WEBVTT 00:08.401 --> 00:09.262 [SPEAKER_01]: What is up, everybody? 00:09.282 --> 00:10.884 [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the stack on Alex. 00:11.345 --> 00:11.805 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm Justin. 00:12.066 --> 00:12.887 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm Pete. 00:12.907 --> 00:16.611 [SPEAKER_01]: And on the stack, we talk about a bunch of comics that have come out this week. 00:17.192 --> 00:28.806 [SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to bring a gun to this first one because we're talking about DCKO, night fight number one from DC Comics, written by Joshua Williamson, art by Dan Moore. 00:28.826 --> 00:34.233 [SPEAKER_01]: This is a new MIDI series that is spinning out of DCKO and showing what happened. 00:34.333 --> 00:37.497 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm going to put a spoiler warning for often books that we're talking about. 00:37.477 --> 00:41.561 [SPEAKER_01]: this week as I do every week, but hey, I want to bring it up for you guys. 00:41.902 --> 00:42.783 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, listeners. 00:42.803 --> 00:43.263 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 00:43.624 --> 00:44.725 [SPEAKER_04]: That's a great point. 00:44.765 --> 00:45.806 [SPEAKER_04]: Why we're talking about that? 00:45.846 --> 00:48.969 [SPEAKER_04]: In case you're like, oh, why does this sound a little different today? 00:49.330 --> 00:53.354 [SPEAKER_04]: Just as a mustache, it's not your audio or things going on in your life. 00:53.895 --> 00:56.638 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's audio is not getting caught in his beard anymore. 00:56.718 --> 01:02.404 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's the 01:03.970 --> 01:04.733 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't forget. 01:05.195 --> 01:07.202 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god. 01:07.223 --> 01:07.624 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't forget. 01:07.644 --> 01:09.150 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't forget. 01:09.170 --> 01:09.652 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't forget. 01:09.873 --> 01:10.455 [SPEAKER_00]: You see? 01:10.475 --> 01:11.539 [SPEAKER_00]: I talk like that. 01:11.559 --> 01:13.828 [SPEAKER_00]: I talk like that and my dogs are barking. 01:13.893 --> 01:26.870 [SPEAKER_01]: That's my dog's at our message your your feet hurt pizza with the with the mustache because he doesn't want to talk about comic books anymore Let's talk about comic books. 01:26.890 --> 01:40.187 [SPEAKER_01]: So now you see many series that spins off on DCKO now the thing that happened One of the big shackers of the first issue of DCKO is Joker killed Batman We get a little more illumination 01:40.167 --> 02:00.353 [SPEAKER_01]: which is that Batman thought that he built a little bit of a fell safe no pun intended on the villain found safe get out of the competition if he died so he could still help in the outside world be in the competition this isn't explicit of the first issue but they did talk about it on the DCKO panel this basically the heart of apocalypse is like 02:00.333 --> 02:11.851 [SPEAKER_01]: You don't get to cheat Batman, and now is thrust into a situation where he is fighting a series of robins who have done a better job than being a Batman than him. 02:11.891 --> 02:20.164 [SPEAKER_01]: And in this issue, we get to see how Dick Grayson might handle being Batman instead, and it turns out, in fact, very well. 02:20.865 --> 02:24.130 [SPEAKER_01]: What do we think about this first issue, fellas? 02:24.785 --> 02:27.048 [SPEAKER_04]: Well, I thought this was a blast. 02:27.068 --> 02:30.772 [SPEAKER_04]: I thought this was like really kind of crazy and fun. 02:30.872 --> 02:41.344 [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, my pool is unfortunately shot to shit, but I do think that, or sorry, my bracket, but our bracket, yeah, my bracket. 02:41.424 --> 02:48.512 [SPEAKER_01]: But also Pete has a pool in his backyard and every night he goes out there, takes his revolver, ready to see that pool. 02:48.532 --> 02:50.695 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, man, you can't shoot a above-ground pool. 02:51.295 --> 02:52.817 [SPEAKER_00]: That's over. 02:52.797 --> 03:10.298 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, sorry my mustache is talking there for me a little bit, but yeah, I just think this is this is so crazy And fun and they're really kind of leaning into this so like why not a create a world of robins and Kind of to kind of see what would happen all that kind of stuff. 03:10.318 --> 03:15.063 [SPEAKER_04]: So tons of action amazing art Yeah, K. Oh, let's go. 03:15.083 --> 03:16.866 [SPEAKER_04]: I'm having a blast with this, man. 03:17.206 --> 03:17.286 [UNKNOWN]: Look 03:17.924 --> 03:29.282 [SPEAKER_00]: The art is fantastic, there's a page, like, I don't know, it was 1617 where there's just a little split line between the two bad men as they're running at each other. 03:29.302 --> 03:30.965 [SPEAKER_00]: That was just so smartly done. 03:31.866 --> 03:33.849 [SPEAKER_00]: The Danmore artist is just really crushing. 03:34.330 --> 03:36.353 [SPEAKER_00]: And then I like the story as well. 03:36.373 --> 03:41.581 [SPEAKER_00]: I really, it's really uncomfortable to see Dick Race and be in nasty to Bruce Wayne. 03:41.601 --> 03:43.965 [SPEAKER_00]: You didn't see Dick Race and be in a dick. 03:43.945 --> 03:49.850 [SPEAKER_00]: Rick Grayson, the very forgettable, head-injured, night-wain side. 03:50.311 --> 03:54.975 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't really, a story that I think we can all hit ourselves in the head until we forget. 03:55.396 --> 04:05.665 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't really see Dick Grayson being a dick, pun intended, but here it actually works, and his justification why he's a better Batman, because he talks to people. 04:06.446 --> 04:12.231 [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, wow, real therapy level idea for Batman to consider. 04:13.325 --> 04:34.320 [SPEAKER_01]: we talked about this a little bit on the live show but one of the things I was really struck with when Scott Snyder and Joshua militia were talking about night fight and other spin-offs from DCKL on the DCKL panel at the air comicon was and this seems like such a obvious thing but they really talked about like why are we doing events and why are we doing these spin-offs. 04:34.300 --> 04:57.777 [SPEAKER_01]: and you can see that thought come through here because this isn't there is the idea of like Pete was saying hey it's cool to see Batman Batman fight other Batman that happened to be the Robbins but there's also the emotional aspect that Justin is talking about that really plays here like what does it do to Batman what direction doesn't put it in that he's like oh maybe they are doing a better job than being 04:57.757 --> 05:02.662 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I'm not a great, not the greatest hero of all time. 05:03.122 --> 05:05.905 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I haven't bought it, you know, I bought it to my hype too much. 05:05.925 --> 05:07.727 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's really interesting. 05:07.787 --> 05:12.391 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm always a fan of seeing Batman put on his back legs. 05:12.531 --> 05:14.613 [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's, you don't get to see that a lot. 05:15.414 --> 05:17.596 [SPEAKER_00]: So many legs, and I love when he's on his back ones. 05:18.097 --> 05:18.417 [SPEAKER_00]: Totally. 05:18.537 --> 05:22.661 [SPEAKER_00]: Also, Alfred, do you think I've brought into my own hype too much? 05:23.281 --> 05:24.503 [SPEAKER_00]: Alfred, what do you think about my hype? 05:24.563 --> 05:25.924 [SPEAKER_00]: If I bought it into a tumor, 05:27.187 --> 05:28.670 [SPEAKER_01]: That's him sucking suit, by the way. 05:28.991 --> 05:44.200 [SPEAKER_00]: Betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer, betrayer 05:44.180 --> 05:46.482 [SPEAKER_03]: Pete, if you're not going to suck soup, where would you suck? 05:46.502 --> 05:50.946 [SPEAKER_03]: Would you be, well, uh, boo. 05:50.966 --> 05:52.568 [SPEAKER_03]: You're probably going to have a cheese stick. 05:52.588 --> 05:53.589 [SPEAKER_00]: You forced that. 05:53.689 --> 05:58.914 [SPEAKER_00]: Now we have to pay us an actor to say, go suck soup, which is the ultimate talent. 05:58.934 --> 06:00.195 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the ultimate. 06:00.355 --> 06:01.316 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the ultimate. 06:01.336 --> 06:03.438 [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, all of these things, dad's more amazing. 06:03.499 --> 06:06.521 [SPEAKER_01]: So, let your fetish, deadboard did some great costumes. 06:06.541 --> 06:10.305 [SPEAKER_01]: For Batman, moving on to platting, she hulked number one from below. 06:10.285 --> 06:35.763 [SPEAKER_01]: written by Stephanie Phillips are coming out who do this is spinning off of imperial the cosmic event which left she hulk on secara while hulk went off to do some other things and here she is still trying to grapple with being on the planet kind of ruling the planet a bunch of other people wanting to rule the planet she gets caught in the middle of a quest for power from a bunch of different people. 06:36.163 --> 06:38.807 [SPEAKER_01]: Pete you seem pretty hyped about this one 06:38.787 --> 06:39.969 [SPEAKER_01]: Take it away. 06:40.390 --> 06:42.894 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I love that band, it's like that. 06:42.914 --> 06:43.455 [SPEAKER_04]: I love this. 06:43.575 --> 06:45.218 [SPEAKER_04]: I doesn't suck soup. 06:45.238 --> 06:46.720 [SPEAKER_04]: Listen, it doesn't suck soup. 06:46.740 --> 06:47.782 [SPEAKER_04]: This is a great issue. 06:48.423 --> 06:54.513 [SPEAKER_04]: And, you know, it's also, it's kind of a fun thing of like, you know, a layer of what would you do for family. 06:54.573 --> 06:55.294 [SPEAKER_04]: You know what I mean? 06:55.735 --> 06:59.661 [SPEAKER_04]: Which is kind of a nice thing that we don't always see with shehalk. 06:59.681 --> 07:04.930 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's kind of a fun... You mean, like, if your cousin is like, you have to run this planet. 07:04.910 --> 07:12.930 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, if you got a question, you read this book and what you thought is, wow, what if my brother left his kids with me? 07:13.090 --> 07:13.952 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, exactly. 07:13.993 --> 07:18.584 [SPEAKER_04]: I was like, how many days could you watch somebody's kids? 07:18.664 --> 07:19.286 [SPEAKER_04]: You know what I mean? 07:19.306 --> 07:21.872 [SPEAKER_04]: Like, hey, take care of this. 07:21.852 --> 07:24.116 [SPEAKER_04]: Take care of this war planted for me. 07:24.176 --> 07:25.919 [SPEAKER_04]: I'm only going to be gone for five days. 07:26.019 --> 07:30.586 [SPEAKER_04]: It's like, oh, man You know, so yeah, this is a cool premise. 07:30.907 --> 07:36.196 [SPEAKER_04]: I love the sap also What's great is the sea she Hulk reacting differently? 07:36.236 --> 07:36.797 [SPEAKER_04]: You know what I mean? 07:36.817 --> 07:43.067 [SPEAKER_04]: Like we've seen Hulk run up things We've seen so having she help you like five wives really bro 07:43.047 --> 08:02.794 [SPEAKER_04]: five fucking wives you know like this is fun this is a breath of fresh air this is cool to kind of see this take on this crazy war planet so yeah i'm excited about all this tons of action tons of fight to take on a giant dragon with the giant sword yes please to all of it 08:03.618 --> 08:05.120 [SPEAKER_00]: five wives. 08:05.842 --> 08:07.645 [SPEAKER_00]: This book is great. 08:07.805 --> 08:16.199 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this retroactively makes all of imperial worth that I feel like to land on this book because the art is fantastic. 08:16.319 --> 08:26.816 [SPEAKER_00]: Like real ads, captures like a almost slicker version of the Planet Hulk art style, giving it its own flavor while still being true to this cigar. 08:26.936 --> 08:27.938 [SPEAKER_00]: Look and feel. 08:27.918 --> 08:39.695 [SPEAKER_00]: and it's just so refreshing to see this kind of story of a character who is in a strange place maintaining her personality and charisma while also just embarking in this whole other thing. 08:40.056 --> 08:45.083 [SPEAKER_00]: It's got a lighter feel than the planet Hulk stuff, just one of my favorite reads to the week. 08:45.468 --> 08:48.374 [SPEAKER_04]: Shoutout to Nachos, you know what I mean? 08:48.394 --> 08:49.817 [SPEAKER_01]: Definitely a shoutout to Nachos. 