[00:00:00] Speaker A: Look, we all want the same thing. Screw heaven and hell. I'm with you on that. But this new war you've started, you don't get to run the show. You're not alone anymore. You understand that, right?
[00:00:10] Speaker B: There's more of us nowhere.
[00:00:43] Speaker A: Good evening, and welcome to the malbols.
[00:00:47] Speaker B: This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I am your co host, John Fisher.
[00:00:55] Speaker C: And I am your co host, David Williams. And Johnny, it's a good day to.
[00:01:02] Speaker B: Be doing a record breaking podcast with you, you know?
[00:01:06] Speaker A: Record breaking.
[00:01:09] Speaker B: What was.
[00:01:09] Speaker A: What record have we broken?
[00:01:11] Speaker C: We broke the record of more records than the last time we recorded.
[00:01:15] Speaker B: Oh, yes, that's right.
[00:01:16] Speaker A: Just like Spawn does every issue.
[00:01:18] Speaker B: Now it's official.
[00:01:20] Speaker A: Soon we will spawn a day has only got to, like, 70 episodes. So soon we will be longest running spawning podcast.
[00:01:27] Speaker C: We're going to have to call up Guinness. Luckily, they're putting that Guinness brew pub in the west loop, so maybe we can just get one of the officials there to come by.
[00:01:36] Speaker A: Not connected.
Guinness isn't connected to the Guinness Book of World Records.
[00:01:41] Speaker C: Yeah, the Guinness Brewing Company started the Guinness Book of World Records, as. Are you serious? Yeah, as, like, a bar trivia book so people wouldn't be bored while they were at the bar.
I don't know if they're still connected as a company now, but. No, the Guinness Brewing company started the.
[00:01:57] Speaker B: Guinness Book of World Records. Well, there you go.
[00:01:59] Speaker A: It's just like learning that the Michelin star is actually the Michelin. Like the tire company.
[00:02:04] Speaker C: Yeah, because it was a guide of places to go to on your cross country trip while you were, like, you're waiting to get your tires changed on your car, and they've got the, oh, hey, if you're going out of town, go to these spots.
[00:02:20] Speaker B: So it always.
[00:02:22] Speaker C: It always makes me laugh to hear.
[00:02:23] Speaker B: People talk about.
[00:02:26] Speaker C: Highfalutin restaurants and stuff. And then right next to it is the big old Michelin man.
[00:02:34] Speaker A: You know, he has a name.
[00:02:36] Speaker B: He does.
[00:02:37] Speaker A: Yeah, his name is Bibendium.
[00:02:41] Speaker B: I'm not Bib.
[00:02:42] Speaker A: That's why it's called the Bib Gourmand.
[00:02:44] Speaker B: Because he's Bib. His name's bibendium.
[00:02:47] Speaker C: Nice.
[00:02:48] Speaker B: That's an awesome.
Yeah.
[00:02:50] Speaker A: B-I-B-E-N-D-I-U-M-I wonder if that's bibendium.
[00:02:54] Speaker C: I wonder if that's, like, a process in making the tires or something.
[00:03:00] Speaker A: It must be a reference to something, because I have no idea. But that's his name. Because that's why they're called the bib Gourmands.
[00:03:06] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:03:07] Speaker C: Have you ever seen the pictures of the original Michelin man. Where they literally just took the inner tubes out of old fashioned tires. And pumped them up to varying degrees and put them on a man?
[00:03:21] Speaker B: It's frightening.
[00:03:22] Speaker C: It's frightening.
[00:03:23] Speaker A: It's, like, scary.
[00:03:24] Speaker C: It's like a marshmallow version of the Ned Kelly suits at the end of that.
I guess. I guess the real Ned Kelly suits, because he was a real guy.
[00:03:34] Speaker B: Whatever. Ned Kelly. Good movie.
I've never seen it.
[00:03:38] Speaker C: It was in the theaters for, like, two weeks when I worked at theater in high school.
It's got Orlando Bloom and Heath Ledger in it.
[00:03:48] Speaker B: All right. Yeah.
[00:03:50] Speaker A: Interesting.
[00:03:51] Speaker C: Yeah. He's basically, like, australian Robin Hood is.
[00:03:56] Speaker B: Kind of the way they.
The short description.
[00:04:00] Speaker A: I feel like Javim is a little Robin Hood esque. Because he steals. So he doesn't steal from the rich.
[00:04:05] Speaker B: But he kills the powerful and protects Taylor.
[00:04:09] Speaker A: And Taylor's probably poor.
[00:04:11] Speaker C: Taylor definitely is not. So. So I guess he could be, like.
[00:04:15] Speaker B: A Robin Hood of power. Be Robin Hood of power.
[00:04:17] Speaker A: And Taylor's also not rich.
[00:04:19] Speaker B: He actually does give.
[00:04:20] Speaker A: He's like Robin Hood. He gave Taylor a bunch of money, remember?
[00:04:22] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:22] Speaker C: He was like, I don't know what this is.
[00:04:24] Speaker A: Yeah, he gave him all that golden shit.
[00:04:26] Speaker C: Yeah, that's.
[00:04:27] Speaker A: Welcome, everyone. Welcome to. Regarding Spawn.
[00:04:30] Speaker B: Yeah. Where each week we bring you two.
[00:04:33] Speaker A: Issues from Spawn's universe. Except when we don't. But this time we are doing two issues. We've got a classic and a more modern. We've got two different titles today, too, as well. The first one up is the classic spawn main spawn title, 311.
[00:04:50] Speaker B: All the way back.
[00:04:54] Speaker A: Yeah, of course.
Is the band 311 or three one one?
[00:05:00] Speaker C: I've heard it both ways, but I know it's based off.
[00:05:03] Speaker A: That's what I was wondering.
[00:05:04] Speaker C: It's based off of a police code, so it's probably a 311, because I.
[00:05:10] Speaker A: Think that's three one one is more like the phone number.
[00:05:12] Speaker C: Yeah.
If you try calling three one one for information, you're going to get some smooth tunes coming through the speaker there.
[00:05:22] Speaker B: Is this the second time I've made.
[00:05:23] Speaker A: The mistake of three one one. It actually is four one one.
[00:05:28] Speaker C: Man, I loved calling four one one when I was little.
[00:05:30] Speaker B: Because you get to talk to somebody.
[00:05:32] Speaker C: That you don't know, and you're like, hey, I just need this thing. And they're like, yeah, hold on.
[00:05:36] Speaker A: I always like calling the weather and time.
[00:05:39] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:05:39] Speaker C: At the sound of the tone. The time will be.
[00:05:44] Speaker A: The sound of the tone. The time will be October 2020, because that's when this issue of Spawn 311 is from.
[00:05:51] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[00:05:53] Speaker C: Spooky book for a spooky season, Johnny.
[00:05:56] Speaker A: Spooky book for Spooky season.
[00:05:57] Speaker B: It is monumental.
[00:06:01] Speaker A: This is a record breaker because it's the first. Well, it's a record breaker because it's.
[00:06:05] Speaker B: A world record breaking comic, but it.
[00:06:09] Speaker A: Is the first comic of the main spawn of Carlo Barberi, who we know and love, who's been doing it from this point on.
[00:06:16] Speaker B: So that's a three year run.
That's pretty good.
[00:06:22] Speaker C: It's been a great run, too.
[00:06:23] Speaker B: So very excited to see. Oh, yeah.
[00:06:28] Speaker A: But it's been interesting to see the.
[00:06:29] Speaker B: Evolution, to see this first issue of.
[00:06:32] Speaker A: His and see where he is now and just how different the title is now.
[00:06:38] Speaker B: It's.
[00:06:39] Speaker C: It's a very different book, even though it's the same book. And that's one of the beauties of comics, Johnny is just as you go.
[00:06:45] Speaker B: The book naturally changes to fit where it needs to go.
[00:06:50] Speaker C: It's hard to plan it out exactly. So you just like, oh, this was a fun idea, and you go with it.
[00:06:56] Speaker A: And just like that. We're not planning out exactly, but this is a fun idea, and we're going with it. So the second issue today is Gunslinger 21 from June 2023.
[00:07:07] Speaker C: Talk about fun ideas, Johnny. Oh, boy.
[00:07:11] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, this is a fun one.
[00:07:12] Speaker C: Oh, boy.
I'm real excited to get to that.
I don't feel like we have to wade through Spawn 311 to get to.
[00:07:22] Speaker B: Gunslinger, but we get to enjoy.
[00:07:24] Speaker A: Eleven is good.
[00:07:25] Speaker C: We get to enjoy the ride all the way there because both really good books this week, Johnny.
[00:07:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:31] Speaker A: So we might as well just get right into it.
[00:07:34] Speaker C: Yeah, look at that.
[00:07:35] Speaker A: Before minute 20.
[00:07:36] Speaker B: Suck at Twitter joke.
[00:07:38] Speaker A: Yeah, suck at Twitter joke. There's a Twitter joke that said, what was it was 40 minutes into a podcast. Podcaster. Let's dive right in.
[00:07:48] Speaker C: I think it was every podcast, right?
But, yeah, something like that. And I felt so funny, I felt attacked.
[00:07:56] Speaker B: Okay, well, Johnny, if we're diving right in.
[00:08:01] Speaker C: We got to pass the glossy surface of the covers to get right into the deep of it.
[00:08:06] Speaker B: And what kind of covers are you working with for 311 this week?
[00:08:10] Speaker A: Well, I've got just one here, and it is glossy because it's still before.
[00:08:14] Speaker B: They started doing that hard, like, cardstock.
[00:08:17] Speaker A: Cover, so it's like, a little more floppy. I've got the one with the three spawns on it. It's got gunslinger, spawn, and medieval by Carlo Barberry and McFarlane.
[00:08:30] Speaker B: It looks like nice.
[00:08:31] Speaker A: And then that's the one. I only got one for this one. That's it.
[00:08:34] Speaker C: Oh, Johnny, Johnny.
We are the other halves to our haves, but not the Wanda halves, because I am rich in cover for 311.
[00:08:51] Speaker B: Really?
[00:08:51] Speaker C: I got the trade paperback, which is the one I'm reading.
But I have here I have two covers.
[00:08:59] Speaker B: I have the Matina cover, where it's.
[00:09:04] Speaker C: Just got spawn heavily endowed with some.
With some guns. That is matina hole, right? I want to make.
[00:09:16] Speaker B: What? What?
[00:09:17] Speaker A: I'm pulling it.
[00:09:20] Speaker C: Uh, yeah, it's the matina one. So it's the COVID a.
It says, world record breaking comic at the top because the Todd father was feeling sassy, and the arc comeback will be barrier than our setback.
[00:09:34] Speaker B: The.
[00:09:37] Speaker C: Convoluted quote.
So I've got that one. And then I also have the special in memory of Chadwick Boseman cover.
[00:09:50] Speaker A: You do that.
[00:09:51] Speaker C: The toddfather put out.
I remember when this variant cover came out, there was a lot of discussion over how appropriate it was, as immemorium art piece, seeing as how Chadwick Boseman had nothing to do with Spawn at all. And really, the only connection was that, well, Spawn is black, and Black Panther is.
It's a. I know the challengers guys had some conflicted feelings about it, so you can maybe just with them if you want.
[00:10:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:26] Speaker C: Because I know some people were also.
[00:10:27] Speaker B: Like, maybe they saw it as more.
[00:10:31] Speaker C: Of a money grab instead of a memorial thing, like trying to capitalize on the loss of an actor. So there's a lot of emotion tied up in this particular cover that I.
[00:10:46] Speaker A: Don'T know how, when I saw it, not to lie, I just saw that it was existed, and I was like, yeah, interesting.
[00:10:56] Speaker B: But I mean. I mean, Mr. Bozeman only lived to.
[00:11:00] Speaker C: Be, like, what, 44?
Yeah, it was, like, devastating and out of nowhere.
[00:11:09] Speaker B: But.
[00:11:11] Speaker C: I'm going to believe that the Todd father was doing it out of being a good, nice canadian man. And he was just like, Chadwick Bozeman has done so much for the medium of comics just by being a representation in a movie based on a comic that a lot of people don't get to see.
And so that kind of then drives readers to comics.
I'm not going to pretend like there's not some sort of business motivation behind it, because he is a businessman, but I do believe his heart was in the right place in wanting to make a.
[00:11:49] Speaker B: In memorial cover. I hope so.
[00:11:53] Speaker C: It's a badass cover, though.
All the skulls are little black panther.
[00:11:59] Speaker B: Heads, and he's doing the Wakanda forever.
[00:12:03] Speaker C: Salute, Rip Chadwick, Bozeman, and hello. Potentially uncomfortable conversations about immemorium covers.
[00:12:15] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I didn't really think about it.
[00:12:19] Speaker B: But it is kind of OD.
[00:12:21] Speaker A: But the other covers aren't really that OD responds.
[00:12:24] Speaker C: The Mattina cover is so badass, though, man.
[00:12:28] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:12:30] Speaker C: I don't know if we've mentioned it.
[00:12:31] Speaker B: In a week, but Mattina, good artist. Controversial. I know. Good artist.
[00:12:40] Speaker A: I like the style, too, with that white background and always like a splash of red or something.
[00:12:49] Speaker C: Yeah, pretty cool. And.
[00:12:53] Speaker B: It'S like a leak from the.
[00:12:56] Speaker C: Ceiling is turning into the faces of all the hell beings, which is fun. Although there's a Cygor face on there, and we know Cygor is not a hell being.
[00:13:05] Speaker A: No, but he is a zombie being.
[00:13:07] Speaker C: He is a green world shill.
[00:13:10] Speaker B: He is.
[00:13:11] Speaker A: Well, in this one, he's like a zombie, like in a tube.
[00:13:13] Speaker C: But, yeah.
[00:13:16] Speaker B: I like the Carlo Barberry cover a lot.
[00:13:19] Speaker A: Just, it's like a nice, like, hey, I'm here. It's me.
