RE:Spawn Episode 38 - Spawn 301 and King Spawn 19

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Give me a break, twitch. We can't all be boy scouts like you. [00:00:04] Speaker B: I'd just keep the ass and foot references to yourself next time. But that's just me. [00:00:10] Speaker A: They were mocking us. You saw that. People get their frickin'heads slashed open. They want to take pictures and talk science studies. What kind of medical sickos are they? San? And welcome to the Malbols. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I am your co host, John Fisher, aka Sam. [00:01:04] Speaker B: And I am your co host, David Twitch Williams. [00:01:10] Speaker A: Perfect. [00:01:10] Speaker B: That worked real nice. You just need to change your last name to Burke. [00:01:14] Speaker A: Yeah, John Burke. John Burke's pretty cool. [00:01:17] Speaker B: See if Wanda can get down with. [00:01:20] Speaker A: She. She don't care. She's still Wanda Blake. She didn't change it to Fisher, so. Oh, nice. I could do. I'll be like, Sam, will you adopt me? And I'll change my name to. [00:01:37] Speaker B: Have to. There'll be lots of explaining to do next thanksgiving when you go home and. [00:01:41] Speaker A: You'Re like, mom, I'd be like, his mini me. He's just a smaller version of everything with me next to him. Imagine he has, like, a big armchair at his house, just with covered in donut glaze and ash. [00:01:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. You should never clean your fridge ever again. [00:01:59] Speaker A: Oh, well, hey, I've already got started on that. It's been a busy month. [00:02:03] Speaker B: You're going to have to keep the outside of your car pristine, but just have the inside filled with takeaway containers. [00:02:11] Speaker A: Yeah, you open in, just falls out. But it has to be like the 80s styrofoam Big Mac. It can't be like the new modern packaging. It has to be like the really bulky old stuff. [00:02:21] Speaker B: And then you have to yell at people when they try to move the stuff around to sit in it. Be like, hey, be careful with that. [00:02:27] Speaker A: I'm saving it up for later. Well, welcome, everybody. Welcome to respawn. Regarding Spawn, your Spawn podcast of the moment, we today, as always, are covering two issues all the way from Spawn's universe. Multiverses are big right now. Spawn's not quite a has. [00:02:51] Speaker B: Multiverses are literally big. [00:02:53] Speaker A: Well, they're big, but, I mean, they're huge. They're talking. I was, like, listening to NPR, and that's how, you know something's, like, super mainstream, is they're like, what are these multiverses about, Terry? And it's like, oh, my God. [00:03:04] Speaker B: After they win oscars, that's always my metric for when a trend has died, is when NPR starts talking about it, and it's like, okay, guys, we don't have to do this anymore. [00:03:15] Speaker A: It's over. NPR is talking about it. [00:03:17] Speaker B: No shade to NPR, but just, oh, man. [00:03:20] Speaker A: So I hope they never talk about Spawn, because I never want it to end. I wonder if they have talked about Spawn on NPR. I'm sure they have. [00:03:27] Speaker B: Well, they've got the movie reviewers. I don't know if it would have been Eric Deggins wasn't around in the. Don't think he would have done Spawn the movie. But when the next one comes out, I'm sure Eric Deggins will talk about it, because they like talking about movies in this superhero milieu that we have and takes what it all means. Yeah. How movies can fit into the superhero saturation. And being able to have something like Spawn come in, I have a feeling they'd say something about it. [00:04:03] Speaker A: Sweet. Well, we'll look forward to that. And speaking of saying stuff about Spawn, that's what we do here. And the two issues from the spawn verse, it's not quite a multiverse, because there's only really one timeline. [00:04:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:16] Speaker A: So far, there are multi universes within it. We are covering a classic issue. [00:04:22] Speaker B: What I was about to say maybe, but I remember now that spawn. Batman was just Batman. Spawn was just not canonical Batman. But it is canonical. [00:04:35] Speaker A: In Spawn, Batman just exists exclusively. And Superman, well, no, that's in the other one, because he goes to a different realm. [00:04:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:44] Speaker A: So the one in the universe of Spawn, if we're to take those first two at face value, Batman just exists on his own. [00:04:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:53] Speaker A: The other one, he goes to the DC universe, where Wanda does exist and Kilgore exists. It's real easy. Yeah, but I want to follow up to that. That'd be fun. Follow up to that. Batman, Spawn. Spawn, Batman. [00:05:07] Speaker B: Yeah, it was real good. It was real good. The naysayers on the Internet can just feck off because it was. [00:05:13] Speaker A: They can nay, nay nay away like a horse. [00:05:15] Speaker B: Was it Ulysses? No, it was not. Was it a hell of good time? Yes, it was. That's all we need from Spawn. Just give us a good time. [00:05:24] Speaker A: And we got another hell of good time, spawn today, because we are covering for a classic issue. Spawn 301, baby. 301 Dalmatians. [00:05:32] Speaker B: Yeah. Record breaking. [00:05:33] Speaker A: Record breaking. It's another hefty multi artist celebration. It's the one that passes the problematic artvark and becomes the longest independent creator comic. I can't believe they didn't sneak a server's reference in here. Yeah, maybe I missed it. [00:05:52] Speaker B: I didn't see it. [00:05:53] Speaker A: That doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Maybe we'll discover it as we go through it with you, dear listener, maybe. And for a more modern issue, we have. It's hot. I can't even touch it. It's one of the most probably, like, fan appreciated. I feel like, from the reaction, one of the most beloved recently issues of. [00:06:10] Speaker B: King Spawn, especially from my instagram quick review of it, which was just. [00:06:20] Speaker A: That's the best review you can get? Yeah, we have King Spawn 19, David. 19. [00:06:29] Speaker B: Can you believe King Spawn is able to vote now? [00:06:32] Speaker A: Can you believe that King Spawn is the key number to all the cotets and all the universes? [00:06:37] Speaker B: I mean, I can believe that's why this issue is so important. [00:06:40] Speaker A: On being 19, I always remember the editions of the Dark Tower I read originally had, like, the intro from Stephen King. It was like a republishing before he did five, six, seven, and then they had on being 19 was. The intro was called man because he came up with the idea when he was 19. But it's so exciting because it's the return of Sam and Twitch. They're back, baby. [00:07:05] Speaker B: Yeah, they're back and better than ever. Or just as good as ever. [00:07:11] Speaker A: Sam's sexier than ever, for sure. [00:07:14] Speaker B: He's cleaned up his act a little bit. Not full. [00:07:16] Speaker A: Sam cleaned up his act a little bit. He got a peloton, and, like, on the screen, it's just a jelly donut on a fishing line in front of them. They have that on there. You can use that one. It's called Sam Burke method. [00:07:31] Speaker B: Or, like, in the post apocalyptic wasteland, Sam and Twitch would have a horse drawn wagon that they go around in, and Sam would be the ox, and Twitch would just dangle the donut in front of. [00:07:44] Speaker A: Oh, man. Speaking of that, we saw Thomas so much salmon twitch. We saw Thomas Nalchik did that. What if of salmon twitch in the old west? That was awesome. [00:07:53] Speaker B: Yeah, that was awesome. Oh, man. I want him to do a one shot of salmon twitch in the. He was. [00:08:00] Speaker A: That would be so cool. They meet up with Javi. [00:08:02] Speaker B: He was straight up. Guys, guys, this was just for fun. This isn't for anything, so please don't ask. [00:08:07] Speaker A: Everyone chill out. [00:08:08] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:08:10] Speaker A: They got to meet. I mean, now that it's out there, they got to meet Javi at some point, Javi and Sam would get along well. He's like, I can't read either, brother. Slaps on the back. [00:08:21] Speaker B: They would get into some shenanigans. [00:08:23] Speaker A: Let's get into these shenanigans yeah. With our first issue, this is our more classic. And for those of you that just maybe started listening later, we will be getting back to classic, classic swan. Eventually. We just are mad and decided that this is how we would do it. Because we wanted to fill in the canon of all the kind of more modern that we missed. And also, it's a good starting point to get all that out of the way. So this is what we're considering our classic for this week. But I would imagine the next probably two or three months, we'll have to announce the next order we're tackling. We still haven't thought about that, but that'll be coming up. [00:09:00] Speaker B: We'll deal with that when we get there. [00:09:02] Speaker A: No, we'll deal with that. I'm just saying. Stay tuned, everybody. Stay tuned. Big things are coming to regarding spawn. Big things are coming to my hand because here comes issue 301. I have a physical copy here in front of me. [00:09:15] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:09:15] Speaker A: How are you reading it? [00:09:16] Speaker B: I got the digital copy because it was part of that humble bundle that I keep talking about. [00:09:21] Speaker A: I got my own. Not as humble bundle, but a bundle was spawned from eBay that I've talked about where I bought basically 296 through, like, three. Whatever. I didn't have, like, 325 or so besides that one, which I think was 309 that you got for me. [00:09:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:09:40] Speaker A: Thank you. [00:09:40] Speaker B: You're welcome. Can't be letting my boy have holes in his collection. [00:09:44] Speaker A: Can't have any holes. Do you see that? [00:09:45] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [00:09:46] Speaker A: There's just been so much spawn stuff going on. Do you see the beard and a mole? It's, like 15 covers away from a complete collection. [00:09:52] Speaker B: What? Oh, man. [00:09:54] Speaker A: Yeah, I saw the post on Instagram. They just got, like, one of the really rare, like, somewhere between 200 and 251 somewhere in there. And it was, like, 15 away from a complete cover collection. And I was like, holy shit. [00:10:08] Speaker B: Oh, man. Speaking of cool things, we were listening back to an episode to edit it, and you had mentioned something about every action figure that was translucent. And Spawn Hunter has, like, the complete collection of translucent spawn wave one action figures. And it's like, holy shit. [00:10:26] Speaker A: Yeah, they're, like, green. [00:10:27] Speaker B: Yeah, they were cool, man. They should make translucent spawn action figures again. [00:10:34] Speaker A: So they came in that. I didn't really get to choose it. It's just what was in that whole bundle I bought off eBay. I have Spawn 301 with the Alex Ross cover. [00:10:45] Speaker B: Nice. [00:10:46] Speaker A: Which is awesome. It's Alex Ross. It's very classical. Yeah, you have, like, a classic spawn, classic suit. And then he's just surrounded by all these really awesome classical skeletons. Classic. [00:11:02] Speaker B: Nice. Classic. [00:11:02] Speaker A: Classic and classy. That's how I describe Alex Ross, from what I know of his work. [00:11:05] Speaker B: Yeah. It's like an oil painting of superheroes, if they were real people. And. Oh, man, I'm looking at it right now. That is amazing. Yeah. [00:11:14] Speaker A: Especially with the old suit. I know you like that old suit. [00:11:17] Speaker B: Yeah. It's got actual story implications. [00:11:21] Speaker A: It does. [00:11:22] Speaker B: Oh, man. I do love it. [00:11:23] Speaker A: No, this is a great cover. I'm really happy, really pleased I ended up with this one. [00:11:27] Speaker B: Oh, man. That is like a hellish version of the tunnel to the ubliet. That what's her face falls down in labyrinth with the hands. [00:11:39] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:11:41] Speaker B: Oh, man. It's that cranked up to, like twelve. [00:11:44] Speaker A: Oh, I forgot about that. That's creepy. [00:11:47] Speaker B: I will always be here to remind you of how creepy labyrinth was, Johnny. [00:11:53] Speaker A: You've done it many times. [00:11:54] Speaker B: One would say too many times. [00:11:56] Speaker A: We also from a different box of Spawn, we bought this one we bought from a fellow we met on the Internet in Indiana. We bought. We have another 301. Here it is. The Virgin Francesco Matina. [00:12:12] Speaker B: I like how the background on it is, like, the very much visually part of the Spawn origins kind of layout. [00:12:23] Speaker A: Yeah, it has that skull. [00:12:24] Speaker B: Well, yeah, it's like a white page with just, like, one little rectangle of image in the middle is how it. [00:12:30] Speaker A: Looks similar to that. It could be yours that whenever we divide up this box we bought together. Man, put that in your box draft. [00:12:38] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I'll have to do that. Oh, man, Mattina is so good. So I've got the digital edition one. And it's one of the McFarland covers. And the background is like a desaturated spawn number one kind of shrunk to the middle of the page. It says, record breaking spawn 301 across the top. [00:13:01] Speaker A: Boom. [00:13:02] Speaker B: And then classic small right foot suit. Spawn is holding a crown aloft. And he's got 1ft on a gigantic stack of comic books. [00:13:14] Speaker A: I'm looking at right now online. Yeah, it's awesome. That's the a cover. Oh, he's stepping on Cerberus. He's, like, using as a stepping stool to get the 301. [00:13:25] Speaker B: There's spawn number one on top. I'm pretty sure I see spawn number nine. They're literally just, like, digital images of the comics that are almost all the way flipped on their side. So you could just barely see them. But if you stare long enough, you can figure out what. Where the comic books that he's standing on oh, they are. Yeah. You can clearly see that the top one is spawn number one. Yeah. [00:13:48] Speaker A: There's just some random covers. [00:13:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:52] Speaker A: And then you got spawn number one in the background. Pretty cool, man. I wonder if that's where they came with. The idea is, like, what if we came up with the title called King Spawn? [00:14:02] Speaker B: Weirder things have happened. [00:14:04] Speaker A: No, I mean, that's how inspiration can come. [00:14:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:06] Speaker