RE:Spawn Episode 42 - Spawn 302 and King Spawn 20

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Vinny, I'm right here. And as for those rumors about my weakness, don't believe everything you hear. Good evening and welcome to the Malbolge. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I am your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:50] Speaker B: And I am your co host, David Williams. And Johnny, it's early springtime. You'd agree? Yes. [00:00:57] Speaker A: Yes. [00:00:57] Speaker B: Yeah. You know what that means? [00:00:59] Speaker A: Blockbuster movies. [00:01:01] Speaker B: Oh, no, I was going to say it's asparagus season. [00:01:04] Speaker A: Oh, and ramp season. [00:01:06] Speaker B: And my favorite type of thing about asparagus season is there are two separate mutations involved within the human body and asparagus. One that allows you to make the asparagus pea, and one that allows you to smell the asparagus pea. And guess who can't smell asparagus pea? [00:01:28] Speaker A: This guy, David. [00:01:29] Speaker B: And I don't know if I can produce it, but I sure as hell can't smell it. So. Ha. Suck it all, y'all. Who can't have asparagus? [00:01:39] Speaker A: It's not that bad. [00:01:41] Speaker B: I don't know, I'm just real excited because we seeded an asparagus patch like three years ago because that's how long it takes for it to become mature. And so we're finally getting it this year. And man, so good. [00:01:55] Speaker A: Asparagus is delicious. [00:01:56] Speaker B: It's delicious. [00:01:57] Speaker A: That's good. Three years is a lot shorter than 302 issues. [00:02:01] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:02:02] Speaker A: I'll tell you what. [00:02:02] Speaker B: Oh, man. It's about a 10th as long. [00:02:05] Speaker A: About a 10th as long. That's how long it takes spawn to get mature. Yeah, because we're in spawn season too. [00:02:11] Speaker B: It's the dawning of the age of spawn. Aquarius. [00:02:16] Speaker A: Yes. The dawning of the age of me having a panic attack because I can't get fucking haunt volume three. Can't get sama twitch volume one. Like all this stuff selling out, all this spawn stuff. Spawn hunter was just in Chicago. I'm probably screwed. [00:02:30] Speaker B: Yeah, he didn't tell us, which means he knows he was after something real good that we didn't know. [00:02:35] Speaker A: Yeah, he snuck in there and got it. We're done. The city has been hunted. Yeah, it's over. [00:02:42] Speaker B: I'm only upset because I wanted to say, hey, I don't care what he took. [00:02:48] Speaker A: He's doing a collaboration with safari. Spawn coming. [00:02:51] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Oh, nice. Oh man. Spawn. Safari is great. [00:02:55] Speaker A: Spawn safari, man. [00:02:56] Speaker B: One of the nicest dudes on Instagram. Absolutely. [00:02:59] Speaker A: Seriously. Number one. Well, welcome everybody. Welcome to the malibuls. Welcome to regarding Spawn respawn. [00:03:07] Speaker B: Replying, spawn replying, spawn. [00:03:11] Speaker A: That's just our spawn. [00:03:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:03:13] Speaker A: What is a reply? Just an r? [00:03:16] Speaker B: Well, no, because when you reply, it automatically puts re in the subject. But you can also use re to mean regarding. [00:03:23] Speaker A: That's the original name. That's the original use of it. [00:03:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:03:26] Speaker A: Before all these pesky emails ruined it. [00:03:29] Speaker B: We could just be replying Spawn. Spawn sends us emails every week, and we're responding. [00:03:35] Speaker A: We're responding to Spawn's comic. We're responding to his actions. You could say it is responding or replying to Spawn. [00:03:42] Speaker B: We are responding very positively. We are. If an RSVP is sent for Spawn, we are clicking yes every time. [00:03:51] Speaker A: And we're bringing a plus one. [00:03:53] Speaker B: Plus. [00:03:53] Speaker A: We're trying to. Anyway. [00:03:57] Speaker B: We get unlimited plus ones. It's just hard to convince others to come with us. [00:04:03] Speaker A: Everyone sees 300, and they're like, oh, my God, I got to read 300 issues. And it's like, hey, man. [00:04:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:08] Speaker A: You want to read one piece? All right. You got to read, like, 2000 issues. Okay. [00:04:14] Speaker B: And then you got to watch the tv show to go with it. [00:04:18] Speaker A: Right. [00:04:19] Speaker B: You will go in a 35 year old man, and you will come out 74 years old. Because that's how long it takes. [00:04:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Everyone's manga is huge right now. They're selling it at target. If people could read that, they could read Spawn. Give me a break. [00:04:32] Speaker B: Yeah, the big number, scarediness, is why Marvel and DC have, like, 14 million issue ones. But then everybody gets confused because they're like, well, which issue one is this? [00:04:46] Speaker A: There's a lot of issue ones. They do a lot. [00:04:49] Speaker B: Yeah. It's because people want to read an issue one because they feel like they're getting in on the ground floor. [00:04:54] Speaker A: But they started something that I think is kind of cheap, is, like, with the alien series, every time there's a new arc, they just reset to issue one. [00:05:01] Speaker B: Yeah, they do that on a lot of things. [00:05:03] Speaker A: And it's like, why don't you just keep it going? I like the bigger numbers. [00:05:08] Speaker B: Yeah, big. [00:05:09] Speaker A: Also, I'm not afraid of just jumping in. I'm not afraid of jumping in, diving in that pool. Because we're reading Swan 302 today. And I even read about 200 issues in between. 103 two. [00:05:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:22] Speaker A: Or 175 or so, something like that. [00:05:26] Speaker B: Let's not math today. Math is bad. Yes. [00:05:29] Speaker A: If you've listened before, you know we're bad at math if you haven't listened before. What we do every week, except when we do a random Star wars episode or something, is we do two issues of Spawn from Spawn's universe, usually an older, more classic one. And then a more recent this week, we are covering the one after the record breaker, the record broker. The broken. The record is broke. I'm broken. It's issue 302, which was a really dark and good issue of Spawn and had, like, it's a two fister, a double hander. [00:06:06] Speaker B: It's got that backup story. [00:06:07] Speaker A: You got a backup got. Oh, what do you have, Rob Liefeld? You have Todd McFarland doing interior art. [00:06:13] Speaker B: Boohoo. [00:06:16] Speaker A: So lazy. It's only been four years since this issue came out. I haven't drawn any interior art in a comic in four years. So how lazy does that make me? [00:06:25] Speaker B: Pretty lazy. [00:06:27] Speaker A: Pretty lazy. Pretty fucking lazy. Pretty fucking lazy. I've been pretty fucking unlaazy playing that Jedi game, I'll tell you what. [00:06:36] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:06:37] Speaker A: I've been playing Jedi. Jedi Survivor. It's a lot of fun. [00:06:40] Speaker B: I had a friend who every day sends a screen cap to the friend group of. I really liked this shot. I really like this shot. [00:06:50] Speaker A: It's good. It's a fun game. I probably won't get any of the episodes edited anymore, so sorry about that. [00:06:57] Speaker B: Podcast is over. We didn't even get the second book of this episode. [00:07:02] Speaker A: No. Oh, yeah, I know. And it's over. Oh. The second book of the episode is the continuing of this salmon Twitch arc. We're in. We love it. We're in the salmon, twitch assaults. I just dropped my pen. We're in the salmon in Twitch assaults. This is king Spawn number 20. Big implications, big reveals. Pretty much a perfect comic book. [00:07:32] Speaker B: The only thing that makes it not a perfect comic book, Johnny, is it's too goddamn full size. It's a full size book. But, man, I was rereading it last night, and I sat down on the couch and was immediately like, wait, that's it. No more book. [00:07:49] Speaker A: It's exactly what I did. I was, like, sitting down, like, oh, let me settle in for a long read. And I was like, oh, I'm done. [00:07:55] Speaker B: I was, like, lifting up the book and moving the dogs and searching around me, being like, where's the rest of the book? Did I miss? [00:08:06] Speaker A: I know I shouldn't, but I want more. [00:08:09] Speaker B: I didn't do it. [00:08:12] Speaker A: I know. Well, it's still a great issue. So spawn king, spawn number 20 is our second. [00:08:18] Speaker B: You want to just get right into them? You want to just get right into it? We've already talked about asparagus pee. We've gone on a Star wars tangent, and I think our warm up is done. It's time to get into the meat of this exercise. [00:08:29] Speaker A: Time to get to it. We have spawn 302 all the way back from the far off land of November 2019. Four months till the end of the world. [00:08:43] Speaker B: Shit, man. Remember riding high? Feel like those people riding that.com bubble, just champagne and cocaine in the hot tub. [00:08:54] Speaker A: Yeah, that's how it was for me. [00:08:58] Speaker B: Is there a water feature that rhymes with cocaine and champagne? Because that would have been much more fun to say than hot tub. Hot tub, champagne and cocaine. And the rogaine. Wait, no, those people need rogaine now. Pulled it off. I pulled it off Johnny. But you know who else pulled something off? Johnny Tod McFarland pulled something off by writing Spawn 302. He also does art duties on that backup story. And it's pretty great. It's pretty fantastic. [00:09:32] Speaker A: Yeah. Also fantastic is the first story by Jason Sean Alexander. [00:09:36] Speaker B: Oh, man, I fucking love Jason Sean Alexander. It's amazing. [00:09:41] Speaker A: Yeah, his art's really great. [00:09:43] Speaker B: I'm so sad that I wasn't on board with weekly purchases when Alexander was doing the art because it would be so good to just have that in front of my face instead of in the digital version that I have. [00:09:59] Speaker A: Well, I've got a physical. Oh, let me take it out of the plastic here because this is. [00:10:06] Speaker B: Johnny open Johnny's Olivia Newton John over there because he's getting physical. [00:10:12] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. And I'm getting scared because I'm scared to spill some coke zero on it because this is a $20 or $18 issue of Spawn I'm holding in my hands. [00:10:21] Speaker B: Oh, no. I'm somehow going to drop water on it from over here. [00:10:25] Speaker A: It could happen. Stranger things have happened somehow. [00:10:29] Speaker B: I know exactly how it happened. But I follow a lot of muslim comics on instagram. And during Ramadan this year, there was a call in imam question session that somebody took audio from. And it's like I accidentally fell down on a sandwich. It was just full of falafel, and then a bite of apple fell in my mouth, and then, like, three liters of water just filled my stomach. Am I all right? And people did the stop motion animation of a person falling and then a falafel falling in their mouth and then somehow water getting in their stomach. It was great. It's great. At the end of the clip, the imam just, like, sits there and is like, what did you just ask me? Hilarious. I'm scared that I'm going to somehow get water on it from over here. Johnny. I am a clumsy, clumsy fool. [00:11:33] Speaker A: Yeah, it's pretty nice. It's back when they had, like, the softer cover it's not like the hard card stock. It's just like, classic comic. [00:11:42] Speaker B: Oh, nice. So much easier to accidentally destroy. Great. I'm just going to have to mail you $20 because I'm going to breathe too hard over here. [00:11:51] Speaker A: And it's going to the COVID It's a collection of superstars. We got a Capulo cover. [00:11:58] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, nice. I actually have a little note here that there are three capoulo McFarlane covers and then two McFarland solo