08:50.218 --> 08:51.561 [SPEAKER_01]: I really enjoyed this as well. 08:52.443 --> 09:00.941 [SPEAKER_01]: This is not an anyway diminishing Stephanie Fellows, but I will read absolutely anything that Aaron Kudder draws, so I'm always hyped to see his art. 09:00.961 --> 09:02.785 [SPEAKER_01]: I will see you in the next. 09:02.765 --> 09:03.166 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 09:03.186 --> 09:04.067 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to move on. 09:04.508 --> 09:10.658 [SPEAKER_01]: The one thing that like I got a little held up at the book, and I don't think it's bad, but it's didn't quite work for me in this issue. 09:11.118 --> 09:13.382 [SPEAKER_01]: Was the classic She-Hulk-Assides. 09:14.023 --> 09:19.592 [SPEAKER_01]: And the reason for that is I think those panels were a little too tight on the page. 09:19.572 --> 09:21.716 [SPEAKER_01]: Like I did have a problem with the content of them. 09:21.836 --> 09:24.481 [SPEAKER_01]: I thought they worked and it's fun way we have her. 09:24.781 --> 09:25.242 [SPEAKER_01]: Let me finish. 09:25.863 --> 09:33.256 [SPEAKER_01]: Love, it's fun to have her in this situation still doing the classic she-hole like comedy decides, commenting on the action. 09:33.897 --> 09:40.028 [SPEAKER_01]: But the way that they were structured on the page, it didn't pay sound comedically for me and the way that I think it was meant to. 09:40.149 --> 09:40.990 [SPEAKER_01]: Go ahead, Pete. 09:40.970 --> 09:43.335 [SPEAKER_04]: So you were saying it's too tight. 09:43.836 --> 09:45.479 [SPEAKER_04]: The R is too tight. 09:46.180 --> 09:47.102 [SPEAKER_04]: Come on, man. 09:47.262 --> 09:48.284 [SPEAKER_04]: It can be too tight. 09:48.705 --> 09:49.226 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, a can. 09:49.647 --> 09:50.829 [SPEAKER_01]: Are you trying to do it too tight? 09:50.849 --> 09:53.374 [SPEAKER_04]: But that is just super tight bananas, bro. 09:53.414 --> 09:55.458 [SPEAKER_04]: They are super tight bananas. 09:55.478 --> 09:56.119 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it's great. 09:56.139 --> 09:57.983 [SPEAKER_01]: The panel structure is too tight. 09:58.925 --> 10:05.239 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, Pete you said shout out to nachos a minute ago, and nachos just texted me and said get my name out of your map. 10:05.640 --> 10:16.123 [SPEAKER_00]: Wow, you get to I don't know what you did to nachos people not just yeah, cover me that just I got number love for nachos 10:16.103 --> 10:27.503 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Joe number 13 from skybound and image comics written by Joshua Williams in art by Tom Riley this is the first of the five part dreadknock war that's Bye weekly. 10:27.643 --> 10:30.327 [SPEAKER_01]: I will mention I chatted with the TV behind the book. 10:30.348 --> 10:40.525 [SPEAKER_01]: That's gonna be up in the comic book club feed at a Doon today or is already up if you're listening to this stat podcast later on but 10:40.505 --> 10:48.774 [SPEAKER_01]: In this book, we got to see Duke and Cobra Commander force to team up on the run Mad Max style from the dread knocks. 10:49.114 --> 10:59.726 [SPEAKER_01]: Meanwhile, there's some machinations going on back at Cobra Headquarters, specifically gestro taking charge by the end of the issue, the promise of more wild twists to come. 11:00.366 --> 11:06.473 [SPEAKER_01]: I got to tell you, like I think we've generally been enjoying the GI Joe series and I know you're over the moon for it, Pete. 11:07.174 --> 11:08.335 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, Joe. 11:08.315 --> 11:14.427 [SPEAKER_01]: I thought this was great, like this felt like everything that they've been setting up for the first 12 issues. 11:14.487 --> 11:15.329 [SPEAKER_01]: They hit issue 13. 11:15.349 --> 11:16.070 [SPEAKER_01]: They're like great. 11:16.090 --> 11:17.433 [SPEAKER_01]: We got all the setup out of the way. 11:17.934 --> 11:18.475 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's go. 11:18.495 --> 11:21.481 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'm glad you're missing. 11:21.501 --> 11:22.122 [SPEAKER_04]: Oh good. 11:22.793 --> 11:32.146 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'll go and you can save your yelling enthusiasm for one minute from now But this felt like the first issue that was like we are moving now There's no more setup. 11:32.226 --> 11:41.899 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just hitting it and hitting it hard It's just very funny to me that the dreadknock these fearsome villains are roll up like the hair bear bunch 11:41.879 --> 11:56.648 [SPEAKER_00]: Goofcars and the fearful dreadnags and you're like these guys are like a bunch of Archies in their gelapies showing up with like homemade bazookas So I don't know I guess that's strange to me 11:56.965 --> 12:06.918 [SPEAKER_04]: They're more junk-head than Archie, those dreadnucks, but they're Kanshugs, yeah, a bunch of KS agents is what they're, yeah, I'm glad you guys are finally getting on board. 12:06.938 --> 12:09.101 [SPEAKER_04]: This is a total blast. 12:09.121 --> 12:20.595 [SPEAKER_04]: I haven't said, first off, epic panel when Duke is saving corporate commander and corporate commanders like Duke, like, what are you doing here? 12:20.736 --> 12:24.981 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god, just perfect perfect corporate commander voice. 12:24.961 --> 12:25.842 [SPEAKER_01]: really good. 12:25.902 --> 12:27.084 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you. 12:27.825 --> 12:31.590 [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you so much. 12:31.610 --> 12:33.432 [SPEAKER_04]: It was just such a crazy panel. 12:33.532 --> 12:34.454 [SPEAKER_04]: I laughed out loud. 12:34.474 --> 12:36.476 [SPEAKER_04]: I haven't had a blast with this. 12:36.877 --> 12:41.623 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you know, we got the classic hero hand cough to the villain. 12:41.784 --> 12:42.865 [SPEAKER_04]: Can they get a law? 12:42.945 --> 12:47.171 [SPEAKER_04]: Will they be able to survive all that kind of high stakes fund? 12:47.291 --> 12:47.391 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 12:47.371 --> 13:01.920 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and then the battle for the throne now the covert commanders like out on a mission, you know, like just classic classic Geo fun here, and yeah excited for the dreadnac war, man Really great. 13:01.940 --> 13:03.102 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a blast 13:03.267 --> 13:04.770 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, Justin, you already talked. 13:04.810 --> 13:05.431 [SPEAKER_01]: Why don't we move on? 13:05.491 --> 13:10.761 [SPEAKER_01]: Talk about Harley and Ivy life at Cribs number one from DC Comics by Erica Henderson. 13:11.262 --> 13:24.145 [SPEAKER_01]: This is telling the definitive origin story of the love story of Harley Quinn and poison ivy, which should be forgiven from thinking it already happened in comics, but it actually never did because of a variety of 13:24.125 --> 13:46.403 [SPEAKER_01]: of stats it is crazy because of a variety of circumstances people assumed it for a while and that they just kind of skipped past it and they were together if I remember correctly Jimmy Paniani and Amanda Connor during the Harley Quinn learn weren't allowed to have them kiss and that later on did have them kiss and then they were kind of just like a couple and everybody assumed it and that actually 13:46.383 --> 13:53.829 [SPEAKER_01]: I believe only happened after they became a couple in the second season of the Harley Quinn TV show. 13:54.450 --> 13:55.651 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so they did it first. 13:55.811 --> 13:57.773 [SPEAKER_01]: And then they were allowed to do it in comics. 13:58.133 --> 13:58.413 [SPEAKER_01]: Why? 13:58.473 --> 14:04.418 [SPEAKER_01]: Because of a lot of homophobia in the comic book industry and nervousness from Warner Brothers and DC Comics. 14:04.859 --> 14:13.046 [SPEAKER_01]: So that story of how they got together, other than like us filling in the blanks between Harley broke up with Joker and then got together with Poison Ivy. 14:13.066 --> 14:15.968 [SPEAKER_01]: It's finally getting filled out here. 14:15.948 --> 14:16.509 [SPEAKER_01]: This is great. 14:16.709 --> 14:21.535 [SPEAKER_01]: A great set up exactly when we wanted out of this, Erica Henderson, awesome art. 14:22.376 --> 14:25.781 [SPEAKER_01]: Lovely, just like, enemies to lovers, story here. 14:25.801 --> 14:33.951 [SPEAKER_01]: You have these duly narration between Harley and Ivy, where it's almost like when Harry met Sally's style, the big like, no, no, no, you've got the details wrong. 14:33.991 --> 14:35.593 [SPEAKER_01]: That's not what happened. 14:35.573 --> 14:36.334 [SPEAKER_01]: Very fun. 14:36.434 --> 14:40.159 [SPEAKER_01]: We get a terrifying face cut off Joker for that. 14:40.680 --> 14:41.741 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, very good. 14:42.121 --> 14:42.382 [SPEAKER_01]: Great. 14:42.402 --> 14:43.523 [SPEAKER_01]: Crazy. 14:43.543 --> 14:44.665 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah. 14:44.685 --> 14:46.847 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, that was, I think, Thank you guys. 14:46.907 --> 14:49.190 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that was Scott Snyder had that. 14:49.210 --> 14:49.611 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 14:50.292 --> 14:52.054 [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, I was very excited. 14:52.094 --> 14:54.137 [SPEAKER_01]: This is the book that I was most hyped for this week. 14:54.517 --> 14:56.319 [SPEAKER_01]: And it absolutely does hurt. 14:56.420 --> 14:57.000 [SPEAKER_01]: It was cute. 14:57.100 --> 14:58.102 [SPEAKER_01]: It's fun and create art. 14:58.302 --> 14:59.083 [SPEAKER_01]: Great times. 14:59.063 --> 15:21.021 [SPEAKER_00]: it's and it's so good and just you know from a storytelling perspective that transition from dating the Joker to dating poison ivy is wild like when we first met Harley Quinn in the Batman the animated series uh episodes where she and that is the character the same character like the Mr. J we get a big Mr. J shout out here uh um 15:21.490 --> 15:31.890 [SPEAKER_00]: like that's to this character that now I think is you know so much more of a fully formed person it's just a really important to tell this story so glad it's being told here. 15:33.333 --> 15:37.120 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah I agree this is great this is a lot of fun. 15:37.387 --> 15:40.552 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'm interested in how this is all going to go down. 15:40.572 --> 15:46.841 [SPEAKER_04]: I was also kind of surprised at what we're doing with the Mr. Jay stuff. 15:46.941 --> 15:51.508 [SPEAKER_04]: I thought maybe that would be all kind of in the past, but really kind of digging into it. 15:51.528 --> 15:57.116 [SPEAKER_04]: So, yeah, I'm interested to see how this is all going to go down since we know and how it ends up. 15:57.136 --> 15:58.258 [SPEAKER_04]: So, this is exciting. 15:58.718 --> 15:59.800 [SPEAKER_04]: Great art. 15:59.780 --> 16:06.629 [SPEAKER_01]: Next up, Alien vs. Captain America, number one, from Marvel Written by Frank Teary, art by Stefano Arrafayel. 16:06.649 --> 16:09.272 [SPEAKER_01]: This take the action back to World War II. 16:09.733 --> 16:12.837 [SPEAKER_01]: We're barren, struck, or discovers Zeno Morse. 16:13.278 --> 16:17.383 [SPEAKER_01]: That is using them to create an army to let Red Skull conquer the world. 16:17.603 --> 16:18.304 [SPEAKER_01]: Oopsie Daisy. 16:18.665 --> 16:23.391 [SPEAKER_01]: In the middle of that comes Captain America, the Howling Commandos. 16:24.046 --> 16:35.456 [SPEAKER_01]: I will say, I can't hold on like I know what you're in for here when you get frightiery writing this, but I was surprised how like restrained he was at this issue. 16:35.796 --> 16:36.877 [SPEAKER_01]: That's my big thing. 16:36.917 --> 16:53.192 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure the carnage is coming, but in this issue it was like okay, we got to set up the xenomorphs, we got to set up who Captain America is, the mythology, and there are some wild moments in this issue, but I thought we were, I don't know, in my head picking this up, I thought it was going to be like, 16:53.172 --> 16:58.418 [SPEAKER_01]: Ah, from the first page, but instead, it takes its time as a store. 16:58.438 --> 16:59.179 [SPEAKER_04]: It's like crazy. 16:59.199 --> 17:00.601 [SPEAKER_04]: It's a more froncing change. 17:00.981 --> 17:01.382 [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, God. 17:02.082 --> 17:08.510 [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like Fraterie really took the alien stone and style to heart in the storytelling here. 17:08.970 --> 17:21.525 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, it's bringing us a definitively comic bookie in story, but like the slower pace, the like, you know, sort of one by one revealing different aspects of the alien, 17:21.505 --> 17:33.529 [SPEAKER_00]: you know, life cycle, I guess you could say, while also getting some great red skull dust transformation scene coming out of a dude's tooth, the beginning. 