RE:Spawn Episode 48 - King Spawn 9 and Gunslinger Spawn 19

[00:00:00] Speaker A: He has wondered a million times since Wanda's death that if he had all this power one day, could he really bring her back? [00:00:07] Speaker B: But how? [00:00:08] Speaker A: How would that ever be possible if one of his tasks can never be completed? Because how can Al Simmons, this vengeful. [00:00:14] Speaker B: Hellspawn, ever lose his anger? San Diego, and welcome to the Malbols. This is regarding spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I am your co host, John Fisher. [00:01:00] Speaker C: And I am your co host, David Williams. And, Johnny, what do we do around here besides talk about spawn? [00:01:08] Speaker A: Goof around. [00:01:09] Speaker C: Goof around. Well, I mean, other than that, less than we goof around. We're relentlessly positive. You would say, yes, try to be nice. You know what is a ridiculously relentlessly positive song that I don't think anybody ever really cares to remember is ludicrously positive. [00:01:30] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:01:31] Speaker C: The Scatman. [00:01:33] Speaker B: He is the Scatman. [00:01:35] Speaker C: The Scatman. It's literally a song about, like, you're empowered to do anything. Like, if this schmuck named the Scatman can do it, you can do it, too. So, Johnny, we should take that with us. [00:01:49] Speaker A: I don't know if you like the song. Might be cultural appropriation in 2023. [00:01:55] Speaker C: No, I'm talking about the Scatman from the 90s. Not Scatman Scruthers. [00:01:59] Speaker B: No, I'm talking about. [00:02:00] Speaker A: Isn't that a white guy doing that song? [00:02:02] Speaker C: Yeah. Are you telling me that my relentlessly positive song is now potentially canceled? Scatman, John, his name is. [00:02:11] Speaker B: Yeah, canceled. [00:02:13] Speaker A: Stamp it. He's canceled. Oh, no, sorry. [00:02:18] Speaker B: It's stamped. [00:02:19] Speaker A: No, I'm kidding. I'm just trying to bring down your joy. [00:02:24] Speaker C: You can never know is a great song. [00:02:26] Speaker A: I used to love that song. [00:02:27] Speaker C: Oh, man. Johnny, you got to pull up his picture, because that is a face that is so full of joy. You're not going to be able to bring me down today, Johnny. [00:02:38] Speaker A: I remember that song. [00:02:40] Speaker C: Infectious smile. [00:02:41] Speaker B: Yeah, he looks cool. [00:02:44] Speaker A: He's a Scatman. I remember that song because there was a good humor commercial that used it, and it was, I'm the good humor man. [00:02:55] Speaker C: There's a 90s skating rink playlist on Spotify that I listen to. If I just need to get through a day, and it's on there. [00:03:06] Speaker B: The skating rink Jams, Johnny. They're great. I bet they're great. I used to love going to the skating rink in the man. [00:03:16] Speaker C: I don't know if I've talked about it here before, but the bathrooms at the skating rink in my hometown had an incline in. And it wasn't until I was in middle school that I was finally able to skate out of the bathroom without having to either pull myself or sit on the floor and push myself out. It was ridiculous and gross because it was a bathroom. But, yeah, they made it impossible to get out of the bathroom with your skates on sucked. [00:03:46] Speaker A: You know what else is impossible to get out of? Reading spawn. Because I signed up for this podcast. [00:03:53] Speaker C: You don't sound bitter at all, Johnny. [00:03:55] Speaker B: No, I'm not being bitter. [00:03:56] Speaker A: I don't know why. It's the bit I'm doing today. I'm not bitter. I'm in a great mood. [00:04:04] Speaker C: You hate red spawn, and you're going to tell us what spawns. Did you hate reads today, Johnny? [00:04:10] Speaker A: No, I didn't hate read Spawn. Look, David, Malbol's Monday is a sacred holiday. Everyone loves Malbol's Monday, and everyone waits. I got to record my video. I got to enjoy some pop culture. This is really cutting into know usually record Fridays, and this is a Monday. [00:04:24] Speaker B: And I'm kind of a garfield. [00:04:26] Speaker C: So what you're saying is you have to wade through the Malbols today. So Mondays. Am I right? [00:04:32] Speaker A: You are right. Let me stop recording because I got to eat the rest of this lasagna real quick. [00:04:41] Speaker C: Yeah, you could just snip it out. It'll go fast enough. [00:04:44] Speaker B: No, I don't want to get lasagna. [00:04:45] Speaker A: My beautiful issues of spawn I see. [00:04:47] Speaker B: In front of mean. [00:04:49] Speaker A: Well, besides being, what are we relentlessly positive about? Besides Scatman John? [00:04:56] Speaker C: Well, lots of got. [00:05:00] Speaker B: We've got each other that we can talk to. [00:05:03] Speaker C: It's real great. It's real nice. We've got a couple of issues from Spawn's universe over. Okay. [00:05:11] Speaker A: That's the one. [00:05:13] Speaker C: You were fishing, weren't you? [00:05:16] Speaker B: That's what we do here, folks. Yeah. [00:05:18] Speaker C: So what we're gushing over today, then, is two issues from Spa's universe. We've got king Spawn number nine, which is filling our old timey slot, and Gunslinger 19, which is filling our new timey slut Gunslinger. [00:05:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:35] Speaker C: Because as we have said before, we cover two issues, an episode on this podcast, one quote, unquote classic, and one recently published. [00:05:48] Speaker B: Unless we don't. [00:05:49] Speaker A: Kingspawn nine is all the way back from April 2022. So a little over a year ago. [00:05:55] Speaker C: That makes it a classic. [00:05:57] Speaker B: It's a classic. It is a classic. [00:05:59] Speaker A: They're all instant classics. [00:06:00] Speaker B: Instant. [00:06:01] Speaker C: It's that Sean Lewis stamp of instant classic. [00:06:05] Speaker A: And to mirror gunslingers from April 2023. [00:06:10] Speaker B: Nice. [00:06:11] Speaker C: Hard to believe that we first read this issue nine over a year ago, Johnny. [00:06:17] Speaker B: I know. [00:06:18] Speaker C: Hard to believe that was pre podcast. Dang. [00:06:21] Speaker A: This is a pre podcast issue. [00:06:24] Speaker B: We were just read it for fun. Yeah. [00:06:27] Speaker C: And then texting about it for like 4 hours. [00:06:31] Speaker A: David, I'm not bitter. It's just I've only been able to put in 8 hours of Diablo this morning. [00:06:37] Speaker C: Oh, poor baby. [00:06:38] Speaker A: Because I had to read some spawn. So I could have gotten like eight and a half hours in. And so I'm probably below my whole plan at this point. [00:06:45] Speaker C: I've heard that they have released it's cosmetic, so it doesn't do anything stat wise, but that they've released armor for your mounts. So you can dress your horse up so it looks cool. [00:07:02] Speaker A: Yes, you can. I got some free horse armor for pre ordering the game. Oh, nice, cool horse armor. I'm not going to spend real money on it. [00:07:12] Speaker C: You're the only one, Johnny. Somebody out there right now is accidentally losing their house to their twelve year old. [00:07:24] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Friend and future guest, brand morehead today. [00:07:28] Speaker B: When I saw them, said that a. [00:07:31] Speaker A: Horse armor costs $16. [00:07:34] Speaker B: If you do the math. [00:07:38] Speaker A: A virtual horse armor. [00:07:40] Speaker C: I can think of some worse things you could buy for $16. But I could also think of some better things to buy with that $16. [00:07:46] Speaker A: I mean, if that brings you that much joy. Sure, why not? [00:07:49] Speaker C: For $16, you can get five new issues of Spawn. [00:07:53] Speaker B: Johnny. Yeah. Oh, man, come on. [00:07:57] Speaker A: That's way better than a virtual horse armor. [00:07:59] Speaker C: Yeah, it's way better than a virtual horse. Now, if you could get real armor for a real horse for $16. [00:08:05] Speaker A: $16. Yeah, do that. [00:08:07] Speaker C: Hands down, that $16 never hit the bank account. It was. [00:08:14] Speaker A: Spawn still is 299. If you're reading the classic or the new, they're both 299 still. [00:08:21] Speaker C: The only problem is that if the issue has been there for a while, sometimes they might change the price on it. Just because they don't have to sell it at the new price after a while. [00:08:32] Speaker A: Does it bump it up to what, like 399 or 499 or something? [00:08:35] Speaker C: If it's a rarer issue, yeah, they'll bump it up. Actually, if it's a not very rare issue, and they've just got a lot of them, they might bump it down. So you might be able to score some two year old spawns for like a buck each. [00:08:50] Speaker A: I got a bunch of two year old spawns from. [00:08:53] Speaker B: Not a bunch. I got like three or four from challengers long boxes. [00:08:57] Speaker A: I think they were $2 each. [00:08:58] Speaker C: Nice two year old spawns. Makes me think that provided to the employees of the Malbol, specifically those enlisted in the Malbolge's army, that they provide daycare services. [00:09:19] Speaker A: Yes, baby spawn. [00:09:22] Speaker B: We'll get there. [00:09:24] Speaker A: We got nuclear spawn coming. That guy wrote in the spawning grounds, we'll have baby spawn. [00:09:29] Speaker C: Yeah, we will. [00:09:30] Speaker A: I was reading an interview in. [00:09:32] Speaker B: It was either, I think it was. [00:09:33] Speaker A: The issue of wizard that I got that also had that crazy thing with the Todd father about him being on current affair. [00:09:41] Speaker B: But there's an interview with him, and. [00:09:43] Speaker A: Basically the guy challenged him to like, what are you going to make? Like, a Viking or a pirate spawn? He's like, yeah, now that you said it, I will. [00:09:48] Speaker B: And he did. [00:09:49] Speaker A: I don't know if that's actually the inception of that, but it seems like. [00:09:51] Speaker B: It was nice because there are toys of that. [00:09:54] Speaker A: It's just, like, hilarious. [00:09:56] Speaker C: I can't remember who pointed it out on Instagram the other day. It was one of our friends who got, like, encyclopedic knowledge. It might have been spawn archives, but apparently in most issues that Tod McFarland himself drew, there is a Felix the cat, because he once met a guy at a convention who was. He was a vet, and his anchor to not relapse on his PTSD was Felix the cat. So he only read things with Felix the cat in it. So the Tod father was like, fuck it. Felix the cat's going in the book. So you can read this comic book. I thought that was great. [00:10:44] Speaker B: That was great. I didn't know that. [00:10:45] Speaker C: I really wish I had remembered who shouted it out. We can put it in the notes for the issue when it drops because it won't take too much sleuthing. [00:10:52] Speaker A: I don't have to look too far to find this issue of king spawn number nine because it's right in front of baby. [00:10:57] Speaker C: Oh, nice. Nice. Well, Johnny, if we're going to start on these, we got to start them right. [00:11:04] Speaker B: And like most books, we got to. [00:11:07] Speaker C: Start on the COVID We got to cover the covers. We got to cover the covers. What cover you got for this issue, Johnny? [00:11:14] Speaker A: Well, I'm looking at my reading copy. [00:11:17] Speaker B: Is cover a by Bjorn Barrons. [00:11:21] Speaker A: Of course, you can just tell just by looking at it from across a room. [00:11:24] Speaker B: You could. [00:11:27] Speaker