WEBVTT 00:09.291 --> 00:10.032 [SPEAKER_02]: What's up, everybody? 00:10.072 --> 00:11.753 [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome to the Stack on the Alex. 00:11.973 --> 00:12.553 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm Justin. 00:12.934 --> 00:18.598 [SPEAKER_02]: And on the Stack, we talk about a bunch of books that have come out this week, comic books to be precise. 00:18.618 --> 00:23.362 [SPEAKER_02]: So let's get into it because it is a big week in the comic book industry. 00:23.762 --> 00:30.747 [SPEAKER_02]: Kick it off with absolute Batman number 21 from DC Comics, Written by Scott Snyder, art by Nick Djogoda. 00:30.827 --> 00:33.309 [SPEAKER_02]: Lots of stuff going on in this issue. 00:33.769 --> 00:36.491 [SPEAKER_02]: As the Robins are coming directly for Batman, 00:38.893 --> 00:52.240 [SPEAKER_02]: villains, two-face, Penguin, Riddler, Killer Crock are all dealing with the death of Jim Gordon, a couple of issues back, as is Barbara Gordon, and there's a bunch of other things going on as well. 00:53.000 --> 00:59.023 [SPEAKER_02]: This is the biggest issue, biggest series in comic books right now, but how are you feeling about it? 00:59.043 --> 01:00.163 [SPEAKER_02]: How are you feeling about this issue? 01:00.183 --> 01:01.244 [SPEAKER_02]: How are you feeling about this book? 01:01.651 --> 01:03.313 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean it's really settled in. 01:03.453 --> 01:07.236 [SPEAKER_01]: I like this issue because there's like multiple trains running. 01:07.737 --> 01:10.880 [SPEAKER_01]: I like the flip of the robins coming after Bruce. 01:11.560 --> 01:12.942 [SPEAKER_01]: I like that there's sort of bad guys. 01:13.342 --> 01:19.488 [SPEAKER_01]: We get a review on this issue that the leader of the robins knows Alfred in a way that is like, 01:20.193 --> 01:45.830 [SPEAKER_01]: going to be something I think like all the little like web connecting threads are coming into focus though the rogues being like miss fits but not bad they're like oh where monsters now should we be evil but they're actually being a little bit vigilantees in this they're sort of trying to do good in monstrous ways. 01:47.002 --> 01:52.884 [SPEAKER_01]: Which I think is just another like he's Scott's doing such a Jacob's ladder with his absolute book. 01:52.964 --> 01:54.384 [SPEAKER_01]: It was like everything's extreme. 01:54.965 --> 01:56.385 [SPEAKER_01]: Some things are flipped on their heads. 01:56.845 --> 02:00.826 [SPEAKER_01]: Some things are like a distorted version of what you already know. 02:00.846 --> 02:10.029 [SPEAKER_01]: And to come at it from those multiple of POVs rather than just being like, it's the mirror image of Batman or whatever the more simplistic version of this would be. 02:10.269 --> 02:11.950 [SPEAKER_01]: The more it's like everything's a little more shitty. 02:12.962 --> 02:33.335 [SPEAKER_02]: he's he's surprised he's able to surprise us in every little pocket of the story uh... it's interesting you feel that way i of course like this nicture grotes art is always phenomenal i don't know how he fits so many paddles and seventy different paddles on every page i do like all of the individual characters i think i saw this with the last issue as well but 02:34.095 --> 02:49.943 [SPEAKER_02]: Then maybe I just need to be used to this new rhythm, but I missed the focus of the first couple of arcs like we had black mask for the first couple of issues and there were other things running under the surface and in the background, but that's what that was. 02:50.383 --> 02:54.646 [SPEAKER_02]: And then we had, you know, I think it was the two-parter of Mr. 02:54.706 --> 03:13.121 [SPEAKER_02]: Freeze or whatever, and that's fine, then we had babe, then we had poison ivy, and now we have like 15 things going out at the same time when I feel like this could have just been several issues of them taking on the robins, or it's supposed to be the scarecrow arc and scarecrow doesn't even show up here. 03:14.982 --> 03:22.384 [SPEAKER_02]: We even introduced another villain at the end of this issue who we got some hints up before and it seems like they're going to be entering the mist. 03:22.905 --> 03:28.607 [SPEAKER_02]: So it's starting to feel a little messy to me in a way. 03:29.432 --> 03:31.995 [SPEAKER_02]: Um, where I think it can get back on track. 03:32.055 --> 03:37.901 [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe they just feel like, okay, we got to set up the stuff because there's things coming probably an issue 25. 03:38.121 --> 03:41.625 [SPEAKER_02]: I would throw out there that they want to make sure are set up. 03:41.865 --> 03:51.635 [SPEAKER_02]: I like all the individual things, but I feel like we're starting to get like snapshots in the life of absolute batman rather than these like balls to the wall epics that we got at the beginning. 03:51.933 --> 03:55.837 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I would also argue, you perhaps are missing the focus on Bruce Wayne. 03:55.937 --> 04:03.304 [SPEAKER_01]: Bruce Wayne is definitely something other characters are observing in this issue rather than the real point of view character that we've had for most of the run. 04:03.824 --> 04:14.674 [SPEAKER_01]: But I don't know, these all, all these elements were in the mix, they were just a little closer to Bruce, and now they're sort of like, like little baby robins, they've flown the nest. 04:15.855 --> 04:24.577 [SPEAKER_01]: a little bit Alex and they're away from Bruce and maybe you're missing your pal Bruce because you're such a Batman freak you can't even enjoy a Batman book that talks about other characters. 04:25.837 --> 04:39.400 [SPEAKER_02]: I like they actually be it that way I think that Bruce did voting himself to being that man full time there's these other things that are filling the cracks like spoiler here but they already talked about it to hear us come this past weekend. 04:39.909 --> 04:41.469 [SPEAKER_02]: And we kind of do this is going to happen anyway. 04:41.590 --> 04:43.830 [SPEAKER_02]: Barbara Gordon is going to become the bat. 04:45.571 --> 04:52.153 [SPEAKER_02]: And not exactly be like, I'm best friends with Batman, but be slightly on his side versus the rompins. 04:52.693 --> 05:02.356 [SPEAKER_02]: So we are getting these different forces in Gotham City filling the hole that not Batman left, but Bruce Wayne left, which is interesting. 05:02.476 --> 05:04.857 [SPEAKER_02]: And again, all of the ideas are interesting. 05:04.877 --> 05:05.797 [SPEAKER_02]: I just 05:07.398 --> 05:09.580 [SPEAKER_02]: there was this promise of the beginning of the scarecrow arc. 05:09.680 --> 05:15.244 [SPEAKER_02]: I thought that first scene where he comes out of the cornfield and kills those two dudes was so strong. 05:15.805 --> 05:28.735 [SPEAKER_02]: The scene with scarecrow again and Joe Chills, same sort of thing, but he's more of this outside force versus like the main operating principle of what we're saying over the course here or some, I don't know. 05:29.536 --> 05:30.117 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know man. 05:30.137 --> 05:31.077 [SPEAKER_01]: I get your scarecrow. 05:31.618 --> 05:31.818 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 05:32.573 --> 05:34.994 [SPEAKER_02]: The thing with these guys though, you're gonna get my scarecrow. 05:35.374 --> 05:36.674 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna get my scarecrow. 05:36.855 --> 05:38.395 [SPEAKER_01]: That's a threat I'm always using. 05:38.955 --> 05:43.617 [SPEAKER_01]: The thing is, like, these guys are masters at the craft. 05:43.817 --> 05:52.480 [SPEAKER_01]: So like, they can't just keep telling, you know, three, four issue arcs where it's like, okay, insert the next villain and Batman will find a way to defeat him. 05:52.740 --> 05:53.200 [SPEAKER_01]: Sure. 05:53.320 --> 05:58.302 [SPEAKER_01]: They're adding the complexity to it so they can get to something that is bigger than the sum of its parts. 05:59.102 --> 06:05.085 [SPEAKER_02]: No, I hear you, but I've won a throw on something that actually my son said to be the other day about this that really struck me. 06:05.265 --> 06:08.507 [SPEAKER_01]: You're really setting up, he's going to take your spot on this podcast. 06:08.827 --> 06:09.868 [SPEAKER_01]: He's not all you talk about. 06:09.888 --> 06:12.569 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll be talking about it as your son is kind of popular eventually. 06:13.270 --> 06:16.292 [SPEAKER_02]: Our children will rise up and continue the podcast. 06:16.732 --> 06:17.312 [SPEAKER_02]: No, kill us. 06:17.872 --> 06:18.593 [SPEAKER_02]: Where are skin? 06:19.633 --> 06:25.757 [SPEAKER_02]: No, he was saying that he felt like obviously this title is very manga focused and that's what you have. 06:26.497 --> 06:39.983 [SPEAKER_02]: in Baga is you have one villain for multiple parts, potentially multiple volumes that they take care of the villain and then they move on to the ex-villin and that's what you got at the beginning and now we're shaking that up a little bit and it feels a little less. 06:40.543 --> 06:45.625 [SPEAKER_02]: Manga ask at a more American comics ask in the rhythm of what they're doing. 06:46.350 --> 06:47.551 [SPEAKER_02]: the rhythm of the night, if you will. 06:47.651 --> 06:48.131 [SPEAKER_01]: The dark night. 06:48.151 --> 06:49.292 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the rhythm of the dark night. 06:49.713 --> 06:50.153 [SPEAKER_01]: It took me a while. 06:50.173 --> 06:51.494 [SPEAKER_01]: I believe in the rhythm of the dark night. 06:52.355 --> 06:59.360 [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, why don't we move on to another big one amazing spider-man number 31 from Marvel, written by Joe Kelly, art by Patrick Gleason. 06:59.681 --> 07:02.483 [SPEAKER_02]: This is something they've been teasing very heavily for a while. 07:02.563 --> 07:03.524 [SPEAKER_02]: It's called the talk. 07:03.844 --> 07:11.991 [SPEAKER_02]: We found out last issue that at May had a secret baby and this issue we find out how that secret baby came to be. 07:12.791 --> 07:16.632 [SPEAKER_02]: and I was very shocked because I didn't know how babies were made and they got very graphic. 07:17.672 --> 07:28.436 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, uh, if you're not reading this comic and that's a selling point for you, you will be disappointed if you're expecting to see some sort of not important. 07:28.536 --> 07:34.017 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm Sunkel Band and Ann May's sexy that Alex seems to have been jonesing for for quite some time. 07:34.037 --> 07:35.678 [SPEAKER_02]: You've got to draw your own in the middle. 07:35.718 --> 07:36.498 [SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, 07:37.915 --> 07:39.876 [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, we finally do get this talk. 07:39.936 --> 07:49.718 [SPEAKER_02]: It's a very dramatic issue, but it's also cross-cut with spider-man entering a secret villain auction that's run by the vulture who now has a very long news. 07:51.039 --> 07:54.820 [SPEAKER_02]: What do you think about this one, Justin? 07:54.920 --> 07:59.761 [SPEAKER_01]: It's an interesting structure, I find they tell this very heavy emotional story about like 08:00.605 --> 08:07.431 [SPEAKER_01]: Like you're saying it in gripping detail about Aunt May and Uncle Bad and how they struggled to get pregnant. 08:08.072 --> 08:17.940 [SPEAKER_01]: Got pregnant and then lost the baby and then the grown-up is here and we get we get that story We don't get any resolution on what's going on and what's going to happen. 08:17.960 --> 08:23.024 [SPEAKER_01]: Which I thought was cool and then it's intercut with this very boisterous 08:24.105 --> 08:29.489 [SPEAKER_01]: Very, I don't mean this in a negative way, but like a boiler plate Spider-Man fight. 08:30.410 --> 08:31.951 [SPEAKER_01]: He's just like kicking a bunch of ass and I 08:33.344 --> 08:36.066 [SPEAKER_01]: I think like why do you think that was the way to tell this? 08:36.607 --> 08:37.488 [SPEAKER_01]: Is it be too heavy? 08:37.708 --> 08:47.296 [SPEAKER_02]: So it's like shaking up or I think that was part of it and it was also showing how spider-man is dealing with this because so much as the focus is on Aunt May. 08:47.456 --> 08:53.001 [SPEAKER_02]: It gives us presumably this is taking place after they've already out the talk and he has to blow off some steam by 08:55.656 --> 08:58.637 [SPEAKER_02]: Fighting all of these villains by fighting an old man. 08:58.857 --> 09:00.158 [SPEAKER_02]: That's how I've had it. 09:00.218 --> 09:14.204 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, exactly I will say I really like the concept the concept of it is it's an auction But the way they auction off the stuff is the villains fight in a ring and whoever wins gets the item Which I thought was pretty neat. 09:14.364 --> 09:17.125 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sick and tired of like the disabled villain auctions were 09:18.105 --> 09:19.486 [SPEAKER_02]: It is a straightforward auction. 