[SPEAKER_03]: What's up everybody, welcome to the stack of Alex.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm Justin, I'm P. And on the stack, we talk about a bunch of books that came out this week, and we review them with our minds and our voices and our hearts.
[SPEAKER_06]: We come to each episode as newborns, fully just ready to take on these works of art.
[SPEAKER_03]: What are these comments we ask you, and we are going to start with one of the easiest comics for new people to understand, TMNT ex Godzilla number one from ITW, written by Tim Seely, art by Ferro Pay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now I know you don't pronounce the ex, but I don't care.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to do it anyway.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's crazy to be.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a letter in there.
[SPEAKER_03]: We just could stop.
[SPEAKER_03]: Are we going to do url's url's Godzilla?
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, like, come on, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, man.
[SPEAKER_06]: They've been trying to keep us down too long.
[SPEAKER_06]: We will letters we have to say and not say.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll say whatever letters I amned.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's by review of this comic book.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, Justin, I talked to Tim and Tara back at the year.
[SPEAKER_03]: Call the cut, about this book.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can go back and listen to the interview.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a very mild spoiler there, but like we talked about with him, one of the things I was really impressed with with this book, other than the fact that Tim Sealy is an old master of the crossover, is Farrell P. really gets across a sense of scale with this sort of thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: We were talking about this frankly with like what are the Marvel Godzilla crossovers where I think it was Hulk fight at Godzilla and it just there was no background so you could actually tell they were large or anything like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: It just looked like ten normal size dudes fighting but here this opens up with just like a mission statement of a couple of pages where you add with Godzilla looming over the footclad
[SPEAKER_03]: Ed Splinter, so you see him tidy before he's pre giant rat on a shoulder and it's a regular cool regular rat who knows Grottie.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, how much karate did he know at this point you think?
[SPEAKER_03]: Ed, it's just very cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like I think beyond all the mythology that his leg at here, there's a really good art that gives us the sense of scale of Godzilla that we've been getting a lot of Godzilla comics, but it really comes through in this one.
[SPEAKER_06]: And there's a sense of history, which I think really works here.
[SPEAKER_06]: I like the connection points are strong.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's really fun the way we see the turtles and the use of the animated show as sort of the origin story for this comic, I think, is awesome.
[SPEAKER_06]: But Pete, well, something I talked about with with Tim especially was, do you think shredders really mad that he's fighting this giant rat when when he was young, he knew splinter as just a rat and he could have just like squeezed him a little.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, and then ended the whole thing.
[SPEAKER_06]: The funny, are there any rats that you know that you're like, fuck, I hope this isn't my future Nemesis.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, are there any rats that you see big like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, there's a ton.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is an absolute blast of a comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: First off, great cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think this is just such an exciting mash-up.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've got Tim Seely at the helm here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amazing art that really just kind of jumps out of the page, you.
[SPEAKER_01]: This to me is just such a fun
[SPEAKER_01]: well executed comic it really does jump off from the cartoons from the tearshooting in jeterals animated series back in the day you get rocks that in bebop right out of the gate you got shredder and crank you got godzilla in the mix this is just an absolute blast
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, each page was exciting and just I felt so well taken care of.
[SPEAKER_01]: So this comic is in a style to bath in a half and just so well executed and man, I love this comic.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I'll just check it out.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know I mentioned at the beginning about Tim Silly being all bastard about this, but he comes up with a very neat conceit, which is that the footclad was created to stop Kaiju.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so that can you see.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that brings them directly into conflict.
[SPEAKER_03]: It leads to the present day.
[SPEAKER_03]: It shows why the turtles get involved.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's not, this is another thing that we were talking to to him about, but it's not the portal nonsense.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're like, oh, we have to explain why these two worlds come together.
[SPEAKER_03]: Much more interesting to hit the ground running.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, like implied depth that is much deeper than you would expect for any crossover that paint my question few is what do you think that's the most vulnerable to the hockey stick or the croquet mallie in case you don't see that
[SPEAKER_03]: time will tell my friend, time will tell and Godzilla is I believe in a guana that learned karate or is that what's his deal?
[SPEAKER_06]: What's the canon there?
[SPEAKER_01]: This is new.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is new for Godzilla to be the entangement as a turtle's cabin here.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm excited to find out with everybody else.
[SPEAKER_06]: I almost feel like we're interviewing Pete here, but because he's such a her text when it comes to TMNT.
[SPEAKER_06]: Pete, as someone who would sometimes see green ooze in the ground and put the content plate rolling around in it to see the mutate.
[SPEAKER_06]: True story about Pete, people not deny that.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's a heavy story.
[SPEAKER_06]: Have you started training any of your Woodland friends in karate?
[SPEAKER_06]: It hopes that they will eventually mutate and become your master.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's a thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a tricky slope when I run into animals in the wild.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, I'm a little worried about who's going to be my Villain and who's going to be my master, you know, and now do you mean an actual slope like in your backyard?
[SPEAKER_03]: Like there's a hill slope down to the valley that you live on.
[SPEAKER_06]: And do you mean when you see run into animals?
[SPEAKER_06]: You mean physically bump into them?
[SPEAKER_06]: How are you Cinderella?
[SPEAKER_06]: What's happening here?
[SPEAKER_06]: Are you getting dressed by V of bird?
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean that would explain a lot.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got it.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's got it.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's got it.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's got it.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's got it.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's got it.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's got it.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's got it.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you can, if you can believe it, Bafobio this weekend for this movie, but if you're not aware of it, if you haven't seen it, it follows a predator named DEC, who is trying to win his cloak and the approval.
[SPEAKER_03]: This father, there's some stuff that goes out with his brother that I won't spoil at the beginning of the movie, but it takes back in time and shows a bit of the relationship between DEC and his brother Quay.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it is, I don't remember.
[SPEAKER_03]: and an entirely different adventure, you see pretty psyched about this, so take it away.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was really pleasantly surprised with this book.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was supposed to cool the kind of sea predators life, and they got it rough to, their fathers are cold as fuck to, not very,
[SPEAKER_01]: you know, open or willing to listen, they're just very brutal.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, man, it's, it's got to be rough being brought up as a predator.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, loved all the action from the prey.
[SPEAKER_03]: And your father is a predator as well, but like an actual animal predator.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you did a good one.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm no longer like this bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, amazing art.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tons of action.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was great.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm unsettled by the predators, can't see having their masks off.
[SPEAKER_06]: They should be unsettled.
[SPEAKER_06]: I feel like we're seeing a lot of mouth.
[SPEAKER_06]: I feel like they should mask up.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you've seen the movie, if either you've seen it on Friday, so I did see it over the course of the weekend and movie theaters, so it was out this Friday, nope, you missed it, I missed it, yeah, you missed it, it's gone, no it's gone, they took it away, they took it out,
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, I thought I was going to leave the comic first, so now I'm really sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought this was a great companion to the movie.
[SPEAKER_03]: It did actually illuminate more about the relationship between the brothers.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought there was some fun, surprising action in here as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Solid art.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a really good one shot.
[SPEAKER_03]: They worked with Dan Traktonberg, the director of Pray, Predator Killer of Killers, and also Predator Badlands to craft the story.
[SPEAKER_03]: He has a very fun note right at the beginning.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so if you like to like the movie, definitely check this out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, Pete, do you have a question?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, did you bring the comic to the movie theater or did you check this out?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, the comic was in.
[SPEAKER_03]: The comic wasn't out yet when I went to see the movie because the movie came out first, then they released the prequel comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that does make any sense.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't sleep in through time, Pete.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to bring my comic to the movie theater and just see if some of the backgrounds match up.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't think the president will be, the president is not signing comics at the movie.
[SPEAKER_03]: They don't.
[SPEAKER_03]: You never know.
[SPEAKER_03]: You never know who's there.
[SPEAKER_03]: They might surprise people.
[SPEAKER_03]: the hunt for the predators of the movie theater has begun.
[SPEAKER_03]: Batman 162 from D.C. comics, certain by Jeff Lowbeard by the two.
[SPEAKER_03]: Finally, after a huge delay, the next chapter of a Tush is here.
[SPEAKER_01]: It feels like it's not that huge.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was a pretty huge delay.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think this was supposed to come out originally, well, the whole thing was supposed to be done by August.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's a pretty huge delay, I would say, relatively speaking.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Whatever it is, it is supposedly going to be done in January or February, something like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: But here we're getting Batman, first is the entire Bat family, and I got to tell you what, they do call about it in this issue, and I should put a spoiler warning, should have put a spoiler warning for anything.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I guess we had to talk about a specific plot point.
[SPEAKER_03]: One of the most messed up things, any writer has ever had Batman do happens in this issue, and everybody's like, you know, Batman, you went too far and he's like, I guess I did.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, in the other thing, are you talking about when, I mean, I will say when he just out of nowhere drugs, backroll.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and knocks her out and they shaver flashback to be like, oh my god, this is like what I symbolized by the Joker.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, the killing joke.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then it jumps right to Dick Grayson's family being killed.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then two things are crazy about that.
[SPEAKER_06]: Just the action is crazy.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then this whole bit, this issue is just messy.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's just so much happening without any of it really meaning much.
[SPEAKER_06]: I would argue.
[SPEAKER_06]: and just like everyone's like backflipin through it's like watching a circus act where you're like yeah, there's no story here.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's just people jumping around.
[SPEAKER_06]: But the other crazy part is we're inside Batman's head for all of this and he's like, uh, I got to just dose back or I was like don't I'm not a part of this.
