[SPEAKER_01]: What's up, everybody?
[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the Stack on Alex.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm Justin.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Pete.
[SPEAKER_01]: And on the Stack, we talk about a bunch of books that have come out this week review.
[SPEAKER_01]: We do, you haven't been here for a little bit, Pete.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we're gonna have to re-assimilate you to this whole thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: First of all, comic books.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're like regular books, but they have very, very funny pictures.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, or they're like comic strips, but really stretched out.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Really, like a imaginative hack art of the horrible was doing whatever it does, but over the course of 20 pages.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Garfield Jason, like 50 Lezani.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that sounds great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's, uh, honestly, the dream.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you can leave the dream to, if you subscribe for add free versions of our podcast and all the podcast, we do with patreon.com slash comic book club.
[SPEAKER_01]: We also have an active discord.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm entering a lot on our podcast because I mentioned it to podcast the other day and somebody was like, you have a discord, even though I said it a bunch of times, I usually say at the end of the podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: come hang out, come hang out, come hang out, y'all
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I don't know too much happened to love that almost turned into a cat called a dean impression or something I don't know why don't we move on and talk about the comic books that I'm going to put a spoiler and warning here for everything we talk to you about But we're going to kick it off with absolutely green arrow number one from DC comics We're in by porn sack piece of show to art by Raphael Albuquerque and we talked to the TV at this book a couple of days back It is in the comic book club feed
[SPEAKER_01]: so you can check it out, great chat with them, really fascinating to talk to them about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But they're not here, baby.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we can talk freely about this comic book, cut loose.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I do want to hear from you because I think Justin and I we read it before we were like, this book is awesome to both of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pete.
[SPEAKER_01]: We haven't talked to you about it yet.
[SPEAKER_01]: What did you think about?
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: And let's remember that Pete has a grudge against Green Arrow for some sort of undisclosed reason from like over a year ago when Green Arrow.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's what like David's household.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's like literally betraying the betrayed his whole family.
[SPEAKER_00]: He just walked away for a game.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I do want to mention that's a different Green Arrow.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it was in the event to absolute power which sounds title-wise very similar to this.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, when it comes to this, you had me a curkey.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the guys aren't as unbelievable.
[SPEAKER_00]: We had you at the last syllable of his name.
[SPEAKER_02]: The last, that's the last thing I said.
[SPEAKER_00]: I said several things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you go on, you go on.
[SPEAKER_00]: But all you have to say is around.
[SPEAKER_01]: Go on down.
[SPEAKER_02]: You go on.
[SPEAKER_00]: You talk a lot, but once you say that artist name, I'm in.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was very happy with the art, the style.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I love a small start.
[SPEAKER_00]: We start in a single drop of blood, just setting the tone, setting the style.
[SPEAKER_00]: It has a cool new art feel to it, love the action.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this is kind of like a felt like,
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like that, but what if that was all of a queen kind of kind of feel to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, just to clarify a little bit about the continuity here.
[SPEAKER_01]: This takes place after the absolute evil special where all of a queen in the absolute universe was murdered by a cabal of billionaires.
[SPEAKER_01]: So now in this book, we're getting a mysterious masked man killing those billionaires and other billionaires.
[SPEAKER_01]: basically a serial killer for billionaires while Dina Lance who is a former MMA fighter is forced to be a bodyguard for some of these billionaires and starts clashing with the serial killer.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's where you get into this book.
[SPEAKER_01]: Go ahead, Pete.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so I thought it was awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love the badass kind of look of green arrow here.
[SPEAKER_00]: He kind of got plus stuff on his absolute kind of take.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I thought that was cool and really kind of focused on how smooth and badass he was.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I was enjoying all of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it was well executed through the art.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm excited, kind of had a fun reveal at the end.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so yeah, I'm kind of,
[SPEAKER_00]: So I need to get more of this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think this is fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love this book.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's my favorite of the week.
[SPEAKER_02]: Great way to kick off this stack.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, great way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alex, nice job.
[SPEAKER_02]: Really great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, no problem, guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anytime.
[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of people have different ways to approach their stack, to put a bang or a number one, both.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got to say Alex Bolt.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the signal.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the radio signal I'm putting up front.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: Famously usually not the first track on an album, but you want to build to get best one.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really put it a number of things.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now you put it a number one because after that it starts getting too long.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're like, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: What am I doing?
[SPEAKER_01]: I got to watch my dishes or something.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Gen Z Correspondent.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_02]: The except for the dishes grow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Scrolls.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I've got to scroll my dishes what I was going to say though is this is it's so dark It gets dark immediately stay stark that when we were talking to the tea the creative team on this I was like it's wild to me that this is a dark book set in the dark universe and almost everything is ripped from the headlines of our life The stories about building there is being absolute monsters so like
[SPEAKER_02]: that was funny and really that part resonated with me a bit harder i think the art of this fantastic it is very uh... raffle abracurkey but sort of and what much more horror infuse like darker um... when we talk to them also he was talking about like uh... everyone's worried if i was going to like get in trouble with uh...
[SPEAKER_02]: with the sensors with the crossing the comics code line and he was like, don't worry, I know how to deal with them.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he was able to draw this book and have it be just like fucked up and not crossing the line into true depravity.
[SPEAKER_02]: So very cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: great book let's see if we got a cheaper here with ultimate impact reborn number one for barvel written by Chris Condon art by Stefano Casselli we all start to Chris Condon last week on the live show about this book and this takes place just to he specified I asked about the continuity of this because it's been a little confused.
[SPEAKER_01]: confusion.
[SPEAKER_01]: This takes place directly after altered its spider-man incursion where miles prowess comes back from the ultimate universe with a bunch of origin boxes which are powers from the ultimate universe that should have gone to people but didn't.
[SPEAKER_01]: So for example in this book you have wonder-man's powers that didn't go to Simon Williams to the ultimate universe now they're at a box and they end up with another guy who is going to become the new wonder-man
[SPEAKER_01]: in the Marvel Universe in addition to the previous wonderman.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's kind of what's going on here, while we also meet a villain called Hostilicus, who is in the negative zone in the ultimate universe, Miles is trying to get the origin boxes across Tauti Stark.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why Tauti couldn't just come to him, who is to say.
[SPEAKER_01]: But basically, it doesn't do house calls, it doesn't do house calls.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, but yeah, we can just forget that we set up here of how these origin boxes end up in various places.
[SPEAKER_01]: Presumably, one of them, we see them sort of like pop out to a bunch of different places.
[SPEAKER_01]: One of them ends up as we'll talk about later in the stack in the events of Wolverine, weapons of Arby Geton, uh, but let's talk about this book.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, how'd you feel about this?
[SPEAKER_01]: I know Justin, you're a big content fan where you con or pro.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I like this book, Chris Collins is a great writer, and I like that it did pick up quickly.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is sort of like a chase issue of this.
[SPEAKER_02]: And like there's a lot of energy we get the spot as a film that Miles Brown is fighting.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, my larger thoughts are like,
[SPEAKER_02]: The just trying to understand the Marvel superstructure here because we have the origin box is which just from a look They look like printers They look like sort of you let Packard printer I'm like oh, I wish they looked a little cooler.
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess once they open we're not gonna be chasing them anymore But between this and what happens in the Wolverine book I was like can we have these look a little like we had the infinity gems the infinity stones and later renamed I like those were awesome
[SPEAKER_02]: In this, these are like, best-by purchases that everyone's like, cold onto those.
[SPEAKER_02]: But in general, I also don't understand how the origin box is feeding to Armageddon, these feel like very different ideas.
[SPEAKER_02]: Origin boxes feel like something that is very common.
[SPEAKER_02]: Booky feels like a 90's summer crossover, which is maybe what we're getting, where it's just like big ideas, simple.
[SPEAKER_02]: People who don't have powers are getting powers are going to be conflict there.
[SPEAKER_02]: On the other hand, the road to Armageddon that's been being built up by ships at Arskie feels like very much like nations at war, bureaucracy, power, the sham of who holds power, multiple people sort of pretending to be something they're not.
[SPEAKER_02]: and militaristic strategy.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't see how these two ideas are going to be reckoned.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, there was a really good interview I was listening to with Chris Condon that I did last week, where he was talking about how this is kind of its own thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: In a certain way, and a lot of what he's concerned about is
[SPEAKER_01]: what happens when power falls into the hands of either the right people or the wrong people, what does it do to them?
[SPEAKER_01]: And it doesn't necessarily make the right people do the right thing, it doesn't make the wrong people do the wrong thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: But he's really coming from a character reaction.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I would say, I agree with you wholeheartedly what you're saying, just at all jokes aside.
[SPEAKER_01]: But at the same time, this to be feels like the best example of connective fiber,
[SPEAKER_01]: We've played a lot about like these very Biddle books where like we're on the road are beginning to come in here's the road target We're still there.
[SPEAKER_01]: We just took a left of the road to our beginning.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now we're on another road.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you know and this is for the road I mean, yes, and this mass.
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely and this is that for sure, but
[SPEAKER_01]: The fact that Chris kind of like really takes the tide to let us sit with all of these characters and get to know them in little vignettes before they get these powers, I thought worked really well for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was intrigued and interested by all of these guys, even though you could kind of like see the superstructure over it, just in terms of this issue, I liked what was going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Two things one Alex I have your origin box, and I'm hoping one day you earn it Secondly Justin you okay, so I have so many questions.
[SPEAKER_01]: So is this my powers that you're keeping or is this right me from the ultimate universe So you have my powers your powers you have an earned them yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: I keep waiting for you to do well Okay, so I was supposed to be so you're the baker this scenario.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're keeping it
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly, quite a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Justin, I think you're misremembering.
