[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hey, gang, it's me, your co host, John Fisher. I know a lot of you are probably really excited to hear my reactions to Spawncon. It was fucking awesome.
[00:00:07] Speaker B: I had a great time. But this episode was recorded before we went to Spawncon.
[00:00:13] Speaker A: This was actually recorded before we even.
[00:00:15] Speaker B: Interviewed the spawn hunter.
[00:00:17] Speaker A: So that's why when I'm talking about spawncon, the episode, I'm looking forward to it and why we don't really discuss it, but that'll be next week, will.
[00:00:23] Speaker B: Be our reactions from Spawn on or my reactions.
[00:00:26] Speaker A: David didn't go, but he will grill me. I'm sure it'll be like a interrogation.
[00:00:31] Speaker B: And the Empire Strikes Back of Han Solo.
[00:00:34] Speaker A: Anyway, on with your regularly scheduled episode, and we'll see you next week for.
[00:00:37] Speaker B: A post spawn con talk that's a tongue twister.
[00:00:42] Speaker A: You wanna be some messiah?
[00:00:43] Speaker C: Is that it?
[00:00:44] Speaker B: A god.
[00:00:44] Speaker A: By preying on an animal that wants no piece of this?
[00:00:47] Speaker B: Well, you can go to hell.
[00:00:49] Speaker A: And that's exactly where I plan on sending you.
Good evening, and welcome to the Malbolge. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast.
[00:01:31] Speaker B: I am your co host, John Fisher.
[00:01:33] Speaker D: And I am your co host, David Williams.
[00:01:36] Speaker E: And Johnny.
You know what?
[00:01:40] Speaker D: There's a lot of spawn out there.
[00:01:42] Speaker E: But you know what?
[00:01:43] Speaker A: Spawn.
[00:01:44] Speaker D: There's going to be even more spawn before too long.
[00:01:47] Speaker A: Oh, man, we're going to be so spawn. I got to wear shades.
[00:01:51] Speaker D: The world's going to be lousy with spawns.
[00:01:53] Speaker E: It's going to be like from issue what was it?
[00:01:58] Speaker D: Issue eight, where Billy Kincaid just sees, like, the gaggle of spawns just hanging around. That's what it's going to be like. You're going to go into your comic book store and it's going to be.
[00:02:08] Speaker E: Like all of the titles have somehow become spawn. I'm excited.
[00:02:13] Speaker B: I know we've been having these gaps.
[00:02:16] Speaker A: We were just talking about off mike.
[00:02:17] Speaker B: We've been having these gaps every few.
[00:02:20] Speaker A: Weeks, kind of inconsistent drip, drip of spawn. And being so used to having one.
[00:02:23] Speaker B: Every week, it's like, oh, man, but.
[00:02:25] Speaker A: Then we're going to be so rich with Spawn, we don't even know what to do with it.
[00:02:29] Speaker D: Pretty soon, we're going to begging for a break. It'll be, please, I have to buy groceries this week. Tod McFarland, please.
[00:02:35] Speaker B: Right.
[00:02:37] Speaker A: But hey, they're keeping that 299 price point.
[00:02:39] Speaker D: Yeah, that's good. And you can always eat paper in a pinch.
[00:02:42] Speaker A: You eat a lot of paper.
[00:02:44] Speaker D: I ate some paper as a kid when I was bored in class.
[00:02:48] Speaker E: It's not the best look.
[00:02:50] Speaker A: Yikes.
[00:02:51] Speaker E: It's bad. I used to eat ants, too.
[00:02:54] Speaker D: I was that weird kid that would.
[00:02:55] Speaker E: Just eat bugs on the playground.
[00:02:58] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:02:59] Speaker D: If you could believe it. Me, a weird kid? Never.
[00:03:03] Speaker B: Hey, ants. You can have ants.
[00:03:04] Speaker D: Yeah, they're not very filling, I'll tell you that. They're not very sweet either. They eat a lot of sugar, but.
[00:03:09] Speaker C: They ain't too sweet.
[00:03:11] Speaker B: Good to know.
[00:03:12] Speaker E: Yeah. Very good to know.
[00:03:14] Speaker B: Well, welcome, everyone.
[00:03:15] Speaker A: Welcome to regarding Spawn.
[00:03:18] Speaker B: We're always rich with Spawns here, but we're even more rich with spawns now.
[00:03:23] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:03:23] Speaker A: With all this news come out of New York Comic Con and some of.
[00:03:26] Speaker B: The news that they had at San.
[00:03:28] Speaker A: Diego Comic Con building on that, it's.
[00:03:30] Speaker B: Just more and more and more, we're.
[00:03:31] Speaker D: Poised to go from rich with spawns to wealthy with spawns.
It's a gap that I'll never hit in any other metric besides Spawn.
[00:03:41] Speaker B: Yes, I already feel rich with Spawn.
But yeah, there's going to be a ton of new titles, and we're covering.
[00:03:52] Speaker A: Some of the old mainstays, but two of them.
[00:03:57] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:03:58] Speaker D: Now, the old books, the old I.
[00:04:01] Speaker A: Know, old King Spawn. That old hat seems like just yesterday is brand new.
[00:04:07] Speaker E: Yeah, well, I mean, Johnny, it's still.
[00:04:08] Speaker D: Brand new in my heart.
[00:04:10] Speaker E: I'll never think of it as old hat.
[00:04:12] Speaker A: I mean, from 320, comparing 25 to.
[00:04:15] Speaker B: 320, that is pretty brand new.
[00:04:18] Speaker D: Yeah, that is pretty brand new.
[00:04:20] Speaker A: Speaking of yeah, those are the two issues we're doing. We are doing issue 320 of mainline.
[00:04:25] Speaker B: Spawn all the way back from the far off land of July 2021. And then we've got King Spawn 25 just from August 2023. So as of this record not too.
[00:04:43] Speaker E: Long ago yeah, we're about to get.
[00:04:47] Speaker D: To the point where we started doing this podcast, so then we're going to start being like, damn, we started this podcast a while ago. Whoa, what have we done with ourselves?
[00:04:55] Speaker E: Well, listener, we've put out some fine.
[00:04:59] Speaker D: Episodes of podcast, some not so fine episodes of podcast, and we've had fun doing it. Dang it.
[00:05:06] Speaker E: That's all that matters.
[00:05:07] Speaker A: Yeah, but the not fine are super outweighed now. I feel like by the fine and.
[00:05:12] Speaker D: Good ones, the only way to outweigh the not fine with the fine is.
[00:05:17] Speaker A: To just bury them.
[00:05:18] Speaker D: Keep doing more.
[00:05:20] Speaker A: Just bury them in the bottom of a pit.
[00:05:22] Speaker D: I still feel that they're so necessary for kind of our whole experiment that it's like, God, we got to do it.
[00:05:29] Speaker A: We ain't got time for that. Because look at the future of Spawn. I mean, just like we're talking about, we have time to go back. We got to look forward.
[00:05:35] Speaker B: Like a shark.
[00:05:36] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:05:36] Speaker B: Except for a tiger shark.
[00:05:38] Speaker E: Nurse shark.
[00:05:40] Speaker A: Nurse shark. Okay, you mentioned that before. I like to say that a lot.
[00:05:43] Speaker B: I guess be a shark.
[00:05:45] Speaker D: I just like talking about sharks.
[00:05:48] Speaker E: They're fun.
[00:05:51] Speaker B: I'm a business shark, baby.
[00:05:53] Speaker A: I'm like a money monster. So that's why I'm always talking about sharks.
[00:05:57] Speaker D: You're a bull shark in a suit. You just look real nice, but you can't walk it around.
[00:06:03] Speaker E: You got your tie.
You know what?
[00:06:07] Speaker D: I think we need to commission somebody to give us some options of if a shark were a tie, would he wear the thick tie or the thin tie?
[00:06:15] Speaker E: Which one looks better?
[00:06:16] Speaker D: OOH, thin tie sounds a little bit more like hentai. And we need to avoid that topic.
[00:06:21] Speaker E: At all costs, johnny especially with sharks.
[00:06:24] Speaker D: Although this podcast does come out on the Internet. Maybe it'll get us a couple of curiosity clicks.
Yeah, put that in the next hashtag, Johnny.
[00:06:34] Speaker A: Yes, I'll put hentai in the next Instagram post.
[00:06:37] Speaker B: It'll be perfect.
[00:06:40] Speaker A: I don't want to get my hentai in my Spawn. My hentai.
[00:06:43] Speaker B: I don't look at hentai.
[00:06:44] Speaker A: I'm not obsessed with hentai.
[00:06:48] Speaker D: The coworker doth protests too much.
[00:06:51] Speaker E: Me thinks there was a car parked.
[00:06:54] Speaker B: At Costco one time where it was like it's not quite a tinting, but.
[00:06:58] Speaker A: It'S like see through. But it's like a picture on the back window. And it was just hentai stills. Tons of them.
[00:07:05] Speaker C: What?
[00:07:06] Speaker E: Yes, man.
[00:07:08] Speaker A: It was on someone's car. And I was like, holy shit. Wanda was there with me and I think and was just, uh people be.
[00:07:17] Speaker E: Putting weird shit on their cars, though, dude. Yeah, they definitely you want if you.
[00:07:23] Speaker D: Want to see some of the more ridiculous stuff and can stand reddit for more than five minutes. R infowarrior rides.
[00:07:31] Speaker E: It's incredible.
[00:07:33] Speaker D: People will just spackle whatever they want to on their cars.
[00:07:36] Speaker E: And it is oh, boy.
[00:07:39] Speaker A: Well, one thing I would want to spackle on my car would be some of these images from these Spawn covers.
[00:07:45] Speaker E: Oh, yeah.
[00:07:45] Speaker D: You can have another Spawn Jeep rolling around the west side of Chicago, Johnny.
[00:07:50] Speaker B: I know.
[00:07:51] Speaker A: Well, now that we got the stickers made, I can give some to Challengers and be like, if you ever see.
[00:07:54] Speaker B: One, put one under his here's my phone number.
[00:07:57] Speaker A: Put one under his windshield.
[00:07:59] Speaker B: This is because MJ at Challengers has.
[00:08:01] Speaker A: Seen it like twice.
[00:08:03] Speaker E: Oh, man.
[00:08:04] Speaker B: So I need to give them some.
[00:08:06] Speaker A: Stickers and then they can just put it under their window.
[00:08:08] Speaker B: And we got to get that.
[00:08:10] Speaker A: That's like the goal of the podcast, basically.
[00:08:14] Speaker D: Yeah, it's an attainable goal. They live in town.
We could get them on the podcast.
[00:08:20] Speaker E: Talk to them about so first off, Spawn is awesome.
[00:08:25] Speaker D: Second off, your Jeep is awesome because it's covered in Spawn.
[00:08:29] Speaker E: Third off, hell yeah. Sounds like a great interview. I like it.
[00:08:34] Speaker A: What if we find them and track them down? They're just like, I just like this guy. I don't even know who he is.
[00:08:38] Speaker D: And we're like, oh, no, I just took my car to the shop and was like, put some cool shit on it.
[00:08:44] Speaker E: And this is what they did.
[00:08:45] Speaker D: Well, then, Johnny, we'd have to track down the shop that he went to and see who was doing application for.
[00:08:52] Speaker E: The vinyl stickers and talk to that guy.
[00:08:55] Speaker D: It'll be the nerdiest rabbit hole ever. We'll end up like three states away at some dude's childhood home. And it's just he was so obsessed with Spawn that his mom let him decorate his room and he like, free handed Spawns all over it.
[00:09:11] Speaker E: I'd be down for that.
[00:09:12] Speaker B: I'd be down for that.
[00:09:13] Speaker C: Too.
[00:09:15] Speaker B: What I'm always down for is talking some Spawn.
[00:09:18] Speaker E: Hell yeah.
[00:09:18] Speaker A: And that's what we're going to do.
[00:09:20] Speaker B: And we're going to kick it off.
[00:09:21] Speaker A: With Spawn 320 with those beautiful covers.
[00:09:23] Speaker B: That I would want on my car. And the A cover is a really.
[00:09:28] Speaker A: Badass Bjorn Barons yet again.
[00:09:31] Speaker D: But this is like I don't think Wanda would let you put this one on the car, though.
[00:09:35] Speaker A: No, I don't think so.
[00:09:37] Speaker D: I wish it would be awesome because you could have, like, these little the demons crawling up at the bottom. Could be, like, in the areas that get covered with mud when your car gets dirty. And so they're just, like, trying to.
[00:09:50] Speaker E: Crawl out of the pit. That would be cool.
[00:09:52] Speaker B: That would be perfect.
But Spawn 320, pretty iconic cover.
[00:09:56] Speaker A: I feel like they've used it in other stuff, like advertisements, or maybe I'm.
[00:10:00] Speaker B: Wrong, but it's just like Spawn on.
[00:10:03] Speaker A: This heap of bodies with a giant axe.
Meatball Head Spawn.
[00:10:09] Speaker D: Meatball Head Spawn. I like that. The skull isn't a part of the axe. It's literally just a skull tied to the axe, which is a great little touch.
[00:10:19] Speaker B: There's, like, some bird skulls on it.
[00:10:20] Speaker A: It's like a cursed axe.
[00:10:22] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:10:24] Speaker B: Oh, man, he looks really badass.
This has a special place in my heart because it wasn't the first issue.
[00:10:33] Speaker A: I bought, but I went back and bought it. But this is one of the first few I bought when I started getting into Spawn.
[00:10:39] Speaker D: Nice.
[00:10:41] Speaker B: The COVID drew me to it, and.
