RE:Spawn Episode 66 - Spawns 322 and 345

[00:00:00] Speaker A: That's it. Wake up, Paul. We've all been waiting. Good evening, and welcome to the Malbolge. This is Regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I am your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:47] Speaker B: And I am your co host, David Williams. [00:00:50] Speaker C: And Johnny, it's gotten a little chilly. [00:00:53] Speaker B: In Chicago, which means it's soup season. [00:00:56] Speaker C: Time for soup. [00:00:56] Speaker A: I had soup yesterday. [00:00:58] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. I've had soup, like, every day for lunch this week, actually. [00:01:02] Speaker C: Nice. [00:01:02] Speaker A: Does chili count as soup? [00:01:04] Speaker C: It's great. [00:01:06] Speaker B: I'd count chili as a soup. If you're eating it as the main. [00:01:08] Speaker C: Dish, it's a soup. [00:01:10] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a soup adjacent. [00:01:12] Speaker C: Yeah, it's close enough. [00:01:14] Speaker B: But soup season also means that it's the beginning of netty pot season, and it's the annual reminder that you don't use tap water in your netty pot. [00:01:23] Speaker C: Y'all, bottled distilled water only. You don't want to get any things. [00:01:32] Speaker B: Growing in your brain. [00:01:34] Speaker C: Oh, my God. Yeah, I'm trying to think of what those words? [00:01:39] Speaker B: Amoebas. You can get amoebas growing in your. [00:01:41] Speaker C: Brain if you use tap water. Really? [00:01:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:46] Speaker C: That's scary. Yeah. [00:01:48] Speaker B: That's not to say that tap water isn't safe to drink, because if you're going to drink water and it goes down to your stomach, stomach acid kills a lot of stuff. [00:01:56] Speaker C: But if you're just putting it straight. [00:01:59] Speaker B: Onto one of the barriers that goes. [00:02:00] Speaker C: Straight to your brain with no sort of protection or anything, those amoebas, they. [00:02:08] Speaker B: Can cross over and cause brain encephalitis and kill. [00:02:13] Speaker A: Wow. [00:02:14] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:02:14] Speaker A: The more you know about netting pots yeah. I didn't know it was so dangerous. [00:02:19] Speaker B: Yeah. Wanda's grandparents lived in Mississippi, and we would go visit them for Christmas every once in a while. And without fail, every time we visited and we'd be watching the news, there would be a news report of so four people have died from nettipots already this year. Don't use tap water in them. It's just like Jesus just so blase about it because it happens every year. [00:02:46] Speaker C: Oh, man, I think I used one. [00:02:48] Speaker A: With tap water before. [00:02:49] Speaker B: Oh, Johnny, we're glad you're still here. [00:02:54] Speaker C: Me too, man. [00:02:56] Speaker A: I didn't even know. [00:02:57] Speaker C: Yeah, no, distilled bottled water. Distilled water. [00:03:02] Speaker B: It's also good for it's also best to use distilled bottled water. [00:03:09] Speaker C: In your. [00:03:09] Speaker B: Humidifiers just because it leaves less residue. [00:03:13] Speaker C: After the humidifier is done with it. [00:03:16] Speaker B: Especially if you've got one of those sonic ones. [00:03:18] Speaker C: That that's how it humidifies. It just puts an airwave into it. Less stuff settles out of it. Okay, well, it's time. [00:03:33] Speaker A: Netty pots and distilled water aside, it's time to execute this episode because it's. [00:03:38] Speaker C: Time to execute episode 66, Do It, a Good Soldier follows. It's true. It's very true. [00:03:48] Speaker A: Yes, it is. [00:03:49] Speaker C: Episode 66 of Regarding Spawn, where every week we bring you two issues from. [00:03:56] Speaker A: Spawn's universe, except when we don't except. [00:03:59] Speaker B: For when we kill all the younglings. [00:04:00] Speaker C: In the Jedi Temple, which is this. [00:04:02] Speaker B: Is the first time, but, I mean. [00:04:04] Speaker C: It still happens sometimes. [00:04:08] Speaker A: You just got to kill all the kids. [00:04:09] Speaker C: Yeah, sometimes. [00:04:10] Speaker A: Remember, it's like Psalms 31 instead. King spawn. You got to bash the babes upon the rocks. [00:04:15] Speaker B: Oh, boy. We should have finagled a king spawn. A classic king spawn on this episode. [00:04:20] Speaker C: Johnny, what are we even doing? Wait, it's not 340. [00:04:27] Speaker A: What is it adds up to eleven 137. Psalms 137. [00:04:32] Speaker B: Yeah, that's it. I was like, 317. No, that's not right. [00:04:36] Speaker A: Like them, we must bash the bay. Spawn the rock. But this is Respawn, where we regarding Spawn, where we bring you two issues from Spawn's universe, except in a lot recently, we've been doing a lot of different things. We had an interview with the Spawn hunter. Yeah, we did a little Spawn con recap. Yeah, we've been cool. [00:04:54] Speaker B: Yeah, it was real fun. It's a good time. It's fun to wander away from the normal, but then to come back, and it's like coming home, coming back to the normal format. [00:05:06] Speaker C: Yeah, it is. [00:05:07] Speaker A: And it's nice to read two issues of Spawn we've been doing, we always like to do when we do this format, a little more classic issue and then a more modern and this week is no different. [00:05:21] Speaker C: We've got Spawn 322 all the way. [00:05:26] Speaker A: Back from September 2021. And it's very special, David, because this for both of us, it's very special. [00:05:33] Speaker C: Yeah, indeed. Well, I guess we'll get into it. [00:05:35] Speaker A: When we talk about it. But the other issue today is Spawn 345, which is just from a few months ago, September 2023, which is unfortunately of this record a few months ago. [00:05:48] Speaker C: Because time goes fast. [00:05:52] Speaker B: I do believe Steve Miller said it best when he said that it keeps slipping, slipping, slipping into the future. [00:05:58] Speaker C: Into the future. [00:06:01] Speaker A: I feel like time moves so fast that it's kind of good in some. [00:06:04] Speaker C: Ways, because when it's like the second. [00:06:07] Speaker A: Day of my work week, I'm like, well, the work week's basically almost over. But then the thing that's bad is if it's the last day of your work week, I'm like, well, the weekend's basically over because I got two days. Time moves so fast, David. [00:06:19] Speaker B: So fast. So to peel back the curtain a little bit, this is the second week of November, the end of a week and a half of November, basically. I heard somebody earlier this week at. [00:06:35] Speaker C: Work be like, It's only the second. [00:06:38] Speaker B: Monday, or It's only the second week of November. But November is basically over, so we should start scheduling for mid December. [00:06:46] Speaker C: It's. [00:06:46] Speaker B: Like what? Wait, what? [00:06:48] Speaker A: He's got Thanksgiving? All that stuff. [00:06:52] Speaker B: But I mean, scheduling for mid December is also a minefield. So basically from now till late January, basically no meetings are going to happen. [00:07:02] Speaker C: That aren't just food related, which is. [00:07:06] Speaker B: Awesome from a free food perspective, but terrible from we need to get this shit done perspective. [00:07:13] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just like a slip sliding. We're on that slide to Thanksgiving, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, it's just like, so much happens. [00:07:23] Speaker C: It goes and last year we had. [00:07:25] Speaker A: Spawn Batman coming up around this time. It was, like, right before Christmas, a few weeks before Christmas, if I remember correctly. [00:07:32] Speaker B: I think it was the second Wednesday of December. [00:07:34] Speaker C: I actually think it was December 14. There you go. Wow. [00:07:39] Speaker A: Yeah, we went to the Chris Kringle market and everything. [00:07:42] Speaker C: That was cool. [00:07:43] Speaker B: Yeah, it was great. [00:07:43] Speaker A: We're getting ahead of ourselves. We haven't even had Thanksgiving yet. We got to have Thanksgiving before we have Christmas. [00:07:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:07:50] Speaker C: And we got to have Spawn before we have Thanksgiving. Yeah. [00:07:56] Speaker B: We got to say, thanks to the Todd father for giving us Spawn. And that's what we're celebrating this Thanksgiving. [00:08:04] Speaker C: It's Spawn. [00:08:05] Speaker A: We're thankful for Spawn, the gift of. [00:08:07] Speaker C: The Hell being Spawn. [00:08:14] Speaker B: He can basically just, like, magic a whole Thanksgiving meal in front of you. [00:08:19] Speaker C: And then. [00:08:22] Speaker B: You'Re eating food, but it's basically like eating him. So it's kind of like a eucharist. [00:08:29] Speaker A: Yeah, because I guess if he Spawns, it no pun intended, spawns a meal with his magical powers, I guess it'd be made of, like, necroplasm, technically, but it could probably taste, like whatever he wants. [00:08:41] Speaker B: Yeah, because we know he can whip. [00:08:44] Speaker C: Up some strawberry ripple. We know that for a fact. He can just pull liquor bottles out of his. [00:08:53] Speaker B: Should be a there should be a scene where he's talking to Clown, and Clown starts getting really testy and wants to fight, and he just like, magics up a turkey leg and is like, here, eat this. You're not you when you're hungry. And Clown's just like, thanks, that's much better, Spartan boy. That would be hilarious if it were canon that Clown could only eat food that was created by a Hell spawn with necroplasm powers, which is why he's so pissed that humans keep being Hell spawns, because he's like, they just won't feed me enough. [00:09:31] Speaker A: I need more hot dogs. [00:09:34] Speaker B: Hey, I'm going to laugh if that's what the Violator miniseries is about. It's about Clown just wants food, and he has to get them from Hell spawns. [00:09:42] Speaker C: He's pissed. [00:09:42] Speaker A: That's why he follows them around. He gets mad at them. [00:09:48] Speaker C: That would be great. That would be great. [00:09:50] Speaker B: That was Melbolgia's punishment for him being. [00:09:52] Speaker C: A little turd back in the before times. That is right. [00:09:56] Speaker A: We are going to get to we mentioned it. But I'm excited. We get to probably get to see. [00:10:00] Speaker C: Malbolgia again, my man in the Violator miniseries. [00:10:04] Speaker A: And probably the brothers. [00:10:06] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:10:06] Speaker A: Vinny. [00:10:07] Speaker C: All of them. [00:10:08] Speaker B: Vinny's the only one I remember. [00:10:10] Speaker A: Vinny. The Vindicator. [00:10:11] Speaker C: There's the vindicator, the vandalizer, the vomiter. [00:10:18] Speaker A: No, I don't know. [00:10:19] Speaker C: There's no one called the vomiter. I mean, they all start with a V, don't they? [00:10:24] Speaker A: I believe so. Vaporizer. [00:10:26] Speaker C: Why don't we just go on over. [00:10:28] Speaker B: To the one of them is like Vaporeon or something like that. Oh a vaporizer. You just said that. Vaporeon. [00:10:34] Speaker A: Is that a Pokemon? [00:10:35] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like the evolutions of eevee, where you can have either a grass. [00:10:40] Speaker C: Or a water or an electric or a fire type. What were they looking up? [00:10:45] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Fleabiek brothers. Fleabie brothers. Johnny it brings up the very first thing. [00:10:53] Speaker C: It's got the little clock next to. [00:10:54] Speaker B: It, which means I've looked it up before. [00:10:57] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, I have, too. [00:10:58] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. So he's got his brothers. So we'll probably see the brothers, and. [00:11:02] Speaker C: They are the better known as the. [00:11:06] Speaker A: Violator and Vindicator, aka Vinny Vandalizer, vaporizer. [00:11:13] Speaker C: And Vasillator, or what is that? [00:11:17] Speaker A: Vaseillator. Oh, Vaseline. Vasilitor. [00:11:20] Speaker B: Oh, my God, I don't know how to read Vasillator. So we're going to learn that Vandalizer is actually Banksy, or Banksy is actually Vandalizer. There we go. That's the better way to put it. [00:11:35] Speaker C: Vandalization, right? [00:11:37] Speaker A: Vandalization. [00:11:39] Speaker C: Yeah, the vacillator. [00:11:42] Speaker A: All right, cool. There's the brothers. They're going to be showing up. [00:11:44] Speaker C: Hopefully. [00:11:45] Speaker A: He mentions them in the Spawn. [00:11:47] Speaker C: The movie, I think, lists off, like, I'm not the Vaporizer or the Vandalizer, I'm the Violator. At least a few of them he mentions. Excellent. Yeah. [00:12:00] Speaker B: So we should probably just jump right into this Spawn before we get sidetracked by nominal characters from 90s Spawn. [00:12:10] Speaker C: Well, you'd say this issue of Spawn 322 here poses the question, would you like to play a game? [00:12:22] Speaker B: I would say, and I answer basically. [00:12:29] Speaker C: That'S how I'd answer. And you'd be like, that sounds like. [00:12:32] Speaker B: A yes to me. [00:12:33] Speaker A: Usually how people answer and saw because they got, like, a bear trap in their reverse bear trap in their mouth. [00:12:39] Speaker C: Or like something going their tongue's about to get cut off, or their yeah. Boy. [00:12:48] Speaker B: And so we're going to learn that Al Simmons had terminal cancer only because the surgical team that was supposed to remove his tumor fucked it up. So he wants his revenge. [00:13:03] Speaker C: Yes. [00:13:03] Speaker A: Spawn does a little jigsawing in this issue. [00:13:05] Speaker C: So it's funny. It's good. [00:13:09] Speaker A: But, of course, to start off any issue, we always start with the covers. [00:13:13] Speaker C: Yes, we do. And how are you reading? [00:13:17] Speaker A: Well, that's why this issue special to our hearts, and we said we'd talk about it. Yeah. [00:13:22] Speaker C: So I'm reading. [00:13:24] Speaker A: I have the Carlo Barberi cover. [00:13:26] Speaker C: Me, too. [00:13:27] Speaker A: Which is the c cover. Oh, nice. [00:13:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:13:31] Speaker A: And this was oh, wait, no, I. [00:13:33] Speaker B: Don'T have the Carlo Barberi. I have the Bjorn barons. [00:13:37] Speaker A: Boy, that one's sweet. [00:13:39] Speaker B: I'm getting my B boys mixed up. [00:13:41] Speaker A: Don't mess up your B boys. [00:13:43] Speaker B: They're all break dancing and spinning around on their hats. [00:13:46] Speaker C: I just can't remember which one's which. [00:13:48] Speaker A: No, this is a special issue because this was the first issue that came out the month after King Spawn. So I was buying Spawn. This is the first issue I bought, like, new off the shelf, like, the. [00:14:00] Speaker C: Day it came out. Yeah. [00:14:04] Speaker B: I was a little behind. [00:14:06] Speaker C: Johnny so this is when I started buying Spawn. [00:14:10] Speaker B: Again, the oldest issue is still on. [00:14:13] Speaker C: The so so you probably started a few months later. Yeah, I did, because I think King. [00:14:22] Speaker B: Spawn was on issue three or four. [00:14:25] Speaker C: When I started because I was able to just scoop it up and just mainline them, just cook them up, stick them right in the vein. [00:14:35] Speaker A: Those suckers were everywhere. [00:14:37] Speaker B: Yeah, there were a lot of Spawn. [00:14:39] Speaker A: Number one, there were a lot of them. [00:14:40] Speaker C: I remember sold a lot of them. [00:14:43] Speaker A: But we always start with the covers. Like I mentioned, the Carlo Barberry is the one I have that's pretty dope. [00:14:49] Speaker C: Look at that. So good. [00:14:51] Speaker A: It's spawn in his glory. [00:14:53] Speaker C: Like sitting on a rooftop chain grabbing. [00:14:57] Speaker A: Someone with his chains. [00:14:58] Speaker B: It kind of looks like he's fishing. It's like he's trying to pull on a big apprise marlin. [00:15:04] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, he does look like he's fishing. [00:15:06] Speaker A: Or a big gangster, probably. [00:15:09] Speaker B: Instead of using chum, he has just stacks of bills. [00:15:17] Speaker C: Like, come and get it. [00:15:18] Speaker B: Come and get the stack of bills. [00:15:20] Speaker C: No, for the gangsters, he'd have for. [00:15:23] Speaker A: The McFarland style gangsters who usually like. [00:15:25] Speaker C: Mobsters, he'd have like, spaghetti. [00:15:31] Speaker B: Actual garlic bread. [00:15:32] Speaker C: Not made with granulated garlic, real garlic. [00:15:37] Speaker A: But yo, you have that awesome. [00:15:39] Speaker B: We got san marzanos in this tomato. Yeah. [00:15:42] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:15:42] Speaker B: You should be jealous, Johnny, because it's pretty awesome. [00:15:45] Speaker A: I am jealous. [00:15:46] Speaker B: It's got Spawn with a minigun and she Spawn in the background dual building. [00:15:50] Speaker C: Some automatic handguns, and they're just on some rubble. [00:15:57] Speaker B: I don't know who they're firing at. [00:15:59] Speaker C: But they're firing pretty well. [00:16:01] Speaker A: She looks like she's having a ball. [00:16:03] Speaker B: There's actually a guy on a dead body, half of a body in the foreground that looks like it's wearing that reverse bear trap. So I guess this individual was invited to play a game and then Shot got absolutely wrecked right before. And then Jigsaw was like, Ah, fuck. Now I gotta go do that again somewhere else. [00:16:28] Speaker A: It's some kind of weird, like, gas mask thing on this guy. [00:16:31] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't know what it is. [00:16:33] Speaker B: It looks like that. [00:16:36] Speaker A: It does look the reverse bear trap. [00:16:37] Speaker B: It looks like that general from one piece. [00:16:40] Speaker C: From the I don't know. [00:16:41] Speaker A: I don't know one piece very well. [00:16:43] Speaker B: I've watched one episode of the anime which oh, cool. [00:16:48] Speaker A: One out of like, what, 5000 episodes. [00:16:50] Speaker B: And Wanda was like, I've heard a lot of good things about the live action remake, so why don't we watch that? And I still think it's too anime e for her. But the live action remake is actually pretty solid. The first episode is basically like 15 episodes of the anime. I keep trying to convince her to watch anime in the background because she's A, kind of Insomniac. [00:17:18] Speaker C: Insomniac. [00:17:21] Speaker B: Sometimes suffers from insomnia. And B keeps running out of shows to just watch in the middle of the night. [00:17:27] Speaker C: And I'm like telling you, if you. [00:17:29] Speaker B: Just put some anime on in the background, you don't even have to fucking pay attention to it because they've got a quarter of an episode's worth of actual story per episode. You can just drift in and out. [00:17:41] Speaker C: Of it, and you will never run. [00:17:43] Speaker B: Out of things to watch. [00:17:44] Speaker C: But nah, you would never there's a lot no, you'll never even run out of one piece. What are you talking about? Yeah, you couldn't even catch it up. [00:17:57] Speaker B: Oh, man. She could never in the parlance catch them all. [00:18:06] Speaker C: Could not. Could not. [00:18:08] Speaker A: Well, to catch all these covers, there's one more that neither of us have, but we must address. Of course. [00:18:13] Speaker B: Yes. I'm looking at a picture of it. [00:18:15] Speaker C: Online right now, and it's pretty brutal. [00:18:19] Speaker A: It's the todd father here. [00:18:20] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:18:22] Speaker A: And it depicts some stuff from the issue. One of the rare Spawn covers that does that. [00:18:27] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a literal spoiler. [00:18:30] Speaker A: It's from later in the issue. And Spawn is jigsawing, which we'll get to, but it's basically like Spawn looking down this hallway of spikes, and there's. [00:18:37] Speaker C: A guy walking through it and screaming. [00:18:40] Speaker B: Yeah. I have a feeling that there was a copy of this or a version of this cover that just had, like, blood splatter absolutely everywhere. And then probably Thomas Healy was like, yeah. [00:18:52] Speaker A: He was like, hey, tone it down there, Tod. [00:18:54] Speaker B: We're going to have to put these in a black bag if you do that enough. And people are then going to be sad because they're going to see the black bag and they're going to be like, oh, hell yeah. It's a horny cover. And then they're going to open it, and they'll be like, there's no horny. [00:19:04] Speaker C: Here, just spikes, blood. [00:19:07] Speaker B: I guess technically, the spikes could make it horny. [00:19:11] Speaker A: They're thorny. [00:19:12] Speaker C: Thorny. I know. [00:19:13] Speaker B: I would be upset if I were to go buy a new issue of Money Shot, and I've paid three extra bucks to get the horny cover that comes in the black bag, and it's not actually horny. It's just violent. And I'd be like, what the fuck? I paid extra for the horny cover. [00:19:32] Speaker A: This is why we're here. [00:19:35] Speaker C: Seriously. Although money shot is good. Yeah, I bet. [00:19:39] Speaker A: So I like some of the people. [00:19:43] Speaker C: We we should probably start playing this game, Johnny, or we're going to get. [00:19:50] Speaker B: Caught up in one of Jigsaw's grand plans and fail spectacularly. [00:19:58] Speaker A: If we don't keep this episode on track, jigsaw is going to lock us up for our sins. [00:20:03] Speaker B: We got to get out of this Jedi Temple before. [00:20:07] Speaker C: The clones show up, Johnny. [00:20:09] Speaker B: We got to follow that's right. We got to follow Ahmed Best to the heliport. [00:20:15] Speaker C: Yes. [00:20:16] Speaker A: We must execute episode 66. [00:20:20] Speaker B: Yes. [00:20:20] Speaker A: So let's crack these open. Cracking spawn 322. Here we go. We got the credits on the inside cover, as always. [00:20:28] Speaker C: Tod McFarland's On Script Plot Hell yeah, he is. [00:20:31] Speaker A: Art by Carlo Barberry. Not just the COVID He did the art inside, too. [00:20:35] Speaker B: It's beautiful. [00:20:36] Speaker A: Our man from Spawncon, Tom Wojcikowski on. [00:20:39] Speaker B: Lettering man, he put in his work, and then he went home and had a drink. [00:20:43] Speaker A: There's some good lettering in this one, too. [00:20:45] Speaker C: Yeah, it's real nice. [00:20:47] Speaker A: J. David Ramos on colors. [00:20:50] Speaker C: Good colors cover the covers. [00:20:53] Speaker A: Tod McFarlane is Creative director, and Thomas Healy is editor. [00:20:57] Speaker B: Hell yeah. He edited the shit out of this. [00:21:00] Speaker A: Would you like to edit a comic book? [00:21:03] Speaker C: Yes. [00:21:04] Speaker B: Yes, I would. Please. What's the page rate? [00:21:09] Speaker C: Evidently marvel. [00:21:12] Speaker A: And DC. It's not great. [00:21:15] Speaker B: Yeah, no. That's why image was created. [00:21:18] Speaker A: So previously in Spawn, while on the hunt for another secret file pertaining to the shadow players, spawn makes a horrifying discovery in the basement of one of the former associates. This fight is going to be personal. [00:21:34] Speaker C: So, Johnny, I'm a big dummy and. [00:21:38] Speaker B: Completely forgot about the events of Spawn 321 and thought this was referring to the captured child murderers in the basement of the restaurant. I was like, in the restaurant? [00:21:51] Speaker A: 320? [00:21:52] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:21:52] Speaker B: And I was like, wait, hold on a second. They were bad people. And then I was like, oh, wait, yeah. Last issue happened. I think I might have accidentally classified issue 321 as a traumatic memory and tried to lock it away where I couldn't access. [00:22:10] Speaker A: This is two kind of arcs or two little stories in a row where Swan goes after a vampire as people. [00:22:16] Speaker C: Locked in a basement, I didn't really think about. Yeah. [00:22:20] Speaker A: Yeah. I remembered it just because I remember this. [00:22:25] Speaker B: Pepperidge Farm remembers. [00:22:30] Speaker A: Just because this was the first issue I bought. I just remember this little part pretty well. [00:22:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I remember reading this issue before and kind of not really knowing what's going on, but just being like, oh, hell yeah. Oh, hell yeah. [00:22:44] Speaker A: That guy through some shit. [00:22:45] Speaker C: Yeah. Like wallet spikes. So we start. Yeah. [00:22:50] Speaker A: So at the end of last issue. [00:22:52] Speaker B: Spawn screamed and blacked out the whole he Christmas vacationed. It with the Griswold family Christmas lights. [00:23:02] Speaker C: Display and sucked all the lights, all. [00:23:04] Speaker B: The power they had to turn on the emergency nuclear generator. Is this is still pre turning on the emergency nuclear generator. [00:23:15] Speaker A: Some people are calling it mysterious and magical. [00:23:18] Speaker C: It says they're wrong, though. It's from the pits of hell. [00:23:23] Speaker A: I call that mysterious and magical. I don't know. [00:23:26] Speaker B: Yeah, I would call that mysterious and magical. I'm surprised there isn't. [00:23:29] Speaker C: It's from the Malpolge, the pits of hell. [00:23:35] Speaker A: And Spawn has taken over. There's this vampire man who has a. [00:23:40] Speaker C: Woman and her baby in his basement. [00:23:45] Speaker A: His baby. [00:23:45] Speaker C: Unfortunately, I think yeah, and Spawn but. [00:23:49] Speaker A: He like, stick these dogs on Spawn. But Spawn uses Spawn powers to talk. [00:23:53] Speaker C: The dogs be like, no, no, don't attack me. [00:23:56] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like a weaker version of. [00:24:00] Speaker C: Javi's connection to but yeah, I didn't think about that. But yes. [00:24:07] Speaker B: And this vampire guy's real pissed off that his dogs