[00:13:22] Speaker B: Yeah, look at my spawns.
[00:13:24] Speaker C: It's real good. That's some quality height on that gunslinger.
[00:13:28] Speaker B: Hat, so I'm for it.
[00:13:32] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, it's pretty tall.
[00:13:34] Speaker C: Oh, man.
[00:13:34] Speaker B: Pretty tall.
[00:13:36] Speaker C: It's a good medieval, too.
I bet medieval is a fun person to draw. Like, I bet, like, the hulk is just fun to draw. I bet medieval is fun to draw.
[00:13:45] Speaker A: Look at all those spikes.
[00:13:47] Speaker B: Yeah, look at him. Look at him.
[00:13:48] Speaker A: Well, turning in time to open that.
[00:13:50] Speaker C: Cover, we're going to figure out who's joining our boy Carlo Barberi.
[00:13:56] Speaker A: Well, it's a script plot by Todd McFarlane.
[00:13:59] Speaker B: Oh, I never would. You see?
[00:14:01] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Well, I got to say it first, so lettering by Tom Wojcikowski.
[00:14:05] Speaker B: Did you see David?
[00:14:07] Speaker A: He's going to be at Spongon.
[00:14:08] Speaker C: Tom o. Oh, really?
[00:14:11] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:14:11] Speaker A: They got Tom Wojciskowski.
[00:14:13] Speaker B: Hell yeah. They got Tom o, man.
[00:14:15] Speaker A: They just announced it yesterday. I was like, holy shit.
[00:14:18] Speaker B: That's a huge get. That's a big get. Hell yeah.
[00:14:22] Speaker A: I'm going to get him to write my name on a cover.
[00:14:25] Speaker B: Oh, shit.
[00:14:26] Speaker C: That's what you should take. You should take one of the blank covers and just have them do some word bubbles.
[00:14:34] Speaker A: I'll probably take one of the earlier issues and have them sign one of those.
[00:14:38] Speaker B: I'll find one.
[00:14:39] Speaker A: Some really chunky, cool text that I.
[00:14:41] Speaker B: Like, and then I'll take that. Yeah.
And be like, I really like you. That's awesome. Isn't that awesome? Yeah, tickets go on sale today.
[00:14:51] Speaker A: I got to get online at 02:00.
[00:14:53] Speaker B: Oh, man. That's.
[00:14:57] Speaker C: Two weeks later for you all who are listening to this in real time.
[00:15:01] Speaker A: This tells on us, because if you're listening to this, you probably know when spawncon tickets are going on sale.
[00:15:07] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:15:07] Speaker A: So this is the Friday, August 11, that we're recording when they're going on sale. And I couldn't be more excited.
So funny, though, because I've already bought plane tickets, so he could just charge whatever, like, jurassic park prices, and I'd have to buy the ticket. And I'm like, oh, fuck. I get on there, it's like, $5,000. I'm like, no.
[00:15:26] Speaker C: You show up, and spawn hunter is just, like, spared no expense.
This is what he says every time that he addresses the clarity out. And he's like, and remember, guys, I spared no expense.
[00:15:38] Speaker A: Then we sit there.
[00:15:39] Speaker B: I'm like, you have a gunslinger. We have a gunslinger.
[00:15:44] Speaker A: And out comes swawny boy dressed as gunslinger.
[00:15:47] Speaker C: He makes a little video that instead of talking about cloning Dino DNA from a mosquito, it's trying to make a k seven letha from earth based materials instead of necrosis without any necroplasm.
[00:16:02] Speaker B: Right?
[00:16:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Tom O is going to be at Spawn Con. So that's great.
[00:16:07] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[00:16:08] Speaker A: Then we got colors by Peter Steigerwald.
We covered the covers.
[00:16:13] Speaker C: Yes, we did.
[00:16:14] Speaker B: The artists there.
[00:16:15] Speaker A: And creative director is Tod McFarland. And for a second issue in a row, editor is Thomas Healy.
[00:16:21] Speaker B: Killing it, killing it, killing it.
[00:16:25] Speaker C: Would this be his heel turn?
[00:16:29] Speaker A: I guess, but not that he's not a heel.
[00:16:32] Speaker C: No, he's definitely a face. He's definitely a face.
[00:16:35] Speaker B: So we'll talk about it after I read it, David. Okay.
Previously in Spawn.
[00:16:43] Speaker A: The storm begins.
Spawn is on the hunt for someone or something. Insidious demons hiding among humans, secret dealings with big pharma. Dark plans are about to be exposed. There is a storm coming, and Spawn is at its center.
Is this some QAnon shit?
[00:17:05] Speaker C: I don't fucking know, dude. I don't know.
[00:17:09] Speaker A: Because they talk about Big Pharma. They talk about storm, like, capitalized twice.
[00:17:13] Speaker B: Is this QAnon?
[00:17:16] Speaker A: Is Tod father or Thomas Healy a QAnon person?
[00:17:19] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:17:20] Speaker C: I don't think so. I'd like to think.
[00:17:21] Speaker A: No, I don't want to throw that accusation. It's a big thing to throw out.
[00:17:24] Speaker B: There, but this is.
[00:17:27] Speaker A: The storm was a big part of QAnon.
[00:17:29] Speaker B: And I can't remember if this October.
[00:17:32] Speaker A: 2020, if that existed yet or not.
[00:17:35] Speaker C: I think it existed in the lead up to the 2020 election because I think that's where most of it started.
[00:17:44] Speaker B: Because they were.
[00:17:45] Speaker A: Oh, right.
[00:17:48] Speaker C: Because I think it's part of what led to a lot of the people thinking that Trump losing the election was wrong. Because there was an insider during the Trump administration who was saying that this is what the deep state is trying to keep our president from doing.
[00:18:04] Speaker A: Right. And he was going to win and save the country.
[00:18:08] Speaker B: Tom Hanks, the pedophile Tom Hanks. What? Yeah.
[00:18:13] Speaker A: You didn't hear about that? They think Tom Hanks is like a. Is one of the pizza gate.
[00:18:20] Speaker B: Boo.
[00:18:21] Speaker A: I just broke your brain.
[00:18:22] Speaker B: Boo. Yeah.
[00:18:24] Speaker A: Don't think about it. Don't think about it.
[00:18:25] Speaker B: Yeah. So previously in Spawn, we learned a little bit.
[00:18:29] Speaker A: There was like, he went and killed.
[00:18:31] Speaker B: A demon pharmaceutical lady and threatened to kill her half breed children and then a bunch of.
Right. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:18:43] Speaker C: Because Javi beat the test. That cog left him in the suit when he fought with Auger.
Not in the suit, in the hobby.
[00:18:58] Speaker A: In the hobby.
[00:18:58] Speaker C: In the hobby.
If I might for a second, Johnny, the only damage that Tom Hanks has ever done to a child is emotionally in toy Story three and through ongoing nightmare fuel as that dude in the Polar express.
[00:19:20] Speaker A: It'S like the three dudes.
[00:19:21] Speaker B: He plays in polar.
[00:19:24] Speaker C: That is the stance of. Regarding spod, the podcast.
[00:19:29] Speaker A: Yeah, we're not queuing on, just to be clear. And if you are, hey, if you're listening, no offense. Hey, we need any kind of listener we can get.
[00:19:37] Speaker C: I just want Johnny's Brock the shock fiddling over here.
[00:19:42] Speaker A: Yeah, Brockin the shocking.
[00:19:43] Speaker C: Brocking and shocking and rolling.
[00:19:45] Speaker A: Shock a Khan.
[00:19:49] Speaker C: Al did the world's cruelest interview question on, you know, showing.
[00:19:57] Speaker A: Took her. Yeah, that was right. He took her to. That was the previous issue.
[00:20:00] Speaker C: Yeah, he took her to the poltergeist warehouse.
It was like they only moved the.
[00:20:08] Speaker B: Right, right.
So this is kind of picking up.
[00:20:14] Speaker A: A new story here. It starts in northwest Turkey in Bursa.
[00:20:20] Speaker B: And the mayor is getting picketed and.
[00:20:24] Speaker A: He'S getting asked questions by reporters.
[00:20:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:30] Speaker C: Reporters just doing their job, accusing.
[00:20:32] Speaker A: Them of having financial ties to the.
[00:20:35] Speaker B: Companies that are creating the supposed vaccine.
[00:20:39] Speaker C: That we learned last time was actually.
[00:20:42] Speaker B: The virus sickness itself from Dr. Vissers, who spawned eviscerated.
[00:20:50] Speaker C: Nice. I like that one.
[00:20:51] Speaker B: Johnny, you should take a bow. For you.
[00:20:56] Speaker A: Thank you. Thank you. Oh, yes.
[00:20:58] Speaker B: Bravi.
[00:20:58] Speaker A: Bravi. Bravisimi.
[00:21:00] Speaker C: Yeah. And so this mayor guy's like, how do people learn about this? I thought that it wasn't going to get public.
And so they know they got a.
[00:21:09] Speaker B: Mole of some kind.
Right.
[00:21:13] Speaker C: If I may, I really like the thumb of this reporter's thumb on the Tape recorder. It's a really nice thumb.
[00:21:21] Speaker A: Good thumb.
[00:21:21] Speaker B: It's got the little curve in there. Yeah.
[00:21:24] Speaker C: I like when the fingernail is somehow lower than the rest of the fingertip.
[00:21:31] Speaker B: It's fascinating.
[00:21:33] Speaker C: One of my favorite parts about comic books is hands. I love them.
I will literally stop reading a series because I don't like the way the hands are drawn.
[00:21:43] Speaker B: Wow. That's based. Probably.
[00:21:46] Speaker A: So this mayor is like, nothing's more important than privacy. I don't want to talk to anybody, and it's a leak. They go back to the hotel.
[00:21:54] Speaker B: They're going to go hit the shower.
[00:21:56] Speaker A: Get something to eat.
[00:21:57] Speaker C: Yeah. This reporter is like if Jimmy Olsen were a jock instead of a clumsy little nerd.
[00:22:09] Speaker A: I like staying at hotels. It's fun staying at a hotel.
[00:22:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:12] Speaker C: There's something about the smell of hotel that makes everything feel wild and different and new.
[00:22:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:19] Speaker C: I like getting the ice bucket where you got to put the plastic liner in the bucket and then you get the. There's something about a plastic bag full of ice that reminds me of, like, vacation or being away.
[00:22:31] Speaker B: It's a weird. Definitely. No, I know what you mean. And he gets shot in the head.
[00:22:36] Speaker A: By, like, a silencer or something.
[00:22:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:38] Speaker C: Somebody's hiding out in the hotel room and just right in the middle of the forehead there. Like, it knocks him off his feet and he flies back.
[00:22:47] Speaker B: Good.
[00:22:48] Speaker C: Good action in Carla Barberi's art there, too.
[00:22:51] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, definitely.
[00:22:52] Speaker A: We cut to hundreds of miles away where there's a bunch of bats.
[00:22:56] Speaker B: Bats. And they're morphing.
[00:22:58] Speaker C: We've got a reverse Laszlo from what we do in the shadows. The bats are going human.
[00:23:06] Speaker A: Oh, when they say bat.
[00:23:07] Speaker C: Yeah.
Oh, man, I love that show.
[00:23:12] Speaker B: It's so good.
Yeah, it's good.
[00:23:16] Speaker A: I watched the first three seasons or.
[00:23:18] Speaker B: So, and then I fell off because.
[00:23:19] Speaker A: I'm terrible at watching tv shows.
[00:23:21] Speaker C: Yeah, that's fine. That's fine. It happens. The movie is good.
[00:23:24] Speaker B: You ever see the movie? Yeah, I love the.
[00:23:27] Speaker C: The, I love the cat because he can't do faces, so he transforms into a cat with just a big old human face.
[00:23:37] Speaker A: Yeah, that was funny. I love the nosferatu they got in the.
[00:23:42] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:23:43] Speaker A: Philip, I think his name is accidentally kill.
[00:23:47] Speaker B: Like.
[00:23:48] Speaker C: And Doug Jones does the ancient one on the show. Man, I fucking love Doug Jones. He's such a cool dude.
[00:23:55] Speaker A: So this is guy turns into, like, a big bat demon thing and then transforms into a sexy man.
[00:24:02] Speaker C: Yeah. Is that a Jason blood?
[00:24:04] Speaker B: Johnny, is this a Jason blood? I don't think that's. Is it a Jason. That's not blood. No. Okay.
[00:24:10] Speaker A: This is just some random.
[00:24:13] Speaker B: I know, I know his name is.
[00:24:15] Speaker C: Mr. Gupta later on, but I didn't know if that was a de plume or what.
[00:24:21] Speaker B: No, I think this is not anyone.
[00:24:25] Speaker A: We'Ve seen before, probably.
[00:24:26] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:24:26] Speaker C: I mean, we've definitely seen that hair before, just not on this guy, I guess.
[00:24:31] Speaker A: Carlo Barberi likes that. Spiky.
[00:24:34] Speaker B: It's.
[00:24:35] Speaker C: It's maybe what makes Jim Downing decide to do his hair up that way, because currently, in current continuity, that's how Jim Downing's hair looks. But in this issue, it's not. But we learned that this dude's just, like, rolling in money and is maybe a bit of a nasty man in certain respects.
[00:24:52] Speaker B: He's a womanizer.
Womanizer, womanizer, womanizer, womanizer.
Yeah.
[00:25:00] Speaker C: Cynthia, don't make him blush. He has a certain appetite for God's beauty. Oh, God.
[00:25:06] Speaker A: Oh, boy. What a thing to say.
[00:25:08] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[00:25:08] Speaker C: I could just imagine, like, hearing somebody say that at the table next to you while you're at a bar and just, like, fighting the urge to stand up and punch them in the face.
[00:25:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:19] Speaker C: Like, what are you doing?
[00:25:22] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we don't see that guy anymore.
[00:25:26] Speaker C: We turn the page, and it's over.
[00:25:28] Speaker B: He's gone.
