RE:Spawn Episode 67 - Spawn 324 and King Spawn 26

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Mark, can I ask you something? [00:00:02] Speaker B: Fire away. [00:00:03] Speaker A: Do you trust Al? [00:00:05] Speaker B: What do you mean? [00:00:06] Speaker A: It's not a trick question. [00:00:08] Speaker B: I. Yeah, like I said, he could be a bit of an asshole sometimes, but I guess I do. Good evening, and welcome to the Malbolge. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I'm your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:58] Speaker A: And I'm your co host, David Williams. And shout out to all those plumbers out there on this day after Thanksgiving making their Christmas bonuses on. [00:01:09] Speaker B: Oh, boy. [00:01:10] Speaker A: All that emergency time and a half getting called out. Oh, man. The infrastructure of the United States, Johnny, is not built for the amount of sewage for the day after Thanksgiving. [00:01:24] Speaker B: I never thought about that. I'm just always thinking about being in line at Best Buy. I'm actually recording from a tent outside Best Buy, waiting for the Black Friday deals. [00:01:35] Speaker A: Which buy is the best today? [00:01:38] Speaker B: I don't know. I was thinking I get a Keurig coffee maker. There's one that's really nice. [00:01:43] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:01:44] Speaker B: I don't know. I know it's not like the fanciest coffee, but it just seems a lot easier to deal with. And we use a French press. Wanda likes the French press. [00:01:54] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what I have. [00:01:55] Speaker B: It's a lot hard to clean. I probably drink less coffee because I just don't want to clean it because it's like, you have to get all that stuff out of it. That's the only thing I have my eye on. [00:02:05] Speaker A: Coffee is delicious, Johnny. You a. I don't know if you know this coffee is good. [00:02:11] Speaker B: I go back and forth on it. Like, sometimes I drink it a lot, sometimes I don't. But I usually drink it a lot more in the winter because it's warm. [00:02:18] Speaker A: I am addicted to caffeine, Johnny. [00:02:22] Speaker B: Oh, me too. [00:02:23] Speaker A: If I don't have my minimum amount of caffeine before, like, 11:00, I got a headache I can't get rid of. Not as bad as my dad, who would throw up if he didn't have his caffeine. [00:02:35] Speaker B: Oh, wow. [00:02:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:38] Speaker B: Well, I don't know what happens if I don't have my caffeine, because I always have it. [00:02:41] Speaker A: Yeah, he fell for the bean very hard, but he fell for it late in life. He didn't start drinking coffee till he was, like, 45, and then immediately was like, I have to have coffee at 08:00 p.m. Or else I can't fall asleep for the next day. [00:02:55] Speaker B: Oh, wow. [00:02:56] Speaker A: It's like, what the shit? [00:02:57] Speaker B: That doesn't make any sense. [00:02:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't understand. I worked with somebody from Italy once and she was like, yeah, we have Espresso after dinner, and we don't eat dinner till 09:00 and then we could just fall asleep on it. And I'm like, how? [00:03:14] Speaker B: It's very European. One time when I was in Poland, we stayed at a hotel that was above a bar that their hours were till last guest. And one night they just stayed open all night because some people didn't leave. [00:03:28] Speaker A: Wow. [00:03:29] Speaker B: So maybe they had too much caffeine. [00:03:31] Speaker A: Man, I can't even sniff like a Coca Cola afternoon or else I get super wired. [00:03:36] Speaker B: Yeah, I work at night most of the time, so I usually drink a little bit afternoon, but I got to stop by like, 08:00 or else I'm going to be up all night. [00:03:46] Speaker A: Yeah, up all night. It's good for TNT, not good for working peoples. Right? [00:03:52] Speaker B: This is USA. [00:03:54] Speaker A: USA. Yeah. Okay. It was USA. [00:03:55] Speaker B: TNT had monster vision with Joe Bob Briggs late at night, at least on Fridays. I used to watch that. [00:04:00] Speaker A: Nice. [00:04:01] Speaker B: I saw Phantasm two on TNT, and it scared the shit out of me. [00:04:04] Speaker A: I couldn't sleep that night. Nice phantasm. [00:04:08] Speaker B: Because it ends with like a gotcha where someone pops out of the mirror and I was like. [00:04:15] Speaker A: Nothing like a good gotcha. [00:04:16] Speaker B: Well, it was like the age of, like, whenever I'd see something, like, I wouldn't even have to see the whole movie or it could be edited. But just the ideal, the scary stuff would keep me up because I'd just be thinking about, like, what didn't I see? [00:04:30] Speaker A: So you just went to bed with the question, what if a house. [00:04:36] Speaker B: And that was enough going, that was enough. [00:04:39] Speaker A: What if a house. What if a man turned into a pile of bananas? [00:04:44] Speaker B: Now that wouldn't have scared me. Maybe some parts of Hausu would have scared me. [00:04:48] Speaker A: Oh, man, it's so crazy. It's so crazy. It's wild. [00:04:52] Speaker B: It's some good music, though. [00:04:55] Speaker A: It's some fun is what it is, honestly. Yeah. [00:04:58] Speaker B: Folks, you got to watch Houseu, the 1970s or maybe early eighty s. I think it's 70s. [00:05:03] Speaker A: Yeah, I think it was 70s. [00:05:04] Speaker B: It's like late 70s Japanese film. I know it's 70s because the weirdest thing is the director said he wanted to make the Japanese version of Jaws. [00:05:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:12] Speaker B: And that's what that was. So that tells you a lot about Japanese culture at the time. [00:05:17] Speaker A: And he also let his daughter write what scared her. And all the scares are what his, like, eight year old daughter was scared of. [00:05:24] Speaker B: Pianos, bananas, wells, floating heads. Yeah. [00:05:28] Speaker A: Wells, cats, grandfather clocks. [00:05:32] Speaker B: Cats and grandfather clocks are a little creepy. [00:05:35] Speaker A: Silly old ladies. Yeah, she's a very silly old lady. [00:05:40] Speaker B: Hey, speaking of silly old ladies, we got a silly old lady in this issue of King Spawn that we're covering today. [00:05:45] Speaker A: Hell, yeah, we do. [00:05:46] Speaker B: Well, she's not too silly. She's just an old. [00:05:50] Speaker A: Could see her. I could see her cutting up during coffee break time. She's hanging out by the water cooler, telling just, like, the raunchiest jokes. [00:06:01] Speaker B: We've got an old lady in King Spawn. But we've got a new man writing spawn for our spawn issue. [00:06:08] Speaker A: Did I really not notice that? Holy shit, Johnny. [00:06:12] Speaker B: It's on the COVID David. [00:06:14] Speaker A: Let me tell you something, Johnny. [00:06:16] Speaker B: I've noticed by the writing. [00:06:18] Speaker A: Yeah. I barely remember reading this, okay. Because I read it again after the ill advised overindulgence of Thanksgiving. Of course. A wonderful way to spend time. Spend a holiday away from everybody just reading Spawn by myself. [00:06:35] Speaker B: I did it. I tried to read it yesterday, but I just was too fuzzy from Thanksgiving dinner. So I read it this. [00:06:40] Speaker A: Nice, nice. So you're fresher on it than I am. And I feel like an absolute doofus. For not having noticed that. This is the handshake that we've been waiting for, Johnny. [00:06:50] Speaker B: It is. It's the pass off. So, in a way of saying we've got two issues of Spawn. Welcome to Respawn. [00:06:55] Speaker A: Yes, hello. [00:06:55] Speaker B: Two issues from Spawn Universe. And today, the first issue up is Spawn 324. And why we're talking about handoffs and new guys is this is the first of Rory McConville writing that the run has taken us to. He's still writing. [00:07:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:07:13] Speaker B: So this is the first of his, like, now it's like a 20 something issue run so far. [00:07:18] Speaker A: Yeah, so far. But it would be so far. 23. [00:07:22] Speaker B: 47. [00:07:23] Speaker A: Yeah, 23. [00:07:24] Speaker B: But that's not to say we don't have the Todd father. Because in another switcheroo, instead of Sean Lewis writing King Spawn. We have our second issue of the Todd father writing King Spawn. [00:07:34] Speaker A: Yes, we do. And King Spawn 26, if we didn't. [00:07:36] Speaker B: Say the number, King Spawn 26, that's Spawn 324. All the way back from November 2021. So probably a much worse Thanksgiving for a lot of people. Because it's right in the middle of the pandemic. [00:07:49] Speaker A: Oh, boy. [00:07:50] Speaker B: And then we have King Spawn 26. From September of this year 2023. This year 2023, in case you're listening to this. In the future or the past. [00:07:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know that November 2021, Spawn is. That was the Thanksgiving that you had the exceptional tirade from your uncle about the vaccines and Bill Gates tracking you. [00:08:13] Speaker B: Via that little chip, drinking the ivermectin. [00:08:17] Speaker A: Oh, boy. Ivermectin. Well, at least a whole bunch of horses went without their medicine for a couple of months. [00:08:26] Speaker B: Man, fuck those little glue factories. [00:08:32] Speaker A: We used to have Ivermectin because we used to give it to one of our dogs because it's one of the treatments for Mange. Oh, I need some of that. [00:08:41] Speaker B: I'm a little mangy today. [00:08:42] Speaker A: Well, there's two types of mange. There's Mange that it's like infectious mage is what they call it. So it's just like a parasite that can pass between animals. And then there's another kind of mange that's just, you're so sick and your body's defenses are so low that the endogenous mites on your skin are just like, hell. Yeah, we can take over this. And that's the kind that Ivermectin helps. [00:09:05] Speaker B: Okay, well, good to know. [00:09:06] Speaker A: Yeah. So if you have Mange, you may or may not be able to pass it on. So get it checked out. Check out your Mange. Speaking of mangy dogs, Johnny, the Mangiest dog I can think of is one Mr. Albert Simmons. [00:09:20] Speaker B: Oh yeah, like the opening quote, he's an asshole. [00:09:24] Speaker A: His face looks pretty bad. It's pretty close to what Mangekin looks like. [00:09:32] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, that crispy Simmons look. He needs some Ivermectin. [00:09:37] Speaker A: Yeah, he does. He's going to get rid of those demo decks. [00:09:41] Speaker B: NO, but yeah, so we got this. Roy McConville issues our first issue up, Spawn 324. [00:09:45] Speaker A: Yes, indeed. [00:09:46] Speaker B: And it's fun, like little light kind of intro, kind of easing him into the spawn. But as with most spawn issues, we always start with the covers. [00:09:57] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:09:58] Speaker B: And this one's no different. Which cover do you have, David? [00:10:03] Speaker A: I am working with the COVID the Carlo Barberry. [00:10:07] Speaker B: Oh, nice. So I have that too, but it's not the one I'm reading. [00:10:11] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:10:12] Speaker B: I believe we got that. I got the other 324 for that box of Spawn. I think it was in there. Yeah, but the one I read is the lovely Don Eguyo cover. But let's start with the Carlo Barberry. So it's Spawn looks like he's in some water. [00:10:29] Speaker A: It's literally spawn standing in some kind of water. We don't know, but he's got like the closest approximation I could think of is he's got his strong hand. It's his strong hand. He's got his strong hand out there, and he's got green smoke coming from his eyes, and he is striding forth with intention. [00:10:49] Speaker B: He's down in the sewers fixing those pipes. [00:10:51] Speaker A: After Thanksgiving, he's getting that time and a half. [00:10:55] Speaker B: Not all heroes. Plumbers are heroes, and Spawn is a hero. [00:11:00] Speaker A: You were going to say not all heroes wear capes until you realize. [00:11:03] Speaker B: I was. [00:11:03] Speaker A: But then he does wear cape. We know he has control over that cape. He can put it away. He's flexing, having his cape out while he's in that doodoo water. [00:11:15] Speaker B: Not all capes wear heroes. Goosebawn's an anti hero. How about that? [00:11:20] Speaker A: That works. [00:11:23] Speaker B: Not all heroes wear capes. Not all antiheroes wear capes. But sometimes they both wear capes. [00:11:28] Speaker A: Yes. Imagine you call your plumber up, and he shows up in just like, this gigantic billowing cape. [00:11:37] Speaker B: I'd be like, that seems like a bad idea. [00:11:39] Speaker A: Are you going to be able to work with that on? Isn't that like, a safety hazard? [00:11:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I feel like it just gets sucked down the toilet. Speaking of capes, the other cover, the Donagullio cover, has a big old cape. [00:11:52] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, it does. [00:11:53] Speaker B: It has Wanda and Spawn, and Wanda's like, if I was Terry Fitzgerald, I'd be a little pissed off at this. [00:12:01] Speaker A: This is, Terry totally