[00:00:00] Speaker A: Javi.
Javi, wake up. Tell me what's wrong.
[00:00:05] Speaker B: Where these wings, where they come from?
[00:00:07] Speaker A: You hear me?
[00:00:08] Speaker B: I said wake up.
Good evening, and welcome to the Malbols. This is regarding spawn, the world's best spawn podcast.
I am your co host, John Fisher.
[00:00:53] Speaker A: And I am your co host, David Williams. And Johnny, it's about that time again.
Listeners out there, if you have friends who aren't super skinny, maybe check up on them, see how they're doing in the chafing arena.
It's sweaty times already, and it's only may.
[00:01:14] Speaker B: It's getting hot out there.
[00:01:16] Speaker A: My unofficial start of summer is not memorial day, but is, in fact, the first time that year I see an old man open his pants and dump some gold bond down there on the bus, because it happens every year.
Those old men have no shame.
They don't pull their pants down. They just open it up, and then they're just like, dump, dump, dump. Okay, good.
[00:01:42] Speaker B: Oh, my God. I've never seen that.
I've seen involving powder in the CTA. Is the guy snorting cocaine out of a magazine?
[00:01:50] Speaker A: Out of a magazine, yeah, he had.
[00:01:53] Speaker B: The magazine in his lap and was using it, like, the middle fold as, like, a table, and he was just filling it with cocaine. Snorting it, like, three times.
[00:02:01] Speaker A: Holy crap, man.
[00:02:03] Speaker B: Or maybe something else. I'm assuming cocaine. I don't know.
[00:02:07] Speaker A: You ride a bus with people who can afford more expensive drugs than mine.
[00:02:11] Speaker B: Maybe it's just sorting some, like, crushed up pills. Who knows?
[00:02:14] Speaker A: Maybe not. It's always fun to see. Just, like, in the back of the bus, there's always just, like, cigar guts from somebody rolling a blunt on the train or the bus. That's always.
[00:02:26] Speaker B: If you do drugs on the bus, don't be doing any fake drugs. I don't want you dying of fentanyl listeners. So no drugs or tests. Test your drugs.
[00:02:36] Speaker A: That would be the best spot for somebody to do bad drugs for me personally, because I'm always walking around with some narcan, and so I could be like, it's time.
[00:02:45] Speaker B: My time, finally time.
[00:02:49] Speaker A: I am obnoxious about it, because my place of employment, they make it. The advertising of it is kind of hard to find. You have to go to an off site facility of some offices that have been relegated to get it, but they give out free Narcan and testing strips. And so everybody at work, I'm like, you got to go get this free Narcan. And they're like, but I'm not using the drugs. And it's like, it doesn't matter.
Somebody can need it. And you could have, actually.
I guess this is a good soapbox to get on already, Johnny. It used to be, bust it out. Bust out the box so you can get Narcan free, delivered to you free from online groups.
You just have to do, like, you watch some YouTube video trainings, and they'll send it to you. It used to be the city of Chicago was not eligible for those free Narcan distributions from the Internet because community groups took care of it in town. But with the recent knocking it down to an OTC drug, it removes that barrier. So you can now, in the city of Chicago, get the free Narcan delivered to you from out of state instead of having to go find a community.
[00:04:07] Speaker B: Group to get it, the more you know.
[00:04:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Sorry for making it so serious there, Johnny, but this is something very close to my heart. I've had too many friends go out that way.
And anytime that we can prevent that is good, because we don't want our friends to leave us. No, we don't. Especially our friends of the hell variety, Johnny.
[00:04:48] Speaker B: And we got many friends, just like Taylor not wanting gunslinger to die in this issue.
[00:04:54] Speaker A: If Taylor had Narcan, he would totally be trying to find a hole to shove it in and be like.
[00:04:58] Speaker B: I mean, that's kind of the situation there when he comes got. But instead of fentanyl, he's full of heaven.
[00:05:06] Speaker A: He's full of heaven, which is arguably a worse drug.
[00:05:09] Speaker B: Probably a worse drug considering what we know about heaven. Yeah, you don't want to od on heaven.
[00:05:15] Speaker A: Well, you know what? I want to od on Johnny Spawn. I want to od on some spawn. What are we doing here today?
Besides public service announcements?
[00:05:25] Speaker B: We are talking spawn. Welcome to. Regarding Spawn respawn, replying spawn, as always, or as sometimes, except when we don't. We're doing two issues of Spawn from Spawn's universe, from his comic, I don't know.
Milieu. What's that word I'm trying to think of?
[00:05:53] Speaker A: Milieu's not quite right. And as we've discussed before, Uvra isn't right, because we don't know that Spawn himself is writing all these stories.
[00:06:02] Speaker B: We don't know yet, but that could be the ending of them all.
[00:06:05] Speaker A: Yeah. The problem is, we already used the word spawn. Universe and universe.
[00:06:10] Speaker B: Universe. It's just universe. That's the right word. I'm just trying to come up with another word. But that's what it is. It's from Spawn's universe. There's only one. There's one universe. It's been going for over 30 years.
[00:06:22] Speaker A: Over 30 years, Johnny. Almost as long as we've been alive.
[00:06:26] Speaker B: Almost as long as we've been alive. Almost as long as we've been doing this podcast.
[00:06:30] Speaker A: Not really feels like it.
This thing is clipping by much too fast. I remember we sat down and did some quick back of the envelope math, and we're like, this will keep us busy for a decade.
I'm afraid we're going to run out of Spawn before we know it, Johnny.
[00:06:50] Speaker B: I know I'm being surprisingly consistent and good about recording, and it's nice to have that kind of bedrock of a hobby thing to do.
[00:07:06] Speaker A: Who's the hobby? Who's the tailor?
Every podcast has a hobby and a tailor. Which one are you?
[00:07:15] Speaker B: I think I'm probably the hobby.
[00:07:17] Speaker A: Yeah, probably. I'm definitely the clueless one who just wants to distracted by random. Yeah.
[00:07:22] Speaker B: Like yapping and playing app games and shooting dinosaurs. And I'm over here like, grumpy and tired.
[00:07:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Trying to.
Just trying to get back to the past, Johnny. That's all we're trying to do.
[00:07:39] Speaker B: That's what we always do. We start with getting back to the past with a classic issue today, that issue is Kingspawn number eight, all the way back from March 2022. So a little over a year ago.
And then our second issue we'll be covering is a little more modern, Gunslinger 18, which debuted in March 2023. So exactly a year after Kingspawn number eight.
[00:08:06] Speaker A: Yeah, that's the connection for these ones. So not only do we have that eight, one eight going on, but we got, like, exactly one year apart. They're irish.
[00:08:19] Speaker B: One year apart.
[00:08:20] Speaker A: They're irish twins, Johnny. They're irish twins.
[00:08:23] Speaker B: Is that what an irish twin is?
[00:08:25] Speaker A: Yeah, irish twins are twins that are siblings that are a year apart. That's maybe derogatory. I probably shouldn't have said that, you bastard.
But there has been a discourse recently about ginger characters being the characters that get replaced for other diverse characters, especially like in DC comics. Like, any redhead freckled irish character that they have in comics is now a black character. And it's kind of interesting because I didn't think about it at first, but, like, Jimmy Olsen, Wally west.
Shit.
[00:09:06] Speaker B: Oh, and the new Ninja Turtles, April O'Neill, who's a redhead, she is now a black woman. Yeah, I never thought about that.
[00:09:14] Speaker A: Yeah, it's interesting. It's interesting.
[00:09:16] Speaker B: Hey, I've been seeing some good ginger representation playing that Star Wars Jedi survivor. So Cal Kestis is a ginger king.
[00:09:24] Speaker A: Oh, nice.
[00:09:25] Speaker B: There's not a lot of redheads men in Star wars. There's just a couple of the big ones. Dash rendar and shadows of the Empire.
[00:09:35] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:35] Speaker B: And then you get Kestis.
And I think that's about it.
[00:09:41] Speaker A: Yeah, it's very wars. It's weird. What's up, everybody?
[00:09:47] Speaker B: We got a famous redhead and king spawner and Spawn. We got Jessica Priest.
[00:09:51] Speaker A: Yeah, we do. But she didn't have. Did she have red hair? Pre spawning? And she's got black hair. No, wait, she does have red hair.
[00:10:01] Speaker B: Johnny's red hair.
[00:10:02] Speaker A: Johnny, you know what?
We need to refresh my memory with some spawn.
[00:10:07] Speaker B: Let's dive right into it.
[00:10:08] Speaker A: Why don't we get into it?
[00:10:10] Speaker B: So king spawn number eight, as I said, from March 2022, I have cover a right here in front of me.
[00:10:18] Speaker A: Cover a. Is that the Kevin Keane cover?
[00:10:21] Speaker B: Kevin Keane? You got spawn chilling on a fire escape like that fire escape action figure stand I saw on.
[00:10:32] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, it looks like he's using that one scene from west side Story to audition, or he's like, singing at you.
[00:10:42] Speaker B: It's like you're down below and he's.
[00:10:43] Speaker A: Like, tonight, you think Al Simmons got to audition directly in front of Steven Spielberg? Or was it in front of an Underling?
The spiels had something other to do that day, which is why he's.
[00:10:59] Speaker B: Yeah, they auditioned him. They used him as basically a way to lower Ansel Elgort's salary. They're like, look, we got this other guy, Al Simmons, we might get. Take him. He's like, okay, hey, you knock off.
[00:11:12] Speaker A: A couple hundred thousand, he costs a hell of a lot.
[00:11:17] Speaker B: Yeah, he cost them a lot on that movie, that's for sure.
They had to hide him in the marketing and in the promotion. He wasn't even on the promotion tour.