[SPEAKER_06]: with you guy this is not my bad man you you don't need he's like forcing me to take control he's like just the languages it's not it's not a fun can I can I throw something out that occurred to me while I was reading this that might have made this
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if work better necessarily but come off a little easier for readers who are having a problem like me and Justin Pete, I'm just going to jump ahead and assume you loved it because great Jim Lee art, Jim Lee classic art but I think they should have released this as a black label graphic novel
[SPEAKER_03]: So that first of all it would have been done and one story and second of all setting it as a out of continuity thing versus right now like we talked about it doesn't seem like Jeff lobe is caring too much about the continuity
[SPEAKER_03]: that happened between Hush and Tush.
[SPEAKER_03]: And certainly at this point, it's blown so far past it.
[SPEAKER_03]: All of the things they've worked, gonna follow up on from Hattush.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's no go at this point, it really doesn't matter.
[SPEAKER_03]: So instead, they've got another six issues coming after this.
[SPEAKER_03]: That I think they should wait.
[SPEAKER_03]: However many years it takes, and just release it as a graphic novel, people will be like, huh, interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, uh, first off I thought this was a cool cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought I liked it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was like a rip in the mask.
[SPEAKER_01]: You kind of like see more than we usually do, which is kind of a fun way to start.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's actually a little eyeball.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know about that, but it's definitely easy.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, Batman being just crazy, horrible version of this of himself and this is rough on many levels like you guys touched upon but really kind of
[SPEAKER_01]: Last panel is kind of a fun, interesting idea so yeah, and so yeah, I mean I definitely get all what you're saying, but I don't know I just the
[SPEAKER_01]: The fact that we're doing this again and it's, you know, great to see Jim Lee back on Batman.
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess I don't care and I'm just so happy that it's back that I'm ignoring all the red flags because it's pretty.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what to tell you, but it's, um, yeah, I, I, I just, I'm so happy that this exists that, um, it's not upsetting me as much as it does you guys.
[SPEAKER_06]: And the other thing is like, I feel like Hush is like a such a side character in this.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know what the plan is.
[SPEAKER_06]: It just feels like absolute chaos is happening in Hush.
[SPEAKER_02]: That guy would keep being like, by God, Hush, he's put all the pieces of the board.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's doing all this and it's like, what did he do it?
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what he's doing.
[SPEAKER_06]: Is he mean not put on a piece on the board by having the bat family all in one place?
[SPEAKER_06]: I was like, that's the easiest thing to do in Gotham.
[SPEAKER_06]: set off one alarm and it's like, hey five robins are here.
[SPEAKER_06]: What do we do?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, so like I don't know and then how she's all plans get them together and just shoot them with a sniper rifle as like that's Diabolical all the line up if you're only going to throw like nine scalpels at hunters.
[SPEAKER_06]: I was like throwing scalpels because he's a doctor.
[SPEAKER_06]: What is what is this?
[SPEAKER_06]: That's what I said.
[SPEAKER_02]: Have you ever bitten to a doctor?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you just caught a doctor before all they do is throw scalpels pro.
[SPEAKER_06]: When you're not a doctor, are you?
[SPEAKER_06]: No!
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not a doctor.
[SPEAKER_06]: I only fight dentists.
[SPEAKER_03]: What are we going to talk about?
[SPEAKER_03]: Hellboy and the BPRD, the ghost ships of Labrador Number 1 from Dark Horse Comics, by Mike Mediola and Rob Williams, Art by Lawrence Campbell.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll be honest with you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was going to leave this out of the stack, just because I feel like we have the same sort of conversation about Hellboy every time.
[SPEAKER_03]: But that I read it at this
[SPEAKER_03]: rocks.
[SPEAKER_03]: This book is great.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is a ghost story set at an island where a new BPRD agent disappears hellboy at a sapient show up to investigate it.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's twists.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's turns.
[SPEAKER_03]: The art from Lawrence Campbell is awesome throughout.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love this issue.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is the book we've been talking about wanting.
[SPEAKER_06]: We've been reading all of the, the Makemen Yola stuff and being like, all these stories are right next to Hellboy and they have Hellboy vibes, but they're just never like the full Hellboy experience.
[SPEAKER_06]: And that's what this is.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's like classic era, Hellboy just out on a case that seems fun.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like this is, this was a great read.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this was a blast.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was great to get Halboy back and kind of have some fun with Halboy again.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I love the character that disappeared cool car and the ship is a cool car.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, no, that's the thing that threw me out of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: The jaws go ship moment through me a little bit because it's the end of the issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, it's a shot, it's artistically done and a lot of fun, but it's a little too tongue-in-cheek for me where it's a go-ship, but it's drawn to look like jaws, and I'm just like, all right, jaws, go-ship, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I really thought this was a blast, and the art is amazing.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was a Seamodster at the end.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's barking.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, the ship.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, it's, I think in your boat ride, it's a ship and a sea monster, I think.
[SPEAKER_06]: Very cool.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's got a mast.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's got a mast over the top.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, lots of sea animals have mast.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, still worried about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm a seller.
[SPEAKER_03]: Transformers number 26 from skybout an image coverage by Robert Hartby and Dan Moran.
[SPEAKER_03]: This issue more transformers stuff is happening.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, this is the first full issue from this team last issue had Jorge Corona on it and a lot of stuff is actually going down here.
[SPEAKER_03]: We met Miles Mayhem for the mask part of the universe last issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: for a while.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nope, he's just evil.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's taking advantage of them.
[SPEAKER_03]: We also get a Decepticon who is maybe defecting to the side of the Autobots of Decepticon.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, kind of you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, so big stuff going down.
[SPEAKER_03]: Justin, you see your smile like Harry feeling about this.
[SPEAKER_06]: I am enjoying this better.
[SPEAKER_06]: This feels like there are there is now some some plot engine going and We Optimus isn't just getting smashed.
[SPEAKER_06]: It feels like it's a the stories emerged into a new place So I am enjoying this more I and it's still holding true to the old animated feel with their base and all of that I like the
[SPEAKER_06]: Defecticon moment and some of the the mayhem.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think is a good villain to throw in here very Capital v clear villain to have them fight.
[SPEAKER_06]: I do have a question how the energon works like in this comic Optimus is like his windshield sort of messed up.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's got like boost wires.
[SPEAKER_06]: If they eat energon, do they the windshield fixes?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, they're energy source You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: So like if
[SPEAKER_01]: It takes energy to get fixed, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_06]: So like, but like, if they, so if he takes a sip of juice and or John juice, his windshield, that's like healing and his windshield like fixes his wires like tuck in.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's kind of like you can use enter John to like, oh, give me an off energy to fix this stuff and to kind of like give myself the upgrade to that I need and that kind of thing, but I guess if you want to fast forward, yeah, yes, it's a
[SPEAKER_06]: You're going to be sorry with me.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's not cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just that feel like you're making fun of it a little bit.
[SPEAKER_06]: So that's actually not.
[SPEAKER_06]: I was just curious, it's that's interesting.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like, like, energon is, uh, I agree with you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Seeing the energon, like, seeing the energon, they're not tubes.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do they like?
[SPEAKER_03]: crystals, they're a crystal.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but they're sort of like shaped like rectangular boxes, they were like boxes in the car, like boxes.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I definitely was wondering this issue whether they eat them with their bowels or if they like push them on themselves and they're like bazilm or what's going on there.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the cartoon, that's how they did, they kind of just like ate them if their bodies.
[SPEAKER_06]: But back then it was sort of like putting in a disk.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, wasn't it?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, well, these, it feels more like absorption or like they just suck it down, like Coca-Cola.
[SPEAKER_03]: What I think we're saying is we needed an issue where the Transformers eat at her job.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like an entire issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think all the people who are fans of the ENERGEN universe are clamoring for more ENERGEN conversations.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, I'd also love to see an issue where one of the G.I.J.
[SPEAKER_03]: is eats a better job as well, because that's a good thing.
[SPEAKER_06]: Very strong.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, and then his arm fixes or whatever.
[SPEAKER_06]: it's crazy in this issue there the Decepticons are like we heard about some energy out of the bottom of the ocean and there's slightly less energy on than we thought and I was like, oh, oh, this the amount of energy on conversation in this sort of relative scarcity is wild.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it is funny because like this has all the hallmarks of a Robert Kirkburg comic we're just a bunch of things are happening all the time there's a cliffhanger at the end where I'm like,
[SPEAKER_03]: Cool, Megatron grabbed his head, okay, I guess we'll do this.
[SPEAKER_01]: It seems like it's splitting, how they, you know?
[SPEAKER_03]: But at the same time, like, they are taking more time to delve into some interesting dynamics.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm on board with this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's go ahead and get the talk, asshole.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, this is talked a lot.
[SPEAKER_02]: We asked you a lot of questions about how they eat and are jotting, barely answered our question.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't get the job opportunity for this issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: First off, great cover, always great to see Optimus Prime laying the SmackDown, although it doesn't really happen in the ish, so it's a little misleading, but yeah, I liked what they did with Soundwave, and also just kind of this idea of like, hey, hey, it's
[SPEAKER_01]: Over here, the boss doesn't abuse us and just yell at us and call us horrible names and they seem nicer So I'm gonna stay here.
[SPEAKER_01]: So kind of cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: We we didn't really see that at all dealt with in the animated series or anything So I like this take and I think it's kind of a cool interesting thing to see how this is all gonna kind of unfold
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, this kind of allegiance and this kind of thing of questioning like why just because they're your people like what does that mean and all that kind of stuff so it's going a little deeper than the normal transformers, which I'm all about, but tons of great action and great I almost said animation but amazing art.
[SPEAKER_06]: in your brain, you're imagining it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Did I take a normal question?
