[00:00:00] Speaker A: Gunslinger and redeemer attack first, performing a pincer technique to keep the enemy off balance. And as hundreds of battles have proven throughout time, an initial attack must always be followed up with a second wave.
Good evening and welcome to the mal bulge. This is regarding spawn, the world's best spawn podcast.
I am your co host, John Fisher.
[00:00:53] Speaker B: And I am your co host, David Williams. And Johnny, don't you hate when you get something stuck in your craw? Like maybe a dad? So then you've got a craw dad, and what the fuck is a crawl? Are you a shrimp, are you a lobster? Or are you a crayfish? Or are you a crawdad?
[00:01:08] Speaker C: Or wait, wait, a mudpuppy? Fuck.
[00:01:12] Speaker B: Fuck those guys.
[00:01:12] Speaker A: I'm just waiting to see how you get this to spawn.
I'm waiting with bated breath.
[00:01:16] Speaker B: They got those little pincers.
[00:01:18] Speaker C: Oh, they have the pincer technique.
[00:01:21] Speaker A: Indeed they do. The pincer, I mean, that's a. I.
[00:01:25] Speaker B: Just wanted to have the journey of saying you've got a dad stuck in your craw, and therefore it's a craw dad. It's like, what the fuck does that even mean?
[00:01:35] Speaker A: I got a lot stuck in my craw right now, man.
[00:01:38] Speaker B: Those, they're like little, they're like little lobsters. You gotta watch your fingers around them, Johnny. They'll just.
[00:01:44] Speaker C: I know.
[00:01:45] Speaker A: They're kinda, they're funny. I don't know. I like crawdads.
[00:01:48] Speaker C: They're kind of cute.
[00:01:50] Speaker B: They're so weird. They're so weird.
[00:01:52] Speaker A: They're so weird.
[00:01:52] Speaker C: And they're just like, eh, eh.
[00:01:54] Speaker A: Like they try to kill you. Like, they try to attack you and you're like giant. Can you imagine?
[00:01:58] Speaker C: It's like, it's.
[00:01:59] Speaker B: But they, they also require water. And then, but like, they will just form in puddles. Look, they'll, they'll show up in puddles in the middle of a dirt road in Oklahoma. And it's like, what the, where the hell did you come from?
[00:02:09] Speaker C: What the shit they came from?
[00:02:11] Speaker A: We know where they came from. They came from the 8th level of hell. They live with the ice shrimp.
[00:02:15] Speaker B: So that's, that's what they are.
[00:02:18] Speaker A: They're the ice shrimp. It's like ant man rules. Like, it's like the quantum realm. If you go to hell, you're tiny.
[00:02:24] Speaker C: And they're huge, but when they, they.
[00:02:27] Speaker A: Break through hell, they're tiny here.
[00:02:29] Speaker B: So, so what you're saying is that going to hell means you shrink down.
[00:02:34] Speaker C: And you're still on earth.
[00:02:37] Speaker B: So that means a helaaven is a place on.
[00:02:41] Speaker C: Wait, that doesn't work. Stupid.
[00:02:43] Speaker B: Heaven is a place on.
[00:02:45] Speaker A: No, I'm just. I got. I got quantum realm fever after the runaway success of Ant man.
[00:02:52] Speaker C: Of Quantum mania.
[00:02:54] Speaker B: That has Ant man hidden in it.
[00:02:57] Speaker A: No, I actually like the movie, but it has not done too well at the box office as far as more. I mean, it's made, like, 200 million, but, like, marvel. It's so funny that that is a failure, that. So they're so expensive.
[00:03:08] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:09] Speaker A: It's making like it's a failure if it doesn't hit 500 million.
[00:03:13] Speaker B: But that's just because it costs so much. Yeah. Yeah, that's right.
[00:03:15] Speaker C: It's.
[00:03:16] Speaker A: Well, it's the advertising. They don't even put that in the budget. But the general rule of thumb is you double the budget, and that's probably what the average. You, like, add the budget again, and that's how much they spend on advertising usually.
[00:03:25] Speaker C: Oh, man.
[00:03:26] Speaker B: That's insane.
[00:03:27] Speaker C: It's. It's wild. It's.
[00:03:30] Speaker B: It's just.
[00:03:30] Speaker C: It's just.
[00:03:31] Speaker B: It's just fatigue. It's just fatigue.
[00:03:33] Speaker A: Well, and just the, you know, sticking around for the post credits. It always looks like the Vietnam memorial wall with all the special effects. People just scrolling by, like, millions of names and people rendering rock's head.
[00:03:48] Speaker B: So what you're saying is every time you go up and you touch the names as they go up the screen, and you look at your face and.
[00:03:54] Speaker A: Reflect it in their names, and I say, thank you. Thank you for MoDok and Bill Murray in that one scene. Thank you.
Welcome, everybody. Welcome to regarding Spawn.
[00:04:07] Speaker C: Or.
[00:04:07] Speaker A: Wait, sorry. Respawn. We are respawn. We are not regarding spawn because there is evidently another podcast called regarding Spawn.
[00:04:15] Speaker B: Yeah. Oops. It's when you.
We googled for and, like, having to get deep, deep, deep in the. Google does. That's the problem. I have to get to, like, the 15th page because I occasionally, you know, like, at night, I'm like, how can I find ourselves online? And I Google and I Google and I Google and then I find, oh, what's this? What's this? We're on Soundcloud.
[00:04:37] Speaker C: We are not on Soundcloud.
[00:04:39] Speaker A: Oh, it's a. Yeah, they're an infrequent and very different format. But shout out to the other. Shout out to the other regarding spawnpop. So we are respawn parentheses regarding spawn. But welcome.
[00:04:51] Speaker B: But welcome.
Recolon spawn. Not re slash spawns.
[00:04:55] Speaker A: Recall. Yeah, yeah. Recolon spawn. Right, right. There's spawn.
[00:05:01] Speaker B: I think we need. We need to spend double our budget on an advertising team that gets us burial.
Pay somebody else to do the googling to make sure.
You know how many.
[00:05:14] Speaker A: You know how many horror movie podcasts are pun, on Nightmare on Elm street.
[00:05:17] Speaker C: There's like 50.
[00:05:18] Speaker B: I would imagine that that's almost 96%.
[00:05:23] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like Nightmare on Fear Street. Nightmare on Fear street. Nightmare on podcast. Street.
[00:05:29] Speaker B: Fear night on Spook street.
[00:05:32] Speaker A: Night street on fear night on cast.
[00:05:36] Speaker C: Mayor.
[00:05:37] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:05:38] Speaker C: Podcast. Okay.
[00:05:38] Speaker B: Griffin Newman.
[00:05:39] Speaker A: Oh, no. Yeah.
[00:05:41] Speaker B: Johnny, you left the door open in your closet again. And Griffin Newman has joined through the toy portal.
[00:05:48] Speaker A: I mean, he's a toy. He's a toy boy.
[00:05:49] Speaker B: Yeah, he opens his own toy portal. And they just, like, your tubes connect somehow.
[00:05:54] Speaker A: Our toy tubes.
[00:05:55] Speaker C: That would be the only way we'd.
[00:05:56] Speaker B: Be able to convince him to get on the show.
[00:05:59] Speaker A: Yeah, probably we'll give you some spawn toys.
Or if he's ever in a spawn, if he's, like, cast in the spawn movie is Twitch. Oh, my God.
[00:06:07] Speaker B: I was just thinking. Oh, we've already. No, we've already done this. He was, him is Twitch, and Dave Sims is.
[00:06:13] Speaker C: Is Sam.
[00:06:14] Speaker A: I mean, they are. They are.
[00:06:15] Speaker C: They are.
[00:06:16] Speaker A: And much like two other podcast hosts, me and David, we don't cover movies. We cover Spawn.
[00:06:24] Speaker B: We talk about them a lot, though.
[00:06:26] Speaker A: We talk about them a lot because Spawn has been influenced by movies also.
[00:06:30] Speaker C: We're all here for the, you know, Convo.
[00:06:35] Speaker A: Spawn is part of the pop culture, so naturally, that's going to come in. But we start with Spawn. That's our base. And our base today we have two issues with Spawn. We have scorched number five.
All the way back from the far off land of May, 2022.
[00:06:53] Speaker C: Woof.
[00:06:54] Speaker A: That does seem far off.
[00:06:55] Speaker B: Jesus Christ.
[00:06:57] Speaker A: And we are more.
And this is important, because we're getting to the end of. Not end of, but we are almost closing the loop on scorched, where we've covered everything up till this point, because we got five and six left. And then we, when we started the podcast, I think it was seven was the first one we did, because it was the newest one that came out.
[00:07:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:17] Speaker C: So we will be able to just kind of.
[00:07:21] Speaker A: We'll do a big slam. We'll rip. We'll rip the middle page out of scorch. We'll close the book on the early scorched here. In a few weeks.
[00:07:29] Speaker B: We'll lock it back up just loosely with the secret action figure plans in Mandarin's bank vault.
[00:07:37] Speaker A: Gotta lock them up in there. Also in the vault. Today, we've got our more contemporary issue. Our closer to now, spawn 337. And that one hails from the year January of 2023.
[00:07:52] Speaker C: So not too long ago.
[00:07:54] Speaker B: That doesn't feel like it was very long ago. But also, it was like, two months ago.
[00:07:58] Speaker A: Johnny, two months is a long time, an adult time.
[00:08:04] Speaker B: It's both nothing and a lot of missed naps. The longest time and a lot of.
[00:08:09] Speaker A: Sleep miss in that time.
[00:08:12] Speaker B: Sorry, I fell asleep while you were saying that. What was that?
[00:08:14] Speaker A: Oh, I don't remember because I'm old and I don't even remember what I'm talking about.
[00:08:19] Speaker B: We've been doing this introduction for 17 hours. Johnny, what the hell?
[00:08:24] Speaker A: Hey, that's one of our shortest ones yet.
[00:08:26] Speaker C: Woo.
[00:08:27] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:08:29] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:08:29] Speaker A: You guys don't know because I edit the show. We record for 24 hours straight, 12 hours on each issue. It's a lot to get through.
[00:08:35] Speaker C: Oh, man.
[00:08:35] Speaker B: When we say. When we say sweaty takes, we literally mean sweaty. We're gonna the pilot from airplane levels of sweaty, just, like, pouring down our faces.
[00:08:47] Speaker C: And we don't want to eat on.
[00:08:48] Speaker A: Mike, so we don't even allow ourselves to eat. It's.
[00:08:51] Speaker C: I don't know.
[00:08:52] Speaker A: There's probably gotta be a more sustainable process to this, David. Maybe we'll land on it one day.
[00:08:55] Speaker B: Nah, it can't be. You gotta. You gotta suffer for your art, apparently, right? It's true.
[00:09:00] Speaker A: I did feel too, this week, I did feel a little mad because I was working on another project.
[00:09:04] Speaker C: Finishing up a theater.
[00:09:07] Speaker A: A theater play. A play I've been working. I was gonna say theater project. And then I almost said theater play.
[00:09:12] Speaker C: A play I've been working on.
[00:09:13] Speaker A: And so I had that going on.
[00:09:15] Speaker C: And then I had not, like, put.
[00:09:19] Speaker A: Away the issues from last week recording. And I had some other spawn issues. And I was just like, ah, like, surrounded with spawn last night. And just, like, screaming, like, am I reading the right spawn?
[00:09:30] Speaker B: I can just see in a good way. I can just see that scene in the movie now where it's use rounded, just like, in the middle of concentric circles of spawn stuff, just going, ah. And the camera pulls away.
[00:09:43] Speaker A: Or I'm doing, like, the suicide squad joker. And just, like, bathing in knives when I'm bathing in spawn. See, I'm always stressed out before I read it. And then I respawn and it makes me happy, and then I'm not stressed out.
[00:09:55] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:09:55] Speaker A: So it always works out.
[00:09:57] Speaker B: I'm always a little bit stressed out after I read an issue. Because I'm like, man, now I just want to fucking jump into the next issue. But then I know that if I do that, it's totally gonna screw up what I was gonna talk about. So it's like, ah, it's always fun.
[00:10:10] Speaker A: Cause it's the cycle we're on, how we're just a few issues behind the ones who are actually just coming out. Like, it's great to go back a few issues and, like, go, aha.
[00:10:17] Speaker C: And, like, it really, really tickles the right brain dopamine for me, anyway.
[00:10:23] Speaker B: You would say it tickles you internally.
[00:10:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:26] Speaker C: And there's nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with that at all. And there's nothing wrong with scorched number five, especially this cover.
[00:10:36] Speaker A: I have the a cover in front of me right now by Matina.
[00:10:39] Speaker B: I also have the a cover.
[00:10:40] Speaker A: It's fucking great.
[00:10:41] Speaker B: It's amazing.
[00:10:43] Speaker C: It's classic.
[00:10:44] Speaker A: She spawn just fucking laying down some shots with a gas grenade in her right hand.
[00:10:52] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:10:53] Speaker B: And I like the action of her on her pistol hand where it's blurry, so it's.
[00:11:00] Speaker C: Oh, man. Yeah, you can see she just did.
[00:11:02] Speaker A: A sweep and you see juice coming out of whatever she's shooting at.
[00:11:10] Speaker B: It is some gnarly ass juice.
[00:11:13] Speaker C: It's some juice.
[00:11:13] Speaker A: And then her hair is going crazy.
It's just badass. Really badass. She smile. Got a big knife. Javi would be proud. Big knife on her belt.
[00:11:22] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:11:23] Speaker B: She's got. I like how the ammo belt on her thigh, it looks like it's missing a cartridge. So she's definitely used it.
[00:11:32] Speaker A: No, it's really cool.
[00:11:33] Speaker C: It's really cool.
[00:11:34] Speaker B: My notes tell me that there's another cover done by the Todd father himself.
[00:11:39] Speaker A: Yes, I have that. Let me just get this out.
[00:11:43] Speaker C: I've got. It's the penultimate in the series of kind of X Men reference.
McFarlane. After Lee or after Jim.
[00:11:57] Speaker A: It says, but it's after Jim Lee.
[00:12:00] Speaker C: Reference to that very famous X Men.
[00:12:03] Speaker A: Fold out for that X Men number one from the nineties that had Magneto on the inside.
[00:12:08] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:12:09] Speaker B: The Jim Lee Chris Claremont run.
[00:12:11] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:12:12] Speaker A: And so on this one, you got the toddfather Tralin. You got all the friends. This is the fun. This is a really fun one because.
[00:12:18] Speaker C: You got redeemer, haunt, soul crusher, Cygor and reaper. Yeah, it's a real good one.
[00:12:29] Speaker A: And you get psygor front and center. I know you're excited about that.
[00:12:32] Speaker B: Yeah, it's so. Oh, Jesus.
When we get there, it's going to emotionally devastate me. When we get to the origins of Cygor, but, like, this is a more fucked up psychor than I have really ever thought about.
[00:12:46] Speaker C: Because, you know, since he's a human.
[00:12:49] Speaker B: Brain and a gorilla body, but he's also now got, like, Frankenstein seams all over him. Like, he's also been made up. A whole bunch of different gorilla parts sewn together.
[00:13:01] Speaker C: Holy shit, dude. He also just, like, you can see.
[00:13:05] Speaker A: The pain behind his eyes. But this one's also cool because at the top there's a branch, and that connects to the tree on the other one. And so you know how to line them up.
[00:13:14] Speaker C: Oh, nice. It's always good.
[00:13:17] Speaker A: And they line up pretty well.
[00:13:19] Speaker B: I like the little top rectangle that says a spawn milestone.
[00:13:25] Speaker C: Yeah, that's always great. And then 30 years of spawn, 1992 to 2022.
[00:13:32] Speaker A: 5Th issue. A team is born.
[00:13:34] Speaker B: A team is born, starring Ben what's his tits and lady Gaga.
[00:13:39] Speaker A: Oh, Bradley Cooper.
[00:13:41] Speaker C: Bradley.
[00:13:41] Speaker B: Not Ben Bradley. I knew who he was.
[00:13:44] Speaker C: Like, I can picture him perfectly, but.
[00:13:47] Speaker B: I couldn't remember his name.
Wow. Johnny. I think I need to get a brain transplant. Like, maybe I could volunteer my body for Cygor's brain so that way he doesn't have to have the body dysmorphia of being in a gorilla suit anymore.
[00:14:03] Speaker A: And you'd just be in the gorilla.
[00:14:05] Speaker B: Oh, no, I would just cease to be.
[00:14:08] Speaker A: Oh, okay. You cease to be, and you get Cygor's brain. You're just gonna donate your body to Cygor?
[00:14:12] Speaker C: Yeah. This.
[00:14:13] Speaker B: This brain done run its course. It's no good anymore. It's past its use by date.
[00:14:21] Speaker C: Well, it's scorched, so you know who's writing? Yeah.
[00:14:25] Speaker A: Sean Lewis.
[00:14:26] Speaker C: Sean Lewis.
[00:14:27] Speaker B: I heard John Lewis for a second there, and I was like, john Lewis?
[00:14:30] Speaker C: No, Sean Lewis.
[00:14:31] Speaker A: Not that bad.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: Could you imagine if Sean Lewis had a brother named John Lewis?
[00:14:38] Speaker A: You can't do a Sean and John as brothers. It's just too confusing.
[00:14:41] Speaker C: I mean, I wouldn't put it past that.
[00:14:44] Speaker A: Happened a lot.
[00:14:44] Speaker B: I wouldn't put it past some parents.
[00:14:46] Speaker A: Just, like, rhyming names.
[00:14:49] Speaker B: Oh, man, that's the worst. Dealing with patient samples where you've got twins, that the only difference between their names is, like, the third vowel. One is a y and one is an I or some shit. And it's like, oh, come on.
[00:15:03] Speaker A: Additional script plot by Todd McFarlane.
[00:15:06] Speaker C: Of course.
[00:15:07] Speaker A: I think we know we have a very good candidate with our opening line, I think pretty much guaranteed you he threw in there.
[00:15:14] Speaker C: Or maybe that's just Sean Lewis thing.
[00:15:16] Speaker B: I mean, it's definitely because it's popped up in king spawn two, hasn't it?
[00:15:21] Speaker A: I think so.
[00:15:22] Speaker B: I think it might be a Sean Lewis thing. He likes talking tactics.
[00:15:25] Speaker A: He's always tactic suck. But then he takes that from.
From after the Todd father who started that grand tradition in spawn of tactics talk.
[00:15:34] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:15:36] Speaker A: Art by Steven Segovia.
Colors by Ulysses Areola, lettering by Annworld Design.
And as we've already said, we got the matina and McFarlane covers.
[00:15:50] Speaker B: Got the double end. Our man, the Eminem.