[00:11:30] Speaker A: I mean, controversy aside, good movie. Good movie. I'm not a good movie. Not the greatest fan of west side.
It smacks of that. White people trying to make latin music, and there's definitely, like a drag when you hear latin music written by white to. They try to approach it too clinically, and it's just like, it's one of those things.
[00:11:58] Speaker B: And I guess Romeo and Juliet kind of gives me the same thing, but it's the original, so it doesn't as much, but I hate it. It gives me such anxiety in a story when there's something that if someone just told someone one thing, no one would die or nothing would happen. And it drives me crazy.
[00:12:13] Speaker A: You have just hit on one of my main bullet points for why I hate Shakespeare. And that's they relied so totally on dramatic irony. And it's not just that they use dramatic irony, because skillful employment of dramatic irony is very good.
It's a great technique. There's a reason that it's a classic technique, but just like an overabundance, it's like an oroboros of dramatic irony. And it fucking pisses me off.
[00:12:44] Speaker B: No, it just stresses me out when I'm like. And that's the one thing about west side Story that lasts 30 minutes. It really just stresses me out, and I don't like it. And it's just, like.
[00:12:54] Speaker A: I don't know. Yeah, it's the fact that they die, like, 30 seconds before they could be saved, but it's not in the mist, the fog, whichever, the one that has Thomas Jane in it, where it could be that making that sacrifice is what makes the mist go away.
And so you're wondering about that. That doesn't exist in west side story. It's just, oh, these people were fucks and did stupid.
[00:13:29] Speaker B: The last 30 minutes always just drives me crazy and makes me really stressed out.
I enjoy west side Story, but.
[00:13:42] Speaker A: The only thing that saved it for William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, directed by Baz Luhrmann, is that they had what's his face as the friar. And I fucking love that guy.
[00:13:56] Speaker B: He posted it out too. He tried.
It's also so fast and frenetic. It's not this, like, at that point, west side Story just becomes this inevitable march to doom. I'm just like, but Lee's Roman Juliet keeps it pretty fast and frenetic. So I don't feel that way when.
[00:14:15] Speaker A: I'm watching it, because everything is just like. It feels like an accident.
It's almost guy Ritchie like, where it's just, like, you're going, and the plot is good, and then something just stupid happens, and it ruins everything for all the bad people.
We were going to talk about Spawn, weren't we, Johnny?
[00:14:34] Speaker B: I think so. I think that's why we're here. No, but we are. He's west side Story, and he's singing to you on this lovely cover. A I also have in front of me. Well, what do you.
[00:14:44] Speaker A: I have a, I have that Don Aguillo cover. B but I have the virgin cover.
[00:14:52] Speaker B: I think that's the only one that.
[00:14:54] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. Because I didn't know if it was a true virgin cover, because it does have the king spawn crown on it. Just literally the original spawn action figure with the board with the nail in it. Busting out of a clamshell. It is awesome.
[00:15:11] Speaker B: Yeah. I love this. You can see it in the background, and you can see the original box.
[00:15:15] Speaker A: Yeah. There's the board, and then on the front, there's a little sticker that says, spawn posable action figure.
[00:15:22] Speaker B: That's so cool. What a cool idea.
[00:15:24] Speaker A: It's dope, man. They're having fun. They're having fun.
[00:15:30] Speaker B: I love that board with the nail in it. I love that. That's, like, his original weapon for the original spawn figure.
[00:15:37] Speaker A: No, that's really great.
[00:15:38] Speaker B: I love the little king spawn logo. It's pretty cool.
[00:15:40] Speaker A: Yeah. A board with a nail, infinitely easier to mold and design than a gun. Especially for your first round of action figures.
[00:15:52] Speaker B: Yeah. And I think they were trying to skew a little bit towards kids on that one, the first wave, because the clown was like a chicken leg.
[00:16:02] Speaker A: I don't know, Johnny. I just listened to that interview with the Todd father on making media that dropped yesterday.
And he seems to contend that he was very much shooting for not the kids, which is one of the reasons why he didn't want somebody else to make the toys. Because he didn't want them to get kid friendly down too much. He wanted to hit that mid teen range.
[00:16:27] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:16:28] Speaker A: I have a feeling that the board with the nail in it and the chicken leg just came out of.
Let's focus on making the figure as detailed as possible. And the accessories we can figure out later. Which seems like a very Tod father thing. Just like, let's get this one thing that we need to have real good. The other shit will figure the other shit out later.
And boy, howdy, Johnny. Have they figured that other shit out, because holy.
[00:16:57] Speaker B: Got my. I think my spawn figures are coming in today or tomorrow.
Yeah. My monolith sin.
And who else is it?
[00:17:11] Speaker A: Monolith sin. Medieval.
[00:17:14] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:17:15] Speaker A: Isn't there a fourth?
[00:17:17] Speaker B: No, it's just the three.
[00:17:18] Speaker A: Just the three. Okay. That monolith figure is dope. I'm a doofus for not having gotten it. You can see.
[00:17:26] Speaker B: I want him busting out of the box and attacking people.
[00:17:28] Speaker A: I don't have any space for him, is the problem. I would love to get that big figure, but where the hell am I going to put it? I'm running out of room on my desk, Johnny.
[00:17:35] Speaker B: I'm running out of room.
I'm out of.
[00:17:44] Speaker A: Know.
[00:17:44] Speaker B: Bust that cover open.
[00:17:46] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:47] Speaker B: And we got script plot by Sean Lewis. With additional script by Todd McFarlane.
[00:17:51] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. Tod McFarlane is the board with a nail in it of this group?
[00:17:56] Speaker B: Yes, he is.
[00:17:57] Speaker A: Just a little bit of flavor. A little bit of flavor.
[00:18:01] Speaker B: Art by Javi Fernandez and Thomas Notchlick of Magnus arts.
[00:18:06] Speaker A: They're doing that split like they did last episode. Issue.
Last episode. We talked about it. He does the green world. Yeah. Colors by FCO placencia as usual, lettering by and world design cover artists. We covered the covers.
Got Thomas Healy doing editor in chief businesses there.
[00:18:24] Speaker B: So previously in King Spawn, Black Asriel has finally revealed himself as the cause of both Al and Terry's heartbreak. But why? Why push spawn towards the throne of hell?
[00:18:37] Speaker A: Why indeed, Johnny? Why indeed?
[00:18:40] Speaker B: So we open on the aftermath of Wanda's death vision that it's like this weird vision that bled into reality.
[00:18:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
Literally bled because the crowd see fires burning where Wanda Blake's car just appeared. What kind of magic is this? So they're just like, what the shit?
[00:19:00] Speaker B: They get a scary Jason Wynn.
[00:19:03] Speaker A: Oh, man.
[00:19:03] Speaker B: He ain't got no.
[00:19:06] Speaker A: Yep. No. Oh, man.
I like how he's wearing a jacket over his suit, like he's trying to be incognitus.
[00:19:14] Speaker B: Yeah, he's just being cool. He's like, look at me. We're cool.
[00:19:17] Speaker A: Yeah. The quarter priest is just looming in the flames of the car there. That's pretty badass.
Yeah.
[00:19:23] Speaker B: I love when you turn the next page and they're just, like, running at him. You got everybody there. You got ab and zab smoking cigarettes.
[00:19:32] Speaker A: You got Godsend flying in there. You got trimmer doing.
He's running like one of those hellbeasts from Ghostbusters, which I know you told me what they're called, but I totally forgot. Hell dogs? Is that what they're called?
[00:19:49] Speaker B: Terror dogs.
[00:19:50] Speaker A: Terror dogs.
You got black Asriel just, like, floating in the background. Comedian lady, she looks like she's going around to try to do a pincher because everyone's running in one direction.
[00:20:04] Speaker B: She's chasing that one guy. That's, like, running off to the side.
[00:20:06] Speaker A: She looks like she's trying.
[00:20:09] Speaker B: Then they just, like, decimate a bunch of people.
[00:20:12] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Oh, man.
There's spot.
[00:20:19] Speaker B: They're putting their cigarette out on someone's eye.
[00:20:21] Speaker A: Yeah. Godsend uses his angelic ribbons to just completely remove a man's head from his head.
Yeah, man. That's some cinnabite level dismemberment there.
We got people eating or biting other people. It's like ripping out somebody's Adam's apple.
[00:20:51] Speaker B: Says, imagine your entire past rushing at you like a living nightmare. Rampaging through the streets, destroying everything around you. That's just what anxiety feels like, baby.
[00:20:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I think we call that Tuesday around here.
[00:21:05] Speaker B: And Spawn's just being, like, strong and silent here. He is not saying shit to these guys.
[00:21:09] Speaker A: Yeah, no, he's just waiting. He's just waiting for him to get close enough that he can bap them with his chains real good. Like.
[00:21:20] Speaker B: Zara. Finally we found out her name.
[00:21:23] Speaker A: Oh, nice. I'm going to laugh if that's. We've been paying attention, so I don't think we've missed it before, but, yeah, Zara.
[00:21:29] Speaker B: No, they said it in a later issue for sure. We've covered her name.
[00:21:32] Speaker A: Oh, man. Zara. One of God's greatest angels who once led the Sarah film. That means she could have been on our fucking baseball team, Johnny.
[00:21:38] Speaker B: Oh, Zara, man.
[00:21:40] Speaker A: God damn it.
[00:21:41] Speaker B: All right, she's the coach.
[00:21:46] Speaker A: Man. Spawn just, like, grabs trimmer by the horn and fucking rips it off and smashes him into the ground at the same time.
[00:21:55] Speaker B: Cracks it right off. Oh, my God. It's like he's, like, running past him. He grabs the horn and just, like, stops him.
