RE:Spawn Episode 56 - Spawn 312 and King Spawn 23

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Don't know how you do all that stuff so easily. [00:00:02] Speaker B: Because we're spawns. You should try it sometime. Good evening and welcome to the Malbol. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. [00:00:46] Speaker C: I am your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:49] Speaker A: And I am your co host, David Williams. And you know what, Johnny? [00:00:54] Speaker C: What? [00:00:57] Speaker A: It's Aaron water show weekend here in Chicago. [00:01:01] Speaker C: It is. [00:01:02] Speaker A: Prepare to have your entire apartment rocked for, like 3 hours every day. [00:01:07] Speaker B: It depends on if they start rehearsing. We might hear some on the pod here. [00:01:11] Speaker C: Because I live off of Grand Avenue. [00:01:15] Speaker B: And they use grand as a turnaround. [00:01:18] Speaker C: Because it has a point where you. [00:01:20] Speaker B: Can see where it curves. So they use that as, like a turnaround. [00:01:23] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:01:23] Speaker A: Nice. [00:01:25] Speaker B: Usually at one point this weekend, before I realize it is this weekend, I. [00:01:30] Speaker C: Hear, like, a jet go by and. [00:01:32] Speaker B: I think it's like 911 part two. And I'm just like, I accept my. [00:01:36] Speaker C: Own death, usually, which is good. [00:01:40] Speaker A: How would that movie be punctuated, Johnny? Would it be 911 two, the return? [00:01:47] Speaker B: I think it's a part two. Just to make it. If you want all numbers, 911 two. I think the part two is better because it gives you a little bit. [00:01:56] Speaker A: Of a break or 911 comma, two. I work down in Streeterville, and it rocks the building the entire time they're doing stuff because we're right next to the lake. [00:02:14] Speaker C: It's wild. Wow. [00:02:15] Speaker A: They got the Thunderbirds going this year. And between the Thunderbirds and the blue angels, the blue angels are technically better. But I have a softer spot in my heart for the. [00:02:26] Speaker B: So wait, you say the blue angels like Redeemer? [00:02:30] Speaker C: Well, I don't know if they're that good. I don't know if they're. Yeah. [00:02:35] Speaker B: We need to get Redeemer at this Aaron water show. [00:02:37] Speaker A: Just have him flying around. All the spawns that can fly. Get raven spawn out there. He just does, like, bird tricks. [00:02:46] Speaker B: Redeemer, dark redeemer. [00:02:50] Speaker A: Dark redeemer. [00:02:51] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:02:51] Speaker A: They could do. [00:02:55] Speaker B: A double thing with. [00:02:56] Speaker C: Flying, weaving in and out. [00:02:59] Speaker A: Like an interpretive dance or a figure skating routine. And of course, they'd have to call it something like the yin and yang of something. Or the battle between good and evil. [00:03:13] Speaker C: Or positive, negative. [00:03:19] Speaker A: Or ant versus anti anti. [00:03:21] Speaker C: Right. [00:03:22] Speaker A: Because anti redeemer was anti spawn. [00:03:25] Speaker C: Right. [00:03:26] Speaker A: So dark Redeemer would been anti anti spawn. [00:03:32] Speaker B: That make reaper anti anti antispawn, maybe. [00:03:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:35] Speaker C: Hell, yeah. [00:03:36] Speaker A: We should stop thinking of new names and just referring to things as anti something else. [00:03:41] Speaker B: Everything's just anti. Everyone's anti something. [00:03:44] Speaker A: Like you introduce yourself as John Fisher. And I am anti John Fisher. Not that I'm against you, but that just. [00:03:52] Speaker C: I'm. You're an opposite. Yeah. [00:03:56] Speaker A: The correct word would be opposed, but that implies that we're fighting. [00:04:02] Speaker B: But we're not fighting. We're talking about Spawn. [00:04:05] Speaker A: We're not fighting yet. [00:04:07] Speaker B: Not yet. [00:04:09] Speaker A: This is a podcast about comic books, and we all know that everybody's got to fight at least a couple of times. It's true. [00:04:15] Speaker B: When it's like. It's like saying hello. Yes, and I'm saying hello to you, listener, right now. Welcome into regarding Spawn, where each week we cover two issues from Spawn's universe. [00:04:28] Speaker C: Yes, we do. [00:04:29] Speaker B: This week, we've got two excellent issues from the flagship mainline. Spawn is our classic issue number three, one, two, or 312 special to us, because that's one of the major area codes of Chicago. And a famous goose island beer. [00:04:47] Speaker A: Yes, indeed. [00:04:48] Speaker B: So if you've ever had the goose island beer, it's like a wheat beer. It was pretty popular for a while. I'm sure it still is. [00:04:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:04:56] Speaker A: Wheat beers aren't as popular as they were, but it's true. It's still up there in the. I would go so far as to say, johnny, that that is the official beer to drink while reading. Listening to this episode of podcast. [00:05:08] Speaker B: Well, if we didn't record at 09:00 in the morning, I'd bust one out. [00:05:12] Speaker A: Well, no, like, for the readers. So if you're along, pause. Go get yourself a three. One, two. Come back. [00:05:20] Speaker C: We'll still be here, I think. [00:05:22] Speaker B: Pause it. I don't know how podcasts work. [00:05:25] Speaker A: I don't know what happens to existence when you pause a podcast. I'm sure I feel like a little. We both probably feel a little bit of soul death happen. [00:05:32] Speaker C: It'll be like, what was that? [00:05:34] Speaker A: Or maybe that's what deja vu is. Is somebody pauses and then restarts the podcast that you put out into the world, and you're like, what is. [00:05:42] Speaker C: Whoa. I had a dream. [00:05:44] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:05:44] Speaker B: I've never listened to a podcast, so I don't know how they work. [00:05:46] Speaker A: Can I tell you about my dream. [00:05:48] Speaker C: Where I dreamed about stuff? [00:05:50] Speaker B: Hey, didn't he just complain, like, two episodes ago about people talking about dreams? [00:05:54] Speaker A: It's called a callback, johnny. I dreamed. You told me about the second issue we were talking about in this episode, and it went a little something like. [00:06:02] Speaker B: It'S called King Spawn 23. [00:06:05] Speaker C: Nice. 23. [00:06:06] Speaker A: Also a very important number, at least. [00:06:10] Speaker C: In Disney circles, because D 23. [00:06:14] Speaker B: Isn't that the big expo. [00:06:16] Speaker A: That's the big expo. D 23. [00:06:17] Speaker B: I'm not quite sure the number 23 is a lost number. We talked about this. We just did 23 of something else. Did we do 23 of Gunslinger? Because we were talking about the end of last episode. [00:06:27] Speaker C: About 23, maybe. [00:06:30] Speaker A: I don't remember. [00:06:30] Speaker B: There's a lot of numbers. 23 is that Jim Carrey movie. It's a lost number. It's supposed to be cursed or some shit. [00:06:40] Speaker A: It's the third and fourth numbers in the Fibonacci sequence. [00:06:49] Speaker C: I don't even know what that is. [00:06:51] Speaker A: I guess if you start with zero. So Fibonacci is where you've got one number, and then the next number in the sequence is the two previous numbers added together. [00:07:02] Speaker C: So you've got one, and then one plus nothing is one, and then one. [00:07:08] Speaker A: Plus one is two, and then one plus two is three, and two plus three is five, and then three plus five is eight. [00:07:17] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:07:18] Speaker A: So it's used in the mathematics of spirals. It got real big around our time because people used it to justify an alternate listening of the tool lateralis episode because they're like, you got a fibonacci, you got to listen to it in a spiral. So there was an alternate version going around where they took the track list and started in the very center and then did a spiral out from the center. [00:07:52] Speaker C: And then you listened to them in. [00:07:54] Speaker A: Order of where the spiral hit them. [00:07:57] Speaker C: It kind of worked. [00:07:59] Speaker A: It was a little ridiculous. [00:08:01] Speaker C: For which album? [00:08:02] Speaker A: Lateralis. The one with schism and ticks and leeches and. [00:08:09] Speaker C: Lateralis. Yeah. [00:08:13] Speaker A: Eon Blue apocalypse, which their bassist wrote after the death of his dog because his name was Blue and he felt like the world was ending because Blue. [00:08:23] Speaker C: Was gone, which is a beautiful sentiment. Love tool. [00:08:28] Speaker A: But, man, tool fans want to overthink everything. [00:08:33] Speaker C: Because the guys in the band. [00:08:36] Speaker A: Danny Carey, literally just wants to get out of there so he can go watch some basketball. He's like, I'm just going to throw down some crazy drum shit and then eat a brownie and then watch some basketball. [00:08:46] Speaker B: Not too shabby. [00:08:48] Speaker A: Maynard just wants to get back to his vineyards and keep making some wine. And I forget the other two guys names because one of them has a name very close to a guy I went to high school with who was a troubled individual. And so I just never remember which one it is. [00:09:06] Speaker C: Oh, no. Well, that's troublesome. [00:09:11] Speaker B: I don't know a lot about tool. Sorry. [00:09:14] Speaker A: Hey, you know what? [00:09:15] Speaker C: That's fine. [00:09:16] Speaker A: Give it a listen. [00:09:17] Speaker C: It's pretty good stuff, but if you don't like it. Let's get off my balls. [00:09:21] Speaker A: They sing about balls a lot, know. [00:09:24] Speaker C: Do they? [00:09:24] Speaker A: But no balls exist in the spawns universe, apparently because, well, at least not in the physical sense. There's galore. [00:09:34] Speaker C: Because, I mean, we're cajones all over. [00:09:40] Speaker A: The spawns universe, Johnny. [00:09:42] Speaker C: It's chock full of them. It's chock full of. [00:09:48] Speaker A: You. You show me a picture of gunslinger Spawn and try to convince me that he doesn't have cajones at the wazoo. And I'll tell you if you were effective in swaying me or not. [00:10:01] Speaker C: No one would do it. [00:10:03] Speaker A: You show me a Jim Downing who know less fear than brains, which honestly listeners ain't very much, and you tell me that he's not led by his balls, and I won't believe you. [00:10:21] Speaker B: I don't even know how to get. [00:10:23] Speaker A: Back to a strange tangent we have taken. [00:10:27] Speaker B: I did not take any tangent on. I was trying to explain the issues that we're doing. [00:10:34] Speaker A: Well, you explained the issues we were doing, and now let's talk about those issues, Johnny, because we're talking about issues Spawn 312 and King Spawn 23. We got lost in the spin cycle of numbers. [00:10:46] Speaker C: There it was. [00:10:48] Speaker B: This is the numbers. [00:10:50] Speaker A: We got some one upsmanship in number cosmology or whatever. [00:10:55] Speaker B: Spawn 312, three one two is from. [00:10:58] Speaker C: Urban wheat, November 2020. [00:11:02] Speaker A: Probably a lot of three one two is being drunk at that time. [00:11:05] Speaker B: A ruined Thanksgiving is when this came out. [00:11:08] Speaker C: So maybe you read it on a. [00:11:10] Speaker B: Lonely Thanksgiving where you weren't allowed to go hang out with your family. [00:11:14] Speaker C: Hey, spoiler alert. [00:11:16] Speaker A: Wanda and I always just have Thanksgiving alone by ourselves. So it was just like every other year. And it was great. [00:11:22] Speaker B: So it's no different. [00:11:23] Speaker A: It was no different except for, I think the dog show was a repeat that year. [00:11:30] Speaker B: How could they do that? [00:11:31] Speaker A: Or did they have no audience? I can't remember. [00:11:34] Speaker C: I know. [00:11:35] Speaker A: The Macy's day parade was all just like previous parade clips. [00:11:41] Speaker B: I can't believe it. [00:11:44] Speaker C: It's so funny because I watched that. [00:11:46] Speaker B: Macy's day parade and it's like the. [00:11:48] Speaker C: Dumbest parade in the world, but I watch it every year. [00:11:50] Speaker A: Sometimes Al Roker says things that should be innocuous and were innocuous when he was like twelve. And then he says them on national television twelve times in a row and it's like, oh, Al Roker, don't say that. Don't talk about your grandmother's sweet potato poon. And definitely don't say it. Twelve times. [00:12:09] Speaker C: What? [00:12:11] Speaker A: He was sharing a recipe one year during the parade. And the recipe he was sharing was his grandmother's recipe for sweet potato poon. I guess it's just baked sweet potatoes. But he had to give it an unfortunate name. [00:12:27] Speaker C: It sounds like it. [00:12:29] Speaker A: He said it like twelve times. And it was like, oh God. [00:12:32] Speaker C: Oh God. [00:12:33] Speaker A: I couldn't stop laughing. We have now wildly shifted to another area of tangent. So let's get back to you, Johnny. This is a group effort, and if. [00:12:43] Speaker C: I'm going down, I'm taking you with me. [00:12:48] Speaker B: All I mentioned is that thanksgiving is in November. I'm talking about Al Roker's mother's grandma's poon. It's not that far of a jump. [00:13:00] Speaker A: It's not