[00:00:01] Speaker A: He can't believe what he sees. The logo atop the building is the mark used by those who conspired in wiping out his family 150 years ago. It wasn't a logo. It was their symbol when they brand onto their victim's burning flesh.
Good evening, and welcome to the Mal bowls. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I am your co host, John Fisher.
[00:00:56] Speaker B: I am co host David Williams, and I do believe Johnny is practicing to be a ring announcer for an upcoming amateur wrestling show.
[00:01:04] Speaker A: Welcome to the main event.
[00:01:07] Speaker B: You're going to be the Bruce Campbell from Spider man.
[00:01:12] Speaker A: The name sucks, kid. The human spider.
[00:01:17] Speaker B: We're very excited for that.
Working on it. The you announcing, not the human spider, because the name does suck.
[00:01:27] Speaker A: The amazing Spider Man's way better.
[00:01:29] Speaker B: Yes. Yes. Johnny is finally gonna grow into his chin like a Bruce Campbell type.
[00:01:39] Speaker A: If chins could kill.
[00:01:40] Speaker B: Could you imagine, like, if chins just, like, walk around with little swords and they're like.
[00:01:47] Speaker A: That's the name of his autobiography, wild.
[00:01:50] Speaker B: Wild. Well, he's a wild man.
[00:01:52] Speaker A: So I think they're producing another evil dead.
[00:01:55] Speaker B: Oh, nice.
[00:01:56] Speaker A: I'm not sure what the hook is this time. I don't think it's the same director as evil Dead Rise, but I know they're gonna make another one.
[00:02:02] Speaker B: That would be fun. That would have an evil dead rise was fun.
[00:02:05] Speaker A: And Bruce Campbell's kind of the hype man for those movies a little bit. Yeah, he's a producer.
He's getting that producer money.
[00:02:13] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the dream, Johnny.
[00:02:16] Speaker A: Yep, that's the dream.
[00:02:17] Speaker B: You just get to think of stuff and tell people to do stuff and then get paid for the stuff other people do. Hell, yeah.
[00:02:23] Speaker A: That's what you want to do. Bruce Campbell did it.
[00:02:26] Speaker B: How can I break into that business?
[00:02:30] Speaker A: Go survive a torturous six month shoot in a cabin in, like, 1980, and then you get your payoff 45 years later.
[00:02:40] Speaker B: Well, but I guess you have to do it, like, two or three more times, don't you?
[00:02:43] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true.
[00:02:45] Speaker B: Hopefully, each successive shoot is less torturous than the previous.
[00:02:49] Speaker A: You tested the shit beat out of you by Sam Raimi, and then you can make lots of money.
[00:02:54] Speaker B: Okay, Johnny, we're gonna. We're gonna start a thing where you're gonna beat the shit out of me before we record every time, and then we'll use that as my bona fides for becoming producer later in life.
[00:03:06] Speaker A: Okay? Sounds good to me.
[00:03:07] Speaker B: Gotcha.
[00:03:07] Speaker A: Get ready, get cracking. It's so funny. Cause I was talking to my mom. And she was like, I was talking about how we don't record together. And she was like, I always imagine you in the same room together, and it's like, well, that's the idea.
[00:03:20] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, it's all right. Being in the same room together often leads to chaos, though, as evidenced by our spawn Batman episode.
[00:03:32] Speaker A: That's when my dog was around, too.
[00:03:34] Speaker B: Oh, man. He did not like Clint Eastwood.
[00:03:37] Speaker A: Nope. He was barking his head off.
[00:03:39] Speaker B: He did not like us talking about him.
[00:03:41] Speaker A: The problem is, if we had to record the same room together, we'd be on episode five of the podcast or so, and now we're almost 200.
[00:03:48] Speaker B: We would get distracted so easily. We would be like, why don't we just have lunch, and we'll come back and we'll finish this in a bit?
[00:03:54] Speaker A: Right?
[00:03:56] Speaker B: Oh, man. You know what? It's too early to start thinking about food, Johnny. You know why?
[00:04:03] Speaker A: Because we got some spawn to get through.
[00:04:04] Speaker B: We got some spawn to get through. Yes, indeed.
[00:04:06] Speaker A: If you, the listener, want to eat, go ahead. We're not going to eat on Mike, but if you want to eat while you're listening, by all means, we encourage it. Actually, I was listening to a podcast yesterday when I went and got a red hot ranch burger.
[00:04:17] Speaker B: Ooh, hell, yeah. Yeah. It's usually.
[00:04:20] Speaker A: It's tough when I'm going to work and I walk by there and I got cash. It's really hard not to go in. I mean, they're cash only, depending. Often have cash.
[00:04:29] Speaker B: Depending on what you get, it can be something eatable while you walk to work.
[00:04:34] Speaker A: Ooh. I don't know.
[00:04:36] Speaker B: You have to. You have to. You have to order very conservatively, so I don't know if it would be worth it.
[00:04:41] Speaker A: Yeah, I think that. I think the burger would be too messy because it's like kind of that inside out style. So it's got that, like that.
[00:04:49] Speaker B: Lots of. Lots of dressing.
[00:04:52] Speaker A: What is that? The dressing? The thousand island kind of special sauce, secret sauce, special sauce.
But, yeah, I had a single burger. I didn't get the double. The double was too much.
All right, just a single.
[00:05:03] Speaker B: I mean, any burger is a delicious burger.
[00:05:05] Speaker A: But that's not today, though, because we are doing a double.
[00:05:07] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. A double double.
[00:05:09] Speaker A: A double double. Issue of gunslinger. We got a MC double. I can even make. I can even mcDouble while walking because they're more like.
[00:05:14] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. They're.
[00:05:16] Speaker A: They're like, together.
[00:05:17] Speaker B: Yeah. I actually had to explain. I recently had to explain to my mother what the difference between a McDouble and a double cheeseburger at McDonald's was.
[00:05:24] Speaker A: It's one piece of cheese.
[00:05:25] Speaker B: Yeah. It's also like a dollar 20, because I remember we were in college when they introduced the McDouble. Cause the double cheeseburger used to be the dollar one. And then the double cheeseburger was like, $2. And everybody was like, what? And they were like, that's what you ordered.
I.
[00:05:42] Speaker A: No, I want the McDouble.
[00:05:44] Speaker B: So many people were pissed about that.
[00:05:46] Speaker A: We're putting an extra piece of cheese on it. So we have a double cheeseburger of an episode today.
[00:05:50] Speaker B: Yes, indeed.
[00:05:51] Speaker A: We were covering. We're a little bit of a ketchup just with the modern spawns, just because the modern spawn keeps marching on. So we've got to catch up a little bit. Oh, catch up.
[00:06:02] Speaker B: We got Hines right here.
[00:06:04] Speaker A: Yeah, we got some Heinz.
[00:06:05] Speaker B: Heinz is our third co host. He's just hanging out over here.
[00:06:09] Speaker A: I've got a bottle of red gold.
[00:06:12] Speaker B: I have. I use a local brand, red 78.
[00:06:16] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:06:17] Speaker B: They use polish tomatoes. And I have a friend who once told me that if you can find polish tomato products, you use the polish tomato products.
[00:06:24] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:06:25] Speaker B: It's delicious.
[00:06:26] Speaker A: I just use Heinz.
[00:06:28] Speaker B: Heinz is the gold standard.
[00:06:30] Speaker A: It is the gold standard of ketchups. Just like gunslinger is the gold standard of western horror action comedies or even.
[00:06:39] Speaker B: Potentially just of spawn.
[00:06:42] Speaker A: Of spawn, maybe.
[00:06:43] Speaker B: Although I don't know that Rory McConville is definitely giving it a run for its money. Oh, that. John Lehman's giving it a run.
I don't know, Johnny. The gold standard for spawn keeps flip flopping all over the place.
[00:06:53] Speaker A: Brat city's giving it a run for its money.
[00:06:55] Speaker B: Yeah, same with twitch.
[00:06:57] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:06:59] Speaker B: Misery.
[00:06:59] Speaker A: So much good spawn.
[00:07:01] Speaker B: We'll have to. We'll have to see how misery does as far as gold standard next.
[00:07:06] Speaker A: Yeah. Did you read the second issue of monolith?
[00:07:08] Speaker B: Yes, I did. And I will withhold comments until later. Okay.
I'm not really digging monolith.
[00:07:17] Speaker A: It's really confusing.
[00:07:19] Speaker B: It is very confusing.
[00:07:21] Speaker A: I don't know where the fuck they are.
[00:07:25] Speaker B: I was hoping that it was just me being tired after work, raining it on the train on the way home.
[00:07:30] Speaker A: No, it's confused. I read it twice trying to see if I missed something. I was like, which time is he in?
[00:07:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:36] Speaker A: Where is he? And now he's in our time.
[00:07:39] Speaker B: No. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. We'll see.
[00:07:42] Speaker A: I don't know. The arts. Cool.
[00:07:43] Speaker B: The art is. The art is dope. It was. There was. There was a. There was a little bit of bullshit that I was pissed off at in this. This issue, though. I definitely know what they did there and it with the mom and the child.
[00:07:58] Speaker A: Oh, I know.
[00:07:59] Speaker B: Ah, curses. My heartstrings, Johnny. They're too easy to pluck.
[00:08:03] Speaker A: That's Sean Lewis. He doesn't care.
[00:08:06] Speaker B: No, no, he's. He's kids.
[00:08:08] Speaker A: He'll kill teenagers.
[00:08:09] Speaker B: He's following that old advice of killing the cat. No, save the cat. He's not saving the cat.
[00:08:14] Speaker A: He's killing it. Remember the fallout show? They didn't save any dogs. There's so many dogs that got killed.
[00:08:19] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Well, there was the one dog that they killed and then brought back, but.
[00:08:24] Speaker A: Now he didn't kill. Okay. Yes.
[00:08:26] Speaker B: Dogmeat is now a ghoul dog, though. So is that actually any spoilers for the fallout show? You should watch it if you haven't watched already.
[00:08:33] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know what that means. But then there's.
[00:08:35] Speaker B: Because he injected him with his.
[00:08:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:08:38] Speaker B: Serum, so that means he's gonna lose his nose.
