Episode 90 - Spawn 22 and Gunslinger 29

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hey, boys. How are things with the Ren and stimpy of New York's finest? Going out to chase more ghosts, harass a few more of the homeless? Come on, you could tell me. Good evening, and welcome to the Mal Bulls. This is regarding spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I'm your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:49] Speaker B: And I am your co host, David Williams. And, Johnny, recent issues of Spawn, as of this week right now, call into question the age old debate of vampire rules. And that made me think of something, based on something you sent me. And did you know that vampirella actually isn't a vampire? [00:01:19] Speaker A: Isn't a vampire. She's just a vampire fan? [00:01:21] Speaker B: No, no. She's an alien from the planet Draculon. And the water on Dracula is blood. So she only drinks blood because that's the water she's used to. She's not a vampire. She's an alien. [00:01:34] Speaker A: Okay, well, that's good to know. I didn't know that. [00:01:35] Speaker B: Little tiny bat wings. [00:01:36] Speaker A: I got a few issues of vampirella. Vampirella? [00:01:40] Speaker B: Yeah, vampirella. Yeah, I got a few. She calls herself vampy. [00:01:43] Speaker A: Vampy? Yeah, I had a. I took a couple issues of those Ec kind of horror comics, those black and white, the ones that have, like, the. There's, like, newspaper. [00:01:53] Speaker B: Anything just gets all over your hands. [00:01:54] Speaker A: Like, I bought a few of those. I think maybe I might have bought them. We were at your comic book shop really drunk on that day with the baseball game. [00:02:02] Speaker B: Bambi is fun. She's fun. [00:02:04] Speaker A: Yeah, they're fun. They're just like. They're fun little, like, stories. They're hilarious. My favorite one guy that definitely obviously used, like, modern actors as, like, face references. Oh, look, it's George Clooney, MSU Jackman. That's just funny. [00:02:16] Speaker B: I mean, that happens a lot. My favorite thing is that a lot of people are like, her power is derived largely from the fact that she could walk around in that fucking outfit and not give a shit. Mostly. Mostly. It's been saying this. If you. If you didn't know. [00:02:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:34] Speaker B: Surprise, surprise. [00:02:36] Speaker A: Shocking. [00:02:37] Speaker B: Shocking. You know, it's not shocking, Johnny. [00:02:41] Speaker A: I don't know. That we get to talk about spawn. [00:02:45] Speaker B: Yeah. That we're on a podcast. We're on. Regarding spawn podcasts, it's always shocking. [00:02:50] Speaker A: If you were listening to another podcast, fell asleep and started playing, and you woke up, and now you're shocked. So wake up. [00:02:55] Speaker B: Well, we're just making sure that nobody acts is like, why did I. How did I get a vampirella podcast on my. My spawn podcast feed? Johnny? [00:03:03] Speaker A: Well, yeah, like you said, though, spawns been very vampire heavy recently. It was as it was in the past a few times. Blood feud. Yeah, the miniseries is all about vampires. [00:03:14] Speaker B: I have to say, I. [00:03:15] Speaker A: Neither of these issues are about vampires. [00:03:18] Speaker B: Neither of them are, I was going to say. I still have never forgiven Stephen King for having his vampires create new vampires just through bites. I'm a devotee of the Anne Rice version where you have to drain and then replace to make a vampire. Not just you get bitten by a vampire and are a vampire. [00:03:40] Speaker A: Oh, what was it in the original Dracula? [00:03:43] Speaker B: So if you get fed, if he feeds on you, then you can become under his thrall. But you aren't a vampire property. Do have to have some sort of. So basically van Rice used the original Dracula thing. It's just not spelled out very well because he doesn't really make new vampires. He just. [00:04:04] Speaker A: Yeah, he doesn't. He doesn't do that well. [00:04:07] Speaker B: He only makes new vampires if they're sexy young women. So that way they can crawl over his ceiling. Right. [00:04:12] Speaker A: Yeah. And try to eat people. [00:04:14] Speaker B: Or was that just a fantasy of Francis Ford Coppola's? [00:04:18] Speaker A: I mean, according to the trades, we shouldn't be paying attention to franchise for Coppola's fantasies because he just made this three hour crazy movie called Megalopolis. Supposed to be not great. [00:04:30] Speaker B: I just started hearing about that and I was like, I thought he. I thought he said, fuck movies, I'm making wine. What is this? [00:04:36] Speaker A: He did? But he's back. He completely self financed. We have to do whatever the fuck he wanted. [00:04:40] Speaker B: Isn't self financing what drove him to just do wine in the first place? Was it like his last movie all self financed and it failed? And he was like, I don't need this. [00:04:50] Speaker A: Yeah, no, it was. He did like it. Yeah, it was. I can't remember what it was called, but he did like a. He did like a local, not a local, but he did like a tour of it. Like, yeah, he did self finance it. Hey, man, when you don't laugh at the man, he's just trying it out. [00:05:02] Speaker B: I'm not laughing at the man. It's just a live and learn situation. [00:05:06] Speaker A: It's, I guess, live and learn and then make wine. That's your philosophy. [00:05:09] Speaker B: He's lived long enough to have forgotten what he's learned. That's the dream, Johnny, to live long enough to forget what you've learned. I've already forgotten what we're doing here, so I need to refresh you, Johnny. [00:05:19] Speaker A: Well, we are reading every week two issues from Spawn's universe, except when we don't. But this is a classic episode where we are doing two issues. We are doing a first, a classic issue of Spawn. [00:05:29] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:05:30] Speaker A: First up is Spawn 22, all the way back from June 1994. [00:05:37] Speaker B: Man, I just said, I just said, oh, yeah. Like, this is an issue that everybody remembers. [00:05:43] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:05:44] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:05:46] Speaker A: Issue twelve. Where were you June 1994 when you read the kind of an in between issue of spawn? That's pretty good. [00:05:52] Speaker B: I was probably, I was probably at First Baptist day camp because that would have been the summertime. [00:05:58] Speaker A: Yeah, it would have been. It's Bible camp. [00:05:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, boy. [00:06:01] Speaker A: And then our second issue today is our more modern. We're doing a gunslinger. [00:06:06] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. [00:06:07] Speaker A: Uh, so gunslinger. The first one after 350. [00:06:10] Speaker B: Yes. [00:06:10] Speaker A: It's Gunslinger 29 from March 2024. [00:06:15] Speaker B: Yeah. Where were you in March 2024? I kind of wish that I was back at day camp because then I wouldn't have responsibilities or things. [00:06:23] Speaker A: I was playing a lot of the Star wars card game because I wasn't in any production on a play or anything. I was doing that, and I went home for a week. [00:06:31] Speaker B: Nice. [00:06:31] Speaker A: Or, like six days. That's what I did in March 2024. [00:06:33] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. That was, that was Easter time because Easter was super early this year. [00:06:37] Speaker A: I landed. Yeah, I landed, like, on Easter. So I got there, like, March 31. So technically, I was mostly there in April, but I got to spend two holidays with my family. Easter and April Fool's Day. [00:06:46] Speaker B: Oh, man. There's. There's a, there's a joke in there somewhere about you landing on Easter. Something about the resurrection of the sun. [00:06:55] Speaker A: And they said there's seven days. Yeah, exactly. The prodigal son returned for Easter. [00:07:01] Speaker B: When you got to the. The door of the plane, was there just some, for some reason, a big rock in the way and you had to be. Get this out of the way? Yes. [00:07:09] Speaker A: And then we had our last supper. We actually, for lunch that day because we wanted to go get, you know, we didn't have Easter lunch with my dad's side of the family. They were doing something that night, but I was going to my mom's side of the family anyway, so we just went and got lunch. Everything was closed but Chili's. So we got chilis. [00:07:23] Speaker B: Did you all sit on the same side of the table? No. [00:07:27] Speaker A: We should have taken a picture. [00:07:28] Speaker B: Should have. It would have been. That's actually. Would be a great thing to do. Like, if you go to a chili's, push all the tables. Push all the tables. Against, like, a window. And then all sit on the same side so you could stare at the. [00:07:38] Speaker A: Parking lot and then do the last supper. [00:07:43] Speaker B: Take a picture. Take a picture. Come on. [00:07:45] Speaker A: Yeah. So Gunslinger 29 will be our second issue. The first full one back or first full one for Carlo Barberi. [00:07:51] Speaker B: Carlo Barberi, yeah, it's. And the 29th, a different Carl enters. [00:07:55] Speaker A: Gunslinger a car low. [00:07:59] Speaker B: I would actually be sad to see this Carl go. [00:08:02] Speaker A: Yes, I would too. Not like the other Carl. [00:08:04] Speaker B: Affect that other Carl. [00:08:06] Speaker A: So, yeah, those are our two issues today. And so let's take it back to the past, to March 1994. [00:08:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:14] Speaker A: Let's do it as we go to spawn 22. And we always start with the COVID Yes, we do. And this was pretty cool. [00:08:22] Speaker B: I'm reading it in digital form, and I've got an all natural owl version of the COVID right here. [00:08:28] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:08:29] Speaker B: It's pretty great with that. Just the. Just a skull. That's all. I mean, it could have just been the skull, but it's a skull, but it's a skull. And then with the spawn on top of it. [00:08:39] Speaker A: And then the spawn's doing his sparkly magics that he does in the early. [00:08:42] Speaker B: He does have sparkling magic. [00:08:44] Speaker A: His sparkly magics going on. [00:08:46] Speaker B: Yeah. And then he's got the. The impossible cape. The cape with no regard to physics. [00:08:51] Speaker A: Yep. Pretty classic Todd father stuff. [00:08:54] Speaker B: I once, I once was watching a art tutorial video about how to draw spawn, and they were like, if you think the cape needs to make sense, you're doing. Doing it wrong. Just. Just draw so it looks cool. Don't make it. Don't make it make sense. Yeah. [00:09:09] Speaker A: Well, he's followed the assignment well on this cover. [00:09:11] Speaker B: Yes, he did. Well, I mean, he made the assignment, right. [00:09:14] Speaker A: He is the assigner. He's the teacher. [00:09:15] Speaker B: He's the teacher. Mister McFarlane, I need to go to the bathroom. [00:09:22] Speaker A: Well, he's like, as long as you. How long do you bite some poop jokes? [00:09:26] Speaker B: How long do you think he would make you, like, sit there and talk to you about how excited going to the bathroom is instead of just letting you go to? He would be like, you know, that's a, that's an amazing thing we have to do, right? [00:09:40] Speaker A: Yeah. He does like his, he does like his toilet stuff. There's some good toilet humor in this one. Puke humor, I guess. [00:09:49] Speaker B: Yeah. My threshold for classifying it as bathroom humor is spawn kills everyone 2016. [00:10:00] Speaker A: Yes. [00:10:01] Speaker B: So if it's not that level of bathroom humor, I'm probably gonna miss it. [00:10:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:07] Speaker B: Cause it is explicit. [00:10:08] Speaker A: Yeah. That was some high levels of bathroom humor. I think spawn kills everyone, too. Has a lot of bathroom. Oh, yeah, it has. The bum bums. [00:10:15] Speaker B: Got the bum bums. The little, little babies. That's how we'll get there. [00:10:21] Speaker A: We'll get there. C two, e two. Next year we're doing spawn. [00:10:26] Speaker B: Cause everyone hash two number one spoilers. The way bum bums are created is they come from the bum. [00:10:33] Speaker A: Oh, wow. This is shocking. How this issue of spawn is created is not from the bum, but it's from many talented artists. [00:10:42] Speaker B: Oh, you'll have to tell me. Cause I do not have that pitch. [00:10:44] Speaker A: Oh, so we've got image comics presents the hunt, part two, which is the title of this issue. Story and art by Todd McFarlane. Yeah, because I've got the floppy. I don't remember if I mentioned I have the actual floppy. I picked it up in. At Comic Con. [00:11:00] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:11:00] Speaker A: When I got this year, actually, this one, I can't remember either. I got it at Comic Con, because I finished my 20 through 35, I think maybe 40 at Comic Con. But I got some of them at vintage stock in Tulsa on said trip that I mentioned. [00:11:14] Speaker B: Nice. [00:11:15] Speaker A: So collecting them all over spawn for everyone. They