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Right, welcome back to Morgan Talks Comics.
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Uh, this week we are looking at Weird Work by Jordan Thomas and British artist Shaky Kane, who I've been a fan of gosh for a long time.
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Um, welcome on board at Iceborough Chamberlain.
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Hello again.
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Um yeah, so Shaky Kane, real name Michael Courtard, Shaky is his pen name and it's what most people refer to him as um has hello Oberon.
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Good kitty.
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Come on, come on, keep going.
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That's it, keep moving.
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Um, yeah, so yeah, I've been aware of Shaky's work since the 80s when I used to read um Deadline, which was a great uh British like anthology comic and magazine.
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It had it it sort of it balanced cartoon strips by Jamie Hewlett who's now does the Gorillas.
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Uh it's where Tank Girl started, really.
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I've heard of both those, but all the other things of yours I've not heard of.
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Yeah, so Tank Girl started in in 2008, uh 2018, Deadline, and Deadline also had like interviews with bands that were popular at the time and stuff like that, and they talk about film and TV and all kinds of stuff.
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It was kind of it was a really nice mix of comics and entertainment as well.
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Um yeah, Shaky did a lot of lot of work in that deadline Excuse me, please, Oberon.
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Oberon's really not helping today.
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Yeah, you'll get shut out of the room, yeah.
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Settle down, mate.
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Sit with me.
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There we go.
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Um yeah, so yeah, Shaky uh sort of came up through the indie comic scene uh in in the UK during the 80s and um is still pretty darn prolific now.
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This this one, Weird Work, is I think he did two series this year.
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This is from 2023, and I think he did two he did two four-issue series for image comics uh in 2023.
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I've got both of them, I can't remember the other one at the moment.
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Um I don't recognise that comic or either of those names.
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So we've not had anything to do with those before.
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No, I mean we've talked about we've talked about Jamie Hewlett before and we've talked about gorillas before because they're sort of yeah.
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Um so that's the you know, these guys all sort of came up around the same time.
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There was a really great indie comic scene uh in it, as there has been in other countries, but in the 80s there was a really good indie comic scene.
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Deadline was kind of like the the top, top of the pile sort of thing.
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Um but yeah, it's where Shaky Shaky's had lots of work in there, and so is Hewlett and Philip Bond and other really great uh British cartoonists.
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Nice.
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This looks very appealing for the fun, I have to say.
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Yeah, nice colours, yeah.
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So Shakey draws in a very much you can you can you can see a lot of Jack Kirby's um influence on on his work.
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He's got a kind of a to me, it's like a very 1950s kind of zet aesthetic.
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That hadn't stretched it.
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It's sort of pulp, it's sort of like pulp uh adventure type comics.
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I don't know.
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But he draws in this sort of very heavily heavy line style and and quite flat colours, you know, very simple flat colours.
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He colours predominantly colours his own work.
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So um yeah.
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Right.
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So we ready to roll?
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Ready to roll.
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Oh, brother, didn't it?
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Oh, he's going off in the opposite direction.
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Um, just a quick look before we dive into the issue.
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Um, there's some great uh variant cover artists with this.
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Michael Alred, who's one of my one of my favourites, who created Madman in the 80s again, similar style to Shaky Kane.
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Um, so you can probably see why uh he did a cover, and Jeff and Jeff Darrow, who we were talking about last week with Showel and Cowboys, Jeff Darrow done a variant cover, and again you can see parallels between Darrow's you know um working with architecture and packing quite a lot of detail into frames.
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Shaky, even though he draws in quite a simplistic style, does actually put quite a lot of detail and there's sort of references to pop culture and stuff like that in there.
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Right, yeah, even jokes.
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Yeah, I guess, yeah.
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And what's Shaky Kay's real name?
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His real name is Michael Coultard.
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That's much nicer.
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Yeah.
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Why didn't he use his beauty?
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I I I tried doing a little bit of research as to where I it just came from it just came from I don't know where, to be honest.
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I don't know the answer.
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Yeah, I tried to do a bit of research um as to where the actual name Shaky Kane came from, but I don't know.
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Kitties kept walking across the uh K of Kable, didn't they?
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Yes, they did.
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Or one in particular, we won't mention who, will we?
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Over on.
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No.
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Um so yeah, we've got a bit we've got a nice big uh splash page here with uh sort of a to me it's very it's a very sort of 1950s American sort of style.
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So that's like a big it's like a um you've got like flying cars because it's set in a sort of a futuristic city, but that's like a it's a like a beer can on the back of a truck, so it's like a big tanker.
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Oh so it kind of looks a little bit like a Budweiser can.
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Right, and what's this?
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Is it an eye?
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It's an eye, yeah.
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Why is it yeah?
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I don't I'm not exactly sure, but I think it might have something to do with our main character who's a detective.
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Not a private eye, yeah.
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So and notice notice the type it the type here?
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Upper and lower?
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It's upper and lower case.
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Oh that's gonna get a lot of points.
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Didn't they used to be called private dicks?
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Yes.
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Why?
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I don't know.
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I don't know why dick was uh the a slang term for detective.
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Oh shorter than version Yeah, it's a it's sort of a slang term for for the for detectives.
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Yeah.
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I don't suppose they call themselves that anymore.
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Probably not.
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Watch those.
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I'm not I'm watching I'm watching watching this kitten.
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Oh he's he's making a move elsewhere.
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Right, so splash into the into the story.
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We've got a we've got a character here that's got like a pig's head.
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Well look has got a pig's head.
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Um I think the the idea is that they're sort of like mutants and stuff like that.
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Right, yes.
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Where was it set?
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I mean, you said one's English and the others were not, yeah?
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Yeah, so as far as we're aware, Jordan Thomas is is an American writer because Image is an Americ Image is an American publishing company, they're the kind of third biggest behind Marvel and DC.
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So are they is this um set in America, sort of?
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Yeah, so it's set in Stellar City.
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Septimus Prime's Cantankerous Capital.
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We don't have anything something city, do we?
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Not here we don't know.
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No.
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No.
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No, we just have we're just normal and use just names.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So anyway, um there's uh the pig pig face character here I think might be called Vimi.
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Vimi.
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Vimy Vimmy Vimi.
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Not like thingy then.
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No.
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And uh there's some kind of hold-up going up here because there's lots of character weird, weird and wonderful characters with with guns holding up what looks like uh holding up a a car here on this fly on the flyover that we saw in the first Who's in the car then?
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Um I don't know yet.
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Well I don't think one we've seen yet who's actually in the car.
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There's a like a reflection of a of a driver, like a chauffeur, it's sort of like in a chauffeur's uniform.
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Yeah somebody wealthy in there.
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Yeah.
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Why has he got a a red finger?
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Because he's got blood on his finger.
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Oh, just the one?
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Yeah.
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I suppose there's a few bits around, but yeah.
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Okay.
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So yeah, we've got a mix here.
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So we've got the the sort of like pardon me, narration to the story is actually in upper and lowercase, and then the the type, the speech is actually in uppercase.
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So we've got a mix of the two.
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Okay, we step in the right direction.
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Yeah, they've just lost half a point.
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Yeah, but this is done in this is done in in Shaky's sort of i inimitable style.
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It's you know, you I I know from seeing looking at this that it's it's his work, but I can see parallels with Jeff Darrow that we looked at last week.
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Um but very much the silver age, which I think is the 60s and 70s, Jack Kirby.
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Flat colours, isn't it?
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Yeah, yeah, which I quite like.
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That's how I do my colours.
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I quite like that.
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It's taken me a while.
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They don't look like that though, do they?
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They've got more life through them than that.
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No, see, I I personally I think this is quite bright here.
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You know, we've got quite vivid colours, you know, and because it's it's different because there's not a lot of like sh of shading as such.
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Um thank you, Ophelia.
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Um yeah, it just uh it just allows the the the art the line work to sort of feed through.
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What's he doing with that last?
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Looks like he's pressing a button inside the car.
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Oh right.
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Right.
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Oh, I know what I was thinking of whilst you were talking.
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Are there any actual cities called something city in the in the US?
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Or like was that a comic thing?
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I don't know.
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Salt Lake City.
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Salt Lake City, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Um answered my own question, didn't I?
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You did answer your own question.
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Yeah, so there's a and then we come to another big uh splash page where the pig character is flying out of the uh he sort of used an escape like an escape.
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Oh, what's the thing you'd have in fighter jets?
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Um ejector.
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Eject yeah, an ejector seat.
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That's it.
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Yeah, yeah, so he's using like an ejector seat and is he the driver?
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No.
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Oh he's the important person.
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Yeah.
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I think looking at this, this if this is Vimmy, he's a poly he's actually a politician.