09:19.546 --> 09:21.267 [SPEAKER_02]: This was a very fun riff on it. 09:22.207 --> 09:30.492 [SPEAKER_02]: Do you think having this Detracted at all from the end may part because that's something that I was Wrestling with a little bit 09:31.367 --> 09:41.991 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it definitely made for just a tonal, such a big tonal mismatch, but it's so intentional that I can't really, it's not like it was a whoops, I messed up the tones here. 09:42.611 --> 09:47.153 [SPEAKER_01]: So knowing that it's intentional, I sort of like it, it makes me 09:48.289 --> 09:56.157 [SPEAKER_01]: it fixes my emotions on both sides and truly is like a Siri appallant cleanser for the heavy emotionality of the M.A. 09:56.177 --> 09:56.457 [SPEAKER_01]: story. 09:57.619 --> 10:04.526 [SPEAKER_01]: I wish I I wish I got to read it all once like I want to see the resolution of the fight or or something here. 10:04.746 --> 10:06.488 [SPEAKER_01]: I was just that was my biggest problem is. 10:06.548 --> 10:09.150 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I was just mainly very surprised that they 10:10.271 --> 10:19.236 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, I was expecting something like, was it the issue in Ultimate Spider-Man where Mary Jade and Peter talk about him being Spider-Man called the talk as well? 10:19.376 --> 10:24.580 [SPEAKER_02]: So I was expecting something like that, where it's one issue and it's just a conversation. 10:25.280 --> 10:34.486 [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe there was a talk about that talk and how they didn't want to do exactly the same thing again, but I feel like this would have been a little stronger if it just 10:35.306 --> 10:39.868 [SPEAKER_02]: took you into an as perspective focused on that kept it on that and that was the issue. 10:40.809 --> 10:43.350 [SPEAKER_01]: I like that they took us to shake it up. 10:43.550 --> 10:45.091 [SPEAKER_01]: I just want the next issue. 10:45.491 --> 10:47.632 [SPEAKER_02]: We're just not agreeing on anything today. 10:47.692 --> 10:49.713 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's see if we can offer two allies. 10:49.753 --> 10:51.634 [SPEAKER_02]: Come to a concordance on this one. 10:51.714 --> 10:55.616 [SPEAKER_02]: Concrete stars over said number one for darker scommings by Paul Chadwick. 10:56.316 --> 11:01.359 [SPEAKER_02]: After 20 years Paul Chadwick is back on concrete he talks about this a little bit in the back. 11:01.666 --> 11:21.448 [SPEAKER_02]: but this is actually an idea that he's had percolating since I think he said 1996 basically trippy took in 1996 to yeah and this picks right up after the last concrete story which I was not expecting at all if you don't know concrete is a guy who was kidnapped by aliens and put it to this enormous 11:22.309 --> 11:41.354 [SPEAKER_02]: concrete will ask body mostly he is to wander around and think about things most of the time very he is driving through the desert with his two friends slash co-workers whatever you call them when when yeah yeah there's a bother stuff going on there I guess 11:42.799 --> 11:44.000 [SPEAKER_01]: Now you're so bashful about it. 11:44.440 --> 11:45.000 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know. 11:45.020 --> 11:46.741 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know. 11:46.901 --> 11:58.890 [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, they end up with the desert and then some other stuff happens by the end of this issue that sends concrete on a new adventure quote unquote this is phenomenal like this is so great. 11:59.390 --> 12:06.615 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, if we're fully in the bag, concrete fans, but the fact that it picks up, I thought it was going to be like a standalone. 12:07.055 --> 12:07.896 [SPEAKER_01]: you know story. 12:07.936 --> 12:11.361 [SPEAKER_01]: I think it picks up on the continuity incredibly hard. 12:11.421 --> 12:12.242 [SPEAKER_01]: I thought it's great. 12:13.163 --> 12:15.947 [SPEAKER_01]: Wow, putting concrete. 12:15.987 --> 12:16.949 [SPEAKER_01]: The tone is the same. 12:16.989 --> 12:18.591 [SPEAKER_01]: The character is still so internal. 12:19.031 --> 12:21.715 [SPEAKER_01]: We get to hear their thoughts with their struggling with individually. 12:22.352 --> 12:28.674 [SPEAKER_01]: And concrete like you say that there's action and there's certainly action in this and the art is also fantastic for Paul Chadwick. 12:29.354 --> 12:36.255 [SPEAKER_01]: But the action of this story that is setting up the rest of this arc is concrete and this is spoiler. 12:36.715 --> 12:41.277 [SPEAKER_01]: Concrete has been struck by lightning and is stuck laying down in the sand. 12:43.417 --> 12:50.060 [SPEAKER_02]: So, which is such a concrete plot too, that it's not like he got struck by lightning against electrical powers. 12:50.120 --> 12:50.760 [SPEAKER_02]: It's like, nope. 12:51.301 --> 12:54.502 [SPEAKER_02]: You just get to keep sink it out into the bottom of that sand. 12:54.782 --> 12:56.483 [SPEAKER_01]: He's laying down so hard. 12:56.823 --> 12:57.083 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. 12:57.403 --> 13:03.606 [SPEAKER_02]: And I should have mentioned his way to late three titles in, but spoiler warning for everything that we're talking about here in the stack. 13:04.046 --> 13:08.388 [SPEAKER_02]: The thing that I was really impressed by, and maybe I got this wrong, but like, 13:09.270 --> 13:28.738 [SPEAKER_02]: he updated it anyway like even though it's 20 years later there's some talk of cell phones if I recall in the issue so it doesn't take place in 1996 it takes place in a 2026 but there's no time dash or anything like that just like yeah let's just let's keep going let's keep going that's a great choice it's very like 13:29.458 --> 13:45.565 [SPEAKER_01]: deathfully done, and it reminded me of the previous arc which is when concrete essentially had a baby, and the way that it happened is he He the last arc and maybe plus two arcs of this from so long ago. 13:45.585 --> 13:50.227 [SPEAKER_01]: We're about him falling in love with his scientist coworker, Maureen 13:51.380 --> 13:56.908 [SPEAKER_01]: and not knowing how sex or attraction work, feeling like he could never be loved by her. 13:57.468 --> 14:05.539 [SPEAKER_01]: But then she does, and they have a sexual encounter and then his alien body makes a baby. 14:06.980 --> 14:11.361 [SPEAKER_01]: Right, which I was like when I read that was like that's that's awesome. 14:11.441 --> 14:17.963 [SPEAKER_01]: Like it's so wild and then but so justified and it's very sexual When it's used to scene. 14:18.603 --> 14:32.426 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, but I have such a distinct memory of reading Croncreate I think it was I'd like tour with my sketch comedy group, but I would got to that volume And I was reading it at the back of a bad while we're traveling and I got so 14:37.187 --> 14:37.447 [SPEAKER_01]: Alex. 14:37.767 --> 14:39.869 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I first time I experienced that. 14:39.909 --> 14:41.690 [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for letting me know. 14:42.670 --> 14:47.353 [SPEAKER_02]: No, it was, I was very like, oh my god, this is way hotter than I thought it was going to be. 14:47.613 --> 14:48.173 [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly. 14:49.374 --> 14:57.558 [SPEAKER_01]: And then, but that story being picked up here, I'm like, very, I'm so back there mentally when I'm like, yeah, what's going to go on with this relationship? 14:57.959 --> 15:04.262 [SPEAKER_01]: Would he, his son almost died because the body just made this baby. 15:04.993 --> 15:13.185 [SPEAKER_01]: And they're dealing with that, and then he's, but the main action here, he has to write a speech for some of public remarks he's doing, and he gets stuck by lighting us. 15:13.325 --> 15:13.986 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just a wild. 15:14.086 --> 15:15.488 [SPEAKER_01]: No other comic has that story. 15:15.768 --> 15:16.089 [SPEAKER_02]: It's great. 15:16.189 --> 15:17.451 [SPEAKER_02]: And it's beautiful as well. 15:17.491 --> 15:18.813 [SPEAKER_02]: Like, absolutely gorgeous. 15:18.873 --> 15:20.375 [SPEAKER_02]: It's in color as well. 15:21.126 --> 15:22.107 [SPEAKER_02]: which is pretty exciting. 15:22.167 --> 15:24.948 [SPEAKER_02]: A lot of the other stuff, at least that I've read, is black and white. 15:25.848 --> 15:26.508 [SPEAKER_02]: So great. 15:26.769 --> 15:27.349 [SPEAKER_02]: This is great. 15:27.469 --> 15:32.971 [SPEAKER_02]: A highly recommend reading the rest of Kong Creed first before you get here, but just a beautiful book. 15:33.011 --> 15:33.912 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm glad it exists. 15:34.592 --> 15:35.492 [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely, Green Arrow. 15:35.512 --> 15:40.875 [SPEAKER_02]: Number two from DC Comics written by Pornseck, piece of shote, art by Raphael Albuquerque. 15:41.315 --> 15:43.296 [SPEAKER_02]: We are following Dina Lance. 15:43.336 --> 15:47.778 [SPEAKER_02]: She investigates a Green Arrow killer who is going after billionaires. 15:48.178 --> 15:49.359 [SPEAKER_02]: who have done wrong. 15:49.479 --> 15:52.361 [SPEAKER_02]: She investigates two of the suspects. 15:52.641 --> 15:59.686 [SPEAKER_02]: This issue leading to another death by the end here of a character that I did not expect at all to die. 16:00.386 --> 16:03.769 [SPEAKER_02]: Just if you call this one out on the show, what do you think about issue two? 16:05.146 --> 16:19.599 [SPEAKER_01]: great like still pushing the story forward like quickly like no holds barred the character that dies I was like they get shot with an arrow and I like oh okay, that should be fine. 16:19.860 --> 16:22.222 [SPEAKER_01]: And I was like oh no that killed that killed that care 16:24.429 --> 16:30.233 [SPEAKER_01]: I was a not a real core wound, but yeah, surprising. 16:30.893 --> 16:32.674 [SPEAKER_01]: So that's catching me off guard. 16:33.135 --> 16:42.000 [SPEAKER_01]: It remains topical and like there's no better take-down of the billionaire class in comics right now than the absolute green arrow. 16:42.180 --> 16:44.182 [SPEAKER_02]: There's an exchange that happens in here. 16:44.222 --> 16:48.945 [SPEAKER_02]: They have flashbacks to Euler Queen who died in the absolute evil special. 16:49.565 --> 16:56.732 [SPEAKER_02]: And this issue, we're introduced to me a deer den who is a genius coder who he hires and works with on his app. 16:57.493 --> 17:08.563 [SPEAKER_02]: His partner, Jubel Slade, who he's known since college, was basically Epstein, like that's essentially the standard of this universe and has already been killed. 17:09.132 --> 17:13.114 [SPEAKER_02]: But in this flashback, the conversation that he has with B.A. 17:13.134 --> 17:16.976 [SPEAKER_02]: where B is like, he's having sex with, he's raping 14-year-olds. 17:17.556 --> 17:20.298 [SPEAKER_02]: And he's like, I don't think Jubel would do that. 17:20.738 --> 17:22.038 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, I'll have a talk with him. 17:22.679 --> 17:28.161 [SPEAKER_02]: And it is this boy's club of mentality of like, no, but I know him. 17:28.302 --> 17:32.704 [SPEAKER_02]: You hear it all the time on every level, particularly like, 17:33.424 --> 17:38.490 [SPEAKER_02]: Hollywood, you hear people talking about like, you know, but Kevin Spacey is a really beautiful actor. 17:38.971 --> 17:44.798 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, things like that are like, but Brett Ratner, I don't know, he directed the rush hour movie, sure I'll work with him. 17:44.878 --> 17:50.304 [SPEAKER_02]: Like all of these people on different levels who are horrible abusers, 17:51.025 --> 17:57.572 [SPEAKER_02]: and people make excuses for them because they know them, or they work with them, or they never saw things happen themselves. 17:58.033 --> 18:02.558 [SPEAKER_02]: And we talked to the team about this, where they were like, I'm shocked we got away with this. 18:03.419 --> 18:08.464 [SPEAKER_02]: The first issue I was like, yeah, I mean, you know, this is pretty violent, but I feel like you could have gone away with this. 18:08.965 --> 18:12.309 [SPEAKER_02]: This one is the one where it really starts to push it, I think, even harder. 18:12.660 --> 18:22.411 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, especially that's the the characters doing this is pretty narrow is Oliver Queen before he dies, so it's like it's not even just a character that will emerge as a villain later. 