had, like, the vintage stock, actually, someone must have sold them their spawn collection. Or someone must have. A spawn hunter. A hunter. A spawn collector. I guess they are a spawn hunter. It's just. It's just a noun. [00:11:30] Speaker B: Now, I'm sure ties made it to tulsa a time or two. [00:11:34] Speaker A: Oh, I'm sure it travels a lot. But they have, like, one of the really low run, like, 200 whatever around there behind the case for, like, quite a bit of money. [00:11:43] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:11:44] Speaker A: But they had a couple of those, like, the runs that are, like, you know, that said. Was really rare. [00:11:49] Speaker B: That said that they know what their value is, because then you. [00:11:51] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. I was like, what the heck? How do you know this? It's also sad that, like, the fucking times that are, like, the lowest print runners that awesome Jason Shawn Alexander are. [00:12:00] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, man. [00:12:01] Speaker A: Because that. There's a lot of the time in that when that was the really low print run. [00:12:05] Speaker B: Yeah. And he did. Oh, man. Imagine getting some original art for that. Because he, like, actually, like, Thomas Healy said, actual art boards. [00:12:13] Speaker A: Right. That's gotta be crazy. [00:12:15] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:12:16] Speaker A: But art on this is Todd McFarlane, as I said. [00:12:19] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:12:19] Speaker A: Copy editor and letters by Tom Orczyczewski, our man from c two. E two. Our bud. [00:12:24] Speaker B: The best. [00:12:26] Speaker A: Our best man. He married us that picture. Getting married. [00:12:29] Speaker B: He did. He's he's an ordained minister. [00:12:31] Speaker A: And we said, can you marry us, please? [00:12:33] Speaker B: And then for some reason, we had a detour to the court. Courthouse. I don't know why we went, but, yeah, he was like, it's necessary for this signature here. That's. That's what he signed, actually. [00:12:43] Speaker A: It was a. Yeah, we got him $25 to sign our color by Steve, Olaf. And oleoptics, of course, part of the moot crew. Special thanks to Greg Capullo. So is he coming in here and helping out a little bit yet? [00:13:00] Speaker B: I think I'm, um. The fingers. The fingers in this issue are very Greg Capullo. So I wonder if he just has a little bit of uncredited finishings up. [00:13:11] Speaker A: Yeah, he might. Just. A special thanks, um, dedicated to Frank Miller. [00:13:18] Speaker B: Nice. When did he die? [00:13:20] Speaker A: He didn't. [00:13:21] Speaker B: He didn't. [00:13:22] Speaker A: He's just trying to do cross promotion with Batman spawn or something. I don't know. Maybe he's just dedicated to Frank Miller. [00:13:29] Speaker B: Well, I mean, I do know that they. They were, you know, friends, and Frank Miller did inspire a lot of. A lot of. A lot of people, so. Yeah. [00:13:37] Speaker A: I wonder how long he does it dedicated to until they stop. [00:13:39] Speaker B: I don't know. I guess we'll find out. [00:13:42] Speaker A: Yeah, we probably will find out. Yeah. But then it's got, like, just the regular full list of olioptics crew and all the other kind of random credits. And that is our credits. No. Previously on but this is the hunt, part two. [00:13:58] Speaker B: Nice. [00:13:59] Speaker A: I think the opening line says predictable. [00:14:02] Speaker B: Predictable. [00:14:03] Speaker A: What's predictable? Oh, we're opening on a mob. Ross Goonie. Predictable. [00:14:08] Speaker B: It is predictable. [00:14:10] Speaker A: No, but you've got this, like, moneymaker guy for the mob. [00:14:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:14] Speaker A: Joe Sackic. [00:14:15] Speaker B: The only thing he's missing is the little green. The little green visor that keeps the light out of his ass. [00:14:21] Speaker A: The cigarettes just bouncing in his mouth as he's typing on a typewriter. Or those little machines. What is that, an adding crank? [00:14:29] Speaker B: It. [00:14:29] Speaker A: Adding machine. Yeah, he's one of those. [00:14:31] Speaker B: Yeah. This guy doesn't have a cigarette, though. He just has the steamingest cup of coffee in the world. [00:14:36] Speaker A: Oh, I thought that was a cigarette. It's coffee. No, it is a cigarette. Cause look in the other panel. [00:14:40] Speaker B: Oh, well, there might be an ashtray. [00:14:44] Speaker A: Or two cups of coffee, but just look at the third or fourth panel. There's a coffee cup on the other side. Smoke's coming from. [00:14:52] Speaker B: But in this. In this one overview one like that, steam is literally. [00:14:55] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. [00:14:56] Speaker B: The steamiest cup of coffee. Johnny. [00:14:58] Speaker A: Hey, we'll get to it. There's a. There's a. [00:15:00] Speaker B: That's like. [00:15:01] Speaker A: There's a spawning ground letter about inconsistencies like this that I read. [00:15:04] Speaker B: Oh, nice. I didn't get that right. [00:15:07] Speaker A: No, that's the bonus. The floppy. [00:15:09] Speaker B: He must have got this. This cup of coffee from a gas station. Cause that shit is this just lower than the temperature of the sun for, like, 45 minutes. And then instantly goes too cold to drink? [00:15:22] Speaker A: Yeah, pretty much. [00:15:23] Speaker B: I don't understand how they do it. It's magic. So a question for you, Johnny. In your floppy issue you have there, who does it say that Joe Sackic works for? [00:15:32] Speaker A: Tony Twist. [00:15:33] Speaker B: Ah, I've got Vito Gravino. [00:15:35] Speaker A: They didn't change the name. [00:15:38] Speaker B: They changed the name because Tony Twist was the dude who sued. [00:15:41] Speaker A: Right. [00:15:41] Speaker B: Okay, so in the. In the reprints, it's Vito Gravino. Or you got the Tony. [00:15:45] Speaker A: Ah. I think maybe that's why I was confused. Because when I read it in the compendiums, it was gonna be Vito. It would be Vito. [00:15:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:55] Speaker A: Cause I was reading these, I was like, who is this Tony twist? I thought his name was, like, Vito something. [00:15:58] Speaker B: Yeah, he was a hockey player, right? Yeah, he was a hockey player. One of the episodes of spawnography. Actually plug for the other Spawn podcast. Not the best. [00:16:11] Speaker A: Wow. David. [00:16:12] Speaker B: Shots fired, Johnny. Um, but they. They had a good, succinct sort of background of that whole debacle. And why it is no longer Tony twist, but is instead Vito Gravino. [00:16:26] Speaker A: So, okay, go listen to that. [00:16:28] Speaker B: Go listen to spawnography. That if you like spawn, they'll give you more spawn. [00:16:33] Speaker A: So always good to have more spawn. [00:16:35] Speaker B: Spawn. As we've said, spawn has a big enough cape that everybody can fit in. You can listen to more than one Spawn podcast per week. I promise you. [00:16:43] Speaker A: And we want you to. [00:16:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:47] Speaker A: So then Joe's just working on crunching some numbers, putting his data together. [00:16:51] Speaker B: Yeah. He's, boom, scritching his pen. [00:16:54] Speaker A: Someone shows up. It's spawn. Massless spawn. His freshly anointed shoelace face. [00:17:00] Speaker B: Shoelace face. It's such a. Such a good image, the shoelace face in shadow. [00:17:05] Speaker A: Yeah. That's like, how the light reflects. They must be like Runner's shoelaces. If the light reflects off them, they're probably like running shoes. [00:17:14] Speaker B: True, true, true. [00:17:15] Speaker A: And so sponge is basically like, yo, this guy's been asking for me, sending. [00:17:19] Speaker B: Out. [00:17:21] Speaker A: Unhoused men after me, calling my name. What's going on? Where is this dude? Or I'm gonna kill you. [00:17:27] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. And this dude's just, like, trying to weasel his way out of saying stuff because he knows that's a bad idea. And then while he's trying to give a non answer answer, some goons bust. [00:17:45] Speaker A: In a badass looking slam too. Shout out to Tom o. Yeah, I love that. Like, the lettering on that slam. [00:17:51] Speaker B: Freeze. Freeze. Huh. I like how they're both like, huh, huh, huh, huh. And yeah, it's just a couple of Vito Tony gravino twists. [00:18:06] Speaker A: Goons with some crazy guns. There's some crazy guns in this issue. [00:18:10] Speaker B: Yeah, there are some crazy lots in this issue. And they just, they're just like, don't move. Don't move. And then spawns, chains move of their own volition. [00:18:21] Speaker A: And they're like, they lunge forwards like rattlesnakes. [00:18:23] Speaker B: Yeah, they're like, fill them full of lead. And then there's just casings everywhere. Casings, casings everywhere. Nor any drop to drink. [00:18:30] Speaker A: Such a cool image of his, of him just standing there with his arms out still and the changes going all around him. [00:18:38] Speaker B: It's like, it's like he's lazy. Wonder Woman there. He doesn't have to do the right. [00:18:44] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:18:45] Speaker B: But, you know, so the symbiote, the symbiote is protecting its host, and Al's finally getting used to the fact that it does this. And he's just like, do your thing. I'll wait. [00:18:59] Speaker A: And then they're just like, okay, after they run out of ammo, he throws a fucking, he throws the book at him. By book, I mean desk. [00:19:05] Speaker B: A whole desk. And then there's full books. Two little blood spots on the wall where they were, man. [00:19:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:13] Speaker B: Could you imagine throwing a full ass desk? I also like how all of David. [00:19:18] Speaker A: I hurt my shoulder sleeping and had to go to the doctor and get a shot, a painkiller, a steroid, and now a muscle relaxer. So, no, I can't imagine throwing a desk. [00:19:28] Speaker B: Oh, man. I like, I like that. This drawer. All of the stuff is in the drawer without falling out. [00:19:34] Speaker A: It's so cramped. I just imagine it's so cramp packed. Like you're that one drawer in your house where you're like, okay, one day I'm not gonna be able to open this. [00:19:40] Speaker B: The junk drawer. [00:19:41] Speaker A: Yeah. And it's like, one day the piece of tape or the tape dispensers gonna get stuck behind the track. [00:19:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:46] Speaker A: Won't be able to open this drawer, but you never, you just risk it, keep going with it. [00:19:49] Speaker B: My favorite thing about the junk drawer is you can clean out the junk drawer and throw away, like, a whole trash cans worth of shit. And there's still the same amount of stuff in the junk drawer. [00:20:00] Speaker A: It never gets any. [00:20:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:01] Speaker A: It never gets any smaller. [00:20:02] Speaker B: So then you could just smash some more stuff in it, and it's never any more full. [00:20:07] Speaker A: Right. It's a miserable. It's a magical thing. [00:20:09] Speaker B: It's like a quantum. A quantum hole in the universe or something that is in everybody's kitchen. [00:20:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:20:18] Speaker B: But, yeah, so these. These goons are no more. And so spawn turns his attention back to Joe, and Joe's over there, like, caught red handed being like, I was. [00:20:32] Speaker A: Unless it's tax time. He's not really good under pressure. [00:20:34] Speaker B: Yeah. So he was trying to. He did the mistake of when he had a second, instead of just running or doing something heroic, grabbed the one thing that he didn't want attention drawn to, because he was like, I'm going to destroy this. [00:20:51] Speaker A: Left it alone. [00:20:52] Speaker B: Spawn's just like, thank you. [00:20:54] Speaker A: And this is where Spawn finds out that they're keeping eyes on Terry, currently. [00:20:59] Speaker B: The spouse on Terry. I'll be borrowing these for a while, Joe. Thanks. [00:21:04] Speaker A: And as we find out, it's a death sentence for Joe, because three days from now, he was found in the George Washington Bridge. His hands, feet, severely, viciously decapitated. [00:21:14] Speaker B: And. Ain't got. Ain't got no bits, Johnny. They took his bits. [00:21:18] Speaker A: They took his generals. He just gets. He's a joan. John Doe. [00:21:22] Speaker B: John. John Doe 1994, 714. So. Bye. [00:21:26] Speaker A: That must be the release date. No, it would've been six. Yeah, yeah, but maybe they're saying it. I don't know. [00:21:32] Speaker B: I'm assuming they're saying that John Doe. There have been 700 John Doe deaths by June of 1994 just to show how violent New York City is. [00:21:42] Speaker A: Yeah, no one helps you here. [00:21:44] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:21:44] Speaker A: Like, Vampy says. [00:21:46] Speaker B: Vampy says, man, I don't know why. [00:21:50] Speaker A: Comic book ads. I thought it was just hilarious. Out of context. I was just like, what? [00:21:53] Speaker