[SPEAKER_01]: What's up everybody?
[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the stack.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Alex.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Justin.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Pete and on the stack we talk about a bunch of books that come out this week and listen I know we say this every week, but this is a big week for comics.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are a lot of these.
[SPEAKER_01]: It really is.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not lying to me.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's on the right of you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Every stack is just the right amount.
[SPEAKER_02]: No more?
[SPEAKER_02]: No less.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hard to see.
[SPEAKER_03]: This week is crazy.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, we've got some big things happening.
[SPEAKER_03]: A lot of big swings, a lot of big events.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's very exciting.
[SPEAKER_01]: So let's get into it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's not waste any more time and kick it off talking about where else DC KO.
[SPEAKER_02]: No more favorite letters together.
[SPEAKER_02]: Finally.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, not in this order.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not in this order.
[SPEAKER_01]: You spent a different way.
[SPEAKER_01]: dot comed uh... dck on a list of comics written by scots night or art by harvey for nandes and zermanico we did a breakdown of the bracket we thought was going to be leading into dck oh that's junk out of the world
[SPEAKER_01]: in our podcast, and also on YouTube, if you want to see it visually, what we did was we, there are 32 contenders entering a ring.
[SPEAKER_01]: We broke it all down, decided what our bracket was going to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oopsy Daisy, I got to say right at the top here, because this first issue, we should have seen this coming full of wild twists, wild swings.
[SPEAKER_01]: huge events for the DC Universe in a way bigger way, frankly, than I expected, given how that they were selling this book.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the setup is a year on for the DC, all in-special dark side has now gained enough energy from conquering the absolute universe and working his way back during the through time to take over the main DC Universe.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the DC heroes find out from a little group called Quantum Quorum, who is a bunch of time travelers, that they've got a week before this is going to happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's pretty complicated, it's very comic booky, but basically inside of the center of the earth is this thing called the heart of a apocalypse, and they realize they can restart it, enter a tournament, or at least it's going to seem like a tournament to them, and at the end of that, one of them will come out with enough omega energy to kind of be a dark side of their own.
[SPEAKER_01]: The risk there is only way to beat dark side, dark side would be dark side, dark side would be dark side, dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would be dark side would
[SPEAKER_01]: They're hopeful that since they're setting 32 heroes in there that whoever comes out on the other side will have enough heroism left to fight their dark side nature and reboot the universe to stop dark side.
[SPEAKER_01]: The risk is that might not happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: They may have a duo, a duo of dark sides if you will at the end.
[SPEAKER_03]: There are too many dark sides.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that's just the beginning of the wild twists and turns of this issue, and I'm going to put a big spoiler warning not just for this, but for everything that we're going to be talking about in the stack.
[SPEAKER_01]: Man, I thought this was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was floored by this, and I got to say just from a DC publishing perspective, this is two weeks at a row after absolute evil, where I was just floored by an event comic book that they're putting out.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's crazy they're happening at the same time.
[SPEAKER_02]: This comic book is amazing because it's just Scott Snyder is the one of the most meticulous and thoughtful writers out there in comics whenever we talked to him Alex I talked to him about a year ago in your comic con and he's a kind of guy that is like hey, is this good and we're like
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, and that humility I think is what keeps him grounded to the story and in this we get to meet our heroes where they're playing a game just a couple heroes gathered together playing a fun board game and that informs the story so hard as we go from that to the most heightened version of that possible.
[SPEAKER_02]: the art by Habi Fernandez is so good and it feels right this is such a great superman issue it's such a great patman issue up to a point where something intense happens that I think is exciting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, what's what's what's tough about this is I'm too invested because now I have a bracket and I'm just running for my goddamn bracket busted your brackets.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know and that's what makes me upset is I'm reading this and then it seems like maybe Batman's dead already and I'm like, well, there goes my fucking bracket.
[SPEAKER_02]: It seems that way, he's definitely if you look at the back page of the bracket, the Batman has a Joker lip smile on his face.
[SPEAKER_02]: So just to talk down, Joker.
[SPEAKER_01]: To talk down some of the big events of the issue, just so we can kind of get it out of the way.
[SPEAKER_01]: First of all, they reference the new 52 wild.
[SPEAKER_01]: They do that in a very meta-way where they're like, yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, we're not doing that.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're not doing that this time.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to find another way to do it, which I thought was very fun at the surprising.
[SPEAKER_01]: Very cool, very cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: And basically, being like, DC constantly gave me just make fun of for doing reboots.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're like, we're not doing a reboot this time in the text.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then we get the tournament to itself, bunch of characters die immediately.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll give a little asterisk there.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're very clear that like, like game pieces, they're put on the shelf.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are going to see Batman again.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a series called Night Fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a series called night fight that is spinning directly out of this we asked fight all of the robins from altered universes who have grown out to be Batman.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know necessarily if this is like he said hell or exactly what's going on here.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the idea this is like a slowed down time thing that happened regardless what happens is as they're fighting the way through they've taken all the villains off the board because they know they're going to mess this up but somehow a bunch of them have figured the way in at Joker kills Batman.
[SPEAKER_01]: Shocky woven number two.
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely following that after they get the 32 contenders or they're like okay, we laid it out surprise It's Joker instead of that man Then they drop like
[SPEAKER_01]: it's the narration is coming from the heart of a pop-lip series like I've already seen the end of this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know it's gonna or she or it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know it's going to happen because dark side is already bringing out his dogs of war who we get to see in shadow are these super bad bat bat or where we're going from the absolute universe.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then the last little kicker is like, and none of them are going to win.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they're not going to win because Darkside is already here and he is pretending to be somebody else.
[SPEAKER_01]: We get the head to the very strong head that it is booster gold, who was rescued for the absolute universe, is actually Darkside of disguise.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's just like kicking the dots after kicking the dots for the DCU as a position.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's what he loves about comics.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, he did.
[SPEAKER_01]: That really?
[SPEAKER_01]: I do love that.
[SPEAKER_01]: because I love the idea of being put into place for a first issue where I thought I knew the way this event was going to go because they're like, yeah, we're just doing a fun fight thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: And immediately, even though I've been reading comic books for decades, going into the staff like, well, maybe they're going to lose.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe they're going to lose the end.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe the end of a few five issues.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just going to be dark side for the next year until they fight them.
[SPEAKER_03]: But that's the thing is I can't enjoy this comic because I'm fucking rooting for my god damn bracket.
[SPEAKER_03]: And if I didn't have a fucking bracket, I could just enjoy the fucking comic book.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's because your brain is broken.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's not the comics, folks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's not the comics, folks.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I wish we had a different bracket thing because that's no fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just like try to put it aside.
[SPEAKER_01]: Think about that as a separate thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Forget it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have, also, you're breaking that post.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I know.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let it go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dude, I'm so fucked.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, here's a thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Joker is Batman could still go and your bracket would be fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because he is the Batman role in this.
[SPEAKER_02]: And honestly, it makes the Batman versus Damien fight super interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: except I think that there's there's no way not to get to go into this no way they're not going to end up with choker versus redhood at this point like that out yes oh you are sorry it's redhood versus Damian yeah I think I think my bracket actually is the big winner in this fight because I had red who you are taking on badness well yeah you're the pretty fucking expert on the three sugar that you're bracket is really fucking good I think that's a weird opinion I have on this
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we all think we're at all the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe me more so than you.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's also fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think friends, but let me say specifically the drama of Joker as Batman fighting Red Hood in the second round is too ripe.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's too crispy to not do that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think Red Hood gets the revenge that he's been waiting for.
[SPEAKER_01]: What I'm most curious about though at this point is what this series is.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a very narration heavy issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: This almost feels like a prologue down to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're not even at the tournament yet by the time this ends.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're just entering it with a bunch of people eliminated.
[SPEAKER_01]: So like what is the actual form of the comic book?
[SPEAKER_01]: What is going to happen over the course of the four issues?
[SPEAKER_01]: Really curious to see obviously like on pins and needles.
[SPEAKER_01]: What are you?
[SPEAKER_01]: What's going to happen with the DC universe?
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's the place you want to be in with super-occurrence.
[SPEAKER_03]: I also think that like, I think this is a cool event, really fun idea, really well executed, but there's was, you know, they had the trope in here.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, hey, we've got a hurry up and make a decision.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then they're just fucking monologing and just talking and yeah, it's like, we're not going to get to a decision for a while.
[SPEAKER_02]: But here's the thing though, I think it works really well because it's like when you read the instructions ahead of playing a game that you're all excited about.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like you get what's happening, you get the rules and now we get to play
[SPEAKER_03]: We get to play the difference before you start playing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Have you ever, will you want to enjoy something to a little bit of preparation?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm talking to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Usually read the instructions.
[SPEAKER_01]: I take the pieces kind of throw them out everywhere.
[SPEAKER_01]: I shake the board on a bunch.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want them.
[SPEAKER_01]: I throw one in the garbage.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just try to guess with this game.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, outside, like it's moonwater.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think you're right on the money they're adjusted because like you're saying the first part of the book is all preparing getting ready for the game and that once they are into the like entry room for the tournament it's laid out like a game board that's what they're going on so
[SPEAKER_01]: what I think Scott said or is telling us here and they have been telling us all along is the stakes are immeasurably high people are going to quote unquote die over the course of this event but we're gonna have fun at the same time and that's the same thing that he did with dark nights metal where he's like it's the edge of the DC universe everything is on fire the joke the batbed who laughs us here are the dark multiverse is approaching also there's a joker dragon
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, so that balance that he strikes, he does so well and he crushes it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, like the stakes are implicit because of just what the whole continuity is telling you, but the fact that it's a game everyone knows it's a game means that they're playing.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we get the play aspect of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that was for man talking about like playing games thing was kind of weird.
[SPEAKER_02]: Very cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I love these Superman like knuckle dusters.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: But let me say it reminded me a little bit of James Tine in the Force.
[SPEAKER_02]: Exquisite corpses.
[SPEAKER_02]: Which might happen.
[SPEAKER_02]: JT4.
[SPEAKER_02]: J-T-40, that's at the long version, which is a similar bracket-based fight, but this is going to be super condensed, and it's we're just going to get rocket fueled through what I think, so that's really exciting.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can I call my shot here in the first place?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, but I think it's going to happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I can't Pete move on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nevermind.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I'm going to call my shot anyway.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the thing that they're kind of leaving off the table here, the little part of the rulebook that they're very purposefully ignoring.
