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22 Panels Episode #247 - Humanoids · 22 Panels - A Comic Book Podcast

• 0:02
  Tyler Johnson: Hey everyone, welcome back to 22 Panels. This is the podcast that aims to examine, explore, and elevate the medium of comics. I am Tyler, and I was caught off guard, Tad, I was not ready for you to hit record there, but that's alright. From across the interwebs, I've got Tad and Phil.
• 0:23
  Tyler Johnson: How's it going, guys?
• 0:24
  Phil: Going alright, catch your wife.
• 0:25
  Tad Eggleston: That's good.
• 0:26
  Tad Eggleston: It's good.
• 0:28
  Tyler Johnson: So, I am operating without headphones today, so my,
• 0:33
  Phil: They're not working.
• 0:34
  Tyler Johnson: So my family is, in and out of the room every once in a while, so now they can hear us when we're talking. It's not just me talking to thin air.
• 0:45
  Phil: Alright, so now… so now instead of you not saying anything scandalous, it's gotta be us not saying anything scandalous.
• 0:50
  Tyler Johnson: It's funny. You guys are very quiet on my speakers, so, like, you can't hear outside of my little elk cove here.
• 0:56
  Phil: Alright, you say that, and then… and then someone's gonna say something completely ridiculous and off-topic, and… and completely derail everything right as someone's walking into the room.
• 1:05
  Tyler Johnson: Just waiting for…
• 1:06
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah. I mean… It is always possible.
• 1:11
  Tyler Johnson: There's never anything off-topic in our house.
• 1:14
  Phil: That's fair. I… I was told, I was told this podcast, would… would be done with… without an audience, so now… now I have stage fright, as, as,
• 1:23
  Tad Eggleston: therapy.
• 1:24
  Phil: off, off air, that, there is.
• 1:26
  Tyler Johnson: I don't know about audience, they are…
• 1:28
  Tad Eggleston: 22 panels is recorded in front of a live studio audience.
• 1:34
  Tyler Johnson: I don't know about studio.
• 1:35
  Phil: Right? Your home is now a studio. We're gonna have a lot of interns in and out of there, you know, some lights. There's just gonna be a box of donuts that you never see come or go, but there's always a varying amount in there. It's gonna get pretty weird.
• 1:49
  Tyler Johnson: Ugh. Well… I would go to a more private room, but…
• 1:54
  Tyler Johnson: We don't have central air, so I.
• 1:57
  Phil: Afternoon.
• 1:57
  Tyler Johnson: Turn on an air conditioner, which then, because our rooms upstairs are so… Humid and… and… hot.
• 2:05
  Tyler Johnson: So… Would hate it.
• 2:06
  Phil: Yeah.
• 2:07
  Phil: Put you through all that.
• 2:09
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, well, I would be sweating, and that's no fun.
• 2:13
  Phil: Not before church, that's only during church.
• 2:17
  Tyler Johnson: I'll be sweating anyway, because I don't want to be there.
• 2:20
  Phil: Right.
• 2:24
  Phil: Oh, so what's, what's the news in the comics world this week?
• 2:29
  Tad Eggleston: Well, the thing that caught my eye, and it doesn't look like there's a lot of data on it yet,
• 2:35
  Tad Eggleston: The Dark Horse Workers Union, released a statement
• 2:40
  Tad Eggleston: Alleging the company has been targeting senior editors to give them supervisory manager status?
• 2:48
  Tad Eggleston: To… to… Essentially make them ineligible for the union.
• 2:55
  Tad Eggleston: Reducing the membership and changing negotiating weight, that sort of thing.
• 3:02
  Phil: Oh, wow.
• 3:02
  Tad Eggleston: That is one.
• 3:03
  Phil: Sneaky.
• 3:06
  Tad Eggleston: Saying that, that they're, they're, they're giving them…
• 3:09
  Tad Eggleston: Some new supervisor responsibilities and acting like they'd been that way the whole time?
• 3:15
  Tad Eggleston: Whereas previously, they weren't… weren't exactly supervisory as much as editors.
• 3:20
  Tad Eggleston: So… It'll be interesting to see how that works out.
• 3:26
  Tad Eggleston: The… the… union was… was formed and recognized in between…
• 3:35
  Tad Eggleston: Mike Richardson stepping away, and Jay Thomas taking over.
• 3:40
  Tad Eggleston: And the promotion to the other people to the… as the new heads of the company, so…
• 3:46
  Tad Eggleston: You know, it's already a period of transition for…
• 3:51
  Tad Eggleston: Dark Horse into having a little bit…
• 3:55
  Tad Eggleston: more hands-on from… from their corporate owners. I mean, they… they were… they were bought
• 4:02
  Tad Eggleston: maybe even as much as a decade ago, I don't remember. But, like, as long… as long as Richardson was the CEO, they didn't really change much.
• 4:11
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah. So… Something to keep an eye on.
• 4:15
  Phil: Now it sounds like they're going through a lot of groan pains.
• 4:17
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 4:19
  Tad Eggleston: In cooler news, Eric Gladstone and Marika Coresta are putting together a graphic novel at Sumerian Comics called Janis Joplin Pearl, so we're getting a Janis Joplin biopic. And I'm all for…
• 4:34
  Tad Eggleston: The amount of music we've been getting in comics lately, so… I'm here for it.
• 4:43
  Tad Eggleston: What kind of week has it been?
• 4:45
  Tad Eggleston: Did you guys see the late night drop Friday?
• 4:51
  Tad Eggleston: No? So, so you know how the… the…
• 4:56
  Tad Eggleston: The Justice Department indicted the 60-year-old former Olympian I think 57-year-old.
• 5:05
  Tad Eggleston: 67-year-old former Olympian canoer for vandalizing the reflecting pool, and… and shouted up and down about how he'd…
• 5:16
  Tad Eggleston: Ginny Pirro, like, he got into the water and violently tore the lining of the pool up.
• 5:26
  Phil: No, I somehow missed that one.
• 5:28
  Tad Eggleston: I did miss it, yeah.
• 5:29
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, that's interesting.
• 5:30
  Tad Eggleston: And the head of the Department of Interior, what, Doug Burgum, yeah, wanted to make it clear that the reflecting pool is part of the National Monu… er, part of the Lincoln Memorial, so, like.
• 5:44
  Tad Eggleston: This is just like if he took paint and splashed it all over blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, until they had to put up or shut up, at which point they went, oh, no,
• 5:57
  Tad Eggleston: it was an installed property, he didn't do anything, and dismissed the charges on Friday night, and hoped nobody would notice.
• 6:08
  Tad Eggleston: Let's just hope.
• 6:10
  Tad Eggleston: Of course, you know, Fearless Leader immediately got pissed off that they missed the charges, bringing attention to it all, at least…
• 6:22
  Tad Eggleston: The independent side of media,
• 6:27
  Tad Eggleston: I hate that we've actually reached a point where I don't like mainstream media either.
• 6:34
  Phil: Yeah, it's pretty, it's pretty bleak out there.
• 6:36
  Tad Eggleston: You know, like, I'm really kind of fed up with the right saying things are bad for so long that they become bad.
• 6:47
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 6:48
  Phil: Making… making them worse themselves?
• 6:53
  Tad Eggleston: But that's what they're best at. Like, when they start saying they're bad, they're… they're not… they're not bad. Like, when they started, like.
• 7:04
  Tad Eggleston: bashing CNN, New York Times, and the Washington Post into the ground, they were still, like, legit…
• 7:14
  Tad Eggleston: If sometimes slightly flawed in trying to be balanced news organizations.
• 7:20
  Tad Eggleston: And now, it's like…
• 7:27
  Tad Eggleston: they bend over… I mean, did you see any of the Correspondence Dinner stuff?
• 7:34
  Phil: Ugh, I heard about some of it.
• 7:35
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I mean, for that matter, even this story, like, the way it was being reported in the mainstream news was…
• 7:45
  Tad Eggleston: Like… Trump angry at Pirro because he claims that Vandalism DID happen.
• 7:59
  Tad Eggleston: In spite of… available evidence.
• 8:04
  Phil: Wow.
• 8:05
  Tad Eggleston: Only that, like, in spite of available evidence is, like, deep in the story. Like, the headline is, Trump mad at Pirro, he claims vandalism did happen, or whatever, you know, it's like…
• 8:23
  Tad Eggleston: You can't…
• 8:25
  Tad Eggleston: When you can't even say, like, what they say out loud, because you're like, oh, the things you say out loud make you look bad, so we need to make you look better.
• 8:37
  Tad Eggleston: So that you don't get mad at us.
• 8:42
  Phil: That doesn't seem like it should be what the meeting's doing, and yet, and yet, here we are.
• 8:48
  Tad Eggleston: So yeah, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's kind of… Didn't the,
• 8:58
  Tyler Johnson: Did it get… did something get graphed over, too? Like, they put new sod on?
• 9:03
  Tyler Johnson: I saw a Trump post.
• 9:06
  Tyler Johnson: We're… Well, it doesn't matter anymore, but…
• 9:10
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I, I… I can't even… No, the, the other, the other…
• 9:17
  Tad Eggleston: Did you guys see the Fauci hearings?
• 9:21
  Tyler Johnson: No.
• 9:21
  Phil: heard about them, but I.
• 9:22
  Tyler Johnson: Third about it.
• 9:23
  Phil: I saw at least one diary entry that was, was pretty ridiculous.
• 9:28
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, well, yeah, but here's the thing, is it?
• 9:32
  Phil: I… I guess…
• 9:33
  Tad Eggleston: Making it out of context the way that they want you to, but like… Wow.
