Full Transcript for The Stack: Scott Pilgrim, Legion Of Super-Heroes And More

came out a long time ago I was like what why is this happening right this to be felt like the sort of thing that you would get in and tend to empower back at the moment exactly sick and on that level like I think that's probably what he's aiming for I don't buy it like we're talking about 02:17.210 --> 02:21.292 [SPEAKER_03]: It's delightful to see these characters back again run by Brian Lee O'Malley. 02:21.352 --> 02:24.553 [SPEAKER_03]: There's a lot of fun jokes in here But I grew through Justin. 02:24.573 --> 02:29.055 [SPEAKER_03]: It definitely didn't leave me be like oh hell, yeah I'm gonna go play that game at the end. 02:29.475 --> 02:29.835 [SPEAKER_03]: I was like 02:30.461 --> 02:32.803 [SPEAKER_03]: I would like to follow the story with these characters. 02:33.023 --> 02:35.506 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it would be nice to get a comic book for him. 02:35.586 --> 02:36.727 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think you need more. 02:36.867 --> 02:39.750 [SPEAKER_01]: I think you need to get a power glove and to read this comic. 02:40.190 --> 02:42.672 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just happy to get more Scott Bogum. 02:43.213 --> 02:45.755 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know, it's an Nintendo reference. 02:45.795 --> 02:46.736 [SPEAKER_01]: You guys were making it. 02:46.776 --> 02:48.898 [SPEAKER_01]: Anyways, I thought this was great. 02:49.038 --> 02:50.400 [SPEAKER_01]: It was just happy to, 02:51.120 --> 02:55.526 [SPEAKER_01]: have this back and yeah, I don't care if he wants to do ads. 02:55.606 --> 03:00.231 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll take whatever he wants to put out man just if you're making Scott Pilgrim I'll show up 03:01.238 --> 03:04.761 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you hear that, Bradley O'Malley, a little piggy over there. 03:04.781 --> 03:06.263 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, he didn't even slap you. 03:06.363 --> 03:08.145 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, there's lots to do with them. 03:08.425 --> 03:11.808 [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm running the Alex calling Pete a little piggy counter. 03:11.868 --> 03:13.230 [SPEAKER_02]: And we are up to two. 03:13.350 --> 03:15.071 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, this is this week. 03:15.672 --> 03:17.594 [SPEAKER_02]: I'll tell you what, this is going to get out of control. 03:17.614 --> 03:19.255 [SPEAKER_02]: Look, see, here's the difference. 03:19.456 --> 03:20.537 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm in the power position. 03:20.917 --> 03:21.998 [SPEAKER_02]: Alex is getting wild. 03:22.358 --> 03:23.059 [SPEAKER_02]: He's down. 03:23.319 --> 03:25.021 [SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't have to pay attention as much. 03:25.061 --> 03:25.581 [SPEAKER_02]: He's feeding. 03:26.242 --> 03:27.003 [SPEAKER_02]: He's a little freesal. 03:27.063 --> 03:28.385 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't even know what we're talking about. 03:28.405 --> 03:29.326 [SPEAKER_03]: What is his movie? 03:29.386 --> 03:29.927 [SPEAKER_03]: TV. 03:30.047 --> 03:30.908 [SPEAKER_03]: What's going on here? 03:31.188 --> 03:32.290 [SPEAKER_03]: Scott Pilgrim. 03:32.390 --> 03:35.714 [SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, if you are a Scott Pilgrim fan, there's a fun little thing to pick up. 03:35.734 --> 03:38.177 [SPEAKER_03]: But just don't expect it to be a full complete story. 03:38.297 --> 03:39.378 [SPEAKER_01]: But it'll happen. 03:39.398 --> 03:40.059 [SPEAKER_01]: It might be. 03:40.139 --> 03:41.701 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, might get another volume. 03:41.721 --> 03:42.502 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, not. 03:42.562 --> 03:43.403 [SPEAKER_02]: We're not going to. 03:43.664 --> 03:43.844 [SPEAKER_02]: No. 03:44.825 --> 03:50.390 [SPEAKER_02]: But let me say the sky Ramona scene like it does it hits it hits hard. 03:50.510 --> 04:00.418 [SPEAKER_02]: So like if you're a fan at all and just want to see a hang with these two who are like comfortably dating in this comic like that's great and worth it. 04:00.843 --> 04:10.228 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and if you saw the the alternate version of the movie where him and knives got together, you know, there's also a little You get a little to see how knives he's doing, so that's nice. 04:10.248 --> 04:27.677 [SPEAKER_02]: So sorry, a little backstory on that piece on early screening of Scott Pilgrim Versus the world when that came out, however many years ago, where they had knives all through and hiding Where instead of Ramona, you hooked up with knives, so they can play video games together because they're very well. 04:30.401 --> 04:34.897 [SPEAKER_02]: It's insane they made that and it's insane that you still ride for it right now. 04:37.027 --> 04:38.648 [SPEAKER_03]: Well anyway, this is in storage now. 04:38.668 --> 04:43.071 [SPEAKER_03]: Why don't we move on talk about Legion of Superheroes number three from DC Comics, written by John O'Neill. 04:43.091 --> 04:44.932 [SPEAKER_03]: It's an art by Hayden Sherman. 04:45.312 --> 04:49.594 [SPEAKER_03]: But I talked to Joshua and Hayden over at New York Comic-Con. 04:49.914 --> 04:54.917 [SPEAKER_03]: They were bursting at the seams about this issue in particular because issue two had just come out. 04:55.277 --> 05:00.520 [SPEAKER_03]: They were like, I wish issue three had come out because that's the one we really want to talk about. 05:00.921 --> 05:02.401 [SPEAKER_03]: So a lot of hype going into here. 05:02.602 --> 05:03.302 [SPEAKER_03]: And I think, 05:03.582 --> 05:14.206 [SPEAKER_03]: They delivered some huge things go down in this issue beyond the gorgeous hate and shame and art New or continue the story of this new very darker future. 05:14.526 --> 05:19.488 [SPEAKER_03]: I want to throw out a crazy theory about it later But what do we get into you talking about the catch field up? 05:19.668 --> 05:23.510 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, this is why Justin's in the power seat for this book here. 05:23.630 --> 05:26.431 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, J. T. S. Isle is the Legion head. 05:26.871 --> 05:28.491 [SPEAKER_01]: So this has got to be very exciting. 05:28.571 --> 05:29.712 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no. 05:30.352 --> 05:31.212 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's all over. 05:31.332 --> 05:32.533 [SPEAKER_03]: Pete, you're in

charge now. 05:32.953 --> 05:36.294 [SPEAKER_03]: Justin listening in audio version of this podcast. 05:36.414 --> 05:40.416 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry about what's about to happen over the next hour. 05:40.456 --> 05:41.936 [SPEAKER_01]: Justin, what did you think, man? 05:41.996 --> 05:43.157 [SPEAKER_01]: How did you feel about it? 05:43.990 --> 05:44.691 [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, Pete. 05:44.891 --> 05:46.932 [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for calling on me and asking me this question. 05:46.952 --> 05:52.717 [SPEAKER_02]: I appreciate your leadership in all things this book is awesome. 05:52.757 --> 05:57.481 [SPEAKER_02]: This issue does deliver The the Legion has a very specific origin. 05:57.521 --> 06:02.524 [SPEAKER_02]: There are three main characters who have to sort of come together to form a Legion. 06:02.565 --> 06:06.988 [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's great about the way that they've tackled this in this iteration. 06:07.492 --> 06:09.693 [SPEAKER_02]: is they're letting it happen slowly. 06:10.073 --> 06:13.195 [SPEAKER_02]: We're meeting further characters from the Legion. 06:13.235 --> 06:24.641 [SPEAKER_02]: And we have Brainiac five sort of in the Pete LePage seat, the power seat, in the, at least the first couple issues here, but we all know who we want to get to. 06:24.761 --> 06:27.462 [SPEAKER_02]: And we get, we get that a little bit here. 06:27.482 --> 06:30.984 [SPEAKER_02]: We get a tragic event that's happening here. 06:32.005 --> 06:34.167 [SPEAKER_02]: The hate germinar is fantastic. 06:34.368 --> 06:38.853 [SPEAKER_02]: I love the way they're surprising us with this intro of these characters. 06:39.213 --> 06:44.419 [SPEAKER_02]: We're getting a lot of the, we all know the origin super boy plays a lot into this. 06:44.799 --> 06:47.843 [SPEAKER_02]: We're getting that, but we don't quite know what it means. 06:47.883 --> 06:51.327 [SPEAKER_02]: There's a mystery here and a lot of things start to drop in this issue. 06:52.020 --> 07:14.425 [SPEAKER_01]: the art is epic in this comic there's so many just full page art kind of it's really art-forward and a lot of kind of just won't like it takes up the whole page they're not leaving blank areas well the full page it's a whole page I'm just saying like normally you go kind of panel by panel but they're doing like full page and then some panel it's a whole picture per- 07:14.725 --> 07:36.241 [SPEAKER_03]: There's I wanted to point out for you guys and anybody who hasn't listened to the interview with Joshua or Hayden, which I Love knowing this I didn't know this going into issue 2 and I was keeping an eye out for issue 3 Saturn girl talks in those pictographs because she has mental powers He didn't draws those those are not lettering those are drawn individually. 07:36.401 --> 07:38.563 [SPEAKER_03]: I hated it every paddle which is 07:39.459 --> 07:40.221 [SPEAKER_01]: That's crazy. 07:40.262 --> 07:45.558 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the art is epic in this comic and crazy last couple of panels,

man. 07:46.043 --> 07:47.444 [SPEAKER_01]: just palm in a skull. 07:47.484 --> 07:48.385 [SPEAKER_01]: That's just crazy. 07:49.146 --> 07:51.408 [SPEAKER_03]: So here's the theory I want to throw out to you guys. 07:51.428 --> 07:53.489 [SPEAKER_03]: And this is based on in this issue. 07:53.630 --> 07:59.034 [SPEAKER_03]: Then talking about like, uh, there's a darkness at the center of everything in the future. 07:59.054 --> 08:09.523 [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, and we're getting this disturbing superman who I think is probably going to turn out to be cyborg superman as the person who is leasing with the legion. 08:09.563 --> 08:10.024 [SPEAKER_03]: That's certainly 08:11.685 --> 08:13.826 [SPEAKER_03]: But why throw out something else that occurred to be here? 08:14.406 --> 08:19.407 [SPEAKER_03]: Is there a possibility that this book is actually absolute legion of superheroes? 08:20.267 --> 08:26.529 [SPEAKER_03]: Like, is there a possibility that it turns out that six issues down the line, the title changes? 08:26.589 --> 08:27.949 [SPEAKER_03]: Because this is the future. 08:28.490 --> 08:36.912 [SPEAKER_03]: But we haven't explicitly other than the next level at all in the thing of the front, been told, this is actually the future of the DC universe, not the absolutely. 08:37.627 --> 08:49.191 [SPEAKER_02]: That would be quite a trick, and I will say when there's the illusions to this super boy or Superman who is not good, essentially, my first thought was absolute. 08:49.271 --> 08:59.074 [SPEAKER_02]: But I was like, how, just from a publishing perspective, they're just going to slap an absolute on the top, that feels, by an issue like six, that feels sort of crazy. 08:59.555 --> 09:03.456 [SPEAKER_02]: But it's a cool swing, and honestly, I would ride for that. 09:04.388 --> 09:05.770 [SPEAKER_03]: Josh Williams and did it before. 09:06.050 --> 09:12.517 [SPEAKER_03]: He did it before with dark crisis on infinite earths, where it was originally called dark crisis. 09:12.618 --> 09:17.824 [SPEAKER_03]: If I recall, it was like, issue three or four, they changed the title of the book to reveal it. 09:18.044 --> 09:19.826 [SPEAKER_02]: So, so that's his thing. 09:20.006 --> 09:20.887 [SPEAKER_02]: He's a title title. 09:20.947 --> 09:22.890 [SPEAKER_02]: No, it's that would also. 09:22.910 --> 09:24.131 [SPEAKER_03]: Josh, the title changer. 09:25.572 --> 09:27.174 [SPEAKER_03]: I think it would be a baller move, though. 09:27.355 --> 09:29.598 [SPEAKER_03]: Absolute is such a huge selling line. 09:29.838 --> 09:35.386 [SPEAKER_03]: Legion can be anything that if you really did like this works, not to being absolute. 09:35.506 --> 09:36.227 [SPEAKER_03]: It's fine. 09:36.287 --> 09:36.467 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 09:36.707 --> 09:41.494 [SPEAKER_03]: But if you're looking just from a callous business perspective, if you're looking for a sales bump. 09:41.954 --> 09:46.577 [SPEAKER_03]: at issue six and you're like, oh, by the way, this is actually absolute illusion of superheroes. 09:47.018 --> 09:47.978 [SPEAKER_03]: That drops like a bob. 09:48.078 --> 09:50.720 [SPEAKER_03]: Everybody goes back, buys the previous issue, so you miss it. 09:51.081 --> 09:52.562 [SPEAKER_03]: It becomes a collector's item. 09:52.922 --> 09:53.282 [SPEAKER_03]: It's big. 09:53.502 --> 09:53.842 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know. 09:54.103 --> 09:54.443 [SPEAKER_03]: We'll see. 09:54.803 --> 09:56.344 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that would be interesting. 09:56.364 --> 09:56.925 [SPEAKER_02]: It would be cool. 09:57.765 --> 10:25.950 [SPEAKER_02]: I will say to me it does feel like it's a it's a purposeful just story choice for this just giving the the Legion a different thing to push against to form and that that's exciting the Legion has always been about like of rebellion or is often about how rebellion of some sort and I feel like we think it's going to be them rebelling against the politics of the future the united planets but instead it might be this other thing 10:26.549 --> 10:26.729 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. 10:26.969 --> 10:27.990 [SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, this book is great. 10:28.070 --> 10:30.071 [SPEAKER_03]: Whatever it is called, definitely pick it up. 10:30.231 --> 10:37.776 [SPEAKER_03]: Next up, amazing Spider-Man, one thousand and three from Marvel Written by Joe Kelly, Art by Simone De Mayo. 10:38.196 --> 10:45.561 [SPEAKER_03]: We are dealing with the aftermath of Armageddon here as Spider-Man and his one and only girlfriend Ray Lith is true love. 10:45.581 --> 10:47.002 [SPEAKER_03]: Stop getting us a coax. 10:47.122 --> 10:51.645 [SPEAKER_03]: Head out on the town to deal with a populist that is 10:52.565 --> 11:08.437 [SPEAKER_03]: On edge after the events of Arbageddon and meanwhile, JJ and Jamison is dealing with the fact that his boss nor a winters wants him to start digging into Spider-Man again that brings us the real tension of the issue that you're going to hint which way things are going to go from the cover. 11:09.158 --> 11:10.158 [SPEAKER_03]: Which you guys think about this? 11:10.238 --> 11:12.440 [SPEAKER_03]: What was your take on this issue? 11:13.321 --> 11:14.722 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, the art is great. 11:15.162 --> 11:15.182 [SPEAKER_01]: I 11:17.224 --> 11:43.841 [SPEAKER_01]: uh... it's just hard because i want to know what's going on with the devil deal and how that's affecting mj and if so that's over in a ventures i can hear you i hear you i can hear you had a door you yeah yeah i'm completely ignoring that but i just uh... it's hard to focus on the spider-man story when the spider-man story 11:45.123 --> 11:47.004 [SPEAKER_01]: is, you know, also going on. 11:47.064 --> 11:48.905 [SPEAKER_01]: So that's what I'm going to say about that. 11:48.945 --> 11:56.889 [SPEAKER_02]: But well, I think to say that story is going on is a bit of a stretch for reality. 11:56.929 --> 12:12.957 [SPEAKER_02]: But I will say, I understand why you think you're going to get some echoes of that here,