[00:25:30] Speaker C: Oh, I guess we did skip over the big thing, that he.
[00:25:35] Speaker B: Has a.
[00:25:36] Speaker C: Lot of private guests who were required to give a donation, and so he's secretly getting funded for some sort of.
[00:25:46] Speaker B: Nonsense, some sort of thing that we don't know about yet.
[00:25:50] Speaker A: Well, it's his pharmaceutical breakthrough, okay?
[00:25:54] Speaker B: He owns the pharmaceutical company, okay?
[00:25:57] Speaker A: She says, like, I hear you're on the verge of a pharmaceutical breakthrough.
We get an exact Todd father.
[00:26:06] Speaker C: Distance, 3600 miles.
[00:26:08] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:09] Speaker A: To the southeast in Calcutta, India.
[00:26:11] Speaker B: And we get spawn.
[00:26:13] Speaker A: Carlo Barberry's first goat spawn in the pages of spawn.
[00:26:16] Speaker C: And it's a good one.
[00:26:17] Speaker B: It's real good Spawn, Johnny.
[00:26:19] Speaker C: I just like looking at the spawn.
[00:26:20] Speaker B: You know, he's over there.
[00:26:22] Speaker C: He's looking for. He's trying to track down more of the hell spawn bits that he found.
[00:26:25] Speaker B: And, Johnny, the fact that he's in.
[00:26:28] Speaker C: India implies that there might be a bollywood spawn at some time. And how awesome would that be to have a bollywood spawn?
[00:26:37] Speaker A: He has to sing and dance.
[00:26:38] Speaker B: That would be great.
[00:26:40] Speaker C: I kind of want them to do that.
[00:26:42] Speaker B: I want Todd McFarlane to sell film.
[00:26:45] Speaker C: Rights to spawn in India to a local indian company and have them just make a spawn movie and do what they do best. I don't care if it's not canonical spawn. It'll still be awesome.
[00:26:57] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:58] Speaker B: And he'll sing and dance. Oh, man.
[00:27:01] Speaker C: Hell yeah.
[00:27:02] Speaker A: So Al's looking for somebody.
[00:27:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:08] Speaker C: He'S tracking down all these hell spawns, or undead warriors.
He feels that something's wrong, because if they are sort of necroplasm based hell spawns that they should innately know he's their master because he's the general.
Not the general, the one that hangs out with Shaq on the television, but no, the general. Like George Washington in Hamilton.
[00:27:36] Speaker B: Here comes general. The general comes in and he finds Jim Downing.
[00:27:43] Speaker C: Isn't the OU quarterback named General Booty?
[00:27:46] Speaker B: Isn't that his name?
[00:27:48] Speaker A: I have no idea.
[00:27:51] Speaker B: General Booty.
[00:27:52] Speaker C: Yeah, the quarterback for the OU sooners. Right now his name is General Booty.
[00:27:58] Speaker A: All right.
[00:28:00] Speaker B: That's a good name.
[00:28:02] Speaker C: All those names that we heard people complaining about when we were in high school are now full grown adults telling people what to do. And it's hilarious.
But anyway, the general, Al Simmons, has gone down to the street and packed away. His costume is very natalie dressed.
[00:28:26] Speaker B: Johnny. Yeah.
[00:28:29] Speaker C: I want a belt that has a spawn logo.
[00:28:31] Speaker B: Belt buckle, like, now.
[00:28:33] Speaker A: Yeah, that'd be cool.
[00:28:33] Speaker C: Tod McFarlane, please get on that merchandising. And so he walks into, like, an.
[00:28:38] Speaker B: Abandoned restaurant or just like, a closed restaurant.
[00:28:41] Speaker C: Yeah, like, those chairs have seen better.
[00:28:45] Speaker A: It looks like it needs a bar rescue.
[00:28:47] Speaker C: Yeah, it does.
Oh, wouldn't it be great if that dude just busted it in the middle of this conversation? Oh, what's his name?
[00:28:54] Speaker B: John Taffer.
[00:28:55] Speaker A: Busted. He's like, there's necroplasm everywhere.
[00:28:58] Speaker B: Clean this shit up.
[00:29:00] Speaker A: You're going to get somebody sick.
[00:29:04] Speaker C: He's so disgusting.
[00:29:06] Speaker A: Restaurant I've ever seen in my life.
[00:29:08] Speaker C: He's so big, man. I would.
[00:29:10] Speaker A: Terrifying. I would listen to me. I'd be scared of shit.
[00:29:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:29:13] Speaker C: I'd listen to every goddamn word he said. Because I would be like, you would be able to beat me up. It would be like, if I ever met Greg Capullo, I would be both starstruck and just like, oh, God.
[00:29:25] Speaker B: Oh, God.
[00:29:26] Speaker C: He's so much bigger than I am. I couldn't take him.
[00:29:29] Speaker A: They meet in this restaurant. It's Jim Downing. He's wearing his cool leather jacket and his sunglasses inside.
[00:29:36] Speaker C: He wears his sunglasses at night, Johnny.
[00:29:38] Speaker B: He does.
[00:29:39] Speaker C: So he can. So he can. I guess Al's also wearing sunglasses at night.
[00:29:44] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:29:45] Speaker A: They gotta hide their glowing eyes.
[00:29:46] Speaker B: Yeah, they do.
[00:29:47] Speaker C: From each other. They both know, but they gotta hide it anyway. Although I guess this is though, I guess right now. I guess right now Al doesn't know that Jim Downing has necroplasm powers again, because that's a secret that he's working with the green world.
[00:30:04] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:30:06] Speaker A: Is this their first meeting? Nice to finally meet face to face, I guess.
[00:30:10] Speaker C: I don't know.
[00:30:12] Speaker A: That's a question for the later in the podcast.
[00:30:15] Speaker C: Yeah, that's for whenever we find out. You will get there before I do, because my only Jim Downing experience from classic spawn is issue number three.
[00:30:26] Speaker B: Yeah, I'll be getting there. I'm working through that third compendium.
[00:30:29] Speaker A: Five's coming out in September, so I better hurry up.
[00:30:31] Speaker B: Yeah, you got a boogie.
You got a nightlife. You got a boogie. So we get our opening quote. Yes.
[00:30:40] Speaker A: I just want to do a Jim Downing, which is why we picked it.
[00:30:42] Speaker B: Because I had never done, obviously, a.
[00:30:44] Speaker A: Jim Downing before, I don't think.
[00:30:45] Speaker C: Yeah, I like this difference between them that Carlo Barberi has given them. Like, Al is very business and proper, and Jim Downing's just, like, slumped down and relaxed and doesn't give a shit.
[00:30:57] Speaker A: Yeah, he doesn't care. He's just wearing his leather jacket, being like, whatever.
[00:31:01] Speaker C: It's like he got called into the vice Principal's office and is like, hey, vice principal. Dude, man, what do you want this time?
I'll smoke in the bathroom again. Just try and stop me.
[00:31:12] Speaker A: Hey, it's 2023. They'd be vaping in the bathroom, David.
[00:31:16] Speaker B: Vaping in the bathroom, vaping in the boys room.
[00:31:20] Speaker A: But there's no way to tell if.
[00:31:22] Speaker C: You'Re vaping, except for when you walk through, like, a raspberry flavored cloud in the middle.
[00:31:28] Speaker A: Yeah, you walk in the bathroom, it smells like fruit. You're like, okay, someone's been using the jewel lounge.
[00:31:35] Speaker C: It's at first whiff, kind of pleasant because you're like, oh, that smells nice. But then you realize what it is, and it's like, yeah, there's a guy who I see on the train platform a lot, who, every time I see him, he rushes up the stairs to the train so he can get to the trash can so he can set his vape rig on it and fill the little reservoir back up with juice so that way he can get it all ready for this train ride downtown.
[00:32:07] Speaker A: Got to get that juice in there, man.
[00:32:11] Speaker B: We got the johnny.
[00:32:14] Speaker C: If this isn't a Jamie Kennedy, not Jamie Kennedy.
[00:32:18] Speaker B: Jamie Kennedy.
[00:32:20] Speaker A: Jamie Kennedy experience.
[00:32:21] Speaker C: Jamie Kennedy would be an awesome Jin downing.
If this isn't a Jamie fox spawn, I don't know what it is. Right in the middle of the page, Carla Corberry was definitely looking at a picture of our man Jamie Fox.
[00:32:38] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, definitely.
[00:32:39] Speaker C: Who's out and about and doing better.
Glad to hear.
[00:32:43] Speaker B: Doing stuff.
[00:32:45] Speaker C: Yeah, he's made a couple of appearances.
He looks like he's been in the hospital for months, but he's getting out and about. He apparently was being driven around the streets of Chicago, and he saw a lady drop her purse. And so he had his driver pull over and hand delivered the purse back to the lady.
[00:33:08] Speaker B: So, hell, yeah. Jimmy Fox.
[00:33:10] Speaker C: Good.
[00:33:12] Speaker B: He's just.
[00:33:12] Speaker A: They're going back and forth.
[00:33:14] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:33:15] Speaker A: Jim's kind of give it to him about, like, swatting the hornets nest and locking. Everybody's here, and they're all at each other's throats.
[00:33:22] Speaker B: So.
[00:33:23] Speaker C: So Al's trying to give him the lay of the land, trying to be like, this is what I'm trying to do. And Jim's like, well, it's just bullshit.
[00:33:30] Speaker B: Everywhere.
[00:33:31] Speaker C: There's some real cool demons and angels we got here.
[00:33:36] Speaker B: Is that godsend again? I think so.
[00:33:39] Speaker A: It looks like Godsend.
[00:33:40] Speaker C: Looks like Godsend. Man, that's a big ass sword.
[00:33:43] Speaker B: Look at that sword.
[00:33:44] Speaker A: You got the cool, like, angel ribbons, kind of like Angela.
[00:33:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:33:49] Speaker C: We got the demons burning what looks like an ancient Jerusalem city tearing apart some poor lady. Yeah, trying to tear spawn apart.
[00:33:58] Speaker B: Yeah, he's getting the business.
[00:34:00] Speaker A: They got his head, like, in their.
[00:34:02] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:34:03] Speaker C: That one's about to rip his arm off. Or maybe just his gauntlet. Maybe he just wants the gauntlets to wear later as a trophy.
[00:34:11] Speaker B: Like, look what I got from the spawn.
[00:34:13] Speaker C: Then Al says something. I had a spawn reading on my computer over there.
[00:34:18] Speaker B: Now it's gone.
[00:34:21] Speaker C: So apparently, the entities that they're tracking that are, like, spawn blips or necroplasm blips or whatever, sometimes they appear and disappear. So he's like, something weird is going on here, you guys.
[00:34:39] Speaker B: Something isn't right.
[00:34:41] Speaker A: He wants his people back.
[00:34:42] Speaker B: He wants his Cygor freak and overt kill. Overt kill.
[00:34:49] Speaker A: Because I guess previously to issue 300, he had made them, like, zombie people to help him.
And then we saw around, it's either 298, 299, somewhere around there that Jim Downing had taken control of them with help of. We now know the green world.
[00:35:04] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't think you know that at the time.
[00:35:08] Speaker C: I mean, we know it now, and.
[00:35:09] Speaker B: That'S and Al wants them back. Yeah, he wants them back. He wants them back.
[00:35:17] Speaker C: I'm trying to. Trying to sing the song in my head right now and figure out what the rest of the lyrics are, but.
[00:35:23] Speaker B: I don't know them.
[00:35:24] Speaker C: I spoke too prematurely, Johnny, because on.
[00:35:27] Speaker A: This very more traditional, what we're used to, we get the Jim downing form.
[00:35:32] Speaker B: Right.
[00:35:34] Speaker C: I like how they continue. They're like, let's take this outside.
[00:35:39] Speaker A: He's like, okay, I'm going to transform into cool kind of matrix. It looks like the costumes to the first X Men movie.
[00:35:46] Speaker C: Kind of. It does.
[00:35:48] Speaker A: What would you prefer, David? Yellow spandex?
[00:35:51] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:51] Speaker C: Honestly? Yeah.
[00:35:53] Speaker A: Oh, got me.
[00:35:55] Speaker B: Well, you're going to get it because.
[00:35:57] Speaker A: Evidently Wolverine's wearing the yellow suit in Deadpool.
[00:36:00] Speaker C: Yeah. If get. Get hired onto something else in the middle of it after the strikes are.
[00:36:09] Speaker B: Over because they had to shut down.
[00:36:11] Speaker C: Production, that continuity editor is going to have their work cut out for them.
[00:36:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, jeez.
[00:36:18] Speaker C: Can you imagine having to keep the Wolverine haircut going indefinitely just so that way you can keep in continuity when.
[00:36:27] Speaker B: You get back to filming, man, he.
[00:36:29] Speaker A: Just constantly gets to get his, like, mutton chops going.
[00:36:34] Speaker B: Oh, boy.
[00:36:36] Speaker C: And then Spawn says, I want to see the baby.
[00:36:40] Speaker B: I want to see the baby.
[00:36:43] Speaker A: I want to see.
[00:36:51] Speaker B: He wants to see them.
Cygor and overkill.
[00:36:58] Speaker A: And he takes him down.
[00:37:00] Speaker B: He warps him.
[00:37:03] Speaker C: It's a real core.
[00:37:04] Speaker B: Little, like smoke trail they leave or.
[00:37:08] Speaker C: Necroplasm trail when they leave.
[00:37:10] Speaker B: It's real fun. Right?
[00:37:13] Speaker A: And they're down in some dungeon, some hidden dungeon.
[00:37:16] Speaker B: And we open the door and you.
[00:37:19] Speaker A: Got overkill and Cygor in, like, some matrix pods.
[00:37:22] Speaker B: Yeah. What are you doing to them?
We know these pods.
[00:37:27] Speaker A: Isn't this the pods, like Nick's went into?
[00:37:29] Speaker C: Yeah, this looks like the pod Nick's went into. It also looks a lot like the pod that Billy Kincaid was in.
