Episode 92 - Spawn 351 and Spawn 352

[00:00:00] Speaker A: These past few months, with all the shadow players having to cope with being merely mortal, some have come to believe a false narrative. They believe they are all equal, that spawn is their equal. They're wrong. Dead wrong. Good evening, and welcome to the Mal bowls. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I'm your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:53] Speaker B: And I'm your co host, David Williams. And Johnny. [00:00:58] Speaker A: Yo. [00:00:58] Speaker B: I went swimming this morning, and I am tired, so I'm just gonna. I'm just gonna. I'm just gonna go crawl into the colonel. The colonel. I'm gonna go crawl into a. I'm gonna crawl into a bucket of the colonel's chicken because swimming makes me hungry. [00:01:10] Speaker A: That negates the swimming. [00:01:11] Speaker B: That does. But if you don't do the swimming, you can't do all the eating. I don't know if you. If anyone out there has a period of time where they're like, I don't remember what it's like to be hungry. Go swimming for, like, five minutes. [00:01:25] Speaker A: Van, where'd you go swimming? [00:01:27] Speaker B: At the pool. At the community pool. [00:01:30] Speaker A: What time did you get up? Like five in the morning. [00:01:32] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Cause lap swim starts at 530. [00:01:36] Speaker A: Okay. [00:01:37] Speaker B: In one. Yeah. Oh, man, I love swimming. I was just having a thought that. So I was. I was on a swim team when I was younger. I was a junior lifeguard when I was younger because my sister was a lifeguard. And I absolutely adored my sister and was like, I gotta do what my sister does. And then I got obsessed with the safety part of it, Johnny. I think young David wasted a great opportunity to just stare at people in swimsuits, but I was just too obsessed with being like, are you doing the swimming? Right? Are you being safe? Do the swimming. Do the swimming. Be safe. Such a fucking nerd, Johnny. [00:02:19] Speaker A: Yeah. So you don't run by the edge of the pool, huh? [00:02:23] Speaker B: No, no, I will, I will, I will. [00:02:26] Speaker A: Even your feet are getting burned by the cement. [00:02:28] Speaker B: No. [00:02:29] Speaker A: Walk slowly. [00:02:30] Speaker B: No. Got it. You gotta be safe, Johnny. True. [00:02:34] Speaker A: Gotta be safe. [00:02:36] Speaker B: Pool accidents are no joke. Normally, you just hurt yourself, but hurting yourself with the potential to then drown afterward, just, like, whoop through the roof. [00:02:48] Speaker A: Yeah, that's. That's true. I guess I don't think a lot about pool safety, but I don't go to a lot of pools. [00:02:53] Speaker B: Cause you're not a swimming dork like me. [00:02:56] Speaker A: I guess not. I'm a different kind of dork. I'm a spawn dork. [00:03:00] Speaker B: Well, I'm one of those, too, so, you know, maybe they should make a spawn swimsuit. That would be. That would be awesome. It would scare all of the other old people at lap swim, because there's exclusively old people. [00:03:12] Speaker A: Can you imagine a cape? And if it gets wet, then you're just dragging it through the water. It's so big. [00:03:17] Speaker B: I mean, I've already got all this drag. What's a cape gonna do? [00:03:21] Speaker A: He's referring to his beard at home. [00:03:26] Speaker B: Sorry. [00:03:26] Speaker A: This isn't a visual medium. [00:03:27] Speaker B: I forgot that this was audio only. [00:03:30] Speaker A: Audio only. I feel so modern today, though, because we're doing some modern spawns. [00:03:36] Speaker B: Thoroughly modern, Johnny. [00:03:38] Speaker A: We're a little bit behind, according to one guy on Instagram, though, so, you know, whip our asses. [00:03:44] Speaker B: We. We take all criticism seriously, Johnny. And unfortunately, this is a criticism that we. We noticed. And then we're like, meh. And then we're like, oh, shit, somebody noticed. We should probably do something about it. [00:03:58] Speaker A: Yeah, we're playing a little catch up. It's just there's been so much going on with, like, we were doing bonus episodes and, like, single issue episodes and the C two e two episode, we kind of got behind, and we wanted to stay relevant for you, the listener, you know, I mean, we got a lot going. There's been a lot going on in Spawn's universe. [00:04:16] Speaker B: Spawn's universe is fast and loose enough as it is. We don't need to play any faster or looser than necessary. [00:04:23] Speaker A: No, we need to play high and tight. [00:04:25] Speaker B: High and tight? Yeah, like my. Like my haircut. [00:04:29] Speaker A: For those listening long at home, they're referring to their hair, which is really long. David, on our instagram. [00:04:35] Speaker B: Oh, man. I need to. I need to knock off this. Referring to. [00:04:40] Speaker A: I guess you kind of know what it's like to feel to swim with a cape on. Cause you've got all that hair. Yeah, well, you wore a swimming cap. [00:04:47] Speaker B: No, I just put it in a ponytail. Have you ever. Have you ever, like, felt a swimming cap? [00:04:56] Speaker A: I feel, like, really painful to take off with your hair. [00:04:59] Speaker B: Yeah, it's not even. Not even the fact of wearing it or the shoving stuff in it. It just feels gross on the hands. It's like touching a microfiber cloth with. With dry fingers, and it's just like. [00:05:12] Speaker A: I know what you mean. [00:05:13] Speaker B: Touching, uh, touching cornstarch. [00:05:18] Speaker A: I don't like touching a chalkboard or, like, dry chalk. That freaks me out. [00:05:22] Speaker B: Yeah, dry chalk is worse. Worse than the. Like, a clean chalkboard is nice, but. Yeah, you know, with the dust. [00:05:28] Speaker A: Yeah, it gives me a little. [00:05:30] Speaker B: This is unpleasant. Johnny, let's start talking about something a little more pleasant. What are we doing here? [00:05:34] Speaker A: We are here. This is regarding Spawn. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Where each week we bring you two issues from Spawn's universe, except when we don't. [00:05:41] Speaker B: But this time this week is no. [00:05:42] Speaker A: Different, and we're doing two issues. Mm hmm. I said I was feeling modern because we're doing some modern. Spawn. We are doing, right after that, 350. We're doing 351 and 352. [00:05:53] Speaker B: Mm hmm. New ruler, new artist, new direction and stuff. [00:05:57] Speaker A: Yeah, all that. [00:05:59] Speaker B: All that. [00:06:00] Speaker A: It is the beginning of the spawn versus vampire saga because vampires are the only ones with any powers left. [00:06:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, uh, spoiler alert for the end of the issue, not the only people left, but the main group of people left with powers. [00:06:17] Speaker A: Main group of people left. Yes. They're the most powerful group out there right now, which is. [00:06:22] Speaker B: I love a vampire story. Full stop. I love a vampire story, Johnny, this. [00:06:29] Speaker A: Ain'T your mama's vampire story, though. [00:06:31] Speaker B: No, I haven't. [00:06:32] Speaker A: Stakes and sunlight kills them. You might be wrong. [00:06:35] Speaker B: I have watched some questional, questionable vampire movies with my mother, though. There was a Jim Carrey vampire film once. [00:06:45] Speaker A: Yeah, once bitten. Yeah. [00:06:46] Speaker B: That I watched with my mom because that was in the middle of our Friday nights. We watch a vampire movie phase and. [00:06:56] Speaker A: Don'T sex scenes in it. [00:06:57] Speaker B: Well, he gets. He gets all those vampires bite on the inner thigh. And so if you can imagine, um, a raunchy comedy from the early nineties about how you get a vampire mouth near and near an inner thigh, and you're. You're. You're there. You don't want to watch that with your mom. [00:07:20] Speaker A: I can kind of guess that that's not one you want to watch with mom. [00:07:23] Speaker B: Yeah, no, maybe don't watch any vampire movie with your mom. Unless. Yeah, unless your mom is really into tits. And then I think Salem slot is. [00:07:35] Speaker A: Not as very non sexual. It was also a tv movie, so that's probably why. [00:07:40] Speaker B: Yeah, it's probably. Yeah, definitely not. [00:07:42] Speaker A: Definitely have sex in the book. I remember I was in, like, high school and reading. I was like, woo, woo. A sex scene in a book. [00:07:48] Speaker B: That was a. That was a crazy book. I remember being very upset at that movie because of the long running inability to adapt Stephen King movies to the screen very well. [00:08:00] Speaker A: Hey, they're getting good at it now. [00:08:02] Speaker B: Mike Flanagan and Mike Flanagan fucking rocks. [00:08:07] Speaker A: He's doing an exorcist movie is. Yeah, they kicked David Gordon Green off, and now Mike Flanagan's doing it. [00:08:15] Speaker B: There was something else that I was excited about that he was doing dark tower, maybe. I think it was a Netflix adaptation of a Stephen King book, but I. [00:08:24] Speaker A: Don'T remember which one. He's supposed to be doing Dark Tower for Amazon. [00:08:27] Speaker B: That's. That's exciting. [00:08:29] Speaker A: We'll see. [00:08:30] Speaker B: I'm still. I'm still writing for those. Those original Ron Howard plans. [00:08:35] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. With the three movies and two tv shows. [00:08:37] Speaker B: Yeah, there's supposed to be a movie. [00:08:39] Speaker A: Tv show movie, tv show movie, and then some video games, too. They were really ambitious on that. [00:08:43] Speaker B: Yeah. And that's. That's the way that's just, like, normal course now. And I remember when they announced that my roommate at the time was like, they're never gonna be able to do this. Holy shit. Have you seen this? [00:08:55] Speaker A: And guess what? They didn't do it. They released one kind of shitty movie that felt like a young adult adaptation. [00:09:01] Speaker B: But I still haven't seen with the sexiest man in the world. [00:09:05] Speaker A: I mean, yeah, I just was very sexy. Matthew. Connie is pretty sexy. [00:09:08] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The movie is a different kind of sexy. [00:09:11] Speaker A: Weird. That movie's crazy. You should watch it. It's crazy. [00:09:15] Speaker B: I have. I have heard repeatedly from a lot of dark tower fans that the saving grace of seeing that movie in the theaters is they went drunk. [00:09:27] Speaker A: I went very early in the morning at, like, 10:00 a.m. on the Friday it opened. So let's get this over with. And with my friend Aaron. And I remember we left the theater, some guy, like, there were only three of us in the theater, and the other guy in the theater, like, flagged us down after the movie was like, yo, what was up with that? We were like, what? Oh, do you read the books? He's like, no, man. I just thought the trailer looked cool. And I was like, what? He had never read the books. It was there, like, 10:00 a.m. on the day it opened. And I was like, oh, okay. Maybe you should check out the books, man. You might like them. I was like, oh, all right. [00:09:56] Speaker B: I have a little, like, a list of people that I like to keep tabs off, because they're the people that, throughout my life, I have gotten hooked on the dark Tower series. And they were always like, I don't want to read a fucking Stephen King book. I don't want to read scary. And I'm like, no, no, no, seriously. And I feel like I might have ruined their lives a little bit. Yeah, it's, uh. But you know what's not gonna ruin our lives, Johnny. [00:10:23] Speaker A: Talking about Spawn. [00:10:23] Speaker B: Talking about Spawn. [00:10:25] Speaker A: It might ruin it might ruin. Well, a lot of things are ruining Spawn's life right now. [00:10:30] Speaker B: Oh, boy. But, yeah. Coming off of 350 with the. The artist change from. From Carlo Barberi to Brett Booth. I keep forgetting the. Brett Booth draws these, Johnny. So I sit down every week that spawn comes out, and I'm like, I'm gonna read some spawn. Oh, shit. I forgot. It's very fun. [00:10:49] Speaker A: The change up with the artist has been fun. I mean, we just. We haven't talked about it, but I was shocked that Jason Shawn Alexander was back on King Swan. [00:10:57] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Yeah. [00:10:58] Speaker A: That's the. That's the fun part of not reading the trades. And you don't know what's coming up. Like, four months ahead of time. [00:11:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I picked it up and I was like, ooh, what is this? This is goofy. Holy shit. Like I am now. You know, normally