C: True. That's true. What we strive for is the ability to be recognized across the room without having to really do anything. It's a strong voice. Bjorn Barons has strong artistic. [00:11:39] Speaker B: I also have the b cover, which. [00:11:43] Speaker A: Is a lot less. It's blank. [00:11:48] Speaker C: Oh, well, I have this year cover of it is technically, it's a spoiler. Because it's the green world. When it covered Wanda's body back up with snow. Johnny, that's what my cover is. [00:12:02] Speaker B: What? Yeah, for issue nine. [00:12:06] Speaker C: For issue nine. At the end of the issue, the green world covers Wanda's body back up with snow. And that's what is depicted on my issue. [00:12:16] Speaker A: Because not even a known variant cover. [00:12:18] Speaker B: Because it's all white. Because it's blank. Oh, my God. [00:12:23] Speaker A: You got me looking up on the Internet. [00:12:24] Speaker B: Furious. [00:12:25] Speaker A: You got me. [00:12:27] Speaker C: I could hear the concern. You were like, wait, what? Wait, what? [00:12:31] Speaker A: I was excited. I thought I had something to look for at conventions. Now I had a mission for Spawn Con. [00:12:37] Speaker C: No, I just had to be a little sweatier with it. Because you're the one who just got to come out and say, I got the blank one. [00:12:44] Speaker A: I got the blank one. [00:12:45] Speaker C: Well, I got. [00:12:48] Speaker B: The snow. [00:12:49] Speaker C: I got something on the back of it. [00:12:51] Speaker B: It's probably coffee. [00:12:53] Speaker C: If it's me, it's going to be coffee. [00:12:55] Speaker A: I might have to take some of these with me to old spawn con. I just bought a ticket. [00:12:58] Speaker C: Oh, hell, yeah. [00:12:59] Speaker B: Decided to check it out. I've never been to Denver. [00:13:03] Speaker C: Denver's a cool place. [00:13:04] Speaker A: There's some cheap southwest tickets. No reason not to buy them. [00:13:08] Speaker B: Yeah, definitely not. [00:13:10] Speaker A: Well, they do all those refunds now. Because they fucked up over Christmas. Everything's refundable. We're sorry. [00:13:15] Speaker C: Oh, man, that was messy. [00:13:19] Speaker B: Yeah, I got stuck. Yeah. [00:13:22] Speaker C: I mean, like, everybody did. It was ridiculous. [00:13:24] Speaker A: So Bjorn Baron's cover depicts nightmare spawn here. [00:13:28] Speaker B: And he is just right. [00:13:31] Speaker A: Is this nightmare or Omega? [00:13:32] Speaker B: This is Nightmare. Nightmare Omega. [00:13:37] Speaker C: Is he the nightmare in the omega? [00:13:40] Speaker A: You know? [00:13:41] Speaker C: Is this a riddle? It's a riddle. Yeah, that's totally cool. [00:13:45] Speaker B: Okay. [00:13:46] Speaker C: Omega is a bigger guy. [00:13:48] Speaker A: Also, he's got, like, a fur. [00:13:50] Speaker C: Yeah. Also jacket. Nightmare's got those dog legs. [00:13:55] Speaker B: They go backward. [00:13:56] Speaker A: Yeah, he's got the dog legs. [00:13:58] Speaker C: And Omega's got, like, the fur shawl around his. [00:14:04] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Nightmare Spawn, here he is, and he's. [00:14:08] Speaker A: Over these dead dudes that have just got their hearts ripped out. [00:14:11] Speaker B: There's, like, just a head there ahead. Hearts ripped out. [00:14:16] Speaker A: Looks like it's in gothic setting. [00:14:18] Speaker C: Oh, they're angels. [00:14:19] Speaker A: Because there's angels. [00:14:21] Speaker B: Yeah, they got wood wings ripped off, broken feathers falling down. [00:14:29] Speaker A: And with wings on the ground. [00:14:31] Speaker C: It's been a while since I busted that one out ahead, too. Thank you. [00:14:35] Speaker B: Thank you, papa. Papa. Bless. [00:14:38] Speaker C: Yes, I know we talk a lot about the gauntlets on all the variations of spawns. The gauntlets oh, boy. [00:14:47] Speaker B: Those are insanity. I feel like those would hurt. [00:14:52] Speaker C: Yeah, they would. [00:14:55] Speaker A: There's a good gauntlet pov in this issue, actually. You see, the bottom spawns bigfoot, and it's hilarious. [00:15:00] Speaker C: Yeah, I do remember that. [00:15:03] Speaker A: I note about it. I was like, look, you see the bottom of the big foot? [00:15:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:07] Speaker C: Because I was like, I figured it would all be the same color. There's another thing like that in a footnote that I'll cover later when we get there. So put a pin in the bottom of the big right foot. Speaking of pins, the wielder of the pin for this issue, Johnny, how is that for a transition? [00:15:33] Speaker A: Little sweaty, but that's okay. [00:15:35] Speaker C: Mr. Sean Lewis writing that script plot. Script plot by Todd McFarlane. If I ever feel a little self conscious about my sweaty trying to make theme meets Johnny, all I have to remember is the Todd father has made a career out of basically that. And it's worked pretty well for so. [00:15:59] Speaker B: Indeed it has. [00:16:01] Speaker C: That makes me wonder now if additional script just means you could just read that as the sweatiest bits are mine. [00:16:10] Speaker B: For Todd, there's some tactics talk. [00:16:14] Speaker C: I do believe there were some exact numbers, too, which I thought was a. [00:16:18] Speaker A: Couple, like, minutes and exact. [00:16:20] Speaker C: Yeah, I was like, that seems a little Todd father Tod. [00:16:27] Speaker B: Father esque. [00:16:28] Speaker C: Yeah. We got Thomas Natchlick doing the arts on this one because it makes perfect sense with the fact that when they were bringing in the green world, Thomas Natchlick did all the green world art. And now that it's just green world issue, he's got full reign of the whole issue. It's a fun little way to bring it in so that way, we're not quite so jarred by the sudden contrast in art. [00:17:00] Speaker A: Yeah, I wonder if he had to take a break, because he did. I just realized I'm going to have to get it because I want to check it out. But those one bad day one shots for Batman, Javier Fernandez did the two face one. [00:17:12] Speaker C: Oh, nice. [00:17:15] Speaker A: I might have to try to check that out. [00:17:17] Speaker C: Definitely. [00:17:17] Speaker A: Although you got a little break. They're going to still got colors by. [00:17:22] Speaker B: FCO, placencia and world design doing the lettering. [00:17:26] Speaker A: Cover artist. We already said Bjorn Barron's. [00:17:28] Speaker B: Iconic. Yeah. [00:17:30] Speaker C: So good. So creepy. Christ, I got to close this window because it really is spooking me. [00:17:38] Speaker A: Are you going to let in nightmare Swan? [00:17:40] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:17:41] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:17:44] Speaker C: Don't you do it. At least I'm not sitting next to the toy vortex, so at least I'm a little safer than you are. [00:17:52] Speaker B: No. [00:17:52] Speaker A: They all haunt my dreams. [00:17:53] Speaker B: All my toys. [00:17:55] Speaker C: We got creative directors. Todd McFarlane, editor in chief's Mr. Thomas Healy. [00:17:59] Speaker B: And that's the credits. [00:18:00] Speaker A: So previously in King Spawn, black Azriel finally confronts spawn about the death of Wanda and the role he played. The offer is made. Will spawn take the throne? [00:18:15] Speaker C: Take the throne. Leave the canoli. [00:18:17] Speaker B: It's an offer. [00:18:18] Speaker C: You can't. [00:18:18] Speaker A: You better watch the throne. Just got to say it, because we. [00:18:23] Speaker B: Start off the very first page with, like, a double whopper of a typo. [00:18:30] Speaker C: Oh, man. I don't think I paid attention. [00:18:33] Speaker A: A group he's wasn't able stop. [00:18:35] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:18:38] Speaker C: I totally, totally glossed right over that. [00:18:41] Speaker A: It's supposed to be a group he wasn't able to stop. But it says, a group he's wasn't able. He wasn't able stop. [00:18:49] Speaker C: It's a group he wasn't able stop. [00:18:50] Speaker B: Johnny, I'm sorry. [00:18:52] Speaker A: We have to point out the typos. We love spawn. [00:18:54] Speaker C: Yes, we're positive. [00:18:55] Speaker A: We're positive, positive, positive. I'm not being grumpy. It was a bit. [00:18:58] Speaker B: I'm not grumpy, David. Johnny's. [00:19:01] Speaker A: Johnny's fucking grumpy. [00:19:02] Speaker C: Johnny's so grumpy, guys. [00:19:04] Speaker B: No, I'm not. [00:19:05] Speaker C: He yelled at me before we started. [00:19:07] Speaker A: That's how I'm not. [00:19:08] Speaker C: No, I can't even go on with that. No, Johnny's never yelled at me. I've never heard Johnny yell. Unless it was in a script and he was on stage following. [00:19:19] Speaker A: I've yelled plenty of times in my life. [00:19:20] Speaker C: Oh, I'm sure it's never. I have never witnessed it. [00:19:25] Speaker B: There you go. Yeah, I could be loud. [00:19:29] Speaker C: But we start with spawn walking in the snow. It's a very blustery day. He's got some uneven footsteps back there. [00:19:39] Speaker B: Johnny. He kind of looks like a page little spawn action figure there, but no. [00:19:48] Speaker C: Like, the footsteps behind him. He's got little tiny ones on the left and big ones on the right. [00:19:54] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. You can feel him just, like, trudging. [00:19:56] Speaker B: Along, like, boom, boom, boom. [00:19:59] Speaker A: Oh, man, he's going to the green. Because last issue, he was invited there at the very end in the quarter. [00:20:04] Speaker B: Priest up topped a little. [00:20:06] Speaker C: Yeah, it was a little sapling between the cracks of the cement. And then he's walking. He's walking. And then a tree catches on fire. [00:20:16] Speaker B: And it's like, what? [00:20:17] Speaker C: And he's in a place that has nullified his powers, so he can feel the cold. [00:20:23] Speaker A: He has no powers in the green. [00:20:25] Speaker C: None. None whatsoever. [00:20:27] Speaker B: Unless Gaia allows it. [00:20:31] Speaker C: But he's got to worry about that power loss later because he might have to use what he has. And then he runs into a heap. [00:20:39] Speaker A: I like how heaps. Got some trash in him. He's got, like, a pipe. [00:20:42] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real good. [00:20:44] Speaker C: It looks like there's a broken tennis. [00:20:45] Speaker B: Racket on his arm. [00:20:46] Speaker C: Or is that a bike wheel? [00:20:48] Speaker B: Might be a bike wheel. Looks like a bike wheel. Yeah. Hilarious. Yeah. [00:20:54] Speaker A: He runs into Gaia. Not Gaia, sorry. [00:20:57] Speaker B: The oracle. [00:20:58] Speaker C: Oracle. [00:20:58] Speaker B: Heap and Simon. [00:21:00] Speaker C: Simon. And then the oracle just, like, shoots him in the mouth with. [00:21:07] Speaker B: Or is that. [00:21:09] Speaker A: No, he's shooting out of his mouth at her, and she sucks it up. [00:21:12] Speaker C: Okay. She's sucking it up. [00:21:14] Speaker B: Okay. She's like Yoda when he absorbs Dooku's. [00:21:19] Speaker A: Force lightning into episode two, attack of the clones. [00:21:21] Speaker C: I just noticed Johnny on the bottom panel of the page where he meets heap. One of his eyes is green, and one of his eyes is brown. [00:21:31] Speaker B: So transforming. [00:21:34] Speaker C: It's like pulling the necroplasm out of him. And so he doesn't have enough to have both of his eyes be glowy green. [00:21:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Nice. This