Full Transcript for 22 Panels Episode #259 - Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees

00:03:58.280 Phil: Yeah, that sounds… 63 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:07.950 Tad Eggleston: I mean, yeah, kind of, it depends on what makes them most comfortable. I mean, the general industry wisdom is don't remind them. 64 00:04:08.670 --> 00:04:16.289 Tad Eggleston: there are some people that will just fixate on what is wrong with me, and will actually be calmed when you say, well, you've got Alzheimer's. 65 00:04:16.550 --> 00:04:17.230 Phil: Yeah. 66 00:04:17.390 --> 00:04:21.469 Tad Eggleston: That'll make them sad, but at least they'll understand. 67 00:04:21.470 --> 00:04:22.110 Phil: Huh. 68 00:04:22.590 --> 00:04:24.959 Tad Eggleston: For as long as they can hold it in their head. 69 00:04:26.210 --> 00:04:33.019 Tad Eggleston: But then you wind up sometimes having that conversation over and over and over and over and over. 70 00:04:34.610 --> 00:04:43.480 Tad Eggleston: But until you get to that point, they don't realize anything's wrong, and they're gonna be happiest if you don't point it out to them. 71 00:04:43.660 --> 00:04:47.039 Tad Eggleston: If you just kind of work around it as much as possible. 72 00:04:47.180 --> 00:04:55.800 Tad Eggleston: Yeah. Encourage them to do the… like, that's the period where you need to encourage, like, as much activity, particularly brain activity, as possible. 73 00:04:56.870 --> 00:05:00.379 Tad Eggleston: Because again, the things you don't do, you lose. 74 00:05:00.740 --> 00:05:08.610 Tad Eggleston: Yeah. So… so, encourage them to keep making themselves lunch, or encourage them to do anything they enjoy doing. 75 00:05:08.770 --> 00:05:10.440 Phil: Okay. Yeah, that's good advice. 76 00:05:10.440 --> 00:05:12.009 Tad Eggleston: actually do it. 77 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:13.090 Tad Eggleston: Right, great. 78 00:05:15.910 --> 00:05:22.199 Tad Eggleston: Like, there are a lot of drugs out there right now, and most of them will pause things for a year. 79 00:05:23.290 --> 00:05:25.349 Tad Eggleston: That's the best time to be taking them. 80 00:05:27.130 --> 00:05:38.020 Tad Eggleston: Isn't that early stages, when you can see it and they can't, which is problematic, because you need to talk to them at least enough that they understand that they're slipping. 81 00:05:39.850 --> 00:05:59.380 Tad Eggleston: to slow down the… because the last thing you want is for them to get stuck in that miserable stage. I mean, way too many times when I was in dementia care, I saw people who were on the drugs that slowed them down for the stage where they knew something was wrong, but didn't know what it was. And I'm sitting there going, you're just prolonging their agony. 82 00:05:59.380 --> 00:06:00.200 Phil: Ish. 83 00:06:00.630 --> 00:06:01.300 Phil: That's rough. 84 00:06:01.300 --> 00:06:05.819 Tad Eggleston: And then there's the stage that's the hardest for the family to really… 85 00:06:09.520 --> 00:06:13.900 Tad Eggleston: be okay with, and this is where, like, when they hit this stage.

86 00:06:14.110 --> 00:06:16.959 Tad Eggleston: I don't blame the families who don't come. 87 00:06:17.190 --> 00:06:18.280 Tad Eggleston: to visit. 88 00:06:18.390 --> 00:06:25.670 Tad Eggleston: Right? But it's not actually a bad stage, and that's like the end stage, where they've forgotten that they've forgotten. 89 00:06:25.810 --> 00:06:26.250 Phil: Yeah. 90 00:06:26.250 --> 00:06:27.450 Tyler Johnson: Mmm, I'm. 91 00:06:27.450 --> 00:06:29.660 Tad Eggleston: They're just living in the moment. 92 00:06:29.660 --> 00:06:31.399 Tyler Johnson: They're living in the dream, you know what I mean? 93 00:06:31.400 --> 00:06:36.099 Tad Eggleston: As long… as long as they're put in an environment where the moments are pretty good. 94 00:06:37.750 --> 00:06:40.000 Tad Eggleston: I mean, this is where, like. 95 00:06:40.450 --> 00:06:40.990 Phil: Yeah. 96 00:06:41.990 --> 00:06:50.939 Tad Eggleston: The quality of their home care, or the quality of whatever facility they're in matters, and the things… and the things that matter are way more 97 00:06:51.950 --> 00:06:58.310 Tad Eggleston: entertainment and interaction opportunities than… Like, healthcare stuff, because… 98 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:08.829 Tad Eggleston: There's also nothing crueler than trying to prolong the life of somebody who's not really themselves anymore. 99 00:07:10.170 --> 00:07:10.620 Phil: Yeah. 100 00:07:10.820 --> 00:07:12.220 Tyler Johnson: Yup. 101 00:07:12.220 --> 00:07:18.390 Tad Eggleston: So, that, that's my, that's my two cents from a decade in dementia care. 102 00:07:18.390 --> 00:07:19.420 Tyler Johnson: I agree, yep. 103 00:07:20.080 --> 00:07:22.329 Tad Eggleston: You know, but again, like… 104 00:07:22.870 --> 00:07:38.410 Tad Eggleston: I'll go a little bit deeper, like, for that end stage, like, if you can accept them and meet them at that point, that can be one of the happiest points, because they're always having a good time. They might not remember who you are, but they're happy to have a good time with you. 105 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:47.389 Phil: that's one of the only… it was, like, I forget the exact relation to them, but it was, like, distant family member, great-aunt, or somebody. 106 00:07:47.390 --> 00:08:02.410 Phil: when I was a kid and we were visiting relatives that we only saw the one time, you know, my dad was like, oh, she has Alzheimer's or dementia. So… so you can talk to her like normal, and it's fine, but she's not… she's never gonna remember you. She's never gonna remember who you are, like. 107 00:08:02.770 --> 00:08:03.360 Tad Eggleston: Right. 108 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:03.820 Phil: Yeah. 109 00:08:03.820 --> 00:08:06.999 Tad Eggleston: But then the other thing is, if you show up. 110 00:08:08.910 --> 00:08:24.190 Tad Eggleston: and you can't handle it, if you show up and seeing them like that makes you sad, or you wind up crying, or you're trying to get them to remember things that they just won't remember, that sort of thing, you can fuck up their day. Yeah. You can fuck up their week. 111 00:08:24.190 --> 00:08:24.680 Phil: Yeah. 112 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:25.930 Tyler Johnson: Yeah, for sure. 113 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:30.680 Tad Eggleston: You know, I mean, again, like, I used to… I mean… 114 00:08:31.390 --> 00:08:32.030 Phil: I went over… 115 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:41.229 Tad Eggleston: only say it to family members if I needed to reassure them if they weren't coming as often, like, if they were going, I know I should visit more, right? 116 00:08:41.230 --> 00:08:42.000 Phil: For some reason… 117 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:56.229 Tad Eggleston: But I'd say it to my staff members a lot, like, look, you're complaining that their family doesn't visit them, but you were also really, really frustrated about the 48 hours after the last time their family visited. Maybe… 118 00:08:56.360 --> 00:08:59.509 Tad Eggleston: Those are connected. 119 00:08:59.970 --> 00:09:06.890 Phil: I was just about… not to… not to derail completely, but do you have a best, comics about dementia? Have you ever… have you ever read a good one? 120 00:09:06.890 --> 00:09:19.759 Tad Eggleston: There have been, there have been a few good. I like, Wrinkles from Self Made Hero. I just saw there's another one that I… I just heard about that I need to read, and I don't remember the name of it. 121 00:09:19.980 --> 00:09:26.260 Phil: The only one I can think of is there's actually one of the later issues in Grant Morrison's Batman Incorporated run. 122 00:09:26.370 --> 00:09:40.330 Phil: That was about dementia. It was, like, the maze that Bruce and Damien were going through was, like, Dr. Dedalis, I think it was? And… and it was, like, a representation of his mind and how he had dementia. 123 00:09:40.450 --> 00:09:43.159 Phil: All that kind of stuff. Gotcha. It was a good one. It was a really good issue. 124 00:09:43.160 --> 00:09:58.109 Tad Eggleston: But Tyler is on the clock, so he should start moving on a little bit, particularly because there's happier news! The Milwaukee Brewers are up two games to none in the World Series. What's more is… 125 00:10:00.590 --> 00:10:11.420 Tad Eggleston: I almost hope… That there's drama, and it goes more than 4 games, because, like… if… 126 00:10:12.920 --> 00:10:17.089 Tad Eggleston: I can already feel that this could be one of those sweeps. 127 00:10:17.750 --> 00:10:20.740 Tad Eggleston: That gets treated like… Ew. 128 00:10:21.450 --> 00:10:25.819 Tad Eggleston: Was one team dominated the other, when it was really just… 129 00:10:25.910 --> 00:10:42.259 Tad Eggleston: one team out-gridded and caught the brakes a little bit better than the other. Like, historically, everybody looks back at… I mean, at least everybody in Chicago, I don't know how many people outside of Chicago will remember it, but the 2005 World Series between the White Sox and the… 130 00:10:42.980 --> 00:10:46.629 Tad Eggleston: the… the Astros was a White

Sox sweep. 131 00:10:46.950 --> 00:11:06.040 Tad Eggleston: But, like, they won the 4 games by a total of five runs. One of the games was a 14-inning affair, the longest in World Series history at the time. One of the games was a 1-0 shutout. You know, they were 4 132 00:11:06.300 --> 00:11:08.239 Tad Eggleston: REALLY good games. 133 00:11:08.700 --> 00:11:18.729 Tad Eggleston: that all just happened to fall the White Sox direction. And I can already kind of feel like… like the Brewers took an early lead in Game 1, and managed to… 134 00:11:18.830 --> 00:11:20.110 Tad Eggleston: hold back. 135 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:33.369 Tad Eggleston: the Rays to win 3-2, and then last night, they actually fell behind 5- or 4-0 before they even came to bat, and clawed their bay back. 136 00:11:33.880 --> 00:11:40.900 Tad Eggleston: And, and, and, and, and… Took a 5-4 lead in the 8th, and held it for… 137 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:46.490 Tad Eggleston: an inning to win the game. So, like, Really, really good games. 138 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:49.279 Tad Eggleston: and I just hope the narrative doesn't… 139 00:11:49.430 --> 00:11:53.799 Tad Eggleston: become that, like, the Brewers dominated the Rays, because it's just not true. 140 00:11:54.470 --> 00:11:55.670 Tyler Johnson: Anyway, I hope… 141 00:11:55.670 --> 00:11:59.990 Phil: That's how you know people… that's how you'll know if someone hasn't watched the games, if that's what they say. 142 00:12:00.160 --> 00:12:07.019 Tad Eggleston: Well, and also, also how much they pay attention to, like, the intricacies of baseball, rather than just the… 143 00:12:08.170 --> 00:12:09.280 Tad Eggleston: final score. 144 00:12:09.280 --> 00:12:14.299 Tyler Johnson: the final score. Yeah, because dominated doesn't mean just one, you know what I mean? 145 00:12:14.790 --> 00:12:17.250 Tad Eggleston: Right, I mean… It's got some basic… 146 00:12:17.250 --> 00:12:18.030 Phil: The wall is… 147 00:12:18.050 --> 00:12:24.030 Tad Eggleston: And I think it's because baseball is such a… different sport? 148 00:12:24.450 --> 00:12:29.370 Tad Eggleston: In terms of the… The amount of luck that's involved. 149 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:33.149 Tad Eggleston: You know, there is a real amount of luck involved. 150 00:12:33.390 --> 00:12:33.760 Phil: Interesting. 151 00:12:33.760 --> 00:12:40.869 Tad Eggleston: You can't control Anything along… around… along the edges, right? 152 00:12:41.060 --> 00:12:50.979 Tad Eggleston: You know, the difference between a line out to third and a double can be inches, and like… 153 00:12:51.230 --> 00:12:56.910 Tad Eggleston: the batter doesn't get to decide whether or not those inches are… you know what I mean? 154 00:12:57.680 --> 00:13:06.390 Tad Eggleston: I can tell you guys are loving this. I'll get this slide done, and we'll move on. 155 00:13:06.390 --> 00:13:07.709 Phil: I was just about to say, I was just. 156 00:13:07.710 --> 00:13:08.510 Tyler Johnson: I just have… 157