has this issue just, like, taped to his wall and a whole bunch of darts stuck in it because he just uses it as his dartboard, and he's like, fuck. [00:12:11] Speaker B: Right into Al's head. [00:12:12] Speaker A: Fuck you. [00:12:12] Speaker B: Get away from my wife, Al. Poor Terry. [00:12:15] Speaker A: Poor Terry. Hey, speaking of Terry, I got White Terry watching over us. Make him proud. Great white Terry. [00:12:26] Speaker B: DB Sweeney watching us. [00:12:28] Speaker A: Great white Terry. You just go and chum the waters and he shows up. Eventually. [00:12:36] Speaker B: He's villainized like bland food. And he shows up. [00:12:40] Speaker A: He's villainized far beyond what he's actually capable of. Yes. My favorite thing about sharks, Johnny, they're kind of dumb. They're kind of really dumb. [00:12:54] Speaker B: I mean, you kind of look at their eyes. They're just glazed over. I just watched a shark movie with my nephews. I went and visited my nephews in Texas, and we watched the Meg two. [00:13:02] Speaker A: Oh, hell yeah. How was that? [00:13:03] Speaker B: It was hilarious. [00:13:04] Speaker A: Nice. I need to watch those. [00:13:05] Speaker B: It was a hoot. Yeah, they're fun. They were obsessed with the Meg. Like, I guess last weekend they'd watched the Meg. And so this weekend when I was visiting, we watched the Meg Two. And Jason Statham basically plays Jason Statham, and he punches a shark. He picks up a helicopter rotor and stabs a shark with it in the mouth. [00:13:25] Speaker A: Oh, hell, yeah. [00:13:25] Speaker B: Pretty cool, man. [00:13:27] Speaker A: If you don't like a Jason Statham movie, I mean, that's okay. That's fine. But they're just a fun time. [00:13:33] Speaker B: There's a good time. He just wants to have a good time and kill some sharks. [00:13:36] Speaker A: He just wants to keep his heart rate above. What was it, like, 120 or so? He doesn't die on crank. [00:13:44] Speaker B: Crank. Too high voltage is a wild movie. I was actually thinking about rewatching that. I just remember being insane when I saw it. [00:13:50] Speaker A: I've only seen it was on the TV at Kumas once. That's all I've seen of Crank. I was just like, what is this that's going on? [00:13:59] Speaker B: It's a wild movie, but, yeah, so the COVID is Wanda, kind of like caressing spawn and wrapped in his cape. And Terry Fitzgerald would be pissed. Even White Terry would be pissed. [00:14:12] Speaker A: Yeah, White Terry would be exceptionally pissed. Although he wouldn't show it. He would just. [00:14:17] Speaker B: That white man rage. [00:14:18] Speaker A: He would just hold it inside and be like, no, it's fine. I'm okay. [00:14:22] Speaker B: Bury it deep down. But, yeah. Those are the two covers for 324. Yeah, pretty cool covers. [00:14:28] Speaker A: I think they're pretty great. [00:14:30] Speaker B: And we crack it open, and we got the credits, and like we were saying, it's Rory McConville on script plot. [00:14:36] Speaker A: No. [00:14:36] Speaker B: Tod McFarland to be found. [00:14:38] Speaker A: What the heck, Johnny? [00:14:40] Speaker B: What? [00:14:41] Speaker A: I'm looking at a picture of the Spawn 324 cover, and for some reason, it's got the trade dress that says 323 on it on the Internet. That's weird. That's very weird. [00:14:54] Speaker B: On the image website. [00:14:55] Speaker A: Well, it's on. What is it on? Mine is too golden Apple Comics. [00:15:01] Speaker B: I'm on cover Price, and it says 323 on 324. [00:15:04] Speaker A: Weird, man. [00:15:06] Speaker B: That is weird. [00:15:07] Speaker A: But, like, the Walmart picture has 324 on it because it's literally like a picture of a comic book. It's not the stock photo. So I guess maybe when they mocked up together the image for previews, they forgot to change the number on the dress. [00:15:25] Speaker B: Yeah, it says Tod McFarlane. [00:15:27] Speaker A: Weird. [00:15:28] Speaker B: That is weird. But it's not Tod McFarlane. [00:15:31] Speaker A: No, it's not. [00:15:32] Speaker B: It's Roy McConville. [00:15:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:34] Speaker B: Script plot, but the artist didn't change. Artist is the. Got Carlo Barberi on art. [00:15:41] Speaker A: Yeah, doing the good work. It's actually very hard to pay attention to the credits with all that good art just over here on the other side of the. I know. I keep looking over and being like. [00:15:51] Speaker B: Look at all those guys. Stabbed. [00:15:52] Speaker A: Oh, look at all those. Look at all those swords breaking the panel. Borders, man. Carlo Barberi. Good artist. Hot take. [00:16:01] Speaker B: Hot take. We've also got something that hasn't changed for a long time. Oh, definitely not Tom Warzachowski on lettering. [00:16:08] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [00:16:09] Speaker B: We know he's been there since the get go. [00:16:11] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. We got Jay David Ramos on colors, who has been there since Carlo Barbera's come by. Basically. Doing a good job. Doing a good job. Covered the covers. [00:16:22] Speaker B: Covered the covers. [00:16:23] Speaker A: Yeah, we did. It's never truly a spun issue without the toddfather. And here the toddfather comes in as creative director, so it's still got that toddfather stamp of approval there. [00:16:34] Speaker B: Little Touch of the Ooh, I like that. A touch of the Ooh. [00:16:40] Speaker A: That gave me tingles. [00:16:41] Speaker B: And then a touch of the Tom. Thomas Healy. As. [00:16:47] Speaker A: Wish. I can't think of a good way to shoehorn Thomas Healy's name into Midas Touch. [00:16:54] Speaker B: He's got the Thomas Touch. [00:16:55] Speaker A: Yeah, I guess that's the closest we're going to get. So good job. [00:16:59] Speaker B: Thomas Touch sounds a little creepy. [00:17:01] Speaker A: It does. The Healy touch. Maybe the Healy touch. [00:17:04] Speaker B: The Healy healing, because he heals these issues and brings them all together. [00:17:09] Speaker A: He's a doctor because he heals it. [00:17:13] Speaker B: Dr. Healy, stat edit this comic. So previously in Spawn. After a vicious battle with one of the vampire clans in which Spawn refuses to make an alliance, spawn summons the undead to end the fight. Quickly hurt, he escapes back to his lair alone. [00:17:36] Speaker A: Oh, poor guy. [00:17:38] Speaker B: Yeah, it ended real sad. He was, like, sitting there, like, collapsing. Like, I can't do this much longer. [00:17:42] Speaker A: He's like, John Michael walking home in Arrested development with the sad peanut song playing in the background. [00:17:52] Speaker B: Basically. He was. He was just sad. And he was by himself. Some of that he did to himself because he kicked Mark out or scared him off. [00:18:00] Speaker A: Yeah, he kicked she, spawn and mark out, and he was like, somebody touched my monkey. And everybody's like, dude, none of us touched your monkey. But Spawn says, a wise monkey never monkeys with another monkey's monkey. So you get the fuck out of here. [00:18:18] Speaker B: Kicked him right out. [00:18:20] Speaker A: That was a plaque hanging in my grandmother's basement that I will never forget. [00:18:25] Speaker B: That a wise monkey don't monkey with another monkey's monkey. [00:18:28] Speaker A: Yes, indeed. Wow, that's deep. Oh, yeah. [00:18:32] Speaker B: My grandma had a plaque in her bathroom. It was like a person washing their hands, and it was like, they're using the towels, and it was a hand towel that she embroidered, and it said, don't be bashful. Treat them rough. You're our guest. And that's. [00:18:47] Speaker A: Mean. [00:18:48] Speaker B: Treat those towels rough. [00:18:49] Speaker A: Oh, man, that's good. At least it's not the Serenity prayer. I can't tell you how many Oklahoma bathrooms I've been in that. It's like the serenity prayer is larger than the mirror that you get to look into. And it's like, but I need to see in the mirror. I need to look. [00:19:08] Speaker B: At my brother's house. They have something in the bathroom that says, everyone wants to change the world, but no one wants to change the toilet paper roll. Be the change. [00:19:19] Speaker A: That's passive. [00:19:21] Speaker B: You didn't change the toilet paper roll just to prove contrary. [00:19:25] Speaker A: You didn't even flush the toilet after you used the whole roll. Look at my. Look upon my work and weep. [00:19:38] Speaker B: It was a Texas toilet. That toilet's free and independent. [00:19:41] Speaker A: Nice. Also has no flow regulations, so it will just blast that shit. [00:19:47] Speaker B: Yep. It was funny last year when it was so cold all over the country, like, right before Christmas, my brother said on his neighborhood app, people were like, oh, the water's off. What's going on? And he was like, no, it. Yeah, because people didn't know that that happened because it just never had happened in Texas. And there's not enough. People don't have insulation because they didn't really need it until a few years ago. [00:20:11] Speaker A: Yeah, and since it traditionally doesn't get super cold in Texas, they don't bury the pipes as far down as they don't. [00:20:18] Speaker B: Yeah, but instead of burying the pipes, let's bury the sword and get into this. Yeah, because we got some swords. Basically, we open up on this battle scene. [00:20:29] Speaker A: It looks a lot like that Francis Ford Coppola. Dracula. After Vlad the Impaler. [00:20:34] Speaker B: Yes, it does. [00:20:35] Speaker A: At the beginning. I love that shot of that one body just, like, slowly scooting down the pike that it's on. [00:20:44] Speaker B: Yeah, you can kind of see that happening here with these guys all on their. Know, if it was in motion, that'd definitely be going. [00:20:51] Speaker A: Then we got. We got swords buried everywhere. There are so many ding dang swords here, Johnny. [00:20:56] Speaker B: There's so many swords. [00:20:57] Speaker A: You got to imagine that these are goblins impaled upon their own swords, because ain't nobody has that many swords to throw away. Can you imagine? Medieval is just out there pulling swords out of nowhere and leaving them. [00:21:13] Speaker B: No, he wouldn't do that. These are definitely their own swords. Yeah, but see, I was confused because I thought, was this a flashback? But I guess this is in this era. So this is currently happening. [00:21:24] Speaker A: Yeah, this is from in the last issue when the helmet went on Mark's head and he wasn't feeling too sassy and he disappeared, right? [00:21:32] Speaker B: He went out and did some stuff. [00:21:33] Speaker A: Medieval took him just to go kill a whole bunch of gorblins. Look at these guys. Yeah, he was like, we're going to. [00:21:41] Speaker B: Go do some fellowship of the Ring shit. [00:21:42] Speaker A: It was like, we're supposed to rate at seven, Mark. We're supposed to rate at seven. If you're not ready at seven, I'm taking you whether you want it or not. And, well, rating time came and Mark was like, but I got to go to class. Too bad, too bad, too bad. Your college degree can wait. [00:22:02] Speaker B: Only come out at night. And they've been hunting. [00:22:07] Speaker A: Ah, they've been hunting something. [00:22:09] Speaker B: Here she comes. He's an Orc. Here. Whoa, here he comes. He's an Orc killer. Not Orc Goblin, he's a goblin killer. What's the difference between goblins and Orcs? Goblins are in the Hobbit and Orcs are in Lord of the Rings. [00:22:24] Speaker A: I know that there's an actual difference and I do believe it's their lineage and where they come from. [00:22:31] Speaker B: Okay, because you got goblins, you got Orcs, you got Urukai. [00:22:35] Speaker A: Well, because Urukai are basically men and orcs, like together. [00:22:39] Speaker B: Right? [00:22:40] Speaker A: It's like a genetic cross breed between goblins and Orcs, I think. [00:22:46] Speaker B: Oh, it is. [00:22:47] Speaker A: Or elves. [00:22:49] Speaker B: I think it's elves. [00:22:51] Speaker A: Elves and Orcs. [00:22:52] Speaker B: Yeah, right. [00:22:56] Speaker A: Johnny, we're raiding into dangerous waters here. We're going to get a lot of emails about actually, well, actually, when I. [00:23:05] Speaker B: Was in my brother's house, he had bought the magic, the gathering Lord of the Rings decks that they made recently. [00:23:10] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:23:11] Speaker B: And if you really want to piss up the nerds, here's a little info on their cards. They depict Aragorn as black. [00:23:18] Speaker A: Oh, no, we can't be doing that. [00:23:20] Speaker B: Pisses off some nerds. But it was cool. They were fun. It was a fun game of magic. I kicked my brother's ass. [00:23:27] Speaker A: Johnny, did you call your brother a nerd? Because only nerds have magic. [00:23:31] Speaker B: I did. I said, you nerd. Now let me play with you. [00:23:35] Speaker A: Did he fire back with me? A nerd? You've got a Spawn podcast. [00:23:42] Speaker B: Yeah, there's really nothing you can really say. [00:23:45] Speaker A: What are you going to do? What are you going to do? Be embarrassed about a Spawn podcast? Fuck no, this is great. [00:23:50] Speaker B: No, this is great. [00:23:50] Speaker A: Hell yeah. [00:23:51] Speaker B: We're nerd family members. Eyes glaze