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Hey, this is Frank Todaro, otherwise known as
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Starscream, and you're listening to the Geekcast
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Radio Network. This is Starscream, the true leader
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of Cybertron, and consequently, all things Transformers.
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Get it? That's the name of the show. For those
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of you that don't know this, here on my right's
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twin twist and cup, on the left are Perceptor
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and Topspin. My name's Springer. And I'm in charge.
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Constructicons, it's time to rise up. Oh, hi.
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This is writer Tyler Bleszinski, and you are
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listening to the Geek Cast Radio Network. You've
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just jumped inside the pull bag. Join TFG1 Mike
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and the rest of the comic crew here at the GCRN
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as they make their great escape into comics.
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and Xenoscope, we have everything right here.
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We cover things like Transformers, He -Man, Super
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So, without further ado, it's time to talk about
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the comics we're reading right now, here inside
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the pull bag. You've just jumped inside the pull
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bag presented by all things Transformers. I am,
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of course, normally you don't hear my voice,
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but first, but I am TF2 and Mike joining me as
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always. Steve Megatron. Yo. Yo. This is a crossover
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episode like it was last time as we continue
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our Skybound Entertainment Transformers comic
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coverage. Hello, Steve. How are you? doing pretty
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good doing pretty good pretty good pretty good
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pretty good that's good that's good today we
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are discussing volume two transport to oblivion
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oh i wonder where they got that title from from
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an episode yeah i think so uh there was a lot
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of oblivion in this one yes yes there was This
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collects issues 7 through 12 of the ongoing comic
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series from Skybound Entertainment under Image
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Comics. First up, the creative team is as follows.
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Writer is Daniel Warren Johnson. The artist on
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this run of the series is Jorge Corona. The colorist
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is Mike Spicer. Letterer is Russ Wooten. Editor,
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as always, is Ben Abernathy. Publication design
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was done by Andres Juarez. And the production
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was done by Richard Mercado. Now, just as last
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time, I went and I did something different. And
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I went and I looked because I was curious to
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see what Google AI Summary would say about these
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trade paperbacks. Because I was just curious
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to see what the artificial intelligence would
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say versus what actual intelligence would say.
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Actually, it was surprisingly accurate. In Skybound's
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Transformers Volume 2, Transport to Oblivion,
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collecting, as I already said, issues 7 and 12,
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the conflict escalates and the war expands beyond
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Earth in... to include a dying Cybertron. The
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return of Shockwave. The plot centers on Shockwave,
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who has remained on Cybertron. He initiates a
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plan to harvest Earth's resources to revitalize
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their home planet, regardless of the cost to
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humanity. He initializes... a massive space bridge
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to siphon energy creating a literal bridge between
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two worlds that threatens to tear earth apart
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a bridge between two worlds it's funny that that's
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written like that because now all i have stuck
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in my head is that hannah montana song for some
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odd reason maybe that's just because sadly uh
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ms dolly parton recently passed away Don't worry,
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folks. This episode of The Pullback is going
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up immediately, so that news is not exactly its
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current. We have internal conflicts, Decepticon
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leadership, Soundwave takes command of the Decepticons
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on Earth, leading with more pragmatic and brutal
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efficiency than Starscream. However, tensions
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arise as Shockwave's directives from Cybertron
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begin to clash with the ground team's immediate
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survival. Meanwhile, the Autobot... Optimus Prime
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faces a crisis of leadership. While trying to
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protect humans like Carly and Spike, he realizes
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that some of his own soldiers and humans they
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protect question if his pacifist leanings are
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making him too weak to win a total war. Hmm,
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I wonder. We also have key plot points like Cybertronian
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reinforcements. The story introduces Alita -1
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and her resistance cell on Cybertron, revealing
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the desperate state of the planet. We have the
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bridge battle. A massive showdown occurs at the
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space bridge. We have brutal consequences. The
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volume continues the series' signature visceral
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style featuring high -stakes combat where Transformers
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suffer permanent gruesome damage. What does that
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say? Emphasizing that no character is safe. The
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fate of two worlds hangs in the balance as Optimus
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is forced to choose between the survival of his
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species and the protection of Earth. Done, done,
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done. I think we said in the last episode, and
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it's well documented and known when Daniel Warren
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Johnson was writing on this series, because currently,
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as of this recording, they are up to issue 35
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or 30. Yeah, 35, 35, 36, something like that.
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When he was writing on the series, he has said
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that he was a huge G1 fan and it was a dream
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come true for him to write the story and create
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his own version of Generation One. And that's
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kind of what he has done here. And this whole
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arc of the story is essentially like the title
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of the trade says, Transport to Oblivion. He
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essentially tried to comic book form. what those
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episodes of the old G1 cartoon were. Bringing
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Cybertron to Earth. That's what this is. It's
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like this one kind of mixed a bunch of episodes,
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though. Yep. Yep, yep. What are your overall
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thoughts on... I mean, we're going to go issue
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by issue because I have notes. That was just
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the Google summary stuff that I had gotten stuff,
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but I do have notes for each issue. But what
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are some of your – let's start with issue seven.