[00:08:41] Speaker A: Well, then there's the. Well, there's little puppies in the beginning that if they aren't perfect, they put them in the incinerator.
[00:08:46] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that fucking Michael Emerson saves one.
[00:08:49] Speaker A: And then there's. Well, I guess they heard there's a dog in an ice box where he, like, hides him in there and pops him out.
[00:08:56] Speaker B: Yeah, well, that's dog meat.
[00:08:58] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that's dog meat.
[00:08:59] Speaker B: Yeah. There's the one dog in the show that they follow, minus the science. Use dogs in the beginning.
[00:09:07] Speaker A: Yeah, that shows up. Was pretty good.
[00:09:09] Speaker B: It's a terrible. It's a terrible thing.
It's terrible science. Yeah. Using animals in science.
[00:09:16] Speaker A: Oh, using animals in science. I think it's about science in general.
[00:09:18] Speaker B: As a. As a person who works in science, I can tell you, you want to stay as far away from the animal facility as possible in the early afternoon, like, two to 03:00 p.m. because that's when all the dogs get anxious and everybody becomes a PETA activist when you have to hear that on a daily basis, I bet.
[00:09:40] Speaker A: Well, you know who's not a PETA activist? Probably is Javier Javi.
[00:09:46] Speaker B: Would. Somebody would say something about PETA, and he'd be like, I don't know what you're talking about.
[00:09:50] Speaker A: You mean like a euro?
[00:09:54] Speaker B: He wouldn't even know what a gyro is.
[00:09:56] Speaker A: Johnny Taylor might have introduced him.
[00:10:00] Speaker B: He definitely wouldn't remember what it was called, though. No, he just been like that sandwich with the stuff in itheme.
[00:10:08] Speaker A: We've got two issues of gunslinger.
[00:10:09] Speaker B: Yes, we do.
[00:10:10] Speaker A: Issue 30. And issue 31, we're right after meeting Olinder.
[00:10:17] Speaker B: Oh, man. So much ol Linder in these.
[00:10:20] Speaker A: Yep. A lot of Linda.
[00:10:22] Speaker B: She's great. I fucking love Linda. If that wasn't clear beforehand. I love Linda.
[00:10:29] Speaker A: She's just a funny foil to Javier.
[00:10:32] Speaker B: Yeah, she's.
She fills that Taylor role spectacularly. Cause where Taylor was a doofus, she is just, like, shrewd and, you know, she knows what's going on.
[00:10:45] Speaker A: She doesn't put up with his shit.
[00:10:47] Speaker B: Whereas Taylor was just like, huh. I'm surprised Taylor didn't fall in the toilet at least once.
He fell off the toilet trying to get to the door because he was playing his app game.
[00:10:58] Speaker A: Gotta stop playing those app games. Taylor.
[00:11:01] Speaker B: Oh, Mandy. Oh, man. Taylor.
What's that dude up to? Maybe we'll find out.
[00:11:07] Speaker A: Maybe we'll find out soon. He gets mentioned in 31.
But before we get to 31, we got to do 30.
[00:11:12] Speaker B: Yes, we do.
[00:11:13] Speaker A: And before we do 30, we got to do the covers.
[00:11:16] Speaker B: And as we talk about the covers, we got to say, this is the greatest spawn cover that has ever existed. Johnny.
[00:11:22] Speaker A: It's pretty good.
[00:11:23] Speaker B: The single greatest. Although the alternate for this one is also very good. And I'm sad that they both came out for the same issue, because I. Why do they have to have. Why can't they have one obviously good cover and one obviously bad cover for each issue instead of having two fantastic covers for a single issue?
Sweet.
[00:11:43] Speaker A: As the guy used to get the blank issues.
[00:11:46] Speaker B: I got the blank issue because that's what they gave me.
[00:11:50] Speaker A: Hey, sometimes it happens.
[00:11:51] Speaker B: Sometimes it happens.
[00:11:53] Speaker A: Yeah. This is a cover we've been talking about for a while because it's been in the back. But this is the kind of spaghetti western cover by Marco Fadia after Cesario.
So it is a parody of a movie poster that I should have looked up.
[00:12:09] Speaker B: Yeah, we probably should have done that. It looks like it is after a movie called. Let me see if there's an english title or if I have to stumble through the Spanish or Italian, whichever one it is. I don't know. Romance languages. They don't. They don't fit.
Do you have an issue with romance languages, Johnny? They all just, like, skip over my brain. Like, I ain't got no ridges up there.
[00:12:31] Speaker A: So it is a parody of the movie poster from Callme Trinity, a western.
[00:12:37] Speaker B: Very old spaghetti western.
[00:12:39] Speaker A: Now you can make your matrix joke.
[00:12:40] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Trinity, call him, Trinity. It's also. It doesn't work out of.
[00:12:47] Speaker A: Trinity's an acolyte.
[00:12:49] Speaker B: That's what I heard, that she shows up and does some really cool.
She calls up Keanu Reeves and is like, hey, Keanu, I hear somebody's threatening dogs over here. And he's like, huh?
[00:13:02] Speaker A: He'd be a good Jedi.
[00:13:04] Speaker B: He would be the chillest Jedi. He would be the one you want to meditate with. He would just be like, oh, dude.
[00:13:08] Speaker A: Yeah. Those jedi need to chill out.
[00:13:10] Speaker B: Jesus Christ.
[00:13:12] Speaker A: They're a little stuck up.
[00:13:13] Speaker B: The strong language. Strong language coming from a.
Coming from a non dark sidey like you.
[00:13:21] Speaker A: Hey, man, I just, you know.
[00:13:23] Speaker B: How dare you? How dare you? If you're. If you're criticizing the Jedi, you must be a pro.
Oh, geez. Who was the. I guess it was the sith at that point, wasn't it?
[00:13:35] Speaker A: Only Sith deals in absolute, David.
[00:13:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:41] Speaker A: Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
[00:13:43] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:13:45] Speaker A: But, yeah, so it's a cover kind of parodying this. They call me Trinity Poster. And it's gunslinger sleeping on, like, a hammock behind his horse.
[00:13:54] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's got the socks with no toes.
[00:13:57] Speaker A: He's got his dead toes sticking out.
[00:14:00] Speaker B: He's got his tall hat just, like, over his face to block the sun. It's wonderful.
[00:14:06] Speaker A: Like we said, we're surprised it took him so long to kind of do this.
[00:14:08] Speaker B: It's absolutely wonderful.
[00:14:10] Speaker A: It's fun to have a little bit of fun with it and do something a little different. But there's a second cover as well.
[00:14:15] Speaker B: Yes, there is. And that cover is. Second cover is by Javi Fernandez cover. And it is incredible.
[00:14:22] Speaker A: It is shooting through the screen.
[00:14:23] Speaker B: He's shooting through the COVID He's breaking the fourth wall. Yeah, he's shooting right at us.
[00:14:30] Speaker A: Reminds me of the part on the fableman's, which is a movie about Steven Spielberg, and he's making movies, and he can't figure out how to, like, do a gunshot effect, so he takes a pinprick and he pokes it through the actual film. So for, like, a frame. So when, like, it goes, whoop. It's like a flash out the gun.
[00:14:47] Speaker B: Yeah. Nice.
[00:14:48] Speaker A: But it's actually just a pinprick in the film, so that's kind of what this cover looks like. He's shooting through the film, the screen, the COVID whatever you want to call it.
[00:14:57] Speaker B: So much. So many cool things that you used to be able to do with physical film.
[00:15:01] Speaker A: Right.
[00:15:02] Speaker B: Just to kind of estimate or approximate. It's fun.
[00:15:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:07] Speaker B: It's fun. It's the illusion. It's magic, John. It's the magic of the pictures. The magic of the pictures.
[00:15:13] Speaker A: Yeah. That Javi Fernandez cover is pretty badass, too.
[00:15:16] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. Oh, man. Well, Javi Fernandez doesn't know when to turn it off, so if it's got. If it's got that f des on the bottom of it, you know, you're. You're in for a treatise. We got a treat of, uh. A treat of treasures, of credits on the inside of this bad boy.
[00:15:32] Speaker A: We also got credits on the front of the bad boy.
[00:15:34] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, we do.
[00:15:35] Speaker A: It's like a movie style poster. They do, like, a lot of the credits on there, too.
[00:15:38] Speaker B: Yeah, but they're also inside. They're inside, and they're outside.
[00:15:42] Speaker A: Whoa. Inside, outside.
But, yeah, we've got script plot by Todd McFarlane.
[00:15:47] Speaker B: I couldn't tell.
[00:15:49] Speaker A: Couldn't tell at all.
[00:15:50] Speaker B: Nope.
[00:15:53] Speaker A: Carlo Barberry is on art on Gunslinger now.
Colors by Ivan Nunes, lettering by Tom Wojciegoski.
[00:16:01] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[00:16:02] Speaker A: We covered the covers. And the creative director is Todd McFarlane, and editor in chief is Thomas Healy. And on the COVID they list the interns, which I thought was nice. Yeah, so I'll read those. Yvette Artega, Ryan Kaiser, Zabriel Kennedy, and Imani Davis.
[00:16:20] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[00:16:22] Speaker A: Shout out to the interns that we don't always read because there's a lot of names to read.
[00:16:26] Speaker B: There is a lot of names. It's like, uh. It's like watching a contemporary film where it's like, oh, look at all those people. Look at all those names.
[00:16:34] Speaker A: Yeah, it looks like when they're showing the special effects houses, it looks like the Vietnam fucking War Memorial.
[00:16:39] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, boy. Bet there's fewer names on the Vietnam War memorial.
[00:16:44] Speaker A: Probably.
[00:16:46] Speaker B: That's not a slight on those who died during the Vietnam conflict. That's just a joke about lots of people doing art.
[00:16:58] Speaker A: But lots of people grinding away on a computer for something that two people could do with physical special effects.
[00:17:03] Speaker B: Yeah. In a basement somewhere, probably in a tenement building, being paid minimum wage.
[00:17:12] Speaker A: Yes.
It's crazy how many effects houses they have to get on those marvels because, like, they use all these little ones just to do, like, certain shots, and there's, like. It's pretty wild.
[00:17:20] Speaker B: Yeah. That basically, like, fold after because they don't even get break even pay.
