[00:00:00] Speaker A: In God's good name, what the hell's going on?
Good evening and welcome to the Malbolge. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast.
I'm your co host, John Fisher.
[00:00:46] Speaker B: And I'm your co host, David Williams. And, Johnny, absolutely the worst fucking thing happened this week.
[00:00:53] Speaker A: Yeah, there's no mean I forgot about that.
[00:00:57] Speaker B: I was so upset about the other thing. Yeah. First, this is the second month in a row that we've had two no Spawn. The what the hell?
[00:01:05] Speaker A: What's going on?
[00:01:07] Speaker B: But tangentially, the worst thing in the world. Johnny, people have been calling bomb threats into the Chicago Public Library this week. What the actual don't you don't you mess with my library, god damn it.
I will stop being a pacifist to protect my library.
I don't know what I do because I haven't trained for any sort of fighting, because that's like, antithetical to my being. But I'll figure something out. I'll throw a book at you or something.
[00:01:36] Speaker A: You can call Spawn on them. Spawn will protect the library. Spawns. There's a lot of Spawn at the library.
[00:01:41] Speaker B: Yeah, endless ammunition. Hopefully they got the trades and not the floppies, because those don't throw very well.
[00:01:49] Speaker A: Or if they have the compendiums, you can just smack them on the head with it.
[00:01:53] Speaker B: Oh, that's true.
[00:01:54] Speaker A: Also knock them right out.
[00:01:56] Speaker B: Just, like, stand out the window and drop it onto him on the sidewalk.
Splat.
[00:02:02] Speaker A: No, I was just blue because there was no Spawn for two weeks in a row. Now, if you're wondering, we're recording on the September 15. So that would be the Wednesday, September 13.
[00:02:14] Speaker B: The Friday after September. We didn't forget.
[00:02:17] Speaker A: Yeah, we didn't forget. I watched two documentaries, a Regular and a conspiracy.
[00:02:22] Speaker B: Oh, nice. I forgot to listen to the Sonic Memorial this year. I usually listen to it.
[00:02:27] Speaker A: Sometimes I watch United 93, which is a very good movie.
[00:02:30] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Is that the one with Nick Cage, or is that the no, other one?
[00:02:33] Speaker A: Okay, it's the one with no stars directed by Paul Greengrass.
[00:02:37] Speaker B: Okay, that's the one. That one takes place on the plane because pretty much the Nick Cage one takes place on the ground.
[00:02:44] Speaker A: Yeah, I've never seen that.
[00:02:46] Speaker B: Wait, is that one just called 911?
[00:02:49] Speaker A: That one's called World Trade. Okay, it's not called 911.
[00:02:57] Speaker B: I don't know. Weirder things have happened.
[00:03:00] Speaker A: Yeah, some weirder things have happened on 911, if you look into it.
[00:03:06] Speaker B: Where was George Bush?
I guess he was too busy acting like he was surprised in front of a whole bunch of children. Yeah.
[00:03:14] Speaker A: Acting like he didn't get tons of intel saying it was probably going to happen very soon.
[00:03:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
Have you ever listened to the Sonic Memorial?
[00:03:23] Speaker A: No.
[00:03:24] Speaker B: So it was like a nascent podcast project put on by I think it was the Kitchen Sisters. So they produced it for NPR or segments of it for NPR. But it's just like a audio tour of the sounds of the World Trade Centers that a lot of people who grew up in New York, they just remember these noises from numerous school trips that they went on, like sounds that people hold with them when they visited New York. And the best part of it is it's narrated by Paul Oster, who is one of those guys that has smoked cigarettes for longer than I've been alive, and so has just like, perfectly cooked his vocal cords. And he's got an amazing voice.
[00:04:14] Speaker A: That's awesome.
[00:04:14] Speaker B: He's also a fantastic writer, but that's separate from the conversation at hand.
[00:04:20] Speaker A: Well, to bring it all home, the Todd father posted something he had drawn of a firefighter on 911. And the best comment I saw on it was someone said, now draw Spawn, killing George W. Bush.
And someone responded, now that will go hard as fuck.
[00:04:37] Speaker B: And that comment was written by Bran morehead no.
[00:04:41] Speaker A: Probably.
[00:04:42] Speaker B: No.
Liked by Bran. Probably. At the very least, yes.
One of Bran, our good friend and occasional co host of the podcast.
[00:04:56] Speaker A: Some people call that a guest.
[00:04:57] Speaker B: Yeah, Johnny, we're looking for more here. One of their favorite hats that they have is George Bush did 911. And it's a fantastic hat and I love seeing it on him.
[00:05:09] Speaker A: It's a good hat.
[00:05:10] Speaker B: Good hat.
[00:05:12] Speaker A: Well, another good hat is gunslinger's hat, and it's one of the two issues we'll be covering today.
[00:05:17] Speaker B: It's a better hat.
[00:05:18] Speaker A: Regarding Spawn?
Yes. It's not a 911 podcast, nor is it a complaining about not having Spawn.
[00:05:25] Speaker B: Podcasts, though I would say that that hat is maybe 1776ft tall.
It's a pretty tall, properly drawn.
[00:05:36] Speaker A: Where were you in that hat? Bell.
[00:05:41] Speaker B: I follow a lot of snarky architecture blogs, and so there's the initial sort of modernist housing project was a project in St. Louis called Pruitt IGO, and it utterly failed and eventually was torn down. And I think the early, late 60s, early seventy s. And that moment of tearing down Pruitt IGO is largely classified as the end of modernism for certain architecture people. Apparently there was a big contemporary architecture guy who claimed that the tearing down or not the tearing down, the collapse of the World Trade Centers was the true end of modern of modernism because postmodernists have been trying to get the World Trade Center torn down since 1973.
Yeah, exciting.
[00:06:33] Speaker A: Yikes yikes. Yeah, I had a perfect segment back in the Spawn. You completely ruined it again by going back to the World Trade Center.
[00:06:42] Speaker B: Johnny, you said you'd never forget.
[00:06:44] Speaker A: I don't forget. And I also don't forget why we're here. And I don't want you to forget why we're here, or I already have know why we're here. I want you to know why you're here.
[00:06:52] Speaker B: We're here to talk about 911.
[00:06:53] Speaker A: Each week no, each week. Not 911. We cover two issues of Spawn from Spawn's Universe.
[00:07:01] Speaker B: Yes. Issues nine and issues eleven exclusively. I think we talk about 911 almost as much as we talk about Star Wars, but let's get back on track. David stop.
[00:07:10] Speaker A: I mean, it was a big part of our adolescence. I mean, if listener were both graduate high school in early 2000s, early to mid two thousand s the Naughty Audies.
[00:07:24] Speaker B: As we call them.
[00:07:25] Speaker A: The naughty Audies. So that was like I was in 15 when 911 happened.
[00:07:31] Speaker B: I was in 8th grade. I was sitting in algebra two. Okay, now we literally have pivoted into 911 cast.
[00:07:37] Speaker A: Johnny anyway, so it's a big part of our lives, but also a big part of our lives is Spawn. And we've got two issues of Spawn for you. First up, all the way back from March 2021, we've got Spawn 316, baby.
[00:07:52] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Forgot for Babulgia so lows the world.
[00:07:56] Speaker A: He gave his only son Reaper to grace the COVID And then our second issue is the more modern gunslinger Spawn 22 from July 2023.
So just a couple of months ago.
[00:08:09] Speaker B: Yeah, very recent.
[00:08:11] Speaker A: And each week we bring you those two issues. We have some fun. We talk about it. We have a segment. What's not to love?
[00:08:19] Speaker B: I mean, I don't know.
I don't find any fault with it. Johnny well, sure don't.
[00:08:26] Speaker A: Well, might as well just dive right in, just like those planes did into the sorry. I'm sorry. God damn it. We have to stop talking about at.
[00:08:35] Speaker B: Least you didn't say dive right in. Just like falling, man.
[00:08:43] Speaker A: Dive right in like those drones into the whoops I mean, planes.
[00:08:52] Speaker B: Johnny no, we're talking Spawn 316 here. He busts in.
[00:08:58] Speaker A: Will you read the scripture of Spawn 316 to me? David?
[00:09:03] Speaker B: So I just have a visual scripture here because it's not written down, but as far as I can tell, he just busts into an arena wearing the tightest little spandexed shorts and just smashes two beer cans and pours them down his throat.
That's about all I know about stone cold Steve Austin.
[00:09:21] Speaker A: No, it's John 316.
[00:09:24] Speaker B: Yeah, I know.
[00:09:27] Speaker A: Why was Steve Austin 316?
[00:09:29] Speaker B: Steve Austin 316?
What was that? He was just saying I don't know. I've tried to get he had it.
[00:09:36] Speaker A: On his shorts, but I just can't it was on his uniform, right?
[00:09:40] Speaker B: Yeah, it was just I guess we could look it up. Sean Austin 316.
[00:09:46] Speaker A: Spawn 316 would be for Spawn loved the world so much.
[00:09:51] Speaker B: What does Stone Cold Steve Austin's 316 actually mean?
[00:09:54] Speaker A: For Spawn loved the world so much. For Todd. For the Todd father loved the world so much, he gave his one and only Spawn that whoever reads him shall not perish but have eternal life. That's spawn 316.
[00:10:08] Speaker B: Apparently stone Cold Steve Austin beat a Dude whose Gimmick Was being basically Bible Man. And so it was a joke about how Austin 316 says, I just whipped your ass.
[00:10:29] Speaker A: Oh, my God. That's hilarious.
[00:10:33] Speaker B: Oh, boy, 16. Oh, boy.
[00:10:35] Speaker A: That's got my favorite brand 316 could also be, I just whipped your ass.
[00:10:39] Speaker B: That'S got my favorite brand of comedy in it, Johnny. Blasphemy.
[00:10:44] Speaker A: You love Spawn, then. There's a lot of blasphemy.
[00:10:46] Speaker B: Oh, Johnny, there's a reason we're doing this podcast.
[00:10:49] Speaker A: That's true.