that far at all. But this is a joint effort, Johnny. Speaking of joints, what kind of a joint do we got going on with spawn? [00:13:10] Speaker C: Three. [00:13:10] Speaker A: One, two. [00:13:10] Speaker C: Johnny, we got a joint by Tod. [00:13:14] Speaker B: McFarland and Carlo Barberry, baby. [00:13:16] Speaker A: Oh, hell yeah. This is Carlo Barberry. Number dose. [00:13:20] Speaker C: That's true. We're in that. [00:13:22] Speaker A: Carlo Barbaria. [00:13:24] Speaker C: The barbaria. [00:13:26] Speaker A: Is that what we decided on? Barbaria? [00:13:29] Speaker C: I think so. [00:13:30] Speaker A: Or Barbera. [00:13:31] Speaker B: Barbara era barbaria. Barbaria. [00:13:36] Speaker A: That sounds like a beverage. [00:13:38] Speaker B: Well, I have a very special cover of this, David. [00:13:42] Speaker C: Okay. [00:13:42] Speaker B: They created a cover of this for. [00:13:45] Speaker C: Local comic shop day. Oh, interesting. [00:13:48] Speaker B: And it's spawn climbing up this, like, city skyline in it and on the back is just list of small comic shops that have been ordering spawn. And guess what? Both of our comic shops are on it. [00:14:03] Speaker A: Both of our comic shops. So we got challengers and a graham crackers. [00:14:07] Speaker C: I found them both. [00:14:07] Speaker B: Yeah, I had to look through it, but I found them. [00:14:10] Speaker C: Hell yeah. [00:14:11] Speaker B: It's like a huge list, but it's like the credits on Lord of the Rings in here. So basically they're just printed on the back and the front. And I found challengers and I found Graham crackers. [00:14:21] Speaker A: You should take that in. Like, you should play a little fanfare the next time you go in and be like, boys. I hope contributes to your getting in this book here. Congratulations. You're published in Spawn. Although I guess that was before you were spawning. [00:14:35] Speaker B: I didn't. It was before I was buying any comic books. [00:14:37] Speaker C: So I wouldn't have. [00:14:38] Speaker A: I don't know. But I mean, still, you should tell them that they're published in Spawn and they should be proud of. [00:14:42] Speaker B: Well, they know. I think because I bought this issue at challengers, they actually had a ton of extra. So, like, in their long boxes of. [00:14:50] Speaker C: Like, dollar 99 comics or less, they. [00:14:54] Speaker B: Had a whole bunch of the copies of this. [00:14:57] Speaker A: I bet they got some sort of discounted rate. [00:15:00] Speaker C: For participating. [00:15:02] Speaker B: For participating in local comic shop day. [00:15:04] Speaker A: Also, Pat's one of those guys that you can't really get anything around. Pat knows a lot about everything. So you have to wake up pretty early to get something over on him. [00:15:13] Speaker B: So it says inside there's a little note from Todd McFarland. That it's the skyline cover. [00:15:18] Speaker C: As an homage cover to one first. [00:15:21] Speaker B: Done for amazing Spiderman, number 700. [00:15:24] Speaker C: Okay, so close to seven. [00:15:27] Speaker A: Seven three. [00:15:27] Speaker C: Dang it. Yeah, I know the other Chicago area code, but it just. That it explains that this is just a partial list. [00:15:38] Speaker B: Of all the wonderful comic book stores. That at some point in the past 28 years. Decided they'd spend their hard earned money. To help support spawn. [00:15:44] Speaker C: Well, nice. [00:15:44] Speaker A: So that's the only cover? [00:15:46] Speaker B: That's one of the covers. [00:15:47] Speaker C: Okay. [00:15:48] Speaker B: And then I have the other regular cover as well, which is cogliostro. It took me a minute to figure out it's Cogliostro. Because I forget he's, like, super biker now. [00:15:57] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:15:57] Speaker A: Because it's biker hippie. He's not even hippie on this. He's just straight up. [00:16:03] Speaker C: He's just biker. [00:16:04] Speaker B: He's got that snake wrapped around his arm. [00:16:06] Speaker A: He's definitely on his way to Sturgis, like, right now. [00:16:09] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:16:10] Speaker B: And that's the Mattina a cover. [00:16:14] Speaker C: Okay. [00:16:14] Speaker B: I have one of those too. [00:16:17] Speaker C: How are you reading? [00:16:18] Speaker B: Are you reading in a trade paperback? [00:16:19] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm reading it in the trade paperback. Spawn omega is the name of it. And at the issue break, it's the matina cover that they have. [00:16:27] Speaker C: So that's technically the COVID Cool. [00:16:32] Speaker A: It's real. I like that. His snake. He's got a snake. [00:16:36] Speaker B: If it's a snake wrapped around his. [00:16:38] Speaker A: Arm, and it looks like he's got a snake tattoo. So is this, like, his tattoo is coming to life through his necroplasm powers? [00:16:45] Speaker C: Is that what we're to believe? [00:16:47] Speaker B: He had a snake wrapped around his arm in his other appearance? [00:16:51] Speaker A: I mean, I guess he's got a cat. [00:16:52] Speaker C: I don't know. [00:16:53] Speaker A: The lore of cog is wild, to say the least. He's, I guess, a friend of the animals. [00:17:02] Speaker B: Yeah, he could be. So there's a Taunton revolver cover. That's just hobby, like, shooting shotgun as well. [00:17:12] Speaker C: Nice. [00:17:13] Speaker A: A hobby cover is always nice. [00:17:15] Speaker C: A hobby cover. [00:17:16] Speaker B: And then there's another version of the skyline cover. [00:17:20] Speaker C: That they used for the comic book day. [00:17:23] Speaker B: But it's all the people who've ever creatively contributed to Spawn. So there's like, tod McFarland, Greg Capoulo, Tom Woodzakowski, everyone's name all over it. So that's pretty cool. [00:17:33] Speaker A: Nice. [00:17:33] Speaker C: We got Grant Morrison, Peter Staggerwald, Eric Stevenson, the unlazy, Rob Liefeld. [00:17:42] Speaker B: Oh, wow. [00:17:43] Speaker A: Michael Jolt, Jonathan Lapien, Jason Sean Alexander. [00:17:48] Speaker C: J. Scott Campbell, Frank Miller, Philip Tan, Ivan Placencia. Nice. Francesco Matina. [00:17:57] Speaker A: Hey, Johnny, I recognize a few of these names. [00:17:59] Speaker B: I recognize a few of these names too. [00:18:02] Speaker C: But, yes, that's the same cover of. [00:18:05] Speaker B: That skyline, is what it looks like for the comic book shops. It just has comic book shops in there. [00:18:10] Speaker A: I like that. It just says crime lab on it. I wonder who crime lab is. [00:18:14] Speaker C: Pretty cool name. That would be a pretty cool name. [00:18:18] Speaker A: I mean, with the way people are naming their children's nowadays, it wouldn't be surprising if somebody named their child, like. [00:18:28] Speaker B: Forensic files. [00:18:29] Speaker A: Yeah, forensics files. Or like, true crime podcasts. [00:18:34] Speaker C: Like true podcast. True crime podcast. [00:18:40] Speaker A: Williams would be the name of my child. [00:18:43] Speaker B: No, it's true crime podcast. It's so hard to say. True crime podcast. I don't know why it's hard now. [00:18:50] Speaker A: I don't know. Well, it's because I had trouble with it, and then my bad mouth infected your mouth. [00:18:57] Speaker C: So congratulations, Johnny. [00:18:59] Speaker A: You now can't say Arnold Palmer without saying it very, very slowly. [00:19:05] Speaker C: Arnold Palmer. [00:19:07] Speaker A: Ah, fuck you. [00:19:08] Speaker C: Gotcha. [00:19:10] Speaker B: So you open this cover here, this local comic book shop. A cover. And inside you get the credits, and we've got script plot. This is still Tod McFarlane. Carla Barberian art, as we already said. Tom Orzachowski on lettering. [00:19:28] Speaker C: And then you got a couple of. [00:19:29] Speaker B: These people that were on that one cover. You got Peter Steigerwald and Java Day Ramos on. [00:19:34] Speaker A: Nice. [00:19:35] Speaker C: Nice. [00:19:35] Speaker B: The COVID artist, as we already mentioned. Then Tod McFarland's the creative director, and Thomas Healy's the editor. [00:19:41] Speaker A: Hell yeah. [00:19:41] Speaker C: Hell, yeah. [00:19:42] Speaker A: A quick sidebar. The colors are beautiful in this issue, Johnny. [00:19:45] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:19:46] Speaker B: It's a really good issue. Colorful and just like really deep reds. And the gunslinger. [00:19:52] Speaker C: Stuff's really great. [00:19:53] Speaker B: So previously in Spawn. Previously cult of Omega Gunslinger. Spawn gearing up for a savage battle ahead of him. And Al reaches out to an old ally. There you go. Little bit of a typo. That's okay, David. Can't say Arnold Palmer. [00:20:14] Speaker A: I mean, I can't say true crime podcast either. [00:20:18] Speaker B: True crime podcast. [00:20:22] Speaker A: Poo crime. Seambomb. I'm just going to start speaking in random syllables, Johnny. [00:20:28] Speaker B: Start speaking in tongues. [00:20:30] Speaker A: Or I could be like Groot. Or like animal. [00:20:34] Speaker C: Just spawn. Fuck spawn. Fuck. [00:20:39] Speaker B: Like a Pokeman. [00:20:41] Speaker C: Like a Pokemon. [00:20:42] Speaker A: David. [00:20:42] Speaker C: David. David. David. David. Oh, Lord. So we opened in that farmhouse we. [00:20:54] Speaker B: Left out on last. [00:20:57] Speaker A: Look, if you look very closely, Johnny, you can still see those dead bodies. [00:21:00] Speaker C: On the front porch. [00:21:01] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, you can. [00:21:05] Speaker C: Can you? [00:21:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:07] Speaker B: You can see them. Yeah. [00:21:08] Speaker C: Sorry. [00:21:09] Speaker B: My old eyes. It makes it hard. [00:21:11] Speaker A: Just barely. But they're there. [00:21:12] Speaker C: They're there. [00:21:13] Speaker B: It's like looking for Lincoln on the penny a. [00:21:16] Speaker A: It's the spawn version of where's Waldo? [00:21:20] Speaker B: Where's the dead farm couple that are actually demons? [00:21:24] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:21:25] Speaker A: Although I don't know if I mentioned it the last time we talked about this, but that's a bitchin'porch. [00:21:30] Speaker B: Oh, it's a nice porch. Yeah, it's a nice little farmhouse. [00:21:34] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:21:35] Speaker A: I'm hitting the age where I wish I had a porch, but they enclosed ours a long time ago, and I'm too lazy to do anything about it. [00:21:42] Speaker C: So what are you going to do? [00:21:44] Speaker B: Well, gunslinger is hanging out in the. [00:21:45] Speaker C: Barn loading up some bullets. Yeah, he's got a fun fact, Johnny. [00:21:54] Speaker A: Those shotgun shells would be twelve gauge. [00:21:56] Speaker B: He's got twelve gauge shotgun shells. [00:21:58] Speaker A: Because shotgun shells are color coded. You've got 20 gauge or yellow. Twelve gauge is ten or twelve gauge is red. Ten gauge is blue. Sometimes you'll have some green twelve gauge shotgun shells, but those are usually older ones or ones that you've packed yourself. Red is canonically green ones. [00:22:21] Speaker C: They're probably just older. Yeah. Well, it's a fun thing. Yeah. [00:22:26] Speaker A: It's like in science, they've got these things called inoculating loops, which is just now they're all plastic. They used to be metal, but it's just a little circle on the end of a stick, and you use it for spreading out bacteria. And the size of the loop on the end of it is calibrated to hold a different amount of liquid. And they're color coded, so that way the blues always hold five milligrams or five microliters. No, the blues hold 10 ML. No, those are the teals. Shit, I don't know. I don't know the colors, because I don't use them very often. [00:23:02] Speaker C: But they're color coded, Johnny, color coding, it's a wonderful thing. [00:23:06] Speaker B: The color of Gunslinger's coat is red. [00:23:09] Speaker C: Yes. [00:23:09] Speaker A: So he must be a twelve gauge spawn. [00:23:12] Speaker B: He's a twelve gauge spawn. [00:23:13] Speaker A: Twelve gauge spawn is totally the name of the manga. I'm calling it right now. Twelve gauge spawn. It's going to come into the manga section of a comic book shop near you. [00:23:27] Speaker C: Manga is really popular right now. [00:23:29] Speaker A: It is very popular. [00:23:31] Speaker C: They got it at Target. Yeah, they do. [00:23:33] Speaker B: Like, a whole bunch of it, too. I was like, whoa. [00:23:35] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah. [00:23:39] Speaker A: You pick up a couple of volumes. You diving into it? No, there's a lot that's, like diving into the comic books world again, only, like, times 20, because there's just so much more. [00:23:56] Speaker B: I like the books, though. [00:23:57] Speaker C: I like how the size and, like. Yeah, I don't know. [00:24:02] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like a paperback book, kind of, so that way it fits everywhere than a normal sized book would fit. [00:24:10] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:24:10] Speaker B: And it's not going to get all. [00:24:11] Speaker C: Beat up like a comic book. Yeah, it's like falling apart. Yeah. But I guess that's the nature of. [00:24:21] Speaker A: The structural integrity of a comic book is inversely proportional to the amount of enjoyment and data that has been received from the book. So the more you read it and the more you perceive