[SPEAKER_01]: What's up everybody?
[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the stack on the Alex.
[SPEAKER_01]: I remain adjusted.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Pete.
[SPEAKER_01]: And on the stack we talk about a bunch of books that have come out of this week.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why not?
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't why not?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because why yes, we are going to do that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Look, Alex trapped himself in the corner.
[SPEAKER_04]: You didn't know why and he didn't know why not.
[SPEAKER_04]: Here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_04]: We've been doing this so long.
[SPEAKER_04]: There is no other thing.
[SPEAKER_04]: We can't not do this.
[SPEAKER_04]: If we didn't sign on here to talk about it, I'd be saying these opinions into the closet.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's a great book to talk to you about this week.
[SPEAKER_01]: And as usual, I'll put a spoiler warning Right up top because we're gonna get to spoiler starting with Spider-Man Superman number one from Marvel comics written by hang in there for a second Brad Meltzer Dan Slot Joe Kelly Jeff John's Louise Simonson Stephanie Phillips
[SPEAKER_01]: Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Aaron, and Jeff Loeb, art by Pepe LaRaz, Marcos Martinez, Amberto Remos Gary, Frank Todd Knock, film, though, to Sarah Pachele, Russell Daughterman, and Jim Chiang.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the follow-up from DCs, super bad spider bad, and now we're getting all new tales.
[SPEAKER_01]: that are mashing up the two universes.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the lead story by Brad Meltzer and Peppermint Leros, but a bunch of other fun stories.
[SPEAKER_01]: They do keep it very focused on Batman and Superman for the most part that we also get to write about Superman too.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, whoever who it will be cares.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is Dumpford Kids.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you think about this one?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, what did you think about this one individually?
[SPEAKER_01]: But like we were doing all along, we haven't exactly been right game all of these bashoffs, but certainly with Superman Spiderman, we talked about how it compared to Deadpool, Batman and Batman, Deadpool, so where do you think this fits in that mix?
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I mean, I think we talked a bit about how the DC books were decidedly better than the Marvel one book.
[SPEAKER_04]: We had at that point.
[SPEAKER_04]: And we're sort of taking it more as an opportunity rather than a gag.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, yes, Deadpool Batman felt like a little bit more of a goof when the others felt like real stories.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I got to say this Marvel collection really does bring some story.
[SPEAKER_04]: It was a little bit of a homer book like I feel like the first story which takes up a lot more pages than I think the other stories have in relation to the rest But it's it is such a spider-man focused and a spider-man winning story, which I thought was interesting Given so much of this has been about sharing the page
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, while we're talking about the first one, I think this is a nice collection, I think it's very kind of heartwarming.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really love that first story.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's very touching.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I liked a lot of these stories here.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Wonder Woman Thor one was great.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Miles Morales Superman one was really great.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought this was a great collection and led with some hearts.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think, you know, when you get these two together,
[SPEAKER_00]: it is going to be uh... that and uh... i thought they did a good job with it what do you think of this this front story the brad melter story when he talked it dance slot i believe he was talking about how this story just like rocked sure yeah i mean it as a writer spider man i could see why he was say that i mean spider man kind of reveals his truth to superman you know so it was a very touching kind of uh... moment i thought i wish party talking about the
[SPEAKER_00]: No, not the watch, the, his, how we really feel so it really kind of motivates him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Great.
[SPEAKER_01]: The guilt.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought there were some great moments in here and Peppularas draws some beautiful art.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's great Spadaman stuff, great superman and stuff, very emotional stuff throughout, as well like we've been saying, the pace was weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was weird because I didn't count the pages.
[SPEAKER_01]: but they spent a good chunk of the story in a slowly collapsing cave that gets darker, darker, darker, darker, and then they're like, and this is where we got to get spoilers.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're like, oh no, this cave was venom or something, and then for like one page super mad as venom cool, but then they move away from that, and then they're like, but we also switch bodies or join brains or something, didn't we?
[SPEAKER_01]: And you're like, all right, also, I guess cool,
[SPEAKER_01]: Uncle Bed's grave and all of these individual parts are really interesting, but it felt like a four-issue bitty series that wrap the collapsed quicker and quicker over the course of the story until you hit the ending there, which took away a little bit from the emotional thrust of the moments because you didn't get to sit long enough for any of them.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, and honestly, like, the cave portion of the story was so good, but if they had just sort of ended it there or gave us like,
[SPEAKER_04]: a firm conclusion to that even cutting from the cave story to the grave cave to the grave of common uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and by the way, I love your TikTok account where you talk about it, we're pouring on the cave and dying of caves, so why not live your life like you're going to cave?
[SPEAKER_01]: Really beautiful stuff.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's really, that's really true.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you for following me.
[SPEAKER_04]: I also think it's weird to say that I made my own coffin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I love your TikTok about cave graves in your top 10 cave graves.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm saving up for a good one myself.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, because here's the thing, you're going to end up in a cave and you know what you're going to want a great snack Taco Bell, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: Pete?
[SPEAKER_04]: What I was saying though is like, if the stuff in the middle is a little like, I don't know, everything is working so well, why do we do the extra like bits?
[SPEAKER_04]: It really really plays like sort of a bit or like a little like, let's do this little thing and get to the other sort of weighted part of the story, which is on the back end.
[SPEAKER_04]: But I did like it even though it's a little wobbly like you're saying Alex and then the there's a lot of others These these crossovers are I feel like you see everyone being like, can I just tell a story where I Touched ton of like Jeff Shonson here is like could I just do it all?
[SPEAKER_04]: I want to do a whole crossover here and I'm like
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, good.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's Jeff Johnson, Gary Frank, one was very interesting to me because I'm forgetting what he actually called it, but back in the day, he kind of teased that he wanted to do a big DC Marvel crossover that I feel like was probably called, uh,
[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't infinity crisis or something like that, but it was or like secret crisis.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, he calls this identity war.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't think this is what he was wanting to do, but I wonder how much was elements of that because this really does feel like.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, I have this whole outline for a 12-issue story mashing to these universes together.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's dead.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got six pages.
[SPEAKER_01]: So there are fun six pages, but it's something I would have loved to see a little more of.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's all.
[SPEAKER_04]: Can you guess right now the featured characters in this in the Jeff Jones one in the title page of the comic?
[SPEAKER_04]: Because they're all framed as like blank and blank or blank versus blank.
[SPEAKER_01]: I honestly don't remember.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's so many, there's like a hundred characters in it.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a mysterious versus superman featuring the thing.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's like a real tip of the iceberg situation.
[SPEAKER_04]: Pete, would any other faves on the far side of this?
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, yeah, I just, I thought it was a fun collection.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was kind of cool ideas and while executed, I just love the fact that like,
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, in the first story, they really kind of slow things down so that the, you know, like, I understand what Alex and Santa was kind of all over the place, but to follow this kind of flu line of like Clark Kent kind of just touching in and being like, hey, you know, you know, how are you doing?
[SPEAKER_00]: You're all right, you know, it's not really about guilt, you know, giving them kind of some hope.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought was a nice idea.
[SPEAKER_01]: it is interesting how to compare the way these publishers are looking at these different things because this is almost the opposite trajectory of how we went with Marvel and DC with the Deadpool and Batman stuff where the Superman Spider-Man book had some really beautiful story telling throughout but a lot of it was got a goof arounds like I think we could agree the Tom Kig jibbley story like we talked to Tom Kig about.
[SPEAKER_01]: was in being like, I don't know, I just want Jibli to draw some crazy stuff, let's do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's fine, or alternatively with the, like we have the Punisher power girl story, which was absolutely crazy, and then we had, oh my god, there was one other one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, the carnage, Jimmy Olsen one, that was off the wall as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: This one on the other hand, this collection feels like everybody's like, no, this is serious.
[SPEAKER_01]: Dead series.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, like I agree with you because the other one was like we're taking our shot It's like they're telling a crazy.
[SPEAKER_04]: They're going as hard as they can and this is actually being like hey No, this is I really need to tell a Superman story from all these Marvel writers like in previous volumes It's like random character random character from each side of the universe.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is like random Marvel character and Superman
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, what if this character would have go spider got to hang out with what's super girl, but like Mazra is Superman Spider-Man Superman Sorry, uh, Spider-Man war Superman like there everyone's chasing Superman and it's fine Which feels very specific.
[SPEAKER_04]: I want to highlight the other one.
[SPEAKER_04]: I really like which was the Gwen Stacy Lana Lang story Oh, of course you like that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's great course really good To see them together and having these like
[SPEAKER_04]: sort of mirrored lives.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the shared moment of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that was a joke.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was the joke Kelly story, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: So that was fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: I did like Stephanie Phillips story being like a spider Gwen and super girl two jerks.
[SPEAKER_01]: that was interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I actually, I did really like Den Slot and Marcos Moutine's story.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought he actually found a nice balance between 1930 Superb added spider noir.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a really fun paddle where spider superman who at that point could just leap is leaping out of a building.
