Episode 62

October 13, 2023

01:25:13

RE:Spawn Episode 62 - Spawn 318 and Spawn 344

RE:Spawn Episode 62 - Spawn 318 and Spawn 344
RE:Spawn
RE:Spawn Episode 62 - Spawn 318 and Spawn 344

Oct 13 2023 | 01:25:13

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Ask not for whom the Malebolge calls; the Malebolge calls for thee...to listen to RE:SPAWN, the world's best SPAWN podcast!

This week John and David discuss two main title Spawns: issues 318 and 344! 318 is written by the Toddfather himself, 344 by Rory McConville, and BOTH are drawn by Carl Barberi! Hell yeah!

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[00:00:00] Speaker A: It. [00:00:00] Speaker B: Look, it's been nearly three decades since the introduction of Spawn Number One when we launched Image Comics back in 1992. So this concept of growing into something much, much bigger has been living inside me for quite a while. I just decided that it was time to actually put it in motion and stop thinking about it and just do it. Tod McFarland may 2021. [00:00:24] Speaker A: I. [00:00:52] Speaker B: Good evening and welcome to the Malbols. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I am your co host, John Fisher. [00:01:04] Speaker C: And I am your co host, David Williams. [00:01:06] Speaker A: And Johnny, straight up. Now tell me, do you really want to talk to me about oh, forever. [00:01:15] Speaker C: Or are you just having fun? [00:01:18] Speaker B: I'm having fun, man. I'm on a spawn high. I've been playing Spawn, Call of Duty, laughing my ass off, and all these people playing this clown. It's so funny to play Call of Duty, where, like, four people in the game are clown. [00:01:30] Speaker C: Just little, short, fat, slobbery clown just hey, Mr. Kenny. [00:01:35] Speaker A: No, the best part is that it. [00:01:38] Speaker B: Has to be the same height, so it's, like, fair. So he's kind of stretched out, so he's, like, big, but he's, like, normal human size. He looks really funny. [00:01:46] Speaker C: So what you're saying is they learned from GoldenEye that OD job has a terrible, terrible. [00:01:56] Speaker B: But I've only unlocked Clown. [00:01:59] Speaker A: Al Simmons and Soul Crusher. [00:02:02] Speaker C: Which Al Simmons did you get? Spawn. [00:02:04] Speaker B: I just got soldier al Simmons. No, Spawn Al Simmons is the last thing you get, like, the regular Spawn. You have to do everything. [00:02:11] Speaker A: Damn. [00:02:12] Speaker B: And then I think you can get Soldier spawn and Nikto spawn. [00:02:17] Speaker C: Nikto. As I said, Nick, I don't know what that means. [00:02:20] Speaker B: Maybe I don't know what that means. Is that a Call of Duty character? [00:02:24] Speaker C: I don't know. But Nikto Spawn implies the existence of Klatu, and maybe we'll get a good they'll do one of those crossover comic books with dynamite for the army of Darkness characters. [00:02:43] Speaker A: How awesome would that be? We've talked about that before, haven't we? [00:02:47] Speaker C: Having a crossover between Ash, because I called him Ashley Williams, and you were like, Why use his whole name? [00:02:53] Speaker B: He's just Ash, but his name is Williams. [00:02:56] Speaker C: Ashley Williams. [00:02:58] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, and you can get, like, Scorched skins for your vehicles. Like, one of them has a bunch of Scorched people on it. One of them has Clown and Violator on it. Just really fun. I was surprised at how Spawn heavy it is. Like, the other characters you can unlock. You can unlock Violator, you can unlock Disruptor, and you can unlock Gaia. It's like a green world creature. [00:03:21] Speaker C: Nice. [00:03:22] Speaker A: Cool. [00:03:22] Speaker B: I didn't see that in the pre release, so I thought it was Groot, and then I looked and saw that it was Gaia Soldier or something like that. [00:03:27] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [00:03:28] Speaker B: Those guys that are flying in, in the background, actually, in the issue that. [00:03:32] Speaker C: We'Re oh, nice, nice. Keeping it top one of the issues. [00:03:36] Speaker B: Well, hey, since we're on it, we cover issues of Spawn on this podcast. [00:03:40] Speaker A: Yeah, we do. [00:03:41] Speaker B: And this week's no different. We're covering in this Spawn assault. We find ourselves in where Spawn? It's so crazy, David, to turn on my Xbox and the logo on the menu, not like once you boot it up, but just like the logo on the menu is Spawn's face for Call. [00:03:55] Speaker A: Of Duty right now. Okay. Which just blows my mind. That's wild. Yeah, that's wild. [00:04:02] Speaker B: It's just like it's just spawn is there on my Xbox. [00:04:05] Speaker A: He's everywhere. [00:04:06] Speaker C: And it's just like man, in terms of Xbox language, he's everywhere. [00:04:15] Speaker A: He's what? [00:04:16] Speaker C: He's everywhere. Like the little grunts from Halo. [00:04:20] Speaker B: You said it too high pitched to cut out again. [00:04:22] Speaker C: Yeah, I know. We're going to have to just start you just being like and not if. [00:04:31] Speaker B: You go into high voice. [00:04:32] Speaker A: I just laugh. [00:04:34] Speaker C: You can do your Seth Rose everywhere demon. [00:04:38] Speaker B: And I mean, Spawn is a demon, kind of. [00:04:40] Speaker A: Not really, but no, he's not a demon. [00:04:42] Speaker B: But Grunts would probably call him a demon because they'd be scared of him. [00:04:45] Speaker C: Yeah, they would. Because, I mean, much like master Chief, he is a human in a suit. [00:04:51] Speaker B: The funniest thing is last night I was playing and Wanda was watching and. [00:04:56] Speaker A: You'Re laughing if you die. And I guess from a previous DLC. [00:05:01] Speaker B: Or season pass, you could earn him. But I was playing and I realized the guy next to me was Snoop Dogg. [00:05:07] Speaker C: Like actual Snoop Dogg or dressed up. [00:05:09] Speaker B: As Snoop Dog, his 3D model. And his voice was Snoop Dogg. Like they had a Snoop Dogg DLC at some point. [00:05:15] Speaker C: Nice. [00:05:16] Speaker B: So it's just hilarious to be either Spawn or Soul Crusher playing alongside Snoop Dogg, shooting people. It's just what a time to be alive. Johnny Player one in real life. [00:05:26] Speaker C: With the way Snoop Dogg's been doing all these side quests, it's very possible that Snoop Dogg could be fucking Terry Fitzgerald in upcoming. That would be so awesome. [00:05:39] Speaker B: It'd be a pretty chill Terry. [00:05:43] Speaker C: Can you imagine Snoop Dogg getting pissed off from the other end of a he's? The man in the chair at the computer just yelling at Al Simmons. [00:05:51] Speaker B: I think Snoop Dogg would be a good Jericho. [00:05:54] Speaker C: I mean, he and Jamie Fox were both in that movie that I said was like a dry run for Spawn, so hey, it fits. [00:06:00] Speaker B: Oh, right, that vampire movie. [00:06:02] Speaker A: Yeah, that I didn't watch. Hey, pretty solid. [00:06:05] Speaker B: It could happen. Stranger things have happened. [00:06:08] Speaker C: I mean, a couple of seasons of. [00:06:10] Speaker A: At least Zing and Play, evidently play. [00:06:16] Speaker B: What about this? There's going to be a Stranger Things play? Like the Harry Potter play? [00:06:20] Speaker A: Kind of. Oh, jeez, that's too much. [00:06:25] Speaker C: Is Lauren Boebert going to give a handy during that one, too? [00:06:28] Speaker A: What do you not know about Lauren. [00:06:31] Speaker C: Boebert getting kicked out of Beetlejuice the Musical for giving a handy? [00:06:34] Speaker A: Yeah, I thought she was kicked out. [00:06:36] Speaker B: Of Beetlejuice the musical for just being loud. [00:06:39] Speaker C: They have a video of it and she's literally there digging in the dude next to her's pants. [00:06:45] Speaker B: During Beetlejuice. [00:06:47] Speaker C: How during Beetlejuice, she's like, gotta get that sandworm. [00:06:55] Speaker B: Say it three times. [00:06:56] Speaker C: The best part, though, Johnny, that I think is that they put out a press release saying that he's not going to get a second date. So that's first date lauren boebert. Oh, boy. [00:07:10] Speaker B: Damn. [00:07:11] Speaker C: She's the lady that your mama told you to avoid at all costs, evidently. And yet somebody voted for her to be a representative of the state of Colorado. Speaking of sandworms, Johnny, we got to get us into some spawn or we're going to be waiting like Dune levels of time before we get around to it. [00:07:32] Speaker A: Yes. [00:07:32] Speaker B: So we've got two issues today from mainline spawn, two excellent issues of Spawn, spawn 318 and spawn all the way. [00:07:40] Speaker A: Back from May 2021. [00:07:43] Speaker B: And then we have Spawn 344, which is a much more closer August 2023. So a couple of issues of spawn here we're still in that in between 300 and where we started kind of filling that gap on what I would consider like the modern era of spawn. I would say, like from 297 on. [00:08:05] Speaker A: Is kind of the modern era here. [00:08:11] Speaker C: Was it in one of these issues? [00:08:13] Speaker A: I can't remember. [00:08:14] Speaker C: I was thinking about a letter about oh, that's in the back of one of these issues. [00:08:19] Speaker A: Yeah, we can talk about that when we get there. Okay. Yeah. [00:08:23] Speaker B: So two issues here and 318. [00:08:26] Speaker A: I just dropped my pen. [00:08:28] Speaker B: Two issues here, and 318 is the first one up. And I got a copy right here, a little floppy copy. How are you reading it, David? [00:08:37] Speaker C: Floppy copy. I'm doing the digital edition through Hoopla again. [00:08:41] Speaker B: Hey, Hoopla. [00:08:42] Speaker A: It's fucking amazing. [00:08:43] Speaker C: You get each issue for three weeks at a time. You just have to download it before the collective borrowing limit is reached by the city you're in. Which means that I have to remember to download it Wednesday mornings or else I'm going to be screwed. As far as spawn goes, Johnny, but oh, no. Since you have them for three weeks, I've got three weeks of episodes worth of spawn issues downloaded to my tablet. [00:09:13] Speaker B: What happens after three weeks? Is it like self destruct? [00:09:16] Speaker C: Yeah. Your device explodes? No, you just can't access the file anymore. [00:09:22] Speaker B: Oh, interesting. [00:09:23] Speaker C: It just removes it from your downloads because it saves like a local temporary copy in your browser or something like that. And then it just removes the temporary file. Interesting. I'm sure there's some way you could jailbreak it where you take the temporary file, it downloads and do some wizardry to it. [00:09:43] Speaker A: But. [00:09:47] Speaker C: I know just enough coding that I would probably somehow make an actual dead zone and bring some fucking crazed angels to Earth and they'd start just ripping through people on the west side of Chicago, and we got enough Problems without that. [00:10:01] Speaker B: Yeah, don't try to hack into issue of Spawn. You don't want to crack that nut open. [00:10:05] Speaker A: No, you don't know what? You could unleash try something a little. [00:10:09] Speaker C: More innocuous, like Fucking a Spider Man, because then if you just get a fast talking queen's boy into your world, the world's better for it. You don't want any of the horrors from the Spawn Universe coming in here. No. [00:10:25] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:10:26] Speaker C: Keep those safely on the other side of the media, thank you very much. [00:10:31] Speaker B: I Mean, speaking of Horrors, this a cover by Taunton Revolver for 318 is pretty crazy. [00:10:36] Speaker A: Oh, boy, oh, boy. [00:10:39] Speaker C: It's fantastic. Oh, Jesus. [00:10:44] Speaker B: Speaking of Call of Duty. This is like Spawn