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember opening up presents and being like, sick, printer, bro.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you got the Hewlett Packer, oh shit.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the inkjet.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, so I think maybe you've blocked that part out of how cool it is to get a printer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's hook it up before breakfast, so we can print stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am.
[SPEAKER_02]: Tackle this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Line up the PDFs.
[SPEAKER_02]: We like everyone pick your pdf.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're like the colors on the spy chart.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyways, I think this book is fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd like the the spot kind of back and forth with spider-man here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought that was enjoyable You know, but then there's a creepy guy with blood on his face.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I mean he seems pretty ominous, but Yeah, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: I talked about hostilicus.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like his name is ominous as well
[SPEAKER_00]: Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, both has to name matches the blood on the face.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think Yeah, I wasn't as bothered maybe, but yeah, I thought the art was kind of fun So I had a lightness to it and I think the kind of energy of having spot and spider mango back and forth nicely reflected that Do you think he was given the name has still a kiss or he took it for himself?
[SPEAKER_00]: He seems like a taker
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it was born.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were like, this is little baby hostelicas.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, because that's really nature versus nurture.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think they really made a hostelicas.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, for sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: What are we talking about?
[SPEAKER_01]: Odin number one from image comics written by Margarita Bennett and James Town of the fourth art by the T.C.
[SPEAKER_01]: at Katanichi.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is about a journalist who is investigating a group of neo-Nazis.
[SPEAKER_01]: They end up in a trip to the motherland together, not sure, but doorway, because they believe the door scots are the purest blood.
[SPEAKER_01]: And things go supernaturally wrong by the end of the issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is a tie into the Matt Damon movie.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's out, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why are you coming on to see?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_02]: I certainly hope not.
[SPEAKER_01]: Different gods, different mythologies.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just did I know you were a big fan of this or intrigued by this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I I didn't enjoy this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean like you rarely see a book that goes so whole hard into like white power as The main yeah driving force for the characters to come together But I'll tell you why I made me think like oh, why would they make so much of Nazi Stuff and fascist and like true racism they're chasing like the widest experience like they talk about that a lot in this book
[SPEAKER_02]: So that was interesting and I feel like, oh, I bet it's because they're going to kill everybody and we're going to feel good about when they kill them.
[SPEAKER_02]: So so that's cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean to that, I do like the undercover journalist aspect of this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like the horror nature of it and reminded me of the, and I'm forgetting the name, the show time show.
[SPEAKER_02]: We are the soccer players.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, the soccer players.
[SPEAKER_00]: Baby Hitler.
[SPEAKER_02]: no, that's not a show.
[SPEAKER_02]: Red sheet diaries.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Red sheet diaries.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love David Dukovny's drift into some group.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought this was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: The T.C.
[SPEAKER_01]: A Canadian issue has been doing great stuff now again on the something is killing the children, universe, and that translates exactly properly here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it went into directions.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was not quite expecting really horrified directions by the end of the issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: but like you said, it's going to be eminently satisfying to see these very surfacy Nazis get their due and the characterization they put throughout here of really just like cutting the knees out from these guys immediately in terms of their beliefs, but then also drawing the line between these people who are playing it being Nazis for variety of reasons and a real Nazi when he shows up and it's
[SPEAKER_01]: really scary what he does.
[SPEAKER_02]: Great gradation there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, these people are just sort of losers who fell into this and then you meet someone who's like, oh, this guy is going to be a
[SPEAKER_02]: But much longer, this is gonna be a problem.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Pete Yellowjack, you like Nazi, what did you think about this bug?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it went a little too hard on the white supremacy for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can understand, like, okay, okay, there's a villain.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, well, back off of my boys, is that what you're saying, Pete?
[SPEAKER_01]: What?
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_01]: Two hard on the white supremacy.
[SPEAKER_01]: You wanted them to go lighter on the white supremacy?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I'm just saying, like, take it easy on those guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't like to try it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're showing us a evil villain origin story, but I was like, this is a little too in depth, it's making my skin crawl.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, I just was like, man, alive.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going really hard on this.
[SPEAKER_00]: It just felt achy, but the art was really impressive.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just couldn't get into the material.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was two races for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: New Titans, number 35 from DC Comics, written by Tate Bromble, art by Sammy Bosery and Jordi Taragana with Vicente, Quifentez.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the third part of the art that has found the regular old Titans taken in by
[SPEAKER_01]: a evil half of cyborg that is all machine cyborg.
[SPEAKER_01]: Victor version has broken out on his own and he has recruited a new team to disrupt the machine's programming language.
[SPEAKER_01]: which we get a real layout of why this team was put together and what they were brought in for by the end of this issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it wraps up this first arc and then tees up another arc to come and more mysteries to come.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna throw a thought out to you that I had while I was reading this issue, which really should have occurred to me earlier and I can't believe it did it.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is basically uncanny x-bed, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like this is the original x-bed get captured by Krkoa.
[SPEAKER_01]: professor access to said to new team to get them out that they come to keep going forward, but there's still mysteries and things that go on with Scott Summers who is the cyborg in the situation.
[SPEAKER_01]: It seems like the same exact thing and I don't say that as a doc, I say that is like, oh, I think they really cleverly rift off a thing that people don't actually riff off of quite enough.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, and I do think that especially the first half of this book had real throwback,
[SPEAKER_02]: comic book energy have felt like in 80s or 90s comic with everyone running around it was bit chaotic and then in the second half I feel like we got the emotional nuances that we really needed to give this weight.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really like the night-wing Cory moment which with spoiler walking being like, what's this?
[SPEAKER_02]: Do I need to talk to backroll?
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, well going hard right away.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love the use of spoiler in this and the hype that she did glow up that she's a soccer for spoiler.
[SPEAKER_02]: Love spoiler.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love a spoiler and I love spoiler.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I thought the sort of the win they had at the end here was really good in the conversation between cyborg and himself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that was to me live in the dream, being able to kind of go back in time and play yourself in video games.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that is just phenomenal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, like, that would be the game with the play.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I would go technical role or, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: I would beat yourself for which you go easy on yourself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's the thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like knowing what you know, would you be able to, you know, win against a younger self.
[SPEAKER_01]: So let me ask you a time travel question just to get even deeper into this piece.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I feel like I know the answer to this one, but when you lost a tech mobile, how did you feel when you were a little kid?
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, my brother fought about it all the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you older came back and beat yourself, wouldn't that be awful?
[SPEAKER_01]: Wouldn't you be scarring yourself, which then those scars would last?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but would you, though, or would it be where they'd be epic ties?
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Could you even... Ties?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you remember a tech mobile,
[SPEAKER_02]: the best you are at that game is when you're playing it all the time like you're going back you're too old you will be I would train because I knew I was you know you're going back in time you don't you got any kind of heads up you're going back in time come on now it's like a quantum leap situation so you get back there and you're like oh boy
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it would be an old boy's situation and you would get crushed because he's a man that would be harbour Your younger self would either be the Raiders with Bo Jackson or the Niners No, I was the Giants all day No, you would definitely You can't both be the Giants It's one of you would have to choose another team Well, yeah, then the other you can both be the Giants No, yeah, literally you can Yes, you can How often do the Giants play the Giants in reality?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just asking because they try to mirror that in the game.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Could it be how many players are actually on a football team?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like are there enough, if this is an oddest question, like are there a minor player's oddity for ancients to play themselves?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: There are 53 players on a football team.
[SPEAKER_02]: So they could, yes, definitely.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's how they practice is they play each other.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: But what do they do that?
[SPEAKER_00]: like that would be easy way to get to the super ball like you can win a game just by the giants play the job and just say like a backyard Alex you're just pick a team and they shall do you can play like savers versus savers we used to do that you know you mean like there's that you can
[SPEAKER_01]: We're talking about the demo ball.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's no rules.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're saying, you're running your hands and you're going to do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I did know this in real life, there's no rules in hockey.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, they can do whatever they want in all the points.
[SPEAKER_01]: I also know it's a very sexy sport from watching.
[SPEAKER_01]: For our rules in hockey, and there's a lot of sports from the very, you're seeing those all the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can ride horsey off-campus and tell me how did you take off-campus, dude?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I've seen some clips.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can't stomach him.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, my sports.
[SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't talk about, yeah, yeah, I do.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think we've talked about new tightness stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do we want to talk about?
[SPEAKER_01]: Wolverine weapons of Arma get in number four from Marvel finally ships the Narsky art by Luca Barrasca.
[SPEAKER_01]: This one's pretty simple to understand.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Wolverine is teaming up with David Colton, who is the captain of America of the late 2000s, who has a bit of a heart problem because he can't really sort of limp his kid.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's a beard now.
[SPEAKER_01]: He also has an ironman arc reactor heart, which we didn't know about until this issue and they're trying to track down on another Mutant to has basically Wolverine adabatia, but all over his body.
[SPEAKER_01]: Beadwell in the middle.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's Duke who is a guy who is another takeoff on Captain America
[SPEAKER_01]: but he's crazy and takes pills and he's been cloned and so there's large versions of him that are pites are iberg war robot they're all after this origin box that we mentioned earlier which is also wanted by prime warrior which created the duke clones and of course this is all leading
[SPEAKER_01]: directly to Armageddon in a very clear and sensible way with them.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, listen, like all great comics.
[SPEAKER_02]: No explanation.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's in the box?
[SPEAKER_01]: Every comic was somebody's first and maybe this comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's in the box?