• 9:39
  Phil: The one diary entry I saw was about how Trump was more focused on getting re-elected than actually addressing the pandemic, so…
• 9:46
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 9:46
  Phil: Yeah, so it wasn't… it wasn't…
• 9:49
  Tad Eggleston: It wasn't ridiculous for Fauci.
• 9:51
  Phil: Right, right, right. But it was, it was ridiculous for the situation.
• 9:54
  Tad Eggleston: Lots of people have been focusing on things like, oh my god, I got to talk to Barbra Streisand tonight.
• 10:01
  Phil: She was…
• 10:02
  Tad Eggleston: Wonderful. And then I accidentally butt-dialed her later in the night.
• 10:07
  Phil: No, no, it was actually relevant, it was actually a relevant guy.
• 10:11
  Tad Eggleston: Or, or…
• 10:11
  Phil: about what, what they.
• 10:12
  Tad Eggleston: Or it's not hyperbole to say that
• 10:16
  Tad Eggleston: I may be the most famous and recognizable person in the country right now, and everybody's like, oh, you big-headed, you wanted to be the big head. It's like, no, this is a diary. This is somebody processing the fact that they're living a life that they never intended to live, and probably don't want to live, but kind of have to, because circumstances
• 10:38
  Tad Eggleston: Dictate that they do.
• 10:40
  Phil: Yeah, I think it's sad that he's becoming target for a right-wing witch hunt.
• 10:47
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, what I will, just, like, I… I'm… I don't want to spend too much… we're on a clock, so I don't want to spend too much time here, but what I will toss out really, really quickly is, is that,
• 10:59
  Tad Eggleston: like, first, you know, in heading into it, like, Rand Paul had put together the AI thing to make him look like a teenage girl on a blanket writing in his diary.
• 11:13
  Tad Eggleston: Which is why he, like, made a statement at the beginning about how this was clearly only orchestrated to try to get him
• 11:21
  Tad Eggleston: to say something that they thought that they could, aha! We caught you and can prosecute you, blah blah blah, and therefore, on the advice of counsel.
• 11:35
  Tad Eggleston: I am… Choosing not to answer.
• 11:41
  Tad Eggleston: as is my right under the Fifth Amendment, which became his statement to every question. There's one point where Josh Hawley is, what color is your tie? And he's like.
• 11:51
  Tad Eggleston: On the advice of counsel.
• 11:54
  Phil: There we go.
• 11:54
  Tad Eggleston: I declined to answer.
• 11:56
  Tyler Johnson: Well, they got, they got some minutes.
• 11:58
  Tad Eggleston: That's my right, under the Fifth Amendment. Yeah.
• 12:01
  Phil: Oh, yeah.
• 12:02
  Tyler Johnson: I mean… How many…
• 12:04
  Tad Eggleston: Then you've got…
• 12:05
  Tyler Johnson: Trump do that, you know?
• 12:06
  Tad Eggleston: Then you've got… then you've got Bernie fucking Moreno.
• 12:11
  Tad Eggleston: Who, like, is sitting there going.
• 12:14
  Tad Eggleston: It was about 6 years ago that I decided to give up my company.
• 12:21
  Tad Eggleston: Run for office, to finally be here to say, who the fuck do you think you are?
• 12:28
  Tyler Johnson: Oh my.
• 12:29
  Tad Eggleston: Really? That's your question? As a senator? And really, that's why you got into politics? And by the way, why haven't you said anything about your ex-son-in-law who's credibly accused of abusing your daughter and two-year-old granddaughter and still running for re-election?
• 12:53
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 12:55
  Tad Eggleston: Jim Jordan got caught on CNN on that one.
• 12:58
  Tad Eggleston: completely backed the guy up, and then, like, well, like, let me just play this tape from you talking about Graham Plattner.
• 13:08
  Tad Eggleston: And, like, even as he was leaving, he's like… and the Democrats made him stop running, not us, and it's like, dude, that's the point.
• 13:21
  Tad Eggleston: So, welcome to the world we live in. Anyway, new to order, initial orders due on August 27th.
• 13:31
  Tad Eggleston: Take it away, Tyler.
• 13:33
  Tyler Johnson: Right off the bat, I'm gonna talk about Batman Bad Seeds Sunrise, number one, from Matt Fraction and G. Willow Wilson and Yusefi Kamankuli, and Cliff Rathburn. Vandal Savage puts Ivy in his crosshairs. Somewhere in the headquarters of the New York City Police Department, Vandal Savage hides a chemical weapon.
• 13:53
  Tad Eggleston: The Gotham City.
• 13:55
  Tyler Johnson: What did I say?
• 13:56
  Phil: New York.
• 13:57
  Tad Eggleston: New York.
• 13:57
  Tyler Johnson: Really?
• 13:58
  Phil: Yeah.
• 13:59
  Tyler Johnson: Wow. Headquarters of the Gotham City Police Department.
• 14:03
  Tad Eggleston: Ben?
• 14:04
  Tyler Johnson: Kendall Savage hides a chemical weapon designed to kill Poison Ivy, but if Ivy dies, there will be no ending the bad night of bad seeds for government… for Gotham City, or anywhere else.
• 14:17
  Tad Eggleston: Pyramid City.
• 14:19
  Tyler Johnson: What?
• 14:20
  Tad Eggleston: Forgot.
• 14:20
  Tyler Johnson: Say that again?
• 14:21
  Tad Eggleston: city.
• 14:22
  Tyler Johnson: Government City. A heavily armored private militia tasked with bringing down… bringing him down on orders of the worst person in Gotham.
• 14:31
  Tyler Johnson: All holed up together within the impenetrable Fortress. This sounds like a job for Batman. Final order cut off of October 5th, and will be in shops October 28th.
• 14:43
  Tad Eggleston: Assie No. 1 from Sam Humphreys, and Eleanor
• 14:47
  Tad Eggleston: Harlini at Boom. It's actually a one-shot, because it's collected from,
• 14:53
  Tad Eggleston: The Hello Darkness horror anthology, Play Ball! Hell takes home field advantage as Cassie and her team take the plate in this thrilling one-shot from everyone's favorite horror anthology. Cassie has been collected into one bloodsport
• 15:07
  Tad Eggleston: Filled special for the first time, this campy sports horror romp follows Cassie and her rowdy baseball team as the game takes a demonic turn, leveling the playing field into hellish new depths, straight from the brilliant mind of Sam Humphreys with bold and expressive art from Eleonora Carlini. This demonically…
• 15:27
  Tad Eggleston: Boardy Slasher is sure to delight all of your evil impulses. Final order cut off of August 31st in stores on October 14th.
• 15:40
  Tyler Johnson: Alright, Dungeons & Dragons from Jackson Lansing, Colin Kelly, Ibram Robertson from Dark Horse.
• 15:48
  Tyler Johnson: A draconic apocalypse approaches the Forgotten Realms, and it has one name on its lips. Borden Kainen. Now, stripped of his magic, but never out of the fight, the most powerful wizard in all reality will need the help of Faeron's most legendary heroes to restore the balance.
• 16:06
  Tyler Johnson: This has a final order cutoff of September 21st, and will be in shops November 4th.
• 16:14
  Phil: Amberhead, number one, from Ed Brisson and Damien, Cociero at Mad Cave.
• 16:20
  Phil: Terror can't be contained! For 20 years, Jules has been hiding from her past. As the only survivor of the Hammerhead killing spree, she carries the guilt and trauma of having watched as everyone she loved was brutally murdered. Every couple of years, Hammerhead rises from the dead to continue his reign of terror anew. With each repeated massacre, Jules falls deeper into the warm embrace of her own dark coping mechanisms. When she's thrown into prison with no trial and no hope.
• 16:45
  Phil: Jules finds herself part of a dark ritual built to force her back into the past that she spent her life trying to escape. Final order cutoff of September 21st, in stores October 14th.
• 16:57
  Tad Eggleston: Leaded Gasoline, number one, from Patrick Kindland and Lorenzo Ray at Black Mask. In the 1980s, a killer stalks the street of South Los Angeles. Task forces are assembled. Detectives work overtime, but the bodies keep coming. This is the story of a community college professor who believes there's more to the story than a single madman. Final order cutoff of September 7th in stores on…
• 17:21
  Tad Eggleston: October 7th.
• 17:24
  Phil: Here comes the bride. Kelly Thompson and Matia de Lewis reunite once again to deliver the most haunting new horror series of the year. Born in the heart of a thunderstorm, made of stolen flesh, electricity, and monstrous desperation, the bride lives. With no memory of her past or understanding of what she is, the bride took her first steps into the world and was…
• 17:45
  Phil: Displeased.
• 17:46
  Phil: Now, she must discover where and who she came from, and…
• 17:50
  Phil: Begin what every living being… every living thing begins, the process of staying alive. This is Universal Monsters Bride of Frankenstein Lives, number one, from Kelly Thompson and Matthia DeLewis over at Image Comics. Final order cut off September 28th, in stores October 28th.
• 18:08
  Phil: Next up, some graphic novels.
• 18:11
  Tad Eggleston: Tyler, take it away.
• 18:13
  Tyler Johnson: I'm sorry, I was looking at something else.
• 18:16
  Phil: Your phone…
• 18:17
  Tyler Johnson: The book of Nosferatu by Michael Barici told our… First off, from a blaze.
• 18:25
  Tyler Johnson: Emil's wife is missing, but no one in his village will do anything about it. No one will even speak of it. It's like she never existed. But Emil knows the truth. Bella did not simply vanish, she was taken.
• 18:39
  Tyler Johnson: Pray to the region's terrifying blight, Nothratu. Unable to bring through the taboo surround… unable to break through the taboo surrounding the interference in these cursed matters, Emil turns away from society and into a world full of unknown and strange powers.