because I think they've actually done a pretty effective job of weaving the larger story of the Marvel Universe into the individual titles in the last couple weeks as the aftermath of Armageddon and the New Avengers 12:14.718 --> 12:26.906 [SPEAKER_02]: We've seen it, they're making a concerted effort, which is a good use of editorial to start to tie this Marvel universe together a little bit, something that I think we've talked about as feeling that DC's doing really well and Marvel has not. 12:26.946 --> 12:28.127 [SPEAKER_02]: So shout out for that, for happening. 12:28.727 --> 12:30.789 [SPEAKER_02]: For this book, I love Rayleth. 12:31.109 --> 12:33.250 [SPEAKER_02]: I want them to be together. 12:33.551 --> 12:34.952 [SPEAKER_02]: That's the power couple. 12:35.372 --> 12:37.153 [SPEAKER_02]: I want a nation where they go on a date. 12:37.233 --> 12:37.853 [SPEAKER_02]: Give me the day. 12:39.483 --> 12:40.184 [SPEAKER_02]: That's what I wanted. 12:40.304 --> 12:41.524 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, this is kind of their date. 12:41.544 --> 12:44.166 [SPEAKER_03]: They have a cute thing where they're both on the statue together. 12:44.667 --> 12:52.292 [SPEAKER_03]: Spider-Man is like, hey, this is my friend Ray-Lith, you can call her Ray, very sweet, and they stand there and with the rest of New York. 12:52.472 --> 12:58.916 [SPEAKER_02]: They're literally out there to fight against crazy riots against Superheroes. 12:58.936 --> 13:00.057 [SPEAKER_03]: They're out there making a point. 13:00.157 --> 13:01.258 [SPEAKER_03]: That's a date, I believe. 13:01.278 --> 13:02.099 [SPEAKER_03]: I am modern society. 13:04.623 --> 13:05.907 [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, day night. 13:06.028 --> 13:09.338 [SPEAKER_03]: Let's go through rocks at Chuck Schumer. 13:11.677 --> 13:12.978 [SPEAKER_02]: the huge amount of chemistry. 13:13.138 --> 13:14.858 [SPEAKER_02]: Ray is such a fun character. 13:15.138 --> 13:21.021 [SPEAKER_02]: I just want to see them out in the town in a more even-handed day and not a spider-man crime thing that they have to do. 13:21.761 --> 13:31.785 [SPEAKER_02]: The J. John of James and stuff here, really repositioning him away from the friend place, which I think is nice, that was always felt a little weird. 13:32.365 --> 13:38.608 [SPEAKER_02]: Especially in a world where we have green goblin, is Spidey's friend and also J. John, I was like, what's too many old man friends? 13:39.428 --> 13:47.151 [SPEAKER_02]: Also we have Jay Jonah Jameson being like his dad just died who was married to May and we get a fun reference to there. 13:47.851 --> 13:50.832 [SPEAKER_02]: Spider-Man is technically related to Jameson in that way. 13:51.592 --> 13:56.694 [SPEAKER_02]: But like Jay John Jameson is sort of younger in continuity than he has ever been before. 13:56.754 --> 13:59.015 [SPEAKER_02]: So I want him old and mean. 13:59.815 --> 14:05.200 [SPEAKER_03]: That's Simone Demand definitely draws him ages him down in this issue, which is interesting. 14:05.921 --> 14:13.629 [SPEAKER_03]: I do think Joe did a really nice job of organically figuring out how to get JJ on a Jameson Antis spider-man again. 14:13.649 --> 14:20.415 [SPEAKER_03]: I was a little worried by the cover because that feels like gymnastics to get there, but he doesn't very fluently. 14:20.876 --> 14:21.536 [SPEAKER_03]: On the other hand, 14:24.559 --> 14:26.720 [SPEAKER_03]: gets by that. 14:27.381 --> 14:30.382 [SPEAKER_03]: Because throughout this entire issue, she is crazed. 14:30.542 --> 14:32.323 [SPEAKER_03]: She is crazed about views. 14:32.903 --> 14:35.365 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, she's always been that way. 14:35.565 --> 14:40.387 [SPEAKER_02]: She was the character brought in to be like, you know, newspaper, the internet happened. 14:40.747 --> 14:43.589 [SPEAKER_02]: And now this is the logical iteration. 14:43.649 --> 14:43.929 [SPEAKER_02]: Sure. 14:43.969 --> 14:45.790 [SPEAKER_02]: So I think I actually think that's fine. 14:46.190 --> 14:46.670 [SPEAKER_02]: I think it was. 14:46.690 --> 14:48.651 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I did have a huge problem with it. 14:48.672 --> 15:01.279 [SPEAKER_03]: I was like, whoa, I feel like I missed a one beat of the character fell into this boy Trump just named her press secretary and someone has to tell him that she's fictional much like Dana White. 15:03.035 --> 15:04.917 [SPEAKER_03]: Wow, we're so hearted this episode. 15:04.997 --> 15:13.066 [SPEAKER_03]: Biter threats, the cleaner number one from Dark Boys Comics, written by Jerry Duggin, areed by Mark Torres. 15:13.086 --> 15:17.491 [SPEAKER_03]: This is about the guy in the minor threats universe who cleans up the messes that happens. 15:18.052 --> 15:22.497 [SPEAKER_03]: It reminds me a little bit of what was the book that he did, where was the thief? 15:23.037 --> 15:24.837 [SPEAKER_03]: with like the tape over his eyes. 15:24.878 --> 15:26.098 [SPEAKER_03]: It was like cross eyes. 15:26.478 --> 15:28.718 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, yeah, that was tape eyes. 15:28.839 --> 15:30.259 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, don't ruin it. 15:30.299 --> 15:31.419 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a great comic. 15:31.599 --> 15:32.499 [SPEAKER_03]: It's a great comic. 15:32.519 --> 15:32.940 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no. 15:32.960 --> 15:33.140 [SPEAKER_03]: Great. 15:33.220 --> 15:40.681 [SPEAKER_03]: It's just, it's a very different plot, but there's something about it that reminded me of it a little bit, like a felt of a piece with that. 15:40.701 --> 15:40.962 [SPEAKER_03]: Sure. 15:41.082 --> 15:44.963 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I think that's just the style of writing, and I guess maybe the format. 15:45.083 --> 15:46.543 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that might be a little bit too much. 15:46.763 --> 15:47.823 [SPEAKER_02]: I think it was dead eyes. 15:48.323 --> 15:49.024 [SPEAKER_01]: Dead eyes. 15:49.104 --> 15:49.524 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you. 15:49.564 --> 15:49.844 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. 15:49.944 --> 15:50.184 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 15:51.584 --> 15:53.545 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I really

love the pace of this. 15:53.585 --> 15:55.726 [SPEAKER_01]: I think it moved really nice, which was great. 15:56.106 --> 15:57.787 [SPEAKER_01]: Love the twist in turns. 15:58.988 --> 16:03.269 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, a lot of great art and action, cool vibe. 16:04.430 --> 16:06.411 [SPEAKER_01]: I really thought this was a solid first dish. 16:06.431 --> 16:07.932 [SPEAKER_01]: You'd get to excited for more. 16:08.852 --> 16:11.893 [SPEAKER_01]: I thought this was kind of a really interesting world. 16:11.973 --> 16:13.094 [SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't just that. 16:13.154 --> 16:14.074 [SPEAKER_01]: He's like a cleaner. 16:14.114 --> 16:15.415 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot more going on. 16:15.475 --> 16:15.635 [SPEAKER_01]: So, 16:16.215 --> 16:22.799 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I really was impressed with this and since we're getting four of this, I'm excited for all four of them. 16:22.839 --> 16:25.041 [SPEAKER_02]: Is he some nice comedy in this at the same time? 16:25.081 --> 16:29.384 [SPEAKER_02]: We're getting this character going about his business. 16:30.144 --> 16:32.686 [SPEAKER_02]: Nice like process issue of what he does. 16:34.287 --> 16:36.628 [SPEAKER_02]: We don't get a lot of minor threats universe in here yet. 16:36.648 --> 16:39.350 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm hoping we get a little bit more of that going forward. 16:45.804 --> 16:46.604 [SPEAKER_02]: No. 16:46.685 --> 16:57.951 [SPEAKER_02]: Remind me a little bit more of like a Hawkeye, a classic, the Matt Fraction Hawkeye type story, where we're following this character, doing his business in this funny and also fucked up. 16:58.531 --> 16:59.332 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, let's go. 17:00.154 --> 17:06.179 [SPEAKER_03]: Transformers number 38 from Skybound Image Comics written by Robert Kirkman, art by Jason Howard. 17:06.199 --> 17:17.368 [SPEAKER_03]: And now full transparency here, I started skipping this one because I felt like we were having very same mean discussions where Pete, you would talk about how this is giving them a soldier bath. 17:17.868 --> 17:22.272 [SPEAKER_03]: Me and Justin would make fun of the transformer names and talk about how we can't tell them apart. 17:22.432 --> 17:23.953 [SPEAKER_03]: And it was kind of the same thing every time. 17:24.053 --> 17:24.534 [SPEAKER_03]: Bye. 17:24.754 --> 17:29.724 [SPEAKER_03]: There's a cool new Megatron on the cover, so I figured we could check back in here and see how things are going. 17:30.145 --> 17:32.670 [SPEAKER_03]: Let's see if it hurts out different this time. 17:33.600 --> 17:37.964 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so Megatronus Rex is a little bunch for me. 17:37.984 --> 17:41.547 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, he's shit. 17:41.707 --> 17:45.731 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god, because even Optimus calls him back up next Megatron. 17:45.811 --> 17:51.896 [SPEAKER_01]: So I was like, yo, you know, it's a lot, but he got it really upset about his name. 17:52.236 --> 17:56.760 [SPEAKER_02]: But I was like, oh, but he used me in the name as too much or his big shape

as too much. 17:56.921 --> 18:00.704 [SPEAKER_02]: No, the name is too much because that's the name. 18:01.004 --> 18:10.786 [SPEAKER_01]: Because I was like, all right, the name is a little much, but then when he transforms at the end, I was like, oh, that is the cool thing I've ever seen. 18:11.186 --> 18:20.368 [SPEAKER_01]: So, first I was a little like, but then they won me back and man, that fucking giant gun for devastating, just melted my kid brain. 18:20.768 --> 18:27.969 [SPEAKER_01]: And I was just like, oh my god, there would be sick like using Megatron as the gun for demonstrator, that would just be, I mean, 18:30.750 --> 18:40.514 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, the constructed cons turned into divestator and then this new megatron is the gun for divestator I mean, that's just so bad as I mean, I just and a question. 18:40.594 --> 18:44.215 [SPEAKER_02]: Why are the constructed cons of green because they should be yellow? 18:45.876 --> 18:49.237 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, yeah, I guess because it's too close to Tonka trucks. 18:49.718 --> 18:53.579 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, maybe Tonka trucks was gonna sue them And they had it to be like we're going green. 18:54.059 --> 18:54.900 [SPEAKER_02]: We're not Tonka. 18:55.160 --> 18:55.380 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah 18:56.322 --> 19:12.640 [SPEAKER_03]: It's funny that you like the gun thing, Pete, because I will say I liked it when Megatronics Rest was like, I'm a big evil purple energy barfing tank and that when he turns it to the giant robot thing, it is very imposing as those huge shoulder cadets and everything. 19:13.140 --> 19:27.734 [SPEAKER_03]: It's not even a nice shoulder smaller than usual, so like he's small and being a electronics rest is large, and then the fact that he's like my finishing move is to turn it to a gun that somebody else holds again. 19:27.774 --> 19:28.634 [SPEAKER_02]: My friend holds. 19:29.791 --> 19:31.132 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know why that's his thing. 19:31.252 --> 19:32.272 [SPEAKER_03]: Why is that his thing? 19:32.293 --> 19:32.933 [SPEAKER_03]: That's his thing? 19:32.953 --> 19:33.233 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 19:33.333 --> 19:34.454 [SPEAKER_02]: That's very funny. 19:35.274 --> 19:36.035 [SPEAKER_02]: It's very funny. 19:36.255 --> 19:40.257 [SPEAKER_02]: Could I feel like we need him to be like, OK, shoot me. 19:40.657 --> 19:41.638 [SPEAKER_03]: Here's what it was. 19:41.818 --> 19:42.919 [SPEAKER_03]: Here's what it's like. 19:42.939 --> 19:44.600 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, my goodness. 19:44.720 --> 19:45.980 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, my goodness. 19:46.140 --> 19:48.902 [SPEAKER_03]: It's like the three of us are together, and we're in a fight. 19:49.062 --> 19:53.385 [SPEAKER_03]: And Pete, I was beat the shit out of you, and you're like, get ready for I finish and move. 19:53.725 --> 19:56.366 [SPEAKER_03]: Justin, you hold my fists and punch for me. 19:56.807 --> 19:57.067 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. 19:57.547 --> 19:58.948 [SPEAKER_02]: That's uh, I don't know. 19:58.968 --> 20:02.430 [SPEAKER_02]: Or even crazier because like I've tied for my finishing move and I just turn into a knife. 20:04.050 --> 20:06.432 [SPEAKER_02]: Would you mind picking me up at the stairs? 20:06.492 --> 20:07.472 [UNKNOWN]: Pick me up! 20:08.813 --> 20:09.713 [SPEAKER_02]: It's very funny. 20:09.733 --> 20:10.734 [SPEAKER_02]: It makes me laugh all the time. 20:10.754 --> 20:15.316 [SPEAKER_02]: And that's why this comic is so self-serious that it is hard. 20:15.356 --> 20:17.217 [SPEAKER_02]: I want to make fun of it in that way. 20:17.777 --> 20:21.859 [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm also like the, I feel like the Autobots have just started chilling. 20:23.275 --> 20:47.114 [SPEAKER_02]: we get one of the humans gets a transformer suit which she gets a robot suit that was a cool she can fight a little bit maybe and then it turns into a car I was like okay also turn into a car she can get in a car she doesn't need to turn into a car right after the turn into a car then I agree with you on that because I could believe we got into that seed with uh... spike in whatever her day is 20:47.574 --> 20:57.480 [SPEAKER_03]: after we had skipped several issues and once again we're going to see what they're like Carly Carly, we're a spike in Carly or in some other place being like, boy, this is really tough Should we kiss? 20:58.360 --> 21:08.906 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what you think And then they don't And then instead they at least interrupt with this mechsuit that I was like, cool, she's going to be battling with mechsuit while the rest of the transformers and then she does it 21:09.591 --> 21:11.452 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, and also, like, they're like, all right. 21:11.472 --> 21:14.253 [SPEAKER_02]: No, no, we're being invaded, but the deceptic concept are going to kill us. 21:14.573 --> 21:15.814 [SPEAKER_02]: And spikes, like, let's go. 21:15.834 --> 21:18.135 [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm like, Spike, go hide somewhere. 21:18.155 --> 21:20.696 [SPEAKER_02]: You're like tiny little man. 21:20.716 --> 21:22.156 [SPEAKER_02]: And he's right in the middle. 21:22.256 --> 21:25.638 [SPEAKER_02]: And they're all they, all the traits we were talking about is like, is Spike okay? 21:25.738 --> 21:27.379 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, get it, move him somewhere. 21:27.399 --> 21:28.119 [SPEAKER_02]: He's a little scared. 21:28.139 --> 21:28.779 [SPEAKER_02]: He's a little scared. 21:29.540 --> 21:30.120 [SPEAKER_03]: You don't know. 21:30.260 --> 21:34.722 [SPEAKER_03]: Megatronus Rex can turn into a tiny little god at any point, and that would be the end of Spike. 21:35.180 --> 21:39.521 [SPEAKER_02]: Also, I want to say, like, you only had enough metal for one little human suit. 21:39.801 --> 21:44.262 [SPEAKER_02]: Make two for spike, you're making, you can climb into Carly's or whatever. 21:44.782 --> 21:47.522 [SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, I guess that's it for this title. 21:47.602 --> 21:49.603 [SPEAKER_03]: Also, great art, really, yeah. 21:49.823 --> 21:50.663 [SPEAKER_02]: It's