A: This is an inspired issue. This is the follow up to the big 300. It doesn't have a. Previously on. And we're going to do a little out of order here because the credits has, like, a pre credit sequence. [00:14:19] Speaker B: It's got a cold open. [00:14:20] Speaker A: You open it up, and it's, like, in the classic, it's, like, the same font and coloring from spawn number one. [00:14:26] Speaker B: Yeah. The only thing it's missing, image comics, is the logo at the bottom that says Malibu comics. It's the only thing it's missing. [00:14:34] Speaker A: All right. But it's got that same type, same feel. [00:14:39] Speaker B: It's got that nice classic spawn emblem right there. [00:14:41] Speaker A: This is all the way from October of 2019. Just from the world on the cusp of greatness. [00:14:48] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:14:49] Speaker A: Oh, boy. I wish I could go back in time and shake myself. It's coming. [00:14:55] Speaker B: Oh, man. Enjoy it while it lasts. You think shit's bad, enjoy your last. [00:15:00] Speaker A: Halloween party you'll probably ever go to. Honestly. Probably true, because I'm old. It also hit Covid. Hit right at the right time, where I was just the age where I was starting to slow down anyway. It just slowed me the fuck down. [00:15:11] Speaker B: It's like hitting a brick wall. [00:15:12] Speaker A: And now my knees hurt and my feet hurt. But, yeah, you get a really nice letter from Todd. He's just, like, thanking all the people for 27 years, which has now become 31 years. [00:15:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. There's a nice little visual representation of how long this has been in the back of the book. [00:15:30] Speaker A: All right. That is cool on the back cover. Yeah, it's a nice little coda. But he thanks everyone for joining you at least some point along the way. And it's just really cool that he thanks all the other people that helped make spawn, acknowledges them and acknowledges the fans are the ones that are keeping it around. He is a sweetheart deep down. I mean, not deep down. He wears it on his sleeve. [00:15:57] Speaker B: You don't have to look very hard. [00:15:59] Speaker A: To see it, but it's just funny because you go from, like, this sweet, nice message from this sweet man to an image of a naked dude with railroad spikes shoved through his arm, barbed wire, and a skull on his dick or right above his dick. And his dick's just covered in blood. [00:16:16] Speaker B: So a quick aside. Yesterday for opening day. The Todd father, obviously. [00:16:22] Speaker A: Oh, yes. Happy opening day. [00:16:23] Speaker B: He was sharing pictures of himself as a professional baseball player. He was still a little tiny guy. He was a little bit tiny guy. [00:16:31] Speaker A: I saw that. That's cute. [00:16:33] Speaker B: Multitudes. That's where the multiverse is, Johnny. The multiverse exists within the Todd father baseball player. If you were to open him up, he would be like a tesseract. And it would just, like, fill the world. [00:16:45] Speaker A: Yeah, he's got quite an imagination. [00:16:47] Speaker B: Yeah, he does. [00:16:48] Speaker A: And we imagine this spawn here. We opening up. Exactly. Not exactly the last issue of Spawn ended. But exactly where we left off with Spawn in that issue where he screams, I am spawn. [00:17:02] Speaker B: Picking up directly from that little section. That was written by Scott Snyder. [00:17:06] Speaker A: So they're in Albania. In that field. He just murdered those innocent railroad workers. [00:17:11] Speaker B: Oh, man. For their railroad ties, those families are entitled to compensation. [00:17:18] Speaker A: And basically, he needed them both godsend and clown together. A piece of heaven and a piece of mean. It's like clowns trying to cower like he was last time. They're like, oh, my God, he's back. [00:17:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:31] Speaker A: I like how concerned clown looks. [00:17:33] Speaker B: He's like, but I control your symbiote. [00:17:35] Speaker A: And he threatens about raising an army. But then Spawn's like, oh, shit, I skipped this page. [00:17:41] Speaker B: Which. The two page spread you skipped. [00:17:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:45] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:17:45] Speaker A: This giant page. [00:17:46] Speaker B: Oh, man. That's a tough one to. Oh, because there's a lot of good. [00:17:50] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:17:51] Speaker B: Speaking of pugs. These are, like, the most demonic pugs I have ever seen. I would still cross the streets to try to give them a head pat. But, man, well, see, Spawn kills all. [00:18:07] Speaker A: His little guys here. So he has to get more new guys. [00:18:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:10] Speaker A: And so he meets Billy and Kate. He's like, can I get your little guys? [00:18:15] Speaker B: And he raises the dead. I wonder if the dead he raises. Are those self same railroad workers working in the middle of the night. [00:18:23] Speaker A: Yeah, probably. Or just, like, looks like classic zombie businessmen. That are in the middle of Albania. [00:18:30] Speaker B: I'm surprised they don't have, like, one of them doesn't have a briefcase. That one that's, like, fully standing. Looks a little bit like Charles Manson. Johnny, we get the glorious return of the spawn nose. But it makes sense now. [00:18:43] Speaker A: It's a good nose. [00:18:44] Speaker B: It's a good nose. [00:18:46] Speaker A: That's gnarly. The detail on his arm with the railroad spikes. [00:18:49] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man, that barbed wire. Just, like, biting into a. It's a great two page spread, Todd. Father is putting. [00:19:00] Speaker A: I think this is the first time we're seeing his power to raise the dead. [00:19:03] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it is, too. [00:19:04] Speaker A: Or it's a new power, because his powers are evolving, as we are finding out. That one little guy looks like a rancor. [00:19:12] Speaker B: It does. He's going to eat a gamorrean guard real quick. I love the rancor. [00:19:16] Speaker A: I had a rancor action fleet. It was, like, one of my favorite toys. [00:19:19] Speaker B: Oh, man. Yeah. [00:19:20] Speaker A: You could feed them the little figures, and they poop them out. [00:19:24] Speaker B: That's awesome. That's awesome. The rancor is one of those things that was the first bit of actually hit you right in the fields media that I saw as a child. I mean, one of the classic ones being the horse and the never ending story. You can't not cry for that. But then, like, at the end of. In Return of the Jedi, when the fat man comes out and he sees that the rancor is just. It's so sad. [00:19:59] Speaker A: David Maliki, the rancor. [00:20:05] Speaker B: Sorry. Sorry. I never. [00:20:06] Speaker A: You obviously never read the Rancor keeper's tale. [00:20:09] Speaker B: Obviously not. I was too traumatized by seeing the rancor die. [00:20:13] Speaker A: No, it's a good story. He really loved that rancor. [00:20:15] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. And then Spider Man. [00:20:18] Speaker A: I might be pronouncing it like, it's hard to say. Star wars names have only read out loud. It looks like Maliki. [00:20:23] Speaker B: Well, what's an obvious trait that he has that it could be pronounced as, like, is he a survivor? [00:20:30] Speaker A: It's malachili. The rankers played a big part in that boba fet. [00:20:36] Speaker B: That was pretty. That was. Oh, man, it was so good. [00:20:41] Speaker A: I love that show. I feel like it didn't get enough. Love, people. That whole sequence of that droid chased it around. Chased around. That little droid. Rat catcher droid. [00:20:52] Speaker B: Oh, man. It was goofy. And I don't think people want to think of Boba fet as being goofy, because he was long, this enigmatic figure, and everybody just wants him to be the badass that they know him to be. But, I mean, he's also. He's just an old man now. He's an old man who desert. And then all of his friends were killed. And now it's like, well, shit. [00:21:15] Speaker A: It's about a guy trying to retire. He has to find, empathize with him. He's like, I just want to settle down. [00:21:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:23] Speaker A: He's Jabba's palace. [00:21:24] Speaker B: He's like, hey, teens. Teens. Go get a job here. Better yet. I'll give you a job, teens. [00:21:29] Speaker A: Yeah, I'll be a job creator. So spawn is a dead person creator. And pulls these dead people out of the dirt. Godsend's looking crazy, demented. Just like. [00:21:41] Speaker B: It's a more comical godsend than what. Because Javi Fernandez gives us the wild godsend. But this is a very restrained and a little funnier looking godsend. [00:21:52] Speaker A: Yeah, he's funny. He's like a little goblin man. [00:21:54] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess after the next couple of pages is when he goes full bore crazy. [00:22:02] Speaker A: Yeah, because spawn tells him he's not holding his powers, he's holding a bomb, and he blows him up. [00:22:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Three, two. [00:22:12] Speaker A: But we get some wide eyed godsend and wide eyed clown, though, too, man. [00:22:16] Speaker B: That is a big ass clown eye. [00:22:18] Speaker A: It looks just like a stoplight. [00:22:20] Speaker B: We get the gigantic explosion with the. Oh, man, look at those trees. Just getting fucking Terminator two down there. [00:22:29] Speaker A: Someone's not going to be happy about that. [00:22:31] Speaker B: Yeah. No, and I like this callback to issue one, with the earth floating in space, but it's got that gigantic green spike just shooting out of it. [00:22:43] Speaker A: And then the big kaboom. You turn the page, and it's the giant spawn meter at. [00:22:53] Speaker B: No, Johnny, that's not good. That's no bueno. You're not supposed to have a zero power meter. [00:23:01] Speaker A: Definitely not. It's just a cool, cold open. And then you go right into kind of like another cold open a little bit. Yeah, it's like a mid cold open. [00:23:12] Speaker B: This is the third two page. No, the fourth two page spread. Because technically, the power meter is a two page spread. The fourth two page spread we've gotten. And we aren't even to the opening credits yet, Johnny. [00:23:24] Speaker A: And it's just like. It's like a celebration of all these spawn guys. [00:23:28] Speaker B: Yeah. At the same moment around the world, a spark is triggered. [00:23:32] Speaker A: So this is the medieval helmet feels it. [00:23:36] Speaker B: This is the inciting moment. That has pulled all of the spawns from all of their timelines. So it's very important for current ongoing. [00:23:48] Speaker A: Suck them in, Mandarin. Spawn she spawn. [00:23:51] Speaker B: Suck it up. Suck it up. Suck it up, baby. [00:23:54] Speaker A: Who's that there? I don't know. [00:23:56] Speaker B: I don't know who that is. The third, he shows. He shows up later in the issue, but I still don't know who he is. [00:24:01] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure. Jessica looks cool. [00:24:04] Speaker B: That hobby is looking super nice. [00:24:07] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. He's smoking that cigarette down to the last little bit. It's just like the ash is, like, two inches long. Or the cherry. [00:24:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. But it's a good thing that he's dead, or else his face would be burning. [00:24:20] Speaker A: He was just trying to enjoy a cigarette. [00:24:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:22] Speaker A: And then, little did he know, he would be part of spawn record breaking 301. And the credits page. [00:24:30] Speaker B: Nice. And then we get a nice profile of Mandarin Spawn there. [00:24:36] Speaker A: Oh, sorry. I skipped over. Mandarin spawn. [00:24:37] Speaker B: Skipped over. Mandarin spawn. Yeah, Mandarin Spawn. And then Jessica. And then. Who is that? I don't know who the last guy is either. [00:24:46] Speaker A: It looks like some kind of zombie spawn because he's got spawn makeup on. [00:24:49] Speaker B: Yeah, I was about to say it looks like Al Simmons's face right now. But those aren't Al Simmons's teeth. [00:24:54] Speaker A: I hope they're not. [00:24:55] Speaker B: Oh, man. Dude needs to get a necro dentist. [00:24:59] Speaker A: If mean, I'm sure that being a general hell's army has, like, dental. At least. [00:25:05] Speaker B: At least vision. I mean, it might be kind of weird to have health insurance for an army. Especially an army of hell. Because they don't give a shit if you live or not. [00:25:16] Speaker A: But if you're a general, hopefully you have some. [00:25:19] Speaker B: I like the Tod fathers. Jessica. Priest hair looks real good. It defies logic. And it's so wonderful. It's part of the beauty of. [00:25:29] Speaker A: Very video gamey. [00:25:30] Speaker B: Yeah, it's part of the beauty of the original Spawn cape. I heard somebody once trying to describe it as if you try to draw this cape with real world physics, it's going to look like garbage. You got to just let it do its thing and not make any sense in the real world. And that's what makes the spawn cape badass. [00:25:50] Speaker A: Yeah, I like her. Like, mohawk hair, too. That's a cool look. [00:25:53] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a good one. And then we get the credits page. Spawn record breaking 301. [00:26:03] Speaker A: Still in that kind of classic image font and layout. I love that Tom McFarland's got a nice, big credit there. [00:26:13] Speaker B: Everybody else is the same size. Yeah. [00:26:16] Speaker A: I love when you take an embellishment out of love. I like it when either, like, danny Elfman and Michael Giacchino do a lot. If they have opening credits, when their name comes up, they do, like a big. Or, like something like that, which is always really. [00:26:31] Speaker B: You gotta. [00:26:32] Speaker A: Why wouldn't you? [00:26:33] Speaker B: Yeah, why wouldn't you? Yeah. I mean, literally, without the todfather, we wouldn't have any of these creators on this page making this book. So, I mean, he's justified. [00:26:41] Speaker A: Yeah. These are opening credits that would make a Quentin Tarantino movie jealous. [00:26:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:46] Speaker A: I love a good opening credits. It's a sad. It's a lost art form. A lot of movies don't do it anymore. The Marvel does it, but they do it at the end. [00:26:55] Speaker B: It's hard to do a big opening credits now because it's the boring stuff you have to sit through and you lose a lot of people with, especially if you have a good, energetic, cold open that then goes to, like, five minutes of just