• 18:57
  Tyler Johnson: What terrible things lurk between the village in the deep, dark woods, and how can he harness them all to find his beloved bride? Can he harness them all, or will he too succumb to their curses?
• 19:09
  Tyler Johnson: In shop September 14th, and… excuse me, Final Order Crops September 14th, in shops October 21st. I should just stop reading.
• 19:19
  Tyler Johnson: Alright, Phil, you're now.
• 19:20
  Phil: diana from Nate Powell over at Abrams.
• 19:25
  Phil: The year is 1992. Diana Bouge is a personality too big for her small Arkansas town. A runaway who dyes her hair platinum, studies the occult, sings like an angel, and dominates the local punk scene through the force of her personality.
• 19:41
  Phil: Even when being in the cult of Diana is too much for them, her friends Jody, Steph, Napoleon, and Todd can't help but be pulled into her vortex. But under the surface, Diana struggles to outrun damage from her repressive religious past.
• 19:56
  Phil: She only shares these struggles with her dearest long-distance pen pal, who she keeps hidden from her other friends, until one day, he's never heard from again. Untethered and fiercely protective of what she considers hers, Diana turns even
• 20:10
  Phil: Even more inward, blending music and homegrown sorcery in hopes of outrunning reality.
• 20:16
  Phil: But even she can't turn back time. Or can she? It's gonna have a final order cutoff of August 31st, in stores October 7th.
• 20:27
  Tyler Johnson: Alright.
• 20:29
  Tad Eggleston: The Lawrence Brothers Detective Agency.
• 20:33
  Tad Eggleston: Yes, those Lawrence brothers. Joey Lawrence, Matthew Lawrence, and Andrew Lawrence, along with the Berkowitz brothers and Dario Formisano and Sean von Gorman.
• 20:44
  Tad Eggleston: Sean von Gorman of Comics?
• 20:47
  Tyler Johnson: Lawrence, did you guys ever… was he in anything?
• 20:49
  Tad Eggleston: I don't know. At Z2, this is a project that has been 15 years in the making. The Lawrence brothers, Joey, Matt, and Andrew, have toyed around with their own take on the Hardy Boys by creating a detective agency with a Hollywood twist. The darkly funny graphic novel reimagines them as reluctant heroes battling a conspiracy that's warping the very fabric of fame. Set against the surreal backdrop of a corrupted Hollywood, the Lawrence
• 21:14
  Tad Eggleston: Lawrence Brothers Detective Agency is a satirical fever dream about identity, memory, and the absurdity of pop culture. And I just have to go, whoa!
• 21:26
  Tad Eggleston: Final order cutoff of August 31st, and in stores on October 7th.
• 21:32
  Phil: Alright, next up, Noodle and Bao. Momo has lived in Town 99 her entire life. She knows all its quirks and rhythms, the best places to buy fruit, practice Tai Chi in the park, and most of all, get the best meal. Noodle and Bao, run by Momo's best friend, Bao, and their Ama, Noodle.
• 21:51
  Phil: But Town 99 is changing. Rent is becoming unaffordable for Mobo and her parents, and even Noodle and Bough has been edged out of its storefront, which was just recently bought out by the new business venture France Cafe. France is run by the ambitious Ms.
• 22:06
  Phil: jujibee and her henchmen, who claim they're only beautifying Town 99 with good business. Momo knows that's not true, and knows that if she doesn't do something, she'll lose everything she loves about her neighborhood. From undercover recon to a cook-off proposal, protest signs to petitions, Momo and Bao are on a mission to protect Town 99.
• 22:25
  Phil: Will they succeed before it's too late? This new graphic novel from Shayna Liu over at HarperCollins has a final order cutoff of September 7th, in stores October 7th.
• 22:39
  Tyler Johnson: Hey, this next… I gotta get back to it. I moved my screen, you guys, I'm sorry.
• 22:46
  Tad Eggleston: forever.
• 22:46
  Tyler Johnson: Pepper, but…
• 22:47
  Tad Eggleston: It's achiev.
• 22:47
  Tyler Johnson: an Astra, or out from Astra, a standalone sequel to the popular graphic memoir Penny, this vivid graphic novel centers on house cat heroine Penny's relationship with her sister Pepper, and the delicately
• 23:05
  Tyler Johnson: slipsistic inner world they share with each other. As she is prone to do, Penny the house cat spends her day lazing around the apartment and musing philosophy. However, her piece is rudely disturbed when she is forced to contend with the existence of her little sister, Pepper.
• 23:22
  Tyler Johnson: What follows is one part rye, immaculately watercolored cat gags, one part vision quest.
• 23:30
  Tyler Johnson: Here, acclaimed graphic novelist Carl Stevens blends the, quote.
• 23:34
  Tyler Johnson: Life of a house cat with an epically psychedelic Journey of Self-Discovery, and the profound art of making peace within yourself.
• 23:44
  Tyler Johnson: Final order cut off of September 21st, and will be in shops October 20th.
• 23:51
  Tad Eggleston: Wandering Cat's Cave from Akane Torakai. In Akane Torakai's Wandering Cat's Cage, it is the near future. Only a few women are still able to menstruate, and even fewer men will be born to them.
• 24:05
  Tad Eggleston: Reproduction is limited to medical intervention controlled from on high, and the structures and lives of the past hold no weight.
• 24:12
  Tad Eggleston: They are only hinted at through the remaining scraps of the world that no longer exists. Life can be good, though, if you fall in line, and the women of the city live bright, happy, tightly controlled lives. But complete obedience isn't for everyone. For the women across the river who live in a rundown shantytown, viewing the opulence of the city from afar each night, life is different. It's humble, and often dangerous, but it is free.
• 24:36
  Tad Eggleston: It is here that Sanada, a young acupuncturist, lives with the mysterious Rejo, the only male she's ever met, and who sells himself to the rich women who sneak across the river for something they've never experienced.
• 24:50
  Tad Eggleston: The two form a small family, taking in other young women ousted from the city. But a real, living, breathing male might be too precious to leave to the shabby streets. When Rejo is kidnapped at gunpoint and taken to the breeding program in the city, Sanada must join with the other outcasts to try and rescue him and learn the difficult truths of love, self-actualization, society, community, safety, and the future itself.
• 25:15
  Tad Eggleston: Master Mangaka Akane Torakai has produced a stunning work of a relational sci-fi.
• 25:22
  Tad Eggleston: Through a gender-bent looking glass, Torakai pulls no punches, examining the deeply messy subjects of our day. Sexuality, gender, dynamics, romantic love, familial trauma, freedom, and control through immaculately realized settings and character-rich emotive body language. Produced in partnership with Mangasplaining X,
• 25:42
  Tad Eggleston: Drop.
• 25:43
  Tad Eggleston: This is from Fanik Graphics, final order cutoff of…
• 25:46
  Tad Eggleston: September 14th, and in stores on October 28th.
• 25:51
  Tad Eggleston: How about some collections?
• 25:53
  Phil: Alright, first up there is Narco from Doug Wagner and Daniel Hilliard over at Image Comics. From the creative duo behind fan favorites Plastic, Plush, Vinyl, and I Was a Fashion School Serial Killer, comes an all-new absurdist horror you won't want to sleep on.
• 26:08
  Phil: Marcus, Westfall has a rare form of narcolepsy. When he gets excited, he blacks out.
• 26:14
  Phil: He's adapted, homebound, life, and a harmless infatuation with the girl next door. But when he witnesses her murder, and then immediately, annoyingly, passes out, he becomes suspect number one.
• 26:25
  Phil: With a final cutoff of August 31st, in stores October 7th. Read the book that, Tad's initial reaction to was Fuck You, Fuck You, Fuck You.
• 26:36
  Tyler Johnson: That's it?
• 26:37
  Phil: Yeah, yeah, to when you first read Narcos.
• 26:40
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, yeah, that's right.
• 26:43
  Tyler Johnson: Because it was so good.
• 26:44
  Phil: It was.
• 26:45
  Tad Eggleston: Well, it was good, but also the… the ending of that… that first… Mmm.
• 26:52
  Tad Eggleston: It's so good.
• 26:53
  Phil: Yeah.
• 26:54
  Tad Eggleston: But… but… But he was also kind of mean to me.
• 26:59
  Tyler Johnson: Alright, the complete Rachel Rising from Terry Moore, out from Dark Horse.
• 27:04
  Tyler Johnson: a modern horror classic returns in a definitive, oversized hardcover. I ordered two of these today, by the way. Yeah. The complete Rachel Rising collects the entire haunting saga in one volume, debuting as part of the new Abstract Studio Dark Horse Comics imprint.
• 27:21
  Tyler Johnson: When Rachel climbs from a shadow grave with no memory of… shallow grave, excuse me… with no memory of her death, she sets off a chain of sinister revelations connecting a small town's past
• 27:33
  Tyler Johnson: to its violent present. Combining slow-burn horror, dark mystery, and Moore's trademark characterwork, Rachel Rising remains one of the most acclaimed horror comics
• 27:44
  Tyler Johnson: Of all time. Final order cutoff is September 14th, and this will be in shops December 15th.
• 27:56
  Tyler Johnson: You're great. Santos sisters, Tad.
• 27:59
  Tad Eggleston: Santos Sisters Volume 2 from Greg and Fake. Amber and Alana are back.
• 28:05
  Tad Eggleston: And now, with an Eisner Award under their collective belt, in addition to being imbued with the powers of the goddess Madame Sosostris, they're even better prepared for whatever comes their way. Whether it be foiling disastrous plots to take down the local power grid, rescuing boyfriends from jealous supervillains, saving senior citizens from drug addiction, or battling the duos.