00:13:08.510 --> 00:13:08.990 Phil: My favorite… 158 00:13:08.990 --> 00:13:12.229 Tyler Johnson: I have nothing to add. I'm not a baseball aficionado. 159 00:13:12.500 --> 00:13:17.690 Phil: Except for that one… that one issue of Uncanny X-Men where they play baseball. That's, like, my favorite baseball moment. 160 00:13:17.690 --> 00:13:18.090 Tyler Johnson: Oh, what? 161 00:13:18.090 --> 00:13:18.450 Phil: cross. 162 00:13:18.450 --> 00:13:24.329 Tyler Johnson: What about the Clark and Bruce issue? Remember the Clark and Bruce issue where they play baseball with their ladies? 163 00:13:24.330 --> 00:13:27.300 Phil: That was a fun one. That was a nice one. 164 00:13:27.300 --> 00:13:30.059 Tad Eggleston: There's been a lot of good baseball and comics. 165 00:13:30.060 --> 00:13:31.319 Phil: Pretty sure, I just haven't read most of it. 166 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:37.539 Tad Eggleston: We have the Baseball and Comics Roundtable coming up in a little bit more than a week on 225. 167 00:13:37.540 --> 00:13:38.849 Tyler Johnson: Oh, really? That's awesome. 168 00:13:38.850 --> 00:13:48.689 Tad Eggleston: Yes, we do. But what I was saying is, like, almost every other sport, It's not inconceivable. 169 00:13:48.990 --> 00:13:51.060 Tad Eggleston: That a team could go undefeated. 170 00:13:53.280 --> 00:13:53.700 Tad Eggleston: Right. 171 00:13:53.700 --> 00:13:55.170 Phil: Maybe basketball. I don't think that there's. 172 00:13:55.170 --> 00:13:58.279 Tad Eggleston: The hockey and basketball seasons are a little bit too long. 173 00:13:59.910 --> 00:14:04.000 Tad Eggleston: to pull it off, but, like, the Bulls went 70-12 once. 174 00:14:04.350 --> 00:14:04.880 Phil: Yeah. 175 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:09.729 Tad Eggleston: That's… that's, like, absolutely unheard of. 176 00:14:09.970 --> 00:14:15.029 Tad Eggleston: Like, the greatest baseball teams of all time win 2 games out of 3. 177 00:14:18.760 --> 00:14:21.729 Tad Eggleston: You know what I mean? That's just the type of sport it is. 178 00:14:22.890 --> 00:14:23.590 Phil: Oh yeah. 179 00:14:23.590 --> 00:14:29.850 Tad Eggleston: So, like, winning 4 games in a row… is something… 180 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:35.749 Tad Eggleston: It's not the same, like, automatic domination of… 181 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:39.099 Tad Eggleston: Of a football team that wins four games in a row. 182 00:14:39.810 --> 00:14:40.869 Phil: You know what I mean? 183 00:14:40.980 --> 00:14:42.570 Tad Eggleston: So, anyway… 184 00:14:42.900 --> 00:14:49.459 Tad Eggleston: Back to comics! Publishers Weekly has added a comics category to their Book Life Prize, the Book Life Prize. 185 00:14:49.460 --> 00:14:50.310 Tyler Johnson: Oh, that's cool. 186 00:14:50.310 --> 00:14:50.920 Tad Eggleston: Ew. 187 00:14:51.280 --> 00:14:56.690 Tad Eggleston: Is… it's $100 to enter, though… 188 00:14:57.920 --> 00:15:01.120 Tad Eggleston: The beat has a code for $20 off right now. 189 00:15:01.700 --> 00:15:02.080 Tyler Johnson: Okay. 190 00:15:03.810 --> 00:15:11.180 Tad Eggleston: But… Importantly, just your… Entrance. 191 00:15:11.710 --> 00:15:22.310 Tad Eggleston: actually get… you not only become eligible for a $5,000 brand prize, or a $1,000 192 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:32.190 Tad Eggleston: a $1,000 da-da-da category prize, I think? 193 00:15:33.870 --> 00:15:39.520 Tad Eggleston: But… Finalists get an industry blurb. 194 00:15:40.670 --> 00:15:44.250 Tad Eggleston: A publisher's Weekly featured, dedicated coverage. 195 00:15:44.990 --> 00:15:47.539 Tad Eggleston: Bringing booksellers, librarians, and industry inter… 196 00:15:48.270 --> 00:15:55.649 Tad Eggleston: and a $1,000 Book Baby ad package of targeted Facebook and Instagram campaigns to boost their book's visibility. 197 00:15:56.790 --> 00:15:58.679 Tad Eggleston: all entries. 198 00:15:59.670 --> 00:16:00.370 Tad Eggleston: Get it. 199 00:16:00.700 --> 00:16:11.489 Tad Eggleston: A professional evaluation written by Publisher's Weekly Reviewer, complete with numerical scoring and detailed feedback. So, to a certain extent, you could consider it 200 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:16.450 Tad Eggleston: $100 that you're paying for a professional critic's report. 201 00:16:16.770 --> 00:16:20.290 Tad Eggleston: I mean, there's nobody more professional in the industry right now 202 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:25.930 Tad Eggleston: When it comes to books in general, the publishers weekly, and they do a really good job with comics as well. 203 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:32.140 Tad Eggleston: With the possibility to get it back and more if it turns out you're one of the best submissions. 204 00:16:32.660 --> 00:16:41.780 Tad Eggleston: So, so it's, it's cool that they added a, a… Illustrated. 205 00:16:41.970 --> 00:16:43.789 Tad Eggleston: Tier that includes comics. 206 00:16:44.110 --> 00:16:44.590 Tad Eggleston: Okay. 207 00:16:44.590 --> 00:16:45.120 Phil: Yeah. 208 00:16:45.500 --> 00:16:46.050 Tad Eggleston: Yeah. 209 00:16:46.380 --> 00:16:50.089 Tad Eggleston: What kind of week has it been? Phil? Do you really want to move to Ohio? 210 00:16:50.500 --> 00:16:51.090 Phil: Yeah. 211 00:16:51.880 --> 00:16:53.930 Phil: I mean, I know that Ohio is not. 212 00:16:53.930 --> 00:16:54.300 Tad Eggleston: Okay. 213 00:16:54.300 --> 00:16:58.150 Phil: I want to be part of the swing that… 214 00:16:58.150 --> 00:16:59.920 Tad Eggleston: So, next important question. 215 00:16:59.920 --> 00:17:00.480 Phil: Huh. 216 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:07.140 Tad Eggleston: Can you move before… next Tuesday, and what are their voter registration rules? 217 00:17:07.410 --> 00:17:19.469 Phil: Unfortunately, it's not too… it's too late for me to vote in Ohio, but I can at least cast one in Tennessee right before… we actually… that was… Spoilers for my walk, but we got an apartment. 218 00:17:19.930 --> 00:17:21.930 Phil: So… Yeah. 219 00:17:22.069 --> 00:17:22.599 Tad Eggleston: T. 220 00:17:22.599 -->

00:17:24.629 Tyler Johnson: Well, I'm giving the two thumbs up right now. 221 00:17:25.060 --> 00:17:28.779 Tad Eggleston: Tennessee does also need your vote, but 222 00:17:28.940 --> 00:17:32.120 Phil: And unfortunately, I only get one, unlike some rich people. 223 00:17:32.120 --> 00:17:34.370 Tad Eggleston: Oh, holy shit. 224 00:17:34.370 --> 00:17:34.810 Phil: Yeah. 225 00:17:34.810 --> 00:17:37.559 Tad Eggleston: Did Vivek Ramaswamy stoop low this week? 226 00:17:37.940 --> 00:17:39.429 Phil: Yeah. And then double… 227 00:17:39.430 --> 00:17:42.549 Tad Eggleston: down on it, and double down on it some more. 228 00:17:42.770 --> 00:17:45.439 Tad Eggleston: And… and while there have been… 229 00:17:45.560 --> 00:17:50.260 Tad Eggleston: a number of Republicans that have actually managed to find 230 00:17:50.390 --> 00:18:08.359 Tad Eggleston: I don't know if I want to call it a spine, since I think that they're much more willing to denounce brown people anyway, and, you know, Vivek has never been their favorite Republican just because his name is Vivek. 231 00:18:08.790 --> 00:18:11.300 Tyler Johnson: I wonder if his last name is more of a problem. 232 00:18:11.590 --> 00:18:21.050 Tad Eggleston: Probably, but I want to give him as little attention as possible on this show right now, so I don't even feel like saying it. 233 00:18:21.050 --> 00:18:21.999 Tyler Johnson: All I know. 234 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:29.540 Tad Eggleston: But of course, a fellow Ohioan, J.D. Vance, who spoke. 235 00:18:29.540 --> 00:18:30.730 Phil: Just be a… 236 00:18:30.730 --> 00:18:39.200 Tad Eggleston: party leader, rather than condemning the… Absolutely. 237 00:18:39.450 --> 00:18:41.700 Tad Eggleston: to… Based. 238 00:18:42.780 --> 00:18:45.590 Tad Eggleston: Like… We have seen some 239 00:18:45.810 --> 00:18:48.159 Tad Eggleston: Awful political ads in my lifetime. 240 00:18:48.820 --> 00:18:52.010 Tad Eggleston: And for that matter, we're seeing some other. 241 00:18:52.120 --> 00:18:54.420 Tad Eggleston: Awful political ads right now. 242 00:18:54.420 --> 00:18:55.050 Phil: Yep. 243 00:18:55.240 --> 00:19:00.589 Tad Eggleston: You know, I caught a couple of the ones getting run against Adam Hamilton in Kansas, and I'm sitting there going. 244 00:19:01.700 --> 00:19:07.719 Tad Eggleston: He's, you know, essentially, like, one member of his church that he had 245 00:19:08.070 --> 00:19:15.289 Tad Eggleston: some sort of interaction with, was arrested for pedophilia, and because he somehow didn't… 246 00:19:15.890 --> 00:19:24.180 Tad Eggleston: know about it, and wasn't the one that… that turned him into the police. He supports pedophilia. 247 00:19:24.180 --> 00:19:24.960 Phil: I was just about to say. 248 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:26.859 Tad Eggleston: And I'm sitting there going. 249 00:19:27.050 --> 00:19:31.220 Phil: Let's, let's, let's not, you know, like… 250 00:19:31.220 --> 00:19:31.720 Tad Eggleston: And man… 251 00:19:31.720 --> 00:19:32.280 Phil: longest! 252 00:19:32.280 --> 00:19:38.300 Tad Eggleston: The man has a mega… the man has a megachurch. 253 00:19:38.300 --> 00:19:39.309 Phil: I mean, it's… it's more of a. 254 00:19:39.310 --> 00:19:49.629 Tad Eggleston: He's got a congregation of 40,000. And beyond that, you're a fucking Republican. 255 00:19:49.630 --> 00:19:50.200 Phil: It's about sex. 256 00:19:50.980 --> 00:19:53.560 Phil: That's the last party that gets to say anything about that. 257 00:19:53.560 --> 00:19:53.950 Tad Eggleston: What? 258 00:19:53.950 --> 00:19:54.939 Phil: Like, it's ridiculous. 259 00:19:54.940 --> 00:19:58.159 Tad Eggleston: You've had a Speaker of the House go to… 260 00:19:58.160 --> 00:19:59.299 Phil: Or kale for pets. 261 00:19:59.300 --> 00:20:02.629 Tad Eggleston: I feel ya. And O! And O! 262 00:20:03.190 --> 00:20:15.729 Tad Eggleston: Will you vote to… to release the Epstein files? If what we suspect is in them about your dear Commander-in-Chief, will you vote to impeach him? Shut the fuck up! 263 00:20:19.990 --> 00:20:23.720 Tad Eggleston: And even with that sort of thing, like, the ad that Vivek 264 00:20:25.350 --> 00:20:34.579 Tad Eggleston: Not only ran, but after it leaked, went ahead and took credit for, and doubled down on it, and spent $4 million in… 265 00:20:34.890 --> 00:20:36.050 Tad Eggleston: Spreading it. 266 00:20:38.060 --> 00:20:42.380 Tad Eggleston: I mean, seriously, the fact that it leaked was his way out. 267 00:20:44.800 --> 00:20:45.360 Phil: I bet. 268 00:20:45.360 --> 00:20:52.470 Tad Eggleston: I all but guarantee that it was leaked by a staff member that was hoping it would never get tied to the campaign. 269 00:20:55.980 --> 00:21:03.220 Tad Eggleston: Because that's… I mean, apparently, like, he's having campaign events get canceled by the venues. 270 00:21:03.560 --> 00:21:06.139 Phil: That's fantastic. Let's keep that trend going. 271 00:21:06.140 --> 00:21:10.289 Tad Eggleston: What's really fantastic is he's on a bus tour with other Ohio Republicans. 272 00:21:10.290 --> 00:21:14.290 Phil: That's an interesting bus, I bet. 273 00:21:15.330 --> 00:21:19.879 Tad Eggleston: Well, particularly because their events are getting canceled at the same time! 274 00:21:22.320 --> 00:21:25.400 Tad Eggleston: Wow! Anyway, we have a new catalog! 275 00:21:26.120 --> 00:21:26.480 Tyler Johnson: Usually. 276 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:29.039 Tad Eggleston: orders are due November 26th. 277 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:33.919 Tad Eggleston: Phil, talk to me… talk to me about Blue Samurai. 278 00:21:34.080 --> 00:21:37.630 Phil: Blue Eyes. Yeah, first up, that is… 279 00:21:37.980 --> 00:21:53.969 Phil: you know, spin-off from the hit, animated series on Netflix, Blue Eye Samurai Cry of the Yure number 1 from Kay Perkins and Aviv Orr over at Dark Horse, when both her gender and her mixed race are revealed to be 280 00:21:53.970 --> 00:22:18.390 Phil: To the samurai