really good. 21:50.743 --> 21:55.024 [SPEAKER_02]: And I just want this, that title, the Transformers just slowed down a little bit. 21:55.064 --> 21:55.844 [SPEAKER_02]: I've said this a lot. 21:56.184 --> 22:00.365 [SPEAKER_02]: But the fact that it's septicons invade the Autobots and just wrecked them, I was like, what, I feel like? 22:00.865 --> 22:24.965 [SPEAKER_03]: haven't had a break give them a break they need to know other story there's no other story and I know this is part of the trans-forburs friends there's no other story that you pick up any issues like deception gods are like we're here out to America and then you pick up the next issue and Ottomans is like tied to fight back against the decepticons and then they've got to be something else you could say 22:25.305 --> 22:30.008 [SPEAKER_02]: In this issue, like, uh, uh, Optimus says, all right, let's all pull together and fight. 22:30.028 --> 22:38.933 [SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, I know you're going to work together, nobody doubts that the Transformers are going to fight together, like, relax. 22:39.053 --> 22:40.234 [SPEAKER_02]: Let's have a take a little break. 22:40.294 --> 22:44.657 [SPEAKER_02]: Talk about how when you drive off the transformer, your value drops in half. 22:44.877 --> 22:47.198 [SPEAKER_02]: I want to talk about gas prices. 22:47.238 --> 22:48.919 [SPEAKER_03]: Let's get into this show. 22:49.119 --> 22:54.001 [SPEAKER_03]: Every single issue is either the Decepticons go to the autopots house or the autobots go to the autopots. 22:54.021 --> 22:59.404 [SPEAKER_01]: You guys are playing about something that's not going to happen because that's baked in. 22:59.464 --> 23:03.786 [SPEAKER_01]: You're like complaining that this is too much like the transformers. 23:05.190 --> 23:06.511 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, that doesn't make sense. 23:06.711 --> 23:09.353 [SPEAKER_03]: It's going to be one of the transformers. 23:09.453 --> 23:19.760 [SPEAKER_03]: What this title is forgetting is the most important part of transformers is that there's some sort of mystery on earth involving some sort of relic, like in the movies, which is where that's not the story. 23:19.780 --> 23:23.723 [SPEAKER_03]: Where they have to explore that relic, but it's some way. 23:23.903 --> 23:27.745 [SPEAKER_03]: Usually there's some sort of transfer or like, diagonal and balls that are met in the hall. 23:27.765 --> 23:30.007 [SPEAKER_03]: And there's like one very racist one. 23:30.047 --> 23:30.667 [SPEAKER_03]: That's important. 23:30.687 --> 23:32.509 [SPEAKER_03]: We have an anti-racist ones of this yet. 23:32.609 --> 23:34.070 [SPEAKER_02]: That's a really important difference. 23:34.890 --> 23:35.990 [SPEAKER_03]: So I figured out some of that. 23:36.010 --> 23:36.651 [SPEAKER_03]: That would be great. 23:37.051 --> 23:38.251 [SPEAKER_02]: No, I'm choosing a different way. 23:38.271 --> 23:44.133 [SPEAKER_02]: I want them to just sit behind like sit in their base and be like, oh, sick tire shred head. 23:44.333 --> 23:44.653 [SPEAKER_02]: Nice. 23:44.693 --> 23:45.574 [SPEAKER_02]: Did you just get those? 23:45.954 --> 23:46.674 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I ordered them. 23:46.694 --> 23:47.334 [SPEAKER_02]: I had them delivered. 23:47.354 --> 23:49.075 [SPEAKER_02]: Like, I wanted to just chill a little bit. 23:49.095 --> 23:49.615 [SPEAKER_02]: Be friends. 23:49.655 --> 23:52.496 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they did do that for a little bit for the scene where shred head. 23:52.516 --> 23:54.817 [SPEAKER_03]: It was like, God, I'm powerful. 23:55.797 --> 23:57.097 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm almost too powerful. 23:57.518 --> 23:58.238 [SPEAKER_03]: So powerful. 23:58.278 --> 24:00.058 [SPEAKER_03]: There's multiple transformers there to be. 24:00.158 --> 24:01.519 [SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, what's going on over there? 24:02.245 --> 24:04.046 [SPEAKER_02]: I know, I was like, hey, Shred had one? 24:04.227 --> 24:04.807 [SPEAKER_02]: Are you sure? 24:07.249 --> 24:07.950 [SPEAKER_02]: What do you mean? 24:07.970 --> 24:10.151 [SPEAKER_02]: It's too much happening. 24:10.552 --> 24:11.112 [SPEAKER_02]: Too much happening. 24:11.771 --> 24:13.212 [SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, let's go to a nice simple title. 24:13.232 --> 24:17.215 [SPEAKER_03]: Cats in America, number 17 for Marvel by Chip Starski, Art by Todd Lima. 24:17.235 --> 24:24.639 [SPEAKER_03]: This is also dealing with the fallout of Armageddon, where cats in America was in a coma and actually in hell the entire time. 24:24.699 --> 24:35.727 [SPEAKER_03]: Now, finally, it's out of that coma, we're dealing with another leftover plot line, which is a young child's clone of Dr. Doom, who is on the run from everybody because 24:36.447 --> 24:52.653 [SPEAKER_03]: Nick Fury Jr., who I should mention is the son of Nick Fury, but also all of he has one eye and now Rudd's shield, which is new, is dealing with policing superhuman, which includes children version of Doom, because I don't know if you remember back in one world under Duke Doom took over the world. 24:53.013 --> 25:02.856 [SPEAKER_03]: He now runs hell, but his child doesn't, and he made a child clone as a backup for himself in Lafarea, who is rescued by Captain America, and that's what's going on here. 25:05.037 --> 25:26.833 [SPEAKER_01]: that's good more do my think we all been wanting yeah yeah i'm glad you said this in the beginning this is a simpler title uh yeah i this is a lot going on and um uh art is great but i'm i'm never a big fan of the kind of evil cap to america move or it's like he's the Nazi cap to america or whatever 25:27.333 --> 25:29.214 [SPEAKER_01]: So don't like that. 25:29.314 --> 25:30.534 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm against them. 25:31.135 --> 25:37.217 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, and so yeah, like real Indiana Jones over here How do you feel about snakes? 25:38.758 --> 25:44.320 [SPEAKER_02]: Let me ask you Pete does this belong in a museum or do you think it's okay if scumbag steal it? 25:44.900 --> 25:47.282 [SPEAKER_01]: I also

agree that this belongs to the museum. 25:47.342 --> 25:50.264 [SPEAKER_01]: I think you're really past the indie test. 25:50.364 --> 25:53.026 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you And real quick, what did you name the dog? 25:53.367 --> 25:54.708 [SPEAKER_01]: We named the dog Indiana. 25:55.028 --> 25:58.911 [SPEAKER_01]: So I just think that You're in these dad. 25:59.211 --> 26:00.452 [SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, you failed the indie test. 26:00.472 --> 26:01.132 [SPEAKER_02]: You're indeed. 26:01.152 --> 26:01.453 [SPEAKER_02]: Sorry. 26:02.613 --> 26:03.774 [SPEAKER_01]: I just chose poorly. 26:04.055 --> 26:04.155 [SPEAKER_01]: It's 26:06.570 --> 26:11.735 [SPEAKER_01]: A part of my soul dies every time Captain America, you know, uses his shield to kill somebody. 26:11.795 --> 26:22.865 [SPEAKER_01]: So it was tough to tough to I think he really spoiling the end of this comic, but that's okay because we said well I was trying to be nice about it, but you have so scuffed in erupting me so I had to change tactics. 26:23.445 --> 26:25.627 [SPEAKER_02]: So you're saying we interrupt you and you get worse. 26:25.828 --> 26:31.553 [SPEAKER_03]: That's what you started spoiling into this comic before we interrupt you. 26:32.441 --> 26:37.805 [SPEAKER_02]: I think this comic has been one of the the best that Marvel's been putting out. 26:38.026 --> 26:40.107 [SPEAKER_02]: I really liked the cap and hell storyline. 26:40.848 --> 26:48.494 [SPEAKER_02]: I thought this comic was such an effective narrative magic trick that that chip pulls here that I thought it was really worked. 26:48.974 --> 26:51.276 [SPEAKER_02]: I like the threat of it the last panel. 26:51.336 --> 26:55.179 [SPEAKER_01]: You don't think it was too much to be like this is a clone of doom. 26:55.500 --> 26:56.460 [SPEAKER_01]: This is not fury. 26:56.501 --> 26:57.481 [SPEAKER_01]: This is very sudden. 26:57.541 --> 26:57.882 [SPEAKER_01]: This is. 26:57.942 --> 26:58.202 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. 26:58.602 --> 26:59.283 [SPEAKER_01]: The doom clone. 26:59.303 --> 27:00.404 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe that's purposeful. 27:01.064 --> 27:29.120 [SPEAKER_02]: it definitely is purposeful and I think the because I at first I was like oh it is a little weird because I was also like we're dealing with two timelines the reveal at the end is it's not two timelines and the same is two caps but to have this doom clone running around we're dealing with a cap clone so the doom clone actually makes sense at the reveal to me as a way of being like a doom clone that is being shown how to be a hero slash villain by a cap clone is interesting to me 27:29.815 --> 27:32.396 [SPEAKER_02]: So that's an I melted my brain. 27:32.416 --> 27:38.899 [SPEAKER_02]: I will say that did sound crazy when I was saying it, but that is what happens So I'm on board with this. 27:38.919 --> 27:40.379 [SPEAKER_02]: I think the art is good one thing guys. 27:40.399 --> 27:43.200 [SPEAKER_02]: That thought was crazy And this was the real cap. 27:43.400

--> 27:45.481 [SPEAKER_02]: He's he's just waking up and Nick Fury Jr. 27:45.521 --> 27:50.263 [SPEAKER_02]: It's like yeah, Bucky died and caps like So what's the deal with America? 27:50.303 --> 27:57.466 [SPEAKER_02]: I was like bucky died isn't that him just finding out bucky died he didn't even react I was like come on 27:58.126 --> 28:02.871 [SPEAKER_03]: There's no real reaction there, but I agree with you. 28:02.991 --> 28:06.955 [SPEAKER_03]: I thought the twist at the end of the issue was exceedingly well-done. 28:07.056 --> 28:13.442 [SPEAKER_03]: It got me, made me read back a couple of pages several times to make sure I did miss Eddie Thigg until I figured it out. 28:14.003 --> 28:15.244 [SPEAKER_03]: I thought it was good. 28:15.344 --> 28:15.885 [SPEAKER_03]: It's good stuff. 28:16.953 --> 28:35.639 [SPEAKER_03]: two patrol number three from dc comics written by Darcy van pullgeased art by Nico Henrushon the dubetrol is dealing with a cults that wants to live forever and of course there will be bad things that happen if they do get to do that leading to the potential death of one of the all and this issue 28:36.299 --> 28:37.780 [SPEAKER_03]: I think we've been in agreement with this title. 28:37.800 --> 28:38.861 [SPEAKER_01]: It's been great so far. 28:38.881 --> 28:45.805 [SPEAKER_01]: Do you think that continued with issue three yes very much so this is a cool cover Amazing art. 28:45.925 --> 28:47.786 [SPEAKER_01]: I love the look and feel of this comic. 28:48.446 --> 28:55.150 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just Really impressive story telling and and action the twist and turns are just so enjoyable 28:55.920 --> 29:02.466 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, yeah, it's, uh, the sad cliff broke me a little bit, but this is such a tight package. 29:03.087 --> 29:07.291 [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, this is great comics and, uh, I'm really impressed with this Doom Patrol run. 29:08.788 --> 29:09.548 [SPEAKER_02]: I also enjoyed it. 29:09.928 --> 29:14.049 [SPEAKER_02]: It's funny to me we watch the show and talked about it so much. 29:14.169 --> 29:14.649 [SPEAKER_02]: Sure did. 29:15.149 --> 29:15.829 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm on a podcast. 29:15.849 --> 29:18.390 [SPEAKER_02]: The doom room, boom, boom, you're in the doom room right now. 29:19.570 --> 29:23.491 [SPEAKER_02]: This does feel like it's so in the pocket. 29:23.771 --> 29:26.171 [SPEAKER_02]: It's writing in all of the themes and all the characters. 29:26.851 --> 29:30.432 [SPEAKER_02]: And that's good in a way, but also a little bit like, oh, I have seen a lot of this. 29:30.532 --> 29:33.873 [SPEAKER_02]: So I do want it to sort of progress out of it. 29:33.933 --> 29:36.033 [SPEAKER_02]: I want to see the comic book version of this. 29:36.754 --> 29:42.847 [SPEAKER_02]: and not just sort of an iteration of the TV show but I do like the TV show though is very good 29:43.915 --> 29:44.415 [SPEAKER_03]: It was good. 29:44.435 --> 29:45.456 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think it was a hit. 29:45.596 --> 29:47.958 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, come on man, it was great. 29:48.658 --> 29:51.940 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm dreaming every bit of tape to an entire podcast about it. 29:51.960 --> 29:54.542 [SPEAKER_03]: So we're in agreement to that, but it was not a hit. 29:55.082 --> 29:55.762 [SPEAKER_03]: I do agree with you. 29:55.782 --> 30:01.346 [SPEAKER_03]: It seems very similar to the TV show in a surprising way. 30:02.006 --> 30:07.009 [SPEAKER_03]: But kind of like you're saying, I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing because like Pete saying, I like the TV show. 30:07.109 --> 30:10.491 [SPEAKER_03]: So I think it is going to go farther afield as it goes. 30:13.293 --> 30:14.354 [SPEAKER_03]: So good on this box. 30:14.414 --> 30:14.854 [SPEAKER_03]: So good. 30:14.994 --> 30:16.054 [SPEAKER_03]: Love the character drawing. 30:16.554 --> 30:18.375 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, let me just be more specific. 30:18.895 --> 30:20.676 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, let me be more specific. 30:20.916 --> 30:23.357 [SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't bother me that it's like the show. 30:23.417 --> 30:26.558 [SPEAKER_02]: It's just the characters are all struggling with the same issues. 30:26.959 --> 30:29.400 [SPEAKER_02]: Like Rita is like, I can't be seen. 30:29.540 --> 30:29.960 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm melting. 30:30.000 --> 30:32.921 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like we explored that so much in this show. 30:33.181 --> 30:38.823 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but it's so it's nothing like she's going to stop being who she is because the TV shows over. 30:38.963 --> 30:46.846 [SPEAKER_03]: No, no, but it is the character lineup from the TV show doing scenes that we saw essentially on the TV show, particularly in this issue. 30:47.166 --> 30:50.047 [SPEAKER_03]: So I understand the point that just it's baking. 30:50.447 --> 30:53.888 [SPEAKER_03]: Why don't we move on, talk about a big graphic novel that's coming out this week. 30:54.388 --> 30:59.770 [SPEAKER_03]: Day of sidelim from image comics is ruined by Ram V and once again by Darcy Van Polkies. 31:00.250 --> 31:05.133 [SPEAKER_03]: Art by Evan Kagle and Sumit Kumar, this is a part of a new series of graphic novels. 31:05.634 --> 31:15.440 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't remember the exact amount, but it was a huge deal that Ramvi and this team made with a French publisher that's also being published in the United States by image comics. 31:15.460 --> 31:16.981 [SPEAKER_03]: There's going to be multiple volumes of this. 31:17.442 --> 31:23.346 [SPEAKER_03]: I also plug mid December, I want to say December 15th, might have that wrong. 31:23.646 --> 31:26.568 [SPEAKER_03]: Ramvi is going to be on the show to talk about the city of 31:27.469 --> 31:31.635 [SPEAKER_03]: So we'll be able to ask a lot of questions because there's a lot going on here. 31:31.915 --> 31:33.618 [SPEAKER_03]: What do you think about this first file you guys? 31:34.319 --> 31:40.548 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean cool cover just some legendary art here just breathtaking panels. 31:41.072 --> 31:59.945