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What did you think of issue seven? That's the
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first one in the trade, correct? Yes, yes. Well,
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I thought it was interesting. We had a big battle
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with the Decepticons. Yep. especially starscream
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sniveling and soundwave taking command yep and
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then starscream being obliterated yes yes yes
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yes yeah yeah it's so funny going back to these
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because like i said i for three years i've been
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doing uh another comic review jesse early aka
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matrix prime his his Energon Universe podcast
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with him, and we do it with Ryan, the uneven
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flow Merkley as well. And we are current as to
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whatever the current issue is. So it's so weird
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for me going back to this now and rereading this
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now versus when we originally covered it three
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years ago. It's making me remember, oh yeah,
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when Matt Tracker from Mask was first introduced
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in one of the G .I. Joe issues, I was like, oh
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yeah, that's when that happened. But yeah, Starscream
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now versus where he is right now in this trade
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versus where he is currently in the story, it's
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crazy. We've got Starscream. Soundwave begins
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to basically beat Starscream to a pulp without
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hesitation. That's crazy. Some of my notes include
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I love that Starscream calling out the cheating
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when we all know he would cheat in a heartbeat.
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He would have done it first, hands down. Yeah,
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exactly. Yeah, he doesn't care about any of it
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at all, whatsoever. I've waited for this moment
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a long time, Megatron, and my time is now! I
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love at the end of the issue what Optimus says,
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Steal yourselves, Decepticons! We are coming
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for you! Like, that's not, like, that's not even
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the Bay -verse, like, I can't even, like, it
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just, it's so... I don't know, man. They definitely
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mixed some of... Yeah. They mixed some of the
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movie and some of G1 and some of the 86 movie
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just by some of the aesthetics, like the scene
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where he's stealing herself. Yeah. I don't know
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what the deal is with the baby thing. Yeah, that
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was a little... Yeah, I don't know. It's like
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the Matrix is giving him future visions or something
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or past visions because, I mean, he's got his
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arm back. Yeah, it's yeah, it's crazy. It's just
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crazy. I will say, though, that between Jorge
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Corona and Mike Spicer and even Russ Wooten on
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the lettering, like the entire art team. I've
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said this even up to today. I love the art in
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this book. The art, it's just amazing. It's kind
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of got that almost late G1 Marvel grittiness
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to it without necessarily having the realistic
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eyes. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I definitely liked
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the artwork more than I liked it from IDW though.
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Yeah. I mean, and again, IDW used a handful of
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artists over their run. Like it wasn't always
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the, and the same thing here. I mean, you've
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got multiple, like, uh, the first arc, it wasn't
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Jorge Corona. It was, well, the first arc actually
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was Daniel Warren Johnson. He was pulling double
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duty. He was doing writing and art. Uh, so Jorge
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Corona is the artist here. And then when we get
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to the next arc, I don't know if volume three
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is Jorge Corona off the top of my head. I'll
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have to look, I'll look maybe when we do the
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ad break later in the podcast, but, um, I do
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know currently the artist is Jason Howard. So
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just like IDW skybound is changing artists as
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we go through the series. Um, but I mean, you
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know, Everyone has their own likes and dislikes,
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but I never, I don't remember if there was any
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like, I mean, obviously we've covered all of
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IDW on the podcast. So I, it takes a lot for
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me. And I said this on recently on, on an episode
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of another comic review for me to stop reading
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a comic, whether it's writing or art, it takes
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a lot for me to, Oh my God, I can't read this.
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It takes a lot for me to just completely walk
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away from a comic book. And so far, Transformers,
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G .I. Joe, Mask, Void Rivals, none of it has...
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And you and I haven't even gotten... I don't
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think we've gotten into Void Rivals yet. I hope
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you're going to like that. I think you will.
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They did change some art direction for the next
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one. Because you get Ryan Otley, Jason Howard,
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and then Jorge Corona. Yeah. But the colors and
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the details are different. It looks more cartoony.
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Which I'm not opposed. Yep. Yep. Absolutely.
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Let's see. Other notes I had. Let's see. In issue
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eight, we got Astrotrain. That was a highlight
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for me. Love seeing him in this series. I love
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in issue nine, I love Optimus basically calling
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out Shockwave. He's like, did you forget the
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beatdown I gave you last time, Shockwave? I absolutely
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love that. While I do love Shockwave overall
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as a character, I love when Optimus ends up...
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Yeah, just that was cool as hell. Yeah, I think
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part of my main highlight for this arc, honestly,
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was seeing the scenes with Astrotrain. Those
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were my main... highlights like seeing Beachcomber
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rescue Spike from Astrotrain. I thought that
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was cool. But yeah, no. Well, then we get Ultra
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Magnus. Oh, yeah. And Ultra Magnus, man. Oh,
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man. Huh? I didn't even know that was him. Yeah,
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no. Like, I mean, Daniel Warren Johnson did that.