[00:37:36] Speaker B: It's true. It does.
[00:37:37] Speaker A: Basically, Jim says that you just regenerated these guys by, like, you reanimated them, but they're not themselves. And I'm going to give them back their brain matter and regenerate them completely.
[00:37:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:37:49] Speaker C: He's like, they need souls.
[00:37:51] Speaker A: Al just goes, where's the freak.
[00:37:57] Speaker C: Out? Running some missions. He's the furthest developed of the three. There's some HR Geeger atmosphere going on here.
[00:38:05] Speaker B: Geeger Geiger. Geeger Geiger. I think it's Geiger. I don't care.
[00:38:11] Speaker C: It looks like alien up in this hidden dungeon.
[00:38:15] Speaker B: It sure does. And then, like, Al just punches Jim.
[00:38:20] Speaker C: Downing across the room calls him an.
[00:38:23] Speaker A: Idiot and just smacks him.
[00:38:24] Speaker C: He's like, you, idiot.
You used your blood.
[00:38:27] Speaker A: Yeah, he put a little bit of his blood in them.
I guess Malbolga and clown poisoned it when he was in a coma. So his tracers inside of him made them hybrids.
[00:38:39] Speaker C: He gave him that vaccine from Mr. William Gates. It's got that little microchips in it.
[00:38:47] Speaker B: Yep. It's going to track me, I guess.
[00:38:51] Speaker A: I was going to QAnon.
[00:38:52] Speaker C: I guess I was wrong earlier, because I guess Spawn did know that Jim Downing still had powers. So the sunglasses were unnecessary as a ruse in that meeting earlier, but necessary to be cool.
[00:39:05] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
Very necessary.
[00:39:08] Speaker A: And so he starts laser zapping the.
[00:39:12] Speaker C: He gives him the cyclops treatment, zaps.
[00:39:16] Speaker A: Him with his laser eyes, Al, just like Jim Downing. He absorbs Jim Downing's laser eyes into his chest.
[00:39:24] Speaker C: Yeah. And then he just, like, deflects it and walks slowly, slowly toward a.
[00:39:29] Speaker A: That's pretty cool.
[00:39:30] Speaker C: That's a menacing move.
[00:39:31] Speaker B: I like it.
[00:39:33] Speaker A: It's like the Harry Potter thing where the wands are, like, coming together.
[00:39:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:39:36] Speaker A: And they're, like, going towards each other, but he's just, like, stopping it and.
[00:39:39] Speaker B: Just comes right up to him.
[00:39:42] Speaker C: And then Al does the thing that parents who aren't too good at parenting say, where I made you, I brought.
[00:39:49] Speaker A: You into this world, and I can.
[00:39:50] Speaker C: Take you out of it.
[00:39:52] Speaker B: Right.
[00:39:53] Speaker C: Absolutely ridiculous.
[00:39:55] Speaker B: And then spawn just thunk and cracks and breaks out.
[00:40:02] Speaker A: Zombie overkill.
[00:40:04] Speaker B: I like how the point of his.
[00:40:07] Speaker C: Gauntlet, instead of being the point that breaks the glass, it curls up like it's made of rubber.
[00:40:17] Speaker B: Thunk.
[00:40:18] Speaker A: It's such tough glass.
[00:40:20] Speaker B: Yeah, it crashes out. Yeah, man.
[00:40:24] Speaker C: Fucking zombie psycho or zombie overt kill.
[00:40:28] Speaker B: Is frightening as aug it out.
[00:40:30] Speaker C: Goodness, he's gross. Yeah, he's covered in that goop.
[00:40:35] Speaker A: Yeah, he's like a skull, but it's like a fleshy skull.
[00:40:38] Speaker B: It's weird.
[00:40:39] Speaker C: Yeah, he's, like, half reanimated fully, or I guess, like, half regenerated.
[00:40:46] Speaker B: He's, like, super loyal to spawn. Don't call him master. Survive.
[00:40:53] Speaker C: Yeah, he can't survive out of the chamber. I have to put his tubes back in.
[00:40:57] Speaker B: Overt kill.
[00:40:57] Speaker C: Get your tubes, overkill.
[00:41:01] Speaker A: Your tubes are hanging out. And he says, master, they're coming, right? The bad ones are coming.
[00:41:06] Speaker B: And he's like, yeah, but we'll be ready. And then it's a hard cut to Dakota.
[00:41:13] Speaker A: Wonder who's there.
[00:41:14] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:41:16] Speaker A: There's a farmhouse with some good folks who are dead.
[00:41:19] Speaker B: Yeah. Look, at them.
[00:41:20] Speaker C: They got the flies. Like, that rooster is just, like, taking the opportunity to be like, hey.
[00:41:27] Speaker B: I'm.
[00:41:27] Speaker C: The rooster in this house.
[00:41:29] Speaker A: Not a hint house. I'm the captain now.
This rooster is the king of the castle.
[00:41:35] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:36] Speaker C: He says, don't give me corn anymore. I take all your corn.
[00:41:40] Speaker A: And there's these two dead people who are nice people, evidently.
[00:41:43] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:41:43] Speaker B: Never caused any trouble about because they weren't human.
[00:41:48] Speaker A: They were pretending all those years, preparing for the great war to begin.
And at the bottom of the page, you see a cigarello burning.
[00:41:56] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:41:57] Speaker B: And you flip it.
It's gunslinger.
[00:42:01] Speaker A: Spawn killed these people in North Dakota.
[00:42:04] Speaker B: How dare he?
[00:42:05] Speaker A: And there he is in his full glory with his full hat.
[00:42:07] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:42:08] Speaker B: And I love.
[00:42:11] Speaker C: The letters that say gunslinger Spawn.
[00:42:15] Speaker B: Those are cool.
[00:42:16] Speaker C: The little filigree of the a. It's great.
[00:42:20] Speaker A: There's our cowboy.
[00:42:21] Speaker C: It's a good reveal. There's a nice big knife on his hip.
[00:42:25] Speaker B: Yes. Hell, yeah.
[00:42:28] Speaker A: To be continued.
[00:42:30] Speaker C: It says, spawn's power meter is not doing anybody any favors right now.
[00:42:36] Speaker B: No.
[00:42:37] Speaker A: 41. Pretty low. Pretty low.
[00:42:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:42:40] Speaker C: How low can you go, Johnny? Well, we know for a fact that Spawn's been able to go down to.
[00:42:45] Speaker A: Zero, so we know how low.
[00:42:48] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:42:49] Speaker B: Oh, dang it, Johnny.
[00:42:52] Speaker C: I missed a perfect opportunity to say in those orbs that for Psygart and overtkill, amber literally is the color of their energy.
[00:43:02] Speaker A: Because they're in those amber orbs.
[00:43:03] Speaker C: Because they're in those amber orbs.
[00:43:06] Speaker B: Damn it, David.
[00:43:08] Speaker A: Can't believe you fucked that up.
[00:43:09] Speaker C: Jesus. Podcast is over.
I'll submit my headphones and my microphone to you by the end of the.
[00:43:17] Speaker B: Week, which I guess today I'll get.
[00:43:19] Speaker A: My cat to be the co host then.
[00:43:21] Speaker C: At least the cat won't forget the good joke.
[00:43:23] Speaker B: Jeez.
[00:43:25] Speaker A: No, the cat's got great comic timing.
[00:43:28] Speaker C: It'll just be reels of the cat doing a dance on top of the.
[00:43:32] Speaker B: I'd watch that.
[00:43:33] Speaker C: Who the hell am I kidding? I'd watch the fuck out of that.
[00:43:36] Speaker A: The cat messing up my piles of comic books and laughing at me.
[00:43:40] Speaker C: Yeah, or like, they scramble, like, setting up action figures and be. It's like this cat is Spawn bowling. And just like, cat runs into him.
[00:43:51] Speaker A: We get in the back of the issue. No spawning ground.
[00:43:54] Speaker C: Unfortunately, there were a ton of ads in the back of this one.
[00:43:58] Speaker B: Ton of ads.
[00:43:59] Speaker A: There's, like, every spawn trade Paperback that's currently out gets a full page ad.
[00:44:04] Speaker C: And the spawn kills everyone.
[00:44:06] Speaker B: Is there too.
Yes.
[00:44:09] Speaker C: I noticed last night that the little chibby spawn has the big left foot instead of the big right foot.
[00:44:15] Speaker B: There you go.
[00:44:16] Speaker A: That's that suit. It's morphing.
[00:44:18] Speaker C: It's alive.
[00:44:19] Speaker B: It's alive.
[00:44:21] Speaker C: It's like a jello jiggler, only evil.
[00:44:24] Speaker A: Then the back, you got mortal Kombat figures again. And that's pretty much it.
[00:44:27] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:44:30] Speaker C: That was a good time, man.
[00:44:32] Speaker B: I enjoyed that. Yeah.
[00:44:33] Speaker A: Spawn 311. Almost as good as the band 311.
[00:44:37] Speaker C: Maybe better.
Time will tell.
[00:44:51] Speaker A: Next up, we have Gunslinger 21.
[00:44:59] Speaker B: From June 2023, and which I've got. There's two covers, two of them. Chris Stevens and Bret Booth.
And I read.
[00:45:13] Speaker A: I have both, but I have the Bret booth covers, the one that I read and opened.
[00:45:18] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:45:19] Speaker C: I have the Stevens. The Stevens is the only one I got because he was the guest artist that month.
[00:45:26] Speaker B: Pretty cool.
[00:45:27] Speaker C: It's continuing with that green and yellow orange color palette. It's just real good.
[00:45:35] Speaker B: It's real good. I like it.
Yeah, it's got, like, crazy.
[00:45:40] Speaker A: It's almost demon beast thing. It's, like, shooting at it.
[00:45:43] Speaker C: Yeah, it's almost eldritch horror.
[00:45:46] Speaker B: Yeah, definitely.
[00:45:48] Speaker A: And the Bret booth is pretty cool.
[00:45:50] Speaker B: Because it's gunslinger busting through a stained.
[00:45:54] Speaker A: Glass window and just shooting like crazy.
[00:45:56] Speaker C: I totally, totally should have gotten that one. I wonder if that's the same stained glass window that had all the stuff in it, like the mana and the.
[00:46:06] Speaker B: Health chalices.
[00:46:09] Speaker C: From earlier gunslinger when there was the double dealing priest.
[00:46:14] Speaker B: Yeah, pretty cool.
[00:46:15] Speaker A: Both good.
[00:46:16] Speaker B: Pretty cool. Good tall hat. Yeah, real nice hat.
[00:46:21] Speaker C: Both places. The Bret booth hat is just, like, aces, though. It's so tall and skinny.
[00:46:30] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I bet part of the.
[00:46:33] Speaker C: Audition for doing gunslinger art is just draw me the hat. If I don't like your hat, you're not on the book.
[00:46:43] Speaker B: I got to see that hat. Yeah.
[00:46:46] Speaker C: Can you imagine the talking to the toddfather and he's. No, no, the hat's not like this. The hat's like this.
[00:46:51] Speaker A: It's this tall.
[00:46:53] Speaker C: It's like. It's a big hat.
I should see if he has learned to draw the gunslinger video on YouTube, because that would be fun.
[00:47:04] Speaker A: He probably's, like, taller, taller, taller.
[00:47:07] Speaker C: It's like that.
[00:47:08] Speaker A: Make the hat taller.
[00:47:09] Speaker C: It's like that meme of, oh, what's his face.
[00:47:14] Speaker A: Kylo Ren.
[00:47:15] Speaker C: Kylo Ren. Just going more.
[00:47:19] Speaker B: Yeah, more hat.
[00:47:21] Speaker A: His face. Kylo Ren. Hello.
[00:47:24] Speaker C: Ren solo.
I just wanted to call him Adam Driver, and I was like, but it's not just Adam Driver.
[00:47:31] Speaker B: It's Adam driver as Ben Solo, because.
[00:47:36] Speaker C: He'S all by himself.
[00:47:39] Speaker B: He is.
[00:47:41] Speaker A: So we pop that cover open and we got the credits.
[00:47:44] Speaker C: Yeah, we do.
[00:47:45] Speaker A: We got the script plot. This is a double whammy of Todd McFarland issues. Yeah, got the script plot for this one by Tod McFarland as well.
[00:47:52] Speaker B: Art, we got our gunslinger artist, Bret Booth.
[00:47:56] Speaker A: Been doing all the gunslinger so far.
[00:47:58] Speaker B: It's been good.
[00:47:59] Speaker A: Aldosa Corona on ink, Ivan Nunez on colors.
[00:48:04] Speaker C: Colors are real good in this book too, man.
[00:48:08] Speaker A: And Tom or Zachowski.
[00:48:10] Speaker C: Oh, this is a double Tom o episode. Johnny, how often do we get double?
[00:48:12] Speaker A: Double Tom o? Double. Oh, my God, what a day for the day. Spawn con tickets come out, we get a double Todd father and a double Tom o.
[00:48:24] Speaker C: We would maybe even call him the Tom father now. So we got double Tom father. Tom father.
[00:48:31] Speaker A: Tom father.
[00:48:32] Speaker B: I like that.
[00:48:33] Speaker A: We already covered the COVID artist.
[00:48:35] Speaker C: Yes, sure did.
[00:48:36] Speaker B: Sure did.
[00:48:36] Speaker A: Same as it was in 311. We got Tod McFarland as creative director and Thomas Healy as editor in chief.
[00:48:42] Speaker C: Same as it ever was.
[00:48:45] Speaker A: Not forever was, but same as it was the last few years.
[00:48:48] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what I said. Right?
[00:48:51] Speaker A: Same as it ever was.
[00:48:53] Speaker C: Only the last few years exist, right?
[00:48:56] Speaker B: Sure.
[00:48:58] Speaker C: My historical knowledge only goes back, like, six months, and then after that, it's like all of that's just one block of time.
[00:49:07] Speaker B: So.
