RE:Spawn Episode 45 - Gunslinger Spawn 8 and Scorched 16

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hope you don't mind. I got started ahead of you because the universe is about to come crashing down. Good evening, and welcome to the Malbol. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I am your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:51] Speaker B: And I am your co host, David Williams. And, Johnny, you know what the hardest thing in the world to do? [00:00:59] Speaker A: Uh, wake up and have a lot. [00:01:01] Speaker B: Of energy on that. Besides that, it's trying to find a musical playlist on Spotify that doesn't have any of that goddamn dear Evan Hansen on it. Why do people like that show, Johnny? It's awful. It's so. [00:01:16] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:01:16] Speaker B: It's fucking terrible. [00:01:18] Speaker A: Why? I never listened to it. The trailer freaked me out. That kid being an adult, it freaked me out. [00:01:24] Speaker B: Well, no. Even beyond Ben Platt being a 40 year old man trying to play a 16 year old, the story is gross. [00:01:33] Speaker A: I don't know anything about it. It's not my jam. [00:01:36] Speaker B: So let me lay out the story for you, and let's see if you can determine why people like it. So it's about this kid who's a loner, and one summer, he breaks his arm falling out of a tree. And because of his disposition, he is mage to see a therapist. And his therapist is like, you should write yourself letters as affirmation. And so he writes himself letters that all start dear Evan Hansen. And then at one point during the school year, some kid at the school kills himself. And for some reason, Evan Hansen is printing off his letters to himself in the computer lab. And somebody finds them, and he's like, oh, no, those are all letters from the kid who killed him. He was my friend. And so he spends the whole time being like, yeah, this kid who killed himself was my friend. And he becomes friends with his parents. He starts dating the dead dude's daughter. [00:02:36] Speaker A: He starts like, wait, this kid has a daughter? [00:02:39] Speaker B: His sister. Yeah, his sister. Sorry. He starts an anti suicide awareness campaign based on the idea that he was friends with this kid who he wasn't friends with. And then he gets found out, and the whole time it's like, what the fuck are you doing? What the fuck are you doing? It's gross. It's disgusting. It's very gross. [00:03:02] Speaker A: What's the transition to Spawn here, David? [00:03:05] Speaker B: I got. Well, one beautiful bit about musicals is there's one called Hadestown, which takes place in hell, which means that there's a path given to us, Johnny. We can make the spawn musical, and it will be glorious. [00:03:23] Speaker A: Hadestown's supposed to be good, though. [00:03:25] Speaker B: Hadestown's fucking fantastic. You should listen to the soundtrack. It's great. If you're a fan of mythology or New Orleans jazz, you will love it whether or not you like musicals or not. [00:03:37] Speaker A: Well, I hate both. That's cool. [00:03:41] Speaker B: I was talking to Wanda. Wanda and I had been wanting to see it, but tickets are, like, perpetually money. And I'm like, it's probably a good thing that we can't afford to go to any showings because I would always yell, God damn it, Orpheus at the end of it every time. [00:03:57] Speaker A: Orpheus in the underworld. Yeah, New Orleans jazz. Hell, that kind of reminds me of. I bet Javi likes a little bit of know. [00:04:07] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, probably. [00:04:08] Speaker A: Maybe he's going down there in the old west times. [00:04:11] Speaker B: Yeah, he's hanging down with the debaucherous Frenchmen or the Creoles. That's what he's doing. He's got to hang out with a Creole at some point. [00:04:24] Speaker A: I like a wild West Frenchman. Yeah, they're always fun. [00:04:28] Speaker B: He's definitely, like, best friends with a madam, and she provides him provisions because he beats up or takes care of certain unsavory johns who've been not nice to her girls. [00:04:42] Speaker A: I could definitely see that. [00:04:43] Speaker B: Oh, man, I'm so excited for Gunslinger to be sent back to his own time, because that's going to be super great. Fuck, I love that book, Johnny. And it's a good thing that I love Gunslinger because it's one of the books reading this week. Johnny. [00:04:59] Speaker A: That's right. This is not a musical podcast. It's a spawn podcast. So if it's your first time with us, we do two issues of Spawn's universe from Spawn's universe every week, except when we don't. And this week we usually do an older one, a classic, and then a newer issue. We're in the middle right now in the Malbolge because we're filling in the gaps in between the beginning of the current spawn. So Gunslinger, scorch king spawn. When we started the podcast, it was on, like, issue eight or nine on most of them, and now we're filling in those gaps. So we're on Gunslinger number eight because we started with Gunslinger number nine. So this is the last of the early gunslingers, and we'll be all caught up in only doing Gunslinger new ones from here on out, unless somehow there's time travel and they invent more gunslingers for us to go back to, but we'll see Gunslinger in some spawns. [00:06:02] Speaker B: Well, the making a comeback, Johnny. So there might be Gunslinger spawn issue number zero coming out sometime. That was a real big 90s thing. [00:06:10] Speaker A: Then we got to go all the way back to zero. Well, that's our first issue. Gunslinger number eight. And our second issue is scorched. Double that. Eight, and you get 16. It's scorched number 16? [00:06:23] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:06:24] Speaker A: With that beautiful mark Spears Afric cover. [00:06:28] Speaker B: Oh, man. I'm looking at it right now, but I can't get distracted by it because that's not. [00:06:34] Speaker A: That's second. So, first up, we have Gunslinger number eight all the way back from May 2022. So about exactly a year ago as of this record. And about when you'll be listening, too. [00:06:49] Speaker B: Yeah. So, Johnny, we got to start these with covers, don't we? [00:06:53] Speaker A: Usually, unless we're buying those illegal books. You know how it always says a book, if you buy this book without a cover, it's illegal? Who's ever bought a book without a cover? [00:07:02] Speaker B: I mean, like, if you buy them from the dude that's got just, like, books shoved into his trench coat. No, those are usually stolen. So I know that my elementary school library used to chop half of the COVID off of books that they took out of circulation and then sold. I don't know if that's the same thing. [00:07:25] Speaker A: You know what I mean? In most books, there's that disclaimer at the beginning. [00:07:28] Speaker B: Yeah, but that's how you like, if there's something wrong with the books, you can rip off the COVID and send it back to the publishing house for reimbursement. And so if you were to do that, but then you had the book that had no cover and decided, I'll sell it for, like, $5, it's fine. That's what they're trying to prevent. [00:07:48] Speaker A: Can't do it. Can't do it. [00:07:50] Speaker B: Can't do it. I mean, I'd probably read a book with no cover, but the problem is I'm terribly hard. [00:07:55] Speaker A: Is that true? If you have a book that's, like, messed up, you can rip off the COVID and send it to the publisher? [00:08:00] Speaker B: No, if you're a book seller. So if you own a bookstore, there's something wrong with the books. Yeah. I also think there's. For certain books, I think there's a period of time, like, if you order so many and within so long, you don't move very many copies, you can trash them. So that way they don't just sit around in your inventory. [00:08:28] Speaker A: Okay. [00:08:30] Speaker B: It's an incentive for early, high volume orders. [00:08:36] Speaker A: Okay. Got it. Well, I'm always ordering early and often, gunslinger. [00:08:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:43] Speaker A: And we've got two covers, as you do with these three more. What? There's three? [00:08:51] Speaker B: There's three? Yes, three. [00:08:52] Speaker A: Oh, there is three. [00:08:54] Speaker B: Do you know what mine is, Johnny? [00:08:56] Speaker A: Is it the blank? [00:08:57] Speaker B: It's the blank. [00:09:00] Speaker A: You got the blank cover again. So what happened with just. You signed up for whatever number the blank was and you just got all those. [00:09:09] Speaker B: So it's just my shop doesn't have. You don't do it so granularly. You just write down what series you want, and if you want to, you can be like, hey, maybe if there's a horny cover, give me a horny cover. But I just take whatever cover they pull for me. But the shop does order every cover that's available for things if they can. So I could switch it out, but I'm just lazy. [00:09:34] Speaker A: Okay. Got it. [00:09:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:09:36] Speaker A: Well, that's cool. That's the c cover, technically, the blank cover. [00:09:44] Speaker B: Yes. [00:09:44] Speaker A: So one day it'll be a cover. I'm telling you, it's going to be a bit. And once we run out of toys to open, we have to start painting live on air covers. [00:09:56] Speaker B: That would be fun. That'd be real fun. [00:09:58] Speaker A: Do a speed. Do like, a two minute. You got, like, three minutes to draw spawn or something. [00:10:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Or if there happen to be any spawn adjacent or hell themed people at challengers, we can just be like, hey, guys, do you mind if you do a sketch on this, and then we film it for our podcast, Instagram? That would be fun. [00:10:16] Speaker A: That would be fun. That's a good idea. So the a cover is by Kevin Keane, and it is gunslinger walking away from the world's biggest explosion. And he's doing the badass thing where he just walks away and doesn't look just like Django does in Django Unchained. [00:10:36] Speaker B: Oh, man. That man ain't got no chains no more. [00:10:40] Speaker A: I just had Covid and I watched every single Tarantino movie, and so I'm trying to get canceled. That's why I did it. [00:10:49] Speaker B: Oh, man. How was Jamie Foxx looking in that? [00:10:53] Speaker A: Looking good. Looking great. Yeah. His