[00:00:00] Speaker A: It's Spawn Con is done. What an amazing event. Great vibe, fantastic guest artists, killer merch, and awesome attendees. Thank you to everyone that made it out. For those that didn't, you'd better come next year. The Spawn Convention Instagram account, October 2023.
Good evening, and welcome to the Malbols. This is regarding Spawn, the World's best Spawn podcast. I'm your co host, John Fisher.
[00:01:01] Speaker B: And I am your co host and resident sad boy, David Williams.
[00:01:06] Speaker A: And, Johnny, why are you sad, David?
[00:01:08] Speaker B: I'm so sad because I didn't get to go to Spawn Con.
I didn't get to experience all the.
[00:01:15] Speaker A: Spawn, but you kind of did. I brought you back. A little taste.
[00:01:19] Speaker B: A little taste. A little taste, Johnny. But I need the whole thing. I'm like an addict over here.
Pop it.
[00:01:25] Speaker A: A little amuse, boosh.
[00:01:26] Speaker B: Pop that spawn right in my vein, Johnny. I need it.
[00:01:30] Speaker A: I overdosed on Spawn and Ruby Tuesdays.
[00:01:35] Speaker B: Hopefully you had your narcan, your Rubicon.
[00:01:40] Speaker A: Rubicon. It was obviously on the Rubicon, guys. I ate it at Spawncon. I ate it Ruby Tuesdays three times. I just want to get that out of the way.
[00:01:49] Speaker B: They need to rename it Ruby Weekend.
[00:01:52] Speaker A: Yeah, they need to call it Ruby Weekend, or they need to call it.
[00:01:57] Speaker B: Should have done.
[00:01:58] Speaker A: You should have spawning Tuesdays.
[00:02:00] Speaker B: You should have made, like, a stencil, much like Guy Fieri has whenever he goes to a restaurant that it says, guy was here. You could be like, half of Respawn was here.
[00:02:13] Speaker A: I tipped them in just stickers for the podcast. They ran me out in Spawn bucks.
They're really mean to me. The third time I went, I don't know why.
I was just tipping them in stickers. What's the problem?
[00:02:26] Speaker B: These have a value. I can show you the receipt that we paid for them. And there is an equivalency here.
[00:02:34] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:02:36] Speaker B: That's how much this sticker costs. That means we're good here. A good day.
[00:02:42] Speaker A: Well, I had a couple of good days last week.
This is going to be our post Spawn Con recap special episode.
[00:02:52] Speaker B: This is going to be like, the world's most boring sports recap show. We'll just be like, a guy did a thing, and then this happened.
[00:03:01] Speaker A: And then he went to Ruby TuesdaYs.
[00:03:03] Speaker B: And then it snowed.
[00:03:05] Speaker A: And then it snowed. It snowed a lot. It was hell froze over at Spawncon this year. Well, not this year. The year. The only year. The first year.
[00:03:13] Speaker B: First year. Not the only. Don't speak that into it.
[00:03:17] Speaker A: No, not the only. Not the only. I mean the only one so far.
The only one so far, David. So far.
[00:03:25] Speaker B: You say the only one so far. But I think they actually did have another spawn convention in the.
Sure. I'm pretty sure the Spawn archives posted something up not too long ago.
[00:03:36] Speaker A: Oh, cool. I didn't know that. Well, if it probably wasn't called Spawn Con.
[00:03:41] Speaker B: No, it was.
See if I can find it here.
They called it the Spawn Comic Convention. Oh, I guess it was just a comic convention promo card featuring Spawn. Okay, I read that wrong. I read too much into it.
Never mind.
I'm a sad dummy over here, and I want everybody else to be sad and dumb like me.
[00:04:02] Speaker A: No, don't be a really, actually, it's.
[00:04:05] Speaker B: A really awesome advertisement. Because it's got some Tony Daniel art on it, and it's.
Man, it's a real pointy spawn. He's just wrapped up in his cape. But anyway, talk to Spunkon.
[00:04:17] Speaker A: What do you want to know? You're the one that didn't go.
[00:04:19] Speaker B: I went, oh, man, Johnny, you know exactly what I want to know.
Everything.
[00:04:27] Speaker A: All of it.
[00:04:30] Speaker B: I want you to. Using your idetic memory to just give us minute by minute. This is going to be a weekend's long podcast of you verbatim doing every minute of Spawn con. Go.
[00:04:45] Speaker A: Okay, so I woke up on Friday, October 27.
[00:04:51] Speaker B: Okay, good.
[00:04:52] Speaker A: I took the CTA airport.
[00:04:55] Speaker B: Which airport? This is important.
[00:04:57] Speaker A: Oh, I flew out of midway.
[00:04:59] Speaker B: Yes, because that's where celebrity.
[00:05:00] Speaker A: It is important. Because when I was leaving the security line, or I just got my ticket checked, or my ID checked, and I was walking towards the security line, the people behind me got stopped because they were at the wrong airport. David, this family behind me was supposed to go to O'Hare, and they were at Midway. And the dad was so confused, the mom looked so sad, and the kids just looked really confused as well.
[00:05:30] Speaker B: So for those who don't know the geography of Chicago, if you imagine Chicago is a backwards K, the tips of both of the diagonals would be where the airports are, opposite ends of the city. About as far away from each other as you can get while still being in Chicago.
[00:05:49] Speaker A: About.
[00:05:52] Speaker B: So what a hell of a way to start.
[00:05:54] Speaker A: I'm usually a midway guy. Southwest actually does fly out of O'Hare now, but I like Midway because it's less.
[00:05:59] Speaker B: I usually. I found that United has a lot of comparably priced tickets as far as, like, Southwest does. And they do a non stop to Tulsa. So that's why I usually go to.
[00:06:15] Speaker A: I love it. You got to get that nonstop because.
[00:06:18] Speaker B: You can't Southwest nonstop to Tulsa. You have to fly out to Dallas or something like that.
[00:06:23] Speaker A: No, they added it back, David.
[00:06:24] Speaker B: Oh, they did? Oh, man. That shows you how long it's been since I've flown.
[00:06:28] Speaker A: They added it back whenever they added. So now Southwest is out of O'Hare and Midway. They added the direct to Tulsa back.
[00:06:36] Speaker B: Oh, hell, yeah. Well, then don't tell my mom they did that, because, mom, you're not allowed to listen to this episode.
