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Unspoken issuers.
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Alright, then we've got our finale here, Issue five. As
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we get in an Issue five, Blade, warped by the
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Dark Hold into switch Blades, smashes into Doctor Strange's sanctum
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to seize the book and end the supernatural forever. Outside,
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Ghostwriter Frank Drake, Louise Hastings, and Sam Buchanan arrive too
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late to save Morbius and the others. Inside, Blade tears
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through the sanctum's wards until Strange's displacement spell tries to
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whisk the Dark Hold away. Ghostwriter angers it with his chain,
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forcing a direct showdown. Blade unloads Blaze's hell fire shotgun
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and then brings then begins draining the spirit of vengeance,
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but the Pennant Stare curse he siphons detonates inside him,
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flooding his mind with every sin and soul He's butchered.
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As Blade writhes in psychic agony, Louise reaches the book
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and gambles everything, invoking Cathan and unleashing a cataclysmic right
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that rips a hole in reality. The spell resurrects the
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fallen Ghostwriter, Hannibal King, Morbius, Victoria Montese, and an even
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Blade while the Dark Hold vanishes from this plane and
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Louise collapses, forever altered by the cost. Modred lunges for revenge,
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but Ghostwriter restrains him, demanding the Nine remain alive until
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they understand the Dark Hold's design. The alliance splinters, Blaze
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wants blood, Drake seethes trust is gone, and the team
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drifts into the night. See Her senses the Blood with
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a capital be stirring again. Far away. Lilith smiles atop
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a greenland glacier, proclaiming the gathering, while Centurious welcomes the
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thinning walls between realms and the final tease. A grinning
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man with an envelope cackles in delight, proof that the
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massacres end is only the overchurches something darker. So there
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you go. That's finishing out the story for Midnight Massaker.
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I did not give the creative team. Let me get
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back to that for our fifth part five, which happened
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to ghost Writer Slash Blaze. Spirit of Spirits a Vengeance
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number thirteen on sale date June twenty ninth, nineteen ninety three.
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Written by Howard Mackie, penciled by Adam Kubert. Boy We
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are sending things out here with some kuber got Joe Kubert,
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that's right, that is awesome. Daniel Green, Klaus Jansen, and
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Frank Spinx all attributed to the Inks here, lettered by
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Bill Oakley and colored by Gregory Wright. So all right,
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there you go. Now we finished out the story. All right,
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now to the finale Ghostwriter Blaze Spirits of Vengeance number thirteen. Chris,
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I want to let you start here with your notes
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because there's so much good stuff happening in this issue.
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The big finale.
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I don't really care for Switchblades, big Lobster clauw what
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is going on?
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I mean, he's continuing.
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To clearly off Fanel. He killed the Atlantean strong man
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King Crab. Possibly I'm Clawful from Masters of the Universe.
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Clawful, yeah, Clawful, I know what it's on.
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I got it.
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Lobster Johnson, Okay, I'm done.
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On the last page of Morbius, he's got one hand
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that has just got the italions basically, and then sort
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of behind him you can see the lobster claw coming
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through on the other hand, and you can see like
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some of the flash searing off of his skull, which
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is where he's at the beginning of this issue, it
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had just been one lobster claw and one and that
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would make more sense. I just don't get the benefit
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he willn't do anything with lobster clause.
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Dude.
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I mean our second page has him five ring the shotgun.
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Yeah, ahhow that's just the pure force of will I mean,
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he is magical.
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Anyone check on, mister crabs.
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Mister.
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Oh no, Ghostwrider. It's the big showdown. Finally, Ghost Strider
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taking on Switchblade and he's got nothing for him, just
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totally obliterated by the hell Fire shotgun and then wrecked.
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I thought this was epic as a thirteen year old
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when I read this initially, and I still kind of
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think it is. We see a glimpse into the future
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later in the big two page spread we see Vengeance
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hanging out with Blaze and Ghost Schrider. It made me
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think like I kind of wish Vengeance had gotten in
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on this crossover and gone against Switchblade at some point,
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but I guess maybe that would have taken away from
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it being Ghostwrider making the last stand here at the end.