Call of Duty right here. [00:10:48] Speaker C: There's so much guts. I don't even think there's that many guts in that many Bodies, Johnny. [00:10:55] Speaker A: There's so much guts. [00:10:58] Speaker B: There's a guy Being, like, sucked into the guts and, like, a corpse Is, like, holding him down. [00:11:02] Speaker C: Yeah, there's just, like, an eyeball. [00:11:06] Speaker A: Oh, Boy. Oh, boy. [00:11:10] Speaker B: So it's Spawn, like, Commando Spawn up on top of this pile of, like, SWAT Team Burnsnary looking dudes. [00:11:16] Speaker C: He's got his little walkie Talkie in his belt pouch. [00:11:20] Speaker B: Hell, yeah, he does. Talking to Terry or Mark. [00:11:23] Speaker A: These guys are just decimated with their guts ripped. Brutal. It's great. [00:11:32] Speaker B: Taunton. Revolver. [00:11:33] Speaker A: Pretty great. [00:11:36] Speaker C: It's like, Horrifying, but it's also got that sort of jokey anime Feel that we've talked about a lot. Kind of like Trigun. It's just like it should be just a nice picture that you could show your mom, but no, don't show your mom this cover, you Guys. [00:11:54] Speaker B: Don't do it. [00:11:55] Speaker C: Mom doesn't need to see that. [00:11:57] Speaker A: I do. [00:11:57] Speaker C: Like that his chains kind of look like he's wearing, like, some Superman underwear on the outside of his uniform. [00:12:04] Speaker B: Yeah, they must have been shooting him in the Dick, because he's Got, like. [00:12:07] Speaker C: A oh, well, I Mean, Johnny thematically appropriate. Yeah. For within the text of the Book. [00:12:16] Speaker B: Truly it is. That's right. [00:12:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:19] Speaker C: Then we got this carlo or this not this carlo. Boberry. We got this. Bjorn Barron's cover. [00:12:25] Speaker A: That is. [00:12:28] Speaker B: Another Gnarly, gut filled cover. [00:12:31] Speaker C: It's like the Exact they were both given the same prompt. Put Spawn on top of a pile of Bodies. Tauntan went with pile of human bodies. Bjorn Barons went with pile of demon bodies. [00:12:44] Speaker A: Yeah, it's pretty awesome. Brutal. [00:12:47] Speaker B: Just that 3d looking spawn. [00:12:50] Speaker A: I love Bjorn Baron stuff. [00:12:51] Speaker B: It's just so much detail to it. [00:12:52] Speaker C: And he's ripping a heart out. But, like, if you look closely, the heart kind of looks like a skull. [00:12:58] Speaker A: Oh, boy. [00:12:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:00] Speaker A: I can't quite tell. It's just some kind of demon gut thing. [00:13:05] Speaker C: The blood splatter looks so cool. [00:13:07] Speaker B: We also get a cover by the. [00:13:09] Speaker A: Man himself, Mr. Tod McFarland. [00:13:12] Speaker B: Wait, on Cover price is A. [00:13:17] Speaker C: Is it? [00:13:18] Speaker B: The COVID Cuts away to Another Cover for a second and cuts It's if. [00:13:23] Speaker C: It'S a Seth McFarlane cover. Does that mean it's Peter Griffin as Billy Kincaid in episode issue five at the end, just all chained up. [00:13:35] Speaker B: That'd be awesome. Someone should do that. [00:13:37] Speaker C: Ice cream. [00:13:37] Speaker B: No, I don't know. That's hilarious. This is like one of the few times I've seen cover price be wrong. [00:13:41] Speaker A: But it says this cover is by. [00:13:43] Speaker B: Seth McFarlane, which is not true. I Believe It's by Todd McFarlane. [00:13:49] Speaker C: It's going to sink some lounge standards at you. [00:13:51] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. [00:13:52] Speaker B: Arguably the second famous McFarlane. The second most famous McFarlane. If you got Seth McFarland. Is there any other McFarlands are more famous than Tod McFarland? [00:14:02] Speaker C: I'm trying to think if I know of any more McFarlands. I don't think I know of any. [00:14:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:08] Speaker C: Have we ever wondered if they're related? You know, that would be that would be hilarious. I've always wondered that every white person with a Mick in their name is. [00:14:20] Speaker B: In the grand scheme of things, probably because Adam and Eve is a true story and we all came from the. [00:14:27] Speaker C: Garden of Eden, which is in Jackson County, Missouri. [00:14:32] Speaker B: Absolutely. But no, this Todd McFarland cover is awesome. It's spawning sitting on a brooding on a balcony or edge of a building. [00:14:46] Speaker C: He's doing that classic Batman thing. [00:14:48] Speaker B: But the coolest part about it is it has a little marker in the bottom right that says the king is coming. [00:14:54] Speaker C: Like graffiti? Yeah, it's like some graffiti on the building there. [00:14:57] Speaker A: That's pretty cool. [00:14:58] Speaker B: Just like the little teaser for King Kong. King Spawn. Not King Kong. King Kong's going to fight Superman in. [00:15:05] Speaker A: The Justice League, though. [00:15:06] Speaker C: King Spawn ain't got nothing on him. [00:15:09] Speaker A: Johnny nope. [00:15:11] Speaker B: Did you see that? They're doing the yeah, the Justice League. [00:15:13] Speaker C: Versus Kong versus Godzilla. [00:15:16] Speaker B: I'm definitely getting like I can't not right? [00:15:21] Speaker C: Oh boy, that's so many verses. Who's verse who's what? What are the teams who am I. [00:15:29] Speaker B: Supposed to root for? [00:15:29] Speaker C: David well, obviously you root for Godzilla unless Mothra shows up and then Godzilla. [00:15:35] Speaker A: Is the bad. [00:15:38] Speaker C: Them'S them's the rules. I can't tell you how many times Wanda's come down and been like, is Godzilla a bad guy in this one? I'm like, you see, Mothra is right. Know you commented about how cute Mothra is. Godzilla's the bad guy in this was I was legitimately going to correct you and you said Tod McFarlane. And I was like, Dude, it's Tom McFarlane. [00:16:00] Speaker A: But why the fuck am I now. [00:16:02] Speaker C: Thinking that his name is Tom McFarlane? [00:16:04] Speaker B: Johnny we said McFarland too many times. [00:16:09] Speaker C: It's lost all meaning. [00:16:11] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:16:12] Speaker A: Oh, man. [00:16:13] Speaker B: Well, and speaking of McFarlane, there's one last cover. It is a sketch version of the Todd McFarlane cover. [00:16:19] Speaker A: Yeah. It's not as and it doesn't have. [00:16:22] Speaker C: FCO Placencia's colors on it. And I don't find it as appealing. [00:16:26] Speaker A: Because those colors are great. [00:16:29] Speaker C: It's still a fine cover, but it's better with the colors. [00:16:31] Speaker A: Still a fine cover. [00:16:33] Speaker B: And if you're curious on cover price, these are all pretty affordable. [00:16:37] Speaker A: Three to $5 each. [00:16:39] Speaker B: So you can find these for pretty. [00:16:41] Speaker A: Cheap if you're looking for them. 318. [00:16:44] Speaker B: Not too hard to find. [00:16:47] Speaker C: Johnny, before we get into this 318, can I read for you the blurb that hoopla has on it? [00:16:55] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:16:56] Speaker B: If it says Chain Gang, I'll lose my mind. What does it say? [00:17:00] Speaker C: It doesn't say anything about the chain gang. [00:17:02] Speaker A: Sorry. [00:17:04] Speaker C: Your mind is safe for at least another week. [00:17:08] Speaker A: Now. [00:17:09] Speaker C: Chain gang's just gone back into hiding. It's now a dog whistle. [00:17:13] Speaker A: When you chain gang, you go, I know what that means. [00:17:17] Speaker C: But no. [00:17:17] Speaker A: It says, oh, no. [00:17:19] Speaker C: I'm Offline. How did that happen? [00:17:22] Speaker A: What the fuck? [00:17:23] Speaker C: Technical Difficulties. I can hear you. No, my tablet went offline and it kicked me off a hoopla. It says this story will start a storyline that spills into Spawn's universe one shot then continues into even more new titles later in the coming months. This is where you want any new Spawn readers to jump on board, as 2021 will be the beginning of a new and giant chapter in the expansion of the Spawn verse. [00:17:52] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [00:17:53] Speaker C: Jesus. That's an intense that's intense, man. [00:17:58] Speaker B: That is a call to action. [00:17:59] Speaker A: Oh, man, that's great. He's so pumped. [00:18:03] Speaker C: So Pumped. I tried to emphasize all of the capital. All caps. [00:18:08] Speaker B: Oh, I heard it. Yeah, I got it. [00:18:10] Speaker C: There's so many of them. So many of them. Oh, Boy. [00:18:14] Speaker A: That's Fun. [00:18:15] Speaker C: But yeah, I was totally thinking it was going to be a chain gang again. [00:18:18] Speaker A: But no, that's much better. [00:18:20] Speaker B: No chain gang. [00:18:22] Speaker A: Even though there is a gang in. [00:18:25] Speaker B: This hanging out and doing stuff, there. [00:18:27] Speaker C: Are a couple of chains. [00:18:28] Speaker B: This was such a relief after all those fights with Omega just to get off that island and get to some new stuff. [00:18:33] Speaker C: Just to have Al being a dick again. [00:18:36] Speaker B: Yeah, Al being a dick. Running around being a jerk. [00:18:39] Speaker C: He's such a jerk in this issue. [00:18:42] Speaker A: Yeah, he's a big baby jerk. [00:18:45] Speaker C: It's probably why Taunton revolver drew him in the diaper. [00:18:48] Speaker B: But before we dive into that, we should dive into the credits. [00:18:51] Speaker A: Yes. We should give credit where credit is due. Johnny. [00:18:56] Speaker B: And we got to give credit to. [00:18:58] Speaker A: The Todd father, Seth McFarlane, his brother Todd McFarlane, who did the script plot. Carlo Barberry. [00:19:09] Speaker B: We're in the Barberry era. As we've said many times. We got a double barberry today. [00:19:15] Speaker A: So excited for that. It's good shit. Tom. [00:19:21] Speaker B: Warzachowski on lettering, of course. Our man. Good old Mane. Our man in the gunslinger. [00:19:27] Speaker A: Doing two he's doing two colors in this. Two of them. Two of them. [00:19:35] Speaker B: J david Ramos and Andrew Dollhouse. [00:19:39] Speaker A: Excellent. [00:19:40] Speaker B: So I don't know which pages were. [00:19:42] Speaker A: Done by which, but two colorists. [00:19:49] Speaker B: We already covered the covers. Tod McFarland's, creative director. And Ed. Thomas Healy is editor. [00:19:57] Speaker C: I have a feeling that that promotion's coming pretty soon. [00:20:00] Speaker A: Johnny. [00:20:01] Speaker B: Yeah, probably in Spawn's universe. Or Shortly. Um so previously in Spawn previously cult of Omega. Omega has been defeated and dragged down into his own prison by the plague. But what awaits him at the bottom may be even worse. Spawn and his recent adversary but evil Spawn, escaped the island together. But how long will this truce last? Yeah, so last time they defeated Omega. [00:20:30] Speaker A: They threw him in the pit, plague. [00:20:32] Speaker B: Drag him down, and then he had some kind of interaction with Cogliostro down. [00:20:37] Speaker A: There, and then we cut away, and. [00:20:39] Speaker B: They left with his pretty much it. [00:20:42] Speaker A: With his down in the bottom there. [00:20:46] Speaker C: That's what I imagine whenever anybody writes a laugh as a hee he. I imagine it's a burt laugh. No, an. [00:21:02] Speaker A: Like that. [00:21:04] Speaker C: Yeah, like Ernie from Sesame Street. [00:21:06] Speaker B: I don't remember what his laugh sounds like. What does it sound like? [00:21:09] Speaker C: He goes he kind of hisses it. Can you not hear it? I'm doing it. [00:21:15] Speaker B: No, I cannot hear what you're doing. [00:21:17] Speaker A: Whatever you do, it's like too quiet. [00:21:20] Speaker C: Yeah, it's like a hissing laugh. It's hilarious. [00:21:22] Speaker B: It's a hissing laugh. He's like a snake. [00:21:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, I mean, if we're going to. [00:21:27] Speaker C: Get down to the nitty gritty, Johnny, ernie's a motherfucking snake. Jesus Christ. Bert was a goddamn saint for putting up with all of his nonsense. [00:21:37] Speaker B: Yeah, Ernie had a lot of shenanigans going. [00:21:41] Speaker C: Like, they must have had some great rent control, or else Bert would have been very motivated to have found a new place to live. [00:21:52] Speaker B: Yeah, I would have gone and lived with Oscar, man. I was going to live in the trash can, man. [00:21:56] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:21:57] Speaker C: Slimy gets his own trash can. Oscar's not going to let you hone in on his position. [00:22:04] Speaker A: Shit. [00:22:05] Speaker C: Oh, it was recently slimy's birthday, so happy birthday to the worm who lives. [00:22:09] Speaker A: With Oscar the Gretch. Happy birthday, Slimy. [00:22:13] Speaker B: So we got medieval and Spawn coming back to the base. [00:22:18] Speaker A: They left the island. [00:22:19] Speaker B: They left behind monolith. They left behind overkill sad. He calls them the Omega medieval and plague versions. They're back. They're back at the secret base after shadow blasting. [00:22:31] Speaker C: It's basically a shadow blasting version of the quiet, awkward drive home after a terrible argument that you've had at dinner. And it's just like, we both got to go home, and we live in the same place. [00:22:46] Speaker A: Shit. [00:22:50] Speaker C: And then they show up. And then Al immediately starts being a jerk to medieval. Yeah. [00:22:56] Speaker B: Even though arguably medieval saved his ass. He's just like, why'd you go there? Why'd you come help me? [00:23:01] Speaker C: Are you blind? I came to help. I didn't ask for any. [00:23:05] Speaker B: We know from Batman and Spawn that he doesn't like asking for yeah. [00:23:09] Speaker C: That asking for help is the hardest thing. Oh, no, because it's the hardest thing. [00:23:13] Speaker A: For Batman to say is to ask for help. No, spawn. Yeah, spawn. [00:23:20] Speaker B: One can't ask for help. [00:23:22] Speaker A: Well, no, because I remember very clearly. [00:23:26] Speaker C: Being like, if somebody like Batman has a hard time asking for help because batman is the one that asks for help. Actually, there's three of them. One of them might be Spawn, asks for help. Johnny we should probably revisit the Batman. [00:23:36] Speaker A: Spawn I revisited occasionally. [00:23:38] Speaker B: I read it not too long ago. Flipped through it. It's got great art, and it's a lot of fun. [00:23:44] Speaker A: They were a lot of fun. I'm still a big fan of Batman Spawn 2022 version. It's definitely the best version of the three. [00:23:53] Speaker B: Yeah, I would rank it Batman spawn. [00:23:56] Speaker A: No, wait, that one was Spawn. Batman shit, I can never remember. [00:24:05] Speaker C: I want to break it up into creators. So I would do the McFarlane, Capullo's, the top, then. [00:24:15] Speaker A: What'S his face. [00:24:16] Speaker C: And the other dude, war Devil. [00:24:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:18] Speaker C: Then the McFarlane and Miller. [00:24:23] Speaker A: Yeah, probably the least of the be. [00:24:26] Speaker C: I would be happy having one of those editions where it's just the art for the McFarlane, Miller one, and I would get just as much out of. [00:24:37] Speaker A: But, yeah, you're right. [00:24:39] Speaker B: So no one in Spawn's universe likes to ask for help, except for, like, Jessica is the only one in control of her emotions. [00:24:45] Speaker C: Jessica's, like, the only well adjusted individual. [00:24:49] Speaker A: Right? [00:24:50] Speaker C: Like, fucking Javi has to be beat around the head by fucking sandal wearing Goofus McGee just to have somebody be around to help occasionally. Even though Taylor's kind of worthless most of the time. [00:25:11] Speaker A: Fuck it. [00:25:11] Speaker C: I love Taylor so much. [00:25:15] Speaker B: I know it's crazy. We'll get to it. But the newest issue of Gunslinger with Taylor stuff was pretty wild. [00:25:21] Speaker C: Very wild. [00:25:23] Speaker B: That means just a wild issue all around. [00:25:25] Speaker C: New depth to our favorite slacker. [00:25:30] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:33] Speaker B: Spawn's just grilling medieval here. [00:25:35] Speaker A: Basically, like, who are you? Why'd you help me? [00:25:39] Speaker B: Where'd you go? [00:25:39] Speaker A: Why'd you show up here, anyway? [00:25:41] Speaker C: He says, first you want to kill me, then you want to kiss me. [00:25:45] Speaker A: Make up your mind. [00:25:46] Speaker B: Whoa. [00:25:49] Speaker C: I don't even remember what that was from, but that was supposed to be a reference for something. [00:25:53] Speaker B: What is that from? [00:25:54] Speaker C: I don't know. I'm going to have to Google it, because that's killing me. I don't know what it's from. [00:25:58] Speaker B: In Star Wars, he goes, I'm either going to kill her I'm beginning to like her. [00:26:07] Speaker C: It's from army of Darkness. First you want to kill me, now. [00:26:11] Speaker A: You want to kiss me. Low. [00:26:14] Speaker C: Well, he's eating the fucking grapes. [00:26:17] Speaker B: Oh, right. [00:26:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:20] Speaker C: Oh, boy. [00:26:21] Speaker A: Hey, I love how Ashley J. Williams. [00:26:25] Speaker C: Keeps popping his little head in toasty. Guy style toasty. [00:26:30] Speaker A: Hey. [00:26:31] Speaker B: It is the season for Evil Dead. [00:26:34] Speaker A: It is the season. Johnny seasons greetings, Evil Dead Two. [00:26:38] Speaker B: One of the most ultimate Halloween movies, I would say. [00:26:41] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely excellent. [00:26:44] Speaker B: And then encapsulates the holidays. [00:26:47] Speaker A: It's spooky and funny and got a. [00:26:51] Speaker C: Whole bunch of bone double entendres. [00:26:58] Speaker A: Yes. [00:26:58] Speaker B: Just like Nightmare Before Christmas with nice work, Bone Daddy. [00:27:06] Speaker A: Oh, boy. [00:27:07] Speaker B: You got to watch that, too. Nightmare before Christmas time too. [00:27:09] Speaker C: Hey, it's about time for you to be able to watch it like, every fucking weekend. [00:27:13] Speaker A: It'd be appropriate. Although I guess technically, you can also. [00:27:18] Speaker C: Watch it on Easter, because the Easter. [00:27:20] Speaker A: Bunny is in it. Bunny. [00:27:26] Speaker C: And there's that door that goes to St. Patrick's Day world. So I guess you could technically watch it on St. Patrick's. He just goes there. [00:27:34] Speaker B: Everyone's drunk and pissing themselves. This land sucks. [00:27:39] Speaker C: Jack leaves. [00:27:41] Speaker B: Spawn's just being a big bully in Medieval. [00:27:43] Speaker C: This fucking conversation I've been in this conversation, it's just circular, and Spawn just needs to fucking quit it out. But then elsewhere in the complex, we got Jessica trying to put the pieces together. [00:27:56] Speaker A: She's like, what's? [00:27:57] Speaker C: These readings, these earthquakes. Where the fuck is Mark? And then she hears a loud bang, and she's like, It's got to be Mark. Mark, I've been looking all over for you. [00:28:08] Speaker B: Mark's been banging around all. [00:28:12] Speaker A: Like it's. [00:28:13] Speaker C: Like she's the mom and Medieval Spawn and Al are the fucking kids. And she's like, what the fuck are you guys doing in here? Why do you have a sword to your brother's throat? [00:28:24] Speaker B: I can't not mention the framing of that panel. [00:28:29] Speaker A: It's excellent, Johnny. [00:28:31] Speaker C: Carla Barberi does excellent work, Johnny. [00:28:34] Speaker B: That's all we got to say. [00:28:35] Speaker A: It's just a nice framing of Jessica's rear end. It's good. But, hey, good butt. [00:28:43] Speaker B: But when you see a good butt, you got to call it out. [00:28:45] Speaker C: Oh, yeah? [00:28:45] Speaker B: Well, you don't have to. [00:28:46] Speaker A: Don't. [00:28:47] Speaker B: Not in real life, but in comic book characters. [00:28:50] Speaker A: Sure. [00:28:51] Speaker B: Oh, God, I'm talking myself to a corner here. [00:28:57] Speaker C: I know exactly what you mean, Johnny. Get yourself a long term relationship with a Wanda of your choosing. That's gender. [00:29:10] Speaker A: Right, right. And then you two can be out. [00:29:13] Speaker C: On the town, and you could see a nice butt walk by, and both of you will look at each other and be like, did you see that? Good Lord. Dumps like a truck. [00:29:22] Speaker A: Yeah, Jessica, it's wonderful. [00:29:25] Speaker C: It's one of the best parts about. [00:29:26] Speaker A: Being yeah, I know. [00:29:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:28] Speaker A: Just being like, Jessica pulls out a gun. It's like, get away from him, and. [00:29:34] Speaker B: Evil, back the fuck away from him now and then. [00:29:37] Speaker C: Medieval says the worst fucking thing. Imagine. [00:29:40] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. [00:29:41] Speaker B: He must have been playing Call of Duty. [00:29:43] Speaker A: Jesus fucking a female. Come on. Medieval. I mean, he's medieval. [00:29:49] Speaker C: Do better. [00:29:50] Speaker A: Do better. [00:29:51] Speaker B: He's from medieval times. The restaurant. [00:29:55] Speaker C: Does he get to bring home all the half chickens that aren't eaten during the show? [00:30:00] Speaker B: Yeah, the dragon eggs. [00:30:02] Speaker C: If I had a roommate that worked at Medieval Times in the kitchen and got to bring home the uneaten chickens. [00:30:09] Speaker A: Fuck, I would be so happy. [00:30:12] Speaker C: So happy. Little in this world makes me happier than a rotisserie chicken. [00:30:17] Speaker A: Johnny, I went to Medieval Times a few years ago. [00:30:20] Speaker B: Whenever they give it to you, they go, the baby dragon. And some say it tastes just like chicken. [00:30:26] Speaker C: Nice. I've not been to Medieval Times, but I did go to the Dixie Stampede once. [00:30:31] Speaker A: Oh, I did too. [00:30:32] Speaker C: Yeah, it was the Christmas time version, but I was also, like 15 and just like, deep, deep in my moody bullshit and don't remember a goddamn thing about it. I should have appreciated it more. Those fucking teenage hormones are some bullshit. [00:30:50] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a lot of things I was a dick about that I should have just enjoyed. [00:30:54] Speaker A: But you live. [00:30:56] Speaker B: Or you if I had not been a dick. Like when my dad would make me go to football games because now I. [00:31:00] Speaker A: Kind of enjoy sports, I would have. [00:31:02] Speaker B: Had so much more fun. But I was like, I don't like sports. [00:31:05] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:31:06] Speaker A: And now I do. So what are you going to do? [00:31:09] Speaker B: And the cats in the cradle and the silver spoon. [00:31:13] Speaker A: Yeah, something like that. Oh, boy. [00:31:18] Speaker B: So we get this kind of standoff. [00:31:20] Speaker A: Here where Jessica's grilling medieval. [00:31:26] Speaker C: Your weapon can't hurt me maybe, but I bet your armor isn't covering your nutsack. [00:31:33] Speaker B: Yep. There we got called if I was Jessica, he was like a female, I'd shoot him, and I'd threaten to shoot him in the nuts too. [00:31:45] Speaker C: She'd be like, I could shoot really fucking well, dude, even with your tiny balls. Oh, boy. [00:31:54] Speaker B: Because, you know, they got to be tiny because he's taking so much steroids. [00:31:56] Speaker A: To be that. [00:32:00] Speaker