[00:06:44] Speaker A: Why? Supposed to be flying up every weekend.
[00:06:46] Speaker B: No, because then she'll be like, but Southwest has a direct dac to Tulsa. You could just come by yourself for a weekend. It's like, yeah, leave Wanda with the. Yeah, yeah, good luck with that. Good luck with that.
[00:06:58] Speaker A: Good luck.
[00:06:59] Speaker B: I'd come back home to fat dogs and dead wife. No, cut that out.
It's much like the drowsy chaperone where there's the narrator of the show before a song says that, remember, he had poodles and he died, and it was a week before they found him, and he was partially digested by his poodles. I'm trying not to think about the poodles during this, so. Okay, so, Johnny, so you're flying to Denver.
You are resident conspiracy theorist. I know for a fact you tracked down some of that Denver Airport goodness for us.
[00:07:41] Speaker A: I did. I got some pictures of some. So those who don't know, there's a bunch of conspiracy theories about the Denver airport that it has, like, a train to NORAD, and it's like a hub for the New World Order. And I don't know. It's going to be like a concentration camp or something like that. I'm not quite sure you know more.
[00:08:00] Speaker B: About it than I do.
[00:08:01] Speaker A: Yeah, a lot of have. And a lot of it's like they have all this demonic messaging, and there's, like, this giant horse statue that people know about. And then I found a bunch of statues that were just like.
I guess they're grotesque, as David called them. Yeah, grotesque, you grotesque. But gargoyles basically coming out of luggage in the baggage claim. So I was like, oh, there's some demons, but. Got to Colorado, had myself a little whiskey and diet on the plane.
[00:08:37] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:08:40] Speaker A: Kick it off with a little drink. Going on vacation, I did not stay at the hotel where the convention was. I stayed across the street because it was a little cheaper and I wanted more money for the spawn.
[00:08:56] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, definitely. You got it.
[00:09:00] Speaker A: Plus, it had continental breakfast. The double tree did not.
[00:09:04] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. Love a continental breakfast. Like 14 bowls of cereal, please, and half a muffin, but only the top half.
[00:09:14] Speaker A: And this one had hot eggs and stuff. Hot stuff.
[00:09:18] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Did they have the waffle makers. You can make your own waffle.
[00:09:21] Speaker A: They had the waffle maker, biscuit and gravy.
[00:09:24] Speaker B: The only key to those waffle makers is you got to get to them before the kids start touching them. Because kids will make a mess on a waffle maker, and then it's just unusable.
[00:09:34] Speaker A: Yeah, but, yeah, I stayed across the street from Sponcon. I got in, took the shuttle from the hotel or from the airport to the hotel, and just kind of settled in. I had a big embarrassment in the security line because I had to take out my Xbox and put it its own separate tray. And I just like, when you're flying with an Xbox and your carry on, that's a decision.
That.
[00:09:59] Speaker B: It is a decision. But, hey, Johnny, it was a well reasoned decision. And what was that decision made for?
[00:10:05] Speaker A: It was made for because I wanted to play Diablo four mainly.
[00:10:08] Speaker B: And I figured, that's the wrong one, Johnny. That's the wrong decision.
[00:10:12] Speaker A: Well, it was made for that. And also, I was going to have some downtime in the hotel, obviously. And I Like to play video games in my downtime. So I was like, yeah, might as well.
[00:10:22] Speaker B: Some of it is also reasonably spawny.
[00:10:25] Speaker A: Oh, yes, some of it is reasonably spawny. There was Call of Duty. I didn't play it, though. I just played Diablo.
[00:10:33] Speaker B: That's reasonably spawny. Diablo.
[00:10:36] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. Sorry I didn't keep the thematic throughout all the convention. My downtime.
[00:10:42] Speaker B: You just need to download one of those $50 custom skins for your Diablo horse. That is spawn.
[00:10:50] Speaker A: Hopefully we'll make a spawn horse armor. Yeah, and the horse has a big cape.
[00:10:54] Speaker B: Maybe it'll be like, either medieval or gunslinger. No, it'll probably medieval because you could do a jousting medieval figure. And so he would have the horse with the big bedsheet over it.
Man, that's a great variant. Dear Tod McFarlane, please make a jousting edition variant of Medieval Spawn. Thank you. That'd be good.
[00:11:16] Speaker A: Yeah, you already got the horse for gunslinger. Just, like, slap some armor on that puppy, you're good to go.
[00:11:21] Speaker B: And then the Platinum edition could be Rinfair Edition. So that way it comes with a turkey leg. So that way, as you're playing with your toy, you can eat this turkey leg that's been at room temperature for weeks.
[00:11:37] Speaker A: So I got in, and then the first night was my first Ruby Tuesdays experience.
I was hungry from the flight, so I went and got Ruby Tuesdays because basically, I didn't know I was going to be kind of stuck in this area. But on the first night, because it snowed pretty hard and it was pretty cold, and I only brought a hoodie and, like, a couple layers, so I couldn't really venture out too much. But where the hotel where Spawncon was is basically like a Hotel Oasis kind of by the airport.
[00:12:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:06] Speaker A: So there's like, six hotels and then, like, four chain restaurants, two dispensaries also.
[00:12:12] Speaker B: Oh, nice.
[00:12:13] Speaker A: You got very important.
[00:12:14] Speaker B: You got to have that. Did they at least have a liquor store too?
[00:12:17] Speaker A: They had a 711. I went to the 711 and got some Diet Cokes and beer for the hotel room.
[00:12:25] Speaker B: Some chicken taquitos, snacks.
[00:12:27] Speaker A: I didn't get any chicken taquitos. I got some snacks to take back. LIke, I got some gardettos.
[00:12:33] Speaker B: Ooh, nice.
[00:12:34] Speaker A: And some potato chips.
[00:12:37] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:12:38] Speaker A: Pretty exciting stuff.
[00:12:39] Speaker B: Yeah. Hell, yeah. Okay, so you're backing.
[00:12:42] Speaker A: I didn't have a car. I didn't rent a car, so I was just relying on my feet. So first, and I went to Ruby Tuesdays. Had a delicious. Dude, let me tell you about Ruby Tuesdays.
[00:12:49] Speaker B: Yes, please do.
[00:12:50] Speaker A: This is basically going to be a Ruby Tuesdays recap.
It's fucking cheap as hell.
[00:12:57] Speaker B: So it's not like Perkins, where Perkins is, like, 15% more than you expect it to be when you walk in the door.