whole issue is kind of the. [00:21:44] Speaker A: Spawn thing is just slowly stripped down. [00:21:46] Speaker C: To his, like, until he turns into a bare knuckle boxer is what he turns into, basically. [00:21:54] Speaker A: But he's fighting them. This is all connected. [00:21:57] Speaker C: Yeah. Heap starts tossing them around and then spawn. Just like Superman's. Superman's right through heap's chest. [00:22:07] Speaker B: Yeah, it makes a giant hole, gigantic. [00:22:10] Speaker A: Like, I'm done fighting this guy. Tell me where Gaia is. [00:22:13] Speaker B: Oracle. [00:22:14] Speaker C: Yeah. And then Oracle shoots him down and know, trying to big dug him. [00:22:22] Speaker A: And then spawn, he's got his mask off already. He's lost his power so much. He says, one green eye and that's it. [00:22:29] Speaker C: Yeah. And Spawn knows that they wouldn't go through the trouble of bringing here just to have him fight a trash heap and then get killed by the oracle. So he's trying to get Gaia to just. [00:22:45] Speaker B: Come on. [00:22:46] Speaker C: Just get here already. [00:22:47] Speaker B: Show up. Get here already. [00:22:48] Speaker A: This oracle is wasting my time. [00:22:50] Speaker C: Yeah. And then she shows up in, like, a snow tornado. [00:22:55] Speaker A: It's quite a grand entrance. [00:22:56] Speaker B: Yeah, she sure knows how to do it. It just, like, shows Spawn holding the oracle. And you see this big, glowing eye. [00:23:05] Speaker A: And then it pulls back and pulls. [00:23:07] Speaker B: Back until you've turned the page, and there's a giant. [00:23:12] Speaker C: The Gaia tree. [00:23:14] Speaker B: What is this called again? [00:23:17] Speaker A: Like, when you have something you got to turn. [00:23:19] Speaker B: Oh, is that a name? [00:23:22] Speaker C: I don't know. [00:23:24] Speaker B: I don't know what it's called. [00:23:26] Speaker C: It is still technically a two page spread, but I don't know what they call it. When you have to turn the two page spread, you got to turn the book. [00:23:33] Speaker B: I got to look at that like a poster. Yeah, we should probably look into what. [00:23:39] Speaker C: That'S called, because that would be cool terminology to learn. [00:23:43] Speaker A: Figure it out. We'll set it up. We're gonna set up more mysteries like we used to in the early days of the podcast. Yeah, like, who is Larry Martyr and things like that. What is this? [00:23:54] Speaker C: Was Larry Martyr? [00:23:57] Speaker A: Rip. Not rip. He's not dead. Rip to that. Bad audio. I mean. [00:24:05] Speaker C: Yeah, rest in poor audio. Hell. [00:24:09] Speaker A: Rest in bow reali. [00:24:13] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:24:14] Speaker A: Brian said we sound very professional. [00:24:16] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. He's a man who works with sound. [00:24:22] Speaker B: So having him say anything positive is good. It's real good. I like it. [00:24:27] Speaker C: Makes me feel warm and fuzzy on the inside. [00:24:29] Speaker A: This image of Gaia does not. It doesn't seth act the exact opposite? [00:24:32] Speaker C: No, it is creepy. [00:24:36] Speaker B: Very creepy. [00:24:38] Speaker C: It's almost like Ursula from the little mermaids got turned into wood. [00:24:48] Speaker A: There was a McFarlane action figure that. [00:24:50] Speaker B: Was his interpretation of the Blair witch. [00:24:53] Speaker A: It's just like this wood woman, and it kind of looks like. [00:24:59] Speaker B: I could. [00:25:00] Speaker C: I could definitely see this being the blair. [00:25:02] Speaker A: Her horns are definitely more woody, though, in that action figure. I used to have it. I don't know what I did with it. [00:25:07] Speaker B: I probably sold it, because if the. [00:25:09] Speaker C: Blair witch, if she were to just appear as she needs to, she could just show up as the tree, hang her little trinkets, and then leave. [00:25:17] Speaker B: And that's how they show, right? Yeah. Yeah. [00:25:22] Speaker A: I don't know if she ever makes. [00:25:23] Speaker B: A physical appearance or if it's even a witch. [00:25:27] Speaker A: Think about that. [00:25:27] Speaker B: If you go deep into lore, there's. [00:25:30] Speaker A: Always been evil in that land. [00:25:32] Speaker B: Ellie Kedworth is just a part of it. She wasn't evil, and she got to. [00:25:38] Speaker A: Blame for a lot of the things. [00:25:39] Speaker B: There's always been an evil there. [00:25:41] Speaker A: You got to do the arg. Although alternate reality mystery box game that I bought on the Internet, David. [00:25:48] Speaker C: Well, but didn't they, so. But isn't it supposed to be the old woman at the end of the first movie? Spoilers. Isn't that supposed to be the witch, or is that just somebody who was consumed by the evil old woman at. [00:25:59] Speaker A: The end of the first movie? [00:26:00] Speaker C: Wasn't there an old woman at the. [00:26:01] Speaker B: End of the first movie? No. You don't see an old woman at. [00:26:06] Speaker A: The end of the first movie. You don't see anything. [00:26:08] Speaker C: Not in the basement. There's not an old woman. [00:26:10] Speaker B: No. [00:26:11] Speaker A: The remake, there's, like, a creepy thing. [00:26:13] Speaker B: Or the sequel, the third one, because. [00:26:15] Speaker A: I remember old woman. [00:26:16] Speaker C: I remember there being an old woman. And then that being the reason that Mad magazine was able to make the joke in the 90s. That it was just Callista Flockhart hanging out down there. [00:26:27] Speaker A: No, it just shows Mike in the corner. [00:26:29] Speaker C: What the. I could have sworn there was a reveal of an old. Oh, man. [00:26:34] Speaker B: Nope. [00:26:35] Speaker C: You know what? [00:26:35] Speaker B: I think it's time for Johnny to watch the. [00:26:39] Speaker C: I think. I think it's time for a rewatch of the witch project. [00:26:42] Speaker A: Good luck. [00:26:43] Speaker B: That movie is terrifying. [00:26:44] Speaker A: No, the Blair witch is a force that uses people, and it does take many forms. But if you go through the mythology, that's pretty deep, actually, if you go. [00:26:51] Speaker B: Through the various hard ways to get. [00:26:53] Speaker A: A hold of it. Because there's all these old books, and this game had a lot of it. It was actually really well done. It was a hunt the killer game. They did a Blair witch. [00:27:02] Speaker B: Two seasons of it. Nice. But it becomes apparent that there's been. [00:27:07] Speaker A: Ancient force in that forest forever. [00:27:09] Speaker B: And uses people as various means. And the player witch is just the. [00:27:13] Speaker A: Most popular version of what that evil is currently. [00:27:16] Speaker B: Excellent. Excellent. [00:27:18] Speaker C: Well, King Spawn is definitely the most popular version of Spawn with us at this current moment. And he is being told by Gaia that she is hiding all of the pieces of earth that humans have not yet. You know, she just kind of brought. [00:27:34] Speaker B: Him here to gloat about it. [00:27:36] Speaker C: That's kind of what's going on. She's a James Bond villain monologuing to just say, hey, I did this because I could, and you guys are dumb. How was that for a transition, Johnny? Was that sweaty enough? [00:27:49] Speaker A: It was good. You got us up. [00:27:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:51] Speaker C: You're doing great. Nice, but yeah. So Gaia is talking about an upcoming war. It's a war we've heard a lot about. A lot about the war between heaven and hell. And how Gaia is going to happen. Got to get rid of them. Got to get rid of them. And then we get a little bit of. She's like, have you forgotten our history? [00:28:19] Speaker A: You get that one guy. [00:28:20] Speaker C: She herself references spawn issue 75, which I read for background for this johnny, because. [00:28:30] Speaker B: Nice. [00:28:31] Speaker C: The last time there was a thing like this, you read it, and this time I read it was 75. The one we had to read last. [00:28:37] Speaker B: Time, too, I think it was. I'm pretty sure this issue is a. [00:28:44] Speaker C: Dad gum bummer, y'all. [00:28:46] Speaker B: It is, man. [00:28:48] Speaker C: Except for this page that Greg Capullo drew that has a whole bunch of lemurs on it. [00:28:54] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I love that. [00:28:56] Speaker C: The lemurs are fucking. [00:29:00] Speaker B: So that's a bummer. [00:29:02] Speaker C: It's spawn being sucked into the green world for the first time. And the pin that I wanted to talk about was when he's walking through Greenworld the first time. He's got the regular foot sized tread. And then the big swamp for the right foot, so much like he did in the snow earlier. But it's funnier here because the left foot is actually foot shaped. Yeah. He was captured by Gaia and then lectured to by the keeper in this issue. And since Spawn was drawn away from a place that hell and heaven have no power, then it was messing up things in the world that shouldn't have been messed up. And then ultimately, bootsy sacrifices himself to retrieve spawn from the green. And that's where we lose Bootsy. And it's devastating. Absolutely devastating. [00:30:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:15] Speaker C: And probably the best part of this issue is the pundits. The third pundit, good old Brock the shock fennel, is a viewer. He's in the viewer comment section of the wino Wengler hour. [00:30:34] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:30:36] Speaker C: And the little graphic representation for the wino Wengler hour is an open bottle of wine. [00:30:51] Speaker B: Hello. [00:30:52] Speaker A: The greatest mighty have fallen. He's had some ups and downs in his career. I'm sure he loved the kind of diy of the Internet. He didn't have to be guest spots anymore. [00:31:00] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. He could just put his own thing out and not have to worry about it. [00:31:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:05] Speaker A: Kind of like us. We're basically brock the shock Fennel. [00:31:07] Speaker C: Yeah. Only 100% less a demon in a human suit. [00:31:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:16] Speaker A: And less of a piece of shit as a human. [00:31:18] Speaker C: Yeah, hopefully, but yeah. So that's what they talked about in Spawn 75. It's also got that sidebar. It's got that awesome cover of crispy Al Simmons with a crown of thorns. Because in the issue, he gets wrapped up in thorns. And then there's some crucifixion imagery because why not? So Gaia continues to talk about stuff, and then she's talking about urizen. Who? Well, he's rearing his big, ugly head again. Yeah, he sure, like, she's just, like, name dropping Spawn's whole rolodex. Coliostro, medieval black Asriel. [00:32:07] Speaker B: I like to see Thomas notch looks cog there. Yeah. Sin. Yeah. [00:32:15] Speaker C: He looks very grumpy. I'm trying to think. [00:32:18] Speaker A: I don't like to see all of our dead friends, though. [00:32:20] Speaker C: Oh, no, that's no good. The medieval with a sword right through his chest. The javi with a sword through his chest. Jessica just laying there flat out, no sword. [00:32:31] Speaker A: She got shot in the gut. [00:32:33] Speaker B: Oh, man. Sad. [00:32:36] Speaker C: And then we got a nice little Wanda here with flowers growing out of her. [00:32:42] Speaker A: Then Simon pops up and starts laser zapping fucking shit