[SPEAKER_03]: What is up everybody?
[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to the stack on the Alex.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm Justin and on the stack we very amicably talk about books that we have read this Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Friends.
[SPEAKER_02]: We are friends and we're going to be talking about you know how you have a good friend is when you have to say that your friends to each other all the time before you do anything publicly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's better if you're like we're friends, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Look at the question mark at the end like the flexion that really sells it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I like how Justin says that like he's bullying us We're friends.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're friends.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes you got to push it And sometimes we've got to push a lot of the books that we're gonna be talking about But we don't have to because they're all great and we love them all equally.
[SPEAKER_03]: We are friends with all of these books
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm going to have a little bit of a spoiler warning here before I forget to do it later.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a spoiler warning for all of the books.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're going to be talking full spoilers for everything kicking it off with one that is a chalk full of spoilers.
[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_03]: Batman number 22 from DC Countx written by Scott Snyder, art by Werther Della Edera.
[SPEAKER_03]: this is a issue that has taken place in two timelines as Batman is running away for the robins who are mostly massive mechs who are chasing him down he's teamed up with Harley Quinn.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'd also get a flashback to absolute Harley Quinn's origin here which turns out to have some surprising connections to Bruce Wayne to Ark M and also to Jack Grimm.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, the Joker Pete is agreeing with all of this is true.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you, my friend.
[SPEAKER_03]: And what did my friends think of this friendly little book?
[SPEAKER_02]: uh... due to the lady doth protest too much uh... i i love this uh... we and origin that is uh... woven into the main narrative already always a cool thing to do it's also really fun that bad man is like can you stop talking now through the whole story uh... he puts out his blind your blinders or whatever i thought that was fun and then the whole turn at the end is where i feel like they really earned
[SPEAKER_02]: the bona fides of why this story makes sense to have it to be in the middle of this absolute Batman book intrigue or all coming together at the end here in the rapids real threat I think yeah I thought it was almost like he was building like Harley cancelling air earbuds as he was walking and and wishing she would stop talking
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this book is amazing, really cool cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was kind of, a lot of cool choices with Harley-Sorge and Sora, which was exciting.
[SPEAKER_01]: And also, as I was agreeing with the Zelda Tron, it was interestingly woven with Batman, which is a new take, but also makes kind of cool sense of why they're together to kind of explain this story.
[SPEAKER_01]: But, uh,
[SPEAKER_01]: Took a little turn at the end there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't like the reveal at the end there It kind of pulled me out a little bit, but I still love this book and more joke, or please It's interesting Out of the reveal.
[SPEAKER_01]: I did not like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't like that
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, no, no, no, we were responded to the more Joker, please, which I guess we shouldn't be surprised by Pete, you think the Joker is like the good guy you think we should all be a little more like Heath Ledger's Joker versus the bad guy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why so serious?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I just think that the Joker that they kind of introduced us to in this book is so wild and different.
[SPEAKER_01]: like the Heath Ledger's Joker, anytime he's not around, I'm thinking about him.
[SPEAKER_01]: What is he doing?
[SPEAKER_01]: What is he up to?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you love him.
[SPEAKER_02]: You love him.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're in love with him.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, I think what Peter say actually to translate, which I totally understand why he's feeling this way, Scott is very judiciously using the Joker in this book, piecing him out very slowly.
[SPEAKER_03]: So there is this agonizing feel of him seeping in through every panel and every page, but he's mostly not there.
[SPEAKER_03]: We are going to get a full-on Joker arc sooner rather than later.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I like it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It does have that touch of there so that when he does show up, you're like, oh no, this is extra bad what's happening now.
[SPEAKER_03]: I, we haven't mentioned where their deleterus art, which is great here.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's amazing.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's amazing.
[SPEAKER_03]: which I'm like, I don't know, maybe he uses you in form of the thing, but not everybody talks like liquid hardly broke that out.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was the thing that took me out just a little bit, just out of that thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's all right.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a bite of little quibble and otherwise a good book.
[SPEAKER_03]: At the end of the book, the reveal is that maybe Thomas Wayne is alive and has been held prisoner this entire time.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think so because they set our Alex.
[SPEAKER_02]: Alex, don't be a sucker.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was soccer, I bought it into it.
[SPEAKER_03]: They is very specifically set up that you can't trust your eyes about anything and are talking.
[SPEAKER_03]: What Scott's talking about of the Sark, or he would be if they're focusing on this carcero a little more, is the idea of fake news, the rise of AI, the fact that we can't trust our eyes in absolutely anything, and they really get back to it here, and I hopefully they dig more into it in the next.
[SPEAKER_03]: issue because one of my criticisms of this arc is that it has been all over the place there's been so many things going on and all the things are cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: You've had that criticism and I've heard it and I think this issue should do.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now hey, we're not friends.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, we found I hit my
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm sure it'll be fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure we'll be fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to fall in and out of love a hundred times over the course of this podcast, just like usual.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I wanted to say, I think it was put back in your face a little bit, Alex, because there are two ways that I think this, that's got to telling this story that is a modern update of scarecrow that feels very timely.
[SPEAKER_02]: one, like the way that Scarecrow's working is unseen, like it's purposefully unseen.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not like there's not space in the story.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's about how the things that scare us in the modern world are amorphous.
[SPEAKER_02]: We can't register them.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not we're not confronted with the wolf.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we're constantly bombarded by low simmering fears that end up driving as crazy and we have us feeling overwhelmed all the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: And second, the fake news aspect of it, that's how you create fear in people is by keeping them unsettled.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's like, why would the scarecrow be doing these penny-antees, scare a couple of people with a gas in a room when he can be out there scaring the entire world every single day?
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, think about that, Alex.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're the same type.
[SPEAKER_03]: Basically the same thing, word for word, right, Pete?
[SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, good.
[SPEAKER_03]: You really showed me what are we going to talk about.
[SPEAKER_03]: Exclusive Corpse is Rascal Randy number one from the University of Congressman by Tyler Boss art by Dylan Burnett.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is the first spin off of Exclusive Corpse is a series if you didn't read it.
[SPEAKER_03]: He is about a tournament that takes place in a small town.
[SPEAKER_03]: They release a bunch of merciless killers.
[SPEAKER_03]: The only one that escaped at the end of the first season was this mascot named Rascal Randy, whether this takes place after or before is not entirely clear here as we're following several other characters who potentially are about to be caught in Rascal Randy's web of fear if you don't mind me.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're referencing the previous book, Pete, you seem pretty psyched about this because you love killing people and watching the world burn like some people like to watch the world burn.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, I like this because first off cool cover with the mascot there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I get scared of God Comics, horror comics in general, but something about the cuteness of the mascot and kind of like, it seems like maybe the mascot is, you know, quote unquote, good.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, he's killing the bad guys of the situation.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's something about it like I love the vibe, the kind of artistic choices are really impressive.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't normally
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, I like how everybody is a suspect that kept showing other people having access to the mascot uniform and like it could be anybody.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, I just felt like they did a great job in this one shot of like kind of setting things up and not one shot but the first issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, uh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Interesting, you think it's a mystery and who Rascal Randy is.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like Rascal Randy just blew into town and is going to mess everyone's lives up.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I guess we'll see great.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought the art was great in this.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a yeah, the whole body reveal like Sort of near the end.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought was really awesome something I haven't seen before But same time for Tyler bosses writing that like the yeah, it's really the relationship between the kids The like hero move that happens early on and the characters in the bar.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, oh, I feel like I'm I've been in this place recently
[SPEAKER_03]: In terms of not to send all business to you, but in terms of an extension of the franchise, I think this is really smart.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're doing this and I think it's at least two other series.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's Fox mask killer, and I'm forgetting what the other one is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Lone gunmen.
[SPEAKER_03]: other doing it at thology as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: One of the big criticisms that I had of exquisite corpses was it was really hard to focus on the characters because there were so many of them and you didn't really know anything about any of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you kept saying this shit is crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: This shit is crazy man.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: I kept saying that's what you kept saying.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what you kept saying.