[SPEAKER_01]: First there was a box.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I love comics.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is great.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's the thing is like it's also funny like this and the other the ultimate reborn issue Like there's like so many origin boxes that are just like loose Tumbling all over New York City and here there's one and everyone's fighting over it No even the character there like I don't know what's inside that thing, but I really got to find out.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like what?
[SPEAKER_02]: Really knows What are we talking about here?
[SPEAKER_02]: They're like it has extra dimensional energy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like Okay guys, that's why these blind boxes are so popular, man
[SPEAKER_02]: You think it's the blind bag, the kind of person but I think it's true to that.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, legit though, like it's crazy that Marvel has not put out blind box, origin boxes, where you can get, like, not actual powers, but like if I'm Captain Birkerch, shielded there or like, Spidey's web shooters or something, that's a billion dollar idea, Pete.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Actual powers would be better.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, I'm like, do we do that, Alex?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm literally thinking about this comic book, though.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's like you're said, when you're introducing it, it's very confusing, and I don't know this feels like a comic that is building up the Cold and the Captain America, which is cool, like interesting character, but feels so far away from the story and the story that is convoluted with all these other characters that don't feel as important, like the Tyler character in this,
[SPEAKER_02]: feels like a Wolverine protege, but like, that doesn't seem like what we're actually doing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wolverine thin is like, ah, sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got to go.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, you got to go.
[SPEAKER_02]: What about all these people that you were here?
[SPEAKER_02]: Your names are the title, dude.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can't lean.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, I think what you're kind of getting at is it feels like three different stories running at the same time that don't quite gel.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've got a Duke story.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've got a Wolverine story.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you've got a Captain America story.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the Wolverine story is like the very straightforward one that we see to Billy and Tyves were there is another Wolverine.
[SPEAKER_01]: It has to be like, well, I was wild.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I became not wild.
[SPEAKER_01]: The other Wolverines like, oh, yeah, I could also not be wild.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we get that in there.
[SPEAKER_01]: But then there's like the David Colton and Duke story.
[SPEAKER_01]: which could be interesting on its own, but we don't spend enough time really with David Colton to get it to know him even after that first arc of Captain America.
[SPEAKER_01]: The only thing I did like, this is a big spoiler, but like, they are forced into a situation where they need to give the power of the arched box even though they don't know what it is or we don't know what it is to David Colton.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the way they reveal that is David Colton is alive, he's fine, and that is like, okay,
[SPEAKER_01]: And I thought that was cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a nice feeling like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, it was.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a great little end and moment on this old thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Plus it feels good to give somebody a gift.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they're so happy they flowed away.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, that's just like a adventure.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: Careful.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you're ever had a kids party peed.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's like the worst thing that gets party.
[SPEAKER_01]: Speculation was which
[SPEAKER_01]: powers do you think he has?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because the other complicated part here, and I know we talked about this with Ultimate Impact Report, is he has powers of somebody from the Ultimate Universe who should have been a hero from the regular Marvel Universe, but never got those powers because the makers stopped them.
[SPEAKER_01]: So like, for example, in Ultimate Impact Report, like we were
[SPEAKER_01]: in the ultimate universe did not see their skeleton or the dead or evil or anything like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And their powers were left over and now David Colton has them.
[SPEAKER_01]: So.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, I mean, my first, I had two thoughts right away.
[SPEAKER_02]: The first was century.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm 100%.
[SPEAKER_02]: So like, maybe that's just what it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: The second one is Miss Marvel.
[SPEAKER_02]: So like, Captain Marvel.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Captain Marvel.
[SPEAKER_02]: So like I don't know if they would cross, cross-genders that way, cross us through, just do that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so I don't know, I don't know what we're doing.
[SPEAKER_02]: we have that because like it's also weird like you're saying they're taking a negative from the ultimate version being like look like the idea that at the end of reborn ultimate reborn they're like hey wonder man is the big reveal him like wonder man that's not a big reveal yeah it should be something else but all the other main characters are already half powers in the marvel been the ultimate universe because that was with the launch of the ultimate universe once
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, let's go on and we're continuing to walk that road to Armageddon.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's talk about of the earth, number one, from image comics, written by Chris Condon and Andrew Eric, art by Charlie Adlard, Chris and I also talked about this one, and the thing that's kind of neat here, which he talks about a bit in the back matter, is Andrew Eric as a friend of his from back in the day, who has wanted to break it to screenwriting and for various reasons, has not been able to.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so this is,
[SPEAKER_01]: Chris Cottage basically being like here's a big break let's work together on this comic book with the guy for the walkie dead and so what we're getting here is an eco horror story about a woman who is returning home and things are not all right with the oil in the area is the usual way of putting it to me it was kind of like a twisted a little red riding hood where girls got to go see grandma's house and you know
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, the big, bad wolf letter go, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: So, but I love the the art in this and the tension and not sure what's going on yet, but I think they're setting up something exciting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I thought this was great.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really like there's such a great care given to setting up the story.
[SPEAKER_02]: We get some nice text pages to put us in the right headspace.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then it builds up from like starting with text pages, giving us some history, getting closer to a horrifying image to go out on, which I really like that build, this seems really fun, very excited to read.
[SPEAKER_02]: me to ask it of cash.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's going to cash.
[SPEAKER_01]: Seven wives number one from IDW written by Zoe Tunnel art by V. Ganyard.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the kickoff of the new IDW crime line.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the thing here is that they're doing three oversized issues per title.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you're getting
[SPEAKER_01]: I think what was it, 48 pages, something like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the next two issues are like 40 pages, but still that's bigger than usual.
[SPEAKER_01]: The actual concept, though, is that a cult leader is killed and any one of his seven wives may be the culprit possibly somebody else, but let's be honest, probably one of the wives.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's a you call it a call leader.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's sort of like an old school Mormon.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's part of the, the LDS.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Church of Latter-day Saints.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So like it's not I guess you could call it a call, but it is like something that happens in the world The right pretty common.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I think there's all TV show called sister wives or something like that So there's sister wives big love, which is another show that not to keep plugging old show time shows But another show about Mormon with multiple.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, this is like big love but with murder
[SPEAKER_02]: and cool i think this works like that this also was very meticulous about really getting us into the lives of these different wives they we get to hear a lot from them all the different uh... fucked series of fucked up things that they have going on
[SPEAKER_02]: I love how frustrated the cops are in this.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're so frustrated.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're like, this case sucks.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go get a blind drunk at the bar.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just like, oh wow, it's hard out here for law enforcement.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then they're twisted at the end that I will say I did see coming, but still still enjoyed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this was tough for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: You kind of lost me at the title.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's one of those things where I don't care about a dude who had seven wives, because it's like, are you in my rooting for the wives to kill him?
[SPEAKER_00]: Or like what, you know, who was sad about that?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you're rooting for the dude.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, definitely not rooting for the dude.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a situation that I don't have a lot of knowledge of or why someone would do that or whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, I would be the maximum number of wives.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I could do more than one.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, two, not two.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's definitely more than one, guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nice job.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's weird because Alex and I are said both setting you up with potential potential fiancees and we really want a little while.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a fun show.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you don't know about each other.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a feat.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what I do.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I do.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so we've got to sort you up at the same restaurant and the same guy, what I got to do.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so we need you to, for one of them to be your charming peed, but another one you have to dress up like a Middle-aged British housekeeper.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that was awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because that's what she's into.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what she's into.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I know you like the movie.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did just watch the first half of Mrs. Doubtfire with my kids like two days ago.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's definitely so crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's still good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it's so crazy how they walk you into it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's great.
[SPEAKER_01]: It works.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: Seven wives.
[SPEAKER_01]: Be as good as Mrs. Doubtfire.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's what we're saying.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think this is the Mrs. Doubtfire of horror-based crime.
[SPEAKER_02]: LDS comic book.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_01]: Super metal limited number 13 from DC Comics, written by Dan Slot, Art by Lucas.
[SPEAKER_01]: The main thing that's going on here is there are two John Cance.
[SPEAKER_01]: One of them is the younger version of John Canceau, ostensibly, has been ripped.
[SPEAKER_01]: from his prison in a volcano where he was kept for years, except he was taken out early.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks to some shenanigans from an otherworldly being, is the simplest way to put it again.
[SPEAKER_01]: Meanwhile, the regular older John Kent is now calling himself tomorrow mad and not revealing himself because he wants to give his younger version a chance to assimilate to the modern world.
[SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, he's harboring a lot of reach issues and not helping it is a super powered Beppo
[SPEAKER_01]: a kryptonite infused monkey who is going wild on metropolis.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you guys think about this issue?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, at a very damaged bivou.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, bivou is doing bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bivou do bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think this is a perfect thing for a dense lot because this is kind of, you know, once you add monkeys, there's a silliness to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that guy does great work with kind of absurd of stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I feel like this is a good person for this idea.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a lot going on in this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I, I mean, I like a lot of the the elements of it, but I guess I just want, I just want a little bit of time to process some of this because I was like,
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a spoiler for what happens, but like people get shawng like he's biblical.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Depo is going crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Then we have the dueling John Kent's lowest lane is sort of like, what's happening?
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, I sort of feel a little bit like you lowest.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, she knows.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like the way the challenge is.
[SPEAKER_01]: She knows that it's John is the great app.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, a hundred percent.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's like interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: You must seem to know a lot about how I should be parenting this child.
[SPEAKER_02]: which I thought was, yes, good.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what I'm saying, there's a lot of good stuff here, but I just want to sort of smooth out the story a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: We shall see, next up, Venom, 258 from Marvel, where you buy Al-U-A, by Carlos Gomez.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ah-ah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Dealing with the fallout of the Death spiral crossover, we are at the funeral of Paul.