covers. And trying to look it up, it looks like there is. For the Capullo McFarlane, there's the regular version, a virgin version, and a black and white version. And then for the McFarlane only, it looks like there's the McFarlane only. And then a Virgin McFarlane only. The McFarlane only kicks ass. Holy shit. It's spawn and she spawn just flying through the air. And they're both double fisting weapons. And Spawn has a sword, and Jessica Priest has a big ass gun. [00:12:48] Speaker A: I happen to have that cover right in front of me. [00:12:51] Speaker B: Oh, holy shit. Holy shit. Is it as amazing in person as it is online? [00:12:56] Speaker A: It is great. It is great. I have the virgin cover. This was bought in one of those lots I got online. I actually ended up with two copies of 302. So I got the Virgin and the. [00:13:06] Speaker B: A cover, the non virgin cover of that. McFarland only has, like, a big black border and a thing on the bottom that says all new interior art by Todd McFarland. Yeah, it's great. [00:13:22] Speaker A: He's back, baby. [00:13:23] Speaker B: But, yeah, that cover a art is pretty great, too. It's spawn with the biggest fucking Tommy gun imaginable. [00:13:32] Speaker A: Yeah, it's either a Tommy gun or a shotgun. Like, with the round. [00:13:36] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like a Tommy shotgun. It's crazy. And actually, there's a slightly different version of that for the second printing that I like better. It's, like, zoomed out of Al, and they've got more of, like, a watercolored background. I just think it looks more badass. [00:13:55] Speaker A: David. [00:13:56] Speaker B: What? [00:13:57] Speaker A: I have that too. [00:13:58] Speaker B: Holy shit. [00:14:01] Speaker A: And that one could be yours. This is from our spawn box all the way from Indiana. [00:14:06] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:14:07] Speaker A: Second printing copy? [00:14:08] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:14:09] Speaker A: So I got three copies of 302. [00:14:11] Speaker B: Oh, man. You are rich in Johnny. You could probably retire with being selling those individual issues. [00:14:20] Speaker A: Yeah, if I find someone to buy for $18 each, that's, like, almost $60. That's pretty good. That means I could retire. [00:14:29] Speaker B: As long as you don't go to the pond stars. The best they could do is watermark on it. [00:14:36] Speaker A: I'm not selling to no pond stars. [00:14:39] Speaker B: It's a great meme, though. What? They take the image of the main guy saying, best I could do is. And they're like, it's usually mental health stuff. And it's like, I would like to be a normal person. And he's like, the best I can do. Uh, unnecessary anxiety. [00:15:01] Speaker A: I wonder if Spawn. We should get a spawn on spawn on pawn stars. Spawn stars. [00:15:07] Speaker B: Spawn stars. [00:15:08] Speaker A: That should have been the name of our podcast. [00:15:10] Speaker B: God damn it, Johnny. [00:15:12] Speaker A: I mean, pawn stars is already really bad pun on porn stars. [00:15:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:16] Speaker A: So if we did spawn stars, that's even a worse pun. [00:15:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Or, oh, man, if we had been little old women who weren't married, we could have been sponsors, which was. [00:15:28] Speaker A: Oh, boy. [00:15:29] Speaker B: Which is a play on spinsters. Hell, yeah. I've never wanted to be an old woman so bad. Jenny. [00:15:36] Speaker A: So you could be a sponsor. [00:15:40] Speaker B: Could you imagine your grandma, like a granny blake type. Just sitting there talking about spawn all day, young and you need to read this. Blow your fucking mind. I swear. [00:15:51] Speaker A: I like beefy Malbolger. I like beefy violator. But I prefer the thin violator. Would you like some butterscotch candy? I missed the small right foot suit. Help. My dentures are falling out. That's what it'd be like. [00:16:14] Speaker B: That Jason Wyn is no good. He's no good. [00:16:18] Speaker A: He sure is handsome, though. [00:16:21] Speaker B: That Terry treats Fwondo quite right. [00:16:25] Speaker A: Terry's a good. You should find yourself a man like Terry. So we already went over. Tod's doing the script. Jason Alexander and Todd are doing the interior art. Tod's getting a little help with the plot. [00:16:37] Speaker B: Yeah, from Jonathan Goff. This Broadway's Jonathan Goff, I assume not, since it's John Goff, not Jonathan Goff. Could you imagine? He just shows up at Tod McFarland's studio dressed as King George. From like he's got. He's like, I got a break between performances of Hamilton. Let's go over this, dude. [00:16:58] Speaker A: Let's knock this out real quick. And a very special credit this issue to Tom Orzachowski for lettering. Because he gets featured in the spawning grounds. [00:17:09] Speaker B: Yeah, it's very sweet. It's very sweet. I like that the Todd father is taking this chance of. We're getting eyes on the book. Because we're doing this great thing that's taken all these people to get here. And he's just like, man, these are the people that made it happen. He's a very magnanimous man, the Todd father. [00:17:29] Speaker A: Then we got colors by Peters Stigerwald and Greg Menzie leads us to that. [00:17:34] Speaker B: One guy's favorite part of the issue. Johnny. [00:17:37] Speaker A: So previously in Spawn, last issue set the Guinness world record for longest running creator owned superhero comic. Tod McFarlane begins his expansion of the spawn universe. [00:17:49] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:17:51] Speaker A: That starts to expand. [00:17:54] Speaker B: Expands like clowns waistline. It's expanding. [00:17:59] Speaker A: Expanding. Like those bathtub toys. Just add water, but don't add water to the issue. [00:18:04] Speaker B: No, it doesn't make the issue. I guess it technically does make the issue bigger, but not in the way you want it to. [00:18:09] Speaker A: Yeah, it makes it bigger, but the value goes down. [00:18:13] Speaker B: It won't fit on the bookshelf right anymore, man. I sent you a little message immediately after finish this book saying, man, spawn 302 is brutal. And it starts off just fucking brutal. Holy shit. [00:18:29] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a dark issue. Some dark things happening. [00:18:33] Speaker B: Yeah. So it's just this dude with an eye patch throwing this lady around his apartment. The implication is that she is a sex worker, because sex work is work, and he is her pimp. He's a very bad man, and he's doing nasty things to him, to her. Real bad. Real bad. And then it just cuts to spawn, flying through the air. [00:19:06] Speaker A: It's just to show that there's evil everywhere. There's constantly evil. [00:19:10] Speaker B: I would like to think that off page Spawn took care of this pimp as sort of an homage to the very first appearance of Superman, because the very first thing Superman does in the comic books is he beats the shit out of a wife beater. Like, he hears this man beating his wife in his apartment and busts through the wall, Kool Aid man style, and is like, sir, take this, and punches him right in the face. It's great. [00:19:39] Speaker A: Really? I didn't know that. [00:19:40] Speaker B: Yeah, it's great. The very first thing Superman does. It's awesome. [00:19:44] Speaker A: Gotta love soups, man. [00:19:45] Speaker B: Superman is great. [00:19:47] Speaker A: I'm a Superman fan. [00:19:49] Speaker B: Nice. Nice. I've infected you with. [00:19:53] Speaker A: Yeah. Between world's finest and that new Superman series. They're both pretty good. [00:19:57] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real good. It's real good. He has that overpower problem that people talk about all the. Yeah, yeah, it exists. It exists. But that doesn't stop him from being a good character, and people can make good stories out of it. [00:20:10] Speaker A: It's true. He's just so hopeful. [00:20:14] Speaker B: Yeah, he's the big boy scout, as they say. [00:20:17] Speaker A: Well, Spawn is more of a. He was an ROTC. He wasn't in Boy Scouts. [00:20:24] Speaker B: Yeah, he was, because he was a military man. And spawn, as on this two page spread, we've got him flying around with some bats. It's pretty awesome that Spawn hates all the greed. He doesn't like the greed. It's what makes. It's the worst of the deadly sins, Johnny. [00:20:42] Speaker A: The green is green for. Green with envy. Greed. Wait, not envy. Green with. [00:20:51] Speaker B: Money. [00:20:54] Speaker A: Stands out. It says greed and ojs. Nice. Yeah, it's got to love the ojs. [00:21:03] Speaker B: It's real good work by Tom o there, Johnny. [00:21:07] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:21:07] Speaker B: You're seeing what he's done, and you're appreciating it, and you're calling it out of something awesome. So that's. Letterers are good. They're very important. [00:21:15] Speaker A: So Spawn's hunting down everybody. Everyone that's evil, Spawn's gonna kill. He's just on a rampage. [00:21:20] Speaker B: Yeah, whatever. Their birthright, Johnny, demon, angel, human. He doesn't care who they are. [00:21:26] Speaker A: He's gonna kill them. They become his target. Nice red target. Another lettering. Call out. [00:21:32] Speaker B: It's real good. And then we get a soft pundit page where it's just a soft pundit. [00:21:38] Speaker A: Yeah, I noticed that. I was like, oh, interesting. Just a single pundit. [00:21:41] Speaker B: Yeah, it's just the straight up news. No commentary. Because the commentary is taking care of literally all the shit Al Simmons is doing to nasty people. He's cutting out throats. He's shooting guys in cars. He's walking around looking like a cool ass morpheus motherfucker. [00:22:01] Speaker A: Yeah, with double guns and, like, a black t shirt and sunglasses and double, quad guns. He's got guns on his arms too. Yeah, those guns, those. Those biceps. [00:22:12] Speaker B: So you're saying he's, like, the general grievous of guns? [00:22:15] Speaker A: He's the general grievous of guns. He has four guns. [00:22:19] Speaker B: Very nice. [00:22:20] Speaker A: And he's a lizard man in a robot suit, because, lest we forget, General Grievous basically looks like a velociraptor inside of a suit. If you look at his face, he's got, like, a dinosaur face, man. [00:22:37] Speaker B: Man. General Grievous is fun. He constantly just abandoned ship with all of his droid minions on board. And they're like, where is he going? [00:22:49] Speaker A: He's like, snidely fucking whiplash. [00:22:51] Speaker B: He's just like, screw you guys, I'm leaving. And they're just like, time to. [00:22:54] Speaker A: Time to abandon sheep. [00:22:58] Speaker B: That's, like, the first thing he does in clone wars too. He does it, like, three times throughout the course of the series. [00:23:08] Speaker A: Al wouldn't do that. He wouldn't put up with that shit. Al would save the ship till the very end. [00:23:13] Speaker B: Yeah, he sure would. I was going to say he would be the one to make sure the ship. [00:23:19] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah. And burn it down to the bottom of the ocean. So we've got the classic todfather criminals. [00:23:29] Speaker B: Second issue in a row that we got this classic Todd father set up with the. [00:23:36] Speaker A: Know, just talking in a restaurant. [00:23:40] Speaker B: Yeah, in a restaurant. [00:23:41] Speaker A: Restaurant or bar being shitty? [00:23:42] Speaker B: It's a bar and grill, so it works. Yeah. [00:23:45] Speaker A: And they're being shitty to a waitress. There you go. [00:23:47] Speaker B: They're being God awful. Jesus. [00:23:49] Speaker A: Yeah. Pinched her. [00:23:51] Speaker B: Oh, man. Makes a lewd comment. Something else you'd like to taste? [00:23:58] Speaker A: Oh, yikes. That's just gross. [00:24:00] Speaker B: Yeah. That ties in perfectly with the awareness campaign that they've been putting out that the leading cause of throat cancers recently has skyrocketed to being hpv infections. And you know how you get hpv in your throat? [00:24:22] Speaker A: Johnny Connellingus. [00:24:25] Speaker B: Any sort of oral sex, usually. [00:24:28] Speaker A: Wait, so Kirk Douglas was. Or Michael Douglas was. Right. [00:24:32] Speaker B: Yeah. That's literally how Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden got it. [00:24:39] Speaker A: That's how Michael Douglas said he got throat cancer. Was eating too much. [00:24:44] Speaker B: No. Like, I used to work in a lab that we worked in, and, like, hpv is the leading cause of head and neck cancers. [00:24:55] Speaker A: Well, shit. [00:24:56] Speaker B: And it's unspoken. You don't stop your presentation and say it's because people be given the oral sex. You all. But no, more likely. You actually are probably more likely to get it from a. What's the correct way to say this? From giving head. Because men or people with penises are more likely to be asymptomatic carriers, so you're more likely to unknowingly get it from that. [00:25:30] Speaker A: Okay, well, the more, you know. [00:25:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:35] Speaker A: So basically this guy's saying he wants to get cancer. [00:25:38] Speaker B: Yeah. I hope my mom doesn't listen to this episode. Sorry, mom. [00:25:48] Speaker A: So these guys are real big jerks to Al. Calls him boy, which is. [00:25:51] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's not a good look. Not a good look. [00:25:55] Speaker A: Not a good look. So Al just, like, shoves his ass over into the wall. [00:25:59] Speaker B: Thuds him into the wall. Oh, man. Also taking that tone with Al Simmons would look at this. Is he. Why is he taunting this very intimidating, bouncer looking man? He's like, oh, the guy from Green Mile. [00:26:22] Speaker A: Michael Clark Duncan. [00:26:24] Speaker B: Michael Clark Duncan. He's looking very Michael Clark Duncan here. And that is a man I wouldn't want to make upset. [00:26:29] Speaker A: And he pushes him into the wall, and he's just like, look, they're, like, chewing him out saying, everyone's out to get him. They know he's weak. Everyone's heard after what he did in Albania, which was what we saw last week, wherever, or last issue, whenever he got godsend and clown together and did his massive explosion, which had a lot of consequences. [00:26:52] Speaker B: Yeah, they're like, we hear you're weak. It's very much like a dialogue lead up to the title of a television show. Splash page and a tv show where it's like, as for my weakness, don't believe everything you hear. And then just like, wrong. No necroplasm. [00:27:14] Speaker A: Hey, it's going up. [00:27:16] Speaker B: Yeah, barely. Barely. [00:27:19] Speaker A: And it goes back down. [00:27:26] Speaker B: He's almost James Bond, Johnny. He's almost Idris Elba is James Bond. [00:27:30] Speaker A: Just triple seven. And so he basically pulls a gun on him and he wants to take him to their douchebag boss, the one who is into sex trafficking. [00:27:42] Speaker B: Yeah, he wants to take that dude down. And I do, like this little detail that the artwork behind them is at issue one in poster form. [00:27:56] Speaker A: Oh, nice. That is cool. [00:27:57] Speaker B: Which is fun because we get a little preview of Philadelphia issue one at the end of this, which is also very exciting because as we know recently, they are going to have a spawn Philadelphia crossover, which is very. [00:28:12] Speaker A: This issue could be worth even more money now. [00:28:14] Speaker B: Oh, man. Yeah, definitely. Geez, Johnny, I'm getting greedy. We're going to make so much money off of this spawn podcast, we're going to be able to buy all those sama twitches without even thinking about it. [00:28:27] Speaker A: Well, what we're doing is we're inflating the value of our own collections by talking about it online and making it seem more good. We're helping ourselves. [00:28:36] Speaker B: Johnny, you sounded pretty third pundit over there. I don't like the way this is going. [00:28:42] Speaker A: Look, if you get the comics and you sell them, that's capitalism. It doesn't matter what people will pay for them. I'm just the provider. It's their money. [00:28:54] Speaker B: And so Al takes these two bad men away and leaves a hefty tip for the waitress and a little note saying, sorry for my friend's rude behavior. They won't bother you again. So I don't know if $200 is enough of a tip for her having to clean up blood and explain a gigantic knife hole in the table. [00:29:17] Speaker A: Hey, she gets a knife too. [00:29:19] Speaker B: I guess that's true. [00:29:23] Speaker A: I love this very Tod father dad thing of like, it cuts to the boss. He's playing the boss. He's looking for this child trafficking boss that he just killed the henchmen. They cut to. They're having this poker game, and they're talking about how he wants to watch this show, but he doesn't have cable. And he's like, you can watch on your computer. You got to have kids so they can teach you how to do that shit. [00:29:45] Speaker B: This is also very proto Taylor with Javi. [00:29:51] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, definitely. Wait, you can watch tv? [00:29:58] Speaker B: You use the outhouse inside. [00:30:00] Speaker A: And I will say, and this is where I apologize to my mother, but every time I go home, I do set up some kind of streaming service on some kind of device for my mom, no question. [00:30:12] Speaker B: Oh, man, my mom was so upset when I went to college, just because that meant she had to learn how to use the remote. Because up until then, she was just like, here you do learned. She learned. But, oh, man, so many phone calls of David. How do you do this? Pretty hilarious. [00:30:33] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:30:34] Speaker B: Pretty hilarious. [00:30:35] Speaker A: My mom retired the beginning of the pandemic, luckily. [00:30:38] Speaker B: Nice. [00:30:39] Speaker A: She only had to be a teacher for, like, three months during the pandemic, but that would have been rough. She was calling me a lot, trying to figure out Zoom and stuff like that. [00:30:51] Speaker B: There's a meeting I have to go to every month for work, and one of them involves this old retired dude who's still part of the project. And you can either see him or hear him, never both. It's hilarious. Oh, man, I love old people having issues with electronics. It's great. [00:31:15] Speaker A: Well, these old people have some issues, but it's not with electronics. It's with shipments of children. [00:31:21] Speaker B: Yeah, it is with their employment. [00:31:27] Speaker A: Seems like tomfather might be a little buying into a little QAnon action here. [00:31:34] Speaker B: He doesn't explicitly say they're below a pizza place there, Gianni. [00:31:39] Speaker A: I don't know. It just echoes. [00:31:42] Speaker B: Yeah, but no, they got the two guys from the diner walking in all bloodied. One of them's got, like, a Rambo bandana on. Reasons that I'm unsure of. [00:31:54] Speaker A: I think it's just to stop the bleeding, I guess. [00:31:59] Speaker B: And then they speak spawn into existence because he's here, boss. Who, Simmons? Al. [00:32:06] Speaker A: The guy notices he got guns. [00:32:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:09] Speaker A: Very impressive. Very not. [00:32:12] Speaker B: Yeah. The fact that this hell man has guns is going to make me feel safer, for sure. [00:32:21] Speaker A: This guy's a badass. [00:32:22] Speaker B: This mob boss is an idiot, Johnny. And Al's just over here. He says, do this, and the mob guys are, no, we got you over a barrel. And Al's like, we're going to hold. [00:32:35] Speaker A: A gun to this kid's head and make you do this? [00:32:37] Speaker B: Yeah, and I do like the get his guns now. Lose the cop. [00:32:45] Speaker A: This guy's from heaven. [00:32:47] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess this guy's from heaven. [00:32:49] Speaker A: Awful. [00:32:50] Speaker B: What a jerk. What a jerk. [00:32:52] Speaker A: Heaven's bad. [00:32:53] Speaker B: And so he makes Al lose the costume, and the costume slowly goes away. And then as he does that, Al steps back. So his hands are in the shadows, and he shadow blasts some guns into his hands. [00:33:07] Speaker A: He shadow blasts them in? [00:33:09] Speaker B: Yeah, he shadow blasts and blasts. [00:33:13] Speaker A: That's awesome. [00:33:15] Speaker B: So cool. So cool. Oh, man. This panel of angry Al Simmons yelling and shooting at the same time is awesome. [00:33:25] Speaker A: It is a mistake everyone's been making. They forgot about his years of specialized military training. [00:33:31] Speaker B: Johnny, I think I might have forgotten about his years of specialized military training. I'm not going to lie. [00:33:36] Speaker A: They don't mention it often. Don't mention it often. [00:33:39] Speaker B: Never. I mean, just issue number one and then never again. [00:33:42] Speaker A: So he throws these smoke grenades. They throw him at him and he dodges. No, he throws. No, he throws the smoke grenades. He starts unfreeing the kids and then. [00:33:52] Speaker B: Uses the distraction to teleport everybody to, like, central park. He just dumps them in the middle of Central park. [00:34:01] Speaker A: At least they're free. [00:34:02] Speaker B: Yeah, nowadays is safer. But if this had been written 30 years ago, Johnny, that would have been a lateral move at best. [00:34:12] Speaker A: Congratulations. Now you're the middle of Central park. [00:34:16] Speaker B: And if it had been the, there would have been that whole warriors dilemma. Warriors. It's a good movie. Spawn transports back to the facility where they were holding all these people captive, and he gets snuck up on by. Looks like a hell dude. They say that one guy's from heaven. [00:34:39] Speaker A: But that does not look he could be from heaven. I don't know. They have some crazy shit in heaven. [00:34:44] Speaker B: Yeah, we've never seen a spiky slug in heaven yet. [00:34:46] Speaker A: He's like a caterpillar. Yeah, like an evil caterpillar. [00:34:50] Speaker B: And Johnny, correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks very much like the transforming of the guy into the caterpillar. That looks awfully Tod McFarlaney to could. [00:35:02] Speaker A: It does a little bit, but I think this is still Jason Sean Alexander. [00:35:05] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, because full transformation. Look, it's obviously Jason Sean Alexander, but the fact that it's digital, and we know the Tod father's gone all digital, and Jason Sean Alexander has much more of that textured think. I just think Tod father was like, can I draw this gross thing? I want to draw this gross thing. [00:35:26] Speaker A: Could have happened. Stranger things have happened. [00:35:28] Speaker B: Stranger things have happened. Stranger things aren't happening right now because of the writer strike. [00:35:34] Speaker A: I know. Stranger things aren't going to happen. They're going to have to call eleven. When she comes back. They're going to have to call her 40. That's how old she'll fucking be. [00:35:42] Speaker B: Oh, man. She'll be three kids deep because she's already engaged. Just turned 19. Already engaged. [00:35:49] Speaker A: She's been an adult since she was twelve. Unfortunately. I feel like. [00:35:52] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the child actor problem. Rose up to prominent, had to grow up way too quickly. That's unfair. [00:36:01] Speaker A: It is unfair. [00:36:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:03] Speaker A: It also is unfair that Jessica just walks behind the slug and shoots him in the head with a shotgun. [00:36:09] Speaker B: Well, I mean, unfair for the slug, but do we care about fair? [00:36:12] Speaker A: Unfair for the slug? [00:36:13] Speaker B: No, I don't care about fair for that guy. Fuck that guy. [00:36:16] Speaker A: Jessica looks badass. Got like tactical gear on, like a cool thing around her arm. [00:36:22] Speaker B: She's got kind of the perfect bonk going for you. [00:36:25] Speaker A: Hey, this might be even more than perfect bonk. This might be the alpha bonk. I like some crazy