[SPEAKER_03]: That sounds like crazy.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you know what?
[SPEAKER_03]: I read this book and I was like this shit is crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you do so.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's nice to take a step back and find out a little bit more about these characters I don't think we're gonna get in Rascal Reddy's head literally or figuratively at any point here I think he's gonna be an unseen bad man, but Spending more time with him really doubles down and flesh is out the characters in a good way So again, I think this is a smart thing to do and luckily.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a good comic as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I thought it was like that
[SPEAKER_03]: Speaking of franchise extension, everybody's favorite way to approach something fantastic for her first foe is Shalabal, number one for Marvel, and Michael Sol, and Ryan North, art by Mark Buckingham, and Phil Notto.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is another one shot set in the continuity of the MCU's fantastic for her first steps.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here we get a new adventure involving Shalabal as she prepares a planet for the rival of Galactus, and then there's a short science lesson.
[SPEAKER_03]: from Ryan North and filled that over the back.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll just start with that one.
[SPEAKER_03]: That start with Harvey.
[SPEAKER_03]: Starting with Harvey.
[SPEAKER_03]: Very funny.
[SPEAKER_01]: Very firms.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's great.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe laugh out loud.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a bit in there about running out of time in a comic book that was very funny and caught me off the market.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hate to be the one who does this, but if we need to the real issue here, I like the slice of life here with the
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I don't want to tell her how to parent.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have kids, but you know, lined your kid about your job like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it was heartbreaking.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it was real heartbreaking to see.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I mean, she's just, she wasn't lying completely.
[SPEAKER_02]: She is a silver surfer.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, if you're not a parent, I just want to explain that like, Pete, every time I come down stairs here to do a podcast, my kids don't know that I do a podcast, I'm like, kids gonna do my government work now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what he says is government work.
[SPEAKER_03]: No questions.
[SPEAKER_03]: They have had no questions so far.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I tell my kids that I'm the hot, young detective on the TV show tracker.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I like the slice of life here with the silver surfer.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought you keep saying that.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is not slice of life On an average day going to a pleasant saying listen, but like this is common if you don't fucking get your shit sure I guess it was slice of life for her But yes I'm saying the size of life for her the character in the comic
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I mean, how you use that phrase.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe he was trying to put it on the comic we're talking about.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a slice of pizza life when he read this comic, very tiny slice.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it was kind of an interesting look into her life and how she deals You know, I mean, I'm sure you show up at a planet.
[SPEAKER_01]: You want to save them.
[SPEAKER_02]: They start fighting Start and shit and you gotta be like, you know what fuck you guys you're burning to hell I mean, I gotta say with p. I guess stick with p here and say everything's a slice of life It just happens say you get the slice where all the crazy shit happens
[SPEAKER_01]: That is a slice of a pot.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is like, open up a comic, let's get that started.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, when you get one of those confetti cakes that pour out little confetti balls of whatever.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, that's the slice of getting it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I'm sorry, do you live in the cake factory of future cakes, Alex lives in the cake lab where the developing science fiction cakes.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you're in cake and all the balls fall out, what are you talking to?
[SPEAKER_03]: You never got one of those.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a giant tiered rainbow cake and you cut it up in it a bunch of like,
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's pretty clear that we didn't have cakes like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sprinkle balls.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, honestly, I hate to say this, but that should it's crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: All driven this and set it up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, can we get back to the comic book?
[SPEAKER_03]: I just thought it was nice to see a real sprinkle ball cake in the life of Shalambao, the silver surfers.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I wish I would sprinkle more balls and comics.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just, I thought it was very interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, I just thought it was a kind of cool, cool look at her.
[SPEAKER_01]: The art is fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a little weird to be in this world.
[SPEAKER_02]: Fantastic for a movie.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like, it wasn't a huge hit and I feel like it started.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's fallen even for the out of people's minds, then maybe we expected.
[SPEAKER_02]: There those characters are definitely gonna be in doomsday, but like to revisit this I was like, oh, this feels a little out of set with reality But having said that I did like the story like the scene between shallow ball and her daughter I thought was very cool The end of it where she's like, you know what?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll save your asses because you're about to get eaten by my boss I was like, oh, definitely got me with a twist and I felt like If you're gonna if you're gonna tell a story of with shallow ball, I at least a plot really carries The comic
[SPEAKER_01]: But she was also very old, she was like, you're gonna die soon.
[SPEAKER_01]: She wasn't like you have a week to live or like a day.
[SPEAKER_01]: She was just like, sometimes soon.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, Jesus, let me, you'd rather know to them in it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, just be like, do I got two weeks to live?
[SPEAKER_01]: Do I have a day like, come on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me know if you budget any time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Pete eight fifty seven just throwing that out there.
[SPEAKER_02]: No man.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, he wants to know how he's going to slice up his life once I want that meaty slice, you know I just want to give a shout out to Mark Buckingham's artists, you know that to me makes these weird one shots worth it Nothing you had to trial soul, which like we talked about to really he did really solid job of writing this But man, just having a semi regular bark buckingham puck is great.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, Pete you have a question
[SPEAKER_01]: And I have a question, when you guys were talking to your parents, you know, when they were talking to you through their work portal, did you either one of you ever comment about the giant monster in the background or was that just me?
[SPEAKER_02]: The work portal?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, when the talk about... She's talking in the stomach.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's talking through a portal to her child.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the whole time, Galactus is like, oh my, let's make wrap up this call.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got planets to eat.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm trying to keep with the balance between my work and my life portal and my life portal.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: To answer your question.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Clean face.
[SPEAKER_03]: Celebrity Dirt Never What from DC Comics by Jude Ellison S. Doyle, art by friend Galon.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now we had Jude on the live show this week.
[SPEAKER_03]: He was a great guest.
[SPEAKER_03]: You should definitely check it.
[SPEAKER_03]: out a very interesting to hear him talk about this book further.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a incontinuity harer tale of clay face losing his identity and trying to find it again heading to Hollywood, somebody else is maybe pretended to be clay face or maybe he's pretended to be clay face we don't quite know but that's the set up for the book as more harer is to come what you guys think about this one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, yeah, I want to hear from J.T.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sizzle because he's a fan of face-changing actors, so I just wanted to really kind of touch base here and how you feel and do you feel seen, do you feel insulted, like, how are you feeling about this?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I mean, I said this on the live show.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like you did a great job of really capturing the actor mentality of the not
[SPEAKER_02]: insane idea, but sort of a small mental sickness that like I'm just gonna go audition go to this next audition I think everything's gonna be great, which is what Clayface is doing in here and the confrontation of seeing that another you succeeded when you the you you failed I thought was a really cool moment of the arts really fun in this nice horror stuff body horror as we talked about with Jude
[SPEAKER_02]: So I enjoyed this, but I would like to actually pass over to Pete, who's a huge fan of the original clay face face from the 18th
[SPEAKER_01]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the face man dude.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love what I'm playing comes together So yeah, I think this is really great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the drama of the actor stuff the horror of kind of the clay space stuff But I felt horrible for this lady.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean That poor woman is scared out of her life right now and This character in the book.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, definitely character in the book.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a work talking about the book
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I'm just worried for her because she's now in just looking out by window right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a lady scared for her life.
[SPEAKER_03]: I hope she's okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's good.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's out of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I would love a segment where we just cover news out pizza window for those even don't know Pete lives in.
[SPEAKER_02]: What would you call it Pete the woods the stick on neighborhood?
[SPEAKER_02]: A neighborhood.
[SPEAKER_02]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Vookie count all the animals that you're gonna show us.