for most comics, I just jump into the story, I'll read the credit. I'll read the credits after, or I pick the comic up because I know who wrote it. But with Spahn, like, every time, that's the first thing I, you know, like we do on the show. I open it up, I read the credits, and I was like, what is. What is really. [00:11:27] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:11:30] Speaker B: But we're not here to talk about Jason. Sean Alexander's Johnny. [00:11:33] Speaker A: No, we're here to talk about Brett Boos and Rory McConville. Spawn 351. So I'm just pulling up the covers. We always start well before the credits, before you find out who the artist is. The COVID artist is always. [00:11:44] Speaker B: Yes. [00:11:45] Speaker A: And we have three covers for this issue. [00:11:49] Speaker B: Yes, we do. [00:11:50] Speaker A: I am having the. I have the COVID a. [00:11:53] Speaker B: The Von Randall ding ding ding. Jimmy. I also have the von Randall cover a. It's a good one. Look at the size of that. Look at the size of that sword. And he's got the medieval axe, and he's standing on a skull. What more could you want? [00:12:08] Speaker A: The axe with the eyes. You gotta love it. [00:12:11] Speaker B: It's almost a little bit like the opening scene of terminator two, where it's just like the skulls. And then a foot smashes it. [00:12:19] Speaker A: Yeah, he's smashing on top of it. His gauntlet is huge on his right hand. And then there's the bee cover. We got a bee cover by Don Aguilio, which is Mister Sin. Mister dead sin a dead asshole. [00:12:37] Speaker B: They just got a. They were like, shit, we made these. We gotta get him out of here. [00:12:41] Speaker A: Yeah, put him on and put some. [00:12:42] Speaker B: X'S on his eyes before people forget about him. Who's this? Green guy. Ah, it doesn't matter. [00:12:47] Speaker A: I mean, in this book, they're like, yeah, all the big players are gone. Sin and clown are gone. [00:12:52] Speaker B: Yeah. Spoilers for 350. If you haven't read it. [00:12:55] Speaker A: Spoilers. Well, hopefully you have and you've listened to this. It's gonna be spoiled a lot. [00:12:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Don't save it. Go read it right now. It's a good book. [00:13:03] Speaker A: And there's a special bonus. There's a c cover, which you don't always have. And this is by Mister Brett booth himself. And it's a virgin cover, all natural owl cover. [00:13:14] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:13:16] Speaker A: And it's the new spawn design. He's spinning his chain sitting on top of a church or a steeple or something. It's the new design of, like, the cape wrapped around his neck. [00:13:28] Speaker B: It looks. It looks like it's the chimney that's coming out of fucking witch's house. Yeah, I was trying to think of who the. The witch's house with the. The chicken legs. Baba yaga. It looks like Baba Yaga's chimney crouching on top of. [00:13:46] Speaker A: He might be. [00:13:47] Speaker B: You never know. Has Baba Yaga showed up in spawn yet? [00:13:52] Speaker A: I don't think so. I've read maybe that's fertile ground. [00:13:55] Speaker B: That's fertile ground. [00:13:56] Speaker A: That shit I've missed. [00:13:57] Speaker B: Scary as shit. [00:13:59] Speaker A: Baba yaga. So we flip it open, get those. [00:14:04] Speaker B: Credits that we're talking about. [00:14:06] Speaker A: The credits we got. Script plot by Rory McConville, keeping up his great run. We've been going on here for a couple years. Todd McFarlane on additional script. [00:14:16] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:14:17] Speaker A: What a busy man. [00:14:19] Speaker B: Todd McFarlane or Rory McConville? [00:14:21] Speaker A: Todd McFarlane. He's written, like, three comic books right now. [00:14:24] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's additional script. [00:14:25] Speaker A: He's an additional script on a lot of them. [00:14:27] Speaker B: And he's. He's making, like, they just announced a Marvel toy collaboration that they're doing, and he's. He's flying back to Canada to hang out with his dad all the time. I love, I love that. Every time Todd does, like, an appearance now, he's like, and my dad. [00:14:45] Speaker A: My dad's here. The actual Todd. Father. [00:14:47] Speaker B: It's pretty great. [00:14:49] Speaker A: Yeah. We got art by Brett Booth, as it said on the COVID New ruler, new artist, new direction. Inks by Daniel Henriques. Colors by J. David Ramos. [00:15:00] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:15:01] Speaker A: Lettering. Still the man, the myth, the legend. Tom or Jakowski. [00:15:06] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:15:06] Speaker A: Our best friend from Comic Con. [00:15:08] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:15:10] Speaker A: Or C. Two. E. Two. [00:15:12] Speaker B: One of the two. [00:15:13] Speaker A: One of the two. [00:15:14] Speaker B: I always want to call it your double friend now, because he's a friend also from Spawn Con. So he's. He's your con friend, Johnny? Everybody's got a con. [00:15:21] Speaker A: Everybody. We already covered the COVID artists. Creative director is Todd McFarlane, and editor in chief is Thomas Healy. So previously in Spawn. Months ago, Nix claimed the throne of hell, the war came to an end, and everything on earth changed. [00:15:41] Speaker B: Yeah. You know, not very much. That's only a little bit. You didn't miss anything. [00:15:46] Speaker A: Yeah. Nothing happened at 350. [00:15:49] Speaker B: Whoo. That's. That is so much inside of a little bitty sentence. It's kind of like the. The entry in the universal Atlas for Earth as almost harmless. [00:16:03] Speaker A: Mostly harmless. [00:16:04] Speaker B: Oh, mostly harmless. That's right. That mostly is doing a lot of work, Johnny. We start. We open up. We open up on the reason you don't watch vampire movies with your mother. [00:16:14] Speaker A: That's right. Looks like a big old orgy just happened. [00:16:21] Speaker B: There are so many bodies there, you. [00:16:23] Speaker A: Know, so many carefully placed hairs to cover nipples. [00:16:26] Speaker B: I was. I was reading this, Johnny, and I was remembering that interview with Todd McFarlane, where he sits down and says, brett, what do you want to draw? I'll make a story out of it. [00:16:37] Speaker A: So you're assuming is what Brett Booth wanted to draw. [00:16:41] Speaker B: So every time there's something wild, I'm always like, I wonder if Brett Booth wanted to draw that. And so Brett Booth wanted to draw a pile of naked bodies. [00:16:49] Speaker A: Maybe he did. [00:16:50] Speaker B: He did a really good job of it. [00:16:52] Speaker A: So you got blood doing classic vampire shit, having an orgy. [00:16:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. It's like Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula all up in here. But we learned that 37 homes owned by billionaire Matthew Ramus is actually. Matthew Ramus is blood. So blood owns 37 homes across the world, Johnny, that's pretty good. Yeah, that's. [00:17:16] Speaker A: And to furnish all that, that's a. [00:17:17] Speaker B: Lot nice to have, like, a. Like, a room sized bed, because look at that. That's a. That's a big old bed. [00:17:22] Speaker A: That's a huge bed. [00:17:24] Speaker B: So that's a. He's powerful. He's powerful. Like a, like, big boss doing business in his. His pajamas in his bed from Rat City, basically. I mean, that's. That's the dream. That's the dream. [00:17:37] Speaker A: But, yeah, just work from a giant bed in the middle of an orgy. [00:17:39] Speaker B: Yeah, but blood is shaken from his post orgy stupor by a lackey who's saying there's been a development concerning the dead zones, sir, and that they've spread. [00:17:52] Speaker A: Across the planet and that everyone is powerless. [00:17:55] Speaker B: Yeah, and blood is like, whoo. [00:17:58] Speaker A: This could be helpful. [00:17:59] Speaker B: Yeah. And he. You know, he's like, we got to get to action. We got to start doing shit right now. And so he's putting on the robe, walking down the hall, talking to his lackeys. He's doing a little. He's sorkinning a little. He's doing a lot walking talk here. Mm hmm. And his. His lackeys are like, maybe we should be easy. And he's like, no, no, we got it. We got to do it now. We got to push hard and fast. [00:18:24] Speaker A: Just like you did last night at that orgy bonk. [00:18:30] Speaker B: That bonk is for Jason Blood, by the way. Not for. [00:18:32] Speaker A: Yeah, he's the horny one, not me. I'm just reading what I'm seeing. [00:18:36] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. We're just. We're just innocent, innocent bystanders in this drive by bonking, but, yeah, so. So blood is determined to take control while everybody else is weakened by the. The spreading dead zones. [00:18:53] Speaker A: So he's gonna seize control, the dead zone portals, as his first step. [00:18:56] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. He's gonna seize the day. Then we hard cut. Yeah. [00:19:03] Speaker A: To two months later. [00:19:04] Speaker B: And where? We go to an alley, Johnny. We go to a city. We go to an alley. It's the first place you go. And then within this alley is a bar that is, like, the diviest dive bar. It's a basement bar. It looks like it's an unfinished basement or a partially finished basement. [00:19:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:25] Speaker B: Um, but we learned that it's called purgatory, and it's one of the few places that's been truly neutral the entire time. So heaven and hell folk have been mixing it up and goofing off here carefree for centuries. [00:19:40] Speaker A: And you get a fuck in there. They got a fuck in there somehow. [00:19:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Nice. [00:19:44] Speaker A: They have a sign over the door says, get the fuck out. Yeah, it's not like there's no grawlicks or, like, asterisks or anything. [00:19:50] Speaker B: Yeah, no, the new, new new. Wasn't it a king spawn not too long ago where they had just, like, the full fuck? [00:19:57] Speaker A: Oh, no, it's a Sam and twitch. [00:19:59] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:20:00] Speaker A: You know, our boy Sam and twitch go for the full fuck. Sam and Twitch is not for kids, though. [00:20:07] Speaker B: No, it is not. Oh, boy. [00:20:09] Speaker A: That new third one was pretty gnarly. [00:20:11] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Where they're, like, puzzling together all the body parts. [00:20:14] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, no, I was talking about when. When twitch ate some meatloaf, some bad diner meatloaf. [00:20:27] Speaker B: Oh, boy. We've all made that mistake before, Johnny. Because a good meatloaf is great. And it makes you forget the bad meatloaf exists. [00:20:37] Speaker A: Right. [00:20:37] Speaker B: But. But in this bar, we've got, you know, we've got a ball. A bald dude, like, just having a conversation with the bartender while he's drinking. We got saddest cowboy lady nursing a beer. We got anime guy sitting next to the door with a couple of friends. [00:20:55] Speaker A: This is purgatory. It's a bar that's been around for a long time. It's one of the truly neutral points where heaven and hell can meet. [00:21:02] Speaker B: One thing that I like about anime guy at the front door, Johnny, is in this final panel. On the page, if you look just over to the left, you see a wanted photo poster. [00:21:12] Speaker A: Yes. [00:21:12] Speaker B: That looks an awfully lot like anime guy's head. And that's a. That's a flex. That's a flex. Drinking right next to your wanted poster. Right. It's got the. It's got the high collared coat, and it's got the headband. And it's got the spiky short hair on that side. [00:21:31] Speaker A: Yeah, it might be him. Yeah, that'd be pretty badass. That takes a lot of guts. [00:21:36] Speaker B: It does take a lot of guts. That's a. That's a. That's. That's a fun. A fun little. A fun little bit of western in this non western book. [00:21:45] Speaker A: Yeah, this is a very western scene coming into the bar. Cause who comes in but spawn? He's in a new regalia. [00:21:52] Speaker B: The man in black. I mean, in red and white. [00:21:56] Speaker A: Black, red and white. [00:21:57] Speaker B: Black, red and red. He's got the. He lost his place. [00:22:00] Speaker A: Sounds like a cowboy when he's walking. Is the changer jangle? Yeah, it's just like the spurs. [00:22:04] Speaker B: I bet. I bet he does. [00:22:05] Speaker A: You know, they added spur sound effects when Boba Fett walks in the