[00:49:07] Speaker A: Previously in Gunslinger, a change in appearance in the arrival of Dakota starts gunslinger down a new and deadly path.
Short and sweet. That's incorrect use of a comma.
[00:49:20] Speaker C: I mean, it's no less incorrect than the one in 311. The one in 311 was.
[00:49:29] Speaker B: Oh, man. Yeah, that's true.
[00:49:31] Speaker C: Oh, man.
[00:49:31] Speaker A: Yeah, that one was rough, but yeah, so that's pretty much it.
[00:49:34] Speaker B: Like, Dakota showed up and they were.
[00:49:38] Speaker A: Going to ride off into the sunset to go find clown, and we found out the very last second of the issue was her father.
[00:49:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:49:44] Speaker C: And that little dinosaur sneaks into the bathroom and scares the bejesus out of Taylor.
But when you gotta go, you gotta go, Johnny.
[00:49:53] Speaker A: As we know from Jurassic park. See, that's what they should have said instead of the hangover thing.
[00:49:57] Speaker B: He should have said.
Yeah.
[00:50:00] Speaker A: Holy shit. It's like Jurassic park in here.
[00:50:04] Speaker C: I showed you that picture, right, of the Jurassic park experience they had at San Diego Comic Con this year. It was the ruined toilet scene.
[00:50:17] Speaker B: Pretty cool.
[00:50:18] Speaker C: So you could experience being a lawyer for those fleeting few moments at the.
[00:50:24] Speaker B: End of his life.
[00:50:25] Speaker C: Fucking hilarious.
Name a more iconic kill Johnny.
[00:50:29] Speaker B: I'll wait.
[00:50:29] Speaker A: I mean, that's pretty iconic.
[00:50:31] Speaker B: Yeah, it's great.
[00:50:32] Speaker A: You're going to be waiting a long time.
[00:50:34] Speaker C: Yeah, I got a couple of minutes but we start as a lot of gunslinger issues start in media fight.
[00:50:44] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:50:45] Speaker C: And it's not even the full fight. It's just like, the individual pieces. So it's basically just the weapons.
[00:50:54] Speaker B: So this is.
Yeah, you got a gun, a violator.
[00:51:00] Speaker A: A sword with a clown's head with, like, an omen's head flying.
[00:51:04] Speaker B: Yeah, a claw. Another claw.
And then you turn the page, and.
[00:51:12] Speaker A: Then you get a giant two page spread. Everyone just going crazy.
[00:51:18] Speaker C: Yeah.
Taylor's got his little bandana around. He's wielding the sword from the back of a dinosaur, and there's just carnage everywhere.
[00:51:30] Speaker B: And gunslinger shooting a violator.
[00:51:33] Speaker A: Violator's attack of the T. Rex violator, dinosaurs on the ground, clown has just.
[00:51:39] Speaker C: Like, dakota in the air by her throat.
[00:51:42] Speaker B: Wild stuff. It's great.
[00:51:45] Speaker A: And then it zooms in slowly on gunslinger. And the question is, what the hell is happening?
[00:51:50] Speaker C: Yeah, but it's a chaotic mess that seems to include the entire kitchen sink. Dinosaurs, demons, humans, halftweeds, and health bonds.
[00:51:59] Speaker B: This was a show for the kitchen sink.
[00:52:02] Speaker A: This is a show for the centuries. That's hilarious.
Hey, it's a Todd father here. This is a show for the centuries.
[00:52:11] Speaker C: The question is, what the hell is happening?
And how did we get to this point?
[00:52:18] Speaker A: And zooms in on Javy's eyes. He goes, wrong answer, fat man.
[00:52:23] Speaker C: Then we cut to precisely 1 hour and 36 minutes earlier.
[00:52:30] Speaker A: Todd father time.
[00:52:31] Speaker C: Taylor is completely confused.
[00:52:33] Speaker B: I mean, I think we could just.
[00:52:35] Speaker C: Take that as a given now, right?
[00:52:38] Speaker A: That would be like, if I met Dakota, I'd be like, okay, so what's your deal? You got a lot going on. Yeah, dinosaurs. Andrew kind of look like Zoro. What's the deal?
[00:52:48] Speaker C: He's been on enough adventures with Javi that you think he would just learn to just go with the flow, and he's like, this is going to be some wild shit. I know it is.
[00:52:57] Speaker A: No, but that's Taylor. He's always stressed out a little bit.
[00:53:00] Speaker C: Unless he's playing his app game.
[00:53:03] Speaker B: Unless he's playing his app game or.
[00:53:05] Speaker A: Yeah, playing that dinosaur fighting game on his how or getting the quote unquote munchies.
[00:53:14] Speaker C: I like how Javi's catching some shut eye here. And my dad had what we referred to as the magic belly because he would sit down on a chair or a couch, and immediately, there would be a cat that would sleep on it. Like, they'd come out of nowhere. And that's kind of what looks like Javi's got the magic belly going on, and he's just got the dinosaurs sleeping with him.
I like how Taylor says, what the frick, dude?
[00:53:41] Speaker B: What the, uh.
[00:53:47] Speaker C: What the frick? Always reminds me of Elliot from scrubs, because I don't know too many people who actually say, what the frick?
[00:53:54] Speaker B: There's a great YouTube video of a.
[00:53:58] Speaker A: Kid who obviously ordered a bong, like, online, and his mom caught him, made him open it in front of her. Yeah. He's like, what is?
But he keeps going, what the frick?
[00:54:10] Speaker B: What the frick?
[00:54:11] Speaker A: I ordered an Xbox controller. What the frick?
And the mom makes him throw the.
[00:54:17] Speaker B: Bong away, I'm sure. Hilarious.
[00:54:19] Speaker A: Don't order a bong online. Just go to a friendly neighborhood smoke shop.
[00:54:23] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, you're probably not really.
[00:54:27] Speaker C: Going to find many better prices.
For the longest time, up at the corner of Belmont and Clark in Chicago, for all those non Chicago people, there used to be a donut shop there. A dunkin'donuts that they called punkin'donuts. Because it's where the punks always hung out, like, through the. It's hella gentrified now, so.
[00:54:50] Speaker B: Boo.
[00:54:52] Speaker C: But for the longest time, at that one intersection, like, a block radius in every direction from that one intersection, there were, like, six headshots.
And they all stayed in business for years because I guess business was good.
[00:55:12] Speaker B: Johnny, there are a bunch of headshots over.
[00:55:19] Speaker C: Talking to. Because that's over where Chicago comics was. And I was talking to somebody there once, and they were like, yeah, I just bought this thing at the shop. And I was like, hold on, which shop did you buy it from? And they were like, oh, not the one next to us, but the one past the one next to us, right? It's like, jesus.
[00:55:34] Speaker A: Well, Taylor would probably order a bong.
[00:55:36] Speaker B: Online and get caught for it.
[00:55:40] Speaker C: Either that or he would buy it at a store and then immediately get jumped.
[00:55:45] Speaker A: I got pizza grease on this issue.
[00:55:47] Speaker B: Oh, no.
[00:55:49] Speaker A: I was eating some pizza last night.
[00:55:50] Speaker B: And I dripped a little bit.
[00:55:52] Speaker C: Well, that's fine.
[00:55:54] Speaker B: Pizza grease is.
[00:55:56] Speaker C: There are worse things you could have gotten on that comic, Johnny. You could have been grievously injured and gotten some blood on it.
The grievous injury is the worst part there, not the getting blood on your comic books.
[00:56:08] Speaker B: That's fine.
[00:56:09] Speaker C: You can bleed on your comic books.
Kiss did it for you already. But yeah, like, Taylor's. Taylor's, like, trying to wake Javi up and be real quiet about it and.
[00:56:18] Speaker B: Be like, dude, dude, she's playing you. Wake up, God damn it. This is insane.
[00:56:23] Speaker A: And Dakota's just like, what the fuck's.
[00:56:25] Speaker B: Going on over here? Yeah, is there a problem? Nope, I'm good.
So.
[00:56:31] Speaker C: So Dakota's giving him a rundown, and Taylor's just being a brat.
[00:56:37] Speaker A: She's like, we've both been screwed by our dad ads.
[00:56:41] Speaker C: Javi steps in. Javi's, like, the voice of reason.
[00:56:44] Speaker B: He's.
[00:56:47] Speaker C: Like, Taylor, calm down. But also, lady, you need to start giving us reasons to trust you.
You weren't too nice to us the last time we saw.
[00:57:00] Speaker B: Issue three.
[00:57:02] Speaker C: She's like, I know you want to get back to your wife.
[00:57:06] Speaker B: My sister?
Yeah.
[00:57:08] Speaker A: Was she talking to us?
[00:57:09] Speaker B: She's like, you guys think of this?
[00:57:11] Speaker A: His wife? I thought that was funny, because I think probably a lot of people just get confused by a little nod by the Todd Father to.
[00:57:18] Speaker C: I love. I love how small and bold the my sister is. It's great.
[00:57:23] Speaker A: My sister.
[00:57:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:57:24] Speaker A: It's like saying it through gridded teeth. So her basic plan is there is, if we deliver clown to spawn, spawn.
[00:57:31] Speaker B: Will kill him, and I want my dad out of my life, so let's go get him.
[00:57:36] Speaker C: And also let Taylor pop his heritage cherry. Which.
[00:57:40] Speaker A: What does that mean?
[00:57:41] Speaker C: I don't know.
[00:57:43] Speaker A: I read that four times.
[00:57:44] Speaker C: Like, unless she means that he's descendant from this angel dude or this dude who worked with angels and killed a lot of hell spawns. Maybe he gets to kill some hell beings, and that's what his heritage cherry is.
[00:57:57] Speaker B: Or.
[00:57:59] Speaker C: I don't know.
[00:58:00] Speaker B: I don't know what it is. I have no idea what it means.
[00:58:03] Speaker A: And also, I hate that phrase.
[00:58:05] Speaker C: Yeah, it's real gross.
[00:58:07] Speaker B: It's real gross. It's just like, come on. It's like saying even.
[00:58:13] Speaker A: It's just like, virgin cover. Like, anything with that shit.
[00:58:16] Speaker B: I'm just like, yeah, whatever.
[00:58:26] Speaker C: It's a little, eh, we can get over it. We can just call it a non trade dressed an undressed. It's a naked cover, Johnny. That's what it'll be.
[00:58:34] Speaker A: Naked cover. There you go.
[00:58:36] Speaker B: Naked.
[00:58:38] Speaker C: I like referring to plain things as naked. Like, a naked pizza is just a cheese pizza.
[00:58:43] Speaker B: I'm weird. Sure. Sue me.
[00:58:46] Speaker C: And then Taylor thinks he's being smart by being like, you're just going to play us?
And then everybody stops for a full beat, and then she just slaps him right in the face.
[00:59:00] Speaker A: Stops, and does, like, the good, the bad, and the ugly, like, showdown.
[00:59:02] Speaker B: And she's a slap.
She's this. The.
[00:59:13] Speaker C: Her reaction to this reminds me a lot of, there was a big fight between the White Sox and the Guardians last weekend, because apparently Tim Anderson might have pushed somebody off of second base.
[00:59:29] Speaker B: In order to get them out.
And then by the time another guardian.
[00:59:35] Speaker C: Came around, he was very pissed. And just like, as soon as he slid into second, got up and started fighting with him, it cleared the benches three times.
[00:59:45] Speaker B: Johnny.
[00:59:46] Speaker C: This fight restarted twice after it was already. Tim Anderson got his ass knocked out, though.
[00:59:52] Speaker B: It was sad.
[00:59:56] Speaker C: All that to say. In the follow up, they talked to Copec, who was the White Sox pitcher for that game, and they were like, what happened? And he's like, I don't know. We're not playing really good baseball, but we'll be damned if we're going to take any bullshit from a team that's also not playing 500.
We might not be doing well, but you also suck, so don't be bringing that shit over here.
Hilarious.
[01:00:25] Speaker B: Hilarious.
Yeah.
[01:00:28] Speaker C: You should look for that fight on YouTube or something.
[01:00:31] Speaker B: Just Tim Anderson.
Rodriguez.
[01:00:35] Speaker C: Is that who it was? Gabriel Rodriguez or Martinez?
[01:00:39] Speaker B: Sure.
I don't know.
[01:00:40] Speaker C: The Guardians players.
[01:00:41] Speaker B: I don't know.
[01:00:42] Speaker C: It might be Martinez.
[01:00:45] Speaker B: Yeah, it's wild.
It's wild.
And then finally, Taylor asked the question.
[01:00:51] Speaker A: We'Ve all been wondering, what's the deal with them? Dinosaurs are an od thing to be hanging out with. And we're like, yeah, it's true.
[01:00:57] Speaker B: They kind of are.
[01:00:58] Speaker C: And Javi says, what's a dinosaur? It actually kind of looks like in that panel. The little patch on his arm is in the form of a question mark.
[01:01:09] Speaker B: What's it? Jesus.
[01:01:10] Speaker C: It's the thing we wrote in on. You mean demons? They're not demons. They're dinosaurs. What's a dinosaur?
[01:01:18] Speaker A: Three times. And it's hilarious that they never talked about that. He's from the civil War. They never talked about, like, Taylor doesn't.
[01:01:26] Speaker C: Realize it, and he's like, oh, that's why you can't.
It's just like, everybody thinks they're having fun, and then Taylor calls Javi dumb.
[01:01:38] Speaker B: And Javi does not enjoy that. He, like, pulls gun on him.
[01:01:43] Speaker C: He instantly turns and says, who you calling dumb?
[01:01:47] Speaker B: Click.
Taylor.
[01:01:51] Speaker C: Taylor just feels so unjustifiably confident, like, all the time. It's hilarious.
He keeps getting put in his place, but he doesn't learn.
[01:02:06] Speaker A: Yeah, he's just a happy go lucky.
He'll say what's on his mind.
[01:02:11] Speaker C: He just wants to drink beer, eat pizza, and play video games, and that's whatever gets him there the fastest. That's what he's going to do.