[SPEAKER_01]: such a great use of color, yeah, I, you know, kind of has this cool cyberpunk feel, but there's this one panel towards the end where it's just like this leaf over this kid's face and oh my god, just epic, just so cool, uh, really kind of transports you to this world. 32:00.405 --> 32:21.962 [SPEAKER_01]: The cross-hatching kind of like pencil work alone is just so so impressive Yeah, yeah, I was just kind of enjoying being immersed in this school world Yes, very good a Pete lives in the country so anytime he sees a leaf I think he just fucking loves it So that's some of your for leaf-peap and bro 32:22.751 --> 32:38.403 [SPEAKER_02]: uh... peat's peepin leaves he's peepin everything right now not just leaves he's a peeper watch out for peepin he's peepin peepin lapage is peepin uh... the uh... the art and this is is so french comics and it's really amazing 32:39.397 --> 32:44.799 [SPEAKER_02]: The book, this is a graphic novel series, I guess you could say. 32:45.960 --> 32:48.021 [SPEAKER_02]: I want to read it again after reading it. 32:48.161 --> 32:54.343 [SPEAKER_02]: The story is complex and we cut between a lot of things dealing with a lot of dense story. 32:54.663 --> 32:58.385 [SPEAKER_02]: When we get to the end of this, I'm like, I see what's happening now. 32:59.357 --> 33:11.912 [SPEAKER_02]: worth worth a reread from the beginning to really track the individual narratives because the book is pretty free flowing in it doesn't hold your hand as you're shifting narratives in the first 33:12.631 --> 33:17.896 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, 85 pages of this and at the end it makes, it really comes together in a great way. 33:18.857 --> 33:22.701 [SPEAKER_02]: But once you know the fact at the end it makes the beginning make a lot more sense. 33:23.362 --> 33:29.408 [SPEAKER_03]: This to me felt a little bit of a piece with three worlds, three moons just in terms of 33:30.008 --> 33:49.460 [SPEAKER_03]: very different stories but both have gorgeous art and both are we are creating an entire universe an entire world here that this isn't just a story it's an array of characters that are array of different places with a very different mythology that's going on here so like you're saying just it 33:50.120 --> 34:04.284 [SPEAKER_03]: It's a little overwhelming to read this the first time, but I am curious to read more the art is gorgeous and I do love the back up from Darcy Van Polg Yes, it's a little quieter than the rest of the book But I needed that. 34:05.045 --> 34:16.148 [SPEAKER_02]: I feel like that was such a nice flavor to get an in-world story unrelated to the rest of what's happening seemingly That just gives us more more world building and more flavor. 34:16.328 --> 34:16.528 [SPEAKER_02]: Great. 34:17.393 --> 34:20.734 [SPEAKER_03]: Next up, Godzilla versus DRC number one from I.D.W. 34:20.754 --> 34:21.875 [SPEAKER_03]: Written by Frank T.R.E. 34:22.095 --> 34:26.676 [SPEAKER_03]: Tango, Anthony Barquez, add Adamire, art

by the Arctic. 34:26.876 --> 34:33.959 [SPEAKER_03]: Take Sarah, Ryan Cody, John Redder, and Adamire, Pete, your art goods. 34:34.059 --> 34:36.520 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I'm sorry, Justin is back to the power position. 34:36.600 --> 34:37.180 [SPEAKER_03]: What's going on? 34:37.240 --> 34:39.021 [SPEAKER_02]: He can't be in a power position here. 34:39.121 --> 34:40.181 [SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't understand the orc. 34:40.221 --> 34:41.301 [SPEAKER_02]: He's a country boy. 34:41.381 --> 34:44.262 [SPEAKER_02]: As me, as we just said, sure he knows that. 34:44.282 --> 34:45.603 [SPEAKER_03]: You say boy or pumpkin. 34:46.843 --> 34:54.772 [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, well, um, you can be a boy and a pumpkin, right, Pete, Pete is fell off the apple car this morning. 34:54.812 --> 35:04.562 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you can be a boy, you can be a pumpkin, he's either right, but what does that, but that John Denver song, uh, I'm a boy, I'm a pumpkin, John Denver's full of shit. 35:07.377 --> 35:14.801 [SPEAKER_02]: not in this case, so Godzilla versus New York City, he's coming to Alex and my territory right here. 35:14.841 --> 35:17.642 [SPEAKER_02]: This motherfucker thinks he can step to our world. 35:17.682 --> 35:18.503 [SPEAKER_02]: That's right, then. 35:19.163 --> 35:22.225 [SPEAKER_02]: And he certainly does step. 35:22.685 --> 35:23.605 [SPEAKER_02]: These stories are fun. 35:23.625 --> 35:28.148 [SPEAKER_02]: I especially loved the later ones, the more weird ones, Frank T. Aries. 35:28.888 --> 35:29.669 [SPEAKER_02]: He's excellent. 35:29.689 --> 35:30.669 [SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, that's the first one. 35:31.090 --> 35:37.373 [SPEAKER_02]: But the freight series is excellent and just that's the take That's the there's a great comedy to the premise. 35:37.533 --> 35:46.779 [SPEAKER_02]: I won't spoil it in case you haven't read this yet It's very funny as soon as I it was like a page you know, I was like oh, he's not And I was like he is that bastard. 35:46.799 --> 35:47.379 [SPEAKER_02]: He did it. 35:47.899 --> 35:54.743 [SPEAKER_02]: He really does it here But the later a weirder story of trying to get to Brooklyn to for a party The party crashers the name of it. 35:54.763 --> 35:55.764 [SPEAKER_02]: I thought was my favorite one 35:56.713 --> 35:59.094 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's a lot of great stories in here. 35:59.194 --> 36:01.415 [SPEAKER_01]: Also fun kind of postcard cover. 36:02.436 --> 36:05.997 [SPEAKER_01]: I was really happy with Anthony Marker's story. 36:06.437 --> 36:11.239 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, just some really kind of interesting takes on Godzilla. 36:12.020 --> 36:19.523 [SPEAKER_01]: This is also kind of hard for me because I'm usually rooting for Godzilla, but he's more of the villain than some of these stories. 36:19.983 --> 36:41.822 [SPEAKER_01]: which is uh... for change yet some hot takes uh... you know but man what what are you sorry we're quick starting up to be like what are you rooting for Godzilla to do in general kill or wreck uh... but you like no i got to love you know he wakes up takes on mawthra and then goes takes a nap like he's a hero you know he means so you're saying he's living your dream life 36:42.062 --> 36:42.862 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, exactly. 36:42.962 --> 36:44.203 [SPEAKER_02]: You don't take it now. 36:44.223 --> 36:47.083 [SPEAKER_01]: Wake up, relax some shit, and then go back to sleep. 36:47.123 --> 36:49.104 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the 11th of the dream, you know? 36:49.224 --> 36:50.104 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 36:50.264 --> 36:52.825 [SPEAKER_01]: Fight some people, step on some towns. 36:52.865 --> 36:54.405 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, just live your best life. 36:54.826 --> 36:57.806 [SPEAKER_02]: I guess I'd still in a way sort of a less focused Punisher. 36:58.167 --> 37:03.248 [SPEAKER_02]: He just goes around and steps on 90 people and he's like, one of them was bad, I bet. 37:03.428 --> 37:08.890 [SPEAKER_01]: Yo, when he tail flipped that poor Anne, I was like, oh, dude, that was fucking brutal. 37:10.770 --> 37:25.604 [SPEAKER_03]: thing that I thought was really interesting about this one shot this is part of a series of one shots that IDW has been doing that are all different city based using artists and writers from that city to tell the story is very cool project love that they're doing it. 37:26.345 --> 37:35.834 [SPEAKER_03]: God, he's been to a bunch of places like Portland and Los Angeles and Kansas City, whatever, and it's always fun to see those very specific local takes. 37:36.414 --> 37:38.997 [SPEAKER_03]: Godzilla is a New York City like all the time. 37:39.377 --> 37:43.661 [SPEAKER_03]: So, one of my slight issues with this little time? 37:43.681 --> 37:44.522 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know. 37:44.562 --> 37:44.762 [SPEAKER_03]: Yes. 37:44.842 --> 37:48.686 [SPEAKER_03]: So, one of my have you seen the original Godzilla movie, the one in 1999, the one where 37:51.228 --> 38:02.672 [SPEAKER_03]: I believe nothing bad has come out about since did a great song with Jimmy Page on the side like that song Great soundtrack great soundtrack for the movie. 38:02.992 --> 38:05.934 [SPEAKER_03]: I met you is to park city all the time and I 38:07.160 --> 38:09.521 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, I saw him at juniors getting cheesecake. 38:09.541 --> 38:11.201 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, I saw him at juniors getting cheesecake. 38:11.221 --> 38:13.062 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, I don't know, I saw him at juniors getting cheesecake. 38:13.082 --> 38:34.268 [SPEAKER_02]: He loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the

classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, he loves the classic, 38:34.468 --> 38:36.189 [SPEAKER_03]: Times Square, maybe there is one. 38:36.209 --> 38:36.769 [SPEAKER_03]: That's great. 38:36.849 --> 38:48.352 [SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, my point is the thing that I'm trying to say about this book is I think it is harder to work him and be in New York City because it doesn't feel special and weird. 38:48.372 --> 38:50.973 [SPEAKER_03]: It feels like, oh, Godzilla is attacking New York City. 38:51.433 --> 38:56.095 [SPEAKER_03]: And that's what a lot of these stories do, but like you said, and they do them very well. 38:56.995 --> 39:13.581 [SPEAKER_03]: But that last story is the one that I was waiting for, where they're running, they're talking about influencers, they're talking about setting up a party, where it does feel like very Brooklyn and very New York, versus some of the other things that are just really good, Godzilla attacking New York story. 39:13.601 --> 39:14.001 [SPEAKER_03]: So that's a lot. 39:14.021 --> 39:23.984 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I wanted him to eat several different buildings and be like, I actually, I like Joe's a little bit better than what he was thinking about bagels. 39:24.124 --> 39:25.805 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, like what does this take on that? 39:26.445 --> 39:27.426 [SPEAKER_01]: pizza. 39:27.726 --> 39:33.308 [SPEAKER_01]: I did think it was funny and Anthony Mark was a story how like because somebody watched die hard. 39:33.368 --> 39:34.409 [SPEAKER_01]: It saved the day. 39:34.469 --> 39:37.770 [SPEAKER_01]: So that was a fun little lesson built in. 39:37.810 --> 39:38.471 [SPEAKER_03]: It started as good. 39:38.611 --> 39:39.851 [SPEAKER_01]: All the stories are good. 39:40.011 --> 39:43.133 [SPEAKER_03]: This is just a more better take on the whole issue. 39:43.253 --> 39:44.394 [SPEAKER_03]: In any case, let's move to another Frank Tari title. 39:44.414 --> 39:45.755 [SPEAKER_03]: For a predator versus the punish or number one for Marvel. 39:45.775 --> 39:58.424 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah 39:58.544 --> 40:03.891 [SPEAKER_03]: this takes place as far as I can tell it's entirely its own thing and it's not connected to the Benjamin Percy books. 40:04.392 --> 40:10.940 [SPEAKER_03]: It's just a new story of the Punisher trying to take out some mob bosses unfortunately the predator gets there first. 40:11.440 --> 40:13.383 [SPEAKER_03]: Pete, these are two of your favorite 40:13.643 --> 40:15.665 [SPEAKER_03]: things, which I think about the things. 40:15.685 --> 40:18.366 [SPEAKER_02]: These are a few of his favorite things. 40:18.747 --> 40:22.189 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so this is a lot of singing in this episode, which is weird. 40:23.250 --> 40:31.435 [SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, this is great because we have, you know, predator versus Punisher here, but the predator is taking down crime bosses. 40:31.455 --> 40:32.836 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the Punisher's deal. 40:32.916 --> 40:33.437 [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean? 40:33.457 --> 40:34.798 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, predator, what are you trying to do? 40:34.818 --> 40:35.478 [SPEAKER_01]: In your lane, 40:42.483 --> 40:48.708 [SPEAKER_01]: Anyways, I think that this does a great job of kind of building us up towards the big show down. 40:49.748 --> 40:53.211 [SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, I'm excited to see what's going to happen here. 40:53.711 --> 41:02.498 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, we have the Punisher taking out a crime boss, and the predator taking out a real crime boss, and then they're kind of like, oh shit, new kid on the block, what's going on. 41:02.578 --> 41:06.881 [SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, I'm excited to see these two worlds collide, and who's going to win? 41:06.941 --> 41:07.622 [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean? 41:08.002 --> 41:08.883 [SPEAKER_01]: Who would win? 41:08.963 --> 41:10.524 [SPEAKER_01]: They have a lot of conversations. 41:11.024 --> 41:16.568 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm thinking I'm hoping the punishers gonna be able to win this one You think he'll pull it out at the end. 41:17.048 --> 41:17.669 [SPEAKER_02]: I hope so. 41:17.689 --> 41:21.692 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah For maybe human sake, you know what I mean? 41:22.431 --> 41:29.074 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, when I heard they were doing this title, I scoffed a little bit just because the other... 41:29.194 --> 41:41.220 [SPEAKER_03]: There were two mashups that they've done have been like really overpowered, like Wolverine versus the Predator or Predator versus the Marvel Universe or anything like that, I was like, Punisher, what's gonna go on there? 41:41.240 --> 41:45.522 [SPEAKER_03]: And then when I thought about it in a second, I was like, oh, that's how the series started. 41:45.743 --> 41:46.823 [SPEAKER_03]: Predator was just a guy. 41:48.804 --> 42:05.798 [SPEAKER_03]: And so I like the fact that this title just brought it back to that basic level like like Pete saying we don't get to see them head to head, but it does bring it back to like the basic level of the original predator a little bit predator too, and that's a very nice lane for this to be 42:06.838 --> 42:22.168 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and actually to give it up to Frank's eerie for really rooting it in the mafia world, I

think helps a lot and to have silver maine, we get a backstory here, silver maine, having the predator encounter, when he's a kid, I was like, oh, this is cool. 42:22.188 --> 42:33.895 [SPEAKER_02]: Like to have a little mystery about like, my predator hunting magia at different points, sort of strange, and to make predator, it's very smart to put magia, that's it. 42:34.395 --> 42:39.759 [SPEAKER_02]: people predator and punishers sort of doing the same thing where they're not really hunting each other. 42:39.779 --> 42:44.824 [SPEAKER_02]: They're like competing in a way is a really fun idea to play with here. 42:46.065 --> 42:48.346 [SPEAKER_02]: So like, yes, I do like this. 42:48.547 --> 42:52.910 [SPEAKER_01]: Those, you know, predator collects skulls and punishers got a big skull on his chest, so, you know. 42:53.150 --> 42:54.071 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, there you go. 42:54.111 --> 42:54.852 [SPEAKER_02]: He needs that thing. 42:55.864 --> 43:02.346 [SPEAKER_03]: Speaking of things in skulls, the snail number one for the image comics written by Garth Eddis art by John McCray. 43:02.386 --> 43:13.030 [SPEAKER_03]: This is a one shot about a snail that crawls inside of a guy and gives him his fondest wishes kind of which include money and the girl that he wants. 43:15.408 --> 43:30.657 [SPEAKER_03]: Just a kind of jump into spoilers for this because I think it becomes abundantly clear what they're doing at the end here This is very much a Garth Edist John McCray book where it's overly raunchy over the top They're definitely pushing a lot of buttons here. 43:30.677 --> 43:36.261 [SPEAKER_03]: Don't look at them as this guy becomes a right wing influencer and speaker 43:37.370 --> 43:40.415 [SPEAKER_03]: I think the thing they're ripping out here is Charlie Kirk, right? 43:40.656 --> 43:46.807 [SPEAKER_03]: Like, that's what becomes very clear by the end of the issue, but taking to the extreme. 43:47.778 --> 44:10.009 [SPEAKER_02]: That's what I thought too, and that's a, you know, they could have gone for a less like hot button target with the satire, like you could go after any right wing influencer to go after the one that remember the the fight that happened when he was killed, like people were lost their jobs for just saying stuff about him. 44:11.855 --> 44:30.876 [SPEAKER_02]: And this that the the tip off was the religious side that is given to this carer this main character he becomes a religious right wing influencer and that's not a lot of people to point out besides Charlie Kirk so I give him give him the extra credit for going after that particular target satirically 44:32.345 --> 44:34.666 [SPEAKER_02]: But I thought this was good. 44:35.207 --> 44:37.108 [SPEAKER_02]: It goes hard, but it's effective. 44:37.849 --> 44:42.892 [SPEAKER_03]: I think it's a very typical Garth-Enness thing in terms of your mileage may vary. 44:42.993 --> 44:54.281 [SPEAKER_03]: Like, if you've read anything from Garth-Enness, you kind of know whether the