[SPEAKER_06]: In the case of the defecticon, does his decepticon little tattoo, I guess?
[SPEAKER_06]: Does it turn into an odd about one now that he's a good guy?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I don't know if it just transforms like that or if, you know, interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's a matter of John to do it or what, but it'll be interesting to fix that.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, he just rub energy on there.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a cure all that other John, I tell you what.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Definitely.
[SPEAKER_03]: Moving on to 776 number one for Marvel, written by Jay Michael Strasitzky, art by Sean Demi and Hill.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, there was a lot of heat on this series, not the positive heat, but the negative one when they announced it, because people, there's a lot of people who are feeling great about the old America right now, but Marvel don't care.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're getting the 250th party started early.
[SPEAKER_03]: And in this issue, Dr.
[SPEAKER_03]: Strange finds out about a magical attack happening on the beginning of the country.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks to the spirit of Ben Franklin, and so put together a red tag team of heroes to head back in time and save America.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll tell you what.
[SPEAKER_03]: about this book because there was like a lot of negativity about it online, also the fact that was like, frankly, all Caucasian heroes going back in time, probably to get around certain issues in terms of the time period, but they don't address that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I will say that there, I think we're, they went to a little harder on America that I thought they were going to here, which I thought was really interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Where is it, is it Hulk being like, I don't know,
[SPEAKER_06]: Bruce Banner has an extended speech where he's like, let's just let the British win the revolutionary war.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I'm like, what?
[SPEAKER_06]: That's a crazy idea.
[SPEAKER_06]: I never heard.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've never heard anyone across any political spectrum being like, I switched the British one the wrong way.
[SPEAKER_06]: And he had no idea what Bruce Banner was.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: One of the top 10 smartest people in Marvel Universe is like,
[SPEAKER_06]: Let's let them win.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's got to be fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so I will say they're just seem to be some thought there in terms of like Delvey into lesser known parts of history, analyzing what the birth of America means, rather than hooray, America.
[SPEAKER_03]: But at the same time, I got to throw out there something that I just cannot get past with this is the comic is called 1776.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's 1777.
[SPEAKER_02]: like I was like crazy why I felt for sure when it started off with that at the beginning I'd be like okay, well, then they'll jump back a year and they keep the keep chirodi again, they keep it like nope, nope, it's not in 1777.
[SPEAKER_06]: I was like just delete the chirodi.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just don't do it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Why don't you process zoom in 1777?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, revolutionary times.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll figure it out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Crazy.
[SPEAKER_06]: I absolutely that was very funny.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I would cast America is going to be like captain
[SPEAKER_06]: America.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is a big moment for me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, maybe it'll be Captain Britain after he thinks about all that.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's a great idea for a hero.
[SPEAKER_03]: How'd you feel about this Pete?
[SPEAKER_03]: You love it America right now?
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, yeah, this didn't work for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, it's just a felt weird to read and uh, didn't, didn't click.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why is that?
[SPEAKER_03]: Any particular reason?
[SPEAKER_03]: I think the things you were talking about before for sure on the 1777 thing that bothered you too.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, just the old time, like having modern heroes interact with old timey kind of people and just it just doesn't feel right and doesn't.
[SPEAKER_01]: It just doesn't fit in my brain for some reason, you know?
[SPEAKER_01]: Just like, hey Ben Franklin, oh, high spider, man, you know?
[SPEAKER_01]: So they do lay out there that they have done this several times.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like they have encountered the founding father several times throughout history, so it's not beyond the pal, but I do agree with you that like, I don't know, it's a weird thing to be doing right now, that's all.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's just a lot of for me that it doesn't make sense in my brain.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, fair enough.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why don't we move on talk about that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dark patterns number 12 from DC cover written by Dark otters are by Hayden Sherman.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's the final issue in the series, which has been 4 3 issue mysteries that actually they attempt.
[SPEAKER_03]: attempt to bring together in this final issue and put under one umbrella.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just I'm curious here from you because that's something just for an out here for a while with this book that they were going to bring it together in some way.
[SPEAKER_03]: So how do you feel about the resolution did it come together in a satisfying way for you?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, just thank you.
[SPEAKER_06]: I did like the way this ended.
[SPEAKER_06]: What I liked, it wasn't trying too too hard to be like, it's all actually one plan.
[SPEAKER_06]: It was just the character, the villain happens to be, had been driving this or witnessing these other things.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I think that it didn't feel like it was sort of too sweaty bringing it out together.
[SPEAKER_06]: I didn't quite understand there's this idea that that man is the fire of Gotham.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, and he seems to be almost invulnerable to fire in this and I thought that was interesting.
[SPEAKER_06]: Sort of a strange idea.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that was kind of very crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off, buddy.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just said the art is beautiful.
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree, just breathtaking panels in the fact that it's a giant fire as well, but also like the fact that there's a giant fire and Batman's just standing there fighting and breathing like nothing's going on, like even the villain has to wear like all the shit just to be able to maintain oxygen.
[SPEAKER_01]: So like, like throw a little mask on Batman so I can enjoy the fight, but it was just so like, and then the fact of like he was on top of the building was just kind of like,
[SPEAKER_01]: was he controls fire he put out his hand in the fire stopped I was in a little like what are we doing here but all that aside really an epic story I love this I thought it was great the ending was fantastic the panels in the fire were just so so beautiful and amazing
[SPEAKER_01]: really felt like such a cool Batman story.
[SPEAKER_01]: I loved artistically how it kind of leaned that way so yeah super impressed with this overall thought it was a great great run.
[SPEAKER_03]: I do think there's an argument to be made that a lot of this is happening in Batman's head or partially because he is dealing with a fever at the current time, but I think that gets mixed by the fact that he's not the one.
[SPEAKER_03]: or the only one who were focusing on the perspective of in this issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I agree with you guys that that was a little bit confusing.
[SPEAKER_03]: What is otherwise been a absolutely fantastic series, but definitely pick this up if you did it read it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's great.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's beautiful.
[SPEAKER_06]: Really enjoyed it.
[SPEAKER_03]: The really thing this is going to be talked about is what are the best batman runs of all time.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, all time, I think it's going to be one of those things that like, when it gets collected at a compact comic, five to ten years from now, people like, oh man, I love that story.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I think people will remember it for a really long time.
[SPEAKER_03]: move it on to mid-Eval number one from Comic-Sology written by Neil Clyde art by Alex Kormack.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a riff on Mark Twain's credit card Yankee in Arthur's court where it's a Yankee's fan who gets hit with a baseball and set back in time and it's first orders of business are of course getting plumbing and also teaching people to play baseball when he gets back there.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a little more going out of the issue but it's violent, it's profane,
[SPEAKER_03]: I imagine this is what you would do if you went back in time.
[SPEAKER_03]: So what do you think?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah, this really did hit home for me, um, um, I, uh, thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I, uh, I, I, I think this is a fun way to kind of do the old Tommy back in town thing where it's like, instead of getting somebody who might be a hero, like, let's just grab a fucking gun and see how he handles it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so, thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Our regular Yankee fan sure, but someone really did the research because not only did they pick a Yankee fan, they also have them rock at number 21, which if you are, Yankee fan, you know that's the warrior, Paul O'Neill, which I thought was a really good choice for this character to kind of have someone go back in time and fight and that kind of stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I just thought that was so cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, I felt like this was
[SPEAKER_01]: a silly blast and a great idea where it's like, yeah, I have someone go back in time and say, I'm all fucking up with this baseball bat, you know?
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I love this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I absolutely love this.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I enjoyed this, too.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like, it's really, it feels like a fun, lighthearted idea at the beginning and it's like, oh, and then he's like sort of a,
[SPEAKER_06]: like a Danny McBride type who's like getting drunk back in the past and then he gets into a fight and it's so violent.
[SPEAKER_06]: Which I was shocked by but it really made the violence very palpable because I came off guard and I just I thought the fight was really well done I like the twist at the end of the issue like this was this is a fun read.
[SPEAKER_03]: Quick question for you guys, when you read this concept, what did you think it was analogous to?
[SPEAKER_03]: Did you think it was analogous to Connecticut?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yankee and Kigarith is court, the Mark Twain book, a kid and Kigarith is court, the Disney movie, or whatever the Mark Lawrence movie was.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's a long time to remember the Martin Lawrence movie.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, well, it's not a nightstale, it's something.
[SPEAKER_06]: And, well, it's funny because which one of those have I consumed most recently?
[SPEAKER_06]: Definitely the Martin Lawrence one.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Ah, that was on a TV in a bar, something black night.
[SPEAKER_06]: I believe it was called.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ah, yes, that's it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great.
[SPEAKER_03]: Three classics.
[SPEAKER_03]: Equally.
[SPEAKER_03]: The author, a mortal number two from image comics written by Frank J. Barbier, art by Morgan Beam.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you didn't, listen to our interview with Frank Barbier from last week's live show where we talked about this issue and this series.
[SPEAKER_03]: And as a whole, this focuses on a author who has been hired by a JK Rowling type to take over a fantasy series.
[SPEAKER_03]: that she can ghost right because she's been canceled, but there's some supernatural stuff going out at the same time and he's been sucked into the world of the book.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's what we explore more in this issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: Justin, I know you were pretty stoked about this.
[SPEAKER_03]: So what did you think about issue number two?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah Justin.
[SPEAKER_06]: Big fan, really love this book.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is where our
[SPEAKER_06]: our father and child characters get split up and they're just sort of discovering the situation they're in.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's a lot of moments of like excitement, figuring it out, dread the monsters are real, but the heroes have some ways to fight back.