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I also want to mention that Sam, you can and
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just standing.
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Around he does nothing. He might have had a line
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or two in the Dark Old issue, but every other
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appearance he's.
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Just kind of standing around with Louis Drake.
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Look effective.
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He could pull his gun out, just observing.
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In what's that gun gonna do against Switchblade?
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That's true, maybe he's training to be a watcher who knows.
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The resolution is a little.
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Quick, you know, we get everybody brought back. But I
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do like how this whole thing happens and Blade has
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killed everybody, including his teammate, and they're just.
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Like, hey, let's head back to the office. Yeah, they're
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just letting him go. And they've done this trick before,
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but I always like it when they use the.
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Panels to show Johnny and Ghos Schrider.
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There's four different panels showing one face, four parts. That's
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really all I've got on this one. It concludes the
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big battle and we see Ghostwrider get absolutely demolished in
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one of his own books. But hey, that's how it works.
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You mentioned Joe Coubert doing the inks over his son
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for these first like six pages, and I.
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Actually don't think his inks compliment his kids pencils as
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well as some other inkers do, but it is still
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cool to see them collaborate like, yeah, always cool, Kubert
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feel to it when he does those inks.
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I was going to ask, what's going on with Danny
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Katsch at this time? Is he Ghostwriter?
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I don't think he has his Ghostrider twenty five okay,
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and I believe he might come back in that Missing
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Link or Road of Vengeance, but I can't swear to it.
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It's been a while since I've read that stuff.
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Okay. Well, I was gonna say, yeah, and he definitely
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did not make an appearance here at all in these
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five issues. Yeah, I was gonna say, I think there
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might be one small reference. All right, I'm gonna go next, Evan,
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and you can clean up, all right. So this is
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where I make the callback to the switchblade reference. Because
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Howard Mackie does not use the word switchblade at all
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in this comic. I should have looked to see if
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he because he did the Ghostwriter issue as well. Now
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that might have been mentioned there because that was the
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second part of this series. I found it interesting he's
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being called switchblade consistently and no point is he referenced
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as switchblade in this last part. I don't know if
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that was a conscious effort on his part. To be
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like that's a stupid name. I'm just not going to
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do it, or if it was like, hey, this is Blade,
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we need to let everybody know it is Blade. We
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don't want people and confused.
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It's played.
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So I don't know, but yeah, lobster calls and him
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turning into this on fire lobster man. Granted it was
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freaky looking. Again, you're sitting there going, what the heck
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is going on? Does that work? I do not think
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it works. I was excited for Andy's art here because
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or excuse me, Adam not not Andy. Adam's art. He'd
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been on Ghostwriter for a little bit at this time.
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Writer is just like one of his early issues.
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He's been doing the Spirits a Vengeance.
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So he's been doing Spirits a Vengeance. Was he on
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the outset like since issue won?
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Yeah, he was the artist for the first twelve issues,
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and they knew.
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They had to end it here because of the talent.
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They wanted to have Adam involved. They knew like, okay,
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we're gonna have an epic finale. You're in charge. And
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he's like, okay, I'll do you one better. I'm gonna
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bring my dad in and Klaus Jansen. I mean, that's
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a pretty heavy hitter as far as anks go. So
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they brought out the talent for this final issue.
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How often is Klaus Jansen not the most interesting anchor
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in the group?
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Right? I will criticize it for being so quickly undone.
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I understand comics as a business, especially in the nineties.
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They do make it a point at the end to
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make it seem like this was just a setup for
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some bigger stuff. If things get bigger than what just
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happened in these five issues, that's going to be insane.
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We just watched one of our heroes turn into a
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righteous A righteous villain is the best way to put it.
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You know, somebody who's was very convinced in their ways
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that what they were doing was was correct and was
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going to result in something good by wiping out the occult,
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killing all the people that he had been associated with,
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people that were mainstays in their own titles, and they're dying.
