[00:00:00] Speaker A: Welcome, welcome, welcome to a very special episode of regarding Spawn. This week, we're bringing you audio from our Spawn 350 extravaganza Day at Challengers Comics and conversation in Chicago, Illinois. Me, my. Your co host, John Fisher's local comic book shop, David and I held an event there on February 21, the release day of Spawn 350, where we were giving out stickers, getting people subscribed to the podcast, and getting people to enter in a raffle for the bloody violator figure variant from GameStop that I got a few years ago and sat on my shelf. And I decided to use as a, you know, lure to get people to subscribe to the podcast.
We talked to friends, old and new. We talked to Pat, one of the owners of challengers, who is a very.
[00:00:44] Speaker B: Big highlight of the episode.
[00:00:46] Speaker A: We just had a great time, and we wanted to share it with you with our special audio of the day. So settle in and get ready.
Without further ado, I bring you the Challengers Day for Respawn podcast for Spawn 350 day. Roll the theme song, baby.
[00:01:36] Speaker B: Good evening and welcome. Good morning, and welcome to Challengers comics. We're here live now. I mean, we're gonna edit it, and you'll hear it later. But currently live at challengers, the release of Spawn 350.
[00:01:49] Speaker C: Spawn 350 day.
[00:01:50] Speaker B: Spawn 350 day. We're giving out stickers. We're giving out a violator, and we're recording.
[00:01:56] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:01:57] Speaker B: Our good friend and former guests and future guests and current kind of guests, I guess, is. Bran Warhead is here.
[00:02:04] Speaker E: Let's call me the third wheel.
[00:02:05] Speaker D: The third wheel.
[00:02:07] Speaker F: The third.
[00:02:09] Speaker C: Never the third wheel.
[00:02:10] Speaker B: The Terry Fitzgerald.
[00:02:11] Speaker E: Hey, if it's a tricycle, that's good.
[00:02:14] Speaker B: Beautiful. How's it going, man? You ready to get the new issue? You got it. Hell, yeah. I can't wait.
[00:02:19] Speaker D: Yeah. What's up?
[00:02:20] Speaker E: You should ask it on the microphone.
[00:02:22] Speaker B: Oh, we ask you a mic.
[00:02:23] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:02:23] Speaker B: Sweet.
[00:02:24] Speaker G: All right, so my question is, I guess, what is spot? Alison mins is, like, the guy.
[00:02:30] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:02:30] Speaker G: Og spawn.
[00:02:31] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:02:31] Speaker G: But is spawn like, hell Spawn? Kind of like a moniker, almost like ghostwriter in a sense. Like there's a Johnny Blaze, Ghost Rider. There's another guy. Ghost Rider.
[00:02:40] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:02:40] Speaker G: I'm picking this up to get into spawn, actually, from my brother, who picked up a coffee for. It's a perfect spot, perfect time with you guys.
[00:02:46] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:02:47] Speaker B: They said it's supposed to be a great jumping on point. So we were actually talking to Thomas Healy, who's the editor, and he said, I think that. Yeah, there's many sponsored history. I think it's like, every 80 years or so, but it's kind of like a funky number. Whatever they want to do. But, yeah, Al Simmons is kind of the main character. But there are, like. There's a western spawn. There's a whole bunch, and there's gonna be even more coming, so. Yeah, it's supposed to be a great jumping on point, so. Awesome.
[00:03:11] Speaker D: Cool.
[00:03:12] Speaker G: Oh, well, when I get more to spawn, I ask you guys more questions.
[00:03:15] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:03:15] Speaker B: You want to enter to win the violator figure? Yeah. All you have to do is just subscribe to the podcast or follow us on Instagram.
I don't know. What's. What's your instagram?
[00:03:28] Speaker C: It's your guarding spawn pod.
[00:03:30] Speaker F: I think it's my bojan again.
[00:03:33] Speaker C: I mean, love to see that.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
[00:03:39] Speaker H: Make sure that since you're talking about spawn today, you have.
[00:03:42] Speaker B: We have it now.
Yeah, that's us.
And just shoot us a DM, and we'll add it to the. For the. For the violator. Yeah.
Key of the week.
[00:03:59] Speaker A: New ruler of health.
[00:04:00] Speaker D: Yep.
[00:04:00] Speaker B: Can't wait to read it.
[00:04:03] Speaker C: I'm too excited.
[00:04:04] Speaker B: It's gonna be Sid jumping on point and just a lot of fun. So we're really pumped for it, but, yeah, thanks for the follow. Yeah, hit us up on a DM. Yeah.
[00:04:14] Speaker D: Back.
[00:04:14] Speaker B: Way back when. When it first came out.
[00:04:16] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:04:16] Speaker C: I've been collecting that long, man, oh, man, that's awesome.
[00:04:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:20] Speaker E: Who's your favorite villain?
[00:04:23] Speaker F: Clown clap.
[00:04:24] Speaker B: He's a good one. You know? He's a good one. I do like the clown.
It's a clown. But, I mean, no bulls. Yeah.
I hope he shows up. I hope that. I don't know. Clown might get the throne out, but we're excited to say. To see you today. Love, Sam and twitch. Oh, yeah. So that's great.
[00:04:43] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:04:44] Speaker B: I can't wait for that in March.
I'll never forget the one issue. I'm not just.
I have a toilet.
[00:05:03] Speaker C: He's the ideal man, Samberg.
Ideal man.
[00:05:07] Speaker B: He had a Sandberg doughnut today.
[00:05:09] Speaker D: Yeah, it did.
[00:05:10] Speaker C: It was delicious.
[00:05:12] Speaker H: David, John, thank you for being a challengers today.
[00:05:14] Speaker C: Thank you.
[00:05:15] Speaker H: I do want to ask a few questions. First of all, David, where's your ghost here? Shirt. Like, oh, I mean, you are wearing a spawn shirt.
[00:05:21] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:05:22] Speaker C: Appropriate, because Johnny and I actually coordinated this. We didn't both want to wear the same hat or the same shirt.
[00:05:28] Speaker H: Sure.
[00:05:29] Speaker C: He got ghost shirt, spawn hat. I got spawn shirt, no hat.
[00:05:33] Speaker H: But you also have ghost shirt here, so.
[00:05:35] Speaker E: I do have ghost shirt here. I was unplanned, but not out of character.
[00:05:39] Speaker H: So are there a lot of ghosts in Spawn? Yeah, that is not my question.
The joke question I asked before we were recording was, what is spawn?
But my real question is, as two people that have been reading spawn for now, 350 issues, not counting miniseries spinoffs, side series guest appearances, a lot has happened in the spawn universe since spawn number one came out. But if you're talking to someone who's never read Spawn before, how do you pitch it to them without making them feel like there are 350 issues that they're never going to catch up on? Because that's a daunting task. So what is your general synopsis when somebody says, what is spawn?
[00:06:25] Speaker C: Well, so first off, that is really cool, and it's a fun thing to do. But let's see, how did I say yes to do? Spawn is a fun thing to do.
[00:06:35] Speaker D: Yes, it is the best.