[SPEAKER_03]: you don't count keep it up keep it up with the jones is there in your neighbors sure there are neighbors to the north i don't know that means with this point number one from dark horse comics written ash by dithan fillet but definitely well i don't i don't know it's inspired by a story by dithan fillet at the heath course in art by sue lee uh this is a TV pitch in comic book form is basically what it is
[SPEAKER_02]: one of the biggest one of those we've seen in a while.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, surprisingly they did draw Nathan Phillyard, which is one of the weirdest parts to me, but it stars a cop in the mode of Nathan Phillyard and type character who deals with a small town that not only has a bunch of FBI witnesses in hiding, but also a place called Clown Town, or something like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm forgetting circus city, something like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: So there's a bunch of weird stuff going out.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a child, news reporters, and in the midst of this, there's a murder at the same time.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't have to dismiss if it is because it's like over the plate, hey, we want to make this into a TV show.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here's our proof of concept, but you could do a worse than having Heathcourse and right it because it's a fun, breezy script, and Suley's art is always great.
[SPEAKER_03]: So,
[SPEAKER_03]: Good stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, it's me and you're putting the news there, uh, self-trained and, oh, Pete is breaking up big time right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought it was me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so happy.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, Justin, what did you think about it while we hopefully get Pete's internet back?
[SPEAKER_02]: I enjoyed it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree with you that the TV pitch is very much on the face of this book, but it is still well done.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like the characters, the arts really nice, and I do think they went out of the way to not draw Nathan Phillyens' actual face, but draw a character that he would wear the same clothes of, say the same things of, and move in the same way.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I think that's actually the best version of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it has a little bit of like the reverence fun reverence that you would expect in this procedural comedy sort of new type of TV new type new TV from like 15 years ago and I don't even mean that as a knock I actually like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like a quirky procedural drama feels like
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it feels like it's not really a sci-fi thing, but it feels like other piece with Alan Titticks, uh, resident Elliott, which was also based on the comic book and given that he could fill in an Alan Tittick have a podcast together.
[SPEAKER_03]: I wonder how much she was like, what's my resident Elliott and then they came up with this?
[SPEAKER_02]: They must be friends.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yes, Pete.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I just wanted to say, um, I enjoyed the kid.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh-oh.
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: He enjoyed the kid, and that's enough.
[SPEAKER_00]: He enjoyed the kid.
[SPEAKER_03]: All we got Pete was you say he enjoyed the kid you can tell us later or text us and let us know what you think.
[SPEAKER_03]: Definitely text.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hopefully it'll come back but mask number two from Skybound and image comics run by dad waters art by a pie par in this issue picking up off the introduction of the mask team and the first issue really getting like I would call it like a slice of life of the characters.
[SPEAKER_02]: left to take a slice of life to solve a black hole that appears in an ocean because of a piece of alien technology that lands there, which is a super big slice of life.
[SPEAKER_02]: I honestly, I like this, this felt like a first issue to me.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was interesting to me that the actual first issue was sort of heavy on story featuring Matt Tracker when I think this issue sold the concept of masks so much harder.
[SPEAKER_02]: like it felt like the vehicles are changing into other types of vehicles.
[SPEAKER_02]: People are putting their masks on, their strangers talking, working together with different mysterious backgrounds.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is mask to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, really sold that concept.
[SPEAKER_03]: I did think there was a really good cliffhanger at the end here that was cool and very surprising that really sets things up like, you know, no, what's going to happen in this series, which is a good place to be because I did feel like not really caring about mask myself, reading this issue, solid issue, good art, good writing.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I also felt like, I don't know, I knew it.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is going, this is another edder jawed book at the last page, really shakes things up in a big way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's very enjoyable.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why you got to insult the first issue by saying the second issue rocks, but this is a great issue as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was singing the theme song the whole time.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was an absolute blast.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't trust me.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're singing the theme song.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're singing the theme song throughout most of the day, though.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know?
[SPEAKER_01]: But not if I'm reading a comic book, I'm locked in, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: So how dare you?
[SPEAKER_01]: Sir, you're locked in, but also singing the theme song.
[SPEAKER_01]: To mask, while I'm reading, man, it's come on, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: You have to, it's like, come on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, are you seeing it out loud?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you're opening your mouth and making sounds.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, just in my head.
[SPEAKER_03]: Mask.
[SPEAKER_03]: Save your eyes.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a flash.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Same thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, let's see if you were seeing the theme song to this one.
[SPEAKER_03]: X-Men 97, season 2, number 2, from Marvel.
[SPEAKER_03]: Rid by Steve Fox, art by Salva S.B.
[SPEAKER_03]: This takes place.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought this was a bridge between sees what it sees in two, but it is not.
[SPEAKER_03]: This takes place between scenes of the second episode of season two, which I thought was interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: I, it seems to jump around a little bit and give us some stuff from some of the other episodes.
[SPEAKER_03]: But what do you think?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think I was here where you guys talked about the first issue, so I don't know how everybody felt about that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Justin?
[SPEAKER_02]: I think we like the first issue and this one feels like it's it's definitely carrying it forward.
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree with what you were saying about where I was sort of positioned when I'm reading this I was like, oh, it's sort of maybe spoiling a little bit of what's going to happen in some future episodes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, also filling in some gaps in the episodes that we've seen from the season that has now dropped the first three episodes.
[SPEAKER_02]: So is it it was a little bit of a meta reading experience I actually thought.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wish they would kind of do this when the TV show isn't out, so I could kind of miss it and then go to the comic to kind of get hyped up for it, you know, but yeah, I enjoyed this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like if you like the TV show, this is a great kind of extension of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: So,
[SPEAKER_02]: great art feels like it's right from the show so yeah quick sidebar for but mostly the viewers of our show pizza faces frozen in such a way that it looks like the head shot it would be up in a diner in the local town that he did inside the head shot was like um cast in for you whatever podcast adjacent I did.
[SPEAKER_03]: dropping off headshots yeah we don't know where Pete is anyway our special today is a Pete Burger.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right absolute Catwoman number two from DC Comics by Scott Senator and shade Grayson art by Bangle this is following a solo adventure from the absolute universe version of Catwoman who is encountered other folks from her cat hive or wherever cats live I honestly don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: What's a herd of cats?
[SPEAKER_02]: Pete.
[SPEAKER_02]: A litter.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, literally good.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, that's where they poop.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, we got the cliffhanger last issue that Cassandra Kane may be the villain here.
[SPEAKER_03]: We get a couple of other characters, surprise showing up here to team up with Catwoman.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was a little down on the first issue myself just because I felt like it didn't go far enough away from
[SPEAKER_03]: The catwoman premise, it was a good catwoman comic, but maybe not a great absolute universe catwoman comic was my take on it.
[SPEAKER_03]: How do you guys feel about issue number two?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I echo that idea as well in the first issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought this issue, I like this issue a lot more, I think.
[SPEAKER_02]: I, on board, it hasn't changed the general idea of this feeling like it doesn't exist in the same absolute universe as the rest of the characters in the absolute universe.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I do like the story and I like the sort of
[SPEAKER_02]: big thriller sci-fi stuff that they're getting at by the end of this issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think Alex you actually called that the team of cats, other cat women, we're going to be her former teammates.
[SPEAKER_02]: So shout out to you on that because that's what happened.
[SPEAKER_01]: big ups to the zalbatron on that one yeah i i i hear what you're saying but i also like that it's different i like that it feels a little bit different i like when they're taking big swings the art has a different feel to it it's not just all kind of like jacked and
[SPEAKER_01]: over the top.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of a smoother, more team oriented book.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think it's kind of unique and cool in that way.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, I'm interested in it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of interesting to see Catwoman act around her team and around different people.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I'm enjoying it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great art.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dispatch number one from ignition press written by B clay more art by Daniel Kete.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is following a X Army.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not honestly sure which he's from but X X Army guy.
[SPEAKER_03]: We can just say so too is now working as a delivery man.
[SPEAKER_03]: He ends up in what I
[SPEAKER_03]: I think we probably call a die-hard type situation.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's going to be building this being taken over by a bunch of terrorists, and he has to fight his way out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Poppin' his claws one more time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Pete, you were pretty psyched about this one.