out of the. [00:32:47] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:32:47] Speaker C: Yeah. It's literal laser swords. But that's also where Gaia says that in order for him to take the crown, he has to get rid of his cruel soul, because she has tried this tactic before with people who have cruel souls, and never again will she do that. So this is sort of a last chance for Gaia, helping these people, trying to set the course right instead of just tossing the board and starting. Yeah. [00:33:24] Speaker B: So. [00:33:24] Speaker C: So Al fights Simon a little bit. A little back and forth. [00:33:29] Speaker A: I zap you, you zap me. [00:33:31] Speaker C: And then Simon just, like, kneels and. [00:33:35] Speaker B: Looks cool and postures. [00:33:37] Speaker C: It's real cool. [00:33:39] Speaker B: It's real neat. [00:33:40] Speaker A: We get a flashback to the school exploding, his funeral, Kincaid in the crown, the oracle coming to get him. [00:33:48] Speaker B: Nice. [00:33:48] Speaker A: Just a little flashback. [00:33:49] Speaker B: All his history there. Yeah, he's seen some fucked up shit. [00:33:53] Speaker C: Every chance that he's gotten to be able to be removed from what he was when he was alive has now turned him into this. [00:34:03] Speaker B: And then. [00:34:04] Speaker C: Yeah, they got some. They say basically, that they've turned him into a fairytale knight, and Spawn is the dragon that he must slay, and that's what they filled his head with. And then Spawn says, everybody here is insane. He tries to not fight Simon and just kind of reach him through words. And unfortunately, like, al with the shirtless. [00:34:32] Speaker A: Like, with just the pants? [00:34:33] Speaker C: Yeah, with just the pants. [00:34:36] Speaker B: It's like a street fighter character. [00:34:38] Speaker C: Yeah. And then he has to kick Simon because he's too close and is still trying to attack him. And that's where we see the bottom of the right foot. [00:34:50] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like a shell around his foot. [00:34:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:54] Speaker C: Dope. [00:34:54] Speaker A: It's hilarious. [00:34:55] Speaker B: It's dope. [00:34:58] Speaker C: It's got to be what it's for so that we can have extra power. [00:35:00] Speaker B: With your kicks. [00:35:02] Speaker A: I mean, yeah, we got to kick. [00:35:03] Speaker B: Them with the big. [00:35:07] Speaker C: Where Al's like, you really want me to fight a child? How about you give me your powers, and I'll show you what I can do? [00:35:14] Speaker B: And, well, she gives him his powers. [00:35:19] Speaker C: And says, show me what you could do. [00:35:21] Speaker B: He zaps the fucking oracle, and he just shaked rises. [00:35:29] Speaker A: Help Simon, like, get the hell out of here. [00:35:31] Speaker B: Go. Go. [00:35:31] Speaker C: Yeah. And then guy is like, nah, nah. [00:35:34] Speaker B: Nah, nah, nah nah. [00:35:35] Speaker C: And then sucks everybody, all the souls back into, I guess, the ether of the, uh, in 4 seconds. [00:35:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:47] Speaker C: She doesn't play very nice. She senses she was losing. And it's just like, no, these are all my toys. I'm going home. Goodbye. [00:35:53] Speaker A: I wonder if she can crawl with those. Like she can move with those roots. [00:35:57] Speaker C: I wonder. [00:35:58] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:35:59] Speaker C: Well, I mean, it is creepy. It is her realm, so I'm sure she could do whatever the hell she wants. [00:36:05] Speaker B: That's creepiest shit. [00:36:07] Speaker C: And then this is where she's like, let me dust off this patch of snow here for you and show you this body I got. Asriel came. [00:36:17] Speaker A: Body that black Asriel brought me. [00:36:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:20] Speaker C: And it turns out it's she. She covers Wanda's body back up and is trying to say, hey, if you want to see her again, we can make this deal. What do you want to do? [00:36:34] Speaker B: What do you want to do about this deal? All you have to do is lose. [00:36:37] Speaker A: Your anger, become king, and you can. [00:36:39] Speaker B: Reunite with your wife. [00:36:40] Speaker C: Yeah, well, lose his anger, become king, and kind of destroy everything that she perceives as bad. [00:36:55] Speaker A: Right. Plus that. [00:36:58] Speaker C: Plus that. And it just so happens that everything living is what she considers to be bad. [00:37:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Not a great trade. [00:37:14] Speaker C: Yeah. No. And then we end on the opening reading. [00:37:18] Speaker A: How can this ventral hell spawn ever lose his anger? [00:37:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:23] Speaker C: And spawn doing a dramatic. Falling to his knees and yelling up at the sky, Wanda. [00:37:29] Speaker A: Imagine he's yelling, Wanda. [00:37:31] Speaker C: He's got to be. He's got to be yelling, wanda, Wanda, real nice. [00:37:40] Speaker B: King spawn crown the logo on into the spawning ground. And. [00:37:48] Speaker C: Yep, yep, yep. We got somebody. They did a biggie smalls version of Spawn. And he was like, I sent a physical copy to Thomas a while ago, but here's a copy so everybody can see it. And Thomas responds with, it's right there, dude, right next to my monitor. So that's basically like the exact same position that the pins that spawn safari sent me are in relation to my monitor at work. [00:38:19] Speaker A: Nice. [00:38:20] Speaker C: I could just see them all the time. I don't have a cool taxidermied bat or anything. [00:38:27] Speaker B: Yeah, you could get one probably pretty easy. Got some 9.8 there. [00:38:33] Speaker C: Yeah, he's watching the animated series. [00:38:36] Speaker B: He knows this stuff. Yeah, it's real cool. It's real cool. [00:38:41] Speaker A: Josiah sends a letter that just says. [00:38:42] Speaker B: He'S a big fan and he's curious. [00:38:47] Speaker A: With the four titles. Has opened any more new titles with characters like maybe a Soul Crusher series? And we get a Thomas's promises. [00:38:57] Speaker C: Yeah, we do. [00:38:57] Speaker B: Where he says, like, yeah, they're going. [00:38:59] Speaker A: To be some new series. We got a lot. [00:39:03] Speaker C: So literally every response Thomas has, and this is some of Thomas's promises that something's coming. [00:39:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:14] Speaker C: I can't give away all the details, but every cool character in the Spawn universe will be given their time to shine, Johnny. And that is a promise we will hold him to. [00:39:22] Speaker A: They have plans within plans, he says. [00:39:24] Speaker C: David, plans within plans. And just so you know, I do believe that since Javi himself, the gunslinger, Spawn can get impatient with promises not being fulfilled, that whenever we damn well feel that it's been too long for these promises to be fulfilled, that we can start being a little bit of a little stinker and be like, you promised us this. You haven't given us this. [00:39:52] Speaker A: Are you saying you're going to go on Reddit and make a post or you're going to quit reading spawn? [00:39:56] Speaker C: David, I will threaten to make sure you receive $3 less a week. [00:40:03] Speaker B: How could you? [00:40:04] Speaker C: How could. [00:40:04] Speaker B: I'm addicted to spawn, Johnny. [00:40:09] Speaker C: I might as well face it. [00:40:11] Speaker B: I got spawn fever. There's no cure. That's king spawn nine. That's it. That's the whole issue? [00:40:20] Speaker C: That's a whole issue. [00:40:23] Speaker B: That's a whole green, snow filled phantasmagoria. [00:40:29] Speaker C: Yeah, indeed. What's a twisty twists and turns, like the branch of a tree. [00:40:52] Speaker A: Of twists and turns? As the todfather says on instagram, this next issue ends a little bit of a twister. He wasn't talking about this issue. He's actually talking about the next one. But I love that he said, this one ends a little bit of a twister on you. But we got Gunslinger 19. 1919 is very important to gunslingers, as we know from Stephen King's Gunslinger series. [00:41:18] Speaker C: Yes, we do. [00:41:19] Speaker B: So this is a very important issue, and it would appear for Javi, I. [00:41:26] Speaker C: Would say it is a very important issue, especially because it is the issue of Gunslinger that is currently before me. So therefore, it is the totality of the world at this moment of utmost importance. [00:41:40] Speaker B: Yes. Which cover do you have in front of you there, David? [00:41:43] Speaker C: I have the entry into the Mark Brooks Connected covers series. [00:41:51] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:41:52] Speaker C: It's got Javi front and center in the middle there, flanked by soul crusher. And. Yeah, behind him is medieval. To his left is Al Simmons reaching out his right hand. But it's only half of Al Simmons. The other half is on another issue. [00:42:17] Speaker B: It's half a lot of these dudes. Yeah, well, I have that cover, but. [00:42:22] Speaker A: It'S in the minty fresh, in the, um. [00:42:27] Speaker B: I like these mark Spears shit, right? Brooks. [00:42:32] Speaker C: Yeah, Brooks. Mark Spears was the one before this. [00:42:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:42:36] Speaker A: I like these Mark Brooks covers so much that I actually kept the other ones of each of them to read. [00:42:41] Speaker B: So I could keep them in good. [00:42:43] Speaker A: Condition so I can have. [00:42:46] Speaker C: That's what is referred to as strategy, I do believe. [00:42:51] Speaker A: Strategy, yeah. [00:42:52] Speaker B: Strategic. So I kept them like that. [00:42:54] Speaker A: So I have in front of me the Francesco Tomicelli cover. [00:42:58] Speaker C: Very nice. [00:42:59] Speaker A: Which is like a cool, really angular gunslinger. [00:43:02] Speaker B: Kind of cartoony. [00:43:04] Speaker A: He looks like Gendi Tarkovsky drew him or something. He's got necroplasm smoke come out of his guns. [00:43:11] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, I see it. [00:43:12] Speaker B: I see it. [00:43:13] Speaker C: Oh, man. [00:43:14] Speaker A: You know what I mean? It kind of looks like an animated series. Like. [00:43:16] Speaker C: Yeah. Oh, man, look, those bats are very well rendered. [00:43:20] Speaker B: Jeez. Other cool. [00:43:22] Speaker A: They're like pixel bats. [00:43:23] Speaker C: Yeah. But, like, they've got little ears, and you can see their little ears. [00:43:27] Speaker B: Yeah. That's a great cover, man. [00:43:31] Speaker C: I'm kind of upset I don't have. [00:43:32] Speaker B: It now, but, yeah. Love this marks Brooks. [00:43:36] Speaker A: It's excellent. [00:43:38] Speaker C: Also important to gunslingers, aside from number 19, is they got to be written, Johnny. I mean, when the gunslinger comes out of the books in song of Susanna and meets Stephen King, we learn that it's very important. [00:43:54] Speaker A: He must have a writer. [00:43:56] Speaker C: Must have a writer. And lucky for us, Todd McFarland's writing this book. [00:44:01] Speaker A: He's having a hoot and a half. [00:44:03] Speaker B: Yeah, all the hoots. Art by Bret Booth. [00:44:08] Speaker C: Adelso Corona is the anchor there. Ivan Nunez for colors, we got Tom. [00:44:13] Speaker B: O, as we always do, doing the lettering. [00:44:19] Speaker C: Yeah. And know creative director Todd McFarland, the. [00:44:21] Speaker