[00:17:25] Speaker A: Yeah. There's, like, so many little effects houses that pop up and then disappear. But this has one effect house, and that's the hand of Carlo Barberi. He's doing all of our special effects today.
[00:17:35] Speaker B: Yes. Carlo the Barbarian.
[00:17:38] Speaker A: I forgot to read. Previously in so previously in Gunslinger, Linda takes Javi on a crossroad. Whoop. Bleep, bleep, bleep.
Previously in Gunslinger, Linda takes Javi on a cross country r. Ja, ja, ja. Why is it so hard?
[00:17:54] Speaker B: I have no idea.
[00:17:55] Speaker A: Leave it all in.
[00:17:56] Speaker B: Don't care.
Has your mouth stopped working? Johnny, are you having a stroke? Are you okay?
[00:18:01] Speaker A: I can't read. I'm turning into Javier.
[00:18:03] Speaker B: Maybe you need some bifocals. Yeah, you're an old man.
[00:18:07] Speaker A: Previously in Gunslinger, Linda takes Javi on a cross country journey while he attempts to recoup from his injuries.
Yeah.
[00:18:15] Speaker B: Yeah. Nice.
[00:18:17] Speaker A: There we go. That's where we pick up.
[00:18:19] Speaker B: That's where we pick up. Yeah, we got the volkswagen bug just driving through the desert.
[00:18:25] Speaker A: Javi's doing the sleep on the side of the car thing. You're gonna wake up, and his neck's gonna hurt real bad.
[00:18:30] Speaker B: Yeah, but there's nothing like a car asleep, Johnny.
[00:18:32] Speaker A: When that car sleep, when that car.
[00:18:34] Speaker B: Is on the highway and you aren't driving, it's just. And then as soon as whoever's driving has to slow down, you're like, what? What happened? Who's there?
What are we doing?
[00:18:44] Speaker A: I've slept many a time in car.
I sleep many times in car.
I sleep in car.
[00:18:53] Speaker B: John is a car sleeper. He's a car sleeper. I am. I, unfortunately, am also a car sleeper, but am the person who has to drive.
I inherited the ability to fall asleep while driving from my father. So be careful. Yeah, be careful out there, y'all.
[00:19:11] Speaker A: I mean, you just kind of zen. You, like, zone out. Yeah, I can see that.
[00:19:15] Speaker B: Any prolonged amount of focus makes me tired. Like, if I have to go to a lecture for work and I'm not allowed to fidget because I hear best when I'm fidgeting with other stuff, and I have to just pay attention to what's being said. Right. At about 32 minutes exactly, I'm just like, good night.
My brain's, like, unable to process things if I have to focus on it for too long. I wonder if there's a medical term for.
[00:19:42] Speaker A: Hmm.
[00:19:43] Speaker B: I used to. I used to be treated for it until I was told, oh, hey, the pills don't do anything. You have to figure it out for yourself.
[00:19:52] Speaker A: Hey, I am treated for it, so.
[00:19:55] Speaker B: I should probably get back on those adhd medications.
[00:20:00] Speaker A: Can't hurt.
[00:20:01] Speaker B: Can't hurt.
[00:20:02] Speaker A: I guess it could hurt, but probably won't hurt.
[00:20:05] Speaker B: Probably. Probably better. It would be better for. For all involved. So Linda's driving, and she's wondering, you know, is this worth the money? Do I. Should I really be doing this?
[00:20:15] Speaker A: Am I even safe with this guy?
[00:20:17] Speaker B: Yeah. And then she comes to a crossroad. Johnny. A fork in the road. And she says, hey, javi, you said to go north. To go north. But, uh, both of these ways go north. That's a wild intersection of both of those ways go north.
[00:20:31] Speaker A: Well, one of them's gotta go north. One of them just goes, whoop. And, like, also goes north. Yeah, it's like every one of them goes north eventually.
[00:20:38] Speaker B: It's like they both go around a town or something.
[00:20:41] Speaker A: And Javi says, it doesn't matter. You pick.
[00:20:43] Speaker B: Yeah. And she's like, you know, dude, I can't pick. So basically, it's like they're an old. An old married couple trying to figure out what they have for dinner. And he's like, I don't know, just pick something. And she's like, I don't want to pick. You pick. And then she sees the wound that he's been hiding from her.
So, Johnny, this is definitive here. If you're ever, ever in a zombie movie with Javi the gunslinger, don't fucking trust him. He's gonna get banned.
[00:21:11] Speaker A: He's gonna hide that wound. Yeah.
[00:21:12] Speaker B: He's not gonna let you know. And then he's gonna be the reason that you're. Your whole attempt to stay alive fails.
[00:21:19] Speaker A: When you pull a shirt back, you see the buyer, they're like, I'm sorry. And then they turn into a zombie. If you get bitten by a zombie, just tell all your friends.
[00:21:25] Speaker B: Yeah, please. You know, it would be better to be shot by your friends as a friend instead of as a zombie.
[00:21:32] Speaker A: Yeah. Cause you might eat them.
[00:21:33] Speaker B: Yeah. And then. And then Linda. Linda goes into mom mode, and she's like, oh, no, we gotta get that. We gotta get this fixed. And, like, she gets out of the car to go over and look at his wound, even though she doesn't have any stuff in the. The car.
And then Javi comes out, and he's like, yeah, no, it's no problem. Look at how. Look at how fine I am. It's not slowing me down. It's just he's. It's got him feeling a little cocky, if you know what it means.
[00:21:59] Speaker A: I think it's hilarious that no one reacts with his giant knife gauntlets, that everyone's just like, yeah, he's just wearing those around.
[00:22:07] Speaker B: They just assume that he shops a hot topic Johnny?
[00:22:10] Speaker A: Yeah, I guess so.
[00:22:13] Speaker B: He's just hanging out with all the goth kids. No big deal.
[00:22:17] Speaker A: I like the hot topic smell.
[00:22:19] Speaker B: It's like a weird. It's like a weird dusty smell, but I do like it.
[00:22:23] Speaker A: It's like weird dusty plastic or something. I don't know what it is.
Yeah, the hot topic smell is a thing.
[00:22:28] Speaker B: It is a thing.
Much better than the bath and body work smell. That's just too much of a melange of smells. It's like an instant headache.
[00:22:37] Speaker A: Yeah. If you go to the Tulsa Promenade mall, they're across from each other, and you just stand there and get both all at once.
[00:22:43] Speaker B: All smells, every smell, everywhere all at once. Is that what. That's the name of the new movie. The smell of vision movie.
[00:22:53] Speaker A: Every smell, every smell, all at once.
[00:22:55] Speaker B: Every smell, all at once. And so, you know, Javi gets Linda to relax a little bit after freaking out from seeing his wound, and he agrees that, you know, she's gonna buy some stuff and patch him up first date wise, and then they're gonna be on the way.
And then we get the greatest conversation in this little exchange in this entire book, Johnny, you got spunk, Linda. I like that. Oh, shut up. Stop bleeding all my seats.
[00:23:29] Speaker A: Stop bleeding on my seats.
[00:23:32] Speaker B: I love Linda. Oh, she's got spunk, Johnny.
[00:23:36] Speaker A: I like how she says she doesn't want no dead body in her car, and it's like, yeah, yeah, that'd be rough. You, like, have this dead hobby in your car. You're like, what the fuck do I do? Yeah, vacation where the grandma dies.
[00:23:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Or fucking weekend at Bernie's.
[00:23:48] Speaker A: Yeah. She has a weekend at Burnham, and.
[00:23:51] Speaker B: Then the most serious call of nature ever, Johnny, the inevitable happens. I need to beep.
[00:23:58] Speaker A: The inevitable happens.
[00:24:01] Speaker B: Little Todd, father, a little tinkle, tinkle. A little tinkle, tinkle.
He's just wondering, any idea when we're getting close to Gettysburg?
And he's literally peeing on the Gettysburg. 10 miles north side.
Linda's like.
[00:24:17] Speaker A: Linda's like, hmm.
[00:24:19] Speaker B: She's got the little question mark of.
[00:24:21] Speaker A: I think I'm figuring something out.
[00:24:23] Speaker B: So Linda learns that Javi can't read, and then Javi's like, yeah, that's why I need somebody's help. She's like, hey, that's cool. You know what? We'll deal with it later. Let's get you patched up. So they go to the.
[00:24:34] Speaker A: They go to the union pharmacy, the.
[00:24:36] Speaker B: Nearest pharmacy in a little town, and then Javi just can't wait in the goddamn car. He has to get out and wander around.
[00:24:44] Speaker A: Yeah. What are you doing, Javi? Just wait in the car.
[00:24:46] Speaker B: He's just bored. He's like. He walks by a jewelry store, and he's like, they just got the diamonds out here for everybody to see.
[00:24:56] Speaker A: The local boys show up.
[00:24:57] Speaker B: He gets accosted by a fucking crocodile Dundee reject.
[00:25:03] Speaker A: Yeah. What the hell is this guy?
[00:25:07] Speaker B: Either that or he's trying.
[00:25:08] Speaker A: These guys are hilarious.
[00:25:09] Speaker B: He's trying to Coslan grant a little bit. Yeah, they're. They're dicks.
[00:25:16] Speaker A: They see the classic coexist bumper sticker, and that pisses them off. Like, dude, that bumper sticker's around since, like, 1990.
[00:25:21] Speaker B: Yeah, we saw your woke ass bumper sticker.
Don't understand what that means.
I love that. Where everybody's, like, leveling accusations at Javi for shit, and he's like, what are you talking about?
[00:25:35] Speaker A: What is no clue.
[00:25:36] Speaker B: It would be wonderful to be completely clueless of all of the signals and signifiers that we had. Woke ass, Javi means we like things hobby. We like things, hobby in this town.
[00:25:50] Speaker A: These guys must be Star wars fans.
[00:25:52] Speaker B: Must be. They don't.
[00:25:53] Speaker A: Complaining about woke ass. Woke ass stuff.
[00:25:56] Speaker B: Then one of them spies the little dinosaur that he's got, and he steals it. What do we got? Some tiny lizard I like.
[00:26:04] Speaker A: It's like, oh, this guy's got a weird lizard. Let's fucking take it.