[00:10:43] Speaker D: It'S now part of the new Spawn universe.
[00:10:45] Speaker E: Titles. Johnny.
[00:10:46] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:10:47] Speaker B: And that's why I went back and got it, because I wanted to join this universe.
[00:10:54] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:10:56] Speaker A: There are two other covers.
[00:10:59] Speaker B: We got a francesco.
[00:11:00] Speaker E: Mattina the francesco. Mattina is pretty good.
[00:11:04] Speaker B: It's like Spawn, like, flying, kind of.
[00:11:10] Speaker D: It says after Tod. So it's an homage cover to a.
[00:11:14] Speaker E: Classic target father cover.
[00:11:17] Speaker D: My favorite bit about this one is, aside from the green, glowing, invisible orange.
[00:11:25] Speaker E: He'S got there almost visible.
[00:11:27] Speaker A: Almost visible.
[00:11:28] Speaker D: Almost visible. The Moon itself is a Spawn emblem in the background there.
[00:11:33] Speaker A: I didn't even notice that.
[00:11:34] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:11:34] Speaker A: It's awesome.
[00:11:35] Speaker E: It's awesome.
[00:11:36] Speaker D: And it kind of looks like he's on a spiral.
[00:11:38] Speaker C: Twitch.
[00:11:39] Speaker D: It's the same twitch signal.
[00:11:42] Speaker A: No, it's the same with Twitch signal. They built it. Yeah.
They put it up when they want Spawn to leave them alone.
[00:11:51] Speaker D: I guess it would have to be on top of Twitch's house because Sam lives in that rundown apartment building, and there's no way his super is letting him get up there with anything.
And the police department's definitely not letting them go onto the roof to put a Spawn symbol on top of it. They're like, no.
He caused you to stop being cops, like, what, twice?
[00:12:14] Speaker E: No.
[00:12:17] Speaker A: I just love that anytime he shows up in the real Salmon Twitch, like.
[00:12:20] Speaker B: The Salmon Twitch comic that I've read.
[00:12:23] Speaker A: The early Two Thousand S One.
[00:12:26] Speaker B: They're just like, can you leave us alone?
[00:12:28] Speaker A: We don't have time for this. We got stuff going on. He shows up, he's like, Gentlemen, I require your assistance. They're like, Get the fuck out of here.
[00:12:36] Speaker C: It's great.
[00:12:37] Speaker E: I mean, that's what I do, too. That's what I do. Yeah.
[00:12:40] Speaker A: I'm like, we got to work.
[00:12:43] Speaker D: You always leave dead bodies in my office? I'm tired of cleaning it up and explaining it to people.
[00:12:48] Speaker A: And the C cover, if the B.
[00:12:50] Speaker B: Cover is after Todd, the C cover is Todd. Yeah, and it's really awesome.
[00:12:56] Speaker A: Like Soul Crusher.
[00:12:58] Speaker D: It's a big beefy. Soul Crusher. I like, it's a big beefy.
[00:13:01] Speaker A: He's hilarious.
[00:13:02] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:13:05] Speaker E: He'S just a thick boy.
[00:13:07] Speaker B: He's thick with two Spawn, and he's.
[00:13:10] Speaker A: About to stab him.
[00:13:11] Speaker E: Yeah, it's a good cover. It's a real good cover.
[00:13:15] Speaker B: I love the Todd McFarlane talented artists at.
[00:13:20] Speaker E: I mean, he draws okay.
[00:13:25] Speaker D: Amazing.
[00:13:26] Speaker A: Spawn face is so is.
[00:13:28] Speaker E: It is.
He makes every face so expressive.
[00:13:33] Speaker D: Like, even this masked Soul Crusher face.
[00:13:36] Speaker E: Is incredibly expressive for being a Plastic.
[00:13:39] Speaker A: Right?
[00:13:40] Speaker B: Oh, it is.
He looks giddy.
[00:13:43] Speaker A: He's about to stab Spawn.
[00:13:45] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:13:45] Speaker D: It's like the light in his eyes is coming through the little lenses in his gas mask.
[00:13:50] Speaker E: He also does mangled Spawn arm.
[00:13:56] Speaker D: It looks like.
[00:13:59] Speaker E: A spider that has.
[00:14:01] Speaker D: Died of old age and is kind.
[00:14:02] Speaker E: Of, like, curled up.
[00:14:04] Speaker D: That's kind of how the Spawn hands look.
[00:14:05] Speaker E: They're real good.
[00:14:06] Speaker D: Tod McFarland's.
[00:14:08] Speaker E: Good.
[00:14:08] Speaker C: He's good.
[00:14:09] Speaker E: Lazy, but he's good.
[00:14:11] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:14:13] Speaker A: Oh, boy.
[00:14:16] Speaker B: This is a good issue of Spawn.
[00:14:19] Speaker E: It's a good issue of Spawn.
[00:14:20] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a lot of fun.
[00:14:24] Speaker D: It's setting a lot of tables. It's very, very invested in one particular relationship that I very much appreciate.
[00:14:33] Speaker E: But it does, as I mentioned, off.
[00:14:37] Speaker D: Air, go back and make later developments that much more heartbreaking.
[00:14:42] Speaker A: It also might have a continuity error, but we'll talk about that.
[00:14:47] Speaker D: Yeah, I was going to bring that up, too.
A missed opportunity on the covers, though.
[00:14:53] Speaker E: Johnny, I find, because there's basically three.
[00:14:58] Speaker D: Characters in this whole issue. We got Al Simmons, we got Soul Crusher, and we got Cygor.
[00:15:04] Speaker E: But there's no Cygor cover.
[00:15:07] Speaker D: I know. We just had a Cygor cover for the last issue.
[00:15:10] Speaker E: That's fine.
[00:15:10] Speaker D: That's fine.
[00:15:11] Speaker E: But put more monkey on the COVID God damn it.
[00:15:14] Speaker B: Get Cygor on there.
[00:15:16] Speaker D: That's what we like to see.
[00:15:17] Speaker B: We also like to see the credits.
[00:15:19] Speaker E: Yeah, we do.
Every time.
[00:15:22] Speaker A: Every time we got to go through it. You got to give credit where credit is due.
[00:15:28] Speaker B: Tom McFarland's on script plot.
[00:15:30] Speaker A: Sorry if we're going so fast here, guys. I'm trying to keep us on track.
[00:15:33] Speaker B: Because we've got a big date with Destiny after this. Yeah, well, you have already heard it.
[00:15:39] Speaker D: It's a date with the Dial of Destiny. If nothing else.
We're going to an Indiana Jones party there.
[00:15:48] Speaker E: Fine. It's out in the open.
[00:15:50] Speaker A: Yes, we're celebrating the DVD release of.
[00:15:54] Speaker B: Dial of Destiny by going to they're.
[00:15:57] Speaker A: Not going to sell at Best Buy anymore by going to a Dial of Destiny party.
[00:16:02] Speaker E: Speaking of Johnny, did you see so.
[00:16:05] Speaker D: Tangent because it's necessary. Did you see that network?
[00:16:08] Speaker A: I didn't even say what we were doing. We're having a big interview coming up.
[00:16:12] Speaker D: Yeah, we do.
[00:16:13] Speaker C: We do it's good.
[00:16:15] Speaker E: Okay, tangent.
[00:16:15] Speaker A: No, but go ahead now. Say the tangent.
[00:16:17] Speaker D: Did you hear that Netflix is going to start opening stores that you can rent movies?
[00:16:23] Speaker A: Like, oh, my God. Damn it. It's like the Uberification of everything, where it's like they think they're just reinventing stuff we had already and then broke and killed and now bringing back do you remember Blockbuster?
[00:16:34] Speaker D: I sure as fuck remember Blockbuster.
[00:16:36] Speaker A: It's like when Uber is like, we can have these big Ubers and multiple people get on it and they go around in the same direction every day. And I'm like, that's just a bus.
[00:16:44] Speaker D: Yeah, we have those every six months. There's a tech bro trying to reimagine public transit.
[00:16:52] Speaker E: And it's like, I mean it's there already people right in front of you.
[00:16:57] Speaker B: But anyway, if it feels like I'm.
[00:16:59] Speaker A: Going break next speed, it's because we have a hard out.
[00:17:04] Speaker B: So sorry to all your listeners that.
[00:17:07] Speaker A: Like, our more Loosey goosey episodes.
[00:17:09] Speaker B: This one's just the fucking facts, ma'am.
[00:17:11] Speaker D: This one's going to be tight. You'll be able to bounce a quarter.
[00:17:14] Speaker E: Off this episode, Jonah.
[00:17:16] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:17:17] Speaker B: You're gonna tight as a drum.
Tom McFarlane on script plot is our first credit art by the incredible Carlo Barberry, who I'll be meeting in Hell yeah.
[00:17:33] Speaker A: A little over a week. For less than a week. A week from today.
[00:17:36] Speaker E: Nice, man.
[00:17:38] Speaker D: That's so close.
[00:17:38] Speaker A: Oh, man.
[00:17:40] Speaker D: For fans of Oakland Rap, they could say, we're in the Barbaria.
[00:17:47] Speaker E: That'll go over well with, like, two people. Continue.
[00:17:51] Speaker B: And we're always in the Tom Orzokowski era because he's been doing it since the get go letter in the biz.
[00:17:58] Speaker A: I'll also be meeting him in a week.
[00:17:59] Speaker D: Hell, yeah.
[00:18:00] Speaker B: Weird to think he shines in this.
[00:18:03] Speaker A: Issue a few times.
[00:18:05] Speaker D: The next time we record, you're gonna be like, and my best friend Tomo.
[00:18:10] Speaker B: No, they're gonna be like, Please, please leave me alone.
[00:18:14] Speaker A: And you also can't pronounce my name correctly.
[00:18:16] Speaker D: Carlo Barberry has invited me to his birthday party.
[00:18:19] Speaker E: End.
[00:18:20] Speaker D: I'm going.
[00:18:21] Speaker E: That would actually be pretty awesome. I bet he has a great cake.
[00:18:25] Speaker B: Yeah, probably has a Spawn cake.
[00:18:27] Speaker E: Hopefully.
[00:18:30] Speaker A: Colors by J. David Ramos.
[00:18:33] Speaker B: We already covered the covers.
[00:18:35] Speaker E: Sure did.
[00:18:37] Speaker A: Tom McFarland is creative director, and Thomas.
[00:18:39] Speaker B: Healy is still editor.
[00:18:41] Speaker A: Just the editor waiting on the Editor.
[00:18:43] Speaker D: In Chief, even though it's part of the new Spawn Universe titles.
[00:18:46] Speaker E: He's not gotten his promotion yet, mainly.
[00:18:49] Speaker A: Because when he gets Editor in Chief, I'll be able to tag him in the Instagram post and say, they got Editor in Chief in this issue, and.
[00:18:55] Speaker B: Then maybe he'll listen to another episode.
[00:18:58] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:18:58] Speaker D: And you'll also be meeting him in, like, a week.
[00:19:01] Speaker B: Oh, I know.
[00:19:02] Speaker A: Maybe he's going to be fun.
[00:19:04] Speaker D: You'll be able to give him some. He'll come to town. You guys will just wild the night away with some Chicago handshakes.
[00:19:10] Speaker B: If I play my cards right at.
[00:19:12] Speaker A: The DoubleTree Hotel bar, I think I might be rubbing elbows with some of.
[00:19:16] Speaker E: These folks real nice. Hopefully, hopefully you'll be rubbing something else, too.
[00:19:24] Speaker C: I'm trying.
[00:19:25] Speaker B: What?
[00:19:28] Speaker D: Rubbing electrical connections to get them on.
[00:19:30] Speaker E: The podcast so we can talk to them.
[00:19:33] Speaker B: Oh, yes.
[00:19:34] Speaker A: Rub, rub, rub.
[00:19:38] Speaker B: Well, I don't know how much time.
[00:19:40] Speaker A: There'Ll be to be interviewing them. We'll see. We'll see what happens.
[00:19:43] Speaker B: Yeah, we'll try to set up some.
[00:19:47] Speaker A: It's a good meet and greet.
[00:19:49] Speaker B: It'll be exciting.
[00:19:49] Speaker A: I'm excited to go. I'm excited for the vacation, mainly.
[00:19:52] Speaker D: Johnny's sitting around trying to set up a whole bunch of Meat Cutes. He's like, and if I stand here and I face this way with the light coming on my face, they'll be.
[00:20:00] Speaker A: Unable to respawn sticker.
[00:20:02] Speaker B: And I go, whoops.
[00:20:05] Speaker D: Oh, sorry.
[00:20:05] Speaker E: Didn't mean to accidentally drop that there.
[00:20:08] Speaker A: We've only slapped on someone's. Like, they're like, finally. I got this sign, the Rarest Spawn issue. I like, slap a sticker on it.
I'm like, get that CGC graded, baby.
[00:20:22] Speaker D: Oh, man, you would get bounced so hard. You'd be like DJ Jazzy Jeff thrown from the premises.
[00:20:30] Speaker A: He'd throw me right out.
[00:20:34] Speaker B: So previously in Spawn saigor was taken.
[00:20:38] Speaker A: Prisoner by the enigmatic Jericho. Spawn, determined not to lose another ally in his war, seeks to free him, only to be challenged by the mysterious Soul Crusher.
[00:20:49] Speaker D: Hell, yeah.
[00:20:54] Speaker A: Mysterious Soul Crusher.
He's the man. The man with the gas mask.
[00:21:01] Speaker B: I love Soul Crusher.
[00:21:02] Speaker A: He's got a great design. He's in Call of Duty. He's a celebrity.
He doesn't return my phone calls anymore.
