then we just figured he was just, you know, use it like a boat and just, like, pour soup down it.
[00:09:43] Speaker B: I mean, we, we almost get an answer to that question in this issue.
[00:09:47] Speaker A: Yeah, it does show him eat a lot of shit or he's just eating hearts. He's just, I guess he's Chuck's hearts down.
[00:09:52] Speaker B: He doesn't chew. It's surprising he doesn't choke.
[00:09:56] Speaker A: Yeah, hopefully it's a good heart ripping in the violator miniseries. We need to get him back to his roots.
[00:10:02] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
[00:10:03] Speaker A: And the one coming out.
[00:10:05] Speaker B: Well, I'm sure they will, since it's gonna be old, old violin. They're gonna make him. They're gonna make him a nasty minigame.
[00:10:11] Speaker A: He'll be out throughout time. Yeah, but then you've got clown as well on the COVID and he's got his classic unbuttoned pants.
[00:10:19] Speaker B: Look at that belly button. Cracks me up. It's like, almost an Audi, but not.
[00:10:27] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like a doughnut underneath a sheet.
[00:10:29] Speaker B: Yeah.
Which also happens in this issue.
[00:10:35] Speaker A: Almost a doughnut goes underneath the sheet. Yeah, pretty much. I mean, kind of.
There's some donut on some pants, Johnny.
[00:10:43] Speaker B: And they say that what happens on the COVID doesn't happen in the issue. I don't know the context back then.
[00:10:49] Speaker A: It did.
[00:10:49] Speaker B: The context clues are all there.
[00:10:51] Speaker A: They're all there. And, of course, you get the classic image logo with spawn in it. It's pretty cool.
[00:10:57] Speaker B: And so we forgot to mention who did this cover, Johnny. It was Todd McFarlane himself.
[00:11:02] Speaker A: Todd McFarlane himself. And who's to say they're on Ayb on colors?
[00:11:06] Speaker B: I don't know. Let's look at the.
[00:11:08] Speaker A: See, it's not in the credits.
[00:11:10] Speaker B: It's not in the credits. I don't know. I don't know.
[00:11:13] Speaker A: They were less good about crediting everyone back in the day. Cause there's another thing. They don't really credit in this issue that I was looking for credit for that we'll get to, but I couldn't find credit for, like, some. A couple things.
[00:11:25] Speaker B: You will notice that they were much better about crediting people than, you know, most anybody else at the time. But, like, even if you're, like, you're looking at, like, some. Some sixties or seventies comics, like, you can almost not tell who did fucking anything. It's almost as if it was. The company itself made this comic book, really, which is. Which is why the. You know, why it's now such a big thing that every Superman appearance is. Superman appears via relationship with the Schuster family, created by the Schuster brothers or Batman. Now has the. The creators listed.
[00:11:59] Speaker A: So Bill Finger and Bob Kane.
[00:12:01] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. So, yeah. The long history of not correctly crediting people who came up with stuff, and now they're. They're finally getting at the point where they're just like, well, fucking credit everybody, and they deserve it, joni.
[00:12:15] Speaker A: Yeah. Getting credit where credits do. Yes. Todd McFarland. So classic. Drawing his own creations here, so pretty good stuff. But flip it open. And we got the credits as we were already talking about. But, yeah, it doesn't credit the colors on the COVID but it credits a lot of other things. This issue is called myths, part one, back when they had the issue titles printed in there.
[00:12:39] Speaker B: No. Previously on so I wonder if they were like, we can have one or the other, but not both.
[00:12:45] Speaker A: But not both. Story and art by Tom McFarlane. Letters and editor doing double duty. Tom Wardkowski. A little easier on in this time.
[00:12:53] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
[00:12:55] Speaker A: Well, it's still pretty wordy compared to, like, the new issues, but it is not as intense as those last two were.
[00:13:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:02] Speaker A: It doesn't just have a page. It's just alt text, at least.
[00:13:05] Speaker B: Well, there's still a lot of words. There are, but also maybe a little bit more mental gymnastics on the editor front, keeping it so that way, the dramatic irony between what we're seeing and what we're being told is consistent throughout. So. So a bit of a different. A different editorial task for tombow this time.
[00:13:28] Speaker A: Yes. Colors by Steve Olaf and Reuben Roode and Ollie optics.
[00:13:33] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[00:13:34] Speaker A: This is dedicated to Jim Salakrup, who was a editor, a comics editor.
[00:13:38] Speaker B: It looks like maybe he was the editor on Spider man when Todd McFarlane was the penciler for it. Oh, there you go. Which is very. I mean, you know, that's kind of what made Todd McFarland. Todd McFarlane. So it's nice credit where credit is due, Johnny.
[00:13:53] Speaker A: These are just crediting all over the place.
[00:13:56] Speaker B: No man is an island.
[00:13:57] Speaker A: Nope. You gotta. You gotta get help from other people.
[00:13:59] Speaker B: Get the early optics crew.
[00:14:00] Speaker A: Mm hmm.
[00:14:01] Speaker B: The just general image comics crew. Director of creative development is Terry Fitzgerald, and the graphics coordinator is Julia Simmons.
[00:14:08] Speaker A: This one's still printed in Canada, but.
[00:14:11] Speaker B: Not the great white north. Just Canada, this Canada.
[00:14:14] Speaker A: And we open. So it's teased last week when we, we ended the chapel business where he scarred chapel permanently, and it said, next, the return of the violator. And it delivers on that right off the bat.
[00:14:26] Speaker B: Right off the bat, we get greeted with this grin, with way too many teeth.
[00:14:31] Speaker A: Way too many little bitty teeth.
[00:14:33] Speaker B: Look at all those things, Johnny. Like, last night, I was reading this, and I was just like, ah. Every time I look at it, there's more teeth. Ah.
[00:14:40] Speaker A: Take a long time to floss, man.
[00:14:43] Speaker B: Speaking of making your wrist hurt from having to write too many words, the toddfather's making his own wrist hurt by having to draw all these ding dang teeth every time.
[00:14:51] Speaker A: I know he's got so many, like.
[00:14:54] Speaker B: It might almost be more disturbing if he's just a gum guy. Like, if he's a gummer.
And that would have been easy on him.
[00:15:06] Speaker A: I love that in drag me to hell when she loses her teeth and she gums Christine for a little bit.
Pretty funny.
[00:15:13] Speaker B: It's good gag.
[00:15:15] Speaker A: Good gag. Gotta lose your teeth. It would take a long time for him to lose all these teeth. He's got a shitload.
[00:15:20] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm assuming he's probably like a shark, where if you pull one, it just. There's another one ready to take its place.
[00:15:27] Speaker A: He does have healthy gums, though. They're not receding. They're nice full gums.
[00:15:31] Speaker B: I mean, maybe. Maybe he takes very good care of his teeth so he can continue to eat hot dogs and stuff, you know?
[00:15:37] Speaker A: Yeah, he likes.
[00:15:39] Speaker B: He likes those ones with the extra crisp, extra, extra snappy casings. And you gotta have good teeth for those. You do gotta have good teeth for glizzy.
[00:15:48] Speaker A: So you're in the middle. You kind of join him in the middle of this conversation here.
And he's yelling, laughing about someone with someone he's talking to, just saying, like, oh, yeah, okay. You think that guy's toph? Let me tell you about Toph.
[00:16:03] Speaker B: He says, I know about a guy who would make Schwarzenegger, Stallone, and Van Damme look like the Three Stooges.
[00:16:09] Speaker A: I know a guy who's so mean, he'd make you puke.
I can't imagine someone so mean to me that I puked.
[00:16:16] Speaker B: Isn't that kind of the kind of the mythos behind bad Leroy Brown, the baddest?
[00:16:24] Speaker A: Well, I actually know. Yeah, I actually know what it feels like. Cause I was trying to talk about buying comics, and David shut me up, and he was so mean that I puked.
[00:16:34] Speaker B: We all know who the mean one on the. On this podcast is.
[00:16:37] Speaker A: No, it alternates.
[00:16:39] Speaker B: It fluctuates.
[00:16:39] Speaker A: It's like the spawn cannon.
[00:16:41] Speaker B: It's issue to issue, Johnny.
[00:16:43] Speaker A: It's issue to issue.
What a great time to have Stallone, Schwarzenegger, van Damme all as movie stars.
[00:16:50] Speaker B: Yeah, it was crazy. I watched Predator again not too long ago, Johnny.
[00:16:54] Speaker A: Oh, nice.
[00:16:55] Speaker B: Excellent movie.
[00:16:57] Speaker A: Mm hmm.
[00:16:58] Speaker B: Like, better than it should be. It's every time I watch it, I'm like, shit, yeah, this is a good movie.
[00:17:03] Speaker A: Van Damme was the original predator. Yeah, he was cast until they had to kick him off. Cause he was being a dick. Yeah. And also, his costume wasn't working very well.
[00:17:12] Speaker B: Yeah, it was the whole thing.
[00:17:14] Speaker A: If you ever look up the footage of the original predator costume, it's hilarious. Yeah, it's very lobster head. I don't know what the hell it's supposed to be, but it definitely looks. I mean, became an iconic design.
[00:17:23] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, I don't think it would be as good of a movie if they kept Van Damme in it.
[00:17:27] Speaker A: No, definitely not.
[00:17:28] Speaker B: Definitely not. But yes, this legendarily tough man is just little humble little old violator himself.
[00:17:37] Speaker A: Yeah. He is the one that's tough as nails. He's so mean, he'll make you puke.
[00:17:40] Speaker B: Before we turn the page, Johnny, this finger. It's a good finger.
Yeah, it's a real good finger.
[00:17:46] Speaker A: You can feel it. It's a good poking finger.
[00:17:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:48] Speaker A: Poking you in the chest. Yeah, yeah, we flipped the page, and he's talking to three kids.
[00:17:52] Speaker B: Yeah, we got Johnny. Johnny. This little. This little middle guy. This little middle guy. Yeah.
[00:18:00] Speaker A: Mark. Mark.
[00:18:01] Speaker B: Is Mark based off of young Johnny?
[00:18:04] Speaker A: Why?
[00:18:05] Speaker B: Because he's got a Jurassic park shirt on.
[00:18:08] Speaker A: Yep. I mean, I don't. I did have some jurassic park shirts. He might be. Or the ilm hat. I could be either of them. I was a big fan of both.
[00:18:16] Speaker B: There's. There's the ilm hat, the Jurassic park shirt, and then the. The bandana with canadian stars on it. So it's like, it's ripped out of that blah, blah, blah from a couple.
[00:18:26] Speaker A: I know. It's like, it's so funny about these early ones. You can just see topic farther, like, where's his life on his sleeve? Like, I guarantee you these three kids are named after the.
[00:18:35] Speaker B: I know they are.
[00:18:36] Speaker A: They're named after the ILM people that they met.
[00:18:38] Speaker B: Clint, Mark and Spaz.
[00:18:39] Speaker A: Well, at least spaz is. I'm guessing that Clint and Mark are. But it's just funny that he got, like, obsessed. I mean, they ended up working together, so they were probably already talking about it at this time. The movie's 97. It takes a few years to get that stuff going, so I'm sure they were flirting with it.
[00:18:55] Speaker B: There's definitely got to be, like, an actual person reference that he used for Clint, too, because it looks very specific. Yeah, Mark and Spaz are, like, a little rounder, a little baby fat cheeked, whereas Clint looks like a fucking adult. You can't tell me that this is a child.
[00:19:13] Speaker A: It's like Todd McFarland.
Yeah, he does.
[00:19:17] Speaker B: But yeah, these kids. These kids are listening. Some kids listen in an alley listening to a fat man whose pants don't button and at the height of stranger danger. Johnny, what the hell?
[00:19:27] Speaker A: I know. These kids are just like, these are some tough New York kids.
[00:19:30] Speaker B: Yeah, they are. They don't believe, they don't believe a word he says. And he's like, ah, come on. Come on, you little punks. What's it gonna take for you to listen to my story?
And we got the, we got the opening quote.