[00:15:52] Speaker A: Thomas E. Come in and cleaning it up.
[00:15:54] Speaker C: Yeah, the double M. McFarlane.
[00:15:55] Speaker A: Matina.
[00:15:56] Speaker C: Eminem.
[00:15:56] Speaker B: Eminem. Eminem's doing covers.
[00:15:59] Speaker A: Matina had a really good Batman spawn.
[00:16:01] Speaker C: Cover too, if I remember correctly.
[00:16:03] Speaker B: Matina just does good work.
[00:16:05] Speaker C: Mm hmm. That's.
[00:16:07] Speaker B: That's all there is to it.
[00:16:08] Speaker A: So previously in the scorched.
Spawn arrives at the Black Fortress only to find one of his past enemies, Soul crusher, being welcomed by the scorched team. But things are not what they seem. Soul Crusher is there for help, not to battle.
[00:16:27] Speaker C: Interesting.
[00:16:31] Speaker A: And it starts with the words from reaper from last issue. A Judas is among us. So they are climbing out of the wreckage. The Sindavowers came.
The mysterious Sindavowers, just, like, busted through.
[00:16:45] Speaker B: The wall, Kuvaid ban style.
[00:16:47] Speaker A: Yeah, unit 89, I believe, was coming after them.
She spawns using her powers to lead Natasha out of this wreckage.
[00:16:58] Speaker B: Yeah, she's making a little na'vi from Ocarina of time, and it's like, just.
[00:17:05] Speaker A: Follow this, follow this, follow this light. And then just goes, shit.
And then you turn the page and you see what Jessica sees, and it's.
[00:17:17] Speaker C: Just like she thought she hoped the.
[00:17:19] Speaker A: Fight would be over by the time she got out of the battlefield, but she was wrong. Spawns, like, growing spikes and slashing at him. Javi's, like, flying through the air and shooting at him.
[00:17:29] Speaker B: Yep, you were right, unit 89.
[00:17:32] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:17:32] Speaker A: Unit 89, report in.
[00:17:33] Speaker B: And this sin devour has got, like, a repulsor blast mouth is just like breathing fire and takes out Redeemer.
[00:17:41] Speaker A: You're doing the Godzilla mouth?
[00:17:43] Speaker B: Yeah, just like vapes.
[00:17:45] Speaker A: It's, uh. And it kind of lays out a little bit of what these Cindivauers are after. They want to kill all angels and demons and netherworld refugees stuck on this planet.
[00:17:55] Speaker C: Hmm.
[00:17:55] Speaker A: I wonder who we know that also agrees with that.
Hindsight's 2020. We had no idea we were completely wrong.
[00:18:03] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:18:03] Speaker A: And we thought it was a new character.
[00:18:05] Speaker B: Yeah, we did. Sure did.
[00:18:07] Speaker C: But.
[00:18:07] Speaker A: So basically, they want to open the dead zones, lay waste to all heaven.
[00:18:10] Speaker C: And hell basically kill everybody.
[00:18:12] Speaker A: Just leave everyone alone so humans can have this. Garden of Eden on Earth is what the Sindavars. What our narrator says.
[00:18:19] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:18:19] Speaker A: These Sin devourers are after.
[00:18:21] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:18:22] Speaker B: This also echoes. So this is echoing in King spawn.
[00:18:26] Speaker C: Now because, as we know, behemoth says much the same thing.
Who?
Behemoth.
Oh, okay.
[00:18:37] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:18:38] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:18:39] Speaker B: I have to sing it now because it makes.
[00:18:41] Speaker A: No, you sang it so high, your mic cut out.
[00:18:44] Speaker C: So it literally just sounded like you went click, click.
[00:18:48] Speaker B: All right, well, nice. Well, behemoth. There, there. Is that better? A clean take. Here we go.
[00:18:55] Speaker C: Behemoth.
[00:18:58] Speaker A: I'm putting that at the end of the episode.
Behemoth.
Yeah. That panel where it says unit 89 reported. I love. There's, like, a silhouette of Javi just, like, being propelled by his own guns backwards.
[00:19:11] Speaker B: Yeah, he's just.
[00:19:14] Speaker C: Oh, man, it's.
[00:19:15] Speaker A: I've always thought that was cool. Cause I think it was in. I remember in Earthworm gym, the super Nintendo game.
[00:19:20] Speaker B: Oh, fucking earthworm, Jim.
[00:19:22] Speaker A: You grab, like, a pulley thing, and you use your gun to propel yourself by, like, shooting the opposite direction. I always think that's cool. I think, like, if someone's falling off a building, it should work out that if you shoot downwards, it would stop you from falling. I hope that that would happen, but.
[00:19:36] Speaker C: I know it wouldn't.
[00:19:37] Speaker B: You would just hurt yourself because a Ricochet would come back up and hit.
[00:19:40] Speaker C: You in the leg.
[00:19:42] Speaker A: That'd be really cool if you could just shoot downward and fall and be okay.
But he's using his guns to rappel through the air. Reaper's dabbing.
[00:19:55] Speaker B: He says, dab on the haters.
[00:19:57] Speaker A: No, he looks like he's dabbing, but he's grabbing a rock to save Natasha and Jessica.
[00:20:03] Speaker B: So speaking of the rocks, I really like how earlier in the page, there's the rocks at the feet of the Sindavauer. Walhavi and Al are kicking its, getting their asses kicked. And then, like, the rubble continues on into the panel where Jessica is underneath the rubble.
[00:20:23] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, that is cool.
[00:20:25] Speaker B: The action has changed, but the setting is still the same spot.
[00:20:28] Speaker C: That's a fun little thing, man. Steven Segovia does good work.
Yep.
[00:20:34] Speaker B: Oh, man, look at that dab. I didn't think about that.
[00:20:39] Speaker A: He's dabbing. So Jessica hears whoever's talking to him, calling him. U 289, report in. So she's like, okay, it's a machine. It's reporting to someone. That means it's got a fucking weakness, baby.
[00:20:49] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:51] Speaker C: And so they're gonna find that continuing.
[00:20:54] Speaker B: On with Javi and Al getting their asses handed to them, and we find out that the first. The first target of the sin devour is spawn in the hat.
[00:21:04] Speaker A: I love that. It's like, what is your first target? Spawn in the hat?
[00:21:09] Speaker B: The toddfather needs to write a children's story called spawn in the hat.
[00:21:16] Speaker A: Also. I love that. Like, it's such a great action figure. Saturday morning cartoon. Moment of test two. Anti spawn grip. It's like the karate chop action. It's like, I have anti spawn grip.
[00:21:26] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:21:26] Speaker B: So I guess that means that it's because since they've been pulling the anti spawn juice at a.
Out of angels, I guess that means that, like, the hand itself gets, like, infused with anti spawn energy, right?
[00:21:41] Speaker C: Yeah. It's gripping him, and he's enveloped.
[00:21:45] Speaker B: It's gripping him and ripping him, literally.
[00:21:48] Speaker A: Bites into his shoulder.
[00:21:49] Speaker B: Shows him why it's called a devourer.
[00:21:51] Speaker A: Just starts to eat. He's eating spawn. Like, that's fucked up, man. You can't eat spawn.
[00:21:55] Speaker B: You wouldn't want to eat spawn. Imagine. I mean, that his head does look like a meatball. Yes, but it looks like a meatball that fell under the couch six years.
[00:22:04] Speaker C: Ago with a shoelace in it.
[00:22:08] Speaker A: You wouldn't want to eat that meat. He's like, ooh, there's something in my meatball. You just pull out a giant, gross shoelace.
[00:22:15] Speaker B: I guess it would be the Cindivour.
[00:22:17] Speaker C: Equivalent of a hair, wouldn't it? Yeah, on top of it.
[00:22:20] Speaker A: Burps it up.
[00:22:20] Speaker C: Spaghetti.
[00:22:24] Speaker A: It looks like sin shows up. Cause a rock comes in from off panel.
[00:22:28] Speaker B: Hey.
[00:22:29] Speaker A: Hey, Cogliostro, is that you trying to hit someone with a rock again? Dude, I was cracking up at the movie. Kagliostro, man. He's so funny.
[00:22:39] Speaker B: Oh, man. He's.
[00:22:40] Speaker C: He's, uh.
[00:22:42] Speaker B: He's very different from, like, the introduction of cog in the. In the comics, because the introduction of Khan in the comics is he's.
[00:22:49] Speaker C: He's just, you know, a lush.
[00:22:51] Speaker B: He's fucking drunk off his tits. But the. The movie Cagliostro is. Is, like, very serious, and he's like, we got. We have to do this.
[00:23:00] Speaker A: It's just hilarious because, like, it's obviously, like, it's so hyper edited and, like, chopped up because they were, like, trying to figure out what they could do with, like, the special effects. They get to work.
[00:23:09] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:23:09] Speaker A: Like, he becomes this de facto narrator, but it's just like. It's just, like, still shots of him talking over his face. And it's, like, so obviously reshoots, but I don't know. It's cool. He has a cool sword hand. He has, like, a hand that turns into a giant sword that, like, has electricity. That's pretty cool.
[00:23:25] Speaker B: Yeah, electricity is always cool.
[00:23:27] Speaker C: And it's. It's.
[00:23:28] Speaker A: It's so crazy that it's. And I think I said this, but.
[00:23:31] Speaker C: I just rewatched it because I was just tired.
[00:23:33] Speaker A: And it was only literally because it just, I guess, got re added to HBO because I opened HBO and it said newly added. And spawn was, like, the second movie. And I was like, well, I have to watch it. Like, just a line that is, like, confusing if it's just a normal action movie. It's like, oh, yeah, I was a spawn, but I escaped, and now I'm gonna help you, but I'm not a spawn. But I was exactly like you at one point in history. And you're like, what?
It's just, like, mentioned.
[00:23:55] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:23:56] Speaker A: And it's like, man, they really did fight to get some of that lore in there. I mean, the lore is all pretty close.
[00:24:01] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:24:01] Speaker B: The last time I rewatched it, I was in the seventies of the issues, which was around the time that the movie came out. And I was like, holy shit. Like, this is literally just pulled from three issues ago, dude.
[00:24:13] Speaker C: Yeah, it was great.
[00:24:15] Speaker A: The only thing that's missing is Sam and twitch.
And they're in it. They're in it, but they're not in it.
[00:24:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
I would say it is also missing a possibly it's Terry.
[00:24:31] Speaker A: An appropriate Terry.
[00:24:32] Speaker B: A Terry I could root for, instead of just a guy who's there.
[00:24:36] Speaker A: A wet blanket. He's just a DB Sweeney. He gets the and credit, though. And DB Sweeney.
[00:24:41] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:24:41] Speaker B: So what was he known for?
[00:24:43] Speaker A: Is he like a teen? He was, like, kind of famous for a bit.
[00:24:47] Speaker B: The cutting edge. Fire in the sky.
[00:24:49] Speaker A: No, man, cutting edge.
[00:24:50] Speaker C: That's what it is.
Eight man.
[00:24:53] Speaker A: Cutting edge is like a famous.
[00:24:55] Speaker B: Hey, he was in a baseball movie, so of course, the. Of course the toddfather had to get him.
[00:25:00] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:25:01] Speaker A: No, he was the. He was the lead in.
[00:25:02] Speaker C: That's right.
[00:25:03] Speaker A: The cutting edge. That was a big.
[00:25:06] Speaker C: Was a popular. Oh, man.
[00:25:08] Speaker A: Skating romance movie.
[00:25:10] Speaker B: He was in swamp shark.
[00:25:12] Speaker A: Oh, now that's a movie I can get behind.
[00:25:16] Speaker B: He was in two baseball movies. He was in hardball with Keanu Reeves.
[00:25:21] Speaker C: Okay. All right, DB.
[00:25:23] Speaker A: Well, much like Cog has a glowing sword in the movie. Medieval spawn here has a glowing sword.
[00:25:30] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:25:30] Speaker A: Also, I feel like cog in the movie is like a. Is an amalgamation of cog, medieval spawn, and then the cog from the dark ages. Cause in the movie, he has, like, armor. He has, like, he has, like, chain mail that he puts on at the end. And he looks like a Templar knight or something.
[00:25:48] Speaker B: When was the dark ages coming out?
[00:25:51] Speaker A: It was right about that time.
[00:25:52] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:25:52] Speaker B: Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense because, like, you know that the Todd father was sitting there writing a book and it was like, oh, shit, we gotta get this in the movie too, guys.
[00:26:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:00] Speaker C: And there was an action figure.
[00:26:01] Speaker A: There was a Lord Cagliostro action figure that they was released. I think it was a mail away exclusive because they keep showing in the back of all the issues that I've been reading.
[00:26:09] Speaker C: Oh, nice.
[00:26:10] Speaker A: It's like a mail away. But he looks pretty cool and he has, like, the chain mail and everything.
[00:26:14] Speaker B: You should try to mail away now and see if they'll honor it.
[00:26:17] Speaker A: Like the Pizza Hut coupon from, like, the Ninja Turtles video game.
[00:26:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:23] Speaker A: If I was at a Pizza hut and someone brought that in, I'd be like, all right, I'll get you a pizza.
[00:26:28] Speaker B: You'd have to be a dick to not do it. Be like, hey, I mean, if you could keep from opening the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles VHS from 1991 for almost 40 years, you deserve it.
[00:26:40] Speaker A: It's so funny how things change so quickly.
[00:26:43] Speaker C: Cause, God, I did a play where.
[00:26:47] Speaker A: One of the props was, like, boxes.
[00:26:48] Speaker C: Of VHS, and people were just.
[00:26:51] Speaker A: They would just give them away. And now places are selling them for like, five or $6 a pop.
[00:26:55] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:26:56] Speaker A: Now that they're, like, popular again or, like, retro, it's just. It's funny. It's funny how that goes.
[00:27:01] Speaker B: It's weird that people would want to go back to vhs, man. VHS sucked when VHS was the popular format.
[00:27:07] Speaker A: I went through that. Cause I found for $10 a tv.
[00:27:11] Speaker C: That was a VHS VCR combo at.
[00:27:16] Speaker A: A thrift store, and I bought it.
[00:27:18] Speaker B: Oh, nice.
[00:27:18] Speaker A: Because I thought I'd like buying old VHS and watching them and, like, it was interesting. Like, it was really interesting to watch Jurassic park on VHS. Cause it was. Felt like I was a kid again, but it wasn't better. Yeah, no, it definitely was like, it's not like vinyl. And I guess some people think it is.
[00:27:33] Speaker C: I don't know.
[00:27:34] Speaker A: I can see maybe for some, like, cheap budget horror movies how there's that, like, warm quality to it.
[00:27:38] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't know.
[00:27:41] Speaker A: I mean, there are a lot of movies I remember from VHS, but I.
[00:27:44] Speaker B: You also gotta have kind of a shitty television, too. Because if you have a really high quality television, then it doesn't fill the whole frame.
And then you're like, oh, he's gotta.
[00:27:54] Speaker A: Be a CRt TV.
[00:27:55] Speaker B: Yeah, definitely.
[00:27:57] Speaker C: They don't even.
[00:27:57] Speaker A: I don't think they make those anymore.
[00:27:59] Speaker C: No, you have to.
[00:28:01] Speaker B: I mean, the, the last one Wanda and I had was one of those.
[00:28:06] Speaker C: Gigantic flat screen ones that.
[00:28:09] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, we only got because the people who lived in our apartment for before us didn't want to move it.
[00:28:16] Speaker A: Yeah. They were so heavy and they were impossible to move because the front was so front loaded. Like glass was the only heavy part.
[00:28:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:23] Speaker C: I.
I helped so many of my.
[00:28:26] Speaker B: Neighbors over the years carry that exact same model of television to the dumpster.
[00:28:32] Speaker A: Because it was like the $40 at Walmart one.
[00:28:35] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:28:35] Speaker B: Cuz they would just like walk. They would be trying to get it to the trash can or they'd knock on the door and they'd be like, hey, man, I got. Can you help me carry this to the dumpster? It's just so fucking heavy. It was like, yeah, yeah. You had to like flip it over so the glass was on the bottom and carry it like that.
[00:28:48] Speaker C: Right.
[00:28:50] Speaker A: Well, medieval. Medieval spawn would be able to just carry it over his head.
[00:28:53] Speaker C: Yeah. Shit.
[00:28:54] Speaker B: Yeah. He would just pick.
[00:28:55] Speaker A: He carried under one arm or he.
[00:28:57] Speaker B: Would just like skewer it with his sword and then carry it like a shish kabbah.
Because he doesn't know from television, Johnny.
[00:29:04] Speaker C: His medieval.
He doesn't.
[00:29:07] Speaker A: He would just be like, what is this magic?
[00:29:09] Speaker B: Yes, yes. He was like, it's. It's hell. Creatures in a glass case.
[00:29:16] Speaker C: He would cut.
[00:29:17] Speaker A: He would cut it much like he's cutting the Cindevar here.
[00:29:19] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:29:20] Speaker B: Oh, man, that's a nice.
[00:29:21] Speaker C: Just like cuts the shirk cuts his.
[00:29:26] Speaker A: Little tube open his little goo tube.
[00:29:28] Speaker C: And I love this.
[00:29:29] Speaker A: Like, he pops in, come here. A coward. And they fight. And it says, the scorch expects the.
[00:29:34] Speaker C: Beast to fall back when it, which.
[00:29:36] Speaker A: Will open it to a counterattack. And then it shows all their faces, like, surprise.
[00:29:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:29:40] Speaker A: And it goes.
[00:29:41] Speaker C: It doesn't.
[00:29:43] Speaker B: These things expected me to kneel.
[00:29:47] Speaker C: Boom.
[00:29:48] Speaker A: And he does like a shockwave.
[00:29:49] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man, that's a straight up Power Rangers villain move right there.
[00:29:56] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:29:57] Speaker B: Like I could almost see. I can almost see Rita Repulsa cackling with glee over in the background.
[00:30:03] Speaker A: And it's the classic, like team. Like you always have to have, like they have to get their asses kicked early on, like real hard.
[00:30:09] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:30:09] Speaker B: Cause it gives them something to fight.
[00:30:11] Speaker C: For it gives them something to avenge.
[00:30:14] Speaker B: Oh, so what you're telling me is the X Men were named that because they needed to do it.
I couldn't even get through it.
[00:30:23] Speaker A: Cause they needed to. What?
[00:30:24] Speaker B: Cause they needed to avenge the death of somebody.
[00:30:27] Speaker C: But, no, I was.
[00:30:29] Speaker A: Oh, no, I was talking about the. I was talking about the scorch. Who else would I be talking about?
[00:30:33] Speaker B: Oh, obviously, you were talking about the Justice League.
[00:30:35] Speaker C: League.