18:22.671 --> 18:29.098 [SPEAKER_01]: It's at the hero ostensibly of this book even though he's dead and then the rugpool later of like 18:29.639 --> 18:34.743 [SPEAKER_01]: the investigation, the character that she finds, oh, that's the killer. 18:35.223 --> 18:38.065 [SPEAKER_01]: He's like, nope, nope, he's dead, he died, he was killed. 18:38.305 --> 18:43.189 [SPEAKER_01]: So like I'm that mystery, the unfolding nature of that mystery is really really done well as well. 18:43.669 --> 18:43.829 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 18:44.512 --> 18:58.300 [SPEAKER_02]: Spider-Man, the long way home, number one for Marvel, written by Jonathan Hickman, art by Adam Cuebert, is the first book of, I believe, two that are basically teague up Spider-Man brand new day, but also not doing it at all. 18:59.280 --> 19:07.044 [SPEAKER_02]: Here we've got Hickman and Cuebert mixing Spider-Man, the Hulk, and Punisher, three characters that are going to be in that movie. 19:07.465 --> 19:07.805 [SPEAKER_02]: But again, 19:09.025 --> 19:10.225 [SPEAKER_02]: has nothing to do with the movie. 19:10.425 --> 19:16.467 [SPEAKER_02]: It is about the Punisher being said to Audey Mission to the jungle where he discovers a cosmic cube. 19:16.547 --> 19:19.968 [SPEAKER_02]: Hulk is also after the cosmic cube by the end of the issue. 19:20.008 --> 19:24.450 [SPEAKER_02]: Spider-Man has recruited to go after it as well. 19:24.490 --> 19:25.610 [SPEAKER_02]: This is very much Hickman. 19:25.730 --> 19:30.031 [SPEAKER_02]: It is Wolverine revenge mode versus anything else. 19:30.431 --> 19:31.252 [SPEAKER_02]: What do you think about this? 19:31.852 --> 19:33.152 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I like the story. 19:33.512 --> 19:36.993 [SPEAKER_01]: If you didn't know that this was vaguely tied in. 19:37.173 --> 19:38.814 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm assuming vaguely tied into the movie. 19:39.525 --> 19:46.127 [SPEAKER_01]: It would feel like Jonathan Hakeman reached his hand into a Marvel bag and was like, oh, I got Spider-Man Hulk, Punisher and Cosmic Cube. 19:46.848 --> 19:47.008 [SPEAKER_01]: Yep. 19:47.108 --> 19:49.529 [SPEAKER_01]: And I guess I'll write a story about those things. 19:50.369 --> 19:52.730 [SPEAKER_01]: It feels very random, but it's good. 19:52.750 --> 20:01.373 [SPEAKER_01]: I like the characters, especially the way that the Cosmic Cube is working once the heroes or the soldiers get their hands on it. 20:01.393 --> 20:04.414 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, oh man, I haven't seen the done this way in a while. 20:05.095 --> 20:05.815 [SPEAKER_01]: Very good. 20:06.475 --> 20:08.696 [SPEAKER_01]: The weirdest part of it is that Spider-Man shows up. 20:09.083 --> 20:11.505 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, even he is like, why am I here? 20:12.225 --> 20:13.086 [SPEAKER_02]: What's going on? 20:13.186 --> 20:14.047 [SPEAKER_02]: You really want me? 20:14.067 --> 20:15.848 [SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, it's fun. 20:15.908 --> 20:17.809 [SPEAKER_02]: Wolverine Revenge was also fun. 20:17.829 --> 20:21.072 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think it's like a major work of Hickman's or anything like that. 20:21.132 --> 20:25.475 [SPEAKER_02]: But as a weird ride, I certainly enjoyed this. 20:25.615 --> 20:28.217 [SPEAKER_02]: I also liked, because this is out of continuity. 20:28.257 --> 20:35.242 [SPEAKER_02]: You've got Punisher is going by the codename Punisher and he has a little painted skull on his face instead of on his chest. 20:35.262 --> 20:36.522 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I was like, oh, that's cool. 20:36.582 --> 20:37.043 [SPEAKER_02]: I like that. 20:37.900 --> 20:39.541 [SPEAKER_01]: But a little shout out to the art as well. 20:39.581 --> 20:43.282 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a great just two-page Hulk moment in this. 20:43.382 --> 20:55.467 [SPEAKER_01]: It is awesome A lot of great like classic Marvel fodder like AIM and Hydra people getting just absolutely wrecked like Lots of like here. 20:55.487 --> 20:56.347 [SPEAKER_01]: I think yeah 20:57.377 --> 21:07.581 [SPEAKER_02]: The trillion dollar kid, number one, the life story of Elon Musk from Ghost Machine and Average Comics written by Jeff Johns, Peter J. Tobasi, and Francis Batapul, art by Stefano Sibion. 21:07.601 --> 21:10.962 [SPEAKER_02]: This actually has nothing to do with Elon Musk, but it's the timing. 21:11.142 --> 21:13.223 [SPEAKER_02]: The timing is incredible. 21:13.343 --> 21:14.243 [SPEAKER_02]: Good for them. 21:15.024 --> 21:15.444 [SPEAKER_02]: Good for them. 21:15.464 --> 21:17.505 [SPEAKER_02]: They're going to sell so many issues because of that. 21:18.125 --> 21:19.825 [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, crazy for trillionaires. 21:20.085 --> 21:20.586 [SPEAKER_02]: They love it. 21:20.746 --> 21:22.566 [SPEAKER_02]: Everybody loves it and feels good about it. 21:22.726 --> 21:24.687 [SPEAKER_02]: And ultimately, it's good for a society. 21:27.428 --> 21:28.770 [SPEAKER_01]: You're talking about this comic of course. 21:29.010 --> 21:29.670 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, of course. 21:29.710 --> 21:31.192 [SPEAKER_02]: This is a big plus this comic. 21:31.252 --> 21:39.538 [SPEAKER_02]: This is part of the unbelievables which used to be the family Odyssey's universe that also includes Horne's Beat in Halo and the Rocket Fellows. 21:39.899 --> 21:50.107 [SPEAKER_02]: You're getting the origin, the first kid Trillionaire in this universe who decides to go out of journey to explore the unbelievables for reason that becomes apparent. 21:50.648 --> 21:57.639 [SPEAKER_02]: By the end of the issue now Justin you've been asking why are we doing this even though you've been Enjoyed the zero issues. 21:58.120 --> 22:00.524 [SPEAKER_02]: They've been putting out now that you don't why they're doing this. 22:00.564 --> 22:01.326 [SPEAKER_02]: How do you feel about it? 22:01.920 --> 22:08.865 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I mean, this issue really like establishes this character, the $2K kid, we get origin. 22:08.885 --> 22:16.811 [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, interesting, band-aid sales was what really pushed this kid into the trillionaires. 22:17.291 --> 22:17.491 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 22:17.971 --> 22:19.853 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, everybody uses band-aids? 22:20.353 --> 22:20.853 [SPEAKER_01]: That's true. 22:21.434 --> 22:22.034 [SPEAKER_01]: Good thinking. 22:23.615 --> 22:29.700 [SPEAKER_01]: And then we get the complication and then we get at the end of it to sort of the idea of what the unbelievables are. 22:30.320 --> 22:38.443 [SPEAKER_01]: And if I'm getting this correct, the unbelievables are like magical holiday creatures, like Santa Claus living in a town. 22:38.904 --> 22:41.425 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that's one type of unbelievables. 22:41.685 --> 22:50.929 [SPEAKER_02]: It's just seems to be a capsule for whatever weird idea that they have, that they want to put it out in the world, and maybe do a series off of, is the thing. 22:52.429 --> 22:56.151 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, wait, are you saying the unbelievables is every, what one? 22:56.838 --> 22:58.299 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's every one of those things. 22:58.379 --> 23:01.600 [SPEAKER_02]: It's the, there's a town where holiday creatures live. 23:01.700 --> 23:04.161 [SPEAKER_02]: There's a genie who escaped her bottle. 23:04.702 --> 23:10.164 [SPEAKER_02]: There's a monster band that the Rockefeller is horns being halo, et cetera. 23:10.544 --> 23:12.465 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and we get a tip into that. 23:13.206 --> 23:21.109 [SPEAKER_01]: But it's just funny too, in this very straightforward introduction of the Chilean dollar kid and sort of the drama around that, I was like, oh, I really like this. 23:21.269 --> 23:23.390 [SPEAKER_01]: And then I'm like, well, you know what else you like? 23:23.710 --> 23:25.111 [SPEAKER_01]: Is everything. 23:25.464 --> 23:38.860 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just like having a big plate, having a great, like considered meal, tasting menu, and then they dropped the last course, and it's like a stack of every candy, and they're like, you can't leave until you finish it. 23:40.555 --> 23:45.818 [SPEAKER_02]: I, to take a little bit of a step back and then we'll see how this turns out, it could be totally fine. 23:45.838 --> 23:56.685 [SPEAKER_02]: But a little weirded out that we're going to go to the first issue of this title, and that it's continued towards being halo and that the rocket fellers before it comes back to that, that's weird to be. 23:56.805 --> 24:07.051 [SPEAKER_02]: That is the potential to be confusing to read if you go from $trillion to $1,000 to $1,000 to $1,000 to $1,000 to $1,000 to $1,000 to $1,000 to $1,000 to $1,000 to $1,000 to $1,000. 24:07.071 --> 24:07.672 [SPEAKER_01]: The other thing is... 24:09.753 --> 24:10.693 [SPEAKER_02]: with the first issue. 24:11.554 --> 24:19.756 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, less so with the first issue, yes, but that's the like, that's how a lot of crossovers used to be, whereas like, yeah, I don't have a problem with that. 24:19.956 --> 24:24.978 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm saying that like, I think the status quo and the mystery here is interesting. 24:25.058 --> 24:26.298 [SPEAKER_02]: This is an interesting character. 24:26.338 --> 24:27.318 [SPEAKER_02]: There's good mystery. 24:27.818 --> 24:31.139 [SPEAKER_02]: He has turned his town almost literally at points to walk 24:33.700 --> 24:41.950 [SPEAKER_02]: So like I want to see that I want to see more of that and how he explores that before he leaves it enters these other titles as a special guest star, but 24:42.641 --> 24:42.941 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know. 24:43.021 --> 24:44.642 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm hurt before the horse here. 24:44.742 --> 24:45.782 [SPEAKER_02]: It's probably fine. 24:46.682 --> 24:48.002 [SPEAKER_02]: Let's talk about another event. 24:48.063 --> 24:50.563 [SPEAKER_02]: Justice League, Dreamgirls and DC Pride event. 24:50.603 --> 24:59.706 [SPEAKER_02]: Number three from DC Comics written by Nicole Maine's Andjazzia Axelrod and G. Willow Wilson, art by Brandon Stein, Jan Baseldoa, Rosie Camp and Maria love it. 25:00.006 --> 25:03.787 [SPEAKER_02]: And the front story, Dreamer and Galaxy are dealing with 25:04.487 --> 25:25.327 [SPEAKER_02]: two things one in the dream world the key is trying to get some info out of dreamer while in the real world galaxy is maybe going to be kicked out of the justice league they're both very messily dealing with that and there is a backup story about what else poison ivy and harley quinn from jubilabelson and maria love it uh 25:26.108 --> 25:26.628 [SPEAKER_02]: This is great. 25:26.729 --> 25:29.771 [SPEAKER_02]: I've said this every issue, but I love this event. 25:29.871 --> 25:34.555 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, I was thinking about something we were talking about on our Patreon Discord. 25:34.575 --> 25:38.458 [SPEAKER_02]: I want to say a month or two ago. 25:38.478 --> 25:47.125 [SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't really matter, but we were talking about how gay characters aren't allowed to be messy the way that straight characters are often in comics. 25:47.565 --> 25:47.746 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 25:48.026 --> 25:49.587 [SPEAKER_02]: Dreamer and Galaxy are 25:53.390 --> 26:06.754 [SPEAKER_02]: complete utter mess, and they are using that, and Jazzy Axelrod and Nicole Mains are so expoly using that to allow them to grow, which is something that you don't actually see from mainstream comic book characters a lot. 26:07.495 --> 26:07.875 [SPEAKER_02]: It's great. 26:08.055 --> 26:08.815 [SPEAKER_02]: I love the action. 26:08.835 --> 26:09.595 [SPEAKER_02]: I love the story. 26:09.675 --> 26:12.076 [SPEAKER_02]: And I thought the backup story was great as well. 26:12.096 --> 26:13.597 [SPEAKER_02]: I want a great use of Maria Love it. 26:13.737 --> 26:14.377 [SPEAKER_01]: It took them. 26:14.497 --> 26:15.977 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I love the backup. 26:16.057 --> 26:16.738 [SPEAKER_01]: It's so good. 26:16.818 --> 26:17.798 [SPEAKER_01]: The art's awesome. 26:18.338 --> 26:34.003 [SPEAKER_01]: And then like you're saying about the main story like we get to, I feel like in a lot of these events, the pride events, but sort of all the events, you get your in-character and then it's like then you're bop around the DC or Marley universe for a while. 