• 28:26
  Tad Eggleston: ever-expanding rogues gallery of supervillainery, Amber and Alana
• 28:31
  Tad Eggleston: Ambar and Alana, they, they, they made a typo in their, their solicit text here. They spelled it.
• 28:37
  Tyler Johnson: Amber?
• 28:38
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah. Always bring the comic…
• 28:41
  Tad Eggleston: book fun in this healthy conflation of four-collar nostalgia, action, and laughs. Volume 2 of the Santos Sisters brings back fan-favorite foils such as Bridget, Spinner.
• 28:51
  Tad Eggleston: Bridget spinner.
• 28:53
  Tad Eggleston: 8Ball, Alakran, and a mean and mad Monroe, while also introducing even more abhorrent antagonists, including the fishy blue Agua and her Manzanillo assassins, the punctual and punitive 10 o'clock, the mysteriously dead-eyed Sergeant Murder, and Agent
• 29:12
  Tad Eggleston: IX, or XI? XYX? Yeah, XYX. XI.
• 29:18
  Tad Eggleston: XIX? I think so. XIX! That's probably it.
• 29:23
  Tad Eggleston: And the rapacious…
• 29:25
  Tad Eggleston: avaricious Billy Bitcoin. Also, Jackie Stalegum, Phantom of the Cardboard, the numismatest, Gary Ansman, the Nature Ninjas, the Boozy Bs. Through it all, Amber and Alana strive to maintain a healthy work-life balance, while their creators, Greg and Fake, continue their mission to revive unabashed comic book fun with this ebulent and exuberant hit.
• 29:50
  Tad Eggleston: indie series.
• 29:51
  Tad Eggleston: Final order cutoff of September 7th in stores on October 7th.
• 29:58
  Tad Eggleston: Lots of final order cut up for you this week, Phil.
• 30:02
  Phil: Alrighty,
• 30:03
  Tad Eggleston: You can handle it.
• 30:04
  Phil: Sure, finally we're cut off for Monday, August 10th. Angel Number 1 from Kelly Thompson and Gila Giancomo over at Dynamite.
• 30:14
  Phil: in stores August 19th, Archie, The Decision, and Other Stories Deluxe Edition from Tom King, George Gladier, Frank Doyle, Dan Parent, Dan DiCarlo at Archie Oni, in shop September 1st, Superman, Batman, Weird Al, World's Weirdest No. 1 from Mark Waid, Weird Al Yankovic, Dan, Schoning at…
• 30:35
  Phil: DC in stores September 2nd. The Big Shakedown number 1 from Tim Seeley, Jordan Bloom, Scott Koblish, over at Dark Horse in stores September 16th. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, number one, from Kelly Thompson and Stephen Byrne, Dynamite Entertainment, in stores September 2nd.
• 30:52
  Phil: Carl Bark's pencils and Storyboards, King Scrooge and the…
• 30:56
  Phil: The first and other stories. The Phantographics Studio Edition by Carl Barks and Kim Weston from Phantographics, in store September 16th. Crowbound, number 1, from Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen at Image, in store September 2nd. The Dissidence, from Durf Bechterf, at Abrams, in store September 16th. Doom Patrol, number 1, from Darcy Van Polkist and Nico Henricon.
• 31:21
  Phil: DC, in store September 2nd. Firefly, number one, from Mark Russell and Lorenzo Ray.
• 31:28
  Phil: From Dynamite, in stores September 2nd, forming from Jesse Moynihan at Fantagraphics, in stores October 7th, a ghost arm made of angry ghosts from Oliver Mertz and Alex
• 31:40
  Phil: Diotto, at Oni in-store September 1st. Havana Split, Burmaud from Vic, Macchiochi, at Mad King.
• 31:51
  Tad Eggleston: is the, the writer.
• 31:54
  Phil: But I'm out as a writer, excellent, okay.
• 31:57
  Tad Eggleston: Birdie Mouth, something like that.
• 31:59
  Phil: Gotcha.
• 31:59
  Tad Eggleston: Avant is split.
• 32:00
  Phil: from…
• 32:01
  Phil: Bremoud and Vic Machiocchi at Bad Cave, in store September 2nd. I Want to Be Your Dog omnibus from Ho-Chi Anderson and Fanta Graphics, in store September 16th. Identical from Leah Hayes and Phantographics, in store September 16th as well. Legion of Superheroes number 1, from Joshua Williamson and Hayden Sherman and Tamara Bonvillain at DC in store September 2nd.
• 32:25
  Phil: Major Taylor from Frederick, Noland and Dronin Quarterly, in store September 8th. Peep Show from Joe, Matt, and Phantographics, in store September 30th. Superman the Stranger No. 1 from Wes Craig and DC Comics, in stores September 2nd. Tales of Wonder number 1 from Steve Scroche and Ian Herring, and…
• 32:46
  Phil: at Image Comics in store September 2nd. Teen Titans number 1 from Kyle Higgins and Danielle Di Niculo at DC in store September 2nd. Wandering Sun from Shimura
• 33:00
  Phil: Taka Cow…
• 33:01
  Phil: Taco at Phantographics, in store September 16th, and Who Needs Donuts from Mark Allen Stamady at Drawing Quarterly, in store September 8th.
• 33:13
  Phil: I take it that means you've got, crowdfunding this week, Tad?
• 33:15
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I'll take crowdfunding. I realized, just as you read it, that I do actually normally do the final order cutoff, don't I? Sorry about that.
• 33:23
  Phil: That was… that was… that was an on-the-spot mouthful, but I'm ready for it.
• 33:27
  Tad Eggleston: Boom. Boom!
• 33:30
  Tad Eggleston: Wrapping up… Tomorrow is, I Just Came From Hell, from Frankie White, and Adam Mar…
• 33:39
  Tad Eggleston: Mark Havwich? Markowitz? Yeah, Markowitz.
• 33:43
  Tad Eggleston: August 6th, wrapping up, is Sink Your Teeth In, number 2 from Zoe Tunnel, Lauren Knight, JP Jordan, Jordy Troutman, and Michelle Aubinator. And then, still waiting to launch, are Tezuka, God of Manga from Jason Cohn, and Death of the Comics Book Case, Reign of the Comics Book Cases.
• 34:02
  Tad Eggleston: from Zach Quaintance. All of this is on Kickstarter. Tyler!
• 34:07
  Tad Eggleston: You wanna tell us about some humble bundles?
• 34:09
  Tyler Johnson: Sure, as soon as I get down to there. Okay, Clip Studio Creation Collection, Paint, Draw, and Animate. This is 25 items for $10. I'm going back… No.
• 34:21
  Tad Eggleston: $25 for 10 items.
• 34:24
  Tyler Johnson: What did I say?
• 34:25
  Tad Eggleston: You said 25 items for $10?
• 34:29
  Tyler Johnson: Really?
• 34:29
  Phil: I'll turn around.
• 34:32
  Tyler Johnson: $25 gets to 10 items.
• 34:33
  Tad Eggleston: New York.
• 34:36
  Tyler Johnson: Guys, I am sorry, my brain is on everything else I've got going on today, so…
• 34:40
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, so $25 gets you 10 items. DonorsChoose, it's a public education charity, and it's extended through August 5th.
• 34:51
  Tyler Johnson: I am, just pulling…
• 34:54
  Tad Eggleston: Tyler, as our cartoonist, if you haven't bought this yet, you should.
• 34:59
  Tyler Johnson: It looks awesome. It looks amazing.
• 35:02
  Tad Eggleston: playing with one. It is… well, I mean, this is… I mean, like…
• 35:06
  Tad Eggleston: I often ask people what their tools are, and people who make comics digitally, which is most people at this point, this is what they use. Sometimes, they'll use
• 35:17
  Tad Eggleston: Other things for certain things?
• 35:20
  Tad Eggleston: But this is their primary program.
• 35:23
  Tad Eggleston: Clips.
• 35:24
  Tyler Johnson: Studio, yeah.
• 35:25
  Tad Eggleston: And, and it's, it's, you know…
• 35:29
  Tad Eggleston: It's only a one-year, one… one device item, so, you know, you'll probably wind up
• 35:37
  Tad Eggleston: looking to… or license for the main program, so, like, if you're a real artist, you'll be looking to buy a permanent license at some point, and or a multi-device, etc, but there are sales regularly. But it's also got so many brushes, so many…
• 35:53
  Tad Eggleston: Fonts…
• 35:54
  Phil: Thousands.
• 35:55
  Tyler Johnson: Let me go through what's in those 10 items.
• 35:57
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 35:58
  Tyler Johnson: Clip Studio Paint Pro. It's the standard for illustrators, comics, and animators. The Ultimate Brush Pack, 200 Clip Studio Painting Paint and Photoshop Brushes.
• 36:10
  Tyler Johnson: And then, looks like I got 2 another pack, another pack. So, different brush packs that you can get. Right. 100 Clip Studio Paint 3D Models.
• 36:20
  Tyler Johnson: 3d poses, speech bubbles, there's 200 different speech bubbles that you can get. 100 comic and manga panels, geez, this is amazing.
• 36:30
  Tyler Johnson: Right. Storyboard Assets, and Moho, which is a Create Your Own Cartoons and animation software. Right. So, definitely get that for the $25. It is so worth it.
• 36:41
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, the add-on stuff is, like, $500 worth of add-ons.
• 36:47
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 36:47
  Tad Eggleston: That, that, yeah, again, you're gonna have to find a way to…
• 36:52
  Tad Eggleston: But as Spike Trotman has pointed out to me, like, follow Clip Studio on Blue Sky. They regularly have ridiculous deals on…
• 37:03
  Tad Eggleston: On their… their… Their perpetual license.
• 37:08
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, that's awesome.