[SPEAKER_01]: And of course he has Marcos Moutine put him in the amazing
[SPEAKER_01]: That's fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I thought there was a fair amount of joy and that's three that was missing perhaps in some of the other ones.
[SPEAKER_04]: Dance thought is so great about injecting his joy into the story he's telling and events like this.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is exactly what he's built for him.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, we got a lot more to talk about, though, so when we move on, talking about absolute Wonder Woman, 19 from DC Comics, by Kelly Thompson, Art by Hayden Sherman, Wonder Woman is under attack by the new suicide squad, or at least what's left of them, particularly Zatara, who has been turned into a flame in skeleton.
[SPEAKER_01]: by Veronica Cal, I believe, if I have a correctly, meanwhile, Zetana has switched sides and is trying to help her out.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we learned a little bit, why everybody is so enamored of Diana in this issue, which is an interesting plot twist.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pete, you're a big fan of this.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're wearing a Wonder Woman shirt, taken away.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, uh, first off cool cover, uh, get you very excited for the insides.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this just continues to be amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: This continues to deliver.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's top tier comics.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is just glorious.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love this comic.
[SPEAKER_00]: The art is so badass.
[SPEAKER_00]: The story is epic enough for
[SPEAKER_00]: for a goddess like Wonder Woman.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this just rocks at many levels.
[SPEAKER_00]: I cannot wait for the next issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: The page layouts, the color choices.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's all art forward, which is great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I hope everybody's reading this comic because I fucking love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it just makes me so happy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like this is just one of those comics you can hold up to and hold up and be like, this is what's great about comics.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is, and this was sort of the most superhero comic, non-absolute, super-hero comic of the run, I felt like.
[SPEAKER_04]: We get the front bit of the story where it is back in the island and the mythological world and the great way.
[SPEAKER_04]: And these first six pages is so beautiful.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then it's like a big multi character like parents rescue and their kids through portals very superheroy story, which I thought was sort of edging out of character a little bit for the book, not that I didn't like it, but it just felt a little different.
[SPEAKER_04]: And it that continued into the last panel, which is Wonder Woman leaping to fight a giant like spider robot, I was like, is this absolutely?
[SPEAKER_04]: But very cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Very cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, the government draws the hell out of that.
[SPEAKER_04]: 100% I'm not knocking it.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's just yeah, it's going in and it's natural.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like this comic, all these absolute books are going to stretch their tones a little bit.
[SPEAKER_04]: And this one, it's interesting.
[SPEAKER_04]: I wouldn't have expected this direction for it to go when I would expect it to go the opposite in sort of a darker way.
[SPEAKER_01]: a couple of quick things that I wanted to mention first is very much an external thing but I just read this book called Cersei that came out a couple of years ago and not only that is recontextualizing the Greek myths through the lens of Cersei which really may be think about absolute wonderwoman a lot because she is writing
[SPEAKER_01]: Cersei from the Greek myths in here and I wonder I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: I should probably look into this But I wonder how much Kelly Thompson read that book and channeled a bit of it because you can see Elements of the way the cheat treats Cersei the DC Comics character of this book so the way they have that in the novel yes, Pete.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry So you're saying you're wondering about that woman.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am
[SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_04]: You really fell for the trap of this book.
[SPEAKER_04]: I did absolutely wondering.
[SPEAKER_01]: Two other things that I want to mention.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great revelation about Steve Trevor in this issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Really fun surprise.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there is still a lot of heat going on between Zatata and Diana.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm shipping that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Really?
[SPEAKER_04]: One more issue in this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see what happens.
[SPEAKER_01]: Next up, exquisite corpses, number 12 from image comics, my James time of the fourth, art by Michael Walsh.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are really getting down to it here as the final two in the tournament of serial killers to control America come face to face.
[SPEAKER_01]: This issue is everything that I've wanted out of this series.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not only have we eliminated most of the side characters, but it resets,
[SPEAKER_01]: the plate for the whole thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: It reminds you of the premise of the rules in this issue, which is really helpful, because there's been so much chaos going on over the past 11 issues.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just thought this was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, great.
[UNKNOWN]: Go ahead.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I mean like I feel like in this this series we've talked about how it's like Oh, it's so big.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, and there's a little points where it's like I just don't know It's I can't follow all of the narrative threads and it's hard to connect the Cabal rich person state leaders with the townspeople And this issue 12 issues in really does that and I'm like, oh, what if they and I'm like they could have done this any sooner This is the whole point of the book is that it happens here
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know, maybe it's just perfect, and we're just who we are.
[SPEAKER_04]: And the fact that this was done this very big cast tightly plot of thing was done by James Tine and a rotating group of writers and artists is amazing to be able to do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I agree.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think JT4 is an evil mastermind and really kind of pulling on strings here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like the Zalbatron was saying, things really kind of come into focus and things get real hyped up for all the kind of forward movement.
[SPEAKER_00]: The colors, the art, this is just the action, the twists and turns.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a really edgy or seat type of kind of fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's over the top and a lot of great ways.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I just want to give a shout out to Michael Walsh, who is the other mastermind behind this and does a fantastic job on the art throughout its tense, the action is great.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's bloody, it's great stuff really looking forward to the final issue of this season.
[SPEAKER_01]: of the series when it comes out next month.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amazing Spider-Man number 27 from Marvel written by Joe Kelly, art by Ed McInnister, the final issue of the death spiral crossover.
[SPEAKER_01]: A Spider-Man has become carnage.
[SPEAKER_01]: Venom is still Mary Jane and Torment is just good old Torment.
[SPEAKER_01]: trying to kill Ant-May and Ant-Ana, as he is wanted to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: Peter has a question here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Spider-Man is a hero who is bitten by a spider, and he gained the proportion of strength, the speed, and agility of the spider.
[SPEAKER_01]: That answers your question.
[SPEAKER_01]: Justin, what do you think about this part?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, then it's my question.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just wanted to correct you real quick.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the amazing spider carnage you can see right on the title there.
[SPEAKER_00]: You just see it right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Cool, cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, Justin, what do you think?
[SPEAKER_04]: really cool cover on np as we know is our beat our group beat reporter he's tracking all the groups keep in track of the groups and the scoops on the goops yeah because we are goofing the goops and peed and scooping the goops right up off the ground as usual and this one has a lot of goop to scoop as we have as Alex said carnage spidey something that was like is this the first time this has happened
[SPEAKER_04]: And I think yes, yeah, I was shocked it's written in from a oh, wow, we're just getting intimate carnages by the and it's really great I can't believe how much this crossover has punched above its weight.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's been so good so emotional the moment in here where Mary Jane Sort of closes the the chapter on torment.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was like it's
[SPEAKER_04]: something.
[SPEAKER_04]: This book is putting so much into these characters, giving them so much just like so much of a meal to eat in the middle of a like wild crossover, the the symbiote world in the Marvel Universe has been such a well-tried area and this feels so fresh.
[SPEAKER_04]: I love this crossover.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, what's bothering me is the, uh, first off I'm having a blast with this, except for the kind of twist we get here where, um, MJ, uh, kind of makes a choice and we don't know if it was Venom or MJ or who, but, uh, to me it seemed like, oh, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you don't like it when women have choices.
[SPEAKER_00]: Peter and MJ can't be together, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like she makes this choice and then near like, oh, no Peter's not gonna like this.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's not gonna be okay with this and I'm like God damn it We were just getting to a place where they were they were talking things were good and then You know, so I can't they just love each other.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean come on you're killing me He was just telling me how he believes that a woman's place is inside the symbiote
[SPEAKER_01]: And he makes a lot of points, you know, he's really, I don't, I don't, and Pete, I hate your Tik Tok account, okay, but very upsetting.
[SPEAKER_04]: That seems like a non-secretor, but it's also true.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is great.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a great crossover like Justin was saying it's really pushing all of these characters.
[SPEAKER_01]: The edge literally and figuratively and leaving them in very different places then they started you know crossovers are always like everything changes forever and I
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't think this one was promising that necessarily, but it really does actually move the characters forward in a big way And that's what you wanted to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't just need to be like Shocks a minute Instead just figuring out where is Mary Jane now?
[SPEAKER_01]: Where does she need to be going?
[SPEAKER_01]: Where is Peter Parker?
[SPEAKER_01]: Where does he need to be going?
[SPEAKER_01]: Say if there was any Brock and Dylan Brock really into this whole line right now
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolute Flash, number 14 from TC Comics written by Jeff The Mirror, art by Haining, this is the second part of the Bureau Master Storyline as Wally and Linda end up with the Mirror Dimension and find out what Mirror Master is up to.
[SPEAKER_01]: And as usual with the absolute universe, it's not quite what you expect.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, the format of this comic.
