RE:Spawn Episode 58 - Spawn 314 and Spawn 343

[00:00:00] Speaker A: In many ways, obsidia is a more powerful and potent energy source than necroplasm. But it has one critical flaw. It isn't native to hell. And therefore prevents whoever uses it from accessing the throne's power. Good evening, and welcome to the malbols. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I am your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:56] Speaker B: And I'm your co host, David Williams. And, Johnny, I was sitting down on the couch, you know, as you do. [00:01:06] Speaker A: That's what you do on trying to. [00:01:08] Speaker B: Trying to watch some godzilla. Before we started to do the record as one. And I don't think anybody has ranted enough about how terrible it is to lose shit in the couch cushion. I'd just be sitting there and, like, Wanda will call me. And first I can't find my phone. Then I can't find the goddamn remote. And then the next thing you know, I'm sucked in through the couch. Into an alternate dimension. Where I am the television. And I am being watched by Godzilla. And I gotta say, it's not a good way to start the day. [00:01:45] Speaker A: That's trivial shit. [00:01:49] Speaker B: All that to say, hey, Johnny, I'm very excited just to talk some spawn with you today. [00:01:55] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:01:56] Speaker B: And hopefully we don't read Spawn so much that Spawn starts reading us. [00:02:02] Speaker A: I don't want Spawn to read me. I don't want Spawn to even think about me. Because he's thinking about me. He's probably going to kill me. [00:02:06] Speaker B: Could you. [00:02:07] Speaker A: 50 50 chance. [00:02:08] Speaker B: Could you imagine just being at the other end of those slanted eyes. With the little anime shine on them? Just, like, necroplasmic stare, boring into your soul. Frightening. Spawn's a scary dude, Johnny. [00:02:24] Speaker A: He is. You don't want to be on the wrong side of Spawn. Well, we're on the right side of Spawn because we're reading it, baby. And that's the right side. You want to be on the right side is the side that reads Spawn. [00:02:35] Speaker B: If you'll allow me, we're at the right hand of the Todd father. [00:02:40] Speaker A: Yes, right hand of the Todd father. So blessed be. I've been watching the cartoon, man. I know we've talked about it before, but it's just so great, the hype. Tod McFarlane, creator of Spawn. And just goes into a rant about how Al Simmons has made a bad decision. [00:02:59] Speaker B: It's great because I could see it would be a very righteous gemstones thing. To have introductions to the sections of the church service in that exact same way. Like, hi, I'm Jesse Jimstone. Have you ever wondered? [00:03:20] Speaker A: Right. The Church of the Todd Father. And he's, like, sitting there, all these boxes. There's one that says violator parts. And one that says clown parts. One says Todd's toys. [00:03:31] Speaker B: I'm surprised they didn't make a stained glass window. With the Todd Father and Tom O. And I guess Greg Capoulo at that point. Just, like, together. The holy trinity of late 90s spawn. [00:03:45] Speaker A: I imagine more of, like, a painting. Like a Renaissance painting. Like, at the end of ghostbusters two. Where it turns into a painting of the Ghostbusters. [00:03:55] Speaker B: I'm imagining the Todd father as the Mother Mary. With a little Greg Capullo baby. [00:04:02] Speaker A: Exactly. Huge muscles. [00:04:07] Speaker B: He's got a big, meaty hand. [00:04:12] Speaker A: Well, welcome, everyone. Welcome to regarding Spawn, where each week we discuss two issues from Spawn's a universe. His ever growing universe, his ever expanding. [00:04:24] Speaker B: Oh, man. But not expanding fast enough. Johnny, I want all of those books in the store now. [00:04:30] Speaker A: There's been a couple, like, were there two no spawn weeks last month? [00:04:37] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't remember if they were two. [00:04:39] Speaker A: Within, like, six weeks of each other. [00:04:41] Speaker B: Yeah, but they were both very close to each other. And I showed up at the shop, and I were like, what is this? There's literally no excuse. To not have new spawn this week, guys. But at least the one previous to that. We got a double spawn week the next week. Whereas this time, it was just a regular, old, single spawn week. And it's a pretty privileged position to be saying, how dare you only give us one spawn a week todfather. [00:05:10] Speaker A: I know. We used to be once a month. [00:05:12] Speaker B: We're rabid and spoiled and little stinkers. [00:05:16] Speaker A: Yes. If you want to gatekeep the spawn fandom, come at us. Because we didn't get to fans. So there were, like, fucking three titles going. [00:05:24] Speaker B: Please tell us about your three months wait during 2020. Or your multiple. Multiple delays during the first ten issues. I don't care. I'm accustomed to a certain level of Spawn. And there's no going back. No going back. [00:05:45] Speaker A: Just escalation. Just escalation this week. We always like to cover a more classic issue. From back in the day. When there was only spawn. [00:05:55] Speaker B: Yes. [00:05:56] Speaker A: And then a more modern issue from the new Spawns universe. That's what we're doing this week. And the first issue up is Spawn 314 from January 2021. And then the next issue, January 2021. I believe that's when I caught Covid. [00:06:15] Speaker B: Oh, man. That's real nice. That sounds real nice. [00:06:19] Speaker A: No, really, it was January 2022. [00:06:21] Speaker B: I can't remember I think it was. [00:06:23] Speaker A: No, it was January 2022, that's for sure. [00:06:26] Speaker B: Which time? Because you got it twice. Did you catch it during 2020 and then during 2022? [00:06:32] Speaker A: No, I didn't catch it until, like, 2022 for the first time. [00:06:35] Speaker B: Okay. Oh, and then you got it twice that year. [00:06:38] Speaker A: I got it twice that year, yeah. [00:06:40] Speaker B: That's what a rough go at it, Johnny. [00:06:43] Speaker A: I can't remember. I don't remember much about January 2021. Who knows what I was doing? [00:06:50] Speaker B: I don't remember much about 2021 at all, honestly. [00:06:53] Speaker A: 2021 is a weird one, because it's like it wasn't the first year of the pandemic, but it definitely wasn't the last. And it was really herky jerky. Yeah, it was start stop, start stop. [00:07:03] Speaker B: Yeah. But we were kind of settled into the chaos, and so it was just like, yeah, it doesn't fucking matter anymore, Johnny. That reminds me of. I'll say it after you finish the introduction. [00:07:21] Speaker A: Okay. And then the second issue is Spawn 343, which is from a July 2023. So just a little over six weeks ago. [00:07:32] Speaker B: Man, it's hard to believe that July was, like, two whole months ago now, Johnny. [00:07:38] Speaker A: I know. Yeah. I said six weeks. It's two months. [00:07:41] Speaker B: Oh, man. Well, I guess, yeah, this is early September. [00:07:43] Speaker A: It's fall. [00:07:44] Speaker B: But do you remember excellent. Those are two excellent pieces of Spawn's universe this week, Johnny. [00:07:54] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Got to get those Reese's pieces. Todd's toys. [00:07:58] Speaker B: Oh, man, I fucking love Reese's pieces. That was a long standing argument my father had where he was team peanut Butter, m Ms, which are delicious, and I was team Reese's pieces. But that's because I don't like chocolate very much, and Reese's pieces don't have chocolate, and so it was just a pure hit of peanut butter. [00:08:16] Speaker A: I prefer. [00:08:18] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:08:19] Speaker A: It depends on the mood. I do like the crispy crunch of a Reese's piece. [00:08:23] Speaker B: I actually, in college, used to make a thing that a teacher in high school taught me called. We called it Frau's trail mix. And it was just one bag of every eminem you could find mixed together. [00:08:36] Speaker A: Nice. [00:08:37] Speaker B: So that's what contributed in large part to my freshman 40 in college, because I just was always housing, just like straight housing eminems while I was trying to study. [00:08:53] Speaker A: Oh, man, the good old days. [00:08:56] Speaker B: Good old days. [00:08:57] Speaker A: All right, that's the intro. What are you going to tell me? [00:09:01] Speaker B: You know that I had to do some errands in Oak park the other day. Yes. So I was there. I was walking down the street and this dog comes up and says hi. And as you do, you got to say hi to the dogs. Let's come say hi to you. And the lady who was walking the dog was obviously just a dog walker. And she had her friend with her while she was talking to him. And I literally heard her say, it's the age of Aquarius. It's the age of light. And they're trying to bring that bullshit Covid stuff back, but we're not going to stand for it. People aren't going to believe in it this time. And I was just like, oh, God, this poor dog has to deal with this lady at least twice a day. Wow. Oh, boy. [00:09:47] Speaker A: Hey, I don't know. I'm not going to not believe it. I think it's really tough to lock down like that again. I think people. [00:09:55] Speaker B: Yeah, it's absolutely going to be tough to lock down again. [00:09:58] Speaker A: I don't think it'll ever happen again on the same level. I don't think people allow it. [00:10:02] Speaker B: No. Not for like three or four generations at least, right? No. Yeah. Even my neighbors during our block party, one of them was like, I'm going to stay in the house. That Covid is coming back. It was like, okay, sounds like a good idea. Your husband just had a stroke, so that's probably for the best. [00:10:22] Speaker A: Probably for the best. [00:10:23] Speaker B: Oh, boy. I'm not laughing at neighbors having strokes. That's very serious business. [00:10:27] Speaker A: No, it's just funny that sometimes here's jovial. [00:10:31] Speaker B: Sometimes you got to, oh, man, the world is sometimes such a terrible place that you got to just be overly exuberant in the joy. Tangential to that. There's actually a man at the Oak park farmers market who wears a shirt that says, it's the dawning of the age of asparagus and it's the greatest fucking shirt I have ever seen because he always just wears it at early summer when it is actually asparagus season. And it's like the asparagus shirt is. [00:11:01] Speaker A: Back like a nice piece of asparagus. I got this really lovely spawn 314 staring at me. [00:11:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Is there asparagus on the COVID Oh. [00:11:14] Speaker A: It kind of looks a little bit. [00:11:15] Speaker B: Like asparagus if you squint your eyes. [00:11:17] Speaker A: Oh, the big sword. [00:11:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:20] Speaker A: Is that the COVID you have or is that trade paperback? [00:11:23] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the COVID that is in the trade paperback. The spawn sitting on the throne of skeletons with a sword and halo and Mike Tyson's tiger from the hangover. [00:11:39] Speaker A: Mike Tyson's tiger from the hangover. In the bathroom. [00:11:43] Speaker B: Yeah. That's certainly what it looks like from. [00:11:45] Speaker A: One movie reference to another. He goes, we're going to need a bigger boat. [00:11:50] Speaker