[01:02:19] Speaker B: Honestly.
[01:02:20] Speaker A: That's admirable. It's so funny that people used to shit on someone that would admire to do that in this day and age.
[01:02:25] Speaker B: Hey, go for it.
[01:02:26] Speaker C: Oh, man. At least you've found the calling of what you are to do versus wandering around and being like, what the fuck.
[01:02:33] Speaker B: Am I doing with anything?
[01:02:36] Speaker A: You're not hurting anybody, that's for sure.
[01:02:38] Speaker B: Man.
[01:02:41] Speaker C: This current lack of I want literature because people have realized that, oh, hey, if I want, that's what I should work toward.
And fuck anything that gets in the way of that.
[01:02:54] Speaker B: And that's cool.
It's awesome.
[01:02:59] Speaker C: Like, if shit's not working out, then don't just tough through it.
Find something that works.
[01:03:07] Speaker B: Change it.
Mean, I understand they're going to find.
[01:03:11] Speaker A: Something that works as a get dinosaur.
[01:03:16] Speaker C: They get nature's boat, Johnny.
[01:03:18] Speaker B: That's what that is.
[01:03:19] Speaker A: A mosasaurus.
[01:03:21] Speaker B: Yeah. Look at this.
[01:03:22] Speaker C: Look at those big old.
[01:03:23] Speaker B: Find a point on it.
[01:03:25] Speaker A: Like, he starts as a little baby.
[01:03:27] Speaker B: Little tiny.
[01:03:29] Speaker C: I like how when she releases him, like, he does a belly flop.
[01:03:33] Speaker B: He's like, belly flop.
Sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep. Yeah, they're cute. Look like little kittens. Yeah.
[01:03:41] Speaker A: And he comes out and boom. Yeah, it's a big mosasaurus. She leaves one of the dinosaurs with Taylor.
[01:03:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:03:46] Speaker A: And they're off to Omega island.
[01:03:50] Speaker C: They pass through the cloaking force field, in quotes.
[01:03:54] Speaker B: Cloaking force field.
[01:03:58] Speaker C: And then Dakota lays out her father's strategy.
And even though she knows what he does and how he does it, they still fall victim to clowns attack.
[01:04:13] Speaker A: Hey, it's clown, man. He's clown.
[01:04:15] Speaker B: Yeah. He's been around since the beginning, man.
[01:04:19] Speaker A: He knows what's up.
[01:04:20] Speaker C: He's been telling strange stories to cats for years.
[01:04:23] Speaker B: For years.
[01:04:25] Speaker A: And they get there and they're, like.
[01:04:26] Speaker B: Walking up, and then all of a sudden, Dakota gets zapped.
[01:04:32] Speaker A: It's like she's getting zapped with electricity, but she can't move.
[01:04:35] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:04:36] Speaker C: And then it draws her towards this gigantic skull door.
[01:04:43] Speaker A: I bet this comes back later, too.
[01:04:45] Speaker B: Because it says, but as much as.
[01:04:46] Speaker A: You likes playing games, you're not the only one that can set a trap. I've been prepared.
[01:04:49] Speaker C: Yeah, that's a great little bit. It's so good.
[01:04:56] Speaker B: Man.
[01:04:56] Speaker C: You should take this issue to Tomo and get him to sign, like, right there, because that's a good little bit.
[01:05:00] Speaker B: Of good little bit of lettering. Sign right there, please.
[01:05:05] Speaker C: There's white space around it, too, so we can.
[01:05:10] Speaker B: Nice.
[01:05:10] Speaker A: I already got pizza on it, David.
[01:05:13] Speaker B: Hey, you know what?
[01:05:14] Speaker C: I bet Tomo likes pizza, too. You could get him to write, I like pizza, tomo.
[01:05:19] Speaker A: I could get him to eat a pizza and just drip his pizza grease onto.
[01:05:25] Speaker C: Could be. You could be pizza juice buddies.
[01:05:27] Speaker B: He'll probably be hungry.
[01:05:28] Speaker A: He'll be at sponcon signing all day. I'll just walk up and be like, hey, could you.
[01:05:34] Speaker C: Hey, will you sign this for a slice of pizza? Slices up. So then Dakota sends Javi to the basement to look for the black box, because apparently Omega island is a crashed airplane.
But then just at that moment, clown and violator and some omens bust through the door.
[01:05:55] Speaker B: Another great little picture there.
[01:05:59] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:05:59] Speaker A: Clown with a violator behind him. All the little omens. Awesome.
[01:06:02] Speaker C: The word traitorous is awesome, man. Tom o's traitorous. He's firing on all cylinders on this issue.
[01:06:09] Speaker B: It's so good.
Yeah.
[01:06:13] Speaker A: Like, a clown's got, like, a chain belt all wrapped around him.
[01:06:17] Speaker C: It's wrapped around his waist and his arms and his throat.
You know, that he just randomly chokes himself as he walks around and is.
[01:06:26] Speaker A: Like, yeah, or someone tries to steal his wallet.
[01:06:34] Speaker C: It would be great if it were revealed, but this was just clown's wallet chain, but it got imbued with hellpower and just, like, wouldn't stop growing, so he had to. It wouldn't stop growing, and he couldn't remove his wallet from it.
[01:06:48] Speaker B: So he says to keep it.
[01:06:53] Speaker A: Keep wrapping it around himself.
[01:06:54] Speaker B: Oh, man.
My traitorous daughter.
[01:07:00] Speaker C: And then clown starts telling Dakota how disappointed he is in her.
[01:07:07] Speaker A: He said, how disappointed? Your mother.
[01:07:10] Speaker B: Who?
[01:07:10] Speaker A: I wonder who that is.
[01:07:12] Speaker C: He drops the biggest your mom joke, and she just bats it right back at him.
Your mother would be so disappointed in you.
[01:07:19] Speaker B: Funny, that's what she said about you.
[01:07:24] Speaker C: Dakota definitely wins that one.
[01:07:28] Speaker A: I wonder who the mom is who had sex with clown. It's like when you find out Palpatine is a grandfather because he fucked Palpatine.
[01:07:35] Speaker C: I mean, if the real life happenings of certain people being able to use their power in ways to coerce other people to do other things, there's something.
Something about just the power they have.
[01:07:57] Speaker B: Makes it so that way there.
[01:08:01] Speaker C: I'm trying to get at it. I do not think Dakota's mom was a willing mother.
[01:08:05] Speaker B: Oh, my God.
[01:08:07] Speaker C: I honestly think that's the only way clown would have had a child. And also, we've met clown. You've met clown in the animated series. I don't think he gives a hoot about fucking anything.
Doesn't give a hoot about consent, about other people's well being or feelings.
[01:08:28] Speaker B: Sure doesn't.
Palpatine.
[01:08:31] Speaker A: His kid was a strand cast it was a clone of him.
The problem is, they could clone people, but they were not force sensitive, so.
[01:08:42] Speaker B: He was completely blank of the force.
[01:08:46] Speaker A: So therefore useless as, like, a host body. But then he had a daughter named Ray.
[01:08:51] Speaker B: Yeah. Nice.
[01:08:52] Speaker C: So Ray is half clone.
[01:08:54] Speaker B: Nice.
Yes.
[01:08:55] Speaker A: Rey is half cloned.
[01:08:57] Speaker C: I have totally forgotten almost everything that happened in that movie, except for the cinebitification of Palpatine, which was dope.
[01:09:07] Speaker A: All that background I just gave is not in the movie. It's in a book I read.
[01:09:10] Speaker C: Oh, Jesus.
That's Star wars, though. That's Star wars.
[01:09:16] Speaker A: Yep. You got to read the book. If you wanted to make.
[01:09:19] Speaker B: Like.
[01:09:19] Speaker A: If you're really wanting to get nerdy about it, make it make sense.
[01:09:21] Speaker B: You gotta read some book. How dare you.
[01:09:25] Speaker C: Hey, fat man, I've embarrassed you once before, is what Javi says to clown.
You read that in a book? You read it in this book?
[01:09:35] Speaker B: Yeah. And then.
[01:09:39] Speaker C: Clown'S just like, so tell me, how's this going to go down? You and Dakota are going to jump me together? Was that your plan?
[01:09:45] Speaker A: And by the way, your little trick of swapping, because last time he, like.
[01:09:48] Speaker B: Swapped some of the guards. Yeah.
[01:09:51] Speaker A: He's no one else around.
[01:09:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:09:54] Speaker C: And then Javi just pulls out pocket dinosaur. It's like, pocket dinosaur.
[01:09:59] Speaker A: I have a dinosaur in my pocket.
[01:10:01] Speaker C: Clown's just, you know, you guys are dumb. And Javi's like, hey, guess what. You don't know your daughter very well because all Dakota needs is a brief moment to contact her dinosaur friends and turn them into change.
[01:10:17] Speaker B: Oh, look at that.
[01:10:18] Speaker C: Changes them right into a big old, big old T Rex there. Or is that an allosaurus?
[01:10:22] Speaker B: Big Trex looks.
[01:10:25] Speaker A: Might be an allosaurus. Looks a little more like an allosaurus, I think.
[01:10:27] Speaker C: Yeah, because I think those spikes along the back of the neck are more allosaurusy.
[01:10:32] Speaker B: Yeah, and, like, spawn is Al, so.
[01:10:35] Speaker A: That'S probably an alosaurus.
I wonder if that spawn Trex. We've been saying spawn t. Rex all this whole time.
[01:10:44] Speaker B: It's an.
[01:10:47] Speaker C: Needs to. We need a payoff on that. We need Al to find the Alice bonus.
Al Spanis, al Spanosaurus. And then we need the action figure. Jesus Christ.
Like, the second those go on pre sale, I'm gonna buy probably two of them.
[01:11:05] Speaker B: Get on it.
[01:11:06] Speaker C: Todfather, we need the spawn dinosaur figure.
And so there's going to be this massive kaiju style throwdown between big old dinosaur and big old violator.
Then we just cut to Taylor being bored underneath the palm tree.
[01:11:29] Speaker A: Digging through the dirt, literally. He's so bored.
[01:11:31] Speaker C: Taylor is definitely not Ken because he doesn't.
[01:11:36] Speaker A: He's not good at beach.
[01:11:38] Speaker B: He's not good at it.
[01:11:39] Speaker C: He can't beach anything off.
[01:11:41] Speaker B: He's just bored.
[01:11:44] Speaker A: He digs around on the ground and finds a skull from Gunslinger's hat.
[01:11:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:11:48] Speaker C: I don't know if it's a skull from Gunslinger's hat or if it's just a skull, like on Gunslinger's hat.
[01:11:55] Speaker A: So it's a tiny skull just there.
[01:11:57] Speaker B: Yeah, but it says.
[01:11:59] Speaker A: Well, yeah, because, you know why? Because it makes a little sense. It says, then accidentally comes upon missing skull. That looks eerily like those on Gunslinger's hat.
[01:12:09] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know.
[01:12:10] Speaker C: So maybe it fell off. Maybe it's a little bit of necroplasm.
It's like a necroplasm horcrux.
[01:12:18] Speaker B: That gunslinger has a rock in its mouth. Yeah, it does. It's bringing him rocks.
[01:12:26] Speaker C: They might be playing a fetch. That might be what they're doing.
[01:12:29] Speaker A: Oh, he is playing fetch. Oh, my God. What a good detail.
[01:12:32] Speaker C: Awesome.
And then he's just like the Dino. I wonder if anything exciting is happening on the island.
[01:12:40] Speaker A: And then there's just, like, the violator rushing at him.
[01:12:44] Speaker C: If he only knew how big an understatement that was.
Oh, I love sweet, these little omens, just, like, hanging onto these tusks, having.
[01:12:55] Speaker A: Such a good time.
[01:12:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeehaw.
[01:12:58] Speaker A: Love that violator.
[01:13:00] Speaker C: 1272 is our power meter for good old hobby here.
[01:13:06] Speaker B: Not bad, not bad.
[01:13:09] Speaker C: That was so much fun.
So much fun.
We got a spawning ground.
[01:13:16] Speaker A: It was a really heartwarming letter from.
[01:13:18] Speaker B: Brandon M. Yeah, it's.
[01:13:23] Speaker C: Mr. Healy himself says it's the longest letter he's ever received, and he also edited it down, so this isn't even the whole letter.
[01:13:35] Speaker B: So.
[01:13:35] Speaker C: Man, I would love to see the full letter, just to see how much longer it is.
[01:13:41] Speaker A: It's hilarious because Thomas has to say this isn't a real contest, by the way, because he doesn't want people to send him giant long letters. That's hilarious.
[01:13:54] Speaker C: It's real fun.
[01:13:55] Speaker B: It's a real good spawn fan for a long time.
[01:14:01] Speaker C: It's like being a spawn fan. It's in his blood because his mom was a spawn fan and got him into it as a little kid.
Yeah, that's awesome. He's got the pogs.
[01:14:11] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. That's pretty cool.
[01:14:15] Speaker C: Two people I work with were born in 1997 and 1999 and don't know what the hell pogs are. And I had to try to explain them, and they were like, that doesn't make any sense. And I was like, it doesn't have to make sense.
[01:14:25] Speaker B: They're pogs.
[01:14:27] Speaker A: It doesn't make sense.
[01:14:28] Speaker B: But that's what they are.
[01:14:30] Speaker C: Then he also submits some art.
[01:14:32] Speaker B: That's some kick ass art. Look at that.
Yeah, it's really good.
[01:14:37] Speaker C: It's a spawn with the green smoke coming out of his eyes and.
[01:14:42] Speaker B: The.
[01:14:43] Speaker C: Negative space on the chest of the suit turns into like.
[01:14:50] Speaker B: A little vignette.
[01:14:51] Speaker C: Of malbolgia versus spawn standing on top of a little pyramid.
[01:14:56] Speaker B: It's awesome.
No, that's great.
[01:15:00] Speaker C: Got. It's also got his gravestone in there, too.