C: A great it's a great standoff. [00:32:02] Speaker A: And then. [00:32:05] Speaker C: They start talking about where Mark is, and Al's like, Mark can't shadow travel without one of us. So somebody's got to have taken him. Al's like, maybe he's outside. [00:32:16] Speaker B: Did you drive him to the store and forget him? Did you leave him at Borders on accident? [00:32:23] Speaker C: Did you leave him in the car when you went to go get cigarettes? [00:32:25] Speaker A: God damn it. [00:32:26] Speaker C: How many times have I told you? She's like, but I left the AC on with a little note that said he's got AC in his favorite music. So Al's like, I got to go look for him. You watch medieval and then medieval and Jessica come to an understanding kind of after. [00:32:43] Speaker B: Medieval is another big creep when he says, you are quite a magnificent creature. Yeah, what a creep ass. [00:32:48] Speaker A: What a fucking oh, boy, oh, boy. [00:32:52] Speaker C: These are like all of the I. [00:32:54] Speaker B: Wish I could say the same. [00:32:55] Speaker C: She's like, you suck some of your frat boy posing. Your type bores me. [00:33:00] Speaker A: Nice. [00:33:01] Speaker B: Get him jessica. [00:33:02] Speaker C: This has to be all of the intrusive thoughts that Mark as a big time computer person has. Just all of the things he deals with out of other people and suppresses in himself, just coming out via medieval. [00:33:15] Speaker B: I think it's more the essence of the old medieval spot. [00:33:19] Speaker C: It's definitely the essence of the old medieval. But you know, that even within Mark's head. Even though Mark is a fucking sweetheart. [00:33:28] Speaker A: And amazing to everyone that he at. [00:33:32] Speaker B: Least has for Jessica, he at least. [00:33:34] Speaker C: Has the experience of being around people who think that. [00:33:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:40] Speaker C: So however medieval. Spawn works, it could be pulling some of that out of deeply buried Mark's head. [00:33:50] Speaker B: It seems like as time goes on, he becomes become more aware of it and being able to control it. [00:33:55] Speaker A: Yeah, because this is his first time. [00:33:57] Speaker B: Going in there, and he seems pretty we'll find out in the next few pages, but he seems pretty destabilized by it. [00:34:08] Speaker C: It's not good on the old brainy bits, Johnny. [00:34:11] Speaker A: Evidently. No. [00:34:12] Speaker B: And then he breaks his glasses, and then we know that's bad. [00:34:16] Speaker C: Then we get a nice little detail of the bolt on the front of Jessica's gun. Has a little Spawn emblem on it. [00:34:25] Speaker A: Oh, that's excellent. It's excellent. [00:34:28] Speaker B: And in the next one, where they're in shadow, you can see the eyes on his shield. [00:34:33] Speaker C: On his shield. [00:34:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:34:35] Speaker C: Carla Boberry is doing the lord's work, the work of our lord and savior, Albert Simmons. They come to an understanding. [00:34:45] Speaker A: Medieval shows that he is not just. [00:34:49] Speaker C: A jerk because he actually apologizes. [00:34:53] Speaker A: It's true. [00:34:54] Speaker C: Something Spawn would never never I mean. [00:34:57] Speaker B: Spawn's creeping around looking for Mark, and he's like, did you leave medieval by himself? He's going to fucking clop all my furniture. [00:35:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:05] Speaker C: She's like, he's fine. Don't worry about him. Fine? [00:35:08] Speaker A: He tried to kill me. [00:35:10] Speaker C: So Jessica literally killed you, Al. [00:35:14] Speaker A: What's it to you? [00:35:15] Speaker B: I killed you. [00:35:16] Speaker A: Excuse me? [00:35:18] Speaker C: And then he saved you, so you're both even now. Get over it. [00:35:23] Speaker B: Jessica's just both looking for Mark. [00:35:25] Speaker C: Jessica's just in full, stressed out mob. [00:35:29] Speaker A: Mode, being like, fucking play nice. It's great. [00:35:34] Speaker B: Play nice. Where's Mark? [00:35:35] Speaker C: Our little then and then another bang, man. There's lots of chasing after loud noises. [00:35:40] Speaker A: In the compound in this issue, because. [00:35:44] Speaker C: Then a loud noise catches their attention. And then there's Mark. [00:35:48] Speaker B: He fell asleep to Netflix on his laptop. Or he's watching porn. [00:35:52] Speaker A: Yeah, he looks like he's like just. [00:35:56] Speaker B: Out of it, man. [00:35:57] Speaker A: Yeah, he's zonkered. [00:35:59] Speaker B: That's like, how yeah, that's me when. [00:36:01] Speaker A: I'm I was just looking at my. [00:36:02] Speaker B: Laptop, and then I woke up. That was me in college, like, falling. [00:36:05] Speaker A: Asleep, like, every day. [00:36:08] Speaker B: So Jessica, being the motherly figure she. [00:36:11] Speaker C: Is, takes him over, and Al's like, what, are you. [00:36:17] Speaker B: Just trying to act like a normal fucking person, dude? She's like, just be chill, Al. I'm just having some compassion. Sorry. [00:36:23] Speaker A: Yeah, sorry. [00:36:24] Speaker B: I don't want to look like a crazy hell creature all the time with. [00:36:26] Speaker A: Spikes all over me. [00:36:28] Speaker C: She sends him away because he's just being a jerk. [00:36:33] Speaker B: He's like, get the fuck out of here. [00:36:34] Speaker C: Mark said he's fine. It's like, I want to go check on medieval. [00:36:40] Speaker A: Knock yourself out. And Jessica's like, I found your glasses. [00:36:44] Speaker C: Were you doing something in there? [00:36:45] Speaker B: Spawn's gonna go check on medieval. [00:36:47] Speaker A: And now it's just a pile in there. Yeah, just a pile of armor. Big fucking pile of boy, that's a that's a big old is. [00:36:59] Speaker C: This is how I assume every mother sees any small item of clothing that. [00:37:05] Speaker A: A child has left on the floor. Like, even if it's just a couple. [00:37:08] Speaker C: Of socks, it looks like this pile of armor. [00:37:10] Speaker B: Spawn says someone's playing games, trying to. [00:37:12] Speaker A: Figure it out, and then he's this really sad finds a really sad discovery that someone's been torturing Cygor. What the fuck? [00:37:22] Speaker C: Why is Monkey when did this happen? I have no idea. Absolutely no idea. [00:37:31] Speaker A: Cygor. [00:37:32] Speaker C: I don't even remember any follow up to this. [00:37:35] Speaker B: Why are they torturing him? [00:37:37] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't know. It doesn't make any sense. [00:37:39] Speaker B: Logically, we'll find out. [00:37:40] Speaker A: Hopefully. Yeah, hopefully. Then Jessica's grilling Mark about why his. [00:37:44] Speaker C: Glasses were in the lab, and he's. [00:37:46] Speaker A: Trying to he's like, no, wait, I did go in there. [00:37:51] Speaker C: And we remember he was just bored and was like, I'm just going to fuck around with this stuff. [00:37:56] Speaker B: Yeah, he was, like, all alone, like, got done watching TV and was just messing around. [00:38:00] Speaker C: He was like, I'm gonna just, like, braveheart. [00:38:04] Speaker B: Let's see how sassy I look. [00:38:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:09] Speaker C: And then Al busts in, being pissed about Saigor, blaming Mark for everything. And Mark's like, what the hell? [00:38:16] Speaker A: What the hell, dude? [00:38:18] Speaker B: And Jessica with some good advice yet again. You need to take a deep breath, Al. [00:38:22] Speaker C: Then he's just got, like, a screed about how take a breath. [00:38:26] Speaker A: Take a breath. I don't need to breathe on this. [00:38:29] Speaker B: He just goes off. [00:38:30] Speaker A: Dude, they killed Mark's girlfriend. [00:38:32] Speaker B: They killed Wanda, and they fucking killed NYX. [00:38:35] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, boy. [00:38:37] Speaker B: This is crazy when he says they'll disguise themselves as children or old ladies. And so you might have to shoot a kid in the head. Yeah. Oh, boy. [00:38:46] Speaker C: You might have to shoot a five year old through the skull someday. [00:38:51] Speaker B: Jessica's just like, okay. [00:38:54] Speaker A: Yeah, it's wild. [00:38:56] Speaker B: Oh, this is where she goes for during Spawn's universe. [00:39:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:01] Speaker B: Because she asks, what about family? [00:39:02] Speaker A: And she's like, I'll be right back. [00:39:03] Speaker B: Yeah, she's got to go check on her daughter. [00:39:06] Speaker C: I got to go hide a child real quick. [00:39:08] Speaker B: Got to go hide a child with my mom and look at her from. [00:39:12] Speaker A: Afar at a classic. Yeah, yeah. [00:39:15] Speaker C: And then Mark's like, hey, Al, here's some fuckery about this stuff. And Al's like, oh, I know about this fuckery. What kind of fuckery is this? [00:39:25] Speaker A: And they're trying to figure out where. [00:39:26] Speaker C: All these new spawn signals are coming from. [00:39:30] Speaker B: There's got to be some kind of dimensional hole there that are exploding, which we know a lot about. That hole has been very important. [00:39:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:40] Speaker C: Some signals disappear and then show up again, but they're not the same signals. So it's just like a merrygor round. [00:39:48] Speaker A: Of signals coming out of the island. Too many spawns. Yeah, like all the then so Spawn. [00:40:00] Speaker C: Just shadow blasts himself to Berlin. [00:40:05] Speaker B: I don't know why, because he wants a wiener schnitzel. [00:40:08] Speaker A: Then we get the pundits. [00:40:10] Speaker B: Kind of the aftermath of the big quakes from Omega Islands. [00:40:14] Speaker A: Yep. And then trying to figure out what. [00:40:18] Speaker C: All is going on, like, tying it all together. The info now, guys. Trying to follow up on a Freedom. [00:40:26] Speaker A: Of Information Act request to get information. [00:40:31] Speaker C: About Lieutenant Colonel Al Simmons, then brack the shock fennel. [00:40:37] Speaker B: Just fucking talking about cloning. [00:40:40] Speaker A: Talking about cloning DNA fibers. [00:40:44] Speaker C: We should all be concerned because soon they'll be using it to kill most of us conservatives and replace us with clones of ourselves so they control how we vote. This is some Alex Jones gay frogs level bullshit. [00:40:59] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:41:00] Speaker B: This is some, like, 90s good conservative conspiracy theories. [00:41:03] Speaker C: Oh, wild. [00:41:04] Speaker A: Then we get a power level pretty. [00:41:07] Speaker B: Low for Spawny Boy. [00:41:12] Speaker A: We get after the, like, a post credit zinger stinger. Yeah. [00:41:20] Speaker C: So it's why he went to Berlin. He went to go hang out with a whole bunch of upside down guys. The vampires. [00:41:28] Speaker B: The pundits were basically saying, this red cape has been seen around, and Colonial Simmons is just attacking everybody. But no, he's attacking known strongholds of enemies. [00:41:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:41:37] Speaker B: And this is one of Blood's strongholds. [00:41:39] Speaker A: Yeah. And then we get reasonably convoluted tie. [00:41:51] Speaker C: In to Spawn's Universe. [00:41:53] Speaker B: He says scrum again. There's scrum in there. [00:41:56] Speaker A: Yeah, scrum. [00:41:58] Speaker C: Delicious, delicious scrum. [00:42:00] Speaker A: Okay, so here's something. Okay. [00:42:02] Speaker B: When did he lock the dead zones? [00:42:04] Speaker C: I don't know. I honestly have no idea. [00:42:07] Speaker B: It just says He, I think is the first time it's been mentioned, if we're counting from, like, 297 on unless