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And there's some unfortunate language there.
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Yeah, it's a little bit potty mouth, this one.
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Yeah, so it's lost points now.
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It's not for children.
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It's not for me.
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No.
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So yeah, so is he um um demon?
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Uh we'll just get into that.
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I'm sorry.
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You get you're get you're get getting ahead of me.
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Sorry.
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Is that Bob's square pants?
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It is a square character.
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I think he's just like a sort of a s like a cube with arms and legs.
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So it's the same as Bob Bob, whatever his name is.
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Pretty much, yeah.
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Apart from he actually has pants on, and this one's not wearing any pants.
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We can't see because he's covered up in bits.
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Yeah, so we're moving into again.
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Shakey uses quite clean, clear panels and sort of does a fairly minimal panel count on a page.
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Um blank spaces.
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Yeah, so there's like a hovering city, and then we go into into the city, and we've got Shaky has quite a surreal uh style, he mixes in lots of different sort of cultures and stuff like that.
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So the the you get a you get a real mixture of of all kinds of characters in there.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, so we've got these two characters here, one that looks like a devil, one that looks that is a a cube, and they're clearly bodyguards to somebody who who's we we haven't met yet.
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I thought he was a demon.
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Yeah, he looks like a demon.
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Yeah.
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And then some some guys in black, sort of like SAS type suits come barging in through the window.
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Oh yes.
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And take and sort of ta uh uh put the guards down onto the floor.
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And then we see our lead character, Lady Haste, who's got a sort of an Egyptian vibe to her.
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Yes, I quite like that look.
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She's blue, yeah.
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Again, it's another kind of trademark of Shady uh Shaky's kind of style is that quite often skin tones will be like really different.
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I thought you were gonna say shady lane.
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No, not shady lane, no.
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And uh the one of the uh agents type characters goes in and serves a warrant for uh for an arrest for an an attempted murder for home.
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For Lady Haste.
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Yeah, but she's just sprung up.
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Yeah, but they've Is he not he nothing to do with the car?
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No, we've moved on from the car.
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We've moved into a different scene now.
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We're in like a sort of this is a fl like in a floating palace.
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Oh, I see, I see, I'll get it.
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And then so that so Lady Ace gets taken off by these agent characters.
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Um there's a strange person there.
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Yeah, you're you you're getting ahead of me a lot.
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Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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So the next page, we've got a big panel, and it says eight months later.
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And we've got the sort of like private detective, sort of like, you know, Marlowe voiceover kind of kind of thing going.
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And we're it we're into into a bar where we've got lots of sort of fantastical creatures.
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There are guys who look like sort of pickles, and there's a singer look like what?
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Pickles.
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What do you mean?
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They look like pickles, yeah, these green guys in there.
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Oh, they actually look like pickles, yeah.
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I get it, yeah.
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Yeah, and then there's uh uh female character singing who's got six arms, so it could be and an antennae, so she looks kind of like an i an insect of some description.
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So get the the voiceover continues and is is allowing the the story to unfold as we go through.
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And then we come into a oh she hasn't got any fit.
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Well, I suppose arguably.
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Oh no, this is her too, is it?
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Yeah, that bit there, all right.
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And then we've come into a double double spread page, not dissimilar to how Jeff Darrow does the big spreads.
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Um what are these blank things?
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So there's the club as being broken into by we can't see because we only see the hands and the weapons, these are like Tommy guns, you know that the the old-fashioned machine guns that they used in the 30s and stuff like that.
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Yes, because like I say, Shaky's aesthetic is very much sort of 1950s America, he tends to do he has quite a nostalgic style, so the guns are like yeah, the kind of things that you would have seen like Capone and his lot use in the 30s, these like Tommy guns with the round magazines on them.
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They're coming in and shooting everybody up.
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These bits are that where they're shooting.
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That's where they're shooting, so it's like the flash of the of the bullets going out, and this is the projector bullet.
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So he's she's got shot, she's looking like it.
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Mind your own business singing.
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Yeah.
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He's got an unfortunate number of eyes.
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He's not symmetrical.
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He's not symmetrical.
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That's the those people's hair, isn't it?
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I don't think so.
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We've got some weird creatures, weird female characters here who've got flames who've got flames for heads.
00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:19.519
And aren't they making the thing on the next page?
00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:20.720
I don't think so.
00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:37.359
I think this is so look, we've flashed now, could we come up to a our main character who is clearly either remembering or dreaming about what's just happened, the club being attacked.
00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:38.960
How do you know that?
00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:43.440
It comes up and says ten months later, so we've moved on a little bit further.
00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:47.200
So this is our this is our main character here, Source.
00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:48.720
Uh come.
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Sure, we come over his first name.
00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:55.759
Um, but he's called yeah, he's he's Source, he's a detective.
00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:04.400
Um where was when that um car, which is there, yeah, where was he?
00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:06.400
I think this is like a dream.
00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:15.839
This is like um the the the sounds that are coming through is this phone ringing and it's waking him up from a dream.
00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:17.680
Right.
00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:19.920
Is the is the dream relevant?
00:18:20.079 --> 00:18:21.759
Because it just looks like a car on you.
00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:23.920
I thought it might be that other car.
00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:25.759
I don't know if it is the other car.
00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:28.480
We'll find out as we go a little bit further through.
00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:31.039
Oh I'm impatient, so I want to.
00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:32.240
You are impatient, aren't you?
00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:34.000
I want to know now.
00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:36.160
Yeah, well, you're just gonna have to wait.
00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:39.119
This is the first issue, and we're setting the scene.
00:18:40.240 --> 00:19:00.960
Get on with it, then Yeah, so um detective source uh is talking to uh the headquarters of the police, they want him to come in and um I assume be assigned to a case.
00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:05.279
Um hang on, he's a detective with the police thing.
00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:05.680
Yeah.
00:19:05.839 --> 00:19:06.799
Oh no, he's not a police detective.
00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:10.240
So he's not a private detective, no, he's uh Well, why did I get that idea for him?
00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:11.279
I don't know.
00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:12.880
I don't know.
00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:15.279
But yeah, he's a he's a police detective.
00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:17.680
Doesn't wear many clothes, does he?
00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:19.680
No, he's just got his boxes on.
00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:22.640
Yeah, but over here he's not wearing clothes.
00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:25.839
Yeah, but you can see in the the previous page he's wearing boxes.
00:19:26.079 --> 00:19:29.359
That's just seeing him from the back, so he's not got a any top on.
00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:30.880
Yeah, but why not?
00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:31.759
I don't know.
00:19:31.920 --> 00:19:33.759
Maybe just like sleeping in his boxes.
00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:34.480
Maybe he's hot.
00:19:35.440 --> 00:19:36.720
Is he getting out of bed here?
00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:37.200
Yeah.
00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:39.680
Oh, I thought he was going into this um.
00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:42.880
No, he's watching that on he's watching something on TV.
00:19:43.119 --> 00:19:52.400
There's an announcement about a uh it says cop's teenage daughter overdoses on throth, and I think throth is like a drug in in this in Stellar City.
00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:54.079
Yeah.
00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:59.920
And then it says grieving chief promises through crackdown.
00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:03.599
Okay, is that the grieving chief chief?
00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:09.759
No.
00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:12.960
This is nice and colourful, this page.
00:20:13.519 --> 00:20:14.000
Yeah.
00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:21.359
Like I say, it it uses really vibrant colours, and because he uses this sort of flat colouring style, it really makes the colours pop.
00:20:21.839 --> 00:20:30.720
Um very much like sort of literally like pop art from the sip from the fifth from the fifth 50s and sixties.
00:20:31.119 --> 00:20:32.319
Like those ones of Elvis.
00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:33.920
Yeah, and then the warholes.
00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:36.480
The warhole ones, yeah, absolutely.
00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:50.000
Um so yeah, so we see um detector source going off on the train and goes through to the police um precinct station.
00:20:51.359 --> 00:20:54.079
Precinct station, station, precinct, yeah.
00:20:54.400 --> 00:21:07.279
Um he talks to some some of these other characters as he goes into there and and he's going he's saying that he's gonna go and find out what's going on.
00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:16.400
And then he comes up to the chief's office, who is this big sort of grey, sort of almost kind of a bit sort of like a bit of an ogre kind of character.
00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:18.640
He has got clothes on now.
00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:19.039
Yeah.
00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:21.920
I was confused, I thought he was going to work no clothes on.
00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:25.599
No, he's got he's dressed there, he's got a shirt and tie and a jacket on.
00:21:25.839 --> 00:21:28.640
Well, you tell me that if I'm nutty, this is a comic.
00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:30.559
Anything happens in the comic.
