Episode 95 - Rat City 2 and Sam and Twitch Case Files 2

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Did you see it? The demon? It's coming for us. Cause all the bad shit we did over there. Don't be fooled. There ain't no angels behind those doors. Good evening, and welcome to the mal bulge. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I'm your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:52] Speaker B: And I'm your co host, David Williams. And, Johnny, I just realized something. [00:00:58] Speaker A: What? [00:00:59] Speaker B: Spawn is good. [00:01:00] Speaker A: Spawn is good. And Spawn is very good. Spawn is good, and Spawn is bountiful. [00:01:05] Speaker B: Yes, it is. I was just. Just having a chat not too long ago with a friend about some Star wars, and I was thinking, you know, because I'm a Star wars apologist, even bad Star wars is good Star wars. And I was like, there's just so much of it that you can't be upset at the stuff that's bad. And, Johnny, we're getting to the point of where, a, there's no bad spawn, but b, there's just so much spawn that you can't get mad at it. [00:01:30] Speaker A: It's true. There's just, like, something for everyone, as evidenced by the two issues we're covering today. They're like two or wild. [00:01:38] Speaker B: It's a little bit of whiplash having to put them back to back. But we did it. [00:01:42] Speaker A: We did it anyway. It's like a roller coaster ride, baby. [00:01:45] Speaker B: We love spawn, but we hate people's necks. [00:01:48] Speaker A: Yes. We want you to hurt your neck. Oh, just. Just be over 35 and sleep on. Sleep funny, and you'll be. Have your neck hurt for two months. [00:01:59] Speaker B: You look. You look to your left too quickly. [00:02:01] Speaker A: Yep. And it just crickets. [00:02:05] Speaker B: I was actually very scared that I was going to do my little demonstration there and then actually hurt myself. Yeah, I don't got workers comp for this. No. Yeah, we need to get going to the doctor. I was doing something silly on a podcast, and I just totally fucked myself up. [00:02:23] Speaker A: We need to become an LLC. Respawn productions. So we can have insurance. And if we do get hurt podcasting, you can use this workers comp. [00:02:31] Speaker B: Can we. Can we get sag cards for this? Johnny, could this be considered voice acting? Yes. Ooh, nice. We should look into that, because I'm. [00:02:41] Speaker A: Acting like I like talking to you. I'm just kidding. [00:02:47] Speaker B: That's okay. If I had to talk to me too, I'd probably be like, this motherfucker. Jesus. [00:02:51] Speaker A: No. [00:02:51] Speaker B: Does he ever shut up? [00:02:53] Speaker A: That's a cool lemon shirt you've got on. [00:02:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. It's very nice. It's very breezy. It's. I've started. Started running again. And I am once again between sizes and dear, dear clothing companies, please bring back the husky sizes for all ages. [00:03:15] Speaker A: Bring them back. We won't be offended. [00:03:17] Speaker B: Everything is either too big or too small. I just need that little. I need that little in between size. Please. I'm a husky boy. I need the husky size. [00:03:26] Speaker A: Come on, guys. Well, we got some husky sized issues from Spawn's universe. Cause we're talking spawn, but we're not talking Al Simmons. [00:03:37] Speaker B: I think Rhett City might have a couple more pages than normal. [00:03:41] Speaker A: It felt different. [00:03:42] Speaker B: It definitely feels like I sat down with it and I was like, man, this is gonna take me forever to get through. And then it was done, and then I was like, wait, what? It was supposed to take me forever to get through? [00:03:52] Speaker A: Yeah. Breeze right through it. [00:03:53] Speaker B: It's like the opposite problem I have with some issues where it's usually I sit down and I'm like, oh, man, I forgot how long this is. This time I was just like, man, I forgot how short these are. [00:04:04] Speaker A: Yeah. And how action packed and narrative, how driven it is. [00:04:08] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. It just makes me want to read some more sponsor. [00:04:12] Speaker A: Yeah. But, yeah. To say that what we're covering today are two number twos, but they're not number two. As we said, they're number one. But they're number two issues. [00:04:22] Speaker B: What are we doing that on, Johnny? [00:04:24] Speaker A: We're doing rat city number two and Sam and Twitch case files. Number two. [00:04:28] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. They got those files. They got those cases. [00:04:31] Speaker A: I guess there technically was another series called Sam and Twitch case files. So I have to, like, differentiate and, say the 2024 one. [00:04:39] Speaker B: Really? Because I thought. I thought the original series was because there was the same in twitch that had. That was like, the writer was the first arc. [00:04:50] Speaker A: Okay, maybe it was just Sam and Twitch. Okay, yeah, maybe I'm wrong. [00:04:52] Speaker B: I think because I thought that's why they had to call this one Sam and Twitch case files is because there. [00:04:58] Speaker A: Already was a salmon twitch. [00:04:59] Speaker B: There already was the same in twitch. Although I feel like there was a third Sam and Twitch series. [00:05:04] Speaker A: I think there were three. [00:05:06] Speaker B: I don't. Johnny, there's so much spawn, I can't keep up. [00:05:13] Speaker A: Yeah, but we're trying to. And that's what we're doing here today. [00:05:16] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:05:24] Speaker A: I mean, I guess we might as well get into it then. [00:05:26] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, I was waiting for that. [00:05:27] Speaker A: There's a nice pause for you to edit it out. [00:05:30] Speaker B: I was waiting for a grand declaration of some kind of spawn. [00:05:34] Speaker A: No, I mean, it's time to, I guess, you know. [00:05:37] Speaker B: Yeah. There's nothing about it. [00:05:39] Speaker A: We want to talk about it. [00:05:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. There's little else I want to talk about besides this. [00:05:43] Speaker A: So we've got rat city number two. [00:05:46] Speaker B: Yes, indeed we do. [00:05:47] Speaker A: And we always start with the covers. And I've got the a cover here. [00:05:51] Speaker B: I also have the a cover. [00:05:53] Speaker A: A beautiful bjorn barrens of Peter Cairn. [00:05:57] Speaker B: It's a. It's a beautiful BB boy. [00:06:00] Speaker A: It's a BB boy. It's a BB boy. [00:06:05] Speaker B: I crack myself up. Johnny. [00:06:06] Speaker A: Peter Cairn and his spawn armor. And there's like, awesome, like, hovercraft like, things floating around. [00:06:17] Speaker B: It's like the classic Batman. There's a blimp or a helicopter in the background, but it's future, so like little. Little surveillance drones. [00:06:26] Speaker A: Yeah. And it's raining just. We love Bjorn Barons. [00:06:32] Speaker B: Yeah, it's great. It's amazing. [00:06:35] Speaker A: It is pretty damn cool. It just makes you appreciate because we haven't seen him that much in the issues. But it's a really cool design on future spawn here. [00:06:44] Speaker B: In fact, we get to see it for the first time in this issue. I do. [00:06:48] Speaker A: We do. At the very end. [00:06:51] Speaker B: Cause I'm trying to think back to issue one, and I don't remember seeing it in issue one at all. [00:06:55] Speaker A: No, you just. You just see Al Simmons show up for a second, but you don't see the actual armor. Doesn't appear yet. Yeah, just badass. I love Bjorn Behrens uses that 3d. He's doing. He's prolific. [00:07:09] Speaker B: He's everywhere. [00:07:10] Speaker A: He has a lot of covers. [00:07:12] Speaker B: He is. As the grunts would say about Master chief. He's everywhere. Oh, man. [00:07:22] Speaker A: And then there's a bee cover by Kevin Keene. [00:07:28] Speaker B: I'm looking at it right now. [00:07:30] Speaker A: I don't have it. He did a few issues of something. [00:07:35] Speaker B: He did a. He did a couple. He did a couple interiors on King Spawn. [00:07:41] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what it was. [00:07:42] Speaker B: Yeah, he's done. I think he's done a couple covers, but, yeah, mostly he did interiors on King Spawn. When they found what's her face in the bottom of the warehouse that had the brains in it. Oh, Yuki. And then she got, like, sucked into the. Into the. [00:07:59] Speaker A: Or. Yoko. Not Yuki. [00:08:01] Speaker B: Yeah, Yoko. She had the. It was like the people's ghosts amplified by the computer. They were plugged into. Yeah, man, that was some wild shit. [00:08:12] Speaker A: That was wild. Sean Lewis was just going crazy. [00:08:17] Speaker B: I really miss Peking Spawn now. [00:08:21] Speaker A: I know. [00:08:23] Speaker B: Not Peking Spawn. I don't want him crispy. No, he's pretty crispy. As it is. But peak king spawn. Can you imagine? You're just walking down the street. You walk by a restaurant, they have Peking spawn. It's just a duck that they've put food color on to make it look like Spawn's face. I would eat it. [00:08:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:46] Speaker B: I mean, we would be honor bound to have to go eat a mule there, Johnny. [00:08:51] Speaker A: Yeah. If they had Peking spawn, we'd have. [00:08:52] Speaker B: To go a succulent chinese meal. What's that from back in the nineties, there was this basically an australian rabble rouser guy that was being arrested, and he was just causing a scene while it was happening. And he's like, you're arresting me while I was trying to eat a meal. A succulent chinese meal. [00:09:19] Speaker A: That's funny. I'll have to use that if I ever get arrested. [00:09:23] Speaker B: Oh, man. And then at one point, he's like, get your hand off my penis. [00:09:27] Speaker A: Oh, I think. I think I've seen that. [00:09:29] Speaker B: It's just hilarious. He apparently now lives in the boonies in Australia and just has a wine farm called get your hand off my pinot. But he's like, yeah, it was all fake. I just made it up because I was not wanting to get arrested. Hilarious. Hilarious. Bogan shit. But, you know, it's not bogan shit, Johnny. [00:09:52] Speaker A: That cover, that B cover, Kevin Keen. [00:09:56] Speaker B: City that we're talking about, it is quite