hair. [00:36:33] Speaker B: Yeah, it's pretty good. [00:36:34] Speaker A: And spawn spent four powerpoints in that battle, man. [00:36:38] Speaker B: Precious necroplasm. [00:36:40] Speaker A: She's like, something's happened with your powers. It's affecting more than just you. [00:36:44] Speaker B: Yeah. To be continued. And we're continuing on into the second story of the issue called Night Terror. Night Terror. It starts off with Jessica Priest on that hell bike. She somehow got it out of the warehouse and is driving down the street. [00:37:02] Speaker A: She just drove it out the window. Onto the rooftop. Onto a small rooftop. [00:37:06] Speaker B: Onto a small rooftop. [00:37:07] Speaker A: Until she was on the ground. [00:37:09] Speaker B: Conveniently placed plyboard ramps that are just there for reasons. [00:37:15] Speaker A: And like a modern video game, they have like yellow spray painted on them. [00:37:18] Speaker B: So, you know that's where you're supposed to go. [00:37:21] Speaker A: It's so funny. Every modern video game, like, even the Star wars that I'm playing, everything's just spray painted yellow. [00:37:26] Speaker B: You're like, I remember people being upset by the subtle direction arrows that were embedded in the space stations in the original halo. People being like, it's telling me where to go. And I think that's childish. Like, what the fuck are you talking about, dude? [00:37:45] Speaker A: Well, they wouldn't like games these days. A lot of games just hold your hand. Like, pretty hardcore, definitely. But it's kind of swinging the other way now with dark souls and jedi. They're a lot more harder. Figure it out. A little more frustrating in a good way. Like risk reward way. Instead of just like, for example, one of the newest grand theft auto, which is now like eight years old. But it was like just walking to arrows. Like you're just walking to dots of where you're supposed to go. And that was no fun. [00:38:17] Speaker B: It was like Pac man. [00:38:18] Speaker A: Things are kind of. Yeah, well, he basically like Pac man, but only on a big giant map. And they've kind of gotten away from that. So that's kind of good. [00:38:27] Speaker B: Nice. [00:38:27] Speaker A: But yeah. She video game leapfrogs it out of the office building. And she's riding the bicycle. [00:38:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:33] Speaker A: Which she doesn't quite understand because it is a mystical bike. [00:38:38] Speaker B: Yeah. She crashes, but what does she crash on? It doesn't seem like she gets lost in thought. That's what she does. And then she just goes flip. [00:38:52] Speaker A: She loses control. She's thinking about Nick's dying. Thinking about all that stuff. [00:38:55] Speaker B: Yeah. And she just flies off of it. And then she gets descended upon by a flebiaki. [00:39:05] Speaker A: Look at that great Tod McFarland fleabiac face. It's so classic. [00:39:08] Speaker B: It's great. It's a big two page spread. And, oh, man, he's just like coming. [00:39:14] Speaker A: At you and he's like, you stole your powers. They belong to hell. They're ours. [00:39:20] Speaker B: Renounce them before it's all too late. [00:39:23] Speaker A: And he reaches out his giant fleabiac hand and think. [00:39:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:27] Speaker A: Touches her. And she's back to Jessica. [00:39:30] Speaker B: Yeah. And she's just lying on the ground and is like, what is. [00:39:34] Speaker A: What happened? [00:39:35] Speaker B: Must find Al. [00:39:37] Speaker A: That's just a little connecting tissue of where she went after Nix's death to where she ended up at the end of this issue. Looking for Al. But I always like a real good, real good. And then we get the story of the spawning grounds with the story of. [00:39:56] Speaker B: Tom Orjiskowski, the man who has worked on more pages of Spawn since his inception in 1992 than anyone else, including the Todd father himself. [00:40:06] Speaker A: Yes. And that's over minimum of 20 pages an issue that he's been doing. [00:40:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:40:10] Speaker A: Over 6000 pages of spawn, man. [00:40:13] Speaker B: It's real exciting. Look at that guy. He looks so cool. [00:40:17] Speaker A: And it's cool to see that Tom really, or that Todd really admired Tom's work in the uncanny X Men. And when he was forming image, was able to kind of handpick his own dudes. And he was just like, really cool that he was able to get Tom. [00:40:29] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real cool. It's real cool. I like Tomo. He's a great guy. [00:40:36] Speaker A: He banged up the spawn logo. [00:40:38] Speaker B: Yeah. In like a weekend. So cool. [00:40:40] Speaker A: That's been on so many comics, man. There they are. There's a picture of them signing at New York Comic Con 2019. [00:40:46] Speaker B: And then a sneak preview of Philadelphia issue one. [00:40:51] Speaker A: Yeah, it's pretty cool. Yeah, I like the art. The art is, I read the spawn issue. I didn't really know what was going on. John Adams was there. There's some vampires. It was cool. [00:41:06] Speaker B: Spawn showed up at the end. [00:41:07] Speaker A: What's not to love? [00:41:09] Speaker B: It's not a bad spot to start in the comics, it seems. I mean, I spent the whole time being, like, what came before this? How could there be anything before this? [00:41:18] Speaker A: Yeah, I'll definitely be adding it to my pull list while there's the spawn art going on, for sure. [00:41:23] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, definitely. [00:41:24] Speaker A: Yeah, that's Spawn. 302. [00:41:26] Speaker B: Yeah, 302. [00:41:27] Speaker A: That's awesome. [00:41:28] Speaker B: Done. Did really good one. Really good one. [00:41:30] Speaker A: Really good issue of Spawn. Just. You get, like, classic spawn fighting baddies. You get a she spawn story. What's not to love? [00:41:40] Speaker B: I mean, nothing's not to love, Johnny. All of it is loved. [00:41:45] Speaker A: Spawn is love. So next up, we have Kingspawn number 20. Yeah, something about those round numbers. Always a big deal. We're coming up on two years of King Spawn. [00:42:13] Speaker B: Oh, man, it's so good. It's so good, Johnny. I don't know if we've mentioned that on this podcast before, but Kingspawn. So good. Hella good. You might even say something we also. [00:42:29] Speaker A: Probably have never mentioned is how much we like these mark Spears covers that he's been doing. [00:42:33] Speaker B: Oh, man. He puts out a new piece of art, like, every two days, and it is just always incredible. [00:42:45] Speaker A: Spawn, that was amazing. [00:42:49] Speaker B: He's awesome. He's great. [00:42:51] Speaker A: All his universal monsters, they're great. [00:42:53] Speaker B: So fucking good. Yeah. And this issue's got the Jericho. Is it Jericho. Jericho. Jericho. [00:43:02] Speaker A: That's Jericho. [00:43:03] Speaker B: He looks gnarly as fuck. [00:43:06] Speaker A: Yep. He's got, like, tendons and, like, his. [00:43:09] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got that, like, greeny, purplish hue. [00:43:15] Speaker A: Yeah. The purple and greens in his art's always really good. [00:43:18] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got those brilliant blue eyes, man. [00:43:23] Speaker A: So purple background. I love it. I love it. [00:43:27] Speaker B: This also comes with a second cover, johnny, by Thomas Ellie. And it's pretty good too. It's just like a close up from underneath of Spawn's face, and he's angry, and it's real good. I was doing some Internet searching, and it appears that there are two different versions of this cover too. There's one with the title in black lettering and one with the title in yellow lettering. Really interesting. [00:44:00] Speaker A: Yeah, this also has a blank cover as well. [00:44:05] Speaker B: A blank cover. Interesting indeed, man. All of these variants. That's why we leave that to Spawn hunter. I would get so lost with all that. Yeah, I just need the one. I'm good. I don't want to have to think about all the other permutations. [00:44:30] Speaker A: I like buying the two to have one. It's fun, because if I limit myself to trying to, if I say, okay, I'm going to get the modern. My main part of the collection is the three new series. That's a lot easier. I can get to a complete collection of that. Possibly. [00:44:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:44:50] Speaker A: Because if I try to get a complete collection of Spawn, that's impossible. But King Spawn, Scorchlinger, and scorched would be possible. [00:44:59] Speaker B: Yeah. And then one day, you will be the guy on eBay saying, I got to clear this stuff out. Who wants a whole run of scorch needs. [00:45:15] Speaker A: Sell? Well, I might sell my backup copies one day. I would never sell my real copies. They mean too much to me. Yeah, my real copies, my open copies. [00:45:28] Speaker B: You're going to take your copies, you're going to scan them on a scanner, and you're going to print them out on just, like, computer paper, staple them together. [00:45:38] Speaker A: Hey, and then sell the other ones. [00:45:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Those are the copies you're going to sell. But Kingspawn 20, we got script plot by our man, Sean Lewis, additional script by our father, Tod. [00:45:50] Speaker A: Hallelujah. [00:45:51] Speaker B: Art by Javi Fernandez. And color, so good, FCO Placencia and Sheila Saldana. And we'll decide during the lettering again. They need to learn to use a comma cover. Artists, we've already been over Tom McFarland. [00:46:06] Speaker A: And the two toms. Two todds. The two t's. [00:46:10] Speaker B: The two tods. The two toms. [00:46:13] Speaker A: The two t's. Tom McFarland and Thomas Healy. [00:46:17] Speaker B: Oh, man. Just doing it. Double teaming it. Just saying bad. [00:46:23] Speaker A: Previously in King Spawn, the exodus foundation has been collecting people's brains. Their sinister purpose is still unknown, but. [00:46:32] Speaker B: Spawn is on the a, Johnny. It's almost as if the Exodus foundation took that song skulls by the misfits literally. [00:46:45] Speaker A: Yeah, pretty much. I worked with someone because that song was on the playlist. I would play at work, and they thought they were like, it's funny how sweet that song is. I'm like, what? They thought they were saying, soul. I want your soul. And it's like, no, they're saying skull. And it's like, have you heard last caress? [00:47:11] Speaker B: That's the song that people, you know, who know the song are like, man, there's too many words in that song. I can't remember them all. [00:47:24] Speaker A: I believe the lyrics at some point are smash the heads of little girls and put them on my wall. [00:47:29] Speaker B: Oh man. [00:47:30] Speaker A: Yeah, really nice. Sweet song. [00:47:32] Speaker B: Really very sweet. Absolutely 100% the sweetest. Glenn Danzig was Glenn Danzig. Jerry. Only sweethearts. Actually in real life. Danzig literally just has like twelve cats. [00:47:48] Speaker A: I know. He's always buying kitty litter. [00:47:50] Speaker B: Yeah, it's great. [00:47:51] Speaker A: Jerry only seems nice. He seems like he just really enjoys it. [00:47:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:47:56] Speaker A: Royal Vaughn Frankenstein is a dick, evidently. [00:47:59] Speaker B: Oh, that sucks. [00:48:01] Speaker A: He says something like, I don't like my fans. It sucks these days. You have to talk to them. [00:48:07] Speaker B: Oh no. [00:48:08] Speaker A: Thanks a lot, Doyle von Frankenstein. [00:48:10] Speaker B: Boo. [00:48:12] Speaker A: Apple keeps recommend your solo album to me. I haven't listened to it, so take that. Probably not going to. [00:48:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Suck it. Suck, suck, suck it, Jackie. Suck. Right, Jackie. [00:48:24] Speaker A: King Swan opens with the visage of two men. Oh man, it's shadow. [00:48:30] Speaker B: It's so good. [00:48:33] Speaker A: Sam and twitch looming over the city. [00:48:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I would put that on my