B: Boat? [00:11:52] Speaker A: What do you mean, boat? [00:11:56] Speaker B: I do like how Taylor is very much like us. And that he speaks cultural touchstones more often than not. And I can only imagine that most of the people I interact with on a daily basis. Are very much like gunslinger spawn. Where they're just like, what the hell are you talking about? What is wrong with you? [00:12:19] Speaker A: There's a lot of them, David. There's four. There's four, man, four artists on this cover. [00:12:25] Speaker B: This thing's only showing. [00:12:26] Speaker A: So I have. What is the Francisco Matina a cover? [00:12:32] Speaker B: Is that the spawn on the. [00:12:34] Speaker A: That's the one we were talking. [00:12:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, nice. Because. Yeah, it says spawn after Capullo there on some of the trash in the foreground. That's pretty great. [00:12:42] Speaker A: Oh, it does? [00:12:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Or Matina after Capoulo. Not spawn after Capoulo. [00:12:47] Speaker A: Oh, I see it. I guess there's a great capoulo. It's very similar. That's cool. And then there is a gray, speaking of the man himself, there's a gray capulo sketch cover. [00:12:56] Speaker B: Ooh, that's the one I can't see on the. Oh, no, I found it. Wow. [00:13:02] Speaker A: And then there's a version of. It's a one to 50 variant. And then there's a one in five variant with the McFarland that it looks like he inked the grey Capulo sketch cover. [00:13:14] Speaker B: Okay, so the one to 50 is the Al Simmons in the. Oh, no, that's the Capulo sketch. [00:13:21] Speaker A: Yes. [00:13:22] Speaker B: Okay. [00:13:23] Speaker A: Farlan black and white, which is like Capulo sketch, but inked by McFarland, I'm assuming. And that's a one in five variant. So a little more common. And then there's the completed McFarland and Capullo cover, which is spawn standing there, like standing on top of some gore. [00:13:42] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. There's like burning skeletons in the background. [00:13:45] Speaker A: Burning skeletons. He's meatball head. He's got a huge gauntlet. [00:13:50] Speaker B: Is a massive gauntlet. [00:13:52] Speaker A: Massive gauntlet. [00:13:53] Speaker B: Like, it curls over in front of his hand. It's awesome. [00:13:58] Speaker A: And then there is the Taunton revolver, which is spawned in the middle of the mouth of like a sarlacc creature. Like Audrey, too. [00:14:09] Speaker B: It's a big green mother from outer space, isn't it? It's more like a big gray mother. [00:14:13] Speaker A: Bad. Yeah. So that's a smorgasborg of covers here. [00:14:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:20] Speaker A: I can't imagine. See, that's the thing. You only get spawned once a month, but you get like five covers to keep up with. [00:14:25] Speaker B: I had a joke loaded before we started recording about something. Something. Multiple covers, but I'll be damned if I remember what it is. Make a good joke in your heads, you all. [00:14:36] Speaker A: It's probably got more covers than Phantom mime for by Ghost. [00:14:44] Speaker B: Also had a lot of covers. [00:14:46] Speaker A: Well, fez, five. So that's like almost the exact same amount. [00:14:49] Speaker B: I'll cover you. [00:14:56] Speaker A: Yeah. Like I said, this is from January 2021, your podcast. And it's the continuation of that cult of Omega. Yes, that. I was confused about the name because I wasn't patient enough to realize that we're still in the cult of Omega. I thought it was just two issues. [00:15:11] Speaker B: But yeah, you were like, what the. [00:15:13] Speaker A: Fuck is the fourth issue of Cult of Omega? [00:15:16] Speaker B: Yeah, four of five, apparently, Johnny. Four of five. [00:15:19] Speaker A: Four of that. [00:15:21] Speaker B: We got that going for us. [00:15:23] Speaker A: I'm trying to think if there's something with five, like a movie series. There's only five of them and I couldn't think of one. [00:15:29] Speaker B: Yeah, no, because usually four. [00:15:30] Speaker A: John Wick. So they make one more, there'll be five. [00:15:33] Speaker B: Well, they got that television show that's hitting Peacock. [00:15:38] Speaker A: Yeah. With Mel Gibson. I always like to mention Mel Gibson. I like as an actor, though. I really do enjoy Mel Gibson. [00:15:49] Speaker B: That's the thing though. [00:15:51] Speaker A: He's really watchable. He's like an insane man. And that's why he's so good. [00:15:55] Speaker B: It's like that movie payback. Oh, man. Payback is a great movie, but he's a piece of. Oh, Johnny. It's so hard because I don't like to separate the artist from the art, but sometimes you just can't help it. You listen to enough black metal and you accidentally wander into nationalism of all sorts. Yeah, sometimes you just got to screw up your nerves and just fucking sit through it to enjoy a thing. You can feel icky about it later. [00:16:33] Speaker A: How far did you go on your. Did you go any farther on your s Craig Zoller journey to watch any of these other movies? Did you watch dragged across concrete? [00:16:41] Speaker B: I have not know. Oh boy. Because I have that problem where I sit down to watch something on television or a movie and I immediately can't think of one single movie or television show that I've ever wanted to watch in my just. [00:16:57] Speaker A: It's really good. And it stars Mel Gibson, but he plays like, it's like almost like escape is all under he's doing by casting him. Because he plays like a racist cop. Yeah, he's really good in it, but he's not a good person. It's a good work. It's a great movie. It's fucked up, but it's a really good movie. [00:17:14] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:17:18] Speaker A: Fantastic title, too. Dragged across Congo. [00:17:20] Speaker B: It's an amazing title. It's got Vince Vaughn in it. Hell, yeah. I'm totally watching this. I got to see where I can watch this. [00:17:26] Speaker A: Oh, you're going to love it. It's cool because it's like, I don't know, it's esque Zoller. So it's like its own little world. [00:17:32] Speaker B: But like normal people, when I come across something that I know one of my friends likes, I'm always, hey, hey, guess what? That's making me think of my friend and Johnny. The past two weeks on blank check, they have talked about S. Craig Zoller for, like, 3 minutes, really, in each episode. And I was like, oh, johnny's gonna fucking love this. [00:17:56] Speaker A: I haven't listened to him yet because. [00:17:59] Speaker B: Spoiler alert, it's mostly Griffin making fun of his ponytail. [00:18:06] Speaker A: How did they get on to s. Craig Zoller? [00:18:08] Speaker B: Because apparently park john wook was supposed has long been attached to an S. Craig Zoller film that just never. [00:18:20] Speaker A: He's written, like, 20 scripts that never got made. [00:18:23] Speaker B: Oh, it's on Netflix. Nice. I'm going to have to do that. [00:18:25] Speaker A: S. Greg Zoller does have kind of a funny ponytail, but, yeah, there's something about me I'm sure people make fun of. [00:18:34] Speaker B: Yeah. Griffin says, the tightest ponytail in existence. Just wait till you get there. You'll laugh. You'll have a good time. [00:18:41] Speaker A: I wonder if they both live in New York. Maybe they see each other on the. [00:18:48] Speaker B: That might actually. That might actually come up. Spoilers for blank chick. [00:18:52] Speaker A: Really? [00:18:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:54] Speaker A: Oh, man, I got to listen to this now. [00:18:56] Speaker B: Got to listen to them. Yeah, they're real good. Just the last two weeks, specifically are the ones they're talking about him. [00:19:02] Speaker A: That's hilarious. Okay, cool. I'll check it out. [00:19:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:06] Speaker A: So to go through the credits on Spawn here, we've got, of course, the script plot. This is Tod McFarlane when he's writing. The main. [00:19:17] Speaker B: Is, like I said, for the last couple of ones, this is Todd father doing what he knows best. [00:19:24] Speaker A: He's firing all cylinders. [00:19:28] Speaker B: It's not good for the Todd father. Like I would often classify it, but it's just good. It's just good. It's so fun. [00:19:39] Speaker A: It's so much fun. And it's really him. Like, you can see him shooting a shot of like, all right, this is him. To use the baseball analogy. He's up the plate to get ready to set up that spawn's universe. [00:19:53] Speaker B: Yeah, he's calling his home groundwork, calling. [00:19:56] Speaker A: His home run, because this is an introduction to Omega island, which is a huge part of most of the spawn titles the next few years. [00:20:05] Speaker B: Still, it's real fun to see. I don't know how much they talked about it beforehand, but seeing kind of things that the Todd father just kind of dashes off and people's conversations in this. There's been a full episode or a full issue based off of just, like, four words of dialogue from this issue. And it's great. Yeah, it's great. [00:20:33] Speaker A: We also got the great Carlo Barbarian art. We're in the barbarian era. We have entered the barbarian era. We got a double barbarian. [00:20:41] Speaker B: You could say, johnny, that we're barbarians. [00:20:44] Speaker A: We are to. Oh, I just got a notification. I gotta go to this Airbnb Detroit. I'm going to a concert. [00:20:54] Speaker B: What? Hey, Johnny, I just also got a notification about an. [00:21:00] Speaker A: Oh, they double booked the same Airbnb. Oh, my God. I better not get barbarian when I go to spawncon. [00:21:06] Speaker B: If Justin long shows up, I am sprinting away. No, thank you. [00:21:13] Speaker A: I'd be so mad if I tried to go to mean I'm staying in a hotel. But, for example, if I stayed at Airbnb and I got barbarian and I miss Spawncon, I'd be furious. [00:21:23] Speaker B: Well, oh, man. Johnny, if Spawncon is close to the airport, like you said it is. It's very possible that you'll get sucked into that underground over there. [00:21:33] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. The Denver airport is like illuminati. I forget the Denver airports has all the conspiracy theories about. [00:21:42] Speaker B: And, like, every time they change something, just like anything, they're like, they're making it more perfect for the illuminati. [00:21:50] Speaker A: They're making it more like a shape of a triangle or something. I don't know. It's a FEMA death camp. They're going to lock us under the Denver airport. I remember hearing shit like, yeah, no, boy, that's some Brock the shock fennel level shit. [00:22:04] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. Oh, man. Johnny, if you meet somebody dressed up as Brock the shock fennel, you gotta get interviewed by gotta. [00:22:16] Speaker A: That's what I should do for spawn. Con Brock the shock fennel, because I won't have you to be twitch. I can't just be Sam on his own. But Brock shock Fennel, I could do. He's on his. [00:22:26] Speaker B: Uh. You could be sad Sam who says coffee. [00:22:29] Speaker A: Well, there's two days I could do Sam. And then. [00:22:32] Speaker B: Yeah. Because that just means one day you can just do nothing. But you have to be eating. So it's just like, well, I guess I have to have another hamburger. [00:22:43] Speaker A: Yep. I have another. Do not skip. Because this