[00:10:51] Speaker B: Because Spawn is great.
Spawn is good.
[00:10:54] Speaker A: So 316, we got to start with the COVID here.
How are you reading this here, David?
[00:11:03] Speaker B: As we know, I have run out of physical Spawns to read for oh, my God. Between here and what is it, like 324 or whatever.
And you, sir, somehow reminded me of something I should have known the whole time. Why not just use hoopla that I get for free through the Chicago Public Library? And let me tell you, Johnny, fantastic idea. So I'm digitally on hoopla.
[00:11:31] Speaker A: They got all the issues on Hoopla.
[00:11:33] Speaker B: Yeah, they got all the individual issues. I think they come out like a month after their street release date. So they've got individual issues. They've got trade paperbacks. I don't think they have the compendiums because I don't think those are digitized.
[00:11:48] Speaker A: Yeah, there wouldn't be much of a point.
[00:11:51] Speaker B: But fun thing about this digital edition on Hoopla that I got here at the end, so it's got the A cover at the very beginning, and then at the end of the issue, it's just got all the rest of the covers. So I'm working with all the covers today, Johnny.
[00:12:10] Speaker A: Hell yeah.
[00:12:12] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
[00:12:13] Speaker A: I love that. So I have one cover. I have one copy of this, but I know that there are multiple covers.
I have the A cover, which is a matina, and it's Reaper on like a gargoyle with his awesome sky looking like a Diablo character.
[00:12:36] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like a Ravenhead scythe.
[00:12:39] Speaker A: Yeah, it's awesome.
[00:12:41] Speaker B: I particularly love this cover because the way the light source is, it looks like the title is the well, all of the light is covered at a spot.
[00:12:54] Speaker A: That's awesome. I didn't even think about that. That looks cool. Yeah, that's a great A cover.
And then there are three other covers. There's a Capullo and Tod McFarlane Plague.
[00:13:07] Speaker B: Cover where he's like it's amazing.
[00:13:09] Speaker A: Crawling. Yeah, he's like crawling out of the pit.
[00:13:12] Speaker B: Yeah, it looks like he's crawling up a sheer wall. So I'm assuming it's out of the pit. And he's got, like, Dr. Octopus venomized, dr. Octopus legs coming out of his back looking like they're going to help him climb up.
[00:13:28] Speaker A: Maybe my personal favorite, or one I wish I had, at least, is the sea cover, which is Bjorn Barons, and it's spawn and monolith, like fighting in the air.
[00:13:41] Speaker B: It's absolutely amazing.
[00:13:43] Speaker A: I just wish I had one. I'll have to keep an eye out for it at Sponcon.
[00:13:47] Speaker B: At Sponkon.
What did the Toddfather want to call it?
[00:13:53] Speaker A: Comic Spawn.
[00:13:54] Speaker B: Comic Spawn. There we go.
Maybe I think I'm going to have to go back and revise my answer. It's so bad I forgot what it was. So yeah. Sorry, Todd.
[00:14:04] Speaker A: Father, spawncon.
[00:14:06] Speaker B: Spawncon.
[00:14:07] Speaker A: But yeah, it's them, like, fighting, like falling through the air, like Gandalf and the fucking balrog. Yeah, just looks really cool.
[00:14:14] Speaker B: And Spawn's capes just like flapping around in the back. And there's like monolith. Either is like, leaking blood out of his hands. So as he's, like, swiping his hands down, it's just like, flowing out. It's so cool.
[00:14:27] Speaker A: And the fourth cover is the black and white variant of the Capullo McFarlane. So it's a black and white of the plague spawn plague. Yeah.
And what's cool. I'm looking at cover price. They're all very affordable. Four or $5 for each one. So if you like, I keep my eyes open. Definitely for that, you can buy three or four. I buy three or four.
No, I got to buy multiple. I got to buy different things.
[00:14:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:55] Speaker A: I did figure out one thing I'm going to look for or hold out for. Like, my one expensive thing is I want to get I know it's stupid, but I want to get a slabbed. King spawn number one.
[00:15:07] Speaker B: No, Johnny, that is not stupid at all. If it weren't for king spawn number one, we wouldn't be here.
[00:15:15] Speaker A: We wouldn't be here. And I love that. So it is important to the pod.
[00:15:19] Speaker B: It is important to you.
So there's nothing stupid, because I was trying to think.
[00:15:23] Speaker A: I was like, I want to get, like, various back issues and stuff. That's mainly what I want to get at Swancon, because I don't want to buy a ton of toys because it's going to be hard to get back.
[00:15:30] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:15:31] Speaker A: I was like, what is my one big thing that I can look for? And I was like, I think that's it.
[00:15:35] Speaker B: Although if you find that pizza variant clown, you're going to have to buy a toy.
[00:15:41] Speaker A: I'm going to bring back a toy or a couple toys. They got to be selective.
[00:15:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
If you find a small right foot spot action figure for not too terribly.
[00:15:53] Speaker A: Much, think about your budy David.
Christmas is just around the corner.
[00:16:01] Speaker B: Oh, jeez. Oh, Christ. Oh, man, I should have said it.
[00:16:05] Speaker A: Oh, it's here already.
[00:16:07] Speaker B: Oh, look at that. We somehow skipped Halloween.
A lot of people around me have started putting out Halloween decorations already. And I love it so much. I love that Halloween decorating has become a big thing among people, literally, with.
[00:16:25] Speaker A: Those giant skeletons you can buy for your house and blow up things.
[00:16:28] Speaker B: Like, every other house in Oak Park has like, four of them. It's insane.
[00:16:33] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, cover price is also telling me something that's fun is that this is a key issue swing.
I need to get, like, a sword sound effect. I'll go like, key issue. Or maybe rattle some keys.
[00:16:48] Speaker B: Key issue, not cameo.
[00:16:50] Speaker A: But first, full appearance of plague spawn.
[00:16:55] Speaker B: Lock it.
[00:16:55] Speaker A: Put it in the lockbox.
[00:16:58] Speaker B: Because I thought you were going to say something about Johnny. Let me tell you, even though it says differently in the issue itself. Let me read to you the description of Spawn 316.
[00:17:11] Speaker A: No, don't from hoopla. I can't take any more. Chain gang.
[00:17:14] Speaker B: Chain gang part three.
[00:17:16] Speaker A: No.
What does it say?
[00:17:21] Speaker B: It says, a new team, a new mission. The chain gang she spawn gunslinger spawn medieval spawn the reaper.
I feel like the todd father wrote that himself.
And so why would just the chain what? Chain gang part three. Johnny, I got to ask.
[00:17:40] Speaker A: What this chain gang thing?
I'm going to ask Thomas. Helio what's? What's the chain gang?
[00:17:47] Speaker B: Maybe Tomo knows. It's the secret society within the Spawn offices, I guess.
[00:17:54] Speaker A: I don't know. That's so weird because it's, like, not even close. What's going on in here?
[00:17:59] Speaker B: Chain gang part three.
[00:18:02] Speaker A: Okay. Or is it Omega, spawn part? See, we don't even know what it is now. Yeah, because I don't even know what.
[00:18:08] Speaker B: Part it is because yeah, those part numbers were well, no, because the last issue 315 was the conclusion of Cult of Omega.
[00:18:19] Speaker A: And so now this is probably plague something.
[00:18:23] Speaker B: Yeah, this is a new arc. It doesn't have a name on it yet.
[00:18:26] Speaker A: Was that culturally Omega, the last trade paperback they made, or they made more that are close?
[00:18:30] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the last one they've put out.
[00:18:32] Speaker A: Okay, so there you go.
[00:18:34] Speaker B: Which is why I had to resort to alternative.
[00:18:37] Speaker A: Right, right. That makes sense. Okay, so we're in uncharted territory. We don't know what this arc is called. It hasn't been given a name.
[00:18:44] Speaker B: Yeah, no, maybe it will.
[00:18:47] Speaker A: Definitely not the chain gang part three, though. I know that for.
[00:18:54] Speaker B: Be a there might be a group of people cosplaying as the chain gang as a sort of in joke. Johnny, I bet the in jokes at Spawncon are just, like, off the walls. Incredible.
Can you imagine?
There's so many just, like, sort of little jokes hidden all around Spawn that it's hard to not just pick up on them.
[00:19:15] Speaker A: I got to figure out how to get a TV.
I got to get a big box.
[00:19:20] Speaker B: Violator parts.
[00:19:22] Speaker A: No, I got to get a big empty TV that I can put on my head. So we brock the shock fennel, like on the TV.
[00:19:29] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[00:19:29] Speaker A: If you have a big box.
[00:19:33] Speaker B: So anybody listening who's taking children to Spawn con, you should dress up as the Tod father and dress your children up as cargo boxes and have them labeled spawn parts or clown parts or violator parts or todd's toys.
[00:19:49] Speaker A: Tod's toys.
[00:19:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:52] Speaker A: And then you can go, I'm Tod McFarlane, creator of Spawn. You ever died? Well, if you did, you'd want to come back to life?
[00:20:01] Speaker B: It would be amazing. It would be amazing. And you could just have your kids turtle themselves inside the boxes whenever you start talking.
You'd get to walk around in those cool acid washed jeans, too. Damn.
[00:20:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:16] Speaker B: I'm jealous of whoever's cosplaying that. For real. You know what else I'm jealous of?
[00:20:21] Speaker A: Jealous of the top Tod McFarlane yet again because he's writing this yeah.
[00:20:25] Speaker B: With the record breaking comic. I'm jealous of that.
[00:20:27] Speaker A: Record breaking?
[00:20:29] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:29] Speaker A: You cracked this cover open. And we got script plot by Todd McFarlane as it's been art. We're still in the barbarian era. So it's Carlo Barberry, and he gets a fun so do you get the back matter when you get to the digital so? Yeah, that's really cool.
[00:20:51] Speaker B: It's a fun little interview with Carlo Barberi at the end of this.
[00:20:54] Speaker A: Yeah. So we'll get to that. At the end there. We got Tom Warzachowski on lettering, of course.