[SPEAKER_01]: is they're talking so much about this Omega energy and they're like we've got to gather a Omega energy.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've got to take heroes and make the dark and evil and Superman the entire time was like, I don't know about this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if we should be doing this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like we talked about in the DCKO podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's definitely going to get to the edge and I think we all kind of came to the same conclusion but like he'll be like, I can't do this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the flip side of that is alpha energy.
[SPEAKER_01]: like there is that is I think going to be the revelation at the end here is like oh wait we don't have to be bad we could be good and super bad after everybody has lost and dark side as well the game is going to realize I have the power to harness the alpha energy of this universe and fight back.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's one because here's the thing because I was thinking this as well, and I think it means Superman is going to be outside of the game I think Superman is going to go out of the tournament early as we talked about in our group bracket But I think it is going to they make a lot of hay of alpha energy something that has been left out of the materials about this event But it's very important in the beginning of this story and I think what we're going to get is like you're saying Superman will give you gathering the alpha energy especially as all these heroes go down
[SPEAKER_02]: which means there are alpha energies up for grabs, he will absorb it, but he's going to beat dark side and then I think he's going to have to fight whoever wins turn it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we're going to get a big bad confrontation from someone he knows and loves and I think it's going to be super girl.
[SPEAKER_02]: ooooh, cusius fine, juice down a mega energy and we're going to get the thing that Alex predicted potentially is the flip of the crisis panel with a jacked up super girl holding a uh Superman who has been.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see what happens.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are in for a wild ride over the next couple of months and we'll be following along with our brackets.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't even mention this a couple of times we don't want to throw it out to our listeners here as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: We each have our individual brackets.
[SPEAKER_01]: The idea is we're going to side points over the course of the five months.
[SPEAKER_01]: See how close we get and whoever loses is like you won a punishment.
[SPEAKER_01]: So let us know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Would you think the punishment would be we had a good one on the live show, which is Pete has to do real trivia for a full month.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's pretty good, but you guys let us know that that's a real burn.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why is so much omega energy right now about this term?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm ready to fucking kill you guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: I could have some alpha energy about it and think about it possibly of course you are a loser.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_01]: Transformer is number 25.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on and image comics written by Robert Kirkman art by dead man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jorge Carrota, uh, this is a new era for transformers picking up with DW day dead Daniel Warren Johnson leaving the title.
[SPEAKER_01]: They do start off with Jorge Carrota, sort of passed to the baton over to Dan Mora.
[SPEAKER_01]: First half of the issue, I agree.
[SPEAKER_01]: The first half of the issue focuses on mega-chron doing a really nice roll call with all the Decepticons.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just really check it in with the idea.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's so much name-checking the so-it's name-checking this issue that
[SPEAKER_02]: I actually was talking very useful.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was very useful and I feel like I'll refer to that a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pete, a very curious person who has been talking to not stop about how much you ate.
[SPEAKER_01]: Business meetings where you thought about the seed will come back to that in a second.
[SPEAKER_01]: The second of the issue is Optimus Prime and the Autobots helping out in Chicago, which is wrecked trying to rebuild it alongside humans.
[SPEAKER_01]: When they're approached by somebody who seems to be from the U.S.
[SPEAKER_01]: Army, brokering, a deal to help them.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the only thing is the guy who is the leader of the organization that's going to help the bout who has so much Enter John is a guy named Miles may have.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god Suspect name.
[SPEAKER_03]: But let me just say mask is entered the fucking Enter John world like what is happening?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes As we all know Miles men may have as the big villain from mask.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was the leader of Venom.
[SPEAKER_01]: We all know this Yeah, so yeah, so yeah, that's what we're gonna
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you guys all know this to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a favorite.
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about this a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: So what is very important for ourselves?
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel sure my eights.
[SPEAKER_01]: Very energetic.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yum, yum, very energetic.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: What is this thing for Pete?
[SPEAKER_03]: The villains evil network of mayhem, come on!
[SPEAKER_02]: Great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: Great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, just for those of you not watching Pete just has He's bleeding from his nose and eyeballs.
[SPEAKER_02]: He went too deep into his nostalgia brain.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he's, he's over for him.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's having a stressful blood.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I was like, I almost said brain freeze.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're trying to play.
[SPEAKER_02]: He went full 11 to remember the fandom from mask.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like this issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought this was very focused both in terms of the mega trend story and the optimist story.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I do like working in this mask thing here.
[SPEAKER_01]: We were talking about the concept of mask that like their trucks were turned into other trucks.
[SPEAKER_01]: That what it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a perfect companion to the antigen universe because it's like, it's humans that drive trucks that turn into other trucks.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're supposed to, I was thinking, doesn't turn into other trucks, they turn into, like, weaponized cars.
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree about this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: This seems reasonable thing for human beings who are adults to get angry about.
[SPEAKER_01]: The thing that I think is so smart about the way they're setting the sun, because the way I think it's because is the best of the surface weird concept.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here, they're basically being like, oh, what if transformers at GI Joe lead to mask?
[SPEAKER_01]: Which makes like, under the sense of the world.
[SPEAKER_02]: And honestly, I think mask is a response to transformers being in the world.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's really smart, especially in this title so far on the first 24 issues.
[SPEAKER_02]: Humans have been just things to crush, essentially, or not crush.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that, fact that humans can have a little power here, I think is really good.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I also think it's a good place to put Optimus in where he's like, well, I found these new allies that gave me two Transformers.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought we're missing in all this energon.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's going to get to a place where he helps build miles made of a venom and feel crushed about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's yeah, well, first off, as the Transformers fan here first stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, you guys are just to start.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I just want to say, you know, come from the guy with a sound wave teacher like let's let's let's break this down a little bit more first off is a sick cover bro You know, especially because Optimus got fucking wrecked in the last issue, so kind of nice to see on this just be a truck for a while
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, and then, you know, we start with this mega-tron kind of like roll call monologue thing, which I felt like was a little over the top.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sure you guys appreciated all the names of people that you didn't know, but I just think that like mega-tron of those names
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, of course.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've watched all the shows and the movie numerous times, so yes, but I'll pay one the first one or no The animated movie that this is all fucking based on please try to watch it.
[SPEAKER_03]: So are you talking about huh a revenge of the fallen or dark of the moon?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, neither of those.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm talking about Transformers, they animated a movie.
[SPEAKER_03]: Tell me about Transformers' voice.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're talking about your house personality.
[SPEAKER_02]: What's the house vibe?
[SPEAKER_03]: Listen, I just felt like, okay, first off, all I gotta say.
[SPEAKER_03]: The over-the-top mega-tron speech was a bit much hearing him talk about peace was weird Like we will kill everybody for peace.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was like this is like a peacemakers speech over here Ruzag old kill anyone so I felt like that was a little bit much also like
[SPEAKER_03]: the change from 24 to 25 was huge like you know we were kind of slow play in everything and this issue like so much goes down it kind of breaks my brain like the ocean moment of mayhem was enough but there was also all this other kind of stuff and seeing like Optimus get duped was rough where he was just like oh it seems like a hell of a deal right all the all the energy on you can handle and I was like oh my god this is not going to go well so that kind of reveal was insane
[SPEAKER_03]: But it really just set up so much.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love the art.
[SPEAKER_03]: I also didn't think they did a smart job of like that transition like you said, so I'm very excited with what's to come.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was just surprised how jam packed this was and a little kind of overwhelmed.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like the jam packness of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really liked the sticking with hooray corona for this first sort of coda on the Decepticon stuff, which I thought was great.
[SPEAKER_02]: I actually really liked the speech.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought it was cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then the transition into the much cleaner art, really sort of shifting into a new era, Optimus Prime feels like he can chill a little bit and just be a truck, which, you know, everybody's drink.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just like I wanted to give a shout out to Tenmura has this great split panel of a little girl.
[SPEAKER_01]: I believe who has a mask and it's like you and me were the same and there's this lovely split panel of Optimus and the little girl that I thought was really nice and just emphasizes everything that's been going out of the road about Optimus bonding with humans.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is a simple visual way which is very cool to see.
[SPEAKER_02]: Here's what I predict though on our miles mayhem.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's like, yeah, come hang out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Join us, hang out, you met your old friends so we had we found hidden in places.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think he's gonna be like, we turned them, now your friends are cars where Jetski's shoot out of him.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you think about that?
[SPEAKER_02]: And Optimus is gonna be really sad.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because now we're ready for sad.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're ready for sad.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're both coming out of him.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, that's not something we've said of.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's something we've done.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought I understood this mask thinking that you mentioned some details down Justin and I don't get it any more.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's literally just trucks that boats come out of and the hell is stopping us.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not true.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like some size cars.
[SPEAKER_01]: But they always wear a mask.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's right.
[SPEAKER_02]: The nose wear masks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they control the boat trucks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the masks.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the masks let them turn their car into a boat.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the same thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody's at it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then you can just play the mask up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pete, you can be mad about this.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I'm saying everything is true, I'm saying.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not saying the truth that it's like sometimes it's a jetpack that turns into like a backpack or whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, first off, I think we need to move on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amazing spider-man tour number one for Marvel written by Jane Bikostrasinski.
[SPEAKER_01]: Art by pair Perez.
[SPEAKER_03]: First off, if you're a piece of shit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And scored by Natalie Ambrugly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: And tying into your tron, but they spelled it wrong.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it takes place back in the day when Spider-Man was for the title torn between Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane and enter that we are getting a new villain here, a lady who turns into a demon.
[SPEAKER_01]: Bumbers.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, for some sort of like kills librarian's pretty reckless.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, she kills like you don't need to kill a librarian.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, okay, just to throw it out there, J. Michael Shardisky.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like people are very torn on his run on the book.
[SPEAKER_01]: He injected a lot of stuff in there, but if there were a lot of controversial moments as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like the character stuff he brings with
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, Harry and Gwen and MJ and Peter just kind of hanging out.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that was really well done.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't understand thematically how it connects at all with the other half of the book.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, I have a question.
