RE:Spawn Episode 53 - Spawn 309 and Scorched 18

[00:00:00] Speaker A: In the weeks to come, Gunslinger filled with renewed power will show our world the true impact of his presence, especially with what he's about to do next. Good evening and welcome to the Malbolge. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I am your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:54] Speaker B: And I am your co host, David Williams. And Johnny, you are enough. I need you to know that you are. Oh, I don't get you. You just saw the Barbie movie, and Ken wears the shirt that says, I am sorry. [00:01:12] Speaker A: I'm sorry. I thought you were saying I am k. Apostrophe nuff. [00:01:19] Speaker B: No, exactly like that, only without the apostrophe. You are. [00:01:26] Speaker A: Barbenheimer, baby. [00:01:27] Speaker B: Oh, man. So what do you feel about patriarchy? That has nothing to do with horses. Do you still have an interest in that? Nope. [00:01:37] Speaker A: I'm like Gunslinger, baby. It's got to have a horse or a dinosaur that I can ride or. I'm not into saw bar. I saw Barbenheimer last Tuesday. [00:01:45] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Hell yeah. I've only done half the Barbenheimer. I did the Barbie half. [00:01:50] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:01:51] Speaker B: I think I'll wait to do Oppenheimer in the comfort and security of my own home. So I can go to the bathroom in the middle and not have know do me. [00:02:04] Speaker A: I can't remember if I went to the bathroom or not. [00:02:06] Speaker B: Probably you did. You just didn't realize you were doing. [00:02:12] Speaker A: That's the if I went to the Alamo draft house. They have a catheter now. You just hook it up to yourself and just go. [00:02:20] Speaker B: They just dig through the trash can for empty water bottles. And they're like, here, do it long distance. [00:02:26] Speaker A: You put up a card and they'll bring you a water bottle. [00:02:31] Speaker B: You just have to pay the recycling deposit or something. [00:02:36] Speaker A: Lord Almighty, could you imagine? Well, welcome, everyone. Welcome to regarding Spawn. [00:02:41] Speaker B: Welcome. [00:02:41] Speaker A: Each week we bring you two issues from Spawn's universe coming at you. A classic and a more modern. [00:02:48] Speaker B: And they're always good. Except for when they aren't. But they usually are. [00:02:52] Speaker A: They usually are. We had a little rough time there with our friend Raptor we weren't big fans of, but made me feel guilty. I had a lot of guilty spawn dreams. Just like, wishing that I had liked those issues more. And just the Tod father was just, like, crying and yelling at me in my dreams. [00:03:10] Speaker B: It's like you're wondering why you weren't good enough. And you just imagine the Todd father, like one of those dogs and the Sarah McLaughlin animal rescue commercials with the big eyes. [00:03:26] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. In the arms of the angel. Yeah, those are some sad ass commercials. [00:03:33] Speaker B: There's generational trauma that those commercials caused that we're still dealing with to this day. But we don't want to make the Todd father sad. [00:03:43] Speaker A: No, we don't. [00:03:43] Speaker B: We've mentioned before he's a man with too much energy and too many ideas. We can't get him off his groove. He's not going to get all those stories out if we do that. [00:03:51] Speaker A: It's true. He also said at Comic Con, if you watch the whole panel this year, the SDCC panel he did, where he revealed those five new titles, he did say he's at zero every day, which means he said that he doesn't read comments, basically. And he's like, I don't care what anyone thinks about it. I'm at zero. You're not going to drive me crazy or piss me off because I don't read any comments anyway. So even if we said we didn't like those issues, he wouldn't read them or listen to it, so it doesn't matter. [00:04:18] Speaker B: Oh, nice. That makes it feel a little better. [00:04:21] Speaker A: Makes me feel better. Okay. I just worked myself out of that. I think that's called a. [00:04:26] Speaker B: It's. Now I know that I won't just randomly get the angry call from the Todd father. It's just I pick up and he's like, hey, it's Tom McFarlane here. [00:04:35] Speaker A: You may listen to your damn episode. Who the hell you think you are? [00:04:41] Speaker B: Although I am excited for the day that I pick up the phone from a number I don't know or like a spam risk. And it's just like, hey, Tod McFarlane here. That I would probably hang up immediately and be like, who's pranking me, Johnny? Is that you're. I know you're a good voice actor, man, but this is a step too far, Johnny. That's identity theft. [00:05:11] Speaker A: The first issue we have written by the man we're talking about here, tod McFarland, man himself, is spawn 309, which came out August 27, to be precise. [00:05:25] Speaker B: 26Th. [00:05:26] Speaker A: August 27. [00:05:27] Speaker B: 26Th. [00:05:28] Speaker A: I just said 27 because that's my favorite number. [00:05:31] Speaker B: Hey, I know Wanda's favorite number is 27 as well. [00:05:36] Speaker A: I think that's come up on the show before. [00:05:38] Speaker B: Really? It might have. Yeah, I know. I've said it. [00:05:40] Speaker A: It's my birthday. [00:05:41] Speaker B: Yeah, that's wild. That's wild. [00:05:45] Speaker A: But it's August 26, 2020, everyone's favorite fucking year in the history of fucking years. [00:05:52] Speaker B: My favorite number is 69, Johnny. 69 420 or 8085. 85 is what I meant to say 80,080. [00:06:04] Speaker A: Is that 69 times 420? [00:06:05] Speaker B: No, that's the boobs number, where you put it on the calculator. If you watch the most recent season of Queer Eye on Netflix, they go to a frat house in one episode. And that's literally the key code to get into the house. Jonathan's like, try boobs. And Tan's, like, what are you talking about? And Jonathan's like, put the code in the boobs code. It was great. It was great. Queer eye. Good. [00:06:34] Speaker A: Oh, my God. And then our more modern issue we have is scorch number 18 from May. [00:06:43] Speaker B: 2023, which feels almost a pandemic ago, just for personal reasons, not for. Well, I guess the world is kind of awful, so that counts. [00:06:55] Speaker A: But it's been a weird summer. [00:06:58] Speaker B: It's had its ups and downs. It's swinging wildly, that's for sure. [00:07:04] Speaker A: A lot. A lot of rain, a lot, a lot of heat, a lot of good. [00:07:08] Speaker B: News, a lot of bad news, a lot of good stuff. A lot of bad stuff. [00:07:12] Speaker A: Aliens, Godzilla channel. Barbenheimer happened. There's been a lot of stuff. I got a new cat. [00:07:19] Speaker B: Another looming. Oh, so you're keeping the cat? [00:07:22] Speaker A: Pretty sure we're going to keep the cat. [00:07:24] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. Congratulations. [00:07:26] Speaker A: A cat showed up on our back porch on one of the hot days, and she was so dehydrated and hungry and brought her in. I think we're going to name her Barbie or Babs. Call her Babs or bb. Barbie. Barbara. A lot of good names. Their name is Barbie. [00:07:42] Speaker B: Yeah, we got a dog named Borb. Her name was actually Barbara, but it's just easier to scream borb. Borb. We spell it with a zero two. So that's how you have to pronounce it. You go up on the o. Yeah. [00:07:58] Speaker A: Well, I mean, unless, of course, we figure out that it's owned by somebody, we're not going to be like, psychos and keep it. But, yeah, we were probably going to keep the cat. Unless I'm walking down the street one day and I see, like, a poster that says lost kitten. And I'm like, oh, no. [00:08:16] Speaker B: Yeah. I always look at those and I'm like, none of those are my dogs, are they? Okay, good. There was a video I saw not too long ago where it was, like, a crazy neighbor video, and this dude was just yelling at his neighbor for like, you're stealing our cat. And he's like, your cat comes over here and asks me to pet it. And then I go back inside and leave the cat outside. It's not my fault the cat doesn't like you. And they're like, you're stealing our cat. You're harboring. I'm calling the cops on you. [00:08:46] Speaker A: It's not my fault your cat doesn't like you. That's hilarious. [00:08:50] Speaker B: He's like, you're not allowed to touch my cat when it's in your yard. And it's like, what? It's my yard. Your cat came over here. It was wild. Wild. [00:08:59] Speaker A: Love those ring camera fight videos. [00:09:02] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:09:04] Speaker A: Or was it just like, a public freak out with yelling at each other? Like, filming each other? [00:09:08] Speaker B: It's a little more wholesome, but my favorite ring camera video ever was taken by one of the people we used to were in the theater department with. She was one of the tech students, and her ring video was, it caught the school bus going down the street. And then, like, 10 seconds later, there's this little kid just booking it down the street with his little backpack and his books. And it was just like, poor kid missed the bus. But it was a hilarious video. [00:09:39] Speaker A: That's hilarious. Hey, if you can't drive and you miss the bus, that's a great deal. You just get a day off of school. [00:09:45] Speaker B: Man, I have chased after buses so many times here in town, I think I've finally hit the point where it's like, fuck it, I'll just be late. [00:09:55] Speaker A: No, I don't really run after the bus that much. I mean, if I'm ahead of it and I got to beat it, stop. But if it's, like, past me, I'm. [00:10:02] Speaker B: Like, okay, if I know I can make it, or they've seen me and the driver indicates that they're going to stop at the next stop, I'll run. But I've been on the bus so many times where people chasing after it and are just, like, slapping the back of it, and you could hear them yelling from outside. The bus driver is not going to stop. If you yell and scream and hit the back of the bus, guys probably stop. [00:10:27] Speaker A: Less likely to stop. [00:10:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Unless you have a chorus of people on the bus being like, hey, stop, man, stop. Just stop. [00:10:37] Speaker A: Yeah. Everyone has to start screaming out, yeah. [00:10:41] Speaker B: It's a weird mix of dictatorship and democracy where the bus driver says, unless sufficient rebel is roused to overthrow their decision. [00:10:55] Speaker A: Well, speaking of rabble rousers. [00:10:58] Speaker B: Rabble. [00:10:58] Speaker A: We got a rabble rouser. [00:10:59] Speaker B: In this issue of 309, we got the rabblest rouser. [00:11:05] Speaker A: The rabblest rouser. Hobbies in here. But before we have to dive into the issue, we've got to dive out of the issue into the covers. What cover do you have, David? Well, or how are you reading this? [00:11:20] Speaker B: I am reading this one in that trade paperback, spawn Omega, that covers 308 through 315. And it gives me the matina cover at the issue. Break in the book, the medieval looking all spooky with a giant axe and the most frightening horse that most definitely would never have appeared on the kingdom's horse feed. It's too spooky for that. [00:11:50] Speaker A: So this. I've got the matina as well, but I don't know if I have, like, okay, mine has all, like, these. Mine has the world record breaking comic on it, and it says, like, consequence of sin, part two. But it's got the horse and everything. There are four other covers. Because this issue was reprinted twice. There's a third print of it. [00:12:14] Speaker B: Whoa, nice. [00:12:17] Speaker A: Probably just all the build up for waiting for spawn. And maybe it was just, you couldn't get big prints at that time because that was around the time of the paper shortages were starting. [00:12:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:12:27] Speaker A: So that might be why. But there's a bunch of prints of this. [00:12:31] Speaker B: That means it should be pretty easy to find. If you're pretty easy to find, collect your. Finish, your collection. [00:12:38] Speaker A: The second print is the most affordable, worth about $8. And then the matina that I have, they all go for about ten. The COVID c. Sorry. So the COVID b is Todd McFarland with Javi walking. Pretty badass. [00:12:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:12:57] Speaker A: And that's the COVID they use for all the reprints. And they just use that cover. [00:13:04] Speaker B: Nice. Hey, Johnny. Johnny. I'm seeing that there might be an additional print of spawn 309 that is potentially even more affordable to get because it looks like that 309 is the issue that was packaged with those page punchers that they announced a very long time ago. [00:13:29] Speaker A: Yes, I'm pretty sure it is. [00:13:32] Speaker B: That's what entertainment earth is telling me. But sometimes those descriptions can be wrong. [00:13:37] Speaker A: No, I'm pretty sure that's what it is because it's the same cover. But I don't know if I'll ever open a page. Just sad. Think about. [00:13:52] Speaker B: That full size Mr. Freeze page puncher that the Todd father was hyping up at SDCC looked so cool. I love the. [00:14:01] Speaker A: I didn't see that. [00:14:02] Speaker B: It's the Bioshock big brother, or whatever his name is. It looks like that, only it's Mr. Free Big Daddy. It's so, so fucking cool. [00:14:13] Speaker A: That is cool. Interestingly enough, this is listed as a key issue for first full appearance of new Gunslinger Spawn, which I don't know if I agree with. Because he was in the last issue. These key stuff's a bunch of bullshit. [00:14:31] Speaker B: Because, I mean, he's been in and out of issues since 300, right? Yeah. They've had his face plastered over. [00:14:41] Speaker A: I guess they mean new gun. Maybe they thought that because he gets zapped by Auger here, that that's what they meant by. [00:14:48] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know. [00:14:49] Speaker A: New gunslinger Swan. I don't know. [00:14:51] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:14:51] Speaker A: It's a key issue because it's a key to fun. [00:14:57] Speaker B: Definitely. It's walked up to this door with fun on above it. And they tried to jiggle the handle, and it was locked. And it just said, hey, hold on a second. I think I got a key for this thing. And they bring out the big ass key ring like a janitor would have. And they just, like, flip through. No, here it is. [00:15:18] Speaker A: There's 342 keys. [00:15:20] Speaker B: And then this is the key. [00:15:21] Speaker A: 309. [00:15:22] Speaker B: 309. [00:15:23] Speaker A: Did we talk about the COVID C. I know you mentioned it, but Zafino cover. [00:15:27] Speaker B: I mentioned it briefly off air. We did not talk about. [00:15:30] Speaker A: Oh, yes, it's spawn. It's spawn just sitting there. [00:15:37] Speaker B: Yeah. It's Al Simmons spawn, not gunslinger spawn. [00:15:41] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Sorry. [00:15:42] Speaker B: Or not Jim downing spawn or medieval. [00:15:45] Speaker A: Yeah. We got three spawns represented on these various covers. We've got medieval gunslinger and vanilla spawn, og spawn. As we know from the doughboys, vanilla is not plain. It is a flavor. [00:15:58] Speaker B: Yeah, that's absolutely true. There was a quote from weird Al once when he was defending his preference of vanilla. Something vanilla, because somebody was like, isn't that boring? And he's. No, no. When you're a kid, you think of vanilla. The flavor as, like, clear. Like it doesn't exist. But vanilla is fucking delicious. Weird Al, of course, didn't say fucking delicious. Uh, he's a better person than I will ever be. And also has a very clean mouth. [00:16:32] Speaker A: I mean, like a very flavorful vanilla bean ice cream. [00:16:35] Speaker B: So good, it's insane. And the premium you pay on a good vanilla is very indicative of how good it is. [00:16:45] Speaker A: Oh, man. It's true. Dude, we can't talk about ice cream. I'm in my closet here, David. [00:16:49] Speaker B: It is hot. [00:16:51] Speaker A: Well, it's already getting steamy. [00:16:53] Speaker B: I guess that means I shouldn't ask if you've seen that new twisted metal show that has sweet tooth in his little ice cream truck. [00:17:02] Speaker A: I haven't. I'm curious about it. I like Anthony Mackie. [00:17:05] Speaker B: I like Anthony Mackie too. I also like. [00:17:07] Speaker A: Speaking of the doughboys, what's his name's in it. Mike Mitchell's in it. [00:17:10] Speaker B: Oh, really? Oh, shit. I have to watch it. [00:17:12] Speaker A: Mike Mitchell. [00:17:13] Speaker B: Is he sweet tooth? [00:17:14] Speaker A: No, I don't think so. That'd be awesome. [00:17:17] Speaker B: That's the only big individual I can think of right off the top of my head. [00:17:22] Speaker A: No, he was just like. I don't know if he's like, comic relief. I saw a preview where Mike Mitchell was, like, sitting there and sweet tooth walked in. He's like, oh, shit. Funny and runs away. [00:17:32] Speaker B: That's wonderful. That's wonderful. [00:17:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:35] Speaker B: Speaking of people being in stuff and reading off their credits, Johnny, what are the rest of the credits for this particular issue? I don't have that page. [00:17:44] Speaker A: Oh, the credits. I thought were asking my credit score. [00:17:48] Speaker B: Yes, please. Give me that, Fico. I'll also need your social, the hospital you were born in, and your mother's maiden name, please. [00:18:01] Speaker A: No. [00:18:05] Speaker B: Oh, come on. What's a little identity theft between friends? [00:18:10] Speaker A: I mean, hell, you can have it. I don't want my identity anymore. [00:18:14] Speaker B: I was literally just railing against identity theft earlier. That was a ruse. [00:18:18] Speaker A: True. This is a way. See, we need to talk more about identity theft, because then we can get known as, like, identity theft, guys. We can get, like, safe shark to sponsor us. [00:18:27] Speaker B: Yeah, that would be cool. [00:18:28] Speaker A: Like, surf shark, man. [00:18:30] Speaker B: Anything with sharks in it, please sponsor us. [00:18:32] Speaker A: Anything with shark sharks, please. [00:18:34] Speaker B: Just send us your teeth. We'll accept that as money, and then we'll shout out how cool you are every week. [00:18:39] Speaker A: I'm pretty sure those companies that are like Surfshark are just there to be like. It helps you pirate stuff. [00:18:44] Speaker B: Yeah, because it just gives you the. [00:18:46] Speaker A: Ip addresses and all that stuff. [00:18:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:49] Speaker A: So credits page. We got script and plot by Mr. Tod McFarlane. I don't know why I just said it like that. From Mr. Tod McFarland. [00:18:58] Speaker B: You got something creeping into that toy portal behind you, Johnny? [00:19:03] Speaker A: I don't know. The last toy I opened was. [00:19:08] Speaker B: Mean. He's coming in from another world, so he might have brought. [00:19:11] Speaker A: No, that's not true. We opened the. I mean, well, those aren't even toys. Those are, like, works of art. I don't even consider that a toy. They're like statues. [00:19:20] Speaker B: They're beautiful. Somebody tried to at work. Somebody tried to make a joke that I have an action figure that looks exactly like. Or an action figure of a particular person that we work with. And I had to give them a scowl and say, don't you say that about my twitch. Don't you say that about Mr. Twitch Williams. He doesn't deserve that. [00:19:47] Speaker A: We don't deserve. Oh, no, go ahead. [00:19:48] Speaker B: Oh, I said, they know nothing about saving Twitch, so they didn't know how close to the quick they cut with their remarks. [00:19:55] Speaker A: How precious he is to you and. [00:19:58] Speaker B: How sensitive of a boy I am. [00:20:00] Speaker A: We've got art by Ken Lashley. [00:20:01] Speaker B: Is this Ken Lashley's first issue, or did Lashley also do the previous issue? [00:20:07] Speaker A: Ashley did the right. [00:20:11] Speaker B: That's. That's what I'm wondering. [00:20:17] Speaker A: I don't have it. It's in my room. [00:20:20] Speaker B: Kin Lashley's stuff. Pretty dope. Pretty dope. As I mentioned previously, the trade paperback before this one had all the covers in the back of it. And this one, instead of having a cover gallery, has a process page from each issue in the gallery. And it does say that page eleven from Spawn 308 was inked by Ken Lashley. So I guess this is Ken Lashley's second issue on Spawn. Yeah. [00:20:46] Speaker A: No, he did 308 because I remember his hobby looking pretty similar lettering, of course, by Tom Orzachowski. Nice colors by Peter Steigerwald. We already covered the COVID artist there. And because it's the pandemic, we got Tod McFarlane as editor in chief. He's pulling up a lot of duty. [00:21:05] Speaker B: Nice. [00:21:08] Speaker A: He's doing a lot of duty. [00:21:10] Speaker B: He's making a lot of duty jokes, for sure. [00:21:13] Speaker A: He does that with all those bum bums. And Spawn kills everyone. [00:21:18] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:21:18] Speaker A: We're coming back. I was so glad bums are going to kill Jessica Priest. [00:21:22] Speaker B: I was so glad Bran was there to appreciate whatever that was with us. The bum bums can't wait to cover Spawn kills everyone on the podcast. It's going to be a fun time. [00:21:35] Speaker A: Yeah, that'll be fun. So previously in Spawn, consequence of Sin, part one. With the future in doubt and medieval Spawn's legacy in question, spawn, she, spawn, and reaper go on the offensive. But a longtime ally has shown his true colors. And Cogliostro rallies an army and a deadly new recruit. Gunslinger Spawn. [00:22:01] Speaker B: Hey, I've heard of those guys. [00:22:04] Speaker A: I know Cogliostro. [00:22:06] Speaker B: We know Gunslinger Spawn. [00:22:07] Speaker A: We do. He's a good friend of ours. So we open with a classic Tod father population count. [00:22:17] Speaker B: Man, that is a bustling metropolis. That gunslinger has come from 857 people. 