transformation. He gets very handsome by the end. He's looking good. [00:11:01] Speaker B: Nice. [00:11:01] Speaker A: Gets a real handsome suit. Just like gunslinger here is very handsome. [00:11:06] Speaker B: We're still trying to put up those good vibes for Jamie Foxx to get better. [00:11:10] Speaker A: Of course. Good vibes to Jamie Fox. I hear he's getting good. [00:11:16] Speaker B: It's good news. It's good news. I like it. [00:11:18] Speaker A: The b cover is by a b artist. Not b rating, but b naming. [00:11:28] Speaker B: I got a bone to pick with you. Yeah, I am on imagecomics.com. On the gunslinger spawn number eight page, it only lists one cover artist. [00:11:41] Speaker A: Well, there's two. [00:11:42] Speaker B: It says writer Tod McFarland, artist Bret Booth cover, a Kevin Keane. Only other variant cover it lists is the blank one. [00:11:51] Speaker A: Well, you're wrong, because I have a gunslinger number eight, but also the blank. [00:11:56] Speaker B: Picture they have has a gunslinger spawn title in green, whereas mine is like an ombre from white to yellow. Oh, man. What is going on here? Actually, it says gunslinger spawn number 330. What the shit? [00:12:15] Speaker A: Sounds like something's messed up with the data. [00:12:18] Speaker B: I got to copy this image and send it to you real quick, just so you know that I ain't lying. I also noticed that there's a little blurb for each issue on the website that doesn't match up with the previous Leon for Gunslinger Eight doesn't match up with the blurb on the gunslinger spawn number seven online. So there's so much additional writing to what actually goes into the story that's going on. [00:12:49] Speaker A: Interesting. Yeah, it's probably hard to keep up with, man. [00:12:53] Speaker B: Thomas Healy has his work cut out. [00:12:55] Speaker A: For him, despite what the Internet says. At least the Internet. [00:12:59] Speaker B: You're listening to the official imagecomics.com Internet. [00:13:04] Speaker A: There is a cover, b, and it's by Bret Booth. Booth. And it's gunslinger. Crossed arms, shooting both ways. Looking good. Shooting it like some crazy. It's basically like versions of the demon we get in the issue. This is a crazy cover because it actually matches with what's going on in the issue. So this is, like, historic because there's beasts with tentacle thing arms. Just like we get in the issue. We get Javi shooting, and you get Jessica shooting. [00:13:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:38] Speaker A: And she's wearing Javi's sunglasses. Oh, man, I love that little detail that she's wearing, those sunglasses that he gets. It matches up the issue. Everyone looks great. I love Bret Booth's Jessica hair. So chunky. It's like it's underwater constantly. [00:13:57] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like, always got that motion. That's one of the things we love about Bret Booth. [00:14:03] Speaker A: Yep. Did you find the COVID you're able to look at? [00:14:06] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, I'm looking at it right now. [00:14:07] Speaker A: Are you aware of its existence? [00:14:10] Speaker B: I am aware of its existence. [00:14:12] Speaker A: Okay, good to know. So let's crack it open. And of course, we got the tod father himself writing the issue. [00:14:21] Speaker B: Yep. Script blunt art by as we. [00:14:26] Speaker A: Yes. He did the art and the b cover. [00:14:28] Speaker B: Yeah. And if I'm ever lucky enough, my blank c cover. How awesome would that be? [00:14:39] Speaker A: It's the black one or the white. [00:14:41] Speaker B: It's the black one. Adelso Corona. Adelso Corona, not Corona, is the anchor. It's real nice doing Brett Booth. Thanks. Ivan Nunez on colors. Tom o. Once again, the glorious return of the Tom O on letters. Already talked about the COVID artists. Already mentioned Thomas Healy. Thomas Healy has been posting a lot of pictures of the boiler makers he's been having at just, like, a dive bar near his office. And that man drinks hams, and I'm here for it. [00:15:19] Speaker A: I'm hams. I can. I like hams. [00:15:21] Speaker B: Hams. I'm pretty sure Hams has the same, like, the recipe for Hams is the same recipe as the one for PBR, but Hams is half the price. [00:15:32] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, all those are kind of similar PBR hams. High life. Those all kind of. They're like beer. The beer. [00:15:40] Speaker B: Yeah. The beerest flavored beer ever. But in Chicago, where everything costs a little more, a six pack of ham's tall boys is only, like, $4. It's so hard to beat. [00:15:53] Speaker A: See, you say that, but actually, beer is pretty cheap in Chicago, especially, like, packaged beer. Like, go back to Oklahoma. I forget, like, a 30 rack of PBR is, like, $30. Because where the beer is, baby, they got to come through us. Yeah, we're by that beer land. [00:16:10] Speaker B: Never turn your nose up in an old style, either. Old style is good. [00:16:14] Speaker A: Of course not. I love old style of schlitz. Give it all to me. Labot blue. I like canadian. Just like the top father. I'll drink labot blue. [00:16:22] Speaker B: I love a labot blue. [00:16:23] Speaker A: It's very refreshing. [00:16:24] Speaker B: The whole foods over by my house sells them in, like, the 30 ounce cans. And if I ever have a big day of outside work, I have to buy myself one of them. And then you throw it in the freezer, so it's super cold. Best yard. [00:16:37] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Love that labot blue. [00:16:40] Speaker B: It's so good. Thank you. [00:16:41] Speaker A: There used to be a bar by my house that had it on tap. It was like, their house tod. I like to have a love bot blue with the toddfather. [00:16:50] Speaker B: Well, Johnny the Tod father is famously a tea totaler. Doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, doesn't do. [00:16:58] Speaker A: Oh, well, I'll have one while he has a nice Diet Coke. [00:17:06] Speaker B: If you remember the beer summit from 2008, that's what then Vice president Joe Biden did. [00:17:14] Speaker A: Had a Diet Coke. [00:17:16] Speaker B: I think he had a Diet Pepsi, actually. [00:17:18] Speaker A: Wow. [00:17:19] Speaker B: Yeah. And that made our president. He prefers Pepsi over Coke. What the fuck? [00:17:24] Speaker A: I had a friend that worked in film production in New York, and some way, somehow, that office he worked at, he had to kind of entertain Daniel Radcliffe for a little bit while they were waiting for a. And he had just got sober, and he was definitely obsessed with Diet Coke because it's not as big as it is in England. He hadn't heard of it before, and he was, like, blown away by Diet Coke. [00:17:49] Speaker B: Daniel Radcliffe's fun guy. Both Elijah Wood and Daniel Radcliffe, after being the main protagonists of gigantic series, rather young now. Just make whatever the fuck they want. And it is very the. I like the swings Daniel Redcliffe has taken with things. Yeah. [00:18:09] Speaker A: He's had a fun career. [00:18:11] Speaker B: It's fun. It's like, whatever that movie is where he's forced to fight and they, like, staple guns to his hands. [00:18:19] Speaker A: Guns of Kimbo. [00:18:20] Speaker B: Guns of Kimbo. Yeah. It's a good one. It's wild. What's that show? Shit. The show on TBS. [00:18:29] Speaker A: The librarians? [00:18:32] Speaker B: No. Is he in the librarians? No. [00:18:35] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:18:36] Speaker B: Miracle workers. That Steve Bushimi is also in. [00:18:40] Speaker A: So previously in Gunslinger Spawn. After a battle with a mysterious werewolf known as Carnivore, Gunslinger realizes that not only are some of his enemies from the past still alive, but they know he is here in the present. [00:18:58] Speaker B: All right, I got a bone to pick with this. They didn't tell us his name was Carnivore last episode issue, did they? [00:19:04] Speaker A: Yeah, he did. [00:19:05] Speaker B: They did. Oh, yeah. [00:19:06] Speaker A: He says it. [00:19:07] Speaker B: Oh, shit. Never mind. Bone unpicked. [00:19:11] Speaker A: It has, like, a cool, stylized name, I'm pretty sure. [00:19:14] Speaker B: Oh, man. You know, I could reach down there and look at it, but I'm too lazy. [00:19:19] Speaker A: You pick your own damn bone. Well, don't do that on Mike. [00:19:24] Speaker B: If you will please excuse me for about 15 minutes. [00:19:27] Speaker A: No flipping ahead and look at these Jessica pictures. [00:19:37] Speaker B: Don't you know it. We start off with, literally, the scene that appears in every high school age, coming of age love drama. The two people laying in the grass staring up at the only. Only Jessica and Javi aren't lovers, but. [00:20:01] Speaker A: Still they're doing like, it flirts with it. Not flirts with it, but I don't know. There's some tension there. [00:20:10] Speaker B: Yeah, but every time some actual tension builds, Javi just completely collapses it because he's being a stinker again. [00:20:19] Speaker A: Oh. Of. [00:20:24] Speaker B: Trying to figure out, does that cloud look like snoopy to you? And Javi's like, what the fuck's a. They're doing? They're basically doing a debrief of the battle. They just fought in the. [00:20:40] Speaker A: Just like. It's like, was it good for you? Except they're talking about a fight and not sex. [00:20:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:44] Speaker A: Javi's even smoking a cigarette. [00:20:46] Speaker B: Yeah, sure is. [00:20:47] Speaker A: And Jessica's pissed because she spent months and months following this target, and Javi just blew it within a night. [00:20:54] Speaker B: Just, like, immediately blew it. I like how she says, don't you dare patronize me. And he's like, I have no idea what that. So Javi's got these old fashioned ideas of honor that Jessica isn't really very appreciative of because they take her autonomy. [00:21:14] Speaker A: Out of know, but not her hair's autonomy. It's going crazy. [00:21:18] Speaker B: Oh, man. It's fully autonomous hair, Johnny. And then Javi's like, but got me some nice glasses as a result. I look sweet. Don't. Totally. He totally took that from Taylor. Taylor's totally referred to things as being sweet before. [00:21:39] Speaker A: Yeah, they're like ski sunglasses. [00:21:42] Speaker B: Yeah, they're great. They're, like pseudo wraparound sunglasses. They're almost like cyclops level of