[SPEAKER_03]: Did you guys think that the blonde lady who was the bad person was Gwen?
[SPEAKER_03]: Because the art was so similar that it was driving me fucking nuts.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it was not pretty quickly, but the first time when they went for a page of Gwen who does not wear a headband in this book to a page of a blonde lady, I was like, what's Gwen doing now?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's not great.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's not great.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that really threw me where I was like why is Gwen all of a sudden acting like this and then she's cool around Parker But I was like okay, maybe she's split personality thing, but then when they would later on the episode I was like, oh, this is a bleed different white lady
[SPEAKER_02]: But let me say like this is I'm really enjoying the run that's happening on the flagship amazing spider-man title that we've been talking about a lot And this is like sort of the opposites side of that like we have it's a classic story back in the past Spider-man's very basic spider-man We have our Gwen Stacy marriage and all that stuff and this is a nice point counterpoint to be reading that book that it has Peter in space Some alternate spider-man on earth doing different things
[SPEAKER_02]: and this feels like a great, I actually think it's going to be nice to be reading these at the same time.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what this story is going to be, but the relationship and interpersonal stuff from Peter Gwen Mary Jane and Harry I really liked.
[SPEAKER_02]: So more of that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just worried because it, you know, Peter accidentally turns this lady into a demon and she flies off angry.
[SPEAKER_03]: and he has the book and I just feel like he's got to try to help her but he also has so money other things going on that I'm worried if this gets back Bernard like that lady is really going to want her vengeance you know maybe he won't see it maybe she just gone
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, maybe that's it for her and the rest of it is just a relationship trauma.
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess we'll see.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, moving on to another big issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_01]: Batman number 13 from DC to come by Scott Snyder art by Nick Jeragoda.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are getting towards the final battle with Bane here as Batman bonds with Catwoman.
[SPEAKER_01]: They spar a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: We get to see a. Oh, they spar.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, they spar.
[SPEAKER_01]: We get to see a love scene back in the day, and we also get a huge revelation of a character who was a big surprise, unless you looked at the dumb site that leaked it several days prior to this.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you didn't know about that, awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: But midway through the issue, we get to meet absolute Harley Quinn, with some kind of
[SPEAKER_01]: kind of a asterisk, the red hood.
[SPEAKER_01]: So a lot of big stuff going down in this issue, though this is very much a preparation for the bigger battle in the next issue, but I've got to tell you, good relationship trauma.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also nice to take a one-issue break for the Dodd-stop horror we've been experiencing in this title.
[SPEAKER_02]: Agreed.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really like the Catwoman stuff here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I would say like we get some flashbacks to them, but they're they're their sexiness is modern, like that's
[SPEAKER_02]: It fully, um, oh, that's right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: In in the van, Venom Dup body.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that was just great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Really well done.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love a quiet moment in a series that is just like so all go.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then you just get catwoman a couple panels later, hooking your tail up to a gun and just laying out some people with some trinkdarts.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought the Harley Revolution was great.
[SPEAKER_02]: It rhymes really nicely with Joker and Red Hood history
[SPEAKER_02]: Again, Scott Snyder's brain, just able to mix and match history with this Omega infused absolute universe, which is really cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: This series just doesn't disappoint.
[SPEAKER_02]: I genuinely don't know what's going to happen, and that's exciting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that is exciting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, the sick cover fun with the catwoman, you know, kind of a little, you know, we get kind of the rule that Batman's been juicing and on the banger's, which is a little scary, but I guess in this absolute world, you got to kind of make these kind of decisions.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, experimented on for the past several issues.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, wasn't his bad.
[SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't his choice.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, well, he seems like he was pro at when they were to like it now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, he seems like he's I guess you embrace what's happened to you, but you get a you get a graph of fresh squeeze orange juice.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're not going to juice that juice.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, that's a thing dude.
[SPEAKER_03]: If it's a lace juice, you know, you got to be careful.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, you can't just set moonwater outside and hope it's going to be cool the next day.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just think you can do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why I don't recommend it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't recommend it.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I just think that like I love the stakes.
[SPEAKER_03]: I also love the kind of cameos we get.
[SPEAKER_03]: We got this sweet panel kill of crock in there, Harley Quinn with the shaved head and the nun chucks.
[SPEAKER_03]: awesome.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just fun choices, exciting to see these characters and how they look and feel in this and I'm just having a blast.
[SPEAKER_01]: Next up, Harley Quinn XL viral number one from Dynamite, written by Jimmy Pamiati at Amanda Connor, art by Amanda Connor and one said, Lou, you can probably figure out what's going on here, but this is Pamiati and Connor going back to their lauded run on Harley Quinn the days are just in the iconic island.
[SPEAKER_01]: Get to see a bunch of those jokes pop up here.
[SPEAKER_01]: But basically, yeah, this is, I think, exactly what you expect.
[SPEAKER_01]: And therefore what you want out of a title like this as Harley Quinn recruits L. Viro for a Halloween party They get mashed together.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's lots of crunchy jokes throughout great Amanda Connor art in particular at the beginning and one Samu.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think balances it nicely, so enjoyable
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, like Jimmy and Amanda working together like they're I'm so curious how they I would love to just be in the room with to hear them working because it's it feels like they're just having a blast all the time They know what they want to be doing.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's just great the moment when Harley's on stage at Carnegie Hall Topless that that was really funny.
[SPEAKER_02]: They just really know how to get into their zone and live there for a comic like this
[SPEAKER_03]: yeah this is a blast it's a great team great to see them back on this having so much fun and even the lettering is fun i mean there's so many cool kind of details about this i love the tone of the art just setting this kind of light bright fun world and just having a blast next up superman the kryptonite spectrum number three for dc comics written by w max while prince art by martin marazam
[SPEAKER_01]: over the course of the series superman and batman and experiment with new types of kryptonite and the new type of kryptonite last issue left him you the eyes as I believe the word, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Is that true?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he is younger than he was before and he's hanging out with Billy Batson, Shazam.
[SPEAKER_01]: Part of the issue is drawn to look like it is in crayon and they battle a bunch of different folks at the same time.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you guys think about this one?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, this continues to be so fun with this kind of underlying creepy tone to it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I love the line, this is the worst amusement park ever, that's fun.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then we got the big reveal here of that they haven't been kind of like testing kryptonite that this is all an evil plot by mixleplic, so that's fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: And a little bass.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and it makes a lot more sense now with all the things that have been going wrong.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so, yeah, I'm having a blast with that.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's a fun reveal by this team.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, this has just been such a creepy blast and such a unique way.
[SPEAKER_03]: It continues to be awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the sense of dread that W Maxwell Prince and Martin Marazzo bring to this is awesome like it is a flavor We rarely get with any sort of book in the Superman side of things and it's really exciting I love we get to see them draw see Martin Marazzo draw the back cave We get a lot of just great moments and
[SPEAKER_02]: W Maxwell Prince just hitting us with some really fun lines.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a great lowest lane.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lex Luther seen.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just top notch across the board.
[SPEAKER_02]: And a flavor you won't get anywhere else.
[SPEAKER_01]: Marvel Knights, Punisher.
[SPEAKER_01]: Number one from Marvel Written by Jimmy Pabbiati, art by Dan Penosi.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is part of the Marvel Knights, the world to come world that was started with the Black Panther book.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is now continuing with this.
[SPEAKER_01]: They seem to be only tangentially related.
[SPEAKER_01]: by the Marvel night's name and the fact that she'll be probably on a was part of Marvel night's back of the day.
[SPEAKER_01]: But this is giving us a tale of a older Punisher with a new skull onto his chest fighting his way against a drug that is called zombie that does exactly what his name implies without the flesh eating, but basically turns people into brainless thugs who follow your every command.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pete, you're our Punisher guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: You must have loved what FBI director Cash Patel was doing the past week Handing out these challenge coins and now this go ahead.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I was very excited to see this in the stack So much so that I couldn't wait to read it like normally
[SPEAKER_03]: When we get this stack, I have like little treats in different parts of the stack for myself You mean you hide like donuts in between comic.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's exactly right But I just I couldn't wait.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was so excited.
[SPEAKER_03]: I you know, Pilomi Adi is an amazing writer I feel like he's in a great kind of
[SPEAKER_03]: wheelhouse for this seems like a perfect thing for him and I kind of been more disappointed with what happened.
[SPEAKER_01]: Really?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, the last thing that happens is the Punisher kills a family kind of like what happened to him and his family at a picnic and I just was like
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the last thing the Punisher would want to do.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it was fucking heartbreaking to see it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Also, it sure makes it look like it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a pumpkin.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then that bothers you the pumpkin part.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the pumpkin part.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just in time for Halloween.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I was just like, I went from a real high to a real low.
[SPEAKER_01]: And, um, well, if you think about the fact that by the end of the issue, they're calling him the pumpkin or do that bother you as well?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I also didn't like that part of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and that they hollowed him out and put a candle in him and he glued a beautiful.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, also zombie punisher makes me think of Frankenstein punisher, which was not fun for me, but maybe for some other people.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm, conjuring up a past quote unquote trauma.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I actually really enjoyed this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really liked him because he's art.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like it adds a nice sort of even though it's set vaguely in the future.
[SPEAKER_02]: It has a more classic feel to it, which match well with this type of Punisher story where it's not glorifying him as much as just having him be a force that is going in one direction and then by the end is
[SPEAKER_02]: killing a family, so that was tragic, but I, the amount of torture that the partnership goes through.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like is a lot, and I like his new pumpkin look.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you like the pumpkin look?
[SPEAKER_01]: I also like the pumpkin look, and I appreciated not having the classic skull.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've talked about this before, but I just, it doesn't, nothing against the creators involved, but it doesn't sit
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we're like, ah, it's okay to bring back Frank Castle with the classic skull.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here we go.
[SPEAKER_01]: When it is still a problem, I was joking about the cash betel thing, but if people don't know, like he had it out these challenge coins, people he thinks is a doing a good job, which is like a gold Punisher symbol with guns instead of teeth.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just part of the section of society that uses the Punisher symbol to try to justify
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't like it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I had Jerry Conway, co-creator, the Punisher doesn't like it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate it the fact here, at least, that they're giving, continuing to give a stretch at a different direction versus what they're doing in the mainline universe.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, in like, you know, taking the politics out of it, I just think the image itself has been co-opted.