B: There's. There's a. This is gonna age me. I'm still on Facebook, Johnny. But there's a. There's a. I only did it cause. [00:22:00] Speaker A: Of my mental health. [00:22:01] Speaker B: So, yeah, there's a Facebook group called out of context comic panels. It's just the randomest shit. So funny. So that's. That's fun stuff. I always. [00:22:11] Speaker A: I love Facebook because it made me into a deranged person. [00:22:16] Speaker B: Get rid of it. [00:22:18] Speaker A: I still am. It's my origin story. And then I, like, get back on it, though. I'm becoming a little too normal. [00:22:25] Speaker B: You're gonna. You're gonna. You're gonna turn into a boomer if you do. [00:22:28] Speaker A: No, I can't get back on. [00:22:30] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:22:31] Speaker A: I. I have a burner account so I can look up, like, nerd stuff that's going on in the city and possibly to sell stuff on Facebook. Marketplace. Yeah, but it's like a fake burner, fake. Fake email. [00:22:43] Speaker B: Yeah, there are. There are a couple of people that. That's literally the only way I contact them. So I can't. I can't get rid of it. [00:22:49] Speaker A: No, that's true. I just did it in a manic state in the pandemic, and I have to live with the consequences. Hey, I gave people two weeks. I reached out to a lot of people and got their info and I. Wait. Gave. I gave, like, a two week notice. [00:23:01] Speaker B: I remember. [00:23:01] Speaker A: From me. [00:23:02] Speaker B: I remember because you nuked it. You didn't just turn it off. [00:23:07] Speaker A: I was done with it. I couldn't do it. It was just bad, you know? Hey, social media. [00:23:10] Speaker B: Social media is bad for your health. I. [00:23:12] Speaker A: If it is. If it is, which it probably is, but if you feel yourself, like, I. Why am I doing this? [00:23:17] Speaker B: Just. [00:23:17] Speaker A: Just get rid of it as a. [00:23:18] Speaker B: As a person. [00:23:19] Speaker A: You always come back. [00:23:20] Speaker B: Who? When? When I'm at night on the couch, like, I am tired, I need to go to bed. And then I look at instagram, and then I look back up and it's 45 minutes later. And I'm like, why didn't I just fucking go to sleep? Why did I do this? [00:23:34] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. [00:23:36] Speaker B: It's a drug. It's a drug. It's very addictive. But, Johnny, we get a close up on one of violator's eyes here. [00:23:43] Speaker A: Whoa. [00:23:44] Speaker B: Violator, he changed the color scheme of his eyes. [00:23:47] Speaker A: Oh, it's not. [00:23:49] Speaker B: No, it's a. [00:23:50] Speaker A: It's a fly. But it looks like it's a nice. Nice trick out. Yeah, nice fake out. Freak out. Fake out. [00:23:57] Speaker B: Yeah. And in the background, we hear Sam and twitch talking about the dude that they assaulted. Last issue. [00:24:05] Speaker A: Yep. [00:24:05] Speaker B: Jimmy the snitch. And all this is happening while this fly is just, you know, on top of the donut that Sam Burke is about to eat. [00:24:17] Speaker A: So, see, he's like. He's like, spitting up on it. [00:24:19] Speaker B: Yeah, this is. Oh, that's. How do you not notice a fly of that size on your donut? There's not even any sprinkles to get it confused with. [00:24:28] Speaker A: Maybe he doesn't even care. [00:24:30] Speaker B: He probably just. We've seen the inside of Sam's apartment. We know. [00:24:34] Speaker A: Yeah, he has to be okay with it. He's definitely, like, eating a piece of pizza with a fly on it on accident before. [00:24:39] Speaker B: Yeah, he's definitely, like, tried to sop up a spilled coffee with. With a piece of pizza and then just eating it. [00:24:48] Speaker A: Oh, my God. That sounds so fucking gross. [00:24:49] Speaker B: Yeah, we also know that he extinguishes his cigarettes in the coffee and then still drinks it. He'll complain about the taste, but he'll still drink it. Fucking love, Sam Burke. So he takes a big old bite of his donut and then just, you know, he's feeling good about. He's feeling himself, Johnny. He's as. [00:25:14] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a nice, like, big, big shot of Sam smiling, as they say. He's stoned as fuck. [00:25:18] Speaker B: Yeah, he does. He sure does. [00:25:21] Speaker A: Usually his eyes are closed. He's just, like, fucking stony McStoner face. [00:25:25] Speaker B: That's how you eat a donut, Johnny. [00:25:27] Speaker A: I mean, yeah, if you get stone, donuts are pretty damn good. [00:25:30] Speaker B: I mean, you don't even have to be stoned for donuts to be good. I fucking love donuts. They'll probably be the death of me, but what a way to go. [00:25:39] Speaker A: So they basically are gonna go at 10:00 p.m. go to the Port authority. Port authority to try to find spawn. [00:25:45] Speaker B: Mm hmm. [00:25:46] Speaker A: Because Jimmy told him he's in that four block radius there. [00:25:48] Speaker B: Yeah. And then he. And then Sam accuses twitch of stealing the last jelly donut. [00:26:00] Speaker A: And then Sam has a great rebuttal of those reddish gelatin stains on your shirt to jog your memory. So we got donut. There's donut. Now there's a lot of donut. [00:26:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:08] Speaker A: I mean, this poppy, that's the donut from the action figure. I mean, it pretty much is. [00:26:11] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we got an opening quote. [00:26:13] Speaker A: One of their coworkers is, like, harassing him, making fun of him. [00:26:16] Speaker B: Yep. His name is Fred. And Fred's just standing there also with one of the world's hottest cup of coffees. [00:26:22] Speaker A: Yes. They all must go to McDonald's coffee. [00:26:24] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Yeah. Yeah. This would have been pre. What year was that? [00:26:29] Speaker A: It's probably like 95. [00:26:31] Speaker B: 95. [00:26:31] Speaker A: 96, if I had to guess. [00:26:34] Speaker B: That poor lady, though. Jesus Christ. [00:26:35] Speaker A: I know. Yeah. The real story of it is real fucked up. [00:26:37] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real fucked up. It's labial fusion is how hot that coffee was. Could you imagine anything, how hot something has to be for anything on your body to fuse? [00:26:50] Speaker A: Oh, my God. That's awful. [00:26:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:52] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Then they just have, like, the world's best pr campaign. Be like, hot coffee. What an idiot, you know? [00:26:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, boy. I think, I think the settlement, like, barely covered the, the costs of all her surgeries and stuff, too. Wild. Wild. But anyway, speaking of coffee, Johnny Sam's rebuttal to coworker's funny joke about the ridden stimpy of New York's police department is to just spit chewed donut up into this hottest coffee cup. Yeah. [00:27:26] Speaker A: Just, like, spit the donut right in. [00:27:32] Speaker B: So gross. [00:27:33] Speaker A: And there's our toilet humor for the issue. [00:27:35] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Hey, my coffee. That, that reminds me of, um, I have a friend who, one of his favorite stories to tell is, uh, once he was driving, I think, through, through Linkin park a long, long time ago, and this dude came up to him, uh, tapped on his window, and he had, you know, he had a cup, and he was like, hey, man, do you have any money? And my friend was like, yeah, sure. And he threw a dollar in the cup, and, and the guy was like, hey, that was my drink. And then he, not a great story, but the number of times that this friend has told this story, he probably. [00:28:09] Speaker A: Feels really guilty about it. One time I was leaving, I was voting for Obama the second time, and I was leaving out having voted, and a guy asked me for any change. I was feeling all good in America, and I was like, you know what? I don't know, but whatever I have, you can have it. I pulled out a penny, and he went, Penny? Fuck you, man. Fuck you. I got really mad at me, and I was like, I'm sorry. I said I didn't know what I, I really didn't know. I was like, I had no idea how much change I had. I just had a penny. I'm sorry. Keep fucking Penny, man. I was like, okay, I apologize. [00:28:41] Speaker B: Sorry. Sorry about it. [00:28:42] Speaker A: Thanks, Obama. [00:28:43] Speaker B: Yeah, for real? For real, I guess. Thank, thanks. Thanks, John Bama Ojana. I'm trying to make your name into Obama, and it's not working right. [00:28:53] Speaker A: Don't do that. That's dangerous territory. We cut to Jason Wynn's office with the giant window with the crazy amount of blinds. [00:29:04] Speaker B: Yeah. Could you imagine having to be the person who has to clean those? Like, you'd have to. [00:29:09] Speaker A: Oh, man. [00:29:09] Speaker B: You have to bring in the scissor lift. [00:29:12] Speaker A: Yeah, definitely. It's crazy. [00:29:14] Speaker B: And he's just brooding. [00:29:16] Speaker A: He's brooding. He's pissed that, like, you can't get Terry. He's pissed that he became an angel guy for a bit, and no one knows what's going on. He's pissed that got leaked to the media. [00:29:25] Speaker B: All of his, all of his bosses are losing trust in him. [00:29:29] Speaker A: He just doesn't know. He just knows he will not fail. [00:29:32] Speaker B: This is, it's kind of like a pundit page, only it's, it's all, it's all one pundit. It's all just, just Jason Wynn. Just Jason Wynn pondering the mysteries of the universe. I like that little tiny computer he's got. Look at it. Look at how small it is. And then speaking of computers, we cut to another small computer with a, with a very diligent person, tippity, tappity, tippity tapping into it. And it's Terry, Terry Fitzgerald. He's filling out some reports in Russian. [00:30:05] Speaker A: And there's some kind of debacle at Columbia University in issues 1920, which are not out yet. [00:30:10] Speaker B: This is, is that different from the current debacle at Columbia University? [00:30:16] Speaker A: Probably. Well, I don't think Harry Houdini showed up at this one. [00:30:20] Speaker B: Well, we'll see, we'll see. It's, Harry Houdini started a encampment that the NYPD gets called on. And that's what's in issues 19 and 20. Johnny. [00:30:31] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just that prescient. [00:30:33] Speaker B: I mean, I just, like, I know history goes in cycles, but this is a little ridiculous. Johnny. [00:30:38] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a little ridiculous. I don't remember, I've read those issues. I don't remember having a Columbia. We'll find out on our special episode that we're saving those issues for. [00:30:46] Speaker B: Yeah, well, too, I don't remember, I don't remember him either. Surprise, surprise. But, but so Terry's, Terry's administrative assistant. Just eeks, eek. Look at this. Look at all those eeks. Oh, man. Tom o giving us the eek. And so Terry rushes out and he's like, julia, what is it? [00:31:11] Speaker A: The fucking, oh, it's a gift from Jared Leto on the set of Suicide Squad. [00:31:15] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. But it's a, it's a dead rat with a knife in it and says, dear Fritzie, you're a dead rat. Your friends. [00:31:26] Speaker A: Do you remember that Jared Leto sent like a rat? [00:31:28] Speaker B: Yeah, to somebody. He also sent like a condom. Condom to somebody. Yeah. [00:31:32] Speaker A: Woo. That's gross. [00:31:34] Speaker B: That's messed up. Messed up. I would have much rather have gotten a gift from Will Smith. Apparently Will Smith puts a lot of money into the gifts he gives his, his coworkers. [00:31:43] Speaker A: Nice. [00:31:44] Speaker B: Or at least used to this. Actually, the person that I'd want to work on a movie with. Specifically for the rap gift. Motherfucking Keanu Reeves. [00:31:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:55] Speaker B: That man does not like to keep a hold of his money. And it is great, but, like, in the best way. Not like he's bad with money. He's just like, this is what I need to live. Everything else. Yeah, fuck it. [00:32:06] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. So Terry says it's trouble. He's scared. So the first time these threats began. [00:32:13] Speaker B: Right here in River City. Johnny. Trouble with a capital P. And that stands for spawn. Spawn. That was sweaty. I am sweaty now. I need to go towel off. [00:32:30] Speaker A: We cut to bowels in Manhattan's back streets. [00:32:35] Speaker B: Yeah. And Al sitting in his. His. The first chair that the unhomed men have made him. So apparently they make him this chair in issues 19 and 20, because we haven't seen them put together a chair yet. [00:32:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:47] Speaker B: Also, in 30 years, Spawn has gained 200 pounds. [00:32:51] Speaker A: Yeah, he's like six. He doesn't have the big boots yet. [00:32:53] Speaker B: Ah, true, true, I guess. Yeah. [00:32:55] Speaker A: Each of those boots is, like a hundred pounds. [00:32:58] Speaker B: Yeah, each. Each of the. If they. Each. Each boot weighs as much as a bootsy. [00:33:02] Speaker