[00:13:05] Speaker A: Oh, hell no. No. This is, like, outback where I got, like, a steak. I got a steak, fried shrimp, and ribs.
I'm not making it out. Three things. Steak, fried shrimp, and ribs for, like, $23.
[00:13:19] Speaker B: Holy cow.
[00:13:21] Speaker A: It's 23. 99.
[00:13:23] Speaker B: Holy cow.
[00:13:25] Speaker A: And I ate the whole damn thing because I was hungry.
I was, like, nervous before I flew, so I barely ate breakfast.
Then by the time I got there, I was ravenous.
[00:13:34] Speaker B: Nothing makes you hungry like traveling. Even if you're just sitting on your ass in a plane, it's still just very, like, oh, so hungry you don't.
[00:13:41] Speaker A: Want to eat at the airports. The food is so shitty and so expensive.
[00:13:43] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. And then also, if you get something prepared incorrectly, then you're stuck on a tube.
[00:13:52] Speaker A: That's true.
Yeah. I basically just went out to eat and got in Friday just so that I could be ready to go on Saturday morning.
[00:14:02] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:14:03] Speaker A: Went to eat, and then I did go by the hotel where it was to go check out. Just kind of, like, scope it out, see if anyone was there, do a.
[00:14:11] Speaker B: Little light rubber neck yes.
[00:14:14] Speaker A: And I did. And I saw the spawn hunter there. We ran up to each other, gave each other a big hug.
[00:14:18] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[00:14:19] Speaker A: And we were super excited. He was setting up, and there are a few other folks there. But I just said a brief hello, I guess. See, I didn't even realize they have, like, a booth open to check in from like, five to eight. But I went by after eight, and I didn't realize that you could do that.
How dare you come and checked in early?
[00:14:39] Speaker B: You could have. How dare you not check in early. How dare you be next day.
[00:14:45] Speaker A: Well, the next day, I went to go get. I had to go there. I got my stuff. And then obviously, I want to put it on.
[00:14:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:51] Speaker A: And so I went back to the hotel room, put it on. Then I went to the con on the first day on Saturday. Because you got your lanyard and you got the pins, and I had the pins from Spawn Safar, shout out to sponsor Fari.
[00:15:02] Speaker B: Dope pins.
[00:15:04] Speaker A: The dope pins. And I want to put those on. They were back in the hotel. So I got my VIP box, ran back to my hotel, put everything on, put the hat on, put the shirt on, and then entered the con. You walk in, and it was just like this whole banquet room, like, filled tables and just artists and vendors and spawn punk G 42 was there.
[00:15:32] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[00:15:36] Speaker A: With their museum corner. That was really interesting, basically. I mean, everything was for sale as well, but it felt like a museum going to it.
[00:15:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:45] Speaker A: And Spawn Hunter had his booth and was running all this stuff. And it was just awesome. So I kind of just took everything in, walked around.
[00:15:58] Speaker B: But you basked in the glory that is spawn.
[00:16:02] Speaker A: I basked in the glory that is Spawn con.
[00:16:05] Speaker B: You warmed your bones on the hellfires coming from all the booths.
[00:16:10] Speaker A: Oh, yes.
[00:16:11] Speaker B: I'm imagining that when you walked into the banquet room, they had turned it into basically the scene at the end of the movie where it's all the really bad CGI fire and the big Malbolga there.
That's how it looked. Fire everywhere, a whole bunch of little demons everywhere. And then just booths. Is that how it looked?
[00:16:37] Speaker A: Pretty much, yeah. I mean, yeah, basically, you guys can look on the SpawnCon website or Instagram, but there was a whole bunch of guests.
I talked to some of.
I.
I don't know, David. I haven't gone to a lot of cons, so I don't know. Like, Con, I'm like, I don't really collect, not fan art, but I don't know. I'm not a collector of comic art. It's not something I've ever really gotten into, so that part of the con was a little not lost on me. I appreciate that stuff, but it's just something that I don't really participate in.
[00:17:15] Speaker B: Yeah, that's fine. Wanda is very specifically excited by Art. So whenever we go to a convention, that's what we do the whole time, is just look at all the art. And then it's usually just, if you see something that makes you laugh, you buy it.
[00:17:30] Speaker A: Yeah. And that's what my friend Eloy does. He gets a lot of art and stuff like that. But I'm at the con. I'm there for talking to people.
I was looking for some comic books, and really going to the panels was what I was most excited about. So, yeah, the first morning, just kind of milled around.
I did talk to Thomas Healy a little bit at the table, and that was awesome.
[00:17:59] Speaker B: Oh, hell, yeah. Did you buy him his Chicago handshake in nut. Chicago?
[00:18:02] Speaker A: I did not buy him his Chicago handshake. I really doubt they have Malort at the hotel.
[00:18:07] Speaker B: You should have bought one of the little bitty, tiny bottles, because you can take those tiny bottles on the plane, Johnny.
[00:18:13] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. If you put it in your carry.
[00:18:15] Speaker B: On your three one one. Is that what is.
It's three 1oz bottles in a court bag is what you can have.
[00:18:24] Speaker A: Something like, they don't even check that shit anymore.
[00:18:26] Speaker B: Because that's what my sister does every time she flies. All of her liquids are just the little bitty, tiny liquor bottles.
She's like, I can just buy shampoo when I'm there, but paying $15 for a little bitty, tiny bottle of alcohol on a plane? No, I just bring it myself.
[00:18:46] Speaker A: Damn. I didn't know you could do that idea, Johnny.
[00:18:49] Speaker B: That's because you don't have an older sister to learn you all these things.
[00:18:53] Speaker A: Oh, man, that would have been great. I could have taken him some man.
[00:18:56] Speaker B: That would have been amazing. I should have discussed this with you beforehand. It's my fault.
[00:19:01] Speaker A: Next year. Next year, David, if you're listening, Thomas Healy, next year, you're going to get some alert, which is a vile Chicago.
[00:19:11] Speaker B: Apertif I've still never tried.
[00:19:16] Speaker A: It's. It's interesting. I don't hate it. I can understand why you would, or could.
[00:19:23] Speaker B: But anyway, talking about Spawn con.
[00:19:25] Speaker A: Yes, the panels start in the afternoon.
The first one kind of started off with someone I got to meet on the floor that morning as well. Who is Trent from Spawn World. Oh, hell, yeah. And he's really awesome. Really interesting person.