[00:30:35] Speaker B: They have to avenge justice.
[00:30:37] Speaker A: I was talking about Justice League. Dark.
[00:30:40] Speaker B: Justice League. Dark.
[00:30:41] Speaker A: My lady Zatanna.
[00:30:42] Speaker C: Oh, I know, bunk.
[00:30:44] Speaker B: Cause it's got. They got, like, swamp thing and Constantine on that team, man. I fucking love that team.
[00:30:50] Speaker A: He's such a. Oh, man. I've been reading green hell, or what's it called?
[00:30:54] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. Swamp thing green hell, yeah.
[00:30:57] Speaker C: I got the first.
[00:30:58] Speaker A: I read the first one. I got the second one.
[00:30:59] Speaker C: I haven't read it yet, but I'll.
[00:31:01] Speaker A: Probably get some time to read this weekend.
[00:31:03] Speaker C: It's good. It's real good. It's, uh.
[00:31:06] Speaker A: I love that magazine format. That big format.
[00:31:08] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:31:09] Speaker C: It's.
[00:31:10] Speaker B: It's real fun that they're, uh. They've.
They're letting just, like, individual creators be like, here's three issues in an oversized book. Just fucking have fun. It'll be extra canonical, so you don't have to worry about anything fitting in with the current other titles. And just, like, have at it.
[00:31:31] Speaker A: That evil swan thing that pops up in the first issue is gnarly.
[00:31:34] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:31:35] Speaker A: It, like, pops up and rips up all those guys out in the ocean is fucked up.
[00:31:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Doug mankey is. Oh, man, he makes.
[00:31:42] Speaker C: He makes good looking, disgusting stuff. It's.
[00:31:46] Speaker A: I would say so. Yeah.
[00:31:47] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:31:47] Speaker A: So the sin devourer is doing the classic team. Gotta beat him down first. Everyone's just, like, flying through the air, like, blah.
[00:31:55] Speaker B: Gotta beat him down. Punch the scorched.
And soul crusher is down. Johnny Soul Crusher is down.
[00:32:02] Speaker C: I repeat. I repeat.
And he picks up the weapon.
[00:32:06] Speaker A: I love a little hobby in the background with the soul crusher gun. That's kind of cool to see him use a modern weapon.
[00:32:11] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:32:12] Speaker B: It's got the crackling electricity around it.
[00:32:16] Speaker A: That means when I post a picture of this episode, I can post Javi with one of the guns from the pack. He can have a futuristic gun.
[00:32:22] Speaker B: Yeah, he can have the court gun.
[00:32:25] Speaker C: I love you.
[00:32:25] Speaker A: Get the court gun. I know you have a court gun. I'm gonna give you the court gun just so you can take it.
[00:32:31] Speaker B: No, don't. Don't. You gotta. I've cuz then. Then I can't. I can't envy it and make jokes about it all the time. It will then lose all its power over me.
[00:32:43] Speaker A: I wanna send devourer. I wanna send devourer.
[00:32:46] Speaker C: Action figure. Yeah.
[00:32:48] Speaker A: With spawn grip. Spawn grip. Action. Anti spawn grip.
[00:32:51] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:32:52] Speaker B: Has like a little button on the. On the shoulder that you press.
[00:32:54] Speaker C: And his hand just goes, well, his.
[00:32:57] Speaker A: Hands, like, everything's made out of plastic, but his hands made out of rubber. And his hand goes like, er. And like, closes.
[00:33:02] Speaker C: Yeah, man.
[00:33:03] Speaker B: They need to bring back action and action and figures.
[00:33:06] Speaker A: Oh, that's very controversial, Dan.
[00:33:08] Speaker B: I like the. I like the extreme poseability and articulation, but there's just something about, like, an action figure that does one little. One little thing.
[00:33:18] Speaker A: Yeah, I always like those.
[00:33:20] Speaker B: It's like the street sharks where the one I had, you. You push a little button and its fingernails go out.
[00:33:27] Speaker A: Oh, nice. I remember I had one.
[00:33:29] Speaker C: I had the hammerhead. Oh, nice.
[00:33:32] Speaker B: That's the one that its mouth opened, right?
[00:33:34] Speaker C: Orchard all over.
[00:33:37] Speaker A: The hammerhead's face, like, shot forward like a hammer.
[00:33:41] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:33:41] Speaker C: Oh, nice.
[00:33:42] Speaker A: No, my brother had. There was one, his name, like jaws, and he was the one that if you push down on his fin, his mouth would open. I mean, all their mouths were open.
[00:33:49] Speaker C: But his, like, chomped. Yeah.
[00:33:52] Speaker A: Because each one had, like you said, each had one feature.
It's funny that you mentioned that because.
[00:33:57] Speaker C: It was actually controversial in the Star wars world, if you can guess it.
[00:34:03] Speaker A: Because episode one came out. The action figures did not have, like, features. They were, like, pretty collector looking and really good figure line. The episode one toy line is excellent, but one of my favorites. But the didn't sell very well. Like, famously tons and bargain bins. Just like, tons of Boston asses flooding the bargain bin.
They haven't. They're all worth, like the same amount they were in 1999, except for a few. But I just. That's not why I like them.
[00:34:34] Speaker C: I just like them because they're good figures.
[00:34:36] Speaker A: But between then and episode two, they're like, okay, we're gonna add action features back so kids will like them. And the collectors lost their fucking minds. They're like, what the fuck is this? The missile shoots out of Anakin. It's like a forged thing. God damn it. They got so bad.
[00:34:50] Speaker B: Like, you're making toys for children. How dare you?
[00:34:53] Speaker A: Why are you making my toys fun again?
[00:34:55] Speaker B: I never in a million years would have guessed that there was a controversy over anything Star wars related.
[00:35:01] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:35:01] Speaker A: Oh, they're still mad about the toys. All they do is bitch about the black series or the vintage series. Everyone.
[00:35:07] Speaker C: They're always bitch about Star wars toys.
[00:35:09] Speaker B: Didn't people start getting upset when they started doing reproductions of the Boba Fett toy? Because now they're like, oh, my messed up one is now worthless.
[00:35:19] Speaker C: And it's like, are you still gonna play with it?
No.
[00:35:25] Speaker A: Well, that's why they have those new packages. They don't have the plastic, so you have to open it if you wanna enjoy it.
[00:35:31] Speaker C: Sucker.
[00:35:33] Speaker A: But if I had a soul crusher. Well, I do have a soul crusher, and it is open. But if I had a sin devour.
[00:35:38] Speaker C: Figure, I would open that puppy up.
[00:35:40] Speaker A: Yeah, open that puppy and beat up some scorched.
[00:35:43] Speaker B: Hopefully it would have removable vials. It could be like those transforming turtle toys that came with a little vial of ooze.
[00:35:51] Speaker A: It was, like, translucent. I thought that was so cool.
[00:35:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:54] Speaker A: Anything translucent in a toy was always.
[00:35:56] Speaker B: Awesome that you, like, immediately lost.
[00:35:59] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:36:00] Speaker B: It also came with, like, pizzas that you. You could separate the pizza and turn them into throwing stars.
[00:36:06] Speaker A: I remember that I had all those. The transforming ones were, like, one of the best ones.
[00:36:10] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:36:11] Speaker B: Yeah, they were.
[00:36:12] Speaker A: Natasha's transforming here because she's got plague quill in her body.
[00:36:17] Speaker C: The plague.
[00:36:18] Speaker A: The russian reproduction of plague spawn, if.
[00:36:20] Speaker C: We recall, shot her with a quill.
[00:36:22] Speaker A: And shot her with his memories a few issues ago.
[00:36:26] Speaker C: So she's still going through it. Yeah, she's going through some shit.
[00:36:31] Speaker A: And then Jessica's just like, fuck this shit. And decides just to, like, call it to Redeemer and does this badass, like, give me cover and just, like, jumps over him.
[00:36:42] Speaker C: Yoink.
[00:36:43] Speaker B: Yeah, the action on this spread is just great.
[00:36:46] Speaker C: No, it's great.
[00:36:47] Speaker A: And it's just like, Jessica's a badass.
[00:36:50] Speaker B: She's definitely. She's totally spider manning here.
[00:36:54] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:36:55] Speaker B: Because that's how they do Spider Man a lot.
[00:36:56] Speaker C: It's great.
[00:36:58] Speaker B: Jessica is the scorched answer to Spider man.
[00:37:02] Speaker A: Yeah. Likes to sit on buildings and look into the distance. Likes to jump around.
[00:37:06] Speaker B: She likes to get upside down. Kisses. Wait, oh, does she?
[00:37:12] Speaker A: Well, hang me upside down.
[00:37:15] Speaker B: Although she would be the one who's upside down.
[00:37:17] Speaker A: Well, stand me in the rain.
[00:37:22] Speaker B: You're gonna go work at the moonlight diner and get yelled at by your.
[00:37:26] Speaker A: Boss and then not get the part on Broadway.
[00:37:30] Speaker C: Aw, that already happened.
[00:37:33] Speaker B: At least not until the second movie.
[00:37:35] Speaker C: The sounds of the second movie with all apparent credulity. But then.
[00:37:39] Speaker B: So, yeah, Jessica pulls out one of these vials that's fueling the sin devourer. And then just medieval just comes in and, like, liquefies its head with one punch.
[00:37:48] Speaker C: Yep. It just pops.
[00:37:51] Speaker B: Or is this, like, arm.
[00:37:54] Speaker A: It looks like rips his arm off, knocks his arm off. That's what it is. Just like, bam. Knocks it off. And this is where our pincer maneuver talk comes from, from the opening of the episode.
[00:38:04] Speaker B: That follow up second wave is medieval because medieval is that wave.
[00:38:08] Speaker C: Boom.
[00:38:09] Speaker A: And he punches him into a leaping reaper who's about to, like, shakow him Shaka.
[00:38:19] Speaker B: And then boom. Oh, man.
[00:38:20] Speaker A: He basically cleaves him in half and then he explodes.
[00:38:24] Speaker B: I like how, like, it's all just, like, lines of light except for his face.
[00:38:29] Speaker A: His face at the top, his cranium exploding. Yeah.
[00:38:33] Speaker B: So the action for in the line of sin devourers, they would have an exploding version of the sin devourer, and its action would be. Its face flies off.
[00:38:45] Speaker A: Oh, that'd be great. The battle damaged version.
[00:38:48] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:38:48] Speaker B: Oh, man.
The one super cool toy at my grandmother's house was the battle action he man.
[00:38:57] Speaker C: That, like, you know, you rolled the.
[00:39:00] Speaker B: Little thing at his chest and, like, every time you hit him, it would, like, spin around to look like he was more damaged. Oh, it was so great.
[00:39:07] Speaker A: I never really had any he man because my brother was only two years older than me, so I didn't have any older siblings that would have been into it.
[00:39:14] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:39:15] Speaker B: My sister wasn't big into he man. She was more into she ra, but she Ra was also just, like, a.
[00:39:21] Speaker C: Couple years too early for her, so.
[00:39:24] Speaker B: She was just on the tail end.
[00:39:25] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:39:26] Speaker A: I mean, their toys were around. I think maybe I got some from, like, a cousin, but I didn't have that many.
[00:39:31] Speaker B: They were. They were around that they were the casts off and they were in the cheap bins. So everybody would make fun of you if you had he man toys. Like, you're still playing with He man and now. Shit, dude, the he man.
[00:39:44] Speaker A: Those he man toys are crazy, man.
[00:39:46] Speaker B: I know.
[00:39:48] Speaker C: The.
[00:39:48] Speaker B: The guy who lives in town, Tim Seeley, he's. He's a massive masters of the universe fan. He occasionally shares pictures of his. His action figure collection online, and it's.
[00:40:00] Speaker C: It's amazing. He's like, guys, look at this.
[00:40:03] Speaker B: Don't buy me any he man action figures.
[00:40:06] Speaker C: I've got it.
[00:40:07] Speaker B: If I need it, I'll get it myself. Thank you.
[00:40:10] Speaker A: That's awesome.
This whole, like, sequence, I just want to point out, you know, we went through it, but, like, this whole sequence from, like, when them just. This whole action sequence is so great because it's like, comes in, explodes, comes back in. It's just. It's really well beat out and really well done.
[00:40:27] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:40:27] Speaker B: Well choreographed, I think some people.
[00:40:29] Speaker A: Well choreographed, they say, yeah, it's well paced.
[00:40:33] Speaker B: And we're shit, dude. Johnny, we are only on the staple page. There's so much that's happened already.
I thought for sure we were at the end, because someone.
[00:40:42] Speaker A: And I thought so too.
[00:40:43] Speaker C: Especially.
[00:40:44] Speaker B: Especially sometimes with scorched, it's like half a thing happens and you're done, and it's like, wait, what?
[00:40:49] Speaker A: But Spawn's like, yeah, someone sent him. This is a test.
[00:40:52] Speaker B: Natasha reveals that the buyer, or K, is responsible for having sent this in.
[00:40:59] Speaker C: Devourer.
Right. And reveals that he has an eye patch. Yeah.
[00:41:09] Speaker B: Technically, he would have two eye patches, wouldn't he?
[00:41:12] Speaker C: Mm. Yes, I guess so. So it's a little.
[00:41:17] Speaker B: A little misleading. I like these. I like these angels.
[00:41:19] Speaker A: Well, we'll find out in a second. Maybe old one had an eye patch, because we'll find out when we get.
[00:41:24] Speaker C: To Todd's toy talk. Yeah.
But, yeah.
[00:41:28] Speaker A: Natasha's, like, this buyer.
[00:41:30] Speaker C: They call him k, and he wants.
[00:41:32] Speaker A: To use these monsters in their own holy war to wipe everybody out.
[00:41:36] Speaker B: His house is called the k hole.
[00:41:39] Speaker C: Don't go.
[00:41:39] Speaker A: Don't fall in a k hole.
[00:41:41] Speaker B: Don't fall in that k hole, dude.
[00:41:43] Speaker A: There's only room for one in a k hole. I don't even know what ketamine does. I know it's supposed to zap your depression away.
[00:41:48] Speaker C: I think it just, like.
[00:41:49] Speaker B: I think it gives you couch luck.
[00:41:51] Speaker A: Is it just like, it's a horse tranquilizer or something?
[00:41:54] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a tranquilizer, so hell, yeah.
[00:41:57] Speaker C: Tranquilize me up.
[00:41:58] Speaker A: Well, I know, like, doctors do it, though, like, to people to, like, it's supposed to, like, reset your brain.
[00:42:03] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:42:04] Speaker B: Oh, man. It's an expensive treatment, though.
[00:42:06] Speaker C: Jeez. Oh, is it?
[00:42:08] Speaker B: There's, like, two clinics in town that do it, and obviously they don't take insurance. And it's just like, it's. How much per session?
[00:42:15] Speaker C: Holy crap. Yeah. Well, I'm just gonna go to a.
[00:42:18] Speaker A: Farm and get some then.
[00:42:20] Speaker B: You're gonna. Gonna go to the farm? Oh, man.
[00:42:23] Speaker C: Oh, man.
[00:42:24] Speaker B: Growing up in Oklahoma, just go get all of the animal supplies at the farm and home.
[00:42:29] Speaker A: Yeah, we would. We own some land out in Coeda, but we didn't have any, like, animals. But we would go to the farm supply store. But I just never really messed around with that stuff. So this is kind of the background because Natasha has all the quill spawn knowledge. She knows all this background. And plus they just know because he was dealing with the old soul crusher there.
[00:42:50] Speaker C: But this kind of reveals that curse.
[00:42:53] Speaker A: Is tied into Khrushchev.
[00:42:57] Speaker C: And so, like, they were like helping.
[00:42:58] Speaker A: Each other and they were trying to get soul crusher into it. I keep messing up Sindivar and soulcrusher.
[00:43:06] Speaker B: Sin crusher, soul devourer. There we go.
[00:43:08] Speaker A: Oh, there you go. That'll make it real easy.
[00:43:10] Speaker C: Yeah, he's the.
[00:43:13] Speaker B: He's the one who. Who roped in the starving angels. And we get a repeat of that. That wickedly gruesome extraction of the anti spawn serum.
[00:43:25] Speaker C: Poor Eddie.
[00:43:26] Speaker A: Eddie's just getting her ripped out.
[00:43:27] Speaker B: And spawn. Spawn sums it up quite nicely. So he wants to control us, control the dead zones and kill everything in between.
[00:43:34] Speaker A: That's a cool spawn face. It's like nice and detailed.
[00:43:37] Speaker B: Yeah, it is.
[00:43:38] Speaker C: It's like painted.
[00:43:39] Speaker B: Yeah, I was thinking that exact same thing.
[00:43:42] Speaker C: And then Natasha pukes. Oh, man. Yeah.
[00:43:46] Speaker B: Cuz, yeah, that serum just doesn't.
[00:43:50] Speaker C: It doesn't do human. It just doesn't. It doesn't do human.
[00:43:53] Speaker A: And we remember a few issues ago, medieval uses cleric magic, but Redeemer says it's not enough.
[00:43:58] Speaker B: And then at the end of the page, we got smeagol following the little hobbitses.
[00:44:05] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. A little shmeeagol plague.
[00:44:09] Speaker B: His only wish is to catch a fish.
[00:44:11] Speaker C: So juicy. Swee.
[00:44:13] Speaker A: And that fish is Natasha. Cause he can smell those plague quills in her.
[00:44:17] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:44:17] Speaker B: And he's like a homing device.
[00:44:19] Speaker C: Homing device.
[00:44:20] Speaker A: And I love how it's like, this is. This is the real plague spawn. Not some russian replica.
[00:44:26] Speaker C: This is.
[00:44:26] Speaker B: This is quality. This is the good shit.
[00:44:29] Speaker A: Certified lover boy plague spawn.
[00:44:34] Speaker C: Oh, man.
[00:44:34] Speaker B: All of his quills are. His quills are crazy.
[00:44:38] Speaker A: And if you think that's enough of a cliffhanger, it's like, oh, yeah, end of the issue. You get a character reveal cliffhanger. It's gotta be over, right?
[00:44:47] Speaker C: Nope.
[00:44:48] Speaker A: As Kevin Spacey said in Superman returns.
[00:44:52] Speaker C: Wrong.
[00:44:55] Speaker B: Mister Luthor. Mister Luthor.
[00:44:57] Speaker C: Wrong.
[00:45:00] Speaker A: Oh, Kevin Spacey. Whoops, forgot.
[00:45:02] Speaker C: Forgot for a second.
[00:45:03] Speaker B: Oh, I totally just went back to Gene Hackman and, oh, as Lex Luthor and the original Christopher Reeves Batman.