sunglasses. [00:21:54] Speaker A: Right. [00:21:55] Speaker B: And then we get, like, some flashback images of the bar fight, bottle breaking. [00:22:02] Speaker A: People getting smashed into mirrors, guy getting. [00:22:05] Speaker B: Punched, and then the actual acquisition of the sunglasses. [00:22:10] Speaker A: It punches the guy, and they fly off his face. [00:22:12] Speaker B: I like how, as he's putting on the sunglasses, there's just, like, this brawl going on behind him, and there's just so much going on. There's a bowl of peanuts being knocked over. There's a dude wearing a shirt with. [00:22:27] Speaker A: A dinosaur on it, picture of beer being spilt. [00:22:30] Speaker B: And then Jessica's like, take off these. Damn. [00:22:32] Speaker A: He says he likes things simple, and Jessica gets him by saying, that fits your personality. [00:22:39] Speaker B: Zing. And then Jessica's like, you had no right to kill my target. And Javi does that thing where it's like, he had it coming. He had it coming. He stabbed himself in the chest twelve times, Johnny. [00:22:54] Speaker A: He ran into my knife. He ran into my knife twelve times. So the guy, the big brute, we find out in this bar, has a guy kind of pulling the strings behind him where he's like, the man servant to this one guy. [00:23:07] Speaker B: Yeah, he looks kind of like the animated series Riddler, only just now he does the question mark. Suit, can I just take a moment to say I fucking hate riddles? So that means that the Riddler is, like, my least favorite Batman villain. Fucking hate riddles. They're dumb. They're stupid. I hate them. [00:23:28] Speaker A: Why do you hate riddles? [00:23:30] Speaker B: Because their internal logic doesn't make complete logical sense to me. And I don't like that. I don't like it. It requires you to know more than what's there. And the correct answer isn't always an answer that follows from what's presented. They leave too much out and the answer is always too nebulous for me. I don't like it. It's dumb. [00:23:59] Speaker A: I got you. [00:24:00] Speaker B: It's bad. It's like bad. [00:24:05] Speaker A: Gotcha. I got. [00:24:07] Speaker B: Although. Although. That said, there is a Riddler storyline where the Riddler makes Batman do a whole bunch of little tasks that basically allow the Riddler to call forth a demon from hell. And that's a pretty good story. That's a pretty good one. [00:24:30] Speaker A: Well, this guy is a demon from hell, basically. He looks like the Riddler and he is a demon. [00:24:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Specifically a deviant. [00:24:39] Speaker A: They call him later a deviant. Well, you can see he's got a glowing red eye. [00:24:44] Speaker B: But big beefy dude who called Jessica a whore calls little Riddler man Mr. Silverton. And Javi's like, Silverton, you wouldn't be the same one that lived in Sioux City a while back, would you? [00:24:59] Speaker A: Like 200 years ago or so? Yeah. [00:25:02] Speaker B: I wonder what Sioux City they're talking about. Because my grandparents used to live in a town not too far from Sioux City, Iowa. I've been to a Sioux city, so I wonder if it's the same Sioux city. [00:25:13] Speaker A: He kind of looks like the robot. I thought for a second he was a robot. [00:25:18] Speaker B: He's got like. Yeah, he's got like, what is it, a t 200? Is that what the Terminator is? [00:25:25] Speaker A: T 1000? [00:25:26] Speaker B: I thought the t 1000. [00:25:27] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that's liquid metal guy. Yeah, he's the liquid metal guy. T two. I don't know what it is. [00:25:34] Speaker B: T 800. [00:25:36] Speaker A: Yeah, that's it. At least that's not be the one in Terminator two. [00:25:40] Speaker B: The Terminator, also known as Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 or the t 800, is the name of several film characters from the Terminator for a franchise portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger and numerous actor stand ins. [00:25:52] Speaker A: Numerous stand ins. So Silverton knows stuff about Amy and is basically like, oh, yeah, she is a fine looking woman. [00:26:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:02] Speaker A: So he obviously pulls a gun on. [00:26:04] Speaker B: Him for saying the I love the dialogue bubble of exclamation mark. [00:26:13] Speaker A: Yeah, that's funny. [00:26:15] Speaker B: And then Javier's reaction ignites tensions on both sides, turning that moment into an epic bar brawl. Johnny and then Jessica, we're back in the field and Jessica's like, he said the name Amy, who is she? And Javi's just like, I don't talk about that. [00:26:32] Speaker A: She's like, of course you don't. [00:26:34] Speaker B: I said, I don't talk about that. And he gets real angry, and he stands up, lingers out. [00:26:42] Speaker A: I like, it's like a crescent moon thing going on. [00:26:45] Speaker B: It's. We keep mentioning it, but it's very anime. Like. You can hear it just go, ching. [00:26:52] Speaker A: Yeah, I know you can hear it go. Yeah, you can definitely hear it. [00:26:55] Speaker B: The spikes on his wrists are much more wicked now than they usually are. [00:27:00] Speaker A: He's prickly. His hackles are up, as they say. [00:27:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:04] Speaker A: He says, where the hell is spawn? [00:27:07] Speaker B: Look at the posture he's got as he's looking down at her. His back is like, ramrod straight, man. I I try to do my posture well, but I still find myself sitting like a little gremlin at the computer. Like. [00:27:21] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a problem, man. [00:27:24] Speaker B: He makes me want to stand up taller. [00:27:27] Speaker A: Stand tall, padawan. So Jessica apologizes for prying about Amy, and Javi's being all sensitive now. [00:27:36] Speaker B: She gets to patronize him, but he doesn't know what that. So patronize, not patronize. Patronize is given money to. [00:27:44] Speaker A: Geez, patron. [00:27:45] Speaker B: We go back to the bar, and Javi's got the gun pointed at Silverton's head, and he's yelling at Jessica to take everybody with her. She's like, get out. [00:27:56] Speaker A: Get all those people out of here. I guess she just runs out. Yell if you need me. [00:28:02] Speaker B: Bye. Because, yeah, he's. [00:28:03] Speaker A: Bye. I'll be right outside. [00:28:05] Speaker B: She says, don't think about changing. That'll blow your cover forever. And she's like, yeah, okay, good idea. [00:28:10] Speaker A: Good call. [00:28:12] Speaker B: And then once everybody's gone, hobby just shoots Silverton right in the forehead. They both know it doesn't do any good, but he's just going to shoot him. [00:28:24] Speaker A: Why not? It doesn't hurt. [00:28:27] Speaker B: And apparently, the difference between the Riddler and two face Johnny is a bullet in the forehead, because Silverton's looking awfully two facey right here. [00:28:37] Speaker A: He does look like two face. So Javi just starts fighting this big guy because he's protecting Silverton. Yeah, Mr. Two faced looking guy here. [00:28:46] Speaker B: And protect him he does Johnny. He's punching Javi in the stomach. He's lifting him over his head. He's throwing him across the room. [00:28:55] Speaker A: He reminds me so much. This heavy guy reminds me so much of. I mean, heavy as in, like a bad guy? Yeah, like a heavy. There's a super Nintendo game called Final Fight, and it was like a side scrolling beat him up and there's a big, one of the guys names Haggard, and he's this big guy that looks like him with a mustache and everything. But the thing that's great is in the plot of the game. He's, like, the city's mayor. You're like, play as the mayor and go beat the shit out of all these people. And it's like a double dragon. Like Ninja Turtles. Like, you've side schooled. Beat them up. But one of the characters you play as is the mayor, which is pretty funny. But he looks exactly like this guy. [00:29:38] Speaker B: I'm looking him up right now, actually. Final fight mayor. [00:29:42] Speaker A: He has, like, a bandolier. Yeah, it's funny. [00:29:46] Speaker B: If this guy wasn't wearing a shirt, he would look exactly. [00:29:49] Speaker A: I vote for that guy. [00:29:52] Speaker B: It's weird because his bandolier is like. Actually, I think it doubles as a single strap suspender. [00:30:00] Speaker A: It's like a single strap suspender. It's a real anime made up gear. That game's, like a nightmare of what early 90s Japan thought. Like, urban life, like, urban hell was like in America, because it's just you fight, like, spray painting punks, and it's hilarious. [00:30:17] Speaker B: Man, that's great. [00:30:19] Speaker A: Cleaning up the town just like he's cleaning hobby's clock here. He picks him up over his head and slams him. [00:30:26] Speaker B: And then we get another iteration of the punching the dude in the face and collecting the sunglasses. [00:30:35] Speaker A: Oh, wow. This is like a memento. It's just folding in on. [00:30:40] Speaker B: He. And then he's loading his pistol with necrobullets, bullets that can stop a herd of elephants. Johnny and deviants. [00:30:49] Speaker A: And then he just turns into, like, something from the thing. [00:30:53] Speaker B: Yeah, there's, like, a massive explosion in the bar, but the bar doesn't quite look like it's been exploded. [00:30:59] Speaker A: Yoda. [00:30:59] Speaker B: Yodi'd on the inside. That's crazy. [00:31:01] Speaker A: No, not really. Maybe it's just, like, hellfire coming out. [00:31:06] Speaker B: Yeah, I do like that. There's a pair of boots with just, like, the legs still inside of them, but no body. He just goes, oops. [00:31:19] Speaker A: Got to. Just got completely vaporized. [00:31:23] Speaker B: Oh, man. As the body parts ooze down the wall, gunslinger learns that they're not all deviants, but some of them are. [00:31:35] Speaker A: Yeah. He's like, all these people here are demons. He just blows them. Oh, well, not all of them. [00:31:41] Speaker B: Reckless and stupid. It's amazing you've lasted so long. And then here's the thing. Thing? [00:31:47] Speaker A: You're talking about the thing Silverton turns into, like, this Lovecraftian. The thing beast. [00:31:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:55] Speaker A: With all these. He has the tentacle arms. [00:31:58] Speaker B: He gets the tentacle legs. I like how he does