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Did that dude dirty? Like, I mean, just coming
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back. Yeah. Just like coming back from almost
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nothingness. It was just crazy. Just crazy. And
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I like how the humans are here. But they're not
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like it. I would say this. This trade specifically
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is like something like 60 -40, like 60 % robot,
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40 % human. The humans are here, but the humans
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aren't always in the, like the humans don't take
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away from the robot stuff. They work with it.
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Like Carly and Cliffjumper have their own thing.
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you know, Spike and Beachcomber start to have
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a thing, but that's because he's rescuing him
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for Master Train. But it's one of those things
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where it's not... Daniel R. Johnson is not writing
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this to, oh my god, we have to have the humans
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interfere with the robot war. It's not like freaking
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Kicker. Or, you know, oh my god, I want to get...
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Get in the middle of this and get hurt. Stupid
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Armada. Stupid 2000s cartoons. And again, I'm
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just cycling through these pages. And the giant
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page, the giant splash page of Cybertron and
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Earth, where it says, what does it say? Why not
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bring our home to the source when the blah, ha,
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ha, ha, ha. Just, oh, man, that page is amazing.
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I love the little intricacies in comics sometimes,
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but when they do giant splash pages like that,
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I love that stuff because it just looks so cool.
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You'll hear coming up in the podcast episodes
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591 and 592, which is Eduardo M. Fryer and I
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doing G .I. Joe Volume 1 and Volume 2 from Skybound.
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And in those, we talk about giant splash pages
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for that comic series. And I say the same thing.
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So it's very cool, very cool. How do you feel
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about Skybound's presentation of trade paperbacks?
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What is your opinion of that? Because I don't
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particularly like how they start with volume
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one, volume two begin, and then they just have
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the whole story. You can't tell the breakup between
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the issues. So it's kind of a double -edged sword.
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Like if you're reading it, you know, like you'd
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read a regular comic, it's confusing in the sense
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that you don't know where one ends and one begins.
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Right. If you never read the originals. And then
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with their trades, it's nice from the perspective
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that you get the whole comic, the whole storyline
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not broken up. But again, like I said, there's
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no way to know. I almost wish there was some
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kind of a footer on the pages that say which
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issue it was from and which page number. Yeah,
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exactly. So that you can kind of reference it,
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but it's not blatantly like the covers on the
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front of it. Yep. Yeah, see, that's the thing.
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That's what I've always liked about other companies,
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how they, again, say what you will about IDW
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and how whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever,
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or DC or Marvel, but specifically how IDW did
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it was, and this is what I loved about them.
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This is a way for us to get. either the main
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cover or a variant cover. Let's say you get to
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the end of issue seven, and it's the last page.
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They would put an alternate cover for issue seven,
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and then the back of that page would be either
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the main cover of issue eight or something, and
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then issue eight would start kind of thing. DC,
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Marvel, whatever, same thing. What I always liked
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about the split up and using the comic pages
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was you got the comic pages of art, and that's
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the other thing that they don't do. What I noticed
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at the end of the trade here is that they do
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not, like volume two end. The only thing that
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they do, the Energon universe has arrived and
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we see an advertisement for Duke, Volume 1, Cobra
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Commander, Void Rivals, Scarlet, and Destro.
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And then it's just the last page. They don't
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even include any other alternate art for Transformers
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for any of the covers. I don't like that because
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I'm like, if I'm spending, let's say, I forget
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what, The MSRP on Volume 2 even was. But yeah,
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it's like, let's say a trade paperback is $12
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.99, $13. If I'm spending $13, $14, $15 on a
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five -issue comic book collected edition, I want
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a little bit something extra in there. Because
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I love... Yeah, something like that. I don't
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know. Uh, but overall I liked volume two for
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the most part. Okay. So I'm looking at the cover
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price for volume three on image comics .com 1699
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at that price. I would want to see the variant
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covers in the back of the book. So that price
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is not terrible compared to what? I've seen other
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trades at. Yeah, no. Then some of the other trades,
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like some of the other ones start at $19 .99,
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and then they kind of go up from there to like
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$24 .99. Yeah. So it's not terrible. No, it's
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not terrible. But again, other trades, and I've
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seen other trades at this price that do include
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variant cover art in the back of the book. So
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I don't know. Whatever it is that it is, I guess.
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But volume two. for transporting to oblivion.
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I think my, I think one of my favorite images
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is, uh, I forget what page it is. Earth needs
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me. Earth needs us. Please. Your people need
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you. I need you. Uh, Alita pushing against, uh,
00:22:37.660 --> 00:22:43.710
his Megatron arm, Alita and Optimus. I just like
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the composition of her trying to push against
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his Megatron arm there. Because this was still
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at a time when he had Megatron's arm as his right
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arm. What a way to sell toys, folks. What a way
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to sell toys. Oh, I know. And they charge $90
00:23:05.690 --> 00:23:10.829
for that. And it's not even with the trailer.