17:33.770 --> 17:35.233 [SPEAKER_00]: That was dope. 17:35.714 --> 17:37.337 [SPEAKER_00]: The teary touch. 17:37.317 --> 17:43.731 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that query, that creepy dust, the evil skull dust. 17:43.751 --> 17:49.703 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I think this is first off cool cover, but yeah, this is a great setup. 17:49.784 --> 17:56.558 [SPEAKER_04]: We've seen so many different alien stories and so many different characters, Captain America stories, but I 17:56.538 --> 18:12.690 [SPEAKER_04]: I was impressed to like you Alex with the care and the pace that we were taking kind of in the setup of this, so it was a nice surprise, unlike the creepy skull dust, but yeah, I love this and the arts fantastic. 18:13.683 --> 18:19.588 [SPEAKER_01]: Void rivals number 24 from Skybound and image comics written by Robert Kirkman, art by Connor's use. 18:20.109 --> 18:25.193 [SPEAKER_01]: This is the last issue before the big quintesson war that is going to be kicking off. 18:25.233 --> 18:32.500 [SPEAKER_01]: Next issue, so lots of set up going on here, but most importantly, great stuff happening with my boys, Guckside, and this issue. 18:32.620 --> 18:33.521 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 18:33.541 --> 18:33.761 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. 18:33.781 --> 18:34.281 [SPEAKER_04]: Come on. 18:34.361 --> 18:36.103 [SPEAKER_04]: The Skog save in the day. 18:36.123 --> 18:37.064 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god. 18:37.104 --> 18:39.306 [SPEAKER_01]: Those pages, I live for those pages. 18:39.426 --> 18:41.968 [SPEAKER_01]: The thickware. 18:41.948 --> 18:55.531 [SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, so for people who don't know, Skuckside is this like pig rock man, and they discovered that if you cut him pieces off of him, he grows more of himself, so the prime sucks so the original Skuckside is using these Skuckside. 18:55.591 --> 19:08.412 [SPEAKER_01]: We've been following to create more, and he breaks out this issue at his basically, like I'm going to leave this revolution of these pieces that have grown out of the, first they have the joke of the pieces all big like, my wife, my kids. 19:08.392 --> 19:26.429 [SPEAKER_01]: very funny and then following them up with it big like and we're gonna take back and start the revolution at the one of them It was a quarter like what are you talking about because it was just bored Yeah, I had very funny joke so I could honestly care less about the rest of this book those two pages Delightful, what oh my god. 19:26.870 --> 19:32.115 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god I'm glad you had to What's going on with had dried in? 19:32.255 --> 19:35.378 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, but yeah, let me say 19:35.358 --> 19:42.111 [SPEAKER_00]: It's crazy that the part of this comic that made the most sense is what you just described, Alex. 19:42.131 --> 19:43.974 [SPEAKER_00]: You're a pink rock man. 19:43.994 --> 19:48.122 [SPEAKER_00]: It's cloned from pieces, says my wife, my kids, and then says he's going to fight a revolution. 19:48.162 --> 19:51.949 [SPEAKER_00]: And someone was like, WT have them, and you're like, that's awesome. 19:53.768 --> 19:55.030 [SPEAKER_00]: Because the rest is common. 19:55.150 --> 19:55.550 [SPEAKER_00]: I agree. 19:55.630 --> 19:57.813 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, I don't know, I don't know. 19:57.873 --> 20:00.317 [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone who's wear a different clothes all the time. 20:00.377 --> 20:03.541 [SPEAKER_00]: The hand drive's the only character I'm like, I see. 20:03.962 --> 20:04.903 [SPEAKER_00]: I know him. 20:05.143 --> 20:07.006 [SPEAKER_00]: I know when I talk into the hand. 20:07.046 --> 20:09.769 [SPEAKER_00]: But everyone else, I'm like, I don't know what you're saying, why you're saying it. 20:10.250 --> 20:11.612 [SPEAKER_00]: And there's like a war coming. 20:11.652 --> 20:16.579 [SPEAKER_00]: This comic has the most like negotiation calmly between the two different planets. 20:16.879 --> 20:17.600 [SPEAKER_00]: We should get along. 20:17.640 --> 20:18.781 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, you're in a fight now. 20:18.842 --> 20:19.342 [SPEAKER_00]: Next issue. 20:19.963 --> 20:22.206 [SPEAKER_00]: Why are you fooling us so many times? 20:23.587 --> 20:26.075 [SPEAKER_04]: I think this continues to be a really great comic. 20:27.761 --> 20:34.744 [SPEAKER_04]: I love all the drama and amazing art and panels we get in this issue, the like. 20:35.062 --> 21:00.850 [SPEAKER_04]: neon handcuffs that we're kind of in that one panel we're so cool um yeah and plus the we're talking about one of the best letters pages in the business talk to the hand droid this continues to be a tight package a ton of fun uh i might not know what everything that is happening is going on but i'm still very much enjoying it and uh 21:00.931 --> 21:06.114 [SPEAKER_00]: Shouts to this issue, or this cut series, for being the one that Pete knows the most about. 21:06.154 --> 21:07.701 [SPEAKER_00]: It should be. 21:08.828 --> 21:35.563 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely, it's super bad, number 13 from DC Comics written by Jason Aaron, Art by Rafa Sandevol, keep it with the war or the battle for Kansas kicks off in this issue as Superman, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olson finally together, are huddled in the remains of Smallville, which is under attack by the Lazarus Corporation, led by Raish Al Ghul and his daughter, Talia, big things going down in this issue, what do you guys think? 21:35.583 --> 21:36.304 [SPEAKER_01]: Pete? 21:36.284 --> 21:57.956 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so I have this comic I feel like is it's absolute genius a subtle genius here Going on and this issue in particular does it where like the Superman origin the deconstruction of the Superman origin This comic has done is just so smartly Paced out and this issue. 21:58.016 --> 22:01.701 [SPEAKER_00]: We have Superman Crash landing in small bill 22:01.681 --> 22:02.562 [SPEAKER_00]: Sound familiar. 22:02.823 --> 22:05.066 [SPEAKER_00]: He did it as a baby in the regular continuity. 22:05.507 --> 22:12.077 [SPEAKER_00]: In this he crash lands in smallville and become superman He starts to have people rallying behind him. 22:12.137 --> 22:27.081 [SPEAKER_00]: Lois Lane becomes a reporter in this issue She's trying to get word out to the rest of the populist Jimmy Olson is like I was a ship photographer until I landed here They called me three thumbs Olson He becomes the the photographer like 22:27.061 --> 22:42.150 [SPEAKER_00]: They're so subtly doing it that I feel like it's not on it'd be so easy to just be like look there Who they are now, but Jason Aaron is slow playing a so hard here and it's working just very effectively to do it at this pace 22:43.565 --> 23:08.813 [SPEAKER_04]: uh... yeah i i think that this uh... has this kind of great epic field to it um... uh... love the art and uh... the kind of pace and everything that is happening there was just some weird lines that pulled me out a little bit and uh... also like the cap kind of power was a little uh... boosted up on a dot kind of insane but i'm enjoying the little power k 23:09.451 --> 23:15.798 [SPEAKER_04]: Well, I just feel like it's like, hey, I have a cape that also can protect all of the world and everyone who lives here. 23:16.659 --> 23:19.642 [SPEAKER_04]: So I was just kind of like, wow, that's a really powerful cape that you have. 23:19.682 --> 23:21.965 [SPEAKER_04]: That's never done that before, but okay, cool. 23:22.886 --> 23:23.727 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a computer cape. 23:24.448 --> 23:25.989 [SPEAKER_04]: Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, didn't do more. 23:26.790 --> 23:33.437 [SPEAKER_04]: Then the line at the end was like, hey, you're gonna be my son. 23:33.538 --> 23:37.462 [SPEAKER_03]: It's like, that's not how kids work, but cool. 23:38.063 --> 23:39.424 [SPEAKER_01]: Cool. 23:39.404 --> 23:43.069 [SPEAKER_01]: Like that is, all of both of those things have been set up in the plot. 23:43.109 --> 23:45.292 [SPEAKER_01]: The cape has been there since the first issue. 23:45.873 --> 23:49.999 [SPEAKER_01]: Racial goal has consistently said, I'm going to make you the son of the demon. 23:50.419 --> 23:51.841 [SPEAKER_01]: That is what he has been doing. 23:51.982 --> 23:53.824 [SPEAKER_01]: So all of that has been threaded throughout. 23:53.884 --> 23:56.668 [SPEAKER_04]: That's not, you still have a weird thing to yell at somebody. 23:56.728 --> 23:58.090 [SPEAKER_04]: You're going to be my son, though. 23:58.110 --> 23:58.771 [SPEAKER_04]: I yell that out. 23:58.811 --> 24:00.974 [SPEAKER_00]: You're trying to say that all the time. 24:01.034 --> 24:01.415 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 24:01.435 --> 24:02.296 [SPEAKER_04]: Still feels weird. 24:02.516 --> 24:03.017 [SPEAKER_04]: Feels weird. 24:03.297 --> 24:04.760 [SPEAKER_04]: And then that's all my pain, man. 24:05.260 --> 24:06.842 [SPEAKER_04]: Right, whatever you want, low us. 24:07.043 --> 24:08.685 [SPEAKER_04]: I was like, oh, what's a, 24:08.868 --> 24:10.491 [SPEAKER_04]: What's that kind of telling me, you know what I mean? 24:10.511 --> 24:12.694 [SPEAKER_04]: So you got to just write whatever you want, let us own give a shit. 24:13.135 --> 24:13.696 [SPEAKER_04]: I was like damn. 24:14.317 --> 24:16.120 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think that's what was about there. 24:16.521 --> 24:21.188 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, interesting, you're having an interesting experience, but this title, I also think this is fantastic. 24:21.208 --> 24:22.511 [SPEAKER_01]: The art is great. 24:22.551 --> 24:24.554 [SPEAKER_01]: The battle scenes are epic. 24:24.634 --> 24:30.083 [SPEAKER_01]: There are some interesting tweaks on the mythology, and it gets better every issue. 24:30.063 --> 24:35.537 [SPEAKER_01]: Moving on to amazing Spider-Man number 15 from Marvel Written by Joe Kelly, art by Emilio Lasso. 24:35.638 --> 24:39.468 [SPEAKER_01]: We are skipping every issue with Earth Spider-Man and Space Spider-Man. 24:40.250 --> 24:43.759 [SPEAKER_01]: Save your question for a moment, Pete, I'm going to recap the issue and maybe it'll answer it. 24:44.180 --> 24:46.907 [SPEAKER_01]: So in this issue set in Space Spider-Man, 24:46.887 --> 24:53.241 [SPEAKER_01]: And it has been fighting to get stronger, to go back and fight a guy named Helgate. 24:54.423 --> 25:02.281 [SPEAKER_01]: And he got a alien costume that is not a symbiote, but actually a tech-nark has been discovered in this issue. 25:02.321 --> 25:06.550 [SPEAKER_01]: It is very much still alive, and he makes a decision to bring it back to life. 25:06.530 --> 25:23.880 [SPEAKER_01]: some great stuff going down in this issue, some big actions, some funny bits between rocket and spider band, really nice twist on the symbiote mythology that riffs on it while doing something new and then also at the same time, some really good romance stuff at the end. 25:23.860 --> 25:36.860 [SPEAKER_04]: All right, moving on to our next time, I'm sorry, Pete, did you have a question before you get in to everything happened in the comic that one study not kissing Mary Jade was that your question? 25:37.200 --> 25:39.103 [SPEAKER_04]: No, and that's a horrible impression of me. 25:40.064 --> 25:40.886 [SPEAKER_04]: I wanted to say. 25:40.906 --> 25:43.409 [SPEAKER_01]: You should really listen to one of these podcasts. 25:43.429 --> 25:46.234 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, if you play back the podcast, that was very accurate. 25:47.315 --> 25:47.896 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, okay. 25:47.916 --> 25:49.138 [SPEAKER_04]: Also that was my cover. 25:49.158 --> 25:49.499 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. 25:50.240 --> 25:52.122 [SPEAKER_04]: Well, and just so Pete, I want to. 25:52.143 --> 25:52.483 [UNKNOWN]: I want to. 25:53.645 --> 26:00.212 [SPEAKER_04]: I wanted to ask Alex a question before we kind of got into what happens in the comic book. 26:00.232 --> 26:07.561 [SPEAKER_04]: I saw this cover and I got excited for you, Alex, and I wondered if you got excited because you were like, oh, maybe that's Cypher. 26:07.661 --> 26:14.348 [SPEAKER_04]: It kind of looks like a little bit of a Cypher symbiot kind of thing coming out of Spider-Man a little bit. 26:14.368 --> 26:17.712 [SPEAKER_04]: I was wondering before you read this, did you have any of that going on? 26:17.692 --> 26:25.181 [SPEAKER_01]: I freaked out, they put up these covers three months ago because that's how solicits work. 26:25.782 --> 26:36.534 [SPEAKER_01]: And whenever you don't see me, I am screaming at the top of my head because the very idea of seeing Cypher is something that makes me melt down. 26:36.594 --> 26:40.459 [SPEAKER_01]: I've been vomiting, sneezing, 26:40.439 --> 26:52.292 [SPEAKER_03]: I just appreciate it. 26:52.792 --> 26:58.478 [SPEAKER_00]: I was there when you were brought into your inpatient facility for treatment for this Cypher incident. 