keen. [00:09:58] Speaker A: So Kevin Keane, his cover, he's like, sitting on the top of an antennae. [00:10:03] Speaker B: Mm hmm. It's got the same, same situation where it's our cyberpunk spawn standing on the top of a building looking down. But Kevin Keane's future city is a little bit more optimistic than Bjorn Behrens is. [00:10:19] Speaker A: Yes. Bjorn Berens is very impressive with the rain. This is very bright. [00:10:23] Speaker B: Yeah, there's some smog, but it's not green smog. And I. What is obviously going to be acid rain, if that's not acid rain. Oh, that's acid rain. Then this isn't a spawn podcast. So, yeah, sometimes it might not be. Yeah. Beautiful. Both of them are very good. [00:10:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:40] Speaker B: But that Bjorn Behrends is where it's at. [00:10:43] Speaker A: Oh, that's my favorite. Yeah, that's definitely my. I mean, they're both good, but, yeah, that's my favorite of the two, for sure. [00:10:48] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:10:49] Speaker A: We pop it open, we got the credits. Script plot by Erica Schultz. Arps by Z. Carlos. [00:10:55] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:10:56] Speaker A: Color by J. David Ramos. Lettering, pulling double duty. [00:11:00] Speaker B: Erica Schultz, triple duty. [00:11:02] Speaker A: Technically, triple dimple. What's the third? [00:11:05] Speaker B: The script plot. [00:11:07] Speaker A: Oh, script and plot. Yeah, yeah. No, Todd. Father meddling in here. [00:11:11] Speaker B: All these. All these words are Erica's. I bet she was like, hold on a second. I'm gonna. I'm just gonna do all this. I can imagine Todd McFarlane being like, yeah, but you could. All of these words. [00:11:23] Speaker A: It's like, just. Just. That'd be a bad look, Todd, coming in on, like, an original idea. [00:11:30] Speaker B: This issue would be, like, this thick. [00:11:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Explaining all the tactics back to the credits. We cover the covers. Creative director Todd McFarlane and editor in chief is Thomas Healy. [00:11:44] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:11:45] Speaker A: Previously in Rat City. Spawn's necroplasmic explosion in the past has ripped forward in time and caused a massive blackout and power surge in New York City. I thought it was Rat City. [00:11:58] Speaker B: Well. Well, it caused the power surge in the whole city. Rat City is just. Hey, hold on, hold on. Are you saying that I'm bad at improv, Jenny? [00:12:09] Speaker A: Yeah, you gotta say yes. [00:12:10] Speaker B: And how dare you? [00:12:12] Speaker A: You need to go to take a second City class. [00:12:15] Speaker B: I would get kicked out for every, like, five minutes being like, wait, wait. Are we still joking? Are we joking? Okay, good. Okay, let's go. [00:12:22] Speaker A: Is this real yet? [00:12:24] Speaker B: Did we start the thing yet? [00:12:27] Speaker A: Yes. [00:12:27] Speaker B: And it'd be like those goblins at the beginning of labyrinth going, did she say it? [00:12:33] Speaker A: I wish. [00:12:35] Speaker B: Did she say it? [00:12:38] Speaker A: Yellow again. Labyrinth. [00:12:40] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm just waiting till I get you to watch it again. It's on Pluto tv. They have it, like, back to back with the dark crystal basically every day. [00:12:48] Speaker A: Oh, really? [00:12:49] Speaker B: Mm hmm. [00:12:50] Speaker A: They've been playing Indiana Jones a lot. [00:12:53] Speaker B: They've been. What was it that I was watching? Oh, they. They've, like, expanded their Star Trek channels, too, so now there's a channel that just exclusively shows ds nine and fucking love it. [00:13:08] Speaker A: Oh, that's cool. They got two Star Trek channels now, huh? [00:13:11] Speaker B: I think they have three. They've got Tnge channel, and they've got one that shows Voyager and the original series, and they have one that's just deep space nine now. [00:13:23] Speaker A: That's cool. Yeah, Pluto tv. What a great invention. [00:13:26] Speaker B: It's all. It's terrible. For my free time. [00:13:29] Speaker A: Yeah, just pop it on. [00:13:33] Speaker B: I used to always not understand how old men could watch classic sports games, but now have the classic MLB great games channel on from time to time. Watching old ass baseball is hilarious. Cause those guys all look like they're 46 years old. [00:13:54] Speaker A: Yeah, I popped that on, too. It's just funny to see most of. [00:13:57] Speaker B: Them are out of shape, like, either just, like, little skinny guys or just, like, do nothing but smoke and eat cheeseburgers. And it's just like, man, what a beautiful game. [00:14:06] Speaker A: And, like, it's so funny to watch the older games. Cause, like, you're like, man, you really couldn't see shit on the tv. It's so blurry. [00:14:12] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, no, I keep going, like, where's the. I need the. Where's the strike box? Put the strike box up. Yeah, or like, you have to actually pay attention to the commentators because it was too expensive to keep the score up for the whole game. So they would just, like, flash the score up, like, once or twice an inning, but, you know, it doesn't get flashed more than once an inning, Johnny. [00:14:35] Speaker A: Al Simmons. But he does flash right here. [00:14:37] Speaker B: Al Simmons. Necroplasmic explosion. [00:14:39] Speaker A: And his ghost. Yeah, he only something. [00:14:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:43] Speaker A: So we open up exactly where we left off last issue, where Peter's sitting there and spawn just, like, pops up. [00:14:52] Speaker B: Yeah, it's obviously costs some havoc inside of his apartment because his flag is all. It's ripped to shreds there, Johnny. [00:15:01] Speaker A: Yeah, there's, like, paper flying everywhere. Yeah. Swan just appears, and Peter's like, what the fuck? And just, like, swings at him. [00:15:11] Speaker B: Like, anybody who's ever tried to punch a ghost just falls right through it. [00:15:16] Speaker A: Never try to punch a ghost. You just get ectoplasm on yourself or necroplasm. [00:15:22] Speaker B: Maybe. Maybe I'm thinking of a merchandising opportunity, Johnny. Imagine you go to the grocery store and you're thirsty. So you go down the drinks aisle, and you. You walk by the sodas, you walk by the bubbly waters, you go to the juice section, and there in little bitty cartons. Necro cooler. [00:15:45] Speaker A: Yeah. People love ectocoolure. They go crazy for it. So why wouldn't. Why wouldn't you? Yeah, there's a spawn juice box in the nineties. I totally would have bought that. [00:15:55] Speaker B: Yeah, totally. Well, I would have begged my mom to buy it, and she would have been like, absolutely not. [00:16:00] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, definitely. Because it would have been, like, more sugary than ectoplasm or ectocooler. [00:16:07] Speaker B: I was only allowed to have squeeze it when they were handed out by other kids parents at soccer games. [00:16:13] Speaker A: Yeah, squeezes were quite a treat. You get to squeeze it. You get the juice. Yeah, they got little faces on them. [00:16:19] Speaker B: Yeah, they got the faces. I like to get in the angry guy. I miss choosing my beverages by the face that's on the bottle. Don't you remember, like, going to the cooler, being like, nah, I don't like that guy. No, I don't like that guy. I like that guy. [00:16:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. I always feel like it was at soccer games or after soccer games or, like, birthday parties. [00:16:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:42] Speaker A: It's like a young kid's liquor will squeeze it and squeeze it on down. [00:16:46] Speaker B: So it's only for. Only for special occasions. It's a sometimes drink. [00:16:51] Speaker A: You have, like, squeeze it. Sommeliers. Like fucking eight year olds. [00:16:56] Speaker B: No, no, don't get the red ones. Get the blue ones. [00:16:59] Speaker A: You gotta get the blue with the angry guy. It tastes the best. [00:17:05] Speaker B: Oh, boy. So Peter Cairn, fighting this ghost, you know, he doesn't know what Al Simmons did with his necroplasmic explosion or how it affected the nanites in his body. And, you know, then he passes out. So something happened. Yeah, something big. [00:17:26] Speaker A: And then we cut the pts, which is the organization that gave them the lims. [00:17:36] Speaker B: Pharmatech solutions. [00:17:38] Speaker A: Pharmatech solutions. And these guys are some not great dudes. [00:17:42] Speaker B: Yeah. The ambiguous at best right now, but we. We understand that they're the. They're like, Jason Nguyen. Agency level douchebags. [00:17:54] Speaker A: Yeah. By the end of this issue, you kind of know. [00:17:56] Speaker B: Yeah. You get a hint. A good hint. A very big hint, probably. Hint. So big, it's technically just plot point and not hint at that point. Yeah. But they're trying to wonder. They're trying to figure out what happened. They're like, wait, what was this? What did it affect? One of the lackeys is like, the nanites don't seem too affected by the energy surgeon. Too affected. And then he does classic. Classic boss yelling, spittle flying, being like, I need everybody who's got nanites back in here now. [00:18:29] Speaker A: Yeah, we need to check this shit out. [00:18:30] Speaker B: Basically, J. Jonah Jameson yelling about pictures of Spider man right now, only about getting nanites back in. And then he's like, I don't care what it takes. Just tell him we're giving him free upgrades. [00:18:40] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like a phone store. You get a free upgrade. Come on in. [00:18:45] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. Then we cut. If we cut back to Peter Cairn's apartment and somebody's broken in, Johnny. Somebody's broken in and is kicking him awake. [00:18:56] Speaker A: He's his friend, Reese. [00:18:58] Speaker B: Yeah, and Peter's. You know, if you remember from last issue when there was a voicemail message from. From Rhys on Peter's phone, and Peter was like, I don't want to hear it. So we know that Peter is very excited that the first person he sees after his blackout is Rhys. [00:19:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:18] Speaker B: But, you know, Reese seems like a stand up guy. [00:19:21] Speaker