[SPEAKER_03]: I assume because you're waiting for a package, or is there another reason?
[SPEAKER_01]: There's another reason.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is very kind of like John Wick meets Die Hard, meets McGyver here.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is just a very badass and I loved it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they did a great job of kind of setting up all this action and really kind of delivering on a unique tone and idea here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love how just we're leaning into the badass kind of hero here and I'm having a blast with it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I also really enjoyed this.
[SPEAKER_02]: This feels like what I've been missing from the Punisher comics.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, God.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just someone who has been through something and when that skill set needs to come back, even though it's an darkness in him, he slots in and is the weapon that he was forced to become.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, so like, and I thought the art was great.
[SPEAKER_02]: I, the action was really cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Really now this feels like something that should be a movie.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, I, it does make me wonder how much of a Nixon press is focused on movie pitches and comic book form, but I still think like you guys are talking about this is a great looking book.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not quite as extreme, but
[SPEAKER_03]: Daniel Catte's art is in the same mood as like Chris Burnham or Frank quitely, it's adjacent to that while being a little less exaggerated or a Nick Petera, that sort of thing, just in terms of like the heavily sort of detailed lines, the sketchy lines.
[SPEAKER_03]: But the action is really fun, the characterization is really good and well done as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I agree, even though
[SPEAKER_03]: them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Transformers, number 34 from SkyBad at image comics written by Robert Kirkman, art by Jason Harrod now to spoil it from the cover here.
[SPEAKER_03]: We of course are focusing on everybody's two favorite transformers characters.
[SPEAKER_03]: The guy who is a general or something and some crazy scientist with a battle hat.
[SPEAKER_03]: Love it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love them since the original cartoon and it was just great to see them in action here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fuck you, you don't watch the goddamn cartoon.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is awesome, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: See you in Cliff Jumper, fuck up, brood of kiss.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you kidding me, I was losing my shit.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was a lot of action.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, these two assholes are in it at the end, but yeah, I was having a blast with this.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is more than meets the eye.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow really sold out the end there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean this this guy was pretty crazy over here And I feel like an optimist prime or just optimist is a such an apology tour and the last few issues were he's like yeah, I know I used to have a different job, and now I'm like sort of such smaller and I don't do as much like it's it's funny.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like let I'm ready to let him just be
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, man, a truck daddy is what I say, but I do like the the new world where they're like they're separate He's like we're not out of bots and they're like the generals like to us you will have to be out of bots We're locked in heroes on earth just trying to make their place and help humans.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's the transformers.
[SPEAKER_02]: I remember that's the life Let's do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep
[SPEAKER_03]: Jeff LeAdcher, super star number one from Marvel over at Mike Kelly Thompson, art by Toki Takoro.
[SPEAKER_03]: We recently talked to Kelly Thompson about this very book, so go listen to it in the feed, but this is following Jeff as he gets kidnapped by Mojo and forced to team up.
[SPEAKER_03]: the bunch of weird mashup heroes like dazzle storm and Wolverine man and others that doesn't quite happen in this issue because Jeff isn't there yet we spent a lot of time with Bojo also Jeff the real Jeff on earth with his new little fussy octopus friend
[SPEAKER_03]: is super adorable, but also the art, the action scenes are actually really good, and these new characters are pretty funny, so this is this is good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm a little back and forth about Jeff the Ladshark because I don't think it's necessarily aimed at me, but this one I thought was one of the strongest kickoffs to a MIDI series I've read so far.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's what I was going to say.
[SPEAKER_02]: This the aim on this one feels like it's not it's for comic readers like us who've been reading comics a long time the mashup characters the use of mojo like it felt like and I Sorry really like that and I was reading this my daughter was sitting next to me and she was like, what's that?
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to read that can I have that and I'm like, oh Jeff just is
[SPEAKER_01]: yeah i mean it's a fun idea the cuteness is off the charts um you know the Wolverine kind of smooshed against the window being like hey Jeff can you look in here we need you was fun uh yeah the cuter door will act upon so it's got a dark side love it um yeah this is just a blast you can tell by the cover you're gonna have a good time and it delivers
[SPEAKER_03]: Barbara Gordon breakout number three from DC Comics written by Mariko Tamaki art by Amma Kay Nohul Pan per the title.
[SPEAKER_03]: Barbara Gordon is a maximum security prison trying to figure out a mystery.
[SPEAKER_03]: Except she spent most of this time getting the crap beat out of her and last year's drug top.
[SPEAKER_03]: by somebody who professes to be your ally, but it's definitely not.
[SPEAKER_03]: That continues to this issue as she tries to break out of that he's and figure out exactly what's going on.
[SPEAKER_03]: She makes some progress there.
[SPEAKER_03]: We also get flashbacks to her bat girl days.
[SPEAKER_03]: This book is so much more surreal that I expected in a dark.
[SPEAKER_03]: yeah and dark which i don't mind but it's very interesting to read this going in with an expectation of oh it's gonna be a prison break but with background and that's not what it is so far at all
[SPEAKER_02]: No, and she's so off her game.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought it was gonna be her just like, you know, figuring it out.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's her trying to figure it out and her brain is like, man, right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm very pleasantly surprised by that though.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think this book is great.
[SPEAKER_02]: It feels like it was part of continuity, meant to be part of a heavy part of continuity, but it just the story itself reads like just a great, interesting mini series, focused on Barbara Gordon.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm really enjoying this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree this is fun, this is cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the art.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kind of the fun reveal there of the name just kind of being a crazy kind of twist.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I really enjoyed this and was pleasantly surprised.
[SPEAKER_03]: Three worlds, three moons, foundations from Dark Horse Comics, written by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Spencer, art by Mike Dilmundo, Mike Hudleston, and Jerome Opinia.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, for the past couple of years, this team has been putting up comics and development materials on Substack, which is a great place.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you like supporting Nazis, so go do go check it out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: They do.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nazi literature on sub-stacks.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sub-stacks.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Go on literally any other newsletter platform.
[SPEAKER_03]: Whatever.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nazis here.
[SPEAKER_03]: In any case, they have been developing it openly and taking feedback from people as they've been going.
[SPEAKER_03]: Curious to find out what feedbacks is there on sub-stack.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll get off it and stop talking about that for a minute.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, but that stuff is finally being published by Dark Horse.
[SPEAKER_03]: They are collecting a bunch of the stories and some of the development material.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here they're going to have another, I'm forgetting what it's called, or rivals, or something like that, that's going to be coming out soon.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then they're going to have a bunch of source books which are going to be all material that they have gathered together supporting these stories followed by the actual stories themselves.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that's sort of what foundations is, excuse me, that's the foundations of three world, three moons.
[SPEAKER_03]: But here we are getting three stories set in these multiple worlds.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you guys think about this?
[SPEAKER_03]: I, and I'll copy to, I have not read the sub-stack at all, so I have no idea what's been going on here until I read this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Same.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought the art was really quite tripped out and amazing when that dude's face floats off.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was like, that was crazy trippy and really, I mean, we've seen face off.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've seen a lot of different things, but I've never seen a face float off like that, so that was, he would never see face float off.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so that was artistically impressive what happened there, but yeah, the character designed just the cool use of like color was just so interesting, you know, I
[SPEAKER_01]: The waste of kind of pages got a little annoying where we're just waste of pages.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, there's just like a whole pages where it's just like design and stuff like that And I was like, oh my god, that's called comics.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, whoa, whoa, that's you know
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just, uh, I don't know, it's like, uh, some sort of fucking design out there or whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so what's the interesting idea of an interesting way to tell a story?
[SPEAKER_02]: You can go right to hell with that shit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I like the whole page break.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kind of the question.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes I like to go into art galleries and I'm like, what the fuck is this?
[SPEAKER_03]: Where's the fucking story?
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, you know?