26:59.279 --> 27:02.643 [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, it called it was a full open hole incident. 27:02.703 --> 27:04.945 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to read the report Pete, I'll send it away 27:05.060 --> 27:05.721 [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, thanks. 27:05.961 --> 27:06.182 [SPEAKER_04]: Thanks. 27:06.242 --> 27:08.204 [SPEAKER_04]: So no, guess not. 27:08.545 --> 27:11.649 [SPEAKER_04]: But I do agree with you that this is a lot of fun. 27:11.809 --> 27:15.795 [SPEAKER_04]: I think this is a very cool idea. 27:15.875 --> 27:18.399 [SPEAKER_04]: I think Joe Kelly is doing some great stuff here. 27:18.899 --> 27:22.725 [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, other than the kiss, I was having a great time. 27:22.745 --> 27:28.253 [SPEAKER_04]: I think, you know, this is a ton of action, very cool stuff. 27:28.273 --> 27:29.815 [SPEAKER_04]: The romance stuff was great. 27:30.996 --> 27:32.839 [SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, I do think the kiss. 27:33.545 --> 27:36.189 [SPEAKER_04]: I did not like the kiss, but everything else I thought was cool. 27:37.111 --> 27:39.594 [SPEAKER_04]: Why you didn't like him kissing someone and having a nice time? 27:40.516 --> 27:41.477 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, exactly. 27:41.557 --> 27:44.542 [SPEAKER_04]: I think that you think Spider-Man should be miserable. 27:45.564 --> 27:47.827 [SPEAKER_04]: No, no, I have my ships, and I root for them. 27:49.269 --> 27:53.636 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, my ship and my ship always has been a spider-man and whoever that's ever. 27:54.698 --> 27:55.519 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 27:56.174 --> 28:03.793 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I've always been in for space-shay, the perfect team up. 28:04.796 --> 28:09.407 [SPEAKER_00]: What is relationship, but it's a great three or four as your team up, you know? 28:09.860 --> 28:11.502 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh man, what do you think, Justin? 28:12.884 --> 28:14.126 [SPEAKER_00]: I love this. 28:14.286 --> 28:17.310 [SPEAKER_00]: I love the jumping back and forth between Earth and space. 28:17.450 --> 28:26.421 [SPEAKER_00]: I like the Peter Parker is feeling guilty about missing out on his friends and family on Earth, especially shape, probably, since he may or may not be dating her. 28:27.343 --> 28:33.511 [SPEAKER_00]: But he also is like a reject, he's avoiding going back to have to confront hellgate. 28:33.991 --> 28:37.015 [SPEAKER_00]: We get to see that tease up a little bit here. 28:36.995 --> 28:45.927 [SPEAKER_00]: I think this tech-nark spidey is going to be the person that has to face downhill, and I think that's cool. 28:46.688 --> 28:48.610 [SPEAKER_00]: So I think you can kiss anyone he wants. 28:49.391 --> 28:49.611 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. 28:50.092 --> 28:51.814 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's nice. 28:51.834 --> 28:51.934 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 28:51.954 --> 29:06.934 [SPEAKER_01]: Why don't we move on and talk about Archie vs. Minecraft's number three from Dark Horse Comics and Archie Comics, certain by Patton Oswell, Jordan Bloom, and Timmy Heag, art by Scott Koblish. 29:06.914 --> 29:07.715 [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody switched. 29:07.876 --> 29:26.546 [SPEAKER_01]: So the Archie gang is now dark supervillains over in Twilight City and the Minor Threats gang is Ernest squeaky clean teens living in Riverdale things tend to get a little more mixed up by the end of the issue, but men I love this crossover. 29:26.566 --> 29:27.167 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't 29:27.147 --> 29:34.816 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not every issue, but Scott Koblish effortlessly switching styles between the two looks of the two different worlds is very cool. 29:35.356 --> 29:37.038 [SPEAKER_01]: And I love some of the bash ups here. 29:37.139 --> 29:38.540 [SPEAKER_01]: The characters they come up with. 29:39.161 --> 29:39.681 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god. 29:39.802 --> 29:43.766 [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to hate this peat because you're like, whoa, stop talking badly about history. 29:44.327 --> 29:48.852 [SPEAKER_01]: I think the villains and hero characters they came up with, 29:48.832 --> 29:50.413 [SPEAKER_01]: for the Archie characters. 29:50.534 --> 29:54.237 [SPEAKER_01]: This book are better than the red circle superheroes that they've come up with. 29:54.257 --> 29:54.717 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, wow. 29:54.918 --> 29:56.079 [SPEAKER_01]: Like I like the better. 29:56.239 --> 29:57.580 [SPEAKER_01]: I thought these were great. 29:57.840 --> 30:04.426 [SPEAKER_03]: And the punctuation with Jughead, I laughed out loud with the Jughead, Dr. Bethesden. 30:04.726 --> 30:07.789 [SPEAKER_03]: It was just a stare at the eye, hunger or the whole thing. 30:07.829 --> 30:12.413 [SPEAKER_03]: Also shout out to our barfly guy turning it to Buckhead. 30:12.453 --> 30:14.235 [SPEAKER_01]: He has a pretty funny joke as well. 30:14.315 --> 30:17.438 [SPEAKER_01]: So, Buckhead's funny question. 30:17.418 --> 30:37.367 [SPEAKER_00]: good emotion here great danger another banger for this series bulkhead all that for you was for seeing you for you for seeing bulkhead represented here as just that was it was just saying it makes me excited and feel joy uh... yeah this is a great how many holes did you release from 30:37.752 --> 30:40.018 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'm not going to tell you that you were so excited. 30:40.278 --> 30:41.341 [SPEAKER_00]: You which I chose. 30:41.641 --> 30:52.167 [SPEAKER_04]: I grew the Alex though that this was a great mash up and such a blast and just such a great use of characters and just amazing rising and amazing art, it's impressive. 30:53.007 --> 31:07.930 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, also really enjoying this, the, I'll come on comment on the art, the switching back and forth between sort of a more like gothic horror style and this straight up Archie universe style of art is really cool, really difficult. 31:08.091 --> 31:14.661 [SPEAKER_00]: I imagine to put together there's a panel where One of the characters, the monster character is 31:14.641 --> 31:31.367 [SPEAKER_00]: sort of in a darker more horror look watching Archie looking characters through a diner window that was like oh man that's so really reflecting the the story through the art in a way that is so excellent comic booky stuff so really really great 31:32.360 --> 31:44.850 [SPEAKER_01]: That man number three from DC Comics from that fraction art by Jorge and men as bunch of stuff going on in this issue first and foremost vandal savage is tightening the news around Batman and Robin. 31:45.067 --> 31:46.631 [SPEAKER_01]: trying to frame them for murder. 31:47.012 --> 32:02.451 [SPEAKER_01]: And at the same time, Riddler has popped up and is a back-to-is-old tricks kind of, but it leads to another Gotham scientist trying to do something with Goth villains that are going terribly wrong. 32:02.431 --> 32:09.763 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm curious to hear from you guys because I feel like you've been a little iffy on this new series so far. 32:09.944 --> 32:12.848 [SPEAKER_01]: I think I've been the most positive, but maybe I'm remembering that wrong. 32:13.510 --> 32:14.351 [SPEAKER_01]: How did you feel about this? 32:14.371 --> 32:15.954 [SPEAKER_00]: I think Pete's been down on it. 32:16.134 --> 32:19.920 [SPEAKER_00]: I've been pretty up on it, but it's interesting. 32:19.980 --> 32:22.525 [SPEAKER_00]: There's something happening here that I must be intentional. 32:23.006 --> 32:27.493 [SPEAKER_00]: We have Batman saying things like, 32:28.705 --> 32:35.617 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, the, well, I was sorry, sorry, sorry, no, that's another comic that this, I think they are is really working here. 32:35.697 --> 32:42.189 [SPEAKER_00]: I really like the portrayal of the ridler here as like sort of At the mercy of riddles. 32:42.529 --> 32:43.851 [SPEAKER_00]: He can't help himself. 32:44.092 --> 32:45.214 [SPEAKER_00]: I thought was really well done. 32:45.795 --> 32:48.199 [SPEAKER_00]: I love the stealth suit here 32:48.179 --> 32:52.307 [SPEAKER_00]: There's there's a there's a lot of cool stuff going on. 32:52.328 --> 33:04.753 [SPEAKER_00]: We're seeing a lot of the other characters here And the the way what I was gonna say that now I'm figuring out is that there's like references here to being like, oh The same old thing happening again 33:04.733 --> 33:21.223 [SPEAKER_00]: and i think that that's intentional for a writer to put that in there and i don't know why because that's sort of referencing the fact that we're seeing ideas we've seen before like the Batman being framed cops out to kill that man and robin so i don't know that that's what do you guys think about that 33:21.457 --> 33:32.501 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, this is looking ahead and this is not a spoiler because they don't actually know how it happens because they haven't said anything about it But there's a big new villain that's supposed to be coming next issue. 33:32.661 --> 33:40.258 [SPEAKER_01]: I think called the minitor and what the minitor certainly applies is a maze So perhaps there is something to what you're saying just in the 33:40.238 --> 33:53.893 [SPEAKER_01]: that there's something about like there is a bigger game being played here with Batman to make him hit his greatest hits in a certain way or remix his greatest hits because he is trapped perhaps in a maze of his past. 33:54.717 --> 34:21.265 [SPEAKER_04]: the adventurers or some of you that could be the minute or famous sorry last things right Batman the anime series minute to a riddle or episode from back in the day interesting shot up I I also really enjoyed this I think that the I have mixed feelings about the new suit I mean lights on a bad suit just seems like that's a kind of problematic you know for stealth but I do think that like the 34:21.245 --> 34:30.373 [SPEAKER_04]: the love, the Alfred stuff, very touching, very fun, the old kicked in the nuts bit was really a fun thing there. 34:30.713 --> 34:33.896 [SPEAKER_04]: And so yeah, I'm having a blast with this. 34:35.317 --> 34:37.039 [SPEAKER_04]: I love the pace and the action of it. 34:37.059 --> 34:43.805 [SPEAKER_04]: I do think it's interesting because we have read so many Batman stories, we have seen things done so many different ways. 34:43.885 --> 34:50.070 [SPEAKER_04]: So it is kind of a little meta and weird when they're kind of 34:50.050 --> 35:00.924 [SPEAKER_04]: I haven't seen before, but didn't hit me as, as weird as it hit you, it seemed just in, but yeah, I think this is in great hands and really doing some great stuff. 35:00.944 --> 35:06.711 [SPEAKER_01]: And now the revelation has begun at once again, the age of revelation has a lot on us. 35:06.891 --> 35:19.467 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think the relationship, whether we were talking about all these or not, so we're going to keep talking about all of them, I guess. 35:19.447 --> 35:36.814 [SPEAKER_01]: specifically and I know I said we weren't going to overall talk about stuff and I'll just mention we're going to talk about it amazing expert number two binary number two Laura kitty see for two number two in long shots number two the thing that we wanted to Lot of number two is all number two is all long 35:36.794 --> 35:43.044 [SPEAKER_01]: the thing that we've talked about along that like or I've been harping out about this event not having a spine. 35:43.064 --> 35:49.473 [SPEAKER_01]: I think you start to see a little more of the direction at least in some of the books here. 35:49.513 --> 35:56.524 [SPEAKER_01]: It's still not quite, not quite there and maybe I'm not totally into it but like, 35:57.432 --> 36:25.397 [SPEAKER_01]: particularly it may as he acts but obviously jed became a sort of like the show runner of this event so you're getting more of the hints of things that are to come in that book but i also felt like in the other ones as well there's started to cha cha like okay here's the overall arc of where we're going and i like that a little bit better still mixed about some of the titles but that's my tip yeah i mean i i agree with you there's a uh the reveal of it happens here that i 36:26.018 --> 36:31.432 [SPEAKER_00]: Cyclops is out here with these X men and they're sort of like trying to figure out what to do. 36:31.612 --> 36:38.169 [SPEAKER_00]: They're They think they have a plan And there's a thing where it's like, hey, you're we don't care that you're here. 36:38.229 --> 36:42.340 [SPEAKER_00]: We sent our scout Scott back in time to stop this 36:42.320 --> 36:58.506 [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, oh, that's a great central idea, so that makes Scott this past Scott who's stuck in the future, the underdog, and it gives him a real drive to like try to save this world by rallying the X-Men, which he tries to do at the end of this issue with the sidewalk. 