A: Yeah, they were on the team together. [00:19:23] Speaker B: I want to know what happened between them to make Peter so grumbledy grumps about him. I don't know, but Reese is like, yeah, we're getting free upgrades, so we gotta go. And Peter's just like, yeah, whatever. Whatever you say, Reese. And then while they're walking to pts, Owen's trying to. It is Owen Rhys, right? [00:19:46] Speaker A: Yes. [00:19:47] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. Oh, Owen to his mother. That's right. Is trying to recruit him to a cause he has. And Peter's like, you're trying to get me to join a cult. It's just like, I love his laughy, rosy cheeked face as he's laughing at him. You and your catholic guilt. [00:20:10] Speaker A: There's just, like, trash and stuff on the streets. There's a guy welding something. [00:20:16] Speaker B: Yeah. So everybody's trying to recover after this necroplasmic earthquake explosion. [00:20:25] Speaker A: It really shook New York. Yeah. [00:20:27] Speaker B: And Owens talking about how Quinlan is a partner. I guess they both know Quinlan, but it's just dropped full, full cloth here. Quinlan used to work for PTS, and that's his inside man getting all the information. And Owens, like, this upgrade scheme doesn't pass the smell test. But how else are we going to get information? [00:20:51] Speaker A: We got to figure out what's going on. [00:20:54] Speaker B: And then Reese. Reese proves that if you end up in. Or no, Peter. Peter proves that if you end up in a zombie movie with Peter. Karen. To not trust that motherfucker. Cuz Reese is like, did something weird happen during the explosion? Or he's like, Peter's like, no, nothing. [00:21:10] Speaker A: No, nothing weird. I didn't get bitten. Yeah, no, yeah. [00:21:15] Speaker B: I didn't see a big ass ghost they then tried to punch later. Nah, nothing didn't happen. [00:21:20] Speaker A: I like a little flash of Spawn's face haunting him. [00:21:23] Speaker B: Yeah, it's really cool. It's a very angry. I mean, that's a little redundant to say angry spawnface, but it's a nice little angry spawn face. [00:21:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:33] Speaker B: Then we cut. While they're walking into pts, we cut across town to Quinlan's apartment, doing his hacks, rising into the PTS system. [00:21:43] Speaker A: I think their pronouns are they. Everyone refers to them as they. [00:21:48] Speaker B: Okay. [00:21:49] Speaker A: And I saw something on threads where Erica Scholz confirmed that. [00:21:52] Speaker B: Okay, cool, cool. So they're tippity tappity away, and then they do the classic nineties thing of. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Bad stuff. I gotta run and tell them. So they dash out of their apartment trying to be like, I gotta get a hold of. I gotta get ahold of Reese. I gotta let them know, it reminds me. [00:22:12] Speaker A: I think I might be wrong. No, I think that's what happens. I remember deep impact. Like, they find out about the comet coming, and the guy, like, takes the information, but he, like, gets in a car wreck or something, and so no one ever finds out. [00:22:25] Speaker B: Johnny, as everybody who lived through the late nineties remembers, in year of our Lord 1997, you were either team Armageddon or team deep impact. And sorry, Morgan Freeman, but I was team Armageddon all the way. [00:22:42] Speaker A: I was deep impact. [00:22:45] Speaker B: I think it was the better, higher quality movie. But, man, I'm a sucker for a Bruckheimer production. [00:22:51] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, I liked them both. That was a wild time. That was, like, the summer that AMC 20 had opened. So, like, it was the first time I saw movies in, like, stadium seats and stuff like that. [00:23:00] Speaker B: Oh, nice. I really missed the. There being multiple movies in a single summer season that were basically, like, the same premise. [00:23:11] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. [00:23:13] Speaker B: You had to choose which one you liked better. Oh, man. They should bring that back. [00:23:17] Speaker A: Volcano and Dante's peak. [00:23:20] Speaker B: I don't think I ever saw a volcano. I do remember that one old lady getting her legs melted off in Dante's peak, though. [00:23:26] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I remember that volcano's like the armageddon to. [00:23:31] Speaker B: Okay, so more. More volcanic. [00:23:33] Speaker A: Yeah, volcanoes. A little more that one. A volcano disappears in the middle of La. Out of the la brea tar pits. It becomes a volcano. [00:23:43] Speaker B: Oh, man. Adult life has much fewer natural disasters, randomly occurring places they shouldn't, and far fewer patches of quicksand than I imagined they would as a child. [00:23:57] Speaker A: Right. I'm just glad we're getting twisters this summer. It seems like a nice. In the line of those nineties movies. You know, I still. [00:24:03] Speaker B: I still don't. I know I've seen Twister, like, four times, but I still don't really understand what the point was. They just needed to get the balls into the twister. [00:24:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Cause they could. They could get all the data. [00:24:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. [00:24:17] Speaker A: It's all the data. [00:24:18] Speaker B: And then what are they doing in twisters? They're. I don't. Do they need more data? [00:24:22] Speaker A: They need more data. [00:24:24] Speaker B: The search for more data. [00:24:25] Speaker A: There's two twisters. [00:24:27] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:24:28] Speaker A: I think it looks cool. I'm gonna see it. [00:24:29] Speaker B: It would be hilarious if twisters starts off with them being like, okay, we submitted our paper based on that last twister in the nineties. Two of the people reviewing our paper said it was good. But that third reviewer, that motherfucker, says we need more data, so we gotta go out there and get more. [00:24:47] Speaker A: So get the little balls, put them in a truck and go do some crazy shit. [00:24:52] Speaker B: Well, that's a. That's a long running joke amongst scientists. When you get your paper reviewed, it's always reviewed by three people. And it's always. Two of them are almost always just like, yeah, sure, this is awesome shit. And then the third one is just always. That third reviewer is just a jerk and, like, doesn't read the paper and asks you questions. And then you're like, it's. It's right there. And they're like, no, no, no. I need something more than that. That's what you asked. Third reviewer. Fuck em. [00:25:19] Speaker A: Fuck the third reviewer. [00:25:21] Speaker B: Yeah. Then we flashback. Not flashback. We go back to the waiting room at PTS. [00:25:27] Speaker A: Yep. They're just chilling. [00:25:28] Speaker B: They're just chilling. There's the dude at the end of the bench, just like Doom saying, yeah, freaking out. Just like, there's always one of those guys in the waiting room. And though we though we do know that he is speaking truth later on, you always just ignore that person. [00:25:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:50] Speaker B: It's a sad fact of life, but you can't. You gotta. You gotta reserve some of your emotional energy. Especially if you're in a waiting room. Yeah. [00:25:59] Speaker A: There's always someone freaking out or like, trying to, like, been waiting too long and like, try to unite everybody to, like, rebel. [00:26:06] Speaker B: Yeah, always. I wonder if that's. I don't know if that's so much an issue with individuals as it's probably a symptom of our broken medical system, but. [00:26:20] Speaker A: Might be I'm pretty lucky. My doctor. [00:26:22] Speaker B: Probably both pretty. [00:26:23] Speaker A: I don't have to sit in the waiting room too long, usually. [00:26:25] Speaker B: Yeah, with an appointment based thing, it's usually not too bad. But if it's something like an urgent care or an ER. Oh, yeah, that's the wild fucking west. [00:26:34] Speaker A: Yeah. But they're sitting there, this guy's like freaking out. Peter's like, when we get out of here, I gotta try to get some work tonight. And Reese is like, yeah, by the way, your foreman called. [00:26:43] Speaker B: And how long were you blacked out. [00:26:48] Speaker A: Because you missed some work, buddy? I think you're fired. [00:26:52] Speaker B: I like the little tiny shit. And then Owen's like, hey, guess what I got. I got something for you. Let's just get through this. Lackey comes out, calls Commander Rhys, and he's like, oh, it's just Mister Reese now. Or Owen, if you're my mum. [00:27:09] Speaker A: I wonder if that means he's british. [00:27:12] Speaker B: Or as the spoon man pointed out, he could just be from fucking Boston. [00:27:17] Speaker A: That's true. [00:27:19] Speaker B: Any place with a large concentration of irish immigrants is going to have people who refer to their mom as mum too. So. [00:27:25] Speaker A: Yeah, I. Yeah, he's got. He's got a red hair, so he's probably irish. [00:27:30] Speaker B: Yeah, of some kind. Also, Rhys spelled that way is. That's definitely. If he is not directly from Ireland to begin with, he is at least directly descendant from the Irish. We're putting it all together, Johnny. It's all making sense. It's all context clues, such as thought. [00:27:49] Speaker A: They put into the characters, which is nice. [00:27:52] Speaker B: Yeah. So Rhys hands his phone over to Peter. I like this, that Reese, throughout this entire issue, is very adamant that people not refer to him as commander because he's like, I'm not in the service anymore. And yet when he hands the phone over, he refers to Peter by his call sign Yankee, which I'd like to think is a little subtle. You know, this is just something that we're doing right now, but we need to treat it like it's a mission. [00:28:23] Speaker A: I think that's what he's. I think that's what he's doing. [00:28:24] Speaker B: It's a nice little. It's a nice little subtle. Subtle. Take the phone. Fucking. You should probably answer it if it goes off. [00:28:31] Speaker A: Yeah. And this might be more than it seems. Yeah. [00:28:34] Speaker B: Yeah. Which is, you know, kind of what they've been talking about the whole time. Then we cut back to Quinlan, who's walking up the alley. The. Oh, man, that is a. [00:28:46] Speaker A: They have an alien sports bar. Yeah, that