857 living souls. Johnny, I'm surprised you didn't give us the census of the graveyards as well. [00:22:33] Speaker A: Hey, dead people vote according to republicans. [00:22:38] Speaker B: Oh, man, it's about time for all those jokes to be told again, Gray. [00:22:46] Speaker A: God, don't remind me. [00:22:47] Speaker B: I love hearing the did you vote early and often? [00:22:53] Speaker A: I vote often. [00:22:54] Speaker B: Yeah, I vote often too. Only once per. [00:22:57] Speaker A: Whenever they make me vote, I'm their worst nightmare. I voted seven times in the last election. The problem is I voted for Kanye. [00:23:08] Speaker B: I don't think we could do this podcast anymore, Johnny. Irreconcilable differences. [00:23:14] Speaker A: Oh, no. Come on. [00:23:16] Speaker B: I hear stories that Kanye still owes people on the south side money, like $25 here and there, but he still owes them money. [00:23:24] Speaker A: I'm sure he does. So Gunslinger has been sucked in to the modern world. [00:23:36] Speaker B: I got a question here, Johnny. Yeah. So it says that one by one they begin getting sick. Young, old, age didn't matter. Once it began, it couldn't be stopped. Were they getting sick before he got sucked through time? Or is this like how he perceives being sucked through time? Seeing them getting old and dying just because time's sort of fast forwarding by him? [00:24:05] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:24:08] Speaker B: Did I maybe try to read too much into that? I'm going to assume that the town was sick before he got sucked through time. [00:24:15] Speaker A: Yeah, because I accidentally read the wrong issue. I know that later there's a virus that comes into play. I don't know if this is the top father trying to mention, like, Covid. I'm not sure. [00:24:28] Speaker B: I don't know. I did just watch Mission Impossible too, and I'm pretty sure that there would not be a market for a virus based espionage movie at this point in time. [00:24:42] Speaker A: It used to be pretty common. I mean, even spawn movie. It's a virus. [00:24:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:48] Speaker A: He's going to release the virus to take out the world. [00:24:52] Speaker B: Whenever my AP environmental science professor and professor teacher in high school just didn't want to teach, he would show us the Dustin Hoffman classic outbreak because it was reasonably close to science stuff. Reasonably reasonably. [00:25:12] Speaker A: That was a cute monkey. [00:25:14] Speaker B: Yeah, it was. It's very upsetting how closely the doofuses that extend the virus and outbreak actually happened in real life with a real deadly virus. [00:25:27] Speaker A: It did, yeah. [00:25:29] Speaker B: Because there's like halfway through the movie, they're like, oh, okay. Oh, we're all good now. We can just faff about and not have to worry about it. And then it gets worse again. [00:25:40] Speaker A: Just like in real life. [00:25:42] Speaker B: Yeah, just like in that reality show about the year of our Lord 2020. [00:25:49] Speaker A: They need to go on the writer strike, man. [00:25:52] Speaker B: Yeah. Unfortunately, I think reality shows get away without having any union writers on them. [00:26:00] Speaker A: No, they do. Yeah. That's why they get to keep making them. [00:26:04] Speaker B: Everybody be excited for just reality show upon reality show coming this fall whatever. They keep putting Marshawn lynch in reality shows, and I fucking love that guy, so that's fine. [00:26:16] Speaker A: So Javi has basically tried to go get a drink last time and started, like, a war in a bar. [00:26:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:25] Speaker A: Just, like, didn't go as planned. [00:26:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Just annihilated everybody in this bar. And then cog shows up, and his hellhounds take care of the cops. So he's just leaving wreckage behind him as he goes. [00:26:40] Speaker A: And he feels his body source, his energy source draining here. If he doesn't find a cure replacement. Yeah, because he'll be suffering the same fate. [00:26:51] Speaker B: We just learned that his host body won't last for more than a day. Is that what cog told him in the last episode, last issue? [00:26:59] Speaker A: Something like that. He said, like a day because now it's, like, 12 hours left. [00:27:04] Speaker B: Yeah. And then now he says he doubts he has more than 12 hours left, and he's walking through what looks kind of like. Kind of like a ghost town. [00:27:15] Speaker A: Yeah. I love the art here. Ken Lashley's got a really great. [00:27:21] Speaker B: Indeed. I got a style. I don't know. [00:27:24] Speaker A: I don't know how to describe it. [00:27:25] Speaker B: But the specific process page from the gallery in the back of this is gunslinger standing at the head of the empty. And that's. That's pretty. The. It's the inked portion of the process, and it's beautiful, both colored and not. [00:27:45] Speaker A: So Javi decides just to wander into, like, a beauty salon. [00:27:48] Speaker B: It looks like he needs his hair, nails, and makeup did. [00:27:53] Speaker A: Why not? And goes in there. He lights up one of his necro cigarettes. [00:27:58] Speaker B: Yes. I like the automata. Pia on that is Tish. [00:28:03] Speaker A: Tish. [00:28:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:03] Speaker A: You really see that? We got a little spawn nose there. [00:28:06] Speaker B: Yeah, we got a little shift. We got a little spawn lips, too. That's a little weird. [00:28:13] Speaker A: I mean, he's asked to smoke, so, you know, he does have to have lips. [00:28:16] Speaker B: Yeah. And then. Oh, jeez. We see what is in the beauty salon. [00:28:23] Speaker A: There is a bunch of melted people. Bunch of melted people just, like, dead and turning to skeletons. Goopy skeletons. [00:28:34] Speaker B: This fucking beauty salon. Johnny, get me signed up for one of those makeovers. I like. [00:28:41] Speaker A: A skeleton. [00:28:42] Speaker B: I love a skeleton with an earring. Love a skeleton with an earring. That skeleton on the floor with the blow dryer in its hand, that kind of looks like a bong. So I'd like to believe that they got a real killer strain, as they say. [00:28:57] Speaker A: Yoink. Zoink. Yeah. [00:29:01] Speaker B: 20 seconds past Johnny. We got the tod. Father's accurate numbers again. [00:29:07] Speaker A: Accurate numbers. We got 20 seconds, and then all of a sudden, a dog comes up. [00:29:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Rabid animal. [00:29:15] Speaker A: A cog dog. [00:29:16] Speaker B: Cog dog. That sounds like a. I think we now need to have a hell themed or a spawn themed restaurant and the cog dog. [00:29:26] Speaker A: Yeah, get a cog dog. [00:29:27] Speaker B: Cog dog. [00:29:28] Speaker A: Hot cog. [00:29:31] Speaker B: Since they're hellhounds, it would have to be real spicy. So there'd have to be, like, jalapenos and sriracha or some shit on it. [00:29:37] Speaker A: Yeah, I like that. [00:29:40] Speaker B: There would obviously be a clown turkey leg. [00:29:44] Speaker A: Of course. [00:29:48] Speaker B: We'D have to call the burgers. Burger foods. [00:29:50] Speaker A: Burger foods. [00:29:51] Speaker B: Burger foods. [00:29:52] Speaker A: You can imagine the appetizers would just be, like, bags of chips from Taylor's hotel room. That's, like, the only appetizer they have is just, like, prepackaged snacks. [00:30:05] Speaker B: The special is a beer and a slice of cake. That's the dessert special. [00:30:10] Speaker A: All right, so gunslinger starts shooting at his dog. [00:30:13] Speaker B: Well, no, because he says that the dog stops. The dog is obviously barking at something behind him. And so gunslinger does a blam, blam, blam behind himself. [00:30:25] Speaker A: Doesn't even look, just turns around. [00:30:27] Speaker B: I like this. [00:30:28] Speaker A: And shoots. [00:30:29] Speaker B: I like how it's afraid of something it sees. And then gunslinger blams. And it's behind the gunslinger. I love how it's broken up physically. It's real fun. I also like how Lashley puts a reservoir tip on the top of the gunslinger's hat. [00:30:52] Speaker A: Like a condom. [00:30:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:55] Speaker A: It does kind of look like a condom in these. [00:30:59] Speaker B: It's great. [00:31:00] Speaker A: Oh, boy. [00:31:00] Speaker B: It's great. [00:31:02] Speaker A: Oh, man. [00:31:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Speaking of. [00:31:06] Speaker A: So then we get hippie Cog. [00:31:08] Speaker B: I was about to say, speaking of dicks. So gunslinger has hit the hellhounds that are flanking either side of cog. And Cog's just. He's got his poncho and his bandana and his sunglasses. He's like a biker hippie. [00:31:27] Speaker A: Yeah, he's like a biker hippie. [00:31:28] Speaker B: He looks like he's grumpy because he had to leave Sturgis early or to. We used to drive to go visit my grandparents in Iowa, and invariably, we always were driving around the time that people were migrating to Sturgis for the rally. So it would just be us in our minivan surrounded by hundreds and hundreds of motorcycles. It was awesome. I can't say. [00:32:03] Speaker A: Yeah, but that was cool for little kid David. [00:32:05] Speaker B: Yeah. I can't say if Sturgis. The rally itself is very cool. But, man, watching those people going 85 miles an hour on the highway on a motorcycle with no helmet, with their beer guts and long ass beards flapping in the wind. It was a glorious sight, very aspirational for a young kid who people close to him said that would only grow up to be useful as a speed bump. What? I had friends when I was little who said that I was so fat, the only thing I'd be good for when I grew up was a speed bump. [00:32:39] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. [00:32:40] Speaker B: Yes. So if there are any husky kids out there listening to this, and if you need yourself a role model, get you one of those, find you one of those bikers that goes and beats up child predators because those guys kick ass and ain't nobody going to tell them they're fat. No, you don't do that. Ain't going to do that. What a wild tangent to go down, Johnny, because now I'm just thinking of the biker bar scene from Peewee's big adventure. Yeah. And how peewee mollifies all the angry bikers by dancing for them. [00:33:21] Speaker A: That's all you got to. [00:33:27] Speaker B: Say? I guess he also frightens them by telling them that large Marge sent him both. [00:33:33] Speaker A: Man, you got to scare him and. [00:33:37] Speaker B: Then do a little dance. [00:33:39] Speaker A: And then do a little dance. [00:33:44] Speaker B: Also, knocking down everybody's motorcycles at the. No, don't do that. [00:33:52] Speaker A: Yeah, it's not good. [00:33:55] Speaker B: Where were we, Johnny? Oh, yeah, biker cog. [00:33:57] Speaker A: I don't know. I can't do these tanges today, Dave. It's so hot in here. [00:34:01] Speaker B: I'm sorry. [00:34:03] Speaker A: You have to keep us on track. [00:34:04] Speaker B: Because our brain is okay, okay. So we got biker Cog and gunslingers kind of upset that cog is there. And Cog's just like, yeah, fucking deal with it. And then we smash cut to Al and Mark looking badass. [00:34:22] Speaker A: This is a great Al. [00:34:23] Speaker B: Yeah, this is a great mark. They're just like, trying to figure out what's going on with this medieval armor, right? And this whole interaction is great. Al is just being the jerkiest jerk and not listening to Mark. And Mark's like, hey, hold on a second. You should know this. And Al's like, nah, I don't fucking need to know this. And then Mark's like, shut. Shut the hell up for a second. You need this stuff. I did all this shit. Fucking. Here you go. And then Al's just like, you could have asked about it. You could have said it nicer. But I do like that Mark saying the things nicely and getting ignored happens directly before this. So, like, al's tried to save face, but he just got called out for being a jerk. And I think that's fun. [00:35:18] Speaker A: I like that medieval's gauntlet. Looks like he's, like, drinking out of a. Yeah, yeah. [00:35:22] Speaker B: It's like a viking mug. [00:35:25] Speaker A: It looks like a viking mug. [00:35:27] Speaker B: Who does he think he is? Miss Sands drinking out of cups? [00:35:31] Speaker A: These colors are just very vibrant. I love just. I don't know. I think this is really good stuff. I really like Ken Lashley's art. [00:35:41] Speaker B: It's real good. It's real fun. [00:35:43] Speaker A: And the colors, of course, by Peter Seigerwald. They're talking about symbiotes. It appears they're trying to figure out why the spawn attacked him, where these other spawns