wall. It's a great image. It's very, got that flavor of like Elijah Wood in Sin City where his face is all black except for his glasses. That's a technique that I love. It's great. Yeah, it's very evocative. [00:48:54] Speaker A: And then people are hurrying to cash in on these brains like the gentleman in this sports car. And it just opens like an action movie right in the middle of this car chase. [00:49:04] Speaker B: I've recently watched a whole bunch of righteous gemstones, so I read daddy as, because that's what they all refer to John Goodman in the show is they refer to him as daddy and they all pronounce it differently. So I cracked up. [00:49:19] Speaker A: Oh yeah, I love that show. [00:49:21] Speaker B: Daddy. [00:49:27] Speaker A: Have you watched the first season? All of it? [00:49:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I've watched both seasons. [00:49:31] Speaker A: It was really good show. I love it. [00:49:33] Speaker B: It's such a good show. [00:49:34] Speaker A: Have you watched I'm in love? Oh yeah. [00:49:36] Speaker B: Oh nice. [00:49:38] Speaker A: I'm in love with Judy Gemstone. [00:49:40] Speaker B: She's so awful. [00:49:43] Speaker A: She's so crazy. I'm in love with her. That monologue where she talks about her college professor is one of the craziest monologues I've ever. [00:49:52] Speaker B: And then, and then like falls even harder in love with her. It's like, BJ, what are you doing? BJ. [00:50:00] Speaker A: Hey, BJ. I see what you're doing there, budy. [00:50:05] Speaker B: One of the things that made me crack up the hardest was at the end of the first season. Spoilers for the first season is when they got the little Jesus that they find from baby Billy's car. And John Goodman throws it against the wall. And they're, ah. He's like, what? It was just a karate person. They're like, no, that was Jesus. And he's. [00:50:27] Speaker A: It, daddy. It was just funny because Wanda was like, this is so over the top and stuff. And I'm like, honestly, it's really not like the stuff they show them at the church. That's not bad. [00:50:38] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. No, they know what they're talking about. I like that it very easily could just go the way of people being angry at the religious and just shitting on them the whole time instead of making them real people. But they take the time. [00:51:01] Speaker A: They're real people. It's like, weirdly sweet sometimes. [00:51:04] Speaker B: Yeah, they take the time to make them real people. They definitely don't agree with these people at all. But no, it's frighteningly accurate. [00:51:18] Speaker A: Right? [00:51:18] Speaker B: Especially Kelvin's muscle boys, the power team, his men. [00:51:27] Speaker A: Like, I had to explain to Mallory, there were people in Oklahoma that they went around to churches and did that. [00:51:33] Speaker B: They came to my high school and ripped up phone. [00:51:37] Speaker A: Exactly. And like. And they did the thing where they take those big industrial water bottles and blow them up or like, whoopee cushions, basically. [00:51:46] Speaker B: Yeah. Like the hot water bottles. [00:51:48] Speaker A: Yeah. And they blow them up like they're fucking balloons. [00:51:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:50] Speaker A: And they spent the whole, Jesus, let me do that. [00:51:52] Speaker B: They spent the whole time being like, and if I mess up, if all this air goes into my lungs, it'll explode them. So I got the power of Christ on my side. They would, like, rip up decks of playing cards. [00:52:08] Speaker A: That'd be a good spawn villain. The power team. He has to fight them. [00:52:13] Speaker B: It's a bunch of angels that got stuck on earth when the dead zones closed. [00:52:19] Speaker A: So they just decided to become the power team and go around to youth groups and rip up fucking phone books and, I don't know, take shits on stage. Whatever the hell they did. [00:52:29] Speaker B: We need to put that in the note of ideas to send to Thomas Healy. Johnny, we got to pitch it. [00:52:39] Speaker A: I'm saving all those. I'm saving them. I'm hoarding them so I can just do one big pitch. [00:52:45] Speaker B: But, yeah, for all you guys out there who have access to HBO to watch the spawn animated series, do yourself a favor and watch the righteous gemstones. [00:52:55] Speaker A: It's really good. If you're from the south and know a little bit more about evangelicalism, it'll hit home a little hard, but that's okay. [00:53:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Or if you just like, either Danny McBride. Or, I mean, do it. Just do it. [00:53:12] Speaker A: Do it. Or if you like Patterson, who plays. [00:53:15] Speaker B: Judy Gemstone, or what's his face that plays baby Billy. [00:53:20] Speaker A: Oh, I love him. His name? [00:53:23] Speaker B: Walter Goggins. [00:53:25] Speaker A: Walter Goggins. [00:53:28] Speaker B: He's so good. He's such a piece of shit. [00:53:32] Speaker A: I love him in the hateful eight. [00:53:34] Speaker B: Oh, man. I haven't seen the hateful eight yet. Because it's, like, 3 hours long, and I just don't. [00:53:41] Speaker A: It's pretty hateful. [00:53:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:45] Speaker A: This day and age. I don't know. It came out in 2015. I don't know. [00:53:51] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:53:52] Speaker A: It'd be interesting to revisit. [00:53:54] Speaker B: So this dude is driving, talking to somebody, saying, tell daddy I won't be there for dinner. Or, I'll be there for dinner. Oh, no, he won't be there for dinner. And there is a vap on a red eye. And, yes, she is of the female persuasion. [00:54:11] Speaker A: What's up with that? [00:54:12] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:54:16] Speaker A: I think it's because they need the brain, or they're going to make her have kids or something. [00:54:20] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know. It's important. That's all I know. It's important that it's mentioned. [00:54:26] Speaker A: I think they probably need a woman for some reason. Probably. [00:54:30] Speaker B: Maybe. Or maybe there's, like, a list of candidates, and there's only, like, one. [00:54:34] Speaker A: Yes. That's what I was thinking. Or they knew that it would be cyan if it was a woman coming. Like, they knew who it was. And that's what he's saying. Ease the mind games until we open her skull. [00:54:49] Speaker B: What a thing to I do. This is my favorite bit of writing in the entire issue. The canisters at his side contain multiple cerebellum or cerebrum. Multiple cerebrum. That's great. It's great, Johnny. [00:55:06] Speaker A: Yeah, he just got some canisters of brains running away from the cops like you do. [00:55:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:55:14] Speaker A: And Spawn ain't having any of it. He's been tracking him. [00:55:18] Speaker B: Yeah, I've been tracking him. He's not spider Manning. He's, like, floating on his chains up there. He's like doc ocking up there on the rooftop. [00:55:30] Speaker A: Yeah, he's, like, walking with his chains. That's cool. And he slams. And then basically, he's got a judge brain, a CEO, and a da. Damn. Yeah, some good brains. [00:55:43] Speaker B: Yeah, those are good brains. [00:55:45] Speaker A: I just read this book where it was, like, this noir book, and they had some made up phrases they used, and one of them was, they would say, like, you got some protein in your brain pan whenever they're saying someone's smart. So he got some protein in his brain pans, literally. And then spawn stops him. [00:56:08] Speaker B: Yeah, he just, like, jumps onto the car. [00:56:13] Speaker A: Just crushes that car. [00:56:17] Speaker B: Yeah, I like it. Cuts back and forth between the car and Al, running and running rooftops. And then the conversation ends with, she said, drive safe, as spawn jumps onto the car. And I also do, like, how the shots of the driver in the car are very, like, anime action sequence. [00:56:41] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, totally. With all the stuff going by, it's very high octane. It's a great opening. And the guy runs away, and he drops a picture of someone that we don't see. But Swan's like, oh, shit. [00:56:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:53] Speaker A: Freezes him in his tracks. [00:56:55] Speaker B: But it's the reason that the man gets away. [00:56:57] Speaker A: Terry visiting our boys, Sam and twitch. Looking good. [00:57:00] Speaker B: Yeah, looking good. Twitch being, you know, very matter of fact. Sam just being like, because they're pieces of shit. [00:57:14] Speaker A: Thanks for the. [00:57:15] Speaker B: Yeah, welcome. Oh, man, I love the banter between the two. It's so good. Terry's just talking about the stuff. The dude and Sam's like, they were trying to take my. [00:57:31] Speaker A: Ask them if they. Asked them if they believe. And Terry's curious about that, and he's just wondering what they mean by that. [00:57:37] Speaker B: Belief had nothing to do with leaving a man looking like this. [00:57:41] Speaker A: Maybe that's what they're researching. Dissecting people's brains to figure out how to influence them. [00:57:46] Speaker B: Yeah, I like this where Terry's like, you know, I can get you spawn. Sam's like, you make his appointments. [00:57:57] Speaker A: All of my people call his people. [00:58:01] Speaker B: Sam's a jerk in this issue. [00:58:04] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. He's pissed they tried to steal his brain. He's pissed off. [00:58:09] Speaker B: Oh, man. I do like how he's smoking a cigar, but it's like he's trying to hide it from twitch and Terry because he's, like, holding his hand behind him. Then we get this splash page of spawn standing with. He's standing over, is that Jason Wyn and Godsend and some demons. And there's just skulls raining that he took that misfit song literally. Johnny, he's got these skulls. [00:58:48] Speaker A: He wants them skulls. And he has those skulls. [00:58:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:58:52] Speaker A: And this exodus is a herald of incoming invasion is what. [00:58:59] Speaker B: I love. [00:58:59] Speaker A: I love the. Terry's just like, oh, yeah, whatever. He just looks out for his own best interest. Sometimes it lines up with good. They're like, cut it out. Cut it. [00:59:10] Speaker B: What? You guys okay? [00:59:12] Speaker A: I love the Sam just like, I. [00:59:14] Speaker B: Love the action on the hand because there's very little of that movement, and it's just like a smile. So good. [00:59:29] Speaker A: Terry, I get that a lot at work as a manager now. I walk up somewhere, and everyone gets silent, and I'm just like, okay. [00:59:38] Speaker B: Now. [00:59:38] Speaker A: That I'm a boss. A boss, baby. I get that a lot. [00:59:42] Speaker B: I mean, you've been on the other side of it enough. It's time for you to take your medicine. [00:59:46] Speaker A: No, I don't care. It doesn't bother me. I just think it's funny. I'm like, yes. You guys are obviously complaining about something. [00:59:52] Speaker B: That's cool. I've been there. [00:59:55] Speaker A: I've been there. I know. [00:59:57] Speaker B: Yeah, real fun. [01:00:00] Speaker A: We got manager Swan behind you. He's just saying, whistle while you work. [01:00:05] Speaker B: Yeah. The picture, the one that let Bateman Merrill get away. It's Terry's now. It's like it's a fucking curse. Here, have this picture Terry. And then Terry gets real. [01:00:22] Speaker A: So is it Cyan? [01:00:23] Speaker B: Yeah, it's Cyan. It's Terry's daughter. [01:00:26] Speaker A: We haven't seen her in a then. [01:00:28] Speaker B: And then Alice. [01:00:28] Speaker A: Just like, she hasn't been mentioned since, like, King Swan one or two. [01:00:31] Speaker B: Yeah. And then Alice mentioned a few times, Alice doing the thing that he does in the scorched, where he comes up, does a thing, and then just leaves. But he just, like, throws a dossier behind him as he's going. Like, he doesn't even keep it all in one packet. He's just, like, throwing the loose