aren't attacking. And so he's yelling at Spawn. And I like, only animal sounds resonate from Spawn. [00:24:19] Speaker A: He's talking to the dogs. [00:24:20] Speaker C: Yeah, he's going, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof. [00:24:24] Speaker B: Bow wow. Barky barky. He's giving him the lazy eye. [00:24:31] Speaker A: This guy obviously doesn't know Spawn that well, because he's, like, trying to go to and be like, you can help me abuse this woman. [00:24:38] Speaker C: And we can. [00:24:40] Speaker A: She'll serve our pleasures like a bunch of nasty shit. [00:24:43] Speaker C: Just like, fuck you, dude. [00:24:46] Speaker B: These hell beings just don't watch hell News, do they? [00:24:50] Speaker C: No, they know Spawn's not about that. [00:24:53] Speaker A: Or they should know Spawn's not about. [00:24:54] Speaker C: That, but they don't know. [00:24:55] Speaker B: Yeah. And so Spawn doesn't say anything. He just like a lion attacking its prey. He lunges and punches this dude right in the face with his big old big old right fist. [00:25:08] Speaker A: Big old right fist. Huge. [00:25:10] Speaker B: That would hurt so bad to get hit with. [00:25:12] Speaker C: Oh, boy. It's like getting hit with a freight train. A spiky freight train. He hits him hard enough to crack. [00:25:19] Speaker A: Cartilage and bone around the nose and eye sockets. [00:25:22] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:25:22] Speaker A: Another fist cracks three ribs. [00:25:25] Speaker C: He's just cracking them all. [00:25:28] Speaker B: Just he's just thooking them all over. [00:25:29] Speaker C: Look at that thuk it's too easy, Johnny. It's too unsatisfying. [00:25:34] Speaker B: So Spawn's playing with him a little. He's like a cat who caught a. [00:25:38] Speaker C: Mouse really quickly, and it's like, oh, fuck it. [00:25:41] Speaker B: Let's just let it run. But, like, the cat's already opened a wound on the side of the mouse, so there's, like, a trail of mouse blood as it runs away. And it's like, God damn it. Now you have to clean this whole fucking house again. [00:25:55] Speaker A: He's playing with his food here. [00:25:58] Speaker B: It's leaving a kidney over by the couch. It's leaving a pile of intestines in the kitchen. [00:26:04] Speaker C: It's got a foot in the bathroom. [00:26:07] Speaker B: You're a cat liver with her now. You know, from the gross things that they do. [00:26:13] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:26:14] Speaker A: She mainly just brings this random piece of trash she finds go outside. [00:26:22] Speaker B: Yeah, not going outside makes it much better. If you were to be a hybrid cat to do inside and outside stuff. [00:26:29] Speaker C: You'D be having presents, as we call them. [00:26:33] Speaker A: My childhood cat used to bring, like, mice and drop it on your feet when you're getting out of the shower. Or just come up to you and just be like, here you go. [00:26:40] Speaker C: Here's a mouse. [00:26:41] Speaker B: Yeah, we had an endless series of barn cats, and you literally always had to make sure you weren't about to step in something when you left the. [00:26:50] Speaker C: House sitting on the porch. [00:26:53] Speaker B: Yeah, we actually left a flathead shovel. [00:26:58] Speaker C: By the door because we had to. [00:27:01] Speaker B: Use it so frequently that it just wasted time to walk into the barn, put it, grab it, throw the carcass away, take the shovel back to the barn. [00:27:11] Speaker A: But that's so nice of your kitties. They're bringing you treats. [00:27:14] Speaker C: Yeah, they were good cats. They were real good cats, like most cats. Well, some cats, some cats. [00:27:23] Speaker B: Some cats. [00:27:24] Speaker C: Some cats are yeah, that's true. [00:27:26] Speaker B: Whatever. [00:27:26] Speaker C: Okay. It happens. [00:27:28] Speaker B: But anyway, this vampire is like he's running to the fireplace, and he grabs the shotgun that's on top of the fireplace. Terrible place to leave a loaded shotgun, by the way. And he takes aim at Spawn, and he says he's loaded for Spawn. [00:27:52] Speaker C: He's got shells in there that'll kill him. [00:27:54] Speaker A: He's got special he must have special hell shells. [00:27:57] Speaker C: Hell shell. [00:28:00] Speaker A: Hell shells. [00:28:02] Speaker C: That's nice. [00:28:03] Speaker B: That's nice. [00:28:04] Speaker C: No, Spawn just, like, takes his cloak away, and it's just like, let's go. [00:28:09] Speaker A: Shoot me then. [00:28:10] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:28:10] Speaker B: And this is the second time in the last ten issues that he's just been like, okay, show of force. You attack me, I walk slowly towards you. It doesn't slow me down at all. And you realize how fucked you are. He did that against what, jim Downing? [00:28:27] Speaker C: Is that who he did it against? Yeah, I think so. [00:28:31] Speaker A: What the fuck have you becomes as. [00:28:33] Speaker C: The vampire and tells him, don't you. [00:28:35] Speaker A: Dare smile, you bastard. [00:28:37] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:28:37] Speaker B: Oh, and he's got the I don't. [00:28:38] Speaker A: Want to see you happy. [00:28:39] Speaker B: He's got that creepy little smile. Speaking of Smiling Spawn, creepy Spawn teeth. [00:28:44] Speaker A: You don't see a lot of Spawn teeth. [00:28:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Back on that first page, the very last panel is very reminiscent of the original panel from issue one that Ty, the spawn hunter, said had drew him in and that he always remembers. [00:29:01] Speaker A: So that's a fun little the green eyes. [00:29:03] Speaker C: Just the green eyes and teeth. Maybe that'll be the shirt for Spawn con year, too. [00:29:08] Speaker B: Add the teeth, but so smiling Spawn. [00:29:11] Speaker C: Just cracks his chains into this vampire guy's face. [00:29:18] Speaker A: It's right in the fangs, probably. [00:29:20] Speaker C: Yeah. Paul. His name is Paul. That's right. So Paul's down there wounded. Yeah. [00:29:27] Speaker A: Remember, for the opening quote, wake up, Paul. We know it's Paul. [00:29:31] Speaker C: Yeah, Johnny. I'm an idiot. [00:29:33] Speaker B: You know this. [00:29:34] Speaker A: I didn't remember his name was Paul. [00:29:37] Speaker C: What a name for a vampire? [00:29:38] Speaker A: Hi, I'm Paul the vampire. [00:29:40] Speaker C: Hey. [00:29:40] Speaker B: It's unassuming, right? Would you ever expect anybody you know named Paul to be a vampire? [00:29:44] Speaker C: I wouldn't. No. Not wouldn't. [00:29:48] Speaker B: I wouldn't at all. Sorry. I'm just thinking about the people I know named Paul, and it makes me happy because they're good people. [00:29:55] Speaker A: And you're imagining them as vampires? [00:29:58] Speaker B: No, I can't imagine them as vampires. I'm just like remembering my friend Paul, and it makes me happy to think. [00:30:06] Speaker C: About my friend Paul. [00:30:07] Speaker B: My friend's Paul. [00:30:09] Speaker C: I don't really have a friend Paul. Oh, man. Should probably go out and get one. [00:30:17] Speaker B: You should put a classified in the reader and say, dear Paul's, I would like one of you to be my friend. [00:30:24] Speaker A: Please contact that way I can say, I have a friend named Paul, or. [00:30:29] Speaker B: You can put in the missed connections. Hey, Paul, I saw you, but you didn't see me. [00:30:34] Speaker C: Call me back. [00:30:37] Speaker A: You just hope a Paul will call me. [00:30:39] Speaker B: You trick a Paul into being your friend, and it's like, haha. You're my friend now, Paul. [00:30:44] Speaker A: I got me a Paul. [00:30:45] Speaker B: Suck it. So spawn's looming over Paul here. And he's just like, I need you to say one word to. [00:30:55] Speaker C: And I. [00:30:56] Speaker B: Guess I guess Spawn has Paul the vampire mixed up with Garfield the Cat, assuming that the word Monday is going to scare him. [00:31:06] Speaker A: Yeah. Then Spawn shoots him full of bugs. [00:31:09] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:31:10] Speaker B: He's got, like, bugs coming out of his mouth, so he can't say anything. And he's just like, swallowed up by. [00:31:15] Speaker C: These little cockroach guys, I guess. [00:31:18] Speaker B: And the little cockroach ladies, I guess. [00:31:21] Speaker C: It takes all kinds of cockroaches to make more cockroaches. And can we say, Johnny, these Carlo by Berry cockroaches are very good. They're disgusting, but they're very good. Oh, yeah. They are gross. [00:31:36] Speaker B: They're nasty. And then for Paul, there's simply nothing. [00:31:41] Speaker C: We flash cut to the eyes of Helen. It's Helen, right? I think so. [00:31:48] Speaker B: Melissa. Melissa. [00:31:49] Speaker A: Oh, shit. [00:31:50] Speaker B: Sorry. I got distracted by bugs. And it was always you, Helen. Oh, that's why the candy man is never far from my thoughts. Johnny. [00:32:02] Speaker A: Yeah. Melissa is down in the basement. [00:32:05] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:32:05] Speaker B: She's holding her baby, saying please because. [00:32:10] Speaker C: Well, she's scared of shit, Johnny. I'd be too. That's frightening. [00:32:18] Speaker B: And little baby's scared too. Starts doing a little bit of doing. [00:32:22] Speaker C: A little bit of crying. [00:32:24] Speaker A: A classic baby with, like, little curly hair thing on top. [00:32:27] Speaker C: Yeah. And then Al is just like, oh, shit. [00:32:31] Speaker B: Dang. [00:32:32] Speaker C: Fuck shit. [00:32:35] Speaker B: Turn human. [00:32:37] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:32:38] Speaker A: It's like, what do I do? I'm scaring the shit of a baby and her turn back into human. There we go. [00:32:44] Speaker B: I do like how he turns into his Al Simmons form, as the Tod father calls it. And then afterwards, just like, the sunglasses go across his eyes like it's the. [00:32:56] Speaker A: Final touch file details the sunglasses to hide his green eyes. [00:32:59] Speaker B: Yeah. And then he's like, hey, can I pick you up? Can I take you out of here? And I do like how the pleas he says at the end of that is the like, just copy paste the pleas that she says all lowercase tiny letters, period. [00:33:16] Speaker C: At the end. They're both a little vulnerable right now. Good work. Good work. By Tomo. By the Tom father. [00:33:25] Speaker B: So he picks her up and he. [00:33:28] Speaker C: Shadow blasts her to a I'm going. [00:33:32] Speaker B: To assume this is like a case worker, like. [00:33:38] Speaker C: What you might call them. [00:33:40] Speaker B: Social worker. That's what they are. So I would assume this is a social worker's office. [00:33:47] Speaker C: Dr. Kepler. And he's like, hey, guess what. [00:33:52] Speaker B: I have very low emotional intelligence and can't do this. I got to go punch some people instead. He says, you make her demons real, I'll punch them right in the face. But other than no good. [00:34:06] Speaker A: Not deal with any emotional demons. [00:34:08] Speaker C: Can't do it. Yeah, we get bored halfway through the. [00:34:12] Speaker B: Story, Johnny, and we start flipping through the channels. And unfortunately, there's only news on the other channels. [00:34:18] Speaker C: So we come back to the story afterward. [00:34:20] Speaker A: We get the pundits. [00:34:22] Speaker C: We get. [00:34:22] Speaker A: Some pundits with big old blocks of text. [00:34:25] Speaker B: Yeah, some massive today everybody has two paragraphs, and we learned the story again that Melissa was captured four years ago. [00:34:37] Speaker C: When she was 18. [00:34:38] Speaker B: I thought the last issue said that she was abducted when she was 16. [00:34:43] Speaker C: Did I get that wrong? [00:34:44] Speaker A: That's it. I'm not reading spawn anymore. [00:34:46] Speaker C: God damn it, Johnny. Issue to issue. Issue to issue, Johnny. Issue to issue. Yeah. Everybody's, they're obsessed with her. [00:34:53] Speaker A: It's like Gone Girl. She's taken over the country's attention. [00:34:58] Speaker B: I haven't seen Gone Girl, but I'll take your word for it. [00:35:00] Speaker A: You haven't seen Gone girl. [00:35:01] Speaker B: I haven't seen Gong Girl. [00:35:02] Speaker C: No. Why not? [00:35:06] Speaker B: Have I not been very clear about being an idiot? [00:35:09] Speaker A: No, it's okay. It's really good, though. [00:35:12] Speaker C: You'd probably like it. [00:35:13] Speaker B: Probably. I think before, I really actually appreciated following directors was like, oh, it's from the guy who did the American version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Nah, fuck that. [00:35:28] Speaker C: Nah, I'm good. It's from David Fincher. Dude. [00:35:33] Speaker B: Controversial opinion. I don't give a fuck about the story of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. [00:35:38] Speaker C: It bores the shit out of me. Really? [00:35:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:42] Speaker C: I don't like it. [00:35:44] Speaker B: I do not like the story. It tries so hard. It's got so much baggage up front to try to get to