[SPEAKER_01]: I go to art galleries and just swipe in and they're like, sort of, stop touching the paintings, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: You're going to our cows to be like, where's the Wolverine section?
[SPEAKER_03]: Or surely there's a Punisher room.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's the Metropolitan Museum of Arts.
[SPEAKER_03]: We only have Spider-Bad here.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, lovely.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll take the cool but rude tour, please.
[SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, just throw it out there.
[SPEAKER_03]: I did think there's this gorgeous art.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is very much a Hickman, nothing is expensive, but I don't know him to write in this mode, so I'm just gonna throw the most of this on Hickman.
[SPEAKER_03]: Writing it is like, I have one billion ideas that most of them are circles.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here you go, I end this book for sure, except every single story by the end of the story, it got me emotionally, which it just snuck out of nowhere.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I was like,
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what's going on with this deer headed guy with half of his head turned to rainbows or what's floating off of this ash-drossed wrist or anything like that, but they have not forgotten that you needed emotional hook in big sci-fi, and that's clear what this what sold to be on this project was that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the deer fit and half a mental phase thing was stripped out.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was like a fan.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, but I'm saying the opposite.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's not what sold the audit, even though that looks cool because you could do a million cool images there.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you don't have a human connection to it, it doesn't matter.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, and I got to think that's maybe what Nick Spencer is bringing to this a little bit more like John the Hickman is like big world storytelling and it feels like he sat down and wanted to do this and I don't know when the collaboration began, I'm sure there's a sub-stack with lots of detail about this but Nick Spencer like it seems like it's a good blend of their skill sets
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree this story's got me emotionally.
[SPEAKER_02]: I also like the big sci-fi science versus magic stick that we're getting here The kid characters and what they're gonna be feels very like Spielbergian in a nice way like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know this this has a lot going for it People have been talking about this on our patreon discord for a long time who have been reading in our fully invested in this and so I guess this is they can go on a real victory lap of how right they were
[SPEAKER_03]: Seven wives number two for body W written by Zoe Tuddle art by Tesslin Bergen de Quay.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is following a murder mystery where a cult leader or a leader in the Church of Latter-day Saints is that we decided not a cult.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I think it's a sect, maybe.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's called a cult in here by the FBI officers, the FBI agents, but I think, I don't know what the real world term is, but it is called a sect or cult, I think is what it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: So each of us seven wives is the suspect, and we get even deeper into that mystery.
[SPEAKER_03]: This issue was a big twist and turns.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think we're all pretty complimentary.
[SPEAKER_03]: The first issue, how do we feel about issue number two?
[SPEAKER_02]: I really like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like it's really well laid out from a like just keeping the information organized of like in the beginning of this issue again.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, here are the two wives we talked about last time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Probably not either of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's move on to some more wives.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like great love that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love the deep dive into this world and a spoiler for what happens at the end of the issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: But did anybody have written on their in their prediction card eighth wife dropping?
[SPEAKER_03]: But I think that was not on my big occurred.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, good.
[SPEAKER_02]: See, I tried not to see a big occurred.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, well, you ruined it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, yeah, I mean, I, you know, I'm not a big fan of the premise or the multi-vile lot wives thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm just hoping that one of these wives kills this guy eventually.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm hoping that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, they did it before the first issue started.
[SPEAKER_03]: A pre-killed MP.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's listen to that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Are you accomplished?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so do you you dislike all wives or just multiple wives?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I just I it's heart Who do you root for here?
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you root?
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you work that somehow they work out a nice life with the seven thing?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well again, they one of them killed him before they started and I would throw out there I mean maybe I'm off base here, but I don't feel like this comic is complimentary of the idea of having seven wives No, I
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think it's a positive, like the title of the book is not, hey, you should have seven wives.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, they're really pitching it hard, and I'm like, they definitely are not.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what they're really, and I'm like, no, dude, I'm not into this.
[SPEAKER_02]: They are, it's not why you have seven, and it doesn't want anyone to have seven wives.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, are you are you reading the words or are you doing that thing?
[SPEAKER_03]: We just talked about where you just look at the picture is Flip the red.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: You read the title seven wise.
[SPEAKER_03]: You saw there were seven wives and you thought it was pro seven wives Oh, it's like I don't man again.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're all holding dies because they're like Pete if you don't take seven wives We're gonna stab you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, well that the knives are the part that peats likes Seven wives seven knives.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll take the seven knives seven.
[SPEAKER_03]: I always say seven wives seven dives happy lives
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't have a number four from Marvel by Stephanie Phillips art by Lee Garbett in this issue Omen of the new villain who wants to kill Bat Burdock is on the loose speed while their devil is going after him And runs into the owl in the process man.
[SPEAKER_01]: How's he saving the day?
[SPEAKER_01]: This is fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really enjoyed this great art.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, obviously it needs more foggy, but other than that, this was
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought kind of a fun, like I'll see shows up saves the day.
[SPEAKER_01]: Immediately goes from saving his life to almost killing him within a couple of panels, which I think is just fun, villain stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then, yeah, it's interesting to kind of see how this is going to shake out for Maddie Murdock here.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, I very much enjoyed this.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Daredevil owl relationship in this comic is so sad for the owl.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's like, I finally gotcha.
[SPEAKER_02]: I lost again, but they also have like a weird hang chat and I do think
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like the clues leading toward Oman feel like interesting to me, but I think we got to get to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And there's so much hay made in this and the previous issues of like an Oman, you shot him.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Owl is like, you named him.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, there's so much like you named him Oman.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, what?
[SPEAKER_02]: What are we doing?
[SPEAKER_02]: We're trying to convince here about this.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I want to give you, I want to be a clue drop in the next issue, I think.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love it when characters are like, oh man, cool name.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I, sorry, we should say that to each other.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like how you recall your dish dog.
[SPEAKER_03]: Cool name.
[SPEAKER_03]: Bleeding hearts.
[SPEAKER_03]: Number six from DC Comics, written by Dennis Camp, art by Stepan Morian in this issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, overall in this series, it takes place at World Wars Zombies and taking over a form through our own society.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're going out in the hunt for a bunch of humans to eat them, including one of the main humans that we've been following who has befriended a zombie who has started to have his heart beating again.
[SPEAKER_03]: A lot of that comes to a head in this issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, not to keep big uping our
[SPEAKER_03]: patreon discord, but there has been a lot of discussion about pleading hearts that I've agreed with so far about wanting to like this because I like Dennis Cab, Stip and Morians art is great.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's Derek being heart though.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry if I'm mismedged to you.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was one of the guys on our discord was comparing the art to Sam Keith in particular, which I think is very good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Paris and this is the issue where it started working for me this is the issue it there's a big action there's some emotion that really drew me in it felt like by the end they're actually really getting to what the story is about there's kind of no pun intended heartbreaking moment that happens between two of the main zombies here that I thought was really well done
[SPEAKER_03]: Pete takes obsession because he thinks this movie is pro-eating people, yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, what I want to know is, JT says you still camp in out here or how you're feeling about this, you still camp in here, you're still you're still you're coming.
[SPEAKER_01]: cup of tea.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm camping.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like this route.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think both the set-up and the stuff that's happening in this world.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, it's maybe been a bit of a slower burn than some people like, but I like that we've been able to sort of wander through this place and see the different rules of this particular zombie story.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love the artistically, I think this is awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: The mob dobs that are happening throughout this issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the confrontation between
[SPEAKER_02]: was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I also really love this.
[SPEAKER_01]: The art has such a scary, yet cartoony feel to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's such an interesting take.
[SPEAKER_01]: The characters are so unique looking.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this really does, you know, tag at your heartstrings.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's quality book.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm really enjoying it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Showdown number two for ignition press written by Dave Wells goes to art by Tad Galucia.
[SPEAKER_03]: In the first issue, we were introduced to two people, one who seemingly accidentally killed a kid back in the day and the other that kid's sister who's come back to town and challenges him to a showdown where one of only one of them is going to walk out of life.