Daisuke, a cruel client of the Swordmaker, young Mizu is forced to confront her vulnerability. She escapes to the woods, but finds little safety there, fighting and fleeing as Daisuke pursues her. Lost and hunted, confused and ashamed, Mizu stumbles upon Sachiko, a wronged housemaid who sympathizes with Mizu's plight. Can both put aside their fears and suspicions long enough to help each other? 281 00:22:18.500 --> 00:22:25.159 Phil: Find out after the final order cutoff of December 14th, and in stores February 3rd. 282 00:22:25.650 --> 00:22:27.210 Phil: I'm excited for this next one. 283 00:22:27.510 --> 00:22:40.949 Tyler Johnson: Yeah, it looks really good. This is BPRD declassified from Mike Mignola and Mike Norton. The search for a missing aerospace engineer leads BPRD agent Susan Yang, and… 284 00:22:40.990 --> 00:22:46.930 Tyler Johnson: Victor Kossler on a top-secret mission to Honolulu, Hawaii. 285 00:22:46.940 --> 00:22:59.399 Tyler Johnson: Henry Roush was overseas working on a classified government project before he mysteriously vanished. The supernatural circumstances surrounding his disappearance means the BPRD 286 00:22:59.400 --> 00:23:17.209 Tyler Johnson: has been called in to investigate, but the agents soon discover that there's much more to be… to this missing person case than meets the eye. This is from Dark Horse, with a final order cutoff of January 11th, and will be in my store on February 17th. 287 00:23:17.570 --> 00:23:21.499 Phil: And real quick, also right in that is Chris Robertson. 288 00:23:21.660 --> 00:23:23.519 Tyler Johnson: Oh, did I forget that one? Yeah. 289 00:23:23.520 --> 00:23:26.179 Phil: Yeah, just wanted to, you know, make sure we credit him, too. 290 00:23:26.340 --> 00:23:27.360 Tad Eggleston: My fault. He's been doing it. 291 00:23:27.360 --> 00:23:28.210 Phil: Cowboy stuff for a while. 292 00:23:28.210 --> 00:23:32.870 Tad Eggleston: Sometimes it doesn't always make it into… 293 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:33.809 Phil: Don't blame the cops. 294 00:23:33.810 --> 00:23:34.260 Tad Eggleston: Copy-past. 295 00:23:34.260 --> 00:23:35.000 Phil: Yeah. 296 00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:38.029 Tad Eggleston: Well, they don't put all of the names in the spreadsheet. 297 00:23:38.190 --> 00:23:39.810 Phil: Oh, okay. 298 00:23:40.750 --> 00:23:42.330 Tad Eggleston: And I don't always… 299 00:23:42.490 --> 00:23:50.199 Tad Eggleston: go back and do as good of a check as I should. I do want to point out, we know of Yvor. We've had him on. 300 00:23:50.200 --> 00:23:50.580 Phil: Yeah. 301 00:23:50.580 --> 00:23:51.420 Tad Eggleston: waves. 302 00:23:51.420 --> 00:23:52.110 Phil: Her? 303 00:23:53.370 --> 00:23:55.620 Tad Eggleston: No, Aviv was the gentleman, Aaron. 304 00:23:55.620 --> 00:23:57.120 Phil: Oh! I thought… 305 00:23:57.300 --> 00:23:58.419 Tad Eggleston: I thought, or is it… 306 00:23:58.420 --> 00:24:00.560 Phil: No, I thought… I thought Aviv was the artist. 307 00:24:01.060 --> 00:24:02.639 Phil: Oh, yeah. I believe so, yeah. 308 00:24:02.640 --> 00:24:04.000 Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah, okay. 309 00:24:05.220 --> 00:24:08.549 Phil: Yeah, she was a great artist, and that's really exciting to see. 310 00:24:08.550 --> 00:24:08.940 Tad Eggleston: Mark. 311 00:24:08.940 --> 00:24:09.990 Phil: on BPRD. 312 00:24:10.400 --> 00:24:10.940 Tad Eggleston: Yeah. 313 00:24:11.380 --> 00:24:13.710 Tad Eggleston: So, no, on Blue Eye Samurai. 314 00:24:13.890 --> 00:24:17.150 Phil: Oh, Blue Eye Samurai, right, right, getting everything mixed up. 315 00:24:17.540 --> 00:24:22.820 Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, and I'm like, I recognize that name, so I literally had to go, like, search. 316 00:24:25.330 --> 00:24:26.899 Phil: Your back catalog. 317 00:24:27.040 --> 00:24:32.019 Tad Eggleston: I had to search the back catalog to go, oh, okay, yeah, I do know that name. 318 00:24:33.510 --> 00:24:43.709 Tad Eggleston: So, Dr. Sin, number 1, for Michael E. Uzlan and Sebastian… Cabral at Oney Press, 319 00:24:44.700 --> 00:24:49.429 Tad Eggleston: Some rebellions never die. Traitor. Rogue, Revenant, Rebel. 320 00:24:49.520 --> 00:25:05.569 Tad Eggleston: He's been known by many names, and now modern masters Michael Ozlan and Stephen S. Denite join riveting artist Sebastian Cabral to chronicle the fiery origin of the once-forgotten revolutionary who first watered Liberty's tree with the blood of tyrants. 321 00:25:05.620 --> 00:25:06.520 Tad Eggleston: Once… 322 00:25:06.570 --> 00:25:18.469 Tad Eggleston: The Reverend Dr. Christopher Sinn waged a guerrilla insurgency across 18th century England. Justice for the cruel deaths of his family at the hands of King George III and the rest of England's persecuted and oppressed. 323 00:25:18.470 --> 00:25:30.679 Tad Eggleston: Hidden behind a terrifying mask to keep his true identity concealed, Sin's rebellion soon became legend, inspiring copyright uprisings across the English countryside as the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. 324 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:40.789 Tad Eggleston: became a beacon of resistance against the nation's mad monarch. But that's where history's chronicle of the scarecrow's reign is about to go violently, terribly wrong. 325 00:25:40.950 --> 00:25:51.499 Tad Eggleston: Now, Dr. Sinn has been captured, tried and condemned for his crimes, forced into death by exile and the British Empire's most inhospitable outpost. 326 00:25:51.820 --> 00:25:55.200 Tad Eggleston: The American penal colony known as Georgia. 327 00:25:55.440 --> 00:26:08.159 Tad Eggleston: Sin has found himself imprisoned alongside a hardscrabble crew of the king's most notorious undesirables. With a mismatched team of allies fueled by the same burning vengeance for justice at his side, can England's most dangerous revolutionary. 328 00:26:08.260 --> 00:26:18.470 Tad Eggleston: Finally, bring the Empire down in an inferno of roaring flames. And could this backwater collection of

pestilence-ridden colonies, called America, provide the spark? 329 00:26:18.600 --> 00:26:23.109 Tad Eggleston: The year is 1775, and Dr. Sin's war is about to begin. 330 00:26:24.760 --> 00:26:31.570 Tad Eggleston: A final order cutoff of… November 30th, and stores on January 6th. 331 00:26:32.260 --> 00:26:33.899 Tyler Johnson: Alright, next up we have… 332 00:26:33.900 --> 00:26:34.620 Tad Eggleston: graphic novels. 333 00:26:34.620 --> 00:26:42.410 Tyler Johnson: Graphic novels, The Ballad of X-Ray and Coco, from Nicole J, Nicole J… 334 00:26:42.710 --> 00:26:47.449 Tyler Johnson: let's see, George's, and from Candlewick. 335 00:26:47.520 --> 00:27:03.660 Tyler Johnson: Zena, nicknamed X-Ray, loves just one thing in this world, her pet chicken and best friend, Manicotti. So when her mother's new boyfriend threatens to get rid of Manicotti, there's just one thing for X-Ray to do. Fake her own death and live life on the run with Manicotti. 336 00:27:03.910 --> 00:27:19.760 Tyler Johnson: As one does. But when the two get separated in the wilds of Oregon, X-Ray thinks all is lost, until she meets Coco, that is. Together, they'll go on an adventure that will see them crashing funerals, playing talent shows, fighting bullies, and above all… 337 00:27:19.760 --> 00:27:28.840 Tyler Johnson: Saving manicotti. This is, again, from Candlewick, final order cut off December 21st, and will be in shops January 19th. 338 00:27:33.410 --> 00:27:36.899 Tad Eggleston: Alrighty, I'm assuming that the pause is, I'm next. Say their name! 339 00:27:36.900 --> 00:27:37.350 Phil: beans. 340 00:27:37.350 --> 00:27:38.400 Tad Eggleston: Pan Cook. 341 00:27:38.730 --> 00:27:40.780 Tyler Johnson: Same a name. 342 00:27:40.780 --> 00:28:01.449 Tad Eggleston: Kids have made their voices heard throughout the Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter movements, and this absorbing introduction to that history, told through the fictional story of a young activist, will galvanize the next generation of changemakers. When a woman in town is shot by a police officer, Sage's social studies teacher decides to start a black history unit called Say Their Names. 343 00:28:01.450 --> 00:28:04.619 Tad Eggleston: He tells the class the stories of the Civil Rights Movement most 344 00:28:05.100 --> 00:28:21.300 Tad Eggleston: movement's most influential figures, and he tells the stories of various Black people who were killed by police, and the youth-led movements that emerge as a result. While listening, Sage becomes more and more convinced that she needs to take part in her local protest. She needs to do something. 345 00:28:21.410 --> 00:28:24.250 Tad Eggleston: About the injustice in her town. 346 00:28:24.520 --> 00:28:30.010 Tad Eggleston: Final order cutoff of December 14th in stores on January 12th. 347 00:28:32.210 --> 00:28:53.569 Phil: Alright, next up, there is Viridian Book 1, Makes His Mark from Roland Bowles at IDW. Viridian V. James is an average middle schooler with a habit of drawing comics and cartoons on the back of his worksheets. When another kid in class finds these comics, he's nervous, but… it turns out they're great! His classmate shares them with friends and encourages Viridian to make more. 348 00:28:53.570 --> 00:29:02.980 Phil: Quickly growing more confident, V decides the best way to get his work out there is to enter a contest to become the official cartoonist for the school newspaper. How hard could it be? 349 00:29:02.980 --> 00:29:13.580 Phil: But he won't be the only one gunning for the job, and he's got a lot to learn about making comics. It's gonna have a final order cutoff of December 21st in stores January 26th. 350 00:29:13.580 --> 00:29:38.489 Phil: Next up, some collections, starting with Arcadia, Volume 1 from Inaki Miranda and Roy Miranda over at Ignition Press. In a future where humanity has vanished, a new form of life rises from the ruins. The serants, artificial beings born from mysterious technology, chrysalises known as superdragons. Each one carries a pearl, a biotechnological core that holds their consciousness, their memories. 351 00:29:38.490 --> 00:29:57.999 Phil: their soul. Halou is a seront born late, emerging from a forgotten silo. He is rescued from destruction by Weedy, an eccentric scavenger obsessed with the remnants of the past and the search for meaning in their own existence. Soon after, Halou meets Fix, a practical, strong, and luminous young mechanic who awakens something deep within him. 352 00:29:58.000 --> 00:30:17.819 Phil: Together, in a world of ruins and dangers, they search for meaning, connection, and a reason to endure. Arcadia is a work of existential science fiction, profoundly human, where memory and love endure as a precious mystery that refuses to fade. A story that explores what makes us human when humanity is no longer there to tell us the answer. 353 00:30:17.930 --> 00:30:22.910 Phil: It's gonna have a final order cutoff of December 14th in stores January 19th. 354 00:30:24.700 --> 00:30:39.209 Tyler Johnson: Hey, concrete stars over sand from Paul Chadwick, out on Dark Horse. Concrete has entered the desert and not come back. Larry and Maureen are frantic. Reports that he is wandering the nearby… 355 00:30:39.860 --> 00:30:59.850 Tyler Johnson: Excuse me. Arid mountains covered with blood attacking people. Concrete, lightning struck, confused, roams a frightening world he can't understand. Roars tear across the sky. A strange globe rises. His body is sheathed in stone. He thinks he is being hunted. 356 00:30:59.940 --> 00:31:15.809 Tyler Johnson: People are a threat. His journey back to life and his friend's dire search against a looming deadline is as strange and tense as any concrete story ever told. This will be, final order cut off December 7th in shops March 16th. 357 00:31:15.810 --> 00:31:22.439 Tyler Johnson: You guys, I am reading this in issues, and it has been really good, so definitely check out this,