thing about like, oh, it's girlfriend loves taking big black cocks and it's just taking out a trade of the entire time. 44:54.301 --> 44:56.663 [SPEAKER_03]: Like, if you're going to be like, no, thank you. 44:56.683 --> 44:58.844 [SPEAKER_03]: I know out of it, you're not going to like this. 44:59.685 --> 45:25.943 [SPEAKER_03]: If you are okay with that and understand that he is being insanely branchy over the top, I do think, like Justin was getting out, there is a deeper point here about right-wing influencers, specifically of the Charlie Kirk type at Charlie Kirk, how they see themselves and how others see them and how they fit into or not in society that I do think is smartly and satirically done. 45:26.815 --> 45:49.441 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, an extra extra on this, I think, that is affected, is there's such a visual angle to it, having a snail that crawls into your body can be in physically, in parts of your body, outside of your body, it's such a comic book, this is one of the most comic booky premises that I, this team's tackle, I felt like, and works really well in that way. 45:50.202 --> 45:53.783 [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of body horror stuff, and they don't look in the mirror 45:56.588 --> 45:56.908 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 45:57.048 --> 45:57.428 [SPEAKER_02]: Stales. 45:57.868 --> 46:00.189 [SPEAKER_03]: Be fucking. 46:01.049 --> 46:05.090 [SPEAKER_03]: All right, bleeding hearts number nine from DC Comics, written by Dennis Camp, art by stipend. 46:05.110 --> 46:10.332 [SPEAKER_03]: We can't even, we're camping as we're at camp right now. 46:11.992 --> 46:22.855 [SPEAKER_03]: We found out there was a big cliffhanger last issue with our main little girl, character had been bitten and was being operated on beaten up and then bitten if I remember correctly. 46:24.822 --> 46:28.363 [SPEAKER_03]: and that she was being operated on by Zambi to try to save her. 46:28.423 --> 46:29.743 [SPEAKER_03]: That's what we get a reveal here. 46:30.143 --> 46:41.366 [SPEAKER_03]: We also see the character who we see on the cover here is a Zambi hunter of hunters who was trying to track them down as we explore more of a world taken over by Zambi society. 46:41.806 --> 46:44.466 [SPEAKER_03]: Justin, you're the camp leader of camp. 46:44.606 --> 46:46.627 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, Justin, we camped against them. 46:46.767 --> 46:47.047 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 46:47.367 --> 47:08.093 [SPEAKER_02]: uh we we can't and i mean i'm continue to be stunned by the just the entire language that Dennis camp has created for this title the way the zombies name each other and just speak uh we're have like two separate worlds that are just constantly overlaps overlapping of the humans who are alive and the zombies who are dead 47:09.435 --> 47:11.236 [SPEAKER_02]: There's such a particular tone to this. 47:11.816 --> 47:14.138 [SPEAKER_02]: The action keeps building up really well. 47:14.598 --> 47:19.381 [SPEAKER_02]: The introduction of this Hunter zombie is super interesting. 47:19.481 --> 47:23.183 [SPEAKER_02]: I like how differentiated all the different zombies are. 47:23.744 --> 47:26.886 [SPEAKER_02]: The art by Stephen Morayan is just unbelievable. 47:27.286 --> 47:28.166 [SPEAKER_02]: It's trippy. 47:28.186 --> 47:30.168 [SPEAKER_02]: It has such a fantastical sense to it. 47:30.728 --> 47:33.430 [SPEAKER_02]: This book, there's just not another book like this on the stand. 47:33.530 --> 47:35.131 [SPEAKER_02]: So if you have 47:35.711 --> 47:39.596 [SPEAKER_02]: If you like zombie works at all, this is a necessity. 47:40.868 --> 47:48.414 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the art is insane and the character's faces and the facial expressions are just so creepy. 47:49.014 --> 47:51.116 [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to haunt you for sure. 47:52.076 --> 48:00.783 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is kind of our gross block with the last two books where it's really doing some interesting body horror stuff for sure. 48:00.903 --> 48:05.746 [SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, it's the world that's created here is so unique and interesting. 48:05.806 --> 48:07.788 [SPEAKER_01]: It's really quite creative. 48:08.830 --> 48:17.415 [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, moving from the body block to the next one, which is unfinished tales from image comics written by Ed Brubaker, art by Sean Phillips. 48:17.895 --> 48:27.721 [SPEAKER_03]: There's a new graphic novel from the team behind a criminal that focuses on a thinly veiled analog for George R. Martin. 48:28.841 --> 48:35.505 [SPEAKER_03]: He is the creator of a hit fantasy novel series who has not finished his last book, his fans keep demanding it. 48:35.973 --> 48:41.400 [SPEAKER_03]: the prestige TV show based on his book series, Laptom, and everybody hated the finale. 48:42.041 --> 48:53.936 [SPEAKER_03]: And it follows him through most of his life until he meets up a little friend and things change from there and twist and turn, leading to the eventual reveal that I don't think will reveal here on the podcast. 48:54.616 --> 48:56.677 [SPEAKER_03]: Um, I won't mention up front. 48:57.698 --> 49:08.424 [SPEAKER_03]: I, for anybody listening, there was a bit of a flap about Edinburgh Baker and Cribbittal that came up about a month or two back, including some stuff that may or may not have happened on the set. 49:09.325 --> 49:14.188 [SPEAKER_03]: And I don't remember where we, uh, dented out on that. 49:14.288 --> 49:17.930 [SPEAKER_03]: We obviously are not involved in the legal case or anything like that. 49:19.410 --> 49:28.975 [SPEAKER_03]: I think there was a lot of back and forth in terms of Edgar Baker did these things and then other people came out and were like, nope, this is explicit why he could have not have done these things. 49:29.595 --> 49:35.298 [SPEAKER_03]: So if you are listening to this and are like, well, why are you doing an Edgar Baker book with all the stuff going behind? 49:36.138 --> 49:43.744 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm kind of leaving it in for the moment until we figure out where we get out, obviously

we can make a decision later, but I just wanted to mention that up front for our listeners. 49:45.125 --> 49:49.768 [SPEAKER_03]: As is, we're just trucking on, but let us know how you think about it in the comments. 49:50.208 --> 49:53.671 [SPEAKER_03]: Too much stuff to put at the beginning of the room for you, what did you think about the park? 49:55.876 --> 49:57.017 [SPEAKER_02]: I like this book. 49:57.377 --> 50:04.780 [SPEAKER_02]: I was surprised how much of it is a real slice of life on a George R. Martin character. 50:05.300 --> 50:15.004 [SPEAKER_02]: Like we really get to know him before we get into any sort of like crime, noirty type, even language or thinking. 50:15.204 --> 50:19.025 [SPEAKER_02]: So it reads very differently than a lot of their other 50:24.935 --> 50:31.441 [SPEAKER_02]: it was a nice sort of examination of a writer's life, relationships that writer has. 50:32.242 --> 50:39.749 [SPEAKER_02]: So, and then the stuff at the end, the, this more surprising stuff, I thought, really worked and caught me off guard. 50:41.491 --> 50:42.171 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, 50:43.338 --> 50:50.723 [SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of a sad tale and when I was started, I was like unfinished tales, what are we doing? 50:50.803 --> 50:52.504 [SPEAKER_01]: Are we not going to finish the story? 50:52.524 --> 51:00.608 [SPEAKER_01]: So I was a little trepidacious to start if it wasn't going to finish, but then I see what they did there. 51:00.709 --> 51:07.853 [SPEAKER_01]: So interesting choices, but kind of a sad tale, but yeah, impressive art for sure. 51:09.002 --> 51:15.715 [SPEAKER_03]: The funny thing is I agree first of all I agree with you just to have a surprise how much time they spend on this character study of this man. 51:17.233 --> 51:21.597 [SPEAKER_03]: well done, well told, they know how to explain characters and get us involved in their lives. 51:22.357 --> 51:35.968 [SPEAKER_03]: I was kind of expecting off of the front cover, and I thought I had read this in a synopsis and clearly I read it wrong, that he ends up in his fantasy kingdom and connects with some sort of mystical thing. 51:36.028 --> 51:40.612 [SPEAKER_03]: I thought it was going to be like a towel in terms of like getting into some sort of 51:44.275 --> 51:49.499 [SPEAKER_03]: Now, so there was a little bit of me reading this, have it be like, okay, what are we going to get to the magic stuff? 51:49.700 --> 51:50.861 [SPEAKER_03]: And then we're never dead. 51:51.921 --> 51:55.044 [SPEAKER_03]: So that's my bad in terms of real bad. 51:55.965 --> 51:59.688 [SPEAKER_03]: But I thought it really came out together really nicely at the end. 51:59.828 --> 52:08.175 [SPEAKER_03]: All of the stuff at the beginning leads into this snowball that comes down the hill in the last couple of pages of the book, as they wrap it up. 52:08.672 --> 52:21.835 [SPEAKER_03]: I do think it's sort of funny that they took George R. Martin, who is a very distinctive looking person, and they're like, yeah, make him look like, you know, one of those criminal guys, and he just looks like a generic sort of bearded bad that's wandering through criminal. 52:22.375 --> 52:25.676 [SPEAKER_03]: So just generally speaking, I thought that was kind of funny. 52:27.396 --> 52:28.656 [SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, I don't know. 52:28.837 --> 52:33.498 [SPEAKER_03]: This team is, they know what they're doing, they know how to deliver a story, it's a 52:35.818 --> 52:41.282 [SPEAKER_02]: Real quick, how about this quote on the cover, fantastic, Jillian Flynn, gone girl. 52:43.904 --> 52:48.127 [SPEAKER_02]: Not the quote or the person I would have expected on the cover of this book. 52:48.148 --> 52:51.130 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they have a bunch of quotes on the back as well. 52:51.330 --> 52:54.652 [SPEAKER_03]: I wonder if this was just because we're working. 52:55.601 --> 53:01.728 [SPEAKER_03]: in a different way, if this is not a criminal book, there's not a fatal book, this is any of our known properties. 53:02.249 --> 53:03.330 [SPEAKER_03]: It's just something different. 53:04.031 --> 53:05.412 [SPEAKER_03]: They felt they wanted to throw that on there. 53:05.492 --> 53:07.815 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no, shout, I'm not sure. 53:07.835 --> 53:10.778 [SPEAKER_03]: That's also weird all throughout that this is coming out. 53:11.339 --> 53:15.941 [SPEAKER_03]: The same time as six of us over at Dark Horse, the book, The Tom King, Give Your Walter Relay. 53:15.961 --> 53:17.142 [SPEAKER_03]: I thought of that as well. 53:17.182 --> 53:22.644 [SPEAKER_03]: Which is an add-along mystery about Matthew Perry, Doug, and friends. 53:23.825 --> 53:28.187 [SPEAKER_03]: To then do like, we're going to do to our mystery of all the Georgia or Barton, it's just odd. 53:28.527 --> 53:28.847 [SPEAKER_03]: That's all. 53:29.667 --> 53:35.450 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I was like, wow, we're getting after it, uh, topically, and, but I like both of those things. 53:36.777 --> 53:40.859 [SPEAKER_03]: Dear devil, number nine from Marvel by Stephanie Phillips, like that very dying. 53:41.279 --> 53:42.200 [SPEAKER_03]: That's what you just said. 53:42.500 --> 53:46.101 [SPEAKER_02]: Both of those books, I'm not rooting for any of those. 53:46.121 --> 53:47.922 [SPEAKER_01]: Just making sure, thanks. 53:49.583 --> 53:51.444 [SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, and you worked on the case, you said, Pete. 53:53.465 --> 53:55.406 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, I'm not the one who's saying I liked both of those. 53:55.426 --> 53:57.527 [SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, you caused the case, this is not what you said. 53:58.272 --> 54:00.413 [SPEAKER_02]: I like both of those books that Alex mentioned. 54:00.614 --> 54:01.234 [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, thank you. 54:01.794 --> 54:02.775 [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, that's what you're saying. 54:03.155 --> 54:07.438 [SPEAKER_03]: Now, and just to get further into it, Pete is what we like to call a reverse detective. 54:07.478 --> 54:10.000 [SPEAKER_03]: He causes mysteries instead of something

like that. 54:10.580 --> 54:11.421 [SPEAKER_02]: It's important job. 54:11.661 --> 54:12.361 [SPEAKER_02]: You got to have him. 54:12.381 --> 54:14.163 [SPEAKER_02]: If you want detectives, you got to have pizza. 54:14.183 --> 54:14.603 [SPEAKER_02]: That's right. 54:15.684 --> 54:16.584 [SPEAKER_01]: Nice and sorry, evil. 54:17.345 --> 54:18.145 [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly, Mr. 54:18.245 --> 54:18.446 [SPEAKER_02]: Evil. 54:19.006 --> 54:22.468 [SPEAKER_02]: He's like an amusement park employee in this every Scooby-Doo. 54:23.429 --> 54:24.069 [SPEAKER_02]: But in real life. 54:26.217 --> 54:29.878 [SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, let's talk about another reverse E. I don't remember what we just said. 54:29.938 --> 54:31.938 [SPEAKER_03]: Here's Daredevil, number one. 54:32.078 --> 54:33.038 [SPEAKER_03]: He is fighting Mr. 54:33.178 --> 54:37.059 [SPEAKER_03]: Fear, who is basically the Marvel Universe's scarecrow. 54:37.379 --> 54:38.019 [SPEAKER_03]: This Mr. 54:38.059 --> 54:47.841 [SPEAKER_03]: Fear is trying to eliminate fear in everybody by causing fear and this issue, I find it aberrcrackly, which I don't think I do. 54:48.021 --> 54:49.181 [SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, he attacks Daredevil. 54:49.241 --> 54:50.221 [SPEAKER_03]: What's going on? 54:50.241 --> 54:53.602 [SPEAKER_01]: My notes, I had a Joker slash scarecrow. 54:53.662 --> 54:54.382 [SPEAKER_01]: So interesting. 54:55.203 --> 54:56.344 [SPEAKER_01]: that you call them a scarecrow. 54:57.405 --> 55:07.998 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, let me say it a trend in comics right now is every hero's fighting a villain whose whole thing is I cause fear in people and 55:09.138 --> 55:12.061 [SPEAKER_02]: It's a strange energy kind of a thing with villains. 55:12.441 --> 55:13.662 [SPEAKER_01]: They try to cause spirits. 55:14.022 --> 55:17.605 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, but this specific thing It's in a couple of books in this stack. 55:17.625 --> 55:19.267 [SPEAKER_02]: We're gonna talk about it. 55:19.407 --> 55:26.533 [SPEAKER_02]: It feels like there's something happening in society Where everyone's a little afraid that that's being is there anything like that? 55:27.093 --> 55:30.616 [SPEAKER_02]: I haven't felt that I'm afraid a number one thing. 55:30.656 --> 55:31.477 [SPEAKER_02]: I feel confident 55:33.586 --> 55:34.807 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, I've been in everything. 55:35.047 --> 55:35.648 [SPEAKER_03]: I feel good. 55:36.188 --> 55:37.129 [SPEAKER_03]: I feel really good. 55:37.509 --> 55:41.353 [SPEAKER_02]: I want to feel no cause as me to feel worse, like slightly better, maybe. 55:42.994 --> 55:44.916 [SPEAKER_02]: That really be a change. 55:45.497 --> 55:47.859 [SPEAKER_03]: No, but I think, I think you're absolutely right. 55:47.919 --> 55:49.300 [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, that's down on the head. 55:49.680 --> 55:54.244 [SPEAKER_03]: People are feeling that way in society and writers are writing about how they feel. 55:54.805 --> 55:59.349 [SPEAKER_03]: Even if it's a couple of months off, maybe even six months