[00:22:02] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like he's a matador and is doing the brutal sport of fucking bull fighting, right?
He takes down mammon with his cape. He just, like, he just grabs his face.
[00:22:17] Speaker B: He's like, get out of here.
[00:22:20] Speaker A: Oh, man. And then black Asriel calls everybody off and some, he's doing the classic James Bond villain monologuing for why we brought you here, why we're doing this. Yada yada yada. It's a great little splash page.
[00:22:41] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, it looks awesome. He's got the badass, like.
[00:22:45] Speaker A: Yeah, the flashback spider.
Yeah, that flashback to Spawn. Just, like, destroying a phalanx of angels. Yeah.
[00:22:57] Speaker B: All of his chains just about to rip that guy apart.
[00:23:00] Speaker A: Yeah, the pile of angels just bloodied and dismembered.
And we get how Black Asriel became the insane angel he is. He removed his own wing, Johnny.
[00:23:16] Speaker B: He made himself a one winged angel.
[00:23:19] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:21] Speaker B: Looking like Dave Batista there.
[00:23:23] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, Dave Batista to be cast as black Asriel. That would be, oh, he'd be great. That would be a good one. Oh, tangent. Good news. Jamie Fox, as of this week, has been moved to a physical rehabilitation center here in Chicago. So good news. Good news. We like to hear it.
[00:23:44] Speaker B: We'll send him good Chicago vibes from us at Respawn.
[00:23:48] Speaker A: Speedy recovery, Mr. Fox. And coming up on May 27 is italian beef day and wonas around town are going to be giving out free italian beefs. So maybe we could get together a group of people to get the free italian beefs and bum rush the rehabilitation center he's at. And be like, Mr. Fox, Mr. Fox.
[00:24:09] Speaker B: Eat this italian beef.
[00:24:11] Speaker A: Eat this beef. It'll give you strength.
[00:24:14] Speaker B: Just like the earthworms.
[00:24:18] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:24:19] Speaker B: Black Asriel rips his own wing out.
[00:24:21] Speaker A: Which is pretty crazy. It's a brutal scene. He's just like. He's holding on to the sinews from it.
[00:24:28] Speaker B: It's got to hurt.
[00:24:29] Speaker A: Oh, man. Going back to the fight scenes, and I like the fight sequences between Spawn and black Asriel are autumn monopaeque. So we've got arg, and it's great. Javi Fernandez. Excellent artwork, Johnny. I know we don't say it enough.
[00:24:52] Speaker B: Yeah, it's great. And this whole issue looks like it's lit by flame almost.
[00:24:56] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a real good color palette. Real good color palette.
[00:25:02] Speaker B: And then he changes the color palette, because he goes braccoom.
[00:25:05] Speaker A: Yeah. And there's some angel lightning coming down.
Spawn gets his ass handed to him right here. He gets, like, sonic boomed, blocks away, gets thrown into a building.
[00:25:21] Speaker B: Yeah. This whole time, black Asriel is basically saying, like, he's just goading him into taking the throne of hell is basically what he's doing.
[00:25:28] Speaker A: This is why you need to do this, both for you and for us.
So take this offer. Go raise your queen.
Gives him a little tease of a wanda that.
[00:25:40] Speaker B: It's obvious, the ultimate temptation. He shows him the wanda.
[00:25:44] Speaker A: It's definitely just like, him projecting, because you can see that it's the one good wing and the one bad wing. So he's just, like, doing a little bit of tricksiness.
[00:25:55] Speaker B: It's just him.
[00:25:57] Speaker A: Yeah, that's cool.
[00:25:58] Speaker B: And I love a spawn. Still been silent. He's just watching all this shit. He's just like, yeah, come on, lay it out for me.
[00:26:04] Speaker A: And then the whole court just comes to basically gloat around him as he's sitting in this cavity of a building that he's just made with his body.
[00:26:16] Speaker B: He goes him into accepting his rage and unleashing it, and he does.
[00:26:20] Speaker A: Oh, man. It's a great little series of little panels of spawn just lashing out and punching, getting punched.
[00:26:30] Speaker B: I love that. The two of them across the panels, just, like, yelling at each other. That's awesome.
[00:26:36] Speaker A: Yeah. It looks a lot like the battle sequence for a trading card, a TCG, the digital version where you've got your cards and they want to try to animate it a little bit. So they've got expanded versions of the art on the cards, kind of like moving toward each other. You know what I'm talking about? Oh, yeah, totally.
[00:27:01] Speaker B: That's exactly what they look like. They pop out and they go like, I'm going to kill you.
[00:27:04] Speaker A: Yeah, they got a little bit of motion, but it's still obviously the art from the card.
[00:27:10] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:27:11] Speaker A: So cool.
[00:27:13] Speaker B: I'm sorry, I got distracted. I was looking up this kings 1611 just to make sure it was real. And it is.
[00:27:18] Speaker A: Okay, nice.
[00:27:21] Speaker B: Most of the interpretations say instead of slew all, he slew all the house of Basha, he left them not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinfolk nor his friends. That's hilarious. He didn't leave anyone, not even a guy that pissed on a wall.
[00:27:39] Speaker A: Man, it's a good thing that my old landlord didn't abide by old Testament retribution, because once when Wanda and I went to Canada, we left our dogs at home and hired a recommended friend to house sit and watch the dogs and the apartment. And they invited their boyfriend over, who proceeded to get very drunk, break our toilet, and then peed on the fence right in front of my landlord's children.
[00:28:13] Speaker B: Oh, boy.
[00:28:14] Speaker A: Nothing better than getting a phone call at 04:00 a.m. In Toronto from your landlord being like, who the hell is this? Pissing on my fence in front of my children? And I was like, what are you talking about? I'm in Canada.
[00:28:27] Speaker B: Oh, my.
[00:28:28] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:28:30] Speaker B: So he would be killed by spa because he peed on the wall?
[00:28:33] Speaker A: Yeah, he pisses on the fence, man. I'm pretty sure my landlord wanted to kill him, but settled for saying, get the hell out of my house.
And then we got, like, spawn.
[00:28:46] Speaker B: And spawn finally speaks.
[00:28:48] Speaker A: Yeah, it says, fine, I'll do it. But he's like, but if I'm going to do it, you all are going to be powerless.
This very much seems like a Todd father type deal where he's like, okay, if you want to make this deal, these are my terms.
I'm going to refer to that interview a lot, Johnny. It was.
[00:29:12] Speaker B: I got to listen to it. That sounds good.
[00:29:14] Speaker A: You got to listen to it all. You all out there making media with Tod McFarland. It's a great interview.
[00:29:23] Speaker B: Did it just come out?
[00:29:24] Speaker A: Yeah, it just came out yesterday as of record. So on May 18 is when it came out.
[00:29:30] Speaker B: Cool.
[00:29:31] Speaker A: It's good. He posted about it on his instagram too, so you can follow the link there.
[00:29:37] Speaker B: Is that how you found it.
[00:29:39] Speaker A: Yeah, that's how I found it.
Jason Wynn is like, al, you're not taking this seriously. You're just being a jerk.
And Al's like, man, I'm always serious. What are you talking about?
[00:29:52] Speaker B: Like, asmr was like, well, if you doubt us, you should ask Gaia about what she's planning, because we know that's a little hint about Gaia pretty early on.
[00:30:02] Speaker A: Yeah. And so that quarter priest just warp bubbles away. Look at that. Like, how it disrupts the building. It's pretty great.
[00:30:11] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's so cool how it warps it and everything.
[00:30:15] Speaker A: Terry's like, they've gone soft, or you've gone soft, and Spawn just says he's gotten wiser, and then Gaia sends an invitation to spawn himself, or perhaps a death threat, perhaps.
[00:30:34] Speaker B: And then you just get this fucking badass, like, cthulhu fucking elder beast thing.
[00:30:42] Speaker A: I want to know what the hell kind of nightmare Thomas Natchlick had before he created this is.
It is wicked.
And the oracle's just riding on the back of how. Look at how small she is compared to.
[00:30:58] Speaker B: It's like a stomach with a skull in the middle of it on the back of a dog beast who has skulls for his chest. Yeah, it's wild.
[00:31:08] Speaker A: Like sores everywhere. And his paws look like tree roots.
[00:31:13] Speaker B: So this is a flashback to when black Asriel's here with Wanda's body of some sort. Wanda's body? Yeah. My woman's lifeless body.
[00:31:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
And Oracle's like, no, no, you get the hell out of here. And tries to sick this beast on Black Asriel.
[00:31:30] Speaker B: He literally just flies through its skull. Yeah, like a bullet.
[00:31:34] Speaker A: Oh, man, it's so messy. Boom.
[00:31:36] Speaker B: Headshot.
[00:31:37] Speaker A: He's so sad that he has to do it. A shame. You were such a beautiful creature.
As the beast falls over, there's just like the oracle falling. Like she's still in the middle of her fall because you can see the little bit of shadow underneath her and it's just like, hat. Suck it, Oracle, suck it.
And apparently blood has never been spilt in the green before this.
That's not good, Johnny.
No, the green is a sacred.
This is. This is a fun little bit of dialogue that I like here, Johnny. It's very much like sincere bands who have, like, instead of saying their name, much like in hip hop, you would say your name because hip hop is advertisement for your Persona. But like, in just a regular song by a regular band, for some reason using the word that is their name in the middle of their lyrics.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
[00:32:45] Speaker B: Yeah, I know what you mean.
[00:32:46] Speaker A: Yeah, we got over here.
If she doesn't wake up soon, her cherished earth and this green will be scorched.
[00:32:56] Speaker B: Yeah, I noticed that too. I was like, scorched.