He is a special. Works for Special effects company. I can't remember which right now, but he's worked on the Mandalorian, a lot of Marvel movies. His company worked on the old Captain America.
[00:20:01] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[00:20:02] Speaker A: That's kind of what he does is work on old age. De aging stuff, is what his company's really known gave us.
[00:20:11] Speaker B: He gave us young Mark Hamill in the end of the Mandalorian.
[00:20:15] Speaker A: I don't know specifically if that was them, or that might have been ILM, I'm not sure. But on some of the Marvel movies, they definitely did a lot of the de aging.
[00:20:26] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:20:28] Speaker A: But he was really nice. Kind man. A kind man.
So I got to meet him on the floor, but he was the one that was monitoring the panels, so he's kind of introduced himself and everything.
And then we had the first panel up was Tom Warzachowski Crossing T's and dotting I's, lettering every issue of Spawn.
[00:20:54] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
It would have been great if they had named it crossing I's and dotting T's.
If my dad had named the panel, that's what he would have called it.
[00:21:06] Speaker A: Crossing I's and T's. Yeah, Tom Wojcikowski was fucking hilarious. He was know he's old and he's been around a while, and he'll be the first to admit it, but he's.
He's like a workhorse, man. Like, this is. It's. That was really interesting to me too, because, like, not having a lot of background in comics, like, I assumed if you're working in comics, you just read comics all the time, but it seemed like a lot of creators don't really have the time to. Yeah, but Tom was, like, talking about his career, how he started, and basically took us through kind of his process.
He designed the original Spawn logo, the one that still stands. Like, that's pretty cool.
[00:21:58] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a beautiful logo.
[00:22:00] Speaker A: It's a beautiful logo. And he kind of took us through his process on that, how he wanted something a little exotic, but a little menacing, and that was really interesting to hear him talk about.
But it was just great because he is such a workhorse and was just like, yeah, you Got this guy here. It's like Spawn or Gunslinger. Like, obviously the main character, and he's like, yeah, you got this guy here, and you still want to block the action. So I don't know if he'd be a listener of our show, David. I don't know if he follows the plot so much as just kind of.
[00:22:38] Speaker B: Does the work, or he doesn't follow the plot until he listens to us, and he's like, oh, okay, that makes sense. Now.
[00:22:47] Speaker A: I went up to him after the panel and said, I really enjoyed it, and he asked me where the bathroom was.
[00:22:54] Speaker B: Hey, Johnny, an expert in your field, knowing where the bathroom is.
[00:22:59] Speaker A: Yay. I did. And I did know where the bathroom.
[00:23:01] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. Hell yeah.
Nice. Sometimes, especially in older buildings in town here, knowing how to get to the bathroom is like following a treasure. Like, it's like you follow the signs, and it goes, like, through a back hallway and down the stairs and then around a couple of corners, and then you have to walk through a conference room to get to the other side. And then you go down another alleyway like hallway. Then there's the bathrooms.
[00:23:30] Speaker A: It's like, hell yeah, I got Tom out of the bathrooms. That's my great accomplishment of Spawncon.
Next panel was colorists, and it was Steve Olif, Brian Haberlin, Dan Kemp, and Dave Kemp, who, yes, are related.
And that was really interesting to me because I didn't realize how much computers were used in coloring of comics.
[00:24:06] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:24:07] Speaker A: Even back in the 90s.
[00:24:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:24:09] Speaker A: Because I didn't know that.
[00:24:12] Speaker B: If you read a lot of 90s comics, you'll notice that they start referring to something as separations. And separations was digital coloring that they used along with regular coloring.
Okay.
From the, there were different people who did physical coloring and digital coloring, but now it's all like, nowadays, if you're going to do coloring, you can do it whatever way you want to, but you're doing most of it by yourself.
[00:24:48] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:24:49] Speaker B: Instead of being like, I'm just a dude who knows how to do colors, I don't know from computers. And then you hire a computer nerd to do the color separations for you.
[00:24:59] Speaker A: Oh, got it. Got.
They were. That was really interesting. Steve Olif brought the floppies that the first spawn was. The first spawn was colored with the hard files of it, like floppy disk.
[00:25:17] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Like a three and a half inch floppies. Oh, so the big ones. Like the five inch floppies.
[00:25:22] Speaker A: Damn, the big ones. Yeah.
[00:25:25] Speaker B: Man.
[00:25:26] Speaker A: Brought some of those. And he had some spawn swag, which was awesome. He had a spawn like baseball jacket.
[00:25:36] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah.
[00:25:37] Speaker A: Tod McFarland had obviously made for everybody.
And then he had a shirt that said Team Moo, and it was McFarlane or Tsaikowski Olive, and it was like an original shirt that McFarland had made for them.
[00:25:54] Speaker B: That's dope as hell.
[00:25:56] Speaker A: They were Team Moo. Yeah, they kind of talked about just coloring how it changed what they like to use.
And that was just really interesting to me because I didn't realize how much a part of it computers were. And I thought that was pretty cool.
[00:26:12] Speaker B: That is pretty cool.
[00:26:15] Speaker A: And then we had the keynote speech, which was Mr. Thomas Healy.
[00:26:23] Speaker B: Woo. I know that.
[00:26:24] Speaker A: Talking about.
I'm sorry.
[00:26:27] Speaker B: I said I know that name.
[00:26:29] Speaker A: Yes, you do. And it was really eye opening. Not eye opening. Interesting. I don't know. It was good.
[00:26:36] Speaker B: It was eye opening because he strapped you down in the clockwork orange chair and made you.
[00:26:43] Speaker A: I don't know why I said eye opening. It wasn't eye opening. It was interesting. It was interesting. It was hearing about how he got into comics after it was through a friend, after he'd worked at a comic book shop currently, and then a friend of his kind of, like, he kind of stumbled into working at Todd McFarland Productions. It is a really interesting story.
[00:27:08] Speaker B: Wanda and I also have a friend who worked at a comic book shop and now writes comic books and is like a New York Times bestselling writer of comic books for young people.
It's pretty awesome when that happens. It's like the comic version of the working your way up from the mailroom kind of thing.
It's like a newsie who goes from selling papes on the corner to being the Perry White of the newspaper. I'm trying to think of what the publisher. That's their name. That's pretty dope. That's pretty dope.