00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:31.359
Yeah.
00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:34.079
Absolutely.
00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:49.599
So um the chief is talking sauce, and he's he's saying he he said I want I'm sorry for your loss because his daughter's died, and and he says Justice has no time to grieve, detective, you know that more than most.
00:21:50.720 --> 00:21:52.400
And he's okay tough guy talk.
00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:53.599
Tough guy talk, yeah.
00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:57.279
It's it's very much it's very much that kind of you know pulp fiction.
00:21:57.519 --> 00:21:58.079
Not real.
00:21:58.400 --> 00:21:58.720
No.
00:21:59.119 --> 00:21:59.680
Sort of pulp.
00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:04.720
Fiction um again 50s kind of vibe to it.
00:22:05.359 --> 00:22:06.000
Yeah.
00:22:09.599 --> 00:22:10.880
What's he doing there?
00:22:11.039 --> 00:22:12.319
Just talking to him.
00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:21.119
Yeah, they're talking to him about he's the chief is giving Source a case and he's uh assigning him a new partner as well.
00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:33.039
Um yeah, I think there's the setup in the story is that he's lost his previous previous partner and he's sort of like dead, yeah, not dead.
00:22:33.279 --> 00:22:41.680
Um yeah, he's not he's not too pleased about the person that's been chosen to be his new partner.
00:22:42.079 --> 00:22:46.720
So this is office truster, and he says, Donut trust her?
00:22:46.799 --> 00:22:49.519
Wasn't she suspended for accepting bribes?
00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:55.039
And then the chief says, like I said, we're at capacity, she's good please, just made a few poor choices.
00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:55.759
Mm-hmm.
00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:57.359
Let's see her then.
00:22:58.559 --> 00:23:01.279
So we go to the front, yeah.
00:23:01.680 --> 00:23:02.240
Right.
00:23:04.079 --> 00:23:11.440
So we've got a we've got a really nice vibrant colour of trust us sitting in a car and saying, over here sauce.
00:23:12.079 --> 00:23:17.440
Um she said, I'm not all over the moon about this either.
00:23:17.519 --> 00:23:20.480
No, she's she's not she's not kidding on having to work with him.
00:23:20.720 --> 00:23:22.319
Oh, we'll get past it.
00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:23.119
Yeah.
00:23:23.519 --> 00:23:27.519
And he said it's not that, I just have to tell my partner's wife that she's a widow.
00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:30.319
Right.
00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:35.039
And then they go driving off into the driving off into uh Stellar City.
00:23:35.839 --> 00:23:36.400
Mm-hmm.
00:23:37.839 --> 00:23:40.000
And what's happening here?
00:23:40.960 --> 00:23:53.599
It looks like she's so sauces li they're both they're both smoking, so she's litting up lit up a cigarette, and it looks like she's eating a bug here at some point uh a bug of some description.
00:23:54.720 --> 00:23:57.759
So they're going up the one that was in the C PBSC.
00:23:58.319 --> 00:23:58.640
No.
00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:02.559
So they're going to what looks like a dock.
00:24:02.640 --> 00:24:05.200
Yeah, it's a dock nine here, so like a dock.
00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:08.079
And there's there's guys protesting outside.
00:24:08.480 --> 00:24:10.720
Well can you see what they're protesting?
00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:15.039
They say ga aliens go home, all species lives matter.
00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:19.359
So one of them's go home, the other one's all yeah.
00:24:20.319 --> 00:24:21.440
Now let me think.
00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:23.519
When would this have been written?
00:24:23.839 --> 00:24:28.319
Well, this is it, see, 2023, it's not that long ago, so yeah.
00:24:28.559 --> 00:24:36.720
And given the current climate we've got at the moment, with people not being happy about other people being here, or th they think you shouldn't be here.
00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:39.359
Yeah, same forever, brother, isn't it?
00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:41.279
It's a greater lesser it's thin.
00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:41.680
Yeah.
00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:52.319
So they walk past the guys that are protesting, and then the cra and then as there's a crane overhead and a the cable snaps and one of the one of the protesters gets splatted by a box.
00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:52.799
Oh no.
00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:55.200
And he says, Well, that cheered me up.
00:24:57.680 --> 00:25:00.960
Now to go see my dead partner's lifeless body.
00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:06.240
So I think yeah.
00:25:06.640 --> 00:25:08.559
So we don't see that.
00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:10.400
I don't we haven't got to it yet.
00:25:11.359 --> 00:25:12.319
We haven't got to it yet.
00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:13.599
Well who's this person?
00:25:13.759 --> 00:25:19.839
So this is a character called Yill who's who's got who's got purple skin and two big eyes on stalks.
00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:22.799
On stalks, bit like a bit like a snail.
00:25:23.920 --> 00:25:24.480
Yeah.
00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:28.160
Have snails got eyes on their stalks?
00:25:28.319 --> 00:25:29.519
I thought they did.
00:25:29.839 --> 00:25:30.480
Okay, okay.
00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:31.200
Yeah.
00:25:34.559 --> 00:25:42.160
But so they're they're discussing what's what's happened at the docks, and we see Source putting on some protective gloves.
00:25:42.960 --> 00:25:47.599
And he goes through and says, let's go, let's get let's go to work.
00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:51.119
And there's another big double page spread.
00:25:53.039 --> 00:25:55.599
And there's there's three dead bodies.
00:25:56.480 --> 00:25:58.799
Yeah, and they got masks on and things.
00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:02.720
Yeah, so you've got like a forensics team investigating what's going on.
00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:04.880
They haven't got masks on, have they?
00:26:05.039 --> 00:26:06.960
And the forensic guys here in the background have they?
00:26:08.640 --> 00:26:16.640
Yeah, the the two detectives, Source and Trusta, haven't got they've they've got gloves on, but they've not got um masks on.
00:26:20.079 --> 00:26:22.480
Oh one of those is dead.
00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:31.039
Yeah, so there's a character here who's got like sort of really deep magenta skin, um, wearing a suit.
00:26:31.200 --> 00:26:32.720
I think that's the other detectives.
00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:35.759
I think that's the one he was expecting to find.
00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:37.599
Right.
00:26:37.839 --> 00:26:38.480
Yeah.
00:26:39.599 --> 00:26:44.400
Um, wouldn't he have gone to see the dead body before he went off to see your wife?
00:26:45.119 --> 00:26:50.000
Well, maybe I i maybe he has seen the body and he's not talked to the wife yet.
00:26:50.319 --> 00:26:57.279
Oh, but he said he'd just there was a bit where he said I just had to tell Yeah, tell her she was a widow, but then yeah.
00:26:57.440 --> 00:27:02.240
Cause he's obviously heard that the his the other his old partner got killed.
00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:03.039
Mm-hmm.
00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:07.119
And then Yeah.
00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:09.440
And then these people do that.
00:27:09.680 --> 00:27:10.799
Oh, are they stretchers?
00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:16.559
Yeah, they're stretchers, so they're like they're like taking the b taking the bodies away probably for like post-mortem type stuff.
00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:22.240
You know something, I might be getting the hang of these comics because a few times I said, What's that?
00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:23.200
Oh, it's that.
00:27:23.440 --> 00:27:23.839
Yeah.
00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:26.799
I think you might just be getting your head round it.
00:27:28.640 --> 00:27:30.880
I'm not getting my head round what's going on next time.
00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:46.000
So um they're talking about going to sort speak to a tech billionaire, and he says bye to the other guy, and they drive off to this what the you've got houses that are like uh inside bubbles.
00:27:46.559 --> 00:27:49.519
Um, why are they going to see a tech millionaire?
00:27:49.599 --> 00:27:50.400
Why are they going to leave?
00:27:50.559 --> 00:27:52.880
Why are they chosen that person to go to see?
00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:57.599
Um I'm just looking at at the dialogue here.
00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:06.640
Um they're talking about going to see the tech billionaire.
00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:10.319
That's a mystery.
00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:12.000
But it is a little bit of a mystery.
00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:15.039
Yeah, I'm not quite f not quite following that.
00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:17.680
Um maybe they didn't say.
00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:28.319
Yeah, anyway, they drive off to this these sort of big houses, mansions that are held in like glass bubbles, so they're sort of like protected from the atmosphere or whatever.
00:28:28.559 --> 00:28:32.720
So where is I thought this was on earth, but maybe not.
00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:37.200
It's it's I think it's it's supposed to be on a completely different planet.
00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:39.279
Oh I yeah.
00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:47.440
There's obviously a thing about yeah, Moral Heights, home to the mega rich and super famous.
00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:54.000
And it says always appreciated the irony in the name because if there's one thing there isn't a lot of around here, it's Morals.