the story. [00:35:54] Speaker C: And it's like, you could have done this a much more efficient way. [00:35:59] Speaker B: It's like the book or the movie. Well, so I've only seen the Swedish movie, but I've heard that the Swedish movie is like a one to one adaptation from the books, which very much hurts it because adaptations should not be carbon copies. But it's just like if this is how the book is set up jesus Christ. It's like four different stories over the course of the whole first half, and. [00:36:27] Speaker C: Then you just, like, blitz into it. I just don't care. I just don't care. All right. [00:36:34] Speaker A: I like the book. [00:36:35] Speaker C: I don't care. [00:36:37] Speaker A: Congratulations. [00:36:38] Speaker B: It's not enough farce and satire for me, Johnny. I'm discovering that anything written in earnest. [00:36:46] Speaker C: For not funny reasons doesn't do it for me. [00:36:51] Speaker B: Okay, good to know. I like to read things that point out the inherent ridiculousness of existence. [00:37:01] Speaker C: And if you're going to try to. [00:37:03] Speaker B: Do anything like heartfelt or serious, I don't want it. I want you to point out how wild it is that we're alive and care about things that really don't matter, but yet they drive our entire being. [00:37:19] Speaker C: And we must have them, Johnny. [00:37:22] Speaker A: We must. Okay, well, I like girl with the dragon tattoo. [00:37:28] Speaker B: But you just like the girl that. [00:37:30] Speaker C: The Dragon Tattoo is on. [00:37:31] Speaker A: No, I like the book. [00:37:35] Speaker B: You like that lady can do computer. [00:37:38] Speaker A: That's what you like the hacker, manic, pixie dream girl. [00:37:42] Speaker B: No, I was referring less that and more of the now you don't even have to worry when your computer stops working. [00:37:49] Speaker C: You just be like, Lizbeth, lizbeth. [00:37:52] Speaker A: Lisbeth Salender. [00:37:54] Speaker C: Get in here. [00:37:54] Speaker B: It stopped working again. What do I do? I turned it off and then back on again. That's the end of my expertise. [00:38:06] Speaker A: Americans so are bad at computer. [00:38:11] Speaker C: That's what she'd say. [00:38:14] Speaker B: And then we get a nice little transition of darkness to the blackness. Breaks up into bats. And then Paul wakes up. [00:38:25] Speaker A: Better call Paul. Better call Paul to wake. [00:38:33] Speaker B: This is this is where the game begins. [00:38:35] Speaker C: Johnny yes. [00:38:36] Speaker A: This is where the song would you like to play a game starts? [00:38:40] Speaker C: Yes. [00:38:42] Speaker B: And then Paul is trying to say that Al Simmons is just like him and he wouldn't have done anything different. And Paul is just one idiot to another. Johnny paul, you're an idiot. [00:38:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:38:54] Speaker A: Spawn wouldn't have done that shit. [00:38:56] Speaker B: Nothing. You wouldn't have done absolutely everything that he wouldn't have. [00:39:00] Speaker C: Like, for fucking real, dude. [00:39:04] Speaker B: I do like his I need you to be quiet. And then the last things he said to Paul was, I need you to say it was Monday. And now he's like, I need you. [00:39:13] Speaker C: To say it's Friday. Go to hell. [00:39:16] Speaker B: Say it. Paul. [00:39:17] Speaker C: I'm not going say it Friday. [00:39:21] Speaker A: Friday. [00:39:22] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:39:23] Speaker C: Today's Friday. [00:39:25] Speaker A: So, I mean, Spawn sat around for five days. He probably went and did some other missions or something. [00:39:31] Speaker C: Yeah, well, Johnny, I'm thinking revealed later probably shows what he did for that whole week, right? Because I'm going to assume he did. [00:39:45] Speaker B: It manually and not through magic. So that way it could have that special touch. [00:39:53] Speaker C: He's like, Paul, you haven't eaten for a week. [00:39:55] Speaker B: So here's the little mouse. You want to get this little mouse? [00:39:57] Speaker C: I got this little mouse just like a cat. Yeah. [00:40:02] Speaker B: And the mouse runs down this little dark alleyway or this little hallway that. [00:40:07] Speaker C: We don't see down and is like. [00:40:09] Speaker B: Hey, you should probably go get that mouse. It's on the other side of this hallway. [00:40:12] Speaker C: But first, did you notice that I changed my outfit? [00:40:16] Speaker B: Did you notice anything different? [00:40:18] Speaker C: My outfit? [00:40:18] Speaker B: I changed it for you, Paul. I changed it. I took all the spikes off. [00:40:22] Speaker C: Guess where the spikes are, paul he says they're in the wall. [00:40:27] Speaker B: Yeah, he put them in the wall on the hallway where the mouse ran. So I'd like to think that instead of just magicing the spikes, there, there was like an 80s fixing it montage of just Al cement plucking off his, like, ripping off his spikes and putting them on the wall and growing new spikes and then ripping them off and putting them on the wall. And then he like, stops halfway through, takes his hat off and wipes his brow. There's a little goof around bit where he's making lunch, but he's like, doing it in a fun little dance style. There should be more 80s montages in Spawn. [00:41:05] Speaker C: Johnny maybe the movie will have one. Maybe he'll like, build his suit. Yeah, he has to build a suit. [00:41:15] Speaker B: He'll have to build a new hideout and he'll get all the unhomed men in Rat Alley together, and they'll be like, pulleying up boards and stuff, and then. [00:41:28] Speaker C: He'Ll walk around and make sure. [00:41:30] Speaker B: That they're hammering correctly and not hitting their thumbs. [00:41:33] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:41:33] Speaker A: I just imagine him just sitting around for five days. [00:41:36] Speaker C: And that's just the part of saw. [00:41:39] Speaker A: You never see, is when they build the traps. [00:41:40] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:41:41] Speaker A: But basically, he set up this saw like trap where the other side of this hallway of spikes is where the food is. [00:41:48] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:41:49] Speaker B: And then the bugs keep following him to suck up his energy. [00:41:55] Speaker A: He's got to keep moving or else the bugs are going to get him. [00:41:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:41:57] Speaker B: As he goes further and further into this hallway, he gets buggier and buggier, and then he finally emerges on the other side, and when he gets out, his dogs are there. So Paul hasn't eaten in five days. Do you know who else hasn't eaten. [00:42:12] Speaker C: In five days, Johnny? The dogs. [00:42:15] Speaker B: These dogs. Oh, I skipped a page. Oops gets out, basically. [00:42:20] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:42:20] Speaker B: He gets out and spawns there with the dogs, and he's oh, oh, okay. Actually, now that you're here, the door to exit is on the other side of the hallway. [00:42:28] Speaker A: Again, the other side of the spike. [00:42:31] Speaker B: Here's a key to the door. [00:42:32] Speaker C: I kind of forgot to tell you. [00:42:34] Speaker B: About that before you went through. [00:42:36] Speaker C: And Paul's like, but the bugs, the bugs, not the then and know these. [00:42:45] Speaker B: Hungry dogs and spawn's like, oh, oops, I dropped the chain. And then Paul runs back through the hallway of spikes, and he's followed by the dogs. [00:42:54] Speaker A: Bugs are coming at him. [00:42:56] Speaker B: We end with and someone in this house tonight is going to feast, which is wonderful. [00:43:03] Speaker C: This is wonderful. [00:43:04] Speaker B: Then we get the spawn power meter with I like the it's like the last shot of a horror film where. [00:43:10] Speaker C: It'S just like it's dawn. [00:43:13] Speaker B: It's the cabin in the woods, and. [00:43:15] Speaker C: Then it dissolves into spawn necrometer. That's pretty cool. It's a nice little touch. [00:43:23] Speaker A: The one who feasts is spawn because he wins. [00:43:27] Speaker B: He is the one who feasts. [00:43:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:43:30] Speaker A: And the dogs and the bugs. [00:43:31] Speaker C: And the bugs. The bugs get to eat him, and. [00:43:34] Speaker A: Then we get a spawning ground. It's a breakdown. Back when they were doing these breakdowns, when they were kind of launching the. [00:43:40] Speaker C: Universe, we get the evolution of she spawn. [00:43:43] Speaker B: Johnny, this is, like, right up your alley. This would have been a very good first episode for you to pick up, to be like, oh, hell yeah. [00:43:49] Speaker C: Oh, hell yeah. [00:43:49] Speaker B: I love a she spawn. [00:43:50] Speaker A: I'm all about this. [00:43:52] Speaker C: Maybe that's why. [00:43:53] Speaker A: Maybe that's why. So does she spawn? [00:43:55] Speaker B: Maybe. But we learned that NYX was the original she spawn, which I guess we already do, but it's good to reiterate it. I'm actually really excited to get to these Nick's she spawn issues. [00:44:05] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:44:06] Speaker B: Oh, Jesus Christ. [00:44:08] Speaker C: He did it again, Johnny. [00:44:09] Speaker B: He did it again. [00:44:10] Speaker A: The dog farted on you. [00:44:13] Speaker C: Oh, boy. [00:44:17] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:44:18] Speaker B: I don't think we're going to make it. I don't think I want to make it. [00:44:21] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:44:22] Speaker B: I bequeathed to you all of my Spawn paraphernalia. Okay, bury me in my hat, though. [00:44:33] Speaker C: Or cremate me in my hat. [00:44:36] Speaker B: Whatever. [00:44:38] Speaker A: Bury me with my money. [00:44:42] Speaker B: That was terrible. [00:44:44] Speaker A: Barton dogs, you got to watch out for it. [00:44:47] Speaker B: Nix was the original she Spawn, and then she got killed, as we've seen. And then Jessica Priest, who was her friend, was like, oh, no, my friend Nix got killed, and then immediately transforms into she Spawn. She just gets endowed fully with the outfit and the motorcycle inside the building. [00:45:11] Speaker A: Yes. [00:45:12] Speaker C: It's like when they would have a. [00:45:13] Speaker A: Car at the mall, and it'd be inside the mall. [00:45:16] Speaker C: How did they get this in the how? How'd you do it? [00:45:21] Speaker B: And then we've got, like, a little short history of Jessica Priest, and we've got original Jessica Priest as the assassin. [00:45:31] Speaker A: Yeah. Talking about the cold warmth in her nethers, an orgasmic. And I was like, Damn. [00:45:43] Speaker B: Maybe that's what got you hooked on Jessica Priest. [00:45:46] Speaker A: Yeah, the fact that killing Al Simmons. [00:45:48] Speaker B: Got her all horny, John, is like, this lady's nasty. [00:45:51] Speaker C: I love it. [00:45:52] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. She got that big 90s gun. [00:45:57] Speaker C: Love it. [00:45:59] Speaker B: I love the smoothness of the big 90s gun. The guns weren't assembled as actual pieces of machinery. They just kind of, like, grew out of some sort of what's it cronenbergian wall unit. [00:46:19] Speaker C: Her gun up top is great with his double triggers. Yeah, well, there's, like, two triggers and. [00:46:31] Speaker B: Like, 14 magazines and then a belt and, like, four additional places to hold on to. [00:46:42] Speaker A: Just chains. [00:46:43] Speaker C: It's great. Yeah. [00:46:46] Speaker B: Big guns, Johnny. [00:46:48] Speaker C: Bust out the big guns. [00:46:49] Speaker A: You say, still pre gunslinger? Because in the back you get a gunslinger. Spawn coming soon. October 2021. [00:46:55] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:46:56] Speaker C: Look at that tall hat. There he is. Yeah, he's a red hot character. That's issue 322, Johnny. [00:47:07] Speaker A: That is Spawn 322. [00:47:10] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. [00:47:11] Speaker C: That's what I just said. Hey, don't question me. [00:47:14] Speaker A: We Are Executing Episode 66 we must execute it. [00:47:20] Speaker C: Do it. Saun 345. And it's awesome. [00:47:52] Speaker A: It's a follow up to that reveal that Green World is helping Cataclysm. We got more of the war. Really exciting stuff, but I'm getting ahead. [00:48:01] Speaker C: Of myself because we must start with the covers. Yes. [00:48:06] Speaker B: Where every comics issue begins with the. [00:48:09] Speaker A: COVID And I got a cover you. [00:48:11] Speaker C: Don'T have do you now? Yeah, I got one you want. [00:48:15] Speaker B: Do you now? [00:48:17] Speaker C: Yeah, I got the Bjorn baron. [00:48:18] Speaker A: Cygor. [00:48:19] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Fucking beautiful. It's so good. [00:48:25] Speaker A: He's like attacking a tank. He's like, ripping the tank's head off. [00:48:30] Speaker B: Once again, a Cygor cover on an issue that doesn't have Cygor in it. [00:48:37] Speaker C: He does that a lot. And then on the