[SPEAKER_06]: But I'm just super into this premise, the larger sort of commentary that we talked about with Frank on last week's live show of JK Rowling, the Harry Potter of it all, the meta textual story, the deeper history that this world is going to unfold in front of us like, it's just a great It's only two issues in, but I'm already really engaged with the mythology
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I agree.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is this is really awesome, you know, there's that kind of moment of like these two characters finally get to talk and then the ground opens up in swallows.
[SPEAKER_01]: One of them you're like classic, you know, just when you finally think something, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's tough when you finally get a chance to talk to somebody at the party and then the ground opens up in swallows.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you're like, oh man, my time idiot.
[SPEAKER_06]: You can't reach the blocks.
[SPEAKER_06]: You end up getting your chip in the hummus.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to get in drag to hell with the homestone, Jim.
[SPEAKER_06]: Marty, inhale.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, this is a blast.
[SPEAKER_01]: The arts fantastic.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot going on here, which is enjoyable.
[SPEAKER_03]: Next up, Eddie Brock Carnage, number 10 for Marvel by Charles Sol, art by Hissu Seiz, the final issue of this title, let us found Eddie Brock Barton, bonded with the Carnage symbiot.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're going up against abuse here, and we get a little bit of a twist at the end, surprising moment.
[SPEAKER_03]: that is going to lead into a crossover between carnage vettem and spider men that's going to kick off next year.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, we, I think missed the past issue of this book, but what did you guys think about the finale here?
[SPEAKER_06]: Justin, wow, okay, I'm getting a lot of hype in this episode of the stack.
[SPEAKER_06]: It was really the first guy.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm sad to see this go.
[SPEAKER_06]: I like this dynamic.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think Charles is just really smart with the way he writes scenes, just purely plots the book.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like the mu stuff at the beginning of this issue, I thought was really well done.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's the paneling where
[SPEAKER_06]: amused gets his hand cut off.
[SPEAKER_06]: I thought it was really cool and well played.
[SPEAKER_06]: It ends a little abruptly because obviously the circumstances but I do like their sort of a dread moment here so I thought that really worked as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this was great fun with Muse.
[SPEAKER_01]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I was kind of like my mind was like racing with this idea of like, oh my god, if Muse and carnage fuse, what would that look like?
[SPEAKER_01]: Cause Muse already looks so cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like it would be Muse Muse.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amuse fuse, yeah, with carnage.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I just felt like,
[SPEAKER_01]: The fact that music is like, no, I work alone.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was kind of like, oh, man, that would have been interesting to see.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I also thought it was kind of cool and made sense with this story.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, I very much enjoyed this run.
[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, it's got great art and Charles told it to home.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, it's not to like, yeah, I'll miss this as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just really small, smart, strong concept really well played throughout.
[SPEAKER_03]: too bad that it got canceled, but excited to see how this works into the crossover.
[SPEAKER_03]: Speaking of crossovers, Batman static beyond number one from DC Comics, run by Evan Narcisse, art by Nicholas Draper, Ivy, this takes place in the Batman Beyonder, so we're getting a much older and much more experienced static as the Justice League waits to join a interstellar
[SPEAKER_03]: on Earth and it's up to Batman and static to potentially save the day.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought this was great.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is everything that you'd want from a crossover like this.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was really surprised.
[SPEAKER_03]: These two characters have had crossed over before, frankly.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's really interesting to see again older static coming to play.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I like this.
[SPEAKER_06]: I agree, like, but I want Pete to talk first.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ah, yeah, I agree.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was really cool, artistically driven, which is great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love the way static was drawn for sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think that this is an interesting team up.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was a cool choice that the art kind of really set this nice tone of.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, who the Spock are you?
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, some fun kind of dialogue for the time being.
[SPEAKER_06]: You're done, Pete?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then, you know, the fun Melvin stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, great art.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love the pace and all the action.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was fun.
[SPEAKER_06]: the art is really cool to a slick it does it both serves the static side with all the like golds and yellows and the lightning of it all but then Batman Beyond looks straight out of the cartoon as well.
[SPEAKER_06]: So like it's really cool to be able to find that in middle ground and like you're saying Alex I love the combo guys I love an older static I love Batman Beyond
[SPEAKER_06]: out here, talking about Batman is the old man, all the favorites are back, and is a good synergistic crossover.
[SPEAKER_03]: we're taking everyone down with us number six from image comics written by Matthew Rosenberg art by Danielle led dd this final issue of this series about a young girl who is trying to get revenge for her father who is a bond style super villain against the bond style hero who she thinks took him down.
[SPEAKER_03]: In addition, there is a robot who seemingly has the brain of her father in it.
[SPEAKER_03]: who has been techy along the entire time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Some big stuff goes down to here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Some big violence and big spoiler.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is actually not the end of that because they're going to be doing a spin-off series coming up, which is very fun and yeah, I love this series.
[SPEAKER_03]: There were twists and turns right up until the end.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fantastic art, of course, from Michelle Laddidi.
[SPEAKER_03]: And Matthew Rosenberg just like writes probably the best comedy action or one of the best comedy action writers.
[SPEAKER_03]: slips and rips a guy's quite often it's humble and then they revisit later on and they're like well Sir, he got his dick ripped off.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, they're like what happened to him?
[SPEAKER_03]: We needed him as I caught he got his dick ripped off and then was stood up and said where's my dick or something I bet that So great stuff left out about funny, but really emotionally felt at the same time Great book
[SPEAKER_01]: Now let me ask you guys, as fathers would you put your, you know, consciousness and robots to help, you know, your kids after your gun or how you're feeling about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would go with haunted doll.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, classic.
[SPEAKER_03]: Zelvetron?
[SPEAKER_03]: I just want them to like, plate me in gold and put a statue there, but my body is inside.
[SPEAKER_03]: So they know it's not just a statue.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's a real statue.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, really?
[SPEAKER_06]: These are decomposed inside.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not in gold.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think that happens.
[SPEAKER_06]: I get through gold so you're saying you get you get in case and go that you're a perfectly preserve little flower and then yeah I think you stink and you stink and that gold stink I think it's a problem.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think that's that's you's going outside.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_03]: What about what about like the large lady who is in the Statue of Liberty?
[SPEAKER_03]: She wrote it away because there was copper in their holes but I'm saying like perfectly perfectly plated gold.
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, nice.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I get a really like dipped in gold dipped.
[SPEAKER_06]: You want to be dipped.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: If they can do me like head first or something like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then flip the over.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I look like an Oscar.
[SPEAKER_06]: It was Craig yeah you have always wanted to if you can't get an Oscar at least die as an Oscar That was crazy back in like the mid-19th century when they took out all the bones from the Statue of Liberty the big bone I'm the lady Liberty I believe it was fear all the Guardians had typed to devote that statue And now that's what a stat and I learned a lot a lot of people live inside the bones like a Flintstone
[SPEAKER_01]: If we can move this back to this comic, yeah, this is great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, like you said, the sense of humor really rocks, having the art, I kind of like that one villain who looks like a Bert Reynolds kind of knock off bad guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was really just fun.
[SPEAKER_06]: The James Bond character being like a shitty 70s Bert Reynolds is so funny.
[SPEAKER_06]: And that's so fun.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're getting, I think, is going to be focused on him.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's such a great source of comedy and I do love the action.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well is like really intense, which you know There's a tendency.
[SPEAKER_06]: I feel like me like I'm doing a comedy book, so the action has to be like goofy, but like I love the pairing of like legit action Some pretty hardcore villainy and violence Really matches well with the game
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think they did such a great job of matching the art and the tone and the humor and everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's they create such a cool and interesting world that really speaks for the fact that we can pull a spin off and stuff like that because everything's so cool and interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: They can just pick other characters to kind of explore.
[SPEAKER_01]: So really impressively done.
[SPEAKER_06]: And to answer your question one more time, Pete.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've been threading secret parenting messages in comic book club for almost 20 years.
[SPEAKER_06]: So wow, I don't think I need to be a robot.
[SPEAKER_06]: I can just have my kids really painstakingly watch all of these episodes to get everything they need.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow, that's the most importantly time to go to bed kids.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, next up.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll leave the trees.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're nobody sees right of spring.
[SPEAKER_03]: Number four from I.D.W.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're written and drawn by Patrick Corvath.
[SPEAKER_03]: And this issue is about the strong, our serial killer bearer is encouraging her new duck friend.
[SPEAKER_03]: to do some dastardly deeds, meat while a lot of folks in town go through a lot of different stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: I am very curious to see where this goes because there are a lot of balls in the air in this series a lot more so than the first series.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, and are we gonna, is Sam gonna win again?
[SPEAKER_06]: Like, can, can she come out as a just continually successful serial killer?
[SPEAKER_06]: Because it's, it's so, we are right there alongside.
[SPEAKER_06]: Sort of like a very, very good version of,
[SPEAKER_06]: Being with Batman when he's doing fucked up stuff is like we're here with this killer and we are implicit We're part of it.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're watching the web being woven here, and it's it's just so good I said this on the live show, but like this is a comment you can hand to your your friend that likes murder podcast and TV shows But doesn't wreak comics and be like this is just as good as any of that that you can see on TV.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's it's just excellent
[SPEAKER_06]: He's not frozen, he's scared.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I just, this is, I, every issue I try and I can't.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because this is too dark.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's too, like, they showed these toys that I remember from my childhood, and it's such a fucking creepy tone.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then just like, I feel like I'm being inundated with horrible images.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like,
[SPEAKER_01]: these sweet-looking characters and the sweet coloring and tone and then it cuts to like the grossest panel of someone hanging upside down with their throat slit and you're just like Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is just it's too dark, it's too fucked up.