[00:19:45] Speaker A: We've heard about your heroes, now hear about me.
[00:19:47] Speaker B: Yeah. And they're like, nah, dude, nah, we're good. He's like, here, here, I'll give you some money.
[00:19:53] Speaker A: Classic nineties. They tell him to eat their shorts. Eat my shorts.
[00:19:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:56] Speaker A: That was so controversial. Eat my shorts. When I was like, first or second grade, right around this time, couldn't say, eat my shorts.
[00:20:02] Speaker B: Nope. Nope. You probably shouldn't say it now.
[00:20:05] Speaker A: Do they mean your outer shorts or your boxers?
[00:20:08] Speaker B: I'm assuming, I'm assuming it's as close as you can say to suck my dick as you could without getting booted off of over the air television in the nineties?
[00:20:18] Speaker A: Yeah, so pretty much.
[00:20:20] Speaker B: And so he just throws some money.
[00:20:22] Speaker A: At them after he says he admires your pussy attitude, which I have no idea what the fuck that's supposed to mean.
[00:20:27] Speaker B: I don't know either. I don't know, Johnny. The nineties, the early nineties is like a black hole that I don't know very much about. I know I lived through it, but it's hard to imagine that it ever existed.
[00:20:42] Speaker A: I just remember it felt like we were the, we had conquered the world, everything was fine and everyone was well off. Yeah, or everyone has middle class. Yeah, that's about what I remember.
[00:20:53] Speaker B: Ah, the good old days.
[00:20:55] Speaker A: The good old days. And now there's more problems. You know, we didn't, we didn't actually end the world. We didn't end history. It wasn't the end of history, David.
[00:21:03] Speaker B: We weren't, we weren't prepared for the world to keep going.
[00:21:05] Speaker A: We weren't. We thought it was over.
[00:21:07] Speaker B: We're like, we're like those kids that struggle to develop in early adulthood because they never imagined that they're going to be able to live past high school for one reason or another. And it's like, oh, oh, shit. Well, now I have to actually start planning.
[00:21:23] Speaker A: It was just like everyone just thought that the high of the eighties and nineties just could last forever. It's like all the world around us was having problems with. America was just perfect at the time. David is perfect. There's nothing bad going on.
[00:21:36] Speaker B: I do believe Johnny, we were a shining city on a hill.
[00:21:40] Speaker A: We were. That's what they say. We are that shining city. And there's a lot of money thrown around in the nineties. Just like the clowns throwing this money.
[00:21:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:46] Speaker A: I just love, like, he's bribing these kids. That's some nineties. When he too. He's. That's a 50. Yeah, he's like $80.
[00:21:54] Speaker B: Yeah, that's a lot of.
[00:21:56] Speaker A: That's like. That's like $200 now. Money. Yeah.
[00:21:58] Speaker B: And Spaz is like, is this counterfeit? Okay, man, we're all ears.
[00:22:04] Speaker A: Yeah, I'd listen to.
[00:22:06] Speaker B: So the violator finally gets to start his story. And this is an issue we specifically referenced when we were talking with Thomas Healy not too long ago.
[00:22:15] Speaker A: It is. Yeah, he referenced it. Yeah.
[00:22:17] Speaker B: And we get as the conceit is unreliable narrator clown here is telling exactly the opposite of what actually happened.
[00:22:28] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:22:29] Speaker B: Just in case it gets confusing when we're talking later on. That's what's happening.
[00:22:33] Speaker A: But it's hilarious because even now, even though I'd read it before, I was first, I was like, wait, am I reading this wrong? They're saying there's this evil guy, and he's talking about his spawn. And I'm like, oh, I get it. Ha ha ha.
[00:22:41] Speaker B: Yeah, it's Johnny last.
Maybe not last issue. A couple issues ago, we were talking about the difference between nineties. Todd father occasionally being good writer. But seeing how he's mastered his craft now and is a much stronger writer, this is also potentially a breaker of that because this is a very well written issue. Yeah, it's incredible. I mean, it's still wordy as heck, but it's written very well.
[00:23:12] Speaker A: Yeah, he really came out swinging after the.
[00:23:15] Speaker B: After the guest writers.
[00:23:16] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, you got that chapel all the way. And then like, yeah, run right into this.
[00:23:20] Speaker B: It's almost as if they gave him the prod and the buttocks he needed to be like, oh, shit. Yeah. Gotta work on this a little bit.
[00:23:26] Speaker A: Obviously, he's inspired by their stuff. Cause he's using the medieval spawn here already. Just, you know, what, five issues later? That was issue nine.
[00:23:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:23:34] Speaker A: So that's pretty cool. I mean, medieval spawn was very popular.
[00:23:36] Speaker B: Yeah, still is. Still is. He's a good. He's a good spawn. It starts off with just medieval spawn just sitting on a log, you know, brooding in the woods with his spawn.
[00:23:47] Speaker A: Shield, like, super shiny. Just like classic medieval spawn.
[00:23:51] Speaker B: And the clown is describing him as a dark. An evil wizard with a soul as dark. As coal and permanent gutted many innocent folks across his battle gear. And how he used, he used.
He kept the people in check by using the strongest force on earth.
Money.
[00:24:10] Speaker A: The boys go. Money.
[00:24:11] Speaker B: No boy fear.
And, you know, obviously, he's, he strikes a pretty imposing figure right here. So we get, we get the sense that maybe the clown isn't lying until the very next panel where he talks about him riding on the back of a black demon monster. And very clearly in front of us is Jim Downing's horse.
[00:24:33] Speaker A: And the citizens are cheer. Yeah, I know. With the hair. Yeah. Jim downing as a horse.
[00:24:38] Speaker B: That's. If that is what mane and tail shampoo did to your hair, I would buy that shit four times a week.
[00:24:47] Speaker A: Nice.
Well, just like the fact they say that the crowd hate, the people hate him. And he's isolated. They're, like, cheering for him.
[00:24:53] Speaker B: Yeah, they are.
[00:24:54] Speaker A: They're like, there's almost medieval spawn very much decided to be a hero and be a public, much more of a public figure.
[00:25:02] Speaker B: Yeah. And that's still, that still carries on. That's carrying on with contemporary.
[00:25:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:07] Speaker B: Medieval spawn. And then, you know, there's just stories he's just filling in stories of his exploits, like saying that he terrorized the people. But he actually, you know, he protected the people from.
[00:25:18] Speaker A: He's protected. He's doing a, he was doing a magnificent seven slash. Seven samurai here.
[00:25:23] Speaker B: Yeah, but he's the one.
[00:25:23] Speaker A: It would be magnificent one.
He's protecting the village, cutting people up.
[00:25:28] Speaker B: Yeah. And so, and so the kids were like, well, if it was so bad, why didn't anybody kill him? And the violator's like, ah, here's where the hero of the story comes in. He said, my boss handpicked me to go take him out. And they're like, you're 800 years old. Please spare me.
[00:25:43] Speaker A: Surely you cannot be 80.
[00:25:44] Speaker B: And so the violator's making himself up to be. He's making himself up to be the knight in shining armor. And how the people loved him. And it's just him going through town after town, just like, shoveling people into.
[00:25:56] Speaker A: His mouth, like, eating people. The night I arrived, we ate like kings. And he's got, like, a big old potato heart in his hand.
[00:26:02] Speaker B: Yeah. And, like, he's jumping at a, jumping through walls to get at people.
[00:26:07] Speaker A: I just love the spindly violator. When he moves. He looks like he's such a. It's like just a. He's so creepy.
[00:26:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Like this, uh, this panel of him in the tavern throwing the guy across the room he just, like, takes up the whole room, but only, like, little bitty bits of it.
[00:26:21] Speaker A: Right. And, like, he's always whipping his arm around.
[00:26:24] Speaker B: Yeah. And then. And then we get a nice long John panel and he goes, not while I'm around.
Yeah, it's a good one. It's a good one.
[00:26:34] Speaker A: Little Sweeney.
[00:26:35] Speaker B: There's a. There's a couple. There's a couple of those coming up that I noticed while I was. Well, it's gonna be a musical heavy episode, Jeremy.
[00:26:41] Speaker A: Oh, there's some musical episodes. Musical callbacks.
[00:26:45] Speaker B: Yeah. But I mean, you know, he also is doing some Sweeney where there's.
[00:26:48] Speaker A: I was singing Sweeney Todd the other day, actually. That's funny.
[00:26:50] Speaker B: Oh, nice. I mean, it gets stuck in there. It gets stuck in there.
The worst pies in London is a. No, not the worst pies in London. It's the song where him and where they're talking about the. The pies.
[00:27:07] Speaker A: Like, who they're gonna cook.
[00:27:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Who they're gonna cook.
[00:27:09] Speaker A: The history of the world, my love.
[00:27:13] Speaker B: Yeah, it's.
[00:27:14] Speaker A: What is that called?
[00:27:14] Speaker B: Wonderful.
[00:27:15] Speaker A: Oh, a little priest.
[00:27:16] Speaker B: Ah, yeah, it's good. It's good.
[00:27:18] Speaker A: A little priest. Yeah, it is good one, man.
[00:27:21] Speaker B: Such a. Such social satire.
It's like. It's like a Buzzfeed list where they're there. Like, if a celebrity were sandwich, what sandwich would they be? Only, you know, victorian style. Yeah.
[00:27:36] Speaker A: You like the movie? The movie?
[00:27:38] Speaker B: The movies. The movie was my first experience with it, and I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it.
[00:27:42] Speaker A: It's good.
[00:27:43] Speaker B: I love the movie. It's much easier to sing along with the Johnny Depp as Sweeney than Lon Chaney. Not Lon Chaney.
[00:27:50] Speaker A: I know what you mean.
[00:27:52] Speaker B: Yeah. But. Because Johnny Depp isn't anywhere near as good of a singer.
[00:27:56] Speaker A: No, I love the movie because I can sing along with everybody, but it's because they're very much playing their characters.
[00:28:02] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:28:03] Speaker A: And it's much more of like a. It's almost like a chamber piece in the movie.
[00:28:07] Speaker B: It's very good.
[00:28:08] Speaker A: Whereas the musical has, like, a crowd and everything. But there's no really crowd numbers in the movie, which was an intentional choice, obviously. And I thought it worked pretty well. It's. It's, hey, Tim Burton. Another guy ahead of his moment in the nineties.
[00:28:20] Speaker B: It's bloody good fun. And also Sasha Barrett.
[00:28:23] Speaker A: Tim Burton was the shit right around 1993. Oh, yeah.
[00:28:25] Speaker B: Senior Pirelli. Fantastic.
[00:28:28] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. The casting is great. We all love Johnny Depp forever.
[00:28:33] Speaker B: We all. We all wear Savage cologne because he's.
[00:28:37] Speaker A: The spokesman I just based my life around Jack Sparrow, mate. Remember people's whole personality could be like liking pirates in 2008. Yeah, it's exciting times. I mean, I liked Jack Sparrow as a character at the time.
[00:28:51] Speaker B: He was fun. He was fun.
[00:28:53] Speaker A: He drove, they drove into the ground, like, even before Johnny Depp was like, problematic.
[00:28:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, he.
[00:28:57] Speaker A: I was sick of that shit.
[00:28:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:29:00] Speaker A: By the fourth, 3rd, halfway through the third movie, I was like, all right.
[00:29:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Making him. Making him the main person.
[00:29:06] Speaker A: Yeah. That was his problem.
Yeah, you can't do that.
[00:29:10] Speaker B: He's the goof em up guy. The goof em up guy. Can't be the main character. No. Made a lot of money, though.
[00:29:18] Speaker A: Made a lot of money.
[00:29:19] Speaker B: Made a lot of money.
[00:29:21] Speaker A: So the violator's sitting here talking about he's eating a heart and he's talking about how he's got to take out this evil witch.
[00:29:28] Speaker B: Yeah. So the wizard's witch mother. Yeah, that's how he's gonna. That's how he's gonna get the upper hand against this, this evil wizard. He's gonna capture his, his mother, who's an ugly, warp faced wicked witch.