[SPEAKER_01]: And a bunch of stuff comes out of the conversations and the issues.
[SPEAKER_01]: As Peter and Mary Jade walk through Central Park, and they talk later on, Peter talks to Venom, and we get a new status quo for Venom and Mary Jade
[SPEAKER_01]: How are you guys doing?
[SPEAKER_01]: Are you okay?
[SPEAKER_02]: I've never seen a couple started date at another, let it in X's funeral.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's what happens here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've never seen it, so maybe it's too early, maybe we'll give it a couple of weeks, but you know, you wanna, she's like, oh, it's too early now, no, I think this was not clear, but I think there's a time down there.
[SPEAKER_02]: There is a time down there, but the date is set up.
[SPEAKER_02]: It cuts from them in their funeral clothes, to them in regular clothes.
[SPEAKER_02]: walking out, basically walking along the out of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, there's, Mary Jane did not seem at all upset about Paul's death in any way.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was, I did like, I did like his tubestone, I forgot what it says, but it was like, and the essentially being like Paul would be a dead forever.
[SPEAKER_01]: Never coming back.
[SPEAKER_01]: God, it hell, Paul.
[SPEAKER_01]: Very sad.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was so sad.
[SPEAKER_02]: But the top nut, well, I think the top nut's going to sprout up from the ground.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you think there should have buried him face down, so his top nut could be sticking out of the grave?
[SPEAKER_02]: face down, not up.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's the way.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought this was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought this was a wonderful conversation focused issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of nuance, character, stuff that's going on here as Peter MJ talk.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think all you into a nice job of threading the needle where he's not getting them
[SPEAKER_01]: There is a love there, they both know that maybe they will get back together someday but right now they're on different paths and going in different directions and I
[SPEAKER_01]: Man, I just, I love the Venom MJ relationship as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's really well done.
[SPEAKER_01]: The only bummer, which they had already revealed in solicits and everything, but the new costume design, I liked having the jacked Venom over Mary Jade.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that was kind of fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I understand.
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I understand well ago in the direction they did with Morris felt costume with the red hair stick, you know, but I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree with you, I sort of will miss the larger, but maybe we'll get that.
[SPEAKER_02]: What I like about it is it really reinforced the duality of the character where Mary Jane would step out and be like, hey.
[SPEAKER_02]: stop it or whatever, and in this it's going to be a little bit, I think, it was a nice visual way to show that.
[SPEAKER_02]: The only thing I would say about this is I wanted them to leave the door open a little bit more for either a Peter M.J. relationship starting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Spark there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, like they like it feels like we get there and I really liked the
[SPEAKER_02]: The digestion they went through of what happened in the past and really talking about like what Mary Jane was going through in her trip to the the sideways dimension all that that was great But they go so hard to say like we're friends friends are good It's important to have friends and that's what we are.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, okay Because they other thing they did is they dismissed the flash tops and flirtation as well in this and I was like So give me one
[SPEAKER_02]: Give me one of these.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, why were recapping everything that happened with the fuck happened with Mephisto and why did you whisper to him?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, what the fuck?
[SPEAKER_00]: I just, this was really heartbreaking.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do we still not know that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, the fact that like, the friend zone kind of talk after a long day was just brutal.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Just absolutely brutal to kind of,
[SPEAKER_02]: live through this comic for that conversation uh it was it was rough um I mean you mentioned having a nice date and and with just talking about being friends there's no way any of us of experience sure they're not uh could you imagine a nice date where it ends with you talking to your girlfriend's clothes that you used to wear
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's what I like.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, hey, hey.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm taking your clothes.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got to talk to your clothes Don't close that just me in my clothes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I got to yell at them.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then the clothes yells at you.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's crazy You have to break up with clothes
[SPEAKER_02]: all the time man all the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's over between us pants.
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree with you, Justin.
[SPEAKER_00]: It gives us a little hope.
[SPEAKER_00]: The friend's speech is a brutal and real life.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't need that in my comics.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's all right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think in this book, I'm fine with Peter Parker being
[SPEAKER_01]: totally to the side and not involved because I really like Mary Jane at this book.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really like Mary Jane with Venom.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like the cast that she's been building up.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna miss Paul.
[SPEAKER_01]: Honestly, more than Mary Jane, I guess.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope if this was like a Marvel office decision because they're like, well, we can't have them together in this book because they're going to be together in other books.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, that's what I'm hoping for.
[SPEAKER_02]: Definitely not.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's not how it works.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's not.
[SPEAKER_01]: I people it's Sorry, I'm going to be mean for a second.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's crazy how people delusional people are very Specifically about this relationship and I say this because there's a big management change at Marvel this week like a huge one
[SPEAKER_01]: We're Dan Buckley who's been there for 30 years is now leaving the company next year and being there Sort of like restuffling the whole badge binge structure and the main reaction I shot saw to that was like Well, I hope the new guys coming in get MJ and Peter back together Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the first order of business.
[SPEAKER_00]: First day of the office.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't be What do we do it about this relationship guy really struggling with that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Guy who used to work at Disney music and manages the music division.
[SPEAKER_01]: All he's been thinking about is how we get MJ and Peter Love songs, maybe the right jam.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll bring them back together Let me just one jam.
[SPEAKER_02]: Throughout the the thing the prevailing logic online is that MJ whispered you will let me We'll make me remember everything I do remember talking about and thinking about Okay, so she knows she knows about the I think so and I feel like Peter doesn't know
[SPEAKER_02]: No, she told him to do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's why I know you're mad about it, but I was sort of her idea of bringing back the money.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was her character.
[SPEAKER_02]: A character her is just only disappointed with Peter lately.
[SPEAKER_02]: as we'll talk about in the amazing spider-man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, what do we want to talk about?
[SPEAKER_01]: The rocket-feller is number zero from Coast Machine, an image context written by Peter J. Tomasi, aren't by Francis Manipul.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, we haven't talked about this title in a while, but they're kicking off a new event called The Unbelieveables, but it's going to connect to everything in this part of the Ghost Machine universe or
[SPEAKER_01]: collected into an unbelievable universe, including rocket feathers, hornsby, and a halo, and they're going to introduce a new title is of the trillionaire kid, or something like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whatever it is, there's a couple of others that are teeing up in the back here.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I thought it was worth checking back in with this title.
[SPEAKER_01]: Justin, I know you were a big fan of it when it came out.
[SPEAKER_01]: How did you feel about this issue?
[SPEAKER_02]: I really like this issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I will say I haven't been following this up.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's good, this is a good show, and Erkshow.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a good comic, and I like the arts fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do like the characters.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a little like the first third of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was sort of like, wait, what exactly is happening here?
[SPEAKER_02]: But once we get in there, like it's really fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: And there's a core of regret here when it comes to the mother slash grandmother, the loss of her.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I, I, I, I, I thought this was a fun family adventure here some really amazing art and that VW was sick.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I generally thought this did a better job of introducing it.
[SPEAKER_01]: What is going on here?
[SPEAKER_01]: Better job of introducing it than the first issue did I think like one of my issues with the first issue was that they kind of go back in time and then they're just there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here, we get more of the future stuff that they are bringing with them.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're essentially like the Jetson's travel back in time, but danger, and we get more of that here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought there was more texture down the road, so I'm intrigued to see where this goes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Young, hellboy, thrilling sky adventures, everyone from Dark Horse Comics, written by Mike Manjola and Thomas Tegowski, art by Craig Russo.
[SPEAKER_01]: The idea of this book is that young hellboy is reading his favorite comic, so not only do we get young hellboy, but we get the comic in the comic at the same time.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, he's reading the thrilling sky adventures, Pete.
[SPEAKER_00]: this are you saying oh my for this sky guy yeah the sky devil is fun I love the kind of like 50s feel coloring to the art the kind of cool mood to the comic for the the older stuff uh yeah I think this is fun I love a good smitty and uh yeah I like the tone of this so I had a blast and I thought sky devil was a cool character
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you say you love a good smithy?
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you, I mean, they're like, you're like, a good sacking.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, like foggy is a good smithy.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Faggy is a good smithy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: That dependable person you need to go on adventures.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: You need a smithy, you need a foggy, you need, you know.
[SPEAKER_01]: So sorry, is foggy a smithy or is smithy a foggy?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I mean, I don't have that kind of power, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I mean, I didn't go to court now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't break it down.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I went to court now.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I could determine what is a Spiti and what is a foggy?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, let's see, it's Marty Pans, break it down.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's a great, a mere human.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, foggy is a subdivision of something else that makes a lot of sense to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I would say foggy isn't Spiti.
[SPEAKER_01]: What is that?
[SPEAKER_02]: He has no identity on all on his own.
[SPEAKER_02]: He has just boggies below smidiac after that.
[SPEAKER_02]: You just met and this is random.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's brutal.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a brutal take.
[SPEAKER_02]: He was your take.
[SPEAKER_02]: You said it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It does not.
[SPEAKER_02]: You said it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You are this part of this movie.
[SPEAKER_01]: What you said up for?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they do a day shot with these young couple of comics and these guy adventures are pulpy fun throwback comics as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: So good stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let me ask you though.
[SPEAKER_02]: Young help boy.
[SPEAKER_02]: How much is he just reading along with us?
[SPEAKER_02]: So this is we That's like we're signed by side.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're both like on the floor eating candy with young hellboy Come on, sip it a silly little bit of my concern.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're like your kids wants to care it's a little bit of fun
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, this young cowboy comic is not quite accurate.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's saying hi at the beginning before we hear it in a whole other story.