sounds like a cool bar to go to. [00:28:54] Speaker B: I love these neon signs. I wish there were more neon signs now. [00:28:59] Speaker A: Yeah, that's cool. [00:29:01] Speaker B: Neon sign supremacy. Absolutely. Quinlan's calling Reese's phone. And Peter's like, oh, what? This phone's going off. Quinlan's calling. It'd be rude to answer. It's like he didn't get the memo, Johnny. He didn't get the Yankee memo. Yeah. [00:29:22] Speaker A: He's like, you gotta answer the phone. [00:29:24] Speaker B: He's probably still a little whoppity jod from the blackout. [00:29:27] Speaker A: Yeah. Punching that ghost. Piss off, ghost. [00:29:30] Speaker B: Piss off, ghost. He's freaking gone. [00:29:34] Speaker A: We got the opening quote here. [00:29:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Peter makes the mistake of engaging with the disgruntled person in the waiting room. [00:29:41] Speaker A: Yeah. It's like, no thinking. [00:29:43] Speaker B: He's gonna. You know, that they're gonna get somewhere with a dialogue. And then it's just like, oh, oh, no, now I'm just getting yelled at. [00:29:51] Speaker A: Yeah. He says, the demon's coming for us. There are no angels behind the doors. [00:29:57] Speaker B: This dude's looking rough. He's not had a good time since that appearance of old Albert Simmons. [00:30:05] Speaker A: No, he did not enjoy that. [00:30:07] Speaker B: We follow that. That statement and go on the other side of the doors. [00:30:11] Speaker A: Yeah, there are no angels. There's just some doctors. [00:30:15] Speaker B: Yeah, some doctors and a man with cybernetic hands. You know, Reese is asking where Ammon went. And doctor Bose is like, yeah, ammon's not here anymore. He didn't believe in the vision. And that's. That's something you want to hear when you go to see a doctor. [00:30:33] Speaker A: Yeah, like, where's my normal nice doctor? He believe in our vision. Oh, oh, oh. [00:30:39] Speaker B: Why am I here, then? So Rhys is just like, oh, I thought it was just an upgrade. And they're like, yeah, now hold on. I'm just sedating you. [00:30:45] Speaker A: We're gonna sedate you real quick. [00:30:47] Speaker B: And then Doctor Bose is like, get him prepped. I want his hands on my table now. And then Quinlan's leaving message after message while Reese is on the operating table. And they take his hands. They took his hands, Jim. [00:30:59] Speaker A: They look like big, good, strong hands, don't they? [00:31:08] Speaker B: They take his hands. They take a blood sample. They test the nanites from the blood. Then doctor Bose calls for some nanites to be removed from the hands so they can compare them. And then as that's happening, Rhys has an awakening. Jenny. Yeah, he's Kate Chopin's the awakening. Right now he's got his. His necroplasmic x on his face. Because it's not. It's not the full eyes yet in this panel. It just looks like an x. Yeah, it's kind of. [00:31:41] Speaker A: It's, like, growing. [00:31:42] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got. [00:31:44] Speaker A: And he's growing. [00:31:45] Speaker B: Yeah. And then on the next. Yeah, he looks a little bigger. [00:31:49] Speaker A: Yeah, he looks a little bigger. [00:31:51] Speaker B: And then on the next page, he's got full blown spawn eye, spawn mask. Mask. Kind of like a raccoon only spawn. Kind of, kind of. And so he's just going crazy with his no hands. And he's just like, ah, raging. Doctor Bose is freaking out. His assistant's like, we need security. And then Peter's back in the waiting rooms being like, why is it taking so long? And then he sees some guys go by, like. [00:32:24] Speaker A: Guns. Yeah. [00:32:25] Speaker B: And he's like, that's not good. And then he starts to spawn out, gets the word bubble. And the green eyes, he's like, I'm talking to you. Answer me, dammit. They. They leave the waiting room. They leave Peter. And this guy in the waiting room, and Peter starts banging on the door. As he's banging, his hand starts to change into the Alseman spawn hand. [00:32:48] Speaker A: The spawn hand. [00:32:50] Speaker B: The. The dude in the waiting room is just freaking the fuck out, man. [00:32:54] Speaker A: Yeah. He's like, aha. I was right. [00:32:55] Speaker B: He's not having. He's not having a good day. It's never a good day to be at the doctor, but he is definitely having a terrible day. Then we cut back into the operating room, and, you know, it's not the first time Reese has had guns drawn on him, Johnny. Or even the first time someone saw him as a monster. [00:33:15] Speaker A: So he didn't. He doesn't care. He's like, all right, bring it. [00:33:18] Speaker B: Yeah, he's, uh. And doctor Bose is trying to, you. [00:33:23] Speaker A: Know, kind of calm him down. [00:33:26] Speaker B: Calm. Calm down? Not so much calm down, Rhys, as calm down the security guards. He refers to him as a specimen and a deviant. And, oh, boy, we know where his heart lies. Then one of the. One of the security guys has a little. Gets easily spooked and starts shooting away. So Reese, like, Kool aid mans out into the waiting room where. Oh, yeah, where Peter is thrown around anything that's not nailed down properly, basically. And while when Reese, Kool aid man's through the door, he throws Peter out. [00:34:08] Speaker A: Of the way, just, boom, bashes him. Peter gets hit against the wall, falls. [00:34:15] Speaker B: Down, and then Reese, through his necroplasmic rage, is just like, oh, shit, what have I done? Pete. My buddy Pete. And then gets, pew. Right through the heart. [00:34:27] Speaker A: She shows a moment of humanity and just gets shot for it. [00:34:33] Speaker B: How dare. How dare they? [00:34:35] Speaker A: Those are cool, crazy guns, though. [00:34:37] Speaker B: They are. They are awesome. They are future laser gun type things. Very cool. [00:34:42] Speaker A: I love all the neon pink that they use in this. [00:34:45] Speaker B: Yeah. The garish colors. There's so many garish colors that shouldn't work together, but they do. [00:34:52] Speaker A: Yeah. Z. Carlos and J. David Ramos are really kicking. [00:34:57] Speaker B: These pages should be much harder to look at than they are with the amount of neon happening. [00:35:05] Speaker A: No, they're very. It's great art. The colors are just pop. [00:35:09] Speaker B: And Peter's upset, and Reese's dying words says, find Quinlan. They can help. Or at least it seems like dying words. It might not be dying words. [00:35:22] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know. We'll see. I think he might be dead too. [00:35:25] Speaker B: And this whole time, Peter's slowly. Slowly becoming more and more spawny. [00:35:32] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like it's growing. It's growing. [00:35:35] Speaker B: And then our poor other dude from the waiting room was just like it's you. You're the demon. [00:35:41] Speaker A: He's justified. [00:35:43] Speaker B: And we get Peter Cairn in his full cyberpunk spawn regalia. [00:35:51] Speaker A: Now you're gonna pay. Yeah, he looks pretty badass. [00:35:54] Speaker B: It is incredible. I am very excited to see more adventures of cyberpunk spunk suit. [00:36:02] Speaker A: Yeah, we would have been. We would have by now, but there was some image distribution issue. [00:36:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:08] Speaker A: And we knew we're not gonna get our books still today. [00:36:11] Speaker B: Today that time stamps, when we're recording this. So. [00:36:15] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. I guess there was some image issue with, like, ten or so titles where they didn't get them, at least in the Chicago area, maybe all over. [00:36:24] Speaker B: I've mentioned it before, the logistics of the comic book business. It's like an oobleet. I don't understand what it's doing. Terrible black ooblet. [00:36:36] Speaker A: No, I can't imagine. I can't imagine trying to figure out where you're shipping all those things and all that. Like, that seems insane. [00:36:41] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely insane. I have a hard enough time trying to carry stuff from one building to another and having it to the right spot, so. [00:36:48] Speaker A: Right. And on the same day and, like, it's just like, wild. [00:36:52] Speaker B: Everybody who works in logistics needs to be paid more. Absolutely. From the people who drive the trucks to the people who direct the packages to basically everybody but the corporate people who do fucking nothing and get all the money. [00:37:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:08] Speaker B: All of the actual boots on the ground people. They need to be making more money. That shit makes no sense. And they make it work. It's wild. Wild. [00:37:16] Speaker A: Like, I just. I'm thinking about how. I just don't know how that would work. It's like shipping them all over the country every week. That just seems like so much. [00:37:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Then you have to. You have to coordinate because I'm sure they're not all printed at one printer. I'm sure they're probably printed at least too. So that way you don't have to ship stuff from one coast to the other coast. [00:37:37] Speaker A: True. [00:37:38] Speaker B: Like, I have a friend who, who worked at factory printing magazines in Stillwater when we were in college, and they locally printed all of the national magazines for that region. So that's got to happen for comic books too. [00:37:57] Speaker A: Yeah, I would imagine so. So we get the skull at the end and then a preview of the spinoffs or just like a little ad for the spin offs. [00:38:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:07] Speaker A: New generation. [00:38:07] Speaker B: New generation, new stories, new. [00:38:09] Speaker A: You coming to a comic shop near you. [00:38:12] Speaker B: I really wish they. [00:38:13] Speaker A: Misery. [00:38:14] Speaker B: I really wish they had asked if you needed more. You do you need more? [00:38:19] Speaker A: You? Then come to the new you. [00:38:22] Speaker B: I'm gonna have to start referring to when I read anything in spawn as my. It's. It's my you time. I take. I'm taking a little you time for me time. My me time is you time. [00:38:35] Speaker A: My me time is the new u time. And then we get a miserable origins collection, volume one. Only 9.99. [00:38:42] Speaker B: Did misery come out last