its goodness, the. [00:24:36] Speaker C: Less likely it's to hold together. It's true. I remember when I was a kid. [00:24:42] Speaker B: I'd have comic books that were just, like, decimated or, like, magazines that were just, like, barely hanging on. [00:24:46] Speaker A: Yeah, the COVID always fell off, and then you had, like, if you were lucky, the torn pages were always just the back pages with the ads. But sometimes you'd be missing the first three or four panels of the actual book, and you'll be like, but I got to know if Uncle Scrooge was swimming in his pool of coins again. We had a lot of DuckTales and. [00:25:14] Speaker C: Uncle Scrooge comics as kids for some reason. We had Jurassic Park, X Men and some spawn. And some spawn. [00:25:25] Speaker A: Well, we got some spawn right here. And gunsling responds. [00:25:27] Speaker C: Yeah, like you said, he's loading himself. [00:25:30] Speaker A: Down with gloriously loaded weapons. [00:25:35] Speaker C: He's kind of pondering, like he just got sucked through time. [00:25:38] Speaker B: He's just like, I don't know how I got here. [00:25:41] Speaker C: I like how in front of him, he has a muzzle loading rifle. [00:25:48] Speaker A: He's got your classic lever action rifle. [00:25:54] Speaker C: He's got, like, a friggin m one. [00:25:59] Speaker A: He's got, like, an m 14. He's got revolvers. [00:26:05] Speaker C: He's got everything. [00:26:06] Speaker A: He's got everything. As the Tod father once said, it has everything. Including the kitchen sink. [00:26:13] Speaker B: Including the whole kitchen sink. [00:26:15] Speaker C: Yes. [00:26:16] Speaker A: He's loaded down for bear. Oh, we also know he has a. [00:26:19] Speaker C: Shotgun, because he's loading this shotgun. [00:26:23] Speaker A: I don't see it in this bottom panel, though. [00:26:25] Speaker C: It must be hidden. It must be the one behind that screen. [00:26:30] Speaker B: Just off page. [00:26:30] Speaker C: Just off panel. [00:26:32] Speaker A: Just off panel. [00:26:33] Speaker C: Pursued or loaded for bear, that was a bad one. [00:26:37] Speaker A: That was a bad one. Shakespeare jokes. You come here for Shakespeare jokes and David going on tangents about nonsense. [00:26:45] Speaker C: It's what the people want, Johnny. [00:26:48] Speaker A: It's what I want when I listen to this for quality control because that's. [00:26:51] Speaker C: What I laugh at. [00:26:53] Speaker B: Well, you're going to be laughing your. [00:26:55] Speaker C: Ass off this one. [00:26:56] Speaker A: Oh, I cannot wait for this to. [00:26:59] Speaker C: Come out of the editing squeeze because. [00:27:04] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm not going to be able to do anything. I'll be hunched over and my ribs will hurt. [00:27:10] Speaker B: You'd be like, this dead guy fell out of the truck here. [00:27:13] Speaker A: Yeah, he's still got three people. [00:27:15] Speaker C: Yeah, man, I guess maybe that was their son. Yeah, he killed their son, man. [00:27:22] Speaker B: Hobby looks pretty badass sitting in the doorway there. [00:27:26] Speaker A: Yeah, he literally just lit his cigarette and then he almost immediately throws it. [00:27:33] Speaker C: On the ground and then he immediately. [00:27:37] Speaker A: Again lights another one. [00:27:39] Speaker C: Come on. Come on, Javi. [00:27:41] Speaker B: Yeah, he, like, smoked the whole thing. [00:27:42] Speaker C: Who knows? I don't know. He does it for the aesthetics. [00:27:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:50] Speaker C: Really? Yeah, man. [00:27:55] Speaker A: The aesthetics of gunslinger spawn are excellent. [00:27:58] Speaker B: I like the colors on this farmhouse. It reminds me of like, Texas Chainsaw massacre or daytime. You don't see a lot of daytime in spawns. That's pretty cool. [00:28:10] Speaker C: Yeah, well, I mean, it lays it. [00:28:12] Speaker A: Out here for us that Javi has to recharge in the shadows, but he prefers to do his fighting in the sunlight because people who fight spawns don't expect it because spawns tend to fight in the dark. [00:28:28] Speaker C: Daytime horror. [00:28:30] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a lot of good daytime horrors. [00:28:32] Speaker C: Texas Chainsaw Midsummer. [00:28:37] Speaker A: I don't know if I would classify Midsummer as good simply because it is a horrifying time. [00:28:44] Speaker C: I mean, it's a well done movie and it is good. Yes. I will never. [00:28:49] Speaker B: Comfortable. [00:28:50] Speaker A: Will never watch it again, though, because. [00:28:53] Speaker C: Good Lord. [00:28:56] Speaker A: I have never been so uncomfortable in a non embarrassment cringe way. [00:29:04] Speaker B: It's very uncomfortable. [00:29:06] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:29:08] Speaker A: It's so unflinching too. You should almost feel like, hey, yeah, this is just something. This is just something. [00:29:15] Speaker C: But it's just like, what was that? What was that? [00:29:20] Speaker B: Yeah, I still haven't seen Bo is afraid. [00:29:23] Speaker C: I need to. [00:29:25] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I need to do that too, because with ye old Joaquin Phoenix. [00:29:30] Speaker C: Right. [00:29:30] Speaker B: But it's the third Ari aster, and it's not explicitly a horror movie, so. [00:29:34] Speaker C: I'm kind of curious about it, man. [00:29:38] Speaker A: But the thing Midsummer doesn't have that hereditary has over it is that fucking Tony Collette scream. [00:29:45] Speaker B: Oh, God. [00:29:47] Speaker C: Hereditary is gut wrenching. [00:29:51] Speaker A: The scream is more impactful to me than the particular moment. [00:29:59] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:30:00] Speaker A: No, it is because after the incident, dude man goes home and it's quiet because he's in such a daze. And that's the first thing he hears. And that's the first thing we hear when the sound comes back. [00:30:14] Speaker C: And Jesus. [00:30:17] Speaker B: So she'd be screaming at these dead bodies too, because there's dead bodies all over this porch. [00:30:22] Speaker A: We need to get Tony Collette in the spawn movie. She could be Jessica Priest. Tony Collete for Jessica Priest. [00:30:28] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:30:28] Speaker A: Gunslinger. Spawn props himself against a post and. [00:30:31] Speaker C: Is just waiting it out. [00:30:33] Speaker A: He's like, I got my cigarettes here. I got my lots of guns. [00:30:38] Speaker C: I'm good. That's all I need. What more could you need? [00:30:42] Speaker A: Then we go to. I like how very X Men control room this particular wall of computer screens is. Yes, because they have been thin or projected screens. But this is just like bulky console. I would love to have bulky console with all those different shit. Look at all those different shaped screens, Johnny. [00:31:12] Speaker C: Yeah, it's kind of cool. Very cool. I don't know. [00:31:18] Speaker B: Yeah, it looks like Batman or X Men kind of. [00:31:21] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like the bat computer. And that is a massive chair. [00:31:24] Speaker C: That is comfy. [00:31:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I like how it zooms out. And it's like the only actual buttons on the console are the keyboard. So it's like vast, empty spaces, and. [00:31:35] Speaker C: Then just a little keyboard. [00:31:38] Speaker B: Jessica's here, and she's just, like, looking for Al. And she's, like, showing off turns into she spawn. [00:31:46] Speaker A: Yeah, when he turns, Jessica Priest is. Jessica's like, yeah, I'm going to go out. If you see him, tell him I left. I'm running some errands. [00:31:59] Speaker B: And then we get the opening quote, okay. [00:32:01] Speaker C: You guys go back and forth. [00:32:02] Speaker B: You get to do all this stuff, and I'm just stuck. [00:32:04] Speaker C: Mark's just like, I'm stuck here. [00:32:07] Speaker B: And because we're spawns, you should try it sometime. [00:32:10] Speaker C: Yeah, this is errands. What the hell does that mean? [00:32:15] Speaker A: I like how pronounced the difference in her boots are here. [00:32:18] Speaker C: Because she's got, like, one big boot and one little tiny boot. Yeah, it's excellent. And then we get Mark on a. [00:32:29] Speaker A: Friday night where he can't do anything with his friends. So he's watching through the Tonight show, then the Late show, then the Late Late show. And then he starts watching those infomercials that hit it around 02:00 like he's slipping between the chef Tony and the girls gone wild. [00:32:47] Speaker C: And the Tony. Oh, jeez. The exercise guy, Jack papel. [00:32:56] Speaker A: No, not Ron Popiel. He was the set it and forget it guy. [00:33:01] Speaker B: No, I'm talking about the power juicer, Jack Papille. [00:33:03] Speaker C: Oh, Jack Poppeal. [00:33:05] Speaker B: I don't remember what his name was. Jack something. [00:33:08] Speaker A: There was the really buff guy with the ponytail who did like the jogger machine. He had a lot of late night infomercials. A lot of terrible food infomercials. Maybe he's watching some QVC. He's going to buy some things to spruce up the living space. And he decides, know, instead of just eating because he's bored, he's going to take Jessica's advice and try spawn. [00:33:37] Speaker B: Yeah, he's just know you're up late. [00:33:40] Speaker C: Nothing to do. [00:33:41] Speaker B: There's some spawn armor in the other room. Why not? [00:33:44] Speaker C: Why not? [00:33:44] Speaker B: So he goes over and you got all the medieval armor sitting there with the shield and everything. [00:33:50] Speaker A: I like how Gigantic the skull belt buckle is. [00:33:57] Speaker B: I think that's his shield. [00:33:59] Speaker C: That's his shield. [00:34:00] Speaker A: Okay. I thought his shield was round. [00:34:02] Speaker C: I don't know if that's the belt buckle. Yeah, that's huge because it's got the. [00:34:07] Speaker A: Chains going out of it. So I assumed. [00:34:10] Speaker C: Yeah, it must be. [00:34:11] Speaker A: But I don't know, actually, because then there's another string. Oh, I guess those are the ones for his cape. [00:34:16] Speaker C: I don't know. Well, anyway, guns there at the medieval armor there. [00:34:23] Speaker A: And we get a very sword in the stone moment here. [00:34:27] Speaker C: You can't lift it, Mark. You can't lift it. He says, what the heck? [00:34:30] Speaker B: I mean, it also is like giant. I don't think he'd be able to lift it, like normally. [00:34:34] Speaker C: Anyway. [00:34:35] Speaker A: It looks like they took the Green Rangers dagger and blew it up to the size of a car. [00:34:43] Speaker B: Yeah, it's huge. [00:34:44] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:34:44] Speaker B: It's like the size of a car. [00:34:45] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:34:46] Speaker A: If he blows on it just right, he can call forth the green pterodactyl, right? [00:34:53] Speaker C: Yeah, sure. [00:34:54] Speaker B: I mean, I was never a big Power Rangers guy. [00:34:57] Speaker A: And then when he turned into the white Ranger, it turned into. [00:35:01] Speaker B: It was a white bird. Right. I remember that. [00:35:04] Speaker A: It was a white bird. Oh, I was thinking it was a white tiger like those Vegas guys had. [00:35:09] Speaker C: No, it was a bird, man. [00:35:12] Speaker A: I don't know, whatever. Wanda keeps complaining that the Godzilla channel is some quote unquote Power Rangers shit. [00:35:19] Speaker C: But I mean, you know what? [00:35:22] Speaker B: A little bit, but a lot better than Power Rangers. [00:35:26] Speaker C: Yeah. I mean, if they just had the. [00:35:29] Speaker A: Fighting scenes from Power Rangers, like a super cut of the Power Rangers fight scenes, I'd totally watch that. [00:35:36] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:35:37] Speaker A: They all follow the same pattern every episode, but it's still fun to watch big things punch each other and have explosions. [00:35:44] Speaker C: Yeah, it is. [00:35:45] Speaker B: I guess that is some godzilla shit when you think about it. [00:35:48] Speaker C: Wow. Yeah. [00:35:49] Speaker B: Or vice versa. [00:35:51] Speaker C: That's some Power Rangers shit. Yeah, I like that. [00:35:54] Speaker A: Mark says, that's stupid. [00:35:59] Speaker C: Stupid. I'm not stupid. You're stupid. [00:36:02] Speaker A: He pulls a muscle trying to pick the sword up. [00:36:04] Speaker C: And then he picks up the helmet. [00:36:07] Speaker B: And says, let's see how sassy this looks. [00:36:09] Speaker A: Sassy. [00:36:10] Speaker B: Definitely written by the Todd father. [00:36:13] Speaker A: I do love that. It's like, here's a thing I can put on my head. I'm going to put it on my head because that's something I did every time I was in my grandparents basement. It was like there was a hat. I was putting that hat on my head being like, ha, look at this. Yeah, of course. [00:36:28] Speaker B: You see a hat or helmet, you want to put it on. [00:36:31] Speaker C: Yeah. And then with the helmet on, Mark. [00:36:33] Speaker A: Is able to lift this gigantic Volkswagen sized. Yes. There's four s's. So you got. [00:36:48] Speaker B: Says he's like everyone's favorite actor, Mel Gibson and Braveheart. Good Mel Gibson reference in 2020 there. Tod father. [00:36:58] Speaker C: Yeah. Excellent. [00:36:59] Speaker A: Excellent. [00:37:00] Speaker C: I'm