A lot of good detail.
[01:15:07] Speaker B: It's a good bit. It's a good bit. No, it's good.
[01:15:10] Speaker A: And there's another one above it by Ronnie.
[01:15:12] Speaker B: It looks kind of like a pencil of violator.
[01:15:16] Speaker A: Looks really cool.
[01:15:17] Speaker B: Oh, man, it's so detailed. It's amazing.
[01:15:21] Speaker A: So detailed.
[01:15:22] Speaker B: So many little guys on there. Yeah, that one's cool. Both good.
[01:15:26] Speaker C: Yeah, we get the advertisements for the.
[01:15:30] Speaker B: Other titles and then the classics and the toys. And that's gunslinger 21, Johnny.
[01:15:38] Speaker A: That's a full issue there, baby.
[01:15:41] Speaker C: Yeah, it's a.
[01:15:43] Speaker B: Man, it was a hoot.
[01:15:45] Speaker A: We got all kinds of creatures, multiple dinosaurs. The violator.
[01:15:48] Speaker B: It was a good issue.
[01:15:50] Speaker C: Just so much fun.
It's got that crazy zaniness and just so much energy that we always look forward to in a gunslinger.
[01:16:01] Speaker A: Well, we're already talking about it, so we might as well just. Well, I don't want to steal your line.
[01:16:05] Speaker B: Oh, no.
[01:16:05] Speaker C: I was going to say.
[01:16:06] Speaker A: Please.
[01:16:06] Speaker C: I was going to say while we're talking about all the creatures that appeared inside this issue, we should probably also find some puppies and rate them.
[01:16:15] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies.
[01:16:20] Speaker C: They're all good dogs. They're good dogs, Brent.
[01:16:22] Speaker B: These are both good dogs. Yeah, man.
[01:16:27] Speaker C: These dogs will hunt, let me tell you.
[01:16:32] Speaker B: The dog will hunt. The dog will hunt.
[01:16:35] Speaker A: Are you quoting Texas Chainsaw massacre too?
That's just a saying.
[01:16:40] Speaker C: I'm quoting the snippet of that that appears in that Primus song.
[01:16:46] Speaker A: Oh, is it from Texas Chainsaw two though, I bet.
[01:16:48] Speaker B: Probably.
[01:16:50] Speaker A: Is it someone screaming, dog will hunt?
[01:16:52] Speaker B: Yeah, it's from Texas Chainsaw two. Great movie. One of my favorite fucking movies.
[01:16:56] Speaker C: I don't know if I've seen Texas Chainsaw two.
[01:16:58] Speaker B: Really? Yeah.
Oh, man.
[01:17:01] Speaker A: You should watch it almost as evil Dead one is evil Dead two. Texas Chainsaw two is evil is to Texas Chainsaw one. Because it's like a wasany. It's like, what if Texas Chainsaw one had a giant budget and was a comedy?
[01:17:17] Speaker C: Oh, nice.
[01:17:18] Speaker B: Because, yeah.
[01:17:22] Speaker C: When I watched Texas Chainsaw for the.
[01:17:24] Speaker B: First time, I guess I had my.
[01:17:27] Speaker C: Expectations up too much and I did not enjoy it as much as I felt that I should have as a person who really.
[01:17:34] Speaker B: I love them. Wow. Yeah.
I don't know.
[01:17:39] Speaker A: I saw it in theater and it's quite an experience.
[01:17:44] Speaker C: It's kind of like.
[01:17:49] Speaker B: I hate to.
[01:17:51] Speaker C: Rag on our boy this way, but trying to watch Halloween now is very.
[01:17:58] Speaker B: Difficult for me because it's like the.
[01:18:03] Speaker C: Er, text for slasher films.
[01:18:06] Speaker B: Right.
[01:18:07] Speaker C: But it doesn't have everything that I've come to expect from slasher films because everything that's come since has built upon it.
[01:18:15] Speaker B: And it just doesn't really do it.
[01:18:18] Speaker C: For me as much as I think it should.
[01:18:21] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[01:18:22] Speaker A: I love Texas Chainsaw. For me, it feels like peeking into, like, fucking hell.
[01:18:27] Speaker B: I don't know, that last 30 minutes.
[01:18:30] Speaker A: And then when she escapes out the.
[01:18:32] Speaker C: Window, it's just so maybe I should give it another watch because I did watch it on. Oh, jeez. What was the site that I watched? So I watched it for free on the Internet at, like, YukaTv or something like that.
It was very low quality and I had to let it buffer for 30 minutes before I could watch even five minutes of it without it starting and stopping. So I guess I owe it a rewatch, don't I?
[01:19:01] Speaker A: Yeah, I'd say so.
[01:19:03] Speaker B: I think it's a classic and just.
[01:19:07] Speaker A: It'S one of those things that's just like peering into a nightmare to me. Like the Blair witch project or the Exorcist or something.
[01:19:14] Speaker B: It's freaky geeky.
[01:19:16] Speaker A: But the second one, Texas Chainsaw two really funny and crazy.
[01:19:21] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Hell yeah.
[01:19:22] Speaker A: Love them both equally. Just like I love both these issues equally.
[01:19:25] Speaker B: Yes.
[01:19:25] Speaker A: And rating the puppies. First up, we had spawn 311.
We've got kind of building towards some kind of team action. He's going to get Jim Downing. We got Carlo Barberry for the first time.
[01:19:40] Speaker B: I would have give it four spiky.
[01:19:45] Speaker A: Jim downing hair because he changed into his spiky form in the.
[01:19:50] Speaker C: Give it four. I'm going to give it four beef caked. Jimmy Olsen's.
[01:19:56] Speaker A: That guy at the beginning.
[01:19:57] Speaker C: Yeah, it's great.
It feels like this is the point that takes us from what Spawn was around 300 to where we knew it when we got a hold of it.
[01:20:12] Speaker A: Not only just feels like coming home.
[01:20:14] Speaker B: Yeah. So not only is the art what.
[01:20:17] Speaker C: We'Re used to, for a new spawn book. But it also feels like this is kind of the turning point where a lot of the stories we have now hinge more on this than they did on like issue 300 or so.
[01:20:31] Speaker A: Right? It's starting to all come together.
[01:20:33] Speaker B: Yeah, pretty cool.
[01:20:35] Speaker A: And the second one was Gunslinger 21.
Just a phantasmagoria of a battle and just like a hoot. Hilarious slapping taylor.
[01:20:47] Speaker C: Yeah, so much.
So much drama, so much bombast. So much humor.
[01:20:54] Speaker A: Drama, so much parental stuff.
[01:20:57] Speaker C: So much poorly written narration, but still just a blast.
[01:21:01] Speaker A: Yeah, awful narration, but just like so much fun to go through.
[01:21:06] Speaker B: I'm going to give it four slaps.
[01:21:09] Speaker C: Four slaps. That's a good one.
It left its mark on you.
[01:21:13] Speaker A: It left its mark on me.
[01:21:15] Speaker B: Nice.
[01:21:15] Speaker A: Just like my pizza did, too.
[01:21:18] Speaker C: I'm going to give it four and a half. Playing fetches with a dinosaur, Johnny, that was pretty cool.
[01:21:22] Speaker A: Little detail. I like that. This warmed my heart a little bit.
[01:21:25] Speaker C: This is like no shade to the Todd father when we say poorly written narration. But this is kind of the thing that if you've got lower quality movies, if the material itself isn't very good, if the actors just throw themselves in it completely, it can work. But if they have any trepidation at all, it makes all of the issues just glaringly obvious. And this is a thing that if you just throw yourself into it, it has issues. So what?
[01:22:00] Speaker B: It's fun as most important.
[01:22:04] Speaker A: That's a good way to put it because that movie I've talked about a.
[01:22:07] Speaker B: Few times on here and on Malbol's.
[01:22:10] Speaker A: Monday, but Miami connection, it's like this.
[01:22:12] Speaker B: Really low budget kung fu martial arts.
[01:22:17] Speaker A: Movie, I guess taekwondo martial arts movie.
[01:22:19] Speaker B: To be more accurate.
[01:22:21] Speaker A: But actors just throw themselves into it and are so like, they believe it, man, and they want it. And that's what makes it so good. And I feel like this is just Todd McFarland. He throws in the kitchen sink, like he says in the narration, and he.
[01:22:35] Speaker B: Believes it and the characters believe it and they're in it and it just makes it this pulp b movie extract.
[01:22:44] Speaker A: If you look at. Look at this, it's dinosaurs fighting demons. Like, if you don't think that's pulp b movie shit, this isn't like prestige television here, guys.
If you want that, go to Kingspawn.
[01:22:55] Speaker C: This is the stuff that you accidentally started day drinking earlier than you meant to and you needed something to distract you so that way the world doesn't spin out of control. Pop this on and it's great.
[01:23:09] Speaker A: It's good to see clown again, too. I always like to see clown.
[01:23:12] Speaker C: Yeah, it's always a good time when clown.
[01:23:15] Speaker A: I always like evil clowns. I mean, I like them, but they're cool, I guess. I do like them. I like Pennywise. I like the Joker. I like clown.
[01:23:25] Speaker C: It's a good trope.
[01:23:26] Speaker A: I don't like, clowns are inherently scary. Yeah, you don't think so? Oh, you're a clown fan. You're a clown fan.
[01:23:33] Speaker C: I like clowns.
[01:23:34] Speaker B: Clowns are cool.
[01:23:35] Speaker A: Yeah, clowns are cool.
I always thought they're kind of scary.
[01:23:39] Speaker C: The only problem I have with clowns is when people then think they're super badass and cool for dressing up as a scary clown for Halloween and then take that as license to just be dicks to people.
That's the thing I don't like about clowns.
It's like a lot of things where the thing itself is ruined by the fans of the thing.
[01:24:00] Speaker A: Well, I don't like edgy memes with the Joker in it either.
[01:24:04] Speaker B: I don't know. The Joker, that's a complicated thing.
[01:24:08] Speaker A: Yeah, which is a long way of saying, too, because we're going to talk about him. We're going to talk a lot about.
[01:24:16] Speaker C: That clown prince of.
[01:24:17] Speaker B: Huh? The clown prince of crime.
[01:24:19] Speaker A: I've got the DC multiverse Dark Knight.
[01:24:21] Speaker B: Trilogy, the Joker baby.
[01:24:24] Speaker A: I'm the Joker baby.
[01:24:26] Speaker C: They've got the Joker babies. Is this like the Muppet babies?
[01:24:29] Speaker A: No, it's because it's. Remember the Joker, David?
[01:24:32] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:24:33] Speaker A: The Joker's catchphrase is, I know I'm the Joker baby.
[01:24:35] Speaker C: Yeah, just like I'm the Joker now, bitch. You got Joker.
[01:24:39] Speaker A: Yeah, he just says, I'm the Joker baby all the time. That's all he does. Joker Heath Ledger walks on the screen and goes, I'm the Joker, baby.
But yeah, I have the Heath ledger Joker here.
[01:24:51] Speaker B: And also, more importantly, complete bane.
[01:24:58] Speaker A: So I'm going to be opening up this Joker from McFarland Toys.
[01:25:03] Speaker B: Very excited.
[01:25:04] Speaker A: Long way of saying it's time for Todd's toy talk.
All right, so, yeah, this is the last of my four dark Knight figures. So I get the bonus bane.
[01:25:25] Speaker C: It's like, buy four, get one free.
[01:25:27] Speaker B: It's in the classic DC multiverse packaging. Pretty standard.
[01:25:35] Speaker A: Bust out my pocket knife here.
[01:25:40] Speaker B: We got. Yeah, see the Joker, like, I don't know, David. Been co opted by a lot of.
Yeah, you know what I mean?
[01:25:50] Speaker C: I know exactly what you mean. Because, Johnny, we live in a society.
[01:25:55] Speaker A: We live in a society. And I like the Dark Knight, and I liked Joker. I thought Joker was pretty good.
[01:26:01] Speaker C: Yeah, he's another one of those has been ruined by his fans. You're not supposed to root for the Joker. If you are rooting for the Joker, you have taken it the wrong way and are doing it wrong.
That's not gatekeeping. You're not supposed to like the Joker.
[01:26:17] Speaker B: He's supposed to be.
[01:26:18] Speaker A: You didn't like him as a villain.
[01:26:19] Speaker C: He's supposed to be an unpredictable, unlikable badass. Not badass, because badass implies good asshole. There we go. An unlikable, unpredictable asshole who fucks stuff up for Batman, because Batman likes things ordered and in a certain way.
[01:26:34] Speaker B: And that's why the Joker is his.
[01:26:37] Speaker C: Greatest foil, because the Joker is just, like, loosey goosey and fuck shit up for no reason.
And Batman's like, you need intention. You must do things for a purpose. And Joker's purpose is to just cause chaos.
[01:26:53] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know.
[01:26:57] Speaker A: So I'm going to open this.
[01:26:58] Speaker B: Okay. Awesome.
[01:27:00] Speaker A: Here we go.
[01:27:01] Speaker C: Haven't had a rant in a while. That was really good.
[01:27:05] Speaker A: I don't know. I just lost my train of thought.
[01:27:07] Speaker C: Oh, no, it's fine.
[01:27:08] Speaker B: That plastic smells good.
[01:27:11] Speaker C: Does it smell like. What year was it made last year? Does it smell like last year?
[01:27:16] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it was made this year.
[01:27:19] Speaker C: Smell notes of lingering 2022 along with notes of lingering.
[01:27:27] Speaker B: No, it smells good.
[01:27:28] Speaker A: Let me bust out these scissors here.
[01:27:29] Speaker B: Got to cut these little plastic, guys. I remember how meteoric and epic Heath.
[01:27:36] Speaker A: Ledger's performance was when it first.
[01:27:40] Speaker B: I mean, it just took everyone by.
[01:27:41] Speaker A: Surprise and blew everyone away.
[01:27:43] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:27:46] Speaker B: Oh, it is.