[00:33:00] Speaker A: It's like, who wrote this? Who wrote this? Who wrote Scorched? Sean Lewis. Sean Lewis. Doing a little peppering it in. He's doing a little salt. Bay of Spawn's universe all over the know. He's getting most of it caught in his arm hairs, but the rest of it just goes everywhere.
[00:33:21] Speaker B: There's a who song where they reference one of their albums and say that the character in the song is listening to it.
[00:33:29] Speaker A: There's some of the original wacky guys.
[00:33:33] Speaker B: They're a little cheeky because he's talking about listening to albums and he says, like, he's listening to T Rex and who's next, which is their little. But he says it very.
[00:33:47] Speaker A: It makes. It makes sense why all of the men of a certain generation who fucking adore Monty Python also adore the who.
[00:33:58] Speaker B: Yeah, it makes sense. They're like the more stinker beetles.
They're a little bit more trickster and a little bit more kind know in your don't give. I don't give a fuck what you think of me, mate.
[00:34:14] Speaker A: Yeah. A little less coy about their drug use. Although later Beatles, not very coy at all. Just straight up. Yeah, we went to India.
They got good weed over there.
[00:34:25] Speaker B: Well, it turns out this whole flashback is just a story that heap is telling Simon.
[00:34:29] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a great little device. And so Simon's all dolled up in his Kingslayer armor, and heap is just, like, fighting him.
Simon tries to get the drop on him and throws his sword, but heap just, like, picks it out of the air like a toothpick.
[00:34:50] Speaker B: Like the little sandwich swords?
[00:34:51] Speaker A: Yeah, just like that. Only he got screwed out of the olive that comes on the end of it or something. Those little sandwich swords fit perfectly in a little Lego minifig's hand.
[00:35:04] Speaker B: Oh, nice. That'd be a huge ass sword for a Lego minifig.
[00:35:07] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. So, like, all my little pirate minifigs, the hero pirates would all get the sandwich swords, and all the bad pirates would get the regular Lego tiny swords, the little round tip ones.
[00:35:22] Speaker B: That's hilarious.
[00:35:23] Speaker A: As heap drops Simon's sword, he's telling Simon what lies in store for him for the future.
And then cracks start forming around where the sword falls into the green.
[00:35:37] Speaker B: Simon says, I don't even know what destiny means.
[00:35:41] Speaker A: You will when you get there.
I like the heaps teaching style. It's not important to know these small details, just the big picture we're big picturing right now. You'll figure it out. You'll figure it out.
[00:35:55] Speaker B: And he takes the sword that Simon that he dropped and he kind of drags it along the ground.
[00:36:02] Speaker A: Oh, no, he doesn't drag it across the ground. It's just cracking from. Because you see when he drops, just cracking from, yeah, there's cracks that formed hits and then they just like expand a little bit.
And then we see an eye, Johnny.
We see an eye.
[00:36:18] Speaker B: Looks like Wanda.
[00:36:20] Speaker A: Looks like Wanda. The long slumber of the queen is complete.
[00:36:23] Speaker B: Boom. King swan logo. The end.
[00:36:27] Speaker A: Real nice. Real nice. We got some spawning grounds. The march mailbag asking some specific technical questions about the scorched team and how Sean Lewis is putting it together. And Sean Lewis shares some of his inspirations for how he wants the team to kind of be like how he's thinking about, know, he said growing up, everybody had a favorite x man. He wants everybody to have a favorite scorched.
[00:36:57] Speaker B: Like he says, I want the fun, the adventure, and the off the wall pyrotechnics that these books had. That's a good way to describe the scorched. Well, I could say mission accomplished, Mr. Lewis.
[00:37:07] Speaker A: It's real good. Real good.
And then we got hashtag devour.
[00:37:12] Speaker B: Oh, man, devours are coming, man.
[00:37:17] Speaker A: He likes to pepper them in. Pepper in these little clues. Little breadcrumbs, a little bit of foreshadowing.
[00:37:24] Speaker B: There's a big clue, one of the later letters here.
But the second letter is basically asking if we see people cross over to other image comics. And hey, that's happening too because we got him in Philadelphia.
[00:37:40] Speaker A: I mean, apparently we need to go back and find silver coin number six, Johnny.
I do like that he said he'd love for Cygor to show up in stray dogs, which would be excellent. Excellent.
[00:37:53] Speaker B: I need to read that. That book looks cute.
[00:37:58] Speaker A: Shit. The problem is it looks cute, but it is dark as fuck.
[00:38:02] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what I've heard.
[00:38:04] Speaker A: Because it's a creative team who did a lot of friendship is magic, my little pony comics.
And they use that cartoony style for this book. But it is fucked up. It is a little disturbing.
[00:38:23] Speaker B: It's good, but it stars a bull terrier.
[00:38:26] Speaker A: It does. It is upsetting to say the least.
[00:38:32] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:38:32] Speaker A: It is very good, though.
[00:38:34] Speaker B: But check it out.
[00:38:36] Speaker A: Let's just say David almost could not continue reading it. After one particular issue.
[00:38:45] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:38:48] Speaker A: In the end, justice prevails. But at what cost?
[00:38:53] Speaker B: There's always a cost, David.
[00:38:54] Speaker A: There's always a cost. We got Bruce D. I'm going to assume this is Bruce Dickinson, because nothing pleases me more than thinking that the lead singer of Iron Maiden reads spawn comics.
[00:39:05] Speaker B: It's got to be.
[00:39:07] Speaker A: He's doing research, so that way, their next 20 minutes song can be the saga of Al Simmons.
I'd love to hear that saying, hey, maybe you should put monolith and scorched. I didn't know monolith was a character before this, Johnny.
[00:39:22] Speaker B: Yeah, just a little bit.
[00:39:24] Speaker A: Oops.
[00:39:26] Speaker B: I knew that.
[00:39:27] Speaker A: Yeah. And then we got Dave sending in some art, which is very nice. Look at a. It's like a connecting cover with Cygor, Al, and overt kill.
We got a couple of just profile pics of Al Simmons. We got one of those draw your own covers that they did a bitchin'al. With his cape. That's real nice.
[00:39:56] Speaker B: It looks badass.
[00:39:58] Speaker A: Yeah. Good art, good artwork, Dave. We enjoy it. It's real good. That's Kingspawn number eight, Johnny. Real nice.
[00:40:04] Speaker B: That is king spawn number eight. And boy, ain't it great?
All right, it's time to pick it up. Pick it up, pick it up. Let's go.
Does gunslinger number 18.
[00:40:30] Speaker A: Johnny. Gunslinger. Fucking killing it right now. So good. Yeah, so good.
Let's look at this cover that we got, Johnny.
[00:40:41] Speaker B: I was just distracting just to staring at the Mark Spears cover.
[00:40:44] Speaker A: There's too many marks. We got Mark Spears, we got Marks Brooks, but we're in the Mark Spears category right now. It's beautiful.
Two covers on this one, Johnny. Mark Spears, as we mentioned, Kevin Keane.
I only have the Mark Spears one, and it is glorious.
[00:41:02] Speaker B: Yeah, you got big beefy clown. You got some omens.
[00:41:07] Speaker A: I don't know. Kitty cat.
[00:41:09] Speaker B: Yeah, kitty cat. Is that Mr. Pussy?
[00:41:11] Speaker A: For the early issues, I can only assume so. This cat knows more about clowns than anybody else in the universe.
I do.
[00:41:21] Speaker B: Like the cat is pissed.
[00:41:23] Speaker A: Another connection, Johnny. One of those omens in the background has a spawn action figure in his hand. We got action figure covers at the wazoo, Johnny.
[00:41:33] Speaker B: Action figures and action features. Yeah, this is a great. Oh, man, that one. Oh, move. The action figures got, like, a mohawk.
[00:41:40] Speaker A: The one holding the cat, it's got just know, so many teeth.
[00:41:46] Speaker B: So many teeth.
[00:41:48] Speaker A: I like how Mark Spears put in scratches all over his hand, too, because that cat's fighting back.
It's got its claws bared.
[00:41:58] Speaker B: Yeah, that cat doesn't want to be there.
[00:41:59] Speaker A: No, man, such good covers. This guy does good work, Johnny.
[00:42:06] Speaker B: There's also a good b cover here, which is by Kevin Keane. Kevin Keane. Hey, another Kevin Keane.
[00:42:16] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, man.
[00:42:17] Speaker B: It's Gunslinger on a horse with, like, chain bridle, glowing zombies.
[00:42:26] Speaker A: That's a big moon, Johnny. That's a big.
[00:42:29] Speaker B: A big moon.
[00:42:30] Speaker A: Maybe also a bad moon. You know who didn't lose it? Johnny. The tod. Father.
[00:42:36] Speaker B: Because he's Todd. Father. He's still got it.
[00:42:38] Speaker A: He's doing that script plot.
Bret Booth didn't lose it neither. He's still doing that artwork. We got inks by Adelso Corona, colors by Ivan Nunez, coloring by, letters by our favorite, favorite, favorite old polish man, tomo.
[00:42:57] Speaker B: We covered the covers.
[00:42:58] Speaker A: Thomas Healy is chiefly editoring again.
[00:43:01] Speaker B: Previously in Gunslinger.
Gunslinger barely escapes a savage attack by a group of heavenly angels by stealing some of their own power.
[00:43:12] Speaker A: Power isn't the only thing he know.
[00:43:15] Speaker B: He stole their power. He stole their appendages.
[00:43:18] Speaker A: Yeah. He stole their lives.
[00:43:20] Speaker B: He stole their dignity. He showed them what's up.
[00:43:22] Speaker A: He ain't going to get no dignity from Taylor, because you know what Taylor has none of, Johnny?