version of it. 358 00:31:24.500 --> 00:31:25.260 Tyler Johnson: Yeah. 359 00:31:25.260 --> 00:31:25.970 Tad Eggleston: Alright. 360 00:31:25.970 --> 00:31:27.529 Phil: I, want to read some content. 361 00:31:27.530 --> 00:31:45.219 Tad Eggleston: Just brutal! From Dennis Hopeless and Brown Revel at Ignition Press, will their ancient mortal enemies return, reunite the fractured Savage family, or doom the Earth? In this Mitchells vs. the Machines meets Vox Machina saga? 362 00:31:45.380 --> 00:32:05.649 Tad Eggleston: Jordan Savage is a normal 16-year-old kid, barely holding it together after his parents' recent divorce. His twin sister, Winter, is the opposite in every way, including how she is coping with the changes in the Savage family's lives. And those changes are bigger than they could even imagine. They're about to find out that the boring. 363 00:32:05.650 --> 00:32:08.219 Tad Eggleston: Bickering parents they've lived with. 364 00:32:08.220 --> 00:32:25.550 Tad Eggleston: this whole time are secretly ancient, death-dealing barbarian warriors. They have been living quietly for 3,000 years, having defeated their nemesis, the evil sorcerer Lord Farklar, the fleshless, leaving the world safe for humanity. 365 00:32:25.550 --> 00:32:26.920 Tyler Johnson: Did you say Park Quad? 366 00:32:27.240 --> 00:32:27.940 Tad Eggleston: Or car. 367 00:32:28.940 --> 00:32:42.429 Tad Eggleston: Only now, Farklar has returned, and his army of hideous Mordarchs are about to devour Des Moines. Now, the savages are piled in Mom's minivan, headed to Iowa to wage war against black magic Armageddon. 368 00:32:42.820 --> 00:32:51.569 Tad Eggleston: Jordan is freaking out. Winter thinks it's all pretty cool, and no one is sure if mom and dad can get along 369 00:32:52.500 --> 00:32:56.740 Tad Eggleston: Long enough to save civilization from destruction. 370 00:32:57.020 --> 00:32:58.330 Tad Eggleston: just brutal. 371 00:32:58.450 --> 00:33:06.959 Tad Eggleston: Is an action-packed thriller ride that stacks the trauma of family against the challenge of saving the world. 372 00:33:07.090 --> 00:33:12.959 Tad Eggleston: Final order cutoff of December 7th in stores on January 12th. 373 00:33:14.110 --> 00:33:15.140 Tyler Johnson: Awesome. 374 00:33:16.010 --> 00:33:17.920 Tyler Johnson: Can I do final order? 375 00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:19.340 Phil: I got cut off. 376 00:33:19.340 --> 00:33:34.280 Tyler Johnson: Who wants it? You go, you go. Carl Banks, or Carl Barks, God. God damn it! Carl Barks, pencils and Storyboards, King Scrooge I, and Other Stories, the studio edition, from Phanographic, out December 2nd. 377 00:33:34.480 --> 00:33:41.110 Tyler Johnson: The Complete Quarter Maltese Volume 1, The Ballad of the Salt Sea from Hugo Pratt, December 2nd. 378 00:33:41.230 --> 00:33:46.459 Tyler Johnson: Fantasy from Johan Kevich from Mad Cave Maverick, November 25th. 379 00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:56.920 Tyler Johnson: Fire, Hideko Muzuno from Uncivilized, December 2nd. The Forgotten Divine from Mark Russell, Russ Braun from Atahoy, December 2nd. 380 00:33:57.700 --> 00:34:01.990 Tyler Johnson: The Fugitive X-Force from Tim Seeley, Athila. 381 00:34:02.060 --> 00:34:19.439 Tyler Johnson: Fabio, out on Marvel, December 9th. Lancer from Mike Costa and Jake Baker from Bad Idea, December 2nd. Navigating With You, Volume 2 from Jeremy Whitley, Felia Hanakata from Mad Cave Maverick on November 25th. 382 00:34:19.530 --> 00:34:37.169 Tyler Johnson: Prometheus Graft, the Slayings at Death's End from George Northie and Caitlin Yarsky from Onei on December 9th, and Vampire Hunter D… Vampire Hunter D, Fortress of Blood from Chris Condon, and Haidyuki Kit… 383 00:34:37.370 --> 00:34:43.040 Tyler Johnson: Kikuchi, Felipe Andrade from Dark Horse on December 16th. 384 00:34:43.330 --> 00:34:44.670 Tyler Johnson: Crowdfunding! 385 00:34:44.679 --> 00:35:08.189 Phil: Next up, crowdfunding, we've got Fever Dream, a cursed comic book by Becky Clunan, and Kinetic Collectibles on Kickstarter through October 29th. Dracula, Book 4, The Undead from Matt Wagner and Kelly Jones over at Orlok Press on Kickstarter through October 31st, appropriate. The Tezuka God of Manga documentary from Jason Cohn on Kickstarter through November 13th. 386 00:35:08.189 --> 00:35:19.669 Phil: And Space Hell, a, in-space horror one-shot from Adam P. Knave, DJ Kirkbride, and Felipe Sobrero, and Frank, 387 00:35:19.669 --> 00:35:32.649 Phil: Chekovic on Kickstarter through November 20th, as well as launching soon. Keep an eye out for Sync, number 18, Pineapple, from the Maniacs John Leaves and Alex Cormac and Comics Tribe, which will be on Kickstarter. 388 00:35:34.069 --> 00:35:35.189 Phil: Tad, what's on Humble Boy? 389 00:35:35.700 --> 00:35:37.880 Tad Eggleston: Bumblebuddle, we've got… 390 00:35:38.410 --> 00:35:45.079 Tyler Johnson: I just bought this one, by the way, and I'm buying it in the, in the, giant, physical editions, too. 391 00:35:45.770 --> 00:35:46.330 Phil: Committed. 392 00:35:46.330 --> 00:35:47.430 Tad Eggleston: We have the, 393 00:35:47.430 --> 00:35:48.010 Tyler Johnson: I know. 394 00:35:48.310 --> 00:36:04.079 Tad Eggleston: Kurt Busiek's Astro City, the 30th anniversary, $18 for 22 items for the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, has been extended through October 27th. Totally worth the money, all of Astro City, some Aerosmiths, some… some… I forget what else, but good stuff. 395 00:36:04.080 --> 00:36:13.260 Tyler Johnson: It's good. You guys, like I said, I'm buying this in the Metro Book format, and I bought this whole Humble Bundle. I love Astro City. 396 00:36:13.820 --> 00:36:23.910 Tad Eggleston: Equally good, maybe even better, 50 essential phantographic titles! $25 for 51 items for the Freedom of Press Foundation has been extended through October 29th? 397 00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:44.289 Tad Eggleston: Also awesome, and we'll be talking about some of the books that you can get