[SPEAKER_02]: And unless he shows up at some point in this, which time line lines, I don't think he can.
[SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't really make sense in presenting it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's in presenting it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's your mom, Bugs Bunny, who prepares a tray of carrots?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, my mom is, yes, my mom is Bugs Bunny, and my dad is your 70's, Sam.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I'm so glad they got something.
[SPEAKER_01]: They put a side there beef and had a little me Wonder Woman number 33 from DC Comics ridden by Top Kig art by Ted Y'all are in a Sam Perry for continuing the Wonder War storyline where Wonder Woman is going up against the matriarch who is rid of the entire world and this issue she's reunited with Steve Trevor
[SPEAKER_01]: And she, Steve and Trinity are headed to the underworld to do something with the faith specifically to convince them to reverse this terrible timeline.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now I'm going to say something that might be a little bit of a spoiler in a second, but first I want to talk about this book.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, let me say this covers of me.
[SPEAKER_02]: but I continue to enjoy this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm curious what Alex's issue is, but if Tom King's been building toward this, everything feels so deliberate and controlled, I love the fates being part of this at the end, it's just really enjoying this time to find.
[SPEAKER_00]: yeah i agree this is very bad as one woman's fucking shit up uh... the the fight with the river state sky was intense uh... that was kind of crazy her own yet did not see that comment that was intense that was funny because Steve Trevor was like hey can we put us at our differences and then charred just clocks in
[SPEAKER_02]: with a little boat add which I didn't know chair was such a a poor story.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, a sucker puncher.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, hey man, you use the sky.
[SPEAKER_00]: But a fun last panel.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like this continues to be great and a cool story and fun to see kind of Wonder Woman in this world kicking butt.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is your question about Superman?
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... no my quote it's not even a question about dog uh... i did is so i i got to say like i love this issue and one of the things that i really love this about this issue is we spent so much time building up the matriarchers this is stopable badass so once she realizes what one of the woman is done the way the tago said paraphrase her is with the first
[SPEAKER_01]: unsteady shock we've seen her since the character was introduced and i thought that was so well done that gives you a moment of being like oh wonder what it is going to win which of course she is of course she's going to do it but like that's a very it's a it's a thrilling feeling when you're watching it
[SPEAKER_01]: The thing that I'm wondering about is, would we talk to Top King?
[SPEAKER_01]: He said something that's really stuck with me in this arc, which he said that he told us that he had worked for Chris Claremont to the beginning of his career, and he was like, so of course I wrote this as days of future past, which I guess I didn't even realize, but I love Chris Claremont so much, so of course I'm always just ready to stop.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's definitely like the apocalyptic future of days of future past, but the main thing about the age of future past is they travel back to the past to try to stop it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like that's what the actual story of the thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: This issue she goes to the face is she's like, you got a reverse it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I haven't read head-head of my solicits.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how long this arc is gonna go or anything like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that's stuck with me because of like, is that what he's doing here is he's showing us like multiple issues of the future is destroyed.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the Trinity or Wonder Woman gets sent back to the past to try to stop it before it happens.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, yeah, I mean...
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like we're going to get that.
[SPEAKER_02]: You don't think we're going to get that?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, I think we are going to get that.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was done a question.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is just like, I haven't seen anybody discussing this online in Top Kicking told us that they again, I've been thinking about it while I've been reading this, and it just sort of snapped in towards the end of the issue of like, oh, she's going to have the faiths send her back to stop this thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or more likely, send Trinity back, where Trinity, who has already been tied traveling,
[SPEAKER_01]: this back there and then maybe trapped in the past so we get trinity in the present continuity of the DC universe.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I agree with you there.
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, I agree with you about the days in the future past reference.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I mean, he's not going to do a direct homage by the way.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think this is his version of like, oh, I didn't realize I was sort of ripping that off as him being like, yeah, I vaguely encounter those ideas over the course of telling
[SPEAKER_02]: and much different.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, I think you could see all the different people being killed.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's the other direct reference to that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Which is, is has been a big part of this story so far.
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess I thought maybe it would be like a days of thunder thing where, you know, one woman wanted to go back in time, but they're all having ice cream, you know?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, what?
[SPEAKER_01]: I know what you're, I do the movie you're referencing.
[SPEAKER_01]: But, could I reference that?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I understand what you're saying that I don't understand why you would ever say any of those things.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's real a real foggy thing to do and remember foggy is a subsmitty yeah, I would say be more Smitty than foggy and let me just say Pete what I just said about not knowing what you're talking about that applies to this conversation But honestly most Fantastic for it ever 11 from Marvel written by Ryan North and Stan Sikai art by Stan Sikai the front story has the fantastic for trying to figure out what to do about the new future foundation while they're fighting a new mechanical monstrosity
[SPEAKER_01]: And then there's a backup story from Statskai, showing the FFF fighting the Mulman.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, come on.
[SPEAKER_01]: But we want to talk about this one first because Stance your guy, Stance your guy, the backup, the backup was just phenomenal.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's such a cool fun Mulman battle.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I really enjoyed that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I also love the ban and elitia stuff that we got in this issue Really touching and very sweet, but yeah, I love the the energy the backup had was a lot of fun and really kind of felt like a cool old school store Another great use of a printer here when Ben Grimm prints out
[SPEAKER_02]: his plan in Braille for at least a degree.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you think he used an origin box, maybe?
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe.
[SPEAKER_02]: What is a printed origin box for your term paper?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: The maker knew that if you could print things out, you could print leaflets.
[SPEAKER_01]: They could take them down.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we destroyed all a Hewlett Packard in the ultimate universe.
[SPEAKER_01]: But Ironland saved them in some origin boxes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, smart.
[SPEAKER_02]: His is a mainframe is software is heal a packer software.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's why it's absolute dog shoes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Slams take that off of the mage beat.
[SPEAKER_01]: They now homemade you know what is an absolute dog shirt is this issue of fantastic for which is another great issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's some really fun stuff it here throughout bringing back a very much forgotten villain in a very fun way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, it also got really like you were saying peed very pointed towards the end to got choked up a little bit with all the stuff with the leash and the thing I thought it was really sweet and all the things that they had to say about the future I thought that was really nicely done and it is just so interesting seeing Stadza Kai's very specific takes on the fantastic for
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I agree with you on both sides of this.
[SPEAKER_02]: The stance of Kai's stuff, oh, Pete's leaving because he has to go deal with some stance of Kai feelings right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was cool and I liked that it was sort of like a very boiler plate story for him to just come in on and do the backup, which was nice felt like a real statement for him on Fantastic Four.
[SPEAKER_02]: and yes i agree nice emotional story um... getting you know it was a real fallout issue from the invincible woman's stuff which i do think was cool wild how they're keeping her just hanging around yeah back well i mean i think that's got a good like rather than killing a villager getting rid of her she is of the background and she is something that they could bring back at a later point for whatever reason
[SPEAKER_01]: death fight forever number four for the image comics written by Andrew McLean art by Alexis Serrett Algafa Sam McKenzie and Irwin Papa like we talked about with every issue of this this is a riff on double dragon meets he man me Joe me it's just like snorting a bunch of pixie sticks and getting greasy pizza all over the dance while you're playing mortal combat at the pizza place that's what this combat comic
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, a sick cover too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I agree with all that.
[SPEAKER_00]: This has just got fun 80s vibes to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The start where he kind of says press start.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just an nostalgic brings you back.
[SPEAKER_00]: The action, the punching.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, some beer drinking going on here plus a sick backup with headlopper, which also has a lot of beer drinking, so very pro beer in this issue, but I think this is a blast.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will say it's not a backup.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a preview of the headlopper comic that we all have already talked about, but it's still excellent.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because I would say if I had heard about a backup being in this comic, I would rush out and pick it up.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want anyone to be
[SPEAKER_02]: disappointed with what you're getting here.
[SPEAKER_02]: But yes, this is fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really like the the starkness of a lot of the sort of priest character that shows up here that they do battle with.
[SPEAKER_02]: But this feels like an absolute just jam session on pizza.
[SPEAKER_02]: What exists in pizza?
[SPEAKER_01]: absolute flash number 15 for DC comics written by Jeff the mirror art by Nick Robles in this issue absolute flash is continuing to deal with some time travel madness specifically himself coming back from the future to warn him about something possibly in a dream state we're getting more mythology about how this version of the flashes powers work.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know we've been like a little
[SPEAKER_01]: probably more on the positive end of the past, a couple of issues where do you think about this one?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, this is cool, I kind of had an interesting idea where I felt like they kind of brought up this kind of wormhole, the thing that we saw here, and I wondered if they were kind of kind of go with a flashpoint idea trying to tell you in the absolute universe just kind of being a flashpoint thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, this is interesting, great art as always.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they do cool stuff in this absolute flash, so I feel like they're continuing to do so.
[SPEAKER_02]: The rogue stuff is a very interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like the way they play them, that they are just like they're on the run together as a cool way to do that, all of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I like that this is already looping.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is all about time travel.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a darkness.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're getting all these different, very flash-E ideas, but they're being combined in a way that I think works and simplifies the flash, just what the flash can be in the absolute.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the costume I just want to say is very cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I do with the same costume all these issues but just look at this cover right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like that is a really good, very different riff on the flash costume.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's very neat.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, say this feels to me like a key book going into.
[SPEAKER_01]: We know there's going to be an absolute universe crossover thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's going to happen later this year by Jason Aaron.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know any more about it really, but there's a lot of dark side stuff in here.