[00:21:09] Speaker E: Well, I mean, are you trying to.
[00:21:11] Speaker D: Call old Soul Crusher or a new Soul Crusher? Because I'm pretty sure that phone number doesn't transfer.
[00:21:17] Speaker E: They got to get a new one.
[00:21:19] Speaker B: Yeah, the old one died twice.
[00:21:21] Speaker D: Twice.
[00:21:23] Speaker E: Well, we never know because I haven't.
[00:21:28] Speaker D: Read issue 321 yet. So maybe he pops his gas mask a little, head back up a little.
[00:21:33] Speaker E: Bit before dying there.
[00:21:35] Speaker B: I don't think he does.
[00:21:36] Speaker E: Okay. Dang it, Johnny.
[00:21:38] Speaker B: I think the next time he appears after this is in the scorch, but we'll find out. But I'm pretty sure that is we'll see.
[00:21:44] Speaker D: It'll be a journey. Please join us for the journey of figure it out.
[00:21:47] Speaker E: Soul Crusher.
[00:21:50] Speaker C: He's cool.
[00:21:51] Speaker A: Open up here on Cygor, just screaming.
[00:21:54] Speaker E: Oh, yeah.
He is upset.
[00:22:00] Speaker B: And Spawn is fucking monologuing, baby.
[00:22:04] Speaker E: Oh, yeah.
[00:22:06] Speaker D: We got spawn's like Al Simmons's whole history here.
This is what my life was.
[00:22:14] Speaker B: I was actually at war, literally.
[00:22:20] Speaker E: I thought that was good.
[00:22:21] Speaker A: This is good call of Duty dialogue.
[00:22:23] Speaker E: Yeah, it is.
[00:22:26] Speaker B: They should have had him say this whole thing.
[00:22:28] Speaker E: Yeah. On Call of Duty, most of the.
[00:22:30] Speaker D: Black ops we were doing were bullshit. Missings based on shifting loyalties and pure greed.
[00:22:35] Speaker A: Spend 800 credits to get the new weapon.
[00:22:39] Speaker E: I would pay some money to hear, oh, jeez, Keith. David, read this. It would be great. He should do the audiobook.
[00:22:49] Speaker B: The spawn audiobook.
[00:22:51] Speaker A: Yeah, he just starts reading the compendiums. We'd be out of a job.
[00:22:55] Speaker D: What do you mean by he'd be.
[00:22:56] Speaker A: Like and Cygor is jumping at Soul Crusher.
[00:23:02] Speaker D: Oh, we'd be out of a yeah.
[00:23:04] Speaker A: We'D be out of a job.
[00:23:05] Speaker D: Oh, I thought you said he'd be out of the job. And I was like, what are you talking about? That would be amazing.
[00:23:09] Speaker C: US.
[00:23:10] Speaker B: If he's describing Spawn, it's over.
[00:23:12] Speaker E: Oh, man.
[00:23:13] Speaker D: Well, the saving grace would be he would probably be behind a paywall where.
[00:23:19] Speaker E: Our garbage is free.
[00:23:22] Speaker A: Free garbage?
[00:23:23] Speaker D: Free garbage. I mean, that's what dumpster diving is.
[00:23:26] Speaker E: All based around, is free garbage, man. We're not garbage.
[00:23:31] Speaker A: David, don't sell yourself short.
[00:23:33] Speaker D: Hey, it's the only way I know.
[00:23:35] Speaker E: How to sell myself, Johnny.
[00:23:39] Speaker A: You're going to do the GameStop stock and do a short sell.
[00:23:42] Speaker C: What do they call it?
[00:23:45] Speaker D: Well, short sell is where you sell.
[00:23:47] Speaker E: It off for less than what is owed on it. Right.
So I think that terminology is right.
[00:23:59] Speaker D: Short sell is how I got my house. It takes fore fucking ever.
[00:24:02] Speaker E: But man, you can get a great deal on stuff. There you go.
[00:24:05] Speaker D: Yeah, but we're not getting sold short.
[00:24:08] Speaker E: With this two page spread here, Johnny. It is massive and very good. We just got big old Cygor just barreling down on Soul Crusher.
[00:24:20] Speaker A: He's got two, like, AK 47 things.
[00:24:24] Speaker E: Those would be I don't know.
[00:24:25] Speaker A: What kind of guns are those?
[00:24:27] Speaker E: Depending on they're either M they're probably.
[00:24:34] Speaker D: More likely to be M 16s since the bracket, bracket, bracket, bracket. And the Hella Casings would probably lean.
[00:24:42] Speaker E: Me that way as a soy.
[00:24:44] Speaker A: Boy, I don't know whose guns are. I think everything's AK 47 or one of the guns from Golden Eye.
[00:24:51] Speaker D: The shoe slaps. Only Johnny.
[00:24:57] Speaker B: Slappers only.
[00:24:58] Speaker E: That's what they're trying to get to. But yeah, it's real.
[00:25:02] Speaker D: The words here really don't fucking mean much.
[00:25:05] Speaker E: Except for Spawn is now waxing a little regretful about dragging other people into his fight. And so now they probably should have left Cygor dead that first time, but oops.
[00:25:22] Speaker A: I mean, this one, he lost like.
[00:25:24] Speaker B: Monolith and overt kill in like a week.
[00:25:29] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:25:29] Speaker A: And the battle rages.
Cygor grabs the gun and breaks it.
[00:25:34] Speaker D: Or one of them crunches it right in one fist and then double punches Soul Crusher in the chest.
[00:25:40] Speaker E: Now.
[00:25:41] Speaker D: Holy shit, Johnny. Could you imagine getting double punched not only by a gorilla, but by motherfucking Cygor with his look at those big old fists.
[00:25:49] Speaker E: Oh, boy.
[00:25:50] Speaker A: Also hilarious that he doesn't even know that angel's name.
[00:25:54] Speaker D: I'm certain.
[00:25:54] Speaker A: Killing clown. And that angel, wasn't it?
[00:25:56] Speaker B: Godsend.
[00:25:59] Speaker D: I thought godsend died in Kingspawn.
[00:26:03] Speaker A: Yeah, you're right.
[00:26:04] Speaker E: Kingspawn I don't even remember what angel it was either that angel said angel.
[00:26:10] Speaker D: And he's like, shit, did I get that wrong? Man, I would love to hear Keith David say that shit.
[00:26:15] Speaker E: Did I get that wrong?
[00:26:17] Speaker D: It's an all out free for all.
[00:26:18] Speaker B: Johnny this is some of the really good Tom O lettering in this issue.
[00:26:23] Speaker A: I thought he did a great job.
[00:26:25] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:26:26] Speaker A: Especially he gives a lot of good stuff to Soul Crusher in these last few issues. A lot of good dialogue.
[00:26:31] Speaker D: Bubbles yeah.
[00:26:32] Speaker B: Soul Crusher is very it's like he thinks highly of himself.
[00:26:36] Speaker E: I don't know, he's cool.
[00:26:38] Speaker D: Soul Crusher is going after Saigor because.
[00:26:41] Speaker E: Going after the people that Spawn cares.
[00:26:44] Speaker D: For is how people get to Spawn, which is how he knows to tell Jessica that, hey, if you got anybody.
[00:26:50] Speaker E: You care for, they're totally going to go after him.
[00:26:52] Speaker D: Classic technique.
[00:26:53] Speaker A: The heart. Osborne please go straight for the heart.
[00:26:57] Speaker B: I just watched that recently at the fucking dentist.
[00:27:01] Speaker D: The dentist was playing it or you watched it on your phone at the dentist?
[00:27:05] Speaker A: No, my dentist in each little room or each little booth, they have a TV.
[00:27:10] Speaker B: You can put on whatever you want. And I got in there and Spiderman One was playing.
[00:27:13] Speaker A: So I just like, I'm sure there's some little kid before me, so I just let it continue. And while I was getting a filling, I would watch Spiderman One.
[00:27:20] Speaker D: I would have been upset if you.
[00:27:22] Speaker E: Hadn'T just let it go, because, shit.
[00:27:24] Speaker B: That'S and I actually put on Spiderman Two even better.
[00:27:29] Speaker A: It was a long dentist trip. It was like the last 20 minutes.
[00:27:33] Speaker B: Of Spiderman One and then like the.
[00:27:35] Speaker A: First 20 minutes of Spiderman Two.
[00:27:37] Speaker D: Man, that is a long dentist trip.
[00:27:40] Speaker E: Boy. Yeah, you're a glutton for punishment.
[00:27:42] Speaker D: You're basically you're Bill Murray from Little Shop of Horrors.
I think I did it. You bring your own little bib to the dentist.
They don't have to put it on you.
[00:27:57] Speaker A: Jericho's men are getting pissed that Cygor is free.
[00:27:59] Speaker B: He's like, Delta Base, the target is free.
[00:28:02] Speaker E: Yeah. And then Soul Crusher just comes up.
[00:28:05] Speaker D: And punches him into space.
[00:28:08] Speaker B: Just like, boom.
[00:28:09] Speaker A: Whatever gas he's got is really making him strong.
[00:28:12] Speaker D: Punches him into space.
[00:28:14] Speaker E: Johnny.
[00:28:15] Speaker B: Yeah, I love that.
[00:28:16] Speaker A: It's just like boom.
[00:28:17] Speaker D: Just like uppercuts him.
[00:28:19] Speaker E: Oh, man, it's wild. And then, you know, Cygor starts asteroiding back down and falls into the water.
And Soulcruster is like, shit, shit, I.
[00:28:32] Speaker D: Got to keep this monkey alive or else Spawn won't come.
[00:28:35] Speaker E: And so he dives in after Saigor.
[00:28:39] Speaker A: While he's down there.
[00:28:41] Speaker D: While he's down there. Yeah.
[00:28:42] Speaker A: Spawn attacks.
[00:28:43] Speaker D: He sees two glowing eyes and Johnny, if I know anything, if you're under the water and you see two glowing things that are about eye width apart, you're fucked.
[00:28:54] Speaker B: Swim out of there.
[00:28:55] Speaker D: Coming at him among all the fishes.
[00:28:57] Speaker E: Is Spawn with his gigantic warhammer with.
[00:29:01] Speaker A: Like, the world's biggest mace. Yeah, that's awesome.
[00:29:03] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:29:03] Speaker A: Carlo Barberia's. Good job. Like, the random weapons Spawn will. Yeah, that one where he has that shield and that axe that he pulls out when he's fighting, I believe, when he's fighting Sin.
[00:29:14] Speaker E: Good weapons. Good weapons.
[00:29:15] Speaker B: Yeah, he just smacks Soul Crusher, but.
[00:29:17] Speaker A: He'S got shields, dude. He's got, like, ray shields.
[00:29:20] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:29:20] Speaker B: Have we invented shields yet?
[00:29:22] Speaker E: What do you mean?
[00:29:22] Speaker D: Have we invented shields yet?
[00:29:24] Speaker A: Like, for, like, aircraft. Do they have shields?
[00:29:26] Speaker D: Oh, I don't think so.
[00:29:27] Speaker E: No.
[00:29:27] Speaker A: Damn, we got to get on that.
[00:29:29] Speaker E: Yeah, we do.
[00:29:30] Speaker B: Energy shields always seems cool.
[00:29:32] Speaker A: Maybe that alien technology is at the bottom of the ocean.
[00:29:35] Speaker B: Maybe figure it out.
[00:29:37] Speaker E: Yeah, we'll get that.
[00:29:38] Speaker D: We won't know about it until long.
[00:29:40] Speaker E: After it's already been implemented. Yeah.
[00:29:43] Speaker A: Soul Crusher is just like, yo, dude.
[00:29:45] Speaker B: I got these shields.
[00:29:46] Speaker D: I got to get into the dead zones.
[00:29:49] Speaker B: And he wants to get into the dead zone.
[00:29:50] Speaker A: He wants to show him it's a.
[00:29:51] Speaker B: Human that can do it. He's like the human version of violator.
[00:29:55] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:29:55] Speaker B: Even though okay, he's a human, but.
[00:29:57] Speaker A: He'S all hopped up on drugs, punching Cygor into space. Come on, man.
[00:30:02] Speaker D: He's hopped up on drugs, covered in energy shields.
[00:30:05] Speaker A: Yeah, you got to do all this shit, you know?
[00:30:08] Speaker E: Spawn spa just starts swimming away. It's like wait. Come back. I was going to make espresso.
[00:30:15] Speaker A: Also, I love that they're talking underwater.
Well, I mean, through a gas mask.
[00:30:20] Speaker D: We've got a helmet and a dude with a mask, so of course they'll.
[00:30:24] Speaker E: Be able to talk.
[00:30:25] Speaker A: Well, I imagine he has, like, comes.
[00:30:27] Speaker B: Out like an electrical speech, like Kylo Ren or something. Yeah, there's probably a speaker in there.
[00:30:34] Speaker D: Yeah, probably. There's got to be, like, a little speaker on the outside, so that way because could you imagine him just, like, sitting around regularly trying to talk in that mask and all of his minions being what?
[00:30:44] Speaker C: Huh?
[00:30:46] Speaker E: Louder.
[00:30:46] Speaker A: And he's just.
[00:30:50] Speaker E: I don't get it, dude. What?
[00:30:52] Speaker D: And Spawn swims away, and he finds Cygor just, like, laying at the bottom of the bay here.
[00:30:57] Speaker E: And we get the round eye of Spawn holding on to Cygor, worried about him.
[00:31:04] Speaker A: So sad.
[00:31:05] Speaker D: So sad.
[00:31:06] Speaker E: Then he just chucks him out of the bay.