A: Each booty goes bootsy. [00:33:06] Speaker B: So he's just sitting there on this chair in the alley, reading the file on Terry, and he's like, God, no. Vito thinks I'm Terry said to mine. [00:33:17] Speaker A: It says, God, no. Twist thinks I'm Terry. [00:33:21] Speaker B: It's a very good panel here. It's very analogous to the Jason Wynn panel earlier. [00:33:26] Speaker A: Yeah. It's like the two dueling people at their thrones. [00:33:31] Speaker B: It's like if it were an anime and they were about to battle, the static image of them hurling insults would be Jason Nguyen. Spawn. Like this, right? [00:33:43] Speaker A: On the throne. [00:33:44] Speaker B: On the throne. Oh, man. Don't give the toddfather any ideas, Johnny, about on the throne. I'm surprised there wasn't an on the throne joke in the lead up too. I wonder how many times Todd McFarlane, in his additional scripts plot was like, hey, hey, Rory. Hey, Rory, make a. Make an on the throne joke. [00:34:03] Speaker A: And Rory McConville was like, no, not gonna do it. The bum bums just pop out of the throne. [00:34:11] Speaker B: Could you imagine? [00:34:13] Speaker A: Additional plot by toddler Farlane. So then they're going to cut back to Tony Twist, aka Vito, and he's. [00:34:21] Speaker B: Talking to a fucking. It's like the mob version of Sam. [00:34:27] Speaker A: And Twitch year, basically. [00:34:29] Speaker B: He's got, like, a doctor Victor von Frankenstein he's talking to or some shit. [00:34:34] Speaker A: Doctor light from Mega man. [00:34:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:37] Speaker A: Or Doctor Wily. I guess he's bad Doctor Eggman. They got someone in the room there, but they weren't able to completely wipe his memories. [00:34:45] Speaker B: Yeah, sure, because they keep talking about some youngblood team the government commands about. The youngbloods resisted their delete commands. Jen, Tony, Vito Gratwist has, like, a little. A little bitty. The thinnest remote in existence. Johnny. That's even thinner than the radio. The remote control that came with my radio. And year of our lord, 2008, and this was 1994. I don't even think batteries are that thin. Finished remote control, Johnny. And he, uh. He clicks it. He click click click clacks it click click clicks. It clicks. [00:35:27] Speaker A: It goes beep, beep. And it unlocks as you turn the page. Overkill. Overkill. [00:35:32] Speaker B: Oh, God. He's. He's. He's tied into all sorts. It's very. It's very, uh. The operating room in Rhett city number one. [00:35:38] Speaker A: Johnny. Yes. It also reminds me of there was a. Whatever they did, the death of Superman. And they had the four new supermen. [00:35:44] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:35:45] Speaker A: One of them was like a cyborg superman that had all these wires attached to him. I remember on the COVID inside I had that issue. It reminds me of that. [00:35:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:51] Speaker A: I like wires and stuff. [00:35:53] Speaker B: Like just belts holding them down. [00:35:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:57] Speaker B: And then we get a little callback to the violator miniseries. [00:36:02] Speaker A: He's gotta go check out another one of his situations. A situation he's like, soon I'll have spawned dead. We didn't say ride out, but he says he's getting rid of two nuisances when you over spawn and clown, so. Yeah, but we all know aka Tony Twist is living the high life. [00:36:17] Speaker B: Yeah, he sure is. With his little toothpick and his pinky. [00:36:23] Speaker A: Yeah. Cut back to Terry. He's at home. He just, like, ran like 20 miles. Looks like he's in, like, a nice running outfit. [00:36:29] Speaker B: Yeah, he's just. He's just sitting there and he's just like, brooding, hopeless Johnny, hopeless. [00:36:36] Speaker A: And he notices. Yeah, there's the two CIA people watching him. [00:36:40] Speaker B: And he's like, he's like Cyan and Wanda or with granny Blake and they're not answering the phone. [00:36:45] Speaker A: He's just stressed out, man. [00:36:47] Speaker B: Yeah, but not only. Not only is the CAA guys parked out beside his house, but up pull some. Some g men or some thugs. I guess it's g men and thugs. [00:37:01] Speaker A: That g men were government already. There's gangsters. Pull up. Yeah, the mob gangsters. [00:37:07] Speaker B: Yeah, couple of Vito Gravino's leg breakers. The government? [00:37:12] Speaker A: Don't you mean Tony Twiss? [00:37:13] Speaker B: Yes, I do. [00:37:15] Speaker A: Wait, that's hilarious. Cause this isn't that a couple of Tony's toiselli's goons? Yours says leg breakers. [00:37:22] Speaker B: Oh, so the. The narration says leg breakers, but. Oh, yeah. [00:37:26] Speaker A: Yes. Okay, cool. Yeah. Okay, I noticed that. So they're coming out. CIA sees them. Okay, let's stop them. [00:37:32] Speaker B: And this guy, this. This one CIA agent, notices what they're packing. Jonah, he's looking. He's looking at their hardware. Yeah, maybe he needs to get out of the office a little more. No, but, yeah, so the goons have these machine guns, and the CIA guys just have their little standard issue pistols. [00:37:54] Speaker A: Yeah, they're not faring too well. So then Terry, in kind of a crazy maneuver, which the narration calls out, it says, not a rational move, grabs his own rifle. [00:38:04] Speaker B: It just runs outside. Like, instead of letting them take care of themselves, he's like, I need to get in the middle of this. [00:38:11] Speaker A: Just, like, jump into the neighbor's yard just to watch out for the bullets. [00:38:15] Speaker B: Yeah, because the goons and the g men both stop firing at each other to shoot at Terry. [00:38:22] Speaker A: Yeah. What do you think's gonna happen? [00:38:24] Speaker B: Terry's just, like, hiding under a bush. Hiding under a bushel, Johnny. [00:38:28] Speaker A: And then just shooting. It looks like the agents are hit. [00:38:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:33] Speaker A: And then all falls silent. [00:38:35] Speaker B: Yeah. So they. They yell about the. As the goons go away, they're like, we have your wife and daughter at this park. [00:38:42] Speaker A: We have your wife and daughter. Meet us there at midnight. [00:38:46] Speaker B: Yeah, we get. We. We have. The narrator needs to let us know that they're with Granny Blake. They're just outside doing some outside shit. [00:38:55] Speaker A: This is before cell phones. Yes, that's the thing. You might think your whole family's kidnapped. They're just outside. [00:39:00] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Somewhere else. [00:39:02] Speaker A: But then Terry's in trouble. [00:39:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:04] Speaker A: Cause there's two fucking dead g men. [00:39:06] Speaker B: Yeah, boy. [00:39:09] Speaker A: So he runs his neighbor's yard. [00:39:12] Speaker B: Yeah. And there's sirens coming his way. That looked good for Terry. Good old Terry. We cut back to Al sitting on his chair. And then homedman comes up to him and is like, al, hey, Al, he's coming. He's coming over on six. So we learned that this is overt kill is the him he's talking about. And Al's like, the files were correct. Then this guy informs Al that there's somebody else in a suit. And it turns out Terry. Terry's there, too. And then Al's like, shit, I gotta get over there. [00:39:47] Speaker A: And then my favorite part of the issue comes up. He's like, I got a little help tucked away. [00:39:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:52] Speaker A: So we'll get back to that. [00:39:53] Speaker B: But we cut quickly to. To Terry hiding behind a dumpster while overtkill just barrels down on him. [00:40:01] Speaker A: And is like, Terry's looking stylish. Looks like James Bond. [00:40:05] Speaker B: Yeah. And Terry starts praying and being like, oh, boy, this isn't gonna end well. And then we come back to spawn doing that thing that you do when you're late. [00:40:16] Speaker A: Yeah, this is what cracked me up. That's why I said, this is my favorite part. He's just looking for his keys, man. He can't find where he put this gun. [00:40:20] Speaker B: Yeah, he's just digging through the trash that he hid it under. And he's like, I can't find him. It's the only thing I know I can take down overt kill. Where are they? And then Johnny, he gets a gun right to his temple. [00:40:33] Speaker A: Don't move. A long barreled pistol. [00:40:36] Speaker B: Hmm. [00:40:36] Speaker A: Who would you know that uses that? [00:40:38] Speaker B: Then we get a shadow from the background going, great work, twitch. Good job. [00:40:42] Speaker A: Yeah, Sam's just over there eating spaghetti. [00:40:47] Speaker B: Spawn says, feliz, I don't need this right now. And then the thing that I don't understand. So we get. We get a necroplasm meter, but then it says, and to his friends, what's. What is the end to his friends? [00:40:59] Speaker A: I have no idea. I thought maybe clarified in yours, I thought maybe it was the error. [00:41:03] Speaker B: No, I was hoping that I missed something and I would catch it on this time. [00:41:07] Speaker A: No, I tried three times to figure that out. I don't know. And to his friends, to be continued. [00:41:13] Speaker B: Should. I should have asked Tom about that while we were at c two e two. All of these questions we now know that we should have asked him, Johnny. [00:41:20] Speaker A: Put it on the list. Next time we see him, we'll ask him. [00:41:24] Speaker B: That's it for me. I ain't got nothing anymore in this book, Johnny. [00:41:27] Speaker A: Well, I do. I got, like, fucking 20 more goddamn pages here. Ready for the solo show? [00:41:31] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm just gonna close my eyes so I can listen better. [00:41:35] Speaker A: Yeah, sure, sure. Just like Donald Trump at the trial, right? Your beautiful blue eyes just so you can soak it all in. [00:41:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:41:44] Speaker A: No, we got the image info. Terry Fitzgerald's complaining about hockey stuff. Talks about, like, going to some toy shows. Says you should be reading Savage Dragon. Just all the classic image hype. Got a whole page of all these different image titles. You know, a whole bunch of. Not going to go through each one. And the big part of letters, we got three letters. One of them. The first one up, is basically just a big fan of the spawn Batman crossover. Since it's really fun and just heaps a lot of praise on Todd there. [00:42:18] Speaker B: I mean, it was pretty fun. Not gonna lie. [00:42:20] Speaker A: There's another one that is, the second letter is the one that counts the mistakes. He said he read the Batman spawn quest about eight times. I like to be thorough. And they notice a couple of mistakes. The first was that the battle gloves Batman used on pages three and four, the gloves had fingers on them, but the rest of the pages, the fingers were gone. The second most common mistake was Spawn's mask. It would be on one page or so. Then they would be shot. There would be shot with it off. This happened throughout the whole story. Looked pretty weird. Then a couple other things about like size of knives and size of chains, size of swords are off. And then topfather just goes, look, the mask is fairly simple. Costume is live. That includes the mask. So whatever it could do, whatever the hell it wants. [00:43:04] Speaker B: Woo. Justification. [00:43:06] Speaker A: And as reason number two, I just mess up all the time and make mistakes, which, hey, nice to admit, everyone makes mistakes. [00:43:12] Speaker B: I mean, just Shakira, Shakira. As Giselle did say, I'll keep on making those big mistakes. Keep making them every day. Zootopia is a good movie, Jonny. [00:43:23] Speaker A: And then the third letter is, he loves the stories of Spawn, who doesn't? And he says, thanks to the kind word. And the final one. Yeah, they're always pretty, pretty nice. Pretty nice letters. [00:43:35] Speaker B: This issue, nothing too means, except for that one. [00:43:38] Speaker A: So that one is all about the mistakes. Even then he likes, he read the fucking issue eight times. [00:43:41] Speaker B: Eight times. [00:43:42] Speaker A: Jesus. [00:43:43] Speaker B: I wonder if that was his attempt at trying to be like, you know, Tom O has too many jobs as it is. I can be your editor. Hire me. I notice things. [00:43:54] Speaker A: Then we've got a savage dragon pinup, which is pretty cool. Some of the violator fan art from the ongoing violator miniseries that we've covered when the violator issue. And then there's a huge thing, like five pages long on the making and release of the Wildcat Saturday morning cartoon. There's a whole bunch of info on that, about the making of and behind the scenes and just kind of announcing it. So pretty cool. Down the back, you get a lovely ad for Gen 13. That's the horny Jason Scott Alexander. Jason Scott Campbell. [00:44:32] Speaker B: Yeah. Scott Campbell. [00:44:33] Speaker A: Or Scott, what's his name? Scott Campbell. [00:44:36] Speaker B: I think it's Scott Campbell. Yeah. [00:44:38] Speaker A: Jay Scott Campbell. [00:44:39] Speaker B: I don't think it's. Oh, yeah, Jay. It