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But again, like I said, I feel like we needed
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a story for the journey back.
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I didn't know this.
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This is the first time I read this. I had
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no idea that Blade turned into Switchblade. Like I said,
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I I posted that picture this guy comes on here,
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he's I guess Switchblade blah blah blah blah blah, and
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I'm like, what is he talking about?
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What is going on?
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And then as I read this comic what he's talking about?
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We watched Blade turn into the Dema Gorge to some
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up my thoughts overall on the thing. The journey was packed,
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full of action, packed full of holy Cow moments, but
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the final issue, just as much as it was full
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of anticipation, full of shocks within two pages, it's kind
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of undone. Everybody's kind of back. I do want to
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give my Actually, no, I'm gonna hold one of that
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because I think that might come up as my panel.
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So I don't have any other notes on this. Like
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I said, overall, crazy story, wrapped up too quickly. But again,
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you can't kill everybody off and then have them dead
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in their titles. They've already done that with ghost Writer.
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He's dead now, and then you know we just got
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ghost Rider running around. But anyway, so all right, Evan Bevans,
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you have a four, sir.
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Well, yeah, I agree with you. Some stuff happened too quickly.
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Although let's look at the alternative. If you're not gonna
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make this like an eighteen part crossover. Otherwise it's just
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Switchblade tossing people around and then going he's gonna kill
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somebody pretty soon, so right for that, I give him credit.
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Once as soon as Hannibal King got I'm like, there's
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going to be a spell. But he does give it
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some steaks that you're not used to in monthly common
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mix in the nineties, so I do give him credit
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for that. I knew it was going to be undone
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sooner or later, but I will give him credit for
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it was a quick journey, but it was an interesting ride.
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You know, even Morbius is dead. No he's not, No,
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he really is. And then yeah, most of the other
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stuff is just I will say it made me curious
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about I'm trusting these writers to address this. Next month's issues.
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Aren't just going to be like the night Stalkers playing
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a pickup game on the courts in Boston or something
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like that, or the dark Old Redeemers like Okay, Louise,
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what are we up to this week? I got to
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believe that, as well as these events were interwoven with
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the ongoing subplot, that this will be addressed in subsequent issues.
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So it does make me curious to check some of
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those out. Modred especially, I was just like, oh yeah,
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another generic old sorcerer dude. It's like, okay, this guy, Yeah,
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it does look kind of like he had just watched
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MTV and decided that's how I'm going to address. But
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I'd like to see more of this guy. I'd like
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to see more of his dynamic with the Dark Hold Redeemers.
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In my head, the pocket dimension or whatever Strange set
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up to hide the Dark Hold in that a ghost rider,
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you know, anchors it from going into is the limbo
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dimension from the Monster Squad?
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Oh okay? Nice?
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And I also will say, speaking of Modred, Modred, yeah yeah,
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that was the top battle. I mean, this is a
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good battle and the fact that Ghostwriters just getting absolutely destroyed.
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But oh yeah, pennants stare. I love that as a resolution.
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But for Sheer, what the heck? Am I looking at
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the Modred switchblade to throw down? Is still the pinnacle
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in the story to me? All right? That all of them?
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Yep, it's time to pick a panel. All right, Chris,
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you're up, buddy, you got first shot here? What's your panel?
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Page ten, Panel two, which is ghost Ritter getting run
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through with the blade. You could to see another piece
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of somebody's spine flying out of their back.
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Like that.
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The whole time.
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All right, Evan, I'll give you the second panel.
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I'm going to go with a quiet moment on page nineteen,
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panel three. They told us in some of the dialogue
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that whatever Louise did to invoke that spell exacted quite
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a cost. You got the tear running down her face.
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Victoria sees something. I don't know if that's Sam. I
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guess that's Sam, Hannibal King, just some random dude about
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the same impact either way. So yeah, that makes me
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want to be like, Okay, well, what's up with dark
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Old Redeemers. What's going to go on there? This doesn't
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seem like it's going to be a just now. So
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I like that amid all the craziness, that quiet moment
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that shows the cost without the Eldritch clothes and hell
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fire flames.