[SPEAKER_01]: If a friend of mine handed me this book I would be like, are you secretly a murderer and trying to tell me that like this is cool
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess it's weird that you guys like it, but I can't with this book.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is too fucked up, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is too fucked up.
[SPEAKER_06]: Are you legitimately worried about us for loving this book so much?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's the best review of this book you could possibly get.
[SPEAKER_06]: Concerning for concern for my friends is Peter May.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, that is quite the revelation.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it is time to turn to the age of revelation.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we got three titles to talk about this week.
[SPEAKER_03]: So why don't we kick it all talking about iron and frost number two from Marvel over to Mike Cabin Scott, art by Rary Coleman.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is focusing on white queen who has no heart and iron values turned into a tin man called the iron king.
[SPEAKER_03]: And yeah, a lot of stuff going on,
[SPEAKER_01]: way way I just wanted to see this up a little bit and just say that like when when when I saw this comic in the stack I thought to myself oh man this is like Justin's dream come true they made they took a ship and they said let's make a comic out of it called iron and frost and jt says this seems like this was
[SPEAKER_01]: catered to you where you decided when you saw this like what walked me through a little bit before you read it like what were you going through.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well this is the second issue I just want to mention.
[SPEAKER_06]: Sure, but I was excited.
[SPEAKER_06]: I love the the relationship that was happening in the
[SPEAKER_06]: sort of end of the crico and era between um yeah you thought these two were a great chip they're I love it and um we get it ended pretty completely in the in the main continuity so the fact that it's coming back here a little bit i was like very cool however like it's not being played for the fun or romance of it it's sort of like we're getting into some of that storybook analogy that Alex was saying
[SPEAKER_06]: But it just is going too hard on that like it may be the next issue which the cover of which looks dope.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I like the moves of them being in very different places.
[SPEAKER_06]: She doesn't have a heart.
[SPEAKER_06]: He makes hearts.
[SPEAKER_06]: But he's currently heartless because of the virus is affected him in that way.
[SPEAKER_06]: So the ideas are good.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just want a little bit more of the magic.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you're saying
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, they're gonna get there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's the best time for them far away.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then gonna work there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, that gives you hope.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, because I read this and was like, what the fuck is this?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, this is the opposite of what I thought was going to be going down here.
[SPEAKER_01]: these are two characters that work together somehow and I was kind of impressed with but then you know it was like the start of this they were just kind of like let's push them as far away as possible which I was reading it being like well there's no shot and then but you know you talk about gives me gives me hope
[SPEAKER_06]: Definitely we're gonna get their next issue it's just these it's first to issues it's like warm machine one machine's kid and all this other stuff.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm like I wish this story was just more dialed in on them This is messy.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think frankly this is messy the story is all over the place like you're saying I actually do think it started well the first issue and now it's getting convoluted with
[SPEAKER_03]: a lot of different plot stuff that is hard to follow because it's based in continuity of things that we haven't really even told or explored fully yet because we're barely into this and I think we talked about this a little last week but I feel like this event is starting to run into a problem where you get to the second issue of some of these things and they're like to be concluded of like you have barely started on other of this series.
[SPEAKER_06]: there's too much hype to lay as they say with like so there's their corner of the universe where like there's all this stuff happening and then we just get to the characters and they're like okay wrap it up we got to get back to the main story which is as we know
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, confusing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Speaking of which, sinister six number two from Marvel, by David Barkas, Art by Raphael Louraro, this focusing on a team led by Mr. Sinister, who is trying to do some stuff last issue he's trying to get vetted up this issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's trying to do something else.
[SPEAKER_03]: And in the midst of it, havoc has crystals in his chest and a sun with Lorda.
[SPEAKER_03]: I will say, I know I'm starting very negative here.
[SPEAKER_03]: I will say that I actually like this issue better than the last issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, because I think it started to dial in on some emotional stuff, but again, it branched this wall of to be concluded next issue where I felt like this was just getting started with whatever it was saying.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think the issue here is some people are seem to be approaching this like piloting something, but as far as we know, unless they're going to be like, age of revelation continues.
[SPEAKER_03]: Isn't that great?
[SPEAKER_03]: Which doesn't seem
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: These are just three issues of the first three issues of a comic book that we're never going to see again, you know?
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, but I do think this one's actually doing a better job of telling the a compact story.
[SPEAKER_06]: It feels like this team of people who don't want to be working for Sinister and bad things are going to happen to them.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think the story is going to end up being Alex who lost Lorna is trying to get his son out.
[SPEAKER_06]: And if I can make a prediction, I think his son is inside the venom suit.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's kept his son locked up to me to be away, sealed away from the virus.
[SPEAKER_06]: I feel like the kids going to be inside venom, and that's the way that they're going to get out and sort of go somewhere else, and the vending the symbiots keeping him safe, is my prediction, but I like that as an emotional core, and then everyone else are sort of red shirts who are going to go down in this.
[SPEAKER_01]: quest we get we get a lot of we get sort of the four horsemen show up here which I thought was at least they're using the bigger pieces here yeah yeah I mean that's a good point dad's don't leave your sons inside of venom you know what I mean like just you know if they want to play inside venom for a little while that's fine but don't leave them in there you know because that's like they're making them damage it's you know can only stay for so long
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, and that starts to smell and get real weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fun cover, I thought it was kind of hilarious.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll have it was having this kind of touching moment with his son, or whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I'm just kind of in the corner listening.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, man, that's kind of a mood-roader, but all right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, it was kind of weird how the last battle was like, oh man, guess who's going to show up?
[SPEAKER_01]: That revelation might actually say something.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, Oh, great.
[SPEAKER_01]: We can finally hear from this guy and maybe like it's some perspective on what his whole deal is.
[SPEAKER_06]: Also, see here from a person named revelation.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and then also fun little kind of panel where Wolverine was Stabbing a version of state of the two threat in this head.
[SPEAKER_03]: And last of the revelations this week, Rogue Storm, number two from Marvel by Merwawa, Ayudolay, Art by Roland Posky.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is focusing on five years into the age of revelations.
[SPEAKER_03]: Something went on with Rogue Red, who is a split-up version of Rogue, who is trying to attack Storm for reasons that we find out this issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: Meanwhile, Storm
[SPEAKER_03]: In the age of Revelation, which is five years out from that, is being tracked out this issue by Gambit.
[SPEAKER_03]: It gets a big wild revelations there, no pun intended.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is great, because Broadway, you don't need to know how to structure a three-ish history that stands to the side of this thing, is telling a clear emotional story about Storm and the real grand character I thought this was phenomenal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, agreed this was just
[SPEAKER_01]: so fantastic, artistically amazing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some of these panels I would love to kind of blow up as a poster and have on my wall because like just beautiful.
[SPEAKER_01]: The brass knuckles panel, I mean, ah, just what a movie poster that would be.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, love the slow start also.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no words, just all beautiful art, amazing.
[SPEAKER_01]: She gets crazy in this issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: You need chopping people's heads off.
[SPEAKER_01]: Riding giant birds with glowing axes, like this is some fucking fantastic badass level shit right here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was having a blast with this more of this, please.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't make this, and this is great.
[SPEAKER_06]: If there's any writer prepped to dive into a sort of unexplored wild world like the age revelation, it's mario de la because that's what is happening in the mainstream book.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like there's just so much wild shit happening that it's sort of seamless jumping in here and finding the emotional beats embracing the weirdness and just telling a gray action backstory.
[SPEAKER_06]: I, this continues to be one of the best books in the stands.
[SPEAKER_03]: Next up, poison ivy, 2025, annual number one from DC Comics written by G. Willow Wilson, art by Mark Buckingham.
[SPEAKER_06]: I did one of them in self.
[SPEAKER_03]: Monterbunker.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dude, sick cover, by the way, come on.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ivy wants some information about the green and everything that's been going on with her, so she goes to it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Each and tree that tells her a riff on the story of King Arthur and the lady of the lake.
[SPEAKER_03]: And, man, I'll tell you what, G. Willow Wilson,
[SPEAKER_03]: diving into that fabulous fables style because of bark bucky have like i feel like she even sort of twisted her writing style a little bit to lead into that because this feels like a lost issue of fables plays a lot of always great mark bucky okay come that beat mark bucky have always great
[SPEAKER_01]: I will not, sir.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited about this comic and I will not shush for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's right.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is glorious.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're just growling like what of your outside animal friends.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's all.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're just like, wow, wow, wow, wow, yeah, that's right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I thought this was good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Go ahead, bark it out.
[SPEAKER_06]: Go ahead, Doug found.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I also thought this was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love the art style.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love the story.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just great start.
[SPEAKER_01]: This flashback was just fantastic.
[SPEAKER_01]: The ain't going to give up.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's going to keep fighting.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, we flipped into zoo crew mode.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do you know and we're not even near the end of the stack Dangerous timing line.
[SPEAKER_06]: Dingo.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm the baby.
[SPEAKER_06]: I I thought this was this is my one of my favorite.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's a good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry is baby at actual baby in the scenario Like it's it's a guy named digo who's like the wild one other radio that's also a baby or
[SPEAKER_06]: And now let's get traffic.
[SPEAKER_03]: You all right, Justin?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: One of my favorite reads of the week.
[SPEAKER_06]: This was excellent.
[SPEAKER_06]: The twist on the Arthurian legend run through the poison ivy in the green.
[SPEAKER_06]: I thought was really smart.
[SPEAKER_06]: And taking the themes from the larger poison ivy book of like.
[SPEAKER_06]: Humans versus nature and how poison ivy was like a person.