[00:06:36] Speaker B: It's. I always kind of try to pitch it as, like, a little more bent kind of action comic that has a lot of good jumping on points because there is an overall continuity, but it really does lend itself well to, like, they try to create these jumping on points. Like, there was one around 300, and now 350 is supposed to be one. So they try to create these kind of jumping on points, and there's a whole bunch of new stuff coming out. Like, it's really easy to, like, oh, oh, I could read two trade paperbacks at gunslinger. That's a lot less daunting than 300 issues.
[00:07:09] Speaker H: So are you suggesting to someone who's never read spawn to not start at the beginning and jump into, like, gunslinger right now or.
[00:07:18] Speaker B: Depends on what they like.
[00:07:19] Speaker H: They do a good job of keeping the older stuff in print in the collected editions.
[00:07:22] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:07:23] Speaker H: So do you think, I mean, obviously, you want someone to experience the full depth of the spawn universe as you guys have done, because that's where your love came from. Following it for all this time?
[00:07:34] Speaker C: Yeah, it tends to be. You then have to ask them what they like in things that aren't comics. Like, if they say that they're like westerns, or they say that they're like the Sopranos, or they say that.
[00:07:45] Speaker B: What's it like? Action shoot em ups.
[00:07:48] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:07:48] Speaker C: Like a tv.
[00:07:48] Speaker B: That's like the scores.
[00:07:49] Speaker C: Like a team.
[00:07:49] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:50] Speaker H: I feel like you could be like romance. You could like, oh, there's the whole Wanda part of it as well.
[00:07:55] Speaker C: Yeah, there's. There's a bit.
[00:07:56] Speaker B: Especially in the earlier. Especially in the earlier issues, have the worst kind of soap opera, and then nineties oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Would you call the spawn of Boris?
[00:08:03] Speaker C: The spawn of Boris.
[00:08:04] Speaker B: You kind of eat it from all ends.
[00:08:05] Speaker H: Sure.
[00:08:06] Speaker B: So that's kind of how. Yeah, he's eating his own cape at this point.
[00:08:09] Speaker D: Yeah. But that's.
[00:08:10] Speaker B: That's like his little.
[00:08:11] Speaker C: His little skulls are eating.
[00:08:15] Speaker B: His case.
It's. I think. I think it's good to kind of read it all simultaneously. And that's kind of what I did, was kind of jump on with King Spawn. And then went back and really reread a lot of the stuff I'd read as a kid and read back up.
[00:08:31] Speaker H: So did you start with spawn number one?
[00:08:33] Speaker B: I was into it as a kid, but I started with King Spawn, actually.
[00:08:36] Speaker H: Okay.
[00:08:36] Speaker B: So it's only been a love of. Spawn has only been three or four years now. And David had read a little bit before.
[00:08:41] Speaker C: Yeah, he'd read a little bit before.
[00:08:43] Speaker H: It always confuses me when people say as a kid, because I was selling comics when Spawn came out. So to me, it's just, like yesterday.
[00:08:51] Speaker D: Right?
[00:08:51] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I. It was. It was definitely, like, cool. Like, I was a little too young for it. My brother could get a spawn, and I would read it, and I loved the movie. Funnily enough. I loved the movie. I loved all the.
[00:09:04] Speaker H: Saw that first run in theaters.
[00:09:05] Speaker B: Yeah, I did too. Definitely. Yeah. I felt pretty badass that I got to see it. I had to go to a friend's house, but.
[00:09:10] Speaker H: Okay, so tell me.
[00:09:12] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:09:12] Speaker H: What is spawn? How do you. How do you pitch it? Like, yeah, guy named Al Simmons who.
[00:09:18] Speaker C: Got murdered, like, so I explained it yesterday to somebody as, it's a CAA assassin, gets killed by his boss. And sells his soul to the devil. To see his wife one more time before eternity sets in on him. And then he fights for hell, but then he hates hell, and then he fights heaven because he hates heaven because he was associated with hell. And that's about where they stop listening. And so I try to get as much in there as possible.
[00:09:50] Speaker H: You completely ignore the. He was reincarnated as a white guy.
[00:09:53] Speaker D: Oh, yeah.
[00:09:53] Speaker B: That whole part.
No.
[00:09:58] Speaker E: Yeah, he just not know that was.
[00:09:59] Speaker H: A part hook in the beginning. But they quickly realized that's a bad look.
[00:10:05] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:10:05] Speaker H: Just went away from it.
[00:10:06] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:10:06] Speaker H: He was just a young, blonde, mop haired white dude.
[00:10:12] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:10:13] Speaker C: Literally. Literally says, but I'm a black man, and he's looking.
[00:10:16] Speaker B: Yeah, we covered the issue.
[00:10:17] Speaker C: Issue three, I think it was.
[00:10:19] Speaker B: Yeah, that's how soon it was.
[00:10:20] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:10:21] Speaker B: You know, there's. It's. There's some dark corners of Spawn's history that we don't like.
[00:10:25] Speaker E: The nineties were a wild time.
[00:10:27] Speaker B: The nineties were a wild time. That's true.
And then I would say, like, I would pitch it as I really like. I mean, just as I'm looking at it. But I like the Jessica Priest character. And so I would pitch it as if you like the team books or if you like, kind of more action oriented, you could do the scorched.
And then I would say someone that's. I'd say a good jumping off point is just doing king Spawn. Like, I thought that worked out really well and was just a good jumping on point that you can kind of branch out from.
[00:10:53] Speaker D: But, yeah.
[00:10:53] Speaker H: Okay. I think this is why you're a good team together as podcasters. Because, John, you're telling me what to read, and David, you're telling me why to read.
[00:11:00] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:11:01] Speaker H: So those two things together create both.
[00:11:04] Speaker C: Of us together create one person with. With fully, fully thought out thoughts.
[00:11:11] Speaker B: Exactly. Exactly.
[00:11:13] Speaker H: Excellent. And while you're here today, I know this doesn't help anybody listening because it's too late for them, but anybody who joins the podcast gets, or who follows the podcast gets entered into a raffle to win this very large bloody violator.
This looks like an early release from McFarland Toys.
[00:11:33] Speaker B: No, this one's actually not too long ago. It's the last three or four years. But it was a very, like, exciting one because it was so big. And it's a bloody. It's a bloody variant. It's a really hefty, like, T Rex size toy. But I accidentally, in some of my excitement, I accidentally ordered two at one point. So this has been sitting on my shelf.
So I'm like, you know what?
[00:11:56] Speaker H: I've done that with figures before.
[00:11:57] Speaker B: Let's do it as a bait to sign up for. To subscribe to our podcast.
[00:12:01] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:12:02] Speaker H: No, I mean, that's why you did it the whole time on purpose.
[00:12:05] Speaker B: It was a totally perfectly executed. Perfectly executed. I didn't even know.
[00:12:10] Speaker H: How did you each find out about the other's love of Spawn?
[00:12:15] Speaker B: During the pandemic, I kind of started harassing David. We never really talked about it before, but I was. I got into comics because I started coming here. I remember. Yeah, it was. Would have been. I can't remember what year, two or three years ago, but I walked in here and was like, have you guys heard of something called Nice House on the lake? And you're like, yeah, it's our recommended. It was like, next to you, I was like, oh, wow, what is this?