[SPEAKER_02]: It means something else.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now.
[SPEAKER_02]: So like, I think to your point, it needs to be different, because otherwise, where it just takes you out of the story, again, avoiding the politics, from a pure storytelling point of view, it makes it harder to get on board with the character.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, and this is just supposed to be this felt to be a lot like Garth at his max Punisher down to the Padosi and art So sorry, you didn't like it Pete, but I also did Conan the barbarian number 23 25 from Titan comics written by Jim Zub art by Alex Horley Actually talk to Jim Zub about this issue a few weeks back on the podcast So do check that out, but the big highlight here beyond it being a 25 is Alex Horley
[SPEAKER_01]: fully painted the entire issue and not just on comic book pages, but like made multiple paintings that they somehow have, of different sizes that they found.
[SPEAKER_02]: Different sizes, that was a crazy part.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is not again in this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is funny.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's not something I knew that a lot of artists did.
[SPEAKER_02]: But we talked with Robert Kirkman and
[SPEAKER_02]: David Finch, David Finch about this in the book that they're working on where he was doing like these huge poster-sized panels for the entire issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then to have Jim Zab talk about Alex Harley doing these in all different size canvases.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, that's madness.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and it's but in the book like it's really cool talking to Jim about it like it's Harkin's back while looking forward and a really smart way the art reminds you of just like sort of the Frank for a zeta origins of Conan's imagery and our brains in a really cool way
[SPEAKER_02]: Jim also talked about like positioning Conan in throughout the different areas like this book jumps around from Conan's history and this we're getting an older Conan and I think it was it was nice to see that here in the 25th issue and but still like looking back to the history we get a little bit of belief to character I really like um later on in the book and I don't know it it's just a great milestone comic to jump into even if you have them in reading the comic before
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I agree with all that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's...
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a good jumping on point, which is nice, especially for an issue 25, which doesn't maybe seem so check it out, but yeah, I think that the art is absolutely spectacular, it really makes a difference when you're kind of sucked into this world.
[SPEAKER_03]: It does such an amazing job, so just feels more epic and just kind of helps kind of transport you away.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I was impressed
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, guys show up in creepy and he's like, hey, you can stay.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_03]: I was like, wow, look at Conan, just being so nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's like, it's Shukasa.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so Conan, you know, gets a lot of heat for being a tyrant and, you know, ruler and all that kinds of stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I thought he was really nice to his guest and very respectful.
[SPEAKER_03]: And, you know, I thought it was kind of a fun book and
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and arts worth it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just worth it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, he lived a big life before he was king.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like if we had to give up our podcast and become king and all of our great podcast enemies came back We should do a bunch of episodes where we flash back to being teen podcasters.
[SPEAKER_01]: What was that like?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really good
[SPEAKER_01]: The sacrifices number 16 from image comics written by Rick Render are at by Max Fumara.
[SPEAKER_01]: Big stuff going down this issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's pigeon who goes great straight for the sun king with the sun king for looking on leading to what's sure seems like the death of several bad characters by the ed here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, what do you guys think about this one?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, well,
[SPEAKER_03]: First off, epic cover, amazing team, love the artwork, it's hard to draw someone who is mostly made of fire, but really impressive stuff here, especially that kind of like dying monologue that he gives, just so heart-wrenching in all the right ways that Father Daughter Talk was just so powerful.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, really amazed balls are the super tight manners here, just I loved loved love the art the paneling just really impressive kind of panels Yeah, this guy's firestorm all the way down.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's a full by firestorm something.
[SPEAKER_02]: How many people is hard to imagine?
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, we, I guess, could be one, but it could be many.
[SPEAKER_02]: He does seem to consume other creatures around him.
[SPEAKER_02]: This has, comic has been off for a little bit, I believe, and we're coming back with this issue for a new arc where some big stuff happened, as Alex says, I was just thinking, I can't believe it's only been 16 issues.
[SPEAKER_02]: So much has happened in this comic.
[SPEAKER_02]: Our main character has gone so far.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've seen so much of this world It's a classic dark reminder tale that is just so beautiful to look at with great our backing up from Max from our
[SPEAKER_01]: Return to Planet Hulk.
[SPEAKER_01]: Number one to Mark Holden by Greg Pock, art by Carl Moodle.
[SPEAKER_01]: Go ahead.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is one shot set during the events of Planet Hulk to celebrate the 20.
[SPEAKER_01]: What is that?
[SPEAKER_00]: 25th anniversary.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can't possibly be 25th anniversary.
[SPEAKER_01]: Really?
[SPEAKER_01]: of the event at the end of the twenty twenty real good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh boy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, uh, we are returning to planet health.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pete, you're always on planet Hulk in some way.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you think?
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought it said on the cover 25 on the 25 years.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a little Hulk in front of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's hard to tell.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, very hard to tell.
[SPEAKER_03]: But this is just what a great idea by Marvel to celebrate this to have Greg Pockback and kind of do a special thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love this.
[SPEAKER_03]: I also thought it was super smart of the Hulk to go somewhere where banner can exist such a good move.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, 20th.
[SPEAKER_02]: 10 20th in the lower section.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, cover.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, yeah, just really, you know, and he likes fighting machines because no one gets hurt.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just this is just so much fun.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great art, great action.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, yeah, the, the kind of like montage splash page was epic.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, one of my favorite like Hulk love stories there.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is just such a great kind of homage to an amazing event and updated in such a cool way.
[SPEAKER_03]: I had a blast with this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I like jumping back to a particular moment in the run and telling a more extended story that feels very emotional for my character that in this part of the story, we were just mostly observing.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was all about being sort of hard and mad and sad.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so to be able to ride along with him a little bit, I thought was just a really smart place to position the story.
[SPEAKER_02]: So Chastagreg Park, someone who, again, is also very thoughtful about the stories that he wants to talk about.
[SPEAKER_02]: a great writer and the art was really really matched the story as far as just big smash him up fight in the Marvel style.
[SPEAKER_01]: Batman, Dark Patterns, number 11 for DC Comics, written by Dead Matter.
[SPEAKER_01]: Baby, baby, baby.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, didn't Sherman, starring Firebabe, the breakout character of the season.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are multiple firebugs in town and Batman is trying to track them down before they kill somebody or bore them per and more things to the ground.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, Pete, you still creeped out by Firebabe.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's very much so you fucking give me
[SPEAKER_02]: Is it the fire of the baby?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's both, it's a nightmare of both things.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I also, you know, I love when Alfred helps, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_03]: Like that's always just such a fun thing that it's a fun running bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm glad that we got that in this issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great art, great action.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's this kind of fun Alfred, sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is this the one where Alfred could just like, oh, yes, you're the big scary Batman?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I was going to say it's funny you liked Alfred.
[SPEAKER_02]: He was talking shit.
[SPEAKER_02]: Shit in this coming.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's alive and he helps.
[SPEAKER_02]: So Bruce is like, I'm not a child Alfred and Alfred's like, know you're a very big scary Batman master Bruce, which is like puts it down.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Also, it's, it's, I'm so used to absolute Batman and it's funny.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's kind of weird to see regular size Batman.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's all right.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you think I think about the way that Bruce surrounds himself with books in his circle?
[SPEAKER_02]: you guys ever do that if you're literally looking something.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, just it's a great way to kind of, you know, I never understand that they always have seen with like an investigator where they're sitting and they're like I need to put everything out on the floor.
[SPEAKER_01]: The only thing I can think during this season is like you're going to have to clear that up at some point and that's going to be I know it's visually cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's not helpful.
[SPEAKER_01]: But is it helpful?
[SPEAKER_03]: We got an amazing panel where it's just kind of like the cowl with the white eyes that was just such an epic panel and yeah, the kind of building and the stuff that happens in here with all the kind of story and action and the art is unbelievable The fire stuff especially when it was that big panel around all the columns wasn't saying so really impressive art by a hate in there
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, fire babies.
[SPEAKER_02]: They make our dreams come true.
[SPEAKER_01]: Niners Mary Sue number one for boob box written by Megan fits Martin art by Lisa sterile.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is following a girl who is obsessed with the show called the river view that seems to be River now super natural and maybe the vampire diaries as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: Basically like a seated mash up she call you little teen
[SPEAKER_01]: she writes fan-fick about it and it's pretty popular fan-fick as well or potentially really popular fan-fick and she has her own character, her Mary Sue, her stand-in character for herself in there, who knows everything and does everything and people are obsessed with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately in the real world, she is bullied in the school until
[SPEAKER_01]: her character shows up in real life.
[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, it's a really obvious fashion.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think about the kickoff issue to this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, and you say 80's really fashion.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you mean by that like mannequin?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking about.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's some other movie that I'm thinking about, where I'd be a last action hero, I think the other one I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's just confusing.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, there's definitely a movie I'm thinking about, where somebody's made up character, shows up in real life.
[SPEAKER_01]: Drop dead Fred.
[SPEAKER_03]: That way you mean definitely not that either you're correct, but there's plenty of rom-coms or stuff like that happens Anyways, uh, there's plenty where there's he's a thing you guys are saying stuff that I don't think is real This is like there's a lot of stuff Yeah, my thing I created came back to life and it's a whole thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, this weird old idea What about uh, romantic the stone?
[SPEAKER_01]: They're real.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was just a writer.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's a writer, but that isn't Michael Douglas or character creation, or Shesapeake.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, and then you saved her a little bit from the Sandra Bullock, Shining Taden movie?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, that's a little bit closer to that, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a cool world thing where they kind of create a world of them in a cool world.
[SPEAKER_03]: These are all booties we're dating.
[SPEAKER_02]: You guys are really good at just saying stuff that is definitely not 80s, by the way.
[SPEAKER_02]: All sorts of parts of 80s.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, good.
[SPEAKER_00]: That sounds good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Classic Mary Sue dinosaurs.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really enjoyed this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Try Harry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to get the references, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a fun story that did some great set up and so the reveal really popped.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, also like the Riverdale kind of references that it was fun.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but yeah, the classic parents just don't understand to ruin everything, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Right, you guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's actually one of the things that I really appreciated about this book beyond Lisa Sterles art, which I think is really engaging.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's cartoony without going to over the top, but it really draws you into these characters.