are. [00:35:56] Speaker B: And then Mark's just like, hey, dude, you don't have to worry about this. There's bigger stuff to pay attention to. And Spawn's just so obsessed with his costumes. That's another todfather thing that I don't know how much we've spoken about it, but I love that in universe, they refer to them as their costumes. [00:36:19] Speaker A: He does refer to them as their costumes. And also my friend Eloy told me a story that the only reason he made it alive. Is because he couldn't remember which side the gauntlets and the leg thing was on. So he could just say, oh, it's alive. So it just switches it up. [00:36:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Especially in the early issues. You can kind of see the number of spikes varies because sometimes the brass knuckle spikes he has, sometimes there's three, sometimes there's two. [00:36:47] Speaker A: Right. [00:36:48] Speaker B: I know a lot of people like to make lack of suit continuity and early spawn issues be an indication that it's a bad comic book. But you know what? [00:36:58] Speaker A: It's alive. [00:36:59] Speaker B: It's alive. [00:37:01] Speaker A: That's fucking k seven letha, baby. [00:37:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:05] Speaker A: We know her name, and we know she's a great symbiote. And she's alive. So don't discount K seven Letha. [00:37:12] Speaker B: But also, since he refers to it as a costume, it does the dramatics of Al angrily taking the dossier that mark hands him. And then just, like, letting the symbiote cover his face before he says anything. [00:37:31] Speaker A: Yeah. He's like, I'm going to get all. [00:37:33] Speaker B: Al is such a drama queen. It's wonderful. [00:37:40] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:37:41] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:37:43] Speaker A: Then we cut to have. [00:37:48] Speaker B: I got to say, johnny, this is the nicest I've seen Tokyo lately. Because usually there's some sort of big beast smashing those buildings. Yeah. [00:37:58] Speaker A: Have you been watching the Godzilla channel? It's so good. I can't watch anything else. I really haven't been watching much else, like when I have free time, I'll just pop on the Godzilla channel. [00:38:09] Speaker B: Yeah. I just have it out on the background while I'm cleaning or something. And then every once in a while, I just stop and watch a couple of big monsters destroy the town. It's great. [00:38:20] Speaker A: I don't remember which era it is. I think it's like late 60s, early seventy s. The costume gets real bad and it gets real goofy. It's pretty funny. [00:38:28] Speaker B: Yeah, it's wonderful. I love it so much. Wanda keeps making fun of me for watching it so much. But she has. [00:38:39] Speaker A: So does my Wanda. [00:38:40] Speaker B: She has fallen in love with the mothra lore just because it's wild. [00:38:45] Speaker A: Oh, the little twin thing about Mothra. [00:38:49] Speaker B: Yeah. And then the little small mothra that hangs out in Mothra's legs named fairy that flies the twins around. [00:38:58] Speaker A: Yeah, it's Pretty wild because they're so. [00:38:59] Speaker B: Small, they need a way to get. [00:39:02] Speaker A: And Mothra's all fluffy. [00:39:05] Speaker B: It's great. It's great. Mothra kicks ass. [00:39:08] Speaker A: Well, in this Tokyo, they're just popping in as they pop into this office. [00:39:14] Speaker B: Yeah, it's just a boardroom that they pop into. [00:39:17] Speaker A: Badass looking cityscape there. [00:39:19] Speaker B: Yeah, real great. They were hoping to meet somebody here. But nobody's waiting for them. [00:39:27] Speaker A: No. [00:39:28] Speaker B: So they're looking for a package that somebody should have left for them. But there's nothing there. Nothing there. No drop off, no dead drop. No person they were supposed to meet. Reaper thinks maybe they've been set up or compromised because the person they're supposed to meet isn't there. But Jessica's like, if we were compromised, there would have been something here that we didn't want, right. And so she's like, well, let's just set off the alarm, shall we? [00:40:04] Speaker A: Get them to come to us. [00:40:06] Speaker B: Yeah. She looks maybe more excited than she should for about to beat the snot out of some guys who come. [00:40:14] Speaker A: And Reaver's, like, in the background, he's like, what? Why'd you throw a chair through a window? [00:40:21] Speaker B: Yeah, well, get the alarm to go off. Duh. Come on. [00:40:25] Speaker A: No, I know, but that's what. [00:40:26] Speaker B: No, I was saying that's what she should say to him. He could be like, why did you do that? And she'd be like, duh, idiot. You're heaven person. We got these things called security systems on earth. God, heaven and hell. People not knowing what happens on earth because they're too out of touch. Then we're back to biker, hippie, cog and gunslinger. I really do love the lanky, spindly gunslinger that Lashley writes or draws. It's so good. Then we learned that. [00:41:01] Speaker A: And the big, big shoulder coat. [00:41:03] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got, like, 80s power suit shoulder pads in there. Yeah. [00:41:11] Speaker A: Looking good. [00:41:12] Speaker B: It's real nice. We learned that the hobby that gunslinger is in is, like, a fake version. It was a duplicate that was set to expire after 24 hours. That cog set as a trap for gunslinger, he was like, I know you're going to like this body. I know you're going to choose it. [00:41:35] Speaker A: And, well, guess what? [00:41:39] Speaker B: Yeah. And then cog pulls out the actual hobby. [00:41:46] Speaker A: Actual. Is it the actual. [00:41:49] Speaker B: It's the. It's the actual. Cause. Because then Cog spends a whole long time explaining how he made a sick copy, and that's the one he's in. And then they have to make a deal in order for Javi to get there, for Gunslinger to have this new Javi body that isn't sick, and he's got to fight the little bitty present that cog has hidden within this hobby. [00:42:19] Speaker A: So he shoots him. [00:42:20] Speaker B: Yeah. And it looks a lot like plague. I don't think we get a name. It appears to be some hybrid creature, part demon, part symbiote. It's a combo. [00:42:34] Speaker A: Well, I know the name from whenever. Online. Whenever I saw the page puncher, that I'll never have. I can't imagine I'll ever have that page puncher. His name's Auger. [00:42:45] Speaker B: Name's Auger. Yeah. They don't mention it here at all. So Gunslinger and this auger having a duke it out session. A duke session, because that's what they call fights, is a duke it and out session. [00:43:01] Speaker A: A duke, in and out. [00:43:03] Speaker B: Just gunslinger, basically. Just shooting all the tentacles that Auger is shooting his. [00:43:09] Speaker A: I thought it was called a beach. [00:43:10] Speaker B: Beach. I'll beat you off any day. [00:43:12] Speaker A: A fight is a beach. Yeah. I'll beat you, David. [00:43:18] Speaker B: Oh, it's just beach. Just beach. Gunslinger begins to feel something while they're fighting, something emanating from inside the creature, something that must have been put there by cog himself. Javi's kind of distracted by this feeling. I like in this one panel, he looks kind of like he's dancing. He's got one leg, and then he. [00:43:46] Speaker A: This fight is awesome. Just like him whipping around and just how whippy. And I love that coat. That gunslinger coat. [00:43:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:43:55] Speaker A: Ken Lashley draws it away really well. [00:43:57] Speaker B: There's so much motion. It's real good. But then Javi gets shanked right through the chest, right through the chest. [00:44:04] Speaker A: He, like, sucks him in. He uses his power. [00:44:07] Speaker B: He just slowly takes over. Kind of like the digital realness that covers neo when he first gets removed from the matrix. Right. Wait, no. What am I thinking of? There's something where somebody drinks something and then it, like, coats them and transports them to another world. What am I thinking of? [00:44:33] Speaker A: You're thinking of the Matrix. [00:44:35] Speaker B: I am thinking of the matrix. Okay. Yeah. [00:44:37] Speaker A: He goes like. And it goes down his throat. [00:44:39] Speaker B: Yeah. And it covers him. Yeah. And then he wakes up in the goop. Yeah. Okay. [00:44:43] Speaker A: Because he touches the mirror, and the mirror becomes. [00:44:46] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what it is. Oh, man, I should probably rewatch the Matrix. [00:44:52] Speaker A: Good movie. Hot take. [00:44:58] Speaker B: And. Yeah. So this auger completely takes over Gunslinger and then picks up his hat and puts it on. And we got, like, spooky ass gunslinger. I like how as Auger takes over the gunslinger Persona, it takes the time to make the skull on his belt just like massive and horny. Like horny as. Endowed with horns, not bonk. [00:45:29] Speaker A: Yes. [00:45:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:32] Speaker A: It's not massive and horny in that way. [00:45:36] Speaker B: And then cog's like, yeah, this is good. This is good shit. This is good shit. And Gunslinger is like, hey, sorry to let you know this is all a ruse. It's actually still me. I am digesting your pet auger right now. [00:45:49] Speaker A: I sucked him up. [00:45:51] Speaker B: And then Cog took his power. Cog's like, yeah, this was the test. You passed. Good job. [00:45:57] Speaker A: He's like, I don't give a shit. And then the most hilarious thing happens. [00:46:03] Speaker B: Yeah. And then Gunslinger reaches out with his new auger goop and cuts Cog's head. [00:46:09] Speaker A: Right off, clean off slit with so. [00:46:13] Speaker B: Much force that it throws his sunglasses off. Gunslinger says, I'm ready to be left alone for now. And then we get. We get the opening reading there, which I enjoy because it's put on the page as if it's still part of the narration. So whoever's been narrating this whole time is now cognizant of the fact that they're in a comic book and are like, yeah, the next couple of books, it's going to be more of this. You just stick around instead of being in the advertisement type. [00:46:51] Speaker A: Right. [00:46:53] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real fun. [00:46:55] Speaker A: Yeah. Great last image there. [00:46:57] Speaker B: Yeah, it's amazing. [00:47:00] Speaker A: His eyes ripped out too. [00:47:02] Speaker B: Yeah, it looks like his eyes, I guess, like burned out because they're there in the panel above. And I guess they just necroplasm to themselves into charcoal green goop. Yeah, Johnny boy, that's a hell of a necrometer. [00:47:21] Speaker A: Is that spawns or gunslingers? [00:47:23] Speaker B: Well, it looks like spawns and not gunslingers because it doesn't have the saloon door. [00:47:31] Speaker A: His is spawn is really low right now, too. So it spawns. [00:47:34] Speaker B: Okay. [00:47:35] Speaker A: Yeah, 24. [00:47:39] Speaker B: That's not a lot. That's all I got. As far as spawn 309. What's that back matter look like for you, Johnny? [00:47:47] Speaker A: Well, there's no spawning grounds. Shockingly weird. But there is just ads for all these trade paperbacks. [00:47:55] Speaker B: Nice. [00:47:55] Speaker A: Ads for the spawn kills everyone. [00:47:57] Speaker B: Nice. [00:47:59] Speaker A: And we get the lovely mortal Kombat figures that we've been seeing. [00:48:06] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Hell yeah. [00:48:09] Speaker A: And that's it. [00:48:11] Speaker B: So many different versions of Spawn within that one series. It's insane. [00:48:15] Speaker