[00:12:38] Speaker H: That was just to show you what good taste you had.
[00:12:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:40] Speaker H: You were looking for the book that we love.
[00:12:42] Speaker B: Because I read an article, and it was like, if you like lost, be like, whore. You got to check this out. I read, like, a little interview with the creators. I was like, I gotta see this. And then I just got into comics hard. And around that time is when King sports Spawn launch. And that's when I kind of got into it. And I was getting to that. I was like, david, what do you think of Spawn? I love Spawn.
[00:13:01] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:13:01] Speaker C: Because I was always his comics guy. He was like, david, what happens in this comic?
[00:13:06] Speaker H: Everybody needs a comic friend.
[00:13:08] Speaker C: So just as Johnny does, when Johnny finds something that he likes, he wants to talk to people.
[00:13:13] Speaker B: Sure, yeah.
[00:13:14] Speaker C: And he knew. He was like, david, do you read Spawn? I'm reading Spawn right now. You should read Spawn. And then we were like, johnny, we could make a podcast out of this.
[00:13:21] Speaker B: Well, I was mad originally, because there was no. I was like, where's the Spawn podcast? There isn't one.
[00:13:26] Speaker H: Sure.
[00:13:26] Speaker B: So it's like one of those things.
[00:13:27] Speaker H: You see, because it's such a daunting task. Because at the time, there were, like, 300 issues or what have you.
[00:13:31] Speaker D: Right. Yeah, it is.
[00:13:33] Speaker B: It was. And it's like, well, you know what? If you can't find the thing you want, you just got to make it.
[00:13:37] Speaker H: And then we just kind of like spawn.
[00:13:39] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:13:40] Speaker H: That was pretty much Todd McFarland's whole desire going in was, this is a thing that doesn't exist, and I want to do it.
[00:13:47] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:13:47] Speaker B: And, like, our early episodes sound terrible, but now we sound decent, and we've gotten, like, real guests and, like, real. We have the.
[00:13:55] Speaker H: Oh, I'm flattered, but I'm not a real.
[00:13:56] Speaker F: You are a real guest.
[00:13:59] Speaker B: No, you are a real guest. You're, like, one of our.
[00:14:03] Speaker C: This is gonna be a title.
[00:14:08] Speaker B: But, yeah. And it's just been. We just started, I was thinking during the pandemic, and then drunkenly, you're like, I got a title. Respawn.
[00:14:15] Speaker D: Okay, we've got a title.
[00:14:16] Speaker B: We gotta do it now.
[00:14:17] Speaker H: So that's good, because it's regarding spawn. It's respond.
[00:14:21] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah.
[00:14:21] Speaker C: I put a lot of thought into that.
[00:14:22] Speaker H: I mean, it works on a couple of levels.
[00:14:24] Speaker C: I wanted the w r t, but that was a harder.
[00:14:27] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:14:27] Speaker C: Shoehorn.
[00:14:28] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
And the respawn, like, is a nice, like, pun. Yeah, everyone likes to respawn, but I.
[00:14:36] Speaker H: Can'T remember exactly when this was, but. But it was somewhere 2025 years or so ago, I tried to make. Using a life size mannequin. I tried to make a spawn and for display for the store I was at at the time. And I failed.
I went to. There was just didn't have a, like a junk shop. And I found a good mannequin. Right. And then I paid. Painted it silver for the base. Cause I thought if there's any cracks in the paint or whatever, if silver shining through is good.
[00:15:08] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:15:09] Speaker H: So painting the costume fine. But then adding spikes and the cape proved a thing I could not do.
[00:15:20] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:15:20] Speaker H: So for the longest time, I had this, like, half painted spawn mannequin that just lived in a back room. Cause I couldn't put it out anywhere because it didn't look right.
[00:15:28] Speaker B: Right.
[00:15:28] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:15:29] Speaker B: That's so funny. Because even we. We've been covering back, we kind of covered more modern stuff. And now we're back to covering the classics recently. And it's just funny to read in the letters pages, like, people just yelling at Todd McFarland about the costume and, like, because he keeps. It's not accurate from panel to panel. So then he was like, it's alive.
Like, issue nine. He's just like, and it's alive.
[00:15:50] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:15:50] Speaker B: That's why it changes.
[00:15:51] Speaker H: Leave me alone. One of the. One of my favorite things that he did at the very beginning of Spawn was once they announced imaged and the slate of characters that were going to come out, they had logos. And the spawn logo was garbage. It was just like, scribbled flame letters. I'm like, yeah, that is so bad. That is such a bad logo. It wasn't the logo. When you actually see the spawn logo, it's a good logo. Yeah, it helped. Like, here it. They haven't changed it. 350 issues.
[00:16:18] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:16:19] Speaker H: Because it holds. It's a good logo. But we didn't see that logo until issue one came out.
[00:16:24] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:16:24] Speaker H: All the solicitation had that terrible fire logo. And I thought, this is not straight forward.
[00:16:30] Speaker B: Yeah, it's hot.
[00:16:31] Speaker H: And he knew that. It's pretty much. See how the word keep is written? It was basically like that.
[00:16:35] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:16:35] Speaker H: Just said spawn. All the same size.
[00:16:37] Speaker B: All right.
[00:16:38] Speaker H: Yeah. This is way more dynamic.
[00:16:40] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:16:40] Speaker B: It's what it is. Almost looks like it hasn't aged. It's as you said.
[00:16:43] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:16:44] Speaker B: Eloquently put it.
[00:16:44] Speaker D: Yes. Yeah.
[00:16:46] Speaker C: All of them. All of them, maybe.
[00:16:47] Speaker D: Not that. We'll see about the.
[00:16:48] Speaker C: The newer ones. I think King. King spawn has lasting logo power.
[00:16:52] Speaker H: Some of them recently.
[00:16:54] Speaker D: They.
[00:16:56] Speaker H: Because we racked them all under spawn.
[00:16:57] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:16:57] Speaker H: Whether it be scorched or king Spawn or gunslinger spawn. Even though it just says gunslinger now.
[00:17:05] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:17:05] Speaker H: We still put it under s respawn. Yeah. Because people will find it easier there. But I did like that. Or I did notice, not like or dislike that they took the word spawn off of most of those titles. And then for the longest time, Kingspawn was just a spray painted crown.
[00:17:20] Speaker D: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:17:21] Speaker H: Which so many different industries use a spray painted crown logo, whether it be rap stars or just other. Other people have co opted that at some point. So I thought that's a little too vague.
[00:17:34] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:17:35] Speaker H: Have you ever seen good spawn cosplay in person?
[00:17:39] Speaker B: No, never in person. We've seen a lot on the Internet that we met, luckily. Shout out to Morpheus is also does a spawn cosplay, but we've seen a bunch online. Like, three online, not a bunch. It's hard.
[00:17:56] Speaker D: But you said.
[00:17:56] Speaker B: Have you ever seen it?
[00:17:57] Speaker D: No.
[00:17:57] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's about.
[00:17:59] Speaker H: At the convention. Didn't you go to the convention?
[00:18:01] Speaker B: There was someone. I mean, it was. There was someone that was, like, cosplay. There's, like, a woman who's doing, like, a gunslinger, like kind of thing, but didn't do, like, full makeup. It was just, like, a red coat with, like, boots and, like, a shirt.