[SPEAKER_01]: is there's a real consideration for the quote unquote real characters in this book, including our main character, but even her bully, there's a failure amount of sympathy for her and her mother to the point that you were saying about the parents just don't understand.
[SPEAKER_01]: She is very religious, she doesn't want her watching Riverview and getting involved in that sort of thing and talks to her about how fiction is not real life.
[SPEAKER_01]: I certainly have sort of strong feelings about that because I do a lot of people in thick communities and other fan communities who are involved in that and I do think there is a way of getting into that and making that your real life and that being more real than life you're in in certain ways.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think they do a really good job of starting the line where you understand where the mother is coming from as well and they're also not using religion as a like,
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess we'd say Footloose type situation where they're really pushing back against the, you know, the thing that the youths want to do in the town.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll give you a follow-up on this one, but you know, you're unnoticed, Alex.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're unnoticed.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll be top.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a reference.
[SPEAKER_02]: Grab reference questions.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will lay out a bunch of movie DVD cases in a circle around myself and see if I can spot with that.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's how you can, that's how you can vibe it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Also, the art has a really nice kind of water color feel to, which is fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, the first thing I got when I searched for 80s movie fictional characters up in real life is back's headroom, which is definitely not right.
[SPEAKER_02]: See, now you're being punished for your hubris right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Imperial Guardians never went for Barvel Brit by Dad Abdit and Jonathan Hickman, art by Corey Smith as a Luca Maresca.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is another one shot spinning out of the Imperial event here.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are following Gaborah and Darkhawk, Darkhawk.
[SPEAKER_01]: as a munch house earlier before the event they're investigating a mystery tried to figure out why verank who is the scroll who was behind secret invasion has somehow come back to life they're joined briefly by captain marvel and then there's big twists by the end as they find out the mystery of imperial months before anybody else and it leads to a shocking climax that
[SPEAKER_01]: where it's going, given we know there is a a period guardian series that is coming next year.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you know, I like these characters.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's this is very complicated.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's wild to me.
[SPEAKER_02]: This event feels like it should have been over like a while ago.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've moved on and like honestly, there's a bunch of revelation books.
[SPEAKER_02]: They were going to talk about in the X-Men and they that sort of eating all the air and the Marvel side of things.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it is strange that this is still happening, but I do like the story I like Darkhawk as a character and someone a character who is like trying to figure it out, but there's a lot of mysteries that's understand as the way his powers work super well.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like Gamora partnering with him taking a break from the Peter Quill of it all.
[SPEAKER_02]: Captain Marvel, I feel like she's sort of like, yeah, I'm here for a minute, but I'm busy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like she doesn't seem to be want to be in this crossover either, so I don't know, the vibes on this are a little bit.
[SPEAKER_02]: We get a cosmic ghost rider appearance.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Which is cool, but I was like, wait, it's he.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because if we remember, cosmic ghost rider is Frank Castle.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_02]: With the cosmic power and ghost rider power, and I'm like,
[SPEAKER_02]: How's this working?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and he's funny in this very funny.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's very cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: He is very winky at the camera.
[SPEAKER_01]: Eddie traveled back in time with a baby Thanos and now he lives in this time period.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, which- So that's weird.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just a weird idea.
[SPEAKER_02]: It took my head a minute to be like right when I saw him appear here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, especially because what he does really fuck shit up.
[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, I agree with everything you're saying.
[SPEAKER_03]: I like the story.
[SPEAKER_03]: I, the interesting characters.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I liked how like defensive they got when Captain Marvel was on like, I was just hanging out.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're just, you know, nothing to do in like, oh, okay, sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I thought that was all fun.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great art, tons of action.
[SPEAKER_03]: a cosmic ghostwriter doesn't make sense to me, but I do like cosmic ghostwriter as a character just because it looks cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you think Maximus from the Inhuman stopped cosmic ghostwriter and said, hey, crazy when you were Elzambi and you killed that family with a gambling gun?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you have any memory of that?
[SPEAKER_02]: And Fred could be like, life's pretty loose right brother or whatever he said.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's his catchphrase.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the Punisher's catchphrase.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean he's like very much like I don't always drink beer when I do a drink Death to Pachuco number one from image comics written by Henry Bross art by Rachel Merrill this is a detective story Focus, I got a bunch of characters feels very Chinatown ask to me
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, really like the art style into here in particular.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, what did you guys think about this book?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I agree.
[SPEAKER_03]: The art style.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love the kind of vibe it has to it, fun twists and turns, fun detective story.
[SPEAKER_03]: You get a little bit of history in there, which is cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I was kind of into this and won over by the art and I'm excited to see what's going to happen.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really enjoyed the history here, like particularly there's a moment where there's a lot of like dealing with race in this comic and there's this moment in Pasadena which they're referencing as a sundown town.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's something that I feel like you read about in the Deep South, but very, very, I was thinking that Pasadena was a sundown town was surprising to me, and that's the kind of stuff that I really drew me into this book, so I'm definitely on board for the next issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: Next up, Batman, the long Halloween, the last Halloween number nine from DC Comics, written by Jeff Loeb, art by Chris Samney.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great Chris Samney art as usual in this issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I. Well, Alex, a halting review of Alex's album on this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Really like Chris Sabney's art.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's all I got to say.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I hear ya.
[SPEAKER_03]: And yeah, we get fun to sell cover on this too, which is great.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I hear what you're saying.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think you heard I'm not saying is what you're saying.
[SPEAKER_02]: I hear what you're not saying for sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Peter, did you like the story in this?
[SPEAKER_02]: I was trying to get to that if we could.
[SPEAKER_02]: Please.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I enjoyed this fun twist ending.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, the kind of joker, making deals, you know, you can't trust the man.
[SPEAKER_03]: The guys crossed some fingers.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, man, he's like in a old 70s TV show, but yeah, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm still kind of having nostalgia fun with this and, you know, Catwoman has a mom.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that's exciting for her.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, you're having nostalgia fun, meaning it reminds you of the long Halloween.
[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you're not actually liking this story.
[SPEAKER_03]: I am liking this story.
[SPEAKER_03]: It may be not be up to the Selvatron standards, but just on what the Pete standard.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like are you getting a little donut in between each page those Pete's featuring?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, maybe a donut hole, but yeah, I'm still having fun with this, just donut hole.
[SPEAKER_02]: I always feel like doing a whole short for doing it but that's me and try to on try to on here that I don't know if it feels that way okay but I actually thought this issue was pretty good I know we've we haven't we haven't read this for a couple of issues I feel now just taking a really come out for a while
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, is that true?
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, well, then I'm definitely keeping up with the story.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I did like this issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the Christianity art is excellent, but this is the part of the story, I think Jeff Loeb actually shines a little bit more when all of the disparate parts are coming together.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we're getting to see some of that payoff and the writing in the art are really hitting synergy point.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I didn't enjoy this.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is a little convoluted in general.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think, uh, the, all the.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'll condomally that is my issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree with you that this one is a step up, particularly when we're focusing on the two face stuff that's going on here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought was interesting and Pete called out the Joker scene.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that was well done too, but there's so much going on and two of false log Halloween is simple and straightforward.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like there are twists and turns in the mystery, but you really can follow that very straightforward
[SPEAKER_01]: it's this holiday and now it's this feeling and it's this holiday and now it's this feeling and this is like so many trains going at the same time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well and I feel like this book is trying to absorb everything that's come before and it doesn't have to do that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like we know that that happened this can stand on its own a little bit but there's a lot of recap happening in here at the same time which makes it extra complicated.
[SPEAKER_01]: Strange tales, number one, from Marvel, written by Jeremy Whitley, art by Belly Underwood.
[SPEAKER_01]: In this issue, we get Nico Minoru at Scarlet Witch, teaming up, and it seems like this title is going to be magical character team up, basically is what's going on here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if so, yeah, fun, I'm on board.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great.
[SPEAKER_02]: What I really liked about this, I liked the art a lot.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought it was really nice matching with the story that was very Dungeons and Dragons reputed.
[SPEAKER_02]: And honestly, this is one of the best versions of like a Dungeons and Dragons game that characters are playing that spills over into a larger adventure.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have the lot of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have a lot of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: So Die was awesome, bro.
[SPEAKER_02]: Dye was very good.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was a little more about a plot.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was told over a long period of time.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought as a standalone issue, this was able to give us the mechanics of how the universe worked at the same time and was telling us the interesting story.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I thought the mechanic was actually a very smart version of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that was really cool to see.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was pleasantly surprised this is in ongoing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's very exciting.
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like strange tales is such a kind of staple in comics.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's such a kind of... Extremely intriguing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's an epic, important thing in comics.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I was very happy to see this back.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love the swings that this comic has taken over the years.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I was excited about this, and I feel like they did such a good job with the fantastic art that sets such a nice tone, has a cool vibe to it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Love this kind of witch's team up with a little D&D sprinkled in there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you know, don't get you modget, you know, this is fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of characters playing heroes playing games in this stack.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, let me just shout out real quick.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really like the convention of Scarlet, which is the last door where heroes will tumble through into her sort of sanctum, sanctarium.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that was a Steve Orlando creation for when he launched his Scarlet
[SPEAKER_01]: Agreed.
[SPEAKER_01]: Next up, the power fantasy number 12 from image comics written by Kieran Gillin, art by Casper, a win guard.
[SPEAKER_01]: The big cliffhanger at the end of the last issue was that Etienne, who is sort of our professor, ex-character, was killed completely disintegrated, blown up the power hierarchy, the power fantasy universe changed forever.
[SPEAKER_01]: Except, there's some even bigger twists this issue as we find out about Etienne's backstory,
[SPEAKER_01]: leading to a surprising return, and a set up for even more power changes to come.
[SPEAKER_01]: This book continues to be great every single issue, fantastic art, fantastic story, it's surprising, it's complicated, one of the best books on the stands.
[SPEAKER_02]: like a fantastic chess match that we get to witness with the most.
[SPEAKER_02]: You ever remember battle chess?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: The chess pieces like would fight.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was reminded of that while I was reading this, where it really is just like the most, the strategy is excellent.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's when we talked to them the last years near a Comic Con.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that was my big takeaways.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're so careful with this book and they think every move out to the maximum.