[00:45:12] Speaker A: No, there was a meme in that Superman returns. Kevin Spacey in one of the trailers yells like, wrong. And it was a meme. It was an early Internet meme on, like YTMNd and other nerdy places back in, like, 2005 or six.
[00:45:26] Speaker B: Yeah, one of those. One of those times.
[00:45:29] Speaker C: No, but we would be wrong. It's not over yet. No.
[00:45:33] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:45:33] Speaker C: So we got a.
[00:45:35] Speaker B: We're in Romania, and we learned that the rising sun's warm touch, while soothing to most acts like acid being poured from above. So we're working with. We're working with some serious, serious bad dude here. Right?
[00:45:49] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:45:49] Speaker A: It's blood, man. This is blood.
[00:45:52] Speaker B: And him. Whampire, as they say.
I believe that's the technical term for it. Right?
[00:45:58] Speaker C: A whampire wampear.
[00:46:00] Speaker B: He's a. He's. Nicolas Cage's next role, is what he is.
[00:46:06] Speaker C: I thought you were saying he was, like, a vampire.
[00:46:10] Speaker A: Like he had an empire because he was talking about oil and textiles and.
[00:46:13] Speaker B: Stuff, or he's a vampire in that he just wants you to wake him up before you go. Go.
[00:46:20] Speaker C: Oh, my God.
[00:46:24] Speaker A: He's a. He's a nosferatu.
[00:46:30] Speaker B: He's a dracula, as some people would say.
[00:46:34] Speaker A: Yep. As he sure is.
[00:46:35] Speaker B: Purduer Ben on Blake. Chick would say. He calls him a dracula. He's a dracula dude.
[00:46:41] Speaker C: He's a dracula, dude.
[00:46:42] Speaker A: And he's. He's his shadow player. So he was at Dubai with a wealthy reception. Cause he's like, you know, rich. Owns all these companies, like, all these shadow players do.
[00:46:51] Speaker C: Every company is owned by heaven and hell.
[00:46:54] Speaker B: The first thing you think of when you think of Dubai is very dark.
[00:46:59] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:46:59] Speaker A: That guy probably had a really rough time there, man.
[00:47:02] Speaker B: He had to have been, like, in the sub. Sub. Sub basement of one of those buildings, because it be bright over there, dude.
[00:47:10] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:47:10] Speaker C: I can't imagine.
I guess there's always a night he.
[00:47:14] Speaker A: Wakes up and he's like, how the hell am I here?
Someone transported me thousands of miles away.
[00:47:19] Speaker B: And then the faintest drop in the room's temperature tells him he is no longer alone. So not only is he a dracula dude, but he's a thermometer man.
[00:47:28] Speaker C: And then we turn the page, and.
[00:47:30] Speaker A: It'S our man haunt.
[00:47:32] Speaker C: Yeah. This is his introduction into the scorched comic.
[00:47:37] Speaker A: This is his reintroduction to spawn, right?
[00:47:40] Speaker C: As far as I know, yeah, yeah. He's just chilling in the chair.
[00:47:45] Speaker A: Just chilling in a chair next to a lamp.
[00:47:50] Speaker B: He's got a, you know, hear blood side of the story, and then he can give him the pennants of, you know, a couple of Hail Marys and a rosary.
[00:47:58] Speaker C: A rosary Reed, actually.
[00:48:00] Speaker B: Rosary involves a lot of Hail Marys, so three. Three rosaries and active contrition.
[00:48:05] Speaker C: And he'll be good. Oh, he.
[00:48:07] Speaker A: Okay, he did appear earlier in this, like, new spawns universe. He was in that little short thing at the end of king spawn number one. Cause I was trying to remember.
[00:48:12] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:48:13] Speaker B: With the. With the worst date ever with words, where Lilith.
[00:48:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Knives him to the wall.
[00:48:19] Speaker C: Right.
[00:48:20] Speaker B: Right.
[00:48:21] Speaker A: Then the new redeemer comes and saves him and is like.
[00:48:24] Speaker C: And then Daniel kill. He's like.
[00:48:26] Speaker A: His brother's like, I have no idea who that dude was.
[00:48:29] Speaker C: Yeah, man.
[00:48:32] Speaker B: Fucking haunt's got massive feet.
[00:48:35] Speaker C: Look at that. Yeah, he's got giant feet real long.
[00:48:40] Speaker B: It's a good thing he's got sort of an ersat symbiote, because, man, it must be very difficult to buy shoes.
[00:48:46] Speaker C: And he talks about.
[00:48:47] Speaker A: He says, I'm walking out of this room in these big ass shoes. So the question is, will you?
[00:48:54] Speaker C: Yeah. Dun dun dun.
[00:48:57] Speaker A: Sculched.
[00:48:58] Speaker B: Score. Scorched skull.
[00:49:00] Speaker A: The scorched skull, the little symbol there. And then the spawning ground.
[00:49:06] Speaker C: Spawning ground.
[00:49:09] Speaker A: And this is one of the best ones. So we get some art, some action figures and letters. It's all three.
[00:49:16] Speaker C: Yeah. And the first letter from Matthew, he.
[00:49:19] Speaker A: Actually highlights someone that we follow on Instagram. Jeffmonk.
[00:49:23] Speaker C: Yeah, first.
[00:49:25] Speaker A: The first letter from Matthew highlights Jeff Monk. Monk illustration, who we follow on Instagram. Really good guy. Does a lot of cool spawn art.
[00:49:33] Speaker C: Was recently doing cool, overt kill with.
[00:49:37] Speaker A: Like, a green light shining on him. That was really awesome. So, I mean, if he hasn't already, I imagine he'll be.
He might be drawing for spawn soon.
[00:49:46] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:49:47] Speaker B: I mean, this. This cover is definitely a great audition for it. I like that.
[00:49:51] Speaker C: I like that he wrote King above it just cause.
[00:49:54] Speaker A: Hell, yeah.
[00:49:55] Speaker C: Just cause he is dope. King spawn is dope. Hail to the king, baby.
[00:50:01] Speaker B: Thomas says this piece is epic. And a 9.8. Nice.
[00:50:06] Speaker C: See, I don't.
[00:50:07] Speaker A: That's the one thing I don't understand. Hey, if you're listening and you do.
[00:50:11] Speaker C: The comic grading, I know Mike Jones does, but if I just understand the.
[00:50:17] Speaker A: Amount of pressure of getting it mailed there and not getting damaged, I would.
[00:50:21] Speaker C: Just be so worried. Yeah.
[00:50:24] Speaker A: You like mail in a safe, or.
[00:50:25] Speaker C: What do you do? Yeah, I don't know.
[00:50:27] Speaker B: Because, I mean, literally, I have received so many things in the mail that say, do not bend, and they've been taco'd and shoved into the mailbox.
[00:50:35] Speaker A: Yeah. I just. I'm like, oh, man.
[00:50:37] Speaker C: I guess you insure it. I don't know. Yeah, I guess you insure it.
[00:50:40] Speaker B: I guess you also have to use like, lots and lots and lots of cardboard, so it's impossible to bend.
[00:50:46] Speaker C: Yeah, cardboard and bubble wrap. And especially, you know, sometimes, like, the.
[00:50:53] Speaker B: Shops that order things, like the distributor will just, like, throw it loosely in a big ass box and it'll come pre damaged.
[00:51:01] Speaker C: So it's tough.
[00:51:04] Speaker A: A thing I don't understand.
[00:51:06] Speaker B: Mostly because I'm a clumsy doofus and everything I have is damaged in some way.
[00:51:13] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:51:15] Speaker B: I literally. I literally broke my favorite coffee mug at work this week and smelled coffee all over myself at the same time.
[00:51:23] Speaker A: Oh, no.
[00:51:25] Speaker B: It sucked.
[00:51:26] Speaker A: I'm sorry, David.
[00:51:28] Speaker B: It was in the middle of a welcome reception to a new person, to the department. And everybody stopped talking and looked at me.
[00:51:36] Speaker A: Well, I know what someone's getting for Christmas next year.
[00:51:41] Speaker B: Oh. Oh, it's so much my favorite coffee mug that I bought three of them when I bought it the first time. So I've got a. I've got a backup.
[00:51:50] Speaker A: That's a John Fisher maneuver there.
[00:51:52] Speaker C: I gotta get a backup.
[00:51:54] Speaker B: As soon as I showed it to Wanda, wanda was like, you take your ass back to the store and you get another one because you know you're gonna break it and you know you're gonna be pissed off when you do. And I was like, okay, yeah, you're right.
[00:52:05] Speaker A: And then we have Angela, the angel.
[00:52:08] Speaker C: Oh, my God.
[00:52:10] Speaker A: Writing in all the way, guys.
[00:52:12] Speaker B: Writing in all the way from the tree of the. The world's tree.
[00:52:17] Speaker C: All the way from the guardians. The gas guards ship.
[00:52:22] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly.
[00:52:24] Speaker C: Any plans for more? So Angela, she's like, hello.
[00:52:28] Speaker A: Calls in and says, or calls in, writes in. She smiles great. And with Nick's gone, we have other cool female heroes in the books. Think you make that happen.
[00:52:35] Speaker C: And, yeah, that eventually happens.
[00:52:39] Speaker A: And we get Nick's comes back. So, yeah, Nix comes back. And better than ever, one of my new. One of the new breakout characters to.
[00:52:47] Speaker C: Spawn, I would say could still maybe.
[00:52:49] Speaker B: Use some more female characters, though.
[00:52:51] Speaker A: But no, it always, always can always. But I like Nick's. I like Nick's where she's going. I like that.
[00:52:57] Speaker C: She's just like, it's nice to have.
[00:52:59] Speaker A: Someone who likes Al but is against him, is just really sad about it. Like, she's just like, man, come on, man.
[00:53:05] Speaker C: You know? Yeah.
[00:53:06] Speaker A: That's kind of a fun dynamic.
[00:53:09] Speaker B: It is real cool.
[00:53:10] Speaker C: And that issue where she goes into the green is fun. Yeah. Oh, man.
[00:53:13] Speaker B: It's a great issue.
[00:53:14] Speaker C: I love the. It's very.
[00:53:16] Speaker B: It's very swamp thing, the whole thing.
[00:53:19] Speaker C: And we got a some.
[00:53:20] Speaker A: So Thomas says yes. Yeah. Yeah, they're gonna be coming.
[00:53:23] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:53:25] Speaker B: He promises it will all be worth it.
[00:53:26] Speaker A: And then this other guy, Diego, writes.
[00:53:28] Speaker C: In and is like, are you gonna.
[00:53:30] Speaker A: Basically ask, are you gonna kill off Gunslinger?
[00:53:32] Speaker B: Please don't. He's like, I'm mainly attached to both these guys, and I was wondering if it's unwise to get too attached.
[00:53:40] Speaker A: I also like that he asks if we'll ever see gunslinger happy in the future. It's such a sweet question. I'm like, aw, I do want to see Javi happy.
He's just always, like, sad about. He's sad about, like, being. Not being able to read.
[00:53:54] Speaker B: He's sad because he can't read that there are three dollar burgers right in front of him.
[00:53:58] Speaker C: I know.
[00:53:59] Speaker A: It is what it is, as Javi says.
[00:54:02] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:54:03] Speaker B: And then we got a couple of images of, you know, the gunslinger action figure, and then is that the Kickstarter.
[00:54:09] Speaker C: Medieval spawn right there? I don't know what that is.
[00:54:11] Speaker A: It's cool, though. It might be a spawn. The dark ages figure.
[00:54:14] Speaker B: That is a great figure.
[00:54:17] Speaker C: I like it. Yeah. And it's cool that Todd answers this one. Yeah.
Thanks for your kind words.
[00:54:24] Speaker A: Thanks for buying my toys and comics, and. Yeah, they're going to be around for a long while.
[00:54:28] Speaker C: Yeah. Oh, man. I figured, yeah. Good, good, good. That's so nice, Todd.
[00:54:35] Speaker A: And then we get, you know, more spawns. Universe and our classic image classics and avatar, the last airbender toy ad that.
[00:54:42] Speaker C: We had for so long. Yeah.
[00:54:44] Speaker A: And then on the back preview for the next issue with a badass cover.
[00:54:48] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:54:49] Speaker B: Oh, man, I love how crumpled Gunslinger's.
[00:54:53] Speaker C: Hat is on the next cover. Yeah.
[00:54:55] Speaker A: It's absorbed barons. That detail is really crunchy and good.
[00:54:57] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:54:59] Speaker B: Oh, I also like how he's got the cigarette.
[00:55:01] Speaker A: I got some food on the back of this issue.
[00:55:04] Speaker C: Oh, no, that's okay.
[00:55:06] Speaker A: No staple page fell out. This one's pretty beat up. This is an early scorch, and I was super.
[00:55:10] Speaker C: I was reading it a lot.
[00:55:12] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that scorched number five.
[00:55:26] Speaker C: Next up, we have. What do we got, David? Oh, we got.
[00:55:31] Speaker B: We got ourselves a main title, number 337.
[00:55:34] Speaker A: Spawn 337, just from a few months ago.
[00:55:38] Speaker B: Yeah, January 2023. By the way, it's a Rory McConville on call or Barbary joint.
This team is incredible. It's so hard to pick which team is better right now, whether it's Lewis and Segovia or Lewis and Fernandez or McConville and Barberry or McFarland and Booth actually gunned in my head. I'd probably choose Lewis and Fernandez just because.
[00:56:07] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, that's my fave. I like, I mean, they're all good.
[00:56:11] Speaker A: They all pair very well.
[00:56:13] Speaker C: Yeah, they all do.
[00:56:14] Speaker B: We've got a couple of. Couple of covers for this one. We got a names that I honestly haven't seen before. We got a Raymond gay cover and a Marcille turlal.
[00:56:23] Speaker A: You've had Raymond Gaye before?
[00:56:25] Speaker C: We did, yeah, once. Oh. Oh, well, a few weeks ago.
[00:56:29] Speaker A: I mean, I had it. I don't think you had it, but.
[00:56:31] Speaker B: I had a gay cover.
[00:56:33] Speaker C: I have both, but I have the open.
[00:56:38] Speaker A: My reading copy is the raven gay.
[00:56:40] Speaker C: Cover, which is awesome. It's like spawn powering up his necro powers with bats in the background.
[00:56:48] Speaker A: We haven't seen bats in a while in spawn.
[00:56:50] Speaker B: We haven't seen bats in spawn since one particular Batman.
[00:56:55] Speaker A: Yeah, this December.
I guess that's appropriate. He gets a shout out in this issue.
[00:57:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man, that is a. That is a wicked cover.
[00:57:04] Speaker C: That is a wicked cover.
[00:57:06] Speaker A: And it's got, like, he's standing on top of some, like, gross hell ground.
[00:57:10] Speaker C: Like, with, like, pores all in it. Oh, man.
[00:57:13] Speaker B: I like, uh, I like the look of those spikes on his. On his, uh, his action, his. His battle mode.
[00:57:19] Speaker C: Uh.
[00:57:20] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, they're super long and, like, they look very painful.
[00:57:24] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:57:24] Speaker A: I like the bee cover because I.
[00:57:26] Speaker C: Like the color purple. Oh, yeah. My favorite color.
[00:57:31] Speaker A: And I love this purple cover.
[00:57:33] Speaker B: If you haven't read the color purple by Alice Walker, do yourself the favor and go read the color purple by Alice Walker. It is fucking incredible.
[00:57:42] Speaker C: I have not read that.
[00:57:44] Speaker B: It's real, real goddamn good.
It suffers from being one of those books that a lot of people are forced to read in school. And therefore, if you're forced to read something, you're not gonna really care about it as much.
[00:57:59] Speaker C: Sure.
[00:57:59] Speaker B: But it's excellent.
[00:58:01] Speaker C: It's very good. Okay. Good to know.
Yeah, but, yeah, yeah.
[00:58:07] Speaker B: Purple, purple book.
[00:58:08] Speaker C: Purple, purple book, purple cover.
[00:58:10] Speaker A: Purple spawn. I love the purple title treatment.
[00:58:13] Speaker C: Totally.
[00:58:13] Speaker A: Daniel spawns, like, he's standing on, like, some crazy thorns.
[00:58:17] Speaker C: He's in the. Yeah, he's like a briar patch or.
[00:58:22] Speaker A: Like, some evil forest. That's a loaded. That's a loaded thing.
[00:58:26] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It looks like he's got, you know, uh, whatever the fuck Tim Curry was in ferngully attacking those thorns there, though.
[00:58:35] Speaker C: Nexus. Nexus or Hexus.
[00:58:39] Speaker A: Hexus.
[00:58:40] Speaker B: Hexus. We made that exact same mistake before.
[00:58:43] Speaker A: All I just remember is I thought I was clever as a child. So I was like, oh, he's like oil and it rhymes with Texas. I get it.
[00:58:48] Speaker C: Just. Just cause.
[00:58:50] Speaker B: Just cause the only thing Johnny remembers about that movie is, of course, Christy, because that's the fairy lady.
[00:59:01] Speaker A: Yeah, it seems like you're the one that remembers that.
[00:59:03] Speaker B: I remember the bat.
[00:59:05] Speaker A: Yeah, I fucking like the bat.
Which bat do you prefer, that bat or the bat in Anastasia?
[00:59:12] Speaker B: Oh, oh, Bartok from Anastasia. 100 hundred percent.
[00:59:17] Speaker C: Okay. Fucking goddamn love Bartok.
[00:59:22] Speaker B: Oh, sure, blame the bats.
[00:59:28] Speaker C: And a hiya. And a whole key crew. Sir.
[00:59:36] Speaker A: I forgot you're a big Anastasia fan.
[00:59:38] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Wanda and I watched it a lot.
[00:59:43] Speaker C: It's a good movie, don bloom. It's real good. It's real good.
[00:59:48] Speaker B: Kick ass soundtrack, too.
[00:59:50] Speaker A: I was always so curious by it.
[00:59:51] Speaker C: Because it wasn't Disney and it was always like.
[00:59:55] Speaker A: It was always like, mysterious, you know?
[00:59:57] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:59:58] Speaker A: And it wasn't mysterious, but it was just like, oh, that's not Disney. Anytime there was a not Disney animated movie, it was like, whoa, cool.
[01:00:04] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:00:05] Speaker B: But your grandmother, your grandmother always called it a Disney movie just because that was synonymous with animation for a long time.
[01:00:10] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:00:10] Speaker A: A lot of people thought it was a Disney movie, probably, but they're not. They weren't film connoisseurs like me, David in 6th grade.
[01:00:16] Speaker B: Yeah, well, Johnny, Johnny here. I was looking up ferngully to make sure I got the names right, and I clicked on images and it's giving me the option to go to Ferngully deviantart. Yes, please.
[01:00:28] Speaker C: No.