leaf. [01:00:47] Speaker A: Hey, here's some homework for. [01:00:52] Speaker B: Terry's. Terry's on the phone like a good dad. Like, that was. Motherfuckers. [01:00:58] Speaker A: He's going to burn the city down if they've touched a hair on her head. [01:01:01] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we go to one of those Javi style splash pages of great. [01:01:08] Speaker A: Shot of the city. [01:01:09] Speaker B: This is spawn spider manning up on the rooftops. [01:01:15] Speaker A: Yeah, this is cool. [01:01:16] Speaker B: Gazing out at the know, holding himself with his chains. [01:01:19] Speaker A: Holding him down. [01:01:20] Speaker B: Yeah. He's saying, he will also burn this city down if they've hurt Cyan. And then we get a close up on a restaurant called Momo's scary that's owned by one of Barrett Merrill's. Barrett Merrill's father owns it. It's one of many. [01:01:42] Speaker A: Remember Momo? [01:01:43] Speaker B: Momo should come kill you. Momo. The only momo I'm thinking of right now is Momo, the talking Momo, the mouse with human strength, from. Hello. From the magic tavern. [01:01:59] Speaker A: No. So Momo was like this kind of like, tide pod challenge thing where they said that if you went to your computer, Momo would come kill you or something. [01:02:09] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, no. [01:02:10] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [01:02:11] Speaker B: I don't know that one. [01:02:12] Speaker A: And it's just like a freaky ring looking thing. [01:02:14] Speaker B: Okay. [01:02:15] Speaker A: I don't know. There was the Momo challenge. They thought kids were going to kill themselves because of Momo. [01:02:21] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Is that what that movie we're all going to, the carnival, is based off of? Possibly just some Internet creepy pasta? [01:02:33] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, Momo's definitely Internet creepypasta is what it is. [01:02:36] Speaker B: It's also amounts with human strength. Yeah, this dude just comes in looking smug as a bug and shit bastard. [01:02:49] Speaker A: But there's Bateman, Maravelle. You got to imagine that name. Bateman, Maravell. A little reference to american psycho. Right? Yeah, Patrick Bateman. [01:02:58] Speaker B: Yeah, it definitely has to. But, like, across the street, there's a group of assassins watching to make sure he doesn't do anything dumb. Then spawn takes them out handily. He just, like, jumps through the window, punches that dude in his face, and his face collapses. Holy shit. [01:03:14] Speaker A: Like, he shoots a chain through another guy's knee and a chain through another guy's head. [01:03:18] Speaker B: He punches that dude's jaw. [01:03:20] Speaker A: Yeah, the jaw's, like, flying. [01:03:22] Speaker B: Oh, man. Oh, it's been a while since we've gotten some good. Fernandez. Gooey, gooey, gooey, gooey, gooey. It's on Terry now. [01:03:34] Speaker A: He's going to Momo's. [01:03:35] Speaker B: Going to Momos. He's got Sam on the earpiece. Don't make a scene. You got a daughter, Sam? No, just listen. [01:03:46] Speaker A: Look, he's got the headpiece. It's like a reference to the old action figure. So you have the communicator. [01:03:50] Speaker B: Yeah. So Terry goes in, and he's got the Terminator. Two bouquet of flowers going into a gun, right? [01:04:00] Speaker A: Exactly. [01:04:03] Speaker B: And Terry goes silent. He goes radio silent while he's sneaking up on Barrett. Is it Bartlett or Barrett? I've been saying Barrett, Bateman. Bateman. Jesus Christ. Bateman. Bateman. [01:04:19] Speaker A: Maravel. [01:04:19] Speaker B: Bateman. He sneaks up on Bateman with the gun and says, where's my daughter? And she says, dad. [01:04:26] Speaker A: And Terry says, he looks so smug. [01:04:30] Speaker B: Yeah, fuck that guy. [01:04:32] Speaker A: Yeah, fuck that guy. [01:04:33] Speaker B: Fuck that guy. To be confused. [01:04:35] Speaker A: Your daughter's right here. [01:04:36] Speaker B: Oh, man. And that's the end of the fucking. Where's the rest of the issue? Jeff? [01:04:43] Speaker A: Hello? [01:04:44] Speaker B: I'm looking around again. [01:04:48] Speaker A: It's packed. It's awesome. It moves. That's the problem. It moves too much. So, spawning ground this issue. We've got tattoos. Whoa. [01:04:57] Speaker B: Look at all of them. [01:04:59] Speaker A: Really good. Ralph Cavalier is especially great. [01:05:03] Speaker B: Yeah, that's just like a text and everything. Yeah. So good. [01:05:07] Speaker A: How can we respond? Fighting venom. That's funny. [01:05:09] Speaker B: Yeah. That first one, the Patrick Malone one, you can tell how fresh it is because you can see on the whiter bits that there's some blood spotting. Do you have any, Johnny? [01:05:26] Speaker A: Nope. Nope. [01:05:27] Speaker B: You don't have any tattoos? Oh, yeah, we just. [01:05:29] Speaker A: Not one. [01:05:30] Speaker B: You said you were thinking about maybe getting a spawn tattoo. [01:05:33] Speaker A: I guess maybe. [01:05:34] Speaker B: I have tattoos, and at one point, my job was funded by a VA grant. And in order to get money in your bank account from a VA grant, you have to be cleared through the VA. And part of that is you have to give them all identifiable body features. So the Department of Veterans affairs knows about my tattoos, where they are, what they are, and who I am. So if they find my leg lying in a ditch somewhere, they'll know it's mine. [01:06:14] Speaker A: Well, that's good to know. [01:06:15] Speaker B: Yeah, it's very exciting. [01:06:15] Speaker A: No, I'm untatted. I'm untouched. [01:06:19] Speaker B: Virgin cover. You should get a virgin cover on there. [01:06:24] Speaker A: Just get someone to draw on me, baby. [01:06:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Especially if you're doing something comics related. You got plenty of guys to choose from. You could have them sketch on you, and then you go immediately to the tattoo shop and have them tattoo it on. [01:06:39] Speaker A: Yeah, I talked about it before in the podcast. I had an idea of a procon signathis dressed as a ship's captain. And that was my original kind of idea for a tattoo. And then the other one would be something spawn related, but I don't know what it would be. I wouldn't want just the spawn logo. [01:06:59] Speaker B: Well, you could smash the king spawn logo. You could smash them together and get a spawn. Procost Ignatius dressed as a ship's captain. [01:07:11] Speaker A: Procom signathis. You can call them compies compy. [01:07:17] Speaker B: You can get a Bret booth style dinosaur spawn just as a ship's captain. [01:07:23] Speaker A: Dinosaur spawn dressed as a ship's captain. That's good. [01:07:26] Speaker B: I'm still waiting for that dinosaur spawn action figure. [01:07:29] Speaker A: I know. He's got to come. [01:07:30] Speaker B: He's got to come. [01:07:32] Speaker A: Oh, that'd be awesome. [01:07:33] Speaker B: Be so good. Congratulations to all these people with the spawn tattoos. They're fucking awesome. Yeah. [01:07:43] Speaker A: Good on you. [01:07:44] Speaker B: Yeah. I like how in the background of Craig Morenos, you can see all of the spawn action figures he has. That's really cool. [01:07:50] Speaker A: Well, that's king spawn number 20. [01:07:52] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. Johnny, I think we got to rate. [01:07:55] Speaker A: These puppies, it's time to rate these puppies. [01:08:01] Speaker B: Too many puppies. [01:08:03] Speaker A: So first puppy we got Spawn 302, a classic spawn mission. You get spawn out of costume, you get interior art by the Todd father, the little Jessica story. Lots of tribute to tomo, lots of. [01:08:24] Speaker B: Classic tod father shenanigans going on. Yeah, nice little homage to the first issue of Superman. Technically, I guess it was action comics, whatever number it was. [01:08:37] Speaker A: I'm going to give this issue five $200 tips. [01:08:41] Speaker B: Nice. So that's $1,000 tip. [01:08:45] Speaker A: $1,000 tip to this issue. [01:08:47] Speaker B: Nice. [01:08:48] Speaker A: It's really good. It was grim. The art is amazing. It's fun to see the story after the big 300 events. Kind of get back into a rhythm. I really like the Jessica stuff. So I'm going to give this five $200 tips. [01:09:02] Speaker B: Nice. Well, man, I wish I could get five $200 tips. That would be a great night at work. It would be a great night at work. [01:09:09] Speaker A: That would be. [01:09:11] Speaker B: Well, I agree with everything you said. It's getting back into Spawn as after the events of 301, they really get into the idea of reestablishing Spawn as a superhero, because that's what he is. He's a superhero. And sometimes you forget that because of all the intergalactic. Not intergalactic, interfaith plane, interlevel, whatever we would call that. It becomes more. He's getting back to the street level. The street level action. So he's going back to. [01:10:01] Speaker A: Right. [01:10:01] Speaker B: He's batmaning in Gotham again. After spending some time on the watchtower with the Justice League, if that makes any sense. [01:10:10] Speaker A: Getting back to the roots. [01:10:11] Speaker B: Yeah. And, yeah, it's real also, I am going to give it. What do I want to. Oh, it's very good. You took the good one. You took the good one, Johnny. You took the good one. How dare you? How dare you? I'm also going to give it five. But I'm going to give it five. Oh, I'm going to give it five. Shadow blasting blasters. [01:10:46] Speaker A: Shadow blasting blasters. [01:10:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Shadow blasting blasters. Shadow blasters. Five of them. All of them. So good. There's five blams on that page. So I'm going to get five blams from shadow blasted blasters. [01:11:03] Speaker A: I've been getting excited for this early spawn, and that's what we're going to be mainly covering here for a little bit, kind of. So that's pretty exciting. [01:11:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. So good. Got double. Go double. [01:11:16] Speaker A: How about king spawn number 20? What would you give another entry into the salmon twitch world. [01:11:23] Speaker B: Oh, man. At the risk of becoming one of those, to just automatically giving salmon twitch five for the rating. I mean, I got to give this issue five. Literally, the only thing I can ding it on is the fact that I get to the end of it every time and I'm like, I want more. But that's just part of it. That's just part of it. So I'm going to give it five. Sam, given the. Cut it out. Cut it out. [01:11:57] Speaker A: I like this issue. I think it's, like, pretty much all you want in the comic book. It's got a big reveal at the end. It's got character stuff. It's got a little bit of action at the beginning. You got some cool cosmic spreads. It is a little short, so I'm going to give it four and a half. I'm going to give it four and a half canisters of cerebrum. [01:12:22] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. [01:12:25] Speaker A: Just a little bit knocked off because it's a little short. And it did leave me wanting more. A little more than you want, where I was like. But then again, I could also go immediately read the next issue. What's there really to complain? [01:12:39] Speaker B: That's. That's literally the only fault I could find with it, too, is that it ends too soon. But, man, all around, just good. You get think. I think that if it were anyone other than Javi Fernandez drawing it, that the shortness would have affected me way more than it did, because as it is, it's just like cliffhangery versus if it would have been somebody else, I'd have felt cheated a little bit. [01:13:06] Speaker A: And it's fun to get to see him do more. Like not, I guess I could say domestic, but quote unquote realistic stuff like seeing him in the office with Sam and Twitch street level, because a lot of the stuff he's been doing has been cosmic. Nice to see him kind of bring it down. And he does such a good job with motion and characters, and it's really cool to see. [01:13:25] Speaker B: Yeah, it's fun to see them getting back to