[SPEAKER_04]: They do a good job really.
[SPEAKER_04]: Put in us in the Mirror World, along with our main characters
[SPEAKER_04]: which is nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, sort of what I said about Wonder Woman this feels very much like to slightly contradict Alex's statement.
[SPEAKER_04]: This does feel like it's just some fun and superhero comics.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I agree, Alex is a dick.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the mirror master fun we have here is great.
[SPEAKER_00]: The art is just a has a lot of fun with the kind of mirror work there.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know,
[SPEAKER_00]: It was kind of hilarious where it's that moment of like, no, I'm the good one.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know all of these clones look alike, but trust me, the one person who's good out of all these is just kind of like a fun thing to do with mirror master.
[SPEAKER_00]: So.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, glad that we're kind of having fun with that, you know, and so yeah, Jeff LaMier is a halver writer and making some fun choices.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, and who's not the biggest flash fan, it's the kind of writing is what's saving this for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, been impressed by this.
[SPEAKER_01]: In your skin, number one, from Image Comics, written by a D.T.A.B.D.K.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R.R
[SPEAKER_04]: the progression of this it's one of those sort of slow boils the stress just dialing up and we're not on the side of the character who is alleviating the stress we are riding with the stressor I felt like and so that's
[SPEAKER_04]: That's a nice place to be, or it feels like a unique storytelling device here.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then it builds toward, we are on even the wrong side, to quote, I believe William Shakespeare, that we dip into being sort of implicit in the horror part of it as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... yeah i grew just and shout out to a boyle from brooklyn nine nine um... i i think that this is just uh... creepy and a lot of uh... levels here uh... the whole kind of like skinwalker thing and kind of like uh... wearing skin is uh... is a creepy idea and the artist does such an amazing job in shrieking which is a peed
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, yeah, I mean, if you're into that kind of stuff, yeah, but, um, uh, this really just freaks me out, but, uh, yeah, artists, it's such an amazing job with that and, uh, it can kind of look walky, but it was just the perfect amount of kind of like creepy, uh, so well, if you could wear anybody's skin suit, like, oh, who's skin suit would you wear?
[SPEAKER_01]: Great question.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, I don't even know.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't want to wear anybody's skin.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I would say you 100% beat.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would wear your skin in like a second if you would give it up.
[SPEAKER_01]: So just, you know, okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_04]: He won't tell us his home address.
[SPEAKER_04]: He won't tell us how to get inside his skin.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like he just doesn't want to disguise around.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I could sort of put these knives on my wetstone so many more times they're not going to get sharper at this point Alex is knives are sharp his skin knives are sharp I guess I would wear the skin of the actor that plays track or so I could eat shit
[SPEAKER_01]: If you don't subscribe at patreon.com, comment, book club, that doesn't have such a deal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, if you subscribe, it doesn't make a lot of sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, it doesn't make sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: Courageous book, I had a little trouble following the story, but I think part of that is leaving bits out because we're not getting all of the information.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am curious to check out the second issue here because it feels like it's just getting started at the end.
[SPEAKER_01]: It really doesn't look like anything else on the stands for sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, impressive art.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hulks smash everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: Never five for Marvel written by Ryan North, Archbishop Karatew.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the final issue of the series that has found Hulks smash a black hole.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some dinosaurs killed the leader, I think.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he is about to destroy the entire planet, and only the assembled heroes can stop him.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought this was a beautiful, lovely, critically poignant end to the series that I have loved all along.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was really curious how they were going to end it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But once again, Ryan North finds a really elegant solution to a problem that is very, very pleasing.
[SPEAKER_00]: on an offshoot of this fantastic four-run than this Hawksbatch everything I love his fantastic four-run so that's okay yeah I don't know I was agreeing with everything that you said up until then but man yeah this was just such a great use of the thing I felt like it was uh had touching moments as well as just kind of epic hawksbatch and just like
[SPEAKER_00]: Impressive panels, you know that picture of the Hulk finally like sitting down and just kind of watching the sunset and then curling up a durable you don't get a durable Hulk a lot so this was just fun on a lot of different levels just such a great idea well executed amazing art Yeah, I just had a blast with this and
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I just also smart use of Ben Graham can I ask you guys a question between this and Spiderman superman really good week for the thing is he the best Marvel character
[SPEAKER_00]: Strong question.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe one of the nicest.
[SPEAKER_04]: Got a great heart.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think Pete's on it.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's the most earnest.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I think he's the most sort of accessible Marvel character.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't think he's the maybe the best, but he's definitely the one that I think people are like, I understand this person.
[SPEAKER_04]: He is the Pete LePage of the Marvel universe.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd love to wear his rocks if he let me oh, man.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, exactly Make sure those knives are extra sharp.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I just I would love to get his rocks off go ahead.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I love the rocks that he's got I'm so pretty in the book.
[SPEAKER_04]: I I think that Ryan North made a list of what Hulk could smash and then wrote a comic that paid off every single one of those
[SPEAKER_04]: It's just a fun thing to do it definitely calling your shot.
[SPEAKER_04]: We talked to Ryan a couple weeks back and that seems like the way he works He's a meticulous writer.
[SPEAKER_04]: He was talking about his insane tiny handwriting.
[SPEAKER_04]: I believe and spreadsheets There you go
[SPEAKER_01]: spreadsheets there the future event horizon inferno number one also taking place of the future from IDW written by Christian Ward art by Rob Kerry hot of the heels of the prequel series we are now getting a legit sequel to event horizon in comic book form this is set 200 years after the original
[SPEAKER_01]: when a new spaceship, of course, what do they do?
[SPEAKER_01]: They find the event horizon.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they can't get to that portal, the hell, come on guys, whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on guys, come on guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: But at the same time, Christopher would come up with some surprising new recalls on the mythology, including versus Pimon, the demonic entity from the prequel and the movie, we're getting, seems to be an angel in here, though perhaps is just as demonic, we don't quite know yet.
[SPEAKER_04]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is very close and I say this complementary to what if you did aliens with the S with event horizon, it plays off like that and it's very fun and very gross.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I mean, like the last one was such a straight horror that really like dwell in the torture and this both the physical torture and the psychological torture.
[SPEAKER_04]: This one feels like a little more accessible where you're coming in on like, look at these people.
[SPEAKER_04]: They are literally tagged in the intro with their financial issues.
[SPEAKER_04]: You meet each character and I was like interesting.
[SPEAKER_04]: The portal to hell is going to run through the different debts that they all have I thought that was a very interesting theme to like drop on us right at the top of this feels fitting feels very modern I also like the science where it's like that is established a bit in the
[SPEAKER_04]: in the earlier the movie and the other comic series, but it's like, here's how you travel through space.
[SPEAKER_04]: You gotta go through hell.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's the only way to travel through one of this instance space.
[SPEAKER_04]: And as I go, really laying it out there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I agree this is a blast.
[SPEAKER_00]: One hell of a first issue, lots of fun kind of twists and turns.
[SPEAKER_00]: I enjoyed the little info panels that came up to kind of give a breakdown of the characters.
[SPEAKER_01]: Superman, number 37 from DC Comics, written by Joshua Williamson, Arta by Dan Morris, Superboy Prime, is trying to figure out his place in the world.
[SPEAKER_01]: And finding a hard time balancing being a superhero with working at a comic book store.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there's some more weirdness to come.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pete, did you feel yourself?
[SPEAKER_01]: Would you feel like you were seen on the page when Superboy Prime was shouting about they should always be married?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, that was a nice, nice to be seen, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: I have opinions like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It'd be passionate about stuff you believe in.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was all for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It gets a, when coverage gets meta, it's a little, it pulls me out a little bit, but that was kind of a fun bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, you know, that punching through Blue Beetle was a little brutal, but, you know, to the Beetle.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I hate when people are brutal to the beatle, but, uh, yeah, Damian Robin is always fun and, uh, great art cool story.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was having a blast.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, I, super boy prime is a difficult character to love.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I think this, Joshua Williams is really doing the work to make us, uh, love him, I think.
[SPEAKER_04]: it's happening.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm coming over Dan Moore's art is definitely helping, but it's a redemption story for Superboy Prime, a character that is really hard, and I think it's really hard to love.
[SPEAKER_04]: The working at a comic book store is such a smart way to use the sort of uncomfortable meta-nature of the character to put it to good use at that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I like all this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't like thinking about how comic books work in the world of DC comics that hurts my brain a little bit when I try to parse what are those comics about and what is inside the pages of those comics, what do they know, what don't they know, why are they publishing them?
[SPEAKER_01]: So I try not to think about that too much, but otherwise great book, very funny, very fun and looking forward to what happens next.
[SPEAKER_01]: The amazing Spider-Man Spider-Verse and he number one for Marvel, but he's a Kelly and Jordan Morris, art-by-paraparez, or Mary, maybe Perry Perez.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what Jordan called him when we interviewed him a couple of weeks back about this very book.