or a year off, depending on the schedule, I think. 55:59.809 --> 56:03.292 [SPEAKER_03]: They're tapping into like I feel a little out of anxiety right now. 56:03.332 --> 56:04.813 [SPEAKER_03]: How do I want to put that into a book? 56:05.313 --> 56:05.854 [SPEAKER_03]: Here we go. 56:06.334 --> 56:13.580 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's just funny to me because I'm like there are so many villains in all of these stories and it's like Hello hero. 56:13.640 --> 56:18.243 [SPEAKER_02]: It's me the one who sprays gas or pills or whatever that makes you scared. 56:18.283 --> 56:21.345 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, okay Talk to each other guys 56:22.726 --> 56:32.128 [SPEAKER_02]: But I will say this book has the twist take on it, which I think is effective that there are these pills that actually make you fear less, and that's a much worse threat. 56:32.449 --> 56:38.710 [SPEAKER_02]: This is like the postmodern response to all of the fear villains, and I think that's really cool. 56:39.370 --> 56:44.852 [SPEAKER_02]: This issue gets into a lot of like the bureaucracy around that, and I was like, oh, an interesting choice. 56:45.612 --> 56:50.333 [SPEAKER_02]: But I have a feeling that Daredevil is about to just mainline a bunch of pills. 56:50.713 --> 57:00.950 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and you know Justin if you are feeling scared or anxious about you know life just take some more pills like you see on the cover here Yeah, this is a cool cover about now. 57:01.071 --> 57:02.733 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not addicted to anything guys 57:05.083 --> 57:05.944 [SPEAKER_03]: This is a great cover. 57:05.964 --> 57:10.866 [SPEAKER_03]: I love the contrast of the red of Daredevil's costume with white pills falling everywhere. 57:11.106 --> 57:12.627 [SPEAKER_03]: This is a very striking image. 57:13.207 --> 57:15.508 [SPEAKER_03]: And there's a great cliffhanger in this issue as well. 57:15.688 --> 57:23.052 [SPEAKER_03]: I know we were talking last issue how we were off Daredevil for a little bit, but thought the kickoff to the New Ark was good. 57:23.572 --> 57:23.792 [SPEAKER_03]: Yes. 57:23.832 --> 57:25.953 [SPEAKER_03]: This continues very strong right here. 57:26.353 --> 57:26.934 [SPEAKER_01]: I agree. 57:27.054 --> 57:27.494 [SPEAKER_01]: I agree. 57:27.534 --> 57:27.814 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 57:27.874 --> 57:29.275 [SPEAKER_01]: This is this is cool. 57:29.355 --> 57:31.337 [SPEAKER_01]: This kind of story is interesting. 57:31.357 --> 57:38.362 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, you know, um, all of JT sizzles, uh, shots that fill in to the side. 57:38.462 --> 57:40.544 [SPEAKER_01]: I do like this story. 57:40.564 --> 57:42.505 [SPEAKER_01]: And I like to, uh, what's going on. 57:42.585 --> 57:46.448 [SPEAKER_01]: And, uh, yeah, I'm running for Daredevil to stop beating Voguey up. 57:46.468 --> 57:47.149 [SPEAKER_01]: That would be great. 57:47.209 --> 57:50.231 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, oh, foggy gets just drag. 57:50.251 --> 57:51.672 [SPEAKER_01]: Look at both it. 57:51.692 --> 57:52.913

[SPEAKER_01]: You don't treat your friends that way. 57:54.005 --> 57:56.066 [SPEAKER_02]: No, he has treated him that way, that's the thing. 57:56.286 --> 58:03.748 [SPEAKER_02]: There's a whole panel where he's like, he's talking about his, like, all of his girlfriends that have been killed that he's failed, and foggy, he's like, yeah, and you're sort of mean. 58:05.349 --> 58:06.549 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you're always kind of a kid. 58:06.569 --> 58:11.391 [SPEAKER_03]: It's like so foggy, it's his butler, and that means he's in play, so he's a loud note. 58:11.431 --> 58:13.312 [SPEAKER_03]: You're a loud note, you're not to your employees. 58:13.332 --> 58:16.273 [SPEAKER_03]: Shouldn't treat people like that, and you can beat up your employees. 58:16.353 --> 58:17.013 [SPEAKER_03]: Nope, yes. 58:17.233 --> 58:18.414 [SPEAKER_03]: It is protected under law. 58:18.434 --> 58:19.634 [SPEAKER_03]: It's free speech, I believe. 58:19.954 --> 58:22.515 [SPEAKER_01]: Nope, you're really messing that up. 58:23.385 --> 58:23.946 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think so. 58:24.666 --> 58:27.570 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, Pete's moving closer to that power position. 58:27.590 --> 58:28.971 [SPEAKER_02]: You got to vote it for your team. 58:29.031 --> 58:29.452 [SPEAKER_02]: All right. 58:31.588 --> 58:32.829 [SPEAKER_03]: All right, sorry guys. 58:32.929 --> 58:35.091 [SPEAKER_03]: I guess we should move on to Hillbilly the tree here. 58:35.111 --> 58:39.854 [SPEAKER_03]: The flag's on baggy number two, whatever you guys need just let me know. 58:39.914 --> 58:51.022 [SPEAKER_03]: Dark horse comics by Eric Powell last issue Hillbilly got his big Axe taken by 12 to Maggie. 58:51.062 --> 58:58.908 [SPEAKER_03]: She is now all powerful and so is he is sent into hell to achieve the pants of a demon. 59:00.072 --> 59:10.059 [SPEAKER_03]: typical Eric Powell book undergarments undergarments not just pants meanwhile he'll billy try to figure out how to free him their odd mission of his own 59:11.532 --> 59:12.072 [SPEAKER_03]: That's just great. 59:12.252 --> 59:13.053 [SPEAKER_02]: That was real quick. 59:13.073 --> 59:14.593 [SPEAKER_02]: You know the difference between pants and underpants. 59:14.633 --> 59:16.093 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, right, Alex, are you? 59:16.173 --> 59:16.954 [SPEAKER_02]: It's a... 59:17.074 --> 59:20.115 [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I don't wear either, so I do often get confused. 59:20.135 --> 59:21.855 [SPEAKER_03]: You just wear bloomers mostly? 59:22.355 --> 59:23.996 [SPEAKER_03]: No, I'm Donald Duckin' at. 59:24.116 --> 59:24.576 [SPEAKER_01]: Wow. 59:25.136 --> 59:25.416 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. 59:25.897 --> 59:26.297 [SPEAKER_01]: Always. 59:26.597 --> 59:30.418 [SPEAKER_01]: Man, in the winter time, do you put a barrel on or are you, how do you do that? 59:30.918 --> 59:31.918 [SPEAKER_02]: Great, great choice. 59:32.239 --> 59:36.900 [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, I put a barrel on and then I become red and it travels up my face at a lot. 59:37.785 --> 59:43.168 [SPEAKER_03]: Steve comes out of my ear which warms both me and everybody around me. 59:43.268 --> 59:47.350 [SPEAKER_02]: I can't wait to put away my fall barrel and get out of my much warmer winter barrel. 59:47.930 --> 59:48.591 [SPEAKER_02]: It's about time. 59:49.011 --> 59:51.232 [SPEAKER_02]: I got one of those north-face puff barrels. 59:51.772 --> 59:52.573 [SPEAKER_02]: Really keeps you. 59:52.953 --> 59:55.374 [SPEAKER_03]: Can I tell you guys this is a little bit of a side thing. 59:55.434 --> 01:00:01.137 [SPEAKER_03]: But what more side than what we're talking about now is something that happened to me the other day. 01:00:01.830 --> 01:00:05.232 [SPEAKER_03]: I was with my three nephews and I saw them smoking a cigar. 01:00:05.652 --> 01:00:10.255 [SPEAKER_03]: So it's like, you know what you've got to smoke all of those It's what they did and they turned green. 01:00:10.355 --> 01:00:11.996 [SPEAKER_03]: They turned like straight green. 01:00:12.076 --> 01:00:12.336 [SPEAKER_03]: Wow. 01:00:12.396 --> 01:00:17.679 [SPEAKER_02]: You're right If you should be exercising so much authority over these nephews and you're feels unrelated. 01:00:18.039 --> 01:00:18.580 [SPEAKER_03]: Can I just say 01:00:23.390 --> 01:00:45.302 [SPEAKER_01]: uh this comic is awesome um the uh I really love the bear in this comic uh I'm very much enjoying uh when the bear talks yeah this is just really impressive art such impressive world building Eric Powell uh can create such a creepy unique world and uh 01:00:45.742 --> 01:00:53.228 [SPEAKER_01]: the characters are so spooky and just interesting ways so yeah this just continues to be awesome I really enjoy this book. 01:00:54.629 --> 01:01:10.262 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah I really like the back half of this issue when we get our hero our blind boy talking to the queen of plight I want to say her name is there's just a great very fairytale sequence there that I thought will really work 01:01:11.134 --> 01:01:12.355 [SPEAKER_02]: Um, this is great. 01:01:12.455 --> 01:01:15.617 [SPEAKER_02]: Great Eric Powell stuff on writing and art. 01:01:15.637 --> 01:01:18.559 [SPEAKER_02]: So, uh, you know what you're getting when you open this issue. 01:01:18.599 --> 01:01:19.199 [SPEAKER_02]: And it's a good one. 01:01:19.539 --> 01:01:20.360 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's a blast. 01:01:21.080 --> 01:01:37.170 [SPEAKER_03]: From ducks to crows with crowbound number three from image comics written by Jeff the mirror, art by Dustin, when we are in a strange fantasy, maybe sci-fi world where a young girl has been taken by mysterious men. 01:01:40.829 --> 01:01:48.692 [SPEAKER_03]: either possessed or followed by a strange entity herself that gives her incredible powers, plus some other things are going on at this issue. 01:01:48.992 --> 01:01:49.992 [SPEAKER_01]: Would you guys think about this? 01:01:50.452 --> 01:01:52.273 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I just want to real quick go. 01:01:52.293 --> 01:01:56.314 [SPEAKER_01]: You said from

ducks to crows, what was the duck we were talking about? 01:01:57.874 --> 01:01:59.695 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I've been Donald Duck in it. 01:02:00.695 --> 01:02:01.636 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, right. 01:02:02.016 --> 01:02:02.616 [SPEAKER_03]: My best. 01:02:02.816 --> 01:02:04.597 [SPEAKER_03]: That's my nephews of course are human. 01:02:04.637 --> 01:02:05.797 [SPEAKER_03]: I just want to be clear about that. 01:02:06.097 --> 01:02:08.700 [SPEAKER_01]: And are they, are they, are you doing Louis or what do you think? 01:02:08.720 --> 01:02:10.542 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, that's sort of that you know my nephew's. 01:02:10.662 --> 01:02:10.923 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 01:02:11.123 --> 01:02:12.204 [SPEAKER_02]: Human, doom, and enlumin. 01:02:15.183 --> 01:02:16.064 [SPEAKER_02]: regular kids. 01:02:16.164 --> 01:02:24.368 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, by the way, I don't want to bring the conversation down or anything, but I just wanted to give a shout out to my uncle, Scrooge, who died the other day. 01:02:24.388 --> 01:02:28.090 [SPEAKER_03]: He has this money been, and he tried diving into him. 01:02:28.110 --> 01:02:28.830 [SPEAKER_03]: You can't dive it. 01:02:28.850 --> 01:02:29.350 [SPEAKER_03]: You can't dive it. 01:02:29.370 --> 01:02:29.771 [SPEAKER_03]: You can't do that. 01:02:29.811 --> 01:02:30.291 [SPEAKER_03]: It's hard. 01:02:30.331 --> 01:02:31.752 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's hard if you dive it. 01:02:31.772 --> 01:02:33.533 [SPEAKER_03]: You broke his neck and dialed it. 01:02:33.573 --> 01:02:34.533 [SPEAKER_02]: That's a keep poking. 01:02:34.553 --> 01:02:40.036 [SPEAKER_02]: Hose in this, but like, so Scrooge is Donald's uncle and Donald's Huey-Duey and Louis's 01:02:44.278 --> 01:02:47.519 [SPEAKER_01]: You can't have more than what uncle you gotta double down. 01:02:47.579 --> 01:03:00.945 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I see there's a lot of a grand uncle this uncle lineage You have where the dad's where the dad's where the mom's why is everyone hanging out with their parents brother? 01:03:01.345 --> 01:03:04.227 [SPEAKER_03]: Here's my question where the duck daddy's you don't have to talk no the duck 01:03:06.255 --> 01:03:08.297 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, this is worth it for the art alone. 01:03:08.317 --> 01:03:11.860 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Dustin's art is just so impressive. 01:03:11.920 --> 01:03:18.786 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a soccer for watercolors, but man, the creepy characters and the great art, it's just such an impressive tone. 01:03:19.907 --> 01:03:24.951 [SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, I'm, as soon as I look at this comic, I'm all in. 01:03:27.052 --> 01:03:27.513 [SPEAKER_02]: There you go. 01:03:27.573 --> 01:03:29.795 [SPEAKER_02]: People are paid reading the whole page as usual. 01:03:31.037 --> 01:03:32.018 [SPEAKER_02]: I also enjoy this. 01:03:32.318 --> 01:03:34.260 [SPEAKER_02]: This story goes hard. 01:03:34.360 --> 01:03:36.263 [SPEAKER_02]: This is only the third issue. 01:03:36.443 --> 01:03:39.526 [SPEAKER_02]: And we're already so invested in