the gritty, dark nastiness, the evil that lurks in men's minds versus just armies attacking each other. [01:13:39] Speaker A: Yeah, no, it's cool. [01:13:41] Speaker B: Oh, very nice. [01:13:42] Speaker A: That's great. Yeah. Well, David, it is. You know, that's time for, as we know from your asparagus pea. [01:13:51] Speaker B: Yes, yes. Well, I don't know from my asparagus pea, but other people do. [01:13:54] Speaker A: Well, I would know. [01:13:57] Speaker B: I have yet to get up the nerve to ask other people in the bathroom if they can smell my asparagus pea. [01:14:02] Speaker A: Oh, God. [01:14:03] Speaker B: Okay, so that way I could know if I produce it because the mutations are independent of each other. [01:14:11] Speaker A: Well, if you're still listening after that, it's springtime, so that's time for baseball. And toddfather likes baseball. [01:14:22] Speaker B: She does. [01:14:23] Speaker A: And we like baseball. [01:14:24] Speaker B: And the todfather. [01:14:26] Speaker A: And the todfather. So guess what? It's time for another installment of spontacy. Baseball. It's right, Swannessy baseball, where we draft baseball teams from the different realms of Spawn's universe. We've drafted earth. We've drafted the green world. Today, we're drafting heaven. [01:15:16] Speaker B: So nice. [01:15:17] Speaker A: Heaven you'd think was so nice. But we just found out in 302, it's not. Yeah, there's evil child killers slugs that live there. [01:15:25] Speaker B: Yeah. And as we learned from. What issue of the scorched was it when medieval goes up to heaven and he sees through the projection and they're just like, gan he just as bad as hell. [01:15:47] Speaker A: They're just a little different. [01:15:50] Speaker B: Okay, so, as we always do, I will do the coin flip on the google. You just got to tell me what you're going to choose, Johnny. [01:16:01] Speaker A: I'm going to choose tails. [01:16:04] Speaker B: Tails. All right. It is heads. [01:16:10] Speaker A: It's heads. [01:16:11] Speaker B: It's heads. So that means I go first. Again, that just feels unfair. I feel like I need you to go first for once because I've picked both the pictures so far. I think you need to get a chance to. I'm calling it audible. You get to go first this time. God damn it. [01:16:28] Speaker A: Yay. Okay, cool. All right. So I get to go first? [01:16:32] Speaker B: Yeah, you get to go. [01:16:33] Speaker A: That means I'm doing. [01:16:34] Speaker B: Fuck that coin. That coin doesn't know what it's talking about. [01:16:36] Speaker A: So, pitcher, what would you say? What are your qualities you want in a good pitcher, David? [01:16:42] Speaker B: Well, you want somebody calculating, knowing somebody who's got a good ability to remember people. They can read people. They're a little tricksy sometimes, too, because oftentimes they rely more on being tricksters than actually skilled, which is one of the marks of a good pitcher that they can perform outside of their speed and actual performance. [01:17:18] Speaker A: Well, since I've got the big position and I got the big first up, I'm going to go for it. [01:17:23] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:17:23] Speaker A: Do it for pitcher. I'm going to draft Angela. [01:17:28] Speaker B: Hey. That's who I actually had had on mine. [01:17:32] Speaker A: Really? [01:17:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Nice. [01:17:34] Speaker A: Well, it's. She. She tracks people. She hunts. She knows. She knows how people work. I think that makes her a good pitcher. And when you think of heaven still. She's such an iconic character when you think of heaven and spawn. [01:17:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:17:52] Speaker A: You think of Angela. [01:17:53] Speaker B: She's incisive. Yeah. That's a great pick. It's a great pick. I like that we both picked. [01:18:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:18:01] Speaker B: Okay, so I get to do my first catcher. This time, I am going to choose Titus as my Titus. Titus, that is the juggernaut angel from Gunslinger. [01:18:15] Speaker A: Oh, nice. Okay, cool. I had him as, like, giant angel. [01:18:20] Speaker B: He is the only angel that's named in those couple of issues. But his name is Titus because he's a fucking juggernaut, bitch. He's big. That's what you want. He's huge. It's the reason we had heap there, too. Yeah. I'm going to put juggernaut angel in parentheses, so that way I don't forget who Titus is. [01:18:46] Speaker A: Got to do it. All right, so I am drafting first baseman. Number one. Skill is the ability to catch the Ball, probably. [01:19:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:19:03] Speaker A: You want to be tall, decent fielder, you have to be super fast. But catching the ball and just being a support there right off the bat, and for someone that was good at catching the ball, quite literally when it was tossed to him, I'm going to put up Tiffany. [01:19:19] Speaker B: Tiffany. [01:19:22] Speaker A: She'S not quite Angela, but she catches that ball that Angela throws out there whenever she gets kicked out of Spawn's universe. So I'm going to go with the angel. Tiffany. [01:19:39] Speaker B: Nice. Johnny, I just realized that I didn't initially draft anybody for second base. Oh, no. But that's okay, because for second base, we've talked. You need a good ability to be able to throw. You need to be pretty fast. You got to be able to get, you get to cover that middle ground between sort of the center and right field, and then also shortstop and first base. So you got to be kind of mobile there. And we happen to know somebody who is very good at making sure nobody gets through unless they absolutely need to. And that's Gabrielle. So I'm going to have Gabrielle as our second baseman. [01:20:28] Speaker A: Nice. And who's Gabrielle in the spawns universe? [01:20:33] Speaker B: Gabrielle. Is she in? Issue number nine is the one who won't let Angela onto earth until she sees the hunting. [01:20:47] Speaker A: Right. Right. [01:20:49] Speaker B: Yeah. Gabrielle. Did I spell that right? How am I supposed. I'm a terrible speller, Jonah. You know. [01:20:59] Speaker A: Hey, it's okay. You're a good spawn, man. [01:21:03] Speaker B: I just. It's. It's easy when you're working with Johnny Fisher. [01:21:09] Speaker A: I guess. [01:21:10] Speaker B: I mean, the spawn is good. The co host is good. I just have to exist mostly. [01:21:17] Speaker A: There you go. [01:21:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:21:20] Speaker A: So for third base, my next pit, you want someone that has a strong, accurate arm. They can chuck it across the diamond, given their close proximity to home plate, and you can get someone that can catch ground balls. Just be versatile. Ground balls, fly balls all over the place. So I'm going to pick for that redeemer. [01:21:46] Speaker B: Redeemer, ooh, nice. [01:21:48] Speaker A: Because redeemer, he can get those pop flies by, like, flying up and grabbing them. He can get grounded. He can go all up and down. He's got a strong arm, and he's just, like, decisive. I feel like Redeemer, he has those beams. So we just beam that ball straight back to home base to get that guy. [01:22:06] Speaker B: So that means I got a shortstop. Johnny, Johnny, Johnny. Shortstop is an invaluable position. You don't got a good shortstop, you're going to lose a lot of stuff, and so you got to really love who you put there. And I got to tell you, I love who I put at shortstop. You know him. You love him. It's bootsy. [01:22:36] Speaker A: It's bootsy. I figured that's what you'd be doing. You gotta do bootsy. [01:22:41] Speaker B: You gotta do bootsy. [01:22:43] Speaker A: He's selfless. He'll do anything for the team. [01:22:45] Speaker B: Yeah. He has nothing in this world except for his boots. So he's not going to think twice before trying to dive to get a ball. He's going to put it all out on the line there. He puts it all out on the line for Spawn when he knows he shouldn't. He's going to do the same for his team. [01:23:04] Speaker A: So I've got to. Next up for me is left fielder. Left fielder got to get fly balls. There's a lot of distance to cover. You want to be able to beat the ball in order to catch it. So I don't know if this is a cop out or not, but I'm going to do it, okay. I'm going to do purple suit anti spawn. [01:23:26] Speaker B: Purple suit anti spawn. Oh, but hold on a second. Hold on a second. [01:23:31] Speaker A: I know it's technically Redeemer, but I'm doing Jason Wyn purple suit anti spawn. [01:23:37] Speaker B: Just making sure that we didn't have Jason Wynn on another team, okay? Yeah, we didn't, and we don't on the earth team. No, he's not. [01:23:51] Speaker A: Sweet. Jason Wynn. [01:23:53] Speaker B: Jason Wyn anti spawn and the purple suit. Hell, yeah. That's good. I consider they're technically two different people. He was the first redeemer, but, like Spawn, there are multiple spawns. Not all of them are Al Simmons. Hell, yeah. I just love the idea of anti spawn. So good. That's a good one. That's a good one, Johnny. Excellent. Excellent choice. So, I mean, center fields are then is who I got, who I get. And center field has to be able to go. They got a lot of space. They got to cover. They got to be able to run. They got to be able to get those fly balls. And I know someone who, let's just say, knows how to beat the shit out of somebody with a rock. Not beat somebody up with a rock, but beat up somebody who has a rock and rocks looking awful lot like baseballs. That is a very sweaty take. Whatever. I'm choosing dark Redeemer Abel. That's my center fielder pick. I like it. [01:25:16] Speaker A: He was the first one, and he went rogue. But he is of heaven. [01:25:21] Speaker B: We got three separate redeemers on this team, Johnny. [01:25:25] Speaker A: Yeah. I thought this would be easier than Greenworld. It actually wasn't, because a lot of the heaven stuff is in that part I haven't read. [01:25:32] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a lot of angel stuff. Like, there's the angel stuff in Angela. Because I haven't read the Angela series. And there's a lot of stuff in the middle there. Because after he kills Malbolsha, he goes up to heaven and becomes angel spawn. [01:25:48] Speaker A: Right. A lot of that is. [01:25:50] Speaker B: We just haven't gotten there yet, man. [01:25:54] Speaker A: Okay, man. [01:25:55] Speaker B: That means you got right field, dude. [01:25:57] Speaker A: Right field. You're far away. You're kind of, like, far away from the base. Kind of like, off on your own. [01:26:04] Speaker B: Would you say out where the dandelions grow? [01:26:08] Speaker A: Yeah. Is that what they say about right field? [01:26:10] Speaker B: Well, that's the old song. It's like, that's why I play right field. Out where the dandelions grow. It was on an advertisement on the vhs before the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Kids playing a peewee game. And then the kid that's out in right field is just, like, kicking the dirt, and he looks up, and then, like, a ball falls in his glove, and then the team wins, and then they go to pizza hut for celebration. [01:26:39] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [01:26:40] Speaker B: I got to remember that, actually. [01:26:43] Speaker A: No. So I'm going to pick someone that is good on their own. Sandolphin. He's the angel that was trapped in the void. No, Johnny, did I take your designated hitter? [01:26:58] Speaker B: Yeah, because he's insane, so you don't really have to worry about him. [01:27:04] Speaker A: But he's crazy. Maybe he's got the right moves. I don't know. He's good at isolation. He's good at working on his. [01:27:15] Speaker B: A. That's a great pool. I'm so glad that Al Simmons and haunts just beat the shit out of him because meeting him, the crazy angel in the middle. Yeah. Got stuck nowhere, basically in a boom tube from heaven, and had to murder the rest of his angel buddies to survive. Oh, man. Who do I have? Okay, well, then, yeah, that just leaves me the only other person I have besides God. And honestly, that's a little bit of a cop