[SPEAKER_06]: humans and now it's sort of trying to, I'm a compromise, really.
[SPEAKER_06]: And the end of this issue is sort of ends up such a hopeful note for that mission, which is, again, such a departure.
[SPEAKER_06]: I feel like you talked about great runs when you were talking about them in dark patterns, Alex.
[SPEAKER_06]: But I feel like this is like the ultimate poison ivy story from beginning to end for many years now.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I feel like this was maybe like a six-ish limited series or eight back in the day.
[SPEAKER_06]: And now it's become one of the best series on the stand.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Speaking of one of the best series on the stands, it has returned with diluted number one for image comics, right by Kira Gillett, art by Stephanie Hons, this takes place following a group of friends who were sucked into a killer of...
[SPEAKER_03]: dotty a d game but our pg back in the day and then they got sucked in again as adults now we're about a year or two on from there and uh oh it's happening again just in I know you're pretty stoked about this yeah Justin
[SPEAKER_06]: Roll a D perfect 20 or Snake eyes once rolled a regular die and got sucked into a casino For a little boy really.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was rolled a regular die.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got sucked into a back alley crab's game Yes, we got shake three times.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, you can't lose that bad You don't know how to play dice how to actually
[SPEAKER_03]: It just barged in and they stabbed me.
[SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't so much playing as they stabbed.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got stabbed to the alley.
[SPEAKER_06]: No.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: In the rolling the dice thing was sort of a side.
[SPEAKER_06]: It wasn't a really part of it.
[SPEAKER_06]: But yeah, this is really good.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, this story.
[SPEAKER_06]: And in the first series, was very complicated and convoluted, you know, like a big epic RPG game.
[SPEAKER_06]: And this is proving to probably be a similar, which is textbook, Kieran Gillen.
[SPEAKER_06]: But I like the, this, you use the rewards twist and turns a lot.
[SPEAKER_06]: Excuse me, we do when we're reviewing comics.
[SPEAKER_06]: This one has some real twist and turns in surprise.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's that I didn't expect and put this in a place, but I really don't know what's gonna happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, this is awesome, really cool cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just, I'm happy that this is back.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's such a great team.
[SPEAKER_01]: The art's unbelievable.
[SPEAKER_01]: It really takes you to this kind of magical world.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just, this is awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that being said, I feel like their friends need to have a, you know, the old Jumanji sketch from actually an L conversation where it's like listen.
[SPEAKER_01]: you can't jumanji me anymore you can't keep sucking me back in this game enough was enough stop going back this is insane like uh you would think after friends survived an or deal like that they would kind of make a pack that's like hey let's all agree never to go back again but man alive I mean three times getting sucked back in I mean this is a horrible
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's happened to the rock, at least twice, and I believe are third time as well.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I think that's what the smashing machine is about.
[SPEAKER_03]: I believe I'm pretty sure this is a great jumping on point actually.
[SPEAKER_03]: It does a good job of getting you up to speed with everything that's happening so far.
[SPEAKER_03]: I agree with Justin.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm worried about getting overly complicated very soon.
[SPEAKER_03]: But if you want to find out what this is about, pick up this issue next up.
[SPEAKER_03]: American Kaper number one from Dark Horse Comics, my dad,
[SPEAKER_03]: is either the co-creator or the creator of a grand theft auto, and this is his first comics work set on a small town where focusing on a guy who is very doubt on his luck, really doesn't like his wife, who's got very into online conspiracy theories.
[SPEAKER_03]: It has a Mormon neighbor who has some secrets going on as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: What you guys think about this kickoff issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... yet some dark twisted the end there uh... some great art interesting story uh... kind of the tale of two kind of towns a little bit too twisted dads and uh... you know one seems to maybe be trying to do his best while the others just he was fucking looking for reasons to kill people so uh... interesting we'll see what what hobbies i thought the art was great and uh...
[SPEAKER_06]: the faces and the horror is really sort of very directly rendered sort of common atcha.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then from the I like the story as well, I mean, it's, it doesn't feel like when I heard about the grand theft auto connect, I was like, oh, what's this going to be?
[SPEAKER_06]: And it doesn't feel like that at all.
[SPEAKER_06]: It feels like a legitimate story.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I would keep picking this up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Next up, fantastic forward number five for Marvel, written by Ryan North, art by Emberto Remos.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a issue focusing on invisible woman teaming up with black cat against her will because black cat has been framed for a murder.
[SPEAKER_03]: And theft that she claims she didn't do, classic doubt in one story.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's interesting that they aren't dealing with the fact that Valeria was decapitated by Dr. Doom, which happened back in one room in her tomb,
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's sort of like I feel like the underlying thing that we're doing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, just doesn't.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can tell they're like feeling it even if they're not saying it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, they have a fun romp go dancing.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I got to go back and talk about my decapitated daughter.
[SPEAKER_01]: Justin, you know, I thought of you reading this.
[SPEAKER_01]: You love the black cat.
[SPEAKER_01]: How did you feel about this?
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, I, I thought this was great.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, Rye North is just great.
[SPEAKER_06]: It done in ones.
[SPEAKER_06]: It feels like it feels fun.
[SPEAKER_06]: I was trying to crack the mystery before the end of it.
[SPEAKER_06]: I thought it was going to be a hydroman through the toilet situation.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, that was not to be.
[SPEAKER_06]: The old hydroman and the toilet situation.
[SPEAKER_06]: That guy's got to be popping up at a toilet, that's all.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's a real ghoulies if you know what I mean.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah exactly.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's up for decking him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh boy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah cool cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd like to see this team up a great art fun who done it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the great news is Sue figured it out.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a tight package.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ramoses aren't just makes me happy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's just got such a vibe to it that I enjoy.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's kind of great to be back in his world.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, this is great.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like you said, Emberta Rebus's art is just really fantastic.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like I feel like he's stepped up a level in terms of clarity and vision here.
[SPEAKER_03]: So this is really nice to see.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm really looking forward to this tone continuing.
[SPEAKER_03]: I hope once they deal with Valeria being decapitated by Dr. Doom, we get another fun romp like this.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, it's like you've done in one side's mystery.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like really hanging on it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Back up.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oops, that was my head.
[SPEAKER_06]: and on the edge of this one world under Doom conclusion.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's just a weird that they're not following up on it anyway.
[SPEAKER_06]: Are you sure that one word of under Doom?
[SPEAKER_06]: Is that what sort of feels like what the stakes are?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Super bad, the Kryptonite Spectrum number four from DC Comics written by W. Maxwell Pritz, art by Bartide Morazo.
[SPEAKER_03]: We found out the last issue that one of the Spectrums of Kryptonite,
[SPEAKER_03]: That was said towards super bad.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was not quick to write at all, but actually a call into the fifth dimension So in this issue, we have super bad lost in the fifth dimension trying to find his own fifth dimensional I'm oh that man helps him a long peak.
[SPEAKER_03]: You love this one
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man, did I?
[SPEAKER_01]: The art on this is super tight.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then this is just unbelievable.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the panels of like Superman, like trippin' his face off with the rainbow, I ball say, it's just unbelievable.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just so much fun, so cool looking, Dr. Faye, here to help, this is just absolute blast and a half, delightfully twisted.
[SPEAKER_01]: So unique and cool, you know, it's just interesting that like something can look so different from the normal Superman that we know and love, but also still feel like it's a really impressive team on this.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I mean it's our ice cream man gang.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's really funny.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's the you know you never see a Superman story like this With a lot of the detail work, but we're still getting like a big confrontation at the end of this leading into the final issue coming out next.
[SPEAKER_06]: Just one of the more unique books out right now really like
[SPEAKER_03]: yeah and i'm curious this is sure your heads a little bit but we read this digitally i'm really curious to pick this up physically because i have to imagine they did something to the pages that's different that we're not getting there but i don't know whatever it is there's a lot of format playing that's going on this issue that's very very fun
[SPEAKER_03]: red coat number 15 from Ghost Machine and image comics written by Jeff Chauds art by Brian Hitch.
[SPEAKER_03]: Big twist in this issue as we jump to a time when Simon Pure is pretending to be Simon Plum, a regular guy with a family, and we get two big returns in this issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: Justin, I know you were very high on this one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah Justin.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just like this comic.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, it feels so effortlessly made from Jeff Johnson, Brian Hitch.
[SPEAKER_06]: The care I really like, Red Coat, he's, I'm charmed by him.
[SPEAKER_06]: The, we get the future confrontation between Turn Coat, it's code on code action.
[SPEAKER_06]: Whoa, the all code fight.
[SPEAKER_06]: But like the Simon sort of sort of going straight having a family not being a rogue anymore
[SPEAKER_06]: as great little turn and really sweet.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I keep being impressed by this comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really been artistically and writing-wise impressive for 15 issues.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is such a kind of touching issue, a nice family issue, a great call to action at the end.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just super impressed by this comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: They constantly surprises and delights me what a great combination of art and writing in this.
[SPEAKER_03]: and it addresses one of the biggest questions can he take off the coat and the answer is he can he's just white shirt and that's really
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, strange tales number two from Marvel Written by Jeremy Whitley, art by Belly Underwood.
[SPEAKER_03]: We got a team up last issue between Nico Minneru and Scarlet Witch, which we loop back to eventually.
[SPEAKER_03]: But most of the issue is Spider-Guard, fighting Green Goblin in the sanctum sectarium.
[SPEAKER_03]: This book is somewhat inspired by D&D campaigns as well, so they're building up their
[SPEAKER_03]: We really like the first issue of this one.
[SPEAKER_03]: I will say for myself.