36:58.486 --> 37:07.834 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm dumbfounded why that didn't wasn't the end of the first issue in Age of Revelation Alpha. 37:08.235 --> 37:10.096 [SPEAKER_00]: That should have been the point of this. 37:10.557 --> 37:13.299 [SPEAKER_00]: And then we could be like, yes, this is a Cyclops story. 37:13.620 --> 37:18.204 [SPEAKER_00]: He's going to rebuild the shattered X-Men and they are going to fight Revelation. 37:18.284 --> 37:24.610 [SPEAKER_00]: And instead, we sort of like wandered around a bit for this first, you know, a few months of this. 37:25.350 --> 37:28.493 [SPEAKER_00]: When I think we could have just done this and it's exciting, it's good. 37:28.473 --> 37:36.377 [SPEAKER_01]: By the way, if you're only listening to the podcast and not watching, I believe Pete is passing a kidney stone right now Is that what's going on? 37:36.597 --> 37:40.489 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, who says yes a Cyclops story? 37:40.509 --> 37:43.157 [SPEAKER_04]: Are you out of your fucking mind? 37:44.251 --> 37:45.713 [SPEAKER_03]: I was a cyclops. 37:46.193 --> 37:47.555 [SPEAKER_03]: I also like cyclops. 37:47.575 --> 37:48.496 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, puk. 37:49.076 --> 37:56.564 [SPEAKER_03]: Anyways, yeah, this issue, that's a whole, I got to speak, this is coming out of all. 37:56.604 --> 38:06.675 [SPEAKER_04]: That's what these two, so these, this run here this week is, there's not as impressive as I would have liked it to been, but there is some highs and lows. 38:06.895 --> 38:13.903 [SPEAKER_04]: For me, this issue, amazing, I expect number two here, works really hard to be like, 38:13.883 --> 38:20.690 [SPEAKER_04]: Scott's actually guys if you think about it, he's kind of maybe a good leader, right? 38:21.151 --> 38:24.794 [SPEAKER_04]: And it's like, no, don't fucking try that shit with me. 38:25.095 --> 38:31.922 [SPEAKER_04]: I've been reading Gaxman Comics for way too long for you to try to sneak in and issue that shows that Cyclops is a good leader. 38:31.962 --> 38:33.924 [SPEAKER_04]: You can go fuck yourself with that premise. 38:34.605 --> 38:38.308 [SPEAKER_04]: I did love evil juggernaut. 38:38.509 --> 38:43.654 [SPEAKER_04]: I thought that this is a fun juggernaut take. 38:43.634 --> 38:55.250 [SPEAKER_04]: great be still success, but other not interesting art, cool kind of use of the kind of devil Iliana for this issue. 38:56.332 --> 38:58.214 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I love the fight that they have. 38:58.935 --> 39:03.201 [SPEAKER_01]: I like the fight that they had, which was based on telling each other a truth. 39:04.864 --> 39:12.915 [SPEAKER_01]: There was a little bit of like a logical problem there in terms of this cyclops doesn't know this Iliana and it's 10 years later and I was like, 39:13.975 --> 39:18.182 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if they actually know anything about each other to hurt each other with the truth. 39:18.202 --> 39:21.287 [SPEAKER_01]: But as is, I thought it was an interesting idea. 39:21.347 --> 39:32.946 [SPEAKER_01]: Like I said before, I liked knowing that plot point of, oh, here's what's actually really going on with this event, two months in cool, like you were saying just now we can get going. 39:33.095 --> 39:34.157 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there you go. 39:35.199 --> 39:40.871 [SPEAKER_01]: What do we move about talking about binary number two written by Stephanie Phillips, art by Gianna Belviso. 39:41.733 --> 39:52.656 [SPEAKER_01]: This issue we do indeed get to see Carol Danvers find out how she became imputed to the Phoenix Force kind of what happened to Jean Gray specifically she was protected the earth. 39:52.636 --> 40:14.349 [SPEAKER_01]: from the or the rest of the cosmos for the ex-virus getting out and we get a reveal of our red head at the end And I got to say we pointed out the end of the last issue was confusing because they revealed a red head It were like which red head there are several red heads in the Marvel universe and it couldn't be many of them You need to say who it is. 40:14.469 --> 40:16.231 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry at this issue. 40:16.312 --> 40:20.618 [SPEAKER_01]: They reveal it at its clearly battle in prior But definitely not in prior 40:20.598 --> 40:24.262 [SPEAKER_01]: Jean, I was like, no, just say, battle it. 40:24.342 --> 40:29.247 [SPEAKER_01]: Why are we being so sensitive and confusing about this? 40:29.347 --> 40:30.829 [SPEAKER_04]: That was so confusing. 40:31.009 --> 40:43.703 [SPEAKER_04]: It was a weird thing because it was like, hey, I'm going to talk to Jean who is this Phoenix bird, and I'm going to have a conversation with Jean, and then I get the reveal that 40:44.729 --> 40:57.504 [SPEAKER_04]: It looks like Gene, but it's not Gene, but then I'm gonna confuse the reader by going, Gene, I'm going, you can't talk to the burnt Gene the whole time and then do a Gene reveal at the end that just makes no fucking sense. 40:57.785 --> 41:00.392 [SPEAKER_04]: We were just talking to Gene, you can't be like, Gene. 41:01.148 --> 41:05.275 [SPEAKER_00]: guys, you got a little further here because it was clearly a cutoff line of dialogue. 41:05.335 --> 41:19.140 [SPEAKER_00]: The line was Jean, or the clone of Jean, who married Scott at birth, Nathan Summers, and the character of the later becomes strife, and then was later killed. 41:19.120 --> 41:46.832 [SPEAKER_00]: And when that gene was found underneath the ocean and was later given the Phoenix Force after Madeline who had became the dark Phoenix and then was killed because she was evil but allowing Gene to come back and still be the same hero that she was in the past and to be married to Scott again even though there was a weird relationship because of the whole fathering a pair of parenting his son that wasn't there so presented the future then come back in time and become cable even though he's much older than his dad and his mom but is now the character known as Gene 41:46.947 --> 41:53.116 [SPEAKER_04]: Wait, see you're saying that was all there, but because I'm not classically trained as an actor. 41:53.236 --> 41:53.997 [SPEAKER_04]: I missed it. 41:54.959 --> 41:55.800 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not even acting. 41:55.820 --> 41:57.262 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just, you know, reading. 41:57.282 --> 42:00.366 [SPEAKER_00]: You're reading when you've seen like it was all acting. 42:00.887 --> 42:01.228 [SPEAKER_00]: Did you? 42:01.488 --> 42:02.590 [SPEAKER_00]: You're out here second to you. 42:02.610 --> 42:03.531 [SPEAKER_00]: But I mean, here we go. 42:04.312 --> 42:05.013 [SPEAKER_00]: That's you. 42:05.033 --> 42:06.976 [SPEAKER_01]: They had an ad for x-ray glasses. 42:07.016 --> 42:08.458 [SPEAKER_01]: Did you get the x-ray glasses? 42:08.558 --> 42:10.221 [SPEAKER_01]: Pete, so you can properly read this issue. 42:10.241 --> 42:11.883 [SPEAKER_01]: Did you get it the same on keys? 42:12.384 --> 42:16.650 [SPEAKER_04]: Like we explicitly told you not to. 42:16.630 --> 42:23.880 [SPEAKER_00]: He just wants to keep sand, suck it on those sea monkeys, he wants to kick sand into his bullies face at the beach. 42:24.622 --> 42:25.062 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's the thing. 42:25.122 --> 42:27.746 [SPEAKER_01]: That's just to be like a little positive about this book. 42:27.886 --> 42:34.015 [SPEAKER_01]: I like the idea of Carol Denver is trying to hold the last human city and the humans in a very, like, 42:33.995 --> 42:38.582 [SPEAKER_01]: Covid, vaccine, denial, metaphor, way to be like, we're fine. 42:38.762 --> 42:39.784 [SPEAKER_01]: What are you talking about? 42:39.824 --> 42:40.545 [SPEAKER_01]: This is fine. 42:40.905 --> 42:42.708 [SPEAKER_01]: That's a really interesting idea at the center there. 42:42.768 --> 42:55.467 [SPEAKER_01]: I think it gets bucked up a little bit with all the fetic stuff with gene gray, and that's what's not working for all of us is I think we're getting here, but that's center there, that very human idea I do think is interesting. 42:55.568 --> 42:59.233 [SPEAKER_01]: I wish they'd explore it more, but at this point we all have one more issue. 42:59.293 --> 43:00.475 [SPEAKER_01]: So I guess we'll see. 43:00.455 --> 43:06.471 [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, next up we got Laura Kenny Saber tooth number two written by Erica Schultz art by Valentina Pinti. 43:07.875 --> 43:16.658 [SPEAKER_01]: Laura Kenny, who is now called Saber tooth is on the side of revelation, but it's feeling very conflicted because Gabby and what is it called now? 43:16.638 --> 43:24.449 [SPEAKER_01]: is, are trying to get her son off world through a gate created by sage. 43:24.830 --> 43:29.016 [SPEAKER_01]: Their eventual goal is Mars, and this also gets towards the bigger piece. 43:29.296 --> 43:35.725 [SPEAKER_01]: We've been slowly seeding throughout these series that apocalypse is not that pleased with what Revelation is doing. 43:36.106 --> 43:46.020 [SPEAKER_01]: So I think I liked that aspect of the issue, seeing that like, okay, we are building up to this conflict presumably between apocalypse and revelation that's going to go down. 43:46.557 --> 43:51.462 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's talk about that for a second, because I agree with you, this is like a big step in that direction. 43:51.863 --> 44:06.039 [SPEAKER_00]: But we had the origin of that idea was in the age of revelation anthology, where one of the stories had Professor X going to a rocko being like, hey man, your boy is fucking up the earth and he's like, huh? 44:06.419 --> 44:09.983 [SPEAKER_00]: As if apocalypse is just not reading the news, I guess. 44:10.672 --> 44:18.907 [SPEAKER_00]: but like what's so what's how they're going to play out like apocalypse with professor ex is going to come down and fight revelation and we're going to root for. 44:20.309 --> 44:22.473 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to be on the side now. 44:24.016 --> 44:28.444 [SPEAKER_00]: We want the outcome to be. 44:28.424 --> 44:35.017 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, I think I think this adds up for a place where like the entire earth is destroyed, right? 44:35.097 --> 44:44.475 [SPEAKER_01]: Like everything is destroyed, everything's in ruins, and Scott's like, Ooh, yeah, we really need to stop that from happening, and that's where they go back and they... 44:44.776 --> 44:48.323 [SPEAKER_01]: And he just Schmerks Yeah. 44:48.343 --> 44:48.744 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 44:48.764 --> 44:50.127 [SPEAKER_01]: If like, hey Doug, don't do that. 44:50.889 --> 44:51.149 [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know. 44:51.169 --> 44:59.046 [SPEAKER_04]: I do think it's an interesting idea of the reveal at the end here where it's like, you know, because this is an interesting comic. 44:59.066 --> 44:59.647 [SPEAKER_04]: I love the art. 44:59.667 --> 45:00.669 [SPEAKER_04]: There was tons of action. 45:00.729 --> 45:05.299 [SPEAKER_04]: And it's kind of like, OK. Say, say, we're two theaters. 45:05.279 --> 45:09.927 [SPEAKER_04]: It seems like I'm the wrong side and we got this kind of reveal it's like hey, don't worry. 45:09.947 --> 45:15.838 [SPEAKER_04]: If you hate revelations, we all kind of hate them of Pac lips is going to be the real bad. 45:15.858 --> 45:18.082 [SPEAKER_04]: And it's like, oh, few relief. 45:18.102 --> 45:24.233 [SPEAKER_04]: But then it's like, well, why do we build up revelations if it really was to be at the end. 45:25.377 --> 45:29.821 [SPEAKER_01]: not this issue of amazing X-Men they reveal that revelation is going to destroy the earth. 45:30.442 --> 45:31.543 [SPEAKER_01]: So he's the bad guy. 45:32.063 --> 45:35.706 [SPEAKER_01]: Apocalypse and Professor X are going to try to stop him, so we're on their side. 45:35.746 --> 45:42.833 [SPEAKER_01]: But just to talk about this stuff, I do think there's some conflict and dynamics going on that Eric Schultz writes very well with Laura Kitty. 45:43.193 --> 45:55.384 [SPEAKER_01]: She clearly has a really good handle on the character and that comes through, particularly with like a really devastating scene with sage towards the end there or page with sage, sage page, if you will. 45:55.364 --> 46:13.207 [SPEAKER_01]: but let's turn and talk about my favorite book on the stands right now long shots number two written by Jonathan Ackred and Jerry Dougard art by Alan Rothford said I think just and you point to this out of the first issue that you were like why are you doing a parody of this event to the middle of this event? 