week, Johnny? [00:38:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:44] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I did. I wasn't at the shop last week, so. Yeah, I'm behind. I'm behind. I'm so behind, Johnny. [00:38:51] Speaker A: I read misery. It was good. [00:38:52] Speaker B: Nice. Misery. Did you ever watch those old videos like Strindberg and Misery? I don't know. It was an animated series of flash animated videos where it was all of, like, the tortured. The tortured playwrights talking about the bleak world and their I. Their outlook and everything being dark, and the misery was their only friend. And so there's a little bitty pink animated puffball called Misery who just goes, misery. [00:39:32] Speaker A: I kind of remember something like that. Or someone I either knew, someone that quoted that or had seen it, maybe. [00:39:39] Speaker B: Probably me, because I've quoted it a lot. But it's funny. It's funny. [00:39:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:45] Speaker B: If you're out there and you want a fun little theater joke, Strindberg and Misery get there. Go do it. Listen to the happiness it brings me. Misery. [00:39:58] Speaker A: Misery. Then we get an ad for image classics. [00:40:03] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:40:05] Speaker A: And the fallout toys. [00:40:06] Speaker B: The movie maniacs. Johnny, that's not a movie. That's a television show. [00:40:10] Speaker A: That's a television show. That's a streaming show. I'm gonna be a maniac for the logistics of the semantics of this toy line. It's a tv show based on a video game. There's no movie about it. [00:40:25] Speaker B: Yeah, it's basically got every. Every bit of media butt movie. [00:40:31] Speaker A: Yeah, the figures look pretty cool. You got the ghoul. You got Lucy and Titus. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. Titus is his name. Maximus. He pretends to be Knight Titus, but his name is Maximus. [00:40:48] Speaker B: Okay. That's. I couldn't remember what his name was and what the knight's name was. Yeah. Spoilers for Fallout. If you haven't seen it yet, but if you haven't seen Fallout yet, go watch it. It's a good show. [00:40:58] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a lot of fun. [00:41:00] Speaker B: It's basically an eight hour movie. So I guess in that way, it would classify for movie maniacs. [00:41:06] Speaker A: But, yeah, it is like an eight hour movie, but it has really good production value. [00:41:12] Speaker B: It's several times, you think you've figured out what's going on, and then it changes it on you. I love it when that happens. [00:41:20] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I really enjoyed it. And it just looks so good. And I guess I'm comparing. I don't want to step in any political waters here, but the acolyte looks kind of cheap compared to, like, Fallout. I don't know. [00:41:35] Speaker B: It looks. It looks on par with recent Star wars. [00:41:40] Speaker A: Yeah, cheap. No, I'm kidding. I don't know. It just looks. I don't know. It looks very seti. I don't know. [00:41:46] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. It's very set. [00:41:48] Speaker A: Heavy. It is very close to. That's what I mean. It's like, there's not really a lot of, like, grandiose stuff. [00:41:55] Speaker B: I very much like that they are focusing on the sets instead of the ball that they used for the Mandalorian. [00:42:03] Speaker A: Right. Cause the Mandalorian, I feel like, has no sets. It's just like an x wing in the middle of the field and there's like, they're in the volume or whatever. [00:42:10] Speaker B: Yeah. So I very much appreciate that they're focusing on building sets and being in sets instead of just being like, well, here's some stuff in the front and the back of. It's just gonna be Cgi'd. Even watching the acolytehe haven't watched the newest episode, but I've seen the first four. [00:42:27] Speaker A: Yeah, me too. [00:42:28] Speaker B: And spoiler alert, johnny. I like it. [00:42:33] Speaker A: It's pretty fun. [00:42:34] Speaker B: Or hot take. Hot take's what I meant. Not spoiler, hot take. I like it. [00:42:38] Speaker A: But Chiari Modi is only 50 years old. What the fuck? Did you hear about that controversy? [00:42:45] Speaker B: I have heard a little bit of it, but like most things Star wars on the Internet, I've just fucking ignored it because I am a Star wars pologist. I love it. [00:42:56] Speaker A: Yeah, me too. [00:42:56] Speaker B: It's good shit. Even when it's bad, I don't fucking care. [00:43:00] Speaker A: It's like pizza. [00:43:02] Speaker B: If I let the Internet discourse on Star wars affect my feelings toward it, then I would never have liked Star wars because I would have hated Return of the Jedi. And as we all know, since Return of the Jedi was the newest Star wars, it was my favorite when I was young. [00:43:20] Speaker A: Newest is best. I feel like that's what I watched the most as a little kid. For sure. I liked all the creatures. [00:43:26] Speaker B: I had this. It's weird now that I'm a person who doesn't rewatch things, but I had this thing where if I wanted to watch Return of the Jedi, I couldn't just watch Return of the Jedi. I had to watch all three of them in a row first. So I basically just, like, once a month or so, watched all three of them just so I could watch Return of the Jedi. [00:43:45] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:43:46] Speaker B: Because it never occurred to me to just watch Return of the Jedi. I was like, no, I have to. I have to earn getting to my favorite. [00:43:53] Speaker A: It's so funny because when I was a kid, it's probably my favorite now, but when I was a kid, like, I thought Empire strikes back was, like, the boring one. It's just more serious. It's just a little more adult. [00:44:03] Speaker B: It's much more serious. It's also where a lot of the things, like, a lot of the things that we think of as Star wars, like, started, because it's very weird to go back to the first one, and they're not being an imperial march. Darth Vader doesn't have his Darth Vader music, and it's like, wait, wait. And it's like, oh, that was an empire thing. [00:44:22] Speaker A: No. Yeah, it definitely cemented it. [00:44:25] Speaker B: But I like that the acolyte is showing the Jedi as how most people would have viewed them in that time, because we know that the public lost their zeal, their, you know, giving a shit about the Jedi long ago. [00:44:45] Speaker A: Right. [00:44:45] Speaker B: And the acolyte is showing us why people just don't give a shit about the Jedi. Why, when the Jedi temple fell, that wasn't. That was. Nobody gave a shit because they were all jerks. [00:44:56] Speaker A: Yeah, the Jedi were. We, like, I think the prequels tried to say that it's just. It wasn't handled well, but it puts them up as. I mean, the Jedi are foul. I mean, that's kind of the point of prequels is they're, like, completely blind to Palpatine. [00:45:11] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. To put it in terms of between the wars metaphor, Johnny. They were the isolationists who were trying to keep America from paying attention to wars in any other part of the world until that war came to Pearl harbor. Isolationism is never a good policy. [00:45:37] Speaker A: Doesn't work. [00:45:38] Speaker B: It doesn't work. [00:45:40] Speaker A: It's gonna. [00:45:41] Speaker B: Everything is connected. You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps. That's a fucking joke. It's a joke. You can't do it. Everything is connected to everything else. Sorry. Rant over. [00:45:53] Speaker A: Rant over. Anyway, rat city number two, overdose. [00:45:58] Speaker B: I wish it weren't. I wish it were ongoing. [00:46:02] Speaker A: Well, we'll find out later today. I'll get to read rat city number three. [00:46:05] Speaker B: So ladee I have to wait till tomorrow. [00:46:08] Speaker A: Well, hoopy doo, look at, look at. [00:46:10] Speaker B: Mister Big gets to go to the. Not have to wait around for an h vac guy all day. [00:46:33] Speaker A: Next up, it's time to crack the case. [00:46:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:37] Speaker A: Cause we got a salmon twitch case files. [00:46:39] Speaker B: Yes, we do. It's time to crack the files. [00:46:44] Speaker A: So I have the a cover, and it's like a kind of a Norman Rockwell esque painting. [00:46:49] Speaker B: I love this cover. Yeah, I know. It's the one I've got, obviously by Robek. What's the first name? Fatty Robec. I always talk about how I'm lucky in that my shop orders all the covers. But I don't have a specific one for them to pull. So they almost always pull a. And if that's not the one I wanted, I just go to the shelf and switch it out. But, man, when they handed this one to me, and I was like, I am so glad that you guys put the right cover in there. Because I was going to be upset if you even thought that any other cover could be acceptable for this issue of Sam and twitch. [00:47:27] Speaker A: Yeah, and I love that he's standing on number two and looking at number three. Because we're in issue number two. [00:47:34] Speaker B: Meta. [00:47:35] Speaker A: Meta. Yeah, it's like a Norman Rockwell type thing with, like, them looking at some blood splatter. It's pretty cool. [00:47:41] Speaker B: Yeah, it's great. It's absolutely wonderful. It's classic. Capital C. Classic. [00:47:48] Speaker A: Yeah, I definitely like it. There's a b cover as well by. [00:47:56] Speaker B: Mirko Kolak, which is also very good. [00:48:00] Speaker A: But it's pretty badass. Yeah. [00:48:04] Speaker B: It matches the tone of the story much better than the robec one. Because the Robek one's got that. It's got a lightness to it. But this, this B cover, this colac cover, it is dark as fuck. [00:48:22] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like you got the bridge in the background. What bridge is that? [00:48:28] Speaker B: Is that the GWB? Cause the George Washington Bridge is the one that's all metal. [00:48:35] Speaker A: Yeah, that's gotta be the GWB. And they're like, in front of the, there's like a sunset, or it's dusk, or it might be early in the morning, but I imagine it's dusk. [00:48:45] Speaker B: Yeah, I would assume it's late because, you know, crime doesn't wake up early. No, crime sleeps in. And it's got, you know, Sam and Twitch are on the case. You know, they're on the case, but they're, they're out in the field