00:28:55.920 --> 00:29:02.480
So they go in, they go in to see see the they see this tech billionaire Graver, I think.
00:29:02.640 --> 00:29:03.680
Graver Shoal.
00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:05.039
Yeah.
00:29:05.359 --> 00:29:06.799
That's an interesting name.
00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:16.960
Yeah, and then we've got a droid who like um welcomes them in and uh says where you know it uh says where the uh master is.
00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:32.559
He's in the aquarium and we've got so we've got some big like deep sea fish, like giant fish swimming around with the uh other with the uh the billionaire character standing looking at them.
00:29:33.119 --> 00:29:34.319
Is that the billionaire?
00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:35.119
Yeah, indeed.
00:29:35.359 --> 00:29:37.039
He looks like a bodyguard.
00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:38.000
Yeah.
00:29:38.559 --> 00:29:41.599
Yeah, it's got that yeah hang on, is it a woman?
00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:45.279
I don't don't think he's a woman?
00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:45.839
No.
00:29:46.559 --> 00:29:47.200
Squeak him.
00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:48.400
Yeah, I know.
00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:56.880
Um but they this is sort of like a very different style here because the the character's got the like this ebon black skin.
00:29:57.039 --> 00:30:06.000
It's got a the the the draw characters drawn with black skin with like sort of purple or m or or indigo highlights on them.
00:30:06.240 --> 00:30:09.680
And they have like what like white hair.
00:30:13.440 --> 00:30:37.519
And we're seeing so we they go they're talking about um what happened at the uh at the docks talking about the case and the um they it they they they talk about the case and then he says good luck with the investigation detectives.
00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:40.480
So why does I don't get why he's talking to it?
00:30:40.799 --> 00:30:45.680
I think because the I think the the billionaire owns some of the the stuff that was at the docks.
00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:49.359
Oh there's a connection he wasn't in the the car, was he?
00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:51.200
No, I don't think so, no.
00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:59.359
So I think the person in the car that was shot up at the beginning was a politician, not a yes, I remember now it didn't look like a person, did he?
00:30:59.920 --> 00:31:12.319
So like so the the That's the the the sort of like the house robot, the droid that that dragged him into took him through to see the billionaire character.
00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:14.880
Oh the uh butler.
00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:18.319
Sorry, kids.
00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:20.480
I made you jump.
00:31:24.799 --> 00:31:45.839
Yeah, so we've got some we've got some dialogue between the two detectives here as we see a scene of them going up in a lift going up to um I think they're checking out where the where the other detective was and there's there's like a beat cop.
00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:58.000
I think it was yeah, it's supposed rather than being a daughter, is think he's like a beat cop in uniform, and they they go into the apartment to find out what's what's been going on to do some some detective work.
00:31:58.559 --> 00:31:59.359
Detect, yes.
00:31:59.519 --> 00:32:00.079
Yeah.
00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:03.200
What is the is that an advertisement?
00:32:03.279 --> 00:32:04.720
Oh no, too big and didn't you?
00:32:04.880 --> 00:32:06.000
So the what is that?
00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:12.720
So they go, huh, someone's here and the the last pan last page is a is a big full page again.
00:32:12.799 --> 00:32:14.640
We've got and we've got the cliffhanger.
00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:23.039
The cliffhanger, we've got this so we've got um the detective this one's transparent, aren't they?
00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:31.279
Yeah, so they've got some they they were talking about some kind of camouflage suits earlier on, so which made them kind of effectively invisible to the naked eye.
00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:35.200
And there they they are, there they are, and they come jumping out at the end.
00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:36.160
Yeah.
00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:39.599
Um She's um a very shapy woman, isn't she?
00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:42.160
Very shapely woman, yeah.
00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:48.000
No prizes, no, no problems guessing what gender that character is.
00:32:49.279 --> 00:32:50.240
And there we go.
00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:54.400
Cops, cults, crooks, and corruption.
00:32:54.799 --> 00:32:56.079
Oh, there's the singer again.
00:32:56.160 --> 00:32:58.720
I thought she was I thought she was bumped off.
00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:08.160
Well, she was, but this is this is just picking out images from the from the actual comics or you know, a bit like a having a sleeve on a on a book.
00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:11.519
Was the piggy one the person that came out of the car?
00:33:11.680 --> 00:33:13.759
Yes, right, yeah.
00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:24.559
So there we go, weird work, Jordan Thomas and Shaky Kane say I've been aware of Shaky's work for feels like a almost forever.
00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:30.640
You know, I got it when I really sort of started getting into comics in the in the 80s, he was around then.
00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:36.000
Um he's done work for 2000 AD, he's done Judge Dredd.
00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:46.400
Um, and yeah, he's kind of worked all over the place, and it's br it's brilliant to see him doing stuff for one of the bigger biggest American publishers.
00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:48.000
Can I give it my points?
00:33:48.319 --> 00:33:50.079
Please do my personal points.
00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:51.440
Yeah, personal points.
00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:52.480
Personal points.
00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:56.799
Well, the colours are brilliant, well, not brilliant, but they're nice.
00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:04.240
And the story, there wasn't that much in the way of Barney's, were they?
00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:07.759
It wasn't well, it was a proper story, yeah.
00:34:08.079 --> 00:34:11.440
And the characters are interesting.
00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:18.159
Um, so I mean, and it looks like it's done on decent paper.
00:34:18.239 --> 00:34:18.800
What do you think?
00:34:18.880 --> 00:34:20.480
It's not as good as some other ones.
00:34:20.960 --> 00:34:25.840
Yeah, I mean it's good it's fairly fairly standard, sort of glossy paper.
00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:29.199
Uh it's a nice, nice weight of paper.
00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:34.000
Some of the other stuff we've looked at have had slightly uh some of them have had cardstock covers.
00:34:34.159 --> 00:34:38.159
This is just like this is kind of standard paper that comics are on now.
00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:48.000
You know, you know, we I talked about stuff when we looked at GRU right early on a bit about it was on what what's called newsprints, so paper like the paper like newspapers.
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When I was a little girl, lots of the comics were like that.
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Well the comics for boys were comics for girls were in nice paper.
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Yeah, it's interesting that that the the the sort of the the pulp more sort of pulpy comics that the boys read, war comics and stuff like that were on yeah, cheaper newsprint paper, and the girls' comics seemed to have a little bit more care and attention put to how the they were put together.
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Although I those I did read those some of those boys' comics because my cousin used to give them to us a great big pile of them.
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When she was when uh his mother was um clearing out, we would win.
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I used to lie on the floor and read them.
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And used to read all one story all the way through them and then go back to reading another story all the way through them.
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Didn't like these missing bits stuff.
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I didn't do it properly, did I?
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So reading it every week as it came out?
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No, I had a stack of them.
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Yeah.
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So I put them into order.
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You didn't read a whole issue, then the next issue, then the next issue.
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No, I didn't.
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I used to look for the story and then see what happened with the story.
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Yes.
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Yeah, so but this um loses some points for having little but naughty mouths and oh it got points for having upper and lower case, but there was still some upper case, but it was such a step in the right direction.
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Yeah.
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I think I think I'll give that about eight and a half.
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Mmm.
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That might be the highest score you've given yet, you know.
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It might be.
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I think it might be.
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The half tipped it over.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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So Okay, cool.
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Yeah.
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That's us done, isn't it?
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I think that's us cooks, yeah.
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The kitties have gone to sleep.
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Yeah, typ typically, now that we've actually just about to wrap up, the kit yeah, both of the kittens and our dog are now fast asleep and not not affecting us at all.
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No.
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No.
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She hasn't come over to look at all that sweet.
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But as always, let us know what you think.
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Any comments would be great.
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We like to hear what people think of the of what we're doing.
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Yes, constructive criticism only.
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Yeah.
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But criticism, be it negative or positive, is better than nothing.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Okay.
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Right, bye.
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Bye.
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Right, welcome back to Morgan Talks Comics.
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Uh, this week we are looking at Weird Work by Jordan Thomas and British artist Shaky Kane, who I've been a fan of gosh for a long time.
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Um, welcome on board at Iceborough Chamberlain.
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Hello again.
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Um yeah, so Shaky Kane, real name Michael Courtard, Shaky is his pen name and it's what most people refer to him as um has hello Oberon.
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Good kitty.
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Come on, come on, keep going.
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That's it, keep moving.
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Um, yeah, so yeah, I've been aware of Shaky's work since the 80s when I used to read um Deadline, which was a great uh British like anthology comic and magazine.
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It had it it sort of it balanced cartoon strips by Jamie Hewlett who's now does the Gorillas.
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Uh it's where Tank Girl started, really.
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I've heard of both those, but all the other things of yours I've not heard of.