[SPEAKER_01]: But this features Norman Osborn taking all of the non-Peter Parker spider heroes and trying to train them up so they could face
[SPEAKER_01]: him if he ever turns into green goblin in this red directory issue we're getting to see how he interacts with all of them and how spider woman ends up in the mix of the great kick off to this particularly as somebody who's like their activity spider people they're too similar I don't think there should be at the same place I thought the team did a great job of differentiating everybody and this is fast and funny and fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, I agree.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it is fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a great kind of use of the team and kind of fun mix up here where you have spider woman kind of jumping eyes born and he's like, oh, no, it's all part of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, kind of a
[SPEAKER_00]: Cool idea.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fun set up.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm interested to see more with these all these spider characters.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I thought this was a solid first issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good job getting excited for more.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hardie, should do right.
[SPEAKER_04]: I feel like a lot of members of this spider family to juggle.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think Jordan does a great job Jordan and Joe.
[SPEAKER_04]: They do a great job of really like
[SPEAKER_04]: Holding on each one of them in time, giving each of them their moment to do a sort of bad job fighting Norman Osborne.
[SPEAKER_04]: I like the premise when talking to Jordan, one of the things I'm looking forward to is how much this is going to be college as well as as a Norman Osborn like yelling session.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're going to see the characters like being interesting and themselves outside of these lessons they're getting from the Green Goblin.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I think this the way the characters were portrayed here was a great setup for that.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I thought this was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: And what other thing that I'll mention that I was very surprised about if you are reading this week's comics read amazing spider bad first Then spider varsity because they actually do tie in together.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, that's uh, I was gonna say that to like the way how tightly this ties in I was like what the Did they just write this next hand this to me it feels so like of the ones great yeah
[SPEAKER_01]: very surprising guy the headlopper number one from image comics by Andrew McLean the book is a back about a guy who lops heads his severed witches head that he carries around and various other hangers on.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's an oversized issue I'm going to get the page count wrong but I feeling it's like 85 pages.
[SPEAKER_01]: I believe it's 85.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: A huge issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's going quarterly now that it's back, if I remember correctly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pete, you've been on the headlock Pete since the beginning.
[SPEAKER_01]: How did you feel about having it back?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's so great to be back.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's great to be a lot in heads and yeah, also I enjoyed the Agatha story at the end there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, amazing action, a ton of fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's funny though because, you know, the JTCs was talking about how he loved the bigger issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like a smaller headloat.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I don't know, I just feel like it's a fun bit to kind of hit quick and then get out, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: So more focus on the lapping.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm more of a lapper, you know, than the actual story.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, when it gets too talky, I kind of lose interest.
[SPEAKER_00]: But, yeah, I think that, at least, yapping more lapping?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, yeah, per.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, but man, just very happy that this gets called podcasts.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, exactly, it's us, and we're the head-yappers.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I thought this was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I actually thought there was just the right amount of head-lopping, and I know that sounds like a joke, but legitimately one of my criticisms was not enough head-lopping.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember, if you see any of these.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was something.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Lots of head-lopping, lots of fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: The designs are gorgeous and throughout.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, you don't really need to have read it previously to jump right in here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great book.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is my favorite read of the week.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've changed.
[SPEAKER_01]: You love headlopper now, Justin, and Pete hates it.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, he don't hate me.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've taken the head.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm the official axman of headlopper.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it was kind of cool that we got the Agustory back when she had a body.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I thought that was a nice little story.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and I see like the backup because you hate the actual laughing.
[SPEAKER_04]: The, um, I've been watching Adventure Time with my kids, of course, uh, loving it.
[SPEAKER_04]: It strikes me watching that so close to reading this.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is, this is like a grown-ups adventure time.
[SPEAKER_04]: Adventure time is about adolescence and sort of coming of age.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is about dealing with other issues, and it laid over with just like a great mythology.
[SPEAKER_04]: This series cares about the mythology.
[SPEAKER_04]: I love the framing of the sort of villain telling being the narrator and sort of commenting as the story goes on.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think the art is excellent.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just in love, a mix of just great fighting and whatnot, but also some fun cartoon work, cartooning work.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's fantastic.
[SPEAKER_04]: I love this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the art really is great.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's such a great kind of tone and vibe.
[SPEAKER_01]: I it too late beat we already know you hate it the rock a tier the island number two for IDW written by john labor and art by jake of Edgar the first issue this was a big surprise featuring not just the rock a tier but also tintin papai uh... another character that i'm definitely forgetting as they head to an island that by the past issue Betty page isn't that is no that's uh... his girlfriend i'm pretty sure it's Betty page
[SPEAKER_01]: They call her buddy in the comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what I'm doing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had the, I did, I did that.
[SPEAKER_01]: We already do this based on the issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: Three solicits is Kong's skull island.
[SPEAKER_01]: So there's more to come there.
[SPEAKER_01]: What did you guys think about the second issue?
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, we in talking about this in our interview and and the first issue reading the first issue like it felt like, oh, we're having the other these characters, it's going to get a little complicated, but what I really liked about this issue that is done is this whole issue becomes a tinted story.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like, it's pace like a Tintin, it is.
[SPEAKER_04]: The art is laid out a bit like a Tintin story and it has that.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then you cut to the racketeer to splashing off, you're like, oh, nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like the way the genre's not the right word, but just each of these characters that are guessing in the book sort of get to take the reins.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I suspect the next one will really feel like a Kong story.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I agree with the JT says, this is a tight package here.
[SPEAKER_00]: The combination of art and storytelling is a hand in hand.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's fantastic.
[SPEAKER_00]: The art is such a cool look to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I kind of just so smooth and kind of has that kind of old time.
[SPEAKER_00]: You feel a little bit which is great.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it just matches everything really nice.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I had a blast with this issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it is Betty Page, you guys are right, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, but let me say, I think it's weird also that like he had in the comic he had a girlfriend, Jenny, I believe if it's from the movie as well.
[SPEAKER_04]: And now he's just dating Betty Page and there's no real like that's not the Jenny stuff's over.
[SPEAKER_04]: And he's like, I date this character, this kind of character.
[SPEAKER_04]: I date Betty Boop is basically what I mean.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, here we go.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're break up with Boop was, I don't know if you guys remember it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alex is really upset on the podcast.
[SPEAKER_04]: And with Boop, the musical crushing on Broadway.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah, it's got to be so painful for it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Because you appear in it as the.
[SPEAKER_01]: I did it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm played by, uh, because I'm a Broadway actor.
[SPEAKER_01]: But they literally literally literally, literally, what brought to a dead Iraq.
[SPEAKER_04]: I Doesn't count doesn't count it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Take this from the actor right currently if you named and if you Like describe you in your credit clips.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll tell you a lot the only the first and only name I could think of was Brendan Gleason And I was like, that's the wine print.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why is that stuck in my hand?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not Darren Chris.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's who I bet there you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I knew you either.
[SPEAKER_01]: I knew what you're aiming Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's also not who I'm thinking of either
[SPEAKER_01]: Now I can't think of anything.
[SPEAKER_04]: Can you think of it?
[SPEAKER_04]: You're thinking of the guy who who originated the role of King, is John McGrath.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's who I'm thinking of.
[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's great.
[SPEAKER_04]: I knew.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is terrible.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, horrible day.
[SPEAKER_01]: Captain America, number nine from Marvel, written by Chips and Arskie, art by Tana, Lima, Captain America's discovered that salvation, the new leader of Lotvaria, is not actually salvation, but actually killing dissonance and is teamed up with a relative of Victor Von Dube to take back the country.
[SPEAKER_01]: Meanwhile, shield is trying to find weapons that have been hidden away by salvation, leading to a fracture in the newly reformed shield by the end of the issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, would you guys think about this?
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like we've been a little mixed about this cat to the America run, do you think things get back on track this issue?
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I was thinking about this a lot, uh, while I was reading this in afterward, like it feels like...
[SPEAKER_04]: This run is a little bit tarnished by the recent Marvel crossovers, including one world underdune, and the Imperium, what was it called?
[SPEAKER_04]: Imperium, Imperium, they were so dense and political with a lot of bureaucracy.