over last night when I was trying to explain to them about Spawn, and they were just like, oh. Because everyone gets real excited when you tell them you have a podcast. [00:24:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:00] Speaker B: Some people still get excited when you tell them the Spawn podcast. They get more excited. Or they're like, oh, I love that guy. I remember him. But some people just are like, yeah. [00:24:10] Speaker A: I've had several conversations where people are like, oh, podcast, do tell. Oh, Spawn. No, thank you. [00:24:16] Speaker B: It's either that or people are like, I used to like Spawn. [00:24:19] Speaker A: Yeah, cool. Yeah. Or they're just like, I don't know what that is, but I'll listen to it. I get a lot of that. A lot of my international coworkers are just like, sure. What's that? I don't know what it is, but let's get to it. [00:24:33] Speaker B: Obviously have it hanging out. They're not from Paris or South America, because Spawn seems pretty big in France. And in South America, it seems pretty big, too. There's a lot of Spawn fans. [00:24:44] Speaker A: Yeah. But much like, I mean, in America, a lot of people don't know spawn either. [00:24:49] Speaker B: That's true. [00:24:52] Speaker A: It seems big to us, Johnny, because it encompasses our whole life, almost the whole thing. Yeah, Wanda tried to say that I had enough spawn stuff a couple days ago, and I was. You keep. You keep on that. We'll circle back to that. We'll circle back. [00:25:09] Speaker B: We'll come back and see what they say. We'll see what you say. After year five of Spawn Con. [00:25:16] Speaker A: I'm probably going to then, at that point, be given an ultimatum. [00:25:22] Speaker B: Yep. Maybe we'll have to have, like, a storage unit, like Batman in the Dark Knight, where he has his secondary location. We'll have, like, a secret spawn bunker that will. It'll be perfectly between our two houses. [00:25:35] Speaker A: And we'll go there. That's where we record and keep all our stuff. But it won't be climate controlled. So we'll be just bundled up and be like, so, Johnny, how'd you like that spawn today? [00:25:50] Speaker B: It was a little chilly. [00:25:53] Speaker A: Well, Johnny, speaking of Chili, I don't have a good thing, but we should probably get right back into this issue with Spawn. We've veered off. [00:26:01] Speaker B: We obviously haven't recorded in a few weeks. [00:26:03] Speaker A: Since we're just goofing around quite quickly. [00:26:05] Speaker B: We're not avoiding this issue. This is a good issue. This is a good issue in McConville. [00:26:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:09] Speaker B: It opens up with this Orc battle. And Mark is just like, oh, man, not again. [00:26:14] Speaker A: Yeah. It's like he's woken up from a bender. And instead of losing his shoe. He's lost his helmet and killed a whole bunch of orcs. So he's just, like, looking around at what he's done and he's like, oh, fuck. [00:26:30] Speaker B: I lost my shoes on a cruise one time when I was too drunk. I woke up without my shoes. [00:26:33] Speaker A: Oh, boy. I've never been so drunk I lost my shoes. [00:26:37] Speaker B: Well, you've never been on a don't. [00:26:41] Speaker A: Well, Johnny, I don't like being out of sight of land. The ocean scares me, too. [00:26:46] Speaker B: Well, after COVID, there's really no reason to go on a cruise anymore. [00:26:49] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, no, definitely not. [00:26:50] Speaker B: But, yeah, Mark wakes up and he's like, what happened? Where am. And there's just dead orcs everywhere. [00:26:56] Speaker A: Sorry. [00:26:56] Speaker B: Goblins. God damn it. [00:26:57] Speaker A: God. Jeez. I've been doing the same thing. I mean, Johnny, I've heard of Coyote Ugly, but this is next level. This is next level. [00:27:07] Speaker B: Coyote ugly means, like, that's just the day after, right? [00:27:10] Speaker A: Yeah. The way they describe it in the film is when you wake up and somebody's sleeping on your arm and you'd much rather chew your arm off than bother waking them up. That's Coyote. [00:27:21] Speaker B: I get it. Because the coyote, if he's tucking a trap, will chew his leg off. [00:27:25] Speaker A: Yeah. You just don't want to even deal with what happened at just. You just want to get out of there. [00:27:35] Speaker B: That's kind of how Mark's feeling right here because he's like, okay, I just killed a shitload of goblins. [00:27:40] Speaker A: Yeah. And here comes Jim Downing, just like, with a bag full of Gatorade and some French fries. And he's like, hey, buddy, let's stock this over. [00:27:50] Speaker B: Let's talk. I mean, they do a very hungover thing and Go to a diner. They do kind of what you do when you're hungover. You go to a diner. [00:27:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:59] Speaker B: And then Mark's just like, Jim, where the hell you been? You disappeared from that hospital with freak and Cygor. No one's seen you for many issues. What the hell happened? [00:28:07] Speaker A: He's like, they tried to get. He just. He just disappeared. He disappeared. [00:28:13] Speaker B: He know we know where he was. He was in green world. He was in green world. [00:28:18] Speaker A: I bet he was hanging out with the green. He was hanging out with swamp thing in the green. [00:28:26] Speaker B: Well, I mean, it's Jim Downey. He's kind of like a surfer stoner. So he was probably hanging out with the green, too. [00:28:31] Speaker A: I mean, he was hanging out with the Parliament of trees. And they were smoking themselves. [00:28:35] Speaker B: They were smoking themselves. Hey, take a hit. The oracle is like, hey, hit this. It's part of me. [00:28:40] Speaker A: Get a load of me. I like how as Jim Downing jumps from the rock he's on, you see that? There's just like medieval paraphernalia scattered all over the place. There's the helmet, there's his cape. There's the shield. [00:28:57] Speaker B: See, that's what I'll do. Sometimes if I go out after work or go out with some friends, I'll come back and I guess when I'm drunk or just like ready to pass, take my clothes off on the way to bed and Wanda will be like, you got raptured last night because my clothes are just on the couch. [00:29:17] Speaker A: Absolutely. As long as you've remembered to close and lock the door, I think it's fine. [00:29:23] Speaker B: Yeah, usually that's the best part. I'm in the door. Don't let any pets out or anything like that. So yeah, Jim's like, how'd you find me? Or Mark's like, how'd you find me, Jim? And he's like, don't worry about it. You look hungover. It's time to go to a diner. [00:29:39] Speaker A: Yeah, and they go to Downtown diner. [00:29:40] Speaker B: And they got good food. [00:29:42] Speaker A: It says, yeah, it's air conditioned. It's one of those little old fashioned silver and blue diners where Mary Jane works and Spiderman. [00:29:54] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a couple of those in Chicago. They used to go to one, I don't know if it's real, but they used to go to one on ER that was supposed to be like downtown somewhere. I don't know if it's actually real or not. There's one that's like in a train car. Yeah, but I don't think it's a diner. It's like a restaurant. [00:30:12] Speaker A: Yeah, and then there's another one that was like an Italian restaurant that I actually think has been closed for a few years. [00:30:19] Speaker B: Oh, sad. [00:30:20] Speaker A: Yeah, but yeah, there are a couple. [00:30:22] Speaker B: No, but it's like a classic diner with like the red vinyl leather booth. [00:30:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I like how it's got coat hooks at the booth. That's dope. [00:30:31] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Those are cool. Nice little detail there. [00:30:33] Speaker A: And Mark's got a hell of a go bag there. He's just got all of his. [00:30:38] Speaker B: Yeah, his bag looks like a chair. [00:30:41] Speaker A: Yeah, I can't imagine how. [00:30:42] Speaker B: I guess it's the bag he packed when he left. When he left Al's. [00:30:45] Speaker A: Yeah, and they're just kind of trading spawn stories. Like Jim says something and Mark's like, yeah, well, what lecture did you get from him? [00:30:58] Speaker B: Well, he kicked me out of his house. [00:31:00] Speaker A: Yeah. And then Jim's trying to figure out where Mark sits vis a vis Al, especially with this recent. Getting de home, getting the boot. [00:31:10] Speaker B: Getting the boot. Just wandering around, killing goblins. [00:31:14] Speaker A: Yeah. Like how he says, I can't remember the last time I actually did something normal. I mean, relatively speaking. He's like, I just want to collate some copies. I just want to fucking make a schedule for somebody. Please ask me to edit your PowerPoint. [00:31:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm a reporter, man. I'm not a fucking medieval killer, even though I am now. [00:31:40] Speaker A: And here you go. [00:31:40] Speaker B: He was messing around with it one night. Yeah, right. You put it on. You wanted to take a selfie. You wanted to be fat and sassy or whatever. [00:31:48] Speaker A: He said, yeah, feel a little sassy. [00:31:50] Speaker B: He's feeling. See how sassy he looks? [00:31:54] Speaker A: Yeah. I like how he asks how long the helmet thing has been going on. He just found out that he was dating somebody he shouldn't have been, and it's like, how long has that been going on? [00:32:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:06] Speaker A: Maybe you should put an instant to that, toots. Sweet. [00:32:10] Speaker B: Whenever he does, it just follows him around. He wakes up in a field covered in maggot guts or demon corpses. Maggot guts. [00:32:18] Speaker A: That's crazy. That's too much. Too much. [00:32:22] Speaker B: Yeah, that'd be quite a bender if you wake up just surrounded with corpses all the time. [00:32:25] Speaker A: The corpses. The corpses. Then we get the opening quote as they're leaving the diner. There's no check left on that table. Johnny, please tell me they paid. [00:32:36] Speaker B: There's no one else in the diner. Okay, there's two other people sitting there, but it doesn't look like there's any employees. [00:32:43] Speaker A: Nope, not at all. [00:32:44] Speaker B: Hopefully they paid. Also, Mark didn't. [00:32:46] Speaker A: Yeah, he didn't need his burger at Jim Downing's. Like, well, if you trust Al, why have you told him about the helmet? And then we get the silent. This little silent. [00:32:57] Speaker B: It's just like. And then Jim, as we all know, he says, look, I know Al means well, but he's not exactly the most stable guy. [00:33:05] Speaker A: But, Johnny, he's a stable. He's. [00:33:08] Speaker B: Yeah, Spawn, we all know, is a stable genius. [00:33:11] Speaker A: Yeah. And then we get a nice little panel of just Al surrounded by a whole bunch of people he just killed. And basically, Jim Downing's tirade against him, he's like, he doesn't give a shit about other people. [00:33:23] Speaker B: He keeps charging forward like he's trying to get himself killed, and it impacts all of them. [00:33:29] Speaker A: That's true. He's kind of like a raging bull. [00:33:31] Speaker B: He ripped a hole in time, for fuck's sake. Says Jim. Yeah, and maybe it is doing more harm than good. Who knows? [00:33:37] Speaker A: Who knows? [00:33:38] Speaker B: I mean, it did escalate the war pretty hard. [00:33:40] Speaker A: Yeah, it did. [00:33:41] Speaker B: By trapping everyone there. And by bringing all the spawns. [00:33:43] Speaker A: Did he also did accidentally precipitate further war by trying to help. [00:33:49] Speaker B: True. It's true. [00:33:50] Speaker A: And then Jim's trying to. So we've already seen the aftermath of this. Where Jim's trying to enroll him into planting those seeds. His overthrow of spawn overlord. [00:34:01] Speaker B: Yes. Where him and the boys. [00:34:02] Speaker A: Shit, dude, you want to stage a coup? Just like, shit, dude, who's going to. [00:34:05] Speaker B: Take Al's power, you? [00:34:07] Speaker A: That's not what I'm saying. Is what Jim Downing says. [00:34:11] Speaker B: And then they kind of allude to the scorch. Jerry's like, yo, Jessica and I were trying to get a team together, but he kicked us out. Yeah, how's that been working on every damn mission himself? Shitty. [00:34:20] Speaker A: AnD Then Mark's like, well, I mean, it might not be the best option or, like, the most ideal choice, but at least he knew Susan was dead. Like, he knows shit. So he might be an asshole, but at least know informed. [00:34:36] Speaker B: And then, Whoosh, there's a sudden wind gust, and Mark is distracted, turning. Oh, my God. And then there's just a bunch of angel folks. [00:34:43] Speaker A: Yeah, we've seen these people before. [00:34:45] Speaker B: They say, secure the hell spawn. [00:34:47] Speaker A: Which one? I think they want medieval, man. Both of the boys have just, like, such meaty necks at the bottom of this panel. I know. [00:34:55] Speaker B: They're like. [00:34:57] Speaker A: It's cracking me up a little bit. [00:35:01] Speaker B: Some great goatee work there on Mark. [00:35:03] Speaker A: Yeah, he takes good care of it. It's very precise. [00:35:07] Speaker