[00:27:47] Speaker A: Yeah, that's pretty cool. And he kind of cleared up some confusion about the titles, about which ones were ongoing and which ones are miniseries because people were like, oh, my God, I have to buy, like, there are 14 titles every month.
No, not every month and not forever. It was pretty much the same kind of stuff we'd learned from New York Comic Con that we talked about.
[00:28:17] Speaker B: What kind of clarity, W-R-T ongoings. And miniseries was there. Did he give, like, a breakdown?
[00:28:26] Speaker A: Fucking list. Hold on.
[00:28:29] Speaker B: You wrote it down.
A true journal.
[00:28:32] Speaker A: I didn't.
[00:28:32] Speaker B: You didn't?
[00:28:34] Speaker A: Why?
Because I'm an idiot. I don't know. I was enjoying myself.
[00:28:40] Speaker B: Johnny, how dare you go to an event put on for people who enjoy a thing and enjoy yourself?
You got to turn everything you enjoy into work until you despise it a little bit.
[00:28:53] Speaker A: No.
[00:28:54] Speaker B: Is that not what regular people do? Oops.
[00:28:57] Speaker A: So taking my notes here.
[00:29:03] Speaker B: Did you just transform?
[00:29:08] Speaker A: Yeah. No.
[00:29:09] Speaker B: Are you a dump truck? Now?
[00:29:11] Speaker A: Here was the clarity sandwich case files. It's going to be like five or six. It'll be like an arc, kind of like Hellboy where they do an arc and then it's done and the next one will be another case. So you can read them on their own. And there will be stuff that connects, obviously. But the idea is that it's like you do one through six. It's like salmon, twitch, colon, something.
[00:29:39] Speaker B: It'll be like American Horror story where you could watch all the seasons in a row or just skip the ones that are based on tropes that you hate.
[00:29:47] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:29:48] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:29:49] Speaker A: So that'll be that one.
There'll probably be breaks in between each one too. So it's not going to be like constant, I would imagine deadly tales of the Gunslinger is ongoing.
[00:30:01] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
[00:30:03] Speaker A: The writer of that one just sounds, according to Thomas Healy was, like, super excited to do that.
[00:30:10] Speaker B: So Jimmy Palmiatti is married to Amanda Connor, who does some great art. So that probably means we're going to get some Amanda Connor variant covers with Gunslinger on them. And that would be.
[00:30:29] Speaker A: Didn't you had mentioned it before, but I guess they didn't realize he had done so much Jonah Hex.
[00:30:33] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. He did a shit ton of Jonah Hex.
[00:30:36] Speaker A: What else is he known for?
[00:30:40] Speaker B: Boy.
So he's done a lot of work for both DC and Marvel.
I'm trying to think of independent stuff that he did. I know that he and his wife did a book called the Pro with Garth Ennis, which is about a sex worker who develops magical powers and then protects the downtrodden. It's actually pretty great.
[00:31:08] Speaker A: That's pretty cool.
[00:31:09] Speaker B: Yeah. And since it's a Garth Ennis book, it is very painkiller. Jane Cloudburst, Jonah Hex, Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters. The hills have eyes back to Brooklyn.
[00:31:27] Speaker A: Power Girl, Supergirl, a lot of stuff.
[00:31:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
Batwing.
[00:31:34] Speaker A: And so it'll be deadly tales of Gunslinger. It's in that time period before he gets sucked through time. And Thomas Elley made it very clear that that previous description of Gunslinger and the hobby thing would be reconciled. And we'd get the answers to that.
[00:31:56] Speaker B: Excellent.
[00:31:57] Speaker A: Why he's called Javi now. What's the deal with going on with the old description of the Gunslinger versus the new?
[00:32:02] Speaker B: Very nice.
[00:32:05] Speaker A: Misery is going to be a limited series.
[00:32:08] Speaker B: Nice. Are they going to be.
[00:32:09] Speaker A: Focus is ongoing.
[00:32:10] Speaker B: Are the misery books, are they going to be regular sized or are they going to be oversized like the Violator miniseries?
[00:32:18] Speaker A: I don't know.
[00:32:19] Speaker B: They didn't say which, I guess. Spoilers. Violator is a miniseries.
[00:32:25] Speaker A: Violator the miniseries, which is going to be six issues, I believe. And it'll just go through different history and points in history of the Violator's life. But you talked about that last week.
[00:32:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:38] Speaker A: It's going to end ten minutes before he meets Al Simmons for the first time.
[00:32:43] Speaker B: That's dope.
Before we completely just blow past it like a Fastman ourselves. Ongoing focus sounds awesome. I'm very excited for it.
[00:32:55] Speaker A: It'll be fun to see going so fast.
[00:32:57] Speaker B: It'll be fun to see the TOD father tackling just like a regular old superhero. Again, not a Hellman. Not a best recruiting Hellman.
That was a Mayo joke. It was great.
Just basically doing the Flash. And, man, I love the FLASH. THE FLASH IS so MUCH FUN.
I think the toddfather will do a good job of it.
[00:33:23] Speaker A: NO, HOME HERE IS ONGOING.
SPAWN KILLS EVERY. Spawn is a miniseries.
Spawn the Dark Ages is, like, kind of a miniseries, but might be, like, ongoing. It just might have not as consistent.
And I don't remember what he said about the medieval Spawn series.
[00:33:43] Speaker B: Okay, one more.
[00:33:46] Speaker A: What's the one more?
[00:33:47] Speaker B: What's the one more? The one that you're excited for, Johnny?
[00:33:50] Speaker A: Oh, Rat City.
[00:33:51] Speaker B: Rat City.
[00:33:52] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. RAT CITY IS ONgOING.
[00:33:54] Speaker B: ALL RIGHT, NICE. EXCELLENT.
[00:33:56] Speaker A: YEaH, I'M EXCITED FOR RAT CITY. I LOVE A RAt.
[00:34:00] Speaker B: You love a city?
[00:34:02] Speaker A: I LOVE A rAt. And I love a.
So that was kind of the winding down of the first day of Sponcon.
[00:34:11] Speaker B: NICE.
[00:34:11] Speaker A: There was, like a drink and draw thing that the artists were doing, but it was mainly just the artists kind of chilling and exhibitors and stuff. So I kind of trickled on back to the hotel, went to my.
[00:34:22] Speaker B: Was there not also a celebration that happened?