[00:18:12] Speaker H: I assume there's just a lot of paramilitary. Previous life.
[00:18:15] Speaker B: Previous life. Al Simmons. I could do Sam Burke. So I just need a donut.
[00:18:22] Speaker D: Correct.
[00:18:23] Speaker B: Yeah, it's perfect.
[00:18:24] Speaker H: In fact, I'm disappointed that you're not right now.
[00:18:26] Speaker B: I know. Well, you had the donut.
[00:18:27] Speaker C: We talked about it. We talked about it.
[00:18:28] Speaker B: If we go to swank on together, because David can make it this year, we probably will.
[00:18:33] Speaker C: My wanda does costuming, and she said that absolutely. We have to do that. She's like, I will make you boys costumes. That's pretty great, because you have to do it.
[00:18:43] Speaker B: We call. Our wives are both Wanda because. To protect their identities on the podcast.
[00:18:46] Speaker H: That's fair.
[00:18:47] Speaker B: We each have our own Wanda. Just like Al Simmons.
[00:18:49] Speaker F: Sure.
[00:18:49] Speaker H: Exactly. Does he have Wanda, though? He doesn't.
[00:18:52] Speaker D: He doesn't.
[00:18:53] Speaker B: He doesn't. Terry didn't.
[00:18:54] Speaker H: Don't use it as a direct one to one.
[00:18:57] Speaker B: No, it's not one to Wanda.
[00:18:58] Speaker H: It's just you don't want that kind of wanda. No, the lack of, as well.
[00:19:02] Speaker B: Right.
[00:19:03] Speaker D: The lack of.
[00:19:04] Speaker C: But also, since Todd McFarlane's wife's name is Wanda, there's a built in abstraction between the character and the person.
[00:19:11] Speaker H: Well, that leads me to ask, how many autographed baseballs you guys have?
[00:19:14] Speaker B: Oh, none yet.
[00:19:16] Speaker C: I could go write my name on one of the ones that I have.
[00:19:18] Speaker H: Perfect. That's all you need. Also, autograph was the wrong. I meant home run record.
[00:19:23] Speaker B: 700Th home run from Mark McGuire, which were perfectly normal.
[00:19:28] Speaker H: Of course.
[00:19:30] Speaker C: I think baseball is steroid error.
[00:19:34] Speaker H: Certainly more exciting.
[00:19:35] Speaker C: We need juiced up boys.
[00:19:37] Speaker H: No comics needs a steroid scandal.
You know, it's getting harder and harder for creators to be able to do a monthly book get on the juice.
[00:19:49] Speaker C: Yeah, you'll be able to track.
Everybody starts to look after you draw, like, what they draw.
[00:19:56] Speaker E: They probably just need cocaine.
[00:19:59] Speaker H: Yeah, but I mean, that's standard in every industry.
[00:20:02] Speaker B: Yeah, you need something more. That's funny.
[00:20:04] Speaker H: Like, if there's a big cocaine comic book scandal, it's not scandal. People like, yeah, whatever. But if it's a steroid trial, be like, what is.
[00:20:11] Speaker F: They're juicy.
[00:20:12] Speaker D: What are they doing?
[00:20:13] Speaker H: Is it in the ink? How does it come from there?
We've gotten too far off spawn topic, and I apologize for that. Thank you guys for being here. This was a wonderful idea to celebrate the record breaking 350th issue of Spawn.
[00:20:27] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:28] Speaker H: And we hope that more and more people listen to respawn every week.
[00:20:33] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:20:34] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:20:35] Speaker H: Thanks for being here.
[00:20:35] Speaker D: Yeah, appreciate it.
[00:20:36] Speaker B: Cheers. Thank you.
[00:20:38] Speaker E: And hopefully more and more people come to challenges everywhere.
[00:20:41] Speaker B: Thank you for saying mutually beneficial relationship. That's why you're here.
So we just read.
[00:20:46] Speaker D: We just finished it. We finished.
[00:20:48] Speaker C: We read the book.
[00:20:49] Speaker B: Read it right here. Challengers.
[00:20:50] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:20:51] Speaker C: And wow.
[00:20:54] Speaker B: A lot happened.
[00:20:55] Speaker C: A lot happened. A lot happened. Bran was. Bran listened to it third. And they were expressing at random points in Johnny. They were just like, ripping each other because we knew what they were getting into.
[00:21:08] Speaker B: Pretty fun ride. I love Brett Booth's art on. This is really good.
[00:21:12] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, it's real good. Brett Booth does excellent demons as well as, you know, help people. All the other good things he does.
[00:21:19] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:21:20] Speaker B: And as far as, I guess, going to spoiler territory, whoever takes the throne there. David was right.
[00:21:29] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:21:29] Speaker C: That was wild.
[00:21:30] Speaker B: That was a wild guess, but it's a good guess. It was a reasonable guess. It's a reasonable guess.
[00:21:34] Speaker C: It's not the best guess.
The best guess was definitely the Sam. Sam.
[00:21:39] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:21:39] Speaker B: I wish it had been Sam, but he never.
[00:21:41] Speaker C: Maybe they'll make it elsewhere. World story where it's.
[00:21:49] Speaker B: It was a lot of fun and it's good jumping on point. A good kind of culmination of a lot of issues coming to that head for big old action climax.
[00:21:58] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:21:59] Speaker C: Speaking of, how was it? As somebody who doesn't read very much spawn brand, it was pretty good.
[00:22:05] Speaker E: It was. I think it was a decent jumping on point. Like, if you have the vaguest and notions of what's going on, you're just like, oh, yeah, they're fighting in hell. The throne's important. Don't know who this green guy is, but seems to be a badass and a not good guy.
Gone and gone now. Yeah, there's some pretty gnarly panels in there.
Nix is cool.
[00:22:33] Speaker C: Throw.
[00:22:34] Speaker E: Nix is cool.
[00:22:35] Speaker C: The good thing about him getting cash, like, right after you met him and so you didn't have to care about his background.
[00:22:39] Speaker E: No, you don't really care. You're just like, yeah, he's bad guy. Very powerful, and he's dead now.
[00:22:44] Speaker C: They're taking out last night's trash, and they're bringing in the new customers.
[00:22:47] Speaker D: Yeah, exactly.
[00:22:48] Speaker E: I also liked, as somebody who, you know, if you've listened to the show, when I was on reading Gunslinger, that was my reading. That was my first exposure to the, like, green meter.
[00:22:58] Speaker C: Green meter?
[00:22:59] Speaker E: Yeah, the goop meter, the spawn goop meter. And seeing that at the very end of this issue, at one is like, is pretty clearly significant. Is like, he's at the lowest of power. He's been since the beginning. It seems like right now it's gonna be a.
[00:23:15] Speaker C: We need a series of exercising montages so he can get back up fighting.
[00:23:20] Speaker E: Yeah, good montage. And then, I mean, I know I'm behind on Kingspawn at this point, but, like, where I left off on King Spawn, he was at his most powerful and had taken the throne. So that's, like, just an interesting dovetail with, oh, it's a different throne.
[00:23:37] Speaker B: There are many thrones.