from it, The Dark Places and Endless Night, Sheer Horror from IDW, $18 for 33 items, including all of Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, and All of Lock and Key for the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, has been extended through October 27th. 398 00:36:45.150 --> 00:36:56.980 Tad Eggleston: all-star, creator-owned comics from Distillery. Distillery is just rolling out the amazing stuff, and right now you can get, for $18, you can get 41 of their… 399 00:36:57.010 --> 00:37:07.060 Tad Eggleston: They're already released titles from the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, or for the Book Industry Charitable Foundation through October 29th. 400 00:37:07.290 --> 00:37:12.119 Tad Eggleston: Dynamite has a Trick or Treat bundle, $18 for 98 items. 401 00:37:12.410 --> 00:37:16.510 Tad Eggleston: for the HERO Initiative through November 5th. 402 00:37:16.830 --> 00:37:21.940 Tad Eggleston: New this week, and both very impressive. 403 00:37:22.100 --> 00:37:35.840 Tad Eggleston: The EC Archives, Tales from the Crypt, and Other Stories from Dark Horse EC. $18 for 19 items for the Freedom of Read Foundation, November 10th. Both Dark Horse and Phanographics have been… 404 00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:42.080 Tad Eggleston: collecting EC. Fanographics collects them by… 405 00:37:43.730 --> 00:37:44.500 Phil: Artist? 406 00:37:44.500 --> 00:37:55.270 Tad Eggleston: artist, generally, and does them in black and white, and they're beautiful, and I love them. EC, er, not EC, Dark Horse collects them by title. 407 00:37:55.540 --> 00:37:56.250 Phil: Mmm. 408 00:37:59.250 --> 00:38:04.249 Tad Eggleston: in retouched color, which some people are not happy about, but I… 409 00:38:05.120 --> 00:38:15.869 Tad Eggleston: I… I go back and forth. I don't know if I truly believe that the faded color that's what you can get if you don't recolor it is what was intended. 410 00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:19.670 Phil: We'll need a time machine to figure that out. 411 00:38:19.870 --> 00:38:28.620 Tad Eggleston: Right. So, so yeah, the EC Archives from Dark Horse are collections of the issues, so you get to see them as they were… 412 00:38:29.230 --> 00:38:29.750 Tad Eggleston: Originally. 413 00:38:29.750 --> 00:38:30.109 Phil: That's really interesting. 414 00:38:30.110 --> 00:38:31.040 Tad Eggleston: presented. 415 00:38:31.040 --> 00:38:31.510 Phil: That's pretty cool. 416 00:38:31.510 --> 00:38:41.100 Tad Eggleston: and in color. So they're, they're actually nice companion pieces to each other. So this is, this will definitely be something that I will be picking up, 417 00:38:41.280 --> 00:39:00.900 Tad Eggleston: as will possibly, the Blue Lock Perfect Shop Bundle from Codansha, $30 for 45 items for the Book Industry Charitable Foundation through November 13th. It includes all of the currently available Blue Lock, 38 volumes, the 7 volume 418 00:39:01.130 --> 00:39:08.710 Tad Eggleston: prequel series, and, and I've never seen this before, a code for Cadansha.us. 419 00:39:09.300 --> 00:39:20.759 Tad Eggleston: for when Volume 39 releases. Interesting. So, like, you're buying this, actually buys you a unreleased book as well, which is kind of cool. 420 00:39:21.170 --> 00:39:25.290 Tad Eggleston: So, anyway… I didn't… 421 00:39:25.290 --> 00:39:25.830 Tyler Johnson: Bloom. 422 00:39:25.830 --> 00:39:26.470 Tad Eggleston: syncbook. 423 00:39:27.320 --> 00:39:29.339 Tyler Johnson: You did a lot of amazing books. 424 00:39:29.670 --> 00:39:30.329 Tad Eggleston: 3 of them. 425 00:39:30.330 --> 00:39:30.800 Tyler Johnson: Tad? 426 00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:33.120 Tad Eggleston: Was… was not possible this week. 427 00:39:33.710 --> 00:39:38.630 Tyler Johnson: Tad, 9 is okay, but 10 is too many. 428 00:39:39.270 --> 00:39:42.009 Tyler Johnson: You have a tenth one for honorable mentions, is all. 429 00:39:43.510 --> 00:39:51.840 Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, I have lots of honorable mentions, and some of them, shocked didn't make the… 430 00:39:52.110 --> 00:39:52.800 Phil: Do you… 431 00:39:53.090 --> 00:39:58.660 Tad Eggleston: But I actually have 10 books. I actually have 10 books in the top 9, because… 432 00:39:58.660 --> 00:39:59.639 Phil: Oh, snap! 433 00:40:00.260 --> 00:40:00.809 Tyler Johnson: I'm king. 434 00:40:00.810 --> 00:40:03.530 Tad Eggleston: Only got one spot on the, 435 00:40:03.720 --> 00:40:16.080 Tad Eggleston: on the list, even though he wrote two amazing books this week. Six of Us, number two, just… anybody not reading Six of Us, this is just… it's like a murder mystery about… 436 00:40:16.900 --> 00:40:20.159 Tad Eggleston: like… a friends-type cast. 437 00:40:21.750 --> 00:40:23.909 Tad Eggleston: 10 years after the show. 438 00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:25.580 Tyler Johnson: Ended. 439 00:40:25.900 --> 00:40:27.249 Tad Eggleston: And did… er… 440 00:40:27.250 --> 00:40:27.770 Tyler Johnson: That's cool. 441 00:40:27.770 --> 00:40:33.090 Tad Eggleston: number of years after the show ended. So good. So good. 442 00:40:33.350 --> 00:40:39.739 Tad Eggleston: Also, it was a great week for graphic novels this week, which is why, like… 443 00:40:40.410 --> 00:40:48.930 Tad Eggleston: I had to go long, because number 2 is gonna be Nate Powell's Diana. A little bit of time traveling, little bit of… 444 00:40:49.980 --> 00:40:55.900 Tad Eggleston: timey-wimey shit, but also ties together, come together, and fall through. 445 00:40:55.900 --> 00:40:56.810 Tyler Johnson: me, whimy. 446 00:40:56.810 --> 00:40:57.140 Tad Eggleston: just… 447 00:40:57.150 --> 00:40:57.680 Tyler Johnson: Wow. 448 00:40:57.680 --> 00:41:06.680 Tad Eggleston: just an amazing book. You can listen to the conversation that Dan and I had with Nate Powell, already. 449 00:41:06.680 --> 00:41:20.300 Tad Eggleston: Dracula Book 3, The Count from Matt Wagner and Kelly Jones. This is the one that, like, most directly relates to the novel. Like, what they've been doing with these four books

are… are essentially telling… 450 00:41:20.710 --> 00:41:23.029 Tad Eggleston: Everything that's hinted at, and… 451 00:41:23.030 --> 00:41:23.480 Phil: And… 452 00:41:23.480 --> 00:41:28.120 Tad Eggleston: And from the Count's point of view, from Dracula's 453 00:41:28.480 --> 00:41:32.299 Tad Eggleston: point of view, whereas the novel is epistolary, so… 454 00:41:32.970 --> 00:41:39.220 Tad Eggleston: It's… it's a series of letters, etc. Newspaper articles… Documents. 455 00:41:39.220 --> 00:41:39.780 Phil: That sort of thing. 456 00:41:39.780 --> 00:41:52.180 Tad Eggleston: What they're doing is, like, taking some of history and mostly from the book, and that's, you know, so the first two volumes are mostly things that were alluded to 457 00:41:53.140 --> 00:41:58.509 Tad Eggleston: in the book, and the count is… is when Dracula's getting to London. 458 00:41:59.870 --> 00:42:06.130 Tad Eggleston: I mean, some of the brides were, you know, he had the solicitor come out to meet him. 459 00:42:06.350 --> 00:42:13.180 Tad Eggleston: to arrange for the trip of London, but this is… the count is that Dracula getting to London and starting his… 460 00:42:13.440 --> 00:42:17.650 Phil: It also makes me wonder how you would do an epistolary graphic novel. 461 00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:20.120 Phil: That is subtly interesting to me. 462 00:42:21.270 --> 00:42:23.550 Tad Eggleston: Well, go read letters to Joe. 463 00:42:23.820 --> 00:42:25.190 Phil: Oh, okay, yeah, there we go. 464 00:42:26.200 --> 00:42:26.980 Phil: I'll write that down. 465 00:42:26.980 --> 00:42:35.160 Tad Eggleston: Siraki, Joe Siraki, and and, Kelly Williams. Okay. 466 00:42:37.520 --> 00:42:47.309 Tad Eggleston: It's been a while since I read it, so I don't know… I know that it's based on letters that Joe's grandfather wrote his grandmother. 467 00:42:47.560 --> 00:42:53.400 Tad Eggleston: from World War II. I forget exactly how epistolary they… they went with… 468 00:42:54.540 --> 00:42:57.040 Tad Eggleston: the book itself, because it's been a while since I read it. 469 00:42:57.290 --> 00:43:05.190 Tad Eggleston: But that's what immediately pops into my head, because I know it was derived from actual letters. 470 00:43:06.110 --> 00:43:07.170 Phil: Very interesting. 471 00:43:07.510 --> 00:43:22.679 Tad Eggleston: The Forever Home, number 2 from Christian Ward and Sammy Cavello was amazing, as was Forged, number 14, from Greg… Greg Rucka, Eric Troutman, and Mike Henderson. The Last Drive, number 3, this book is so… Tyler, are you reading The Last Drive? 472 00:43:23.190 --> 00:43:25.320 Tyler Johnson: Yeah, driver, the last driver, you mean? 473 00:43:25.320 --> 00:43:26.450 Tad Eggleston: Last driver, yeah. 474 00:43:26.450 --> 00:43:27.689 Tyler Johnson: Yeah. Yep. 475 00:43:27.690 --> 00:43:29.020 Tad Eggleston: Fuck, man! 476 00:43:29.020 --> 00:43:29.650 Tyler Johnson: It's crazy. 477 00:43:29.650 --> 00:43:38.120 Tad Eggleston: Good. I hate that it's number 6 this week, and that's why I had to go 9, because you know I can't just go 6. 478 00:43:38.120 --> 00:43:41.980 Tyler Johnson: You can, you just have a… have a, no, I can't. 479 00:43:41.980 --> 00:43:42.380 Tad Eggleston: No. 480 00:43:42.380 --> 00:43:43.179 Tyler Johnson: Oh, I guess. 481 00:43:43.180 --> 00:43:44.680 Phil: There's no sh… 482 00:43:44.680 --> 00:43:46.110 Tad Eggleston: This is in baseball. 483 00:43:47.650 --> 00:43:49.020 Tad Eggleston: 27… 484 00:43:49.790 --> 00:44:00.010 Tyler Johnson: Tad, when people… when people describe you, do they describe you as quirky? I mean, how… how do they put this into… I'm just cheating. 485 00:44:00.010 --> 00:44:01.539 Tad Eggleston: Is that shit crazy? 486 00:44:01.540 --> 00:44:01.960 Tyler Johnson: I agree. 487 00:44:01.960 --> 00:44:20.059 Tad Eggleston: Die Loaded, number 10 from Kieran Gillen, Stephanie Hans at Image, Dork, number 9 from Brett Bean at Image, and again, like, coming in at number 9, a book that I loved so much, Yumi WX, number 3 from Doug Wagner and Hoyt. 488 00:44:20.060 --> 00:44:21.520 Tyler Johnson: It was good. It was good. 489 00:44:21.520 --> 00:44:33.620 Tad Eggleston: Not even making my list was dog tag number 6, and a life number 9, iCollector number 5, Destruction Beer a lot number 5. Didn't even manage to read it, demands sacrifice number 1 this week. 490 00:44:33.620 --> 00:44:35.179 Tyler Johnson: It's good. It's good. 491 00:44:35.180 --> 00:44:36.939 Tad Eggleston: I, I've heard! 492 00:44:36.940 --> 00:44:37.730 Tyler Johnson: I mean… 493 00:44:38.200 --> 00:44:43.740 Tad Eggleston: So, it was a ridiculously good week in comics, and I, and I see that, 494 00:44:44.170 --> 00:44:46.370 Tad Eggleston: I mentioned all 3 of Tyler's, though. 495 00:44:46.370 --> 00:44:48.760 Tyler Johnson: I know! Dork, you guys. 496 00:44:48.760 --> 00:44:51.240 Tad Eggleston: Didn't even quite make my top 9. 497 00:44:51.240 --> 00:44:56.170 Tyler Johnson: Okay, Dork is my favorite series going on right now, by far. 498 00:44:56.170 --> 00:44:56.729 Tad Eggleston: So good. 499 00:44:56.730 --> 00:45:03.769 Tyler Johnson: Brett Bean, I mean, like, he's my new favorite guy. And then end of life, you guys, Kyle Starks. 500 00:45:03.770 --> 00:45:16.830 Tyler Johnson: If his writing's just on its own, it's… I mean, it's strong when he does the art, too, but the writing in End of Life is so good. And then Steve Pugh is killing it on the artwork. 501 00:45:16.860 --> 00:45:33.710 Tyler Johnson: Forever Home number 2, Christian Ward. This was a, you know, it was a number 3, but it, it barely was a number 3. There, I, I, I almost picked, like I said, Demand Sacrifice number 1, or It Demands Sacrifice, but… 502 00:45:34.070 --> 00:45:40.320 Tyler Johnson: But… Forever Home number 1 was really good, so I had to go with number 2 and see where it's gone. 503 00:45:41.420 --> 00:45:43.400 Tyler Johnson: Alright, a walk with Phil. 504