and they got their guns drawn and they're all in shadow. Yeah, they're. They're not. They're not made up nice and neat. They're just out there doing it. Cool. It's. It's also a good cover, but do. [00:49:19] Speaker A: You want a Coca Cola commercial as I pour my drink? [00:49:23] Speaker B: Oh, this is that refreshing beverage the zoom actually is. Cropped it out. So what? I guess. I guess that's part of the technology. [00:49:34] Speaker A: Crop out the soda pour. [00:49:36] Speaker B: Oh. I mean, I wouldn't mind taking some coke money. Drink coke. [00:49:42] Speaker A: Yeah. Hey, it's not even a coke, though. I was pouring them out in dew. [00:49:46] Speaker B: They don't know that, Johnny. [00:49:47] Speaker A: Oh, shit. [00:49:48] Speaker B: Well, maybe we could get some of that Baja blast money. [00:49:50] Speaker A: I mean, spawn likes green. [00:49:52] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, that's. That's true. It could be. That could be our necro cooler, Johnny. [00:49:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Get one of those cool Mountain Dew flavors. [00:50:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:50:02] Speaker A: So Mountain Dew is good. Crack it open. Crack it open. This case file. Dig it into the case here. [00:50:08] Speaker B: Yeah, we got the. We got the credits with the script plot by Todd McFarlane and co plot by John Gough. So Mister Goff, he's back. Art by Simon Kudoransky. Colors by FCO Placencia and Sheila Saldana. Sheila does the color flats. So that's. [00:50:30] Speaker A: What does that mean? Do you know? [00:50:33] Speaker B: We talked about this before, and I really don't know. I don't know if it's just, like, the base color without shading and tones or what. [00:50:43] Speaker A: Okay. [00:50:44] Speaker B: I really don't know. I could probably google it, but. Lettering by tormore. Tom Orzakowski. We covered the covers. Creative director Todd McFarlane, editor in chief. Thomas Healy. Editor in chief and proprietor of hotel. [00:51:03] Speaker A: Yes, hotel proprietor in this issue. [00:51:06] Speaker B: And there is no. Previously on Jeremy. [00:51:10] Speaker A: No, you gotta read it. So we open in New York in front of a brownstone. [00:51:15] Speaker B: It says last night, and it's, like. [00:51:18] Speaker A: Flashing between two different. [00:51:23] Speaker B: It's flashing. Yeah. Two different timelines, but three different. Three different things. So there's the front door of the brownstone, a shop, and somebody driving a car. [00:51:35] Speaker A: Yeah. And someone's shopping. They get some fruit, get some wine. [00:51:43] Speaker B: They go to the book, and the person's. [00:51:46] Speaker A: And then you get someone driving. [00:51:47] Speaker B: Yeah. We see driving from New York to Plainfield, Indiana. [00:51:52] Speaker A: Yes. Then we cut full scene back to the last night part. [00:51:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:58] Speaker A: And we find out the person that was shopping was Sam. [00:52:02] Speaker B: Yeah. I like how Twitch's daughter is just like, it's Sam. And it walks away. [00:52:07] Speaker A: Walks away on her phone. [00:52:08] Speaker B: Probably playing an app game. [00:52:09] Speaker A: You play one of those? Yeah. Sam looks so defeated and sad. [00:52:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:17] Speaker A: And he's at Twitch's house. [00:52:19] Speaker B: Yeah, he's at Twitch's house. So we meet Helen again for the first time in a long time. [00:52:23] Speaker A: Yep. [00:52:24] Speaker B: Helen. And so Sam walks in to go talk to Twitch, and he's like, oh, wait, Helen, I forgot. I got these for you. And he got some flowers and some wine. And then Twitch is just like, ugh, I thought I heard your voice. [00:52:39] Speaker A: What's up? [00:52:40] Speaker B: What's up? Then Helen walks, like, ten steps away to the kitchen and is like, I'll leave you boys to it, but continues to eavesdrop. The very first thing is, Sam is like, oh, I forgot. I brought you this book. [00:52:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:52:59] Speaker B: That'S a massive book to just get. Just flop on somebody. [00:53:03] Speaker A: Yeah, he's got some warm, warm peace. Like, here you go. [00:53:06] Speaker B: I mean, I guess technically thematic, but, I mean, they literally made a whole ass musical off of just, like, a 60 page passage of this fucking book, so. And Twitch is just like a book. Sam, you mess with my family. This affects more than you. Basically, Sam. Twitch has given Sam that everything is connected speech. [00:53:26] Speaker A: Yeah, because he's suspended without pay, so it's gonna fuck off his family life. He's got a nice ass brownstone he's gotta pay a mortgage on. [00:53:35] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a nice size brownstone. That can't be cheap. [00:53:40] Speaker A: Nope. [00:53:41] Speaker B: And as we know, four kids. Four kids. [00:53:44] Speaker A: Four kids on a police salary. [00:53:47] Speaker B: Yeah, pretty impressive. Sam's trying to quibble his way out of it, you know, being like, yeah, but I did this. I tried to keep you out of it. I did this, and I did this. You know, it's working on Twitch because, you know, Sam and Twitch, they work together. And so Twitch is like, yeah, okay, I get it. And Helen is just like, nah, nope. [00:54:09] Speaker A: She'S not having it. [00:54:10] Speaker B: Twitch. She's like, twitch, shut up, Sam. You're a dick. She's like, take your wine and get the fuck out of my house. [00:54:20] Speaker A: You can't take it. You want to burn your career? Have at it. Just leave my husband out of it. And Sam gets kicked out, and then we kind of lose track of him for the rest of the issue. [00:54:28] Speaker B: Yeah, then we've got a nice two page spread of twitch driving to Plainfield, Indiana, and a little twitch being like, helen, was that necessary? And then Helen being like, twitch, you motherfucker. Here's something you need to hear. [00:54:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:54:44] Speaker B: She's like, you've got a family, a wife. Even though you spend more time with Sam than any of us. Why didn't you just marry fun little bit of Todd father. [00:54:55] Speaker A: Whoa. [00:54:56] Speaker B: If you love him so much, why'd you just marry him? Oh, boy. [00:55:01] Speaker A: Someone's calling Twitch, too. While he's driving? [00:55:03] Speaker B: Yeah, you know, Twitch is a consummate driver. So he's not answering the phone while he's on the. [00:55:09] Speaker A: No. [00:55:10] Speaker B: While he's driving. No, he knows better to. He knows better. And the welcome to Plainfield, Indiana sign says population 23 5706. But the sixes crashed out and replaced with a one. [00:55:23] Speaker A: With a one. [00:55:25] Speaker B: In classic horror movie fashion. [00:55:27] Speaker A: Yes. You got to do it. It's like, okay, I got to go change the sign. [00:55:34] Speaker B: Wasn't there an episode of the Simpsons where there's a dude, an old guy, who sits next to the welcome sign, and it's his job to add one when somebody comes into town and then remove it? [00:55:45] Speaker A: That sounds like somebody leaves. Yeah, I'm not sure. [00:55:51] Speaker B: Hilarious. [00:55:52] Speaker A: Yeah. Sam's or twitch or Max. I guess we call him Max now. Everyone's calling him Max in this issue. [00:55:57] Speaker B: Max. [00:55:58] Speaker A: His real first name, man. [00:56:00] Speaker B: His government name. [00:56:02] Speaker A: His government name. But he's. He's in Plainfield, Indiana, which is probably a long drive. [00:56:09] Speaker B: Yeah, a couple hours at least. I wish they gave us a little. They do a lot of photo realistic placing of images in the text, and I was hoping that they would have, like, a little meter of how far away it is on the map, but now they don't. [00:56:26] Speaker A: Sad Sam's just casing the town. He sees, like, a unhoused gentleman holding a help sign. She's a freaky baby. [00:56:37] Speaker B: Ha. He drives up to the police. To the police station, and is like, man, this is silly. Why am I so nervous? And then starts rubbing his jaw. I don't know if that's. [00:56:50] Speaker A: He's got a tooth pain. [00:56:51] Speaker B: We've never. We've never. I don't think we've ever seen any twitchiness. In twitch. There's a twitch, and it's, uh. He's never had any sort of things that I've noticed before. [00:57:08] Speaker A: Yeah, but. [00:57:09] Speaker B: So he starts walking into the police station. There's two cops walking out, and they're having a conversation, and one of them was just like, hold on a second. It reaches for his gun and turns around and is like, hey, can I help you? [00:57:21] Speaker A: I'm just gonna grab my gun first. [00:57:24] Speaker B: Like, hey, bud, need help with something? And then they find out that this is. This is Max. This is Max that Detective Tressel has been talking about. [00:57:31] Speaker A: His buddy from New York. Yeah, New York City. [00:57:35] Speaker B: New York City. They just. They just barge in on Jim Trestle's office. They're like, you know what? I don't fucking care if he's busy. [00:57:43] Speaker A: We're going to go in there. He's looking for you. [00:57:45] Speaker B: Yeah. So they were at the academy together, you know, talking about. Talking about some stuff. Talking about their lives outside of police work. Jim Trestle, guys like, looks like New York's been good to you. How many kids you got? And twitch is like, well, we had five. Jim's like, four of them. Holy shit. Just like steamrollers over. We had five. [00:58:09] Speaker A: Yeah, this song got lost to vampirism. [00:58:12] Speaker B: They keep commiserating. Jim walks him outside and he's like, I'm gonna take him to the Fairfax, the fair mount. Give him the lay of the land. Come pick me up there. So we learned that Jim Tressel and his wife moved to Plainfield from Houston. [00:58:29] Speaker A: I spent a lot of time in Houston. My brother lives outside of Houston now. [00:58:33] Speaker B: I've spent no time in Houston. [00:58:35] Speaker A: Really? [00:58:36] Speaker B: Really? [00:58:36] Speaker A: My dad lived there when I was a kid for a little bit, so we would go visit. [00:58:40] Speaker B: Nice. [00:58:41] Speaker A: It's very humid. I remember that because I remember we drew him like, magic marker drawings and they would, like, melt in the humidity. [00:58:49] Speaker B: Oh, jeeze. [00:58:50] Speaker