is. Jay. Jay. Scott Campbell. Yeah. [00:44:42] Speaker A: Yeah. It was all the sexy ladies, so. [00:44:44] Speaker B: We love it because he did the. He did danger girl. [00:44:48] Speaker A: Yes. Very similar to Gen 13. [00:44:50] Speaker B: Very nice. [00:44:52] Speaker A: That's your spawn. That's spawn 22. [00:44:54] Speaker B: Nice. 22. [00:44:55] Speaker A: Straight to you. [00:44:56] Speaker B: Doo doo. [00:45:05] Speaker A: All right, so next up, we're back to our modern spawn, where we got gunslinger 29, the first standalone gunslinger since the big 350 event, where there was the Flash and everyone lost their powers. [00:45:17] Speaker B: Yeah, the Flash ran on his cosmic treadmill and fucked up the timeline. [00:45:23] Speaker A: Always. Always doing that shit. [00:45:24] Speaker B: Always doing. I mean, how dare he? Barry Allen, what are you doing? [00:45:28] Speaker A: No, the Flash was an issue in Spawn. [00:45:31] Speaker B: Oh, so you mean Jay Garrick. Gotcha. Gotcha. Wally. [00:45:34] Speaker A: What? [00:45:35] Speaker B: I'm just naming flashes. [00:45:37] Speaker A: Stop it. [00:45:39] Speaker B: The Flash is actually really fun. I don't know if you've ever read any flash, but I just try not. [00:45:44] Speaker A: To confuse people to maybe try to figure out what this is. The Flash after 350. [00:45:50] Speaker B: So. So you're saying the big green. The big green light from when Nix put her, took us down on the throne and took everyone out of hell if they didn't believe. [00:46:03] Speaker A: Out of hell and out of power, out of time, surrounded by evil, low on gas. [00:46:10] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:46:11] Speaker A: That's the army darkness tagline. [00:46:13] Speaker B: Yes, it is. [00:46:15] Speaker A: So we've got two covers here, as you do with the new spawn, and I have got the B cover here in front of me. The Thaddeus Roebuck. [00:46:27] Speaker B: It's cover a. That's what it says on the back. [00:46:30] Speaker A: It is. [00:46:31] Speaker B: Because that's the one I have. [00:46:31] Speaker A: Oh, well, it says it's just in the wrong order on the inside, then. Whoops. [00:46:37] Speaker B: All right. [00:46:37] Speaker A: Because the other side says von Randall. Thaddeus Robeck. But, yeah, sorry. [00:46:40] Speaker B: Yep. It happens. [00:46:41] Speaker A: Yeah, no, it's covering. It's covering Thaddeus Robec. It's like a white background with, like, gunslinger, just kind of cel shaded looking. [00:46:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Just standing next to a barbed wire fence. He's got a. He's got his. His hat on a rifle bayonet. [00:46:55] Speaker A: Just pretty cool over there. [00:46:58] Speaker B: That's. That's wild. I've never seen a bayonet on a pump action rifle, but. Or not a pump action. A lever action rifle. [00:47:06] Speaker A: Yeah. You'd be swinging them knife around all the time. [00:47:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Because usually the bayonet is there for hard to reload guns. So that way, when you get into it, you could just say, fuck. Using it as a gun. It's a spear. [00:47:19] Speaker A: Now with the b cover, which we were both like, oh, man. Yeah, maybe she got that one by Vaughn Randall. [00:47:27] Speaker B: Yeah. It's just gunslinger standing there in a very dramatic fashion. Tall hat, necrosig guns to his side in shadow. [00:47:40] Speaker A: Yeah, it's pretty cool. [00:47:41] Speaker B: Very cool. [00:47:41] Speaker A: Stylized. I like it. [00:47:43] Speaker B: Very good. [00:47:44] Speaker A: But, you know, there's so much spawn. I had to go down to get just one per issue. And just. There's only so much space, spacetime, money. That's what it all comes down to. [00:47:53] Speaker B: So much spawn. [00:47:55] Speaker A: There's so much they're actually asking about at challengers Dallas, like, so, John, did you stop getting the double covers on spawn because there's more spawn or what's up? But he was just, like, kind of, you know, just wondering. And I was like, well, yeah, there's more. So, like, I don't have the same amount of room. There's now a lot more spawn. So, like, I don't. Like, I gotta pick and choose now. If I want to get everything, then I can't. I don't really want to get bee covers and stuff. [00:48:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:20] Speaker A: Back was just four things. I was super excited into it. It was fine to do, like, all. [00:48:24] Speaker B: That, but, like, now that's, like, now that there's. Now that there's so much. And you're just a jaded, old, cynical podcaster, and you're like, exactly. [00:48:30] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. [00:48:31] Speaker B: Give me my shit. [00:48:33] Speaker A: I kind of. With the David philosophy, like, I don't buy something unless I'm going to read it. [00:48:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:38] Speaker A: And so, like, I try to do that. [00:48:39] Speaker B: I say that, and then I have a, like, three foot tall stack of books, like, regular books, that I'm like, I'm gonna read those. And it continues to get taller without getting shorter. [00:48:52] Speaker A: That's how it goes. [00:48:53] Speaker B: Sometimes you gotta use the library, because the library says, you better read this fucking book, or you're not gonna have it to read anymore. And that's the motivation I need to finish a book. [00:49:02] Speaker A: There you go. Another reason to love the library. [00:49:05] Speaker B: Yeah. I should probably also stop reading. So complicated of books. [00:49:10] Speaker A: Hey, at least you're reading, man. Yeah, it's good to be reading books. [00:49:13] Speaker B: Fun. It's fun. Reading is fun, Johnny. [00:49:15] Speaker A: Reading is fundamental. [00:49:17] Speaker B: Ooh. Thank you. Ah. I was seeing advertisements for scholastic book fairs happening at elementary schools around me, and I was like, ah. Ah. I love this. [00:49:29] Speaker A: It's time. Well, speaking of reading, we all have our favorite illiterate hero here. [00:49:35] Speaker B: Yes, we do, but maybe not our favorite. [00:49:38] Speaker A: There's a lot of good illiterate heroes. Like, I bet Caesar of Planet of the apes probably couldn't read. [00:49:43] Speaker B: I don't know. Caesar's pretty fucking smart. Him did say ape. No, kill ape. [00:49:48] Speaker A: Apes together strong. [00:49:49] Speaker B: Apes together strong. [00:49:51] Speaker A: Yeah. Maybe when Anakin is a slave, maybe he can't read. It depends on. Well, I guess he's a mechanic, so they probably taught him how to read. Hmm. Tricky. [00:50:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:50:02] Speaker A: Jar Jar Binks probably can't read. [00:50:04] Speaker B: No, I'm sure he can read. Gungan, I think. I think. [00:50:07] Speaker A: Not basic. Oh, that's not galactic human basic. [00:50:11] Speaker B: He probably does have a translator for all his documents. And the galactic senate. [00:50:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:17] Speaker B: Mesa can't read this. [00:50:19] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, Misa ready to open up this cover. [00:50:25] Speaker B: All right. [00:50:27] Speaker A: And we have the credits. [00:50:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:50:31] Speaker A: Do you want to do this one? David decided the last one. [00:50:34] Speaker B: I would love to do the credits. So for this one, we got script, plot. Guess who? Todd McFarland. [00:50:41] Speaker A: Todd McFarlane. It was a double Todd day on script and plot, and I never would. [00:50:46] Speaker B: Have guessed that this was written by Todd McFarlane. [00:50:48] Speaker A: Never. There's not, like, really obvious tells. [00:50:51] Speaker B: Yeah. Art by Carlo Barberi. His first. His first full gunslinger, and it's. It's dope. It was a little bit of a transition, getting away from expecting a Brett Booth gunslinger, but Carlo Barberry just does good work. So Ivan nun doing the art or the color? Tommo doing the letter. Another double Tom o'Day, Johnny. [00:51:13] Speaker A: He loves the gunslinger stuff, as we know. [00:51:15] Speaker B: Yes, we do. He loves the tall hat. We covered the covers. Creative director Todd McFarlane, editor in chief Thomas Healy. And this one does have a previous Lijiani. So previously in Gunslinger, following the aftermath of the events of Spawn number 350, gunslinger has become the target of the forces of heaven. He's kind of been the target of the forces of heaven the whole time. [00:51:39] Speaker A: This whole time. It's kind of the first thing exciting incident that gets him. Taylor and everything. [00:51:44] Speaker B: Yeah, Taylor's fucking dead. Agent of heaven. But. So we start. [00:51:50] Speaker A: Shit. It's not called the Flash. It's called the change. Does he call it the Flash later in the issue? [00:51:56] Speaker B: I don't know. Well, we'll get there. We'll get there. We can. We can. We can retcon after we get there. How about that? [00:52:02] Speaker A: Okay, so, yeah, we open the motel. It's like no more heroes. [00:52:06] Speaker B: The video game with the biggest tee. Look at how big that tea is in motel. I love it. It's great. It's a great sign. Mot l quin bets. [00:52:18] Speaker A: Been weeks since the change when suddenly everybody became mortal. [00:52:22] Speaker B: It was right there, Johnny. We didn't have to look for. [00:52:24] Speaker A: I know. That's what I said is the change. That's what I said. I saw that. Okay. [00:52:28] Speaker B: I thought, okay, is there some obscure. [00:52:31] Speaker A: DC superhero called the change you could make a joke about? [00:52:34] Speaker B: Not that I know if there's. There's shade, there's shade, the changing man. But that's not the change. [00:52:40] Speaker A: The change. [00:52:40] Speaker B: A change. [00:52:41] Speaker A: Or he just has bags of pennies. [00:52:43] Speaker B: I was about to say he just rides around in people's pockets as loose coins. [00:52:49] Speaker A: Yeah. And pops out. [00:52:51] Speaker B: This motel has HBO, Johnny. Hell, yeah. [00:52:55] Speaker A: You can watch spawn if they have HBO go. Maybe you can watch the old episodes. [00:52:58] Speaker B: Yeah, you can. And, you know, just a quick recap of what happened where everybody became mortal again with no powers after the change, we get the saddest panel ever of this little crumpled. The crumpled hat, just. Just like widow, the hats on tall. But Javi's sleeping in this bed, and he's got bags of money, bags of guns, and, you know, his dirty laundry. That's all he's got to his name. [00:53:27] Speaker A: And a bunch of wounds, and he's. [00:53:30] Speaker B: So along with the. The change is that he doesn't heal as well. And, you know, he wakes up, goes to the bathroom, and he's like, ah, geez, why am I not healing? And then just, like, reveals that he's basically ground beef. [00:53:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:46] Speaker B: It was like, why isn't this healing? And it's like, good lord. How are you alive? I wonder. I wonder if he's got. Since he's got, like, that loner body. I wonder if his loner body is just, like, accelerating degeneration now. Because, remember, every time he changed from Gunslinger to Javi, he only had so much time as Javi before it started to fall apart. Right? [00:54:13] Speaker A: That's what they said. Yeah. [00:54:15] Speaker B: So he's just. He's just falling apart. He's like Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep at the end of death, becomes her. Just taping themselves back together and trying to. Trying to make up over all their gaping wounds. [00:54:31] Speaker A: Or, like, I've just read race of the broken land. They put oats in his skull. He gets shot, and, like, he stuffs oats in there. [00:54:39] Speaker B: Then later, they're like, why the fuck did you do? [00:54:42] Speaker A: Yeah, why do you put oats in your mood? [00:54:45] Speaker B: He dies anyway. Oh, spoilers for wraiths of the broken lands. Basically, everybody fucking dies. Even if they live, they technically dialogue. [00:54:54] Speaker A: They become the race that they were. Very race. They were fleeing. [00:54:57] Speaker B: Oh, man. He was supposed to. Yeah, he destroyed the wraiths, not become them. [00:55:02] Speaker A: Johnny who? Yeah, exactly. But they didn't. [00:55:06] Speaker B: Yeah, he. So he showers, and he shaves, putting on his. He's putting on his boots. He gets the knock knock lock, as you said. Answers the door with a gun. [00:55:17] Speaker A: As you do. [00:55:18] Speaker B: Yes, you do. It's, uh. And Johnny, it's ol Linder, my favorite. I love old Linder. She's great. [00:55:26] Speaker A: Linda. I call her Linder. [00:55:28] Speaker B: I have a friend whose mom's name is Linda, and they refer to her as Olender. So I. Okay, I think it's funny enough that old Linder, so those Linda's to me are now Linder. [00:55:43] Speaker A: Okay, well, this is Linda if you are human. [00:55:46] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. David is dumb, but, yeah, we got Linda here, and Javi's like, no, no, thank you for the room service. And she's like, it's been three days. I gotta get in there eventually. [00:55:58] Speaker A: I also just noticed, like, the world's biggest, fucking most confusing