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That's the worst part. I know. I'm like, I can
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3D print that arm. Yep. Which I probably will
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if I want to. Yeah. Honestly, it doesn't matter
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to me. I do think it's funny how this issue kind
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of played out. You got Magnus rebuilt. You got
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Cliffjumper kept getting in the middle of the
00:23:32.369 --> 00:23:37.200
fight. Beachcomber was stranded on Earth. Yep.
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Or on the moon, actually, and then ended up on
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Earth during the moon landing. He hitched a ride.
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Yep. And they keep killing Ratchet. You can tell
00:23:51.000 --> 00:23:55.799
they don't like Ratchet. Yeah. I like the fact
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that Devastator got his butt kicked. Yep. Which
00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:03.980
was cool. And the other part that I kind of found
00:24:03.980 --> 00:24:08.049
funny was you ended up with a section of Cybertron
00:24:08.049 --> 00:24:11.650
on Earth. Yeah, the Cybertronian shard, which
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will come back because, again, as I said, currently,
00:24:14.710 --> 00:24:18.150
at the current time, that's Wheeljack's lab.
00:24:20.150 --> 00:24:24.769
I know it ends up in the next issue. Yeah, issue
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35. Yeah, the interesting thing about the end
00:24:30.589 --> 00:24:34.000
of this trade was that Because of Optimus having
00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:39.519
Megatron's arm, supposedly Megatron's personality
00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:45.619
is starting to rub off on him. So the Autobots
00:24:45.619 --> 00:24:48.519
have to beat the ever -living shit out of Optimus.
00:24:50.460 --> 00:24:53.960
And I will edit this episode, but it's one of
00:24:53.960 --> 00:24:56.019
those things where they have to beat the ever
00:24:56.019 --> 00:24:59.359
-living crap out of Optimus to get Megatron's
00:24:59.359 --> 00:25:10.339
arm off of him. It made sense in the moment to
00:25:10.339 --> 00:25:13.799
take it off. Yeah, no, I know, but it's like,
00:25:14.059 --> 00:25:20.220
oh my god. And at the end, Optimus chooses Earth
00:25:20.220 --> 00:25:28.940
over Cybertron. The old fool. The old fool. Any
00:25:28.940 --> 00:25:33.519
other thoughts on Volume 2, Transport to Oblivion,
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sir? No, I mean, I enjoyed it overall. I would
00:25:39.160 --> 00:25:43.130
probably give this a 4 out of 5. On our reading
00:25:43.130 --> 00:25:46.369
scale, just because the artwork was great. There
00:25:46.369 --> 00:25:50.230
was a lot of action, a lot of fun moments. I'm
00:25:50.230 --> 00:25:54.250
not particularly fond of some of my favorite
00:25:54.250 --> 00:26:01.250
characters getting decimated. I'm not, and I'm
00:26:01.250 --> 00:26:03.849
also not a huge fan of Alita, but I get there
00:26:03.849 --> 00:26:08.730
are people that like her. It gets worse and worse
00:26:08.730 --> 00:26:12.130
as it goes on. And I, there was a point, I think
00:26:12.130 --> 00:26:16.210
it's by, uh, when we were doing, when we were
00:26:16.210 --> 00:26:18.410
doing the single issue reviews on another comic
00:26:18.410 --> 00:26:21.970
review, I think by issue 18, I wanted her dead.
00:26:22.509 --> 00:26:27.970
So trust me, I know how you feel. I think I'm
00:26:27.970 --> 00:26:30.769
at that late. I'm already getting rubbed wrong.
00:26:30.809 --> 00:26:34.369
And this is here in volume two. So, yep. Yep.
00:26:35.940 --> 00:26:38.019
Yeah, I'm right there with you. Four out of five
00:26:38.019 --> 00:26:43.740
on the Geek Meter, GCRN Geek Meter. So with that,
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to be the chosen one? All right, folks, we are
00:34:18.139 --> 00:34:21.780
back here inside the pullback. This is episode
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586. We got, I don't know what the math is, something
00:34:27.380 --> 00:34:32.840
like 14 episodes to 600. Yeah, I think that's
00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:36.340
correct. Something like that. I don't know. Steve
00:34:36.340 --> 00:34:38.800
Megatron, what in the hell you got going on?