B: Even though he's been unhoused, he still has time to shave. [00:35:10] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, you got to take a little bit of personal pride, Johnny. That's what it is. [00:35:15] Speaker B: If we zoom out and these people are reading the exact comic we've been reading on hoopla. [00:35:19] Speaker A: Yeah, look at that. [00:35:20] Speaker B: You see the panels? [00:35:22] Speaker A: These two science ladies like to watch it or read it together so they can pretend to be working, but they're just getting caught up on the newest exploits of Albert Simmons and his ilk. [00:35:33] Speaker B: And it doesn't say it here, but I bet this is the lab where they're keeping all those spawns. [00:35:37] Speaker A: Yeah, the lady in the red shirt with the black hair definitely seems familiar to me. [00:35:44] Speaker B: Yeah, and they're basically the Vatican paid big money to get their pet spawn back by any means necessary. [00:35:51] Speaker A: Yeah. So now we know that it's medieval. That's the hell spawn that they want, right? Jim Downing's doing his best human torch right here. He's saying, flame on, green. [00:36:00] Speaker B: Flame on. [00:36:01] Speaker A: Put on the helmet. And then he's got. He's. He's got his new Nike sponsorship, and so he says, just do it, Nike. And he turns to the camera and gives the thumbs up before he jumps into battle. [00:36:13] Speaker B: First, they zap him away from, like, civilization because they're like, okay, we got to get away from here so no one sees us. [00:36:17] Speaker A: Yeah. He does a shadow blast without having to blast through the shadows. [00:36:20] Speaker B: Johnny must be some of those green world powers. [00:36:22] Speaker A: He just does a regular ambient light blast. [00:36:26] Speaker B: They materialize several miles away out of any public. [00:36:29] Speaker A: Yeah. And Jim's like, they showed up where people could see them. So this is some heavy shit. So you got to protect yourself, Mark. And then Mark puts on the helmet and transforms, and he goes, roll out, transform. [00:36:44] Speaker B: He becomes a big old medieval, and he grabs one of the angels. And then Jim starts shooting lasers out of his eyes at the angels. [00:36:50] Speaker A: Yeah. And medieval is chopping their heads off and smashing their heads in and stabbing them right through the chest. Oh, boy, oh, boy. [00:37:00] Speaker B: And he says to him, the 21st century is a world of pain. He's just been captured ever since he got there. Been killed, like, three times since he got here. [00:37:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:09] Speaker B: Medieval's got to be exhausted. [00:37:11] Speaker A: Yeah. He's been held captive. He's been made to. Forced to do killings for other people. All this kind of nonsense. [00:37:20] Speaker B: It's just been rough on him. [00:37:21] Speaker A: And he's vowed that he would never be a prisoner again and that he would not rest until he had paid every one of his captives back tenfold. So he's got a lot of work to do. [00:37:29] Speaker B: Tenfold. [00:37:30] Speaker A: Especially according to a couple of issues ago or episodes ago, where he was, where they were in hell. And he's like, oh, boy, I can hear my enemies, the sounds of my enemies. And that's a lot of enemies for him to take on. [00:37:42] Speaker B: Johnny, think about all those goblins just screaming. [00:37:45] Speaker A: Yeah. And then Jim downing punches one of the angels jaw just, like, right off, just, like, dislocates it. [00:37:52] Speaker B: Sangel's got, like, a bowl cut, too. [00:37:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:55] Speaker B: And then there's something that you like to sing, David, if you want to. Go ahead. [00:37:59] Speaker A: Blackened feathers falling down. I just did the singing if you heard it or not. [00:38:08] Speaker B: Nope. It's too high pitched for the Internet, but you'll hear it at home. [00:38:11] Speaker A: Yes, indeed. [00:38:12] Speaker B: Discord just can't handle it. It's the blackened feathers falling down. [00:38:15] Speaker A: Yes, indeed. And then just like blood still just going everywhere. Oh, man. So these first five angels are the first to taste his blade. Johnny. But they won't be the last. [00:38:26] Speaker B: SpeakinG of his blade, it's pretty cool. [00:38:28] Speaker A: So does this mean, are we to believe that that means that when medieval attacked and killed all these goblins, he didn't use his actual medieval sword. He just used the Goblins weapons against them because that's pretty intense. Unless they didn't count. [00:38:44] Speaker B: I think they're the first five angels to taste his blade. [00:38:47] Speaker A: Okay. [00:38:48] Speaker B: The first angels, I think is what it means. [00:38:50] Speaker A: Okay. [00:38:50] Speaker B: Because he's just mad at heaven for capturing him. He's the first angels he's got a chance to kill. [00:38:55] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. [00:38:56] Speaker B: He's mad at the Vatican, which fair? [00:38:59] Speaker A: Same girl. Same. [00:39:01] Speaker B: Yeah, same. But speaking of his sword, it's pretty cool. It's like really this crazy hilt and like a spawn logo on it. [00:39:09] Speaker A: Yeah. And it's got like one of the things like the handguards are also sharpened so he could use them to cut with too. It's just like, oh, yeah, it's like. [00:39:19] Speaker B: Kylo Ren's sword kind of. [00:39:21] Speaker A: This is kind of like one of those swords that you could almost just looking at it, you cut yourself because it's so why, that's why Medieval has to wear all the armor so he doesn't accidentally nick himself swinging it around. [00:39:34] Speaker B: And more angels are coming and Jim Downing's like, we got to get out of here. My unstable powers are waning. This guy's mark in a helmet. We got to go. [00:39:43] Speaker A: Yeah, and medieval's there just like he's about to do. The Green Rangers call to the. Call to the. Who does it call? His tiger. [00:39:52] Speaker B: Do you have a tiger or an Eagle? The Eagle's the White Ranger. [00:39:55] Speaker A: Yeah. So I don't know who was his tiger. No, because the Saber Tooth Tiger was the yellow. God damn it, Johnny. [00:40:03] Speaker B: Hey, I don't know. [00:40:05] Speaker A: Green Ranger. Green Ranger. [00:40:08] Speaker B: People are screaming at their mics, right? Yeah, they're not their mics at the podcast right now. [00:40:14] Speaker A: Like, he was the. This dude. [00:40:16] Speaker B: He was the. I thought it was the Eagle, but I think that's when he was the White Ranger. [00:40:21] Speaker A: The Dragon Zord. [00:40:24] Speaker B: Dragon Zord. That big dragon. [00:40:25] Speaker A: So it was basically Mechagodzilla. [00:40:30] Speaker B: Yeah, basically. Yeah, I remember that now. He would start flying in. [00:40:35] Speaker A: Made with Space Titanium. No, it's not. But that's what MechagOdzilla is made out of is Space titanium and future tech. Oh, boy. Every Godzilla movie that has Mechagodzilla, Godzilla in it is more insane than the last one. [00:40:57] Speaker B: I loved it when he showed up in Godzilla versus Kong. I was like, yeah, Mechagodzilla. [00:41:01] Speaker A: Because it's alternatively captained by the government and or terrorists and or space pirates and or androids. Androids piloted it at one point. [00:41:15] Speaker B: And or Cassian Andor. [00:41:18] Speaker A: Oh, man. And then he gets the plans to the fucking Death Star. [00:41:23] Speaker B: He rides Mechagodzilla to destroy the Death Star. [00:41:26] Speaker A: Yeah. That's the only weakness that the Death Star has. Johnny, forget about exhaust ports, which shout out to the Plumbers Union, Local 66 on the Death Star. Right? [00:41:42] Speaker B: Yeah. I wonder if that's how they came up with his name. They're like, we should call this guy Steve and. Or Chris. And they were like, what if we called him and. Or. [00:41:51] Speaker A: I mean, you're probably not far off, honestly. I think a naming session for Star wars people is much like that old Mitch Hedberg joke about how he wants to be somebody who names kitchen gadgets and be like, what's this do? It keeps ship fresh. That's a fresher. I'm going on break. [00:42:14] Speaker B: But, yeah. So Jim takes him back to where he's been hiding out, which is like some kind of warehouse place. [00:42:19] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a groovy loft downtown is what it looks like. [00:42:22] Speaker B: And this is where you get the first little conversation between not Mark, but, like, medieval spawn Sir John of York and Jim. And Sir John of York's just like, get your hands away from me. Slaps him. [00:42:33] Speaker A: Mark is friends with Jim. Medieval just doesn't have time for Jim. He's just like, come the. What's with the hair? Seriously, how long do you spend on that? Just. We got work to do. [00:42:46] Speaker B: He calls him an abomination. Yeah, abomination with heaven and hell, man. [00:42:52] Speaker A: There's lots of people with marks of heaven and hell going on. We got haunts now. We got Jim Downing. We got spoilers. I guess we already covered that issue. Gunslinger now has the. Yeah, he's got those wings in him. [00:43:05] Speaker B: Everyone's just mixing. They're mixing your. You got your hell in My heaven, or you got your heaven in my. [00:43:09] Speaker A: Just. He just went to Harold's because he's got those wings in him, man. There's a Harold's truck that is occasionally by work and. Oh, boy, Harold's Day is a fine thing. [00:43:24] Speaker B: You get the wings. [00:43:25] Speaker A: Yeah. There's actually two trucks. One that has the full Harold's menu and one that only sells wings. And the better of the two trucks is the one that only sells wings. [00:43:34] Speaker B: Do you get, like, sauce on. [00:43:36] Speaker A: Yeah, you gotta get that mild sauce. [00:43:38] Speaker B: Mild sauce. [00:43:38] Speaker A: Mild sauce is special. It's a special Chicago thing for all those who out there listening, who don't know what it is. It's not just like a mild hot sauce. It's its own thing. [00:43:49] Speaker B: Right? [00:43:50] Speaker A: Great. [00:43:50] Speaker B: It's its own thing. [00:43:51] Speaker A: It's very good. It's delicious. [00:43:54] Speaker B: Yeah. They're having a hot conversation here. Because basically, medieval is just like, kind of negging Mark, saying, yeah, heaven and hell. I'm Sir John of York. [00:44:07] Speaker A: Yeah, I do like medieval says, kept focus. I'm unfamiliar with those words. And again, same girl, same. I am very unfamiliar with keeping focus. But Jim's like, I mean, I know you think I'm an abomination, but we've got common enemies. We should pay attention to them. And medieval is intriguing me. [00:44:31] Speaker B: Intrigued by Jim Downing. [00:44:33] Speaker A: So medieval is accessing Mark's memories. He's just like a human computer who's just, like, going through his memory palace. He's like, okay, there's Mark's things. Okay. Mark thinks this is a cool guy. Okay, go. [00:44:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Mark likes him, and I've been stealing his body. It might be okay. [00:44:49] Speaker A: I'll do a favor. I'll do you the favor. Lower my sword. And Jim's like, what? Like, he doesn't realize just how close he came to not having to worry about how well quaffed his hair is. Because his head no longer on his. [00:45:04] Speaker B: Like, how medieval just casually refers to him as abomination. He's like, let us be clear. [00:45:08] Speaker A: Abomination. Oh, man. And then he just Zoips out of. We. We know now, hungover again, that Mark's body doesn't grow to the size of medieval Hulk style. Because if it did, then his head would remain in the helmet as it grew. But since the helmet falls off and it's not just sitting on Mark's head, I imagine he's like, Crang style in the body in the middle. [00:45:37] Speaker B: Or like a. [00:45:40] Speaker A: Like the. [00:45:41] Speaker B: Like he's piling in a Jaeger. [00:45:43] Speaker A: Yeah. Pacific Rim. Excellent movie. [00:45:46] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I just watched it a couple months ago. [00:45:48] Speaker A: It's great. It's fucking good. It's good as hell. [00:45:50] Speaker B: Gamma Del Toro. Great filmmaker. Hot take Johnny. That is a big proponent of physical media. [00:45:57] Speaker A: That take is too Hot Johnny. We're going to get in trouble for that. I still have this dragon. [00:46:01] Speaker B: Yeah, he would love that. We're reading comic books because he loves physical media. He's just on a big. He and Christopher Nolan have been making the rounds. Be like, you must buy Oppenheimer on disk, because the streaming services will take it away. [00:46:12] Speaker A: The streaming services will continue to remove films or not put films on their service so they can get a tax rate off of it. And they'll do it so many times that the IRA. I hope it's not so bad that the IRA is coming over here. [00:46:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:29] Speaker A: That the IRS is just like, let me look at the books. Warner Brothers. Let me look at the books. Thank you. Wiley Coyote, Luling Toons movie for exposing the terrible tax practices of Warner Brothers. [00:46:42] Speaker B: Evidently that movie is supposed to be pretty good, too. [00:46:44] Speaker A: Nice. [00:46:45] Speaker B: According to Miller and Lord, the guys who did Lego movies saw it and they said it was really good. [00:46:50] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [00:46:50] Speaker B: They should release it. [00:46:51] Speaker A: I mean, at this point, regardless of if it's good or it's. It's got a massive story, so we've all got to watch it anyway. [00:46:58] Speaker B: I know. And remember they canceled that Batwoman that went away. [00:47:02] Speaker A: Well, yeah, they finished it and then they showed. [00:47:04] Speaker B: Finished and they're like, this is no good. [00:47:06] Speaker A: Yeah. And then I think they showed the cast and crew. [00:47:09] Speaker B: You know, honestly, with the superhero fatigue we've got going on, it probably wasn't very good. [00:47:14] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, there was one interview where somebody who was like, seriously, all politics aside, it just fucking sucks. [00:47:24] Speaker B: That happens, man. Movies are hard to make. What can we say? [00:47:28] Speaker A: And that's fine. I don't know, because DC has a problem Making movies. I know. Controversial opinion. But this new movie that they just put out, Blue Beetle, they show such amazing restraint in it that they should be making more superhero movies like that instead of trying to fucking get on the Snyder version. [00:47:47] Speaker B: Oh, did you watch Blue Beetle? [00:47:48] Speaker A: Blue Beetle's great. Yeah. [00:47:50] Speaker B: Okay. [00:47:51] Speaker A: It's good. It's good. [00:47:53] Speaker B: Any fun cameos in. [00:47:55] Speaker A: Not really, like superhero cameos or famous people cameos, like superhero to. No, they refer to Batman and you see the original Blue Beetle. [00:48:10] Speaker B: Okay. [00:48:10] Speaker A: But it doesn't really stray too far out of. [00:48:13] Speaker B: I didn't know if, like, Henry Cavill showed. [00:48:15] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, no, no. Nothing big like that. But George Lopez plays the crazy uncle and it's great. [00:48:22] Speaker B: I remember the trailer. He calls Batman a fashion. [00:48:25] Speaker A: Yeah, he does. He does do that. He does it in the film, too. [00:48:29] Speaker B: Whoa. I thought it was just in the. [00:48:32] Speaker A: I mean, you know, with those new. New. I don't know if it's so new anymore. But that lawsuit where they might not be able to show things in the trailer that aren't in the movie or. [00:48:43] Speaker B: Exactly as they appear in the movie for yesterday. [00:48:46] Speaker A: This fucking sucks. [00:48:47] Speaker B: It would suck, that movie. [00:48:49] Speaker A: Yeah. And then all those people were like, I want to see it just for this one person. And then they weren't in the movie. Maybe they should have just not made that movie at all. Yeah, maybe. [00:48:58] Speaker B: I didn't care for it. [00:49:00] Speaker A: I didn't watch it because I thought. [00:49:04] Speaker B: It was back when I was going, like, every Tuesday must have been an Eloy's day to pick, because I would not have picked that. [00:49:12] Speaker A: Man. Just nothing. Nothing like having your own platform to just blast your friends on. Johnny. [00:49:18] Speaker B: Yeah, take that. Eloy watching yesterday and shit. [00:49:22] Speaker A: Yeah, that's probably what Jim and Mark are here saying. Jim is like, wait, you watched yesterday voluntarily? And Mark's like, yeah, what about it? I watch everything. Jim's largely like, just don't think about what I told you. Think about the proposition. I'll circle back. And then Mark's just left standing in the alley with the medieval helmet, just. [00:49:46] Speaker B: Like, he's basically just like, kind of trying to convince him these little. Planting the seeds for that later coup that happens later here. [00:49:53] Speaker A: Once again, Johnny, we get bored while we're reading, and we decide to just flip through the channels to see what's on. And what's on again is nothing but news. [00:50:01] Speaker B: Nothing but news. [00:50:02] Speaker A: Why is there only news on Jesus? [00:50:05] Speaker B: There's been marches. So the CRN lady says there's been marches, basically asking for greater transparency in the. [00:50:13] Speaker A: Yep. [00:50:14] Speaker B: And it's basically response to Al Simmons revealing himself and those issues we covered where he did the interviews with Brock, the. [00:50:19] Speaker A: Yes, yes. Fennel, the Info news guy. Yeah, Info News. Johnny, this info News guy is much too much like the CRN lady. Now, I much preferred when he was just, like, commenting on people's clothing. [00:50:35] Speaker B: Yeah, he was like entertainment. He was like, work for E. But. [00:50:37] Speaker A: Now it's basically just like, maybe he'll mention some rumors or something that's not been triple verified that the CRN lady can't say yet. So it's still got a little bit of a flavor, but it's not quite as different. [00:50:52] Speaker B: Right. They kind of become the same thing. That's just showing how this 24 hours news cycle, it's all the same damn thing. [00:50:59] Speaker A: And they mentioned, Johnny. They mentioned a certain location that you and I are very familiar with. [00:51:05] Speaker B: Sure do. [00:51:05] Speaker A: Sure do. [00:51:06] Speaker B: They talk about gathering in Chicago? [00:51:08] Speaker A: Gathering in Chicago. I wonder how close to whatever. We're referring to it as the incident. Was it a riot? Could we call it a riot? I don't remember. In the wake of George Floyd, there was a lot of looting. There was a lot of windows broken, man, the liquor stores all over the west side were just, like, decimated. [00:51:30] Speaker B: Yeah, the one across the street from me got looted, and it was actually really scary, and I don't like to think about it. [00:51:35] Speaker A: Yeah, it kind of fucking sucked. [00:51:37] Speaker B: Yeah, it's 2021, so it probably is a reference to that. [00:51:41] Speaker A: Yeah, I would assume so. I would assume. Especially for Thanksgiving times. I'm sure it was still very top of mind for those certain family members to bring up at dinner. [00:51:53] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I got asked, like, three times yesterday how safe I feel at my apartment. I was like, pretty safe. [00:51:59] Speaker A: Yeah, pretty mean. Say honestly. Honestly, safer here than I ever felt in Oklahoma. [00:52:08] Speaker B: All the problems they want to level at Chicago, they're going on everywhere. There's people. Tent cities are like, Tulsa is just as bad as Chicago. Other cities, it's just by per capita. There's a lot more people in Chicago. [00:52:18] Speaker A: Okay, yeah, it just happens. But, Johnny, you know what just happens? I mean, look at Brock. The shock fennel's jacket. That is wild, man. [00:52:28] Speaker B: He looks like a fancy leprechaun. [00:52:31] Speaker A: He looks like fucking. It's like that's his word of results for the last month. [00:52:40] Speaker B: Green and yellow and red. Yeah, or green and yellow and brown. [00:52:45] Speaker A: Look, I'm all in favor of revolution for pushing back against big government, but could someone please explain to me what these idiots are even hoping to achieve? We don't ask. We demand. Fucking drone strikes. That's where the black budget dollars have been going, believe you me. Oh, boy. [00:53:04] Speaker B: It's funny that he calls out that this is just a Panama. I'm a circle jerk photo op for a bunch of conspiracy mad alt right fanatics. It's like, Brock, isn't that you? [00:53:14] Speaker A: I mean, dear pot meat kettle. [00:53:17] Speaker B: Well, he's saying that the alt right and Antifa are working together. [00:53:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:21] Speaker B: So he's definitely got the crazy Uncle Galaxy brain going on. [00:53:24] Speaker A: Yeah, he's definitely warning you about stuff. About. [00:53:28] Speaker B: Yeah, don't you remember, David, whenever we worked for Antifa at the riots, got paid, all that. [00:53:32] Speaker A: Still, I'm still living on my Santos Bucks, don't you know? [00:53:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm living fat and happy off of man. [00:53:40] Speaker A: Then. Then once again, Johnny, we're thrust again into the realm of the meta, where we pull back and we see Al is watching the news that we just watched. Yep. [00:53:52] Speaker B: He's watching Brock the shot. [00:53:53] Speaker A: I like how he's watching all of it at the same time. I like to do that sometimes because I've got two monitors. I've got my laptop with an extra monitor, and then I've got the television, and then I've also got a Bluetooth bar. And sometimes I'll bluetooth the bar to my phone and put Godzilla on the TV and then have two dumb things running simultaneously on my laptop just so I can walk around. And wherever I look in my house, I'm seeing something different, and it's like, oh, look at. Oh, look at that. Oh, look at. Listen to this song. Oh, look at that. It's fun. [00:54:24] Speaker B: If you've never distracted. [00:54:26] Speaker A: Oh, man. If you've never just surrounded yourself by a whole bunch of screens watching different things, it's amazing. It's a lot like being at Best Buy as a child. [00:54:37] Speaker B: Yes. [00:54:38] Speaker A: Am I trying to return once again to the safety of childhoods, Johnny? I do not know. We do not have time to discuss. [00:54:45] Speaker B: Maybe. [00:54:45] Speaker A: Maybe. [00:54:45] Speaker B: I remember I used to listen to the radio, have the TV on mute, and read a book at the same time. [00:54:51] Speaker A: Nice. [00:54:52] Speaker B: When I was a kid. So there you go. [00:54:54] Speaker A: I do that sometimes. I remember I was in 7th grade when I learned that there were certain things that you can't listen to and read at the same time. [00:55:05] Speaker B: True. [00:55:05] Speaker A: Like musicals. You can't listen to a musical soundtrack and read at the same time. Nope. It doesn't work. [00:55:10] Speaker B: Nope. Weirdly enough for me, I listen to music without words when I read, usually. [00:55:15] Speaker A: Yeah, without lyrics. That's true. Words. [00:55:17] Speaker B: Whatever. [00:55:18] Speaker A: Weirdly enough for me, I can't read and listen to Primus. I don't know why. It's probably all that bass. Yeah. [00:55:28] Speaker B: Al's watching the news. [00:55:30] Speaker A: He gets. [00:55:31] Speaker B: And then, boom. [00:55:31] Speaker A: Snuck up on. [00:55:32] Speaker B: Someone shows up. [00:55:33] Speaker A: Yeah. I like how obviously, he pushed down the sunglasses so we can get the pure over. When he looks over at Redeemer, man, Redeemer just comes in all sassy. It doesn't look good, does it? I hope you're grasping the severity of the situation we face. [00:55:49] Speaker B: He's got his wings all spread, and spawn symbiote just reacts because he sees a redeemer, and it just attacks. [00:55:55] Speaker A: Yeah, I like this. Below the moving chain is spawn. Above the moving chain is still Al Simmons. [00:56:04] Speaker B: Yeah, that's pretty cool. [00:56:05] Speaker A: And his little wrists. Battle modes are going out. It's great. [00:56:11] Speaker B: You don't get the in media transformation too often, so that's cool to see. [00:56:14] Speaker A: Yeah, no, it's real fun. It's real fun. And I guess Redeemer stops spawn assault dead in his tracks. So he neos it. He's like, hang, Hoda. [00:56:26] Speaker B: Yeah. He looks like very low effort. [00:56:28] Speaker A: Just be like, ding. [00:56:29] Speaker B: And blocks it. [00:56:30] Speaker A: Yeah. And then Al's like, how did you do that? [00:56:35] Speaker B: Calm down in a second and I'll explain. [00:56:37] Speaker A: Yeah, no, there's a lot we need to discuss. [00:56:40] Speaker B: And there's this guy, again, that we. [00:56:41] Speaker A: Don'T know who he is, but he's got Johnny. Him's got X's where his eyes are supposed to be. [00:56:47] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got something taped over his eyes. We've seen this guy before in that back. Little short story of King Spawn with Haunt. [00:56:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:54] Speaker B: And we don't know who he is. I imagine someone we know in the future. That's like time traveling. [00:57:00] Speaker A: Yeah, I would assume so. [00:57:02] Speaker B: But we don't know. We still don't know. [00:57:05] Speaker A: We don't. We just know that he's helping out who is Redeemer. Who's been redeemed. [00:57:12] Speaker B: And that's the end of that issue. [00:57:14] Speaker A: Yeah, we get the power meter. We got 1468. I have a feeling that it's not at 2468. Because Thomas Healy would be like, everybody's going to be like, who do we appreciate? And that's not good for Spawn. [00:57:25] Speaker B: 1468. Spawn is who we appreciate. [00:57:30] Speaker A: We got. Spawning grounds presents the break. [00:57:33] Speaker B: This is one of our favorite spawning grounds. This one's awesome. [00:57:35] Speaker A: Yeah, but there's no breakdown here. This is all just photos. But it's cosplay photos. [00:57:40] Speaker B: Hey, it's a breakdown of some photos, dude. [00:57:43] Speaker A: Yeah. And we get. Oh, man, we