• 37:10
  Tad Eggleston: So…
• 37:11
  Tyler Johnson: So this, this, though, will get you one year, correctly.
• 37:14
  Tad Eggleston: Right. It'll get you one year for one device, but again, all of the brushes and stuff you keep no matter what.
• 37:20
  Tyler Johnson: it's just…
• 37:22
  Phil: Cool.
• 37:23
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, it's…
• 37:23
  Tad Eggleston: The main program that you have to, to, to write.
• 37:27
  Tyler Johnson: Alright, next up is Blade Runner. We have… it's the Blade Runner collection from Titan Elcon. $18 gets you 17 items, goes to the Direct Relief, it's an emergency medical charity, and it's extended through August 13th.
• 37:45
  Tyler Johnson: Let's see what you get with that one. You get Blade Runner 2019, it's, the Volume 1 is the Artist Edition.
• 37:53
  Tyler Johnson: You get the Blade Runner 2039 Volume 1, Blade Runner 2039 Volume 2, 2039, Volume 3.
• 38:03
  Tyler Johnson: Blade Runner Black Lotus Volume 1, leaving LA…
• 38:08
  Tyler Johnson: I'm not gonna read all of these, but you just get a.
• 38:10
  Tad Eggleston: No, you get essentially all the Blade Runner.
• 38:12
  Tyler Johnson: All the Blade and Rose, it is a ton of stuff here.
• 38:15
  Tyler Johnson: That's gonna run through August 13th. The Humanoids Mega Bundle, is really cool, because you, for $20, you get 35 titles.
• 38:24
  Tyler Johnson: You get the Inkl, Technopriest, Mellerlante, Montjourgine, and more! Reading is fundamental is where this is going, and it's, till August 5th, so there's a few more days on that, as today is the 2nd, so get on that.
• 38:41
  Tyler Johnson: Let's see, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Return to New York City by IDW. That is a ton of stuff. Again, 48 items for only $25, going to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and that is running through August 12th. That'll be about 2 weeks, week and a half from now.
• 38:58
  Tyler Johnson: Dark Horse 40th Anniversary Bundle, you guys, this is… there's so many good things in this to list. It's… it's Dark Horse, just go for it. You get 20… $20, gets you 40 items, and it goes towards the Hero Initiative.
• 39:11
  Tyler Johnson: For August 13th. And last is the Disney Masters Collection and Originals from Fanagraphics. 48 items for $25, it couldn't be a better deal, for, going to first book.
• 39:25
  Tyler Johnson: And, August 19th is the cutoff for that one.
• 39:33
  Tyler Johnson: Dun, dun dun!
• 39:38
  Tyler Johnson: Tad 3 amazing new books.
• 39:40
  Tad Eggleston: Yes, well, I mean, he didn't… he didn't toss it to me.
• 39:44
  Tyler Johnson: Oh.
• 39:44
  Tad Eggleston: Pretty amazing new books.
• 39:46
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, okay, is that what you were waiting for? I thought you were…
• 39:48
  Tad Eggleston: A little bit. I was also looking at something.
• 39:50
  Tyler Johnson: Annie.
• 39:51
  Tad Eggleston: Is Ted okay? I'm Dave Chisholm at Massive Cave.
• 39:54
  Tyler Johnson: So good.
• 39:55
  Tad Eggleston: wrapped up, and it was so fucking good. Second book at Galactic from Kurt Pyre and Emma Carpena at Distillery came out, and, like.
• 40:08
  Tad Eggleston: This is… this is fun sci-fi romance.
• 40:11
  Tad Eggleston: sprinkled with… with… with nods to all of your favorite scenes in, like, all of the different…
• 40:20
  Tad Eggleston: sci-fi or adventure romance movies.
• 40:24
  Tyler Johnson: Well, and Kurt Pires is so good.
• 40:26
  Tad Eggleston: Right. It's just, it's just, it's just, yeah, it's, it's wonderful. And then I finally, read the first two issues of Concrete Stars Over Sand and Potter.
• 40:34
  Tyler Johnson: I box them as they're coming out, but number… number 2 is great.
• 40:39
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, no, Paul Chadwick continues to do really, really good work.
• 40:45
  Phil: I've been doing this for a while or something.
• 40:46
  Tyler Johnson: turning me on to concrete, otherwise I would have passed right over this when it came out this.
• 40:50
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 40:50
  Tyler Johnson: Couple weeks, but…
• 40:54
  Tad Eggleston: So, so yeah, that's… that's my 3 amazing books.
• 40:58
  Tyler Johnson: Awesome.
• 41:02
  Tad Eggleston: So, One Piece race, I… I was be called.
• 41:07
  Tyler Johnson: What?
• 41:08
  Tad Eggleston: Or no, Phil needs to take a walk, I'm sorry, Phil needs to take a walk.
• 41:11
  Phil: It's funny you joked to the One Piece race, because that's where the majority of my comic reading this week was.
• 41:16
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, okay.
• 41:16
  Phil: I absolutely plowed through, Goodnight Pun Pun Volume 2, which is, books 3 and 4. And, now, now I am left, sadly staring out the window, waiting, waiting for Volume 3 to arrive from,
• 41:30
  Phil: From Interlibrary alone, but thankfully, I will probably be reading Girl on the Shore next week, as, that one has finally come in. That's a good one. My Inio Asano kick continues,
• 41:41
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 41:42
  Phil: But yeah, but so, so that was a good… that was… I… I put down 46 chapters, it might have been 47, but yeah, yeah, for anyone out there who… who has not read Goodnight Pun Pun and enjoys weird, bizarre tales of childhood depression, this… this is, this is your sign.
• 42:00
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, I don't want anyone.
• 42:01
  Tad Eggleston: Good night.
• 42:01
  Tyler Johnson: Always weird tales of childhood depression.
• 42:05
  Tad Eggleston: True.
• 42:06
  Phil: I adore Tales of Childhood Depression.
• 42:08
  Tad Eggleston: It's… it's so good, though.
• 42:10
  Phil: It is, it is.
• 42:12
  Phil: it's going in… I mean, I… I…
• 42:15
  Phil: Did not fully know what to expect in, turning out a really good way, because, yeah, this thing is… this thing is like a… is just a non-stop gut punch at this point.
• 42:27
  Tad Eggleston: So… Alright, now we'll go to the one-piece race.
• 42:33
  Tad Eggleston: Where… where I was… Becalmed.
• 42:38
  Tad Eggleston: Since you've taken your walk. Yeah.
• 42:41
  Phil: Sorry, we're all out of sorts today.
• 42:43
  Tad Eggleston: No, that's okay. I was, but calm, but when I talked to Meredith McLaren.
• 42:49
  Tad Eggleston: on Friday, and that episode will probably go up today. She recommended, and I still need to watch it, I will probably do it today, there is a One Piece fan letter short.
• 43:02
  Phil: Mmm.
• 43:02
  Tad Eggleston: on… on Netflix that's supposed to be, or that she just adores.
• 43:07
  Phil: Okay.
• 43:08
  Tad Eggleston: As well as a heroin short that, that, that, that digs in and out me. So, so those, those are on my list of things to watch today, One Piece related. One piece adjacent. Maybe I'll get…
• 43:21
  Phil: But the water's moving.
• 43:23
  Tad Eggleston: Ray, ray.
• 43:25
  Tad Eggleston: So, yeah.
• 43:29
  Tyler Johnson: me on one piece, I have looked at the app. That's what I…
• 43:34
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 43:35
  Tyler Johnson: I have… I have looked at the app and gone, you know, I should get back to that.
• 43:38
  Tad Eggleston: Did you even… did you even look at it enough to…
• 43:42
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, no, I didn't open it.
• 43:44
  Tad Eggleston: Discover what chapter you were on.
• 43:46
  Tyler Johnson: I just looked at the icon.
• 43:47
  Phil: Oh, okay, okay. Oh, we're at that point. We're at that point.
• 43:51
  Tyler Johnson: No, no, no, I… guys, I'm not there. That's crazy.
• 43:55
  Phil: You know…
• 43:55
  Tyler Johnson: It's funny. That's… that's a different story.
• 43:58
  Tad Eggleston: Okay, okay, that's fair.
• 44:00
  Tad Eggleston: That's fair. That's… that's legit.
• 44:03
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 44:04
  Tad Eggleston: Alright. That's the chat.
• 44:06
  Tyler Johnson: That's really funny.
• 44:09
  Tyler Johnson: Great responsibilities this week. These humanoids has been awesome. I… I don't know about you guys, but I love these… these books.
• 44:17
  Phil: Oh, yeah.
• 44:18
  Tad Eggleston: Do you have?
• 44:19
  Phil: Yeah, this was,
• 44:20
  Tad Eggleston: That's, that's why I, like, particularly, and, and it's why I suggested we continue it, like, there, there, there seem to be holes…
• 44:32
  Tad Eggleston: In everybody's comic book knowledge.
• 44:36
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 44:37
  Tad Eggleston: there are very few people who just read across the world, there are very few people that read… I mean, I think we do a great service already by not disdaining superheroes, but still talking about, like, indie comics or genre comics or whatnot, but, like…
• 44:54
  Tad Eggleston: getting into Band-Aid to Snae, getting into manga, that sort of thing, I think is an opportunity to… and as we will next week, getting into Disney, which, like.
• 45:04
  Tad Eggleston: I think a lot of people
• 45:06
  Tad Eggleston: think of Disney comics the way you and I used to think of Archie comics, which is, okay, whatever, are those really comic books?
• 45:16
  Phil: I do, I do gotta be honest, that was kind of my, that was kind of my reaction when you suggested the Disney one, and I was like.