26:34.423 --> 26:43.812 [SPEAKER_01]: But the POV states so strongly on Galaxy and Dreamer on this, and it's both when they're encountering the larger Justice League where it's fun, funny, and like all over the place. 26:44.372 --> 26:56.583 [SPEAKER_01]: And then these great like just smaller scenes where we get to see Galaxy really have a conversation and affect a character and be affected by a character and then it all sort of comes back to the main action. 26:57.849 --> 27:07.783 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just it's just very well done and dreamer continues to be like one of the main characters of the DC universe and feels like and that's really surprising and good 27:09.612 --> 27:15.637 [SPEAKER_02]: What if Thor, number one, from Marvel Written by Torne Grombeck, art by Sergio DeVilla? 27:15.937 --> 27:22.282 [SPEAKER_02]: What if Thor indeed, we talked to Torne about this, the bonus episode of the podcast a couple of weeks back? 27:22.642 --> 27:26.825 [SPEAKER_02]: So go and listen to that, but this is part of the 50th anniversary celebration of what if. 27:27.386 --> 27:37.153 [SPEAKER_02]: And here the idea is what if during secret wars, the original one, Thor got the symbiot instead of Spider-Man, and we see what happens off of that. 27:37.530 --> 27:41.691 [SPEAKER_02]: basically what happens is the whole king and black thing happens much queer. 27:42.151 --> 27:44.112 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we get right to some knows stuff. 27:44.152 --> 27:46.812 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, cut a lot of a nonsense in the middle. 27:47.253 --> 27:50.874 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's a lot of yeah, we don't need a bunch of other symbiots. 27:51.154 --> 27:52.494 [SPEAKER_01]: We're to line on groups in this. 27:52.514 --> 27:55.595 [SPEAKER_01]: We get right to the group boss very quickly. 27:56.734 --> 28:03.659 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of making fun of Null's name, and this is for what it means in North region. 28:03.859 --> 28:05.020 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 28:05.140 --> 28:05.460 [SPEAKER_01]: I guess. 28:06.100 --> 28:16.628 [SPEAKER_01]: So, but I thought we were going to get the last one of these, what ifs, was like a real bummer ending, and that was the Phoenix one, or what if Nathan 28:17.354 --> 28:20.016 [SPEAKER_01]: If Scott Summers had stayed with Madeline, rather than Gus. 28:20.637 --> 28:23.179 [SPEAKER_02]: Which I want to mention, I know I was an odd for that show. 28:23.659 --> 28:27.222 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to guess Pete hated it because he doesn't like one else. 28:27.842 --> 28:30.204 [SPEAKER_02]: This is my absolute favorite thing about one of us. 28:30.264 --> 28:38.690 [SPEAKER_02]: That issue where it was like, what if metal and prior stayed with South Subbers, which is like a very simple idea at the end is like the world exploded. 28:39.451 --> 28:47.677 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, that is a great, what if thing, where it's like, well, it's just biter thing and that everybody died. 28:48.237 --> 28:49.118 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 28:49.238 --> 28:49.779 [SPEAKER_01]: I agree with you. 28:49.839 --> 28:55.803 [SPEAKER_01]: And honestly, that set me up to expect this to have some, like, big, gravity response here. 28:56.243 --> 28:58.325 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's mostly Thor's like, awesome. 28:59.298 --> 29:06.285 [SPEAKER_01]: and then the he divorces the symbiote, and symbiote's technically sacrifices itself, fourth or in a cool scene. 29:07.125 --> 29:11.590 [SPEAKER_01]: So I liked that, but then it goes like, I'm Thor again, and I'm like, okay. 29:12.759 --> 29:15.521 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's just a little simpler than the other one. 29:15.661 --> 29:16.942 [SPEAKER_02]: And I like the story. 29:17.022 --> 29:18.583 [SPEAKER_02]: The art is good in here. 29:18.663 --> 29:22.326 [SPEAKER_02]: It's a fun issue, but just personal preference. 29:22.546 --> 29:32.233 [SPEAKER_02]: My mode for what if is something very simple like what if the thing ate toast this morning instead of pancakes at that by the end of the galaxy is turned into a black hole. 29:32.673 --> 29:32.833 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 29:33.314 --> 29:38.117 [SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't just in the way that Thor and the Symbia, the Venom Symbia, just really like paled around. 29:38.177 --> 29:40.679 [SPEAKER_01]: They became the much better co-workers. 29:41.139 --> 29:41.940 [SPEAKER_01]: One of my friends, man. 29:43.581 --> 29:44.862 [SPEAKER_02]: Also, good redesign. 29:44.882 --> 29:46.143 [SPEAKER_02]: We were talking about this a little bit. 29:46.163 --> 29:46.303 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 29:46.323 --> 29:51.787 [SPEAKER_02]: Thor and whether he was going to get like a little hammer instead of a spider, but I think they'd be at a better choice at here. 29:52.747 --> 29:58.915 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think that the symbiote did what it did with Spider-Man was like, I'll dress like you, like your little Thor. 29:59.335 --> 29:59.595 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. 29:59.816 --> 30:07.846 [SPEAKER_02]: And also, I mean, it's a little anacridistic, but there's a very funny section here where Loki and Siff are teasing Thor. 30:07.926 --> 30:10.208 [SPEAKER_02]: About his new costume, that was very funny. 30:10.669 --> 30:12.171 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, that's all. 30:12.590 --> 30:29.959 [SPEAKER_02]: All right, hellboy in love, obsidian number one for Dark Horse Comics, written by Mike Ben Yola and Christopher Golden, art by Alex Nietto, this is following Hellboy, and the woman he has been dating as first they go to a nude beach, don't worry, Hellboy's not nude, and then they fight some tiny gross spiders. 30:30.500 --> 30:33.821 [SPEAKER_02]: Here's what's fucked up, yeah, why he should have been nude, 100%. 30:35.187 --> 30:35.887 [SPEAKER_02]: What's he afraid of? 30:36.407 --> 30:40.149 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, well he explains it in the issue, but I don't think it was a good explanation. 30:40.329 --> 30:46.471 [SPEAKER_01]: I agree, and like, she's very nice about it because they're in love, but I'm like, bro, you're used to sticking out. 30:46.771 --> 30:47.191 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's go. 30:47.591 --> 30:49.872 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I want to see that hell, but you know what I'm talking about? 30:50.372 --> 30:53.033 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, if you know what I'm talking about to I need to explain that? 30:53.374 --> 30:58.375 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, I guess I know most of what you're talking about, because you think his butt has little horns? 30:58.916 --> 30:59.696 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think so. 30:59.756 --> 31:00.896 [SPEAKER_02]: And he got to shave them down. 31:01.576 --> 31:02.357 [SPEAKER_02]: Also, like, 31:03.541 --> 31:13.464 [SPEAKER_02]: one of the characters in this issue says something about like, do you think supernatural stuff exists with Hellboy sitting in the backseat of the car? 31:14.064 --> 31:14.985 [SPEAKER_02]: That's a little weird. 31:15.005 --> 31:19.166 [SPEAKER_02]: I feel like we've passed the group of cod with that one's Hellboy shows up. 31:19.466 --> 31:26.228 [SPEAKER_01]: But I do think like Hellboy has, he's moved into like sitcom logic or everyone's like, hey, what's up? 31:26.308 --> 31:28.429 [SPEAKER_01]: You're the scientist and scientist boyfriend. 31:28.449 --> 31:28.869 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, come on. 31:28.909 --> 31:30.029 [SPEAKER_01]: We're just gonna go look around. 31:30.369 --> 31:30.729 [SPEAKER_01]: Like there's 31:33.693 --> 31:43.104 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and I don't know what that is like, I don't know what that is like, what do they think he has a weird skin condition that made one of his arms very large and look like stone. 31:43.344 --> 31:43.725 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know. 31:44.622 --> 32:00.811 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, this is quite a question, it does, but I like that they move past it and let me say I've been a little bit hard on these Hellboy stories where I'm like, let's get to some actual stuff, but I find these Hellboy and love stories, especially this one very sweet I like the relationship so much. 32:01.372 --> 32:02.672 [SPEAKER_01]: We get there. 32:02.872 --> 32:06.935 [SPEAKER_01]: There's dialogue with them is very like the force on rise 32:07.876 --> 32:11.265 [SPEAKER_01]: The movie the awesome trilogy of movies. 32:11.305 --> 32:16.058 [SPEAKER_01]: They're like talking about love talking about being in love all So doing their job and 32:16.869 --> 32:45.157 [SPEAKER_02]: It's just like a hang with a funny couple and it's honestly like I had the same reaction reading this issue that it could have almost been a little more concrete where I was having digital life full-time with the odd-the-dude beach to just hang out going on vacation chatting with each other that would be gross little spiders came in with the human face as I was like oh no come on I was having a nice time I do that was well done though I thought tension-wise you've been to a nude beach I have not have you I have been 32:46.828 --> 32:50.291 [SPEAKER_01]: And it was for their details or there were a lot of details. 32:51.471 --> 32:53.413 [SPEAKER_01]: But almost exclusively details. 32:54.674 --> 33:00.618 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a weird vibe because you're like, we're all cool here, but it's like nobody's making a big deal out of anything, right? 33:02.359 --> 33:03.660 [SPEAKER_02]: I'll check it out with each other. 33:04.140 --> 33:06.382 [SPEAKER_01]: But there's a, it's not cool to check in. 33:06.622 --> 33:07.683 [SPEAKER_01]: It's, you gotta check out. 33:07.903 --> 33:13.507 [SPEAKER_01]: But it's also, unless you're a regular, it's sort of like, it's hard not to check in. 33:13.527 --> 33:15.869 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm here at this situation. 33:17.905 --> 33:18.226 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's go. 33:18.246 --> 33:19.027 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 33:19.267 --> 33:19.628 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah. 33:19.648 --> 33:21.450 [SPEAKER_02]: Let's do a podcast for a new beach. 33:21.611 --> 33:24.435 [SPEAKER_01]: I think that would be audio only. 33:24.855 --> 33:25.116 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. 33:25.296 --> 33:27.399 [SPEAKER_02]: Audio new beach. 33:27.659 --> 33:28.541 [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely flash. 33:28.581 --> 33:30.744 [SPEAKER_02]: Number 16 from DC to flash. 33:30.764 --> 33:31.685 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what you do at a new 33:33.567 --> 33:57.892 [SPEAKER_02]: written by Jeff Beard by Haydig in this issue we are following up on Grod and Papa Grod are on the loose also the flash finally gets a name which is the flash you do that but he didn't know that yet he didn't know that obviously we're in the tank for absolute Batman and absolute green arrow at this point how are you feeling about absolute flash this this book does 33:58.870 --> 34:03.053 [SPEAKER_01]: Weirdly feel like it's it is the pushing the larger story. 34:03.093 --> 34:11.158 [SPEAKER_01]: It's doing the thing that DC's done for decades now or a character will be like look at this and it's a piece of paper that says like what is the mega stuff for 34:12.988 --> 34:24.200 [SPEAKER_01]: and we get that here and it does feel like flash is going to be the character that's somehow is the catalyst for the next larger move in the absolute universe so that's that's cool. 34:24.240 --> 34:25.742 [SPEAKER_01]: It makes me want to read this more. 34:26.903 --> 34:33.070 [SPEAKER_01]: I also like this one has settled into become the most like super hero of the absolutes. 34:33.811 --> 34:37.375 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, this still some nice changes from regular flash continuity. 34:37.876 --> 34:38.196 [SPEAKER_02]: Didn't we? 34:38.216 --> 34:42.001 [SPEAKER_02]: This is a little off topic, but talking about the like notes that mean things. 34:42.221 --> 34:45.545 [SPEAKER_02]: Did we do an interview series with Dan to D.O. 34:45.665 --> 34:49.409 [SPEAKER_02]: in front of a whiteboard that a bunch of clues on it for Newsarama? 