William Wallace. [00:37:02] Speaker A: I'm not even going to try a scottish brogue because I don't even know. [00:37:04] Speaker C: How it'll turn out. [00:37:06] Speaker A: Did you ever play the Braveheart drinking game in college? [00:37:10] Speaker C: No. [00:37:11] Speaker A: What's, you know, you watch, the main thing is you take a drink every time somebody says, oh, damn. And so just doing that, you're smashed. [00:37:25] Speaker C: By the end of it. But. [00:37:29] Speaker A: There'S like a page full of rules. And we tried to do it once and this one guy followed all the rules. And 45 minutes into it was incomprehensible and angry. And we had to send him to his room because he was just making a nuisance of himself. So I guess if you're over the age of 22, don't attempt the braveheart. [00:37:56] Speaker C: Drinking game because it's brutal. [00:38:00] Speaker A: It also ends with, the kicker is if you aren't drunk by the end, it's like if anybody loses their testicles, you have to drink three beers. It's just trying to get you there. I'm sure many people. [00:38:19] Speaker B: Yeah, that's some cheap rules. [00:38:21] Speaker C: Yeah, very cheap rules. [00:38:24] Speaker A: Mark doesn't realize that there's some necroplasmic glow emanating from the sword as he picks it up. [00:38:30] Speaker C: Yep. [00:38:31] Speaker B: It starts to zap him a little bit. [00:38:36] Speaker A: There's a video going around of a couple of lollapaloozers who decided to sit on the tracks at a CTA station to take a fun picture. And one of them leans back on the third rail, and it immediately just goes. And that's what Mark Rosen is doing right here. [00:38:57] Speaker C: Oh, my God. [00:38:58] Speaker B: Did they survive? Or is this like a video of someone dying? [00:39:00] Speaker A: The last I heard, so there were three of them. When the first one fell back, he grabbed the one next to him and dragged them down as well. The last I heard, they were both in critical condition, but I don't know anything. [00:39:14] Speaker B: If you're seeing these videos, God damn. [00:39:16] Speaker A: It, how do I see them, Johnny? You don't want to know, because then you'll see them, and you will be burdened with the glorious Reddit. Actually, these ones were on Instagram because it was literally, somebody got a hold. [00:39:30] Speaker C: Of the CTA surveillance tape and published it. [00:39:34] Speaker A: Like, they published this video, and we're immediately like, follow our backup account. We know we're going to get shut down, but it's a site that uses security camera feeds and stuff to show crazy shit that goes on in town. [00:39:51] Speaker C: Don't tell my mom what the handle is, mom. [00:39:55] Speaker A: You're not allowed to know. [00:39:56] Speaker C: Don't ask. [00:39:56] Speaker B: I want to know. Okay. Dm me. [00:39:58] Speaker C: Yeah, we'll talk about it off Mike. [00:40:01] Speaker A: Okay. [00:40:01] Speaker B: I want to know. [00:40:02] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:40:02] Speaker A: So if you ever go to a town that has subways or trains, a don't fucking get on the tracks, because it's very hard to get off of those tracks. [00:40:12] Speaker C: I don't know if you've looked to. [00:40:14] Speaker A: See how far down the tracks are from the platform, everybody. [00:40:17] Speaker C: But that's like 6ft. [00:40:18] Speaker A: It's no good. And if you do find yourself on the tracks, the one rail that is elevated and kept away from everything else, you stay as far the fuck away. [00:40:28] Speaker C: From that bitch as you can because it's got, like, massive amounts of electricity in it. Don't do it. [00:40:37] Speaker A: Stay off the tracks. [00:40:39] Speaker B: Stay off the tracks. [00:40:41] Speaker C: I know. [00:40:42] Speaker B: Like Mark Rosen getting zapped here by. [00:40:44] Speaker C: Spawn sword, by medieval spawn sword without. [00:40:48] Speaker A: All the cool components of costume floating around you. [00:40:53] Speaker B: It'll just be, and you also don't get to become a spawn at the end, probably. [00:40:58] Speaker C: Well, I mean, I guess. [00:40:59] Speaker A: I guess depending on how quickly you yell out to make a deal with Malbolgia. [00:41:04] Speaker C: That's true. [00:41:04] Speaker B: That's true. If you're dying and you're just like. [00:41:06] Speaker C: Yes, I'll do it. I'll do it. [00:41:10] Speaker B: Just like McFarland. [00:41:12] Speaker C: Tod McFarland. [00:41:13] Speaker B: The Tod father himself says the beginning of every spawn, the animation where he's like you have 1 second to decide. [00:41:19] Speaker C: What do you tv would be? [00:41:26] Speaker A: I think we should hire, or somebody should hire the Todd father to do one of those for every show related show. That's part of the draw of the show is we got those Todd McFarland intro videos. [00:41:40] Speaker B: It's like, oh yeah, we got the Tod McFarland intro. [00:41:42] Speaker C: Come on. [00:41:43] Speaker A: Or like have him. [00:41:44] Speaker B: He does the intro to this is us and he does the intro to anything. [00:41:49] Speaker A: Or it's like a new version of. What was that show that Jonathan Frakes hosted? [00:41:57] Speaker B: Factor fiction. [00:41:58] Speaker A: Yeah, factor fiction. [00:42:00] Speaker B: I watched Factor fiction by Todd father. [00:42:02] Speaker A: I love the, the supercuts of those because one of them is like, have you ever ridden a bicycle? [00:42:08] Speaker B: Yeah, I used to love that show. [00:42:10] Speaker A: This is Jonathan Frakes decked out in the most ninety s of bicycle gear. [00:42:18] Speaker C: Nice. [00:42:19] Speaker B: I used to love Factor fiction. [00:42:20] Speaker A: It was the softer version of Unsolved mysteries. Unsolved Mysteries is what played in the late night pizza places that you had to go to when you stayed at. [00:42:31] Speaker C: Hotels that for some reason every time. [00:42:36] Speaker A: You stayed in a hotel and went to go get pizza and they were showing unsolved mysteries, it was always about some sort of brutal murder at a motel. [00:42:45] Speaker B: Unsolved mysteries was scary. [00:42:47] Speaker C: Yeah, it was. Freaked me out. Yeah, because they're unsolved. [00:42:53] Speaker A: Because they are unsolved. [00:42:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:42:55] Speaker A: And they're mysterious. You know who else is mysterious and is maybe a little bit freaked out? [00:43:01] Speaker C: Johnny. Gunslinger. Gunslinger. [00:43:04] Speaker B: He's freaked out. He's a man out of time. [00:43:07] Speaker A: He's a man out of time. He's just sitting on this porch. [00:43:13] Speaker C: And. [00:43:14] Speaker A: He'S just watching the crows come in. [00:43:15] Speaker C: Johnny. [00:43:18] Speaker A: He is witnessing a murder, as. [00:43:20] Speaker C: They say, a murder of crows. [00:43:22] Speaker A: And then we get some of the, what we've got going a lot lately. [00:43:28] Speaker C: We've got some blackened feathers falling down. [00:43:34] Speaker B: Oh yeah, I sent you that video from the. I went to a ghost concert. [00:43:37] Speaker A: Yeah, you did. Yeah. And I couldn't go because I had meetings both mornings, so I couldn't take a day off. [00:43:44] Speaker B: No, it was great. It was a good show. [00:43:47] Speaker C: Excellent. Excellent. [00:43:51] Speaker A: Always a good thing, a ritual. [00:43:53] Speaker C: Oh yeah. [00:43:54] Speaker B: And it was nice to see him after the newest album had come out because last time we saw him, the. [00:43:57] Speaker C: Album hadn't come out yet. [00:43:59] Speaker A: And let me guess, you could actually hear all of Kaiseri in this time. They didn't just have the monitors. [00:44:07] Speaker B: Know what? I don't know if that was on purpose or what. [00:44:12] Speaker A: Do you not remember Bran being like, that guy knows he fucked up. Look at him. Look at him. He knows he fucked up. [00:44:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:44:20] Speaker A: Bran was like, I know exactly what button he pushed, and he shouldn't have pushed that button. He knew he shouldn't have pushed that button. Just an aside to the listeners. If you can ever go experience something with somebody who does the technical version of that for a living, do it. It's fun to watch what they watch. [00:44:43] Speaker C: It's good. Yes, it's good. Yeah. [00:44:47] Speaker B: The brand was explaining a lot of the lighting stuff this time, and I. [00:44:49] Speaker C: Was just looking at it, and it was really cool. Some great lighting. [00:44:55] Speaker A: Some people might think it might take the magic out of it, knowing how the sausage is made, but I find it infinitely more fascinating to be like. [00:45:02] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, and you're able to produce this just from that? Man, I've had a ghost stuck in. [00:45:10] Speaker B: My head for, like, two days. Perfect for reading small, too. [00:45:12] Speaker A: Yeah, they're going to be on the album for the new movie, and if they are, somebody done fucked up. [00:45:20] Speaker B: Somebody's fucking up. Yeah, you got to get ghosts on there. [00:45:23] Speaker C: Come on. Yeah, for real. [00:45:26] Speaker B: So these crows morph, and they turn into. [00:45:31] Speaker C: They turn into redeemer. [00:45:34] Speaker B: Not Raven spawn. [00:45:35] Speaker C: Not redeemer. [00:45:40] Speaker A: Nope. Can't do it. I was trying to portmanteau Redeemer and Raven spawn, and it didn't work. He's anti raven spawn. [00:45:47] Speaker C: There we go. Got it. [00:45:48] Speaker B: He's anti raven spawn. [00:45:51] Speaker A: And then we get our first hint of Javi's special bullets. We don't get an example just yet, but Javi says, you know what these bullets can do. [00:46:02] Speaker C: I know, right? [00:46:03] Speaker A: I've seen what your victims look like. So Redeemer tells Javy what time he's. [00:46:09] Speaker C: In the 21st century, and hobby is. [00:46:11] Speaker A: Like, yeah, I saw some stuff that didn't make any sense. I saw some fancy contraptions, not to mention the automobile. [00:46:21] Speaker B: Right. That's a contraption. [00:46:24] Speaker A: That's a contraption. [00:46:25] Speaker C: Like the doorknobs. [00:46:27] Speaker A: I mean, the doorknobs they had in the civil w times and the doorknobs that are on this farmhouse now. Wildly different, I would assume. [00:46:35] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:46:36] Speaker A: Like, he probably pushes the little button and accidentally locks himself out of the bathroom, and he's like, wait, what? [00:46:41] Speaker C: Wait, what? [00:46:42] Speaker A: Although he doesn't know about bathrooms at this point. [00:46:44] Speaker C: That's right. [00:46:46] Speaker B: He's just been going outside. [00:46:47] Speaker A: He wouldn't have to worry about the bathroom. [00:46:49] Speaker C: But nice. No. [00:46:52] Speaker A: Redeemer is being a herald of bad things to come, and he's like. And they are coming right now. [00:47:00] Speaker B: He's just warning him that there's a war coming for all spawns. [00:47:04] Speaker C: Yeah. And Hobby says he's ready. And then we get a very cool. [00:47:11] Speaker A: Little anime hobby ready eyes. Where it's like his little smoke turns into kind of a little crosshair there. Yeah, that's a fun little filigree. [00:47:24] Speaker C: I like it. Yeah. [00:47:27] Speaker B: What about cog? Is he a part of this? And the redeemer says, let you figure that out on your own. [00:47:34] Speaker A: As soon as the crows start turning. [00:47:36] Speaker C: Back into angels, Redeemer is gone, and Javi is stuck, stuck with these knife wielding maniacs. [00:47:48] Speaker A: And as he's done at least three times in this issue, Javi tosses aside. [00:47:52] Speaker C: His cigarette and allows himself to smile. This is going to be fun. [00:48:00] Speaker B: He's had three cigarettes in, like, the last ten minutes. [00:48:03] Speaker A: Yeah, I know, man. [00:48:04] Speaker C: He needs to slow down. [00:48:05] Speaker A: Doesn't he know how expensive those things are? [00:48:09] Speaker C: He doesn't have any money yet. And then he just. [00:48:16] Speaker B: He's going to find out when he goes to Taylor's convenience store and he's in a world of hurt. [00:48:20] Speaker A: Yeah, he is. He's just going to throw that bag of money on the counter and be like, I just need some cigarettes. [00:48:25] Speaker C: It'll get two packs. [00:48:26] Speaker B: They're so expensive. [00:48:28] Speaker A: He just capows this angel in the middle, right? Shoots them right in their head. It explodes the target on contact. [00:48:35] Speaker C: Boom. [00:48:36] Speaker A: Man, it's gruesome. [00:48:39] Speaker C: It's gruesome. [00:48:41] Speaker B: It's kind of a punk rock angel here. [00:48:44] Speaker C: Yeah, with his bone mohawk. Yeah, it's. [00:48:51] Speaker A: The follow up to Bone tomahawk. [00:48:53] Speaker C: Bone mohawk. Bone mohawk. Yeah. [00:48:57] Speaker A: It's set in, like, the York punk scene, man. [00:49:03] Speaker B: I could see s. Craig Zahar. [00:49:04] Speaker C: Right. [00:49:07] Speaker A: That would be wonderful. There's so much gross stuff you could. [00:49:11] Speaker C: Do with that time period. [00:49:13] Speaker A: Javi starts doing a strategic retreat into the House, where he's got his arsenal all laid out. [00:49:20] Speaker C: And so he's just, as Danny DeVito. [00:49:24] Speaker A: Said, he started blasting. [00:49:27] Speaker C: That's what he's done. So