got the best family costumes around. It's the. [00:57:48] Speaker B: Oh, this is so funny. [00:57:49] Speaker A: I love the family. And there's Sam and Twitch and she spawn and little tiny clown with the big fat belly and also dead Billy Kincade. [00:58:01] Speaker B: Yeah, look how the mom's just dead Billy Kincaid. [00:58:04] Speaker A: Oh, boy. That's hilarious. [00:58:07] Speaker B: That clown where he's like, showed his belly and sticking out his tongue. That's hilarious. [00:58:11] Speaker A: Yeah, it's great. [00:58:12] Speaker B: He's got the pants unbuttoned, everything. It's a good clown. [00:58:17] Speaker A: It's a good clown. That little twitch is great, too. [00:58:19] Speaker B: Yep. Little salmon twitch. [00:58:22] Speaker A: Oh, man. So good. Then we got Commando Spawn in his hamlet era. He's like, alas, poor York. [00:58:29] Speaker B: Then we've got. That might be spawning. [00:58:31] Speaker A: It might be doing some invisible oranges out in a field. [00:58:34] Speaker B: And then we got a she spawn. But it's not she spawn, it's she dressing as Spawn. [00:58:40] Speaker A: Yeah, and it's got both her and her mask off state. And then her and her mask on state. [00:58:45] Speaker B: The giant axe has glowing eyes as well. [00:58:47] Speaker A: It's great. Yeah, and she's got, like, the big right hand thing of a jig, whatever we're calling it. Brace. It's great. Yeah, it's great. And pocket, she got lots of pouches. [00:58:59] Speaker B: And then we get a cool little medieval spawn. [00:59:01] Speaker A: That's a great medieval, man. That's some good armor work. [00:59:03] Speaker B: Big old helmet. Yeah. This is fun. Spawnoween. So maybe this month into one of the issues, we'll get some more Spawnoween. Maybe because it's November. Well, better hurry up. It's almost the end of November. [00:59:14] Speaker A: Yeah, come on, TikTok. [00:59:15] Speaker B: Give us some spawn a ween. [00:59:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Then the image classics ad. And then an ad for the scorched. [00:59:22] Speaker B: Scorched is still coming. January 2021. [00:59:27] Speaker A: That's Spawn 324, Johnny. [00:59:29] Speaker B: Wait, wouldn't it be January 2022 for Scorched? Because this is November 2021. [00:59:35] Speaker A: Hey, Johnny. Issue to issue. [00:59:37] Speaker B: Issue to issue. [00:59:38] Speaker A: Issue to issue. You're right. That's fun. 320. [00:59:41] Speaker B: Scorched is coming. [00:59:42] Speaker A: Yeah, it's coming. Going to scorch you u. [01:00:05] Speaker B: All right, so next up, our second issue is King Spawn 26, written by Mr. Tod McFarland. But that's the credits. I'm getting ahead of myself. [01:00:17] Speaker A: Written by King Todd, if you will. [01:00:19] Speaker B: King ToD. No, we have 26 here. We got a couple of covers. As you want to do. [01:00:25] Speaker A: Yeah, well, not as we're want to do. As the creative team wants to do. Yes. [01:00:30] Speaker B: So I am reading the Kale new cover. [01:00:34] Speaker A: Nice. [01:00:35] Speaker B: Which is Spawn looking pretty trim with some abs, holding a big old spawn sword. [01:00:42] Speaker A: Nice. I am reading the Diodato Jr. Cover. It's got some hands in front. Like, there are hands holding back the terror that is the clown digging through rubble. [01:00:55] Speaker B: Those spawn hands creep me out. They're too, like, humany. [01:00:59] Speaker A: Too humany. I mean, what are you going to do about it? What are you going to do about it? [01:01:02] Speaker B: No, they're just creepy. [01:01:03] Speaker A: They're great hands, though. They're great hands. [01:01:05] Speaker B: No, they're good looking hands. [01:01:07] Speaker A: We know David likes hands in comic books, but, yeah, they're kind of crEepy. [01:01:11] Speaker B: It's just weird to see Spawn's hands like that. I don't know. I don't know why they. [01:01:14] Speaker A: Are they creepier than this clown? Are they creepier than the clown's hands? No, definitely not. This is a fucking evil, malicious clown, too. [01:01:24] Speaker B: Yeah, he looks. Looking pretty. [01:01:26] Speaker A: He's got that V shaped. [01:01:27] Speaker B: Happy to be kicking Spawn's ass. [01:01:29] Speaker A: That V shaped face. V for villain. [01:01:31] Speaker B: It's basically like a still from Spawn's point of view from, like, last issue where they had the fight, what it. [01:01:37] Speaker A: Seems like before he turned around and walked into the woods, said, bye. [01:01:42] Speaker B: No, I don't want to go. To hell with you. Goodbye. [01:01:45] Speaker A: He doesn't give a shit, Johnny. [01:01:46] Speaker B: I don't give a shit. He sure doesn't. [01:01:48] Speaker A: I give a shit. So why don't we crack this bad boy open, Johnny? [01:01:52] Speaker B: I give a shit. And your host gives a shit. Todd McFarlane, because he's writing the script. He scripts on this issue. This is his second issue of King Spawn. [01:01:59] Speaker A: We got that Javi Fernandez art. It is. It is so good. [01:02:04] Speaker B: Yeah, his little brief commando. Spawn is pretty awesome. [01:02:06] Speaker A: Yeah. Ivan Nunez doing the colors, Edward design doing the letters. We covered the covers. The Todd father coming back as creative director. So that's good. And our double duty, our editor in chief, Mr. Thomas Healy. Hell, yeah. [01:02:19] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. So previously in King Spawn. Spawn decides he needs to find a way into hell, one that will allow him to proceed unnoticed. That's kind of more of a in between issue, because we didn't really know that insight into his brain. [01:02:38] Speaker A: Yeah, that's good. So he's looking for a backdoor. And. Johnny, Johnny, didn't we recently just talk about how there needs to be 80s building? The suit montage in the new Spawn movie you did. [01:02:49] Speaker B: And look at that. [01:02:49] Speaker A: Yeah, look. And here we have it. There's even a template now. Dear Bloom house. Jason Bloom directly. You fucking got it right here. Commando. Fucking commando style, that shit. Just like in the. It doesn't matter if you have to break the sort of narrative flow. We fucking want it. Look at this. It's dope. [01:03:11] Speaker B: And at the end, he needs to say groovy. [01:03:14] Speaker A: Groovy. Oh, boy. [01:03:18] Speaker B: Yeah, it's just this little montage of, like, swan getting all his commando stuff together. So you got grenades, knives, guns, bullets. [01:03:25] Speaker A: It's great. [01:03:26] Speaker B: Everything. [01:03:27] Speaker A: It's good. Yeah, he's got belts, ammunition belts, bandoliers. He's got clips. Those are actually clips. Yeah, he's got magazines, presumably. [01:03:39] Speaker B: He's got it all. [01:03:40] Speaker A: And then he crosses the city, heading to the outskirts. And I like this city view. And then it's just spawn and shadow on a building. [01:03:50] Speaker B: Yeah, it's pretty cool. He's jumping. [01:03:51] Speaker A: It's real. It's real good, man. I love Javi Fernandez. [01:03:55] Speaker B: He does great art. [01:03:56] Speaker A: He just posts up in a tree, like, the world's most frightening bird. And watches. He just watches. He watches for 3 hours, and then it's like, yeah, I think I've waited long enough. And then he busts into, like, what, this after hours club? Is that what it is? But there's nobody there. [01:04:15] Speaker B: Something like that. [01:04:16] Speaker A: He waited too long, Johnny. Everybody left, including the person he was waiting. [01:04:21] Speaker B: Awesome. Double page of Commando Spawn. We haven't really seen Commando Spawn in King Spawn. [01:04:27] Speaker A: It's great. It's amazing. Both times I've read this issue, I just had to stop and be like, holy shit. He's got the cape around his mouth. [01:04:38] Speaker B: The scarf around his mouth. [01:04:39] Speaker A: Yeah. It's so awesome. I like how he has one knee pad on. He has the knee pad on the left side, but the big right boot doesn't make room for the knee pad. So he's like, whatever. Don't need it there. [01:04:53] Speaker B: Just need the one knee pad. Yeah, man. [01:04:54] Speaker A: They need to do another Commando Spawn and have it based off of this. That would be a dope figure. [01:04:58] Speaker B: Yeah, this would be a great figure. [01:05:00] Speaker A: It would be amazing. [01:05:00] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:05:01] Speaker A: And they're gone. Like, they knew he was coming, and they wanted to send him a message that they're always one step ahead of. [01:05:07] Speaker B: Always. [01:05:07] Speaker A: Always. And then, Johnny, the boredom set in already. I'm already leaving. [01:05:12] Speaker B: No, it's not boredom. Commando Spawn's so awesome that we can't take it. We have to change the. [01:05:17] Speaker A: We have to watch something mindless for a second while we chew on the Majesty. [01:05:23] Speaker B: We need to get something that's a little more. NoT cool. [01:05:26] Speaker A: Yeah. And, Johnny, Johnny, did you feel like what the pundits are saying in this issue. Is actually very close to what they were saying in the previous issue, the Spawn 324. [01:05:36] Speaker B: It is pretty close. [01:05:41] Speaker A: At a certain point of time, when the books are all coming out in the same time, the pundits do kind of carry along the same theme, but there's two years between these two. And I just feel like, man, the world of Spawn just living in that world has to be so difficult, because, I mean, what's this? Two years later, and you've still got them kind of talking about the same bullshit, and it's like, weren't we supposed to fix this? And it's like, yeah, but that bullshit still exists. And, Johnny, I don't think I could live in a world where some bullshit happens, and we're like, this needs to stop right now. And then two years later, we're still like, this bullshit exists. It needs to stop right now. [01:06:16] Speaker B: So I don't think it's been two years. So at Spawn Con, we got a little insight from Thomas Healy, where he was saying, they're saying that at this point in the comics, Spawn's been spawn for about, like, five or so years. It's like the Iron man thing, where originally he was, know, the Vietnam War, and then it was Iraq, and then it just keeps kind of updating. [01:06:38] Speaker A: So you're saying Spawn is not Savage Dragon and doesn't exist in real time. [01:06:43] Speaker B: Correct. [01:06:43] Speaker A: Dang. [01:06:43] Speaker B: Also, like on King Spawn issue 24, they refer to something from the first few issues, like a few months ago. [01:06:49] Speaker A: Yeah. I also wonder if. Because since I thought that these pundits were kind of close to the 324 pundits, I wonder if they were trying to root it in that time. [01:06:59] Speaker B: There hasn't been much in the world stage since Spawn revealed himself. It's just been kind of, oh, there's been a lot going on in the Shadow player world. I don't think the real people have gotten much more information about what the. [01:07:10] Speaker A: Deal is, which is why we're dealing with the three sides of the story. [01:07:15] Speaker B: But they're like, what are these costume sightings? Okay, so it's been nine months. There we go. It's been nine Months, man. [01:07:22] Speaker A: So there's been a baby first. The first baby has been named. Guess. I guess babies can be born before then, can't they? Because if they were a previous baby. You know what, Johnny? No. [01:07:35] Speaker B: So it's been nine months since Al Simmons revealed themselves. [01:07:38] Speaker A: Nice. Well, I mean, we got Brock the shock over here just popping off, seemingly untethered to any sort of reality. Johnny, can you believe somebody would get on the television and say nonsense with such passion and fervor? [01:07:55] Speaker B: Oh, I can't believe it. [01:07:56] Speaker A: I can't. [01:07:56] Speaker B: This is just the most fictional thing. [01:07:57] Speaker A: I've ever seen, but, oh, yeah. Good pundits. Good pundits. I like Javi's pundits. They look nice. [01:08:05] Speaker B: Yeah. He's got another green coat on. [01:08:07] Speaker A: Yeah, maybe he's part of the green. [01:08:10] Speaker B: Johnny, we know what team the Brockenshock Fennel's on. The demon team. [01:08:16] Speaker A: He went to Nepal. So he is a blue. [01:08:20] Speaker B: That what their. Is that with their mascot? [01:08:23] Speaker A: Yeah. Have you ever wondered how a Jesuit school got the mascot of Blue Demon? Yeah, I do wonder, actually, their original outfits had a big blue D on them for DePaul. And so they were called the Blue D Men because they were men wearing Big blue Ds. [01:08:41] Speaker B: Big Blue D. I thought that was what Dr. Manhattan had. [01:08:46] Speaker A: Oh, man. That was better than anything I was just stating there. And then after a know as things happened, they were just like, why don't we just have them? You can't mascot a D man. So just make it a demon. So that's how a Jesuit college has fucking a demon as their mascot. [01:09:04] Speaker B: The Blue Demons. That's funny. I didn't know that. [01:09:06] Speaker A: Yeah. Hilarious. Hilarious. [01:09:09] Speaker B: Speaking of Manhattan. Yes, Dr. Manhattan's Big Dick. We go to Manhattan, New York, and. [01:09:15] Speaker A: The phallicist of skyscrapers. Look at that. It's