[SPEAKER_04]: and this this story has some of those elements.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's about factions trying to take over a country and it is a lot of talk about like who's with who and why.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I feel like if this was separated from those crossovers, I think this would stand a lot more on its own because it's a great
[SPEAKER_04]: it's where the Latvia nature of it is an interesting place for Captain America to be in him changing sides.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's all good.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's just we've seen this story in a way that is damaging this wind.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's funny to hear you say that because this is literally walking us right up to Avengers Armageddon, which is the next event, which I actually thought was one of the strengths of this issue is Armageddon itself has felt very unclear to me as an event, like usually when Marvel or DC comes out of that, they're like, here's the pitchlight, here's the elevator pitch for the thing, they're like, great, I don't know, let's go to play out, I could speculate, but I don't know what it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Armageddon, they're like, we're not gonna tell you, we're
[SPEAKER_01]: And because of solicits, some of that information has come out here, but this to me felt like the clearest like, okay, we're starting to get into what is going to happen here in the set up.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, no, and that's why I'm saying like this is not a bad story and I like that we're pointing that I like it even I like this is a starting point for such a big event because it's laying out some larger ideas It's liticle notions to get into Armageddon But it's just it's been front-loaded by density and a way that I'm just our brain's a little sore from
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree this is a good kind of jumping on point.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like you get kind of the fun villain reveal at the end there that really kind of sets things up.
[SPEAKER_00]: It does feel like a good Captain America story and I agree it's got some great kind of twists and turns and but yeah, I'm excited to see what's going to happen on the other side of this but yeah, I thought this was a solid issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is another one though.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would say focusing is focusing on too many characters and too many things at the same time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like the new shield characters, I want to get to know them and I think we do get to spend a nice amount of time with them in this issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there's a moment where cats in America is talking to one of them and he's like, you guy who I always trust and know to do the right thing and I'm like, I don't know this is.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like I saw them in one scene in the previous issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure what his powers are.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not 100% sure what his
[SPEAKER_01]: I know he's on shield or anything like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe that's on me, but this feels like we're supposed to roll with these characters like we've known them forever when we've just met them.
[SPEAKER_01]: So in the middle of meeting multiple different people vying for a lot of various.
[SPEAKER_01]: So a lot going on here, I would love it to just focus down on to capture America, what's going on with him, and that could be good.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I agree.
[SPEAKER_01]: The flash number 32 from DC Comics written by Ryan North art by Gavin Greachery.
[SPEAKER_01]: We had this team on the show a couple of weeks back.
[SPEAKER_01]: Go and listen to it great shot with them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now we're going to like a reset with Wally West at his family.
[SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, there's a mysterious villain who has basically made a bet with everybody saying, hey, get yourself at a DJ's situation and get a selfie with the flash and I'll give you I believe it's $10,000.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the flash is working overtime.
[SPEAKER_01]: to try to stop people from actually dying, um, and he can't actually, which is a really sad moment to this otherwise very fun issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I love what this team is doing here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're doing a great job.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even two issues in Gavin's art is perfect for this book.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ryan North is writing the hell out of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great flash series so far cool cover.
[SPEAKER_04]: I want to it was just going to try to steal your thunder people You got it in you're so quick on the thunder The covers we talked to Gavin about on the show about his previous cover for the first issue of their run and this cover also backing it up It's just like so smartly done and I think that plays out in the issue as a whole Lot of great moments.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's some fun moments like Alex saying there's some upsetting moments We're starting to establish maybe a little bit of a format
[SPEAKER_04]: him showing up to be with his family at dinner time in the middle of his actual, which I think is awesome.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like I would love to see more, I would love to see that continue as something that keeps happening.
[SPEAKER_04]: And the art is, it's classic, but really energized and fresh.
[SPEAKER_04]: So it really helps emphasize the speed while feeling like just a great comic book comic.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I agree.
[SPEAKER_00]: The use of the yellow and kind of his running through the pages is really smart and well done as an extra enjoyment to the reading, which is great, but yeah, this is pretty dark at times, which for me kind of pulls me out of it a little bit crazy idea.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think well executed, but a little, a little dark for me, but yeah, just a really impressive art.
[SPEAKER_01]: and a cool story fun team up with captain cold in this issue as well bit where to spoil what little bit of the issue where captain cold is standing at the top of building flashes like he would it jump off what do you have that he jumps off and he has to catch him and he's like why would you do that why don't you just call me he's like how would I call you I don't have your number it's good very smart characters let me ask you what what's your move for the 10k
[SPEAKER_01]: for the 10k?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Gosh, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think I could throw myself off a building.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's too scary.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: But I think, like there's one lady who's mixing some chemicals in her toilet.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's like putting down to earth way of being dangerous.
[SPEAKER_04]: I did live in New York.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wow, good.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_04]: And Pete, you'd probably like, what sort of animals do you have roving around your frontier?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, did you put your head inside of it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Currently, I'm having a fight with a rabbit, my backyard.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's that a whass who we web it?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you are really you are a full-fud you've gone full-fud So let me ask you what's what's kind of crazy schemes are you up to Yeah, because watch out because it gets much worse when it's duck season Also if the rabbit holds hands you any flowers.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's probably died about it.
[SPEAKER_04]: So just put it on okay, so yeah, I've a feeling you're about to have us
[SPEAKER_01]: Pete real quick question, are there any big black tunnels that you, your the rabbit runs through the child?
[SPEAKER_01]: I could run through them as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the problem.
[SPEAKER_01]: You seem to think you can make it, but you can't.
[SPEAKER_00]: It just apart the curtain for a hot second here.
[SPEAKER_04]: We have a lot of fun with the idea that Pete lived in the country and he's like, push his back is like, I don't, I used to live in New York and we're like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: But his response to this one was, I'm fighting with a rabbit in my backyard.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I just want to say, you all think we're mean, he's doing it.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's doing the country thing.
[SPEAKER_04]: He fell off the turnip truck.
[SPEAKER_04]: Nada.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, wow, we're really going to nerve there.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, it's just amazing to me that you accidentally said the most country shit in the world.
[SPEAKER_01]: Corpse Night, number one, for maybe comics written by Michael Chavez, art by Matthew Roberts.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, Michael Chavez is the director of a big chunk of the conjuring franchise, not the original movie, but most of the latter movies.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here, this is original property about a young girl in medieval times, and her dad, her dad, is killed and then resurrected as the corpse
[SPEAKER_01]: They're headed on a path of bloody vengeance and also, by the end of the issue, to find Joe to Vark.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can we help?
[SPEAKER_01]: To his...
[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, yeah, really, like the cameo we've all been waiting for, and Joe to Vark is really hyped up in the front half, and then they're like, fuck it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's go find her.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is gonna be scary for you guys because you both have a daughter.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you guys die and that daughter prays over your grave Are you worried you're gonna have to come back as this kind of like zombie burgeon yourself and I would love to come back Oh, you would okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I told them specifically to do that and gave them the prayer and everything they need to do
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I want to go from the grave back to the cave, come and get my craves in person.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh man.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know those craves are brains.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to improve on the phrase.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think we've covered this comic so we can move on.
[SPEAKER_04]: I did enjoy this as a first issue.
[SPEAKER_04]: I thought the genre of arc stuff makes me feel like this is written by someone who is named Michael Chavez of Arc.
[SPEAKER_04]: Really pushing the genre of arc out there doesn't seem like it has to be a part of it.
[SPEAKER_04]: But it's cool that it is.
[SPEAKER_04]: The artist's great good violence.
[SPEAKER_04]: The death is deeply upset.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like the the sweetness of it and fun twist.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll be interested to see how this kind of moves on past this first issue, but yeah, it's all the first dish.
[SPEAKER_01]: Star Wars Galaxy's Edge echoes in the Empire number one from Marvel written by Ethan Sachs, art by Jethro Morales and Roy Mercado.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now as we all know, Galaxy's Edge, the theme park area in
[SPEAKER_01]: during the events of the sequel trilogy.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why Ray shows up at Kylo Red and all of everybody else's favorite characters from the sequel trilogy now Galaxy's head is actually going to be opening up to other areas so other characters are going to show up there
[SPEAKER_01]: like Darth Vader and recently I just saw picture earlier today of Han Solo and Chewie are going to be showing up Luke Skywalker as well and that's going to be very confusing for people because how can that happen when the theme park takes place during the events of the sequel trilogy when these characters were all over dead.
[SPEAKER_01]: So of course you need a five issue comic book series to explain why that's happening and that's what this issue kicks off.
[SPEAKER_04]: I can't wait to apply for the job of standing outside of Galax's edge holding this five-ish series to me and like, Hi!
[SPEAKER_03]: Goooargh!
[SPEAKER_00]: We're so close!
[SPEAKER_04]: We can't look at understand!
[SPEAKER_04]: Read this!
[SPEAKER_04]: I want to explain this in part.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wait.
[SPEAKER_04]: I wait.
[SPEAKER_04]: But you can't get it into it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think he thought of this.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's mainly crazy that Disney was like, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: We can't have had solo, Leia, Darth Vader, and Luke.
[SPEAKER_01]: The characters everybody wants to take a picture with and see Wander you around the Star Wars lad.
[SPEAKER_01]: because we've said it during a very weird other time.
[SPEAKER_01]: I believe that's where she's going to go back to.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's go back to a time when Disney made a perhaps series of cave to the critical errors.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, where they like, this is going to work forever.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ray is going to be, oh no, people don't respond to these movies, despite seeing them and paying for them.