This is his let's see, 316th issue of Spawn lettering.
[00:21:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:07] Speaker A: He may have missed one or two.
[00:21:08] Speaker B: Who knows however many other side projects he did over the year because they have, like, 26 26 other series that they've done.
[00:21:18] Speaker A: J. David Ramos on colors, doing his excellent color work.
[00:21:22] Speaker B: Excellent. Yes.
[00:21:23] Speaker A: We already covered the COVID artist there.
[00:21:25] Speaker B: Sure did.
[00:21:27] Speaker A: And then Tod McFarland's, creative director. And Thomas Healy as editor.
So previously in Spawn previously cult of Omega, in a serene tropical paradise, there lurks a dark secret hidden away from the world. Omega. Spawn has been amassing power and prisoners trapped on Earth. He seeks a way back to the stars. Unfortunately for him, Al Simmons has arrived to stop him. But will the help of former enemies and unknown Behemoths be enough to stop Omega and the oncoming plague?
I like that. Unknown Behemoth.
[00:22:10] Speaker B: We at this point have a known Behemoth.
[00:22:14] Speaker A: We do?
[00:22:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:16] Speaker A: And we know the Behemoth of monolith. We have two known Behemoths, and one of them is named Behemoth.
[00:22:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:21] Speaker A: So you open up on a radar screen yeah.
[00:22:25] Speaker B: And it's got some beeps going on. And three, that's all their computer tracking radar had initially picked up Johnny, but.
[00:22:31] Speaker A: Boom, the fourth flash pops up, and it says unknown.
[00:22:35] Speaker B: There wasn't supposed to be a fourth.
Yeah.
[00:22:38] Speaker A: And the three blips are, of course, Spawn, medieval, Omega. And the unknown is something else pops up.
[00:22:45] Speaker B: The unknown is obviously Godzilla.
[00:22:49] Speaker A: It does look, like, very Godzilla esque. That, like, radar where beeps on just.
[00:22:54] Speaker B: I just watched one yesterday where he fights, like, a swarm of bugs. And it starts with a G force team who are tracking Godzilla. And the guy who's tracking him is from the submarine corps. So he's just, like, staring at a radar screen.
[00:23:15] Speaker A: No, it's not Godzilla. It's plague spawn.
[00:23:17] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a nice two page spread. Plague spawn here, man. Look at that.
[00:23:21] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Looking good.
[00:23:22] Speaker B: He's got the spikes out of his.
[00:23:24] Speaker A: Back, falling out of that pit.
[00:23:27] Speaker B: Yeah, the letters on plague are awesome. Plague.
Plague.
[00:23:33] Speaker A: He's, like, gooping everywhere.
[00:23:35] Speaker B: Yeah. He's like Al Simmons. And hex has had a baby black inky tar or maybe more like some animalistic disease.
[00:23:46] Speaker A: He crawls up. He crawls up slowly, like, forms and walks straight.
[00:23:53] Speaker B: Yeah. It's like the evolution of man in real time here.
[00:23:56] Speaker A: Right. He goes from primordial goo to walking upright.
[00:24:04] Speaker B: For some reason, there's sonic waves filling the air.
[00:24:07] Speaker A: Okay. I went back and looked. Was that in the previous issue?
[00:24:11] Speaker B: No.
[00:24:12] Speaker A: Yeah, I didn't think so either.
[00:24:13] Speaker B: Okay. I don't know, but for some reason, there's some sirens going. I don't know if it's my guess is it would probably be like anybody trying to get out of that pit sets off an alarm and it's sort of an incapacitating alarm, maybe.
Yes. I could find a reason for it.
[00:24:34] Speaker A: Yes. It's very todfather to do something like that.
[00:24:38] Speaker B: Plague isn't affected by this barrage of sonic waves.
[00:24:43] Speaker A: No.
[00:24:44] Speaker B: He's momentarily set back by the sun but adapts quickly. Yeah.
[00:24:50] Speaker A: He's like, oh, that's like me in the morning. Momentarily set back by the sun. But then I usually adapt fairly quickly.
[00:24:56] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know. It takes me a little bit longer. I've got what I like to refer to as weenie white man eyes. And for a good portion of the year, I literally have to just hide my face and my hands on my entire commute in because the sun is just too bright. My eyes can't handle it.
[00:25:13] Speaker A: Johnny, I'm sorry.
[00:25:16] Speaker B: Don't be sorry. You didn't do this.
You, uh, my progenitor or my ancestor. You didn't give me these eyeballs. You may have given me the eyeball, but you haven't given me my eyeballs.
[00:25:32] Speaker A: It's true.
I've never given you the stink eye. I promise. I swear.
[00:25:37] Speaker B: That's just how your face looks.
[00:25:39] Speaker A: But given the stink eye is Omega. Omega stink eye. Because it's only our boys here.
[00:25:45] Speaker B: He's only got the one eye, and.
[00:25:46] Speaker A: He'S got the he's got the one eye.
[00:25:48] Speaker B: The stump.
[00:25:50] Speaker A: He's got the one eye. He's got the stump.
[00:25:52] Speaker B: And he's threatening Plague with his stump. There. Let's end your pain right now.
Oh, I guess Omega's trying to still trying to beat up on medieval and spawn. And for some reason, Plague stops Omega's fist from our boys.
[00:26:09] Speaker A: Plague decides to save them with a big literal energy shield.
[00:26:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Then Plague just flexes and shoots out a whole bunch more spikes.
Then he starts yelling.
It unleashes a sickening streak. The sound of a soul tortured, unwilling to suppress its pain any longer.
[00:26:33] Speaker A: Johnny so many god, this has got to be the most torturous sounding island there's, like, just beeping that's hurting the spawns. They're screaming Omega, because Omega wasn't omega.
[00:26:44] Speaker B: Obviously wasn't affected by the earlier sonic waves. But the sonic waves coming out of this Plague spawn are killing him. Johnny, look at him. He's he's invisible. Oranging it there.
The scream doubles in ferocity johnny. Causing shockwaves to shake the entire island.
[00:27:05] Speaker A: Shooting on a 20 miles radius. We get that radius talk.
[00:27:08] Speaker B: Hell yeah, baby. Father I like the beach scene where it shows the riptide going out and there's just some coconuts falling off the trees.
[00:27:17] Speaker A: Yeah, nice little detail there.
[00:27:20] Speaker B: That's fun. And then omega tries to bargain with plague, and then Plague just, like, stares at you. Can't you can't bargain with a plague, Johnny.
[00:27:32] Speaker A: You're not going to bargain with a plague spawn.
Everyone's just like, what the fuck is up with this guy? Because as we know, he was the first attempt at a symbiote, but it was too yeah, yeah.
[00:27:46] Speaker B: It did not act like a man did. It acted instead like an animal.
[00:27:49] Speaker A: And they're just like, what the hell is that?
[00:27:52] Speaker B: I like it just, like, starts walking away.
[00:27:58] Speaker A: Yeah. Flex is like, all right, I'm done with then.
[00:28:01] Speaker B: And then some dudes with guns come up and start shooting at Alan Medieval.
[00:28:06] Speaker A: So I would assume this is the cult of Omega.
[00:28:09] Speaker B: Yeah, the people yeah, kind of like, the people who live with clown, I guess, would be like the cult of clown.
[00:28:19] Speaker A: Are these the same guys, or does he, like, repopulate with his people after they wipe him out now that he's on Omega Island? Or are they just like, yo, they come with the island.
[00:28:27] Speaker B: Yeah. I assume that what is minions the word I'm looking for?
Goons. I'm sure goons in the spawn universe work the same way they do in the Marvel and DC universes, where there's just, like, a pool of goons and depending on who's the big villain at that time, that's who they work for.
[00:28:48] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly.
[00:28:49] Speaker B: When they meet up at the bar, they talk about how when they worked with Joker or Two Face 15 years ago, and they're like, man, he's changed. He wasn't like that when I was working for him.
[00:28:59] Speaker A: The clown shows up on Omega Island. He's like, look, I'll offer you a little better pay dental if you stick.
[00:29:05] Speaker B: Around, but you got but you have to deal with these little bitty carnivorous cannibalistic souls of children that Billy Kincaid killed. They might eat your feet.
[00:29:20] Speaker A: Yeah, they're like to think about it.
[00:29:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:29:26] Speaker A: So Medieval pops out like a necroplasm shield and is blocking so, Johnny, Johnny.
[00:29:32] Speaker B: This necroplasm shield looks a lot like that one action figure you picked up from Tour de Jour a few weeks ago.
[00:29:40] Speaker A: It does looks like future spawn.
[00:29:42] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like the future spawn cocoon. Future spawn's coming back, baby.
[00:29:48] Speaker A: Maybe.
[00:29:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
And then we get another two page spread with Omega and Plague. They're just sizing each other up here. Plague's just like, menacing, and Omega's like, what the hell is going on? I thought I was in control.
[00:30:03] Speaker A: And we get, like, a chewy todfather, just like, oh, yeah, chewy toddfather exposition dump here.
[00:30:12] Speaker B: Yeah. I like that. He knows the thing standing in front of him is different somehow, because all spawns have eyes of green. This is the first time he's seen anything looking close to a hell. Spawn not have an emerald stare. And then we look at the next page.
[00:30:27] Speaker A: It's like a song. Like, the spawns have eyes of green.
[00:30:29] Speaker B: And then we just look on the other side of the two page spread. And what color eyes does Omega spawn have, Johnny?
[00:30:36] Speaker A: Red.
[00:30:36] Speaker B: They're red.
[00:30:38] Speaker A: Oh, no.
Maybe he's never looked into the mirror.
[00:30:44] Speaker B: Can you blame him? Is there a mirror big enough for Omega Sponge to take in his full splendor in?
[00:30:50] Speaker A: We also discover in this text that Omega spawn's sworn enemy is Cogliostro as well. I guess every spawn sworn enemy is Cogliostro.
[00:30:57] Speaker B: Man, COG's just fucking shit up left and right. He's like the entire enemy to all.
[00:31:03] Speaker A: Enemy to all.