he's doing. [00:49:30] Speaker B: He's just blasting them all over the place. [00:49:33] Speaker A: And the upside to getting pulled forward in time is innovation. Also moved forward. [00:49:40] Speaker B: Some good tod father aside there. [00:49:42] Speaker A: So Javi picks up a giant sniper rifle. [00:49:48] Speaker B: Just blows a chunk out of the side of this angel. [00:49:51] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:49:53] Speaker A: Results that even the gun slinger finds. [00:49:56] Speaker C: Dot, dot, dot. Wait for it. Dot, dot, dot. [00:49:59] Speaker A: Staggering, staggering. I like how far away the word staggering is. Oh, man. And then there's a squeak. And we get some good round eye of surprise there. Round eye of surprise. [00:50:17] Speaker B: Round eye of sobriety. [00:50:19] Speaker A: Of surprise. And then the next thing we know punk rock angel is, like, tackling Javi through a wall. And then they're outside having a little knife battle. [00:50:35] Speaker C: And then Javi shoves the knife, like. [00:50:39] Speaker A: Right up through the guy's head, from his jaw to his dome. [00:50:43] Speaker C: Oof. Oh, man. It's gotta take a lot of effort. Yeah, it's gotta be tough. Yeah, man. [00:50:51] Speaker A: Javi's a strong boy. [00:50:52] Speaker C: And then, so we just leave Javi. [00:50:56] Speaker A: There, hovering over or standing above his. [00:50:58] Speaker C: Kill, and then we go half a world away. [00:51:01] Speaker B: We've got the kind of leaving off. [00:51:03] Speaker C: Where we were last time, where Spawn's. [00:51:05] Speaker B: There with Cygor and overt kill, overtkill. And Spawn's kind of pissed because Jim Downing put some of his blood into them to help them regenerate. So now they're easily trackable because they're just like Spawn energy. [00:51:20] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:51:21] Speaker A: And Spawns pulled them out of their goo tubes, so they might have been prematurely removed from their back to tanks, if you will. [00:51:35] Speaker C: That's what Jim Downing's like. [00:51:37] Speaker A: You know, he's worried about Cygor. He's like, is he going to be okay? [00:51:42] Speaker B: Of course he's worried about monkey. [00:51:45] Speaker A: He's so sad. Look at how sad cygor is. [00:51:48] Speaker C: It hurts me. It hurts. Then, you know, they start. [00:51:54] Speaker A: Spawn's like, you fucked up, Jim. You've put targets on their back. [00:51:59] Speaker C: And overkill's like, they are hunting me. [00:52:02] Speaker B: I love how spawn like covers. No, no, they're not. Everything's going to be okay. [00:52:08] Speaker A: Yeah, I thought that was a little. [00:52:11] Speaker C: Weird, but yeah, spawn trying to comfort overkill. [00:52:17] Speaker A: And then spawn being like, jim, you've poisoned these guys. And Jim being like, I thought you knew everything. [00:52:23] Speaker C: My bad. [00:52:24] Speaker A: Jim's being a little jerk here. [00:52:27] Speaker C: A little jerky jerk. So Jim walks over and is like, I'm going to help monkey. [00:52:37] Speaker A: And puts his hands on him and necroplasms into him. [00:52:42] Speaker C: Some mind melds, digs deep into the. [00:52:46] Speaker A: Beast'S skull and then slowly, slowly starts to stand up. And then Al tries to make reparations with Jim Downing. And then Jim downing slaps his hand away. [00:52:58] Speaker C: Yeah, he's like, you'll get to come. [00:53:00] Speaker B: Here and then threaten me and then change your mind. [00:53:02] Speaker C: Yeah, man. I used to be just like you. Thought I could do everything alone. [00:53:10] Speaker A: And then a heartbeat later, spawns, psychor and overt killer gone. And Jim downing is left to wonder if it was even worth coming out of his recent coma. [00:53:19] Speaker B: Sees boops out of there with him. [00:53:22] Speaker C: Yeah, I've never been in a coma. [00:53:25] Speaker A: But I can imagine that if you come out of a coma and then you're like, why the fuck did I come out of the coma for this? It might be a pretty depressing event. [00:53:36] Speaker C: Yeah, it must be really bad. And then we. [00:53:40] Speaker A: To be continued. [00:53:41] Speaker C: And Al's gained a little bit of power. [00:53:46] Speaker A: He's at 43. [00:53:48] Speaker C: Four three. He's not too bad, not too shabby. [00:53:53] Speaker A: What kind of back metal you got. [00:53:54] Speaker C: In that issue there, Johnny? It's the same. [00:53:57] Speaker B: It has been the last few issues. It's just a bunch of advertisements for spawn trade paperbacks. [00:54:03] Speaker A: No spawning grounds. [00:54:04] Speaker C: Still. [00:54:05] Speaker B: No spawning grounds. Still. [00:54:06] Speaker A: Interesting. [00:54:07] Speaker C: Maybe that's something that Thomas Healy brings. [00:54:09] Speaker B: Thomas Healy demanded to come back, which is thank God he did. [00:54:13] Speaker A: Yeah, he's like, I'm not overworked enough. I need to also read all the emails people send. [00:54:18] Speaker B: It's also a great way to build the spawn community. [00:54:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:54:24] Speaker C: That'S issue three. [00:54:25] Speaker B: One, two. And here's one thing I want to ask you, David. [00:54:28] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:54:28] Speaker B: Before we close the book on this. Why is it called Cult of Omega? [00:54:36] Speaker C: I do not know. Because we haven't come across Omega yet. [00:54:43] Speaker B: It's cult of Omega part one and part two. And I have no idea why it's called that. [00:54:47] Speaker A: Well, I mean, the next issue is called Cult of Omega part three. [00:54:52] Speaker B: Oh. So maybe that will explain it all. [00:54:54] Speaker A: Maybe. Unless it's like a four or five parter. [00:54:59] Speaker B: Okay, so sorry. I thought it was just two parts. I guess Omega will probably show up then. [00:55:03] Speaker C: Good to know. Or some kind of cult of omega will hopefully appear. [00:55:08] Speaker B: No, I was just curious because I was like, why is it called Cult of Omega? [00:55:12] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't know. Who knows? You know who probably knows? [00:55:17] Speaker A: Tod father. Hey, Todfather, maybe you want to email us, let us know why it's called. [00:55:21] Speaker C: Code of Omega regarding [email protected]. [00:55:24] Speaker B: He doesn't remember. [00:55:26] Speaker A: One of these days he will listen and he will send us a thing and be like, I don't fucking know, guys. [00:55:32] Speaker B: I'm too busy. [00:55:33] Speaker C: I just wrote it. [00:55:34] Speaker B: I just write this shit down. [00:55:35] Speaker A: Don't you remember? I'm lazy and so I don't remember anything. [00:55:38] Speaker C: That's what he's going to say. [00:55:39] Speaker B: I don't do interior pages because Rob Liefeld said I didn't call me lazy. [00:55:48] Speaker A: I'm glad the Todd father doesn't hear. [00:55:49] Speaker C: That shade directed at him because he doesn't read the comments. He doesn't read the comments. [00:55:55] Speaker B: He's a zero every day, just like he said at Comic Con. So, Todd father, here's to you. [00:56:00] Speaker C: Here's to you. [00:56:01] Speaker A: A three one two. Tipped in your direction. [00:56:04] Speaker C: Cheers. [00:56:05] Speaker B: A nice little beer. [00:56:06] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:56:07] Speaker B: Well, you don't drink beer, but we'll drink a beer for you. [00:56:09] Speaker C: Todd. [00:56:10] Speaker B: Father. [00:56:10] Speaker C: A nice goose island. [00:56:12] Speaker B: Three one two. [00:56:12] Speaker A: For this issue, maybe we can get him one of those powerful topo chicos. Because, man, Topo Chico is the best carbonated water because it is aggressive. [00:56:25] Speaker B: It will attack your brain with carbonation. [00:56:28] Speaker A: It's so good. It's so hard to get into. But once you get into it, it's like all of the bubbly water is too soft. [00:56:36] Speaker C: It is. Yeah. [00:56:37] Speaker B: You got to get the topo. [00:56:38] Speaker C: Got to get the topo. Let's spawn three. [00:56:41] Speaker A: One, two. Johnny. [00:56:56] Speaker B: Next up, we've got King Spawn 23. [00:57:00] Speaker A: Yeah, we do. [00:57:01] Speaker B: We got the penultimate to this exodus. [00:57:04] Speaker C: Salmon twitch arc. Yeah. And we got a couple of covers. We do a couple of them. A few. [00:57:14] Speaker B: So the first of is Chris Stevens. This is the one I was reading. That's the one I got cover artist for this month. [00:57:21] Speaker C: I believe that this came out. [00:57:24] Speaker A: I loved every single Chris Stevens cover. [00:57:27] Speaker C: I did, too. [00:57:28] Speaker B: I really liked them a lot. [00:57:29] Speaker C: This Blake swan one's great. [00:57:31] Speaker A: It's great. I like how it's, like, gradients from very cool blue through purples all the way down to really warm reds and oranges. It's just very well composed and just beautiful. [00:57:49] Speaker B: You got plague spawn looks like possibly urzin in the background. [00:57:53] Speaker A: It's either that or it's a non long jaw fleabiek. [00:57:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:57:59] Speaker B: And then you got nightmare spawn down there. [00:58:01] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:58:04] Speaker B: Pretty cool. [00:58:04] Speaker C: It's really fucking cool. [00:58:07] Speaker B: There's also a b cover that also rules. It's by Francesco Tomicelli, and it's spawn in a flooded. [00:58:16] Speaker C: Ooh, like, just standing there in front. [00:58:19] Speaker B: Of a stained glass window of, like, Jessica Priest, I guess. [00:58:25] Speaker C: It's, like, a woman with red hair. Oh, nice. [00:58:30] Speaker A: That's incredible. [00:58:32] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:58:32] Speaker B: And there's a virgin version of this, too. So I guess they're technically three covers. [00:58:37] Speaker C: I really like this one as well. They're both awesome. I love how nicely king spawn cover. [00:58:45] Speaker A: Imagery has fit with, just, like, the stained glass window aesthetic. [00:58:51] Speaker C: It's great. [00:58:52] Speaker A: I guess gunslinger too. I guess spawn in general just fits. [00:58:55] Speaker C: Well with the stained glass effect. Yeah. [00:58:59] Speaker B: Well, there was, like, a little weird. [00:59:00] Speaker C: Run where it feel like everyone was. [00:59:04] Speaker B: On the same juice or something, because there's, like, that gunslinger one where he's jumping through the stained glass. [00:59:09] Speaker C: Yeah, there's this one. There was, like, a few of them. [00:59:12] Speaker A: There was that J. Scott Campbell one that had everybody in it. Like there were salmon twitches in it. [00:59:19] Speaker C: That was great. The other one from like 300. Yeah, great. [00:59:25] Speaker A: I bet if he's feeling sassy, the Todd father will give himself some spawn stained glass windows in his house someday. [00:59:34] Speaker C: Oh, I'm sure he will, if he hasn't already. [00:59:37] Speaker A: My grandmother had some stained glass windows in her house. [00:59:41] Speaker C: Really? And most of them were roses, but. [00:59:46] Speaker A: One of them was very clearly a face, which my sister and I long ago decided was the face of the ghost that lived in the house. Because as soon as my grandmother died and the house was no longer haunted, you could very clearly see that it was roses instead of a face. [01:00:06] Speaker C: That's creepy. [01:00:07] Speaker A: I don't know if I've talked about my grandmother living in a haunted house on this podcast before, but I don't. [01:00:13] Speaker B: Think so because I don't know about it. [01:00:14] Speaker C: Yeah, well, okay. [01:00:15] Speaker A: Well, my grandmother lived in Oklahoma, the bustling metropolis of El Reno, Oklahoma. [01:00:26] Speaker C: Home of the onion burger, though. But yeah, her house was haunted as shit. [01:00:33] Speaker A: And it's very awkward to get in the conversations at work with ultra rational scientist people and having to defend the I believe in ghosts because I've actually interacted with them before. [01:00:55] Speaker C: So yeah, ghosts, they're fucking there and. [01:01:03] Speaker A: They live on a spectrum. The one that lived in my grandmother's house wasn't very nice. No, my sister has multiply many times apologized for doing the thing that she did, where we would be playing in the basement in the playroom, and then. [01:01:21] Speaker C: She would turn the lights off and. [01:01:23] Speaker A: Run upstairs really quick to leave me alone in the dark. At the epicenter of ghosts, it never. [01:01:29] Speaker C: Turned out well, but yeah, ghosts, they're real. Grew up in a haunted house. Fucking exciting. [01:01:39] Speaker B: Good to know. [01:01:40] Speaker C: I'll have to grill you on that. I'm now curious, but I don't want. [01:01:44] Speaker B: To do a whole episode. [01:01:45] Speaker C: Yeah, childhood. [01:01:49] Speaker A: At the risk of falling into that trap we set for ourselves, anytime I have a nightmare, it's set in that fucking house. So I'll just be sleeping along and then the house will show up and. [01:02:01] Speaker C: I'll be like, God damn it, now. [01:02:03] Speaker A: I need to wake up. I need to wake up now. [01:02:05] Speaker C: Like right now. [01:02:06] Speaker A: I need to get out of this shit. Terrifying, terrifying, terrifying. [01:02:12] Speaker C: But you