the quest. 01:03:40.267 --> 01:03:42.149 [SPEAKER_02]: Our main character's quest for her daughter. 01:03:42.970 --> 01:03:45.313 [SPEAKER_02]: Avali like it is intense. 01:03:46.170 --> 01:03:47.231 [SPEAKER_02]: art is excellent. 01:03:47.331 --> 01:03:49.432 [SPEAKER_02]: Last couple of panels are amazing. 01:03:49.952 --> 01:04:02.739 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, there's a supernatural mystery in this dystopian post-apocalyptic world that this is another series by this team that I feel like could go for many, many issues. 01:04:04.584 --> 01:04:08.968 [SPEAKER_03]: Teenage hit Ninja Turtles number 24 for my DW replay written by X. 01:04:09.089 --> 01:04:12.031 [SPEAKER_03]: Excuse me, Jean Lou and Yang, art by Farrell Pay. 01:04:12.071 --> 01:04:14.434 [SPEAKER_03]: This is the final issue from this team. 01:04:14.634 --> 01:04:14.974 [SPEAKER_03]: What? 01:04:15.395 --> 01:04:18.158 [SPEAKER_03]: And the last issue of the city that never dies cross over. 01:04:18.198 --> 01:04:18.938 [SPEAKER_03]: You know this, Pete. 01:04:18.958 --> 01:04:20.500 [SPEAKER_03]: We had Matthew Rosenberg on the show. 01:04:20.520 --> 01:04:21.020 [SPEAKER_03]: Burying. 01:04:21.140 --> 01:04:21.861 [SPEAKER_03]: Back to you. 01:04:21.881 --> 01:04:22.882 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, there is one more. 01:04:22.902 --> 01:04:23.583 [SPEAKER_02]: There's a Christmas. 01:04:23.743 --> 01:04:24.264 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's right. 01:04:24.304 --> 01:04:25.545 [SPEAKER_02]: There's a Christmas special. 01:04:25.865 --> 01:04:26.245 [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you. 01:04:26.305 --> 01:04:29.968 [SPEAKER_03]: And then Matthew Rosenberg takes over the title issue number 25. 01:04:31.109 --> 01:04:39.475 [SPEAKER_03]: But for the city and the never dies title lead dead are running a buck in New York City And it's up to the turtles and they're allies to fight the back Pete. 01:04:40.336 --> 01:04:41.176 [SPEAKER_03]: You're a turtle guy. 01:04:41.656 --> 01:04:42.157 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 01:04:42.817 --> 01:04:43.218 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man. 01:04:43.258 --> 01:04:44.599 [SPEAKER_01]: This is a blast. 01:04:45.139 --> 01:04:45.980 [SPEAKER_01]: Also, it's funny. 01:04:46.060 --> 01:04:53.245 [SPEAKER_01]: How like, you know, the end this account by jumping off the roof to kind of go fight crime, but I was like, oh, man, it'd be crazy if they all just 01:04:53.882 --> 01:04:54.823 [SPEAKER_01]: jump to their deaths. 01:04:55.583 --> 01:04:57.404 [SPEAKER_01]: Because it's a high roof in New York City. 01:04:57.464 --> 01:05:01.607 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a pretty high up roof up there than they'll just jump off of it. 01:05:01.687 --> 01:05:09.473 [SPEAKER_01]: Anyways, yeah, just great to see the team working together, April, you got Casey Jones, even Splinter's alive. 01:05:09.493 --> 01:05:11.974 [SPEAKER_01]: This is just exciting stuff. 01:05:12.174 --> 01:05:17.078 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, we've had some dark things, you know, turtles, so it's nice we're getting a little 01:05:24.363 --> 01:05:25.724 [SPEAKER_01]: Great art. 01:05:25.804 --> 01:05:33.972 [SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of just kind of I'm happy to see this and yeah, and even the guy on the river sticks was pretty cool. 01:05:34.112 --> 01:05:35.253 [SPEAKER_01]: So that was a nice twist. 01:05:36.165 --> 01:05:44.907 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, and yeah, I like their exploration of the different cultural bodies of water of the dead was a nice little diversion here. 01:05:44.927 --> 01:06:00.732 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, a beautiful two-page spread by Pharaoh Pay as well because they go, you see them from high above as they're going down this winding river that encompasses multiple lands of the dead that are all connected together. 01:06:06.293 --> 01:06:12.135 [SPEAKER_03]: Those cross-section of the backster building pages where you just could explore somebody near the areas of it at the same time. 01:06:12.515 --> 01:06:12.915 [SPEAKER_03]: Very fun. 01:06:14.195 --> 01:06:14.655 [SPEAKER_02]: Very fun. 01:06:14.795 --> 01:06:18.016 [SPEAKER_02]: The other, the big fight is a little chaotic. 01:06:18.736 --> 01:06:20.377 [SPEAKER_03]: There's a lot of different things happening. 01:06:21.497 --> 01:06:24.778 [SPEAKER_02]: But it is, it's, it's epic. 01:06:25.478 --> 01:06:31.620 [SPEAKER_02]: So it's a nice, nice issue to sort of be the main end of this era. 01:06:32.179 --> 01:06:36.920 [SPEAKER_02]: As we get into sort of an epilogue issue, it feels like with a Christmas issue that is teased at the end. 01:06:38.261 --> 01:06:38.981 [SPEAKER_03]: Black Cat! 01:06:39.041 --> 01:06:54.985 [SPEAKER_03]: Number 16, from Marvel, my G. Willow Wilson, art by Andre Gianna Led, this is a issue that really upset the internet with the synopsis came out if I remember correctly, because the idea of the arc is that Black Cat is recruited by Emma Frost to pull off a heist. 01:06:56.243 --> 01:06:58.644 [SPEAKER_03]: There is a tease that she is a mutant. 01:06:58.944 --> 01:07:00.545 [SPEAKER_03]: The thing is she is not a mutant. 01:07:00.705 --> 01:07:05.128 [SPEAKER_03]: It is ever frost sending her under cover and that's the setup we get in this issue. 01:07:05.868 --> 01:07:08.369 [SPEAKER_03]: This is what I've been wanting for this black cat series. 01:07:08.529 --> 01:07:13.952 [SPEAKER_03]: It has been a really fire gun all-cylinder, as I think since the Punisher arc, which was also a lot of fun. 01:07:14.893 --> 01:07:15.694 [SPEAKER_03]: And this is great. 01:07:15.854 --> 01:07:24.226 [SPEAKER_03]: I just love this pocket of black cat, interactive with all these different people in areas of the Marvel Universe. 01:07:24.767 --> 01:07:28.512 [SPEAKER_03]: Like there's something about the way that you will, as I said, has written this, where 01:07:29.293 --> 01:07:38.338 [SPEAKER_03]: It doesn't feel fresh anymore, most of the time, but like Iron Man shows up at a Spider-Man book and they're like, oh, the cover, like featuring Iron Man, I'm like, I don't know, I see that all the time.

01:07:38.378 --> 01:07:39.719 [SPEAKER_03]: They're always hanging out. 01:07:40.159 --> 01:07:40.920 [SPEAKER_02]: Same thing for you. 01:07:40.940 --> 01:07:42.721 [SPEAKER_03]: They know each other really well. 01:07:42.941 --> 01:07:43.201 [SPEAKER_03]: Yes. 01:07:43.461 --> 01:07:48.104 [SPEAKER_03]: But I think it comes down to the way the Black jewel of Wilson is writing Black Cat. 01:07:48.444 --> 01:07:53.947 [SPEAKER_03]: And as a handle on all these other voices for the Punisher to have a frost, to bury Jade, to everybody else. 01:07:54.422 --> 01:07:59.284 [SPEAKER_03]: We're just like, oh, how would Felicia bounce off of this character? 01:08:00.004 --> 01:08:01.225 [SPEAKER_03]: And it's delightful. 01:08:01.365 --> 01:08:08.187 [SPEAKER_03]: Like it's great to see, and it makes it feel fresh in the way those guest appearances don't often feel fresh. 01:08:08.327 --> 01:08:12.629 [SPEAKER_03]: So, short version, I'm really enjoying this title and looking forward to the rest of this arc. 01:08:13.330 --> 01:08:15.510 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's written in a really fresh way. 01:08:15.690 --> 01:08:29.693 [SPEAKER_02]: Like I feel like it's not using continuity to be like, oh, I heard about you and all this that always feels a little fake because we're assuming the black cat is reading the news about the white queen somehow. 01:08:30.653 --> 01:08:38.895 [SPEAKER_02]: When this is nice, they encounter each other and they vaguely know of each other, but we get to have what feels like a real scene between them. 01:08:39.289 --> 01:08:42.492 [SPEAKER_02]: The scene work in this book is great, the dialogue. 01:08:43.233 --> 01:08:52.141 [SPEAKER_02]: I love the black cat as a character, so it's really nice to see her being used in this way and to have heist being put sort of at the forefront. 01:08:52.642 --> 01:08:56.886 [SPEAKER_02]: She's the like, heist go to of the Marvel universe, feels like the 01:08:57.540 --> 01:08:59.961 [SPEAKER_02]: premise of the series maybe and that's great. 01:09:00.742 --> 01:09:07.966 [SPEAKER_01]: I was going to point that out just and that you were I was going to jump in and hype you up to get you because you're the black at person. 01:09:08.426 --> 01:09:09.507 [SPEAKER_02]: You can hide me on the back end. 01:09:09.587 --> 01:09:10.508 [SPEAKER_01]: Well it's too late. 01:09:10.568 --> 01:09:11.988 [SPEAKER_01]: You jumped in front of me. 01:09:12.449 --> 01:09:19.633 [SPEAKER_01]: You cut me off when I was trying to get you a hyped up so you know yeah I moved up a position. 01:09:19.773 --> 01:09:21.574 [SPEAKER_02]: So I mean technically people move down. 01:09:21.974 --> 01:09:36.543 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah, but I had a high hopes for this because I thought oh black cat wants to steal diamonds the snow queen She's made of diamonds as usually turns it a diamond form black cats going to steal her this will be awesome 01:09:37.283 --> 01:09:58.044 [SPEAKER_01]: But that's not what happened and but I did

like this set up and so I think this is interesting But I do hope secretly the black cat steals the white queen away and keeps her locked up and trees are like a diamond Treat her like a diamond. 01:09:58.344 --> 01:09:58.685 [SPEAKER_02]: Look at it. 01:09:58.785 --> 01:10:00.527 [SPEAKER_02]: It's just wow 01:10:01.547 --> 01:10:27.610 [SPEAKER_03]: uh... i don't even know to say that the fury of firestorm number eight from dc comics written by jefflomir art by raffle dill at hooray firestorm died but now he's back and or is he we don't exactly you know uh... as a new version of firestorm showed up he's being held by the u.s. government meanwhile he is sometimes girlfriend i want to say your name is flamethrower and i really should be fired hawk out fired hawk playing bird 01:10:28.210 --> 01:10:36.336 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know thank you very much is below his girlfriend matches below and she's trying to free him Don't burn match. 01:10:36.356 --> 01:10:36.957 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what we got 01:10:38.346 --> 01:11:00.305 [SPEAKER_01]: uh... yet cool cover uh... i like the look of this as a cool like old school feel to it which is really nice uh... you know uh... i'm not a big firestorm guy uh... but i was really kind of uh... impressed by the tone and coloring of this issue and uh... you know i had that little kid trying to help so that's always nice 01:11:02.147 --> 01:11:24.723 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean this series feels it felt to me like it was a six-issue series that they were like oh, this is doing well Let's extend it and so we're definitely in sort of the getting the next story going part of it The quest for Ronnie as part of Firestorm, but I I there are to excellent this I'm really invested in the the tone and vibe of this. 01:11:25.043 --> 01:11:29.986 [SPEAKER_02]: I like Firestorm Next is sure we're going to get a lot of big move. 01:11:30.087 --> 01:11:30.487 [SPEAKER_02]: I believe 01:11:32.039 --> 01:11:55.879 [SPEAKER_03]: voted number five image comics written by Margarine Bennett and James time the fourth art by Laticia Katanichi we are following a bunch of deal Nazis or white supremacist excuse me who had been traveling through the wilderness until they end up in the realm of the gods here they encounter balder the brave 01:11:56.419 --> 01:12:05.069 [SPEAKER_03]: That is burger restaurant and play a little a fun little game that I want to suggest maybe the three of us should play some time Yes, what do you think about that? 01:12:05.149 --> 01:12:07.392 [SPEAKER_02]: Be mean and eat each other's face. 01:12:07.412 --> 01:12:08.173 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, exactly. 01:12:08.693 --> 01:12:16.622 [SPEAKER_03]: This is a very messed up her title that is all about diving into faith diving into 01:12:17.684 --> 01:12:26.925 [SPEAKER_03]: or what it needs to be in white supremacist society, all through the heads of the journalists, who is investigating them and is now just trying to stay alive. 01:12:29.121 --> 01:12:41.493 [SPEAKER_02]: I like this, it's horrifying, there's a great, the scene that takes up the back half of the book where they're playing this game of like calling out some harsh truths in the other people in your party. 01:12:42.434 --> 01:12:46.999 [SPEAKER_02]: And everyone else gets to eat and essentially they're eating a piece of you. 01:12:47.419 --> 01:12:50.983 [SPEAKER_02]: It's a nice, like metaphor that is physicalized in a horrifying way. 01:12:52.591 --> 01:12:55.794 [SPEAKER_02]: this issue takes before that takes a pretty wild turns. 01:12:56.515 --> 01:13:07.805 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know exactly what sort of metaphysical plane were on with these people who were sort of lost in the cold being skeptical of what was happening on main character being skeptical. 01:13:08.426 --> 01:13:11.849 [SPEAKER_02]: And now we're fully in a fantastical world. 01:13:12.309 --> 01:13:27.315 [SPEAKER_02]: Perhaps or perhaps it's a weird trip that they're all on and they're still freezing to death in the woods I like not knowing it's very visually pleasing and the story is just nice and scary Yeah, this is a nightmare issue. 01:13:27.335 --> 01:13:28.816 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't even look at this cover. 01:13:28.876 --> 01:13:37.339 [SPEAKER_01]: It's so messed up I had to walk away when they were eating an ear The tap out for a little bit snack 01:13:38.046 --> 01:13:39.166 [SPEAKER_01]: No, go home. 01:13:39.246 --> 01:13:40.687 [SPEAKER_01]: No, to throw up in the corner. 01:13:41.107 --> 01:13:44.748 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, yeah, this is just a throw up in the corner. 01:13:45.028 --> 01:13:45.768 [SPEAKER_01]: That I'm so sure. 01:13:45.828 --> 01:13:47.589 [SPEAKER_03]: You live in a house, right? 01:13:47.629 --> 01:13:48.009 [SPEAKER_03]: Just a. 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to get 01:14:19.495 --> 01:14:48.155 [SPEAKER_03]: uh... great uh... peaked clean up your house let's move on talk about the horror of godzilla number two uh... i d w written by etherness parker and griffin charred and art by tristan jones and rafael a hanko go back to the beginning of the kaisa universe show how everything got started here with these new titles from i d w we are all turning timelines between the initial attack by godzilla the let loose all this kaisa energy and whatever but he's doing with it afterwards 01:14:49.414 --> 01:14:51.075 [SPEAKER_03]: I'll go back to you our godzilla guy. 01:14:51.115 --> 01:14:51.856 [SPEAKER_03]: What you think about this? 01:14:51.896 --> 01:14:57.721 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, I didn't like the title right away I didn't like the sound of the horror of godzilla. 01:14:57.741 --> 01:14:58.262 [SPEAKER_01]: I was like that. 01:14:58.522 --> 01:15:01.365 [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't sound like anything I'd be bad for godzilla. 01:15:01.385 --> 01:15:04.027 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I should be like godzilla friendship is magic. 01:15:04.387 --> 01:15:05.668 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, thank you. 01:15:05.889 --> 01:15:08.251 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah I don't really eat me daddy 01:15:08.811 --> 01:15:12.394 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh boy, I don't consider Godzilla horror story. 01:15:12.434 --> 01:15:25.203 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a hero story, but yeah, then I had some humans kind of turning into Godzilla like things like man, but cool art, a lot of dark tones, interesting take on Godzilla. 01:15:25.243 --> 01:15:30.807 [SPEAKER_01]: So I appreciate the fact that we're trying stuff with Godzilla, we're taking big swings and doing so. 01:15:30.827 --> 01:15:35.550 [SPEAKER_01]: So that's very cool and creative, but don't, don't, 01:15:38.858 --> 01:15:55.250 [SPEAKER_02]: The Godzilla in this comic is so well done, just big, hard to even conceive of and horrifying like a real like natural accident that I think the best Godzilla is when you can't even really understand what's happening. 01:15:56.131 --> 01:16:00.376 [SPEAKER_02]: The issue I have with the book is that I don't know what's happening with the Kaise energy. 01:16:00.536 --> 01:16:01.618 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how it works. 01:16:01.698 --> 01:16:12.031 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what it means when some people are turned into Godzilla's and others are trying to harness this energy, so I do want to know that stuff as we go forward. 01:16:12.366 --> 01:16:20.032 [SPEAKER_03]: Gorgeously drawn, like you guys were saying, and I'll just add on if you are a fan of Godzilla minus one or Godzilla minus zero in theaters. 01:16:20.112 --> 01:16:27.077 [SPEAKER_03]: Now, this is the perfect accompaniment for it as the same sort of tone and human drama going on in those movies. 01:16:27.778 --> 01:16:29.219 [SPEAKER_03]: So if you like that, check out this. 01:16:30.160 --> 01:16:34.163 [SPEAKER_03]: X-Men number 41 from Marvel by Jed Bikai, art by Death of D.A.S. 01:16:34.223 --> 01:16:39.226