[00:43:28] Speaker B: No dignity.
[00:43:29] Speaker A: No dignity.
We start. We open in some CD motel room.
[00:43:35] Speaker B: He's playing in, like, a nerd nest of fast food, and, like, there's a.
[00:43:42] Speaker A: Pringles can, there's, like, a half eaten burger. There's what looks like an entire potato.
[00:43:50] Speaker B: Yeah, it's just a potato.
[00:43:51] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. I'm surprised his socks don't have holes in them. I would expect Taylor to be a person who was wearing holy socks.
There's pizza crusts.
He's obviously playing a dinosaur game there.
[00:44:06] Speaker B: Of course, got to be playing a dinosaur game.
[00:44:09] Speaker A: And then Javi comes in, taps him on the shoulder, and he makes an unathletic move again.
[00:44:16] Speaker B: Johnny, I'm going to t rex your ass all the way to right before Javi comes in.
[00:44:24] Speaker A: Oh, man, I want to play this video game.
[00:44:26] Speaker B: So be dinosaurs fighting. That's hilarious.
[00:44:31] Speaker A: Yeah. Jesus, just get the crap out of me. And then we get, bam. This nice splash page of Javi standing over him with the wings, and he's looking terrible, and he don't feel so good. Johnny.
[00:44:42] Speaker B: No. Looks like he's about to pass out, and he does.
[00:44:45] Speaker A: I like that.
Flat on his face. Then we get the opening reading. Yes.
[00:44:50] Speaker B: Javi's trying to wake him up. So he immediately jumps on the motorcycle and has to drive for a full 40 minutes.
[00:44:57] Speaker A: I like all the zoom lines around the motorcycle. Like, he's throwing up this rooster tail of dust. He's got these.
The air going in front of him, and he busts in on our old pal Wya. And Wyatt's like, eh, Javi's fine. I've seen him do this. Fine.
Javi's sick. And Wyatt's like, nah, but he mentions the wings. And then he's like, you need to take me. Now.
We get this panel of them riding back to the city. It's the exact same shot, like, the exact same part of the road that the leaving the city panel was taken from. And I like that. It's a nice little bit of connection. Yeah.
[00:45:38] Speaker B: I like the path up to the city. It's funny.
[00:45:41] Speaker A: It's real good.
[00:45:42] Speaker B: It's like a Mario kart track.
[00:45:45] Speaker A: It's like it's the back way into the city. It's not the highway. It's an old, dusty trail. Then they're back at the hotel room, and Taylor is calling. Jessica and Taylor not looking so good. Look at that. He's got flap sweat out the wazoo.
[00:46:00] Speaker B: He's sweating. He doesn't know who she is, but he knows that she's important, so he gives her a call to let him know that Javi's not doing too well.
[00:46:07] Speaker A: Post phone call, Jessica priest is talking to Al elsewhere in some hidden place. We do know that this is in a mountain in Russia where the scorch makes their base, because know, like you do. They've gotten all the blood off the walls, though, which is real nice.
[00:46:25] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. He made him clean it up, that first issue. He's like, clean it up? This is your new base?
[00:46:29] Speaker A: What a jerk. Jessica's like, javi's in a bad way. And spawn's like, not my chair. He said, whose chair is that? Who brought that goddamn chair in here? Not my chair. Problem. That's what I say.
[00:46:47] Speaker B: Drinking out of cups.
[00:46:49] Speaker A: But then Jessica spills the beans about clown being back, which apparently Spawn did not know.
[00:46:57] Speaker B: And he's like, clown.
[00:47:00] Speaker A: He's more angry than surprised about it, because he's not got the round eye of surprise, more intrigued.
[00:47:05] Speaker B: And then you get a classic Jessica. That's it.
[00:47:08] Speaker A: That's all you care about.
[00:47:10] Speaker B: That's, like, her favorite thing.
[00:47:13] Speaker A: I was thinking that exact same thing.
[00:47:15] Speaker B: That's it. Show you my breasts.
[00:47:18] Speaker A: Oh, man. She calls Al pathetic.
Used to have a coat of honor, Simmons.
[00:47:24] Speaker B: Well, that luxury left him a long time ago.
I like how he's like, just tell me where she is. He's like, only if you leave now. Just leave. You alone? I'll tell you where he is.
[00:47:36] Speaker A: Because as we all know, Al Simmons barely tolerates Jessica priest. But Jessica Priest fucking does not like Al.
Him's being a jerk, Johnny. She don't like no jerk.
[00:47:50] Speaker B: She's trying to lead her team. He's just buttoning in there, being a big jerk head coming, yelling at him and disappearing.
[00:47:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Then we got back in the hotel room. Wya's doing some chants and drones over Javi, and Taylor's like, this is stupid. She's taking him to the hospital. WyA's only been at this for 20 minutes. I don't know when the last time Taylor went to the hospital was, but.
[00:48:17] Speaker B: He'D be still in the waiting room.
[00:48:19] Speaker A: Yeah. Not waiting for longer than 20 minutes means you are lucky.
[00:48:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:48:26] Speaker A: Especially if you have to go to the emergency room on the west side of Chicago on a Friday or Saturday night to go somewhere else or just tough it out until the next day.
That is a terrible place to be.
[00:48:43] Speaker B: I can't imagine.
[00:48:44] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:48:45] Speaker B: It's like real life. Er, yeah.
[00:48:47] Speaker A: The very sad thing is it's literally all could have been avoided if you had had your narcan.
[00:48:53] Speaker B: I thought were going to say it's people try to cook at their homes and cut their hands.
[00:48:58] Speaker A: Oh, most definitely. Wyatt keeps going, and while Taylor's in the background, know, complaining about stuff, Javi.
[00:49:07] Speaker B: Gasps, looking real stressed. He pops awake.
[00:49:10] Speaker A: We learned that the fact that the wings are heavenly, it's poisoning him. It's poisoning him as symbiote.
[00:49:19] Speaker B: He tried to bond to heaven too, you know.
[00:49:22] Speaker A: Wyatt's given that good advice of Javi. You got to take care of yourself or else you can't take care of other people. And Javi's just like, yeah, now, fuck that.
He's like, I'm dying anyway.
[00:49:34] Speaker B: Oh, man. He goes, you're not an eagle yet. You're just a wolf cub. And he's like, I don't want to be a wolf cub. Too bad.
[00:49:43] Speaker A: I want to be an eagle already.
[00:49:47] Speaker B: We learned a little bit about Javi, had some tribal training.
[00:49:49] Speaker A: We also learned that Javi is a very impatient student. Oh, man. Very impatient.
It has everything to do with it. Protect the boy. That's your first priority. Taylor's?
[00:50:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Then they're just like, arguing like an old married couple in front of poor Taylor here, blaming on each other for Amy's death. It's just talking about not a good look.
[00:50:11] Speaker A: Yeah. Then Javi, is it my fault Javi sucks the wings in like, there's some spaghetti and then Taylor tries to do the thing.
The very awkward person that can't leave a situation is trying to make it. And he's like, hey, let's be happy that Javi's still alive. Maybe go get some ice cream pizzas on me.
Javi just leaves. He's like that.
[00:50:38] Speaker B: Javi just bugs bunnies out of there.
Slam.
[00:50:44] Speaker A: Pump the brakes, guys.
[00:50:47] Speaker B: Wyatt is like, leave him alone. Besides, we got to focus on your training.
[00:50:54] Speaker A: Oh, man. And Javi's out there smoking.
[00:50:58] Speaker B: Smoking.
[00:51:00] Speaker A: He is much like Tom waits, smoking his friends down to the filters.
Oh, yeah, man. Look at pile of them. The pile of them in Chicago. That's like $15 worth of cigarettes right there. Johnny.
[00:51:16] Speaker B: Yeah, Javi.
What's going on, buddy?
[00:51:21] Speaker A: Hanging out in the sally, and then he hears a noise, and he throws a knife. Because that's what he does. It's his instinct.
[00:51:29] Speaker B: Yeah, you hear a noise, you throw a knife. That's what I do too.
[00:51:32] Speaker A: And I read this in the mortal Kombat voice, Johnny. Impressive.
[00:51:38] Speaker B: Impressive.
[00:51:42] Speaker A: Which is appropriate, because, as we know, spawn is a playable character in Mortal Kombat Eleven.
[00:51:49] Speaker B: Yes, he is.
[00:51:50] Speaker A: Yeah. And also there's a.
[00:51:53] Speaker B: There's new mortal Kombat coming.
[00:51:54] Speaker A: Yeah. There's a series of action figures based off of mortal Kombat Eleven. And if you're on instagram, you'll know that spawn safari has, like, a complete collection of those mortal Kombat eleven spawn action figures. And, oh, man, I didn't realize there were so many of them.
[00:52:10] Speaker B: Yeah, Josh put them on his display there. Yeah, on that, like, his little end cap display. His little end cap display that he made. It's pretty awesome.
[00:52:20] Speaker A: It's got nice lighting, and it's. Oh, man, I want to go to wherever he has his collection and walk up to it, take one of those toys, and then go to the cash register that he has built into his kitchen or something and be like, I would like to buy this, good sir.
You think he'd sell it to me?
[00:52:38] Speaker B: No.
[00:52:38] Speaker A: One of his extras.
[00:52:39] Speaker B: He had extras? Maybe. He seems like a very kind gentleman, so probably. Yeah, I'm sure if I was rich, I'd have a fake, like blockbuster in my house.
[00:52:48] Speaker A: That would be cool. That would be cool.
[00:52:50] Speaker B: You'd have a whole wing that was just like. You walk around and look at all the.