fucking mistake in this issue of the comic. It's just like, what? He, like, clocks her name from her name tag. He can't read. [00:56:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:14] Speaker A: But he uses it later to be like, oh, Linda, there you are. He, like, clocks it from that. Like, then literally, the next page, she's like, you can't read. [00:56:22] Speaker B: Oh, when we get there, we'll cover that. So, 1st. 1st, we cut to angels in a conference room being like, homo nama. Homo na na ma. Gunslingers killed all our guys. And then, you know, that's. That's basically it. Gunslinger killed all their guys. And then we go back to Linda, and she runs into a guy she knows, and he says, hey, Linda. I'm assuming that. [00:56:46] Speaker A: Oh, there you go. Okay, you got me. I try to look for mistakes. [00:56:51] Speaker B: Gotcha. Gotcha. Have you read it? Eight times, Johnny. [00:56:55] Speaker A: No, that one guy got me. Then get to get to read it three times. [00:57:01] Speaker B: But, yeah. So this guy, he's a no good nick, as they say, trying to convince. [00:57:05] Speaker A: Yeah, this is the guy for, like, the first issue of Gunslinger, this hang on. The dinosaur room, right? [00:57:08] Speaker B: Yeah, something like that. [00:57:10] Speaker A: I'm pretty sure it is. It's just like the bad guy. Big bad guy. [00:57:12] Speaker B: Yeah. And, uh, he's trying to convince Linda to come work for him to do some unsavoriness. Um, Linda, that. That's what. You're a fine, fine woman. We could both make a lot of money off of that. [00:57:26] Speaker A: Oh, you already skipped over the whole angel boardroom. [00:57:28] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. What? I said. I said the angels in the boardroom, and then they're just upset that Javi killed their guys, and that's all there is to talk about. [00:57:36] Speaker A: I know. Okay. [00:57:37] Speaker B: Oh, did you want to go back to that? Because we could talk. [00:57:39] Speaker A: No, we also get this cool picture of all the spawns, which is fun. [00:57:42] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. That's real cool. [00:57:43] Speaker A: Whatever. [00:57:44] Speaker B: Is that. Is that a gumshoe spawn, Johnny? [00:57:47] Speaker A: Yeah, it is, you spawn. [00:57:49] Speaker B: Nice. I bet, Carl. That probably means Carla Barbera is the one who came up with that design. [00:57:54] Speaker A: He's probably a fan. [00:57:55] Speaker B: Yeah, he probably loves the fedora guy. Not, like, fedora guy, like, Internet fedora guy, but, like, I don't. [00:58:01] Speaker A: The dwarves actual good fedora guy. [00:58:03] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a nice, tall hat, though. I'm sorry that I skipped over it now, but. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this guy's trying to get Linda to do some unsavoriness stuff, and Javi swings by and, you know, like, Linda, sweetheart, give me a kiss. And then the guys. The guys leave after Javi shows them the coat full of knives. [00:58:30] Speaker A: Yeah. It's like, wow, her boyfriend's just got a coat full of knives and guns. That's pretty crazy. [00:58:34] Speaker B: Yeah. And then Linda gives him what for. Geez, man. She is very unhappy with. With his performance there, and rightly so, potentially, because we see that she takes it back later, but she's very upset. She's like, you just made my life worse than it needed to be. Thanks for that, you dick. Although. Although he reverts to calling her ma'am because that's. That's his properness. And she's like, stop calling me ma'am, God damn it. [00:59:07] Speaker A: I call people ma'am. [00:59:08] Speaker B: Yeah. A lot of. A lot of people very much do not like it, so that's why I just call everybody dude. [00:59:15] Speaker A: Yeah, I stopped using. I got up here because, like, I didn't realize growing up in Oklahoma, like, ma'am was just. Well, you called every there. [00:59:22] Speaker B: If you did not. If you did not call a woman visibly older than you ma'am, they were like, it's ma'am, but up here. Yeah, no, they get you. [00:59:31] Speaker A: No, no, no, they get you in trouble. [00:59:33] Speaker B: So everybody's. [00:59:34] Speaker A: I say miss, or yes. I don't say miss. That's weirder. [00:59:37] Speaker B: What do I miss? [00:59:38] Speaker A: A. I just say. I don't know what I say. [00:59:42] Speaker B: I call him dude. Hey, dude. [00:59:44] Speaker A: Hey, dude. There you go. [00:59:45] Speaker B: Don't get gender neutral, dude. It's fucking great in a profession in a professional context too, you know? I'll call people doctor, dude. I like to call people doctor their first name instead of doctor their last name, because it's fun. Maybe a bit of a power move, but nobody's yelled at me for it yet, so. [01:00:03] Speaker A: Wow. Get taking those doctors down to peg. [01:00:06] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. I don't like. I don't like a doctor that insists on being called doctor. I like a doctor who's like, no, no, no. Please, just call me by my actual name. Not my type. Those are the doctors that I like. [01:00:16] Speaker A: Well, these are not the men that Linda likes. Are these ma'am? Craft, the macho B's. Thinks there's some Quentin Tarantino character. [01:00:22] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. [01:00:23] Speaker A: I wonder who wrote this. [01:00:25] Speaker B: I mean, obviously the toddfather. Has your phone tapped, Johnny. [01:00:29] Speaker A: Yes, that's me. No, but I'm just saying. Todd father. [01:00:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:33] Speaker A: Loves to mention Tarantino. [01:00:34] Speaker B: Tarantino anytime. [01:00:36] Speaker A: It's nothing, tough guy. [01:00:37] Speaker B: Yeah. And then. And then while Linda's yelling at Javi, the guys run over his motorcycle, and I like. That was your ride, wasn't it? Not anymore. [01:00:51] Speaker A: Not anymore. [01:00:52] Speaker B: Hilarious. I love it. I love it. [01:00:56] Speaker A: Javi just, like, gives up and plops out of the bed. [01:00:59] Speaker B: He's like Jennifer Conley being told she has to babysit her younger brother while her parents go out on a date. It's just not fair. And then he's, you know, he's cradling his wounds, and he's having a. He's basically having a flashback to what gave him his wounds. [01:01:18] Speaker A: This is like me with my shoulder sleeping on the. [01:01:20] Speaker B: Sleeping on the wrong. [01:01:22] Speaker A: It's been two weeks. Why. Why are. The wounds aren't healing. [01:01:25] Speaker B: Yeah, but. So we get the cupcake. [01:01:27] Speaker A: Cause you're over 35, Javi. [01:01:29] Speaker B: We get the cup. [01:01:30] Speaker A: He's not. [01:01:30] Speaker B: No, he's. He's over, like, 200 years old. [01:01:34] Speaker A: I know, Sybil. [01:01:35] Speaker B: W times. [01:01:36] Speaker A: I know. His body isn't. [01:01:38] Speaker B: I don't know that. That symbiote. Symbiote. How did I pronounce that? That was weird. That symbiote. [01:01:45] Speaker A: I mean, like, his hobby body. [01:01:46] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know, Johnny. I don't know. I don't know. I don't think they. [01:01:50] Speaker A: He's not 200 years old. He's pulled through time. Think about it. [01:01:54] Speaker B: Yeah, but the symbiote's probably thousands of years old because it was created, you know, back. [01:01:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. [01:01:59] Speaker B: It probably is back in the window. [01:02:00] Speaker A: So back in the way back. They're like, one day, there will be the old west, so let's make one that's like the old west. The old west hasn't happened yet, so it's technically the future west. [01:02:08] Speaker B: So it's the new west. [01:02:09] Speaker A: So technically. [01:02:10] Speaker B: Technically, at one point, western attire would have technically been the cyberpunk of the past. Like, can you imagine guys walking around with little pew pew pew pews and hats and spurs and shit? [01:02:25] Speaker A: It's true. [01:02:26] Speaker B: Wilds. We need a. We need a, like, a western aesthetic cyberpunk. That would be great, I guess. I guess that's Trigun, isn't it? Yeah, I guess that's cowboy bebop, isn't it? [01:02:36] Speaker A: Jonah hacks? [01:02:38] Speaker B: Johnny, let me be wrong. Come on. Cowboy bebop is good. If you haven't watched it, it's only like. It's only like 18 episodes. You can get it in and get it out and see you, space cowboy. [01:02:54] Speaker A: Okay, I'll check it out. [01:02:56] Speaker B: Uh, so that is the Flash. [01:02:58] Speaker A: They call it the Flash as well. [01:02:59] Speaker B: Yeah, it's the flash change. [01:03:01] Speaker A: They said flash. It's last change. Change flash. [01:03:03] Speaker B: It's the flash bulb. It's the change flash. I already said that. [01:03:08] Speaker A: This isn't. This isn't in quotation marks, though, so this change is probably the more the. [01:03:13] Speaker B: Change in quotation marks. [01:03:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:03:15] Speaker B: Yeah, it was Johnny. I guess that's. I guess that's the secret for the Todd father. That's what the. That's what all those quotation marks are for. Yep. But yeah, so. So back. Back in the before Nick says queen times, like, right before obvious in hell. [01:03:34] Speaker A: Fight a bunch of angels with guns. [01:03:36] Speaker B: Yeah, I like this dude with the goatee. He. Or the beard. He kind of looks like a. Like a dwarf who's been given angel wings. And he's, uh. Yeah, he's just. He's just blasting away at him. Johnny. And then they get transported and suddenly their. Their guns are empty and the angels have bad wings and just fall out of the air. [01:04:00] Speaker A: Yep. This is rot out. [01:04:01] Speaker B: Yeah. And so they decide to team up. [01:04:07] Speaker A: On him, and it all turns them all into normal clothes too. [01:04:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Interesting, interesting. [01:04:14] Speaker A: That's just what they're wearing underneath their angelic armor. [01:04:16] Speaker B: Yeah, cuz like the. The armor just like, turns to paper and flies away. Look at that. It's crazy. [01:04:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:04:21] Speaker B: And then, Johnny, we have blackened feathers falling down. [01:04:28] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, we do. [01:04:29] Speaker B: Yeah. It's been a while. Has been a minute. [01:04:32] Speaker A: Thank you, Papa. [01:04:33] Speaker B: And then Javi's just there like. Like, okay, well, if this is what we're doing, we're doing it. This is. This is great. When I was. When I was rereading this yesterday, I was just so impressed by just. I would love to be as gloriously unburdened by fucking anything as Javi is. Javi's just like, well, I'm here. Probably fucked. Let's go. [01:05:01] Speaker A: Let's go. [01:05:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Because he knows three things for certain. I was trying to make a Godspell joke there, but that wasn't gonna work. Um, number one, he's out. [01:05:10] Speaker A: Sorry. Yeah. I'm not too familiar with God's. [01:05:11] Speaker B: Number two, he won't show fear. Number three, if he's going to lose, they're going to damn well know they've been in a fight. Well, there's the. There's the three things. I pray song. To love thee more dearly, to see thee more clearly to something, something, something. [01:05:27] Speaker A: I know what you mean now. Yeah, so I thought you were just reading the page. I'm sorry. [01:05:30] Speaker B: Now, my. My dad fucking loved those seventies Jesus musicals, Godspell and Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. [01:05:38] Speaker A: Super stuper. [01:05:39] Speaker B: Have you ever seen the Godspell movie? [01:05:41] Speaker A: Good lord, I think I have. Episcopalian. It was based off a lot of episcopal ideas, so I think I did. [01:05:46] Speaker B: It was. It was co written by cocaine, like most of the musicals at that time. [01:05:52] Speaker A: Yeah. You ever seen fucking Tommy? Jesus? Seventies musicals and cocaine. [01:05:56] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Everybody's just roving around the streets on. On skates. Everybody's on skates in that movie. [01:06:04] Speaker A: Why not? [01:06:05] Speaker B: Wild and Jesus? Jesus just looks like the greatest american hero. [01:06:09] Speaker A: Yeah, I remember that. [01:06:10] Speaker B: Yeah. With his Robin Williams suspenders and his afro. [01:06:14] Speaker A: Oh, boy. [01:06:15] Speaker B: But, yeah, so. So Javi just, like, stabbity stabs and stabbity stabs and then get shanked. [01:06:24] Speaker A: Get shanked. [01:06:25] Speaker B: He gets shanked. And then, you know, he's falling backwards. And then we're like, the only reason he didn't die is because of his mystical pet. And we get the horse fucks these guys up. Yeah. This dude. Oh, man. The fucking hell unicorn here. Just going buck wild. And then he makes off on it, and then it. And he lives. [01:06:47] Speaker A: It transforms into a motorcycle. [01:06:49] Speaker B: I don't know if he transforms. [01:06:50] Speaker A: No, it just cuts to a different. [01:06:51] Speaker B: I think it just cuts to. There's not enough fire