[00:31:05] Speaker B: Oh, man. Well, now you're going to assert yourself, hoping to wash away your past failures. You're a quote unquote reject.
[00:31:14] Speaker A: It's true.
[00:31:15] Speaker B: He is so Plague spawns just passively watching Omega talk. And Omega gets real pissed off that Plague isn't saying anything and then gets so upset that he necroplasmically plasmically makes his horns grow bigger.
[00:31:34] Speaker A: I mean, that's what I would do if I got upset and I had giant ram horns. I'd just be like, all right, I'm ramming out.
[00:31:41] Speaker B: Hey, Johnny, doesn't he look a lot like a one particular final boss in one particular addicting computer game series?
[00:31:52] Speaker A: Yeah. I got to go.
[00:31:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:31:55] Speaker A: He looks like Diablo or Lilith in the new one. Lilith. She's sexy. Oh, man. Diablo Four spoiler alert is actually Lilith is the bad guy.
[00:32:05] Speaker B: The wife of Satan.
[00:32:08] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:32:08] Speaker B: The mother of witches.
Yep.
[00:32:11] Speaker A: The mother's embrace. Yeah, she's cool.
[00:32:14] Speaker B: Also the namesake for Lilith Fair from the 90s.
[00:32:18] Speaker A: Who's that?
[00:32:19] Speaker B: Lilith Fair was like all the alternative female female alternative rock singers from the 90s got together and made, like, an empowering women summer festival. So it was Sarah McLaughlin and Alanis Morissette at all. All them.
[00:32:46] Speaker A: That's cool.
[00:32:46] Speaker B: And it was, you know, because summer festivals were starting to be a big going concern then. And all of them well, Johnny, I don't know if you know this, but there's a lot of cheesemo going around, and they were trying to cancel some of that cheesemo and have a safe and inviting space for people to enjoy their music in the summertime. So Lilith Fair. Cool.
[00:33:11] Speaker A: Lilith Fair. I like it. No, but Lilith is the bad guy in Diablo Four, but she has big horns like that, too. And I'm going to go play. It actually my build. I built a chain guy because I'm like swan. I'm a barbarian that throws out chains.
[00:33:25] Speaker B: And drags when you when you raid with other people. Are you the Chain Gang?
[00:33:30] Speaker A: We got the chain gang. Yeah.
[00:33:31] Speaker B: I'm going to change my clan name.
[00:33:32] Speaker A: To Chain Gang now.
It was the Immortan hose.
[00:33:40] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Johnny, I bet you stole all the water too, didn't you?
[00:33:46] Speaker A: Do not get addicted to water. It will make you resent its absence. Yeah, we were just sticking around one night, and I was like, we're going to be the abortant hose. That's our boy.
[00:33:57] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Look for him. Montiablo for y'all.
[00:34:00] Speaker A: Look for me on my clan. Join.
[00:34:02] Speaker B: Up and Plague spawn stands straight up, right? And then Omega tries to ram him with his rams horns, and Plague just goes levitates away.
[00:34:21] Speaker A: Like, Jesus, dude. He's like, going up there like Jesus.
[00:34:26] Speaker B: Oh, boy, oh, boy. And then yeah, he's got that light behind him. The Holy Spirit is shining through him.
[00:34:35] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:34:36] Speaker B: Floating like some soulless god taunting his enemy below.
[00:34:42] Speaker A: And then he reaches up and snatches him.
[00:34:44] Speaker B: Yeah. Do you hear that? Those are your bones being crushed. Come on.
[00:34:48] Speaker A: Do you don't think this guy's really got bones, do you? Like, ooze, dude.
[00:34:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
Omega spawn is me trying to catch the fruit flies out of the air because I'm too lazy to go find something to hit them with.
Do you ever do that? Like, I got them. Fuck, I don't got them, I got them.
[00:35:05] Speaker A: Yeah, I do that all the time.
[00:35:08] Speaker B: I walk around and try to catch them with, like, clap them in my hands, and Wanda's just like, fucking quit it. And I'm like, but I'm trying.
Perfect time for this, Johnny. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
[00:35:28] Speaker A: Pretty good, pretty good.
[00:35:30] Speaker B: And so Omega's standing there looking at his fists, taunting it with Melbolgia and Satan both dead, only one spawn will take over hell's empty throne.
[00:35:40] Speaker A: So that's kind of throwing that out there about the throne thing.
[00:35:42] Speaker B: I intend to be that new king. And then he's just, like, standing in glory.
And then Plank sends out a whole bunch of little spikes just through his hand.
[00:35:52] Speaker A: Ouch.
[00:35:53] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, God.
[00:35:54] Speaker A: That would hurt. There's so many always talked about when I was a kid, like, you don't want to hold a Roman candle with a closed fist because that'll blow your hand off.
[00:36:04] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:36:05] Speaker A: Messes up.
[00:36:06] Speaker B: Oh, boy.
[00:36:08] Speaker A: That's what happens to him.
[00:36:09] Speaker B: Oh, boy. The nasty side of the Internet always fills up with so many photos of people mistreating fireworks.
[00:36:18] Speaker A: No, I don't want to hear about it. I don't like it.
[00:36:21] Speaker B: Yeah, you do not want to hear about it at all.
The only fireworks related video you need to watch, Johnny, is Terry and his electric wheelchair.
Back it up, Terry. Back it up.
[00:36:40] Speaker A: Terry just wanted to experience it.
[00:36:43] Speaker B: Oh, man, terry's the fucking best. And then Spawn and Medieval are over there killing the goons al's, smashing a dude's head against a rock. He's using Coliostra's weapon of choice, actually, medieval's in the back, just like, fist through a dude's torso.
[00:37:01] Speaker A: Guck is the noise that makes him punches through.
[00:37:03] Speaker B: So gross. It's like his intestines are flying out behind him.
Oh, so gross. Then Omega is throwing Plague spawn away and losing a whole bunch of necroplasm.
[00:37:16] Speaker A: Then he starts, like, powering up, starts kamehameha.
[00:37:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
And then kablui Kablawi kabam bing bong.
[00:37:27] Speaker A: Big green giant column shoots out of Omega Island.
[00:37:31] Speaker B: Yeah. To be continued, Johnny.
[00:37:33] Speaker A: Dun dun dun.
But it's not over yet.
[00:37:37] Speaker B: Not over yet. This is the most words ever on a pundit's page, Johnny.
[00:37:42] Speaker A: You mean least?
[00:37:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, there's very few words there, appropriately enough, after a large disaster that happens that destroys a lot of stuff, Johnny.
[00:37:55] Speaker A: Oh, no.
[00:37:56] Speaker B: The pundits are immediately pretty somber to.
[00:38:00] Speaker A: Tie it all together. Yeah, they have this very 911s newscast here. The three different pundits got the CRN, ladies, says the most, but unprecedented numbers.
[00:38:12] Speaker B: Simultaneously over two dozen locations across the globe. Yeah, the info now guy is just like, oh, God, oh, God. So no actual news there just some oh, Godding.
Then we get the opening reading from Brock
[email protected].
[00:38:31] Speaker A: In God's name, what the hell is going on?
[00:38:34] Speaker B: Johnny, if you allow, I am going to go to the Internet and I am going to go to maximumnews.com.
[00:38:42] Speaker A: Yeah, let's see what it is.
It's actually Brock, the shock.
[00:38:48] Speaker B: The domain maximumnews.com is for sale. How is that for sale? How is there not
[email protected] let's buy it. We'll do that to purchase. Call afternic.com or click for new details.
[00:39:03] Speaker A: Save that info. We'll be buying that and starting a news organization.
[00:39:08] Speaker B: It's not telling me how much it'll cost. I have to email them for a.
[00:39:17] Speaker A: Well, huh? Stick a pen in that.
[00:39:19] Speaker B: Then we do a quick unrelated snapshots of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Hong Kong.
Just, I guess to show the wide ranging effects of these earthquakes that hit both Brazil and Hong Kong. And then we get a shispawn walking in.
[00:39:40] Speaker A: Has the TV off? She hasn't been watching, so she doesn't know this is going.
[00:39:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
And she's like, Mark. Mark, where are you hiding?
Everybody's always looking for Mark in these things. Johnny. He's the most popular.
[00:39:57] Speaker A: Where's Mark? Medieval. Have you seen Mark? You guys are never here at the same time. It's so strange.
[00:40:03] Speaker B: She's like, he's always at his computer. Why is he not here?
Oh, boy. I know those people.
[00:40:10] Speaker A: Wait, when Wanda's looking for me these days, she's like, he's always in front of his Xbox playing Diablo. Why isn't he here?
[00:40:17] Speaker B: Oh, boy. And so Jessica sits down, turns on the computer, listens to some 45 seconds of the new single by Taylor Swift, decides she doesn't like it.
[00:40:33] Speaker A: Hey, I'm a swifty baby.
[00:40:35] Speaker B: Hey, I don't know. I mean, all power to Taylor Swift for writing her own music and being a fucking superstar. But I don't like the music.
It's lyric forward and fucking lyrics are the last thing I pay attention to as the music underneath the lyrics is boring.
[00:40:55] Speaker A: 1989 is just a banger of an album, though. It's my favorite of hers. So some of the newer stuff I'm not into, but what are you going to do?
[00:41:03] Speaker B: It doesn't do it for me. It's no spawn. Let's see that.
[00:41:08] Speaker A: It's no spawn.
[00:41:11] Speaker B: And then Jessica's like, Mark, Mark, you need to hear this. Oh, I guess that means she really liked the 45 seconds of the new Taylor swift single.
[00:41:17] Speaker A: Yeah, she liked the song, dude.
[00:41:19] Speaker B: She's like, Mark, here's the reason people keep buying all these tickets.
And then she comes across Mark's glasses broken on the floor.
[00:41:28] Speaker A: Sad, broken glasses. Just makes me stressed out, man.
[00:41:33] Speaker B: Me, too. Because if I broke my glasses, that means I'd have to immediately buy some new ones. And glasses are too goddamn expensive.