names. [00:27:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:12] Speaker B: You got to be real good about it. It can't just be like a scroll. [00:27:15] Speaker A: Guardians of the galaxies had a good opening credits with the dancing. [00:27:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:21] Speaker A: That's the most modern marvel I could think of that had, like, opening credits. [00:27:24] Speaker B: Like a. I do, like a nice artistic credit scene, though. [00:27:27] Speaker A: Yeah. Tim Burton has good ones. [00:27:29] Speaker B: Bring us into the world. Yeah. Like those opening credits to Batman where it's, oh, man, it's just like, flying around inside the bat insignia, and you're like, what is going on here? [00:27:38] Speaker A: And then, like, half music's playing, and it's like, this is the most awesome, important thing that's ever happened. Like, when you hear that, like, Batman music, you're just like, oh, my God. What is this? This is amazing. [00:27:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Or, like, the Beetlejuice opening credits where it's just flying around the little model, man. I love models. Models are so cool. I'm terrible. [00:27:55] Speaker A: I just watched Beetlejuice, like, two weeks ago. It was like I was popping on a movie just to chill out and read some spawn before work, and I popped on Beetlejuice. [00:28:05] Speaker B: Nice. [00:28:05] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a great movie. [00:28:07] Speaker B: Don't say it again, Johnny. [00:28:09] Speaker A: Oh, shit. You're right. Okay. [00:28:10] Speaker B: You're too close to that toy portal to say it a third time. [00:28:14] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't want to. Ooh. But a action figure of that man might be interesting. I just can't say it a third time. [00:28:20] Speaker B: Michael Keaton's comedic character. [00:28:22] Speaker A: Michael Keaton's comedic character in Tim Burton's film. [00:28:26] Speaker B: I guess you could say it the way that Gina Davis and Alec Baldwin. [00:28:33] Speaker A: The b word. [00:28:34] Speaker B: The Beetlegeist. [00:28:36] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:28:41] Speaker B: You'Re a b word. Yeah. So we got Tod McFarlane, Greg Capullo, Jason Sean Alexander, Clayton Crane, and Jerome opena doing art, and the Todd father's doing all the writing. Then we got just a list of colorers. We've got fco placencia, Peter Stagerwald, Matt Hollingsworth, John Roush, Greg Minzi, J photos. I know it's weird because I know Matt Hollingsworth as he was apparently one of the, one of the first superstar colorers of contemporary comics when they got into digital coloring. Being really good he was, like, one of the people that everybody always wanted. [00:29:33] Speaker A: That's cool. [00:29:34] Speaker B: So that's good. We got big names on here, Johnny. Big names. We also have Jonathan Glapian doing additional inks and embellishing. [00:29:48] Speaker A: I feel like Todd father got a little busy and was like, oh, shit. Can you embellish that for me? [00:29:53] Speaker B: You know what I'd say? You know what I'd say? [00:29:55] Speaker A: And Tom Orchestkowski, don't forget. [00:29:57] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Tom o. [00:29:59] Speaker A: Doing the letters 301 issues. [00:30:01] Speaker B: Excellent. Excellent work. And then there's a list of all the different covers. We just counted them, and there was 14. Is that what I said? 14 or 16? 1616 covers. Oh, man. So many covers. [00:30:14] Speaker A: Yes. A through p. We're going to have. [00:30:17] Speaker B: To find a J. Scott Campbell for Johnny. Let's look that up real quick to see. Oh, yeah. [00:30:22] Speaker A: I'm actually curious what that looks. [00:30:23] Speaker B: Oh, man. Oh. Oh, shit. Oh, it's fucking great. [00:30:27] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:30:28] Speaker B: That's awesome. Oh, man. Yeah, so this guy, it's spawn that has, like. He's, like, ghostly forms of himself coming out of his main body and, like, you can see his heart. [00:30:40] Speaker A: And then Al Simmons head above him. That's cool. Would have preferred a Jessica. [00:30:46] Speaker B: Yeah. All right. Well worth. Well worth the Google, though. Damn. Yeah. [00:30:51] Speaker A: That's awesome. That's really cool. [00:30:53] Speaker B: Gmart Comics has it for only 23, 75. [00:30:57] Speaker A: Jeez. [00:30:58] Speaker B: Okay, so this first story. Adversaries, you got to say it in the Keith David voice. Adversaries. [00:31:06] Speaker A: Adversaries. So this is Jason Sean Alexander here for chapter two. We didn't say it before because it was a cold open, but it was Greg Capoulo and Tod McFarland doing chapter one. [00:31:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:18] Speaker A: So we get Jason Sean Alexander here. [00:31:21] Speaker B: Ten days later, Johnny pretty much opens up. [00:31:23] Speaker A: There's, like, some government stuff going on in Albania. [00:31:25] Speaker B: They're trying to figure out what happened, and they're like, we're seeing what's going on. And there's this very decorated general men being like, we got to do this quick. Then we got to get to the jungles. [00:31:39] Speaker A: And we open the next page, and it's just the giant crater where Godsend and clown got exploded. [00:31:45] Speaker B: Fifth two page spread already. No one will ever know anything was here. Oh, man. So they're, like, picking up all the pieces to make sure that there's no evidence. [00:31:54] Speaker A: Epic. [00:31:55] Speaker B: And then elsewhere, we've got a very handsome Al Simmons talking to the crN. [00:32:01] Speaker A: Yeah, looking good. [00:32:02] Speaker B: Yeah, look at trim, man. You can see the shine on his head from the lights. You could tell he maybe did a nice little wax down. [00:32:16] Speaker A: And so Al's kind of, I don't know. This is interesting. He's, like, enjoying his celebrity here a little bit. [00:32:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:20] Speaker A: He's warning people, but it's a little, kind of like, oh, yeah, I am cool. [00:32:25] Speaker B: Yeah, it's fun. It's fun. [00:32:28] Speaker A: Yeah. Like they do. It's fun. [00:32:30] Speaker B: We've been with them long enough to know it's very not Al Simmons. So you could tell going out of. [00:32:35] Speaker A: His comfort zone, that's for sure. [00:32:37] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:32:38] Speaker A: And I think it's kind of fun because it's a little meta because it's like interviewing spawn for 301 for his record breaker. [00:32:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:48] Speaker A: Now that he's a true superhero, he calls on us to fight for freedom and democracy in our communities and our nations. [00:32:56] Speaker B: Yeah. So I like how he's very well spoken and put together when he's talking to the CRN lady. And then later on another network, and he's just pointing and yelling back at Brock the shock fennel. That's ridiculous and you know it. You can't possibly believe. [00:33:14] Speaker A: Yeah, he calls him out for being a demon. I don't know who your friends are. [00:33:20] Speaker B: That would have been a fun interview to watch because it would just be them yelling back and forth for a little bit. [00:33:27] Speaker A: And he gets so mad. Look, I know you're a patriot. I understand you're a soldier, sir, but you're an ass. [00:33:35] Speaker B: And then still later, and he's on the info news, and he's like a guy sitting in his kitchen. So he's like the halfway between. So he's adapting his approach to the interviews to the interviewers. And that's real fun. That's real fun. I also like that Al Simmons talks with his hands, because I talk with my hands. And it's fun to know, quite honestly, a man. I admire Mr. Albert Simmons talking with his hands. [00:34:08] Speaker A: This is hilarious. Where he's like, could you put on the costume for us? And he's like, okay. [00:34:13] Speaker B: And Mark's like, what are you doing? [00:34:15] Speaker A: It's a little too intense just to have him change on camera. And I love how he comes back in with his hands up. He's like, hello, I'm back. I'm good enough for everyone. [00:34:25] Speaker B: That's how the clown would introduce himself. If he ever had the symbiote, he would be. [00:34:32] Speaker A: That middle. That middle Al Simmons, where he's like, look, I know, okay? It's just a great expression. You can totally get the expressions on Al, and this whole thing are great. [00:34:41] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:34:41] Speaker A: Feel what he's thinking, saying, oh, I. [00:34:44] Speaker B: Love how hard bark is rolling his eyes there. [00:34:48] Speaker A: Oh, the hard mark eye roll. And then, of course, because it's 301. You got to have it. [00:34:53] Speaker B: Got to have it. I got to have it. [00:34:56] Speaker A: You got the pundits. [00:34:58] Speaker B: Yeah. They're both just following up. It's like the post interview bookend for the broadcast, where they just basically repeat everything they talked about in the interview and then talk about how good of a guy he was. Except for Brock the shock. [00:35:17] Speaker A: I love how buried he is in the channels. He's on GBWr HD, three 0.1. There's, like, such a buried channel, Ed. His name of his show now is sheeple vision. So mad dude's going to have an aneurysm. He needs to chill out. He looks like he went to pop a vein in his neck. He looks so angry. [00:35:37] Speaker B: It reminds me of that, the rush Limbaugh impersonations they used to do on SNL, where it was just a picture of the guy's face next to a microphone, and they would just, like, shove pills in his mouth. [00:35:49] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:35:51] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:35:51] Speaker A: Yeah, they're following up the interviews, and he's just, it's just so funny. [00:35:58] Speaker B: Everybody else is just, this is, this is a good guy. This is a good thing. Don't believe a word of it. [00:36:05] Speaker A: Exactly like I said. He goes like, oh, he's a good soldier. He's courageous. Wear the uniform. But the buck stops there. Of course, he has to mention, like, look, I respect soldiers. [00:36:19] Speaker B: Oh, brock the shock. I like you more now that we know that you're an actual demon. [00:36:27] Speaker A: Yeah, it makes a lot more sense, and it makes it a lot funnier. [00:36:29] Speaker B: That he gets so know, it's. I guess it's implied that he knows that Al Simmons is spawn because he knows who spawn is. And it seems like all of the demons would know who spawn is. [00:36:44] Speaker A: I think he does. [00:36:45] Speaker B: There's no consistency in his public face, and it's very on brand. [00:36:51] Speaker A: On brand for the Todd. Father is getting two criminals coming out of a bar. [00:36:58] Speaker B: But they're not talking about Avatar. That's the problem. [00:37:01] Speaker A: They're talking about getting slapped by women that he's harassing. [00:37:04] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess he asked her out, and then when she said no, said something about her weight and then got slapped across the face. Man, what a jerk. [00:37:18] Speaker A: He deserves a woke mob. He says he's too manly for man. [00:37:23] Speaker B: These guys deserve exactly what they get. Exactly what they get. Yeah. [00:37:27] Speaker A: These guys are pieces of shit. [00:37:28] Speaker B: I like how they're so drunk that their car isn't where they parked it. And they're just like, oh, I don't remember parking it over there. [00:37:37] Speaker A: Don't ever be these guys. But no one likes a guy like this. The bar. No one looks like a really drunk guy who thinks it's funny. Like, it's so annoying. [00:37:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. It's a nice car, though. Look at that. [00:37:47] Speaker A: Pretty cool. [00:37:48] Speaker B: He does the classic, appearing behind two guys in a nice car. Like he does with Sam and twitch all the time. [00:37:54] Speaker A: And he is real scary looking. [00:37:56] Speaker B: Oh, man, that is very frightening, because he's coming out of the. What did we call his shadow teleportation. A couple of episodes. [00:38:07] Speaker A: I called it shadow blasting. [00:38:08] Speaker B: Shadow blasting, yeah, he's just shadow blasting out of the back of this car here. [00:38:12] Speaker A: God, if you looked at that, that's going to give me nightmares next time I get my car and we think about Spawn back there. [00:38:16] Speaker B: If I were a person who liked practical jokes, I would totally try to make a cardboard cut out of that and try to hide it in there. [00:38:23] Speaker A: Is it hilarious? You dress up like spawn and wait in my car for, like, a day that I just beat the shit. I just start punching you in the face and run out. [00:38:29] Speaker B: Can you imagine if Wanda were the one that would do it? I mean, I would be dead. [00:38:34] Speaker A: You get a key right to the eye. [00:38:36] Speaker B: Yeah. She would murder me with no remorse until she figured out who it was. And then she would be like, I shouldn't have done it. [00:38:44] Speaker A: Shouldn't have done it. Exactly. [00:38:45] Speaker B: That's pretty much her. And then she'd be upset at you that you had to clean all the blood out of the back of the backseat. So maybe let's not do that. [00:38:55] Speaker A: Yeah, I did that once in college. Like, someone was like, they're picking up their girlfriend. This will be funny. Go hide in the backseat. It was not funny. Oh, no. They were terrified. It was awful. I felt really bad. [00:39:09] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I'm not a person who likes pranks to begin with, so you got to know your audience. [00:39:17] Speaker A: Guys, I'm really jumpy. I mean, I'll get scared knowing Wanda's in the house, and she comes around a corner that I'm not expecting, and I'll jump. I'm very jumpy. And spawn. Yeah, this guy's like, fuck you. Spawn calls him out for killing kids, for killing women. Just being, like, awful gangster, mobster people. And so he starts to shoot him, but Spawn's gone. He zips out of there. [00:39:43] Speaker B: He's on top of Geno's east, home of the deep dish with the corn oil and the crust. [00:39:49] Speaker A: Yep. Gino's. Gino's. Yeah, I guess they are. Maybe they are Gino's yeast. I didn't specify. They could be the Gino's pizza place. [00:39:57] Speaker B: For people coming to Chicago for fun times. Gino's has delicious deep dish. The corn oil and the crust is a bit controversial among certain people. But there's sausage pizza. It's got a sausage patty the size of a pizza. It's got, like, a quarter inch layer of sausage across the whole thing. It's fucking great. If you love sausage, then some dude. [00:40:21] Speaker A: Comes over here, some asshole that we don't even know who he is. Spawn knows. I