B: Editor in chief, Thomas Healy. You know how it is. Bing, bang, boom. That's what you do. [00:44:28] Speaker A: Previously in Gunslinger, baby. Gunslinger is pulled through a portal and captured by a cadre of angels while they plan his execution. That is two sentences in how it's written. Did I say that right? [00:44:46] Speaker B: Cadra, cadre. [00:44:49] Speaker A: Say that? [00:44:50] Speaker B: Yeah, you said cadre. [00:44:52] Speaker C: I would have said cadre, but people will get it. They'll understand. You want to take it again? [00:44:58] Speaker B: No. [00:45:01] Speaker A: And I'm keeping this part in to. [00:45:02] Speaker B: See how mean you are to this. [00:45:07] Speaker C: If we were the doughboys, we would have a hashtag for how to pronounce it, wouldn't we? But anyway, we start this issue looking. [00:45:18] Speaker B: Through Javi's body, the hole that was. [00:45:21] Speaker A: Blown in his chest at the end of last issue. [00:45:25] Speaker C: That's how you kill them. A clean shot right through the heart. [00:45:28] Speaker A: I love this through line of, like, all these guards talk about is how to kill hell swans. [00:45:32] Speaker C: They all have different ways. [00:45:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:35] Speaker C: That's all they've got real expertise in. Yeah, it's just gooey and gross. And you can see all his bones and his viscera. Yeah, it's nasty, Johnny. He's got, like, an intestine leaking out over his gun belt. [00:45:58] Speaker A: Yeah, you see, like, a kidney there? [00:46:04] Speaker C: There's a way to make sure they're dead too. Johnny, you check your target and then. [00:46:08] Speaker A: Make sure there's a hole big enough. [00:46:09] Speaker C: To shove your arm through. And then Titus is just over there shoving his arm through the hole. [00:46:14] Speaker A: That's so funny. [00:46:16] Speaker B: This is so weird. [00:46:18] Speaker A: Make sure there's a hole big enough to shove your arm through. [00:46:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:22] Speaker C: If it is, then put a notch on your belt. Then we got Tom's of Finland over here again, being like, what about his head? I thought you were supposed to cut that off. [00:46:33] Speaker A: He looks like Ren. [00:46:38] Speaker B: So, David, in the Star wars comics. [00:46:41] Speaker A: There is a group called the Knights of Ren. Who? There's a man named Ren. [00:46:47] Speaker B: The Ren. And he looks like this. And Kylo Ren, before he's Kylo Ren. [00:46:54] Speaker A: Kills him and becomes leader of the Knights of Ren. It's very confusing, but he kind of looks like this. [00:46:59] Speaker B: Okay, awesome. [00:47:01] Speaker A: He walks around shirtless with a crazy. [00:47:04] Speaker C: Mask that covers his face and a big ass sword. [00:47:07] Speaker A: No, he has a red lightsaber, which they call the all. [00:47:12] Speaker B: It's real weird. Sounds like it. [00:47:16] Speaker C: Star wars weird. [00:47:18] Speaker B: Never happened. Can't believe. Yeah. [00:47:22] Speaker C: So. And Titus is just. No for the weaker ones. For the superpowered ones, you do gotta take the head for the weaker ones. You only take the head if you want a trophy. [00:47:31] Speaker A: Yeah, just take it if you want it. [00:47:33] Speaker C: One of them's over there, like, well, let's grab our trophy. [00:47:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:47:36] Speaker A: Put a nice hellspawn head on your wall. [00:47:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:47:39] Speaker A: On your mantelpiece. It's, like, leaking green. [00:47:43] Speaker C: And Titus says, no. God said she'd do then. But he says, I don't think they'd mind if we took his tongue, because what is Javier's greatest weapon? It's definitely not his guns. It's his tongue. [00:48:00] Speaker A: He can talk his way out of a jiffy. [00:48:03] Speaker C: He could talk his way into a Jiffy too. [00:48:05] Speaker B: Out or into. [00:48:08] Speaker C: He's just talking the whole time. It doesn't matter. And then zip, crack. The air echoes with the sounds of gun blasts. [00:48:17] Speaker B: We got Alan with a giant fucking gun. Look at him. [00:48:23] Speaker C: Cox's gun. As his eyes shimmer and his cloak snaps wildly with the same energy of a caged lion who hasn't been fed for days. [00:48:30] Speaker A: Oh, man, he looks awesome. Speaking of great gauntlets, he's got a good one. [00:48:34] Speaker B: Yeah, look at that. Oh, man. [00:48:36] Speaker C: It's the one that goes, like, all. [00:48:37] Speaker B: The way, all the way out in. [00:48:39] Speaker C: Front of his fingers. [00:48:41] Speaker B: Careful, warriors. [00:48:42] Speaker A: This hellspawn's way more dangerous than the cowboy. [00:48:45] Speaker C: They literally drop everything to prepare themselves. It's just a picture of Javi falling on his face again. [00:48:53] Speaker A: Javi's hitting the ground. [00:48:54] Speaker B: Thump. Oh, man. [00:48:56] Speaker C: He done thumped it up. And then Titus is leading everybody to the attack spawns bamming and bamming and. [00:49:03] Speaker A: Bamming using a big, old sniper rifle. [00:49:05] Speaker C: Yeah, shooting the angels, and everybody's like, why does he have a gun? [00:49:10] Speaker B: We all know this is pointless, but. [00:49:14] Speaker A: Yeah, he should be using his power. So what's the deal here? [00:49:16] Speaker C: Yeah, what's the deal? Titus says something's wrong, but then we see that what makes it into the crosshairs is not the angels heads themselves, but their wings. [00:49:31] Speaker B: Kaboom. Shoots them off. Shoots them off. [00:49:35] Speaker C: One hit for each wing just blams them off. [00:49:38] Speaker A: He has that cool, like, half crescent moon like staff. I love that thing. [00:49:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:42] Speaker C: Picks it up with the weapon that. [00:49:44] Speaker B: The angel dropped, and then lops off its head with its own axe, like. [00:49:52] Speaker A: How contemplative he looks. [00:49:53] Speaker B: It's a good spawn. Yeah. [00:49:56] Speaker C: It's one of his favorite things, Johnny. If he were in the sound of Music with Julie Andrews, he would have had to shoehorn cutting off my enemy's heads with their own weapons into the favorite thing. [00:50:10] Speaker B: Song. [00:50:10] Speaker A: Be hard to get in that song. [00:50:12] Speaker B: But you could try. Yeah. I mean. [00:50:16] Speaker C: You could do it. You could do it. [00:50:17] Speaker A: Cutting my enemies heads off with their own weapons. Hey, there you go. There's a song. [00:50:25] Speaker B: Print it. It's good. It's going straight to hold it up. [00:50:29] Speaker A: For all to see to show off his trophy. [00:50:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:50:33] Speaker C: Then we get the blam, blam, blam, blam, blams of the blams blams. [00:50:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:50:38] Speaker A: Using those double guns. That's interesting. [00:50:41] Speaker C: You don't see Al doing the double guns very often. [00:50:46] Speaker A: Interesting. [00:50:48] Speaker C: One angel throws. One angel throws a knife at him, hits him in the arm, and he's like, well, I can't use this one. And so he just continues to shoot with the other hand, and then they. [00:50:58] Speaker A: Realize he's weak because he's not healing, he's not doing anything when they. [00:51:01] Speaker C: Yeah, which is why he's got the guns, and so they're like, well, just protect your wings and try to get at. [00:51:07] Speaker B: Then. [00:51:08] Speaker C: Then they get at him. And then there's a big, giant green explosion from behind him. What is it? It's Javi. Javi is up and walking again. Look at that. Look at all that green, that green goodness he's got. [00:51:22] Speaker A: Yeah, look at all that nickel plasma. Javi's not that powerful. [00:51:25] Speaker C: No, he's not. Everything he's been taught about this hell spawn is thrown out of whack Johnny. So Titus doesn't know what's going on either. But it doesn't matter, because very quickly, Titus has more important things to worry about, like a fist right through his spine. [00:51:44] Speaker B: Look at it. [00:51:46] Speaker A: I love how hobby, evidently, with his newfound powers. [00:51:49] Speaker B: Just, like, doesn't even look. [00:51:51] Speaker A: Just holds his hand to the side and vaporizes an angel. [00:51:53] Speaker B: Yeah. Just doesn't have to move. [00:51:57] Speaker C: He catches another angel by its head and then just, like, shoves the head into the hole in his chest as it is healing. And then the bones turn into teeth and bite the head off. [00:52:11] Speaker B: Oh, holy crap. [00:52:13] Speaker A: So cool. [00:52:15] Speaker C: I was so overjoyed at this moment when I was reading it on the train. I started laughing so loud. I got so many looks. [00:52:24] Speaker B: But it was just like, he just. [00:52:28] Speaker C: Chopped the dude's head off with his chest. He just the thing to this angel. [00:52:33] Speaker B: Yeah, right off, right off. [00:52:36] Speaker C: Only it's much harder to find a war veteran who is a head amputee to pull that effect off. So. [00:52:45] Speaker A: Do you think that his head's. [00:52:47] Speaker B: Just floating around in his stomach? [00:52:50] Speaker C: I don't know. It still has thoughts, and it's just like, it's like Gary in a Santa Clarita diet. [00:52:59] Speaker A: Is he eventually going to poop it out? [00:53:03] Speaker C: Do gunslingers have to use the restroom or not? Gunslingers, do spawns have to use the restrooms? Is there a little spawns room? [00:53:09] Speaker B: Probably not. [00:53:11] Speaker C: Is it a unisex bathroom, or do they have them classified to the shape of your, like? Is it if you have a coat or a cape or hair? [00:53:24] Speaker A: You like Jessica with hair, then, yeah. This is bathroom. [00:53:27] Speaker C: Your. What is your big red item? Is it a coat? [00:53:30] Speaker B: Is it a cape? [00:53:32] Speaker C: Is it a shawl? Is it your hair? Interesting. [00:53:38] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:53:38] Speaker A: I guess they only eat, like, when they have to or when they want to. They don't seem like they need to eat a lot, so probably they don't go to the bathroom. No, we need to write a letter to spawning grounds and ask them if spawns go to the bathroom. [00:53:53] Speaker C: That would be some excellent information to know we should get on that. But then, in the aftermath of this battle, something crazy happens. Johnny, what is this? Al and Javi start vibrating, and they're going. Next thing you know, well, they play to switcheroo. [00:54:12] Speaker B: Johnny. [00:54:15] Speaker C: That super powerful Javi with the hole in him, that was Al the whole time. It was Albert Simmons, that owl with. [00:54:21] Speaker B: The guns, who was weak. [00:54:23] Speaker A: That was Javy the whole time? [00:54:24] Speaker C: Yeah. Oh, man. [00:54:26] Speaker A: And then they did a switcheroo on you. [00:54:28] Speaker C: Yeah, it's what the big green was in issue 18, as they say. [00:54:35] Speaker A: Oh, the big green, right. [00:54:37] Speaker C: And then Al just like being Javy. He says, javi, you're stupid, you're dumb, you're stupid, you're going to die, and you're dumb, and you're stupid. And Javi's like, okay, I messed up Myacoppola. And then Spawn's like, what? No, there's no making up after this. Al's such a jerk in this. [00:54:56] Speaker B: So hot headed, so, so much anger. [00:55:01] Speaker C: And then Javi's like, well, that's