[SPEAKER_02]: version of it so continues to be very impressive.
[SPEAKER_03]: Speaking of very impressive, I thought the way is album some of the sub was very impressive.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't have any notes or things to add, but I did think of as album why I was reading this because this reminded me of what it must have been like for Alex to go to Cornell where he's just his giant evil brain getting bigger from knowledge.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, you know, shots out to the Zelda trunk.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_01]: What was it like going to hit the college?
[SPEAKER_03]: Your brain just kept getting smaller.
[SPEAKER_02]: yeah exactly they were just like don't worry about your brain drink i was like yes sir the professor said whatever you're watching we just discussed earlier how you don't drink to kill anymore because of a particular experience of uh yeah waking up in a book that was when uh yeah i finished my
[SPEAKER_03]: reach out to a proposal for the research project we were doing and then saying class that they no longer do make the kids do that because they all went and saying so called comic book club it was called documentary research we had to pitch two documentaries to a panel and it was crazy stressful and our our
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_03]: We had to split it into two.
[SPEAKER_03]: The guy who was presenting this amazing smart guy who spent so much of his time researchers and everything was so stressed when he got to the podium, he killed over.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I looked over to try to catch him.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was just crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I drank.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, no, but I drank myself, uh, silly that night, uh, from the relief of after we performed and, uh, woke up and bushes the next day and then swore off to Kila.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that was the documentary that you sold.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: The documentary.
[SPEAKER_03]: We were pitching was Edward Rool off the learning murder.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love this, I love this backstory, I love this peat lore, event horizon dark to sense number two from I need to read my Christian word, art by Tristan Jones, this is a prequel to the Colclassic movie where we follow the ship, the event horizon, find out what happened when they activated their gravity drive and went to hell, and this
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, they're in hell.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're in hell, all right, with all the animals inside the ship and demons under the eye balls, dude.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god, I forgot about the eye balls for a second.
[SPEAKER_01]: The peace on this book is crazy to be because the first issue I was like, who is such an interesting tense set up of these characters.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're getting to know them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Things are starting to go wrong.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this issue is like, well, eyeballs all over the ship.
[SPEAKER_01]: And here's the Lord of Hell.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing to be done.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it just like went from not even zero, but like fifty to one thousand from issue one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, she too.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I mean, I appreciate it, that's great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Especially for a book where the premise is like, you know aliens, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, what if the aliens were just your own fucked up life?
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's like, you shade comic book?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, and whoa, my god.
[SPEAKER_02]: These people are just cursed by the things they've done in their lives.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's really good, really horrifying.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the art really works with the writing of this.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the biggest thing is event horizon, there reminds me how fucked up of a movie that was.
[SPEAKER_02]: It definitely makes me want to watch it again.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think I've watched it since I have a little scared to yeah That's how the weed week how the weed month not it's how the weed week got a week
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, this was insane.
[SPEAKER_03]: The kid getting run over wasn't saying the eyeballs wasn't saying this was so gross and so creepy.
[SPEAKER_03]: I wrote, I'm grossed out numerous times in my notes here, but I wasn't pressed artistically in what they're doing.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, sometimes you just wait for your dad in hell, you know, no big deal.
[SPEAKER_03]: no big deal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hi, Strage this book one, 1967 number one from Odie Press and Spectra vision written by Chris Condon and Daniel Noah art by Jave Chisom.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a new, I would say, prestige for Matt a series that's going to embrace different.
[SPEAKER_01]: true weird stories, very similar to what Michael A. Van Ooming and James time, the fourth we're doing over in blue book, but a little less documentary, a little more pulpy, at least it seems based on the first issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: This one is dealing with little gray men, particularly among other things and investigating that, Justin, you love the condon, what you think about this book.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really liked it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like the art style is giving this like a little bit more like you compared to Blue Book, which is more dock.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a little more campy, has a little bit more of a flavor to it, with the art, which I think really works with the more psychedelic sort of twisty experience that our main character is going through in his exploration of the high strangeness of it all.
[SPEAKER_02]: But
[SPEAKER_02]: I like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm curious, uh, the book won 1967 of it all.
[SPEAKER_02]: It has me thinking, where, where's this going to go with the overarching plan?
[SPEAKER_02]: So I look forward to getting deeper into that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I believe, by the way, I could be wrong about this, but I believe it's a different writer, artist, team, every issue other than Daniel Noah, who is the Spectrovision Guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you're going to get a new tale on a new time period next issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I could be wrong.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's just
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, well, I was really thrown by how creepy the cover was, and I was not looking for to read this, but then I was pleasantly surprised by the inside.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, I also love that thing about comics is there's a lot of inside.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, Justin.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, I would never.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so, yeah, I also love the little details of the art, like the way they drew the kind of smoke and stuff was given clues to how the character fell.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought that was really cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: Love the art style, so unique.
[SPEAKER_03]: I had this kind of off-putting thing, like things aren't right and kind of to own to it, which I think really kind of fit the story.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, just really impressive.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm excited to see what happens next.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, what happens next is that folks, the revelation has begun all the more block all joy to revelation.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are going to be doing our age of revelation block.
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess we'll see how long we keep this up, but as Justin mentioned earlier in the podcast, this is the big X-Men event that's taking over the whole line for the next three months and beyond.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, we got a zero.
[SPEAKER_01]: issue an overture issue that happened last week.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the setup here is that 10 years in the future, Doug Ramsey, aka Revelation has taken over a chunk of America and changed the world, killed off a bunch of people,
[SPEAKER_01]: elevated other people to mutant status is about to move into phase 2 and in the midst of this and whatever is left of the X-Men have taken the brains of cyclops and beast move them forward to their bodies in the future and their goal their mission is to kill revelation.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is what they're trying to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'll just mention, I'm not gonna, I read them all individually, we could talk through them each individually.
[SPEAKER_01]: But we're going to be talking about amazing X-Men, binary, Laura Kenny Saber-tooth, long shots, and world of revelation all came out today.
[SPEAKER_01]: Before we get into the individually, I am curious to hear, since I think we're a little mixed on the kickoff, how do you feel about week one of Age of Revelation?
[SPEAKER_01]: just overall broadster.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's interesting how deep into our stack this block is.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just saying that as a point of anecdotal observation about it or about what maybe I think of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's exactly I'm observing my man Alex, who has an X in his name.
[SPEAKER_02]: So he's part of this.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I do, um, it's a literal mixed bag of things happening here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I like some of these things.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like this world is interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's all, it's strangely like, age of apocalypse is the natural comparison here.
[SPEAKER_02]: which you know had a that felt more like the absolute universe which was like there's an overall darkness of Paul over the whole thing but everyone was still like sort of having a spirit there was still like a sort of animating principle for all of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: This was so far, and again, it's early, it's only week 1.5 really on this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everyone is just mad, and there's just a weird sort of, it's like, you know, when you suck it on a penny, and it's like a little metallic and cold to this story, especially this amazing X-Men book, where Cyclops is just mad the whole time, and
[SPEAKER_02]: The beast is sort of being suspicious like everything.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know who to like in this house And I I want to like it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like a lot of the ideas here The way this is pinned into the 3K characters is a little Characters that were introduced in jadmache's main book and the in the regular continuity and like I
[SPEAKER_02]: I just don't know, they didn't have enough time to percolate to be such a hookier this guy.
[SPEAKER_02]: So what does it's Schwartz welder or Schwartz child?
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whatever his name is, I keep being like, is that their accountant, or are they talking about what is going on here?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because it just sounds like a regular Schwartz child.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it just sounds like a regular human last name, not a super villain name.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that is confusing to me.
[SPEAKER_02]: any strange because he has like cyclops energy he is powers are built around like a harness the hangs over him it's a little I just don't know it yeah that character seems I don't know why he's being pushed to the floor before we get to specifically to amazing xman uh peat what's her overall thoughts on week one of age of revelation
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so I was, I was like, okay, this is a thing, and by the time I read World of Revelation, I was already over this thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Revelation looks like he is across between Apocalypse and a creepy pulp, and, well, that's very accurate, I think actually.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, thanks.
[SPEAKER_02]: Which is good, I think.
[SPEAKER_03]: And yeah, I mean, I was like, okay, cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, amazing, I spent number one, let's go.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then it was all just kind of downhill.
[SPEAKER_03]: But maybe it'll win me over by the time this, you know?
[SPEAKER_03]: So, so, sorry, P. Yeah, what do you think about this?
[SPEAKER_03]: I was just going to get into this first issue, but if you want to talk about it, I'd love to ask you off for my opinion.
[SPEAKER_01]: If that's okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks, great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just, I always want to check with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to make sure it's okay with you before I talk about my birthday.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Our opinion trafficker.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not to get too long about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Part of the reason that I put it so low in the stack was initially, I was going to put a third after Transformers and DCKO, and I was like,
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm really going to talk about five comic books right after that, right at the top of the stack.
[SPEAKER_01]: That doesn't seem that fun to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that does point to one of the issues here is it's a lot of stuff with not a lot of focus.
[SPEAKER_01]: And what I think we need for this book,
[SPEAKER_01]: is for this event as a spine book because right now I'm not I'm not quite sure we're to look like I don't I'm not quite sure there's a lot of things that are happening that I do think to say maybe a little more positive than you guys I was surprised how much of this I did like of these five books and what I did books I I agree yeah what I came out being like oh I actually really enjoyed this as an individual issue but as an overall event
[SPEAKER_01]: But not knowing which one's like, okay, is amazing.
[SPEAKER_01]: X-Men important, is Laura, Kitty, C-Britooth important.
[SPEAKER_01]: And importance isn't the only thing, but like, what is the story that we're telling with age of revelation?
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about this with the issue last week, but if it's like Cyclops and Beast are like, well, shouldn't do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: At the end of the day, I like I don't know that that's a much of a story, if that's the takeaway versus,
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, I just don't know where we're focusing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just reading myself at this point.
[SPEAKER_02]: a couple things on that first up this reminds me of the conversation we had on our live show where we talked about the power of editorial and what I think is working so hard in DCKO and all of their event books is a strong editorial hand that is giving you the spine of the story even as there are so many details.