book, like we've been saying for the last few issues, has fantastic colors by J. David Ramos. It just pops. And then we already covered the covers. The four different covers there. And we got Tod McFarland's creative director. And Thomas Healy as editor. [00:23:09] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:23:11] Speaker A: He was reading a vintage dungeons and dragons book the other day on instagram. Pretty cool. Like, one of the original character guides. [00:23:20] Speaker B: They're like, yeah, because Thomas Healy is a tabletop dude. [00:23:27] Speaker A: Yeah. He had a really cool setup for A-D-D game they were playing. That looked really nice. [00:23:33] Speaker B: Nice. [00:23:35] Speaker A: Pretty cool. [00:23:35] Speaker B: I wonder if he ever gets invited. To Joe Manginello's epic dungeons and dragons basement. [00:23:45] Speaker A: I don't know. Got to get that guy into. Maybe he's into Spawn. [00:23:48] Speaker B: Maybe. Oh, man. He could be monolith. [00:23:51] Speaker A: He'd be perfect monolith. [00:23:54] Speaker B: Or maybe to keep it simpler, he starts off as medieval. [00:24:00] Speaker A: Right? [00:24:02] Speaker B: Because then I guess. Then I guess we could always hold out for, like, the rock for monolith. Because you need a big person for monolith. [00:24:13] Speaker A: The rock would be a good monolith. So previously in Spawn. Previously, cult of Omega Spawn and overtkill. Traveled to a mysterious island. To face off against a powerful foe. Unbeknownst to them, he was waiting. [00:24:31] Speaker B: He was literally lying in wait. He was doing what a whole bunch of spiders do. Where they just wait for you to fall over. Or walk over their little hovel and sucks them in. [00:24:42] Speaker A: Basically, yeah. [00:24:42] Speaker B: He's trying to pull them down like a funnel spider. Hey, Johnny, I'm on imagecomics.com on the Spawn 314 page. Can I tell you what it says is the blurb for this issue? [00:24:57] Speaker A: Please. [00:24:58] Speaker B: Chain gang part one. Introducing a new super team. The chain gang gunslinger, spawn. Medieval spawn. The Reaper ninja, Spawn. When did this chain gang happen, Johnny? [00:25:12] Speaker A: What the hell? The chain gang. [00:25:16] Speaker B: The chain gang. [00:25:19] Speaker A: Maybe that was just a. [00:25:21] Speaker B: What? [00:25:22] Speaker A: That's so weird. [00:25:23] Speaker B: The Internet is telling me that chain gang part one is Spawn 314. And chain gang part four is Spawn 317. So I don't know what the what? There's a video review that says, check out the new chain gang. What? For spawn 314. [00:25:45] Speaker A: What? We're reading Spawn 314, right. [00:25:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:52] Speaker A: There's nothing about a chain gang in here. It's got to be the next issue. Because medieval shows up. [00:25:57] Speaker B: And then it says, spawn 315 is chain gang part two. But this says, this is Omega, but part two. A new team. The chain gang. But will they last? No, we know they won't, but spawn 316, chain gang part three. [00:26:17] Speaker A: What? [00:26:18] Speaker B: 316 covers chain gang part three. A new team, a new mission. Hot series. [00:26:27] Speaker A: These are series within series. We're in the cult of Omega, but we got the chain gang going on. [00:26:33] Speaker B: This is some illuminati shit. Where's my chain gang? [00:26:36] Speaker A: Johnny, are we in the Denver airport right now? [00:26:40] Speaker B: Oh, man. We've definitely fallen down, Johnny. I don't think I ever came back from the other side of the couch. [00:26:46] Speaker A: Yeah, you've been sucked in. Godzilla watches the hello from the other. [00:26:51] Speaker B: Side, I guess, as they say. How's it over there in the regular universe? [00:26:57] Speaker A: I. I don't. [00:26:57] Speaker B: Don't know. [00:26:58] Speaker A: Know. Maybe I'm. Who knows? Maybe we're both in different universes. Because it'd be crazy if I looked it up on my phone. It has a completely different explanation of what 314 is. Then we know we're inception. It's like your inception. Top. You know which universe you're in, depending on the description of Spawn 314. You're like, get me a computer and get me to this image website. It's like, why? It's like, I need to know what universe I'm in. You just show up in the Jessica priest and daughter go to the fair. No, I was the wrong universe. [00:27:30] Speaker B: You, like, wake up in the middle of a cornfield, and there's this farmer that comes by, and you're just like, I need to get to a comic shop. He's like, what the fuck? You just fell out of the sky, dude. [00:27:41] Speaker A: I could grab him. Like, what is Spawn 314 about? He's like, I don't know. [00:27:48] Speaker B: If you guys have any ideas about what the hell is going on with this chain gang business, email us regarding [email protected]. [00:27:57] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, I guess we'll find out if we keep going. [00:28:00] Speaker B: I wonder if it's a thing we would have been able to have kept up on if we were buying monthly at this point. So we might just be late to the party. It might be an inside joke. I hate being late to parties. Actually, I don't mind being late, Johnny. I used to be early for everything. I was 10 minutes early for goddamn everything until I moved to Chicago. And now, fuck me if I am 10 minutes late, I am practically early. [00:28:28] Speaker A: That's kind of the city rules. [00:28:30] Speaker B: Yeah, it's wild. My first boss, I don't know if I've mentioned it on here, but my first boss's philosophy is, if I showed up at all, I was on time. [00:28:40] Speaker A: There you go. [00:28:43] Speaker B: You can't do that if somebody's throwing, like, a noontime party at their house and they want everybody gone by five. [00:28:50] Speaker A: So we open a monolith. Not the Chang gang? [00:28:55] Speaker B: Not the Chang gang. [00:28:56] Speaker A: And he's just popped out of the sand. [00:28:59] Speaker B: We got skull bedazzled with skulls. The rock. [00:29:05] Speaker A: This looks very toddfather esque. [00:29:07] Speaker B: Yes, it does. I wonder if he inked on this. Is the toddfather mentioned in the inkings at all? [00:29:17] Speaker A: Nope. [00:29:18] Speaker B: Oh, dang. Because, yeah, this. [00:29:19] Speaker A: No inking whatsoever. [00:29:21] Speaker B: This very much looks like some Todd father inking, man. [00:29:26] Speaker A: Little scratches. [00:29:27] Speaker B: I like how they were like, he's got a big thigh. How are we going to show how big his thigh is? More patches. He's got so many patches on that thigh. [00:29:37] Speaker A: Oh, all the pouches. Yeah. [00:29:39] Speaker B: What did I say? Did I say package? [00:29:42] Speaker A: You said patches. [00:29:43] Speaker B: Patches. Jesus Christ. Pouches. [00:29:47] Speaker A: I wonder if they make something like that you just buy and wrap around your leg. It's all pouches. What are these called? Like, a rob liefeld. [00:29:57] Speaker B: We'd have to go to the army navy surplus, Johnny. If they have them anywhere, they have them there. I went into one looking for just, like, a heavy duty bag that I could just put all my biking stuff in so I didn't have to switch between all the stuff I need for biking versus what I need for my regular day to day. And I walked in there in my support, your local library shirt. And I don't know if that was appreciated. Definitely not the most socialist shirt I could have walked into army navy surplus wearing. [00:30:33] Speaker A: No, but, yeah, still pretty up there. [00:30:36] Speaker B: Although I grew up in those things. So if anybody tries to give me shit about being in there, I'll say, hey, you know what? I've been going to these things for, like, 30 years. Just stop it. [00:30:48] Speaker A: Got some good Halloween costumes there. They got some Desmond. Desmond from lost, Aldo, rain from inglorious bastards. They've got some good stuff. [00:31:01] Speaker B: Yeah, they do. They always do. You just got to wade through the propaganda. Boy, oh, boy. Reasonably priced, though. [00:31:15] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:31:17] Speaker B: But, yeah, Monolith is coming at us. [00:31:20] Speaker A: He looks like he's, like, burping a baby, and he grabs spawn. He looks like he's, like, burping a little baby. [00:31:28] Speaker B: He says, now you must nap. [00:31:33] Speaker A: We get this very tod father. The first time that he can remember, his breath is literally taken away. [00:31:39] Speaker B: Yeah. The master wants to kill. You're lucky I can't kill you. The master wants to do that himself. Spawn. Wondering, like, this guy looks like a spawn, but doesn't he know I'm his boss? So is he a spawn? [00:31:51] Speaker A: I'm a spawn. Monolith picks him up and just cracks him into a palm tree. [00:31:56] Speaker B: Yeah, he smacks him like he knocks a coconut off that tree. [00:31:59] Speaker A: The speed of his defeat is stunning. So then he decides to leave the beach, and Mono is going to walk on the bottom of the. [00:32:10] Speaker B: Just a. He just does a curse of the black pearl there with Davy Jones and just walk across the bottom. [00:32:18] Speaker A: Barbosa. [00:32:19] Speaker B: Barbosa. That's his name. [00:32:22] Speaker A: Davy Jones guy in the second one. [00:32:24] Speaker B: The second. [00:32:25] Speaker A: Awesome, though. Davy Jones fucking rules. [00:32:27] Speaker B: I thought he was in the third. [00:32:28] Speaker A: One, and he's in the third one. He dies very quickly. [00:32:31] Speaker B: Okay. [00:32:32] Speaker A: No, he doesn't die. The Kraken dies. He's in both two and three bootstraps. [00:32:36] Speaker B: Bootstraps. That first movie is an amazingly good movie. What happened? [00:32:42] Speaker A: Second one a lot too. [00:32:43] Speaker B: I don't remember the second one at all. I remember the third one. [00:32:47] Speaker A: Decided to let it get weird. So we got overkill back on the beach. He's, like, dying, but he's beeping it, like, zooms in on a little beep beep Beep beep beep beep beep beep. So he's still kicking or something's going on there. [00:33:00] Speaker B: And then we're in the transporter room. [00:33:03] Speaker A: And so we know what's going on here. We've been to this before. This is at Omega island base that in Spawn's universe, the issue Spawns universe, where Kaguyostro and Gunslinger were. [00:33:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:15] Speaker A: Also, this part's just fucking hilarious to, like, who knows why it says this. He gets transported, and then they explain why he got transported. He can only hold his breath for an hour. [00:33:30] Speaker B: It's too stupid to know that, Johnny. Yeah. They got a sonar helmet that they clamp onto Al's face. And Spawn is all ready for the cyber goth rave. Oh, yeah. He's already for it. I fucking love this mask they put on him. It looks so cool. [00:33:52] Speaker A: It is cool. I love it. Yeah. It's like cyber goth rave wear. [00:33:59] Speaker B: And they strap them down to a massive table. Clamp pressures at 8000 psi. Buddy. [00:34:08] Speaker A: He gets a sonic wage living a mind numbing assault on Spawn's entire bodily biological system. That's hard to say. [00:34:16] Speaker B: It kind of looks like he's bane getting venom for the first time in Batman and Robin. [00:34:22] Speaker A: He does look like Bane. No one cared who he was. So he put on a second mask. [00:34:29] Speaker