[00:52:55] Speaker A: Actually, I actually hear that. Apparently, back in the day in Chicago, there used to be, like, a home industry of people would.
No, I'm conflating that. There's a pizza place up on the northeast, west side that has a little video rental in the back, and it's just the guy who owns the pizza place just buys movies and puts them in the back for you to rent. And then you pay, like, $5 a month, and you can rent two dvds at a time.
[00:53:26] Speaker B: That's pretty cool.
[00:53:27] Speaker A: Yeah, so you don't even have to eat pizza. You can just go back to the video rental. Yeah. And I think he takes donations, too, of, like, I got these movies you can rent out. And he's like, yeah, sure, I can put them in the back.
[00:53:39] Speaker B: That's awesome.
[00:53:40] Speaker A: Yeah, it's pretty cool. Al saying, nice shot, but I'm not an angel, and then threatens Javi, that if he does that again, maybe it'd be no bueno for Javi. And then they have a question about a little conversation about why Javi's leaving the team.
[00:53:59] Speaker B: Yeah. First, I only joined to get close to you, which is true.
[00:54:03] Speaker A: Yeah. And hoping that Al would find a way to send him know.
[00:54:08] Speaker B: Al's like, believe me, if I knew how, I would have already done it.
[00:54:12] Speaker A: I don't want you around any longer than you have to be. And then they start talking about coliostro. He calls himself sin now. Not surprising. He was always trying to steal my energy.
[00:54:22] Speaker B: And he's like, well, if you're after sin, let's see what kind of weapons you're dealing with.
[00:54:26] Speaker A: I do like the clown. Where'd you fight him? Why? What's your interest in him? He killed my wife. Why the interest in sin?
[00:54:35] Speaker B: He helped kill my sister.
[00:54:36] Speaker A: So an awkward silence falls upon them, and then Al does that thing where he's like, your dad. Where your dad comes into your house and he looks at your kitchen knives, and he's like, the fuck's this bullshit? And then the next thing you know, you get an Amazon package filled with new kitchen knives.
That's what.
[00:54:57] Speaker B: No, no, this isn't going to work.
[00:54:59] Speaker A: It's like, what, did you steal this from the outback?
Serrated.
[00:55:05] Speaker B: He's dadding. He's dadding.
[00:55:07] Speaker A: He's dadding. I like how spotted. Say these are real weapons, so that way, Javi's not like, what is this?
[00:55:16] Speaker B: He's like, what are these? Like, I don't know what this is.
[00:55:19] Speaker A: Yeah. So he grabs some automatic guns, some semiotic matic guns with some swords. Swords. He grabs two swords. Look at that.
[00:55:31] Speaker B: Two swords.
[00:55:32] Speaker A: And then we get this badass splash page of Javi just locked and loaded.
[00:55:36] Speaker B: I'm not sure what kind of damage these things can do, but I'm sure. You're going to tell me.
[00:55:39] Speaker A: Yeah.
We both know bullets can't stop our enemies. You're right there, cowboy. But it could sure as hell slow them down if they don't have legs to walk on.
You know?
[00:55:51] Speaker B: That's true.
[00:55:52] Speaker A: Oh, man.
[00:55:54] Speaker B: Spawn knows what's up. Go for the legs.
[00:55:57] Speaker A: Spawn's been spending too much time with Alex and his drugs at the milk bar. He is advocating for a little of the ultraviolence.
[00:56:05] Speaker B: Indeed.
[00:56:06] Speaker A: Yeah. And then a little portal opens up and sucks Javier into it again. We get a little quip about how Javier is sick of how easy it is for his enemies to find him, and it's easy for them to find him again. They had a little bit of trouble because Spawn was, like, masking their signal. But another set of angels, Johnny, these angels are definitely the angel versions of cinnabites, because they've all got.
This guy is obsessed with pinhead over here.
[00:56:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:56:39] Speaker A: That guy with the one horn maybe looks a little bit like CD, or is his name.
[00:56:46] Speaker B: Think it's. I know who you're talking about. I don't remember. That's a hilarious setup by it.
[00:56:51] Speaker A: And then what's his face, the big guy, he's like butterball.
[00:56:59] Speaker B: They're kicking the shit out of Javi.
[00:57:00] Speaker A: Yeah, they are.
There's no place Javi can hide. See the last few issues, Thomas? Not only are these angels obsessed with the cinnabites, Johnny, but they're also obsessed with toms of Finland.
Look at this one with the one horn, and tell me that that isn't a horny 80s leather daddy toms of Finland artwork.
Oh, yeah, it definitely is.
[00:57:23] Speaker B: With that, like, leather strap.
[00:57:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
Like, the only thing he is wearing is leather straps. Man, oh, man. Yeah. I like how this one angel has, like, a bandaged up foot.
[00:57:40] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. And he kicks her the face of it.
[00:57:42] Speaker A: Yeah. Like he lost his boot in the last battle or something. Oh, man. And then the order to string him, this little. This little fight between Javi and the angels. Not really fight. Javi getting jumped by the angels. Excellent, excellent. Bret booth movement work over here.
[00:58:01] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Just. He's throwing all around.
[00:58:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:58:05] Speaker B: Look at the reflection of Javi in his helmet.
[00:58:07] Speaker A: That's awesome. It's so good. It's a ritual they perform hundreds of times, stringing up enemies, though this one, strangely, is uninterrupted for a moment by a blinding light. And so it was fun to read this again with the knowledge of what that blinding light is. But, yes, that's spoilers for the next time we get around to gunslinger current, a big one, then all returns to normal. It's time we end this permanently.
[00:58:34] Speaker B: Then you get these guys yet again telling each other how to kill the hell spawns, which is hilarious.
[00:58:38] Speaker A: Yeah. The only way to kill this creature is to put a hole through the place where his heart once was. We get power blasts through Javi's chest, and. To be continued. Yeah.
[00:58:50] Speaker B: Big old splash page of him just. He is ripped apart.
[00:58:54] Speaker A: He is strung up like one of those pigs at an argentinian barbecue, Johnny.
[00:59:00] Speaker B: Yeah. He's strung up on a couple of angel spears.
[00:59:04] Speaker A: Yeah, man. You know that after maybe, like, 12 hours, he'll be falling off the bone tender, and it'll be some of the best Demon meat you've ever had.
[00:59:17] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:59:18] Speaker A: Gross.
[00:59:19] Speaker B: Getting ripped in half. Oh, boy.
[00:59:21] Speaker A: I do like the big yellow to be continued box. I love it. Yes. It's not entirely necessary to be continued, but much like the last classic gunslinger we covered that had no to be continued. I missed it. I like the to be continued. It's fun.
[00:59:40] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Got to have it.
[00:59:42] Speaker A: Javy's not. He's knocked down a little bit. He's 7114 right now.
[00:59:46] Speaker B: He's going down. He was up, but now he's going down.
[00:59:49] Speaker A: He's like the stock market Johnny. Sometimes he's up, sometimes he's, hey, topical.
[00:59:56] Speaker B: We got spawning grounds.
[00:59:58] Speaker A: We got another in the series of action figure photographies here. Thomas Healy fucking loves some action figure photography, and I am so glad that he does, because the shit he's been sharing has been.
[01:00:16] Speaker B: Well, he says, this is from photo. Fett sends this awesome picture of gunslinger, like, shooting a bottle.
[01:00:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:00:24] Speaker B: And Thomas says in his response to his letter, maybe we could do some toy photo covers, which they are. We got the toy photo cover of Batman spawn that I'm getting in the mail soon. That came with my pre order hell, yeah.
That's exciting.
[01:00:39] Speaker A: Yeah. It's nice to see these toys being used for all sorts of things. They're great figures, these spawn action figures. If you don't have any, go get some. Fully recommend it.
We got another guy new to the spawn universe, watched spawn the animated series. Keith David is the best voice for.
No argument there.
He's been loving gunslinger. Gets excited every time a new issue is out. Johnny, are you will? Did you write this, man?
[01:01:17] Speaker B: Yes.
[01:01:19] Speaker A: Oh, man. Yeah, it was.
[01:01:20] Speaker B: We got a misspelled mcFarland.
[01:01:24] Speaker A: It's fine. They'll fix it in post. Brett Booth's art is perfect for gunslinger. This was a gunslinger week, Johnny, in real time at the shop. It was fucking. I love this.
[01:01:36] Speaker B: Number 20 came out. It was great.
[01:01:39] Speaker A: So good.
Thomas is trying to make some focus puns.
See what I did there?
[01:01:47] Speaker B: Yes.
[01:01:50] Speaker A: Then we got another artist named Steve and another artist named Manny sending in some cool ass covers.
The one of Javi doing the old fashioned. Just smacking the hammer on the revolver, shooting pretty classic. Very cool. The one of, like, literal. It looks like a zombie gunslinger is pretty awesome. Fighting some skeletons.
That's gunslinger 18.
[01:02:21] Speaker B: What an issue. That was awesome.
[01:02:23] Speaker A: So, Johnny, I think we got to rate these puppies.
[01:02:28] Speaker B: It's time to rate these puppies.
So first we read Gunslinger. First we read king spawn number eight.
Kind of a fight, confrontation between spawn and the court of priests. Just like this epic confrontation in the street, followed by a little Tristan to the green world.
Really good nightmare imagery. Pretty classic king spawn stuff. I mean, this is why we're coming to this book is for these nightmare images and these gruesome battles. I'm going to give it four jawbones ripped off by Godsend's ribbons, man.
[01:03:14] Speaker A: You get four ripped off jawbone, you got to act like your jaw is ripped off while you're speaking.
[01:03:25] Speaker B: I mean, he turns that guy into a fucking puppet.