[00:23:38] Speaker E: Okay, well, nevermind.
[00:23:41] Speaker C: It was. It was supposed to be, like an ersatz throne until they got him on the real throne, but it was, so it was a throne nonetheless, you know?
[00:23:50] Speaker E: But I knew it was bad if he did that.
[00:23:53] Speaker B: So supposedly bad or maybe good.
[00:23:56] Speaker E: Maybe good.
[00:23:57] Speaker B: Probably bad.
[00:23:57] Speaker C: Probably it would have been bad. Can you imagine? Can you, Simmons, as your leader?
[00:24:04] Speaker B: Oh, boy.
[00:24:04] Speaker C: Of your country, maybe not so much.
[00:24:06] Speaker B: I guess he'd be a pretty hot headed president.
[00:24:08] Speaker C: I take him as my platoon commander. He seems like he'd want to keep you alive for that.
[00:24:14] Speaker B: No, I mean, you know, he's not really a team player, though.
[00:24:19] Speaker D: I feel like you get left behind.
[00:24:20] Speaker C: He's got to be the boss.
[00:24:21] Speaker B: He's been solo for a long time, and he doesn't really like the team, so I don't know if I'd want to be on there.
[00:24:29] Speaker E: He's an ex CIA spook, so, you know. That's a lot of negative marks. Yeah, a lot of marks in the con.
[00:24:36] Speaker D: Yep.
[00:24:37] Speaker E: Category.
[00:24:37] Speaker C: You should read it if you haven't read it already.
[00:24:39] Speaker D: Check it out. Read it.
[00:24:40] Speaker C: It's a good one.
[00:24:58] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:24:58] Speaker B: Excited for the big 350.
[00:25:01] Speaker I: I'm not a superhero spawn fan.
[00:25:03] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:25:04] Speaker I: I mean, I'm happy he got to 350.
[00:25:05] Speaker B: He did.
[00:25:06] Speaker D: He did.
[00:25:07] Speaker C: He got there.
[00:25:07] Speaker B: Good Todd.
[00:25:08] Speaker D: Yep.
[00:25:08] Speaker B: Good Todd. Father.
[00:25:12] Speaker I: I'm 52, guys. I've lived through the hype. I'm like, I'm just. I'm just cool with it now. Yeah, I watched the cartoon when it came on in HBO. I was like, yeah, I wish they did better.
[00:25:22] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:25:22] Speaker I: You know, I love you so much, but not much.
[00:25:25] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. We just do. Every week, we do a couple issues from the Swans universe. Just podcast, kind of goof around.
[00:25:32] Speaker I: So do you guys just, like, start from, like, the whole run and then, like, work your way up, or do you just, like, oh, this was what's new today.
[00:25:38] Speaker B: And then we've been jumping around. So we do a classic and a contemporary each episode. So we try to do, like, more an old issue and then more of a newer issue. Okay. So we do a little bit of.
[00:25:48] Speaker I: Both because, like, it's got to be interesting now looking at all the, like, the early stuff from, like.
[00:25:56] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, so weird.
[00:26:01] Speaker C: It's wild.
[00:26:02] Speaker B: There was one we were reading the other day that was, like, really serious about his origin, and then there's, like, a three page fart with all the unhoused people. The alley. Just, like, a fart scene that goes on for, like, four pages farting on each other. Yeah, it's very, very nineties. Very. Is like. Yeah, it's been fun going back, and.
[00:26:19] Speaker I: The new stuff's fun too, but stupid fashion.
[00:26:23] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, it is.
[00:26:24] Speaker I: Looking like. Like looking through an old yearbook.
[00:26:28] Speaker D: Yeah. Yeah, true. Yeah.
[00:26:31] Speaker B: That's cool.
[00:26:32] Speaker I: How long have you guys been doing this podcast for?
[00:26:35] Speaker C: 78 episodes.
[00:26:52] Speaker E: And they're a four hour long, mostly.
[00:26:56] Speaker I: Just, like, leafing through pages, going like, oh, and in this episode.
[00:26:59] Speaker C: Oh, that's interesting.
It's just listening to them read it, Johnny. That's what we should do. We need to record ourselves reading it out there.
[00:27:12] Speaker I: At least. Spawn, you have, like, a story. Like, there was a podcast. I think he still might do it. It was called Tom versus the Flash, where he would read silver age issues of the Flash and just comment on how, like, ridiculous, you know, a silver age comic can be.
But I was, like, referring to the ones who, like, they'd be like, okay, so in previews today, this month, and they take out the previews catalog, and they just go through page by page, and you're like, what?
[00:27:45] Speaker B: Like, who? Who is?
[00:27:46] Speaker I: Like, listen to this information. Like it's new. Like, yeah, you either get the catalog and you use it, or you just are like, there's no riveting of, like, yeah, you know, it's like, oh, and now, here's the phone book. Jack Johnson lives evergreen Terrace.
[00:28:01] Speaker B: Jimmy Johnson. And you're like, what?
[00:28:04] Speaker C: I'd listen to that to fall asleep, probably.
[00:28:06] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:28:06] Speaker I: It's like ASMR. It's like the sound of rain falling, but, like, you're just like, it's like, are you. Were you locked to a table and chained down?
[00:28:15] Speaker B: And you're like, okay, you've got to.
[00:28:17] Speaker I: Read this for an hour or 2 hours on a. Yeah. So one person can fall asleep in America.
[00:28:26] Speaker B: More people.
[00:28:28] Speaker F: Wow.
[00:28:29] Speaker I: I'll let you guys get to more people.
I'm Tom Kelly, illustrator and comic book artist. Ok. Oh, yeah.
[00:28:42] Speaker B: Oh, we'll make sure to give you a shout out on your page.
[00:28:43] Speaker I: Yeah, you'll see all the pictures and stuff. Ridiculous nonsense. That's why I'm just like, oh, todd.
[00:28:49] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:28:50] Speaker B: Awesome. Cool.
[00:28:52] Speaker E: As an artist, what's your favorite villain design in spawn?
[00:28:57] Speaker I: It's not so much that I like the Ashley woodrun of ravenspawn.
[00:29:02] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:29:03] Speaker I: Because, like, everything is through a very particular lens of that artist. So it's like, when you look at, like, Cygor or redeemer or any of the 27, I think, like spawn.
And then all the spawn looks, you're like, oh, that looks cool. Because it's, like, weirdly painted and, you know, very stylized and looks cool. So, you know, I mean, I always like Cygor, who doesn't like a big mechanical ape. You know, there's no. There's no religious agenda. It's just a cyborg monster coming to kill you.
All right, guys, I'll let you get the new.
[00:29:40] Speaker B: And here we have.
Oh, yeah, you gotta get a mic.
[00:29:43] Speaker D: Sorry.
[00:29:44] Speaker B: If you're coming by. Hey, how's it going? This is me Laurie talked many times about on the podcast.
[00:29:49] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:29:49] Speaker B: I don't really read spawn. Hey, what do you think of spawn? I liked it in the nineties. That's back when I read it. That's all you gotta do. Yeah, yeah.
[00:30:00] Speaker C: Try this one.
[00:30:00] Speaker B: This one's crazy.