B: And then his cape disappears. His symbiote is so overwhelmed, weakening. And they pull off the mask, and he's all meatball headed. I like how there's, like, necroplasm coming out of where his nostrils would be. Like, it's just snap running down his. Feel that. I feel that. Spawning. I got some snot action going on, too. Trying to avoid sniffing all the time. Monolith talks to Al a little bit, and they're antagonizing each other. [00:35:03] Speaker A: He's talking about his master. My master's soon. Your kind. My kind. You're a hell spawn, too. [00:35:12] Speaker B: Yeah. He doesn't deny it, man. [00:35:15] Speaker A: His head is huge. [00:35:17] Speaker B: His head is so huge. And then Spawn does the classic, hey, come here. Let me tell you something. And he's headbutt right where Monolith's nose would be, but also right into the teeth on that bottom skull on his forehead. I'm pretty sure Al took way more damage doing that than he should have. [00:35:43] Speaker A: Punches him back. [00:35:44] Speaker B: Yeah, looks very. [00:35:48] Speaker A: He had a little mask. [00:35:49] Speaker B: He's like, he puts a bag over his head. So, Johnny. Johnny. Unfortunately, we know from the future that whatever Al whispers here is very much like what Bill Murray whispers to Scarlett Johansson at the end of lost a translation. And we're never going to know what's said here, ever. We're going to have to wait for the 4K Blu ray to come out 20 years later, and then somebody super enhances the sound just to see what was said. [00:36:21] Speaker A: Do we actually learn what he says? I haven't read the next issue, remember? [00:36:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Spoiler alert for the next issue. We don't figure out verbatim what's said, but we understand what the topic at hand was whispered. [00:36:38] Speaker A: At least McFarlane likes that to be like, I'm going to whisper something to you, and then you find out later what it is. [00:36:46] Speaker B: And then we got, they put a bag over his head just to embarrass him. [00:36:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:53] Speaker B: And then we're outside of the fucking Baxter Corporation in Brooklyn, New York. Out. [00:36:58] Speaker A: Look, there's Craig Zoller. [00:37:00] Speaker B: This building looks exactly like the building that the scientists working on the goo and teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles worked at. So that means somewhere. Oh, TGI was the name of was, but Baxter was the name of the scientist. There we go. Yeah. [00:37:22] Speaker A: Baxter Stockman. [00:37:25] Speaker B: That means that on the street next to this building, there's probably a child carrying a bowl with four turtles in it. [00:37:36] Speaker A: I'm thinking of the movie. You're thinking of the animated series? [00:37:38] Speaker B: No, I'm thinking of the comic books. [00:37:42] Speaker A: The comic books. It's Baxter stock. [00:37:44] Speaker B: Yeah, because literally the building that the evil scientist works in is right next to a train station in Brooklyn. Oh, man, this is such. [00:37:56] Speaker A: That's, like, in Spider man too, where they're testing, like, a nuclear sun harnessing device in the middle of fourth one. It's like, really, guys, you wouldn't have done this somewhere else? [00:38:05] Speaker B: It's like on a collapsed. Collapsed. He eventually goes to, like, a collapsed warehouse on the East river or some shit. [00:38:14] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I was talking about, like, when they have all the press there at the beginning. [00:38:18] Speaker B: It's just like, in a loft apartment. Yeah. [00:38:20] Speaker A: Is it like a loft? Is it like an artist loft? He's just having a happening where he's going to turn on a nuclear device or whatever. [00:38:29] Speaker B: Yeah, they advertised for it in the back of the voice. Yeah. [00:38:36] Speaker A: Come over and see Dr. Oto Octavius possibly destroy Manhattan. [00:38:42] Speaker B: The new Manhattan project. [00:38:47] Speaker A: Spiderman two is a great movie. [00:38:48] Speaker B: It's a great movie. Speaking of great, return the page. And we got another big boy. [00:38:54] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. It's Omega. [00:38:58] Speaker B: I love the roundness of the shackles that Al is in. [00:39:03] Speaker A: Yeah, there's, like, no way to walk on them because they're like. [00:39:06] Speaker B: It's like. It's like he's got Q tip hands and feet. It's great. He's getting a lecture from Omega saying, what the hell? He says, what did you do, Ray? [00:39:17] Speaker A: What did you do? Sucking me here? You thought I wouldn't have consequences? [00:39:21] Speaker B: Were you mad? That's some good tomo right there. Look at that question mark. [00:39:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:30] Speaker B: His voice booms, literally shaking the very ground beneath him. And we learned that Al has basically shackled Omega to the earth. So that's exciting. And then we get his name, the Omega Spawn. [00:39:44] Speaker A: He's basically just lecturing him. Yeah, for opening the rips. Like, you had no idea. Did you have any idea what you're going to do when you did that? Yeah, you can't put Pandora's back in the box, baby. And Spawn said he knew that some of you might fall through the hole. [00:40:01] Speaker B: He admits, but yeah, through the hole with scare quotes. Classic talking father. A few. It wasn't a few. It was hundreds of us. [00:40:13] Speaker A: He's just yelling at him for unleashing chaos. [00:40:16] Speaker B: And then he's going to show some of the twaters, the treacherously traitors. So he opens the ubliet in front of Spawn, and he's like, let me show you. But he hasn't taken the bag off of his head. Why? Why would. I don't know. But apparently Omega was imprisoned down at the bottom of this deep, deep, you know, where we saw Kogliostro turn into sin. Omega was never down. Fell. Yeah, he fell from the heavens and then hitched a ride to the island with some far from fishermen who he then killed. Not a very nice man, this Omega. And then apparently Omega threw Coliostro down the ublite for trying to pull off the poncho, which, yeah, he was like. [00:41:15] Speaker A: Look, dude, you got your head cut off. You didn't die. I'm going to throw you down this hole. [00:41:20] Speaker B: He's like, are you a hippie or are you biker? Choose one. Go to your room. [00:41:24] Speaker A: He's got the snake on the arm there. What's with the snake on the arm? Is that a biblical thing? [00:41:29] Speaker B: Probably, but remember, he also had, like, the tattoos of a snake that turned into a real snake, and then he used it as a. [00:41:37] Speaker A: I just. [00:41:38] Speaker B: But yeah, probably. I don't know. Well, his parents would have been Adam and Eve, so I guess he owes his entire existence to the snake, right? [00:41:49] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. And that's where we find Cogliostro. By the time we get to, like, Spawn's universe, that's where he is. He's down that hole. So he kind of just stays there for a bit. [00:41:57] Speaker B: Yeah, he just chills out. [00:41:59] Speaker A: I believe Spawn's universe was summer of 2021. [00:42:02] Speaker B: Omega takes Spawn out of the shackles and hovers him with necroplasmic powers. Is like dangling him above the deep, deep hole. [00:42:15] Speaker A: Yeah, like taunting him and then just. [00:42:17] Speaker B: Throws him to the ground. And then as Omega's trying to make him crawl down into the hole, he feels something in his leg, Johnny. A sharp pain, you know, maybe like, there's a skeeter down there and he's got to slap it away. But no, it's a whole ass sword right through the calf. [00:42:35] Speaker A: Sword in the calf. Bam. And he's jumping at him, about to stab him. He looks worried. Yeah, Omega Spawn looks, actually, he's got. [00:42:44] Speaker B: He'S got the round eye going. [00:42:47] Speaker A: He's got the round eye, man. [00:42:49] Speaker B: Round eye of Omega Spawn. [00:42:52] Speaker A: And that's just a very abrupt ending to this one. [00:42:54] Speaker B: Yeah, there's no power meter for me. Is there a power meter for you? [00:42:58] Speaker A: No. [00:42:59] Speaker B: Oh, man. Yeah, very abrupt. [00:43:03] Speaker A: It's very abrupt. We do get spawning ground for the first time in a while. [00:43:09] Speaker B: You're going to have to tell me about that. [00:43:10] Speaker A: So it's a breakdown. I mentioned this last episode, but it's a breakdown of the COVID for 313. Not 314, but breakdown of the COVID for 313 that Greg Capullo did. That was the premiere of Plague Spawn. And it basically shows the COVID sketch and then shows the steps of the ink. It's just a breakdown where it just shows you every step of the way. And one thing that was interesting is the COVID options. It shows three different color options by Brian Halbern Haberlin. They chose the one with. It's just interesting to see the different colorings because they had to be very specific because they knew this is like the premiere of the character. So nice. I thought that was kind of cool to see. And there's a little short interview with Capoulo. [00:43:55] Speaker B: Nice, nice. [00:43:55] Speaker A: Talking about just the COVID the process of doing covers. There's a great quote here, though. They ask him, do you come at it with a layout in mind, or you just pencil to paper and see what develops? And Greg Capoulo says, for spawn, Todd usually isn't concerned with the COVID relating to the story inside sometimes, but not always. [00:44:18] Speaker B: They should trot that quote out every time. They're like, but I thought this person was going to be in this issue. Why aren't they in this? [00:44:24] Speaker A: Greg Capoulo said he doesn't really care. But, yeah, that's pretty cool. Just a short little interview. [00:44:32] Speaker B: Excellent. [00:44:32] Speaker A: And then we get the ads for the different image, like trade paperbacks. And we do get some toy ads. We get the dune ads. [00:44:40] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:44:41] Speaker A: And that raw ten. [00:44:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:44:45] Speaker A: Cygor Raptor frenzy and Battlesnake. [00:44:48] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:44:49] Speaker A: That we talked about last time. That's spawn 314. [00:44:52] Speaker B: That's spawn 314, baby. [00:44:53] Speaker A: How short? [00:44:54] Speaker B: Yeah, it was very short. But good. But good. [00:44:59] Speaker A: Short but good. [00:45:00] Speaker B: Yeah. Short and sweet, as they like to say. [00:45:14] Speaker A: Welcome to prime time, bitch. It's time for issue 343. [00:45:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Indeed. [00:45:21] Speaker A: Indeed it is prime time. It's almost prime Freddie time because it's almost fall. [00:45:25] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I was having a conversation with my mom this, this last week, wherein I convinced her to start watching the conjuring films. [00:45:39] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:45:40] Speaker B: Yeah. But I was talking to her about how working on a scary movie doesn't necessarily mean that you're scared all the time. Like the stories about putting together a Nightmare on Elm street. Everybody was just like, this is a piece of garbage. Nobody's going to be scared by this. What the