guess probably some listeners know. [00:40:26] Speaker B: I guess we got distracted by pizza. The s falls off the sign and smushes the card. [00:40:31] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Sorry. I started thinking about the pizza. Spawn zips up, cracks the sign, and then he's smashing with the s s for Spawn, baby. [00:40:40] Speaker B: Most definitely. And then this dude lighting a cigarette. Well done. [00:40:46] Speaker A: He's been established before. He's a bad guy that Spawn knows. Sansker is his name, and he is these guys boss and is, like, basically calling out Spawn. [00:40:56] Speaker B: He's saying, spawn, you can't take us out one by one. That'll take years. Spawn is just like, yes, please let it take years. [00:41:05] Speaker A: Yeah, that'll be great. And then characters like to do in Spawn recently, at least in gunslinger as well, he turns into a giant snake. [00:41:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, my goodness. Look at that middle panel where his face is, like, half snaked already is nightmare fuel. I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but Jason Sean Alexander draws some scary shit. Dude. [00:41:28] Speaker A: It is scary. It's just like. It's very nightmare dream imagery. Very flowing. [00:41:32] Speaker B: I do like how this bad guy made the first mistake of bampfing them to a place covered in weapons. Never take a military man somewhere where he can easily access weapons if you're going to harass him. [00:41:49] Speaker A: Yeah, don't take him like the chateau from the matrix too. [00:41:55] Speaker B: So snake starts coiling around Spawn, and he grabs a sword because Spawn has decided it would be a physical battle, because he doesn't want to use his. He's trying to resist the urge to use his necropowers because he doesn't really have much. No, I do like how he grabs one sword and buries it in the snake, and then he grabs another sword and then buries it in a snake and then grabs an axe and then buries. So there's, like, multiple different weapons sticking out of this snake. [00:42:24] Speaker A: Yeah, he's like a pincushion. [00:42:26] Speaker B: Oh, man, it's so good. [00:42:28] Speaker A: That's a scary. The halfway transformation is weird on that face, too. That's scary, too. [00:42:33] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:42:33] Speaker A: He's, like, transforming back. [00:42:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:42:36] Speaker A: And he transforms back into human. And Spawn is, like, cut off the tip of his tail, and it's his arm. [00:42:40] Speaker B: Oh, man. You've improved your skills, Simmons. He looks like a Spider man villain in that halfway coming back. Like a scary spider man villain. [00:42:50] Speaker A: Yeah, it's real scary. [00:42:52] Speaker B: Oh, man. The amount of blood coming out of this arm is just insane. [00:42:57] Speaker A: It's just like Sam Raimi would be. [00:43:01] Speaker B: Definitely. It's like that production that Pugsley and Wednesday do in the Adams family movie just shoots out everywhere. [00:43:14] Speaker A: Spawn's like, go tell your friends that I'm weak. I'll be waiting for you. [00:43:18] Speaker B: Yeah. He shadow blasts himself back. That's the end of that chapter. The next chapter we get is called Arsenal. [00:43:25] Speaker A: We go back eleven days, because, remember, it was ten days later. So this is eleven days ago. [00:43:31] Speaker B: Yeah. So this is over halfway to 21 days later. [00:43:35] Speaker A: You mean 28 days later. [00:43:37] Speaker B: God damn it. But numbers don't make sense to me anymore, Johnny. 28 days later. 28 minutes later. So we got Al Simmons foot and a bloody Al Simmons hand, pulling a little bit of goop out of some rocks. Al Simmons was able to find a small, little bit of his symbiote, and he will need to make it regrow. So he's going to. [00:44:00] Speaker A: It's like a little snot dangle of it. [00:44:03] Speaker B: He's going to call hims and say, hey, I need a pill to regrow my symbiote. What can you send me? [00:44:09] Speaker A: Yeah, hey, hims, can I get romans? I like how hymns or hers? It's like, hymns is for boner pills and then for hers, like, anxiety medication. [00:44:20] Speaker B: So they both have anxiety medication, but those are the. [00:44:26] Speaker A: That's just how they advertise. Yeah. [00:44:27] Speaker B: How they're advertising is more towards what? Because, unfortunately, the stereotype is true. How many men are going to reach out to a company to get medicine for emotional issues? Which we need. True. We need to start doing that. Everybody. But I mean, infinitely more of them are going to be like, my dick's not hard. Okay, I'm going to call you real quick. [00:44:53] Speaker A: Call them up. [00:44:54] Speaker B: Speaking of calling them up, Al Simmons makes a late night call to Mark. Mark waking up at 02:47 a.m. Mark hasn't slept well in weeks. [00:45:05] Speaker A: Yeah, he's trapped at this house that spawn trapped him at. I wouldn't be sleeping well either. [00:45:09] Speaker B: That he can't get out of. He can't find the edge of the simulation to get out of. It's like he's stuck in the holodeck and he can't call the arch. That was a Star Trek joke. [00:45:20] Speaker A: I get it. Holodeck. I understand that. [00:45:22] Speaker B: I didn't know if you knew about the arch because the arch height. [00:45:25] Speaker A: I don't know what the arch is. No idea. [00:45:27] Speaker B: Yeah. So the arch is the doorway to the holodeck, and it disappears completely to immerse individuals in the fantasy. And when you want to leave the fantasy, you call for the arch, and it brings up the door and, like, a control panel, so that way you can leave the simulation. Okay, so that's how you leave. And the episodes they have where it's people stuck in the hollow deck, they call for the arch, and the computer is like, I can't do that. Sorry, Dave. I cannot do that. [00:45:57] Speaker A: Then it cuts to a commercial break. [00:45:59] Speaker B: Yeah, so Al's just looking real sad in this room just filled with CRT tvs. And Al Simmons says the thing repeats the phrase that all people who aren't fine say I'm fine. But we all know that it's very difficult for Al Simmons to ask for help. It's a word he knows he should say, but he's like, well, what is that word again? [00:46:25] Speaker A: He can't even ask Batman for Help. [00:46:27] Speaker B: Yeah, he eventually does, but it's very hard. [00:46:30] Speaker A: He's kind of beat himself up because he's like, I believe them, that my powers would drain and that it would make me weaker. But he realized that he's more like transforming, gaining new powers. [00:46:43] Speaker B: I know. If I remember correctly, it's something about if he uses up all his powers, then he no longer gets to be a spawn, and his soul gets to be tortured in hell, if I remember correctly. Isn't that part of now? He's got no power, but his soul ain't in hell right now. Well, I guess he did kill Melbolgia. He's just sitting there looking at his little goopy finger being like he's pulling a seymour, and he's saying, please grow for me. Basically, he's feeding it some blood. The next page, he's just going to have his fingers covered in bandaids from where he was feeding a symbiote. [00:47:28] Speaker A: He's, like, pondering it suddenly. Simmons, nope, I'm shutting that down. [00:47:34] Speaker B: No musicals. [00:47:37] Speaker A: Shut it down. He's, like, pondering. He's like, time to go out. And he's, like, gonna go out and kick some ass. [00:47:46] Speaker B: He just smashes through a window. Oh, look at that. There's some good, classic Todd father spawn drawn here. [00:47:54] Speaker A: Yeah, he looks really. [00:47:55] Speaker B: How you can tell he's a little weak because when he lands through the window, his cape just envelops him. I also like how we get that classic early issues skyline of the buildings with the ludicrous number of antenna. [00:48:13] Speaker A: Oh, my God, there's so many. [00:48:14] Speaker B: So many of them. [00:48:16] Speaker A: So spawn just shows up. He's basically, like, cleaning up the town here. He beat up those other guys. Yeah, you're going to go beat up this viking guy. [00:48:24] Speaker B: It's a building that has some dead floors in it that are reserved for the court of owls. And he busts into one of those court of owl safe house spots. [00:48:34] Speaker A: Oh, this is the guy from earlier in the issue. [00:48:37] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know who he is. He looks fucking badass, though. He looks like a viking. Swamp thing, spawn. [00:48:46] Speaker A: We don't know. They call him a horned stranger. [00:48:49] Speaker B: Yeah, okay. [00:48:50] Speaker A: I guess no one knows who he is, man. [00:48:53] Speaker B: One of the design flourishes I've always loved about swamp thing is that he's got those roots that turn into, like, the big ass fumanchu mustache that make him look like that. Make him look like limi Kilmeister. So I always think of limi when I read swamp thing, and it makes me laugh. [00:49:12] Speaker A: He does have those, like, mandible things like that. [00:49:14] Speaker B: Oh, man. And, yeah, Spawn tries to punch this dude, and it gets caught in a gauntlet glove. That's a great looking gauntlet hand. [00:49:26] Speaker A: This guy's basically just, like, telling him. [00:49:29] Speaker B: That this dude is so fucking badass. Look at him. [00:49:32] Speaker A: Yeah, he's cool. Look at him. He's got, like, yeah, gauntlets. [00:49:34] Speaker B: And, like, on the next page, when they're standing in front of each other and talking, he's got a little owl on his belt. Holy shit. He is part of the court of owls. [00:49:43] Speaker A: It does look like an owl. Oh, my God. It's the court of owl. Owl. [00:49:48] Speaker B: Yeah, here's where they're talking about. He knows how weak owl is because the symbiotes reverted to its original form. And we can tell very quickly because. [00:49:56] Speaker A: We got them boots in that butt. [00:49:58] Speaker B: It's a bombad a butt. Johnny bomb. Bad a. [00:50:03] Speaker A: It's like, it's like classic action figure. [00:50:05] Speaker B: Classic swan there with a small right foot. It's got the spiked band, but the spiked band hasn't turned into a boot. [00:50:13] Speaker A: Yet the band ain't a boot, and I'm not canadian. [00:50:17] Speaker B: Todfather is, though. [00:50:19] Speaker A: It's a boot. It's about. What? No, it's a boot. When he's trying to tell him about Spawn's boot. [00:50:25] Speaker B: No, what is it about, Todd? That's what he has to furiously sketch it out and be like a boot. Oh, man. And so, yeah, Al Simmons steps back into the shadows. Know be know. Well, this is me without my symbiote right now. Look at how fucking metal it is. [00:50:44] Speaker A: Transformed to savage Spawn. Look at. [00:50:46] Speaker B: Yeah, they definitely need to make a savage spawn action figure. Even though the word savage for a figure of a black man would be very problematic about that. [00:50:58] Speaker A: But we mean in the sense of savage avengers. [00:51:00] Speaker B: Yeah, but still, they need you to make an action figure of, I guess, all natural. We could call him all natural Al. Oh, yeah. [00:51:08] Speaker A: All natural. Alex writing Al now just looks like AI to everybody. I think about that a lot because I try to talk to Al, and I always have to put Albert or Simmons. [00:51:26] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:51:27] Speaker A: But he still looks like AI Simmons. Everyone writes AI all the goddamn. [00:51:30] Speaker B: These. These dang sang serif fonts where your capital I looks like a lowercase L. Yeah. [00:51:39] Speaker A: It's really screwing up, saying Al on the Internet. [00:51:42] Speaker B: Yeah. How dare they? How dare they? [00:51:45] Speaker A: It's tough. It's tough. [00:51:46] Speaker B: And speaking of being online, Johnny, arrogance won't save you online. [00:51:51] Speaker A: It will try. [00:51:52] Speaker B: This man says that arrogance won't save Al from the war that's coming. And Al says what many a person on the Internet would say. It's not arrogance, it's confidence. Which takes me to the second point where you're wrong about. I'm taking those weapons tonight. [00:52:09] Speaker A: And he goes into, like, a proto. Like, kind of a little callback to early spawn commando spawn a little bit. Just all those weapons and stuff. Yeah, pretty classic spawn spread drawn by the Todd father. [00:52:20] Speaker B: Shit, Johnny, I forgot to. I lost count of the double page spreads. Oh, fuck. [00:52:25] Speaker A: Six? [00:52:26] Speaker B: Is this six? [00:52:26] Speaker A: I think this is six or seven. [00:52:28] Speaker B: Six or seven. Something like that. [00:52:29] Speaker A: Let's say seven. [00:52:30] Speaker B: Okay. That's good for me. It's just so, like, ripped from, like, issue four. It's great. [00:52:38] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. It's just this is a fun little early spawn. You get the little history of spawns here with Jason Sean Alexander era. And you get this. It was pretty cool. Cool to see top father drawing. Classic spawn. [00:52:51] Speaker B: It's also fun to see spawn with a duffel bag. [00:52:56] Speaker A: Yep. Just carrying shit. [00:52:58] Speaker B: He just picked up the McFarland gunpack. So then we're into the next story. Brotherhood. [00:53:06] Speaker A: Brotherhood. This is just a one off, right? Are we supposed to know who this cat is? Well, we do find out who he. [00:53:14] Speaker B: Yeah, we do find out who he is. Yeah. [00:53:17] Speaker A: I don't know if we've seen him before. We may have. [00:53:19] Speaker B: I haven't. [00:53:21] Speaker A: We haven't. But maybe in the comics, he showed up. [00:53:24] Speaker B: Oh, man. This is the Clayton Crane one. And Clayton Crane. I love Clayton Crane's artwork because I love, myself a cyberpunk aesthetic. And the Clayton Crane cyberpunk is that's, like, what he does, but it's, like a juicy, or, like, a wet, gooey cyberpunk, and it's fantastic. [00:53:52] Speaker A: His freak and overkill in this are really wet and gooey and good. [00:53:56] Speaker B: I just love this art. It is great. Like, look at that on the first page, that second panel. Just the water on that motorcycle is just great. [00:54:05] Speaker A: I like how someone changed that Star. [00:54:09] Speaker B: Wars coffee to spawn this way. [00:54:11] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just like spawn. [00:54:14] Speaker B: It's great. You got a dude smoking some, I assume we're supposed to assume that's crack that dude is smoking there. [00:54:23] Speaker A: Probably. You can definitely see the kind of steampunk aesthetic. It looks very, like. Not steampunk shit. Cyberpunk. [00:54:30] Speaker B: Steampunk. [00:54:31] Speaker A: You get, like, that reflection of the lights in the