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Working on a lot of new articles and features
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for the website still. Things to bring new community
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features and functions and just trying to iron
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things out there. Very cool. Very cool. All right,
00:34:57.510 --> 00:35:00.090
folks. Well, that's going to do it for this episode
00:35:00.090 --> 00:35:05.420
of The Pull Bag. Next time. I believe it will
00:35:05.420 --> 00:35:08.079
be myself and Dave McElvenny. We are going to
00:35:08.079 --> 00:35:11.280
head down to Krypton because we're going to talk
00:35:11.280 --> 00:35:16.000
about Krypto, the last dog of Krypton. That's
00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:18.880
right, folks. We recorded that months and months
00:35:18.880 --> 00:35:23.719
and months ago, but it was a five or six issue
00:35:23.719 --> 00:35:28.380
miniseries that DC did. Krypto, the last dog
00:35:28.380 --> 00:35:33.000
of Krypton. where Lex Luthor finds crypto first
00:35:33.000 --> 00:35:38.880
before Clark did, before Kal -El found crypto.
00:35:39.219 --> 00:35:42.619
So very, very interesting, fun series. So my
00:35:42.619 --> 00:35:45.679
buddy Dave McIlvenny joined me for that. So that's
00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:48.579
what's coming up in episode 587 on the show.
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bag presented by all things Transformers. I am,
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of course, normally you don't hear my voice,
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but first, but I am TF2 and Mike joining me as
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always. Steve Megatron. Yo. Yo. This is a crossover
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episode like it was last time as we continue
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our Skybound Entertainment Transformers comic
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coverage. Hello, Steve. How are you? doing pretty
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good doing pretty good pretty good pretty good
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pretty good that's good that's good today we
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are discussing volume two transport to oblivion
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oh i wonder where they got that title from from
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an episode yeah i think so uh there was a lot
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of oblivion in this one yes yes there was This
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collects issues 7 through 12 of the ongoing comic
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series from Skybound Entertainment under Image
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Comics. First up, the creative team is as follows.
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Writer is Daniel Warren Johnson. The artist on
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this run of the series is Jorge Corona. The colorist
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is Mike Spicer. Letterer is Russ Wooten. Editor,
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as always, is Ben Abernathy. Publication design
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was done by Andres Juarez. And the production
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was done by Richard Mercado. Now, just as last
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time, I went and I did something different. And
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I went and I looked because I was curious to
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see what Google AI Summary would say about these
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trade paperbacks. Because I was just curious
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to see what the artificial intelligence would
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say versus what actual intelligence would say.
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Actually, it was surprisingly accurate. In Skybound's
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Transformers Volume 2, Transport to Oblivion,
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collecting, as I already said, issues 7 and 12,
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the conflict escalates and the war expands beyond
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Earth in... to include a dying Cybertron. The
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return of Shockwave. The plot centers on Shockwave,
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who has remained on Cybertron. He initiates a
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plan to harvest Earth's resources to revitalize
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their home planet, regardless of the cost to
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humanity. He initializes... a massive space bridge
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to siphon energy creating a literal bridge between
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two worlds that threatens to tear earth apart
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a bridge between two worlds it's funny that that's
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written like that because now all i have stuck
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in my head is that hannah montana song for some
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odd reason maybe that's just because sadly uh
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ms dolly parton recently passed away Don't worry,
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folks. This episode of The Pullback is going
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up immediately, so that news is not exactly its
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current. We have internal conflicts, Decepticon
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leadership, Soundwave takes command of the Decepticons
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on Earth, leading with more pragmatic and brutal
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efficiency than Starscream. However, tensions
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arise as Shockwave's directives from Cybertron
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begin to clash with the ground team's immediate
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survival. Meanwhile, the Autobot... Optimus Prime
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faces a crisis of leadership. While trying to
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protect humans like Carly and Spike, he realizes
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that some of his own soldiers and humans they
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protect question if his pacifist leanings are
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making him too weak to win a total war. Hmm,
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I wonder. We also have key plot points like Cybertronian
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reinforcements. The story introduces Alita -1
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and her resistance cell on Cybertron, revealing
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the desperate state of the planet. We have the
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bridge battle. A massive showdown occurs at the
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space bridge. We have brutal consequences. The
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volume continues the series' signature visceral
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style featuring high -stakes combat where Transformers
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suffer permanent gruesome damage. What does that
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say? Emphasizing that no character is safe. The
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fate of two worlds hangs in the balance as Optimus
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is forced to choose between the survival of his
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species and the protection of Earth. Done, done,
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done. I think we said in the last episode, and
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it's well documented and known when Daniel Warren
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Johnson was writing on this series, because currently,
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as of this recording, they are up to issue 35
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or 30. Yeah, 35, 35, 36, something like that.
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When he was writing on the series, he has said
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that he was a huge G1 fan and it was a dream
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come true for him to write the story and create
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his own version of Generation One. And that's
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kind of what he has done here. And this whole
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arc of the story is essentially like the title
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of the trade says, Transport to Oblivion. He
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essentially tried to comic book form. what those
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episodes of the old G1 cartoon were. Bringing
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Cybertron to Earth. That's what this is. It's
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like this one kind of mixed a bunch of episodes,
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though. Yep. Yep, yep. What are your overall
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thoughts on... I mean, we're going to go issue
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by issue because I have notes. That was just
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the Google summary stuff that I had gotten stuff,
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but I do have notes for each issue. But what
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are some of your – let's start with issue seven.