[00:30:01] Speaker H: Even if you never pick up another.
[00:30:02] Speaker C: One, it's it's a good.
[00:30:04] Speaker D: Likes it.
[00:30:04] Speaker C: It's a good way to spend 15.
[00:30:05] Speaker B: Minutes or so, perhaps. I am so backed up on my reading right now.
[00:30:13] Speaker F: I understand.
[00:30:18] Speaker E: Everybody showed up at the same time too.
[00:30:21] Speaker B: We got Logan here.
Hey, what's up? What's up?
Yeah, yeah, we've just been chilling. We had some people come through, grab stickers, and we're kind of excited. Nice.
[00:30:31] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah.
[00:30:32] Speaker B: We just were popping by on the way to work, and it's my early day today, too, so it's, like, a short day also. So I'm just like, thanks for coming by. Oh, yeah, of course.
Yeah. The padding.
[00:30:51] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:30:52] Speaker B: It's not live currently, but it will be recorded, and then we'll, like, edit it and stuff.
[00:30:56] Speaker F: What about the Todd father?
[00:30:57] Speaker B: I don't know.
The editor. Spawn was on our show a couple weeks ago, so we actually had him on. It's a really good episode.
[00:31:05] Speaker F: Okay, cool.
[00:31:06] Speaker B: But if you just want to introduce yourself, and then we.
[00:31:09] Speaker F: My name is Freddie Garcia. Big time hardcore spawn fan.
[00:31:12] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:31:12] Speaker C: Nice to meet you, Freddie.
[00:31:13] Speaker D: I'm David. John. Nice.
[00:31:16] Speaker B: So how long you been a spawn fan, man?
[00:31:17] Speaker F: Since when it first came out.
[00:31:19] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:31:19] Speaker B: You are the hardcore one.
[00:31:21] Speaker F: Okay, cool. Sweet.
[00:31:22] Speaker B: Yeah, that's cool.
Did you read 350?
[00:31:27] Speaker F: No, I haven't.
[00:31:28] Speaker D: Spoiler there.
[00:31:28] Speaker F: Don't tell me.
[00:31:29] Speaker B: We won't tell you anything. It's awesome.
[00:31:31] Speaker C: Oh, thank you.
[00:31:32] Speaker D: Johnny picked it up for me.
[00:31:33] Speaker C: It's Bon Con.
[00:31:33] Speaker F: For real?
[00:31:34] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:31:35] Speaker D: It was.
[00:31:36] Speaker B: Here was the first year, so it's.
[00:31:38] Speaker D: Gonna be another one.
[00:31:39] Speaker B: You gotta look up on Instagram. Just look up Spawn Con.
[00:31:41] Speaker F: I don't guess. I don't got social media.
[00:31:43] Speaker D: No. No.
[00:31:43] Speaker F: Facebook? No.
[00:31:44] Speaker B: You can find it probably just by looking up online. But real?
[00:31:48] Speaker C: Yeah, I think you can just google it.
[00:31:49] Speaker F: Where did it have it?
[00:31:50] Speaker B: Here in Chicago, Colorado. Oh, wow. The airport, actually.
[00:31:55] Speaker F: Okay, so it's nation. Nation thing.
[00:31:57] Speaker D: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:31:57] Speaker F: So what's the second one coming?
[00:31:59] Speaker B: It's gonna be at. We don't know yet. They haven't announced, but hopefully next. Hopefully this. This year.
[00:32:04] Speaker D: This year.
[00:32:05] Speaker B: Either this year or next year. I think they want to do it yearly, so.
[00:32:08] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:32:08] Speaker B: So I better send these, like, October or so.
[00:32:11] Speaker F: Okay, cool. Now we're talking.
[00:32:12] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:32:12] Speaker C: Because it was spooky times.
[00:32:13] Speaker B: Yeah, it was, like, right around Halloween, so.
[00:32:16] Speaker F: Right.
[00:32:16] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:32:17] Speaker F: I can dig it.
[00:32:18] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:32:18] Speaker B: But, yeah, we've been doing this a little over a year and a half. Just, like, going through the issues and stuff and talking about it. But have you been reading all the new titles as well?
[00:32:27] Speaker F: Yeah, for shizzle.
[00:32:28] Speaker B: Those are so good. Yeah, I love the score, you know?
[00:32:31] Speaker D: Tombaugh.
[00:32:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:32] Speaker C: But super good.
[00:32:34] Speaker F: Here's my thing, though.
[00:32:35] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:32:35] Speaker F: You know. You know, I want the movie to come.
I'm pretty sure you know what McFarlane want to do, right?
[00:32:40] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:32:41] Speaker B: Are you guys okay with that or.
[00:32:42] Speaker D: No, I'm fine with it. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:32:45] Speaker B: With what he wants to do for the movie.
[00:32:47] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:32:47] Speaker F: He wants to do, like a, like a jaw stain popping, like, five minutes and then disappear.
[00:32:52] Speaker D: What?
[00:32:53] Speaker F: Pop up again. Nobody by hearts and the casual viewer want to see spawn. Am I right?
[00:33:00] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:33:01] Speaker B: It'd be interesting take to have him use sparingly, because that was. But I don't know, for horde horror.
[00:33:06] Speaker C: Dorks like us, we'd love it.
[00:33:07] Speaker B: We'd love it. But it's a good tank.
[00:33:09] Speaker C: Just like the predator.
[00:33:10] Speaker I: The predator.
[00:33:10] Speaker C: You see the predator for, like, three minutes and that whole.
[00:33:12] Speaker F: I like it, but, you know, come on, man.
[00:33:15] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:33:15] Speaker B: I don't know if that's all right now. Yeah, I think probably that was older version. I feel like this will probably get. He's a little more heat on it now.
[00:33:22] Speaker C: The problem I could see that that ultimately raising would be he'd then feel like he could put all the other characters in it, and it would just be 3 hours of introductions and no actual story.
[00:33:32] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:33:33] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:33:34] Speaker C: Like, I don't know.
[00:33:34] Speaker B: Because I remember you saying he wanted him kind of sparsely the movie, but yeah, yeah, hopefully, like scary plum house.
[00:33:40] Speaker F: I like that. I like those guys are good.
[00:33:42] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah.
[00:33:43] Speaker F: But not right now. Come on, man. Maybe down the line. I think that's why the movie's taking so long that, you know, the major companies, they don't want to do that. And then he wants to direct it. He ain't got no directing.
[00:33:54] Speaker D: Yeah, I think he might be.
[00:33:55] Speaker B: I think he might be giving up on that. I remember he was like, yeah, they really want me to direct it. He wanted to. About, like, eight years ago, he was saying.
[00:34:01] Speaker F: Right.
[00:34:04] Speaker B: Been ridiculous.
[00:34:04] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:34:05] Speaker B: That was a little too much.
[00:34:06] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:34:06] Speaker F: You dropped the ball in the first movie. The CGI was terrible.
[00:34:09] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:34:09] Speaker F: Look cool. I like the cake.
[00:34:11] Speaker B: Hold fire. And everything else looked terrible.
[00:34:13] Speaker F: Yeah, my boss looked terrible. Come on, man. And then I heard that the, it was a rookie CGI guy. That was his first time doing it.