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Yeah, so Tank Girl started in in 2008, uh 2018, Deadline, and Deadline also had like interviews with bands that were popular at the time and stuff like that, and they talk about film and TV and all kinds of stuff.
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It was kind of it was a really nice mix of comics and entertainment as well.
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Um yeah, Shaky did a lot of lot of work in that deadline Excuse me, please, Oberon.
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Oberon's really not helping today.
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Yeah, you'll get shut out of the room, yeah.
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Settle down, mate.
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Sit with me.
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There we go.
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Um yeah, so yeah, Shaky uh sort of came up through the indie comic scene uh in in the UK during the 80s and um is still pretty darn prolific now.
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This this one, Weird Work, is I think he did two series this year.
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This is from 2023, and I think he did two he did two four-issue series for image comics uh in 2023.
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I've got both of them, I can't remember the other one at the moment.
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Um I don't recognise that comic or either of those names.
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So we've not had anything to do with those before.
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No, I mean we've talked about we've talked about Jamie Hewlett before and we've talked about gorillas before because they're sort of yeah.
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Um so that's the you know, these guys all sort of came up around the same time.
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There was a really great indie comic scene uh in it, as there has been in other countries, but in the 80s there was a really good indie comic scene.
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Deadline was kind of like the the top, top of the pile sort of thing.
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Um but yeah, it's where Shaky Shaky's had lots of work in there, and so is Hewlett and Philip Bond and other really great uh British cartoonists.
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Nice.
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This looks very appealing for the fun, I have to say.
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Yeah, nice colours, yeah.
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So Shakey draws in a very much you can you can you can see a lot of Jack Kirby's um influence on on his work.
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He's got a kind of a to me, it's like a very 1950s kind of zet aesthetic.
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That hadn't stretched it.
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It's sort of pulp, it's sort of like pulp uh adventure type comics.
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I don't know.
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But he draws in this sort of very heavily heavy line style and and quite flat colours, you know, very simple flat colours.
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He colours predominantly colours his own work.
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So um yeah.
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Right.
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So we ready to roll?
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Ready to roll.
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Oh, brother, didn't it?
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Oh, he's going off in the opposite direction.
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Um, just a quick look before we dive into the issue.
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Um, there's some great uh variant cover artists with this.
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Michael Alred, who's one of my one of my favourites, who created Madman in the 80s again, similar style to Shaky Kane.
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Um, so you can probably see why uh he did a cover, and Jeff and Jeff Darrow, who we were talking about last week with Showel and Cowboys, Jeff Darrow done a variant cover, and again you can see parallels between Darrow's you know um working with architecture and packing quite a lot of detail into frames.
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Shaky, even though he draws in quite a simplistic style, does actually put quite a lot of detail and there's sort of references to pop culture and stuff like that in there.
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Right, yeah, even jokes.
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Yeah, I guess, yeah.
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And what's Shaky Kay's real name?
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His real name is Michael Coultard.
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That's much nicer.
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Yeah.
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Why didn't he use his beauty?
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I I I tried doing a little bit of research as to where I it just came from it just came from I don't know where, to be honest.
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I don't know the answer.
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Yeah, I tried to do a bit of research um as to where the actual name Shaky Kane came from, but I don't know.
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Kitties kept walking across the uh K of Kable, didn't they?
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Yes, they did.
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Or one in particular, we won't mention who, will we?
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Over on.
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No.
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Um so yeah, we've got a bit we've got a nice big uh splash page here with uh sort of a to me it's very it's a very sort of 1950s American sort of style.
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So that's like a big it's like a um you've got like flying cars because it's set in a sort of a futuristic city, but that's like a it's a like a beer can on the back of a truck, so it's like a big tanker.
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Oh so it kind of looks a little bit like a Budweiser can.
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Right, and what's this?
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Is it an eye?
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It's an eye, yeah.
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Why is it yeah?
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I don't I'm not exactly sure, but I think it might have something to do with our main character who's a detective.
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Not a private eye, yeah.
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So and notice notice the type it the type here?
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Upper and lower?
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It's upper and lower case.
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Oh that's gonna get a lot of points.
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Didn't they used to be called private dicks?
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Yes.
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Why?
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I don't know.
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I don't know why dick was uh the a slang term for detective.
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Oh shorter than version Yeah, it's a it's sort of a slang term for for the for detectives.
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Yeah.
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I don't suppose they call themselves that anymore.
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Probably not.
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Watch those.
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I'm not I'm watching I'm watching watching this kitten.
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Oh he's he's making a move elsewhere.
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Right, so splash into the into the story.
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We've got a we've got a character here that's got like a pig's head.
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Well look has got a pig's head.
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Um I think the the idea is that they're sort of like mutants and stuff like that.
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Right, yes.
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Where was it set?
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I mean, you said one's English and the others were not, yeah?
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Yeah, so as far as we're aware, Jordan Thomas is is an American writer because Image is an Americ Image is an American publishing company, they're the kind of third biggest behind Marvel and DC.
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So are they is this um set in America, sort of?
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Yeah, so it's set in Stellar City.
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Septimus Prime's Cantankerous Capital.
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We don't have anything something city, do we?
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Not here we don't know.
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No.
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No.
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No, we just have we're just normal and use just names.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So anyway, um there's uh the pig pig face character here I think might be called Vimi.
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Vimi.
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Vimy Vimmy Vimi.
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Not like thingy then.
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No.
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And uh there's some kind of hold-up going up here because there's lots of character weird, weird and wonderful characters with with guns holding up what looks like uh holding up a a car here on this fly on the flyover that we saw in the first Who's in the car then?
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Um I don't know yet.
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Well I don't think one we've seen yet who's actually in the car.
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There's a like a reflection of a of a driver, like a chauffeur, it's sort of like in a chauffeur's uniform.
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Yeah somebody wealthy in there.
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Yeah.
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Why has he got a a red finger?
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Because he's got blood on his finger.
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Oh, just the one?
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Yeah.
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I suppose there's a few bits around, but yeah.
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Okay.
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So yeah, we've got a mix here.
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So we've got the the sort of like pardon me, narration to the story is actually in upper and lowercase, and then the the type, the speech is actually in uppercase.
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So we've got a mix of the two.
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Okay, we step in the right direction.
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Yeah, they've just lost half a point.
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Yeah, but this is done in this is done in in Shaky's sort of i inimitable style.
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It's you know, you I I know from seeing looking at this that it's it's his work, but I can see parallels with Jeff Darrow that we looked at last week.
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Um but very much the silver age, which I think is the 60s and 70s, Jack Kirby.
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Flat colours, isn't it?
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Yeah, yeah, which I quite like.
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That's how I do my colours.
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I quite like that.
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It's taken me a while.
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They don't look like that though, do they?
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They've got more life through them than that.
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No, see, I I personally I think this is quite bright here.
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You know, we've got quite vivid colours, you know, and because it's it's different because there's not a lot of like sh of shading as such.
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Um thank you, Ophelia.
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Um yeah, it just uh it just allows the the the art the line work to sort of feed through.
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What's he doing with that last?
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Looks like he's pressing a button inside the car.
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Oh right.
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Right.
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Oh, I know what I was thinking of whilst you were talking.
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Are there any actual cities called something city in the in the US?
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Or like was that a comic thing?
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I don't know.
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Salt Lake City.
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Salt Lake City, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Um answered my own question, didn't I?
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You did answer your own question.
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Yeah, so there's a and then we come to another big uh splash page where the pig character is flying out of the uh he sort of used an escape like an escape.
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Oh, what's the thing you'd have in fighter jets?
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Um ejector.
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Eject yeah, an ejector seat.
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That's it.
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Yeah, yeah, so he's using like an ejector seat and is he the driver?
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No.
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Oh he's the important person.
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Yeah.
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I think looking at this, this if this is Vimmy, he's a poly he's actually a politician.
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And there's some unfortunate language there.
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Yeah, it's a little bit potty mouth, this one.
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Yeah, so it's lost points now.
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It's not for children.
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It's not for me.
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No.
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So yeah, so is he um um demon?
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Uh we'll just get into that.
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I'm sorry.
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You get you're get you're get getting ahead of me.
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Sorry.
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Is that Bob's square pants?
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It is a square character.
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I think he's just like a sort of a s like a cube with arms and legs.
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So it's the same as Bob Bob, whatever his name is.
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Pretty much, yeah.
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Apart from he actually has pants on, and this one's not wearing any pants.
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We can't see because he's covered up in bits.
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Yeah, so we're moving into again.
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Shakey uses quite clean, clear panels and sort of does a fairly minimal panel count on a page.
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Um blank spaces.