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What did you think of issue seven? That's the
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first one in the trade, correct? Yes, yes. Well,
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I thought it was interesting. We had a big battle
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with the Decepticons. Yep. especially starscream
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sniveling and soundwave taking command yep and
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then starscream being obliterated yes yes yes
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yes yeah yeah it's so funny going back to these
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because like i said i for three years i've been
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doing uh another comic review jesse early aka
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matrix prime his his Energon Universe podcast
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with him, and we do it with Ryan, the uneven
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flow Merkley as well. And we are current as to
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whatever the current issue is. So it's so weird
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for me going back to this now and rereading this
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now versus when we originally covered it three
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years ago. It's making me remember, oh yeah,
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when Matt Tracker from Mask was first introduced
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in one of the G .I. Joe issues, I was like, oh
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yeah, that's when that happened. But yeah, Starscream
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now versus where he is right now in this trade
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versus where he is currently in the story, it's
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crazy. We've got Starscream. Soundwave begins
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to basically beat Starscream to a pulp without
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hesitation. That's crazy. Some of my notes include
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I love that Starscream calling out the cheating
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when we all know he would cheat in a heartbeat.
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He would have done it first, hands down. Yeah,
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exactly. Yeah, he doesn't care about any of it
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at all, whatsoever. I've waited for this moment
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a long time, Megatron, and my time is now! I
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love at the end of the issue what Optimus says,
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Steal yourselves, Decepticons! We are coming
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for you! Like, that's not, like, that's not even
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the Bay -verse, like, I can't even, like, it
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just, it's so... I don't know, man. They definitely
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mixed some of... Yeah. They mixed some of the
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movie and some of G1 and some of the 86 movie
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just by some of the aesthetics, like the scene
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where he's stealing herself. Yeah. I don't know
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what the deal is with the baby thing. Yeah, that
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was a little... Yeah, I don't know. It's like
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the Matrix is giving him future visions or something
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or past visions because, I mean, he's got his
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arm back. Yeah, it's yeah, it's crazy. It's just
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crazy. I will say, though, that between Jorge
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Corona and Mike Spicer and even Russ Wooten on
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the lettering, like the entire art team. I've
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said this even up to today. I love the art in
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this book. The art, it's just amazing. It's kind
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of got that almost late G1 Marvel grittiness
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to it without necessarily having the realistic
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eyes. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I definitely liked
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the artwork more than I liked it from IDW though.
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Yeah. I mean, and again, IDW used a handful of
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artists over their run. Like it wasn't always
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the, and the same thing here. I mean, you've
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got multiple, like, uh, the first arc, it wasn't
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Jorge Corona. It was, well, the first arc actually
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was Daniel Warren Johnson. He was pulling double
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duty. He was doing writing and art. Uh, so Jorge
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Corona is the artist here. And then when we get
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to the next arc, I don't know if volume three
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is Jorge Corona off the top of my head. I'll
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have to look, I'll look maybe when we do the
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ad break later in the podcast, but, um, I do
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know currently the artist is Jason Howard. So
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just like IDW skybound is changing artists as
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we go through the series. Um, but I mean, you
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know, Everyone has their own likes and dislikes,
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but I never, I don't remember if there was any
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like, I mean, obviously we've covered all of
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IDW on the podcast. So I, it takes a lot for
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me. And I said this on recently on, on an episode
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of another comic review for me to stop reading
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a comic, whether it's writing or art, it takes
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a lot for me to, Oh my God, I can't read this.
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It takes a lot for me to just completely walk
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away from a comic book. And so far, Transformers,
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G .I. Joe, Mask, Void Rivals, none of it has...
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And you and I haven't even gotten... I don't
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think we've gotten into Void Rivals yet. I hope
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you're going to like that. I think you will.
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They did change some art direction for the next
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one. Because you get Ryan Otley, Jason Howard,
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and then Jorge Corona. Yeah. But the colors and
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the details are different. It looks more cartoony.
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Which I'm not opposed. Yep. Yep. Absolutely.
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Let's see. Other notes I had. Let's see. In issue
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eight, we got Astrotrain. That was a highlight
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for me. Love seeing him in this series. I love
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in issue nine, I love Optimus basically calling
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out Shockwave. He's like, did you forget the
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beatdown I gave you last time, Shockwave? I absolutely
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love that. While I do love Shockwave overall
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as a character, I love when Optimus ends up...
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Yeah, just that was cool as hell. Yeah, I think
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part of my main highlight for this arc, honestly,
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was seeing the scenes with Astrotrain. Those
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were my main... highlights like seeing Beachcomber
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rescue Spike from Astrotrain. I thought that
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was cool. But yeah, no. Well, then we get Ultra
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Magnus. Oh, yeah. And Ultra Magnus, man. Oh,
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man. Huh? I didn't even know that was him. Yeah,
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no. Like, I mean, Daniel Warren Johnson did that.