[SPEAKER_01]: So this feels very much like a key book to whatever the super story they're telling going forward.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and the launch of a comic we just previewed called absolute dog shit.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a little smithy of comic books.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, come on, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: X-Men United number three from Marvel written by Evil Ewing, Ark by Diego Pama.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is about Emma Frost setting up a school of the mind that can bring all of the X-Men together.
[SPEAKER_01]: So of course, in this issue several of them are in a quantum space created by a new character that we've ever been before who seems to have some sort of shield hands who captured America may or may not have known back in the day.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's hired them to kind of find this guy, but it turns out it's not that guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's another guy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: with featuring Captain America as like the main driver of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it just feels so far a field, but like, I like these characters coming together.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Jitter is really well done here.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's an excellent, I really like the Laura Wolverine.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's great here, like I like all this.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's crazy being like, next issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's something wildly different.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's all, it's a catch-all book, but maybe that's what we need.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's some real touching stuff in here, which is nice.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like when our X-Men gets kind of into some more like heartbreaking stories and stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I thought this was cool, great art, especially with the flashback stuff, the different kind of tone and coloring they use there was pretty neat.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let me read the next issue, what's coming in the next issue, so you can see maybe the catacctone here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Graematter Lane is totally safe from all interlopers, all threats, psionic, military, or demonic.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: But, what about the doubts and fears that always emerge among friends and lovers and who keeps blowing up Emma's phone?
[SPEAKER_02]: Meanwhile, Ice Man has a rather unorthodox training idea, bring your 20-sided die.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, in the next issue, we're getting three disparate ideas.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is like watching an improv show.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and I'm lucky with that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm fighting my expectations, maybe a little bit, because I love the first issue of this book.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it was so good, and like we talked about, it was so nice to get back to basics like out there in a school.
[SPEAKER_01]: that's it.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the whole thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: And immediately they swirled away from it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It issued to an issue three.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I am hoping based on what you're talking about that we're getting back to like, okay, you get the concept of the buying school.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's find out about the buying school because that's interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I want to know more about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: So.
[SPEAKER_01]: This swerve was very weird to me that it happened so earlier on and that it didn't tie into the school concept at all like there is no let's go on a field trip or anything like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe that's not what this book is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it is not a school book and I just got to get over it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean maybe it's an X men catch all at a time when like we're not.
[SPEAKER_02]: getting that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's, that's nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like the X-Men universe does this every now and again, and it's, we used to be X-Men unlimited in other books in that, but this is cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, maybe it's a catch all that's unlimited.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Narco number three for the image comics written by Doug Wagner, art by Daniel Hilliard.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is about a guy with narcolepsy who has been accused of murder, except he's been cleared of the murder, and this issue he is trying to find out more of it with the
[SPEAKER_01]: Like legitimately there's a cop character here who constantly is like oh my bad dude Whenever you want to do I'm up for it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is crazy I feel like we're gonna get another shoot dropping.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like it's like a good cop bad cops situation and he's taking good cop to the point where he's like all right man I can't be more good to you and it's gonna twist that way with my thoughts But in general, I think this comic is creating just a great amount of dread that I'm really enjoying
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, gray art, crazy twists and turns, you know, the who did it, who do trust type of thing is enjoyable.
[SPEAKER_00]: But again, I think the art is very cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will, which I call it, I call it, my complete for the last issue, which had no falling asleep.
[SPEAKER_01]: There is falling asleep this issue, but I wish they were playing with it a little bit more.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because most of the time, he like falls asleep because he gets stretched out and that he wakes up.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like there's no time dash.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing really happens when he's falling asleep or anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how it works though when you fall asleep.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, if you have a nice sleep Alex, no, not yet.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm excited to try it out at some point.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're due.
[SPEAKER_01]: Look into it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you space worms don't know what you're talking about.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well there is a moment in here where he falls asleep and wakes up and his friend is holding a knife.
[SPEAKER_02]: For sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, that's very true.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: More of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I will say, I think we are, I bet the climax of this is a real, fall asleep wake-up nightmare.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the, also the, you know, falsely wake up and they've got a knife and then he's like, I'm just making my friend breakfast as like, what has blood on it, bro?
[SPEAKER_00]: What are you causing?
[SPEAKER_00]: What is he making?
[SPEAKER_00]: What kind of breakfast that better be?
[SPEAKER_01]: I saw it on there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hot sauce.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it was like strawberry jam or something like that, but it doesn't have scrambled blood.
[SPEAKER_02]: Blood over easy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I mean, a little, a little, a little.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hotes blood?
[SPEAKER_02]: Mmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hard to get that right.
[SPEAKER_01]: It sure is.
[SPEAKER_01]: I put it on my waffles.
[SPEAKER_01]: Batman.
[SPEAKER_01]: Batman woman.
[SPEAKER_01]: Excuse me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alex.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to the end.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to the end.
[UNKNOWN]: I'm
[SPEAKER_01]: written by Greg Raka aren't by daddy in this issue that woman is continuing to deal with some sort of psychosis that hasn't quite been explained as far as I'm aware her father's trying to help her maybe maybe not he's always on the side of weirdness more than anything and the question enters to try to talk to that woman as well I know this is a peaceful thing but
[SPEAKER_01]: I love this cover, like this is my favorite cover of the week.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's something so fascinating about it because you get that woman in question far ahead to far ahead.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I've never seen anybody draw the question with sort of like lightly defined eyes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and it's, I, there's something about it that I find very entredcing and I don't know exactly what it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I would throw that out like agree with you on the cover and then the the art inside the book as well has the same like in training It really it's one of the few times when I'm like man this feels like the place where this comic is set It feels very like European it takes me there, but some panels in there I was like, oh, this one's a little sketchy and strange, but others.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, oh, this is beautiful and perfect So and maybe that's the point Maybe that's mirroring this likeosis that you're talking about Alex because it does feel like
[SPEAKER_02]: She's sort of institutionalized, I think, in this and her father's visiting her, she doesn't want to see him, the psychologist is talking to both of them and costing her not to go out and seems like the psychologist is the villain, but I think the psychologist is trying to protect her from all this bad stuff that's happening and whatever she's going through.
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... i also have cool cover in my notes uh... yet the the bat woman stuff is really awesome at the end uh... the art in tone of it really is cool i'm liking the fun twists and turns uh... yet really love the kind of last panel reveal uh... also love the kind of like not talking just letting the art and action kind of panels happen uh... that ending got me pumped for more
[SPEAKER_02]: I love bringing the question into this, like their relationship has been a was a major part of the earlier run that I really love, so it's finally to see here, and the surprising thing that happened to us was cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you question the questions relationship?
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a question in the end.
[SPEAKER_01]: The amazing Spider-Man number 29 from Marvel written by Jo Kelly, art by Pete Woods and this issue, Spider-Man is still swinging around and trying to get caught up after being off Earth and he can't as usual quite balance.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everything leading to the introduction of a new villain that we know has been a long time coming and is his friend who he works with that he knew from middle school.
[SPEAKER_01]: who has been infected with some sort of spores and will become a new villain, probably called spore based on the cover, and that gets introduced towards the end of the issue, Justin.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I put that together.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know you've been a big fan of amazing spider band, it does that keep up with this issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: How dare you, man, you, you work in the industry.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody tips good in this issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you notice that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody shorts them on the tip.
[SPEAKER_00]: You were someone who's worked in the industry.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's how hard you work for that money.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's fucking bullshit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why aren't you standing up, bro?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's why I was gonna say I'm rooting for Spore.
[SPEAKER_02]: Peter under tips.
[SPEAKER_02]: He was in the booth for too long.
[SPEAKER_02]: He had just had a bunch of coffee, two dollar tip.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think so.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so let's get him.
[SPEAKER_02]: Garbage, I think this is continues to be great.
[SPEAKER_02]: The worth continue to bring in the elements, Peter's girlfriend from space.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really love that character.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's in a booth and he's calling everyone.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know he's trying to get them to come.
[SPEAKER_02]: He even calls Shay.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was Yeah, he tech she had it is like red one day ago or something like that She ain't very good work Joe and then the spores a villain.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think is excellent They really horror infused at this issue in a good way I said this earlier, but like the way that Aunt May treats Peter is like she's nasty
[SPEAKER_01]: She hates it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, her new boyfriend husband and whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's got two boyfriend hanging around.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, that second boyfriend is not her boyfriend.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is.
[SPEAKER_01]: We haven't really talked about this.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the cousin that they introduced to the end of death spiral.
[SPEAKER_01]: we know, or I don't know if you guys know, but we know thanks to the solicits that, oh, no, no, no, Joe talked about this, I think, that like the, when he was on the show, that the, what he calls us like the most shocking thing, they're calling it the most shocking thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's spider bed history.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was like, yeah, actually is a really big event is coming up.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the general suspicion is this cousin.
[SPEAKER_01]: is either Uncle Ben and Aunt May's son or it's Richard Parker and Aunt May's son or there's going to be like some sort of thing there with that guy where he's not actually a cousin he's maybe a half brother or something like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree the way it's talked about here Peter mentions it and then we get that moment with Aunt May so like there's definitely something
[SPEAKER_00]: and fun uh... dirt ovens by the training montage so it's kind of cool that was cool that was very everything's well done
[SPEAKER_01]: Good and a little shout-out to the Punisher that was fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Invincible universe battle BS never died from sky-bout of damage comics written by Robert Kirkman, Art by Ryan O'Reilly, in this issue battle BS finishes off his battle with the Colossus and the other one that I'm glad you got the day above who would play this planet our prince who has a weird curly penis is rebuilding his planet.