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Yeah, I mean that's probably the biggest mystery coming out
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of this is, like, what did she sacrifice because it's
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not evident but something very personal. But I mean, she
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even says, do not ask me what I sacrificed for this?
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Jenks lost his jump shot.
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Jeez, just really she gave the Dark hold her poly
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bagged issues of Rise of the Midnight sund.
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Oh man, I wonder she's crying. I've got to ask
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on the panel beside that, who's holding whose hand?
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Here?
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Looks like that's Blaze and ghost Rider a tender moment.
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That's what I was thinking. I was like, wait this,
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why is this happening? That's just not exactly what I
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was expecting.
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separate for a while until we can get our head straight.
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Spent it too much time together.
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I wonder what Rock stands up to these days?
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Oh man, all right, well you guys, I am going
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with man. There are a lot of good stuff. I
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got two page spread. I mean that is calling the
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two page spread that Chris had brought up that things
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Epic would love to have that on the wall. However,
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I'm going to go back to this is the panel
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that stuck with me. Chris talked about where Switchblade ran
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ghost Rider through with the sword. It's the sword going
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through the head a ghost rider. That's the one that
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I was Now, notice no problem there, a sword gone
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through and actually, of course we can see that sword
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going skeleton though. That's right, that's just a skeleton. You know,
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nothing in the bylaws of the authority.
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We've determined that violence toward bones is completely cool under
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the comic.
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Skin flaming skulls, right, but yeah, I'm going with the
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blade through the jaw, up through the top of the skull.
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I thought that one was pretty awesome.
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Wait did it?
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Guys?
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This is Midnight Massacre. Any other final thoughts before we
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get into plugs.
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One other thing I was wondering, like, you know, MORBs
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comes back, Lace comes back, Hannibal, Demigoblin.
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What about the healer? I see there are a few
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other people that I'm not sure are supposed to be,
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so maybe that's them in the crowd there at.
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The I thought the same thing. I was like, Oh,
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she's just going to bring back her friends and severely
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leave them. I'm a goblin out there, Why why you
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gotta bring him back?
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Looks like Bs and Werewolf by Night are chasing Deva
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Coughlin in that one panel.
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Right in the same page with the handholding at the
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very top.
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Uh huh oh yeah, they're chasing after that's right now.
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There is one person in blue.
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Is that the healer could be? I don't know who
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else it would.
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Right between Vicky Modessey who has changed clothes and the
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squatting werewolf. That might be the healer, But then there's
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the gypsy lady and we don't know if it's I
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assume buff panel is mister Crabs or clawfel remateializing clawful.
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All right, let's go ahead and get into plugs. Evan
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Bevans you go first.
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Well, if you like my ideas but can't stand the
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sound of my voice, you can check out my blog
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asterisk fifty one dot blogspot dot com, where I'm working
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my way through for Halloween, some free comic Fridays and
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Dollar Tree cinemas, things like a free reprint of Harrow
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County Number One that I actually paid for because I
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didn't get it on free, or Halloween ComicFest when it
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originally came out. Just watched Mathra where I was less
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focused on the giant butterfly and more on the questionable
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journalism being perpetrated by Bulldog, and then I worked my
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way through all kinds of comics, so the weirder the better,
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like Secret Defenders and NFL Super Pro and not the
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only Masters of the Universe figure that I delve into.
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So astis fifty one dot blogspot dot com and on
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this channel, Jesse and I talk about Marvel Snap a
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couple times each month. And yeah, no, no Dark Hold
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Redeemer cards yet, so looking forward to that in a
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few years.
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Yeah, buddy, it'll be happening at some point. Chris Armstrong,
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tell them all about it. Man, what's going on over there?
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I got another podcast I do with my buddy AJ.
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We've got two movie podcasts, one of Small Streeters where
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we talk about directing video and made for TV movies.