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Did that dude dirty? Like, I mean, just coming
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back. Yeah. Just like coming back from almost
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nothingness. It was just crazy. Just crazy. And
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I like how the humans are here. But they're not
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like it. I would say this. This trade specifically
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is like something like 60 -40, like 60 % robot,
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40 % human. The humans are here, but the humans
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aren't always in the, like the humans don't take
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away from the robot stuff. They work with it.
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Like Carly and Cliffjumper have their own thing.
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you know, Spike and Beachcomber start to have
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a thing, but that's because he's rescuing him
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for Master Train. But it's one of those things
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where it's not... Daniel R. Johnson is not writing
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this to, oh my god, we have to have the humans
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interfere with the robot war. It's not like freaking
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Kicker. Or, you know, oh my god, I want to get...
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Get in the middle of this and get hurt. Stupid
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Armada. Stupid 2000s cartoons. And again, I'm
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just cycling through these pages. And the giant
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page, the giant splash page of Cybertron and
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Earth, where it says, what does it say? Why not
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bring our home to the source when the blah, ha,
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ha, ha, ha. Just, oh, man, that page is amazing.
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I love the little intricacies in comics sometimes,
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but when they do giant splash pages like that,
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I love that stuff because it just looks so cool.
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You'll hear coming up in the podcast episodes
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591 and 592, which is Eduardo M. Fryer and I
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doing G .I. Joe Volume 1 and Volume 2 from Skybound.
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And in those, we talk about giant splash pages
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for that comic series. And I say the same thing.
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So it's very cool, very cool. How do you feel
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about Skybound's presentation of trade paperbacks?
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What is your opinion of that? Because I don't
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particularly like how they start with volume
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one, volume two begin, and then they just have
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the whole story. You can't tell the breakup between
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the issues. So it's kind of a double -edged sword.
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Like if you're reading it, you know, like you'd
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read a regular comic, it's confusing in the sense
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that you don't know where one ends and one begins.
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Right. If you never read the originals. And then
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with their trades, it's nice from the perspective
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that you get the whole comic, the whole storyline
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not broken up. But again, like I said, there's
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no way to know. I almost wish there was some
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kind of a footer on the pages that say which
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issue it was from and which page number. Yeah,
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exactly. So that you can kind of reference it,
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but it's not blatantly like the covers on the
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front of it. Yep. Yeah, see, that's the thing.
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That's what I've always liked about other companies,
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how they, again, say what you will about IDW
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and how whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever,
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or DC or Marvel, but specifically how IDW did
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it was, and this is what I loved about them.
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This is a way for us to get. either the main
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cover or a variant cover. Let's say you get to
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the end of issue seven, and it's the last page.
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They would put an alternate cover for issue seven,
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and then the back of that page would be either
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the main cover of issue eight or something, and
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then issue eight would start kind of thing. DC,
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Marvel, whatever, same thing. What I always liked
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about the split up and using the comic pages
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was you got the comic pages of art, and that's
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the other thing that they don't do. What I noticed
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at the end of the trade here is that they do
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not, like volume two end. The only thing that
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they do, the Energon universe has arrived and
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we see an advertisement for Duke, Volume 1, Cobra
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Commander, Void Rivals, Scarlet, and Destro.
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And then it's just the last page. They don't
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even include any other alternate art for Transformers
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for any of the covers. I don't like that because
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I'm like, if I'm spending, let's say, I forget
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what, The MSRP on Volume 2 even was. But yeah,
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it's like, let's say a trade paperback is $12
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.99, $13. If I'm spending $13, $14, $15 on a
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five -issue comic book collected edition, I want
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a little bit something extra in there. Because
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I love... Yeah, something like that. I don't
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know. Uh, but overall I liked volume two for
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the most part. Okay. So I'm looking at the cover
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price for volume three on image comics .com 1699
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at that price. I would want to see the variant
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covers in the back of the book. So that price
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is not terrible compared to what? I've seen other
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trades at. Yeah, no. Then some of the other trades,
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like some of the other ones start at $19 .99,
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and then they kind of go up from there to like
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$24 .99. Yeah. So it's not terrible. No, it's
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not terrible. But again, other trades, and I've
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seen other trades at this price that do include
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variant cover art in the back of the book. So
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I don't know. Whatever it is that it is, I guess.
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But volume two. for transporting to oblivion.
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I think my, I think one of my favorite images
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is, uh, I forget what page it is. Earth needs
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me. Earth needs us. Please. Your people need
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you. I need you. Uh, Alita pushing against, uh,
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his Megatron arm, Alita and Optimus. I just like
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the composition of her trying to push against
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his Megatron arm there. Because this was still
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at a time when he had Megatron's arm as his right
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arm. What a way to sell toys, folks. What a way
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to sell toys. Oh, I know. And they charge $90
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for that. And it's not even with the trailer.