[00:41:40] Speaker A: And then keeping with the last issue, we get the power meter for Plague from Plague Spawn.
[00:41:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:47] Speaker A: Which is 8936. So really high, man.
[00:41:50] Speaker B: He's got so much juice. He's so much juice. He's wheezing the juice, if you will.
[00:41:57] Speaker A: Juice is loose.
[00:42:00] Speaker B: And then we got spawning ground. Presents the Breakdown interview with Carlo Barberry.
[00:42:06] Speaker A: Yeah, we get a nice interview with Carlo Barberry. It's nice to get this interview as he's starting his run on Spawn.
[00:42:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
My favorite part of this interview is when they ask him, what was your favorite page to draw so far? And he says that if he has to choose one, it's the first time I drew Spawn in All His Glory in issue 311. And Johnny, I'm pretty sure that when we came across that, we literally referred to it as Spawn in All His Glory.
[00:42:33] Speaker A: I called it out. I was like, he's putting his mark on Spawn.
[00:42:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
Hell yeah. Because it's a fucking great Spawn.
[00:42:43] Speaker A: It is. It's just interesting to hear his process.
And it's cool to see that he can kind of jump between digital and.
[00:42:52] Speaker B: The old school pen and paper, old school method.
[00:42:55] Speaker A: And he's cool with both of them.
We find out he's an Overtkill fan. Yeah, an overt kill fan.
[00:43:04] Speaker B: That's where was overkill. And if we could somehow reintroduce him. But before I could say anything, told me he was bringing back the big guy.
So that's awesome.
[00:43:13] Speaker A: He gives some advice for up and coming artists. So any of our friends listening seek out this issue, and maybe he gets some good advice.
[00:43:20] Speaker B: Yeah, johnny, for those unable to find copies of this issue, though oh, you.
[00:43:28] Speaker A: Can just tell them.
[00:43:29] Speaker B: We can break down to the advice to one memorable quote from our favorite favorite previous senator, now emperor.
Do it.
[00:43:43] Speaker A: Do it.
[00:43:45] Speaker B: That's all it is. That's what this two paragraphs worth of advice breaks down to.
[00:43:52] Speaker A: I thought it's interesting that he mentioned as an artist to really pay attention to storytelling and that to watch, like he says, I don't know, I thought that was kind of about that. But he says to watch US. Comics, European graphic novels, anime, manga, movies, try and figure out why directors or artists using certain angles. I thought that was interesting.
[00:44:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
If I may, again, Johnny, to bring it back to Godzilla like I have been for the past couple of months, it's very, like, even just sort of like in passing. It's great to watch the choreography they have of people in big rubber suits that have very little ability to express any sort of facial emotion or anything, but just like, the choreography of that is just so compelling that they've been able to put it together so well.
[00:44:43] Speaker A: Watch Godzilla movies then, to learn storytelling. There you go.
[00:44:46] Speaker B: Yeah. So that's some good storytelling.
A lot of times you'll read interviews with people who will say that the hardest part is having to keep the story moving forward when there's no dialogue. So it's all just visual.
And so, yeah, there's a lot of things to consider when trying to propel a story forward simply through visuals.
[00:45:09] Speaker A: Great interview.
[00:45:10] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a good interview. Carla Barberi one of the greats that's Spawn 316.
[00:45:15] Speaker A: Johnny and Tod father loved the world so much that he gave his only Spawn mankind to save.
[00:45:22] Speaker B: And then Spawn kicked his ass. Or kicked clown's ass.
Spawn didn't kick the Todd father's ass. That would be rude.
[00:45:34] Speaker A: No, you can kick your ass, but you can't kick your father's ass.
And we're back, baby.
We're back.
[00:45:57] Speaker B: Welcome back.
[00:45:58] Speaker A: Welcome back. Hope you had a nice little musical interlude there. We're back for another issue from Spawn. And we've got we're keeping that Todd father wackiness. I mean, that last issue was pretty wacky. And this one does not disappoint as well.
[00:46:14] Speaker B: No, it does not disappoint. So what is Gunslinger 22? 22. Awesome. Johnny I went to the Googler, I put in Gunslinger 22 so I could see what other covers there were besides just the one that I have. And apparently there is an army helicopter gun video that they produced called Gunslinger 22.
So if you're reading along, be sure to read the comic book Gunslinger 22 and not the Defense Visual Information Distribution Services. Gunslinger 22.
[00:46:57] Speaker A: Don't read that exercise.
[00:46:59] Speaker B: Gunslinger is a joint Kansas National Guard and us. Marine Corps exercise designed to increase joint aircraft control. And I'd have to subscribe to read more combat rescue. Search and rescue at Gunslinger 22.
[00:47:14] Speaker A: Well, there's not really much searching and rescuing this Gunslinger 22 fighting.
[00:47:19] Speaker B: I think maybe why don't you cover the comic book and then I'll cover this video and tell you what all cool shit happens.
[00:47:27] Speaker A: Well, according to my notes, there's two covers and I have both. All right, there's three covers. There's three.
[00:47:35] Speaker B: Three of them.
[00:47:37] Speaker A: Three. Well, one of them is a virgin cover. Or as we like to say, Naked nude.
[00:47:43] Speaker B: Or we could call them the all natural owl.
[00:47:47] Speaker A: Or natural owl cover.
[00:47:48] Speaker B: In their owl together. There we go. In their al together.
[00:47:52] Speaker A: I don't even get that.
[00:47:54] Speaker B: A lot of people like to say when somebody's naked that they're in there altogether.
[00:47:59] Speaker A: Oh, really?
[00:48:00] Speaker B: Yeah. And so in their alt together, some people, a lot of people, old people, I like to listen to podcasts that specifically focus on language and weird things people say in isolated communities. So it's real fun.
[00:48:19] Speaker A: Sure. Well, in their altogether version. But I'm getting ahead of myself. I'm getting ahead of myself.
The COVID I'm reading is the J. H. Williams II cover.
[00:48:30] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the one I have.
[00:48:32] Speaker A: And is the fourth, I believe maybe it's the third that was released. The third or fourth release of these connecting, like, covers.
[00:48:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I do think it was the third.
[00:48:45] Speaker A: It was the third, yeah. Because the last one was the yeah.
[00:48:47] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:48:48] Speaker A: This is the third one released. And it's the bottom right corner of if you put them all together. But it's gunslinger looking real pissed off.
[00:48:56] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got his little revolver.
[00:49:00] Speaker A: He's got a revolver? Or is it like a I don't know. He's like holding it like a pit. Like a rifle.
[00:49:06] Speaker B: Yeah. That's a little weird. Oh, it's got like a bayonet on it.
It's a pistol with a bayonet. What the fuck?
[00:49:15] Speaker A: It's a pistol with a bayonet, man. That's a crazy looking fucking pistol, man.
[00:49:18] Speaker B: That's awesome.
[00:49:19] Speaker A: That's cool. That's pretty cool. It's like a halo weapon.
There's a brute weapon that had like it was like a pistol, but it had, like, knives on you're. A brute brute weapon.
[00:49:31] Speaker B: Your mom.
[00:49:34] Speaker A: But then there's a version version of this version version. An all natural owl.
[00:49:40] Speaker B: And it's out together.
[00:49:42] Speaker A: It's out together. And then there's a B cover by Jonathan Glapion.
[00:49:47] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, Jonathan Glapion's. Good shit.
[00:49:50] Speaker A: Which is like like either sucking in or shooting out. Necroplasm, like looking real scary. Zoomed in close on his face. Pretty cool.
[00:49:58] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like he's it's like he's just taken a big rip off of one of his necro cigarettes or a Necro gravity bong.
He's just discovered indoor plumbing and the first thing he does is uses it to smoke weed.
[00:50:15] Speaker A: Yeah, he's like, indoor plumbing. I'm going to make a gravity bong in the sink bottle of Gatorade.
[00:50:23] Speaker B: Taylor definitely taught him that.
[00:50:25] Speaker A: Oh, Taylor knows how to do a gravity bong. He's like, you get a little ratchet, you put in a Gatorade bottle, and.
[00:50:32] Speaker B: Then you order pizza. And it's the best thing in the world. Dude.
[00:50:36] Speaker A: I just imagine they smoke weed and Javi gets super paranoid. He's like, what the fuck was that?
He's like, shooting everything.
[00:50:44] Speaker B: They start playing Taylor's video game together and he's like, it's like, I'm in it.
[00:50:49] Speaker A: I'm in the gay. He's like, just chill out, stop shooting stuff and play this game with me. He's like, no, I'm in the.
[00:50:57] Speaker B: Wonder. I wonder how long what the conversation that Taylor and Javi had where Taylor describes what pizza is to Javi. Because they definitely didn't have pizza as we know it in cowboy days. Could you imagine it being no, it's like it's like a sandwich, only it's not a sandwich. And it's kind of like cheese bread, but it's not cheese bread, but it's a pizza.
[00:51:27] Speaker A: It's a pizza.
[00:51:28] Speaker B: That would have been a great time.
[00:51:30] Speaker A: Well, great time is this issue. So let's crack it open and see what we got going on here. Yeah, we got script plot by the Todd father, the Todd McFarlane. The Todd McFather.
Old McFather.
[00:51:43] Speaker B: Old McFather was a todd.
[00:51:45] Speaker A: And he wrote yeah, art by Bret Booth.
[00:51:50] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
[00:51:51] Speaker A: Unbroken run so far on Gunslinger here. Yeah, the anchors we got two adulcio Corona and Corey King.
[00:52:00] Speaker B: Very nice. Very nice. Unsung heroes of the we're singing them.
Our anchors.
[00:52:08] Speaker A: We're singing them right now.
[00:52:10] Speaker B: Usually the only people you hear paying attention to inkers are, well, the people who either benefit from inkers or are inkers themselves. So inkers incredibly, incredibly crucial to making sure comic book art looks excellent.
[00:52:27] Speaker A: Absolutely. Also just crucial are colorists. Like Ivan Nunes.
[00:52:31] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
Kicking it in the pants all day, every day.