[00:31:10] Speaker A: Cygor has just been chucked all around this issue.
[00:31:13] Speaker D: Just throws him out of the water, and he lands in a warehouse on the wharf. And Spawn's like, oh, I got to.
[00:31:18] Speaker E: Go check on him, but I'm not.
[00:31:19] Speaker D: Going to swim for it. I'm just going to shadow blast out.
[00:31:21] Speaker E: Of this wrecked ship here. I like how there's conveniently a wrecked.
[00:31:26] Speaker D: Ship for him to shadow blast through.
[00:31:27] Speaker E: Yeah, pretty cool.
[00:31:28] Speaker B: Especially that close to the harbor there.
[00:31:31] Speaker A: I think they would have found that.
[00:31:32] Speaker B: And maybe excavated it, dug it up, pulled it out.
[00:31:39] Speaker D: They said, fuck that ship especially.
[00:31:41] Speaker A: I always like to imagine there's just, like, tons of ships the bottom of the.
[00:31:44] Speaker B: Ocean just, like, all over the place.
[00:31:47] Speaker E: Johnny cool.
[00:31:48] Speaker D: You're not helping my fear of the.
[00:31:50] Speaker E: Bottom of the ocean any with your.
[00:31:52] Speaker D: Talk about there being boats all over.
[00:31:55] Speaker B: Scary.
[00:31:56] Speaker E: It is. It's scary as shit.
[00:31:58] Speaker D: Not even just the bottom of the ocean. Like all of the ocean.
[00:32:00] Speaker E: Geez. No. Keep me away. It's scary as hell.
[00:32:04] Speaker D: So Spawn's able to shadow blast his way from the bottom of the bay.
[00:32:08] Speaker E: To into the warehouse where he threw Saigor.
[00:32:12] Speaker D: And it was like, Cygor saigor, are you okay?
[00:32:14] Speaker E: They didn't have a chance. They didn't know how long he could breathe underwater.
Lots of not being able to breathe.
[00:32:21] Speaker D: Under the water the last few issues.
[00:32:24] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:32:25] Speaker D: Very important. He can only breathe underwater for an hour.
[00:32:29] Speaker A: It's my favorite part, where monoliths.
[00:32:31] Speaker B: But that's to give them time to talk.
[00:32:33] Speaker A: They become friends, remember?
[00:32:35] Speaker D: Yeah, it does. And they're able to make a plan.
[00:32:38] Speaker E: And put it into action.
[00:32:40] Speaker A: Implement that plan the idiot doesn't know.
[00:32:43] Speaker D: He can't breathe for.
[00:32:45] Speaker E: Hilarious.
[00:32:46] Speaker D: I love minions talking.
[00:32:47] Speaker E: They're great.
Come on, big guy.
[00:32:50] Speaker D: You could do this.
[00:32:51] Speaker E: Wake up. Don't leave.
[00:32:52] Speaker D: Fight this. You hear me? Fight, goddamn you.
It's like Spawn is Cygor's manager and Cygor is a boxer.
[00:33:02] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:33:02] Speaker D: I could do it, man. I just need something to drink.
[00:33:05] Speaker E: And so Spawn whips out the can of brisk iced tea and pops it.
[00:33:09] Speaker D: And then Cygor is like, oh, that's brisk, baby.
[00:33:13] Speaker A: You don't really see Spawn being so affectionate that often.
[00:33:16] Speaker E: You definitely don't.
[00:33:17] Speaker A: Come on.
[00:33:17] Speaker B: Big know he cares about Cygor.
[00:33:20] Speaker D: The cybernetic gorilla opens his eyes, barely.
[00:33:25] Speaker E: Cygor is, like, very grumpy.
[00:33:28] Speaker A: Tired.
How are you tired? Yeah, no shit. He's got punched into space.
I'd be tired, too.
[00:33:37] Speaker E: Yeah. And then Spawn's, like, trying to get.
[00:33:40] Speaker D: Him out of there and soul crusher just zacks him right in the back.
[00:33:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:33:44] Speaker A: This guy's so human. He has a lot of powers for a human.
[00:33:47] Speaker D: He's got the glowing fists of doom.
[00:33:50] Speaker A: It's all tech, though.
[00:33:53] Speaker E: But still.
[00:33:54] Speaker B: At least I imagine it's all tech because he don't got no superpowers.
[00:33:58] Speaker E: Yeah. And then Spawn's like, you're a dead man.
[00:34:02] Speaker A: He's shooting light at him.
[00:34:06] Speaker B: He's like my sorcerer in Diablo, season.
[00:34:08] Speaker A: Two that just started Tuesday.
[00:34:10] Speaker D: Shooting light beams.
[00:34:11] Speaker A: Pretty fun. Shooting lightning.
[00:34:12] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm a I'm actually I made.
[00:34:15] Speaker A: My sorcerer, and I made her a.
[00:34:18] Speaker B: Girl, and she's hot.
What if I'm attracted to my diablo character, Johnny?
[00:34:27] Speaker D: I am surprised. I'm going to have a heart attack.
[00:34:29] Speaker E: And die from surprise.
Oh, my God.
[00:34:34] Speaker D: You've got a hot character in a video game.
[00:34:36] Speaker A: It's been a while since I get a bonk.
[00:34:38] Speaker B: Give me a bonk.
[00:34:39] Speaker E: Bonk.
[00:34:40] Speaker C: Bonk.
[00:34:41] Speaker A: Thank you. It's been a while.
[00:34:42] Speaker D: Do we have a bonk sound effect?
[00:34:44] Speaker E: Have we done a bonk?
[00:34:45] Speaker D: We can get one doing bonk.
[00:34:47] Speaker C: Bonk. Bonk.
[00:34:49] Speaker B: No, we just used to say it.
[00:34:51] Speaker D: We get another view of the bottom of the big right foot. Johnny, it is a big old right foot is massive.
[00:34:59] Speaker E: I like how after we saw it.
[00:35:01] Speaker D: That once, we now see it, like, every other episode.
[00:35:04] Speaker E: And it's like, oh, I guess we.
[00:35:06] Speaker D: Used to see it a lot.
[00:35:08] Speaker E: It's like a blue car where you're.
[00:35:10] Speaker D: Like, you never see a blue car. And so you buy a blue car, then you see blue cars everywhere.
[00:35:14] Speaker B: That hasn't happened to me.
[00:35:16] Speaker D: It's actually called the blue car.
[00:35:17] Speaker E: It's you just don't pay attention to.
[00:35:19] Speaker D: The prevalence of certain items in the.
[00:35:22] Speaker E: World until you think you having that.
[00:35:25] Speaker D: Item makes you unique.
[00:35:26] Speaker E: And then you start seeing that item.
[00:35:29] Speaker D: Everywhere and you're like, oh, I'm just.
[00:35:31] Speaker E: A piece of garbage.
[00:35:32] Speaker D: I'm not that special.
[00:35:33] Speaker E: I'm just like everybody else.
[00:35:35] Speaker B: Yeah, Carlo Barberi likes doing the bottom of the foot.
[00:35:40] Speaker D: I think he just likes throwing Spawn around because that's the kind of a vulnerable position, being able to see the.
[00:35:44] Speaker E: Bottom of someone's feet, especially that big old foot. Yeah, man.
[00:35:50] Speaker D: You imagine if he falls on his back, he'd be like a fucking turtle, being like, Just got to get it underneath me.
[00:35:59] Speaker B: Then we got a pundits page.
[00:36:02] Speaker D: Smash cut the pundits.
[00:36:03] Speaker C: Remember?
[00:36:04] Speaker E: We just smash cuts to him.
[00:36:06] Speaker B: Smash cuts to the pundits. I can't remember how long it's been since I said it, but don't skip the pundits.
[00:36:12] Speaker D: Yeah, definitely don't.
[00:36:13] Speaker A: Toddfather doesn't want you to.
[00:36:15] Speaker D: Even though they're interrupting the middle of.
[00:36:17] Speaker B: This fight and have absolutely nothing to.
[00:36:20] Speaker A: Do with the fight.
[00:36:21] Speaker E: Yeah. No, just countries that were at war. Giving money to each other is basically international finance.
[00:36:32] Speaker A: Oh, David, I just lost the middle.
[00:36:35] Speaker E: Gotta you gotta add half of whatever to whatever.
A whole oh, it's a whole okay.
[00:36:42] Speaker D: You gotta add a whole star because.
[00:36:43] Speaker A: There'S a half if one came.
[00:36:44] Speaker D: That's right.
[00:36:45] Speaker B: Oh, man, I got oh, boy.
[00:36:48] Speaker C: Oh, boy.
[00:36:48] Speaker A: It's price. It lasted this long.
[00:36:49] Speaker B: I've read this one a few times.
[00:36:51] Speaker D: Man, it's a good thing. Good thing this isn't one that you were like, God, this is a piece of garbage. And now I have to rate it higher.
[00:36:58] Speaker B: No, this is a good one.
[00:36:59] Speaker A: It's really beat up, this one.
[00:37:02] Speaker C: I read it.
[00:37:03] Speaker E: Nice.
[00:37:03] Speaker D: Is that your only back when I.
[00:37:04] Speaker A: Was getting into Spawn, I would reread them quite a bit because I didn't have that many.
[00:37:08] Speaker E: Is this your only copy of this issue?
[00:37:10] Speaker C: Yeah. Nice.
[00:37:13] Speaker D: You got to tape that page back in toot.
[00:37:15] Speaker E: Sweet. I know.
[00:37:16] Speaker A: Or maybe get another one at Spawn Con.
[00:37:18] Speaker E: Maybe. Anything to go to Spawn Con and spend money.
[00:37:23] Speaker A: No, I'm only looking for a few.
[00:37:24] Speaker B: Little things I don't want to take back.
[00:37:27] Speaker A: It feels weird, like flying back a bunch of comic books.
[00:37:29] Speaker B: They probably get all banged up and I don't know.
[00:37:33] Speaker A: We'll see.
[00:37:33] Speaker B: Yeah, they have a bunch of cheap comics they don't have maybe I'll get some.
Yeah, why not?
[00:37:41] Speaker E: Yeah, why not at all?
[00:37:42] Speaker D: We got Brock the Shark fennel at the bottom here.
[00:37:44] Speaker E: Being. Oh, boy.
[00:37:48] Speaker B: Remember Chicken Little? The sky was always falling.
[00:37:52] Speaker E: Oh, man.
[00:37:53] Speaker D: It was like that's capitalism.
Well, how do you think they became billionaires in the first place? By being friendly.
[00:38:00] Speaker A: This is an interesting pundit page. It has literally nothing to do with anything else in the issue.
[00:38:05] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:38:05] Speaker D: I don't even remember this even becoming.
[00:38:08] Speaker E: A going concern when I pick up.
[00:38:11] Speaker A: No, just like the top father wanted to rail against finance stuff for a bit.
[00:38:15] Speaker B: Go off king.
[00:38:19] Speaker D: He's got a platform. It's a bully pulpit, the Spawn.
[00:38:23] Speaker E: It's quite bully pulpit.
[00:38:25] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:38:25] Speaker D: And then back to our regularly scheduled fight. Yeah, back to the fight, Spawns. Like, I could just peck away at him by hitting him with my cape.
[00:38:38] Speaker E: Randomly, but if I come at him at enough angles, it won't be able to keep up.
Yeah.
[00:38:44] Speaker A: The shield.
[00:38:45] Speaker B: And yeah, you got to overwhelm it.
[00:38:47] Speaker D: Yeah, they do that in Star Trek all the time.
[00:38:49] Speaker A: Yeah, I feel like Star Wars, too. Maybe not in the movies, but, like, in the books and stuff.
[00:38:53] Speaker D: Yeah, it's like if they can make somebody maneuver into a debris field, so.
[00:38:57] Speaker E: That way the Shield is obsessed with.
[00:39:01] Speaker D: Having to keep all those little things, it's easier for them to sneak something in. And so we only get to see.
[00:39:07] Speaker E: One angle of attack for what Al.
[00:39:11] Speaker D: Simmons is talking about before he just slams his chain right into Soulcrusher's Eye.
[00:39:17] Speaker C: Both plural.
[00:39:18] Speaker A: He does both.
[00:39:19] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:39:19] Speaker B: Boom.
[00:39:20] Speaker A: Man, this old man really went through it.
[00:39:22] Speaker E: Yeah.
Oh, boy.
[00:39:25] Speaker D: I can't imagine how much that hurts.
[00:39:27] Speaker E: Getting chained. Chain in the eye, chain to the eye. Soul crusher's.
[00:39:32] Speaker D: Like, I can't see anything, so I got to pull out my knife.
[00:39:36] Speaker B: But his armor is, like, on autopilot.
[00:39:38] Speaker A: He's thrashing him around.
[00:39:39] Speaker B: He's like a human puppet.
[00:39:41] Speaker E: Yeah, a knife.
[00:39:42] Speaker D: You're going to come at me with a fucking knife? Obviously, I would love to see Haunt just in the background being, ah, knife.
[00:39:51] Speaker A: I hate knives. Why don't shave?
[00:39:54] Speaker D: I gotta say, this knife would be a bitch to try to try to.
[00:39:57] Speaker E: Sharpen Johnny with that curved blade. Oh, boy.
[00:40:01] Speaker B: Looks like it.
[00:40:02] Speaker E: Oh, boy.
[00:40:03] Speaker B: But he's just he says he's gonna skin you alive.
[00:40:06] Speaker A: And Spawn goes off on a monologue.
[00:40:08] Speaker B: About like, oh, you want to become a Spawn, is that it?