34:49.430 --> 34:50.571 [SPEAKER_02]: Am I remembering that wrong? 34:50.731 --> 34:51.051 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. 34:51.792 --> 34:59.837 [SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, you know, the one in the comic feels like very meticulously made thought over. 35:00.237 --> 35:07.942 [SPEAKER_01]: The one in Dan's office, I feel like, I don't know, I'd be very curious to carbon-date the dry erase marker when it hit that board. 35:08.122 --> 35:13.265 [SPEAKER_01]: Was 10 minutes before we got there, 30, four seconds. 35:13.745 --> 35:13.925 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 35:14.252 --> 35:16.994 [SPEAKER_02]: Who knows, we'd have to go back in time, like the Flash. 35:17.174 --> 35:18.394 [SPEAKER_02]: I also really enjoy this. 35:18.775 --> 35:24.478 [SPEAKER_02]: This is not necessarily my top of the list for the absolute books, but it's just a really solid, very different Flash book. 35:24.858 --> 35:28.000 [SPEAKER_02]: I like how it's developing and this broad stuff is interesting. 35:28.661 --> 35:34.364 [SPEAKER_02]: Uncanny X-Men, number 30 from Marvel, written by Gelsimone, Art by Rojay, Adtonio. 35:34.784 --> 35:39.107 [SPEAKER_02]: This issue, a bunch of stuff going on with the X-Men down in New Orleans. 35:39.767 --> 35:45.454 [SPEAKER_02]: as the cover says Mars these mutants, but we are getting some weird aliens or something. 35:46.335 --> 35:50.681 [SPEAKER_02]: We don't exactly know what's going on here attacking them as they go about their day. 35:50.881 --> 35:51.341 [SPEAKER_02]: It is 35:52.749 --> 36:03.439 [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe prom definitely some sort of formal dance happening in the high school and the kids need the adults to help them pick out corsages and take them to their dates, which is very cute. 36:03.859 --> 36:13.949 [SPEAKER_02]: Meanwhile, we're dealing with the fallout of the falling down of gray mock and prison, Monet is in charge now and trying to find out what the prism is really about as well as 36:14.489 --> 36:34.689 [SPEAKER_02]: Quelling the prisoners from Rebelling so lots of stuff be juggled this issue, but I got to say this continues to be my absolute favorite of the X-Men line It's just really There is a lot going on, but it keeps it well balanced throughout this issue and all of the individual story lines are really interesting. 36:35.090 --> 36:35.891 [SPEAKER_02]: I also think like 36:37.202 --> 36:54.668 [SPEAKER_02]: that arc we had previously where the kids were taken back and put into like a dream state and AI dream state of the old professor's mansion really just like focused it out to who these new outliers characters actually are spent some time with them. 36:54.808 --> 36:55.628 [SPEAKER_02]: So this is great. 36:55.648 --> 36:59.029 [SPEAKER_02]: It's funny, there's some great romantic stuff happening with night crawler. 36:59.550 --> 37:00.450 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm really enjoying this. 37:00.850 --> 37:05.112 [SPEAKER_01]: The night crawler romance is transcending all of the X-Men universe. 37:06.997 --> 37:08.358 [SPEAKER_01]: This guy's in love. 37:08.739 --> 37:13.584 [SPEAKER_01]: It's nice and everyone wants to have a little scene of him doing that in all the books. 37:13.604 --> 37:14.184 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's sweet. 37:14.544 --> 37:16.827 [SPEAKER_01]: You can just tell what affection everybody has for Nightcrawler. 37:17.347 --> 37:18.008 [SPEAKER_01]: I also like this. 37:18.148 --> 37:19.049 [SPEAKER_01]: I would argue though. 37:19.289 --> 37:22.112 [SPEAKER_01]: There's just as much going on in this issue as there is an absolute Batman. 37:22.590 --> 37:24.472 [SPEAKER_01]: but you're not mad at this issue. 37:25.013 --> 37:26.194 [SPEAKER_01]: No, interesting. 37:26.775 --> 37:27.456 [SPEAKER_01]: Interesting. 37:27.736 --> 37:29.738 [SPEAKER_02]: It's because the pattern that this book is set up. 37:29.798 --> 37:32.001 [SPEAKER_02]: It's always been dealing with a lot of stuff. 37:32.161 --> 37:37.427 [SPEAKER_02]: And sometimes, particularly in the early going, it felt a little jumples and hard to hold on to. 37:37.807 --> 37:40.590 [SPEAKER_02]: There'd be individual scenes or things that I could pull out. 37:41.151 --> 37:42.793 [SPEAKER_02]: But it 37:43.520 --> 37:45.621 [SPEAKER_02]: the past couple of arcs like I've been talking about. 37:45.721 --> 37:50.925 [SPEAKER_02]: I think it just like it focused in figured out the characters figured out the right rhythm for this stuff. 37:51.845 --> 38:00.110 [SPEAKER_02]: I do feel like I want to see the stuff with Baudet and the stuff with the New Orleans X-Bed not be too parallel trades running that never beat. 38:00.190 --> 38:02.952 [SPEAKER_02]: I want to see them come together and I think they will. 38:02.972 --> 38:03.032 [SPEAKER_02]: But 38:06.173 --> 38:13.515 [SPEAKER_02]: But other than that, all of the various scenes, it's giving that soap opera feel that you want from X bed. 38:13.555 --> 38:18.756 [SPEAKER_02]: And that's the other thing is that like, that man is a very different thing from X bed. 38:18.956 --> 38:21.337 [SPEAKER_02]: X bed, there is an expectation. 38:21.477 --> 38:23.237 [SPEAKER_02]: No pun intended to of really good. 38:23.257 --> 38:23.998 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, really good. 38:24.598 --> 38:29.299 [SPEAKER_02]: Of jumping around and following all these different things, that it's not just one mission of the week and that's it. 38:29.877 --> 38:34.401 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and I do like the focus on the younger mutants, the prom stuff's really good. 38:34.441 --> 38:37.123 [SPEAKER_01]: We get to see Gambit and Wolverine being funny there. 38:38.184 --> 38:39.825 [SPEAKER_01]: I love Monet. 38:40.286 --> 38:44.750 [SPEAKER_01]: I like the fact that we get to see her when she was introduced in Generation X a long ago. 38:45.130 --> 38:49.854 [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, this character is such a badass and she's never really in that book she was good. 38:49.994 --> 38:52.696 [SPEAKER_01]: And we got to see a lot of her and age of apocalypse. 38:52.716 --> 38:53.517 [SPEAKER_01]: It was very cool, but 38:54.132 --> 38:57.935 [SPEAKER_01]: never really ascend to being like a prime union and be a true badass. 38:58.075 --> 39:03.079 [SPEAKER_01]: And this issue is the most of that, maybe we've seen her entire run as a character. 39:03.099 --> 39:08.324 [SPEAKER_01]: So love that, love the idea of seeing more from her, going forward. 39:08.424 --> 39:11.586 [SPEAKER_01]: And then the Marsneath mutants, is this an oracle? 39:14.706 --> 39:29.958 [SPEAKER_02]: What story line that Mars is it a roco the Araco no, I think that's just like they're making a joke About Mars needs what's it called I'm forgetting with the actual title of the movie is mom's mom's yes 39:32.800 --> 39:34.882 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we get the brewed in here. 39:34.902 --> 39:39.607 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think it's actually the brewed since they're holding guns, which is weird for the brewed. 39:39.747 --> 39:44.392 [SPEAKER_02]: So maybe there's more AI stuff going on, and maybe there's something else. 39:44.473 --> 39:45.674 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just, I'm not sure. 39:45.874 --> 39:46.875 [SPEAKER_02]: But we'll see, maybe. 39:47.836 --> 39:48.337 [SPEAKER_02]: We shall see. 39:49.459 --> 40:02.809 [SPEAKER_02]: If it's will universe battle beast number 10 from skybound an image comics written by Robert Kirkman art by Ryan oddly last issue conquest arrived on the planet that battle beast is currently making his home at least temporarily. 40:03.249 --> 40:11.915 [SPEAKER_02]: This issue as you all demanded they sit down to dinner together, but don't worry they also fight and start to wreck the planet at the same time. 40:13.938 --> 40:24.542 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, we talk a lot about different rubber curtain books, and there has been not to keep bringing up our Patreon discord, but a lot of talk about void rivals and stuff in the editor-genuters, in particular. 40:25.102 --> 40:31.004 [SPEAKER_02]: And I agree that that can be a little jumbled and hard to follow sometimes, including frankly, transporers. 40:31.704 --> 40:31.864 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 40:31.904 --> 40:35.465 [SPEAKER_02]: This is just, you can tell the fun that he's having. 40:35.525 --> 40:37.686 [SPEAKER_02]: Like it's light, it's very fluffy. 40:37.766 --> 40:39.687 [SPEAKER_02]: There's not too much going on here. 40:39.767 --> 40:40.947 [SPEAKER_02]: You'd know what you're getting, 40:43.908 --> 40:46.109 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, this was my favorite issue of this whole series. 40:46.190 --> 40:49.812 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, it really crystallizes here. 40:49.852 --> 40:54.715 [SPEAKER_01]: Where you're like, these two are like, add-outs from the second, you read the first page. 40:54.775 --> 41:01.800 [SPEAKER_01]: The arts, big, and bold, all the other characters they're like, these two dudes are gonna kill each other. 41:02.440 --> 41:26.535 [SPEAKER_01]: The same thing we're thinking and it takes a while to get to it and then they have an awesome fight where they're both posturing, going against Todd McFarlane's advice in our live show for me yesterday where these characters are spouting action movie lines, back to back to back, saying being the biggest badass of all, but 41:27.407 --> 41:28.428 [SPEAKER_01]: it makes for a good fight. 41:28.468 --> 41:30.468 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of great turnaround in this. 41:31.089 --> 41:36.151 [SPEAKER_01]: It's crazy that I was complaining about this in the last issue where I'm like, we know what happens with these characters. 41:36.811 --> 41:45.955 [SPEAKER_01]: They both live until they fight next to each other without referencing this situation, obviously, in the invincible war. 41:46.756 --> 41:48.176 [SPEAKER_01]: But it's still, I was still caught up in it. 41:48.316 --> 41:51.878 [SPEAKER_01]: I wasn't feeling the plot armor on them at all in this. 41:52.435 --> 41:52.615 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 41:53.415 --> 41:53.956 [SPEAKER_02]: Great stuff. 41:54.056 --> 42:00.258 [SPEAKER_02]: Fun to issue new Titans, number 36 from DC Comics, written by Tate Bromble, Art by Marcus Toe. 42:00.639 --> 42:12.264 [SPEAKER_02]: Now, on the first arc of this series, the regular Titans had been captured by an evil version of Cyborg and some new Titans were brought into rescue them. 42:12.644 --> 42:17.266 [SPEAKER_02]: Now, they're all living together in Titans Mountain and trying to figure out what that means, the new team. 42:18.186 --> 42:20.468 [SPEAKER_02]: as well as some new characters that have been introduced. 42:21.188 --> 42:32.534 [SPEAKER_02]: We, I believe, love the first arc of this, not exactly new series, but this iteration of Titans, how do you feel about it kicking into Ark number two? 42:33.235 --> 42:37.497 [SPEAKER_01]: These are my favorite types of issues in comics, especially big team comics, where they're like, 42:38.882 --> 42:40.423 [SPEAKER_01]: We're trying to figure out who's on the team. 42:40.463 --> 42:42.504 [SPEAKER_01]: They're all that's catching up with each other. 42:42.685 --> 42:48.628 [SPEAKER_01]: Some characters are sort of eliminated from it where we get a nice scene here with Starfire and Nightwing. 42:49.129 --> 42:53.171 [SPEAKER_01]: Other characters are, it's feel like, yes, backrals are going to be a badass part of this. 42:53.251 --> 42:54.452 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm so hyped for that. 42:54.992 --> 43:01.917 [SPEAKER_01]: There's just like, it's that rare issue in comics where you can feel a lot of shifts happening and it feels like it's going to be at least semi-permanent. 43:02.417 --> 43:09.304 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, and that's what we get here as well as the interesting stuff going on with the cyborg and Eva I thought was very cool as well. 43:09.544 --> 43:09.684 [SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm. 43:10.565 --> 43:12.166 [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, yeah, this is great. 