[SPEAKER_04]: Similar with the answer.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure they'll come to our hotel that's all inside with their
[SPEAKER_04]: Here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_04]: They sold the shit out of that.
[SPEAKER_04]: The hell out of the hotel.
[SPEAKER_04]: I want to go there too.
[SPEAKER_04]: But I've heard a friend of mine tells the Eric Fierre from characters, welcome some of you know.
[SPEAKER_04]: He tells a great story about going to that and being like seeing the lights outside.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's very cool, everyone's doing the thing.
[SPEAKER_04]: And he's like, oh, I'll order something from the bar.
[SPEAKER_04]: And he's like, sorry, we only have Sam Adams.
[SPEAKER_04]: Sort of a undercuts the mystery at the end of it.
[SPEAKER_04]: And now it's a big empty block on the side of the park because they close and down so good job heartbreaker must have been a little more expensive than the thought to run but this comic is sort of a being a bit of an echo of the conversation we're having where it goes from the art is very cool and I like some of the ideas but it's really like will you like Ray?
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, look at this little moment and it's like oh, he like all these other folks You're gonna see them for a second, but I don't know.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know what this the cohesion is going to be difficult
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think this was fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like the Nerf Herder reference, Luke was a little too cocky for my taste, that his now is my turn line.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, Luke a little bit more kind of like talk less, do more badass stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I thought the art was great.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, it was just kind of like, hey,
[SPEAKER_00]: Remember Star Wars like hey here's these characters you guys know so I didn't I didn't hate it You know it didn't bother me, but I wasn't kind of floored man.
[SPEAKER_01]: This must be so tough though something like this to right like Cannot imagine the challenge that Ethan Sachs has before I'm where
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure beyond having to explain everything that I was joking about earlier.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also being like, oh yeah, but chronically you got to figure out where these classic characters from the shops in Galaxies Edge fit in and what their ancestors are like.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you can't do that because that wouldn't work with the continuity of our theme park lab.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like all of this stuff is such a like.
[SPEAKER_01]: raised difficulty level that I do read this and I'm like okay there's a fun moment with Darth Vader there's a fun moment with Luke Cool you got that stuff through and that's good
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, and I guess we'll see.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we'll see kind of 84 or number two from Dark Horse Comics by Zach Rosenberg, Art by Jared Column.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a 1980 set ancestor of Usagi of Jimbo.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, a bit of a caper Pete.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're our rabic guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is this the rabid you're fighting with?
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, no, gosh.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh man, I don't break this rabbit's going to break it in my heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, all right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I just love this.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is such a cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the art is really fantastic.
[SPEAKER_00]: The art style, the interesting kind of story.
[SPEAKER_00]: The great back matter.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a fun package.
[SPEAKER_00]: Great times.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm having an nostalgia bath with this.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't tell me nothing.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a blast.
[SPEAKER_04]: In the same way that Splinter, before he was mutated because of the ooze, learned a lot of karate.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to go teach the rabid and peats back yard some great samurai technique.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not a part of time.
[SPEAKER_04]: Don't do that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah, you haven't done a hard enough time with the non-samurai rabbit.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I don't know what I'm about to do.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm about to do a bit of it real trouble.
[SPEAKER_04]: That rabbit's gonna, you're gonna be trying to get because he's stealing your what?
[SPEAKER_04]: Carrots?
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know what you're talking about.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's the problem here, but he's you're gonna go out there with your nunchucks, which is a assume you have in your hand when you're outside up with the country and the whip of madam and he's gonna grab him out of your hand and fucking kick your ass.
[SPEAKER_04]: This it's crazy to see I feel like you know, we we have talked to the creative creators behind this so we know a little bit of the backstory But it feels to me like this is like what if we sell you Jimbo was more of a Badass just a non stop badass and that's literally what you get in this comic and what's the fun of crossing over the 80s with this character It's just kind of making a more badass, you know, we were all very cool in the 80s
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, no doubt.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's just flash a couple of pictures of each of us.
[SPEAKER_04]: And here we go.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I'm just taking with the editor.
[SPEAKER_04]: They can't find a single one from each any of us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing's crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were all burned.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm hearing that's very strange.
[SPEAKER_01]: Gorgeous hard to this book.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jared Colab is drawing that out of us.
[SPEAKER_01]: It looks beautiful.
[SPEAKER_01]: I also left a little backup pages.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're doing where it's them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Creating the story very cute back up there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go on talk about green lantern number 34 from TC comics written by Jeremy Adams Art by Igguarra were split into two stories here.
[SPEAKER_01]: One how Jordan is trying to track out next.
[SPEAKER_01]: Excuse me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kyle Rainer is trying to track down So the escaped convicts on earth.
[SPEAKER_01]: Meanwhile how Jordan is lost in space with one of the wonder twins Trying to find out something
[SPEAKER_01]: is going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you meet some very me and guardians who have turned evil again?
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess stern.
[SPEAKER_01]: Stern.
[SPEAKER_01]: Stern?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, I, uh, I, I, I, this is a font.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is just having a fun.
[SPEAKER_04]: The cover is excellent.
[SPEAKER_04]: We get a Beverly Hills 2814, uh, 902 a no style parody, which I thought was awesome.
[SPEAKER_04]: And, uh, I like the split nature of this.
[SPEAKER_04]: I like seeing Kyle Reiner not just be sort of a square green lantern being able to do some stuff.
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, this is, Jimmy Adams is having fun with this green lantern.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, and this is also is the name of the character, Odyssey, the one that he's hanging out with that she used to be a space criminal, and now they're trying to make her make her way in Hollywood, which I think is a very fun place to stick Kyle and characters.
[SPEAKER_01]: Really enjoyable, really better textual because Jeremy, of course, has a background in TV and Hollywood stuff as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the house stuff is really interesting as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why we're doing like
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, the Guardians are evil again, but it's interesting, so we'll take that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the Green Lantern team up with the Wunder Twin was awesome, cool kind of fight stuff, great art, the kind of Orco Guardians are not my bag, but yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, let's see if this is your bag, Pete.
[SPEAKER_01]: Cyclops, number three for Marvel, written by Alex Pactedoll, Art by Roche, Ad Tonyo.
[SPEAKER_01]: Cyclops's lost his visor is teaming up with the young mutant to begrudgingly is trying to help get it back.
[SPEAKER_01]: And meanwhile, a new version of the Reverser on their tail.
[SPEAKER_01]: leading to a big confrontation about the end of the issue, this book is bad ass.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is great.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we talked to Alex at the beginning of the year about this book and he really talked about his passion that he's pushing and putting into this and trying to make this a defining story for Cyclops.
[SPEAKER_01]: So far, he is.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's at least two moments in here.
[SPEAKER_01]: One where Cyclops lets loose on one of the rivers that cuts this wide paddle that Roger had,
[SPEAKER_01]: crushes, and then the final page is so cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: I love this.
[SPEAKER_04]: I love the redemptive goal that Alex had with this comic, and to achieve it in a way that isn't through a bunch of speeches or a bunch of talking about continuity and dealing with all that, just like being a badass.
[SPEAKER_04]: Because I feel like by the end of this issue, that last panel is badass moment for
[SPEAKER_04]: It was great and it made me angry that no one has attempted a redemption story like this for Cyclops because it's right there.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's capable of this for so long and I love that we're finally getting there but it's crazy we had to have this character be such a bummer for some.
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... uh... it's a lot to impact their but okay man i'll give you i'll give me the fact that the the cyclops like all red kind of like lying going through the panels was really badass looking and very cool okay i will give you that's all the tron uh... but okay what do you give me
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not giving you shit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Please give some more.
[SPEAKER_00]: Alex?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a breed presence for just one person.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you bring gum to class, you have to bring gum for everybody.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want a treat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Shut up, teacher.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I gave you that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Justin, what I'm not going to give you is that last panel was bad ass.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's sitting there.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, oh, you're talking.
[SPEAKER_00]: You must be thinking of the one with the claws.
[SPEAKER_01]: The fuck you don't know Wolverine's name, you're just gonna refer to him as classic, what the fuck are you talking about, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
[SPEAKER_04]: Ex-man to me my colleagues that uh, but he's being wrong.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, here's the thing, but like uncanny 279 Cyclops still didn't know Wolverine's name, but it was too embarrassing to ask.
[SPEAKER_04]: We've all been there You have those people you're like, uh, I keep up with this person.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know their name Like you're gonna just talk to them about like, yeah, she's the one with their claws.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's she's the one who wears hats
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you hope somebody says it at some point, but he's constantly calling people Bob, so you don't know what he names when Wolverines around, same sort of thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's tough.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hear something like, Cyclops is a dick.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just have him be a dick and he's the leaders that you're not.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry, that criticism doesn't make any sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you want him to be a dick and you don't like the fact that he's being a dick to Wolverine at the end.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, what I'm saying is everybody's like all cyclops he's the leader so it's okay that he's like a douchebag or whatever because he's carrying the leadership, you know, around with them and it's hard on them and so that's why he's an asshole.