[00:40:13] Speaker D: You're going to take my costume, become a hero, a Spawn? Is that what you want? He's like, yeah, I need that skin for my Call of Duty character. My real life Call of Duty character.
[00:40:21] Speaker B: Come on, man.
[00:40:23] Speaker D: I got to play some multiplayer Johnny.
[00:40:27] Speaker E: I recently saw an Instagram reel that.
[00:40:31] Speaker D: Was somebody trying to do a Reimagined super Friends if Spawn were in it. And Spawn shows up, and Superman and Batman are like, what is this?
[00:40:42] Speaker E: What is this costume?
[00:40:43] Speaker D: And Spawn goes, it's not a costume. And I almost threw my phone across the room because I was like, God damn it. They call it a costume every 3 seconds.
[00:40:51] Speaker E: It is a costume.
[00:40:52] Speaker B: Fucking it's a live costume.
[00:40:54] Speaker D: Those bastards don't know nothing from Spawn.
[00:40:57] Speaker B: You flip the page.
[00:40:59] Speaker E: Oh, boy.
[00:40:59] Speaker B: It is awesome.
[00:41:01] Speaker A: Flip page.
[00:41:02] Speaker E: Flip it is.
[00:41:05] Speaker A: You got Spawn, you got Tom O.
[00:41:07] Speaker B: Going on all cylinders.
[00:41:08] Speaker A: You got Carl Barry on all cylinders.
[00:41:11] Speaker B: You got the tod, father.
[00:41:12] Speaker A: The Spawn's just yelling at him, yeah, take it.
[00:41:16] Speaker E: You want it so bad, take all of it till it chokes you.
Oh, man.
[00:41:21] Speaker B: Just do it, man.
[00:41:24] Speaker D: We need Keith David yelling that, so that way we can have it be our audio mantra.
[00:41:30] Speaker C: Just do it.
[00:41:31] Speaker D: Just do we got we got Necroplasm everywhere. We got some Kirby crackle. We got bugs coming out of Soul Crusher. Soul Crusher is just full of bugs, apparently.
[00:41:41] Speaker B: What's up with that bug?
[00:41:42] Speaker E: I don't, but his cape's completely covered in him, too.
I just noticed all the ones on the cape. I'm thinking the bugs came out of Soul Crusher.
[00:41:53] Speaker D: Maybe he's like, fucking Oogie Boogie and he's just a whole bunch of bugs.
[00:41:57] Speaker E: Loosely held together in a bag.
[00:41:59] Speaker C: He's ugie.
[00:41:59] Speaker A: Boogie.
[00:42:00] Speaker C: My bugs. My bugs.
My bug.
[00:42:07] Speaker E: Man, that scared the shit out of.
[00:42:08] Speaker D: Me as a child.
[00:42:09] Speaker E: Absolutely frightening a bug, man, it's a great splash page, this.
[00:42:14] Speaker C: Real good.
[00:42:17] Speaker D: We turn over, and then we get.
[00:42:19] Speaker E: The opening quote, Cygor doesn't belong to you. We just get a close up on.
[00:42:28] Speaker D: One of Soul Crusher's ruined eyes. Like, it looks like he's got a glass eye that's got just a whole.
[00:42:32] Speaker E: Bunch of cracks in it, because I.
[00:42:34] Speaker D: Guess that's what happens after you get.
[00:42:36] Speaker E: Spawn changed to the eye. Yeah. Cracks it Spawns costume life out of Soul Crusher a callous.
[00:42:44] Speaker B: Spawn's going to kill him, but then.
[00:42:47] Speaker A: Puts his hand on his.
[00:42:51] Speaker C: And then.
[00:42:51] Speaker D: And then Spawn has a Hallucination of Wanda.
[00:42:54] Speaker E: Don't let them turn you ugly, Al. Don't give them that victory.
[00:42:57] Speaker D: You're better than that.
[00:42:58] Speaker E: You're not a killer. You're my king.
I wonder why they use that word, Johnny.
[00:43:09] Speaker A: Maybe the king is coming.
Time to act like one.
[00:43:15] Speaker D: Then I like, the next page. It's just Soul Crusher falling to the floor after Al releases him. And he just falls, like, right on his chin.
[00:43:26] Speaker E: He reaches for his knife, and Cygor just, like, crushes his wrist.
[00:43:31] Speaker D: He's like I like how Cygor just.
[00:43:34] Speaker E: Picks up the knife, this big ass knife.
[00:43:36] Speaker D: He just picks it up between three.
[00:43:37] Speaker E: Fingers, and it's just like it's like.
[00:43:41] Speaker D: He'S playing with an action figure knife.
[00:43:43] Speaker A: He saves Swan the burden of having.
[00:43:45] Speaker B: To kill yet again and does it for him.
[00:43:48] Speaker E: He slices the tube for the gas mask, and then this is where it.
[00:43:54] Speaker C: Says.
[00:43:57] Speaker B: That he takes as the Soul Crusher takes his last breath.
[00:44:01] Speaker E: Yeah, which we know is not true.
[00:44:03] Speaker D: As we know that Sergey and his sister fucking set Soul Crusher on fire.
[00:44:09] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:44:10] Speaker A: They burned this old man to, you know, last breath. It could be from Cygor's perspective.
[00:44:15] Speaker D: Issue to issue, Johnny.
[00:44:16] Speaker E: Issue to issue, issue to issue.
[00:44:18] Speaker A: That's comics, baby. That's comics.
[00:44:20] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:44:23] Speaker E: And then as Soul Crusher is just going.
[00:44:29] Speaker D: We smash cuts to the king is coming.
[00:44:32] Speaker C: Boom.
[00:44:33] Speaker B: Issue number 1 august King spawn on the way.
[00:44:37] Speaker A: And that's true for us, too, because it's what we're doing next.
[00:44:40] Speaker E: Yeah. Hell yeah.
[00:44:41] Speaker A: We're not quite there yet.
[00:44:42] Speaker D: No, we got a spawning Ground presents the Breakdown, and it's a whole bunch of people taking pictures of when they.
[00:44:48] Speaker E: Picked up Spawn's Universe number one.
[00:44:50] Speaker A: Pretty cool.
[00:44:51] Speaker D: Pretty awesome.
[00:44:52] Speaker E: This could have been us, Johnny, if.
[00:44:54] Speaker D: We had been on the if we.
[00:44:55] Speaker C: Would have been on the tip.
[00:44:58] Speaker A: Spawn train. Yeah.
[00:45:00] Speaker B: Lazy, lazy, lazy.
[00:45:03] Speaker E: How dare we?
[00:45:04] Speaker B: No, these are great.
[00:45:04] Speaker A: It looks like everyone's having a good time. People got tons of them.
[00:45:08] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:45:08] Speaker B: Spawn Brazil's in there he is. In the top middle on the left page.
[00:45:15] Speaker E: Oh, nice. It's, like, gigantic. How did I miss that?
[00:45:19] Speaker B: We'll have to give Spawn Brazil a shout out.
[00:45:21] Speaker E: Hell yeah.
[00:45:23] Speaker B: Well, we are right now.
[00:45:24] Speaker A: Spawn Brazil. There they are. They're awesome. They inspired the Spawn to see baseball.
[00:45:28] Speaker B: With their Spawn soccer.
[00:45:29] Speaker E: Yeah, they did. They sure did.
They also get all those the Portuguese.
[00:45:38] Speaker D: Editions of Spawn, which is always fun.
[00:45:40] Speaker E: To see Spawn in another language because.
[00:45:42] Speaker D: Like, Petru Spawn occasionally puts up, like, French Spawn, and it's like, oh, we.
[00:45:47] Speaker B: Be and then you get the Image classics. And because of the King Spawn ad the power meters at the very back.
[00:45:56] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:45:57] Speaker E: Oh, boy.
[00:45:59] Speaker D: He's not too bad. He's pumping it up a little bit.
[00:46:02] Speaker E: But he's still not too good. Moving on up to the east side.
[00:46:07] Speaker B: And we're moving on up and moving on out to the next issue of Spawn.
Of king spawn. Yeah, because that was Spawn 320, baby.
[00:46:20] Speaker C: Sean.
[00:46:24] Speaker B: Next up, we have King Spawn 25.
[00:46:28] Speaker A: A monumental issue. Monumental because it's the first one not.
[00:46:33] Speaker B: Written by Sean Lewis.
[00:46:35] Speaker D: Interesting. Very interesting.
[00:46:36] Speaker B: Written by Todd McFarland.
[00:46:38] Speaker D: But I didn't realize until, like, halfway through, and I was like, Wait a minute, and then had to flip to the credits page and be like, oh, that's why it's really Todd fathery.
[00:46:47] Speaker A: And you texted me because I hadn't picked it up yet, or I can't remember. But you got it first, and you.
[00:46:52] Speaker B: Were like, John, did you see who wrote Cake Spawn? And I was like, what?
[00:46:58] Speaker E: I vaguely remember that. It was probably too long ago. Nice.
[00:47:03] Speaker B: But this is King Spawn 25. It's the kind of the after the.
[00:47:12] Speaker A: Exodus arc was kind of wrapped up.
[00:47:14] Speaker B: Last time where they fought everybody and.
[00:47:17] Speaker A: Then clown mysteriously showed up. But I'm getting ahead of myself because I forgot to do the covers, of course.
[00:47:23] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, you got to do those covers, Johnny.
[00:47:25] Speaker B: I have the A cover here.
[00:47:28] Speaker E: I got the A cover right in front of me as well. Man, I should have gotten the B.
[00:47:32] Speaker D: Cover I'm looking at the B cover, too.
[00:47:34] Speaker B: I have both, but the Fede melee one's great.
[00:47:38] Speaker D: Yeah, it's beautiful. It's like a watercolor of Spawn doing.
[00:47:46] Speaker E: His best Narcissist impression, where he's just so intrigued by his own reflection that he falls into the water.
[00:47:56] Speaker C: Right? Yeah.
[00:47:57] Speaker A: But it's like classic Spawn looking at.
[00:47:59] Speaker B: Like, king Spawn, nightmare fuel spawn.
[00:48:02] Speaker E: Yeah.
And it's pretty cool.
[00:48:05] Speaker C: It's great.
[00:48:06] Speaker E: And it's all, like, watercolored, so it's beautiful.
[00:48:09] Speaker B: No, this is one of my favorites of recent memory. I just love the it's totally a.
[00:48:15] Speaker A: Reference to, like, a classic yeah. Of right?
[00:48:19] Speaker C: Yeah.
Yeah.
[00:48:20] Speaker B: Because I'm like that looks very familiar.
[00:48:23] Speaker A: But yeah, the B cover is awesome, too. And it's by our boy Javi Fernandez.
[00:48:27] Speaker E: Yeah, this guy.
[00:48:29] Speaker D: It's got the whole cast and crew out in front and center.
[00:48:32] Speaker B: It's like the swan movie poster.
[00:48:34] Speaker D: Yeah, it is.
It's got Terry on there twice.
[00:48:39] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:48:40] Speaker A: He's smoking a cigarette, it looks like.
[00:48:41] Speaker B: In one of shooting a gun.
[00:48:44] Speaker C: No.
[00:48:44] Speaker A: Smoking a cigarette.
[00:48:45] Speaker D: Shooting no, he's lighting a cigarette.
[00:48:47] Speaker E: He's leaning against the car, lighting a cigarette. Oh, my God.
[00:48:50] Speaker D: That's badass.
[00:48:53] Speaker B: It is badass.
You got two terries.
[00:48:56] Speaker A: You got Sam and Twitch with guns drawn.
[00:48:58] Speaker E: It's great cover. It's a great cover.
[00:49:00] Speaker B: They're both awesome.
[00:49:01] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:49:02] Speaker B: Spawn got to love the covers.
[00:49:05] Speaker E: Got to love them.
[00:49:06] Speaker B: We crack it open, and inside we got the credits.
Script plot by Sean Lewis.
[00:49:14] Speaker C: What?
[00:49:16] Speaker A: Tom McFarlane?
[00:49:17] Speaker D: Tom McFarlane.
[00:49:19] Speaker E: How did that happen?
[00:49:21] Speaker A: You got my Gunslinger spawn in my King spawn.
[00:49:26] Speaker D: He got his regular spawn in my king spawn.
[00:49:29] Speaker E: They're two great tastes to taste great together.
[00:49:32] Speaker B: Johnny, this is hilarious.
[00:49:36] Speaker A: This is issue because it's like Clown's.
[00:49:37] Speaker B: Like, third attempt to be Spawn's boyfriend.
[00:49:40] Speaker A: And he's like, no, I said no. I won't go to the dance with you. I won't go to the hell dance with you, Clown.
[00:49:46] Speaker E: Yeah. And he's like, but reasons.
[00:49:50] Speaker B: But come on, won't you?
[00:49:53] Speaker E: Won't you?
[00:49:54] Speaker A: Script plot by Todd McFarlane. Wouldn't that be hilarious if it said additional script plot by.
[00:50:01] Speaker D: Was just it was just the template, and they forgot to change it before they sent it to the printer, and it's like or.
[00:50:06] Speaker A: He does it and it edits himself. And he considers that doing additional script art by our main man, Javi Fernandez, back after taking a few issue breaks.
[00:50:18] Speaker E: Yeah, it's a beautiful piece of artwork here.
[00:50:22] Speaker B: Colors by Ivan Nunes.
[00:50:25] Speaker A: Lettering by Anne World Design.
[00:50:29] Speaker B: We covered the covers.
[00:50:30] Speaker E: Sure did.
[00:50:32] Speaker B: Creative directors Todd McFarlane. And an editor in chief is Thomas Healy.
[00:50:38] Speaker D: Yeah, he is.