43:12.186 --> 43:21.255 [SPEAKER_02]: I love this and what I love about this is how they're playing with classic titan storylines in a new way like the first arc. 43:21.735 --> 43:30.417 [SPEAKER_02]: I think they explicitly said at one point, oh no, what evil cyborg is a grid, and they're like, no, it's a different thing, but it's kind of the same thing, but in a new way. 43:30.857 --> 43:38.418 [SPEAKER_02]: And this issue, we get the absolute terrifying reveal of at this seaside town. 43:38.438 --> 43:42.679 [SPEAKER_02]: There's just an enormous demon that seems to be eating babies, and then there's more than that. 43:43.199 --> 43:50.260 [SPEAKER_02]: And I think they're doing like a riff out of classic tri-god storyline, but without tri-god, and again, in an entirely new way. 43:50.893 --> 43:51.673 [SPEAKER_02]: And I love that. 43:51.873 --> 44:02.396 [SPEAKER_02]: Like I love giving us this thing that we know but through the lens of these new titans, there's ongoing mysteries with cyborg has the heart of apocalypse at the middle of the mountain, which is crazy. 44:02.657 --> 44:03.117 [SPEAKER_01]: Very good. 44:03.477 --> 44:14.360 [SPEAKER_02]: So I said this the last issue that took me too long to realize that this basically lived doing uncanny X-Men back for the beginning, but with titans, but all of these elements are working. 44:14.620 --> 44:15.740 [SPEAKER_02]: It's just, it's great. 44:15.860 --> 44:16.381 [SPEAKER_02]: It's fun. 44:16.741 --> 44:17.521 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm having a good time. 44:17.836 --> 44:27.950 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, and this was reminded me of what I've been missing by not having like a legion or legion airs title, which is also something we've been talking about recently on the podcast. 44:29.348 --> 44:40.873 [SPEAKER_02]: Next up, the Spectacular Spider-Man brand new day number two from Marvel written by Dad Slot art by Marcus Till once again, this is a maybe mini series when we had Dad Slot on their live show. 44:41.213 --> 44:51.017 [SPEAKER_02]: It was like keep buying it and it will become an ongoing series, but it was the second of our two not exactly tying into Spider-Man brand new day books because Punisher isn't it. 44:51.497 --> 44:52.298 [SPEAKER_02]: And maybe Mr. 44:52.318 --> 44:57.600 [SPEAKER_02]: Negative isn't the movie, but I'm not 100% sure Spider-Man is for sure. 44:58.735 --> 45:07.617 [SPEAKER_02]: I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I 45:08.271 --> 45:22.977 [SPEAKER_01]: It's very much crotch, it's a very much a crotch gun from from Dustill Dawn situation here, except on a much larger scale, and especially the way the cover is laid out where it's like a circle, which is even more emphasizing the 45:36.552 --> 45:44.100 [SPEAKER_01]: But the internal issue, as I was reading this, and I mentioned this to you before, like, I'm like, are some of these elements what's gonna be in the Spider-Man movie? 45:44.341 --> 45:45.802 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, are we gonna get a Mr. 45:45.882 --> 45:49.727 [SPEAKER_01]: Negative, I don't think it's just a hard no, but. 45:50.934 --> 45:57.661 [SPEAKER_01]: Some of, I feel like sometimes a lot of times they are about comic continuity, but this is not really about comic continuity at all. 45:57.942 --> 46:07.852 [SPEAKER_01]: It's about the characters, and I'm like, are there movie elements here, not use the same ways than movie, obviously, but laid out a little bit, are we going to get Mr. 46:07.872 --> 46:12.998 [SPEAKER_01]: Negative somehow driving John Bernathal in the Brando Day movie? 46:13.968 --> 46:42.223 [SPEAKER_02]: uh... maybe possibly i don't know i look at this more like dance lots way of retconic a bunch of stuff into the constitutive brand new day like this is second issue a row that we've had was a daily bass spider boy show up in the book so that like of course he was there all along there's a couple of other characters it looked like maybe silk was in there as well potentially but maybe a brawl about that i don't know whatever it is it's 46:44.435 --> 46:51.301 [SPEAKER_02]: It's just dance slide having a lot of fun with Spider-Bad and going forward, it's very light, it's fun, it is what it is. 46:51.461 --> 46:55.265 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think you should be looking at it for movie clues, but, well, no in a month. 46:55.685 --> 47:01.851 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll see Alex, we'll the punisher have a big old dick gun in the movie. 47:02.171 --> 47:02.992 [SPEAKER_01]: Gosh, I hope so. 47:04.217 --> 47:07.758 [SPEAKER_02]: P-R rated first R rated spider bed movie, that's where we're gonna get. 47:08.259 --> 47:14.681 [SPEAKER_02]: Babs, the black road south, number four, from a holy comics written by Garth Ennis, art by Jason Burroughs. 47:15.221 --> 47:22.424 [SPEAKER_02]: This arc of the title has very much been a parody of Lord of the Rings as our heroes. 47:22.584 --> 47:32.608 [SPEAKER_02]: I guess find themselves heading towards Mordor, dealing with a one-ring acceptance and orb type situation, and there's a one remaining hobbit 47:34.420 --> 47:36.905 [SPEAKER_02]: who's now wearing a gipsuit and wants to kill them. 47:36.925 --> 47:45.442 [SPEAKER_02]: If I did a lot more about that, as well as why this issue, I think you've been enjoying this more that I have, Justin. 47:45.851 --> 47:47.552 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I do like it. 47:47.572 --> 47:50.953 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, first off, not to be a peat here, but the cover of this is awesome. 47:51.153 --> 47:53.174 [SPEAKER_01]: I kept re-looking at the cover. 47:53.714 --> 48:04.239 [SPEAKER_01]: If you haven't seen it, it's Bams with a snake corpse pulling her cohort, her peer out of the snake's dead inside, which is very good. 48:05.300 --> 48:10.862 [SPEAKER_01]: And then this story does a great job of balancing some pretty hard parody. 48:11.723 --> 48:32.419 [SPEAKER_01]: With like the emotional reality that Babbs is like maybe confessing to being a bad person or a formerly a bad warrior, within the context of this story about a Sam who was confessing his love for his Frodo right when Babbs knocked him into Mount Doom. 48:32.859 --> 48:36.942 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so I think not to get too repetitious with this book. 48:37.083 --> 48:37.763 [SPEAKER_02]: It's fine. 48:37.883 --> 48:47.551 [SPEAKER_02]: Like if you like Garth and a stuff which I generally do and if you like Jason Burroughs, which I generally do, this is straight across the plate, profane, gross. 48:48.352 --> 48:51.334 [SPEAKER_02]: But like you're saying, there is some good emotional stuff in there as well. 48:51.834 --> 48:55.557 [SPEAKER_02]: It's just the first series was so good and so sharp with 49:00.141 --> 49:03.964 [SPEAKER_02]: this being like the Hobbit movie instead of scary movie, if you want. 49:04.224 --> 49:13.490 [SPEAKER_01]: It's leaned a little bit harder into the story, the Babs story, and out of the Satire and parody elements, and maybe that's, you're saying that's a betrayal. 49:14.811 --> 49:19.294 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, definitely like a strongest of all possible betrayals, one hundred percent. 49:19.794 --> 49:20.114 [SPEAKER_02]: Great. 49:20.835 --> 49:21.435 [SPEAKER_02]: I feel betrayed. 49:22.536 --> 49:23.677 [SPEAKER_02]: You had giving up comics. 49:24.835 --> 49:32.419 [SPEAKER_02]: If destruction be a lot number two from image comics written by Matt and Mark Elijah Rosenberg by Andy McDottled. 49:32.739 --> 49:42.905 [SPEAKER_02]: We are following a robot Abe Lincoln in a far future where it seems like all humans have disappeared except of course they haven't and he is headed to the scrap heap. 49:43.725 --> 49:55.395 [SPEAKER_02]: this issue because he is having what is society, robots, society continues, some considers, because he's been some malfunctions, just an even loving this book, right? 49:55.875 --> 49:56.876 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I have been. 49:57.776 --> 50:02.000 [SPEAKER_01]: Big fan, I think this issue continues a lot of the promise that we got in the first issue. 50:03.261 --> 50:04.042 [SPEAKER_01]: We get Lincoln 50:05.258 --> 50:22.648 [SPEAKER_01]: realizing being told we're being told that he's very special, which I think is he but he's not really taking it in, he's just tumbling C3PO style through a bunch of here's not to interrupt you, but I got you, I got you, I got you, I got you, I got you Rosentburg. 50:23.388 --> 50:31.430 [SPEAKER_02]: his newsletter, every iteration of his newsletter, whatever he sets it out, the subject line is a quote from C3PO. 50:31.970 --> 50:33.830 [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't notice it at the first issue. 50:34.090 --> 50:37.271 [SPEAKER_02]: This issue is crazy out of control. 50:37.451 --> 50:41.512 [SPEAKER_02]: Like, yeah, he is 100% to the C3PO situation, right? 50:41.612 --> 50:45.793 [SPEAKER_02]: He says C3PO lines throughout here, where 50:46.862 --> 50:48.584 [SPEAKER_02]: I did buy it like I love this book. 50:48.624 --> 50:52.970 [SPEAKER_02]: The art is gorgeous and everything, but it was a little distracting for me to be like, what? 50:53.311 --> 50:53.691 [SPEAKER_02]: Why? 50:54.432 --> 51:03.985 [SPEAKER_01]: It wouldn't have been such a thing except there he keeps tumbling through like the droid wrecking spots that we see so many times throughout the Star Wars canon. 51:05.165 --> 51:10.787 [SPEAKER_01]: from the jaw was ship all like you were in those same situations and he's being like, what is this place? 51:11.187 --> 51:14.088 [SPEAKER_01]: Whoa Yeah, well, but he keeps saying things. 51:14.108 --> 51:18.649 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm forgetting the sack lies, but he's like, oh, yeah At one point, we're just like, that's not Abraham. 51:18.669 --> 51:24.311 [SPEAKER_02]: Never tell me the odds I think he says over and over again Yeah, he says something about midi Koreans as well, I blame 51:25.209 --> 51:29.434 [SPEAKER_01]: But I do think like that doesn't bother me maybe as much as you. 51:29.454 --> 51:38.247 [SPEAKER_01]: I I think it's a protagonist finding like I over this first few issues a finding his sort of juice finding his power 51:39.159 --> 51:41.240 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, and he doesn't have it yet. 51:41.280 --> 51:42.460 [SPEAKER_01]: He's not aware of the world. 51:42.520 --> 51:48.823 [SPEAKER_01]: The call to action is Happened a little bit and then it happens again by accident, but he hasn't made the choice yet. 51:49.503 --> 51:55.665 [SPEAKER_01]: So, um, I think we're going to get to see a little bit more agency a little less C3PO and a little more R2D2. 51:55.685 --> 51:56.025 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 51:57.246 --> 52:02.628 [SPEAKER_02]: Do you think I was about to ask do you think Mary Todd Lincoln is like Abraham Lincoln's R2D2? 52:04.328 --> 52:04.869 [SPEAKER_01]: In real life. 52:05.329 --> 52:05.549 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 52:06.753 --> 52:07.514 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think so. 52:07.835 --> 52:11.520 [SPEAKER_01]: They were always appearing in every part of American history. 52:11.680 --> 52:13.903 [SPEAKER_01]: They were the only consistent thing in American history. 52:14.364 --> 52:19.631 [SPEAKER_02]: And John Wilkes Booth is kind of like that storm trooper who blasts C3PO and Empire Strikes Back. 52:20.152 --> 52:20.372 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 52:21.113 --> 52:23.416 [SPEAKER_01]: And I believe his last words were like, oh dear. 52:24.460 --> 52:42.892 [SPEAKER_02]: please find my torso you big pile of hair or whatever it's quoted we've seen these movies before I'm sure low though number four from DC Comics written by Scotty Young art by Jorge Corona in a bit of actual movie tie-in because Scotty Young had told us as much what it was on the list 52:42.932 --> 52:43.632 [SPEAKER_02]: live show. 52:43.972 --> 52:44.172 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 52:44.212 --> 52:48.353 [SPEAKER_02]: Lobo faces down with Supergirl in this issue. 52:49.814 --> 52:59.616 [SPEAKER_02]: This if anything, I mean, it's not exactly Tiger to the movie, but I think they do a pretty good job of being like, hey, if you saw the movie, you want to see Lobo in the Supergirl fight, here you go. 53:00.316 --> 53:03.797 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is definitely feels like it's in line with at least the vibe of the movie. 53:03.857 --> 53:05.277 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, not the storyline. 53:05.397 --> 53:09.198 [SPEAKER_01]: And I was surprised how late in the comic Supergirl comes in. 53:10.644 --> 53:16.529 [SPEAKER_01]: It's past a half-week point, but the thing that was awesome here is Jorge Corona's art. 53:16.609 --> 53:22.954 [SPEAKER_01]: Like when Supergirl shows up, it's such a just the arts fantastic crypto logo in his dog. 53:22.974 --> 53:24.376 [SPEAKER_01]: Like that kind of stuff. 