[SPEAKER_00]: and I bought that I was like okay fine that's who Cyclops is, but now we're like no Cyclops is a badass and now we're gonna have to sit through this bullshit where he's like I'm a soldier and like I'm just I'm not a year for it
[SPEAKER_04]: I would invite you to look at Cyclops with some fresh eyes because there's none of that leader stuff that you all you're talking about, none of that's in this comic.
[SPEAKER_04]: This comic is about a hero, a person who is stuck in a bad situation who has cool mutant powers, you even said that they looked cool on the page and he's out there just fighting his way through.
[SPEAKER_04]: And yeah, a bunch of people don't know Wolverine, that's normal.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, if I was on a trap to an island and someone was like, oh, who's that like, I wouldn't be like, oh, Peela Page.
[SPEAKER_04]: I would be like, the one who yells the most.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd like you to look at it with fresh eye.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's good.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hold.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, we do it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_04]: We haven't audienceed here.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're just going to hold for the left.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can you hit the button that puts up the lag light?
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think they're seeing it right now.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alex, the Fossine is black.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's like so bright.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's blasting so hard.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what's going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe dial it back a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: You think it's too bright?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's too bright.
[SPEAKER_04]: Here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_04]: They're all wearing sunglasses, Alex.
[SPEAKER_04]: They're very cool people.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, maybe they should look at it with fresh.
[SPEAKER_04]: I Oh shit.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah, they're laughing so loudly.
[SPEAKER_04]: Can't hear it's like super something.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's psychops only has one eye No, he's the moment the claws I believe I also just you
[SPEAKER_01]: What I just said clear is for anybody listening the joke of the thing is he's like Come on.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought you were merciful and he's like no, that's the moment of the class He knows what Wolverine's name is.
[SPEAKER_01]: We know that people may or may not know that I don't want to clarify.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just like why is he being coy?
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what his name is?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's not being coy.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a lovely way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it's just the audience.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's fine
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, uh, this show is like a death fight forever number three for the mixed college.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I had to make sure my buddy Lexus Zerett who's gonna die first.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Kenzie and Irwin Poppa, this podcast, maybe from the cave to the grave.
[SPEAKER_01]: Bring it on.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'm the grave.
[SPEAKER_01]: This series like we talked about over the previous two issues is like what have Street Fighter master the universe and every other 80s cartoon at a baby here.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're getting a bad guy at a good guy or team it up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Take it to the big bad guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: If I did an alligator in this issue and it's pretty cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this is a blast.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a fun over the top 80s and such a great way.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just think that it starts off with that kind of slow burn.
[SPEAKER_00]: It kind of gets you in that mood, that zone.
[SPEAKER_00]: It really delivers.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just the fun villain transformation as this jacked alligator.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just think this is such a great job.
[SPEAKER_04]: uh... the eighties fund is just non-stop and uh... it's not going to stop here so keep enjoying there's no war of nostalgia bath in what pizza is driving right now this is like pure uh... all of that jam together in comic book form and it is uh... the artist fantastic
[SPEAKER_01]: yeah this book is basically like going to the corner store check it out to the comic book spinner rack buying a bunch of candy go to the back play and street fighter to eat the candy with one hand while you jab the joystick with the other it's great great stuff
[SPEAKER_01]: The century, number two, from Marvel, written by Paul Jenkins, art by Christian Rosato, the century, as usual, is having severe mental problems.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what this book is about.
[SPEAKER_01]: Shabbat.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh boy, this poor guy, he is dealing with his dog, who is dying of cancer, but also the fact that once again, his relationship to the void has changed in a significant way,
[SPEAKER_01]: this is going in directions that i definitely did expect even from the first issue uh... but man it's uh... i don't know i'm gonna repeat the things i said the first issue but like poll jacans gets the century like nobody else he redefines the century like nobody else
[SPEAKER_01]: just really continually dives in and keeps twisting and turning over this guy's psychology and new ways.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really hard to read but in a incredibly well done way.
[SPEAKER_01]: At the same time as you're getting some big action and big sequences at the same time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was really moved by the
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... stupid crystals line was great uh... yet the dog cancer stuff was just too sad uh... for me to deal with but uh... yeah i'm not a century guy but some really cool ideas here and some great moments yeah i mean i i think a sense like the dog cancer stuff was sad is like that that makes a lot of sense yeah i thought it was fun but okay
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, Paul Jenkins was, I think the main creator of the century, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Dawkins?
[SPEAKER_04]: Dawkins?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: And so, like, he'd, like you're saying, that's why he understands his character so much.
[SPEAKER_04]: I like that we're coming in through the, the dog, the dog's illness story to get to the, a much darker turn than I, it looks like it's coming next issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's, it's under the dog cancer.
[SPEAKER_00]: God damn.
[SPEAKER_04]: It isn't, yes, another great polco from the show.
[SPEAKER_04]: It isn't John Wick based, but it's like the emotional version of that.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I'm excited for a comic, for an issue that has a lot of talking at the top between the century and read Richards about just pretty regular stuff that's bumming a, bumming him out.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm surprised that this is such a win for you, Pete.
[SPEAKER_01]: Harley and Ivy life in crimes number five from DC Comics by Erica Henderson were continuing to follow the relationship between the two.
[SPEAKER_01]: They are on the run and hiding out at mall hunkels in Brooklyn developing their relationship and also figuring out how they feel about kids and as it turns out it's very differently not to steal your thunderpeet but this was my favorite cover of the week.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry you had one comment and I took it.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is great.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's just a beautiful composition by Erica Henderson.
[SPEAKER_01]: We get Ivy and Harley hanging out in a street in Brooklyn.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a great bit of graffiti of Mahagko with the pot on her head in the background.
[SPEAKER_01]: You get this incredible like
[SPEAKER_01]: Rod Iron staircases.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, but I think what really doesn't is just the different attitude between Ivy and Harley on the cover here Ivy is hotty.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's got what leg up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Harley has those big eyes the way only Erica Henderson could draw them and she's drinking like a slurpee or ice coffee or something like that She's got a big sack of the stuff that they've gotten probably from the bodega.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's some pigeons.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just everything about it I love it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love this
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's a very New York moment, which is something that we'll walk you through Pete after we get off after you finish with your web.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I definitely agree that it does have such a great New York vibe to it, but also really says a lot about the characters and such a still moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: really great cover the captures a lot but yeah the art is really the hero here for me it's just such a cool take on these two characters the way they look and act in this comic
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... some really fun small uh... moments love the the bits and the art style but overall i just love the vibes of this comic is just such a cool thing to open up and get into uh... just something about the way the art takes care of you in this comic it feels so great
[SPEAKER_04]: really fun turn on the last page.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's amazing that Poison Ivy is having such a renaissance right now in the DC universe.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ironically, on the heels of Harley being such a big exposed overexposed, some might say character.
[SPEAKER_04]: To have Ivy be just the crushing it so much in comics and again in this one, this is great to see.
[SPEAKER_01]: The infertile hall could number six from Marvel written by Philip Kenny Johnson, art by Adam Goreham, the infertile of Hulk has raised a demonic city on earth and it hasn't made the heroes very happy, so they're gutting directly for him this issue to the point that Iron Man wants to kill him and is like, I'm going to kill you Hulk, which really threw me for a loop, maybe for their friends.
[SPEAKER_01]: their friends and usually they're like we got to figure out a way to stop the whole could not we need to burn her in.
[SPEAKER_01]: But maybe it's pointy to the dire circumstances they're in and things only get worse by the end of the issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you guys think about this?
[SPEAKER_04]: I think the quote that maybe sticks out to you that felt maybe a little not Tony Stark is I found a weapon he needs to make a better one and now I'm going to kill your ass with it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Syracuse, not at Tony's job.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe that was the one.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, here's the thing though, this is elevated.
[SPEAKER_04]: We've gotten so much elevated horror in this series and now we're like, this is like a comic book version of Renaissance paintings, like Iron Man's and like a almost steam punky and like angel armor situation and the Hulk is like a Frankenstein tearing apart
[SPEAKER_04]: at the Edge's Muscle Monster.
[SPEAKER_04]: And so these two are fighting in a way that is as big as him being like, I must kill the beast, that he's like Gaston here.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I do think it works in its elevated way.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I do like that we're sort of going back and forth between these big monster issues and the smaller town stuff happening with Bruce and Betty.