the way you feel. I'll make it so nobody makes mistakes. Us for the other again. And then he becomes, like, ninja gunslinger spawn. [00:55:11] Speaker B: He becomes zoro Spawn. [00:55:13] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm still trying to get used to it. [00:55:16] Speaker B: I don't know. Yeah, I remember our good friend fake. [00:55:19] Speaker A: Mike Jones asked us on Instagram. [00:55:23] Speaker B: What. [00:55:24] Speaker A: We thought of it, and I said I was still processing, and I don't know. I'm getting used to it. I like it better in the next issue. [00:55:30] Speaker B: I think it's used effectively. Just one shot of it. It's different. Yeah. [00:55:37] Speaker C: I mean, it fits the bandana with the cowboy. I like the bandana, but you know how these things go. [00:55:46] Speaker B: It'll just take time for us to. [00:55:48] Speaker C: Get used to it. [00:55:49] Speaker A: It'll take time, and they'll change it again. [00:55:50] Speaker B: Yeah, certainly. Certainly. That's funny, though, that the tod father. [00:55:57] Speaker A: Because considering it was pretty early on. [00:56:00] Speaker B: They added the big boot and then. [00:56:02] Speaker A: Completely never went back. It's funny how early on he'll do a drastic. [00:56:07] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe he never will change. [00:56:11] Speaker A: Maybe he'll be like this forever. [00:56:12] Speaker C: When will Gunslinger get his big boot? And will it be a big boot, Allah spawn? Or will it just be a big old cowboy boot? [00:56:20] Speaker A: Giant cowboy boot? This is just weird, the way he's like, no one will ever confuse us again. [00:56:26] Speaker B: I feel like people were confusing it. [00:56:29] Speaker A: Around the todfather, and he's getting frustrated. [00:56:31] Speaker B: Or something and did this. [00:56:33] Speaker A: Yeah, it has, like, the scent of that. [00:56:35] Speaker B: I don't. This is very know. [00:56:39] Speaker C: I just had an what if. What if using those wings, Javi goes to heaven. If Javi goes to heaven and he finds Bootsy's boots and then he wears them. [00:56:53] Speaker B: Oh my God, that could tie it all together. [00:56:57] Speaker C: That would be great to see Bootsy's boots come back. If we don't get bootsies, at least. [00:57:01] Speaker A: Give us his three b's of this podcast. [00:57:05] Speaker B: Bring back bootsy. [00:57:07] Speaker C: He gets Bootsy's boots and then instead of getting sent back to his own time, he just gets sent back to Red Alley in New York City and he comes across Bobby. And then there's some Bobby Javi goof arounds. Oh, man. Could you imagine the hijinks those two could get into? [00:57:28] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, it could happen. [00:57:30] Speaker A: They've been pulling some deep cuts. [00:57:32] Speaker C: Oh, man. I'm just jonesing to have a happy ending to the whole Bobby Bootsy debacle after having to read back through 75 for our last issue. [00:57:46] Speaker B: And it's just. [00:57:47] Speaker C: Oh, man. Because I do believe that's like Bobby's last appearance too, is after they take away bootsy and there's like, no more Bobby. [00:57:55] Speaker A: Yeah, no, pretty much as far as I recall. [00:57:58] Speaker B: Oh, man. Oh man. [00:57:59] Speaker C: Now I'm bummed. Now I'm bummed in this issue of gunslinger is over and so there's nothing to look forward to, Johnny. There's just a 156. [00:58:07] Speaker A: There's some spawning ground, some cool fan art to look forward to. [00:58:11] Speaker C: That one that makes him look like a funko pop is pretty cool on the top right there. Is that a photo of a guy actually dressed up or is that. [00:58:21] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a photo. [00:58:22] Speaker C: Hell yeah. [00:58:23] Speaker B: It might be spawning boy. [00:58:25] Speaker C: That's awesome. I think spawning boy's hat is taller. [00:58:29] Speaker B: Though, because I like the one on. [00:58:31] Speaker C: The bottom right where he's twirling one of the revolvers. That's pretty dope. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. [00:58:39] Speaker B: I've seen some fan art. [00:58:41] Speaker C: Then there's some advertisements. There's toy advertisement. That is King sponsored notice throne. That's gunslinger 19. [00:58:50] Speaker B: Johnny in the bag, in the bell. [00:58:55] Speaker C: One of them is in a bag. Two of them aren't though. [00:58:58] Speaker B: Yeah, one of them isn't a bag, so I keep it in a bag. [00:59:01] Speaker C: I guess you're going to mint fresh. Well, Johnny, now comes the time where. [00:59:08] Speaker B: We get to review the issues that we've just read. [00:59:13] Speaker C: So we've got to rate these puppies, Johnny. [00:59:18] Speaker A: I don't know, David. What am I going to rate these? [00:59:22] Speaker C: I don't know. [00:59:23] Speaker A: King spawn number nine. [00:59:25] Speaker B: Okay. It's a know spawn in the green world with Gaia. I'm going to give it three wood. [00:59:33] Speaker A: Creature McFarlane Blair witch action figures. [00:59:36] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. I don't know, it's just. [00:59:40] Speaker A: Maybe I am being bitter today. [00:59:41] Speaker B: Neither of these issues really did a lot for me. [00:59:46] Speaker C: Well, this one. [00:59:51] Speaker B: I like this one. [00:59:52] Speaker C: This one's a weird. It both starts and ends things at the same time. So it's not a real middle issue. [01:00:04] Speaker B: But it's like a middle issue between. [01:00:08] Speaker C: Middle issues where things are starting, things are stopping. So it's technically middle, but it's still building up. It's still building up. I would give it three and a half mismatched footprints is what I'm going. [01:00:23] Speaker B: To give it in the snow. Um, only one honorary for me. Three. [01:00:30] Speaker A: Underside of the boots. [01:00:33] Speaker C: Hell yeah. Seeing the underside of the boot, it's awesome. You never get to see the underside of the boot. [01:00:39] Speaker B: No. I mean, it's a good battle. [01:00:41] Speaker A: It's fine. It's just. [01:00:41] Speaker B: I don't know. [01:00:44] Speaker A: It both matters a lot and doesn't matter. [01:00:46] Speaker B: I feel like. [01:00:47] Speaker A: I don't know. [01:00:48] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:00:52] Speaker A: Knowing where the story goes, it feels like this should be more consequential than it actually is, and it ends up. [01:00:57] Speaker B: Kind of ending here, and it just. [01:01:00] Speaker C: Does a lot more rehashing of. Spawn's going to have to make this decision about either getting Wanda back or save. [01:01:10] Speaker A: I mean, this is that finagling also. But I mean, it's good because, like. [01:01:14] Speaker B: We say, it's right before issue ten. [01:01:18] Speaker A: Where you get that finally that moment where he does take the throne and. [01:01:20] Speaker B: It'S like, oh, yeah. So what do we know? [01:01:25] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, it helps bolster that emotional moment when it finally comes, but it's a better issue to have had read than to read again, I guess. [01:01:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Is a good way of looking at it. [01:01:43] Speaker A: It's not my favorite issue. King Spawn. [01:01:48] Speaker B: That's okay. [01:01:48] Speaker C: That's fine, because it's still king Spawn. So it's still pretty good. [01:01:53] Speaker B: Exactly. Yeah. [01:01:54] Speaker A: And then we've got Gunslinger 19. Where do you give Gunslinger 19, David? [01:01:59] Speaker C: Where am I going to give Gunslinger 19? Well, man, the problem is this is like the epitome of a middle gunslinger book. [01:02:11] Speaker B: I mean, I know we do get. [01:02:12] Speaker C: He changes at the end there, but this is a middle book. So I don't give middle books very high, very high ratings very often. But just the sheer gunslingerness of this, I have to give this four and a half thing chest monsters because. [01:02:39] Speaker B: It. [01:02:39] Speaker C: Was just so much fun for me. You said, maybe you are a grump because it didn't do it for you. But this issue, I loved it when I read it the first time. I loved it when I read it this time. I loved it when I read it a couple of days ago. It's just all the fun. It's all the fun that I like there. [01:02:57] Speaker B: David, this might be our biggest disagreement. [01:03:01] Speaker C: It's one of those things that happens in gunslinger a lot that I'm noticing that the quality of the story that it has maybe isn't up to where I want it to be because there's really not much that happens. It's kind of clunky relying on that. They switched places. But I just had so much fun that it does it for me. Johnny, I need a necro cigarette right. [01:03:26] Speaker B: Now because I had a real good time. [01:03:30] Speaker A: I mean, I liked it. I like gunslinger. It definitely picks back up in the next two issues. But this just didn't do it for. [01:03:38] Speaker B: Me as a kind of conclusion of. [01:03:40] Speaker A: That going into heaven thing. That little side story wasn't my jam. [01:03:44] Speaker B: Yeah. So I'm going to give it. [01:03:49] Speaker A: Oh my God, there's no taylor too. That's just the huge. [01:03:56] Speaker B: I'm going to give it two and. [01:03:58] Speaker A: A half angel scepters. Two and a half. [01:04:04] Speaker C: That's what it deserves on a writing level. It really is. [01:04:08] Speaker B: I just got frustrated by the dev switching places and being like, oh, I. [01:04:13] Speaker A: Did it because they won't recognize me. They won't think I'm you. I don't know. It just felt like kind of rushed and weird. [01:04:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:04:20] Speaker B: But I don't know. [01:04:21] Speaker A: It just didn't do it for me. I don't know. So sue me. I'm sorry. Tod McFarland. I'm sorry. [01:04:25] Speaker B: It was great art. [01:04:29] Speaker C: I gave it my fast and furious. [01:04:33] Speaker B: Movie rating where if you show me. [01:04:37] Speaker C: A fast and the furious movie that's actually a quality movie, I will show you a movie that doesn't exist. So by far they aren't really good movies, but they're really fun to just go in and turn your brain off and just enjoy yourself for a couple of hours. And that's literally what this does for me. Knowing the story or not doesn't really make it any better, honestly. [01:05:05] Speaker B: Because it. [01:05:06] Speaker C: Does kind of not really make sense. But just like I can go into it and just shut off my brain and then at the end be like, oh, hey, I had a pretty fun time watching that angel get its head cut off by a chest growing back together. That was pretty cool. [01:05:20] Speaker A: I mean, that's definitely the highlight. [01:05:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:25] Speaker C: If we ever revisit these ratings. I will probably definitely be wrong for giving this one so high, but this is my bias, Johnny. [01:05:36] Speaker B: That's okay. [01:05:39] Speaker C: And it starts disgusting. That's the thing is, it was like everything that I would have ever wanted. Sitting down to a comic book and just being like, this is dumb. This is gross. [01:05:49] Speaker B: Wow. And I like that, too. [01:05:52] Speaker A: I don't know. Just like when I read it, it. [01:05:54] Speaker B: Just didn't do it for me. [01:05:56] Speaker C: It happens. There's a lot of good shit out there that just doesn't do it for me. No. You