highway. [00:54:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:54:34] Speaker A: Rain. Everything's wet, like you said. [00:54:37] Speaker B: Yeah. And then especially on the second page where he turns on this, it's a ring light that he modified for streaming. [00:54:47] Speaker A: To be able to see. When you look through it, you see, like, demons and shit. [00:54:50] Speaker B: Yeah. I guess it allows the human, the earth people to see hell and heaven agents. [00:54:57] Speaker A: And to see them, he does. They're these creepy, like, bug guys. They all start chasing him. [00:55:01] Speaker B: They're like proto fleabiacs, pretty much, yeah. [00:55:05] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. They're like little baby fleabiacs, little baby fleabs. They're just learning how to hunt a little bit. [00:55:13] Speaker B: And, man, this dude's trying to outrun him. And he comes to a broken part of a bridge and tries to jump the gap, but just crashes. Just does a wipeout. [00:55:23] Speaker A: Man loses his ring camera thing. [00:55:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:55:26] Speaker A: His ring light. [00:55:28] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:55:28] Speaker A: Then they kind of turn. They even look more fleebiaki in the next page where they got that big, long jaw. [00:55:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. They got that venom tongue coming out. It takes Greg a brief moment to process what's happening around him. Everything is moving so fast. [00:55:45] Speaker A: And then, kaboom. Punching through the head. [00:55:48] Speaker B: Yeah, there's some spawn cape and chain action coming down to take care of that one dude, then we got. [00:55:55] Speaker A: Rips his head right off. [00:55:56] Speaker B: Oh, man. Then we got overt kill over here. Oh, man, look at that. Overt kill, that's who. [00:56:05] Speaker A: Then the chain rips this one, like, straight bifurcates him down the middle. Like when Bone Tomahawk. [00:56:11] Speaker B: It's just gnarly. [00:56:13] Speaker A: You ever seen Bone Tomahawk? [00:56:15] Speaker B: I have not seen Bone Tomahawk. Is it good? [00:56:17] Speaker A: Good movie. Yeah, good movie that happens to a character with a live special effect that. It's really, really gross. Good horror movie. S Craig Zoller. Good director. [00:56:28] Speaker B: It's got Patrick Wilson in it. Nice. [00:56:31] Speaker A: Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, David Arquette, Kurt Russell. Yeah, it's a good movie. [00:56:37] Speaker B: Sid Haig. [00:56:40] Speaker A: All s Craig Zoller movies are pretty good. He's an interesting fellow. He's like a grosser. Quentin Tarantino was less sexual and more into, like, fangoria or something. It's interesting. [00:56:54] Speaker B: Even though I've not seen this movie, I know exactly what you mean by that description. [00:56:59] Speaker A: It's a good movie. It's worth checking out. Bone Tom Hawk, definitely. It's a fun, like, western horror, little bit supernatural ish. Like, it flirts with Sci-Fi supernatural. [00:57:11] Speaker B: It's got a gunsling. [00:57:12] Speaker A: It's gunsling. It's about gunslingers fighting possible demon things. [00:57:17] Speaker B: Nice. Definitely going to have to watch that. It's got 91% on Rotten Tomatoes. [00:57:22] Speaker A: No, it was widely acclaimed. It's a good movie. And then someone else joins the party here, which is Mr. F-R-E-K. Freak him. [00:57:32] Speaker B: Just look at that. Slashing one of these guys up with a long ass knife. [00:57:36] Speaker A: He loves a knife. [00:57:38] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:57:39] Speaker A: He's like you, David. [00:57:40] Speaker B: Yeah. I think he might love them more than I do. He definitely puts them to different uses than I do. [00:57:47] Speaker A: Yeah, he, like, loves them in a sensual way. [00:57:51] Speaker B: Oh, man. And then overt kills, saying, kill them all. And he's including this motorcycle, man. [00:57:59] Speaker A: Freak's like, wait, don't kill that guy. [00:58:01] Speaker B: Yeah, I know this one. Another two page spread here. [00:58:06] Speaker A: Number eight. [00:58:06] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:58:09] Speaker A: It's the grateful eight. Because I'm grateful for these eight two page spreads so far. [00:58:15] Speaker B: That's great. [00:58:15] Speaker A: Just like the zombie. [00:58:17] Speaker B: My God, is that really you? [00:58:19] Speaker A: It's so funny he recognizes him. [00:58:22] Speaker B: How? Well, I guess he's his brother, so I'm sure I would recognize my sister if she were horribly defensive. [00:58:28] Speaker A: I mean, he kind of looked like that in life because he had, like, that long white hair like that. Yeah, it seems like a caricature of himself. [00:58:37] Speaker B: Yeah. I like how he worked at Skybound and Skybound is the imprint at image that thinks, like, invincible and the Walking Dead are released under. [00:58:50] Speaker A: Oh, really? [00:58:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:58:51] Speaker A: Tod loves to use stuff from his real not. [00:58:56] Speaker B: Why not? He's the boss. He's allowed. [00:59:00] Speaker A: When I write stuff, I pull things from. I mean, obviously it's what you know. [00:59:05] Speaker B: Yeah, write what you know. [00:59:06] Speaker A: And if you know that, it's a fun little reference. I didn't know that. And I just was like, that's a cool name for a company. [00:59:11] Speaker B: Yeah, it is a cool name for a company. [00:59:12] Speaker A: I just assumed it was, like, a heaven company. [00:59:14] Speaker B: Yeah, it could be. It could be, but, yeah. Then as soon as the freak recognizes them, he just disembowels him. Look at that. Oh, those are bowels coming out. Yep. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. [00:59:31] Speaker A: Skybound's the one that experimented on Freak here and his brother worked there for him willingly. Yeah, it's like I'm a hero. And heroes in a time for brothers. [00:59:43] Speaker B: Oh, man. Fucking freak. Fucking freak. [00:59:46] Speaker A: What a weirdo. [00:59:48] Speaker B: A sad, sad last image of him holding the picture of him and his brother. [00:59:54] Speaker A: His brother looks like Adam Driver. Freak looks like Adam driver in life. [00:59:58] Speaker B: Oh, man. Adam driver with a bleached hair. [01:00:01] Speaker A: Well, that's sad. Sorry, freak. Little sad freak story. [01:00:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Don't make me feel sad for freak. [01:00:08] Speaker A: I like freak. [01:00:10] Speaker B: I like freak. But I don't want to be emotionally invested in freak. I want to see him just fuck some shit up. [01:00:16] Speaker A: See, I think Brian would like freak if we can get them to make a freak. [01:00:22] Speaker B: I was like, but he just killed his brother. Brian? But you mean. [01:00:26] Speaker A: No, he. [01:00:26] Speaker B: Brian Voiler over on. Yes. [01:00:29] Speaker A: A Brian who does our music. [01:00:30] Speaker B: We're trying to get. [01:00:31] Speaker A: If they do a freak off the leash, the series, you might like Freak because he's a zombie, man, who stabs. [01:00:39] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, that would be good. [01:00:40] Speaker A: And then we get the next chapter. [01:00:42] Speaker B: Sacrifice. Jinx. You owe me a coke. You can't speak until I say your name. Four times, Johnny. It's like Beetlejuice over here, Johnny. [01:00:53] Speaker A: Did you say it three times yet? [01:00:54] Speaker B: No, it's twice. I get to hit you now, Johnny. [01:00:57] Speaker A: All right, neither of us can say. [01:00:59] Speaker B: The b word, Johnny. Okay, you can talk now. I still get to hit you when I see you, though. Oh, man. [01:01:08] Speaker A: If you do that, you're going to do that, aren't you? Maybe like four months from now till I see you just walk up and deck me. [01:01:15] Speaker B: That requires remembering shit. That's why I have this policy where if people don't immediately pay me back, they basically get off scot free, because I totally forget that they owe me stuff. [01:01:28] Speaker A: Good to know. [01:01:29] Speaker B: I should probably not advertise it, but literally, that's why I always try to repay people immediately, because I know I'm going to forget. And then, yeah, I don't know if they're as lenient as I am when it comes to the borrower forgetting. But then in sacrifice, we get. At the end of 300, there was that one dude just climbing the stairway to heaven, is what it looked like. And now he has reached the top platform. [01:02:00] Speaker A: I propose it was Cogliostro. It's not. [01:02:02] Speaker B: Yeah, it's not Cogliostro. It's some other dude. Look at this guy. Some other dude talked about his family's heritage. There's special people. His dad spoke. When his dad died, I knew nothing they spoke about had anything to do with me. He's been tormented by the voice of his families in his heads, his heads. [01:02:21] Speaker A: Calling him back, his heads, his multiple heads. [01:02:25] Speaker B: So he's going to sacrifice himself to get rid of these voices in his heads. They never leave him alone. So he's going to make those voices stop. Johnny, he just rams a sword straight through his stomach. This isn't so much a sepiku, which would be. [01:02:43] Speaker A: That's where you, like, gut yourself. [01:02:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Which would be in and up, and then everything comes out. This is just straight through, like, dude, you know? [01:02:51] Speaker A: So this is a fun little something that this image reminds me of. And just to derail for some Star wars talk, please. In Colin Trevorrow's script of what was titled Duel of the fates, what became rise of Skywalker, the script is leaked, and it's, like an earlier version, but one of the coolest plot points. I was like, this is such a cool idea. General Hux, because he was jealous of Kylo Ren, was, like, obsessed with the force and trying to do it the whole movie, but couldn't. And he had a collection of lightsabers, and he was like, one of the little subplots is he'd have one of his underlings, like, collecting Jedi lightsabers. He had, like, a shelf of them. And as they lose the war, it ends with Finn, like, leading this rebellion of stormtroopers on Coruscant, and they overtake the first order. He commits Sefuku with a lightsaber as, like, their base burns. And I thought that was pretty cool. [01:03:46] Speaker B: That would have been really cool. [01:03:47] Speaker A: It's a good script. Duel to fates. Check it out. It's easily findable. There's a couple different versions. The one before Carrie Fisher died that he wrote was the best, obviously. But then there's a version after she died that tries to make it work. And I don't know. It was cool. Interesting little unmade thing that I always think of. Because some concept art leaked, too. And it looks a lot like this of him. General Hux, I guess he was chancellor Hux in the chancellor, huh? [01:04:13] Speaker B: Dude. Hoping that whatever shit he has will end with him. But then slowly his dead body gets necroplasmed, and bam, we have ninja Spawn. [01:04:25] Speaker A: Boom. Action figure ready. Yeah, I didn't get that action figure because I didn't really care for ninja Spawn. I don't know much about him. I guess I'm going to find out here. [01:04:34] Speaker B: Yeah, you're soon going to be like, God damn it, why didn't I get that? [01:04:38] Speaker A: Well, it's actually still available. [01:04:40] Speaker B: And then that's the end. We got some behind the scenes of Spawn 301. Just some process work. [01:04:45] Speaker A: Yes. Pretty cool. I really like looking at Jason Sean Alexander's. It's really cool how chunky his art. It's fun. And then the paint over it or the ink colors. [01:04:56] Speaker B: It's real good. Then on the back page, thousands of pages, hundreds of characters. Dozens of creators. Seven image partners. Three decades, one record. So that's some math for you, Johnny. [01:05:10] Speaker A: And you get a picture from June of 1992. Tod and Cyan as an infant. And then spawn 301. Tod and Cyan. Now a Doctor. Yeah, she's a doctor now. [01:05:24] Speaker B: That's how long it took. [01:05:26] Speaker A: Pretty cool. [01:05:27] Speaker B: Very nice. Very nice. [01:05:28] Speaker A: Proud dad. There's been so packed. These have been great. [01:05:34] Speaker B: It'll be sad to go back to regular sized books after. [01:05:38] Speaker A: Don't remember. I don't know when it switches over from Jason song Alexander to the new artist. So that'll be interesting to see, too. [01:05:44] Speaker B: Yeah, it will be fun. It'll be a nice little. [01:05:45] Speaker A: I don't know if it'll go straight to Carlo Barbera or if there's in between or what. [01:05:48] Speaker B: Oh, man. I don't remember. [01:05:50] Speaker A: Well, we're on that journey. We're going to find out. [01:05:53] Speaker B: We will know. You will know when we know, and we will all know together. [01:06:06] Speaker A: Next up, we have. Not as big in pages, but big. Almost as monumental as importance, I'd say. [01:06:15] Speaker B: Yes. [01:06:16] Speaker A: I mean, spawn. Yeah, sure. Break the record. 