Cygor issues there's no fucking Cygor on the COVID man. That is a good Fucking. [00:48:46] Speaker B: Bjorn barons. When I was picking up my books this week. One of the guys I'd usually don't ever get to talk to at the. [00:48:54] Speaker C: Shop because he's in the back was. [00:48:56] Speaker B: The dude jockeying on the desk. And he was telling me about how he usually only buys spawn for the variants. And one of his favorite variants was that Bjorn Baron's Halloween variant with clown. [00:49:11] Speaker C: Giving out the candy. Yeah, he was like, very soon. So good. [00:49:19] Speaker A: I think that's either 323 or 324. So we'll be talking about it in the next few episodes. [00:49:23] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:49:27] Speaker A: But yeah, I got the Cygor cover. [00:49:30] Speaker C: Right here, which is awesome. I. [00:49:33] Speaker A: Love bjorn. [00:49:33] Speaker C: Barons. I have the Fede Mille cover, which is also great. [00:49:38] Speaker B: It is also great. [00:49:39] Speaker C: It's just spawn. It's just spawn. That's just spawn. [00:49:43] Speaker A: It's like a found footage spawn. Like you accidentally ran into him in a dark hallway. [00:49:47] Speaker B: He was just like. [00:49:51] Speaker C: He'S just screaming, looking scary. This is real good, though. Oh, boy, oh, boy. [00:49:59] Speaker A: Crack these puppies open. [00:50:01] Speaker C: Crack. [00:50:02] Speaker A: Oh, must we must mention that on the Cygor Baron's cover, it does say world record breaking comic at the top. [00:50:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:50:12] Speaker A: That means his Tod father was feeling sassy. [00:50:15] Speaker B: Sure, indeed. [00:50:17] Speaker A: Because in an interview that one time. [00:50:19] Speaker C: He said, that sassy. Boy, if he ever felt sassy, he put it on the COVID So he's feeling sassy. [00:50:26] Speaker A: He doesn't always feel sassy. [00:50:28] Speaker C: Yeah, sometimes he does. [00:50:31] Speaker B: Just when he puts on the medieval helmet. [00:50:34] Speaker A: Just yeah, pretty much. So yeah, we crack it open. We got the credits page here. [00:50:41] Speaker B: Sure do. [00:50:41] Speaker C: Sure do. [00:50:42] Speaker A: And the one masterminding this descent into hell and this war for the throne is Roy McConville. [00:50:49] Speaker C: Sure, indeed. Yep. With additional script by the Todd father himself, tod McFarland. [00:50:56] Speaker A: We're in the barbarian era. So we've got another Carlo Barberry. [00:51:00] Speaker C: Indeed. Today. [00:51:02] Speaker B: J. David Ramos doing those colors again. Doing a great job. [00:51:07] Speaker A: Tom Warzachowski doing spawn as always. [00:51:10] Speaker B: Hell yeah, Tom. [00:51:12] Speaker C: Oh, done covered the covers. We done did. Mm hmm. [00:51:18] Speaker A: Tom McFarland's, creative director. And Thomas Healy is editor in chief. [00:51:23] Speaker C: Yeah, the chiefly is to editor. Oh, yeah. [00:51:26] Speaker A: Editor in chief. So previously in Spawn just when Cataclysm feels the war is all but lost, a new ally joins him. Nice and short and sweet. [00:51:39] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what happened. It's right there. [00:51:42] Speaker A: That's exactly what happened. [00:51:44] Speaker C: It's true. So we start off in Green World three days ago with Nix and Jim Downing talking to the Oracle. Is that who that like Nix and Jim are? [00:52:02] Speaker B: Wait, hold on. Hold on a second. We agreed to one thing, and you're telling us that we agreed to something else? [00:52:07] Speaker C: What the fuck's wrong with you? [00:52:09] Speaker B: The Oracle, because Oracle is just like. [00:52:11] Speaker C: It you agreed just shut up. You're doing it. Here's some more work. It's basically the Oracle saying, look, we. [00:52:22] Speaker A: Got a hell of Cataclysm, because what's going to happen is either Hell heaven's. [00:52:26] Speaker C: Going to take over Hell, or Sin. [00:52:29] Speaker A: Is going to take the throne. [00:52:30] Speaker C: To Hell. [00:52:31] Speaker A: And both of those are bad for Greenworld. [00:52:33] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:52:34] Speaker B: Bad for business. [00:52:36] Speaker A: It's basically the lesser of the three evils for them. [00:52:39] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:52:40] Speaker A: And they know that he can't use the throne Hell power because he's made of obsidian, which is not native to Hell. [00:52:48] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:52:49] Speaker B: They say that it keeps them from the addictive powers that they have, but everybody else says that he literally can't put his little booty on there because it'll fucking wreck him. [00:53:01] Speaker C: So what's the truth, Johnny? [00:53:04] Speaker B: Is the truth that he could be on the throne but just not have access to the powers? [00:53:08] Speaker C: Or can he not be on the throne at all? [00:53:11] Speaker A: It's the same thing. I don't think it contradicts itself, necessarily. [00:53:14] Speaker B: Well, being able to sit on the throne and not use its power versus not being able to sit on the. [00:53:20] Speaker C: Throne at all because its power will. [00:53:22] Speaker B: Kill him because of the incompatibility. It's like he's trying to plug a European plug into an American outlet. Or an American plug into a European outlet. I was under the impression that he would cease to be if he even deigned to put one of those red and black cheeks. [00:53:44] Speaker A: I never got that impression. I thought he just couldn't use the power. [00:53:50] Speaker C: I don't know. Looks like it's a fight. [00:53:56] Speaker B: We'll see who's wrong. It'll probably be me. [00:54:01] Speaker A: You're really self deprecating this episode, David. [00:54:06] Speaker B: It happens sometimes. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good, and when I feel good, I put myself down because okay, obviously something's wrong if I'm feeling good. [00:54:17] Speaker C: Right, right. [00:54:19] Speaker B: Let's not read into that too much. [00:54:23] Speaker A: Right. Wrong. [00:54:24] Speaker B: So we flash to Hell now. Siege of the Fangs, day five, and well, I was wrong, Johnny. [00:54:32] Speaker C: There is a Cygor in this book. There are? Yeah. [00:54:35] Speaker B: He's back there punching approximately two cygors in this book, but he doesn't say anything, so it's almost like there's no. [00:54:41] Speaker C: Cygors in this book. But it's still good to see our buddy. Yeah. [00:54:45] Speaker A: I like the Heaven team. You got Cygor, you got Overkill. Or not. The heaven, the Green World team. [00:54:50] Speaker B: NYX, you got fucking groot there. You got Heap on the next page. But Gabriel, commander of the Purifiers, is. [00:55:00] Speaker C: Sitting there and they're like, oh, shit. [00:55:03] Speaker A: We can't do this. [00:55:04] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:55:05] Speaker B: They get attacked from behind by Heap. [00:55:08] Speaker C: Heap just smashes into him. [00:55:11] Speaker B: Its name is the around. [00:55:12] Speaker C: For a long time, I'm in the. [00:55:15] Speaker A: Public domain or something like that. [00:55:18] Speaker B: And then while Heaps taking care of this Purifier force, gabriel is like, I'm going to get you, nick's just blasts him in the back. [00:55:28] Speaker C: Look at that. Look. [00:55:29] Speaker B: She turns him into a backward C. She hits him so hard. [00:55:32] Speaker C: Look at that. [00:55:33] Speaker A: Boom. [00:55:35] Speaker C: Bada bing. Good work. [00:55:38] Speaker A: Keep pushing. [00:55:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Gabriel's doing that thing of a defeated person trying to make themselves sound tougher. [00:55:49] Speaker C: You should have stayed out of this. We'd have respected greenworld's neutrality. No, you wouldn't have. You've broken your oath. After Hell, we will lay waste to your eternal forests, too. [00:56:00] Speaker B: Obviously, NYX doesn't like the way that NYX doesn't like that Nix is like, Ah, fuck. [00:56:05] Speaker C: What is this? Your sacred gardens will burn. Look. [00:56:09] Speaker B: And every root and branch will be ripped out till nothing remains. So they're basically going to pull a Saruman stoking the forges of Eisengard to. [00:56:19] Speaker C: Build the Orokai army on the Green World. [00:56:24] Speaker B: And then the Ents will come by. [00:56:26] Speaker C: And they'll be like, they're old enough. They should know better. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't. [00:56:34] Speaker A: Greenworld is very ENT energy. [00:56:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:56:38] Speaker B: All of the mobile trees just totally forgot where they stuck their wives and they can't find them anymore. Big ENT energy, that's what we need. [00:56:48] Speaker A: And then Cataclysm walks up to Nix and it's like, oh, wow, you guys, finally. You must really be scared if you're helping. [00:56:54] Speaker B: It's like we're not scared. [00:56:56] Speaker A: We're just trying to maintain control of the kingdom. And you obviously can't. [00:57:00] Speaker C: Yeah. And they're like, we just don't want. [00:57:04] Speaker B: You to do anything with Earth if you win. And he's like, fine, I don't give a shit. [00:57:08] Speaker A: Fine with me. [00:57:09] Speaker C: He's like, I just want help. [00:57:11] Speaker B: It's interesting now because Clown made it seem as if the only person who wouldn't touch Earth would be Clown if he were on the throne. So now we're getting some of that Clown's duplicity. [00:57:26] Speaker A: Everyone just doesn't want Kaguyostra on the throne because, you know, he hates the world and he's such a big sourpuss. He's going to do some bad shit. [00:57:32] Speaker B: Yeah, he's going to be like the stuff producing my strawberry ripple. [00:57:37] Speaker A: They killed Bobby in the alley. [00:57:42] Speaker C: Oh, boy, what a bum he is. [00:57:44] Speaker B: He's a bum. [00:57:45] Speaker C: He's a bum. Sin. [00:57:49] Speaker B: And so they've got Gabriel as a prisoner, and they drag him off. And Cataclysm's like, I'm going to go do some talking to my Parliament. And then we go to the 7th Realm. [00:58:04] Speaker C: We've got Al Simmons fighting. [00:58:11] Speaker B: He's got his way through. They're trying to fight their way to the throne. [00:58:15] Speaker C: They've got all these bad guys that. [00:58:18] Speaker B: They'Re fighting against that are in the way. [00:58:23] Speaker C: We got medieval there. [00:58:24] Speaker B: We got creep there. We got Reaper there. We got monolith there. We got Raven freak. [00:58:28] Speaker C: Not creep. [00:58:29] Speaker B: The freak. [00:58:30] Speaker C: Sorry, you try to get him canceled. [00:58:31] Speaker A: Calling him a creep? He's a freak, not a creep. [00:58:35] Speaker B: I mean, the Violator should maybe think. [00:58:37] Speaker C: About an image change. [00:58:41] Speaker A: A rebrand. [00:58:43] Speaker B: We got Gunslinger with his tall hat. We got Soul Crusher. We got Jessica Priests. She spawn. We got redeemer. [00:58:49] Speaker C: We got haunt. They're all there. [00:58:52] Speaker B: And they're slicing the faces off of bad guys left and right. Soul Crusher shooting them in the head. Monolith is just eating them. [00:59:05] Speaker C: Of course. It's great. It's great. [00:59:09] Speaker A: There's body parts flying everywhere. All her friends are there. [00:59:13] Speaker C: Yeah, it's a real good time, and a good time was had by all. It's a good two page spread. I like it real fun. [00:59:24] Speaker B: I'd like to think that these are pairings. Everybody's paired off, two in each thing. [00:59:31] Speaker C: That it would be like if this. [00:59:32] Speaker B: Were an epic fantasy story, these would be the parties that the story would break into that we'd go from one to the next to the next to the next to the next, and it would be like six years before all of them meet back up together again. [00:59:48] Speaker A: I'd like to see Freak and Medieval doing shit together. I'd watch that or I'd read that. [00:59:54] Speaker C: It would definitely be like a very. [00:59:57] Speaker B: Lethal weapon, a buddy comedy, because medieval would be like, come on, Freak. What are you doing? He's just like, I'm going to ha. [01:00:07] Speaker A: I got to cut off all their skin and make a mask out of it. [01:00:10] Speaker B: Yeah, it would actually been better to have Reaper and Haunt together since Reaper naturally has a big blade. Haunt would just be like, keep that fucking thing away from me. [01:00:21] Speaker C: It's pretty cool that freak's got, like. [01:00:24] Speaker A: An old school sky. [01:00:26] Speaker C: Yeah, it's real do handle on there. It's real dope. [01:00:30] Speaker B: I like how the two gun nuts are together. So literally, they would just always talk about, so what's that you got there? Oh, did you get the with the hell? Yeah. [01:00:42] Speaker A: Sergey is just standing on top of a demon shooting two guns into its head. [01:00:48] Speaker B: It's just, like, vaporized its head. Like, there's just a spot where head