hell? This is all terrible and is like an everlastingly scary movie for people. And my mom was like, what are you talking about. That was an animated movie. We watched it all the time together. And I was like, mom, that was the nightmare before Christmas, not a nightmare on Elm street. Yeah. And then I was like, I'm talking about the Freddy Krueger movie. And she was like, oh, yeah, I'm never watching. Nope. No, you can't. Nope. Never gonna watch it. [00:46:28] Speaker A: Oh, my mom hates Freddy Krueger. [00:46:30] Speaker B: Yeah. And I was, see, mom, you don't want to watch it because it's too scary. But the people who made it were like, this is a piece of garbage. Nobody's going to be scared. Good movie. Oh, yeah. [00:46:40] Speaker A: All the nightmares are fun. As they say in evil Dead two or evil dead rise, there are no bad ones. [00:46:47] Speaker B: Yeah, there are no bad ones. Or even the shitty ones. There are no shitty ones. [00:46:50] Speaker A: There are no shitty ones. [00:46:53] Speaker B: So. [00:46:54] Speaker A: Yeah. Next up, we got spawn 343, a prime time. [00:47:01] Speaker B: This is really primetime spawn, too. [00:47:03] Speaker A: It's primetime spawn, and it's prime time to be in another church. So we got more stained glass imagery. [00:47:09] Speaker B: Woo. [00:47:10] Speaker A: On the COVID Nice. [00:47:13] Speaker B: I'm looking at that stained glass cover right now, and it's pretty great. [00:47:16] Speaker A: That's that Chris Stevens, right? No, that's Kibar. [00:47:22] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, yeah. [00:47:24] Speaker A: Chris Stevens did the other cover I have. [00:47:26] Speaker B: Yeah, I have the Chris Stevens cover. Right. [00:47:28] Speaker A: So it's really. [00:47:30] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's great. I love that each different series has its own dominant color palette. [00:47:40] Speaker A: Do you see Petri Spawn just posted that they got prints of each of them. [00:47:45] Speaker B: Oh, no, I didn't. Oh, yeah. Oh, nice. Oh, that's amazing. [00:47:53] Speaker A: Matching colors and numbered prints, baby. [00:47:57] Speaker B: That's beautiful. It's got, like, little wax seals on each of them that are the color of the palette. That's pretty great. [00:48:05] Speaker A: Seems like it's just a nice guy, Petru spawn. [00:48:08] Speaker B: I mean, like, most of the people we meet on instagram through spawn stuff, they're all just hella nice. It's crazy that it's, like, objectively some of the most disgusting stuff, and everybody's just an absolute sweetheart. [00:48:23] Speaker A: Yeah, it's funny how that works. [00:48:25] Speaker B: I used to work for this guy who recently retired, and I've long been, like, he was just the sweetest guy to work for, and I totally forgot how sweet he was until I showed up for his retirement party, and I was like, God damn. Absolute sweetheart. It's so good. Sweethearts are the backbone of the world. [00:48:46] Speaker A: We got our sweetheart, Rory McConville, writing this issue here. [00:48:49] Speaker B: Yeah, we do. [00:48:51] Speaker A: With additional script by Todd McFarlane. [00:48:54] Speaker B: Yeah. The sweetest of hearts. [00:48:58] Speaker A: The sweetest of hearts. I'm Tod McFarlane, creator of Spawn. [00:49:05] Speaker B: Have you ever had a heart that's sweet? We're still barbarian. [00:49:11] Speaker A: Barbarian era. We're still in it. And the j. David Ramos era. [00:49:16] Speaker B: Oh, man. And the Tomo era. [00:49:18] Speaker A: We got so many eras. [00:49:20] Speaker B: So many eras. We're in the world. Record breaking comic era, too. So we're in the sassy todfather era. [00:49:26] Speaker A: And we're in the era where Thomas Healy is editor in chief. [00:49:30] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:49:31] Speaker A: I'm gonna be excited when he adds in chief. It's not there yet. [00:49:35] Speaker B: Yeah. We'll have to buy some of those party poppers and shoot confetti in our recording booth. [00:49:40] Speaker A: He's the editor in chief. [00:49:43] Speaker B: Hail to the chief. [00:49:45] Speaker A: So previously in Spawn. The dead zones are open. Heaven's plan to deceive Spawn has worked. And an all out war with hell has begun. Pretty cool. Yeah. So last time Spawn went to heaven with haunt, he'd been there a few issues, but realized that Haunt's presence disrupted the dead zones and reopened them, destabilized them. And it was a whole big trick. It's why haunt was poisoned. They knew that Spawn would take him to heaven. [00:50:18] Speaker B: He just had, like, wolf Spain or something like that. [00:50:20] Speaker A: Poisoning, right. [00:50:22] Speaker B: It was basically just, like, a mild form of food sickness. He just had a rumbly and his tumbly, and that was about it. [00:50:34] Speaker A: So Spawn's pissed because he got tricked. He doesn't like that. [00:50:37] Speaker B: Yeah, no, he does not. And then everybody's mad at Spawn for getting tricked, and it's like, come on. [00:50:45] Speaker A: So it's been three days. We open on Spawn just, like, walking through a warehouse like he does. [00:50:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:50:52] Speaker A: It's been three days since the dead zones were reopened and heaven launched its invasion on hell. Three days since Spawn's grand plan ended in total failure. [00:51:04] Speaker B: He does not take failure. [00:51:07] Speaker A: These dead zones have been sealed for a bit here, so it's a big deal. [00:51:12] Speaker B: It's not a good look for old Albert Simmons. And he's hunting down all the people, all the people from heaven and hell who aren't just, like, fully bought into the war. They're like, hey, man, this is distracting everybody. I'm going to cause some chaos elsewhere. [00:51:31] Speaker A: Earth and fuck around and find out. [00:51:33] Speaker B: Yeah, they've been tearing up bodies. Look at this, man. He's half a torso and a foot. Spawn's just out there making sure that he doesn't torso and foot people no more. [00:51:47] Speaker A: He's just doing classic Spawn stuff going on. The city being like, God damn it. [00:51:51] Speaker B: Yeah, just beating up this demon has. [00:51:55] Speaker A: A gigantic belt, too, and this guy's just taunting him. Did heaven trick you so easily? But he's like, I don't give a shit. [00:52:05] Speaker B: Kills this damn demon and then Spawn. [00:52:07] Speaker A: Don't spawn like level demon spawn. [00:52:09] Speaker B: Just, like, porcupines himself through that guy's hands. He just sends little barbs out. Shank. [00:52:16] Speaker A: Yeah, no problem. That's no problem for Spawn to get. [00:52:19] Speaker B: This guy, and then he just, like, punches him right through the chest with a. The Nyx comes by, and they have a very tense argument. Not even really an argument, just a conversation. And, oh, boy, she's just checking in with him. And then while they're talking, we get a. Well, well, now, isn't this cozy? [00:52:46] Speaker A: And look who it is from our. [00:52:47] Speaker B: Favorite bad guy. [00:52:51] Speaker A: Mr. Clown. He's been busy the last few in all the Spawns universe recently. [00:52:55] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. He's been, like, showing up and saying the exact same thing every single time. [00:53:01] Speaker A: It's like, we know, clown. We know what you want. Yeah, he's shown up in this. He showed up in king Spawn, showed up in gunslinger Spawn. [00:53:11] Speaker B: I guess he hasn't showed up in scorched yet. [00:53:14] Speaker A: He's kind of left the scorched alone. [00:53:17] Speaker B: Well, they're dealing with world eaters right now, so they got bigger fish to fry. [00:53:22] Speaker A: They got bigger fish. [00:53:23] Speaker B: They got bigger clowns to shove into that tiny car. [00:53:26] Speaker A: And here he is. You get a call back to Gunslinger 21 through 23, where it talks, I'm assuming, about the whole thing with Dakota fighting my family. [00:53:39] Speaker B: And then spawn just starts. He starts doing the Danny DeVito meme where he just starts, you know, clown killed. [00:53:53] Speaker A: He's doing a beam. I can't wait, dude. Next season of Diablo, I'm going to be a sorcerer, and I'm going to do. Because they do beams and shit. I'll be like spawn. I'll beaming people. [00:54:04] Speaker B: We just got you back from that realm, Johnny. [00:54:07] Speaker A: I've been playing Diablo this whole time, baby. I never quit. [00:54:15] Speaker B: Clowns. [00:54:15] Speaker A: Like, it's 25% extra experience weekend, David. I could be playing right now. You're costing me. [00:54:21] Speaker B: Hey, man. [00:54:22] Speaker A: So much. [00:54:22] Speaker B: Hey, man, I didn't force you to be here. You came with your own volition. [00:54:27] Speaker A: I know. I like doing it. I like talking spawn. I can't deny it. It's a better dopamine hit than Diablo. Imagine that. [00:54:35] Speaker B: Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. That's some inflammatory remarks there, Johnny. I don't know. I think the people at Blizzard might be upset that you aren't desist their scientifically devised dopamine delivery device. [00:54:54] Speaker A: They truly are. Blizzards is like, evil. [00:54:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:54:59] Speaker A: Because it's the only video game, I think I've mentioned it on the pod before. I can't remember, but it's the only video game I ever had to actively quit where Wanda was like, hey, this is bad. Was the game Hearthstone by Blizzard? [00:55:16] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:55:17] Speaker A: Which was an online CCG. It was like magic, but like fast and online. And I was addicted to doing these. I can't remember what they were called. It was basically like a draft where you drafted a deck because it would really even the playing field. You didn't have to have the best deck. It was like how well you picked the cards that you were given randomly. [00:55:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:55:38] Speaker A: Thing is, it costs money every time you did it. So, yeah, I had to quit because. [00:55:43] Speaker B: I was super addicted to it. I know a lot of people who have lost a lot of money to Hearthstone. [00:55:49] Speaker A: I got out. I only lost like, $50 or. [00:55:54] Speaker B: That's great. Actually. That is a very low number. [00:56:00] Speaker A: I just fully quit. I mean, I fully quit and deleted it from my devices. I was like, I can't. [00:56:03] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, sometimes that's all you can do. It's the only way to do it. [00:56:09] Speaker A: But I got Diablo four against my better judgment, and look at me now. [00:56:13] Speaker B: Yeah. And Johnny has no resistance over it. [00:56:17] Speaker A: Well, what's good about is you can't spend money unless you want to buy stupid cosmetic shit that I don't care. [00:56:20] Speaker B: About, like, covers for your money once. [00:56:23] Speaker A: And you're done spending the money. [00:56:24] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. That's real good. That's real good. Now it's just a time investment. [00:56:28] Speaker A: It's just making the slow march to death faster. [00:56:32] Speaker B: Speaking of slow marches to death, clown mentions that sin is fighting for supremacy in hell and Al's. I wonder who's resisting him. And nix is like, he's only been in hell for a couple of days. He can't have gotten that