301. That's all well and good. Does it have Sam and twitch in it? [01:06:24] Speaker B: No, it doesn't. [01:06:25] Speaker A: And what does have salmon twitch in it? [01:06:27] Speaker B: King Spawn 19 has salmon twitch in it. [01:06:29] Speaker A: You can't argue with that, it's just facts, folks. [01:06:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:06:33] Speaker A: Look, I'm not saying anything about Spawn 301. I'm not saying anything about every other issue of spawn that exists. But this is the return of salmon motherfucking twitch after a long, long dry gap. [01:06:46] Speaker B: Yeah, we were thirsty in the salmon twitch desert. And the Tod father has dropped up. I guess, technically, the Sean father has dropped on us. [01:06:58] Speaker A: The Sean father. [01:06:58] Speaker B: There we go. It's because we're slow, Johnny. [01:07:06] Speaker A: But it has to be. If it's the Todd father, the grandson, like the son Sean in law Sean. That's great. Kingswang 19, all the way from February 2023. So just little over a month ago. [01:07:25] Speaker B: Little over a month, yeah. Sean Lewis with Thomas Natchlick and von Randall. It's very exciting. Yes. We got a couple of covers. We got a bianchi cover and a Fernandez cover. What cover you got, Johnny? [01:07:42] Speaker A: Well, the one I'm reading is the Fernandez cover. It's the one I usually just keep. The one for reading the COVID I like the best. I take both. And I liked this one, the Fernandez covers. [01:07:56] Speaker B: That is dope. [01:07:59] Speaker A: Here's, like, those stitches. Like, he's all stitched up. Like, what's going on there? It's crazy. [01:08:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. It's wild. It's wild. I like how big the skulls are on his little neck chain. [01:08:09] Speaker A: Yep. And the horns are huge. And there's, like, the light. [01:08:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:08:13] Speaker A: Like, lens flare. And his eyes are just like, what is he looking at? It's just really evocative. [01:08:19] Speaker B: I have the bianchi, and it's spawn doing a hamlet. [01:08:24] Speaker A: Yes. And he did all the covers this month, right? [01:08:28] Speaker B: Yeah, he was the guest artist. [01:08:30] Speaker A: Right. [01:08:31] Speaker B: But also, he's very much like the 301 pose. He is holding aloft a skull and has a foot on a stack of skulls. And it's a small right foot. We got another small right foot, Johnny. [01:08:47] Speaker A: You love yourself a small right foot. [01:08:49] Speaker B: Yeah. Classic uniform. [01:08:50] Speaker A: Spawn there appears a lot on the covers. [01:08:53] Speaker B: It's a nice connection that we've made between these two. [01:08:57] Speaker A: Yeah, it's true. It's like the same pose, same costume. [01:08:59] Speaker B: That's crazy. [01:09:00] Speaker A: That's a great cover. I like his run on them for February. They were all really good. [01:09:05] Speaker B: They were real good. [01:09:06] Speaker A: Well, this one actually does have it previously. So we begin with previously in King Spawn. Spawn goes head to head with the creature known as behemoth. Behemoth created by the remnants of psalms 137 cult. [01:09:23] Speaker B: Very nice. Very nice. [01:09:26] Speaker A: We turn in a new chapter here. We're turning into a new story. Since they do it in like, six issue arcs, this would be the fourth arc, I guess you would say, right? [01:09:37] Speaker B: Yeah, something like that. Yeah. [01:09:39] Speaker A: Good. 612. 18. Yes. And this is 19. We open in Christmas in New York City. What a lovely time to be. [01:09:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Look at all that snow. I don't think New York got that much snow for Christmas this last year. [01:09:50] Speaker A: But it always feels like New York Christmas would be magical. I guess that's just because of the movies. [01:09:54] Speaker B: Yeah, I bet. [01:09:56] Speaker A: I mean, I like Christmas in the city. I liked it a lot. I like a lot in Chicago. [01:10:00] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real fun. Until you realize that most of the time at the end of the season they literally just cut all of those Christmas lights off the trees and throw them away. So they use them for one year. Oh, man. Oh, man. Humans are so. [01:10:16] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:10:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:10:18] Speaker A: Well, thanks, David. Now I hate Christmas. [01:10:20] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, you're welcome. So we open on a punk. On a punk walking down the snowy streets of New York City with a cooler. Oh, what's in the cooler, Johnny? [01:10:31] Speaker A: I don't know if he's a punk. I would assume maybe some beer, like some PBR. Some PBR. Yeah. He's going to a Shakespeare in the park type situation in December. [01:10:43] Speaker B: That's what punks do. He's on a mission, Johnny. Nothing in the world will stop him. Nothing except for a kid desperate for a chance to see Santa. [01:10:51] Speaker A: But it's like, come on, this kid. Look, kid, that's not Santa. That's the Salvation army person, okay? [01:10:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:10:59] Speaker A: Somebody needs to tell this kid what's up. [01:11:00] Speaker B: I don't know, but kids just love Santa. Kids love Santa. And so she runs into this punk and knocks his cooler on the ground. And what comes out of it? Oh, but a brain, mom. [01:11:15] Speaker A: Can you imagine? [01:11:16] Speaker B: Not the cute mouse from animaniacs. Like an actual human brain. An actual rigidity. Rigidity. Rigidied brain. [01:11:25] Speaker A: Just like, sitting there. [01:11:26] Speaker B: That would be so fucked up to knock into somebody and they just drop a brain out of a bag. [01:11:31] Speaker A: Oh, my God, that'd be so terrifying. I'd scream for my mom too. [01:11:36] Speaker B: This kid's crying in the background. There are some carolers who are like, hey, dude, what are you doing? The punk tells them to eat shit and mind their own damn business. And just. [01:11:51] Speaker A: Charles Dickens here with the cooler. Yeah. [01:11:56] Speaker B: Oh, man. It just runs away. And then we cut to interior, office, daytime. One half is messy, one half is. [01:12:07] Speaker A: Clean, one half has coffee, one half does not. [01:12:10] Speaker B: Yeah, if one half came to the office already having head Johnny, that's the twitch way. Oh, yeah, of course. [01:12:21] Speaker A: But like I was saying, I don't know if Sam's been shopping like true classic tees or been working out, but he's good broad chested. He's more like broad chest and, like, muscly. [01:12:32] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. So twitch gets a call about a brain on the street. [01:12:39] Speaker A: Jesus. I'll get the car. [01:12:42] Speaker B: No body attached. We got our boys, Sam and twitch, at the crime scene. I like how the whole page is crossed off with crime scene tape. That's fun. [01:12:53] Speaker A: Yeah. I thought that was cool detail. [01:12:56] Speaker B: Thomas Natchlick is doing a good job here. So we got the cop talking to the Santan, the little girl, a nice little. The crime scene isn't particularly bloody since the brain only has so much blood when fully intact. I think that's fun. Twitch is not looking forward to these interviews. [01:13:12] Speaker A: We got Paul Giamatti from Santa Claus. [01:13:16] Speaker B: Yeah, they don't really get anything. Do you remember anything else? It looked real. They got a number one spawn fans. We got the unhomed men giving us all that good download information. The cards. [01:13:37] Speaker A: You're getting all the classic hits. [01:13:38] Speaker B: Yeah, the cards. These cards doing lab research. When they get your brain, they get your brain when you're dead. It's a card for the Exodus foundation, who we know of. The last main title was it? [01:13:53] Speaker A: Yeah, it's been bouncing around. The exodus is the one that. It was basically the money side of psalms one three seven. They've been mentioned before. [01:14:00] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah. Oh, man. There's too many secret societies in span. Johnny. I can't keep them straight. They got a lot at the Exodus foundation, midtown. And this is the most accurate conference room I have ever seen in a piece of comic book. Because the conference rooms are always big and grand and ornate. And this is just like a dumpy, bigger room in an office suite, which is how most conference rooms are full of bugs. All the bugs. Bit of an infestation. [01:14:33] Speaker A: This guy's, like, gross. He's got, like. He's, like, spitting stuff out of his. [01:14:37] Speaker B: Looks like. He looks like evil John Waters without the mustache. [01:14:40] Speaker A: Yeah, definitely a demon. It's like you got, like, demon goo, like, coming out of you as you're. [01:14:45] Speaker B: Dude. Yeah, yeah. He's just getting Sam all riled up, man. [01:14:50] Speaker A: And then this creep, just this creepy lady just starts taking. So sorry. On it, sir. Name's not Siri. [01:14:57] Speaker B: Sandra. [01:14:58] Speaker A: Sandra. [01:15:00] Speaker B: I said. [01:15:00] Speaker A: I said on it, siri. It says on it, sir. Starts taking pictures of him. Talk about his brown, like, how prominent it is. It's like fucked up. She's like sizing of his head. [01:15:09] Speaker B: They paid quite well for his brain and he's like, are you trying to bribe me? Twitch is trying to hold the mountain of man that is Sam back and it's like pulling him out of the door. And Sam just like keeps yelling he's being drug away. [01:15:23] Speaker A: Put that in your day planner. [01:15:26] Speaker B: Oh man, it would be funny to then see him with a day planner. Cop ass. [01:15:34] Speaker A: This guy's all fucked up. He's got a Santa Claus hat on. What a weirdo. Oh my, that head, it's like a neanderthal. [01:15:40] Speaker B: I have an issue with this. Johnny. That's a Polaroid picture and that's a fountain pen. Fountain pen's not going to ride on a Polaroid like the actual image. They needed to have had a felt tip marker for that. I can't enjoy this book anymore, Johnny. It's just my disbelief has been unsuspended. [01:16:00] Speaker A: So you're taking a red fountain pen. [01:16:02] Speaker B: To the book big nope, it's going to the garbage. I'm done, Johnny. I can't do it anymore. [01:16:09] Speaker A: But other than, please remember to rate, review, subscribe. [01:16:15] Speaker B: It's the last episode, so it's not going to do us any good for the future, but maybe tell your shit. So we got Sam and twitch having a domestic on the sidewalk outside, and it's our opening reading. [01:16:31] Speaker A: Basically, he told him he's going to keep asking foot references to himself, which I said when reading, probably just a good rule in general, unless you're with a consenting partner, just keep all ass and foot references to yourself. [01:16:48] Speaker B: And then. So while Sam, Twitch is trying to calm Sam down, he gets a phone call about there's a building, an abandoned building, that they should be there in 15 minutes because he's waiting. [01:17:04] Speaker A: I imagine that's Terry or mark. [01:17:06] Speaker B: I don't know. It looks like they got to goatee. So maybe it's neither. Yeah, maybe it's neither. He says, be there in 15 minutes, and they arrive in 13. [01:17:18] Speaker A: Yeah, they do. [01:17:21] Speaker B: Booking it. They go up the stairs and they got their action posed, they got their guns drawn, and they're at the door, and the door is just covered in the same bugs that were at the Exodus foundation, like so many of them that the door jam is hairy. [01:17:41] Speaker A: It's gross. Yeah, it's real gross. [01:17:45] Speaker B: Oh, man. And they give a warning knock and then kick the Door down. And they see the punk with an empty cooler. His foot has been torn off, his guts have been ripped out, his hand has been torn off. Jesus Christ, Thomas. Natchelik doesn't hold anything back here. Oh, man, that is gnarly. Gnarly as I'll get out. [01:18:06] Speaker A: Ripped him up and left a card. [01:18:08] Speaker B: And then this is where we get the shift from natural to randall. We got 24 hours earlier what that punk was doing yesterday. I like that. There's a little spawn sticker on that mailbox there. I didn't even notice. [01:18:24] Speaker A: You know why? Because it's taped. [01:18:25] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, no. [01:18:27] Speaker A: I had to tape it the other day. This part fell out. [01:18:29] Speaker B: Oh, man. [01:18:30] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [01:18:31] Speaker B: It fell out again. [01:18:32] Speaker A: Outer page. No, the other part fell out. Now there's two pages. Oh, man. This is the first four pages. [01:18:37] Speaker B: Is this the first two page fallout we've had? [01:18:39] Speaker A: I think so. [01:18:40] Speaker B: Oh, man. [01:18:41] Speaker A: Four. [01:18:41] Speaker B: Oh, man, this is. [01:18:43] Speaker A: Oh, my God. I'm so excited for sailor Twitch. I don't have my tape in here. Oh, my God. [01:18:50] Speaker B: So we got a. [01:18:52] Speaker A: Don't, David. I don't know if I can do it, man. This thing falling apart. So please remember to rate, review, and subscribe. [01:19:00] Speaker B: We're both going to go throw this issue in the garbage. For entirely different reasons. [01:19:05] Speaker A: They get the switch to Von Randall. I like how he says to hold this together. [01:19:10] Speaker B: This ain't a bad shithole. And it's an empty, empty apartment building above a comic. And then we see he's being followed. [01:19:24] Speaker A: By the spawn, Mr. [01:19:26] Speaker B: Spawn. And then the punk starts making a phone call. [01:19:34] Speaker A: He looks, is that goatee guy calls. [01:19:37] Speaker B: The guy with a goatee. So obviously this is the guy who called Twitch. [01:19:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:19:42] Speaker B: And I know they're talking about how this guy's like, hey, man, I got your brain. I need you to take care of me, or people aren't going to believe you. And the dude's just like, you fucked up. It's not my fault you fucked up. [01:19:54] Speaker A: Well, he's asked for the big man of the twins. We meet them in the next issue. [01:20:00] Speaker B: He's got their goddamn cooler with the brain in it. I thought they needed that. And there's a nice little flashback to how he obtained the brain. Yeah. [01:20:09] Speaker A: Nice is not fucked up. [01:20:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. [01:20:13] Speaker A: I don't know if I call it nice. He, like, scars a man's head off with a saw. [01:20:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. Just thought you meant skies and ska, as in adjacent to punk. So I was like, what did he, did he just skank the dude's head off? [01:20:31] Speaker A: Yeah, he had his checkered shoes on, and he kicked his head off, and he was skanking. [01:20:36] Speaker B: Did he play too much uptempo? Trombone. Until the dude, just, like, the brain, fell out of his ears. [01:20:43] Speaker A: It would happen if you played too much. No, Sca's the sound effect he uses to cut off this college professor's head. On a well timed lunch break was all it took. [01:20:51] Speaker B: That's. Oh, jeez. And then back in the here and now, though, something strange is happening. And the dude's lost his cooler. And then he sees something, and it's Spawn asking, who's doing this? [01:21:09] Speaker A: Go, shadow spawn. [01:21:10] Speaker B: Yeah, this dude, he finds the cooler, and he's like, oh, no, man. Oh, no, man. And he's looking for it. And it's like the brain is gone. The brain is gone. And then, oh, man. We get a nice two page spread here. Of Al just getting upset with this little weasel. [01:21:26] Speaker A: Yep. [01:21:27] Speaker B: Just, like, got some good cape action. That's got a barbed wire chain. That barbed wire chain is pretty vicious, Johnny. [01:21:35] Speaker A: Looks gnarly. [01:21:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:21:37] Speaker A: Got the big gauntlet. [01:21:39] Speaker B: Spawn is back, baby. Not like he ever went anywhere, but he is back. He just rips this guy's arm off. Oh, look at that. It looks like he rips both the arms off. Shit. [01:21:52] Speaker A: I'd say he's back to street level stuff in New York. He's been off kind of mysticaling around. Doing some celestial nonsense. For, like, a bunch of issues. Yeah, this is, like, classic old school spawn. Hell, yeah, he's back. [01:22:06] Speaker B: Yeah, he's back to solo