know what else is terrifying, Johnny? Some. [01:02:16] Speaker B: Some parts of King Spawn. [01:02:18] Speaker A: Some parts of King Spawn 23. [01:02:20] Speaker C: Holy shit. Yeah. [01:02:23] Speaker B: So this is written with script, plot by Sean Lewis, additional script by Todd McFarland. [01:02:28] Speaker C: We've got art by Kevin Keane, color by Ivan Nunes, lettering by Anne World Design. [01:02:36] Speaker B: We got the two cover artists Chris Stevens and Francesco Thomas. [01:02:39] Speaker C: Ellie. [01:02:40] Speaker B: Creative director Tom McFarlane. [01:02:42] Speaker C: And editor in chief Thomas Healy. Yeah. Fuck, yeah. Hell, yeah. [01:02:47] Speaker B: This is our classic team Spawn. Team King Spawn. Got Kevin Keane in here, which is cool. [01:02:54] Speaker A: Teen spawn. Hell, yeah. Johnny. [01:02:56] Speaker B: That needs teen spawn. [01:02:58] Speaker A: Teen spawn. Let's get the teen spawn going. I need Al Simmons as Spawn, as a 13 year old trying to navigate interpersonal relationships. And learning about weird necroplasmic hairs growing in places that they've never appeared. [01:03:15] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:03:15] Speaker B: He's like, mom, my necroplasm released the middle of the night. What's going on? [01:03:22] Speaker A: Well, could you imagine? It could be. We need a spawn coming of age. [01:03:28] Speaker C: Story, Johnny, where he falls in love with Wanda. And he keeps losing her because the. [01:03:35] Speaker B: Clown'S like the bully at his school. [01:03:38] Speaker A: I think that needs to be a movie. Teen Spawn. I would watch the hell. It's like teen wolf, only hopefully with less extras hanging dong at the end of it. I still haven't followed up to see the evidence, but, man, there's blockbuster that has their dick. Yeah. [01:03:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:03:57] Speaker A: Blockbuster film school. Brings it up like every other episode. [01:04:01] Speaker C: Oh, nice. It's a good show. [01:04:04] Speaker A: It's a good show. Blockbuster film school. [01:04:05] Speaker C: If you aren't listening to you guys, check it out. [01:04:09] Speaker B: So previously in King Spawn, Spawn discovers that Cyan's friend Yoko is still alive. And has been turned into a living weapon by the Exodus foundation. [01:04:20] Speaker C: Man. [01:04:21] Speaker B: Also, I can't remember. This was released in June 2023. Can't remember if we mentioned. [01:04:26] Speaker C: Yeah, June 2023. We open just on Yoko. [01:04:32] Speaker A: As far as opening splash pages go. [01:04:35] Speaker C: This is nightmare fuel. Look at that. [01:04:39] Speaker B: She's kind of explaining. Yeah, I know. It's scary. She's got, like, blood in her mouth. [01:04:43] Speaker C: She's wearing, like, this crazy helmet thing. Yeah. [01:04:50] Speaker A: It's like a helmet that was concocted in a cartoon to make somebody smarter. [01:04:55] Speaker C: Right. [01:04:56] Speaker A: Very sinister. [01:04:57] Speaker C: It's like sending energy in there. It. So Yoko was killed in issues somewhere. [01:05:06] Speaker B: In issues 276 through 280. Kind of what we get here is a little. [01:05:10] Speaker C: She's just saying that basically, whenever Spawn. [01:05:15] Speaker B: Went and saved Cyan, that she was collateral damage. [01:05:18] Speaker C: And Exodus has brought her back. Yeah. [01:05:22] Speaker A: And then they've been giving her extracted brains. So I don't know if they've been injecting it or they've been making her eat them. [01:05:33] Speaker B: Yeah. I can't tell because she's all covered in blood. Maybe she's been eating the brains. [01:05:36] Speaker C: Oh, man. [01:05:37] Speaker A: Maybe it's, like a combination of both. Maybe they were just trying to. [01:05:45] Speaker C: Inject. [01:05:45] Speaker A: Her with the extracted brains. But at some point, she just decided. [01:05:48] Speaker C: To start eating them because she's gone. [01:05:51] Speaker A: There's a cuckoo for cocoa puffs. There's a crazy gleam in her eye, and it is unsettling. I got to flip the page. Kevin Keane did too good of a job on that. [01:06:01] Speaker B: Too scary. And then you get all these brains spilling out of her. Well, not brains. [01:06:07] Speaker A: It's like the spirits of the brains. It's such a cool effect. It's just like she's vomiting pink necroplasm that has faces and has, like, little tumorsque bodies coming out of the main form. It's real cool. [01:06:29] Speaker C: Then she has this army of the. [01:06:32] Speaker B: Brain spirits she ate. [01:06:34] Speaker A: I do like, very much like, how disturbing the spirits are. And then how cartoony spawn looks. [01:06:42] Speaker C: It's amazing. Yeah. [01:06:44] Speaker B: I like this cartoony spawn. He's hilarious because he's, like. [01:06:49] Speaker C: When he. [01:06:49] Speaker B: Sees the spirits, it's pretty awesome. [01:06:51] Speaker A: It's real cool. [01:06:52] Speaker C: It's real cool. [01:06:53] Speaker A: I like how you notice that certain things have been shaded with what's obviously fingerprints. So, like, the bands on his arm. That's definitely just, like, an image of. [01:07:08] Speaker C: Fingerprint imposed on it. It's real fun. Oh, yeah. [01:07:13] Speaker A: And then know, berating spawn for having abandoned his. Know, blaming him for her, not his daughter, and then saying, know, he fucked up by abandoning his daughter or by. [01:07:26] Speaker B: It'S not his daughter. [01:07:27] Speaker A: Yeah, I caught myself kind of for abandoning cyan. [01:07:33] Speaker C: And then on top of that, getting her killed. [01:07:38] Speaker A: And then on top of that, fucking up her sweet release through death by basically punishing her. [01:07:49] Speaker C: Could. [01:07:49] Speaker A: I could see Al Simmons doing some of this. But there's no way that all of. [01:07:53] Speaker C: This is actually Al's fault. [01:07:57] Speaker A: And if it is Al's fault, it's because somebody's using him as a reason to do this. [01:08:03] Speaker C: And she's, like, all united with all these ghosts, formed a single union. [01:08:11] Speaker B: And this is just a cool image. They explode and go into spawn. [01:08:16] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:08:17] Speaker B: Fights. Pretty cool. [01:08:18] Speaker C: I like how it's just kind of, like, mind bending and just, like, reality bending. It's awesome. [01:08:25] Speaker A: Yeah. They form into a group, and then they shatter into shards, and then the shards go inside of them. And it's a real fun technique of. [01:08:34] Speaker C: How to get the bits of these. [01:08:36] Speaker A: Souls inside of him. I think because, as we learn, he's kind of protected. His outsides protect him from being able to be attacked in this manner. But once they get through his skin to his insides, he's vulnerable to their. [01:08:55] Speaker C: Sort of spirit power. [01:08:59] Speaker B: You brought back just kinkade. You brought back disruptor. It's my turn. [01:09:03] Speaker A: And then it focuses on Sam. Like hiding behind a trash can full of body parts. [01:09:11] Speaker B: Yeah, pretty. [01:09:14] Speaker C: You know, dicking around on his phone. [01:09:18] Speaker B: No, he's sending his pin to somebody. [01:09:20] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:09:21] Speaker B: He's not playing a phone game. A phone app. [01:09:23] Speaker C: A game app. [01:09:26] Speaker B: What is it from? [01:09:26] Speaker C: Gunslinger? [01:09:28] Speaker A: Yeah, it's an app. [01:09:30] Speaker C: Game. App. Game. App. Game. That's what it is. [01:09:34] Speaker B: Playing an app game. [01:09:35] Speaker C: He's doing a map game. [01:09:38] Speaker A: He's got 4g reception in that basement. [01:09:41] Speaker C: Johnny, I don't know how many basements. [01:09:43] Speaker A: You go into on a regular basis. [01:09:45] Speaker C: But they're always just, like, dead zones. [01:09:50] Speaker B: Maybe he got on the exodus Foundation's wifi. [01:09:52] Speaker C: Maybe their password is behemoth. [01:09:55] Speaker A: But with an eight instead of a. [01:09:57] Speaker B: B, it's a behemoth. [01:09:59] Speaker C: Tar rules with a. Sam's. [01:10:05] Speaker A: Sam's setting his pen. And then we follow the message he just sent to its recipient. [01:10:12] Speaker C: And we got just twitch sitting in. [01:10:15] Speaker A: A car, tapping the steering wheel. [01:10:17] Speaker C: Just sitting there swaying. And then Terry comes out. [01:10:25] Speaker A: Similarly covered in glass shards. [01:10:28] Speaker B: This is from jumping out of window. Yeah, from jumping out of window. [01:10:32] Speaker A: But it is fun that both Terry and spawn have undergone the same general. [01:10:41] Speaker B: Same general wound. [01:10:43] Speaker C: Yeah, glass shards. [01:10:45] Speaker A: They're inextricably linked together, regardless of how far apart they feel they need to be. [01:10:55] Speaker C: I love this panel where they're both. [01:10:56] Speaker B: Looking down at the phone. [01:10:57] Speaker C: It's great. Yeah, he's leaning on the car. He's really get a sense of the physicality. Yeah. [01:11:04] Speaker B: And so they got the pin emailed to him or not emailed, texted to him. He's like, we'll see. [01:11:10] Speaker C: Hop in. [01:11:15] Speaker B: Terry calls him Sam. Action. [01:11:17] Speaker A: Yeah, action Sam. [01:11:19] Speaker C: It's like, action, man. [01:11:22] Speaker A: So we learned that all the cops think that Sam is fearless. And Sam is just like, well, I just had to pretend that I have no fear. And so he's like, spawn, what am I supposed to do here? [01:11:34] Speaker C: What's my move? He unloads into Yoko because he's not. [01:11:42] Speaker A: Sure what to do. And that seems to take care of her body. He has no idea, though, how to deal with the ghosts. [01:11:50] Speaker C: So. Right there with you, buddy. [01:11:54] Speaker B: Yeah, evidently. [01:11:58] Speaker A: And they overwhelm him. [01:12:00] Speaker C: They overwhelm him and. [01:12:04] Speaker A: Lift him up into the air. So he's captured, and he's unable to escape. And then they hold him aloft. As Yoko reveals that, oh, she's not taken care of after all. She's got these big old holes through her body. [01:12:24] Speaker C: And. [01:12:27] Speaker A: She starts berating him. [01:12:28] Speaker C: She shot the holes in the body yeah. [01:12:31] Speaker A: She smooshes one of his eyes. [01:12:35] Speaker B: Ouch. [01:12:36] Speaker A: Ouch. And then she holds him up to her chest so that way he can see through one of the holes in her body. To see to the past, to the last time he was truly scared. [01:12:49] Speaker C: And it was. [01:12:51] Speaker A: And we learned that Sam's home life was not too great. [01:12:56] Speaker B: Not too great, not too abusive father, it appears. [01:12:59] Speaker C: What a joke. [01:13:02] Speaker A: And then Yoko does that asshole thing of blaming a eight year old for being unable to defend his mother from a very giant, violent man. Don't put that on an eight year old kid. [01:13:20] Speaker C: What could he do? What could he do? I mean, look at the size of that guy. [01:13:26] Speaker A: All he has to do is sit on young sam Burke, and young Sam Burke turns into a pancake. [01:13:31] Speaker C: And we don't get the good detective friend that we like. [01:13:35] Speaker A: Yeah, Yoko's not very nice. I don't think I like Yoko. She's breaking up the band. [01:13:40] Speaker C: No, Yoko's mean. And that was cool. [01:13:46] Speaker B: I do like how she pulls his eye into the bullet hole to show him the past. That's a pretty cool thing. [01:13:52] Speaker A: Yeah, it's fun. There's a lot of fun technique going on in. [01:13:57] Speaker C: It's just cool how she's just like this phantasmagorical force. [01:14:03] Speaker A: It's like watching any sort of franchise film series that has multiple different directors. And then seeing how each of the different directors will handle certain techniques, like how they will present interiority, or how. [01:14:26] Speaker C: They will sort of visually lead you to. [01:14:32] Speaker A: What they're trying to get at. And I very much like how Kevin Keane shows how he's getting to these places, and it's real fun. And then once she releases Sam from this vision, she then pulls her belt off and whacks him about the face. [01:14:47] Speaker C: With it like his father would have. Oh, man. [01:14:51] Speaker B: That's a fucking mean ass move. [01:14:55] Speaker A: That's terrible. That's like a level of fucked up that even the Joker wouldn't touch. And then she throws Sam across the room, and Al catches him like it's a ball hit well deep into center field. And he catches him right before the ball goes out of the park. [01:15:16] Speaker C: Saving the team from having to witness. [01:15:20] Speaker A: A home run for the other. [01:15:22] Speaker C: Right, right. Convoluted. Yes. [01:15:25] Speaker A: Yoko is quite loyal, is what we learn. [01:15:28] Speaker C: And then come the Maravels. [01:15:32] Speaker A: Yeah, the Maravels. We got Bateman. We got tar. [01:15:35] Speaker C: We have behemoth. [01:15:38] Speaker A: We have. [01:15:39] Speaker B: No, that's not Bateman. Bateman's the son. [01:15:40] Speaker A: Oh, that's daddy. [01:15:42] Speaker C: That's daddy. Mary. Oh, man. Sorry, Daddy. Mary Belle. [01:15:47] Speaker B: It's a key issue. [01:15:49] Speaker A: Bateman. I'm pretty sure his name is Bateman Maryville. Because if this man doesn't name his son after himself. [01:15:55] Speaker C: True. [01:15:58] Speaker A: That man totally names his son after himself. Actually, his son's probably, like, the third or the fourth. [01:16:05] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [01:16:05] Speaker A: It's a legacy. And behemoth as Cyan just, like, tossed over his shoulder. [01:16:09] Speaker B: And Mr. Maryville's just like, yes, we brought back Kim Cade. [01:16:13] Speaker C: We brought back Jason Wynn. And this is basically, he equates taking. [01:16:20] Speaker B: Over the world and acquiring demons to the stock market. Almost. [01:16:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:16:25] Speaker B: Manipulate investors to give us the seed money for us to barter with the fate of the. [01:16:30] Speaker A: So. So much like Al's been trying to. [01:16:35] Speaker C: Save the world, they've been trying to similarly destroy it. So much like Gaia wants to just. [01:16:45] Speaker A: Destroy everything, these people just want to destroy the earth or at least take it over. [01:16:51] Speaker C: So it's another set of players in this battlefield earth that we find ourselves on. Yes. [01:17:03] Speaker A: They're probably possessed by Phaetons and need to undergo some dianetics. The Scientologists are setting up booths along Michigan Avenue. [01:17:13] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [01:17:14] Speaker A: With signs that are like, are you stressed? Come take a test. [01:17:18] Speaker C: And it's like, just fuck off. Just fuck off. Go away. Nobody wants you. You and your stupid stress test. [01:17:30] Speaker B: Yeah, no one needs to figure out how many thetans they got. [01:17:33] Speaker C: Yeah, leave us alone. [01:17:35] Speaker A: There was a. In the show Jane the Virgin, there's. [01:17:40] Speaker C: A flashback for Alejandro, who he wanted. [01:17:51] Speaker A: The prestige that came from being a scientologist when he was little and a young actor, but he couldn't afford the treatments, so he and his friends just got together and did pseudo diagnetics treatments and filmed themselves doing it. So that way they could be like, look, I'm a scientologist. You should hire me. [01:18:11] Speaker C: You know, we're good actor people. [01:18:14] Speaker A: It's hilarious. Hilarious. Jane the Virgin is a good show. [01:18:16] Speaker C: If you haven't watched it. [01:18:18] Speaker B: So we get kind of a cliffhanger. Little coda here where twitch and Terry look in. They say cyan. [01:18:25] Speaker C: They're bird watching. And they're like, that's a yellow bellied warbler. [01:18:29] Speaker B: That's a cyan. [01:18:32] Speaker A: Let's go in gun blazings. [01:18:34] Speaker C: Guns blazing. [01:18:35] Speaker A: Gun blazing. [01:18:36] Speaker B: Terry says, my thoughts exactly. But little do we know, off to the side, someone's watching and laughing. [01:18:43] Speaker C: Yeah. One of Maraville's venture capitalists looks very familiar. [01:18:49] Speaker B: Yeah, those eyes and laughing. But I guess we'll find out next issue who it is. [01:18:54] Speaker A: Obviously, it's the Joker Johnny. [01:18:56] Speaker C: Obviously it's the Joker. That's what I was trying to say. [01:18:59] Speaker B: It's the Joker from Batman. [01:19:01] Speaker C: Spawn. Yeah, that one. That's the end of the episode. Issue. We get issue Kingspawn crown to end it. [01:19:13] Speaker A: We got another spawning crown filled with fan art. Some really good fan art for this one. [01:19:20] Speaker C: I like the top left. I like that a lot. [01:19:22] Speaker A: Yeah, that's really cool. [01:19:23] Speaker B: Like, marking technique. [01:19:24] Speaker A: That one looks like it would be dope under a black light. [01:19:28] Speaker B: Yeah, it looks like it's a blacklight poster. [01:19:30] Speaker A: Yeah. On the bottom right, we got yield. [01:19:32] Speaker C: Meatball head. Yeah, he's, like, sticky. [01:19:35] Speaker B: Meatball head. He's, like, oozing. [01:19:38] Speaker C: He's that meatball that fell off the. [01:19:42] Speaker A: Table and onto the floor. [01:19:43] Speaker C: And then ran out the door. [01:19:47] Speaker B: Yeah, like the one that's on top of old Smokey. [01:19:50] Speaker C: Yeah, on top of spaghetti. [01:19:51] Speaker B: I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed. [01:19:56] Speaker A: Oh, shit. I just sneezed, like, six times. Was it me? [01:19:59] Speaker C: Oh, man. [01:20:00] Speaker B: You lost the meatball head, Spawn? [01:20:02] Speaker C: I made the meatball go. [01:20:04] Speaker A: I'm sorry, meatball head. Spawn, I'll brush you off on my pants before I put you back on the table. [01:20:09] Speaker C: That'll take off most of the hair. [01:20:13] Speaker B: Yeah, some really good. [01:20:15] Speaker A: That pencil one in the very center. [01:20:17] Speaker C: With his dukes up. [01:20:20] Speaker B: That looks like it's what they would use. [01:20:24] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what it would be. [01:20:25] Speaker A: I could just see, like, the fists moving. And that little bit of motion going on. [01:20:29] Speaker C: Yep. Just like spawn. [01:20:33] Speaker B: Spawn alley fight. [01:20:36] Speaker C: Hell, yeah. Advertisements for the advertisements. Toy advertisements. And that's king Spawn number 23. [01:20:45] Speaker B: That's king Spawn number 23. A really exciting, action packed fight with Yoko and Spawn. It's creepy and got some good supernatural, like, trippy stuff going on. [01:20:56] Speaker C: Really liked it. Yeah, real good. Real good. And I think, Johnny, I think that brings us to the point of the show where we rate the puppies. [01:21:11] Speaker B: It's time to rate the puppies. So you had a new puppy with you? An old puppy. I'm going to give him five stars. [01:21:20] Speaker A: Which, the old puppy or the new puppy? [01:21:22] Speaker B: The old puppy. The one that was trying to interrupt the episode at the beginning. [01:21:26] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. We got a hospice pug. [01:21:30] Speaker C: And, well, if you have a pug. [01:21:33] Speaker A: You don't need a white noise machine. But unfortunately, there's no off button. [01:21:37] Speaker B: There's no off. [01:21:39] Speaker A: She's got one eye, so I'm going to give her five eyes. [01:21:44] Speaker B: Good pug. But, no, we're not talking about your puppies. We're not talking about your dogs, David. [01:21:48] Speaker A: I mean, I'm always talking about my dogs. [01:21:50] Speaker B: You are, but we're talking about the issues of Spawn. [01:21:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:21:54] Speaker B: So first up was Spawn 312 or three one two, if you live in the Chicago area. Yes, indeed. It is kind of a two tailed one. It's about the gunslinger, a little bit about Mark and medieval, a little bit about Spawn and Jim downing and that whole team. [01:22:12] Speaker C: It's just really, like, good. [01:22:13] Speaker B: The story's flowing well. [01:22:15] Speaker C: I really. [01:22:17] Speaker A: It's a good little braiding of threads. [01:22:19] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:22:19] Speaker B: And, like, Carlo Barberi is really knocking out of the park. And the coloring by Peter Seigerwald and J. David Ramos is just really pops. Like, it's just really well colored. Just the farmhouse aesthetic. And then go into Spawn's dark aesthetic. [01:22:33] Speaker C: It works really well. Yeah. [01:22:37] Speaker B: So, yeah, I'm going to give it four kisses from Jessica on the cheek. [01:22:44] Speaker A: Oh, hell, yeah. [01:22:45] Speaker B: Because she gives Mark a little peck when she says he's not a spawn. [01:22:48] Speaker C: Yeah, I agree with. [01:22:50] Speaker A: Absolutely. [01:22:50] Speaker B: Oh, here come those jets, David. Here comes the jets from the air water show. [01:22:53] Speaker C: I can hear. Man, oh, man. Kaboom. Hopefully no kaboom. [01:23:04] Speaker A: They should have invited the ghost of Kiev to come this year, shouldn't they have? [01:23:08] Speaker C: Yeah, probably. [01:23:11] Speaker A: Man, that was an exciting time with the birth of the ghost of Kiev legend. [01:23:18] Speaker C: I heard a little bit about it was, but it was like a ukrainian. [01:23:24] Speaker A: Fire fighter pilot that supposedly had, like, eight confirmed down russian planes and just, like, nobody could get them, and they were just, like, in a junkie plane and would just, like, fly overhead in some of the rural parts of Ukraine. [01:23:43] Speaker C: And, yeah, it's a great story. It's a great story. [01:23:49] Speaker A: I think it has since been confirmed to have been, like, three separate people. [01:23:52] Speaker C: But, yeah, that's not fun. Legends are supposed to be fun, right? I loved this issue. [01:24:05] Speaker A: We sometimes give the todfather guff for maybe not being the best writer. [01:24:12] Speaker C: He's admitted it. [01:24:13] Speaker A: But when the toddfather is, like, on, he is on, and this issue, he. [01:24:19] Speaker C: Is right on it. [01:24:22] Speaker A: His goofiness is held back a little. [01:24:25] Speaker C: Bit, and. [01:24:30] Speaker A: He can do technically good stuff. [01:24:33] Speaker C: Like, he is good at it. [01:24:34] Speaker A: That's just not what he wants to do all the time. [01:24:36] Speaker C: So it's a matter of his own. [01:24:39] Speaker A: Personal choice of what he wants to do. [01:24:42] Speaker C: So it's not like he can't do it. He's not lazy. [01:24:46] Speaker A: But especially for a Todd father written. [01:24:49] Speaker C: Issue, very well written. Oh, yeah. And it's just so much fun. And the art, man, Carla Barberi just. [01:24:57] Speaker A: Always brings good stuff. [01:24:59] Speaker C: The colors are nice. It's just popping. I'm going to give it four. [01:25:06] Speaker A: Bobbleheaded mark selfies. [01:25:11] Speaker B: Let's see how sassy I look. [01:25:12] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:25:12] Speaker A: So I guess that's four sassies. [01:25:15] Speaker B: Four sassy. Sassy mark in the helmet. [01:25:17] Speaker A: Four sassy selfies. [01:25:18] Speaker C: There we go. There you go. [01:25:20] Speaker B: Four sassy selfies. [01:25:21] Speaker C: Great. [01:25:23] Speaker B: The next up, we had King spawn 23. [01:25:26] Speaker C: Action packed. [01:25:28] Speaker B: Just like, really fun issue. [01:25:31] Speaker C: I'm going to give it four and a half shards of glass, because both. [01:25:36] Speaker B: Terry and Spawn got shards of glass injected into that. [01:25:39] Speaker A: Oh, man. Glass shards. [01:25:40] Speaker C: Glass shard. [01:25:42] Speaker B: What about you, David? What are you going to give? 23. [01:25:45] Speaker C: Johnny? I am conflicted, you see? Yes. [01:25:51] Speaker A: Because it's very hard for me to. [01:25:52] Speaker C: Not give far end of the scale. [01:25:57] Speaker A: Ratings to King Spawn. And I want to sometimes be like, I need to get down to normal, where three is a good issue and the standout ones are fives. But so far, just like the regular good issues are just always so good. So I've keeping a five. This is a five issue for me. [01:26:17] Speaker C: It's a fiver. [01:26:17] Speaker B: Fiver. All right. [01:26:19] Speaker A: I'm going to give it five bullet wounds in the chest, peepholes. The art is fantastic. [01:26:31] Speaker C: I would have loved to have seen. [01:26:32] Speaker A: What Javi Fernandez would have done with. [01:26:35] Speaker C: This, but there is Kevin Keane. Doesn't disappoint. It's incredible artwork. [01:26:44] Speaker A: It's incredible stuff happening. [01:26:46] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [01:26:48] Speaker A: I am upset that we have to. [01:26:49] Speaker C: Learn that Sam's childhood wasn't great, but that sucks. Yeah, but it's just good. [01:27:00] Speaker A: It's great. [01:27:01] Speaker B: It leads up to the next issue is awesome. I love how it ends. [01:27:05] Speaker C: It's really cool. [01:27:06] Speaker B: I'm exciting. Stuff's happening in King Spawn, as always. [01:27:09] Speaker C: Yeah, so good. So good. [01:27:12] Speaker A: Also, we could, if these are Kevin Keane's own fingerprints that he uses for. [01:27:18] Speaker C: The hatching, somebody, if they were patient. [01:27:22] Speaker A: Enough, could recreate a full fingerprint out of them and maybe accidentally frame him for murder or so. [01:27:31] Speaker C: Don't do that. [01:27:33] Speaker A: I hope nobody does that. Don't do that. That would be a shitty thing to do. Kevin King's too cool for that. [01:27:37] Speaker C: Maybe. [01:27:38] Speaker A: Maybe we can use it to help exonerate him from a crime. To be like, this is what his fingerprints look like. That fingerprint's not over there. Could you imagine being a judge? And some of the evidence that's put before you is an issue of King Spawn, and it's issue number 23. And it's like, this man couldn't have done this. This is his fingerprint. And then you just, like, the courtroom sits around, and the judge is just sitting there, reading the book, being like, oh, hell. [01:28:08] Speaker C: Shit. What? Oh, fuck. What's that? [01:28:13] Speaker A: Oh, gross. Like, the sonographer's over there. [01:28:17] Speaker C: Just, like, typing out the reactions. [01:28:21] Speaker A: He has been like, when Sam's eye pierced through the body, the judge said, shit. [01:28:30] Speaker C: That'S gross. [01:28:33] Speaker A: That would make me want to be in a. [01:28:38] Speaker C: Please, please. [01:28:39] Speaker A: If I get called to jury