[00:50:40] Speaker E: He's the chief, the editor.
[00:50:41] Speaker B: Man, I'm going to hail to the.
[00:50:43] Speaker A: Chief when I get him a margarita at the hotel bar.
[00:50:47] Speaker E: Yeah.
Sounds like a grand town.
[00:50:50] Speaker B: Hail to the Healy chief. So previously in King Spawn, the Exodus.
[00:50:56] Speaker A: Foundation's secret laboratory has been shut down by Spawn. Unfortunately, a visit by Clown means al's problems are just starting from Clown. You never want a visit from Clown.
[00:51:09] Speaker D: If I may jump back a second. Johnny, you'll heal to the chief.
[00:51:14] Speaker A: Heal to the chief.
[00:51:17] Speaker D: Okay, I'm done. I'm going to go back to bed.
[00:51:20] Speaker A: All right.
[00:51:21] Speaker B: Good night.
[00:51:21] Speaker E: I ain't got nothing more, but we open on a standoff between Alan and Clown.
They're just standing there.
[00:51:32] Speaker B: Clown smoke a cigarette. He's got kind of a different look. He's got some chains and, like, a scarf going on.
[00:51:39] Speaker A: He didn't have his normal tie.
[00:51:40] Speaker E: Yeah, he changed to an ascot.
[00:51:43] Speaker D: He was like, it doesn't drip in his food as much.
[00:51:47] Speaker C: Johnny.
[00:51:48] Speaker A: Well, he wears the tie in Spawn and Gunslinger. He's like, well, King Spawn's like their Prestige flagship series. I got to class it up for King Spawn.
[00:51:57] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:51:58] Speaker D: He spends a little time looking at the menswear blogs, and it's like, okay.
[00:52:03] Speaker E: I could do chic casual. And that's what we'll do.
[00:52:06] Speaker B: I could totally pull it off. Yeah, he kind of does.
Oh, he looks great.
[00:52:13] Speaker A: I like the look of Clown in this issue.
[00:52:16] Speaker E: The two of them have gone through.
[00:52:18] Speaker D: All this already, just referring back to the other times that Clown has said, hey, we got to go fight Cog.
[00:52:24] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:52:25] Speaker B: Just keeps asking him and asking him.
[00:52:27] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:52:28] Speaker B: I love this whole time.
[00:52:29] Speaker A: It takes so long for Spawn to say anything.
[00:52:31] Speaker B: He's just completely silent.
[00:52:32] Speaker E: Yeah.
And Clown's just like, come on.
[00:52:36] Speaker D: What the fuck are you waiting for?
[00:52:39] Speaker E: What are you doing? Yoko fucking starts yelling and screaming, and.
[00:52:47] Speaker D: She'S like, we're going to help you, Spawn.
[00:52:49] Speaker E: Say the word. And then Clown's like, I mean, you.
[00:52:52] Speaker D: Know, Cogle just gonna slaughter him.
[00:52:55] Speaker E: That's all he's gonna do.
[00:52:56] Speaker B: The moment he sees them, he's also.
[00:52:58] Speaker A: Like, is this the scorched?
[00:53:01] Speaker B: He's like, five humans.
[00:53:03] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:53:04] Speaker D: And then Clowns like, let me give you a little push.
[00:53:07] Speaker E: And he just explodes. Yoko.
[00:53:12] Speaker D: Yeah.
This first two page spread, he has.
[00:53:17] Speaker E: His magic beams going out, and it's wonderful.
[00:53:22] Speaker A: Some beams.
[00:53:23] Speaker E: Oh, it's great.
[00:53:24] Speaker D: The action is great.
[00:53:26] Speaker E: It's got, like, each little the main.
[00:53:28] Speaker D: Players and then everybody all together.
[00:53:33] Speaker E: And then it's the next page where Yoko explodes.
[00:53:38] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:53:39] Speaker A: As quickly as she was introduced.
[00:53:41] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:53:41] Speaker A: Well, not introduced, but introduced, reintroduced.
[00:53:45] Speaker E: But you know what?
[00:53:45] Speaker B: It's Spawn. Maybe she's not really gone.
[00:53:48] Speaker E: Yeah, you never know.
[00:53:50] Speaker B: She could be in misery.
[00:53:52] Speaker C: Misery.
[00:53:54] Speaker B: The new Cyan focus.
[00:53:57] Speaker E: So clown's powers keep lifting, Yoko. Higher and higher, as they say.
[00:54:08] Speaker B: As they say in Ghostbusters Two.
[00:54:10] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:54:12] Speaker B: Oh, I just saw a big leak. That the slime blasters in the new kids Ghostbusters Two.
[00:54:18] Speaker E: Slime blasters?
[00:54:20] Speaker B: Yeah, from Ghostbusters Two.
[00:54:21] Speaker A: The slime blasters. They shoot the slime yeah.
[00:54:24] Speaker D: To coat the Statue of Liberty so it can dance.
[00:54:26] Speaker A: Yeah. They're going to be back for the.
[00:54:28] Speaker B: New sequel to the Ghostbusters.
[00:54:30] Speaker E: Oh, nice.
[00:54:30] Speaker D: I haven't seen the kids ghostbusters I.
[00:54:32] Speaker E: Haven'T seen the kids ghostbusters yet.
[00:54:34] Speaker B: It was good. Nice afterlife, I guess it's called the.
[00:54:38] Speaker D: New one's called I just keep forgetting to watch it.
[00:54:40] Speaker B: It's not anything it's got Carrie Coon, my girl. I love Carrie Coon, paul Rudd. What's not to love?
[00:54:48] Speaker E: A whole bunch of little Stay Puffed marshmallow dudes.
[00:54:51] Speaker B: Yeah, they're pretty funny. The little stay puffs are cute. Got to have, like, a baby Yoda.
[00:54:56] Speaker A: S character or something like that in there.
[00:54:58] Speaker E: Nice. Yeah, they do.
[00:55:00] Speaker D: For the merchandising.
[00:55:01] Speaker B: Merchandising merchandise.
[00:55:05] Speaker D: Spaceballs the Flamethrower kids love this one.
They'll tell your dogs to get the fuck out of here. Johnny is what Clown says, and he releases everybody.
[00:55:17] Speaker E: The next one will be fully human.
[00:55:20] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:55:20] Speaker A: He's like, Yoko is basically already gone anyway.
[00:55:22] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:55:23] Speaker B: So Spawn kicks everyone out of the party, just says, Go.
[00:55:26] Speaker D: It's the first thing Spawn says.
[00:55:28] Speaker E: This whole.
[00:55:30] Speaker D: Says Yoko.
[00:55:31] Speaker E: No. And then he says, go.
[00:55:32] Speaker D: So it's the third thing.
[00:55:33] Speaker C: Boo.
[00:55:34] Speaker B: Yoko, no go.
[00:55:35] Speaker A: They're all in the back of the car.
[00:55:37] Speaker B: It's like, dawn.
[00:55:39] Speaker A: Like, after the big party, you're just like, whoa, what happened there?
[00:55:43] Speaker D: Sam's there trying to dig in the trunk for some guns.
[00:55:46] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:55:47] Speaker D: He's like, Hold on a second.
[00:55:48] Speaker E: I got some guns here. Sam just whips a pistol at Cyan. Just like here. Think fast.
[00:55:57] Speaker B: Then we kind of get a little.
[00:55:58] Speaker A: Hint at Cyan's powers that she can't touch people.
[00:56:01] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:56:02] Speaker B: Because if she does, she feels all.
[00:56:04] Speaker A: Of their they share each other's misery all at once.
[00:56:08] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:56:09] Speaker D: And she's like, I want to help Spawn. And Terry's like, we can't do that.
[00:56:15] Speaker E: No, we don't want to help Spawn.
[00:56:17] Speaker D: But I do know some humans we can go fuck up.
[00:56:20] Speaker A: Yeah. She's like, let's go.
[00:56:22] Speaker E: That little smirk is I'd hate to be on the other end of that smirk, Johnny. Yeah.
[00:56:28] Speaker B: Badass.
They're going to go fuck up some humans.
[00:56:32] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:56:34] Speaker A: I'm excited for the Cyan series. That'll be cool.
[00:56:37] Speaker E: Yeah, it's going to be great.
It's going to be real fun.
[00:56:41] Speaker A: So much variety in Spawn's universe now.
[00:56:43] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:56:45] Speaker D: Variety is the spawn of life, as they say.
[00:56:49] Speaker B: It's the spice of Spawn.
[00:56:50] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:56:51] Speaker E: The spawn of Spice Life.
[00:56:53] Speaker D: Spawn up your life every boy and every girl spice up your spice up.
[00:56:56] Speaker A: Your Spawn here comes one of my favorite parts. I laughed out loud.
[00:57:00] Speaker B: I loved it.
He's basically Clowns, just taunting him next.
[00:57:04] Speaker A: To Yoko's dead body. And then he's just like I like.
[00:57:07] Speaker D: His reflection in the blood is real gross.
He looks more like classic Clown in that reflection.
[00:57:14] Speaker A: A little more demented. Yeah.
[00:57:16] Speaker B: And he's like, you never asked me.
[00:57:17] Speaker A: About why I transformed, that I wasn't that Dwarfish pain that liked to torture you. And Spawn finally speaking to Clown, finally.
[00:57:24] Speaker B: Addressing him, just goes, It's because I.
[00:57:26] Speaker A: Don'T give a shit.
[00:57:30] Speaker D: He's real upset.
[00:57:31] Speaker E: Like, he's so upset, his face mask is, like, melting. Look at that.
[00:57:38] Speaker D: Like, the the white bits are going.
[00:57:40] Speaker E: Jaggedy, jaggedy, jaggedy, man.
[00:57:42] Speaker A: The Clown will always be one thing to Spawn. The person who murdered his wife.
[00:57:46] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:57:48] Speaker B: So you get another awesome two page spread where Spawn's like, in motion, shooting chains at Clown.
[00:57:55] Speaker E: Yeah, we got like the horns are coming out of Spawn's head again, like he's his crown. Nothing else matters, Johnny. Until he avenges her death, he'll never breathe peacefully again.
[00:58:09] Speaker B: Nothing really matters.
[00:58:10] Speaker E: Anyone can see chains, razor tipped cape, spikes, like a hurricane. They attack everything.
[00:58:19] Speaker A: And I love how it looks like a hurricane, like going towards him.
[00:58:22] Speaker B: It's like spinning.
[00:58:23] Speaker D: Yeah, like everything's spooling up. But it's all still just around Spawn.
[00:58:26] Speaker E: And he's about to send it out.
[00:58:29] Speaker D: There'S like the calm around Clown.
[00:58:31] Speaker E: The calm before he gets the chains.
[00:58:34] Speaker D: Razor tipped cape and spikes, like spirals out from him.
Do you think my changes are merely physical?
[00:58:41] Speaker E: Clown says as he deflects the chains.
That mistake could get you hurt. Hurt real bad.
[00:58:49] Speaker D: Who do you think invented your costume?
[00:58:52] Speaker E: It was me.
[00:58:54] Speaker B: He says it was me.
[00:58:58] Speaker D: I was there at the start. So was Cog. That's why I'm telling you he can't reach the throne.
[00:59:05] Speaker E: So Clown is diverting the chains and.
[00:59:09] Speaker D: The razor tipped cape and.
[00:59:13] Speaker E: What else?
[00:59:14] Speaker B: Sends it back to Spawn.
[00:59:15] Speaker E: Yeah, spikes and just like glowing hands.
[00:59:21] Speaker D: Sucks all the juice out of Spawn's.
[00:59:24] Speaker E: Costume and just wraps him up in.
[00:59:29] Speaker D: A johnny, have you watched the Fall.
[00:59:31] Speaker E: Of the House of Usher yet? That new Mike Flannel on Netflix? Oh, no. Well, then never mind.
[00:59:37] Speaker D: Ignore that because this would be a spoiler.
[00:59:40] Speaker E: But anyway, so Clown just reps Spawn.
[00:59:44] Speaker D: Up in his own cape and his own chain.
[00:59:46] Speaker A: I mean, I'm not going to watch it.
[00:59:46] Speaker B: I don't.
[00:59:49] Speaker A: A I mean, I might one day, but it doesn't bother me.
[00:59:52] Speaker E: So there's a lady that is because.
[00:59:56] Speaker D: This series is all based off of.
[00:59:58] Speaker E: Edgar Allan Poe stories.
[01:00:00] Speaker D: And so the main antagonist throughout the whole series is the Raven, played by.
[01:00:07] Speaker E: One of the Mike Flanagan normals.
And so she's magical.
[01:00:15] Speaker D: And at the end, they send their.
[01:00:18] Speaker E: Lawyer, played by Mark Hamill, to dispose of her.
[01:00:21] Speaker D: And so he wraps her up in plastic wrap and duct tape. And so there's a nice little body on the floor. And he's like, haha.
[01:00:29] Speaker E: I got you, lady.
[01:00:31] Speaker D: But she's magic. So she's just standing there and just starts clapping. It's like, that was beautiful to watch. And that's what Spawn does here.
[01:00:39] Speaker E: He exits the cocoon that Clown has.
[01:00:42] Speaker D: Made of his body and is like, yeah, I told you I didn't give a shit.
[01:00:46] Speaker C: It's great.
[01:00:49] Speaker B: It's great to see you suffer, baby.
[01:00:54] Speaker E: Yeah, like Wanda suffered.
[01:00:57] Speaker B: And then he's just like fast cutting.
[01:00:59] Speaker A: Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
[01:01:00] Speaker B: Like beating the shit out of Clown.