[00:34:22] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:34:22] Speaker B: I mean, it was such a new technology at that point. It was just so they couldn't even figure out how to, they didn't know how to do fire. Yeah.
You have to make fire for this movie. And they were like, okay. Yeah.
[00:34:33] Speaker C: It was only a couple of weeks, too, wasn't it?
[00:34:35] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:34:36] Speaker F: Let's not drop the ball. Like dread. I like dread. They didn't do the third one because they, you know, the last one was awesome.
[00:34:43] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:34:44] Speaker F: It was like a skate from Kubini Green, you know, time bow.
[00:34:47] Speaker B: Yeah, kind of.
[00:34:48] Speaker F: But they should have busted out with the dark judges, and then I assumed they would have been a set on, you know, another one and another one. But right now, you don't hear nothing about judges.
[00:34:57] Speaker C: Judge death movie.
[00:34:58] Speaker F: Yeah, they should have. You know, so that's why, you know, I get frustrated with McFarland. Like, come on, just.
[00:35:03] Speaker B: Just give us what we want.
[00:35:05] Speaker F: Yeah, give us what?
[00:35:05] Speaker D: One.
[00:35:05] Speaker F: That way another one could come, you know, talking about not just one every 20 years or 30, you know? Yeah, no, man, I ain't with that.
[00:35:13] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:35:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:15] Speaker D: Dread. Yeah.
[00:35:16] Speaker B: Hopefully that's, like, kind of. That'd be a good, like, point of reference is that dread movie would be a good point of reference for a spawn movie.
[00:35:23] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:35:23] Speaker F: Cuz I like mama. She's cool, but. Yeah, nobody wants to see her.
[00:35:26] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:35:26] Speaker F: You know. You know, the cas. They want to see some awesome spectac, crazy, like, dark judges. They would have did that for dread, I'm sure. Yeah, they would have came for the second one. You know, I'm saying fight the. It'll be another judge who fight our judge on fire. Whatever. I forget their names, but. Yeah, and then the last movie will be like, he'll fight them all at the same time.
[00:35:48] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:35:48] Speaker F: You know, talking about.
[00:35:49] Speaker B: They keep wanting to make a sequel.
[00:35:50] Speaker C: To it, but it's one that's a crocodile man.
[00:35:52] Speaker B: Really? Yeah, there's a crocodile.
[00:35:54] Speaker C: Crocodile man.
[00:35:55] Speaker B: I like that. That's funny.
[00:35:56] Speaker C: I don't know what his name is.
[00:35:57] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. It's those hard. Those darker comics. Sometimes it's hard to get him to make into movies because they. They want to make them more friendly for everybody. And sometimes, I guess it's harder to get him going.
[00:36:08] Speaker F: Yeah, but just not.
[00:36:08] Speaker B: A.
[00:36:09] Speaker F: Dread is not a no rated g, right.
[00:36:14] Speaker B: You gotta keep them r rated.
[00:36:16] Speaker F: Yeah, exactly. You gotta keep them, you know, the way they supposedly not watered down or anything like that. Like, for example, I was worried about venom. Was this he gonna do with venom?
[00:36:24] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:36:24] Speaker F: And Punisher, I said, what was Punisher gonna do? Shoot at the bad guys? We're white paint or something now.
[00:36:30] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:36:30] Speaker B: I mean, am I right?
[00:36:32] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:36:33] Speaker F: But, yeah. But anyways. Yeah, I'm glad they made that pool radar, but this Marvel Studios is doing that pool not to get off track.
[00:36:41] Speaker D: No.
[00:36:41] Speaker B: We love getting it on the show.
[00:36:43] Speaker C: We don't know what a track is.
[00:36:44] Speaker B: You don't know what it is.
[00:36:45] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:36:46] Speaker F: I'm like, man, is it gonna be rated r since Marvel Studios is doing it, you know, talking about.
[00:36:50] Speaker D: So.
[00:36:50] Speaker F: I don't know.
[00:36:51] Speaker B: I think so. It looks like from the trailer, it probably is.
[00:36:53] Speaker C: I think it's supposed to be.
[00:36:54] Speaker D: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:36:55] Speaker B: So that'll be.
[00:36:56] Speaker F: I hope so. Yeah. I don't like my deadpool Punisher spawn watered down. I like them to be who they are.
[00:37:01] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:37:01] Speaker B: No, I'm talking about.
[00:37:02] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:37:03] Speaker B: Cause that's what makes them what they've been. What they are. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:37:07] Speaker F: You know, I love. I understand they want to get the kids in there. That's how they make the money. But they should make, like, two versions. The little kitty one, and then for the adults, you know.
[00:37:16] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:37:16] Speaker B: They did that for one of the Deadpool. They did, like, a Deadpool story time for Deadpool two. Or he, like, told the story of the movie, and they, like, edit into a PG 13 movie.
[00:37:24] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:37:24] Speaker B: Like, you, like, cover the kids ears and stuff. But, yeah, it was like story time with Deadpool, but it was like, Deadpool two made PG 13, but they did that a few years ago.
[00:37:34] Speaker D: Yeah. Well, yeah, that would be.
[00:37:36] Speaker C: It would be like the old CD days where you had the edited CD.
[00:37:39] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:37:41] Speaker B: Explicit CD.
[00:37:42] Speaker C: Oh, sure.
[00:37:43] Speaker E: And you radio edit.
[00:37:44] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:37:45] Speaker C: Could tell how cool you are in comparison to your friends. To see who had bird.
[00:37:48] Speaker B: Which one do you have?
[00:37:49] Speaker C: Do you have the dirty version of this?
[00:37:51] Speaker E: Hey, something we've been asking everybody today is what's your favorite spawn villain?
[00:37:56] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:37:57] Speaker F: Oh, the clown. That's a no brainer right there.
[00:37:59] Speaker C: That's a good one.
[00:38:00] Speaker E: That's at least two votes for the clown today.
[00:38:03] Speaker F: Oh, I'm the second vote. What was the other one?
[00:38:06] Speaker B: He said Cygor. And then he said, cygar's cool.
[00:38:10] Speaker F: I like him.
[00:38:11] Speaker B: He said cyr. And who else did he say? The one that you saw.
[00:38:14] Speaker C: He was the Ashley Wood version of Raven.
[00:38:19] Speaker B: Oh, Ravenspawn.
[00:38:20] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:38:20] Speaker B: He really liked ravens.
[00:38:21] Speaker F: Race boss cool, too.
[00:38:22] Speaker B: He's cool.
[00:38:22] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:38:24] Speaker C: Birds.
[00:38:24] Speaker B: Got all the birds.
[00:38:28] Speaker F: Yeah, they should. Yeah, I got upset. They should have put him in the mortal kombat gang since they got spawned in there.
[00:38:33] Speaker C: Clown. Yeah, that would be great.
[00:38:35] Speaker F: You know, saying, like, new soup side by. They could give raven Nick. Um, raven spawn scan.
[00:38:40] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:38:41] Speaker F: They got a cowboy. And then they could have given a counseling response, you know, tomb out Shaqai. Could have made him a mandarin spawn.
[00:38:49] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. I mean.