Some good colors in this. Maybe not J. David Ramos. Levels of good coloring, but still excellent colors.
[00:52:44] Speaker A: It's a double Tom O Day, too, because we got lettering by Tom Orzharshkowski.
[00:52:48] Speaker B: Yeah, the tom father.
[00:52:51] Speaker A: The Tom father's here as well.
And we already did the covers. And, of course, as always, creative director is Tod McFarlane. And Editor in chief is Thomas Healy.
[00:53:01] Speaker B: Hell yeah. We're in that healy.
[00:53:08] Speaker A: Who's that? Is that your other podcast co host, Johnna?
[00:53:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Where we cover.
[00:53:15] Speaker A: Savage dragon.
[00:53:17] Speaker B: We cover spoons. It's called respoon the world's Best Spoon podcast with Jonna.
[00:53:24] Speaker A: Oh, my God, I'm jilted. There's another van.
[00:53:30] Speaker B: We start off talking about how before we use a spoon, we have to pick it up, and if it doesn't feel soft when we run our finger on the concavity of it, we just throw it away immediately because we don't want that shit in our mouth.
[00:53:41] Speaker A: How often do you guys talk about 911 on Respoon?
[00:53:45] Speaker B: Well, interestingly enough, we just had a conversation about somebody had an ebay listing with Reclaimed World Trade Center spoons. And, man, we got outbid so goddamn quick.
[00:53:59] Speaker A: Oh, my Lord.
So previously in Gunslinger gunslinger and Dakota Foreign.
[00:54:10] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:54:11] Speaker A: Sorry. There's a typo that really threw me off here.
[00:54:13] Speaker B: Yeah, it threw me off when I was reading it last night, too. It's just like, what the should I.
[00:54:19] Speaker A: Read it as written?
[00:54:22] Speaker B: I would normally say, yes, read it as written, but it's just impossible. It's impossible. No, you'll get tripped up every time. So read it as it's supposed to be, please.
[00:54:30] Speaker A: Previously in Gunslinger gunslinger and Dakota form an uneasy alliance to infiltrate Omega Island and take down the nefarious clown.
[00:54:39] Speaker B: Yeah, because four a uneasy is it's hard to say. It would be like the Arnold Palmer of gunslinger reviews.
[00:54:49] Speaker A: It's hard to say. God bless you, everybody. That makes swan. I'm sorry that we're not making fun of the Typos, but we have to them.
[00:54:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:54:59] Speaker A: We're not like reddit. We're not mean about it. I make typos all the fucking time. I make huge mistakes.
[00:55:04] Speaker B: Oh, boy. If I ever have to write anything by hand oh, boy.
Every third word has, like, a little SP question mark next to it.
[00:55:14] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:55:15] Speaker B: Because I don't know how to spell shit.
I can spell shit, but I can't spell for shit.
[00:55:22] Speaker A: So basically, last time, we had gunslinger. And then Dakota decided to go to Mega Island to fight clown. She enlisted his help and they left Taylor back.
[00:55:31] Speaker B: Taylor on the mainland, where he was bored and hoping that Dakota and Hobby weren't as bored as he. And well, Johnny, let's just say it's pretty exciting for those two right now.
[00:55:45] Speaker A: They ain't bored, that's for sure.
[00:55:48] Speaker B: For the second time opening pulled into the future, gunslinger faces an onsop by clown. But why?
[00:55:54] Speaker A: And all these little pug little pug clown pug minions are coming after him, lest we forget. Like you said, they are the dead children's souls that Billy Kincaid got.
[00:56:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:56:05] Speaker A: Don't forget.
[00:56:06] Speaker B: Yeah. And we learn later that they're cannibalistic in this very and with teeth like.
[00:56:13] Speaker A: That, why wouldn't you be?
[00:56:16] Speaker B: Johnny, I think that might be some profiling you just did. How dare.
[00:56:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:56:22] Speaker B: So so I have to say the Todfather starts this issue out on this first page with but is that all this is? Petty revenge because Javi rejected him? There are like three or four instances of that very particular todd father phrasing throughout this issue.
Is that all it takes?
[00:56:45] Speaker A: Is that all this is that all it takes? He likes asking the questions.
[00:56:49] Speaker B: And every time I saw a new one, I just cracked up laughing because I was like, that's the todd father. That's the toddfather.
[00:56:56] Speaker A: He's there.
[00:56:58] Speaker B: Oh, boy.
That can't be it. But he'll be damned if he's just going to sit around waiting for clown to confess the truth.
[00:57:05] Speaker A: So Javi clowns are just like really raring up to eat him.
[00:57:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Javi's just getting completely covered by these little bitty guys. And then while Javi's being completely consumed, because obviously he's going to be dead. Rip. Javi. We cut to Dakota?
[00:57:20] Speaker A: No.
[00:57:22] Speaker B: Who sends her? T Rex after Violator?
[00:57:25] Speaker A: Violator's horns are looking real long.
[00:57:28] Speaker B: Yeah, they are. Oh, boy, they're scary. They're vicious. And then we get ourselves a nice little kaiju fight here between the T.
[00:57:35] Speaker A: Rex and the just speaking of Godzilla.
[00:57:39] Speaker B: Yeah. Thunder Lizard.
[00:57:41] Speaker A: He's ripping him up. And he's ripping him.
[00:57:45] Speaker B: The the T Rex grabs the violator by one of his horns and starts swinging him around and knocking on clown. Off balance.
This is like.
[00:58:02] Speaker A: And then clown starts like melting his brain, which seems really painful.
[00:58:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:58:07] Speaker A: Starts melting the T rex's brain. He's like, oh, I can't control you, but I can melt your brain.
[00:58:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
Just man. And the Koda's like, no, stop it. And clown's like, I'm just starting. And it's all because of you, man. Father of the year clown, let me tell you.
[00:58:25] Speaker A: It's all because of you. That's what your kids want to hear from their parents.
[00:58:28] Speaker B: Yeah. All you had to do was kill your fault. Nothing more than the violator.
[00:58:36] Speaker A: Violator is just pummeling that trex.
[00:58:38] Speaker B: Just like punching it right in the head.
[00:58:40] Speaker A: Trex abuse. I cannot stand. I like a T Rex.
[00:58:42] Speaker B: Yeah, I bet it hurt Brett Booth to draw this.
Yeah. Yeah. Dakota says, you'll never control me. You'll never control them like you controlled me. And then he says that, I'll kill you first. Javi miraculously, uneaten, pops up and puts a knife right to Clown's throat.
And oh, boy, the amount of gross stuff coming out of Clown's mouth as Javi yanks his head back is incredible.
[00:59:12] Speaker A: Yeah. You know, he doesn't brush. He's got some bad breath.
[00:59:14] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Yeah.
[00:59:16] Speaker A: And then he just slits his throat.
[00:59:18] Speaker B: Just slit. And then some necroplasmic plasm just goes everywhere.
And then Javi says, I'm taking your ear since you don't like to listen. Yeah.
[00:59:27] Speaker A: He pulls the Reservoir Dogs on him and cuts his ear.
[00:59:30] Speaker B: That's fucking awesome. It's also a little twisted metal, because one of the sort of enclaves in twisted Metal has basically slavery. And they take bits of their slaves if they feel they are not doing a good enough job. And so there's this one dude who the bits he takes from his slaves are all ears. So he has, like this Mardi Gras bead necklace that's just ears. Oh, it's disgusting.
Twisted Metal is a fun show. It's really dumb, but it is very fun. It's spawn adjacent, I would say. Javi takes off Clown's ear and there's like the little minions in the background. Just be painful.
[01:00:17] Speaker A: Get your ear cut off. That wouldn't be fun.
[01:00:19] Speaker B: And then Dakota falls backward right onto her butt, and it goes BOP.
I wish it sounded so funny when I fell on the ground and busted my ass instead of terrible. And then a whole bunch of that's how it sounds when I fall.
Can you imagine? I can imagine. And then Dakota pulls out her Indiana Jones impression, and it's got a bullwhip and starts bullwhipping Violator around.
[01:00:54] Speaker A: Yep. She pulls a bullwhip out of her back and just, like, whips him in the horn and starts swinging around.
[01:01:00] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like castlevania. It's like hidden underneath that the bustle part of her coat.
[01:01:07] Speaker A: Yeah, she's got a whip.
[01:01:09] Speaker B: Yeah, whip it good.
[01:01:14] Speaker A: Just whipping around him and shooting him in the head as she's, like, flying around him.
[01:01:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
Then Violator breaks the whip and grabs her and throws her away. Oh, man. And she just gets tossed like a rag doll.
[01:01:28] Speaker A: And then we learn how vain Clown is. He's like, hey, you better call off your dudes, and I'm going to cut off your other ear. And the clown's like, all right, guys, get out of here.
[01:01:36] Speaker B: I do love this little bit of commentary as the level of insanity rises.
It's pretty insane here. Johnny not going to lie.
[01:01:44] Speaker A: Clown loves his ear. He doesn't want to lose both ears.
[01:01:48] Speaker B: And then the clown does the thing anybody who's had any sort of schoolyard scrape tries to do, where it's like if somebody gets on your back, you run their head into a tree or a post or something, just like runs them into a pipe, right into the steel machinery.
Then Clown just starts bashing his face into the ground. You're nothing. You'll always be nothing. It's why hell made you so weak. They knew you couldn't handle the power.
[01:02:19] Speaker A: Oh, David. Oh, my God. I almost losing it. I lost one to lose the middle page.
[01:02:27] Speaker B: Oh, boy. That instantly adds what was it, a half a star or a whole guess I can't remember. I guess since it's one staple, it has to be half a star. Because if the whole middle page falls out, then that's a whole star.
[01:02:41] Speaker A: That's a whole star.
[01:02:42] Speaker B: So remember, you got to factor in an extra half a star at the end of the.
[01:02:48] Speaker A: I will remember that.
[01:02:51] Speaker B: You better because I probably won't.
And then we get back to the Kaiju action where the T rex comes over and just chomps onto violator's head.
[01:03:03] Speaker A: Just like squishes it.