used to be. [01:00:52] Speaker C: It's great. Nice. [01:00:54] Speaker B: And raven spawn usually has a scythe too, but right now he's doing green. [01:00:59] Speaker C: Orbs, so I need to know more. [01:01:01] Speaker B: About this raven spawn. [01:01:03] Speaker C: Johnny yeah. What's he doing there? I don't know. He's trying to protect is he is. [01:01:09] Speaker B: A general of whatever portion of hell it was that he's the general of the southernmost portion. [01:01:15] Speaker A: The southernmost portion of hell's. [01:01:16] Speaker C: Army. Don't forget, never forget. [01:01:21] Speaker B: And then in return, there's, like an aftermath, just everybody sitting there cooling off. Gunslinger's revolver still smoking. [01:01:33] Speaker A: How much does it suck to be like Sergey, like, the only one that has to actually eat food? Yeah, because you know that the freak don't eat. I bet maybe Haunt has to eat. [01:01:42] Speaker B: He ate lunch at the worst date in the true. This one panel is the only panel. [01:01:49] Speaker C: In this issue that even oh, no, it does. [01:01:53] Speaker B: Later. So this is post gunslinger image change because you can see in this one. [01:01:59] Speaker C: Panel he's got the bandit the bandit mask on. That's a good little bit of continuity. Yeah. [01:02:08] Speaker B: And then Monolith is trying to foment dissent here. [01:02:12] Speaker C: Come on, monolith. [01:02:13] Speaker B: I thought you and Al were buddies. Could you believe him marching around, barking orders when it's his whole mess? His whole mess is his fault. [01:02:24] Speaker C: Come on, monolith. [01:02:25] Speaker B: Come on. [01:02:26] Speaker C: Come on. So then we get that shrek montage with the I'm on my way from misery to happiness today. Yeah, that's the song I imagine is playing while they're walking across hell for a week. [01:02:47] Speaker A: David they're walking along Hell for a week. [01:02:49] Speaker B: Well, that's about how long Shrek and Donkey walked to get to the tower where Princess Fiona was. [01:02:56] Speaker C: Was it? I mean, it was a long time. [01:02:59] Speaker B: It made it seem like a long time. It was too far for Farquad to walk with his little bitty feet. [01:03:05] Speaker A: Well, that's not too hard. [01:03:08] Speaker B: It's like, wait up. I got little legs. [01:03:12] Speaker A: I wonder if Sergey is eating, like, demons, like, and roasting them. [01:03:17] Speaker C: Because it's been a week. [01:03:18] Speaker A: He's gonna have to eat something. [01:03:20] Speaker B: Either that or he's finding Hell bugs and he's eating the Hellbugs. [01:03:23] Speaker A: Just eating. Yeah. [01:03:25] Speaker B: Or maybe some of the Hell spawns. [01:03:26] Speaker C: Are just, like, necroplasming up a sandwich. Like, each mealtime, another one of them. [01:03:33] Speaker B: Has to sacrifice a certain amount of. [01:03:35] Speaker C: Their power to feed Sergey. Give him a sandwich, and hot and hot. [01:03:43] Speaker B: And when it comes to monolith's turn. [01:03:45] Speaker C: He'S just like, I don't want to do it. [01:03:47] Speaker B: Why do I have to do it? [01:03:48] Speaker C: I'm not from here. [01:03:50] Speaker A: Just eat a demon like I did during the battle. [01:03:54] Speaker B: You didn't need that for sustenance. [01:03:56] Speaker C: He just liked it. [01:03:57] Speaker B: And then we got them on the then they're on some boats. [01:04:01] Speaker C: Just on some boats. Look at them. Look at them going. They're crossing a river. And Jessica, unfortunately, this is where who. [01:04:16] Speaker B: Is supposed to be speaking here? [01:04:17] Speaker C: Johnny. [01:04:18] Speaker A: I think it's just messed up. I think it's supposed to be Sergey. And then they added the spawn thing on accident. [01:04:23] Speaker B: I think it's supposed to be Jessica Priest. But Jessica Priest doesn't speak with a. [01:04:27] Speaker C: Spawn bubble because medieval and Jessica Priest. [01:04:31] Speaker B: Are talking back and forth. [01:04:32] Speaker C: And then just like, while they're talking, sergey falls in, and, like, Jessica, this. [01:04:39] Speaker B: Is Sergey Medvedev's first trip to Hell. [01:04:43] Speaker C: So several moments ago, from the depths. [01:04:47] Speaker B: Of the swamp, he began hearing a voice calling for help. So obviously, it wasn't Sergey saying, I think I keep hearing the voices of love, of people I've known. [01:04:54] Speaker C: So I think it's Jessica saying that. [01:04:57] Speaker A: It'S just a mistake that it has the spawn voice around. [01:05:00] Speaker B: But I guess, you know, to make. [01:05:02] Speaker C: It a spawn, to let you know. [01:05:05] Speaker B: That it's not Sergey, even though Jessica doesn't. [01:05:08] Speaker C: There's a lot of difficulty with bubbling. [01:05:13] Speaker B: That panel set up the way it. [01:05:15] Speaker C: So yeah, I think it's fine. [01:05:18] Speaker B: I think it's fine. [01:05:19] Speaker C: You know what? [01:05:20] Speaker B: Tomo has been doing this longer than I've been alive. [01:05:23] Speaker C: I'm sure he knows what he's doing. [01:05:28] Speaker A: Anyone can make a mistake. [01:05:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:05:32] Speaker B: Medieval's like, hey, at least you hear the voices of the people you love. [01:05:37] Speaker A: All mine are my enemies, like, killed. [01:05:40] Speaker C: Yeah, sergey hears his sister jumps off, and he swims to the bottom, and. [01:05:47] Speaker B: He'S like, I can't breathe. [01:05:48] Speaker C: And yet he continues deeper. [01:05:52] Speaker B: And then once again, we get a Spawn against Sergey, a Spawn against Soul crusher under the water fight. It's only one sided, though, because Sergey's fighting to keep going. And Al's just like. [01:06:09] Speaker C: Here he spawned. [01:06:11] Speaker A: Don't follow the deadlights. [01:06:14] Speaker B: Albert Simmons. Forgot the old adage, reach your throw, don't go. Which is this is exactly why you don't go. Because people flailing around in the water can hit you in the head and. [01:06:26] Speaker C: Then you both drown. What's the saying again? [01:06:29] Speaker B: Reach your throw, don't go. [01:06:31] Speaker A: Yeah, you don't want to both get. [01:06:34] Speaker B: So so Spawn just knocks him out. [01:06:38] Speaker C: With a chain to the face and. [01:06:40] Speaker B: Then throws him back up on the boat. [01:06:43] Speaker A: It's chain and throw, don't go. [01:06:46] Speaker B: Chain and throw, don't go. I like you could see the fishes in the background there. It's real nice. [01:06:51] Speaker C: Those are some spooky hellfishes. [01:06:53] Speaker B: They almost look like piranha skeletons with just like a thin layer of skin on them. [01:06:57] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, they are spooky hell. [01:06:59] Speaker B: They're almost like spawn fish. Like they've given the K Seven letha to the fish. Then they're all sitting around the fire. They're all doing the blazing Saddles bean. [01:07:17] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:07:17] Speaker B: Gun bean farts. Apparently Mel Brooks did all of the farts in post production. And so he would put the farts. [01:07:29] Speaker C: In and then he'd watch it, and. [01:07:31] Speaker B: Then he would add another fart in. [01:07:34] Speaker C: And then he'd watch it. [01:07:35] Speaker B: And he just started kept adding farts and watching it until the farts stopped being funny. And then that's how he knew how many farts to put in. [01:07:46] Speaker A: It's a science. How many farts are seven farts? That's all you get. [01:07:52] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:07:53] Speaker B: After a while, it just gets tiring. [01:07:55] Speaker C: So they come across a wall that a massive defensive perimeter. [01:08:03] Speaker B: And Redeemer is like, can we go around? And I was like, nope, we're too far behind already. [01:08:10] Speaker C: And so Jessica's like, right, got it. Gunslinger reaper freak, you're going to be a scouting party. Go, go. [01:08:18] Speaker A: Yeah, you guys go ahead and see what's going on over there. [01:08:21] Speaker C: And then we see again. [01:08:22] Speaker B: That it's. Post image change. [01:08:27] Speaker C: Gunslinger. Yes, it's the new gunslinger. [01:08:33] Speaker B: And then we flash to the fourth. [01:08:34] Speaker C: Realm, where, man, this little scene is. [01:08:43] Speaker B: Like as tender as Sin gets, where pretty much Cataclys has proven himself worthy. [01:08:50] Speaker C: And Sin's like, hey, guess what? When I'm king of Hell, I'm going. [01:08:54] Speaker B: To give you a hell of good job. [01:08:56] Speaker A: And he ends this tender scene by saying, I may just keep you alive when this is done. [01:09:03] Speaker C: Really nice. Yeah. [01:09:05] Speaker B: When I take the throne, I want you to be my saber. [01:09:07] Speaker C: Me? [01:09:08] Speaker B: Unless there's someone else. A real fucked up dynamic there, Johnny. [01:09:15] Speaker C: Real fucked up. But I mean, cataclys has done good for See. [01:09:25] Speaker B: We'll see. [01:09:26] Speaker C: We'll see if it works out for him. [01:09:30] Speaker A: Then we cut back to the infernal keep at the first realm. [01:09:33] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:09:33] Speaker B: And we got Dr. Bones there. [01:09:36] Speaker A: I love Dr. Bones. [01:09:37] Speaker B: Look at him. [01:09:39] Speaker C: Just a bone guy. [01:09:41] Speaker B: I love a character that is full flesh body with a skull. [01:09:46] Speaker C: That's the head. [01:09:47] Speaker B: It's almost Ghost Rider, y. It's Ghost Rider, but his flames are taking a break. [01:09:52] Speaker C: Yeah, he's one of the. [01:09:53] Speaker A: Advisors to cataclysm. And he's basically telling him that because Greenworld, he's like, wow, great. Makes you look weak having to have Greenworld come in and save your ass. Yeah, rely on a foreign power, he says. [01:10:04] Speaker B: And Cataclysm is like, hey, just whatever helps us win. He doesn't really like it, but I mean, he will use any advantage he has. And then basically immediately after being like, you're weak for accepting help, they're like, oh, yeah, and somebody else wants the help. [01:10:26] Speaker C: Boy, the politics, it sucks. And then we go back to a. [01:10:33] Speaker B: Conversation between Jessica and Al. And Jessica's like, man, this isn't Nick's. [01:10:37] Speaker C: What the hell's going on? [01:10:39] Speaker B: And Al's like, hey, man, death changes a person. [01:10:45] Speaker C: And he's like, but if Green world. [01:10:47] Speaker B: Gets in our way, we're going to. [01:10:48] Speaker C: Have to fight him whether we love Nick's or Jessica's. [01:10:53] Speaker A: Like, maybe keeping Cataclysm on the throne is the best. [01:10:59] Speaker C: Like, I mean, maybe. [01:11:01] Speaker B: But boy, howdy he doesn't got legs. He's not going to make it very long. [01:11:08] Speaker C: And while they're in the middle of their chat here, we get round eye of surprise, look out. [01:11:17] Speaker B: And then modelists like, we've got incoming. It's like a World War II picture. [01:11:24] Speaker C: Now hit the dick. [01:11:28] Speaker B: I like the little Christ Almighty that Sergey says, and the incoming johnny, what. [01:11:35] Speaker C: Was it that was incoming? Reaper. [01:11:38] Speaker B: It was Reaper. Oh, my God. [01:11:39] Speaker C: So. [01:11:42] Speaker B: That doesn't bode well for the exploratory party. [01:11:45] Speaker A: Yeah, the scouting party is probably not scouting too well. [01:11:49] Speaker C: No, we get a nice to be continued. [01:11:52] Speaker B: I feel like it's been a while. [01:11:53] Speaker C: Since we get a to be continued. Yeah, I like those. It's nice. [01:11:57] Speaker A: Especially with such an abrupt ending like that. [01:12:00] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:12:02] Speaker B: We got a Necrometer 2113. [01:12:05] Speaker C: Not too bad at all. [01:12:07] Speaker B: Spawning grounds this time is the SDCC 2023 roundup. [01:12:12] Speaker C: And Johnny, I'm upset at this page. Look at this. Why? [01:12:18] Speaker B: Look at this. Motherfucker calling the Tod father lazy. And then myland big cheese hanging out with him. [01:12:25] Speaker A: Rob Liefeld. [01:12:26] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, I understand that they're takes it takes a little bit of. [01:12:33] Speaker C: The ammunition out of our getting to. [01:12:36] Speaker B: Talk shit about Rob Liefeld, whatever. But I don't know who the first person is. [01:12:44] Speaker C: But then it doesn't say. [01:12:46] Speaker B: I'm assuming it's probably just a fan then. Like a gaggle of fans. Look at all those fans. [01:12:53] Speaker A: A whole bunch. [01:12:54] Speaker B: And then the Todd father with Rob. [01:12:56] Speaker C: Liefeld, as we said, with Jonathan Glapion. Also again with Jim Lee. [01:13:03] Speaker B: And then a picture of him with somebody dressed up as Spawn. [01:13:06] Speaker C: And it's a really good costume. Yeah, I don't think that's either. [01:13:10] Speaker A: The people we know. [01:13:11] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't