[01:01:02] Speaker D: Just like we got fist, blood face.
[01:01:04] Speaker E: Fist, blood face.
[01:01:06] Speaker A: Yelling like a bunch of Polaroids raining down from the sky.
[01:01:09] Speaker E: Yeah, it's great. It's great.
[01:01:12] Speaker D: And then like a tired boxer, spawn tries to rally more stamina.
[01:01:17] Speaker E: He said he could go again.
[01:01:19] Speaker D: He just needs something to drink.
[01:01:21] Speaker A: Give him that Lipton iced tea, baby.
[01:01:23] Speaker B: That's brisk.
[01:01:23] Speaker D: That's brisk, baby.
We haven't pointed out connections between the two issues in a while. Johnny and that's a pretty good the boxer thing just kind of goes the.
[01:01:35] Speaker A: Boxer thing's pretty close.
[01:01:36] Speaker D: Then Clown just like, kicks him right in the stomach.
[01:01:39] Speaker B: THawk cloud's looking rough.
[01:01:41] Speaker A: He's got some teeth missing.
[01:01:43] Speaker D: Yeah, he's leaking that necroplasm. And Clown's like, yeah, Cog will be terrible.
[01:01:48] Speaker E: And he's making the lesser of two evils arguments here, which we get every four years. I'm sick of it.
[01:01:57] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:01:58] Speaker A: Basically, this is like the election. You want clown or sin?
[01:02:00] Speaker E: Yeah.
[01:02:02] Speaker D: Don't write in a third party. You're just throwing your vote away.
If you don't expressly vote against somebody, you're voting for them.
[01:02:11] Speaker A: I voted for Jessica Priest. Hey, give me a break. He's basically like, let me take it.
[01:02:15] Speaker B: Because unlike Cog, he doesn't give a.
[01:02:18] Speaker A: Shit about Earth and I'll leave it alone.
[01:02:20] Speaker E: Yeah.
[01:02:20] Speaker D: He's like, and then you can just come attack me when you need to.
[01:02:24] Speaker E: I'm not going to sally forth and try to conquer the world.
[01:02:29] Speaker A: Maybe I'll be back for you in like a couple of decades, but I'll buy you some time.
[01:02:32] Speaker D: Yeah, I like that. Spawn just slowly walks toward him in this top panel on the last page. He looks so much like a Jason.
[01:02:39] Speaker E: Voorhees, just like silently stalking up to, oh, yeah. Yeah, I owe you nothing. You're on your own.
[01:02:50] Speaker B: And he leaves him in the cold.
[01:02:53] Speaker E: In the parking lot.
[01:02:54] Speaker B: Then King Spawn assumed that this is before he decides to go try to kill gunslinger. And then he will, because he goes.
[01:03:03] Speaker A: Through that crack at the end of that. And I think that's probably how he gets to Hell.
[01:03:06] Speaker E: Yeah, it's got to be got to.
[01:03:10] Speaker A: Be building up the 350.
[01:03:11] Speaker B: Hell yeah, spawn 350.
[01:03:14] Speaker A: They said that'll be when they reveal who takes the throne of Hell, there's.
[01:03:17] Speaker E: Going to be like six covers or something like that. Yeah, real nice.
[01:03:21] Speaker A: Let me get those.
[01:03:22] Speaker C: For sure.
[01:03:23] Speaker E: We got spawned.
[01:03:25] Speaker D: Ground presents san Diego Comic Con 2023.
[01:03:28] Speaker E: Roundup, which means before too long, we'll.
[01:03:30] Speaker D: Be getting one of these for New York Comic Con.
[01:03:32] Speaker E: Johnny.
[01:03:33] Speaker A: And maybe one for Spawn con.
[01:03:35] Speaker B: Maybe if Thomas you take some pictures. Or if he's there, you might ask for some.
[01:03:41] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:03:42] Speaker B: Got the Spawn production team getting some food together.
[01:03:44] Speaker A: That looks fun.
[01:03:45] Speaker D: Yeah, they're drinking those Mexican cokes.
[01:03:47] Speaker E: Hell yeah. Made with real sugar.
[01:03:48] Speaker C: Woo.
[01:03:49] Speaker B: Good shit.
[01:03:50] Speaker E: Love a Mexican coke.
The Tod father hanging out with Jim Lee. Just doing old guy shit. It's pretty fun.
[01:04:00] Speaker A: David des Malchin there.
[01:04:01] Speaker D: He's got a great shirt.
[01:04:03] Speaker E: That tiger shirt is bitching.
I love this picture of Todd McFarlane.
[01:04:09] Speaker D: Just talking to this little kid at the table.
[01:04:12] Speaker B: It's great.
[01:04:14] Speaker E: It looks like we were having a good time.
This kid's dad is pumped.
[01:04:19] Speaker D: He's like, this is the best thing in the world.
[01:04:21] Speaker A: They both got Spawn shirts on.
[01:04:23] Speaker B: It's great.
[01:04:24] Speaker E: Absolutely.
[01:04:24] Speaker A: That's awesome.
[01:04:25] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:04:27] Speaker B: No, these are.
[01:04:27] Speaker A: Some great pictures. I think it's fun. It makes me excited for Spawn con.
[01:04:30] Speaker D: Yeah, spawn. You mean Comic Spawn?
[01:04:34] Speaker A: No, I don't.
[01:04:38] Speaker E: And then we got our ads, like.
[01:04:40] Speaker D: Normal for the rest of Spawn's universe.
[01:04:42] Speaker E: Image classics, McFarland Toys, the classic King Spawn on his throne.
[01:04:47] Speaker B: And then next week's cover on the back. Yeah, or next week's.
[01:04:51] Speaker A: Next Spawn. Next King Spawns.
[01:04:53] Speaker B: I mean, next week is in, like.
[01:04:55] Speaker E: You know what I mean?
[01:04:56] Speaker C: Yeah, I got you.
[01:04:59] Speaker E: Time doesn't mean weird cover.
[01:05:01] Speaker A: We'll talk about it, I guess, that episode.
[01:05:02] Speaker B: But, like, the Spawn hands are creepy in this one.
[01:05:06] Speaker A: The fact they have, like, fingernails and stuff.
[01:05:08] Speaker B: Kind of weird.
[01:05:09] Speaker E: Very weird. It's like Al Simmons. We're back to Albert Simmons.
[01:05:16] Speaker C: Oh, you never know.
[01:05:18] Speaker E: It's King Spawn 45.
[01:05:20] Speaker C: Right?
[01:05:21] Speaker D: Jody, I think it's time to rate these puppies.
[01:05:26] Speaker B: First up today, we had Spawn 320.
Big fight with Soul Crusher. Cygor and spawn.
Get some good soul crusher action. I love Soul Crusher.
[01:05:41] Speaker A: This has a sentimental place in my.
[01:05:43] Speaker B: Heart because it was one of the early Spawn issues that I got. So, as we can see that the.
[01:05:49] Speaker A: Middle page fell out while I was reading it.
[01:05:50] Speaker B: I've read it a bunch.
[01:05:53] Speaker A: Just, I didn't have a lot of Spawn when I was first getting into.
[01:05:55] Speaker B: It, and I couldn't get enough, and.
[01:05:57] Speaker A: I wanted to decipher what this Spawn.
[01:05:59] Speaker B: Guy was, but, yeah, I liked it a lot. I would probably give it four, but.
[01:06:07] Speaker A: Because I ripped out the page, I.
[01:06:09] Speaker B: Got to give it five, and I'm going to give it five economic rants.
[01:06:16] Speaker A: From the Todd father.
[01:06:19] Speaker E: Beautiful.
[01:06:21] Speaker D: They should have given the info now. Guy a graph in the background because two of the three of them got.
[01:06:26] Speaker E: Graphs in the background.
[01:06:29] Speaker B: Yeah, we need more.
[01:06:31] Speaker A: He's got a graph. Oh, the info now.
[01:06:33] Speaker D: Info now.
[01:06:33] Speaker E: Yeah, not infomex.
[01:06:35] Speaker A: Don't get I was getting my infos.
[01:06:37] Speaker B: Mixed up, but yeah, I'll give it know what can I say? It's got great cover. I love the Bjorn barons. I love Soul Crusher.
[01:06:47] Speaker A: I like to see Soul Crusher action. This is kind of his big debut in a.
[01:06:53] Speaker E: Star of Call of It.
[01:06:56] Speaker D: I'm going to give it four Cygor.
[01:06:59] Speaker E: Belly flops from space because oh, man, could you imagine being on the pier.
[01:07:08] Speaker D: When Cygor hits that water falling from space?
[01:07:11] Speaker C: Whoo.
[01:07:11] Speaker E: Boy, you'd get soaked, man.
[01:07:16] Speaker D: Your pizza that you're eating on the side there while you're waiting for the.
[01:07:20] Speaker E: Diving board to clear out would just be completely sodden all of those doritos would just be mush. You know what I'm talking?
[01:07:28] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, that'd be sad.
[01:07:30] Speaker D: Four Cygor belly flops from space is what I'm going to give.
[01:07:33] Speaker B: It's like you said, so much water.
[01:07:36] Speaker E: It's good.
[01:07:37] Speaker D: There's good Cygor action.
[01:07:39] Speaker E: There's.
[01:07:39] Speaker D: Good. Soul crusher action.
[01:07:43] Speaker E: I love when Al actually shows emotion.
[01:07:47] Speaker D: Yeah, we don't want our Spawns to be too emotional because, I mean, we're still twelve year old boys at heart and emotions.
[01:07:55] Speaker E: EW. Yucky. But gross.
[01:07:57] Speaker D: But it's nice when Al is something other than just a big old jerk face.
[01:08:03] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I thought it's fun.
[01:08:07] Speaker A: It was a fun issue.
[01:08:08] Speaker B: It's a fun fight.
[01:08:09] Speaker A: The Barbarian to see all, like, soul crusher's little tricks.
[01:08:12] Speaker B: Yeah, the art's great.
[01:08:14] Speaker E: Yeah.
[01:08:15] Speaker D: Carlo Barberry did an amazing job on this issue.
[01:08:18] Speaker B: Well, next up we have King Spawn 25.
First the Tod father king spawns, but.
[01:08:24] Speaker A: Also back to Javi Fernandez.
[01:08:27] Speaker B: So this is tough as like I don't know.
[01:08:30] Speaker A: It's just kind of a repeat of.
[01:08:31] Speaker B: Information we've got in Spawn where they.
[01:08:34] Speaker A: Don'T want to work together.
[01:08:37] Speaker D: It's a breather.
[01:08:37] Speaker B: It looks awesome. Art's great.
[01:08:40] Speaker A: I love the stuff with the other human folks, the little bits we get with them. But the Clown Spawn fight is just.
[01:08:46] Speaker B: A little redundant to me. Yeah, not bad or anything, but it's.
[01:08:51] Speaker A: Just like, okay, kind of get that.
[01:08:53] Speaker B: But I'll probably give this issue 3.5 cyan smirks.
[01:09:00] Speaker E: Nice.
[01:09:00] Speaker D: That's a good score. That's a good score and a good metric, Johnny, because I agree with you. I agree that this is a 3.5.
It is, definitely.
[01:09:10] Speaker E: Wow.
Art is fantastic.
It does give us, like, from this.
[01:09:19] Speaker D: Point, we've got arcs that we can follow for a lot of the characters.
[01:09:24] Speaker E: Like being in Kingspawn 26, literally.
[01:09:28] Speaker A: And you can kind of tell it's starting to set up for, like, when they kind of branch out to their own series, which is coming up soon.
[01:09:35] Speaker D: Pretty good. So I'm going to give it 3.5 clown Reflections in Yoko Goop.
[01:09:42] Speaker A: Yoko Goop. Yeah, she's really goopy there.
[01:09:44] Speaker E: Oh, man. It's gross.
[01:09:48] Speaker D: Javi Fernandez draws some of the most upsetting dead bodies I have ever seen.
[01:09:54] Speaker B: Yeah, they always got, like, organs and just like, they look diseased.
[01:10:02] Speaker D: It's a good book.
[01:10:03] Speaker E: Not a great book, but not a bad book.
[01:10:05] Speaker C: Just a good book. I'd call it a good book.
[01:10:07] Speaker B: Yeah, good covers.
[01:10:09] Speaker A: I love that cover with where he's peering into the pool.
[01:10:11] Speaker E: Well, real quick, Johnny, while we're talking about good books, we've mentioned it a.
[01:10:19] Speaker D: Couple of times already, but I mean, shit.
[01:10:21] Speaker E: Ton of news out of New York Comic Con.
[01:10:23] Speaker A: Yeah, we might as well run it.
[01:10:26] Speaker E: Not the history, the future of Spawn's Universe.
[01:10:29] Speaker A: The future history of Spawn's Universe.
[01:10:31] Speaker D: They announced a whole bunch more titles. So in addition to the titles that.
[01:10:36] Speaker E: They announced at San Diego Comic Con, there are going to be 13 ongoing Spawn Universe titles. So we've got spawn King, spawn scorched, gunslinger.
[01:10:51] Speaker B: We got those classics.
[01:10:52] Speaker A: The Four the Four Corners.
[01:10:54] Speaker D: There's going to be a new Sama.
[01:10:56] Speaker E: Twitch series, which we already knew, case Files, Misery, which is following Cyan, cyan as we knew, Deadly Tales of the.
[01:11:06] Speaker D: Gunslinger, which we knew from San Diego Comic Con. It just didn't have a name yet.
[01:11:10] Speaker B: Just didn't have a title.
[01:11:11] Speaker A: And it was exciting because they said.
[01:11:12] Speaker B: That it's going to be like a.