[SPEAKER_03]: They agree to it and this issue shows the guys perspective as he gets ready for the
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, presumably we'll go over to her perspective at the next issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: Man, this series is so good and so unexpected and the thing that I'm really digging about it, that I wasn't sure other were going to follow up into the first issue is you get a kickass.
[SPEAKER_03]: It starts the showdown and they're like, here we go, we're going to bring the pain, we're going to bring the fight.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then it steps back to these two really sad people and the character study of them.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was like, okay, now that we have the setup, we're going to get to the showdown, we're going to rest the town and close it up or whatever.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe we won't get there.
[SPEAKER_03]: But instead, this issue is an even razor sharper character study of this one guy and how pathetic and sad his life has gotten since this one really terrible thing that he did in the past.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's great, yeah, to go on such a big premise and then have this issue in particular be something with the term, like a slice of life of this, and I'm joking, but it actually is a slice of life of this guy who's like, oh no, my life is a disaster, um, and
[SPEAKER_02]: Just great character work and the art I thought was really we get to be close up to the characters a lot in the art without it feeling oppressive I it's very emotive You know slightly heightened out of reality in the way a lot of the facial reactions like you see on the cover here I think this is I agree with Alex.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really enjoy this
[SPEAKER_01]: I also really enjoy it when Zubbs first started talking.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had a heart attack, because I thought he said it was written by Dave Wells Ghost.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, oh my god, it ghost wrote this.
[SPEAKER_01]: But this was really interesting kind of ghost writer.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was very moved, it was it's very powerful and impressive writing here.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a great character stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: Lastly, I'll say about this that I really realized with this issue, particularly if we do go to her perspective next issue, is when they eventually have the show down, it's going to suck so hard, because nobody, you want that fist reaction of like, yeah, come on, bring out the blood, and instead, it's going to be like, please leave each other alone.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're both so sad, and there are going to be no winners here, and I think that's great.
[SPEAKER_03]: The uncanny X-Men number 31 for Barvel Rit by Galsmone, Art by Jim Tal and David Baldeon.
[SPEAKER_03]: Lots of stuff going on in this issue as not one, but two alien races attack new Orlins.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kurt E. Nightcrawler is captured.
[SPEAKER_03]: Mutina knows way too much about all of this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Lots of other stuff going on as the kids go to prom at the same time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just what is it, you're.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's coming close on Tina and you know when the characters introduced I was like, Oh, this character seems important.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how often old Tina is that what you're saying?
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mutiny old.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love old Tina and I love new Tina, but we're talking mutina.
[SPEAKER_02]: And this mut...
[SPEAKER_02]: But I actually like the character.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just funny that she literally walks into this story in this issue and say, Hey, what do you guys do in the while I know?
[SPEAKER_02]: you guys want to hear about what you're doing?
[SPEAKER_02]: I know.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's funny.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like all the prom stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: This comic is weird in a great way.
[SPEAKER_02]: It feels, the tone of it is like old school X-Men, but it is heightened out of that even into, you know, this like arcane, small town stuff that I think is great, the reveal of the alien's purpose.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought was excellent, and then the
[SPEAKER_02]: reveal in this issue was really exciting if this is a classic sci-fi movies with the X-Men as the main characters.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah I agree this is great this is a great package this is
[SPEAKER_01]: Amazing art and amazing story telling here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm having a blast with this rip in the arms off Wolverine's getting fired up.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm having a great time.
[SPEAKER_03]: I Just a sort of a side thing here.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know that beating the strong the past couple of issues that I really feel like this title hit its stride at this point 6 10 issues back.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's been a while but
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm very much paraphrasing here, Gal Simone, a couple of weeks back, put up a thread on blue sky where she was talking about how titles don't get a chance to find their footing any more.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I don't think she actually said this one, though she's very clearly in my head talking about uncanny expen and she's right, you know.
[SPEAKER_03]: You have to have your big idea out of the gate, grab everybody and then maybe you get five issues to do it if that and then maybe you get another five issues after that and that's how the comic book industry works.
[SPEAKER_03]: Versus it really I think took her even though she is a expert writer who has been doing this for decades now.
[SPEAKER_03]: A while to figure out like, okay, here is how my ex-bed book works, here is how this team works with this younger team.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is what they do, this is how they interact.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're gonna have them enough iterations so they could interact at any particular way and it works.
[SPEAKER_03]: And now it's just really firing on all cylinders.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I don't know why you have to take a shot at, or, you know, I mean, this is a great comic, you know?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, sorry that she posted a good threat on Blue Sky that was directly applicable to this comic book she's writing, which she was probably talking about, that's on me.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's firing on all cylinders, Pete, not like one cylinder or different other cylinders, because we are real gear heads at the end of the day.
[SPEAKER_02]: We know how many cylinders she's firing on and it's I'm not gonna say it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not gonna solve them It's about 18 She's a car.
[SPEAKER_02]: I believe right.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's a car.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah
[SPEAKER_03]: uh... another writer that is a car is jeffel mire and he is be peeping his way into the fury of firestorm number four from dc comics art by rafial dillettory now we recently found out i believe over the weekend or maybe the late last week that
[SPEAKER_03]: I did realize this was only going to go eat issues this series, it's now going to go nine issues and then wrap up the end.
[SPEAKER_03]: But reading that, or finding out that news, definitely gave this more of a ticking time Bob's slash clock behind it as Firestorm has been subsumed by the Firestorm Matrix.
[SPEAKER_03]: And meanwhile, Dr. Barton Stein is being interrogated by one
[SPEAKER_03]: are also getting flashbacks back in the day in revelations.
[SPEAKER_03]: I like this more every issue Justin, you've been a big fan since the beginning.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am a big fan of this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm a big fan of this.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I agree with you, like the way the story is constructed, it does feel very much closed ended.
[SPEAKER_02]: And this issue, I think, is sort of pointing us toward the finale rackable we're going to be getting at.
[SPEAKER_02]: uh... but i think the arts great i like the how dire the situation is the stakes have been high from the very beginning only in this issue do we get a slightly softening or they're like they think maybe they can treat some of the hundred people who are turned to glass or whatever but i was like okay let me know how that goes uh... but i love the the firehawk character and the way that she's the one who has to track down fires
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, you see a lot here in the cover where you get the blue fire mixing with the yellow fire.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's just magic happening, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's called romance.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Tell you, make fire like have sex.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's like my fire babies right there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I really enjoyed this.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we've kind of got this interesting thing with Dr. Stein here.
[SPEAKER_03]: And yeah, I mean, blue hair, sorry to interrupt you, but Dr. Stein is actually the doctor.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay, it's like a prank in science situation where it's up to science monster.
[SPEAKER_01]: Dr. Stied is the doctor this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, okay, I'll find that, but yeah, this is good.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Vampire Hates, number one, Vampire Hates.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know why I keep saying it like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: From boobs, studios, written by Fred Van Letty, art by Luko Pazari.
[SPEAKER_03]: We talked to Fred earlier this week.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can listen to it on the podcast.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can figure out what's going on for the title.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's Vampire Hates, who are pirates and pirates, who are vampires, oh man, or following a vampire queen who is forced out of the Vampire Imperium has to go on the run with a bunch of pirates that's re-end up at the first issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: But Justin, since you didn't get to talk to Fred about this, you can be honest with us, would you think?
[SPEAKER_02]: I enjoyed this, it goes way harder than I expected, getting into not only vampires and pirates and vampire pirates, the pirates that are meet we meet later are like fucked up in a bunch of other ways too, so that was exciting to see, and I like that the
[SPEAKER_02]: This feels like, and it's an epic adventure story already.