original trilogy, there's, like, spur sound effects. If you listen. [00:22:11] Speaker B: Cuz. Cuz that's. [00:22:12] Speaker A: Cuz he's based off Clint Eastwood. [00:22:14] Speaker B: Cuz that's what makes, uh. That's what makes slave one go is you just hit it in the side with some spurs. [00:22:21] Speaker A: David, it's called Fett Starship. You can't call it slave one. Disney's gonna come after your ass. [00:22:27] Speaker B: It won't be the first time. [00:22:29] Speaker A: Did you call it nice ship one? [00:22:31] Speaker B: Nice ship one. Never, never, never been named anything. Troublesome ship. Spawn is just making his. His entrance into the saloon. And this is new get up his. New get up his. [00:22:43] Speaker A: I think we saw it first in King Spawn. I'm pretty sure that King Spawn came out before this one and had it. [00:22:50] Speaker B: Yeah, but it is because I remember. [00:22:51] Speaker A: That reveal page in King Spawn. I think that was when the first time you saw it. [00:22:55] Speaker B: Yeah, but it is also. It's also. Since he's lost his hell power, the symbiote has reverted to its original form. So it's original ass spawn with the big m on his chest and yellow right foot. [00:23:12] Speaker A: No boots. [00:23:13] Speaker B: No boots. No. [00:23:14] Speaker A: No gauntlet. [00:23:15] Speaker B: Yeah, no big, big crazy thing. No fup de foap di cape. It's very much like that. That cover of the issue of stupid, where he's like, what? It's not windy all the time. [00:23:28] Speaker A: Yeah. And he, like, wrapped his. He wraps it around, like, a cool, like, collar scarf thingy. [00:23:34] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we get all the graffiti on the wall. Johnny. Oh, man, it's so fun. [00:23:41] Speaker A: There's a breakdown. This we gotta do graffiti. Breakdown. [00:23:44] Speaker B: Yeah. Birds or dinosaurs. Heaven is for losers. Hell is for wimps. [00:23:49] Speaker A: Or it could be hell is for chimps. [00:23:52] Speaker B: You never know. [00:23:53] Speaker A: They should go to hell, those nasty bastards. They're fucking evil as hell. They'll kill your ass. I watched Project Nim. Isn't that what it was called? Where the chimp attacked the family? They, like, adopted a chimp and then. [00:24:06] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know what it was called, but I know the story, like, ate everybody's faces. [00:24:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:12] Speaker A: Chimps are terrifying. [00:24:15] Speaker B: Don't bring wild animals into your home, please. [00:24:18] Speaker A: What are you talking about? [00:24:21] Speaker B: There was perfectly normal. It's a big, like, hollywood power family move is to bring wild animals into your home. Wasn't there, like, some famous actress who, like, her whole family was killed by a chimp? Is that the story you're talking about, or is that a different story? [00:24:35] Speaker A: I think it's a different story. The project Nim was, like, just a kind of an odd lady that would take in these animals. I think that's what it was called. I don't know. There's a documentary about it that I think maybe won some Academy awards that I watched. [00:24:50] Speaker B: The closest thing I've seen to that is. Nope. [00:24:54] Speaker A: Oh, God. [00:24:56] Speaker B: Wild with old Gordy. Yeah. Apparently inspired by a true story. [00:25:02] Speaker A: Yeah. The, um. That was the scary part of. Nope. That's a good movie. [00:25:06] Speaker B: It's a beautiful movie. Holy shit. Beautiful. [00:25:10] Speaker A: It might be my favorite of the Jordan Peele movies. I mean, get outs great. I like us. There's parts of us that are, like. I have my reservations about it. [00:25:21] Speaker B: My favorite part about us is that it is entirely based on a whole bunch of child of the eighties jokes. Just the hands across America through line. Just fucking hilarious. It's one of those wild. It's like a Stephen King story. It's just wild. [00:25:42] Speaker A: Something very wildly specific. Yeah. [00:25:44] Speaker B: No. [00:25:45] Speaker A: It is like a Stephen King story. [00:25:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:46] Speaker A: It really does remind even in like the messiness of it. And like that's the thing with me. It's like they either. I think they should have explained less or explained more. Like what they do. It just makes it. But it's that kind of Stephen King. It's a little messy. And some people really hated us and we're mad at it. But I feel like you shouldn't get mad at it. It's a crazy story. And. Yeah. The logic of maybe doesn't make 100% sense. That there's constantly people right below you tracking exactly where you are. It's interesting concept. And it's a. It's interesting allegory. Yeah. [00:26:22] Speaker B: I thought it was fun. Not as good as get out. [00:26:24] Speaker A: But you know what is? [00:26:28] Speaker B: What is very, very little. Well. I'll tell you what is. Johnny Spawn. 351 well. [00:26:35] Speaker A: Spawn's coming in. Spawn's getting in. [00:26:37] Speaker B: He's coming in. He's coming in hot too. He's looking for calibran. And we get. We get a grawlix here. Johnny motherfucker. [00:26:47] Speaker A: Yep. [00:26:49] Speaker B: So anime guy at the door pops up and is like. You think you could just walk in here unannounced? Not after what you did. And he starts trying to punch spawn. And he misses. And spawn just boots him to the head. [00:27:04] Speaker A: Funnel. Easter egg. It says Adelso is here. Which I must be. Adelso Corona. Little call out. [00:27:08] Speaker B: That's what I cuz. Like I saw that Noah was like, who inked? Oh. Not Adelso. Aw. [00:27:13] Speaker A: I thought. I thought maybe that he did too. But must have just been. [00:27:17] Speaker B: Maybe he did a. He could have done an uncredited. Just little sneak in. Like maybe I'll help you with this page. [00:27:24] Speaker A: Just put my name on the wall somewhere. [00:27:28] Speaker B: But so spawn. Spawn kicks this dude to the floor. And then Caliban's like. Easy. Easy. Well. Spawn here is my friend. Let us. Let us let him in. Let's let him in. [00:27:42] Speaker A: Smoking a cigar. Got a shot. He smoked a cigar and a cigarette. [00:27:46] Speaker B: Boy. He's, uh. He's got the fucking jetster. Dexter Jetster disease. Johnny. [00:27:51] Speaker A: Or he's on mushrooms. When I was on mushrooms one time I had like four cigarettes in my hand. Because I just kept forgetting I had one. This is many years ago when I smoked cigarettes and did mushrooms. But, yeah, I'm an old man now, so they're not time for either of them, man. [00:28:09] Speaker B: Fucking all of my targeted ads now are for those mushroom chocolates that they're trying to sell. Mushroom chocolates and delta h thc drink mixes. [00:28:20] Speaker A: Really? [00:28:21] Speaker B: Yeah, like, all of them. I don't know what I did. [00:28:24] Speaker A: I mean, mine are for, like, I. [00:28:25] Speaker B: Could probably guess what I did, but. [00:28:27] Speaker A: If you look at one of them, that's all it's gonna be. Yeah, I accidentally clicked on this one for, like, the marketplace, like, for switching insurance for some reason. I got that one, and now that's all the ads I see. It's just like, are you switching health insurance? I didn't even mean to click on it. I clicked on it and now that's it. They're like, oh, I clicked on an ad. It's the first time it buds. Oh, we better show ads for that. [00:28:49] Speaker B: Only I need to, I need to remember that and start clicking on ads that I actually like so that way I get more. [00:28:55] Speaker A: Or you could do the really fun experiment and block everything that's an ad and then just. You start getting deranged ads because you're like the bottom of the barrel ads because you block everything. You just start getting weird ones. [00:29:04] Speaker B: I'm just glad that I don't get, like, the constant barrage of hims ads anymore. [00:29:09] Speaker A: Yeah, they know that you. That you don't need them, David. [00:29:12] Speaker B: They know that I don't care about. About the. That weakness. Yeah, yeah. [00:29:19] Speaker A: I don't understand that. I don't get it. Just go to your doctor and be like, yo, I need some dick pills, doc. [00:29:23] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's what's the problem? What's. Well, I mean, I know a lot of people have trouble talking to, but it seems. [00:29:31] Speaker A: I don't. I don't tell my doctor fucking anything. I don't care. [00:29:33] Speaker B: It seems just as weird to talk to somebody online, online like that instead of somebody that you trust who knows all of your medications. [00:29:42] Speaker A: Exactly. That's what's funny to me. It's just like, okay, hmm. [00:29:45] Speaker B: I mean, interesting. I know a lot of people who like to. Like to actively hide things from their doctor because they're like, I don't trust them. And it's like. But you still see them. What. What sense does that make? Like, I don't want them judging me. And it's like, okay, I understand. [00:29:59] Speaker A: I do get that question. How many drinks you have per week? You always knock off a couple. [00:30:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:30:04] Speaker A: Well, I think you're like, oh, you. [00:30:05] Speaker B: Know, they're actually, I think they're trained to add two more because they know people lie about it. [00:30:11] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. Cause they know people knock off a couple. [00:30:13] Speaker B: I know, I know I'm guilty of that. And this last time when I went in for my annual physical, I was like, hey, guess what doctor say, but I'm in lie. And here's the actual amount I drink. And he's like, yeah, you should maybe roll that back a little bit. [00:30:25] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:30:26] Speaker B: Like, yeah, yeah. And he's like, you should lose some weight. And I'm like, eh, I'm fine with my weight. And he's like, okay, all right. [00:30:35] Speaker A: Caliban here though, he, his doctor would say you need to stop smoking and you need to stop drinking because he's smoking. [00:30:41] Speaker B: Double smoking, double smoking. Well, he's double smoking, single drinking. So he's got one free hand. [00:30:46] Speaker A: It's just a shot. [00:30:48] Speaker B: But he does have, he does have like a line of shot glasses on the table next to him in that first picture. [00:30:55] Speaker A: Oh yeah, no, he's been, he's been doing and like a line of cigars and cigarettes. Yeah, just been going at it. His voice probably rough. [00:31:03] Speaker B: Yeah, this is, this is his, like. [00:31:04] Speaker A: I can smell that bar like someone smoking a cigar in a bar. [00:31:07] Speaker B: She's like, oh my God, that's, that's too pungent. You gotta take that shit outside or go to the fucking smoking lounge. [00:31:14] Speaker A: Less is a black and mild. Cuz those smells sweet black. I like the smell of a black and mild. [00:31:18] Speaker B: Do smoke good? [00:31:20] Speaker A: They do. He should be smoking a black and mild because then he wouldn't even need his hands. He could hold in his mouth with that lovely plastic tip. [00:31:27] Speaker B: One of, one of my, one of the, one of the adults in my scout troop always smoked black and mild. And he was like, I want to go do some stuff over here. Nobody followed me and everybody was like, eh, we don't mind. [00:31:41] Speaker A: What is he doing? [00:31:42] Speaker B: Probably shouldn't smoke around a whole bunch of teenagers. But eh, it was the night, it was the early two thousands. [00:31:49] Speaker A: I was probably gonna go dig through his stuff and take them and smoke em yourself. [00:31:53] Speaker B: They smell better than they do. [00:31:54] Speaker A: Caliban is basically chilling and spawns wants to ask if there's a cure for vampirism. [00:32:02] Speaker B: And Caliban's like, eh, I don't know. Is this your plan? You're gonna try to take on blood? Is that what's happening? [00:32:11] Speaker A: And he thought he'd be his biggest fan because he's been for these past few months. Sounds like he's been killing a lot of heaven and hell guys. [00:32:16] Speaker B: Yeah. And so Caliban's like, you know what? I still don't really like you. But let me. Let me. Let me play devil's advocate here for you here. Even if I could help you, why would I help you? Because it would put a target on my back. And Spawn is using the clown defense here. And it's like, I'm not the worst person in the world to have mad at you. [00:32:44] Speaker A: Yeah. I can protect you. [00:32:45] Speaker B: I'll forget about you for a little bit. I'll come back, but I'll forget about you for a little