[01:00:31] Speaker A: Don'T do it, David.
[01:00:32] Speaker C: Don't do it.
[01:00:33] Speaker B: It's gonna blow up my computer. You're gonna be able to hear the.
Hear the fucking bonks all the way in, like, montana. Krista is her name, not Krista.
[01:00:43] Speaker C: Is that what I said?
[01:00:44] Speaker B: I think I said Kristen.
[01:00:45] Speaker C: Krista the fairy. Yeah. Nope.
[01:00:47] Speaker A: I didn't have. I don't care about Krista.
[01:00:50] Speaker C: Never had a brush on Krista as a kid.
[01:00:53] Speaker B: What about Thumbelina? Was it Thumbelina just, uh.
Cause it was voiced by Charro. Right.
[01:01:02] Speaker A: Thumbelina was voiced by Charro.
[01:01:04] Speaker B: I do believe Thumbelina was voiced by Charo in the Don Bluth movie.
[01:01:08] Speaker C: I had no idea Thumbelina movie. Cause isn't that white?
[01:01:13] Speaker A: It says she's in Thumbelina.
[01:01:14] Speaker C: She's in Thumbelina, Charles.
[01:01:17] Speaker A: Like the cat. She's like the cat or something.
[01:01:19] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, she's.
[01:01:20] Speaker B: Yeah, it looks like she's a frog. And it looks exactly like Charles.
[01:01:25] Speaker A: Yeah, she's misses toad.
[01:01:27] Speaker B: That's the thing. Yeah, yeah.
[01:01:29] Speaker A: I was like, I don't think she was thumbelina. Like, that was like, Jodi Benson.
[01:01:33] Speaker B: Charo is amazing.
If you don't like Charo, there's something wrong with you, dude.
[01:01:39] Speaker A: I remember that frog getting a lot.
[01:01:41] Speaker C: Of play in the trailer with Charro.
[01:01:43] Speaker A: That's probably why you remember it.
[01:01:44] Speaker C: I just remember in the commercial, so.
[01:01:46] Speaker A: We pop open king or not king. Spawn. Oh, pop open spawn. Spawn.
[01:01:52] Speaker B: Oh, king.
[01:01:53] Speaker A: Spawn o. Just spawn o, the world record breaking comic, as it says up top.
[01:01:58] Speaker B: Yes, it does.
[01:01:59] Speaker A: So we've got Roy McConville on script, plot with Todd McFarlane, additional script.
[01:02:03] Speaker B: Uh huh. Yep, yep, yep.
[01:02:05] Speaker A: Carlo barbarian art.
[01:02:08] Speaker B: Tom o.
I'm trying to do it at the same time.
[01:02:12] Speaker C: Sorry.
[01:02:12] Speaker A: You go. You go. You go.
[01:02:13] Speaker B: No, I'm trying to do it. I'm trying to do it so that we see it at the same time, because we've got the same brain, but I'm just mumbling. So no. Tomorrow on lettering, we got Orzakowski doing it again.
[01:02:26] Speaker A: J. David Ramos on colors.
[01:02:28] Speaker B: Yeah, doing that. We got the COVID artists we've already talked about. Todd McFarland is the creative director. Thomas healy, editoring in chiefing, cleaning it up, adding notes. I have a feeling that Brian should change the name of his title on Instagram to editor in chief. Spelled cheef.
[01:02:49] Speaker A: Oh, like keef.
[01:02:51] Speaker B: Like. Like chief. Like Chiba. Like cheap ass weed. Editor in chief.
[01:02:57] Speaker A: But he doesn't have cheap ass weed. He has good ass weed.
[01:03:00] Speaker B: Yeah, I know, but that's what makes it funny, damn it.
[01:03:02] Speaker C: Okay.
[01:03:06] Speaker A: Makes the best cheap caramels around, don't you?
[01:03:08] Speaker B: Don't you know what funny is, Johnny?
[01:03:10] Speaker A: Gosh, I do.
[01:03:13] Speaker C: And I'm gonna leave.
[01:03:14] Speaker B: Please explain fun to me.
[01:03:16] Speaker A: Never.
[01:03:17] Speaker C: Well, I will.
[01:03:19] Speaker A: Spawn will. Cause this issue is a lot of fun. And, like, what you were saying about the art fitting. Like, carlo Barbario is thinking about it this time. It's just like, because Spawn is so plotty in so many characters. It's just so clean, and it really helps tell the story very well.
[01:03:31] Speaker C: And I think that's very good for.
[01:03:34] Speaker A: Spawn right now, because, like, even those earlier when it was Jason Sean Alexander, it's not. It's a little more.
Spawn's a little more ethereal at that point. I don't know. It's just. It fits. It fits.
[01:03:49] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:03:49] Speaker B: It was a little more atmospheric than it was ploddies, so.
[01:03:52] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:03:53] Speaker A: And it's kind of become.
[01:03:54] Speaker C: There was a lot of plot in.
[01:03:55] Speaker B: It, but it had a little bit of additional breathing room around the edges of the plot, where for.
[01:04:02] Speaker A: Whereas main Spawn's pretty driven of, like, where every issue is like a reveal or a big movement of a piece on the board. Pretty much, yeah.
So this is the opening. We're in an alley as Spawn wants to do.
[01:04:15] Speaker B: You forgot Johnny.
Previously in Spawn.
[01:04:19] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[01:04:20] Speaker B: While sin's invasion of Omega island starts to crumble, Al is betrayed by one of the few people he ever considered a friend.
[01:04:28] Speaker C: You stole it right from me.
[01:04:30] Speaker B: That's good, Saigor. You too.
[01:04:33] Speaker C: I know.
[01:04:34] Speaker B: Oh, my heart. My heart.
[01:04:36] Speaker A: I think he's considering Mark.
[01:04:40] Speaker B: Yeah, that'd be hilarious.
[01:04:41] Speaker A: He's like, Cygar's my only friend. Not you, Mark.
[01:04:43] Speaker B: So what mo, what you doing?
[01:04:48] Speaker A: I'm ordering a pizza, goddammit.
[01:04:50] Speaker C: Again.
[01:04:52] Speaker B: So we got a then. And this takes place before spawn 333.
[01:04:58] Speaker A: So this is all before the big attack on spawn.
So this is kind of give us.
[01:05:03] Speaker C: A little more context because it was.
[01:05:05] Speaker A: Kind of weird that haunt and medieval.
[01:05:08] Speaker C: Were going along with it, but we're.
[01:05:09] Speaker A: Finding some stuff out.
[01:05:11] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:05:12] Speaker B: I like how it just starts with spawn having freshly beaten up some sort of crook.
[01:05:18] Speaker A: Medieval shows up. And this is kind of fucked up because they're talking about Mark.
[01:05:22] Speaker C: Yeah. And he's there, but he's not there because he's in that suit. Yeah.
[01:05:29] Speaker B: Mark Rosen, whose body I've been using as a host.
[01:05:33] Speaker A: Actually, that answers the question, because we were wondering. We were like, when did Spawn find that out? And now we know in that one issue, he was like, I know. You're beautiful, spawn, by the way.
[01:05:42] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:05:43] Speaker B: Now we'll find out who else is downing is recruiting.
[01:05:49] Speaker A: And so then we cut to spawn, going to visit haunt. And haunt's like, yo, whenever you showed up in haunt the series, I guess this. I'm assuming this is what this is referring to.
[01:05:58] Speaker C: You told him to get lost.
[01:05:59] Speaker A: I did notice Thomas Healy was reading.
[01:06:01] Speaker C: Up on some haunt a couple weeks.
[01:06:02] Speaker A: Ago on Instagram, so we might be getting some haunt stuff.
[01:06:05] Speaker C: Oh, nice.
[01:06:06] Speaker B: Nice.
[01:06:08] Speaker A: But he's basically like, yeah, you told me to get lost. I came for your help.
[01:06:12] Speaker C: And he's like, no, I asked you.
[01:06:12] Speaker A: To be useful, and now you can be.
[01:06:18] Speaker B: Oh, man. Al the king of the king of using people. Pedantry, I guess. Or pedantry is not what I'm looking for, but, like, he's like, no, no, no. That's not what I said. I said this other thing that just barely means something different.
[01:06:34] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:06:38] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[01:06:40] Speaker A: He's like, he's gonna ask you to join.
[01:06:42] Speaker C: Act like you're joining yeah.
[01:06:44] Speaker B: And it's like he's gonna say that he's gonna help, but if he was gonna help, he would have helped you already. And it's like, but Al. And Al's like, I'm helping, God damn it.
[01:06:54] Speaker A: Sponsor. Like, there's someone else behind him.
[01:06:56] Speaker C: He's not sure who.
[01:06:57] Speaker B: Oh, and also, Mark Rosen's already joined him.
[01:07:00] Speaker A: Then we hardcut to now.
[01:07:02] Speaker C: Oh, man.
[01:07:03] Speaker B: Actually, right before the hard cut. I like that scene of them in front of the brick wall. And we got Spahn being all moody and haunt doing a little spider man pose there.
[01:07:13] Speaker C: And then haunt's brother just, like, ghosting up.
[01:07:19] Speaker B: Ghosting up a little higher than everybody.
It's a real nice shot just hanging out up there.
[01:07:24] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[01:07:26] Speaker B: But, yeah, the hard cuts to right after Spahn's been jumped and all the good stuff.
[01:07:32] Speaker C: And then he's just in the middle of it. He knew this plan was going to be risky in media fight.
[01:07:37] Speaker B: I do believe you referred to it.
[01:07:39] Speaker A: Once in media fight. And he didn't expect the return to Nix is one thing he didn't expect.
[01:07:44] Speaker C: Nobody did.
[01:07:46] Speaker B: Nix is now equivalent to the spanish inquisition, where no one expected it, and.
[01:07:51] Speaker A: He risk loses everything.
[01:07:53] Speaker C: This is a great spread. It is great.
[01:07:56] Speaker B: It's just everybody fighting. I like, like, the close up on medieval's face here.
[01:08:01] Speaker C: I like the.
[01:08:02] Speaker A: Oh, I didn't even notice that. He's, like, way over there.
[01:08:05] Speaker B: Yeah, Cygor is going for the big donkey Kong smash.
[01:08:12] Speaker C: Yep.
[01:08:14] Speaker A: And Han's, like, using his, like, long, creepy finger goo.
[01:08:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Overt kills. Trying to get ahold of that. That Wrigley ass, little Al Simmons. He's like, they still stop moving so I can punch you.
[01:08:30] Speaker A: He's trying to stop him from ordering a pizza.
[01:08:33] Speaker B: He says, we have pizza at home. We don't need to order more food.
[01:08:39] Speaker C: No.
[01:08:39] Speaker A: Ordering pizza Friday.
[01:08:44] Speaker C: That's good.
[01:08:44] Speaker A: That's the John Fisher method.
[01:08:46] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:08:47] Speaker A: So medieval starts to, like. He kind of covers, spawns. Like, get out of here.
[01:08:50] Speaker C: You gotta stop Nyx.
[01:08:51] Speaker A: She's got the dead zones.
[01:08:53] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:08:53] Speaker B: And then it looks like Al's gonna take himself the. The shadow express to.
[01:08:58] Speaker C: Yep.
[01:08:59] Speaker B: To get to where Nyx is.
[01:09:00] Speaker A: He's about to shadow out of there.
[01:09:02] Speaker B: He knows what lies in the hearts of men.
[01:09:04] Speaker C: Indeed he does. What dark.
[01:09:06] Speaker B: What darkness. What darkness lies in the heart of men?
[01:09:09] Speaker C: Is that what it is? I think that's what it is.
[01:09:12] Speaker A: The shadow knows. Who knows what evil.
[01:09:15] Speaker C: It's evil.
[01:09:17] Speaker A: Who knows what evil looks in the hearts of men? The shadow knows. You know, I remember that from the action figure commercial for the movie.
[01:09:27] Speaker B: Nice. Does it have, did it come with a knife suspended on a little bit of. A little bit of fishing wire so that way it looks like it's floating around in midair?
[01:09:37] Speaker A: No, it did come with guns, though. I had two shadow action figures. I had one that was just the shadow.
[01:09:44] Speaker C: And I had one that was, like invisible shadow. So it was, like, translucent. Nice.
[01:09:49] Speaker A: Like I said, I always loved those translucent action figures.
[01:09:52] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:09:52] Speaker A: And he would have. He had a button that when you, when you press it, his arms just, like, barely moved, so he was, like, shooting his double guns.
[01:09:59] Speaker B: Oh, nice.
That's awesome.
[01:10:03] Speaker A: We get the, after we cut to the aftermath of this, of the Omega.
[01:10:06] Speaker C: Island fight, we get a big.
[01:10:07] Speaker A: We get a nice butt crack from one of the omens.
[01:10:10] Speaker B: Yeah, I was about to say that. These omens are just tearing into these vampires there.
[01:10:15] Speaker C: Yep.
[01:10:16] Speaker B: They're enjoying it way too much.
[01:10:18] Speaker C: They're using, like, spikes, like, just, like.
[01:10:21] Speaker A: Stakes just to, like, stab them.
[01:10:24] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:10:24] Speaker B: They're chewing on their shoulders. They're, uh.
[01:10:27] Speaker C: Man, it's like being dropped in a.
[01:10:30] Speaker A: Piranha tank and, you know, clown still watching. They can't even see what's going on because sin and Abel have incinerated the cameras in their area.
[01:10:39] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:10:41] Speaker B: And then what do we have here? Oh, Johnny.
[01:10:43] Speaker C: I have here the guy from the next page.
Ready to surrender, dark redeem.
[01:10:49] Speaker A: What were you saying about it before on Mike, about the action figure? You mentioned how hefty it was, right?
[01:10:53] Speaker B: He's a hefty boy. He's a hefty boy.
[01:10:55] Speaker C: He's. Yeah.
[01:10:56] Speaker A: I always liked, I like I have a dark redeemer as well.
[01:10:59] Speaker C: Nice, solid feel.
[01:11:00] Speaker B: And you thought you could take the throne without me?
[01:11:03] Speaker A: Well, also, I like, my theory was it has to be like that.
[01:11:06] Speaker C: Hefty.
[01:11:06] Speaker A: Because those wings. And I think it's a marvelous feat of design and engineering that it stands pretty well.
[01:11:12] Speaker C: It's. If you balance the wings right and get the base on there, it's a great fucking figure.
[01:11:18] Speaker B: There really should have been much more of a run on these than there were.
[01:11:22] Speaker C: I know.
[01:11:23] Speaker B: If you're listening, you owe it to yourself to go get yourself a darker gamer figure.
[01:11:26] Speaker C: This thing is dope.
Yep.
[01:11:29] Speaker A: And then you can't. And then you can bash him together with your sin. That's coming out in a few months.
[01:11:33] Speaker C: Ha ha.
[01:11:34] Speaker A: Cause then he's gonna be flying off the shells.
[01:11:37] Speaker B: Die, brother.
[01:11:39] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:11:40] Speaker B: You wouldn't be able. You won't be able to throw a rock without hitting a sin corner.
[01:11:48] Speaker A: That's what we need. We need, like, those ninja turtles mutating toys, like you were talking about, but he goes from kaglioso to sin.
[01:11:55] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:11:56] Speaker A: So, like, you open his cloak, and.
[01:11:57] Speaker C: He'S got the arbor underneath.
[01:11:59] Speaker A: I had a Bruce Wayne that went from Bruce Wayne to Batman.
[01:12:02] Speaker C: The Michael. Michael Keaton.
[01:12:04] Speaker A: Bruce Wayne.
[01:12:05] Speaker C: Like, he had, like, a coif you'd put on him. It was like, snap on.
Oh, nice.
[01:12:12] Speaker A: And it looked ridiculous because the armor didn't look quite right, but, like, because it was, like, way bulkier because it snapped on him.
[01:12:19] Speaker C: But it still looked pretty good. But did, uh.
[01:12:21] Speaker B: Did the face. Did the face have the, like, the black makeup around the eyes to make it?
[01:12:27] Speaker A: No, it did not.
[01:12:29] Speaker C: Because the.
[01:12:30] Speaker B: The reveal at the end of.
[01:12:31] Speaker C: What was it?
[01:12:32] Speaker B: Is it Batman returns or is it the first Batman where it's cuts to him and he doesn't have the black eye makeup on? And it's like, whoa.
[01:12:41] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:12:41] Speaker A: That always happens with Batman and ass.
[01:12:44] Speaker C: It's. It's.
[01:12:45] Speaker A: Well, Robert Pattinson. They show it. He's got the stuff on. He got the grease paint on there.
[01:12:49] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, he's gritty. Yeah.
[01:12:53] Speaker B: He's gotta make up for being a sparkly vampire somehow, right?
[01:12:57] Speaker A: Oh, leave Robert Pattinson alone.
[01:12:59] Speaker B: Robert Pattinson's a great fucking actor.
[01:13:01] Speaker C: Yeah, he's awesome.
[01:13:02] Speaker B: I'm not gonna hold it against him that he made a shit ton of.
[01:13:05] Speaker C: Money doing something that he made a.
[01:13:07] Speaker B: Shit ton of money doing.
[01:13:07] Speaker A: I mean, Twilight, the movies are arguably the best thing to come out of Twilight. Cause they're pretty goofy. The books, I think, are maybe evil.
[01:13:15] Speaker B: But, man, I remember when those books started coming out and just, like, everybody at OSU was reading them, and I was like, what?
[01:13:22] Speaker A: I tried.
My ex girlfriend. My girlfriend at the time, I tried and did not. Did not enjoy the first one.
[01:13:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I didn't even bother.
[01:13:32] Speaker C: Didn't bother.
[01:13:33] Speaker A: You're on the right side of history with that one.
[01:13:35] Speaker C: Aha.
[01:13:36] Speaker B: Suck it.
[01:13:37] Speaker A: Should have just been reading Harry Potter.
[01:13:39] Speaker B: The whole time, over and over and over and over again. I just can't get enough of it. I don't even reread the book. I have. I buy a new set of books.
[01:13:48] Speaker A: Able gets stabbed by cataclysm.
[01:13:50] Speaker B: We forgot to. We forgot to cover that. Uh, that April is, you know, obviously has the upper hand on sin, and sin's trying to weasel his way out of it by, like, being, oh, yeah, brother, could you ever forgive me? I didn't mean to kill you. Fuck. Fuck. You did.
[01:14:03] Speaker A: Fuck you did I carry this guilt for a millennia. Oh, you share for goodness.
[01:14:10] Speaker B: And then, yeah, Cladicus comes by and stabs able right in the throat.
[01:14:14] Speaker C: It's like shanks. Literally shanks him.
[01:14:18] Speaker A: You dare touch me, demon?