[SPEAKER_02]: The first issue has the big highs and big lows of an epic classic story, classic pirate story.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then the vampire stuff just adds a horror angle that is a welcome addition.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Fred Van Lenty is a hell of a writer and this is a real blast of an idea.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can tell they're having a great time.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I agree, it's a smart move to start off and kind of a big action.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we want this to feel epic and it does.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's a really,
[SPEAKER_01]: fun kind of twist and turn.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're figuring stuff out as we kind of go here and get an information.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, it feels like the fun is jumping off the page in this and yeah, I think this is really cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: Black Cat, number 12, from Marvel Written by G. Willow Wilson, Art by Andrey Genolette.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, we haven't read this title in a while, and I will throw out there that I stopped adding it to the stack.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not because we dislike Black Cat and not because we dislike G. Willow Wilson.
[SPEAKER_03]: But we were kind of saying the same thing that the art was taking us out of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, not to be slag off the previous artists, but there is a new artist on it who is Andre General Ed, who did great stuff on runaways and other titles.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I figured why don't we pop that in, Pete likes the Punisher, we can check it out, see if we like the title and continue from there, or drop it again, potentially.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I don't know, Pete is Pumpkin's Fist.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: That seems pretty positive.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I absolutely love this issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: What a blast.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you don't think about these two together and what fun they are.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the kind of back and forth, the banter is hot and fresh.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a good time.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really love this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, awesome cover alert.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is really fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Reminds me the old like Spievers is spy kind of fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: But man, it got me so hyped for the start of this.
[SPEAKER_01]: It really delivered.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like how this kind of really started on black cat and then kind of fighting the Punisher, the one panel where she like tries to slide kick out his legs and he just stares at her.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god, the panel of the week, that was so much fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, love the end, the non-verbal communication with the kind of big reveal and then she just hands him a gun, just one gun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just so fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really love this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know Jay T. Sissel is our black cat guy So I'm excited to hear what he says, but man, what a blast of a niche for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love it
[SPEAKER_02]: I also really enjoyed it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do think that art is working not to, like, it's not even that the previous artist was bad by any means.
[SPEAKER_02]: It just was like, this isn't Felicia Hardie the Black Cat.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is like a different character.
[SPEAKER_02]: I felt like just from the way she looks.
[SPEAKER_02]: So to see this is cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: The fact that this is set in Cape May, New Jersey, I thought was also really funny and there's a scene later where like there's a whole like cat and mouse thing between the Punisher and Black Cat, she gets away and then the next day she's getting a trap for the Punisher and he's driving around in a top-down convertible in his full Punisher uniform and the middle of the day I was like, what?
[SPEAKER_02]: These just just drive around on vacation like a little psychopath.
[SPEAKER_03]: have a day you don't have another shirt yeah i guess over what i wanted out with this title uh... like you guys were saying i think you're right on the body just and that it wasn't bad art it was just couldn't what it was wasn't working with the story that you were the most was telling and Andre jennelette's art
[SPEAKER_03]: is for sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a much sillier punisher than we're getting over in Benjamin Percy's book, which is clear because it's more fun to see him in this capacity.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is two characters that it's kind of wild that we don't really see together at all.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't I don't know that I totally buy all the things the black cat does to put a sure he'd be like I'm cool with this Because some of it is so silly like fake boots and other things, but I had a good time and that's it's all you want It is really fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Some of that especially that scene at re is very archy But in a way that works in this and I like to set up at the end of the issue as well and for some reason And I don't know if this is what's gonna happen
[SPEAKER_02]: But the story from the DC Marvel crossover, where the Punisher and power girl like one on a date, remember?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's really bad.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was in my head reading this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's good to have a little date or something.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe she's gonna cure the Punisher.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you think?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Of his loneliness.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't so thought it was interesting, yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: The ultimate sickness that he, her luck powers don't work on him, is repeated in this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, why is that?
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't know why.
[SPEAKER_03]: We don't know why.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're going to figure out why.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's some reason by the end, I'm sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, that is interesting, we'll see.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just brutal number four from Ignition Press written by Dennis Hopeless Art by Brahm, reveled that we talked to Dennis a couple of months back before this title launch so you can check that out.
[SPEAKER_03]: But we are following or we're following a mother and father who both had mystical he-man-esque powers and we're battling a Skeletor type if you will.
[SPEAKER_03]: The shocking twist, legit shocking twist at the end of the last issue is the parents died and their weapons and powers went to their kids, which is where we pick up here.
[SPEAKER_03]: As the kids are trying to figure out what's going on while dealing with the knowledge that, yep, properly their parents were just killed.
[SPEAKER_03]: Meanwhile, there is a regular dude who's kind of sort of their stepfather who has been infected by this ultimate evil, and that's bubbling around literally in the background.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is great, this book is, the art is gorgeous, the surreal artistic choices that they make throughout.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's this thing where they're depicting scenes as like little people and memories, as little people running around on one of the character's hands and throughout the scene.
[SPEAKER_03]: very fun at a very fun kicker that later on one character's like, what are you looking at?
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's very worthwhile breaking at the same time.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's really nothing like the tone of this book, but it works everything is working here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, that's well said that it's the there's nothing like it out there.
[SPEAKER_02]: It feels the art it has a little bit of like watercoloury like a little bit of flashback to it and I think that touches on the master the universeness of it in a really smart way subtly without a feeling like nostalgia bait
[SPEAKER_02]: But the same time, the story is like deeply emotional, but also fantastical, and the weapons become this just great, metaphor to tell the bits and pieces that Dennis wants to get across here, I thought this was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, this is really awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree with everything being said, the art is really fantastic.
[SPEAKER_01]: it's kind of unique and different enough so you don't kind of feel like it's a keyman situation at all.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also has such a unique kind of tone which is cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also gives me hope that maybe my soul will transfer into my NUMJUX when I die.
[SPEAKER_01]: So maybe I gotta have kids just so I can have someone to pass off my
[SPEAKER_03]: If your soul goes into your dumb chucks, we will definitely probably not throw them out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't worry.
[SPEAKER_03]: That would just drive me crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: But Pete, then what about someone that will find it in the trash and their life will be changed?
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe think about passing them on to your friends, friends.
[SPEAKER_02]: Justin and Alex, okay, cool to think about, but what if we each got one piece of the none chuck and we could bring in together and we'd you, because that would be all three of us coming together if you split your soul and half into one of the different none chuck ends and then we got together we could reattach them so it could be with you and it could swing them around and accidentally hit ourselves in the head and balls and stuff, which is the only thing I think makes you laugh, yeah, yeah exactly, because it would be you hitting
[SPEAKER_02]: Which is yeah, exactly the dream.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just really beautiful.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, speaking of beauty this kind of tripped out nightmare art is just absolutely fantastic I also wanted to shout out the detail the Star Wars sheets.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man
[SPEAKER_01]: really brought me back.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was great to see.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, love the kind of sharp eye sword twist here with the kind of like meetings behind it and then the kind of the trickery that happens with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, such a cool ending as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: Operation iron coffin number one from IDW right by Kenny Porter art by Tyrell cannon I will once again plug that we talked to the creative team on this book as well so go back and listen to that in the comic book club feed.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that's the last time I'm going to make a plug in this episode.
[SPEAKER_03]: I guess we'll see.
[SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, this is about Dracula being resurrected and forced to fight Nazis in a train during World War II.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like snowpiercer, but with vampires, basically what's happening here, and a kick spot.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, agree.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a fun train ride, if you will.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you got Nazis
[SPEAKER_01]: Vampires are one of the nazis on the other who's going to win.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a real battle royale Yeah, and why we're talking about nazis as podcast is against them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fuck Fuck all you nazis, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: You bunch of assholes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow
[SPEAKER_02]: What a stance, so late in the game here, really great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Real slice of train, I agree with this.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was, what are you talking to Kenny on the show?
[SPEAKER_02]: To get into what, why trains are such a story engine, if you will, is funny to me, but this story does work.
[SPEAKER_03]: that's great and I also want to clarify at least one of the two of us who are not Pete are also anti-Nazis, I don't want to say which one, but maybe later the podcast is for you know Dracula to kill Nazis it's a fun fun thing yeah it's like the main Senate race am I right now I don't know exactly now I don't know exactly
[SPEAKER_03]: Civil War on bass, number three from Marvel Written by Christo's Gage, Arthai Edgar Salazar.