just, like, jutting out into the sky, straight up, just like, wow. [01:09:23] Speaker B: It's like a big boner. [01:09:26] Speaker A: Speaking of big boners, we're at a dance club where those happen all the time, don't they? I don't know, Johnny. I've never been to a dance club, so I don't know how many boners are there, but I assume probably a lot. [01:09:37] Speaker B: Usually that's the idea behind. [01:09:38] Speaker A: Yeah. And then we got a whole bunch of people milling by the door, trying. [01:09:42] Speaker B: To get in the boners. [01:09:44] Speaker A: And just. Al Simmons just fucking beats his way into the door. He's like, I will not wait in line. [01:09:50] Speaker B: I'm on the list. [01:09:52] Speaker A: I will not be swayed by your velvet rope and your locked door and your security guard sitting on a stool inside of that door. He just fucking chucks people out of the bar and throws people around the bar until we get just one guy. Just one guy. A guy named Jimmy who's with a dorky haircut. Yeah, he's got the Chili Bowl. Not just the Chili bowl right on top of his head, but it's like the Chili bowl with the underbuzz, so that it's, like, extra like. He looks like a fucking mom wrath from Ding Ding Alice in Wonderland. And Al's looking for the visage. [01:10:35] Speaker B: He shows him his scary Albrid. [01:10:38] Speaker A: Yeah, that's spawn. So fucking creepy. It's so creepy. And then Jimmy's boys pull up outside, but they're too late. And since Al's been commando spawned, we would expect him to throw a grenade or something. But he doesn't throw a grenade at them. He throws Jimmy's head. [01:10:55] Speaker B: He's doing a monolith, throwing some body parts. [01:10:58] Speaker A: I wish his name had been Murray, so that way we could do some Murray head. [01:11:02] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Bangkok. One night in Bangkok, and the world's your oyster. [01:11:08] Speaker A: Yes, indeed it is. [01:11:09] Speaker B: It's a joke for me and Bran. Only a Murray head joke. [01:11:12] Speaker A: Well, I mean, it's also a joke for me because you were like, I watched this before. You helped this move once you were like, I watched this video, like, twelve times. And now the song stuck in my head. And then that song was stuck in my head for three solid years, Johnny. [01:11:23] Speaker B: Yeah, and it was a banger. [01:11:26] Speaker A: You just sang the chorus over and over again the whole day we moved. [01:11:31] Speaker B: I know. I didn't even know any of the other lyrics. It's just the chorus. It's always Iceland or Hastings or Singapore or this place. [01:11:42] Speaker A: I get my kicks above the waistline. [01:11:45] Speaker B: Honey, sunshine Gotta love chess the musical. Chess the musical, folks. Look it up. It's by the half of ABBA. [01:11:54] Speaker A: Half of ABBA, half of ABBA. And a good portion of the original cast from Jesus Christ SupErstar. [01:12:01] Speaker B: Yes. Chess the musical. [01:12:03] Speaker A: Oh, boy. [01:12:04] Speaker B: But Spawn throws his head out and. Well, he doesn't throw his head out. We're talking too much about. [01:12:11] Speaker A: No, no. He throws the dude's actual head with the terrible. [01:12:14] Speaker B: Actual head with the terrible were. [01:12:17] Speaker A: Yes. And then he comes out of there. [01:12:18] Speaker B: He doesn't do a Dr. Manhattan in Vietnam, where he's just walking around with his dick hanging out. [01:12:23] Speaker A: Or Johnny drunk after he's closed the door. [01:12:27] Speaker B: And all my clothes. I've raptured myself just walking around naked. But Spawn cuts this swath. He does a path of terror across New York City, just killing. Yeah, this night. [01:12:41] Speaker A: This is great. It's like a map of Manhattan. And just Spawn is walking all over it. And then we've got, like, the little scenes of the carnage he's done across town. There's angels with crucifixes shoved in their mouths. There's people hung between buildings. There's people hung upside down. [01:13:06] Speaker B: There's people hung upside down. And it's just a torso hung upside down. [01:13:10] Speaker A: Yeah, there's people stabbed through the heart with do not park here signs. [01:13:16] Speaker B: Story of my. [01:13:20] Speaker A: And parking in Chicago was. [01:13:22] Speaker B: I mean, and they're the idiots that privatized it, so they're not making any money off it too. I just love this page. It looks like it's in motion. Like, you can see it. I see. It'd be a great transition in a movie. Just like Spawn walking over a map in New York with, like, scenes in the Cape. [01:13:37] Speaker A: It's pretty cool. Yeah, it's great. And then we end up, basically one of the things I love most about. About films set in New York City. Johnny, the subway. [01:13:47] Speaker B: The subway. I always love the subway. [01:13:50] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a good one. It's a good one. We got some. A kid running with, like, an attache case, jumping down off the platform into the tunnels. And shadow blasting in front of a kid. [01:14:02] Speaker B: Well, yeah, the little narration here is like, these people are running scared into the shadows and they forget that's where Spawn lives. Yeah, in the shadows. [01:14:13] Speaker A: In the shadows. In the dark of the night. That is respond lives. That's a joke for very few people, Johnny. Not enough people have seen The Don Bluth Classic Anastasia. It's got fucking. [01:14:31] Speaker B: I know you've mentioned it. This is like the fifth time it's come up. [01:14:34] Speaker A: It's got fucking Christopher Lloyd. It's goddamn Rasputin. It's great. I love it. [01:14:39] Speaker B: I like Anastasia. [01:14:40] Speaker A: I love it so much. Bartok the Bat is. I used to have the McDonald's toy that was him with the eyeball. And you pull the eyeball out and he just kind of, like. It's attached to a cord, and he just kind of, like, wobbles until it comes. Alice. Man, Al's got a super creepy face when he's asking for the visage. This. [01:15:07] Speaker B: Is about to chomp this guy's hand off. [01:15:09] Speaker A: Yeah. And then we go from creepy face to guy in subway to creepy face down on the city because he's doing the Batman pose on a building and just looking down, looking at some more people. And then as we pull away, then. [01:15:24] Speaker B: He travels to London. [01:15:25] Speaker A: Yeah. We learn that it's not only that one man's daughter who thinks Grandfather clocks are creepy, but also. So we got the clock tower. We've got the clock there. We don't see Big Ben, because here, Johnny, here's a little bit of pedantry for you. Big Ben is not the clock or the tower. Big Ben is the. So unless you have access to the inside of the clock tower, you never see Big Ben. So now you will have the frustration that I have every time somebody's like, look, it's Big Ben. No, it's Clock tower. Big Ben inside. Big Ben hide. Big Ben says have a name? The clock tower. As far as I know. [01:16:14] Speaker B: Tower of London. [01:16:15] Speaker A: No, the Tower of London was at the Big. Big Ben says, with great size comes great loud noise across the city. Right. I guess Uncle Big Ben. That was a stretch, wasn't it? That was a little sweaty. [01:16:38] Speaker B: A little stretch. I mean, being a little sweaty. [01:16:41] Speaker A: I'm a little sweaty. I am under dogs, wearing a sweatshirt. I'm a little sweaty. Now. [01:16:47] Speaker B: How many dogs you got on? [01:16:48] Speaker A: I've got two on my lap and then one hiding in that little, like, in the lumbar support region of my. [01:16:55] Speaker B: Yeah, you're surrounded by dogs. You probably are pretty warm then. [01:16:58] Speaker A: Yeah, and also, they're stinky, Johnny. They're not as bad as last a. He's been given instructions on a place to go, and he goes there. And then he enters, Johnny. And what happens? His cape. [01:17:15] Speaker B: He goes limp. [01:17:16] Speaker A: He says. He says, this never happens to me. I swear, baby. [01:17:21] Speaker B: And this is a really dick filled. [01:17:22] Speaker A: Issue for no reason. [01:17:25] Speaker B: We're making it dick. It's not in the. [01:17:27] Speaker A: As most. As most men who have that problem. Johnny, he's thankful for his man made weapons. [01:17:32] Speaker B: He is thankful for his. [01:17:41] Speaker A: Well, we get the sassy old lady that we were talking about. She just says, come on in, Simmons. I've been expecting you. [01:17:50] Speaker B: And then spawn asked the most obvious question. This place is a dead zone. It's like, doy. [01:17:55] Speaker A: He didn't know this place existed. This one existed. And, Johnny, as we know, Al Simmons knows from dead zones. So him not knowing this one existed is a pretty big deal. It's a pretty big blue D man. [01:18:09] Speaker B: Pretty big blue D man. And she's like, there's more secrets you're not aware of. Why are you bothering me now, this vintage, I wonder if she's a new character or an old character. [01:18:19] Speaker A: I don't know. I'm going to assume new, since it's also in a dead zone that Al Simmons didn't know about. [01:18:25] Speaker B: Yeah, I would assume so too. [01:18:26] Speaker A: But she strikes me kind of like a Watu the Watcher, where she's keyed into information from all across time and space and other universes, and she's just there to make sure that. To watch and make sure that shit goes the way it's supposed to. [01:18:45] Speaker B: So it appears that this is a new character. [01:18:50] Speaker A: Yeah, but, yeah, literally, her job, her mission is to observe nothing else, so she cannot interfere. Just like Oatu the Watcher. Okay. It is kind of like, yeah, except for every time you hear Oatu the Watcher say, I cannot interfere, you know, in two issues, time, Oatu is going to have his ass down into shit, interfering. She's like, and so Al Simmons, much like a cat, has brought trophies from all of his kills, one from each side of the conflict. We've got heaven, we've got hell, we've got Greenworld, we've got vampires. And she's like, ooh, trinkets. Trinkets. And then with these trinkets, she's like, okay, now let me see who you are. And so she does, like, a cyan type thing, wants to feel his true self. Yeah. And we see a badass original, original spawn. We haven't seen Javi Fernandez do an original spawn yet. And it is incredible. It's so good. And then the facade. That is Al Simmons. And then inside what he is a rotting corpse. [01:20:02] Speaker B: A soul both physically and mentally scarred forever. [01:20:05] Speaker A: Yeah. And then she sees him in his burnt self there. [01:20:11] Speaker B: He's got maggots crawling out of his eye. [01:20:13] Speaker A: They've done this. [01:20:13] Speaker B: He's really gross. This is a really gross, Crispy. Simmons. [01:20:16] Speaker A: What was your crime? I stopped caring about others information. And then again, with this galaxy, has always acted so irrational. So this lady is just, like, cosmic being? [01:20:26] Speaker B: Yes, definitely cosmic. [01:20:28] Speaker A: And so she's wondering who Al Simmons wronged. In order for this to be an acceptable punishment. [01:20:36] Speaker B: He forgot to care for someone he loved. And took that for granted. [01:20:39] Speaker A: He sure did. And then they killed her. [01:20:41] Speaker B: Wanda. [01:20:41] Speaker A: Wanda. His raisin Des. Spawn. Right. His reason for being spawn. The raisin despawn. [01:20:49] Speaker B: Pretty much because he called out that one name. Wanda. [01:20:52] Speaker A: Wanda. And then she's told me what I. You've told me. You've told me enough. You've told me enough. Put on your suit. She says, become your health. [01:21:00] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm tired of looking at the maggots crawling out of your eyes. [01:21:05] Speaker A: Me too. I'll be like, dude, can you put on the sunglasses, please? Just, like, necroblast them on there. [01:21:12] Speaker B: I don't need to see that. I don't need to see maggots coming out of your eyes, budy. [01:21:15] Speaker A: And now she does a palm reading for them. And she's like, your lifeline, not very long. And she gives him an orb, a visible orange. [01:21:25] Speaker B: Orange. [01:21:26] Speaker A: Yeah. And she's like. Basically, she's like, this will take you place that you can never get back from. And nobody will know you're there. You won't even know where you are, but that's where you'll be. And then never bother me again. And it's like, okay. [01:21:47] Speaker B: Sounds like a plan. [01:21:49] Speaker A: That's fine, I guess. And then. So we get Commander Spawn in front of big purple portal. Portal. Purple portal, purple portal. Tune in next month for aL. Continuation of this Al's long journey. Yeah. [01:22:10] Speaker B: Then we've got the King Spawn logo. [01:22:11] Speaker A: Hell, yeah, we do. [01:22:13] Speaker B: And some spawning ground. [01:22:14] Speaker A: Yeah, we got some mailbag, people. [01:22:16] Speaker B: We love a mailbag. [01:22:17] Speaker A: We got Graham from the UK talking. Know, spawn is awesome. And it's really good. And the Spawn universe is good. [01:22:25] Speaker B: I like how in both these letters, in two of the three letters, they mentioned where they started. And they're completely different issues. Like, he