bit. [00:32:52] Speaker A: There's a lovely punk rock. [00:32:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:54] Speaker A: Poster in the background. [00:32:55] Speaker B: Punk rock girls with a U. [00:32:58] Speaker A: Punk rock girls with a U and. [00:32:59] Speaker B: A Z. Yeah, I, uh. I want to see that. Punk rock girls. It's like Jim and the holograms. I bet it's. [00:33:05] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what it reminds me. [00:33:06] Speaker B: I bet it's a great show. [00:33:07] Speaker A: They think there's a rumor that Taylor Swift's gonna be playing who's the pop star in Marvel? [00:33:14] Speaker B: Dazzler. [00:33:15] Speaker A: Yeah, because she's friends with. There's this whole conspiracy theory. She's friends with bake Lively, who's married to Ryan Reynolds. She went to a NFL game with Shawn Levy, who's the director of this new Deadpool. So there's all these conspiracies that she's gonna be Dazzler. That movie, I think, is already gonna do really, really, really well. I always have this feeling that movie's gonna be huge. [00:33:38] Speaker B: I mean, have you seen the popcorn bucket? [00:33:40] Speaker A: Yeah, I did see the popcorn bucket. Wolverine's mouth. Pretty funny. No, I'm excited for it, but I think people are just dying for it, and I think it's gonna be huge. But if Taylor Swift's in it, it's gonna be fucking huge. [00:33:54] Speaker B: Yeah, it'll be. There'll be a lot of people that will just see it, though. They'll go just for Taylor Swift, and then they'll leave. They'll be disgusted for most of it. [00:34:03] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I'm excited for it. I think it'll be fun and, like, I don't know, have so much marvel fatigue. It'll be nice to see someone take the piss out of it a little bit. [00:34:11] Speaker B: We, you know, we. We are on record as being pro potty humor, and that's literally all that movie is gonna be. It's potty humor and a huge ackman. [00:34:23] Speaker A: Yep. A huge jackman he's a huge jacked man. [00:34:30] Speaker B: He is indeed. I can only hope that my mid fifties look so good. I'm looking at him doing exercises makes me tired. So there's absolutely no way I'm gonna. [00:34:44] Speaker A: You just gotta have a. Fosters mate. You'll be good to go. [00:34:48] Speaker B: If I have one of those whole oil cans, I'm gonna want to just take a nap. [00:34:51] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh yeah. Those big ones. [00:34:53] Speaker B: Those big ones. Yeah. [00:34:54] Speaker A: Those are hilarious. You can't even get your hand around. [00:34:56] Speaker B: You got it. You gotta like sippy cup it. Beer. But yeah. So Calibran's like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, yeah. No, look around. All the big people are gone. The only people left is us. Cockroaches. We're cockroaches. [00:35:12] Speaker A: Sin clown. They're gone. [00:35:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:14] Speaker A: And spawn gives the old finger. Yakuze Jacousay. The pointing finger. [00:35:20] Speaker B: Yeah. And Caliban's like man blood. And I have an arrangement where I'm gonna be fine. I don't care about you. And then, and then, you know, there's some gotcha journalism. Your arrangement, does it account for the fact that you've been sheltering demons and. [00:35:40] Speaker A: Even setting them up with black mages and changing their appearances? This is. There's black mages in the world. [00:35:45] Speaker B: That's pretty great. That's pretty great. And Caliban's like, hey, you know what? It's good for me. It's good by me. It's fine, you know, what are you gonna do about it? And it's like, you know, when I had powers, I was never significantly endowed. I like how endowed it is involved. [00:36:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:07] Speaker B: He's like. He's like, man, I was at best a three out of ten. Now I have no powers. I'm a one out of ten. What's that. What's that to me? That's. That's like, you know, I bumped my knee. But you, you were the power, powerfulest motherfucker out there. And now you ain't got nothing. [00:36:26] Speaker A: Was the worst day of your life for me. It was a Tuesday. [00:36:29] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:36:30] Speaker A: One of the great lines from street fire, the movie. [00:36:33] Speaker B: That was that guy's last film, wasn't it? [00:36:36] Speaker A: Ralph Julia? Yeah. No, I actually used that line. I ripped it off and used it in a play. It's just a great line. He says to Chun Li, he said, the day I destroyed your village was the worst day of your life. To me, it was a Tuesday. [00:36:48] Speaker B: Yeah, but he remembered that it was a Tuesday. [00:36:52] Speaker A: He did? [00:36:53] Speaker B: Yeah. It's the old Jack Sparrow defense. You without a doubt, have to be the worst pirate I've ever heard of. You have heard of me. And then, you know. And then Calibran's like, I heard you're the reason that we got Nix on the throne. How's that going for you, buddy? [00:37:13] Speaker A: The sponsor is pouting. [00:37:14] Speaker B: Yeah. And then punches him, like, grabs his neck and holds him against the wall. [00:37:21] Speaker A: Sends the cigar flying. Sends the cigarette flying, sends the shot flying. [00:37:24] Speaker B: Oh, no. Now he's party foul. He's got all these hands and nothing to put in these hands, Johnny. But he's showing massive restraint for not being like, why you little. He could Homer Simpson the hell out of Al Simmons right now if he wanted to. [00:37:42] Speaker A: The throne is still a sore spot for him. Al is. He's burned by Nix. Yeah, but maybe it's what he deserved. [00:37:51] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Only time will tell. [00:37:56] Speaker A: I'm pro nix. [00:37:57] Speaker B: I'm pro nix, too. Just cuz Nick's is fucking great. Nick's long suffering. It's about time that she gets a chance to do whatever the fuck she wants. [00:38:06] Speaker A: Yeah. Then hundreds. We cut to hundreds of miles away. That the UN? [00:38:12] Speaker B: It looks like it. It does. [00:38:14] Speaker A: Yes. The UN. [00:38:14] Speaker B: Nice. So now we're. Now we're back in New York. [00:38:17] Speaker A: Back in New York. Very maybe in the rat city. We of the future. [00:38:24] Speaker B: Maybe. Depends. Are they on the bowery? [00:38:28] Speaker A: I don't know, but they're chilling. [00:38:30] Speaker B: They're chilling. [00:38:31] Speaker A: This is one chick who wants to be. Just want to be Jessica priest here. [00:38:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Which way? Which one? The one with the hood or the one with the nose banded. [00:38:40] Speaker A: The one with the nose, yeah. [00:38:43] Speaker B: Okay. Just making sure because it's. Because it's either the one who looks like Jessica Priest and could beat stuff up or the one with the long red hair. Yeah. [00:38:54] Speaker A: So these are all a whole bunch of bloods, people. And they're guarding. [00:38:56] Speaker B: No, these are a whole bunch of angels, Johnny. [00:38:58] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Duh. Sorry. Oh, my God. [00:39:00] Speaker B: A whole bunch of angels. They're talking about how terrible it is for them now, but they got this one guy who's got a connect who can get them back up to heaven, and they're having. A couple of them were having cold feet, but they're getting around. This guy in the hat, he's rallying the troops. [00:39:18] Speaker A: They're out of money. [00:39:19] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess his name is Elijah. So Elijah's like, what are the choice do we have? We gotta get fucking back to heaven, dudes. So they take off and he's like, come on. I bribed the guards. We're gonna be fine. We're gonna be fine, and we're gonna be good. And so they sneak into this building. They. They. I like the. I like the. The scenes of them running down the hallways, just like. [00:39:43] Speaker A: Yeah, it's hilarious. [00:39:44] Speaker B: They got the security guards playing app games on their phones, playing those app. [00:39:49] Speaker A: Games, probably playing Marvel snap. [00:39:50] Speaker B: And then Elisha's like, in here, in here. My contact's in here. My kinect's in here. And then they all get in there, and they're like. And then something happens, and then they get violently dispatched. Johnny. [00:40:04] Speaker A: Yeah. A nose band aid girl gets punched through the chest. [00:40:07] Speaker B: Yeah. The non Elijah guy gets slapped so hard on the face, his eyeball pops out. [00:40:16] Speaker A: And then the lady with the hood gets her head ripped. [00:40:18] Speaker B: Yeah, the one who didn't want to do it. [00:40:23] Speaker A: Just straight up ripped off. [00:40:24] Speaker B: Yeah. I wonder if Brett Booth wanted to draw ultra violence. Johnny looks like. And this is the beginning of a trend we've got here going in new Spawn. Johnny from here. And in the next book, very violent. [00:40:40] Speaker A: Spawn's been pretty violent after this, I guess everyone. It's just so raw because no one has any powers, so they're just ripping each other apart. [00:40:46] Speaker B: They can't hide the carnage under sparkles and necroplasm. Yeah. [00:40:53] Speaker A: We find out Elijah brought these people here on purpose because he wants to free his family from somebody. [00:40:58] Speaker B: Yeah, but. But he still owes this. This currently faceless person, so more than this. Yeah. And so he's like, damn it. So he's just. He's just left there with the waste that he just had to deal with. And then we cut to a warehouse, probably on another side of town, classic warehouse. And we get some fabulously dressed henchmen. [00:41:25] Speaker A: This is some vampires. [00:41:27] Speaker B: This is some straight up comic book shit right here. Johnny. What? [00:41:33] Speaker A: All the straps. [00:41:33] Speaker B: What the hell is that vest? I don't care. It looks awesome. [00:41:38] Speaker A: Yeah, he looks like vampire morpheus. [00:41:41] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got, like, his boots, like, turn into side chaps up on his thighs and then meet again at his. I don't know. I don't know what this is, but I'm loving it. If I tried to wear that, I would just look like a pile of. A pile of fabric. [00:41:58] Speaker A: They pull it off, though. They got cool shades too. [00:42:00] Speaker B: They do. They do. But these are a couple of bloods, a couple of blood's henchmen who have tracked Spahn to this abandoned warehouse. Classic abandoned warehouse. And they're like, one of them is like, we should wait for Alec. And the other one's like, nah, fuck that guy. Let's go get him. So they. They break into the warehouse, and they're like, where's Spawn? Where is he? Where is this motherfucker? And, well, there is that motherfucker, Johnny. Spawn comes at him with a sword. Yes. Spawn comes at them under, out of. From the shadows with the katana and just, like, slices off green vest dude's wings. Oh, boy. [00:42:47] Speaker A: We get the opening reading about how they thought they're all equals, but they're dead wrong. [00:42:51] Speaker B: Yeah, they are. [00:42:52] Speaker A: Despawn is gleefully, angrily cutting them off. [00:42:56] Speaker B: Yeah, he decapitates the guy who wanted to wait for Alec after chopping off his hands. So, like, just, like, bodily insult after bodily insult after bodily insult and dismemberments. [00:43:12] Speaker A: And that's what you call the Django Fett, where you cut off the hand and the head. That's what happens. [00:43:17] Speaker B: Old Django rip. Django Fett, dad fire. [00:43:27] Speaker A: Everyone loves little Boba Fett. [00:43:30] Speaker B: We're just gonna speak like a kiwi for the rest of the show? [00:43:32] Speaker A: No, I'm gonna speak like little baby Boba Fett. Dad fire. [00:43:39] Speaker B: Um, tom, we. [00:43:41] Speaker A: Someone's here to see dad. And then, uh, okay, we're talking about episode two again. [00:43:47] Speaker B: Let's go, Dexter. [00:43:49] Speaker A: My cousin listened to that episode, and he said he thought it was a good idea to do a goofy romantic comedy with it as opposed to what they did, so. [00:43:57] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, whatever. [00:43:57] Speaker A: I guess one of us suggested that. [00:43:59] Speaker B: I don't remember. [00:43:59] Speaker A: It was a fucking four hour conversation. [00:44:01] Speaker B: If they had taken the movie in one direction instead of trying to take them in all of the directions, I think it would have been incredible. [00:44:10] Speaker A: Yes. [00:44:11] Speaker B: That movie tried too much. [00:44:13] Speaker A: A lot. Tried too much. So spawn's