coming off the wheels for it to have transformed. [01:06:56] Speaker A: No, it didn't transform. [01:06:58] Speaker B: Yeah. And then, you know, he is awoken by his little dinosaur guy. [01:07:02] Speaker A: And it says that for some reason, the change in effect. [01:07:06] Speaker B: Yeah. Is interesting. Interesting. [01:07:10] Speaker A: Well, I mean, it's made by Dakota. [01:07:12] Speaker B: Well, also, because probably it's earth power. Gaia's not going to get rid of her own power, so she could. That's probably the only way the dinosaurs can get rid of their power is if Gaia goes offline. Right? [01:07:28] Speaker A: The Gaia give her the dinosaur. [01:07:30] Speaker B: Well, no, it's just. It's just the. No, because she went. She went back in the past to get dinosaurs, remember? Because she's back in the past with all those books about dinosaurs. [01:07:39] Speaker A: Yeah, but they'd be. [01:07:41] Speaker B: They'd be earth powered beings and. [01:07:43] Speaker A: Right. [01:07:44] Speaker B: You know, Gaia can't get rid of earth powers because then she'd be powerless, and then everybody'd have their powers back. [01:07:49] Speaker A: And Nix wouldn't do that. Yeah. [01:07:52] Speaker B: Ol Linder comes back, and she's like, I use my master key. Hope you don't mind. She does the. Sorry, sorry. Shouldn't have yelled at you like that. And then Javi's like, ah, no, it's fine. Here, have some money. And she's like, excuse me, is it your money? And he's like, no, I got it. Honest. Can't buy it. Honestly. He asks if that's her metal car outside. [01:08:23] Speaker A: He thinks they make a good combo, and he'll make it worth her time. [01:08:26] Speaker B: Yeah. And then, you know, Javi's not too far off from his average over here on this necrometer. [01:08:34] Speaker A: Yeah, he's at zero zero one, just as everyone is. But, yeah, he's usually pretty low, so he's. He's right at home. [01:08:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:08:39] Speaker A: Once that knife wound heals, he'll be back in action. [01:08:42] Speaker B: Yeah. That's the beginning of the adventures of Javi and Linda. The next thing you know, we're gonna start seeing trees with the heart, with the little j plus l in it. Forever. [01:08:57] Speaker A: Forever, ever. [01:08:59] Speaker B: Forever, ever. [01:09:00] Speaker A: Then on the spawning ground, we get the breakdown with a. I like how. [01:09:03] Speaker B: His quick layouts are better than anything that I would have spent hours trying to draw. [01:09:09] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:09:10] Speaker B: They're amazing, man. I'm. I'm always, always impressed by people who can draw. [01:09:15] Speaker A: Well, Carla Berry inks his own stuff. [01:09:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Which is. Which is nice. It means. It means there's fewer pencils, because usually, if you have a nice on an ice pencil that gets inked by somebody else, then you'll have that art, and then you can see the differences. But he just kind of skipped that middle step and go straight to the. It's fun. It's fun. [01:09:38] Speaker A: Good stuff. [01:09:39] Speaker B: Do you need more spawns, universe Johnny? [01:09:41] Speaker A: Always. [01:09:42] Speaker B: All right, well, don't miss these ongoing titles. Damn it. Read them. [01:09:46] Speaker A: Yep. It's got the four core titles because we saw this month there's a new page of this for the new you. [01:09:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:09:51] Speaker A: It has the spin off titles featured, so I was wondering if they put it all on one page. But I guess they're promoting the main titles in the main spawn and the spin off titles and the spin off. [01:09:59] Speaker B: So, yeah, we'll see how long that lasts. They'll probably change. [01:10:03] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll see how long it lasts. Yeah, we got the monstrous ad that we've had for a while. Ad for monstrous, the comic book series. Then some movie maniacs, which has been a controversial line to say the least, because for every pennywise, you have a Sheldon as the Flash or Shade 40 year old virgin. Like, they're really making that one. Like, the shade four year old virgin chest. It's just like they're just going through the Warner brothers back catalog. And the movie maniacs in the nineties were, like, all horror icons, so something like Pennywise would obviously fit. But, like Aragorn, I can see a little bit, but, like, it's just funny that this is, people are mad online about this is what the movie maniacs have become. [01:10:47] Speaker B: So, I mean, I would say that Shelton in the flash costume would be a tv maniac. And that should be a separate line. [01:10:56] Speaker A: Exactly. It should be a tv maniac. He's no movie. This is ridiculous. [01:11:01] Speaker B: But that's. I don't need to wait into Internet argument that I. [01:11:06] Speaker A: The biggest joke is someone just says, make a jokerise version of it. Anytime they release a new action figure, someone says, make a jokerized version of it. [01:11:14] Speaker B: I mean, if they didn't sell, they would stop making them. Yeah. [01:11:19] Speaker A: You will be buying those Joker eyes versions. [01:11:21] Speaker B: Yeah, they do. They be buying them. They buying them. Well, that's gunslinger number 29. Johnny, I got a couple of sleepy puppies here. Johnny, I think we need to rate them. [01:11:31] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. [01:11:36] Speaker B: This isn't real good. They don't ever do that. [01:11:39] Speaker A: So first up, David actually has puppies with him. First time listening. [01:11:43] Speaker B: Yes, actual. [01:11:44] Speaker A: That's why we read the puppies. [01:11:45] Speaker B: We do rate the puppies, but we didn't change what puppies means by referring to the comics as puppies. [01:11:52] Speaker A: Yes. So we're reading the comics. First up, we had 22 Spawn, 22 classic Todd McFarlane art and story. Just kind of those, like, early spawn bounce between, like, the four or five plot lines. I really like this stuff. This is stuff that got me into Spawn, you know, besides reading King Spawn. But, like, the early spawn just, like, reads really well. It's just fun to see it balance between the characters. [01:12:14] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:12:15] Speaker A: I love Sam and Twitch. Love Terry. This is what you kind of want and what I think of when I think of, like, a classic spawn issue, I really enjoyed it. Just hit me. Right. Maybe it was the muscle relaxers, I don't know. But I just had a great time reading it, so I'm going to give it. I'm going to give it five. I'm going to five, David. I'm going to fucking five. Can you believe it? [01:12:36] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:12:36] Speaker A: I give it five. Flies on a donut. [01:12:39] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Well, good. I agree. This is so. It's like, spawn's been around long enough that it can, like, internally refer to itself instead of having to just think up new stuff every issue. Yeah, there's enough intrigue with all the storylines kind of going forward. It's. I mean, I made the joke about nobody's just being like, oh, issue 22. But this is like, the platonic ideal of a fucking. Not first issue, not last issue comic book. Like, if. If every series I picked up, the not beginning and end of the arc issues were this comic, I would never be upset at comic books ever. It's great. [01:13:24] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. [01:13:24] Speaker B: This is, yeah, art is fantastic. The writing's actually, the writing's actually pretty good. It's. It's comic bookie writing. Right. But. [01:13:31] Speaker A: It's comic bookie. But I liked it. It does its job well. It's funny. [01:13:34] Speaker B: I would call it. It's. It's not like, you know, I'm not gonna submit it for consideration for best written comic book of the year, but it's better than I could do, right? Yeah. I like the, I like the fucking additional lore of the Tony. Vito Gravino Twistarelli. [01:13:57] Speaker A: Yes. The whole Tony twist situation. [01:13:59] Speaker B: A terrible fucking boss, even for nerds like Joe here, who just fucking loves numbers and spreadsheets. [01:14:06] Speaker A: It's terrible to work for a big mob boss. Yeah. I mean, the art I love. [01:14:11] Speaker B: It's great. [01:14:12] Speaker A: This Todd McFarlane art, I mean, see why he, yeah, he is one of the best. [01:14:16] Speaker B: I'm gonna give it. I'm gonna give it. You've got me thinking now. I'm gonna give it. I'm gonna go with you, Johnny. Cause it. It's wonderful. It doesn't really feel like it's aged, which is. [01:14:29] Speaker A: No, it just feels like it's like spawn to me. Like, this is what I think I'm. [01:14:33] Speaker B: Gonna give it five hot as hell cup of coffee. [01:14:37] Speaker A: There's so many hot cups of coffee. [01:14:38] Speaker B: In this issue of coffee. I don't know how that actually came out, how I said it, but I meant to say cups of coffee. [01:14:44] Speaker A: I knew what you meant. [01:14:46] Speaker B: I know, some. Sometimes I listen back to the episode, and I'm like, I know what I meant to say there, but I have no idea what that jumble of syllables is. [01:14:55] Speaker A: You get a sparkly spawn on the COVID with a skull. What's not to love? And a lot of. A lot of stuff in the back. If you're interested in the Wildcats tv show, get a copy of this. There's a whole bunch of info on that. [01:15:06] Speaker B: I have to look into them. [01:15:08] Speaker A: Yeah. Floppy. Floppy. Then we have a. Not as floppy, because. As the cardstock cover. [01:15:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:15:13] Speaker A: The modern issues. The gunslinger 29 was our second issue, and it's kind of a. I really like this issue, too. It's a fun story. I like to see after, like, just the action. Action, action. Carl, kind of one off fights in the woods. I always mention, beat him up on poor Carl. But, like, that was like, the nadir. Is that the right term? Nadir? [01:15:34] Speaker B: The low point. [01:15:35] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Of the series, for me was just like, okay, what is this guy? Another fight? This is our fifth fight in the woods with a random big guy, you know? [01:15:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:15:45] Speaker A: And this is really great to see it come back with. It feels like they were stalling. They're obviously waiting to, like, kick it off with Carlo Barberi. [01:15:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:15:52] Speaker A: Which is what they're doing here. It's a great kickoff. It kind of a reset. Javi's got his new, you know, wound problem he's got to deal with. He's got his new psych, funny sidekick, Linda, who I can't wait to see what happens with him and old Linder. It should be entertaining. The colors are just awesome. Just like the whole. The way that he sets it. Kind of like twilight hour. The parts in the hotel, like sundown, I guess, or sun up, probably sundown. I think it's really cool. [01:16:23] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know, cuz. Cuz. Housekeeping day later. [01:16:27] Speaker A: Yeah, I think it is sun up. Yeah. It's in the morning. Yeah, it just looks really nice and, like, I love Carlo Barberi. I like his gunslinger. It's great to see him back on it. Yeah. I'm gonna give it 4.5. Macho tarantino characters, baby. [01:16:47] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Which. Which macho Tarantino character? Precisely. [01:16:52] Speaker A: I get 4.5 cliff booth, which is Brad Pitt's character. And once upon a time in Hollywood, because the shirtless scene with Javi reminds me of the shirtless scene of him because he has, like, scars all over his body from his time in the war. [01:17:06] Speaker B: Nice. [01:17:06] Speaker A: And when I saw that movie in the theater, when he takes his shirt off on top of this room, the entire theater was like. You hear a pin drop. It was so hot, men and women alike, no one could speak nice for, like, 30 seconds. [01:17:17] Speaker B: Excellent. Excellent. And then the feet showed up, and everybody was like, I got. Damn it, Quentin. [01:17:21] Speaker A: That one is. That movie's trolling you with the feet. He's been trolling about the feet for years. He knows what he's doing. [01:17:28] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:17:29] Speaker A: He makes good movies. [01:17:30] Speaker B: He makes good movies. Yeah, yeah, he pays. He pays attention to the details. You kind of can't make reservoirs dogs if you don't pay attention to the details. [01:17:39] Speaker A: Yeah, that's kind of feeding that one, really. There you go. [01:17:43] Speaker B: Not as many ears as there should be, either. [01:17:45] Speaker A: Yeah, one less. Got him. Yeah. 4.5 macho tarenkyo characters. 