• 45:21
  Phil: Okay, and then I heard there was the carbox collection. I'm like, alright, I'm sure that'll be interesting, and then…
• 45:26
  Tad Eggleston: Right, no, no, I mean, I cannot emphasize enough that, like…
• 45:30
  Tyler Johnson: Give it a chance, man, yeah.
• 45:31
  Phil: Yeah, absolutely. I'm gonna be here.
• 45:33
  Tad Eggleston: And particularly, like, fanographics… It's vague.
• 45:38
  Phil: That should be the tip. That should be the tip-off way.
• 45:41
  Tyler Johnson: You're doing Disney? There you go.
• 45:43
  Phil: These are…
• 45:43
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, no.
• 45:44
  Phil: the IDW tie-in, or the Boom Disney comics?
• 45:50
  Tad Eggleston: A lot of those are pretty good, too.
• 45:52
  Phil: But there's… but there's… there's still, like, 4 kids. This seems like a different level compared to…
• 45:57
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean…
• 45:57
  Phil: you'd expect.
• 46:00
  Tad Eggleston: It'll still be for kids, but like…
• 46:04
  Tad Eggleston: Kids the way, like, DuckTales is for kids.
• 46:07
  Tyler Johnson: DuckTales. I still watch DuckTales.
• 46:10
  Tad Eggleston: That's my point.
• 46:11
  Tyler Johnson: watching it. It's awesome.
• 46:12
  Tad Eggleston: Right, that's my point. Like, like, it's for kids the way Simpsons is for kids, or…
• 46:19
  Phil: Is… is the substance for kids?
• 46:22
  Tyler Johnson: It was.
• 46:24
  Tad Eggleston: I still think it is.
• 46:25
  Tad Eggleston: Y-you know, I think the biggest reason it's not for kids now is kind of like Mad Magazine.
• 46:34
  Tad Eggleston: When your parents liked it, and it wasn't as subversive. Yeah. Yeah. Or, or, you know… It takes away a little bit of the shine for the younger generation.
• 46:44
  Phil: If you have audience that has, like, stayed with you through, you know, all the years…
• 46:49
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, there's a great mad documentary, and they talk about that they add evidence and, like, strongly believe that one of the reasons that their sales numbers started going down was that, like.
• 47:05
  Tad Eggleston: The… the whole… Oh…
• 47:11
  Tad Eggleston: I get to read this, and my parents don't know what I'm reading, and oh my god, it's… it's… it's so outrageous.
• 47:19
  Tad Eggleston: became, oh my god, you're reading Mad Magazine? I love Mad Magazine!
• 47:24
  Phil: Yeah.
• 47:25
  Tad Eggleston: And that's not what any 10-year-old wants to hear for that thing that they think is edgy.
• 47:33
  Tyler Johnson: Which is weird, because here's the thing, like, us, we're going, you know what, I'm giving my kids permission to look at this thing that we had to feel was something to be hidden, and they're not taking advantage of it. They're just going, yeah, whatever, Dad.
• 47:48
  Tad Eggleston: Well, but again, part of the thrill…
• 47:51
  Tyler Johnson: Mad right here, I don't wanna…
• 47:53
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I love Mad Magazine.
• 47:55
  Tyler Johnson: Yep.
• 47:56
  Tyler Johnson: Love it.
• 47:57
  Tad Eggleston: So, so, so, so, but right now, we're still in the, the, the, the humanoids, so, so, let, let's, let's… Phil, tell us some about Zombies that ate the World.
• 48:09
  Phil: So, first of all, I… I picked this entirely for the Guy Davis art, and was not disappointed. He was in… in full form for this. I do gotta say, though, it's… it's…
• 48:20
  Phil: it's interesting, it was not what I was expecting at all, and I should have expected something different from a humanoid zombie book, because I was like, oh, I'm sure this is just gonna be, like, a European Walking Dead or something, you know? And, it was actually, like, a dark satire. Okay. Yeah, it was… it was…
• 48:41
  Phil: Pretty funny, and it was like, okay, there's zombies in this world.
• 48:45
  Phil: But it hasn't really stopped society from functioning as normal, and also the zombies talk, so, you know, it…
• 48:54
  Phil: It was funny, because…
• 48:56
  Phil: Guy Davis is someone who… I mean, again, I should have known, because he did Fantastic Four Unstable Molecules, which was not your typical Fantastic Four book. Right. I was expecting, based off of his work on BPRD, some kind of, you know, action, zombie-punching.
• 49:13
  Phil: I think a minimum of zombies got punched. I think there was at least one head that got, clocked off, but yeah, there was a minimum of violence, and definitely more of a bizarre humor. I would be interested to see where volumes,
• 49:26
  Phil: 2 through 6 go with this one.
• 49:29
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, well, I might have to kick them your way. I did get the Humble Bundle. Or, you've got a few more days if you want to spend your own,
• 49:38
  Phil: True.
• 49:38
  Phil: My coin?
• 49:39
  Tad Eggleston: What is it? It's… it's, it's $20.
• 49:42
  Phil: $20 for…
• 49:43
  Tad Eggleston: 151 volumes.
• 49:45
  Phil: That is… that is so many volumes.
• 49:47
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, I bought the… I bought the Hellboy bundle, like, months ago, and I'm still not through everything that's in it.
• 49:53
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, one of the wonderful things that Mignola has done with the Hellboy bundles is he tiers them all, so when the new one comes out…
• 50:03
  Tad Eggleston: It has everything before it, but, like, you can pay a lower price to get only the new.
• 50:09
  Tyler Johnson: I don't have.
• 50:10
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 50:11
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah.
• 50:12
  Phil: That's… that's awesome.
• 50:12
  Tad Eggleston: So, like, I wind up getting something with every Hellboy bundle, but it's… I'm not having to, like, re-buy the whole thing. No.
• 50:22
  Tad Eggleston: And yeah, no, I haven't come anywhere near reading it, but I now have PDFs available to me of, essentially.
• 50:30
  Tad Eggleston: all of Hellboy up until, like, last year.
• 50:34
  Tyler Johnson: I know.
• 50:35
  Tad Eggleston: And, like, all of the Hellboy universe.
• 50:38
  Phil: Oh, yeah.
• 50:39
  Tad Eggleston: Up until, like, last year.
• 50:41
  Phil: And it is… it is shocking how much of that universe is… is really damn good, honestly.
• 50:46
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
• 50:49
  Tad Eggleston: So, so, like, that's the other reason that I'm, I'm, I'm liking to,
• 50:54
  Tad Eggleston: In this era where gas prices are going up, oil prices are going up, etc, like, I want… I want people to make certain that they find Patreons and newsletters and whatnot, and pay artists directly, find ways to get money to the people that create things.
• 51:08
  Tad Eggleston: but also, like, I want you to have reading material for less expensive prices, and… and maybe, like, help a charity. Yeah. And that's what makes Humble Bundle wonderful.
• 51:21
  Tad Eggleston: Anything else on Zombies Today at the World?
• 51:25
  Phil: That's, that's pretty much it. It's, you know, I, I, I can imagine someone…
• 51:30
  Phil: being handed this, you know, and being told, oh, this is that Walking Dead that everyone's so fond of, and just, just absolutely throwing them for a loop, you know?
• 51:40
  Tad Eggleston: Alright, Tyler, I read this ages ago and don't remember much of it, but it's crime comics for first degree, so, like, obviously I want you to talk about it in general, but I also want you, if you can, to talk to me about
• 51:58
  Tad Eggleston: the difference between European and U.S. crime comics.
• 52:02
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, sure.
• 52:03
  Tad Eggleston: Because I guarantee that, like, that's something that we noticed when we were reading The Inkle and when we were reading The Killer, is, like, they definitely have different pacing, different…
• 52:15
  Tad Eggleston: sensibilities.
• 52:16
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 52:16
  Tad Eggleston: They make comics.
• 52:19
  Tad Eggleston: So, talk to me about the first degree anthology.
• 52:22
  Tyler Johnson: Well, I love… Right off David Aha's artwork. Do you guys remember Saul Bass? Do you know who that was?
• 52:29
  Tad Eggleston: Saul Bast.
• 52:30
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, he was a graphic designer in the 50s and 60s that designed the intro for shows like My Three Sons.
• 52:39
  Tad Eggleston: Okay.
• 52:39
  Tyler Johnson: I don't know, did you ever watch Nick at Night, or the old…
• 52:43
  Tad Eggleston: Some…
• 52:43
  Tyler Johnson: and stuff.
• 52:44
  Tad Eggleston: Oh, it looks like, it looks like he did,
• 52:47
  Tad Eggleston: He did the, the, the… the…
• 52:54
  Tad Eggleston: He did some movie posters, too.
• 52:56
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Did a lot of movies.
• 52:58
  Tad Eggleston: Vertigo, Man with the Golden Arm?
• 53:00
  Tyler Johnson: Yep, so Soul Bass has always been a graphic designer that I've really emulated as far as, like.
• 53:06
  Tyler Johnson: those, silhouettes of things, as opposed to all the details. So when you look at David Aja's cover art for… for this book, it really…
• 53:17
  Tyler Johnson: resonated with me, going, oh, I remember that style of artwork, right? Because on first degree, it's the silhouette of the bullet and the bullets and the revolver, and the red background, it's just so simplistic, but yet also
• 53:38
  Tyler Johnson: It's heavy, you know what I mean?
• 53:40
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 53:41
  Tyler Johnson: Then, so you get into these crime stories of… the first one right off the bat is definitely, apropos to today, where a couple black men get their ass beaten just for being
• 53:53
  Tyler Johnson: Alive by the cops, you know?
• 53:56
  Tad Eggleston: Which is… Never the way it should work.