out. [01:27:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:27:59] Speaker B: So I'm going to have then the craziest motherfucker in all of heaven as our designated hitter. I'm going to put Godsend right there. [01:28:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:28:11] Speaker B: And they're going to just fucking cackle and howl and be a nuisance and just hit the ball. Hit the ball. [01:28:24] Speaker A: Hit the ball. One of the four horsemen of the ball hitting. [01:28:28] Speaker B: Yeah. All right, so I guess that leaves us with our team Johnny for heaven. We've got Angela in pitching, Titus the juggernaut, angel as the catcher. First base, Tiffany. Second base, Gabrielle. Third base, Redeemer. That's a blue suit redeemer. [01:28:47] Speaker A: Correct. [01:28:48] Speaker B: Shortstop, we got bootsy. Man, I fucking love bootsy. Left field, we got purple suit, anti spawn, good old Jason Nguyen. Center field, we've got Abel, the dark Redeemer. The third redeemer on the team. Got three angels. Three redeemers. What do you know? No, I guess we got four angels because in right field, we got Sandolphin, the crazy lost angel. And then Godsend is our designated hitter. Excellent. [01:29:17] Speaker A: Boom. Heaven in the bag. In the. [01:29:20] Speaker B: Sorted. Sorted. So that's three out of our four teams that we got down. Then we can start making them do games against each other. [01:29:28] Speaker A: Nice. [01:29:29] Speaker B: And I was having a thought. I was having a thought. So you know how baseball teams all have bat boys who run up and get the bat after the runner runs? Yes, the runner runs. And some teams have bat dogs that do the exact same job. I was wondering if we should have a designated bat dog to retrieve the bats after all the players hit. [01:29:59] Speaker A: Sure. [01:30:00] Speaker B: And there's really only one fucking option of bat dog for spontasy baseball. Spontasity baseball. I don't know what word I just said there, but spontasity baseball. I'm going to give you a chance to guess who it is because you're probably going to be right. [01:30:19] Speaker A: Is it Spaz? [01:30:20] Speaker B: It's Spaz. [01:30:22] Speaker A: It's Spaz, the little dog. Yeah, well, the movie is called Spaz. I don't know if he has a name. [01:30:28] Speaker B: He doesn't have a name in the comic. He was my husband's dog. [01:30:32] Speaker A: Yeah, but he's Spaz. We'll call him Spaz. [01:30:34] Speaker B: Yeah, Spaz. [01:30:36] Speaker A: I'm not using that in the offensive way. That's just the name of the dog. [01:30:39] Speaker B: That's the name of the dog. I've been sitting on that for a couple of weeks. Because a couple of records ago, you actually said spaz. [01:30:51] Speaker A: I said what? [01:30:52] Speaker B: You said Spaz a couple episodes ago. About referring to the movie. Yeah, very. [01:31:01] Speaker A: Our. He's our. [01:31:04] Speaker B: He's gonna keep that plate clean. It's gonna be real good. And that was spawn. To see baseball. Johnny hella good time. [01:31:14] Speaker A: Well, speaking of the spawn movie. [01:31:16] Speaker B: Yes? [01:31:17] Speaker A: There's an Instagram count, like we normally do, where we highlight an Instagram count at the end of the episode. There's one I really wanted to highlight that I've been thinking about for a while, just because I found them, and I thought it was, like, the best idea for an account ever. What is the actual. [01:31:33] Speaker B: The actual handle name of this Instagram account is at? Make the spawn movie figure. [01:31:42] Speaker A: I'm just. Go ahead and read the bio. [01:31:44] Speaker B: All right. [01:31:44] Speaker A: Paged with the one and only goal. To convince Tod McFarland to make a spawn wave action figure from the 1997 movie. Hell, yeah. [01:31:52] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:31:53] Speaker A: All he does is tweet for the movie and be like, why don't we make this action figure? Let's make it action figure. [01:31:58] Speaker B: Yeah, go. [01:31:58] Speaker A: Let's get an action figure. [01:31:59] Speaker B: It's great. It's so focused and so purposeful, and I fucking love it. I'm down for it. If they can get a Spawn movie figures made, we're buying four of them. We're going to give them away. [01:32:15] Speaker A: I'd be so. [01:32:16] Speaker B: It's going to be so cool. It's a fun time. [01:32:19] Speaker A: Super cool. [01:32:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:32:21] Speaker A: No, I just love that account. I love that it's singular focused. If I was like, all the movie stars from the movie, like John Legozamo and Michael Jai White and stuff like that, it's just like, if it's a bit. It's a good bit, but I hope. [01:32:33] Speaker B: It'S not a, you know, might as well help try to get them as much more notoriety as possible. Yeah. [01:32:43] Speaker A: Give them a follow. They really don't have any follows. If you're hearing this, you may not follow them. [01:32:47] Speaker B: Yeah, it's good. [01:32:50] Speaker A: Let's make spawn the movie figure. Yes, make the spawn movie figure. [01:32:55] Speaker B: Yeah, make the spawn movie figure. It will definitely be in the show notes. [01:33:01] Speaker A: Oh, it will be. [01:33:03] Speaker B: Yeah, definitely. [01:33:04] Speaker A: While you're over on instagram, make sure to give some love to at T Brian Voiler, who does all of our amazing music for the show and makes us sound good, makes us sound professional with our cool tunes. [01:33:17] Speaker B: Yes, it does. He doesn't like Spawn or Star wars, so by all accounts we should probably not like him. But he is the fucking best. [01:33:27] Speaker A: He likes evil Dead a lot. [01:33:29] Speaker B: Yeah, that redeems him. [01:33:32] Speaker A: I got to talk to him about rise. I'm probably going to see him tomorrow, so I'll ask him what's up? [01:33:36] Speaker B: Oh, nice. So gross. That's been my immediate review. Have you seen this movie? It's disgusting. You should see it. [01:33:45] Speaker A: I've been thinking. It's brutal. Yeah, it's a brutal movie. [01:33:51] Speaker B: Yeah, brutal is a very good descriptor. [01:33:55] Speaker A: There's an interesting article that was actually in Fangoria Teletype, which is their weekly newsletter that it's kind of like a mini episode of issue of Fangoria in your email. It's actually pretty cool. Some good articles in it, but they did an article called Fuck them kids. But I guess there was kind of some backlash to the movie that thought it went too far. And it was just a really interesting article about what is horror? As horror becomes more inclusive, how do we navigate wanting to be shocked? I don't know. It was just a really interesting article. [01:34:33] Speaker B: I'd be interested in reading that article. I don't know if I agree with the central conceit because, well, you have. [01:34:39] Speaker A: To read the article. I'm doing a bad job of explaining it. [01:34:42] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, I'll save my opinions on it until after. [01:34:46] Speaker A: I'll send it to you. [01:34:47] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:34:49] Speaker A: It's not as like these damn kids these days as it sounds. It's just more like people celebrate the Evil Dead franchise where the first two movies are pretty mean and it's like because we're used to them and it's like just because this one, to be mean in a modern world, had to kind of amp it up a bit. But I think it's still in the spirit of evil dead. I don't think it went, like too far with anything. [01:35:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:35:09] Speaker A: But then again, I'm a 35 year old, 36 year old. Oh shit. 37 year old dude. [01:35:14] Speaker B: Oh shit. [01:35:15] Speaker A: Who? Oh God. Took me a second to get there. I'm a 37 year old dude who doesn't have any kids. So I'm sure the family aspect could probably be a lot more disturbing if you had depending on your family relationship, I guess. [01:35:27] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. [01:35:28] Speaker A: Brian likes evil dead. We like Brian. Give him a follow on Instagram. [01:35:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:35:33] Speaker A: While you're there, give us a follow if you aren't already. [01:35:36] Speaker B: Yeah, good old. We are at. [01:35:38] Speaker A: Regarding spawnpod. [01:35:41] Speaker B: That's just it. [01:35:43] Speaker A: At regarding spawnpod on Instagram. [01:35:45] Speaker B: We should probably change the name to at regarding [email protected]. Just so that way we can say it and it won't be wrong. Say one thing right. [01:35:54] Speaker A: No. The Instagram is at. Regarding spawnpod. [01:35:56] Speaker B: But the gmail comma. [01:35:58] Speaker A: The Gmail is regarding [email protected]. [01:36:03] Speaker B: Yes. [01:36:03] Speaker A: And you could please send us your inquiries, your thoughts, your spawn questions, your spawn corrections. [01:36:13] Speaker B: Yes. [01:36:13] Speaker A: Every week I like to ask a question to get the juices flowing. [01:36:19] Speaker B: A prompt, if you will. [01:36:20] Speaker A: I'm going to ask the question, what do you think is the darkest moment of spawn? Because we had this dark issue that was kind of dealing with some dark themes. What is like a moment in spawn that you remember? It's like, oh, man, that's dark. Or maybe it went too far. Just like evil dead rise. But if you can think of something like that, I want to know. [01:36:41] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a good one. That's a good one, Johnny. Hell, yeah. [01:36:45] Speaker A: Good prompt. Give us some more spawn. [01:36:47] Speaker B: Write it. I might write. If I write you a letter under the pseudonym waveid Dilliams, will you read it? [01:36:59] Speaker A: Yes. I mean, absolutely. I said I'd read every email we got. [01:37:05] Speaker B: Oh, man. Oh, man. That's, um. So for next week, Johnny, we're gonna do another episode of this. And for that episode, we're going to be reading a couple more issues of Spawn. You want to know specifically what issues of Spawn we're going to be reading? It'd be helpful, but if I don't tell you and you just happen to read the right ones, you'll feel so good now. So for next week, our classic is going to be Spawn 303. And our contemporary is going to be Spawn 339. So we're going to have a double main title book week. It'll be excellent. [01:37:41] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [01:37:42] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:37:43] Speaker A: I love doing that. Back to the classic days. That's how we started this thing. Double main spawn weeks. [01:37:47] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real good. It's real good. And we're going to close this gap from 300 to. Where did we start? 330 or so? [01:37:58] Speaker A: Something like that. [01:37:59] Speaker B: Something like that. [01:38:00] Speaker A: And then close that gap. [01:38:02] Speaker B: Yeah, we're going to. [01:38:02] Speaker A: And then the future is our oyster. [01:38:04] Speaker B: Yeah, the oyster is delicious. Just don't choke on the pearl. So, yeah, Johnny, I think that just leaves me with nothing else to say. May the scores be with you. [01:38:18] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:38:20] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:38:22] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [01:38:23] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:38:24] Speaker A: Well, David, since we were looking here and I've got $318 copies of Spawn, 302 in front of me, I'm going to do it, man. I'm quitting my fucking job. [01:38:34] Speaker B: Oh, hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. [01:38:36] Speaker A: I'm going off solo. I'm going straight off podcast and selling turning spawn comics. That's my only job. [01:38:41] Speaker B: Nice. [01:38:42] Speaker A: Starting today. [01:38:43] Speaker B: Nice. [01:38:44] Speaker A: I'm sure Wanda will be 100% on board. Will you join me? [01:38:48] Speaker B: Well, seeing us out $320 comics will only get you, like, eight hoagies. I don't know. I think I need more than eight hoagies. [01:38:58] Speaker A: Oh, man.