[00:26:07] Speaker B: Is. It's like a kid getting his lunch money stolen in the halls, and I was just like, that's mine. Give it back. And they're like.
[00:26:18] Speaker A: The guy's like, let's go show off what we found.
[00:26:21] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, boy.
[00:26:22] Speaker A: So he's like, go to the bar. Like, look, we got a lizard.
[00:26:25] Speaker B: They go to Steve's bar, like, 42 minutes later. Johnny. So, obviously, they've had two beers.
[00:26:33] Speaker A: Yes, because the beer is 20 minutes.
These guys have probably had two beers and two shots.
[00:26:38] Speaker B: Yeah, probably. They look like the. They look like the beer in a shack type.
[00:26:42] Speaker A: Also 42 minutes.
[00:26:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:44] Speaker A: We get the exact time. Classic Todd father.
[00:26:46] Speaker B: Exactly. Now, this isn't to disparage a beer in the shot type. A beer in a shot is classic.
[00:26:51] Speaker A: But a handshake. Yeah.
[00:26:53] Speaker B: These guys. These guys aren't just going to leisurely, leisurely nurse a beer for a wind down. They're there to cause trouble.
[00:27:04] Speaker A: And then Gus. They're talking to Gus and Lucy.
[00:27:06] Speaker B: Oh, boy. I have a feeling that everything that Gus says is some sort of racially charged or, like, misogynistic joke or rather, homophobic.
[00:27:24] Speaker A: One of the jokes he tells is about cows and paint buckets. So I don't know what went on there.
[00:27:29] Speaker B: I don't know. It might not be fit to print, which is why the toddfather didn't tell the joke.
[00:27:35] Speaker A: And the other joke is about the one eyed nun, which I don't even. I don't even know.
[00:27:39] Speaker B: Oh, man, that sounds. That sounds like it doesn't end well. The joke about the one I'd done.
[00:27:45] Speaker A: No, probably not.
[00:27:47] Speaker B: I bet you could find it on the boomer humor Facebook page.
[00:27:52] Speaker A: Boomer humor.
[00:27:53] Speaker B: Boomer humor.
I was at the. I was at the grocery store not long ago, and I was looking at all the greeting cards, and the funny greeting cards are all based on something hateful. Like, they're all so mean. Why are greeting cards also mean, Johnny?
[00:28:11] Speaker A: Yeah, they're like, hey, what up, fat ass? You're old.
[00:28:14] Speaker B: They're all. They're all, like, making fun of you for your old, or, you know, mistaking. Mistaking your mom for a pumpkin because she's wearing orange pants or something like that.
[00:28:27] Speaker A: There's like, they're just.
[00:28:28] Speaker B: They're just mean.
[00:28:29] Speaker A: They're gotchas. They're mean.
[00:28:30] Speaker B: They're meant. I don't get it.
[00:28:31] Speaker A: They're like, burn. They're like a roast.
[00:28:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't like it. I don't like it when things are mean. I think this means that Mister Todd McFarlane needs to start making greeting cards with hell people on them.
[00:28:45] Speaker A: Ooh, I like that.
[00:28:45] Speaker B: That just say, like, have a hell of a good day, or have a hell of a birthday, or have a hell of a.
Have a hell of a Christmas, it would change the landscape of the greeting cards in America. Johnny and I would send them to people all the time.
[00:29:02] Speaker A: You get a little sound chip when you open it up. It says, wanda.
[00:29:08] Speaker B: Or, uh, or, or, uh, if it's a. I don't know what kind of card it would go in, but if you open it up and it's just like, no.
[00:29:18] Speaker A: It's a spawn screaming. No. And then Javi, these guys are leaving the bar.
[00:29:22] Speaker B: Yeah, they're going. It looks like they're going to pee in the alley.
[00:29:26] Speaker A: Yeah, a lot of peeing in this issue.
[00:29:29] Speaker B: They're alley peers. So they walk into the alley, and then Javi's like, yo, hey, gentlemen, turn around.
[00:29:34] Speaker A: He wants his pet back.
[00:29:36] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, obviously, dude pulls a gun, which we were expecting that not too surprising. No, not at all.
Javi lassos one of them around the foot and catches him like he's in a trapden.
[00:29:51] Speaker A: Just yanks him. He drops his gun and the bottle.
[00:29:54] Speaker B: He'S drinking out of.
Did they. Were they able to take bottles to go from Steve's? Is that what they did?
[00:30:00] Speaker A: He's as a bottle, like a pier in his hand.
Yeah, he has a bottle on the other one. He's as well.
[00:30:06] Speaker B: Yeah, he, like. He, like, takes a bottle from Steve's to go, what the?
[00:30:09] Speaker A: It's a small town post Covid. That shit's all like, wild west. Anyway, once they started doing to go drinks, now it's like, woohoo.
[00:30:16] Speaker B: Yeah, what's it in New Orleans? Is it. It just has to have a lid.
[00:30:21] Speaker A: Has to have a little piece of paper on top of the straw.
[00:30:24] Speaker B: Oh, okay, okay. Yeah, that's what it is.
[00:30:27] Speaker A: Paper. You could drive around with it.
[00:30:29] Speaker B: Yeah, man. I have a friend who used to get drive through daiquiris all the time.
[00:30:32] Speaker A: What a wonderful thing.
[00:30:35] Speaker B: What a wild place New Orleans is drive to.
So the guy who gets lassoed drops his gun, and the remaining guys are, like, looking at it. They're like, who's gonna get that? And then Javi shoots it. Shoots it. He gives it the old crossfire treatment.
[00:30:54] Speaker A: He shoots it, shoots off in a corkscrew.
[00:30:59] Speaker B: And then he punches the non crocodile Dundee wannabe right in the face. Look at this guy's faces. He's getting punched. Holy shit.
[00:31:09] Speaker A: Yeah, that looks painful.
[00:31:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Then he drops to the ground, and there are still, like, stars floating up, then remaining. Dude was holding the dinosaur underneath his hat. So he takes his hat off and removes the dinosaur in his leg.
[00:31:24] Speaker A: That seems like it'd be painful. Like, he'd be just, like, gnawing on your scalp.
[00:31:28] Speaker B: Oh, boy.
So Javi's got his gun on him. Dude's like, drop the gun, or I want to break its neck. And it's like. Cause you would have shot me already if you were gonna shoot me, so.
So Javi holsters and then just stands there and lets the dinosaur do its job.
[00:31:47] Speaker A: It turns into a fucking scary diablo horse.
[00:31:50] Speaker B: Yeah, it does. Like, right in the man's hand, burns his hand, and then it kicks him.
[00:31:56] Speaker A: It kicks him his fucking hard.
[00:31:58] Speaker B: Gives him the classic horse kick.
[00:32:00] Speaker A: Nothing funnier.
[00:32:01] Speaker B: Nothing funnier.
[00:32:02] Speaker A: I mean, it's really painful in real life, but it's just funny.
[00:32:05] Speaker B: Yeah, you gotta let the horse know you're back there, so you gotta give him little butt pats. Be like, hey, I'm back here. Please don't kick me. Then Javi walks over to the dude who's just hanging upside down.
He's like, hey, yeah, that actually happened. Nobody's gonna believe you, so I'm just gonna leave, unless you want to try to be making something happen here. And he's like, no, no, we're good. Goodbye.
[00:32:33] Speaker A: Yeah, nobody. I left the bar after hear the one eyed nun joke, and lizard turned into. First of all, no one believed you that your friend stole a lizard from. From a guy. Okay, that's a little crazy.
[00:32:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:43] Speaker A: And then turn into a horse.
[00:32:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:45] Speaker A: No way.
[00:32:46] Speaker B: Also, everybody at the bar watched you leave drinking from a bottle.
[00:32:50] Speaker A: They're not gonna believe you.
[00:32:51] Speaker B: They're not gonna believe you. Imagine the headache this guy probably has being that drunk, hanging upside down. Oh.
[00:32:57] Speaker A: Oof.
[00:32:57] Speaker B: Oh, boy. It's making my head hurt. I gotta. I gotta flip the page. And so then he finally wanders over, and then Linda's like, nope, no, nope. What are you doing? It's been an hour.
[00:33:09] Speaker A: You left your money here.
[00:33:11] Speaker B: The car was unlocked. Somebody could have taken the money. I almost left you. He's like, yeah, but you didn't, because you're a good woman, Linda. That's a special gift. She's like, oh, yeah, is it?
[00:33:24] Speaker A: She should have taken the money and run.
[00:33:26] Speaker B: She should have. And then. And then while she's. While she's castigating him, the dinosaur jumps out just onto her little shoulder and goes, meep, meep.
[00:33:37] Speaker A: Does, like, a roadrunner.
[00:33:40] Speaker B: She loses control of the car for a little bit, then slams on the brake. Oh, well, she slams on the brake because Javi tells her to stop, and they stop in front of a bank or western investment.
And then we end up with the opening reading that we've learned.
[00:33:56] Speaker A: You can't believe what he sees. That symbol used to be logo. Used to be a symbol that was carved and branded into their victim's burning flesh.
[00:34:04] Speaker B: Also into the.
[00:34:04] Speaker A: We know that symbol.
[00:34:06] Speaker B: Also into the tables of random, dusty bars.
[00:34:09] Speaker A: Exactly. We know that symbol from gunslinger number one.
[00:34:13] Speaker B: Yes, indeed.
[00:34:14] Speaker A: And it appeared just recently in. What's that? King spawn. Where it's on the person's arm.
[00:34:19] Speaker B: Yeah, it was on the guy who shot Terry. It was on his wrist.
[00:34:21] Speaker A: The guy who shot Terry is on his arm. So this might be just become, like, a general demon symbol.
[00:34:28] Speaker B: It's gonna be a. It's gonna be the. What's. What's. What do I want to pull? What's that called? Not shield. Shields. The good guys. Who's the bad guys?
[00:34:38] Speaker A: Hydra.
[00:34:39] Speaker B: Hydra. There we go. Hydra. That was, like the league of evil. No, that's the league of. No, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
[00:34:48] Speaker A: Nazis. No, just Hydra.
[00:34:50] Speaker B: Just Hydrae.