[00:34:26] Speaker A: Oh, there was a celebration. It was Thomas Healy's birthday. AnD THEY BROUGHT OUT A CAKE.
[00:34:30] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[00:34:31] Speaker A: It has a spawn cake and had a red filling.
[00:34:34] Speaker B: NICE.
[00:34:36] Speaker A: IT WAS REALLY GOOD.
[00:34:38] Speaker B: AWESOME.
Really upset that I missed the Thomas.
[00:34:42] Speaker A: Healy's birthday, and so they wanted to do something nice for him. THEY BROUGHT A CAKE OUt.
[00:34:46] Speaker B: HAPPY BIRTHdAY. HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, THOMAS HEALY.
[00:34:50] Speaker A: HAPPY BELATED BIRTHdAY. YEAH. So I headed back to the hotel, got my second trip to Ruby Tuesdays in Nice that night, because I was like, where else are you going to go? It was getting cold, it was getting snowy.
So I went there, and then overnight, it basically really snowed almost a foot in some areas. Over a foot in some areas of Colorado.
[00:35:15] Speaker B: That's wild, dude.
[00:35:17] Speaker A: Yeah, it was crazy. And so, luckily, I was so close to the hotel, but second day, there were some panels as well. IT WAS JONATHAN GLAPPIA. AND CHANCE WOLF AND KEVIN CONRAD WERE THE INKERS, AND THEY KIND OF WENT THROUGH WHAT IS, LIKE, INKING SPAWN. That was really interesting, too, just seeing kind of the old school guys talking about inking. And I don't just, this is all kind of new to me because I don't know, all the ins and outs of the comic book industry. So it was enlightening, I guess you could love.
[00:35:55] Speaker B: So what you're saying, Johnny, is now you're woke to comics, so you're the problem. You woke comicsman.
[00:36:06] Speaker A: Yeah, I got the woke mind virus.
You better watch out, Brock.
[00:36:13] Speaker B: The shock's going to make a episode about you.
[00:36:17] Speaker A: Oh, no, I don't want that to happen.
[00:36:20] Speaker B: But, I mean, it'll definitely increase our listens, if only through hate listens.
Brock said, I should be mad about these people. Let's see what we got to be mad about. These motherfuckers.
[00:36:34] Speaker A: They're discovering what inkers are. How could they?
[00:36:37] Speaker B: Color separationists.
Oh, boy.
No, let's not go there. Let's not go there. Especially with Brock, the shock listeners.
[00:36:51] Speaker A: Oh, no, you wouldn't want to.
[00:36:53] Speaker B: They would be pro color separationists, I think.
And we're not going to endorse that second day.
[00:37:00] Speaker A: I also found a bunch of comics from this one booth. So I got, like, Angela number one. I got Jessica Priest's curse, the spawn first appearance.
[00:37:10] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[00:37:11] Speaker A: A bunch of, like, in the, didn't have the covers of. So that was cool.
[00:37:16] Speaker B: Nice.
And you bought so many comics that you had to leave your Xbox in Denver. You say no, never.
[00:37:28] Speaker A: From my cold, dead hands.
The second panel on Saturday was, you mean Sunday. Probably my favorite.
Next, after.
[00:37:40] Speaker B: Yeah. You said Thomas Healy.
[00:37:42] Speaker A: Oh, Sunday.
[00:37:44] Speaker B: Sunday, Sunday, Sunday.
[00:37:45] Speaker A: Sorry. The second panel on Sunday was one of my favorite. The second panel on Sunday was my second favorite panel. How about that?
[00:37:54] Speaker B: Well, there we go.
[00:37:55] Speaker A: No, it's just interesting because it was about the collecting and about toys. The guests were Tyrone Diaz, also known as the Spawn Hunter.
Steve Gouge, also known as Punk G 42, or the Spawn Museum.
[00:38:14] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[00:38:16] Speaker A: And Enrico Bota, who is a really great artist, who I actually bought their poster of, which was a really fun, we'll throw it up in the Instagram. It's really fun. Like, almost Tim Burton style Halloween Spawn with, like, a Jacko Lantern. It's great. But he did the panel because he had been a toy designer at McFarland in the, had worked on a lot of stuff there.
[00:38:44] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[00:38:45] Speaker A: And is an artist and toy designer, so pretty cool.
[00:38:49] Speaker B: Did he say any specific lines that he worked on, so that way we could.
[00:38:53] Speaker A: He worked on movie maniacs, for sure. I remember, but I honestly, he listed, like, three, and I don't remember.
He never worked on Spawn.
[00:39:03] Speaker B: Oh, interesting.
[00:39:05] Speaker A: But a lot of other McFarland stuff. But he's kind of talked about working in the toy industry and his style and his background and things like that.
[00:39:13] Speaker B: Did he say how much of his day has taken up just playing with the toys and being like, what did.
[00:39:18] Speaker A: You say about my ass?
Hopefully it's a lot.
[00:39:23] Speaker B: No, sir. I didn't see you playing with your dolls again, sir. Good.
[00:39:27] Speaker A: Yeah. And then spawn Museum and Spawn Hunter just kind of talked about collecting and how they got into it and what they like to focus on their collections, and that was just pretty cool, too.
And then everyone kind of milled about back at the main event and kind of said their goodbyes to everybody, and it was really cool.
[00:39:51] Speaker B: Excellent.
[00:39:53] Speaker A: And I headed out the next day, went to Ruby Tuesdays one more time for lunch.
[00:39:58] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[00:40:00] Speaker A: Because I basically had to kill, like, 2 hours because I was waiting on this hotel shuttle to take me to the hotel. And my flight was a little later, but I had to leave my hotel room at eleven. My shuttle wasn't until one, so I was like, well, I guess I'll go walk across the street to roof Tuesdays.
[00:40:16] Speaker B: You're in a booth with your luggage.
[00:40:20] Speaker A: And you're like, that's exactly what happened.
[00:40:22] Speaker B: I'll have the chicken fried steak, and the luggage will have the hamburger.
[00:40:28] Speaker A: No, I didn't have the chicken fried steak. I had the chicken sandwich.
[00:40:32] Speaker B: Oh, how was it? Was it delicious?
[00:40:34] Speaker A: It actually was really nice.
[00:40:36] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:40:37] Speaker A: All the food I got there was pretty good. Why?