00:45:43.400 --> 00:46:02.810 Phil: Yep, yep, I'm walking here. Yeah, unfortunately, I mean, I did get to the store, but, didn't have a chance to read it, because I got there late, right before driving, up to Louisville and Cincinnati, you know? So even though I do… I am excited to read, Diloaded, number 9 and 10, because that's… I haven't… I haven't been there for a minute now. 505 00:46:02.850 --> 00:46:18.860 Phil: You know, which I'm surprised that it made Tad's, amazing list. That's fantastic. That's… that's even more exciting. And then, Volume 6 of Goodnight Pun Pun is also coming at the library for me, so I should… I… there's a decent chance I'll read the rest of this series by next week. 506 00:46:18.860 --> 00:46:20.310 Tyler Johnson: That's a great name. 507 00:46:20.310 --> 00:46:23.350 Phil: Yeah, yeah, it's… have you read, Punk Pun at all? 508 00:46:23.350 --> 00:46:24.730 Tyler Johnson: No. Nope. It's good. 509 00:46:24.730 --> 00:46:25.480 Tad Eggleston: You should've got it. 510 00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:25.810 Tyler Johnson: Okay. 511 00:46:26.040 --> 00:46:30.000 Phil: I think you would. It's weird, there's stuff in it, 512 00:46:30.190 --> 00:46:33.449 Phil: They, you know, there's a Porn Watchers Club, 513 00:46:33.450 --> 00:46:37.970 Tyler Johnson: While we're on the podcast, I am thumbing through this beauty. Have you guys seen this before? 514 00:46:37.970 --> 00:46:39.019 Phil: I have not. 515 00:46:39.020 --> 00:46:40.150 Tyler Johnson: Preach comics. 516 00:46:40.410 --> 00:46:41.150 Phil: Okay. 517 00:46:41.400 --> 00:46:44.800 Phil: It's really… I mean, Based on the cover. But no, but we did… 518 00:46:45.360 --> 00:46:48.699 Phil: It was, like, Jaws jumping up, saying something funny. 519 00:46:49.560 --> 00:47:02.870 Phil: Anyway, but, no, we got our apartment in Cincinnati, and I'm pretty sure it's locked in, because we put down the deposit, if not last night, then this morning. So, yeah. Yeah, it's a whole new era. You know… 520 00:47:03.030 --> 00:47:05.690 Phil: Tad was also becalmed. 521 00:47:05.880 --> 00:47:06.810 Phil: On one piece. 522 00:47:06.810 --> 00:47:07.520 Tad Eggleston: I was. 523 00:47:07.520 --> 00:47:08.450 Phil: I was also the calm. 524 00:47:08.450 --> 00:47:08.970 Tad Eggleston: pumped. 525 00:47:08.970 --> 00:47:11.639 Tyler Johnson: I like that that's the term we're using. 526 00:47:11.640 --> 00:47:18.840 Phil: It is, yeah. Well, because it's… the one-piece race has to be on water, you know, it doesn't make sense for it to be a land race for pirates. 527 00:47:18.840 --> 00:47:20.219 Tyler Johnson: Nope, nope. 528 00:47:20.500 --> 00:47:28.960 Phil: Which takes us right to Great Responsibility and Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees. A little book… have you guys heard of this before? Are you guys familiar with this title? 529 00:47:28.960 --> 00:47:37.079 Tyler Johnson: So, Patrick Horvath just, took me by surprise with that first… first run of Beneath the Trees. 530 00:47:37.080 --> 00:47:51.649 Tyler Johnson: the artwork was so sublime and so calm, and then all of a sudden, you are realizing you are reading a serial killer story. And, I mean, you probably knew that going into it, but when it starts to take shape. 531 00:47:51.790 --> 00:48:02.240 Tyler Johnson: you know, Sam is so, like, nonchalant, do you know what I mean? She's not scary and aggressive, she's just this calm hardware lady. 532 00:48:02.240 --> 00:48:02.600 Phil: Yeah. 533 00:48:02.600 --> 00:48:08.800 Tyler Johnson: And… it's… it's creepy as hell. I mean, like, Extra level, you know? 534 00:48:09.180 --> 00:48:12.089 Phil: I'd say creepier than Dexter, honestly. I mean… 535 00:48:12.590 --> 00:48:32.549 Phil: The… yeah. Yeah. I… it's… it's also funny, because as I… I flipped through all of the, like, alternate covers that were, like, you know, parodies of… of kids' books and whatnot, and, it was… it was… while it was interesting seeing Samantha drawn by other artists, I feel like nobody draws her like Patrick. Like… 536 00:48:32.550 --> 00:48:39.330 Tyler Johnson: No, no, because his drawing of her is so… Yeah. Like, I don't know what the word is, it's so calming. 537 00:48:39.330 --> 00:48:40.690 Phil: Yeah. 538 00:48:40.690 --> 00:48:43.949 Tyler Johnson: book is. I mean, from the characters, like the little duck character. 539 00:48:43.950 --> 00:48:44.370 Phil: Mr. 540 00:48:44.370 --> 00:48:48.589 Tyler Johnson: You're like, this should be a children's book, really. But then you realize… 541 00:48:49.030 --> 00:48:54.990 Tyler Johnson: But then you realize that, oh no, this poor kid is looking for his dead dad that she killed. 542 00:48:54.990 --> 00:48:56.980 Phil: Yeah. 543 00:48:57.240 --> 00:48:57.900 Tyler Johnson: And then we… 544 00:48:57.900 --> 00:48:58.810 Phil: Savage. 545 00:48:58.940 --> 00:49:06.099 Tyler Johnson: It's great. Then we go into beneath the trees where nobody sees, the rites of spring. 546 00:49:06.290 --> 00:49:09.269 Tyler Johnson: And… what'd you think of that? Like, kind of the… 547 00:49:09.270 --> 00:49:09.629 Phil: Oh my gosh. 548 00:49:09.630 --> 00:49:11.520 Tyler Johnson: Follow-up story of what happened. 549 00:49:11.520 --> 00:49:20.889 Phil: So, okay, so here's… I had a little mix-up on… on Hoopla, where, they… I saw that, they had the Halloween special. 550 00:49:21.020 --> 00:49:21.780 Phil: And then they have… 551 00:49:22.030 --> 00:49:22.909 Tad Eggleston: Special's great, too. 552 00:49:22.910 --> 00:49:24.970 Phil: And then they had the Rite of Spring. 553 00:49:24.970 --> 00:49:25.300 Tyler Johnson: Yeah. 554 00:49:25.300 --> 00:49:30.400 Phil: oh no, they don't have the first one anymore, so I just started with Rite of Spring. 555 00:49:30.850 --> 00:49:31.260 Tyler Johnson: Whoa. 556 00:49:31.260 --> 00:49:44.219 Phil: And yeah, so I jumped… which was actually really great. Was it? Well, it let me connect with, the… the duck character in the first issue,

where she's looking for her brother and doesn't know what's going on. 557 00:49:44.220 --> 00:49:58.439 Phil: And I mean, I knew about the premise of the series, from how much you guys had talked about it, and it was one… so here's why I hadn't read it until now, is because a lot of times when I see a book that's like, that looks perfectly designed for my tastes. 558 00:49:58.550 --> 00:50:00.960 Phil: I will prolong 559 00:50:01.080 --> 00:50:15.529 Phil: reading it, because I know that I'm going to like it, so it's like delayed gratification kind of thing. Sure. So even though I started with Rite of Spring, I am super excited to go back and read Volume 1 and figure out all the details of what was happening, because Rite of Spring, like, oh my… 560 00:50:15.530 --> 00:50:22.150 Tyler Johnson: It's kind of like watching Star Wars, starting at New Hope, and then going back and having to watch the, the prequels. 561 00:50:22.150 --> 00:50:23.989 Phil: A little bit, well, because even… 562 00:50:23.990 --> 00:50:27.340 Tad Eggleston: Best order for Star Wars. Let's just be clear. 563 00:50:27.340 --> 00:50:27.860 Phil: Yeah. 564 00:50:28.100 --> 00:50:30.840 Tad Eggleston: New Hope, Empire Strikes Back. 565 00:50:31.220 --> 00:50:34.090 Tad Eggleston: prequels, Return of the Jedi, because… 566 00:50:34.090 --> 00:50:34.600 Phil: See that? 567 00:50:34.600 --> 00:50:37.160 Tad Eggleston: You… if you watch the prequels… 568 00:50:37.340 --> 00:50:40.679 Tad Eggleston: before you watch Empire Strikes Back. 569 00:50:41.750 --> 00:50:43.809 Tad Eggleston: That's spoil. He steals from the… 570 00:50:43.960 --> 00:50:46.559 Tad Eggleston: the power of Luke, I am your father. 571 00:50:47.280 --> 00:50:48.760 Tyler Johnson: Yup, yup. 572 00:50:49.100 --> 00:50:50.010 Phil: Okay, I can see that. 573 00:50:50.010 --> 00:50:51.299 Tyler Johnson: True. It does ruin it. 574 00:50:51.300 --> 00:50:59.360 Phil: I think that would actually make the prequels better, putting them between Empire and Jedi. It's been a while since I've considered Star Wars takes, but I like that one. 575 00:50:59.360 --> 00:51:05.869 Tad Eggleston: really completely redeem… Well, any of them, but certainly not, 576 00:51:05.870 --> 00:51:07.300 Phil: Revenge of the Sith? 577 00:51:07.300 --> 00:51:07.930 Tad Eggleston: us. 578 00:51:08.600 --> 00:51:08.970 Phil: Oh… 579 00:51:08.970 --> 00:51:13.050 Tyler Johnson: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Phantom Menace was way worse than Revenge of the Sith. 580 00:51:13.260 --> 00:51:14.120 Phil: I don't… 581 00:51:14.120 --> 00:51:14.890 Tad Eggleston: I said… 582 00:51:14.890 --> 00:51:15.410 Phil: It's hard. 583 00:51:15.410 --> 00:51:17.420 Tyler Johnson: You're talking about Phil? I don't… 584 00:51:17.420 --> 00:51:27.979 Phil: It's hard for me to… so, okay, so, like, quick tangent. It's hard for me to compare, because I saw them… they came out when I was a child, and my, you know, sense of taste was still developing.

585 00:51:28.320 --> 00:51:28.650 Tyler Johnson: Dr. 586 00:51:28.650 --> 00:51:41.450 Phil: But Revenge of the Sith was probably one of the biggest disappointments for me. Like, I remember seeing it in 8th grade and thinking, wow, this is not good. This is not a good movie. This is bad. This is terrible. Because, by contrast. 587 00:51:41.450 --> 00:51:49.440 Phil: I'd been watching the Lord of the Rings films that, you know, kind of solidified, like, wow, this is a… this is quality, this is good, this is good story. 588 00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:51.229 Tyler Johnson: That's what storytelling should be, yep. 589 00:51:51.230 --> 00:52:00.039 Phil: Yes, exactly, and then having, you know, because I'm pretty sure Return of the King and Revenge of the Sith came out, if not the same year, really close to each other, and so… 590 00:52:00.040 --> 00:52:00.499 Tyler Johnson: I think so. 591 00:52:00.500 --> 00:52:14.190 Phil: seeing the wrap-ups, the two trilogies, and then the Matrix trilogy, I think, was around then, too, so, like, I was starting to develop a critical eye, and, no, I… admittedly, Revenge of the Sith is my favorite Star Wars movie to laugh at. I love. 592 00:52:14.190 --> 00:52:14.650 Tyler Johnson: Mmm. 593 00:52:14.650 --> 00:52:19.570 Phil: being able to say you were the chosen one, you were supposed to save us, in comedic contexts. 594 00:52:19.730 --> 00:52:20.469 Phil: You're right back! 595 00:52:20.470 --> 00:52:21.400 Tyler Johnson: I was just saying that? 596 00:52:21.400 --> 00:52:26.880 Phil: I was supposed to save us! Yeah, it's great. But, no, I mean… 597 00:52:27.170 --> 00:52:44.740 Phil: The other thing is that what kind of makes me feel comfortable in justifying saying, hey, if you want to read this series out of order like I did, it still works, is because the Rite of Spring has nonlinear storytelling elements, where the first and second issues take place over basically the same amount of time, I would assume. 598 00:52:44.740 --> 00:52:53.309 Phil: they end on the same note, and then we get the flashback to seeing Samantha with her parents, and I assume that was her first kill. 599 00:52:53.320 --> 00:52:58.610 Phil: You know, which was traumatic as hell. I loved that. That was so… 600 00:52:58.610 --> 00:52:59.170 Tyler Johnson: creepy. 601 00:52:59.170 --> 00:53:02.179 Phil: Yeah, it was so surprising. 602 00:53:02.530 --> 00:53:12.559 Phil: I guess the weird thing is, is, like, while I'm reading it, I know that it's factually, like, creepy and disturbing, but, like, I'm such a sicko that I was just thrilled by it, I guess. 603 00:53:12.560 --> 00:53:15.390 Tyler Johnson: Oh, I get it, you're just like, wow. 604 00:53:15.390 --> 00:53:16.779 Phil: Yeah! This is… Yeah. 605 00:53:16.780 --> 00:53:23.440 Tyler Johnson: And then, what'd you think of the Halloween special, where kind of kids were, like, talking about… I didn't get to read that one yet. Oh, okay. 606 00:53:23.440 --> 00:53:25.019 Phil: I mean, you guys can talk about it, feel free. 607 00:53:25.020 --> 00:53:38.269 Tyler Johnson: So, the premise is… the premise is, is that, you know, the events of Samantha's killing spree are in the past, and now these children are telling horror stories about what they've heard about Samantha. 608 00:53:38.270 --> 00:53:39.240 Phil: Sounds awesome. 609 00:53:39.240 --> 00:53:41.310 Tyler Johnson: You know what I mean? So, it's really fun. 610 00:53:41.310 --> 00:53:53.259 Phil: That does sound super fun, super exciting. But I mean, even in Rite of Spring, the other moment to me that was great is when the bear, the non-anthropomorphized, like, fully wild. 611 00:53:53.260 --> 00:53:54.449 Tyler Johnson: The real beer, yeah. 612 00:53:54.450 --> 00:54:12.230 Phil: Yeah. Like, it was so funny, because I was thinking when… I think someone mentioned… I… I… it was one of those things I was flipping through, and I was like, I think I remember hearing you guys say that there's a real dog. And then I'm like, that's so weird. If this was a comedy series, it would be really funny to have, like, a tiny human, you know, instead of animals. 613 00:54:12.230 --> 00:54:14.680 Tad Eggleston: See, you didn't… you didn't read… 614 00:54:15.050 --> 00:54:19.079 Tad Eggleston: Volume 1, so you missed… there's literally… 615 00:54:19.560 --> 00:54:24.639 Tad Eggleston: a pig… Shopping at a butcher shop. 616 00:54:24.640 --> 00:54:25.460 Tyler Johnson: Yeah. 617 00:54:26.040 --> 00:54:27.160 Tad Eggleston: Oh. Pig. 618 00:54:27.320 --> 00:54:28.809 Tad Eggleston: In the window. 619 00:54:28.810 --> 00:54:31.849 Phil: Yep, that sounds… that sounds great, yeah. 620 00:54:31.850 --> 00:54:34.210 Tyler Johnson: The amount of, you know, like, the meta… 621 00:54:34.210 --> 00:54:42.769 Phil: and that's the crazy thing of… a bear shows up in town, and everyone is terrified of it. And, like, for Samantha. 622 00:54:42.770 --> 00:54:56.290 Phil: to… to watch them deal with the bear, and then quietly walk away from the crowd, it… it… that was a really great scene, too, where I'm like, holy shit, you know, just the parallels between, 623 00:54:56.290 --> 00:55:03.229 Phil: you know, it's almost like, what do other people see? Like, that's one of the things that's great about it, is that, like. 624 00:55:03.630 --> 00:55:08.300 Phil: I think in the first issue, one of the close-ups of, like, a duckbill with a cigarette hanging out of it, I was like. 625 00:55:08.300 --> 00:55:08.849 Tyler Johnson: I agree. 626 00:55:08.850 --> 00:55:10.010 Phil: love this. 627 00:55:10.010 --> 00:55:10.729 Tyler Johnson: Because it's legal. 628 00:55:10.730 --> 00:55:18.130 Phil: leaning so hard into the anthropomorphized, like, animal people, but then it also very clearly is taking place in the real world. 629 00:55:18.320 --> 00:55:19.100 Tad Eggleston: Does… 630 00:55:19.400 --> 00:55:21.930 Tyler Johnson: Doesn't it feel like… Go ahead, Ted. 631 00:55:22.450