46:13.627 --> 46:15.870 [SPEAKER_02]: I am getting we sort of rusting it. 46:15.850 --> 46:22.222 [SPEAKER_01]: at the same time as insane as it is that this is happening and probably should not be happening. 46:22.743 --> 46:23.765 [SPEAKER_01]: It's still great. 46:24.286 --> 46:25.689 [SPEAKER_01]: Everything in this book is great. 46:25.829 --> 46:36.610 [SPEAKER_01]: As you have this team of absolutely doomed pseudo heroes, including Bishop, there's a great dent in the middle where somebody's like, 46:36.590 --> 46:42.177 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, you don't have the winter soldiers are, you know, cables are, but he's like, oh, bad and peel some of the star. 46:42.918 --> 46:49.606 [SPEAKER_01]: They have a whole bit going on with cables are, and time travel, multiple people are dying, wonder woman, wonder woman. 46:49.706 --> 46:53.210 [SPEAKER_01]: Wonder bad is being a super weird about his relationship with Hellcat. 46:53.650 --> 46:55.352 [SPEAKER_01]: The character dynamics are so funny. 46:55.533 --> 47:01.720 [SPEAKER_01]: All the stuff going on with Bojo, add a long shot, try to get a better contract, and the X babies, 47:02.662 --> 47:05.506 [SPEAKER_01]: every page of this is great. 47:05.526 --> 47:06.948 [SPEAKER_00]: It is, it left every month. 47:06.968 --> 47:15.240 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me highlight an exchange between baby, baby classes and baby Wolverine. 47:15.280 --> 47:15.941 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not their names. 47:16.422 --> 47:21.009 [SPEAKER_00]: But they're like, don't forget to vote on which of the cast will get to Morse first kill. 47:21.329 --> 47:22.671 [SPEAKER_00]: It rhymes with Flavin. 47:23.733 --> 47:25.776 [SPEAKER_00]: And which member is most likely to get a teammate killed? 47:26.096 --> 47:27.979 [SPEAKER_00]: That rhymes with Blavin. 47:28.660 --> 47:31.504 [SPEAKER_00]: And which members most likely to get me, too, 47:32.783 --> 47:34.127 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I think like that. 47:34.328 --> 47:35.090 [SPEAKER_04]: I didn't like that. 47:35.130 --> 47:37.637 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, that pulled me right out of that. 47:38.760 --> 47:41.127 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, but then read the dialogue that follows that up. 47:42.451 --> 47:45.139 [SPEAKER_00]: Which isn't cool, but also rhymes with Craven. 47:47.465 --> 47:51.052 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I didn't like that when they wanted Alex. 47:51.633 --> 47:55.440 [SPEAKER_01]: Nope, but I'm very serious that extra piece of dialogue. 47:55.481 --> 47:56.302 [SPEAKER_01]: They're recognizing it. 47:56.362 --> 47:56.843 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, no. 47:57.244 --> 47:57.825 [SPEAKER_00]: I like that. 47:57.885 --> 48:02.554 [SPEAKER_04]: I'm not making a joke that is great and being like, hey, that's not great. 48:02.695 --> 48:07.043 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not, but I mean, it's in some of the kids. 48:07.023 --> 48:13.269 [SPEAKER_04]: I was having a great time, and then they made a me-do joke, and I was like, yeah, it's gross. 48:13.289 --> 48:17.674 [SPEAKER_00]: Saying someone's getting me-tued, it's just a very old thing to say. 48:17.834 --> 48:19.976 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, it's an old person thing to say, I feel like. 48:20.336 --> 48:28.385 [SPEAKER_00]: So like, it was just a strange thing that was coming out of one of the ex-papies in the morning show parody that they were doing at the top of this. 48:28.805 --> 48:29.646 [SPEAKER_00]: But I agree with you, Alex. 48:29.806 --> 48:31.748 [SPEAKER_00]: This book is so strange. 48:31.968 --> 48:36.793 [SPEAKER_00]: It's very surprising. 48:36.773 --> 48:48.177 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a hit in a like weird area, so, you know, it's like hitting the foul pole in the world series and being like pretty good. 48:51.022 --> 48:53.247 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I was having a blast guys. 48:53.530 --> 48:56.759 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah, I was having a game 7 as crazy. 48:57.200 --> 49:00.971 [SPEAKER_04]: I was having a blast, but then that one chill kind of pulled me out. 49:01.633 --> 49:08.653 [SPEAKER_04]: But yeah, this is crazy fun and kind of insane to be pulling off in the middle of all this. 49:09.578 --> 49:17.450 [SPEAKER_01]: Next up, we are moving on for the H-Revelation Talk about Space Scouts, number one from Dark Horse Comics, written by Matt Kent, art by David Rubin. 49:17.470 --> 49:27.385 [SPEAKER_01]: This is entirely new series that is about a contest between 1,000 contestants to see who gets to be a member of Space Scouts, 49:27.365 --> 49:33.174 [SPEAKER_01]: basically like at a ventures in space or guardians of the galaxy, but like real pre-bow, type thing. 49:33.194 --> 49:39.323 [SPEAKER_01]: We're following one character who isn't even sure she wants to do it, but gets sucked into the competition anyway. 49:39.363 --> 49:41.406 [SPEAKER_01]: There's some twists, there's some turns throughout. 49:42.067 --> 49:48.317 [SPEAKER_01]: As usual, Matt Kent just has an expert handle on structure, on character, everything that's going on. 49:48.657 --> 49:51.702 [SPEAKER_01]: Pete, you were pumping and cheering, so why don't you start on this one? 49:51.682 --> 49:53.565 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, this is such a blast. 49:53.625 --> 50:05.286 [SPEAKER_04]: The art does such a great job of creating such an interesting world, and in sex use right into this magic and this kind of like unique character that we're following along here. 50:05.306 --> 50:12.238 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it really kind of reminded me of the, you know, 50:12.218 --> 50:12.799 [SPEAKER_04]: What was it? 50:12.819 --> 50:18.544 [SPEAKER_04]: The mockingbird series or what was the one I think trying to think of their what's in their games? 50:18.724 --> 50:19.284 [SPEAKER_04]: Hager games. 50:19.324 --> 50:20.065 [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you so much. 50:20.085 --> 50:21.406 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. 50:21.426 --> 50:23.748 [SPEAKER_04]: But yeah, I'm hooked after this first issue. 50:23.828 --> 50:30.975 [SPEAKER_04]: I just think they did such a great job of setting all this up, which is hard to kind of do and still make it interesting. 50:31.015 --> 50:42.225 [SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, really impressive art, really impressive story telling 50:42.205 --> 50:43.126 [SPEAKER_04]: first issue. 50:44.487 --> 50:50.093 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this is a premise we've seen a couple times before in the last few years, but really well done. 50:50.513 --> 50:56.899 [SPEAKER_00]: Matt Kent has just a great flair for making his stories unique in whatever genre they are in. 50:57.760 --> 50:59.222 [SPEAKER_00]: This is really, really fun. 50:59.262 --> 51:03.546 [SPEAKER_00]: There's definitely some suspicious areas that are seated, but not really exploited here. 51:04.126 --> 51:06.088 [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot happens in this issue. 51:06.108 --> 51:08.871 [SPEAKER_00]: This really goes much further than I thought it would in issue number one. 51:09.948 --> 51:13.731 [SPEAKER_01]: Next up, absolute green lantern number eight from T.C. 51:13.771 --> 51:16.193 [SPEAKER_01]: Comics written by Al-Yueng, art by Janoi Lidsey. 51:16.213 --> 51:29.445 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a kick-off of New Ark, and specifically, we are taking look at the past and history of sojourner, little bit, just kind of green lantern here, sort of green lantern at her past. 51:29.465 --> 51:33.048 [SPEAKER_01]: I thought this was the best issue of this book so far. 51:33.788 --> 51:34.429 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah. 51:34.449 --> 51:35.850 [SPEAKER_00]: This is my favorite issue of the week. 51:36.571 --> 51:36.951 [SPEAKER_00]: Really? 51:37.071 --> 51:39.313 [SPEAKER_00]: Just a little bit more. 51:39.901 --> 51:54.074 [SPEAKER_00]: I thought this was great, like all you just really in a series that has been sort of a little bit like coy with information sort of purposefully like sort of being a little bit weird as it's building out the mythology. 51:54.414 --> 51:59.879 [SPEAKER_00]: We just get a banger breakdown of Joe's life in the absolute house. 52:00.800 --> 52:02.641 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's super interesting. 52:02.681 --> 52:07.866 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the ring takes on so much more meaning and power in this comic. 52:07.846 --> 52:13.352 [SPEAKER_00]: which is great as we see on this cover, which is, you know, you know, it's a cool cover. 52:13.613 --> 52:14.113 [SPEAKER_00]: It's ill. 52:14.374 --> 52:22.523 [SPEAKER_00]: It's positively ill, and this cover needs to be treated with several very big elements in this, you be ill. 52:23.324 --> 52:25.927 [SPEAKER_00]: But I just thought this was fantastic. 52:26.228 --> 52:37.701 [SPEAKER_00]: It makes for, I like the use of different characters from the normal, the regular DC universe that we could see in the absolute versions of, 52:37.681 --> 53:02.693 [SPEAKER_04]: is very cool yeah I agree with all that this is just such an impressive artistically created comic just solid story I really continue to enjoy this more Joe as Green Lantern please just having a blast love that kind of cameo since stuff that we got here at Guy Gardner was hilarious in the background 53:03.078 --> 53:11.746 [SPEAKER_01]: Next up, the Avengers number 32 from Marvel written by Jed McKay, art by Farid Akharami Kang has been revealed as the big villain here. 53:11.806 --> 53:18.193 [SPEAKER_01]: They are on battle worlds from secret wars and fighting back against him in his army of zombies. 53:18.253 --> 53:20.675 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's not going great for the Avengers. 53:20.695 --> 53:22.677 [SPEAKER_01]: They're given it all they got, but don't worry. 53:22.717 --> 53:27.902 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a big city with a bigger heart on its way to save them. 53:27.922 --> 53:30.064 [SPEAKER_03]: Just in, Jim McKay's your boy. 53:30.044 --> 53:31.005 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, J.T. 53:31.045 --> 53:48.625 [SPEAKER_00]: says, what you got to say, their stash man, uh, I mean the fact that we are able to have to make reference to the action combine, you know, and how they, uh, really set up and introduced us to the city. 53:49.406 --> 53:56.895 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, the black order, you know, another great, um, adjective and 53:57.314 --> 54:10.655 [SPEAKER_00]: we have the introduction of the Twilight Court, another group of people who are vaguely similar to the Avengers, but slightly different in certainly unique and unbelievable ways. 54:12.638 --> 54:15.763 [SPEAKER_00]: I, you know, it's not that I don't like what's happening. 54:15.884 --> 54:23.676 [SPEAKER_00]: I sort of like the story, it's just crazy to me that so much of Denmark's work in the Avengers world has been to 54:23.656 --> 54:28.690 [SPEAKER_00]: create different agitive noun combinations of superhero things. 54:28.710 --> 54:32.721 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like he's getting paid by the character at this pool 54:33.562 --> 54:39.027 [SPEAKER_04]: Well, it'd be interesting if he was, but yeah, I think this is a this is huge. 54:39.107 --> 54:51.579 [SPEAKER_04]: It's a lot going down in this issue that they're kind of the the hard thing for me was the kind of last pattern reveal where I was like, oh shit, oh, I don't know what the who this is. 54:51.680 --> 54:52.640 [SPEAKER_04]: I got to look this up. 54:53.081 --> 54:58.046 [SPEAKER_04]: So I had to check my nerd card, you know, so that was that was the tough moment. 54:58.166 --> 54:59.367 [SPEAKER_04]: But, um, 54:59.347 --> 55:01.806 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, a lot going down tons of action. 55:01.867 --> 55:03.923 [SPEAKER_04]: Love the pace in the art. 55:04.409 --> 55:33.943 [SPEAKER_01]: Dead dog number one for the holy comics written by Bryce Aiman art by Allen Robinson this is following a takes place in a future where talks have died out they created a bunch of robot dogs and eventually the robot dogs have been repurposed into very extreme police dogs except for one who there's a little mystery there but yes there is a very sweet robot dog the last one 55:33.923 --> 55:42.094 [SPEAKER_01]: who has been recommissioned and maybe the scientists play something so that his consciousness can come back in this new death dog form. 55:42.175 --> 55:47.462 [SPEAKER_01]: He befriends a kid felon who maybe also has a heart of gold. 55:48.103 --> 55:49.565 [SPEAKER_01]: I thought this was great. 55:49.605 --> 55:51.828 [SPEAKER_01]: Just a perfect ahoy comics book. 55:52.249 --> 55:53.110 [SPEAKER_01]: It's satirical. 55:53.310 --> 55:53.971 [SPEAKER_01]: It's funny. 