[SPEAKER_02]: DCKO is jammed with details but I think this event is as well but they don't seem to have the spine that you're asking for and I do
[SPEAKER_02]: a stronger hand on it would give us that maybe a little bit more and secondarily I feel like the this this amazing X-Men issue sort of makes me think there's something some sort of scam or trick happening here It sort of puts out there that maybe this isn't real.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is already catching on to that idea and I was like, oh, I don't know I would like this to at least be real
[SPEAKER_02]: Because there are some interesting things that play here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like the idea that revelation is like I've I'm the ex the savior for mutants and other people are like no I really like this thing that he does and called babbling where he it takes language away from the characters
[SPEAKER_02]: It's very horrifying.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he's done it to we get to see that happen in one of these issues.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, and it was, what do we talk about them issue by issue?
[SPEAKER_01]: The first one is amazing.
[SPEAKER_01]: X-Men number one from Marvel written by Jed McCay, art by Mammood Azrarr.
[SPEAKER_01]: And like we talked about a little bit, this does seem like maybe it's the spine book here because we're following cyclops and beast as they travel across the country with these new
[SPEAKER_01]: to kill revelation.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I would say like I have not been loving Jed McAise expend run, but this is one of the ones that I really like because this has a really good, very propulsive, the fugitive feel where they're staying one step ahead of this ferrule revelation corrupted Wolverine and other people who are chasing them, they end up in another weird place by the end of the issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I ended up, this is one of the ones that I ended up liking quite a bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, well, I was like, I thought it was a fun kind of like I start to this comic, but then I was like, man, the Cyclops is just being a nightmare to be around, but the art is interesting because it feels off, you know, like the colors that were used to these characters are different, so I feel like that's kind of like telling.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and then it's like, hey man, do you want to see the worst cyclops ever?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, no, they're like, hey, how about your favorite character Wolverine just being used as a pawn?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, man, this is missing me on a lot of areas.
[SPEAKER_03]: But when they did kind of get to the last portal at the end that Alex had mentioned, I thought that was an interesting kind of cool panel, the dark child and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, I
[SPEAKER_03]: I had some in that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, I had some siloque, like sad as fuck though.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I had a little bit of like, oh, maybe there's some hope.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, but yeah, how do you feel?
[SPEAKER_01]: How do you feel the drawing cyclops as a younger you?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because you have the same beard.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is interesting that he does look like you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, that's an insult, then I say, fuck you, interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's a compliment, or I think do you feel like Cyclops is reflecting you and it's becoming you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't you're becoming him.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't compare me to Cyclops.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe he then goes for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not the shooter.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, a lot of questions there.
[SPEAKER_02]: The thing is like, if Cyclops and Bees who are both transported to the future, I wish they were like a little mini-team.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to see them being like, this is crazy, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: So that we can have a character, a couple characters to get behind.
[SPEAKER_02]: So like, that's a huge possibility for them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe Silas O'Sad is because she can't bring about the sum to a telly of her psychic powers and her psychic play.
[SPEAKER_02]: It seems like something that she cares about based on everything she's ever said.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like Wolverine as the villain actually, as the weapon, his greatest fear.
[SPEAKER_02]: We get to see him a couple times being just absolutely used here, but I do think there's something where he doesn't seem like he's being mind-controlled, so I'm curious what we're going to learn about him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Next up is binary number one written by Stephanie Phillips, art by Jada Belle Viso.
[SPEAKER_01]: The little twist here is this is Captain Marvel, who now has the Phoenix Force.
[SPEAKER_01]: She is protecting one small town of humans.
[SPEAKER_01]: in what is clearly, I think, a COVID metaphor going on here in terms of their say, they're saying the virus is over, just let us out of this town, it's fine to worry about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So in terms of that, that feels very of the moment and
[SPEAKER_01]: world outside your windows sci-fi.
[SPEAKER_01]: It plays a little bit like an outer limits twilight's own type deal.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I like those parts of the issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: The one part I did like is there is a villain reveal, which is not 100 cent clear, I think.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, and I wanted to ask about that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't believe she takes her hood down as like it's me, and I was like, is it Scarlett Witch?
[SPEAKER_02]: She is.
[SPEAKER_02]: She is pretty redheads.
[SPEAKER_01]: She is pretty redheads.
[SPEAKER_02]: She is pretty redheads.
[SPEAKER_01]: She is pretty redheads.
[SPEAKER_02]: She is pretty redheads.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, if it feels very strange, especially this crossover feels like it's fine bringing in characters, it's not just X-Men, it could be anybody.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: It could be Madeleine Primer, Mary Jay, could be Mary Jay, could be Mary Jay, could we make a man?
[SPEAKER_02]: She's been a great call, not in this timeline, I would imagine it.
[SPEAKER_02]: But this comic, I was like interesting, but a weird one.
[SPEAKER_02]: idea.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like the mystery of like Gene Gray's gone and the Phoenix has moved on, so there's definitely a story to tell there.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I like that gap.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to follow the story to that gap and find out what happened to her.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, some really kind of cool panels of Phoenix.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, there we go.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hear what you're not saying.
[SPEAKER_01]: Laura Kidney, Sabre II is number one for Mark.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're all for Mark.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well written by Jericho Soltz, art by Valentina Pinti.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is following for the title, Laura Kidney, who is now Sabre II.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's got a kid.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she wants to give away that kid to not dock in, they now call him Aki and Gaby and send him off planet to Arako, and it seems like if Arako, we think Arako and don't come and knock it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, kind of, kind of, kind of stand about Arako.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they don't like Arako.
[SPEAKER_02]: This was one of my favorites of this mini stack here, like I really like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: This felt the most like age of apocalypse where we're getting to actually follow these characters on an emotional story.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're an opposite science, but they're still able to maintain their familial connections.
[SPEAKER_02]: These are characters that we know and it was great to see how they are used in this new space.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I thought this is really working, I like that where you get to hear why Laura has chosen to be on the side of Revelation, which is what this story needs so that we can understand the split here, that's happening.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah!
[SPEAKER_03]: respectfully disagree I can understand why you like those things but I was like hey uh you know how x-23 is awesome like yeah I love x-23 will let guess what x-21 do you saber tooth now I was like well why would oh that happened that seems like a horrible thing to have happened
[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, the futures were off people are given kids away and you got to worry about them and I'm like, I would push back on you Pete and say, there's story there.
[SPEAKER_02]: She seems like she fell in love with Saber Tooth's son who then they had a kid together and he died.
[SPEAKER_02]: So there's a lot of story there that I think is going to be interesting and we're going to find out about that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I hear you, but I also can react to one of my favorite characters wearing a uniform that is a slap of the face, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't like her clothes.
[SPEAKER_03]: How dare you?
[SPEAKER_03]: That is not what I'm talking about.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, pretty or what are you saying?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, that is horrible.
[SPEAKER_03]: Those things are horrible.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is horrible.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is horrible.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wolverine also rocked those colors.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I like this costume.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is a well-designed costume.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's move on and talk about long shots.
[SPEAKER_01]: Number one written by Jonathan Hickman and Jerry Duggen, Art by Allen O'Words.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Doddson and this was my favorite issue of the MIDI stack, but of course.
[SPEAKER_01]: Much to every shot.
[SPEAKER_01]: This comic was baffling to me.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is like a parody of the event of your person.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let the event start before you start.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's just how dare you.
[SPEAKER_03]: You get a shout out in this comic, line producers.
[SPEAKER_03]: Come on, JT.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm so sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're good.
[SPEAKER_01]: I knew you were going to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: So this focus again, Mojo realizes that nobody's watching it if his program is because the world has got to shit because of revelation.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he comes up with a new idea which is creating a bounty hunter show led by Hellcat and a RangTang team of folks.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he comes up with this working with the X babies who are all out of his staff and different
[SPEAKER_01]: position, including line producer.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this 100% feels like whatever is going out of the event, Jonathan Hickman and Jerry Dougard wanted to do a thing and they just did the thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought very funny, like just non-stop ridiculous Hollywood jokes, absolutely, I agree with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You are right in theory that there is no reason that a parody of this event should be coming out of the first week of this event.
[SPEAKER_01]: But wait one week, this is what that is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now it's fine, it's fine, I love this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great art, great writing, give me more, injected by vans.
[SPEAKER_01]: All the jokes with log shopping, like I'm not involved in this, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Very funny.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, my favorite joke, and I pee, I feel like you might have enjoyed this as well as when Crave, they cut to Craven who has cut up all of the different Jeff the land charts, which I was like, that's like, it's getting scared some kids.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it was funny.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, the difference with Jeff spelling Jeff?
[SPEAKER_01]: All the different ways, like Jeff and then he snorched the righto sword.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there's a running joke of being like, God, to the righto like, God, did you find your horn?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's so sad.
[SPEAKER_01]: It kind of stole it.
[SPEAKER_01]: The whole thing's insane.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So Shouts to it, but very strange.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you think, you know, maybe, uh, Gerry and the Hickman were just kind of like,
[SPEAKER_03]: line producer bit is so funny.
[SPEAKER_03]: We got to use that in our comic somehow.
[SPEAKER_03]: Probably.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they definitely ripped us up.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it looks this, but maybe least, maybe not least, I guess.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll find out a world of revelation, number one by Alguying Steve Fox and Rhine North, art by Augustina Lesio, Hesus Moreno at Adams's Laoski.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is an anthology series giving us three different tales from throughout the age of revelation, every issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: What I was really shocked by this one was the art style.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't love every story, but particularly the first one, like the code it is, it was just like beautifully painted story, and beautifully laid out.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought the second story, it was the second story was the one.
[SPEAKER_01]: with Apocalypse and a mysterious person who shows up, which I also thought.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, that was the first story.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was great.
[SPEAKER_02]: The second story was the Hulkling story, which was deeply upsetting.
[SPEAKER_02]: This was my favorite issue of the bunch.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because I think this does the best job of being like, this is a world.
[SPEAKER_02]: Here's how people are living in this world.
[SPEAKER_02]: The first story is like a history of Morocco underneath this.
[SPEAKER_02]: with a great reveal at the end that I will spoil by saying it's professor x coming to talk to a apocalypse I was like this feels a story you like that you like that he was walking and I love the idea that they're like a kind of brother and not really him
[SPEAKER_03]: what?