A: Well, that's Spawn 309, baby. [00:48:19] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:48:34] Speaker A: All right, gang, next up we got scorched number 18. [00:48:42] Speaker B: Spookiest number. [00:48:44] Speaker A: Is it the spookiest number? [00:48:46] Speaker B: I don't know. Just being dumb. [00:48:48] Speaker A: The spookiest number is six, right? [00:48:52] Speaker B: Well, that's not spooky enough. Six. Six. Six is too spooky. That's spookier than spooky. So 66 is the perfect amount of spookiness. [00:49:03] Speaker A: It's right on the spooky money. [00:49:06] Speaker B: I guess that makes it a five stars on the white people scale, which is about a two and a half or three stars on the thai spice scale. [00:49:16] Speaker A: No, that's hilarious. [00:49:18] Speaker B: There was a story a long time ago from our friend Logan Branham was at the thai restaurant in Stillwater, Oklahoma, with a whole bunch of people, Wanda included. And they were asking, the waiter was asking him how spicy he would like it. And he was like, oh, I like it. I want it all the way hot. I want the five stars. And they go, oh, you're a spicy boy. And so, if you can believe it, Johnny, the term spicy boy has become very prominent in this particular household. [00:50:02] Speaker A: Oh, you're a spicy, spicy boy. [00:50:05] Speaker B: So first guest, Logan Branham. He's a spicy boy. Give him a shout out for it. [00:50:10] Speaker A: Tell me spicy. This is a spicy issue of scorched here. [00:50:14] Speaker B: It is. It is quite spicy. [00:50:18] Speaker A: This is the end of the third arc, the twelve to 18 arc here, since they tend to do six issue arcs. [00:50:25] Speaker B: Maybe a bit too spicy for my liking. Upset at the ending. [00:50:30] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a little Upsetting. [00:50:32] Speaker B: It's a little upsetting. [00:50:34] Speaker A: We got to get to the beginning first. And you begin with the covers. [00:50:38] Speaker B: Oh, I thought you began with the end. [00:50:40] Speaker A: The end is the beginning is the end. [00:50:43] Speaker B: Oh, we're getting into some sponoboros nonsense. My research led me to believe that there are two covers of this, Johnny. [00:50:51] Speaker A: There are. [00:50:52] Speaker B: Does your research back that up? [00:50:53] Speaker A: It does. And so does what is in front of my eyes, because I have both. [00:50:58] Speaker B: Oh, you fancy. Speaking of fancy, you a fancy boy. [00:51:03] Speaker A: The first one is by Victor Bogdanovich. It's pretty badass. [00:51:08] Speaker B: It's great. That's the one I have, actually. It's sort of a classic the team, team members floating around in space kind of image. So it's like they've all been plucked out of their own little scenes and just put their photoshopped together in one. Fun. It's fun. I like it. [00:51:33] Speaker A: Jessica's got a crazy gun in her left hand. [00:51:36] Speaker B: Yeah, she does. It's almost got, like, a mitt portion of it that she slides her fist into. [00:51:42] Speaker A: Right. It's wild. [00:51:45] Speaker B: I really. I really enjoy these Victor Bogdanovich covers. It's a nice flavor. [00:51:52] Speaker A: Nice flavor, nice chunky lines, nice texture. Like, I like face. It all looks good. [00:52:00] Speaker B: And everybody's written drawn taller than they usually are, so they got a lot of height to them. I really like Jessica's boots. They. They look kind of like medieval peasant boots. Yeah, and they're awesome. I always thought medieval peasant boots looked so fucking comfy, but they're probably not comfy at all. [00:52:24] Speaker A: They look like just sacks. Well, the other cover is by Paul Renaud, and it is medieval spawn with a worm, like a verm in the background. A wyvern. [00:52:41] Speaker B: Is that a worm or is that his dragon in the background? [00:52:45] Speaker A: Yeah, in the big background. There's a dragon, big background. No, that's like. [00:52:51] Speaker B: It's got a wing. It's got a wing on it. So it's at least. [00:52:53] Speaker A: Yeah, but I'm saying like a worm. [00:52:56] Speaker B: Like A-W-Y-V. Yeah, I know what you mean. I know what you mean. [00:53:01] Speaker A: It's also dragon. I don't know. It looks like a bad guy to me. [00:53:05] Speaker B: I guess his dragon is the one that's next to him. I don't know. [00:53:09] Speaker A: It's got four eyes. That's fucked up. That's not a normal dragon. [00:53:12] Speaker B: Yeah, it's got, like, armored plating on its face, too. It's got, like, massive amounts of teeth. That's too many teeth. [00:53:21] Speaker A: A lot of teeth. So as you pop open this cover, we got Sean Lewis, of course, on that script plot with Tom McFarlane, additional script. And David, off mic, had the premonition that there was a lot of additional script by Todd McFarlane in this one, because there's a lot of tactics and narration talk. [00:53:44] Speaker B: We were talking specifically about three or nine being very full of classic todfather stuff. And I was like, man, Sean Lewis was, like, channeling the Todd father for this issue because there's a lot of that, too. And then I opened the book and it says, additional script plot. And I was like, oh, okay. That's why that explains it. Right? [00:54:06] Speaker A: And of course, we have our art by Steven Segovia, one of our favorites. [00:54:11] Speaker B: It's beautiful. [00:54:11] Speaker A: This time around, Ulysses Areola is on colors. [00:54:16] Speaker B: Knocking it out of the park this time. [00:54:18] Speaker A: Oh, this is a very colorful. Like, I love just the red flames on everybody. Yeah, the coloring in this is great. [00:54:27] Speaker B: I'm looking at the first page on the opposite side of the credits, and it's gorgeous. [00:54:34] Speaker A: Super colorful. And just like, all the colors from what they're summoning and reflecting and off of everything, it's just really cool. We already covered the covers. [00:54:47] Speaker B: Yes, we did. [00:54:48] Speaker A: And Tom McFarland took a step back from editor in chief. Now that we're in May 2023 land, he is just creative director. And Thomas Healy, our buddy, is editor in chief. [00:55:01] Speaker B: Maybe that's what they should have spent $2 billion on, is building a May 2023 land. And it's just you can only reference or do things that were available to you in May 2023. [00:55:15] Speaker A: May 2023 land. [00:55:18] Speaker B: It's the new rival to Disney World. Johnny. Better watch out, Mouse. We're coming for you with May 2023 land. [00:55:25] Speaker A: I don't know what happened in May 2023. Was that when the sub exploded? [00:55:30] Speaker B: No, I think that was June. [00:55:31] Speaker A: Darn. [00:55:32] Speaker B: I don't know. We did that Star wars episode. [00:55:35] Speaker A: Hey, guardians. Galaxy three came out. I feel like. [00:55:39] Speaker B: Yeah, I think the flash came out that month, too. Hey, spiderverse. Also, I don't think that was May. [00:55:47] Speaker A: I think that was June. [00:55:49] Speaker B: That was June. Okay. Oh, no, I think the flash was June, too. So it might have just been guardians. [00:55:55] Speaker A: What happened? Hey, if you have any idea what happened in May 2023, send us the email at. Regarding [email protected]. [00:56:03] Speaker B: I know we lived it. [00:56:04] Speaker A: I know through it. [00:56:06] Speaker B: That was the last time this year that the White Sox were playing decently. [00:56:10] Speaker A: That's true. [00:56:12] Speaker B: Oh, jeez. What a garbage fire this season has turned into. Yeah, unfortunately. [00:56:20] Speaker A: Hey, at least the tickets will be cheap. [00:56:22] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Hell yeah. We'll have to contend with the guys standing on the concourse just telling everybody to save their money and go home. [00:56:36] Speaker A: And then. So previously in Scorched. The planet eaters are coming, and Monolith has a plan to stop them. But Urzin might have something to say about that. Love you, Tom Seeley. Thank you for writing these nice short. [00:56:52] Speaker B: Previously ons very beautiful. And continuing with a long running joke we have here. Urizen says, I got something to say. [00:57:03] Speaker A: What does Urizen say? [00:57:06] Speaker B: He says, I got something to say. Like that misfits song. [00:57:09] Speaker A: Oh, you're so high pitched, David, that it. [00:57:12] Speaker B: So high pitched, it cut out. Well, it's on the recordings. [00:57:15] Speaker A: Okay. I'm just saying, the Internet can't handle your lovely. [00:57:21] Speaker B: I've broken Johnny's Internet. [00:57:23] Speaker A: You broke my Internet. Much like Kim Kardashian's ass. [00:57:27] Speaker B: We only let Bran sing for, like, two measures during their guest episode, because then you would all realize just how terrible I am at singing and would riot. We can't be having good singing on this show, David. [00:57:43] Speaker A: They know. [00:57:45] Speaker B: I don't know. I don't know. Do they know? Email us regarding [email protected] and tell us if you know that I'm a terrible singer or not. [00:57:53] Speaker A: Just a bunch of emails to say yes. I'm sorry. You're not a terrible singer. [00:57:59] Speaker B: You are a good singer because you're. [00:58:00] Speaker A: Just excited to sing. That's a good singer. [00:58:04] Speaker B: I don't have a proper instrument. No, I have not tuned it. [00:58:09] Speaker A: Or we didn't waste money in college learning how to sing, and then I. [00:58:14] Speaker B: Don'T got that breath control or nothing. [00:58:18] Speaker A: No. [00:58:19] Speaker B: I'm going to laugh if we do get a whole bunch of emails that just say yes, and it's going to be like, what the fuck is this? How is this supposed to. So those will be real easy to read, though. [00:58:30] Speaker A: Be nice and short. Yes. [00:58:33] Speaker B: From Ben. Yes. From Greg. Yes. From Amanda. Yes. [00:58:38] Speaker A: You know, there's not a single woman that listens to this show. David. [00:58:44] Speaker B: I know of two women that listen to this show. [00:58:46] Speaker A: Okay. No, I do too. Yeah, our moms. [00:58:48] Speaker B: That's right. Hi, mom. But that's where it ends. Because everybody else, they're intrigued by the idea of a podcast. And I'm like, it's about spawn. And they're like, oh, yeah, no, yeah. [00:59:01] Speaker A: That's usually what everyone's like. [00:59:03] Speaker B: What? [00:59:03] Speaker A: Who? [00:59:03] Speaker B: Yeah, spawn. Definitely. Much more of the male variety interested in the spawn comics. [00:59:11] Speaker A: Yes. So it seems. But this week in scorch, you get a recap, and then you get another recap. [00:59:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:59:19] Speaker A: Because the issue starts with, let's recap. [00:59:21] Speaker B: Let's recap. [00:59:24] Speaker A: And we're here. When we last left Jessica, she ran and found all three of the horsemen, like, summoning urizen. [00:59:32] Speaker B: Yeah. Because she had realized that the slaughter that monolith was participating in was a distraction, right? [00:59:40] Speaker A: Because she used her fearlessness that she'd had since the day she came from. [00:59:45] Speaker B: Her mother's womb, from when she was shot across the delivery room and punched. [00:59:50] Speaker A: That doctor right in the fucking nuts. [00:59:52] Speaker B: As they say in baseball, she had a bat exit velocity of 108 miles an hour. [00:59:59] Speaker A: So this virus that's been buried under the permafrost is getting let free by the three horsemen, which are love, mandarin and necro. [01:00:06] Speaker B: And necro. [01:00:08] Speaker A: And this virus is coming out and starting to. It's like a virus