Yeah. So then we get Javi still only at one on the necrometer. And then we get a spawning ground, presents, the mailbag.
And it starts off with a picture of Carlo Barberry working real hard and his cat trying real hard. Trying real hard to make sure he's not working hard enough.
[00:35:20] Speaker A: Trying real hard to mess him up.
[00:35:23] Speaker B: This is one of the fun things about following a whole bunch of comics artists on Instagram. Johnny is like, every third or fourth picture, if a particular comics artist has a cat, every third or fourth picture that they post is just while I was trying to do work. But look at this bullshit.
[00:35:39] Speaker A: Look at this shit that happened. Yeah. If I'm editing the episode Barbie, we'll try to walk across the computer screen for sure.
[00:35:47] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:35:49] Speaker A: What the hell are you doing? Especially since you can follow the little bar on the audio. She, like, watches that. She tries to get it.
[00:35:57] Speaker B: My cat in college used to sleep on my laptop until it overheated and blue screened. And so I would come home and I would be like, why is my computer blue screened? And she'd just be like, meh, I.
[00:36:08] Speaker A: Love sleeping on your laptop.
[00:36:10] Speaker B: But, yeah, the first one's from Adam. This first letter says, greetings, thomas, tom the God, or Todd the God? And all else to whom it may concern.
It's his first letter to the editor in 42 years. 42 years.
He likes all of the letters from Sam and Jet, which, hell, yeah, we haven't seen a jet in a while, and I'm jonesing for it. But we do know that Jones or that jet has that year long project he's working on where he's trying to make a little comic book. So, yeah, maybe.
[00:36:42] Speaker A: I'm sure Thomas Healy will find some way to get that to us.
[00:36:44] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure by that, when they send an update, he'll probably be like, hey, we got an update.
[00:36:49] Speaker A: But, yeah, this guy's really happy that he's featuring the young fans.
And. Which is good, because I remember Thomas. He said. He said, some people complain about it. Like, why are you putting this shit in there?
[00:37:00] Speaker B: What's. What you. I don't know. I don't understand that. That line of thinking, Johnny. Like, why would you.
Why would you be upset at people enjoying a thing that they enjoy? And, you know, especially when it's a child who's got some obviously obvious inclinations towards talent that I never. I never. I never had that. Oh, no.
[00:37:25] Speaker A: Right?
[00:37:26] Speaker B: So why people gotta be so mean, Johnny?
[00:37:29] Speaker A: I don't know.
[00:37:33] Speaker B: But then following up. Right on that is a child's drawing, Javi. Johnny. What? Look at this. Five year old Olivia drew a.
[00:37:43] Speaker A: Well, no, she colored it.
[00:37:45] Speaker B: Oh, she colored it.
[00:37:46] Speaker A: Oh, he made a rough. He made a rough pencil outline. And she was the colorist.
[00:37:50] Speaker B: She's very good coloring.
[00:37:52] Speaker A: Yes. Very accurate.
[00:37:54] Speaker B: Yeah. Like, she's got her. She. She's got her to her signature up there just very prominently.
[00:38:01] Speaker A: I like it because, you know, we all got into Spawn, or we all heard a spawn when we were kids.
[00:38:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
As we've mentioned before, it's for 13 or for eleven year old boys, and there's always going to be eleven year old boys.
[00:38:15] Speaker A: So Spawn abides.
[00:38:17] Speaker B: Why? Why change it? It's been a formula that's worked for 30 years.
[00:38:21] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:38:23] Speaker B: If it ain't broken and don't fix.
[00:38:25] Speaker A: It, as Coxmus would say, that's the best and only good Reddit comment I remember because one of the top Reddit things in comic books, like, what's the deal with Spawn? Is spawn good? And everyone's like, no, it sucks. It sucks. And one guy's like, spawn's for twelve year old boys and twelve year boys will always exist and spawn abides.
[00:38:41] Speaker B: Yeah, that's great. Do you need more spawn to universe, Johnny?
[00:38:47] Speaker A: Do I need more? No, but I know I'm getting more.
[00:38:52] Speaker B: We'll be sure not to miss the ongoing titles. It's gonna be. It's gonna be real sad when we cover scorches 28 and no longer get to see it at the end of every issue just. Cause that's a really good cover. God damn it. Jonathan Galapagi.
[00:39:04] Speaker A: That Ravenspawn co. Yeah, the Ravenswawn cover is good. And we get the image classics ad with all the.
All the image classics.
[00:39:13] Speaker B: And then we get the classic movie maniacs with our. The classics classic.
[00:39:19] Speaker A: Everyone's favorite. Sheldon is the Flash we love. Sheldon is the Flash we want.
[00:39:26] Speaker B: We won't have to talk about it too much longer. So if it bothers you that we bring it up every time, it's soon to no longer be a thing.
[00:39:35] Speaker A: There's Pennywise. They just announced that Bill Skarsgrd is coming back for that tv show.
[00:39:39] Speaker B: Oh, nice.
[00:39:40] Speaker A: Welcome to Derry.
[00:39:42] Speaker B: I still haven't even seen it. Part two.
[00:39:44] Speaker A: And there's Aragorn, who I'm sure will be probably baby Aragorn will be in that rings of power show at some point. They'll be like, and this is baby Aragorn.
Unless he's already in it. I don't know. Because I haven't watched it.
[00:39:57] Speaker B: See how long happens.
[00:40:00] Speaker A: He's only like 90 in the Lord of the Rings.
[00:40:02] Speaker B: Yeah, because it's got. It's got the.
[00:40:05] Speaker A: He's one of the Doona day and blessed with long life.
[00:40:07] Speaker B: Yeah. When they're. When they're in the.
When they're in the the halls of Moria and they're in that room with the casket. So that's one of the dwarves from the Hobbit?
[00:40:19] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:40:20] Speaker B: And I think he's like a young dwarf in the rings of power. So it might happen a while before.
[00:40:27] Speaker A: Yeah, because Aragorn, I think, is like 90 in Lord of the Rings. So. Yeah.
[00:40:31] Speaker B: However, whatever that timeline works out to, I don't.
[00:40:34] Speaker A: I don't know. Because in the extended edition, Eowyn's like, you cannot be 80. And he's like, I'm 93, or something like that.
[00:40:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:40:42] Speaker A: Surely you cannot be 80, then you must be one of the Dunedain blessed with long life.
[00:40:49] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:40:50] Speaker A: And he is.
[00:40:50] Speaker B: He is indeed. And he marries. He marries an elf like eight times older than he is.
[00:40:58] Speaker A: What are you going to do?
[00:40:59] Speaker B: What are you going to do about it? And then after he dies, she's like, well, now I'm shunned from my elf community. I got to go to where all the old elves die.
Whoops.
Whoopsie. Oh, boy.
That's, uh, that's got slinger number 30, Johnny.
[00:41:16] Speaker A: That's 30. A spaghetti western covered romp with Linda and Javi.
Small town.
[00:41:24] Speaker B: It's a fun time.
[00:41:35] Speaker A: Next up, we have the next issue of Gunslinger.
Gunslinger 31.
[00:41:42] Speaker B: I have here, I have here the b cover, Johnny, from Javi Fernandez.
[00:41:47] Speaker A: Hold it up.
[00:41:48] Speaker B: And it is.
[00:41:48] Speaker A: Ooh, that looks badass.
[00:41:50] Speaker B: It is gross and disgusting. Just how I like it.
[00:41:54] Speaker A: Yeah, it looks like it.
[00:41:55] Speaker B: It's Javi in a bar with a whole bunch of dead demons.
And there's. He has decapitated one demon and put its head on the. On the bar and is just using it as a hat rest.
[00:42:10] Speaker A: That's pretty funny.
[00:42:12] Speaker B: Like, I can imagine him having said, here, hold on to this for me. As he put it on.
[00:42:16] Speaker A: Yeah. He's like, you don't mind?
Well, I've got the a cover.
[00:42:20] Speaker B: You got a cover by that Matina.
[00:42:22] Speaker A: Matina?
[00:42:23] Speaker B: Matina.
[00:42:24] Speaker A: It's a close up of Javi.
He's smoking a joint, it looks like.
[00:42:29] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. That is some rough hand rolled shit, Johnny.
[00:42:33] Speaker A: Yeah, that's some rough hand rolled shit. That's why it looks like a joint. Maybe I'd be a cigarette, but maybe he's smoking a joint.
[00:42:39] Speaker B: No, it's Johnny. There's too much. There's too. He's too green. He's. Javi's definitely smoking a g.
Yeah, his eyes are green.
[00:42:47] Speaker A: That's what. That's how you know.
Yeah, it's pretty cool. Really. Close up on a hobby there.
[00:42:54] Speaker B: Yeah. Some nice details on his revolver.
[00:42:59] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:42:59] Speaker B: Little filigree.
[00:43:01] Speaker A: It's got, like, a demon face on the bottom of it.
[00:43:03] Speaker B: Good detail on that hat. Band of skulls.
[00:43:06] Speaker A: There's, like, snow or, like, ash kind of falling in front. No covers on the front on this one because it's not a movie poster.
[00:43:13] Speaker B: Yeah, no, no, no credits. We gotta pop it open to get to the credits.
We get to the credits, Johnny. They look almost the exact same as.
[00:43:20] Speaker A: They did before, you know, they really, really do.
[00:43:23] Speaker B: Script plot by Tom McFarlane, art by Carlo Barberi. Covers, colors by Ivan Nunez. Lettering by Tomo, covered the covers. Creative director, Todd McFarland, editor in chief, Thomas Healy.
All the.
[00:43:37] Speaker A: You know it, you love it as the last issue.
[00:43:40] Speaker B: Yeah, they do a good job.
Then we got. We got here previously in Gunslinger.
Gunslinger's discovery that the enemies responsible for his sister's death still live sets him on a new path of revenge. A new path of revenge. Johnny, he's been on this path of revenge for a while. I don't know if he needs to set out on it again.
He can just continue.
[00:44:04] Speaker A: He's got a new path to his goal, which is get a bank account. But first, a flashback.
[00:44:10] Speaker B: Flashback, yeah. So we got, um.
We got one of those. The action is all flashback. It's a. Like a shootout in a western town. It's very, um.