[01:03:05] Speaker B: And we get an excellent view of how the violator's mouth looks when it's closed. And boy, howdy looks like a urinal.
[01:03:17] Speaker A: We've talked about that before. Like, what does it look like when it's closed? There you go.
[01:03:20] Speaker B: There you go. Right there.
[01:03:21] Speaker A: Chomp. That's just hilarious.
[01:03:22] Speaker B: It's cute.
[01:03:23] Speaker A: Funny.
[01:03:24] Speaker B: Prehistoric. It's prehistoric.
[01:03:26] Speaker A: I like how pissed off the violator looks. He just like looks so annoyed. These heads getting chomped like that. Yeah, he's probably just really embarrassed. Like, I know my jaw doesn't line up. I've had years of braces. Nothing helps. I hate it.
[01:03:38] Speaker B: Yeah. And then Clowns there say on doing explaining his plans to Javi.
[01:03:50] Speaker A: Just like he's been showing up and explaining it's like, dude, everyone knows what's going on. You've been telling everybody.
[01:03:55] Speaker B: Well, maybe not everybody reads all the issues, Johnny.
[01:03:58] Speaker A: Maybe some people I know, but I think Clown's just looking for a friend is what I'm saying.
I think clown's lonely.
[01:04:05] Speaker B: He just feels left mean. He's got some work he's got to do on himself before he can expect people to want to be around him. Gosh.
[01:04:15] Speaker A: Yeah, tell him that.
[01:04:17] Speaker B: You try telling him that Simmons isn't playing ball. He will once you're dead. And then we get the so. That's it, gunslinger's. Death will simply be used to garner responds attention.
That's all you want is me dead?
[01:04:34] Speaker A: That's all I have to do. Show you my breast?
[01:04:38] Speaker B: Oh, boy. So Javi just like he like George of the Jungles away.
It looks like he's swinging on this technology like they're vines. It's pretty great. And then he just grabs a couple of pipes.
Hey, fat man, you know what really gets Spawn's attention? If I got you like a fish.
And then instead of engaging Clown, he's go, you go fight your father. I'm going to fight this violator here.
[01:05:07] Speaker A: He's fighting this violator, and she spawns two fresh dinosaurs.
[01:05:12] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like she's playing portal and these dinosaurs come from across the room.
[01:05:18] Speaker A: Or something, just like spawn some fresh dinosaurs.
And then they're fighting.
[01:05:26] Speaker B: And the clown just like stands there and lets her kind of tire herself out.
It's kind of like the classic film motif of the female protagonist is captured by a group of brigands. And then there's the one big guy played by like Andre the Giant or some shit. And then the female protagonist just like wears herself out trying to wail on him. And they're just like, are you done?
Are you done? Now that's what the clown does, pretty much.
[01:06:04] Speaker A: And the minions are watching. They're like looking crazy.
[01:06:10] Speaker B: That's what they sound like in my head. Johnny.
[01:06:13] Speaker A: Yeah, like demonic.
[01:06:18] Speaker B: Like how I like how these little minions here, one of them's got like.
[01:06:22] Speaker A: The little hobo.
[01:06:26] Speaker B: Feet. Just these little feets right through it.
[01:06:30] Speaker A: Now they're fun.
[01:06:33] Speaker B: We got javi. Javi fighting against the violator. And he's drawn some shit on the ground underneath even. He's not even trying to attack the Violator. He's just doing an art project.
[01:06:45] Speaker A: He's learning how to write. He's learning how to write. He's writing the scorched. Yeah, he's writing the chain gang.
[01:06:52] Speaker B: Yeah, he is. That's where it is. Chain gang, chain, chain.
And then the Violator just gets bored of this. He's like, don't want art lesson and just attacks the trex. Yeah.
[01:07:05] Speaker A: He's like, I'm tired of this. I'm going to go attack this T. Rex. This is what everyone wants to see.
[01:07:09] Speaker B: Anyway, he says bored and just stabs T. Rex right through the eyes, right through the brain.
Killing it. Killing it.
And since we know there's no kill like overkill Johnny, the Violator just like rips his head right off.
[01:07:34] Speaker A: Just like it's just so gnarly. It reminds me of there was this old from the 80s. It was the sequel to Mars Attacks, which was like notoriously violent trading card.
[01:07:46] Speaker B: Mars Attacks.
[01:07:47] Speaker A: Dinosaurs, electric boogaloo, no, dinosaurs attacks. And it was a trading card of like really gnarly dinosaur gore. And just reminds me of those just.
[01:07:56] Speaker B: Like super diary dinosaur. More like Dino Gore.
[01:08:02] Speaker A: Dino Gore.
Did you notice the little tiny detail of gore on the edge of his.
[01:08:07] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got like little bitty dinosaur eye on the tip of his yeah.
[01:08:11] Speaker A: He'S got the eyeball on the edge of his horn. That's fucked up.
[01:08:14] Speaker B: It's so gross. It actually carries over from the previous page because as he stabs it through the eyeballs there, then he just keeps it on there. It's a wonderful bit of continuity given to us by Bret Booth.
[01:08:27] Speaker A: Yes. And if that's not enough to have on your horns, then Javi jumps at yeah. And Violators got horns. As.
[01:08:35] Speaker B: Got a he's got a cocktail, a cocktail olive and a gunslinger. So you're going to make a hell of a martini with that, Johnny. A hell of a martini. Dakota is pissed.
She starts stabbing and slicing at her dad. And he just smacks her down like she's an annoying little fly. Oh, boy. But Dakota.
[01:08:57] Speaker A: There's like a hole.
[01:08:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Dakota, she's not going to give up. She stands up and unbeknownst to her, there's a hole opening in the ground behind her.
Oh, man. Look out, Dakota. Look out. There's an endless pit behind you.
And so she takes one final run at her dad and he just we are Spartas Her.
Or this is Sparta's Her right into the pit. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. We are sparta. Like, we are the Sparta.
The mighty, mighty Sparta clown continues to outdo himself on saying the least nice things to his daughter.
He's just not a good dad. Who let this man have children, Johnny?
[01:09:44] Speaker A: I have no idea. I'm very curious.
[01:09:46] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Proves there's no mean there's not because they killed her.
[01:09:52] Speaker A: I know.
That's why he's allowed to have children.
[01:09:56] Speaker B: So Dakota is about to find out just how bottomless this bottomless pit is. And oh, boy, it's going to go on forever. And then we get Javi's necroplasm meter to end it. Eleven, 1121.
[01:10:13] Speaker A: Pretty low. Not nearly as big as Plague Spawns.
[01:10:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
Oh, boy. Well, I mean, plague spawns is way up there. You said not nearly as low as plague spawns.
[01:10:23] Speaker A: Not nearly as big.
[01:10:24] Speaker B: Oh, big. I thought you said low. Oh, boy. Big man, a conversation works much better if both people are listening, doesn't it, Johnny? I just kind of like, sometimes steamroll over what you say. It doesn't matter what you say, Johnny, only what I say.
No, that's not true. That's not true. Johnny is the better contributor of this half.
And then we get another fan art spawning grounds, Johnny.
And we start off oh, boy. We start off that first one is a mashup of the two best things of the 90s, spawn and Earthworm Jim.
[01:11:01] Speaker A: Yeah, you got Earthworm Jim and the symbiote. And then, like, Angela is obviously supposed to kind of be like Princess What's her name. Yeah, you got the cow.
[01:11:11] Speaker B: Then we got the little clown.
[01:11:14] Speaker A: Little clown devil. Yeah. It's really well thought out.
[01:11:17] Speaker B: It's amazing. Oh, man, I love Earthworm Jim. Very difficult game. Very difficult.
[01:11:23] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:11:24] Speaker B: We got a nice spooky gunslinger. We got a little chibby gunslinger who has biggest hat, the perfect proportion of hat. Look at it's. The hat's taller than he is.
[01:11:35] Speaker A: And the gun. It's very huge.
[01:11:38] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Then we got a Winnie the Pooh gunslinger with his little tanker of honey. That's pretty awesome.
[01:11:46] Speaker A: And then a mashup I would have never thought of.
[01:11:49] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Well, somebody did. And God bless him, Spawn. Bless him.
And then we got like three or four classic gunslinger poses. We got the brooding, surveying the land gunslinger cowboy. Then we got the hobby, double knives, smoking with some knives. We got in media shoot gunslinger. And then we got just like a nice little profile. Like, this is the sideshot from his getting booked in at the local constabulary. Excellent. Excellent. His fan arts are always so much fun.
And we got need more Spawn. Yes, please.
[01:12:31] Speaker A: Always.
[01:12:32] Speaker B: Look at all those titles that we didn't get two of this month. Thank you very much.
[01:12:38] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:12:38] Speaker B: Image Classics on the next page. And then we got the McFarland Toys, as you do.
And that's gunslinger 22. Johnny.
[01:12:48] Speaker A: 22 just for you, Electric Boogaloo.
[01:12:53] Speaker B: Well, you know, Johnny, I think now it's time to rate us some puppies.
[01:12:59] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies.
[01:13:03] Speaker B: Hell yeah. So first up is Spawn 316 amen.
So for The Todd Father so loved the world that he sent forth Spawn to kick your ass. There we go. That's better. That's a good one.
[01:13:25] Speaker A: I liked it. It wasn't my favorite. It was like a pretty middle of the road issue of Spawn. It was a little confusing to me, like a little Cog father getting ahead. I feel like he gets ahead of himself sometimes. He gets so excited and it's like, what's going on with this buzzing? And like, okay, plague spawn crawled out of the same hole as Cog. Okay, I don't know. But I didn't hate it. It was still fun. The colors are great. The art is great. So I'm going to give it right down the middle and give it 2.5 levitating. Plague spawn levitating up into the heavens. Plague Jesus Christ himself.
[01:14:00] Speaker B: Plague Jesus.
[01:14:01] Speaker A: Plague Jesus.
[01:14:03] Speaker B: I agree with you that this is like the definition of middle of the road Spawn. There's some fun stuff in it, but there is just a lot in it. It doesn't go as far as it should because The Todd Father is just, like, cramming stuff in there at every possible place.