started in 284. The next letter started 314. So really, you just got to get on Spawn. Remember we started. I started on issue 322 or something. You just got to start. [01:22:44] Speaker A: You just got to start. You just got to jump in there. You just got to be like Alcimonds and a fight. Just got to jump into it. Don't worry about what's happening. Just fight. [01:22:50] Speaker B: Just fight that. Fight your way through the books. Read them. [01:22:53] Speaker A: Yeah, but, yeah. [01:22:54] Speaker B: Graham from the K, basically saying how much he loves the Spawns universe, and he poses the question, are the artists really just fans, or are they professional? You know, I could see that because there's a lot of this stuff that. [01:23:06] Speaker A: These people, some of them might be. [01:23:08] Speaker B: Also professional artists, but the fan art is just always incredible. [01:23:12] Speaker A: Yeah, it is always incredible. Then Brooks asks about collected editions for all of the older spin off series, which Brooks is reading our mind. I am also very interested in that, because, Johnny, we got shit like 35 different series to cover for this podcast, and some of them aren't available easily at all. [01:23:34] Speaker B: It'd be nice to be able to get this. [01:23:36] Speaker A: Yeah, it sure would. And then Victor just sends in a spawn into Malbolgia and. [01:23:40] Speaker B: Love that. Malbola. [01:23:41] Speaker A: That's so fucking creepy. I like what they did with the tongue. Like, they had it split and be like. It's like two additional appendages. The tongue, it's great. Or, no, it's just one tongue. [01:23:51] Speaker B: It's really sinewy. [01:23:52] Speaker A: No, it's just the one tongue goes. [01:23:54] Speaker B: To the side really big. [01:23:55] Speaker A: Yeah, it's good. It's good. It's real good. And that's a real moody spawn. And then we got the Spawns universe ads, damage classics ads, the page punchers ads with the classic anti spawn spawn. [01:24:06] Speaker B: Which is, weirdly, it's at a prison. Yeah, it looks like. Or like a baseball field. It's just funny that that's where it says. [01:24:13] Speaker A: Yeah, either that or it's like one of the old fashioned chain link fences that they used to have in alleys. [01:24:20] Speaker B: Yes, it could be an alley, but. [01:24:21] Speaker A: There'S too much grass for it to be an alley. So I don't know. I don't know, Johnny. [01:24:24] Speaker B: So it looks like an old baseball field to me. Maybe it's a baseball field. Tod loves baseball, but, yeah, then that's. [01:24:30] Speaker A: Kingspot 26, pretty much. [01:24:31] Speaker B: Issue 26. Pretty good. [01:24:33] Speaker A: Well, Johnny, speaking about being buried under puppies, I think it's time to rate these puppies. [01:24:38] Speaker B: It's time to rate the puppies. So first up this week, we had Spawn 324, the first one by Rory McConville. On his run here. Kind of a fun little side story between Mark and Jim Downing. Yeah, it's good. It's interesting to see what two people that are around Al a lot think of him. And talk about him when he's not there. Because usually you don't see that Spawn's always, like, in the room. But this time you get, like, two people talking about him, which is interesting. [01:25:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:25:13] Speaker B: But I like the issue. I think it's a good start for Carlo Barberi. Good dialogue. Just like a nice, interesting little conversation between Jim and Mark. Then you get some action when these angels come in. But I'm going to give it four big monies from the Vatican, baby. [01:25:28] Speaker A: Four big monies from the Vatican. Hell, yeah. [01:25:30] Speaker B: Because that Vatican's paying big money. To get that spawn back. [01:25:33] Speaker A: Oh, man. Big Vatican. I agree with everything you said. And I am going to give it four uneaten hammy burgers. [01:25:40] Speaker B: Yeah. What the heck, Mark? You didn't eat your burger. [01:25:42] Speaker A: Yeah. The conversation between Jim and Mark. Very good. The conversation between Jim and medieval. Also very good. So it's fun to see this plan. That we know how it goes. Kind of be enacted in the first place. [01:25:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:25:56] Speaker A: Good. And the art. Excellent. [01:25:57] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Carla, Barbara is a great job. Clean. You get some fun. Blood and action. [01:26:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:26:02] Speaker B: LikEd it a lot. [01:26:03] Speaker A: Me, too. [01:26:04] Speaker B: I am curious who this redeemer is, though. I want to know. [01:26:07] Speaker A: I want to know. [01:26:08] Speaker B: We'll find out eventually. [01:26:09] Speaker A: Can you show me? Yeah, eventually. [01:26:12] Speaker B: Let me show you. King Spawn 26. That was our second issue we covered today. [01:26:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:26:17] Speaker B: And this one, I don't know. I wasn't too hot on it when I originally read. It just seemed like kind of a filler. Like getting one place to another. But it is very much a first half to the second part of the piece. Which is 27. Where we see what happens. When Al goes in through that port. That purple portal that we talked about. [01:26:31] Speaker A: Yeah. It's quite intense, honestly. [01:26:33] Speaker B: Quite intense. Yeah. That'll be a tough one to talk. [01:26:35] Speaker A: About, but we'll get there. [01:26:37] Speaker B: But I'm going to give this issue. Three Javier Fernandez Commando Spawns. [01:26:41] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [01:26:42] Speaker B: Because I just love that. That's made the issue for me. The art's great. I love the little panel. Where he's walking over the city map. And just Javier Fernandez's really interesting ways to frame things. And I always love it. But it's know, like I said before, and I don't. I love the toddfather. But I think maybe we should get someone else for King Spawn. Just to give a little different flavor. But according to Thomas Healy at Spawn Con, the intention is. The question I asked was whether. How long Tod McFarland would be on this. And he said it's more just to keep everything on the same page to get to 350. And the intention is not for him to stay on King Spawn. [01:27:17] Speaker A: Nice. [01:27:17] Speaker B: So we'll be getting another writer soon, I imagine. [01:27:20] Speaker A: Yeah, nice. [01:27:21] Speaker B: Not that I'm like, I'll get him out of here, but it doesn't feel quite like King spot to me. [01:27:27] Speaker A: Yeah, I get agree. I agree. I also like the sort of carnage as visualized by Javi Fernandez. [01:27:34] Speaker B: Oh, it's great. [01:27:35] Speaker A: But, yeah, no, good issue. Good issue. I like it. It is very much a first part, but I do like it. I'm going to give it three and a half. Purple portal orbs. [01:27:45] Speaker B: Purple portal orbs. Yeah, got it. [01:27:48] Speaker A: I mean, even though we've talked about that, we don't really want the Todd father to be our King Spawn writer. But, I mean, it's good. It's Solid. Art is amazing. I enjoy it. I enjoy it a lot. Yeah. So, hey, Johnny. [01:28:00] Speaker B: Yo. [01:28:01] Speaker A: We kind of have our own purple portal, and that is Instagram. It gives us all the places that we need to go. [01:28:07] Speaker B: Yeah, it's kind of purple. Orange. The icon is one place. [01:28:12] Speaker A: One place that you should really go on the Instagram. You should go see a guy named Spawn Addict. I'll give you a hint, Johnny. They might as well face it. They're addicted to Spawn, and you could. [01:28:23] Speaker B: Be too addicted to Spawn comics. Give me a follow. [01:28:25] Speaker A: Yeah, they're great. They got lots of slab stuff. They got lots of. Lots of figures, lots of wizard magazine. Wizard magazine. [01:28:35] Speaker B: Nice. Yeah, they got a lot of slabs. They got some fun Spawn memes. There's one that says, like, when a girl hears you bring up six figures a month, and it's em Watson looking thirsty, and then it's picture of six action figures. Pretty funny. [01:28:50] Speaker A: That's good shit. That's good shit. I like it. While you're over there, you should also portal on over to Brian's. Brian's site. Brian Underscore Voyals. Underscore 27. He does our music. It's really fucking great. We're over there too. Regarding Spawn pod. We post pictures of stuff that we talk about, the stuff we pick up every week. We talk about stuff we really like. Hanging out with you over there. It's great. [01:29:11] Speaker B: Yeah, it's been great. Great community building. So try to follow us on there, and if you want to drop us a line on somewhere besides Instagram, you can send us an email at regarding [email protected]. [01:29:22] Speaker A: Yes, indeed. [01:29:23] Speaker B: And if you send us an email, we will read it on air. And if you give us your address, we'll send you a sticker. [01:29:28] Speaker A: Hell yeah, we will. [01:29:29] Speaker B: There's a double incentive. [01:29:30] Speaker A: Yeah. Do it. Do it. Do it. What do you want the people to write in about this time? [01:29:35] Speaker B: Oh, let's see. So we got Rory McConville taking over for mainline Spawn. I'm wondering if from Spawn's past, you have a favorite writer besides Tod McFarlane, obviously. But if there's a writer that did Spawn, because there's been quite a few over the years, if there's a favorite of yours. So I'd just be curious to hear what your favorite writer of mainline Spawn. [01:29:55] Speaker A: Got it. I've got an answer right in my back pocket, Johnny. [01:29:58] Speaker B: Who? [01:29:58] Speaker A: Grant Morrison. [01:30:00] Speaker B: Nice. [01:30:00] Speaker A: Because they gave us anti spawn. And that's great. [01:30:04] Speaker B: That's good enough for me. [01:30:06] Speaker A: Yeah. Frank Miller. Wait, what? [01:30:10] Speaker B: No, I mean Rory McConnell might be. I got to think about. I don't remember the names of the earlier ones. I got to look at it, but there's a few. I love that salmon twitch. Run in the. Can't remember who wrote it, but you're. [01:30:23] Speaker A: Not going to say Alan Moore Halbern. [01:30:25] Speaker B: Alan Moore is one of my favorites, too. You're going to say Alan Moore? [01:30:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:30:29] Speaker B: He's only written a couple, but he's done great. [01:30:31] Speaker A: Arguably got you into the spawn. [01:30:33] Speaker B: Well, really kicked me off. [01:30:35] Speaker A: Yeah, it got you to the point of no return. You've passed the point of no return. [01:30:44] Speaker B: Exactly. When I got to that, I bought the companion. When I got that issue eight, I was like, this is for me. Great stuff. [01:30:51] Speaker A: And now you were a disfigured man living underneath an opera, trying to woo away the young starlet from a man with very nice hair. That's what Raul's got going for him, right? [01:31:03] Speaker B: Anthony's Patrick Wilson in the movie. That's pretty good. [01:31:06] Speaker A: I haven't seen the movie in so long. I can't believe what I'm going to have to. Nice. I didn't realize it was Patrick. [01:31:11] Speaker B: Patrick Wilson's Raul. [01:31:12] Speaker A: He does a great job, man. I love Patrick Wilson. He's in, like, 40 movies a year. It's great. [01:31:17] Speaker B: Yeah, he's a busy man. [01:31:18] Speaker A: Speaking of. Speaking of busy men, Johnny, we should probably talk about what we're going to do next week so we don't forget about it, right? [01:31:25] Speaker B: Yeah, because we've been some busy men, but we're going to be busy reading some spawn. [01:31:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:31:30] Speaker B: Next week we're going to be following the next issue on this Roy McConville, which will be spawn 325. So excited to see where he goes with his second issue here. And then our second issue, our second issue of next week is going to be scorched 22. [01:31:46] Speaker A: Hey, two's all over the place. It's the second two's all over the place. [01:31:50] Speaker B: 22Nd, scorched 22. Some wild times, if I remember correctly. [01:31:54] Speaker A: I mean, you probably do because the scorched is pretty wild. Not going to lie. [01:31:58] Speaker B: Does get wild. [01:31:59] Speaker A: So, Johnny, if you guys should go see our friends, you guys should send us emails. You guys should read those two issues of Spawn. Spawn 325 and Scorch 22. Come back next week. And I think, Johnny, I think that just leaves me to say, may the scorched be with you. [01:32:15] Speaker B: And also with you, David. [01:32:16] Speaker A: Hell yeah. [01:32:17] Speaker B: Hell yeah. All right, man. I'm going back to the old days. I'm going to go somehow figure out how to portal to this issue 324. And get that half a cheeseburger that Mark didn't eat. He didn't even eat half it. He had a bite out of it. All right, I'm porting in right now into the comic to get the burger because, hey, guess what? You know how when you eat a lot, you think you're full from Thanksgiving, but the next day you wake up and you're surprised that you're hungry again? Well, I'm at that point now Thanksgiving has officially passed into my toilet. The plumbers are coming to fix it. It's good. It's a great Black Friday.