the hulk thing of shredding his pants, but they still stay on, like shorts. [00:32:06] Speaker A: Are those purple? Is that maybe a little reference? [00:32:08] Speaker B: Maybe. [00:32:10] Speaker A: They look purple to me. [00:32:12] Speaker B: Yeah. I like how this little cane has a little winged skull on the top of it. That's super cool. [00:32:18] Speaker A: So he just wraps. He just, like, constricts his weird, crazy tentacle arms around Javi. [00:32:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:25] Speaker A: Starts swapping him around, flapping him around, as it says. [00:32:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Knowing pain is just part of the game, Johnny. But the thing about pain is it can literally cut both ways. [00:32:38] Speaker A: Classic tod father dialogue here. [00:32:40] Speaker B: I'm a little confused about what that means, but okay, whatever. So how he just starts, like, well, I guess literally cutting because his hat is tossed away, but he's grabbed two weapons from inside of it, and he's just. [00:32:59] Speaker A: Slashing away. This guy. [00:33:01] Speaker B: Yeah, slash. Then keep slashing is what's written here. And Silverton's basically doing the hydra. Hydra cut one down to take its place, only instead of two, it's a hundred. Yeah. [00:33:18] Speaker A: And he's got his tentacles all cut off. [00:33:21] Speaker B: And then Javi knocks him to the ground, and he reverts back to his fully human form, and Javi, like, wrestles him. Wrestles him down. Silverton has a very shapely leg here, Johnny. It's very. [00:33:34] Speaker A: Oh, yes. Looks very nice. [00:33:35] Speaker B: Very shapely. [00:33:37] Speaker A: Like he would stop a cab. [00:33:39] Speaker B: Yeah, he sure would. It makes up for the fact that he ain't got no hands no more, because Javi's cut him off. [00:33:49] Speaker A: He cut off his tentacle hands? [00:33:51] Speaker B: Yeah, cut off his real hands, too, apparently. [00:33:54] Speaker A: Well, I think probably when you cut off the tentacle hand, when they morph back into your regular arm would be gone. [00:34:00] Speaker B: Like that, dude, in. What was it? Was it 301? 302. [00:34:04] Speaker A: Yes, exactly like that. [00:34:08] Speaker B: And then Javy's got him in, like, a chokehold, and he slowly starts to squeeze him, and he just keeps squeezing. [00:34:18] Speaker A: Squeezing and squeezing until he. I mean, he squeezed him with his head. You know what's going to happen? [00:34:26] Speaker B: He's asking the man questions, but he's, like, not even giving him even the smallest possibility to answer because he's just squeezing and squeezing and squeezing. [00:34:36] Speaker A: Squeezing his head. Yeah, he's, like, thrashing and turns back into his demon form. [00:34:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:42] Speaker A: And then his eyeballs look like they're about to pop out. [00:34:45] Speaker B: Yeah. And then his head explode, or I. [00:34:52] Speaker A: Guess pops, load implodes, gets crushed like a pimple. [00:34:56] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:34:57] Speaker A: Yeah. This chunk of brain flying like there's. [00:35:01] Speaker B: A little patch of hair. [00:35:04] Speaker A: Oh, man. He just, like, cracks his skull. [00:35:07] Speaker B: Oh, man. Yeah, it's so gross. And then Javi just, like, saunters out of the saloon. We can call it a saloon. It's a western. Just, like, dusting Silverton goop off of him. Light the cigarette. Time to go. [00:35:27] Speaker A: I like to run from the cops. Jessica's like, yeah, I hear the sirens. [00:35:30] Speaker B: Yeah. And here's where we get the promise Jessica makes that Javi holds her to later and becomes a stinker about. She's going to get him in touch with Spawn, and Spawn's going to help him. And then we end on our man Al just doing his thing on the rooftops of New York City. [00:35:57] Speaker A: He has a little anime crescent moon out of his eye. [00:35:59] Speaker B: Little schwing. Yeah. I love the smoke, the fog. That's just, like, all around him. It's so cool now. [00:36:10] Speaker A: He looks Badass. [00:36:11] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we get one. One three is what Javi is at necrometer wise. [00:36:16] Speaker A: We got spotting ground. We got some letters this time. Always love some letters. First up is Joe, who's just, like, been passing the toys and the comics on to his son, and I don't know, it seems like he's really enjoying. Cool. [00:36:33] Speaker B: It's real cool. Next, we got a dude named Pascal, aka toy Talica, who took some action figure photography pictures of the first gunslinger action figure. And they're real nice. They're real cool. I like how it's got little glowing green eyes. [00:36:52] Speaker A: Yeah, they're dope. [00:36:54] Speaker B: Thomas. One of Thomas's promises now is that gunslinger is going to be around for a long. [00:37:03] Speaker A: Time. Every time he makes a promise, I'll have to play Thomas's promises. [00:37:11] Speaker B: Yeah. We can both record ourselves singing and have Brian put it together in some way that we harmonize. [00:37:18] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:37:20] Speaker B: Thomas's promises. [00:37:22] Speaker A: So here's another one of those Thomas's promises. They asked about Nick's returning. [00:37:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:29] Speaker A: Also, he created nuclear spawn. [00:37:33] Speaker B: Nuclear spawn. That would be real. Is this is all just like a pitch? It's great. [00:37:43] Speaker A: Thomas is like that. Should I come back? I like how he just ignores the question he asks him about nuke. Is there any chance I could make a cameo? [00:37:54] Speaker B: Thomas knows where to end his promises. [00:37:57] Speaker A: Yeah. He's like, I can't promise you a cameo, buddy. [00:38:00] Speaker B: Not even going to touch that. It's a sticky wicket, as they say. [00:38:04] Speaker A: But he says, you never know. Nick's might come back. [00:38:06] Speaker B: Yeah. That's gunslinger number eight, Johnny. [00:38:10] Speaker A: That's gunslinger number eight. So next up, this episode, we have scorched number 16. And like I mentioned before, that glorious mark Spears cover with freak licking a knife and he's looking all freaky deeky. That's not a knife, it's a rusty knife. His eyes are all sticking out and he's scary. And it's purple and green and blue and neon. [00:39:01] Speaker B: He's got this flowing electric blue hair. [00:39:05] Speaker A: Yeah, it's really cool. [00:39:06] Speaker B: Yeah, he did a good job on these covers. I really like them. [00:39:10] Speaker A: No, they're some of my favorites. Definitely of recent memory. [00:39:15] Speaker B: My notes say there's actually two Covers, Jeff. [00:39:18] Speaker A: Two? Yes. There's a second cover. It is by Von Randall and it's Jessica on a bike sitting there next to a pillar that's been all shot out with, like, rebarb. Rebar. It's funny because it reminds me of something McFarlane related. They had these, they didn't make the original series of Matrix figures, but when the sequels came out, they got the rights to the Matrix figures and they made these like it was in the period where their figures were much more statuey, like early 2000s. Whenever the Matrix sequels came out, it's like 2003, but it was like Trinity and Neo, like running along the wall in the lobby. But they each came with this decimated pillar that looks exactly like that. That was just like all beat up and shot. It had like rebar sticking out and everything. [00:40:14] Speaker B: Nice. Much like the. [00:40:15] Speaker A: Is it rebar or rebarb? [00:40:17] Speaker B: Rebar. [00:40:19] Speaker A: Yeah, there's no b. It's not rebarb. [00:40:21] Speaker B: No, no, rebarb. Rebarb is when you once were Barb and then you stopped being barb again. [00:40:28] Speaker A: Then you'rebarb that's going to be me seeing Barbie twice. I'm going to go rebarb. [00:40:32] Speaker B: Oh, Jesus. I'm so fucking excited. A new trailer dropped this week and it looks bitchin'I. [00:40:37] Speaker A: Try not to watch trailers if I'm gonna see something. So I haven't watched looks. [00:40:42] Speaker B: It looks great. Wanda is having me try to stake out a good Saturday to go out to see it. She's like, what theater can we go to? I want as fancy as possible, as close to us as possible. [00:40:57] Speaker A: Nice. You go to the draft test, you can get like Barbie brunch probably. [00:41:03] Speaker B: I suggested that, but there's literally nothing on their menu she could eat. Yeah, and it's also like 45 minutes in the car where we could just go to the new city and that's like 20 minutes away. [00:41:15] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. A lot easier. [00:41:17] Speaker B: Close enough. That's close. Enough. [00:41:20] Speaker A: Close enough. We have Vaughn. Randall. You got Jessica with a big old gun. [00:41:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Pretty cool. The motorcycle with, like, a demon skull on it. That's pretty dope. [00:41:30] Speaker A: Yeah. Which cover did you end up with? The Mark Spears. [00:41:33] Speaker B: I have the gotta go. You gotta go with the good ones. [00:41:37] Speaker A: You pop it open, you go past that beautiful cover, and who do we got? Who do we got on script, plot? [00:41:44] Speaker B: We got Sean Lewis, our buddy boy, and his buddy boy, doing additional script. Tod McFarlane. Hell, yeah. [00:41:52] Speaker A: Steven Segovia doing our art. Love, Steven Segovia. Must be a busy man between this and wildcats. [00:41:59] Speaker B: Definitely has to be. Although the last issue of wildcats, Steven only did the COVID Yeah, he's coming. [00:42:06] Speaker A: Back for the next one I saw. Yeah, that was interesting. [00:42:09] Speaker B: Ulysses Areola doing colors and world design. Doing the lettering and world design. Does King spawn, too. I wonder if they're associated. Like, I wonder if they're just who Sean Lewis uses. Cover artists. We already covered them. Thomas Healy. We've already covered him. [00:42:26] Speaker A: And we've already covered Todd McFarland. [00:42:28] Speaker B: Yeah. Like, multiple times. [00:42:31] Speaker A: There's one thing we haven't covered, though. Well, we did cover it in a previous issue. [00:42:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:42:36] Speaker A: And that's what previously happened in Scorch. [00:42:38] Speaker B: Yeah, we kind