don't know what you're going to like until you like it or guess. [01:06:08] Speaker A: But the next few issues picks weight right back up with Dakota and clown and some crazy shit. So that's really awesome. [01:06:15] Speaker C: I really maybe shouldn't have given this one so high of a rating because those ones are going to take it off the charts. But I'm committed. I'm committed to now, Johnny. [01:06:24] Speaker A: That's why I'm getting better at getting my ratings in there. I realize I got to give some below some threes. [01:06:30] Speaker C: I defended my choice and I'm not afraid of it. I'm not afraid of the comments. Bring the comments. If you think I'm wrong, tell me at regarding [email protected] please do. Please do. [01:06:46] Speaker A: So, David, did you watch the game last? [01:06:50] Speaker C: Did I? Sure did do enjoy myself a little bit of sponsorsy baseball. [01:07:07] Speaker B: It's right, folks. [01:07:26] Speaker A: It's time for the inaugural edition of us recapping a game of sponsor baseball. I don't know if everyone got to see the game. I have this really extra special. [01:07:42] Speaker B: It's, like, really illegal. You have to pay with bitcoin streaming. [01:07:45] Speaker A: Service that does these really hard to find sports games. [01:07:48] Speaker C: Oh, man. [01:07:49] Speaker A: So a lot of you might have missed it. I shared my password with David, so David got to see it as well. [01:07:54] Speaker C: Yeah, it shows up just like, as a yawning hell portal on my. It's. [01:08:00] Speaker A: Yeah, it's really strange, but it's cool that they were able to set aside their differences and get these realm teams together. [01:08:08] Speaker C: Yeah, it's kind of an nifty app because it just kind of sits there and does nothing until a game starts. And then it just sucks all of the rest of everything into it and then it forces you to watch it. Sometimes that's what I need. I need to be told to watch a thing. So it's real good. Don't have to search for it. It's just, it's there. These teams, man, I can't imagine trying to get all these actors, actors, players. They're called players on teams? [01:08:38] Speaker A: I think so. [01:08:40] Speaker C: All of these players together, man, it was just the green world and earth just going at it. It was a good time. [01:08:49] Speaker A: Yeah, it was crazy. I've never seen anything like it. I don't know what to just mean. [01:08:58] Speaker C: They normally don't show the ceremonial first pitches on television, but, man, they got Bruce Wayne to be there to throw out the ceremonial first pitch. Johnny, that was a hell of a get. A hell of a get. [01:09:11] Speaker A: They lined up all the teams, and the designated hitter for earth wasn't there. Batman. He must have been still in the locker room. [01:09:17] Speaker C: He was probably hanging upside down up in a belfry or some shit. Who knows what that guy does? He shows up when he wants. [01:09:24] Speaker B: Yeah, he's like a wizard. [01:09:26] Speaker A: As far as a spawn guy are concerned. He's just some weirdo which has shown up three times. [01:09:30] Speaker C: Yeah, he did cleave Al Simmons's face right in half, though. [01:09:38] Speaker A: It was crazy after the first pitch, though, when Sam accidentally threw his hoagie instead of the ball. [01:09:45] Speaker C: Oh, man. Granny had a couple of things to say to him after that. That was the first and only meeting at the pitch because Sam looked pretty frightened after that. He did, however, somehow find a mostly unused napkin in one of his pockets to let her wash herself off with a little bit. That was pretty surprising. No surprise with fucking overt kill, though, man. Three home runs. He only hit three times, but each one of them was home runs. Geez, Johnny. [01:10:23] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, that seems a little overkill to. [01:10:31] Speaker C: He's going to come find you in the stands, Johnny. [01:10:33] Speaker B: He's going to find me. [01:10:35] Speaker C: He's going to figure out what you're doing. Sam held down. He held that run count as down as good as he possibly could. [01:10:45] Speaker A: He did. But the whole thing with the hoagie is it landed next to Granny, and Taylor got a chase of the munchies, so he went over and started eating the hoagie. So Twitch was playing both first and second base for a second. It was real fucked. [01:10:59] Speaker C: Yeah, it knocked him off his groove and definitely had led to that early Greenworld, that Greenworld run. [01:11:08] Speaker A: Well, that's the thing is, I don't even know why Taylor's allowed on the team, because half the time he was on an app game on his was. [01:11:15] Speaker C: That's. That's part of the problem. What is the problem? Taylor's good at what he does. [01:11:21] Speaker A: No, every maneuver he makes is a non athletic move. You need an athlete. I was disappointed. Taylor's performance of the. [01:11:31] Speaker C: Luckily, if it weren't for Twitch, there would have been much more yelling at. Much more yelling at Taylor. Bobby had a better showing than Taylor did. [01:11:43] Speaker B: And that's, man, that's hard to do. [01:11:48] Speaker C: It's hard to make Bobby look good. [01:11:51] Speaker B: When he's not doing much. Not doing much. [01:11:55] Speaker C: He was able to. I'm surprised he didn't get completely run down by when that when Cygor was running by third, Bobby did have a chance to maybe tag him out. But I respect, I respect his choice. [01:12:12] Speaker B: To just step back, let monkey go, let Cygor through. [01:12:18] Speaker A: It's too scary. [01:12:19] Speaker C: Yeah, I believe it. [01:12:20] Speaker B: I believe it. [01:12:21] Speaker C: But yeah, it was looking bad. Looking bad for earth up to halfway through there. But then, man, I don't know what happened, but it was real fortunate there in the 6th inning that Jim Downing got into that fist fight with Nick's over. Who had the better hair. I mean, what a jerk. [01:12:41] Speaker B: What a jerk. [01:12:42] Speaker C: Then they both got tossed because you can't be fighting, much less your own teammates. And then Greenworld down two people, they still had a hell of a showing, but, man, Terry and Soul Crusher were able to claw out a couple of good stolen bases there to just get them over the top. [01:13:03] Speaker B: And then let me tell you, focus. [01:13:07] Speaker A: Ran the bases and second flat. [01:13:09] Speaker C: Yeah, he bunted and had a home run on it. It was great. It was great. I think they tried to not allow it. You can't argue with speed, Johnny. [01:13:22] Speaker A: I mean, they had Oracle on the other team. How are you going to get. Not Oracle, they had guy on the other team. You try to get a ball past that like giant tree lady, it's impossible. [01:13:31] Speaker C: Yeah, she just like, she just extends or she tried to change the grounds, Johnny. I know the umpire had to scold her about that a couple of times. [01:13:42] Speaker A: Well, that's why Nixon Downey got in a fight about their heroics. They had nothing else to do because her tree branches were just blocking the entire outfield. They never even got the ball. [01:13:51] Speaker B: Man. [01:13:52] Speaker C: The hubris, Johnny. [01:13:56] Speaker B: It always gets you. [01:13:59] Speaker C: Batman finally decided to show up. I don't know where he went for most of the game. [01:14:03] Speaker B: Geez. [01:14:05] Speaker C: And they actually had to make Sam hit up until the 8th inning. And oh, man, let me tell you, Sam needs that designated hitter. Johnny. [01:14:17] Speaker A: I felt bad for twitch. He was just in the dugout, just holding his head in his hands. [01:14:23] Speaker C: Oh, man, love Sam. But man, if he ever makes contact. [01:14:28] Speaker B: With a ball, we will probably all. [01:14:33] Speaker C: Have already won the lottery, Johnny. But yeah, it was amazing. They squeaked by. Squeaked by. One by two. One by two. [01:14:41] Speaker B: Man, I was shocked. [01:14:42] Speaker C: So good, man. [01:14:44] Speaker B: It's very good. [01:14:45] Speaker C: Oh, Earth, Earth one by two. Sorry we forgot to make our allegiance to earth. [01:14:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Earth one. [01:14:51] Speaker C: Earth one by two. [01:14:52] Speaker A: Focus, probably focus was all those scored. [01:14:56] Speaker B: Like, what, how many times? [01:14:58] Speaker A: He scored? Like 1516. A lot. [01:15:01] Speaker C: It was a lot. [01:15:02] Speaker A: You'd like, touch the ball, he'd be back at home. [01:15:03] Speaker B: What could he do? [01:15:04] Speaker C: Yeah, his rbis is one. No points. It's 100% RBI. He just has to hit, man. There was that one time where he hit it nice and long and ended up being caught, but he had already run the bases three times, so they had. [01:15:26] Speaker A: He tried to argue. He got three points. [01:15:27] Speaker C: Tried to be a little sneaker. He almost got bounced. Like, had to go hang out with Jim and Nick's and get caught up all in that nonsense, but, nah, luckily, luckily they let him stay. [01:15:40] Speaker B: Well. [01:15:40] Speaker C: Yeah, it was a great game. It was a great game. [01:15:43] Speaker B: I can't wait. [01:15:44] Speaker A: It's fun to watch it. Yeah. [01:15:45] Speaker B: I'm glad that Earth won. [01:15:48] Speaker A: Being an earth realmer myself, nothing against the green, I recycle. [01:15:53] Speaker C: Yeah, Simon had a hell of a good time out there. He was mostly just running around doing kids stuff, but he looked like he was having a great time. [01:16:04] Speaker A: Yeah, he had that crown he was playing with for half the game. Just like, rolling around on that man, the keeper. [01:16:09] Speaker C: The keeper was getting pissed off at him, but you can't be pissed off at a child for too long. He was having a good time. I'm just surprised he was able to make it through all nine innings before he had to go for his nap, but he collapsed as soon as he was able. It was kind of funny, actually. [01:16:26] Speaker A: It was crazy how at the end. [01:16:29] Speaker B: The keeper pulled the microphone when they're. [01:16:32] Speaker A: Doing, like, the post game interviews and was like, I have been a character since 75. David Williams issue 75. It was weird he called you out. [01:16:41] Speaker C: Yeah. I can only assume he's talking about another David Williams because there's about a bajillion of us on this planet. [01:16:48] Speaker A: Yeah, well, there's another David Williams. They thought he was a new character. [01:16:51] Speaker C: Too, but I couldn't help but feeling a little bit called out for. [01:16:58] Speaker A: Yeah, it's kind of weird, but I'm. [01:17:00] Speaker C: Going to have to keep an eye on my garden to make sure nothing vengeful comes out of it. You've got the tour portal. I now have the pathway to the green in my backyard, so be looking over my shoulder a lot. [01:17:12] Speaker B: Johnny, you better get that recycling right. [01:17:14] Speaker A: Don't put any of that wrong kind of plastic in there. They'll fucking send Simon. [01:17:21] Speaker C: I have to triple check. It's no joke, those numbers. Yeah, there was a hell of a game. I can't wait for the next one. [01:17:33] Speaker A: Other numbers that aren't a joke were. [01:17:34] Speaker B: The numbers put on the board by the earth team. Yeah, real good numbers. [01:17:39] Speaker A: That was a fun game. Good game to watch. [01:17:41] Speaker C: Good game to watch. Who's playing next time, Johnny? We should make ourselves available the next time that hell