cutting up these dudes. [00:44:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:44:16] Speaker A: He stabbing them. So after we get some good. This is the Todd father talking, because we get some good tactics. Todd. Yeah, he was trained to kill long before he was spawned. [00:44:24] Speaker B: Yeah, he was waiting for them. He's already trapped a few vampires, but all those have been feral, mindless beasts. So he's. He's got. He's killed the one guy, and he's got the second guy, and he's trying to torture some information out of him, and it's like, how do I. [00:44:40] Speaker A: He stabs him in the arm, up against the wall. [00:44:42] Speaker B: How do I cure vampirism? And then as he. As he asks this question, the. The aforementioned Alec busts in. He fooms in. [00:44:52] Speaker A: He's a big old guy. [00:44:55] Speaker B: He's like Solomon Grundy big. [00:44:57] Speaker A: He does, like, the fucking Kool aid man. [00:44:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, yeah. And just. [00:45:04] Speaker A: Just starts haymakers spawn. [00:45:06] Speaker B: Yes. Starts. Just, like, punch and spawn across the. Across cross this warehouse. And. And spawns like what? What? And, Alex, like, have you not learned that this is our world? You should have stayed in the shadows, Simmons. This is our time, and there's nothing you or heaven can do to stay it. [00:45:29] Speaker A: And they said he's worried about this. Is Spawns angry because of what happened to his little friend. And we don't know who they're talking about, but something happened. [00:45:36] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know. Well, they do reference King spawn 31 and 32 a little bit earlier. And we happen. [00:45:42] Speaker A: No, we know the friend is. We find out the next issue. [00:45:47] Speaker B: Oh, well, okay. [00:45:49] Speaker A: We're about to cover. You don't remember? [00:45:51] Speaker B: Oh, boy. I I'll remember when we get there. I was trying to. I was trying to build the in universe. Like, maybe we're thinking that, oh, hey. [00:46:01] Speaker A: They talk about Wanda Blake or Granny Blake is. [00:46:04] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay, okay. [00:46:06] Speaker A: They're not talking about Granny Blake. They're talking about the other friend. [00:46:08] Speaker B: Okay. Okay. [00:46:10] Speaker A: You'll see. All right. You'll see. I don't want to coming up on it. [00:46:13] Speaker B: You're asking me to remember what happened in spawn that's not currently in front of me. [00:46:18] Speaker A: That's true. [00:46:19] Speaker B: And that's a. That's a tall task. [00:46:21] Speaker A: All right. We'll put a pin in it. We'll come back to the little friends. [00:46:25] Speaker B: But yes. So there's nothing heaven or hell can do to stop the vampires. That he says. And then somebody from. From off the left says, is that right? [00:46:37] Speaker A: Well, I'm afraid I've got some bad news for you. [00:46:39] Speaker B: Yeah. And we get, who the heck, who the hell is this? [00:46:44] Speaker A: Angela, maybe? [00:46:46] Speaker B: No, they gotta. [00:46:47] Speaker A: That's what. That's our friend Mark tiny spawny. [00:46:50] Speaker B: Yeah, guess so. This is a badass new person. Wrapped up like a mummy. Got a halo, got shoulder. Spikies has, like, a redeemer belt, has her hair. [00:47:04] Speaker A: Looks like it's sentient. It has, like, a knife in the end of it. [00:47:07] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like those rope weapons that martial arts guys use, only it's her hair, and she's just like cracker and her knuckles. [00:47:18] Speaker A: Getting ready to get ready to get down. [00:47:19] Speaker B: If they actually made the spawn, the spawn beat em up game, she would probably be a very good pair character to play. She would. She looks like she would be analogous to a scorpion with a. Get over here. [00:47:34] Speaker A: Yeah, or like sheik, if you play smash brothers. She kind of looks like sheik. [00:47:40] Speaker B: Yeah, she's got some crazy, crazy abdomen armor piece. [00:47:48] Speaker A: Yeah, she's pretty cool looking. Pretty cool. Brett Booth design there, man. [00:47:51] Speaker B: Brett Booth just knocking it out of the park. Then we get necroplasm meter. [00:47:57] Speaker A: What? That was so fast. [00:47:59] Speaker B: I remember it taking longer to read than that. Holy crap. But Al Simmons, he's hurting for necroplasm. [00:48:07] Speaker A: He's at the big old one. [00:48:10] Speaker B: When we get a spawning grounds. Presents. The mail bag. We get a guy named Paul B. Talking about how Spahn has buoyed his spirits while he's been in the hospital. And, you know, I can think of no greater appreciation for Spahn than being like, hey, this made me feel good. When existing did not feel good. So right there with, glad you're feeling better, Paul. And that is a badass spawn that you submitted then, you know, Thomas Healy is, you know, just saying, hey, thanks for the kind letter, you know, and. [00:48:46] Speaker A: We'Re about to see what's going down. [00:48:48] Speaker B: Yeah. I hope you stick around for what happens next. Yeah. [00:48:52] Speaker A: Then we get a very important question that. We even asked this. [00:48:54] Speaker B: Yes, we did. [00:48:55] Speaker A: That they wrote in us, who the hell is this guy? [00:48:58] Speaker B: And it's the Iron man spawn. [00:49:00] Speaker A: Iron man spawn from, you know, the early. [00:49:03] Speaker B: The early Carla Barbary, the one. The one who was smashed to just little tiny screw flying across the bay around the gumshoe spawn times. [00:49:14] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. We had all those spawns being sucked in that they were collecting. Yeah, after the. After the big flash. Yeah. He. And basically this. [00:49:25] Speaker B: This is. Thomas Healy is very magnanimously saying we currently have too much spawn to worry about Iron man spawn right now. But maybe we'll do it in the future, right? So there's just too many spawns. It's like, we gotta. We gotta. We have spawn at home. And the spawn we have at home is this one. [00:49:47] Speaker A: But I want. But I want something else. [00:49:50] Speaker B: Yep, yep. We'll get it later. But no, yeah. I loved. I loved being reminded of Iron Man Spawn because he was a great little two panel guy. [00:50:01] Speaker A: Yeah, that was a fun little time. We get a couple revolutionary war spawn popping in there. Gumshoe spawn. [00:50:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:50:06] Speaker A: All of them. [00:50:08] Speaker B: Centurion spawn. [00:50:10] Speaker A: Yep. [00:50:11] Speaker B: That's mailbag. Need more spawns, universe, Johnny. [00:50:13] Speaker A: Don't miss these ongoing titles, man. It's got previews for the March and. [00:50:17] Speaker B: April issues that Jonathan Glappian scorch 28 cover right there. I love it so much. It's so fucking frightening. [00:50:23] Speaker A: I love that gunslinger spawn that's like, oh, yeah. [00:50:25] Speaker B: The spaghetti western. [00:50:27] Speaker A: Spaghetti western one. [00:50:29] Speaker B: I can't believe it took him 30 issues to be. [00:50:32] Speaker A: I was about to say it took him long enough. [00:50:33] Speaker B: I'm pretty sure that's exactly what I said in the quick review reel that I made for it. [00:50:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:41] Speaker B: And then also we got spawn with his visible orange on that matina cover there. [00:50:47] Speaker A: Then we have the monstrous ad we've had for a long time. And then we get something really exciting for me. Diablo four action figures. [00:50:57] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:50:59] Speaker A: There's that druid. My druid kind of looks like that right now. I've been playing the druid. [00:51:02] Speaker B: Which one's the druid? Is that the lady, the bottom right. Okay. [00:51:06] Speaker A: I've been playing druid this season. It's been a lot of fun. You can turn into a bear or a wolf, and you can fuck shit up. [00:51:11] Speaker B: Nice. [00:51:13] Speaker A: Because this is the fourth season of Diablo. [00:51:16] Speaker B: So who's this crimson king up in the top? Johnny. [00:51:20] Speaker A: That's a blood baron. That's a bad guy. He's like a boss. And then you got a sorcerer and a necromancer. Or maybe a barbarian. Sorcerer and barbarian. [00:51:29] Speaker B: This guy. This guy looks straight out of army of darkness. [00:51:32] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. As the skeletons in army of darkness say. [00:51:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:39] Speaker A: Yeah. Diablo IV's been. They really revamped it this season. It's been really, really good and very addicting. [00:51:45] Speaker B: Nice, but good. [00:51:46] Speaker A: I need, you know, sometimes you need some fun stuff to take your mind off the world. [00:51:49] Speaker B: So. Absolutely. [00:51:50] Speaker A: Happy to have it. [00:51:51] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:51:52] Speaker A: And I'm happy to have this issue. A spawn 351. [00:51:54] Speaker B: Good one. [00:51:54] Speaker A: Great issue. Well, next up. [00:52:04] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:52:04] Speaker A: We've got the next issue, 352, all the way back in the far off land of April 2024. [00:52:13] Speaker B: Yeah, we got some covers to cover here, Johnny, don't we? [00:52:16] Speaker A: We sure do. [00:52:17] Speaker B: This cover, I have cover a. It's a very familiar guy for main title spawn. It's a Carlo Barberry cover. [00:52:24] Speaker A: That's what I got, too. [00:52:26] Speaker B: Nice. It's spawn, you know, crouching on top of the. The church. Classic. Classic spawn. Church and classic spawn. [00:52:37] Speaker A: There's some dust settling. [00:52:38] Speaker B: There's a. There's a glow from underneath. It's almost as if the city is on fire. It's like from Hunchback of Notre Dame, where they're like Paris City on fire. That's not from the hunchback of Notre Dame, Johnny. That's just. That's just a crazy old lady. [00:52:57] Speaker A: Yeah, it was from Sweeney Todd. [00:52:59] Speaker B: She doesn't hunchback matter. She's not important. [00:53:03] Speaker A: That hunchback movie is so fucking weird. Cause it tries to be, like, fan of the opera. Like this grandiose musical that has, like, the farting statues and stuff. It's such a whiplash. [00:53:11] Speaker B: Oh, man. And then it's got. [00:53:13] Speaker A: Cause, like the folio. [00:53:15] Speaker B: Sexy Romani ladies. [00:53:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:20] Speaker B: It's a wild late nineties. Disney movies are wild. [00:53:23] Speaker A: They were just. Yeah, they were going for it. That was a crazy movie. Yeah. So he's hand out. He's standing there gargoyling on top of the top of the cross. [00:53:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Do you think he is he. Is he the. So, so those two gargoyles and Hunchback of Notre Dame. Dom at Notre Dame? Notre Dame. [00:53:44] Speaker A: Three. [00:53:44] Speaker B: Three. I can only think of the two of them right now. The tall skinny one and the short fat one are basically. [00:53:50] Speaker A: There's like the funny one or the goofy one. [00:53:52] Speaker B: Well, there's like a Burton and an Ernie. Right? [00:53:55] Speaker A: There's three of them. [00:53:56] Speaker B: Yeah. I can only remember two of them. Okay. I'm gonna have to Google Notre Dame. [00:54:00] Speaker A: There's like an older one who's like, kind of medium sized. And there's the Jason Alexander one. [00:54:06] Speaker B: The Jason Sean Alexander one. [00:54:08] Speaker A: Yes. [00:54:09] Speaker B: Okay, okay, okay. So there's the star of Seinfeld. Okay, I forgot that there was the. The beefy. The beefy beefcake. [00:54:16] Speaker A: Oh, right. He's a beef cake. [00:54:17] Speaker B: He's a beefcake. Okay, well, I guess. I guess there's two burts and an Ernie. [00:54:25] Speaker A: There's two burts in an Ernie. The Ernie is the Jason Sean Alexander. [00:54:28] Speaker B: One man fucking Burton. [00:54:31] Speaker A: Ernie Jason Sean. Wait, was Jason Sean Alexander and Seinfeld? Or is he the artist? [00:54:35] Speaker B: He's the artist. He's the artist. [00:54:37] Speaker A: I'm kidding. [00:54:38] Speaker B: He's the one who's currently doing a play in Chicago right now. [00:54:42] Speaker A: Yeah. And always a good time with all the headlines, all the stuff he's been saying to mention how much we love Jerry Seinfeld, known old confused man. It's like anytime I see a headline by Jerry Seinfeld now, it's like old man yells at cloud. He's like, why can't all these woke people watch my