A: That. It would just run. [00:58:53] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's also very close to New Orleans. So got that, got that very swampy. [00:59:01] Speaker A: I mean, it flooded. [00:59:03] Speaker B: Oh, man. My. Apparently my dad's hometown in Cherokee, Iowa, just flooded. [00:59:08] Speaker A: Oh, really? [00:59:09] Speaker B: Like, waters up to 33ft deep. [00:59:12] Speaker A: Holy shit. [00:59:13] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. That's deep shit. [00:59:16] Speaker A: That's deep shit. [00:59:17] Speaker B: That's deep shit. Insane tiny ass town in Iowa. But yeah. So I guess the implication is that Jim moved to Plainfield because there was a detective position available for him there, which. It's reasonable. [00:59:33] Speaker A: Sure. [00:59:35] Speaker B: You know, Jim gives a little bit of background on what they're working on to twitch as they're driving across town to the hotel. And, you know, as they're going, twitch keeps just checking out everything to try to make sure. [00:59:51] Speaker A: Yeah, he's just, he's what they see detectiving. [00:59:54] Speaker B: Yeah, they drive. They drive past the unhomed men again. And Jim's just like, staring him down as they drive by. Not getting. Not getting a real good feeling from these Plainfield cops, Johnny. [01:00:06] Speaker A: Not really. [01:00:07] Speaker B: Not really. [01:00:08] Speaker A: Especially by the end of the issue. [01:00:09] Speaker B: Yeah, I like that. We, we drive by this. They drive by this one abandoned storefront and there's a tag on it that says sin. I kind of wish that they had put an extra in on it. [01:00:21] Speaker A: Yeah, I know, but you know, what. [01:00:24] Speaker B: Are you gonna do about it? [01:00:25] Speaker A: And the victims haven't been identified yet. They're running it with missing persons, basically. And this is the case. The dead people at the end of last issue, obviously. [01:00:37] Speaker B: Yeah. The multiple. Multiple dead bodies. [01:00:40] Speaker A: Yeah. And then they go to Healy's hideaway. [01:00:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:44] Speaker A: Thomas Healey gets a little shout out. That's pretty cool. [01:00:47] Speaker B: It's pretty funny. And then so Jim's like, okay, we'll get settled in. We'll meet up for breakfast tomorrow, and I'll try to get you all the information we can so you can look over the case files and stuff. Twitch is like, cool. Awesome. This sounds like fun. [01:01:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:01:02] Speaker B: Twitch goes in. Jim says they got the best pancakes. Pretty good. That's good knowledge to know. I love a pancake. [01:01:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:01:09] Speaker B: Twitch is. Meets the lady at the desk. [01:01:12] Speaker A: She says, I hope you enjoy. Glad you're staying with us. [01:01:16] Speaker B: There's a little bit of vacation here for twitch that he's away from everything. And sometimes you just got to get away from it all, Johnny. [01:01:24] Speaker A: You know, sometimes you gotta go to Plainfield, Indiana. [01:01:26] Speaker B: Yeah, last time I was in Indiana. [01:01:28] Speaker A: I bought that big box of spawn stuff. [01:01:30] Speaker B: Oh, hell, yeah. Last time I was in Indiana, I went to a convention and parked in a parking garage that, like. I have no idea how normal people park in and out of that parking garage because there was, like, that much clearance on the top of every car. [01:01:48] Speaker A: Oh, really? [01:01:50] Speaker B: It was crazy. It was crazy. [01:01:53] Speaker A: And then we cut back to the cops, who are doing some acting a little suspicious. [01:01:57] Speaker B: Yeah. They pull over, they find the unhumed man, like, hey, hey, buddy. Hey, get in this car. Get in this car. There's a. Here's. Here's where I get a little bit of confliction, because there's like, hey, let's. Let's give you a lift to someplace. We don't have to hassle you. So I don't know if. So. Obviously, some police are behind whatever wackiness is going on here. Obviously. That's. That's what I'm guessing is going on. [01:02:26] Speaker A: Yeah. I do this guy. Yeah. [01:02:29] Speaker B: I do not know if Jim is a part of whatever police involved wackiness is going on in this town. [01:02:36] Speaker A: Right. [01:02:36] Speaker B: So I can't say so much about what they're doing. [01:02:39] Speaker A: They dropped this guy off in these cornfields where they. Where he eventually, as we find the next few pages, gets abducted, basically. I mean, not abducted. He, like, voluntarily goes to the van. But it's just very ominous. [01:02:52] Speaker B: Although. Although, reading through it now, I think Jim is very much involved in it. Because he's asking all these questions, basically to determine if anybody's gonna fucking miss him. [01:03:00] Speaker A: Right. [01:03:01] Speaker B: And there's nobody. So Jim's a bad guy. [01:03:04] Speaker A: I think they're all bad. Yeah, bad. [01:03:05] Speaker B: Cause I think Twitch is definitely guessing at that on the drive over. [01:03:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:03:13] Speaker B: Cause he's clocking everything. He's clocking. Okay. So I retract my earlier statement. Jim is definitely involved in whatever this garbage is. [01:03:20] Speaker A: Yeah, I think so. [01:03:21] Speaker B: But they drop him off in the middle of a cornfield, and they're like, is here okay? [01:03:25] Speaker A: Yeah. Half of your $40. Good luck getting a hot meal out there. [01:03:29] Speaker B: Yeah. And then hours later, he's still in the same cornfield. Cause they dropped him off at a fucking cornfield. Shits are like mazes. He gets blinded by this panel van that pulls up like, hey, mister, you need a ride? [01:03:44] Speaker A: And pop the door open. [01:03:46] Speaker B: And they're like, where you going? And he says, I'm going to Indianapolis. So he gets in the van, they close the door, and then we get a blam. Then nothing. [01:03:54] Speaker A: A gunshot. [01:03:55] Speaker B: I'm thinking it's gotta be because with the light, it's gotta be a gunshot. [01:03:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:04:00] Speaker B: Then all is quiet in the black. [01:04:01] Speaker A: Van front and ominously drives away. And that's the end of the issue. [01:04:06] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the end of the issue. [01:04:09] Speaker A: Just a nice little intro to the town and some questions about these questionable cops. [01:04:15] Speaker B: Yeah, more questions. More questions each time I read it, Johnny. [01:04:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:04:20] Speaker B: Cause, like, the first time through, I was like, these cops are obviously in on it. The second time through, I was like, okay, obviously half of these cops are in on it. And the third time through just now was like, oh, all of these cops are 100% all the way in. Yeah, but what. What are they doing? Why are they bringing in outside help if they're the ones that are doing it? I guess. I guess it's trying to find a way to weasel out of it. I don't know. It's very interesting. It's very interesting. [01:04:45] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm excited to see where it goes, but where it does go after this. And the issue is, we get an ad for more spawns universe titles. [01:04:51] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. The core. The core four. [01:04:55] Speaker A: Core four. That's what we'll call them from now on. [01:04:57] Speaker B: The core four sounds good to me. Core four. Stamp it, Johnny. It's a. It's a key piece of lore. [01:05:05] Speaker A: And then we get the image classics ad. [01:05:08] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. And our favorite, our toy favorite movie maniacs. [01:05:15] Speaker A: Everyone loves Sheldon as the flash we see him every week, and it's so great to see him. [01:05:20] Speaker B: I'm gonna be so sad when we no longer have to see him. [01:05:22] Speaker A: Anyway, I know. By that time, they'll have, like, fucking Chandler elder bing. They have, like, a Chandler bing figure. [01:05:29] Speaker B: You can get probably. I mean, topical. [01:05:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:05:34] Speaker B: Maybe a little late, but still. [01:05:35] Speaker A: Yeah, you never know. But that's Sam and twitch case files number two. [01:05:42] Speaker B: Yeah, it's pretty good. It's pretty good. [01:05:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:05:45] Speaker B: And, well, Johnny, I got a. I got a dog over here who keeps trying to look out the window and bark at another dog. [01:05:52] Speaker A: Uh oh. [01:05:53] Speaker B: So I think we need to rate him before he starts to. Before his star rating drops dramatically and he gets kicked off of Uber. [01:06:02] Speaker A: That means it's time to rate the puppies. So first up, we had rat city number two, our second issue in Rat City. I thought it was great. Continue the story. Well, very propulsive story. The art is super cool. I love all the colors and neon. It's just a great build up to, like, getting the first two issues. Such a great build up to getting that reveal of our cyberpunk spawn. I almost had steampunk spawn. [01:06:36] Speaker B: Steampunk. I mean, Spawn's big enough. Maybe. Maybe some of the tales of the gunslinger will be a little steam funky, a little wild wild west. [01:06:45] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:06:46] Speaker B: Pop roll into the wild, wild west. Maybe we'll get some Kevin Klein and Will Smith action going on. [01:06:55] Speaker A: They just show up in the background wearing sunglasses. Burger King sold sunglasses based off that movie you could buy, man. [01:07:02] Speaker B: Remember when movie tie in advertisement toys used to actually be worth a damn? [01:07:07] Speaker A: Yeah, and they have, like, the adult thing, like a watch or, like, a glass you could buy, but, yeah, I thought it was really fun issue. Like I said, I love the art. I love how this, like, they're slowly trickling in Spawn into this story, and it feels like there's this other story going on, and Spawn's, like, invading it. Yeah, I'm gonna give it five giant needles to the arm. Just like poor Owen got needled and sedated before he hulked out. [01:07:36] Speaker B: Yeah, sure. Didn't help. I'm. I agree, Johnny. The art is amazing. The story, really