[SPEAKER_01]: And by the end of this issue, not too much of a spoiler, since it's on the cover for the next issue, and I think one of the very end covers here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Conquest shows up to potentially as to use to the next issue, take on paddle beast and eating contest.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe this book is silly.
[SPEAKER_00]: yeah it's great all the right ways this is really fun cool cover uh it's just it's nice to see battle beast living his best life you know not everybody gets to do it so just to see him so happy and then you know just when he thinks like oh man I'm out of people to murder and uh
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, what am I going to do next?
[SPEAKER_00]: Conquest shows up and he's very excited to fight them.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I just think this is kind of silly, great fun and It's a nice showcase for battle beast, you know, I'm enjoying these.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think this is a blast.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, there's some stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's more definitely into a lot of like
[SPEAKER_02]: characters that we aren't really going to see again and like sort of what their deal is.
[SPEAKER_02]: So like there's a lot of built up stuff around this, building toward this fight between conquest and battle beast, two characters that we know both survive any sort of situation that they
[SPEAKER_02]: So I was sort of like, oh, I wish this was built and toward something with slightly more stakes, perhaps.
[SPEAKER_02]: Especially when the stakes of the series are that'll be like, can someone please kill him?
[SPEAKER_02]: And we're like, well, no, we know that no one can kill you.
[SPEAKER_02]: So like,
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, I just, I guess I'm just feeling like, well, let me tell you a little too much.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can I throw something out of you that I started to feel with this issue?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because we had talked about this all along, but like, battle beast is very much a one-note character.
[SPEAKER_01]: He got a second note in this issue, which is the prince who I'm blanking on the actual day above, is like, but we are friends, aren't we?
[SPEAKER_01]: And battle beast pauses for a second and says, yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: and there's like a little bit of movement of showing that maybe he does actually care about something else, which I do think is setting up when ultimately he had conquest fight and probably destroy this whole planet, potentially killing his new friends or ruining his relationship with them, that might actually do something to him and push him in some direction.
[SPEAKER_02]: And maybe it is like sort of like battlebies getting coming out of this depression I would call it and that's the point of the series Um, and if you're gonna bring in a character to want-in-le kill people that uh, the other person he's fighting loves That's what Conquist sort of does Yeah, so that makes a little bit of sense But I don't know, I guess I guess we'll see and maybe it will be about that But it's really sneaking up on it when that's what we're getting in the night issue of this
[SPEAKER_01]: Star Trek the last Starship number seven from IDW written by Colin Kelly and Jackson Lansing, art by Hermann Gonzalez, or kicking off a new arc of this book as our last Starship is traveling across the post-burn galaxy desperately trying to bring people together, unfortunately nobody actually wants to be together, complicating matters.
[SPEAKER_01]: is there in a Starship that for every, I'm forgetting the exact equation basically like every week they travel is seven years for the entire galaxy.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they're missing a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the clear indicator that they're keeping going with that is
[SPEAKER_01]: We probably are heading closer and closer to the discovery timeline, the future timeline, discovery jumps into.
[SPEAKER_01]: But in this issue, in particular, we're getting more about the mystery of why Kirk gets back, what's going on with Agnes, who is the new board, who comes out of Star Trek Picard.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think, generally, we've all been enjoying this book, but how do you feel about this coming into the second arc with a new artist?
[SPEAKER_01]: Why, sir?
[SPEAKER_01]: When?
[SPEAKER_02]: why curkey you keep saying curkey on this that's that's that's that's that's that's me if it's that is curkey as many I think we're at we're looping uh... who covered since when does this book become a fenturizing i don't know is wildly dark and fucked up
[SPEAKER_01]: the art but it's cool really dark too in a cool way yeah i did it prefer a germ binia who did the first arc i thought that was really lovely and match the tone but they are going for a more of a hard tone with this arc so i'm willing to follow it i'm oh yeah i mean
[SPEAKER_00]: But I think it's the blacked out panel said the cool kind of space vibe to which I think works really well Some really epic panels in here an epic art the kind of face close up like we got a little tease here in the covers was insane Yeah, and like I I Is this universe going to be this way or is this it has this title continues on is it a dark exploration or are we gonna come out of it two and more
[SPEAKER_02]: a federation, a more classic Star Trek tone, I, yeah, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't hard to come back from this, I use the way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, we know, I don't think you guys watch, but we know where this adds up eventually with the discovery timeline.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just curious, we're like, how does this ship fit in?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because we are 70 years in a time getting closer and closer to that boy.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, we'll see.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Punisher number four, from Marvel, written by Degeman Percy, art by Jose Luis Sours and Sergio DeVilla.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is you after shooting himself in the head with some sort of brain scrambling thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Last issue, this issue, he is back to being the Punisher, the Punisher is back on the streets, and he is coming directly for Jigsaw.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, we had Begeman Percy on the live show this week, and he did talk about this book a little bit, so you can go and listen to that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But what you guys think about this Pete, you've been a little iffy about this run on Punisher.
[SPEAKER_01]: How do you feel about this issue?
[SPEAKER_01]: Now that Frank is back in merciless killing mode.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this is great.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's great to see kind of frank back and action.
[SPEAKER_00]: This kind of really sets up the Punisher versus Jigsaw.
[SPEAKER_00]: We also get some great face ripping.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just love a good, you know, rip and face off to reveal a villain underneath the classic.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing like a little rip in a little face.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I think it'll like Punisher's doing the old,
[SPEAKER_00]: drop in people from roofs move and you know, it's classic big pond there.
[SPEAKER_02]: So why does Jigsaw want to wear Frank's face?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not that much less.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but think about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you're going to wear a face wearing Frank's face, it would be an intimidating kind of move.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have a similar face.
[SPEAKER_01]: They do have a similar face.
[SPEAKER_01]: So every related question about the faces is, every time we see Jigsaw, it isn't like he's wearing these faces long term.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like he cuts off somebody's face, puts it on his face, and then walks through a door and it's like ding-dong.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ha ha!
[SPEAKER_01]: I was wearing a fake face, like there's no delay.
[SPEAKER_01]: he does not keep them on for any amount of time.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how much fake facing you've done to Alex.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's hard to make it look hard to keep it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look, and yeah, yeah, it's hard to keep it fresh.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, it's like putting a piece of ham over your face.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you're like, uh-huh, I'm full of them all.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm assuming I ham face.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So like you got to light up the eye holes.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's very hard.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I have another question a piece this one is for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is Mike Grouchip punishers smitty or is Funky or what's going maybe was, but not in this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, what is my main feeling where it is, Brock, is can you leave by Grouchip alone, please?
[SPEAKER_02]: A great one.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like the Michael Chip Frank relationship.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think
[SPEAKER_02]: begrudging collaborators because what when this work best back in the day was like frank being like I don't understand computers.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so mad I can't open a computer and Microship is like I open computers all the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let me give you some information.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's the man in the chair for the Punisher.
[SPEAKER_02]: This like torture relationship where he's like drop them off the roof and then like
[SPEAKER_02]: doing he's doing a little bit of googling form or whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I would rather not have it.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's just so mean like the amount of stuff that Frank is doing to bond microchip is not commensurate to what microchip did.
[SPEAKER_01]: Microchip just to review was like tortured by Kingpid and forced to implant
[SPEAKER_01]: a biker chip, sure enough in Frank's brain to force him to do King Pins dirty work.
[SPEAKER_01]: At Frank's like, I directly blame you, biker chip, I'm going to lock you in cages, I'm going to drop you off roofs, I'm going to torture you and threaten to kill you and you're never going to sleep.
[SPEAKER_01]: a second in your life at all.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's not.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's not, it's not even the law.
[SPEAKER_02]: No one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, Shastam Microchip for being a regular hacker who somehow was able to cross the brain to computer interface.
[SPEAKER_02]: with the publisher and create an a way to control him.
[SPEAKER_02]: He could be a billionaire inventor and surgeon and he said he's like a sniveling wreck trying to escape the publisher.
[SPEAKER_02]: And in the meantime, Google mapping things for this cycle.
[SPEAKER_01]: let's talk about another psychopath death stroke the terminator number three from dc comics written by toti fleece art by carmine d john demedico the cliffhanger from the second issue was the death stroke is fighting off against blood sport and dead shot definitely dead on death glow death blow sorry about that
[SPEAKER_01]: That's done.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tony's guilty.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the three of them are fighting because, as it turns out, by the end of the issue, everybody thinks that Destro killed his friend Wintergreen, obviously he's being framed, maybe.
[SPEAKER_01]: But we also got a flashback to back of the day when Destro can Wintergreen tried to set up their own league of assassins, not realizing the league of assassins would be kind of pissed about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which I thought was delightful.
[SPEAKER_01]: Actually, very fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know assassins.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it was cool and like the idea of deathstroke crossing over the death blow and deadshot is So funny to me, but it's played so straight in this.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like, no, this is very serious.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, this is a punch line of a joke
[SPEAKER_01]: But I like that they all have their own way of going about thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Tony Feliz captures their voices very differently.
[SPEAKER_01]: They have different action styles.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks to Carmine Judgment and Gianna Domedico.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they're all sort of evenly matched, which I always think about like Deathstroke is the top of the food shade there.
[SPEAKER_01]: But seeing him on his back level facing these guys was pretty cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm enjoying the twists and turns.