Very bits of, uh. Oh, what's that one movie that sandenary directed that's got Gene Hackman.
[00:44:29] Speaker A: Oh. Quick of the dead.
[00:44:30] Speaker B: Quick of the dead. It's very. It's very.
The non non competition portions of the quick and the dead and the narration over this cool little bar fight. Western fight. Is Javi poorly telling Linda the truth of him.
So at any point that he can actually say what is going on, he just gives, like, a sideways answer or a sideways remark, and it's like, God damn it, Javi, just say the thing.
Just say that you were alive in the civil w times. They killed your sister, you were imbued with hell powers, and now you're going to get revenge on them. Linda can take it. I promise.
[00:45:17] Speaker A: She can take it. She's driving you around. Just let her know.
[00:45:20] Speaker B: But, like, every time we turn around, there's a new revelation that he gives Linda, and she's like, what the fuck is this?
Linda is a saint, putting up with. With Javi.
[00:45:31] Speaker A: He needs to lay it all out.
[00:45:33] Speaker B: Yeah. So. So he's telling her about the men that own the bot. The. The bank and what they. What they did to his family.
And she's like, what's wrong? Did they not. Did they not give you a loan or something?
It's like, no, no, worse.
[00:45:52] Speaker A: Way worse.
[00:45:53] Speaker B: Way worse.
They turned my sister against me. And she's like, why would they. Why would a business do that? That's bad business.
[00:46:02] Speaker A: They weren't a business then.
[00:46:05] Speaker B: And at this point in the flashback fight, Javi gets the round eye of surprise. Cause he runs out of bullets.
[00:46:13] Speaker A: Yes, he looks very cute.
[00:46:14] Speaker B: And the guys that he is shooting at also run out of bullets. And then, well, Johnny, it's knife time.
[00:46:21] Speaker A: So no more mister knife guy.
[00:46:23] Speaker B: Yeah. So he just. He just stabs them all in the face, in the head, and the mouth, and kicks them.
[00:46:29] Speaker A: Yeah. One guy, he stabs, like, through the bottom of the chin, through the top of the head.
[00:46:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:46:33] Speaker A: One guy's through the side of the face, just, like, all the way through his face.
[00:46:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:46:37] Speaker A: And one guy, he does down on top of the head, through the mouth.
[00:46:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:46:41] Speaker A: So he does quite the.
[00:46:43] Speaker B: That's a lot.
[00:46:44] Speaker A: Quite the menagerie of hurting people.
[00:46:48] Speaker B: It's a menai faitoire.
[00:46:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:46:53] Speaker B: 1230. Boy. I think. I think that's the last of my good jokes, Johnny.
I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna have to go lay down. That took a lot out of me. And then at this point, Javi sneaks up the snare. The stairs. He sneaks up the stairs.
[00:47:10] Speaker A: She's up the snares, the snails.
[00:47:12] Speaker B: The snares. He climbs up the stairs because he thinks that they've got a sister up there, and he learns that it was a trapdeen.
[00:47:19] Speaker A: There's, like, eight dudes back there with guns.
[00:47:22] Speaker B: Yeah. And they just. They just unleash on him when he gets to the top of the stairs.
A trap? Why would a business set a trap?
Linda, you're not catching what I'm trying to say. Well, then say it more clearly, sir.
[00:47:36] Speaker A: They didn't want his business.
[00:47:37] Speaker B: So he's just laying there in a pool of blood, and this dude with real nice boots comes up smoking a cigar or, like, a cigarillo. Cigarillo. Yeah, a cheroot. Just, like, throws it at Javi's face, and he's like, yeah, yeah. He's out we've got a minute before this symbiote wakes up. Get to work.
[00:48:00] Speaker A: So they begin to cut off the costume, rip it off, and just start stabbing the shit out of him.
[00:48:06] Speaker B: Yeah, just stabbity stab, stabby stab, I guess.
[00:48:10] Speaker A: Carving. And it's like, inglourious bastards, babe. They're doing the inglourious bastards.
[00:48:14] Speaker B: Johnny, can I point out something here that completely threw me out of the comic book? That you'll never be able to look at this the same again?
[00:48:21] Speaker A: Yeah, sure.
[00:48:21] Speaker B: Okay.
This little space right here. Yes. Is called the sharpening choil. The sharpening choil allows you to get at more of the blade as you sharpen it down, just so that way you can sharpen it and sharpen it and sharpen it and sharpen it and not have the blade be misshapen. Which means that this edge here should go all the way into the choil, instead of having a stop right here. This stop right here invalidates the fucking choil, so.
[00:48:54] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:48:55] Speaker B: So if they were to sharpen this knife a lot, this. This bit right here would not go down, and so the. The blade would look really funny. Threw me out of it.
[00:49:05] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
[00:49:07] Speaker B: That knife can't be sharpened properly. Damn it.
[00:49:10] Speaker A: Well, let's stop reading it.
[00:49:13] Speaker B: Goodbye, sir. Too much.
[00:49:18] Speaker A: Thanks for listening, everyone.
[00:49:21] Speaker B: Please join me on r knives, and we can complain about this nice r sharpening.
[00:49:29] Speaker A: Yeah, put this up there and be like, look at this shit. Can you believe they did this shit?
[00:49:33] Speaker B: Yeah, but no. So we learned that. That what all the stabbing and the carving was is that they put the symbol right in Javi's chest.
Yeah, they did something unimaginable to him and his sister Linda, something that still haunts him. And Linda asks if those men ever paid for what they did. And he says, not that day, but soon. I do.
[00:50:00] Speaker A: Like, soon they will.
[00:50:01] Speaker B: How? After this dude with the boots just kicks Javi, you know, after he gets shot into unconsciousness and then has a symbol carved into his chest. He's just like, eh, Punjab.
And I'm Del. Kick her, sir. Cut back to a hotel room where Javi and Linda are having their conversation, and then we get the classic. But that's a story for another day.
[00:50:31] Speaker A: A good question for another time, as Moscanada says.
[00:50:35] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:50:36] Speaker A: They ask, where did you get that lightsaber?
And we never find out.
[00:50:41] Speaker B: Johnny, they gotta. They gotta wait until they're out of shows to do. To do the Maz Katana show.
[00:50:48] Speaker A: Yeah, the how. How Maz Katana found the lightsaber.
[00:50:51] Speaker B: Yeah. And it will. It will also star Chewbacca. So that way we know why she loves that wookiee so much.
[00:50:57] Speaker A: We all know why she loves that wiki so much.
[00:51:01] Speaker B: You can reach the stuff on the top shelf.
[00:51:04] Speaker A: Yeah, sure. Something, if that's what you call it.
I like that wookiee.
[00:51:15] Speaker B: So Linda's like, hey, you know what? I know people could be terrible, but, you know, you know, we should at least, you know, be not terrible together. So that way the terrible people don't have any hold over us.
And Javi's like, you know what? I like you, Linda. This is great. Do you mind if we go visit a friend of mine really quick, if it's not too much trouble?
[00:51:41] Speaker A: So they go to the old auto.
[00:51:43] Speaker B: Mechanic to see wiretained. Linda isn't asking anywhere enough questions. She's like, she should be like, why are we at this fucking auto body shop?
[00:51:55] Speaker A: Who the hell is this guy?
[00:51:56] Speaker B: Why is there not any actual car mechanically going on? Who's this man who's basically performing Reiki on you?
What. What is. What is all this mystic, mystic stuff you're talking about? Angels?
[00:52:12] Speaker A: Yeah. I'd be a little freaked out.
[00:52:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Why is, like, what happened? And Javi's just like, eh, I fought some angels.
[00:52:20] Speaker A: He's like, healing him with his healing powers.
[00:52:23] Speaker B: And Wyatt's like, you should. You should rest to let that take hold. And Javi's like, nah, fuck that. Where's Taylor?
[00:52:29] Speaker A: Find out. Taylor left days ago.
[00:52:31] Speaker B: Yeah, I like that. You know, before this, we've been seeing Wyatt being like, Taylor, you can't fucking go. You gotta. You gotta heal Taylor, you can't go anywhere. So I'd like to see the flashback of what happened to finally let Wyatt be like, get the fuck out of it.
[00:52:46] Speaker A: Let's go.
[00:52:46] Speaker B: Let's go. Cause, like, Taylor couldn't make it from the chair to the door, so something had to happen pretty big.
[00:52:51] Speaker A: I bet he comes back as an.
[00:52:53] Speaker B: Angel warrior, but right now, he would be not angel warrior. He would be all right.
[00:52:58] Speaker A: He wouldn't have any powers.
[00:52:59] Speaker B: He would be a human.
[00:53:00] Speaker A: Well, shit.
[00:53:02] Speaker B: Well, maybe, maybe. Maybe when they figure out how to de dead zone the earth, he'll come back as an angel warrior.
Yeah.
So Javi and Waia get into this big fight, and basically Javi's like, come on, Linda, let's go.
Oh, wait, no, no, no, no.
Why accuses Javi of dragging this woman into it? And Linda's like, fuck you. I make my own decisions. Come on, Javi, let's go. And Javi's like, yeah, let's go.
[00:53:34] Speaker A: In case you give a shit. My name's Linda, man.
[00:53:38] Speaker B: Fucking love Linda. She don't take no shit. She takes a lot of shit from Javi, but she doesn't take a lot of shit from other people. It's pretty crazy.
They go back to the hotel, and Linda's, you know, following up on. She's like, what the shit was that back there?
[00:53:54] Speaker A: Yeah, what the hell did I just happen there?
[00:53:56] Speaker B: And then even though, literally, she just. He knows. She just heard him have a conversation about getting a. In a fight with angels. Didn't. Doesn't bother to say, hey, this dude's dad was an angel, and they conspired to fuck over a lot of earth people. He was like, yeah, no, he had a falling out with his dad.
[00:54:13] Speaker A: Pretty severe falling out because he killed him.
[00:54:15] Speaker B: Javi needs to have fucking. Just to be more blunt. He needs to be more blunt.
Yes.
So. So then Javi's like, I need to ask, before we go any further, I need to know, would you take revenge on people who did bad things to your family? And she's like, we can call the cops. He's like, no, no, not the cops. You. Do you want revenge? And she's like, me? Nah, I'm fine. And he's like, oh, I guess that makes us different.