It definitely sets the ground for a lot of fun things to come. I can see where they're going to send out their tendrils of story, but I am also going to say that it is a 2.5 issue, and I'm going to give it 2.5. Coconuts falling off a palm tree.
I don't know how half a coconut falls off a palm tree, but that's.
[01:14:49] Speaker A: David speaking of coconut fall off a palm tree.
[01:14:52] Speaker B: What's that?
[01:14:53] Speaker A: I was picking up 22.
[01:14:54] Speaker B: Oh, no.
[01:14:55] Speaker A: What happened to review it and the whole page fell out.
[01:14:57] Speaker B: Oh.
[01:15:00] Speaker A: Full star added to my rating.
Well.
[01:15:10] Speaker B: Got that star power for it.
No red shells are going to harm you. No blue green shells, no banana peels, no nothing.
[01:15:20] Speaker A: I was going to give it three, but I ripped out the page, so I got to give it one more. So I'm going to give it four decapitated T Rexes. What else can you give.
[01:15:32] Speaker B: Know? You can give it a lot. There's a lot of Bret Booth gives you no shortage of things to give it, Johnny.
[01:15:36] Speaker A: But I wanted to give it a three. That's the thing. It's like four seems high, but I have to do got it.
[01:15:42] Speaker B: You got it. It dims the rules, Johnny.
[01:15:44] Speaker A: It ripped out the of gets I don't know both of these issues form an interesting of interesting mirror Darkly into the Todd Father, where both of them kind of have some of his worst impulses. Like I was saying, maybe gets ahead of himself or gets so excited about things that he kind of loses the plot or loses the side of the bigger picture.
[01:16:06] Speaker B: Yeah, it's got all of the gunslinger stuff that we well, maybe not all of the gunslinger stuff that we like, but most of the gunslinger stuff we like. But it's missing a balance. It's too weighted on the Bret booth. Disgusting.
And the Todd fathers picking the story up and isn't doing as much work as it should.
I loved it. I enjoyed it. But it's oh, man, I'm getting tired of multiple issue long fights, Johnny.
I need a break for me to enjoy any fight. So I'm going to agree with you. I'm going to give it three dinosaur eyeballs on the end of a violator spike. Like a cocktail onion.
[01:16:56] Speaker A: Yummy.
[01:16:57] Speaker B: That's what we're giving it. It's a decent nice order. It's a decent martini, but I'm not going to order a second one.
[01:17:06] Speaker A: Onto the next drink, I say yeah.
[01:17:09] Speaker B: Speaking of liking things, Johnny, we like a lot of things, don't we? We like ourselves a good 911 conspiracy. We like ourselves spawn in all shapes and sizes. Diablo Four.
We like the puppies that we just rated. But also, we tend to like people sometimes, too. We're not curmudgeons.
[01:17:33] Speaker A: We do.
[01:17:34] Speaker B: Yeah. And when we like people, we want other people to like these people because they're certified fresh by us. They get that good tomato meter from the boys at Respawn.
And we like to share our friends that we meet on Facebook, not Facebook. We like to share our friends that we meet on Instagram. And we just happen to have one friend on Instagram who kind of a little famous.
A little famous because they appear in the pages of Spawn, particularly in Gunslinger 22 on this fan art page. They're the ones that make the chimney gunslinger spawn with a big ass hat. Their name is Riza Turker and they've got so much fun shit going on over on their Instagram.
[01:18:24] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. They got a great account.
[01:18:27] Speaker B: It's amazing. And their account handle is Bear with Me. It is riza sizior. That's R-I-Z-A-C-I-Z-I-Y-O-R.
It took me so long to get to their Instagram page because it isn't posted in English.
[01:18:55] Speaker A: A while to find it.
[01:18:57] Speaker B: We love our international Spawn fans and they just have such good shit that you got it. Look at that. Hat alone gives them spawn bona FIDE's from here to the end of eternity. Oh, yeah.
[01:19:11] Speaker A: I mean, that's an epic hat.
[01:19:13] Speaker B: Epic hat. It's great art.
Their non spawn art is great. They've got like a little Chibby King spawn on their page, too. Oh, boy, he's fantastic. I would buy a poster of it. Hopefully you can run into Rizza Turker at Spawncon. Johnny at Comic Spawn Comics.
[01:19:33] Speaker A: Comic Spawn, baby. No, they got some great stuff. This is an awesome account.
[01:19:37] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real good. Go feast your eyes.
It's wonderful. It's wonderful stuff. Speaking of wonderful, Johnny, you know who's wonderful?
[01:19:49] Speaker A: Brian Voyles.
[01:19:51] Speaker B: Brian Voyles, the man you know and I know, and we both love Brian Voyles. Brian underscore voyals underscore 27. He does our music, he lifts our spirit.
[01:20:03] Speaker A: Oh, he's got a sam from Trickortreat.
[01:20:05] Speaker B: What?
[01:20:07] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:20:08] Speaker B: Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, man, I fucking love Sam from Trick or Treat.
[01:20:12] Speaker A: But no.
[01:20:13] Speaker B: Yeah, but Go no, no, Brian, we love him. We love his music.
He does so right by us, it's not even funny. Go give him a couple of likes. Love all the stuff he does. He's a good guy. He's a good guy. He doesn't like Spawn yet, but we're working on it. We won't hold it against him.
[01:20:36] Speaker A: Well, make sure to give us a follow while you're there. Regarding Spawn Pod, we're posting fun pictures and links and shout outs and all that good stuff, our pickups. So make sure to come give us a follow.
[01:20:48] Speaker B: Yeah, if you want to see what the faces that our voices come out of look like they're there.
[01:20:53] Speaker A: Find out they're there. You'll see us go, wow, I can't believe it's what that guy looks like.
[01:20:59] Speaker B: Yeah, that's always the weirdest thing, is once you've listened to somebody's voice for a long time, seeing their face and being like, wait, really?
It's a fun time.
Yeah.
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[01:21:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
I always like to ask a different question, and this time I want to ask, what is your favorite conspiracy theory? Is it about the Chang gang? About which issue of Spawn is which? Is it the Denver Airport?
I don't know. It could be any of them, but I just wonder if you have a favorite pet conspiracy theory. So hit us up at Regarding
[email protected] with that.
[01:21:55] Speaker B: As Ron Funches says, he does not trust anybody who doesn't believe in any conspiracy theories. Like, seriously, you don't believe in any conspiracy theories?
So be it aliens or well, I mean, I guess those are kind of.
[01:22:12] Speaker A: Confirmed, almost proven at this point.
[01:22:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
Is it the skunk ape?
Did you fall in love with Mothman over the summer in 1997?
Did you see the Chicago mothman?
Whatever it could be.
Have you swum with Champ in Lake Champlain?
Let us know about it. Let us know.
Yeah. So speaking of mythical beings and a good conspiracy theory, Johnny, what do you say we cook up our own little conspiracy theory about hell's greatest general and talk about it next week?
[01:22:56] Speaker A: Yeah, let's read some more Spawn. What are you thinking? What do you got on the docket?
[01:23:00] Speaker B: Well, we got to inform ourselves with as many sources as possible, and so why don't we use two different sources so that way we can say we're fair and balanced? Why don't we just like the Brocket Shock Fennel? Yeah. Both sides. We got both sides. Why don't we hit that? Spawn 317?
[01:23:20] Speaker A: Hey, I like that.
[01:23:21] Speaker B: Yeah, it sounds good. That sounds like a good one. Then we got our other different side of Spawn. Maybe the one that shows Al as an asshole a little more.
Scorched number 20.
That's an anti Al Simmons book if I ever read one.
[01:23:37] Speaker A: Scorched number 20.
[01:23:38] Speaker B: Whoo, boy. Well, just scorched in general.
[01:23:42] Speaker A: Yeah, they don't like him.
[01:23:43] Speaker B: No, that is the book in which Spawn, or Al Simmons himself has been given license to just be a jerk.
Absolutely.
So, yeah, for next week, spawn 317, Scorch 20. Let's do it.
[01:24:03] Speaker A: Sounds like a plan.
[01:24:04] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. And I think while you're out there reading your comic books or loving Brian's pictures or hanging out with us in the emails, why don't you like subscribe? Tell your friends, try to get us.
[01:24:25] Speaker A: Tell your fans, tell your enemies. Tell everybody.
[01:24:28] Speaker B: Everybody, tell your Tom or Zakowskis. If you know the Tod father, maybe be like, hey, Todfather, you're not going to believe what these two fools said about you on the no, don't don't tell no, no. He won't listen to us if he thinks we're being critical.
[01:24:45] Speaker A: I know he doesn't listen to comments. He's at zero. Every day, baby.
[01:24:48] Speaker B: Every day, baby. That would really help us. Yeah.
And Johnny, I think that just leaves me to say, may the Scorched be with you.
[01:25:00] Speaker A: And also with you, David.
[01:25:02] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[01:25:04] Speaker A: Hell, yeah.
Well, David, I'm going to time to retire to my cocktail lounge. Since I've done recording this episode, I think I'm going to go with the violator here and do a little trex eye as my garnish on this drink.
[01:25:19] Speaker B: Nice.
Is this a drink you've created yourself? Is it? Maybe a K Seven letha.
[01:25:28] Speaker A: No, it's a Trex Bloody Mary. I'm going all trex themed. I'm on gunslinger. Spawn 22.
[01:25:34] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. So it's what was it an allosaurus.
[01:25:40] Speaker A: Allosaurusini allosaurus teeny alosaurus teeny teeny tiny?
[01:25:45] Speaker B: I don't know.
[01:25:45] Speaker A: I just got to get this T Rex eye.
I found this company called Ingen. They're located in South America. Have one that I can get.
[01:25:53] Speaker B: Excellent.
[01:25:53] Speaker A: You have to just ordering it online.
[01:25:55] Speaker B: Nice. You have to let me know how they are.
[01:26:01] Speaker A: Chia's, mate.