manifestated. It manifests as, like, kind of demony things. [01:00:18] Speaker B: Yeah. So it's kind of like plague adjacent, where plague is literally an anthropomorphized plague. [01:00:27] Speaker A: Right. [01:00:28] Speaker B: Same with these. These guys got kind of soul devourer faces, too, which I like that sort of continuity sin devourer. That's how Steven Segovia was like, if I'm going to make some generic baddies, they're going to have a consistency across them. And it looks good. It looks good. I like it. Yeah, the blue on this first page is just great. It's just a blue sheen on everything. [01:00:51] Speaker A: No, I love it. I love you. Get that reflection off of everything and all the crazy lights. Just the lighting and color in this issue is really good. [01:01:00] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. [01:01:02] Speaker A: So Jessica starts to get sucked in. These things are, like latching onto. [01:01:08] Speaker B: It's. It's doing her dirty. Like the end of drag me to hell. It's like. It's like sneaking. Like, normally we talk about the eyes smoking, and it's like doing a reverse where her eyes are green, but the smoke going into it is brown and black. And it's going into her throat. Looks no neo style again. And this virus is seeking out heroes of the scorched theme, specifically those with hellspawn powers. Just. Margaret Love is doing her old evil scientist thing and just being like, look at it. Look at it. Latch to her. Look at it go. [01:01:50] Speaker A: And then I love monolith. With his signature move of throwing a limb from off panel or ahead or any kind of body part, he just. [01:02:01] Speaker B: Beans Mandarin right in the head with a hand. [01:02:06] Speaker A: And then they all like, look. They're like, what? Who's that? And then you turn the page and it's monolith. [01:02:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Margaret loves sunglasses. Can't be really doing any good, can they? They're way too small. [01:02:19] Speaker A: They're just there for the vibes. David. [01:02:26] Speaker B: They're like Morpheus sunglasses. They ain't got the arms on. Pinsnes. Is that what they're called, pins? [01:02:33] Speaker A: I don't know. Sounds right to me. [01:02:35] Speaker B: Yeah, pinsnes. They're the ones that grip by clipping against the nose. [01:02:40] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [01:02:40] Speaker B: What Teddy Roosevelt used to wear. Nice. [01:02:44] Speaker A: Well, Larida. [01:02:45] Speaker B: Oh, so fancy. [01:02:48] Speaker A: He's an oppenheimer, Teddy Roosevelt. No, he's not. [01:02:53] Speaker B: I was about to say, I'm pretty sure FDR's uncle had died by that point. [01:02:58] Speaker A: I'm kidding. He was not. [01:02:59] Speaker B: Could you imagine? It's just all of these serious, serious people. And then Teddy Roosevelt busts in and is like, who's going to box me? I caught a bear. Who wants to fight it? [01:03:11] Speaker A: Some monolith comes on and yells, release her. [01:03:15] Speaker B: He's carrying the rest of that body that he threw the hand off of, which is a nice touch. Monolith, a creature from the future. A beast called the Herald of Doom. I thought he was just from another world. I didn't realize he was from the. [01:03:28] Speaker A: He's from. He's got the full comic book thing. He's from the future, from another world. [01:03:34] Speaker B: What more do you. He's basically cable coming back. We're gonna find out that Mark Rosen is actually his dad. Monolith looking real good right here. [01:03:48] Speaker A: And he just takes a big old chomp out of Necro. [01:03:53] Speaker B: Yeah, just like right on his chest. [01:03:56] Speaker A: Just eats his pectoral muscle. [01:03:59] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got purple goop coming out of it, too, there. [01:04:03] Speaker A: That's so. [01:04:06] Speaker B: Know. Instinctually, Monolith seeks out Necro, who is the leader. So Monolith has. He knows who's in charge. He knows what's what. [01:04:17] Speaker A: I love how Redeemer just zaps love and she goes flying like a rag doll when you see her in the background. Just like. [01:04:26] Speaker B: Oh, man. Yeah. And then medieval hits Mandarin with his big old hammer as Batman. From the Batman. Batman. The brave and the bold would say his hammer of justice. [01:04:39] Speaker A: His hammer of justice smacks him. [01:04:41] Speaker B: Smacks him, kings him right into that. There's a part of a building there now. Okay, why not? The virus grabs ahold of medieval and we get question mark as speech bubble, which is very fun. That is the grooviest question mark. I love it. [01:05:03] Speaker A: And then Monolith breaks some stuff. [01:05:09] Speaker B: Monolith is just smashing the ground. He's fakawing. He says, we don't have time for this. It's the planet eaters. And I guess you destroy planet eaters by fighting the ground they're going to eat. [01:05:31] Speaker A: And then he throws some of the virus beings onto love. [01:05:35] Speaker B: Yeah. He's just whipping them around, and they latch onto her real tight. Redeemers in the background there being like, love. How do we stop this? Tell me, she says, I don't know. [01:05:49] Speaker A: I swear. The beast controls it. We only unearthed it, and then she is now marked just like the planet, with, like, that crazy symbol. [01:05:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:59] Speaker A: And then she starts speaking like a zealot and becomes, like, speaking the gospel of the planet. Eaters here in this black speech, will. [01:06:08] Speaker B: Sacrifice that in my death and that of others, will our true masters create something better? [01:06:14] Speaker A: Is that a line from Oppenheimer? [01:06:16] Speaker B: I don't know. Out of the two of us, you're the one who would know, because what does he say? [01:06:22] Speaker A: I have become death? I don't know. Whatever that fucking quote is. [01:06:26] Speaker B: It sounds almost like something that you would recite at a catholic mass. That's the cadence you got to read it in. Like the apostles Creed. [01:06:36] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I was episcopal, so we had the Nicene creed, and we had the Lord's prayer. [01:06:48] Speaker B: Oh, man. When I converted to Methodism after being a catholic for so long, and at the end of the Lord's prayer, Methodists just go right into the tag at the end, whereas Catholics, there's a part where you stop, and then depending on what time of the year it is, the priest says a special version of another prayer in the middle there. And then as a group, you close it out. It took me, like, at least three months of being a Methodist to feel comfortable enough just steamrollering through the end of the Lord's prayer. Real awkward time for young David just. [01:07:27] Speaker A: Steamrolling right through it. And it's the middle of the. Like, and you're just like, what? And you're the only one talking. [01:07:31] Speaker B: Yeah, well, no, like, everyone else was talking, and I wasn't because I was supposed to wait for the priests to do a prayer, and I was like, what are you doing? We wait for a prayer here. But no, that's not the way they do it. That's not the way they do it. [01:07:46] Speaker A: Those crazy Methodists, it's wacky. [01:07:49] Speaker B: It's wacky. Well, at least they aren't Baptists. [01:07:51] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. No offense to any Baptists that are listening. [01:07:56] Speaker B: Johnny, as a lapsed Methodist. Yes. All offense to Baptists. [01:08:00] Speaker A: Okay. All offense to all Baptists that are listening. I don't think you're really a Baptist. If you're a Baptist, I don't really think you'd be reading. [01:08:08] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, definitely not. [01:08:11] Speaker A: I just don't think it really lines up with your point of view. [01:08:15] Speaker B: Yeah. Nope. Definitely not. Necro's over here losing his mind because love is taken over by the virus, and he doesn't like that. Necro is letting his emotions get in the way. Johnny. Because he's in love, there will be sacrificed. He is with love. He loves love. And then it appears. Johnny, the mark. [01:08:44] Speaker A: A symbol so ancient no one remembers. It's what its origin is. [01:08:49] Speaker B: That's what I meant by Sean Lewis was channeling the toddfatherness before the toddfather actually was known to be there. [01:08:59] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, something like that, yeah. The symbol so ancient definitely sounds. [01:09:03] Speaker B: It seems to be a part of the dna of every world. [01:09:08] Speaker A: So it's basically just marking us for these planet eaters that are coming, which we know because we're a couple of issues ahead irl. They are here. [01:09:18] Speaker B: Yeah, they're everywhere. Mandarin says, the virus. I thought it was only meant for humans. That's a mistake Mandarin will regret. The virus is wrapping itself around both Mandarin and medieval. And then monolith is like, necro, who would set this free? Answer me. And then we'll speak of the urizen. [01:09:42] Speaker A: But speak of the urizen. He shall appear. [01:09:45] Speaker B: Yeah. He just, like, looms out of the shadow. He's colossal. No adornments or fanfare. Saunters forth like a God, gazing with disdain at those who should all be bowing to him. [01:10:00] Speaker A: This next page, you get some of that awesome orange color. It looks great. [01:10:04] Speaker B: Yeah. It's like they're in the middle of a fire tornado. Yeah, it's great. And, man, Erison's a big beefy boy. [01:10:15] Speaker A: So big, it makes models look tiny. [01:10:17] Speaker B: Yeah. Medieval's like, I thought he died. Instead of it being a statement that he thought he died. It's a question mark. [01:10:31] Speaker A: It's funny when you imagine that's mark saying that. [01:10:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:10:37] Speaker A: And you think that Monolith's going to die. Like, everyone's looking at him. Bergimor's like, monolith, run. But he does something unexpected and seeks the truce. [01:10:49] Speaker B: Monolith does know urizen, so that's the giant understands. If monolith is here, something even greater is coming. So it's very much like the big villain has recognized that the silver surfer is the. [01:11:03] Speaker A: Right. It's kind of like that. Because it seems like Monolith's like this herald of doom. Because he says, if we're both here, that's bad news. [01:11:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:11:13] Speaker A: And that's what the silver surfer is like, right? He's the herald of Galactus. [01:11:17] Speaker B: Yeah, he seeks out and seeks out worlds that Galactus can devour and then preps them for their destruction. And so if you see the silver surfer, you're about to have a real bad day. So erazin utters two words that none would believe. None of them would believe it, Johnny. And my main issue with this issue, Johnny, is that the two words that urizen speaks are just, like, tossed off in the narration instead of in big, nasty letters that look like how his voice sounds. [01:11:56] Speaker A: Right. [01:11:58] Speaker B: I want some texture on those words, especially since they're the only two words he says this whole issue. [01:12:04] Speaker A: No. He says, I see Katruse earlier. [01:12:07] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [01:12:10] Speaker A: Yes. Sorry. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, maybe they're trying to say he's so evil and bad that you can't even see his dialogue. You can't even look at it. [01:12:21] Speaker B: And Necro's not having it. He says, no, not after all we've done. And urizen just. He looks like a bat. So it looks like he's a bat putting out, like, necroplasmic radar, sonar waves, or something. [01:12:38] Speaker A: Yeah, pulses right through him. [01:12:41] Speaker B: Designed to be a replica of spawn is all that saves Necro. All of his adornments have been burned away, and he is now just. He's like the t 800 when all the flesh gets burned off of him. [01:12:59] Speaker A: Yes, pretty much. He's just like a naked robot. [01:13:04] Speaker B: And medieval is like, I don't understand. Monolith. [01:13:08] Speaker A: This is where he kind of explains that he's like the herald. And if they're both there at the same time, means the planet eaters are coming, and nothing else matters. [01:13:17] Speaker B: Oh, I guess Uruzan speaks here. I will begin to prepare for them. Monolith, wait for my orders. Monolith, agreed. [01:13:25] Speaker A: Wait for my orders. [01:13:27] Speaker B: But that's a lie. None of them have the sit and wait. So we got the Todd father not letting us sit in suspense too long. Be like, yeah, he just straight up lied to that motherfucker. Monolith is so cool. He has no problems lying to this big, nasty demon guy. [01:13:45] Speaker A: No problem at all. [01:13:47] Speaker B: No problem at all. Erzen doesn't know about this deceit, though. I'm enjoying these additional edit scripts much more than I think I should. Johnny, this is great. [01:14:02] Speaker A: Monolith cracks a big hole in the ground and says they got to bury the infected. [01:14:07] Speaker B: Yeah, because they turn back to the battle with the virus, and it's just this deep, dark pit. And everybody else is like, but they're not dead. And he's like, hey, man, they've been infected. They will be dead. They're going to be. And if they aren't dead, they're not going to be who you want them to be anymore. So you must send this virus back from whence it came under that permafrost. [01:14:33] Speaker A: And then it's, like, really sad, because I guess Jessica's dead. [01:14:38] Speaker B: Yeah. What the, uh. I do believe the technical term for that, Johnny, is some bullshit. [01:14:48] Speaker A: Yeah, it is bullshit. I mean, I'm excited to see this new where it goes. And she has been around, but it's just like, man, she got killed. That sucks. [01:14:58] Speaker B: Yeah, that's no good. And then we get medieval. [01:15:03] Speaker A: Being the cop that comes and knocks on the door. [01:15:09] Speaker B: His coat of chivalry is like, well, I got to do this. I got to make sure everybody knows that their family members are dead. So he flies his dragon to the middle of the woods and is somehow undetected on a giant fucking dragon. [01:15:25] Speaker A: Right by the house. [01:15:27] Speaker B: Right by the house. He's looming in the window, and they aren't looking straight at him, which, like. [01:15:34] Speaker A: Do you imagine looking out your window and seeing medieval spawn? I'd be like, oh, my fucking God. Yeah, that'd be terrifying. [01:15:43] Speaker B: And then he gets bad news. Us interrupt us by Al Simmons. And Al says, hey, man. Hey, man. No, don't. Don't leave them alone. Don't let them know that a war is going on unless they have to be drugged into it. So I need you to catch me up on what's going on, soldier. [01:16:06] Speaker A: That will include the fate of Jessica priest, why monolith is now the leader of the scorched, and why Spawn will need to face this harsh reality. So it's setting up for those planet eaters, coming for them. [01:16:18] Speaker B: Yeah. And then scorch skull to end the episode. The issue brain's got me calling them episodes now. And it's fucking with my brain. [01:16:31] Speaker A: Well, we flipped the page, and we got the spawning ground. [01:16:35] Speaker B: Yeah, we got another fan art section. It's real good. Our buddy maximum noir has a kick ass haunt there. Yeah. [01:16:43] Speaker A: And then my budy Quentin Tarantino has a sockless and shoeless Jessica there. Look at, like, leaning on a pillow. [01:16:51] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, he's going to make a whole. The. If Quentin Tarantino were to give us a spawn movie, it would just be building up to Wanda's. And she spawns feet. Maybe. Maybe Malbolsh's feet's for the freak out there. Freaks out. [01:17:07] Speaker A: Know why not? [01:17:09] Speaker B: Why not? There's a foot out there for every face. I guess foot for every face, there's a meatball head. Spawn, there's a cool, scorched cover with Jessica. That's literally 90% Jessica hair. That's fun. [01:17:27] Speaker A: Yeah, I like that one. [01:17:29] Speaker B: There's a Brock the shock fennel style clown at the bottom. [01:17:33] Speaker A: Yeah, he looks like Brock, man. [01:17:35] Speaker B: It's a real good one, though. [01:17:37] Speaker A: He's flipping him the bird. [01:17:39] Speaker B: Yeah, man, I love these fan arts. They're fun. They're great. [01:17:46] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, this is a good one. [01:17:48] Speaker B: Get our normal advertisements and then at the back. Johnny, does this toy advertisement at the back make you regret canceling your pre order? [01:17:58] Speaker A: It does. This is the one I pre ordered. [01:18:00] Speaker B: Yeah, because it's fucking badass. [01:18:03] Speaker A: Well, now that I've quit vaping, maybe I can afford it. I can afford anything now. [01:18:12] Speaker B: You're going to get in so much trouble. Wanda's going to be like, why do we now have less money than when you vaped? And you'd be like, save the money for vaping. Spends it on other things. [01:18:21] Speaker A: What did you buy that's scorched 18 right there. [01:18:24] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the end of it. With that, Johnny, I think we got to rate these puppies. [01:18:31] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. So our first issue we covered was spawn number 309. Kind of beginning of this gunslinger journey. You get some Jessica and Al action. Really good getting back to this after. I like where this is now. I like the story building up here. What are you going to give this issue, David? [01:19:01] Speaker B: You're going to give to me first? I am going to give it 3.75 skeletons with hoop earrings. [01:19:12] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [01:19:14] Speaker B: I enjoyed the heck out of this issue. The Art kicks ass. It's like, right at the beginning of an arc, and it's feeling like it's going to be a real groovy arc. Even though it's part two of two, I feel like the story going forward is going to be real groovy. It's a nice little introduction to introducing our current gunslinger to the universe. [01:19:42] Speaker A: Kind of connecting those dots that we missed of what was up with the host body and hobby and everything. [01:19:48] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real solid. It's got a lot of good stuff in it. It clips right on by. It's got a lot of good character work. [01:19:56] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm going to give it three and a half. Hippie Cogliostros. Nice biker man. Cogliostro. [01:20:06] Speaker B: Biker hippie is biker hippie Cogliostro. Is he also a deadhead? Does he like to just drop out for a whole weekend? [01:20:16] Speaker A: Man, I mean, definitely. [01:20:21] Speaker B: It's always really weird when, like, dead and co comes through town and it's like, this is still a thing, man. There's still a lot of people here. Oh, yeah. It's wild. It's wild. [01:20:34] Speaker A: Our second issue was scorched number 18. [01:20:37] Speaker B: Yes, it was. [01:20:38] Speaker A: Where we had the big battle between Urzin and monolith and everybody. The end of arc number three for the scorched. I'm going to give this one four. Margaret. Love being thrown in the background by reaper or by redeemer. Just going, wow, I love that. [01:20:56] Speaker B: Crack me up. Yeah, I'm going to give it four. Box in the face with a dismembered. [01:21:06] Speaker A: With a dismembered limb from monolith. Yeah. Bach. [01:21:11] Speaker B: This issue was just so much fun. [01:21:14] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:21:17] Speaker B: The scorched work best. I feel when you get a chance to sort of just like, romp around in kind of the ridiculousness of the whole universe, this is definitely doing that. [01:21:28] Speaker A: It's using stuff from all over. New ideas, urizen old ideas. It's just really cool how he's mixing them all together. [01:21:35] Speaker B: It ends one arc, it sets up the next arc. It's just a fun issue. It gives enough closure from the previous story, leaves enough overlap that it's easy enough to grab onto it for when we continue. We're pissed off Jessica is dead and that's going to be a fun thing to follow through to see what's happening with our scorch team leader, Jessica. How different monoliths management style is going to be from Jessica? [01:22:10] Speaker A: Pretty different. [01:22:11] Speaker B: Could you imagine being on that work team and your manager going from Jessica Priest to monolith? [01:22:17] Speaker A: Who, boy, he throws a limit you right off the bat. Oh, man, throws a foot right in your face. Speaking of Quentin Tarantino. Yeah. I really like this issue. I could say how some people could be like, well, obviously she's not really dead. And it's like, yeah, of course it's comic books. We don't care. [01:22:39] Speaker B: It's a comic book. Get it? [01:22:41] Speaker A: Comic book. She's going to come back. They're not killing her forever. It's not even set up that way. It's not set up as, like some big deal. [01:22:47] Speaker B: Yeah, no, literally, as she's getting covered up with snow is just begging for. If this were a movie, you would see her eyes start to light up a little bit before. [01:23:00] Speaker A: Right. Or like, twitch or something. [01:23:01] Speaker B: The camera cuts. Yeah, exactly. Solid issue. [01:23:08] Speaker A: Well, David, I'm just sad because remember how I said I'd never get to open one of those page punchers. [01:23:22] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. You're going to have to settle for an off brand page puncher, where you just find a page and you punch it yourself. [01:23:29] Speaker A: Yeah, well. [01:23:30] Speaker B: Or you'll have to rename a three hole punch as a page puncher. And there you go. [01:23:35] Speaker A: Wait, hold on. What's going on here? [01:23:38] Speaker B: What's that? What? [01:23:39] Speaker A: Oh, it's coming through the torrid portal. Oh, no. Is it monolith? Oh, no. Whoa. [01:23:46] Speaker B: What? [01:23:47] Speaker A: This just fell from my ceiling out of the tour portal. It's the page punchers, gunslinger and Auger. [01:23:55] Speaker B: What? All right, so, first off, Johnny, that's really fucking cool. I'm glad you were able to get that. But also, the portal's now dropping stuff on you. Oh, boy, oh, boy. I am worried for your health. [01:24:09] Speaker A: I am, too, but I'm more excited to open this thing. [01:24:13] Speaker B: Yeah, don't look at gift horse in the mouth. Let's get onto this thing. [01:24:17] Speaker A: It's time for Todd's toy talk. All right, guys. So, yeah, I got fresh delivered from the toy portal in my ceiling that I opened in episode like 15 of the podcast. By using demon magic, out of the sky has fallen the two pack, the page Punchers of Javi and Auger. Gunslinger and Auger. [01:24:53] Speaker B: Nice. [01:24:53] Speaker A: I'm about to bust this puppy open here, let me get my pocket knife out. So these are kind of, like, in a clamshell packaging, but there's tape all around the edges, so I got to take this knife and cut all the tape off. [01:25:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:25:08] Speaker A: So these page punchers are kind of, like, a little more affordable, maybe more kid oriented kind of toys. [01:25:15] Speaker B: Yeah, they only have, like, what, two points of articulation? Like, you can move the legs and the arms. [01:25:23] Speaker A: They have four, three, and probably the head, too. So I think they got five, actually. [01:25:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Not a lot of small pieces. No, they fit in smaller hands, too. [01:25:33] Speaker A: Fit in your pocket. Take it to school with you. [01:25:35] Speaker B: Although, with the way that our spawns costumes look, I don't know if you'd want one of those spiky boys in a little kid's hand or in your pocket. [01:25:45] Speaker A: It might stab you. So I'm going to bust it open here. It's this clamshell packaging. Just kind of pull it open. [01:25:51] Speaker B: Busting, busting, busting, busting, busting, busting. [01:25:54] Speaker A: It is spawn 309. [01:25:58] Speaker B: Nice. [01:26:00] Speaker A: Another printing of it. [01:26:02] Speaker B: Wonder if there's anything special in it. [01:26:03] Speaker A: It's a Todd McFarland cover. [01:26:06] Speaker B: Nice and everything. [01:26:09] Speaker A: Oh, all the ads are completely. [01:26:11] Speaker B: Ooh, are they like the current updated page punchers? [01:26:16] Speaker A: McFarland Dragons current spawn stuff. So, yeah, it's got a, it's got a whole bunch of stuff. [01:26:23] Speaker B: That's cool. It's like when you download a popular podcast, they have it set to. Whenever you download it, you download the current advertisements they have and not the advertisements that were put out originally. [01:26:38] Speaker A: Right. Okay, so it comes with, this comes with like a stand. That's pretty cool. [01:26:46] Speaker B: Nice. [01:26:46] Speaker A: It comes with a stand for the comic book, I guess. That's nice. So you can put the comic book. Let me see here. [01:26:56] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:26:56] Speaker A: So you can put the figures in front of the comic book. That's pretty cool. [01:27:00] Speaker B: Nice. [01:27:00] Speaker A: So it comes with a stand. Let me see here. This stand will probably come in handy when I'm doing photos, actually. [01:27:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man, that's a great idea. Yeah. [01:27:12] Speaker A: Because you can put the comic book right in there. So I'm going to put the comic book in here. Stands right up. Looking good. [01:27:19] Speaker B: Nice. [01:27:23] Speaker A: There he is. And then I've got this little teeny tiny gunslinger. He's hilarious. This is awesome. [01:27:35] Speaker B: He's so small. [01:27:36] Speaker A: He's so small and cute. [01:27:39] Speaker B: The gunslinger version of Mothra's Fairy, the little tiny version that hangs out in his legs. Okay. [01:27:44] Speaker A: So they've got a little bit ball. They have ball joints on their arms. So they have, like, pretty good articulation there. [01:27:50] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [01:27:51] Speaker A: And the legs are just regular joints, but that's pretty cool. [01:27:56] Speaker B: It's a real fun concept given having a sub $10 toy that comes with a comic book that if you want a Superman toy, you get a free superman comic book, too, or a Batman or whatever. It's great. It's like a double duty toy that doesn't really skimp on either bit. [01:28:19] Speaker A: So I'm pulling out Auger here. I got Auger, little tiny guy, all spindly and cool. He's got waist articulation. He does not have ball joints on his arms. He says regular joints. Yeah. Pretty cool. [01:28:39] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. You're going to have to watch out and make sure they don't fight. And Gunslinger accidentally absorbs all of Auger. [01:28:46] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't want them to suck up Auger here and absorb them. These are great. These will look great on my new shelf. [01:28:53] Speaker B: Yeah. Nice. [01:28:56] Speaker A: Sweet. That is the page puncher there. [01:29:02] Speaker B: Well, speaking of punching pages, Johnny, we like to have people go over and punch the hearts on the pages of friends of ours over on Instagram. Of course, we man in the Instagram spawn community, one of the best communities in the world, hands down. Not even just one of the best spawn communities. Just everybody's so fucking cool. This week, we want to shout out a friend of ours, RV, underscore, collect. [01:29:32] Speaker A: They got a badass king spawn as their profile picture. [01:29:38] Speaker B: He's got a lot of Hulk action figures, so it seems like he's pretty big into Hulk, which the current Hulk is a horror book, and it's really fucking good. He's got a lot of spawn action figures. Looks like he got himself a Batman spawn double set. That's pretty cool. Sharing his stuff, sending love out to everybody who's sharing other spawn stuff. And it's real good. It's real good. He's got that picture of the world's finest variant that has Nicolas Cage as Superman. [01:30:12] Speaker A: Good spawn stuff as well. Looks like he got the spawn Batman figures. That's pretty cool. [01:30:19] Speaker B: He's got, like, a niche masters of the universe figure, so maybe he can fill us in on masters of the universe lore when we get it wrong. He man. [01:30:33] Speaker A: Which will be often. Which will be often. [01:30:36] Speaker B: Which will be anytime we mention masters of the universe. Fucking orko. Orko, the incompetent mage who, when he goes back to his own world, is, like, the most powerful figure. It's like the bizarro world of the masters of the universe. Universe. [01:30:56] Speaker A: Go check it out. And while you're over there, make sure to check us out regarding spawn pod. We're posting our pickups and stuff with you about the episodes and just a lot of fun things. So get on over there on Instagram and join the fun. Yeah, and if you want to join in the fun, you can send us an email regarding [email protected]. One of the things you might want to email us about is you might want to say, who does this great music you do that you have? And we would tell you that it's Ryan Voyals underscore 27. [01:31:34] Speaker B: Yes. Over on Instagram. He's real freaking good at it. He does good music. He does great. So that's your freebie. You don't even have to email us for that one. [01:31:44] Speaker A: You sure don't. You can just go right there if you want to email us, as you may want to do. I always like to ask a question every week. These page punchers kind of remind me of, like, old Star wars figures a little bit. I mean, they're a little smaller, but I just wonder, and I played a lot of those with as a kid, so I just wonder, what was your favorite action figure line as a kid? Was it Star Wars? Ninja Turtles? I don't know. Maybe a more niche one. There could be a lot. So whatever your. Was it spawn? Maybe you're ahead of the time. You just always been a spawn man. Because I was a Star wars man when I was a kid. A Star wars boy. [01:32:24] Speaker B: Oh, man. I was deep in the sewers of teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. [01:32:32] Speaker A: Nice. [01:32:33] Speaker B: Like, at least every other toy I got was a tmnt toy. [01:32:40] Speaker A: Gotta love. [01:32:41] Speaker B: And I also. I strangely had a lot of Star Trek the next generation toys, okay. Like data and wharf. Data and wharf have always been my two favorite characters. I don't know what that says about me specifically, but I love them things as. [01:33:02] Speaker A: You're real cool, do you, David? [01:33:04] Speaker B: It means either I'm a robot or a man who knows no subtlety. Klingons ain't subtle. [01:33:15] Speaker A: So what are we going to do reading next week, David? [01:33:18] Speaker B: Oh, we're going to be reading next week. Oh, this is news to me. Can I request that we do something light, like, maybe we go pick up Archie's digest from the gas station or something? Oh, come on. But I need to know which one he's going to choose. Is it going to be Betty, or is it going to be Veronica? I want to see what kind of hamburger Jughead makes this time. [01:33:43] Speaker A: I'm dying in this closet. You're killing me. You're literally killing me. So hot. [01:33:51] Speaker B: I have the power now. Phenomenal cosmic power. Itty bitty. Recording space. For next week, we're going to be reading a couple of issues from Spawn's greater universe, as we all know. And since we're all caught up on most of our classic stuff, we're going to be doing a double main title episode next week again. Johnny Boom boom, boom, boom. Or spawn. Spawn spoon. Our classic is going to be Spawn 310, which you have already read and I have. So you can tell us just exactly how excited we should be for that one. [01:34:32] Speaker A: It's good. It's great. It continues this. It's awesome. A lot of great. [01:34:35] Speaker B: Jessica. Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. Also hell, yeah. Our new book will be Spawn 342, which is the continuing saga of sin in hell and Albert Simmons in heaven, which. It's been a great tale. [01:34:56] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. It's a lot of fun. [01:34:57] Speaker B: Probably the most fun I have on current. Most fun I'm having on current spawn issues that aren't just like the toddfather's ridiculousness. Because while I love the toddfather's ridiculousness and gunslinger really doesn't misstep for me, even when it may be objectively bad. Spawn, the current main title stuff is just quietly brilliant. [01:35:31] Speaker A: Yeah, it really is. [01:35:31] Speaker B: And it's been really cool. [01:35:32] Speaker A: Like, just seeing the build up of these machinations, the politics of hell and heaven and everything. It's been cool. [01:35:39] Speaker B: Yeah. We also have enough background on it now under a belt that we know when Rory McConville is being a sneaky lore man. [01:35:51] Speaker A: Yes, we can spot that. [01:35:53] Speaker B: Better guess. I guess if you are a person that is into lore, you would be a Lorax. [01:36:00] Speaker A: Yeah, I can see that. Or if you're a person that hides in a tree. [01:36:04] Speaker B: Or just a Danny DeVito type. So, yeah, that's what we're going to be reading next week. Spawn 310. Spawn 342. Read along with us. Email us your opinions. If you want us to read your opinions on the issue on air. If you can get it in fast enough. Yep. [01:36:20] Speaker A: Or email your opinions about the issues today. Any opinion you want to email? [01:36:25] Speaker B: Yeah, nice. Well, we got all that stuff covered, Johnny. I think that just leads me to say it's been a fun ass time this week. I've enjoyed talking some spawn with you. Yeah. And I just wish you all the best. I hope you get some rest. And may the scorch be with you. [01:36:44] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:36:46] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:36:47] Speaker A: Hell, yeah, man, these are cool. I really like, they're just funny how they're so little. I just wish I had the other page puncher now. I wish. That's the thing. You get one. It's like give a mouse a muffin. Or give a moose a muffin. You want one page puncher. You want the other one now? Now I want the one with Spawn and anti spawn. [01:37:06] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [01:37:08] Speaker A: It just fell on the ceiling again. [01:37:11] Speaker B: What the heck? [01:37:12] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Oh, no. [01:37:14] Speaker B: What? [01:37:15] Speaker A: Just toys falling. I'm getting buried in toys. Help. [01:37:20] Speaker B: Johnny. [01:37:25] Speaker A: There's worse ways to dive than be buried in toys.