[00:29:42] Speaker A: Recall the other direction.
[00:29:44] Speaker B: Yeah. So they're like, who is your boss? And he's like, surely you've all read the Bible.
Mark is like, you mean you're one of God's disciples?
I like how his is pointing down.
[00:29:58] Speaker A: Pointing down. I'm from h e double hockey sticks. And then writing to hell. I feel good.
[00:30:05] Speaker B: That's a good transition. Oh, man. Beautiful writing, Johnny. We're talking about it. It's great.
[00:30:13] Speaker A: And we cut to Sam and twitch. Their little, their little cut in, in this episode issue, Sam is tossing twitch.
[00:30:19] Speaker B: In the air like he's a baby.
[00:30:20] Speaker A: Yeah, he's like, he's cyan, dude. Does Tommy Farland just toss people when he's having a good time? It seems like that's you just meet him, he starts throwing you in the air.
[00:30:29] Speaker B: I guess that's what he does with Tommo. He's like, you could be. You could be. You could be editor, but I gotta toss you in the air.
[00:30:35] Speaker A: I'm gonna have to toss you.
[00:30:38] Speaker B: It's the airplane interview. He's like, we're gonna play airplane. And if you survive it without breaking a bone, you get. You're hired.
[00:30:46] Speaker A: You get to be the editor.
[00:30:47] Speaker B: Just. Just wanton disregard for the life and well being of these donuts, Johnny. Donuts every. Donuts everywhere on this fucking issue. Good Lord.
[00:30:57] Speaker A: Donuts all over the place.
[00:30:58] Speaker B: Donuts all over the place. Sam's got that wicked. He's got, like, a Grinch smile going on.
[00:31:04] Speaker A: I love winning. Yeah. He's super happy. Because he just found out that they are not.
They've been cleared of all wrongdoings. In regards to the Billy Kincaid thing.
[00:31:12] Speaker B: Yeah. And they've been taken off of administrative probation or whatever it was.
[00:31:17] Speaker A: So now he's excited to get back in the street and look for spawn.
[00:31:20] Speaker B: Mm hmm. So. So Sam starts making his way out, and twitch is behind and being like, yes, sure. Yes, sir. I need some overtime, so let's go now.
Also, you have a donut squished to your ass.
[00:31:33] Speaker A: Yes, he has a donut stuck on his ass.
It's just got to be messy, man. You got to change pants after that.
[00:31:41] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, but he doesn't. You know, he doesn't. He just puts on a coat to cover it.
[00:31:45] Speaker A: Yeah, he'll just cover it up. That's fine. But I would change pants. It's like a glaze. If it's like an icing donut, that'd be a mess.
[00:31:50] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. No, no, no. That's not coming off. That's not coming off easy. You gotta use water to get that out.
We got meatball spawn just cowering in the alley. So he's doing a little bit of stupid, stupid spawn. Stupid. You're stupid. You're stupid.
[00:32:08] Speaker A: It's talking about how at the nighttime, the alley, the biggest thing is staking your claim where you're gonna sleep. And just like, it's kind of like. It's kind of like being at a sleepover. You gotta. You gotta claim your spot before it gets too late.
[00:32:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:20] Speaker A: You end up sleeping somewhere weird.
[00:32:22] Speaker B: Yeah. You gotta sleep in the hallway. Where everybody has to step over you on the way to the bathroom.
[00:32:28] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:32:29] Speaker B: Or you have to sit. You have to sleep on the patch of floor that. That gets nothing but street lamp light in.
[00:32:36] Speaker A: Yeah. Good old sleepovers, man.
[00:32:40] Speaker B: Johnny, I miss doing sleepovers. I wish somebody would invite me over to their house, and their mom would order us some pizza, and we would just goof off all evening. And then they'd wake us up with breakfast.
[00:32:53] Speaker A: And then you go home.
[00:32:54] Speaker B: And then you go home.
[00:32:55] Speaker A: Pretty nice.
[00:32:57] Speaker B: Pretty great.
[00:32:58] Speaker A: Yeah. I love to have a friends over sleepover.
[00:33:00] Speaker B: It was great. People loved coming over to my house, because since I lived out in the middle of the boonies, we could shoot off fireworks all year long.
[00:33:07] Speaker A: Oh, perfect.
[00:33:08] Speaker B: That's what we did. We would take bottle rockets. And shove them in cow patties. And it made a cool explosion.
[00:33:13] Speaker A: People like coming to my house. Cause we had a basement where we had video games, and my mom would just let us do whatever the hell we wanted. She's a single mother. She was like, oh, my God. My kids are leaving me alone. Thank God.
Go do whatever you want, kids.
[00:33:25] Speaker B: Yeah. Nice. And then, Johnny, the worst thing in the world. Johnny.
[00:33:29] Speaker A: What?
[00:33:29] Speaker B: It's the ignoble return of the spawn nose. Ah, look at it.
[00:33:34] Speaker A: Oh, it is there. That doesn't look like Swan. Who is that?
[00:33:37] Speaker B: Who is this weird? This weird man?
[00:33:40] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:33:42] Speaker B: It's definitely smaller than it was the last time it was depicted.
[00:33:46] Speaker A: But, no, it's definitely smaller.
[00:33:48] Speaker B: There's no mistaking, but. So, apparently, it took spawn eight days to get back from Africa.
[00:33:54] Speaker A: Surprisingly, he probably had to mail himself. That's how he gets around.
[00:33:57] Speaker B: So, like, he obviously had to jump a plane, because a boat will take, like, two weeks. But how did he do? How did he sneak his way onto a plane without getting caught?
[00:34:07] Speaker A: I have no idea.
[00:34:09] Speaker B: Or getting his cape sucked into one of those engines.
[00:34:12] Speaker A: Could you imagine just, like, billowing out of the plane?
[00:34:15] Speaker B: Yeah, just very. It's like that joke in the incredibles WHOOP that happened all.
[00:34:21] Speaker A: Maybe, I don't know. I don't know how he got back.
[00:34:24] Speaker B: But he's walking through.
[00:34:25] Speaker A: He's pissed off at himself because he shouldn't have let Chapel know he's alive. Because now that gives him someone knows he's alive. So, like, he loses the upper hand.
[00:34:33] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's just. He's just lost in his thoughts. Just walking through the alley with Dadfather. Does a little. A little bit of good graffiti there. It's pretty fun.
[00:34:42] Speaker A: Mm hmm.
[00:34:43] Speaker B: And so while he's lost in his thoughts, Sam and Twitch come barreling down the alley and their cruiser. And twitch. Sam gets out of the. Just bails out of the car in a fury.
[00:34:56] Speaker A: And more donuts.
[00:34:57] Speaker B: Flying a hail of donuts.
Oh, man. He is. He is fired up. Look at him. He's even got the little anger lines around his head.
[00:35:06] Speaker A: Yeah. And they're basically coming down to rat alley to harass everyone and find out where spawn is.
[00:35:12] Speaker B: Yeah. And Sam's being a little bit of a jerk. And twitch is like, maybe we could rate it back a little bit, sir. Maybe just a little bit.
[00:35:18] Speaker A: He's being a jerk.
[00:35:20] Speaker B: Yeah, but, I mean, he just. He just got accused of murdering a. Murdering a person. Johnny, I would be upset, too.
[00:35:28] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:35:29] Speaker B: He's got a bow.
[00:35:29] Speaker A: Find this one.
[00:35:32] Speaker B: So all the unhomed men resoundingly are, like, I had no idea who the fuck you're talking about. Nope.
[00:35:38] Speaker A: They're all like, I am Spartacus.
[00:35:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. And then Al, lost in his thoughts, like, stumbles into the alley where everybody is. And is like, whoops. And then one of the unhomed men is like, no, no. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I know somebody. I know somebody. I know who it is. I know who you're talking about.
[00:35:58] Speaker A: And he tries to distract him till he gets away. Yeah, he's got friends. Spawn does have friends in these early days, even though he forsakes them.
[00:36:06] Speaker B: Yeah. And then Spawn is sitting up on the. On the rooftop next to a grotesque that's obviously an eagle shaped grotesque. He's sitting next to Johnny.
[00:36:15] Speaker A: Yeah, looks like Sam the eagle.
[00:36:17] Speaker B: Yeah, Sam Burke the eagle.
[00:36:22] Speaker A: Sam Burke. Sam the eagle who. Not which Muppet would be Sam Burke.
[00:36:28] Speaker B: Who, because, I mean, Sam Eagle would probably be twitch.
[00:36:31] Speaker A: Would be beaker.
[00:36:33] Speaker B: Well, no, because twitch isn't that. Yeah, maybe Bunsen, honeydew, and Beaker are the best.
[00:36:39] Speaker A: Sam and Twitch analogy. Yeah, they're close.
[00:36:41] Speaker B: But I think. I think Twitch's sort of straight lacedness would fit well with Sam Eagle, because Sam eagle is very proper.
[00:36:48] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. And he's like, yes, sir. Yes, you're right.
[00:36:50] Speaker B: I think maybe. Maybe Fozzie would be. Would be Sam.
[00:36:53] Speaker A: Fozzie would definitely be Sam. Yeah.
[00:36:55] Speaker B: Either that or that dude that throws the exploding. The boomerang fish. Hey, mister Defrag, is it okay for me and my boomerang fish to be in your movie? That's very sad energy.
[00:37:07] Speaker A: No, I'd say fuzzy father crazy Harry.
[00:37:11] Speaker B: Yeah, Fuzzy Fozzie's better. Waka waka.
[00:37:14] Speaker A: Samson. I swear, this guy leaves a charmed life. And Al Simmons would consider that a very bad joke.
[00:37:20] Speaker B: Semi charmed kind of life.
[00:37:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:37:25] Speaker B: And so then we cut back to clown and talking about this wicked witch. She was a hundred percent evil, Johnny. 100%.
[00:37:33] Speaker A: Here's what I don't understand about this. Why is he so obsessed with calling her his mother when she's obviously not?
[00:37:39] Speaker B: I don't know. I'm wondering if.
[00:37:42] Speaker A: I think he's just assuming their relationship, or he's just like, well, maybe.
[00:37:46] Speaker B: I mean, we do learn in the violator miniseries that these hell beasts often have a hard time discerning humans. So perhaps either that or he knows that if he gives the true story about it being his lover, they would.
[00:38:05] Speaker A: Be like, hey, why are you taking his lover?
[00:38:06] Speaker B: The kids would be like, hey, what's with that?
[00:38:08] Speaker A: So, yeah, you know, I think that's what it is. Because, like, how would this evil, dark demon have a lover?
[00:38:13] Speaker B: Yeah, but also, you know, also potentially, you know, maybe if he starts talking about this beautiful princess, that the, these teens would just be like, tell us. Tell me more. Tell me more.
[00:38:27] Speaker A: Yeah. Spaz would be like, oh, yeah, yeah. So he's saying that the wicked witch, he's gonna go after back to the clown story, and she's just like a lady. Medieval lady.
[00:38:40] Speaker B: Medieval lady. And, and she loves to paint. Look at that. She's painting stuff. And the. The violator basically just, like, sneaks in through her window.
[00:38:48] Speaker A: That's something you wouldn't want to see.
[00:38:50] Speaker B: Yeah, no, he just. He just, like, throws her around, like, like the hulk does to Loki in the Avengers movie, basically, and just, like, drags her with him while he goes to find who we know is John of York. Does he mention that he's John of York?
[00:39:04] Speaker A: I don't think so.
I don't think so.
[00:39:08] Speaker B: I don't think so. But we know it's John of York.
[00:39:10] Speaker A: It's John of York.
[00:39:11] Speaker B: It's John of York. It's York John.
[00:39:14] Speaker A: And so he kidnaps her and shoots a message to challenge him to a winner take all. Fight to the death.
[00:39:21] Speaker B: Yeah, he sure does.
[00:39:23] Speaker A: And what took place that night is the reason the word heroic appears in the dictionary. Says clown.
[00:39:28] Speaker B: Yes, he does. He does. And the medieval medievals.