55:54.392 --> 55:56.855 [SPEAKER_01]: But there's also a real heart to it. 55:57.035 --> 56:02.563 [SPEAKER_01]: Like the scene at the beginning of the 56:02.543 --> 56:10.225 [SPEAKER_01]: everything throughout with the dogs say potato, with the kid who he befriends, just great stuff. 56:11.099 --> 56:40.161 [SPEAKER_04]: yeah i agree this is a blast uh... use of potato is fun and adorable uh... yet i'd like the art style that kind of cartoonish uh... uh... softness of the art kind of uh... softness a little bit of the madness for this world which works well and at the end of the day you've got a adorable kid and dog stories so i make come on that's tug at your heartstrings even though this dog will rip people's hands off like you can't 56:40.664 --> 56:43.067 [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of hands popping off in this town. 56:43.087 --> 56:44.268 [SPEAKER_04]: And rep-in. 56:45.569 --> 56:49.213 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, let's see what the story goes from here. 56:49.674 --> 56:56.221 [SPEAKER_00]: The idea of like far too aggressive policing sort of thoughtless punishment. 56:56.281 --> 56:57.542 [SPEAKER_00]: I think feel like I'm really interesting. 56:58.023 --> 57:03.769 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm curious how that's going to advance in the next issue, because they certainly put it on the table in this issue. 57:04.930 --> 57:09.864 [SPEAKER_01]: Next up, JSA, number 13 from DC Comics Room by Jeff Lamere, art by Gavin Guidry. 57:09.884 --> 57:15.560 [SPEAKER_01]: We're jumping back in time for a year one arc, showing us the origins of the Justice Society. 57:15.600 --> 57:16.763 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, 57:17.671 --> 57:27.569 [SPEAKER_01]: we talked to Gavin Greedry about a little less than a year ago at this point where he was talking about doing a couple of fillings here and there on JSA with some year one stuff. 57:28.050 --> 57:37.688 [SPEAKER_01]: But it seems like they're blowing that out into a whole arc and I couldn't be happier, not only because this is like a sweet spot for the JSA, having them 57:37.668 --> 57:42.794 [SPEAKER_01]: as misdemeid investigating a murder, that's just great, that's exactly where you want to see them. 57:43.294 --> 57:55.949 [SPEAKER_01]: But man, Gavin queridious art on this is so good, like it's not a one-to-one by any means, but I definitely got like very pleasant, less cartoony Darwin cook vibes off of the way that he lives out these pages. 57:56.950 --> 58:00.334 [SPEAKER_01]: This is everything that I want from a JSA title. 58:00.634 --> 58:03.237 [SPEAKER_01]: I um, hyped out all my holes. 58:03.537 --> 58:05.721 [SPEAKER_01]: Wow, there it is. 58:05.901 --> 58:07.504 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, hi, darling. 58:07.524 --> 58:08.445 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man. 58:08.465 --> 58:12.953 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's how it's catchphrase machine tonight. 58:13.113 --> 58:15.237 [SPEAKER_00]: From second slide to my life. 58:15.257 --> 58:18.041 [SPEAKER_01]: So open it, ready to receive more JSA. 58:18.061 --> 58:18.141 [SPEAKER_01]: Wow. 58:18.742 --> 58:19.243 [SPEAKER_00]: Is that worth it? 58:19.263 --> 58:23.290 [SPEAKER_00]: This man is deeply ill. Hi. 58:23.891 --> 58:24.432 [UNKNOWN]: Hi. 58:24.867 --> 58:26.389 [SPEAKER_00]: I also really like this. 58:27.030 --> 58:36.324 [SPEAKER_00]: They are does have like a nice sort of contrast between like a lot of bright, bright pages and sort of a menacing darkness for some of the other ones. 58:36.865 --> 58:42.673 [SPEAKER_00]: I love characters like our man, you just don't get to see them and to have them be in their disparate pocket where they're not. 58:42.653 --> 58:51.510 [SPEAKER_00]: Super involved in a larger convoluted plot like a lot of JSA stories where there's so many characters that need to be folded in. 58:51.530 --> 58:53.714 [SPEAKER_00]: I like the focus we get here. 58:54.376 --> 58:58.283 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm definitely fully in on this year one arc. 58:58.887 --> 59:00.110 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, fold in the cheese. 59:00.511 --> 59:04.500 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I think that this is just an old timey fun here. 59:04.560 --> 59:05.362 [SPEAKER_04]: This is great. 59:06.064 --> 59:07.206 [SPEAKER_04]: Fantastic setup. 59:07.226 --> 59:12.419 [SPEAKER_04]: Amazing art, you know, classic kind of Nazi hijing. 59:12.439 --> 59:15.225 [SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, this is this is an absolute blast. 59:16.454 --> 59:31.679 [SPEAKER_01]: Next up, echo, secret truth number one from Marvel Written by Taboo and B. Earl and Melissa Flores, art by Jim Terry and Kyle Chars, this is a Marvel Voices issue, telling two different tales of echo, one that redefines her powers in a surprising way. 59:31.699 --> 59:37.228 [SPEAKER_01]: I had been sort of glimbly saying like, oh, they're just going to bring her in line with the way that she was in the TV show. 59:37.829 --> 59:38.370 [SPEAKER_01]: Not at all. 59:38.430 --> 59:38.790 [SPEAKER_01]: They go. 59:38.830 --> 59:39.532 [SPEAKER_01]: Not at all. 59:39.892 --> 59:40.493 [SPEAKER_01]: Direction. 59:40.754 --> 59:41.635 [SPEAKER_01]: How are you? 59:41.615 --> 59:56.907 [SPEAKER_01]: in the first story and then the back up story is an otherwise unrelated one that is teeing up a arc in I want to say it's the Marvel voice is digital comic that comes out through Marvel Unlimited which you guys think about this 59:57.376 --> 59:58.097 [SPEAKER_04]: This was cool. 59:58.297 --> 01:00:05.043 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it was a great kind of visual representation of her powers, you know, with the letters kind of bouncing off people's faces and stuff. 01:00:05.063 --> 01:00:07.025 [SPEAKER_04]: So unique, cool. 01:00:07.505 --> 01:00:21.117 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I love the kind of action and the, you know, taking down Mr. Purple, so the Purple Man or, you know, whatever you want to call them there, Purple Source Rex. 01:00:21.438 --> 01:00:27.383 [SPEAKER_04]: He's a douche-ended, deserves what he got. 01:00:27.363 --> 01:00:50.027 [SPEAKER_00]: I really love the character of Echo in the comics, especially I thought this issued it a great job of sort of referencing all of the stories that are sometimes disparate stories that have come from the original Daredevil Arc which are so beautifully done to like the Ronan stuff and then some later stuff where there's one point where she's like, I was briefly, I forget what it was like. 01:00:50.347 --> 01:00:54.231 [SPEAKER_04]: She was like, I briefly had a TV show and that was pretty cool. 01:00:54.818 --> 01:00:56.540 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I don't think she referenced Phoenix. 01:00:56.660 --> 01:00:58.101 [SPEAKER_00]: She was not really the Phoenix. 01:00:58.341 --> 01:00:59.482 [SPEAKER_00]: That's it, that's Phoenix. 01:00:59.503 --> 01:01:01.865 [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, what a funny thing to throw in here. 01:01:03.066 --> 01:01:09.212 [SPEAKER_00]: I also got to shout out the purple man's commitment to wearing a purple suit everywhere he goes. 01:01:09.792 --> 01:01:12.475 [SPEAKER_00]: He's in like a hippie cult commune. 01:01:12.575 --> 01:01:15.778 [SPEAKER_00]: And he steps out and he's wearing like a square ass tie. 01:01:16.439 --> 01:01:19.262 [SPEAKER_00]: And white shirt was funny to me. 01:01:19.842 --> 01:01:22.885 [SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, this was a nice issue. 01:01:24.012 --> 01:01:29.805 [SPEAKER_01]: A sort of crisis events, number six from image comics written by Dennis Camp, art by Eric Zowodsky. 01:01:29.845 --> 01:01:35.778 [SPEAKER_01]: If you don't know yet, this title deals with different forms of temporal displacement. 01:01:36.239 --> 01:01:41.852 [SPEAKER_01]: And here we're getting a sci-fi very lightly sci-fi riff on dementia. 01:01:41.832 --> 01:01:49.863 [SPEAKER_01]: as a wife tries to hold it together as her husband jumps forward and backwards and sometimes sideways in time. 01:01:49.923 --> 01:01:53.008 [SPEAKER_01]: He is unstuck, but sometimes he's a little kid. 01:01:53.088 --> 01:01:54.349 [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes he's an adult. 01:01:54.409 --> 01:01:56.753 [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes very briefly he's her husband. 01:01:57.113 --> 01:02:00.738 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's just something that she's dealing with less and less as it goes. 01:02:01.439 --> 01:02:06.687 [SPEAKER_01]: Another I thought fantastic issue of this book that really got me choked up by the end there. 01:02:06.707 --> 01:02:07.708 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, she is. 01:02:07.748 --> 01:02:09.190 [SPEAKER_00]: This was upsetting. 01:02:09.170 --> 01:02:11.659 [SPEAKER_00]: a very upsetting issue. 01:02:12.281 --> 01:02:13.626 [SPEAKER_00]: But great. 01:02:13.686 --> 01:02:16.918 [SPEAKER_00]: The way that this comic each issue is able to 01:02:17.354 --> 01:02:24.565 [SPEAKER_00]: get me in the same place, emotionally, from a very different characters and very different. 01:02:24.986 --> 01:02:30.315 [SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, sci-fi, from a sci-fi point of view, very related stories is amazing. 01:02:30.375 --> 01:02:40.651 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like, if Ice Cream Man was very focused on a particular aspect of a horror trope or something, like it's really hard to do, and it keeps doing it every time. 01:02:40.691 --> 01:02:41.893 [SPEAKER_00]: Highly recommend this coming. 01:02:42.852 --> 01:03:06.075 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, this is artistically so beautiful, very moving, the representation of life and the struggles and ups and downs are, it's really impressive, though one word was just like this kind of like maze and, oh, just the panels on here, the coloring, the tone of it, just yeah, I get you in the feels, it's really impressive comics right here. 01:03:07.152 --> 01:03:22.950 [SPEAKER_01]: birds and prey number 27 from DC comics written by Kelly Thompson art by Sammy a boss read this title is almost over at this point where it's one more issue more issue as the birds are fighting against the end of the crime 01:03:23.183 --> 01:03:24.545 [SPEAKER_01]: pretty much at the beginning. 01:03:25.306 --> 01:03:26.628 [SPEAKER_01]: All of his holes are open. 01:03:26.908 --> 01:03:27.329 [SPEAKER_01]: Finally. 01:03:27.369 --> 01:03:28.350 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, boy. 01:03:29.472 --> 01:03:31.554 [SPEAKER_01]: Great art is usual fun story. 01:03:31.574 --> 01:03:35.119 [SPEAKER_01]: I am going to miss Barda and small bat teaming up. 01:03:35.159 --> 01:03:36.641 [SPEAKER_01]: Personally. 01:03:36.661 --> 01:03:36.842 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. 01:03:37.883 --> 01:03:39.666 [SPEAKER_04]: I'm also going to miss the crap out of this. 01:03:40.547 --> 01:03:47.196 [SPEAKER_04]: Barda, the gargle queen is just such a fun characterization of her and I'm having a blast with this. 01:03:47.316 --> 01:03:50.220 [SPEAKER_04]: I don't want this 01:03:50.200 --> 01:03:51.042 [SPEAKER_04]: Amazing. 01:03:51.162 --> 01:03:52.585 [SPEAKER_04]: Amazing writing. 01:03:53.006 --> 01:03:54.870 [SPEAKER_04]: This team is phenomenal. 01:03:55.030 --> 01:03:59.620 [SPEAKER_04]: I don't ever want them to stop going on adventures together because they work so well together. 01:04:02.266 --> 01:04:03.248 [SPEAKER_04]: I love this comic. 01:04:04.409 --> 01:04:17.451 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, we've said this kind of one of the most consistent comics on the stands and the fact that they're able to really pass the baton back and forth between the characters from the writing in our point of view is is very amazing. 01:04:17.832 --> 01:04:23.481 [SPEAKER_00]: Barda is the star of this comic in a fun way that I think that's the thing I'm going to miss the most. 01:04:24.929 --> 01:04:39.951 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, next up is minor arcana number 11 for boobs to do is by Jeff Lumier in this issue our main character is getting further sucked into a conspiracy that spirals are round her. 01:04:39.931 --> 01:04:42.113 [SPEAKER_01]: not suit second but conspiracy second. 01:04:42.814 --> 01:04:54.046 [SPEAKER_01]: Specifically, it is gathered around her and she is somewhat unaware of what's going on while she continues to explore her powers and finds out something surprising about her mom. 01:04:54.647 --> 01:04:56.109 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm really liking this. 01:04:56.749 --> 01:05:01.374 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't have too much board to say other than Jeff Lamier is also very consistent. 01:05:02.015 --> 01:05:03.036 [SPEAKER_01]: But what do you guys think? 