the explosion four. [00:42:14] Speaker C: The explosion that he did Fighting Clown sealed the dead zones. [00:42:19] Speaker A: I think that's what it was, because. [00:42:23] Speaker C: It brought all those Spawns from other times, other universes, and sealed the behind them. [00:42:32] Speaker B: That's the most thing you can infer. So everyone's going to be looking for. [00:42:35] Speaker A: Spawn, and then it just kind of. [00:42:38] Speaker B: Fades into find out more in Spawn's Universe coming June 2021. [00:42:42] Speaker A: Yeah, real cool. [00:42:44] Speaker C: Then we get the interview with The. [00:42:46] Speaker A: Todd father, interview with Tod father, where. [00:42:48] Speaker B: Our opening quote came from. Really fun interview. [00:42:51] Speaker A: Basically just setting up what brought us here. [00:42:55] Speaker B: All these Spawn titles that we cover. What are the meat of our show, the meat of why we're Spawn fans, king Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn and the Scorch. [00:43:02] Speaker A: Yeah, the Gunslinger with his tall hat. Yeah. [00:43:06] Speaker B: Read that quote. That's hilarious right there. What does he say about him? [00:43:11] Speaker C: So he says, first off, he just looks cool. Comics are a visual medium, so the look of a character can play a huge part in why some readers respond. [00:43:18] Speaker A: To any hero or villain. [00:43:20] Speaker C: Obviously, Gunslinger, with his tall hat and bullet straps and his long trench coat all give off a pretty tough guy vibe. [00:43:27] Speaker B: Pretty tough guy vibe. Even though that hat I would consider that hat a tough guy hat. The hat's kind of whimsical. [00:43:35] Speaker C: It's a hat that, if you aren't careful, wears you exactly the hat gives. [00:43:42] Speaker B: It a sense of humor to it. I don't know. [00:43:48] Speaker A: I love the hat. Oh, boy. Excellent. You got to make that hat tall. You get that great cover of J. [00:43:55] Speaker B: Scott Campbell's Spawn Universe with she Spawn on it. [00:43:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:43:59] Speaker C: Oh, those necro flames around her. [00:44:02] Speaker B: I like how he calls Gunslinger a red hot character. Get a pretty red hot character. [00:44:09] Speaker A: Oh, boy, that was fun. [00:44:11] Speaker B: I remember when Gunslinger came out. It was pretty fun. [00:44:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:13] Speaker B: October 2021. [00:44:15] Speaker A: Everyone was pretty pumped with the Challengers. There's like a million copies of it. [00:44:20] Speaker C: It's fun as hell. [00:44:21] Speaker A: Fun. [00:44:22] Speaker B: Great interview. And he just says, like, going to get it going. One thing I thought was interesting is that he said he wants to come up with another title for it. That not Spawns Universe. That's related to something else. [00:44:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:33] Speaker B: He said I don't even know what you call it. The heaven and hell universe. [00:44:37] Speaker C: Yeah, hellverse. Obviously he hasn't come up with a good replacement. [00:44:42] Speaker B: Obviously. Maybe just stick to Spawn's Universe. [00:44:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:46] Speaker B: Sometimes Comic Con. Sometimes Spawn Con is better than Comic Con. Oh, god. Sometimes Spawn Con is better than Comic Spawn. [00:44:57] Speaker C: It's so bad, we can't even remember or say. [00:45:02] Speaker B: It's just so funny that he was on that interview and someone was like, are you going to Spawn Con? He's like, no, they should have called it Comic Spawn. Is that why you're not going? [00:45:11] Speaker C: And that's Spawn 318. [00:45:13] Speaker A: Johnny Good. [00:45:15] Speaker B: Book 318. It's great. I love getting back to the plottiness, not just the single fight. [00:45:21] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. [00:45:23] Speaker B: And it's like, starting to move along. I love anything with Jessica. So we get a lot of good Jessica stuff. [00:45:28] Speaker A: Mark, really great issue. Yeah, really good. Really enjoyed it. [00:45:44] Speaker B: All right, well, next up we have for our second issue spawn 344, the. [00:45:52] Speaker A: Three to the four to the 4344. And as we're want to do, let's. [00:45:59] Speaker B: Start with the covers. Which cover you got, David? [00:46:03] Speaker C: I have cover a The J. H. Williams. Three. [00:46:09] Speaker B: Yes, that's what I'm reading as well. And you get like, the side of Spawn's King, spawn's face, the skull Spawn, I guess. [00:46:18] Speaker C: Yeah, the meatball Spawn next to the actual Spawn. [00:46:23] Speaker A: Right? [00:46:24] Speaker C: Yeah, it's the nastiest meatball in all existence there. [00:46:28] Speaker A: Oh, look at all that. [00:46:29] Speaker B: Yeah, you can see it's, like, decaying away. [00:46:33] Speaker A: So gross. So gross. [00:46:37] Speaker C: It's like Meryl Streep and Goldie Hahn at the end of death becomes her right before they fall off the stairs and fall into a million pieces. [00:46:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:46:48] Speaker B: Actually kind of looks like the makeup. [00:46:49] Speaker A: For the Broadway version of Fan of the Opera. Because he has, like, a big hole in his head like that. [00:46:57] Speaker C: Yeah, it's got to be seeable from the so yeah, you gotta make it huge. [00:47:02] Speaker B: That makeup's gnarly looking, if you ever find a picture of it, looks crazy, like face to face because it's like. [00:47:07] Speaker A: So over the any, uh, there any. [00:47:10] Speaker C: Other covers for this, Johnny, or are these the only covers? [00:47:12] Speaker B: There's some other covers. We got a Virgin or all Natural cover, which is just the and it's altogether. And it's all together. The naked cover there. So you got that one really nice. So you can put them all together. [00:47:27] Speaker A: And make a big picture. [00:47:28] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a B cover by Marcel Toledano that is like Spawn, like falling down on fire. [00:47:37] Speaker A: Yeah, pretty cool. [00:47:40] Speaker C: Like, wrapped up in his cape. [00:47:42] Speaker A: Wrapped up in his cape. [00:47:43] Speaker B: Just like falling into a void. Yeah, those are the covers there. And it's interesting just having the difference. [00:47:48] Speaker A: Of that earlier one where it's the. [00:47:50] Speaker B: Floppy cover and then these nice cardstock. It's funny because I think the paper is a little thinner than it was. [00:47:58] Speaker A: When it was floppy, but I think. [00:48:00] Speaker B: That it's nice to have that cardstock. [00:48:02] Speaker C: Yeah, those cardstock, they definitely survive much better in the backpack on the way home from the shop. [00:48:09] Speaker B: Yeah, I can just stuff the Spawn in my backpack. [00:48:11] Speaker A: It's nice. [00:48:12] Speaker B: Rough and tumble. Good job, Spawn. [00:48:15] Speaker A: Yeah, they're to be read and held, but you pop it open, and we got the credits here. Credits. [00:48:24] Speaker B: And we got the man in charge. [00:48:26] Speaker A: This time is Rory McConville with a. [00:48:29] Speaker B: Little bit of additional peppering. Additional script by Todd McFarlane. He just gives it some Seth McFarland or Todd McFarland. [00:48:36] Speaker A: I can't tell. [00:48:37] Speaker C: It's Tom McFarlane. Don't you know? [00:48:39] Speaker B: Oh, no, there's that part where he fights a guy in a chicken suit. So this is definitely additional script by Seth McFarland. I forgot that's in this issue. Carlo Barberi on Art. As we were saying, we got a double Barberry episode today. J. David Ramos knocking out of the park with colors again. [00:49:00] Speaker C: It's AJJ. [00:49:01] Speaker A: David Ramos, too, right? Yeah. And a double Tom o. Oh, man. [00:49:08] Speaker C: It's just raining doubles. It's just raining doubles. [00:49:11] Speaker B: It's just raining doubles. [00:49:12] Speaker A: Rain and doubles. [00:49:14] Speaker B: We already covered the covers. And then we got Tod McFarland as creative director and Thomas Healy as editor in chief. [00:49:20] Speaker A: Hell. Yeah. [00:49:21] Speaker B: So previously in Spawn, the war in Hell continues to rage on all sides, and Spawn realizes he needs an army of his own. [00:49:31] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:49:31] Speaker B: So this is after that little arc where Haunt and everybody was Haunt. [00:49:36] Speaker A: Spawn went to heaven to look for. [00:49:40] Speaker B: A weapon to defeat sin and to look for a cure for. [00:49:42] Speaker A: Haunt. [00:49:43] Speaker C: Met up with Corvox. [00:49:45] Speaker A: Was that his name? [00:49:46] Speaker B: Corvox met corvox. And then they inadvertently destabilized the dead. [00:49:50] Speaker A: Zones, which allowed Heaven to get through because Haunt that's why they poisoned Haunt, because they knew Spawn would take him. [00:49:57] Speaker B: To heaven at some point or take. [00:49:59] Speaker A: Him through a dead zone and he destabilized. That's where we are now. [00:50:06] Speaker C: Haunt just had the sniffles, not the life ending infection that they told him he did. [00:50:15] Speaker B: So it opens at 12:53 a.m.. That's the additional script by Todd McFarland. [00:50:22] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:50:22] Speaker B: Precise times. [00:50:23] Speaker C: This dude just it's a dude running and then getting shot in the leg. [00:50:28] Speaker A: Bam. Yeah. And then here comes a real macho. [00:50:34] Speaker B: Looking tough guy attitude. [00:50:35] Speaker A: Yeah, it's our friend Javi. [00:50:40] Speaker C: Javi Fernandez. No, not javi Fernandez. [00:50:43] Speaker A: Javi. [00:50:44] Speaker B: Gunslinger. [00:50:45] Speaker C: Javi, gunslinger with his cool new design. [00:50:48] Speaker B: It's his new design. [00:50:49] Speaker A: His zoro looking design. It's growing on me. [00:50:53] Speaker B: I like it in this more than I liked in Gunslinger, actually. [00:50:55] Speaker C: Me too. [00:50:56] Speaker A: Me too. [00:50:57] Speaker B: I like how Carlo Barberry draws. It looks really nice. [00:51:00] Speaker C: And this dude's like, I'm not going to tell you. [00:51:01] Speaker A: I like that he keeps the really long collar. [00:51:04] Speaker B: Yeah, the collar sometimes isn't taller than the hat. And I like that it's really tall. [00:51:09] Speaker C: It is very tall. Seems like it would make it so his peripheral vision wasn't very good. But whatever. Comics he's crouching down on this guy he just shot his leg at and is trying to get information out of him. Dude's, like, I don't know nothing. [00:51:26] Speaker A: And guts. [00:51:28] Speaker C: Like your dead buddy over there said differently. [00:51:30] Speaker B: He's looking for Macarver yet again. [00:51:32] Speaker A: Yeah, man, he's got a hate on for this. [00:51:36] Speaker C: Macarver? [00:51:38] Speaker A: Yep. [00:51:41] Speaker C: And Al Simmons comes up on him. So what? We're pals again? [00:51:44] Speaker A: That's not how things work. [00:51:49] Speaker B: Go talk to your scorched. [00:51:54] Speaker C: Love. Wait, there is love lost between them? Because they don't yeah, I don't know. [00:51:59] Speaker A: I don't know how that there is love lost. But yeah. [00:52:02] Speaker C: So gunslinger is like, Come on, Al. What the fuck are you doing here? You've already promised me shit that you've not going to be able to give me. And he's like, go touch your scorched heroes. And I was like, I have. And then Javi's like, well, fuck. [00:52:16] Speaker A: Fuck. Listen, these guys you're dealing with, they're. [00:52:19] Speaker C: Nothing compared to what he gets them. [00:52:20] Speaker B: He gets them by mentioning Amy and saying, you want to avenge your sister? We can go