You coward. Hiding behind this woman's skirt. I shall kill you.
He trembled at his very presence, Johnny. I.
[00:39:42] Speaker A: Look, he calls him a devil's toy.
[00:39:44] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. You've been sent by your master to test me. He will not be scared by the likes of you. They're both pawns, Johnny. They're both pawns. Like in a game of chess.
[00:39:53] Speaker A: Yep. Trying to get me to sing. So, uh, I'm not gonna do it.
[00:39:57] Speaker B: Not gonna do it. I forgot the names of the cities I was about to say. Or this place.
[00:40:02] Speaker A: It's Iceland or the Philippines. Or Hastings. Or this place.
[00:40:07] Speaker B: Or this place.
We got this place right here.
[00:40:12] Speaker A: Yeah, we got this place. And so they're gonna fight Johnny York and the violator here.
[00:40:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:40:18] Speaker A: And the violator just, like, lies about what happens. He gets his ass kicked, literally, by the horse.
[00:40:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:40:24] Speaker A: The spawn horse comes up. This is a Diablo horse if I've ever seen one. Yeah.
[00:40:27] Speaker B: And he just.
[00:40:28] Speaker A: The DLC horse kicks him right in.
[00:40:30] Speaker B: Like, the small of his back. And he's like.
So it kind of looks like the violator has a. Has a little bit of a gut, but it's just that that's how severe his.
[00:40:39] Speaker A: That's how severe as his kick is.
[00:40:41] Speaker B: Yeah.
I love the. The bubbles on the, like, the speech bubbles on the violator in this.
[00:40:50] Speaker A: Oh, how they're, like, melting.
[00:40:51] Speaker B: Yeah. Just how they're there. Do you ever stop?
Boy, that horse is. That horse is great. Not as great. Johnny, which do you like better, medieval spawn horse or medieval spawn dragon? I don't know.
[00:41:06] Speaker A: I kind of like this horse.
[00:41:07] Speaker B: This horse is pretty dope, but dragon is. Dragon is dragon's big old dragon.
[00:41:13] Speaker A: Yeah. I just like. I like the horse and the. He's wearing some spawn armor. I think that's funny.
[00:41:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:19] Speaker A: But did he commission that? Did he? Or is it like Jessica's motorcycle?
[00:41:22] Speaker B: The horse just appeared just out of. Out of necroplasmic air.
[00:41:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Violators down for the count.
[00:41:29] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:29] Speaker A: He's taunting medieval spawn.
[00:41:32] Speaker B: Mm hmm. But he notices that the princess, she a prince. She's not a princess. Lady. Lady is still tied to a tree. So he knows that medieval still are, like, hasn't absconded and he'll have to come back.
[00:41:44] Speaker A: She's a. She's a damsel.
[00:41:47] Speaker B: Damsel. Yeah. There we go.
[00:41:48] Speaker A: Watch the new movie damsel starring Millie Bobby Brown now on Netflix.
[00:41:53] Speaker B: Is that actually a movie or did you just make that up?
[00:41:55] Speaker A: Yeah, I just keep seeing bus posters for it. Oh, it's called damsel, but she's not a damsel. I think she's actually kicking ass.
[00:42:02] Speaker B: I haven't heard of this.
[00:42:03] Speaker A: It's like an action movie. It just came out of Netflix. Because she's, like, owned by Netflix.
[00:42:08] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, basically.
But I do enjoy that Millie Bobby Brown video of her eating. Her eating the carrots. And she going, now, these are delicious. The dartier the better. She looks exactly like Wallace from Wallace and Gromit.
[00:42:25] Speaker A: She sounds like Wallace and Gromit too. Yeah.
[00:42:28] Speaker B: There's supposed to be a new Wallace and Gromit movie this year.
[00:42:31] Speaker A: Really?
[00:42:32] Speaker B: Yeah. Either this year or next year, but yeah.
[00:42:35] Speaker A: I love Wallace and Gromit.
[00:42:36] Speaker B: Love Wallace and Gromit.
[00:42:37] Speaker A: I need to watch. I was just talking last night. I need to watch the new chicken run.
[00:42:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:42:41] Speaker A: Even though I haven't watched it.
[00:42:42] Speaker B: Even though they got ma in it. But I.
[00:42:45] Speaker A: No, Malcolm's not in it.
[00:42:46] Speaker B: He's not in it. I thought he was.
[00:42:48] Speaker A: No.
[00:42:48] Speaker B: Oh, I do need to watch it, though. Shaun the sheep is a good show too. The Shawn the sheep movie was great. There's, like, no dialogue in it. It's amazing. I like all the Aardman Aardman is good.
And then so. So medieval spawn comes back. The violator calls him a little puss head.
Gross. And then the violator barfs a maelstrom of acidic flames full force into his enemy and barfed, barfed, barfed. As this panel shows, Johnny, you could say it's a shatter the heart. Yeah, he's to play. It's very good.
[00:43:25] Speaker A: Allah says I continue to vomit death.
[00:43:28] Speaker B: Yeah, it's actually a pretty poetic way of using gross out language. It's pretty good.
[00:43:34] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I thought so too.
[00:43:36] Speaker B: So he burnt. He burnt up the medieval armor. And then he's like, you know what I found inside it when I was done?
[00:43:45] Speaker A: And the kids are bringing real cut ups here, beavis.
[00:43:50] Speaker B: In my head. Go, Mark.
Maybe it was just a very tanned wizard.
[00:43:55] Speaker A: Maybe it's a big pile of crap.
[00:43:59] Speaker B: It was like, hey, hey, calm down, calm down. Here's five more bucks. Just shut up for a couple more minutes.
[00:44:04] Speaker A: Yeah, there's, like, one more page in this issue. Jesus gives you christ. Give me a break.
[00:44:08] Speaker B: Like how he has a wallet. He's just like a. Da da da da da.
I wonder if that's a real wallet he stole off of somebody. Or if it's like a. Like a standard issue hell wallet where Melbol.
[00:44:21] Speaker A: Oh, he's got. He killed someone and took that wallet for sure.
[00:44:24] Speaker B: That's Senor Pirelli's purse, where Marbolge is like, you have to go to the surface and train this hillspawn. Here's all you will need to survive.
[00:44:32] Speaker A: Here's your per. Here's your per diem.
You get $20 for meals a day.
[00:44:37] Speaker B: He has, like, a James Bond M or Q. Q. He has, like, a James Bond Q montage where it's just like, here is your wallet. Here are your pants that don't button.
Here is the cat that will keep you company.
[00:44:54] Speaker A: And here's $100 to give some kids in an alley.
[00:44:59] Speaker B: But no, what he found, what he found in this armor was diddly.
[00:45:03] Speaker A: Diddly.
[00:45:03] Speaker B: He completely disintegrated, the poor sucker.
[00:45:07] Speaker A: Laughs and laughs and laughs. And it says, next issue, the conclusion. And a new legend is born.
Honest. I wouldn't lie.
[00:45:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:45:15] Speaker A: Ha ha ha.
[00:45:16] Speaker B: It's fun.
[00:45:17] Speaker A: Little.
[00:45:17] Speaker B: A fun little metatextual joke on it. So good. So good.
[00:45:22] Speaker A: Yeah, a lot of fun. Then we get the back matter. Starts with the blah, blah, blah. Number nine. Basically just talks about San Diego Comic Con and how much fun it was and how good it was and how great it is to be an image.
[00:45:35] Speaker B: Yeah, pretty good. We got just, you know, the little blurbs about the upcoming, upcoming issues, swan.
[00:45:43] Speaker A: 15, which we'll be covering next week. It has a little blurb about that.
Better than that. Three new characters get introduced. Clint, mark and spaz. Three young punks. They were already introduced.
[00:45:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:45:54] Speaker A: They already warmed our hearts.
[00:45:56] Speaker B: Sure did. They sure did. And then the next thing we know is we got a couple of, we got a couple of arts, Johnny.
[00:46:02] Speaker A: Yeah. And that's what I was saying is like, these are like, okay, who are these by?
[00:46:06] Speaker B: This is, this is by Wolf.
[00:46:09] Speaker A: So this is the guy I bought that Jessica Priest print off at Comic Con or Spawn Con.
[00:46:14] Speaker B: Nice. It's a very, it's a very good spawn. He's got his superhero posing across the city. And he's got necroplasmic orb in front of him.
[00:46:24] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:46:26] Speaker B: The next one is like a super, super creepy spawn done by Tony Harris. Who? Tony Harris is the one that did that c three po story of his red arm book. The band of brothers with robots or with droids.
[00:46:41] Speaker A: Oh, cool.
[00:46:42] Speaker B: So that's this guy.
[00:46:45] Speaker A: Oh, nice. This is a cool spawn. He's like a wizard or something. It's creepy.
[00:46:49] Speaker B: Yeah, it's very creepy. It definitely looks like, it definitely looks like an enemy that you'd meet in dungeons and dreams. Dragons.
[00:46:58] Speaker A: Yeah. Or like it looks like Papa nil.
[00:47:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Sans saxophone. Maybe that's what, maybe that's what he's about to conjure up with his necroplasm.
[00:47:07] Speaker A: Is his saxophone about to conjure up a sax. Yeah. And then we get the spawning rounds, which is whole bunch of letters.
[00:47:13] Speaker B: Whole bunch of letters. Oh, man. Largely positive this time. It's very good.
[00:47:19] Speaker A: Yeah, these are some, actually, some fun letters. It wasn't so negative.
[00:47:23] Speaker B: Yeah. People talking about how issue twelve blew them away with how well he wrote it, which, we just covered it, Johnny. And it's, it's a great issue. Issue twelve was very good.
[00:47:33] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Issue twelve and 30. I mean, this is, like I said, like after the guest writers, he comes out swinging.
[00:47:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:47:41] Speaker A: With new vigor.
[00:47:43] Speaker B: There continues to be people complaining about, you know, your image. You're supposed to be different from comics. Comics as it was. And the Todd father just has to be like, hey, guys, it's a business. It's a, it's a democratic company, but it's still a business.
You can't do it all.
Then we get case Deckard from Ringgold, Virginia, you know, hasn't completely finished his, his psilocybin tea when he writes this letter.
[00:48:18] Speaker A: Yeah. He was like, tripping balls.
[00:48:21] Speaker B: Oh, boy. About how he lost his spawn number one at a party and then had to go to a resale shop and buy a new copy of it for $10.
[00:48:30] Speaker A: So weird.
[00:48:33] Speaker B: I like how short the response is to that. Like, like, Todd McFarlane was like, I don't know what to say about this.
[00:48:39] Speaker A: He's like, good on you, buddy.
[00:48:41] Speaker B: We get a younger fan saying how much he loves spawn and how he's also from Canada. And he's like, yeah, Canada. Woo. Canada.
[00:48:52] Speaker A: Someone's mad that they cancelled shaman's tears.
[00:48:54] Speaker B: Yeah, this last one is a dude writes a letter with like, he self narrates.
Okay, Roy, be calm. This can't really be happening. But apparently issue number twelve was so good, he couldn't go to sleep until he wrote a letter about how good it was and how much he hated it was good.
[00:49:18] Speaker A: Everyone loves Granny Blake. You introduce Granny Blake. Are going to get a lot of people on board.
[00:49:21] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:49:22] Speaker A: But mostly positive. It's nice to have some mostly positive spawning grounds.
[00:49:25] Speaker B: Yeah, it's very good. I found, though, that the Jurassic fart jokes were crude and kind of detracted from the story. But don't get me wrong, I did find them mildly amusing.
[00:49:35] Speaker A: Yeah, everyone mentions the Jurassic farts.
[00:49:38] Speaker B: How can you not? Jenny? That's. Yeah, that's a touchstone. A bit of business.
[00:49:43] Speaker A: It is.
[00:49:44] Speaker B: We get some, some fan art and it's. This is some real good fan art, Johnny.
[00:49:49] Speaker A: I know. It really is.
[00:49:50] Speaker B: This Jonathan Lau is great. It's just a overt kill standing over, over spawn.