[SPEAKER_04]: Excuse me, that's a good balance.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, just that I love this comic there's so bad as the way it starts and this kind of like first page where you kind of get this epic monster world and kind of feel too, which is really incredible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and this kind of Iron Man and what I put like medieval Hulk Busters suit and then later they called the Hell Busters suit Yeah, this is just really badass.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Hulk is very unkillable in this, and it's really frustrating Tony Stark and the room full of assholes who are trying to murder this Hulk.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Yeah, I just think this is so kind of like
[SPEAKER_00]: Hulk turned up to 11 here in such a crazy way that I can't wait for the next issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't wait to see what's going to happen next.
[SPEAKER_00]: This has so many kind of jaw-dropping moments in this issue where you're just like, what is happening?
[SPEAKER_00]: All of these shit.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I'm really excited to see how he's going to land this, and now this is all going to kind of unravel here at the end, but man, what a blast this is.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, from infernal to hell, the crown, a tale of hell, number two from Dark Horse Comics, written by Mike and Yola, and Todd Minyola, no relation, art by Warwick, Johnson, and Condwell.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the second part of a two-part storyline, focusing on hellboy cousins is probably...
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe not the best way of putting it, but L-way of putting it, and showing their machinations to take control of the throne, leading into, I believe this takes place, pre-Hellboy, so leading potentially into directly how we got Hellboy in the first place, which I don't know if we ever have seen.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have honestly not sure.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't think so, and that may be the point.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like I feel like my
[SPEAKER_04]: he sort of completed his Hellboy story for the time.
[SPEAKER_04]: And now he's orbiting it so hard.
[SPEAKER_04]: We've done it with this a little bit.
[SPEAKER_04]: All of these small series he's doing are sort of taking a little piece in me, like a little member of Hellboy.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's here's a little chunk of that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Here's where approaching this part of the mythology.
[SPEAKER_04]: And now it feels like it's circling back to something very basic and core to Hellboy.
[SPEAKER_04]: But that makes me think, are we, is this leading to new hellboy for my, yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: How many times have I said that in the last five years?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was going to say actually I believe my counter is up to five years at this point of I say he's bring it back hellboy and we're not there yet, but he is not this issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: It made me very excited for it because I was like this is help boys origin story.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's coming back My springing on back.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is all set in it off.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was losing my mind because I was like, well, he's shit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh boy
[SPEAKER_01]: Just to talk about this issue though, I thought this miniseries was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is one of my favorite hellboy adjacent things that's come out in the past couple of years.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it was much funnier than the other ones and just watching, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: I could have seen this as an ongoing with all these debits in hell, jocky egg for power and pushing up against each other.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had a good time and the art was very good as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, it's amazing, yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Rogue, ooh, you had more.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was just going to say I also enjoyed it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I liked the sort of palace intrigue of in the, that we got a lot here and the fact that it is leading to something I didn't expect, it didn't see coming.
[SPEAKER_04]: So that was a nice added bonus in the back half.
[SPEAKER_01]: Rook for number four for a Marvel written by Eric Rose I got very it's been a long night Art by Jim to Rogue has been dealing with some weird memories that she's been having a changes to her powers she finally gets an under control this issue but we also find a pretty sad reason for everything that's been going on known with her man this issue really packs an emotional punch by the end
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, and I think it does that especially because it's such a fun, very old school-style rogue story for the first two-half, two-thirds of it where she's just like figuring out she's sort of like light-hearted and much more fancy-free than we've seen, A in a long time in the continuity because she's been like leading her team of millions down south and all of that.
[SPEAKER_04]: And just in general, in this series, she's been very stressed the whole time to have that
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think that you're right, it does like start out very typical fun roaches, punching a bunch of bad guys, you know, it's nice.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then the turn and the nemesis kind of reveal is like, oh shit, so we got some questions and some concerns here, so I kind of got, I was
[SPEAKER_00]: I was having too much fun where I was like, oh no, I don't want to go down this dark path here and find out about this horrible tale.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was having so much fun with this road, but it's in great hands.
[SPEAKER_00]: The arts great, Erica does such a great job of writing this.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm gonna shut my mouth and enjoy the rest of the story that she's gonna tell.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Find her.
[SPEAKER_00]: Shut your.
[SPEAKER_01]: Shut your mouth.
[SPEAKER_01]: Parallel the brutal dark as we're Kain mystery number three from DC Comics.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, DC.
[SPEAKER_01]: Vertigo written by Chris Condon art by Jacob Phillips, continuing to follow as we're Kain's investigation of this maniacal operation.
[SPEAKER_01]: He runs into.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's fair to say it's ex-girlfriend who's also investigating at the same time and we get some romantic sparks, this is you as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mama.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, watch him, watch him.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you guys think?
[SPEAKER_01]: How are you feeling about this three issues said?
[SPEAKER_00]: You guys just made it creepy with the noises there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean this continues to be great.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love Pete's take Please stop.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, let's just drop me up some more of those opinions.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god They just say the little more slow Hi, drama you're closer to the mic, Pete
[SPEAKER_00]: The Toys interns, you know, you can tell that this is in a very capable hands and, you know, I really do love the kind of art and tone that this comic is.
[SPEAKER_04]: Capable hands who have really thought through what the very long term story that's being told here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Excellent, this team is unbelievable on my favorite teams in comics right now, as I've said so many times I want to highlight though, and this the the colors of this.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's yes, there's a couple great Just pages throughout the first pages and beautifully done here We're laying out.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's a lot of story to be told in this There's a big Sort of an interview that happens and then the first chunk of it and then we get some just great like
[SPEAKER_04]: Setting the stage like subway car at one point is just so cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: The colors are just so well done in this great another new favorite series
[SPEAKER_01]: Last but not least, Mark Spector, Moon Knight, number three from Marvel, written by Jen McKay, art by Dev Malyah, Promenek.
[SPEAKER_01]: This issue, Mark Spector, Moon Knight, is going up against Bushman, is that the day of the character?
[SPEAKER_01]: Bushman, Bushman, Harold Bushman.
[SPEAKER_01]: He is my dentist, I believe.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, it's a they're being good at on by Zodiac leading to another big twist at the end of this issue Pete you're the mood-night guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: How are you feeling about this?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, yeah, I'll try not to be upset that you put this all the way at the end of the stack But yeah, this is great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I only put it at the end because it was the worst one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go ahead.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh You son
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I loved all the action in a lot of cultures.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's a nice way to say goodbye pee.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, a quick a swift kick to the nuts is send you Kick to your pants.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's an Irish should it?
[SPEAKER_04]: That's called an Irish.
[SPEAKER_04]: Goodbye I'm pretty sure it's an Irish.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how we say goodbye to people if I wedding
[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't an Irish writing, I was there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I like the power up here that Moon Knight got.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is badass tons of great action, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then the fun kind of last panel twist is the Dark Shadow.
[SPEAKER_00]: Falls over the city.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I I will tune in next time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm having a blast with this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you very much To enjoy it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Pete's gonna keep his mouth shut and tune in like a good radio fan.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, the last major meal.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was like X Machina Anybody else the comic?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm familiar with that next Machina
[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, isn't there, I mean, the big reveal at the beginning of X Machina is that one of the, only one of the twin towers had fallen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought the reveal was that New York had gone dark.
[SPEAKER_01]: Dark.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's the freedom.
[SPEAKER_01]: Over the, over the, if anything, I thought it was very reminiscent of Thunderbolts, the movie, though I assume they're going in a different direction there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought maybe there was something like maybe the moon was gone and there was like this black kind of shadow in the place or It was a giant like monster blocking.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's something went wrong with a big night mission So it's like spewing midnight over the city.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know whatever
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a group.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's a group.
[SPEAKER_01]: God, I hope it's a venom thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: That would be so cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love that.
[SPEAKER_01]: That character is exposure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love this book so far, actually.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have said this with the previous two issues, but I always feel like Jen McKay starts his runs strong on boot night and then they sort of like,
[SPEAKER_01]: Fizzle off into other things, but these have been three killer issues at a row, and my opinion.
[SPEAKER_01]: And part of that was, we started with the very, oh my gosh, what is it, Declan, Chalvi, Morenellis, run of Mood Night, where he's in the estate asylum.
[SPEAKER_01]: The first issue felt a lot like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was surprised they didn't continue that long-term.
[SPEAKER_01]: But instead it feels like the structure of this new book is we're getting like,
[SPEAKER_01]: big concept of the issue, wrap that up, tee up our next big concept at the end, and I love that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like this is really working for me.
[SPEAKER_04]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's good.
[SPEAKER_04]: And like you're saying, I think it's escalating well, which is hard to do.
[SPEAKER_04]: And especially with a character like Moon Knight that is, it seems to get more complicated rather than less so.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that is it for the stack.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, and we'll see you in Pete's shotgun backyard
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's just turn back to number one Let's just turn back to number one Let's just turn back to number one Let's just turn back to number one Let's just turn back to number one
[SPEAKER_02]: They sit on crap-bake couches and they let us see what we can And he's just a monkey, they're like bad special guests To wrap your brain paleo, don't be late for it, don't be real