01:05:03.758 --> 01:05:24.298 [SPEAKER_04]: yeah i agree this continues to be fantastic unbelievable art uh... like goes down in this issue as far as like powers and things that are concerned and uh... yeah i'm i'm excited to see what's going to happen next uh... i just uh... i think this is creative and cool and all the right ways 01:05:25.831 --> 01:05:26.893 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I like this as well. 01:05:26.993 --> 01:05:33.564 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a nicely unfolding plot that's been happening over the series here. 01:05:33.644 --> 01:05:44.221 [SPEAKER_00]: Like it's been, it's taken its time and it's been, I'm surprised that it's still around the issue 11 and it feels like it moved really quickly for the first few issues. 01:05:44.281 --> 01:05:49.510 [SPEAKER_00]: And now it's really settled in on the live show, Frank Barbieri talked about like, 01:05:49.490 --> 01:05:52.875 [SPEAKER_00]: to sort of slow comics, like slowing down the storytelling. 01:05:52.915 --> 01:05:54.778 [SPEAKER_00]: It feels like this comics were realized. 01:05:54.838 --> 01:06:02.711 [SPEAKER_00]: It could just sort of ease into the water a little bit and we're getting it here while at the same time, getting some of the bigger revelations here with the model. 01:06:02.731 --> 01:06:05.575 [SPEAKER_04]: Did Frank talk about this comic at all on the show? 01:06:05.977 --> 01:06:08.681 [SPEAKER_00]: He did not talk about this comic, but we really talked about it. 01:06:08.701 --> 01:06:09.281 [SPEAKER_01]: We should have talked to him. 01:06:09.301 --> 01:06:10.263 [SPEAKER_01]: We should have talked to him. 01:06:10.283 --> 01:06:10.984 [SPEAKER_00]: We should have talked to him. 01:06:11.004 --> 01:06:11.785 [SPEAKER_00]: We should have talked to him. 01:06:11.805 --> 01:06:12.786 [SPEAKER_01]: She should have talked to him. 01:06:13.367 --> 01:06:14.068 [SPEAKER_01]: She should have talked to him. 01:06:14.088 --> 01:06:14.909 [SPEAKER_01]: She should have talked to him. 01:06:14.929 --> 01:06:15.790 [SPEAKER_01]: She should have talked to him. 01:06:15.810 --> 01:06:16.611 [SPEAKER_01]: She should have talked to him. 01:06:16.651 --> 01:06:17.873 [SPEAKER_01]: She should have talked to him. 01:06:17.993 --> 01:06:18.874 [SPEAKER_01]: She should have talked to him. 01:06:18.894 --> 01:06:20.075 [SPEAKER_01]: She should have talked to him. 01:06:20.115 --> 01:06:21.117 [SPEAKER_01]: She should have talked to him. 01:06:21.137 --> 01:06:22.679 [SPEAKER_01]: She should have talked to him. 01:06:22.719 --> 01:06:23.660 [SPEAKER_01]: She should have talked to him. 01:06:23.680 --> 01:06:24.742 [SPEAKER_01]: She should have talked to him. 01:06:24.762 --> 01:06:26.043 [SPEAKER_01]: She should have talked to him. 01:06:26.063 --> 01:06:27.125 [SPEAKER_01]: She should have talked to him. 01:06:27.185 --> 01:06:28.306 [SPEAKER_01]: She should have talked to him. 01:06:28.326 --> 01:06:29.147 [SPEAKER_01]: She should have talked to him. 01:06:29.167 --> 01:06:29.908 [SPEAKER_01]: She should have talked to him. 01:06:29.928 --> 01:06:31.610 [SPEAKER_01]: She should have talked to him. 01:06:31.731 --> 01:06:33.553 [SPEAKER_01]: She should have talked to him. 01:06:33.533 --> 01:06:34.955 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm really enjoying this. 01:06:35.176 --> 01:06:39.223 [SPEAKER_01]: I've like the slow bird build of the heist throughout the series. 01:06:39.744 --> 01:06:43.511 [SPEAKER_01]: And in particular, I love to call a scots wonder woman. 01:06:43.571 --> 01:06:45.674 [SPEAKER_01]: She just draws an amazing wonder woman. 01:06:45.754 --> 01:06:48.419 [SPEAKER_01]: I think so it was nice to see that again in this issue. 01:06:48.840 --> 01:06:54.630 [SPEAKER_01]: Pete, I know you've been a little ifier about this because of the pace feeling it any better this issue. 01:06:54.610 --> 01:06:55.891 [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, thank you. 01:06:56.012 --> 01:06:56.692 [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, I am. 01:06:56.853 --> 01:07:00.377 [SPEAKER_04]: I feel like some things really kind of clicked in this issue. 01:07:01.077 --> 01:07:04.321 [SPEAKER_04]: We're really getting close to the actual ice, which is exciting. 01:07:04.742 --> 01:07:07.385 [SPEAKER_04]: They're doing such a good job of building towards this. 01:07:07.745 --> 01:07:08.926 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's actually happening. 01:07:09.787 --> 01:07:11.830 [SPEAKER_04]: I agree the art is fantastic. 01:07:11.870 --> 01:07:13.892 [SPEAKER_04]: The facial stuff is fantastic. 01:07:14.873 --> 01:07:18.678 [SPEAKER_04]: It's great to be able to kind of read people in the art. 01:07:18.758 --> 01:07:24.364 [SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, 01:07:24.344 --> 01:07:45.812 [SPEAKER_00]: uh... uh... kind of click and things in so i can't wait to see what goes down next grab and enjoying this uh... the thing is that to me most in this issue was this comic has no business referencing so many other dc characters and the continuity going on with all of them then we get a flex mentality shout out here we get the 01:07:45.792 --> 01:07:50.377 [SPEAKER_00]: And so many like watch tower folks just hangin' out. 01:07:50.978 --> 01:08:13.605 [SPEAKER_00]: And the story could just be like, yeah, there's Returnator over there and then move on, but instead they really go to give us a 360 look of this heist, which is just like, maybe Greg Ruck is studying the way that like, oceans 11, like, you really see the whole playing field before you get into the heist and I think that's what we did and that's what we're getting into at the end of this issue and into next. 01:08:14.851 --> 01:08:24.802 [SPEAKER_01]: Gotham Academy first year, number two from DC Comics, written by Brendan Fletcher, art by Marco Ferrari, and this issue we're finding out more about the student life at Gotham Academy. 01:08:25.243 --> 01:08:34.974 [SPEAKER_01]: We've got it a little bit of romance, head and home to meet the parents and meanwhile, scarecrow is making some moves over in the old Ark of the Silam, which is a real bummer for our main characters. 01:08:35.074 --> 01:08:39.439 [SPEAKER_01]: Mom, I think we're all pretty positive about the first issue of this. 01:08:39.860 --> 01:08:42.883 [SPEAKER_01]: How do you think it held up in issue number two? 01:08:43.522 --> 01:08:46.026 [SPEAKER_04]: I, I think it did hold up pretty well. 01:08:46.167 --> 01:08:47.689 [SPEAKER_04]: I really love this art style. 01:08:47.750 --> 01:08:49.553 [SPEAKER_04]: I think this is an interesting story. 01:08:50.134 --> 01:08:53.279 [SPEAKER_04]: I'm really getting kind of sucked in here in such a great way. 01:08:53.961 --> 01:08:56.445 [SPEAKER_04]: Not so I can soup, but sucked into the story. 01:08:57.086 --> 01:08:57.687 [SPEAKER_02]: There's soup, suckin'. 01:08:59.050 --> 01:09:00.652 [SPEAKER_04]: Funner action was scarecrow. 01:09:01.374 --> 01:09:03.117 [SPEAKER_04]: I like the main character. 01:09:03.177 --> 01:09:04.499 [SPEAKER_04]: This is very cool. 01:09:04.680 --> 01:09:05.561 [SPEAKER_04]: I'm into this now. 01:09:05.661 --> 01:09:06.643 [SPEAKER_04]: More please. 01:09:07.957 --> 01:09:10.220 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, yeah, continue's on in a nice way. 01:09:10.280 --> 01:09:13.805 [SPEAKER_00]: This feels like it's going to be a great trade, as well. 01:09:16.269 --> 01:09:22.638 [SPEAKER_01]: Last but not least, Poison Ivy, number 38 from DC Comics written by G. Will Wilson, art by Marcio Takara. 01:09:22.838 --> 01:09:29.107 [SPEAKER_01]: Big things going down in this issue as Ivy has found out the Janet from HR as well, against her. 01:09:29.127 --> 01:09:37.238 [SPEAKER_01]: So they go to confront the being who is responsible for it, leading to some big changes for the 01:09:38.467 --> 01:09:44.754 [SPEAKER_01]: Cosmology of the DC universe, I don't know what you call it, but like the green and the gray and the home were there, there's a lot of theology. 01:09:45.174 --> 01:10:02.652 [SPEAKER_01]: The thing this is not a huge revelation, but the thing that really struck me with this issue in particular is this feels like the successor to swamp thing, like very specifically, like obviously we're dealing with some of this characters, but I think in terms of the careful pace that you will have also just put out there, 01:10:02.632 --> 01:10:07.907 [SPEAKER_01]: the look at the overarching mythology of the DCU and the way this works. 01:10:08.288 --> 01:10:16.693 [SPEAKER_01]: While still keeping it very intimate and focused on these two characters, Ivy, add a janet in from the chart. 01:10:16.713 --> 01:10:17.535 [SPEAKER_01]: Great way. 01:10:18.545 --> 01:10:25.020 [SPEAKER_00]: I agree with you, like the wide scope and then the narrow focus on the character relationship is so well done here. 01:10:25.581 --> 01:10:32.516 [SPEAKER_00]: I love all the big mythology moves, but even more so, the Janet Ivy relationship is so unique. 01:10:32.737 --> 01:10:36.385 [SPEAKER_00]: It's built as a romance, but we know that 01:10:36.365 --> 01:10:40.590 [SPEAKER_00]: And there is some chemistry between them, but we also know that Poison IV is with Harley. 01:10:40.610 --> 01:10:49.381 [SPEAKER_00]: So like, it's a constantly complicated romantic situation and it makes you lean in so hard, even in this issue as Janet's dying. 01:10:49.942 --> 01:10:53.727 [SPEAKER_00]: Ivy may kill her, but also is trying to save her and loves her. 01:10:54.127 --> 01:10:55.129 [SPEAKER_00]: Janet loves Ivy. 01:10:55.189 --> 01:10:59.654 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, it's, it's a perfect, uh, just man love a triangle. 01:10:59.694 --> 01:11:01.757 [SPEAKER_04]: You love a love triangle, dude. 01:11:01.777 --> 01:11:02.778 [SPEAKER_00]: That's your favorite. 01:11:02.798 --> 01:11:05.041 [SPEAKER_04]: It's even beyond triangle. 01:11:05.081 --> 01:11:05.882 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. 01:11:06.301 --> 01:11:33.557 [SPEAKER_04]: uh... yeah i i agree this is a blast uh... uh... i'm so glad uh... uh... well went down and what since we're uh... not spoiled i won't be the one to spoil it but well goes down with janitor from HR was excited about was nervous the whole time and look well he doesn't look well yeah well yeah but you know uh... it's i still thought do whatever i'm trying not to spoil it here how do you connect with her how do you connect with her as um... in HR 01:11:34.904 --> 01:11:37.867 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, this is far from HR dude, you know what I mean? 01:11:37.887 --> 01:11:41.310 [SPEAKER_03]: This is like, well, how often, I mean, you work in HR. 01:11:41.350 --> 01:11:43.612 [SPEAKER_01]: So like, how often do you talk to bogvenus? 01:11:45.254 --> 01:11:46.075 [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, a lot. 01:11:46.555 --> 01:11:47.656 [SPEAKER_03]: You talk to a little bit. 01:11:47.676 --> 01:11:48.537 [SPEAKER_04]: Do you have input to HR? 01:11:48.557 --> 01:11:51.560 [SPEAKER_04]: You're constantly, you're constantly talking to people. 01:11:51.580 --> 01:11:52.881 [SPEAKER_04]: You've got to get the information. 01:11:52.962 --> 01:11:53.962 [SPEAKER_00]: Bog, especially if you don't know. 01:11:53.983 --> 01:11:54.703 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't do it. 01:11:56.445 --> 01:11:56.805 [SPEAKER_00]: Ha ha ha ha ha. 01:11:56.825 --> 01:11:56.945 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 01:11:57.566 --> 01:11:58.327 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's try again. 01:11:58.407 --> 01:12:02.751 [SPEAKER_00]: Pete, I have, I have bogg on line two for you. 01:12:02.731 --> 01:12:19.605 [SPEAKER_04]: I've got a loop back on that with bogged, but yeah, I think this was a solid kind of wrap-up here, and they've done such an amazing journey with this comic and this run, so I've been loving it. 01:12:19.645 --> 01:12:24.334 [SPEAKER_04]: The art is phenomenal, it's creepy, it's beautiful, it's all the things. 01:12:25.242 --> 01:12:33.335 [SPEAKER_01]: And that is it for the stack if you'd like to support this podcast and all the podcast we do as well as get ad free versions of them patreon.com slash comic book club. 01:12:33.635 --> 01:12:37.722 [SPEAKER_01]: Also, we do a live show every Tuesday night at 7 p.m. to YouTube coming out. 01:12:37.742 --> 01:12:39.925 [SPEAKER_01]: Sure, do love to chat with you about comic books. 01:12:40.386 --> 01:12:44.132 [SPEAKER_01]: Apple Spotify Android or the app of your choice to subscribe to listen and follow the show. 01:12:44.513 --> 01:12:47.357 [SPEAKER_01]: Comic book club live.com for this podcast and many more. 01:12:47.718 --> 01:12:50.963 [SPEAKER_01]: Until next time, we'll see you at the comic book club. 01:12:51.061 --> 01:12:53.445 [SPEAKER_00]: It's time to suck. 01:12:53.605 --> 01:13:14.959 [SPEAKER_02]: We got stuff coming down the bike. 01:13:22.904 --> 01:13:37.588 [SPEAKER_03]: They sit on crappy couches and they let us see the moon And he's just a monkey, they'll let us special guests meet So grab your ring, hammer, don't be late for it, huh?