of did, but we kind of didn't. We should cover it again, Johnny. [00:42:43] Speaker A: Previously in Scorch, Necro, Margaret Love and Mandarin Spawn have solidified their pact and are on the hunt for their fourth. Hmm. Fourth member. [00:42:55] Speaker B: Fourth member. [00:42:57] Speaker A: Four members for four horsemen? [00:43:00] Speaker B: Sounds a little bit like they're a polycule looking for another member, and they're just having such a hard time finding them on Tinder. Johnny, you can't believe the legwork that they have to put in to find a suitable fourth member. [00:43:15] Speaker A: See the ghastly visage of Ergison. [00:43:18] Speaker B: Yes, he is quite ghastly. I do like the first word he has for them is just late. [00:43:26] Speaker A: Yeah, this is me getting my Uber eats. I'm kidding. I'm very nice to my delivery drivers. I would never do that. [00:43:32] Speaker B: It's very much like the pirate and hook who thinks Peter Pan is taking too long to walk the plank. Too long. [00:43:40] Speaker A: He waited too long. He's been waiting since, like, issue hundred. Yeah, give the guy a break. [00:43:46] Speaker B: How many years ago was that? Issue 100? [00:43:49] Speaker A: Oh, God. It was, like, 99 ish, man. He went a long ass time. [00:43:55] Speaker B: He's been stuck in there since the old millennium, Johnny. [00:43:58] Speaker A: He's pissed, man. [00:44:00] Speaker B: I bet he doesn't even know about 911. Shit. [00:44:04] Speaker A: He doesn't know about 911. He didn't know the Red Sox won the World Series. Or the Cubs. [00:44:09] Speaker B: Or the Cubs. Yeah, man, he's got a lot to. Got a lot to catch up on. He doesn't even know about Robert Downey Jr. Not just being a cokehead anymore. [00:44:19] Speaker A: The last movie he saw before he went into hiding was probably Star wars episode one, the Phantom Menace. He doesn't even know how two and three turned out. [00:44:25] Speaker B: Man, he's got a surprise waiting for him as far as order 66 is concerned. [00:44:31] Speaker A: Oh, man. He better watch out. And the identity of that darth sidious fellow. [00:44:36] Speaker B: Oh, man, oh, man. A good soldier follow. [00:44:39] Speaker A: Margaret loves, like, what are we late for? We're not late. [00:44:42] Speaker B: She does a little Gandalf here. We are never late, nor are we early. We arrive precisely when we fucking get here, dude. [00:44:52] Speaker A: And they're all just know, puffing up their chest. And, you know, Margaret loves trying to play, like, diplomatic. And necro, of course, is just being a hothead. [00:45:01] Speaker B: Yeah. And then Mandarin's just like, fuck this. I want to show him that I've got power behind me. And so he just has all of his little minions attack Urzin. [00:45:11] Speaker A: Yeah, we get this awesome two page spread of him, just, like, ripping them in half, literally. [00:45:17] Speaker B: Yeah. It's so gruesome. It doesn't do what Mandarin spawn wants it to. It doesn't really raise Urzin's admiration of him at just. It's just like, why are you wasting these guys? [00:45:31] Speaker A: Yeah, waste more time. I love that bloody, like, slashy. Yeah, in the lettering, so good. He gets the red speech bubble. Urzin does. [00:45:45] Speaker B: And then where he's talking about how you didn't escape the dead zone. Somebody let you out. [00:45:50] Speaker A: Him and Mandarin go at it. Yeah, he's dissing him, dissing his ancestors. It's pretty low, dude. [00:45:58] Speaker B: He's like, shame on you. Shame on your cow. He's telling them that they aren't fighting for what they think they're fighting for, because there's already some power that has the place they want, and they're just fighting for breadcrumbs, basically. Scraps is what he says, but breadcrumbs is close enough. [00:46:21] Speaker A: Necro doesn't like that. [00:46:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:23] Speaker A: So he's like, you know what? I'm going to laser blast you with my chest. [00:46:26] Speaker B: Yeah. He gives him some of the old Iron Man, Iron man beam. He's like, you haven't seen this movie yet, so you don't know to protect. [00:46:37] Speaker A: The whole time, he's like, iron Man's the most popular superhero. What? [00:46:43] Speaker B: I thought he was just a drunk. [00:46:45] Speaker A: He was like, b tier. [00:46:47] Speaker B: And, like, Margaret loves trying know make a coherent argument. And Yurizen's just like, but you're missing stuff. You're still missing stuff. Like, this is bigger than you think it is. The entire cosmos. Forget earth. Heaven and hell. Won't stand a chance. Johnny Simmons is going to be. He's the spark that's going to blow everything up. And it's all because of Gaia. And then I like how there's just, like, looming in the background is a demon skeleton wearing sin's armor. Yeah. [00:47:21] Speaker A: What's up with this? [00:47:22] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:47:23] Speaker A: It's pretty cool. [00:47:25] Speaker B: I don't know if this is actual sin's armor brought back from Omega Island. [00:47:32] Speaker A: I don't think so. Here's my theory is what it is, because they say this happened twice before, that sin plays into something with the destruction of the end of the world. And every time, the previous sin, and. [00:47:44] Speaker B: Every time it happens, they create this little necroplasm conducting suit is what you're saying. [00:47:50] Speaker A: Maybe. [00:47:51] Speaker B: I think so. [00:47:52] Speaker A: That sounds plausible to me because I don't think. He didn't lose the suit. [00:47:57] Speaker B: No. Oh, yeah. Because he's still wearing it. [00:47:59] Speaker A: He's still wearing it. The dead zones are black holes, which we knew if you read mainline spawn. [00:48:06] Speaker B: Yeah. Also, obviously, he definitely watched Cosmos with whoever that fuck it was back in the 70s before he. [00:48:19] Speaker A: Carl Sagan, baby. [00:48:20] Speaker B: Carl Sagan. Because he says everything is made of stardust. Everything is made of stars, of ash, of space. So he's like, I just watched. [00:48:31] Speaker A: It just came out a few years ago. Right. Cosmos. They're like, no. Or is it. That was like 40 years ago now. [00:48:39] Speaker B: He'S like, whatever, man. Whatever. Star stuff. [00:48:44] Speaker A: Carl Sagan's dead. [00:48:48] Speaker B: Oh, man. And then we cut from there back to the great breaking of the reaper's. [00:48:58] Speaker A: There, talking off gunslinger. [00:49:02] Speaker B: Yeah. He's basically telling the rest of the scorched team what yours and just told Margaret. Love and Necro and Mandarin. [00:49:11] Speaker A: The guy is coming to wipe him out. [00:49:13] Speaker B: Reaper has a little bit of extra information. It's because her children are dumb little shits who can't keep from fighting each. [00:49:21] Speaker A: Other and fighting over the toys in the toy box. [00:49:24] Speaker B: Yeah. And so we learned that Gaia is the mom of. Mother of both God and the devil. They've gone by hundreds of different names, but they're still children. And they're squabbling over toys. How dare. [00:49:37] Speaker A: I don't know what you think of this. I think fighting over toys in the toy box. But this is great clip of Dan Ackroyd going on. Larry King talking about how aliens will never visit us because of 911. He's like, listen, Larry, there's intelligent life out there, but I'm telling you, we broke our toys in the sandbox. They will never come and visit us. It's like, Dan Aykroyd, there's been a lot worse things in 911 that have happened in the world. [00:50:03] Speaker B: Yeah, but I get his point. If I were any sort of Star Trek level cruise in the galaxy looking for people to expand our knowledge base with, they would take one look at us and be like, fuck, no. Prime directive. [00:50:22] Speaker A: It's like, keep going. Do not interfere. [00:50:25] Speaker B: They would be like, we'll drop Oatu on the dark side of the moon, and he will do nothing but watch. [00:50:31] Speaker A: So the children of God and the devil are children of Gaia. So she's going to teach them a lesson by wiping out everything. [00:50:38] Speaker B: Yeah, everything on this blue ball they're supposed to share. [00:50:42] Speaker A: They don't want to share the ball. [00:50:44] Speaker B: And then medieval is, like, I learned about these things called God particles. So got some Higgs boson going on down in the catacombs under. [00:50:54] Speaker A: Yeah, in the middle ages, I guess he was learning about that stuff. [00:50:57] Speaker B: And apparently they're more powerful than anything. And that power draws people. So I think maybe sin might be attracted to these particles because we know he's a power hungry madman. And Jessica recognizes that these are basically ethereal Pokemon. And she's knowing that somebody's got to collect them all Pokemon. [00:51:24] Speaker A: And where do they start? They're going to start where it all began, kind of. [00:51:29] Speaker B: Yeah. At least the current amounts of shit started. Where the most recent big bang. [00:51:39] Speaker A: Omega island. And Jessica has this transport device that she's seen other people use. She's like, hopefully this works. [00:51:46] Speaker B: Yeah, well, medieval is giving it to her. So it's the thing that medieval used to create the portal to heaven. And she's like, I don't know why he gives it to her. Because she's never used it before. I don't know why he just doesn't use it himself. [00:51:59] Speaker A: No, it says she unveils the device she took from Spawn's hideout. [00:52:03] Speaker B: Well, no, but if you look on this page, medieval has it in his hand. And then he literally hands it over to. [00:52:12] Speaker A: Right. Oh, you're right. This is the thing he used to get into. [00:52:14] Speaker B: Sorry. [00:52:15] Speaker A: I'm sorry, David. I'll never question you. [00:52:17] Speaker B: Well, no, but I mean, it does say that she took it from Spawn's hideout. [00:52:20] Speaker A: But it's confusing. [00:52:22] Speaker B: It's so confusing. But literally, he had it in his hand. Why didn't he just do. Is Jessica's. This is Jessica's first time opening a necro portal to another place. And she's like, oh, man, hold on to your a. If Javi were there, he would have the Samuel L. Jackson long ash cigarette just bouncing around in his mouth, right? [00:52:49] Speaker A: And they get to Omega island. [00:52:52] Speaker B: You didn't say the magic word, man. Omega