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Got one coming up at the end of the month
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on Satan's School for Girls, a seventies TV movie made
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in the Satanic Panic era. Also have another one called
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Because Movies. And we've got a Scream a couple episodes
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on the screen franchise coming out this month, so check
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those out on your podcatcher of choice.
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All right, My plan is to get this thing rolling
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and it should be on the air by the time
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Halloween hits if you get a chance. Ladies and gentlemen,
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make sure to check out the rest of the shows
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on the source Material Comics feed Here of course Unspoken
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check that out. We are on our way out of here.
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I think Chris has already turned a mist heaven over
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there is turned into a werewolf and he's chasing after
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some kids running down the street, and myself, I think
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I'm just gonna go to bed. I'm tired. So we're
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out of here. In gents is mine, there is
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Unspoken issuers.
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Alright, then we've got our finale here, Issue five. As
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we get in an Issue five, Blade, warped by the
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Dark Hold into switch Blades, smashes into Doctor Strange's sanctum
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to seize the book and end the supernatural forever. Outside,
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Ghostwriter Frank Drake, Louise Hastings, and Sam Buchanan arrive too
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late to save Morbius and the others. Inside, Blade tears
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through the sanctum's wards until Strange's displacement spell tries to
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whisk the Dark Hold away. Ghostwriter angers it with his chain,
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forcing a direct showdown. Blade unloads Blaze's hell fire shotgun
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and then brings then begins draining the spirit of vengeance,
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but the Pennant Stare curse he siphons detonates inside him,
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flooding his mind with every sin and soul He's butchered.
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As Blade writhes in psychic agony, Louise reaches the book
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and gambles everything, invoking Cathan and unleashing a cataclysmic right
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that rips a hole in reality. The spell resurrects the
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fallen Ghostwriter, Hannibal King, Morbius, Victoria Montese, and an even
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Blade while the Dark Hold vanishes from this plane and
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Louise collapses, forever altered by the cost. Modred lunges for revenge,
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but Ghostwriter restrains him, demanding the Nine remain alive until
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they understand the Dark Hold's design. The alliance splinters, Blaze
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wants blood, Drake seethes trust is gone, and the team
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drifts into the night. See Her senses the Blood with
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a capital be stirring again. Far away. Lilith smiles atop
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a greenland glacier, proclaiming the gathering, while Centurious welcomes the
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thinning walls between realms and the final tease. A grinning
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man with an envelope cackles in delight, proof that the
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massacres end is only the overchurches something darker. So there
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you go. That's finishing out the story for Midnight Massaker.
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I did not give the creative team. Let me get
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back to that for our fifth part five, which happened
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to ghost Writer Slash Blaze. Spirit of Spirits a Vengeance
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number thirteen on sale date June twenty ninth, nineteen ninety three.
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Written by Howard Mackie, penciled by Adam Kubert. Boy We
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are sending things out here with some kuber got Joe Kubert,
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that's right, that is awesome. Daniel Green, Klaus Jansen, and
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Frank Spinx all attributed to the Inks here, lettered by
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Bill Oakley and colored by Gregory Wright. So all right,
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there you go. Now we finished out the story. All right,
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now to the finale Ghostwriter Blaze Spirits of Vengeance number thirteen. Chris,
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I want to let you start here with your notes
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because there's so much good stuff happening in this issue.
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The big finale.
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I don't really care for Switchblades, big Lobster clauw what
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To clearly off Fanel. He killed the Atlantean strong man
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King Crab. Possibly I'm Clawful from Masters of the Universe.
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Clawful, yeah, Clawful, I know what it's on.
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I got it.
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Lobster Johnson, Okay, I'm done.
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that has just got the italions basically, and then sort
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of behind him you can see the lobster claw coming
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through on the other hand, and you can see like
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some of the flash searing off of his skull, which
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is where he's at the beginning of this issue, it
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had just been one lobster claw and one and that
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would make more sense. I just don't get the benefit
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he willn't do anything with lobster clause.
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I mean our second page has him five ring the shotgun.