[01:11:14] Speaker A: Mix between Bone tomahawk and what?
[01:11:17] Speaker E: Three tin to yuma meets bone tomahawk Love that.
[01:11:21] Speaker D: So that's going to be badass. It's going to be written by Jimmy.
[01:11:24] Speaker E: Palmiati, which Jimmy Palmiati fucking kicks ass. He wrote like 100 issues of Jonah Hex.
[01:11:31] Speaker D: So you know he's got those Civil War era Western horror bona fide.
[01:11:38] Speaker A: Yeah, sounds like it.
[01:11:39] Speaker D: Spawn kills every spawn, which we already knew was coming. That's going to be another chibby spawn.
[01:11:44] Speaker E: So we'll get to see the bum bums again.
[01:11:47] Speaker A: Love the bum bums. Got to get those bum bums in the toilet.
[01:11:50] Speaker E: Yeah.
[01:11:50] Speaker D: And no home here, which is the Billy Kincaid true crime podcast series.
[01:12:01] Speaker A: No, it's like about the girl he kills. Sally, I think her name is, but she looks demented. They were sharing some art. Yeah, it looks cool. That's what I might be most interested in besides Rat City.
[01:12:12] Speaker D: Yeah, that one's going to be fucking awesome.
[01:12:13] Speaker E: But the art that they shared from.
[01:12:17] Speaker D: The New York Comic Con panel apparently was just made for that panel, so.
[01:12:21] Speaker E: It'S not going to be in the books. So that's really interesting.
[01:12:25] Speaker D: So the new things that they talked.
[01:12:26] Speaker E: About was there's going to be a medieval spawn series.
[01:12:29] Speaker D: It's going to be a new Violator miniseries. It's going to be like six oversized.
[01:12:34] Speaker E: Issues that just are, like nice bits.
[01:12:37] Speaker D: Of time from the Violator's life. So it'll be from the Violator being.
[01:12:42] Speaker E: Birthed out of whatever rotten egg he comes from.
[01:12:47] Speaker D: And it's going to end. Thomas Healey said the last issue is going to end like 20 minutes before.
[01:12:52] Speaker E: He meets Al Simmons.
[01:12:55] Speaker C: Oh, cool.
[01:12:55] Speaker D: That's pretty dope.
There's going to be an ongoing series that's more just a traditional superhero series.
[01:13:04] Speaker E: Based on focus from the Speedster, from Gunslinger.
[01:13:08] Speaker D: So that's going to be awesome.
[01:13:09] Speaker E: That'll be a nice.
[01:13:12] Speaker D: Tangential flavor going along with our spawn that we got.
[01:13:15] Speaker A: Yeah, definitely. He's a little lighter.
[01:13:16] Speaker D: Yeah.
Apparently the Todd father really wants to get just a regular traditional superhero book in there. And man, I fucking love the flash.
[01:13:24] Speaker E: So, hey, it'll be good. We got Spawn the Dark Ages, which will be drawn by Liam Sharp, which he did.
I do believe he did the Spawn.
[01:13:40] Speaker D: The Dark Ages previously.
[01:13:42] Speaker E: I'll have to look into that. But anyway, it's going to be fucking awesome. It's going to be like barbarian spawn and shit. It'll be great.
[01:13:50] Speaker D: And then last but not least, they.
[01:13:51] Speaker E: Got Rat City, which is future spawn.
[01:13:54] Speaker D: And it's going to be the first spawn title written by a female writer. So hell yeah, Johnny. We're going to be able to get our Wandas in on this and be like, hey, look at this.
[01:14:05] Speaker E: It's not just a sausage fest no more. Unless clown is involved.
[01:14:08] Speaker D: And then it's just all sausages.
[01:14:10] Speaker E: All sausages all day.
[01:14:11] Speaker D: He's like, look at these sausages with his sausage.
[01:14:13] Speaker A: And he's got sausage fingers, too.
[01:14:15] Speaker D: He's just like eating the hot dogs. And they're like halfway out of his mouth as he's talking.
[01:14:19] Speaker B: And it's just like, I'm excited for all these.
[01:14:23] Speaker A: I don't know. I can't even pick.
[01:14:24] Speaker B: I'd say like, Rat City and the.
[01:14:26] Speaker A: No Home here have me most intrigued because they seem the most like I.
[01:14:29] Speaker D: Don'T know what they're because like Rat.
[01:14:32] Speaker A: City, the other ones I can kind of guess the gist know.
[01:14:34] Speaker D: Yeah, Rat City is going to be.
[01:14:35] Speaker E: Like cyberpunk Spawn, which is dope.
[01:14:38] Speaker D: Sign me up immediately.
[01:14:40] Speaker E: Oh, yeah.
[01:14:41] Speaker A: Like that future Spawn action figure.
[01:14:43] Speaker E: Yeah, it's going to be great. It'll be fun.
[01:14:48] Speaker D: I think about half of them are going to be miniseries, and then the other half are going to be ongoings.
[01:14:53] Speaker E: Because we'll see how it goes.
[01:14:54] Speaker D: Dark Ages.
[01:14:55] Speaker E: Violator and Spawn kills.
[01:14:59] Speaker D: Every Spawn are definitely just miniseries.
[01:15:03] Speaker C: Okay.
[01:15:04] Speaker D: The same in Twitch case Files are going to be apparently every Arc is going to be a different team. And it's just going to be crazy shit that our favorite detectives have to deal with in the Spawns universe.
[01:15:16] Speaker B: Different case.
[01:15:17] Speaker A: That's cool.
[01:15:17] Speaker E: Yeah.
[01:15:17] Speaker D: So that'll be fun.
[01:15:18] Speaker E: That'll be fun.
[01:15:19] Speaker D: And then the civil w, Johnny, will.
[01:15:21] Speaker E: Get to be deadly Tales of the Gun.
Yeah.
[01:15:25] Speaker B: Right in the midst of it.
Awesome.
[01:15:29] Speaker D: But yeah, real excited about that.
I'm prepping the guys at Graham Crackers, being like, hey, guys, I'm going to want these.
[01:15:39] Speaker E: I'm going to need these, going to.
[01:15:40] Speaker A: Want these, and I'm going to need forklift to get them out of there.
[01:15:45] Speaker D: If I miss a week for sickness again, ever, I'm going to be unable to remove all of the books that I have.
[01:15:51] Speaker B: They'll be stuck.
[01:15:53] Speaker E: Yeah.
[01:15:53] Speaker A: No, it's great to be so rich with Spawn.
[01:15:55] Speaker B: I'm excited and seems like yeah. I don't know.
[01:15:59] Speaker A: It's just fun to be at this.
[01:16:00] Speaker B: Point to get on board, like right.
[01:16:02] Speaker A: Before it really blows up.
[01:16:03] Speaker E: Yeah, it's great.
[01:16:05] Speaker D: Oh, also another thing that they talked.
[01:16:07] Speaker E: About, just Spawn 350.
[01:16:11] Speaker D: Carlo Barberry will no longer be on Spawn.
[01:16:15] Speaker E: After spawn 350, it'll be Bret Booth.
[01:16:18] Speaker C: Whoa.
[01:16:19] Speaker D: However, we're not kicking Barberry to the.
[01:16:23] Speaker E: Curb, Johnny, because then Carla Barberi is going to transfer to being the artist for Gunslinger. How awesome is that?
[01:16:33] Speaker B: That's super awesome.
[01:16:34] Speaker E: So great.
[01:16:37] Speaker B: You know what else is great?
Our friends on.
[01:16:41] Speaker E: Yeah.
[01:16:41] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, we love those guys.
[01:16:42] Speaker A: As much as I'd like to sit here and talk about this with you all day, we do have a heart out, David.
[01:16:46] Speaker E: Yes, we do. As you know. I know. It's our out.
[01:16:51] Speaker A: And who are we shouting out today, David?
[01:16:54] Speaker B: Well, actually I know.
[01:16:55] Speaker A: Yeah, you do know.
Today we're shouting out if my phone.
[01:16:59] Speaker B: Will load AZ dark hero.
[01:17:04] Speaker A: Who has a really badass Spawn cosplay.
[01:17:07] Speaker E: Yeah, it's got lights and shit.
[01:17:11] Speaker D: It's dope.
[01:17:12] Speaker A: Yeah. There's a video of them walking around in it.
[01:17:14] Speaker B: It's pretty great.
[01:17:17] Speaker E: Love seeing this.
[01:17:18] Speaker B: It's just badass.
[01:17:20] Speaker E: It's very good.
[01:17:21] Speaker A: No, I'd like this really great Spawn costume. He's got other cosplay.
[01:17:24] Speaker B: He does as well.
Yeah, he's got cute dogs.
[01:17:29] Speaker D: I'd like to see AZ Dark Hero and Spawny Boy meet up and do a spawn fight between each other.
[01:17:37] Speaker E: That would be awesome.
[01:17:39] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
[01:17:40] Speaker C: Spawn.
[01:17:41] Speaker A: V spawn?
[01:17:41] Speaker B: Spawn kills every spawn.
[01:17:44] Speaker D: I don't let them kill each other.
[01:17:46] Speaker A: No, just a playful, playful thing.
[01:17:51] Speaker D: And speaking of badass cosplay, you know who cosplays is a badass. And by Cosplays as a badass, I.
[01:17:56] Speaker E: Mean just is a badass.
[01:18:01] Speaker A: Me.
[01:18:01] Speaker E: Yeah, you. No, you, dummy.
[01:18:04] Speaker D: No, we're talking Brian. Brian the badass. The badass who does our beautiful music.
[01:18:10] Speaker B: Yeah, you can give him a follow at Brian underscore Voils underscore 27.
[01:18:15] Speaker E: Hell yeah, you should do it. He does some good shit over there. If you like video games and smoking necro sigs, he's your man.
[01:18:26] Speaker C: That's true.
[01:18:27] Speaker A: And we're your man. If you like looking at Spawn stuff and seeing us make funny captions about.
[01:18:32] Speaker B: The episodes and reels.
[01:18:34] Speaker A: And I'll be covering Spawn con live, I'm sure my story will be blown up with a lot of stuff from Spawncon, so keep an eye out for that.
[01:18:42] Speaker E: Hell yeah.
[01:18:44] Speaker C: Nice.
[01:18:44] Speaker E: And we're regarding Spawn Pod.
[01:18:48] Speaker D: That's the instagram handle.
[01:18:50] Speaker A: That's the one you want to go to? Yeah. I didn't even say it. I was just so excited.
[01:18:53] Speaker E: Who's. Just excited.
[01:18:54] Speaker D: Also, if you ever want to get a hold of us ways other than via Instagram regarding
[email protected], you'd send us.
[01:19:04] Speaker E: Some questions, some comments.
If we've been specifically dancing around something.
[01:19:11] Speaker D: That you've been wanting us to talk about for a lot of these episodes, be like, hey, you keep skipping over this. That I think is fascinating from issue.
[01:19:18] Speaker E: 313, or something like that. That's fine.
[01:19:20] Speaker C: That's good. Do it.
[01:19:21] Speaker E: We'll talk about it.
[01:19:23] Speaker C: Yes.
[01:19:26] Speaker A: And every week I like to ask a prompt to get those juices flowing. If you want to send us an email or drop us a comment.
[01:19:32] Speaker D: Juicy.
[01:19:33] Speaker A: And today I just wanted to ask.
[01:19:34] Speaker B: What spawn of these new ten we.
[01:19:40] Speaker A: Now find ourselves in spawn titles, 13 spawn titles are you most excited about.
[01:19:44] Speaker B: For the new ones coming up?
[01:19:46] Speaker A: We talked about ours already, but I'm just curious what you guys are pumped about.
[01:19:49] Speaker B: Maybe it's focus because you want the more superhero book.
[01:19:52] Speaker A: Maybe it's know ones you know less about.
[01:19:55] Speaker E: No home here.
[01:19:56] Speaker B: Rat City, but we'd love to hear.
[01:19:57] Speaker E: From I think Johnny. I think I'm most interested in oh, boy.
I definitely think no Home Here is the one that I'm yeah, me too.
[01:20:09] Speaker B: I'm just very curious if it kind.
[01:20:11] Speaker A: Of takes off from that Billy Kincaid issue, which is a really strong point.
[01:20:15] Speaker D: It's the most, like, pure horror.
[01:20:19] Speaker E: Real excited about it.
[01:20:21] Speaker D: While you're on the know sending us answers to the questions that Johnny asks or following us on Instagram or any of our friends that we like to.
[01:20:29] Speaker E: Shout out, you should rate and review.
[01:20:31] Speaker D: Us anywhere that you rate and review.
[01:20:33] Speaker E: Podcasts and maybe tell some friends or some family members or some coworkers about us.
[01:20:39] Speaker D: We'd love to have more people hear.
[01:20:41] Speaker E: Us talk about Spawn, because we're going.
[01:20:44] Speaker D: To talk about Spawn anyway. But if somebody else can hear us.
[01:20:47] Speaker E: Talk about Spawn, that's absolutely dope.
[01:20:51] Speaker C: That is dope.
[01:20:53] Speaker D: And, Johnny, I think that just leaves.
[01:20:55] Speaker E: Me to say may the Scorch be with you.
[01:20:59] Speaker B: And also with you, David.
[01:21:01] Speaker E: Hell yeah.
[01:21:03] Speaker A: Hell, yeah.
[01:21:05] Speaker B: And I'll be back next week to.
[01:21:06] Speaker A: Share with you my experience at Spawncon.
[01:21:09] Speaker B: Spoiler alert.
[01:21:14] Speaker A: It's gonna be awesome.