[SPEAKER_00]: The action is great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Art is fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of cool to see these kind of characters of verse and against each other.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think this is a fun idea and while executed.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the art is fantastic in this.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's so sad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I probably probably had was winter green.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, let's kind of a weird,
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, too much like I especially when everyone has dad and death and they're like do you prefer public involvement?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was thinking spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spearmen spear
[SPEAKER_01]: Before I do I would highly recommend just read the first issue going clean if you can because there's some real nice surprises in there But we are following two communities one that sort of like a crunchy granola.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ask Community the other one that is very much like a high end cold the sack
[SPEAKER_01]: more rigid community and community exactly and there is we've been following two women who are leaders of the community who have been sleeping with another women in the community.
[SPEAKER_01]: They end up finding a mysterious tunnel when she goes missing and find her shot in the center of that tunnel and it turns out the woman that each of them was looking for is the same woman and that's where
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's where we pick up this issue as they, the two of them start to realize wait a second, she's been leading a double life.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why has she been leading a double life?
[SPEAKER_01]: And there are even more twists and turns that I didn't see coming up this issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's crazy to have a second book that's based on Mrs. Doubtfire.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I like the twists and turns of this comic.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really like the art.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's got a great kind of vibe to it and creates a fun world.
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree that this is a good mystery that they're building out.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the expansion of it has been very fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you were saying, Alex, we get another relationship in here that I'm like, wait, how busy was this lady?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's too much.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's great.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's very hard to balance all this stuff and make them to compelling communities while having the mystery at the same time So this is a really fun beginning for this book side dimensional rivals number five from Marvel by Peach Bemoko Elena Casa Grande Maguel Mercado Natasha Bustos, Phil Noto and Gary Hyru.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now this is about sigh which is
[SPEAKER_01]: peach mhmocos a Ronin version of siloch traveling through different dimensions to search for infinity stoads at each time she travels to a different dimension we get a different artist is dealing with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here we travel back through those dimensions as we remember them page by page and we also get a very cool mash-up page just with all of those dimensions shattered seeing the missing time with different artists.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pete, you and I have talked about this before.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is
[SPEAKER_01]: a lovely book.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like story wise, sometimes it's hard to hold onto what Pete Femoco is doing.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think it works here.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's very simple.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's very straightforward and I had a blast reading this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, artistically what they're doing in this comic is really impressive, first off cool cover.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, this is super type and anazard here.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's worth it for the art alone.
[SPEAKER_00]: That kind of like window pain, smash thing, splash page that we get is just so amazing on many different levels.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there's also some really cool pin-up pages, like a badass kind of ninja
[SPEAKER_00]: I just think artistically this is so much fun who cares if it makes sense or is anything you know so yeah I just so blown away artistically so it's fun who cares if it makes sense I mean yeah this is definitely a comment to pick up for the visuals because it's
[SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't quite, it's not meant to make sense.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the characters in here even like this is a pretty crazy romp.
[SPEAKER_02]: We just didn't get it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep, it does get that way.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I will say the very last bit about the infinity stones and stuff that was cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and artists.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like the stone, his little butt stone, so that's adorable.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, and it leaves it open for more.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would love to see a sequel series to this.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see.
[SPEAKER_01]: G-I-Jone number 22 from Skybound at Image Comics, written by Joshua Williamson,
[SPEAKER_01]: this issue we are getting the introduction of crystal ball a new batty who seems to have mystical powers but probably doesn't he actually has edder john power is just like everybody else in this book um but uh the joe teams are after him anyway and is a spooky haunted house Pete what do you think about the introduction of crystal ball where you having a ball?
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... yeah i think this is a blast uh... i'm not familiar with old uh... crystal ball but uh... well well well well i think the the back and forth between desto and cobert commander was the sound of my childhood so that was just uh... such a youthful fun uh... thing to relive uh... but yeah the old uh... you'd have you'd have your daughter magic uh...
[SPEAKER_02]: You're a restaurant cober commander and have sort of like sort of mean like bitchy conversation Oh, yeah, all the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you know what?
[SPEAKER_00]: I shouldn't have gone there Yeah, they're like why the fuck didn't we were treat again?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, oh, you fucking try leading Destro.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to you know, so they're they're back and forth is just fun and you were watching the version of G.I.J.
[SPEAKER_01]: other than aired at night on Showtime right with all the cursor.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah
[SPEAKER_02]: You're watching the real housewives of Cobra Command.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the skin of that version.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the red shoe diary is, but it's red shoe, the GI Joe who wears red shoes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's like, like being pretty sexual, but not really showing anything.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I mean, yeah, oh, I do.
[SPEAKER_02]: This crystal ball does feel like, is that it's not a Joe from the past.
[SPEAKER_02]: I would think it would have to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: It would have to be, but I don't remember a crystal ball.
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess it's been a half to maybe a time.
[SPEAKER_01]: After three years of the energon universe, we have finally reached the limit of Pete's knowledge.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's pretty exciting.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will say a crystal ball seems like a Joe or a cobra person that they named pretty late in the process.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like a crystal ball.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, I continue to like this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Joshua Williamson is doing a nice solid job of this title and Dre Malana is great on the art.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it is a lot of fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: End of life.
[SPEAKER_01]: Number four from DC Vertigo written by Kyle Starks, art by Steve Pew, we are following a assassin who is hunting out in a small town with his dad, who is dying of cancer.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of big stuff goes down this issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: His dad faces off with an assassin who is after his son.
[SPEAKER_01]: While the sun is forced very much against this will into a heroic situation that he may or may not survive, man, every issue of this is so great, so funny, so real, like dark emotional stuff happens this issue too, but this is excellent.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, just being great action sequences, great standoff and this, the art excellent, this is really good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I love the grumpy old man standoff here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Impressive, stash, slash facial hair on the hired killer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Great art.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is very cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the art really delivers on the tone of the book.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just real quick before we move on.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do have some research on crystal ball.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, please.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah Apologies to end of life, but we did like the book Crystal ball he may he may not be genetically or surgically enhanced But he he has managed to unsettle his cobra cohorts by his mad behavior and tales of European mysticism
[SPEAKER_02]: European.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's reputed to be the love child of a Romanian man with psychic powers and American woman from Bangor, Maine.
[SPEAKER_00]: A maner.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very specific.
[SPEAKER_00]: If I can may not do a Jesus.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a Stephen King reference, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Probably but why because spooky scary.
[SPEAKER_02]: Does it say that's not enough?
[SPEAKER_00]: Does it say what season?
[SPEAKER_00]: He was created or when he came out in the I feel fall.
[SPEAKER_02]: I believe it's I think it's from Comic yeah G.I.
[SPEAKER_02]: Joe special missions number 24 the comic well interesting
[SPEAKER_01]: Got some reading to do, Pete.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's smile for the camera number three for Bidie Davy, written by Hannah Rose, may art by Mariana Mariana, Mariana Puglia.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are following a bunch of fashion models who have been infected with the smile virus.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's picking them off one by one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Meanwhile, our main model that we're focusing is starting to think it's actually the manager they're dealing with.
[SPEAKER_01]: that is leading to their deaths, and there's a couple of journalists that want to look into it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the smile entity, so that's going to be pretty bad for them.
[SPEAKER_01]: But what do you guys think about this?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think we've been generally positive about the series so far?
[SPEAKER_02]: I like it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a simple story that just really goes hard.
[SPEAKER_02]: We have the whole elements.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a sense of impending doom always, but it doesn't feel predictable by new means.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this is a big nope for me just because it's so fucking creepy that smile shit it freaks me the fuck out man Are this great But yeah, that
[SPEAKER_00]: face crunch were just smashing the face into the mirror and then the smile afterwards just it's just how do you look in the mirror in the morning?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't do a face crunch I'd say that much.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, not a face crunch.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, my wife is so sick of replacing our bearer and my face.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's a lot of bad luck
[SPEAKER_01]: Lobo, number three from DC Comics, written by Scotty Young, Art by Jorge Corona and Nicoleta Baldari.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is an issue that Scotty Young told us about when he was on our live show, so you can go back and listen to him talking about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But Lobo tells a story from back when he was a kid, meeting space dolphins for the first time, so he get a guest artist popping in for that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pete, you're our main man on the main man.
[SPEAKER_01]: What'd you think about this issue?
[SPEAKER_00]: a fun cover, a fun level as a kid here, yeah, I just think that, you know, I enjoyed the silliness, the art brings a nice tone that supports this kind of silliness and you won't believe it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lobo is an asshole as a kid too, you don't say.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I think this is, they're just having fun with this and it feels like it's jumping off right through their brain and
[SPEAKER_02]: Scotty talked about how great the Nicolaed about the RDR was here and it really paid off.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a nice fun departure very much in the world without really feeling like it was a feeling.
[SPEAKER_01]: because of he talked about how it was a necessary that they had to have some other artists come in and they really seamlessly played it in the story fun stuff yeah and that is it now scottie does now and that is it for the stack if you like support this podcast and all the podcast we do patreon dot com slash comic book club also do a live show every Tuesday night at seven p.m. to you to do coming out we would love to chat with you about comic books apple spotify android or the app of your choice
[SPEAKER_01]: To subscribe, listen follow the show comic book level.com for this podcast and money more.
[SPEAKER_01]: Until next time remember, you're a smitty or a foggy, but a foggy is a smitty.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, my brain, my coach had put a chip in my brain, now I broke it.
[SPEAKER_03]: That no-go-mind, we stand up and see ourselves And it's time now, it's time now, it's time now, it's time now
[SPEAKER_03]: They sit on crappy couches, and they let the secret leak And he's just a monkey, they let fast, they're so messy So grab your ring, hammer, don't really pour it