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Yeah, so there's like a hovering city, and then we go into into the city, and we've got Shaky has quite a surreal uh style, he mixes in lots of different sort of cultures and stuff like that.
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So the the you get a you get a real mixture of of all kinds of characters in there.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, so we've got these two characters here, one that looks like a devil, one that looks that is a a cube, and they're clearly bodyguards to somebody who who's we we haven't met yet.
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I thought he was a demon.
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Yeah, he looks like a demon.
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Yeah.
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And then some some guys in black, sort of like SAS type suits come barging in through the window.
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Oh yes.
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And take and sort of ta uh uh put the guards down onto the floor.
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And then we see our lead character, Lady Haste, who's got a sort of an Egyptian vibe to her.
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Yes, I quite like that look.
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She's blue, yeah.
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Again, it's another kind of trademark of Shady uh Shaky's kind of style is that quite often skin tones will be like really different.
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I thought you were gonna say shady lane.
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No, not shady lane, no.
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And uh the one of the uh agents type characters goes in and serves a warrant for uh for an arrest for an an attempted murder for home.
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For Lady Haste.
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Yeah, but she's just sprung up.
00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:19.840
Yeah, but they've Is he not he nothing to do with the car?
00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:22.159
No, we've moved on from the car.
00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:24.159
We've moved into a different scene now.
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We're in like a sort of this is a fl like in a floating palace.
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Oh, I see, I see, I'll get it.
00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:35.519
And then so that so Lady Ace gets taken off by these agent characters.
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Um there's a strange person there.
00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:41.039
Yeah, you're you you're getting ahead of me a lot.
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Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:47.919
So the next page, we've got a big panel, and it says eight months later.
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And we've got the sort of like private detective, sort of like, you know, Marlowe voiceover kind of kind of thing going.
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And we're it we're into into a bar where we've got lots of sort of fantastical creatures.
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There are guys who look like sort of pickles, and there's a singer look like what?
00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:06.559
Pickles.
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What do you mean?
00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:09.600
They look like pickles, yeah, these green guys in there.
00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:12.320
Oh, they actually look like pickles, yeah.
00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:14.799
I get it, yeah.
00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:27.440
Yeah, and then there's uh uh female character singing who's got six arms, so it could be and an antennae, so she looks kind of like an i an insect of some description.
00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:38.720
So get the the voiceover continues and is is allowing the the story to unfold as we go through.
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And then we come into a oh she hasn't got any fit.
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Well, I suppose arguably.
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Oh no, this is her too, is it?
00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:47.519
Yeah, that bit there, all right.
00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:56.960
And then we've come into a double double spread page, not dissimilar to how Jeff Darrow does the big spreads.
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Um what are these blank things?
00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:16.320
So there's the club as being broken into by we can't see because we only see the hands and the weapons, these are like Tommy guns, you know that the the old-fashioned machine guns that they used in the 30s and stuff like that.
00:16:16.559 --> 00:16:35.360
Yes, because like I say, Shaky's aesthetic is very much sort of 1950s America, he tends to do he has quite a nostalgic style, so the guns are like yeah, the kind of things that you would have seen like Capone and his lot use in the 30s, these like Tommy guns with the round magazines on them.
00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:37.200
They're coming in and shooting everybody up.
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These bits are that where they're shooting.
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That's where they're shooting, so it's like the flash of the of the bullets going out, and this is the projector bullet.
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So he's she's got shot, she's looking like it.
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Mind your own business singing.
00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:53.679
Yeah.
00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:57.440
He's got an unfortunate number of eyes.
00:16:57.600 --> 00:16:58.879
He's not symmetrical.
00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:00.720
He's not symmetrical.
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That's the those people's hair, isn't it?
00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:10.079
I don't think so.
00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:16.079
We've got some weird creatures, weird female characters here who've got flames who've got flames for heads.
00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:19.519
And aren't they making the thing on the next page?
00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:20.720
I don't think so.
00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:37.359
I think this is so look, we've flashed now, could we come up to a our main character who is clearly either remembering or dreaming about what's just happened, the club being attacked.
00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:38.960
How do you know that?
00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:43.440
It comes up and says ten months later, so we've moved on a little bit further.
00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:47.200
So this is our this is our main character here, Source.
00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:48.720
Uh come.
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Sure, we come over his first name.
00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:55.759
Um, but he's called yeah, he's he's Source, he's a detective.
00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:04.400
Um where was when that um car, which is there, yeah, where was he?
00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:06.400
I think this is like a dream.
00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:15.839
This is like um the the the sounds that are coming through is this phone ringing and it's waking him up from a dream.
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Right.
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Is the is the dream relevant?
00:18:20.079 --> 00:18:21.759
Because it just looks like a car on you.
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I thought it might be that other car.
00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:25.759
I don't know if it is the other car.
00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:28.480
We'll find out as we go a little bit further through.
00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:31.039
Oh I'm impatient, so I want to.
00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:32.240
You are impatient, aren't you?
00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:34.000
I want to know now.
00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:36.160
Yeah, well, you're just gonna have to wait.
00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:39.119
This is the first issue, and we're setting the scene.
00:18:40.240 --> 00:19:00.960
Get on with it, then Yeah, so um detective source uh is talking to uh the headquarters of the police, they want him to come in and um I assume be assigned to a case.
00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:05.279
Um hang on, he's a detective with the police thing.
00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:05.680
Yeah.
00:19:05.839 --> 00:19:06.799
Oh no, he's not a police detective.
00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:10.240
So he's not a private detective, no, he's uh Well, why did I get that idea for him?
00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:11.279
I don't know.
00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:12.880
I don't know.
00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:15.279
But yeah, he's a he's a police detective.
00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:17.680
Doesn't wear many clothes, does he?
00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:19.680
No, he's just got his boxes on.
00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:22.640
Yeah, but over here he's not wearing clothes.
00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:25.839
Yeah, but you can see in the the previous page he's wearing boxes.
00:19:26.079 --> 00:19:29.359
That's just seeing him from the back, so he's not got a any top on.
00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:30.880
Yeah, but why not?
00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:31.759
I don't know.
00:19:31.920 --> 00:19:33.759
Maybe just like sleeping in his boxes.
00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:34.480
Maybe he's hot.
00:19:35.440 --> 00:19:36.720
Is he getting out of bed here?
00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:37.200
Yeah.
00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:39.680
Oh, I thought he was going into this um.
00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:42.880
No, he's watching that on he's watching something on TV.
00:19:43.119 --> 00:19:52.400
There's an announcement about a uh it says cop's teenage daughter overdoses on throth, and I think throth is like a drug in in this in Stellar City.
00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:54.079
Yeah.
00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:59.920
And then it says grieving chief promises through crackdown.
00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:03.599
Okay, is that the grieving chief chief?
00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:09.759
No.
00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:12.960
This is nice and colourful, this page.
00:20:13.519 --> 00:20:14.000
Yeah.
00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:21.359
Like I say, it it uses really vibrant colours, and because he uses this sort of flat colouring style, it really makes the colours pop.
00:20:21.839 --> 00:20:30.720
Um very much like sort of literally like pop art from the sip from the fifth from the fifth 50s and sixties.
00:20:31.119 --> 00:20:32.319
Like those ones of Elvis.
00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:33.920
Yeah, and then the warholes.
00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:36.480
The warhole ones, yeah, absolutely.
00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:50.000
Um so yeah, so we see um detector source going off on the train and goes through to the police um precinct station.
00:20:51.359 --> 00:20:54.079
Precinct station, station, precinct, yeah.
00:20:54.400 --> 00:21:07.279
Um he talks to some some of these other characters as he goes into there and and he's going he's saying that he's gonna go and find out what's going on.
00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:16.400
And then he comes up to the chief's office, who is this big sort of grey, sort of almost kind of a bit sort of like a bit of an ogre kind of character.
00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:18.640
He has got clothes on now.
00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:19.039
Yeah.
00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:21.920
I was confused, I thought he was going to work no clothes on.
00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:25.599
No, he's got he's dressed there, he's got a shirt and tie and a jacket on.
00:21:25.839 --> 00:21:28.640
Well, you tell me that if I'm nutty, this is a comic.
00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:30.559
Anything happens in the comic.
00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:31.359
Yeah.
00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:34.079
Absolutely.
00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:49.599
So um the chief is talking sauce, and he's he's saying he he said I want I'm sorry for your loss because his daughter's died, and and he says Justice has no time to grieve, detective, you know that more than most.
00:21:50.720 --> 00:21:52.400
And he's okay tough guy talk.
00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:53.599
Tough guy talk, yeah.
00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:57.279
It's it's very much it's very much that kind of you know pulp fiction.