• 54:00
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, no.
• 54:01
  Tyler Johnson: it's, it's crazy. And then, I, I really enjoyed how,
• 54:07
  Tyler Johnson: And when you talk about American, right, television, film, literature, it doesn't matter. It's fast, it's urgent, it's…
• 54:14
  Tyler Johnson: Crazy, you know what I mean? And then so…
• 54:19
  Tyler Johnson: you need an incident in American stuff to hook people right away, right? Some kind of incident, some kind of… some kind of, oh, here's why we're watching this, you know? And then the plot transition is always fast.
• 54:33
  Tyler Johnson: Whereas British, is where, you know, it's slower.
• 54:39
  Tyler Johnson: Bigger buildup, you know, when we tied… when we were talking about, the…
• 54:45
  Tyler Johnson: What's the book you just brought up?
• 54:46
  Tyler Johnson: Tad, before I started rambling…
• 54:48
  Tad Eggleston: Killer, maybe?
• 54:49
  Tyler Johnson: Right? Yeah, and slower. It's more psychological, it's more… it gets in your head a little bit. It's definitely, like, the slow burn that we've talked about, on other things.
• 55:02
  Tyler Johnson: what I like about this… This, anthology is you don't know
• 55:10
  Tyler Johnson: at all what's gonna happen? Because the stories are so short.
• 55:14
  Tyler Johnson: You know, the first one, Encounter by David F. Walker, is just right off the bat, it's just, like…
• 55:20
  Tyler Johnson: guy walking into a convenience store, you're like, oh, this is weird, and the convenience store calls the cops. So the minute he walks out.
• 55:27
  Tyler Johnson: he's being beaten to death. It's like a four-page story, and you're like, whoa!
• 55:33
  Tyler Johnson: It's just crazy. But I really enjoyed the length of these, you know? And…
• 55:39
  Tyler Johnson: I would have liked to have seen,
• 55:43
  Tyler Johnson: What's his name? Aha? David? Something?
• 55:47
  Tad Eggleston: David Aja.
• 55:49
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah, I would have liked to seen his artwork throughout. I think that would have been a really cool tie-in for all these stories, and just had a separate writer.
• 55:59
  Tyler Johnson: I think that would have been a nice tie-in to the whole thing, but that's only because I like his artwork.
• 56:04
  Tad Eggleston: Though, I mean, as I'm flipping through it, there's some pretty outstanding artwork here. I know.
• 56:09
  Tyler Johnson: I'm not complaining, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I…
• 56:12
  Tyler Johnson: With anthologies, the change in artwork is always most jarring for me.
• 56:17
  Tad Eggleston: Is it?
• 56:18
  Tyler Johnson: And, but, you know…
• 56:20
  Tad Eggleston: I…
• 56:21
  Phil: that way sometimes.
• 56:22
  Tad Eggleston: I am gonna toss out, just as I'm flipping through pages here, like, something else is jumping at me that is really true of European versus American
• 56:34
  Tad Eggleston: comics.
• 56:35
  Tad Eggleston: A lot of the time, is the colors are… more muted?
• 56:44
  Tad Eggleston: but in a way that I think actually kind of brings out the emotion in detail.
• 56:51
  Tad Eggleston: If that makes sense?
• 56:53
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I think sometimes with American comics, it's too… Bright! Here, have your blue.
• 57:02
  Tad Eggleston: Like, versus, like, a gray, rainy day, you know? Yup, I agree.
• 57:08
  Tyler Johnson: They're… the much more… the artwork is much more, like…
• 57:12
  Tyler Johnson: I don't know, apropos to the story, what's going on, you know what I mean?
• 57:17
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 57:17
  Tyler Johnson: Not only that, just British comics in general, the… the aesthetic.
• 57:21
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I think most of these are French comics, not British, but…
• 57:25
  Tyler Johnson: What did I say?
• 57:26
  Tad Eggleston: You keep saying British.
• 57:27
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, did I? I meant French.
• 57:29
  Tad Eggleston: British is often somewhere in between.
• 57:32
  Tad Eggleston: British gets a lot of… of influence from both Band-Aid Disney and… and… I mean, at some point, we're gonna have to do some Rebellion 2000 AD stuff.
• 57:42
  Tad Eggleston: Cuz… Because that's… that's another feel.
• 57:45
  Tad Eggleston: They do humble bundles from time to time. We'll watch for it.
• 57:50
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah.
• 57:52
  Tyler Johnson: No, a French comic… yeah, sorry, French makes way more sense. The… the European, excuse me, in general,
• 58:00
  Tyler Johnson: I think it's…
• 58:02
  Tyler Johnson: the aesthetic, right? You look at it, and you can tell that this is European or this is American most of the time.
• 58:09
  Tyler Johnson: And I… I kind of like that, as being able to visually pick out what kind of book I'm looking at, you know?
• 58:15
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 58:17
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah.
• 58:19
  Tad Eggleston: But…
• 58:20
  Tyler Johnson: My favorite in the story, in the… in the whole…
• 58:24
  Tyler Johnson: and this, this whole thing was called premeditated.
• 58:28
  Tyler Johnson: I just like the way they used red throughout. Again, this is not new, but they used red throughout to be that defining color amongst all these, like, blacks, grays, and whites.
• 58:41
  Tad Eggleston: That's from Sydney Duncan and J.P. Malinga.
• 58:45
  Tyler Johnson: Yes.
• 58:47
  Tyler Johnson: Very… it was very cool. It was very cool.
• 58:49
  Tad Eggleston: The second… the second story in the book.
• 58:51
  Tyler Johnson: Yeah. Unfortunately, because I was late to the game, I did not read all of them.
• 58:56
  Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, that happens. Yeah.
• 58:58
  Tad Eggleston: That's one of the advantages of choosing an anthology, and it's one of the reasons I chose anthologies to… for next week, and… and, like, gave you two weeks to do…
• 59:09
  Tad Eggleston: You know, had you picked your Disney books.
• 59:12
  Tad Eggleston: now, for two weeks from now, because I figure, you know, anything we get into the anthologies, we'll be able to give a feel, and… and then…
• 59:22
  Tad Eggleston: After that, it's just a matter of…
• 59:28
  Tad Eggleston: By the way, they are already in the folder, so… so you guys can go get them.
• 59:33
  Tyler Johnson: Those Disney books are great because, you know, right now, guys our age are suckers for nostalgia, right?
• 59:40
  Tad Eggleston: It's true.
• 59:41
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, me anyway, I should say me. And so, these old cartoons that I said I used to watch on Nickelodeon, and now they're available through this Disney package, awesome! You know?
• 59:51
  Tad Eggleston: Well, the book I read is, is, called Monsieur Jean. Yeah.
• 59:58
  Tad Eggleston: And I need to read more of it, because I… it's kind of a,
• 1:00:04
  Tad Eggleston: It's actually kind of a,
• 1:00:08
  Tad Eggleston: It reminds me a lot of, like.
• 1:00:12
  Tad Eggleston: coupling, or… or, to a slightly lesser extent, the IT crowd, like… like… British relational comedy?
• 1:00:23
  Tad Eggleston: shows, though it definitely has a French feel to it as well. The beginning of this book says that it's actually set between
• 1:00:33
  Tad Eggleston: volumes 3 and 4, so I assume that the volumes are in terms of When they were released, but…
• 1:00:40
  Tad Eggleston: But it sounds like they also then give you, oh, but this is time-wise.
• 1:00:46
  Tad Eggleston: Here, and essentially, like, it's a… it's a series of vignettes,
• 1:00:51
  Tad Eggleston: with Jean, and I forget the name of the friend who…
• 1:00:56
  Tad Eggleston: He's crashing on the couch over right now, and, like, they're late 20s to mid-30s-ish guys, and…
• 1:01:06
  Tad Eggleston: You know, they go out to clubs, they go to birthday parties.
• 1:01:10
  Tad Eggleston: they have or don't have relationships. Jean seems to have a theory on everything, and sometimes that makes him the most fascinating guy in the room, and sometimes that makes him the guy in the room that everybody wants to smack upside the head.
• 1:01:26
  Tad Eggleston: And it's just got a weird, cool humor to it. This volume, at least, is… is…
• 1:01:34
  Tad Eggleston: just, like… The, the only, only… Color is blue.
• 1:01:43
  Tad Eggleston: So, so, like, it's a black and white and blue comic?
• 1:01:49
  Tad Eggleston: I guess is the way to put it.
• 1:01:51
  Phil: Interesting.
• 1:01:52
  Tad Eggleston: I… Tyler would probably… let me…
• 1:01:54
  Tad Eggleston: Let me… let me pull… pull a little up and show it to Tyler, because he… he will give a better…
• 1:02:00
  Tad Eggleston: A-a- bet… better,
• 1:02:06
  Tyler Johnson: Guys, they do have to jump off in 10 minutes.
• 1:02:08
  Tad Eggleston: I know, I know. That's why I'm trying to move rapidly, Tyler.
• 1:02:13
  Tyler Johnson: Okay.
• 1:02:16
  Tyler Johnson: I don't… okay, there we go. I was like, I don't see it.
• 1:02:19
  Tad Eggleston: How would you describe the artwork, Tyler?
• 1:02:23
  Tyler Johnson: Oh, I love it. It is, Okay, so…
• 1:02:27
  Tyler Johnson: it's kind of pop art in the fact that it's very flat. The blue is just a single field of blue with some white poking out, and then over the top of that, they've done the design.
• 1:02:42
  Tyler Johnson: It's probably not chalk, but more crayon, but it looks like…
• 1:02:47
  Tyler Johnson: It's got that childlike quality to it of somebody drawing with a color crayon on top of colored paper.