[SPEAKER_03]: Each of these issues is diving into a particular time or character, or both.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was took place during Civil War, which is all of 20 years ago now.
[SPEAKER_03]: This one is focusing on the aftermath of the death of Bill Foster aka Goliath, and I'm hoping to assign afterwards
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'll tell you a lot, a shout out to Krista's gauge.
[SPEAKER_03]: I really enjoyed the previous two very surprising issues.
[SPEAKER_03]: This one is dealing with some very thorny continuity that I think he does ably.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I don't want to totally speak to it because it is talking about the black experience in America.
[SPEAKER_03]: So if we have any black listeners would like to weigh it and be like, hey, actually this was bad.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll defer to you on that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: This worked for me at again.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a lot of story choices here that what I read them again of like, oh, but yeah, Christmas makes it work as an overall story and dive into the motion of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was really impressed by that, and I just, sorry, Justin, he, I was kind of like, all right, what is this?
[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, those guys joined me over with this, some real heartfelt stuff in here, and some great art and action, and yeah, it was nice to see kind of Uncle Bill and Monolith get a little shout out love here, so I liked it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love this type of
[SPEAKER_02]: This type of series where like we just like civil on mass, where it's like civil war, but emotional versions of the stories that are good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Where we get to the, you know, really to explore the internal ramifications of these larger continuity moves.
[SPEAKER_02]: Even though they're in contradiction to themselves a lot like Alex he were saying Did we get to explore them in the same way the humans make contradictory choices in their lives out of feeling, you know sad traumatized angry all of that and
[SPEAKER_02]: uh... this series in this comic in particular have done a great job of giving us those stories that i think are why we get into comics is to find out why these big choices are made by the characters that make them
[SPEAKER_03]: World Shree in number 21 for the image comics written by James Taylor in the fourth art by Fernando Lanko after a couple of very focused issues were back to the hodgepodge of multiple characters that were following as we lead up to the tech apocalypse in this issue uh we do get to see the naked lady that everybody loves at the end but sadly we only get to see the guy with the shlong and the middle uh peat where you said not to see naked ladies or did you enjoy a shlong guy
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, sorry to just interrupt real quick.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, well, as you say, the guy with the shlong in the middle, where would you expect the shlong to be?
[SPEAKER_03]: Did you expect we all know where the Schlung is just as we do how many vents are on a car when we say wow look at that.
[SPEAKER_01]: He lost Sillin the love so he lost it already Vents vents on a car Jesus Christ man Giel Simone is firing on all things That's what we say breathing flaps breathing flaps
[SPEAKER_02]: Alex understands cars and penises where they are and how they weren't.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know, a little heads up warning on this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't read this out in the train or somewhere where someone can look over your shoulder and be like, Oh, really?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is the kind of thing you're into.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can you read it on like Nazi train?
[SPEAKER_03]: The Dracula's attacking?
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like yes in that case.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, we're against Nazi trains and racism.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pete did you read this with?
[SPEAKER_02]: Which of your seven wives did you read this with?
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't against it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm against that.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't have that interesting strong stances on this episode They make you the make you wait for the naked lady at the end.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I was I was worried like are we not gonna get hurt all in this issue But then she shows up and I was like, okay
[SPEAKER_02]: This comic is an epic story, so to your point, Alex, sometimes you have to have the move the sliders up across the whole board without really focusing on one individual.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it does feel like there's some big things that are about to happen.
[SPEAKER_02]: A character in here says, well, kill them all, which is often when a big action thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it was the middle of that guy's shlongness at that, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Wait did you wait did you mean the middle of the shlong so what what you mean the the hole are you talking about the hole There's a lot of use of the word middle here That's a very really Lucy Goosey with a lot of your language You know, maybe it was a loose you long.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know Have you ever had one talk to you?
[SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, we should probably move on.
[SPEAKER_03]: It hurts number two for me
[SPEAKER_03]: uh... peat let go it's been a long time it's been a long time it's been a long time it's been a long time it's been a long time stop robgillary hard-buying hard-buying hard-buying hard-buying
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't believe you took it too far, Pete.
[SPEAKER_03]: Arts by Seb, lofty students and interns.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a sci-fi series taking place on an unnamed, it actually is an earth.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're going down to earth and something horrible has happened to the inside of earth, but they can mind this metal in there.
[SPEAKER_03]: People are getting teleported down to earth.
[SPEAKER_03]: We've been following this guy that has signed up for this very dangerous detail to get money because his wife is pregnant or about to have a baby.
[SPEAKER_03]: this issue we find out that of course, whatever is going on into the earth has corrupted him and corrupted somebody else.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's kind of like an event horizon situation but inside the earth instead of its space, which I just think about issue number two.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like at the same time we're getting these the creepy tension of what they're actually doing down there is building.
[SPEAKER_02]: We also have this guy who's giving and given up on his wife pregnant wife.
[SPEAKER_02]: We see that paid off in this issue here.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then we have this sort of out of nowhere corpse murder situation that felt like a strong turn right at the
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, just be clear.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're against you giving up on your pregnant wife's and don't do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, where you will take a picture of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, wow.
[SPEAKER_01]: Really.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Which of the seven wipes?
[SPEAKER_02]: I ask again.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, as someone who was just making gross references, uh, the title is gross.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but the art is great.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's an interesting story.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're unique looking characters.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I was one over by this issue, but, uh, the title does gross me out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, this one has helped a little more all over the place to me rather than the first is the very strong first issue, but I like this main character, he is interesting, it's getting very dark, what's happening to him, so I am curious to see if it focuses in more in issue number three.
[SPEAKER_03]: Last but not least, the season's number 11 for the image comics written by Rick Womender, art by Paul Asa Seda, all series we've been following.
[SPEAKER_03]: One of the season's sisters who has been battling this creepy ring leader of a weird carnival who has been corrupting everybody with these magic mirrors.
[SPEAKER_03]: This issue, we jump ahead in time and find out exactly what's going on.
[SPEAKER_03]: Pete, you have a question.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I finally figured it out, Selbin.
[SPEAKER_01]: You always put this at the end of the stack, which I think is very fucked up, but I just realized it's because this is anti clown and you're a very pro clown since you married one.
[SPEAKER_01]: So putting this kind of evil clown.
[SPEAKER_01]: you know, remaster at the center here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think is upset you.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's why you push this down to the well, have to remember that I married seven clowns and left them all when they were pregnant.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I don't know, factor that into what you're saying.
[SPEAKER_03]: You would think number three or four would catch on, but nope.
[SPEAKER_03]: seven clowns in seven gowns yeah what you got to do is you got to go to each ring in succession like you don't get the three clouds the first ring pregnant at the same time you get one in the first ring pregnant one in the second ring pregnant third and then never see it they never catch on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, for the love of Pete, I thought this was amazing.
[SPEAKER_01]: The art is fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't say that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, it's set in the comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm quoting the comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love this comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it really rocks the arts unbelievable.
[SPEAKER_01]: This continues to be an amazing story of family and hardship.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't care what Sullivan says or where he puts it in the stack.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm showing up for this goddamn comic because it's great.
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've been in the bag for this comics since the beginning.
[SPEAKER_02]: We get to see a lot.
[SPEAKER_02]: We get a lot of real information here, shattering the mystery stuff, pun intended and setting up for a big next issue as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: Paul, Paul, as I said, is a art is so good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you like the last panel in the last slide?
[SPEAKER_03]: I did.
[SPEAKER_03]: Two more issues to go on this, and then we are done, seasons over, and this podcast is over.
[SPEAKER_03]: That is it for the stack.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They sit on crappy couches and they left the second week And he's just a monkey, they look like fast, they're short, they're speaking So grab your ring, hammer, don't relay, or it'll fail