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he is magical.
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Anyone check on, mister crabs.
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Mister.
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Oh no, Ghostwrider. It's the big showdown. Finally, Ghost Strider
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taking on Switchblade and he's got nothing for him, just
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totally obliterated by the hell Fire shotgun and then wrecked.
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I thought this was epic as a thirteen year old
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when I read this initially, and I still kind of
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think it is. We see a glimpse into the future
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later in the big two page spread we see Vengeance
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hanging out with Blaze and Ghost Schrider. It made me
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on this crossover and gone against Switchblade at some point,
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it being Ghostwrider making the last stand here at the end.
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or two in the Dark Old issue, but every other
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appearance he's.
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The resolution is a little.
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killed everybody, including his teammate, and they're just.
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just letting him go. And they've done this trick before,
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really all I've got on this one. It concludes the
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big battle and we see Ghostwrider get absolutely demolished in
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one of his own books. But hey, that's how it works.
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for these first like six pages, and I.
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well as some other inkers do, but it is still
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cool to see them collaborate like, yeah, always cool, Kubert
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feel to it when he does those inks.
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I was going to ask, what's going on with Danny
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Katsch at this time? Is he Ghostwriter?
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and I believe he might come back in that Missing
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Link or Road of Vengeance, but I can't swear to it.
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five issues. Yeah, I was gonna say, I think there
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might be one small reference. All right, I'm gonna go next, Evan,
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and you can clean up, all right. So this is
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where I make the callback to the switchblade reference. Because
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Howard Mackie does not use the word switchblade at all
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in this comic. I should have looked to see if
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he because he did the Ghostwriter issue as well. Now
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that might have been mentioned there because that was the
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second part of this series. I found it interesting he's
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being called switchblade consistently and no point is he referenced
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as switchblade in this last part. I don't know if
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that was a conscious effort on his part. To be
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like that's a stupid name. I'm just not going to
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do it, or if it was like, hey, this is Blade,
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we need to let everybody know it is Blade. We
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don't want people and confused.
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It's played.
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turning into this on fire lobster man. Granted it was
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freaky looking. Again, you're sitting there going, what the heck
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is going on? Does that work? I do not think
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it works. I was excited for Andy's art here because
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or excuse me, Adam not not Andy. Adam's art. He'd
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been on Ghostwriter for a little bit at this time.
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the outset like since issue won?
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and they knew.
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They had to end it here because of the talent.
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They wanted to have Adam involved. They knew like, okay,
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we're gonna have an epic finale. You're in charge. And
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he's like, okay, I'll do you one better. I'm gonna
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bring my dad in and Klaus Jansen. I mean, that's
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a pretty heavy hitter as far as anks go. So
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they brought out the talent for this final issue.
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How often is Klaus Jansen not the most interesting anchor
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in the group?
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Right? I will criticize it for being so quickly undone.
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I understand comics as a business, especially in the nineties.
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make it seem like this was just a setup for
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some bigger stuff. If things get bigger than what just
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happened in these five issues, that's going to be insane.
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We just watched one of our heroes turn into a
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righteous A righteous villain is the best way to put it.
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that what they were doing was was correct and was
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going to result in something good by wiping out the occult,
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killing all the people that he had been associated with,
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people that were mainstays in their own titles, and they're dying.
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a story for the journey back.
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I didn't know this.
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no idea that Blade turned into Switchblade. Like I said,
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I I posted that picture this guy comes on here,
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he's I guess Switchblade blah blah blah blah blah, and
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I'm like, what is he talking about?
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up my thoughts overall on the thing. The journey was packed,
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full of action, packed full of holy Cow moments, but
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the final issue, just as much as it was full
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of anticipation, full of shocks within two pages, it's kind
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of undone. Everybody's kind of back. I do want to
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give my Actually, no, I'm gonna hold one of that
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because I think that might come up as my panel.
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I said, overall, crazy story, wrapped up too quickly. But again,
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you can't kill everybody off and then have them dead
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in their titles. They've already done that with ghost Writer.