• 1:02:55
  Tyler Johnson: And I really like that that white really pops, you know what I mean?
• 1:03:00
  Tad Eggleston: And the stories are… they're kinda, like…
• 1:03:06
  Tyler Johnson: So, I mean, essentially, the only color that's being used here is the blue, and the black… the black is basically the key that would go on top of it to make it all look right, and the white is just white paper showing through, you know?
• 1:03:19
  Tad Eggleston: Right, right.
• 1:03:20
  Tyler Johnson: It's really just pretty sweet, the way they did it.
• 1:03:23
  Tad Eggleston: Wow.
• 1:03:24
  Tad Eggleston: But then, then, like, the stories themselves are… I like, I like some of these, where, like… see how there's no outline of the word balloon?
• 1:03:32
  Tad Eggleston: The word love is just the one.
• 1:03:34
  Tyler Johnson: That's what I've been trying to put on, like, why does that seem softer? And that's…
• 1:03:37
  Tad Eggleston: Right.
• 1:03:38
  Tyler Johnson: There's no outlines on the word blue, it's like someone just erased.
• 1:03:40
  Tad Eggleston: Some of them, not all of them, but yeah.
• 1:03:44
  Tyler Johnson: don't. The ones that, don't seem to be as more pertinent don't have outlines on them. Right. But the ones where it's more direct conversation.
• 1:03:54
  Tyler Johnson: do.
• 1:03:58
  Tad Eggleston: And again, like this story right here, he's talking about what's the worst thing that can happen is you're getting hot and heavy.
• 1:04:05
  Tad Eggleston: And he's like, you always think about, like, making certain you wear good underwear and whatnot, but… but what happens if, as you're getting naked with your date, it turns out that you forgot to put on a pair of good socks, and you're…
• 1:04:18
  Tad Eggleston: big toes sticking out of a hole, and it just ruins the mo… I mean, that's the kind of humor it is.
• 1:04:24
  Tyler Johnson: It's like…
• 1:04:25
  Tad Eggleston: this… this… Dark, but not in, like, a violent way, just in a kind of…
• 1:04:31
  Tad Eggleston: I don't… I don't know, I can't… can't find the right word, but… but it's like this… this midlife crisis-type humor.
• 1:04:42
  Tyler Johnson: see that.
• 1:04:44
  Tad Eggleston: Mostly understated, a lot of people just talking to each other, but with some great expressions.
• 1:04:54
  Tad Eggleston: And definitely something that I can't…
• 1:04:57
  Tad Eggleston: I can't think of anything in the United States to really compare it to, certainly among the major publishers.
• 1:05:05
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, I'm certain if we really dug into indie, indie comics and, like, phantographics and whatnot, we might find something that has some of this feel. We brought up… Peep Show is on Final Order Cutoff. Peep Show has a little bit more of this feel, or a little bit of this feel, but I think overall is more depressing.
• 1:05:25
  Tad Eggleston: This, like…
• 1:05:28
  Tad Eggleston: This is depressing if you get up close, and still funny if you're even, like, 10 feet away. You don't have to be, like, aerial to see the, you know…
• 1:05:44
  Tad Eggleston: Yeah, so… so yeah, it was a… it was a fun read. I will definitely, like Phil, wanting to, to read more of the…
• 1:05:51
  Tad Eggleston: the zombies. I have already loaded the rest of it onto my tablet to read more of this, because it was just cool.
• 1:06:01
  Tad Eggleston: So, there is our brief walk through the,
• 1:06:07
  Tad Eggleston: Humanoid's Humble Bundle that you have, what, how many more days?
• 1:06:13
  Tad Eggleston: To, to go get… Somebody got it in front of you.
• 1:06:18
  Phil: Too many,
• 1:06:19
  Tad Eggleston: Now, I know we're coming up on the end of it.
• 1:06:21
  Phil: Yeah, the humanoids…
• 1:06:23
  Tad Eggleston: 5th.
• 1:06:24
  Phil: Yeah, so just a couple more days from the time you're listening to this.
• 1:06:27
  Tad Eggleston: Though, I don't know that it's been extended, and a lot of things have been extended lately, so there might be… there might be as much as a week. But still, don't sleep on it.
• 1:06:37
  Tad Eggleston: And then, then next week, we're gonna…
• 1:06:41
  Tad Eggleston: we're gonna start taking a look at this, this Phantographics Disney Humble Bundle, because,
• 1:06:47
  Tad Eggleston: It's another one that… that…
• 1:06:53
  Tad Eggleston: Has some stuff that isn't necessarily stuff that we spend a lot of time with, but is still…
• 1:06:58
  Tad Eggleston: like, really, really brilliant stuff, and I think that that's always a fun thing to highlight. But Tyler's on the clock, and I'm mostly just rambling right now, so I'm gonna get into, three books I hope will be spectacular. First, I'm gonna say I know…
• 1:07:17
  Tad Eggleston: The Huelga, the stories of Dolores Huerta and Sal Castro from Henry Barajas, Louis Chin, and Gab Contreras from Good Trouble, is spectacular, as is Islands in the Sky, A People's History of Hurricane Helene by a cast of
• 1:07:36
  Tad Eggleston: Not thousands, but many, many amazing
• 1:07:39
  Tad Eggleston: comic people, and, and, put together by, by Andrew Iden for Appalachian Comics, or the Appalachia Comics Project and Good Trouble is also absolutely spectacular. Those both come out this week.
• 1:07:53
  Tad Eggleston: ones I'm looking forward to the most, and this first one, I actually… I've had a preview copy on my tablet forever, and I just haven't managed to read it, so it might be what I do when we get off. It's called Cha-Chu.
• 1:08:05
  Tad Eggleston: Number one from Iman Velani and Mariana Ignaci and Jordy Belair at Image. Then we have Tom King's second Archie comic, Jughead, Pimageddon, with Dan Parent.
• 1:08:18
  Tad Eggleston: From Archie, and then Endeavor number 3, the… I think the conclusion to this… this story from Stephanie Phillips and Mark Lamming at Distillery.
• 1:08:29
  Tad Eggleston: I'm also really looking forward to and suspect that it starts with anger, a punk beginning, an Afropunk ending from James Spooner at Pantheon will wind up being
• 1:08:41
  Tad Eggleston: my top book of that next week. We'll see how that plays. I pre-ordered a digital copy earlier today, so I'll be able to get a head start on reading it.
• 1:08:52
  Tad Eggleston: Phil, what's your, A giant-sized trade waiter book.
• 1:08:58
  Phil: This week, my giant-sized trade waiter pick is, once again, Albion, from Alan Moore.
• 1:09:04
  Tad Eggleston: bleeding.
• 1:09:05
  Phil: Moore, John Repiant, Shane Oakley, and George Freeman, from Rebellion. Yeah, this is one that I… I had, I had…
• 1:09:12
  Phil: picked out, and it unfortunately was the wrong date that it was coming out. This time I did double-check League of Comic Geeks against, the lunar distribution, and it does look like this book is coming out this week, so, I… I, for one, will…
• 1:09:26
  Tad Eggleston: It is, it is coming out this week, according to Lunar Distribution. Yes. So, so this time, you are correct, sir.
• 1:09:33
  Phil: Well, this time, I cross-referenced, so I didn't want to be caught unawares on the same book twice in a row.
• 1:09:39
  Tyler Johnson: I've been caught unaware many times.
• 1:09:42
  Phil: Well, I think the first one…
• 1:09:43
  Tyler Johnson: This is a League of Comic Book Schemes.
• 1:09:45
  Phil: The first one I looked at was… actually got pushed to next week, so we'll see if I remember to pick it.
• 1:09:50
  Tad Eggleston: Well, and one of the things that I always say, and I love League of Comic Geeks, I never want to bash them, but one of the things that I try to remind people, both
• 1:10:04
  Tad Eggleston: both who are hosting this show and who listen to this show, is, League of Comic Cakes is user-supported, so, like, its dates are generally whatever was in the catalog when it got uploaded initially,
• 1:10:20
  Tad Eggleston: Unless somebody happened to notice and go, here, let me go put in the edit, and it goes through the whole review process to get changed.
• 1:10:28
  Phil: Right.
• 1:10:28
  Tad Eggleston: Which often… Yeah, I mean, it will often wind up happening… After the book came out.
• 1:10:35
  Phil: Oh, yeah.
• 1:10:36
  Tad Eggleston: other than before. Which is… Or at least after it doesn't come out.
• 1:10:41
  Phil: Right, which I'm glad… I'm very glad that they had updated their site when it didn't come out to the actual release date, which it looks like now… now is where it will be.
• 1:10:50
  Tad Eggleston: Right. Because, like, who wants to spend their time going through and going, oh, what release dates changed this week?
• 1:11:00
  Phil: Yeah, right.
• 1:11:01
  Tad Eggleston: through and update
• 1:11:03
  Tad Eggleston: I mean, on one side, it would be cool if publishers did that, but they don't, and that's okay.
• 1:11:09
  Tad Eggleston: So…
• 1:11:10
  Phil: Certainly something.
• 1:11:12
  Tyler Johnson: Alright, well, guys, I'm gonna take us outta here.
• 1:11:16
  Tyler Johnson: Because we got Phil, Tradeweeder, right?
• 1:11:18
  Phil: Yep, yep.
• 1:11:19
  Tyler Johnson: Okay, I'm gonna… I'm gonna head to church with my family.
• 1:11:23
  Phil: No!
• 1:11:24
  Tyler Johnson: I know, I know, sorry.
• 1:11:26
  Tyler Johnson: But you guys have a great day, and our listeners out there, we will catch you guys after the next page.
• 1:11:34
  Tyler Johnson: Later!