[00:49:57] Speaker A: I like the one with Wanda and Terry at Al's grave.
[00:50:00] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real good. I really like this spawn of the great white north. Take off. Eh? He's wearing his. He's wearing his toque. He's got little maple leaves instead of the skulls. Holding his cape down.
[00:50:13] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:50:14] Speaker B: I would. I would read a spot of the great White north series, Johnny.
[00:50:19] Speaker A: He's just overly canadian.
[00:50:21] Speaker B: He's just really fucking nice all the time.
[00:50:26] Speaker A: My favorite Canadian is Nathan Fielder.
[00:50:29] Speaker B: Nathan Fielder's funny.
[00:50:30] Speaker A: And he's just a weirdo.
[00:50:31] Speaker B: He is. He is a very weirdo. Wait, that's your favorite canadian, Johnny?
[00:50:35] Speaker A: No, he's not my favorite.
[00:50:36] Speaker B: Even.
[00:50:36] Speaker A: Even more.
[00:50:37] Speaker B: I was about to say. There we go. There we go.
[00:50:40] Speaker A: I don't know. It depends. Maybe it's Dan Aykroyd. He thinks aliens are.
[00:50:45] Speaker B: What about Rick Moranis? I think Rick Moranis might actually be my favorite canadian.
Hot take.
[00:50:52] Speaker A: I don't know. I'll have to think about it.
[00:50:54] Speaker B: We got an ad for wetworks.
[00:50:56] Speaker A: Yep. Ad for wetworks. It's an ad for wetworks and an ad for hero Illustrated, which is a magazine that's kind of like wizard. I have a few issues of it that I got that had spawn covers.
[00:51:10] Speaker B: I know nothing about what's going on in wetworks, so I don't know what's. I don't know.
[00:51:15] Speaker A: There's real steamy looking robots.
[00:51:17] Speaker B: It is.
[00:51:17] Speaker A: It looks like steaming in metal with.
[00:51:19] Speaker B: No genitals, just smooth crotch as far as the eye can see.
[00:51:24] Speaker A: Johnny, they look like they're made out of the metal that, like, the colossus action figure would have been made out of.
It's like a shiny metal.
[00:51:32] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:51:32] Speaker A: I don't know much about wetworks.
[00:51:34] Speaker B: I know nothing about wetworks, but I.
[00:51:36] Speaker A: Do know we got to get this spawn violator medallion.
[00:51:39] Speaker B: Yeah, we do, man. Look at it.
[00:51:42] Speaker A: Ruby eyes is only $600.
[00:51:44] Speaker B: Yeah. 14 karat gold. Whoo.
Yeah. Five dollar, five shipping text, but only in Michigan.
[00:51:54] Speaker A: Yeah. It's this same violator medallion was in the violator miniseries.
[00:52:00] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:52:00] Speaker A: It's just hilarious.
[00:52:03] Speaker B: It's great. A back issue blowout. Johnny, they're trying to blow out their back issues.
Just an advertisement for, you know, one of those mail order back issue services.
[00:52:24] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:52:25] Speaker B: There's an advertisement for an upcoming panel between Peter David and or with Peter David and Todd McFarlane at Comicfest 93. Getting silly and philly. Johnny, this. This J. Scott Campbell.
[00:52:38] Speaker A: What is Peter? Do you know what Peter David's known for?
[00:52:40] Speaker B: Peter David? He created the maestro in hulk. He did a fantastic run on Aquaman in the early nineties.
He wrote. He's written a lot of the phantom recently, but, yeah, he was just. He's just a very, very popular, very good writer guy. Okay.
[00:53:01] Speaker A: I love the Tommy Farley.
[00:53:03] Speaker B: He recently had a health scare, so I hope he's doing well.
[00:53:06] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, me too.
[00:53:08] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:53:08] Speaker A: This Tommy Farley had written, but it's hilarious.
[00:53:12] Speaker B: The 100% fictional fabric.
[00:53:16] Speaker A: He's got his pants ripped and there's, like, underwear.
[00:53:18] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got those loose socks. It's hilarious.
[00:53:22] Speaker A: I'm just going to Mad magazine of Todd McFarlane.
[00:53:24] Speaker B: Yeah. We get an advertisement for 1617 and 18, will be written by Grant Morrison and penciled by Greg Capullo, Scott Morrison and Grant Capulo.
[00:53:39] Speaker A: What?
[00:53:40] Speaker B: I can't speak anymore. We have this advertisement for issues 1617 and 18, written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Greg Capullo. There we go.
[00:53:49] Speaker A: I can't wait for that. I'm excited.
[00:53:51] Speaker B: It's gonna be good. Hey, Johnny, guess what?
That's still two episodes away, so you're gonna have to wait.
[00:53:56] Speaker A: I'm gonna have to wait.
[00:53:57] Speaker B: Gonna have to wait. That's a great.
[00:53:58] Speaker A: But I can't wait.
[00:53:59] Speaker B: Can't wait. I don't wanna wait.
[00:54:02] Speaker A: I'm just excited. I'm always excited to see where other people take the story. It's good to, I think, bounce it back and forth between some folks. Keeps it fresh. And I don't remember how much Todd McFarlane comes back for. I don't remember if he really comes back as full writer artist again.
[00:54:17] Speaker B: I don't think he does. I think he comes back as writer, but I think he does mostly inks over Greg Capullo, because basically Greg Capullo has a almost unbroken run until of like a hundred.
[00:54:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Yep. But I mean, and then there's an ad. This is so funny to me. Is there an ad for a single issue of a magazine on the back of the comic?
[00:54:39] Speaker B: Yeah, it's insane.
[00:54:41] Speaker A: It's just funny to think about that. They had ads for issues of a magazine.
[00:54:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Where now one magazine nowadays is basically an ad for 40 million other things. And that's all it is.
[00:54:52] Speaker A: It's an ad for wizard, December 1993 issue. Of course.
[00:54:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:54:57] Speaker A: Because wizard and image are like this. They're interlocked. They're best friends.
[00:55:01] Speaker B: They're bosom buddies.
[00:55:03] Speaker A: They are. I mean, that's why I got all my news for comics.
[00:55:07] Speaker B: Is wizard reading it at borders, not paying for it.
[00:55:11] Speaker A: Yep. I usually bought toy fair.
[00:55:13] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:55:14] Speaker A: Which is wizards toy magazine. Well, speaking of wizards, that's wizard Annie, because that's issue 14.
[00:55:23] Speaker B: Indeed.
[00:55:40] Speaker A: Alrighty then.
Here we have. Speaking of nineties.
What's that? That could have came out like 94. 95, I bet.
[00:55:49] Speaker B: I think 94.
[00:55:50] Speaker A: Yeah, that seems right. Alrighty then. Let's all talk out our asses and talk about spawn 348.
[00:55:58] Speaker B: Do not go in there. Whew.
[00:56:02] Speaker A: That was the second one.
[00:56:03] Speaker B: That was the second one. That's the less overtly transphobic one.
[00:56:08] Speaker A: Yeah, hopefully.
I just remember he burst himself out of an elephant.
[00:56:13] Speaker B: Out of a rhino.
[00:56:14] Speaker A: A Rhino. That's the second one.
[00:56:16] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the second one.
[00:56:17] Speaker A: Ace Ventura, pet detective. What a wild idea for a movie.
[00:56:21] Speaker B: What a wild idea for a movie. But, you know, it's not a wild idea for a movie, Johnny.
It's fun.
[00:56:27] Speaker A: I mean, it is a wild idea for a movie, but it seems like one that could happen again.
Oh, shit. I forgot the other.
[00:56:33] Speaker B: Fucking.
[00:56:33] Speaker A: God damn it. I forgot my other issue.
[00:56:36] Speaker B: Do we both have the same cover again? Yeah. So, all that to say, johnny, we got ourselves another issue of Spawn here.
[00:56:46] Speaker A: We do. We've got our more modern. All the way back from December 2023. So just a few months ago, Spawn 348.
[00:56:56] Speaker B: Indeed, indeed.
[00:56:57] Speaker A: And I'm rocking the Z Carlos cover.
[00:57:00] Speaker B: I am also rocking the Z Carlos cover, cuz, well, it's badass. It's rocking.
[00:57:05] Speaker A: And you know all those times we talked about Spawn holding the invisible orange, he's holding a visible green. Orange.
[00:57:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:57:11] Speaker A: A green orb.
[00:57:12] Speaker B: A lime.
He's about to make himself some maites, Johnny. He says, I need the lime.
[00:57:18] Speaker A: Yeah. Or mojito or something.
Yeah, it's cool. So it's like a spawn, like in a church. Like, it's, like, broken away.
[00:57:26] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like up in the. What's the word?
Spy. What's the. What's the big, tall thing on the church, Johnny? A steeple. It's like he's a steeple. He's like. He's in a steeple because there's a stained glass window that's broken. And he's in front of, like, an altar, like a satanic altar at the top of this church. And he's just, like, ready. Ready to take on whoever's about to get him.
[00:57:51] Speaker A: Yeah. There's such energy and a uniqueness to Z Carlos's art, which, again, I'm going to mention, very excited for Rat City.
[00:57:59] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. It's going to be real good. Oh, yeah.
[00:58:02] Speaker A: Especially in a futuristic, like.
[00:58:03] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:58:04] Speaker A: Cyberpunk setting. I think he'll be perfect for that, with the neons and everything.
[00:58:08] Speaker B: I fucking love cyberpunk.
[00:58:10] Speaker A: Me too.
[00:58:11] Speaker B: I saw recently that somebody was like, remember, cyberpunk is the warning. Not an aesthetic that you should strive for. But, I mean, still, it's fucking. It's fucking great.
But, yeah, cyberpunk is a warning. We should. We should heed it. We should heat it.
[00:58:28] Speaker A: Worn away. Because I love cyberpunk stuff.
[00:58:30] Speaker B: Yes, please do. The other cover is a von Randall cover, and it is also very good. It's got spawn, you know, standing on a gargoyle with this, just, like, resting a gun across the. His shoulders, staring down at the city.
[00:58:45] Speaker A: Yeah, a badass gun.
Big, beefy spawn by von Randall.
[00:58:50] Speaker B: Yeah, pretty cool.
[00:58:51] Speaker A: Both great covers.
[00:58:52] Speaker B: It's no z Carlos cover, though.
[00:58:55] Speaker A: No, I do. I do like the COVID A cover. I'm happy. Yeah, I do have this other cover. It's just in the other room, so I forgot to grab it because. Oh, yeah, because originally, my spawns were really disorganized. For the last, like, few weeks, I've been, like, working on the play and finishing that up, and then it was my birthday, and just kind of like, happy birthday. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Just decompressing and all that. And, like, I finally. Last week, I took the time, I got a couple more boxes, and I organized all my spawn stuff.
[00:59:20] Speaker B: Oh, nice.
[00:59:20] Speaker A: So all my comics are completely organized.
[00:59:22] Speaker B: And now you can't find them because they're.
[00:59:24] Speaker A: No, I know where they are. I just forgot. I forgot to get them. I just forgot to get it. Cause I was so used to having a big pile of stuff I needed to sort and didn't want to sort through it.
[00:59:32] Speaker B: My problem is, if I don't see everything laid out, I forget that it exists. So when it's filed where it's supposed to be, I just forget that I have.
[00:59:42] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I'm pretty good about remembering where my comics are.
[00:59:45] Speaker B: I'm getting. I'm getting terrible about remembering fucking anything. My brain is just like.
It sucks. It's dumb. But let's crack this. Let's crack this bad boy open here, Johnny.
[00:59:57] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:59:59] Speaker B: We got the credits page.
[01:00:01] Speaker A: World record breaking comic, it says, we.
[01:00:04] Speaker B: Got the script plot by Rory McConville, with additional script by Tom McFarlane. Carlo Barbera doing the art with J. David Ramos on the colors, as is tradition. Tomo still doing the lettering with woo woo woo. We done covered the covers. Todd McFarland's the creative director, Thomas Healy's the editor in chief.