[SPEAKER_03]: It didn't look like him.
[SPEAKER_03]: It looked like maybe his brother or something.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it's 10 years younger than that.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he's a little chunkier.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's getting a little waste, don't you get off?
[SPEAKER_03]: Prof, Professor X. I just like, is that him?
[SPEAKER_03]: Are we supposed to think that that's him?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm thinking he's getting some of those epic from my pocket.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, but that last panel really kind of turned me off where it was like, hey, the age of
[SPEAKER_03]: No, but like there what I liked about that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I root for heroes to win.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't root for other things to happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: What the fuck am I supposed to read this first of all the thing about a
[SPEAKER_01]: It really did that moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, who knows what the story of this thing going to be, but Professor Axe and Apocalypse in that moment, it feels like, alright, kids have had their time to play now Daddy's home.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I like this.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was really good.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to see everything we read so far.
[SPEAKER_02]: this felt like the center of the story is these two being like hey we sort of messed up with letting revelation run shit because you know professor X chose him back in cricoa to be like his guy so they've both messed up like they have to go get him I'm like this is cool I like this I was like I don't know who the standing professor X is professor X whether it's also a
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know who this leg's guy is, but I don't know who this leg's guy is, but I haven't got today.
[SPEAKER_03]: Am I still knee peat?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: We haven't seen that at all, by the way.
[SPEAKER_01]: I also really like the wikers.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is all by history.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got my hair cut to look like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got hat hair.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, the great job, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: It looks like a hat.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_02]: The wikin' hulkling story.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought was really good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Very tragic, really putting this power, the revelation has of taking away people's language on front street in a way that it, like,
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought was excellent and then the last story focusing by Ryan North focusing on Franklin Richards in a super-side-way story Was just like a cool weird story to have, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: This was the best package
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's it for this week's age of revelations.
[SPEAKER_01]: So let's keep it going next week.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would at the very least I think try these out for the first week.
[SPEAKER_01]: See where we're going if you want.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sticking with it out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see if we want to continue with all of them or whittled them down a little bit or what's going on.
[SPEAKER_03]: Whittled up with all right.
[SPEAKER_01]: God, Dad, we're still for an entire month.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to do all of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: court shot down the round table number two from D.C.
[SPEAKER_01]: College of Bitton and Taylor art by Danielle D'Niclo.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a new all ages series about a bunch of kids who find weapons that are imbued with the spirits of the nights of the round table.
[SPEAKER_01]: And now there are some bad guys coming for them in this issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pete, how are you feeling to issues?
[SPEAKER_03]: I love this.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know this is it has a feeling of kind of all ages with the art, but I love the art style and it brings like a cool lightness to it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love the vibe.
[SPEAKER_03]: But this is fun.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is just a great story fun adventure story with a bunch of kids.
[SPEAKER_03]: You got a badass grandma.
[SPEAKER_03]: There it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Cool secret tunnel.
[SPEAKER_03]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do this is great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was waiting for it at the entire time, I can't believe I knew it.
[SPEAKER_02]: As soon as I read this, I was like, Pete is literally loving this.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is just, come on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sexually charred.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what you put it in, put it in the bank.
[SPEAKER_01]: Stop that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, she was a total giller, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Grandma, I'd like to read.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I don't know what I mean.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was trying to think of something non-sexual about pizza.
[SPEAKER_01]: Obsession with that asked grandpa's.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, what are you talking about?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm talking about how great the art is.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's super tight manners, man.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's so good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to hear that differently.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, check out this all ages series we just ruined.
[SPEAKER_01]: Next time.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do enjoy this book.
[SPEAKER_02]: This book is very smartly written and pasted.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a great, just fun story.
[SPEAKER_02]: You have to worry about any continuity.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can just come in.
[SPEAKER_02]: The characters are interesting and fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like the our three and underpinning to it all.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's doing very well.
[SPEAKER_01]: Marion Heretic, number one for boobs to you as written by Teenie Howard, art by Jose.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jarrow, Teenie, this is a nunsploitation comic book.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, nunsploitation, that's fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I did make it up.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's in the synopsis.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what they call it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it is about a nun who was part of the alternate,
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess you could call it where they worship Mary instead of the dude gods, they got taken down by the regular church.
[SPEAKER_01]: She essentially got enslaved by them and now needs to fight and kill witches for them.
[SPEAKER_01]: But by the end of the issue, there's been a bit of a change in her status.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think this really delivered on the premise exploded and interesting and surprising ways and had some really nice art to match that leans into a little bit cartoony but keeps the action clear and the characters clear throughout this is given the nonsploitation thing like it's bloody.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a little bit of titillation going on here.
[SPEAKER_01]: keeps it all in service of the story, which I thought was nice to see.
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought the art was excellent, and the story was really compelling.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're on a journey with it, and then it landed in such a great place.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's like a bit of a relationship, I think, happening with the characters who are facing off at the end.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought this was excellent.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, the sexualization of the none and the which were a little over the top for me, but other than that, I was having a great time and I thought it was interesting and cool, but I was like, what the hot none is going to team up with the hot, which you don't say, but you wish they were 30 to 40 years older, I got you.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, I just, you know, I was like, you know, it can just be regular, it doesn't have to be like, well, that's the same.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like they're playing with genre here.
[SPEAKER_01]: They very specifically call it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know I've said there's three times already, but no, there's playtations.
[SPEAKER_03]: Transportation.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what they're reading into.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think what works about it is it's playing into that.
[SPEAKER_01]: B.C.D.
[SPEAKER_01]: movie level thing, but being smarter about it and trying to explore what it'll actually mean by giving it a little more space for the characters to grow.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: got him haha super creep share special number one from skybound and image comics written by Dan Waters a Ryanstagman and Ed Bryson art by Carmine D. Gian Domenteco, Bradley Rosmo and Andre Brasson probably figured this out by the title but this is a creep shell anthology give us three short horror tales but through the lens of superhero comics what did you guys think about this?
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really, I want to shout out the Riley Ross Mill art and then Yes, right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Send Andre Bresson the Bryce and DeBresson combo in the third story.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought was real.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you think they got paired because of their last days because I kind of think so.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sounds like a typo, but it really worked.
[SPEAKER_03]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_03]: This was a blast of fun collection of kind of creepy tales.
[SPEAKER_03]: Love the art.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, the creep show kind of narrator as a fun comment thread.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought all these ideas were well executed, grave ghost was cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I say cool cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: Moving on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Godzilla number three, it's a parody of the Dark Knight Returns cover with the lightning, but the creep sure jumping across and stead fun little riff there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Godzilla number three from IDW written by Tim Seely, Art by Nicholas Ismejia in this issue like all of the others.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've got a rag tag team that is fighting some Kaiju, but there are a lot of forces aligned against them.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this issue they go under to see.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you asshole.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't ruin this for me, man.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is fun.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you don't mind me.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is one of my favorite movies of all time.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a compliment.
[SPEAKER_03]: Doesn't seem like it with your tone asshole.
[SPEAKER_03]: Anyways, this was really a fun.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love the art style.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's like a cool vibe to it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fun action.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love the joke on the kind of Kelso coin.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I just had to add to a blast with this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't fuck with God's cell.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, yes, Pete is finally in the back for a Godzilla comic.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I love that they go under to see.
[SPEAKER_03]: And, uh, Tim Seely continues to be an incredible runner.
[SPEAKER_01]: And last but not least, everything dead and dying in number two from image comics sort of by Tate Bromble, art by Jacob Phillips, this takes place in a very different zombie world where at least in the location that this one guy is living in, the zombies don't seem to actually eat people.
[SPEAKER_01]: Instead, he is delusionally living with these still shambling dead bodies of his family and neighbors and friends.
[SPEAKER_01]: and into this not so idyllic paradise comes a group of people that are very grossed out about it and want to kill everybody around him and he doesn't take well to that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think this comic is excellent.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love this issue, the structure of it, where we're flashing between the relationships between the characters, the two fathers, the child that they brought in their lives and they're like relationships struggles around that, how they're dealing with it, our great flashbacks in-between our main character dealing with the fact that yes, they're zombified versions of themselves.
[SPEAKER_02]: And these towns people are like we got a we kills zombies here, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: And he's like no, this is my family like There's a great there's a great metaphor underneath this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think yeah, our one man treasure Not the one I was going for but that's a nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess in a in a Very one way to have with another man's nightmare.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is that better?
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess in a way.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, very, really boys.
[SPEAKER_02]: So now is it's crocheted on something I could put on my wall.
[SPEAKER_02]: I honestly do not care about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and Alex, every piece of art in Alex's mall is crocheted.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's going to be too long.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not actually called.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not crocheted.
[SPEAKER_01]: What is that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Neatle point.
[SPEAKER_01]: Cross stitch?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, maybe you needle point is right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're very crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I thought it was... I mean, it's okay for us to die.
[SPEAKER_02]: But that's, you know, who knows that?
[SPEAKER_02]: The women at P wants to date.
[SPEAKER_03]: What?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, the real shot shot spot it was that.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're deep into the needle point culture when it comes to the dating apps.
[SPEAKER_03]: I realize I'm yelling this like a crazy person, but I'm a catch dammit.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not saying you're not a catch, I'm just saying you're looking to meet someone who is, you know, close to retiring.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's not true at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, is retirement.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't put stuff out there like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Anyways, I think this is a new time to hang out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Pete's interprofile, his subbed line is Mama Weather's Original.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's not bad, but I should have used that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it's good.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's workshop of your app, your profile, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's definitely good.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I'm gonna wrap up.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what I'm gonna wrap up.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like that to everything dead and dying, which is the name of Pete's.
[SPEAKER_02]: Did your profile?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I do think that this is an interesting idea and while executed here, and this is some great art.
[SPEAKER_01]: it really is and that is it for the stack if you like to support this podcast and all the podcast we do patreon dot com slash comic book club also we do a live show every Tuesday night at 7 p.m.
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[SPEAKER_02]: First off, Pete's going to be a bingo tonight, and he is ready to hang.
[SPEAKER_04]: They sit on crappy couches and they let us see the moon And he's a monkey, they'll let us let your destiny To wrap your hair and hair, don't be late for it, don't be fair