title Batman and not Justice League version of Spawn. He's like, I need you to deliver a message. Tell him Spawn is back. Say it. [01:22:21] Speaker A: Sam and Twitch are talking, know, donating organs and being an organ donor. Guys, there's a lot of rumors about it. They don't let you die to get your organs. [01:22:31] Speaker B: Yeah, no. This screening process for being actually able to use the organs is fucking insane. [01:22:39] Speaker A: Yeah. They're not going to be like, hey, let him die. Get his kidney. It's just, like, an urban legend. [01:22:45] Speaker B: Yeah, no. [01:22:46] Speaker A: So be an organ donor. [01:22:48] Speaker B: It's a great thing being an organ donor. Same as, like, appalled. But Twitch is like, yeah, I'm not going to use those shit. Sam's like, yeah, let's stop talking about it. Sam is very upset by this entire conversation. And Twitch is just like, twitch has seven kids. He ain't got no shits left to give. [01:23:11] Speaker A: Yeah, Sam's like a man, baby. He's losing his armchair. He did get a pelatonin, but other than that. [01:23:17] Speaker B: But it's just an excuse to eat more donuts. He's like, I exercised today. I deserved another donut. [01:23:23] Speaker A: Or maybe you just got a good tailor. You never. [01:23:27] Speaker B: So they're doing the work, and Sam's like, yeah, I just wish we had an ace in the well, you know? Guess who should be careful what you wish for, Johnny, because the acist of aces in the wholeest of holes has just shown up. [01:23:43] Speaker A: Spawn king. Spawn himself. [01:23:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Evening, boys. [01:23:47] Speaker A: Great, great. I love it. Evening, boys. Oh, man, they're all back teams back together. [01:23:52] Speaker B: Oh, we just need coliostra to stop being such a dick. And to come back and yell at. [01:23:59] Speaker A: Him from the back of their car. [01:24:00] Speaker B: And, like, steal Sam's hamburger. [01:24:03] Speaker A: Take a left. Yeah, and the. What do they call it? The crime mobile. [01:24:09] Speaker B: Oh, I thought he gave it a. [01:24:11] Speaker A: Oh, I think it's crime mobile. [01:24:12] Speaker B: It might be crime mobile. The boys are back. [01:24:15] Speaker A: The boys are back. [01:24:16] Speaker B: Boys are back. The boys are back in town. [01:24:19] Speaker A: Spawn is back around. Yeah, we got a spawning ground. [01:24:24] Speaker B: Yeah, we do. We do. Spawning ground presents mailbag. I like how many different ways they have for this. Like, it's sometimes just spawn and ground. Spawn and grad. Mailbag. Now this one's spawning ground. Presents mailbag. [01:24:38] Speaker A: Why not? [01:24:39] Speaker B: I don't know. It's fun. It's fun. It keeps going. [01:24:42] Speaker A: This first gives it a handmade quality to it. [01:24:45] Speaker B: Yeah. This first one's from a dude named Mark who has dyslexia. And so it's been hard for him to enjoy the written word. But he says comics helped him to be able to keep the flow of information straight on the page. And so he's been reading Spawn for 30 years now. He's in his forty s. And he fucking loves it. And it's great. Spawn is for everybody. [01:25:13] Speaker A: And like he and Thomas reiterates, like he said many times, we're getting to six. Six, six. [01:25:18] Speaker B: Yeah. 30 more years. 30 more years. Next one we've got Dave. Dave is a hobby photographer, and, man, he did these action figure photos. And they are, as Thomas says, they're absolutely incredible. [01:25:35] Speaker A: Yep. They are amazing. That pile of skulls, it's really cool. [01:25:38] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real good. It's like a burning dumpster in the back of one of them. That's awesome. There's just so much. There's like layers of stuff. He definitely takes a lot of time to set up the diorama there to give it foreground, background. Main action. Yeah. Oh, man, it's so good. [01:25:58] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. And just the layers. I got to take pictures for the Instagram here after this episode. It's making me feel bad, dude. It's so creepy how good the algorithm is. You know what it started, I guess because my phone hears us when we talk about shells and stuff, and it knows what I have started advertising this shelf that goes in your wall. And it fits atrophy, but it looks like a fire escape. [01:26:20] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [01:26:21] Speaker A: I want it real bad. [01:26:22] Speaker B: Nice. That sounds like it was made specifically for Spider Man's. [01:26:26] Speaker A: Yeah, it will fit my spot. I could put it in here in the recording closet and just have them next to me there. [01:26:32] Speaker B: Nice. And it's the fire escape to get away from the toy poid old mouth to, um. And then this third letter has a very good question that I would like the answer to. Johnny, I heard Tod say in an interview that we would be seeing Sam and twitch soon, but they still haven't shown up and I haven't seen any announcements. Is that still happening? Because I love those. [01:26:57] Speaker A: Just. It's just happened, baby. [01:27:00] Speaker B: I love how you could tell when it showed up. They were like, hey, guys, we should totally save this for the premiere issue. [01:27:08] Speaker A: Also, the big news in here is we'll see much more salmon twitch this year, both assisting Spawn as well as their own cases. [01:27:16] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. It's the year of salmon twitches. Last year was the year of Spawn. This year's the year of and hell yeah. Awesome. [01:27:24] Speaker A: And the year after that will be the year of Grandma Blake. [01:27:27] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. Give Granny Blake her own series. It'll be the most wholesome shit on the shelves. [01:27:33] Speaker A: What if they do it? Retcon it because her husband was in World War II, but they do, like, something. She was like an agent. She was like. She's like a Captain America agent Carter type situation. [01:27:46] Speaker B: That would be awesome. [01:27:47] Speaker A: Granny Blake. [01:27:48] Speaker B: I'm here for a Granny Blake series. And it could be like, young Granny Blake before she went. [01:27:54] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. [01:27:55] Speaker B: Before she even had Wanda's. Was she Wanda's grandma? [01:27:59] Speaker A: She's like a secret agent of World War II or something. [01:28:02] Speaker B: Yeah. So that would be awesome. That would be awesome. That'd be great. Let's get it. Let's get at it. Hell yeah. Sponsor universe. [01:28:07] Speaker A: Young grand agent Blake. [01:28:10] Speaker B: Oh, man. And then we have. [01:28:12] Speaker A: That's the name of the book. Young granny title. It's so. [01:28:19] Speaker B: Hey, it's right there on the tin, Johnny. It's what you get. [01:28:27] Speaker A: I was watching tv the other day, and there was a commercial. I don't know, it was like either Pluto tv or something, and it had a commercial for what I turned out to be, young Sheldon. But I was watching it. I was like, man, that kid kind of looks like that kid from young Sheldon. Young Sheldon. There it is. [01:28:45] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:28:46] Speaker A: Return of the boys. Return of the kings. The true kings. [01:28:52] Speaker B: Return of the Trinity. I guess it's got the father, the sam, and the holy twitch. [01:28:58] Speaker A: The holy twitch. Amen. [01:29:05] Speaker B: Oh, man. So, Johnny, I think we got to rate these puppies now. [01:29:08] Speaker A: It's time to rate these puppies. So, first up, we had spawn issue 301. [01:29:15] Speaker B: We sure did. [01:29:17] Speaker A: A phantasmagoria, a smorgasborg of spawn, one might say. [01:29:23] Speaker B: Yeah. It is the charcuterie of spawns, where it's just all of it out there. [01:29:28] Speaker A: Yeah. It's a continuation of that celebration. What is there to say? It's got, like, five different stories, different artists. It's for $5. Like, when it came out, it's real sturdy and hefty. Real great value. Just some fun spawn stuff. [01:29:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. This is one of those ones that I think might be beyond rating. It's so fucking good, is the problem. [01:29:53] Speaker A: I'm going to give it. I mean, the thing is, it's a record breaker. It's a 301. [01:29:57] Speaker B: Yeah. So they pulled out all the stops. This is what you want in a 301st record breaking image of Spawn. It's got all the things we want. Oh, man. [01:30:13] Speaker A: It's got some fun, self contained stories. It's got some overarching mythology stuff. [01:30:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:30:19] Speaker A: It's got some new revelations on his powers. Got some Todd father interior art. [01:30:25] Speaker B: Multiple different versions of Spawn. All of them badass. It's got all of these awesome looking characters. I just don't know what to rate it. I don't know if I can rate it. I think I might rate it. 301. Court of owl belt buckles. 301 of them. It's a record breaking 301 out of five. [01:30:43] Speaker A: I'm going to give it 301. Jessica Mohawks. [01:30:48] Speaker B: I was very afraid that one of us was going to choose 301 blood covered, Al Simmons penises. [01:30:55] Speaker A: No. [01:30:58] Speaker B: But no. Yes. [01:30:59] Speaker A: We don't think about that. I'm going to give it 301 issues of Spawn. I'm going to give it 301. It's just an iconic number. Iconic issue. I really love this Alex Ross cover. [01:31:09] Speaker B: Exciting to read because it's spawn, but then as you're reading, you're more excited to read Spawn as you go. [01:31:15] Speaker A: It's just, I'm excited to bridge this gap between this and where I've really started catching up. Like, in the early, late 20s, early 30s. I'm really excited to bridge all that and just excited to get to it. [01:31:27] Speaker B: Absolute masterpiece, I think, is what I'm going to claim this one is master masterpiece. It's a masterpiece theater. [01:31:37] Speaker A: 301 doctorate degrees for Tod McFarland's daughter. [01:31:41] Speaker B: Yeah. What about King Spawn 19? Johnny, what you got going? [01:31:46] Speaker A: King Spawn 19? I'm going to give it five brains in the snow. [01:31:52] Speaker B: Five brains in the snow. Oh, man. [01:31:54] Speaker A: Just splat, splat, splat, splat. He's got one of those, like, yeti coolers. It's on wheels, and, like, a bigger kid, like, a teenager runs into him this time and knocks over that, and it's just like, five brains fall out. That's what I would give King Spawn 19. [01:32:10] Speaker B: Nice. [01:32:11] Speaker A: I mean, it's return to Sam and twitch. It's started off this really. I really like this new arc for king spawn. It's a little more street level, a little more ground level. Getting back to classics. Yeah, I'm really enjoying it so far. [01:32:23] Speaker B: It's getting grittier again. He's more of the ultraviolence. He's hanging out with Alex and his drugs. Only instead of causing mayhem, he's fixing mayhem. I'm definitely going to give it five car calendars in the office. [01:32:41] Speaker A: It's a classic. Got to have a car calendar. I'm surprised it's not, like a lady car calendar from Sam. Twitch must have been, like, no. [01:32:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:32:48] Speaker A: It's 2023, sir. [01:32:50] Speaker B: Yeah. I think if that billboard were the one closest to Sam, it would totally be, like, a hooters calendar. [01:32:58] Speaker A: My ex wife stops by here occasionally, sir. [01:33:01] Speaker B: The first time I ever went to hooters, I was with my uncle, my family, and my grandparents. And my uncle was like, we're eating at hooters. And then my grandmother did nothing but complain the whole time. [01:33:18] Speaker A: Honestly, I think I drank there once in college. I don't think I've really ever been to a hooters. It was just, like, verboten in my family. [01:33:26] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, there was that one in Tulsa. [01:33:30] Speaker A: Yeah, it was, like, at 61st in Sheridan or something like that. [01:33:35] Speaker B: I remember seeing it a lot. [01:33:37] Speaker A: It always seems very forbidden. [01:33:39] Speaker B: Yeah, it did. And it was, like, in the middle of an island of parking lot. So it was, like, hard to get to without being seen. So you couldn't sneak into it. [01:33:50] Speaker A: You got to know you're going to hooters. [01:33:52] Speaker B: All right, so that's a couple of good books. A couple of. [01:33:54] Speaker A: Couple of hoots. A couple of hooters themselves. Couple hooters. Well, David, is that what they call. [01:34:07] Speaker B: The acolytes of the court of owls, is Hooters? [01:34:10] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah, they all eat at Hooters. It's all court of owls. [01:34:14] Speaker B: It's all related. So does that mean Batman is scared of hooters when he walks by? Because he doesn't eat there? The owl is the natural enemy of the bat. And so he's like, does he do, like, a Dracula presented with a cross? And he just goes. [01:34:30] Speaker A: I would imagine so. He also doesn't like spicy wings because. [01:34:33] Speaker B: It gives him heartburn. And then Alfred has to come down with a bottle of pepto Bismol, a. [01:34:39] Speaker A: Bat branded bottle of peptobismal. There's, like, a bat on it. Well, David, to continue the celebration of our boys Salmon Twitch returning, we've opened, you know, you've opened a classic salmon twitch. [01:34:59] Speaker B: Indeed I have. [01:35:00] Speaker A: We've together opened the new 2022. 