duty, somehow let Spawn be part of the evidence. [01:28:45] Speaker C: You will. [01:28:45] Speaker B: It will. I mean, if somehow it's a big part of your life. So you're bound to have something on Spawn. A fingerprint, some blood. [01:28:53] Speaker C: Who knows? Yeah, maybe. [01:28:54] Speaker A: You never know. [01:28:55] Speaker C: You never know. But, yeah, excellent, excellent issue of yeah, yeah. [01:29:00] Speaker A: And that's those puppies. So, Johnny, those were some excellent issues of Spawn. [01:29:05] Speaker C: And let me tell you what's better. [01:29:07] Speaker A: Than reading spawn and hanging out with some friends and talking about Spawn. Not much Spawn has led to us having more friends than I ever thought Spawn could have. There's a great community of spawn friends over on Instagram. And let me tell you about one of them. [01:29:25] Speaker C: Johnny. Who are we talking about today? His name is Matt. [01:29:30] Speaker A: We got a friend named Matt. Everybody's got a friend named Matt. But you don't have the friend Matt. Underscore collects. Underscore one yet. [01:29:40] Speaker C: So maybe you should friend our friend Matt. [01:29:43] Speaker A: He's a really cool collector, dude. He's got lots of the good spawn stuff. [01:29:49] Speaker C: You. [01:29:52] Speaker A: Never disappointed with seeing what Matt's got on display? [01:29:57] Speaker B: Always got really cool stuff. Very supportive. [01:29:59] Speaker C: Dude. Loves Spawn. [01:30:02] Speaker A: He's into the last ronin too. [01:30:04] Speaker C: Shit. [01:30:04] Speaker A: Teenage mutant Ninja Turtles. [01:30:05] Speaker C: The last ronin. [01:30:07] Speaker A: That's, like a stamp of quality for me as far as friendship goes now. [01:30:11] Speaker C: Because if you love that book, you're all right by me. Yeah. [01:30:17] Speaker A: He shared his collection. [01:30:19] Speaker C: What he's passionate about. [01:30:22] Speaker A: He's friends with other friends of ours. [01:30:24] Speaker C: So it's good all the way around. Yeah. [01:30:28] Speaker B: Make sure to give him a follow. He's just an all around great guy. While you're over there, make sure to give ups a follow. [01:30:33] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:30:34] Speaker B: Regarding spawn pod, on Instagram, we're posting videos. I'm doing the Malibuch Monday. When I don't accidentally forget. [01:30:43] Speaker A: I'm doing the weekly reviews. I should probably give myself a fun name, but it's basically me just yammering on. Until my phone tells me my video is too long to post. [01:30:53] Speaker B: That's how it goes. [01:30:54] Speaker A: That's how it goes. [01:30:55] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:30:56] Speaker B: And we're posting episode stuff. Pictures. Pictures of the dogs with the comics. [01:30:59] Speaker C: I got a cat will let me. [01:31:01] Speaker B: Take pictures of comics without attacking them now. So you'll be seeing my cat probably a lot, too. [01:31:06] Speaker C: Hell, yeah. [01:31:07] Speaker B: Literally, I laid them all out and just, like, immediately jumped on them and just started attacking them. Pretty funny. [01:31:14] Speaker A: That's what cats do. [01:31:15] Speaker C: That's what cats do. Chaos. [01:31:18] Speaker A: Yeah. While you're over there, you should check out our better half, the one who makes the good sounding bits of this podcast that aren't my terrible singing. That's the other good half. I just implied that you are also the bad half. So if you just took Johnny's portion and Brian's music and put them together, you'd have the perfect podcast. It would be like 15 minutes. It would be perfect for listening to while doing the dishes. But Brian. Brian underscore voyals. Underscore 27. He's a good guy. He posts a lot of fun stuff in addition to doing music. And yeah, he's just real positive about stuff. [01:32:05] Speaker C: He loves spooky shit. [01:32:07] Speaker A: He loves exercising. He loves screen printing television or television. [01:32:12] Speaker C: Screen printing t shirts. [01:32:13] Speaker A: He loves weed. [01:32:14] Speaker C: So, you know, he's got all our favorite things. [01:32:17] Speaker A: He's got something for everyone. [01:32:20] Speaker C: Something for everyone. [01:32:21] Speaker A: I think he also is a big fan of cats, so I have a feeling he likes cats. We're going to be getting a lot of likes on our photos of Johnny's Barbie there. [01:32:32] Speaker B: Barbie the kitty. [01:32:33] Speaker C: Yeah. Going to have to take Barbie over. [01:32:38] Speaker A: There sometime to let him meet Brian. [01:32:40] Speaker C: And then be like, hey, Brian, Brian. [01:32:43] Speaker A: You want to write a theme song. [01:32:44] Speaker C: For Barbie for every time she interrupts. [01:32:48] Speaker A: Every time she comes in? And then you could just be like, and it's Barbie time. [01:32:53] Speaker B: There's a lot of good Barbie theme. I mean, there's the Barbie song that Lizzo sings from the soundtrack. I sing that to my cat. [01:32:58] Speaker C: A nice, hey, Barbie, it's such a good movie. It's a good movie. It's a good cat. It's good all around. [01:33:07] Speaker B: If you want to talk to us about my cat, Barbie, or spawn, you can always hit us up at regarding [email protected]. [01:33:14] Speaker A: And if you're the Todd father, you need to get in contact with Tootsuite. [01:33:20] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [01:33:23] Speaker B: Every week I like to ask a. [01:33:24] Speaker C: Question, and this week I just want. [01:33:27] Speaker B: To because of this comic, local comic shop day cover. If you want to write us an email about what's special about your local comic shop, what do you love about. [01:33:36] Speaker C: It, and why do you continue to. [01:33:39] Speaker B: Go there and just curious to hear about your local comic shop. So send us an email regarding [email protected]. I love challengers, everyone that works there is great. They're always really friendly. They love that I have a spawn podcast. They're the best. [01:33:54] Speaker C: They get all your stuff. And always a pleasure to go in there on Wednesday. [01:33:59] Speaker A: I'm only ever there like two or three times a year, but they remember me every time I'm there. So it's like coming home and then. [01:34:08] Speaker C: My regular local shop, I walk in. [01:34:12] Speaker A: And they're immediately like, hey. And then I don't even have to tell them that I got books. They're just like, here's your books. [01:34:19] Speaker C: Oh, I know, that's what they do. [01:34:20] Speaker B: Challenges too. Just bust them out. [01:34:21] Speaker A: Yeah. Tell us about how it feels like going home whenever you're. As far as my shop is concerned, Johnny, they've completely forgot about us coming into the store super drunk after that baseball game. [01:34:37] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [01:34:38] Speaker A: So we don't even have to worry about it. They completely forgotten. [01:34:43] Speaker B: I mean, I spent like $100 on magazines, so hopefully they weren't too mad at me. [01:34:50] Speaker C: By virtue of that shop being in. [01:34:53] Speaker A: The loop, they do occasionally get some colorful characters. I have had to see them kick. [01:34:59] Speaker C: Some people out for being just like. [01:35:03] Speaker A: Shitheads, if my memory serves me correctly. And I was drunk, so it probably doesn't. We honestly weren't too bad, just maybe a little loud. [01:35:15] Speaker B: We was loud and a little excited, I think. [01:35:17] Speaker A: Yeah, not bad enough to be memorable. [01:35:23] Speaker C: That's good. [01:35:24] Speaker A: Tell us about all the fun times you have at the comic shop. How often do you. I have a friend who doesn't get his books on Wednesday because he goes to every Saturday after they close, they have like a small party for people and they play games or watch movies or just sit around and read their. [01:35:41] Speaker C: Books and that's what they do. Yeah, let us know about your home comic shop. Yeah, hit us up. [01:35:50] Speaker A: Don't forget to rate us, review us, subscribe to us. You don't got to worry about Stitcher no more. We ain't on Stitcher. [01:36:00] Speaker B: We ain't on Stitcher. But Stitcher's closing. [01:36:02] Speaker A: Nothing's going to be on Stitcher for very long. [01:36:05] Speaker C: We outlive Stitcher. [01:36:06] Speaker A: Yeah, but, yeah, tell your friends, tell your family, tell your dentist. [01:36:13] Speaker B: That would be cool. My dentist used to collect masters of the universe action figures. [01:36:19] Speaker C: Oh, hell yeah. I have a feeling that there could. [01:36:23] Speaker A: Be some serious commentary from a dentist on all of the tooth business that happens in these books. [01:36:30] Speaker B: I went in one time with a shirt that I got at Star wars convention at Star wars celebration, and he was like, oh, did you go to that? And I was like, yeah. He was like, yeah, I collect masters in universe figures. [01:36:40] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [01:36:40] Speaker C: Wow, nice. [01:36:43] Speaker A: I would like to hear what a doctor's opinion on the clown's teeth. Like, especially early 90s clowns teeth because. [01:36:51] Speaker B: There'S, oh my goodness, he needs some braces. [01:36:53] Speaker A: Oh, man. Got a little snaggle teeth and everything. [01:36:56] Speaker B: Well, David, what are we going to be reading next week, spawn wise? [01:36:59] Speaker A: Spawn wise, we are going to be reading, well, we're going to be reading an older or classic issue and a newer or contemporary issue. [01:37:08] Speaker C: So do with that what you will. [01:37:10] Speaker B: We're keeping on this early 300s train, aren't we? [01:37:13] Speaker A: Yeah, trucking along. Those are our classics. Until we get caught up. Just because there's so much that we need, it's background for what's going on now. So there's no reason. [01:37:24] Speaker B: Yeah, even this is connecting. Like, it's good to be reading this stuff because it's connecting to stuff that's happening now still. [01:37:30] Speaker A: Especially now that we're into the Carlo barbaria. I already forgot what we decided on. [01:37:37] Speaker B: The Barbaria era barbarian era. [01:37:45] Speaker A: It's a straight shot to where we are now. So we're far enough away that all of the little breadcrumbs that they sprinkled in some of the earlier issues have come to fruition. So we can start being like, oh, shit, look at, like, we now know that when Jim Downing put his hands on Cygor and made Saigor feel better, he fucking implanted some bullshit into Cygor's brain. [01:38:07] Speaker C: That motherfucker. How dare he? But it happened. [01:38:11] Speaker A: It's a thing that we knew happened. [01:38:13] Speaker C: And we know that Jim Downing wasn't. [01:38:17] Speaker A: Being as magnanimous towards our monkey friend. [01:38:20] Speaker C: As he seems to have been being. So those are fun little things to catch. [01:38:26] Speaker A: All that to say for next week. Our classic book is going to be spawn three one three. [01:38:31] Speaker C: So it's going to be a good one. [01:38:33] Speaker A: More Carla Barbera. [01:38:35] Speaker B: More, Todd. All right. [01:38:36] Speaker A: 313. Yeah, it's going to be the unlucky number. [01:38:39] Speaker C: Unlucky number 13. [01:38:42] Speaker B: We got a lucky number after because we get scorched. 19. [01:38:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Hell yeah. [01:38:46] Speaker C: Because it's an important number. [01:38:48] Speaker A: 19. If you don't know by now, you ain't been listening. [01:38:53] Speaker B: Gunslinger by Stephen King. Shout out. Scorch 19 will be our more modern. Where we're getting into. Senator Terminus is showing up and we learn a little bit about him. [01:39:06] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:39:06] Speaker A: And the planet eaters. And then we might have some fallout from Jessica Priest death. Yeah, it's going to be very interesting to see what's going on there? [01:39:18] Speaker C: Very exciting. [01:39:19] Speaker A: Very exciting. [01:39:19] Speaker C: So, yeah. Spawn 313, scorch 19. [01:39:23] Speaker A: Did I say 319? Spawn 313, scorch 19. [01:39:26] Speaker B: 313, scorch 19. [01:39:30] Speaker A: It's going to be a good time. Some good books. [01:39:32] Speaker C: Hanging with a good friend. Good friend, Johnny. [01:39:36] Speaker A: Maybe a good cat or a good dog pops in every once in a while. I'll enjoy the heck out of it. [01:39:42] Speaker C: I can tell you that right now. I can't wait. Can't wait. So, Johnny. Johnny. [01:39:48] Speaker A: I think that just leaves me to. [01:39:49] Speaker C: Say, may this gorge be with you. And also with you, David. Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. [01:39:59] Speaker B: Are you okay over there? Sounds like you got, like, some kind of psychic connection to the other side. None of that Yoko stuff. [01:40:09] Speaker C: Like there's no ghosts came in through. [01:40:11] Speaker B: Your issue, did they? Are you okay? [01:40:13] Speaker A: No, not yet. Not yet. There is this weird hole that's opening up in my wall, though. I can see the past. [01:40:26] Speaker B: No, don't look, David. It's going to show you the worst parts of your past. [01:40:30] Speaker C: It's tried to tell me about a dream I had. No, I don't care. [01:40:34] Speaker B: They could. Shut up. [01:40:38] Speaker C: That fish isn't supposed to walk.