get. [00:52:28] Speaker C: I like that. There's a little poster for a circus in the background of the alley. What a place to advertise for a circus. I don't know if you've ever I mean, obviously you've walked down alleys. You don't see very many good advertisements. [00:52:45] Speaker A: In the middle of an alley. No. [00:52:47] Speaker C: Especially not for circuses. Yeah. So Al's convinces Javi that he should join to fight Sin so Sin doesn't take over the whole galaxy, whatever. [00:52:59] Speaker A: And Javi says, yeah, sure, but I get to be the one to kill him. So to put that bullet in his head. [00:53:08] Speaker B: It's also right before that he mentions, you know, clowns looking for the throne too. Right, dude? [00:53:12] Speaker C: Yes. [00:53:14] Speaker B: Which is a callback to gunslinger. [00:53:17] Speaker C: That's the second callback to a gunslinger issue. [00:53:23] Speaker A: But it's three, four issues total. [00:53:27] Speaker B: They get called back to a lot of callbacks here. [00:53:29] Speaker C: A lot of callbacks. So go read Gunslinger if you have that. [00:53:31] Speaker B: It makes it feel like it's all connected. [00:53:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:34] Speaker C: Like it's all coming together. And then we go to Hell, where we've got heaven currently controls the 6th Realm. And so there's like raptures there. There's like angel sentries and then just like patrols of angels flowing by. [00:53:54] Speaker B: Those angels are cool. I like their mechanical wings. That's pretty sweet. [00:53:57] Speaker C: Yeah, it's awesome. We're getting a lowdown of the updated intelligence from across the across the battles. [00:54:06] Speaker B: He's telling Rapture one of Rapture's little guys is talking to him. [00:54:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:54:11] Speaker C: And Sin's still kicking ass down in the fourth realm. Cataclysm's boys are all just getting the fangs are all getting just woo. Just they're getting their ass beat. [00:54:22] Speaker A: Johnny. They ass beat. [00:54:26] Speaker B: He's like this advisor to Rapture's. Like, look, I know Cataclysm's on the throne, but since getting all these demons on his side, he might be a bigger threat. Maybe we should pay attention to him. [00:54:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:54:40] Speaker C: Gabriel's down there fighting through Cataclysm's guys. [00:54:46] Speaker A: Good old Gabriel with a big ass. [00:54:49] Speaker B: Cool gun with a beam and a. [00:54:51] Speaker C: Gigantic sword. [00:54:54] Speaker A: That'S just like on his back. [00:54:55] Speaker C: It's like a medieval a medieval style sword. And then we're at day three at the Siege of Fangs, where Cataclysm is doing his own dirty work. And all of his advisors are like, what the fuck are you doing here? You got to go be safe somewhere. And he's like, no, before I was a king, I was a soldier. I'm going to kill some guys. [00:55:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:55:16] Speaker B: It's like an Air Force One where Harrison Ford starts killing all the Russians. [00:55:23] Speaker A: Oh, boy. Yeah. So much so much violence from this one. [00:55:29] Speaker B: I always like that trope when the president or something goes to fight. Like an Independence Day. [00:55:34] Speaker A: That's cool. Yeah. [00:55:36] Speaker C: We will not go quietly into the night. [00:55:38] Speaker B: Today we celebrate our Independence day. [00:55:40] Speaker A: Yeah, it's pretty cool. Pretty awesome. Pretty great. Yeah. [00:55:46] Speaker B: Cataclysm is just kicking ass on the battlefield yeah. To help him get away from the trauma of his dead son and just how awful the war has been going for him. That sucks. That to get away from your trauma of your dead son, you got to go like, murder hundreds of people. [00:56:00] Speaker A: That's how you relief, I guess. It's like one of those stressful rooms. [00:56:06] Speaker B: You can go into or break plates. [00:56:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:08] Speaker C: When you're killing people or I used to have a tree stump in my backyard that I just couldn't get rid of. And every time I got really frustrated, I would just go outside and hit it with a hatchet and I called it my rage stump. So killing a whole bunch of angels is Cataclysm's rage stump? [00:56:25] Speaker A: I like it. Just murdering them. Yeah. [00:56:30] Speaker B: Like these cool double sided knife things. [00:56:34] Speaker A: Yeah. They're just like. [00:56:38] Speaker B: Lightning bolts almost. [00:56:40] Speaker A: They're weird. Yeah, they're cool. [00:56:43] Speaker B: I like them. [00:56:44] Speaker C: They're very close range weapons, though. So we know Cataclysm likes to feel the blood on his. [00:56:52] Speaker A: Then we hard cut. Yeah. Right to Daniel Kilgore stubby ass haunt. [00:57:00] Speaker B: Get this guy a fucking razor, man. [00:57:02] Speaker C: Yeah, but he's still scared of blades. Johnny. [00:57:06] Speaker B: That's true. [00:57:07] Speaker A: That's true. [00:57:09] Speaker C: If you remember from Spawn's universe, all. [00:57:12] Speaker B: Those knives he had in his house, he's like, I've never have a razor around me. [00:57:16] Speaker A: A knife, nothing. [00:57:18] Speaker C: He has a hard time opening packages now, but worth it. [00:57:22] Speaker A: He says, worth it. [00:57:25] Speaker C: Al's basically promising him the exact same thing he promised him before. And Hans like, that didn't fucking go very well last time. [00:57:35] Speaker A: And then finally, one thing Spawn never. [00:57:38] Speaker B: Admits to is being wrong. And he says after a long pause. [00:57:41] Speaker A: He'S like, you're right. [00:57:43] Speaker C: Han says, excuse me? [00:57:45] Speaker B: He's like, what? Spawn never says that. [00:57:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:57:49] Speaker C: So he's like, I need you to say that a little louder and right into the microphone so I can play it. [00:57:54] Speaker B: You said I'm right, and basically just bleeds his case. [00:57:59] Speaker A: And it's like, I fucked up, but I need your help. Yeah. [00:58:05] Speaker C: And Hans like, well, I mean, fucking that's cool because my life is fucking crazy, and this is some bullshit. [00:58:15] Speaker A: So I guess at least if we. [00:58:17] Speaker C: Can kill some people, it'll make me feel a little bit better about this fucking spot I'm stuck in. [00:58:23] Speaker A: Yeah, he's angry at fucking everything. Yeah. [00:58:28] Speaker C: He's like, so who else do you have on the team? [00:58:31] Speaker A: Spawn's like, I got a couple of people. [00:58:34] Speaker C: A couple, two, three guys. [00:58:37] Speaker B: Hey, I'm putting together a team. [00:58:39] Speaker C: Went down to the jewels, picked up a couple, two, three guys. [00:58:43] Speaker B: You son of a bitch. I'm in. [00:58:48] Speaker C: So we see seconds before the shadow blasting happens. [00:58:53] Speaker A: All right? [00:58:54] Speaker C: Spawn's cape is just slowly enveloping them both, and then we end up back in fucking Berlin. Johnny goddamn Spawn just loves to go to Berlin. [00:59:04] Speaker A: Across years. [00:59:05] Speaker B: We're back in Berlin. [00:59:06] Speaker A: We're back in Berlin. [00:59:08] Speaker B: A whole bunch later than 318. [00:59:10] Speaker C: He must really love that Lakeview Gay bar, doesn't he? [00:59:14] Speaker A: Yeah. All Berlin, man. [00:59:17] Speaker C: He loves going to the drag. [00:59:19] Speaker A: Great. It's great, man. Spawn. [00:59:25] Speaker C: Having a Spawn themed drag persona would be fucking great. [00:59:30] Speaker A: That would be cool. [00:59:32] Speaker C: It's dramatic and fucking flashy. [00:59:36] Speaker A: Get a cape. [00:59:37] Speaker B: A lot of fabric to play with, man. [00:59:39] Speaker C: Especially if you do Jessica, you could get the longest fucking wig in existence. [00:59:45] Speaker A: That'd be awesome, man. We need a drag. [00:59:48] Speaker B: Spawn drag show or Spawn burlesque. [00:59:51] Speaker A: Or both. Why not both? [00:59:54] Speaker C: The old Empire strips back burlesque that I kept getting ads for for fucking ever. [01:00:01] Speaker B: Yeah, it'll be spawn's nudiverse. [01:00:07] Speaker A: I like it. I like it. [01:00:13] Speaker C: And so Jessica's staring at a building, and she's like, this building is literally just built to house this dead zone. [01:00:21] Speaker A: It's like, just around a dead zone. Someone's guarding it, just around it. [01:00:26] Speaker C: And she's like, yeah, we got a got soulcrusher and Gunslinger in there checking it out. [01:00:32] Speaker B: And I pumped my fist. I love Soul Crusher. We haven't seen him in a glad. [01:00:36] Speaker A: He's doing okay. [01:00:38] Speaker C: I love this. Soul Crusher is like, hey, Gunslinger says if you're not here in two minutes, he's going to go through the porter on himself. [01:00:45] Speaker B: She says, we could use a canary in the coal mine. [01:00:48] Speaker C: Soul Crusher is like, gunslinger says he doesn't know what that means. [01:00:53] Speaker B: That's something he might actually know. [01:00:56] Speaker A: I feel like they used to do. [01:00:57] Speaker B: That in the old west. [01:00:58] Speaker A: Right? Yeah, well, it would have been more. [01:01:02] Speaker C: Depends on if the old west that Javi was a part of was very. [01:01:11] Speaker A: What'S the word I'm looking for? [01:01:13] Speaker C: Mining heavy. [01:01:14] Speaker A: Mining heavy. [01:01:15] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:01:16] Speaker B: He wasn't a miner, so maybe he. [01:01:17] Speaker A: Doesn'T know that joke. [01:01:18] Speaker C: Yeah, I have a friend who once at a C two E two, there was an open submission for ideas at Dark Horse. At Dark Horse? [01:01:31] Speaker A: Not black horse. [01:01:32] Speaker C: Dark Horse. And his idea that he came up with is a little guy, his name called Minor the Minor Minor. And it's like a twelve year old kid named Minor who's a minor in old timey times. [01:01:49] Speaker A: Minor. [01:01:49] Speaker C: The minor. [01:01:50] Speaker A: Minor. [01:01:50] Speaker B: The minor. [01:01:50] Speaker A: Minor. That's an intellectual property of guy. [01:01:58] Speaker C: I know, so don't steal it. [01:01:59] Speaker A: But minor. [01:02:00] Speaker C: The minor. [01:02:00] Speaker A: Minor. [01:02:00] Speaker C: It's a great idea, drilling down into this next page. [01:02:04] Speaker A: Johnny, we cut to we got pundits, got pundits again. [01:02:10] Speaker B: We got sue pundits this week. This is double pundit week two. [01:02:12] Speaker C: Wow, there's just, like, pundits every issue now. [01:02:15] Speaker A: It's great. It's great. And then we learn about a fucking. [01:02:21] Speaker C: Weird conspiracy of a whole bunch of. [01:02:23] Speaker A: Guys killed in one spot, and they. [01:02:30] Speaker C: All worked at different companies and were in town for different conventions, but it turns out that their company and the conventions don't exist. What the hell? What's with all these dead dudes? [01:02:45] Speaker A: And man, good old good old Brock the Shock. [01:02:51] Speaker C: Why are we pussyfooting around asking who's responsible for all this? [01:02:54] Speaker A: It's obvious. [01:02:55] Speaker B: It's Spawn. [01:02:56] Speaker C: It's Spawn. So fucking he says that? Have we all forgotten that a few months ago one of his acolytes assassinated a senator? So does that mean we're about to get caught up and scorched for Senator Terminus being killed? [01:03:13] Speaker A: Is that what this means, Johnny? [01:03:17] Speaker C: They take Senator Terminus down? What other senator did they kill? [01:03:22] Speaker B: I think that that is referring to in mainline spawn, where gunslingers or Gumshoe spawn assassinated that guy and