[00:54:49] Speaker A: But you get that flashback of Amy getting shot in the head.
[00:54:53] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, rough. So Javi's like, I'm a revenge taker. So I need you to decide if you're still cool with what we're doing here, because I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna, you know, pussyfoot around when it comes to killing some guys that I think need to be killed. So I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go think about it in the bathroom with this big bag of money. You just let me know what you. What you decide. And is like, get in the fucking car. Come on, let's go. God.
[00:55:22] Speaker A: We'll go, we'll go.
[00:55:25] Speaker B: So we see Javi packing the money bag with all sorts of stuff. He's got knives, he's got guns. I'm surprised he doesn't throw a couple of a glass in there just for.
[00:55:36] Speaker A: Shits and giggles or, like, some TNT.
[00:55:38] Speaker B: Yeah, some Acme TNT, just like a bundle.
And then, you know, it dwells again on the image of dead Amyde. Yes.
[00:55:50] Speaker A: Always haunting him.
[00:55:51] Speaker B: Always haunting. And then they end up in the bank with, is that Charlotte Lynn?
[00:55:57] Speaker A: No, no.
Who's Charlotte Lynn?
[00:56:00] Speaker B: Charlotte Lynn, the body that.
[00:56:05] Speaker A: Oh, that viscerator.
[00:56:06] Speaker B: Viscerator takes over. Oh, we haven't, it looks like her. We haven't covered the fact that she takes over a body yet. Oops.
[00:56:12] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:56:14] Speaker B: Spoilers for scorch 28. Sorry about it. Um, but to the, they're gonna do a bank transaction and that's where the episode ends. The issue ends.
[00:56:24] Speaker A: They're walking into the bank. Dun dun dun.
Kind of ends pretty abruptly.
[00:56:29] Speaker B: Yeah, it does. It kind of picks up pretty abruptly in the next issue, though. So.
[00:56:33] Speaker A: Yeah, these two are pretty. The next one and this one are pretty linked. Yeah, the top level is doing good about having more arcs and, like, not just doing issue by issue.
[00:56:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:56:46] Speaker A: Obviously, Thomas Healey was like, look, you gotta plan it out a little bit. Okay.
[00:56:50] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. He's like, if you want this to go on for a while, you gotta think long term or else it should just be a mini series.
Then we got spawning ground presents fan art. We got a whole bunch of fan art here, Johnny.
[00:57:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:57:06] Speaker B: Pretty cool stuff. I like this first one from Hodge Raze. It's very, very hellboy esque.
[00:57:14] Speaker A: Yes, it is. I like the cartoony ones in the bottom left. Those are fun.
[00:57:18] Speaker B: Yeah, those are fun. The one in the middle on the bottom, they're all very fun to see.
[00:57:22] Speaker A: Everyone enjoying gunslinger.
[00:57:25] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I mean, he's a good, he's a good person to enjoy. All right, well, I've asked you once already, Johnny. You ready? Do you need more gun? Do you need those? Do you need more sponsor universe?
[00:57:35] Speaker A: According to this ad, I do, because it says, don't miss these ongoing titles.
[00:57:40] Speaker B: You do.
You do need it, Johnny. I don't care what you do need. I don't. I don't care what you think. You do need it.
[00:57:48] Speaker A: I know.
[00:57:49] Speaker B: Um, look at the image. Classic set again. And then we get a new, we get a new toy ad, Johnny, new toy ad.
[00:57:56] Speaker A: Dune, part two. Toys for Dune, part two.
[00:57:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Bunch of ball dudes, the son of game.
[00:58:02] Speaker A: And then some hairy dudes and then another dude. See, these are cool because they've got, if you notice the cape and stuff. Yeah, on what's his name at Redes.
[00:58:17] Speaker B: Paul Atreides.
[00:58:18] Speaker A: Yeah. He's got, it's got wires in it so you can make it look all like whoosh. Like it's like whooshing in the wind. So, like, all the edges have wires in them. I remember him showing that off it.
Toy fair or Comic Con? He's like, look, you got the wires in there and you could bend the cape around, make, go. Whoosh. It looks like you're walking.
[00:58:38] Speaker B: Oh, boy. The toddfather is a never ending well of enjoyment.
[00:58:42] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Everyone loves a good Todd father impression.
[00:58:45] Speaker B: I like, I like the, the detail, the detailed sculpt on the, on the head. Wrinkles.
[00:58:52] Speaker A: Yeah, it looks good.
[00:58:54] Speaker B: It's amazing.
[00:58:56] Speaker A: He's got a good head.
[00:58:58] Speaker B: He's got a good head for being bald. Yeah.
Nothing, it seems like nothing would be worse than going bald and not having a good head for bald.
[00:59:07] Speaker A: Yeah, that would be rough.
[00:59:09] Speaker B: Yeah, you got it. You gotta hope that you got good head for bald if you're going bald. Yeah. Have you seen Dune part two?
[00:59:15] Speaker A: No.
[00:59:16] Speaker B: It's good. Have you seen Doom part one? No, they're both, they're both on Max. You could just.
[00:59:22] Speaker A: I know. I need to watch it long and like, I feel you could see them.
[00:59:25] Speaker B: In the theater sit down and waste an entire afternoon.
[00:59:29] Speaker A: Yeah, I need to watch them. I just haven't, I don't know. I missed them in, missed the first one in theaters, and then I just kind of fell behind.
[00:59:35] Speaker B: Well, the first. Did the first one ever go in theaters? Because it was released on Max during.
[00:59:38] Speaker A: Yeah, it was in theaters.
[00:59:39] Speaker B: Oh, because it was. It was on Max initially. I guess they put it in theaters.
[00:59:44] Speaker A: No, it was in the theaters first, and then they put it on Max very shortly after.
[00:59:49] Speaker B: They're good movies. I don't understand. The people who saw Dune part two double digits of times in the theater. That's.
I don't think it was that good, but it was very good. That's Gunslinger 31, Johnny.
[01:00:02] Speaker A: That's Gunslinger 31. And the only movie I've ever seen double digit times in the theater is the Phantom Menace.
[01:00:08] Speaker B: I've never seen a movie double digits. I've seen one movie in. The only movie I know that I've seen in the theater multiple times was that Christian Bale Terminator movie.
[01:00:20] Speaker A: What? Why?
[01:00:21] Speaker B: Just for some reason, for that summer, that was like, for like three different groups of people that I was with, that was like the only movie that they were. They were like, eh, let's go see this. And I was like, I've already seen this, but I didn't want to be the spoil sports to have us ruin our. So I saw it three times in the theater.
[01:00:40] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[01:00:41] Speaker B: Yeah. And it was bad. I don't remember a goddamn thing about it.
[01:00:44] Speaker A: It's not good.
That's funny.
[01:00:47] Speaker B: But I mean, it was the best of the options that were in the theater that summer. It was a sad summer for movies.
[01:00:53] Speaker A: Sad yeah, sounds like it.
I've never seen that one, but I heard it's not good.
[01:00:58] Speaker B: Oh, no. It's not very good at all.
[01:01:01] Speaker A: Salvation, I believe it's called.
[01:01:03] Speaker B: I don't remember the name of it. The bad one with Christian Bale is what I call it.
[01:01:07] Speaker A: Terminator, the bad one.
[01:01:09] Speaker B: Terminator.
[01:01:09] Speaker A: Well, there's a lot of those.
[01:01:10] Speaker B: So Terminator, the bad one, Colon.
[01:01:12] Speaker A: With Christian Bale, there's Genesis.
Genesis.
[01:01:18] Speaker B: Genesis.
[01:01:19] Speaker A: It's spelled Genesis with a y. I don't know.
[01:01:21] Speaker B: Is it Genesis or genius soul?
[01:01:24] Speaker A: I don't know. It's some fucking weird, made up Terminator name. I never saw that one either.
I saw the other one where he's old with. With Linda Hamilton in it.
[01:01:35] Speaker B: I don't remember what that's called. Not the third one.
[01:01:39] Speaker A: It's like the 6th one. I don't fucking know.
[01:01:42] Speaker B: Old with Linda Hamilton.
[01:01:44] Speaker A: Yeah. They made one, like, where he's old and, like, Linda Hamilton's in it. Like, they made it, like, five years ago. It was like Terminator, dark fate.
[01:01:51] Speaker B: Oh, okay. The one where he, like, has a life. Yeah.
[01:01:55] Speaker A: He, like, goes off and lives in a cabin.
[01:01:56] Speaker B: I watched that one. I don't remember a goddamn thing about it either. Jesus.
[01:02:00] Speaker A: I remember the de aging technology looked really good in the opening scene.
That's about all I remember. Yeah. There's a lot of weird Terminator sequels.
[01:02:07] Speaker B: There's a lot of weird Terminator sequels.
[01:02:10] Speaker A: They just can't figure it out.
[01:02:11] Speaker B: Yeah, the magic's gone.
[01:02:14] Speaker A: Magic's gone.
[01:02:15] Speaker B: But you know what? Magic's not gone, Johnny? The magic of puppies.
[01:02:19] Speaker A: The magic of puppies.
[01:02:20] Speaker B: Yeah, we have to. We have to rate that magic. So it's time to rate some puppies, Johnny.
[01:02:25] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies.
So we had two issues. I don't know. Are you gonna rate them together again?
[01:02:32] Speaker B: I feel like when we do these two, I think these deserve a rating together.
[01:02:37] Speaker A: Probably with the next one too. But we're only doing two at a time.
[01:02:41] Speaker B: We could just read the third r1. Quick.
[01:02:43] Speaker A: Let's do it. No, I really liked. I really liked where the story's going after 350.
I love the Linda Javi kind of like interplay. It's hilarious. And she's a good foil for Javi. Just to have someone completely, utterly is opposite.
[01:03:00] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[01:03:01] Speaker A: Pretty interesting.
And it's nice to have, like, a, you know, non traditional, like, body type woman being Javi's partner. It's interesting.
[01:03:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:03:15] Speaker A: I want to see where it goes.
[01:03:16] Speaker B: She's. She's like a bond girl, only, you know, not the classic. The classic bomb girl bond girl who's just there to be eye candy.