Island's looking much better than it did the last time we were here. [00:52:59] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, it looks nice. [00:53:01] Speaker B: It's all verdant. [00:53:02] Speaker A: And the other side of the islands where all the dead vampires and omens are. [00:53:09] Speaker B: Yeah, it's just, like, covered in corpses. The corpses. They're corpses. [00:53:18] Speaker A: Speaking of corpses, they hear this, like, crazy scream. Yeah, when they're in the. [00:53:25] Speaker B: That's. That's something you don't want to hear when you're in some lush jungle vegetation. [00:53:29] Speaker A: Johnny isn't a giant scream, definitely. [00:53:34] Speaker B: So Jessica sends redeemer up in the air to see what's going. Just. He gets a head thrown at. [00:53:42] Speaker A: Head to the head. [00:53:45] Speaker B: Splat. [00:53:46] Speaker A: He's getting splattered with a head. [00:53:47] Speaker B: This is just like. Is that a. Like, he's taken aback by it. He doesn't know what's going. What's. What's this head from, Johnny? Where's it come from? [00:54:02] Speaker A: Comes from one of those stupid guards. Yeah, it's one of those guards from one of the mega island soldiers, like the contractor guys who just wanted to get off of work. [00:54:12] Speaker B: Yeah, but though, in this case, it isn't an enemy that sickened itself with bloodlust, Johnny. It's one of their own, the one called monolith. [00:54:23] Speaker A: Bum bum bum. Huge. [00:54:26] Speaker B: And then we have the opening reading, and he's just having a grand old time. He's like, look at all these people that I get to just. He is playing in the sandbox with his action figures there, Johnny. His action figure is just a bit gooeier than the plastic ones we're used to. [00:54:41] Speaker A: It'd be fun to have action figures that exploded into goop. [00:54:44] Speaker B: Oh, man. Well, I mean, I think they called that a stretch Armstrong. And you only got to do it. [00:54:49] Speaker A: Yeah, you did it once, and then that was it. [00:54:53] Speaker B: Oh, man. But, yeah, we finally getting monolith in the pages here. He's been teased on covers for so long, and we got him here. Look at him. He's so big. Then we got some spawning grounds this time is filled with nothing but fan art. [00:55:10] Speaker A: Funnily enough, one of the arts in here I actually recognized from seeing it for a budy on Instagram, Ralph Sispedus. So that's awesome. [00:55:19] Speaker B: And for those who don't remember, if you're going to follow Johnny's tip here, his instagram is at Raul K. Sespadez 58. So it's awesome seeing our budy's artwork published in Spawn. Hell, yeah. Good job, Raul. [00:55:36] Speaker A: Yeah. That's awesome. [00:55:37] Speaker B: That's awesome. It's real good. Some real good fan art this time, though. [00:55:43] Speaker A: Yeah. I like those pencils. [00:55:45] Speaker B: There's an all natural owl up there. Look at this. [00:55:50] Speaker A: An all natural owl. [00:55:51] Speaker B: He's holding the violator. [00:55:52] Speaker A: He's holding the violator's head. [00:55:54] Speaker B: I like that. Very classic knights helmet on medieval on the lower left. [00:56:02] Speaker A: That's cool. I like the pop art Jessica there. [00:56:05] Speaker B: Yeah, the one that doesn't have any borders between the colors. It's just like color. Yeah, that's real fun. [00:56:11] Speaker A: You got our budy Sam and twitch on the ads for the spawn toys. There they are. [00:56:15] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. I guess we should say. Just in case anybody doesn't know, Raul's is the middle row all the way to the right. The scorched cover. It's real good. He has sufficient amounts of height on hobby's hat. It's real nice. [00:56:35] Speaker A: Oh, yes. It's very tall. [00:56:37] Speaker B: Yes. [00:56:37] Speaker A: It looks like an album cover. It's awesome. [00:56:40] Speaker B: Yeah. They're about to drop. The hardest thing since enter the 36 chambers. [00:56:46] Speaker A: Better watch out. Sweet. That's scorch 16. [00:56:50] Speaker B: Yes, it is. Johnny, I think we got to rate these puppies. [00:56:57] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. [00:56:59] Speaker B: Rate all the puppies. [00:57:01] Speaker A: So first up today, we had gunslinger number eight. It was the roadhouse brawl issue, where Javi beat up some silvertons that turned into some lovecraftian demons. [00:57:16] Speaker B: This book is a mash together of some genres, and this is a very good example of that mashup between the classic western stuff and just fucking fucked up horror shit. It's great. [00:57:34] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a good meeting of it. So what are you going to give this issue, David? [00:57:39] Speaker B: You won't meet it. Yeah, I'm going to give it four and a half foot filled boots. It's just great. It's just great. It's so good. It's got everything I want in. It's got some. I'm going to upgrade that to five because it's got everything I want in it, Johnny. It's got Javi fucking shit up. It's got the crazy, frenetic artwork that we got. It's got some quietness and some craziness with the back and forth with him and Jessica. They're. They're connecting real well. It's just beautiful. Absolutely amazing. Five disembodied footfield boots. [00:58:30] Speaker A: I'm going to give it four sunglasses. Four stolen pair of sunglasses punched off a man's face. I thought it was really fun. The only thing is it's like pretty slight and self contained, I guess. I don't know. Four just feels right for me. But I really enjoy it. I like Jessica. I like seeing Bret Booth's Jessica. Always great. It was fun. I love the thing, demon with the tentacles. That was a fun little. The Javi got to slice him. So, yeah, it was great. [00:59:04] Speaker B: I think one of the reasons I do like it so much and gave it a slightly higher thing than you is because it's kind of self contained. [00:59:13] Speaker A: There you go. [00:59:13] Speaker B: This would be a good issue to throw at somebody to be like, do you like crazy fun shit? Read this if you like this. I've got more where it's come from. [00:59:24] Speaker A: Yeah, no, that's true. It kind of throws you in the middle there. [00:59:27] Speaker B: But it's a pretty decent entry point. I mean, some of it does. A good portion of it wouldn't make sense, but it's enough of its own little story that you can at least tease out and just enjoy the hell out of it. Well, nice. So that's gunslinger eight. So scorch number 16. Johnny, what are you going to give scorch number 16. [00:59:51] Speaker A: Scorch number 16. I'm going to give it three and a half. Freak licking the knife on the COVID Oh, nice. Nothing to do with the COVID My score, it's just kind of just a lesser scorched. I don't know. It's good, but it's just kind of setting the stage for this next phase. A lot of talking, a lot of figuring things out and some of the stuff we already kind of knew. So that's why I give it. What did I say? Three and a half. [01:00:24] Speaker B: You said three and a half. [01:00:25] Speaker A: All right, three and a half. Three and a half. Licking knives. [01:00:29] Speaker B: Nice. Ding, ding, ding. Johnny. I am also going to give it three and a half, but I'm going to give it three and a half. Confusing necro portals. [01:00:42] Speaker A: Why wouldn't he just do it? [01:00:43] Speaker B: Yeah, why wouldn't he just do it? It's a good issue. It's all the stuff we like, but it is one of the setting up, you know, three and a half. Solid score. It's good stuff. [01:01:01] Speaker A: Solid score. I'll take that score. [01:01:03] Speaker B: I'll take that score. Speaking of scores, Johnny. [01:01:07] Speaker A: Yes? [01:01:08] Speaker B: I do believe that when you play games, you determine who wins by a score. [01:01:18] Speaker A: Sometimes, if they're good games, I don't like it. Yeah. Yes. What? [01:01:24] Speaker B: Baseball is a good game, Johnny. [01:01:26] Speaker A: Baseball is a good game. I think I get what you're throwing out there, David. I think it might be time for a little spawnessy baseball. [01:02:05] Speaker B: We've been dancing around this one for a while, Johnny. It's time for us to finally draft. The hell. Have a. I have a proposal for you. We didn't discuss this beforehand because I want to get your live reaction to it. What would you say that instead of drafting like we normally do, where we flip a coin and then each of us choose our things, why don't we discuss and choose the positions together for this team? Just because there's so many people. I don't think we should leave it to chance that we accidentally forget one of our favorite characters. [01:02:49] Speaker A: Okay, let's do nice. [01:02:51] Speaker B: Nice. You got your list already, Johnny? [01:02:54] Speaker A: Got my list. [01:02:55] Speaker B: All right, so our first position that we're going to do is, as always, pitcher. I was wondering what you were thinking about. Pitcher. [01:03:09] Speaker A: I hate to use the man right off the bat, but I think you got to have spawn. [01:03:15] Speaker B: Got to have spawn for pitcher. [01:03:18] Speaker A: No, that's good. [01:03:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Because it's very tactically minded. It would be a good one. [01:03:24] Speaker A: Tactically minded. [01:03:27] Speaker B: The only issue, he's a figurehead. The only issue is since we have the designated hitter rules in effect, he wouldn't be able to bat. It seems like it would be leaving a lot on the table, not letting him have an at bat. [01:03:41] Speaker A: That's true. That's true. Who are you thinking for pitcher? [01:03:44] Speaker B: I was thinking, well, I mean, monolith just showed us that he has an impeccable. [01:03:49] Speaker A: That's actually. [01:03:50] Speaker B: Yeah, but no, I was thinking someone a little know and a little craftier. Somebody who also sort of fits the classic pitcher image. Todd McFarland himself is a tall, lanky man who was a pitcher. [01:04:11] Speaker A: I think I know where you're going. I think I like it. [01:04:13] Speaker B: Not Randy Newman. Not Randy Travis. That one dude who hit the bird. He's a tall, lanky man. I was thinking somebody who's good at misleading. Get you where you want. I was thinking our old pal Vinny would be a good pitcher. [01:04:36] Speaker A: The vindicator. [01:04:37] Speaker B: The vindicator. [01:04:38] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. That