[00:38:50] Speaker F: I mean, the list goes on and on, man. Like, oh, my goodness. You know.
[00:38:53] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:38:54] Speaker B: Hopefully he gets in the new mortal kombat, cuz I know he was in the one, the last one. So hopefully they put him in this new one.
[00:38:58] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:38:58] Speaker F: They say no, but I said, okay, you don't got spawn, and you could throw in medieval spawn.
[00:39:03] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:39:03] Speaker C: You've got cage and Jim downing.
[00:39:06] Speaker B: Yeah, they do the same. Yeah, they're very similar.
[00:39:09] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:39:10] Speaker F: You don't gotta do Al Simmons by. You could put in another spawn spot, you know.
[00:39:14] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:39:15] Speaker B: Get Sam and twitch in there.
That wouldn't work too well.
[00:39:19] Speaker F: And what a combat.
[00:39:20] Speaker B: Funny. It'd be funny.
[00:39:21] Speaker C: Pretty funny.
That would be. That would be what?
[00:39:25] Speaker B: Switch between character.
[00:39:26] Speaker C: Like.
[00:39:27] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:39:29] Speaker C: Like the ice climbers, but you just switch between.
[00:39:31] Speaker F: You know what I think? I don't see why not. Yeah, why not?
[00:39:34] Speaker B: They got guns.
[00:39:35] Speaker F: Yeah, they do.
[00:39:35] Speaker B: You throw donuts at them.
[00:39:37] Speaker F: Yeah, I like that.
[00:39:38] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:39:39] Speaker F: Pistol, WHOOP. Something. You don't want a character. Yeah, I don't see why not. Yeah. And twitch, he's a real good shot.
[00:39:45] Speaker B: Twitch is the. He's the. He's the best shot.
[00:39:47] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:39:47] Speaker F: The sharpshooter.
[00:39:48] Speaker D: So. Yeah.
[00:39:49] Speaker C: And Sam's fatality could just be. But he farts on him.
[00:39:52] Speaker F: Yeah. Like Rachel. Like Rachel, you know, talking about.
[00:39:56] Speaker D: No.
[00:39:56] Speaker B: Is that a mortal kombat?
[00:39:57] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:39:58] Speaker B: Oh, really?
[00:39:58] Speaker F: Use him on a moral combat excel.
[00:40:00] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:40:00] Speaker F: He's like the drunken master.
[00:40:02] Speaker B: Okay. He's like.
[00:40:03] Speaker F: He's obese, but he's always drinking. And they hope fart on you.
That's what Borato means in Spanish.
[00:40:10] Speaker B: Drunk. Right. Okay, so nice.
[00:40:14] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:40:14] Speaker H: Why?
[00:40:14] Speaker E: Tell us your name one more time.
[00:40:15] Speaker F: Freddie. Freddie Garcia. Freddie. Thanks for being shy. Been here since 76. You know what I'm talking about?
[00:40:28] Speaker B: The spawn thing is, we are giving out stickers. We're raising awareness for spawn podcast.
And we've got a violator here that we were giving out. If anyone subscribes to the podcast, then we get their email or get their instagram, and then they enter in, and we're just. It's the 350th issue of Spawn. The reason that's a big deal, that's today. It just came out.
[00:40:51] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:40:52] Speaker B: And the reason it's a big deal is it is the longest running independent. It's a really sweaty record. Longest running independent. I don't even remember what it is. Independently owned comic book character.
[00:41:02] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:41:03] Speaker B: Cause, like, obviously Batman's had more issues than 350, but Marvel DC owns Batman. This is the Todd McFarlane. Kind of made up his own. He like, it was basically like, hey, goodness, world records. Can I make this a record? And they're like, sure, yeah.
[00:41:18] Speaker C: But I think that's how most records are made.
[00:41:20] Speaker D: He beat.
[00:41:20] Speaker C: Yeah, it's like hula hooping on 1ft while picking up pennies or some shit.
[00:41:24] Speaker B: But it's the 350th issue, so it's supposed to be good. Jumping on point. Supposed to be a good, like, culmination. And we were just. It's a lot of brightly colored book shopping. We were like, let's try to. Try to get our hands dirty on doing events. Cause we're trying to do, like, cons and stuff. So we figured this is a good place to start. This is our first event.
Meet the folks.
[00:41:45] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:41:46] Speaker C: And get about stickers. Just take stickers, all the stickers you want.
[00:41:49] Speaker B: Put one up on your way to work somewhere.
There's already 100. Oh, there's like 50 at work. Well, I was talking about the Joe Rogan mug. We replaced the Joe Rogan mug. We put the respawn over it. So now it's a respawn mug.
[00:42:01] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:42:02] Speaker B: Much less problematic podcast. Hopefully only time will tell.
[00:42:07] Speaker E: I don't think you have any luck of getting Elon Musk on here, so be safe until then. Dave Chappelle.
[00:42:15] Speaker B: I think we're safe.
[00:42:17] Speaker C: Oh, it's the mail. It's the mail carrier.
[00:42:19] Speaker B: They must love this place.
[00:42:21] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:42:22] Speaker E: The question of the day is, what's your spawn? Your favorite spawn villain?
[00:42:26] Speaker B: Spawn villain. Like, I guess I've, since I've read the most of gunslinger, it's been clown, the new clown, like the beefy clown. But I kind of had in general, as, like, a general villain, I like the angels. Like, I like anytime spawn, just, like, beating acid, ripping wings off angels. Like, I just love the visual in there, so probably that. Yeah, that's a good answer.
[00:42:51] Speaker C: That's a good answer.
[00:42:52] Speaker B: The angels.
[00:42:54] Speaker A: So there was hope you enjoyed our highlights from challengers 350 day in Chicago, Illinois. I got to talk to some fun folks.
Speaking of fun folks, we wanted to give a shout out. It was make it lost in the interview there. We want to make sure to give a shout out to Tom Kelly, who we got to talk to there.
They had some fun opinions on the Todd, father, and Spawn, and it was cool to talk to them and get a different perspective, but make sure to give them a follow. They are. Tom Kelly art on Instagram. Tom Kelly art all one word. So we're giving them the shout out this week. Also want to shout out of course, Brian Voyles, who does our music. You can reach him at Brian Voyls 27 on Instagram. Be sure to give him a follow as well.
[00:43:40] Speaker B: Also make sure to give us a.
[00:43:41] Speaker A: Follow if you're not on Instagram.
[00:43:43] Speaker D: We are.
[00:43:43] Speaker A: Regarding spawnpod, you can shoot us an
[email protected] and give us any, like, reviews, subscribes, anything you can on the Internet is always appreciated. And as for next week, we'll be reading spawn number 14 and spawn 348. So you get that on that road to 350 if you're still leading up to reading. And we got Spawn 14 for all you classic spawn heads. So got the best of both worlds coming up for you next week, guys. Anyway, thanks again to challengers. Thanks for Bran for the help with the sound. Thanks for Pat, for getting on Mike and do that awesome interview with us. Thanks to everyone that stopped by. We really appreciate it, and we hope you spread the good word of spawn. And as co host David usually says, but he's not with me right now. May the scorched be with you. Amen.
[00:44:35] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