[01:03:27] Speaker A: Yeah, he does. I mean, you know, Godsend. Godsend's a little bit of a bastard. Totally stuck his little hand in there and was like, I'm a guy.
[01:03:37] Speaker B: Hello. I'm an idiot.
[01:03:38] Speaker A: Turned him into making him look like Elmo or something like that. Or like a little.
[01:03:45] Speaker B: Right?
[01:03:45] Speaker A: Oh, man.
[01:03:46] Speaker B: No, four ripped jawbones.
[01:03:49] Speaker A: Nice.
I'm going to give it four little sandwich swords in heap's hand.
[01:03:59] Speaker B: Nice.
[01:04:01] Speaker A: Obviously, Heap is a club sandwich fan, and I'm here for it.
[01:04:08] Speaker B: Man, I've been craving a turkey club. I want to get a turkey club somewhere.
I've been searched for a good turkey club.
[01:04:16] Speaker A: I know somebody who might be able to give you a heads up on that. Let me text them. I'll see what they say. Okay.
[01:04:23] Speaker B: But, yeah, I love a turkey club, and I've been craving it.
[01:04:26] Speaker A: Yeah, like you said, nightmare imagery is why we come here. It's some badass fighting. It's just a good all around issue.
[01:04:35] Speaker B: Yeah, solid issue of King Spawn.
[01:04:38] Speaker A: It's all held together real nicely with that little cocktail sword. Oh, man.
[01:04:44] Speaker B: It's not falling olive on top.
[01:04:46] Speaker A: It's not sliding off that middle toast. No, not at all. It's real nice.
[01:04:53] Speaker B: You want a well put together sandwich, and this is a well put together sandwich of an issue.
[01:04:57] Speaker A: Yes. It is.
[01:04:58] Speaker B: And a messier sandwich, but kind of a more fun sandwich, you could say.
[01:05:03] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[01:05:03] Speaker B: Is Gunslinger 18? I mean, messy just because like the food apartment is in the hotel is everywhere.
[01:05:11] Speaker A: This is the Carl's Jr. Sandwich where if it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong. In your face, Johnny.
[01:05:18] Speaker B: Precisely. That's exactly what it is. Now I want a Carl's Jr. I want a superstar.
[01:05:23] Speaker A: Oh, man.
They used to have a discount for Oklahoma state students where it was a dollar for a western bacon cheeseburger at Carl's Jr. And it's just meat, cheese, barbecue sauce and one onion ring. And I used to eat like four of those at a time. It just hits the spot, man. Man, I'm going to have to eat a burger for lunch.
[01:05:49] Speaker B: I'm going to give this issue four depression nerd nests that Taylor is wallowing in. Not wallowing. He's not a depression nest. It's just a nerd nest. He's just having fun in a hotel room. I'm going to give it four. No, that's not right. That's what I'm going to give it. I'm going to give it four trexes to your ass. I'm going to t rex your ass.
[01:06:16] Speaker A: Man.
I'm going to give it four and a half. Falling right on Gunslinger's face because Gunslinger doesn't get taken aback very often. And just that there's sort of this moment that he's vulnerable enough to just slam right on his face and the bill of his hat just like foops up. And it's almost indecent that gunslinger gets caught in this sort of predicament.
[01:06:49] Speaker B: Yeah. You just got to think how exhausted it's that moment just like all the stuff with focus and then just like bum.
[01:06:55] Speaker A: And it's also just a perfectly cartoony image and moment.
It's fucking great. I love this book. Johnny four point.
[01:07:06] Speaker B: Yeah. It's like a perfect cartoon because you get the boink boink where he taps him on the shoulder. Taylor turns around, he's standing there and then he thunk falls the ground. It's awesome.
Great issue.
[01:07:16] Speaker A: And then later on you get Taylor with the one big bead of sweat on his forehead.
[01:07:23] Speaker B: Yep.
[01:07:23] Speaker A: Anime style.
Like the tale of which doesn't even start on his forehead. It starts somewhere in the air above him.
[01:07:33] Speaker B: No.
[01:07:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:07:33] Speaker B: It's a great mean just to ask since we're doing okay on time. I think it does a little redemption of Wyatt. I know we were a little tough on him. We thought maybe he was, like, using the stereotype, but he seems like he's going to be a more important character and he's got his own sense of humor to.
[01:07:50] Speaker A: He's.
[01:07:51] Speaker B: That's good.
[01:07:52] Speaker A: Yeah, it's good to bring him in.
That was the crux of the argument. Johnny's. I want him to be more of a full, real rich character.
[01:08:04] Speaker B: And he's on his way.
[01:08:07] Speaker A: He's on his way.
[01:08:09] Speaker B: Yeah, he's going to be teaching Taylor. Excited about that. Maybe Taylor comes kind of mystic or something.
[01:08:14] Speaker A: I don't know if you heard me. I said he's on his way.
[01:08:18] Speaker B: I breezed right past it.
[01:08:22] Speaker A: I was expecting at least a titter.
[01:08:24] Speaker B: God, that was a Thomas Healy level pun.
[01:08:28] Speaker A: See what I did there? Speaking of seeing Johnny, I'm going to turn on this camera in the discord. Because, Johnny, we have ourselves a very special respawning reground him.
Speak of the devil. We got a little message from spawn safari, our good, good friend on friend on instagram saying, hey, I made you a thing. Where can I send it?
And we have a physical email, Johnny. What physical mail? It's a little box from our budy sponsor. And I'm going to open it. I'm going to open it. Oh, wow.
[01:09:29] Speaker B: This is historic. This is our first fan mail.
[01:09:32] Speaker A: First fan mail. So we're going to just dig right into it.
Unfortunately, Johnny, I think you're about to break your promise because if there's a note in here, I'm going to have to read it. And that's what you promised.
[01:09:46] Speaker B: No, just hold it up to the screen and I'll read it off of the discord screen.
That seems like the easiest way to do it.
[01:09:54] Speaker A: I can read it. Maybe I should not cut toward.
[01:09:58] Speaker B: Don't. Don't cut yourself.
Boy, I can't believe this.
[01:10:04] Speaker A: Got some tissue paper here. We got. Holy shit, Johnny, look at these. Look at these. We got a couple.
Two baggies. They look to be similar in size and quantity. So I'm going to keep this one packaged up for you and move it over to the side.
[01:10:21] Speaker B: Okay?
What's in those baggies?
[01:10:24] Speaker A: The first one is a gigantic sticker that says, may the scorched be with you, Johnny, I recognize that saying.
[01:10:35] Speaker B: It's your catchphrase.
[01:10:36] Speaker A: It's our saying. He made our saying on a thing.
We got some little baggies inside of the baggie. We get it in here. We got a little pin. Oh, we got a little sponsori hat pins.
[01:10:50] Speaker B: Oh, sponsor hat.
[01:10:52] Speaker A: Awesome. I love little sponsori hat. It's so good. Little pith helmet.
We got the spawn safari logo pin says safari on it. Oh, man. Fucking love safari. If you guys aren't following spawn safari, do it right now. Go to the instagram.
[01:11:11] Speaker B: Yeah, you better be. If you're listening to this podcast and not following spawn safari, you're doing it wrong.
[01:11:15] Speaker A: Johnny. I have been wanting to get one of these, but I didn't know where to get it from. It's a spawn emblem pen. Spawn emblem pen?
[01:11:23] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah.
[01:11:23] Speaker A: Hell yeah, man. It's surprisingly hard to find spawn emblem stuff.
[01:11:30] Speaker B: I know. I remember I was at Comic Con. I couldn't even get a damn shirt. You think that they were a shirt or a hat?
[01:11:35] Speaker A: Yeah. All right, now I'm opening the other little baggie in here. Holy shit, Johnny. It is amazed the scorched be with you pen.
It's not retro. On a pen.
[01:11:46] Speaker B: On a pen. So cool.
[01:11:48] Speaker A: Oh, man, that's awesome. That's awesome. And there's two of them. It's two of them. Because he knows that I lose stuff. Hell yeah. This is awesome. There's no letters, so you don't have to worry about reading stuff.
[01:12:00] Speaker B: Oh, that's so great.
[01:12:01] Speaker A: Thanks, sponsor. Thank you. This is awesome.
[01:12:05] Speaker B: This is like the coolest thing that's happened because of the podcast. That's so cool.
[01:12:09] Speaker A: I feel like we've made it. We've got fan art of things that we've done.
Hell yeah. Hell yeah.
That's real awesome. Real awesome.
[01:12:20] Speaker B: Thank you. Thank you, sponsor Fari.
[01:12:22] Speaker A: Thank you very much.
[01:12:25] Speaker B: Well, we'll definitely be sharing those on the Instagram. So if you listen to the episode, go peek on our instagram, we'll have pictures of all the pins that he sent us. Yeah, it's so cool.
[01:12:33] Speaker A: That's real awesome. And if you happen to have anything that, if you would like to send us a physical email, you'll just have to contact us at any of our places and we can send you an address to send stuff to.
But absolutely, that's not necessary. We only really want you to send us emails at regarding
[email protected]. So whatever floats your boat. And thank you again to spawn safari because this.
[01:13:02] Speaker B: So, yeah, send us an email at
[email protected].
You can ask us questions, comments, concerns, whatever you want to say, drop us a line.
But if you're of the inclination to ask a more specific question, we've had a lot of talk about food with the sandwiches. With the sandwich swords. We had a lot of talk about food with Taylor and the fast food nest. So I want to wonder, what's your favorite snack to eat while you're reading some spawn?
[01:13:37] Speaker A: I'm going to tell you right off the bat, Johnny, just so we can get this ball rolling.
I do a mix of a couple of gummy sharks, a handful of Snyder's, a. Hanover pretzels, and if I got a beef jerky.