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He's dead now, and then you know we just got
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ghost Rider running around. But anyway, so all right, Evan Bevans,
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you have a four, sir.
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Well, yeah, I agree with you. Some stuff happened too quickly.
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Although let's look at the alternative. If you're not gonna
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make this like an eighteen part crossover. Otherwise it's just
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Switchblade tossing people around and then going he's gonna kill
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somebody pretty soon, so right for that, I give him credit.
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Once as soon as Hannibal King got I'm like, there's
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going to be a spell. But he does give it
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some steaks that you're not used to in monthly common
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mix in the nineties, so I do give him credit
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for that. I knew it was going to be undone
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sooner or later, but I will give him credit for
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it was a quick journey, but it was an interesting ride.
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You know, even Morbius is dead. No he's not, No,
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he really is. And then yeah, most of the other
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stuff is just I will say it made me curious
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about I'm trusting these writers to address this. Next month's issues.
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Aren't just going to be like the night Stalkers playing
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a pickup game on the courts in Boston or something
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like that, or the dark Old Redeemers like Okay, Louise,
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what are we up to this week? I got to
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believe that, as well as these events were interwoven with
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the ongoing subplot, that this will be addressed in subsequent issues.
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So it does make me curious to check some of
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those out. Modred especially, I was just like, oh yeah,
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another generic old sorcerer dude. It's like, okay, this guy, Yeah,
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it does look kind of like he had just watched
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MTV and decided that's how I'm going to address. But
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I'd like to see more of this guy. I'd like
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to see more of his dynamic with the Dark Hold Redeemers.
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In my head, the pocket dimension or whatever Strange set
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up to hide the Dark Hold in that a ghost rider,
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you know, anchors it from going into is the limbo
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dimension from the Monster Squad?
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Oh okay? Nice?
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that was the top battle. I mean, this is a
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good battle and the fact that Ghostwriters just getting absolutely destroyed.
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But oh yeah, pennants stare. I love that as a resolution.
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But for Sheer, what the heck? Am I looking at
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the Modred switchblade to throw down? Is still the pinnacle
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in the story to me? All right? That all of them?
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Yep, it's time to pick a panel. All right, Chris,
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you're up, buddy, you got first shot here? What's your panel?
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Page ten, Panel two, which is ghost Ritter getting run
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through with the blade. You could to see another piece
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of somebody's spine flying out of their back.
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I never really thought about what's under ghost Rider's jacket.
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don't have expected like an I'm with stupid T shirt.
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Like that.
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The whole time.
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All right, Evan, I'll give you the second panel.
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I'm going to go with a quiet moment on page nineteen,
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panel three. They told us in some of the dialogue
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that whatever Louise did to invoke that spell exacted quite
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a cost. You got the tear running down her face.
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Victoria sees something. I don't know if that's Sam. I
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guess that's Sam, Hannibal King, just some random dude about
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the same impact either way. So yeah, that makes me
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want to be like, Okay, well, what's up with dark
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Old Redeemers. What's going to go on there? This doesn't
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seem like it's going to be a just now. So
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I like that amid all the craziness, that quiet moment
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that shows the cost without the Eldritch clothes and hell
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fire flames.
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of this is, like, what did she sacrifice because it's
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not evident but something very personal. But I mean, she
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even says, do not ask me what I sacrificed for this?
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Jenks lost his jump shot.
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Jeez, just really she gave the Dark hold her poly
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bagged issues of Rise of the Midnight sund.
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Oh man, I wonder she's crying. I've got to ask
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on the panel beside that, who's holding whose hand?
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Here?
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Looks like that's Blaze and ghost Rider a tender moment.
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That's what I was thinking. I was like, wait this,
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why is this happening? That's just not exactly what I
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was expecting.
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separate for a while until we can get our head straight.
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Spent it too much time together.
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I wonder what Rock stands up to these days?