[01:03:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Taylor's his first spawn girl.
[01:03:29] Speaker B: She's like. She's a. She's like a real person, Johnny.
[01:03:33] Speaker A: Imagine that. It's fun. Especially the first issue where he's kind of goofing around in the town and they're, like, figuring stuff out.
[01:03:39] Speaker B: I love a goop around.
[01:03:40] Speaker A: Second issue, you get a lot of the gnarly violence that you like in gunslinger with the flashback fight.
[01:03:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:03:46] Speaker A: You're stabbing people through the face.
Carlo Barberry, his art tells the story very well.
[01:03:52] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[01:03:53] Speaker A: His facial expressions, I feel like they're just getting better.
Like, I love the little mugs to the camera. Like, when Javi's like, I feel great. And Linda's like, come with me, little mugs.
[01:04:05] Speaker B: I love the stink eye that Linda gives Javi all the time. Just like, you little stinker.
[01:04:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Cause he is. He's a little stinker.
[01:04:16] Speaker B: She's real good about, you know, like, she'll put up with his shit, but she won't do it. She won't do so quietly. She'll just be like, you son of a bitch.
[01:04:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. I think they're both fun. It's a good gunslinger.
[01:04:29] Speaker B: Yeah, it is some good gunslinger.
[01:04:31] Speaker A: I'm going to give it four one eyed nuns.
[01:04:35] Speaker B: Nice. So four eyes.
[01:04:36] Speaker A: Four eyes. Four nuns with four eyes.
[01:04:38] Speaker B: So four. Four one eyed nuns or one four eyed nunden? Nine.
[01:04:45] Speaker A: Four one eyed nuns.
One four eyed nuns. Terrifying.
[01:04:49] Speaker B: Excellent. Excellent. I agree.
It's a fun time. The story is just that goofy fun that we love.
It's really fun to see the sort of restrained artwork with gunslinger versus the vibrating artwork of Brett Booth. It's just. It's great. It's very good. I'm gonna give it four vw bugs with the. The fuzzy keychain and the woke ass bumper sticker.
[01:05:23] Speaker A: Yeah, with your woke ass bumper sticker sticker. I'm gonna steal your lizard.
[01:05:27] Speaker B: It's fun. I'm enjoying it. Linda. Linda and Javi are the Thelma and Louise of.
[01:05:33] Speaker A: Right, Thelma Louise. Yeah. Good stuff. Check. Check them out.
[01:05:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaking of checking them out, Johnny.
[01:05:41] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:05:42] Speaker B: People should check out some of our friends on instagram, shouldn't they?
[01:05:45] Speaker A: Yes. And we had someone that was actually, today we're going to feature someone that was featured in the spawning grounds of 331.
[01:05:51] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. And that is Elric art.
[01:06:01] Speaker A: If you're looking at the issue.
He does the one on the top, right?
[01:06:05] Speaker B: Yeah. The top right of the Alseman spawn is the one he did.
He does poster and t shirts, designs. So he's got a lot of, like, mirror image, like, character designs that would fit nicely in the middle of a t shirt or a poster. And they're just. They're metal as hell, Johnny. And that's. That's honestly why I wanted to shout him out today, because I. I enjoy all the things he does. He has a fucking Jack O lantern head. Spaceman. How.
[01:06:37] Speaker A: Oh, that one's awesome. That's so cool.
[01:06:39] Speaker B: That's probably for. Who is that for? I was gonna say it's probably for Halloween, but it doesn't say anything about Halloween. It's fucking great.
[01:06:46] Speaker A: I think it's just a design he did. Pretty cool.
[01:06:49] Speaker B: He's got Godzilla.
[01:06:50] Speaker A: We're not even following him.
[01:06:53] Speaker B: What are you talking about, Johnny? We're following him now.
Keep it in, keep it in. Double it, double it. But yeah, yeah. Elric, it does some cool shit.
[01:07:07] Speaker A: Give him a follow.
[01:07:08] Speaker B: You know who else does some cool shit, Johnny?
[01:07:10] Speaker A: Brian Boyles, the maestro of our music.
[01:07:13] Speaker B: Brian Boyles. Underscore 27.
[01:07:16] Speaker A: So give them a shout out, give them a follow, and also give us a follow regarding spawnpod.
Come check us out. Post an episode descriptions, sometimes other things. We've been a little busy.
[01:07:30] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, sorry. I mean, I apologize for the first video back after a while. And I said, I'm definitely gonna do it again. And guess what, Johnny? I did it again.
[01:07:42] Speaker A: It's okay. I've been bad. My pickups haven't been. I kind of pared down my comics. My pickups aren't that big. It's usually just like, spawn.
[01:07:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:07:49] Speaker A: And then, yeah, I've just been busy with the play and everything.
[01:07:52] Speaker B: It just happens. I mean, you know, are you gonna. Are you gonna be mad at us for being busy?
That's a weird thing, to be bad at somebody for being busy.
[01:08:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:08:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:08:02] Speaker A: We're still giving you weekly content for your ears.
[01:08:05] Speaker B: Okay, well, this. This took a. This took an accusatory turn that I didn't intend to.
[01:08:09] Speaker A: No, I'm not accusing anyone anything.
[01:08:11] Speaker B: No, no. I'm saying it felt to me like I was doing an accusation, so no accusations. Well, we try. We try. We want to. We want to make sure that you guys have stuff to have fun with.
[01:08:24] Speaker A: If you want to have more fun, why don't you send us an
[email protected]? we'll read it on air if you give us permission to. And if you give us your address. We'll send you some of our lovely stickers.
And each week I like to ask a question to kind of spur any conversation in this week. Spur, no pun intended. I like to ask, what are some of your favorite spaghetti western movies? Just because of this lovely spaghetti western cover?
I would say, obviously, good, the bad, and the ugly.
I really like that whole trilogy. For a few dollars, for a few dollars more. Good, the bad, and the ugly. I also really like a Sergio Leone one called Duck you sucker. Or it's something called Ducky Sucker. Or sometimes called once upon a time, the revolution.
So it has two titles, but it's really good.
[01:09:14] Speaker B: Okay, nice.
I have a startling, not startling revelation that I don't know if I've seen a whole entire spaghetti western all the way through.
[01:09:28] Speaker A: What? You weren't obsessed with kitten Tarantino when you were in 12th grade and watched a whole bunch of spaghetti westernization.
[01:09:33] Speaker B: Does the magnificent seven count?
[01:09:36] Speaker A: No.
[01:09:36] Speaker B: That one doesn't have an italian director. Yeah. No, I have not seen. No. Does El topo count? No. He's spanish, isn't he?
[01:09:45] Speaker A: That might be a swag western, though.
[01:09:47] Speaker B: El Topo might be. El Topo's fucking weird, though.
[01:09:51] Speaker A: Oh, is that the Jordowski one?
[01:09:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:09:53] Speaker A: Yeah. That's not a spaghetti western.
[01:09:55] Speaker B: No. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. So send in your recommendations of what my first spaghetti western should be. It'll probably be ducky sucker. Since you've mentioned it before.
[01:10:05] Speaker A: It's really good.
So it's a fun one.
[01:10:09] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
Sorry. Not sorry.
[01:10:13] Speaker A: It's okay.
There's a lot to watch.
[01:10:16] Speaker B: There is a lot to watch. There's also a lot to read, Johnny.
[01:10:19] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:10:20] Speaker B: There's a lot to read. You want to read some more of it? So that way that there's a little bit less to read.
[01:10:25] Speaker A: I do, and I'm really excited about what we're reading next week. Cause some of the new stuff, the new new.
[01:10:30] Speaker B: I wrote, the new you. I have written down here that we have sandwich two to read. Oh, boy.
[01:10:37] Speaker A: Not sandwich Sam and Twitch. So you're getting hungry now.
[01:10:41] Speaker B: I am getting hungry now, boy. That's my secret, Johnny. I'm always hungry.
[01:10:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:10:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:10:46] Speaker A: No. We're going to be doing our pairing of Rat City and Salmon Twitch, both number twos, but they're not number two. They're number one, but they're issue number two.
[01:10:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
It's a good pairing. The same in Twitch and the Rat City. They're both completely opposite flavors, so it's fun to. It's like a single encapsulation of the breadth of the spawns universe. Just.
[01:11:12] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm glad we started these two issues.
Yeah, it's gonna be excited for that.
[01:11:17] Speaker B: Me too.
[01:11:17] Speaker A: I'm excited to reread Rat city number two.
[01:11:19] Speaker B: Man, I love Rhett City. It's so good.
[01:11:22] Speaker A: Me too.
[01:11:23] Speaker B: It's very good. Sam and Twitch is good, too. Not to discount Sam and Twitch or anything, but just RAt City. Just wasn't expecting it and then was excited for it, and then the excitement panned out. So it's fun to see new stuff, so.
[01:11:36] Speaker A: Yeah. Especially from, you know, into, you know, just an idea that popped out of someone's head. Yeah, it's pretty cool.
[01:11:42] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's real fun.
[01:11:44] Speaker A: So, yeah, rat city number two and Sam and Twitch, case files number two.
[01:11:49] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
[01:11:49] Speaker A: Will be next week.
[01:11:50] Speaker B: Indeed. Yeah, we gotta. We gotta support all those artists, Johnny. Artists are out there putting out stuff for you to enjoy. You might as well, you gotta, you gotta boost them up. You gotta. There's a reason that they put all of the names in the credits at the end of the movies.
[01:12:04] Speaker A: There's a reason.
[01:12:05] Speaker B: There's a reason.
[01:12:07] Speaker A: There's a reason to their rhyme. There's rhyme to their reason.
[01:12:09] Speaker B: Yep. Yep. Yes, indeed. And I can't rhyme anything with that, Johnny, so that means I have nothing to say. But may the scorched be with you.
[01:12:21] Speaker A: And also with you, David.
[01:12:23] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
[01:12:24] Speaker A: Hell yeah.
[01:12:25] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
[01:12:26] Speaker A: Also, remember to rate, review, and subscribe when you say that.
[01:12:28] Speaker B: Oh, shit. Yeah. So hurry.
[01:12:30] Speaker A: Oh, the music's starting. No, no.
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