[SPEAKER_03]: I really like this one as well I like these fun mashups between characters that you want to expect coming together There's a fun little sequence towards the end where Gwen has been turned into an invisible prison and she needs to set out tell them about it This is fun.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is light.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm having a good time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I agree.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a blast.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, Justin let me cut you off there
[SPEAKER_06]: I was going to say each of vegetables and this comic in general is also very good.
[SPEAKER_06]: It really lives up to its name, strange tales because it's a strange combination of characters, the story feels like green goblin breaking into the St. and St. Torim.
[SPEAKER_06]: He really fools the doctor strange.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I thought that was great, not expected, the combo of characters
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I thought this was a great use of strange tales for these stories here, and if you're still missing Halloween, this is a great issue for you here, this is fun, amazing art, love the colors, love the kind of the style choices that they made, has heart and joy, great ish!
[SPEAKER_06]: And you're used to this strange tales on the mice that pull up your pants in the morning, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: What do they have to have, like, curly little tails?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's right.
[SPEAKER_01]: But when the eat the cheese is straight and soft for a couple of seconds.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, that's.
[SPEAKER_03]: You've seen picking the brain, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: I have several times.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gargoyles, X-Fedastic Forward, everyone.
[SPEAKER_03]: See, there I go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Produce the X again from Dynamite Ring by Greg Weissman, Archbite of Relatorship.
[SPEAKER_03]: Body S and second party of the crossover, Fantastic Four X Gargoyles that was at Marvel.
[SPEAKER_03]: Two teams together, fighting a bunch of stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got it.
[SPEAKER_06]: I love the gargoyles.
[SPEAKER_06]: I love to see them in a capacity.
[SPEAKER_06]: This comic does a lot of like laying out all the characters and all the stuff they have going on.
[SPEAKER_06]: We talked to Greg Weisman many months ago at this point.
[SPEAKER_06]: He was like, it's all one story.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I was like, it definitely feels that way.
[SPEAKER_06]: It feels like these characters are sort of just continuing on in their grand adventure.
[SPEAKER_06]: And that's
[SPEAKER_01]: yeah i think this is great cool cover fun team up uh... yet to great teams working great together this is just very enjoyable i i thought this was fun more of this please thank you
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, Godzilla escaped the dead zone number four from IDW written by Ethan Parker and Griffin Sheridan, art by Pablo Tudica, we are following a group of adventurers or at least like a half lizard man and two kids who can take over Kaiju's, who are traveling through the dead zone.
[SPEAKER_03]: This issue, they encounter a gigantic girl who is in love with Godzilla, very fun concept.
[SPEAKER_03]: They play with nicely, I'm excited to see where this new group goes going forward.
[SPEAKER_01]: yeah agreed this is fun love the giant kid kind of fun that uh... you know her crying creates rivers and stuff like that uh... love the art and the style of it it's got a lightness and and and just makes it kind of fun and enjoyable i enjoyed this
[SPEAKER_06]: growing up is hard.
[SPEAKER_06]: I say that about this comic in general.
[SPEAKER_06]: So like this is something that, you know, how do you grow up?
[SPEAKER_06]: It's important to, you know, really deal with all the things in your life.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is how tall you are.
[SPEAKER_06]: No matter how tall you are, no matter how tall you are, exactly.
[SPEAKER_06]: What?
[SPEAKER_06]: They might be a short king or queen, especially if you're my family.
[SPEAKER_06]: The thing that I like about this, I actually think this is my favorite of the Godzilla,
[SPEAKER_06]: The Godzilla boom, this has done a good job of building out a universe and an area that has its own character, that everyone is reacting to, and it's willing to go into severe places, so I'm into it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ultimate Wolverine number 11 for Marvel written by Chris Condon art by Alessandro Capuchio Wolverine is working with the acquisition to the resistance to magic and Colossus and no longer a big red because believe they killed a bigger red but in this issue the weapon x program I believe it's still called the weapon x program whatever it is the bad guys pull out a psychic bomb
[SPEAKER_03]: which I believe is powered by Professor X's brain that they're gonna drop on them.
[SPEAKER_03]: At an end, it's a really shocking moment.
[SPEAKER_03]: I gotta say, like, yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: I like what Chris Codden has been doing with this title, but the thing that's been holding me back about it that I think I've said a couple of times is, particularly the last couple of issues, it's felt like, yeah, this is a Wolverine title.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, he's teaming up with the X bed and the fight is bad guys, even if they're other X bed.
[SPEAKER_03]: I get it, like there's some gross moments that happen throughout, but the thing that happens at the end here is the sort of thing you could only do with the ultimate universe and only do towards the end of the ultimate universe, and it is gutting.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, so upsetting, really well done, and I was like, oh, I did not even though it was pretty well telegraphed, I still was very unsettled by it happening, so continues, this book continues to surprise.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was really fucked up what happened and like yeah, I get it like the phone call with Wolverine and Creed was dragging on but dropping a bomb on him.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, Jesus, it's just a long phone call.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's not that brutal, but I get it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_06]: It's pretty short in the phone, right, Pete?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, always be short, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well, you leave wanting more.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you gotta watch out for that URL ball soon.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, well, I hang up at the middle of somebody else's egg.
[SPEAKER_03]: I said to it, it's because they're like... Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's the only thing I want to do the movies with Pete, and he didn't sit next to me.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yep, keep it short.
[SPEAKER_06]: Keep it short.
[SPEAKER_03]: just like Wolverine moving on talking about artificial number three from image comics written in drawn by Maria love it this is about a woman who has rented a sex cyborg sorry sex android excuse me and forgot you say for it and forgot to turn it off so now it's starting to stalker it is interesting to me that that is the concept of the book and we're three issues in that
[SPEAKER_03]: I would have loved a little bit more of that earlier odd, particularly given next issue as the last issue, but I really love it still draws some fun stuff and has some fun sci-fi ideas.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, and there's a pretty scary situation that happens here.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I think that's what it was building to it.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just didn't expect that to be the crux of the story.
[SPEAKER_06]: But I think it does work, and I like this.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think playing with Maria Levitt's sort of,
[SPEAKER_06]: reputation or Uber of like pretty sexual comics.
[SPEAKER_06]: This takes it in a totally different scarier direction, which I thought was a good upsetting of what of expectations.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I this is intense, but I like it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amazing art.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great.
[SPEAKER_03]: Peter Cannon Thunderbolt, number one from Dynamite, written by Fred Van Lenty, art by Jonathan Lau.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is about rebooting the titular character that all the honest, I don't know much about.
[SPEAKER_03]: He seems to be super, super smart, be able to use all of his brain type guy.
[SPEAKER_03]: So he's great at fighting.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's great at,
[SPEAKER_03]: where disguises convincing people to do stuff, I guess, but part of the concept here was he was raised in a kung fu cult that is a little come this understood.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll say this was the biggest most pleasant surprise of the week for me.
[SPEAKER_03]: I.
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, don't know much about this character.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know I like friend it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I like the stuff he does But this feels like the sort of clear Surprising concepts that he does on valiant books like particularly like the early valiant books was like, okay I wasn't expecting that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know anything about this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's go Really excited to follow it going forward.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great cliffhanger here and nice clear art from Jonathan Lyle
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I thought the art was excellent on this.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think it really makes for that James Bond, the superhero character, great fight sequences.
[SPEAKER_06]: And yeah, I was also like really into the story.
[SPEAKER_06]: I love the cult exploration that happens here, and there's a nice twist at the end.
[SPEAKER_06]: I really, yeah, similarly, I don't know much about the character, but I think this is just a great story forward way into the, I guess, IP character that we have here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I just echo everything you guys said.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is this is fun action for which is great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love the panel of the boot to the face.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I also enjoyed the twist of the end.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is in great hands and excited to see kind of what goes down moving forward.
[SPEAKER_03]: Venom 251 from Marvel Written by Al Ywing Art by Paka Madena in this issue, Mary J. and Venom were trying to figure out their new status quo where she's working doing ads.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're being hunted in the city by Doc Ock, who now runs scar.
[SPEAKER_03]: The organization dedicated to taking down symbiots.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it leads to a very silly, very fun to do status quo for Venom by the end of the issue as well as several other takes of the Venom costume throughout.
[SPEAKER_03]: Another just really fun issue of this title I thought.
[SPEAKER_06]: I love this title.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's really fun and fun.
[SPEAKER_06]: The great to see Mary Jane just out there making a spot.
[SPEAKER_06]: They seem to have a nice long lunch break on set, which is really great.
[SPEAKER_06]: One thing I had a question about here, venom is tongue out a lot in this.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like, don't you think that thing's gonna dry out a little bit?
[SPEAKER_06]: How does a Goop tongue work?
[SPEAKER_03]: Is it sound like I have always, always wondered what venom sounds like, because if hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-hung-
[SPEAKER_06]: that's interesting because I was imagining the tongue which is gets like I said a lot of airtime here and it reminds me of job of the huts tail in Jedi when it ah, ah, ah, job is being strangled and the tail's like flappin' on the uh, uh, barge.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I feel like venom's tongue's got to be dry and sort of like
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, I feel like it was brain tons out funds out like when venom's rocking the tongues out that means good stuff's gonna go down You know, it's like my favorite with his tongue out, you know, it's just about to go down So yeah, I feel like MJ is more of a
[SPEAKER_01]: you know, just fan of the mouth open, you know, I guess, but yeah, this is growing on me more and more in the beginning.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought this was kind of a crazy dumb thing, but it's been 250 issues beating.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but yeah, having kind of MJ behind the helm here of venom is enjoyable.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's been solely growing on me like a small symbiot eating away at your soul.