00:21:57.519 --> 00:21:58.079
Not real.
00:21:58.400 --> 00:21:58.720
No.
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Sort of pulp.
00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:04.720
Fiction um again 50s kind of vibe to it.
00:22:05.359 --> 00:22:06.000
Yeah.
00:22:09.599 --> 00:22:10.880
What's he doing there?
00:22:11.039 --> 00:22:12.319
Just talking to him.
00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:21.119
Yeah, they're talking to him about he's the chief is giving Source a case and he's uh assigning him a new partner as well.
00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:33.039
Um yeah, I think there's the setup in the story is that he's lost his previous previous partner and he's sort of like dead, yeah, not dead.
00:22:33.279 --> 00:22:41.680
Um yeah, he's not he's not too pleased about the person that's been chosen to be his new partner.
00:22:42.079 --> 00:22:46.720
So this is office truster, and he says, Donut trust her?
00:22:46.799 --> 00:22:49.519
Wasn't she suspended for accepting bribes?
00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:55.039
And then the chief says, like I said, we're at capacity, she's good please, just made a few poor choices.
00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:55.759
Mm-hmm.
00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:57.359
Let's see her then.
00:22:58.559 --> 00:23:01.279
So we go to the front, yeah.
00:23:01.680 --> 00:23:02.240
Right.
00:23:04.079 --> 00:23:11.440
So we've got a we've got a really nice vibrant colour of trust us sitting in a car and saying, over here sauce.
00:23:12.079 --> 00:23:17.440
Um she said, I'm not all over the moon about this either.
00:23:17.519 --> 00:23:20.480
No, she's she's not she's not kidding on having to work with him.
00:23:20.720 --> 00:23:22.319
Oh, we'll get past it.
00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:23.119
Yeah.
00:23:23.519 --> 00:23:27.519
And he said it's not that, I just have to tell my partner's wife that she's a widow.
00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:30.319
Right.
00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:35.039
And then they go driving off into the driving off into uh Stellar City.
00:23:35.839 --> 00:23:36.400
Mm-hmm.
00:23:37.839 --> 00:23:40.000
And what's happening here?
00:23:40.960 --> 00:23:53.599
It looks like she's so sauces li they're both they're both smoking, so she's litting up lit up a cigarette, and it looks like she's eating a bug here at some point uh a bug of some description.
00:23:54.720 --> 00:23:57.759
So they're going up the one that was in the C PBSC.
00:23:58.319 --> 00:23:58.640
No.
00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:02.559
So they're going to what looks like a dock.
00:24:02.640 --> 00:24:05.200
Yeah, it's a dock nine here, so like a dock.
00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:08.079
And there's there's guys protesting outside.
00:24:08.480 --> 00:24:10.720
Well can you see what they're protesting?
00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:15.039
They say ga aliens go home, all species lives matter.
00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:19.359
So one of them's go home, the other one's all yeah.
00:24:20.319 --> 00:24:21.440
Now let me think.
00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:23.519
When would this have been written?
00:24:23.839 --> 00:24:28.319
Well, this is it, see, 2023, it's not that long ago, so yeah.
00:24:28.559 --> 00:24:36.720
And given the current climate we've got at the moment, with people not being happy about other people being here, or th they think you shouldn't be here.
00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:39.359
Yeah, same forever, brother, isn't it?
00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:41.279
It's a greater lesser it's thin.
00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:41.680
Yeah.
00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:52.319
So they walk past the guys that are protesting, and then the cra and then as there's a crane overhead and a the cable snaps and one of the one of the protesters gets splatted by a box.
00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:52.799
Oh no.
00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:55.200
And he says, Well, that cheered me up.
00:24:57.680 --> 00:25:00.960
Now to go see my dead partner's lifeless body.
00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:06.240
So I think yeah.
00:25:06.640 --> 00:25:08.559
So we don't see that.
00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:10.400
I don't we haven't got to it yet.
00:25:11.359 --> 00:25:12.319
We haven't got to it yet.
00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:13.599
Well who's this person?
00:25:13.759 --> 00:25:19.839
So this is a character called Yill who's who's got who's got purple skin and two big eyes on stalks.
00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:22.799
On stalks, bit like a bit like a snail.
00:25:23.920 --> 00:25:24.480
Yeah.
00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:28.160
Have snails got eyes on their stalks?
00:25:28.319 --> 00:25:29.519
I thought they did.
00:25:29.839 --> 00:25:30.480
Okay, okay.
00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:31.200
Yeah.
00:25:34.559 --> 00:25:42.160
But so they're they're discussing what's what's happened at the docks, and we see Source putting on some protective gloves.
00:25:42.960 --> 00:25:47.599
And he goes through and says, let's go, let's get let's go to work.
00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:51.119
And there's another big double page spread.
00:25:53.039 --> 00:25:55.599
And there's there's three dead bodies.
00:25:56.480 --> 00:25:58.799
Yeah, and they got masks on and things.
00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:02.720
Yeah, so you've got like a forensics team investigating what's going on.
00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:04.880
They haven't got masks on, have they?
00:26:05.039 --> 00:26:06.960
And the forensic guys here in the background have they?
00:26:08.640 --> 00:26:16.640
Yeah, the the two detectives, Source and Trusta, haven't got they've they've got gloves on, but they've not got um masks on.
00:26:20.079 --> 00:26:22.480
Oh one of those is dead.
00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:31.039
Yeah, so there's a character here who's got like sort of really deep magenta skin, um, wearing a suit.
00:26:31.200 --> 00:26:32.720
I think that's the other detectives.
00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:35.759
I think that's the one he was expecting to find.
00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:37.599
Right.
00:26:37.839 --> 00:26:38.480
Yeah.
00:26:39.599 --> 00:26:44.400
Um, wouldn't he have gone to see the dead body before he went off to see your wife?
00:26:45.119 --> 00:26:50.000
Well, maybe I i maybe he has seen the body and he's not talked to the wife yet.
00:26:50.319 --> 00:26:57.279
Oh, but he said he'd just there was a bit where he said I just had to tell Yeah, tell her she was a widow, but then yeah.
00:26:57.440 --> 00:27:02.240
Cause he's obviously heard that the his the other his old partner got killed.
00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:03.039
Mm-hmm.
00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:07.119
And then Yeah.
00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:09.440
And then these people do that.
00:27:09.680 --> 00:27:10.799
Oh, are they stretchers?
00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:16.559
Yeah, they're stretchers, so they're like they're like taking the b taking the bodies away probably for like post-mortem type stuff.
00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:22.240
You know something, I might be getting the hang of these comics because a few times I said, What's that?
00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:23.200
Oh, it's that.
00:27:23.440 --> 00:27:23.839
Yeah.
00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:26.799
I think you might just be getting your head round it.
00:27:28.640 --> 00:27:30.880
I'm not getting my head round what's going on next time.
00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:46.000
So um they're talking about going to sort speak to a tech billionaire, and he says bye to the other guy, and they drive off to this what the you've got houses that are like uh inside bubbles.
00:27:46.559 --> 00:27:49.519
Um, why are they going to see a tech millionaire?
00:27:49.599 --> 00:27:50.400
Why are they going to leave?
00:27:50.559 --> 00:27:52.880
Why are they chosen that person to go to see?
00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:57.599
Um I'm just looking at at the dialogue here.
00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:06.640
Um they're talking about going to see the tech billionaire.
00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:10.319
That's a mystery.
00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:12.000
But it is a little bit of a mystery.
00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:15.039
Yeah, I'm not quite f not quite following that.
00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:17.680
Um maybe they didn't say.
00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:28.319
Yeah, anyway, they drive off to this these sort of big houses, mansions that are held in like glass bubbles, so they're sort of like protected from the atmosphere or whatever.
00:28:28.559 --> 00:28:32.720
So where is I thought this was on earth, but maybe not.
00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:37.200
It's it's I think it's it's supposed to be on a completely different planet.
00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:39.279
Oh I yeah.
00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:47.440
There's obviously a thing about yeah, Moral Heights, home to the mega rich and super famous.
00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:54.000
And it says always appreciated the irony in the name because if there's one thing there isn't a lot of around here, it's Morals.
00:28:55.920 --> 00:29:02.480
So they go in, they go in to see see the they see this tech billionaire Graver, I think.
00:29:02.640 --> 00:29:03.680
Graver Shoal.
00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:05.039
Yeah.
00:29:05.359 --> 00:29:06.799
That's an interesting name.
00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:16.960
Yeah, and then we've got a droid who like um welcomes them in and uh says where you know it uh says where the uh master is.
00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:32.559
He's in the aquarium and we've got so we've got some big like deep sea fish, like giant fish swimming around with the uh other with the uh the billionaire character standing looking at them.