show? [00:55:00] Speaker B: So. So this is. This is a good segue here. I promise. It's thematic because it has to deal with, basically. But there's that an old Seinfeld joke about basically, at a certain point in sports with all the teams and the players changing that, you're. It comes down to you're basically just rooting for a uniform and fuck yeah, you are. Because if I'm watching baseball and I do not like what one of the team's uniforms is, but I like the other teams. Guess which team I'm fucking rooting for? The ones with uniform. Which also means that I hate the brewers, because the brewers have over designed their logo and uniforms way beyond the point of fun. Because baseball should be a little. Baseball design should be a little slap dash and a little lazy. You can't overthink it. [00:55:54] Speaker A: I love those sox nineties ones. [00:55:57] Speaker B: The ugly ones. [00:55:59] Speaker A: I love those. [00:56:00] Speaker B: No, they call them the winning ugly. [00:56:02] Speaker A: Because, oh, they win when they wear them. [00:56:05] Speaker B: Yeah, they were. They were. They were good around the time that they had those. [00:56:09] Speaker A: Okay. [00:56:09] Speaker B: But, but, yeah, yeah. Nothing makes. Very few things make me happier than a very good baseball uniform. And one of those few things, Johnny happens to be spawn. And we were still covering the covers of 352 before I got distracted by fart chip. So what other covers does this have? Since we both have the Carlo Barberry? [00:56:31] Speaker A: Let me pull it up. We got a Francesco Tomaselli, and it's spawn with his glowing eyes leaving, like, a big trail. [00:56:40] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like, he's like a motorcycle in Akira. [00:56:46] Speaker A: Yeah. And he's got, like, green, glowy. I got a smooth 3d look to him. [00:56:52] Speaker B: Yeah. When we pop it open and we got a. [00:56:56] Speaker A: And we got credit. [00:56:57] Speaker B: We're credits and, you know, these. These credits look awfully familiar, so we'll just, we'll just go through them again. Shannon, we got script plot. Script plot by Rory McConville. Additional script by Todd McFarlane. Sneaking his way back in there. [00:57:10] Speaker A: Gotta do it. [00:57:11] Speaker B: Art by breath booth inks by Adelso Corona. [00:57:15] Speaker A: There you go. Adelsa was here. [00:57:18] Speaker B: Colors by Robert Nugent. That's two differences between this one and the last one shining. We still got Tomo doing the letters, though, so we got that going good. Covered the covers. Creative director Todd McFarlane, editor in chief Thomas Healy, and then previously in Spawn, spawn realizes that blood's plans are greater than he thought. Okay. [00:57:45] Speaker A: Yeah, kinda. [00:57:46] Speaker B: Kinda. No mention of new person. No mention of. Yeah, no mention of new person. It's not important. New person, not important. The new person is not important to this issue in any way, shape, or form? Johnny, not at all. Not at all. He doesn't. He doesn't go after her. He doesn't tell Terry to track her down. This issue, like the last issue, starts with a. Two months ago, the night hell's war ended. And we've got just a lovely. A lovely little domestic. Domestic portrait. Portrait here. It's. It's old married man and wife and old guys. Try to make a phone call, and wife doesn't like that. The phone call is not going through. [00:58:34] Speaker A: And not only are they just old man and wife, they're deans. [00:58:38] Speaker B: It's very funny to see the bickering. [00:58:41] Speaker A: No, this is hilarious. I love it opens with this, like, domestic scene with these two violator looking demonstrated. [00:58:47] Speaker B: Yeah, no answer. Relax. I'll try. Gordon, I don't like this. Something's up. [00:58:53] Speaker A: So basically, they can't. They can't use their powers. They can't transform back into human form. So they're calling all their friends on the landline. [00:58:58] Speaker B: Yeah, again, but this is the wireless landline, so they don't have to worry about getting tangled up in that cord. [00:59:06] Speaker A: Sure. [00:59:06] Speaker B: Don't. This is very much like a. But why is the floor wet? I don't know, Margot. Only with demons. [00:59:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:59:17] Speaker B: And so while they're. While they're having their little, like, nervous spat to keep them from thinking about, you know, what's actually happening, the old guy's like, hey, behind you and Sherpa. We got vampires just ninja ing in. [00:59:34] Speaker A: This is one of the instances where they say that all the legends, you know, about vampires in the spawns universe aren't true, so they don't need to be invited in. [00:59:42] Speaker B: It's common to believe that vampires need an invitation to enter someone's home, but as heaven and Hell's agents are learning, that's just a superstition. [00:59:51] Speaker A: I love the scared demon running, just going. [00:59:56] Speaker B: He looks like a dog that got in trouble. [00:59:58] Speaker A: Yeah. It's after this poor wise head is cut off. [01:00:02] Speaker B: Yeah. And then he runs into, like, he runs into fucking dark Linny Kravitz here, who goes, boop. And then we get another. Another grawlix. Fuck you. Fuck you. [01:00:19] Speaker A: It tries to attack him, but he grabs the demon's hand and rips its. [01:00:23] Speaker B: Arm, like, just twists it. Twists it right off. And the demons down there trying to make threats that, you know, he's just trying to save his ass, but it's not going anywhere. Then dark Lenny Kravitz is literally doing a recreation of what is happening across the middle of the country right now with the 13 and 17 year cicada broods where just smashed underfoot and their eyeballs pop out. Yeah, I bring that up, Johnny, simply because those cicadas have fucking red ass eyes. And it's a little creepy. [01:01:02] Speaker A: Except for the rare ones have blue eyes. [01:01:04] Speaker B: I have. I have yet to see the ones with blue eyes yet. [01:01:07] Speaker A: Google it. There's, like, someone found a rare blue eyed. [01:01:09] Speaker B: Is it a blue eyes white dragon. Blue eyes, white dragon. I'm gonna google. I don't know that I'm gonna google. Blue eyes, white dragon. Blue eyes. White dragon was, like, the most powerful yu gi oh card. [01:01:20] Speaker A: Oh. [01:01:22] Speaker B: It was the yu gi oh version of the foil charizard. This isn't the only demon house hold that is being broken into by vampires. And we get a quick little couple of shots of heaven and hell, people being exterminated by blood's minions. [01:01:42] Speaker A: Then we get a little Todd father, I bet because it says nearly 40% of heavens and hell's forces. Exact number. [01:01:47] Speaker B: Yeah. And then, like, 70, they wiped out 70% of those that were hiding. But that last 30% won't be as easy to eradicate. I do like that. This one angel has a shirt that says, heaven help me. We go back to. [01:02:08] Speaker A: And they did an Anakin, man, they're killing the women and the children too. [01:02:12] Speaker B: And then we cut back to Al Simmons hanging out with the crates in that abandoned warehouse, watching new lady fight Alec the vampire. And the one of the, one of the vampire that didn't get killed by Al Simmons in the background just being like, shit, Alec, she's got powers. [01:02:32] Speaker A: She got fucking powers. [01:02:38] Speaker B: And we learned his name is Lear. And I think that's hilarious that his name is Lear. I don't know why. He's not very kingly. [01:02:45] Speaker A: Oh, he looks more like Morpheus. [01:02:46] Speaker B: Yeah. And we're talking Jared Leto. Morpheus. And that's Morpheus. Oh, okay, so that's. Those are different people. Get Weiss. [01:02:58] Speaker A: I think the purple and greens reminding me of Morpheus. He has, like, the purple shadows. [01:03:02] Speaker B: He looks a little bit like Lex Luthor. [01:03:04] Speaker A: Does look a little bit like Lex Luthor. You're right. [01:03:06] Speaker B: Mister Luthor. Mister Luthor. So the two vampires are teaming up against this new lady. Lear's just in the background while Alex tries to do most of the heavy lifting. Just like, ah, take care of her. Take care of her. She's got heaven armor on, but she ain't got wings. Obviously, she's not a demon, or she would look like a demon. And while Alec is holding her neck and got her face next to his face, Al Simmons swoops his hook chain right in this vampire's eye. [01:03:42] Speaker A: Right in the eye. [01:03:43] Speaker B: And then Alec. Alec uses the chain to fling. Fling Al Simmons across the. The warehouse. And then, man, new lady. New lady chose violence. She just, like, swipes him right through the stomach and cuts him in half. [01:04:03] Speaker A: Cuts him right in half. And it says she's a, she's a. [01:04:06] Speaker B: Hybrid of some kind, a chimera, if you will. [01:04:11] Speaker A: Mm hmm. And spawn needs to know if that's a good or a bad thing. [01:04:15] Speaker B: So once again, he's throwing swords at Leer the vampire. [01:04:19] Speaker A: That's pretty good sword throw. [01:04:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:04:22] Speaker A: If he didn't have such a tight fitting cool outfit, he could have gotten out of there. But he's trapped by his own cool. [01:04:28] Speaker B: Yeah, his, his giant, giant lapels just sticking up there. Yep. So new lady starts interrogating him. [01:04:41] Speaker A: Ask him where blood is. [01:04:42] Speaker B: Where is he? And then Al Simmons is like, thanks for your help, but I'm wondering why you've got powers. She says, yeah, it's not important. Not for you anyway. [01:04:51] Speaker A: Yeah, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. [01:04:53] Speaker B: Al says you can't take blood down on your own. And she says, I wouldn't have to if you hadn't screwed up everything. So. [01:05:00] Speaker A: And uses her powers just to throw it. [01:05:02] Speaker B: Yeah, well, she, like, punches him. [01:05:04] Speaker A: Oh, she punches off her back. [01:05:06] Speaker B: Yeah. Al lanes in a whole bunch of boxes, and he's like, oh, geez. It's taking him a long time to recover from a blow of that magnitude, Johnny. So by the time he stands back up, she's long gone. [01:05:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:05:19] Speaker B: But during the altercation, Al was able to slip a little, a little one of those apple, apple thingamajigs onto dude, man. [01:05:30] Speaker A: What are they called? [01:05:31] Speaker B: Airtags. He was able to slip an air tags onto to lear, and so he's, he's just gonna follow him. So then we cut to Germany, and we've got blood looking very bored. And then blood is looking bored, but he is talking to, like, the fucking high nineties James Bond villain over here. [01:05:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:05:53] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Like, this guy is straight out of danger girl or some shit. [01:05:58] Speaker A: Yep. He's like a black ops dude. Kind of like a scuba diver or something. [01:06:04] Speaker B: Yeah, with like a permanent, a permanent scope eye. [01:06:09] Speaker A: Like a splinter cell looking thing. [01:06:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:06:11] Speaker A: Yeah, kind of like splinter cell. [01:06:12] Speaker B: Johnny, this is the greatest comic book currently going. I hope you realize that there is so much ridiculous comic book stuff going on in spawn right now that I currently don't see anywhere else. Amazing. [01:06:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:06:29] Speaker B: Case in point. This fucking guy. [01:06:32] Speaker A: This guy. [01:06:34] Speaker B: So we learned that this guy is an agent of the agency, and blood's like, you need to tell your boss he has too high of an opinion of himself. [01:06:47] Speaker A: And we know that. [01:06:47] Speaker B: Yes, we do. We do. I'd like to see, I'd like to see Blood say that to Jason wins. [01:06:53] Speaker A: He give him the old bam bam. Give him the double punch. Cause he's been working out with those fighting demons, fighting dummies in his danger. [01:07:01] Speaker B: And then he'd fire him for being not a good fighter. [01:07:05] Speaker A: Yeah, he fights and fires. [01:07:06] Speaker B: You suck as a ninja. [01:07:08] Speaker A: They should have Jason Wynn run for president. He's kind of a Trumpian figure. [01:07:12] Speaker B: Unfortunately, I think I would actually vote for Jason Wynn. [01:07:15] Speaker A: I vote for Jason Wynn if Jason Wynn if he's like, hi, I'm Jason Wynn from Spawn. I'm a real person, I'd vote for it. [01:07:22] Speaker B: We're talking. We're talking regular Jason Wynn, or we're talking Redeemer Jason Wynn or anti spawn Jason Wynn, Martin Sheen. [01:07:28] Speaker A: Jason Wynn's already been. [01:07:30] Speaker B: Yeah, he has. Is he the president that Al Simmons saved? No, that would be, that would be a good twist. [01:07:36] Speaker A: They just write Al Simmons into the west win. Speaking of Aaron Sorho. [01:07:43] Speaker B: Yeah, we already know that they like to do a walking talking spot, but they're, you know, this, this alliance between the agency and Jason blood is a little testy. You know, Jason wins, like, or no. Blood is like, nah, you know, we'll keep tabs on them. I don't think they're very. He doesn't, he doesn't think the agency is really worth a lot of brainpower, which is probably going to come back to bite him in the ass. It always does. [01:08:10] Speaker A: Yeah, the agency seems like they're going to be a big deal. They're all over the scorch. They're all over this. [01:08:15] Speaker B: And then cyber tech spy guy is on the is. He's on the horn with Jason Nguyen. He says blood's playing with us. And he's like, there's some missing scientists. They all work for him now. He's hunting the same thing we are. So they're, they're looking for something. Johnny, there's a MacGuffin here. I don't know what this Macguffin is, but, but Jason Wynn's like, we need to just figure out a way to kill these guys, and then it's not gonna matter. So. [01:08:43] Speaker A: And then Jason Wynn tells him there's a prospect he wants to look into that can make them bypass blood altogether. He's got a cool jet. He's going to. He flies around in a jet? [01:08:51] Speaker B: Yeah. Looks like it's one of those vertical liftoff and, or take off and landing. Yeah, it's got to be planes. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. This is some good shit, Johnny. Then we, we go back, we go back to Al, and he's he's following the tracker that he put on learning, and he's bemoaning how long it takes to get across town. Now the journey to get there is another reminder of how much things have changed. Before it was a second, that's all it would have taken him before travel across the city to get anywhere on the planet using shadows. It's taken him a long time. And he's just doing an epic motorcycle montage across town. [01:09:32] Speaker A: Really nice lens flare. [01:09:33] Speaker B: There's some hair metal playing in the background, probably some in excess, taken specifically from the. The Lost Boys soundtrack. And we learn again that in war, you have to make adjustments so Al finds where the tracker died or lost its battery. [01:09:49] Speaker A: There's that guy. There's our buddy. And he's got knives. [01:09:53] Speaker B: Yeah. He got the haunt treatment here. [01:09:56] Speaker A: Yep. [01:09:57] Speaker B: Oh, boy. [01:09:57] Speaker A: He's knives to the wall. [01:09:59] Speaker B: He's got a. He's got a cross. I can't tell if the cross is cut into him or if it's just, like, slapped onto his face. There's the cross on his face. So. And then Al. Al answers his phone and says, al, I got your message. What's up? And it's. It's our. It's our favorite man in the chair, Johnny Terry Fitzgerald. [01:10:25] Speaker A: Terry Fitzgerald looking boss. [01:10:27] Speaker B: And Spawn's like, I need your help finding a woman. I mean, that's. [01:10:33] Speaker A: I mean, who doesn't? [01:10:34] Speaker B: Sometimes I think it's gonna take more than just that, Al. [01:10:38] Speaker A: Yeah. You might look inward. [01:10:40] Speaker B: You're a hard sell, sir. [01:10:44] Speaker A: You're a hard sell today. [01:10:45] Speaker B: So Terry's like, have her specs. And he's like, no, she's a new player. She may have lived in this abandoned warehouse. She looks like she's got heaven armor. That's about all I got. [01:11:01] Speaker A: That's it. [01:11:02] Speaker B: Not a lot to work with. And so I was like, press on your contacts. And Terry's like, I've got very few contacts left, but I'll try. As this conversation is wrapping up, we flash back to Ezekiel and or Elijah. We flashback to Elijah back in that. [01:11:17] Speaker A: Room where they killed all. [01:11:18] Speaker B: He's got another. Another group of angels. He's like, come on. Come on. We're gonna get free. Come on. We're gonna get free. And they similarly get ripped to shreds. [01:11:28] Speaker A: Yeah. Like those other guys, that room that Elijah let his friends into. [01:11:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, indeed. [01:11:34] Speaker A: But now we're gonna see who destroyed them. [01:11:36] Speaker B: Yeah. And, you know, Al and Spawn says, as Al and Terry's conversation is wrapping up, he's like, you know, we need to, we need to find her. Cause we need to find that cure for vampirism. [01:11:48] Speaker A: But why would spawn be looking for this cure for vampireism? [01:11:51] Speaker B: I don't know. I don't know. [01:11:52] Speaker A: Johnny, turn the page and. Oh my God. [01:11:57] Speaker B: She could. [01:11:58] Speaker A: It's Eddie. It's Reaper. [01:12:00] Speaker B: They need to find this lady because she might be the key to saving Eddie. [01:12:04] Speaker A: And Eddie Frank, aka Reaper, a new servant of blood's arm. [01:12:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:12:08] Speaker A: What the f, yeah. [01:12:09] Speaker B: And so Eddie Frank, aka Reaper, has been the one that's just been moiderizing all these angels, trying to make Elijah pay upfront for helping his family out. [01:12:24] Speaker A: Yes. What the fuck, Eddie? [01:12:25] Speaker B: Fucking brutal. This is fucking frightening as shit. Holy Christ, Johnny. [01:12:32] Speaker A: Yeah. Vampire reapers. Nothing. [01:12:33] Speaker B: No joke. No joke at all. Has he always had those skull and wings on his boots or is that part of the vampire? [01:12:44] Speaker A: I don't know. [01:12:44] Speaker B: Does the vampireism change his boots? [01:12:48] Speaker A: Maybe. Maybe they bought new boots so they got Jason blood. [01:12:52] Speaker B: Seems like the kind of person that, now that you're on my team, I need you to represent me in everything you do. So you have to wear something that, you know, represents that we got bats in us. [01:13:05] Speaker A: It's like, okay. Okay. That's the second issue in a row that ends in the reveal of a character. [01:13:10] Speaker B: Yes indeed. [01:13:12] Speaker A: A classic ending for a comic book is usually to show someone you didn't know was gonna show up. [01:13:16] Speaker B: Yeah, I wasn't expecting, I didn't know who to expect was in this room killing these angels, Johnny. [01:13:22] Speaker A: Me either. [01:13:23] Speaker B: Yeah. Al Simmons still doing very poorly on the necroplasm front. [01:13:28] Speaker A: Look at the power meter. [01:13:29] Speaker B: One, still one, still one. Not as low as it has been, but still low. [01:13:36] Speaker A: Not as high as it could be. [01:13:39] Speaker B: We get another spawning grounds. Presents mailbag with some more fan art here going on. We got a guy named Lewis who says, hey, I real excited for Sammy. Twitch and Rhett City and same. [01:13:56] Speaker A: Same. [01:13:57] Speaker B: They're both really, they've already come out and I'm still very excited for them. [01:14:00] Speaker A: Yeah, I can't wait for Rat City three. That's the one I'm waiting on. [01:14:03] Speaker B: Oh, it's gonna be so good. [01:14:04] Speaker A: And he's just got his suit going. He's gonna be spawning out. [01:14:08] Speaker B: Yeah, we got, we got a lot of the questions building and we're gonna, I feel like there's gonna be a good reveal of for Peter. I mean, not good for Peter, but good for us. [01:14:20] Speaker A: Exciting story is coming. [01:14:22] Speaker B: Lewis also included some fan art of spawn sands cape, but with the medieval axe. And it is, it is dope. [01:14:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:14:32] Speaker B: And Thomas. Thomas says. He calls it bad, bad ass spawn fan art. He's got two D's and badass. [01:14:45] Speaker A: Then we get a little funny level from a funny letter from Gardevil. It's Garfield and the devil. [01:14:50] Speaker B: Yeah. He says hot. Hot. [01:14:54] Speaker A: So Nix is a revealer of hell instead of spawn. McFarland Company. Certainly surprised reuse of that revelation. Not you. [01:15:01] Speaker B: Nope, not me. I. I like to take the. [01:15:07] Speaker A: You got that? [01:15:08] Speaker B: I like to take the joy out of things, Johnny. I don't know if you've noticed. [01:15:12] Speaker A: That means it's not a stupid reveal, that if you can guess it, that means, like, at least it makes sense. [01:15:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, that's. That's just. You read. You read what they put down, Johnny. [01:15:22] Speaker A: And so he's. And then he also asked about. He said, congratulations, region 350, and keep spawning. Just remember to bring back mini spawn for another pesky, mischievous adventure. [01:15:32] Speaker B: Nuk said, I don't know what Nuk said means. [01:15:34] Speaker A: I think it's supposed to be nuff, but I don't know what nuk means. [01:15:36] Speaker B: I don't know. [01:15:37] Speaker A: A knuckle sound. [01:15:39] Speaker B: I would like to have somebody make a sticker of the original coleostro with his little. That just says, keep on spawning. [01:15:47] Speaker A: What says? Nuk said? [01:15:50] Speaker B: Yeah, he wants to, like an arkrum style, right? Yeah. [01:15:54] Speaker A: That'd be awesome. Yeah. Mini spawn, our friend from c two e two, the one that, the lady that ran our sound at c two e two, is probably the biggest fan of. She's a big fan of miniswan. [01:16:04] Speaker B: She was so upset when he killed Iron man, who wasn't Iron Man. [01:16:07] Speaker A: I know. She was like, you can't do that. [01:16:10] Speaker B: Oh, there was so much fun. But, yeah, Thomas is like, hey, that pesky little mischief. Pesky little pesky and mischievous spawn kills everyone in July. [01:16:19] Speaker A: So that'll be fun. [01:16:21] Speaker B: Spawn kills every spawn. Sorry, excuse me. [01:16:23] Speaker A: Spawn kills every spawn. You get the COVID there with the violator mobile? [01:16:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:16:28] Speaker A: Mini spawn driving over, running over. Big spawn. [01:16:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:16:31] Speaker A: Pretty cool. [01:16:32] Speaker B: Oh, I'm so excited for it, Johnny. [01:16:34] Speaker A: And then we get some fan art by Scott Masterson. [01:16:36] Speaker B: And it's just a, it's one of those blanket cover spawns. And it looks like he did it in a, like, oil pastels. Yeah, that's really cool. So good. If I tried to do that, it would just be one giant smear from where I laid my hand across it. [01:16:51] Speaker A: Right. [01:16:51] Speaker B: Oh, those are. Those are. Those are the forbidden crayon. They're just messy. Yeah, we got a, then we got. [01:17:00] Speaker A: The previews for the next titles, the April and May titles for the ever expanding spawns universe. [01:17:06] Speaker B: I'm pretty sure I've read all of those, Jenny. [01:17:08] Speaker A: I have two. [01:17:09] Speaker B: Let me get a. They're all pretty good image classic, sad, you know, as you do. And the movie maniacs is the toy. [01:17:16] Speaker A: Ad in the back with that awesome Sheldon is the Flash figure. So such a cool figure. [01:17:23] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I gotta have it. [01:17:24] Speaker A: I got to have it. [01:17:27] Speaker B: I like, I like it. [01:17:28] Speaker A: My mom asked me if I ever watched young Sheldon the other day, and I was like, mom, do you even know me? Do I watch young Sheldon? [01:17:35] Speaker B: My mom loves the big bang theory, so she would be the one to watch young Sheldon instead of me. [01:17:39] Speaker A: Yeah, my mom is funny. [01:17:41] Speaker B: That's good. [01:17:41] Speaker A: I was like, nope, sure haven't. That's the issue. That's 300 5252. [01:17:47] Speaker B: Well, you know, Johnny, we just finished a couple of issues, which means it's time to rate some puppies. [01:17:55] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. So first up we had, we only did two in a row again, so we had 351 was first up, and 352. They kind of feel when you read them like this, they feel like one of the same hole, but because they are very intricately connected because it sets up that you try to help a friend in the first one, and then you don't find about Eddie until the second one. [01:18:18] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, it sets up the, the angel death room in the first one and doesn't reveal who it is until the second one. So