And so sin's just like, okay, this is my moment. He got stabbed. I'm going to unleash all my power from the last few months. Just said last few issues.
[01:14:30] Speaker C: That'd be hilarious.
[01:14:32] Speaker B: I like that. The explosion of necroplasm out of his eyes makes it look like he's got the symbiote.
[01:14:39] Speaker C: Oh, I didn't even.
[01:14:41] Speaker A: Yeah, it does.
He looks very spawny there.
[01:14:44] Speaker C: Yeah, it does. And then he just unleashes a giant.
[01:14:48] Speaker A: Boom, a giant beam.
[01:14:50] Speaker B: We get one of my favorite things. It's a bit of a body part.
[01:14:53] Speaker C: Just off.
[01:14:55] Speaker B: Just off. It's like his foot is left.
[01:14:59] Speaker A: It's like flying off. Bye bye.
[01:15:02] Speaker B: Ta ta for now.
[01:15:05] Speaker A: This is something that's interesting because it's just in this issue, cataclys has the.
[01:15:09] Speaker C: Red voice because in the other one.
[01:15:11] Speaker A: And then most recent issue doesn't.
[01:15:13] Speaker C: So I don't know if that was something. I don't know. I don't know.
[01:15:17] Speaker B: Maybe it just fit better with the.
[01:15:19] Speaker A: Well, maybe they were trying it out and they're like, nah.
[01:15:21] Speaker B: Yeah, we got a. We got sin doing his Michael Jordan Gatorade commercial bit again.
[01:15:26] Speaker A: Yeah, he's leaking like a sieve. Leaking like a sieve.
[01:15:29] Speaker C: It's just like, how.
[01:15:31] Speaker B: Why is he not, like, wiping it off? I don't think I could sit there with. Just. Cause I'm assuming that necroplasm is a little bit goopy so that it could stay. I don't think I could just sit there with a fucking bunch of goop on my pate there.
[01:15:44] Speaker C: What is he doing?
[01:15:45] Speaker A: I mean, speaking of nineties toys, I think it would have the consistency of, like, that slime that came with Ninja turtles.
[01:15:51] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[01:15:52] Speaker A: Or ghostbusters. Like, I feel like that's the consistency of it.
[01:15:56] Speaker B: Like a water. Like a diluted gak, maybe a little bit.
[01:16:00] Speaker A: Yeah, like something. Yeah, you get some gak. Yeah, like a diluted gak. That stuff is like a little more runny gak.
[01:16:05] Speaker B: Or like when you used to make that non newtonian fluid in kindergarten with.
[01:16:11] Speaker C: Wait, oobleck, we called it.
Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, I bet it has.
[01:16:19] Speaker A: It kind of has the feeling of that.
[01:16:21] Speaker C: I bet. Yeah. Gross. Gross.
[01:16:23] Speaker B: It makes me. I feel like I have to wash my face now after seeing this because I can feel it on me already.
[01:16:28] Speaker C: And I'm like, I don't like it.
[01:16:30] Speaker B: It's like walking around with sticky hands.
[01:16:32] Speaker A: And they're the leak, and he's leaking and freaking.
[01:16:35] Speaker C: And they're gonna go. They're gonna go find that.
[01:16:38] Speaker A: The fissure under the island, because there's enough distractions.
[01:16:41] Speaker B: He's literally leaving a trail of necroplasm behind him.
[01:16:44] Speaker C: Yep.
[01:16:47] Speaker A: So, boom, we're on the other side of spawn. Shadow blasted himself.
[01:16:51] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:16:53] Speaker A: Back. Shadow blasting.
[01:16:54] Speaker B: I don't even know what that means.
That's a good term for it. Shadow blasting. I like the composition of this page.
[01:17:02] Speaker C: It's real beautiful.
[01:17:04] Speaker B: And spawn, you know, the first couple of. First five locations he visited were untouched. And he was like, ha ha. I guess I overestimated Nick's. But then, like, after that, all of.
[01:17:13] Speaker A: Them, he just happened yesterday when I was like, ha. I edited the episode. Ha ha ha. And then I was like, oh, no, no. I edited the wrong episode.
[01:17:24] Speaker B: I slept too long.
[01:17:26] Speaker A: Exactly.
[01:17:29] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:17:29] Speaker A: That's got to be pretty disappointing to.
[01:17:31] Speaker C: Find out that she's got half of them. Yeah.
And then he finds her next. This needs to stop.
[01:17:40] Speaker A: Only I have enough power to control him. She's like, nope. You got too much power for one person.
[01:17:44] Speaker C: And I'm not taking it. Yeah, but he's all freaked out because he's.
[01:17:48] Speaker A: He's been. He knows what's coming. He's been on the other side.
[01:17:51] Speaker C: He's.
[01:17:52] Speaker A: He's been seeing all these images of Batman.
[01:17:56] Speaker B: He's like, people talk about this black beast, and then there's this with this. A Batman spawn crossover. Johnny, I don't remember that. In the todd or the Frank Miller one.
[01:18:07] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. No.
Well, yeah, it actually is Spawn. You're right, because that one's called Spawn Batman.
[01:18:15] Speaker B: But this is Batman Spawn.
[01:18:17] Speaker A: I know it's incorrect.
[01:18:18] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[01:18:19] Speaker B: No, I was. I keep getting confused. So.
[01:18:21] Speaker C: Ha ha. Suck it. Suck it, Thomas.
[01:18:24] Speaker A: No, no.
[01:18:25] Speaker B: I accidentally got something right.
[01:18:29] Speaker C: Spawn Batman.
[01:18:30] Speaker A: Spawn Batman. I'm gonna get my toy cover copy with my pre order of the new wave. I can't wait.
[01:18:36] Speaker B: Oh, hell, yeah.
[01:18:37] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. The.
[01:18:37] Speaker B: The new wave of british spawn toys. I was trying to make a new wave of british heavy metal jokes there, but it didn't work.
[01:18:47] Speaker C: New wave.
[01:18:48] Speaker A: I always just think, like, new wave is, like, eighties stuff now. I guess there is new wave for different genres as well, but new wave is kind of just a genre.
[01:18:55] Speaker C: Yeah, it is. It is one of my favorite genres. It is new wave.
[01:19:01] Speaker A: Hell, yeah.
[01:19:02] Speaker C: Yeah. Nice. I don't.
[01:19:05] Speaker A: I favorite bands? Like fucking oingo, boingo.
[01:19:08] Speaker C: Yeah, I guess it's.
[01:19:09] Speaker A: I think they're pretty new wave. It's just like eighties pop. That's like kind of artsy fartsy is.
[01:19:14] Speaker C: What I think of it. Yeah.
[01:19:17] Speaker A: Like pretentious eighties pop. A little bit.
Hey, hey, that's me.
[01:19:23] Speaker C: Pretentious eighties pop culture. You get John Fisher.
[01:19:26] Speaker A: Just mix it all together.
[01:19:28] Speaker B: You google pretentious eighties pop culture, and you get John Fisher.
[01:19:31] Speaker C: This is a picture of me.
[01:19:32] Speaker A: It's a picture of the podcast.
But that's be more nice, I guess.
[01:19:37] Speaker C: It'D be more nineties. Yeah.
[01:19:40] Speaker A: Nix is looking sad, like I was talking about. She's just like. She feels betrayed by spawn.
[01:19:44] Speaker C: She's just like, damn, dude. Yeah, so she's, she's like, man, see it.
[01:19:50] Speaker B: Goodbye, Al. And she steps into another portal.
[01:19:53] Speaker C: Just leaves him.
Like all.
[01:19:55] Speaker A: I mean, leaves him. Cause he's pushing everyone away. Spawn, you wonder why you're always alone.
[01:20:00] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:20:00] Speaker A: You're pushing everybody away. This life takes a toll on all of them.
[01:20:05] Speaker B: He just watches her go and is.
[01:20:07] Speaker C: Like, man, this life.
[01:20:09] Speaker B: This life we both lead, it takes.
[01:20:11] Speaker C: A toll on us, doesn't it? Yeah.
[01:20:13] Speaker A: That's how I feel doing this podcast with you. No, I'm kidding.
[01:20:19] Speaker C: And then what do we get, David? We get.
No, we get that.
[01:20:26] Speaker B: We get the pundits. I'm going to stop with the blank page. It fucking pisses me off.
[01:20:30] Speaker A: Yeah. And also, it's just like, I have to explain it every time.
[01:20:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:20:35] Speaker A: What we'll say is, every time we see the pundits, we say, always read the pundits.
[01:20:38] Speaker B: Yeah, always read the pundits. We get some confusion here because I don't think I. Because we got talking about corrupt businessman at Ambrian, and that hasn't come to fruition yet.
[01:20:52] Speaker A: So, yeah, I'm interesting, I'm interested what this is like coming out here. It's something that's obviously going to be coming out.
[01:20:59] Speaker C: You got this.
[01:21:00] Speaker A: I wonder if Connor brisk. Is that like a play on Elon Musk?
I guess.
[01:21:05] Speaker B: I don't know.
[01:21:06] Speaker C: I mean, it wouldn't be untopical, but.
[01:21:10] Speaker B: Yeah, so we get the.
[01:21:13] Speaker A: And it's also made me very depressed when they started talking about how interest rates were ultra low and now they're ultra high because that happened in real life.
[01:21:22] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's almost as if these.
[01:21:25] Speaker B: Writers live in the world we live in, Johnny.
[01:21:27] Speaker A: It is. Spot is our world.
[01:21:30] Speaker C: I do.
[01:21:30] Speaker B: I do like that the middle pundit has gone from being much less catty and judgmental about what they're wearing to just being more of a, like, engaged sort of. We understand the generational problems that are happening around, you know, what is expected.
[01:21:49] Speaker C: In a workforce versus, you know, so.
[01:21:54] Speaker B: I like that the middle, the middle pundit has come around to being, you know, like, they're much like Buzzfeed, where Buzzfeed started as just some bullshit, but then actually did some hard hitting journalism.
[01:22:05] Speaker A: Or maybe like, Jon Stewart kind of situation.
[01:22:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Or like, or like, what is it? Teen Cosmo, teen vogue. Teen vogue.
[01:22:14] Speaker A: Teen vogue is now, like, the best magazine of all time.
[01:22:17] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah.
[01:22:18] Speaker B: So it's fun. It's fun to see that growth in them.
[01:22:22] Speaker C: But you know who doesn't have any.
[01:22:23] Speaker A: Growth is brock the shock fennel.
He's walking an auburn leopard skin like a leopard or leather suit jacket.
[01:22:35] Speaker B: I also like that he's, he's calling it a witch hunt. And then behind him on the screen is the, the most evil pilgrim I know.
[01:22:44] Speaker A: Those are scary pilgrims.
[01:22:46] Speaker B: Like, as if, as if pilgrims weren't evil to begin with.
[01:22:49] Speaker C: There's, there's that.
[01:22:53] Speaker B: He's been on the patriot tv for a while now.
[01:22:56] Speaker C: It's, uh, that's probably his own you.
[01:22:59] Speaker A: That's probably his YouTube channel.
[01:23:01] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:23:01] Speaker A: It looks like he's at a house. There's like, a shelf behind him.
[01:23:04] Speaker B: Yeah. There's a, there's a picture frame behind him on, like, a table.
[01:23:08] Speaker A: Yeah, he's definitely just at his house.
[01:23:10] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:23:11] Speaker B: Brisk is Ambry on?
[01:23:13] Speaker C: But, oh, speaking of the movie that.
[01:23:14] Speaker A: I just watched, so the pundits, the Crn pundit is, like, in it, like three times. Like, Terry feeds her information. It's like a plot point. I completely forgot. And she has the hair and everything. And when they're introducing her one time, brock the shock fennel goes across the screen. He's, like, yelling at the screen. He has the sunglasses. And I, like, literally, he went like, yeah, I was really tired.
[01:23:37] Speaker B: He's a Hellman.
[01:23:39] Speaker A: I was really tired. And that's why I didn't stand up and go, yeah.
[01:23:43] Speaker C: But I was laying down on the.
[01:23:44] Speaker A: Couch, and I went, yeah. Oh, yeah, it was funny because I was tired, because I had just, I was tired because I just watched a three and a half hour movie in the theater. I was tired from watching a movie. So I watched another movie.
I saw rr at the Alamo drafthouse. Oh, so good.
[01:24:05] Speaker C: Have you seen it?
[01:24:06] Speaker B: No, I haven't. It takes me, are you kidding? It takes me, like, 2 hours and 15 minutes to watch a 90 minutes movie.
[01:24:11] Speaker A: Sure, sure.
[01:24:12] Speaker C: I know, I know.
[01:24:13] Speaker B: The expansion of time it would take me to watch a three plus hour movie is just incredible.
[01:24:19] Speaker A: Actually, it has three acts in a pretty good way where you could kind of divide it into three viewings, and.
[01:24:23] Speaker C: It'D be almost episodic.
[01:24:25] Speaker B: Cause the last time my parents were up here, we watched Dune, and we all took a break in the middle of it to have dinner.
[01:24:33] Speaker A: Hey, there was an intermission at the draft house.
[01:24:36] Speaker C: I got to stretch my legs.
[01:24:38] Speaker B: Nice, nice, nice.
[01:24:41] Speaker C: So, yeah, that's. It's good.
[01:24:43] Speaker B: Some upcoming information about what's going to happen in further issues. We'll keep our eye on this Ambryon.
[01:24:49] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:24:50] Speaker A: This Connor briss character.
[01:24:52] Speaker B: Yeah, we're back. Then we go back to Omega island, and Dawn is breaking and clowns hanging.
[01:24:58] Speaker A: Out in, like, a Tim Burton suit.
[01:25:00] Speaker B: Yeah, like a. Like a Tim Burton tent.
[01:25:04] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like a Tim Burton tentacles. It's got, like, the black and white stripes, man.
[01:25:07] Speaker C: These. These omens are.
[01:25:09] Speaker B: I like how that one's got the little snaggle tooth. It just sticks out.
[01:25:13] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that's another of the pug inspired.
[01:25:17] Speaker C: I feel like. Yeah, yeah, they can't find sin. And then clown's like, gasp.
[01:25:24] Speaker B: The fissure.
[01:25:25] Speaker A: Of course. Of course. He is just like, to himself.
[01:25:31] Speaker B: It's like, so he knew about the fissure. You'd think he would have put somebody on it already.
[01:25:35] Speaker C: But there's a big battle going on.
[01:25:38] Speaker B: Sin and kaladocus are in a fucking.
[01:25:42] Speaker C: Subterranean tunnel and opens the fissure.
[01:25:47] Speaker B: Yeah, they'll be in the outer dimension. So sin's one of those. The outer dimensions. Better than the twilight zone, you guys.
[01:25:58] Speaker C: It's more adult.
[01:25:59] Speaker B: It's creepier.
[01:26:01] Speaker C: It's on David night.
[01:26:02] Speaker A: What it was called the outer limits.
[01:26:04] Speaker B: Johnny's a spoil sport.
[01:26:06] Speaker A: Oh, I thought you didn't know. I thought you said it wrong.
[01:26:09] Speaker B: No, I couldn't remember it.
[01:26:14] Speaker A: Yeah, the outer limits, it was like, the darker ones. It was always scarier.
[01:26:18] Speaker B: The only I didn't actually see any outer limits. But I do remember the advertisement where it's the dude sitting down to eat a steak in front of the television, and right when he's about to cut it, an eye opens and looks at him.
That's all I remember is the advertisement.
[01:26:34] Speaker A: It wasn't as classy as twilight zone. Twilight zone always had the better stories. It was a little more trashy, but they're both good. They have their place.
[01:26:41] Speaker C: Did you know, do you know something interesting that I found out? I guess you call it a journal.
[01:26:46] Speaker A: It's called bare Bones. And it's just like.
[01:26:48] Speaker C: It covers pulp exploitation, cinema, lost tv.
[01:26:54] Speaker A: Shows, just, like, various things like that.
[01:26:57] Speaker C: That you can't, like, usually find.
[01:26:59] Speaker A: And it does, like, almost academic deep dives on them. And I've gotten a few issues off Amazon. It's like a quarterly, I guess. I guess it would be academic journal. I don't know, but it's just really cool.
But one issue they covered, they were covering anthology shows, and they were covering.
[01:27:15] Speaker C: Like, unheard of ones.
[01:27:16] Speaker A: Roald Dahl had one in the UK.
[01:27:20] Speaker B: What?
[01:27:21] Speaker A: It was like a rip off of Alfred Hitchcock presents.
[01:27:23] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:27:23] Speaker A: Evidently, they were all, like, not very good, but I had no idea that that even existed.
[01:27:29] Speaker B: Roald Dahl was a crazy, crazy dude. Oh, yeah.
He had a book called my Uncle Oswald, which was literally about a guy wanting to make money from selling rich people's sperm. Like, rich enfables people's sperm. So that way people could have their children.
And it's literally he. He invents condoms and pays a prostitute to use them. So that way they could then freeze the sperm and use it to make lots of money by selling it to people. And it's like, what the fuck? What the fuck is this book?
[01:28:00] Speaker C: That is weird. Yeah, it's wackadoo.
[01:28:06] Speaker A: So they find the fisher. Underneath the ground.
[01:28:09] Speaker B: They find the John Fisher.
[01:28:10] Speaker A: They find the John Fisher. Your co host, John Fisher.
[01:28:13] Speaker B: They found Bobby Fisher.
[01:28:14] Speaker C: Hey, hey. That's where he was.
[01:28:18] Speaker B: That's how that movie ends.
And sin gives Cladicus an attaboy, which, you know, we know those attaboys are few and far between. Shit, he's got people working for him for hundreds of years who don't get attaboys.
[01:28:34] Speaker C: And just that classic, like, yeah, yeah.
[01:28:37] Speaker A: Once I'm king, you'll get all this stuff. Yeah, don't worry about it.
[01:28:41] Speaker B: And clown's forces arrive in the chamber moments later to find the fissure sealed shut.
[01:28:46] Speaker A: And then we get the ending of Lord of the Rings. The two towers where they're standing, looking out. And don't worry, there's still a long way to go.
[01:28:52] Speaker C: And they walk down the hill. Yeah.
[01:28:54] Speaker B: So it's just.
[01:28:54] Speaker A: Song starts.
[01:28:55] Speaker C: It goes.
[01:28:56] Speaker A: Once there was light, now pouring rain.
That's the song at the end of the two towers.
[01:29:04] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, definitely. It's probably my favorite lord of the Rings movie.
It's a good one. It's a good one.
[01:29:10] Speaker A: I mean, fellowship's really good, but I think the extended edition of Two Towers is my personal favorite. I think it's the most. Which is funny because it's the least.
[01:29:16] Speaker C: Like the book, but it's the best.