[00:40:39] Speaker B: Went back twice. So I'm sure the answer to this is going to be no. But during the Thomas Healy panel, did anybody mention or ask a question about if they plan on reprinting a lot of the old 90s miniseries?
[00:40:59] Speaker A: They did. Someone asked, and he said that they're working on it.
[00:41:02] Speaker B: Nice. Because that would be. I mean, especially for us, it would be awesome to be able to get, like, the fucking all. The curse of the spawn, the hell Spawn, the Spawn God Slayer, the Spawn Wildcats, the Spawn Blood Feud, the Cygor miniseries, all that stuff, all of that. It would be nice to have those easily available.
[00:41:26] Speaker A: Well, that's the other. Oh, God damn it. I completely forgot to mention in Thomas Healy's panel, he said when he got.
[00:41:32] Speaker B: To be editor in chief a story time.
[00:41:36] Speaker A: It was Tod McFarland said when he made him editor, if he could deliver all three titles without delay, which would be King, Spawn, Gunslinger, Spawn, the Scorch, or release them all in time.
Then he would become editor in chief.
[00:41:54] Speaker B: Okay, nice.
[00:41:55] Speaker A: And he said that when he turned it in, Todd McFarland called. He's like, there's one typo on there. And he's like, what is. He's like, yeah.
He just says editor. Supposed to say editor in chief because he did it.
[00:42:10] Speaker B: I love the idea of the Todd. Father just calls up and does the fake out. Like, you did something real bad, and that thing you did real bad was not celebrate yourself.
So then which book was that? That he was first editor in chief in.
[00:42:27] Speaker A: Then it would be the scorch number one.
[00:42:30] Speaker B: Scorch number one. So we've already covered it. Dang it.
[00:42:33] Speaker A: We've already covered it. We'll never get to discover that.
[00:42:37] Speaker B: Well, we'll just get to see when he switches over in. The main title will be what we.
Tell us. Tell us about some more of this exclusives that Ty was telling us about.
[00:42:50] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. So we got the exclusive merchandise.
I got the Spawn VIP ticket.
[00:42:58] Speaker B: Limited to 100 packets, right?
[00:43:01] Speaker A: Limited to 100 or 150, maybe.
[00:43:03] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[00:43:04] Speaker A: I remember whatever it says on that box I gave you.
It came in this really cool box.
[00:43:13] Speaker B: It's a beautiful box.
[00:43:15] Speaker A: It is.
[00:43:16] Speaker B: They did a good job.
[00:43:17] Speaker A: Open. And I had a hat in there. I had the Spawn orb hat and the Spawn orb shirt. The red ones. They're exclusive to the VIP, so that's pretty cool. Two pins for your lanyard.
And it had.
My favorite thing in it was the Spawn con, like challenge coin. It's like a thing an alcoholic carries around, only it's for spawn.
[00:43:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
Or largely based around military tradition. Challenge coins.
[00:43:51] Speaker A: Yeah. Is it. What does it mean? Like, you pull out a coin, someone else has got to have it.
[00:43:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
It's sort of like an unofficial truth that you were in the service. So that way you can pull out your challenge coins, because depending on when you get them, they're kind of like, you can see about how long somebody's been in the service, and then if somebody has a really old challenge coin, then, you know, they're not full of shit. There you go. There's a 99% invisible episode about it.
That's really fun. Nice.
[00:44:28] Speaker A: That's pretty much it.
I bought some shirts for you, and I bought another shirt for me. I got the violator shirt.
[00:44:34] Speaker B: I got the violator.
[00:44:35] Speaker A: I bought one for you as well. And I got you.
[00:44:37] Speaker B: Yeah. Wanda didn't hate the violator shirt as much as I thought, she was going.
[00:44:43] Speaker A: Yeah, my Wanda was like, who's that? And I said, the violator. And she was like, he needs a rebrand.
[00:44:53] Speaker B: Wanda was actually really impressed with the. Because I got the violator shirt and the just red heathered shirt that just has the spawn logo on it. Wanda was massively impressed with the quality of shirt that they chose.
She was like, it's soft and it's heathered, and it's beautiful.
I think she wishes it said something other than Spawn, but what are you going to do? She at least approves of the cut and quality of the shirt. And since she's a seamstress by training, that's a big thumbs up for me.
[00:45:30] Speaker A: Yeah, I thought everything was really high quality. Everything in the VIP box and all the merch was just, like, the best of the best. I can't thank the team enough for doing such a good job on it.
[00:45:42] Speaker B: It's awesome. And now I get to wear my spawn hat out in the world. I already bragged to my friends about how cool it is to have an officially licensed spawn hat, since they basically didn't make them for very mass production for very long.
[00:46:00] Speaker A: Yes. One other thing I got is I got a print by Chance Wolf. That was Jessica.
Like, evil 90s Jessica leading up against Al Simmons GraVe with a giant fucking impossible gun.
[00:46:15] Speaker B: So that's pretty cool. We got that posted up on the Instagram, so you can go see it.
[00:46:20] Speaker A: Yeah, take a peek.
[00:46:21] Speaker B: Take a peek. Yeah.
[00:46:22] Speaker A: It's, like, one of our most liked posts. What the Jessica Jessica, or the other one of the posters has, like, over 60 likes.
[00:46:30] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:46:31] Speaker A: So I guess I hit the right nerve.
[00:46:34] Speaker B: Yeah, nice.
[00:46:35] Speaker A: Hit the right wavelength of that spawncon.
[00:46:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
Well, hell yeah. Sponcon sounds like it was an excellent time, and I am excited to actually go to the next one, so I'm going to be.
[00:46:46] Speaker A: It was. We'll go and we're gonna lobby. Hard to get, like, a live episode or something going on.
[00:46:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:46:52] Speaker A: For you guys. I got to meet some fans of the show. That was cool.
[00:46:56] Speaker B: That's dope. We have fans. They exist.
It's not just me listening to the episode for quality Control.
[00:47:04] Speaker A: Shout out to Mark, my buddy that I met there, tiny spawn, on Instagram. But he was really cool and really enjoyed the Spawn Hunter episode and was really excited to listen to more. So that's really fun.
[00:47:18] Speaker B: Nice. So is he going to be our shout out this week, Johnny?
[00:47:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Let's give a shout out to tiny Spawn.
[00:47:24] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
[00:47:24] Speaker A: My budy I met at SpawnCon.
[00:47:26] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:47:27] Speaker A: We're probably going to shout out, like, a million people, at least tag them in the post.