53:24.436 --> 53:24.936 [SPEAKER_01]: It's fun. 53:25.116 --> 53:28.539 [SPEAKER_01]: We get the comedic push through in the back half. 53:28.579 --> 53:33.583 [SPEAKER_01]: What do you see them being like, oh no, is well done. 53:33.623 --> 53:39.768 [SPEAKER_01]: And this book just continues to be such a high-octane version of, of logo. 53:40.108 --> 53:42.929 [SPEAKER_01]: that I think is the best presentation of the character. 53:43.370 --> 53:43.510 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 53:44.550 --> 53:51.434 [SPEAKER_02]: Predator Bloodshed, number five from Marvel, written by Jordan Morris, Art by Ruari Coleman with Roland Bosky. 53:51.454 --> 53:52.354 [SPEAKER_02]: There's the final issue. 53:52.374 --> 53:58.537 [SPEAKER_02]: The series that has found a bunch of souped up, Mortal Kombat style MMA fighters taking on a predator. 53:59.157 --> 54:04.280 [SPEAKER_02]: We also had Jordan Morris on the show a couple of weeks back to you talk a couple of months back to talk about this. 54:04.840 --> 54:07.223 [SPEAKER_02]: So check that out, but this is very fun. 54:07.323 --> 54:11.788 [SPEAKER_02]: Really liked the conclusion here, left it open for more as well. 54:11.908 --> 54:17.595 [SPEAKER_02]: But well, etched characters throughout is the thing that really set this apart. 54:17.735 --> 54:22.060 [SPEAKER_02]: These are fighters that I wanted to spend more time with. 54:22.180 --> 54:25.424 [SPEAKER_02]: And hopefully we will get to do exactly that. 54:26.345 --> 54:35.388 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, I, there's a moment where one of the fighters who's not our main character, I mean, duo, it's like, I'll take the predator. 54:35.868 --> 54:38.029 [SPEAKER_01]: And I really was riding for her. 54:38.889 --> 54:39.109 [UNKNOWN]: Yeah. 54:39.589 --> 54:40.889 [SPEAKER_01]: I really liked that character. 54:40.949 --> 54:45.031 [SPEAKER_01]: She seemed fun and sort of like, bit of a rogue, like, I'll do this. 54:45.271 --> 54:52.433 [SPEAKER_01]: And then she gets so uncertain when he's like, he'll, I was, I was definitely bummed at that moment. 54:52.836 --> 54:54.476 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, this is a very fun series. 54:54.496 --> 54:58.317 [SPEAKER_02]: If you missed it, definitely go back, pick up the issues or pick it up and trade. 54:58.677 --> 55:05.699 [SPEAKER_02]: Odin, number two from image comics written by Margarita Bennett and James Todd of the fourth, art by Laticia Catanichi. 55:05.739 --> 55:17.542 [SPEAKER_02]: This is about a journalist who is undercover with a bunch of neo-Nazis who decide to take a trip to the fatherland, not sure, but he, but Norway, where they believe all whiteness comes from, 55:18.141 --> 55:22.663 [SPEAKER_02]: and the oopsie at the end of the last issue is they all got high and eight one of their friends. 55:23.104 --> 55:31.588 [SPEAKER_02]: So, that's where we pick up here with the wrestling with Odo, we did a cannibalism and things somehow get worse by the end of the issue. 55:32.788 --> 55:35.470 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, yeah, this is a stressful read. 55:35.890 --> 55:36.190 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. 55:37.011 --> 55:43.494 [SPEAKER_01]: And I like it, but it's definitely like, oh no, another end then we get a really big horror. 55:44.362 --> 56:10.543 [SPEAKER_01]: moment and what it's cool about this is something you don't see very often is sort of a double hit of the horror we get like the visionary version of it and then we get the like not fucked up version of it and it's still fucked up uh that's a well and and I think the other thing that's stressful about it is you don't know who to ride with like technically it should be this journalist but there's multiple points of this issue in particular I think very 56:13.968 --> 56:23.876 [SPEAKER_02]: except maybe, and you're like, oh, come on, man, you maybe like this a little bit or into this or some finding it a little engrossing. 56:24.376 --> 56:35.685 [SPEAKER_01]: There's something about the sort of leader and the mystery of him that keeps drawing our main character and draws us as the reader because he is in a place that feels like hell. 56:35.985 --> 56:41.510 [SPEAKER_01]: He's like confidently standing and just observing, standing still and observing everyone and everything. 56:43.067 --> 56:43.688 [SPEAKER_01]: It's well done. 56:44.088 --> 56:46.169 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm curious. 56:46.609 --> 56:48.370 [SPEAKER_01]: I just don't know it all where the story is going. 56:48.691 --> 56:49.771 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah agreed. 56:50.352 --> 56:57.076 [SPEAKER_02]: Star Trek the last Starship number eight from IDW written by Colin Kelly and Jackson Lansing art by Herman Gonzalez. 56:57.936 --> 57:05.681 [SPEAKER_02]: In this issue last issue I think you said that they kind of entered a event horizon type situation and that's what they're dealing with partially the fall 57:07.282 --> 57:24.243 [SPEAKER_02]: As Agnes, the board queen tries to assimilate everybody on the ship, meanwhile they're dealing with a bunch of other stuff, and Captain Kirk, who is made of nanites, is trying to stop her from destroying everybody, leading to yet another big cliffhanger at the end of this issue. 57:24.924 --> 57:26.326 [SPEAKER_02]: How are you feeling about this title? 57:27.572 --> 57:28.893 [SPEAKER_01]: It's scary. 57:29.233 --> 57:33.494 [SPEAKER_01]: It's so psychedelic, fucked up, stop happening. 57:34.015 --> 57:40.277 [SPEAKER_01]: When we first started reading this and we talked to these guys about this and they were like, where do you see we're doing so much? 57:40.297 --> 57:51.781 [SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, yeah, okay, it's like a current focus story in this place where they're so unexplored, but I just can't believe how much like is jammed in here that feels so 57:56.663 --> 57:59.565 [SPEAKER_01]: and very like mind-bending. 57:59.625 --> 58:08.331 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of like physical psychic pressure on the characters that is like making them all feel so crazy. 58:09.209 --> 58:11.551 [SPEAKER_01]: And I mean just like I'm like what is happening? 58:11.571 --> 58:12.591 [SPEAKER_01]: What's going to happen here? 58:12.831 --> 58:20.436 [SPEAKER_01]: Like what is anyone going to walk out of here and be on the next enterprise and be like All right, let's go explore some fucking space now. 58:20.576 --> 58:26.180 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I don't think so and my one little like quibble here is that 58:27.517 --> 58:34.761 [SPEAKER_02]: There's not even so many characters, but I feel like we, they keep giving us a new point of view character who I need to take a second be like, who is that? 58:35.102 --> 58:35.642 [SPEAKER_02]: What's going on? 58:35.682 --> 58:36.162 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 58:36.502 --> 58:40.024 [SPEAKER_02]: And by the end, I'm into them, but that they're usually dead by the end of the issue. 58:40.104 --> 58:50.891 [SPEAKER_02]: So it's hard, it's a little hard to get invested with these characters other than Agnes, who I know from Star Trek Picard, and Kirk, who we know from Big Captain Kirk. 58:51.508 --> 59:12.825 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we know from our time in the Captain Creek, but also, it's just, it reminds me of how the lost scripts were written where like, and this isn't a roast, just a reality, where there's this character who has a dark secret and then the last panel is like, yeah, they're off mother fucking bomb inside and I'm like, what?! 59:12.805 --> 59:12.825 [SPEAKER_01]: ! 59:15.869 --> 59:16.950 [SPEAKER_01]: It's it's pretty crazy. 59:17.151 --> 59:18.493 [SPEAKER_02]: It's a crazy Star Trek book. 59:18.853 --> 59:19.294 [SPEAKER_02]: There you go. 59:19.554 --> 59:31.211 [SPEAKER_02]: Destroke the Terminator number four from DC Comics written by Tony Fleece art by Carmine D. Gian Domeneco Destroke has been accused of the murder of his best friend winter green 59:31.952 --> 59:42.580 [SPEAKER_02]: And this issue Rose Wilson, aka Ravager, has Daughter, comes to first, watch him die, and then team up with him, and then maybe some other stuff by the end of the issue. 59:43.221 --> 59:52.368 [SPEAKER_02]: Another great issue of this title, I really like focusing in on the relationship between Slade and Rose, the differences between them, Carmine, D.G. 59:52.408 --> 59:55.590 [SPEAKER_02]: and Dominico's art continues to be really good. 59:55.710 --> 59:58.793 [SPEAKER_02]: This is a defining, destruct story. 59:59.533 --> 01:00:09.645 [SPEAKER_01]: It really is like it's it's so good and in this stack alone let alone all the other comics we read we see a lot of like people get murdered 01:00:10.597 --> 01:00:14.319 [SPEAKER_01]: for what some people think are right reasons heroes villains. 01:00:15.060 --> 01:00:25.566 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a murder in this issue that I was like, really upset by, even though the character is being a huge asshole and probably a criminal monster. 01:00:26.166 --> 01:00:37.153 [SPEAKER_01]: But even so, the way that Deathstroke kills him, I was like, I don't think you're supposed to do that from a hero or even mercenary point of view. 01:00:37.595 --> 01:00:46.602 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's really well plotted and it is really pushing those things because it would be easy to go the route of like, well, destructs a hero. 01:00:47.223 --> 01:00:49.945 [SPEAKER_02]: And he's not, he's not, he's not at all. 01:00:50.266 --> 01:00:51.807 [SPEAKER_02]: And that's what we're driving him. 01:00:51.987 --> 01:00:57.792 [SPEAKER_02]: But there's also a moderation between hero and villain that we don't usually get in these sort of titles. 01:00:57.892 --> 01:00:59.013 [SPEAKER_02]: It's usually one or the other. 01:00:59.647 --> 01:01:08.830 [SPEAKER_01]: In, like, I think we've gotten him trending toward hero, like I have to solve this murder outkill people in my way, but even like the last issue, he didn't kill a bunch of people. 01:01:08.890 --> 01:01:10.111 [SPEAKER_01]: He was just fighting for his life. 01:01:10.871 --> 01:01:21.975 [SPEAKER_01]: And this issue, the killing feels like he needed to do it, he wanted to do it and the guy was just being a gross monster in this moment. 01:01:22.938 --> 01:01:29.705 [SPEAKER_01]: And then we see, not only do we see him go to kill him, we see the corpse and then Rose finds out about it. 01:01:29.946 --> 01:01:31.988 [SPEAKER_01]: And I thought that was just a great scene as well. 01:01:32.540 --> 01:01:33.621 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, well done. 01:01:34.261 --> 01:01:40.266 [SPEAKER_02]: Jay Ijo, number 23 from Skybound, a damage comics written by Joshua Williams in Art by Andre and Melana. 01:01:40.666 --> 01:01:50.954 [SPEAKER_02]: The Jews and the cobras are both being tortured by Crystal Ball guy who has some sort of energon powered fear machine or something like that. 01:01:51.694 --> 01:01:55.517 [SPEAKER_02]: We talked to Joshua Williams in recently about this book and many others. 01:01:55.937 --> 01:02:00.818 [SPEAKER_02]: not to keep plugging our podcast on our podcast, but you can check out that chat for more. 01:02:01.399 --> 01:02:02.599 [SPEAKER_02]: This is a very fun arc. 01:02:02.659 --> 01:02:11.381 [SPEAKER_02]: I think Andrea Malata, not I think Andrea Malata and Joshua Williams, and obviously know how to work together really well, so they're well coordinated. 01:02:12.022 --> 01:02:16.543 [SPEAKER_02]: And we find out a little bit more about risk who is a new character for this book who is very intriguing too. 01:02:17.478 --> 01:02:30.344 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, um, I agree like I don't Um, there's a lot of focus on risk and I was like, this is where I like I need Pete here to be like risks is really important or I don't know about risk either. 01:02:30.424 --> 01:02:39.308 [SPEAKER_01]: What's the deal with risk and I'd be like, I that's what I think risk feels like he's becoming important, but I don't know necessarily why in the larger story, but 01:02:40.315 --> 01:02:56.720 [SPEAKER_01]: the art and this is excellent like I all of the the crystal ball and this is what Joshua was talking about like I wanted to make him a big deal and make him be like a fucked up villain something that he's weird but you can still tell a good story about him and I think he's doing a great job for that yeah 01:02:57.896 --> 01:02:58.617 [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely. 01:02:59.418 --> 01:03:15.817 [SPEAKER_02]: End of life, number five from DC Comics, written by Kyle Starks, art by Steve Pue, we are following a dude who is in assassin who has gone back to his hometown and the news is really tightening on to me here as our old cartoonist who has become a gang leader 01:03:16.337 --> 01:03:24.300 [SPEAKER_02]: has taken the one kid in town that means anything to him, and he's basically browbeat into getting the kid back. 01:03:24.641 --> 01:03:36.526 [SPEAKER_02]: Meanwhile, his dad, who we thought was killed, or at least I was pretty convinced was killed last year, is not dead, and they are moving forward on their relationship, too. 01:03:37.086 --> 01:03:37.986 [SPEAKER_02]: This is great. 