[SPEAKER_06]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_06]: You love Paul.
[SPEAKER_06]: If you love this comic, great to hear you admit that.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, I would say that at all.
[SPEAKER_06]: I was a character in this.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, I'm aware of this.
[SPEAKER_06]: Entry character.
[SPEAKER_03]: The most important character.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if I would say that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm a great character, who everybody loves now.
[SPEAKER_06]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_06]: And for those of you that don't know, whenever Pete's not talking his tongue is dangling loose on this podcast.
[SPEAKER_06]: If you don't see it, he's like the Albert Einstein poster that hung in that annoying kid's dorm down the hall.
[SPEAKER_03]: Colossal Kaya, number one for me was comics written by West Craig, art by James Hardin, Mike Hudelston, Dicklin, Shelby, Nathan Fox, Ryan Stegbin, and Jim McFood.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is all one story by West Craig, giving us an intro into the world of Kaya who lives in a park-laptic world.
[SPEAKER_03]: where she is traversing the countryside for a mission, and but we're getting a bunch of great artists on this example for a jam style-ish.
[SPEAKER_03]: Pete, you love a jam style-ish and you love jam.
[SPEAKER_01]: God, I do.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is worth it for they are the loan.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is just so beautiful, so smart.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the four kind of black panels that separate like okay we're changing artists, just so smart, so well done, so artistically leaning forward.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is just
[SPEAKER_01]: so cool in such great hands.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just thought this comic jumped off the page at me just so amazing love the last panel.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a blast.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a vibe.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is just, yeah this gives me energy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love this comic.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I mean, it's something that I haven't been reading lately.
[SPEAKER_06]: This was just a great way to dive back into it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Really, really good.
[SPEAKER_06]: We touch on so many different parts of the world over the course of this.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I hadn't seen anyone really do this as like a refresh on their ongoing.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think it's just super smart.
[SPEAKER_03]: event horizon dark to scent number three from IDW written by Christian Ward art by Tristan Jones.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a official prequel to the movie showing what happened to the event horizon before the events of event horizon.
[SPEAKER_03]: And in this issue we focus on one of the crew members who secretly has cancer and just like on the boys it goes horribly out of control but frankly, more horribly than the boys as he
[SPEAKER_06]: This comic is pretty gross sort of across the wall.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's this comic was so scary that I had to just kind of question my life choices.
[SPEAKER_01]: The use of red in this is very impressive, but it is so fucking gross and there are so many nightmare monsters in this thing that are going to fuck up my dreams for a long time.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, I feel like we've gone down a path that maybe is too dark.
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, here's a crazy thing, Pete.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know if you've ever seen the movie, but it's actually just a really light-hearted rom-com that I would recommend each other.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think you should watch this great before bedtime tonight.
[SPEAKER_06]: I agree, indeed.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's called event horizon, because it's about two lovers who really need to beat to see at the horizon and they consider an event.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't make it there like you don't know if they're gonna make it on time because one of them has a big dad's the other one has a report to it work Don't spoil that definitely watch this movie When he's at his most vulnerable.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, drink a bunch of coffee so you can't go to sleep Yeah, watch it It's great and they eventually fall in love in the middle of a black hole, which is also the gateway to hell
[SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, great images throughout here.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a messed up and exactly the right way and I will say every issue I'm like, oh man, I should really watch and fend to rise up again.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I have a little bit of stuff that moving will stuck up your I'm gonna say if he watched it, I would worry about it.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think that would be a bad idea
[SPEAKER_03]: of the day, what's fighting about is tried to choose between Mary Jane and Gwen Stacey meanwhile, there's a demon in town.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, well, there's a demon at the time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, here's my thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is that like, see this with the first issue?
[SPEAKER_03]: The relationship stuff, I think, is actually great.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, there's really good seed here between Peter and Mary Jane.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's that kiss?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's very romantic.
[SPEAKER_03]: That kiss.
[SPEAKER_03]: It feels like he's not that torn.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got to be honest with you.
[SPEAKER_06]: But the torn part is not happening.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's that's the thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's not torn and I don't understand to this villain who is a lady who bled on a buck and turned into a demon lady ties into whatever a theme they're working with here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe it'll come around but it feels like that should be readily apparent to us and it's not.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I agree with you.
[SPEAKER_06]: The big like because I love the idea of the cliffhanger of like that time when he was still having feelings for Gwen, but Mad Matt Mary Jane, that's really cool.
[SPEAKER_06]: In this though, Gwen's in it for one second where she's like, we're gonna get some food guys want to come and they're like, no, I'm like, okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: See ya.
[SPEAKER_06]: They are literally torn apart by making slightly different plans, but yeah, I like the Mary Jane stuff.
[SPEAKER_06]: It seems like JMS has had himself drawn into this comic as the occult guy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here's the other thing about this comic book that I wanted to mention.
[SPEAKER_03]: We talked last issue about how there was a Gwen Stacy page without her headbed and then they cut to a different blonde lady with a very similar Yeah, I was we were like wait is that quid Stacy?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, that's a different lady
[SPEAKER_03]: This issue, there is a researcher guy who has a gray beard and gray hair, and then they have that next door to a seed with a guy with a gray beard, a gray hair except he's bald.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I was like, those guys look exactly the same except one of the, it could be the same guy, and they seem to be the same position in the story.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_06]: One of them talking to the demon lady and the other one's talking to Spider-Man.
[SPEAKER_06]: But I was like, make them, either make them the same person and they're talking at different times.
[SPEAKER_06]: Interesting, cool.
[SPEAKER_06]: Or make one of them.
[SPEAKER_06]: Here, controversial take a woman.
[SPEAKER_03]: So then you don't have a different colored beard.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, something like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: So they don't look like the same guy in two different places.
[SPEAKER_06]: My other thing is beard's only coming gray.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that how?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's correct.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, like Venezuela, we're going reverse.
[SPEAKER_06]: I have gray spots here right around my chin and you have dark spots there.
[SPEAKER_06]: I dare Well, no, I have I have gray right here on the edge.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, where is my school?
[SPEAKER_03]: Anyways, we won't teach turning it to Santa Claus
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I thought that that Zelben kind of did this as a little because it went from Event Horizon Dark to Sand, which was the most fucked up comic to then this, which I was like, Oh, what a what a moment what a kiss
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... what is shipped to be on uh... if you're thinking about like man i i'd like to be on the ship i just don't know which one to happen join us on the ship it's a glorious ship these two go together like peanut butter and jelly great story great arc uh... i needed this this was uh... nice little break from the madness so it was uh... very enjoyable
[SPEAKER_03]: But you know that the reason actually a lot of people don't know this, I guess, but like the reason they call them ships that came from a vendorize and they're mad to comment like so that is a ship and that movie is a ship is the full spaceship.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, exactly and it's so romantic.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's called it ship for short.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's what that's what a shirt for a spaceship.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do you say don't ruin this, do you mean your life by having a wife?
[SPEAKER_06]: Too late.
[SPEAKER_06]: Don't ruin this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: We only got one more.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_03]: The power fantasy, you got to get out of here.
[SPEAKER_03]: The power fantasy of the 13th of the image comics by Kira Gillett, art by Casper, Windguard.
[SPEAKER_03]: We got to wrap this up because Pete has to watch a ventureizing tonight.
[SPEAKER_03]: In more big things going down in this issue, this, I think I said this was the last issue, but this book is like pedal to pedal right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: At the end, our psychic professor, ex-guy, was secretly killed two issues back.
[SPEAKER_03]: He wasn't, we found out what was actually going on with him.
[SPEAKER_03]: This issue of some more stuff goes down.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, versus what we're talking about with die where that title got very much in its head, this is also like reading a game, but it's a chess game,
[SPEAKER_03]: but it's also a thrilling exciting one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like the vibe, it's entirely different, but this reminds me of like reading Death Note, which most of Death Note, I don't know if you guys read it, but most of Death Note is just like
[SPEAKER_03]: One character tried to figure out what the other character is thinking it just pays us of a big like Well if I do this that he'll do this and if he does this then I do that and it's just like back and forth But you're like in thrall.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're just like you're right.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_03]: What'll happen and the same thing is here because everybody has their own
[SPEAKER_03]: very clear, very specific motivations that are going on.
[SPEAKER_03]: They all are trying to jockey for a position, but they know the second they make a move, there's going to be a counter move.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so by the point those moves happen, particularly in the last three or four issues, it's just thrilling because you're like, oh my God, they did it.
[SPEAKER_03]: What is gonna happen next?
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm on Pins and Needles wanted today.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, this is amazing.
[SPEAKER_06]: The metaphor.
[SPEAKER_06]: The idea was like, no, the superheroes are a metaphor for a nuclear proliferation and how like everyone actually holds each other and check.
[SPEAKER_06]: So it's like, oh, that's a cool idea.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then it's like, no, no, we're actually doing that.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're doing that just now.
[SPEAKER_06]: They're literally holding each other and check verbally every issue, every scene, every panel on this.
[SPEAKER_06]: And like you're saying when it pops off, it's really popping off.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this just continues to be really impressive.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not only artistically, but writing wise.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, more of this, please.
[SPEAKER_01]: And thank you.
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[SPEAKER_06]: and Pete, what animals dressing you tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_04]: Now let's just turn back to number one Let's see if they might get dead And I want to be There's no goal in mind We stay calm and sincere And let's turn now Let's get it
[SPEAKER_04]: They sit on graphic cultures, and they let us see what we can.
[SPEAKER_04]: And he's a monkey, they are like fast, special guests.
[SPEAKER_04]: So grab your ring, hammer, don't be late.