[01:13:51] Speaker B: Sounds like a good snack.
[01:13:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:13:54] Speaker B: I like to eat. Usually I like to take spawn with me and eat it while I'm getting something to eat before work. So at a ramen place or like a sandwich shop.
[01:14:05] Speaker A: Nice.
[01:14:05] Speaker B: And I like to read it there if I'm eating or if I'm at home and snacking. Usually I have a beer and some chips.
[01:14:13] Speaker A: Nice. You like to use the issue of the comic as a napkin so you slip your rock?
[01:14:20] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[01:14:23] Speaker A: Got to get it off your lips.
[01:14:24] Speaker B: Awesome. It's so funny because people will medically be like, oh, yeah, spawn. If they see me reading it or if I'm sitting at the bar eating.
But the other day, actually, someone mentioned spawn. Because I found those spawn comics at open books. And when I was checking out, he's like, oh, these, like, spawn. Like the movie. I was like, yeah. He's like, oh, I just watched that. It's on HBO. And I was like, oh, hell, yeah. Nice watching it.
[01:14:50] Speaker A: I love that spawn exists in the zeitgeist. But people aren't sure if it exists, but they know that it exists. It's fun. It's fun.
[01:15:01] Speaker B: It's like one of those things, like, I think I remember this. I think this is a thing.
Oh, yeah, it's a thing.
[01:15:07] Speaker A: Yeah. But speaking of sponsor Johnny free shout out for safari. Go follow them on Instagram. They're fucking great.
[01:15:15] Speaker B: Oh, of course. Always giving a shout out to Swan safari.
[01:15:18] Speaker A: They are one of the best parts of the Instagram community. There's absolutely so much good stuff going on over there, spawn wise. But we also like to shout out a friend on Instagram. To help make our community grow bigger, into the bigger community. And we're trying to get this community to be as big and as awesome as possible.
And if we may be a little lazy, let's just piggyback on what the hard work that Thomas Healy and co. Already did.
And let's say, hey, follow our friend photo underscore fet with two t's.
They got some awesome.
[01:15:58] Speaker B: I wonder why.
[01:16:00] Speaker A: I don't know, Johnny. There's absolutely no reason that I can think of that they would be up your alley. For any reason.
[01:16:10] Speaker B: Know, I'm looking at the name, and it just doesn't ring a bell. Photo fet I don't get. No, I'm opening their page right now. They got some awesome toy photography.
[01:16:22] Speaker A: They got some ET and Muppet action going on over there. They got swamp thing hanging out with Kermit the frog. Hell, yeah.
[01:16:29] Speaker B: They got a reel of all their gunslinger stuff with gunslinger 18 that shows them in it. That's pretty cool.
[01:16:34] Speaker A: Nice.
They got some weird pictures of some dudes in some white armor. Johnny. I don't get it.
White armor. There's a lot of these guys in white armor. What are they doing?
Who knows? The world may never.
[01:16:50] Speaker B: Hmm. I don't know. They must be just like some cool, nice guys.
[01:16:54] Speaker A: Yeah, they must be.
[01:16:55] Speaker B: He does really good with the smoke effects. There's one where the xenomorph is ripping off a stormtrooper's head. That's pretty cool.
[01:17:01] Speaker A: Oh, no, Johnny, you broke the joke. You call him a. Ah, leave. It's like. It's like Jack Skellington in Christmas land.
From one verse to the next, not knowing what snow is to there's white things in the air to knowing what the hell snowballs are.
Come on, Johnny. Come on.
[01:17:26] Speaker B: Leave Jack Skellington alone.
[01:17:28] Speaker A: No. There needs to be a logical explanation for how Jack Skellington learns what snow is or what snowballs are after not knowing what snow is.
I need Tim Burton and Henry Selik to come to my house and explain to me, maybe also Danny Elfman, because Danny Elfman wrote that song. I need all three of those guys to come to my house and hang out.
Know.
Just hang out. Come on, guys. Danny Elfman, Tim Burton, Henry Selik.
[01:18:04] Speaker B: Well, you need to go to Instagram and hang out with Photofet, check them out. Give them a follow while you're over there. Give us a follow if you're not already, regarding spawnpod, at. Regarding spawnpod, yes, we're posting not quite as impressive pictures of toys, but we're posting pictures of toys and all of our other stuff. You'll see the pictures of all the great pins that spawn safari sent us that we opened on this David opened on this episode.
[01:18:30] Speaker A: If you've ever wondered if I move and gesticulate as much when I go off on my tangents, I do post a weekly reel covering that week's recent issue very briefly. And, yes, I do. I do move that much.
[01:18:47] Speaker B: Yes, we got our faces up there. Real. I'm going to start doing some reels. I keep saying that I just got to figure out my hook. I don't know.
[01:18:55] Speaker A: I mean, you just got to. Hey, Johnny. Johnny. I do believe Emperor Palpatine said it best. When he said do it.
[01:19:04] Speaker B: I thought that was Shia LaBeouf.
[01:19:06] Speaker A: Yeah, but I don't do a good screaming Shia labeouf, but I do a pretty decent.
[01:19:14] Speaker B: All right, I'll do it. I want to make it, like, a little more broad, though. I might cover stuff that I'm into that week that is, like, spawn adjacent or what other spawn I'm reading.
[01:19:23] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. I don't know.
[01:19:26] Speaker B: We'll see. I haven't quite figured it out.
[01:19:28] Speaker A: We'll see.
[01:19:28] Speaker B: We'll figure it out. And we'll be posting reels.
[01:19:31] Speaker A: Yeah, we're reels and reels of reels and reels.
While you're over on Instagram also.
We got to hear it again, Johnny. We got to hear the respawning reground song.
[01:19:42] Speaker B: We sure did.
[01:19:43] Speaker A: The maestro who made that for us, Brian T. Brian voiler over on Instagram.
He's dope. He's got some inspiration for your fitness because he's over there doing some, man, he's a fit man. He's real fit.
[01:20:01] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[01:20:04] Speaker A: He's got some fun stuff. He posts some funny stuff every once in a while, but, yeah, it's a real good guy to follow. Let's give him a follow.
And speaking of follow, Johnny, it follows that there will be another episode of this podcast sometime.
[01:20:28] Speaker B: I always forget this. Yes, there will be. I always forget there'll be another episode. I always forget to say the next week's issues. I always like, oh, we're done.
[01:20:35] Speaker A: And then I'm like, oh, no, that's right. That's how desperate Johnny is to get out of this ten year commitment. He's like, get it now. No more episodes.
No, we got some spawn to read, not just for fun, but for work, Johnny, this is work. We're working right now. It's great.
[01:20:56] Speaker B: We're working.
[01:20:58] Speaker A: So, like always, we're going to do a classic issue and contemporary issue.
[01:21:03] Speaker B: That's right.
[01:21:04] Speaker A: Next week, our classic issue is going to be gunslinger eight. So we're going to have another gunslinger issue. Hell, yeah. Fucking love. Fucking love. When we get to talk gunslinger.
[01:21:12] Speaker B: Early gunslinger. Good stuff.
[01:21:14] Speaker A: And then our contemporary issue will be scorched 16.
[01:21:18] Speaker B: And next week actually is an interesting or kind of a monumentous occasion because it'll be closing the gap on Gunslinger. We'll be all caught up.
[01:21:26] Speaker A: Yes, we will be. It'll be very exciting. And then that means if you don't want to buy the books, either floppies weekly or the trade paperbacks as they come out or go to the library and check them out or buy them digitally anywhere, you can literally just go through our podcast feed, find the ones that are Gunslinger 12345, et cetera, et cetera. Listen to them, and you can be like, hey, I listened. I read them. It was an audiobook.
[01:21:59] Speaker B: It was an audiobook that was poorly described by two weirdos.
[01:22:06] Speaker A: Oh, man.
But, yeah, it would be very exciting.
[01:22:11] Speaker B: That sounds exciting. Yeah.
[01:22:12] Speaker A: I'll be very happy to read them. Be very happy to talk to you about them here, Johnny.
[01:22:16] Speaker B: Can't wait.
[01:22:18] Speaker A: Yeah. So I think that just leaves me to.
As this lovely little pin that I'm reading off of here says, oh, yeah. May the scorch be with you.
[01:22:30] Speaker B: May the scorch be with you. Yes. And also we got those pins. That's so cool.
[01:22:36] Speaker A: Hell yeah.
[01:22:38] Speaker B: Hell yeah, man.
[01:22:41] Speaker A: The only problem is I actually want to go make a pith helmet that looks exactly like this. I don't think they tended to make black pith helmets, but I would wear that shit all the time.
[01:22:53] Speaker B: What's a pith helmet?
[01:22:55] Speaker A: The old fashioned explorer helmet, like the spawn safari helmet. Yeah. So it's a safari hat. It's a pith helmet.
[01:23:05] Speaker B: Okay. I never knew.
[01:23:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:23:07] Speaker B: How pithy of thee.
[01:23:09] Speaker A: Yeah, it's fucking great. I love it.
[01:23:12] Speaker B: I don't really have a joke for this week. I just want to say thank you. Spawn safari.
[01:23:16] Speaker A: Yes. Thank you. Thank you.
[01:23:17] Speaker B: Thank you for the pins. It's so cool. Spawn's the best. Everyone's the best.
[01:23:23] Speaker A: Thank you, listeners, for being awesome listeners. Go get that free narcan if you're in Chicago. All of the libraries are giving it out for free now.
[01:23:30] Speaker B: So you can get Narcan and you can get Spawn.
[01:23:35] Speaker A: Yeah. The double whammy. It's a no brainer.
Do it.