4.5. Cliff booth on the roof. [01:17:54] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Cliff booth on the roof. [01:17:58] Speaker A: If you haven't seen once more time Hollywood, you might actually like. [01:18:01] Speaker B: I haven't. It's on my. Been on my to watch list for so long that it's just like I sit down, and I forget it exists. So I. [01:18:07] Speaker A: No, that's cool. It's just. It's, uh. People that don't like all Tarantino movies, which I know you're not, can sometimes be not the biggest fan of some of his stuff. I, um. Maybe I'm confusing you with someone else. [01:18:18] Speaker B: I have zero issues with the Tarantino movies. I've. I've liked all of them. I don't love them as much as a lot of other people do, but I've. Yeah, I have zero problem with them. [01:18:28] Speaker A: They're. [01:18:29] Speaker B: They're fun. They're enjoyable. [01:18:30] Speaker A: I like. Okay, cool. You'd like it. It's. It's good. It's a little more mature, but nice until it's not. There's also some very childish moments. [01:18:36] Speaker B: I I think. I think you might be remembering that. Um, I don't. I didn't like Django unchained as much as everybody else did. Yeah. And there's not really a good reason for me not having liked it as much as I did. [01:18:48] Speaker A: It's okay. But it's one of his lesser movies, for sure. I mean, fucking at the time, it felt electric, but it doesn't. It hasn't aged that much. [01:18:55] Speaker B: Jamie Foxx was fucking phenomenal, so. [01:18:57] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. And so is Christophe Wallace. Like, it? It just hasn't. Yeah, I watched it when I had Covid. I watched all his movies last time I covered. I think we've talked about the show before, but it was one of the lesser ones, for sure. [01:19:08] Speaker B: It might be that, um, most of my. Most of my consumption of slave narrative stuff now is all from a black voice. And when it's not specifically written or directed by black voices, I feel a little uncomfortable, even though. [01:19:28] Speaker A: No, that's what I'm saying. As an age. Well, that's what I mean. But this issue of Gunslinger will age well, and that's why I gave it 4.5. [01:19:37] Speaker B: Excellent. Well, I gotta say, I was kind of upset with this when I read it the first time, specifically because. No. Brett Booth. And I was like, that's what I'm. That's what I'm coming to gunslinger for now. I am pleasantly surprised that Brett Booth is all over main title spawn. So I'm still getting it, but, you know, after that initial knee jerk, kind of. But it's not the way I liked it. Um. Carlo Barri fucking kicks ass. It's very good. Um, it's just. It was. It was just a change. You just gotta get used to that change. And there's. There's no dip in quality at all. It's, like, right there. It's very good. I like the. We're starting over. We're seeing that Javi likes to think that he's a real good guy, but he just kind of, like, pumps and dumps people. Like, he's like, I'm using you to get to the point that I need to be. And then when you're. Yeah, I'm just gonna leave you. Javi's a little bit of a jerk. [01:20:36] Speaker A: He can be, and it's just. [01:20:39] Speaker B: It's just fun to see him kind of, like, reinvent himself as who he thinks he is each time he gets a new partner, which, I mean, it's only, like, the second time that it's happened, but that it's happened twice is concerning. But, yeah, art is excellent. Much like with issue 22, the writing. It's excellent comic book writing, Johnny. I enjoyed it. [01:21:00] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:21:00] Speaker B: I enjoyed it very much. Oh, Linder. I'm gonna give it. I'm gonna give it a. I'm gonna give it four showers and shaves, Johnny. [01:21:10] Speaker A: Got a lot of no shits in there. [01:21:12] Speaker B: Well, I mean, he didn't. He didn't. He didn't draw them. [01:21:15] Speaker A: So top McFarlane, if you would have shit, Todd McFarlane would have mentioned it. [01:21:20] Speaker B: Maybe Javi doesn't. [01:21:22] Speaker A: Hmm. That's the question for. Yeah, we'll ask Tom. We're just asking that just to confuse the fuck out of him. Hey, do you know, if Javier shits. [01:21:33] Speaker B: We gotta make sure his wife is there to ask them. And so that way she could be like, is this really what you do all day? [01:21:40] Speaker A: Is this really what you do? [01:21:41] Speaker B: These conventions you go to, do they really all ask you these questions? But no, it's wonderful. It's a great, as it says, a new ruler or a new artist. A new direction, Johnny. This is the. [01:21:52] Speaker A: They pulled all three outs. [01:21:53] Speaker B: New direction. The problem that I have with the term new direction is at one. I think I actually talked about this already, but I'm gonna bring it up again already. In one episode of Glee, in one of the early seasons, they talk about. They talk about the glee club's name, new direction. And if pronounced slightly off, is nude erection. So it's a new direction. It's a new direction, Johnny. And look, it's. [01:22:27] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [01:22:28] Speaker B: Blurred out. Look at that. Look at this. Look at this. How dare they? It's a nudity, right? [01:22:32] Speaker A: Blur out that new direction. Oh, that's funny. [01:22:38] Speaker B: Oh, boy. You know what else is funny? [01:22:41] Speaker A: Who? [01:22:42] Speaker B: Not me. Oh, that was. I was trying to. I was trying to go right into what we normally do, but I don't want to classify our friends on Instagram as funny without them. [01:22:55] Speaker A: Not funny. Haha. [01:22:56] Speaker B: Trying to be funny. Like DJ slider bite. Obviously funny. We're gonna say he's funny all day, all the time. But if people aren't presenting themselves as funny, we probably shouldn't call him funny. [01:23:09] Speaker A: No, we should call them friends. And that's what we have on Instagram. [01:23:12] Speaker B: Yes. And we've got many an Instagram friend. All of our Instagram friends are great. You know, good people. They're good people. We got a. We got a good people or good people? A good person here who's he is, you know, sharing his spawn collection, and it. His. His tag type. [01:23:32] Speaker A: God damn. I went to the search thing again, David, it's just women. [01:23:35] Speaker B: Yeah, me too. [01:23:36] Speaker A: Why? [01:23:38] Speaker B: Why? I don't know. So his name is Wade Wilkins, and he's got spawn all over his profile. It's just spawned. His profile name is Red Underscore tool. Underscore Dcuo, underscore RP. [01:23:54] Speaker A: So we'll put that in the episode description. [01:23:56] Speaker B: We will. Yeah, it's, uh. He's, uh, having fun. He's having fun with it, Johnny. He's got a. He's got a nice little spawn get up. He's got a mask and a. The old hoodie. And he's got toys. He's got. He's got, you know, the comic books. It's great. Great. It's fun. Also a good friend that we have over on Instagram, Johnny. Brian Voyles. Brian Voyles, 27. He does our music. It's a good time. [01:24:28] Speaker A: Check him out. [01:24:29] Speaker B: It's a very good time. You know who else you should check out, Johnny? [01:24:32] Speaker A: Us. Regarding swampod. [01:24:33] Speaker B: Yes, regarding swampod. [01:24:35] Speaker A: Posting reels, posting pickups, posting episode descriptions. Yes, posted all kinds of fun stuff. [01:24:41] Speaker B: I'm back on my doing, trying to weekly do a quick recap of the issues that come out that week. And yes, I do record them, like, six or seven times. And by the end of them, am just like, I just got to get through this and am quite manic. So please, please enjoy them. I do it for you. [01:24:58] Speaker A: It's all for you guys. [01:24:59] Speaker B: It's all for you, Damiens. [01:25:02] Speaker A: Yeah. Give us a follow. If you want to hit us up off of instagram, you hit us [email protected]. i have any questions, comments, concerns. Each week, I like to ask a question to get the juices flowing. I wonder, what is your favorite tough guy Tarantino character? Is it Cliff booth? Is it Vic Vega? Is it the bride? Doesn't have to be a guy. There's a lot of tough females. I'm using the guys in the sense that David uses, dude. So doctor guy, your toughest guy is from Tarantino. Who you got? [01:25:35] Speaker B: The bride's a good one. [01:25:37] Speaker A: The bride. I think she's probably the toughest. [01:25:39] Speaker B: What about the. What about the other. The chain fighting lady? [01:25:44] Speaker A: Oh, go, go Yu Bari. Yeah, she's pretty tough. She's pretty cool. Let us know. And if you send us an email, we'll read it on air if you want us to. And if you give us your physical address, we'll send you some stickers. [01:25:54] Speaker B: So keep on that. Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. That's like getting emails, Johnny. It's fun. It's. It's kind of like the thrill of getting mail that isn't a bill or junk, right? [01:26:06] Speaker A: Yeah. The emails for the show are actually a nice thrill. My regular email is. Hell, yeah. [01:26:12] Speaker B: Oh, man. They. They've blocked my regular email at work, so I don't even check it as often as I should. [01:26:18] Speaker A: There you go. [01:26:19] Speaker B: Don't try sending me an email there. I probably won't get it. [01:26:22] Speaker A: Uh oh. [01:26:24] Speaker B: If you do call and say, hey, look for an email. [01:26:27] Speaker A: Look for that email I sent you. [01:26:28] Speaker B: Oh, boy. I love how we, with all of the different forms of communication, we've decided that each form of communication has its own place, and it doesn't. They're not supposed to cross. If you need to talk to somebody, you talk, you call them. If you need to text them, you text them. If you need to email them, you email them. And then you never refer to them in your conversations for anything else. [01:26:50] Speaker A: Yes, they're all self. Yes. I don't know. [01:26:53] Speaker B: The best part is using, like, a. Like, a slack channel where there's multiple channels within the channel and everybody's in all the same channels, but they're all distributed by topic. And, like, you just have 14 conversations at the same time. It's wonderful. I love it when the bay. When the polls flip and all of our electronics are gone, I'm gonna go crazy, crazy having to be stuck with my own thoughts. [01:27:19] Speaker A: Johnny, don't do it. [01:27:21] Speaker B: Don't do it. Oh, man. It's almost cicada time, so this will probably be the last episode for a while that doesn't have some sort of drone going on in the background. I apologize for that. But it happens only once every 200 and something years, so that'll be very good. [01:27:37] Speaker A: It's got to happen. [01:27:38] Speaker B: It's got to happen. So send us your cicada stuff. If you happen to catch a cicada and you can. And paint some spawn stuff on it, that's something that we'd love to share on the instagram. [01:27:47] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that'd be great. Taxidermy it. Paint spawn on it. [01:27:51] Speaker B: We don't even have to taxidermy. You just have to wait for it to die. It's a husk. It'll. [01:27:55] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:27:55] Speaker B: It'll just sit there, slack it, and it'll last forever. Speaking of lasting forever, Johnny, I want this to last forever. And the way we do that is by reading morspon. [01:28:06] Speaker A: Yes. So next week we're going to do kind of a fun one. A double gun, double pistol, double team book. We're just doing a little catch up. Cause we had to kind of do some episode rearranging with c two e two in there. Star wars day, spawn hunter and David. So we're doing a catch up on. [01:28:21] Speaker B: Scorch and David, forgetting which books we were supposed to. [01:28:24] Speaker A: Yeah, blame it on something else, David. Don't blame yourself. That's the best way to do it. Blame it on things around us. So we'll be doing scores. 26 and 27. That's two excellent John Layman issues. Can't wait for those. [01:28:36] Speaker B: Me either. Oh, man. I fucking love this John Layman run on scorch, Joni. [01:28:40] Speaker A: Yeah, it's been really good. [01:28:40] Speaker B: Thank you. [01:28:40] Speaker A: She was awesome. [01:28:41] Speaker B: Very excited to talk to you about both of those issues next week. [01:28:45] Speaker A: Yeah, I can't wait. [01:28:46] Speaker B: Yeah, don't forget to like us. Subscribe to us, rate us, review us, tell your friends and family about us, tell your coworkers, you know. Share this. Share the love of spawn. [01:28:56] Speaker A: Share the love of spawn. [01:28:57] Speaker B: It's great. It's good stuff. We love it. We love it. We hope you love it. And we love you. So, Johnny, I think that leaves me at the point where I've run out of things to say. Except for May the scorch be with you. [01:29:12] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:29:14] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:29:15] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. All right, cool. That was a good episode. I gotta get out of here, though, so I'm just gonna get out of the closet. I record in real quick. Just go open this door. [01:29:27] Speaker B: Ah. [01:29:27] Speaker A: Oh, my God. The cicadas are here. Holy shit. Oh, no, my mouth. [01:29:31] Speaker B: No, not in your mouth. They're full of protein, though. [01:29:33] Speaker A: So, I mean, if you haven't eaten. [01:29:35] Speaker B: Up yet, it might be good. [01:29:36] Speaker A: Oh, it's like Sam trying to eat the fly, but I'm full of fucking cicadas. Help me.