00:29:33.119 --> 00:29:34.319
Is that the billionaire?
00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:35.119
Yeah, indeed.
00:29:35.359 --> 00:29:37.039
He looks like a bodyguard.
00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:38.000
Yeah.
00:29:38.559 --> 00:29:41.599
Yeah, it's got that yeah hang on, is it a woman?
00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:45.279
I don't don't think he's a woman?
00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:45.839
No.
00:29:46.559 --> 00:29:47.200
Squeak him.
00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:48.400
Yeah, I know.
00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:56.880
Um but they this is sort of like a very different style here because the the character's got the like this ebon black skin.
00:29:57.039 --> 00:30:06.000
It's got a the the the draw characters drawn with black skin with like sort of purple or m or or indigo highlights on them.
00:30:06.240 --> 00:30:09.680
And they have like what like white hair.
00:30:13.440 --> 00:30:37.519
And we're seeing so we they go they're talking about um what happened at the uh at the docks talking about the case and the um they it they they they talk about the case and then he says good luck with the investigation detectives.
00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:40.480
So why does I don't get why he's talking to it?
00:30:40.799 --> 00:30:45.680
I think because the I think the the billionaire owns some of the the stuff that was at the docks.
00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:49.359
Oh there's a connection he wasn't in the the car, was he?
00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:51.200
No, I don't think so, no.
00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:59.359
So I think the person in the car that was shot up at the beginning was a politician, not a yes, I remember now it didn't look like a person, did he?
00:30:59.920 --> 00:31:12.319
So like so the the That's the the the sort of like the house robot, the droid that that dragged him into took him through to see the billionaire character.
00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:14.880
Oh the uh butler.
00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:18.319
Sorry, kids.
00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:20.480
I made you jump.
00:31:24.799 --> 00:31:45.839
Yeah, so we've got some we've got some dialogue between the two detectives here as we see a scene of them going up in a lift going up to um I think they're checking out where the where the other detective was and there's there's like a beat cop.
00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:58.000
I think it was yeah, it's supposed rather than being a daughter, is think he's like a beat cop in uniform, and they they go into the apartment to find out what's what's been going on to do some some detective work.
00:31:58.559 --> 00:31:59.359
Detect, yes.
00:31:59.519 --> 00:32:00.079
Yeah.
00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:03.200
What is the is that an advertisement?
00:32:03.279 --> 00:32:04.720
Oh no, too big and didn't you?
00:32:04.880 --> 00:32:06.000
So the what is that?
00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:12.720
So they go, huh, someone's here and the the last pan last page is a is a big full page again.
00:32:12.799 --> 00:32:14.640
We've got and we've got the cliffhanger.
00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:23.039
The cliffhanger, we've got this so we've got um the detective this one's transparent, aren't they?
00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:31.279
Yeah, so they've got some they they were talking about some kind of camouflage suits earlier on, so which made them kind of effectively invisible to the naked eye.
00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:35.200
And there they they are, there they are, and they come jumping out at the end.
00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:36.160
Yeah.
00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:39.599
Um She's um a very shapy woman, isn't she?
00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:42.160
Very shapely woman, yeah.
00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:48.000
No prizes, no, no problems guessing what gender that character is.
00:32:49.279 --> 00:32:50.240
And there we go.
00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:54.400
Cops, cults, crooks, and corruption.
00:32:54.799 --> 00:32:56.079
Oh, there's the singer again.
00:32:56.160 --> 00:32:58.720
I thought she was I thought she was bumped off.
00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:08.160
Well, she was, but this is this is just picking out images from the from the actual comics or you know, a bit like a having a sleeve on a on a book.
00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:11.519
Was the piggy one the person that came out of the car?
00:33:11.680 --> 00:33:13.759
Yes, right, yeah.
00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:24.559
So there we go, weird work, Jordan Thomas and Shaky Kane say I've been aware of Shaky's work for feels like a almost forever.
00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:30.640
You know, I got it when I really sort of started getting into comics in the in the 80s, he was around then.
00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:36.000
Um he's done work for 2000 AD, he's done Judge Dredd.
00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:46.400
Um, and yeah, he's kind of worked all over the place, and it's br it's brilliant to see him doing stuff for one of the bigger biggest American publishers.
00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:48.000
Can I give it my points?
00:33:48.319 --> 00:33:50.079
Please do my personal points.
00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:51.440
Yeah, personal points.
00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:52.480
Personal points.
00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:56.799
Well, the colours are brilliant, well, not brilliant, but they're nice.
00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:04.240
And the story, there wasn't that much in the way of Barney's, were they?
00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:07.759
It wasn't well, it was a proper story, yeah.
00:34:08.079 --> 00:34:11.440
And the characters are interesting.
00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:18.159
Um, so I mean, and it looks like it's done on decent paper.
00:34:18.239 --> 00:34:18.800
What do you think?
00:34:18.880 --> 00:34:20.480
It's not as good as some other ones.
00:34:20.960 --> 00:34:25.840
Yeah, I mean it's good it's fairly fairly standard, sort of glossy paper.
00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:29.199
Uh it's a nice, nice weight of paper.
00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:34.000
Some of the other stuff we've looked at have had slightly uh some of them have had cardstock covers.
00:34:34.159 --> 00:34:38.159
This is just like this is kind of standard paper that comics are on now.
00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:48.000
You know, you know, we I talked about stuff when we looked at GRU right early on a bit about it was on what what's called newsprints, so paper like the paper like newspapers.
00:34:48.880 --> 00:34:53.440
When I was a little girl, lots of the comics were like that.
00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:58.079
Well the comics for boys were comics for girls were in nice paper.
00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:15.679
Yeah, it's interesting that that the the the sort of the the pulp more sort of pulpy comics that the boys read, war comics and stuff like that were on yeah, cheaper newsprint paper, and the girls' comics seemed to have a little bit more care and attention put to how the they were put together.
00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:25.519
Although I those I did read those some of those boys' comics because my cousin used to give them to us a great big pile of them.
00:35:25.679 --> 00:35:31.519
When she was when uh his mother was um clearing out, we would win.
00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:34.000
I used to lie on the floor and read them.
00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:40.239
And used to read all one story all the way through them and then go back to reading another story all the way through them.
00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:43.360
Didn't like these missing bits stuff.
00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:44.800
I didn't do it properly, did I?
00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:47.199
So reading it every week as it came out?
00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:48.880
No, I had a stack of them.
00:35:48.960 --> 00:35:49.119
Yeah.
00:35:49.360 --> 00:35:50.639
So I put them into order.
00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:53.679
You didn't read a whole issue, then the next issue, then the next issue.
00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:54.639
No, I didn't.
00:35:54.719 --> 00:35:58.159
I used to look for the story and then see what happened with the story.
00:35:59.920 --> 00:36:00.400
Yes.
00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:21.599
Yeah, so but this um loses some points for having little but naughty mouths and oh it got points for having upper and lower case, but there was still some upper case, but it was such a step in the right direction.
00:36:21.760 --> 00:36:22.400
Yeah.
00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:29.840
I think I think I'll give that about eight and a half.
00:36:30.079 --> 00:36:30.559
Mmm.
00:36:31.039 --> 00:36:33.440
That might be the highest score you've given yet, you know.
00:36:33.679 --> 00:36:34.719
It might be.
00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:35.920
I think it might be.
00:36:36.079 --> 00:36:37.760
The half tipped it over.
00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:39.119
Yes.
00:36:40.239 --> 00:36:40.719
Yeah.
00:36:41.840 --> 00:36:43.679
So Okay, cool.
00:36:43.840 --> 00:36:44.239
Yeah.
00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:45.679
That's us done, isn't it?
00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:47.679
I think that's us cooks, yeah.
00:36:48.320 --> 00:36:50.000
The kitties have gone to sleep.
00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:59.679
Yeah, typ typically, now that we've actually just about to wrap up, the kit yeah, both of the kittens and our dog are now fast asleep and not not affecting us at all.
00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:00.320
No.
00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:00.960
No.
00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:03.599
She hasn't come over to look at all that sweet.
00:37:03.920 --> 00:37:05.760
But as always, let us know what you think.
00:37:05.920 --> 00:37:07.199
Any comments would be great.
00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:10.400
We like to hear what people think of the of what we're doing.
00:37:10.719 --> 00:37:13.599
Yes, constructive criticism only.
00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:14.719
Yeah.
00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:19.599
But criticism, be it negative or positive, is better than nothing.
00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:20.800
Yeah, absolutely.
00:37:20.960 --> 00:37:21.280
Okay.
00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:22.239
Right, bye.
00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:22.880
Bye.