[SPEAKER_03]: is tying into the DNX crossover, and unlike the other X-Men issues that have been, 01:16:40.385 --> 01:16:43.067 [SPEAKER_03]: focused character studies here. 01:16:43.467 --> 01:17:05.165 [SPEAKER_03]: We are very specifically picking up on the end of DNX number four and leading into some point in DNX number five because we follow the X-Menid Fantastic Four teams outside of the dome that is holding in a bunch of X-Virus energy, I guess, we can call it. 01:17:06.116 --> 01:17:17.600 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's where Cyclops is in there with the chairman and they're going to deal with all of the failed mutants that came because of the chairman's failed expires. 01:17:18.360 --> 01:17:18.600 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. 01:17:19.601 --> 01:17:22.101 [SPEAKER_02]: In Juniper, Pennsylvania. 01:17:22.422 --> 01:17:25.102 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, that's how we established everything we need to establish. 01:17:25.182 --> 01:17:28.344 [SPEAKER_03]: What do we move on and to know what did you guys think about this? 01:17:30.470 --> 01:17:35.672 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, it was nice to see a silo kick in some but I really liked the art. 01:17:36.613 --> 01:17:45.217 [SPEAKER_01]: I thought this was kind of one of the more enjoyable ones for me because Cyclops was an and they come out. 01:17:45.317 --> 01:17:50.059 [SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, interesting, interesting story. 01:17:50.079 --> 01:17:53.580 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, we got the people in the dome, people on the outside of the dome. 01:17:53.620 --> 01:17:57.182 [SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, I think we just got the people outside of the dome. 01:17:57.562 --> 01:17:59.383 [SPEAKER_01]: Right, but Cyclops went in the dome. 01:18:00.231 --> 01:18:02.892 [SPEAKER_03]: And then, you know, I don't want to spoil what happens at the end. 01:18:03.113 --> 01:18:05.914 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, every story is about everybody everywhere. 01:18:05.934 --> 01:18:10.036 [SPEAKER_01]: So, well, I mean, every story does have a dome in it. 01:18:10.056 --> 01:18:11.157 [SPEAKER_01]: So, I mean, take it easy. 01:18:11.557 --> 01:18:13.759 [SPEAKER_01]: Have you ever seen a little show called Under the Dome? 01:18:14.459 --> 01:18:15.219 [SPEAKER_01]: No, that is a dome. 01:18:16.940 --> 01:18:18.441 [SPEAKER_02]: Would you say you love the dome? 01:18:19.582 --> 01:18:20.162 [SPEAKER_03]: And that's Pete? 01:18:20.302 --> 01:18:21.483 [SPEAKER_03]: That's not what I'm saying at all. 01:18:22.003 --> 01:18:23.124 [SPEAKER_02]: Do you say in the dome is there? 01:18:23.364 --> 01:18:23.544 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. 01:18:24.597 --> 01:18:26.338 [SPEAKER_03]: I do like, I mean, I DC fan dome. 01:18:26.478 --> 01:18:29.339 [SPEAKER_03]: That was a fun dome, which you guys like, DC fan dome. 01:18:29.459 --> 01:18:31.740 [SPEAKER_03]: That's a fan dome, that's it. 01:18:31.880 --> 01:18:32.840 [SPEAKER_03]: Bring back the dome. 01:18:33.900 --> 01:18:38.962 [SPEAKER_02]: I guess the review people are waiting for is whether or not we liked or respected the dome here. 01:18:39.782 --> 01:18:40.703 [SPEAKER_02]: The dome is there. 01:18:40.763 --> 01:18:41.563 [SPEAKER_02]: I agree with Pete. 01:18:41.943 --> 01:18:42.183 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 01:18:42.363 --> 01:18:42.984 [SPEAKER_02]: There's a dome. 01:18:43.144 --> 01:18:43.884 [SPEAKER_01]: There is a dome. 01:18:45.150 --> 01:19:00.373 [SPEAKER_02]: I've enjoyed the way the X-Men series has been sort of the sister series, the DNX crossover and giving us these smaller stories of the characters who are involved in the crossover, sort of moving a little bit away from the action or doing their own side quests. 01:19:00.853 --> 01:19:13.356 [SPEAKER_02]: And this one, the action is clearly in the dome, so this is just a nice confrontation between O&E, the government sanctioned people who are just hate means. 01:19:14.159 --> 01:19:17.322 [SPEAKER_02]: Um, we have a big fight there, a nice philosophy. 01:19:17.522 --> 01:19:21.746 [SPEAKER_02]: Silaq has been so heavily established as an important character in that. 01:19:22.026 --> 01:19:23.948 [SPEAKER_02]: This side of the Xman universe going forward. 01:19:23.968 --> 01:19:24.969 [SPEAKER_02]: And that's interesting to me. 01:19:24.989 --> 01:19:26.751 [SPEAKER_02]: So I like the focus on her and this issue. 01:19:27.552 --> 01:19:29.754 [SPEAKER_02]: I do want to know what's happening in the dome. 01:19:30.154 --> 01:19:33.117 [SPEAKER_02]: So give us this final issue of the NX to really bring it home. 01:19:34.981 --> 01:19:40.848 [SPEAKER_03]: Playface, celebrity dirt, number five from DC Comics, written by Jude Ellison, Estoyle, Art by Fran Galan. 01:19:40.888 --> 01:19:46.194 [SPEAKER_03]: We finally have revealed who is the person who took clayface's life. 01:19:46.634 --> 01:19:51.360 [SPEAKER_03]: It's of course another clayface who is a much younger clayface I would say. 01:19:52.540 --> 01:19:58.942 [SPEAKER_03]: And in fact, the design, if it was made by friend Glond, for this villain, is horrifying. 01:19:58.982 --> 01:20:10.386 [SPEAKER_03]: You can see it a little bit on the cover here, but it is a clay face that's trying to look human by putting a mask on top of the clay face, but it's a see-through one. 01:20:11.627 --> 01:20:17.029 [SPEAKER_03]: And it's just one of the weak where we see a lot of Yucky things. 01:20:17.129 --> 01:20:18.109 [SPEAKER_03]: This was the Yucky. 01:20:21.760 --> 01:20:27.124 [SPEAKER_02]: I love when the clay is leaking through the mask all around the issue, so it's really great. 01:20:28.264 --> 01:20:35.789 [SPEAKER_02]: So love the horror that's happening here, the next issue is we're getting it all. 01:20:36.189 --> 01:20:40.212 [SPEAKER_02]: So looking forward to that, all the different clays are going to get faced. 01:20:43.802 --> 01:20:56.632 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, I can add to that, but yeah, the art is amazing, and the colors are amazing, and this horror story with Clayface is very interesting, and also very

scary. 01:20:57.233 --> 01:21:04.158 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, if there's a good movie in theaters too, that's probably a compliment to this. 01:21:04.218 --> 01:21:08.822 [SPEAKER_03]: It's called, you can see everything, and it provides two different perspectives on people. 01:21:09.507 --> 01:21:13.769 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, Elizabeth Holmes is sort of a mental clay face. 01:21:14.289 --> 01:21:15.349 [SPEAKER_03]: Wow, if you will. 01:21:15.489 --> 01:21:16.470 [SPEAKER_02]: Take you on different forms. 01:21:16.990 --> 01:21:23.713 [SPEAKER_03]: No, more seriously, if you have been enjoying clay face, if theaters check out clay face celebrities dirt, it is much better than that. 01:21:24.728 --> 01:21:26.249 [SPEAKER_03]: No, no, no, bastards. 01:21:26.309 --> 01:21:31.692 [SPEAKER_03]: Number three for boobs studios written by Julio Adto Art by Jacobi Salcedo. 01:21:32.072 --> 01:21:34.393 [SPEAKER_03]: Let's take a place at a New York win. 01:21:34.413 --> 01:21:38.575 [SPEAKER_03]: It is besieged by kind to you, monsters, if you will. 01:21:39.656 --> 01:21:44.058 [SPEAKER_03]: And there's a couple of kids that are looking for one of the kids, moms. 01:21:44.318 --> 01:21:46.099 [SPEAKER_03]: They haven't left because of that. 01:21:46.259 --> 01:21:49.641 [SPEAKER_03]: And now there are gangs of New York who are attacking them. 01:21:50.642 --> 01:21:53.243 [SPEAKER_03]: In turn, while the monsters are still running a buck, 01:21:54.340 --> 01:21:56.301 [SPEAKER_03]: I think we generally been enjoying this series. 01:21:56.341 --> 01:21:57.641 [SPEAKER_03]: What do you think about issue number three? 01:21:58.202 --> 01:21:59.082 [SPEAKER_02]: I love this series. 01:21:59.162 --> 01:22:00.643 [SPEAKER_02]: This is my Godzilla. 01:22:00.963 --> 01:22:02.523 [SPEAKER_02]: This is the Godzilla I like. 01:22:02.984 --> 01:22:09.026 [SPEAKER_02]: We're getting in a very emotional story, a very on the ground version of a Kaiju story. 01:22:09.506 --> 01:22:11.367 [SPEAKER_02]: We get to see the Kaiju and what happens. 01:22:11.887 --> 01:22:17.450 [SPEAKER_02]: I think that was interesting, perhaps more exciting than some of the Godzilla stuff we've seen lately. 01:22:18.610 --> 01:22:19.510 [SPEAKER_02]: So that's cool. 01:22:19.771 --> 01:22:20.231 [SPEAKER_02]: Shot sorry. 01:22:24.072 --> 01:22:25.836 [SPEAKER_02]: definitely following the series. 01:22:26.478 --> 01:22:27.099 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I agree. 01:22:27.139 --> 01:22:28.242 [SPEAKER_01]: This is awesome. 01:22:29.775 --> 01:22:34.376 [SPEAKER_01]: crazy hammer to the face and there's a bloodiest panel. 01:22:34.737 --> 01:22:40.238 [SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, the kids in the subway and all that stuff, it's a great story. 01:22:40.318 --> 01:22:41.599 [SPEAKER_01]: It's really well-toed. 01:22:41.639 --> 01:22:42.859 [SPEAKER_01]: You know who to root for? 01:22:43.259 --> 01:22:44.319 [SPEAKER_01]: The arts awesome. 01:22:44.379 --> 01:22:48.121 [SPEAKER_01]: It does kind of feel like New York a little bit which is great. 01:22:48.721 --> 01:22:51.622 [SPEAKER_01]: And there's some touching stuff as well. 01:22:51.702 --> 01:22:55.963 [SPEAKER_01]: So I think it's got a little something for everybody and yeah, I'm really enjoying it. 01:22:57.657 --> 01:23:05.663 [SPEAKER_03]: And that is it for the stack, but before we go, it is time for our pick of the week, the one coming to get like two, right? 01:23:05.683 --> 01:23:19.033 [SPEAKER_03]: You said we get like, just one, if we had famous, if you had five bucks, what you should pick up in comic book stores this week, not what we would pick up, but what we would recommend to you with a listener slash viewer. 01:23:19.913 --> 01:23:21.294 [SPEAKER_03]: So, what are you guys picking? 01:23:21.494 --> 01:23:26.456 [SPEAKER_03]: I can talk for a little bit if you need a moment to think about I know what I'm picking. 01:23:26.496 --> 01:23:26.776 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm running. 01:23:26.796 --> 01:23:28.116 [SPEAKER_03]: Do you know how I like what you're picking up? 01:23:28.156 --> 01:23:30.477 [SPEAKER_03]: I'm not quite there yet, so Justin, why don't you go ahead? 01:23:30.497 --> 01:23:38.300 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Jay T says My pick of the week is gonna be Legion of Superheroes number three Really enjoying this title. 01:23:38.340 --> 01:23:40.161 [SPEAKER_02]: This issue especially feels like a 01:23:41.361 --> 01:23:49.183 [SPEAKER_02]: Big, uh, the big notch that has been the logged on for the this new title and there's so much happens here. 01:23:49.943 --> 01:23:51.624 [SPEAKER_02]: This is, this is my issue. 01:23:52.764 --> 01:24:08.048 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I like to read comics in a nice comforting nostalgia bath, so I'm going to go with Transformers, uh, really just thought it was a fun issue, a blast of an issue and, uh, yeah, so of Transformer number 38 is my pick. 01:24:09.751 --> 01:24:20.284 [SPEAKER_02]: If you really like that issue, Pete, you should have transformed into a little tiny review and then forced me to review it for you. 01:24:21.044 --> 01:24:23.307 [SPEAKER_02]: Just like Megatrono, so whatever his name is. 01:24:25.685 --> 01:24:29.708 [SPEAKER_03]: Um, man, uh, good picks, guys, and this is a hard week for it. 01:24:29.728 --> 01:24:31.028 [SPEAKER_03]: There's a lot of good stuff. 01:24:31.669 --> 01:24:37.232 [SPEAKER_03]: Um, this is conversely to what I said last week about trying to pick books that are like easy ends. 01:24:37.352 --> 01:24:40.534 [SPEAKER_03]: Just looking over at, I would say clay face celebrity dirt numbers. 01:24:40.814 --> 01:24:40.894 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh. 01:24:41.174 --> 01:24:49.940 [SPEAKER_03]: I just thought like we talked about the visuals of that book are so distinctively gross in a way that I have never seen in a clay face before and particularly like 01:24:50.720 --> 01:24:53.502 [SPEAKER_03]: If somebody did see the movie or like, oh, that's gross. 01:24:53.562 --> 01:24:54.863 [SPEAKER_03]: I like the body horror of that. 01:24:54.883 --> 01:24:55.904 [SPEAKER_03]: I had to visit this. 01:24:56.024 --> 01:24:57.746 [SPEAKER_03]: You'd be like, you ain't seen nothing yet. 01:24:58.807 --> 01:25:00.088 [SPEAKER_03]: I think would be a fun way. 01:25:01.225 --> 01:25:08.152 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think you could necessarily start with this issue, but I think reading this would be like, how did we get here and want to read back and read the whole thing? 01:25:08.232 --> 01:25:09.213 [SPEAKER_03]: And it's a great series. 01:25:09.413 --> 01:25:09.794 [SPEAKER_03]: So yeah. 01:25:10.735 --> 01:25:11.175 [SPEAKER_03]: There you go. 01:25:11.195 --> 01:25:14.779 [SPEAKER_03]: If you like support the show and all the shows, we do patreon.com slash comic book club. 01:25:14.819 --> 01:25:18.783 [SPEAKER_03]: Also, we do a live show every Tuesday night at 7 p.m. to you to coming out. 01:25:18.823 --> 01:25:22.807 [SPEAKER_03]: We would love to chat with you about comics, Apple Spotify, Android or the app of your choice. 01:25:23.187 --> 01:25:28.490 [SPEAKER_03]: to subscribe, listen, and follow the show, comic booklublive.com for this podcast and many more. 01:25:28.570 --> 01:25:31.332 [SPEAKER_03]: Until next time, we'll see you at the comic booklub. 01:25:31.712 --> 01:25:34.494 [SPEAKER_02]: And Pete, just keep your face out of the trough for one little second. 01:25:34.534 --> 01:25:35.214 [SPEAKER_02]: You little piggy. 01:25:35.234 --> 01:25:35.934 [SPEAKER_02]: Fuck you, yeah, right? 01:25:35.954 --> 01:25:37.495 [SPEAKER_02]: Back in that little pig slap, you little curly tail. 01:25:37.515 --> 01:25:38.836 [SPEAKER_02]: To most him, put him back down. 01:25:38.936 --> 01:25:49.442 [SPEAKER_02]: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait 01:25:51.142 --> 01:26:02.279 [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no 01:26:10.399 --> 01:26:25.634 [SPEAKER_00]: They sit on crappy couches and they let the sick and the lick And he's just nothing, they're like fast, they're short, they're speakin' So grab your ring, hammer, don't relay, or it'll fail, fail, fail