it's, it's very much I I think I think I'm gonna rate these as one like I did the last time because it's hard. [01:18:31] Speaker A: Yeah, it's hard for me to parse. [01:18:32] Speaker B: Them out because I love them both. [01:18:34] Speaker A: So it's really fun just to see where this story's going. After 351, it's cool to get, like, a new, fresh point. I love Spawn's new costume, like, how brutal and violent it is. It's just been, like, really ratcheting things up a notch. I feel like after three days, everything's been ratcheted up. [01:18:53] Speaker B: It feels like it's allowing itself to be that ludicrously exaggerated unbelievableness that we like in comic books. [01:19:04] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. And just, like, new, cool characters showing up looking cool, like our mysterious lady and splinter cell man, with this cool jet. [01:19:14] Speaker B: Yeah. And fucking domestic. Domestic demons. [01:19:19] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, just, it was a hoot. I love the domestic demons. Just setting up everything with blood. I love the return of Brett Booth with all his little details. [01:19:29] Speaker B: Oh, man, so much background stuff. [01:19:31] Speaker A: Vibrating art. [01:19:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:19:32] Speaker A: Feels like it's about to explode off the page. [01:19:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:19:35] Speaker A: I'm gonna give these issues four cigarette and cigar at the same time. [01:19:40] Speaker B: Nice. Oh, boy. That's a. Can you imagine? Caliban's just there with all four of his hands just all at once. Oh, boy. [01:19:49] Speaker A: Just blowing in your face. [01:19:50] Speaker B: Oh, boy. I mean, at least he would. Has the pro. He never has the problem of flies hanging around him. Because he's just so smoky, so smokey. But I bet that means if you kill him, he's got that nice tanged. If you were to eat him. He has that nice tank. [01:20:05] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:20:06] Speaker B: Slow smoke vampire. [01:20:07] Speaker A: If a vampire ate him, they'd be, like, smoking. [01:20:10] Speaker B: Smoking is what they'd say. Johnny. [01:20:13] Speaker A: Yeah. I love seeing spawn use the sword. I don't know. I like the new design. Yeah, they were fun. It was. I'm glad I reread them second time. It was a little hard for me to track everything. Like, I didn't remember a lot, like, the first time I read it. And just, like, the parsing out of the story. But now that I've read them both back to back and know where it's going, it's kind of easier to, like, get a sense what's going on, but, you know. Yeah, that might be me being bad at reading comics like I am. [01:20:40] Speaker B: No, no. I honestly kind of forgot what happened in them until I read them again, and then I was like, oh, shit. Yeah, all this happened. Oh, shit. I didn't notice that the first time. It's. [01:20:49] Speaker A: We've also been, like, just reading a lot of spawn. [01:20:51] Speaker B: Yeah, true. [01:20:53] Speaker A: Also, it's kind of like. It's similar. [01:20:55] Speaker B: It's. [01:20:55] Speaker A: To what King Spawns doing right now. So you can kind of, like, get a little crosswind. [01:21:01] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. They. They are on similar trajectories. [01:21:04] Speaker A: Well, they're just after 350, they're a little more lined up with each other than they usually are. [01:21:09] Speaker B: Yeah. It's also. It's also like. Like an abrupt direction. I mean, a new direction. [01:21:16] Speaker A: There's all this stuff that happened. [01:21:18] Speaker B: A new direction. [01:21:18] Speaker A: There's all this stuff that happened in these two months that we don't know. [01:21:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:21:21] Speaker A: Revealing the information and parsing it out. So that's why it's like. [01:21:24] Speaker B: But, but, like, the. The main concern of the story in. In main title, spawn before 350 was completely different. This is like going back to an old ass Batman comic where it's. Where it's just the mobsters fighting over territory in New York City. Instead of the. The infinite crisis that we just dealt with. So it's. [01:21:48] Speaker A: Right. It's going back to street pool, taking it down. [01:21:50] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. But I'm enjoying the house. That's cool. [01:21:53] Speaker A: You can do that. You can build and get big, and then you can go back down. [01:21:55] Speaker B: Yeah. And so it just takes. It just takes a little adjusting to get back to it. But that doesn't make it any less good. I'm gonna give it four and a half of this. This dude drinking right next to his own wanted poster. I'm fucking. [01:22:11] Speaker A: That takes balls. [01:22:12] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm fucking loving this. I think. I think I might just be a Brett Booth fan. [01:22:19] Speaker A: I think you are. [01:22:21] Speaker B: No question about it. I just love it. There's just so much here. It's the comic, bookiest comic book that I have read in a long time. And that means something to me. And it might not mean something to everybody, but it's. It's very much taking what this medium is and just, like, having fun with it. You know what else is great, Johnny? [01:22:49] Speaker A: Our friends on Instagram. [01:22:50] Speaker B: Indeed. We love those guys. This week, we got a friend who does a lot of. A lot of spawn action figure stuff. Actually has a YouTube series where he talks about their action figures. And it's river Raven collects. And they have a massive amount of those. Those good, like, early two thousands statue level figures that are just beautiful. And they're. They're sharing them with us. They're sharing them with us, Johnny. That's what we like about Instagram, is people sharing their spawn with us. [01:23:26] Speaker A: Yep. They got all these, and they got great YouTube videos on them. So, yeah, you gotta check them out for that. Check out their YouTube. [01:23:33] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Pretty cool. [01:23:36] Speaker A: Collects while you're over there. While you're over there following him, you should give our Brian Voyles a follow. He does our music at Brian voice underscore. Whatever. We'll link it. [01:23:48] Speaker B: Brian Dapoy, Ryan Underscore. Ryan Underscore Foyles. Underscore 27. [01:23:53] Speaker A: Yes, that's the one. [01:23:55] Speaker B: We've never said that before in our lives, so forgive us. [01:24:00] Speaker A: So give them a follow. Also, make sure to give us a follow. We are regarding Spawnpod on Instagram. Come join us for our episode post and our other goofy shit that we do. [01:24:10] Speaker B: Love it. We love talking to you. So come on, come talk some spawn with us. And if you want. [01:24:16] Speaker A: If you want to talk long form spawn with us, or you can send. [01:24:19] Speaker B: Us an email, you can avregardingspawnpodmail.com. [01:24:23] Speaker A: And we will read the letter on air if you want us to, and if you put in your address, we'll send you some stickers. [01:24:28] Speaker B: Yes, we will. Absolutely. What. What. What's something that you would recommend? Somebody contact us through email instead of. [01:24:39] Speaker A: Instagram for Johnny, I would say, what are. Since we're talking vampires, we're talking watching vampire movies with your mom. What are your favorite vampire movies? This would be my question, since we're on the vampires. I would say, man, I don't know. I don't know how much I like vampires as a concept. I don't know. [01:24:59] Speaker B: Oh, man. [01:25:00] Speaker A: They're not my, like, main jam. [01:25:01] Speaker B: They're my jam. I've. I've already. I've already spoiled my answer for this one. And, uh, I fucking love lost boys. It's. [01:25:09] Speaker A: Lost boys is good. [01:25:10] Speaker B: It's stupid, and it's. It's. It's wonderful. It's great. It's got Tim Capelli in it. The. The greased up sex man. Man. [01:25:22] Speaker A: I'm trying to think what my favorite ones are. [01:25:24] Speaker B: I mean, Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula is beautiful and disgusting. And technically, Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves might actually be married. [01:25:38] Speaker A: We don't know. [01:25:38] Speaker B: We don't know. Dracula 2000. John Carpenter's vampire. [01:25:43] Speaker A: The original Dracula. Excellent. [01:25:44] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. No, nosferatu. [01:25:47] Speaker A: Oh, nosferatu. And the shadows of the vampire shadows. The Werner Herzog Noferatsu is really good, too. [01:25:53] Speaker B: Awesome. [01:25:54] Speaker A: The one with Klaus Kinski. [01:25:55] Speaker B: Nice. There's. I'm totally blanking on vampire movies for some reason, but I, like, let the right one in. Oh, let the right one in is so fucking good. It's so fucking good. [01:26:11] Speaker A: Blade. Blade. Blade. Blade. And blade two. [01:26:14] Speaker B: Blade. Blade. Blade. Blade. [01:26:16] Speaker A: Blade. Blade. Blade two is awesome. Guillermo Del Toro. [01:26:19] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a. There's a sort of pseudo Guillermo del toro vampire movie called Kronos. Yes. That one's pretty fucking wild. It's probably the most unique vampire story I've ever seen. It's. It's wonderful. [01:26:38] Speaker A: Yeah. So write us up. Tell us your favorite vampire movies. [01:26:41] Speaker B: Let us. Let us know if you made the mistake of accidentally watching vampire movies with your mom. Don't do it. I would advise against it. Please. [01:26:50] Speaker A: Less that kids movie, little vampires. [01:26:53] Speaker B: Uh, I haven't seen. [01:26:55] Speaker A: I think that was a kid. [01:26:56] Speaker B: I haven't seen that one, so I. [01:26:57] Speaker A: Haven'T seen it, but I think what, with Jonathan Liv. [01:26:59] Speaker B: Yeah. It stars a little kid, so. Yeah, it's. It's the kid vampire movie. [01:27:03] Speaker A: You watch that one, mom? [01:27:04] Speaker B: Yeah, that's fine. We say that and it's the, like, the raunchiest thing in the world. [01:27:12] Speaker A: Or maybe it's like that movie blank check, where the kid kisses an adult and it's like, yikes, it's still on Disney. [01:27:20] Speaker B: Check it out, Johnny. Johnny recommended. [01:27:25] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Love it. You love to see it. The fucking 40 year old woman kissing like a ten year old. Jesus Christ. What were they thinking? [01:27:33] Speaker B: It's a nineties, man. It was wild. [01:27:35] Speaker A: Ooh, nineties. Well, kids know better than adults. [01:27:40] Speaker B: Don't forget to subscribe to us. Wherever you listen to your podcast, review us, rate us, tell your friends and family about us. You know, put us on blast. Let people know that you love spawn and that you love listening to us. Two people talking about Spawn. Because let me tell you, I love talking about Spawn. I can talk. [01:27:58] Speaker A: Sure do. This is fun, man. [01:28:00] Speaker B: Spawn is fucking good. [01:28:01] Speaker A: Also, please join us next week. We'll be doing another two hander of modern spawn. We're doing King Spawn 31 and 32, so picking up right after 350 with those as well. So make sure to read those for next week, and we'll see you then. [01:28:17] Speaker B: That leaves me with nothing else to say, Johnny. We've done tuckered me out as far as vampire talk. [01:28:23] Speaker A: Just like swimming. [01:28:24] Speaker B: Oh, boy. I really need that nap. I need that nap. And just like biscuits and gravy. Just like a tap of biscuits and gravy. [01:28:31] Speaker A: You need to go sleep in your giant orgy bed and take a nap. [01:28:37] Speaker B: Are all you guys done? Cuz I'm tired. If you're. If you're done, let's just. Let's just have a nap. I just. I just. [01:28:46] Speaker A: I guess we're assuming that blood was having orgy. They could have just been watching vampire movies. [01:28:50] Speaker B: I like to think that I would show up after the orgy is over because I don't want them to tousle me around. I just want to sleep. I just want the comfort of a whole bunch of people breathing next to me. Before we go any further, Johnny, I think that just leaves me all to say nothing. But may the scorch be with you. [01:29:09] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:29:10] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I got a. I hear they're finishing up, so I'm about to go just flop on this pile of bodies. Take myself a nice little. A little honk shoe, if you know what I mean. [01:29:25] Speaker A: I guess.