[00:47:30] Speaker B: Yeah, of course. But he'll be the. In the meat of the episode.
[00:47:36] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:47:38] Speaker B: Thanks for saying hi to Johnny, Mark. We appreciate it.
[00:47:42] Speaker A: Yeah. And thanks for listening, and hopefully you enjoy continuing to listen.
He's excited to be able to write us, so he said he would write us an email.
[00:47:52] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. I'll keep my eyes open on it. So, Johnny, that was Spawn Con, you said.
I think now it's time to rate that puppy.
[00:48:05] Speaker A: Rate, Spawn Con.
[00:48:07] Speaker B: Rate and Spawn Con.
[00:48:08] Speaker A: I'm going to rate it.
Five spawn challenge coins.
[00:48:13] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[00:48:16] Speaker A: All five of them.
[00:48:18] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:48:19] Speaker A: Five stars. I had a great time. I thought it was a really well put together, well organized Con.
It was a smaller con. So that's, like, the smallest con I've ever been to. But it feels like there's a lot of room to grow. And that's not a diss at all that it was a smaller con. That'S actually kind of cool.
[00:48:37] Speaker B: Yeah, it's more intimate. You get a chance to actually talk to people instead of just, like, shuffling along through everybody.
[00:48:46] Speaker A: Right.
More intimate. And I thought it was affordable. Like, the ticket, all the stuff I got for the VIP ticket price was a pretty damn good deal.
[00:48:58] Speaker B: Yeah. And those spawns can get expensive.
Those cons can get expensive.
[00:49:03] Speaker A: They can.
I thought the merchandise was very affordable.
I think they're $30 T shirts or something. And usually a cons. I feel like they can be like.
[00:49:12] Speaker B: 40, 40 or 50 sometimes, which is insane for a T shirt.
[00:49:16] Speaker A: No way.
What, concerts? Definitely.
[00:49:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:49:22] Speaker A: But, yeah, it was awesome. I'm going to give it five spawn challenge coins.
[00:49:26] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[00:49:27] Speaker A: I loved it. I'll definitely be back next year, and it was nice to meet so many people that we know from Instagram in person, like Crispy Simmons, and just. I don't want to list everyone, because I'll miss somebody.
[00:49:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:49:38] Speaker A: This is a little different episode, but usually we read two issues of Spawn. You think we're going to do that next week, David?
[00:49:44] Speaker B: Well, yeah, I guess we will be reading some spawn, won't we, Johnny?
[00:49:50] Speaker A: Yeah. What are you thinking?
[00:49:53] Speaker B: Well, I'm thinking I've said this. This will be the third time I've said this, and I should have only said it twice. Sorry, but we're going to be reading Spawn 321 and scorched 21 with 20 ones all around.
[00:50:11] Speaker A: It's blackjack, baby.
[00:50:12] Speaker B: No. I feel like I've been teasing these two issues more than I should have just because I accidentally mentioned that they would be the next episode for the next episode when they weren't. Oops, sorry about that.
[00:50:27] Speaker A: Oh, well.
[00:50:27] Speaker B: But scorch 321 or Scorch 21? Spawn 321. It'll be a good time, Johnny. We're going to make blackjack jokes.
Hit me. Hit me again.
Hit me again.
[00:50:41] Speaker A: Hit me with one more, Spawn.
[00:50:44] Speaker B: Hit me, Spawny, one more time. Yeah. Excellent. That'll be fun. So while you're over on Instagram telling Tiny Spawn, hey, hi, we like you also drop by Brian Voyles. Brian underscore voils underscore 27. Tell him we like that Spawn music you do, because he does our Spawn music, and it's real good.
We're over there, too. Regarding SpawnPod.
We also have the email if you ever want to ask us any questions or anything regarding
[email protected].
Johnny, do you have a question you want people to try to answer for this?
[00:51:25] Speaker A: No, just if you went to SpawnCon, drop us a line and tell us what your favorite parts were.
[00:51:31] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[00:51:32] Speaker A: You know, what kind of stuff did you get at SponCon?
[00:51:34] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe.
[00:51:35] Speaker A: We're curious to hear about it.
[00:51:36] Speaker B: Maybe we can do an audio version of the Spawncon roundup that appears in the spawning grounds if we get enough emails, hopefully.
[00:51:47] Speaker A: Yeah, please hit us up and tell us about your SpawnCon experience. We'd love to hear about it.
[00:51:51] Speaker B: Yeah, nice. Don't forget to rate us, subscribe us, tell your friends and family.
Spread the word.
[00:52:00] Speaker A: Spread the word.
[00:52:01] Speaker B: The Gospel of Spawn.
[00:52:03] Speaker A: Spawn Con is doing the Lord's work.
[00:52:05] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:52:05] Speaker A: Doing Malbolga's work.
[00:52:09] Speaker B: The Lord Malbolgia, who then dies. Spoiler alert for the 20 year old.
[00:52:15] Speaker A: Copy 100.
They got to bring back Mount Bulgia.
Come on.
[00:52:21] Speaker B: Well, I mean, he'll probably come.
[00:52:23] Speaker A: We'll get a bunch of him in the violator.
[00:52:25] Speaker B: I was about to say he'll be in the violator.
[00:52:27] Speaker A: I know. I just miss Mount Bulga.
[00:52:29] Speaker B: I mean, he'll probably show up in Gunslinger, too.
[00:52:32] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Maybe he'll show up in 350. Like, they're like, okay, who's going to get the throne? It's like clown sin and Spawn racing for the throne.
[00:52:38] Speaker B: It's just Melbolgia bullshit.
[00:52:40] Speaker A: Comes in and steps on it and breaks it and goes like, you didn't expect me, motherfucker.
I'm back, bitch.
[00:52:50] Speaker B: That would be very interesting to see. The race to 350. Let's go. Let's get it. Let's get it.
All right, well, I think that fairly well covers it, Johnny. So very excited to hear about your spawn con experience.
And we hope that if you didn't get a chance to go. You at least felt like you got some of the good stuff out of.
Yeah. Read more comics. Read more Spawn and all that. And Johnny, may the scorched be with you.
[00:53:21] Speaker A: And also with you, David.
[00:53:23] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[00:53:25] Speaker A: Spawn Con. Spawn Con. Hard.
Thanks to everyone that made it happen.
[00:53:34] Speaker B: See you next year.