would be a good one. See, I thought you were saying you were going with. [01:04:45] Speaker B: I was thinking of, I was thinking somebody a little trickier because, I mean, I like that he put Billy Kincaid firmly where he wanted him to go in that issue eight. [01:04:58] Speaker A: He led him right along. I like that. I think Vindicator is a good choice. I think we should do that for Pitcher. [01:05:03] Speaker B: This one's going to be a hard one to do because there's a lot of that are good for it. Johnny. For our catcher. [01:05:09] Speaker A: Yes. There are a lot. A lot of big boys. [01:05:11] Speaker B: A lot of big boys. I had a couple of thoughts. Monolith, behemoth, spawn suited Billy Kincaid. Yeah, I guess Malbosia himself. Nothing getting past that guy. [01:05:30] Speaker A: He's huge. [01:05:34] Speaker B: What are you thinking? What are you thinking? [01:05:36] Speaker A: I was also thinking Urzin. [01:05:39] Speaker B: Urizen. [01:05:39] Speaker A: Okay. [01:05:39] Speaker B: Yeah, that would be a good. Totally. I have a small list of characters because I just ran out of, I was like, oh, shit, like, they're all hell people. Urzin would be a good one. Is also very prevalent in the storylines. [01:05:57] Speaker A: Hmm. I would say Urzin or Monolith. I would lean towards Urzin, too, because we're going to have a lot of spawns on the team. [01:06:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Urzin sounds good for, and Monolith's got. [01:06:13] Speaker A: That throwing arm with the head, so we might want to save that. [01:06:16] Speaker B: Yeah, we might want to save him. [01:06:17] Speaker A: For a more technical something in the outfield. Yeah, exactly. [01:06:22] Speaker B: Okay, so for first base, who are we going to do on first base? Oh, man. [01:06:27] Speaker A: First base. So what kind of qualities do you look for in a first baseman? [01:06:32] Speaker B: Well, they don't have to be the fastest person, but they do just have to be solid and very focused. They can't have any sort of faffing about going on. So they got to be very focused. I personally had put Al at first base. [01:06:54] Speaker A: He's very focused. I actually like that. That's a good, that's who I, where we didn't do pitcher. I wrote real quick next to first base, Al. [01:07:01] Speaker B: Yeah, let's do Albert Simmons. [01:07:05] Speaker A: Albert Simmons for first base. I like that. [01:07:07] Speaker B: Also, the first baseman oftentimes tends to be the captain. The longtime White Sox first baseman. Oh, fuck, what's his name? Paul Konerco. Paul Kanerco was longtime first baseman for the White Sox and was like, every year that he was there, he was the captain of the, so like, everybody looked up to him. He was the sort of elder statesman of the group. So, yeah, I think, Alice, first base is good. [01:07:36] Speaker A: That sounds great. I've got a pretty good tip for pick for second base, I think. [01:07:41] Speaker B: Okay. [01:07:42] Speaker A: So you know, you get a lot of ground balls, pop flies. You got to be versatile. You want to get a lot of double plays with both the pitcher and the first baseman, I think is a good thing in second base. And I think someone that is good about bringing a team together and getting the ball coordinator where it needs to be. I think that would be Jessica Priest. [01:08:07] Speaker B: Oh, hell, yeah. That's a good. [01:08:11] Speaker A: Would. Who are you thinking for second base? [01:08:13] Speaker B: I mean, that fits perfectly. I had originally guessed mine's not quite as good as yours. I was like, maybe Melbolgia, but I like Jessica Priest at second base much more than that. [01:08:29] Speaker A: Yeah. I think was playing off spawn and playing off she can put up with vindicator shit. [01:08:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Jessica is much more of a leader than Melbolgia is Melbolsia's. [01:08:43] Speaker A: As we've discussed, Malbols is the manager of this team. [01:08:46] Speaker B: Just a shitty middle manager. Okay, so for third base. Third base. My original draft for third base was following along the lines of, they don't have to be the best individual on the team. Like, it's a hard position to be really great at because there's usually not a lot of action. So they can kind of be the ones who goof around a little bit more. Hence why I put Bobby there. My original choice for third base was going to be clown. [01:09:20] Speaker A: Me too. [01:09:21] Speaker B: Really? Oh, hell. Nice. Which one do we want? Do we want tiny clown or brick shithouse clown? [01:09:32] Speaker A: Tiny clown. [01:09:33] Speaker B: Tiny. Okay, awesome. [01:09:34] Speaker A: Come on, tiny clown. [01:09:36] Speaker B: He's totally just going to spend the whole time talking to his. Talking to the kitty, who'll be yakking. [01:09:43] Speaker A: At the people in the audience. Hey, throw me a hot dog. Can you throw me a hot dog? Extra mustard. [01:09:55] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. That was an easy one. So, shortstop. I had originally had Jessica at shortstop, but second base fits very well. There's a couple of ways we could go with this. Maybe sin might be a good shortstop. [01:10:18] Speaker A: Who? [01:10:19] Speaker B: Sin. [01:10:21] Speaker A: Sin. [01:10:21] Speaker B: The old coliostro Raven might be a good shortstop. There's a balance with another team where medieval could be the shortstop for this team, but it might be a little. Yeah, yeah. Jericho might be a pretty decent shortstop. [01:10:46] Speaker A: I think Jericho is actually a good choice because he, like, I don't know, shortstop is kind of the captain of the infield, I guess. [01:10:53] Speaker B: Yeah, Jericho gets shit done. And the shortstop does tend to get shit. [01:10:58] Speaker A: Yeah, let's do Jericho for shortstop. [01:11:03] Speaker B: Nice. Oh, man, he's so freaky. He ain't got no lips. All right. [01:11:09] Speaker A: So good on that cover. [01:11:10] Speaker B: Oh, man. Mark Rosen. Mark spears just too many marks, Johnny. I'm getting my marks confused. Left field. Who we got for left field? [01:11:21] Speaker A: So left field, you kind of back up the third baseman. [01:11:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:11:25] Speaker A: That king Griffin catch fly balls, right? [01:11:28] Speaker B: Yeah, I was thinking Brimstone would be a good left field there. [01:11:35] Speaker A: I had Necro, but Brimstone is in there, too. [01:11:39] Speaker B: Yeah, similar role. Necro would be good. [01:11:49] Speaker A: Brimstone's good, too. [01:11:51] Speaker B: I could see Necro being a better team player than Brimstone. Brimstone. [01:11:57] Speaker A: Yeah, I see that. Because he's seen with the team. He's, like, teaming up with these four horsemen. So I thought maybe he'd be a little better. I think maybe he'd be a better team player. [01:12:05] Speaker B: If you'll allow me, Johnny. Brimstone's a little hot headed. [01:12:09] Speaker A: Little hot headed. He's coming. [01:12:12] Speaker B: Get it? Because his head's on fire. [01:12:14] Speaker A: Necro's on fire. [01:12:15] Speaker B: Necro is a great one. Centerfield. I feel like we have a theme of people being able, people with sort of winged accoutrement being center fielders. So I think Raven would be a beautiful center fielder because he would just be like, that ball's too far for me. Ravens. Get it. [01:12:45] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. That would be a good one. I was thinking Javi, because he has the speeds. He's, like, lanky. But I think Raven spawn would be a better. [01:12:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Raven can be a center fielder. That brings us up to right field, man. I think Javi will be a great right. It. We got to get him on that team, no matter what. [01:13:10] Speaker A: That's what I was going for. Yeah. We don't want him to be designated hitters, so. Yeah, I think that's Javi. That's Javi's spot. Right fielder. [01:13:16] Speaker B: I had Javi as the right fielder in my original thing. Nice. Now, now, we got lots of beefy boys to choose from for this designated Hair spot, Johnny. [01:13:30] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:13:31] Speaker B: We got monolith, we got behemoth, we got malbolgia, we got medieval. We got medieval. [01:13:38] Speaker A: We got Brock the shock fennel. [01:13:40] Speaker B: Got Brock the shock fennel. We got Billy Kincaid. [01:13:44] Speaker A: We got an ice. Got ice shrimp. [01:13:49] Speaker B: We got those big ass, angel looking fellows that are real into what's in fashion. The big metropolis looking ones. Remember from issue eight? [01:14:06] Speaker A: Yeah, like the big evil. They just want robot thing. [01:14:11] Speaker B: Yeah, they just want what's fashionable. [01:14:13] Speaker A: That year, and it was souls, it happened to be, I would say. I would narrow it down to probably. See, I'm thinking monolith, because then you get all those spawns working together. I think would be good. [01:14:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:14:27] Speaker A: And we know Monolith can hit the kid. He's got that distance with throwing those heads. So if he had a bat on him, imagine what he could do. [01:14:33] Speaker B: Oh, man. It's only sin. [01:14:36] Speaker A: See, sin seems more like a manager. I don't know. I don't see him being really a team player. Yeah, same with Billy Kincaid. [01:14:44] Speaker B: Yeah, Billy Kincaid's kind of a sleaze ball. [01:14:48] Speaker A: He'd be working the ice cream stand. He's unfortunately working the kraft foods. Or the foods. [01:14:54] Speaker B: Yeah, we know behemoth has a lot of muscle behind him, too. I think monolith would be good. [01:15:02] Speaker A: Behemoth might be. I think behemoth might be good to mix up the. I don't know. One of those two, probably. [01:15:09] Speaker B: I feel weird walking away from symbiote havers and not letting them be on the team. Because that's kind of the whole hell thing. [01:15:17] Speaker A: Yeah. I think we should do monolith. [01:15:18] Speaker B: Okay. Monolith. [01:15:20] Speaker A: I think it makes it more uniform. All you got to do is throw yours in vindicator and clown and Jericho into, like, a spawn uniform. You basically got. [01:15:35] Speaker B: They can. They can wear the spawns outfits from that little league team. [01:15:41] Speaker A: Right. Exactly. The spawns. [01:15:43] Speaker B: Nice. Okay, so. So our team again is we've got old Vinny Vindicator as the pitcher. We got urizen as the catcher. Albert Simmons at first base, Jessica Priest at second base. Tiny fat clown at third base. [01:16:01] Speaker A: Yes. [01:16:02] Speaker B: He's just going to have that turkey leg in his hand the whole time. [01:16:05] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. He'll be using it to hit the. Like, get away from me. Like, hitting the ball. [01:16:09] Speaker B: He'll have to tuck it underneath into his armpit when he grabs the ball out of the glove to throw it. [01:16:15] Speaker A: Or he just holds it in his teeth. [01:16:20] Speaker B: Jericho at shortstop. Necro in left field. Raven spawn in center field. Javi, Mr. Gunslinger himself at right field. And monolith as the designated hitter. [01:16:33] Speaker A: That's a pretty damn good team. [01:16:35] Speaker B: That looks like a real good team. [01:16:36] Speaker A: It's a hella good team. [01:16:38] Speaker B: You might would. I would say that, yes. Hella good team. Hella good. [01:16:44] Speaker A: So that's our four spontaneity baseball teams. [01:16:50] Speaker B: So the first matchup will kind of do a little goof them ups and have a nice little recap. What do you think about our first matchup being between earth and Greenworld, Johnny? [01:17:02] Speaker A: Sounds good to me. [01:17:04] Speaker B: Sounds good to me. All right. And that will be the next. [01:17:08] Speaker A: The mother Gaia classic, they call it. Or the terrestrial classic. [01:17:13] Speaker B: Yeah, we could call it the Gaia classic. [01:17:16] Speaker A: The Gaia classic. [01:17:17] Speaker B: Nice. [01:17:18] Speaker A: Cool. Yeah, that's what we'll do next time. We don't have toys to open or letters to answer. [01:17:23] Speaker B: Yeah, sounds good to me. Nice. [01:17:25] Speaker A: And we got all the way till October to have this baseball. So, yeah, it is baseball season. [01:17:33] Speaker B: It's good stuff. It's good stuff. You know what else? What else is, Johnny? [01:17:38] Speaker A: Oh, I was about to say the same thing. What else is good stuff, David? [01:17:41] Speaker B: Good stuff is the treasure is the friends we made along the way, Johnny. And let me tell you true that we got a lot of friends in spawn. Like, a lot of friends in spawn. Like, holy shit. Spawn is just full of friends. [01:17:58] Speaker A: It's like, we are rich. Gluttony of riches. [01:18:02] Speaker B: Where Ohana means family. Spawn means friends. Johnny. And we like to shout out a friend every week. And it just so happens that the friend we have for this week. Got shouted out. In the spawning grounds of gunslinger number eight. And, hey, just give them some double action there. And that's going to be toy Talica. They do a lot of action figure photography sets. They're real good. If you scroll just a little bit down, you'll see that they did a series of biker mice from Mars Action figure photographs. [01:18:43] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [01:18:45] Speaker B: Fucking loved biker mice from Mars. When I was little, whatever kind of cocaine strain was floating around Hollywood in the early ninety s. Just, like, made the entertainment that little tiny David Williams loved so much. [01:19:03] Speaker A: That's hilarious. Yeah. They actually are releasing some new bikermeister Mars action figures coming out soon. [01:19:09] Speaker B: Oh, nice. This is the part of 90s nostalgia that I'm here for. I'm going to have to get some of this. [01:19:14] Speaker A: It's finally arrived. [01:19:17] Speaker B: That, again, is toy. [01:19:18] Speaker A: They got a lot of great pictures. [01:19:19] Speaker B: Yeah, that, again is at toy Talica over on Instagram. Give them a follow. Give them some love. Let them know that, hey, we appreciate you and spawn all the way. [01:19:29] Speaker A: They got a spawn Batman. They got a papa figure. [01:19:32] Speaker B: Oh, man. Yeah, they got a lot of good stuff. It's like they stole thoughts from our brains. While both of us were sleeping, Johnny. And made action figure photography based just on what we wanted. [01:19:50] Speaker A: Yeah, it's so cool. Awesome. [01:19:52] Speaker B: Yeah. Also, while you're over there, he's family now, Mr. Brian. He makes our music. T. Brian Voiler. Give him some love, too. [01:20:05] Speaker A: And give us some love at regarding Spawnpod, our Instagram handle. [01:20:10] Speaker B: We got some toy photography. We're nowhere near as adepted as some of these guys, man. [01:20:16] Speaker A: Ours a little more funny, a little more goofy. [01:20:19] Speaker B: They make our photography skills look terrible, which, if you ask Wanda, doesn't take very much for me, but still, yeah, me too. [01:20:31] Speaker A: We're trying. We're getting better. [01:20:33] Speaker B: We're trying. We love sharing the gospel of Spawn. If you happen to see us, come by your house in some business casual clothes with little name tags, asking you to hear the word of spawn. We'll mow your lawn if you read some spawn. [01:20:52] Speaker A: Yeah, let us in. [01:20:53] Speaker B: Yeah, we got to do some mission work. [01:20:55] Speaker A: If you got a mission work, and you've got a mission too, viewer, you've got a mission to do, which is send us emails at regarding [email protected]. We want to hear your complaints, your comments, concerns, questions, compliments, everything. [01:21:14] Speaker B: Share your pictures of your collection with us. If you either don't have an Instagram or don't really feel comfortable sharing it with white audiences, if you don't have an Instagram and you want to share pictures of stuff, email them to us. We'll put them out there. We'll say, hey, this fan of Spawn here has all this cool shit. Look at it. And if you don't want us to share it, we could just say, hey, dude, you got some cool shit. Yeah. [01:21:40] Speaker A: And every week I like to ask a question to get the juices flowing. Maybe something that you want to respond to on our email. And this week, I wanted to ask, what's your favorite deep cut that Sean Lewis has brought back into the scorch or king Spawn because he's brought in necro Margaret, love Urzin, all this stuff. And I'm just curious, which one is your favorite deep cut? Mandarin. Like, all these guys from the early issues that we're discovering. So there's one of them you really like or one we haven't mentioned. Let us know about these cool deep cuts that Sean Lewis and Roy McConville have been mining. [01:22:24] Speaker B: Yeah, don't forget about the nice deep cuts in Kingspawn too, because he's, oh. [01:22:29] Speaker A: Yeah, the whole quarter priest is deep cuts. Yeah, they're deep dish pizza. [01:22:35] Speaker B: Deep dish pizza. We always end up talking about food. We should be careful of that. [01:22:40] Speaker A: We got to be careful. [01:22:42] Speaker B: Got to be careful that I could eat a whole deep dish right now. [01:22:45] Speaker A: So what are we going to read for next week, David? [01:22:47] Speaker B: Oh, reading for next week. Oh, man, I totally forgot that we have to read stuff. Not. So for our next episode, we're going to be reading, surprise, surprise. Two entries from Spawn's universe. [01:23:01] Speaker A: Huge if. True. [01:23:02] Speaker B: Huge if. Well, Johnny, guess what? It's huge because it's true. We're going to be having our classic is Spawn 304. That main title. Goodness. Getting caught up from the Albert bang, the big Albert bang to where we are now. It's filling in all those gaps. It's real good. And then our contemporary issue is going to be Kingspawn number 21, which. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Not a deep cut, but my answer to your question of favorite things that Sean Lewis has brought back, Johnny is our boys salmon twitch. And we're going to get to talk about those next week. Absolutely. Next episode is going to be Spawn. [01:23:52] Speaker A: 304 and King Spawn 21 with that great Wanda cover. [01:23:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man, it's so good. Yeah, it's the beginning of a new series of guest artist issue covers or covers issues, whatever. So, yeah, that'll be good. Come back and join us then. In the meantime, if you just tell a friend about us, like us, rate us, review us wherever you like. Rate and review podcasts. [01:24:19] Speaker A: Subscribe. [01:24:20] Speaker B: Subscribe. Yes, it's very good. I've mentioned before my coworkers, who are all excited about it, they're like, subscribe me to your podcast. And then they actually are going out and evangelizing for the podcast too. They like it so much. That's exciting. It's exciting when people you work with love the thing you do, even though they have absolutely no idea what's going on. It's great. I love my coworkers. I love doing spawn. It's great. You should enjoy it too. If you enjoy us, let other people know. We just want people to have a good time. [01:24:59] Speaker A: That's all we want. [01:25:00] Speaker B: That's all we want. And Johnny, I think that just leaves me to say, may the scorch be with you. [01:25:09] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:25:11] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:25:13] Speaker A: Hell yeah. Did you say that? Did you pat your may the scorch be with you button? Do you have that or your pin with you? [01:25:20] Speaker B: I have my pin at work. [01:25:23] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [01:25:24] Speaker B: Proudly displayed, it is smashed into the little corkboard part of my cubicle. And I can see it from, like, if I just look slightly up from my monitor, it's right there, and it makes me happy every time I look at it. [01:25:40] Speaker A: Well, I'm super jealous because we haven't been able to meet up and give me mine. Gonna. It is Memorial Day. I know you're off work, so I'm gonna have to ask you to run that over here real quick. Like, literally run it, if that's cool. [01:25:53] Speaker B: Johnny, I'm already sweaty, so you'll have to forgive me. When I hand it over because they'll be quite wet. [01:26:01] Speaker A: Hey, they're metal pins, so I think it'll survive. I'll see you in, what, like, you can probably make it over here in, what, 45 minutes? [01:26:07] Speaker B: Yeah, something like that. Something like that. [01:26:09] Speaker A: All right, get moving, buddy. [01:26:11] Speaker B: Here we go. You. [01:26:16] Speaker A: I'm never gonna get this pin.