think it is either. [01:13:12] Speaker A: Looks a little different than Spawny Boys. [01:13:15] Speaker C: We have to figure out who that is. [01:13:17] Speaker A: Really good spawn costume. [01:13:19] Speaker C: That's a really good one. [01:13:20] Speaker B: Then the advertisements for the Spawn Universe titles. [01:13:26] Speaker A: It's highlighting the Mike Diodato covers in. [01:13:30] Speaker C: September and the Image Classics ad. [01:13:33] Speaker B: And then the Toy advertisement, which once. [01:13:36] Speaker C: Again is the medieval figure, which is nice. Boom. [01:13:40] Speaker A: That's Spawn 345. [01:13:42] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. [01:13:44] Speaker C: And Johnny. [01:13:49] Speaker B: A couple of issues. One of the issues has some dogs in them, and I think we need to rate those puppies. [01:13:54] Speaker A: It's time to rate these puppies. [01:13:58] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:13:59] Speaker A: And you got farted on by a puppy. [01:14:02] Speaker B: Oh, boy. That knocks my rating of that dog. [01:14:06] Speaker C: Down by a couple of couple of points. [01:14:09] Speaker A: Well, to speak of the first issue that has the dogs in it, as we're rating these puppies, that's issue 322. Spawn asked the question, WoodSt, thou like to play a game? [01:14:20] Speaker B: Verily. [01:14:22] Speaker C: Verily wouldst thou? [01:14:24] Speaker A: Really cool issue. Like, I thought Tod father was really nailed it with this one. It's a good, like, kind of sell, even though it does build on something from last issue. It's kind of a self contained story, morality tale. [01:14:38] Speaker B: I like it when the todd father does something brutal. [01:14:42] Speaker C: It's real nice. Yeah. [01:14:44] Speaker A: I just remember reading this as, like, the first thing I picked up after King Spawn and being like, all right, I could get into this. It did its job. [01:14:51] Speaker C: Hell, yeah. So I'm going to give it I. [01:14:55] Speaker A: Would give it four and a half. [01:14:57] Speaker C: Bugs down the throat. [01:15:01] Speaker B: Gross. [01:15:01] Speaker A: All those beautiful Carlo Barberry cockroaches going down your throat. [01:15:06] Speaker B: You can feel all their little feats in their antennas going, I don't want to. [01:15:12] Speaker A: That's like on Race of the Broken Land where they feed him the scorpions. [01:15:16] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [01:15:17] Speaker B: Oh, jeez. He didn't need to talk about how they came out. But he did. [01:15:24] Speaker A: But he did. [01:15:26] Speaker C: Oh, boy. Oh, boy. [01:15:28] Speaker B: Well, Johnny, I am also going to give it four and a half. I'm going to give it four and a half. [01:15:34] Speaker C: Final touch. [01:15:35] Speaker B: Sunglasses. Just being like, oh, yeah, we got to put sunglasses on. [01:15:38] Speaker A: We must spawn. If you're going to spawn and turn into Simmons, you must also spawn the sunglasses. [01:15:46] Speaker C: Yeah, it's a real good book. I enjoyed the heck out of it. Yeah. [01:15:51] Speaker A: I thought it was fun. Saw a story, was cool. The guy got his comeuppance for being a huge piece of shit. [01:16:00] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:16:01] Speaker A: Like a giant piece of shit. So that was nice. [01:16:05] Speaker B: It's always nice to have a captive. [01:16:07] Speaker C: Freed, and it's nice to have a small story. [01:16:11] Speaker A: If you look at where this is compared to 345 oh, yeah. Just spawning a guy in a cabin, then we have this giant epic war 20 issues later. It's crazy. [01:16:21] Speaker B: Yeah. It's much more intimate. [01:16:25] Speaker A: Much more intimate. Street level or forest level? [01:16:28] Speaker B: I guess basement. [01:16:29] Speaker A: Wilderness level. Basement level. Not basement level isn't bad. It's master bedroom level, but it's basement level. [01:16:39] Speaker C: Story telling. Middle of the if that makes sense. [01:16:44] Speaker B: It's Blair Witch level. The camera is right up in your. [01:16:48] Speaker C: Face, and it's shaking around, and you. [01:16:52] Speaker B: Could see the snot the snot bubble in the nose. Just being like that's where your anxiety is. [01:16:59] Speaker A: A found footage. Found footage. [01:17:01] Speaker B: Saw a found footage saw or a. [01:17:03] Speaker C: Found footage Spawn saw? I think a found footage Spawn would be pretty dope. Found footage Spawn. [01:17:10] Speaker A: I mean, found footage, anything could be fun. Depends on how it's executed, I guess. [01:17:14] Speaker B: Yeah, found footage is fun. [01:17:16] Speaker C: It's a good technique. Yeah, it's fun. Genre or not genre, I guess. [01:17:21] Speaker B: But you can't really watch too many of them in a row, though, because then you're the that original Spanish record rec. Oh, boy. [01:17:30] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:17:31] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Wanda was in the hospital when I watched that for the first time, and. [01:17:33] Speaker C: I was all by myself and one. [01:17:36] Speaker B: Of the scariest experiences of my life. [01:17:38] Speaker C: It was crazy. Yeah. And it's very hard for me to be scared anymore. Yeah. [01:17:42] Speaker A: Found footage always does it for me. [01:17:44] Speaker C: But we find ourselves, you know what does it for me, Johnny? [01:17:48] Speaker A: Spawn 345. [01:17:50] Speaker B: Spawn 345. [01:17:51] Speaker A: Yeah, this is awesome issue. Just building up to this big battle. You get all your favorite characters there, descent into Hell, everyone working together. I really like this issue a lot. [01:18:05] Speaker C: Yeah. I'm going to give it five double. [01:18:08] Speaker A: Guns to the demon's head, just like Sergey was doing. Crusher was shooting the guy in the head. [01:18:14] Speaker B: So what you're saying is this issue is soul Crusher dual wielding, and that demon is your sadness and your boredom. [01:18:22] Speaker C: And it's just blah vanquishing them, disintegrating it. [01:18:27] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. Excellent. [01:18:29] Speaker C: Excellent. [01:18:31] Speaker B: I don't think I've given anything a five in a while. And I know that this little short chain that we've been going on, it's been a great run. [01:18:40] Speaker C: There's going to be multiple fives for. [01:18:43] Speaker B: This out of me. But I'm also going to give it five. I'm going to give it five bone daddies, five Doctor dr bones. Five sassy dr bones even. [01:18:56] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:18:57] Speaker A: Telling Cataclysm not to. [01:18:59] Speaker C: He looks weak. Yeah, I love a good skeleton, man. [01:19:07] Speaker B: Don't tell your boss you look weak when your teeth look like that. Fucking get some braces before you. [01:19:14] Speaker C: But yeah, I mean, this issue, what. [01:19:17] Speaker A: Can I say about it? [01:19:18] Speaker C: I mean, writing is good. [01:19:20] Speaker A: Story is good. It was good. It's got great momentum. [01:19:26] Speaker C: And it's just fun seeing them all. [01:19:28] Speaker A: Go into hell and just seeing everyone fight. And I like Nix a lot. [01:19:31] Speaker C: She gets some time to shine and. [01:19:34] Speaker A: Sets it up for the next one. [01:19:38] Speaker B: Just because of the way that I've gotten into it. [01:19:41] Speaker C: I've read very little NYX proper, and. [01:19:44] Speaker B: I like everything that I've read with Nick's in it. [01:19:46] Speaker C: NYX just is awesome. [01:19:48] Speaker B: Ever since the story of Nick's issue. [01:19:51] Speaker C: That we covered, it was real good. It's been real good. [01:19:57] Speaker A: Yeah, I know her a little bit from the earlier issues, too, because I haven't read those compendiums. [01:20:01] Speaker C: But yeah, she's great. Nice. Excellent. Well, Johnny, we done finished these issues for the day. [01:20:13] Speaker B: And I do believe you mentioned that you picked up a little something something from Spawncon that we could maybe fiddle around with a little bit. What do you say we that's right. Do some fiddling. [01:20:29] Speaker C: Yeah, let's fiddle it. [01:20:33] Speaker B: Uh, it could be Todd's Trading cards talk, because it's kind of toy it's toy adjacent. [01:20:41] Speaker A: Yeah, it's toy adjacent. I'm just trying to think it's like it's a merch talk, but it's basically Todd's toy talk. It's tod's Trading Card lock. [01:20:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:21:02] Speaker A: We'Ve got I bought a box of nine packs of the Spawn the Movie trading card from the Spawn Hunters booth at Spawn. [01:21:11] Speaker C: Con. Yeah. [01:21:13] Speaker A: For $20. Pretty good deal. [01:21:15] Speaker B: Pretty good deal. Especially because it says on the back of these that a regular edition is $6 per pack. Oh, I know. That's for the magazine. [01:21:22] Speaker C: Never mind. [01:21:23] Speaker B: Yeah. So on the back of the it's. [01:21:25] Speaker C: Got the it's just a little booster pack. [01:21:28] Speaker B: Like, you get your Pokemon cards or your magic cards in it says there's at least one complete set of collector cards in each sealed 36 count display box. So I don't think you got that whole thing, did you? [01:21:44] Speaker C: No, I didn't get a display box. [01:21:45] Speaker A: It was like a miniature box. It was a sealed box, but it was just, like, nine packs. [01:21:52] Speaker C: Nice. [01:21:53] Speaker A: Not 30 or whatever. [01:21:55] Speaker C: ODS. [01:21:56] Speaker B: Of finding Spawn. From comics to filled cards, approximately one to eleven Spawn revealed cards one to 24. Spawn the Devil's own approximately one to 108. [01:22:08] Speaker C: So hopefully we can get some of. [01:22:12] Speaker B: Those higher ratioed cards there, Johnny. [01:22:16] Speaker C: Yeah. Nice. [01:22:18] Speaker A: So I guess we should just open them up. Suckers open. [01:22:22] Speaker B: Yeah, we should. [01:22:22] Speaker A: I do like that on the back. You can order spawn the official Collector's album. [01:22:26] Speaker C: Yeah. Oh, you got the album? [01:22:29] Speaker B: Mine's the new movie magazine and the making of Spawn Book. [01:22:33] Speaker A: Oh, this one has the you can get official Collector's album that can hold your cards. [01:22:39] Speaker C: That's funny. [01:22:39] Speaker A: He has different ads on the different packs. [01:22:41] Speaker C: Yeah, that's wild. [01:22:44] Speaker A: All right, so let's shake it here. You hear it? Oh, yeah. Shaking it on, Mike. [01:22:50] Speaker B: Shake it. Shake, shake it, shake it. Don't shake it. Like don't shake Polaroids. [01:22:53] Speaker C: It'll make them all streaky. [01:22:55] Speaker A: Pop it open. Make sure to smell them. [01:22:57] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. That ink is going to smell real nice. That mid 90s ink. The mid 90s ink works. [01:23:09] Speaker C: Subtle. [01:23:11] Speaker B: It's like they took the smell of. [01:23:14] Speaker C: A new mass market paperback and toggled. [01:23:18] Speaker B: The dial down a little bit so. [01:23:19] Speaker C: They smell smell good, but light. All right, so what's the first card you got, Johnny? [01:23:27] Speaker A: First up, I got Spawn sitting on a roof. It's called the Dark Watcher. [01:23:33] Speaker C: Nice. [01:23:34] Speaker B: I've got Al Simmons holding a gun. [01:23:37] Speaker C: Against the lackey, and it says, Simmons betrayed. Nice. [01:23:41] Speaker A: OOH, I got a Jessica Priest card. [01:23:43] Speaker C: Nice. [01:23:43] Speaker B: My second card is it's called Wind's evil Scheme. And it's just a good one. [01:23:53] Speaker A: Kids Love Martin Sheen's face. [01:23:55] Speaker B: Yeah, they do. And he's got his little black, little. [01:24:00] Speaker C: Skinny cigar in it's. Nice. [01:24:02] Speaker A: This is, like, sexy Jessica Priest sitting around at Jason Wyn's office. [01:24:06] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:24:07] Speaker A: Earlier in the movie, so assassin named Priest. [01:24:10] Speaker C: It says nice. [01:24:12] Speaker A: Next card is spawn versus violator, called in the clutches of the violator. [01:24:16] Speaker C: Oh, nice. [01:24:17] Speaker A: And it's spawns facing down the violator. [01:24:19] Speaker B: Pretty cool card, this one's. Post resurrection al Simmons in the unhomed men's coat. So he's just burned and he kind of yeah, he is Crispy. He kind of looks a little bit like one individual candy man here. It's called back from beyond. [01:24:42] Speaker C: Oh, shit. [01:24:43] Speaker B: Oh, shit. And the little tiny thumbnail on the back of it is White Terry, kissing. [01:24:52] Speaker C: Man. [01:24:53] Speaker B: White Terry dressed like a wino in old Tatters. The bird beyond recognition. Simmons is helped by Coliostro, who tosses him an overcoat. Disoriented but determined, Simmons cannot control his urge to see Wanda. But when he arrives at his old house, he finds that everything has changed. And now his beloved Wanda is married to his former best friend, fellow agent Terry Fitzgerald. [01:25:18] Speaker C: No. [01:25:20] Speaker A: Then I got a behind the scenes card. [01:25:23] Speaker C: Right? Nice. And it is spawn against a blue. [01:25:29] Speaker B: Nice. [01:25:30] Speaker C: Nice. Here's a great quote from the back today. [01:25:35] Speaker A: There are so many examples of good computer graphics comments. Visual effects supervisor, steve Williams. The challenge is to bring this technique, which has been abused and overused back to serve the story. [01:25:46] Speaker C: That's crazy. [01:25:46] Speaker A: They're already calling digital effects abused and overused in 1997. Little do you know. [01:25:53] Speaker B: Give it 20 years, bud. Give it 20 years. [01:25:55] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:25:55] Speaker A: Just wait. Just wait. [01:25:57] Speaker B: My next card is Clown dressed up as the Clown at the birthday party. At Cyan's birthday party. Creepy. With Crispy Simmons on the ground there. And it says, Clown tragic follower. [01:26:12] Speaker C: My next one is clown. [01:26:14] Speaker A: And Spawn called Mocking his fate. [01:26:16] Speaker C: And it's just Spawn getting taunted by Clown. Nice. This next one's awesome. [01:26:26] Speaker B: It's a still from when Spawn just, like, descends on that opera, or the. [01:26:34] Speaker C: It was the opera, right? It's not an opera or, like an. [01:26:39] Speaker B: Auction or the he's got the cape. [01:26:42] Speaker C: Billowing behind him, and the card is called The Cape. [01:26:47] Speaker B: And the little thumbnail on the back has a scared Jason Wyn trying to crawl under a table. [01:26:56] Speaker A: My next one is called Satan Cycle. [01:27:00] Speaker B: Nice. [01:27:02] Speaker C: And then it's Spawn riding the motorcycle on the back. The thumbnail is Clown is big like Truck. [01:27:11] Speaker B: Nice. My next three actually are. [01:27:21] Speaker C: Fake issue. [01:27:22] Speaker B: Covers where it's got the little image logo. And it says Spawn. [01:27:26] Speaker C: And then a burning hole. [01:27:28] Speaker B: And out of the burning hole is Terry Fitzgerald. [01:27:31] Speaker C: It's a face card of Terry Fitzgerald. White Terry. White Terry. Oh, boy. Nice. [01:27:39] Speaker B: The back, it's got a little blurb. [01:27:41] Speaker C: About who he is. [01:27:42] Speaker A: I got a clown. [01:27:44] Speaker C: It says, these flashbacks are killers. [01:27:50] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:27:51] Speaker C: It's when they're at the graveyard, they. [01:27:53] Speaker A: Do a flashback to Spawn's earlier life and stuff. [01:27:57] Speaker C: Nice. [01:28:00] Speaker B: My next fake issue cover card with the burning person coming out of it. Johnny, you're really going to like this one. I'm going to have to send you. [01:28:07] Speaker C: A picture of it. [01:28:08] Speaker B: It's Agent Priest. [01:28:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:28:12] Speaker C: And if you can imagine, Johnny, they. [01:28:16] Speaker B: Made it pretty horny. [01:28:19] Speaker A: You know, I could imagine. [01:28:20] Speaker B: I'm going to take a picture of it right now so I don't forget and send it to you. [01:28:24] Speaker A: Send it to me. [01:28:25] Speaker C: Right. [01:28:25] Speaker A: David, I need that picture. Horny, you say, David, I need that picture right now. [01:28:30] Speaker C: Johnny, it is coming to you presently. [01:28:34] Speaker B: Oh, no, I don't want to send. [01:28:35] Speaker C: You there we go. [01:28:36] Speaker B: There we go. There we go. [01:28:37] Speaker C: There we go. Pretty. [01:28:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:28:44] Speaker A: That's awesome. [01:28:47] Speaker B: It is. Boobalicious, as the kids say. [01:28:51] Speaker A: Yeah, that's cool. The image and like, them coming out of the flames. That's funny. [01:28:55] Speaker C: Yeah, it's fun. [01:28:57] Speaker A: My next card is more motorcycle action. [01:29:00] Speaker B: Yeah, you get the motorcycle where his. [01:29:02] Speaker A: Motorcycle turns into a shell to protect him from an explosion. [01:29:07] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [01:29:08] Speaker A: It says Metal morphosis. [01:29:12] Speaker B: Technomeshed. [01:29:14] Speaker C: Yeah. Nice. [01:29:18] Speaker B: This is actually my last actual card. It's another one of those fake comic covers, and it's Agent Al Simmons. [01:29:27] Speaker C: And we just got Al Simmons just. [01:29:31] Speaker B: Looking looking real nice. [01:29:33] Speaker C: Nice. Yeah. Nice. [01:29:37] Speaker A: Do you have that, like, ad card? [01:29:38] Speaker B: Yeah. 1997, the year of Spawn, Spawn, spawn. [01:29:42] Speaker C: Little did they know, it's got, like, the PlayStation Game soundtrack. [01:29:50] Speaker A: The toys. [01:29:51] Speaker B: Yeah. America's number one comic book with over 100 million sold worldwide. The television show Eight Eight eight Comic. [01:29:58] Speaker C: Book is a phone number we could call. [01:30:02] Speaker A: Call them up. [01:30:03] Speaker C: Nice. Well, that was fun. [01:30:04] Speaker B: I like these. [01:30:05] Speaker C: These cards are great. [01:30:06] Speaker A: Yeah, these are awesome. We'll open some packs every once in a while. [01:30:11] Speaker C: Hell, yeah. Those are good finds. Good finds, Johnny. Yeah. Thank you. [01:30:16] Speaker A: Yeah, thank the Spawn Hunter for selling them. [01:30:18] Speaker C: Yeah. And speaking of thanking the Spawn Hunter. [01:30:20] Speaker B: We should thank some people that we're friends with, and maybe you guys should. [01:30:26] Speaker C: Be friends with them, too. [01:30:28] Speaker B: This week we got a friend named Dave, and not this Dave, but another Dave. There's a lot of Dave's. [01:30:34] Speaker A: Different Dave, let me just tell you. [01:30:36] Speaker B: His name is Dave. Dave at Spawn. Guy 21 on Instagram. [01:30:44] Speaker C: If you can believe it, Johnny. He's got Hella Spawn up on his page. Yeah. He says that he has full run of stuff. [01:30:55] Speaker A: Full spawn USA covers. [01:30:57] Speaker C: A nice that's pretty great. [01:31:01] Speaker B: That's pretty great. He got a lot of people he was at Spawncon, Johnny, and he got. [01:31:05] Speaker A: A lot of oh, he was at Spawncon. [01:31:07] Speaker C: What the heck? Because he got his VIP box signed. He did. [01:31:13] Speaker A: That's a good idea. [01:31:13] Speaker B: Look, the Tom O is the only non green pin, and it's in gold. [01:31:18] Speaker C: And it's just, like, right there in the middle. That's awesome. [01:31:22] Speaker A: That was a good idea. [01:31:25] Speaker B: Spun Hunter himself even says I should have done wonderful. Wonderful. [01:31:34] Speaker C: Dude, Dave's got some good shit. You should follow Dave. Yeah, give him a follow while you're over there. [01:31:42] Speaker B: Give thanks to our budy Brian. Brian underscore voyals underscore 27. [01:31:46] Speaker C: He does our music, and he's just a real good guy. Solid. Good guy like Brian. Oh, yeah. [01:31:54] Speaker A: We love Brian. [01:31:55] Speaker C: We do. [01:31:56] Speaker B: Speaking of love, we would love your love. [01:31:58] Speaker C: So come love us at regarding Spawn Pod. That's what it is. [01:32:02] Speaker B: At regarding Spawn Pod. [01:32:05] Speaker C: I forgot our own handle for a second there, Johnny. [01:32:08] Speaker B: We're posting pictures of our weekly pickups. [01:32:11] Speaker C: We're posting pictures that are applicable to. [01:32:14] Speaker B: Each episode that we record. We're posting pictures of just random shit. We're posting pictures of our stickers that we slap up around town. A, to know, let you see our cool stickers we got, and B, also as an advertising campaign to come be a tourist in Chicago. [01:32:35] Speaker C: If you're ever in Chicago, hit us up, please do. Yeah. And then, you know, if you don't. [01:32:41] Speaker B: Want to reach out to us on Instagram, you can always reach out to us via email at regarding [email protected]. [01:32:50] Speaker A: Hit us up. [01:32:51] Speaker C: Hit us up. Hit us up. [01:32:53] Speaker B: Remember that if you send us an email, johnny will read it on air. And if you send us an email that Johnny reads on air with your address in the email, we will send you a sticker. [01:33:04] Speaker C: So, yeah, there you go. Yeah. [01:33:05] Speaker A: Do you have some response stickers? [01:33:07] Speaker C: Yeah, they're dope. [01:33:10] Speaker B: I am biased because I am the one who designed them. [01:33:16] Speaker A: They are good stickers, though. [01:33:17] Speaker C: But I think they're great. I think they're great. [01:33:21] Speaker B: I'm a whiz at cut and paste now. [01:33:25] Speaker C: Hell yeah. [01:33:28] Speaker A: Well, I'd like to ask a prompt every week just to get the juices flowing. [01:33:33] Speaker C: And because we popped open some trading. [01:33:37] Speaker A: Cards, I just wonder if there was any card games or card collecting that you were into as a kid. Were you into the Pokemon trading card? Maybe the Star Wars card games or just different various trading cards? Like, was there a particular set you remember fondly? [01:33:52] Speaker C: I don't know, I had a lot. [01:33:53] Speaker A: Of trading cards when I was a kid for some reason. I remember having a lot of the mask trading cards and liking those a lot. [01:33:59] Speaker B: Wild. [01:34:00] Speaker C: Wild. [01:34:02] Speaker B: There was some random movie that I. [01:34:05] Speaker C: Had a bunch of cards for, but I don't remember what it was. [01:34:10] Speaker B: I got into magic for a little bit there. [01:34:13] Speaker C: Nice. [01:34:13] Speaker B: But I was more into playing magic than collecting magic. That meant that I really sucked because I didn't look for the good cards. [01:34:23] Speaker A: Hey, it's okay as long as you're having fun. [01:34:25] Speaker C: I was having fun. [01:34:25] Speaker B: I was having fun until I tried to play against the people who were taking it way too seriously. And it's like, hold on, hold on, dude, I'm trying to throw trees at a fucking dragon. You don't need to make this serious. It's a dumb game. [01:34:40] Speaker C: That should be fun. Stop making it so serious. People can do that, I guess if they have to, I just won't participate. Yeah, exactly. [01:34:58] Speaker A: Yeah, just if you had any stuff you collected, trading cards or otherwise, hit. [01:35:03] Speaker C: Us up regarding [email protected] and tell us about it. Nice excellent. [01:35:09] Speaker B: Did your Wander yell at you for spending too much money on Hearthstone? [01:35:13] Speaker C: Hit us up. Yeah. [01:35:15] Speaker A: That's not even real card. [01:35:19] Speaker C: It wasn't the bunny. [01:35:20] Speaker A: She didn't really care about that. It was just that I was so distracted when I was playing it that. [01:35:25] Speaker C: I couldn't do anything. [01:35:27] Speaker B: She was losing you to the electronics. It was like you were being absorbed by the johnny, Johnny, I've had an excellent time. [01:35:39] Speaker C: You want to do this again next week? Let's do some more spawns. [01:35:43] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. Well, let's read two more issues from Spawn's universe. How about a classic and a contemporary? [01:35:48] Speaker C: Does that sound good to you? Sounds good to me. [01:35:51] Speaker B: Fuck yeah. Fuck, yeah. So our classic for next week is going to be Spawn 323. We're continuing on, we're going to maybe. [01:36:00] Speaker C: See it'll probably be the start of a new little mini arc. [01:36:04] Speaker B: Well, I guess we're in the mini arc of chasing down all the people from the Grant Morrison invisibles omnibus that. [01:36:11] Speaker C: Al Simmons keeps. [01:36:14] Speaker B: Then. But it'll be real fun to revisit. [01:36:20] Speaker C: That, because that's kind of where we. [01:36:23] Speaker B: Respawned, if you will. [01:36:26] Speaker A: Right? Yeah, that was the first issue I bought. [01:36:29] Speaker C: This is like my forming spawn grounds. Yeah, excellent. Excellent jobs. [01:36:36] Speaker A: My spawning grounds, as you would say. [01:36:38] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:36:39] Speaker B: And then for our newer book, it'll be Gunslinger Spawn 24. [01:36:45] Speaker A: Last one. [01:36:46] Speaker C: Yeah. So it's a hoot. [01:36:49] Speaker A: It's a wild one. [01:36:51] Speaker B: It's a great send off for an absolutely amazing artist who has given us. [01:36:56] Speaker C: Two solid years of just visual joy. Yeah, I think that about covers it, Johnny. That covers it. [01:37:06] Speaker A: Covered it like Bjorn Barron's, baby. [01:37:09] Speaker B: Well, you are on a computer right now. Are you drawing as well? [01:37:12] Speaker A: No. [01:37:13] Speaker C: Damn. I'm not that well, Johnny. [01:37:17] Speaker B: In that case, I guess that just leaves me to have nothing to say. [01:37:20] Speaker C: But may the Scorched be with you. And also with you, David. Hell yeah. Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. [01:37:29] Speaker A: So now you must do what must be done. Show no leniency and show no mercy. Execute order 66. [01:37:44] Speaker B: A good soldier follows orders.