far. And then clown drops the bomb of time. Don't work quite so well there, not like you think it does. [00:57:01] Speaker A: David, if you want to go back a page real quick at that bottom where he says it's sin. Yeah, he looks like fucking S. Craig Zoller. [00:57:12] Speaker B: With his ponytail. [00:57:13] Speaker A: With his ponytail. Yeah. [00:57:16] Speaker B: Although S. Craig Zoller, to be fair, S. Craig Zoller's ponytail is like the photo negative of clown's hair because clown's hair is all white. His hair is all very dark black. And then Clown is picking up on. He just picked up Spawn 314 and then Spawns universe and has given us a recap. Found a fissure under Omega island, yada yada months. I like that. We get clown talking with his mouth open and spit coming out again in the next panel because he'll destroy everything if he succeeds. He's got a little spit. It's a little spit going. [00:57:59] Speaker A: Classic clown. He just ate a hot dog on his way over. [00:58:05] Speaker B: Yeah, he's real gross. He's trying to do an apes together. Strong argument. Even though none of them like each other right now. Really. [00:58:17] Speaker A: This pushes him to go try to kill Gunslinger because he wants to get Spawn's attention and scare him. So this is the conversation that makes him decide to do that. Yeah, because he gets denied. [00:58:30] Speaker B: Yeah. No STAIRwaY denied. [00:58:38] Speaker A: And so SPAwn hears GReeN world, and it's LIKE, ooh, he's a LitTLE HURt That Nix is working for now. [00:58:44] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, GREENWORLD. [00:58:48] Speaker A: He'S jilted. [00:58:51] Speaker B: I don't want to hear it, nix. I'm DOne with you. Poor NIX. [00:58:54] Speaker A: What a dick. [00:58:55] Speaker B: Yeah, SHe was Just doing what she Knew SHe HAD to, and I was just being a meanie about it. And then we get the famous blank page. OKAY, SORRY, I couldn't RESIST. JOHNNY, we got the pundits AGAIN. [00:59:05] Speaker A: Yeah, that's an old bit. [00:59:07] Speaker B: Read the pundits. [00:59:08] Speaker A: Everybody read the pundits. Yeah, see, we haven't talked about it a while, but there was a while about a year ago, I guess. I don't really check the Reddit as. [00:59:17] Speaker B: Much anymore just because I'm, like, never on Reddit because, oh, boy, I just need Reddit, period. [00:59:23] Speaker A: It's not a great spot anymore. I don't Know. I don't Know. Like Diablo four, like, stuff I'm into. Usually the reddits are pretty negative. [00:59:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:59:35] Speaker A: And it's tough. [00:59:36] Speaker B: Reddit, like, everything Reddit negative never happened. No, seriously. Seriously, though, Reddit is now just full of people saying that the reason that you, like your thing is stupid and it's dumb and you shouldn't like it. Or people in, like, r spiders with the potatoest quality picture being like, what spider is this? You likE? [01:00:02] Speaker A: I used to say all the time on the spawn Reddit that they skipped reading the pundits. So Dave and I, in the early. [01:00:06] Speaker B: Days of the pod, well, I pretended that the pundits didn't exist. Yes. I would say there was a blank page. And then it got to the point where there were like three pundit pages in one issue. And I was LIKe, dude, I can't keep this up. I can't keep the pin up. Can't do it. No. The pundits are great. [01:00:28] Speaker A: Yes. Did you know these are actually some prettY. It starts off. It's obviously tied to it because it talks about how the crime's on the rise, serial killer might be on the loose. It's all talking about the fact that people are heaven and hell creatures are getting back to earth, but then it gets really serious and then just is about crime and stuff in general. [01:00:47] Speaker B: Yeah. And then rock the shock down there. Oh, boy. [01:00:52] Speaker A: Shock. Not too far from reality. Talking about how mainstream media. Oh, man. [01:01:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:01:00] Speaker A: I mean, this isn't too far from just like, what you would see on oan or newsmax. [01:01:05] Speaker B: Yeah. No, it is not. So since we're on the pundit pages, I sometimes. [01:01:10] Speaker A: Occasionally. I'm just so perversely curious, David. When I'm flipping through Pluto tv, I have to watch Oan for 10 minutes, and it's like another world. It's like the news from Robocop. [01:01:20] Speaker B: I don't know if I could do it. You're a stronger man than I am, Johnny. [01:01:23] Speaker A: I will do it, like 10 minutes. It's so wild. [01:01:29] Speaker B: Yeah. But speaking of the pundits and how the CRN lady is obviously modeled after Carney Chung, did you know that Connie Chung has been married to Mari Povich for, like, 30 years? [01:01:42] Speaker A: I didn't know that. [01:01:44] Speaker B: Yeah. Connie Chung and Mari Povich. Did you know that Maripovich is starting a company to do at home paternity tests? [01:01:54] Speaker A: Of course. [01:01:56] Speaker B: Did you know that I. [01:01:57] Speaker A: Hilarious. [01:01:58] Speaker B: I have a coworker who was born in 1997 who didn't know who Mari Povich was. [01:02:04] Speaker A: Yeah, I can see that. [01:02:06] Speaker B: Oh, man, I feel so old. Because. [01:02:12] Speaker A: Someone born in 1997 probably barely watched, like, tv over the air. [01:02:16] Speaker B: Yeah, probably insane, David. That is all we had. I had, like, four channels. Four channels and a very staticy channel. It was our local Jesus channel. It was very staticy Jesus. [01:02:35] Speaker A: He knows me, man. [01:02:37] Speaker B: Also, our UPN channel, something like that, was the UPN was the one that you had to sit and you had to adjust your position until the screen was clear and then not move for the entire episode of whatever you were watching. UPN. [01:02:54] Speaker A: I didn't watch a lot of UPN because we had cable. [01:02:58] Speaker B: How dare you? [01:02:59] Speaker A: I'm a city slicker, you know, buy. [01:03:02] Speaker B: Your salsa made in New York City. [01:03:04] Speaker A: Don't York ske exolar ain't salsa. [01:03:12] Speaker B: Oh, boy. [01:03:13] Speaker A: We cut back to the infernal keep in hell where the war rages on. [01:03:17] Speaker B: This war still looks absolutely banging oh, it's bonkers. [01:03:22] Speaker A: It's great. You got like a forearm demon flying through the air with like, beam. Angel guys with beams. [01:03:28] Speaker B: Yeah. Somebody like powering up a big single shot, like, from the enemy weapons in Halo where you could do a pew pew. Or just one big ball at once. [01:03:44] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, those are fun. [01:03:45] Speaker B: He's juicing up a big ball cataclysm, talking to his advisors. [01:03:51] Speaker A: You get some fun. Like, hell region names like Ajicon and Miorinda. [01:03:56] Speaker B: Yeah. They aren't giving him very good news, are they? [01:04:00] Speaker A: Not really. They're making all of their quarter of their territories to sin's armies or heaven. [01:04:08] Speaker B: And they're trying to convince him to join up with sin to beat heaven first and then deal with him later. Much like a clown saying that we need to join together and beat up sin and then we can fight each other afterward. And cataclysm is not very into that. He's like, this man murdered my son. I'm not going to join forces with him. [01:04:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:04:33] Speaker B: And then he just stares longingly at the throne. [01:04:38] Speaker A: He wishes he had it. [01:04:39] Speaker B: Yeah. If that's true, why hasn't calatocism taken it himself? [01:04:48] Speaker A: I like this because it's a fun transition from, like, it starts as, like, you think it's just like, narration. [01:04:53] Speaker B: You realize it's a conversation. [01:04:55] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a conversation. [01:04:57] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's just sin's marching with his army and cataclysm at his side. And they're talking about basically cataclysm's ultimate weakness is that he's got his power from obsidia, not necroplasm. [01:05:15] Speaker A: It's not native to hell, so he can't use the throne. [01:05:17] Speaker B: So that's where we get the opening reading from. And he's teaching cataclyst to use his critical thinking skills. So he's definitely like, this is his strapping young lad, his second in command. Now, Cataclys has gone a long way from just being stumbling into a boardroom full of sin, being pissed off at a whole bunch of knitwits. [01:05:48] Speaker A: He's positioned himself well, that's for sure. [01:05:50] Speaker B: He's done newsied himself into a position of power like a newsy, finding every opportunity he doesn't need a look at. [01:06:01] Speaker A: Can't sit on the throne of hell. [01:06:03] Speaker B: Also said, can we cut back to. [01:06:05] Speaker A: Greenworld where Nix is coming back? [01:06:06] Speaker B: Yeah, it's walking through a portal. [01:06:09] Speaker A: We got the green world crew. Everyone's there. Heap overkill. [01:06:13] Speaker B: It's the two green crew. [01:06:17] Speaker A: And they're just figuring out what they're going to do about the heaven and hell war, but they don't think that Nix is going to like. [01:06:22] Speaker B: Yeah, man, Cygor is looking real good there, too. [01:06:28] Speaker A: Yeah, they all look good. It's fun. [01:06:30] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. Overt kill doesn't look very zombie like. He has. [01:06:36] Speaker A: Simon must be going to the bathroom or something. He must be, yeah, overkill is looking pretty normal. [01:06:44] Speaker B: Yeah, he looks like he's got his tubes sort of refreshed. Looks like he's gone for a slight costume alteration, too. So he's been able to change it as he needs heaps still just a heap. Yes, now we get just a heap. Power meter, one nine. 1319. 