And then we got down here previously in Spahn. With members of the scorched taken as prisoners, Jessica Priest and Spahn decided to go their separate ways, each with their own mission and plan to regain control of the throne.
So here, play that journey song here.
[01:00:47] Speaker A: Which journey song?
[01:00:49] Speaker B: The separate ways.
[01:00:50] Speaker A: Oh, I don't know that song.
[01:00:52] Speaker B: It's the song that they used for the teaser trailer for the last season of stranger things.
[01:00:58] Speaker A: Oh, okay. I gotta listen. I didn't watch that.
[01:01:03] Speaker B: Just. Just google separate ways later, and you'll be like, oh, I will listen to it.
[01:01:07] Speaker A: I'm sure I know the song.
[01:01:08] Speaker B: You absolutely know the song.
You lived through the growing up with star 103.
[01:01:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:01:17] Speaker B: The best of the seventies, eighties, and today.
You know. You know separate ways.
[01:01:22] Speaker A: Yep. I'm sure I do. I just. I just didn't know the name. Yeah, I'm sure if I heard it, I would know.
[01:01:26] Speaker B: It's very. It's very operatic.
[01:01:29] Speaker A: Okay, I'll definitely check it out.
[01:01:32] Speaker B: And we open up in media fight.
[01:01:34] Speaker A: Johnny, we're right in the middle of that fight that we left off on last issue of Spawn, where it's green world shows up. Green world shows up, and it's everybody versus sin.
[01:01:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:01:46] Speaker A: Nix, Jim Downing, Saigor. Keep overt. Kill the whole gang.
[01:01:51] Speaker B: The parliament of trees or the Avatars.
[01:01:55] Speaker A: Emerald. Emerald parliament. Emerald parliament.
Emerald Parliament of trees is. Come on.
[01:02:01] Speaker B: Emerald. Emerald parliament. Funkadelic.
[01:02:04] Speaker A: What?
[01:02:04] Speaker B: How did Bootsy Collins get there? Bootsy Collins smokes so much weed, he automatically becomes an honorary member of the Emerald parliament.
[01:02:13] Speaker A: Hey, they'd let him do it.
[01:02:15] Speaker B: I'd read. I'd read that comic book. I would go to that. I would go to that concert. Johnny.
[01:02:20] Speaker A: So Jim Downey, like, launches a beam at sin, and he, like, dodges it.
[01:02:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:02:24] Speaker A: And it looks like they might have a chance, but that moment passes.
[01:02:27] Speaker B: Yeah. And that. That moment passes very quickly and in the worst possible manner. Johnny.
[01:02:32] Speaker A: I know. He kills Saigor.
[01:02:33] Speaker B: He kills the Saigor. What the.
[01:02:35] Speaker A: He shoots a hole right in his chest.
[01:02:37] Speaker B: And then he punches. Punches Jim Downing. And Jim Downing's got that.
Yeah.
[01:02:43] Speaker A: His face is like slow motion. Like that shot they did in the matrix three.
[01:02:46] Speaker B: Yeah. And then sin just, like, evaporates the heap. Yeah.
[01:02:52] Speaker A: It's like he flies into him and explodes outward.
[01:02:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, boy.
[01:02:57] Speaker A: Sin's just wrecking green world.
[01:02:59] Speaker B: Yeah. And then Nyx is like, no, you bastard. And then she. She fires her own beam at him, but sin just, like, bats her away and, like, throws her so hard, she rips through a couple of fleabiac arms over here.
[01:03:13] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:03:14] Speaker B: And then, you know, overt kill comes in and is like, I'll protect you, Nix. And then sin just his head right off, man.
[01:03:24] Speaker A: Blast it.
[01:03:25] Speaker B: So far. So far we have lost Cygor overt kill heap. Just. We're five pages into this issue, Johnny, and three.
[01:03:33] Speaker A: Three big, heavy dudes just got knocked the hell out.
[01:03:37] Speaker B: Yeah, boy.
[01:03:39] Speaker A: Then we go to the complete opposite to a nice quiet scene to the road below. We have spawn and Wanda.
[01:03:47] Speaker B: Wanda.
[01:03:48] Speaker A: We got Al and Wanda walking together.
[01:03:50] Speaker B: Yeah. Doing a. Doing a little reminiscing, talking about the.
[01:03:53] Speaker A: Old landlord, the old place, Boris and fucking.
[01:03:57] Speaker B: I think it's. I think it's hilarious that they talk about how much Wanda hated this. This couch they had on their. At their first house. And Wanda and I definitely had a couch that we fucking hated.
[01:04:10] Speaker A: We had a couch that we hated.
[01:04:11] Speaker B: I mean, I guess everybody has a couch that they hate, but, man, it's fun. It's a good little.
It's very touching this. It's very sweet and heartfelt.
[01:04:21] Speaker A: Yes. No, it is. I like this little scene. And then it's so funny when they go, can you imagine what our young selves could think if they saw ourselves now? And it's like, probably not because you're like walking through hell and you're like a superhero.
[01:04:33] Speaker B: It's. It's wild.
[01:04:34] Speaker A: They'd probably be very confused.
[01:04:36] Speaker B: Uh huh. And time works differently down there, so even though it's been a couple of days in the real world, they've been walking for maybe months or years already. They don't know.
[01:04:45] Speaker A: Yeah. That's trippy.
[01:04:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:04:47] Speaker A: That trips me out, like, on an interstellar.
[01:04:49] Speaker B: I haven't seen a distiller yet, but.
[01:04:51] Speaker A: I know they go down to a planet and then, like, the time moves differently up on the ship and they go back up and it's completely. It's been like ten years or something for the guy on the ship.
[01:05:00] Speaker B: I mean, that's a. That's a big. A big thing in a lot of science fiction stories, so.
[01:05:04] Speaker A: Sure.
[01:05:05] Speaker B: Yep. I understand. I understand the concept. It's a good. It's a good. It's a good little thing. It's time dilation. It's sort of.
It's sort of a time travel story without actually being a time travel story. It's fun, right? I like it when they play with time. It's fun. Time loops are my favorite, but any sort of time based story element is good.
[01:05:27] Speaker A: Time loops where it's just like.
[01:05:29] Speaker B: Yeah, like happy death day. I fucking love happy death day.
[01:05:32] Speaker A: You would like lost.
[01:05:33] Speaker B: They need to make happy death day three. Damn it.
[01:05:36] Speaker A: I do like happy death day.
[01:05:38] Speaker B: I really liked. I really liked edge of tomorrow, too.
Edge of tomorrow was great.
[01:05:43] Speaker A: Yep. With that repeat.
[01:05:44] Speaker B: I love love.
[01:05:46] Speaker A: You would like lost. There's some time stuff in there. Some time loops.
[01:05:50] Speaker B: It's wibbly wobbly. Timey wimey little bit.
[01:05:54] Speaker A: Once you get to seasons, like four and five and six, one of these.
[01:05:57] Speaker B: Days I'll probably get around to it. We'll see.
[01:05:59] Speaker A: I mean, I don't know. It's old, but it's not like a show like breaking bad where I say there's no point watching it, I think it still has value. Not that, like, breaking Bad doesn't have value to someone who hasn't seen it, but it's like, lost is a good science fiction show. It's not just a zeitgeist thing. And in fact, was kind of also never. It was always beat up on a little bit.
[01:06:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:06:18] Speaker A: Because it was weird.
[01:06:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:06:19] Speaker A: It didn't make sense, but that's why I liked it, so. Ha ha.
[01:06:24] Speaker B: So then there's, you know, we. We reveal a little bit of Al's anger. You know, that that's always there. And that maybe. Maybe Wanda has her. Has an ulterior motive for hanging out with spawn in hell. Then we cut back to sin. Sin's come back to his. His troops, and he's like, all right, I need. I need to. I need to talk to cataclys. And everybody's just like, are you gonna.
[01:06:48] Speaker A: I don't want to tell about that. Yeah. What though?
[01:06:51] Speaker B: I'm afraid the battle has not gone as we'd hoped, my lord. Then Nyx wakes up in the green world infirmary.
[01:07:00] Speaker A: Yep. Next to tree man and Jim Downing.
[01:07:03] Speaker B: Yeah. And is informed that they're pulling out. And she's like, no, wait, what are you doing? No, we can't. We've lost too much. We can't go back now. And they're like, well, orders is orders.
[01:07:13] Speaker A: Of two things about the scene is that Jim Downing just has, like, the classic x bandage on his face to be, like, injured. I think that's pretty funny. Also, I love the fact that the tree doctors are wearing lab coats.
[01:07:26] Speaker B: So you can distinguish them from the non medical staff. Johnny.
[01:07:31] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:07:31] Speaker B: It's so that way somebody's not like, you should be out there fighting. But I got the lab coat.
[01:07:36] Speaker A: I got the lab coat. Hello.
I'm not the call of Duty skin guy or warrior. That's the other guy.
[01:07:43] Speaker B: Yeah. And then, Johnny, we take a dude.
[01:07:45] Speaker A: It's funny. That Gaia call of Duty skin they made for spawn has been very controversial. Cause I guess it's hard to see. And, like, people were saying it was like a pay to win thing. Cause it was, like, the best skin you could possibly pick. Cause in the shadows, it was hard to, like, make out.
[01:07:58] Speaker B: Oh, wham.
[01:07:59] Speaker A: This was funny.
[01:08:00] Speaker B: Wham.
[01:08:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
Nerds.
[01:08:03] Speaker B: Then we cut to some turtles. Some I. Sea turtles.
Not. Not sea turtles, but armored tortoises. They got. They got spikes coming out of them. And they're just. Just a whole group of them just slowly wandering across hell. Each of them with a different body part strapped to their back and one very gruesome one that just has cataclys head. I can't tell if cataclysm head has been shoved on one of the spikes or is in between. Spikes.
[01:08:36] Speaker A: Um, it's probably shoved on a spike.
[01:08:38] Speaker B: But, yeah, I would assume probably on a spike. Oof. And sin. Sin's real, real upset about this. They. They find evidence that he was tortured before he was pulled apart. And so sin's not very happy. And he's like, we're taking the infernal keep tonight.
[01:08:53] Speaker A: Yeah, but he's only got. He's only got eight hellspawns left. He's only got eight little snacks left for his necroplasm.
[01:08:58] Speaker B: So, you know, he better. He better use those judiciously.
[01:09:02] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:09:03] Speaker B: Then there's more coming.
We cut to a truck straight out of Indiana Jones and the raiders of the Lost Ark.
[01:09:12] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:09:13] Speaker B: Like, straight out of it, driving Brimstone and his fellows across the wastes. That's got medieval and Gunslinger in the back. And Gunslinger's like, how long is this taken? Are we done yet? And the guy who's watching them is like, I wouldn't be so hasty to get to your death. And Gunslinger's like, I'm not talking to you.
[01:09:34] Speaker A: I've actually been watching Indiana Jones. They're on Pluto tv all the time.
[01:09:37] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Nice. The taking of Pelham 123 was on Pluto the other day, and I forgot how good that movie is.
[01:09:43] Speaker A: The original or the remake?
[01:09:45] Speaker B: The original.
[01:09:46] Speaker A: Nice. No. Yeah. Like, on the fantastic channel. They were just showing all, well, four. They didn't have the fifth one. Indiana Jones, like, constantly in a row. And I caught last crusade, and I actually watched crystal skull the other morning.
[01:09:58] Speaker B: Nice. How did it hold up?
[01:10:00] Speaker A: It's hilarious. That movie's like a cartoon. It's so goofy.
[01:10:02] Speaker B: It is. It's very ridiculous.
[01:10:04] Speaker A: It's ridiculous. I kind of like it.
[01:10:06] Speaker B: But it's got Cate Blanchett in it, so how can.
[01:10:08] Speaker A: She's really awesome as a doctor. Colonel Doctor Irina Spalco.
What a psychic.
[01:10:15] Speaker B: What a name.