portal forces us to watch again. [01:17:47] Speaker A: Well, next up, well, the next game, David is actually going to be Greenworld and is playing at heaven. In heaven. This. [01:17:56] Speaker C: That'll be, that'll be an interesting be. She's probably gonna try to pull a mother card on that one. [01:18:04] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. She's going to be like telling God. [01:18:07] Speaker A: Like, hello, I'm your mom. [01:18:10] Speaker C: You owe me this game. It'll be real good. If they lose again. They'll be banished from the realm, Johnny. So they better come correct, or else we're not going to see him again for the rest of the season. [01:18:23] Speaker B: Nope. Well, I hope they do, man. [01:18:27] Speaker A: Hopefully that evil, demonic Reddit Secret bitcoin. [01:18:31] Speaker B: Sports channel I got has it. [01:18:34] Speaker C: Yeah. I just hope it didn't put any malware on my stuff because getting called out like that, I'm now a little worried that they can see and hear everything I do all the time. [01:18:47] Speaker B: This way. [01:18:47] Speaker A: You got to use a Roku. It's too old to have any malware. No one believes in it. No one uses Roku anymore. [01:18:52] Speaker C: But I do have the Roku. But I mean, this is some wild shit we're talking about, Johnny. It sucked all of the rest of my computer stuff into it. Like, I could see it siphoning away all the data from my screens and. [01:19:06] Speaker B: Just replaced it with that. So, like Facebook kind of, yeah, from the Roku. [01:19:12] Speaker C: It was real wild. It was real wild. Can't miss it though. It makes it must see tv. [01:19:17] Speaker A: You know what else you can't miss? You know what else is must see tv? The Swan Instagram community. [01:19:24] Speaker C: Oh, hell yeah. That is definitely must see tv. [01:19:26] Speaker B: We've got a great one, and we've. [01:19:28] Speaker A: Got one that we wanted to highlight. [01:19:32] Speaker B: Turnstyle. Five one eight. [01:19:35] Speaker A: You could tell off the map, off the beginning. He's a spawn fan. He's got a spawn mask in his avatar. [01:19:39] Speaker B: Pretty cool. Oh, hell yeah. Got to love that. [01:19:43] Speaker A: But he's a former DJ or retired pro DJ, graphic designer, nostalgia collector. [01:19:49] Speaker B: He likes spawn. [01:19:50] Speaker A: He's got a lot of spawn stuff. He's posting comics. He's posting action figure. He's got Star wars action figures. He's got spawn action figures. He's got titty comics. He's got all the stuff you want. [01:20:01] Speaker B: What was that second to last one, Johnny horny comics. [01:20:04] Speaker C: No, that was the last one. I was asking about the second to last one. [01:20:08] Speaker B: That was the wars. [01:20:09] Speaker C: Yeah. Star wars. [01:20:10] Speaker B: Nice. That's always good. [01:20:12] Speaker C: Johnny Titty comics is kind of redundant. This is a male gaze dominated medium. That's a given. [01:20:24] Speaker B: Oh, man. [01:20:27] Speaker C: He does have a lot of custom painted masters of the universe figures too. [01:20:32] Speaker B: That's always fun. [01:20:33] Speaker A: He's got these old Star wars board games. One of them I used to have, the escape the Death Star assault game. [01:20:38] Speaker B: I used to have that. [01:20:39] Speaker C: Oh, man. He's got an oil tanker truck. [01:20:43] Speaker B: Pretty cool stuff. [01:20:44] Speaker A: Yeah, give him a follow. Check it out. Very supportive. Awesome, dude. [01:20:48] Speaker B: Holy shit. Johnny. [01:20:50] Speaker C: He has a clown action figure that has a pizza, and it's got that good looking cheese on it. [01:20:56] Speaker B: How'd he do it? [01:20:58] Speaker C: It's called the Clown Forest Bond classic series 20 pizza variant from 2001. Man, that's the coolest clown figure I've ever seen. [01:21:07] Speaker B: It's got the pizza. [01:21:08] Speaker C: It's even got a box. [01:21:12] Speaker A: Is it pretty far down? [01:21:14] Speaker C: Yeah, it's all the way at the bottom. It's like the 6th thing he posted. [01:21:18] Speaker A: Oh, nice. It does have cheese. [01:21:20] Speaker C: Yeah, it's great. There's a box. [01:21:24] Speaker B: That's awesome. Yeah. [01:21:26] Speaker A: Got a lot of swan stuff. [01:21:27] Speaker C: He's a great dude. He's a great dude. [01:21:28] Speaker B: He's a good time. Follow him. [01:21:31] Speaker C: And that's turnstyle. Style is spelled like style, like clothing, not turnstyle, like the thing at the train station. So turnstyle, five one eight. [01:21:45] Speaker A: While you're over there on Instagram, be. [01:21:47] Speaker B: Sure to give us a follow at. [01:21:48] Speaker A: Regarding Spawnpod, where we're posting pictures of. [01:21:53] Speaker B: Our pickups, pictures of our figures, funny. [01:21:56] Speaker A: Stuff, goofy stuff, spawn baseball rosters, pictures. [01:22:00] Speaker C: Of ourselves eating pizza, and little bitty crop tops with our guts hanging out. Also, clown. [01:22:12] Speaker B: We do reels. [01:22:13] Speaker C: We do pictures. [01:22:14] Speaker B: We do lots of fun stuff. [01:22:16] Speaker C: We show our pickups. We share our opinions about spawn stuff. Johnny likes to let you know about other things that spawn adjacent, but not purely spawn. And Johnny has excellent recommendations. I recommend you list Johnny's recommendations on the Melbolch Mondays. [01:22:36] Speaker B: It's real good. [01:22:36] Speaker A: The newly formed. [01:22:38] Speaker B: Newly formed. [01:22:40] Speaker C: But we have a lot of fun. Come, say know, be our friend. [01:22:44] Speaker B: See what we're doing while you're saying hi to us. [01:22:47] Speaker A: Make sure to give a hello howdy do to T. Brian Voiler, who does our music. [01:22:55] Speaker C: Yes, he is the maestro of the macabre. Yeah, of the macabre. Of the Spawns universe. For our Spawns universe. [01:23:05] Speaker A: He's written for our tiny corner of Spawn's universe. [01:23:09] Speaker C: Maybe he can also be the soundtrack of your spawn's universe. [01:23:16] Speaker B: You never know. Hopefully you got a minute song on. [01:23:19] Speaker A: Repeat while you read Spawn. Yeah, put our theme song on repeat. [01:23:23] Speaker C: I love listening to it. [01:23:24] Speaker A: If you want to ask us about our music or ask us about anything else in regards to our podcast, you can reach us at regarding [email protected]. [01:23:34] Speaker C: It's a real good time. Over on that email, we take questions, comments. I guess if there's a correction, we'll take a correction. What are we going to do with it? That's probably what we'll do with it. [01:23:46] Speaker B: But I mean, I'll read it. [01:23:48] Speaker C: Johnny has made a promise to read every bit of email we get, and. [01:23:56] Speaker B: So far we have. We've gotten a few. [01:24:00] Speaker A: And I like to ask a question every week to maybe spur, what is your favorite music to listen to while reading Spawn is what I'd like to ask this week. That's a good one. We've got turnstile five one eight. He's a former dj. [01:24:13] Speaker B: We're talking to listen to Brian's music. [01:24:15] Speaker A: What do you like to listen to? Earlier today, when I was reading Spawn, I was listening to a ghost radio station on Apple Music. What about you, David? [01:24:22] Speaker B: What do you like to read Spawn to? [01:24:29] Speaker C: I never pay attention to words, the lyrics, but things that revolve around lyrics, I can't read to. [01:24:39] Speaker B: Right. [01:24:40] Speaker C: A lot of pop music I can't. I can't read to a lot of pop music. I can't. I definitely can't reach to a musical soundtrack. So it's got to be something that's awash in that wall of sound. So I usually just throw on some black metal or some funeral doom. [01:24:54] Speaker A: That sounds good. [01:24:55] Speaker C: Which thematically appropriate, but also the two genres I listen to most outside of stuff anyway. So, yeah, I just let the Spotify choose who particularly I listen to, but I'll at least keep it within. [01:25:17] Speaker B: The. [01:25:17] Speaker C: Themes that I know won't distract me from my reading. [01:25:21] Speaker B: That's good. [01:25:22] Speaker A: Well, hit us up with what you. [01:25:23] Speaker B: Read, what you're listening to while you. [01:25:25] Speaker A: Read Spawn or anything else at regarding [email protected]. [01:25:29] Speaker C: Yes. [01:25:30] Speaker A: So what are we going to read next week, Dave? [01:25:32] Speaker C: Oh, next week? I don't know. What are we reading next week? [01:25:36] Speaker A: I actually know because I remember I'm. [01:25:39] Speaker C: Still in the middle of the book that I was reading. I don't know if I'll be finished by next week. Do I need to start a new. [01:25:43] Speaker A: Book by a new book? [01:25:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:25:47] Speaker C: You're talking about what are we reading Spawn wise? [01:25:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:25:51] Speaker A: Not just what are you reading? What are you reading? [01:25:54] Speaker C: Oh, I thought you were going to turn this into, like, a book club where we try to read a book, and then we show up, and we're like, oh, I didn't read the book. I just came for the wine. [01:26:02] Speaker A: It is a book club of Spawn, I think. [01:26:04] Speaker C: Johnny, next week, I'm just going to be here for the wine. You can read whatever you want. [01:26:09] Speaker A: No, well, I'm going to read Spawn 306. [01:26:12] Speaker C: Okay. [01:26:14] Speaker A: And scorched 17. [01:26:17] Speaker C: Okay. I guess I'll try to read them. It might be kind of important for me to know what you're talking about or also just be over here, like, what are you talking about, Johnny? [01:26:29] Speaker A: It's semi important. [01:26:31] Speaker C: Semi important. Yeah. So that'll be next. A. I consider that a pretty classic issue now, Johnny. [01:26:40] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:26:42] Speaker C: I'm not going to share what I feel about that classic issue because that's for the next week, but 206, you're talking. Yeah, for 306. Tune in to hear my thoughts on Spawn 306, excited to hear it. And Johnny's thoughts on spawn 306. [01:26:59] Speaker A: Excited to say them. [01:27:00] Speaker B: Yeah, it'll be good. [01:27:02] Speaker C: So that'll be. We got. We got our friends, we got our plugs. We got our reading set for next week. Johnny. I think that just leaves me to. [01:27:13] Speaker B: Say, may the scorch be with you and also with. [01:27:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:27:19] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. I just. [01:27:22] Speaker A: I feel so guilty that I gave it two and a half. Just. I think it's the lowest score I've probably ever given an issue. Hopefully I gave the Byron, not Byron. Hopefully I gave that issue number seven a lower score. The overt kill. [01:27:33] Speaker C: I think we gave that overt kill. I think we both gave it two. I think one of us might have given it a one. [01:27:40] Speaker A: Nice. Okay, good. I don't know, because this is better. [01:27:43] Speaker B: Than that, but I just feel so guilty. [01:27:46] Speaker A: I don't want the Tod father to hate me. [01:27:49] Speaker C: Johnny, you got to be careful. We're both sitting next to vortexes now, and the todfather might be able to hear you through both of them, so. [01:27:57] Speaker B: We'Ll have to speak in hushed tones. Okay, well, I guess I'll talk to you next week, David. Okay, I'll talk to you next week, Johnny. Goodbye. Bye.