13. Johnny. What a year. [01:07:08] Speaker A: Where were you in 1913? What was going on in 1913? I don't even know. [01:07:12] Speaker B: Oh, boy, Johnny. See, the problem with reincarnation is you don't remember your past lives until after your current life ends. So I don't know when the exact date will be, but there will be a time where I can tell you what I was doing in 1913. I was probably like a rat that got stuck in a trap or something, or drowned. It's more likely that than I was another human. Yeah, maybe it was like a pig. Yeah. Then we got another spawning grounds, Johnny. [01:07:48] Speaker A: This one's fan art. [01:07:49] Speaker B: It's another spawning ground. Presents fan art. And it's pretty great. There's a lot of good stuff here. Every single one of these is absolutely excellent. [01:07:57] Speaker A: I say, my favorite is kind of the chibby spawn. [01:08:00] Speaker B: Yeah, the little chibby spawn. He's like standing on a gargoyle. [01:08:06] Speaker A: And I like the one on the $5 bill is pretty cool. Yeah, not that wooden tooth bastard Lincoln. [01:08:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:08:14] Speaker A: Wait, did he have wooden teeth? [01:08:16] Speaker B: You're thinking of Washington, actually. General didn't have wooden teeth. He had human teeth on a wooden palate. Yeah. [01:08:26] Speaker A: I'm going to make him wish he had wooden teeth. [01:08:28] Speaker B: Literally obtained his own teeth from his fucking. [01:08:39] Speaker A: What did Lincoln do? He cut down the cherry tree. [01:08:42] Speaker B: No, that was also Washington because he couldn't. Lincoln. Lincoln freed the slaves and then got shot while he was trying to enjoy a play. [01:08:49] Speaker A: I know, but what's, like, his legend? He lived in a log cabin. [01:08:52] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, he lived in a log cabin. He was really tall. A lot of people think he was gay. [01:08:58] Speaker A: Okay. [01:08:58] Speaker B: Had a high nasally voice. [01:09:02] Speaker A: Played by Daniel Day Lewis. [01:09:03] Speaker B: I do believe it was the Lincoln Douglas debates that got Chicago the moniker of the Windy City. [01:09:12] Speaker A: It was windy politicians. [01:09:14] Speaker B: Cool. [01:09:14] Speaker A: He has some good fan art. [01:09:17] Speaker B: What's his face wrote a book about it. Lincoln and the Bardo. That's a good ass book by George Saunders. Lincoln and the Bardo. It's great. It's great. It follows Lincoln in the short time after his child dies. It's beautiful. It's short and wonderful. George Saunders is amazing. [01:09:37] Speaker A: That's cool. Well, that's Spawn 343. There's ads for the next spawns and the image classics and salmon twitch. [01:09:47] Speaker B: Yeah. A nice little preview on the back for next month. Johnny, as usual. I'm sending you a picture now of the biggest belly on one of the dogs that got here at the house. Which means, Johnny, you know what time it is? [01:10:06] Speaker A: It's time to rate these puppies. [01:10:08] Speaker B: It's time to rate the puppies. Man, look at that belly. It's so big. [01:10:18] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. Big old belly. [01:10:23] Speaker B: Oh, boy. All right, I guess first off, we got spawn 314. Very good book, Johnny. Cultival mega part four. We got a lot of monolith action. We got a lot of things not going Al's way. [01:10:40] Speaker A: We got Omega action. [01:10:43] Speaker B: Omega's. Omega's. But I. But I didn't kill him. You know why? Because somewhere in his brain, there's knowledge that's been hidden. Knowledge that I can use. So that's exciting. [01:10:53] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah. I like this issue a lot. It was fun. The colors are great. Great art by Carlo Barbera. [01:11:00] Speaker B: That's what it was. You know that coliostro helped create the first Spawn symbiote costume. He even tried wearing it for a time before Melbolde just ripped it from him because he couldn't be trusted. And Rory McConville took that one speech bubble and made a whole ass issue out of it. It's great. So it's not only good on its own terms, but it's seeds for future spawn that we just fucking love. And how the colors are great. Like, we've been talking about the Carlo Bo. [01:11:30] Speaker A: I think we knew his history about being help creating it before this, though, too, as well, because I thought that came later. [01:11:40] Speaker B: You know what? [01:11:42] Speaker A: I'm not sure, though, because I read it all out of order. I'm in the Malbolge, David. I don't know. [01:11:46] Speaker B: Yeah. And we got monolith, omega, Albert Simmons, poncho, hippie biker cog. It ends with some medieval Johnny. I'm going to give this four and a half omega round eyes of surprise is what I'm going to give this. [01:12:07] Speaker A: Nice. I also like this issue a lot. It was fun. I'm going to give it four technopunk masks on. Spawn oh, hell, yeah. That was a cool mask they put on him, but, yeah, it's a great issue. Like, really, pops? I'm really digging this arc here, and I'm liking that we're reading them in order like this. It's nice to not be jumping around. I mean, I'm glad we did that to get all caught up there. [01:12:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:12:34] Speaker A: Also, it's fun just to be reading them in order and kind of know where it's going, not knowing the middle pieces. It's fun. [01:12:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Also, the sheer gall of this dude tried to say that monolith is an idiot. [01:12:50] Speaker A: I know. [01:12:52] Speaker B: It's like, taylor. [01:12:53] Speaker A: It's like the squirrel. She's like, yes, I come from another planet. I will help you. He's like an intelligent general. [01:13:01] Speaker B: It's like if Fraser became a spawn and moved to another planet. [01:13:06] Speaker A: Exactly. Yes. He's like, hello. I imagine Kelsey Graham were doing the voice. Yeah. Then next up was 343. Kind of more of that really nice, balanced, episodic, like, tv show quality that's been going on that Rory McConville has been balancing where everything's its own little episode, but also ties into the issue before and the issue after. Really. Well, yeah. [01:13:31] Speaker B: It's also got one of Johnny's favorite panels in it that they keep putting in there. Well, it's on the 6th page while Al and Nick's are talking before clown shows up. What? [01:13:45] Speaker A: Cause Nick's looks got. [01:13:48] Speaker B: It's right on a butt cheek. It's right on a butt cheek. [01:13:51] Speaker A: Yep. [01:13:52] Speaker B: Let me tell you, it's a good butt cheek. [01:13:55] Speaker A: Nick's got a cool costume. [01:13:57] Speaker B: I don't know why I threw you under the bus. It is also one of my favorite panels because. [01:14:01] Speaker A: Come on, give me a break. [01:14:02] Speaker B: It's a good butt cheek. [01:14:06] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm going to give this issue four angel beams. Angel lasers. [01:14:14] Speaker B: Beams. [01:14:14] Speaker A: There's a lot of beams in this issue. I like beams. [01:14:17] Speaker B: Nice. The beams. The beams. [01:14:23] Speaker A: Double four for me this week. Both got fours. [01:14:26] Speaker B: The double four. It is great. I am loving current main title spawn. It's just fantastic. It's very good, and the art is great. And Rory McConville knows what he's doing. I'm also going to give it four, but I'm going to give it for freedom. 1776 promo codes to use at checkout. [01:14:59] Speaker A: From Brock the shock fennel. [01:15:00] Speaker B: Brock the shock fennel. On my firearm purchases. [01:15:05] Speaker A: Of course. Well, David. [01:15:10] Speaker B: Oh, boy. [01:15:11] Speaker A: This week we've had a lot of spawns. We have omega Spawn, monolith spawn. I was at my favorite local toy shop toy de jour a few weeks ago. And I happened to found a spawn variety of my own. [01:15:31] Speaker B: A spawn? Right. [01:15:32] Speaker A: I found a pilot spawn. [01:15:35] Speaker B: Pilot spawn, yes. Is that the spawn that always stays lit. So that way the other spawns can light up when they need to? [01:15:42] Speaker A: Yes. Stay lit, fam. No, it's a classic spawn toy from 1995. [01:15:51] Speaker B: Nice. [01:15:51] Speaker A: Copyrighted. It still says Tod's toys. It's not McFarland's toys yet, but it is, like, from the second series maybe, of Spawn here. [01:16:04] Speaker B: Nice. [01:16:05] Speaker A: And it looks pretty fucking badass. So it's like one of those older style figures. But let me see here, David. If I can pop off my camera so you can watch along at home. Pilot Spawn. So it's pilot spawn. It says, ultra action figure from America's best selling comic book. Yeah, he looks pretty badass. I'm going to pop this guy open. [01:16:29] Speaker B: All right. Sounds good to me. Oh, Johnny, we forgot to say what it is. [01:16:35] Speaker A: Oh, shit. It's time for Todd's toy talk. [01:16:55] Speaker B: An actual tod's toy talk, since it's got the Todd's toys. [01:16:59] Speaker A: Yeah, it's Todd's toys talk. Yeah. This is great. All right, here we go. Cool. These older ones are easier to open. [01:17:12] Speaker B: Yeah, that cardboard just, like, comes right off the back of it. [01:17:17] Speaker A: Oh, my God. It smells like 1995 in here, David. [01:17:19] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Oh, boy, does it got that. You got that. [01:17:27] Speaker A: Back off. [01:17:28] Speaker B: You got that Bill Clinton air going on? [01:17:31] Speaker A: Yes. Oh, wow. Look at this dude. [01:17:39] Speaker B: Oh, man. He's got, like, a jetpack. [01:17:41] Speaker A: He's got a jetpack that comes with these missiles. They got to bust out these instructions. I don't even know how to put them together, Donald. Controller fits in right hand. Okay? [01:17:51] Speaker B: So if it shoots missiles, that means it probably runs on the same technology. As the casket opening activity of the spawn, the movie playset, the one that reveals Al Simmons body. [01:18:08] Speaker A: All right, so it's like this big jetpack that you can attach to him. I want to shoot myself. [01:18:17] Speaker B: So it's basically Boba Fett spawn at this point. [01:18:22] Speaker A: Yeah, he's like Boba fet spawn with the missile firing jetpack. [01:18:25] Speaker B: Nice. [01:18:27] Speaker A: Okay, here we go. Attach. There we go. [01:18:31] Speaker B: All right. [01:18:33] Speaker A: It's pretty cool. So he's got like a. Oh, nice. [01:18:36] Speaker B: It's like a gun that attaches to his jetpack. So he can make a flamethrower or something. [01:18:42] Speaker A: Right. That's pretty cool. He's got a gun that comes out. He's got a knife that comes out. Damn. [01:18:50] Speaker B: Nice. [01:18:51] Speaker A: He's got a lot of shit. Let's see. He's got a swing away face mask. Look at that. [01:19:00] Speaker B: Nice. He got a meatball head under there. Or is it like a. Binoculars and so it's just his mask underneath. [01:19:11] Speaker A: Okay, let's launch this missile and see. It's just underneath. It's just his eyes. [01:19:15] Speaker B: Okay. [01:19:16] Speaker A: It's all blank. I'm going to shoot this missile. [01:19:20] Speaker B: All right. [01:19:23] Speaker A: Wait, how do I shoot it? Where's the button? There it is. Damn, these things are strong. [01:19:34] Speaker B: Wow, that was a tight spring. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Nice. You're going to get that stuck in the wall there. [01:19:44] Speaker A: So pretty cool. Pilot spawn action figure. Found a toy de jour for, like, $10. [01:19:50] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:19:50] Speaker A: Have it to add to the collection. Be taking some pictures with it for the gram. [01:19:58] Speaker B: Nice. [01:19:59] Speaker A: Pretty cool. And it's got this really great. I think we went over it before on that other figure I opened. It's got this great insert that has all the characters and bios on everybody. [01:20:09] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [01:20:11] Speaker A: That's pretty cool. Like, I'll read. Let's see. Let's read. Pilot spawns, while employed by the government, alsibin learned how to fly through the world's most advanced, top secret spacecraft. For short, lower altitude flights. Pilot spawn always has his jetpack close by, using it to fly under radar systems and sneak up on his opponents without depleting his finite. [01:20:32] Speaker B: Mean. [01:20:32] Speaker A: Pretty cool. [01:20:34] Speaker B: He's a little late for that. He done depleted all of his powers. Hell, yeah. That's awesome. That's awesome. [01:20:43] Speaker A: Each week, we like to shout out some lovely folks on instagram. We were talking about how much we love the lovely. I keep saying, love. Love. Spawn is love. [01:20:53] Speaker B: Spawn is love. [01:20:54] Speaker A: We love the lovely community, and we'd like to highlight some folks from it this week. We are privileged and lucky enough to have two people to shout out, David. [01:21:05] Speaker B: Yeah, it's pretty awesome. That doesn't happen very often. It's not like we don't have enough friends over on Instagram to do that. It's just we don't ever have the opportunity out. [01:21:15] Speaker A: Yeah, but this one, we have to do both because they're both in the spawning. [01:21:20] Speaker B: Yeah, from the spawning grounds. Fan art. I don't know if Johnny and I have mentioned it before. It's very hard to figure out who has done what. And so every time we can figure out who has done the art. [01:21:36] Speaker A: I saw that on Instagram. I know who did that. Yeah. [01:21:41] Speaker B: We want to get their names out there as much as we can. We've actually got two of our Instagram friends insta friend grams. Instant friends. It's like ramen noodles. You just add hot water. Two of our own Instagram friends who are in the spawning grounds. So, hell, yeah. We got to call them both out. [01:22:07] Speaker A: Yes. [01:22:08] Speaker B: So first we'll go. They're both in the center, and they're the left in the center. And the right in the center. Those are the two friends we have. So first we've got g underscore, zigzag underscore. And they've got that nice just. It's a little Al Simmons. He's a little cartoonified, and he looks awesome. I would buy that action figure in a second. [01:22:33] Speaker A: Kind of looks Gendi Tarkovsky esque. [01:22:35] Speaker B: Yeah. And then all the way on the other side of the center there, we've got the spawn drawn on the $5 bill on that president bastard. Yeah, that one's done by. At inkless wonder. G zigzag has a whole bunch of their own little characters that they draw. They've got just all sorts of art. They're making it work. It's a whole bunch of fun stuff. Inkless wonder is a tattoo artist. Who just happens to also have a series of spawn faces on money. That they do. And they're also a mutual friend of our good budy spawn safari. So they got the spawn crew bona fide. Going on out the wazoo. [01:23:26] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. That's awesome. [01:23:31] Speaker B: Both those guys. [01:23:32] Speaker A: Inkless wonder does great tattoo stuff. [01:23:35] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:23:36] Speaker A: Always posting really nice tattoo reveal videos and things. So make sure to give them a follow, maybe June. And they got a spawn font for their name, so, like, what's not to love? [01:23:44] Speaker B: Yeah, I like that. It's called. It's D Face. And they deface currency with spawn. It's very nice. [01:23:53] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [01:23:54] Speaker B: They got this creepy fucking clown who's got, like, somebody's face on his hands. Look at that, Johnny. It's so gross. [01:24:03] Speaker A: Creepy. [01:24:05] Speaker B: It's real good. It's real good. [01:24:07] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. While you're over there, make sure to give us a follow. We are regarding spawn pod on instagram. We'll probably be posting pictures of this pilot spawn that I almost shot myself with here. [01:24:21] Speaker B: He will also be showing any injuries occurred from the missile. [01:24:25] Speaker A: We got that going on. We got our comic pickups. I'll be doing Malbolsh Mondays. It is Labor Day today, so I got to do one special Labor Day edition. [01:24:33] Speaker B: So nice. It'll be real nice. It'll be real laid back. Also, while you're over on Instagram, you should follow Brian Underscore of Oils Underscore 27. He does our music, and he's fantastic. He's having a good time over there. [01:24:50] Speaker A: I almost skipped over his music this time. Because I didn't say Tod's toy talk. You imagine? [01:24:56] Speaker B: I could not imagine having to listen to this show without music. [01:25:01] Speaker A: I mean, boy, it'd be a lot more boring. [01:25:04] Speaker B: Yeah, it sure would. It would be reasonably interesting. But it's definitely not just an additive effect. What he gives us. He takes us above and beyond. Just a little bit of ambience. It's good shit. It's good shit. I love Brian's music. I hope you guys love Brian's music, too. Because we ain't stopping using it. [01:25:29] Speaker A: Hell, no. So give him a follow as well. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, you can hit us up at. Regarding [email protected]. [01:25:39] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:25:40] Speaker A: You just want to say, hey, if you want to tell us a joke, whatever you want to do. [01:25:43] Speaker B: Yeah, we'll answer questions. We'll send back at jokes. [01:25:51] Speaker A: If we're wrong at something, let us know. [01:25:54] Speaker B: Let us know. Yeah. [01:25:56] Speaker A: When was it revealed that cog helped build the necro? [01:26:00] Speaker B: I feel like that's something we should know, though. [01:26:04] Speaker A: I think it's somewhere in, like, where I'm reading right now. Where it's in compendium three. So that'd be somewhere around, like, 130? [01:26:12] Speaker B: Yeah, something like that. [01:26:15] Speaker A: I'm getting there. [01:26:15] Speaker B: David, I know you found out that he was Cain long before we realized. [01:26:25] Speaker A: Every week, I like to ask a question. So we got pilot spawn here. I got this figure because it was affordable and it was cool. And I could open it on Mike. But I like the idea of pilot spawn. Because they always have ice Batman or, like, smoke Batman, like, all the different types. What spawn would you want to see? Hit us up and let us know on email. Do you want to see pizza delivery man spawn or, like, ice rat catcher spawn or, like, ice shrimp catching spawn? [01:26:59] Speaker B: He just comes with a little psychic ice shrimp. [01:27:02] Speaker A: He comes with the psychic ice shrimp that he catches, like a big spawn net. [01:27:06] Speaker B: What about a violator spawn? Like one of the fleabiacs wearing the symbiote? [01:27:13] Speaker A: Yeah, that'd be cool. [01:27:14] Speaker B: It would be pretty cool. [01:27:15] Speaker A: He wants to. [01:27:17] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. So badly. So badly. [01:27:21] Speaker A: So badly. He doesn't mention it at all, dude. He never talks about it. [01:27:26] Speaker B: No, he's definitely very cool with non hell people running hell. He is AoK with it. [01:27:34] Speaker A: Totally fine. [01:27:35] Speaker B: Speaking of letting us know stuff, Johnny, we need to know what we're going to be doing next week. Around this time, probably reading some spawn. [01:27:46] Speaker A: Yeah, probably, I imagine. But yeah. What's our homework, David? What's the assignment? [01:27:51] Speaker B: Our homework for next week will be. So next week will be episode 59, which is nice. Minus ten. So we're all with Johnny. Johnny. It's fast approaching. It's going to be a great episode. [01:28:04] Speaker A: Episode 69 is going to be one for the record book. [01:28:06] Speaker B: Going to be real nice. So for next week, obviously, we're going to read two entrants from Spawn's universe, a classic. And new our classic is going to be 315. We're going to follow up with chain gang part two next week. [01:28:26] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, chain gang part two. Everyone's favorite. [01:28:29] Speaker B: So it's actually a cult of Omega finale. [01:28:34] Speaker A: So you've read it. Is there a chain gang in it? [01:28:37] Speaker B: There is no chain gang in it. There are people with chains. But all of those people listed in the chain gang, only one of them actually is in the issue. [01:28:50] Speaker A: Okay, interesting. [01:28:53] Speaker B: It's wild. [01:28:56] Speaker A: Who knows? That's weird. That's wild. [01:28:59] Speaker B: Yeah, let's chain gang it. And then our newer issue is going to be instant classic Kingspawn number 24. Oh, boy. I've also read this, Johnny, I think you've read this too. It's real good. It's a real good one. Kingspawn 24. [01:29:23] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:29:25] Speaker B: This whole thing is just all comes to a head. [01:29:30] Speaker A: It's great. [01:29:31] Speaker B: Yeah. And to date, the last Sean Lewis King Spawn. [01:29:37] Speaker A: Hopefully there's more. [01:29:38] Speaker B: King Spawn 25 was, as we found out, written by the Todd father himself. So. [01:29:46] Speaker A: We'Ll see how that pans out. [01:29:47] Speaker B: That keeps going. That's what we got for next week is Spawn 315 and King Spawn 24. [01:29:54] Speaker A: That sounds great. [01:29:55] Speaker B: Yeah, sure does. Sounds great to me. I'll be here. [01:29:59] Speaker A: And what else you can do in the meantime besides reading Spawn, please make sure to, like, rate and subscribe. Let your folks know. Let your friends know. Let your spawn fans know. Let them know at Spawncon. [01:30:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Let your friends who collect gorilla action figures know that when they unknowingly purchase a Cygor figure from eBay because it was $5, that they do indeed actually like Spawn. Now, despite their protests, they have to. [01:30:33] Speaker A: Listen if they like. [01:30:34] Speaker B: You have to. It's a requirement. [01:30:37] Speaker A: We're gatekeeping. You're trying to gatekeep us and say, we don't know shit. Well, guess what? We're gatekeeping. You. [01:30:43] Speaker B: We're going to write to the toddfather and say, hey, every issue of Spawn needs to be digital, and you need to give us the code to unlock each new episode issue of Spawn. [01:30:55] Speaker A: Official gatekeepers. [01:30:59] Speaker B: Well, Johnny, much like the gates of hell, I think they should probably stay open. Because. [01:31:08] Speaker A: Hell should stay closed. Maybe the dead zone should see how it plays out. [01:31:13] Speaker B: There's probably a lot of people down there that don't deserve to be it. [01:31:17] Speaker A: Yeah, it is a bureaucracy. [01:31:19] Speaker B: And, like, yeah, there's been a meme format recently going by. It's me in hell. Explaining what a ludicrously niche thing is to a farmer who coveted his neighbor's property in the really good. It's really good. Because, man, the rules for going to hell, Johnny, it's a moving target, if you will. So, Johnny, I've had a fun time. I think you've had a fun time. I think maybe pilot spawn had a fun time, too. I don't know. [01:31:53] Speaker A: You sure did. [01:31:54] Speaker B: You can ask him nice. I think that just leads me to say, may the scorched be with you. [01:32:01] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:32:03] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. Look at him do a little dance. [01:32:06] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. He's dancing. [01:32:08] Speaker B: Dancing. [01:32:09] Speaker A: Well, David, it's Labor Day. I'm off. I've been inspired by this spawn mask. I'm going to drop some ecstasy and dance around in a cyber goth mask. [01:32:18] Speaker B: Oh, hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. Is it going to be. Will your muffled screams be heard from everyone assembled? [01:32:27] Speaker A: Hopefully I'll put a bag on my head just to let me make myself embarrassed. [01:32:33] Speaker B: No, you got to show up with no embarrassment for those things. They're open to all. [01:32:38] Speaker A: No. [01:32:39] Speaker B: If you want, no gatekeeping, go there. Gatekeeping come to us. No gatekeeping. Go.