[01:29:18] Speaker A: It's the most action y movie. It's like the empire strikes back. It doesn't have a plot. It's just like people walking around.
[01:29:23] Speaker C: Yeah, you know, that's fine. That's fine.
[01:29:26] Speaker A: I love it. I mean, I love Empress strikes back. I love the two towers. Like, I balled when I remember being.
[01:29:30] Speaker C: In, like, it was like I was in high school. They were like, you know, I just.
[01:29:35] Speaker A: Didn'T cry at movies. And then, like, the part where, like, they ride out with Gandalf, I just, like, cried and, like, I cried, like, every movie made ever since. So. Yeah, thanks a lot, Peter Jackson.
[01:29:46] Speaker B: You broke the seal. That's the problem.
[01:29:48] Speaker A: Broke the seal.
[01:29:48] Speaker C: No, he did.
[01:29:49] Speaker B: You just can't ever. You just can't ever cry in a movie because then once you do, you're primed for it.
[01:29:54] Speaker C: It was just too beautiful. Yeah.
[01:29:57] Speaker B: And so sin and Kladakus walk into the hell sunset.
[01:30:03] Speaker A: Into the hell sunset. They're in the 9th realm. They gotta get all the way to the first realm. They got a long way to go.
[01:30:10] Speaker B: And miles to go before they sleep.
And then we're back in the compound with medieval and haunt and spawn base.
[01:30:20] Speaker A: Everyone's chilled out a little bit, and.
[01:30:22] Speaker B: Yeah.
And then I'll be in like, hey, okay. I'll get you that stuff. I'll do some stuff for you. Haunt, give me a day to do some stuff, and then we'll do some stuff.
Medieval's like, hey, you want me to talk to Mark for you? And Al says, I don't need mark ever again.
[01:30:38] Speaker C: Oh, my God, what a jerk face.
[01:30:40] Speaker B: And then it storms away.
He's like, I'm going to my room, and I'm never going to talk to Mark ever again.
[01:30:47] Speaker C: I know. Come on, Spawn.
[01:30:49] Speaker A: He was your only friend.
[01:30:51] Speaker C: Yeah, you locked him in a.
[01:30:54] Speaker A: You locked him in a house for year.
For, like, a year and a half.
[01:31:00] Speaker B: Then we also get a nice little follow up with. Between Nixon and Jim.
[01:31:04] Speaker A: Yeah, Jim got away, or was blasted away.
[01:31:07] Speaker B: And Jim's like, you're angry.
Very observant, man.
I have a feeling that Nick's kind of. Kind of thinks Jim's just a dummy that she needs sometimes.
[01:31:20] Speaker A: Well, I think it's a dummy that the green kind of forced her to use. Because the green resurrected him.
[01:31:24] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:31:25] Speaker A: And she's like, she resurrected her, so she's like, okay, I guess I got to work with this guy. She's just the employee that, like, kind of sucks.
[01:31:32] Speaker C: Yeah, it's like.
[01:31:32] Speaker B: But I guess, I mean, it's either. It's either take you or do it by myself. And one way is infinitely easier, so.
[01:31:39] Speaker A: And we get the reveal that they're hiding, that they're hiding out in the green world, which will play into next issue big time.
[01:31:47] Speaker B: They're hanging out in the cool world.
[01:31:50] Speaker A: With all the cartoon people in. Brad Pitt.
[01:31:52] Speaker B: Brad Pitt.
[01:31:55] Speaker A: We got the spawn power meter, 1379.
[01:31:58] Speaker C: So still going up, I believe. Holy shit.
[01:32:02] Speaker B: Oh, that's so close to.
[01:32:04] Speaker C: There's a, there's a experimental metal song.
[01:32:09] Speaker B: Where they go, 1375.
And it would have been better if it were 1379.
[01:32:18] Speaker C: If this, if this was a movie.
[01:32:19] Speaker A: That would be the end.
[01:32:21] Speaker B: Yeah, that would be great.
[01:32:22] Speaker C: It would be great. Oh, man.
[01:32:24] Speaker B: Fucking. Because I know he's listening and I know he will hear it.
Um, our good friend Justin Haley, uh, if you haven't listened to shining, Justin Haley, please listen to shining. They are fucking crazy.
[01:32:38] Speaker A: I'll check out shining.
[01:32:40] Speaker C: I love some crazy music.
[01:32:41] Speaker A: We get some crazy good art on this page on the spawning ground.
[01:32:45] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:32:46] Speaker B: Oh, man, it's so good. Even Thomas says it's so good. He digs the creepiness of it.
[01:32:50] Speaker A: Yeah, I love that by Scott Masterson sent this sketch for our cover, lovespawn.
[01:32:55] Speaker C: Yeah, it's good. It's good.
[01:32:58] Speaker B: Solomon asks if they've ever considered crossing spawn universe over with the top cow universe.
And Thomas is like, hmm, hmm, maybe.
[01:33:12] Speaker A: Who is the top cow universe? I mean, witchblade.
[01:33:16] Speaker B: Yeah, witchblade. And because, oh, fuck, I'm forgetting his name.
He's the guy who's currently writing that Batman Joker series.
[01:33:30] Speaker C: Deadly duo. Yeah.
[01:33:32] Speaker A: Mark Silvestri.
[01:33:34] Speaker B: Mark Silvestri. Shit, yeah. It's Mark Silvestri's sub company within image. So it's anybody he wants to produce, he'll put them on that label.
[01:33:53] Speaker C: I was just thinking of, like, did that one guy whose art I liked.
[01:33:58] Speaker A: In 300, did he do a lot.
[01:33:59] Speaker C: Of top cow stuff?
J. Scott Campbell.
[01:34:05] Speaker B: J. Scott Campbell.
[01:34:07] Speaker A: I feel like top couch is always.
[01:34:08] Speaker C: Thinking, like, sexy ladies.
[01:34:10] Speaker A: Maybe I'm just mixing up my early image.
[01:34:13] Speaker B: J. Scott Campbell did a.
I think.
[01:34:16] Speaker A: I'm just mixing up my early image from being a young kid and not reading any of it and just seeing ads and the stuff I would read or like seeing the McFarland toys. I think I'm just mixing it all.
[01:34:24] Speaker C: Up in my head. Let's, let's.
[01:34:26] Speaker B: We're at topcow.com. Let's look at creators.
[01:34:31] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[01:34:32] Speaker B: He also. That's also the publication that they put all the horny stuff out on.
[01:34:37] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly.
[01:34:38] Speaker A: That's what I thought.
[01:34:39] Speaker B: Because fucking Stephen Sajik has the long. The long running lesbian vampire dominatrix series.
Teenie Hauer writes for him, man.
[01:34:55] Speaker C: I like Teenie Howard.
[01:34:56] Speaker A: Lisa was vindicated.
[01:34:57] Speaker B: Kanan White.
[01:34:58] Speaker C: Nice.
[01:35:01] Speaker A: Oh, dark darkness is one.
[01:35:03] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah. Which?
[01:35:04] Speaker A: Cyber darkness.
[01:35:05] Speaker B: Cyber force.
[01:35:07] Speaker A: So everyone's basically anything where someone's naked.
[01:35:10] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, basically.
Good to know.
[01:35:13] Speaker B: Aphrodite nine.
Madame Mirage.
Saint Mercy.
[01:35:19] Speaker C: Angelus velocity. Sugar.
[01:35:23] Speaker B: Sunstone. That's what I was thinking of. Sunstone.
[01:35:27] Speaker C: Firstborn.
[01:35:28] Speaker A: I mean. Yeah, it seems like it's ripe for crossover.
[01:35:32] Speaker C: Magdalena.
[01:35:34] Speaker B: Yeah. It would be so cool to have a crossover.
[01:35:37] Speaker C: It would be great.
[01:35:38] Speaker A: We get some more art on the spawning grounds. This is a little art correction.
[01:35:42] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[01:35:44] Speaker A: Basically, someone, they printed the name, but the wrong artwork in the last issue, I'm sure can.
[01:35:49] Speaker C: Yeah, that happens. But.
[01:35:50] Speaker A: Because these really. I really like these. They're kind of cartoony spawns.
[01:35:54] Speaker C: I like.
[01:35:55] Speaker B: I like. The middle one is like a cabbage patch spawn. It's great.
[01:35:58] Speaker C: I was.
[01:35:58] Speaker A: I was doing his. Billy Kincaid.
[01:36:00] Speaker C: Yeah, well, I mean, but if you.
[01:36:02] Speaker B: Look at the mouth, he's smiling, so.
[01:36:04] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, it is. Yeah.
[01:36:06] Speaker A: It is like a cabbage, Pat. It's like a cabbage.
[01:36:07] Speaker B: Billy Kincaid definitely didn't smile while he was in the.
[01:36:11] Speaker C: Also his spawn.
[01:36:14] Speaker B: It's great.
[01:36:15] Speaker C: It's great. I like the violator with the heart.
[01:36:18] Speaker A: Got the classic heart.
[01:36:19] Speaker C: Yeah, I love that.
[01:36:21] Speaker A: That's violator's thing.
[01:36:22] Speaker C: He just rips out the heart. Yeah, yeah.
[01:36:25] Speaker A: It's like Spawn mixed with space Ghost.
[01:36:26] Speaker C: It looks great. Yeah, I'd watch that cartoon. And then we get the classic ad.
[01:36:31] Speaker A: For Spawn's universe with. But this one's a little different because it has. Featuring cover artist David Mack in January 2023. Where you get all those really cool David Mack like, watercolor esque covers that were awesome that we've been talking about.
[01:36:45] Speaker C: They're real cool. They're real cool. And, of course, the best ending to.
[01:36:49] Speaker A: Every issue now, every month, every week, we get to open and we get to end with a picture of Sam and twitch.
[01:36:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:36:57] Speaker A: Available now from McFarland Toys.
[01:37:00] Speaker C: Spawn.
[01:37:03] Speaker A: And that's spawn, baby.
[01:37:05] Speaker B: That's spawn.
[01:37:06] Speaker C: That's Spawn.
[01:37:06] Speaker A: 337.
[01:37:08] Speaker B: That was definitely an issue. Number 337 of a book called Spawn.
[01:37:12] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. That was good.
[01:37:14] Speaker B: So I think we got to rate.
[01:37:16] Speaker A: These puppies now, Johnny, time to rate these puppies first. In the docket, we had scorched number five.
The big fight between the Cindavauers and the scorch. Their first big defeat.
[01:37:31] Speaker C: I'm going to give this issue five spawns with a hat.
[01:37:38] Speaker B: Nice spawn with a hat. Fizzle has a nice spice.
[01:37:42] Speaker A: He is a nice spawn with a hat. He is a nice spawn with a hat.
[01:37:46] Speaker B: He's got a nice spawn on the house or nice, nice hat on the spawn. There we go.
[01:37:52] Speaker A: That is one nice hat on one mean spawn.
[01:37:55] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:37:55] Speaker A: I'm gonna give scores. Number five.
[01:37:57] Speaker C: Five spawns in the hat. Loved it. Jessica.
[01:38:01] Speaker A: Kicking ass, everyone kicking ass, getting their asses kicked.
[01:38:04] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:38:04] Speaker A: Sets up all the mystery with the sin devours. It's a great enemy. And it ends with a couple cliffhangers.
[01:38:10] Speaker C: You get plague coming after them.
[01:38:12] Speaker A: Haunts messing with blood, haunts coming in.
[01:38:17] Speaker B: It closes one door. It opens another door.
[01:38:19] Speaker C: It's good. It's great.
[01:38:21] Speaker A: What would you give it, David?
[01:38:22] Speaker B: I'm gonna give it five smeagol spawns just chasing after the precious.
[01:38:33] Speaker A: The precious, Natasha. Filled with quills.
[01:38:37] Speaker C: Yeah. That's awesome.
[01:38:39] Speaker A: And our second issue, as we just covered was Spawn 337, in which we.
[01:38:46] Speaker C: Get kind of like three concurrent plot lines.
[01:38:49] Speaker A: We get the battle with the Jim downing crew. We get the blood or not blood, the Clown island on Omega island. And we get Nixon Spawn and the green world and all that with the dead zones.
[01:39:03] Speaker C: So kind of a triple dipper, but.
[01:39:07] Speaker A: We get the pundits.
What would you give this one, David?
[01:39:11] Speaker B: It's got everything in it. It's got everything.
[01:39:12] Speaker A: It's got everything. It's everything you want for spawn.
[01:39:15] Speaker B: So.
[01:39:15] Speaker C: So, uh, I'm gonna have to give.
[01:39:17] Speaker B: This four spooky pilgrims out of four spooky pilgrims. So that that rounds up to being a five thing. But since there are four spooky pilgrims, I'm only gonna give it the four spooky. The four spooky pilgrims.
[01:39:31] Speaker C: Oh, I guess I'll give it four.
[01:39:31] Speaker B: Spooky pilgrims and a bird. So there we go. That's five.
[01:39:36] Speaker A: That's five.
[01:39:37] Speaker C: I'm going to give this one five snaggle tooth.
[01:39:44] Speaker A: I'm go, sorry.
[01:39:44] Speaker C: WHOOP.
[01:39:45] Speaker A: I'm gonna give this one four snaggle tooth omens. Four and a half. Four and a half snaggletooth omens.
[01:39:52] Speaker C: Nice.
[01:39:54] Speaker A: I just. It was cool. It was everything you want for spawn? Good superhero comic action cliffhangers.
[01:40:00] Speaker B: It's. It does have a little bit of that. That between issue kind of. Kind of build up. Kind of.
[01:40:08] Speaker A: I need to stop giving everything four and fives. I just like. Because then it, like, seems like, because.
[01:40:12] Speaker C: Like, the next issue with Nick's, I. It's like twice as.
[01:40:15] Speaker A: I don't know.
[01:40:16] Speaker B: Yeah, I'll give this a four. It's just, it's just the more I think about it, though, it's just I had so much, it brought me so much joy that I think.
[01:40:23] Speaker A: Right, exactly.
[01:40:24] Speaker C: Yeah. But, but it just doesn't have, like.
[01:40:26] Speaker A: Those, those single issues sometimes can leave.
[01:40:28] Speaker C: Such a, like, boom impression of, like.
[01:40:32] Speaker A: This is a story about Nick's. And it's, like, much more like.
[01:40:34] Speaker C: Because this is, like, three things going.
[01:40:35] Speaker A: On at once, whereas that's like a fully formed, like, one gaze at one thing.
[01:40:38] Speaker B: You know, Johnny, I think it'll be fine because I think once we get back to some of those, those older issues that maybe didn't.
[01:40:44] Speaker A: Oh, we'll be getting some twos and threes.
[01:40:46] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:40:49] Speaker A: I'm glad we're giving the new stuff such high marks. I mean, this is, some people, people.
[01:40:53] Speaker C: Have said it, some people that have.
[01:40:54] Speaker A: Been with spawn for a while. It's some of the best spawns ever been.
[01:40:58] Speaker C: Yeah. It's just fucking great.
[01:41:00] Speaker A: And how it's evolved and changed and, you know, you still get the gritty stuff. If you want King Spawn, if you want superhero plot melodrama, you got regular spawn.
[01:41:10] Speaker C: If you want Saturday morning cartoon, you got scorch.
[01:41:14] Speaker A: If you want kind of that zany. If, like, the two halves of spawn are the Grimm and the zany. The Grimm is the king spawn and the zany is the gunslinger spawn. So you get all the different flavors. We got a neapolitan of spawn right now.
[01:41:28] Speaker B: Inside you are two spawns.
[01:41:30] Speaker A: None Titan size are four spawns. Four titles.
Yeah.
[01:41:37] Speaker B: How would you make a spumoni out of spawns? Would it be a.
[01:41:43] Speaker C: What's a spumoni? Spumoni.
[01:41:45] Speaker B: It's a version of neapolitan. Spumoni is like almond gelato made with layers of colors and flavors, generally made with.
Damn it. Fucking. So it's like a general version of pistachio ice cream, chocolate ice cream, vanilla ice cream.
[01:42:09] Speaker C: Okay, so it's like a.
[01:42:10] Speaker B: Sometimes neapolitan.
[01:42:12] Speaker C: Yeah. Sometimes mint. No. Yeah. Yeah.
Spumoni.
[01:42:20] Speaker A: Mint sounds weird.
[01:42:21] Speaker C: Okay.
[01:42:22] Speaker A: I mean, what would I put in it? I put each spawn, each title. I put.
[01:42:26] Speaker B: Well, no, like, what would the name be? Because it would have to be like a medieval gunslinger, a Mediguns gunnam.
[01:42:36] Speaker A: I'm gonna let you take this one, David.
[01:42:37] Speaker B: Oh, I don't know. I don't know.
I'm gonna have a stroke trying to think of something. So don't do it.
[01:42:44] Speaker A: I heard. I heard on the radio today. I don't even know if I fucking believe that.
[01:42:47] Speaker C: This.
[01:42:48] Speaker A: I heard that heart attacks and strokes go up the day after daylight savings.
[01:42:52] Speaker C: Time because, like, people are used to.
[01:42:53] Speaker A: Like, being asleep, and then they're awake and doing, like, really active things.
[01:42:57] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:42:58] Speaker A: So I would just take this excuse to not leave my bed Monday when daily saving time switches.
[01:43:03] Speaker C: So, yeah, it's amazing how, how much.
[01:43:06] Speaker B: That 1 hour fucks stuff up.
[01:43:08] Speaker C: It really is. It really, really is.
Well, David, I mentioned earlier how we.
[01:43:17] Speaker A: Might have an opportunity to find out if a certain someone has an eye patch.
[01:43:20] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[01:43:21] Speaker B: Cause Johnny's gonna fall in a k hole, right?
[01:43:23] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm gonna fall in a k.
[01:43:24] Speaker A: Hole and bust my eye out and get an eye patch.
[01:43:27] Speaker C: No, no, no.
We've got.
[01:43:31] Speaker A: I got some vintage figures to open.
[01:43:33] Speaker B: Ooh, vintage.
[01:43:35] Speaker A: Yeah. So you know what that means. It's time for Todd's toy talk.
All right, so here we shaking this bag. These are loose figures that were repackaged at a comic shop.
[01:43:58] Speaker B: Oh, nice.
[01:44:01] Speaker A: It's the one by there by Belmont.
[01:44:03] Speaker C: Shit.
[01:44:03] Speaker A: What is that?
[01:44:03] Speaker B: Is that Chicago comics.
[01:44:05] Speaker A: Chicago comics.
[01:44:06] Speaker C: So on my birthday, met up with.