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That's the worst part. I know. I'm like, I can
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3D print that arm. Yep. Which I probably will
00:23:21.170 --> 00:23:25.890
if I want to. Yeah. Honestly, it doesn't matter
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to me. I do think it's funny how this issue kind
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of played out. You got Magnus rebuilt. You got
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Cliffjumper kept getting in the middle of the
00:23:32.369 --> 00:23:37.200
fight. Beachcomber was stranded on Earth. Yep.
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Or on the moon, actually, and then ended up on
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Earth during the moon landing. He hitched a ride.
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Yep. And they keep killing Ratchet. You can tell
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they don't like Ratchet. Yeah. I like the fact
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that Devastator got his butt kicked. Yep. Which
00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:03.980
was cool. And the other part that I kind of found
00:24:03.980 --> 00:24:08.049
funny was you ended up with a section of Cybertron
00:24:08.049 --> 00:24:11.650
on Earth. Yeah, the Cybertronian shard, which
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will come back because, again, as I said, currently,
00:24:14.710 --> 00:24:18.150
at the current time, that's Wheeljack's lab.
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I know it ends up in the next issue. Yeah, issue
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35. Yeah, the interesting thing about the end
00:24:30.589 --> 00:24:34.000
of this trade was that Because of Optimus having
00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:39.519
Megatron's arm, supposedly Megatron's personality
00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:45.619
is starting to rub off on him. So the Autobots
00:24:45.619 --> 00:24:48.519
have to beat the ever -living shit out of Optimus.
00:24:50.460 --> 00:24:53.960
And I will edit this episode, but it's one of
00:24:53.960 --> 00:24:56.019
those things where they have to beat the ever
00:24:56.019 --> 00:24:59.359
-living crap out of Optimus to get Megatron's
00:24:59.359 --> 00:25:10.339
arm off of him. It made sense in the moment to
00:25:10.339 --> 00:25:13.799
take it off. Yeah, no, I know, but it's like,
00:25:14.059 --> 00:25:20.220
oh my god. And at the end, Optimus chooses Earth
00:25:20.220 --> 00:25:28.940
over Cybertron. The old fool. The old fool. Any
00:25:28.940 --> 00:25:33.519
other thoughts on Volume 2, Transport to Oblivion,
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sir? No, I mean, I enjoyed it overall. I would
00:25:39.160 --> 00:25:43.130
probably give this a 4 out of 5. On our reading
00:25:43.130 --> 00:25:46.369
scale, just because the artwork was great. There
00:25:46.369 --> 00:25:50.230
was a lot of action, a lot of fun moments. I'm
00:25:50.230 --> 00:25:54.250
not particularly fond of some of my favorite
00:25:54.250 --> 00:26:01.250
characters getting decimated. I'm not, and I'm
00:26:01.250 --> 00:26:03.849
also not a huge fan of Alita, but I get there
00:26:03.849 --> 00:26:08.730
are people that like her. It gets worse and worse
00:26:08.730 --> 00:26:12.130
as it goes on. And I, there was a point, I think
00:26:12.130 --> 00:26:16.210
it's by, uh, when we were doing, when we were
00:26:16.210 --> 00:26:18.410
doing the single issue reviews on another comic
00:26:18.410 --> 00:26:21.970
review, I think by issue 18, I wanted her dead.
00:26:22.509 --> 00:26:27.970
So trust me, I know how you feel. I think I'm
00:26:27.970 --> 00:26:30.769
at that late. I'm already getting rubbed wrong.
00:26:30.809 --> 00:26:34.369
And this is here in volume two. So, yep. Yep.
00:26:35.940 --> 00:26:38.019
Yeah, I'm right there with you. Four out of five
00:26:38.019 --> 00:26:43.740
on the Geek Meter, GCRN Geek Meter. So with that,
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back here inside the pullback. This is episode
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586. We got, I don't know what the math is, something
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like 14 episodes to 600. Yeah, I think that's
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correct. Something like that. I don't know. Steve
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Megatron, what in the hell you got going on?
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Working on a lot of new articles and features
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for the website still. Things to bring new community
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features and functions and just trying to iron
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things out there. Very cool. Very cool. All right,
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folks. Well, that's going to do it for this episode
00:35:00.090 --> 00:35:05.420
of The Pull Bag. Next time. I believe it will
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be myself and Dave McElvenny. We are going to
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head down to Krypton because we're going to talk
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about Krypto, the last dog of Krypton. That's
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right, folks. We recorded that months and months
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and months ago, but it was a five or six issue
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miniseries that DC did. Krypto, the last dog
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of Krypton. where Lex Luthor finds crypto first
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before Clark did, before Kal -El found crypto.
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So very, very interesting, fun series. So my
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buddy Dave McIlvenny joined me for that. So that's
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what's coming up in episode 587 on the show.
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