--> 00:55:24.010 Tad Eggleston: I was gonna say, again, like… 632 00:55:24.940 --> 00:55:42.920 Tad Eggleston: the most shocking moment for me, and I think Tyler… Tyler was there with me when it was originally coming out, is, like, that first issue, you know, it's so anthropomorphized, and yeah, you know, there's lots of real-world feel to it and whatnot, but, like, when she actually… 633 00:55:43.040 --> 00:55:44.939 Tad Eggleston: Cuts up the body. 634 00:55:45.310 --> 00:55:54.929 Tad Eggleston: And, like, you see… the… the… the… The brains? Ducks… duck in, like, small pieces. 635 00:55:54.930 --> 00:55:55.780 Phil: Yeah! 636 00:55:56.700 --> 00:55:57.670 Phil: It's like… 637 00:55:58.210 --> 00:56:01.119 Tad Eggleston: Oh, he's going there. Yeah. 638 00:56:01.430 --> 00:56:08.970 Tyler Johnson: I remember, I don't know, Tad, maybe we're too old, but I remember my siblings watching it, the Busy World of Richard Scary. 639 00:56:09.230 --> 00:56:15.359 Tyler Johnson: This, this, artwork reminds me of that children's. 640 00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:18.869 Tad Eggleston: He's the serial killer in the busy world of Richard Scary. 641 00:56:18.870 --> 00:56:19.200 Tyler Johnson: the air. 642 00:56:19.200 --> 00:56:20.740 Tad Eggleston: Dustin Bears, take your pick. 643 00:56:21.070 --> 00:56:28.230 Tyler Johnson: Berenstein Bears, old-school Winnie the Pooh, like, the stuff that was really drawn, right, by Milne. You know. 644 00:56:28.420 --> 00:56:31.520 Phil: That was probably my favorite parody cover, was the Winnie the Pooh one. 645 00:56:31.520 --> 00:56:31.890 Tyler Johnson: To be honest. 646 00:56:31.890 --> 00:56:32.950 Phil: Yeah. 647 00:56:33.760 --> 00:56:34.200 Phil: Oh. 648 00:56:34.200 --> 00:56:41.280 Tad Eggleston: Drop, drop, drop a serial killer into any of those worlds, and this… This is what you get. 649 00:56:41.280 --> 00:56:47.709 Phil: I'm especially excited for where Rite of Spring ends, because it's like, okay, this is not over. 650 00:56:47.710 --> 00:56:48.140 Tyler Johnson: Oh, no. 651 00:56:48.590 --> 00:56:49.240 Tad Eggleston: Yeah, more volume. 652 00:56:49.240 --> 00:56:51.939 Phil: at least… I was gonna say at least one more volume, because I don't know how long… 653 00:56:51.940 --> 00:56:54.989 Tad Eggleston: It's been announced. It's been announced. 654 00:56:54.990 --> 00:56:55.639 Phil: I will… 655 00:56:55.640 --> 00:56:58.770 Tad Eggleston: volume. The implication is that that's the end. 656 00:56:58.770 --> 00:56:59.270 Phil: Okay. 657 00:56:59.270 --> 00:56:59.940 Tad Eggleston: We'll see. 658 00:56:59.940 --> 00:57:06.810 Phil: Honestly, I really hope they put out, like, all the series collected in a hardcover, because I would buy the hell out of that. 659 00:57:07.180 --> 00:57:08.999 Tyler Johnson: They might… that would be cool, I'd buy that. 660 00:57:09.000 --> 00:57:17.569 Tad Eggleston: The reason… it's the only reason I haven't bought the hardcover for… for the first volume yet, is that, like… 661 00:57:17.930 --> 00:57:19.680 Tad Eggleston: I think there may be a better option. 662 00:57:19.680 --> 00:57:41.020 Phil: that's kind of… it was one of those where I was like, oh, maybe I'll pick up the issues, you know, I'm like, no, I'll probably end up reading on Hoopla, because I'm the type of weirdo who, like, if I start reading a series in issues, I want it all in issues, so this might be… this might be my full evolution into Trade Waiter of reading it from the library in issues, and then picking up the giant hardcover 663 00:57:41.020 --> 00:57:44.449 Phil: All in one book, because those are my favorite, favorite books. 664 00:57:44.450 --> 00:57:45.110 Tad Eggleston: Right. 665 00:57:45.110 --> 00:57:46.539 Phil: For comics. 666 00:57:46.540 --> 00:57:46.960 Tyler Johnson: Agreed. 667 00:57:46.960 --> 00:57:53.510 Phil: This is… honestly, the other thing, I feel like one of the real tests of this one is after I read Volume 1, I mean… 668 00:57:55.670 --> 00:57:58.190 Phil: I'm really tempted to give this to my mom. 669 00:57:58.750 --> 00:57:59.340 Tyler Johnson: Oh, really? 670 00:57:59.340 --> 00:58:01.489 Phil: Yes, here's the thing, though. 671 00:58:01.810 --> 00:58:03.330 Phil: is, like, cause she… I gave it to me. 672 00:58:03.330 --> 00:58:04.000 Tad Eggleston: My wife. 673 00:58:04.160 --> 00:58:09.090 Phil: Yeah, I know my wife would love this. I'm pretty sure she would be blown away, like, which actually… 674 00:58:09.090 --> 00:58:27.799 Tad Eggleston: This is literally one of… and thank God I'd had Patrick on, and we got to know each other a little bit more at C2E2, because it was one of the first books that my wife ever read as issues came out, and I remember she got to, like, issue 4 or 5, and she's like, what the fuck do you mean I need to wait for a month? 675 00:58:27.870 --> 00:58:30.300 Phil: That's fantastic. 676 00:58:30.300 --> 00:58:33.709 Tad Eggleston: And I sent an email, and she didn't have to wait. 677 00:58:33.710 --> 00:58:34.660 Phil: Nice, okay. 678 00:58:34.660 --> 00:58:39.740 Tyler Johnson: There's a PDF. A PDF arrives very quickly. Right. Right. Hey. 679 00:58:39.970 --> 00:58:43.310 Phil: That's a good marriage, when you can say, what the fuck do you mean I have to wait? And then she. 680 00:58:43.310 --> 00:58:46.269 Tyler Johnson: And then you're like, oh, hold on, dear, let me. 681 00:58:46.270 --> 00:58:46.809 Phil: Me too, right? 682 00:58:47.870 --> 00:58:49.770 Phil: I might have some connections that could. 683 00:58:49.770 --> 00:58:51.319 Tyler Johnson: Let me talk to Patrick. 684 00:58:51.320 --> 00:59:07.590 Phil: Oh my gosh, yeah. Nope, but speaking of, speaking of my wife would love this, is that actually, we… now that she's out of school, we actually just started about, possibly making a comic together, and she was really interested in, like, something that goes from 685 00:59:07.590 --> 00:59:12.709 Phil: cutesy to spooky to

disturbing, so I'll have her read this for inspiration, for sure. 686 00:59:12.710 --> 00:59:15.169 Tad Eggleston: You should have her… you should have her read some, 687 00:59:15.350 --> 00:59:17.540 Tyler Johnson: Gays? I… 688 00:59:17.540 --> 00:59:20.860 Tad Eggleston: Farrell. That's what I was about to say. Tyler needs to get going. 689 00:59:21.210 --> 00:59:34.960 Tyler Johnson: Oh, not only that, but, like, Phil, I have finished, my script for my first comic. Oh, very cool. I'm editing right now, and then I'm gonna send it to Tad and you if you want to read it. Oh, cool. Give me any pointers on pace… 690 00:59:34.960 --> 00:59:36.240 Tad Eggleston: shreds. Yeah. 691 00:59:36.240 --> 00:59:37.639 Tyler Johnson: Yeah, please do, because… 692 00:59:37.640 --> 00:59:42.409 Tad Eggleston: I'll warn you on air, Tyler, the more I rip it to shreds, the more I like it. 693 00:59:42.710 --> 00:59:43.610 Tyler Johnson: Oh. 694 00:59:43.610 --> 00:59:46.660 Tad Eggleston: I know that seems counterintuitive. 695 00:59:46.660 --> 00:59:51.040 Tyler Johnson: Well, let me give you the beats… let me give you the beats of it and see what you guys think, quick. 696 00:59:51.040 --> 00:59:53.709 Phil: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, are you sure you want this going out? 697 00:59:53.710 --> 00:59:55.730 Tad Eggleston: No, no, no, no, don't do that on the air. 698 00:59:55.730 --> 00:59:57.170 Tyler Johnson: Alright, alright, alright, alright. 699 00:59:57.170 --> 00:59:59.440 Phil: I know you're excited. It's good you're excited. 700 01:00:00.390 --> 01:00:01.780 Tad Eggleston: We'll get to read it. 701 01:00:01.780 --> 01:00:05.460 Tyler Johnson: But it's a one… it's a one-shot, it's not an ongoing… it's not an ongoing idea. 702 01:00:05.460 --> 01:00:05.950 Phil: Okay. 703 01:00:05.950 --> 01:00:10.179 Tad Eggleston: Because I do sometimes have that issue when I'm in, like, writing groups, or… 704 01:00:10.520 --> 01:00:16.260 Tad Eggleston: or creative writing classes, that people will read the stuff that I write about their 705 01:00:16.510 --> 01:00:27.870 Tad Eggleston: their work, or the stuff I write in the margins, or whatnot, and think that I'm mean and I hate them. And I'm sitting there going, no, no, no, no. If I hate the work, it'll just say, nice job. 706 01:00:27.870 --> 01:00:29.579 Phil: Right? Because you have nothing to say. 707 01:00:29.580 --> 01:00:31.330 Tad Eggleston: Nothing else. 708 01:00:31.330 --> 01:00:33.129 Tyler Johnson: You don't wanna… you don't even wanna read it. 709 01:00:33.130 --> 01:00:33.650 Phil: Yeah. 710 01:00:33.650 --> 01:00:42.520 Tad Eggleston: If I like it, if I like it, I'm, like, pointing out everything. And also, notice that I'm always asking questions. I'm not. 711 01:00:42.520 --> 01:00:43.139 Phil: Questions are good. 712 01:00:43.140 --> 01:00:50.349 Tad Eggleston: change this. I'm saying… Think about this. Think about that. 713 01:00:50.350 --> 01:01:06.649 Phil: I… I… I've taken