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Oh man, all right, well you guys, I am going
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with man. There are a lot of good stuff. I
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got two page spread. I mean that is calling the
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two page spread that Chris had brought up that things
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Epic would love to have that on the wall. However,
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I'm going to go back to this is the panel
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that stuck with me. Chris talked about where Switchblade ran
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ghost Rider through with the sword. It's the sword going
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through the head a ghost rider. That's the one that
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I was Now, notice no problem there, a sword gone
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through and actually, of course we can see that sword
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going skeleton though. That's right, that's just a skeleton. You know,
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nothing in the bylaws of the authority.
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We've determined that violence toward bones is completely cool under
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the comic.
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Skin flaming skulls, right, but yeah, I'm going with the
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blade through the jaw, up through the top of the skull.
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I thought that one was pretty awesome.
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Wait did it?
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Guys?
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This is Midnight Massacre. Any other final thoughts before we
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get into plugs.
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One other thing I was wondering, like, you know, MORBs
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comes back, Lace comes back, Hannibal, Demigoblin.
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What about the healer? I see there are a few
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other people that I'm not sure are supposed to be,
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so maybe that's them in the crowd there at.
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The I thought the same thing. I was like, Oh,
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she's just going to bring back her friends and severely
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leave them. I'm a goblin out there, Why why you
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gotta bring him back?
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Looks like Bs and Werewolf by Night are chasing Deva
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Coughlin in that one panel.
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Right in the same page with the handholding at the
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very top.
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Uh huh oh yeah, they're chasing after that's right now.
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There is one person in blue.
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Is that the healer could be? I don't know who
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else it would.
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Right between Vicky Modessey who has changed clothes and the
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squatting werewolf. That might be the healer, But then there's
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the gypsy lady and we don't know if it's I
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assume buff panel is mister Crabs or clawfel remateializing clawful.
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All right, let's go ahead and get into plugs. Evan
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Bevans you go first.
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Well, if you like my ideas but can't stand the
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sound of my voice, you can check out my blog
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asterisk fifty one dot blogspot dot com, where I'm working
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my way through for Halloween, some free comic Fridays and
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Dollar Tree cinemas, things like a free reprint of Harrow
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County Number One that I actually paid for because I
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didn't get it on free, or Halloween ComicFest when it
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originally came out. Just watched Mathra where I was less
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focused on the giant butterfly and more on the questionable
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journalism being perpetrated by Bulldog, and then I worked my
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way through all kinds of comics, so the weirder the better,
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like Secret Defenders and NFL Super Pro and not the
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only Masters of the Universe figure that I delve into.
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So astis fifty one dot blogspot dot com and on
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this channel, Jesse and I talk about Marvel Snap a
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couple times each month. And yeah, no, no Dark Hold
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Redeemer cards yet, so looking forward to that in a
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few years.
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Yeah, buddy, it'll be happening at some point. Chris Armstrong,
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tell them all about it. Man, what's going on over there?
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I got another podcast I do with my buddy AJ.
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We've got two movie podcasts, one of Small Streeters where
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we talk about directing video and made for TV movies.
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Got one coming up at the end of the month
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on Satan's School for Girls, a seventies TV movie made
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in the Satanic Panic era. Also have another one called
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Because Movies. And we've got a Scream a couple episodes
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on the screen franchise coming out this month, so check
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those out on your podcatcher of choice.
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All right, My plan is to get this thing rolling
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and it should be on the air by the time
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Halloween hits if you get a chance. Ladies and gentlemen,
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make sure to check out the rest of the shows
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on the source Material Comics feed Here of course Unspoken
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Issues nineties comics all the time. We have a good
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time doing that. We're over one hundred and fifty episodes
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you interested in us discussing that mobile card game Marvel
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Snap and the Source Material Comics podcast Proper, where we
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talk comics of any air, Rah, please feel free to
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check that out. We are on our way out of here.
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I think Chris has already turned a mist heaven over
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there is turned into a werewolf and he's chasing after
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some kids running down the street, and myself, I think
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I'm just gonna go to bed. I'm tired. So we're
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out of here. In gents is mine, there is