01:03:38.166 --> 01:03:39.007 [SPEAKER_02]: I think this 01:03:40.085 --> 01:03:44.469 [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe I'd have to look down to the list, but maybe it's my favorite of the Vertigo titles right now. 01:03:45.310 --> 01:03:46.271 [SPEAKER_02]: It's funny. 01:03:46.491 --> 01:03:47.552 [SPEAKER_02]: It's hitting that. 01:03:48.313 --> 01:03:54.238 [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe we mentioned this before, but it really feels like the air to preacher more than anything, though. 01:03:54.258 --> 01:03:57.501 [SPEAKER_02]: It's not as supernatural, but it's absolutely ridiculous. 01:03:57.521 --> 01:04:01.545 [SPEAKER_02]: There's some really good texture to the emotion that's happening with the main character and his dad. 01:04:01.982 --> 01:04:04.463 [SPEAKER_02]: which I found very surprising in this issue in particular. 01:04:05.143 --> 01:04:09.805 [SPEAKER_02]: And all of the villains are weird and horrible and very fun as well. 01:04:10.465 --> 01:04:11.286 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I agree. 01:04:11.306 --> 01:04:15.407 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a great set sequence at the back end where he's being attacked. 01:04:16.067 --> 01:04:19.229 [SPEAKER_01]: And then all bunch of the henchmen get shot. 01:04:19.969 --> 01:04:21.950 [SPEAKER_01]: And the villain's like, he's got mind bullets. 01:04:22.530 --> 01:04:24.270 [SPEAKER_01]: And he's like, I have mind bullets. 01:04:24.991 --> 01:04:27.912 [SPEAKER_01]: And then someone, they believe it for another page. 01:04:27.932 --> 01:04:30.373 [SPEAKER_01]: And then like, no, he's got a sniper bag. 01:04:32.336 --> 01:04:42.335 [SPEAKER_01]: It just reminded me of that scene in the Jericho where it's like, these cans, he hates these cans and I sort of bet that's what Kyle was drawing from here and it's really fun. 01:04:44.168 --> 01:05:04.595 [SPEAKER_02]: of the earth number two from image comics written by Chris Condon and Andrew Eric art by Charlie Adlard the last issue a woman came home to visit her grandmother who lives in the middle of some oil fields and found her hunkered in the basement covered in oil this issue she calls the oil company is like hey what's going on here my grandma 01:05:05.330 --> 01:05:30.483 [SPEAKER_02]: yeah grandma's covered in oil and they send uh gotta help out and things get even weirder by the end i was intrigued by the first issue and i also like always like everything the Chris cotton puts out but man it gets real good this issue and even more intriguing the mysteries are strange and disturbing Charlie Adlar's art is great this is a good book 01:05:31.409 --> 01:05:34.414 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the pace of this is so well done. 01:05:34.474 --> 01:05:41.525 [SPEAKER_01]: It's so like horror pacing, where like, oh yeah, call the company no problem. 01:05:42.005 --> 01:05:44.469 [SPEAKER_01]: Sort of normal interaction, but just a little odd. 01:05:44.489 --> 01:05:46.452 [SPEAKER_01]: And then they're like, oh yeah, there's a truck here. 01:05:47.173 --> 01:05:47.774 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what that's weird. 01:05:47.794 --> 01:05:49.095 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, there's a weirdo that there's a truck here. 01:05:49.115 --> 01:05:52.437 [SPEAKER_01]: Like we keep getting these little bits and pieces where, you know, like that's a little weird. 01:05:53.058 --> 01:05:56.781 [SPEAKER_01]: And it sticks in our brain and just starts to stress this out a little bit. 01:05:57.362 --> 01:06:02.226 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's humming along and then the stress is increased to to be get full of horror by the end of it here. 01:06:03.267 --> 01:06:11.694 [SPEAKER_01]: The art is really backing up the oil, the amount of oil we see in here and that being the supernatural. 01:06:12.214 --> 01:06:13.115 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this is a guess. 01:06:13.155 --> 01:06:14.696 [SPEAKER_01]: The supernatural thing we're dealing with. 01:06:16.445 --> 01:06:17.205 [SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I like this. 01:06:17.306 --> 01:06:24.790 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm in maybe I'm on a horse streak like everyone else in America with all the success of the box office, but this is hidden for me. 01:06:26.000 --> 01:06:32.921 [SPEAKER_02]: Superman on limited number 14 from DC Comics written by Dan Slot, art by Lucas Meyer and Dan Masina. 01:06:33.081 --> 01:06:42.643 [SPEAKER_02]: Now, John Kent seemingly has been taken for the past, meanwhile, the older version of John Kent is pretending to be somebody named tomorrow, man, to make space for his younger version. 01:06:43.083 --> 01:06:47.564 [SPEAKER_02]: But we got a big revelation at the end of this issue that I thought was great. 01:06:48.124 --> 01:06:54.625 [SPEAKER_02]: I, they have this mystery of John doesn't seem to be working exactly how you would expect. 01:06:55.412 --> 01:07:06.215 [SPEAKER_02]: I personally could have necessarily figured out, so I was surprised by the reveal here, but it makes total sense, and I thought it was really well done for the history of John Kettin, particularly, so good issue. 01:07:06.735 --> 01:07:23.380 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and I really like that Lois is trying to figure it out, and that's sort of at the same time, and we get that in a very emotional way talking to Manpac Kent, and so like the and hit so much harder with that, giving a little bit of basis, like emotional basis for that 01:07:25.737 --> 01:07:41.989 [SPEAKER_02]: Redcoat, number 18 from Ghost Machine and image comics written by Jeff John's art by Brian Hitch, our titular redcoat Simon Pure has a family and is trying to be a normal guy but of course he can't because he's actually immortal, which all comes crashing down this issue. 01:07:42.049 --> 01:07:46.132 [SPEAKER_02]: Justin, there's been one of your favorite books for a while, what do you think about this issue? 01:07:51.136 --> 01:07:53.717 [SPEAKER_01]: an emotional confession from Red Code. 01:07:53.757 --> 01:07:57.099 [SPEAKER_01]: He settled into a life where he has a wife and a family. 01:07:58.199 --> 01:08:00.120 [SPEAKER_01]: And he's like, I'm immortal. 01:08:00.320 --> 01:08:01.080 [SPEAKER_01]: I live these ways. 01:08:01.261 --> 01:08:03.482 [SPEAKER_01]: And man is his wife not having it. 01:08:03.762 --> 01:08:06.763 [SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, oh, that's a little, I was surprised at that reaction. 01:08:07.143 --> 01:08:11.605 [SPEAKER_01]: I think story-wise it makes sense and it is setting something up. 01:08:12.606 --> 01:08:13.726 [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's setting two things up. 01:08:14.286 --> 01:08:17.968 [SPEAKER_01]: One, I think the next arc is like, he wants to not be immortal anymore. 01:08:18.948 --> 01:08:19.829 [SPEAKER_01]: Because he's sad. 01:08:20.209 --> 01:08:27.075 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm assuming because his wife and family left But secondarily the wife's like if you really love us, come find us. 01:08:27.335 --> 01:08:28.056 [SPEAKER_01]: No clues. 01:08:28.697 --> 01:08:29.397 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a great man. 01:08:29.717 --> 01:08:32.880 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the old fashion Fuck-up sheriff. 01:08:33.180 --> 01:08:34.021 [SPEAKER_02]: Even one one. 01:08:34.181 --> 01:08:35.202 [SPEAKER_01]: I would leave a clue. 01:08:35.702 --> 01:08:36.703 [SPEAKER_01]: You really want to be found. 01:08:36.723 --> 01:08:45.871 [SPEAKER_01]: You got to leave a clue Yeah, you leave a postcard of the fireplace or something like that Unless she's like, well, I went to my uncles because that's where I go come find us. 01:08:45.911 --> 01:08:46.592 [SPEAKER_02]: We're upstairs 01:08:47.213 --> 01:08:47.433 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 01:08:47.914 --> 01:08:48.354 [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly. 01:08:48.894 --> 01:08:49.895 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a real short term. 01:08:49.955 --> 01:08:52.898 [SPEAKER_01]: I love a little play like that, a little like, hey, come find me. 01:08:53.838 --> 01:09:03.066 [SPEAKER_02]: I was just thinking with this issue, it's kind of crazy that Brian hitches baggage to pump out 18 monthly, pretty much issues with this red coat book, which is wild. 01:09:03.126 --> 01:09:06.189 [SPEAKER_02]: I was thinking about it was ultimates, right? 01:09:06.269 --> 01:09:09.671 [SPEAKER_01]: That was delayed years, if I remember correctly. 01:09:09.691 --> 01:09:12.974 [SPEAKER_01]: I remember we interviewed Brian hitch sort of at the tail end. 01:09:13.014 --> 01:09:14.936 [SPEAKER_01]: He's like, I did it. 01:09:16.718 --> 01:09:20.420 [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, holy shit, this guy's been stressed for a long time about this. 01:09:20.440 --> 01:09:21.801 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so it's a treat. 01:09:21.881 --> 01:09:28.084 [SPEAKER_02]: His art is just so good, so detailed, every action scene he does is great. 01:09:28.184 --> 01:09:31.526 [SPEAKER_02]: So, getting it this regularly is pretty wonderful. 01:09:32.806 --> 01:09:38.929 [SPEAKER_02]: Last but not least, smile for the camera number 4 from IDW, written by Hata Rose Bay, art by Mariana Puglia. 01:09:39.289 --> 01:09:43.791 [SPEAKER_02]: We are following a bunch of fashion models who have been infected by the smile entity. 01:09:44.332 --> 01:09:49.234 [SPEAKER_02]: And there's only two of them left this issue, so you know what's going to go down to the final issue. 01:09:49.654 --> 01:09:54.957 [SPEAKER_02]: This has been really building nicely, I think, it has been well observed about the fashion industry. 01:09:55.397 --> 01:10:00.726 [SPEAKER_02]: working in the whole smile thing, but this is my favorite issue of this so far. 01:10:00.826 --> 01:10:06.155 [SPEAKER_02]: I thought it really just focused in very nicely on the smile stuff and it was cool and scary and 01:10:07.575 --> 01:10:29.751 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, I'm surprised how caught up I am in the lives of these models who are They're trapped in this scheme where they have to pay for their like hotel accommodations And I'm like that doesn't seem real, but I still really hate that they're stuck doing So it's working on me and I haven't watched the smile movies and I know they're good 01:10:30.282 --> 01:10:31.483 [SPEAKER_01]: And I know I should watch that. 01:10:31.643 --> 01:10:32.283 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want this good. 01:10:32.504 --> 01:10:33.004 [SPEAKER_01]: Second one is good. 01:10:33.044 --> 01:10:33.204 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 01:10:33.725 --> 01:10:39.769 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't quite know how it's spread, but I'm really worried about our main character here. 01:10:40.029 --> 01:10:40.209 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 01:10:40.990 --> 01:10:42.791 [SPEAKER_02]: You should definitely be worried for sure. 01:10:42.811 --> 01:10:55.060 [SPEAKER_02]: I will mention that today, or this week, they announced they're doing another one, which is based on the world of football called any given smile, which is pretty funny. 01:10:55.580 --> 01:10:56.341 [SPEAKER_01]: That's crazy. 01:10:56.701 --> 01:10:58.062 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I was just great. 01:10:58.122 --> 01:10:59.182 [SPEAKER_02]: So bring on more. 01:10:59.242 --> 01:11:01.103 [SPEAKER_02]: I think you're doing a great job with these so far. 01:11:01.724 --> 01:11:03.125 [SPEAKER_02]: And that is it for the stack. 01:11:03.185 --> 01:11:07.407 [SPEAKER_02]: If you'd like to support this podcast and all the podcast we do Patreon.com slash comic book club. 01:11:07.467 --> 01:11:12.890 [SPEAKER_02]: Also we do a live show every Tuesday night at 7 p.m. to YouTube come hang out. 01:11:12.930 --> 01:11:19.874 [SPEAKER_02]: We would love to chat with you about comic books, Apple Spotify, Android or the app of your choice to subscribe, listen and follow the show. 01:11:19.934 --> 01:11:23.155 [SPEAKER_02]: Comic book club live.com for this podcast many more. 01:11:23.235 --> 01:11:25.497 [SPEAKER_02]: Until next time we'll see you at the comic book 01:11:26.337 --> 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