[01:44:09] Speaker A: Some friends, my friend Bran, friends of the pod, and probably future guests Bran and Eloy. And we went around to, like, the DVD exchange and the comic shop, and we went to a really, a bookstore. There's a really mean guy that works it who, like, scolded me for trying to buy magazines.
[01:44:27] Speaker B: Yeah, he does have a wide array of vintage pornography, though.
[01:44:34] Speaker A: Oh, yes. No, this weird bookstore off the Belmont stop of the red line in Chicago, and this guy, like, I walk in.
[01:44:40] Speaker C: And he's like, hey, you ever been here before?
[01:44:41] Speaker A: And I'm like, no. He's like, put your bag down. And I'm like, okay. And I like, put the bag down.
[01:44:46] Speaker C: And then he's like, no, he gives me all.
[01:44:48] Speaker A: He, like, runs out a whole gamut of what I can do with my cell phone inside the store, and then, like, proceeds to, like, get angry at me when I'm trying to buy some old vintage Star wars magazines, which I did.
[01:44:58] Speaker C: But it was just funny.
[01:44:59] Speaker A: Yeah, this really cantankerous bookseller guy, I.
[01:45:03] Speaker B: Think being a grumpy old person and running a used bookstore go hand in hand more often than they.
[01:45:09] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, they do. Especially in Chicago. I feel like there's, like, three in that area that are run by grumpy old men. Yeah, but I didn't get this at the grumpy bookstore. They didn't have anything spawn related.
[01:45:21] Speaker C: I looked.
[01:45:22] Speaker B: Yeah, I've looked a couple of times. So, yeah, they definitely don't. I have a feeling that he would be. He would like, if somebody came in trying to sell him some spawn, he would just throw it immediately in the garbage.
[01:45:31] Speaker C: Yeah. He'd be like, fuck this shit.
[01:45:33] Speaker A: But we've got.
[01:45:36] Speaker C: I got these.
[01:45:37] Speaker A: They had two of them. Two sets of, like, two loose figures. And I bought one of them. I might go back at the other. I can't remember what they were, but they were spawn figures. It was $10 and came with two figures. I'm gonna pop them open here. But what we got is in this bag. It's got a curse and a commando. Spawn, it looks like.
[01:45:53] Speaker C: Oh, nice.
[01:45:54] Speaker A: So let's see here. I'm popping this bag open. Here comes Mister curse.
And spawn.
Here goes spawn.
[01:46:05] Speaker C: So curse.
[01:46:07] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Okay, let's see. He has an eye patch.
[01:46:10] Speaker C: Oh, nice.
[01:46:12] Speaker A: He has one eye. So I guess it's a retcon that he stabbed out both of his eyes. Or maybe it took him a while.
[01:46:16] Speaker C: To stab out the other one. I don't know.
[01:46:19] Speaker A: I don't know. But he.
[01:46:21] Speaker B: That comic book made it seem pretty definitive. That he took both of them out.
[01:46:24] Speaker A: It did.
So he's all cursed out.
It's from 1995. So this is probably.
[01:46:31] Speaker C: I think this is in series two, I believe.
[01:46:34] Speaker B: He's got the chainsaw hand.
[01:46:36] Speaker A: He's got the chainsaw hand. His hand actually has three things on it. It has a knife. It has a knife, a spike, and a chainsaw. And the chainsaw has a rip cord. And if you go like this. And we're putting next to the mic, the chainsaw, like saws.
It's like sawing action. So that's what you're talking about, David. An action figure?
[01:46:56] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[01:46:57] Speaker C: Hell, yeah.
[01:46:58] Speaker A: He has an action feature. He's sawing action.
And then you can lift his helmet.
[01:47:03] Speaker C: Up and you can see his face.
[01:47:05] Speaker A: He's all. He's got that scar, like he does in the scorch. His right hands and a fist with, like, a big knife on it as well. He's got, like, tubes coming off him. This is back when the toys were a little more aimed towards kids. It's only, like series two or three.
[01:47:19] Speaker C: So it's a little more kind of.
[01:47:20] Speaker A: Cartoony than the later ones. But it's still pretty cool figure. It's got action features.
And then let's get this spawn here.
So this is a commando spawn.
[01:47:34] Speaker B: So he's a commando spawn. So he ain't wearing any undies?
[01:47:37] Speaker C: No.
[01:47:37] Speaker A: Okay, so he's not Commando spawn. This is. This would be spawn two, I believe is what it's called. But it's a second spawn figure. He has a giant shotgun. He has, like, a shoulder pad. And he has this giant rocket launcher that rests on his other shoulder. Oh, I just shot it. He has this giant rocket launcher that you can clip onto his other shoulder. And it, like, rests on there. And has a rocket firing action. That I just almost shot myself in the face with. And he has a giant impossible shotgun as well.
[01:48:05] Speaker B: Of course. That's the way you got to do it.
What's the point of having an action figure with a shotgun if it's not an impossible shotgun?
[01:48:13] Speaker A: Yeah, but he's pretty cool.
Got points of articulation that were, you know, not 22, but they were ones that were pretty damn good for the time, considering. WHOOP. I just shot it again.
You keep shooting, I'm gonna blow myself.
[01:48:27] Speaker C: Up in this closet.
[01:48:29] Speaker A: Yeah. So shout out to Chicago comics. Shout out to these cool figures. And happy to get some of the vintage ones.
[01:48:35] Speaker C: I don't.
[01:48:36] Speaker A: I really only have Angela out of the vintage ones, so it's kind of fun to get some of these. Definitely gonna have to buy a shelf soon. To start putting my action figures on, because it's getting out of control.
[01:48:46] Speaker C: David. Yeah.
[01:48:47] Speaker B: Oh, I mean, just wait until you need to buy a second shelf.
[01:48:50] Speaker C: Oh, my God.
Only one shelf.
[01:48:54] Speaker A: I'm trying to read what it says on Spawn's butt, but my old eyes can't read it. 1995. So, yeah, he's also from series two.
[01:49:00] Speaker C: This is.
[01:49:01] Speaker A: I believe this is Spawn too.
[01:49:04] Speaker C: Nice.
[01:49:04] Speaker B: You're gonna have to start taking a page out of my book. And just start taking your toys to work.
[01:49:09] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know if it would work. I don't want to dox myself. But in my place of work, I don't think it would be as appropriate, but I could try.
[01:49:20] Speaker B: There's gotta be an office there.
[01:49:22] Speaker C: Yeah, we'll figure it out.
Cool.
[01:49:25] Speaker B: You could start strapping them to your bike like a hood ornament.
[01:49:29] Speaker A: Oh, that'd be fun. Like that. Like, you see the trash? The trash guys go around the garbage folks.
[01:49:35] Speaker C: Not garbage.
[01:49:36] Speaker A: Both sounds terrible. Trash men or garbage folks.
[01:49:40] Speaker C: The sanitation workers, they always have, like.
[01:49:43] Speaker B: A bear strapped to the front.
[01:49:44] Speaker A: Yeah, they have, like, a bear. Like a buzz lightyear. I saw one with a buzz lightyear and a woody hanging off the back. That was pretty fun.
[01:49:48] Speaker C: Nice. Nice. Oh, God.
[01:49:50] Speaker A: I was looking at the. I almost shot myself in the eye.
[01:49:53] Speaker C: With this thing, Johnny.
[01:49:55] Speaker A: I gotta be careful with this spawn. He's gonna kill me.
[01:49:59] Speaker C: Well, hell yeah.
[01:50:01] Speaker A: Hell yeah. So there's some more toys there.
[01:50:03] Speaker C: Good figures. Good figures.
[01:50:05] Speaker B: Speaking of. Speaking of figuring, Johnny, I figure, I figure people might want to share the.
[01:50:10] Speaker C: Love of spawn that we got, and they might want to go love on.
[01:50:15] Speaker B: Some other people who love spawn.
[01:50:16] Speaker C: And, you know, we love spawn. We like to.
[01:50:20] Speaker B: We like to love Spawn, and people who love spawn over on Instagram. And we think. We think this week that everybody should love.
Go love mark Monk illustrations.
They were shouted out in scorch hash.
[01:50:34] Speaker C: Five, and, hell, let us shout them out.
[01:50:38] Speaker A: Did you some great spawn art. Like I said, I wouldn't be surprised. They're drawing for Spawn at some point soon.
[01:50:43] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:50:44] Speaker A: Or doing a cover, if they haven't already. I don't think they have. I was looking through, and I don't believe.
[01:50:50] Speaker B: I think they largely do, like, their own stuff and commissions right now.
[01:50:53] Speaker C: So. Yeah.
[01:50:55] Speaker B: Monk underscore illustration.
[01:50:57] Speaker C: It's great. It's real good.
[01:50:58] Speaker A: Give them a follow.
[01:51:00] Speaker C: We should like them too.
[01:51:01] Speaker B: While you're over there, maybe also give some love to Brian. T Brian, you know, he makes our music.
[01:51:09] Speaker C: It's very good music. Indeed it is.
[01:51:12] Speaker A: I love it. Every time I edit the episode, I gotta listen to it twice or three times.
[01:51:15] Speaker C: Just gets me all pumped up. Yeah, it's.
[01:51:18] Speaker B: You'd think. You'd think we would get sick of it, but I do not. Like, I get done with it, and I'm like, wait, it's over already? I gotta listen to it again.
[01:51:24] Speaker A: I wanna hear it again.
[01:51:26] Speaker C: Yeah, it's great.
[01:51:27] Speaker B: Yeah, we're over there. We're over there posting pictures of stuff that other people made. So we don't do any of our own art yet, but, like, see Johnny's action figures, see the books that we're reading, see random videos of our faces? Haha.
[01:51:42] Speaker A: Yeah, we're starting to start to do reels. I'm gonna be doing reels for my pickups so you guys can know what we look like. And it seems like reels get more engagement, so hopefully that'll help the pod grow.
[01:51:53] Speaker C: Yeah, it'll be real good.
[01:51:54] Speaker B: That's a regardingspawnpod.
And if you take regardingspawnpodmail.com, you can send us questions, letters, words of encouragement, sightings of good spawn sales, you know, if you want.
[01:52:11] Speaker A: Well, also this week, I'm going to try something just to try to get more letters out there every week. I'm going to ask a specific question.
[01:52:18] Speaker C: To see if we can get any.
[01:52:19] Speaker A: Answers for that, because I think maybe that would inspire people more. But, you know, we always talked about starting spawn. It seems like a big question on the Reddit and just on social media and just, you know, from our friends.
[01:52:34] Speaker C: So this question I like to put.
[01:52:36] Speaker A: Out there into the spawn universe, if you guys want to send us an email, is, what is your spawn journey? How did you get into spawn? And we'd love to hear from
[email protected].
[01:52:46] Speaker C: And we'll read it on the pod.
[01:52:48] Speaker A: I just would love to hear from.
[01:52:49] Speaker C: Our listeners to hear how you guys.
[01:52:51] Speaker A: Got your journey into spawn, because you've heard ours and everything's a little different. And so send us an email with that, and every week, I'll be asking a different question.
[01:52:58] Speaker C: If you want to answer, or if.
[01:53:00] Speaker A: You just feel the divine inspiration, send us an email again, regardingspawnpodmail.com.
[01:53:06] Speaker B: There's no time limit on these questions, by the way.
[01:53:09] Speaker A: Yeah, answer them at any time. If you're hearing this, if you're hearing this in the future, please send it in. The only live. We'll read it.
[01:53:15] Speaker B: The only limitation is if you stumble across this in 30 years and there is no more gmail, you maybe can't send us an
[email protected]. But other than that, yeah. Hell, yeah. Just answer the question whenever you get to it.
[01:53:32] Speaker C: Yeah. But so hopefully that, you know, if you guys want to, I'm sure some.
[01:53:36] Speaker A: People think about writing letters, but it's better to have, like, a question to.
[01:53:38] Speaker C: Ask just to, I don't know.
[01:53:40] Speaker A: It's always good to have a prompt.
[01:53:42] Speaker C: Always good to have a prompt.
[01:53:44] Speaker B: I have sat down, like, six times to try to write a letter to spawning grounds. And I, like, start off with, hey, spawn guys. And that's as far as I get.
[01:53:52] Speaker A: Yep. Even if you just want to say, hey, spawn guys, that's fine.
[01:53:55] Speaker B: Hey, yeah, we don't mind. We don't mind to hey, every once in a while, hey ya, if you will.
[01:54:01] Speaker A: And if you're talking about engagement, please rate reviews, subscribe, spread the word. If you know some spawn fans that aren't listening and you think they'd enjoy us, we're always looking for new listeners and just help spread the love of spawn.
[01:54:14] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a good thing to. It's a good thing to spread.
[01:54:18] Speaker A: It's funny, I'm looking at this cursed figure. It looks a lot like Josh Brolin.
[01:54:24] Speaker B: Yeah, he can play curse in the movie?
[01:54:26] Speaker A: Yeah, it'd be a little, I don't know. After Thanos, would he want to.
[01:54:30] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe he wants something a little smaller, a little. A little chewier.
[01:54:35] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:54:36] Speaker A: Thanos is pretty stoic, while the curse.
[01:54:37] Speaker C: Is a little more.
[01:54:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. So that leaves us with what we're.
[01:54:45] Speaker C: Going to do next week, Johnny. Oh, yeah.
[01:54:48] Speaker A: Next week, David, what are we doing next week?
[01:54:50] Speaker B: Next week will be episode 36. And we are going to read two episodes. We're going to read two episodes of Spawn. We're going to read two issues of Spawn, Johnny.
The particular, the specific issues we are going to read are king spawn number six and gunslinger spawn number 16.
616, 616. I like how the King Spawn and gunslingers have been doing that. Where it's 515 616. It'll be seven one seven next time it happens.
[01:55:20] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:55:20] Speaker B: So Kingspawn Six is for our classic and Gunslinger 16 for our new.
[01:55:26] Speaker A: So Kingspawn six kind of wrapping up that first king spawn arc. They tend to do six issue arcs with Spawn.
[01:55:32] Speaker C: Yep.
Then Gunslinger.
[01:55:35] Speaker A: We're getting in the middle of him.
[01:55:36] Speaker C: With our new friend the blink.
[01:55:42] Speaker A: It's the big him and blink doing stuff together.
[01:55:45] Speaker B: Yeah, the metahuman. Metahuman blade image universe.
[01:55:50] Speaker C: Bring them in.
[01:55:51] Speaker A: Yeah, the more the merrier.
[01:55:53] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what I say.
[01:55:54] Speaker B: There's, there's, there's more than enough room under this Tim Burton esque circus tent for Morris Bond to happen and more.
[01:56:03] Speaker C: Spawn fans to come.
Absolutely.
[01:56:06] Speaker A: Get in now before the movies, you.
[01:56:07] Speaker C: Could say you were there when, or.
[01:56:10] Speaker B: Get in after the movie and just say, hey, I got here cause of the movie, and that's awesome.
[01:56:13] Speaker A: I'm here now. Yeah, both are good.
[01:56:16] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:56:16] Speaker A: No gatekeeping in the spawn.
[01:56:18] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. There's nothing.
[01:56:20] Speaker B: There's no wrong way to. There's no wrong way to get into spawn except for to not get into spawn, Johnny, you just want to open.
[01:56:25] Speaker A: The gates to hell, not close any.
[01:56:27] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:56:27] Speaker B: No.
No gatekeepers at the gates of.
[01:56:31] Speaker A: Nope. Come on in. Everybody's welcome. Behemoth, brimstone, curse.
[01:56:38] Speaker B: No, there's no reserved seats in the Malbowls, Johnny.
[01:56:42] Speaker C: None.
[01:56:42] Speaker A: Well, you need to reserve a seat for next week as well, because we're also be doing, finally delivering on a, something we said we were going to do a few weeks ago, but I am busy. We'll be doing Spawnsee baseball. We are going to be basically drafting a fantasy baseball team. We figured there are three realms, so.
[01:57:00] Speaker C: We'Re going to do earth, wind, and fire. Earth, wind, and fire.
[01:57:06] Speaker A: No, earth, hell, and heaven.
[01:57:07] Speaker C: Earth.
[01:57:08] Speaker A: We're considering green part of Earth.
[01:57:10] Speaker B: Well, there was. There was the consider, because with. With the next issue of main title, Spawn, there is just enough people in green worlds to make a green worlds team.
[01:57:22] Speaker A: Okay, well, so let's do all four then.
[01:57:23] Speaker C: We'll do Earth.
[01:57:24] Speaker B: Yeah, but there would be. There's not so much known about a lot of those characters yet, so, yeah.
[01:57:30] Speaker C: We can add that.
[01:57:30] Speaker A: We'll see. We might do Earth at the. We might do green world at the end. We'll see.
[01:57:34] Speaker C: Let's.
[01:57:34] Speaker B: Let's say that one for the last.
[01:57:35] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[01:57:36] Speaker B: Just in case.
[01:57:37] Speaker A: And it seems like maybe if we wait for the last, there might be some more green world characters, because it's a big part of what's going on.
[01:57:43] Speaker C: In spawn right now. Yeah.
[01:57:44] Speaker A: So maybe even more by then.
[01:57:46] Speaker B: We can always probably substitute in DC characters like swamp thing. We could put in there just as.
[01:57:51] Speaker A: Swamp thing can pop in.
[01:57:51] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:57:52] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[01:57:53] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:57:54] Speaker B: So we'll be, we'll be drafting our. So, yeah, Johnny and I will each come up with who we think should play what on the, on the earth team, and then we'll go, like, one by one, choosing the official team. And hopefully we mess up each other's schedules enough that it leads to some good discussion.
[01:58:16] Speaker C: Yeah, so that'll be fun.
[01:58:17] Speaker B: It'll be fun.
[01:58:18] Speaker C: It'll be fun. Yeah.
[01:58:19] Speaker B: Cause, you know, baseball's fun, and Spawn is fun, Johnny. Can you believe it?
[01:58:22] Speaker C: Spawn.
[01:58:23] Speaker B: This crazy little thing called spawn. It's a hell of a lot of fun, Johnny.
[01:58:27] Speaker A: We love Spawn. Todd McFarlane loves spawn. Todd McFarlane loves baseball.
[01:58:32] Speaker C: Let's bring it all together.
[01:58:33] Speaker B: We love Todd McFarlane.
[01:58:35] Speaker C: We do, Johnny.
[01:58:37] Speaker B: I think that only leaves me to.
[01:58:38] Speaker C: Say, uh, may the scorched be with you.
And also with you, David. Hell yeah. Hell yeah.
[01:58:48] Speaker A: All right, I'm gonna put these toys up on my shelf. Oh, I shot the missile down my throat.
[01:58:54] Speaker B: 911.
[01:58:56] Speaker C: 911.
[01:58:58] Speaker A: Help me.
[01:59:00] Speaker C: It behemoth.