then got killed. [01:03:34] Speaker C: Okay. [01:03:34] Speaker B: Do you remember that? [01:03:35] Speaker C: I forgot about gunshoo spawn. How could I forget about gunshoo spawn, Johnny? [01:03:40] Speaker B: No. Or Revolutionary War. [01:03:42] Speaker A: Spawn. [01:03:45] Speaker C: Oh, boy. [01:03:45] Speaker B: Yeah, because remember, they assassinated Senator and then get taken. [01:03:48] Speaker C: Right. [01:03:49] Speaker A: I think that's what he's referring to. Yeah. [01:03:52] Speaker B: Hopefully no spoilers on Senator TERMIS, but I don't think he's long for this world. I think the scorch might get him. [01:03:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I hope they do. [01:03:59] Speaker B: I fucking hate Senator TERMIS. Kill his ass. [01:04:01] Speaker A: Yeah, he's a jerk. [01:04:03] Speaker C: He's a doo doo head. [01:04:05] Speaker B: How do you get elected with those tattoos? Is there no decorum anymore? What happened to the decorum? [01:04:12] Speaker C: What happened to the new dress code that was just recently passed by the Senate? [01:04:17] Speaker B: Yeah, Terminus loves that. He wears emo hoodie around with no sleeves. Sure, he's super pumped. [01:04:23] Speaker C: Oh, boy. [01:04:24] Speaker B: So we're back to the Siege of the Fangs day five. Goodness, they're just sieging these fangs, man. [01:04:31] Speaker A: There's just gore out the wazoo. [01:04:36] Speaker C: We got fangs getting shot, getting stabbed, getting decapitated, getting runt through. There's just a pile of fang bodies. And some advisors to Cataclysm are like, dude, we got to get the fuck out of here. [01:04:54] Speaker A: We're going to lose. [01:04:55] Speaker B: Yeah, we got to go. [01:04:56] Speaker C: Cataclysm says, I won't leave my army. And they're trying to talk sense into him, but he's like, nah, nah, nah. [01:05:05] Speaker A: Nah, nah, nah, nah. We're going to stay here. [01:05:08] Speaker C: He says, you didn't say the magic word. You didn't say the magic word. [01:05:14] Speaker B: But then, yeah, from the heavens, something cracoms. [01:05:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:05:21] Speaker B: And we get a round eye of yep, yep. [01:05:25] Speaker C: And then you get a squint of. [01:05:29] Speaker A: Knowing, and we see. [01:05:31] Speaker C: Oh, boy. Johnny it's raining men. [01:05:34] Speaker A: Hallelujah. [01:05:35] Speaker B: It's raining Gaias. That's one of the skins on Call of Duty. Like a gaia person, a gaia soldier. [01:05:42] Speaker C: Yeah, we got Overtkill. We got Jim Downing. [01:05:45] Speaker A: We got heap. [01:05:46] Speaker C: We got monkey segoer. We got NYX just all coming down, the whole crew. And the sacred scrolls were soon declared. It was at this chosen moment when. [01:05:57] Speaker A: They first appeared from the skies for. [01:06:01] Speaker C: The first time in a millennia. Greenworld has finally come off the fence. [01:06:04] Speaker A: And made a choice, and they've chosen. [01:06:05] Speaker C: To help our. [01:06:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:06:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:06:10] Speaker C: And so that's pretty awesome. [01:06:12] Speaker B: I was like, that was a cool reveal. I was like, yeah, it's pretty great. [01:06:16] Speaker C: And like, oh, man, they land with a vengeance and just start ripping through these friggin angels. [01:06:23] Speaker B: And this leads to the next issue, which is fucking awesome and explains why they're helping Hell. Maybe right now you're a little questioned. Why are they helping Hell? Why are they helping Cataclysm? [01:06:33] Speaker A: Yeah. We will find out. Yeah. Stay tuned. [01:06:39] Speaker C: And then Spawn's power meter is at Johnny's favorite Taylor Swift album levels. [01:06:46] Speaker B: Yes, exactly. That's exactly what I was going to say. 1989 baby Taylor's version is coming out. [01:06:51] Speaker A: This month or next month, the re recorded version. [01:06:56] Speaker C: We got some spawning ground with some actual mailbag, which is something we haven't. [01:07:01] Speaker A: Seen in a while. [01:07:03] Speaker B: And mailbag. [01:07:04] Speaker C: Our budy Spawny boy added again over on Instagram. Spawny underscore boy. [01:07:09] Speaker A: And that's boy spelled B-O-Y just killing. [01:07:14] Speaker C: It with his cosplay. [01:07:15] Speaker A: Meeting the artist on current spawn mr. [01:07:18] Speaker C: Carla Barberi himself talking to the voice of Spawn, Mr. Keith David himself. [01:07:23] Speaker A: Man pretty awesome. [01:07:26] Speaker C: It's a beautiful suit. [01:07:28] Speaker B: It's a beautiful, beautiful cosplay. He looks great. [01:07:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:07:34] Speaker B: Just awesome stuff. [01:07:35] Speaker A: It's great. If you aren't following him already, just following him. [01:07:40] Speaker C: Follow him on instagram. [01:07:41] Speaker A: Spawning underscore boy. Spawning underscore boy. [01:07:44] Speaker C: Instagram.com bonnie underscore boy. [01:07:47] Speaker A: And hopefully I'll be able to get. [01:07:49] Speaker B: To meet him at Swancon. [01:07:50] Speaker A: I can't wait. Oh, man. [01:07:54] Speaker C: I need you to be able to see that suit and tell me how awesome it will. [01:07:59] Speaker A: I will. [01:08:01] Speaker C: Here's what I was talking about. The next one. [01:08:08] Speaker B: Oh, one cool, fun thing is Keith David came back to do the voice for the Call of Duty characters. [01:08:13] Speaker C: Oh, hell yeah. [01:08:14] Speaker A: Oh, hell yeah. [01:08:14] Speaker B: So you get his voice, say stuff like. [01:08:16] Speaker A: Reloading. [01:08:17] Speaker C: Nice. [01:08:20] Speaker A: Excellent. [01:08:20] Speaker C: Does he do the efforts, too? [01:08:22] Speaker A: Does he do the grunts? I don't know, but you can tell. [01:08:27] Speaker B: It'S him for quite a few of. [01:08:29] Speaker A: The lines so far. [01:08:30] Speaker C: Then we got another guy saying that he's back on Spawn for three years. [01:08:36] Speaker A: Now after he started off with 298. [01:08:40] Speaker C: So that's what took him from just being obsessed with the sort of aesthetics of Spawn and getting into the story. [01:08:47] Speaker A: So that's real good. [01:08:48] Speaker C: And so he drew his own little his own little version of Spawn. [01:08:53] Speaker A: And it's a real good version. [01:08:55] Speaker C: There is one letter where somebody talks about 318, 319, 320 being a great place to start again for new Spawn readers. [01:09:05] Speaker B: That's pretty much it. [01:09:06] Speaker A: You just get the Image classics and. [01:09:10] Speaker B: The Spawn toy ad with Spawn on the throne. Spawn 344. [01:09:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:09:18] Speaker C: So, Johnny, I think we need to rate these puppies. [01:09:22] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. [01:09:27] Speaker B: So first up, we had Spawn 318. [01:09:30] Speaker A: Yes. We did a big romp, a Comedy. [01:09:33] Speaker B: Of Errors romp through Spawn's secret base with Jessica and Mark. [01:09:38] Speaker A: Yeah, it was like a it was. [01:09:40] Speaker B: Like a drawing room comedy where everyone's. [01:09:42] Speaker A: Like, where did she go? [01:09:43] Speaker B: And then she comes in and they go away. And the next person comes in and go, where did he go? And then they go away and the next person comes in. [01:09:48] Speaker C: It's kind of like Clue, only with much less murder. [01:09:51] Speaker A: It was like clue. [01:09:52] Speaker B: Exactly. It was basically just clue. Yeah. No, I was really excited reading this. [01:09:57] Speaker C: Jessica priest was the Tim Curry. [01:09:59] Speaker B: Absolutely. Because she's the only one that knows what the fuck's going on. [01:10:02] Speaker A: Yeah. Or depending on the ending, she's the Michael McKeown. [01:10:07] Speaker C: Yeah, I prefer her. [01:10:10] Speaker A: What? [01:10:11] Speaker B: No, she's the Michael McKeown because he's the fucking cop. He's the FBI agent in the good ending. [01:10:16] Speaker A: Yeah, but she doesn't have but she's. [01:10:20] Speaker C: Not Mr. Green because Mark is wearing a green shirt. [01:10:22] Speaker A: That makes him Mr. Green. [01:10:25] Speaker B: I'm going to go home and sleep with my wife. [01:10:31] Speaker C: Wild fucking movie. [01:10:37] Speaker B: But no, I love this issue. It was a great breath of fresh air after the really fight heavy, slow moving cult of Omega Chang gang issues. So I'm happy to be here. [01:10:50] Speaker A: Very happy to be here. I'm going to give it 4.5 shots. [01:10:59] Speaker B: To the dick or what did she say? 4.5 shots to the nutsack. [01:11:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. A half shot. Nice. [01:11:11] Speaker C: I'm going to fun. [01:11:12] Speaker B: I like Jessica's stuff. It's just a great issue. [01:11:14] Speaker C: Yeah, it's some great Jessica work in this. [01:11:19] Speaker A: Just all around good character work and. [01:11:23] Speaker C: Definitely a good change of pace from the sort of slog of the last couple of issues. [01:11:30] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I'm going to give it. [01:11:36] Speaker C: Four unnecessarily sad cygors. [01:11:39] Speaker B: Why do they do it to I fucking love Cygor. And don't be torturing him. [01:11:44] Speaker C: Don't torture my Cygor, buddy him's. Good monkey. [01:11:48] Speaker A: Good monkey. Good monkey. Our second issue was Spawn 344, the. [01:11:56] Speaker B: Kind of big spawns gathering the team to go into hell. The battle rages on. And then the big reveal of Greenworld showing up at the end to help Cataclysm. [01:12:08] Speaker A: I loved it. [01:12:08] Speaker B: I'm going to give it five pieces of stubble on Haunt's face. [01:12:14] Speaker C: He's got just five big hairs. [01:12:16] Speaker B: Five big old hairs coming out of a mole on Haunt's face. Yeah, I really like this issue a lot. I remember reading it when I first read. It was just so much fun and just, like, couldn't wait to see where it goes. And it leads so well into the next issue that keeps escalating and escalating. And Rory McConville has just been doing. [01:12:34] Speaker A: Such a good job. Yeah, real good. [01:12:37] Speaker B: It's really taken the mainline spawn and made one of my favorites to look forward to. And usually it was kind of my was like my fourth place for a lot of time. [01:12:45] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a real good one. It's a real good to I'm going. [01:12:50] Speaker C: To give it five as well, Johnny. I'm going to give it five ill advisedly placed advertisements for the circus. [01:12:59] Speaker B: No one will ever see that post. No one's hanging out in the alley to figure out if they're going to go to the circus. [01:13:03] Speaker C: No, it must be that they have to prove that they're advertising for the circus, so that way they can count the loss of revenue against their taxes. And so they just put the advertisements up and the hardest to get to places so that way they can ensure nobody shows up. Wild. Absolutely wild. It's just good. It's just good shit. It's fired on all cylinders. I know that's a cliche that we. [01:13:33] Speaker A: Use a lot, but boy, howdy it's a good one. It's a good one, Johnny. [01:13:39] Speaker C: And speaking of good ones. [01:13:43] Speaker A: We like. [01:13:43] Speaker C: To shout out good, good friends of ours every episode, because spawn community is filled with a lot of good ones, Johnny. In fact, I would say most of the Spawn community is good ones. [01:13:58] Speaker A: I'd say so, too. Yeah. [01:14:01] Speaker C: And this week, this week we got a friend over on Instagram, does a lot of toy photography and a massive amount of spawn. [01:14:10] Speaker A: Toy photography. [01:14:12] Speaker C: The underscore dicuni. D underscore D-E-A-K-O-O-N-E-E. However, I'm supposed to pronounce that. [01:14:25] Speaker A: I don't know. [01:14:25] Speaker B: There's many ways that could be interpreted. [01:14:27] Speaker A: Yeah, but anyway, they're fucking they got great shit. Great shit. [01:14:33] Speaker C: Look at they got a creepy ass violator all posted up at the top there. They got some nightmare before a Nightmare on Elm Street stuff. [01:14:44] Speaker A: That's pretty cool. They got that awesome dark redeemer and. [01:14:48] Speaker C: A really cool action pose. [01:14:51] Speaker A: They got some techno spawn work. Yeah, cool stuff. They got an Angela. [01:14:57] Speaker C: An Angela fighting a violator with ninja spawn. [01:15:00] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [01:15:00] Speaker B: What the hell? That's awesome. [01:15:02] Speaker A: Yeah, that's great. Yeah, they do great. [01:15:12] Speaker B: He's got the fully put together, like. [01:15:14] Speaker A: Technospawn, like, giant spawn. [01:15:20] Speaker C: Wild. [01:15:22] Speaker A: Absolutely wild. [01:15:24] Speaker C: They got a heap action figure. [01:15:27] Speaker A: They got the fucking heap. [01:15:30] Speaker B: What's not to love? Got a Christmas clown doing cocaine. That's hilarious. Oh, no, it's not cocaine. It's just snow. [01:15:38] Speaker A: But it's so funny. Oh, man. [01:15:40] Speaker B: Could be cocaine. [01:15:41] Speaker A: Awesome. [01:15:41] Speaker B: Well, yeah, give him a follow. Great toy photography seems like a cool dude. [01:15:45] Speaker A: Yeah, it's excellent. It's good shit. Good shit. [01:15:48] Speaker B: While you're over there, make sure you're giving us a follow. [01:15:51] Speaker C: Yeah, we got some good shit occasionally, too. [01:15:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Posting reels, posting pictures. [01:15:58] Speaker A: Lots of fun stuff. [01:15:59] Speaker B: We are regarding Spawn Pod on Instagram. [01:16:03] Speaker A: Speaking of, you also hit us up. I'm sorry. [01:16:06] Speaker C: Speaking of good shit, on Instagram, we got our friend Brian. Brian underscore voyals underscore 27. [01:16:12] Speaker A: He does our music. It's good shit. Does a good job. Yeah. And we've also got an email. [01:16:22] Speaker B: If you want to send us emails, you can send us emails at regarding [email protected]. [01:16:27] Speaker C: Hell yeah, you can. [01:16:28] Speaker B: Questions, comments, concerns, complaints. [01:16:32] Speaker C: Pictures that you want us to share on our Instagram. Because you don't have an Instagram, but you got cool shit you want us. [01:16:37] Speaker A: To share, we could do that. [01:16:39] Speaker C: Please. Tell us about how awesome you think Spawn is. We love to hear about it. [01:16:44] Speaker B: If you've been playing the Call of. [01:16:45] Speaker A: Duty, yeah, let me know. [01:16:48] Speaker B: Hit me up on Xbox. If you're on Xbox, my gamer tag is Oyster Space Boy. Just oyster boy. [01:16:54] Speaker A: Oyster Boy. [01:16:55] Speaker B: I got the full clean name. [01:16:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:16:58] Speaker C: Do you got a question you want to ask? [01:17:01] Speaker A: Know prompt anybody to send us emails if they yeah. [01:17:05] Speaker B: What video game that he hasn't been in yet? So you can't do Mortal Kombat. You can't do Call of Duty. [01:17:09] Speaker A: You can't do soul caliber. [01:17:10] Speaker B: What video game do you want to see Spawn in? [01:17:14] Speaker A: And just basically yeah. [01:17:17] Speaker B: What video game do you want to see Spawn in? Mario Kart. See him in that. Warner brothers. There's a Warner Brothers, smash brothers. Ripoff put Spawn in that. [01:17:26] Speaker A: Yeah, nice. [01:17:27] Speaker C: That would be cool. I would like to see him in. [01:17:29] Speaker A: Smash Brothers in general. [01:17:30] Speaker C: You could be driving the Spawn funny car. [01:17:33] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [01:17:34] Speaker B: Yeah, he's driving or the Zamboni. [01:17:37] Speaker C: Whenever he gets shells, they turn into skulls instead of shells. So then you got red shells. [01:17:43] Speaker B: Red skulls would be great. They got enough characters to do it. [01:17:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:17:49] Speaker B: Spawn, Cart, let's go. [01:17:51] Speaker A: Yeah, let's do it. And you can even have the Donkey Kong analog. [01:17:55] Speaker C: And Cygor. [01:17:58] Speaker B: Exactly. Yeah, cygor's. [01:18:00] Speaker A: Donkey Kong. [01:18:03] Speaker B: Overkill is kind of like maybe like a bowser. [01:18:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:18:05] Speaker C: You got Mario and Luigi. Analogues are spawn and terry. You got Princess Peach. Wanda. [01:18:12] Speaker A: She Spawn. [01:18:16] Speaker C: I think she spawn would be Rosalina. [01:18:19] Speaker B: Yeah, I agree. [01:18:23] Speaker A: You have omega. Could be the bowser. [01:18:26] Speaker B: Yes, he's definitely very bowser with that, like, woolly jacket. [01:18:30] Speaker C: Flake would be like dry bones. [01:18:34] Speaker A: Who would be Yoshi Cloud? [01:18:39] Speaker B: No Yoshi would be dinosaur. [01:18:42] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Javi's new dinosaur friend that turns into a horse. That would be great. [01:18:53] Speaker C: Oh, man. They need to get on that spawn cart. [01:18:55] Speaker B: Make it happen. [01:18:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:18:56] Speaker C: And you could choose from a Zamboni or a funny car. [01:19:00] Speaker B: Yeah, that's it. Or the old action figure cars. Like the Violator mobile they had. [01:19:05] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, violator mobile. [01:19:07] Speaker B: And I think there's a spawn mobile too. [01:19:10] Speaker A: That would be wonderful. Yeah. I would love a spawn cart game. That would be hilarious. [01:19:16] Speaker B: Yeah. You ever made a PS one game that was a Star Wars cart racer called super bombad racing? [01:19:22] Speaker C: Really? [01:19:23] Speaker B: I'm not kidding. [01:19:24] Speaker A: Yes. [01:19:25] Speaker B: Look it up. It's hilarious. [01:19:26] Speaker A: Why would they call it Cart why. [01:19:27] Speaker C: Would they call it super bombad racing. [01:19:29] Speaker A: Instead of Star Wars pod Racer? [01:19:32] Speaker B: Because there was already a real pod racer game. [01:19:35] Speaker A: Okay. [01:19:38] Speaker B: It's like cartoony like, it's like Mario Kart. [01:19:40] Speaker C: Okay, I'd play the shit out of that game. Bomb bad. General actually had a conversation the other day at work about how much I fucking love the dumb shit in episode one because I was trying to be extra Star Wars apologists and have. [01:20:03] Speaker B: Look at that cover. They're like little chibi versions. Like a little chibi mall and a chibi yoda. He's zapping him. [01:20:13] Speaker C: Darth Maul's head is so big. [01:20:16] Speaker B: Yeah, they all look like that. [01:20:17] Speaker A: It's hilarious. [01:20:19] Speaker B: But yeah, it's all so one characters. [01:20:21] Speaker C: That's great. [01:20:22] Speaker A: But we need that for spawn. [01:20:24] Speaker C: Yes, we do. [01:20:24] Speaker A: Yes we do. Oh, boy. I love it. [01:20:28] Speaker C: Star wars. It's fucking great. Even when it sucks, it's great. [01:20:33] Speaker B: Star wars. [01:20:34] Speaker C: Star wars is I feel a lot like the Freddy's. That it's good. Even the shitty ones. [01:20:41] Speaker B: Exactly. [01:20:42] Speaker C: There are no shitty ones. [01:20:42] Speaker B: There are no shitty ones. [01:20:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:20:46] Speaker C: Well, speaking of shitty ones, Johnny, and there being no shitty ones with regards to regarding spawns, why don't we do a non shitty episode next week? What do you say? What do you say? You want to read a couple? [01:21:00] Speaker B: Hopefully it'll be our first one. [01:21:04] Speaker C: Why don't we read a couple of books and then come back and talk about it and we'll see if it's shitty at the end of it. [01:21:10] Speaker A: What are you thinking? [01:21:11] Speaker C: And if you think that we have had any non shitty episodes since the founding of this podcast, let us know by rating and reviewing us anywhere that you can rate and review. [01:21:22] Speaker B: Oh, yes, please don't forget to do that. [01:21:23] Speaker A: Yeah, but for next week, we're going. [01:21:25] Speaker C: To read a couple of books. [01:21:26] Speaker A: We're going to read old book, new book. Old book going to be spawned 319 following up 318. [01:21:33] Speaker B: See where this goes. [01:21:34] Speaker C: I'm very excited. I think I might have read that one already. [01:21:37] Speaker A: I don't know. [01:21:39] Speaker C: I can get confused about what I have and haven't read now, Johnny. But yeah, so we're going to be keep going with Spawn 319 covering that gap between 297 and where we started the podcast. And then our new book is going to be gunslinger 23, the penultimate Bret Booth issue. [01:22:00] Speaker A: A lot of good shit in it. Boy. [01:22:05] Speaker C: I am going to Miss Bret Booth. I'll be excited to see what soy Dexter is that his last name? [01:22:10] Speaker A: Dexter. Dexter Soy. [01:22:13] Speaker C: Dexter Soy. Be excited to see what Dexter Soy brings to the gunslinger table. But for right now, we can still comfortably sit in the Bret Booth of. [01:22:22] Speaker A: It all, and we'll be going real good about it. Awesome. [01:22:28] Speaker C: So those are the two books we're going to read for next week. [01:22:30] Speaker A: Johnny Spawn 319 gunslinger Spawn 23. Sounds good to me. Sounds good to me. Yeah. So don't forget again, rate us. [01:22:40] Speaker C: Review us, like us. [01:22:42] Speaker A: Follow us. [01:22:43] Speaker C: Subscribe tell your friends, your brothers, your sisters, your coworkers, your moms, that random dude on the street. If our podcast makes you laugh out loud on the train, you are contractually obligated to then turn to the person. [01:22:58] Speaker A: Next to you and say, you got. [01:23:00] Speaker C: To listen to respond. [01:23:02] Speaker A: The podcast hilarious. [01:23:03] Speaker B: First, you got to read a lot of Spawn, but then you can listen to it without reading Spawn. [01:23:08] Speaker C: Yeah, I think so. It's like the movie or TV recap podcasts where you benefit from watching the items before they talk about it, but they'll explain the jokes if there's. [01:23:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Johnny loved being here. [01:23:26] Speaker C: Loved talking some Spawn with you. [01:23:28] Speaker B: This ain't great time. [01:23:30] Speaker C: This ain't just no hit and run. Let me tell you to circle back to Miss Paula Abdul straight up. [01:23:38] Speaker B: Now tell me, yeah. [01:23:41] Speaker C: Loved doing this. And I think that just leaves me. [01:23:44] Speaker A: To say, johnny, may the Scorched be with you. And also with you, David. Hell, yeah. Hell yeah. [01:23:52] Speaker B: And the scorched with all you out. [01:23:53] Speaker A: There. [01:23:56] Speaker B: May the scorch be with everyone. [01:23:58] Speaker A: Yep. Yep. [01:23:59] Speaker C: And don't forget, Johnny, the opposite attract. I said don't forget. That opposites attract, too. [01:24:04] Speaker B: I just want to open my window and scream like, ebbies are scrooge and say, spawn is good. Spawn's in Call of Duty. [01:24:13] Speaker C: Spawn, you should probably do that. Johnny, I want you to stand up, and I want you to go to your windows, and I want you to yell at the top of your lungs, spawn is good. Spawn is in Call of Duty. [01:24:26] Speaker A: Spawn is love. [01:24:31] Speaker B: You got it? WA.
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