a lot of creative writing… or I took a lot of creative writing classes in college. I can have a heavy hand. My… I'm telling you right now, my goal will be to not take over the project, but to try to see what you're trying to do with it and elevate that. 714 01:01:06.650 --> 01:01:10.690 Tad Eggleston: I have that goal, it doesn't always come off that way. 715 01:01:10.690 --> 01:01:16.590 Phil: Yeah. So, so yeah, so you have, you have a couple of harsh critics, but, but, that, that mean well. 716 01:01:16.790 --> 01:01:17.660 Tad Eggleston: Better! 717 01:01:17.660 --> 01:01:18.290 Tyler Johnson: That's great. 718 01:01:18.290 --> 01:01:19.700 Tad Eggleston: At least know that. 719 01:01:19.700 --> 01:01:20.400 Tyler Johnson: I can't do that. 720 01:01:21.010 --> 01:01:33.440 Tyler Johnson: Not that I'm expecting that this will be anything amazing, but you do have access to all kinds of different artists, too, that might be… that might want to pick this up, because I do not have time to draw a comic book. 721 01:01:33.440 --> 01:01:34.770 Tad Eggleston: You're not gonna draw it yourself? 722 01:01:35.270 --> 01:01:39.479 Tyler Johnson: I have, and my wife said the same thing. I have no time to do that. 723 01:01:39.480 --> 01:01:39.950 Phil: That's fair. 724 01:01:40.170 --> 01:01:48.740 Tyler Johnson: I can write in, you know, when I've got short little minutes of whatever in between stuff, but as far as, like, you know, sitting down and actually… 725 01:01:48.740 --> 01:01:53.280 Tad Eggleston: Definitely something that we'll have to talk about more off the air, because… because… 726 01:01:53.280 --> 01:01:53.980 Tyler Johnson: Yeah. 727 01:01:53.980 --> 01:01:57.910 Tad Eggleston: Like, most artists don't have time to do stuff unless they're getting paid. 728 01:01:58.120 --> 01:02:08.880 Tyler Johnson: Exactly. Yep, exactly, and I'm willing to do that, because I, and I'll tell you, I would know who I'd really want to do it, so… 729 01:02:09.740 --> 01:02:10.380 Phil: Nice. 730 01:02:10.380 --> 01:02:11.370 Tyler Johnson: But that's true. 731 01:02:11.370 --> 01:02:13.109 Tad Eggleston: But it's totally off-air, and if we want to. 732 01:02:13.110 --> 01:02:13.479 Tyler Johnson: be able to do. 733 01:02:13.480 --> 01:02:16.569 Tad Eggleston: anything off-air before you have to run, we should… 734 01:02:16.910 --> 01:02:17.690 Tyler Johnson: Oh, no. 735 01:02:17.690 --> 01:02:18.240 Tad Eggleston: Nope. 736 01:02:18.240 --> 01:02:21.929 Tyler Johnson: I'll have to talk to you guys about that later. We'll do the show, and then I gotta go. 737 01:02:22.090 --> 01:02:22.630 Phil: Yep. 738 01:02:22.630 --> 01:02:23.029 Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah. 739 01:02:23.030 --> 01:02:23.550 Phil: Next week. 740 01:02:23.980 --> 01:02:25.030 Phil: Put a pin in it. 741 01:02:25.620 --> 01:02:31.779 Tad Eggleston: I can say right now that I know that Archie No. 2 from Ben H. Winters and Fabio Moon. 742 01:02:32.120 --> 01:02:32.510 Tyler Johnson: It's good. 743 01:02:32.950 --> 01:02:34.230 Tad Eggleston: Spectacular. 744 01:02:34.230 --> 01:02:36.439 Tyler Johnson: Well, one is good. I haven't read 2. 745 01:02:36.690 --> 01:02:39.339 Tad Eggleston: I've read two as well, and it's really good. 746 01:02:39.340 --> 01:02:41.450 Phil: Hard to imagine bad comics from Fabio Moon. 747 01:02:42.070 --> 01:02:42.560 Tyler Johnson: I know. 748 01:02:42.560 --> 01:02:43.609 Tad Eggleston: That's… that's true. 749 01:02:43.610 --> 01:02:44.740 Phil: It just can't. 750 01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:50.510 Tad Eggleston: I'm actually going to propose… Next week's… 751 01:02:52.900 --> 01:02:54.060 Phil: Great responsibility. 752 01:02:54.430 --> 01:02:56.719 Tad Eggleston: Yes, those are the words I was looking for. 753 01:02:57.070 --> 01:03:11.140 Tad Eggleston: Based on a collection coming out this week that's also timely for Halloween, and will be recording on November 1st, so we can count that as Halloween. Yeah. And Tyler's already held up his copy, because Afterlife with Archie comes out this week. 754 01:03:11.140 --> 01:03:11.870 Phil: Oh, that's okay. 755 01:03:11.870 --> 01:03:15.890 Tad Eggleston: and… Comics… er, Global Comics. 756 01:03:16.260 --> 01:03:23.289 Tad Eggleston: 10 issues. I think Tyler and I read the first 5 a long time ago, but I think it'd be worth reading all 10. 757 01:03:23.290 --> 01:03:23.700 Phil: Okay, yeah. 758 01:03:23.700 --> 01:03:26.480 Tad Eggleston: Afterlife with Archie for next week. 759 01:03:26.480 --> 01:03:27.000 Tyler Johnson: Yep. 760 01:03:27.790 --> 01:03:28.940 Tyler Johnson: So, I picked that up. 761 01:03:28.940 --> 01:03:29.570 Tad Eggleston: And I just came 762 01:03:29.900 --> 01:03:37.060 Tad Eggleston: Great, great place, because not next week, but I think the week after that is when… 763 01:03:38.780 --> 01:03:46.630 Tad Eggleston: tying everything back together now, Patrick Korvath, and… and, tyler Crooks… 764 01:03:47.080 --> 01:03:48.030 Tad Eggleston: Aww. 765 01:03:48.460 --> 01:03:50.460 Tad Eggleston: Archie in Hell launches. 766 01:03:50.460 --> 01:03:51.920 Phil: Very interesting, okay. 767 01:03:52.480 --> 01:03:57.580 Tad Eggleston: So… so yeah, we'll get our Archie Halloween fix going. 768 01:03:57.910 --> 01:04:14.320 Tad Eggleston: But anyway, the other three books that I am excited for, and you can tell how many great books there were that I had to read this week, because there are a lot of weeks where all 3 of these would be in the books I know are spectacular. I have reader copies of. 769 01:04:14.760 --> 01:04:32.660 Tad Eggleston: all three of these books, and fully expect them to be spectacular. That Texas Blood, Hell Comes to Allison Ranch, number 2, from Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips. Fort Psycho, number 3 from Matt Kent and Brian Hurt. And Crimes Against Nature, number 2 from Elliot Rahal, and Mattia 770 01:04:32.660 --> 01:04:38.090 Tad Eggleston: Monaco. Those are from Image,

ONI, and Image, respectively. 771 01:04:39.590 --> 01:04:49.490 Tad Eggleston: Also worth pointing out is we have the collection of The Peril of the Brutal Dark, an Ezra Kane mystery from Condon and Phillips at DC Vertigo, and 772 01:04:51.700 --> 01:04:55.120 Tad Eggleston: You Have Killed Me from Joel Jones and Jamie S. Rich. 773 01:04:55.300 --> 01:04:59.220 Tad Eggleston: Which are… they're just… they… they do such amazing work together. 774 01:04:59.350 --> 01:04:59.900 Phil: Oh, yeah. 775 01:05:00.120 --> 01:05:01.790 Tad Eggleston: from Pony Press. 776 01:05:01.920 --> 01:05:04.479 Tad Eggleston: Graphic novel coming out next week. 777 01:05:04.650 --> 01:05:06.260 Tad Eggleston: fill. 778 01:05:07.120 --> 01:05:08.300 Tad Eggleston: Your trade waiter pick. 779 01:05:08.300 --> 01:05:17.329 Phil: It is in the run-up to Halloween, you should absolutely pick up In Your Skin from Siege of Biddikar and Som over at Image Comics. 780 01:05:17.330 --> 01:05:17.990 Tyler Johnson: agreed. 781 01:05:17.990 --> 01:05:26.160 Phil: Yeah, I… a close second, I almost picked… I almost picked The Peril of the Brutal Dark, that was a close one, because that looks really interesting, too. 782 01:05:26.160 --> 01:05:34.390 Tyler Johnson: good. Anything… Vertigo is putting out such good stuff, so you could have picked that, and it would have been great, the Ezra Kane Mystery. 783 01:05:34.390 --> 01:05:37.270 Tad Eggleston: They are absolutely living up to… 784 01:05:38.750 --> 01:05:39.100 Phil: criminal. 785 01:05:39.100 --> 01:05:40.990 Tad Eggleston: The Vertigo. 786 01:05:41.230 --> 01:05:42.170 Tyler Johnson: the vertigo, like. 787 01:05:42.170 --> 01:05:42.749 Tad Eggleston: to go labels. 788 01:05:42.750 --> 01:05:43.120 Tyler Johnson: type. 789 01:05:43.120 --> 01:05:49.129 Phil: I just said criminal because it's Jacob Phillips, and… No, I get it. And, like, there's a detective. 790 01:05:49.130 --> 01:05:54.900 Tad Eggleston: But I've actually been on record a few times already in saying that as much as I like Brubaker, Philip. 791 01:05:56.130 --> 01:05:57.990 Tad Eggleston: I think I like Condon Phillips better. 792 01:05:57.990 --> 01:05:59.950 Phil: Okay, I'll have to give him a shot then. 793 01:06:00.300 --> 01:06:01.220 Phil: That's a high bar. 794 01:06:01.220 --> 01:06:04.350 Tad Eggleston: I think… I think I like Cotton Phillips better. 795 01:06:04.590 --> 01:06:05.240 Phil: Alright. 796 01:06:06.630 --> 01:06:10.820 Tyler Johnson: Well, guys, I'm gonna take us out, my family's ready to go out the door. 797 01:06:11.140 --> 01:06:12.250 Tad Eggleston: Staring at you, going. 798 01:06:12.670 --> 01:06:14.730 Tyler Johnson: They are not, they're putting their shoes on. 799 01:06:15.260 --> 01:06:16.619 Phil: Okay, they're gonna leave it behind. 800 01:06:16.620 --> 01:06:27.069 Tad Eggleston: It would have been way more, way more fun if they were already in their shoes and jackets and just staring at you, Peggy tapping her watch, Raina tapping her foot. 801 01:06:27.420 --> 01:06:34.279 Tyler Johnson: So, no, here's Raina. You can see she's in her cute sweater. She's gonna sing for church today. 802 01:06:34.860 --> 01:06:35.460 Tyler Johnson: So… 803 01:06:35.460 --> 01:06:36.270 Tad Eggleston: Yay! 804 01:06:36.270 --> 01:06:36.830 Tyler Johnson: Yay! 805 01:06:36.830 --> 01:06:37.790 Phil: Congratulations! 806 01:06:39.040 --> 01:06:40.200 Phil: Oh, that's sweet. 807 01:06:40.590 --> 01:06:49.030 Tyler Johnson: So, anyway, guys, I got a hug. Anyway, guys, thank you for listening, and we will catch you guys after the next page. 808 01:06:49.440 --> 01:06:50.320 Tyler Johnson: See ya!