cool. [01:07:44] Speaker A: It's really good. [01:07:45] Speaker B: Is amazing. The fucking characters all amazing. The sort of best Godzilla movie treatment going on here, where it's basically like another story, and Spawn just crashes into it, kaiju style. Excellent. So fucking good. I love where it's going. I love where it's gone so far. I'm excited to see what happens next. Yes, I see no fault in it, Johnny. [01:08:14] Speaker A: No fault in the stock. [01:08:15] Speaker B: No fault at all. So I am also going to give it five. I'm going to give it five sticker covered poles. Over here on the street, it's just covered in stickers. [01:08:24] Speaker A: Is that a respawn sticker? [01:08:27] Speaker B: Unfortunately, nothing. [01:08:28] Speaker A: Hmm. [01:08:29] Speaker B: We gotta get one. There is a power fist. There's a sticker of an alien from the alien kissing booth. The alien kissing booth bar sticker on there, though. It looks like a blind skateboard company skull. [01:08:50] Speaker A: Okay. [01:08:51] Speaker B: Yeah. Five sticker covered poles in the future. Excellent. [01:08:54] Speaker A: Five sticker cover polls in the future out of five. [01:08:57] Speaker B: I think. I think that is emblematic of one of the things that I really love about this, that even though the art has everything, it's super shiny, it's super, super futuristic, it's future super colorful. It's clean for the most part, but then they're definitely just like, living in the shit part of it. There's, there's dirt everywhere. It's glorious. I love that. It's got that grit to it. [01:09:26] Speaker A: Yeah. So our second issue was Sam and Twitch case files. [01:09:30] Speaker B: Numero dos. [01:09:31] Speaker A: Numero dos. Just kind of setting up slow burn, setting up this mystery and getting twitch out in the wild. And Sam's not featured in a lot. He kind of leaves ducks out early. But we'll see. We'll catch up with him later. [01:09:45] Speaker B: I'm sure his brief moment in the issue is quite ignominious. [01:09:52] Speaker A: Yes. But I'm going to give it four Twitch's daughters on her cell phone. But I really do like this story. I think it's some of the toddfather's best writing in a while. Just really restrained. And I like the art. I just think it is, it's intriguing and it realistic, but, like, it's kind of surreal. Tells the story very well. Yeah, for Twitch's daughters on her phone. [01:10:21] Speaker B: Nice. [01:10:21] Speaker A: Had a vibe. [01:10:23] Speaker B: I agree. It is, like we've said before, the complete opposite end of the spectrum from Rat city. Yeah, it's, it's much more. And nothing is clean in here, so. [01:10:36] Speaker A: Right. [01:10:37] Speaker B: Even though, even. Even though we're living in the writ of a very clean and bright future in Rat City, everything in here makes you feel like you need to wash your hands. Every little bit of it. [01:10:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:10:50] Speaker B: Like, honestly, the only refuge from the dirt and the grunge is twitching Helen's brownstone, which gets sullied by the presence of Sam Burke in the first couple of pages. But, yeah, it is, it's great writing. I love seeing twitch just being able to do his thing because it's almost always in the background, and then he comes forward at the end, and then Sam's like, ha ha. And I helped, but this is just like watching the master do his thing. It's like going to artist Alley and watching one of the artists at the tables just doing their shit. It's just fascinating to watch. [01:11:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:11:35] Speaker B: I love it. It's good. I am gonna give it for. How the hell do you afford this? Brownstones out of five. [01:11:43] Speaker A: Yeah. How does he afford that with all those kids? [01:11:46] Speaker B: I don't know. That's a nice ass house. [01:11:48] Speaker A: It is. He's a lucky man, that twitch. [01:11:51] Speaker B: Yeah, he is. It's good. [01:11:52] Speaker A: And a great cover. It's got a great cover. The Norman Rockwell covers. [01:11:56] Speaker B: It's good shit, Johnny. The spawn. The spawn shit. It's good shit. I don't know if you know. [01:12:02] Speaker A: It is good shit, and it's inspiring other good shit, and we're finding out about this other good shit that it's inspiring. And so the person that inspired recently. [01:12:13] Speaker B: One of our friends on Instagram who has been recently inspired by Spawn is South Carolina. Hellspawn is a new spawn cosplayer popping up in, you know, South Carolina. And as I said earlier, not much of a difference between South Carolina and hell. So it's a perfect, perfect place to start. [01:12:36] Speaker A: You just mean weather wise. [01:12:37] Speaker B: Yeah, well, weather wise. Yeah, weather wise, mostly. [01:12:40] Speaker A: Don't make fun of where the man's from. [01:12:43] Speaker B: I'm not making fun of where the man's from. I'm just saying that if you live in. If you live and you could. You can survive South Carolina, hell will be no problem. Hell will probably be vacation. [01:12:56] Speaker A: Why do you hate South Carolina so much? [01:12:58] Speaker B: I just hate. I just hate hot, humid weather, Johnny. [01:13:01] Speaker A: Okay, so. [01:13:02] Speaker B: Ugh. Ugh. Swamplands. Fucking marsh. Yeah, he's got. He's got a great. He's got a great outfit. He's, uh. [01:13:10] Speaker A: Yeah, a lot of good pictures. He's gonna be. He's gonna be another con in September. So if you want to catch him, he'll be in Baltimore Comic Con. [01:13:16] Speaker B: Yeah. It's pretty awesome. So hell yeah, dude. We love your costume. It's great. Go follow him. South Carolina Hellspawn, give him a follow. [01:13:25] Speaker A: Great costume, buddy. While you're over there on Instagram following South Carolina Hellspawn, make sure to give us a follow. We are regarding spawnpod. Also make sure to give Brian a follow. He is Brian Voyls, 27. He does our music. So thank you so much for Brian, as always. [01:13:43] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. Thank you very much. [01:13:45] Speaker A: Yeah, we're over there on instagram. I said it out of order, but we're there regarding swampod, posting about episodes, posting about David putting comic books in churches, all kinds of funny stuff. [01:13:58] Speaker B: Update. That comic book is no longer in that church free little library. [01:14:02] Speaker A: Hey, someone took it. [01:14:03] Speaker B: And since. Since there has been no angry email in the. The inbox yet, I'm going to assume that it was taken by a young, impressionable child who wants to learn about them angles? [01:14:14] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [01:14:15] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. Very many people were like, well, why did you do that? And I was like, well, it was a book about angels. And they were like, oh, okay. Yeah, that's actually kind of funny. [01:14:23] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. [01:14:24] Speaker B: Like, people who have no allegiance to spawn whatsoever. It's hilarious. It's fun. It's fun. [01:14:31] Speaker A: Yeah. David, I'm getting a notification that my disk space is almost full, so we need to hurry up, so I'm not gonna have room for the episode. [01:14:38] Speaker B: All right, so. Awesome. Well, Johnny, I fucking love doing this. I could talk about spawn all day. What, do you want to do this again sometime soon? [01:14:47] Speaker A: Yeah, let's do it again. [01:14:48] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. What do you want to read for the next time we do this? [01:14:51] Speaker A: Well, we kind of caught up on. We're a little bit behind, so I say it's time to go back to some classics. [01:14:58] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:15:00] Speaker A: And so what we're gonna do next time is we're doing Spawn 23 and scorch 28. [01:15:07] Speaker B: Guess which one's the classic out of those two. Trick question. Both of them. [01:15:11] Speaker A: Both of them. One's a modern classic. [01:15:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Very excited to read some more old timey spawn. We've been inundated with all this new, glorious new you, Spawn. It'll be nice to go back to some of that unvarnished, unvarnished old, old. [01:15:31] Speaker A: Spawn and get to read some of the letters. That's always the most exciting part. Not the most exciting, but just I. [01:15:39] Speaker B: Don'T get the letters because I got to read it digitally. [01:15:41] Speaker A: Oh, you got to read it digitally? Well, I'll read the letters for you, and I want to know what they say. [01:15:45] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:15:46] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. So, yeah, check those out for next week, and that's what we'll be covering. [01:15:50] Speaker B: Indeed. And, you know, Johnny, I think people should, like us, rate us, and review us everywhere that they, like, rate, and review podcasts, don't you? [01:15:58] Speaker A: Yes. And subscribe. [01:16:00] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it would be hella nice if people also told their friends, family members, and coworkers about us. [01:16:06] Speaker A: Do it. Spread the word. Spread the spawn love. [01:16:09] Speaker B: I also think people should be sending us emails. They should send us angry emails about putting spawn in little free libraries, trying to convert the children to the hellspawn way of life by sending us [email protected]. dot. [01:16:23] Speaker A: We will read them on air, unless you don't want us to. And if you send us your address, we'll send you some respawn stickers. [01:16:29] Speaker B: Hell, yeah, we will. Everybody. Everybody who's getting those spawns out of those little libraries, they're getting a couple of stickers. [01:16:35] Speaker A: Hey. [01:16:35] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. So, Johnny, love the show. Love, spawn. Love all the spawnverts we got out there. We do. That just leaves me to say, Johnny, may the scorched be with you. [01:16:49] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:16:51] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:16:52] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. All right. Oh, man, my store. The reason we're rushing through this edge is because my storage is almost full. So if the episode just randomly cuts off, that means I'm out of storage. So hopefully that doesn't happen.