[01:10:16] Speaker A: What a psychic russian doctor. It's pretty great. There's some parts that are awesome. There's some parts that really suck. It's just. It's interesting to see a pretty Marvel blockbuster because, like, you forget, like, post Star wars prequels, pre Marvel, it's like in between because it doesn't have all the little Easter egg y stuff that you'd expect. It doesn't. It's not concerned with setting up a franchise. It's very much its own thing. It's not worried about fitting into a brand. Like, that was kind of interesting to see because it is very weird, and I admire that. But I don't know. I give it. I give it three out of five.
That's my review of Crystal sky.
[01:10:56] Speaker B: That's a respectable. Respectable.
[01:10:57] Speaker A: It's still fun. It's a Steven Spielberg movie.
[01:11:00] Speaker B: We're crying out loud.
[01:11:01] Speaker A: Come on.
[01:11:02] Speaker B: Wanda used to work with some stunt people at the Indiana Jones show at Disney World. And when this movie. When that movie came out, they all rented a theater and watched it together. And apparently none of the people who lived Indiana Jones for their careers enjoyed it at all. They booed and threw stuff at the screen.
[01:11:23] Speaker A: Oh, no.
I mean, if you're a stuntman, I can see that. Because there's not a lot of stunts. Yeah, there's a lot of CG.
[01:11:30] Speaker B: Yeah. Real.
[01:11:32] Speaker A: Oh, well, it's weirdly a family. It's weirdly about family a lot. I don't know. It's so weird, cuz, like Shia LaBeouf and, like, Karen Alison.
[01:11:39] Speaker B: Well, it's the Fast and the furious movies where we're getting real, real big into the family business.
[01:11:44] Speaker A: Oh, they're like, we better do that.
[01:11:45] Speaker B: You gotta. You gotta tap into that zeitgeist, Johnny.
[01:11:48] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what it was.
[01:11:50] Speaker B: You're gonna show up at a barbecue with. With Indiana Jones himself and Mutt and. And be like, can I have. What kind of beer do you have? It's like, you can have any kind of beer you want so long as it's a corona.
Yep.
Family. Family.
[01:12:10] Speaker A: That's gonna. Family's coming to an end.
[01:12:12] Speaker B: He said the fests.
[01:12:15] Speaker A: Yeah, Vin Diesel was saying they're gonna do, like, one or two more. I think that's it.
[01:12:18] Speaker B: Well, I mean, he was supposed to, I think, stop a while ago, but.
[01:12:21] Speaker A: Yeah, they'll stop for a few years, then they'll reboot it or come back or something. They're not gonna let that brand die.
[01:12:26] Speaker B: Yeah, well, not until it stops making money, right?
[01:12:29] Speaker A: Not until it stops making money.
[01:12:30] Speaker B: But I mean, as long as Ludacris and fucking Roman keep showing up. Who plays Roman? Fuck Tyrese. As long as Ludacris and Tyrese Gibson keep showing up, that I will go see them.
[01:12:43] Speaker A: Okay. That's all you need.
[01:12:45] Speaker B: Roman, in the last one, they shoot his car into space and there's just.
[01:12:51] Speaker A: I know, I saw it.
[01:12:52] Speaker B: A whole bunch of little candy wrappers just floating around and they're like, dude, what? He's like, I like candy.
[01:13:00] Speaker A: Pretty good.
[01:13:01] Speaker B: Oh, so good.
But anyway, then one of Brimstone's guys just gets heart shotted.
[01:13:07] Speaker A: Yeah, they're driving the Indiana Jones truck.
[01:13:09] Speaker B: That's how we got on Indiana Jones and Soul Crusher. Soul Crusher's got the sniper rifle going, and he's taking them out from. From the ridge line and then they, when the truck stops, the rest of the scorched all jump out and, you know, bum rush them. They beat up all of Brimstone's guys.
[01:13:27] Speaker A: Take them all out.
[01:13:29] Speaker B: And then, you know, they take them all out. Yeah. And Jessica's like, we're not gonna. We're gonna stop them. We're not gonna let them go out like this. We're not going to let them take the throne. And that's basically where we leave them. And we don't see them again until 350, I don't think.
[01:13:41] Speaker A: Is there a little bit in 349, so either. I don't know. We'll find out. I don't remember.
[01:13:45] Speaker B: I don't remember either. I remember 350 better than I remember the lead up to it. Yeah.
[01:13:50] Speaker A: We cut to heaven, where we have the uneasy alliance with clown in heaven and Abel all kind of working together, basically, to defeat sin.
[01:13:59] Speaker B: And already heaven is realizing, oh, shit, this was a really bad idea.
[01:14:03] Speaker A: Yeah. The dead zones are unstable. You're putting way too many people through them.
[01:14:08] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:14:08] Speaker A: And clown's just like, okay, I'm just gonna rip off your head. Just rips off his head. With his one hand.
[01:14:13] Speaker B: With his one hand, man.
[01:14:14] Speaker A: Picks up, like, a basketball.
[01:14:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:14:16] Speaker A: And just rips his head off.
[01:14:17] Speaker B: Yeah, man. Brutal. So many. So many deaths in this issue, Johnny.
[01:14:22] Speaker A: I know. It's a brutal one.
[01:14:24] Speaker B: And then, you know, Able's starting to realize, you know, maybe he shouldn't. He shouldn't agree to this either. And clown's like, yep. You know what? Guess what? You're committed. I'll bring you your brother's head, but you ain't going nowhere.
[01:14:39] Speaker A: Nope.
[01:14:40] Speaker B: And then. To be continued.
[01:14:42] Speaker A: To be continued. As they all walk into the hell.
The dead zone. We get Swan's power meter, which is 23 99. And then we get a bunch of fan art.
[01:14:52] Speaker B: Yeah, we do. It's some good fan art.
[01:14:54] Speaker A: Yeah. A lot of good, dark, scary spawns.
[01:14:57] Speaker B: Yeah, I like the. I like the niven one where he's. He's like. He's like tossing a. Tossing a decapitated head while he's standing there.
[01:15:07] Speaker A: That one's cool.
[01:15:08] Speaker B: It's very cool.
[01:15:09] Speaker A: That one's really cool. I like the bottom right.
[01:15:11] Speaker B: The bottom right? The one with the pooh bear spawn.
[01:15:14] Speaker A: Yeah, us. The pooh bear spawn.
[01:15:15] Speaker B: Spoo what his name, much like waffles, is a king poo. King poo. That's even better. King Spoo.
[01:15:23] Speaker A: It was king poo.
[01:15:24] Speaker B: King poo.
[01:15:24] Speaker A: That was that one guy. He made the king poo covers.
[01:15:28] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Okay.
[01:15:29] Speaker A: If you remember.
[01:15:30] Speaker B: I vaguely remember. Yes.
[01:15:32] Speaker A: He was at Swan. Oh, they had some of those at swamp on. It was just like a King swan parody, but it was poo.
[01:15:37] Speaker B: Nice.
[01:15:38] Speaker A: No, these are all great.
[01:15:39] Speaker B: Yeah, it's some good fan art. I like it.
[01:15:42] Speaker A: Check it out.
[01:15:43] Speaker B: We got some. Need more spawns universe, Johnny.
[01:15:45] Speaker A: Always.
[01:15:47] Speaker B: They got. They got you covered.
[01:15:49] Speaker A: It says it's December is featuring covers by Federico Sabatini.
That's cool.
[01:15:56] Speaker B: They were cool covers. They were cool covers. Image classics. Ad monstrous. Ad and ad for 349 on the back.
[01:16:03] Speaker A: There's a bunch of cool kitties on it.
Bunch of little barbies, little glowing eye hellcats. Yep. That's pretty cool. Cats are creatures of hell, for sure.
[01:16:13] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[01:16:15] Speaker A: 100%.
[01:16:16] Speaker B: 100%. That's why they're witches familiars. Mm hmm. That's spawn 348, Johnny.
[01:16:22] Speaker A: It sure is.
And that, you know what happens. We're not talking cats, though. Whenever we finish two issues.
[01:16:29] Speaker B: No, when we finish them, we gotta.
Immediately after closing the second issue, they turn into puppies. And then we gotta rate them. We're gonna say, how much is that puppy in the window? How much?
[01:16:41] Speaker A: It's time to rate the kitties. I mean, the puppies.
[01:16:46] Speaker B: This guy's. Do you see his tongue sticking out? He's got his tongue sticking out today. Look at him.
[01:16:50] Speaker A: He's a goofball.
[01:16:52] Speaker B: But yeah. Rating these puppies, Johnny. First up. First up on the block, we got spawn 14.
[01:17:00] Speaker A: Spawn 14.
A big fun violator tail. Get some salmon twitch action.
It's Todd McFarland just coming out swinging. Like we were saying. I really like this issue. Obviously, it's fun to get that, you know, dramatic irony of the violator telling the story from his point of view or just lying about it. And you get all that nineties spawn grossness and like. But also some fun. It's a little, you know, it's the stuff that hooked me is that early spawn stuff. Like you said before we started recording, there's a reason, or maybe you said right when we started recording, there's a reason. It's been around for 30 years. And this is. You can tell why? Because it's such a strong foundation with issues like this. Great art, of course. And just like the moo team knocking it out of the park.
[01:17:47] Speaker B: Yeah, they are.
[01:17:47] Speaker A: So if I had to rate this, which I do have to, I'm gonna rate it. Five donuts on the butt.
[01:17:55] Speaker B: Butt donuts.
[01:17:56] Speaker A: Butt donuts.
[01:17:57] Speaker B: But donuts. That's an excellent. That's an excellent rating. Also. Also an excellent item.
I must commend twitch. I would very much want somebody to point out if I had a butt donut or not.
[01:18:09] Speaker A: So, yeah, please, I don't want to be walking around with that.
[01:18:12] Speaker B: My aunt once taught me, you only mention something if it's something somebody can fix. If they can't fix it, don't mention it. Pretend it doesn't exist. But if they can fix it, you tell them immediately. Yes, I agree with you. This is an absolute banger of an issue. The Todd McFarlane art. It's. This is the classic Todd McFarlane art. This is the shit that keeps you coming back. The writing is fucking so good. It is so good. I'm not even gonna even say better than it should be or better than it needs to be. It's just. It's just good. Like, if. If an issue exactly like this were to come out today, I would be like, this is the best issue of the year, you guys. I don't care what. Oh, yeah, so good. I love. I love learning about, you know, the violator being his little. His old stinky self. He's got a. The classic. Just him talking to something in the alley. It doesn't matter what it is.
[01:19:09] Speaker A: As long as he's talking to the cat, he'll throw money at you to listen to. He doesn't care, man.
[01:19:15] Speaker B: It's great. I agree that this is a five issue. I'm gonna give it five pointing down. Recall the other directions.
[01:19:26] Speaker A: Down to five, down to hell.
[01:19:28] Speaker B: I feel good.
[01:19:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:19:31] Speaker B: It's just fantastic. I loved it. I loved it so much. I'm probably gonna reread it tonight and then reread it before we recover the second one. The next one.
[01:19:40] Speaker A: Part two. Yeah. I'm excited for part two to see what happens. And that leads right into the. This is the stuff that I think dovetails right into the violator series.
[01:19:46] Speaker B: Yeah, I do believe the lat. The next one ends off with him losing his powers. Yeah. Something, something. Follow something, violator series, something, something.
[01:19:55] Speaker A: Okay, cool. Yeah, yeah.
[01:19:58] Speaker B: Very nice.
[01:19:59] Speaker A: Our second issue was Spawn 348, which is another piece of that puzzle on the road to hell. It's, like, episode, and it's interesting just to see how. It's crazy to see how different they are, are, you know.
[01:20:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:20:10] Speaker A: 354 issues later, 334, but 348 is just like those pieces building towards the epic 350 culmination.
And just see, knowing where that ends now, you can definitely see where some of the things are being.
[01:20:26] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:20:27] Speaker A: Laid. Why David maybe had his good guess, but I really like the issue. I think it's fun. But like I said, it's a puzzle piece. It's not like it's kind of building up to this climax, this 350 point, and getting us there. But, you know, you have to have it. Yeah, but I would give it four. I'm gonna give it four. Lab coat gaia guys.