2023 Salmon Twitch. Release the new figures. [01:35:07] Speaker B: Beautiful figures. [01:35:08] Speaker A: What else could there be to do except open another salmon twitch? A different salmon twitch. Different. [01:35:15] Speaker B: Classic salmon twitch. [01:35:17] Speaker A: Yeah, that's right. It's time for Todd's toy talk. So today we have a. It's a really interesting little piece of, I don't know, kind of like trivia, I guess. There were, like, two different versions of Salmon Twitch and, like, this one. The difference is the guns are different. They come with these headsets, and the face sculpts are a little different. [01:35:51] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess you could call that one commando. Sam and Twitch. [01:35:56] Speaker A: Yeah, because Twitch has, like, a vest on. They're just, like, real intense. They're a little more intense. [01:36:00] Speaker B: And Sam isn't chomping down on a donut. He is very upset. He's got angry. [01:36:06] Speaker A: He is mad. He's really angry. But this hails all the way from Stillwater, Oklahoma. Friend of the pod, Justin Haley. Hey, Justin, thank you so much. Brought this to us. We got to hang out for a bit while they were in town for work, and we met up, and they bought this and brought it to us. It is classic Sam Twitch. [01:36:33] Speaker B: Hell, yeah, man. [01:36:34] Speaker A: It's in really good condition, too. I almost feel bad opening it. [01:36:36] Speaker B: Do you, though? [01:36:38] Speaker A: No, actually, it's not good. No, I don't feel bad at all, because I can't wait to mess around with them. But it's from spawn series seven. I love just the back of the package because it shows the whole wave. It shows other spawn waves. Total chaos, which was like a toy line they made. It was just like original characters. But what's fun about that is the human character is Al Simmons. So there's, like, a rocket soldier Al Simmons. They made for this one toy line. Of monsters. It's just like a one off. Are they just like, why not make it Al Simmons? Yeah, which is pretty cool, man. [01:37:13] Speaker B: This is actually because I still have the backing cardboard from my salmon twitch that I opened, which is also series seven. And this is an awesome series. Like, look at all those ones on. [01:37:24] Speaker A: The back that's got, like, total chaos. [01:37:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:37:28] Speaker A: Okay, cool. Yeah, I love that. Like, futuristic Al Simmons. That's pretty cool. They put him in there. [01:37:33] Speaker B: Yeah, it's so cool. [01:37:34] Speaker A: I love when they do that. Like, they put Cygor in that apex predator line or whatever it's called. I can't remember what it's called. Or, like, sense eight, or, like, six, seven or something. [01:37:47] Speaker B: Nuclear spawn. I've never seen a nuclear spawn. That thing's bitching. [01:37:50] Speaker A: Oh, wow. That is cool. So, yeah, it has, like, a little salmon twitch. Like bio you can cut out if you want. Flip and collect. [01:38:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:38:04] Speaker A: All right, so I'm going to bust out a knife to cut it open. [01:38:09] Speaker B: That's not a knife. [01:38:11] Speaker A: I got a new knife. This is a new knife I got. [01:38:13] Speaker B: Nice. [01:38:14] Speaker A: From the ridge. [01:38:15] Speaker B: No, that's a knife. That's a spoon. [01:38:19] Speaker A: All right. Cutting it open. There's no spoon. All right. Tones off there. Oh, man. [01:38:30] Speaker B: That sounds so good, Johnny. [01:38:34] Speaker A: Okay. Oh, this is cool. Oh, man, they still smell like. You can smell the old plastic smell. I remember this smell. [01:38:43] Speaker B: Oh, man. [01:38:43] Speaker A: Oh, man. He's got a big old belly. Yeah, I think the body is probably the same sculpt. It's just the head that's different. They have these removable. Okay. They have these headsets. And then he has a doughnut. This was a chocolate donut jelly. [01:39:02] Speaker B: He's not happy about it. [01:39:04] Speaker A: No, he's really sad about it. He's got this, like, pistol. Does yours come with a gun or what did yours come with? [01:39:12] Speaker B: Yeah, mine came with a pistol. So Sam had a pistol and the donut. And then twitch had the assault rifle. [01:39:22] Speaker A: I know. They're always getting twitch's assault rifle. He's got the donut. These guys got, like, just dropped his headset. Put that back on there. All right, so, yeah, he's got the pistol. He's eating the donut. He's fucking pissed. This is hilarious. Obviously, I'll post pictures, man. This Sam is not happy. [01:39:42] Speaker B: No, he is not. [01:39:44] Speaker A: And twitch here is just, like. He's just, like, down to business. He's just, like, all. He's. He's supposed to go with the assault rifle here. Which is kind of funny because he's usually one that uses the pistol, but he's got it. So he can hold it in both hands, and he could just mow down some people. Boom, bam. Prepare to die. Twitch is going to get you with his tactical vest. Sam's eating a donut. [01:40:13] Speaker B: He's got to have those pouches. Sam's got that trench coat on, so he's got all those pockets. But twitch just has the pants pockets, so he's got to have the vest. [01:40:22] Speaker A: Oh, this good detail on Sam, he's got a pen in his pocket. Like, it's crazy detail. [01:40:26] Speaker B: Yeah, I like his crazy tie. [01:40:28] Speaker A: This one, he's got a green shirt and, like, a black tie or dark green tie. [01:40:33] Speaker B: It's just sloppily done. [01:40:36] Speaker A: Super sloppy. Yeah, I know. This is. Yay, Salmon, twitch. [01:40:40] Speaker B: Nice. [01:40:41] Speaker A: All right. [01:40:41] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. The boys. Thank you. [01:40:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Thank you, Justin. They will be displayed proudly next to my ever growing and overwhelming spawn collection. [01:40:53] Speaker B: Under which one day Johnny will be buried. That's how he will did. How did Johnny die? Well, his action figures fell on him. [01:41:02] Speaker A: No, it's cool. I canceled the dragon and I canceled another non spawn thing. I'm trying to limit. I can't buy everything. McFarland. [01:41:11] Speaker B: Hashtag canceled the dragon. [01:41:14] Speaker A: Canceled my berserker dragon. [01:41:16] Speaker B: Oh, man. [01:41:18] Speaker A: I mean, I could still order it. I don't know. I don't want to. I don't want it, David. I don't want it. Tell me I don't want it. [01:41:24] Speaker B: That's what you got to do. You got to convince yourself you don't want it. I'm well acquainted with that. [01:41:29] Speaker A: You know, I've got plenty of riches. I got plenty of toys to open up. So, yeah, I got these lovely salmon switches I get to mess around with. [01:41:36] Speaker B: You can't play with all of them at once. And that's what we're doing with these dudes. We're fucking playing with these shits. [01:41:42] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:41:43] Speaker B: There's no reason to have them if we're not going to play with them, man. [01:41:47] Speaker A: Got to bust them out. [01:41:48] Speaker B: I love making old Twitch and new twitch fight against old Sam and new Sam. It's always fun. [01:41:56] Speaker A: Yeah, you get some funny antics on there. [01:41:58] Speaker B: Yeah, they fight over that donut a lot. [01:42:02] Speaker A: Hey, it's the only piece of food they got. What else are you going to do? [01:42:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. So speaking of what else you're going to do, you know what you're going to do, Johnny? You're going to go to Instagram, and you're going to go to at Sharkman Dave on Instagram. And you're going to like his shit, because Sharkman Dave on Instagram is the very same Dave who submitted action figure pictures to spawning grounds and Kingspawn 19. [01:42:27] Speaker A: Yeah. So give them a follow. Doesn't seem like they're followed by a lot of our mutual friends. And they do a lot of spawn pictures. [01:42:33] Speaker B: They're great. We love them. Thomas follow. Thomas Healy loves them. You should love them. Most definitely. You know who else you should love? [01:42:39] Speaker A: Johnny T. Brian Voiler. [01:42:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Even though he's not a Spawn fan, we'll get him one of these. You still. You still gotta love Brian. He makes a good shit for our ears to listen to. [01:42:50] Speaker A: Yeah, he made that new spawn baseball theme. You guys heard, like, last week. The week. [01:42:55] Speaker B: It's. It's good. It's fun. My favorite part of it is that you can hear a chainsaw. And so it's like the curse is there. Just like. [01:43:05] Speaker A: Yeah, he's in the stands on. [01:43:09] Speaker B: It's great. It's great. Oh, man. [01:43:11] Speaker A: Which will be returning. Good segue to that. We'll be returning next week. We'll be doing another round of spawn SC baseball. [01:43:18] Speaker B: Hey, Johnny, we have an instagram as well. [01:43:20] Speaker A: We sure do. [01:43:21] Speaker B: Sure do. Regarding spawn pod, we post pictures of our toys, our comics, our faces. [01:43:28] Speaker A: We talk about the episodes, our faces. I'm going to start. Dave started doing some reels. I'm going to start doing some reels, posting our pickups, building a spawn community. Building the spawn love. [01:43:40] Speaker B: It's a fun time. It's a fun time. Apparently people like seeing our faces. I don't know. I don't like seeing my own face, but apparently people like it. But, yeah, you can see all the spawn stuff we talk about. All of our non spawn pickups that we get to this week was particularly sad because there was no spawn. [01:43:57] Speaker A: But I know I was shocked. I went to the comic shop, and I looked at my list right before, and I was like, okay. And I was like, wait, something seems off. I was like, no spawn. [01:44:05] Speaker B: But there's still other good comics out there to read. So, hell, yeah. [01:44:10] Speaker A: We got local man, which was cool. [01:44:11] Speaker B: Oh, man. Local man was so good. It had this fucking pundits, the pundit. [01:44:16] Speaker A: Pundits, spawn pundits and local man. Oh, man. I think I'm going to sneak into Comic Con on Sunday with Eloy. And I'm going to go find Tim Seeley and thank him. [01:44:26] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. Hell yeah. [01:44:27] Speaker A: Because he's an artist. Row somewhere I saw on Instagram, I screencast it. So I can find him. [01:44:32] Speaker B: He's probably hanging out next to Mike Norton, too. If you see Mike Norton, tell Mike Norton I say, hey, maybe I should. [01:44:39] Speaker A: Take a spawn blank cover, have him draw me a spawn. [01:44:41] Speaker B: Yeah, you can have me a spawn. [01:44:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:44:42] Speaker B: Because, oh, man, I wish I could give you one of mine to drop by. Mike Norton to draw a pug spawn, because Mike Norton draws characters as pugs. [01:44:51] Speaker A: I mean, I can take a blank one and have him do it. [01:44:54] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. [01:44:55] Speaker A: I'll take some blank ones. If I see him, I will ask for a pug spawn for you. [01:44:59] Speaker B: Awesome. Awesome. [01:45:01] Speaker A: Cool deal. Yeah, we're going Sunday. Eloy has gone many years, and he's like, look, just take, like, five of the badges from my previous years, put it on a walk forward. Like, you have a purpose. [01:45:13] Speaker B: Don't give away your secrets, Johnny. [01:45:16] Speaker A: You don't want to happen. [01:45:19] Speaker B: So if you're not on Instagram but you still want to contact us, send us questions you have. Send us your history with spawn. Send us pictures of your spawn stuff. If you want us to share pictures of your action figures and your comics, because you don't want to futz with an Instagram, send them to us. We'll say, hey, look at this friend of the pod. They got this cool shit that they want to share with everybody. That's regarding [email protected]. [01:45:43] Speaker A: I always like to ask a question to a prompt if you want to send an email. And today, just in the theme of celebration, twitch got me thinking about how Sam and twitch, like the new ones, are, like, two of my favorite of my spawn figures. So I was wondering, throughout all time, all toy lines, from art of Spawn to original Spawn to now, what is your favorite spawn figure? If you had to pick or top, like, three or something, if you can't pick just one. But just be curious, what you guys would say is your favorite spawn figure? Spawn line? It doesn't have to be spawn, but anything from a spawn line, or even just McFarland figure in general, if there's one that's not spawned. Love to hear about it, man. [01:46:23] Speaker B: Nothing like making the hardest fucking question to ask to answer. [01:46:28] Speaker A: I know. [01:46:29] Speaker B: That would take so much thinking to do. Oh, man. Good. Don't forget to like us, the places that you like things. Rate us, review us. Tell your friends about us. I literally subscribe, like, every couple of weeks, somebody at work asks me about the podcast, and I'm like, oh, it's this. Can you help me subscribe to it? Sure. So slowly, people at work are listening to me talk about Spawn while they're spending hours sitting at the microscopes. So, hell, yeah. Tell your friends, bug your friends. Tell them, hey, listen to this. It's good. We enjoy. [01:47:04] Speaker A: Might help you get them into Spawn. It's always fun to have spawn. It's better with friends and talking about it with friends. Always good to get more people into Spawn. [01:47:11] Speaker B: Spawn is good by itself. But let me tell you, the act of reading it and then talking to somebody about it is just a whole nother level. It's great. [01:47:22] Speaker A: Sometimes in comics, you get these niche series in what you are reading. And it can be tough to know. It sucks. You don't have anyone to talk about it with. That's just great. When you have a good shop, you can always talk about people there. Maybe. But it's always nice to have a friend you're reading something with. Because makes it more fun. [01:47:37] Speaker B: You know what else is fun, Johnny? Reading more spawn for another podcast. And we got another podcast coming up. [01:47:47] Speaker A: That's right. Next week. Next week. [01:47:48] Speaker B: Which means we got to read another couple of issues of Spawn. [01:47:51] Speaker A: Right? And if I look into my spawn crystal ball here, I see that we're closing that gap on Scorch. We are reaching the circle. Who's complete. We are reaching the point where we started with our first early episode that I don't know how great it is to listen to. You could try if you want. But our first scorch was. We covered scorch number seven. Yes. And this is going to be scorch number six. [01:48:16] Speaker B: Scorch. [01:48:16] Speaker A: So we'll be closing that gap on that. [01:48:18] Speaker B: It's going to be our classic issue next week. Scorch number six. [01:48:21] Speaker A: And then our more modern is a. It's ladies night at Respawn next week. Because you get a Jessica priest issue there with Scorch six. And we get Spawn 338, which is that excellent Nyx, like, what nix has been up to. Side story origin. Not origin, but like kind of story. So that'll be a lot of fun. I get to see the green, the council of the elders there. And Swamp thing might show emergent character. Swamp thing might pop out of the woodwork. [01:48:52] Speaker B: Literally. [01:48:53] Speaker A: Jim Downing being a douche. But, yeah, so that'll be a fun issue as well. Swan 338. [01:48:58] Speaker B: That's for next week. I think that just leaves me, Johnny. I think that says all that with you, scorch, thee be with. May the scorch be with you, Johnny. [01:49:11] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:49:12] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Hell yeah. [01:49:14] Speaker A: Hell yeah. [01:49:16] Speaker B: I did have a follow up question for you. What is your favorite comedy from 1989? [01:49:21] Speaker A: Beetlejuice. Oh, no, it's showtime.