[01:27:47] Speaker A: Yeah. Bust him out.
[01:27:48] Speaker B: Ooh, this is a good figure.
[01:27:51] Speaker A: Looks a lot like Heath Ledger, actually, I think.
[01:27:54] Speaker C: Nice. Has he asked you if you want to know how he got those scars?
[01:27:58] Speaker B: He's about to. Nice. Oh, yeah.
[01:28:01] Speaker A: He's got the perfect hand. I can put that big shotgun I.
[01:28:04] Speaker B: Got from the McFarland accessory packs.
[01:28:10] Speaker A: Because he doesn't come with a gun.
[01:28:12] Speaker C: They have a pre order for another accessory pack coming out that has, like, space guns. It looks so cool, like ray gun.
[01:28:20] Speaker A: Really?
[01:28:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:28:22] Speaker C: There was an advertisement for it on Instagram not too long ago.
[01:28:27] Speaker B: Oh, cool.
[01:28:27] Speaker A: There's ray guns in the one I got, but maybe it's a different one. Maybe there's more ray guns.
[01:28:32] Speaker B: Maybe.
That's cool. I got to check that out. I love the accessory pack.
Oh, man.
[01:28:39] Speaker A: Yeah, this is a cool figure. He's got, like, a gold chain, but.
[01:28:41] Speaker B: It'S, like, made out of rope for his pocket watch. I guess yeah, he's got his three piece suit on.
Yeah, he looks cool and grungy hair. Nice.
[01:28:56] Speaker A: Comes with a big pile of money, like a stand, like. Because that one scene where he burns all the money.
[01:29:02] Speaker B: He comes with a big pile of.
[01:29:04] Speaker A: Money you can stand him on.
[01:29:05] Speaker B: It's pretty cool. Nice.
[01:29:06] Speaker C: We're going to have to make you some fake flames so that way he can be standing on the burning money.
[01:29:11] Speaker B: I'll just put on an Instagram filter of the.
[01:29:14] Speaker C: Guess. I guess that's one way to do it.
[01:29:18] Speaker B: No, that's a great figure.
[01:29:20] Speaker A: Best of all, he comes with Bane's head so I can complete Bane.
[01:29:25] Speaker B: Nice.
Should I go get Bane and complete him?
[01:29:29] Speaker C: I mean, I feel you would be doing a disservice if we didn't.
[01:29:34] Speaker B: Okay, hold on. Give me the 1 second.
[01:29:35] Speaker A: I'm going to grab Bane. I forgot to bring him in the closet.
[01:29:37] Speaker B: Hold on.
[01:29:37] Speaker C: You left Bane out in the cold, man.
If you're cold, he's cold, bring him know you need to feed that bane.
[01:29:47] Speaker B: The bane's got to eat.
[01:29:48] Speaker C: He's a big boy.
[01:29:49] Speaker B: He's a growing boy.
[01:29:51] Speaker A: All right, so I got my bane figure here. I'm busting into this package because the joker comes with Bane's hands, of which there are three varieties. So six hands.
[01:30:02] Speaker C: Nice.
[01:30:03] Speaker A: And ahead. I'm going to bust out the head.
I'm attaching Bane's head.
[01:30:10] Speaker B: Attach, attach it a little hard. Hold on.
It's hard to pop in there. Hold on, hold on. I can't get it. David.
[01:30:20] Speaker C: Oh, no.
[01:30:21] Speaker B: Johnny can't get the head in.
Oh, my God.
[01:30:24] Speaker C: Push, Johnny, push.
[01:30:25] Speaker B: Push.
[01:30:27] Speaker C: You can have to go visit a chiropractor to get his alignment right.
[01:30:32] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, I really can't. I don't know if I'm sweaty because.
[01:30:34] Speaker B: I'm in this closet.
[01:30:37] Speaker C: We'll pretend that you did it.
[01:30:39] Speaker A: Hold on. No, I did.
[01:30:40] Speaker B: Hold on.
There we go. Nice. Did it. Nice.
All right. Bane's head is. Oh, but it's backward.
[01:30:51] Speaker A: Oh, no, it's fine, it's fine. It's normal. Let me just pick out some hands.
[01:30:56] Speaker C: Which hands you going?
[01:30:57] Speaker A: We have a complete bane.
We're going to get up a gun hand.
[01:31:06] Speaker B: Nice.
And I'm going to put in a pointing hand. Nice. So he can point.
[01:31:12] Speaker C: He's going to point at what he's shooting at.
[01:31:14] Speaker A: Yeah, he's going to go out, shoot that.
[01:31:17] Speaker C: It's like finger guns, only real gun like that.
[01:31:23] Speaker B: There he is. Bane. Nice.
[01:31:25] Speaker A: He's out there giving speeches, telling people.
[01:31:28] Speaker B: Gotham, let me help you.
Oh, man. Yep.
[01:31:36] Speaker A: Cool.
[01:31:36] Speaker B: Awesome.
[01:31:37] Speaker A: Sweet. So basically, I got two figures there. I got Joker and I got Bane here.
[01:31:40] Speaker C: Hell, yeah. That's a twofer.
[01:31:43] Speaker A: If you want to see these toys, it'll be up on our instagram when this episode posts. I'll have Bane and Joker on there. Our instagram is regarding spawnpod.
While you're over there, we always like to every week highlight a friend or someone that's been really supportive to us in the small community.
[01:32:00] Speaker C: And somebody this week we'd like to shout out has also hella pictures of toys that are very cool. They got a lot of the McFarland figures, just in general.
And, you know, they've got those really nice Hellraiser series toys up there, too. But it's zombie disturbed. All one word. Yeah, zombie disturbed. They got great photos of some great figures.
They're posting pictures of the fact that they got the dvd of the original fright night, which, hell, yeah, that movie kicks ass.
[01:32:42] Speaker B: Yes, it does. Yeah, it's just some cool shit. Some cool shit. They're sharing their figures, sharing their cool.
[01:32:52] Speaker C: Little bits of pop culture ephemera. Ooh, they got the blu ray of.
[01:32:56] Speaker B: Drag me to hell.
That's a good one. Yeah, nice. Yeah, pretty cool. They're real good.
[01:33:02] Speaker C: They're real fun to interact with. And, man, zombie disturbed over on Instagram.
[01:33:07] Speaker B: They're real great.
Yeah.
[01:33:09] Speaker A: Make sure to give them a follow.
[01:33:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:33:11] Speaker A: Also over there, we've got Brian, who does our music. It's Brian underscore voyals underscore 27.
[01:33:18] Speaker B: So make sure to give them a follow as well. Yeah, Brian, he does our music. I think we just said. But, yeah, he's very good at stuff.
[01:33:30] Speaker C: He does great music. He does very spooky stuff. He posts some fun stuff every once in a while.
[01:33:38] Speaker B: It's good to have Brian along for the ride.
[01:33:41] Speaker A: And if you want to hit us.
[01:33:43] Speaker B: Up with a longer thing than just.
[01:33:45] Speaker A: An Instagram comment, you can always give us an email at regarding
[email protected].
[01:33:51] Speaker B: Yeah, every week I like to put.
[01:33:54] Speaker A: A question out into the ether to see if anyone wants to answer. And I say my question this week.
[01:33:59] Speaker B: Is, what is your favorite iteration of the Joker? Is it Heath ledger? Is it jockey Phoenix?
[01:34:08] Speaker A: Is it Jared Leto?
[01:34:13] Speaker C: Is it Mark Hamill on the Harley Quinn television show? No, Mark Hamill in the original Batman, the animated series. It's Alan Tudic and Harley Quinn.
[01:34:26] Speaker B: Oh, nice.
[01:34:27] Speaker A: Or Cesar Romero even.
[01:34:30] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[01:34:34] Speaker C: Cesar Romero, who refused to shave his mustache and just has grease.
[01:34:40] Speaker B: Paint over his mustache.
Yeah.
[01:34:43] Speaker A: I thought that was.
[01:34:46] Speaker C: Mean. It's campy and ridiculous, but that is a very good typification of doesn't give a shit about society's rules for the Joker.
[01:34:58] Speaker B: So it's great. Hit us up with that.
[01:35:02] Speaker A: And make sure you rate, review, and subscribe us anywhere that you.
[01:35:06] Speaker C: That's, uh. We very much appreciate.
[01:35:09] Speaker B: Let.
[01:35:10] Speaker C: Let your friends and family know about us. I just got a friend who moved to the Netherlands, and I'm about to tell him that I'm going to be watching those Netherlands numbers very closely. And if they don't move, I'm going to have some very choice words for him.
[01:35:23] Speaker A: Exactly.
[01:35:24] Speaker B: You're going to have to get him to listen.
[01:35:26] Speaker C: Yeah, he can proselytize for us over in Amsterdam and be like, hey, guys, while you're in this coffee shop, listen to this.
[01:35:38] Speaker B: That would be, yeah, Johnny, we've had.
[01:35:43] Speaker C: A fun time this week.
And one fun time must invariably end. But that doesn't mean that there won't be another fun time. And, in fact, why don't we concoct another fun time sometime in, like, a week?
[01:35:58] Speaker B: Does that sound good?
[01:35:59] Speaker A: Yeah, let's do it. Let's read some more spawn.
I think we're good on this little streak here, so why don't we read. How about 312? What do you think about that?
[01:36:08] Speaker C: I mean, that sounds good for me. Three, one, two. That's the area code for downtown Chicago.
I think we got it. I think it's imperative.
[01:36:17] Speaker B: We got to do it.
[01:36:18] Speaker A: And we got to record in the middle of the river in downtown Chicago.
[01:36:23] Speaker C: Well, we can set up at that park that's right next to.
[01:36:32] Speaker B: Where the.
[01:36:33] Speaker C: Where the two stream ends meet of the river. And there's always turbulence. It's great. It's so fun to sit there and watch stuff.
[01:36:40] Speaker B: That's awesome.
[01:36:41] Speaker C: Also, we should probably read a very new book, as in, like, five, six weeks old at Max.
I think Kingspawn 23 would be a.
[01:36:51] Speaker B: Good one to put there. Oh, yeah.
[01:36:54] Speaker A: Learn more about what's been going on that basement of that exodus corporation.
[01:36:58] Speaker B: That's for sure.
[01:36:59] Speaker C: And learning more about. Oh, geez, what's her face, science friend?
[01:37:07] Speaker B: I don't remember.
[01:37:08] Speaker A: If I try to guess her name, I'm probably going to sound racist.
[01:37:10] Speaker C: Oh, I don't remember.
[01:37:11] Speaker B: What?
[01:37:11] Speaker A: It's Yuko.
[01:37:12] Speaker B: I don't.
[01:37:13] Speaker A: It's like Yuko.
[01:37:14] Speaker B: Yeah, it is probably not that.
[01:37:15] Speaker A: It is, is it?
[01:37:16] Speaker B: Or Yoko.
[01:37:17] Speaker C: Yoko. It's Yoko. Because I remember being impressed. We didn't make Yoko Ono jokes.
[01:37:23] Speaker A: All right, well, if you want to go with saying that, guessing that name on Mike, and go for it.
[01:37:29] Speaker C: Hey, guess what, Johnny. I just did. So too late.
For next week, we'll read King Spawn.
[01:37:37] Speaker B: 30, Kingspawn three, one, two.
No.
[01:37:42] Speaker C: Spawn 312, and Kingspawn 23. And we'll figure out if I was right about the name or not. And we can retroactively find out. We can retroactively cancel me. That's fine.
[01:37:53] Speaker B: Yes.
[01:37:53] Speaker A: That's the whole goal of the podcast.
[01:37:57] Speaker C: The self canceling count. I don't know if it does.
[01:38:00] Speaker B: I don't know.
[01:38:01] Speaker A: It's like, sepuku, you got to commit self cancellation.
[01:38:05] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[01:38:06] Speaker C: There's actually instructions for how you're supposed to do it, right? So you can even, in the act of performing ritual suicides to preserve your honor, fuck it up so much that you actually dishonor yourself further.
And I find that to be fascinating.
That's what we're going to be doing next week, Johnny, reading the spa, not the sepiku.
And I think that just leaves me.
[01:38:34] Speaker B: To say, may the scorch be with you.
[01:38:37] Speaker A: And also with you, David.
[01:38:38] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
Hell, yeah. All right, well, okay.
[01:38:43] Speaker A: I know I had trouble putting the head on. I don't think it was fully on. Let me just slam it down. Okay, there it is. It's on now.
[01:38:49] Speaker B: Nice.
[01:38:50] Speaker A: Hello, Johnny. Oh, it's Bane.
[01:38:53] Speaker B: Oh, no, it's me, Bane.
[01:38:56] Speaker A: Thanks for building me.
[01:38:59] Speaker C: I like how he introduces himself after you say his name.
[01:39:04] Speaker A: Yeah, it's me. Hey, shut the fuck up, you. Who are you?
[01:39:08] Speaker C: Hey, don't fight me.
[01:39:10] Speaker B: Don't fight me.
[01:39:11] Speaker C: I'm bigger than you.
[01:39:12] Speaker A: I'm bigger than you. I was born in this closet. You merely came here.
[01:39:19] Speaker B: I am the one who rises. Sure. All right, bane, get out of here.
[01:39:23] Speaker A: I'm putting you back in the butt. I'm disassembling him. He's getting really annoying. No, please don't rip off my head.
[01:39:30] Speaker B: Oh, my God.
[01:39:31] Speaker A: That was actually really gruesome.
[01:39:32] Speaker C: Oh, jeez.
[01:39:33] Speaker B: Oh, God, Johnny, I feel bad.
[01:39:36] Speaker A: Well, I guess he kind of deserved it. He did break Batman's back.
[01:39:39] Speaker C: Yeah, and blow up most of Gotham.
[01:39:44] Speaker A: Yeah, and a lot of bridges.
Don't fuck with my city's infrastructure.
[01:39:50] Speaker C: Yeah, don't do that.
It's perilous enough as it is.