[01:20:48] Speaker B: Lab coat guys.
[01:20:49] Speaker A: For lab coat. Green world, dudes. I just love. They have lab coats.
[01:20:52] Speaker B: Yeah, it's pretty great. What are they. What are they trying to keep off of them?
[01:20:56] Speaker A: Dirt. I don't know. Dirt. They're trees, for God's sakes. They need dirt.
[01:21:01] Speaker B: Excellent. Yeah, I agree. So it's. It's fantastic. But this is definitely in terms of rating, I bring up a lot of. A lot of times, like, something that can be read and enjoyed devoid of anything else. There's no way that you're coming up to 348, picking it up, reading it without knowing anything that's else. Else that's going on and enjoying it. I think. I think it would be a very, very hard sell unless you.
Unless you're a person who likes to kind of extrapolate from stuff that's missing or to just get a flavor of what's going on. It would be very difficult to do anything with this by itself, but it is a very integral piece. There's a lot of motivations for everybody. Either it's the beginning of a motivation that we see, or it has concluded a previous motivation that forces them into something else. It's just very good. It's very good. Little. Little character piece. I am gonna give it four fucking hell turtles. Look at those guys.
[01:22:11] Speaker A: Look at those hell turtles.
[01:22:13] Speaker B: Four hell turtles covered in body parts.
[01:22:16] Speaker A: Mmm.
[01:22:17] Speaker B: It's. It's a. It's also just a brutal issue, Johnny.
[01:22:21] Speaker A: Like, I know all our friends.
[01:22:24] Speaker B: I gasped and, like, held my chest when. When I was reading this on the train, and monkey got berserked right through the chest.
[01:22:34] Speaker A: I did a double take for sure.
[01:22:36] Speaker B: It was so hard for me to not whip out my phone and be like, johnny, they killed psychorn.
Like, so hard. Cause I had to wait for you to read it, and it makes me sad. I like psychorn.
[01:22:48] Speaker A: I'm sure he'll be back in some form.
[01:22:50] Speaker B: I don't know.
Todd does like to say that once somebody's dead, they're dead forever. He doesn't like to bring people back.
So, yeah, a couple. A couple of very good issues of spawn there, Johnny. Those are a couple of good puppies.
[01:23:03] Speaker A: Good puppies. Good job, dogs.
[01:23:05] Speaker B: I would let them in my house and feed them. Feed them hot dogs any day of the week.
[01:23:11] Speaker A: Absolutely. Speaking of feeding people hot dogs.
[01:23:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:23:14] Speaker A: Hot dogs are basically like real life likes. So you should say, give out some likes on Instagram.
[01:23:20] Speaker B: Yeah, you should. You should.
[01:23:22] Speaker A: And today we wanted to shout out someone from the spawning grounds.
[01:23:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Hell yeah, we did.
[01:23:28] Speaker A: So we wanted to point out, we mentioned the Pooh bear or bear spawn there. That is Arj Kalobas, and he is the 3d sculptor artist that did that. That sculpture that was featured in the spawning grounds of 348.
[01:23:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:23:47] Speaker A: You can look through his stuff. He's got a lot of amazing, really amazing sculptures.
[01:23:51] Speaker B: Yeah. Speaking. Speak. Speaking of callbacks, Johnny, he did a predator and, like, a sans mask predator, like, from prey. Predator. Oh, boy. It's.
[01:24:00] Speaker A: Oh, nice.
[01:24:01] Speaker B: He's also got, he's also got the cenobite from 2020 two's hellraiser.
[01:24:07] Speaker A: Yeah. The priest, I believe they're called, is the name of that character.
[01:24:11] Speaker B: We got Krang eating some ice cream.
[01:24:14] Speaker A: And spawn as a bear. And Batman is a rabbit if you go down to the full piece, which is pretty cool.
[01:24:21] Speaker B: Now, this is a lot of cool shit. Yeah.
They also, they also themselves have some glorious hair. Look at that.
[01:24:30] Speaker A: Nice. That's like my bolshevil level.
[01:24:32] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[01:24:33] Speaker A: Give them a follow up, please.
[01:24:34] Speaker B: Do some great stuff. They got some, some beautiful artwork here. They got some cool skeletons just hanging around being skeletons.
[01:24:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:24:42] Speaker B: Absolutely gorgeous.
[01:24:44] Speaker A: So that is Arj colobus. Give him a follow.
[01:24:48] Speaker B: Speaking of absolutely gorgeous, Johnny, I would classify the music on our show as absolutely gorgeous. And it comes from the absolutely gorgeous mind of our buddy Brian. Brian Erdoscorvoils underscore 27. Go give.
[01:25:01] Speaker A: Who also has luscious hair.
[01:25:03] Speaker B: Yeah, go give him some love. Go give him some love.
[01:25:05] Speaker A: He's, uh, while you're over there, give us some love. We are regarding spawnpod.
[01:25:11] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[01:25:12] Speaker A: Posting all about our shenanigans and episodes and all kinds of fun stuff. So make sure to give us a follow. Boosting spawn people we love on our stories.
[01:25:22] Speaker B: Yeah, boosting spawn. Boosting spawn verts.
[01:25:25] Speaker A: Exactly. That's what you got to do.
[01:25:26] Speaker B: Yeah, we do. You can also send us emails with questions, concerns,
[email protected]. Dot. Just send us, send us emails. We love correspondence.
We love to bust out the respawning regrounds music. And we can only do that if you send us messages.
[01:25:45] Speaker A: So send us a letter.
[01:25:47] Speaker B: Johnny will read it. Unless you don't want a virtual letter.
[01:25:50] Speaker A: Unless you don't want me to. But also, maybe I will.
[01:25:53] Speaker B: Anyway, send us your address in an email and we'll send you a sticker.
[01:25:56] Speaker A: Or two or three maybe. Can't promise that. Sorry. I can't promise.
It's too much. It's too much.
[01:26:04] Speaker B: The letters tend to come out from my house, so Johnny doesn't know what my hand is going to put in that envelope.
[01:26:10] Speaker A: I have no idea.
[01:26:11] Speaker B: It's a mystery.
[01:26:12] Speaker A: Yeah. And I always like to ask a question each week to try to spur any thoughts. And this week I would ask, who's your favorite canadian? Is it Todd McFarlane? Is it Rick Moranis? Is it Dan Aykroyd?
Is it. I don't know, one of their prime ministers?
Who is it?
[01:26:32] Speaker B: Who's their prime minister? Or who is it? As in the question.
[01:26:35] Speaker A: I don't know either.
[01:26:37] Speaker B: Or Justin Trudeau. Wait, is Justin Trudeau still.
[01:26:40] Speaker A: No, he's the actor from the leftovers. No, that's why I was getting confused. I was getting confused with Justin Theroux.
Justin Trudeau.
[01:26:46] Speaker B: Right.
Was Gretzky a canadian or was he a michigander?
[01:26:51] Speaker A: I don't know.
[01:26:52] Speaker B: I don't know.
Huh. Interesting. I don't. I know fuck all about hockey. Is it. Is it the guy who plays squirrely Dan in letter kinney? He might actually be. You might be my favorite, actually. He's funny. I love squarely Todd.
[01:27:06] Speaker A: Father, we're just. Let me know. Is yourself. Are you a Canadian?
[01:27:09] Speaker B: Yes. Please let us know if you're.
[01:27:12] Speaker A: If you're a
[email protected].
[01:27:15] Speaker B: Yeah. Also, Johnny, you know, we love our people that we reach out to, and we would love to invite them to come see us at c two. E two. This year it's going to be April 26 through the 28th, 2024. We don't know when our thing will be scheduled, but we'll let you know on the instagrams as soon as we know. As soon as we know. Hey, y'all. Co host David here coming at you with some real time information updates. This week we learned that our show will be Friday, April 26 at 515. I would tell you what room number it is, but the room number is obviously subject to change, so. 515, Friday, April 26. You should see us at c two. E two. Now back to the end of the episode.
But, yeah, that'll be fun.
Do you know what else is fun, Johnny?
[01:28:10] Speaker A: Read more, Spawn.
[01:28:12] Speaker B: And one, I don't. I don't even have to bribe you with an extra $5 for you to get that one, right, man.
[01:28:18] Speaker A: Yeah, I just. Wait. Yeah.
Dangle some money in front of me like the clown.
[01:28:24] Speaker B: But, yeah, we should probably read some more spawn and then come back and talk about it in a week, huh?
[01:28:29] Speaker A: Sounds like a plan to me.
[01:28:30] Speaker B: Sounds like a great plan. What should. What should we. What should we read next? You know what we're reading next. I know what we're reading next.
[01:28:35] Speaker A: I don't read next. We're going to keep going on this classic spawn train. So we're onto to going spawn 15, part two of this myths. Little short story here with the violator. And then we have gunslinger 27.
[01:28:49] Speaker B: That's a myth. Myth.
[01:28:50] Speaker A: We get to meet Carl.
[01:28:52] Speaker B: Who? Carl.
[01:28:53] Speaker A: Carl.
The whole Carl thing's hilarious to me. There's Carl.
[01:28:58] Speaker B: There he is. There he goes. He's Carl.
Oh, boy. So, yes, spawn 15, gunslinger. Spawn 27. It should be a pretty fun time.
Yeah, I sure think so.
[01:29:11] Speaker A: I agree.
[01:29:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
I have nothing else to talk to you about, Johnny. I don't want to see your face for another goddamn week, okay?
Please stand up and leave so I can tell you you've got a donut on your butt.
[01:29:26] Speaker A: I already. I do. I do. I already know I do.
[01:29:29] Speaker B: You already disposed of it. You ate it. You. You added it to your butt in the other direction.
[01:29:34] Speaker A: I would eat a butt donut if.
[01:29:37] Speaker B: I sat on a donut. I would eat it if somebody else sat on it. Maybe not. Depends on how well I like that person.
[01:29:42] Speaker A: Well, also how like much I squished it down. I don't know. I guess it depends. Now I just want a donut.
[01:29:48] Speaker B: Yeah, we should probably go get some donuts, Johnny.
[01:29:50] Speaker A: Well, sounds like a plan.
[01:29:52] Speaker B: Let's get out of here and meet up and get some of those Sam Burke donuts.
[01:29:58] Speaker A: I love them.
[01:29:58] Speaker B: Nice. I think that just leads me to say, johnny, may the scorched be with you.
[01:30:03] Speaker A: And also with you, David.
[01:30:05] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[01:30:06] Speaker A: Hell, yeah, boy. All right, I'm off to get a pink glazed donut.
[01:30:10] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[01:30:10] Speaker A: You know what? I think maybe it would taste better. Maybe squished. So I am just gonna sit on it just to try it.
[01:30:14] Speaker B: Buy two so you can do a side by side comparison.
[01:30:17] Speaker A: Okay. And then I'll film it and put it on the Internet. It won't be considered pervy at all. My butt sitting on donuts. That's not, like, a fetish or anything, is it?
[01:30:24] Speaker B: Well, it depends on if you film the actual act of sitting on the donut or just you're like, I sat on it.
[01:30:32] Speaker A: No, both. I'm doing both.
Well, I happen to put it on onlyFans. Just as a precaution.
[01:30:38] Speaker B: How fast. How fast are you gonna film it? You're gonna film it in slow motion so we can see, like, all of the air escape?
Yeah.
[01:30:44] Speaker A: I'm gonna sit on the donuts in slow motion. And just cause I don't know a good platform, I'm just gonna put it on onlyfans just cause I know you've used it before.
[01:30:53] Speaker B: Are you gonna do. Are you gonna do clothed and unclothed, side by side, just like. Are you bare bottoming it, or are.
[01:31:00] Speaker A: You going to do it the same purely clothed? Okay, sorry. Awesome. The clothes are part of it.
[01:31:06] Speaker B: You're going to have to call brand to get you a really good mic so you can get the ASMR of the donut being squished.
[01:31:13] Speaker A: The closer part of it. David.
